Late Breakfast Live Today

Trail Mixers are welcome to join me live on YouTube interacting with commenters 10am ET (will go live at 9am to see if it’s working).

I’m just going to talk about breakfast, stuff like which is best: crispy or soft hash browns? Maybe other hot button issues like pancakes or waffles. Denny’s or IHOP?

Might only be a curious dog or two online, but I’m just playing. And dogs are the ideal live audience — engaged, nonjudgmental, and always interested when bacon is involved.

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Author: craigcrawford

Trail Mix Host. Lapsed journalist, author & retired pundit happily promoting nothing but the truth for Social Security checks.

83 thoughts on “Late Breakfast Live Today”

  2. Pogeux, if you (or anyone else) would like to do this like a zoom call and get on camera I can email the link. i am just now learning about this capability with YouTube. I’m just experimenting. I’m going to try making breakfast with this call, but I can’t eat it because I’m doing blood work today for my annual physical next week.

  3. PatD, I figured out our time warp mystery. Our system time zone was set to UTC-5 and it should be UTC-4. Whatever that is. It is correct now, but what I don’t know is whether I have to change that when we change time again???

  4. This ropa-dope (spell?) Trump is doing with the courts is absurd. Pretending he can’t retrieve that guy he kidnapped and sent to foreign death camp. He is disobeying the Supreme Court, period. That’s what dictators do.

  6. warm-ups prior to the main show at 10


    Jon Stewart measures Trump’s weight on the authoritarian scale. Between the president’s refusal to correct the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to his incompetence on a variety of issues, Donald’s dictatorship isn’t looking very healthy. #DailyShow

    and


    Vice President J.D. Vance dropped the NCAA football championship trophy at a White House ceremony, CBS News anchor Gayle King kissed the ground after returning from space, President Trump’s doctor says golfing is keeping him in good shape, and Sen. Bernie Sanders surprised the crowd at Coachella.

  8. “Crispy hash browns and bacon.”

    is what dissenters are going to be if we don’t get our shit together

  9. Orange Adolf : Only I can solve everything!

    Also, Orange Adolf: I can not bring back that guy I had ICE kidnap and human traffic to an El Salvadoran extermination camp.

    Adolf & Rubio don’t want that guy to come back and tell all, which is not a problem if he’s dead.

    WAR CRIMES!

  11. There is also the crispy or not crispy scrapple debate.

    Back a few decades breakfast was a couple of fried eggs, hash browns, bacon and sausage, all covered in Colorado green chili sauce and pancakes on the side. Now pick one.

  13. Poobah, I’ll watch, but I probably won’t participate by video – my boss (Mrs. P) probably wouldn’t think it sets a good example for our staff.

  14. So I am on live now at this address, barely know what I’m doing but what the heck. Hop in and see if we can not hurt ourselves…

  15. I don’t know how to “hop in,” but I can see you.

    Watching on the trail link. Guess I need a YT account to participate.

  19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievances_of_the_United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

    The 27 grievances is a section from the United States Declaration of Independence. 

    “He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.” <—

    “He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.” <— Even before he took office; don’t sign that bipartisan border bill, I want to run on it.

    “He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.” <—- Yt supremacy

    “He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.” <—-DOGE

    “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.” <—- This one is coming, per his last EO. He’s going to have US troops in control of US citizens at our border, and he will use those troops against all US citizens.

    That’s just 5 out of 27, but we’re well on the way to all 27. 2025: The Year of Festivus

    Time for “feats of strength”!

  20. We’ve done “freezer trash” ever since moving to the hot South. Very spoiled, trash-wise, in Vestavia Alabama – twice weekly pick-ups plus recycling.

    Pocket doors, too. Left those behind in Alabama. I’m feeling homesick.

    I’d take the Mourning Doves over these bigger and dumber Eurasian Collared doves that are invading the West.

  21. Sorry, I missed most of the live. I thought I was being weird, but I took my trash to the big dumpster on property every day in TX. In case of inclement weather, though, I too did “freezer trash.”

    Never noticed the pocket doors before. Maybe to keep heat in?

  22. That was a fun experiment. Learned a few things. Might get back on when bacon is done.

  23. I quit bacon in Waffle House or others……you can never be sure how they’ll cook it….Country ham is the way to go…..more meat and hard to mess up.
    Hash browns? “Scattered and burnt, please..”

  24. Continuing my, almost, lonely public dislike of taxes, this morning I go to click on “send”, but up pops a notice of many items needing correction. Two days ago no items needing correction. Two plus hours later go to click send and once again a problem. Fixed. Finally clicked send after three hours. It is supposed to be easier when one is retired, but no, not even close.

