South Korea Shuts Down for 30 Minutes to Learn English - FRI 8.2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm gonna be in San Antonio this week. I heard
and apparently there's Beats and Boots is going on Saturday night.
Is that why you're going? No, he already said he
was gonna go see his grandfather. No, the band's called Grandson.
Grandson's like an alternative rock band.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Oh I thought you were the Grandson. No, the band
is Grandson. No, my grandfather died a long time ago. Oh,
I'm sorry to hear that. Well, I'm not young, you know. Okay, No,
I'm okay.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
But while I'm there, there's a thing going on called
Beats and it's country music and EDM.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Is that what this abortion is right here? That's exactly
That's what this That's what hell's out of there? That's
what this holocaust in your ear canals? What is this?
What is this root canal? That is in audio recording?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
So they took a rock song, one of the great
classics of all time from the late seventies, which is.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Still a hit today. Like almost fifty years ago, this
was a hit.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
We were trying to find a remix to the raw
Hide theme just to piss off belly d But oh
thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, Well, if you're gonna mess with country and you
don't know much about country.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
You pretty much got two choices.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's rawhide and yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Didn't want to say it, but you knew already. Well
that's what we heard.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
We're like, so it's techno music and contra what are
they just going to play cod Nite.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Joe all for people that don't know much about country music?

Speaker 2 (01:27):
This is this is all they know.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
You can't do country music and house music those two things.
That's like mixing bubble gum and peanuts. That just doesn't
it doesn't go together.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh Rose, please out of my mouth, Please don't do this.
I'm begging you. Oh you're it's a national tour, but
they're doing it, and you're not going it, says here.
They were well received in San Francisco.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
I'm sure they are by absolutely another good reason not
to see them.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, I won't be at that now. Well, speaking of.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
San Francisco and California, we were talking about Eric Swallwill
possibly running for governor of California and I thought to myself, well,
it's to be a crowded race. Well, just Katie Parker
alone makes it a crowded race, doesn't she. She's a
big girl and very unsavory of course, a Democrat former
Health and Human Services secretary. We talked about this guy

(02:15):
yesterday involved in some suspicious behavior. Xavier Bassara, who was
a longtime congressman. He has announced former Los Angeles mayor
Antonio Viardria Gosa and Stephen Klobek. Now this is a
guy who has no chance. He's the founder of a

(02:35):
time share. Do you think people want a governor that
brought us time share?

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Probably not?

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Probably not, no, no, So all of those people. Kamala
Harris hasn't been mentioned in the article. But if we're
talking about people that are probably gonna run, Kamala Harris,
Swallowell she said she wouldn't I know, but Watcher, why
would she?

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Wh why would she?

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Has she ever done anything but lie? Yeah, that's a
great point.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Now, at the same time, Eric Swalwell is proudly talking
about how he is going to be, you know, the
protector of California.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
The New York.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Post has a report out about the director of the
Federal Housing Agency has formally requested an invitation or an investigation,
and he has invited Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate
Eric Swalwell for allegedly false and misleading statements made regarding

(03:40):
this purchase, and that there's this this whole possible criminal
element thing going on around him and some fraud and
financing and things like that. Well at the mortgage and
tax fraud, it was involved.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
If any think that's concerning, If you're scared about that,
I think somebody needs to do an investigation in Michigan
because dark things are happening.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
What kind of dark? How dark are they?

Speaker 1 (04:07):
A report today from Patty McMurray at the Gateway pundit
dot com has the following headline.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Is she dark?

