The past few days have just been incredible here. Yesterday, I planted the 2 new rose bushes and the new lavender plant at the back of my house, under my kitchen window. So here’s hoping that they will thrive.

I’m heading back to the train station today. Still not ready — I still go in and out of grieving — but on we go.

The “news” of course is crazy, noisy, sickening. As usual. Optics upon optics upon optics. I am really, really, REALLY hoping that if we do proceed to an election in November, they’re not going to let it be massively rigged, just to wake up the final few… I really, really, really just want this to be over already.

Anyway. Here’s Charlie’s daily update.

CHARLIE WARD DAILY NEWS WITH PAUL BROOKER & DREW DEMI – THURSDAY 2ND MAY 2024 (17 mins):

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Dave Mahoney with Dr. Cory Stern– help with your health.

DR CORI STERN IS BACK ! (1 hr):

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Upcoming LIVE at 11am EST–

Dan Bongino – The Professionals Behind The Protests (Ep. 2242) – 05/02/2024

Watch HERE

(I’ll be listening in my car on the way home. Yay.)

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And that’s it for the news.

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Nick Cave sent out a Red Hand File this morning, wherein he announced that he has become a grandfather!!!!

…As I drank my coffee and ate my sandwich, I thought of my son, Luke, and his wife, Sasha, who had welcomed their own baby boy into the world last night, and I experienced a wave of great elation….

You can read it in full here.

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I’m not sure if this is correct or not, but I think it was announced that the video-taped chat between Johnny Depp and Mark Salisbury (mentioned below) will air after the Jeanne Du Barry film here in the US theaters.

I will find out for sure when I see the film on Sunday with my dear friend Kara!! Yay!

And we’re even going out to dinner, too, to an old Mexican restaurant next to the theater. Amazing. Dinner & a movie. Just like in yesteryear — before the plandemic, when Kara and I used to be able go out together all the time! And all of this will be at a movie theater about an hour from here that I, personally, haven’t been to in maybe 15 years??? Honestly, gang. My life is so fucking weird these days. So much of it feels like it’s taking place in yesteryear. I can’t explain it, but it’s something that my mind does now — like, constant deja vu.

Regardless, I know it will be really fun.

Anyway, this is from Johnny Depp’s Instagram yesterday:

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And that is it, gang.

Enjoy this beautiful Thursday, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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Awesome, awesome, song from 1967. The first time I heard this song, I was 7 years old, sitting in the backseat of our family car, my dad was in front of me in the driver’s seat . We were waiting at a red light and this came on the AM radio. I fell in love with it instantly!!

Bobbie Gentry, “Ode to Billie Joe”. Enjoy, gang!