Cocktails and News Trump urges death of Press Freedom bill, Gaetz report is deadlocked

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Hello, thank you for joining us on the Niki Medoro Show. Yeah, jeez,
Kim McAllister. It is raining cats and dogs, at least
where Kim is here in San Jose. I woke up
this morning and it was not it was nice. I
went to I've been warming up my car before I
go to work in the morning because it's been frosty
cold to day. It was it was like sixty five.

(00:40):
It was nice, and I was like, oh, it wasn't
even frosty. So you guys have been getting it.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Crazy you live. It's so crazy how we can live
so near each other in the area, like you're in
San Jose, I'm in Pedalima, and how drastically different it
can be a nice day for.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
You for me, it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
The world was waiting and unloaded all the rain that's
been saving up and is dumping it straight on us.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
A bomb cyclone in the bay, you know, the atmospheric river.
We're just drinking our ways through. This is the cocktails
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it works. We're gonna talk about a lot. There has

(02:14):
been a lot of development since the last time we've talked.
Mat Gates. You're doing last time and this time, Matt Gates,
you know it's saying a lot. Let me just say this, Kim.
It says a lot when Donald Trump looks at Matt
Gates and it's like, you know, you're making us look bad.

(02:35):
I don't think that you can hang out at our
table because of the baggage that you bring, right, I mean,
it's just it says a lot when one sexual assaulter
says to another acute sexual assaulter.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Not okay. Yeah, Well, from what I understand, senators came
to Trump and said, listen, we just don't have the
votes to push peeps through.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
We can take you, will take you, but we can't
take him.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
We will even take heg's peth and will even take
that's her name, the Secretary, Linda McMahon, the Secretary of
Education nominee, but you know, is now the focus of
a lawsuit that she enabled sexual abuse of children. We
have all of these horribleness but horrible things, but apparently
Matt Gates's crimes, alleged crimes, are still ebregious that senators

(03:23):
won't vote for him. So then Trump goes to Gates
and says, where votes you got to go? And that's
when Gates steps aside and says, you know, I don't
want to be a I mean, meanwhile, he's already stepped
out of his role in the House so that the
report isn't released, So he he'll probably get a cushy

(03:44):
assignment that doesn't require confirmation. Right, Trump will give him
some other job. We don't know what that will be yet,
but he's not going to be representing the people as
far as an elected position or a confirmed position.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Well, and then again, he has been he has he
has been already elected for the next term. So it's
not as if we're not going to still have Matt
Gates in Congress. He gone, No, he's already been elected
into the next He's he's going to have a job.
He resigned in this one, the current one, been elected

(04:18):
to the next one. He has a job, Kim, we
have not seen the loss of Matt Gates. Oh no, no, No,
he's already been elected to the next one. He's only
resigned his current position. He just resigned in this one.
He has Are you sure absolutely positive he just resigned
his current position, so yeah, he can. Also there's the

(04:39):
question is also still owed if they could reinstate him.
He might be reinstated, so he might just come back.
But he only resigned from his current position. He can
still go back. You know, obviously he has to be
sworn in in January to the position he was just
re elected to. So yeah, Matt Gate gets to live again.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
No, no, no, I don't want to see that guy.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yes, that's how the Republican Party works, my friend. That's
people like math getting But you know what, this is
what I think. I think this is his come up
ince for what he did to Kevin McCarthy. Right, he
looked at Kevin McCarthy. He was like, you don't have
the votes. You don't have the votes to stay heuse speaker,
blah blah blah blah blah. How does it feel Gates
to not have the votes to become Attorney general? Because

(05:27):
that's basically what happened. He's not a likable guy, He's
not everybody knew and the ethics report is really, really
dirty and everybody knows what's in it. I mean, if
I had a report that would exonerate me, why would
I not want everybody to read it? Why would I
not want the evidence that proves I didn't do something

(05:49):
nasty like sleep with an underage girl? Why would I
not want that information public? Right, Why would I not
want that?

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Here's what I'm being told. When he resigned, said he
would not take his seat in the next Congress in
his resignation letter, So he would have to go back
on that in order to Oh, are you.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Saying that Republican would go back on somewhere?

Speaker 2 (06:11):
They said if he if he takes his seat for
the twenty twenty five term, that ethics report can be released. Yes,
And he has said that he wants to be the
governor of Florida in twenty twenty six, So who knows?

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Good luck he's going to say. I mean, he's going
to say, gothead?

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Is that Beavis? Or butthead Beavis?

Speaker 1 (06:30):
I think Beavis is on the left and butt Head's
on the right. Right, I would assume I always forget
all right, what are you drinking him? Somebody's asking what.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
I was just delivered a penia colada, so it's strong too,
So I'm drinking pina coladas in the rain.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Well, I had to make my own, it's all can
I Happy birthday to my husband.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Happy seven.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
He's not home right now. He's off with the kids
grocery shopping. I don't know why he's.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Grocery sling happy birthday.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
I was going to take him out to dinner. I
hope he's not. I'm going to take him out to
dinner after the show. So I made my own cocktail.
So I made myself my meduromeal. Nice, that's what it is.
But yeah, forty seven handsome years old. Uh to my husband,
a fellow Scorpio. So happy, happy, happy, happy birthday. Don't
forget to watch nuggets show tonight. What's Nugget show? If

(07:18):
Nugget has a show, Nugget has a show, I don't
y'all have to tell me what that is?

Speaker 2 (07:25):
What is the show?

Speaker 1 (07:26):
I wasn't aware that my dog, I don't know my
dog had had a show. Random question JT asked Nikki,
you had a recommendation for a fun board game last year. Yeah,
do you remember the name? I do? What was the
name of the game that I was playing? Oh Trio
was the game that I recommended to you? That was
the game that I recommend. I play that game all

(07:48):
the time. It's O Trio. It's like TIC Tacto. Did
you like it?

Speaker 2 (07:51):
You didn't like it?

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Right? Yeah, it's the best game. Oh Trio, O t
r E O I think O t r I O,
I think ri io, OK, somethin O Trio. It's so
much fun. You can make it simple or more difficult
depending on how many people play. But that's a really
really good one. I got to start my recommendations again.
Maybe I'll do this this coming week. Yeah, there it is.

(08:13):
O t Rio, O Trio. It's so much fun, very
very fun.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
We're in all kinds of wood or concrete. Trio dot
com Otrio dot com.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
That is a very very fun game.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
It's really really fun. We had a new game we
tried last night that my mom gave my son, and
it's called Smash, and it's just a card game and
it's avocados and when you pull the card that says smash,
you have to slam your fist on the table and
the whole point of the game is to get rid
of cards. So the person that slams their fist on

(08:46):
the table like smashes it first has to take the
pile of cards that end up in the middle. And
if it says guacamole, you have to scream guacamole first,
or you have to take all the cards that are
on the table. It was pretty fun, actually easy game,
but fun game. I feel.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Raise your hand if you think you could turn that
into a drinking game. I do smash, take a shot.
Nugget is Dead. It's on CBS. I don't know if
I want to watch this show this called Nugget is Dead. Okay,
all right? Can we get into something else that's that's
come out? And this is what I was teasing with
my thumbnail here, And it's a bit about the press

(09:27):
and how we get kind of information. In twenty twenty four,
twenty twenty five, I joined anew and some of you
know this, and thank you to Lori and so many
of you that have been urging us. Kim, you did
it as well. I joined a new social media platform.
It's called Blue Sky. I'm sure Mark has talked about it.
Kim has talked about it. I like it. You know

(09:48):
what I did is I put it on the front
page of my phone. And because the color scheme is
very similar to the old ex Twitter, I notice it
more on my phone. It's very similar color wise to
what Twitter used to be before it turned into X
and X is black. Anyways, I like it so much better.

(10:08):
The algorithm is and it's open. The way it works
is different. The way it feeds you information is different.
The way you are fed to other people and how
your posts show up is different. I like it, you
know what I mean, Like I kind of have to
hunt for things and stuff like that. It's the Nikimidorosha.
You find me the same way you find me on
everything else. It should not be difficult, I really do.

