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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In an effort to protest the Texas Republicans and their
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effort to redistrict the state that would essentially add five
new congressional seats to Washington, d C. In preparation for
the twenty twenty sixth election, Texas Democrat lawmakers state legislature
lawmakers have decided to break quorum. They got on an
airplane and they decided to fly somewhere. Now, you remember
the last time they did this. They went to Washington,
(00:26):
d C. A few years ago. Yeah, I was back
in twenty twenty one, and they brought a case of
beer on a private plane where they flew maskless during
the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Spread COVID all over DC.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
They gave it to Pamela Kamala Pelosi and Biden.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yes they did.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
But this time they've decided to out do themselves. In
an effort to protest what they consider to be jerrymandering
by the Republican Party of Texas, they are going to
fly to the state of Illinois.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Perfect. I mean, it just doesn't get any better than that.
And I don't even think they're aware of just how
ironic that is.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
It is so iron Now they're flying there, just in
time for what's going on right now.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Uh, the Lallapalooza music festival, Like, why are they even
going to Illinois?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
What what if you remembered four years ago when they
did this. Yeah, they stayed away for over a month.
I think it was thirty eight days sounds like.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
And when they got back and when it hadn't passed
what it was they were against anyway, So election Integrity Bill, Yeah,
something like that.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I've got the map of the Jerry of what Illinois
congressional districts look like, and there's some great ones here.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
The I like Tetris.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
There's this one congressional district that goes from Saint Louis
all the way up to Champagne, Illinois. Now those are
at two opposite ends of the state, but they're both
a very liberal people.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
It's very thin, long and skinny little district there.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It goes from East Saint Louis, very liberal, up to Springfield,
which is the state capitol, off to Champagne, which is
where the University of Illinois is at. So to get there,
it's just a thin line across the middle of the state.
Not to be outdone. When you go downtown here, I
wish I could make this map a little bit bigger.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
There is a correct people can't see it anyway.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It wouldn't matter, like I just wanted to show it
to you. There's this congressional district in the middle of
Chicago that's just pencil thin, and I think it just
goes where all the like brown people are, and then
another one that goes where all the black people are.
There are literally places in Chicago where across the street
there's two different congressional districts. You go south a block,
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you're back in the first district. You go south another block,
you're back in the other district. It makes no sense,
but there's a reason for it. It looks like a
child with a crayon drew these congressional y'all.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I got a question. First of all, is that saying
Napa Valley Rector? No?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
No, I don't it says next to Chicago. No, it
says Naperville. It's oh, say cause Napa Valley. I don't
think that Cloaks. Naperville is kind of like Parland Bill
Yet it's an affluent white suburb of Chicago.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
That's the nice part.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Very liberal but also very very nice parts of Chicago.
Are there I mean, it's a giant city with millions
of people. I gotta think there are seven or eight
million people if you include the city and the suburbs.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
So I mean there's a lot. But besides Napa Valley,
there are any other nice parts? Sure, some of there's
no Napa Valley. Again, it's called Neighborville. There's a lot
of money in Chicago. I would say, yeah, but they
Uh My other question was, uh, those maps all squirrely
with their districts all twirly and moving, and who who
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came up with that map?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Well, yeah, we haven't already hammered the point home yet.
That would be just Democrats. Democrats control the state of Illinois.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Ah and and and haven't we had redistricting maps drawn
in Texas many times in the past, not just this
one just popped up out of nowhere. Who who drew
those maps when there was no problem?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Okay. So this is where it gets a little tricky
because I guess they've they've voted on these things over
the years many times.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
The short answer would probably be both parties. But I
think but you know, twenty years ago, probably the Democrats.
Both parties have controlled Texas over the last one hundred years.
But over the last one hundred years only one party
has really controlled Illinois.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, but in Texas, whenever the Democrats decide to redraw them,
nobody has a problem with No, they don't know, Nobody
loses their mind, Nobody flies off and goes, I'm not
going to do my job well. Governor Abbit Texas says,
Texans don't run from a fight, and if you run
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from this fight, then you must not want your job.
