Government Shutdown Hasn't Gone Well for Democrats - WED 5.1

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've been dabbling with homelessness. It's really a lot easier

(00:03):
than I would have thought.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah, that's probably something to get prepared for for a
lot of others. The price that things are going up
and the situation doesn't seem to be getting better. Fifty
year mortgages, now, I just ought to tell somebody that
should be a sign maybe things are too expensive.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
The average annual income for somebody in their twenties is
about forty thousand dollars, and the minimum you need to
earn a year to buy your first home is about
eighty thousand dollars. To get a mortgage on an average
price home, I'm not even sure what you'd qualify for
with that. So this whole fifty year mortgage thing, whether
you like it or not, I don't love the idea.

(00:43):
But Trump making the suggestion, it's not like it's not
like he made the housing crisis.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
He's just coming up with kind of out of the
box thinking to come up with something. Why don't we
instead of the standard, let's just keep doing things the.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Way we do them.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Here's a problem, creative innovations.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
The only problem with a fifty year mortgage besides everything,
because you're not building any equity. It's kind of like
if you rented a home or an apartment, but when
the plumbing stops working, you're responsible for it.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
That's on you.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, enjoy and then the property tax bill will come
along like they're coming along right now.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, that's part of it exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
So the government shutdown is pasted committee in the House,
it passed the Senate and oh look, Mitch McConnell's snuck
in a little hemp ban.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
How about that?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Hm. They keep putting things in. They didn't want to
leave it alone.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
The Senate late Monday night passed a funding package.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
This news wasn't even really widely available yesterday morning while
we were on the air. I mean it was, but
it wasn't widely reported. I mean, if you've read the bill.
When we got up at five in the morning yesterday,
none of us thought to read this. I don't know,
what is it, like a twenty thousand page spending bill
or something. It seemed a little much. But they passed
the funding package that would reopen the government. Tucked into

(02:04):
the funding bill on page you know, ten eighty seven,
Paragraph nine, line eighteen is a provision that would recriminalize
many of the hemp derived products that were legalized by
Donald Trump's twenty eighteen Farm Bill.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
I say nay nay to.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
That's uh.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
One person was against it. That'd be Senator Ran Paul
waged a last minute fight to try to keep the
provision out. Some claim it was Mitch McConnell who put
it in. Interestingly enough, they're both senators from Kentucky. He
got the vote on Monday. Paul and Ted Cruz were
the only Republicans who voted in favor of stripping that
from the bill. So there's two senators in the Republican

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Party who said, hey, why don't we just keep the
agriculture laws the way they are? You know, because after all,
it was a Donald Trump accomplishment. This is a maga thing, right.
But the old school neo cons the Dan Patricks and
John corn In's, the Bill Cassidys of the world, they
just weren't the John Kennedys.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
As funny as Foghorn Leghorn is, he is not on
the side of liberty. Sadly, the bell as it now
stands overrides the regulatory frameworks of several states, cancels the
collective decisions of Hence hemp consumers destroys the livelihood of
hemp farmers, makes it so that people with PTSD glaucoma
arthritis inflammation now have to turn to more dangerous drugs

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to deal with that.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
I don't know why people aren't rising up. Let's rise up.
I'm a gimmick, they'd like to say. Out in the country.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Most people don't even know this was in there, even
as you and I are discussing it right now. I
listened to every newscast this morning, like I often do.
Nobody mentioned this. You would to know that this was
going on. You'd have to go look for it. I
didn't see it mentioned on Fox News last night. I
didn't hear it on the BBC this morning. ABC News,
who loves to get mad at Republicans for doing sneaky things,

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had nothing to say about this.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Maybe they're doing that Nancy Pelosi thing where you have
to vote for it to hear about what's in it. Boom,
we pass it and then we'll tell you all about it.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah, pass the bell and then you could find out
whether or not it's good or it sucks.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Okay, we're back to that again.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
We're back to that again.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
I don't like it.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
What the f H?

Speaker 2 (04:19):
So that's where I what if your abbreviated mouth sir.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
I feel like a breathing ate it.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
I've got a point in life where I do that
off the air too, just because I don't want to
accidentally swear. And when you do it on the air,
it's like whoa edgy when you do When you do
it off the air, you look like a school mom.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
You know. Anyway, I'm homeless now.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well, dang, ain't that something?

