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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Interesting Times. A murder charge was filed in Harris County
on Friday against thirty one year old ty Vaughn. He's
being held in jail on a five hundred thousand dollars
bond for allegedly shooting and killing his fiance. His fiance
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is a dude, Luis Davide Bonos or it might be Bonos,
which means bathrooms. The suspect is accused of shooting Bonos
quote in the face with a lever action rifle. It
was quite the catfight. Shot the dude in the face.
(00:48):
That's brutal, but that's not why this story is interesting.
Dude shooting another gay dude in the face. Okay, I
mean it might be a story maybe, But what makes
this story interesting is what happened on the computer before
(01:10):
he did that. The story from Fox.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Twenty six and taking a look at the week ahead.
A Baytown man accused of killing his fiances doing court
Monday morning. Murder charges were filed over the weekend against
ty Vaughn. Court documents revealed he searched the Internet to
determine whether it was illegal to kill an immigrant just
hours before he allegedly shot his fiance, then tried to
(01:33):
make it look like a suicide. Vaughn is being held
in jail on a five hundred thousand dollars bond.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
He googled if it was quote legal to kill an
illegal He sat down at his computer, or maybe he
did it on his phone. I like to imagine him
sitting down in his computer, pulling his chair up, thinking
through it. You know, if I should shoot old Luise
(02:01):
or not? Pretty sure I don't want to marry him.
Maybe because he's a dude. I don't know. Pretty sure
I don't want to marry him anymore. Pretty aggravated with
him and all. Maybe I'll shoot him in the face.
I wonder if that's legal. You know, people really don't
like illegals these days. Maybe maybe nobody care if I
(02:27):
shot Louise in the face, killed him. He googled if
it was legal to kill an illegal. People's lack of
basic knowledge astounds me. It's like Dewey Cox not knowing
it was illegal to get double married, cocake.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Maybe you don't know what a slack out there on
the road, slowly out there, I can't be alone. Okay, Well,
maybe you should have saw that before you went and
got double married.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Is that what this is about.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Don't you stand there and judge me like, I'm so
kind of criminal? You are a criminal?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
This is do we What do you mean? It's illegal?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It's illegal to be married to two people at the
same time, do we?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
What about it? If you're famous? What's his name, Jack Riley?
Is it his name John c Riley? Yes, he might
go by Jack Jackson nickname for John C. I'll stick
with that. Well. Lots of conversation about who will replace
Sylvester Turner, who briefly replaced Sheila Jackson Lee in the
(03:35):
eighteenth Congressional district seat, and not surprising at all, the
talk is of Erica Lee Carter, Sheila Jackson Lee's daughter,
and ABC thirteen has begun the campaign office operation out
(03:58):
of their station. Through their work, they are the headline
Houston Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee's daughter carries her mom's legacy
in her own way? Oh does she cuss out Jerome
(04:20):
for his fat ass? Also and three days later he
commits suicide from the humiliation she caused him? Or does
she have her own way? Does she write it in
a note instead of cussing him out in person? The
story from ABC thirteen says, quote, Politically, Jackson Lee was
an advocate not just for women's rights but also for
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social justice and astute in international policy. I should have
read that before I said it on air. Politically, Jackson
Lee was astute in international policy. They really said that,
Oh wow with a straight face. Wow. Okay, But Carter said,
(05:05):
Houstonians who didn't share her politics also benefited from her service.
You see, y'all might not have agreed with Sheila, but
you were all the better for her. How about they
talked to the family of the late Jerome of Jerome's
fat ass. This is this m Breitbart reports a Trump
(05:35):
hater has set himself a blaze while torching a Tesla
charging station in South Carolina. A masked man vandalized a
Tesla charging station and attempted to burn it down using
Molotov cocktails in North Charleston, South Carolina, ultimately setting himself
on fire in the process. They didn't capitalize Molotov. He's
(05:59):
supposed to capitalized Molotov. The maniac spray painted long Live
Ukraine next to a vulgar message aimed at President Trump
at the scene. So we hate, we hate Elon and
we're very pro Ukraine. And we also hate Trump. You
(06:25):
know this person one of two options one options not
one option not long not not likely is that this
person is of Ukrainian descent and has decided to wrap
themselves in the this is my homeland mindset, which which
(06:52):
would well. The point has been made by some in
the international press that you Ukrainians do not wish to
continue the war, but Ukrainians in the United States do
because they're not at risk of being grabbed off the
street sent to the front lines to be killed. They're
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not really suffering the war. It's more an interesting thing
to put as your profile page and to tell people
you're a Ukrainian. It's far more likely that this is
some white liberal kid who has bounced around, could have
been a school shooter if one or the other thing
had turned out differently. Pimple faced, living at home, angry
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at the world, complete misfit. And these people latch on
to a cause, and the latest one is Ukraine, but
there have been others before it. These people got very
excited during COVID to get to be the COVID police.
