High Lonesome

@RefuseToLosePod One of the more demoralizing loses as a Mariners fan that I can remember...

That Mariners loss was horrific, but at least other teams are upset too lol.

@RefuseToLosePod Painful to watch. Here we go again. Gonna have to spend the rest of the season digging out of a big hole. Par for the course. Maybe Colt Emerson can save us...

We have played almost 13 full games and neither Josh Naylor nor Julio Rodriguez have one single extra-base hit. #TridentsUp

@BretWeinstein As "The Who" so eloquently stated.... "Meet the new boss.....same as the old boss...."

I don’t owe anyone an apology for supporting Trump. No one does. The Democrats didn’t run a credible candidate. They ran two insults to our intelligence. It was a de facto coup—rule by a cabal of advisors. Voting Trump was a patriotic duty even if a cabal now seems to control him

@MattWalshBlog @IMAO_ Frank is just another antisocial techie lost in the world of Dungeons and Dragons.... I think you are spot on Matt.

I think we can define it pretty easily. If we can’t even define it then we can’t talk about it at all, or even talk about the fact that we can’t talk about it. Like we must have some shared understanding of what the thing is in order to have this exchange that we’re having right now. But figuring out how it works, where it comes from, who or what else has it, etc, are different questions entirely. And I wouldn’t claim to have the answers to any of those questions.

Okay you can chuckle snidely or actually take part in the conversation. You seem to prefer the former, which is your choice. I would say that consciousness is the awareness and experience of the self as a self. I can’t tell you exactly how it works but I think that’s what it is. If you have a different definition you could always suggest it.

@Decode_Z_World @RealMattCouch OMG!!! What's the Ca$h stockpile for? Sorry for the ignorance but I'm confused.

@RealMattCouch If you really want to get steamed, there are 5m of these $98m cash pallets outside the USA. Crisp $100 bills never circulated. That's $500T of off the grid Fed Reserve notes. M0 on the Fed of St. Louis "FRED" shows only ~$6T. Scan the QR code.

General Flynn is SPOT ON as usual!

@ASavageNation Release the Epstein Files!!!! Who gives a flying F about the tariffs at this juncture!!

@BrandonStraka Looks terrible bud the commentary and unintelligent language ruins it for me. Get a life video man. Sheesh. No doubt something needs to be done about the homeless situation.

A quick trip by Citi Field shows the reality—this stadium is a disaster.

@PeterAttiaMD You are one SICK PUP, Peter. You are a DISGRACE! You even look like a PREDATOR! You arrogant BASTARD. You are a two faced lying POS. Now REAP WHAT YOU SOWED!