Speaker 1 (04:41):
But don't get me wrong, it's by choice. I figured
out you you can get a lot from being home.
I signed on yesterday.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
You apparently have more than one shirt because you were
homeless yesterday, right, and you have a different shirt on now.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
I found a little old lady that has taken petty
on me. She's been doing my laundry. That there's the secrets.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
That's the kind of thing you want to share with
the audience who worried about being homeless someday. And it's
not that bad.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
If you're even a little bit charming, and believe me,
I am a little bit charming, just a little, just
a little, just a smidge, you could get a lot
out of yesterday, I ate for free. I took a
shower at a fancy country club ice and I only
did this as an experiment.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
My house is fine, Melton's there, so it's okay.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
The dog thing, I think could be challenging, but then again,
people love a dog.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
They'll probably throw him food that you might need.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
I'm not out panhandling yet, but I've considered it just
to see what it's like.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
You know, so you're like fletch at the fancy country
club and then you're like homeless the rest of the time.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
What is fletch?

Speaker 2 (05:39):
It's a it's an older guy here.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Just what it is? You know what?

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Today is a day Wilton and Johnson Radio Network.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Real stupid, stupid. Okay, yeah, hi everybody, because.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
I noticed it got a little more humid outside. It's,
you know, the last couple of days. This morning warm,
almost dank even when you walk out after we get
used to some really brisk temperatures there for a couple
of days, and that today the high will go over
eighty in the South Texas coastal area and probably a

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lot of other areas along the coast.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
How do you think the word dank evolved from meaning
humid temperature, wet outside too, like spicy memes? How do
you think we those are dank memes?

Speaker 3 (06:29):
You got dank meme?

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Man?

Speaker 3 (06:31):
I guess it probably had seventy two with marijuana.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
I would bet I wouldn't imagine. So Doctor o Oz,
doctor Oz is his name. He's encouraging people to have
Trump babies. Or you can make your own by taking
a regular baby and just painted orange.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
That'd be cool.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, then that's still a Trump baby. Sure, why does
he care? Well, it works for Trump, but it's secure
if we have babies or not social Security.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
I'm guessing I don't know the Elon and doctor Oz
and if they want you to get girls pregnant, I'm trying.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
I'll tell you what I'm doing my part. I'm not.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Actually, No, you don't think you are. Haven't many many
women been banging on your door clamoring for you to
give them a child, and you refuse.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
No, that doesn't sound at all like my life. No,
not even a little bit. Put your baby. No, that's
who could blame him.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
I'm a mess, But I will tell you this, in
the fight for liberty and freedom, we're on the front lines. Lately,
feels good I was on TV in New Hampshire last.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Night, the Granite State.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Right, the show is called Granite State Live. And that's perfect,
they'd pointed out to me. Apparently in New Hampshire we
all think New Hampshire is a very libertarian state. Did
you know that in New Hampshire they have building laws,
zoning codes very similar to what a stringent hoa would have.
In fact, I'll bet this neighborhood we're in right now

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has more people in it than the entire state of
New Hampshire.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
I think you're you're probably right about that.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
New Hampshire has dozens of people.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, and we have dozens of high rise buildings in
this several block region.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
He was explaining to me on the show last night.
The host He's like, well, you know, here in New Hampshire,
if you want to build something, we have all these
laws and codes. But in Houston, where you live, you
guys could just do anything.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
It's not necessarily a good thing.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
But but I will say this about Houston. It's growing,
it's thriving. Houston is a little bit like a garden
filled with weeds. You may not like what's popping up everywhere,
but there's things growing. Yeah, there's plenty of it, Yeah,
all over the place. It's why we often have a
crack house next to a church, next to a weed dispensary,

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next to a public school, next to a mansion, all right,
in the same square block area. That's weird that billionaire
lives by those crackheads. He sure does.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, well, what are you going to do?