So he's gonna start They're supposed to vote today. Obviously
they're not. So he's gonna start trying to feel how
he can just get them people out of work.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And I haven't I saw the post the social media,
the announcement that he was going to remove these lawmakers
from office. I'm not quite sure what the legal if
he can. Maybe he can, he says he can. But
I still find it remarkable that to protest what's happening
in Texas, they're going to a state with some of
the highest taxes in the country, racked up some of
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the highest pension debt America's ever seen. Lost eight hundred
and eighty one thousand residents over the last couple decades,
lost eighty eight billion dollars in income, worst crime in America,
decades of budget deficits, never mind all the extreme jerrymandering,
and in effort to prove that Texas is a bad place.
They're going to one of the worst places in America
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controlled by Democrats.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Ate it crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Plus they're liable to get shot. Yeah, they do that
in Chicago a lot. Boy, you're not kidding, But nobody
seems to care.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I mean, it's not like it's a big story every Monday,
well except here, where we just like to remind you
the things they don't tell you, and the news is
sometimes more important than the stuff they do tell you.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Well, since you brought it up, this was just an
average weekend in Chicago, chic.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Cargo, sick cargo, A toddler.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Chicago, Chicago.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
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another average weekend in Chicago. Twenty one shot, Yeah, twenty
one shot too, Dad. I always find it interesting how
the silver line here and it's always bad.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
But it's just that they're so bad at shooting, they
really are. I got good news. I guess they didn't
kill as many as they wanted to, but boy, they
did shoot a bunch of them.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
An off duty police officer among the people here.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Let's see that ain't good.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
A man shot and killed in the Humboldt Park area.
That's pretty common there. They got a humble, umble Humboldt.
It's called with an LDT. It doesn't matter. You're not
going to go there. But no, I'm not going anyway.
There's a lot of violence in this city, and oddly enough,
not even a national news story. If I told you
twenty one people got shot in your neighborhood this weekend,
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Oh yeah, it'd be pretty upset and wouldn't it. Yah,
it's still nothing compared to Fourth of July weekend. We
didn't spend much time talking about it because we had
all the flooding here in our little area. But eight
fifty five people shot over Fourth of July weekend, dang,
about a month ago.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So it could aybody ever suggest that they just chill?
Could always be worse? Yeah, we told them to show them.
We did. I don't know, maybe we got to. That's
too late to send so Vestr up there, but somebody
ought to step up and just say you cook cooks,
criminals jump, just chill Cruk's criminals, you shill. Oh. Speaking
of death, I had some bad news good news for you, Kenny. Oh.
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Kyle wrote in and he said, condolence is my man. Kenny.
I saw where Genie c Riley passed away, and I
know y'all had a moment. No Kurt, no, no, or Kyle.
See how you can get a name wrong. It wasn't
Genie c Riley. It was Genie Seely.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah, Genie c Riley is still a live boy. You
really scared me. Yeah, I know this is this kind
of thing can get out of control. No, the woman
who died was the chick from w k R P. Right,
Lonnie Anderson?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Is that that's another person I was talking about. Why
you skip over Genie Seely like like she's nothing to you.
She just the door mat you can just wipe your
feet on so you can get to Lonnie Anderson. Okay,
two reasons.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Number one, I honestly thought that's who you were talking about,
Like I thought that was one of her characters names
or what. And then number two, I just found out
Jeanie Seely is a person. About five seconds ago. Jeannie
Seely is a dead person. She lived eighty five years,
but that's all she gets. And what Lonnie Anderson didn't
quite make it eighty her birthday'd be tomorrow. Well it
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is tomorrow. She died two days before she was eighty,
so I'm just going to ahead and say call it eighty.
I hadn't hadn't seen her in a while. The last
known picture that I've seen of her was ten years ago.
She was looking pretty old then, all right.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
So of course she was old. She was seventy.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Jeanie Sealey must have done something first country singer. And
what was one of her songs?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
She had a bunch of different hits and stuff. I
don't really know. Huh, okay, well, you know I've heard
of her.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Sounds like you're pretty upset about it, Billy, she was
glad it wasn't Genie c Riley.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
No, no, I agree. You wouldn't have been able to stay.
I don't think you would have been able to do that.
