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September 4, 2025 • 17 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do y'all remember publisher's clearing house. Well, of course, this

(00:03):
dude won five thousand dollars a week forever from publisher's
clearing house. That's what the problem is. What the problem
is they went bankrupt.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
No, that's why you always go with the lompe sum cash,
like the power ball, things like that. Well, did you
know that nobody won that power ball last night? It's
a billion? It was one point four now it's one
point seven. That that little rise from point four to
point seven. You know how much that is? Yeah, three

(00:33):
hundred million extra dollars and it'll probably be more than
that before the next drawing. It's one hundred and seven now.
But the higher it gets, the faster it gets higher.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
My mentor, John Walton was a brilliant guy.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
He never won a lottery, though, did he Well, I
mean not the powerball. He probably won a lottery in
other ways.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
I think it was the only impractical thing about John.
John was very reasonable. He's very sensible. He was good
at understanding data and statistics and the odds.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
And there was not a chance in hell, but somebody
is gonna win it. So everybody likes to have a
little hope let's hold out a little hope, what do
you say?

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Once in a while. I do remember John buying a
lottery ticket, sure, and we would all laugh and kind
of roll our eyes.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
It had to be, you know, like one hundred million
or more or why bother.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
But he was but he knew that. I don't think
he cared. He thought it was funny to buy it. It
was fun, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, that is fun holding onto that ticket before you
check the numbers and thinking to yourself, you know what,
I might be a millionaire right now, a multi multi,
because you're gonna get like six hundred million dollars out
of this if you were to win. Definitely go with
the cash option, though, because what if the power go out,
ball goes broken five years, you have fifteen years left

(01:46):
and no money coming in.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Well, that's exactly what happened to this guy, This dude
in Oregon one a publisher's clearing house sweepstake back in
twenty twelve that would have paid him five thousand dollars
a week forever. That's two hundred and sixty thousand dollars
a year. But this year the check never came. That's
because this past April Publishers Clearinghouse filed for bankruptcy, and
at least ten for former winners of Forever Prizes will

(02:10):
no longer be getting their payments. Here is John Wiley
talking about losing all that money.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
I thought, why didn't they give me a heads up? Hey,
we're going on a business, you know. But no, it's
like somebody just cut the cord, sold my jet ski,
sold my trailer. I had a little bit of money
left over, and that's what I'm living on right now.
You know, I'm pretty sure I'm going to lose my home.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
It's gonna lose his home because he won all that money.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
He expected that buddy to keep coming in making those
house payments with it, and now he's messed up.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
So he didn't save any of it, didn't invest any
of it.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
I bet not, because he's got another go. You know,
that next check will be coming in. I don't know
when they pay, if it's the first of the year
or midyear. Right about now, probably because now is when
he's complaining.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Did we ever play the audio earlier this week with
the five year old boy in Florida who left his
house to go to get breakfast at Chick fil A.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
No, I remember her talking about it, but I don't blink.
We heard from the kid.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
This has been widely reported at this point, so we
won't spend a lot of time on it. But we
watched the video, I don't know two days ago.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
I never heard none about it. Why why don't y'all
tell me about this stuff? Well, sure you pay attention.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
To the show. Okay, So we have this meeting mister oh,
since you brought it up early in the morning before
we get on the air, where we go through a
list of all the stories we'd like to try to
work into the show.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
We do.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, that's the thing. Wait when does that happen before
the show starts every morning and before a Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
The show before five thirty. It starts at five thirty
Central times six thirty on the East Coast.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Now out of here, Now that's fine. Obviously you get
here when you want. We're not here to judge.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
But uh huh.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Anyway, No, there's a longer video. We won't spend a
lot of time on this because I think a lot
of people have seen this on the news by now.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
The kid is a fan of Chick fil A, and
his parents take him to Chick fil A pretty regularly.
He knows where the Chick fil A is. They it's
walking distance. His parents have walked with him to Chick
fil A before. This time.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
However, you won't.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
He woke up in the middle of the night, woke
up so.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Early that his early. Yeah, they hadn't woken up yet.
Chick fil A was open. Mom and dad were still asleep,
and some police officers found William is his name, and
they brought him back home. It was actually a pretty
adorable video. It's very funny.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
We arrived on the scene and as we walked in,
we see a little kid sitting at the table eating
his breakfast with one of the managers. If We asked
where he came from, and he kept saying, he walked
to Chick fil A.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
You know where your house is, right, it's like this
keel there. I walked him to the back of my
patrol car. No, I'm not going to put you in jail.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
And we started checking ear if he had a white
fence right here.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah, that we pulled up in the trouble.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
You have a son named yeah, little boy, Yeah, yeah,
he was down at the Chick fil A.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
No, we haven't in our police cart you want to come.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yet you could just see the look on his face.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
It would be for any parent, including myself, it's disbelief.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
So they didn't cuff the kid, well, and I did
rough him up a little bit, you know, and just
just to teach him a lesson.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Well he was white, you know. Uh yeah, yeah, you
get it. I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
They handed him over to his uh two loving parents.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, exactly of them.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
I don't like what they're doing to POC's out there though,
like you know, like people like mister Oh and his community,
or what they just did to Christy Nome on CBS,
what they do to Christy Nome. See, here's how I
know she's not a white woman because CBS they denigrated her.
They did what, they took sound bites, they took a
video of her, and they deceptively edited it.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
S try't they edited out the part that they didn't
like her saying.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Now this. We played this earlier in the week, and
I just want to bring this up again for a reason.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, we mentioned that in the early morning meeting a
couple of days ago. I think we did. Actually, how
do you know that, Well, that's you said, That's what
y'all do see now you're you're you're tricking me. Yeah,
you weren't here, all right.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
So this is interesting for a number of reasons. Obviously,
we're not shocked that CBS News took video of Christy Noman,
they deceptively edited it to change what she was saying.
The thing that makes it interesting this time around, Paramount Global,
the parent company to CBS, is about to merge with
a company called sky Dance, and supposedly one of the
things that industry insiders are saying is that in order
to get the merger to go through and to convince