They got very excited. They they've tried to find ways
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to inject themselves into the news and be a part
of something bigger because their life is so empty. So
whatever the news directors decide is the story of the day.
That's how you get your news. It's not necessarily the
most important thing going on. Whatever Rachel Maddow or Chris
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Hayes or whoever else they're watching says. They then try
to find a way to inject themselves into that story
as a I'm part of the bigger news, I'm part
of the flow of the world sort of thing. And
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this is what causes them to go out and protest.
They love a good protest because then they're out in
the streets and people will see them, and maybe the
news reporters will come and report on it, and it'll
all be very, very exciting, and it'll make their lives
meaningful to them. And then they'll rush home and they'll
(09:07):
watch themselves on the news and it'll just be a
you know, a shot in the b roll while the
reporter is standing and telling. But there they'll be in
the back and they're waving their fish and clenching their
fish and their angry and they've got their sign and
this this is their life, this is their sa And
(09:28):
as annoying as they are. If you actually step back
and think, if this is your kid, you have failed.
You might have done the best you could do. I've
seen plenty of cases. Of course, you don't know what
goes on behind closed doors, but I've seen plenty of cases.
Were parents who appear to be good people, who were attentive,
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parents who disciplined, who provided, who loved, and maybe they
got four kids and one of the four, one of
the four turns out, you know, a little cuckoo or
off off the charts, a problem from day one, and
always doing something to harm themselves as a way to
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get attention, as a way of self loathing, whatever that
may be. These people end up at a point in
their life of complete vacuousness and complete and utter If
you just study them as as as a specimen, you
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can't help but feel complete pity for them. Doesn't mean
they shouldn't be punished. You can't help but feel pity
for them and despise what they have allowed themselves to become.
There is one hundred percent of the time a mental
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health element. There is nobody out in the middle of
the street. There's a story I'll tell you in a minute.
Five black men in Tennessee. Maybe I can't remember where
it was who were arrested for blocking traffic. They're out
in the middle of the traffic twerking. Yet, yes, five
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Memphis men arrested after the poposts say they blocked a
downtown intersection to twerk. I mean when I say men,
I don't well. Yeah. So back to these people. This
is a mental health crisis. This is not an ideological crisis.
This is not a Ukraine issue. If Ukraine was not
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in the news, something else would be. Ukraine becomes a
way for these people to feel that in some way
they are sophisticated and engaged in international affairs, but they
don't know where Ukraine is. They don't know the history
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of Ukraine. They don't understand the history of the conflict.
They have no idea what is actually happening here, none
of it long live Ukraine becomes something they say as
a chant that they don't even really know what it means.
They have decided that Ukraine is a place of people
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who are being attacked by Trump and Putin and evil
and it's not nice and it's not right, and we
should help them. And Trump doesn't want to help them
because Trump is evil, and because Russia is evil, and
because Russia and Trump are both evil at the same
time while they're being evil independently, and all that evil
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in one room means the people of Ukraine are all
going to die. And that's kind of the level of analysis.
Long Live Ukraine and that's it. What we have on
display is a mental health episode, my diversity a firm jo.
Some of you may remember our conversation with a very
(13:15):
charming fellow named Joe Sporandio. It must have been Jim.
Do you remember how long ago that was? Was it
a couple of years? I guess Okay, it's amazing how
fast he's You know, someone will say I was on
your show a couple of years ago, and it'll feel
to me like it was two months ago. Well, I
(13:35):
got an email last night. Well, Zara, this is Carla Boscarino.
I just wanted you to know that dad died on Monday.
He was ninety nine years old and loving life. He
still was riding his bike, playing poker with the guys
every Wednesday, and drinking his titos every evening with friends
in the neighborhood. I thank you for providing him. One
(13:58):
of the highlights of his life. He had a lot
of joy from talking to you and all of the
doors that opened for him. Everyone called him Papaul and
he will be missed. But before he died, he told
all of us not to cry or be sad because
he would be in heaven with Mom. Thanks again. You
know that is a friend of mine just emailed you
(14:29):
may want to consider having a show where people call
in with their postal service check theft stories. You'll be astounded.
Yes I will, although maybe I won't because it's happened
to me too, and I know how often it happens.