(10:30):
It's not accessible. You will. You can tell the minute
you're on it that it's not the same and it's
not going to be the same. I really think that
they really don't like it. They don't like they're gonna have.
They have moderators. That's it. That's what makes it different
than X. They have moderators, they have terms of service,
and it's not censorship. It's like we don't allow you

(10:53):
to say certain things, and that's it, right. So if
you like it, join it. We're on it. I like
it a lot better. I'm still on X, but I
do see that I'm not on it as much, and
I like that. I really do. In between, I think
I'm on X leading up to this show, and it's
only honestly because I'm trying to read the other crap

(11:14):
on the other side. Really, that's that's where I've had
to find the bs on the other side, and that's
why I go on X. But again, it's it's the
reality in which we live in what information and this
dissemination of information has become. And I'm worried, I really,
really am worried about what the press is going to

(11:39):
become under a second Donald Trump term. He has ordered
he has ordered Republicans to literally, he has put out
an order, Republicans must kill this bill. It's it's a
bipartisan bill called the Press Freedom Bill. Okay, it was
a bipartisan bill. He's it's really urgent, quote unquote we

(12:02):
must have uh, but we do not pass this bill.
And basically, he's his political divisions threatened the bill to
protect press freedom and Republicans must kill this bill. And
we know how Donald Trump feels about the press. He
thinks everything is fake news if it's critical of him,

(12:22):
if it's not, it's it's totally real, right. Anything that's
glowing of him, whether it's true or not, is totally
fine to say. But the minute, the minute that you
criticize him, that you say something that he did wrong, anything,
no matter how minor it is. And I always bring

(12:43):
up the you know this sharpie with the storm, right,
he said it was in one area, I know. And
when you have somebody that must be right percent of
the time right and cannot and does not believe in
a free press, does not believe in the check on
him that the press does, that's dangerous. But what is

(13:07):
even more dangerous is the press is bending the knee
already to Donald Trump. And we saw it when The
Washington Post pulled its endorsement of Kamala Harris right before
the election. Now do I think it would have made
a difference in the election, though I don't. Honestly, I don't.

(13:28):
I'm not a huge proponent of endorsements making a decision
for people. But I think the pulling of the endorsement
spoke volumes about Jeff Bezos and his desire. Now he
said it was to stay neutral, full crap. I don't
think that that was the reason. I think he did

(13:49):
not want the backlash that he thought Donald Trump was
going to give when Jeff Bezos believed he won won
the presidency. And now we've learned that the Washington Post
has removed its politics editor Dan Egan from his post.

(14:12):
He has been let go starting in twenty twenty five.
He got the post. He got the job two years ago.
But he's been with the Washington Post for I think
more than ten years, maybe even longer than that, and
then it hasn't been given a reason why. He's a
veteran political writer. Dan Egan is, oh, we know why. Well,
I mean, yeah, but he wasn't informed why. He said

(14:33):
he's been removed from his role, and he's like, I've
been struggled on how to write this message since there's
an element of begging to it that is not particularly attractive.
But what the hey, I was in form Monday that'll
be removed as senior politics editor at the end of
the year. I'll lead it to others to explain why. Yeah,
I don't. I don't know what we do if the

(14:58):
press is too scared or will start leaning a certain
way because they have to make money, because that's what
I think it is. I think they're scared because they're
losing money.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Well, first, you have Trump who's threatened, right, basically threatened
the media and threatened people who've come out against him. Right,
So he's already called the media the enemy of the people,
exactly that the media should have a target on it, right,
didn't he look at one of his rallies at the
press and say, you know, you have to shoot through them.

(15:33):
It's no problem, right, right, So there's the fear of
retribution and being on Trump's revenge, you know, to do list.
And then you have people gravitating toward this right wing news,
and my fear is you have fewer voices. Especially we

(15:53):
just saw recently with our old radio station KGO, it
now becomes exactly a right wing conservative stations. So for
those that don't know, in San Francisco, we had two
really big talk stations. There was kind of the middle
of the road left leaning one and then.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
There was Ago right to.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
KGO, and then there was the right leaning one, which
it was had taken on the KSFO call letters the
Sound of the City it used to be, and then
they changed it to all syndicated like Hannity, Rush, Limbaugh,
doctor Laura all that stuff. Well, KGO went away. They
made it sports betting, and that was a dismal failure.
And so now they've decided because it's lucrative to put

(16:34):
ksfo's programming on KGO. So the fifty thousand watt signal
that KGO had will now be used to beam in
right wing talk to the entire Bay Area and beyond.
And then you have MSNBC, who's spinning off. Comcast is
spinning off the cable channels they had, and that includes MSNBC,

(16:57):
CNBC and these pannels. So what will happen to those
channels now? Will those voices that tell a different side
of the story, Whether you think they tell the truth
or whether you think they're you know, heavily leaning to
one side, they're important voices. And my fear is that
we're we're leaning toward a state kind of a de

(17:19):
facto state media.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
I mean, so I look at it two ways. I
look at it two ways. One, we all understand that
media is changing the consolidation of media because people consume
media in a different way. That is a reality, right,
similar to what's happened to radio. Right, Like, we do

(17:42):
have to understand the reality that media in and of
itself is a business, and it's an expensive business, but
at the same time, it's a vital business. Like it's
not it's it's not like selling candy. Right. We need this,
we need to understand what is going on, and we

(18:06):
need a variety of voices. We can't just have one
singular viewpoint. We can't just trust especially because I'm sorry,
conservative news has proven itself. Hello, Fox News untrustworthy with

(18:28):
the facts. Now, if I could have trusted, you know,
right leaning news to get the facts at least semi right, right, Okay,
I can understand if you know you kind of leaning
a little conservative right, like you know, I kind of
lean in a little McCain right, not any farther, you know,

(18:50):
like I can understand. Like now, the reason I mentioned
McCain is because of that famous moment during the town
hall that he had where someone was spewing nonsense about
Obama not being American, and he's like, no, no, no, no,
and he took the microphone right out of that person's hand,
a voter for him, and he said, no, that's not true.

(19:10):
That's what I'm talking about. A conservative who knows the truth.
That's what I'm looking for. And Fox News and I'm
just using them as an example because they're not wagging
dude o an and Newsmax, right, I'm just talking. I'm
talking about you know, I think everyone has a bias.
So let's just say a right leaning news channel. But

(19:31):
they're all freaking but in reality yep. But yeah, and
oh good Heny down in LA can fight gut it
their station.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Kg It's it's the death throws right where they first
they get rid of the reporters and they go to
rip and read news so that the real reporting in
Los Angeles now doesn't get done by the really good,
award winning reporters at CAFI.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
It's over insane, insane, what's happening right now?

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Remember when the day they sold the kg O news
cars and.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
We didn't nobody had to leave the station anymore? Like
what you don't want reporters to go report? Louise, thank
you so much for the five dollars donation. A little
bit of a little palate cleanser right here. Here's to show. Hey,
o Tani MVP number three of Green Day buys a
Trump guitar burns in at Coachella. Oh what do you

(20:27):
else to see? Gladiator two?

Speaker 2 (20:29):
Nice?

Speaker 1 (20:30):
Know how let us know how compares to number one.
I just watched number one with my son. I know
it's very violent, but I did let us know how
it is. But yeah, I'm very worried about the press,
the media. But again going back to what I was
saying about and I'm using this very lightly because I

(20:50):
trimming the fat of media. Okay, let's be honest. Let's
be honest. Media is very expensive. When you hear and
I don't even know if this is accurate, Okay, but
this is the number that's being thrown out that Rachel
Maddow took a five million dollars salary cut from her
thirty million dollar salary and she only had to have

(21:13):
a one night a week show. That's a lot of fat, Kim,
I'm on, I'm being honest. I think she's overpaid.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
I didn't have out, But then tell me how much
the people at Fox are paid. And you know, you
think they're not paying her for an hour show. They're
paying her for the years of experience, the education, right,
her personality, her.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
She's the only thing that is drawing anybody to MSNBC.
That's what they're paying. She is MSNBC. I completely agree.
But what I'm saying is, you have a thirty million
dollar salary, so Rachel Maddow, yes, think about everyone underneath her, though,
now you gotta pay. Now, you gotta pay all of
her staff. This is what I'm talking about. Though. It's
an expensive business and and if you have a Trump victory,

(22:04):
now here's a question for you. Do you think you
make more money in years where the opposition wins or loses?
Because I would think what draws people criticism or yay?
Are side one?