    It is definitely mouse season. I left the patio door open for the dog and cat to go out while I made coffee. Four hours later I hear a lot of scrambling noise, so does cat. She is sitting looking at my “take to shed” pile. She sat there for an hour, then went to her mid-morning nap spot. Great.

  31. If I want a breakfast like that… I just go to a local diner. I’d rather let other people cook.

  33. Looks like I missed breakfast.
    With the price of eggs and bacon I skip them. Cured meat of choice is ham. It is cheaper than bacon and it doesn’t all fry away.
    In stead of eggs, I’ve been playing with hash as a philosophy of cooking. Throw a bunch of leftovers in a skillet add a few fresh stuff stir and heat.
    Today was chorizo, brown beans ham, leftover spiced chicken, potatoes, onion and a jalapeno. heat some tortillas on the side and enjoy.
    Another favorite is sweet potatoes fryed with black beans ham, onions and a jalopeno.

    Jack

  36. We’re in a new phase of lawless disorder, or the return of an old one.

    Harrisburg Fire Chief Brian Enterline said “it was a very surreal scene” when he arrived to help tackle the blaze “about 15 minutes into it,” per a clip shared by Fox News.

    Enterline said that he asked Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) to bring in the arson investigation team after seeing the evidence.

    He recalled of the fire, “Luckily, for the governor and his family, there were doors closed between that main portion of the ballroom and the hallway that leads to the main and master staircase going to the second floor.”

    “It would have been a totally different fire and a totally different outcome, most likely, had that door not been closed,” the fire chief added, per the clip shared by Fox News.

    According to a criminal complaint obtained by PEOPLE, suspect Balmer allegedly admitted to entering the official governor’s residence and igniting several “homemade incendiary devices,” with the intent to “commit a violent offense intending to affect the conduct of government.”

    Balmer allegedly told police that he broke into the governor’s residence at around 1:30 a.m. ET on April 13, by scaling a perimeter fence and breaking two windows. Officers alleged in the complaint that he confessed to throwing homemade Molotov cocktails made of gasoline siphoned from a lawn mower into empty Heineken bottles.

    https://people.com/arson-attack-pennsylvania-governor-josh-shapiro-home-different-outcome-closed-doors-fire-chief-11715304?

  37. My breakfast of choice most mornings is a toasted walmart chebata roll with peanutbutter and honey. The roll has lots of big air pockets to hold the PB and honey. Another breakfast is white bread with pb and strawberry jelly.
    I’m with Renee on the diner. They have the tools to get it right. and who wants to make biscuits and gravy for one or even 2. Way to much trouble.
    Also, frying bacon without your pants on sounds a bit painful.
    Jack

  38. By logic it follows, if Dodo isn’t bound to obey the word of the Supreme (or any) Court, then we are not bound to obey any word of his.

  40. From Pulitzer Prize-winning John Archibald. Not everyone in Alabama has the good waste disposal systems of Vestavia and Mountain Brook. 60 Minutes also did a story about this a while ago, as I recall.

    “In the ironic name of DEI. Deceit, Enmity and Indifference.”

    Because America doesn’t do irony anymore.

    DOJ is ending a settlement that would have helped people in Alabama’s most put-upon region keep their family land and build passable sewer systems rather than risk health or property or both. All in the disingenuous name of DEI.

    “President Trump made it clear: Americans deserve a government committed to serving every individual with dignity and respect, and to expending taxpayer resources in accordance with the national interest, not arbitrary criteria,” the DOJ punched down in a press release…

    Black Belt dirt, as it turns out, becomes almost impenetrable when wet, and that makes septic systems particularly tricky and expensive. And, given the sparse population, county sewer systems are unrealistic.

    So the area has long been plagued by sewage and illness that comes with it. Some of Alabama’s poorest residents thought they would lose their land because they couldn’t pay to build expensive sewage systems.

    That’s what the settlement agreement was about. Alabama was going to be forced to build a sanitation system to fix the problem. After years of neglect, fines and failures that another Department of Justice saw, reasonably, as unjust.

    But now it is gone. In the name of the boogeyman DEI, in the bastardized name of fairness. So Alabama is again left to look after the people of Alabama. 

    As it has failed to do, particularly in Lowndes County and across the Black Belt, for generations.

    In the ironic name of DEI. Deceit, Enmity and Indifference.

    https://www.al.com/news/2025/04/archibald-dei-in-lowndes-co-means-deceit-enmity-indifference.html?

