by Peter Boyles | Dec 17, 2021 | Blasting with Boyles
The tradition of a boycott goes back to my people in the Emerald Island when they were being overrun and had their culture destroyed by imperial Britain — oh, by the way, the British managed to do that in about 85 percent of the known world. But the Irish struck back with a tactic known as boycotting, as they stole the name from a British captain by the name of Boycott. So now you get the idea.
Now suddenly after years and years of the world’s biggest multinational corporations removing the means of production from Pittsburgh, Gary, Birmingham, and any other industrial city in this country, into the People’s Republic of China, our woke culture decides they want to boycott the Winter Olympics. I’ve been doing some reading on Olympic boycotts and they don’t work. The first one was in 1956 by Spain, Switzerland, and the Netherlands over the Soviet invasion of Hungary. Remember how much impact that had.
Recall most of the world failed to join Jimmy Carter in the 1980 boycott of the Soviet Games and the Soviets then won all the medals. And Jimmy Carter just screwed a whole generation of young athletes who waited their entire lives to compete in the Games.
So in the 2022 Olympic Games Joe Biden is pulling something called a diplomatic boycott, to which the Chinese retort we didn’t invite you anyway. This is the equivalent of that kid’s birthday party that you weren’t invited to and you told him you didn’t want to come anyhow.
But the real choice involves multi-nation corporations. They’re running the show and if you really want to boycott, go throw away your television and computer screens that you may have in your home, a lot of the parts in your car, any and all things you have that have anything to do with technology, and take them to the city dump. Now you’re showing the Chinese what for.
In reading about the woke corporations that have discovered the Chinese actually use slave labor, I came across LeBron James’ basketball shoe deal with Nike. A reminder, LeBron hates America. His shoes are made in very suspect places with interesting factors. He will make one billion dollars by the time his contract expires when he turns 64. Now a lot of my friends’ dads growing up lost their jobs when their jobs went to China, along with steel and iron workers’ jobs. They were replaced by Walmart, Amazon, Apple, CVC Health, and a couple of big car dealers like Toyota and Volkswagen. They run the show.
These boycotts are meaningless in a woke world where I am now forced to live. NBC will be carrying the Games. I for one will be watching skiing, and a whole lot of people are going to make a whole lot of money.
Next up for Joe, the Ukraine. What a beauty that’s going to be. As they said in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, “Who are those guys?”
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | Nov 19, 2021 | Blasting with Boyles
evil Santa Claus grimaces and scares a terrible face on a dark background
The jolly old fat man who broke into my father’s house every 24th of December left me with nothing but disappointment. Why did Santa always know I needed new underwear and socks? I was gypped. Where was the pony with the saddle on it so I could look like Roy and Gene? Heavy disappointment has always followed me through the holidays. Because now I’m in contact with Bad Santa.
He’s got a list of naughty and nice and there’s not much nice. He will be visiting the homes of the following and putting the following items in their stockings:
Governor Polis. Coming down the chimney at the mansion careful not to wake the children, a copy of Tax Returns For Dummies. Hint, hint.
Mayor Michael Hancock. Santa’s mind boggles at the amount of things that could be placed in Mikey’s carefully hung stocking. A divorce decree, a one-way ticket out of town during a no fly without a mask, and slip out the back door and move to Florida when this whole fiasco ends.
Senator Michael Bennet. Santa doesn’t know where to hang the stocking. By the way, he hasn’t seen much of you or Senator Hickenlooper. Part of Santa’s job is to know where people are to know if they are naughty or nice and as Santa said to me about their whereabouts, “Peter, it beats the hell out of me.” So perhaps they caught a break.
Tay Anderson. There’s a guy that Santa really has a case against. Santa has figured Tay out. Tay is running the long con. Tay, in the lexicon of organized crime, is a good earner. Santa predicts Tay will stuff his own stocking with a plan to replace Rep. Diana DeGette.
Kyle Clark. An unlimited amount of pomade for his hair, a little hair dye, and a certificate for $500 at Kohl’s men’s department. Geez Kyle, some of those sport coats my Grandma could have made into a quilt.
Councilwoman Amanda Sawyer. A dead horse’s head in the stocking for her and her Emerge sisters for scheming to destroy 8th Avenue and its residents.
To media mudslinger self-important gadfly Jason Salzman. Truth serum.
But Santa would like to recognize some of the good little boys and girls:
Like Ted Trimpa and Arash Mosaleh, America’s fun couple. The gift of love and happiness.
The Mayor of Glendale, Mike Dunafon. A huge thanks for developing Glendale. Santa loves Glendale. In particular he loves to go to Shotgun’s after all the toys have been delivered.
Tom Tancredo. Santa sends all of his love to the best politician Colorado’s ever had. Santa loves Tom.
