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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh no, that's the kind of thing that Kenny wants.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's right up Kenny's alley. Where would that be?
Speaker 1 (00:05):
He says, he's got something to show up. I mean
to sticking to slide into. It's up your alley, can he?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Politics, I know you love political races, and you're gonna
love this one a little bit more than most because
there's somebody involved.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You're a big fan of. Do tell go ahead?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Okay, we got an email from Jerry. She that's Jerry
with a G and I at the end, not like
the tropical storm out in the Atlantic, which is a jay,
Jerry and a boy.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Okay, this is.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Jerry, she says. Greetings, Walton Johnson. I'm writing to you
today from wonderfully sunny Columbia, Mississippi, where life is humming along,
much like the trucks that I help keep rolling as
an integral part of the Southern Tire Mart call center team. Well, good, good, Anyway,
to a topic that I know you have recently broached
(00:58):
on the air, I wanted to personally coroborate your discussion
concerning Tommy Duff, Oh, the tough brothers of the famed
Duff Brothers.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I heard their Mormon.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
One Tommy Duff, and you speculated about this. You were
spot on. His gubernatorial campaign in Mississippi is now officially underway.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Jerry says, it's it's official.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I did this. I am so proud of myself. I
bullied a billionaire and a running for governor.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Keep trying to teach Kenny Is to let other people
say that about him, but he likes to jump out
in front real quick and go look at what I did.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Look how great I am?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Me, Me, me, I do feel like I mean, like
ten seconds. You could have waited ten seconds, and I
was about to jump in here and go, man, kiddie,
this is all because of you. But now nobody gets
to do that because you had to jump out there
and act like you know, you're the man.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I am so proud of myself right now.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
He certainly a sparked a considered amount of conversation and
speculation across the state, creating quite the buzz in many
of our local circles.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And now, she says.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Jerry continues, I could not let this email conclude without
expressing my gratitude and loyalty as a listener. Began your
show in eighty three or eighty four during my high
school days, and I still hold immense admiration for your
relentless pursuit of truth and the unwavering courage you demonstrate
(02:31):
in holding our public officials to accountability.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think that you talk about me. There, that's me.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
She's talking about how great I am. I think she
is with my unwavering courage and truth. That's all about me.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I'll give it to you a biliad yeh, stop it.
But did you bully a billionaire into running for office?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I did not, I got it. I feel like I
need to explain this too.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You can also have to be patient because this race
won't conclude until November of twenty twenty seven, right, two
years and a little extra. Right now, we have mister
Andy Gibson, our Agriculture and Commerce Commissioner of Mississippi, announced
(03:13):
he has declared and now, apparently according to her, Thomas Duff,
a businessman. That's how they list him here. He could
run as a Republican Oran Independent, and there's about eight
to ten other people who they say are potential candidates.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I feel like I have to first explain who all
the governors are in our listening audience to explain why.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
This is so interesting. All the governors.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, real quick, two governors I really like. I think
there's fifty of them though we're going to be here
for a while.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, But in our part of the country, the good
part of the country, we like Jeff a lot. Governor
Jeff Landry seems to be a cool guy. You know,
whenever I say I like him on the radio, we'll
get five emails people agreeing and one person disagreeing.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
There's always this one topic, and it's on not always
the same topic, but it's like, well, you know, you
said you like Governor Landry, but I heard that he
didn't pick up his toenails after he clips them in
the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
WHOA, that changes everything now.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I think Governor Landry's doing a good louisy and is
clearly getting better since he took over. I think it's
objectively getting better. Sarah Huckabee Sanders love her. I think
she's great. Ron DeSantis I think he's been a great governor.
The rest of them, I'm kind of indifferent about Abbots.
What about tant Okay. So that's where we're going with this.
