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April 14, 2025 • 16 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I don't think we can let go this this woman
in space story just yet. I was reading further and
it is just a it's a croc, it's a mess.
It makes no sense.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
First of all, one of the women in the sixth
group that going up to space includes the first Vietnamese
American to go to space.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
That's a big deal. Yeah, out Vietnamese American.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yes, and I would think the first vietname is a
woman of all, but still they wanted to be an American.
They've received a lot of attention for the gender of
its crew. It's the first all female journey except in
nineteen sixty three when the Russians did it, but it
was just one woman on a solo mission. I'm assuming
she lived. And we hate Russians, remember, Yeah, her name

(00:47):
was Valentina because she was a Russian. It's okay to
be racist against Russians. But one of the women is
Amanda Win. It says here she's a civil rights activist.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
And what exactly what activism? What is her activism accomplished? Exactly?

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Well, for some reason, she's going to be doing experiments
in space.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Now, this is the part that makes no sense. Experiments.
I'm why like misogyny on plants.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
One of the things they want to do is see
an experiment to see, you know, for future generations of
astronauts when when we're flat up there all the time
and probably stay and we need the plants to grow.
So the civil rights activist is going to conduct experiments
in space. One of the things they're working on is
how fast plants grow. Now, the whole trip takes eleven minutes,

(01:35):
very little of that time is actually in space, and
how much time.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Does she have to see how fast plants grow. Well,
she's going to try to figure out if the plant
is more transphobic when it's in space. They're going to
show the plant a photo of a theay them and
if the plant cringes or giggles, then they'll know that
space doesn't actually affect transphobia. I see. Yeah, makes no
sense at all.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Also, NASA has banned women from space in the past.
Really yeah, they barred women from becoming astronauts early on
smart The.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Reason what menstruation.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
They didn't think it'd be good for women to be
up in space and to start menstruating.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Were they worried about bear attacks or something?

Speaker 1 (02:23):
But they said they had no data to back that
up that it would be bad for space or for women.
So part of the civil rights activists' experiments will also
be gathering data to refute the menstruation argument.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
So they wait till they were all synked up, or because.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
They've all been out in Van Horn, Texas, all hanging
out for a week, getting a little bit of training,
you know, like how to put your seat belt on,
because it's complicated. It's not like a car. These things
go over both shoulders, so it could be tricky.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Oh God, watch.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Plants grow and study menstrual cycle habits for women.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Also, how the suits.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
That they've completely redesigned with help from Oscar de la
Reni's team, how those suits handle moisture? Not sure moistures
are the biggest problem in space.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Oh God, please don't make me be the a hole
who has to point this out. Somebody has to do it. Guys.
They're trying to figure out how menstruation. Gail King is
on the trip. She's seventy, Laurence Sanchez is fifty five.
Do I really have to be the a hole that
points this out? Are any of them still menstruating at
this point? I don't know. God, I don't want to
be the one.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Oh and this space mission has drawn scorn from critics
like actress Olivia Munn. And I know we all think,
you know, I better check with Olivia mun see what
she thinks about this space trip before we move forward.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Boy, I sure hope so too. What does Olivia mun think?

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Well, she thinks it's a bit of extravagant considering all
the problems we have here on Earth. We should be
spending our money in our efforts solving our Earth problems,
not going to space on joy rides.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Oh God, Olivia montn't make me defend this. Well what
if I told you we can do both? Oh? What
if I told you that this actually doesn't matter. It's
not going to affect anything. It's not preventing any problems
from getting solved, nor is it solving any problems.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Is this costing taxpayer money? I mean, I'm sure there's
some involved, but ain't me tho so paying for the thing?

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Probably some subsidies or something. I think we have a
lot of subsidies for the space industry because and I
don't have an issue with that. I mean, honestly, there
is a value to this. I think society benefits from
intergalactic exploration, building rocket ships and spaceships. I could see
how that's beneficial. Learned something. It is Olivia mun old
enough to menstrate, maybe we could get her on the thing.

(04:54):
I don't think she'd go if is there are any
of them young enough to menstrate, because otherwise that experiment's
not gonna work. What are the odds that they're menstruating
right now and that they can How quick can they start?

Speaker 1 (05:06):
And how fast can a plant grow when you're in
space for forty five seconds? Maybe I'm gonna watch it
real quick? Damn it, now they're not in space. Shame
Does the menstruation affect plant growth?

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Oh boy?

Speaker 1 (05:20):
There's so many questions. That's why we're going Yea to
find out.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Well, speaking of space exploration, there's another guy who's kind
of famous for doing this. He's a little better for
the record at space exploration. No no offense, Jeff Bezos.
But Jeff Bezos put his girlfriend on a rocket ship
and center up to space for ten minutes.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Do you think he's just tired over and he's just thinking, well,
you know, see what happens.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Do I think that I? I don't know. I think
would be the word I would have chosen this. Yeah,
I would imagine that, Yes, definitely, But I'll have being
said Elon Musk, he's the guy that's maybe a little more,
a little better at this and that's okay. Elon hasn't
been real vocal lately about space so much as he
has been about DOGE. I mean, he's still doing SpaceX.

