Podcasts about twatters

The Overnight Underground Podcast, now the headlines:  Police using SWAT, pepper spray and knight sticks for social distancing. You won’t social distance, that’s a shooting. A Gun and knife fight battle winner in Florida. The Supreme Court flush and Trump’s butler did it.  These stories & more coming up on today’s Overnight Underground News. I’m John Ford.   Social distancing SWAT In the US, the lockdown is definitely taking a toll and driving people and that includes the police, totally and completely nuts. Case in point: In Odessa, Texas the sheriff sent in a SWAT team to clear a protest outside a bar. The Bar, Big Daddy Zanes, was open despite going against the Governors order for bars, gyms and salons to remain closed. Bar owner Gabrielle Ellison speaking to KLBC TV. You know, you got to be careful or you could get "tooken".  Cops rough up non-social distancers In New Jersey, Jersey City cops are under fire today for allegedly roughing up a group of black men for social distancing violations. Video has surfaced that shows a white cop repeatedly punching an African American man while another cop pins him to the ground. Police report six officers responded to a fight that involved somewhere in the neighborhood of a hundred people. Police used pepper spray and batons to break up the crowd and their heads. Social media finger pointers are saying the cops used excessive force to enforce social distancing and the PoPo is saying the cops used just  the right amount of force for the violent situation. Who you gonna believe?  Social distance? That’s a shooting All right, what’s next? In Oklahoma City on wednesday, two customers shot two McDonald's employees after being told to leave the restaurant due to coronavirus restrictions. CNN reports the perps got angry and started shootin’ when they were asked to leave due to the plague restrictions. Two suspects were apprehended after fleeing the scene. The Hamburgler could not be reached for comment.  Gun and knife fight winners Well, we may finally have the answer to who wins in the knife fight, gun fight challenge. Two Tampa Mensa members may have finally answered the question, unfortunately one of them is dead. It seems two men were role playing the gun vs knife fight scenario when the gun went off, killing the knife wielding man. That’s Tampa prosecutor Anthony Falcone. According to Fox thirteen Tampa Bay, the shooter, twenty four year old Neil Gallagher, is facing manslaughter charges. His defense? He didn’t know the gun was loaded.  Jogging will kill you And of course there’s the case of the unarmed black jogger in Georgia who appears to be being hunted and is then shot and killed back in February. A video is causing outrage online. The two men in the video who allegedly shot and killed the jogger, Ahmaud Arbery, have not been charged.  Supreme court flush OK, enough of all that mayhem, here’s the sound byte of the day. Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over teleconference, due to the dangers of coronavirus. Yet it seems that some of the better arguments came out the other end.  While attorney Roman Martinez was passionately arguing in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, listeners, and that includes everyone with an inclination to bend an ear due to the fact that the proceedings were streamed live on the internet, clearly heard a toilet flush in the background. Although Martinez was speaking at the time of the flush, it’s not clear who pushed the plunger. It could have been the notorious RBG, Aleto, Roberts, you name it. We hear from reliable sources that they are all, literally full of sh*t. In another ironic twist at the court, during arguments about robocalls, Justice Stephen Breyer was cut off when someone tried calling him. The Justice said, Quote: “I don't think it was a robocall." It was probably just Mark from Microsoft calling from Mumbai about all those infections on Breyer’s computer.  Worse than Pearl Harbor We actually have another candidate for sound byte of the day today on the Overnight Underground. President Trump on Wednesday compared the coronavirus pandemic to Pearl Harbor and nine eleven. Needless to say, a lot of Twatters were offended and outraged, because that’s just how they roll. The President also reversed his earlier decision to disband the coronavirus task force. He said he, quote: “had no idea how popular the task force is.” Probably more popular than his current ratings.  The butler did it.  The President’s personal valet has tested positive for Covid-19, but Trump and his docs say he’s A OK. The valets are members of the military and work closely with the President and and the first family. According to The New York Post and other sources, the valet started exhibiting symptoms on Wednesday and later tested positive for coronavirus. The news has reportedly, quote: “hit the fan” in the west wing. Nothing a good dose of bleach won’t fix.  Avoid driving in Georgia Here’s a reason to stay the hell off the roads in Georgia, twenty thousand teens have received their driver licenses without a road test.  It’s all part of Georgia's way of handling the backlog of the thousands of road tests that have been put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic. And while you’re at it, you might want to avoid driving in Wisconsin as week. The state announced that it will start doing the same for teen drivers, starting Monday. Oh these kids today, try parallel parking a ‘70s Lincoln Town Car as part of your driving test and then get back to me. 

