The Bob Cesca Podcast: Water Dump Idalia

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

Water Dump Idalia — [Explicit Language] Hurrican Idalia heads toward Buzz’s house. Jesse Watters thinks Trump looked “hard” in his mugshot. Jessica Tarlov on whether the public thinks Trump is guilty. Trump’s DC federal trial will begin March 4. Trump will appeal but fail. Mark Meadows is trying to talk his way out of felony charges. Trump will be arraigned on Sept 6 in Atlanta. Palm Beach lawyer files lawsuit to block Trump from the ballot. Federalist Society co-founder thinks Chris Christie can sue to block Trump. Shocking poll results on unemployment and Biden’s age. With Buzz Burbank, music by Feed Your Wolves, Bill Toms, and more!

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 29, 2023 • 2:24:35pm

The resident in my wall is a striped ground squirrel. I just saw it exit. There are a lot of them here, so that’s what I expected.

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William Lewis  Aug 29, 2023 • 2:25:49pm

So Friday night at the hotel I had to deal with one of our usual serious drunks. My AGM was working the shift before I got there and the drunkard kept trying to hit on her and get her to stay after her shift and drink with them. She wasn’t having any of it.

After we changed over, he started calling me “Santa” due to my long grey beard and asked if I had any presents. I replied that my present was that I wouldn’t call the cops if he went to bed 😎

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 29, 2023 • 2:25:57pm

Mastodon

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 29, 2023 • 2:33:03pm
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Captain Magic  Aug 29, 2023 • 2:36:12pm

Here be a blue sky code

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Semper Fi  Aug 29, 2023 • 2:37:02pm

re: #2 William Lewis

So Friday night at the hotel I had to deal with one of our usual serious drunks. My AGM was working the shift before I got there and the drunkard kept trying to hit on her and get her to stay after her shift and drink with them. She wasn’t having any of it.

After we changed over, he started calling me “Santa” due to my long grey beard and asked if I had any presents. I replied that my present was that if he wouldn’t call the cops if he went to bed 😎

I so enjoy these little stories. There are times when insomnia attacks and lgf nite shift is going I find it hilarious when you and Targetpractice get going. Quite entertaining.

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darthstar  Aug 29, 2023 • 2:48:38pm

Summer BBQ of airplanes in Russia.

Mastodon

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darthstar  Aug 29, 2023 • 2:52:33pm

Another video:

Mastodon

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 29, 2023 • 2:58:21pm
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EPR-radar  Aug 29, 2023 • 3:04:07pm

re: #9 Backwoods Sleuth

Enthusiastic good Republicans are getting restless.

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Teukka  Aug 29, 2023 • 3:11:11pm
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darthstar  Aug 29, 2023 • 3:19:16pm

DA Willis isn’t fuckin’ around. She wants all of the defendants to be tried together. She just said Powell can have her speedy trial…at the same time as Chesebro’s. And as Chesebro didn’t file a motion to sever when he requested a speedy trial, the other motions to sever aren’t applicable.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 29, 2023 • 3:25:48pm

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Aug 29, 2023 • 3:29:27pm

re: #13 Backwoods Sleuth

Of course. The R’s have to make money somewhere. / half

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Aug 29, 2023 • 3:39:42pm

re: #12 darthstar

DA Willis isn’t fuckin’ around. She wants all of the defendants to be tried together. She just said Powell can have her speedy trial…at the same time as Chesebro’s. And as Chesebro didn’t file a motion to sever when he requested a speedy trial, the other motions to sever aren’t applicable.

I first read that as “….wants all of the defendants to be TIED together..”
We could wish.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 29, 2023 • 3:47:13pm
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gocart mozart  Aug 29, 2023 • 3:52:04pm
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jaunte  Aug 29, 2023 • 3:53:31pm

re: #17 gocart mozart

He’s a baaaaad man.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Aug 29, 2023 • 3:53:47pm

re: #17 gocart mozart

There goes Jim Shorts shooting off his mouth again.

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BigPapa  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:12:08pm

re: #3 Backwoods Sleuth

Pickled red cabbage in place of sauerkraut? Machine says yes.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:16:20pm

Having a cold when it’s 103 out sucks.

Thankfully, that’s all it is (tested for Covid - negative), but the dry Socal heat is wearing me down a lot more than usual today.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:17:37pm

re: #20 BigPapa

Pickled red cabbage in place of sauerkraut? Machine says yes.

td does all kinds of great food posts over at Mastodon

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sagehen  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:18:57pm

re: #13 Backwoods Sleuth

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help me out here.

