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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I said, I said, hey, everybody, Hey, Billy hud No,
you just Cherry Jerry. I gotta work with you boys.
The you know Norm Dome, somebody's got to step up
and be that guy. When Norm would walk into the
bar on cheers, Hey everybody, that's what I've just said.
I know, but it always sounded like there were more
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people saying his name than were actually in the bar
at the time. Yeah, because sometimes there's only like three
people in there. But then it was like, no, no
big crowd.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, exactly, everyone knew Norm. He just you know, he
was a bar flying. Maybe it's people out on the sidewalk.
I got a guy like that at my gym. His
name's Gino. Everyone loves Gino. Gino is a fun guy.
He's a character. He's interesting. He's always got something interesting
to say. And when he walks into the gym, everyone
goes Geno.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Oh, they go Gino, Yeah, they say his Oh okay, Yeah.
Gino is a cool guy. That's different.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Gino wears the what is it the Helen Keller Memorial
gun range shirts. You could find it I at I
love WJ dot com.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Pretty sweet. Well, I got updates on the situation in
New Orleans. You know, there's always a situation in New Orleans.
To one of those cities, it's always found a situation
or there's probably more than just this one. Socker to me.
You've heard about that jail break on Friday. Oh no,
I hadn't. There was a jail break in there. That's
news to me. Ten guys broke out of the prison there,
(01:26):
white guys didn't. I don't know. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
And they've been kind of rounding them up and bringing
them back. But at the same time they've been investigating.
This will shock you out of your shoes. Hang on,
let me, I got my shit on. It appears as though,
after thorough investigation, somebody on the inside may have helped,
you don't say, yeah, looks like it might have been
(01:51):
a jail maintenance worker. They've arrested mister Sterling Williams and
charged him with ten counts of the assisting escape. I guess.
And what do you think he got out of it?
You know, that's a damn good question. I don't know
if these guys were you know, one or all, and
they when they accused him of ten he probably told
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him something like I didn't do it, but I really
only did it for one guy. Sure, I don't know
the other nine. We're gonna run, so it's not on me. Okay, yeah,
I don't know the answer to this question.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
But something people often say, and I don't know if
this is true or not, when things like this happen,
we'll hear from government officials that this could have been
prevented if we paid the prison guards and the prison
staff members more money.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
If you pay them enough to keep somebody from bribing them.
Because they said this guy probably what they accused him
of is shutting off the water supply to their particular
cell area because they removed a toilet from the wall
and snook out in a hole was left when they
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pulled the toilet off the wall. But if they'd done
that and the water was turned on, it might have
been more noticeable. Sure someone went and notice, you know,
geyser of water shooting up out of a busted pipe.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Because apparently it was hours before they even really reported
this or real Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
It was. It was dark in the video when they
was all, you know, running out the back door. It
was about eight thirty Friday morning by the time they
do that. They did the head count and noticed to
come up a few short Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
When you hear about prisoners in a local jail having
a skirmish involving their back door, this is not the
scenario you imagine.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Not the same at all. They spoke with the Orleans
Parish DA Jason Williams. He when asked about whether it
was an inside job or he said, Stevie Wonder could
see that this was an inside job.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
And not only did they arrest this one guy, Sterling,
but they've also suspended three other jail employees as they
continue to investigate.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I'm beginning to think some of these government officials in
the New Orleans area cannot be trusted.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I oh, whoa, I mean that's a that's a big
leap right there. How do you jump from from that
to just what did you hear in the news every day?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I know it's true because there's a long history of
people in the New Orleans local government, whether you know,
just being ethical and moral people.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Sure, I mean it starts at the top, Yeah, from
the mayor on that was well, from city camp.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
No, No, not that the local police leader. Well, uh,
fire department's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Sure of the fire department.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I can't think anyone at the fire department in good work,
good work. Well is the city on fire right now?
So we should probably double check on that before we
say it's okay.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, that's just we don't know actually, but hopefully it's
not all right.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
We now take you from uh what what should just
be a little local news story in New Orleans but
is most certainly a national news story to an international
news story out of Washington, d C. Donald Trump just
made a big announcement, and I know it sounds good, right,
but I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I want you to.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Imagine that the same week that the credit card company
decides to destroy your credit rating because you can't pay
the bill, your spouse, wife, husband, whatever, comes home and
says they're gonna buy the most expensive thing possible, a
supercar from Italy.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Or something like that. Huh, okay, Praline.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Moments after getting the credit card bill, it's it's jacked up,
it's maxed out. Your credit rating has gone into the tanks.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Is this one of them analogies that you're famous for? Yeah,
metaphor if you will know, I guess it's an analogy.
