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Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty, The Master of Timing. Yes, does
Speaker 2: not stop. The pro is at work, Okay on a
Speaker 2: Friday morning, December twentieth.
Speaker 3: Next week is Christmas and Honika, and.
Speaker 2: I'll be here on Monday. And I believe Cono. You're
Speaker 2: here Monday, right, correct?
Speaker 3: Correct? Amy, or you're off all next week, all next week,
Speaker 3: all next week.
Speaker 4: Michael Monks is sitting in.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And Michael's a good guy.
Speaker 4: He's awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I do like Michael a lot. And by the way,
Speaker 2: when I say that, I don't blow smoke because I'm
Speaker 2: pretty good about telling you when people suck. Okay, moving
Speaker 2: on midnight tonight, government may shit shut down, and it
Speaker 2: may very well happen. And the federal government is going
Speaker 2: to happen. I'll tell you why. Because there was a
Speaker 2: deal made between the Republicans and the Democrats to kick
Speaker 2: the can down the road, and Donald Trump shut it down,
Speaker 2: told House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Speaker 3: Done, I don't want this deal.
Speaker 2: Why because this is I'm on the side of Donald
Speaker 2: Trump on this one.
Speaker 3: How much money can you spend more than you bring in?
Speaker 3: How much used to be. It was in the hundreds
Speaker 3: of billions of dollars.
Speaker 2: This budget two trillion dollar deficit. I mean, it has
Speaker 2: gotten so crazy, so insane, that we are borrowing money
Speaker 2: into oblivion. Because when the government runs out of money,
Speaker 2: and let's say it brings in four trillion dollars or
Speaker 2: eight trillion dollars or whatever the figure is, and it
Speaker 2: goes into deficit, has to borrow the rest of the
Speaker 2: money to run the government. It costs you one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty five thousand dollars to live, and those are
Speaker 2: your expenses. I understand that's a lot of money, but
Speaker 2: I'm making it easy for me in terms of financially.
Speaker 2: If it costs you one hundred and twenty thousand dollars
Speaker 2: and you only and you bring in one hundred thousand dollars,
Speaker 2: where do you get the extra.
Speaker 3: Twenty You borrow it. And that's what the government is doing.
Speaker 2: And you've got Elon Musk, who is Trump's new best friend,
Speaker 2: who now has more power than any non president we
Speaker 2: have seen probably in decades and decades. He is shutting
Speaker 2: down or arguing the government has to be shut down.
Speaker 2: We cannot spend this kind of money why, because there's
Speaker 2: still pork beyond pork. Beyond pork, what is pork? Pork
Speaker 2: is a congressman saying I want this museum in my
Speaker 2: district funded. There was, actually, and I'm not exaggerating on
Speaker 2: this one, there was an Alaska It was a senator congressman.
Speaker 2: I don't remember his name, but as part of the
Speaker 2: budget he had immense power. He was a senior member
Speaker 2: of Congress, and part of the budget one year was
Speaker 2: the building of the Chub Salmon Museum. Not just the
Speaker 2: salmon museum, mind you, the history of the chub salmon
Speaker 2: in Alaska.
Speaker 3: Now pork hell.
Speaker 2: Yes, But as the saying goes, one man's pork is
Speaker 2: another man's budget necessity. So now you have the plan
Speaker 2: falling apart as bipartisan plan. Speaker Mike Johnson is scrambling
Speaker 2: to try to figure out something that would work so
Speaker 2: the government doesn't shut down. And by the way, when
Speaker 2: the government shuts down, there's no money. And there are
Speaker 2: certain things that by law have to stay in place.
Speaker 2: Air traffic controllers, for example, absolutely have to work. Members
Speaker 2: of the military absolutely are still there.
Speaker 3: Do they get paid money, you know, they get paid IOUs,
Speaker 3: They get paid warrants.
Speaker 2: And now they're of course going to be paid. When
Speaker 2: the government actually funds, they're going to be paid. So
Speaker 2: there's no issue. It's not an IOU that's not going
Speaker 2: to come to fruition. But still, but the National Park
Speaker 2: shut down, for example, you can't go into National Park
Speaker 2: because park rangers are they just shut down the park.