I did want to open the phone lines, Jim, if
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you would. I was thinking about this earlier, so well,
let me back up from hom I got an email
yesterday from a woman who was beside herself that Rosie
O'Donnell is seeking citizenship and residency in Ireland. And this
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woman was clearly at her wits end. She could not
have been more upset about it. And I went back
and forth a few times to see if maybe this
was events that might cut her off in traffic, or
was she really this upset about Rosy O'Donnell seeking citizenship
and residency in Ironland? Was it gonna upset her so
(15:34):
much that there would be Rosie and in Dublin walking
around the campus of TCD. I mean, what what what? What's?
What is what about that is so upsetting? Well, that's
Rosy o'donnelld So I asked her to kind of flesh
out for me, explain to me the elements of what
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about this angers you so much? I want to understand it?
And I could tell even in the email exchange she
was gobsmacked. Why I didn't know. Why wasn't it obvious
that we should all be pulling our hair out Because
Rosie O'Donnell is trying to get citizenship in Ireland and
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this is very, very upsetting. But I couldn't get some
specificity on why it was upsetting. And the real answer
to why it's upsetting is because she doesn't like Rosy o'
donald okay, and she doesn't like ros o'donald because she
insulted Trump and Trump assaulted her and as a result,
(16:43):
she now has a seething hatred of ros o'donald. So
if Rose o'donald gets a new vehicle, she's off the
charts angry about it. If ros o'donnald takes a vacation.
Couldn't be mad if Rosie o'donald does a video where
she's getting a pedicure, end of the world, rip the
TV off the wall. And I suppose it's something I
(17:09):
shouldn't say, given how we make a living, But at
some point I'm worried that people aren't in on the joke.
I'm worried that people don't get what's happening because, Okay,
let's say you wake up every day and you have
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determined that what I'm going to do with the last
ten years of my life is I'm going to wake
up every day pissed off. I don't know over what,
but I'll find something. Well, all you have to do
is turn on the TV or go to the internet,
and there is a whole rage machine waiting for you
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to hook yourself up and start sucking it in. You
can straight into your veins. And it's not that they
didn't know what to do on the news today, but
this horrible thing happened Rosie O'Donnell, and now they have
to rewort it and as a result, oh my god,
this has made me mad. I could have done without that,
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could you? Could you really if you'd done. Without that,
you'd have to replace it. And it's just easier to
hate Rosie because she's a fat, obnoxious lesbian. So it's
just real easy and guttural atavistic. It's simple, it's easy,
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it it doesn't require a lot of processing. It's just mad,
just mad, mad enough to send me an email, and
I suspect and it was not my intention, even more
mad that I wasn't mad. Why wasn't I mad? Well,
because I'm sitting on three hundred emails I haven't finished
at this point, lady, and I'm sure two hundred ninety
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nine of them are trying to get me to be
mad about what they're mad about. So much mad in
my body, and there's only so much time. If I
spend too much time being mad at Rosy O'Donnell, then
I won't be mad at the people to working in Memphis.
There is, or should be, a certain humor value, a
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certain entertainment value. Right. That's why when you go to
the Rockets game, they got stuff going on in between
the game, because this is an entertainment event. It's all entertainment.
People take it too seriously. I know people that are
in a bad mood if their team doesn't make the
playoffs that year. And this is gonna be the year
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We're gonna win the championship. Because we win the championship,
my life's gonna have meaning. And I'm gonna be a
happy person and I'll put stickers on my car and
I'll wear the jersey all the time. But if my
team doesn't win, I'm gonna be beyond depressed. I'm gonna
be miserable all the time because the the team must win,
because I've decided that's where I'm gonna find my joy.
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Did an interview last night, the second hour of the
Evening Show with a fellow named Don Daniel John Daniel Davidson,
and he's written a book called pagan America, and it's
about Christianity in America and the rival religion which is Paganism,
which he puts everything else into. And what's interesting about
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that is you see the absence of faith in people's lives.
You see the absence of grounding, You see the absence
of people who understand who they are and their role
in the world. Rosie O'Donnell is to be laughed at.
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If you can laugh at Rosie, you can derive some
personal utility out of her miserable existence. In a Schodenfreud way,
she's always falling down. But when Rosie O'Donnell angers you,
when you're sitting in your house one thousand miles away
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from Rosie, she doesn't know your name, and you've bothered
to read everything about her, and what she chooses to
do or says she's going to do, makes you so angry.