Any Kiney's kind of famous for his analogies. Yeah, this
is a good one. Sure that in my humility, Well, sure, modesty,
you humiliate yourself. Well it's true, but everyone knows I'm
modest too anyway. So we just learned earlier this week
now it's Wednesday, right on Monday, we learned that the
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Moody Financial Institute is downgrading our credit rating as a nation.
And that actually does matter.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It means that as an individual, the next time you
apply for a credit card or a mortgage, you're going
to get a higher interest rate because you live in
a country that can't pay their bills. So it does
matter even if you're you know, even in your local
household level. Donald Trump, moments after hearing this news about
the Moody Financial Institution downgrading our credit rating makes.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
An expensive Italian sports car.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Close, he announced the construction of the Golden Dome. It's
going to protect America from missile attacks. It's going to
take three years to build. He says, twenty five billion dollars.
The Congressional Budget Office says five hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Did anybody price out of Brohn's Dome? Boy, Billy Hud,
you always ask the perfect question. Well, you got to
start negotiating, try to get a deal man. I mean,
you're right that it would have been. I gotta stand
by generator at the house, all right. Did I get
one that would run Trump's house? No, you go, I
got one. It was nice enough to run my place.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And you got a good deal on it because you
bought it from the company that advertises on this.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Radio stuff, of course. But I mean, I think every
one of their deals is a good deal. Full price
is a good deal for that company, because they do
good work. But what I'm saying is I didn't get one.
It was a thousand times bigger than I needed. I
got one that was right size for my place. Maybe
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the bronze dome will be just right for most of
us gold And I can see how DC wants a
golden dome, But if we all want golden domes, it's
going to bankrupt the country. I think we need to
scale back our desires a little bit. All right, here's
a Trump set.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
In the campaign, I promised the American people that I
would build a cutting edge missile defense shield to protect Humbland.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
From the threat of foreign missile attack.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
And that's what we're doing today and place to announce
that we have officially selected an architecture for this state
of the art system that will deploy next generation technologies
across the land, sea, and space, including space based sensors
and interceptors.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Look, I don't regret voting for Trump, but I'm not
going to pretend like I like this. You know you
don't want to be protected. You're protected now, Billy, and
no one's launching missiles at you. There's no rockets.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Coming there they do you. You gott nothing over your
head to predict. You got like a paper umbrella over
your head. Okay, that's that's not gonna work good. Maybe
the Golden Dome might be the best option, because I
didn't stop to consider there's probably a platinum dome that that.
We said. No, that's just that's just too much, that's
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too crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
The reason why Israel needs an iron Dome is because
right down the street they're launching rockets. They're launching I
mean technically Palestine is inside of Israel. They're launching rockets
from inside their own country.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Well, bad pick on location. What a real state, guys
always location location, looking, they probably should have chosen better.
I know, I'm Captain buzz Killington here, but it's the
chosen land right there. They chose it.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, I don't think Canada or Milwaukee, or Mexico or
I don't get the impression that even Cuba is going
to start launching missiles or rockets at us, because we
would absolutely annihilate them. You know, we're in nuclear power,
and we're a big country, and we're the richest country.
And I just don't see how we need this. Why
do we need Who's launching missiles or rockets at us?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Anybody? I made my point. It's just it seems wasteful billion.
And there's a few trying. There's not good at it yet.
But what if they get real good at it one day?
Well you're like, oh, I guess we should have had
a golden dome. Takes three four five years to building it. Tucker,
you ain't got time now. The rocket's flying the Congressional
beatty nine red balloons Guinea over.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
The Congressional Budget Office has twenty years and they say
five hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
You got no time. You gotta be ready now, pair
the wax on before you can wax off. You understand,
you get it now? Right?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
America is a big place, Billy, I just build a
bunker can't you just build a bunker?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
We got that cut. Yeah, that's a good idea. Good morning,
Welcome to the show. Is not yet? Not yet? Well
then what is it? What is it?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
It's Wednesday. It's Wednesday's Walton M. Johnson. It's something very uncomfortable.
