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Sloan Bashinsky's avatar

I purloined al of this into a post at my blog and my sups stack. Here’s the blog link:

Free Radio Rulo, Nebraska - a scandalously hidden pearl beyond price?

https://tinykingdomblacksheep.blogspot.com/2024/01/free-radio-rulo-nebraska-scandalous.html

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Love it brother! "and smoke blown up my ass But not smoke I blow up other people’s asses ". I can totally relate to this! Where can I find your "The Redneck Mystic Lawyer Podcast."? That sounds wild!

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We have two YouTube channels, for logistical reasons. They oontain all ofthe video podcast episodes, but the last one, for which we still are waiting on You/tube to provide us a link, which might not happen, because YouTube is swamped because of war in Gaza and having to clear all uploads using human employee, instead of AI.

Here are the two channels, with links, the oldest channel is on top:

54 Here @ Redneck Mystic Lawyer Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/@theredneckmysticlawyerpodc3647/videos

70 Podcasts Here: Redneck Mystic Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/@theredneckmysticpodcast7983/videos

The podcasts are free, no ads, no soliciting.

Maybe a dozen of my books are free reads at the free internet library, archive.org. Three are culture jamming novels, Kundalina, Alabama, Heavy Waist: A Strange Tale, and Return of the Strange, written in that order., with a lot of time passingin between. Return of the Strange is Heavy Wait’s sequel. hey actually are not all fiction, and they are stranger than fiction, as are the non-fiction books. Open archive.org and enter Sloan Bashinsky in the search space and click on that and the books will come up. You can read them on kindle, nock, tablet, laptop, smart phone.

Some of the books have some of my poetry, visions, and soul drawings.

I just gave you my last will and testament, so far, more probably coming, and you didn’t even have to hire a lawyer ot get your paws on it. :-)

Feel free to share it with your worst enemies and best friends and ladies you like and wish liked you;-)

Not for the faint of heart, not the terribly religious ,nor conventional wisdom types, nor defenders of the status quo, nor for Big Brother.

Hell, when are we ever not in church?

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Sloan Bashinsky's avatar

I subscribed because really liked what you wrote about the yoga studio and the city commission, and I was interested in your radio station. I was surprise to get right back a sale’s promotion for your friend’’s book. Please tell me about your radio staton. Thanks.

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Free Radio Rulo's avatar

Hey thanks for subscribing! I am a shameless promoter of local business, art, food, music and poetry. My news letter and radio show aims to merge them all into some sort of community here in rural Nebraska. The radio station has had some set backs due to transmitter and antenna height. We can reach all of Rulo, and half of Falls City about 15 miles away. I really hope the Yoga studio/ Raw Juice bar will open here in Rulo. If so I plan on hosting a poetry slam on Tuesday nights! Maybe you could make it?

Peace,

Jim

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Sloan Bashinsky's avatar

Can I attend via zoom? I’m in Alabama, and am old, tired and ornery, and don’t play well with others sometimes :-). And, I fucking hate slam poetry. But, I am a poet. So, here’s a slam poem.

Who invented the rule that poetry must rhyme, have pentameter, be cast into verse.? Yes, tell me, please tell me, who invented that really silly rule? Surely it wasn’t the maker of he first stone- otherwise ,there’d be no stones to break all those slavin’ rules!

In some circles I tossedin a 4-letter word or two.

I belonged to the Key West Poetry Guild , When I lived there. We met once a month and recited or read our own poetry.

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Free Radio Rulo's avatar

Yes! I think that would be great! Zoom you in on the jumbo tron and you can read this all the way from Alabama! We just gotta get the space to have the event. The Rulo library is a little crammed, but they do have 5G and vapeing is allowed you know how the slam poetry crowd is..... (Alot of smokers and tokers). We could always have the event at the Falls City pizza hut, a lot of riff raff there! Just perfect!

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Sloan Bashinsky's avatar

You now remind me of other reasons I hate poetry slams, I hate cigarette smoke! And any related kind of smoke. And smoke blown up my ass :-) But not smoke I blow up other people’s asses :-).

I won’t read that poem, because it is branded into my soul and demands air time, from time to time, to remind me of what it stands for!

A younger friend and I do something called T/he Redneck Mystic Lawyer Podcast. He does the tech work, I do most of the talking. He goes by “Bob” on the podcast, and is heard but not seen. I am heard and seen. Ivan Stang, of J./R. Bob Dobbs’ the Church of the Subgenius, gave us a pretty good attaboy some while ago, and that boosted our audience a bit. As did attaboys here and there, including a satellite radio station in Denver, Colorado, which interviewed a federal judge about our Amendment 14, Section 3 podcast.

That interview and podcast episode went viral in Colorado, and the radio station was swamped with death threats, its insurance carrier canceled coverage, and the station went off the air. Not long after, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled 14/3 barred Donald Trump from being on the Colorado ballot, and the court then was swamped with death threats.

Bob laughed real good as I read to him your defense of the yoga studio saga.

Where Bob lived, until recently, he was very outspoken at local government meetings, and he pissed off a lot of important people, and multiple contracts were taken out on his life, and bad men found and tried to kill him and left him for dead. He created his own safehouse, and has with him all of his tech equipment and we still do podcasts from time to time.

We seed them into the Torrent system, where there is far more interest in something different, and free, than at YouTube, Spotify, Facebook, Rumble, etc. When we just used YouTube to launch the podcast episodes, we got a lot of flags, and we were banned from Russia, Belarus, Red China and half of India. Anyone using torrent can watch the podcasts, which have no ads and no soliciting.

Here are links to the 14/3 and Big Brother Doesn’t Love You podcasts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ool2d7q6hag&t=1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrnZ0pyOK4U&t=7s

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Diana van Eyk's avatar

What a lovely poem! Sounds like a great book.

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