In Mississippi. I don't have a lot of opinions about
(04:29):
Tate Reeves.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
But it's not taint. Well, hey, it's Tate.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
No.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I'm glad he said it like that because I don't
like his first name. Taint real good, taint real bad.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
And it's not fair. I'll be the first to admit
fine having the name Tate. It's like, come on, it's
like being called dick buckkiss. You're gonna get picked on
when you're growing up. It's not fair. But his name's Tate,
but it makes you tougher, like the boy name Sue.
And then we learned that there's two billionaires in our
listening audience in the Hattiesburg area who occasionally listened to
the show. And someone told us that, and I said
how they become billionaires? And someone said, car park. It's like,
(05:00):
wait a second, you mean like the movie Tommy Boy,
where Chris Farley and David Spade drive around the country
selling brake pads. I like these guys, and that's all
I knew about. That was the only thing I knew
about the Duff brothers.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And doesn't Jerry, who emailed us, She described herself as
an integral part of the Southern Tire Mart call center.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Right well, now, you're talking. You picked up on that.
I'm assuming.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I love it so immediately anytime there's a problem in Mississippi,
I just start saying on the radio, see this is
why I think the Doff brothers should be in charge.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
And now they're going to be.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And I just feel like that can win the race first.
And it's just one up.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Both.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Oh, come on, you're not gonna beat these guys. They
became billionaires off brake pads.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Have you ever seen theirs?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Two?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Have you ever seen Thomas Duff put on his brother's jacket.
It's a little coat and he puts it on, and
he goes fat guy in a little coat and everybody
laughs at the bar. I've never seen it. Always get
a lot. One time we were at this diner and
they said the kitchen was closed. They only had cold
food to eat.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
They dow new tires and retreads by the way. Both,
that's right, that's where a lot of that money counselroms retriads.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
And my boy Thomas actually convinced that waitress to go
back in there in the kitchen and turn on the
friar so that he could get himself a cheeseberg.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
He wanted a cheeseburger.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
So are you a bigger fan of Thomas than James. Well,
Thomas is the one running. Look yeah, but I mean
before this announcement you still leaned a little towards Tommy Thomas.
Is that he's Tommy Boy, not Jimmy. No, I don't
want to have Jimmy Boy. That's the David Spade of
the equation. He's got funny lines, but he's a little
you know, he's a.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Little passive aggressive with his humor. Tommy's out there, he's
buying a round for everybody. You know, he shows up
at the party with a keg stand doing It's just
a fun guy. It ain't just about Mississippi neither. I
mean these guys is they think bigger than statewide. Their
company is the largest privately owned business in Mississippi, but
the largest tire truck dealer and retread manufacturer in the
(06:53):
entire United States.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
About that, That's what I'm talking about. God, that's a
governor in the making right there.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Pretty soon is gonna be a good place. It's because
of the Dumb Brothers. Picture.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Looks like somebody goosed him right when they clicked it.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
He's like, ah, shocked.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Maybe somebody just pulled his finger and then he took
that photo. See, I like Tommy. He seems like a
cool guy. Tommy Boy for governor, That's what I say. Yeah,
they should do that. They should go and what was
what was that thing where Tommy Boy? Remember they went
to the reggae concert and Chris Farley got on stage
and he said kill Whitey and everyone got real quiet
and weird.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
They should recreate that.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Scene to make a national news story about his gubernatorial race.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, they really ought to do that. And isn't gubernatorial
a funny word?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
He puts the goober in gubernatorial. See that could be
on a T shirt right there. Tommy's gonna be fun
Tommy Boy for governor, putting the goober in gubernatorial. Hey, Tate,
look you have a funny name too. You could have
done something with it. Don't don't feel bad for Tate.
Is it turned out is that he can't run again?
Or I'm sure he would already have been winning. So
(07:57):
what's he gonna go do next? What's Tate reeves? Maybe
they're gonna be opening down at the tire stores. Billy,
I do you always have the answer?
