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This MIC's on everybody, No potty talk, it's fine. Onto. Yeah,
everybody's mics are on. Come about Mike's. Yeah, all the
microphones are on everybody, even Mike's. Who's Mike, Oh big Mike,
my my pat Fox. Yeah, we've've got a somebody email listen.
I said, this is the description. We said, a fox
kind of like a mix between a dog and a cat.
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And he said, the way he's had it described is
a fox is a uh, the the hardware of a dog,
but the operating system of a cat. That's interesting. Oh,
yesterday I got chastised for mentioning a celebrity child during
celebrity birthdays. I'm afraid I'm gonna do it again because
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who chastised you? I did? I don't remember doing that, Yes,
because I mentioned a celebrity. You know yesterday was Beyonce's child.
Oh yeah, you're right, that's not a famous person. Well
today it's Zahara Jolie Pitts twenty her birthday, Yes, Brad
and Angelina's daughter who was born in Awasaw, Ethiopia. Okay,
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now she's twenty one. What movies or TV shows is
she in? What is she in? Okay? Well, she's just
no celebrity's daughter. I don't think we can keep doing this, dude.
You can't keep doing a thing where you honor famous
people that are just because their parents are fir Come
about Miley Cyrus's sister. Noah Cyrus is twenty six today.
She has songs out, so she's got a reason to
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be on the celebrity list. It's a gray area because
she has a music career. But she only has a
music career because her celebrity sister in her end. For
the record, Miley only has a career because Billy Ray
a celebrity dad. Yeah. Right. At some point does the
nepotism disqualify these people? I think it has to. Let's
get the Britney Spears's sister on the phone and ask
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her leave them alone. Oh, well, they're fine, they're nice people.
Leave them out of this. Some ones that you don't
personally know, though, they can go away. That's different. Yes,
Happy birthday to Alphaba from Wicked. The seventy two pound
actress Cynthia Irivo is thirty nine today. I don't know
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she's exactly seventy two pounds, but she looks about seventy
two I'm guessing. Okay, Yeah, she's thirty nine today. Kim
Jong Un, the beloved leader of Norcorea, is forty two
years old. You're a big fan, right, yeah, I will Kim,
of course he's well does he live in uh? What?
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What city? What would you say that the birthday boy
lives in nurkin' uh Kanyong's screams. Everybody plugged their ears
before I said it. Ll R. Kelly convicted felon. He's
fifty nine years old. Bob Eubanks, who was the host
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of The Newlywed Game a thousand years ago, he's eighty
eight now. Shirley Bassey is eighty nine. That's the lady
that sang the theme song to three different James Bond movies.
That was a Goldfinger Diamonds are Forever in Moon Raker. Anyway,
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what's this guy? David Jones? Have you ever heard of him? No?
I don't know. I don't know how that. Oh, David Bowie.
He changed his name to Bowie because he liked the knife.
David Bowie born on this date, nineteen forty seven. Long dead,
as with Elvis Presley nineteen thirty five, Long dead. Evelyn
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Wood the speed reading lady, you know, been gone for
a while now, and the late Stephen Hawking having his
birthday today. He left us in twenty eighteen. He did
seven cameos on The Big Bang Theory before he left.
This this little blue dot. Today's National bubble band to Day,
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and I say we all observe that today. What do
you say? I do enjoy a good bubble bath? I
got a big tub. There's room for all of us. No, no, no,
I think, I yeah no, But you know, I'm not
too manly to say I don't like a good bubble bath.
Bubble baths a lot of fun, especially if you got like,
you know, rubber ducky, that kind of thing. You can
have a good time in a bath. You know what's
better than that? What's up a chick? Well? Yeah, obviously
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this is a family radio show, Billy, Yet we don't
speak about I'm sorry a woman. I mean that's better.
Oh that's better? Yeah, you go, but you really saved that.
I was worried. All right. It's National bubble bath Day,
National career coach Day. What do you think that means?
Coach day? Like the purses? Yeah, I'm thinking maybe like
a basketball? Go football? Oh? That makes more sense. What's
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like career coach? Don't you think of that implies? Uh?
You know, it could have been what Cinderella rode into
the ball. I guess this is probably a day to
hundred people like me because I've been teaching all you
guys how to do this this whole time. Trus important.
It's also Earth's rotation day, proving once again we don't
need all these stupid days. Oh we don't. Yeah, all right,
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With all that being said, today in history, he's probably
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now you're getting gay for history. How far back we're
gonna go seventeen ninety, What do you got? Tell me?
All right? On this day in seventeen ninety, President Jorge
Washington delivered the first State of the Union address. What
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did he say? How was everything he was? I think
back then they spoke Korean or some two thumbs up? Though?