Speaker 2: They shut down various agencies. Now the FBI keeps ongoing,
Speaker 2: but other agencies don't.
Speaker 3: Does the EPA keep on going? I don't even know.
Speaker 2: But it's a political This is a political hot potato.
Speaker 2: And they now the Demo. The Republicans did pass some
Speaker 2: kind of a bill, you know, they put together something,
Speaker 2: and the Democrats shut it down because there were too
Speaker 2: many cuts.
Speaker 3: Because that's the other thing.
Speaker 2: Republicans don't like programs, entitlement programs, and they love defense.
Speaker 3: Democrats love entitlement programs.
Speaker 2: On the tombstone of every Democrat who's ever been elected
Speaker 2: is the inscription I never met a tax I didn't like.
Speaker 2: That's from Will Rogers, by the way, who never met
Speaker 2: a man he didn't like.
Speaker 3: So is it gonna happen? Yeah?
Speaker 2: And this deal that Mike Johnson made is by partisan deal.
Speaker 2: The same deal costs Kevin McCarthy his speakership and Mike Johnson.
Speaker 2: The new Congress comes into being next year. I think
Speaker 2: it's about the twentieth through the tenth or whatever, and
Speaker 2: he's got to be re elected speaker, and it just
Speaker 2: breaks along party ground. So I mean, this is a
Speaker 2: cluster truck of the first water here.
Speaker 3: And the reason, one of the.
Speaker 2: Reasons must hast such enormous, enormous powers because he goes
Speaker 2: online on x He posted one hundred, one hundred posts
Speaker 2: over this in the last couple of days. So are
Speaker 2: we going to wake up tomorrow morning with a partial
Speaker 2: government shut down? Yeah? Probably probably, because everybody is now
Speaker 2: their positions is set pretty much in stone.
Speaker 3: There is not much pri barbisonship. I hope I'm wrong.
Speaker 3: I hope they come up with some kind of a deal.
Speaker 2: Okay, Elon Musk has become probably the most powerful American
Speaker 2: after President Trump. And then the argument is, you may
Speaker 2: he become even more powerful. And I want to point
Speaker 2: something out, and that is the president. If there is
Speaker 2: someone who has unbelievable influence on the president, it's the
Speaker 2: president's call. It's the president who makes the decision to
Speaker 2: let someone have enormous influence and so I hear the time. Oh,
Speaker 2: the president has no power. It's really my dad used
Speaker 2: to do that to me. The insurance companies control of
Speaker 2: the president. That's why insurance rates are so high. Go
Speaker 2: what are you talking about? Goes, Well, they control everything.
Speaker 2: Let me ask them. Someone spends forty years running for
Speaker 2: president and as soon as he or she is elected
Speaker 2: hands the reins over to the insurance the CEOs that go, here,
Speaker 2: you run the country. He goes, Yeah, that's exactly what happens.
Speaker 2: My dad was a moron, by the way when it
Speaker 2: came to this. So Elon Musk only has the power
Speaker 2: that Trump gives him.
Speaker 3: But man, what power he has.
Speaker 2: Yesterday a blizzard of ex posts announcing that bipartisan spending
Speaker 2: deal designed to keep the government open.
Speaker 3: We talked about that time in the last segment.
Speaker 2: He's calling the bill criminal and the threat okay, the
Speaker 2: Trump threat. Any member of the House or Senate who
Speaker 2: votes for this outrage spending bill deserves to be voted
Speaker 2: out in two years. This is how Trump controls the
Speaker 2: Republican Party because he has the power with the electorate
Speaker 2: to primary any Republican out. Virtually any Republican and he
Speaker 2: has done it. I don't care if you've been there
Speaker 2: for thirty years. I'm going to endorse your opponent in
Speaker 2: the primaries and you're done. And so you bet the
Speaker 2: Republican legislator's cow taw to Donald Trump, ben the knee,
Speaker 2: kiss the ring, as it said.
Speaker 3: So here we go.