Speaker 2 (22:24):
I don't know the answer.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
I mean, do you turn into CNN more because they're
criticizing Trump and sticking you know, like I kind of
feel like people are more engaged to CNN because what
a Trump do? Now? But if it's just you know, eh,
things are going smoothly, like you know, what makes you
more money? I don't know. I'm just wondering, Like you

(22:46):
guys tell me now, players are completely.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
I want to talk about gross things that we pay for,
and I was gonna talk about it a little later.
The things that we throw money at speak volumes of
where we put our values. And so when we talk
about things that are overpaid and underpaid, I feel like
it's commercials and you have to addle those things in.
So our NFL players overpaid, yes, but the money that

(23:15):
they bring in no, because of all the money generated
by them. So you understand what I'm saying. So it's
kind of a hard question to answer because of what's
generated by their skill. That's why it's a hard question politicians.
It's a different things people. I'm not selling jerseys of

(23:38):
Rachel Maddout. Let's say, Okay, like it's a different thing
when we're talking about athletes. Okay, that's all.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
It's funny. Deeter calls it entertainment, which is a really
great chance. Yes, that's a term entertainment. I feel like
entertainment and wy attainment bring in more money. They bring
people are gravitating towards that. There's angry energy there, and
I feel like that entertainment and lies is what Trump
got Trump elected. So right, it brings in the money,

(24:06):
it wins the elections. Maybe more people are drawn to that,
right where I find it so repulsive.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
So I don't know, well, I mean how I mean,
I feel like in the in the days of the
first Trump presidency, right, I was caught. But again, this
is like COVID, I was constantly on CNN, Right, I
just kind of feel like I was always on CNN
watching what was going on? What did Trump say? It

(24:34):
was an S show? Right, it was an absolute S show.
And so I think CNN's ratings were completely you know,
going Haywire. Now, if things were going smoothly, I don't know,
I would just all I'm saying is maybe in times
of Trump, MSNBC's ratings might do well. But apparently I

(24:59):
was rating an article after Trump's win, it seemed like
they were just saying that this was an echo chamber
that they needed to fix, and that's why they're doing
this whole spinoff thing, and that worries me. But I
don't want an echo chamber, Kim. I don't want NBC
to be an echo chamber. And if that's the come
to Jesus moment they needed to have and they realized

(25:20):
that about themselves, okay, but I don't think they need
to like demolish the model. I think that they need
to have balance, fine balance. It does that make sense?
I don't know. I mean, is anybody understanding what I'm saying?
I feel like I don't know. I feel like CNN
and Fox News is one thing. MSNBC I think, really

(25:43):
kind of dug deep into the liberal leaning news more
than CNN did, and more proud of it a little
bit more so.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
What they're doing the way they're doing it is apparently
going to separate MSNBC and CNBC from the central news
gathering portion of NBC News, which is interesting because I
kind of liked that they were hooked up with a
real news organization. Right, It's like Fox is not a
real news organization at all. They don't they they don't

(26:16):
they're not news, They're they're they're infotainment right right, as
there was some real news going on in the NBC family.
And so then how does nb MSNBC what do they
base their information on our you know now that they.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Have reporters or or are we going to make it
more clearly defined when you're watching news and when you're
watching a commentary program.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
We should we should always have something on the bottom.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
Well, I don't think people know that. Maybe that's the
different that's going to be the difference with this kind
of spinoff. It's going to be like this is when
you're on this channel, you're watching commentary shows. When you're
on this like I know, in the morning, I'm watching
the news. There is I am watching KTV, which is
our for people out of the area. That's our local news.

(27:06):
I am there's no confusion. I am watching the news,
I'm watching traffic, I'm watching this, that and the other,
there's no confusion. When I'm watching, you know, the twenty
four hours news channel, it's confusing. I mean not to
me and not to you, because we know the difference,
but to the average viewer, I think it's some people

(27:26):
don't know the difference. You know, they don't know when
they're listening to commentary because there's a blend. And so yeah,
interesting comment from Suan. Though, liberal billionaires need a step
up and start catching up on the media buying. We
lost by low informed and disinformed voters. Most only c Fox.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
So here's the problem though with that. The folks are
saying that the NBC folks, they're exiting the cable network business.
What they're saying is they don't want to be in
that business. It's no longer a growth business and it
might be around for a long time, but there's no
growth in it. So it's a financial decision. What does

(28:11):
that mean If there's no growth in it, then it
means it's just now invest in it. Yeah, that's that's right.
And so then you lose that voice.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
I mean, think about it. You're a billionaire, okay, and
let's really think about this. Are you going to be
the next Cumulus where you're going to spend over spend
on television, and then people will invest in online for
pennies because that's where it's going. Your news is going
online and you don't have to pay a lot of

(28:41):
money for it. Cumulus, if you don't know, is a
radio station. iHeartMedia like all of these. Right, they've made
top dollar for big radio stations and a heartbeat later
the Internet took over and now they don't even need it,
like they're not even putting So there was this great
article in sf Gate where they were talking to Dave Fleming,

(29:04):
who's a San Francisco Giants broadcaster, and he's nervous about
baseball being on the radio, which is as American as
apple pie. Right, you turn on terrestrial radio, you dial
in my dad. I mean he used to do with football,
but baseball too. He used to go to the game

(29:24):
and still listen. He used to bring like a headphone
because he wanted to listen to the broadcast at the
freaking game because he liked to listen to the broadcast. Okay,
that's how old school, and that's going away. Terrestrial radio
is going away. They're not even putting it in some cars,
and that's what he's nervous about, and that's where everything

(29:47):
is going. So if you're a billionaire, you think that
your investment person is being like invest in television. No,
your investment person, you should fire investment person if they're
telling you to buy a cable company. That's the truth. Yeah,
I mean, look at us, Look at us.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Where are we YouTube? We're on YouTube and we're fortunate
that there's a platform for us, right when our industry
kind of carved in on.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Itself, right, And so think about that and think about
how quickly it is that we were able to even
transition to this, And that's what I'm saying. But at
the same time, Jim says, my grandfather used to take
his transition to radio to the giants exactly. But see,
it's up to us to still use the mediums we want.

(30:39):
But it's there's not going to be enough of us,
you know what I mean, Like we can we can
like white knuckle it until we're blue in the vase,
but you know.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
I always an emergency and then you're gonna need us
and screwed.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah, I mean I love radio until you know, in
my soul obviously, But Sandy said, as I drive an
old car. I listen to nothing but terrestrial radio in
the car. I can listen to YouTube at home and
at work, but I love radio. I always well say
Offensive Humor says, I love being able to listen to
radio while at the game. Reminds me of my grandpa.

(31:13):
Plus I love hearing my team's announcers exactly like whenever.
I like, you know when you're home, and you know
when you're listening to a broadcast, then they're not your
ome team, Like who is that now? I think Dave
Fleming was saying, there's something about being home and listening
to your home announcers, And there's also something about being

(31:36):
able to dial in and know a place. If you
drive across the country and tune into a town, you
get the flavor of that town. And if we get
rid of that, you don't get to decide the flavor
of that town. Somebody, somebody rich probably gets to decide

(31:59):
what the car tree then sounds like. And who's that
gonna make Who's gonna make that decision right? And that sucks?
Or there's gonna be no flavor, It's gonna be AI right,
It's gonna be some. It was so weird, so I'm
trying to learn. I'm trying to learn phrases at school
in Spanish because I'm trying to talk to these kids,

(32:20):
right sure, And so I'm always online trying to learn
different on YouTube, trying to learn phrases in Spanish. And
then there's this app that they're trying to sell me,
and instead of a teacher, like a person on YouTube
trying to teach me, it's an AI person.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
Is it due Lingo? No?

