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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eighty percent tariffs on China. Trump's gonna lower the tariffs,
he says. Eighty percent seems about right.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It seems like it'd be about right. But we're not
going to lower them unless they do some things for
us too. Right now, it's that one hundred and forty five.
You want eighty, well, you gotta play ball. China, China, China, China.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Well, that'll happen over the weekend. We'll talk about that
on Monday. I'm sure if it does work out. Also,
it looks like Trump is negotiated a ceasefire between Russia
and Ukraine. We just don't know how long the ceasefire is.
Thirty days are three days?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Hmmm.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I'm so glad you're reminded me of this. Part of
my morning show prepper regimen includes listening to foreign news.
I've been trying to make a habit out of this.
So this morning I get up, I listen to the
news broadcast from the BBC in the Al Jazeera, right,
and they're two conflicting news outlets for foreign news right
this ideologically culturally, and they both report the news like this.
I'll give you the ill you know, I'll make it
(00:57):
quick for you. BBC comes on and they go notes,
Ukraine and Trump want a thirty day ceasefire, but Putin
doesn't want it yet. There will hopefully he'll agree, they're
not he hasn't agreed yet. What's Putin's problem? And then
you flip over to Al Jazeera and they report it
like this. Putin is out celebrating right now the eightieth
anniversary of defeating the Nazis and which he was yet
(01:19):
and he wants a three day ceasefire, but Zelensky won't
agree to it.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, technically, it's true on the surface truth Zelenski didn't
agree to a three day But anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
If you can agree to a thirty day ceasefire, can
we at least agree to the three day for the
time being?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Well, they do that, you know, somewhere in the middle,
you know, like what about fifteen seventeen days.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Something like that.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I'm with you, I'm with it, I'm with it, whatever
kind of ceasefire or peace. Do you think the Korea, Korea,
Ukraine and Russia will still be at war when Trump's
term is over in three and a half plus more years.
Probably not, So that means Trump will have probably had
something to do within the net War during his time
(02:05):
as president.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Part two.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
But will anybody in the media tell you that he
did anything right, that that he put an end of
that war.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Oh? They They can't even make it sound like agreeing
on a trade deal with the UK is good.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You guys just got done telling us how terrible the
tariffs are, how awful they are, and how badly you
want them to go away. And now Trump in the
UK have reached a deal, and you guys are immediately
hating on it, just defecating on it, telling us that, oh,
this is just proof that Trump's absolutely a stupid idiot.
This isn't even good news. Who cares. You just said
(02:40):
you wanted this, Now you're getting it right and you
don't like it. I have a question about Governor Youngkin. Yes,
you in the rear. That's not no. Oh wait, that's
not definitely in the front for me. I'm not sure
I didn't get that road like, I'm not even sure
I get the joke anymore. Okay, Governor Glenn Youngkin has
been doing a pretty good job in Virginia. I don't
dislike him, but he just signed a very controversial Billy
(03:03):
yesterday involving social media for miners, not the kind that
go after coal Billy yet, but under each Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Okay, and basically if you they don't even get a
signal down there in them coal mine.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Not without Wi Fi, No, no, not without starlink. If
you live in Virginia, the amount of time your child
could be on social media will.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Soon be limited by the law.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Is that a little bit of a government overreach?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I have mixed feelings about this. Beginning next year, miners
under the age of sixteen will be banned from using
social media for more than.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
One hour a day.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Here's Jen Goldback, a professor at the University of Maryland,
weighing in on how she feels about it. Remember he's
a Republican and she works in academia. So I think
we're starting to draw lines here.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
I don't know if I see it being effective. Honestly,
kids are very clever at getting around these, and you know,
I totally understand that. Like, what are you going to
do if you're a platform and a twelve years old,
fourteen year old signs up and says they're twenty five? Like,
are you going to require ID from everyone? Who signs
up for your platform. Probably not. If you take those
(04:07):
platforms away, what they're going to do is find other
platforms that are outside the bounds of what this law covers.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You're not gonna believe this, But when I was a teenager,
I was a nerd and I got and this was
the nineties, so not everybody was, you know, tech savvy
back then. But I was on the internet and I
was really into computers, and I got grounded for basically
using the computers to cause trouble and have it at
my public school.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It's you're grounded by the mayor or the governor. Mom
and dad, Wait, you have parents?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I have parents.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Do any of these kids that they're talking about now
and this, do any of them have parents?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Probably? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Huh So, Well, if kids are good at getting around