I am so sorry to be the one to point
this out. Bill. Yeah, do you eat natollah? I don't
really know, but you've had it. I know what it is.
I just don't eat it myself.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
It's a hazel nuts spread instead of peanut butter.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I like peanut butter fine, And I'm big on chocolate icing.
You ever, just you open up can of chocolate cake
icing and just have that.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Okay, this is a little different because that just be
pure sugar, and this pretty much what no tell I
think it's a hazel nut chocolate spreads. I think it's
a little healthier, sure like, I don't know it's fancy.
It's more expensive, that's for sure. Anyway, I was just
noticing something here. You ever look at the side of
the jar on Natella. See how it says Natella spelled
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out in red letters, but one letter is not read
it's black. Do you know I have it on the
screen here so Billy I could see Billy.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I'm looking at it right now. Billy had which letter
is black? The first Letterkenny, thank you for explaining that.
What are you trying to point out? What are you
noticing that nobody else is noticing?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I just wonder why are the people at the Natella
company decided to go with all red letters except for.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
One except the inn? Yeah? Why did they do that?
The inn at the beginning of the word makes it
a black in word? Yeah? Why did they do that?
That's a good question. Could you get the Natela guy
on the line. I mean, I'd like to know what
was it called Nautella Factory? Tell them it's Walton Johnson calling.
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I think they'll probably pick up pretty quick.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
In this day and age we live in where everything
is a racist dog whistle, We've been told, why wouldn't
Itella choose to do that? You know, it's not as
if you want you to notice it. You can't unsee it. Yep,
And then you're uncomfortable. And now I don't feel right
about eating Natella because I can't afford, at this point
in my life to be accused of being associated with that.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
What do we know? Guys, Good morning, mister Kenneth. What
do we know? What do we know? Everything's a little
bit racist.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Sometimes doesn't mean you go around committee, hey, crubs, No,
it does. I do enjoy that none of the merchant
I love WJ dot com has racist dog whistles.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
He all know.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Some of it's just blatantly racist, like the Caucasian jersey
we saw.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
They run it all past me so I can make
sure there's no racism allowed.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I'll take a look. There's a little racism anyway. It's
besides the point. I love WJ dot com. Memorial Day
sales going on promo code Summer twenty get you some
that's a good idea twenty percent off right now.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
You guys already talked about Norm from Cheers. I didn't
even know that he was Ted Lasso's uncle. That was
fun to know. John Ratzenberger, who played his buddy Cliffy,
says he is heartbroken by his friend's death, and he
said Norm, well, George was a true craftsman, humble, hilarious
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and full of heart. And Ted Danson said, it's gonna
take me a long time to get used to this.
Love you Georgie and you know, you know John is
any one of us? Did you know that? Isn't he? Uh, Cliffy, Yeah,
isn't he? Kind of I don't know. You know what
I like about this is it almost none of the
people from that era of television, like I don't know
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if norm I had a particular opinion about politics or
Trump or you know, just things in general. I don't know.
That's how it used to be, and it used to
be glorious, and then after another decided to start coming
out and telling us how they think because they think
you should think like them. I like not knowing, And
(14:09):
if you look it up somewhere, don't spoil it for me. Now.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I won't tell you unless it's good. But I can't
find an answer immediately, just skinning through here. He was
a Chicago native. He was an alumni of the Second
City Comedy Troupe in case you remember what that was
back in the day.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And after years, I know he went home to do
a lot of stage work. He loved Broadway and the stage.
A truth, thespian must be on stage.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I didn't know he was gay. That's interesting, huh. No idea?
All right, So yesterday Senator Mark Over, excuse me, Secretary
of State Marco Rubio.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, he ain't just some senator anymore. He wades into
the middle of that pack of hyenas in the Senate.
It just starts slapping them around. There was a hearing
yesterday with this Van Holland guy. Well, there was a
hearing yesterday with Marco Rubio and Van Holland. You may recall,
was the guy that went down to Al.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Salvador not the first one? No, I think he was.
Wasn't he the first he would? I mean he went
down there to try to get.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Oh it was Van Halen. It was first. You said, No,
it's the same guy. Oh, you were making fun of
his name. I see, it's not I know. It was
a great way to remember it. Why. It was a
bad joke that I made weeks ago, but it helps
remember it. Van Holland, Van, I think what you did
there exactly. Yes, it just took a week to get it.
