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October 16, 2025 • 13 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
North Korean officials have unveiled a missile capable of reaching
the United States of America. Kim Jong un has awarded
the officials, the military officers in his country, with the
highest honor food.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah, and he let them live.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah, that's right. He didn't feed them to the dogs.
He let them all have one piece of bread to
reward them.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
It's got to be a sweet feeling. Lord it over,
your fellow captives.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Have you looked at the missile yet? It's uh.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
When you first said he unveiled a missile, I thought
maybe you were trying to be dirty. It does look
a little bit like a wand massager. It's a no,
it's a it's a you know, it's a nuclear. It's
a missile. Yeah, that's all right there on the lost sure. Yeah,
hi everyone, it's Thursday and you're alive. And that's a
good start. Donald Trump, he's the president. That's nice.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
The ceasefire in Palestine and Israel continues, and uh.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
We're also noticing a trend early this morning that liberals
are just on the urge of the verge of losing it.
Some of them already are losing it. They're snapping at reporters.
They're over gesticulating when they try to, you know, explain
a lie to you. They are, they're just they're holding

(01:20):
it together right now because they they do stick together.
The Democrats are very good at sticking together. But they're
very testy now they're on the edge. I think it'll
take much more to push them over the top. Don't
push them because they're close to the edge. They're trying
to push them.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Oh oh, okay, now's the time to watch the liberals.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
They're losing their mind over the Apparently the American people
aren't actually with them, even though they keep saying the
American people are with us. Bernie's just sure of it.
Now they have no facts to back that up. When
it comes to this shutdown. The majority of the people
know who is to blame here, although both sides blame
each other and they both say that they would like

(02:04):
to end it, but you know them, you know they are.
I'd really like to trade John Fetterman for Lindsey Graham
if we could. He was talking about the government shutdown
yesterday and he sounded very reasonable.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
That's why shutting the government is really what the Democratic
Party wants to do. And I follow country, then party,
and it's the wrong thing for the country in a
period of chaos.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
I refuse to.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Vote to shut our government down. I absolutely would love
to have I would love to have a conversation about
extending the tax credits for healthcare. Absolutely, but I would
remind everybody too, this was designed by the Democratic Party
to expire at the end of the year. This is

(02:49):
not something taken from by the Republicans.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
That's a really good point.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, the reason why these healthcare credits are going away
is because that's the way the Demomocrats wrote the bill.
You can't blame Republicans for something the Democrats did. The
bill was written and created by them, and it's about
to end because that's how they wrote the bill.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
But you know, the Democrats can blame the Republicans no
matter what the facts are. They will just go to
a friendly reporter somewhere and go uh uh, and then
the reporter will go see the Republicans.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
John Fetterman actually makes a lot of sense lately, which
makes me a little nervous.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Here's John.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
There's been a lot of political fervors, some violence in
the streets, that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Listen to what Fetterman saying.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
I'm the only Democrat in my family. I grew up
in a conservative part of Pennsylvania, and I grew up
and I know and I love people that voted for
President Trump, but they are not fascists, they're not Nazis,
They're not trying to destroy her the Constitution in those things.
And that's part of another thing. I refuse to call

(03:57):
people Nazis or fashion or I would never compare anybody,
anybody to Hitler and those things. And now that kind
of extreme rhetoric is going to continue, We're going to
be more likely in resulting in extreme kind of outcomes
and political violence and doing all these kinds of things
like Charlie Kirk. For me, all I could say is like,

(04:20):
let people grieve, give people the space. I'm not going
to use that terrible thing, in that pastic assassination to
make my argument and try to put out my views.
It's like, my god, you know, he's a father that
had his neck blown out by a bullet, and now
people have forgotten President Trump was in my state, was
shot in the head in Pennsylvania, and if that would

(04:42):
have could you imagine where our nation would be if
he was hit in the same way with Kirk. We
really got to turn the temperature down, dude.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
I mean, John Fetterman makes more sense than anyone else
in the Democrat Party.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Right.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
If he doesn't leave the party soon, I get the
feeling they will run him out. Yeah, he's not singing
the same song as everybody else. How much longer can
you make that much sense and still be allowed in
the devrick?

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Is he safe? Not? Really? No? Is he? I'm worried.
I'm worried about Fetterman. Spring time for head Long on
Germany Dutch line is hardly We're bull wants to get

(05:33):
excited about watch the excited about it.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Well, let's see, it's Thursday, right, It's just.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Thursday, Just regular Thursday. Well, everyone am very excited about
bout the show. Walton and Johnson Radio Network.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Journalists at the Pentagon have turned in their access patches.
They said, we will We would rather quit than agree
to the new reporting rules.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Oh, these new rules hurt their feelings.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Dozens of reporters said, we are not having it anymore.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Pete Hagseth.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
They exited the Pentagon yesterday rather than agree to government
imposed restrictions on their work. As the AP puts it
so grain assault on was pushing journalists who cover the
American military further from the seat of its power.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Dun dunk dum.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
News outlets were nearly unanimous in rejecting new roles imposed
by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. That would excuse me, war
Secretary of War.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Isn't that interesting.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
I'm reading from the AP right now, and they're very
meticulous about the AP Style Guide accuracy and capitalizing the
letter B and the word black when but they won't
call it the Department of War.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
They call you got.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
It would be falling into Trump's trap, but that's what
it's called.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
You're the AP style guide creators, this accuracy, the paper
of record, you got anyway, the Defense Secretary, That's how
they put it. They said they wouldn didn't like the
roles that would leave journalists vulnerable to expulsion if they
sought to report on information classified her otherwise that hag
Seth had not approved of, And many of the reporters

(07:09):
waited to leave together at four pm deadline so they
could make it a happy hour at Applebee's.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
And wanted to stage a walk out to make it
look like you if you leave one at a time,
it doesn't look that serious. But now we're all storming
out together. Don't you think maybe that was Pete heckxsa's
plan all alone.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Reporters from the New York Times, CBS News, ABC News,
the Wall Street Journal, and the AP of all walked
out in protests.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
They're not going to report anything favorable. We I'm not
even going to report the truth. So what do you
care for they're reporting or not?