Speaker 5 (08:06):
I see called Elon Musk unqualified.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That would almost be as crazy as a bartender calling
a rocket scientist stupid.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
This is the Walton and Johnson Show.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
The story about Kyra and Lacy was a little confusing
when we looked at it yesterday. We looked at that
report yesterday and I almost thought they were making the
opposite point that the guy. I know, but it sounds
the more you read about it, it's like, yeah, it
did sound like he was guilty. Also, there's another report
explaining that I just looked at, explaining he didn't kill
himself because of the traffic stop. It was because of
(08:40):
some domestic dispute he was involved in Texas.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And apparently that alstom from the accusations that were made
about him. I mean, we have had a lot of
emails about it, and you know, the differing stories and
differing opinions naturally, just like in the news, a lot
of different stories, different takes depending on perspective.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
There's a video, but that still doesn't tell the whole story,
does it. I tend to agree with the Louisiana State
Troopers on this one. I think the original analysa saying
the late the new evidence they've just submitted support their claim.
I think they're correct about it, and it's a shame
because the media wanted to go in the opposite direction.
Oh yeah, and all we can go on as a
bunch of you know, knucklehead talk show hosts is what
(09:22):
is in news reports. It's all we only know what's reported.
I'll tell you who's a straight shooter.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Somebody that'll tell you the story and get it right
every single time and will not leave you confused at all.
That's that John Kennedy fellow in Louisianna. You know, when
he tells it, he tells it like it is.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I don't always agree with his voting record, but I
love how he explains things. I don't think there's anybody
in the federal government that explains things better.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
He just talks right. It's true.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yesterday he sat down with Pam Blondie, the Attorney General.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, you were going to explain to us what the
brilliance was of Pam Bondi about an hour ago, and
then you forgot to do that.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
We really got distracted. Okay, here's what she did.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
I'll start with this and then we'll play some more
of the sound bites throughout the rest of the show.
Pam Bondie is very good at doing TV. We all
know that. And some of us have criticized her, saying,
you know, she's she's no Ken Paxton, right, like she's
no Jeff Wentley is an attorney general.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
She was no Christy Nome, that's for sure. Well, Christy
Nome's not an attorney general. But she's pirty. Okay, I
get that.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Pam looks like she's been up late, you guys, Pam,
she's had a rough go lately.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Mister Kenneth, you don't get to analyze how women look.
You don't even like looking at it. Nobody gets to
more than me. Is a very she's a beautiful woman,
but that's besides the point. Yeah, and so anyway, yesterday
she knew that she was going to get grilled by
a bunch of senators. But every one of these senators
they're not new to the scene. They've all got scandals
of their own, problems of their own. She brought with
(10:46):
her a binder that had an explanation of what all
of these different senators scandals were, and some of them
were much worse than what they were accusing her of.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And these are the senators who are going to be
questioning her, grilling her her own live television.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
One of them was what's his name, Senator Blumenthal? Right,
Senator Bloomenthal is up there trying to humiliate Pam Bondi,
and Pam Bondi points out that this is a guy
who lied about his military service measure.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
I am not going to discuss any conversations I have
or have not had with the President of.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
The United States.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
You're an attorney, you have a law degree, and you
know that I'm not going to do that. I also
find it fascinating, you know, because I'll keep fighting to
ensure that law enforcement and the judicial process move forward
without political interference.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
No one is above the law, not even the president.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Okay, that wasn't the right sound but I wasn't the clip.