Speaker 2: The bill tanks both because Musk spent a lot of
Speaker 2: his time I don't know, one hundred posts, I mean
Speaker 2: something insane, and also a parody Trump's position. And by
Speaker 2: the way, I've said this before, I'm not a big
Speaker 2: fan of Donald Trump. You know that, But I tell
Speaker 2: you his point is absolutely well taken. How much money
Speaker 2: can you spend beyond the money that comes in? Where
Speaker 2: is the limit? The Democrats, there is no limit, none, none.
Speaker 2: Whatever we have to borrow to keep the government going,
Speaker 2: we will borrow, and it doesn't matter how much money
Speaker 2: comes in. Now, for the first time, you have some
Speaker 2: deficit hawks, and you've got Trump. You've got mux Musk,
Speaker 2: who is now head of DOGE, the Department of Governmental Efficiency,
Speaker 2: and he's saying, we can't spend this kind of money.
Speaker 3: We have to run this place like a business. Yeah,
Speaker 3: which makes sense.
Speaker 2: Actually, okay, So House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Speaker 3: Put together a bill to keep the government running.
Speaker 2: And by the way, the Speaker, Mike Johnson is not
Speaker 2: a particularly effective speaker. He squeaked in. He's a compromise speaker.
Speaker 2: And I think one of the reasons that Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 2: is so hated by the extreme right is she was
Speaker 2: so effective as speaker her She ran the House with
Speaker 2: an iron fist. You can compare her to Maggie Thatcher
Speaker 2: in Great Britain during the Thatcher years. I mean she
Speaker 2: gold on my ear during the time of the seventies
Speaker 2: when she was Prime Minister of Israel. And so Mike
Speaker 2: Johnson believes he could get enough Republicans to join most
Speaker 2: Democrats in passing a bill to keep the government alive.
Speaker 2: Now what does that mean keeping the government alive? Well,
Speaker 2: you're not going to have a balanced budget. What Congress
Speaker 2: does year after year is kick the can down the
Speaker 2: road and say, we'll deal with the budget later. Let's
Speaker 2: just go ahead and fund the government as it is
Speaker 2: until in this.
Speaker 3: Case it would be March of next year.
Speaker 2: Well, Trump said nope, and Musk said nope, and so
Speaker 2: the deal fell apart. So now what does Johnson do
Speaker 2: he's got how many hours to go before this thing
Speaker 2: just dives? And the government is partially shut down. And
Speaker 2: as I said, certain parts of the government have to
Speaker 2: have to keep on going by law. Now air traffic
Speaker 2: controllers and military and federal police and I think the FBI,
Speaker 2: but everything else shuts down, and even the government workers
Speaker 2: that have to keep on working don't get paid. They
Speaker 2: get IOUs, which of course will be honored. So now
Speaker 2: the scramble takes place, and Mike Johnson is figuring. So
Speaker 2: they came in with another bill, which the GOP is saying, okay,
Speaker 2: well the Republicans are the Democrats say.
Speaker 3: No, we're not going to do it.
Speaker 2: Nope, we're done, And of course retribution and arguments going
Speaker 2: back and forth and accusations. Haking Jeffreys, head of the Democrats,
Speaker 2: screaming the Republicans or trying to destroy this country. They
Speaker 2: don't even want to go forward with this funding bill,
Speaker 2: to stop gap funding bill to keep the government alive
Speaker 2: until March. The Republicans are saying, the Democrats are destroying
Speaker 2: this country because they want to spend so much money.
Speaker 2: We keep on borrowing so much money that we can't
Speaker 2: possibly afford any of it, and so it's up in
Speaker 2: the air. And by the way, thirty six Republicans joined
Speaker 2: the Democrats in saying this bill is no good. So
Speaker 2: for the Republicans, the programs that are in place that
Speaker 2: are to keep on funding, the entitlement programs, the social programs, No,
Speaker 2: they're just too expensive. Ain't gonna happen. For the Democrats,
Speaker 2: we can't cut like this. We can't cut housing and
Speaker 2: subsidies for schools, and subsidies for school lunches and all
Speaker 2: of these entitlement programs. If you come up with a
Speaker 2: list of governmental programs or programs that are funded by
Speaker 2: the government, you know, NGOs, non governmental agencies or organizations,
Speaker 2: and the amount of money that's spent, I mean you,
Speaker 2: it is completely nuts. I don't know if social Security
Speaker 2: checks keep on going. They do, okay, so by law,
Speaker 2: social Security keeps ongoing.
