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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To shut the hell up and sit downs because with Trump,
need to shut the hell up and sit downs. Because
when I hit my food stamps, I buy food with
my food stamps. I like to buy pepsi because that's
what I drink, Pepsi.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I buy two liters.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Pepsis every time I go to the market. And I
like snacks. I like to snack. The kids like the snacks.
But who wants you to tell us? We could tell
we can't buy pepsis and sodas with our stacks. We
should be able to get what the hell we want
to get with our food stacks. Now you want to
cut everything and talk about we would just buy food.
(00:37):
Were spanted to spend money to buy the sodas and
the snacks, just to have sodas and kool aid and
snacks and juices and stuff and out for the adults
and the children. I need everything. I want to buy
everything with my food stamps.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
My lover, you know the worst part about the government
shutdown ending is we won't get to expose these people anymore.
They go back under the rock from which they came.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
The must be a big rock.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Oh, these people are huge, and it's from all the
snack foods that we give them.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's our fault.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Like you know when you see the sign at the zoo,
you know, don't feed the animals because bad for them.
But with humans, sure, yeah, feed them, feed them for free.
They'll get accustomed to it and then they'll just expect
it all the time.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
There's pros and cons to everything. Obviously, for a lot
of people, the government shut down probably didn't even affect them,
and for other people it was hell because they needed
their paycheck. Somebody works at the airport. I I do
have sympathy for those people. But for the they claim
it's twenty million, that seems like a high number. Twenty
million people out there living off at EBT and SNAP benefits,
(01:50):
presumably also getting Medicaid, and they're using that money to
buy some pretty unhealthy stuff. So I'm feeding you poison
with my paycheck, and then I'm paying for your healthcare afterwards.
And we wonder how we added a trillion dollars in
debt in less than two months. Well, it's hard at all.
I think I'm starting to figure it out. Yeah, and
(02:10):
so then another trillion by what Christmas, and then another
trillion by Valentine's Day. And then another trillion by Easter,
and it's just going to keep speeding up, guys.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yeah, the faster it grows, the faster it grows.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
So last night the Senate reached a deal. Now it
goes to the House that'll be probably be done by
this time tomorrow. Who knows, maybe by this time in
two days, doesn't by certainly by.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
The end of the week. They won't be messing with
it today, though, will they.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Well, they've got to travel. Oh, because it's Veterans Day.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, thank you?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yeah, well, yes, you know, these people deserve a day
off after six weeks of really busting their ass.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And if there's one group of people that loves the
military veterans, it's the guys that wouldn't pay them for
the last month or two.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Sure, Well, Happy Veterans Day everybody. It's not why Memorial Day.
You don't have a solemn Veterans Day. You have a
happy one, I think.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yet.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Government, banks, schools, I guess, you know, garbage collection, whatever
you're counting on today closed, but the stock market will
be open, which I was kind of surprised by. After yesterday,
I think they could take a cooling off period. You
see the Nasdaq was up over five hundred. Now the
NASDAK being up five hundreds like like the DAL being
(03:27):
up eight hundred or more.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Cause it's because it's the points aren't as high on
an average, just.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
A smaller number. So Nasdaq was up two point two
percent in a day.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
It loved that the government shutdown was coming to an end.
It also loved a week or two ago Trump making
these deals. But like Steve and I were saying to
each other off the air, is it that the market's
doing well or that the dollar and every other fiat
currency on earth is doing horribly. When you get money
in your paycheck, it is your job to move that
(03:59):
to some other kind of commodity as quickly as you
can so that it doesn't dissolve into nothing. Look how
great Bitcoin's doing. Hold on everybody. Bitcoin is an imaginary
digital currency, sort of like the dollar. The only difference
is we put a cap on it. Technically, they can't
make more bitcoin. Someone, I'll write an email, But Kenny,
(04:20):
you can mine for bitcoin. Yes, I know, but it's
not like having a bitcoin printing machine like they do
at the US Treasury Department. It's complicated, but it's not
If you think about it not so much. So we're
printing out money with no backing on it. We're doing
that all the time. We're giving money to foreign countries.
In Nigeria right now they're murdering Christians, and Trump says
(04:41):
if they don't quit doing that, we're gonna quit giving
the maid Now. I like Trump, but why are we
giving Nigeria aid?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Why are we giving I'd say probably eighty percent of
these countries aid that either it's a fine line between
they just don't appreciate us, or are they out and out
hate us and would like to murder us.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Nigeria is a little bit like the Texas of Africa.