But she is telling him how it is she accused.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Is this that?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yes, this is the SoundBite. Okay, this is what we want.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
I do have a question in the merger that took place.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Uh huh which merger you've listed.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
In being American Express GB.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, get to the point.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
I understand that Brian Ballard, longtime backer and head of
the law firm where you were, was instrumental in lobbying
the Justice Department to drop that lawsuit. It was dismissed,
so it's not subject to a court review. What conversations
(12:24):
did you have with mister Ballard.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Senator Blumenthal?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I just cannot believe that you would accuse me of
impropriety when you lied about your military sense.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I am.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Society, I'm a career prophet. Challenge my integrity.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
They're trying to create a SoundBite to make her look bad,
but she's got all the dirt on them, so that
makes it very hard for c N and MSNBC to
play this. By the way, you don't see on the radio,
you know how, there's always staffers behind the senator.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Sitting behind Bloomenthal.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
One of Blumenthal's own staff members starts smirking when Bondi's
saying this, and he's like, it's like, bro, you're in
the camera shot. I don't know if you know this,
but I mean, cover your mouth, protell like you're coughing
or something. You can't laugh at your own boss for
lying about his military service.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
But she didn't.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
She didn't pully tricks on Kennedy when he was up there.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Did she Okay?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
So Kennedy had questions about how the former head of
the DOJ was spying on eight different senators.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
We all should have a lot of questions about that.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
He was also spying on Jim Jordan, which is weird
because any a wrestler, you don't want to spy on
a guy with cauliflower hear. That's crazy. He'll put you
in a neck bock or something. Might Yeah, I would
if I was suplex for sure. How about the Kamikazi spiral?
You do it off the top? No, no, you grab
a guy like this and then you spin like one
hundred and eighty grease face.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
That's a young man's game, which I think he's too
old for that.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
He's wiry, you know, like me. We're Me and Jim
Turner are both wiry. He's never gonna get it, is he?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Anyway?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Here's Senator I am wiry yesterday. I here's Senator Johnny.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Had lost forty pounds as of ague wary.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
No, no, no, I'm wiry. I just ask anybody anyway. Here's
Senator Johns Kim Kennedy yesterday. Here's Kennedy with what's it,
Pam Blondie?
Speaker 7 (14:19):
What do I have to show when that's subpoena to
get those phone records of a sitting Did I mention
it was a sitting United States Senator? I can't remember.
What do I have to show to get the phone
records of a sitting United States Senator?
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Yes, Senator, there were actually eight sitting United States senator.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
And you would have to have cause?
Speaker 7 (14:40):
I'm sorry, what do I have to show?
Speaker 5 (14:42):
You would have to have cause to get this cause
or probable calls? Probable cause, okay, and and.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Probably probable calls or if it's a subpoena, dishes take
them good calls to show.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
What Yeah, okay, you would need good calls for a subpoena,
ducas teakam. And what you would have to show is
that you believed a crime had been committed or that
there was a possibility of a crime or that could
lead to other crimes.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
We frequently in criminal enterprises.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
So if I'm going to the United States senator, mm.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Hmm, Senator, they would have to have believed you were
part of a criminal conspiracy, is my understanding?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Oh, Kennedy, what did you do?
Speaker 7 (15:29):
What would a judge have to sign off on it?
On the on the subpoena.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Wasn't it like where he's going with this?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Well, for a subpoena, duca's teakham Jack Smith probably took
it straight to the.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Yeah, the phone company people guilty, particularly their general counsel,
if they're worried about civil liability. Mhm, even with a
subpoena to get the phone records to spy on the
sitting United States? Senator did I mention it was the
sitting United States?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Just like.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
The general counsel for that phone company. I'll say at
and T let's say, what's that They have the right
to seek to quash that subpoena?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Don't they Phone companies frequently do that?
Speaker 7 (16:21):
And if they don't challenge it, where'd the guy go there?
They better have a damn good reason, right.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Oh, bro, he's going full matlock.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
He's about to matlock.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Her, Senator. I can't talk about the facts of this
particular in general. Hypothetically, Senator, maybe they didn't recognize any
of the names of the eight sitting United States.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Senator, Sure, that's it.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Hypothetically they're on the same side here, you get that, right.
They're not arguing she's helping him.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
He should have gone to Amazon, and some testicles online.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
That is Kennedy.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Here's my impression of Robert F.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Kennedy Junior washing his hands the floor. G Jesus Christ,
you're listening to the Waltman Johnson Radio Network.