That's all about two or three weeks, I think. But
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I'm from Maryland. Do you remember that he was from Maryland? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Van Holland is sitting here with Corey Booker and they're
asking Rubio questions now, remember Rubio got every vote for
his confirmation back in January.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Including this guy. Including this guy, but now I think
he regrets it. I have to tell you directly and
personally that I regret voting for you for Secretary of State.
I yield back. I respond, yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Well, first of all, your regret for voting for me
confirms I'm doing a good job based on what I know.
That's just a clipping statements, Secretary, you me.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I didn't ask, Senator please let the secretary, but then
I can respond to his Your time's up, Senator, and
uh willfully used.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I might add your your remarksman not represent the view
of this committee.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Well, mister Secretary Police, well i'd like to.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
I can't respond to everything he said because much of
these are untrue, but I'll go through a few. First
of all, I'm actually very proud of the work we've
done with us AID. For example, I don't regret cutting
ten million dollars for male circumcisions in Mozambique. I don't
know how that makes it stronger and more prosperous as
a nation. I don't redd psycho social support services, I raised,
the Secretary.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, we're supposed to do that. You yielded when he
said I yield That means you don't get to talk anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Well, if Rubio says this stuff out loud, he's going
to sound like an a hole. You know, if Rubio
starts reading a list of the nonsense we were spending
money off. Oh, I know, while you're having an alarmist
fit about this stoage, it's just flipping, that's all it is.
Exactly what about like the part about or he said
he had a margarita with that guy? Oh, hang on,
here's the.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Absolutely absolutely we deported gang members, gang members, including the
one that you had a margarita with.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
By the way, he got really mad that he said.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
That that guy is a human trafficker and that guy
is a gang banger, and the evidence is going to
be clear in the days.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Rubs the floor chairman. He can't make unsubstantiated canator?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I must the Van Holland is objecting because he made
a joke and it's not technically true.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
We can't have that on the record.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
So well, what are the rules about that making a
joke on the floor of the Senate. Does Rubio get
into trouble for that?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Or?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I mean because you remember, we've looked at this before.
Senators and Congressmen can lie on the floor, they can
make they can make something up during a hearing. But
if you make something up, if you and technically Rubio
is not a senator anymore. He's now a you know,
a cabinet member. So he has a honorable Marco right,
he had to take an oath. Does he can he
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technically get into trouble for that?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I'm just asking you.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Know, I have figured out why he's such an a hole,
if you'll pardon the expression, though, this Van Hollen guy, well,
he's one of the privileged, and you'll never take that
away from him no matter how much you talk to him,
because he's born into it.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
He was born in Karachi, Pakistan. His father a Foreign
Service officer Deputy Assistant Secretary to Near Eastern Affairs. He
was the ambassador of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Very
nice upbringing. Mother worked in the CIA in the State Department.
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She's a spook, yes, unbelievable. Worked in the Central Intelligence
Bureau for South Asia. He spent parts of his early
life in Pakistan, Turkey, India and Sri Lanka. I doubt
he really has that much affection for the United States
of America since he was raised, born, and early on
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in his life was in all of these other countries.
I'm thinking, you know, the love home country as much
as you'd like to think a senator should.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Does anybody hate America more than the CIA?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I doubt it.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
No, I don't think so. No, I don't think so.
And at that point, I don't think we should trust
Van Holland. Do you remember when Trump gave his It
wasn't the State of the Union address? It was what
do they call it, the Congressional address or whatever they
called it earlier this year. Yeah, And because it's the
first year you do it, it's not a State of
the Union.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Technically, he couldn't claim all it and wouldn't want to
claim the State of the Union when he first joined him.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
So the rebuttal was done by the new junior senator
of Michigan. She's this woman who looks like like a
butch lesbian, but we're told she's not one. And she
comes out and she explains why she's qualified to give
the rebuttal to Trump. And the first thing she says is,
I'm a former CIA agent.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Boo.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Wait, that's what the Democrat Party's become. Just a it's
just a bunch of spooks. Yeah, I'm against that. I
think that's a bad idea.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, that terrible idea, a bunch of We got to
root him out of there.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
It's well, you know, unelectum. Right, Well, why what did
you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Nothing? Oh okay, yeah, it's called Wednesday pump Day. I'm
a right hump pump pump, pump pump. Walton and Johnson
Radio Network
I said, I said, hey, everybody, Hey, Billy hud No,
you just Cherry Jerry. I gotta work with you boys.
