Music of Prince Surges - MON 9.2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We got email here from Walton Johnson email from Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Oh it's from Minnesota. What did they say there about
Michael Lindalt.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
I don't know if you've noticed or not, but Lindelle's
not the only guy being mentioned in the news lately. Okay,
he's still running for governor apparently. Yeah, and the guy
that is governor now he can go run.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
The big announcement at eleven am Central time today won't
be long. They've claimed he's going to be dropping out.
That's what they say. I mean, who knows if that's true,
but we'll find out.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Gary's email here from Minnesota is about a different governor
of a different state. Cases. I'm a long term listener
to Walton Johnson Show, currently a Louisiana casion boy exiled
to Minnesota for work. I've retired just now, and I
can't get out of this state fast enough, especially what
with everything going on. This came to mind Louisiana the

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year two thousand three term governor Edwin Edwards. Maybe you
heard of him, some say, the most corrupt governor in
our lifetime. Convicted and sent to federal prison for fraud, racketeering,
and bribery. The amount in question was a whopping three

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million dollars related to casinos, not taxpayer money and all
that kind of stuff. Minnesota says, hold my beer. And
we thought Edwin Edwards a big time criminal, but I
mean he's an amateur by today's Minnesota standards. Garris has
been listening since the mid nineties or so. You guys

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have kept me saying on military deployments across the world
and here in Tampon Tim's backyard until I can get out, boy, howdy,
appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Gary. There are a lot of people, particularly in the
state of Minnesota, who claim they're going to strike the
irs this year. They're not going to pay their taxes
because they're so mad about all the money being given
to fraudsters. Now, the sentiment among those people is they
can't arrest us all. That's the thing they all say,
Uh yeah, And I don't agree. I think they can't.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
They probably arrest you faster than they'll arrest people irresponsible.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
For the fraud. They could certainly arrest you all. No
pay your taxes, guys, I mean, obviously, like Donald Trump said,
try to pay you know less taxes if you can,
but do it legally. You don't you know, search for
write offs charitable ones. A great one is Wheelchairs for Warriors.
That's always a good rid. It's a five oh one
C three charity. If you have to give money to someone,

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why not give it to them. It's a tax deductible donation.
You'll feel real good about giving them that money. In
the meantime, exciting news from Dallas. Apparently AT and T
is moving to Plano. From where to Plano? Plano, Texas
or from Dallas. Well, that's all the same thing. Well, now, Dallas.
Here's what's so interesting about that. The mayor of Dallas

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was just in the news saying there's going to be
a flood of Wall Street firms leaving New York City
to go to Dallas. Why don't they just skip Dallas
and move right to Arlington.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Well, I don't know. The Plano is different than Arlington.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson said, Mom Donnie's socialist agenda for
the Big Apple will accelerate defections of big financial firms
from the city. And as somebody that is an advocate
for y'all street the hopefully incoming Texas Stock Exchange, I
agree with them. I think that there is a lot
of promising entrepreneurial spirit in the state of Texas. You

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will not find in a communist socialist towelholl like New
York City.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
It'll meantime. I was prompted to check the finances here
just real quick now. Jones still up six hundred and
sixty one points so far this morning out Nasadac up
right at three hundred. So that's a real nice game.
Percentage wise, that's pretty much the same over one percentage
point at this time. May have something to do with Venezuela.

(03:55):
Might just have something to do with you know, first
of the year, everybody probably sold off all the loss
for tax purposes. You know, you sell to looses so
you can take that deduction too, and then maybe you
take that money that just you got when you sold out.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
I love it. You don't buy it up today, Fresh
start Investing, Fresh way to go. Absolutely a happy news
story today from Ashland, Ohio. Two students, Katrina and her
brother Charlie, were riding the school bus when Katrina, sitting
near the front of the bus, noticed something wasn't right
with the driver. When she asked the bus driver if
she was okay, the driver shook her head no, and said,

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I'm a woman driver. No, I'm just kidding. She shook
her head no and said, well, she didn't say anything.
She pointed at her throat. Uh uh oh. The eight
year old Katrina pulled the parking brake and ran to
the back of the bus to tell the other kids.
Her brother, Charlie, aged fourteen, what a fourteen year old
was doing on a bus with an eight year old
I don't know? Saw the driver waved the radio in

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the air and realized that his little sister's warnings were serious.
So he runs to the front of the bus and
he used the radio to call for help.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Is anybody steering the bus at this point? Or has
it stopped?