(06:16):
Skydance to merge with them, CBS.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
News is supposed to stop doing stuff like this. There's
and they're not.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
But they said they would, But they said they would.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, that's the main thing. That's what you have to
understand about the media and politics in general. I think
saying you're gonna quit doing whatever it is you're doing
is a most as good as actually quitting doing it.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Here's two sound bites played side by side, what she
actually said and what they played on the air.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
And oh good, the computer. The computer's been freezing all morning. Yeah,
but it's not broken. It's just limping a little bit.
It's a future, it's.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
A feature, it's got a spin, yeah, exactly, it's it's delayed,
so to build anticipation, that's what it's doing. Anyway, here's
the sound, and.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
The one thing that we will continue to do is
to make sure that he doesn't walk for you in
the United States of America. This individual was a known
human smuggler, a MS thirteen gang member, an individual who
was a wife beater, and someone who was so perverted
that he solicited nude photos from minors and even his

(07:20):
fellow human traffickers told him to knock it off. He
was so sick in what he was doing and how
he was treating small children. So he needs to never
be in the United States of America, and our administration
is making sure we're doing all that we can to
bring him.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Okay, you hear that part where they talk about all
this stuff that Maryland dad actually did wrong.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Where she says this particular individual did all these terrible things.
None of that got played on CBS.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
None of that got played on CBS News. They edited
it out, and you got a wonder, I mean, did
you think we wouldn't notice, you wouldn't get caught.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
This particular individual. The particular individual. If you didn't see idiocracy,
you probably don't understand why that's cute. If you didn't
see idiocracy, you probably don't even like this radio. You
probably should go see it. Christine Home back in the
news again this morning because she had to fire a
bunch of employees over at the FEMA. Plus she's in

(08:12):
charge of something else but FEMA anyway.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
FEMA is part of thhspell.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Ye. She she fired some FEMA workers and said what
they do? Did they not love Trump enough? To the
nut bow to maga? Nah, there is just watching pornography
on their government issued devices during work hours. I apparently,
Oh this is a tail where this has happened so
many times it's happened again. These individuals had access to

(08:40):
critical information and intelligence, were entrusted to safeguard Americans from emergencies,
but instead a bunch of them were sitting in front
of the computer watching porn half of the day. And
not regular old, good old fashioned porn like everybody loves.
This porn was racially charged and involved beast reality. Oh

(09:01):
my god, it's hang on a second, back up the
beast reality thing. No problem, I'm with you no problem, No, no,
I mean I'm to the criticisms.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
I have no problem with telling you that that's not okay.
You're right, that sounded weird, But the racially charged part
maybe that.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Didn't need What does that mean exactly?