Oh no, that's the kind of thing that Kenny wants.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's right up Kenny's alley. Where would that be?
Speaker 1 (00:05):
He says, he's got something to show up. I mean
to sticking to slide into. It's up your alley, can he?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Politics, I know you love political races, and you're gonna
love this one a little bit more than most because
there's somebody involved.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You're a big fan of. Do tell go ahead?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Okay, we got an email from Jerry. She that's Jerry
with a G and I at the end, not like
the tropical storm out in the Atlantic, which is a jay,
Jerry and a boy.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Okay, this is.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Jerry, she says. Greetings, Walton Johnson. I'm writing to you
today from wonderfully sunny Columbia, Mississippi, where life is humming along,
much like the trucks that I help keep rolling as
an integral part of the Southern Tire Mart call center team. Well, good, good, Anyway,
to a topic that I know you have recently broached
(00:58):
on the air, I wanted to personally coroborate your discussion
concerning Tommy Duff, Oh, the tough brothers of the famed
Duff Brothers.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I heard their Mormon.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
One Tommy Duff, and you speculated about this. You were
spot on. His gubernatorial campaign in Mississippi is now officially underway.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Jerry says, it's it's official.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I did this. I am so proud of myself. I
bullied a billionaire and a running for governor.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Keep trying to teach Kenny Is to let other people
say that about him, but he likes to jump out
in front real quick and go look at what I did.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Look how great I am?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Me, Me, me, I do feel like I mean, like
ten seconds. You could have waited ten seconds, and I
was about to jump in here and go, man, kiddie,
this is all because of you. But now nobody gets
to do that because you had to jump out there
and act like you know, you're the man.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I am so proud of myself right now.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
He certainly a sparked a considered amount of conversation and
speculation across the state, creating quite the buzz in many
of our local circles.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And now, she says.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Jerry continues, I could not let this email conclude without
expressing my gratitude and loyalty as a listener. Began your
show in eighty three or eighty four during my high
school days, and I still hold immense admiration for your
relentless pursuit of truth and the unwavering courage you demonstrate
(02:31):
in holding our public officials to accountability.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think that you talk about me. There, that's me.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
She's talking about how great I am. I think she
is with my unwavering courage and truth. That's all about me.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I'll give it to you a biliad yeh, stop it.
But did you bully a billionaire into running for office?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I did not, I got it. I feel like I
need to explain this too.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You can also have to be patient because this race
won't conclude until November of twenty twenty seven, right, two
years and a little extra. Right now, we have mister
Andy Gibson, our Agriculture and Commerce Commissioner of Mississippi, announced
(03:13):
he has declared and now, apparently according to her, Thomas Duff,
a businessman. That's how they list him here. He could
run as a Republican Oran Independent, and there's about eight
to ten other people who they say are potential candidates.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I feel like I have to first explain who all
the governors are in our listening audience to explain why.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
This is so interesting. All the governors.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, real quick, two governors I really like. I think
there's fifty of them though we're going to be here
for a while.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, But in our part of the country, the good
part of the country, we like Jeff a lot. Governor
Jeff Landry seems to be a cool guy. You know,
whenever I say I like him on the radio, we'll
get five emails people agreeing and one person disagreeing.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
There's always this one topic, and it's on not always
the same topic, but it's like, well, you know, you
said you like Governor Landry, but I heard that he
didn't pick up his toenails after he clips them in
the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
WHOA, that changes everything now.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I think Governor Landry's doing a good louisy and is
clearly getting better since he took over. I think it's
objectively getting better. Sarah Huckabee Sanders love her. I think
she's great. Ron DeSantis I think he's been a great governor.
The rest of them, I'm kind of indifferent about Abbots.
What about tant Okay. So that's where we're going with this.
