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October 14, 2025 • 20 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My favorite part about doing this for a living. Oh,

(00:02):
it's the getting up really early in the morning. Just
love it.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Sure, yeah, absolutely, I can't wait for that alarm clock
to go off for something me too.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
I love waking up when everyone else is going to bad.
But other than that, a close second I think is
the It's the people. We meet. Some of the most interesting, colorful,
fascinating people on earth all the time. Comedians, politicians, journalists, activists,
weird freaks, and I love everyone of them. Oh sure, yeah,

(00:36):
even the people that hate us. I enjoy them the most.
To be honest with you, Steve and I during commercial break,
we're just watching a video of our friend Alex Stein
from Blaze TV was at the University of Arkansas recently
having a battle wrap.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Matter of fact, we got an email about that from
somebody who was there, says, I've been a listener since
I was in high school in East Texas and I
live in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and your boy Alex Stein came
to speak in an the vential campus. Yeah, and absolutely
killed it. Guy's got no filter. I loved every second
of it. Yeah, we have some interesting friends. Alex had

(01:12):
a battle rap. I'm not sure how you love his
battle rap. I guess just because sometimes things are so
bad they're good.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
That's what it is, right. I think he knows that.
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Alex's whole shtick is that he is inappropriate, an avant garde,
and not ready for primetime. That's why he calls himself
Primetime Stein. He's one of the funniest people we know.
Chad Prather absolutely hilarious. Had him at one of our
comedy shows recently. Jesse Payton another brilliant comic that we're
friends with. And those are the guys that are trying

(01:43):
to be funny. We also know people that aren't trying
to be funny who are hilarious. I mean there's so
many of them. Yesterday I heard a commercial for our
traffic guy. Have you ever heard that before? No, they
play an ad for him on our sister station.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Okay, what is the advertising besides the fact that he
does traffic?

Speaker 1 (02:02):
What wasn't it?

Speaker 3 (02:03):
I think people would think it was a commercial, but
you and I would refer to it as a promo.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
An It's like, oh thought, maybe he had a little
side gig going where he was selling something.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
So I think on the weekends he's a wedding DJ
as zany as he is.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
I bet he's a fun wedding DJ. You know. Anyway,
But we all do stuff on the side.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Here Steve does jiu jitsu, and I'm really into crocheng
and knitting.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
You know, well, of course knitting. I'm a really good knitter.
Everybody talks about what a big knitter you are.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
I'm the biggest knitter, you know. I knit and I crochet.
And then what's the other thing I do?

Speaker 1 (02:38):
I sew? I sew the divide mm hmm, sewing a
little now, are you? I'm trying here. We gave a
bailout to Argentina.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Some Maga people aren't happy about this, and now we're
even deporting our money.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
To Latin American countries. How do you like that? Nice? See,
we're objective.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
All criticized Trump when he does something I don't like,
But I'm not going to pretend like he's Hitler.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Isn't an interesting They call him Hitler? And then this
week and the only.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Jewish country on Earth, they gave him a three minute
standing ovation.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
It was pretty surprising to watch Hitler be so kind
to all the Jews.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
I don't think I would want to have a three
minute standing ovation.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
No, that would make me uncomfortable. I mean, seriously, ninety
seconds would be good. Three minutes it's a long time
to just stand there. That is, imagine just this for
three minutes. It's like, think, thank you. I'd only needed
about thirty seconds of that to get the general idea
of it.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
But hey, you know, historic deal here, you.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Guys, You guys, listen to any of the hostages talking
about trimp, well a little bit.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Some of them spoke English, many of them don't. But
what did you hear that was interesting? Good morning, Billy? Oh, yeah, morning.
I've been around a while. I didn't just stroll in,
you know.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
But there's work to be done in other parts of
the radio station, you know, as as I still dabble
in the engineering department, even though I've hired some pretty
good people to work under me.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
I was that, Did you just tell a dirty joke? No?

Speaker 4 (04:04):
No, uh.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
One of the hostages was telling the story. He said,
when Trump won the presidency earlier this year, they stopped
spitting on me. Former hostage says Hamas was scared of Trump.
They abducted this guy omer. Yeah, I think you know,
two years ago and he was held for five hundred

(04:28):
and five days. He wasn't just released yesterday, but he
wanted to tell his story.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
This former hostage says, Hamas wanted Kamala to be elected. Sure,
and I thought we had audio of this, but I guess, oh,
here we go. Sorry, it's turned out.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Before we felt like nothing is happening, you know, And
I remember there for me there ever since he came
into into the road, they were very scared of him.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah, they wanted.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Two terrorists afraid of Trump.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Yeah, they wanted Kamala to be chosen to do.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
You talk to politics with them?