Speaker 1 (32:40):
No, no, it's like instead like instead of me like
trying to teach you like phrases and Spanish, and I
recorded a class, it's an AI person teaching me onlike
on an app. And I'm like, God, like, I'd rather
give you whatever, you know, subscription or whatever to an
actual human being. But there has to be enough people

(33:01):
willing to forego that, and it is going to be
up to us. That's what it's going to be up to,
you know, And this is going to be the deciding factor.
Is us making a decision with the almighty dollar of
what we want our world to look like. But as
far as news and where we get our information, it's

(33:22):
not going to be from our television for much longer.
And we're moving at break next speed, break next speed.
And so for Trump to say that he wants to
get rid of that press freedom bill, I really do
think the one thing that we really need to watch
is how he regulates the Internet. That's where we really

(33:42):
need to watch because this is where and so what
the whole TikTok ban and net neutrality and all those
sorts of things we need to watch now. Content moderation
I think is vital, but we need to have truth
on the internet.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
M Yeah, like Kim's comment, and it's really true. She said.
It's why so much of this country here's nothing but
conservative syndicated radio. It's because that's all they have, and
we're just moving more and more and more in that direction.
And that's why I call it state media now yep,
because that's the general you know, consensus, whether it's lies

(34:18):
or whether it's not well too.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
And honestly, I mean think about it. So if people
get rid of radio stations, right, and people go to
satellite radio and then that's all people tune into, then
that's all they're going to want to tune into, and
then you're going to just train their brain to seek
out that type of programming. So you know. On one hand, Yeah,

(34:44):
you can reach out to Oprah and these billionaires to
kind of buy up maybe let's say satellite radio, because
people are going to be in their cars, right, but
they have to get into their phones, they have to
get into the apps. They got to get into something.
They got to figure out how people like to listen.
So believe me, I don't know if your daughter does this.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
I don't know. How does do you have control of
your radio in your car?

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Kim?

Speaker 1 (35:07):
I don't know how does that work with your children?

Speaker 2 (35:09):
So we live in the North Bay, and there's not
very many stations up here, so we mostly listen to
music radio and if and there's only two stations, we
go back and forth between and then or classical listen.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
Your daughter doesn't listen to music on her phone.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Sometimes she will, sometimes she'll.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Plague take control of your Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
It is weird. It's all like big band music and
jazz and classical music.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
I love, I loved so much. Yeah, I love your daughter.
So my daughter introduces me to so much like new
music that like. So my daughter, I don't know if
you know who Chapel Rowan, everybody knows who she is,
but like my daughter introduced me to her. Not that

(35:57):
I'm trying to pull a cool card here, but like
a year ago, like I swear to God, like my
daughter like turn me into onto her like a lot
kind of I had to listen to her bend for
a while. Yeah, yeah, like a year or so ago,
like just constantly was putting her on my radio because
the minute my daughter gets into my car, I lose

(36:17):
control of my radio. It's like audio. She's hooked up
her phone and I no longer have control of whatever
music we are listening to on so I have no
control over what we're listening to. But I like it
because I get to listen to there she is, and
I really like her music. It's it's fun. And again
it's not like I have a choice, right, but I

(36:39):
like it. I had this sold that my husband's laughing
kind of in the background. I had this totally disagreement
with my husband about whether or not like he should
be trying to turn our children into music that he likes,
right right, or if we should try to get to
know the music that they like.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Well, you want a well rounded person. You don't want
to stay stuck in your era music just like you
want them to have a background of what came before exactly.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
So that's why I was trying to tell them, like,
you know, we have to figure out what kind of
music they like and so that we can kind of
connect with them on that kind of So anyways, but
just kind of going off a tangent on there. So, yeah,
she's turned me out all kinds of music. We're going
in a couple of weeks. Get this. Have you heard
of Megan Moroni? Anybody anybody Megan Morony? Anybody raise the man? Anybody?

(37:31):
Anybody Megan Marony, any fans, anybody, anybody mark this day down? Okay,
So Megan Country, I'm going to a country concert. I
am actually lying on an airplane. This is Marley's Christmas gift.
I'm actually done, like checking the box. She is done. Well,
oh good, Jason knows. Okay, Yeah, Megan Maroney. My daughter

(37:55):
has obsessed. So she's gonna be in Tahoe next year.
Not going maybe if they can get cheap tickets. My
daughter is obsessed and so she's been wanting to go
and apparently she's on this tour but has no uh yeah,
there's my daughter. She has no nobody here. Megan Megan
Maroney has no spots this year here, but she's doing

(38:21):
this Christmas concert. She's doing this Christmas concert in Southern
California that I've found. So me and her, my daughter,
and her best friend and her best friend's mom are
flying the first week in in December, uh to southern
California to go see her. And so that's christ Christmas presence.

(38:42):
That is her Christmas gift, and that is it. Yeah,
so we got good tickets and it's going to be
a great old time.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
Do you like the music. I've never even head.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Because again, my daughter of cources Okay, so yeah, it's
really she really is good. She really really is good.
So that's gonna be.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
I'm not I'm not a huge country, but she's like
kind of poppy country, so it's not like but even
if it wasn't, I would I would really like her.
So she's really But it's also a montage Christmas show.
So yeah, I'm really excited. And again, you know, I'll
take any chance to hang out with my kids. So yeah,

(39:20):
you know, I don't.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
Like I tried to listen to it just to see
what the big hoopla is. I really don't care for
Sabrina Carpenter's music. I really don't like it. There's something
about her voice that I don't care for.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
I'm not a huge again. I think it's just I'm
forced to listen to it because it's constantly on the radio.
I wouldn't say I don't like her.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
I'm just she's probably a very nice person. I'm just
not a fan of the music.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
She's a shorty, so you know, short people unite. She's
a shorty shorty though. I think I'm taller than her.
I think I'm taller thanner. Wow, I know that's saying
a lot. I think I think it's a Brinda Carpenter.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think I think she's like
my height or maybe even shorter.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
I mean she's one of those. I think she's one
of those kid stars, right. I think he's one of those. Yeah, Yeah,
more power to her. Again, forced to listen to it.
If I could listen to reggae music all day long,
and that's what I would do, you know what I mean,
I would listen to news and reggae music.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
That's pretty I'm listening to stuff in my car that
I've never heard from my grandparents' era. Like, I don't
even know where do you find this stuff?

Speaker 1 (40:33):
I don't even know, you know, I'm listening to I think,
I don't know. Sometimes I try to get Lizzie McBride.
I don't know if that's the right name. I'm listening
to all kinds of stuff. I don't know. But again,
I like to be introduced. No, right now I am
listening to. Uh, Tyler the Creator is the new thing
that's constantly in my car. He just came out with

(40:53):
a new album, so that is what's constantly booming from
my car. So yes, Tyler the Creator is booming, booming, booming,
booming from my Car's.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
Him and his like closed eye and all the pictures
I'm looking at. He's got this one of the Creator. Yeah, yeah,
that's all.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
I think. That's just him taking funny pictures. He's kind
of funny.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
Oh, Lizzie McAlpine, is that who it is?

