Government Corruption Doesn’t Count - WED 5.1

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Didn't get to work.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Now, normally we talked like a minute or two ago,
but we were just doing things here in the studio.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
We were reacting to a news story.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
That fascinating thing, you know when you're watching a TV
show and they bring back an old.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Character you forgot about.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Hmmm, It's like, Ah, this guy hasn't been around since
season two.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Now it's season five.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
They're gonna yeah, he must had some more credits for
his contractor why are they bringing him back? Remember back
at twenty thirteen, Lois Learner and the Irst Party scandal.
This was Barack Obama's second term. I mean, our younger
listeners won't know what we're talking about at all right now,
but some you know, twelve years ago there was this

(00:39):
big scandal where I mean, it would have been a
big scandal if the media was honest, but they're not. Right, Yeah,
it's not gonna be It should have been a big scandal.
I mean it was a big scandal. It just never
really got the media. There was no Saturday Night Live
sketch about this. So Lewis Learner's back in the news.
Is that what you're Lois Learner was the head of
the FBI and she pled the thefth when she was

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testifying over whether or not her department at the federal
government was being used to attack and bully and intimidate
the political rivals of President Barack Obama. It was pretty
pretty cut and dry. It's like, you guys are taking
away the tax exempt status from some Judeo Christian groups

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because they seem to have right wing political beliefs. You're
auditing members of the Tea Party movement. You know.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
The big part of it is they were.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
It was real obvious, and they made her real clear
that they were specifically targeting wealthier Republicans for all of
their IRS reviews and audits.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, people closely associated the Tea Party movement, which is
what right wing populism was before Trump. But after Ross
Barrow and so Lewis Learner had to testify before Congress,
she pled the fifth. You know, I mean, did you
do anything illegal? I pleaded the fIF That was a
crazy thing for the head of the IRS to say
under testimony. Again, no Saturday Night Live sketch. The top aid,

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the confidant, the person that was working with rum or
Lowis Learner was the boss at the IRS. It's not
as if she was pushing the paper around or actually
doing the legwork. The person at the IRS that was
supposedly doing all of that just got fired yesterday, well
twelve years later. A notice of proposed removal, also known

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as a pink slip he is a former letter from
a federal agency informing a federal employee that the agency
intends to terminate their employment. So yesterday the official Holly
Paz found out thirty days to respond. She remains employed
at the IRS, but has about a month left here
pending a final decision regarding her employment status. Hasn't actually

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been fired yet. Yeah, but this is the process. This
is what it is.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Unless they decide something for some other reason not to
do it.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
You have thirty days to collect your belongings. Get out
of here if you'd like to. You know, maybe we're wrong.
We're willing to hear you out, but you got to
admit you had to do something illegal. If you had
to do something corrupt at your office, then it might
as well be the government because you'll never get into trouble.
I mean, then if you're going to do it, work

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for the government, because here it wouldn't take them thirteen
years to get around and letting us go. It would
take them thirteen minutes, and that's only because they had
to stop at the bathroom on the way exactly the
second the show ended. Oh there's people outside the studio.
I never heard of such a thing in my line
of work. Could you imagine someone coming down here is like, hey,
you guys, you stole a microphone from the equipment walker.

(03:38):
You were late to work every day for a month.
Your ratings are down, revenue sucks. You have twelve years
to collect your things and get all out of here.
Nobody in any line of work outside of a government
job would be afforded. It reminds me of that thing
years ago. There was This was a number of years ago.
I think it was right as Trump was taking office.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
There was a new story about a guy at the
EPA that was watching porn. Do you remember this.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
There was a guy at the EPA. He would show
up late for work, leave early every day. Environmental Protection Agency.
They wouldn't really it wouldn't protecting anything. This guy would
just show up at work and play with himself all
day in his office, and then at some point he
got caught.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
They had a hearing and they're like all right, two three.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Years later, It's like, what literally years, yes, literally years,
this guy had years before the because that's how convoluted
and complicated and stupid the government is.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
The government moves at the speed of glacier.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
So if this AID is in trouble, why isn't Lois Lerner?
What's she being mentioned to be in any trouble?

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Can't they?

Speaker 3 (04:42):
I mean, I know she's moved on right, And according
to this headline, no criminal charges are ever filed against
any IRS agent apparently, Well, it's just they're just free
to go about their business and do whatever they feel
like doing. She basically applied the fat that was it.

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She resigned on September twenty third, twenty thirteen. I don't
know where she is now. I couldn't tie him. No,
I haven't been keeping up with the career of Lois Learner,
but mid like seventy five years old. Maybe she's just
not doing anything anymore. But can't these charges be retroactive?
It's a good question, But no, the AID is going

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to take all the heat. But this is kind of
like that guy in the military who says I was
ordered to shoot those people by my superior officer.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Too bad. He's he's not in any trouble, but you are.
That's that's not right.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
There is an interesting question to be asked there, like
who is responsible and you know, who is supposed to be?

Speaker 1 (05:47):
What is justice?