Speaker 3 (04:14):
No? Well you said it was some dark things, haven't it.
I I'm assuming it's it's dark brown.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
No, I meant like dark, like macaw evil. Yeah, yeah exactly.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Oh yeah, because everything dark is bad evil, It is
terrible and we got to get rid of darkness.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Am I right? That's not what we're saying. Oh you
know you saying it, you dog whistling, now, Canny, We're
not saying everything that a boot lick, a dog whistling. No,
this isn't about the Jews.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Now you have that new nickname though, Kenny the Kenny
the Jew boot lick Okay, fine, what is this about
the following headline, Meet Michigan's dead voters. Several voted in person,
others voted absentee. Spooky hunh One voter died forty one
years ago.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Oh my god. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Michigan's defiant Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has been
in the news after she refused the DOJ's demands to
turn over unredacted voter roles.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Now, why wouldn't you want to do that? Huh? The
term limited Secretary of State.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Jocelyn Benson, it's an elected position in that state, whose
twenty twenty six campaign for governor is being funded in
large part by members of the George Soros family. Cites
the need to protect voters us social Security numbers from
the federal government that literally issues the Social Security numbers.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Who are you protecting them from? That's well, that's where
the numbers come from.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Jocelyn doesn't think Michigan voters are smart enough to understand
their voters their motives, Benson's claims. She claims she's denying
the dog Jay access to the Michigan voter roles because
she doesn't want them to see Michigan driver's licenses numbers,
as if that would matter for some reason.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Probably because she's trying to hide some crime and we
can't help.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
But notice some of these people that voted and are
dead don't even look like they're Americans.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
They have names like Ahmed nan Yee Muhammad. That's typical
Minnesota in your Korea, well, Michigan.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
But actually, but to your point, same thing, Yeah, dear Bornistan,
we don't call it that for nothing.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Another reason Jocelyn.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Doesn't want the DOJ to investigate Michigan's voter roles is that,
given them many ways elections are stolen, the DOJ is
likely to discover that Michigan's voter roles are among the
most corrupt in the nation. Uh huh, right exactly. At
one hundred and fifteen years old, Naomi Whitehead is America's
oldest living citizen. If Naomi's the oldest living citizen in America,

(06:35):
how is it possible that Michigan curly has three hundred
thirty three active voters listed on the voter.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Rolls who are older than her.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Tricky right, A whopping two hundred and fifty seven of
the three hundred thirty three active voters age one hundred
and fifteen year older are registered to vote in Wayne County.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
That's where Detroit is.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, did the you know, Michigan's voter rolls list nine
active voters born between eighteen fifty and eighteen ninety eight.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
And you know that ain't only state what is happening.
That's just the ones you notice. Now, it's just the
ones you notice. I'm be going to notice some shenanigans,
some tom foolery. No, perhaps a little mallarchy.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Oh, I was afraid of that.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Damn it.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Not mallarkey.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
And you know what happens when you combine shenanigans, malarkey,
and tom foolery, you get the Democrat party space. Oh
that reminds me. Aren't the Democrats upset right now that
they have to return to work? Yes, we were talking
about the DNC earlier. The staff is very upset. Democrat
National Committee employees were told by the director, mister Ken Martin,

(07:39):
we need to end this whole work from home thing
and we are now going to be requiring you to
show up at the office five days a week, every
week unless you take vacation. Leadership of the union representing
the employees has put a statement out, calling this new
direction to come to work callous. It is so callous,

(08:02):
and the staff immediately set a flurry of thumbs down
emojis to show their real anger at this requirement. Yeah,
it's really something, guys, I know. I mean, aren't these
the same people telling us that democracy is on the
line and they're the ones that are gonna save it,
and yet they're upset that they can't work from home

(08:23):
in their pajamas and tak you something. Say it with me,
say wad way, the future is hard.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
No, no, no.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Walton and Johnson Radio Network.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Tempted to say the word ngrish as I read this
next news story to you, Billya.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Don't do it. Okay, it's not not okay. Say again
what I'm gonna not have to say.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Don't say the word Engrish English. Don't say you just
said it. South Korea yesterday shut down everything in the
country for thirty five minutes.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
The city was the country was completely.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Silent, the southern half of the country anyway.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
Okay, and you're probably wondering why South Korea paused flights,
they delayed markets, they eased rush hour.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Traffic, government shut down. No oh, half a.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Million students had to take an all day college entrance exam,
and there was thirty five minutes that was devoted to English.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
To what again, English?