the law and the rules, shouldn't parents maybe get involved
in some way?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Well yes, but actually I'm immediately going to disprove my
own point here. Well, I do agree with that what
I did was and this was the nineties, dial up modems.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I ran a phone line.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I went to Radio Shack, which used to be my
favorite store when I was a teenager. It doesn't even
exist anymore. And I got a really long, like one
hundred foot telephone cable, and I ran it out my
window ump a tree, you know, out in suburbia, through
the woods, down a tree, down into the woods, where
there was another spot where I could plug into a
phone line for my parents' fax machine out in the
(05:25):
back of the house. And so my parents didn't know
I was connected to the internet until they did find out.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
And then of course I got into more trouble.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Where'd you plug it? Flax machine in out in the woods?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
The fax machine line, it's a gray box outside of
your your I don't even know if these exist anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Wait, this line goes way off into the woods, right,
But the fact machine is plugged into the house.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
The phone line for the fax machine connects to a
gray box outside the house.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Does that make sense, Billy? Yet? It was a very
very intricate complex.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Far away as you've described it, like you're wondering for days,
like handling grid all through the woods following this little
phone line.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
No, I had to get the phone line to sort
of disappear out into the woods, so then I could
bring it back somewhere else circle back right. Otherwise my
dad would see it when he was out in the yard.
You know how dads are like. Because we lived on property,
we were kind of it was sort of country suburban.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
We were like to run over the line with the lawnmower.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Well, that's the thing. My dad would get up every
day and he would walk the perimeter of the yard.
Oh really, because we were out in the like a.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Warden or a security guard or something.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
My uncle does this too. We it was suburbia, but
it was country suburbia. So we had several acres out
in the woods. And Dad would walk around to see
if one of his traps went off at night, or
you know, the groundhog traps, or must see what happened
out there in the forest, or you know, any damage
down to the deers eat.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
The flower bed or whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And so it was kind of traps that would cut
the varmut's head off when they stuck it in the trap.
Or was it one of those kinder jitler traps where
he would release him further into the forest so that
he could scamper about with his young friends.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Let me see if I could find a picture of it.
It was one of these things eaten answer mole trap
that's what it was. That's a head chopper. Good deal,
that's the kind you should use. Yeah, way more fun
the mult Yeah, the mole comes crawling along because they're
just blind as a mole, and they just kick their
head out and they're, you know, digging in your yard.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Dads really really hate them messing up the yard. And
then that thing just snaps cuts its head right off.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Do you see what he did? Just did mister Kenneth.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
He's so used to his redneck vernacular that he just
said the mole was as blind as the mole.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Well he is. How much blinder can you get? I
say this.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Calls for action, and now nip it in the bud.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
First sign of youngster's going wrong, You got to nip
it in the bud.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Nip it.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Stay tuned for more. Waltman Johnson.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
We're gonna take a look at how Mother's Day has
changed since the sixties.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, I bet it has.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But first, isn't it weird how like racists on both
sides are using crowdfunding websites to fight the culture war?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It is weird. I've noticed that.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
They gave all this money to Carmelo Anthony, half a
million dollars because he stabbed a white kid at a
high school up in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Didn't give him the money because he stabbed I mean,
not to encourage that kind of behavior.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I agree to disagree, but you know, just saying I
don't know if I's.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Just not promote stabbing white children. I kind of think
any I try to think that is why people gave
him money.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
For the record, that's my opinion. That's fine. Then there
was this white lady, some.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Blonde woman with a bunch of tattoos, who was calling
an autistic child the N word on a playground while
some Somalian guy was filming it.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Not just any Simalian guy, a convicted pedophile, that's what
they say. Yeah, and people got more upset with her
using a you know, an insulting term than a pedophile
on a playground, and they gave her that might have
been a bigger problem.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And they gave her a half a million dollars. You
know what that tells me, that black guy, he didn't
have to kill anyone. He could have got that money,
and all you had to do was say the N word.