Speaker 2 (41:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (41:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Yeah, and uh yeah, Sabrina is the Espresso girl. Yessah. Yeah.
It's just so hard to keep up on the new
music nowadays. But Tyler the Creator came out with this
new album, so that's just constantly Again, booming. You gotta
stay up on what the cool kids are doing, you
know what I mean. It's it's just you gotta stay
up on it. If you don't, then you know, they'll

(41:48):
just leave you all behind. They'll just completely leave you
all behind. So we just kind of went off on
a music candate. So Sabrina only took off when she
adopted Taylor's enunciation. Hm hmm hmmm. I don't know that.
I just saw a video of Taylor leaving some sort
of award show and I think she was kind of tipsy,

(42:09):
which I thought was really really cute. That was really funny.
She's you know what, I don't. I don't know anything
about Taylor Smith except that she's a sweetheart and I
really like her music. So there you I don't even
get Okay, let's get back into the news that we
were talking about. But again, I'm just gonna end this
on one big note though, on the media conversation that

(42:29):
we were having. Whatever media that you like, you need
to support, Okay, so support it. That's all I'm gonna say.
There other's Taylor and Sabrina. Okay. So Taylor's really tall
that she asked either be sitting down I'm gonna see
how tall Sabrina Carpenter is. Sabrina Carpenter height. Yeah, she's
five feet tall. I'm five to one. She's shorter than me.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
Well, she must be standing on something, because you can
see where her hips start and Taylor's you can't even
see her hips begin.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
Yeah. Yeah, Sophie Ellis Rester. I don't think I've ever
heard Sophie Ellis Brexer. What does she sing? What is
she saying? Murder on the Oh, murder on the dance floor,
murder around the dance book. Yeah, I know, I know
the song. I would not have known that that was
the woman that sang it, though, but I know the
name of the song.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
Oh yeah, here's a better picture that showcases their height.
This is funny.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
This is like me and my best friend probably, yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah.
Sabena Carpenter is a shorty. I love it. I love it.
I love it. I love it. Yeah yeah, yeah, you know,
shorty shorty's have to unite. You know, there needs to
be more short people in this world. Absolutely, absolutely, do

(43:43):
you all got her? She does not have Diddy videos
for eleven? Who's four eleven? No, Sabrina Carpenter is not
four eleven, not at all, not at all.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
God have you seen? Not to change the subject, but
speaking of pictures and videos, have you seen this kind
of schmorgasbord of the Trump nominee for the Department of Education,
Linda McMahon.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
I think Vince McMahon's like wife or somebody, right, which
is a total S show, by the way, So I.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
Get that there is a theater, a theatrical aspect to
the WWE, Like I understand that.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
There is a show. I think on hold on, babe.
One channel is the McMahon documentary on So there's like
a documentary on Vince McMahon on Prime that we're dying
it so much. It's is just gonna be an S show.
So if you're wanting to know about Vince McMahon, I
think it's on Amazon Prime. Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
So there's this this video that is kind of like
this mashup of Linda McMahon slapping her children, her daughter,
her son, her daughter, calling her the B word and
slapping her down, and it's all from these you know,
like theater of the w w E, which is fine

(45:09):
if that's your jam, Like whatever she is and I
guess the question I have is.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
Is this the Department of Education secretary that you want?

Speaker 2 (45:19):
I'm an education secretary. This is like, this is the
person who you know? Should they not have? Should it
not be a good example to set for the children
of the country. Don't care?

Speaker 4 (45:31):
Just remember like you told me when I was a
little girl, this is gonna hurt me a lot worse
than it hurts you.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
There she is hitting her daughter. And here now is
the daughter then hitting her what I Countary of Education?

Speaker 1 (46:04):
Everybody, they're gonna get rid of the department caim, Why
do we care?

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Secretary?

Speaker 1 (46:09):
Want?

Speaker 2 (46:11):
And but you get the point. The point is in
my mind. And I'm not a WWE person. So maybe
you think this is funny, you're jokingest I get that,
But does it not? And maybe I'm just being the hysterical.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
It's a family business. It's the family business.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
Well it makes me feel like it's somehow normalizing or
making okay domestic violence having family members smack on each
other because these are obviously adult children, they're not little
kids hitting elders elder abuse like this type of violence.
I don't find this to be haha, funny, funny, This is.

(46:50):
I mean, I maybe this is why I'm not a
fan of WWE, and I don't get into that stuff,
but this it bothers me then to have this person
in a position of respect and authority when this is
the type of message they're putting out to the world.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
Phinnya says the best question though, for you? Has the
nation forgot that they elected a president that performs simulated
fallatio on national television? I mean, this is the bar, Kim,
this is the bar. I think that you have forgotten
the bar.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
No, it ends to anybody who lives in a trailer park.
But I feel like we had instead of Trump two
point zero, we're getting trailer park two point zero. Where
can I scrape the bottom of the barrel and find
the trashiest people? They don't care what is happening to America.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
Nobody cares about any of that anymore. It ever did.
Maybe we never did. Maybe we were only you know, like.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
When you go to a jury Springer, USA. That's exactly right.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
Here's the thing, Kim, And this is what I think
that And I'm not saying that this is true, but
I think that this might be what we actually need
to come to terms with one a couple of things. One,
we're a gigantic country, okay too. Maybe you know when
you go to a fancy dinner and you put on
a nice dress, right, you go to the fancy dinner,
You put on the nice dress, you put on the heels,
you put on the pearls. You go to the fancy dinner.

(48:11):
You try to remember to eat with the right fork
and the knife and the glass and everything like that,
and then you get home and you rip the brath
and you kick the shoes off. Like that's really America.
Like we were just faking that we were all nice
and we had manners, and maybe we just are like
not that classy most of America. I'm not saying all
of America, just maybe most people just they just resonate

(48:37):
more with the wwe. I'm not saying it's right. I
just think that more people might resonate and laugh with
that kind of stuff and it doesn't bother them. Right,
Maybe they're not bothered by simulated fallatio. Maybe they're not

(48:57):
bothered by locker room talk. Maybe they're not bothered by
things like that bother us. I think we need to
come to terms with that. Kim not saying it's right.
I'm just saying that. I'm just saying that this is
a gigantic country.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
So I guess being professional while you're serving the people
of America, making sure that you put out a message
that you want people to receive, being a good setting,
a good example.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
The Trump administration, I'm not saying all administration. I'm saying
this administration. Yeah, I don't think that they care. I
don't think that this administration and the people that voted
for them care. I don't. I don't think they care.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
I don't want this to be true. Chris. Chris writes,
the culture is changing. I don't feel like am I
am I the one that has to be, you know,
dragged into the future. I don't feel like the culture
is changing in a way that I am liking. I
want our culture to change where we're more accepting of
people who are different than us. I want our culture

(50:07):
to change though that we're not even questioning whether gay
marriage should be a right.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
I want our culture to change so that the first
trans person to be elected to Congress doesn't have to
start her term by talking about what bathroom she's going
to be using.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
And that hold, can we just talk about that real quickly.
I do think that she scored a gigantic victory by
being like fine, because Nancy Mays wanted to make it
a gigantic big deal and the best way of taking
the whole wind out of her sales was to be like, Okay,

(50:45):
I use my own bathroom and being like, this is
not why I came here is to argue about bathrooms. Fine,
I have my own bathroom. Like, I think that was
the smartest thing that she could have done. But again,
Nancy Mays and a lot of want to make these
type of issues their core issues, which is so stupid.