Speaker 4 (05:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they wanted Kamala to be elected.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
You get the German they wanted. That's great. They wanted
Kamala to be elected. That is hilarious. Obama told Hamas
he wanted to negotiate. Hamas said, they're going to blow
things up. Biden said he wanted to negotiate. Hamas said,
we're going to blow things up. Trump said I'm going
to blow things up. And then Hamas said let's negotiate.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
There you go. That was it. That's how you get
her done. That is how you get her done.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
But somebody did point out you know, pieces, It kind
of comes and goes in the Middle East, even the
everlasting piece. And when we got well, we you know,
they got their hostages back, right. They do point out
the fact that about two thousand terrorists that were held

(05:56):
by Israel were also released. Now that makes you wonder,
if two thousand terrorists just thrown back into the mix,
how long do you think.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
The piece will last. It's a really good question. So
let's try to be objective on this.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Because I'm not one of those people that's fervently pro Israel,
nor am I fervently anti Israel. I'll bet all of
those people that were just released were not necessarily terrorists,
but I bet some of them were.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
I bet a lot of them were.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Israel probably has arrested some people that probably didn't deserve
to get arrested or detained. Israel's not perfect, They're not
without their flaws. But I bet a lot of those
guys were terrorists, you bet. And let's say percentage wise,
there's some of them that are just happy to be
back into real life. They're sick of this, they don't
want to be part of it anymore. They didn't like
maybe a life of terrorism or martyrdom, attempted martyrdom wasn't

(06:48):
as fun as they thought it would be. Prison wasn't
as fun as they thought it would be. But some
of these guys, Yeah, it's like you're on a dating
app bill yet, well you're not, but I'm not. Some
of these people are just busy and they don't have
anything else going on, right, and they you know, romantically, right,
So that's how you ended up with them. And some
of them are absolutely insane and the only way they're
going to find a date is on that app yep.

(07:10):
And so it's the same thing with terrorism. Some of
these people were just caught up in the fervor. They
didn't like the the apartheid as they described, and then
some of them were legitimately insane people who wanted to
kill and this gave him the excuse to do it.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
You bet you. What's the actual numbers? Who knows? It
was fun to watch.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Trump had about thirty people up on stage with him
from all over the Middle East. He basically created a
Middle East United Nations, right. He brought all these different
players together. Turkey Cutter, Yeah, and they're all up on
stage with him, And did they really give him a
three minute ovation. That's what there are parts that he

(07:49):
was in Israel and then he bounced over to Egypt
yesterday because everything's real small and close.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Over there, you know.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
It's it's like leaving New Jersey and going to New
York's right, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Actually this Israel is about the size of New Jersey.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
And if you did this per capita thing like if oh,
I know, I know that's racist, but it's okay because
it's about the Jews.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Oh, so it's okay in this case. All right.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
They said the population of Israel and the number of
people that were killed around twelve hundred. You know, well
more than that, probably more like thirteen hundred. Is that
if population wise, if that had been the United States,
that would have been like forty thousand people killed that
day on the terror attack, you know, twenty twenty three,

(08:39):
back when it started. Better of forty thousand of your
fellow Americans all killed in a day. Wow, it would
have been upsetting. It would have been upsetting.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Yeah, you'd have been pissed off, right, it would have,
especially when you looked at how they were killed.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yeah, the nature of why they were killed, that's certain thing.
Some were taking hostage and killed later when they had
more time.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Now, can we just do something that the academics would
have done, something that the so called intellectuals would have done,
but will approach it a little differently. How fascinating it
was that this peace deal between Israel and Gaza happened
on Columbus Day. Columbus Day is, after all, a day
that really upsets indigenous people. A lot of indigenous people
will claim that this isn't really your land, white man,

(09:23):
And isn't that basically the argument over here in Gaza?

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yep? But here's the problem with that.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
All the land everywhere you see on Earth, every country,
every nation, everything was conquered at one point.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Even that land way over there, all of it, all
of it. The only land that wasn't conquered it probably
a land you wouldn't want, you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, the tippy tippy top of some iceberg in Siberia. Sure, fine,
that was never conquered, But most of it was. In fact,
even that, I don't know if you're into Russian history
or not, a lot of weird hats, but also a
lot of killing each other, a lot of weird hat.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, And they canceled the Columbus Day Parade in New
York City, and that's kind of a big in New
York City. They get a lot of that Italian thing
going on up there. I don't know if you've ever
been a lot of them.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, and a lot of Italians in Chicago, Boston, New Orleans,
places like that. And you know it's at the end
of the day, Columbus Day wasn't about the white man
colonizing the United States. It was about the Ku Klux
Klan harassing Catholics back in the early twentieth century. So
even the point the indigenous people are trying to make