She's living rent free. In your head. That's not how
this game is supposed to be played. Get people to
understand giving information is not snitching. You know that Whelan
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had had just about enough of Willie thinking he was
the most important musician in all of Texas, and so
Waylan sang a song Bob Wills is Still the King,
which today would be what they would refer to in
the rap world as a disk track, a song designed
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to cut other person very very publicly and not so subtly.
Bob Wills is still the King, was Whaylon Jennings way
of telling Willie Nelson, listen, don't get too big for
your briches. Texas still belongs to Bob Wills. Bob Wills,
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of course, known as the king of Western swing and
the Western being the western of country and Western. Well,
there was a song written by his protegee and good friend,
Bob not Bob Wills, Hoyle Nicks. Hoyle Knicks wrote this
song in the forties when Western swing was very, very big,
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and the song was called Big Balls in Cowtown, and
well it became a swing standard. What you just heard
right there was George Strait covering it with a Sleep
at the Wheel backing him. And I don't know that
anybody has done as much to revive and preserve Western
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swing in the last thirty years as Ray Benson and
Asleep at the Wheel. They have almost single handedly kept
Western swing alive, even to audiences in Texas beer joints
and dance halls that may not have even realized that
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what they were listening to was Western swing. That's a
talent on its own, and we don't say the western
of country and western any longer, but it's still the
case that it informs and drives some of the music. Well,
that was George Strait's tribute to this great tradition by
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playing the Bob will Songbig Balls in Cowtown. Well, the
first thing that popped into many of our heads who
are students of a appreciators of this kind of music.
Recently was the fact that Elon Musk had brought in
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these really really young guys nineteen twenty twenty one, and
these are the ultimate nerds. They're smart as a whip,
and these guys know their way around a computer in
such a way that going to college to get a
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computer degree is laughable because you can send all of
your best computer programmers and set up a website that
these kids can hack, and they've been hacking since they
were kids. And with a little bit of direction, they
went from being you know, a basement of mom's house
(24:56):
dwelling hackers to being American heroes, reformers. I mean, these
guys are the Navy Seals of government transparency and waste
and fraud disclosure. Well they're still nineteen twenty and twenty one.
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All the amazing things they were able to use this
instrument of AI to sort of break down every door
of the government in the sites they were able to
get into and expose the waste. It's pretty impressive stuff.
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But most of them still can't legally drink in the
state of Texas. So they're young, they're computer types. They
work all night and maybe all next day. And Elon
might be a lot older, but he's wired like these guys.
These guys are not buying large prim and proper. They
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make jokes of sexual innuendo that are sophomoric, and that's
who they are. That's okay. You know who else does that?
Military members while they're serving in war. There's always a
scene or two about it. And every war doesn't matter
the war. How they rib each other and things they
say and do, and it's just part of who you
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are and where you are. So it crossed our mind
that so one of them was known as Big Balls,
that was his screen name. And the beauty of this
is that then you had Anderson, Cooper, Rachel Madout, all
of these liberal news agencies having to say the name
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on air on evening news broadcasts. Now, granted, nobody watches
MSNBC or CNN, but still we have a montage which
maybe we'll play later of them having to say big Balls.
And it's very upsetting because with traditional words that would
offend people. You can use the first letter, the F word,
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the N word, but with big Balls, you in order
in order for people to be as upset as they're
supposed to be about these kids who were do gooders
saving the federal government and saving the Republic. They had
to say the name, and we think that's hilarious. So,
with assistance from our own Kitty Allen, here's our tribute
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to these young kids, including big Balls, who went in
under the with the badge of Doge and are trying
desperately to save the Republic.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Trump told old we ain't missing around. If we can't
drain the swamp, we'll have to let them drown. Big
Balls in Dostown. They'll all go down Big balls in Dogstown,
will dance around. Elon hired big balls to track the
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money down. Media liberals Adam meltdown big balls in Dogstown.
They'll all go down. Big balls in Dogstown, will dance around.
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USA I d where millions were found goldang Operation DUNCOMONU
wound Big balls in Dostown. They'll all go down. Big
balls in Dodstown, will dance around. Americans are smiling. You
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can't find the brown. The media's unhappy calls the big
balls in town, big balls in Dodstown. They'll all go down.
Big balls in Dogtown. They'll go down
Interesting Times. A murder charge was filed in Harris County
on Friday against thirty one year old ty Vaughn. He's
being held in jail on a five hundred thousand dollars
bond for allegedly shooting and killing his fiance. His fiance
(00:26):
is a dude, Luis Davide Bonos or it might be Bonos,
which means bathrooms. The suspect is accused of shooting Bonos
quote in the face with a lever action rifle. It
was quite the catfight. Shot the dude in the face.