It's not as hard as you think, guys.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, but he would have had to call the white
kid the inward.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, you're right, it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, I don't think he would have got anything for that.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And then there's Luigi Mangione, raised over a million dollars
for shooting a United Healthcare worker.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Even more importantly, he's got his own musical coming out soon.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
So I know somewhere out there, I think there's a
person listening right now, whether they like us or hate us,
that probably donated money to one of the three people
we just said.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
There has to be someone listening that's kind of upset,
and I care for it.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
My question for that person would be why, why why give.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Money to these people? There's so many better things.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Give money to wheelchairs for Warriors dot Org wheelchairs for
you can write it off on your taxes and you're
helping a disabled military veteran.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Or give give the money to some racist or a murderer.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I don't don't quite understand it, just like I don't
understand the evolution of one of the most important fake
holidays in America, every Mother's Day. I bet we all
get a little nostalgic. Billy d Yeah, what do you mean, Well,
you remember all the good times with your mom back
in the day.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well sure, yeah, But then as you get older and
you get married and you have kids, and then Mother's Day,
your responsibility is for the wife. Use the kiddo's aren't
going to do a good job. I'm giving a I'm
giving Preleen what she likes for Mother's Day this Sunday.
I'm gonna watch softball today and tomorrow and then Sunday.
It's all about Pralean.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
What does she like?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
She likes it when I stay out of the house,
gonna be out in the yard, working in the shop,
you know stuff. She won't see me all day.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And what would you be doing if it was in
Mother's Day?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Probably bothering her? Probably, oh okay, wondering why she ain't
got breakfast on the table yet, be come in, biscuits
ain't ready, you know, Billy had.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Mother's Day's changed the lots. It's the nineteen sixties. In fact,
it's changed a lot since Woodrow Wilson was president. He
declared the first Mother's Day an official holiday sort of. Anyway,
we have this old film strip that we found and
did you bring in.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
The real real players a wired projector?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah? Yeah, And it's wired up to the board. Here,
good to go. Yeah, okay, hang on here, turn it
on for a minute. Hit that sweat.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Reach Mother's Day weekend, he can look. There's little Susie.
She's making a handmade Mother's Day greeting card with construction
paper and crayons. Looks like she's been eating some of
the figes too. And here's Timmy. He made Mom a
ceramic ashtray in art class because he knows she loves
(11:31):
her Virginia slimbs. And there's Ball. She's celebrating her special
day by click cleaning the house, doing the laundry, and
cooking everyone dienter. Oh, Dad was too busy playing golf
with his boss and totally forgot to get mom a gift.
Racks like he'll be sleeping on the couch for a walk.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Wow, look at the impression. Mother's Day actually hasn't changed
that much since the nineteen sixties. No, I don't think so,
I Dan corrected. There's this dude on the internet and
he's an outdoorsman and apparently he cashed in his four
to oh one K so he could buy a boat,
and now him and his cat are riding around the
world on the boat.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And there's this video of him.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
You think that cat is back up in case he
runs out of his food stock.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I do, I do think that. Yeah. Anyway, there's a
video of him narrating this.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
Day eight of sailing with my cat from Oregon to Hawaii.
Today mark's the first day since I've changed clothes. I
saw dolphins, which is amazing. And also, for those of
you that are new here, because I think I got
a lot of new followers, I'm the guy who quit
his job, liquidated his four oh one k, sold everything
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except for my cat to buy a boat and sail
around the world. And I want to use my platform
to talk to you guys about my political opinions. Yeah. Also,
if you ever meet me in person, just be very
aware that I am socially awkward and I will bring
weird energy and I will be uncomfortable also painfully nice.
(13:05):
So uh yeah, here's the dolphins.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Dolphins right there.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Oh well, he's really excited about those dolphins.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I was about to say, he's been on that boat
eight days and he's still excited about seeing dolphins. And
he said he was going to sail around the world.
He's sailing from Oregon to Hawaii. Well, that's his first trip.
I think I don't think he's gonna make it.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
How come? What makes you think so? He don't look like.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
A guy who knows how to sail much less from
Hawaii to Hawaii, but especially around the world he'll be
I don't think he's gonna live much longer. To be
honest with you, it's just me. I'm just saying I
don't have a lot of faith in him after just
watching that little video.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Look, I wish no harm on the guy, but if
you can bet on who today, I wish And I'm
just saying, if you could bet on it's gonna make it.
If you can bet on who, the next pope's gonna
be billied and you can. Do you think you could bet?
I mean, now we know, but do you think you
could bet on whether or not that guy makes it?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Probably?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Is there a website somewhere? How is he he cashed
it as furrow one k. He looks like he's thirty.