In Mississippi. I don't have a lot of opinions about
(04:29):
Tate Reeves.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
But it's not taint. Well, hey, it's Tate.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
No.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I'm glad he said it like that because I don't
like his first name. Taint real good, taint real bad.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
And it's not fair. I'll be the first to admit
fine having the name Tate. It's like, come on, it's
like being called dick buckkiss. You're gonna get picked on
when you're growing up. It's not fair. But his name's Tate,
but it makes you tougher, like the boy name Sue.
And then we learned that there's two billionaires in our
listening audience in the Hattiesburg area who occasionally listened to
the show. And someone told us that, and I said
how they become billionaires? And someone said, car park. It's like,
(05:00):
wait a second, you mean like the movie Tommy Boy,
where Chris Farley and David Spade drive around the country
selling brake pads. I like these guys, and that's all
I knew about. That was the only thing I knew
about the Duff brothers.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And doesn't Jerry, who emailed us, She described herself as
an integral part of the Southern Tire Mart call center.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Right well, now, you're talking. You picked up on that.
I'm assuming.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I love it so immediately anytime there's a problem in Mississippi,
I just start saying on the radio, see this is
why I think the Doff brothers should be in charge.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
And now they're going to be.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And I just feel like that can win the race first.
And it's just one up.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Both.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Oh, come on, you're not gonna beat these guys. They
became billionaires off brake pads.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Have you ever seen theirs?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Two?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Have you ever seen Thomas Duff put on his brother's jacket.
It's a little coat and he puts it on, and
he goes fat guy in a little coat and everybody
laughs at the bar. I've never seen it. Always get
a lot. One time we were at this diner and
they said the kitchen was closed. They only had cold
food to eat.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
They dow new tires and retreads by the way. Both,
that's right, that's where a lot of that money counselroms retriads.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
And my boy Thomas actually convinced that waitress to go
back in there in the kitchen and turn on the
friar so that he could get himself a cheeseberg.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
He wanted a cheeseburger.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
So are you a bigger fan of Thomas than James. Well,
Thomas is the one running. Look yeah, but I mean
before this announcement you still leaned a little towards Tommy Thomas.
Is that he's Tommy Boy, not Jimmy. No, I don't
want to have Jimmy Boy. That's the David Spade of
the equation. He's got funny lines, but he's a little
you know, he's a.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Little passive aggressive with his humor. Tommy's out there, he's
buying a round for everybody. You know, he shows up
at the party with a keg stand doing It's just
a fun guy. It ain't just about Mississippi neither. I
mean these guys is they think bigger than statewide. Their
company is the largest privately owned business in Mississippi, but
the largest tire truck dealer and retread manufacturer in the
(06:53):
entire United States.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
About that, That's what I'm talking about. God, that's a
governor in the making right there.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Pretty soon is gonna be a good place. It's because
of the Dumb Brothers. Picture.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Looks like somebody goosed him right when they clicked it.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
He's like, ah, shocked.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Maybe somebody just pulled his finger and then he took
that photo. See, I like Tommy. He seems like a
cool guy. Tommy Boy for governor, That's what I say. Yeah,
they should do that. They should go and what was
what was that thing where Tommy Boy? Remember they went
to the reggae concert and Chris Farley got on stage
and he said kill Whitey and everyone got real quiet
and weird.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
They should recreate that.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Scene to make a national news story about his gubernatorial race.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, they really ought to do that. And isn't gubernatorial
a funny word?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
He puts the goober in gubernatorial. See that could be
on a T shirt right there. Tommy's gonna be fun
Tommy Boy for governor, putting the goober in gubernatorial. Hey, Tate,
look you have a funny name too. You could have
done something with it. Don't don't feel bad for Tate.
Is it turned out is that he can't run again?
Or I'm sure he would already have been winning. So
(07:57):
what's he gonna go do next? What's Tate reeves? Maybe
they're gonna be opening down at the tire stores. Billy,
I do you always have the answer?