Was it like, Hey, dude, looked around, Everything's been pretty
cool so far. I'll tell you. I'll hop on c
SPAN in a little bit. Maybe we'll find an old
video of that. We'll play it on the air. That
would be awfume today. In eighteen hundred, the first soup
kitchens were open to feed the poor in London. I
don't know why we needed that on the list, no
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idea today. In eighteen seventy seven, Crazy Horse fights his
last battle against the US cavalry in Montana. The dude
was crazy, man. And isn't that also where that's horse
was crazy? That's that song, Donnie Osmond's song, Crazy Horses.
The Osman's sure, is that what that's talking about? No,
they got a synthesizer. Oh well, then let's play it.
And they figured out they could use the synthesizer going
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to make course sounds. And a star was born or
a song at least today. In nineteen forty six, Elvis
Presley got his first guitar in Win Today, in nineteen
forty six, it says that's a long time ago. It
says it on the list. It was on his birthday.
He was eleven years old, and he got a guitar
for his birthday. So it's not just a coincidence. The
rest is history, I guess. Today, in nineteen sixty three,
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the Mona Lisa found its way to Washington, d C.
Where it ran for vice president and lost. Oh it
didn't win. No, that's a shame. Today. In eighteen sixty four,
at President Johnson declared a war on poverty, he said,
take that poverty, yeah, yeah, yeah, and warstocks just probably
just exploded in value, and now there is no such
thing as poverty anymore. No, But some people make the
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point that that was the beginning of what became a
very sad and dark era for low income inner city
black people who were then encouraged to remain in poverty
in an effort to get some free welfare and food
stamps and that sort of thing. That kind of sounded
like a good thing back then of all of our
never ending wars I gotta think that's the longest war,
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and it is a war we are not winning. There's
more of this Elvis stuff. It was nineteen ninety three
that a twenty nine cent postage stamp issued at the
office near Graceland. It's an Elvis stamp. The Postal Service
had held a vote the year before for fans to
choose Skinny Elvis or fat Elvis, and they Skinny over
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fat Elvis by eight hundred and fifty thousand, two hundred
and seventy seven thousand, So it wasn't even close. Yeah,
no kidding, how about that? For some reason, people just
don't like fat Elvis. If only he had had ozempic
back then, Oh yeah, that would have been handy today.
In eighteen seventy nine, the US advises the Shah to
leave Iran. They were like, get out of Iran and
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he was like shaw psych Today. In nineteen eighty two,
AT and T agrees to divest, break up whatever it was.
A monopoly was ended, and I don't know that was
the thing today, The thought of AT and T being
a monopoly is laughable. Yeah. Most of what we understand
about economics in the long term proves that monopolies really
don't last very long unless the monopoly is a government. Yeah. Oh,
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and then somehow they managed to get protection status. Imagine
somebody saying, oh, yeah, AT and T, they're never going
to lose their power because we have these phone lines.
They connect every house together, and they own them, and
there will never be another way to communicate. Nope, never
have it. Do you think that AT and T could
have stopped the advent of the iPhone or the you know,
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of mobile phones in general. No. Today. In nineteen ninety two,
President George hw got sick on a trip to Japan
and vomited on the Prime Minister right in his lap.
Didn't He just sick, filled his lap up, just liked it.
It was one of my earliest memories of being very
interested in politics. That's what brought you in. No, for me,
it was the Bill Clinton launching rockets after Monica Lewinsky's
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cigar scandal. Oh yeah, I remember thinking, Wow, it wasn't
even the cigar that was interesting enough, but the fact
that he could use rockets to distract everyone from his rocket.
Uh huh. Today. In nineteen ninety six, nobody was elected
to Baseball's Hall of Fame, really, yep, not on one
person didn't. Nobody stood out, nobody looked good enough. Today,
in two thousand and two, George W. Junior signed the
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No Child Left Behind Act, and kids were immediately left behind.
Of course, that's how government works. The war on poverty,
the war on drugs, the war on children' behind the
same thing. And finally, and this is a very important one.
On this day, in twenty eleven, Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was
wounded in a mass shooting at a camp hand event
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in Tucson, Arizona. News immediately blamed it on some kind
of right winger Republican. Yep. Turns out that wasn't the case.
It never is, yep. But history doesn't remember the truth, no,
it just remembers what they want you to remember the truth.
There is nothing wrong with your radio. Yes, all the
family loves cheese. From the time you've called, you can
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feel the difference. You have half a minute less remaining
in your owne Walton and Johnson Radio Network. We are bad.