You'd have to take a day.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Honestly, I'm gonna go call Genie c right right now
during commercial break and make sure she's out.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Double chair work so I can't do wenday. What do
you plans for the week? Work? Work, work? Oh that's
not fun. Walton and Johnson Radio Network Alive. I don't
know why you think I would know that. I don't
know either. I was just wondering if you knew. But
Lonnie Anderson, Jennifer she worked at the front desk like reception,
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but she actually ran the place. You know, we have
that same thing here. The lady at the runs the place.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I do enjoy the young woman in our front ask
is is Sophia. She's a beautiful person. To answer your question,
four members are still alive. Of the eight original cast
menders Gary Sandy, tim Ree, Jan Smithers, Yay and Richard Sanders,
three have passed away.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
That would be Gordon.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Jump Her Honor, Herb, Darlic h and then Lonnie Anderson, Howard, Frank,
Gordon and Lonnie They've also four have passed away.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
But but we still got Bailey. Well she was. I
liked her. It's that whole Marianne Ginger thing, you know,
Bailey or Jennifer, and I was a Bailey guy.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Herb died in twenty twenty one. Let's see, Jennifer. Lonnie
died this weekend two days ago. Gordon was Arthur that
he died in two thousand and three. Yeah, and then
Howard doctor Johnny Fever twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Boo Booker, booger. He got fired once for saying booger.
Well that's things have changed a little since then.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Boy, they have changed a lot. I was just looking
at this back in the year nineteen fifty five newspaper
in what is this Marxville, Louisiana, Marxville High School, Louisiana,
asked high school kids what they wanted in a spouse.
You know, because you're in high school, you're probably a
year or two away from getting married at that point.
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In nineteen fifty five, Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Back in the day.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So I was reading this year and they asked different people.
Ida Bear, for example, said she likes to rise horses.
She said she wants to find a boy who looks
clean in need, a good Christian boy, she said. She
prefers that he'd be of good faith, but it doesn't
matter which faith specifically, she said.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Just any old faith will do, as long as he's faithful.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Well, I mean back then there were probably only four options, right, Presbyterian.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Oh, yeah, those were the good old days. Lutheran, what
else was there? Baptist? There weren't that many things you
could be.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, But what I thought was interesting here to make
your point about things changing, was John Voynsch Here in
nineteen fifty five, young man in high school, and for
some reason, they all look like they're thirty five, even
though they're seventeen.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
In the yearbook. Thing of an article here. Yep, people
looked older back in the fifties.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
John Voyinsch says, quote, he likes to play comic in
blackface minstrels. Oh boy, and he's looking for a young
woman of high morals and good faith.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
To blackface along with him. Or she must be.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Good looking and popular with folks. Wanted jolly, no sad sack.
What about shell shock? They just throw that out there,
Jill shocked. John likes performing in blackface minstrels. Like whoa.
The world has changed, No harm, no foul. Everybody's just
trying to have a good time.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
That's all time. Folks come along, somebody gets buttered over something,
Get over yourself. Entertainment's changed a little bit.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You know, we don't have blackface menstrel shows anymore unless
you're in Canada, you know, justin Trudeau. So sure, but
that's fine Katie Perry's new boyfriend. But in America, we
love w NBA. We just cannot get enough of it,
do we they arrest Yeah, we sure do. Listen to
this headline Billy d w NBA fan arrested for throwing
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sex toy on court during game.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Oh that was the green dildo that went flying last.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Week in that embarrassing I mean being described as a
Wnba fan in a news store too.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
If they called me that, I know, don't.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
That is a big old It was a big old,
floppy green sex toy. Yeah, and uh, it was easily
the highlight of the whole season. I don't think there
was one other thing in the middle. You could see
how it would stop the action on the court. Yeah,
I mean there's there's ten girls out there.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Eight of them probably wanted to dive for that thing.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Sure, I mean, man, I have take it home. A
handful of them probably thought it was their Probably, hey,
did that slip out? Yeah, my gym back. Obviously we
obviously clearly was what you meant. Yeah. Meanwhile, Afghanistan's Taliban
government is trying to promote tourism to their nation. I
think that's going to change once visitors realize they have
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a different definition of the term getting stoned.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah. I'm pretty sure a lot of those two way
tickets that you bought are kind of pointless. Yeah, I mean,
you're not coming back from that.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Who's going on vacation to Taliban occupied Afghanistan. It is
regulated by the Ministry of Information and Culture. There are
at least three hundred and fifty tourism companies operating in Afghanistan.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
That cannot be true.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I read about this yesterday and I thought, wow, that's crazy.