Speaker 5 (08:06):
I see called Elon Musk unqualified.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That would almost be as crazy as a bartender calling
a rocket scientist stupid.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
This is the Walton and Johnson Show.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
The story about Kyra and Lacy was a little confusing
when we looked at it yesterday. We looked at that
report yesterday and I almost thought they were making the
opposite point that the guy. I know, but it sounds
the more you read about it, it's like, yeah, it
did sound like he was guilty. Also, there's another report
explaining that I just looked at, explaining he didn't kill
himself because of the traffic stop. It was because of
(08:40):
some domestic dispute he was involved in Texas.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And apparently that alstom from the accusations that were made
about him. I mean, we have had a lot of
emails about it, and you know, the differing stories and
differing opinions naturally, just like in the news, a lot
of different stories, different takes depending on perspective.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
There's a video, but that still doesn't tell the whole story,
does it. I tend to agree with the Louisiana State
Troopers on this one. I think the original analysa saying
the late the new evidence they've just submitted support their claim.
I think they're correct about it, and it's a shame
because the media wanted to go in the opposite direction.
Oh yeah, and all we can go on as a
bunch of you know, knucklehead talk show hosts is what
(09:22):
is in news reports. It's all we only know what's reported.
I'll tell you who's a straight shooter.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Somebody that'll tell you the story and get it right
every single time and will not leave you confused at all.
That's that John Kennedy fellow in Louisianna. You know, when
he tells it, he tells it like it is.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I don't always agree with his voting record, but I
love how he explains things. I don't think there's anybody
in the federal government that explains things better.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
He just talks right. It's true.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yesterday he sat down with Pam Blondie, the Attorney General.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, you were going to explain to us what the
brilliance was of Pam Bondi about an hour ago, and
then you forgot to do that.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
We really got distracted. Okay, here's what she did.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
I'll start with this and then we'll play some more
of the sound bites throughout the rest of the show.
Pam Bondie is very good at doing TV. We all
know that. And some of us have criticized her, saying,
you know, she's she's no Ken Paxton, right, like she's
no Jeff Wentley is an attorney general.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
She was no Christy Nome, that's for sure. Well, Christy
Nome's not an attorney general. But she's pirty. Okay, I
get that.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Pam looks like she's been up late, you guys, Pam,
she's had a rough go lately.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Mister Kenneth, you don't get to analyze how women look.
You don't even like looking at it. Nobody gets to
more than me. Is a very she's a beautiful woman,
but that's besides the point. Yeah, and so anyway, yesterday
she knew that she was going to get grilled by
a bunch of senators. But every one of these senators
they're not new to the scene. They've all got scandals
of their own, problems of their own. She brought with
(10:46):
her a binder that had an explanation of what all
of these different senators scandals were, and some of them
were much worse than what they were accusing her of.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And these are the senators who are going to be
questioning her, grilling her her own live television.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
One of them was what's his name, Senator Blumenthal? Right,
Senator Bloomenthal is up there trying to humiliate Pam Bondi,
and Pam Bondi points out that this is a guy
who lied about his military service measure.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
I am not going to discuss any conversations I have
or have not had with the President of.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
The United States.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
You're an attorney, you have a law degree, and you
know that I'm not going to do that. I also
find it fascinating, you know, because I'll keep fighting to
ensure that law enforcement and the judicial process move forward
without political interference.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
No one is above the law, not even the president.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Okay, that wasn't the right sound but I wasn't the clip.
