Our Current Battle With Inflation - THU 9.1

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Amy Schumer loses nine stone and we read an email
where someone.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Accuses me of licking the Jew boot. The what, I
don't know. I didn't get it either.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
I don't think some were like Jasmine Crockethead, that lady
kiss her shoes.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
We didn't talk about Jews or Israel much at all today,
but we got an email from someone and they were like, Kenny,
quit kissing Jew boots.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
And I don't know what.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
I would love to react to it, like, hey, I'm
not kissing a Jew boot.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm doing this or that. But I don't even know
what they're mad about.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
But that'll be coming up.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, we'll get to the jew boot later. More importantly, though,
Jews probably wear loafers. I don't think you see them
as like boot guys.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
No. I think they wear shoe strings and they shoes.
They got strings and they shoes.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
This isn't about that exhibit at the Holocaust Museum.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
That's a different stol.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Okay, yeah, thank.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
You, thank you. My birthday. Where do we stand on
Wooby Goldberg?

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Well, if you mentioned that it's her birthday, that gives
us an excuse to talk about how to gusting she is.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Stand on her back.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, Whoopy as seventies see Billy had gets it.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah, that's funny. Bill. Yeah. I didn't want to cause
you to picture her in your bind by bringing her up,
But it's her birthday and now you're picturing will Be
Goldberg in your mind, aren't you? And who would have
thought back in the days of the movie Ghost that
was as good as she was ever?

Speaker 1 (01:25):
That was as pretty as Whoopy was ever gonna be.
Remember that scene where they're making what are they doing?
They're in the pottery class or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
She just throwing clay at home.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
And everyone always thought that so sexy. It's Demie Moore
and Patrick Swayzee at their peak. But remember that is
Demie Moore having gay lesbian sex with Whoopee Goldberg.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah, Whoopy wasn't technically in the scene, but then she
was in.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Then she was well?

Speaker 3 (01:52):
And how is that? Some of that was before he
died and her memories, some of it was after and
that was Whoopy And.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
How would that even work? Are they just scissoring with
each other?

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Mine? It's it's a birthday. Let's start at the beginning.
Noah Hathaway, you did you ever see the never ending story?

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Bro, the man Child Warrior. I had a cat once
named a Treyo. Falre was his name.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Fal Core was his luck dragon? Yeah, no, a tray
You was the boy sure, the man child in the
Never Any Story.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
He's fifty four years old now. It's also the name
of a hardcore band, Is that right? Yeah, they're not
a hardcore porn no, a band, a rock roop. Now
I'm gonna make you listen to him. I can't hear
you made me do this. This isn't the most obnoxious
song they have.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Gerard Butler. You know, King Leonidas of the three hundred
fame with his sexy abs is fifty six. Now the
AB's long gone. Huh uh. Jimmy Kimmel was supposed to
be having his fifty eighth birthday today, but that's been canceled.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, you got a sex change, so now you get
a new birthday.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah, nobody likes him. Steve's also fifty eight. Of course,
Davis on Treme. Everybody remembers that, right, and some other stuff.
Neil Flynn was quite popular when he played the janitor
on Scrubs. He is sixty five today. Chris Nooth, who
was mister Big Sex and the City seventy one, Tracy

(03:21):
Scoggins seventy two, Joe Montagne from Criminal Minds seventy eight
years old. I don't think he and that other guy
Mandy Patinkin, also from Criminal Minds, I don't think they
get along, which is understandable. Gary Marshall long since past,
Penny Marshall's brother, the guy that created Happy Days and

(03:43):
Laverne and Shirley and Mork and Mindy. He also produced
Odd Coupled, Dick Van Dyke Show, Lucy Show, Pretty Women,
Woman and The Princess Diaries. He was born in this
state nineteen thirty four, so no longer with us. He
goodly doesn't care. Today is National hug Musician Day, and

(04:05):
it's two weeks till Thanksgiving, only one week till the
Great American Smokeout? Does anybody smoke anymore? Why don't we
still have the Smokeout? I don't think anybody smokes. Hey.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
For National Hugging Musician Day, what instruments player would you
hug first?

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Mister Kenneth Oh, I.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Would probably just go with the lead guitar.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
I know a lot of people go to a National
hug a Musician Day. You can't decide who you'll embrace.
Why not the tambourine player or is it the tambourinist?
Other than that song by the birds, nobody cares about
the tambourine player or the bruise they get on their

(04:45):
palm from all that tambourining. And unlike other musicians who
see you approaching with open arms and think keep away, freak,
tambourine players appreciate the attention because, let's face it, they're
the band. Vers have a second child with red hair,
who's adopted and sleeps in the basement.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
With a retainer.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
She does.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
What I'm saying is nobody cares about tambourine players.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Do you see why they need a hug?