  41. We’re back to penal colonies among other travesties of the unjust past.

    penal colony, distant or overseas settlement established for punishing criminals by forced labour and isolation from society. Although a score of nations in Europe and Latin America transported their criminals to widely scattered penal colonies, such colonies were developed mostly by the English, French, and Russians. England shipped criminals to America until the American Revolution and to Australia into the middle of the 19th century. France established penal colonies in Africa, New Caledonia, and French Guiana (of which those in the latter, including Devil’s Island, were still operating during World War II). French Guiana epitomized the worst features of penal colonies: harsh punishments and the underfeeding of prisoners assigned to hard labour were routine. The Siberian colonies maintained by the Soviet Union were initially organized under the tsars but were most widely employed from the Russian Revolution through the Stalin era. Governments have since turned to alternative means of crime control, and most penal colonies have been abolished. See also exile and banishment.

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/penal-colony

  42. Dodo is rolling back the clock on civilization itself.

    Fuck Bill Maher and his “Mr. Nice Guy.”

  44. Say no to penal colonies.

    Let’s be clear. The United States Constitution does not permit the deportation of American citizens for committing a crime. That’s essentially what Trump talked about today, telling El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele, whom he welcomed into the Oval Office, that Bukele would need to build more of his terror prisons to house “homegrowns”—American citizens. That is not legal. But what’s legal doesn’t seem to matter to the Trump administration. The question is whether anything or anyone can still force him to follow the law.

    Trump, both during his first term in office and again now, has been a fan of private, for-profit prisons. They are problematic for all kinds of reasons, including the conditions in them and the perverse incentive they create to incarcerate more people for longer instead of doing justice. But what Trump is contemplating here is far more than putting Americans in for-profit prisons—he has reportedly paid Bukele $6 million to hold deportees for this first year, even ones in a foreign country.

    What makes for a concentration camp as opposed to a prison? Max Burns turned to this entry in the Holocaust Encyclopedia for a definition: “What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.” That’s what’s happening in El Salvador. Kilmar Abrego Garcia has not been indicted or convicted, but he’s in prison. The same for many of the other people deported to El Salvador…

    If Donald Trump can refuse to return a person he has illegally deported to a foreign prison where he is paying for him to be held in indefinite custody, then he can do it to American citizens, too. The 8th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits “cruel and unusual punishment.” There is no doubt Bukele’s prison violates that prohibition. Donald Trump doesn’t seem to be concerned with that. As long as he can get someone—American or not—out of the country before their due process rights kick in, he can send them to El Salvador, or anywhere else, and instead of just deporting them, he can, apparently, put them into a horrific prison for the rest of their lives. District Judges and Courts of Appeals will continue to say that this is wrong, that it is illegal, as they have so far. The question we’re all waiting on the answer to is, what is the Supreme Court going to do about it?

    • Joyce Vance

    https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-supreme-court-got-it-badly-wrong

  45. The book for my book club this month is a fiction story centered around slave labor camps run by the Japanese in WWII. Histories that are within living memory for some, and the sole reason for my late-stepfather’s contempt for our purchase in the mid 1970s of a Toyota (not to mention our VW Bug.) We didn’t quite get it those early days. I’m not saying hold interminable grudges. But are we to learn nothing and set down this path again ourselves? Japan and Germany reformed and made amends. What about US?

  47. CECOT is an extermination camp. There will be labor camps, stateside. When ICE, or a bounty hunter, abducts someone without a signed warrant from a judge, that is kidnapping. When victims of kidnappings are moved across state lines without due process, that is human trafficking. When they are moved to a foreign prison that is known to be a hole where nobody comes out alive, that is a war crime.

    Impeach. Convict. Remove.

    The entire MAGAt/Heritage/n@zi regime needs to be removed from office. All ICE agents who carried out warrantless abductions, and monsters who wanted to join in as bounty hunters, should all be tried Nuremberg-style, where “just following orders” is no excuse.

  48. i don’t disagree either anything Olbermann said in his last podcast regarding the assassination attempt against Shapiro, how shitty Maher always was, and how ominously lawless the administration’s kidnapping-and-torture-for-profit-scheme is

  49. did you see those masked US soldiers in uniform handing over kidnapping victims to Bukele’s torture squads? should have studied harder in school, assholes

  50. Maher’s friend, Kid Rock, arranged the dinner. That tells you all you need to know about Maher. He used to chastise H/tler apologists on his show; he’d point out that H/tler liked dogs, but that didn’t mean he wasn’t a monster.