But she is telling him how it is she accused.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Is this that?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yes, this is the SoundBite. Okay, this is what we want.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
I do have a question in the merger that took place.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Uh huh which merger you've listed.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
In being American Express GB.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, get to the point.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
I understand that Brian Ballard, longtime backer and head of
the law firm where you were, was instrumental in lobbying
the Justice Department to drop that lawsuit. It was dismissed,
so it's not subject to a court review. What conversations
(12:24):
did you have with mister Ballard.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Senator Blumenthal?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I just cannot believe that you would accuse me of
impropriety when you lied about your military sense.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I am.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Society, I'm a career prophet. Challenge my integrity.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
They're trying to create a SoundBite to make her look bad,
but she's got all the dirt on them, so that
makes it very hard for c N and MSNBC to
play this. By the way, you don't see on the radio,
you know how, there's always staffers behind the senator.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Sitting behind Bloomenthal.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
One of Blumenthal's own staff members starts smirking when Bondi's
saying this, and he's like, it's like, bro, you're in
the camera shot. I don't know if you know this,
but I mean, cover your mouth, protell like you're coughing
or something. You can't laugh at your own boss for
lying about his military service.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
But she didn't.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
She didn't pully tricks on Kennedy when he was up there.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Did she Okay?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
So Kennedy had questions about how the former head of
the DOJ was spying on eight different senators.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
We all should have a lot of questions about that.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
He was also spying on Jim Jordan, which is weird
because any a wrestler, you don't want to spy on
a guy with cauliflower hear. That's crazy. He'll put you
in a neck bock or something. Might Yeah, I would
if I was suplex for sure. How about the Kamikazi spiral?
You do it off the top? No, no, you grab
a guy like this and then you spin like one
hundred and eighty grease face.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
That's a young man's game, which I think he's too
old for that.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
He's wiry, you know, like me. We're Me and Jim
Turner are both wiry. He's never gonna get it, is he?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Anyway?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Here's Senator I am wiry yesterday. I here's Senator Johnny.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Had lost forty pounds as of ague wary.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
No, no, no, I'm wiry. I just ask anybody anyway. Here's
Senator Johns Kim Kennedy yesterday. Here's Kennedy with what's it,
Pam Blondie?
Speaker 7 (14:19):
What do I have to show when that's subpoena to
get those phone records of a sitting Did I mention
it was a sitting United States Senator? I can't remember.
What do I have to show to get the phone
records of a sitting United States Senator?
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Yes, Senator, there were actually eight sitting United States senator.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
And you would have to have cause?
Speaker 7 (14:40):
I'm sorry, what do I have to show?
Speaker 5 (14:42):
You would have to have cause to get this cause
or probable calls? Probable cause, okay, and and.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Probably probable calls or if it's a subpoena, dishes take
them good calls to show.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
What Yeah, okay, you would need good calls for a subpoena,
ducas teakam. And what you would have to show is
that you believed a crime had been committed or that
there was a possibility of a crime or that could
lead to other crimes.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
We frequently in criminal enterprises.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
So if I'm going to the United States senator, mm.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Hmm, Senator, they would have to have believed you were
part of a criminal conspiracy, is my understanding?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Oh, Kennedy, what did you do?
Speaker 7 (15:29):
What would a judge have to sign off on it?
On the on the subpoena.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Wasn't it like where he's going with this?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Well, for a subpoena, duca's teakham Jack Smith probably took
it straight to the.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Yeah, the phone company people guilty, particularly their general counsel,
if they're worried about civil liability. Mhm, even with a
subpoena to get the phone records to spy on the
sitting United States? Senator did I mention it was the
sitting United States?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Just like.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
The general counsel for that phone company. I'll say at
and T let's say, what's that They have the right
to seek to quash that subpoena?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Don't they Phone companies frequently do that?
Speaker 7 (16:21):
And if they don't challenge it, where'd the guy go there?
They better have a damn good reason, right.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Oh, bro, he's going full matlock.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
He's about to matlock.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Her, Senator. I can't talk about the facts of this
particular in general. Hypothetically, Senator, maybe they didn't recognize any
of the names of the eight sitting United States.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Senator, Sure, that's it.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Hypothetically they're on the same side here, you get that, right.
They're not arguing she's helping him.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
He should have gone to Amazon, and some testicles online.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
That is Kennedy.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Here's my impression of Robert F.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Kennedy Junior washing his hands the floor. G Jesus Christ,
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