So I looked it up on Airbnb, which I've done before.
I'm sure I'm on the list. Did you book yourself
a spot? There's a lot of places on Airbnb for
the nation of Afghanistan. It's surprisingly large, I mean more
than you'd think you would think. Being a Taliban controlled
country where people basically live like cavemen, Airbnb options would
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be slim to none, but they actually have a few.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And did you book yourself?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So no, but it does say in the AP today
the tourists are trickling into Afghanistan and the Taliban government
is eager to welcome them. Oh, I'm sure yeah, and
US tourists are invited. They want Americans to come. They
even have a very surreal video with a comedy hostage
scene where a guy looks like he's a hostage, but
then he reveals that he's on vacation.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
It's so bizarre of all this.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Honestly, as ridiculous as this is, I'm surprised we haven't
spent more time talking about it because it's horrible but
it's also really funny.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So it's fake hostage, but don't We also have some
real hostage videos that don't seem to be making it
to the news either. I'm glad you brought that up.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
There's this video of a Jewish man who has been
taken hostage by a different Islamic terror group.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
That would be Hamas.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I've heard of them, which is not actually a chickpea
based appetizer. That's right, it's different. I just want to
make sure we all get what we're talking about here.
The guy looks emaciated. He's in a tunnel with a
shovel and he's digging his own grave. Hamas re released
this video because they wanted you to know we've still
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got your hostages.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
They're going to die soon, if they haven't died already.
Most of them have been dead for a while, but
they're keeping a few around and they won't give them
all back because what would they hide behind.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Weirdly, this video of a Jewish man being tortured and
mocked on camera, which Hamas released it's their propaganda video,
is not on the cover of the New York Times.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
No, it is now.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Weirdly, the USA Today not covering this, CNN not using
the footage at all, and the response that Hamas and
some of the pro Palestinian groups have given to critics saying,
look how horrible he looks is hey, he eats what
we eat. If you think he looks emaciated, we're all emaciated.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
He eats what they eat, maybe, but just not as
much as they eat.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I assume you're probably right if let's pretend they're right.
Let's pretend that the Hamas and the journalist and the
humanitarians and all the kids in Gaza don't have enough food.
Let's assume that's true, right, I mean, maybe it is right.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
I don't know. I'm not there.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Trump says he's going to send a special envoy to
go investigate because Benjamin Yet and nut Yah who says
people are not starving, and everyone else says they are.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
But let's assume that is true.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Do you think at this point, given how Gaza kind
of looks like Stalingrad at the end.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Of World War two, not at the beginning at the end.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Is there any incentive, any motivation at all for Hamas
to keep these hostages longer. I mean, what are they
gonna get out?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Of it. Let's assume that they're telling the truth.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
They're all starving to death, the journalists, the humanitarians there,
the people providing aid, the children, the hostages, the terrorists,
they're all starving. Okay, what's the end goal, guys? Yeah, okay,
now what let the hostages go? End of the war.
I don't think you're gonna defeat Israel today. I'm sorry,
it just doesn't look like it's in the cards for you. So,
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and I say that as someone that is not the
most pro Israel guy.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
You'll hear on right wing talk radio around America. Oh
so you hate the Jews. No.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
My other position on this is if if we destroy Palestine,
if we knuke all of this or just blow it
up or whatever, where do you think those refugees go,
billyad Uh?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Oh, they go Bluey, they blow up some of them will, okay,
but not all of them.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Oh and then what they're gonna go to Klutes, They're
gonna go to Grimes County. What they're gonna go to Mandeville,
They're gonna go to Metarie, They're gonna go to Addison, Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
That Pineville, Yes, really Pinville. I think pinevill run a
retbacker CrossFit River Okay, maybe not Pineville. Okay yeah sure. Man.
