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October 2, 2025 • 13 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know, what is anyone really Okay?

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Well, it's day two of the government shutdown, and I'd
just like to like to check with everybody.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Are you holding up? Okay? Are you getting through this?
I mean, you know, you gotta cut it up.

Speaker 4 (00:12):
My favorite thing about the government shutdown is that since
this now happens once every eight or nine months, you know,
the budget crisis conversations, you get to go back and
cherry pick all the sound bites of prominent members of
both political parties saying the exact opposite of what they
were saying nine months ago to two years ago.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
And both sides to do it. Let's let's be serious
here for a minute.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
They both sides lie about why we have the government shutdown. Well,
the Republicans, of course, will tell you the Democrats are
asking for the world, asking for all kinds of stuff
that we can't afford. The Democrats are saying the Republicans
they're mean, and they're bullying the Democrats into doing things

(00:59):
they don't want to do.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
It's just sad.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
If you go back to you know, several months ago,
you'll hear Chuck Schumer say we have to shut down
the government. Right, and then of course didn't because Trump
was in charge and he didn't want to get blamed
for it. But if you go back a little further
than that, you hear all these sound bites of Chuck
Schumer saying, look, if Republicans shut down the government, they're
just denying the fact that we won the election.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
And now Chuck Schumer is shut down the government.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Well, wait, Chuck, two years ago you told us shutting
down the government would literally kill people. That's the kind
of language you guys use. I don't talk that way.
And then now here you are shutting down the government.
Are you trying to kill people? By your own admission.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
No, the first time when he said it, he was
fighting the good fight. Now he said he's fighting the
good fight. Can he That's what he's doing. He's fighting
for you, for all of us.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
But you know, Mike Johnson in the House and John
Thune over in the Senate, they're the exact same way.
You go back to the last time this happened and
they said, look, we have to shut down the government.
It's inflation, the national debt, the deficit, YadA, YadA, YadA.
And then you fast forward to now and now they're saying, oh,
if you shut down the government, people will die.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, here is.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
An inconvenient fact because I know Elon Musk is a
ketamine snorting you know, baby making nut job.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Who does drugs in the desert.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Whatever do you kee?

Speaker 1 (02:27):
I think you cook it. Well, there's two ways to
do it. We'll get into it later.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
But you don't like snorting stuff? So how do you
take your ketemine?

Speaker 1 (02:34):
I don't like. I don't like. I don't take that.
IM not a fan of No, I don't like things
in my nose.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
I wouldn't.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
I'm not an advocate for that. But anyway, the really
got off subject there. Elon Musk made a point earlier
this year. He said, the big beautiful bill can be
one of two things. It can be big or it
could be beautiful. Exactly this thing with the budget crisis
right now, this is going to keep happening. Right now,
it happens once every eight months. Pretty soon it's can
once every seven months. There's gonna be once every six months.

(03:03):
You see where I'm going with this. Yesterday a friend
of mine who works in the banking industry calls me
on the phone. He goes, Kenny, I'm pissed. It's like,
what's wrong, And I say, it was on the phone.
This was actually us smoking a joint out on the
balcony in my building. And he says to me, you know,
the SBA canceled a massive loan. This guy works in
commercial banking. I said, what happened. He said, well, because
the SBA is part of the government. Right now, loan's

(03:26):
kid get approved for commercial real estate development. I was like, well,
that that's the thing nobody talks about. The obvious thing
they tell you about is like people aren't getting paid,
which people, well, soldiers, all right, I care about that.
But the thing they don't often point out, it's like,
all right, basic commerce comes to a standstill when this happens. Now,

(03:46):
that doesn't mean that that loan will never happen or
the deal will never get done. But imagine that's the
thing that would have made money for the government because
it develops tax revenue. The tax revenue is what pays
for all of this, right, that's the whole point of
the national budget. So when there's a budget crisis, we're
stopping money from moving into the government that would have
funded the government during an actual crisis. Imagine the insanity

(04:08):
about oh, it's it's not very smart, but that's what
we're doing.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
The bulk of our emails seem to be concentrated on
the things that people our listeners don't like about the
government shutdown, and the majority of those emails all seem
to say, why is it that Congress and the president
get paid during the shutdown but our military does not.
That is a huge disconnect for our listeners at least

(04:36):
and probably most Americans.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
Why is it that lawmakers are allowed to lie on
the floor of Congress with no legal repercussion, but if
an average person were to do it, you and I
would go to prison for years.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
I think the answer to all questions like that is
the Congress makes the rules.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
Why is it that Congress was exempt from Obamacare and
the vaccine mandates?