I was gonna say, how much how much could he
have saved?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Is it even six figures? At this point? I mean,
what has he got there?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Well, then he bought that boat, did he have enough
money for lessons? On sailing.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I don't know, it's interesting because I think I saw
a book.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, it's like Sailing for Dummies that he had in
his backpack.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I wonder if his social media accounts are monetized so
he can earn cash. He said that he's gonna be
on social media talking about his political opinions, and I
gotta think if you don't agree with his opinion is
I don't know, maybe he was just saying that.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Just kidding about those political opinions.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yeah, but that is how the internet works. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah. Anyway, if you're anything like us, you know, Mother's
Day comes, but once a year in Father's Day doesn't
even really exist.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
It's a blip on the radar, barely. He's still doing that, Yeah,
not really.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah, it's sometime later in the year, but it's not
this weekend. And that's all you need to know.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
So that's what you're doing for Mother's Day? What are
you doing there, mister Kenneth, he got any big plans?
Bron brunch with who your mom?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Actually, Mother's Day is a good day to stay out
of the restaurants around brunch time because you know a
bunch of kids running around you.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
You could go on Sunday. Actually it's a it's a tomorrow.
It's a tough day for waitresses. I met Saturday. I'm sorry.
It's a tough day for waitresses because kids want to
pay the bill and then they don't tip anything.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah, hey, if your good parent knows to, you know,
look that over.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
If you're a young person right now and you're gonna
buy your mom brunch this weekend and then, uh, you know,
like tip, you're not You didn't really pay for it
if you didn't tip the waitress. You know what I mean?
You say, Oh, no, it's cool, I got enough money here. No,
you might be ruining someone's day, young man. Just something
to think about there, boy, I wonder what John would say.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Don't forget boys and girls to eat it every day.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
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Johnson podcast. Good for you. That means you listened all
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Speaker 2 (15:53):
Does that mean we're going away now never to be
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Speaker 1 (15:56):
No, no, no, there will be a new show tomorrow.
Oh thank goodness, unless it's the weekend or we're off work.
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Chances are we're just sitting around waiting to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
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Eighty percent tariffs on China. Trump's gonna lower the tariffs,
he says. Eighty percent seems about right.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It seems like it'd be about right. But we're not
going to lower them unless they do some things for
us too. Right now, it's that one hundred and forty five.
You want eighty, well, you gotta play ball. China, China, China, China.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Well, that'll happen over the weekend. We'll talk about that
on Monday. I'm sure if it does work out. Also,
it looks like Trump is negotiated a ceasefire between Russia
and Ukraine. We just don't know how long the ceasefire is.
Thirty days are three days?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Hmmm.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I'm so glad you're reminded me of this. Part of
my morning show prepper regimen includes listening to foreign news.
I've been trying to make a habit out of this.
So this morning I get up, I listen to the
news broadcast from the BBC in the Al Jazeera, right,
and they're two conflicting news outlets for foreign news right
this ideologically culturally, and they both report the news like this.
I'll give you the ill you know, I'll make it
(00:57):
quick for you. BBC comes on and they go notes,
Ukraine and Trump want a thirty day ceasefire, but Putin
doesn't want it yet. There will hopefully he'll agree, they're
not he hasn't agreed yet. What's Putin's problem? And then
you flip over to Al Jazeera and they report it
like this. Putin is out celebrating right now the eightieth
anniversary of defeating the Nazis and which he was yet
(01:19):
and he wants a three day ceasefire, but Zelensky won't
agree to it.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, technically, it's true on the surface truth Zelenski didn't
agree to a three day But anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
If you can agree to a thirty day ceasefire, can
we at least agree to the three day for the
time being?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Well, they do that, you know, somewhere in the middle,
you know, like what about fifteen seventeen days.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Something like that.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I'm with you, I'm with it, I'm with it, whatever
kind of ceasefire or peace. Do you think the Korea, Korea,
Ukraine and Russia will still be at war when Trump's
term is over in three and a half plus more years.
Probably not, So that means Trump will have probably had
something to do within the net War during his time
(02:05):
as president.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Part two.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
But will anybody in the media tell you that he
did anything right, that that he put an end of
that war.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Oh? They They can't even make it sound like agreeing
on a trade deal with the UK is good.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You guys just got done telling us how terrible the
tariffs are, how awful they are, and how badly you
want them to go away. And now Trump in the
UK have reached a deal, and you guys are immediately
hating on it, just defecating on it, telling us that, oh,
this is just proof that Trump's absolutely a stupid idiot.