I can't hear our producer in Houston. We're on the
air right as far as I know we are. Hey,
can you hear the yellow lights? Oh? He says, we're
on the green lights. They're all working now. I will
say this, though, this is the time of morning when
everybody else here at the ski resorts starts waking up
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and getting on their phones, getting on their whatevers, and
and then sometimes we will lose a signal occasionally if
we if we drop off or disappear or whatever, just
know it's it's a wicked old WiFi. Not anything I did. Yeah,
it's not because we cut out early to go drinking,
of course. Not. No, we would never. On TV tonight,
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if you're interested, there's some new shows. Some are premiering.
Maybe you've seen commercials for them. This one is the
second season premiere of The Pit I don't know if
you've watched that on HBO Max or not. Fourth season
premiere of The Traders is on Peacock. I'm not familiar.
Second season premiering The Hunting Party, A Girl Taken a
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Paramount plus premiere, and this one I've actually I like
John Burnfall, the actor the series premiere of a show
on Netflix called His and Hers six episode Thriller I
Love to be Thrilled. Yeah, John Burnfall and Tessa Thompson
as spouses who are separately investigating a murder while suspecting
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each other. Oh, it's interesting. It's fear the only unpleasant
emotion we have that we enjoy when it's artificial, you know,
I wonder, but we do like to be scared. I mean,
the prevalence of you know, scary movies from evermore like,
think about other unpleasant emotions. Boredom, for example, nobody wants
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to sit around and pretend to be bored. You don't
watch videos of people sitting in an office with you know,
what is it like fluorescent lighting in a cubicle doing
nothing for hours? You know, And if you had to
live that life, you might as well just go in
and just leave early sad depressing films tend to not
do well, right Like, there aren't people that are obsessed
with depressing films, but they have entire conventions for horror films.
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It's part of the sci fi comic book world, right exactly.
They have that what I can't think of one other thing.
There aren't that many other unpleasant feelings, I guess. And
then if that is the case, why is that? Why
do we like that so much? Question? It makes us
feel alive. The Yellowstone sequel was originally called Why the Letter,
Why Marshals, that's so we would remember Yellowstone. Now they've
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they've changed it, officially changed it in the promotional materials
and everything. Now it's just called Marshals. But it still
features you know, Kevin Costner's youngest son, the guy that
was in the military and then he becomes a marshal. Sure,
now it's about him, and I guess his whiney Indian
wife is probably in it too, right, So I think
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you're talking about Luke Luke Grimes is Caseys. He's the star,
and then that means it probably also has Monica and
it That's what I'm saying, is his whiney wife. Yeah,
Now she's whiney for a reason. She might not be
like that in person, but that's how the writers and
the director wanted her to be. And it aggravated people
a lot, all right, So what about the other spinoff him?
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There supposed to be the Four Sixes or whatever. There's
supposed to be about half a dozen different things coming
out of that world, but I ain't seen nothing yet,
and none of them involved Kevin Costner. No, And they
didn't get along, you know, Kevin Costner and the Taylor
Sheridan Taylor Sheridan, that's right. Yeah, big egos clashed and
they decided to part ways. Isn't that a shame when
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people you like don't get along with each other. I
don't like that. Look, I always had a lot of
respect for Dan Bongino until this, you know, weird news
cycle that we're living in, and him and Matt Gates
don't get along and you like them both, or you did?
I mean I did. Yeah, I don't know how I
feel about Bongino. Now I understand. I fell think Mack
Gates is pretty cool in a weird alternate universe. In
a parallel timeline, Matt Gates was approved by the Senate
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to become Attorney General, and him and Dan Bongino, who
apparently very openly don't like each other, based on the
arguments they're having on social media this week, would have
had to work together at the Department of Justice peacefully
in order to appease their employer, Donald Trump. And that
could not have gone worse. But isn't that weird? That's
very very Yeah, that's the kind of stuff I think
about when I'm waiting on a chair lift to go skiing. Yeah,
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I did not know that's what you were thinking about.
Another fake ICE agent arrest, this time in Galveston. The
guy who confronted him tells ABC News, I noticed his
gear and his outfit. It looked like it just came
in from TIMU. It wasn't like what real cops wear.
That's funny, he's a t BU cop. Robert Harvey and
Bruce Redman say two months ago they came across a
man claiming to be an ICE agent. Harvey says, quote,
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he was doing everything a normal cop does, police officer.
He had people's IDs in his hand. He was shining
a flashlight in these people's faces. I noticed his gear
in his outfit. It looked like it just came in
from TIMU. It wasn't like what real cops wear. That man,
later identified as Joshua Warner, was arrested last week on
two counts of impersonating a public servant. Here's my question
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for you guys. I know we don't want to agree
with the left, especially the far left, about anything, but
knowing that there have been cases like this and I'm
not suggesting that this is what I think, I just
want to know what you guys think. Is there a
point to be made about ICE agents wearing masks, Well,
the point that they make is that these people are
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trying to kill them, hunt them down, harass them, stalk
them and their family members. They're trying to find out
who they are, where they live, where they go to church,
where the kids go to school, and all those kind
of things. And I get that, right, But on the
other hand, I don't want to get arrested by a
fake agent of the government. How do you know if
they do, you want to get arrested by a regular cop?