Speaker 2 (05:49):
What is truth? That's what conscious pilot acts. Yeah, well it's.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Old news, but it's new news now, like you said,
with the new the old character coming back around. There
is some more troubling news in the world as war
seems to be escalating and not not going the other
way like Trump thought it would.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Oh yeah, there's much bigger problem because that's part of
the reason why this is so funny.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
They're trouble and cutter today, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, Poland. It's
a great time.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
With all the news that's going on, from the Ukrainian
woman to war and Israel and all of that, it's
a great time to bring up something that the media
had rather not tell you about anyway, because you probably
won't even listen to it. You won't pay attention to that.
It's just some little thing from you know, years ago,
is it? You got to admit? I mean, that's a
pretty smart strategy there. Well, they're really good at at

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deceiving and cheating and lying to the American public.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Wow, I wonder they control the world. It's amazing. Today
is weird, weird, weird. Let's get weird Wednesday, A good
Wednesday morning, everyone. Let's get were Walton and Johnson Radio Network.
You walked out with the was it ramblant on your mind?
What does I mean? I don't know. I mean I
for me, I'm just talking over here. No, I like

(07:06):
the sound of it, like going to talk.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
I was walking out the door today with thinking about
what I was going to say. I could translate redneck
thank you, It'd be easier Billy Edwards here.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Well, everything's easier with him, right. You know it pisses
me off. Somebody stole my coffee mug. Bastards.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yeah, it's been missing all week, and you just now
seem to be upset about it.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Well, you know, there was a day there where I
just thought that we were just using styrofoam, like we
were trying to get the microplastics back into our testicles.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
I've still got my happiness Pursuit of Happiness coffee mug,
and I know it's mine because it's marked on the bottom.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
I believe it yours. It's just somehow over the weekend
it just disappeared. It is odd, right, because you know
it's got my name on it.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
You know what I mean is of course mind es too,
So technically this is your mug.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
No, no, yours? Is that's yours? I know it is,
you know, But yeah, it is odd. Where did it go?
I'm starting to And I didn't bother me at first.
I didn't, you know, because I'm not so trivial and
you know, consumed by a possession of lowly devices that
I would get upset about such a thing. But now
three days into it, I'm starting to wonder who took

(08:12):
my coffee mode?

Speaker 1 (08:13):
It just took you a little while to get worked
up over it.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, I didn't realize I had the opportunity to be
mad about it. Now that I am mad, I want
to be all right, here's something else I'm mad about.
Let me play something for you. Tell me what you
think of this music.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
It is a nightmare on Elm Street. Horror movie kind
of feel to it.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Maybe a scary movie, but also at the same time,
maybe delicate enough that it could be from like a
pharmaceutical ad or maybe even tampons. Oh boy, it's something
a rom com or not really even a calm, just rom.
I hear this and I think elevator music. Right, would
you agree that this is not, yeah, scary elevator?

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Maybe? Would Would you miss a day of work for
this music? Try not to? Now? What would be the point?

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Right? You're probably wondering where this is the music of
Hans Zimmer. I didn't know who Hans Zimmer was last night.
He performed at the Toyota Center here in our city.
It's a venue for entertainment, music and basketball and that
sort of thing. And our local political official, the most
powerful elected Democrat in the state of Texas, Lena Hidalgo,

(09:21):
the Harris County judge, basically the mayor of the biggest
county in the state, left a commissioner's court hearing during
a budget crisis a two hundred and seventy five million
dollar projected deficit for fiscal year twenty twenty six, left court.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
To attend a Hans Zimmer concert. If she could listen
to this, why hum, huh? You did? What at a right?

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (09:49):
You? This was pretty cantetious too.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Abruptly left the budget meeting after the commissioners declined to
fund several early childhood programs.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
This is the Democrat thing now.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
They're mad that they've lost the last couple of big
elections over education and childhood. Parents don't want their kids
to get transd they're upset about how there's dudes in
the girl's bathroom.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Someone got raped. I don't know if you remember.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
That was a pretty controversial thing a couple of elections
ago in the state of Virginia by a trans kid,
and they covered it up, and ever since then, it's
been like a snowball effect, a domino effect, if you will.
Where around the country Democrats are losing elections over it
issues related to education and parenthood and that sort of thing.
So now they're going all in on free daycare. That's

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their thing, and they're not kidding it. It's not a
coincidence that Lena Hideogo is mad about this. That New
York City guy has been talking about it too. Free
childcare is like, oh, well, how would you pay for that?
You notice you can't answer that question right now, so
they say, apparently, now he's down in the polls a
bit because they've gotten to the point in his campaign
where he's actually supposed to explain what the plan is

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rather than just telling you all the free stuff you're
gonna get, it's great, free childcare. Well, we've never had
the money for that. Ever, how will we pay for it?

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Oh, it's that is not something that the democrats and
socialists tend to worry about. As you know, Little Lena
has been pushing for a property tax increase.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
But it's for the children, all the children.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
I can't believe you people won't join me and stand
up for the children. She actually said, shame on you.
I'm reading the story about how she left the budget
meeting early. Yeah, it doesn't say anything in here about why.
All it says is that discussions were tense and apparently

(11:43):
it wasn't going her way, and they made it sound
like she was just outraged that people won't join her
and fight for the children, and so she just stormed out.
But it turns out she had plans.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah, it turns out this news by the way to
us courtesy of a leftist journalist. While a liberal I
don't know how far he is, Scott Braddock is not
considered to be some right wing guy or whatever. He's
definitely considered to be a left leaning journalist, and he's
the one who published the report. Late last night, he
sent it to me saying, Hey, I don't know how
many people in Harris County are aware of this.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
But I'm not going to be aware of it. But
the reporting of mainstream media either, No, well, you know
that's why, and then why we're here, exactly why we're here.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
At the end of the day, it's our job to
let you know a very important elected official couldn't get
the job done yesterday because she needed to go listen
to music from a tampon commercial.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, it is Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
We're like halfway through the week.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Walton and Johnson Radio Network,