(10:26):
like you don't belong on this land, well, that's the
whole reason we had Columbus Day. Back in the day,
white supremacists were harassing an ethnic minority group called Catholics
Italians but you know, same thing, and they started the
Knights of Columbus in an effort to go out and
prove they belonged here.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
The Democrat governor of the state of New York, it
means Kathy Hockel, she declared the state of emergency because
of some weather and so they canceled theyd A Northeastern Yeah,
and you can't like reschedule a Columbus Day parade.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
So that's it, everybody go home.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
I am told by you know, the so called intellectuals,
the academics, that these these movements to get people out
of their country that occupied in previous years generally tend
to end after two generations. Have we talked about this before,
like Native Americans didn't like that the white man was here.
But then sometime around the mid to late eighteen hundred's,

(11:26):
that sentiment just kind of started to go away because.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Always some rabble roilsers though that like to keep it alive,
you know, I mean, not the whole group, but there's
always that core group that passes it on to their
children and their children's children, and they actually teach them
to hate how things happened.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
So this idea that there will never be peace in Israel,
there will never be peace in the Middle East, it's
probably not true, but it's not going to happen until
you and I are probably long gone. Oh yeah, we go,
our kids, our kids' kids. They'll see a time when
people will just accept the existence of Israel. Kind of
like at one point, you know, two generations after the
Trail of Tears, people just kind of.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Moved on, but it's probably not gonna happen during our lifetime.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
And I guess what I'm saying is someday there's gonna
be another uproar, and it's probably gonna happen sooner than
you think. And you know, I'm just glad I won't
be President Kylie Jenner when that happens.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Ooh ooh, I got Chilson. I know it's only Tuesday,
but it feels like Friday. Wilson and Johnson Radio Network.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Modern day country kind of sounds like nineties, late nineties
all to rock len sound a little bit like it.
This could be that's supposed to be country. This could
be Third Eye Blind or Darius Rucker when he was.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Thirty years couldn't be country music, just crazy, Oh Billy,
I do I have some bad news for you.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
This is the kind of music that headlines at a
country music festival.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
That's not bad news for me. I'll go to music festivals.
And here's the reason why.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Oh yeah, A twenty three year old girl was killed
at a music festival in Utah Saturday headlining this artist
who's this?

Speaker 3 (13:06):
This is post Malone and Morgan Wallen. I think, yeah,
I think, I think.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
So good for them. Yeah, that's what it is.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Twenty three year old woman, a cute little gal too,
died in a freak accident at the Red West Country
Music Festival Salt Lake City. She left her home in
Seattle to go to this thing in Salt Lake City.
Her name was Ava, and I guess the weather got
a little rough out there, and so they stopped the

(13:37):
festival and told everybody to seek shelter. She ran to
her car, and why it was like a reasonable place
to guar. I mean it was, you know, you can
see people running all over the place trying to get
out of the way. Sure, And while she was, I guess,
you know, standing by her car trying to find her
key or whatever she was doing, the wind blew a

(14:00):
two by twelve board into her head.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
What a way to die? Is I mean a freak.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Actually, she's like tells the family, I'm I'm leaving Seattle,
I'm going down to Salt Lake. Okay, be careful, you know,
the drive safe or however she got there, I'm sure
they never thought wind blown boards would smack into her
head and neck. They said, the doctor's got her stable
and did a scan and said it basically crushed her

(14:30):
brain stem.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
She was out. She was done, just like that.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
I know you're not one to worry, but do you
ever have this premonition that you're somewhere and some weird
freak thing could kill you, but statistically you know it won't.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Wasn't she cute?

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Look at that? Yeah, it's just sweet girl, A little
smiling face. She looked real happy to be there. It
was a picture I guess from earlier in the day.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
They felt they needed to tell you in the New
York Post article that she was an organ donor.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
I'm okay, you don't think Maybe it's something to do
with why the doctors didn't offer any Boy, there's a.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Lot of people that say they don't want to list
themselves as organed owners because they think they might.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Get pulled a little early. You know, we could save her,
but we could harvest eighteen organs and save eighteen other people.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
Wouldn't that be better? Well, I mean, look how young
and healthy she is. I know, you know, her organs
were probably good enough for.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Unless she had already hit some drugs during the music festival.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Because I hear that's what you kids do over there.
You know that.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
I won't deny that people do drugs at a music festival,
but I will tell you the amount of drugs consumed
is probably vastly exaggerated. Yeah, I don't know that at
a post malone concert, there's a I mean a country
music festival, there's probably not a ton of drugs. I
would think pot and beer. I would bet there's a
lot of bud Light getting drunk. Oh yeah, or I
guess maybe not now bud Light whatever they drink now.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Or yeah, Coors Light still pretty much whatever? Who sponsored
the show? And what was cheapest?