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Well no, but okay, Well then just try not to
get arrested by a fake one or a real one. Okay,
But if a fake person's arresting you, it's because you know,
they're a criminal breaking the law. They're out tricking people.
All I'm saying is this, I'm not against ICE agents
wearing masks. I'm not. Don't start writing emails about that
and they're suggesting I'm telling you that. I'm just saying
I think there needs to be a solution to this,
and it's not make the cops or the ICE agent's
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jobs harder. No, I'm not an advocate for that, but
we've got to figure out something there's got to be
some kind of way, I don't know, just to verify
that these guys who are they they say they are,
Because a fake ICE agent going around terrorizing people in
Galveston isn't something I want happening in my community. No,
you don't want to Hell No, anyway, there's always gonna
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be the pros and cons to everything. I even take
the back and forth of things. All right. Here's another
odd thing today that we haven't had a chance to
get to yet. Are car headlights getting too damn bright?
Oh god, they got there? What are they called them?
The special cans they got now modern led technology. Yeah,
they're supposed to off with kind of a blue blue
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color to them. Yeah, and it's supposed to make us safer.
I don't I'm not sure. Is it the headlights or
is it how big the trucks are that have those headlights?
Because when those lights in the front of those big
jecked up trucks that are everywhere, Now, those headlights aren't
like down low where car headlights are. They're up high,
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like right at your head level you're driving, and they're
coming right into your windshield. They're supposed to be down
low pointed at the ground. Steven made a point a
while back. Uh, you know the creator of this radio show,
a guy who doesn't work much. While we're live on
the air, by the way, yeah we're on Steve, I'm
talking about you. Steven made a point a while back.
He said he doesn't like driving late at night because
as he's getting older, it's getting late. You know, it's
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been snowing all night. We might want to go ski,
and so we're gonna do it when the show ends.
You have to first. I said something wonderful. You said
something a while back about how you said, as I'm
getting older, I don't like driving at night because I
can't see anything with the other car's headlights. It's and
you made it sound like it's because you were getting older.
I am getting older. Okay, I'm getting older too, and
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I think I and I have perfect vision. But I'm
experiencing the same exact thing you're experiencing, blinded by the light.
It's the LEDs, it's this, it's these damn headlights. Can
we just get the normal bulbs back they were safe,
Go around parking lots with hammers and take care of it. No, okay,
well that sounds like what you were suggesting, and I
would think that would be wrong getting How dare you
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say something ridiculous like that. People have been complaining about this,
and the numbers support the public's frustration. Older halogen bulbs
produced approximately one thousand lumens. Right, there's a lot of lumens.
These new ones produce four thousand lumens. What us Dexter's
girlfriend's name for a while, some of them produced ten
thousand lumens. Well, that's a lot. The problem is that
the federal brightness standards for automotive headlights have not changed
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in decades. We didn't know this was possible before. So
what do we do? What do we do? Squint? Wear
your sunglasses at night? I bet you they sell a
product for you to wear to enhance your night vision,
and you can just go spend some money and buy
that stuff. Yeah, man, you know you could wear it.
I bet Corey Hart's not having a problem. He wears
sunglasses at night, and that was way before the LED
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light bulbs. Yeah. Anyway, regulatory loopholes are making the issue worse,
and this is a problem that's not going away anytime soon.
If you feel like it's just you it's not we've
all noticed this stuff. Not what you gonna do about it?
I mean talk about it that I did my part.
We've done all we can possibly do. I'm on the
radio right now telling people about it, you know what,
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couraging people to pick up hammers. Though, no good, because
that would be wrong. It would be illegal. Bill, Yet
you got anything. Washington Post not normally a place you'd
turn to for this sort of a story, but they have.
They've actually written a story trashing Mmdami and his pet
communist CEO Weaver. Really the Post, the Washington now New
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York Post. They do fun stuff all the time. Washington
Post very much like the New York Times. Uh, not
usually confrontational to the socialists? Are they imagine that? Hey,
ladies and gentlemen, as we slide into the new year,
it's important we make some necessary changes. It's funny because
we're skiing it this week and we're sliding into the
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new year. You like how I did that? Did that
on purpose? Thank you for noticing he did it on purpose? No,
I mean I did prove it if I didn't. Right,
Happy new Year. Here's a quick note for twenty twenty six. Hey, Kylie, Jenner,
Could you stop posting pictures of yourself pouting while wearing
a skimpy outfit. We know you're not a lonely sad sack.
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