They have an economy, They have billionaires there, they have
big cities, they have I know it's hard to believe,
but they have oil and.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Gas thanks to who us.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Well, it didn't hurt that we've been helping them out
and prop them up so that they can do better.
We have to stop funding every other country on Earth,
including our friends. And by the way, I think Israel
has every right to exist. I'm not at all making
an argument that we should summort Hamas or Palestine, but
maybe it's time to quit writing them checks as well.
It's a big economy, they can afford it. You're all
big boys. If we pay for dinner every time we
(05:38):
go out to dinner, what are we getting out of that?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Again? I gotta buy everybody dinner again. Every hey guys,
the pizza guys here. Anybody got a twenty No?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
No, you can take care of that for us, would you?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Oh? Oh, I didn't want to. And then the person
that eats the most pizza, you've got to pay for
his doctor's bill. Happy Veterans Day out on a Tuesday?
Who am I?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Charlie she Walton and Johnson Radio Network.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Like really old, like older, Like you're like the oldest
black woman alive. That's who this is for. Okay, Nott
King Cole ram old black.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Women on your mind for a reason this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
No, I just accidentally played this, and I was trying
to think of an explanation for.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
It, covering your ass.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I have two computers that play songs. One of them
wasn't working and the other one is a database of
thousands of songs, and just whatever it's on at that moment,
I'll play it. It doesn't have to make any sense,
See what I mean I do.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, yep, it's working now.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, it's doing it right now. Yeah. From old black
lady music to nineties pop punk, soccer dad music.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah, maybe we should maybe go back to the old
black lady music something along those lines.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You're you're sweet on the old black lady I am.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
How about I'll see you on an old black lady
and I'll raise you an old white lady.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
I've had it with white people that triple trumped, Yeah,
that have the nerve and the audacity to walk into
a Mexican restaurant, grown a Chinese restaurant, an Indian restaurant,
go to perhaps their gay hairdresser. I don't think you
(07:21):
should be able to enjoy anything but cracker barrel.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
So she's racist and proud of it.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
This is an old white lady named Jennifer Wels. She
is now a podcaster. She has now come. She speaks
for the white liberal suburban cat ladies, and she is
so progressive. She is so far to the left that
she thinks she's helping ethnic minorities by making a rule
that says Republicans that can no longer frequent their businesses.
(07:52):
I'm gonna. I don't want to assume anything, but I'll
bet the people that own the Mexican, Indian, Chinese restaurants,
the gay hair salons don't want her to. Yeah, hey, Jennifer,
I know you're real helpful, but we're roughly one third
to half. My customers stopped coming in this week, and
they said it was because you told him to.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
That's an opening a Mexican food restaurant, No white people
show up.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
How long does that open? Exactly? Imagine walking into a
Chinese restaurant. The guy comes out and he's nods his hat.
He's like, sir, real quick.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Did you vote for Trump three times? Yeah, we don't.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
We don't want your money. I'll bet they I bet
they don't.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I think they do actually want that money.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Imagine how out of touch you gotta be, as a rich,
old white lady to think that, like poor immigrants are struggling.
You know what the overhead is on a restaurant. Oh yeah,
it's hair thin? Right, Sorry, we don't. We don't want
your money anymore. We'd rather fail. I bet that's not true.
For some reason, this woman is she's kind of like
(08:58):
the new Bill Maher And I say that because now
Bill Maher seems to be on our side. Bill Maher,
for those that don't remember, used to be nuts and
now somehow the people on the left have moved so
far to the left that he has ended up on
our side, kind of like Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk and
RFK Junior, And weirdly, here he is with Cheryl Hines,
(09:18):
star of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and RFK Junior, right, RFK
Junior's wife, and they're talking about how Trump is so
open minded and easy to talk to.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Somebody was just asking me about when I met him,
what surprised me the most, and I said, I was
surprised that he really likes to listen to people.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
He's very curious and behaving.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
When I said that again, because I'm just telling you
what happened. Yeah, some of you are probably thinking, Kenny,
did you just play that SoundBite for Steve so you'd
have an excuse to play the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I think that was it. Yeah, honestly, Yeah, it's true.
This is like the only song we play where we
have the to it, because that's how Larry David picked
the song. It was a royalty free song.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
It's very convenient.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And some would say that's because he's a cheap Jew,
and I would say, hey, stop your bigotry. I'm cheap too,
and I'm not a Jew.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, so there.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I also wanted to play a song I didn't have
to pay for on the show. So take that feels good. Yeah,
this has nothing to do with it being a Jew.
