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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You got to take a look at what's going on
in the rest of the world to put your own
country into perspective. America seems pretty bad. Seems like we
got some real corruption.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Here, right, That's what they keep telling me.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Nothing compared to Bangladesh. Okay, A Bangladesh war crimes court
has sentenced to the ousted Prime Minister Shai Casina to death.
This happened late last night, early this morning, while you
were sleeping, concluding a month's long trial that found her
guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on a student led.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Uprising last year.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Uh huh. Kind of reminds me of the Kent State massacre. Remember,
I mean that was before my time, but everybody.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Heard of it. Sure, I wasn't there.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Once upon a time, National Guard troops fired on American
college age protesters and did some of them die?

Speaker 2 (00:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
I went around then. Anyway, the rule kill some folks
are not I was probably on the college campus. But
but now you know, it depends on who you kill
on college campuses, whether it's okay or not. Yeah, I mean,
if the guy's up there, spouse's and a bunch of
stuff about. You know, God is great, and you know

(01:08):
America's wonderful.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Well, that guy's got to get shot, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Okay, Well, imagine if in nineteen seventy we gave Dick
Nixon the death penalty for that.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
That's what happened here.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
The ruling is the most dramatic legal action against a
former Bangladeshi leader in decades, comes months ahead of the
parliamentary elections expected to be held in early February. And
so now this person, the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh,
is just hiding out in India trying to avoid.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
It's a good place to hide. There's a lot of
folks you can kind of blend in. And I guess
they'd look a lot alike. Do you think so Bangladesh
and Indians.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Well, I don't think they look different. I don't think
they look alike to them, Bill, Yet I think they do.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
I'm looking at a picture of them on the album
cover of this great tune. I'm assuming that's Bangladeshians, Billy ed.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
We're looking on the screen in the room right now.
It's a record music from Bangladesh. And then it's uh,
look like an album cover, that's correct, Yeah, And then
it's well, there's an old man, a younger man, and
then there's a woman. You think they all look alike, billiad.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Those three don't look alike. They look like Indians, is
all I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
No, those are Bangladeshians, Billia, Good god man, I know
you're not even trying here.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
They work with me and they Indian look like Indians.
I didn't say they were. It says they're Bangladeshians right
there on the album cover music from Bangla.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Billiad, you can't tell by looking at those people that
they're not Indians, that they're Bangladeshian.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Oh oh, Billy, Yeah, I cannot, and you can't either.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
To stop yourself, I could tell look at just a
look at that, that's a Bangladeshian eyebrow.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
If I haven't, what I want to know is who
was playing at dang banjo? And hey, why don't they
know how to tune it? And be the worst rendition
I've ever heard of dueling banjo's.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
That's not even close. I don't think that's dueling banjos.
That's not in my book. It ain't.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
No, I think they're that's a different song that they're
playing doing banjo's as a jam NOTU.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
No, that's a good tu.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
You think them Bangladeshians could do that? No, I don't
think so.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
How about this? Can you do this on your banjo?
I wish I could? The night writer thing?

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Wish I had a banjo for one ohways wanted to play.
I saw Roy Clark play in a banjo and it
made it look so easy.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
I thought, well, who couldn't do that? I can't If
I learned how to play banjo. The night writer theme
is the first thing I would figure.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Out, and I'll have a lot more respect for you
once you figured it out.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Really, Oh yeah, because of your love of night writer
or the banjo both.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Plus it's harder than it looks, so I don't think
you're gonna be able to do it.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
You know what's interesting about that? Steve Martin, he could play.
He is out touring right now. He has the number
one country bluegrass something I don't know banjo music album
in America, which going to be that hard to do.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
What's the little comedian guy's name that hanging out with
him all the time?

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Martin short?

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, right, I think those two guys are in a relationship.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
You think so. I think they are.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah, they're waiting for everybody to just kind of catch on.
But those commercials they make, I mean they basically look
like a husband and wife.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
You know.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
You know I had to be the one to bring
this up, Billy. Yeah, but you and I and a
couple other men around here were often featured in commercials together.
Do you think anybody suspects that about us?