(51:05):
There are such bigger issues that this country has to
do that. But at the same time, I also wonder, like,
do you think that I still think she made the
right decision, But at the same time, like, did Nancy
Mace feel like she won something? I still think it
was the right decision, But does Nancy Mace feel like, see,

(51:25):
this is what we have to continue to do, is
just sticking to them, Like are we going to get
more and more of this? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
I understand a lot of America thought differently than I
and put trans issues at the top of why they
voted for Trump. Okay, so maybe I don't get it,
but half of America now because less than fifty percent
of people voted for Trump, which means he doesn't have
the mandate that he's trying to say that he does. Right,

(51:52):
So perhaps there are as many people as I do
who look at them and think they're utterly ridiculous and
one or how the business of America will get done
if this is the kind of thing they want to
focus on.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
I don't know, man, I just I just feel like
America as a whole. And somebody said it right here
with somebody was saying that, like we're devolving, and I
don't want to believe that we're devolving.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
We're culturally devolving, that's right. I feel like I want
to move forward with changes and acceptance, and it is
and I don't want to be Instead of going up,
we're getting flung down into the mud on a ditch
on the side of the road. Where is American culture?
What kind of classless, lame stuff are we getting dragged

(52:40):
down into? And I know that's not eloquent, my apologies,
but that's how it feels.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
I feel like we're I feel like it's an EBB.
Does that make sense? I feel like we are in this.
I just feel I don't want you to be disillusioned.
How would I say that? I feel like what I
said about the brawl off and the kicking off the shoes,
I wasn't trying to depress you about it. What I
was trying to tell you about was that that again,

(53:04):
there is a significant portion and because of how the
how the last election went is really what I'm just
kind of addressing. I think there's a significant portion of
this country that just doesn't give a shit about the
stuff that we care about. And I said this last time,
so I don't need to repeat myself, but I just
feel like they resonate more with that crap that we

(53:27):
just saw with that WWE and not necessarily that it
represents them. And I'm not even gonna go that far.
That then something that they don't care about issues, And
then it's not that it's just maybe they just don't
want to think about it, Maybe it makes them uncomfortable.
Maybe it's like they just they got tired of it.
You know. Sometimes I'm not giving them a pass and

(53:49):
I'm not making sure saying it's okay, but sometimes people
are like, you know, I just don't want to and
I'm not giving them. They just don't want to grow,
you know what I mean. Maybe maybe they're old, Maybe
they're just you know, not willing to make the growth.
Maybe it's just easier to stay stuck in your ways.
Maybe you also don't live with people like that. Right,

(54:10):
maybe your community is so the same. You live in
a white heterosexual community that is not diverse, so you
don't have to care, right, you don't have to care,
or it's not diverse, but they're not safe to come out, right,
So it is the same, homogeneous, It totally the same

(54:35):
as far as you know community, and why change that
liberal talk doesn't have anything to.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
Do with you. Right, there's a time and a place
for trash. You watch some trashy TV. I watch some
trashy TV. You know. People go to WWE whatever, do
your guilty pleasures and have a great time. But when
you're going to Capitol Hill, then we have honor and
tradition and respect for the American government, and the two

(55:06):
things shall not mix. This isn't the way I'm thinking.
But maybe I'm turning into an old lady kind of thinking.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
I don't know, Well, all I'm saying is with politics
being what they are, and how twenty four to seven
it is to run an election and to get re elected,
and the dark money and all the craft that is
in politics that we can't seem to get out. People
play the game constantly, and so yes, I think there's
some politicians that I like. I'd like to keep it highbrow,

(55:35):
but I have to be lowbrow if I want to
get re elected. You know what I mean. I have
to be trailer park so my trailer park people will
reelect me, or I didn't get reelected. They elected Boberts
and Greens and people like that I got. I didn't
get reelected because these Asenie people decided that these people

(55:55):
who haven't done jack shit for their district except people
in Washington, DC. I mean, what is the holy hell
has Marjorie Taylor Green done? Name one bill, one bill
that she's passed that's done anything good for Americans? Name?

Speaker 2 (56:15):
Did you see what? She came out either last night
or today and issued started throwing down threats to all
the Senators that are thinking of not confirming Trump's nominee.
As she said, just you wait, I have the dirt
on you. I know all the things that you've done.
So if you don't vote, if you don't fall in
line and vote to confirm for Trump, then I'll come
out and I'll reveal your dirty dealings.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
Yeah wow. I mean I think the only person that's
gotten anything out of Bobert was the guy that got
the hand job in that movie Theater. I mean, I
think that is the only person that's gotten anything from Bobert, right,
I mean, what are these people doing besides trying to
get into Trump's good graces. I don't even understand. I
don't understand how these people get reelected either unless they

(57:00):
identify something within them. I don't know. I just it
drives me crazy that these people are reelected but something
within them does And now Trump is scoring points. Yeah,
extortion and blackmail party exactly. And look at who is
electing I mean, uh, doctor Oz. I mean now like

(57:23):
Dave bon is it Bongino, Dan Bondino or whatever. It
is a laundry list of like loyalists and TV people.
I just it's an S show and I don't know
if these people are just it's like a shock in
awe and they're just going to be gone, just like
the last time where they'll be there for a couple
of months and then it'll be a laundry list of

(57:44):
people coming after. I have no idea now. Pam Bondie
is the new attorney general pick after Matt Gates. She
was Florida's attorney general. Not saying that that's a plus,
but at least she has experience. It's like, not saying
it's good experience, just experience. She is a woman. Like again,

(58:07):
I just you know, she's a loyalist to Donald Trump.
That's why she got elected. Whatever. You know, Matt Gates,
he's just gonna do whatever he's gonna do. Like I
mentioned at the beginning of the show, he's probably gonna
get his old job back. That's pretty much just what's
gonna happen. It is. I still think that Tulsi Gabbard

(58:27):
should be nowhere near national security secrets. I have no
idea why she is so these nominees. I don't understand
what Trump is doing, but we'll see. Yeah, Bondie, I
don't know much about her. Again, I've been trying to
read up on her since it's been announced. It was
just an announced today, so.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
Again to replace Matt's as the Attorney general pick I think.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
For body, yeah, BONDI is yeah, the to replace Gates.
So again he's he's making his picks and checking him
twice and we'll see who gets it. But I I
think a lot of people are are wondering what they're
going to do under another Trump presidency. Did you see
this headline? I saw this, You can spend the next

(59:12):
four years on a cruise ship to escape from reality.
Did you see this on CNBC? There's a cruise liner,
Viva Vy Residences is announced the Tour Levy program, which
offers people an opportunity to live a boarder ship for
the next four years. So basically you can just live

(59:36):
Trump's term on a cruise ship for like forty thousand
dollars a year.

Speaker 2 (59:41):
That's not that bad.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
A year. I mean, if you have forty k a year,
you can live. Now. They did say, you kind of
have to say it. Fifty three percent of American millionaires
said they were more likely to leave the US after
the election, And the guy said on we may have
differing political views, but our community comes together through our
passion for exploring the world in a very real way

(01:00:07):
that goes far beyond politics. So basically leave that crap
at home. The Skip Forward trip will include more than
four hundred twenty five ports in over one hundred and
forty countries across all seven continents, one hundred and sixty
k For you, now, if.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
You had access to Wi Fi and you had a
remote job that would allow you to work from anywhere, well, okay,
how do they have medical care on the boat? Does
it include there's a doctor, all inclusive restaurants.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
And you are healthy? Especially you were healthy? Sure? And
did you also see so Richard gear has said he's
going to be spending Thanksgiving at his new home in Spain.
He's leaving Hollywood with his wife because she gave him
seven years in the US, so he's out. He's going
to Spain. Ellen DeGeneres is moving to England after finding

(01:00:58):
out how she loved in the countryside with her wife
portion de Rossi. So she's out. That's two people. I mean,
I don't know if it's because of Trump, but you know,
I mean, honestly, would you leave? Where's the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
It's different for me because I have kids that are
in school, that are in there in their activities. I
would have to pull them from karate and band and
the youth orchestra.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
It happens in other countries.

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
Yeah, but you know it's kids make friends. You want
them to have the stable upbringing and a stable life.

Speaker 1 (01:01:34):
I don't know that it's a Trump presidency Kim.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
In California, perhaps, but this is awfully tempting. There's this
town in Sardinia, Italy. Do you see this one? Okay
sounds to me.

Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
Look at Look how clean the streets.

Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
Nobody there. They have like like a thirteen hundred.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
People they have, people live there.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
It's a declining population. There's the church there in Olaly, Sardinia, Italy.
They're offering homes the fixer uppers for about one hundred dollars.
What Okay, you buy the home. You might have to
pour some money into it to fix her up, okay,
and then you become a citizen okay, Italy and a

(01:02:20):
resident in Olaly, Sardinia, Italy.

