COYOTES, CROWS AND GARDEN HOES🎀

Host: UNCLE CORVUS (@unclecorvus) with co-host Margie B (@MargieAponte2) · Thu, 10 Sep 2026 · 57:04 · 3 speakers

TL;DR

• A warm, rambling morning-coffee hang between Uncle Corvus and Margie B, with Dan dropping in — less an agenda, more a family living room that happened to be on a stage.
• Uncle Corvus told the story of finding his daughter a "proper" boxing gym, and his broader parenting ethos: support the kid, never live vicariously through her.
• He shared his stroke-survival story and the strict year of vegan diet, breathwork and cold plunging that he credits for a full recovery.
• A recurring thread: his mission to protect children, and a fiery account of clashing with his daughter's school over a late-attendance letter.
• Housekeeping for the format: from next week the 10 p.m. spaces get more structure — projects invited up to talk ethos and "why," not floor prices — plus a plug for the Blackfeather Run app and the wife's Friday "watch room."
• The room handed off to Woofie's space at the top of the hour.

Highlights

[7:14] Gratitude and the girl-dad ethos. Uncle Corvus thanked the "caliber of women" pulling up lately and laid out how staunchly he guards what reaches his daughter's ears and eyes — setting up the parenting theme that ran through the whole hour.

[7:14]–[11:12] The boxing saga. He recounted his daughter's little combos ("cracking daddy right in the kidneys"), why they quit a UFC-style gym after boxing turned into "boxing tag," and finding a real gym whose whole philosophy is never to push kids into fighting unless they ask for it. His deadpan pitch to the coach — "we need to get this kid making money, ASAP brother... I need sponsorships" — was pure bit.

[14:12] "I'm not a cup of tea." On not being for everyone: "If you think a human being is a cup of tea, and you're trying to get that experience of a cup of tea out of a human, then bro, there's something wrong with you." Margie's reply landed the moment: "you're my fucking cup of coffee, too."

[14:45]–[17:37] Surviving the stroke. The night-cap coffee tangent turned into the story of collapsing outside his café, a customer racing him to meet the ambulance at the beach, and the surgeon (a regular customer) marveling he was still talking. He credits a strict year of vegan diet, breathwork and cold plunging with erasing the shadow on his MRI.

[18:xx]–[19:06] CDO. His self-diagnosed admin problem: "I got CDO. That's OCD in alphabetical order." Margie gently redirected him with an offer to handle the speaker requests so he'd stop wrestling the buttons.

[20:13] "Bring back bullying." Fed up with X booting guests every time he sent an invite, he went on a mock-nostalgic riff about a little playground discipline for "these fucking nerds," aimed squarely at the broken app rather than anyone in the room.

[22:08] Dan checks in from the gym. Fresh off back day, Dan credited Uncle Corvus for the CDO idea and offered thoughtful praise on the parenting approach, drawing a parallel to his coach guiding a 21-year-old athlete son while staying out of his way.

[26:26]–[29:18] The school and the mission. The emotional core: a letter threatening to report him to the government for his daughter's lateness ("she wanted extra cuddles"), the 67% improvement in her marks during home schooling, and his vow to keep coming for every kid stuck "in the darkest shadow of the globe," rooted in childhood stories from South America.

[30:07] Honey the "baby." Margie clarified Dan's new "baby," Honey, is a pit-bull-mix puppy — Dan describing the puppy chaos and the eye-contact stage before excusing himself to shower and feed the dogs before his wife came looking.

[54:36]–[56:01] The send-off. Margie's "you know it's a great space when time flies," and Uncle Corvus dreaming of hiring a stadium for a barbecue "when I get to the states," before handing over to Woofie.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "If you think a human being is a cup of tea, and you're trying to get that experience of a cup of tea out of a human, then bro, there's something wrong with you." — Uncle Corvus [14:12]
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• "You're my cup of tea, Uncle Corvus, and you're my fucking cup of coffee, too." — Margie B [14:37]
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• "I got CDO. That's OCD in alphabetical order." — Uncle Corvus [18:xx] (paraphrase timestamp: [19:06])
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• "As long as you want, my little girl, you're gonna be a little girl for as long as you want... but you're always gonna be held accountable." — Uncle Corvus [24:15] (around [24:59])
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• "I'm not stopping until every single kid is out of every darkest shadow of the globe." — Uncle Corvus [28:00] (around [27:49])
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• "You know it's a great space when time flies." — Margie B [53:53]
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Who said what

• Uncle Corvus (@unclecorvus, host) — carried most of the hour: parenting philosophy, the boxing gym, his stroke and recovery, the schooling fight, and the plans to give the 10 p.m. spaces more structure around project ethos.
• Margie B (@MargieAponte2, co-host) — the steady foil and stage manager: fielding speaker requests, running the jumbotron, the coffee-and-marbles banter, and repeatedly (affectionately) trying to keep Uncle Corvus from wearing himself out.
• Dan^* — dropped in post-gym to credit the "CDO" bit, affirm the parenting approach, and talk up his new puppy Honey before heading off to feed the dogs.

Worth a full listen

• [14:45]–[17:37] — the stroke story. The blow-by-blow of collapsing outside the café and the beach ambulance rendezvous has a rhythm and small-town texture the summary can't reproduce.
• [26:26]–[29:18] — school letter to mission. This is the emotional heart of the space, moving from the "extra cuddles" letter to the 67% turnaround to his lifelong vow about protecting kids — best heard unbroken.
• [40:49]–[42:51] — the "10% gay" riff. The banter about a prior guest's comment, the mock-menacing "come for a walk," and the landing on tenderness being necessary for a girl dad shows the room's humor and warmth at once.

* some voices are identified from context; those names are marked as likely.