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Miller high Life? You know that's the shamp of beers?
Do they still do that? That's what I hear. I
never see that anymore. Used to eyes got it.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
There's the champagne of beers, and then there's banquet beer.
They get people they pay good money to to sit
around and just come up with words for stuff like
that and to make it sound well that.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
I want that. I want the banquet of beer. Yeah,
you ever had a Meller High Life? It's yeah, it
just tastes like cheap beer. It's just another beer.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
It's not like going to a craft brewery where they
bring out the logger.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
The you know this is this is a coals.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Style strawberry ale with a coffee finisher. It's like, what's this,
that's Meller high Life that tastes like fancy urine.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah, and in a green apple rind.

Speaker 4 (16:40):
What.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
No, Well, they had rough weather out there on the
in the the west side, and they got rough weather
in the east northeast side, which is the most important part.
But I haven't seen anything in the national news. Both
of those were covered, but I haven't seen in the
coverage of the massive flooding that's been taking place in
southwest Lorado in the Durango and Pagosa Springs area. But

(17:05):
they said at least ninety homes have been damaged in
La Plata County, which is where Durango is.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
We know it.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Well, some people have up to two feet of water inside.
The rivers are just out of their banks, and they're
roaring and going crazy. And if you like waterfalls, I
mean they said, there's like thousands of waterfalls everywhere now
because the rain is running wild.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
Did they want waterfalls in those places especially?

Speaker 4 (17:32):
No?

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, but they got them.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
The waterfall's beautiful, but not when it's pouring into your
living room.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
Right, that's a little complicated, and a lot of it is.
The waterfalls not clean. It's pretty red and muddy.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
Well, there was quite a bit of inclement weather yesterday
and apparently Emmy Award winning actor Alec Baldwin is using
that as an excuse for why he plowed his Ranger
over into a tree while cruising through the Hamptons with
his brother Stephen.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Those Baldwin boys, there's something, ain't they?

Speaker 3 (18:03):
Are they friends again? Which is the one he doesn't
get along with? Probably Danny, is it Danny? I don't
think anybody like Danny Baldwin is sixty seven. He was
photographed looking dishoveled and then he got into a car accident.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
But I'm yeah, thank you, I know very much.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
Always looked disheveled and unless they fixed him up for
a movie or something, his car, a white Range Rover,
was smashed in the front after crashing head on into
a tree on the side of Montauk Highway in the
East Hampton's where the actor owns a ritzy summer home
Range Rover he's driving it probably goes about two hundred,

(18:40):
not miles an hour, two hundred bills.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Oh, is that right? The cost Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
Baldwin was out East for the Hampton's International Film Festival, which,
let me guess, is debuting not one, but two hundred
new movies about why Trump is Hitler.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Of course, and maybe that did that movie where he
he killed the lady? Did ever actually see the light
of I think you can see that man. Nobody should,
Nobody wants to. But you know it's sound like Baldwin.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
I think Stephen Baldwin is the Republican, right, I think
he is.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Isn't that interesting?

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Uh so those two are friends again? I mean honestly,
that kind of warms my heart a little bit, like
you feel good?

Speaker 1 (19:18):
You know what else? It never occurred to me before.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
Stephen Baldwin kind of looks like Gavin mckinnis, and they're
both considered to be right wing extremist. Has anybody ever
seen the two of them in the same place at
the same time before?

Speaker 2 (19:29):
I don't know who the hill Gavin mcwerder, mckenness, Well,
you've interviewed him before.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
He was the creator of the Proud Boys and Vice
News and Vice Men come in here.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
Now he's on the phone ones to Toddle recognize him
from the phone. Huh, you don't remember hurt you, Gavin.
I don't remember talking to him either. Well you did.
I believe you you did talk to him. I just
said I didn't remember it. I didn't say I didn't
believe that I did it. That's okay.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
I forget a lot of stuff too, Like do you
remember what you had for dinner last night?

Speaker 4 (20:00):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, we had some kind of a meat and some rice.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Steve had spaghetti. Yeah, it was good leftover spaghetti. It
was Columbus Day. Yeah, you have to do that.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
And I had Columbus Day tacos, you know, for the
Spanish Jewish part of him.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Well you tacoed before Tuesday. Yeah, I'm gonna taco on Tuesday.
Now were you thinking? You know this is I can't wait?
You people, you youngsters diay, just no patience. Tuesday's Taco
Day and Monday night you just couldn't wait. Well, I'm
gonna wait till Friday to have some gumbo at the
Gumbo party. Well who wouldn't Tuesday? Yeah, it's Tuesday. Wolton
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