Speaker 2 (05:12):
This is why.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Look, this is look.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
We rarely let women talk on the air, and this
proves why she doesn't know why you get a tambourine
player in the band. I bet only me and mister
Ella really understand this as well as I could tell.
You get a tambourine player at a band for two reasons.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Hey she's fine, right, Or it's a celebrity that came
up on stage and wanted to join your band and
you don't want to dis a celebrity, you know, so
you told them a tambourine and they act like they
play in He's.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
One hundred percent correct.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Now, the celebrity tambourine thing, most bands aren't going to
have that problem because they'll never get famous or make it.
But for the rest of the bands out there living
in Middle America. You know, some sleepy garage rock band
out in the suburbs. In high school, in college, they
all knew one cute girl and she was mildly interested
in their band, and it gave Scott the bassist an
excuse to invite her to practice.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
And by the way, if you're gonna hug a musician,
look a bass.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Player, because they're always black, is how I that's one
good reason.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
It's a good point, dude. He's right. I went and
saw a turnstile last month and they had a black
bass player.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Let the guitar way down low here, even below their stomach,
and then they do like this to it.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
My friend's a black guy and he plays bass. I
asked him why he does that so he can hold
his junk in.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
I was like, that makes a lot of sense. Yeah,
now that the instrument you make fun of isn't the tambourine?
HiT's the cowbell?

Speaker 3 (06:33):
What about the triangle?

Speaker 1 (06:35):
About the triangle? That's the gayest thing you could have said?
How'd you go and ruin this conversation, mister Kenneth? All right,
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Speaker 1 (07:00):
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Speaker 3 (07:04):
No?

Speaker 2 (07:04):
I don't even know what that means, but it's on
my shoet yesterday. I don't care.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Today it's seventeen seventy five. The American Revolutionary troops went
to Montreal and they captured it, and then we decided
we didn't even really want it. We just wanted to
wipe our asses with it.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Ever mind, that's how much Montreal sucks. We had it
and we didn't care, didn't even want it. Turn it now?
Did somebody else take it.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
And don't bother writing us a letter about the war
eighteen twelve, Kiss my ass.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
I don't want to hear it today.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
In seventeen eighty nine, Ben Franklin writes the letter containing
the famous line quote.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
In this world, nothing can be said to be certain
except death and Texas.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yay.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
I have a shirt that says death in Texas. And
some people don't get how cool that is.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yeah, they don't get it. Today.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
In eighteen seventy five, Harvard versus Yale in the first
college football game with uniforms. In case you're curious, Harvard one,
Ford to nothing, Forward to nothing.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
I don't think they had the same scoring system we
have now. Maybe they just got a point. Did they
have it for everything? Today?

Speaker 2 (08:00):
In nineteen twenty seven, the Holland Tunnel opens.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
That's a good tunnel. Nah, it doesn't go to Holland, though.
It's confusing to a lot of people. They're in New
York and they drive into the Holland Tunnel. They think, well,
Holland was on the other end Jersey. Yeah, it's weird.
Nineteen forty, in the entertainment world, Walt Disney's movie Fantasia
premiered and it flopped, and then they re released it

(08:26):
in the sixties when everybody was doing all the drugs,
and then Amazing Fantasia was a huge hit.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
And then years later some illiterate pop star had the
name Fantasia and she didn't know how to read.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
That's true, remember her today. In nineteen seventy four, the
Amityville murders happened. A young man killed his parents and
his brothers and his sisters. And also in seventy four,
Karen Silkwood died in a mysterious carcer Oh.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
No, was Ted Kennedy anywhere nearby?

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Nah, I don't know anything about that. Today.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
In nineteen eighty one of the twentieth century's greatest films,
Raging Bowl premiere Dude Raging Bull.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
Was nineteen eighty two. You all got this one. The
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, That big black wall of granite was
dedicated in Washington, d C. Got the name of all
the servicemen and some women who gave their lives doing
the Vietnam conflict. It was just a conflict, naturally, it

(09:20):
was a war. The Korea was always considered just a
conflict and not a war, right they don't like to
have wars, but they don't mind some conflicts.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Today in twenty fifteen, terror attacks in Paris, the big
one at the Batationum theater Batasha, I don't know, and
we have one hundred and thirty people dead. And you
know who is responsible for that? Is that Trump, QAnon
and the MAGA extremists. Trump obviously certainly not the Muslim.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
If somebody to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmailing
with money, go for yourself, but go.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yourself. Is that clear?

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Stay tuned for more. Waltman Johnson will If you don't yet,
you think you're tough, one of these days you're gonna
turn around and go, hey, what happened to the penny?