It has to do it being thrifty in this economy.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
We do have some good news for you this morning.
Florida man already set. It may be more than one,
but at least we know one Florida man already booked
for the show.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
That's going to be so nice.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
And like we said earlier, the Senate has done their
bit to get the government back open, and so now
today the government's closed.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah, that's Steve called it. He's like, I'll bet this.
I think he said that a week ago. He said,
I bet this ends just a time for veterans dat
And I knew you'd be close, but even I got
to admit, I didn't think you'd nail it right on
the head.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
You know, they do us a favor every now and then.
There was a scene into it.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
There was a journalists yesterday that said Dan Crenshaw would
miss the vote because he was going to a Veteran's
Day event. A lot of people thought foolishly, Not a
lot of people, but there were some people who foolishly
thought that the House of Representatives would still convene, they
would meet today in an effort to reopen the government.
And boy, were you guys silly to think that they
(11:22):
were trying. There was a journalist it was trying to
make Dan Crenshaw look bad, and you know, can't blame
him for trying. Dan certainly deserves it. But Dan isn't
missing a vote. Everyone's missing a vote. The vote's going
to be tomorrow. They can't work today, it's too important.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Somebody emailed us yesterday and we didn't have time to
get to it came in a little later in the show.
But it's a very simple question, but maybe not so
simple to answer. Then say who emailed it? Or I'd
give them credit because it came through the app. Sure,
and if you email us through the app and you
don't sign your name, we don't know who you are
because we don't bother to collect your email and data
(12:02):
and information and sell it.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Perhaps we should.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, and that's not like we're just saying that. We
really don't. Have you heard these ads for there's a
free casino you could play online, and people are like,
why would they why would it be free? Well, cause
your personal information is a commodity. Or you think you're
playing jet Blackjack for free, you're not. They're selling your
personal data to China. So the question how is it
(12:28):
affordable healthcare? They call it the Affordable Care Act. Affordable
healthcare when it has to be subsidized to be affordable, right,
and then it makes my healthcare more expensive.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Well, I mean, a Lamborghini is affordable if somebody else
will just pay for it.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I think we should have a Lamborghini.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
And then the problem with subsidies is that when they
put a ten thousand dollars subsidy on evs, for example,
that's a specific thing that happened, most of the EV
manufacturers just raised the price by ten thousand dollars. Yeah,
so now they're like, ah, I know, it's still This
is how much consumers are willing to pay. So if
there's a subsidy on it, we can raise the prices,
they'll still pay it. That's how much they've got yep,
(13:11):
So what good do the subsidy do? Nothing is I
was looking at a chart yesterday. I wish I had
this in front of me, and it showed all the
different things that Americans have bought in mass over the
last twenty years and the cost of it. And it
was two great examples. The electric the flat screen TV
was more expensive twenty years ago than it is now,
way more Yeah, they're way cheaper now. They used to
(13:33):
cost thousands of dollars. Now they cost hundreds. Even in
the last couple of years, the price of that's gone down.
So then a college textbook, what happened with that? The
price of that is almost quadrupled.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
I couldn't believe it, and it was, oh god, how
long ago did I send my son to college?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
First?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Get off to college? And I got to look at
those textbook prices. That's just ridiculous. That's somebody's just dreaming.
Textbook costs five hundred seven dollars. And then there's of
course those those used textbooks that the kids that are graduating,
that's a way to get around here.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
They didn't want that, Well, why would I need that?
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Now?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
The problem with that book is it's got someone else's
notes in it, and you don't know if they're nuts
or not. But to get back to the original point here,
so why would a book cost more than twenty years
Did the technology to print out paper it gets so advanced? No, No,
the only difference, if anything, it's the opposite. The technology
on the TV is vastly better than it was twenty
(14:32):
years ago. And yet that's cheaper because the government doesn't
subsidize that. There's no tax credit for your flat screen TV,
but there are subsidies for college textbooks. So in order
to get one kid's college textbook to be quote unquote free,
another kid's got to pay an absurd amount of money
for it. And you're probably thinking, yeah, but I buy
that book from the local bookstore. It's no, it's guys.
(14:55):
It's like your pharmaceuticals.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
You go to Walgreens or whatever, and by the drugs,
it's not making Walgreens that much richer. It's it's making
big farm away richer.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yes, it's Tuesday, Tuesday. It's Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
The Early Bird.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
This is the Walton and Johnson Show.