Rep. Lauren Boebert. Santa wants to give her a couple of boxes of .45s.
Santa misses John Elway and Pat Bowlen. Santa has limited time for local television news and doesn’t even know where to park his sleigh.
Santa likes Mandy Connell. Santa listens to Mandy every day. Santa’s grateful for being able to dodge lawsuits for another 12 months.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night, and have a merry multi-cultural Christmas.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | Oct 22, 2021 | Blasting with Boyles
Only a few things in the ’40s and ’50s media ever affected me as a little boy. One thing that was for sure, I would never end up working in radio. But my memories about that golden time are pretty significant. One of my earliest memories is my sister, and my grandma, and my mother, and myself, marching around the breakfast table to Don McNeil’s Breakfast Club. The television shows that really influenced me were I Love Lucy, You Asked For It, Science Fiction Theater, and, of course, Superman.
It’s been announced that the original Superman motto of “Truth, Justice and the American Way” has been been ditched.
So now the super motto is “Truth, Justice and a Better Tomorrow.” Doesn’t that sound like Stalinism? “Glorious people build glorious tomorrow,” or “glorious people build new hydroelectric dam,” or in the case of DIA, “glorious people build glorious airport.”
Now old Superman really had an impact on me until, of course, I discovered my uncle’s collection of Playboy magazines, and the first time I ever kissed a girl after a baseball game. But Superman was all of our alter egos. I wore those Allegheny County welfare glasses and there were many times I wished I could have ducked into a phone booth and come out and kicked some big kid’s ass. But George Reeves was Superman. And Bud Collyer was Superman on radio. These people meant something and now…. a better tomorrow?
There is another part of this and by now I’m sure you’ve heard Superman’s son is bisexual. His name is Jon Kent. On October 11, Jon Kent, Superman’s son who wears the iconic “S” on his shield, came out as bisexual. As you well know, I too am bisexual. All the sex I get I buy. So, I guess it’s sort of a modern world. But the American way? Have Joe Biden and Kamala Harris killed the American way? Have Jared Polis and Michael Hancock killed the American way? Who can my grandson look up to?
The bisexual part doesn’t bother me a bit. It’s that American way thing. As you know when those young guys Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel invented Superman in the Spring of ’38 they were staring down the barrel of the Nazis. They were using professional wrestlers and body builders and they were going to keep the bad guys away from America.
I think it’s too late. The bad guys are here. I was also saddened to hear that they were going to build a better tomorrow. As Nancy Reagan said when Barbara Bush said that they were going to have a kinder, gentler American, Nancy quipped “kinder and gentler than who?” We’re going to build a better tomorrow. Better than the greatest generation? Better than the men who stood at Valley Forge? Better than the men at Gettysburg? Better than the young men and women who gave their souls in Southeast Asia and Iraq? A better tomorrow? Yeah? Look up in the sky.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | Sep 24, 2021 | Blasting with Boyles
In the last seven mon
ths of the award-winning radio show career, I’ve been called any or all of the following: a drug addict; an alcoholic; a democrat, ouch that one hurt; homosexual, which given my lifetime of dating straight women might be worth a try; and the worst person in talk radio history in Colorado. Can you think of some people who are getting a break on that one?
In the past I have been: the biggest racist in Denver radio, when I began to ask questions about Obama’s life story; a full-blown commie or pro Saddam, when I questioned weapons of mass destruction; destroying the life of a wonderful women i.e., Jon Benet’s mother; and harboring very wealthy men who had sex with women for money in Denver Players and Sugar. So, I’m fairly used to being abused.
But we have now crossed into new territory. This is what historians call new cut road.
I stole the column title from Tom Wolfe. He wrote about the Pump House Gang and Kool-Aid Acid Test.
So today to be a talk show host in Denver, especially working at the station I work at, you have to have the following pedigree. Number one, Donald Trump won and this whole thing has been stolen. Number two, Donald Trump won and this whole thing has been stolen. Number three, Donald Trump won, etc.
And if you don’t qualify, you can’t play. The facts somewhat speak for themselves. The Pump House Gang gathered in Pueblo to begin to destroy themselves one more time.
They overwhelmingly rejected the idea of opting out of the open primary and then voted to sue themselves over something they had already agreed on. Can you find the elephants and giraffes in that picture?
Folks. We must stop the people who want to bring you heroin injection sites, schools without defense, i.e., armed security guards. We have to stop the craziness of the homeless plight, the state being run by developers and bond daddies, banks, and other fat cats.
A line must be held and, believe me when I tell you, you won’t believe the stuff that’s coming down now. The party hacks have to face the Kool-Aid test. Did Donald Trump win or lose. That question will be asked by media, by their opponents in the Democrat party. If they say yes, Donald Trump lost, their throats will be torn out by the werewolves in the GOP. If they say no, their throats will be torn out by the vampires in the Democrats.