For a Monday show, this is easily as good as
a Tuesday
In an effort to protest the Texas Republicans and their
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effort to redistrict the state that would essentially add five
new congressional seats to Washington, d C. In preparation for
the twenty twenty sixth election, Texas Democrat lawmakers state legislature
lawmakers have decided to break quorum. They got on an
airplane and they decided to fly somewhere. Now, you remember
the last time they did this. They went to Washington,
(00:26):
d C. A few years ago. Yeah, I was back
in twenty twenty one, and they brought a case of
beer on a private plane where they flew maskless during
the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Spread COVID all over DC.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
They gave it to Pamela Kamala Pelosi and Biden.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yes they did.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
But this time they've decided to out do themselves. In
an effort to protest what they consider to be jerrymandering
by the Republican Party of Texas, they are going to
fly to the state of Illinois.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Perfect. I mean, it just doesn't get any better than that.
And I don't even think they're aware of just how
ironic that is.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
It is so iron Now they're flying there, just in
time for what's going on right now.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Uh, the Lallapalooza music festival, Like, why are they even
going to Illinois?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
What what if you remembered four years ago when they
did this. Yeah, they stayed away for over a month.
I think it was thirty eight days sounds like.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
And when they got back and when it hadn't passed
what it was they were against anyway, So election Integrity Bill, Yeah,
something like that.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I've got the map of the Jerry of what Illinois
congressional districts look like, and there's some great ones here.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
The I like Tetris.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
There's this one congressional district that goes from Saint Louis
all the way up to Champagne, Illinois. Now those are
at two opposite ends of the state, but they're both
a very liberal people.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
It's very thin, long and skinny little district there.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It goes from East Saint Louis, very liberal, up to Springfield,
which is the state capitol, off to Champagne, which is
where the University of Illinois is at. So to get there,
it's just a thin line across the middle of the state.
Not to be outdone. When you go downtown here, I
wish I could make this map a little bit bigger.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
There is a correct people can't see it anyway.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It wouldn't matter, like I just wanted to show it
to you. There's this congressional district in the middle of
Chicago that's just pencil thin, and I think it just
goes where all the like brown people are, and then
another one that goes where all the black people are.
There are literally places in Chicago where across the street
there's two different congressional districts. You go south a block,
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you're back in the first district. You go south another block,
you're back in the other district. It makes no sense,
but there's a reason for it. It looks like a
child with a crayon drew these congressional y'all.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I got a question. First of all, is that saying
Napa Valley Rector? No?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
No, I don't it says next to Chicago. No, it
says Naperville. It's oh, say cause Napa Valley. I don't
think that Cloaks. Naperville is kind of like Parland Bill
Yet it's an affluent white suburb of Chicago.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
That's the nice part.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Very liberal but also very very nice parts of Chicago.
Are there I mean, it's a giant city with millions
of people. I gotta think there are seven or eight
million people if you include the city and the suburbs.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
So I mean there's a lot. But besides Napa Valley,
there are any other nice parts? Sure, some of there's
no Napa Valley. Again, it's called Neighborville. There's a lot
of money in Chicago. I would say, yeah, but they
Uh My other question was, uh, those maps all squirrely
with their districts all twirly and moving, and who who
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came up with that map?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Well, yeah, we haven't already hammered the point home yet.
That would be just Democrats. Democrats control the state of Illinois.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Ah and and and haven't we had redistricting maps drawn
in Texas many times in the past, not just this
one just popped up out of nowhere. Who who drew
those maps when there was no problem?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Okay. So this is where it gets a little tricky
because I guess they've they've voted on these things over
the years many times.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
The short answer would probably be both parties. But I
think but you know, twenty years ago, probably the Democrats.
Both parties have controlled Texas over the last one hundred years.
But over the last one hundred years only one party
has really controlled Illinois.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, but in Texas, whenever the Democrats decide to redraw them,
nobody has a problem with No, they don't know, Nobody
loses their mind, Nobody flies off and goes, I'm not
going to do my job well. Governor Abbit Texas says,
Texans don't run from a fight, and if you run
(04:38):
from this fight, then you must not want your job.