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Just being in a commercial together ain't the point. It's
what they say and what they do and how they act.
One of them has to keep the purse, and I
think it's Martin short. There's a purse. Steve Martin tells him.
Isn't it weird that his last names his first name
Steve Martin short.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, that's true, Martin short.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Anyway, he has him pay at the at the bookstore.
I know they're selling a you know, they're advertising like
a visa or something. But he's like, yeah, he'll pay,
he's got this. It's like you know how the wife
turns to the husband, Oh yeah, he's got this, he'll pay.
They they're a little too co a little too comfy.
I think they're yeah, they're a thing.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Well, I feel you and at any rate, people in
Bangladesh are getting excited about the holidays bill, Yet are
you act.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
To this Bangladesh business? What the hell did they off
that guy that they said they were gonna kill or not?

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Well, it just gives me an excuse to play that.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
No, the prime minister is hiding out in uh in
India was a woman.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, it's a woman, right whatever.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
I mean, you know, once you get to be prime minister,
it don't count.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
I mean, yeah, that's kind of true. Yeah, yeah, take
them out. No, they're not getting them on a drug boat.
Run them over here. This rection will take them.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Oh there's there's singing. Yeah, they're getting ready for the holidays.
They love Christmas over there in Bangladesh.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
And for those of you who think this sounds a
little bit Indian, well then just get educated because that's
obviously Bangladesh music.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah, that's what bothers me is people they can't tell
the difference between one and the other.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
No, l.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
We played the hits around here, bro, we are excited holiday.
I bet Sonny ain't playing that one. No, I bet
they're not.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
No, there's an adult contemporary station down the hall that
switched to Christmas over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
That's a real big deal.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Friday at five.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Hi guys, Hi, good morning mister Kenneth. You must be
excited about Christmas. Is your house decorated yet or yes?

Speaker 3 (06:22):
It is. As a matter of fact, I spent most
of the weekend decorating put up some lights. Now, I
don't do the big thing where they have a you
know they some of these people will hire a company
and they'll come out and they'll decorate your house, your
your trees in your front yard and all that kind
of stuff. You don't do that because you want to
decorate yourself. I do it myself and I just run

(06:43):
a few lights, nothing too complicated. But you know I
got some some nice big bow decorative bows on the
front door. Sure, some some wreaths. I don't have a
living wreath.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
What's a living wreath?

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Well, it's a live It's not does it fake or
did it's? Does it scream in pain when you're hanging
it up on the wall. It's what species? It's happy
as long as you take care of it.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Is this do you mean like a pine thing? Is Holly? Oh?
I know Holly. I officiated her. What you know her? Yeah,
Holly Hanson off the Texan Dot News.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
He's trying to make this more complicated than it needs
to be. He does that, it's not new.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
What was it a fun weekend for you putting up Christmas? Decord?

Speaker 3 (07:25):
Fabulous weekend. Well, part of the weekend was putting up Christmas.
Part of the weekend was organizing, uh, you know, and
cleaning up some some clutter so that then I could
take the Christmas stuff out and make new clutter.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
I got it with the Christmas stuff. I gotta do that.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
I got to start making a list and then once
every weekend clean out one cabinet or one closets.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Such a good feeling, especially when you turn around and
walk and then turn it like if you just completely
cleaned up a closet and you turn around and look
back and it say, oh, it looks so good. I
want to do it all over again.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
You look like you just were sexually satisfied by the
notion of that.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
That's that's part of it. Yeah, it's so tell us
about your weekend. You went to see a band in
a concert somewhere.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
I was in San Antonio.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
I did a few minutes at a club there, no
big deal, and then I went and saw a couple
of rock bands.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Wait, wait. Wait when you say you did a few
minutes at a club, did you take the stage?

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, yeah, I told some jokes. You know, it's no
big deal. Did they invite you to do that? Or
do you just do that when you're out? Now, it
depends who you ask and time.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
You just climb up on stage and go hey, everybody, hush,
that's a clever thing to do. No.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
I was in town for a concert and a friend
of mine was doing comedy, so he said, would you
come out and do fifteen minutes?