The you know Norm Dome, somebody's got to step up
and be that guy. When Norm would walk into the
bar on cheers, Hey everybody, that's what I've just said.
I know, but it always sounded like there were more
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people saying his name than were actually in the bar
at the time. Yeah, because sometimes there's only like three
people in there. But then it was like, no, no
big crowd.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, exactly, everyone knew Norm. He just you know, he
was a bar flying. Maybe it's people out on the sidewalk.
I got a guy like that at my gym. His
name's Gino. Everyone loves Gino. Gino is a fun guy.
He's a character. He's interesting. He's always got something interesting
to say. And when he walks into the gym, everyone
goes Geno.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Oh, they go Gino, Yeah, they say his Oh okay, Yeah.
Gino is a cool guy. That's different.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Gino wears the what is it the Helen Keller Memorial
gun range shirts. You could find it I at I
love WJ dot com.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Pretty sweet. Well, I got updates on the situation in
New Orleans. You know, there's always a situation in New Orleans.
To one of those cities, it's always found a situation
or there's probably more than just this one. Socker to me.
You've heard about that jail break on Friday. Oh no,
I hadn't. There was a jail break in there. That's
news to me. Ten guys broke out of the prison there,
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white guys didn't. I don't know. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
And they've been kind of rounding them up and bringing
them back. But at the same time they've been investigating.
This will shock you out of your shoes. Hang on,
let me, I got my shit on. It appears as though,
after thorough investigation, somebody on the inside may have helped,
you don't say, yeah, looks like it might have been
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a jail maintenance worker. They've arrested mister Sterling Williams and
charged him with ten counts of the assisting escape. I guess.
And what do you think he got out of it?
You know, that's a damn good question. I don't know
if these guys were you know, one or all, and
they when they accused him of ten he probably told
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him something like I didn't do it, but I really
only did it for one guy. Sure, I don't know
the other nine. We're gonna run, so it's not on me. Okay, yeah,
I don't know the answer to this question.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
But something people often say, and I don't know if
this is true or not, when things like this happen,
we'll hear from government officials that this could have been
prevented if we paid the prison guards and the prison
staff members more money.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
If you pay them enough to keep somebody from bribing them.
Because they said this guy probably what they accused him
of is shutting off the water supply to their particular
cell area because they removed a toilet from the wall
and snook out in a hole was left when they
(02:58):
pulled the toilet off the wall. But if they'd done
that and the water was turned on, it might have
been more noticeable. Sure someone went and notice, you know,
geyser of water shooting up out of a busted pipe.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Because apparently it was hours before they even really reported
this or real Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
It was. It was dark in the video when they
was all, you know, running out the back door. It
was about eight thirty Friday morning by the time they
do that. They did the head count and noticed to
come up a few short Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
When you hear about prisoners in a local jail having
a skirmish involving their back door, this is not the
scenario you imagine.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Not the same at all. They spoke with the Orleans
Parish DA Jason Williams. He when asked about whether it
was an inside job or he said, Stevie Wonder could
see that this was an inside job.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
And not only did they arrest this one guy, Sterling,
but they've also suspended three other jail employees as they
continue to investigate.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I'm beginning to think some of these government officials in
the New Orleans area cannot be trusted.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I oh, whoa, I mean that's a that's a big
leap right there. How do you jump from from that
to just what did you hear in the news every day?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I know it's true because there's a long history of
people in the New Orleans local government, whether you know,
just being ethical and moral people.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Sure, I mean it starts at the top, Yeah, from
the mayor on that was well, from city camp.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
No, No, not that the local police leader. Well, uh,
fire department's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Sure of the fire department.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I can't think anyone at the fire department in good work,
good work. Well is the city on fire right now?
So we should probably double check on that before we
say it's okay.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, that's just we don't know actually, but hopefully it's
not all right.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
We now take you from uh what what should just
be a little local news story in New Orleans but
is most certainly a national news story to an international
news story out of Washington, d C. Donald Trump just
made a big announcement, and I know it sounds good, right,
but I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I want you to.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Imagine that the same week that the credit card company
decides to destroy your credit rating because you can't pay
the bill, your spouse, wife, husband, whatever, comes home and
says they're gonna buy the most expensive thing possible, a
supercar from Italy.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Or something like that. Huh, okay, Praline.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Moments after getting the credit card bill, it's it's jacked up,
it's maxed out. Your credit rating has gone into the tanks.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Is this one of them analogies that you're famous for? Yeah,
metaphor if you will know, I guess it's an analogy.