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
Is there any.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
Well, no, there are no jobs, so you better come
with your remote work. Okay, you better come with you know,
ready to open up a business and hope that there's
enough people.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
Enough people.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
Yeah, so remote work is probably the way to go.
Or you're you've retired, you're independently, wealthy, whatever. But they
say they're going to give first priority to Americans who
are looking to get out of Trumpville. Okay, when they say,
you know, they've done this before. This is not the
first time they've tried to because they need people to

(01:02:59):
move there. They're population is dwindling and they need the money.
They've tried this before, but with this new, you know,
tactic of trying to convince people who are trying to
get away from the Trump years to go. They say
they've gotten forty thousand inquiries already. Oh wow, to get out. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
They said, a normal house there that that's not a
teardown or a fixer upper is about a little less
than one hundred thousand euro so it's like eighty three
thousand euros, so that it's still extra cheap to live there.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
Yeah yeah, look at that. Look at Trevor Trevors's. I
left the country when George W. Bush was elected, lived
in Manila until President Obama was in office. I wish
I could do it now. Wow, that's putting your money
where your mouth is. Yeah, you know what I mean.
Jennifers's I love Italy. I've been there many times, but
it's a little too close to Russia right for me

(01:03:52):
to think about living there these days.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
And that's the thing, is what's going to happen when
we stop helping Ukraine? Will they will they crumble and
falter Russia. Jesus, I know that President Biden is trying
to do things to shore up this fight, but still,
you know, then you have the danger of the where's
Putin gonna marched into next And there's nuclear threats heating

(01:04:16):
up between this country, you know, between Russia and Ukraine.
So Putin says he's got these small nukes he's going
to use. Where's the fallout for all the surrounding countries
there s.

Speaker 3 (01:04:27):
Yeah, that's just fabulous. Okay, let's not talk about that
in mere nuclear weapons. Well, you know, maybe it's a
good thing that I decided to put off Italy.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
But you know what's a funny side note is we
decided to do this cross country trip by car. And
I'm like, Jesus, I don't even know if I want
to go a hold across the country. I don't even
know if I want to go of California, Louise all
right to.

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
The east coast and check out the blue other blue
states on the other.

Speaker 1 (01:04:57):
Side, exactly exactly, all right, I have a couple of
Hollywood headlines. Did you hear this today? Jesse Smolett had
his conviction overturns. Did you hear about that?

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
It's this case that won't die?

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
This is the case so Jesse Smollett, you'll remember him.
He was the guy from Empire, which is the show
I actually watched a lot of until this happened. Jesse
Smollett said that some racist people Maga Country try to
put a noose around his head and said, this is
magic country, aren't you got F and N word from Empire?
And put a rope around his neck. And then people

(01:05:29):
said he staged it, that he actually hired people to
do it because he wanted attention. And then and then
he apparently he was he was He didn't have to
admit that he got that he did anything wrong or
that he staged it. He had to do community service, right,
but he did not have anything was wrong. And then

(01:05:51):
the case was taken up again, and that's when he
was apparently found guilty. Well, now the Supreme Court in
the States said that was wrong, that the case was
taken up again because he had already been given community service,
so that's what it was. Now here's the thing, though,
I just don't know. I don't know if they should

(01:06:11):
have taken up the game. I mean, I get I'll
say this, if you've already, like, if a jury has
already said community service, you don't have to omit faults
or whatever. And and what said is done. And then
another prosecutor says, you know that was bs and then
it goes back to a jury. I understand what he's saying,

(01:06:33):
but I don't. I don't. There was this op ed
and this was in the New York Post, and I
kind of agree with it a little bit. That's this
is the This is the last couple of lines that
are like Smoletta's gaslighting Americans by proclaiming his innocence despite
countless pieces of evidence against him and win his testimony
verifying his tale as hatred as a fable. The Illinois

(01:06:56):
state ruling wasn't based on the merits of his conviction,
and I'm American should remember this when he tries to
stage a comeback. He's not exonerated. He's dodging responsibility. And
I don't know, I feel like Smolette is going to
try to stand there and make a Hollywood comeback.

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
I do think there's something mentally wrong with somebody that
would do something like this, So I think he needs help.
I don't know if he got the help that he needed.
I do think that he was a good actor back,
you know, when he was doing Empire. It's a really
messed up thing to do. I don't know why he
did it. I really don't. It's just a really weird
thing to have back in the headlines. It is a
case like he was saying him that won't die, but

(01:07:35):
nobody believes that he didn't stage it, you know what
I mean. And his lawyer came out and was like, Jesse,
you know, this goes back that he's innocent. But no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no no, that is not what the Supreme Court in
Illinois said. They're just saying that it never should have
gone to the special prosecutor and all that stuff. Again.

(01:07:57):
It never was about the merits of the case. He
never said anything about that. It was just about the
fact that it should have never been brought up again
for him to be found guilty. I don't know. I
just feel like it's just dirty, dirty, dirty, and I
just feel like I don't think that he should have
a Hollywood career until he admits he lied and gets
the help that he needs.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
Well, I don't know why. If we're into trailer Park
two point zero, then I guess it doesn't matter what
you've done.

Speaker 1 (01:08:24):
I guess that it doesn't matter anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
Right, the laws you've broken, the examples you've set, the
lies you've told, none of it matters because America is
willing to embrace you and give you celebrity status.

Speaker 1 (01:08:36):
I just feel like if you I can't forgive, I
would be able to forgive him if he was like
I don't know what I was thinking. I wasn't in
my right mind. I don't know what I was thinking,
you know what I mean? Like, that's just it grows
to me that he would lie about something like that.
But I can't forgive him until he admits that he lied,

(01:08:57):
because he did. It's so obvious that he lied when
we have video of the guys buying the rope, you
know what I mean, and the connection like we know
that he lied, stop it, stop gas lighting us. So
until he does that, I can't forgive, and I'm willing
to forgive just that you lied. And if you can't
do that, be gone with you. Okay's just be gone.

(01:09:19):
Another thing that's really gross. Are you ready? I'm gonna
show you this picture. This is really gross to me.
And this I was having this conversation with if. I
always have conversations with myself in my head, especially what
we were talking about before, about like staying in the
country or moving to another country. Right sure, yeah, And
you know this whole idea of like America is the
best country in the world, and it's like or capitalism

(01:09:40):
is the best, you know, market system, and it's like really,
because you know, we live in a system in which
somebody paid all this money for this, and uh, it's
six point two million dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
I was so glad you have this story. I was.
I did this story before it was auctioned off. The
amount of money, the staggering amount of mine hates Branana
tape to a wall masquer reading as art is I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:10:05):
So pissed and I find it extremely gross. And this
is what's wrong with capitalism. Okay, So six point two
million dollars. This guy h e justin I guess he's
like this cryptocurrency guy Okay, He's like, I'm thrilled to
announce that I bought the banana. I'm Justin's son. I'm
excited to share that I have successfully acquired and he

(01:10:25):
uses the word successfully like you're a moron. But anyways,
successfully acquired Mauricio Catalanza iconic work, iconic work a comedian
for a six point two million dollars. This is not
just artwork. This is not just artwork. It represents a
cultural phenomenon that bridges the world of art, memes and

(01:10:50):
the cryptocurrency community. These are the words you tell yourself
when you overpay for a whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
Okay, And he doesn't look like that any more. It's
now a shriveled up, rotten banana with duct tape on.

Speaker 1 (01:11:03):
It exactly obviously, because a banana does not last so long.
He says, I believe this piece, like listen to these words.
I believe this piece will inspire more thought and discussion
in the future and will become a part of history.
No won't. It's gonna end up in the garbage. Well,
it's actually gonna end up in the stomach. I am
honored to be proud owner of the banana and look
forward to its sparking further inspiration and impact for art

(01:11:26):
enthusiasts around the world. Additionally, in the coming days, I
personally will eat the banana as part of this unique
artistic experience, honoring its place in both art history and
popular culture. Do you want to see the moment in
which he ate this stupid piece of banana or bought
this banana?