(06:03):
That hasn't slowed down at all. But over the last
week the guys at DOGE started focusing their attention on
the IRS. The Department of Government Efficiency decided it was
time to figure out if the IRS was as efficient
as it could be.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Oh, I'm sure it is. Sounds like, you know, one
of those government run groups that's going to be just
right down, efficiency to the bone.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
For those of you that get a W two, you
probably won't understand what I'm about to say. But to
our many listeners who are contractors, small business owners, people
with a ten ninety nine, you already know. When you
go to the IRS website four years the login button
was in the strangest place. I never logged in. Only

(06:46):
you've never logged. You don't pay your taxes online? How
do you pay your tax now?

Speaker 1 (06:50):
I write a chick. Oh really, I like to put
a chick in the mail on the last day. Tomorrow's
last day. By the way, if you'll make it by
the fifteenth, you can file for an extension. But they said,
if you owe money, you're still supposed to send it to
do it. What's point of an extension if you have
to pay.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Well, I could talk about that for a long time,
but I go back to your report on the website.
Thank you very much. He's not a website guy. Okay,
the IRS website for a long time, for years, for
as long as I've been going to their website, which
is over a decade, had the sign and button halfway
down the screen in the middle. Well, I know that
ain't right. Supposed to be its top right. So somebody

(07:28):
from Doge asked the IRS employees why it was this way,
and an IRS engineer explained it would just take months
for us to fix that, so we never bothered moving
the login button to the top of the screen. Really months,
So an En, one of the guys at Doge, was
able to get it done in a little more than
an hour, about seventy one minutes. Yeah, he did it

(07:50):
in less than a d I mean less than a day.
He did it in less than an afternoon. There are
people at the IRS that were just baffled by this.
They're like, how on earth did you just move the
logged button like that?

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Aren't all of Elon's doge people like the super genius
computer Internet, high tech alien creatures or something.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
That's what has been claimed that all of these guys
are computer programmers and data scientists who are very good
at evaluating and analyzing, among other things, unnecessary operational procedures,
waste fraud, identifying the So they're very good at accountants
and computer programmers, and they were able to get this
done almost immediately. What does that say about the average

(08:31):
government employee, Dunderhead. I think you're being nice cred for
snow on her wedding day. Yes I did. It was
thirty two degrees and no snow on my wedding day.
But I had eight answers on my honeymoon. Stay tuned
for more. Waltman Johnson did what are you guys talking about? Mister?

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Reminds me that we have a lot of emails about
women traveling the space to share. I don't know if
you guys are over the win in space by the way,
it's nine thirty Eastern eight thirty Central time. You ever
try to get six women out of the house and
on the way to anything on time, don't do it
is gonna at least be a half hour late. Be careful, Pilly.

(09:17):
That's too much truth for terrestrial radio. I don't know
if people can handle all that truth.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
One of the mails was about women in space.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
They said, these women going up on this rocket ain't
no different from your date sitting in the passenger side
of your car. They are passengers, not crew. A man
is paying for everything, just like on that date.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
They're not even driving the spaceship. No, They're just gonna
sit in cute outfits and they do look they are
very very fashion forwards former flattering for figure flattering, which attorney.
They look good? And then it's the point and there's
a little zipper there for cleavage.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
You know, who should have studied how fast plants grow
in space?

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Is that that got left up there for like nine
ten months?

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Really, now they could have studied plant growth, because in
nine or ten months they could have had like a
full grown tree. They was just stranded up there for
all that time. But these ladies are gonna be a
space for about sixty seconds, right, and that's about it.
I don't know how fast anything can grow, or or
how fast they can, you know, do what it is

(10:23):
they do at a peculiar Also when you celebrate women,
but something that only women do is called men straight.
Oh no, mister, I've always thought that was probably a
bad name. You know, a woman should be woman straightened.
You know you're right about that.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Maybe they call it men straight because they hate it
and they hate us.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Is that possible, or because a man was the doctor
who named it.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Isn't it interesting how women will say they want a
guy that will take charge, but then when you do
take charge, they don't like it. I mean, it's true,
it is the way. We've also been looking at the
irs doing a deep dive into operational procedures. It's good
time for it, tomorrow being the fifteenth and all. Sure,
I just paid my quarterly taxes after we looked at