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Because that little girl knew where the emergency the emergency
break was that, he said. When I realized that something
was going on, I went up there, I grabbed the radio.
I called the school. When asked how he knewed to
use the radio.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Baker one man, he gets your teddy bear.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
No he didn't do that. No, but you'll enjoy this bill. Yet.
When asked how he knew to use the radio, Charlie
quipped that he'd seen a few dukes of Hazzard movies
Oh my god. The adrenaline pumping through movies.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
The TV shows, which was better?

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yeah, I mean the movies was all right, Come on,
that was some of Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson's best work.
What are you talking about, Willie Nelson, Willie Nelson, Jesse
in the movie. No, it was Ben Stiller and john
you're talking about a different guy. Yeah, and Johnny Knoxville.
What are you talking about. I'm talking about Dukes of Hazzard.
What are you talking about? Anyway, the adrenaline pumping through

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him probably made the emergency feel like a movie, and
his movie watching paid off in this case, because help
soon arrived. Katrina was proud of her and her brother's
response to the emergency. They were able to save the
bus driver's life and they all lived happily.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Ever, I think they probably saved all those children's lives
too on that bus.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Sure, absolutely. I mean they would have been late to
get to school that day, and then nobody would have
indoctrinated them into communism exactly. Yeah, that's my point. That's
obviously what you meant.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
That's clear as day.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah. Exciting news. The Trump administration is suing the state
of Virginia for giving in state tuition to illegal aliens
attending college.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Did give it away?

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, the Trump administration and Pam Bondy are actually doing
something well. Pambondy filed a federal lawsuit against Virginia for
giving money to illegal immigrants to go to college. But
why why do we have to do that? Is college
not expensive enough in this country for the people that
are here legally?

Speaker 1 (06:46):
We shouldn't have to pay for college, Kenny, You know
that nobody should ever have to pay for stuff.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Well, you have to, you're an American. Yeah, I don't
want to go, but if you were here illegally, you
wouldn't have to. You could be from West Virginia, Maryland,
Tennessee and live thirty minutes from a Virginia school, but
not get the same benefit as somebody who crossed over
the border illegally during Biden's administration.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, you think that was an accident? Think again.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
One kind of has to wonder how did this happen?
Have Republicans in Virginia been asleep at the wheel for
four years? I thought Glenn Youngkin was in charge this
whole time.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
You know it was all on purpose, right, And everybody.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Goes, oh, well, I can't believe they look that happened.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
It's like, no, they wanted it, They made it to happen.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah, it's true anyway, Now hopefully it's coming to an
end thanks to the federal government. Of course, they still
get funding from the federal government, which means you and
I had to pay for it, even though we don't
live in Virginia.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
That's why you should not pay your taxes anymore.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Right, Nope, we disagree. The Walton and Johnson Show encourages
you to pay your taxes and follow all other laws.
Once again, we remind you that Billy ed Hatfield is
not the legal attendant of this ratings suggests you don't
pay your tax No, I'm going to pay my taxes.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
I'm you're messing my plan up.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
I would like to remind the irs that I Kenny
Webster pay his taxes. Billy ed Hatfield, he's the one
saying this crazy stuff and he lives in Clute, Texas
at seventeen oh five farm to market Road. Now you know, wow,
I just had the weirdest dream. You know, you're driving right,
Walton M.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Johnson.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
It is whiter outside right now than a cal salad.
It is whiter outside than a Cold Play album. It
is whiter outside than a Suparo dealership. It is snowing,
is what I'm trying to say. It is very very white.
It is very white outside. Mister. Oh, I've only seen
one black guy besides you the whole time we've been
here for the last few days.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Oh yeah, you can't help a run into the bulls
out here.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
You know what surprised me.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
You could help running into him. But when you do,
you notice.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
You notice, right, And you know what surprised me. Not
a snowboarder. Usually when you meet a black guye here,
he's a snowboarder. This guy was a skier.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
I hope you're not trying to stereotype.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
No, it's just a thing.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
I know.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Look, I'm just telling youeotyping. No. In my experience, every
time I've met a black guy at a ski resort,
he's been a snowboarder. And yesterday I met a black
guy that was a skier.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
What about that one you took ski in last year?