To shut the hell up and sit downs because with Trump,
need to shut the hell up and sit downs. Because
when I hit my food stamps, I buy food with
my food stamps. I like to buy pepsi because that's
what I drink, Pepsi.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I buy two liters.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Pepsis every time I go to the market. And I
like snacks. I like to snack. The kids like the snacks.
But who wants you to tell us? We could tell
we can't buy pepsis and sodas with our stacks. We
should be able to get what the hell we want
to get with our food stacks. Now you want to
cut everything and talk about we would just buy food.
(00:37):
Were spanted to spend money to buy the sodas and
the snacks, just to have sodas and kool aid and
snacks and juices and stuff and out for the adults
and the children. I need everything. I want to buy
everything with my food stamps.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
My lover, you know the worst part about the government
shutdown ending is we won't get to expose these people anymore.
They go back under the rock from which they came.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
The must be a big rock.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Oh, these people are huge, and it's from all the
snack foods that we give them.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's our fault.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Like you know when you see the sign at the zoo,
you know, don't feed the animals because bad for them.
But with humans, sure, yeah, feed them, feed them for free.
They'll get accustomed to it and then they'll just expect
it all the time.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
There's pros and cons to everything. Obviously, for a lot
of people, the government shut down probably didn't even affect them,
and for other people it was hell because they needed
their paycheck. Somebody works at the airport. I I do
have sympathy for those people. But for the they claim
it's twenty million, that seems like a high number. Twenty
million people out there living off at EBT and SNAP benefits,
(01:50):
presumably also getting Medicaid, and they're using that money to
buy some pretty unhealthy stuff. So I'm feeding you poison
with my paycheck, and then I'm paying for your healthcare afterwards.
And we wonder how we added a trillion dollars in
debt in less than two months. Well, it's hard at all.
I think I'm starting to figure it out. Yeah, and
(02:10):
so then another trillion by what Christmas, and then another
trillion by Valentine's Day. And then another trillion by Easter,
and it's just going to keep speeding up, guys.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yeah, the faster it grows, the faster it grows.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
So last night the Senate reached a deal. Now it
goes to the House that'll be probably be done by
this time tomorrow. Who knows, maybe by this time in
two days, doesn't by certainly by.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
The end of the week. They won't be messing with
it today, though, will they.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Well, they've got to travel. Oh, because it's Veterans Day.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, thank you?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yeah, well, yes, you know, these people deserve a day
off after six weeks of really busting their ass.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And if there's one group of people that loves the
military veterans, it's the guys that wouldn't pay them for
the last month or two.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Sure, Well, Happy Veterans Day everybody. It's not why Memorial Day.
You don't have a solemn Veterans Day. You have a
happy one, I think.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yet.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Government, banks, schools, I guess, you know, garbage collection, whatever
you're counting on today closed, but the stock market will
be open, which I was kind of surprised by. After yesterday,
I think they could take a cooling off period. You
see the Nasdaq was up over five hundred. Now the
NASDAK being up five hundreds like like the DAL being
(03:27):
up eight hundred or more.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Cause it's because it's the points aren't as high on
an average, just.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
A smaller number. So Nasdaq was up two point two
percent in a day.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
It loved that the government shutdown was coming to an end.
It also loved a week or two ago Trump making
these deals. But like Steve and I were saying to
each other off the air, is it that the market's
doing well or that the dollar and every other fiat
currency on earth is doing horribly. When you get money
in your paycheck, it is your job to move that
(03:59):
to some other kind of commodity as quickly as you
can so that it doesn't dissolve into nothing. Look how
great Bitcoin's doing. Hold on everybody. Bitcoin is an imaginary
digital currency, sort of like the dollar. The only difference
is we put a cap on it. Technically, they can't
make more bitcoin. Someone, I'll write an email, But Kenny,
(04:20):
you can mine for bitcoin. Yes, I know, but it's
not like having a bitcoin printing machine like they do
at the US Treasury Department. It's complicated, but it's not
If you think about it not so much. So we're
printing out money with no backing on it. We're doing
that all the time. We're giving money to foreign countries.
In Nigeria right now they're murdering Christians, and Trump says
(04:41):
if they don't quit doing that, we're gonna quit giving
the maid Now. I like Trump, but why are we
giving Nigeria aid?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Why are we giving I'd say probably eighty percent of
these countries aid that either it's a fine line between
they just don't appreciate us, or are they out and out
hate us and would like to murder us.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Nigeria is a little bit like the Texas of Africa.