Speaker 1 (09:19):
I think they're talking about like ebonyes and blondes or
something like that.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Maybe it was like six on one or something.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Because I agree with you when we're telling people this
is wrong, but it was still inappropriate. If there's a
Doberman or something involved, that's not okay. But the fact
that one of the people was black and one of
them was white, or you know, a spicy Latina and
an Asian. I won't even pick a word to describe them. Yeah,
because obviously that would be horrible. Maybe that didn't need
to be in the report.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
You know, it's it's been a dysfunctional agency of not
actually getting the work done for the American people that
was intended for decades. Some of these beer cat crats
that engaged in react imaginable instead of safeguarding America from
natural disasters. And all of that ends now.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
All of that ends now. And stop having sex of dogs.
Good lord, who's into that? Because these people they are
crazy because they always talk about how Christian they is. Y.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
I don't know how many am on this side.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Walton and Johnson Radio Network. I'm going to say this
out loud. Isn't it weird that I'm a regular contributor
to the Houston Chronicle.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
That's weird. That's beyond weird. I admit that I think
it's a little strange too, but uh, well, you was
weird enough before you started becoming one of communists for
the newspaper.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
I'm writing the column columnists, Uh could be both, no
bellyad I'm writing from the mega perspective.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
I just authored an article about why I think the
Texas Marijuana Band died in the House. And the weirdest
part about that is that the Chronicle actually encouraged that.
You didn't have to force it on them. They invited you.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
They asked me if I would write from the mega perspective,
and I said, I'm kind of maga. I'm kind of
a Ron Paul guy too. I'm like halfway between Donald
Trump and Ron Paul and Ross Perow. That's where you'll
find Kenny Webster, part maga and part gaga. What's gaga?

Speaker 2 (11:11):
What do you mean? Yeah, just Lady Gaga. No, not
that at all.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
What are you talking about? So anyway, and I told
him that and they're like, yeah, whatever, just write the article.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
So yeah, we don't want to hear about it.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
So that's what I did. And anyway, I just submitted it.
Hopefully they accept it, and if they don't, I don't know,
maybe I'll just publish it on my own.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
What do I care.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
I've got we have a big following. We might have
a bigger following than them.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Well I don't doubt it. Eh. You know.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
That's the thing about being The Walton Johnson Show is
our listeners are the smartest people, but also some of
the most patient because they put up with me. Well
that's true, so thank you.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Put up with all of us for so many years.
We appreciate that, they really do. We don't say it enough,
but thank you for listening.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
One thing people are not tolerating these days is Stephen
Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Uh. I couldn't tolerate that for more than a minute.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Did you know? And I already know the answer. Did
you know? They just returned from summer break?

Speaker 2 (12:00):
No idea.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
Nobody else knew either of course didn't.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
All the members of Congress just returned from an entire
month off for the month of August. They just got
back to work this week after Labor Day. They all
showed back up to work, and the first thing they
talked about was shutting down the government. They've been gone
a month and they get back and they're like, maybe

(12:24):
we should shut the government down. That way we can
take some more time off.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Isn't it weird too, how all the bad news from
Congress is suddenly stuff that I wanted for a long time.
What do you won't well, like what you just said, Wait,
you mean like for a week we might not fund
a bunch of nonsense we didn't need. That sounds great,
But then also the other thing they're suddenly talking about.
Trump tricked all the Democrats into wanting to release the
Epstein files. Whatever you think of Trump, whatever you think

(12:47):
of the Epstein files, whatever conspiracy theory want, fine, whatever.
Isn't it kind of awesome that for years they wouldn't
talk about it, they wouldn't acknowledge it.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
They now they demand its release. All Trump has to
do is say he is again something. Suddenly the liberals
are all for it, and even though they were against
it before, and there's so many good examples of that,
because that's a great point. Immigration. Obviously, they were for
the wall, they were crime, war, inflation, abortion all. I mean,