(00:48):
That's brutal, but that's not why this story is interesting.
Dude shooting another gay dude in the face. Okay, I
mean it might be a story maybe, But what makes
this story interesting is what happened on the computer before
(01:10):
he did that. The story from Fox.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Twenty six and taking a look at the week ahead.
A Baytown man accused of killing his fiances doing court
Monday morning. Murder charges were filed over the weekend against
ty Vaughn. Court documents revealed he searched the Internet to
determine whether it was illegal to kill an immigrant just
hours before he allegedly shot his fiance, then tried to
(01:33):
make it look like a suicide. Vaughn is being held
in jail on a five hundred thousand dollars bond.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
He googled if it was quote legal to kill an
illegal He sat down at his computer, or maybe he
did it on his phone. I like to imagine him
sitting down in his computer, pulling his chair up, thinking
through it. You know, if I should shoot old Luise
(02:01):
or not? Pretty sure I don't want to marry him.
Maybe because he's a dude. I don't know. Pretty sure
I don't want to marry him anymore. Pretty aggravated with
him and all. Maybe I'll shoot him in the face.
I wonder if that's legal. You know, people really don't
like illegals these days. Maybe maybe nobody care if I
(02:27):
shot Louise in the face, killed him. He googled if
it was legal to kill an illegal. People's lack of
basic knowledge astounds me. It's like Dewey Cox not knowing
it was illegal to get double married, cocake.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Maybe you don't know what a slack out there on
the road, slowly out there, I can't be alone. Okay, Well,
maybe you should have saw that before you went and
got double married.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Is that what this is about.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Don't you stand there and judge me like, I'm so
kind of criminal? You are a criminal?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
This is do we What do you mean? It's illegal?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It's illegal to be married to two people at the
same time, do we?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
What about it? If you're famous? What's his name, Jack Riley?
Is it his name John c Riley? Yes, he might
go by Jack Jackson nickname for John C. I'll stick
with that. Well. Lots of conversation about who will replace
Sylvester Turner, who briefly replaced Sheila Jackson Lee in the
(03:35):
eighteenth Congressional district seat, and not surprising at all, the
talk is of Erica Lee Carter, Sheila Jackson Lee's daughter,
and ABC thirteen has begun the campaign office operation out
(03:58):
of their station. Through their work, they are the headline
Houston Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee's daughter carries her mom's legacy
in her own way? Oh does she cuss out Jerome
(04:20):
for his fat ass? Also and three days later he
commits suicide from the humiliation she caused him? Or does
she have her own way? Does she write it in
a note instead of cussing him out in person? The
story from ABC thirteen says, quote, Politically, Jackson Lee was
an advocate not just for women's rights but also for
(04:42):
social justice and astute in international policy. I should have
read that before I said it on air. Politically, Jackson
Lee was astute in international policy. They really said that,
Oh wow with a straight face. Wow. Okay, But Carter said,
(05:05):
Houstonians who didn't share her politics also benefited from her service.
You see, y'all might not have agreed with Sheila, but
you were all the better for her. How about they
talked to the family of the late Jerome of Jerome's
fat ass. This is this m Breitbart reports a Trump
(05:35):
hater has set himself a blaze while torching a Tesla
charging station in South Carolina. A masked man vandalized a
Tesla charging station and attempted to burn it down using
Molotov cocktails in North Charleston, South Carolina, ultimately setting himself
on fire in the process. They didn't capitalize Molotov. He's
(05:59):
supposed to capitalized Molotov. The maniac spray painted long Live
Ukraine next to a vulgar message aimed at President Trump
at the scene. So we hate, we hate Elon and
we're very pro Ukraine. And we also hate Trump. You
(06:25):
know this person one of two options one options not
one option not long not not likely is that this
person is of Ukrainian descent and has decided to wrap
themselves in the this is my homeland mindset, which which
(06:52):
would well. The point has been made by some in
the international press that you Ukrainians do not wish to
continue the war, but Ukrainians in the United States do
because they're not at risk of being grabbed off the
street sent to the front lines to be killed. They're
(07:14):
not really suffering the war. It's more an interesting thing
to put as your profile page and to tell people
you're a Ukrainian. It's far more likely that this is
some white liberal kid who has bounced around, could have
been a school shooter if one or the other thing
had turned out differently. Pimple faced, living at home, angry
(07:39):
at the world, complete misfit. And these people latch on
to a cause, and the latest one is Ukraine, but
there have been others before it. These people got very
excited during COVID to get to be the COVID police.