This isn't even good news. Who cares. You just said
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you wanted this, Now you're getting it right and you
don't like it. I have a question about Governor Youngkin. Yes,
you in the rear. That's not no. Oh wait, that's
not definitely in the front for me. I'm not sure
I didn't get that road like, I'm not even sure
I get the joke anymore. Okay, Governor Glenn Youngkin has
been doing a pretty good job in Virginia. I don't
dislike him, but he just signed a very controversial Billy
(03:03):
yesterday involving social media for miners, not the kind that
go after coal Billy yet, but under each Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Okay, and basically if you they don't even get a
signal down there in them coal mine.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Not without Wi Fi, No, no, not without starlink. If
you live in Virginia, the amount of time your child
could be on social media will.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Soon be limited by the law.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Is that a little bit of a government overreach?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I have mixed feelings about this. Beginning next year, miners
under the age of sixteen will be banned from using
social media for more than.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
One hour a day.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Here's Jen Goldback, a professor at the University of Maryland,
weighing in on how she feels about it. Remember he's
a Republican and she works in academia. So I think
we're starting to draw lines here.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
I don't know if I see it being effective. Honestly,
kids are very clever at getting around these, and you know,
I totally understand that. Like, what are you going to
do if you're a platform and a twelve years old,
fourteen year old signs up and says they're twenty five? Like,
are you going to require ID from everyone? Who signs
up for your platform. Probably not. If you take those
(04:07):
platforms away, what they're going to do is find other
platforms that are outside the bounds of what this law covers.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You're not gonna believe this, But when I was a teenager,
I was a nerd and I got and this was
the nineties, so not everybody was, you know, tech savvy
back then. But I was on the internet and I
was really into computers, and I got grounded for basically
using the computers to cause trouble and have it at
my public school.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It's you're grounded by the mayor or the governor. Mom
and dad, Wait, you have parents?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I have parents.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Do any of these kids that they're talking about now
and this, do any of them have parents?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Probably? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Huh So, Well, if kids are good at getting around
the law and the rules, shouldn't parents maybe get involved
in some way?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Well yes, but actually I'm immediately going to disprove my
own point here. Well, I do agree with that what
I did was and this was the nineties, dial up modems.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I ran a phone line.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I went to Radio Shack, which used to be my
favorite store when I was a teenager. It doesn't even
exist anymore. And I got a really long, like one
hundred foot telephone cable, and I ran it out my
window ump a tree, you know, out in suburbia, through
the woods, down a tree, down into the woods, where
there was another spot where I could plug into a
phone line for my parents' fax machine out in the
(05:25):
back of the house. And so my parents didn't know
I was connected to the internet until they did find out.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
And then of course I got into more trouble.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Where'd you plug it? Flax machine in out in the woods?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
The fax machine line, it's a gray box outside of
your your I don't even know if these exist anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Wait, this line goes way off into the woods, right,
But the fact machine is plugged into the house.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
The phone line for the fax machine connects to a
gray box outside the house.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Does that make sense, Billy? Yet? It was a very
very intricate complex.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Far away as you've described it, like you're wondering for days,
like handling grid all through the woods following this little
phone line.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
No, I had to get the phone line to sort
of disappear out into the woods, so then I could
bring it back somewhere else circle back right. Otherwise my
dad would see it when he was out in the yard.
You know how dads are like. Because we lived on property,
we were kind of it was sort of country suburban.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
We were like to run over the line with the lawnmower.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Well, that's the thing. My dad would get up every
day and he would walk the perimeter of the yard.
Oh really, because we were out in the like a.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Warden or a security guard or something.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
My uncle does this too. We it was suburbia, but
it was country suburbia. So we had several acres out
in the woods. And Dad would walk around to see
if one of his traps went off at night, or
you know, the groundhog traps, or must see what happened
out there in the forest, or you know, any damage
down to the deers eat.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
The flower bed or whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And so it was kind of traps that would cut
the varmut's head off when they stuck it in the trap.
Or was it one of those kinder jitler traps where
he would release him further into the forest so that
he could scamper about with his young friends.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Let me see if I could find a picture of it.