So he's gonna start They're supposed to vote today. Obviously
they're not. So he's gonna start trying to feel how
he can just get them people out of work.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And I haven't I saw the post the social media,
the announcement that he was going to remove these lawmakers
from office. I'm not quite sure what the legal if
he can. Maybe he can, he says he can. But
I still find it remarkable that to protest what's happening
in Texas, they're going to a state with some of
the highest taxes in the country, racked up some of
(05:11):
the highest pension debt America's ever seen. Lost eight hundred
and eighty one thousand residents over the last couple decades,
lost eighty eight billion dollars in income, worst crime in America,
decades of budget deficits, never mind all the extreme jerrymandering,
and in effort to prove that Texas is a bad place.
They're going to one of the worst places in America
(05:31):
controlled by Democrats.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Ate it crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Plus they're liable to get shot. Yeah, they do that
in Chicago a lot. Boy, you're not kidding, But nobody
seems to care.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I mean, it's not like it's a big story every Monday,
well except here, where we just like to remind you
the things they don't tell you, and the news is
sometimes more important than the stuff they do tell you.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Well, since you brought it up, this was just an
average weekend in Chicago, chic.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Cargo, sick cargo, A toddler.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Chicago, Chicago.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I will show you all right, it's your Chicago weekend
crime Report.
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another average weekend in Chicago. Twenty one shot, Yeah, twenty
one shot too, Dad. I always find it interesting how
the silver line here and it's always bad.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
But it's just that they're so bad at shooting, they
really are. I got good news. I guess they didn't
kill as many as they wanted to, but boy, they
did shoot a bunch of them.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
An off duty police officer among the people here.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Let's see that ain't good.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
A man shot and killed in the Humboldt Park area.
That's pretty common there. They got a humble, umble Humboldt.
It's called with an LDT. It doesn't matter. You're not
going to go there. But no, I'm not going anyway.
There's a lot of violence in this city, and oddly enough,
not even a national news story. If I told you
twenty one people got shot in your neighborhood this weekend,
(07:37):
Oh yeah, it'd be pretty upset and wouldn't it. Yah,
it's still nothing compared to Fourth of July weekend. We
didn't spend much time talking about it because we had
all the flooding here in our little area. But eight
fifty five people shot over Fourth of July weekend, dang,
about a month ago.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So it could aybody ever suggest that they just chill?
Could always be worse? Yeah, we told them to show them.
We did. I don't know, maybe we got to. That's
too late to send so Vestr up there, but somebody
ought to step up and just say you cook cooks,
criminals jump, just chill Cruk's criminals, you shill. Oh. Speaking
of death, I had some bad news good news for you, Kenny. Oh.
(08:14):
Kyle wrote in and he said, condolence is my man. Kenny.
I saw where Genie c Riley passed away, and I
know y'all had a moment. No Kurt, no, no, or Kyle.
See how you can get a name wrong. It wasn't
Genie c Riley. It was Genie Seely.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah, Genie c Riley is still a live boy. You
really scared me. Yeah, I know this is this kind
of thing can get out of control. No, the woman
who died was the chick from w k R P. Right,
Lonnie Anderson?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Is that that's another person I was talking about. Why
you skip over Genie Seely like like she's nothing to you.
She just the door mat you can just wipe your
feet on so you can get to Lonnie Anderson. Okay,
two reasons.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Number one, I honestly thought that's who you were talking about,
Like I thought that was one of her characters names
or what. And then number two, I just found out
Jeanie Seely is a person. About five seconds ago. Jeannie
Seely is a dead person. She lived eighty five years,
but that's all she gets. And what Lonnie Anderson didn't
quite make it eighty her birthday'd be tomorrow. Well it
(09:17):
is tomorrow. She died two days before she was eighty,
so I'm just going to ahead and say call it eighty.
I hadn't hadn't seen her in a while. The last
known picture that I've seen of her was ten years ago.
She was looking pretty old then, all right.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
So of course she was old. She was seventy.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Jeanie Sealey must have done something first country singer. And
what was one of her songs?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
She had a bunch of different hits and stuff. I
don't really know. Huh, okay, well, you know I've heard
of her.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Sounds like you're pretty upset about it, Billy, she was
glad it wasn't Genie c Riley.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
No, no, I agree. You wouldn't have been able to stay.
I don't think you would have been able to do that.