Are these blood pressure and cholesterol drugs? Or something else?

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:19:04pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:21:33pm

re: #23 sagehen

help me out here.

Are these blood pressure and cholesterol drugs? Or something else?

I looked up the first few: diabetes meds, some for treating blood clots, some for preventing strokes

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BigPapa  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:24:17pm

I have a Bluski code and dammit, I’ll go down to Herman Cane special: Nein Nein Nein. Get it while it’s (cough).

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Jay C  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:26:44pm

re: #23 sagehen

help me out here.

Are these blood pressure and cholesterol drugs? Or something else?

Diabetes and related conditions mostly (I think).

Though I was on Jardiance for a while and don’t remember it being unusually expensive- though my prescription plan tends to sort the drugs out into just two groups: “dirt cheap” and “exorbitant”….

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Captain Ron  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:30:27pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:32:27pm

We’re back from Sidney.

And then there were two.
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PhillyPretzel ✅  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:33:19pm

re: #29 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Cool. 2 Mini’s.

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darthstar  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:33:27pm

re: #29 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We’re back from Sidney.

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Now you can take up a whole parking space.

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Semper Fi  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:34:08pm

re: #13 Backwoods Sleuth

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Eliquis at the top of the list…thank you, Joe.

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Semper Fi  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:39:18pm

re: #23 sagehen

help me out here.

Are these blood pressure and cholesterol drugs? Or something else?

Eliquis reduces possibility of stroke for A-Fib patients.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:42:22pm

re: #41 sagehen

again, you are confusing “Right Wing” with “Conservative”. Which is THEIR framing, because the far right recruits from within conservative factions.

During the American Revolution, the abolitionist movement, the labor movement, women’s suffrage, civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights… the Conservative position has always been “Let’s not change a thing. Keep it all as is.”

Fascists find conservatives useful, but fascists are not conservative. Because fascists want to change EVERYTHING.

Conservatives want to change everything too. They hate the distributed power of liberal democracy, and work constantly to change it, specifically to benefit them and their patrons. The suffragette movement, civil rights, gay rights, women’s rights, and such wanted to distribute power to more people.

They all want to grab power and centralise it. That is the defining characteristic of conservatism. Fascism is just conservatism, plus more.

Homeland security and ICE are good examples of conservatives changing existing structures to benefit their power.

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silverdolphin  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:44:04pm

re: #27 Jay C

Diabetes and related conditions mostly (I think).

Though I was on Jardiance for a while and don’t remember it being unusually expensive- though my prescription plan tends to sort the drugs out into just two groups: “dirt cheap” and “exorbitant”….

Enbrel is used for arthritic diseases.When it first came out (about 25 years ago) it was about $16,000 a year. Now it is closer to $84,000.

I am on it. Before Medicare, Amgen provided a free subsidy of $8000 a year if you signed up. Since my out of pocket cost via Obamacare was $6500, I paid $0. They paid for it.

But they stop that subsidy when you get on Medicare. Now I no longer have their subsidy and have to pay for it. Looks like my out of pocket will be over $7500.

So, if I am on private insurance I do not pay. If I am on Medicare, I pay thousands. And I assume the insurance company pays the other tens of thousands. That does not sound like a useful business model.

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Semper Fi  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:44:30pm

re: #29 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We’re back from Sidney.

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They even look smart. Probably get good mileage too.

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CleverToad  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:44:39pm

re: #13 Backwoods Sleuth

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Januvia is the only one we’re dealing with at the moment (I say, crossing fingers). We have a reasonably good retiree plan through my husband’s union, so most of the meds are affordable. Januvia, though, is $175 for 30 pills — and $200 for 90. Tell me, in what bean-counter’s universe does American healthcare make sense?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:45:15pm

re: #30 PhillyPretzel ✅

Cool. 2 Mini’s.

People were asking since we bought our 2013 Smart when we were going to get one for the other foot. Now we have the other one. (The 2009 Smart actually has fewer miles on it. Probably because it wasn’t driven to Alaska and Labrador.)

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:46:15pm

re: #38 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sorry. I forgot they were Smarts.

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jaunte  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:46:53pm

re: #35 silverdolphin

[ Enbrel] “spent over $100 million on advertising in digital and national TV in the last year.”
advertisers.mediaradar.com.

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sagehen  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:52:47pm

re: #40 jaunte

[ Enbrel] “spent over $100 million on advertising in digital and national TV in the last year.”
advertisers.mediaradar.com.

Jardiance does A LOT of TV advertising. I can even sing the song.