    There are good folks still speaking up: KO, AOC, Bernie, Crockett, George Conway, Adam Kinzinger, and others. It’s too bad the media companies are either on-board or chickenshits; either way, they are complicit. International news is shining a spotlight, but Americans who don’t know where to look (or who have intentionally closed their eyes) won’t see it until it’s on their doorstep.

  52. …and if you say “fuck them, they’re gang members”, they weren’t accused of crimes, weren’t confirmed to be gang members, and associating with other human beings is a human right not a crime

    their crime was brown skin and Spanish names, kidnapped and tortured forever is their sentence

    Impeach, convict, imprison

  55. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-warplanes-alaska-tracked-us-military-norad/

    Russian warplanes were detected flying off the coast of Alaska and tracked by the U.S. military, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said Tuesday. The Russian aircraft never entered American or Canadian sovereign airspace, NORAD said, adding that the planes were “not seen as a threat.” 

    While the Russian planes remained in international air space, they entered a region beyond U.S. and Canadian sovereign air space called the Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), where aircraft are expected to identify themselves.

    The incident comes less than three months after American and Canadian fighter jets were scrambled to shadow multiple Russian warplanes that were spotted in the Arctic. Several hours later, NORAD said it had dispatched two F-16 fighter jets from Alaska to Greenland, to “forward posture NORAD presence in the Arctic.” 

    *Hmmm, are they going to play games to increase bases & troops in Greenland…then, once we occupy it, SFB claims it?

  56. btw Mr. C

    i planted two inch long sections of the horseradish root i bought to make your horsey sauce, now have more than ill ever need 👍

  57. the explanation is money, fame, and access

    Just a job, then, because who else would hire him?

  60. “Just a job, then, because else would hire him.”

    Kid Rock doesn’t need to be hired, makes a boatload in those tours he does, becoming the darling of the deplorables made him lot of money

    there’s no karma, folks, we just need these ignorant arsonists out of power for our own sake

  61. Anon, here’s my ideas for horseradish wrangling…

    🔥 LAZY MAN-APPROVED USES FOR EXTRA HORSERADISH 🔥

    1. Freeze It for Later

    Grate it fresh, mix with a splash of vinegar, and freeze in ice cube trays. Boom—ready-to-go fire bombs for steak, potatoes, or Bloody Marys.

    2. Horseradish Butter

    Soften a stick of butter, mix in fresh grated horseradish, a pinch of salt, and maybe some lemon zest. Chill and slice onto steaks or melt over veggies. Lazy gourmet magic.

    3. Horseradish Cream Sauce

    Sour cream + horseradish + lemon juice + salt = perfect for roast beef, smoked salmon, or even grilled veggies. Use it as a dip, sandwich spread, or even taco topping for an unexpected kick.

    4. Pickled Horseradish

    Grate it and pickle it with vinegar, sugar, and a little salt. Store it in jars and give it that eternal pantry life. Great as a condiment or stirred into dressings.

    5. Lazy Bloody Mary Upgrade

    Use the fresh stuff instead of bottled! Stir into Bloody Marys, micheladas, or even make a spicy tomato mocktail for those clean-living Sundays.

    6. Horseradish Mashed Potatoes

    Next time you whip up mash, stir in some horseradish near the end. Creamy, spicy, and deeply satisfying.

    7. Mix into Coleslaw

    A little grated horseradish in mayo or slaw dressing gives your cabbage a punch. Lazy BBQ just got sophisticated.

    8. Horseradish Deviled Eggs

    This should go in your Lazy Eggs 3-Way bonus edition. Add a smidge to the yolk mix for deviled eggs with attitude.

    9. Make Fire Salt

    Grate horseradish, dehydrate it (oven or dehydrator), and grind it into a powder. Mix with salt = spice wizardry for popcorn, fries, or rim salt for drinks.

    10. Gift It!

    Wrap a fresh root in parchment, tie it with string, and gift it with your horsey sauce recipe. Makes for a spicy little surprise at a potluck or cookout.

  62. i didn’t say i had “extra” 😜

    oh i have a tip for you, a nutribullet makes quick work of shredding it

    i sowed beets this year specifically to make red horseradish, deity willing

  63. Q: Eighteenth-century Georgia was really just King George’s penal colony, right?

    A: Georgia wasn’t penal in the strict sense, like Devil’s Island in French Guiana. But as conceived by its founder James Oglethorpe and his trustees in London, Georgia was expressly built on the theory of work release. One of Oglethorpe’s selling points to King George II for the initial grant was that manning up the colony would, also, lighten the overcrowding in His Majesty’s prisons of what Oglethorpe termed the “worthy” poor. Ergo: It’s fair to say that scores of recently released habitués of the king’s house of corrections were among the colonists. Now, before our discussion gets drowned out by snickering from putative aristocrats who might think their lovingly tended family trees in states other than Georgia have escaped the jail-time taint, let’s note that George’s original grant in 1732 included great swaths of Alabama and Mississippi out through the Delta and beyond. In fact, emptying jails made for excellent colonial business—the British Caribbean, New Zealand, Australia, and the Raj’s India became places of the second chance. Teasing our brethren of the thirteenth colony about their jailbird roots remains the best kind of Southern sport, but down at the core, as Americans, every immigrant to the promised land comes from one sort of jail or another.