You'd have to take a day.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Honestly, I'm gonna go call Genie c right right now
during commercial break and make sure she's out.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Double chair work so I can't do wenday. What do
you plans for the week? Work? Work, work? Oh that's
not fun. Walton and Johnson Radio Network Alive. I don't
know why you think I would know that. I don't
know either. I was just wondering if you knew. But
Lonnie Anderson, Jennifer she worked at the front desk like reception,
(10:24):
but she actually ran the place. You know, we have
that same thing here. The lady at the runs the place.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I do enjoy the young woman in our front ask
is is Sophia. She's a beautiful person. To answer your question,
four members are still alive. Of the eight original cast
menders Gary Sandy, tim Ree, Jan Smithers, Yay and Richard Sanders,
three have passed away.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
That would be Gordon.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Jump Her Honor, Herb, Darlic h and then Lonnie Anderson, Howard, Frank,
Gordon and Lonnie They've also four have passed away.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
But but we still got Bailey. Well she was. I
liked her. It's that whole Marianne Ginger thing, you know,
Bailey or Jennifer, and I was a Bailey guy.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Herb died in twenty twenty one. Let's see, Jennifer. Lonnie
died this weekend two days ago. Gordon was Arthur that
he died in two thousand and three. Yeah, and then
Howard doctor Johnny Fever twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Boo Booker, booger. He got fired once for saying booger.
Well that's things have changed a little since then.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Boy, they have changed a lot. I was just looking
at this back in the year nineteen fifty five newspaper
in what is this Marxville, Louisiana, Marxville High School, Louisiana,
asked high school kids what they wanted in a spouse.
You know, because you're in high school, you're probably a
year or two away from getting married at that point.
(11:50):
In nineteen fifty five, Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Back in the day.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So I was reading this year and they asked different people.
Ida Bear, for example, said she likes to rise horses.
She said she wants to find a boy who looks
clean in need, a good Christian boy, she said. She
prefers that he'd be of good faith, but it doesn't
matter which faith specifically, she said.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Just any old faith will do, as long as he's faithful.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Well, I mean back then there were probably only four options, right, Presbyterian.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Oh, yeah, those were the good old days. Lutheran, what
else was there? Baptist? There weren't that many things you
could be.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, But what I thought was interesting here to make
your point about things changing, was John Voynsch Here in
nineteen fifty five, young man in high school, and for
some reason, they all look like they're thirty five, even
though they're seventeen.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
In the yearbook. Thing of an article here. Yep, people
looked older back in the fifties.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
John Voyinsch says, quote, he likes to play comic in
blackface minstrels. Oh boy, and he's looking for a young
woman of high morals and good faith.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
To blackface along with him. Or she must be.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Good looking and popular with folks. Wanted jolly, no sad sack.
What about shell shock? They just throw that out there,
Jill shocked. John likes performing in blackface minstrels. Like whoa.
The world has changed, No harm, no foul. Everybody's just
trying to have a good time.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
That's all time. Folks come along, somebody gets buttered over something,
Get over yourself. Entertainment's changed a little bit.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You know, we don't have blackface menstrel shows anymore unless
you're in Canada, you know, justin Trudeau. So sure, but
that's fine Katie Perry's new boyfriend. But in America, we
love w NBA. We just cannot get enough of it,
do we they arrest Yeah, we sure do. Listen to
this headline Billy d w NBA fan arrested for throwing
(13:39):
sex toy on court during game.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Oh that was the green dildo that went flying last.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Week in that embarrassing I mean being described as a
Wnba fan in a news store too.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
If they called me that, I know, don't.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
That is a big old It was a big old,
floppy green sex toy. Yeah, and uh, it was easily
the highlight of the whole season. I don't think there
was one other thing in the middle. You could see
how it would stop the action on the court. Yeah,
I mean there's there's ten girls out there.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Eight of them probably wanted to dive for that thing.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Sure, I mean, man, I have take it home. A
handful of them probably thought it was their Probably, hey,
did that slip out? Yeah, my gym back. Obviously we
obviously clearly was what you meant. Yeah. Meanwhile, Afghanistan's Taliban
government is trying to promote tourism to their nation. I
think that's going to change once visitors realize they have
(14:34):
a different definition of the term getting stoned.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah. I'm pretty sure a lot of those two way
tickets that you bought are kind of pointless. Yeah, I mean,
you're not coming back from that.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Who's going on vacation to Taliban occupied Afghanistan. It is
regulated by the Ministry of Information and Culture. There are
at least three hundred and fifty tourism companies operating in Afghanistan.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
That cannot be true.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I read about this yesterday and I thought, wow, that's crazy.