Speaker 3 (08:37):
I said sure, I know, okay, so I'm had a
long way to drive for fifteen minutes.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
I was in town for the concert. I arony was
going to do that.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
And what the band did you see? Do you see Fleetwood?

Speaker 4 (08:46):
Matt? No?

Speaker 2 (08:47):
I don't. Did you see John Mellencamp?

Speaker 4 (08:49):
No?

Speaker 2 (08:49):
I saw Grandson in Horror? Was what I saw? Grandson
and Horror. I didn't say that you would like it.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
That's I'm just I'm you know, I'm sure, I'm sure
you have a sample for us.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
It was this kind of music.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
It's it's like a heavy metal band with a rapper
billyat does that strike.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
You as being fun? You have to peel the rap off. No,
like a rap like rap attack, you know.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
Like man wrapping into a microphone.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
You know, like notable Nigerian Christian advocate Nicki Minaj. The
kind of thing that she does.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Will that kind of came out of left field, didn't
It was she there.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
But it was a good segue to what is one
of the biggest news stories of the day.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
Is he ran out of Nicki Minaj in San Antonio.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
No, she's she's busy working for the Trump administration. Now
anna conduct? Anna conduct? Do my anna conduct? Don't want
none unless you got buns on.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Nicki Minaj is now part of the envoy to spread
peace through the Nation of Nigeria and stop Islamic terrorists
from murdering the Christians.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
The Ambassador to Nigeria.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
I think she's just more of a celebrity spokesperson. This
is not something a lot of us were expecting today
in the Nation of Nigeria. Well, in Nigeria there's Islamic extremism,
I think, and I.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Love killing some Christians. I mean their Bible tells them
to and whatever they call oh the Kooran tells them to.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
In Nigeria, they have a group called Boko Haram, officially
known as jamat A La al Snana il la la
Dualla wa al Jahad and sometimes referred to as it's
state named Delora Moscow. Lochini is self proclaimed jihadis militant
group based in northeastern Nigeria. And they like going around
killing Christians. They've been doing this and they kidnapped girls too, Yeah,

(10:33):
rape them and that sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Not cool, well until Michelle Obama wrote on a cardboard
sign to let them go, and then I think they
had to.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Boy, that's great that she did that, but apparently they
didn't get them. I don't think they're on Twitter. Oh,
and then they don't read English. You know, she probably
should have written it in whatever Nigerians read. So long
comes Nicki minaj Nicki minaj I guess has roots?

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Is that the only famous person they could find that
has some family history in Nigeria somewhere along.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
I was a little confused by this as well, because
I asked, I asked my AI software if she was Nigerian.
It said no, but she's connected to the culture there.
The Trump administration is reportedly recruited rapper in musician Nicki
Minaj in an apparent effort to back its proposed invasion
of Nigeria. That's how they're putting it. Rawstory. I don't
know if we're going to invade so much as cut

(11:21):
off AID and if that's not good enough, then yeah,
we'll go ahead and invade. The US envoy to the UN,
Mike Waltz and rap superstar Nicki Minaj will deliver remarks
earlier this week on the persecution of the Christians in Nigeria.
The unexpected collaboration was arranged by Trump advisor Alex Brusewitz,
friend of yours?

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Truly, is that right? Yeah? I know Alex, he's a
good guy.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
The Trump Trump first issued a threat to deploy the
US military into Nigeria earlier this month on social media,
vowing to go in guns ablazing to completely wipe out
Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Did you know that Nigeria is considered an entertainment hub
for the cottlet of Africa. It's like, is that the
Hollywood of Africa?

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Okay, they have a word for it, and it's called
let me see.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
If I can. Nollywood is what it's called. Yeah, Nollywood
is Nigeria's film industry, which is the second largest film
industry in the world after Bollywood. Hollywood's not even number one, No,
not as far as size goes. Yeah, Nigeria Hollywood is
called Nollywood. In that clever Billio, they just replaced the
word h with an N. I wonder why n.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Huh Oh, it's just one of those Nigerian in words.
I guess, Oh yeah, okay, then sure, But how came with?