It was one of these things eaten answer mole trap
that's what it was. That's a head chopper. Good deal,
that's the kind you should use. Yeah, way more fun
the mult Yeah, the mole comes crawling along because they're
just blind as a mole, and they just kick their
head out and they're, you know, digging in your yard.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Dads really really hate them messing up the yard. And
then that thing just snaps cuts its head right off.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Do you see what he did? Just did mister Kenneth.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
He's so used to his redneck vernacular that he just
said the mole was as blind as the mole.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Well he is. How much blinder can you get? I
say this.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Calls for action, and now nip it in the bud.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
First sign of youngster's going wrong, You got to nip
it in the bud.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Nip it.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Stay tuned for more. Waltman Johnson.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
We're gonna take a look at how Mother's Day has
changed since the sixties.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, I bet it has.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But first, isn't it weird how like racists on both
sides are using crowdfunding websites to fight the culture war?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It is weird. I've noticed that.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
They gave all this money to Carmelo Anthony, half a
million dollars because he stabbed a white kid at a
high school up in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Didn't give him the money because he stabbed I mean,
not to encourage that kind of behavior.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I agree to disagree, but you know, just saying I
don't know if I's.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Just not promote stabbing white children. I kind of think
any I try to think that is why people gave
him money.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
For the record, that's my opinion. That's fine. Then there
was this white lady, some.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Blonde woman with a bunch of tattoos, who was calling
an autistic child the N word on a playground while
some Somalian guy was filming it.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Not just any Simalian guy, a convicted pedophile, that's what
they say. Yeah, and people got more upset with her
using a you know, an insulting term than a pedophile
on a playground, and they gave her that might have
been a bigger problem.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And they gave her a half a million dollars. You
know what that tells me, that black guy, he didn't
have to kill anyone. He could have got that money,
and all you had to do was say the N word.
It's not as hard as you think, guys.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, but he would have had to call the white
kid the inward.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, you're right, it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, I don't think he would have got anything for that.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And then there's Luigi Mangione, raised over a million dollars
for shooting a United Healthcare worker.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Even more importantly, he's got his own musical coming out soon.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
So I know somewhere out there, I think there's a
person listening right now, whether they like us or hate us,
that probably donated money to one of the three people
we just said.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
There has to be someone listening that's kind of upset,
and I care for it.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
My question for that person would be why, why why give.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Money to these people? There's so many better things.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Give money to wheelchairs for Warriors dot Org wheelchairs for
you can write it off on your taxes and you're
helping a disabled military veteran.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Or give give the money to some racist or a murderer.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I don't don't quite understand it, just like I don't
understand the evolution of one of the most important fake
holidays in America, every Mother's Day. I bet we all
get a little nostalgic. Billy d Yeah, what do you mean, Well,
you remember all the good times with your mom back
in the day.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well sure, yeah, But then as you get older and
you get married and you have kids, and then Mother's Day,
your responsibility is for the wife. Use the kiddo's aren't
going to do a good job. I'm giving a I'm
giving Preleen what she likes for Mother's Day this Sunday.
I'm gonna watch softball today and tomorrow and then Sunday.
It's all about Pralean.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
What does she like?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
She likes it when I stay out of the house,
gonna be out in the yard, working in the shop,
you know stuff. She won't see me all day.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And what would you be doing if it was in
Mother's Day?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Probably bothering her? Probably, oh okay, wondering why she ain't
got breakfast on the table yet, be come in, biscuits
ain't ready, you know, Billy had.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Mother's Day's changed the lots. It's the nineteen sixties. In fact,
it's changed a lot since Woodrow Wilson was president. He
declared the first Mother's Day an official holiday sort of. Anyway,
we have this old film strip that we found and
did you bring in.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
The real real players a wired projector?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah? Yeah, And it's wired up to the board. Here,
good to go. Yeah, okay, hang on here, turn it
on for a minute. Hit that sweat.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Reach Mother's Day weekend, he can look. There's little Susie.
She's making a handmade Mother's Day greeting card with construction
paper and crayons. Looks like she's been eating some of
the figes too. And here's Timmy. He made Mom a
ceramic ashtray in art class because he knows she loves
(11:31):
her Virginia slimbs. And there's Ball. She's celebrating her special
day by click cleaning the house, doing the laundry, and
cooking everyone dienter. Oh, Dad was too busy playing golf
with his boss and totally forgot to get mom a gift.