Any Kiney's kind of famous for his analogies. Yeah, this
is a good one. Sure that in my humility, Well, sure, modesty,
you humiliate yourself. Well it's true, but everyone knows I'm
modest too anyway. So we just learned earlier this week
now it's Wednesday, right on Monday, we learned that the
(05:57):
Moody Financial Institute is downgrading our credit rating as a nation.
And that actually does matter.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It means that as an individual, the next time you
apply for a credit card or a mortgage, you're going
to get a higher interest rate because you live in
a country that can't pay their bills. So it does
matter even if you're you know, even in your local
household level. Donald Trump, moments after hearing this news about
the Moody Financial Institution downgrading our credit rating makes.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
An expensive Italian sports car.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Close, he announced the construction of the Golden Dome. It's
going to protect America from missile attacks. It's going to
take three years to build. He says, twenty five billion dollars.
The Congressional Budget Office says five hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Did anybody price out of Brohn's Dome? Boy, Billy Hud,
you always ask the perfect question. Well, you got to
start negotiating, try to get a deal man. I mean,
you're right that it would have been. I gotta stand
by generator at the house, all right. Did I get
one that would run Trump's house? No, you go, I
got one. It was nice enough to run my place.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And you got a good deal on it because you
bought it from the company that advertises on this.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Radio stuff, of course. But I mean, I think every
one of their deals is a good deal. Full price
is a good deal for that company, because they do
good work. But what I'm saying is I didn't get one.
It was a thousand times bigger than I needed. I
got one that was right size for my place. Maybe
(07:25):
the bronze dome will be just right for most of
us gold And I can see how DC wants a
golden dome, But if we all want golden domes, it's
going to bankrupt the country. I think we need to
scale back our desires a little bit. All right, here's
a Trump set.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
In the campaign, I promised the American people that I
would build a cutting edge missile defense shield to protect Humbland.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
From the threat of foreign missile attack.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
And that's what we're doing today and place to announce
that we have officially selected an architecture for this state
of the art system that will deploy next generation technologies
across the land, sea, and space, including space based sensors
and interceptors.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Look, I don't regret voting for Trump, but I'm not
going to pretend like I like this. You know you
don't want to be protected. You're protected now, Billy, and
no one's launching missiles at you. There's no rockets.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Coming there they do you. You gott nothing over your
head to predict. You got like a paper umbrella over
your head. Okay, that's that's not gonna work good. Maybe
the Golden Dome might be the best option, because I
didn't stop to consider there's probably a platinum dome that that.
We said. No, that's just that's just too much, that's
(08:44):
too crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
The reason why Israel needs an iron Dome is because
right down the street they're launching rockets. They're launching I
mean technically Palestine is inside of Israel. They're launching rockets
from inside their own country.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Well, bad pick on location. What a real state, guys
always location location, looking, they probably should have chosen better.
I know, I'm Captain buzz Killington here, but it's the
chosen land right there. They chose it.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, I don't think Canada or Milwaukee, or Mexico or
I don't get the impression that even Cuba is going
to start launching missiles or rockets at us, because we
would absolutely annihilate them. You know, we're in nuclear power,
and we're a big country, and we're the richest country.
And I just don't see how we need this. Why
do we need Who's launching missiles or rockets at us?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Anybody? I made my point. It's just it seems wasteful billion.
And there's a few trying. There's not good at it yet.
But what if they get real good at it one day?
Well you're like, oh, I guess we should have had
a golden dome. Takes three four five years to building it. Tucker,
you ain't got time now. The rocket's flying the Congressional
beatty nine red balloons Guinea over.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
The Congressional Budget Office has twenty years and they say
five hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
You got no time. You gotta be ready now, pair
the wax on before you can wax off. You understand,
you get it now? Right?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
America is a big place, Billy, I just build a
bunker can't you just build a bunker?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
We got that cut. Yeah, that's a good idea. Good morning,
Welcome to the show. Is not yet? Not yet? Well
then what is it? What is it?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
It's Wednesday. It's Wednesday's Walton M. Johnson. It's something very uncomfortable.
I am so sorry to be the one to point
this out. Bill. Yeah, do you eat natollah? I don't
really know, but you've had it. I know what it is.