Speaker 3 (04:56):
They make the rules.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
And by the way, when the emailer said when Congress
and the president get paid, Trump isn't taking a salary.
He's not getting paid, but he wasn't going to without this.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
He donates his money. Do you remember, Oh, I love
this is a great moment, said Trump history. Last time
Trump was president, there was a budget crisis. Deja vu?
Not really, It happens all the time. And they brought
what was a college was it Clemson? They brought a
bunch of college football players to the White House to
celebrate their victory the National Championships. I forget what team

(05:30):
it was, might have been LSU. I have no idea.
It doesn't matter because Trump did the coolest thing. He
wanted to throw a party for these college kids, and
you couldn't because of the national budget YadA, YadA, YadA,
you know, the shutdown. And Trump said, it's fine, I
will pay for McDonald's, Burger King and Chick fil A.
We're gonna have sandwiches piled up to the sky, mountains

(05:51):
of mountains of Big Max whoppers and spicy chicken biscuits.
He said all that, and the Washington Post step dead.
And they fact checked it because that's how useless they.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
You have to fact check that because that sounds like
an exaggeration, a lie from Trump.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
Two years later, we're rolling in dead bodies from Afghanistan
after the botched withdrawal of the airport in Cobble, thirteen
service members killed in an icist terror attack. Joe Biden
casually looks at his watch as the corpses are being
pushed through the airport hangar.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
How much longer is this gonna take? Come on, let's
move it.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
Fact checker from USA Today bends over backwards telling you
that didn't happen.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
It didn't happen.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
You can see it with your own eyes now, multiple
camera angles. We also saw on camera that those big
macs and then the whoppers in the Chick fil A,
they didn't actually go all the way to the ceiling,
did they.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
What is the point of the fact checker?

Speaker 4 (06:47):
You can't make you get fact checked when you make
a hyperbolic statement about sandwiches. We had a lot of sandwiches,
that's what he was saying. But when the actual president
of the United States defecates on the graves of dead
service members figuratively speaking, obviously, of course, we don't know.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Where he might have dropped a few. He probably wasn't
even aware of it either.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
Knowing now what we know, right, there's no doubt he
was looking at his watch so he could figure out
how much time left he had before he had to
take a duchy.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
It's almost nap time. Yeah, Mom's gonna want me home.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Man.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
I gotta tell you, the government shutdown. As much as
I love it, it does piss me off. You know.
It's nuanced, layered, like a plate of nachos, which ironically
Joe Biden couldn't eat because of his bowels, you know,
but he.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Could wear the sombrero. Dude.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
You know, I mean it is a little unusual for
the Democrats to be so upset about having some breros
put on their head when I believe the their party's
logo is a burrow.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Right, Steve No, you know, And can I just add
one more thing to that.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
When we first heard about AI, all the AI generated video,
you know, going back a few years, the first thing
we all thought was, oh man, someone's gonna make an
AI generated video of the president saying something. Everyone's gonna
think it's real when it's not. There's going to be a.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Civil war instead. Fast forward to this week.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
What is actually happening with AI that's so controversial. They're
they're generating sombreros onto the faces and heads of prominent
political figures, and Haakim Jeffries is crapping his pants figuratively speaking,
we think because he's so offended by stuff like this
video of jd Vance.

Speaker 5 (08:25):
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Speaker 1 (08:33):
They are extra ritardo.

Speaker 5 (08:35):
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Speaker 1 (08:49):
Okay, Democrat, wake up and listen up.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
You need some koffee?