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silverdolphin  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:58:46pm

re: #40 jaunte

[ Enbrel] “spent over $100 million on advertising in digital and national TV in the last year.”
advertisers.mediaradar.com.

I worked as a researcher at the company (Immunex) that created Enbrel. I actually worked on it early on. I t was a miracle drug. We had to cut short the clinical trials because you could tell who was getting vs. Placebo - patients literally stood up out of their wheelchairs.

We initially priced Enbrel based on how much it would save Medicare costs for hospitalization of RA patients (about $16000 a year) and Medicare approval was critical for the drug to be successful. So Medicare initially had a huge advantage over the price. But could not negotiate.

After Enbrel was a success, Amgen bought the company purely to get that drug. They have pretty much been using rent-seeking to make a sht ton of money off of it without any real innovation. This all the spending on advertising. And by getting more and more people on the drug, they could now just increase the cost and see Medicare pay for it.

So I am glad about negotiating the price.

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Nojay UK  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:01:22pm

re: #35 silverdolphin

Enbrel is used for arthritic diseases.When it first came out (about 25 years ago) it was about $16,000 a year. Now it is closer to $84,000.

A quick check online suggests the British NHS pays about $12,000 a year for a patient’s treatment with this particular brand-name drug.

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Semper Fi  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:01:45pm

re: #38 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

People were asking since we bought our 2013 Smart when we were going to get one for the other foot. Now we have the other one. (The 2009 Smart actually has fewer miles on it. Probably because it wasn’t driven to Alaska and Labrador.)

For a 2009 it looks plenty good.

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silverdolphin  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:05:01pm

re: #41 sagehen

Jardiance does A LOT of TV advertising. I can even sing the song.

When working as a researcher at Immunex, an accounting person explained this all to me: every dollar spent on marketing led to $3-5 dollars directly to the bottom line. Every dollar spent om research led to $0 to the bottom line. It was all a waste of money.

Which is why the Big Pharma so often do not really do the research (they have research going on just to spend their ungoddly profits, otherwise they woul really be seen as evil). They buy smaller companies that spent on research and then market the crap out of it.

No small bioyech company looks to become a Big Pharma anymore. They all hope to sell out to Big Pharma.

It is all rent-seeking behavior. Now Biden will put a stop to that. I hope.

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silverdolphin  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:07:01pm

re: #43 Nojay UK

A quick check online suggests the British NHS pays about $12,000 a year for a patient’s treatment with this particular brand-name drug.

My Part D insurance pays over $7000 a month for the drug. I bet the marketing costs are so much less in the UK. Marketing these drugs costs so much more than any research Big Pharma ever do on it.

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Nojay UK  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:16:50pm

re: #46 silverdolphin

My Part D insurance pays over $7000 a month for the drug. I bet the marketing costs are so much less in the UK. Marketing these drugs costs so much more than any research Big Pharma ever do on it.

The NHS famously negotiates bulk purchase pricing for all of its drug purchases and notoriously drives a hard bargain. Maybe the US should try that? Oh, look, President Biden has just announced…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:30:13pm

re: #14 PhillyPretzel ✅

Of course. The R’s have to make money somewhere. / half

The city of Iowa Colony (population LOL) on the road between Houston and Freeport tried a stunt like this. The town is actually off the highway, so they incorporated a number of spaghetti threads that crossed TX-288, then started financing their town with speeding tickets.

It is against both federal and Texas law to do that, and Texas moved against Iowa Colony and disincorporated the town.

The town has now reincorporated but the culture of soaking drivers has changed.

My Bulletin Newspaper, September 7, 2021

Remember Iowa Colony? Well, it has changed - a lot

Until recently, Iowa Colony was a small agricultural community that I suspect few Brazoria County residents knew much about.

Although motorists on Texas 288 would see exit signs for Iowa Colony, there was little reason to stop, unless you were pulled over by a police officer for speeding.

In the 1990s, Iowa Colony was notorious as a major speed trap and was one of the reasons a Texas statute now limits municipal profits from speed traps.

These days Iowa Colony is becoming known for other things. By percentages, this city just south of Alvin is becoming one of the fastest growing cities in the region.

Between the 2010 and 2020 census, the city grew at a rate of almost 30 percent annually and had its population jump from 1,170 to almost 5,000.

It is now estimated the population exceeds 10,000 and is expected to double in the next five years.

By mid-century, the city expects to be home to between 60,000 and 80,000 residents.

The growth is taking place as developers inexorably push south along Texas 288.

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