Monday: The Waffle & The Redskins

What's on tap for today? The Waffle, the Redskins, cancel culture, the doxing president, AI annihilation, AI education and the future, and the military and religion.

All of those things on my slate for this morning's show.

We let you take part at 321-788-MICK.

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And, um, the whole idea, at least in this opening segment this morning, is the power of language.

Words mean something.

Consistently applying them means something.

And it starts out with a question that I had the other day from Rod Cook at What the Frock? As he, Dave, and I were in a text conversation, and Rod wrote a very simple sentence.

He said, "Who is this Waffle guy?" The next sentence is more important.

So he wrote two simple sentences, a question and then a statement.

The statement is, "That's all I know him by." We have examples of this previously, and I think one that was particularly ef- effective.

And to me, that's one of the reasons nicknames on this program are so important.

They create identity, recognition.

They familiarize you with the nickname subject.

And when that has ... subject has no personality or that nickname characteristic is their defining feature, the nickname becomes the personality.

And that's the intent.

It's parody.

It's satire.

It's humor.

And like humor, there's a little bit of truth, maybe not all, but at least a little bit of truth in everything that's going on.

And I've had nicknames for elected officials and other figures that come in play in our conversation.

I've done that for the vast majority of my career.

Maybe the most effective one, maybe the best example, at least the one that comes to mind for me, is Johnnis Disgustus.