Speaker 5 (01:11:44):
Here it is, it's yours in case your mind. It's
all about globals and five minute two under thousand. Here
it goes at the end of the global two.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
It's slipping through the ocean.

Speaker 5 (01:12:02):
I've got a selling here.

Speaker 1 (01:12:05):
This is so stupid dollars. It's a room for a
little morons. I mean, it's a room full of morons.
I mean, so apparently it was by phone he bought it,
and there's the idiot right there. I mean, this is
a guy with too much money, and so six point

(01:12:26):
two million dollars is what he bought it for. And people,
So there was this famous anybody knows Tupaksha kor uh.
There's this famous interview that he gave where it was
and he was basically saying in so many words that
it's gross that there's so many people with so much money,
and there's people that can't feed their children. So he
gave this great like kind of monologue about it, and

(01:12:46):
that's the truth. And he was he was killed way
too young. But if you've never seen it, you should
google it. And so many people have said the same
thing in so many different ways. We live in a
society where two many people now have way too much
money and too many people have nothing, and we are

(01:13:07):
too okay with it, and the system is set up
that way. It's gross. It is gross that this guy
one thought that that was art, which is bullshit. I'm sorry.
He took a banana with duct tape on a wall
and he brainwashed himself in the thinking and that was art.

(01:13:29):
And that artist is laughing. I don't care what he
convinced himself of. It's not art. I don't care what
anybody tells me. That is a con. Coon, con, That
is a con. I don't care what anybody tells me.
It is not art. I don't care what kind of
load of bullshit you feed yourself. That is not art.

(01:13:51):
That is a con. It's the same as somebody like
throwing paint on the wall and being like it's off
because they said it is no con. That is a con. Anyways,
No bullshit, I don't care what you say. It's a
banana with duct tape on the wall. No, anyways, you
could disagree with me, that's fine. Anyways, six point two

(01:14:11):
million dollars. You know how many people could be helped
with that much money. Yeah, and the society we live
in says, oh, no, we as a society benefit with
the banana with duct tape on the wall. No, we
as a society have deluded ourselves, deluded ourselves in a
thinking that we as a society as a whole, benefit
more with tape and banana on a wall than feeding

(01:14:36):
people that are hungry with six point two million dollars.
That is gross and that is disgusting and you will
never convince me otherwise. So anyways, that's my that's my Like,
I'll get off my pedestal right now. That was gross.
That was so freaking gross.

Speaker 2 (01:14:52):
There is there is a you know.

Speaker 1 (01:14:57):
This Mackenzie is her nameless, she's awesome, awesome, by the.

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
Way, there's a yes, she is. There's saying about you know,
art is in the eye of the beholder. Who can
say what art is? And then I can't that's not art.
That's not art. Someone just mentioned this, Trevor. Literally, anyone
can tape a banana truel lalls, So if anyone can
do it, then it's not art, right. Yeah, I'm sorry, Josh,

(01:15:24):
make it meet the duct tape too.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
That's a good that's a good line. I'm just it's
just so gross. It's and I can't think of a
different word than gross. Yeah, thank you. It's just and
anybody that thinks that that And I love how people
are like, I want society or the community to benefit.
You've called yourself now or you haven't, but you're just
saying that because it's just stupid. Anyways, it's dumb. I'm

(01:15:51):
done like ranting. That's my little rant for the day.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:15:54):
And I have one more story. Have you seen Wicked?
My little play musical and I.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Can't wait to see it? Going to be amazing?

Speaker 1 (01:16:01):
Okay. I did ask Tim Sika, okay, and.

Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
He was embargoed until tomorrow so he couldn't talk about it.
But what he did say is that this is a
movie Wicked, that he thinks will be nominated for every
single category at the Oscars.

Speaker 1 (01:16:16):
Okay, I want to think to say okay apparently, and
I have never seen the play, which I shame on me.

Speaker 2 (01:16:25):
Art.

Speaker 1 (01:16:26):
By the way, if we want to talk about plays art,
you can't sing AMC.

Speaker 2 (01:16:33):
Yeah, like, let people listen to the movie.

Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
What do you think about that? I just think it's
so funny that AMC is like, shut your mouth, like,
don't even think that you are that good of a singer.
You are not Ariana Grande, you are not any of
these people. Shut your mouth, zipit. You are not going
to be This is not a Taylor Swift concert. We
are not going to try and make it like this.

Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:16:59):
I think it's kind of and I think I guess
there's like this announcement at the beginning of the movie
where they're like, don't even try it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
So yeah that there don't think And then there's a
sign and some of the some of the movies that says,
please refrain from singing. Uh huh when you get into
the theater. There will be a singalong version released on
December twenty fifth. Wow, there is a sing along version
of this movie coming out for those people that want
to wait and sing it. Otherwise, shut it eyehold, fill

(01:17:29):
it with popcorn, don't don't have a sound come out.

Speaker 1 (01:17:32):
Okay, that's a good Okay, Well, then that's a good
idea because you know what, I think they're gonna make
tons of money on that sing along because I was wondering.
I was like, well, that's gonna be a bummer. Because
my sister in law took her kids to see it
and she had posted on Facebook. She's like, I sang
quietly to myself, because I guess she's seen the plane.
She knows all the songs, and she's like, I sang quietly.
I also didn't realize that this is a two parter,

(01:17:54):
which kind of I hate that. I hate that, but
apparently as a two parter, so they're gonna well, he's
the second part at another time. I hate when they
do stuff like that. But apparently it's really really good. Yeah,
rocky horror, that's another one that's really fun. You've never
done that. That's always a good time. So anyways, I

(01:18:14):
really want to see Wicked. I've never seen the play,
so this is good. I'm a total virgin. We all
kind of stuff. You've never seen Wicked.

Speaker 2 (01:18:21):
Either, No, I haven't. I've heard the music before and I.

Speaker 1 (01:18:24):
Never heard the music. I'm a total newbie.

Speaker 2 (01:18:28):
So there's another movie coming out that I'm excited to see. Okay,
Malana Too. And I understand that this gives sequels a
good name. And a picture was just released showing Dwayne
the Rock Johnson in his costume for the movie.

Speaker 1 (01:18:46):
He is live action?

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
Yes it is? Oh well, I don't know if ma
Wana Too is live action or if they're just doing
a live action ma Wana. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18:59):
So wait a minute. Ma Wana was a cartoon.

Speaker 2 (01:19:01):
The Moana is a cartoon. I think ma Wana Too
is also a cartoon?

Speaker 1 (01:19:05):
Right? Why is he dressing But there's a well maybe.

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
It's am Wana live action. I don't know there's a
ma Wana live action coming out.

Speaker 1 (01:19:11):
That's what I know, okay, because I'm like, Rocky really
got into it. I'm like, he looks good. I mean,
there's the rock just dressing up eric As He's just
dressing up is Halloween.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
It's for a live action. No, it's a live action movie.

Speaker 1 (01:19:29):
It's a live action Mowanna. I like that one song
you know You're welcome, Yes, You're welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
There's a million good songs.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
I've only seen mo Wana I think twice in my
whole entire life. I'm not one of those people. I'm
not one of those people. So oh very oh he
looks kind of weird. Ohnday, isn't it. Well you should
have told me that then I just said it. Yes,
Oh I didn't hear you. Oh I love Zendaiya. I
mean I like the Rock that he's not one of

(01:19:59):
my favorites.

Speaker 2 (01:20:00):
Can that be good?

Speaker 1 (01:20:01):
Yeah? But the Rock is definitely not one of my
favorite actors, so he he. I don't dislike him. But yes,
the original a voice. Yeah I knew that. But okay,
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Speaker 2 (01:22:35):
Give you.

Speaker 3 (01:22:36):
Unless you're all so the best, I really can't.

Speaker 1 (01:22:42):
Rest you're all souls.

Speaker 3 (01:22:49):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:22:50):
Okay,