They got very excited. They they've tried to find ways
(08:02):
to inject themselves into the news and be a part
of something bigger because their life is so empty. So
whatever the news directors decide is the story of the day.
That's how you get your news. It's not necessarily the
most important thing going on. Whatever Rachel Maddow or Chris
(08:26):
Hayes or whoever else they're watching says. They then try
to find a way to inject themselves into that story
as a I'm part of the bigger news, I'm part
of the flow of the world sort of thing. And
(08:47):
this is what causes them to go out and protest.
They love a good protest because then they're out in
the streets and people will see them, and maybe the
news reporters will come and report on it, and it'll
all be very, very exciting, and it'll make their lives
meaningful to them. And then they'll rush home and they'll
(09:07):
watch themselves on the news and it'll just be a
you know, a shot in the b roll while the
reporter is standing and telling. But there they'll be in
the back and they're waving their fish and clenching their
fish and their angry and they've got their sign and
this this is their life, this is their sa And
(09:28):
as annoying as they are. If you actually step back
and think, if this is your kid, you have failed.
You might have done the best you could do. I've
seen plenty of cases. Of course, you don't know what
goes on behind closed doors, but I've seen plenty of cases.
Were parents who appear to be good people, who were attentive,
(09:50):
parents who disciplined, who provided, who loved, and maybe they
got four kids and one of the four, one of
the four turns out, you know, a little cuckoo or
off off the charts, a problem from day one, and
always doing something to harm themselves as a way to
(10:14):
get attention, as a way of self loathing, whatever that
may be. These people end up at a point in
their life of complete vacuousness and complete and utter If
you just study them as as as a specimen, you
(10:39):
can't help but feel complete pity for them. Doesn't mean
they shouldn't be punished. You can't help but feel pity
for them and despise what they have allowed themselves to become.
There is one hundred percent of the time a mental
(11:00):
health element. There is nobody out in the middle of
the street. There's a story I'll tell you in a minute.
Five black men in Tennessee. Maybe I can't remember where
it was who were arrested for blocking traffic. They're out
in the middle of the traffic twerking. Yet, yes, five
(11:22):
Memphis men arrested after the poposts say they blocked a
downtown intersection to twerk. I mean when I say men,
I don't well. Yeah. So back to these people. This
is a mental health crisis. This is not an ideological crisis.
This is not a Ukraine issue. If Ukraine was not
(11:45):
in the news, something else would be. Ukraine becomes a
way for these people to feel that in some way
they are sophisticated and engaged in international affairs, but they
don't know where Ukraine is. They don't know the history
(12:06):
of Ukraine. They don't understand the history of the conflict.
They have no idea what is actually happening here, none
of it long live Ukraine becomes something they say as
a chant that they don't even really know what it means.
They have decided that Ukraine is a place of people
(12:32):
who are being attacked by Trump and Putin and evil
and it's not nice and it's not right, and we
should help them. And Trump doesn't want to help them
because Trump is evil, and because Russia is evil, and
because Russia and Trump are both evil at the same
time while they're being evil independently, and all that evil
(12:53):
in one room means the people of Ukraine are all
going to die. And that's kind of the level of analysis.
Long Live Ukraine and that's it. What we have on
display is a mental health episode, my diversity a firm jo.
Some of you may remember our conversation with a very
(13:15):
charming fellow named Joe Sporandio. It must have been Jim.
Do you remember how long ago that was? Was it
a couple of years? I guess Okay, it's amazing how
fast he's You know, someone will say I was on
your show a couple of years ago, and it'll feel
to me like it was two months ago. Well, I
(13:35):
got an email last night. Well, Zara, this is Carla Boscarino.
I just wanted you to know that dad died on Monday.
He was ninety nine years old and loving life. He
still was riding his bike, playing poker with the guys
every Wednesday, and drinking his titos every evening with friends
in the neighborhood. I thank you for providing him. One
(13:58):
of the highlights of his life. He had a lot
of joy from talking to you and all of the
doors that opened for him. Everyone called him Papaul and
he will be missed. But before he died, he told
all of us not to cry or be sad because
he would be in heaven with Mom. Thanks again. You
know that is a friend of mine just emailed you
(14:29):
may want to consider having a show where people call
in with their postal service check theft stories. You'll be astounded.
Yes I will, although maybe I won't because it's happened
to me too, and I know how often it happens.