(13:17):
Trump's still not for abortion, but if he came out
and said he was, they'd be a gunstate'd have to
put a stop to it.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Well interesting too, because he's a moderate on abortion. Whatever
you think of Trump an abortion because they make him
sound like he's an extremist. Donald Trump has made the
point over and over again. Look, if California wants it,
they can have it. This is you know, live in California,
then that's If you don't like it in Texas or Alabama,
good stay in Texas and Alabama. That state's rights. That's
Isn't that exactly what the founding fathers would have wanted

(13:45):
When it comes to things like marijuana or abortion or whatever.
That is a cultural difference. That is something that is
something that each community will look at differently. And America
is a big place. That was the whole point of
this vast experiment. It is really big, man, It's huge,
huge mathis so big, giant, big, big text. Big greed

(14:06):
is giving China keys to some of our vital US
defense systems. Microsoft is a very suspicious relationship with China.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
So does Apple. So some of these different companies that
we do business with. Is that what Trump's round and
them all up at the White House today?

Speaker 1 (14:22):
It certainly seems to be.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, you've got the big tech boys coming in for
a little chat.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Back in July, a report was published detailing how Microsoft
has long employed engineers based in Communist China to maintain
and support cloud systems used by the Department of Defense. Huh, yeah,
the Department of Defense. Microsoft's role is a trusted contractor
for our federal government means this is not a routine
cyber vulnerability, but a direct threat to our national security

(14:50):
and weirdly, something we're doing on purpose. This feels like
the exact kind of thing MAGA should be against. For
the record, this isn't something Trump did. It's already been
that way. Can't we fix that?

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Let's do it, Yeah, do it right now.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
When China gains insight into the Department Defence systems, it
isn't just a hypothetical risk, it is a literal risk.
Why would we want the Chinese Communist Party to have
access to that? Why would our cloud storage be in China.
That's insane.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
And why do we get ninety five percent of our
drugs from China? Bingo and India not a good plan.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
I'm a little more concerned about China than India. But
it's my understanding that India, and no offense Indians, is
a place where there's a lot of garbage around.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
What does that have to do with the making of
our pharmaceuticals.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Well, I mean, you know, you want to get the
things that are saving your life to come from a
place that's pretty much polluted, covered in feces and garbage every.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
WHI it's kind of junkie. They don't call it white
trash over there for some reason though I was hanging
out at the uh well they call it not white. No,
they don't know.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
When I was camping last week, I met a bunch
of people from Alaska, and these guys were world travelers.
They were telling me how they'd been all over the world,
and we were talking about, oddly enough, how America, despite
what some liberals and leftists will have you believe, is
one of the cleanest, nicest places on earth. They said,
people from other countries will come to Alaska and they're
a ghast. They're just blown away and how clean it is.

(16:15):
I was like, yeah, well, there's not a lot of
people in Alaska, and they said, yeah, well there are
big portions of India where nobody lives, and yet they're
still covered in garbage.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Well, people used to live there and it got so
nasty they moved.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
I guess there's a place in India, you know what
do they call it, the caste system, where there's such germophobes.
They don't want you to touch them because you're from
a foreign land. And weirdly enough, they live in a
community where there's just piles of garbage all over the place.
How can you be a germophobe but also live in
a place where there's piles of junk everywhere in your town.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
It's a little complicated, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
I mean it's just stupid.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Look, you know, I clean the place up a little bit,
make a effort, Yeah, I would be wrong with it,
and stop pooping outside.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Well, it's something we've talked about on the show so
many times before. You'd think everybody would know at this point.
But in a kind of weird how we're constantly asking
American politicians and American corporations what they're going to do
to make the earth cleaner. And you travel just a
little bit in either direction and you'll immediately find a
country like China or Brazil or India where there are
mountains of garbage everywhere, and compared to the United States

(17:16):
of America, it's clearly destroying the planet. Yet they don't
get blamed.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
And we do no and all that climate change nonsense
they talk about, and we got to pay for it,
is it? We got got to be extra taxed on
everything to help save the earth. But it's China and
India saving the earth. No, No, And that's half the
population right there, that's true. That is half the population
of that way right the way they want to act.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, maybe we should concentrate all them together and like
send them away somewhere where we could teach them about garbage.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
You mean, like to burning many. I's all send them
to burning man. Yeah, that's it. Hi, I'm from the government.
I'm here to hell. Walton and Johnson
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