Racks like he'll be sleeping on the couch for a walk.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Wow, look at the impression. Mother's Day actually hasn't changed
that much since the nineteen sixties. No, I don't think so,
I Dan corrected. There's this dude on the internet and
he's an outdoorsman and apparently he cashed in his four
to oh one K so he could buy a boat,
and now him and his cat are riding around the
world on the boat.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And there's this video of him.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
You think that cat is back up in case he
runs out of his food stock.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I do, I do think that. Yeah. Anyway, there's a
video of him narrating this.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
Day eight of sailing with my cat from Oregon to Hawaii.
Today mark's the first day since I've changed clothes. I
saw dolphins, which is amazing. And also, for those of
you that are new here, because I think I got
a lot of new followers, I'm the guy who quit
his job, liquidated his four oh one k, sold everything
(12:42):
except for my cat to buy a boat and sail
around the world. And I want to use my platform
to talk to you guys about my political opinions. Yeah. Also,
if you ever meet me in person, just be very
aware that I am socially awkward and I will bring
weird energy and I will be uncomfortable also painfully nice.
(13:05):
So uh yeah, here's the dolphins.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Dolphins right there.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Oh well, he's really excited about those dolphins.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I was about to say, he's been on that boat
eight days and he's still excited about seeing dolphins. And
he said he was going to sail around the world.
He's sailing from Oregon to Hawaii. Well, that's his first trip.
I think I don't think he's gonna make it.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
How come? What makes you think so? He don't look like.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
A guy who knows how to sail much less from
Hawaii to Hawaii, but especially around the world he'll be
I don't think he's gonna live much longer. To be
honest with you, it's just me. I'm just saying I
don't have a lot of faith in him after just
watching that little video.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Look, I wish no harm on the guy, but if
you can bet on who today, I wish And I'm
just saying, if you could bet on it's gonna make it.
If you can bet on who, the next pope's gonna
be billied and you can. Do you think you could bet?
I mean, now we know, but do you think you
could bet on whether or not that guy makes it?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Probably?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Is there a website somewhere? How is he he cashed
it as furrow one k. He looks like he's thirty.
I was gonna say, how much how much could he
have saved?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Is it even six figures? At this point? I mean,
what has he got there?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Well, then he bought that boat, did he have enough
money for lessons? On sailing.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I don't know, it's interesting because I think I saw
a book.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, it's like Sailing for Dummies that he had in
his backpack.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I wonder if his social media accounts are monetized so
he can earn cash. He said that he's gonna be
on social media talking about his political opinions, and I
gotta think if you don't agree with his opinion is
I don't know, maybe he was just saying that.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Just kidding about those political opinions.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yeah, but that is how the internet works. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah. Anyway, if you're anything like us, you know, Mother's
Day comes, but once a year in Father's Day doesn't
even really exist.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
It's a blip on the radar, barely. He's still doing that, Yeah,
not really.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah, it's sometime later in the year, but it's not
this weekend. And that's all you need to know.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
So that's what you're doing for Mother's Day? What are
you doing there, mister Kenneth, he got any big plans?
Bron brunch with who your mom?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Actually, Mother's Day is a good day to stay out
of the restaurants around brunch time because you know a
bunch of kids running around you.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
You could go on Sunday. Actually it's a it's a tomorrow.
It's a tough day for waitresses. I met Saturday. I'm sorry.
It's a tough day for waitresses because kids want to
pay the bill and then they don't tip anything.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah, hey, if your good parent knows to, you know,
look that over.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
If you're a young person right now and you're gonna
buy your mom brunch this weekend and then, uh, you know,
like tip, you're not You didn't really pay for it
if you didn't tip the waitress. You know what I mean?
You say, Oh, no, it's cool, I got enough money here. No,
you might be ruining someone's day, young man. Just something
to think about there, boy, I wonder what John would say.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Don't forget boys and girls to eat it every day.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Hey again, you've reached the end of the Walton and
Johnson podcast. Good for you. That means you listened all
the way to the end.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Does that mean we're going away now never to be
heard again?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
No, no, no, there will be a new show tomorrow.
Oh thank goodness, unless it's the weekend or we're off work.
But as always, you could go to waltonand Johnson dot
com and you can find all kinds of cool stuff there.
Our news blog links to our social media accounts. Believe
it or not, our personal lives are very boring. If
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Speaker 3 (16:14):
Chances are we're just sitting around waiting to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, so, what's the big deal. Go to Walton Johnson
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