On this edition of #PoundSignTime we discuss what Twatters saw when they looked out the window.

Welcome back! We did a thing. Oh boy. Star Wars is not great with science. Not at all. This is also not a great movie. Yeah. Sorry. Jar Jar was a mistake. Don't do bad movies like this. Come on now. Nobody gives two shits about drawn out space politics. More lasers and battles and laser swords and force things. Talking points: Bullying and gatekeeping, trapping HippoGriff in a long ass recording session, and burning through all of our science in the first movie. Make sure to follow us on the Twatters and the gmails and the beanpods and whatever else.

For our 10th anniversary, we invited our old friend John Twatters to mix a collection of classic Chances heat, compiled by organizers past and present. Featuring contributions from Baby Sloth, Behaviour, CQQCHIFRUIT, FKA Swag, John Twatters, The Lady Speedstick, Nina Ramone and Rita Bacon. Enjoy! And thanks for 10 beautiful years!! Deee-lite | What Is Love? Loose Joints | Is It All Over My Face? Dynasty | I Don't Wanna Be A Freak (But I Can't Help Myself) Hercules & Love Affair | Blind B-52's | Mesopotamia Liquid Liquid | Optimo Owiny Sigoma Band | Nyiduonge Drums Drums of Death vs Franklin Fuentes | Fierce Cajmere | Percolator Harddrive | Deep Inside Chicks On Speed | Wordy Rappinghood Bow Wow Wow | Love, Peace, and Harmony Le Tigre | Deceptacon (DFA remix) Merle | Mimi Likes 2 Dance Frankie Knuckles & Jamie Principle | Baby Wants To Ride T2 | Heartbroken ESG | Erase You Sneaker Pimps | Spin Spin Sugar (Armand Van Helden Garage Mix) Drake ft. Nicki Minaj | Make Me Proud Bizarre Inc | I'm Gonna Get You Metro Area | Miura Prince | Erotic City MIA | Sunshowers Yoko Ono | Walking On Thin Ice Fleetwood Mac | Dreams (Psychemagik Remix) Presented as part of Platforms: 10 Years of Chances Dances

THE FUNNEL OF LOVE! - DECEMBER 2009 - Compiled by John Twatters all 60s girl-groups! a mix you can play for your mom or at a party! yeah! compiled by john twatters. The Shangri-Las - Give Him a Great Big Kiss Diane Renay - Watch Out, Sally! The Ad-Libs - The Boy From New York City Martha and the Vandellas - Heatwave The Velvelettes - Needle In A Haystack Gloria Jones - Tainted Love Lesley Gore - You Don't Own Me The Ronettes - You Came, You Saw, You Conquered The Paris Sisters - Dream Lover LIttle Peggy March - Johnny Cool The Supremes - Come See About Me Dana Gillespie - You Just Gotta Know My Mind Jackie DeShannon - When You Walk in the Room PP Arnold - The First Cut is the Deepest The Dixie Cups - Iko Iko The Chiffons - Nobody Knows What's Going On (In My Mind But Me) Wanda Jackson - Funnel of Love The Storey Sisters - Bad Motorcycle The Shangri-Las - Sophisticated Boom Boom Jan Bradley - Mama Didn't Lie Dolly Parton - Don't Drop Out The Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman Donna Lynn - I'd Much Rather Be With The Girls The Orchids - Ooh-Chang-A-Lang Freda Gray - Stay Away From My Johnny Martha And the Vandellas - Nowhere to Hide The Shirelles - Baby It's You