But MOTR here was my first time flying solo. I thought it might be nice not to be contradicted. LOL. Until I started reading each week's comments below, where we really get going sometimes. All good.

So, let's get to this week's audio.

Regular listeners/readers might remember I'm a kind of old-school journalist. I like to take what seems like a small item and explore it more in-depth. I wrote here a few months ago about how I got into that habit at Waterloo.

This time, though, is about our teens and how, for better or worse, they are our future. On the surface, at least, this generation of teenagers seems to be turning inward, shunning live, in-person social interactions with peers for remote, solitary experiences on their own. 

It turns out, however, there's much more to this little-explored social issue than meets the passing eye. (And it includes a little story about my granddaughter's new cell.)

This week's column, judging by the scores of comments and thousands of readers, was properly provocative for our country's current political situation: We Are So Screwed: Inside America's Political Mess.

It just seemed to me time to pull together a bewildering flurry of negative news that, taken together, feels worse than the sum of its parts. A president who's lost it mentally. Two parties that have become dysfunctional. The four parties that are battling in and thoroughly crippling Congress. And a public that no longer trusts any of them.

The most recent audio commentary examined the seriously festering sore that has become our southern border since Joe Biden came into office: Joe Biden's Lies: 8,000 Illegals Have Crossed His 'Secure' Border Every Day of This Presidency.

The first thing he did on his first day was kill the country's hard-earned energy independence. Soon after, he threw away the temporary restrictions on border crossing that Donald Trump had imposed. 

Designing a permanent solution has evaded Washington for decades. But Trump's regulations did stem the flood.

Biden's intentional actions broke the dam, and the result has been more than 9.2 million illegal immigrants entering the country and, in many cases, being assisted by the feds to settle in widespread inland cities without adequate tracking.

Trump has said he will undertake vast deportations. That sounds good to those who believe sovereign nations need real borders. In 2016, Trump said he would build a border wall, which he started. But did not complete. And Mexico did not pay for.

If Trump pursues the deportation plan, he faces two quite possibly insurmountable problems: One, finding upwards of 10 million illegals and identifying their cases, and two, actually deporting them. 

Surely, he will be faced with numerous lawsuits seeking to keep the illegal throngs in-country and, Democrats hope, make them registered voters with deep appreciation, as newly-enfranchised blacks lavished ballot appreciation on the Republican Party for the latter decades of the 1800s.