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Would you like some more called I don't want.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
To kill a paid or revolt, but we don't have
any coffee Walton and Johnson.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
Sometimes I wonder if in an alternate universe it would
have been cooler to be like an old black guy.
And then I remember, I don't like getting pulled over
by the cops, you know.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, yeah, that's a part of the problem, isn't it right,
But it's still be pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Sure, I mean, just to be like buddy guy, you.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Know, a little blues man.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
It would be cool right up until I see my
credit score, and then immediately it's like, oh, I don't
want to.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, the gives and the take, you know, you turn
towards one thing you turn away from something else, but
you got to make that decision.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
Well, hating whitey is back in style again. Here's oh
you bet it is, Here's Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.

Speaker 6 (09:43):
And so the idea that this is a white nition
that needs to be preserved is a fascinatingly disgusting view,
because this country is one for the many.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Sometimes I wonder if we're too racially provocative on this show,
and then I hear what elected officials say and.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
I realize it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
We would not say anything is as hurtful or controversial
as that matters. What if, and we play this game
all the time, what if we said that about her people?

Speaker 4 (10:20):
The idea that America is a nation for black people
that must be preserved is disgusting, says Ohan Omar.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Sounds really bad, it does wow, It sounds really bod.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
What if we said it's a nation of Christians and
Muslims are not welcome, Well, would they would probably be
upset about that?

Speaker 4 (10:37):
It is a nation where we encourage women to speak
freely and read a book, and we think it's okay
to wear a bikini at the beach and drink a beer.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
And why are they comfortable here.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
I don't get it either.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
We gambling is legal in some parts of the country.
Prostitution you can say whatever you want, very lenient laws
about what clothes you have to wear. Pot is legal
in more than half the country. None of this stuff
is adhering to Sharia law.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yet somehow they all want to move here and.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, but I guess they got to be here to
fight the demon, you know, the white devil.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
Basically, by the way, I want to make a point
here that I think not all of our audience, but
a small portion of our audience seems to misunderstand because
we don't agree with Islam and Sharia law. That's probably
the exact reason why we shouldn't drone bomb every Islamic
country on earth, because if we do, guess where all

(11:37):
those refugees go.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
We do have a history of something like that.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
No, no, no, I get it.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
It's terrible, right in at one point eight billion people
or has a lot of people out there that are
into this shrin as John used to say, well, it's
only ten percent of them that are.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Radicalized exactly of how many uh one.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Point eight billion to be one hundred and eighty million bad.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
Apples, but that's a big batch apples. But still, when
you turn Palestine into Stalingrad. I know nobody wants to
hear this, but all those refugees need to go somewhere.
There's a reason why Sacramento, California is the home of Afghanistan,
now that Afghanistan is not the home of Afghanistan. I
was in afghan I was in Sacramento. I almost said

(12:19):
I was in Afghanistan kind of thing earlier this summer,
and I could not believe how many people from Afghanistan
I met.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
And I wasn't even there very long. Just I went
to an uber place.

Speaker 4 (12:29):
I mean, I got in an uber, I rented a car,
I went to a gas station, and I guess that's
just all the places where Afghanis go.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
I think maybe wherever you went, you would have said,
all of this must be where all the Afghanis are,
you know, is it afghanis afghanistananis afghanistananis That's right.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
I love asking people, like foreigners, where are you from?
I know that makes a lot of white people uncomfortable,
but usually the foreigners don't mind telling me because I
think it's interesting.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
And almost every Uber driver I've ever sat in the
back seat with from someplace like Afghanistan or Africa. A
lot of a lot of different countries represented there.

Speaker 4 (13:07):
You know, this is an anecdote because it's based on
where we live. But I've noticed that if you get
a regular uber there from anywhere on Earth, who knows,
if you get uber black, Like, if I want to
splurge and impress my date, it's always a cool black
guy from the East Side and he's driving around in
some expensive suv.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
He's like, hey, man, I've seen you before. What music
do you want to hear?

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (13:26):
I'm like, thanks, Jerome, I missed you, buddy.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Got some bottled water there and a cup holder for you.
Do you need a charge on your phone?

Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, I can. I can run the cable back there,
and if you slip them a twenty, he'll give you
some purple drink. Don't ask how he got it.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
What day of the week is it?

Speaker 6 (13:41):
Well, let's see, it's Thursday, right, it's a regular Thursday, regular.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
Regular, regular about it. Walton and Johnson Radio Network
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