I just don't eat it myself.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
It's a hazel nuts spread instead of peanut butter.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I like peanut butter fine, And I'm big on chocolate icing.
You ever, just you open up can of chocolate cake
icing and just have that.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Okay, this is a little different because that just be
pure sugar, and this pretty much what no tell I
think it's a hazel nut chocolate spreads. I think it's
a little healthier, sure like, I don't know it's fancy.
It's more expensive, that's for sure. Anyway, I was just
noticing something here. You ever look at the side of
the jar on Natella. See how it says Natella spelled
(11:13):
out in red letters, but one letter is not read
it's black. Do you know I have it on the
screen here so Billy I could see Billy.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I'm looking at it right now. Billy had which letter
is black? The first Letterkenny, thank you for explaining that.
What are you trying to point out? What are you
noticing that nobody else is noticing?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I just wonder why are the people at the Natella
company decided to go with all red letters except for.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
One except the inn? Yeah? Why did they do that?
The inn at the beginning of the word makes it
a black in word? Yeah? Why did they do that?
That's a good question. Could you get the Natela guy
on the line. I mean, I'd like to know what
was it called Nautella Factory? Tell them it's Walton Johnson calling.
(12:03):
I think they'll probably pick up pretty quick.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
In this day and age we live in where everything
is a racist dog whistle, We've been told, why wouldn't
Itella choose to do that? You know, it's not as
if you want you to notice it. You can't unsee it. Yep,
And then you're uncomfortable. And now I don't feel right
about eating Natella because I can't afford, at this point
in my life to be accused of being associated with that.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
What do we know? Guys, Good morning, mister Kenneth. What
do we know? What do we know? Everything's a little
bit racist.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Sometimes doesn't mean you go around committee, hey, crubs, No,
it does. I do enjoy that none of the merchant
I love WJ dot com has racist dog whistles.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
He all know.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Some of it's just blatantly racist, like the Caucasian jersey
we saw.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
They run it all past me so I can make
sure there's no racism allowed.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I'll take a look. There's a little racism anyway. It's
besides the point. I love WJ dot com. Memorial Day
sales going on promo code Summer twenty get you some
that's a good idea twenty percent off right now.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
You guys already talked about Norm from Cheers. I didn't
even know that he was Ted Lasso's uncle. That was
fun to know. John Ratzenberger, who played his buddy Cliffy,
says he is heartbroken by his friend's death, and he
said Norm, well, George was a true craftsman, humble, hilarious
(13:25):
and full of heart. And Ted Danson said, it's gonna
take me a long time to get used to this.
Love you Georgie and you know, you know John is
any one of us? Did you know that? Isn't he? Uh, Cliffy, Yeah,
isn't he? Kind of I don't know. You know what
I like about this is it almost none of the
people from that era of television, like I don't know
(13:47):
if norm I had a particular opinion about politics or
Trump or you know, just things in general. I don't know.
That's how it used to be, and it used to
be glorious, and then after another decided to start coming
out and telling us how they think because they think
you should think like them. I like not knowing, And
(14:09):
if you look it up somewhere, don't spoil it for me. Now.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I won't tell you unless it's good. But I can't
find an answer immediately, just skinning through here. He was
a Chicago native. He was an alumni of the Second
City Comedy Troupe in case you remember what that was
back in the day.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And after years, I know he went home to do
a lot of stage work. He loved Broadway and the stage.
A truth, thespian must be on stage.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I didn't know he was gay. That's interesting, huh. No idea?
All right, So yesterday Senator Mark Over, excuse me, Secretary
of State Marco Rubio.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, he ain't just some senator anymore. He wades into
the middle of that pack of hyenas in the Senate.
It just starts slapping them around. There was a hearing
yesterday with this Van Holland guy. Well, there was a
hearing yesterday with Marco Rubio and Van Holland. You may recall,
was the guy that went down to Al.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Salvador not the first one? No, I think he was.
Wasn't he the first he would? I mean he went
down there to try to get.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Oh it was Van Halen. It was first. You said, No,
it's the same guy. Oh, you were making fun of
his name. I see, it's not I know. It was
a great way to remember it. Why. It was a
bad joke that I made weeks ago, but it helps
remember it. Van Holland, Van, I think what you did
there exactly. Yes, it just took a week to get it.