They have an economy, They have billionaires there, they have
big cities, they have I know it's hard to believe,
but they have oil and.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Gas thanks to who us.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Well, it didn't hurt that we've been helping them out
and prop them up so that they can do better.
We have to stop funding every other country on Earth,
including our friends. And by the way, I think Israel
has every right to exist. I'm not at all making
an argument that we should summort Hamas or Palestine, but
maybe it's time to quit writing them checks as well.
It's a big economy, they can afford it. You're all
big boys. If we pay for dinner every time we
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go out to dinner, what are we getting out of that?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Again? I gotta buy everybody dinner again. Every hey guys,
the pizza guys here. Anybody got a twenty No?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
No, you can take care of that for us, would you?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Oh? Oh, I didn't want to. And then the person
that eats the most pizza, you've got to pay for
his doctor's bill. Happy Veterans Day out on a Tuesday?
Who am I?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Charlie she Walton and Johnson Radio Network.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Like really old, like older, Like you're like the oldest
black woman alive. That's who this is for. Okay, Nott
King Cole ram old black.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Women on your mind for a reason this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
No, I just accidentally played this, and I was trying
to think of an explanation for.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
It, covering your ass.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I have two computers that play songs. One of them
wasn't working and the other one is a database of
thousands of songs, and just whatever it's on at that moment,
I'll play it. It doesn't have to make any sense,
See what I mean I do.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, yep, it's working now.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, it's doing it right now. Yeah. From old black
lady music to nineties pop punk, soccer dad music.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah, maybe we should maybe go back to the old
black lady music something along those lines.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You're you're sweet on the old black lady I am.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
How about I'll see you on an old black lady
and I'll raise you an old white lady.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
I've had it with white people that triple trumped, Yeah,
that have the nerve and the audacity to walk into
a Mexican restaurant, grown a Chinese restaurant, an Indian restaurant,
go to perhaps their gay hairdresser. I don't think you
(07:21):
should be able to enjoy anything but cracker barrel.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
So she's racist and proud of it.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
This is an old white lady named Jennifer Wels. She
is now a podcaster. She has now come. She speaks
for the white liberal suburban cat ladies, and she is
so progressive. She is so far to the left that
she thinks she's helping ethnic minorities by making a rule
that says Republicans that can no longer frequent their businesses.
(07:52):
I'm gonna. I don't want to assume anything, but I'll
bet the people that own the Mexican, Indian, Chinese restaurants,
the gay hair salons don't want her to. Yeah, hey, Jennifer,
I know you're real helpful, but we're roughly one third
to half. My customers stopped coming in this week, and
they said it was because you told him to.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
That's an opening a Mexican food restaurant, No white people
show up.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
How long does that open? Exactly? Imagine walking into a
Chinese restaurant. The guy comes out and he's nods his hat.
He's like, sir, real quick.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Did you vote for Trump three times? Yeah, we don't.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
We don't want your money. I'll bet they I bet
they don't.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I think they do actually want that money.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Imagine how out of touch you gotta be, as a rich,
old white lady to think that, like poor immigrants are struggling.
You know what the overhead is on a restaurant. Oh yeah,
it's hair thin? Right, Sorry, we don't. We don't want
your money anymore. We'd rather fail. I bet that's not true.
For some reason, this woman is she's kind of like
(08:58):
the new Bill Maher And I say that because now
Bill Maher seems to be on our side. Bill Maher,
for those that don't remember, used to be nuts and
now somehow the people on the left have moved so
far to the left that he has ended up on
our side, kind of like Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk and
RFK Junior, And weirdly, here he is with Cheryl Hines,
(09:18):
star of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and RFK Junior, right, RFK
Junior's wife, and they're talking about how Trump is so
open minded and easy to talk to.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Somebody was just asking me about when I met him,
what surprised me the most, and I said, I was
surprised that he really likes to listen to people.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
He's very curious and behaving.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
When I said that again, because I'm just telling you
what happened. Yeah, some of you are probably thinking, Kenny,
did you just play that SoundBite for Steve so you'd
have an excuse to play the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I think that was it. Yeah, honestly, Yeah, it's true.
This is like the only song we play where we
have the to it, because that's how Larry David picked
the song. It was a royalty free song.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
It's very convenient.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And some would say that's because he's a cheap Jew,
and I would say, hey, stop your bigotry. I'm cheap too,
and I'm not a Jew.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, so there.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I also wanted to play a song I didn't have
to pay for on the show. So take that feels good. Yeah,
this has nothing to do with it being a Jew.