Speaker 3: Uh. And what else?
Speaker 2: I have to get a list of what major organizations,
Speaker 2: what major parts of the government. Just don't Medicare, Medicare
Speaker 2: they stop paying. Medicare continues on, Medicare continues. I know
Speaker 2: air traffic controllers certainly continues. Amy has a better grip
Speaker 2: on this than I do. Unfortunately, and so I'm defaulting
Speaker 2: to amy and you may want to calendar this because
Speaker 2: I rarely do this, and I'll be not doing.
Speaker 3: This much more.
Speaker 4: No, I military keeps running Medicare.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but military doesn't get paid. They don't get paid checks.
Speaker 2: They get the warrants. So there's a lot of by
Speaker 2: law that's uh the check and they're going to be
Speaker 2: made up. But as I said earlier, even those governmental
Speaker 2: agencies that don't get checks and only get the IOUs
Speaker 2: these warrants as they're called, you can't go to the
Speaker 2: grosser restore, put some food on that counter and say
Speaker 2: I've got a warrant here.
Speaker 3: They actually want money.
Speaker 4: Congress still gets paid, of course.
Speaker 3: Congress gets paid.
Speaker 4: The president gets paid.
Speaker 2: No kidding, The president gets paid real quickly. Okay, don't
Speaker 2: even look how much does the president make?
Speaker 4: Do doo doo?
Speaker 3: Hundred thousand dollars you gotta raise? Oh yeah, he got
Speaker 3: to raise.
Speaker 2: The first president that got four hundred thousand dollars was
Speaker 2: George W.
Speaker 4: Hey is Trump not taking his salary again?
Speaker 3: I don't think he is.
Speaker 2: You know the last person that didn't take a salary
Speaker 2: Trump well before Trump?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: John F. Kennedy really yep, dollary year. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he had so much money. I mean, just
Speaker 2: ridiculous amounts of money. You know, his father, Joseph P. Kennedy,
Speaker 2: I mean just left a fortune to his children. Okay,
Speaker 2: Luigi MANGIONI, we knew he was going to waive extradition
Speaker 2: and coming to New York, which he did yesterday, and
Speaker 2: he was flown from Pennsylvania to New York after waving extradition,
Speaker 2: and he was to make his first court appearing in
Speaker 2: a Manhattan courthouse in state court. We knew he was
Speaker 2: going to be hit with federal charges at the same time,
Speaker 2: and he was charged with murder through the use of
Speaker 2: a firearm to stocking charges firearms offense. I mean, he's
Speaker 2: up for the death penalty and I can't imagine he
Speaker 2: is not going to get it. So the federal complaint
Speaker 2: leads to his appearance in federal court in downtown Manhattan
Speaker 2: instead of the state courthouse. But wait a minute, he
Speaker 2: was supposed to go to the state. He waived extradition
Speaker 2: to come to the state of New York for a
Speaker 2: state hearing, but to the surprise of all, the Feds
Speaker 2: came in and the Feds prevail and they said, nope,
Speaker 2: it's going to be federal first, then state. So he
Speaker 2: leaves prison and comes to He goes to the court
Speaker 2: in Pennsylvania, two back to back hearings. On the one
Speaker 2: he didn't extradition, the other it was decided he will
Speaker 2: not face firearm and forgery charges brought against him in
Speaker 2: Pennsylvania until the charges in New York are heard. Now
Speaker 2: here's the fun part, to show you what a hero
Speaker 2: he has become.
Speaker 3: You know, in prison you set up accounts.
Speaker 2: You can set up account to buy Fredo's and to
Speaker 2: buy soap, and you know all that kind of crap
Speaker 2: that they don't give you.