    From Jail to Georgia

  64. Words from the loverly Karoline Leavitt. ““We’re very confident that every action taken by this administration is within the confines of law…” The Steven Miller of the WH Press Office.

  65. Ivy, that’s right. I tongue in cheek tell people that all my forebears in the New World were from Georgia.

  66. And from the mouth of Pres. SFB.

    “Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting ‘Sickness?’” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “Remember, Tax Exempt Status is totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST.”

    26 USC § 501(c)3 sez:

    (3)Corporations, and any community chest, fund, or foundation, organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, or educational purposes, or to foster national or international amateur sports competition (but only if no part of its activities involve the provision of athletic facilities or equipment), or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual, no substantial part of the activities of which is carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting, to influence legislation (except as otherwise provided in subsection (h)), and which does not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.

    The IRS explains:.

    The exempt purposes set forth in section 501(c)(3) are charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering national or international amateur sports competition, and preventing cruelty to children or animals. The term charitable is used in its generally accepted legal sense and includes relief of the poor, the distressed, or the underprivileged; advancement of religion; advancement of education or science; erecting or maintaining public buildings, monuments, or works; lessening the burdens of government; lessening neighborhood tensions; eliminating prejudice and discrimination; defending human and civil rights secured by law; and combating community deterioration and juvenile delinquency.

    Fucking idiot – 501(c)3 educational orgs are entitled to tax exempt status because “Educational” purpose is by definition a charitable purpose under the IRC. He should probably keep his yap shut and ask his tax attorneys about 26 USC 527, which provides tax exempt status for political organizations. (Ever hear of a PAC, dumbass?) Public interest my ass.

  67. Asked my Rep to call for impeachment of SFB for violating the Constitution & defying SCOTUS.

    Asked my Senators to do a lot of things while actually writing the budget bill, which they will ignore because that “God bless,” at the end of their voicemail doesn’t mean anything.

  68. Can you get the taste out of the NutriBullet canister? Grandma used a metal grinder that she attached to a kitchen chair with a vice grip. Always take the chair outside. Shredding it inside will clear out your sinuses for days.

    Just planted a few purple sweet potatoes that were sprouting on the counter. We’ll see what happens.

    Craig – A potato peeler with an OXO Good Grip on it will cost the price of one bag of frozen spuds. Simply should at least give you an in-kind donation of free taters.

    Grease of some sort in my rear tire. Seems to be coming from in between the hubcap & wheel, which seems impossible. There’s more than last week, so it’s nothing I drove through. Any guesses before a mechanic tells me it needs a new kidney?

  69. Nixon had an enemies list, right? Are folks more afraid of an orange imbecile than a pale, but intelligent goon?

  71. Bagdad Bob died back in 2021. Maybe his brain and mouth moved into a maga blonde head?

  72. BS Barbie has lied so much about Mr. Garcia, that his family should sue for defamation.

  74. don’t plant those sweet potatoes unless it’s on someone else property

    yes, nutiribullet washes clean easily, the way to go

    a sealant is used when your tire is set to the rim, the ooze might be that, if the tire holds
    pressure it’s fine

  76. Thanks for the diagnosis, Pogeaux & Anon.

    Anon – Why the shade for purple sweet potatoes?
    They aren’t in the garden, but a dog kennel that hasn’t been used in 20 years, further back on the property.

  77. really invasive in my experience

    if out if the way, go for it i guess, a waste of gardening space imo

  79. OK, last round of fennel, envy zinnia.
    and one more pack of chamomile seeds sprinkled for good luck and I am out of gardening space for the year until I figure out how to make another bed somewhere

    I will take most of the extra seeds. I harvested last year for my wildflowers and herbs, and sprinkle them on my next rainy walk.

  81. maybe sweet potato dog kennel will be the most amazing thing ever grown. I don’t know. Don’t let me influence you from something you want to do.

    …felt guilty all evening 😭

    personally will never do sweet potatoes again though 😜

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