It has to do it being thrifty in this economy.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
We do have some good news for you this morning.
Florida man already set. It may be more than one,
but at least we know one Florida man already booked
for the show.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
That's going to be so nice.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
And like we said earlier, the Senate has done their
bit to get the government back open, and so now
today the government's closed.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah, that's Steve called it. He's like, I'll bet this.
I think he said that a week ago. He said,
I bet this ends just a time for veterans dat
And I knew you'd be close, but even I got
to admit, I didn't think you'd nail it right on
the head.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
You know, they do us a favor every now and then.
There was a scene into it.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
There was a journalists yesterday that said Dan Crenshaw would
miss the vote because he was going to a Veteran's
Day event. A lot of people thought foolishly, Not a
lot of people, but there were some people who foolishly
thought that the House of Representatives would still convene, they
would meet today in an effort to reopen the government.
And boy, were you guys silly to think that they
(11:22):
were trying. There was a journalist it was trying to
make Dan Crenshaw look bad, and you know, can't blame
him for trying. Dan certainly deserves it. But Dan isn't
missing a vote. Everyone's missing a vote. The vote's going
to be tomorrow. They can't work today, it's too important.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Somebody emailed us yesterday and we didn't have time to
get to it came in a little later in the show.
But it's a very simple question, but maybe not so
simple to answer. Then say who emailed it? Or I'd
give them credit because it came through the app. Sure,
and if you email us through the app and you
don't sign your name, we don't know who you are
because we don't bother to collect your email and data
(12:02):
and information and sell it.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Perhaps we should.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, and that's not like we're just saying that. We
really don't. Have you heard these ads for there's a
free casino you could play online, and people are like,
why would they why would it be free? Well, cause
your personal information is a commodity. Or you think you're
playing jet Blackjack for free, you're not. They're selling your
personal data to China. So the question how is it
(12:28):
affordable healthcare? They call it the Affordable Care Act. Affordable
healthcare when it has to be subsidized to be affordable, right,
and then it makes my healthcare more expensive.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Well, I mean, a Lamborghini is affordable if somebody else
will just pay for it.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I think we should have a Lamborghini.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
And then the problem with subsidies is that when they
put a ten thousand dollars subsidy on evs, for example,
that's a specific thing that happened, most of the EV
manufacturers just raised the price by ten thousand dollars. Yeah,
so now they're like, ah, I know, it's still This
is how much consumers are willing to pay. So if
there's a subsidy on it, we can raise the prices,
they'll still pay it. That's how much they've got yep,
(13:11):
So what good do the subsidy do? Nothing is I
was looking at a chart yesterday. I wish I had
this in front of me, and it showed all the
different things that Americans have bought in mass over the
last twenty years and the cost of it. And it
was two great examples. The electric the flat screen TV
was more expensive twenty years ago than it is now,
way more Yeah, they're way cheaper now. They used to
(13:33):
cost thousands of dollars. Now they cost hundreds. Even in
the last couple of years, the price of that's gone down.
So then a college textbook, what happened with that? The
price of that is almost quadrupled.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
I couldn't believe it, and it was, oh god, how
long ago did I send my son to college?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
First?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Get off to college? And I got to look at
those textbook prices. That's just ridiculous. That's somebody's just dreaming.
Textbook costs five hundred seven dollars. And then there's of
course those those used textbooks that the kids that are graduating,
that's a way to get around here.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
They didn't want that, Well, why would I need that?
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Now?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
The problem with that book is it's got someone else's
notes in it, and you don't know if they're nuts
or not. But to get back to the original point here,
so why would a book cost more than twenty years
Did the technology to print out paper it gets so advanced? No, No,
the only difference, if anything, it's the opposite. The technology
on the TV is vastly better than it was twenty
(14:32):
years ago. And yet that's cheaper because the government doesn't
subsidize that. There's no tax credit for your flat screen TV,
but there are subsidies for college textbooks. So in order
to get one kid's college textbook to be quote unquote free,
another kid's got to pay an absurd amount of money
for it. And you're probably thinking, yeah, but I buy
that book from the local bookstore. It's no, it's guys.
(14:55):
It's like your pharmaceuticals.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
You go to Walgreens or whatever, and by the drugs,
it's not making Walgreens that much richer. It's it's making
big farm away richer.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yes, it's Tuesday, Tuesday. It's Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
The Early Bird.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
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