So I looked it up on Airbnb, which I've done before.
I'm sure I'm on the list. Did you book yourself
a spot? There's a lot of places on Airbnb for
the nation of Afghanistan. It's surprisingly large, I mean more
than you'd think you would think. Being a Taliban controlled
country where people basically live like cavemen, Airbnb options would
(15:23):
be slim to none, but they actually have a few.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And did you book yourself?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So no, but it does say in the AP today
the tourists are trickling into Afghanistan and the Taliban government
is eager to welcome them. Oh, I'm sure yeah, and
US tourists are invited. They want Americans to come. They
even have a very surreal video with a comedy hostage
scene where a guy looks like he's a hostage, but
then he reveals that he's on vacation.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
It's so bizarre of all this.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Honestly, as ridiculous as this is, I'm surprised we haven't
spent more time talking about it because it's horrible but
it's also really funny.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So it's fake hostage, but don't We also have some
real hostage videos that don't seem to be making it
to the news either. I'm glad you brought that up.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
There's this video of a Jewish man who has been
taken hostage by a different Islamic terror group.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
That would be Hamas.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I've heard of them, which is not actually a chickpea
based appetizer. That's right, it's different. I just want to
make sure we all get what we're talking about here.
The guy looks emaciated. He's in a tunnel with a
shovel and he's digging his own grave. Hamas re released
this video because they wanted you to know we've still
(16:36):
got your hostages.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
They're going to die soon, if they haven't died already.
Most of them have been dead for a while, but
they're keeping a few around and they won't give them
all back because what would they hide behind.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Weirdly, this video of a Jewish man being tortured and
mocked on camera, which Hamas released it's their propaganda video,
is not on the cover of the New York Times.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
No, it is now.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Weirdly, the USA Today not covering this, CNN not using
the footage at all, and the response that Hamas and
some of the pro Palestinian groups have given to critics saying,
look how horrible he looks is hey, he eats what
we eat. If you think he looks emaciated, we're all emaciated.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
He eats what they eat, maybe, but just not as
much as they eat.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I assume you're probably right if let's pretend they're right.
Let's pretend that the Hamas and the journalist and the
humanitarians and all the kids in Gaza don't have enough food.
Let's assume that's true, right, I mean, maybe it is right.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
I don't know. I'm not there.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Trump says he's going to send a special envoy to
go investigate because Benjamin Yet and nut Yah who says
people are not starving, and everyone else says they are.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
But let's assume that is true.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Do you think at this point, given how Gaza kind
of looks like Stalingrad at the end.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Of World War two, not at the beginning at the end.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Is there any incentive, any motivation at all for Hamas
to keep these hostages longer. I mean, what are they
gonna get out?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Of it. Let's assume that they're telling the truth.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
They're all starving to death, the journalists, the humanitarians there,
the people providing aid, the children, the hostages, the terrorists,
they're all starving. Okay, what's the end goal, guys? Yeah, okay,
now what let the hostages go? End of the war.
I don't think you're gonna defeat Israel today. I'm sorry,
it just doesn't look like it's in the cards for you. So,
(18:29):
and I say that as someone that is not the
most pro Israel guy.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
You'll hear on right wing talk radio around America. Oh
so you hate the Jews. No.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
My other position on this is if if we destroy Palestine,
if we knuke all of this or just blow it
up or whatever, where do you think those refugees go,
billyad Uh?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Oh, they go Bluey, they blow up some of them will, okay,
but not all of them.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Oh and then what they're gonna go to Klutes, They're
gonna go to Grimes County. What they're gonna go to Mandeville,
They're gonna go to Metarie, They're gonna go to Addison, Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
That Pineville, Yes, really Pinville. I think pinevill run a
retbacker CrossFit River Okay, maybe not Pineville. Okay yeah sure. Man.
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