The following email is what I sent my team last night. I sent a similar version to my patients, also. *** You’ve put your trust, your credibility, and your hard work into what we have built together, and I take that responsibility seriously. You deserve a complete and honest account of what did and did not happen. I apologize that I did not get this out sooner, but I want to be thorough. The purpose of the DOJ releasing these documents is clear: to identify individuals who participated in criminal activity, enabled it, or witnessed it. I am not in any of those categories, and there is no evidence to the contrary. To be clear: 1. I was not involved in any criminal activity. 2. My interactions with Epstein had nothing to do with his sexual abuse or exploitation of anyone. 3. I was never on his plane, never on his island, and never present at any sex parties. That said, I apologize and regret putting myself in a position where emails, some of them embarrassing, tasteless, and indefensible, are now public, and that is on me. I accept that reality and the humiliation that comes with it. *** I want to start by directly addressing the email thread that I’ve been asked about the most. In June 2015, I sent Epstein an email with the subject line “Got a fresh shipment.” The email contained a photograph of bottles of metformin, a medication I had just received from the pharmacy for my own use. The subject line referred to the picture of the bottles of medication. He replied with the words “me too” and attached a photograph of an adult woman. I responded with crude, tasteless banter. Reading that exchange now is very embarrassing, and I will not defend it. I’m ashamed of myself for everything about this. At the time, I understood this exchange as juvenile, not a reference to anything dark or harmful. At that point in my career, I had little exposure to prominent people, and that level of access was novel to me. Everything about him seemed excessive and exclusive, including the fact that he lived in the largest home in all of Manhattan, owned a Boeing 727, and hosted parties with the most powerful and prominent leaders in business and politics. I treated that access as something to be quiet about rather than discussed freely with others. One line in that exchange, about his life being outrageous and me not being able to tell anyone, is being interpreted as awareness of wrongdoing. That is not how I meant it at all. What I was referring to, poorly and flippantly, was the discretion commanded by those social and professional circles–the idea that you don’t talk about who you meet, the dinners you attend and the power and influence of the people in those settings. What I wrote in that email reads terribly, and I own that. *** I met Epstein in 2014 through a prominent female healthcare leader while I was raising funds for scientific research. At that time, he was widely known in academic and philanthropic circles as a funder of science and moved openly among credible institutions and public figures. Between summer 2014 and spring 2019, I met with him on approximately seven or eight occasions at his New York City home, regarding research studies and to meet others he introduced me to. I never visited his island or ranch, and I never flew on any of his planes. When I was at his home, it was either meeting with him directly, meeting with small groups of scientists, doctors, or business leaders, and once at a dinner in 2015 with a number of guests including prominent heads of state. In retrospect, the presence and credibility of such venerable people in different orbits led me to make assumptions about him that clouded my judgment in ways it shouldn’t have. I was not his doctor, though several times I answered general medical questions and recommended other providers to him. Shortly after we met, I asked him directly about his 2008 conviction. He characterized it as prostitution-related charges. In 2018, I came to learn this was grossly minimized (more on this below). I was incredibly naïve to believe him. I mistook his social acceptance in the eyes of the credible people I saw him with for acceptability, and that was a serious error in my judgment. To be clear, I never witnessed illegal behavior and never saw anyone who appeared underage in his presence. *** In November 2018 I read the Miami Herald investigative article. I was repulsed by what I learned. Nauseated. It marked a clear and irreversible line between what I knew before and what I understood afterward. At that point, I told him directly he needed to accept responsibility for what he did. Hoping to provide the victims from the Herald piece with support, I contacted a residential trauma facility to understand what funding comprehensive care for many victims would require. (Those communications were between me and the facility and were therefore not part of the document release.) I spoke with him and shared that information and insisted that he fund their care, beginning with residential treatment and followed by lifelong therapy. In hindsight, even attempting to facilitate accountability was a mistake and once again reflected just how naïve I was at the time. Once the full scope of his actions was clear, disengagement should have been the only appropriate response. My intent does not change that, and I regret not drawing that boundary immediately. *** Nothing in this letter is meant to minimize the harm suffered by the young women Epstein abused. Their trauma is permanent. I am not asking for a pass from you. I am not asking anyone to ignore the emails or pretend they aren’t ugly. They simply are. The man I am today, roughly ten years later, would not write them and would not associate with Epstein at all. Whatever growth I’ve had over the past decade does not erase the emails I wrote then. I recognize that my actions and words have consequences for the people I care deeply about, including all of you. I regret the cost this has placed on you, and I take responsibility for it. I won’t ask anyone to defend me or explain this on my behalf. If you have questions or concerns, I’ll address them directly with you, my team.

@CoffindafferFBI A POS....end of story 🇺🇸

Who wears their hat and doesn't stand during our national anthem/God Bless America? #SuperBowl #SuperBowlLX

@krassenstein Mr. Kr-ASS-enstein...you sir are an f'n IDIOT! Are you in yo mama's basement...? Yup...thought so 🤣

While many of you are likely yelling “GO SEAHAWKS” or “GO PATRIOTS!” I’m yelling “GO BAD BUNNY, DESTROYER OF CONSERVATIVE FEELINGS.”

@SeattleWXGuy It's called adrenaline and a win at all costs attitude....possibly mixed with some kind of testosterone supplement . Set that to the roar of the Sunday Seattle crowd and.... voila!

I cannot believe Woolen just did that, this is for the Superbowl, I just cant... #Seahawks

@umeh098 44

IQ test

@hippyygoat You are an....let's see....an IDIOT, sir 😂

Following orders is not an excuse… WAR CRIMINALS!!!

@ohhanxiety Cricket

can you?