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Oh yeah, they speak the English over there, I said English.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
It sounded like English close anyway, From roughly one oh
five to one form they were taking the English party
the exam.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
You listen to English and then you answer questions.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Aircrafts were ordered to hold above three thousand meters except
for emergencies. Financial markets in many offices open an hour
late to clear roads for test takers.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
It was that important. That's a big deal, he said.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
We're not going to be able to conquer the United
States of America if we don't speak very good English.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Well, hopefully they're not planning on conquering us any time.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
I'm soon.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
I mean, they're still barely able to deal with North
Korea right now, they said.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Young people in South Korea have been preparing for this
exam for twenty years. Authorities said five hundred and fifty
four one hundred and seventy four people registered this year,
the highest in seven years. The Transport Ministry's restrictions affected
one hundred and forty flights, including sixty five international arrivals.
Who just flew around in circles up above the earth

(10:27):
waiting to land because some kids are taking in English.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Tests and ain't that crazy the test to know you
had to be late for something because some kis was
trying to study.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
Because the kids were trying to speak American.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
The test is a nine hour grind across Korean math, English,
and electives as a gatekeeper for admissions to elite universities
and jobs, social status, even marriage prospects that can ride
on them, and the hyper competitive nation. Apparently there are
a lot of tiger parents in South Korea.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Oh, absolutely all over Asia.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
The Korea Exchange confirmed trading began at ten am local
time to accommodate the exam day schedule. Schools and parents
lean interraedition and superstition on Sing Sung Day, from prayer
visits at temples and churches to avoiding slippery seaweed soup
at lunch.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Oh yeah, you probably ought to avoid that slippery soup. Yes,
a seaweed soup, billyon, Well, if it's slippery, I don't
care what it is.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Airports, subways, city halls, shifted routines, traffic, police, flood school zones,
as students filed in thirteen hundred plus test sites. This
year's cohort also faces a tightening and missions climate. Beginning
with the twenty twenty six intake, all four universities four
year universities must weigh documented school violence records in admissions.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
And apparently some.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Of these kids have been known to do kung fu fighting,
No way, I know, they don't know.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
They do taekwondo, kung fu China, taekwondo Korea.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
We don't have a song about that.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Oh damnit I ruined it didn't I and most Americans
don't know the difference.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
You know, that's true. Yeah, still put a foot in
your face, It's true. Just like that boot to the
heads son.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
You know, we were looking at that video earlier. For
those that haven't seen it, the Joe Biden robot Russia released.
It was pretty funny.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
The Biden model is apparently the cheapest one. You can
get the Biden robot model for like seventy nine dollars.
I think, you know, plus tax, it comes up to
nearly one hundred bucks. But for a robot, that's not
that much money.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah, I mean, it just depends right, and it doesn't
do anything well, it just kind of walks around stage.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
It kind of shuffles its little robot feet around and
it's kind of like a zomba, but it's got lege
or a roomba.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
What's that thing called?

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah, rumba, you got it, Yeah, zoomba. Zumba is a
dancing question.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yeah, it's an exercise.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
All that being said, with the rise of AI technology
and the unauthorized use of celebrity voices, you're gonna be
hearing a whole lot more of Morgan Freeman in the future.
Oh boy, he has his lawyers going after people that
are using his voice without his permission.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
That bet that happens a lot, and we would never
do any like that.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
Hello, I'm Morgan Freeman. I endorsed gas station Jerky. Just
thinking about that greasy jug of meat sticks resting between
the take a penny dish and big lighter display makes
my mouth water. My favorite flavor is brown. My second
favorite flavor is brown with little pieces of mold. And

(13:21):
here's a fun game. After choosing your gas station Jerky,
cover the wrapper and try to guess the expiration date.
Here's a hint. You can't go wrong with nineteen ninety eight.
And don't forget if you can't finish your jerky. Stick
it in your pocket to use as a ship in
your next bar fight. It's like a knife, only tasty.
I'm Morgan Freeman and I endorsed gas station jerky.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
I've been witch hunt since day one.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
I've been fighting acquisitions as an acquisition.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
So did I divide the city?

Speaker 1 (13:55):
No, the city was designed before even step

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Foot into the off Walton and Johnson Radio network