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Uh huh?

Speaker 3 (10:08):
You know what happened?

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Right? What happened?

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Trump? Trump told us back in I guess February it
cost too much to make pennies. We've got to stop
doing it. It's it's adding up to this terrible debt
we got now paying forty two million people not to work,
you know. And that's just the start. Because now New
York is getting on. They they printed or minted or

(10:30):
whatever they call it, the last last penny yesterday forged.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
Did they forge it?

Speaker 3 (10:36):
They might have stamped it or you know, casted or
whatever they did. It cost almost four cents to make
every penny. Sure, and apparently.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
They did it during a government shut down.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
None of the other residents were able to look at
that and say, well, that's stupid, right, but Trump did
and so there's plenty of pennies after available. You can
still use them. It's still what to call, uh, you know, money.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Sometimes I feel like legal tender is what they call that, man, Yeah,
that's what.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Yeah, legal and so, but very little copper in them.
They're not really worth a penny. They're not worth four cents,
that's for sure. It's not made out of copper though,
then they just it's covered in copper. It's got like
two percent copper. When they started making them, way back
a million years ago, they was all copper.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Sometimes, when we're talking about stuff like this, I feel like.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
King a Hab and the Israelites in Jeremiah to go
again with the boot licking. I'm trying to warn people
about trouble, and nobody's listening. Doesn't it alarm anyone?

Speaker 3 (11:38):
That will?

Speaker 2 (11:38):
We live at a time when inflation's so bad.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, how bad? How bad is it that a unit.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Of currency has become irrelevant because it no longer has
any value?

Speaker 3 (11:47):
We talk about a penny that's still with P and
a rhyme with tea and that's stand for trople.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
They used to have a thing called the penny arcade.
They used to have penny candy.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
They just can't.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
And you, of course remember all of the things, right, No,
you read about it somewhere.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Sure, right, But pennies are irrelevant now.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
There used to be a time where you could take,
oh it's how much, it's four dollars and fifty three cents?

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Well, hang on, let me just get a penny out
of my pocket.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Two three pennies.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
There you go, And now that doesn't matter anymore.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
We added a trillion dollars in debt in less than
two months between roughly early August and late October. Yeah,
and that's gonna happen again before Christmas, and then it's
gonna happen again before Saint Patrick's Day, and then it's
gonna happen again before Memorial Day.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Wow, do you know what I'm saying? Trillions and trillions
and trillions of debt?

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Oh my, and every time that happens. And look, I
love Trump, I think he's a great guy. But when
he talks about these two thousand dollars stimulus checks, that's
gonna make it worse.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
And then the money you have is no value.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
So what's the point of two thousand dollars for free
if it doesn't buy anything?

Speaker 3 (12:43):
But now this new penny news that changes everything?

Speaker 2 (12:48):
No no one even paid, No one cares.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Look, we're gonna stop wasting four cents every time we
make a penny. That adds up after a while. Can't
you take care of the pennies and the dollars will
take care of them. Stamps itselves every millionaire and billionaire,
and pretty soon a trillionaire will tell you the same
thing you watched a penny. Dollars take care of themselves.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
We put Bazooka Joe bubblegum on a crack at the
Hoover dam. Yeah, we may have prevented a disaster for
a few hours, but it ain't saving anybody's life from
the incoming typhoon. People don't pay attention to things unless
it involves racism and fascism.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Kicked a plane, kicked al a plane. Here's some money
God kicked up.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
A plane fingers crossed. The story includes both.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Oh you're in luck.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
We're so fortunate to be alive at this day and time.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
People will pay attention if they get to call it
republican a fascist.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Oh well, yeah, a white male republican.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
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Speaker 1 (14:09):
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plenty of stuff with Helen Keller's name on it.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Because she's fake, she can't sue us.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
We can use Helen Keller's likeliness as much as we want.
She's not some made up thing to a totally fictitious
person who never existed, What do they care?

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (14:40):
A plane carrying four members of Congress to Washington, DC
to vote on ending the government's shutdown was diverted due
to a disruptive passenger, uh oh, who declared the fellow flyers,
we live in a fascist state.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
Isn't that what they're voting for? Yep? Bo, then congratulations.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
On board the plane where multiple lawmakers Representative Greg Stanton,
a Democrat of Arizona, he was there posting things on
X along with some other people too, from the Grand
Canyon state representatives Eli Crane, Andy Biggs, and Paul Gozer.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
They were all.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Forced to make an emergency stop in Kansas City.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Gozer net from Ghostbusters. You are correct, oh man, that's
bad news right there.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, you don't want to mess with ghost Look, there's
people you want to mess with, But I will tell
you you're not gonna like gozer, all right. So they
were all forced to make an emergency landing in Kansas City,
and they didn't even get to go get ribs.