Speaker 2 (09:02):
He wasn't a skier or a snowboarder. He didn't do nothing.
He a friend of him fell over a lot, A
friend of mine, a doctor who happens to be black.
Wanted to go skiing with us, and he was pretty
confident that since we could all ski, he could figure
it out.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Sure, and then if you can do it, then why
shouldn't I be able to do it?

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Right? I gotta tell you, I really enjoyed watching him
not be able to ski. He's an old friend of mine.
He's a good buddy, but it's kind of a brother,
you know, brother's kind of friend of me. He's a
little bit when we compete athletically at bay.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Y'all love watching me fall too. Y'all love yucking it
up every time Billy hits the snow.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Hospital workers in Iowa went above and beyond to find
a woman set of lost rings. Susan Sinwell had her
grandparents' wedding rings on. I don't know why she was
wearing both of them, and she removed them so she
could take an X ray. Then she didn't realize they
were missing until the next day. Turns out she wrapped
them up in a napkin and they ended up in
a trash compactor. Oh no, here's what's amazing. The hospital workers,

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because it's Iowa, they're nice people. The maintenance workers used
metal detect to separate all the trash with metal in it.
Then the staff used the portable X ray machine to
find the rings. Here's a guy named Craig Bouskall I
know that's his name, the imaging manager at the hospital
and Susan talking about how they found the ring.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
It only took us thirty five images about forty five
minutes worth of imaging to come up with striking gold,
I guess you could say.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
And so that was really rewarding.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
I can't think of enough.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
And then when he told me what it all happened
and how many people I'd help.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
This is the best place for care.

Speaker 4 (10:34):
But it was really rewarding to be able to give
her a call and let her know that we in
fact did find them, which I honestly didn't think that
that was going to happen.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
It's a lovely story, It's wonderful. I love it. Any
of you guys watched Stranger Things. I used to watch it,
but I stopped after the first couple of seasons.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah, I'm not. I didn't stay with it like some
of the younger people that I know. But it's the thing.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
The music, the music of Prince has searched after a
couple of songs from Purple Rain were used in the
finale of Stranger Things. In one scene, an actor or actors,
I don't know which put a phonograph needle to the
eighties album and a lot of great music in the
last episode. You guys would probably enjoy David Bowie, Iron

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Maiden Fleetwood, Mac Prince, The Pixies, Edda James, Oh, Edna
James love her. Yeah, the song is at Last. I
don't know if that's an eighties song or not. It
goes way back. I guess the series finale hit theaters.
I thought it was a show on I know, next.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Netflix, But it's hit the theaters and it's the last
it's the final season. Everybody's excited because you know, New
Year's Day and all that.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
And some of the actors showed up at the movie
theater and then awkwardly had to leave right away as
their parents realized they were under age. And a lot
of the people at the movie theater were creepy people
there fully grown adults who were interested in teenagers. That's
always been my problem with the show. It's a show
about kids. I'm an adult. Yeah, I don't want to
watch kids do stuff that's weird.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
But they're trying to get you to watch it. Now
with the news about the soundtrack that's luring older people
in like ourselves, I have subjected you, guys.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
I have forced you guys to listen to the new
Tron soundtrack produced by Trent Rezner and Nine Inch Nails.
You've listened to it many times on this radio show.
Do you know how many times I've seen that movie?

Speaker 3 (12:21):
None?