I did want to open the phone lines, Jim, if
(14:49):
you would. I was thinking about this earlier, so well,
let me back up from hom I got an email
yesterday from a woman who was beside herself that Rosie
O'Donnell is seeking citizenship and residency in Ireland. And this
(15:12):
woman was clearly at her wits end. She could not
have been more upset about it. And I went back
and forth a few times to see if maybe this
was events that might cut her off in traffic, or
was she really this upset about Rosy O'Donnell seeking citizenship
and residency in Ironland? Was it gonna upset her so
(15:34):
much that there would be Rosie and in Dublin walking
around the campus of TCD. I mean, what what what? What's?
What is what about that is so upsetting? Well, that's
Rosy o'donnelld So I asked her to kind of flesh
out for me, explain to me the elements of what
(15:56):
about this angers you so much? I want to understand it?
And I could tell even in the email exchange she
was gobsmacked. Why I didn't know. Why wasn't it obvious
that we should all be pulling our hair out Because
Rosie O'Donnell is trying to get citizenship in Ireland and
(16:21):
this is very, very upsetting. But I couldn't get some
specificity on why it was upsetting. And the real answer
to why it's upsetting is because she doesn't like Rosy o'
donald okay, and she doesn't like ros o'donald because she
insulted Trump and Trump assaulted her and as a result,
(16:43):
she now has a seething hatred of ros o'donald. So
if Rose o'donald gets a new vehicle, she's off the
charts angry about it. If ros o'donnald takes a vacation.
Couldn't be mad if Rosie o'donald does a video where
she's getting a pedicure, end of the world, rip the
TV off the wall. And I suppose it's something I
(17:09):
shouldn't say, given how we make a living, But at
some point I'm worried that people aren't in on the joke.
I'm worried that people don't get what's happening because, Okay,
let's say you wake up every day and you have
(17:30):
determined that what I'm going to do with the last
ten years of my life is I'm going to wake
up every day pissed off. I don't know over what,
but I'll find something. Well, all you have to do
is turn on the TV or go to the internet,
and there is a whole rage machine waiting for you
(17:51):
to hook yourself up and start sucking it in. You
can straight into your veins. And it's not that they
didn't know what to do on the news today, but
this horrible thing happened Rosie O'Donnell, and now they have
to rewort it and as a result, oh my god,
this has made me mad. I could have done without that,
(18:12):
could you? Could you really if you'd done. Without that,
you'd have to replace it. And it's just easier to
hate Rosie because she's a fat, obnoxious lesbian. So it's
just real easy and guttural atavistic. It's simple, it's easy,
(18:34):
it it doesn't require a lot of processing. It's just mad,
just mad, mad enough to send me an email, and
I suspect and it was not my intention, even more
mad that I wasn't mad. Why wasn't I mad? Well,
because I'm sitting on three hundred emails I haven't finished
at this point, lady, and I'm sure two hundred ninety
(18:56):
nine of them are trying to get me to be
mad about what they're mad about. So much mad in
my body, and there's only so much time. If I
spend too much time being mad at Rosy O'Donnell, then
I won't be mad at the people to working in Memphis.
There is, or should be, a certain humor value, a
(19:18):
certain entertainment value. Right. That's why when you go to
the Rockets game, they got stuff going on in between
the game, because this is an entertainment event. It's all entertainment.
People take it too seriously. I know people that are
in a bad mood if their team doesn't make the
playoffs that year. And this is gonna be the year
(19:41):
We're gonna win the championship. Because we win the championship,
my life's gonna have meaning. And I'm gonna be a
happy person and I'll put stickers on my car and
I'll wear the jersey all the time. But if my
team doesn't win, I'm gonna be beyond depressed. I'm gonna
be miserable all the time because the the team must win,
because I've decided that's where I'm gonna find my joy.
(20:05):
Did an interview last night, the second hour of the
Evening Show with a fellow named Don Daniel John Daniel Davidson,
and he's written a book called pagan America, and it's
about Christianity in America and the rival religion which is Paganism,
which he puts everything else into. And what's interesting about
(20:29):
that is you see the absence of faith in people's lives.
You see the absence of grounding, You see the absence
of people who understand who they are and their role
in the world. Rosie O'Donnell is to be laughed at.
(20:49):
If you can laugh at Rosie, you can derive some
personal utility out of her miserable existence. In a Schodenfreud way,
she's always falling down. But when Rosie O'Donnell angers you,
when you're sitting in your house one thousand miles away
(21:11):
from Rosie, she doesn't know your name, and you've bothered
to read everything about her, and what she chooses to
do or says she's going to do, makes you so angry.