@DefiantLs Nauseating

What's the first thought that comes to mind when you see Ilhan Omar?

@RefuseToLosePod Nothing less than a typical quintessential Mariners implosion..

Luke Raley is pinch-hitting for Josh Naylor. No reason given.

@RefuseToLosePod Love your "unfiltered" and "unadulterated' reporting, Brady! Your Mariners content and the personality you deliver it with...on all platforms...is the best out there! Keep up the great work.

According to Bob Nightengale of USA Today, the #Mariners are expected to be among the most aggressive teams at the trade deadline. But will they get to the deadline in a position to be aggressive? si.com/mlb/mariners/n… #TridentsUp

@thee_mooks @RefuseToLosePod 100 percent agree. It's shameful.

@RefuseToLosePod DH Polo. I don’t care that it’s his right side. He’s seeing the ball better than anyone. Unless he’s hurt, it’s asinine. Not a serious organization

This sounds like "we can't play Polanco in the field yet, we don't want to take Raleigh off the field, and this is the spot Garver has to play," so we're stuck kinda thing.

@TuckerCarlson So sorry for your loss, Tucker 🙏

Obituary for my father. Richard Warner Carlson died at 84 on March 24, 2025 at home in Boca Grande, Florida after six weeks of illness. He refused all painkillers to the end and left this world with dignity and clarity, holding the hands of his children with his dogs at his feet. He was born February 10, 1941 at Massachusetts General Hospital to a 15-year-old Swedish-speaking girl and placed in the Home for Little Wanderers in Boston, where he developed rickets from malnutrition. His legs were bent for the rest of his life. After years in foster homes, he was placed with the Carlson family in Norwood, Mass. His adoptive father, a tannery manager, died when he was 12 and he stopped attending school regularly. At 17, he was jailed for car theft, thrown out of high school for the second time, and enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. In 1962, in search of adventure, he drove to California. He spent a year as a merchant seaman on the SS Washington Bear, transporting cargo to ports in the Orient, and then became a reporter. Over the next decade, he was a copy boy at the LA Times, a wire service reporter for UPI and an investigative reporter and anchor for ABC News, covering the upheaval of the period. He knew virtually every compelling figure of the time, including Jim Jones, Patty Hearst, Eric Hoffer, Jerry Garcia, as well as Mafia leaders and members of the Manson Family. In 1965, he was badly injured reporting from the Watts riots in Los Angeles. By 1975, he was married with two small boys, when his wife departed for Europe and didn’t return. He threw himself into raising his boys, whom he often brought with him on reporting trips. At home, he educated them during three-hour dinners on topics that ranged from the French Revolution to Bolshevik Russia, PG Wodehouse, the history of the American Indian and, always, the eternal and unchanging nature of people. He was a free thinker and a compulsive book reader, including at red lights. He left a library of thousands of books, most dog-eared and filled with marginalia. His reading and life experiences convinced him that God is real. He had an outlaw spirit tempered by decency. In 1979, he married the love of his life, Patricia Swanson. They were together for 44 years, all of them happy. She died sixteen months before he did and he mourned her every day. In 1985, he moved to Washington to work for the Reagan Administration. He spent five years as the director of the Voice of America, and then moved to the Seychelles as the US ambassador. In 1992, he became the CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and later ran a division of King World television. The last 25 years of his life were spent in work whose details were never completely clear to his family, but that was clearly interesting. He worked in dozens of countries and breakaway republics around the world, and was involved in countless intrigues. He knew a number of colorful national leaders, including Rafic Hariri of Lebanon, Aslan Abashidze of Adjara, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, and whomever runs Somaliland. He was a fundamentally nonjudgmental person who was impossible to shock, and he described them all with amused affection. He spoke to his sons every day and had lunch with them once a week for thirty years at the Metropolitan Club in Washington, always prefaced by a dice game. Throughout his life he fervently loved dogs. Richard W. Carlson is survived by his sons, Tucker and Buckley, his beloved daughter-in-law Susie, and five grandchildren. He was the toughest human being anyone in his family ever knew, and also the kindest and most loyal. RIP.

@caitoz You're lost Caitlin.

Mindless human livestock.