Speaker 2 (12:21):
And I'm not gonna see it. It doesn't look good.
It looks like it's a very poorly done movie. So
we can just buy the CD of the soundtrack, right bingo? Well,
I see d I get what you're doing. Actually, I
think you can get it on vinyl or something, but
I know you could buy all the albums. I just
describe you at a James and David Bowie, and I.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Know people in their twenties that have turned tables, and
I don't know people in their fifties that have turned tables.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Turntables are very popular. Ye, well, it gives people something
to buy.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
And it was on Thing like Stranger Things where they
said she just dropped the needle on that old show. Oh,
speaking of musicians, Barry Manilow has never Mind has given
fans an update on his health after he shared his
cancer diagnosis recently. The photo shared this past Friday, eighty
two year old singer who writes the songs that makes

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the whole world sing, lying in a hospital bed in
his hospital gown, smiling saying better today from the Copa
Copa Cabana said he was doing better, sending his love
positive wishes. We love you, Barry. God is good. Can't
wait to see you again soon. So good news there.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Oh that's cool. He did a cover of that K
pop song Copa Cabana.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yes, that's what he did.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
I didn't know that. Scott Adams speaking of fighting cancer,
the creator of the Dilbert comic strip. He's dying right now.
He just announced he's all well, okay, fair, but he
just announced he's converting to Christianity in his final days.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Well, I talk about this simulation, and especially when I
talk about my own impending death, many of my Christian
friends and a Christian follower say to me, Scott, do
you still have time? You should convert to Christianity.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
So he's gonna do it, Okay, Scott, you got to
treat every day, like it's your last day, my buddy,
all you got to do is love some Jesus. That's
what I keep trying to tell these heathens, converting from
what I don't know what he was, well Gilbert comic strip.
Was he a Jew? Or was he an atheist? One
or the others? Those are the only two options I'm
going for. He was either a Jew or an atheist.
I don't know which he was, and I won't try

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to guess because that will offend people. Was he a
Jew or an atheist?

Speaker 1 (14:33):
You're just gonna go keep going though, Well.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
I want to know now, I want to know. Who
doesn't want to know? Let's see.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, but can you believe what you find?

Speaker 2 (14:42):
No?

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Well it's on the internet.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
You know.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
You can't believe most stuff it's on there.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
No, No, you're right anyway, I love God is the point.
It's never too late. Is the God, the real one?
The Almighty? Allah? Who else? Do you I cad? I'm
kidding him. Hey, An Australian social media influencer has gone
viral over an odd gift that was given to her
on a first date meets Celeste Jones, a Wan massager.

(15:07):
It says so right, on the box. She went on
a date. She matched with a guy on hinge. Are
you familiar with Hinge? She matched with the guy on
hinge and she arrived at the date. It was clear
that he was even more of a catch than she expected.
She says. He brought lasagna on the date. He brought
her lasagna, his mo homemade lasagna recipe, so they could
eat lazagna together at a bar out.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
It went out with like in a cassero old dish.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah. The gift, as bizarre as it may seem, was
calling back to one of Jones' Hinge prompts, where she said,
my love language is known as lasagna. So he made
lazagna and he brought it on the date. Now here's
what I want to know. How do you know the
lasagna isn't poisoned? You just met this person five minutes ago.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
How do you also know that he didn't just buy
it in a restaurant, take it home, PLoP it into
a dish, and then bring it.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
To you and say I made this You're how about it?

Speaker 5 (15:58):
Though?

Speaker 2 (15:58):
I think he still gets credit, wouldn't you agree?

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yu?

Speaker 1 (16:00):
I mean partial?

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Because it said on her Hinge profiles, she loved Lazagna,
and he read it and he brought it on the date. Well,
at least it wasn't like a severed finger, or like
a jar full of DNA or something weird like that.
When I first started reading that article, I thought it
was gonna end creepy.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
I didn't think it was gonna end with known as
Lasagna who came on a date and brought you a
separate finger. Gina, you've been dating the wrong ladies. I'll
tell you.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
I'll tell you the story later, real quick. Here's John Walton. Everybody,
don't forget boys and girls to eat it every day.
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Speaker 5 (16:37):
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We might reply, Yeah.

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Chances are we're just sitting around waiting to hear from you.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah, so, what's the big deal. Go to Walton Johnson
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