Halloween is coming. To the Democrats and the GOP: trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat. To rational thinkers everywhere, we’re doomed. But ski season starts soon. Go Broncos.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | Aug 27, 2021 | Blasting with Boyles
T
he best example I can ever give anybody about Joseph Campbell and his mythology of the hero who goes through various adventures, renews himself, and reappears in the end as the hero or the savior is Luke Skywalker in Star Wars. He fulfills the entire narrative of Campbell’s so-called The Hero’s Journey.
In his book, Joseph Campbell’s Hero With A Thousand Faces, he believes there is a principle in mythology whether it’s the life of Jesus, Ulysses, Moses, Muhammad, or King Arthur. We all read the mythology, Campbell called it the mono myth.
What I witness now is the emergence of the new church, the true believers, the people who in the French Revolution always addressed each other as “citizen,” or the Bolsheviks who addressed each other as “comrade.” Now we call one another “patriot.”
Donald Trump has assumed the role of savior and martyr. People like Sidney Powell, the kraken, the unsavory version of Mayor Giuliani, the court jester Lynn Wood, the acting pope Mike Lindell, and the runaway bride Jenna Ellis. They’re the cheerleaders in the mythology part of a religious trust. Mike Lindell has become a spokesperson for the rapture. Those of you who follow that form of Christianity know the day Jesus returns true believers will automatically disappear, cars will be empty, airplanes will fall out of the sky, and radio talk show hosts will disappear.
Now we all remember the rapturist in the 19th century, Reverend Miller in Georgia, who took all of his followers wrapped in sheets up the mountain for the rapture and it didn’t happen so they became Seventh-day Adventists.
Lindell first said the rapture would be August 13, but has now declared the rapture has moved to before New Year’s Eve of 2021. Lindell would make Joseph Campbell proud. The important part of this is the falling of the wayside of all the original members of the church. Giuliani, Powell, and all the rest who have been discredited. Lindell has kept the drive alive. New saints and martyrs appear daily but ultimately Campbell is right. The journey must end. I had the opportunity to meet Campbell prior to his death. His structured stories on what he called the mono myth have been repeated in Christian churches, Jewish temples, Islamic mosques, Samurai legends, Arthurian legends, and people we need to create to keep the drive alive. Campbell knew he stood alone. Let’s play ball.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | Jul 23, 2021 | Blasting with Boyles
Twice now in my lifetime, I’ve witnessed the end of senseless, ridiculous, long-term generational wars fought by my country, only to come to senseless, ridiculous conclusions. What’s more frightening about all of this, as we’re writing the column today, is the cry of the hawk. “We have to stop the mullahs from getting a bomb.” “We gotta confront the Chinese and the East China Sea. We have to confront Putin. And arm the Ukraine. For God’s sake we have to defend Taiwan.”
What have these people earned in the cost of the war in Afghanistan, and the end of the insanity of Vietnam? In southeast Asia they can only guess at the body count. The agreed upon cost in 1970 dollars was over a trillion and we continue to pay for the destroyed lives of the young men and women sent into southeast Asia.
Now Afghanistan. The cost of Afghanistan in lives and dollars. The 20-year mission comes to a conclusion as the helicopters are pushed off the decks of aircraft carriers, the American GIs leave Bagram Air Force Base in the middle of the night without telling the Afghans they are leaving. I watched General Scott Miller relinquish his command in Kabul. The data is frightening. No one knows again how many Afghans died and the cost to those peoples’ lives. The agreed upon number depends on who you listen to. Another trillion, and considering the continued death toll in Iraq, the lies of Bush and Cheney.
Remember, Johnson had the Gulf of Tonkin where there’s no evidence to support the American destroyers were fired on that night. Colin Powell and the UN talking about the yellow cake uranium. There’s no evidence of that. Bush and Cheney saying we must attack Afghanistan knowing full well the murderers of 9/11 had long gone into being protected by our gallant allies the Pakistanis.
The cost will continue, the price of the lives of these young men and women, the price of past tombs, Shia and the Sunni. Bush appearing in the media being upset about pulling out of Afghanistan. These people have no shame.
And the same on-airs, and the same elected politicians, the same columnists and the same war mongers now continue to hear the scream of the hawk. Let’s go again. Generations of Americans will have to pay this off.
The Two most important speeches ever given by any American president were: George Washington’s farewell address, warning of foreign entanglements; and Dwight Eisenhower, warning of the military industrial complex. This great danger is to the American forces’ fine young men and women, who will be paying with their lives, future health care disability, and the suicide numbers. 1.6 or 1.8 trillion. Another amount offered up. Those costs will peak. Who wants to go again? I fear these people.
— Peter Boyles
