This is the Tom Hartman program.

Well greetings my friends, Patriots lovers of democracy truth and justice believers and

peace freedom in the American way.

That was a pretty brutal mercury retrograde, wasn't it the last couple of weeks.

Massive storms, wiping out the United States, good chunk, certainly Texas.

We had two airplanes, had their engines fall apart.

Our show had a bunch of technical problems that all seemed to track back to Portland having

lost power over the weekend and when things came back up are the various computer systems

in our studio that interact with each other.

I had to come up in a particular order and they didn't, so packets got jumbled and lost

and it was just a mess for a couple of days until we figured that out.

In no lessons learned.

Of course now that mercury is no longer retrograde, things are popping.

One last thing to the mercury retrograde, that's in astrology when mercury seems to be going

backwards and I'm not sure, I believe this stuff, but I get turned on a mercury retrograde

a long time ago and I keep an eye on it and it always seems to creep up on us and hit

us over the head.

Anyhow, mercury is no longer retrograde, but one other thing that happened, Gene Taylor.

You know Gene Taylor, he was a, I think the keyboardist with canned heat, froze to death

in his house in Austin.

As a consequence of Republican governor Greg Abbott and then the Republican leadership

of the state of Texas wanting to have this kind of go-it-alone energy policy, we don't

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