Speaker 4 (15:35):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
The flight had to be in the air for probably
two hours forty one minutes when it was diverted back
to Kansas There's a video. It involves some language. I
ought not play it on the air well good. The
video posted on the flight after the emergency landing shows
Kansas City police officers boarding Airbus A three point twenty
and escorting an unidentified woman and her vagina off of
the plane. As police led the passenger off the plane,

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she's heard apology to her fellow passengers, then offering a
parting message, we.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Live in a fascist state.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
She said, yeah, that showed up to the voters. Roughly
an hour after diversion, the plane took off again from
Kansas City and touchdown at the Reagan National Airport. And
I'm sure she's glad she didn't have to go there
because Reagan's a Republican, therefore making him ah as.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Rhymes with ashiest.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
While it's unknown what disturbance the unhinged passenger caused that
forced a flight to make an emergency landing.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
One thing is for sure. She was a white lady
and she was honery.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
According to one report, apparently they were returning to Washington,
DC to vote against the Republicans continuing the resolution, but
three Arizona Republicans on the flight had been advocating for
ending the shutdown. That's something only a Nazi would do.
And then when they finally made it to Washington, DC,
almost as though they wanted to prove that woman correct,
they decided to outlaw low level THHC products as part

(16:56):
of a government shutdown, not funding those that nobody dying.
Fascist is what they are.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yeah, you know what, maybe she was right after all.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
It's funny how many fascists there are because the fascist
point to the other side called them fascists, right, so
it looks like everybody's a fascist now.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
People on that plane were pretty mad.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Some of them reported they didn't even make it home
in time to watch the Golden Bachelor season finale.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
Oh, don't spoil it for people that haven't recorded. You know,
the Golden Bachelor made his choice, and I will just
say this, he might be a Democrat because he said
he would definitely not go for anybody over sixty, and well,
I can't tell you how it is, but he may
have lied.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
We're not going to ruin it for you. There was
a ring, but there may not have been an engagement.
Oh boy, that's all I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
That's all you'll say.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Dolly Parton talked to People magazine about her legacy and
turning eighty years old, and I got to tell you,
she's probably the hottest woman in her eighties I've ever
seen before.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
She still looks good.

Speaker 5 (17:54):
I don't try to be anything different than who I am,
and try to be who I am. And I've always
said the one thing say about me is I'm a
very professional Dolly Parton. I don't try to tell other
people how to do, how to be. I just hope
that everything I've done it will last, and that we'll
do some good.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
What you'll get in line behind me.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Even after all these years.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
You know how much it cost to make a nickel?

Speaker 2 (18:22):
Oh god? How much more than five cents?

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Oh god? Ya? Almost fourteen cents?

Speaker 2 (18:29):
Stop?

Speaker 3 (18:29):
Now, that's worse that. That's not as bad as the penny.
The penny is four times almost this is only three
times as much. But how long is it gonna be
before they decide. Well, scrapping the penny didn't really save
us as much as we thought. Looks like we're gonna
have scrap the nickel.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
You know the worst part of this is someone's gonna
hear you explain that, right. The five cent piece cost
fourteen cents to make, and they're gonna say, but dut cha,
but that cha, but dut chaw nine more.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
That's nine more. The penny was only three more. So
that's more so why we do it the nickel but
not the penny?

Speaker 3 (19:00):
How Matthew is racist?

Speaker 1 (19:02):
That's that per capita were one? That's that per capita stuff. Yeah,
all this always is. Just when you think you're having fun,
along comes per capita to road for you.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
That is so sad.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
The iPhone has come out with a brand new iPhone pocket.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
Oh sorry, that wasn't meant to be dirty.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
No, it's a purse like holder for your iPhone that
looks a little bit like a sock. And how much
would you pay for that?

Speaker 3 (19:24):
Well, since it's an iPhone, I'm guessing one hundred plus.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Two hundred and thirty dollars.

Speaker 4 (19:29):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, there's there's an ad for it.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
You're gonna pay him please.

Speaker 5 (19:32):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
Introducing the future of holding stuff, the iPhone pocket. Believe
what you heard.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
The iPhone pocket. It's a sock fourner.

Speaker 6 (19:47):
From the visionary mind of a piece of cloth.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Two hundred and thirty dollars.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
You can stretch and wash the.

Speaker 6 (19:55):
iPhone pocket so soft and over and it's just watching
the see iPhone pargain. Apple is truly redefining greed.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
This is America, and in America, if something suck, you're
supposed to aple to get your money back.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
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