Speaker 2 (07:37):
You know, it's awesome about this.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
We live in a day and age when independent journalists
are more important than ever.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yesterday afternoon on my show, I interviewed a woman named
Laura Lumer, very controversial, some people really don't like her.
Every word that she writes is read by the President
of the United States of America. He reads all of
her work. And the people at the AP they have
anything like that happening, I don't think So do you
think this giant international global conglomerate corporation AP is as

(08:09):
influential as this one woman who writes a news blog
from her house in Florida.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
And there's thousands and thousands of them out there, right,
that's my point. And you guys just walked out. You
just made yourselves more irrelevant. Ah, yeah, we don't like
Pete Hegseth saysn't. Basically, Pete's saying you can't report on
leaked information class and still have access to the Pentagon.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
That's the gist of what he's saying.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, if you're reporting on leak you know, it's hey, okay,
well you know, go be an independent journalist. Then do
what you want. But I get it you cannot like that.
That's fine. But on the other hand, a lot of
these so called whistleblowers, a lot of these anonymous sources
we've seen from the AP and ABC News in the
New York Times.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Turn out to be fake.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
So you guys get the accolades of being a war
reporter with Pentagon access, and yet you're publishing information that's
not real. So you are legitimized by your status as
a journalist with this high access, but the information you're
putting out there is not really true. So maybe Pete
Hegseth has a point. I don't know, or you know,

(09:16):
you work at the AP. If you want to have
somebody that publishes classified information, confidential information, just have that
be a guy and then your Pentagon reporters someone else,
and we can decide who has more credibility here, the
guy that reports on anonymous sources or the person that
actually works in the Pentagon.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
No, they would rather stalt their feet and scream you
know that they're being mistreated, you know the First Amendment,
then displayed by the rules, or do the right thing.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yesterday, a group of pro Hamas hackers hijacked airport loudspeakers
across North America.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Now, how many different airports that I've read about Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
But they make it sound like all of them, But
isn't that many?

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Also Calownia International Airport in Canada, So two airports would
be one in Pennsylvania, one in British Columbia.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
What was it all across the northeast? They mean two cities?

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah, okay, well it's a New York post. Still, how
did these If the hijack or the hackers can take
over the public address system, what else do you think
they might be able to take over?

Speaker 1 (10:25):
I hope they don't have access to the private photos
they have on my laptop.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
That or maybe your baggage.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
They might send your baggage to Atlanta instead of Houston.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Next time you come home, take that. Yeah, I'll show you.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
You're gonna wait a tay or two to get your
electric toothbrush back. Also questioned for you when people shout
free Palestine these days, like last night, free Palestine from whom? Okay,
So Steve is referencing a conversation we had off the

(10:57):
air now long ago.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Last night, I went to a rock at a great
time too. I left at nine point thirty. That is
not when the concert ended.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
You're so old, dude.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
I was in bed by ten. I was very proud
of myself, But as I was enjoying the headlining.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Act, I didn't don't.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Get the impression. The lead singer keeps up with the news.
He comes out on stage and he goes, free Palestine.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Everybody goes yeah, and nobody wanted to know free freedom
from whom?

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Dude? The war just ended? Yeah? Do you did you
not know that? Hang on, You're not. You're standing in.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Front of thousands of people, speaking from a position of authority,
saying free Palestine.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
That'd be like saying free Nelson Mandela.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
No, we did that that and as a matter of fact,
the guy who did it is Donald J. Trump. You
just got done denigrating him on stage. As a rock
and music enthusiast, I've learned to overlook this stuff and
just enjoy myself in my fifteen dollars beer.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Let's move past. You shouldn't want to spill that. It's
fifteen dollars beer a night at the White Oak Music
on when beer was you know, five dollars. You you
get a.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Little drunk, you might spill a little at fifteen. You
don't want to spill a drop.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
No, not a drop.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
No.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
They had this woman comes out on stage last night
from New Zealand or Australia wherever she was from, and
she goes.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah afttal Trump.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Everybody screams, and then yeah, she didn't really make a
point or anything. And then the next band comes out
and it's Free Palestine. I was like, do they not
know that Trump's the guy that just freed Palestine's I.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Guess, free them from themselves or freed them from Hamas
well Hammas.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, yeah, Hamas is out there murdering Palestinians.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Free Hamas, Free Paladin, free one of the other.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
I mean, maybe he was trying to say free Hummus,
like he was really into Mediterranean food.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Maybe they had that backstage. Nice yeah, at their deli spread.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
You know, they put those riders in the contract. It
could have what a big tub of hummus and he
was like free humma yay.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
When we're out doing comedy shows, we never request a
deli tray or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
I feel like we're missing out. You know, eminem is
something we never asked to have anything backstage. They come back,
they're like, do you need anything, and we're like a
couple bottles of water. Like we're a real missed opportunity there.
We could have been freeing Palestine this whole time.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Or at least, you know, some Snickers bars maybe in
Nestle's crunch or something nice. Yeah, absolutely, Twizzlers maybe.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
You know, in this economy, you can't afford to turn
it down. I feel like it's a wasted opportunity.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Today is Thursday. What are Thursdays risky? Especially on Thursdays?
Thursdays are for me beautiful. Now can we all please
get back to work. I can't work Thursdays. Walton and
Johnson Radio Network
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