Speaker 5 (12:33):
Jeffrey says you retard of retarda Yeah, Chucky Schumer soon
maricn Chucky is what you American? They should stop el
Democrats chet down a horror democretodo anyway, which is grecias.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Amigos Wolton M. Johnson's fat foreigners. Do we want them?

Speaker 3 (12:54):
I think we already have them?

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Fuck it? But the question you want to keep them?

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Marco Rubio says he wants to limit the visas we're
giving out to skinny people. He doesn't want any chubby chubbies. Now,
I would argue, you know, if they're thick Latinas, that's fine,
but as for the rest of them, we probably don't
want them.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
Here in the thick Latinas with the juicy Booty. Right, yeah,
juicy Booty gets to stay.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
That seems like a no brainer obviously them, right, Well.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
Are we also willing to trade one fat American for
one skinny foreigner.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Now you're talking? Is that possible?

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Because that would double up on how quickly America becomes healthier.
You know, we're an obese country. Over fifty percent of
the our starving people or some of the healthiest people
on the planet id air to the starving people of
other countries.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
And we're one of the only countries in the world
that has fat, poor people.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah, that's them.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
But this isn't about Americans. It's about foreigners, because that's
the point. Marco Rubio says he wants to stop giving
out visas to morbidly obese people because they're driving up
the healthcare costs, and there does seem to be a
lot of evidence to suggest that this is true.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
The doesn't it also make them people?

Speaker 3 (14:04):
Obviously they're coming in legally or they're trying to because
they're giving them visas and they're checking in with the
government to be denied if they're too fat. But doesn't
it also give them some motivation to lose weight?

Speaker 2 (14:18):
You know, that's a great point.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Absolutely, we're going to let you in six weeks unless
you haven't drop fifty pounds. Now, if you drop in
fifty pounds, you're in.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
People don't like this, but unfortunately we need to import
more skinny people. Obesity abroad means deflation at home. That's
just basic economics, guys.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Every year we.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Spend over one hundred and eighty billion dollars on obesity
related illnesses in this country.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
It sounds like a lot.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
And the average illegal immigrants health cost on our healthcare
immigrant rather cost on our healthcare system something like over
fifteen thousand dollars a year. And even if they're not
getting on Medicaid or Medicare, if they're getting in the system,
they're going to need to get health insurance, and then
that they're going to need health care, and that drives
up the group rates. For anybody that's healthy and paying
for basic health insurance, now your costs are higher because

(15:05):
someone else is chubby.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
I got good news for y'all. I think you're gonna
enjoy this.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
All right, it's Monday morning, I know, you know, it's
a you know, gotta get up and get moving, got
to get back into the swing of things after a slow,
lazy weekend.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Maybe.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
So the good news is that whatever we think bat people,
skinny people, illegal, illegal, don't matter, sure, because we're not
the ones that get to decide. So just take that
stress off. Just go ahead and lot, just brush that
stress off your shoulders and say, don't matter what I think,

(15:42):
cause the politicians gonna do what they're gonna do.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
And think for the time being, we do get to decide.
We won the election, you know, that's what this is
all about.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
And you win the election and then a federal judge
rise up fifteen times a month and say no, you
can't do that.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
Or the president says he's going to crack down an
illegal immig and then in an interview with waar Ingram,
he says this.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
Republicans have to talk about it.

Speaker 6 (16:04):
And does that mean the H one B vis a
thing will not be a big priority for your administration
because if you want to raise wages for American workers,
you can't flood the country with tens of thousands or hundreds.

Speaker 4 (16:15):
And we also do have to bring in talent. When
we got talent, you don't.

Speaker 6 (16:21):
We don't have talented.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
No, you don't have certain talents and you have to
people have to learn. You can't take people off an
unappled like an unemployment line is say I'm going to
put you into a factory, We're going to make missiles,
or I'm going.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
To do we ever do it before.

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So it sounds like Trump's got a plan. We got
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