Let’s play meat is murder, the gift of the goji and pseudoscience gobbledygook + this day in history w/less Trevor Moore and our song of the day by Fast Hart Mart on your #MorningMonarchy for August 13, 2025.
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Video: Where Have All the Tesla Cybertrucks Gone? Explaining the Sudden Disappearance (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk68kfWfD2Y
Where have all the Cybertrucks gone?; There don’t seem to be as many stashed away outside Tesla’s Texas factory where they’re made, despite declining sales
https://sherwood.news/tech/where-have-all-the-cybertrucks-gone/
Play the Smiths and PETA’s “Meat Is Murder” Video Game; Morrissey: “This game is the biggest social crusade of all, as we safeguard the weak and helpless from violent human aggression. You don’t get that from ‘Pokémon Go.’” (Aug. 10, 2016)
https://pitchfork.com/news/67440-play-the-smiths-and-petas-meat-is-murder-video-game/
Video: Let’s Play Meat is Murder: The Game | PETA Games Part 25 (Dec. 26, 2016 // Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fQwR1lAl-Q
Ray Charles – “Born To Lose” (Vinyl // Audio)
‘Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music’
ABC-Paramount – 1962
*Ray Charles – “Born To Lose” (Vinyl) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1fYc6romGo // https://www.discogs.com/release/8133810-Ray-Charles-Modern-Sounds-In-Country-And-Western-Music // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Sounds_in_Country_and_Western_Music // This was gonna be Cowboyface’s album title lol. “‘Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music’ is a studio album by the American singer and pianist Ray Charles. It was recorded in February 1962 at Capitol Studios in New York City and United Western Recorders in Hollywood, and released in March of that year by ABC-Paramount Records. The album departed further stylistically from the rhythm and blues music Charles had recorded for Atlantic Records in the 1950s. It featured country, folk, and Western music standards reworked by Charles in popular song forms of the time, including R&B, pop, and jazz.” See? It says right there, it’s not country.*
#MounseyMinute Posts on Media Monarchy
https://mediamonarchy.com/tag/mounsey-minute/
#MounseyMinute: ‘Recipes For Reciprocity’
https://recipesforreciprocity.com/
#MounseyMinute TXT: Episode 20 – The Gift Of the Goji
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/the-many-gifts-of-the-goji
#MounseyMinute MP3: Episode 20 – The Gift Of the Goji (Audio)
https://mediamonarchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/20250813_MounseyMinute20.mp3
#MounseyMinute: A Short History of Phoenix Tears Nursery
http://www.phoenixtearsnursery.com/virtual-tour.html
#MounseyMinute: America forgot the Chinese workers who built the railroad
https://www.hcn.org/articles/interview-america-forgot-the-chinese-workers-who-built-the-railroad/
#MounseyMinute: Doc Watson – “The Train That Carried My Girl From Town” (Audio)
‘The Essential Doc Watson’
Vanguard Records – 1973
*Doc Watson – “The Train That Carried My Girl From Town” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz6EI3uzO80 // https://lonesomewhistles.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/doc-watson-the-train-that-carried-my-girl-from-town/ // Doc Watson’s 1968 version compiled on ‘The Essential Doc Watson’ from 1973. The song was originally made famous by Frank Hutchinson, a West Virginia born musician who owes his musical origins partly to listening to a blues playing black railroad worker while growing up.*
Video: Warning issued over everyday foods tied to heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes; The American Heart Association has issued a scientific advisory warning against consuming ultra-processed foods (Audio)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/warning-issued-over-everyday-foods-tied-to-heart-attacks-strokes-and-diabetes/vi-AA1KavIU#details
Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/butter-carbon-bill-gates-batavia-illinois/
BREAKING: Jeff Bezos–backed Wildtype just got FDA approval to sell lab-grown salmon, after the agency skipped independent testing and animal trials, rubber-stamping it as “safe” based solely on the company’s own data. Corporate science just wrote its own permission slip.
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/1953548243125907641
Wildtype company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildtype_(company)
Video: Woman undergoes face lift to overcome ‘Ozempic face’ (Audio)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/woman-undergoes-face-lift-to-overcome-ozempic-face/vi-AA1JITer
RFK Jr. defends $500M cut for mRNA vaccines with pseudoscience gobbledygook; He clearly has no idea what antigenic shift means
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/08/rfk-jr-defends-500m-cut-for-mrna-vaccines-with-pseudoscience-gobbledygook/
Video: 🚨 BREAKING: Secretary RFK Jr. has just TERMINATED contracts for 22 mRNA vaccines in development; “These vaccines FAIL to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu. We’re shifting that funding toward safer, broader vaccine platforms that remain effective even as viruses mutate,” Kennedy said. (Audio)
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1952854693144870952
Everly Brothers – “Silver Threads and Golden Needles” (Audio)
‘The Everly Brothers Sing Great Country Hits’
Warner Records – 1963
*Everly Brothers – “Silver Threads and Golden Needles” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fex7Mq0hohw // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Threads_and_Golden_Needles // https://genius.com/The-everly-brothers-silver-threads-and-golden-needles-lyrics // Track 9 on ‘The Everly Brothers Sing Great Country Hits,’ why isn’t this version listed on Wikipedia? Don and Phil rule! “Silver Threads and Golden Needles” is a country song written by Dick Reynolds and Jack Rhodes. It was first recorded by Wanda Jackson in 1956.*
August 2015 – Page 2 – Media Monarchy
https://mediamonarchy.com/2015/08/page/2/
Flashback: Nestle Sued by India’s Government Over Lead in Maggi Noodles (Aug. 13, 2015)
https://mediamonarchy.com/nestle-sued-by-indias-government-over/
#MorningMonarchy: August 13, 2018 – To mark #InternationalCatDay (August 8), here’s a selection of cat photos from around the world
https://mediamonarchy.com/20180813morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: August 13, 2018 – Cursive & Manic Street Preachers
https://mediamonarchy.com/20180813pumpupthavolume/
#ThisDayInHistory/#MorningMonarchy: August 13, 2021 – Trevor Moore Dead at 41 // “The Whitest Kids U’ Know” Co-Founder & Comedian Trevor Moore Dead at 41 (Audio)
https://mediamonarchy.com/20210813morningmonarchy/
Image: “With this character’s death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created.”
https://twitter.com/AphixJS/status/1424644624480677888
#PumpUpThaVolume: August 13, 2021 ♬ The Vaccines & The Stranglers
https://mediamonarchy.com/20210813pumpupthavolume/
Fast Hart Mart – “Spirit Beings” (Audio)
Digital Single
Fast Hart Mart – July 31, 2025
*#PumpUpThaVolume/#TruthMusic: Fast Hart Mart – “Spirit Beings” https://youtu.be/3__nv7E1O18 // https://www.patreon.com/fastheartmart // Here’s a brand new song by New Mexico singer-songwriter, Fast Hart Mart, available now via YouTube. Thanks to “Fast Heart” Martin Stamper for sending us the track!*