Speaker 1 (08:45):
You got that house for pennies on the doll You
don't get rich by spending money. If you take one
stupid thing from our show today, let it be that
you don't get rich from spending money kids today. Trump, well,
yesterday he was at Arlington National Cemetery honoring our veterans.
In today, probably he'll be signing a bill to reopen
the government and destroy a multi billion dollar industry which

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he created. Because that's how stupid things are right now.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Well, maybe they didn't tell him, they put it in there.
Maybe he just found out this morning from your show,
just like this.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
I hope he vitos it. I hope he vetoed right now.
The Democrats are very unpopular. It's a rare moment here.
This government shutdown did not play out well for them.
Every news outlet i've looked at today has liberal news
outlets have criticized the Democrats for keeping the government closed
for a record amount of time and then getting nothing
out of it in the end and right at the

(09:40):
last hour, just leave it to the Republicans to find
some way to fumble the ball. All you guys had
to do was reopen the government and keep everything the
way it was the status quo, and they could not
do it. Trump, in the meantime, is busy suing the BBC.
Apparently he'll be filing a lawsuit today because they doctored
footage from his January sixth speech.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
It wasn't even just a little bit, it was real obvious.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Here's the Donald. Are you going ahead and ensuing the BBC? Well,
I guess I have to. You know, why not?

Speaker 4 (10:09):
Because they defrauded the public and they've admitted it, and
the top echelon during the this is within one of
our great allies. You know, this is supposedly a great
BBC If the government has a chunk of that one,
I guess.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
But he's right about that. It is state funded media.
The BBC very much admits that they did this. It's
I've listened to their newscast many times over the last
few days more than once. They've said, well, we need
to regain the public's trust. But then they cover the lawsuit. Yeah,
and it's almost like they're mocking him as it's from
one thing to the other, like, Wow, we shouldn't have

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done that. Anyway, Trump's going to sue us now, and
he's got to be able to prove that we a
affected his reputation. And you know, so many people already
hated him, it's hard to imagine this made a difference.
And then b he's got to be able to prove
that anybody in America was even able to see this documentary.
We're not sure it was made available to them. And
I hate to admit it, but they kind of have
a point.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Well, they've got some good defense moves to lay in
if they happen to go to court. Both sides have
really strong cases here, So let's let's see what happens.
It's entertainment for the rest of us. We'll just sit
back and watch.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yeah, the BBC gets sued, who cares Screw them. They're
not the only ones with legal issues right now. Jasmine
Crockett facing probes over conflicting financial disclosures. I cannot believe this.
Jasmin Crockett, who is so critical of everyone else, is
now apparently, huh in trouble for unreported asset that's exceeding
thousands of dollars.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Kind of like Letitia James, who's been running around for
years chasing after Trump the criminal, when she's got her
own criminal enterprise running strong there with her so called
home in Virginia.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
A watchdog group has filed has alleged that Jasmine Crockett
filed inconsistent financial disclosure statements regarding investments. And this is
a potential violation of House rules.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Not for nothing.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Here members of Congress are noticing this, paying attention to it.
Looks like the Office of Congressional Conduct is seeking an investigation.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Well, it's about math. Math is racist. This is just combobulating,
is what it is. Math is always racist. If you're
sitting down writing numbers and it's all they're they're saying
that she did wrong. You can see how the defense
team has already got this sketched out to her favor.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Well they just ask guys, you know, yeah, we would
have explained it to them. Obviously, math is racist. Now,
unfortunately James Comy cannot.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Use the same excuse. Well no.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
A report today at the Federalist dot Com details how
evidence contradicts former FBI director James Comy's claims that his
indictment is purely political. US attorney Lindsey Halligan backed up
the James Comy charges with evidence far surpassing what is
necessary to survive a motion to dismiss. In case you
forgot what happened months ago, Trump US attorney Lindsay Halligan

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attained an indictment against James Commy, the former head of
the FBI, in the Alexandria Division of the Eastern District
of Virginia. He faces charges of making false statements and
obstructing Congress. He tried to dismiss the indictment. He said
that the apployment was unlawful. Halligan shouldn't even be in government.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yeah, but go away, boy, you bothered me.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
But it turns out he can be in government and
he's got all this like evidence, oh boy saying you
was guilty. Homie.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Sure, we're going.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
To dive deep into that. Coming up this morning. We
got sports on the way. We're gonna get day for space.
We're gonna take a look at what is happening to
the New York City under mom Dommy and all the
exciting things that will or won't take place, and apparently
more layoffs in the Hollywood realm as AI is taking
people's jobs and wiping their ass with it. Well, all right,

(13:58):
would you have thought it would be Hollywood that would
be the first to get screwed by AI?

Speaker 2 (14:01):
I thought it was gonna be Nashville and singers not actors.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
You know, there's something about a live performance with a
computer on stage that's just not very entertaining.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
What day is it Wednesday?

Speaker 1 (14:12):
All day?

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Is it Wednesday?

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Did I stutter?

Speaker 2 (14:15):
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