She's living rent free. In your head. That's not how
this game is supposed to be played. Get people to
understand giving information is not snitching. You know that Whelan
(21:37):
had had just about enough of Willie thinking he was
the most important musician in all of Texas, and so
Waylan sang a song Bob Wills is Still the King,
which today would be what they would refer to in
the rap world as a disk track, a song designed
(21:59):
to cut other person very very publicly and not so subtly.
Bob Wills is still the King, was Whaylon Jennings way
of telling Willie Nelson, listen, don't get too big for
your briches. Texas still belongs to Bob Wills. Bob Wills,
(22:19):
of course, known as the king of Western swing and
the Western being the western of country and Western. Well,
there was a song written by his protegee and good friend,
Bob not Bob Wills, Hoyle Nicks. Hoyle Knicks wrote this
song in the forties when Western swing was very, very big,
(22:42):
and the song was called Big Balls in Cowtown, and
well it became a swing standard. What you just heard
right there was George Strait covering it with a Sleep
at the Wheel backing him. And I don't know that
anybody has done as much to revive and preserve Western
(23:07):
swing in the last thirty years as Ray Benson and
Asleep at the Wheel. They have almost single handedly kept
Western swing alive, even to audiences in Texas beer joints
and dance halls that may not have even realized that
(23:28):
what they were listening to was Western swing. That's a
talent on its own, and we don't say the western
of country and western any longer, but it's still the
case that it informs and drives some of the music. Well,
that was George Strait's tribute to this great tradition by
(23:49):
playing the Bob will Songbig Balls in Cowtown. Well, the
first thing that popped into many of our heads who
are students of a appreciators of this kind of music.
Recently was the fact that Elon Musk had brought in
(24:09):
these really really young guys nineteen twenty twenty one, and
these are the ultimate nerds. They're smart as a whip,
and these guys know their way around a computer in
such a way that going to college to get a
(24:32):
computer degree is laughable because you can send all of
your best computer programmers and set up a website that
these kids can hack, and they've been hacking since they
were kids. And with a little bit of direction, they
went from being you know, a basement of mom's house
(24:56):
dwelling hackers to being American heroes, reformers. I mean, these
guys are the Navy Seals of government transparency and waste
and fraud disclosure. Well they're still nineteen twenty and twenty one.
(25:20):
All the amazing things they were able to use this
instrument of AI to sort of break down every door
of the government in the sites they were able to
get into and expose the waste. It's pretty impressive stuff.
(25:41):
But most of them still can't legally drink in the
state of Texas. So they're young, they're computer types. They
work all night and maybe all next day. And Elon
might be a lot older, but he's wired like these guys.
These guys are not buying large prim and proper. They
(26:02):
make jokes of sexual innuendo that are sophomoric, and that's
who they are. That's okay. You know who else does that?
Military members while they're serving in war. There's always a
scene or two about it. And every war doesn't matter
the war. How they rib each other and things they
say and do, and it's just part of who you
(26:23):
are and where you are. So it crossed our mind
that so one of them was known as Big Balls,
that was his screen name. And the beauty of this
is that then you had Anderson, Cooper, Rachel Madout, all
of these liberal news agencies having to say the name
(26:49):
on air on evening news broadcasts. Now, granted, nobody watches
MSNBC or CNN, but still we have a montage which
maybe we'll play later of them having to say big Balls.
And it's very upsetting because with traditional words that would
offend people. You can use the first letter, the F word,
(27:13):
the N word, but with big Balls, you in order
in order for people to be as upset as they're
supposed to be about these kids who were do gooders
saving the federal government and saving the Republic. They had
to say the name, and we think that's hilarious. So,
with assistance from our own Kitty Allen, here's our tribute
(27:35):
to these young kids, including big Balls, who went in
under the with the badge of Doge and are trying
desperately to save the Republic.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Trump told old we ain't missing around. If we can't
drain the swamp, we'll have to let them drown. Big
Balls in Dostown. They'll all go down Big balls in Dogstown,
will dance around. Elon hired big balls to track the
(28:25):
money down. Media liberals Adam meltdown big balls in Dogstown.
They'll all go down. Big balls in Dogstown, will dance around.
(28:49):
USA I d where millions were found goldang Operation DUNCOMONU
wound Big balls in Dostown. They'll all go down. Big
balls in Dodstown, will dance around. Americans are smiling. You
(29:15):
can't find the brown. The media's unhappy calls the big
balls in town, big balls in Dodstown. They'll all go down.
Big balls in Dogtown. They'll go down
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