That's all about two or three weeks, I think. But
(15:32):
I'm from Maryland. Do you remember that he was from Maryland? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Van Holland is sitting here with Corey Booker and they're
asking Rubio questions now, remember Rubio got every vote for
his confirmation back in January.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Including this guy. Including this guy, but now I think
he regrets it. I have to tell you directly and
personally that I regret voting for you for Secretary of State.
I yield back. I respond, yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Well, first of all, your regret for voting for me
confirms I'm doing a good job based on what I know.
That's just a clipping statements, Secretary, you me.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I didn't ask, Senator please let the secretary, but then
I can respond to his Your time's up, Senator, and
uh willfully used.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I might add your your remarksman not represent the view
of this committee.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Well, mister Secretary Police, well i'd like to.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
I can't respond to everything he said because much of
these are untrue, but I'll go through a few. First
of all, I'm actually very proud of the work we've
done with us AID. For example, I don't regret cutting
ten million dollars for male circumcisions in Mozambique. I don't
know how that makes it stronger and more prosperous as
a nation. I don't redd psycho social support services, I raised,
the Secretary.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, we're supposed to do that. You yielded when he
said I yield That means you don't get to talk anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Well, if Rubio says this stuff out loud, he's going
to sound like an a hole. You know, if Rubio
starts reading a list of the nonsense we were spending
money off. Oh, I know, while you're having an alarmist
fit about this stoage, it's just flipping, that's all it is.
Exactly what about like the part about or he said
he had a margarita with that guy? Oh, hang on,
here's the.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Absolutely absolutely we deported gang members, gang members, including the
one that you had a margarita with.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
By the way, he got really mad that he said.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
That that guy is a human trafficker and that guy
is a gang banger, and the evidence is going to
be clear in the days.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Rubs the floor chairman. He can't make unsubstantiated canator?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I must the Van Holland is objecting because he made
a joke and it's not technically true.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
We can't have that on the record.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
So well, what are the rules about that making a
joke on the floor of the Senate. Does Rubio get
into trouble for that?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Or?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I mean because you remember, we've looked at this before.
Senators and Congressmen can lie on the floor, they can
make they can make something up during a hearing. But
if you make something up, if you and technically Rubio
is not a senator anymore. He's now a you know,
a cabinet member. So he has a honorable Marco right,
he had to take an oath. Does he can he
(18:02):
technically get into trouble for that?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I'm just asking you.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Know, I have figured out why he's such an a hole,
if you'll pardon the expression, though, this Van Hollen guy, well,
he's one of the privileged, and you'll never take that
away from him no matter how much you talk to him,
because he's born into it.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
He was born in Karachi, Pakistan. His father a Foreign
Service officer Deputy Assistant Secretary to Near Eastern Affairs. He
was the ambassador of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Very
nice upbringing. Mother worked in the CIA in the State Department.
(18:40):
She's a spook, yes, unbelievable. Worked in the Central Intelligence
Bureau for South Asia. He spent parts of his early
life in Pakistan, Turkey, India and Sri Lanka. I doubt
he really has that much affection for the United States
of America since he was raised, born, and early on
(19:01):
in his life was in all of these other countries.
I'm thinking, you know, the love home country as much
as you'd like to think a senator should.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Does anybody hate America more than the CIA?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I doubt it.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
No, I don't think so. No, I don't think so.
And at that point, I don't think we should trust
Van Holland. Do you remember when Trump gave his It
wasn't the State of the Union address? It was what
do they call it, the Congressional address or whatever they
called it earlier this year. Yeah, And because it's the
first year you do it, it's not a State of
the Union.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Technically, he couldn't claim all it and wouldn't want to
claim the State of the Union when he first joined him.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
So the rebuttal was done by the new junior senator
of Michigan. She's this woman who looks like like a
butch lesbian, but we're told she's not one. And she
comes out and she explains why she's qualified to give
the rebuttal to Trump. And the first thing she says is,
I'm a former CIA agent.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Boo.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Wait, that's what the Democrat Party's become. Just a it's
just a bunch of spooks. Yeah, I'm against that. I
think that's a bad idea.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, that terrible idea, a bunch of We got to
root him out of there.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
It's well, you know, unelectum. Right, Well, why what did
you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Nothing? Oh okay, yeah, it's called Wednesday pump Day. I'm
a right hump pump pump, pump pump. Walton and Johnson
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