(11:11):
what you just did it right here? Yeah, just now,
you just paid your taxes. Well, Elon Musk made it
easier with the logging button and everything.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Were you alive when they used to do stand up
news stories every year? On April fifteenth from the post office,
like whatever city you're you know, the central post office.
They would have a team of reporters, some outside covering
the line of cars, some inside by the delivery the
box where you pet to put it, and they'd be
interviewing people. Why'd you wait till the last minute? You know,

(11:40):
blah blah blah, all that kind of stuff. Now people
still wait till the last minute. It's just not news anymore.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Okay. Well, if you're one of those people that waited
till the last minute, and you need help from an
IRS agent because you have something complicated you need to
fill out, we can help explain to you how to
get an IRS agent on the phone. And I'll tell
you right now if you need help with this, get
a pen right now.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Okay, you're not going to remember all of what I'm
about to say. Well, it's just getting a part. Well,
getting a human on a phone these days can be
a little tricky. What what do we need to do?

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Okay, Billy'd start off with this call one eight hundred
and eighty two nine ten right, ten, ten forty. Yeah,
that's cute, that's a finny phone number. The first question,
the automated system will ask is your language. That's pretty simple.
Choose your language right after you've chosen your language, do
not choose option one regarding refund info. Choose option two
for personal income tax right next, press one for form

(12:34):
tax history or pain. Just press two now I'm pressing one.
That's correct. Okay. Then you got to press three for
all other questions. What then press two for all other questions? Okay,
so two one three two, that's correct. When the system
asked you to enter your social Security number or your
your tax number to access your your account information, do
not enter anything.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Wait, don't no, don't it when it asks you to do,
do not.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
If you want to get someone on the phone, do
not put okay, because I'm trying to get a human.
After it asked twice, you will be prompted with another
menu when you get When you get to that menu,
press two for personal or individual tax questions. Okay, it
was language and the two to one two three two
language one one three two which one? Then don't enter

(13:21):
social security number, no number right two. Don't review all
the stepshat because there's still some more coming up here.
You're gonna get That was just step nine. There's more okay,
So then you're press two for all other personal individual
tax questions. Finally, press three for all other queries. The
system should transfer you to an agent if one is available,
which they certainly will not be up thought you're supposed

(13:42):
to press zero if you wanted a human. No, that
would not get you a person.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Oh and and sometimes when when pray Lean's on the phone,
because I don't like to do those calls, she'll just
talk to it. She'll just go, uh, human. I don't
think it ever works because she keeps saying it like
eight nine times. That is adorable, John Operator. Uh what
else could I say to it?

Speaker 2 (14:06):
That? Will? You know?

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Because artificial intelligence understands you when you tell it what
to do. Huh, I want to talk to a real person.
We hang up and go talk to somebody at your house. Yeah,
I don't think it's gonna work like that.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Unfortunately, if if you want to get a person on
the phone, you probably shouldn't have called the IRS. It'd
be my advice. I don't know if there's really really
no way to wrap your mind around that.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Do you not use an accountant, a certified public accountant?

Speaker 2 (14:35):
I do? Yeah, Okay, well then let them do it. Yeah,
I'm not the one that has to do this, but
someone that's somebody you pay. I learned a long time
ago that having an IRS, having an accountant is probably
the smartest way to go because even just little things
like you might be paying too much, or you might
not be paying enough. There could be a thing you're
not writing off that you should be. There could be
a thing you are writing off that you shouldn't be.

(14:57):
I have a very conservative tax guy that gives me
my advice. Yeah, and I'm probably paying a little more
than I should. But still I'd rather do that than
get audited or go to jail. You don't want when imprisons, now,
do you. I looked at my naked ass in the
mirror over the weekend and it occurred to me, I
don't ever want it to be in prison. I don't
you do that too? But what I'm sorry?

Speaker 1 (15:20):
What? Hey?

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Did you know that there's chaos right now? No? I
didn't notice. Yeah, there's a lot of chaos happening right now.
I woke up this morning and I didn't see any
but there must be chaos. Listen to all these TV
news people and late night comedians, they all got the memo.
They all got the memoi in this hour. With the chaos.
The average American sees chaos. The American people see chaos.

(15:44):
It's total chaos. You brought chaos.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's just complete chaos.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Least an economic chaos, say, unleased chaos. They are creating chaos.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
This chaos. There's so much chaos, total chaos that amidst
the chaos and chaos. For seeing all the chaos, the
chaos he is unleashed on America.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Continue to see the chaos, economic chaos. A lot more
chaos trumps chaos.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
This is chaos with such chaos, the chaos because of
this chaos, chaos, of this chaos.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Uncertainty and chaos.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Given all that chaos, when it's chaos, all the chaos,
chaos and confusion grows more chaos, dysfunction.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
The chaos is the purpose. The chaos is the goal.
It's chaos.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
If you tune it every morning, baby, you laar them
on your way to work.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
K Webster billion got that charm in Southern all right,
Stay tuned for more. Waltman Johnson
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