Speaker 3: Ramin.
Speaker 2: He got one hundred and fifty eight deposits into his account.
Speaker 2: He's got more money in the account than you have
Speaker 2: in the bank. There's a lot of FreeDOS. You can
Speaker 2: buy fifty letters so far. Can't wait till those are released.
Speaker 2: How many women are proposing marriage? People wanted to see him,
Speaker 2: know only as attorneys. And after the hearings, he's handed
Speaker 2: over to the NYPD. Then's flown on a plane to
Speaker 2: New York, then is up by helicopter. Not bad, I mean,
Speaker 2: if let me tell you, if you want to visit
Speaker 2: New York. Let me tell you how to go follow
Speaker 2: his lead, fly in a private plane to New York
Speaker 2: and then get helicoptered into the city. Not bad, not bad,
Speaker 2: and then we'll talk about the details later on.
Speaker 3: Because I mean, they have him.
Speaker 2: They overwhelming evidence, DNA evidence, fingerprint evidence, entries into his
Speaker 2: diary in which he talks about going after United Healthcare,
Speaker 2: talks about going after the CEO, on and on. So
Speaker 2: Mangoni meets with his attorneys at the federal courthouse where.
Speaker 3: This took place.
Speaker 2: Because why because Feds say, you know what we wanted
Speaker 2: and took everybody by surprise. By the way, his attorney
Speaker 2: had no idea that was happening. The state had no
Speaker 2: idea it was happening. I mean, the state's already set up.
Speaker 2: They have barricades outside the courtroom, the court house on
Speaker 2: the thirteenth floor. The cameras are being set up because
Speaker 2: it was going to be a televised hearing. Security is
Speaker 2: being established. All that shutdown because the Fed came in
Speaker 2: and said we're going to do it first. So during
Speaker 2: his court hearing, I love this one. This is fantastic.
Speaker 2: His attorney said, we will not seek bail right now. Really,
Speaker 2: you're not going to seek bail because you certainly are
Speaker 2: going to be granted bail if you ask for it,
Speaker 2: but they reserve the right to do it later, which
Speaker 2: of course they will. The other fun fact, if you
Speaker 2: want to talk about any kind of fun facts around this,
Speaker 2: is Mangione is going to be held in the Metropolitan
Speaker 2: Detention Center in Brooklyn, which is the only federal prison
Speaker 2: in New York City. You know, it was also in
Speaker 2: that prison Sean Diddy Combs, and that courtroom on the
Speaker 2: thirteenth floor where he was to have the hearing in
Speaker 2: state charges is exactly the same courthouse that President elect
Speaker 2: Donald J. Trump was brought in when the hearings took
Speaker 2: place over his issues. All right, so you think we're
Speaker 2: going to follow that one? Yeah, I think too. Okay, Hey,
Speaker 2: there's something going on that makes almost no sense, and
Speaker 2: that is America is getting healthier. But that's impossible because
Speaker 2: we're getting fatter America is I mean, we're getting fatter
Speaker 2: by the I mean the second. We are the most
Speaker 2: obese people on the planet. We have the most junk food,
Speaker 2: we eat the worst food, We probably exercise the least
Speaker 2: of anybody out there. I mean, you go to third
Speaker 2: world countries and you know those people exercise. For example,
Speaker 2: they're chasing after deer or impalas in Africa just for dinner.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of exercise there.
Speaker 1: Not sure that's how it works, but I get the
Speaker 1: what you're trying to illustrate.
Speaker 2: We have more fatalities from gun violence, from drug overdoses,
Speaker 2: from auto accidents than almost any place in the world.
Speaker 2: Our obesity rate is fifty percent higher than the European average.
Speaker 2: Matter of fact, the US is considered a quote rich
Speaker 2: death trap by many people.
Speaker 1: I gained the weight. I gained all the weight so
Speaker 1: that if I get hit by a car, I have
Speaker 1: some panic.
Speaker 3: Good. That's good.
Speaker 2: I put on Wai to remember when I was a
Speaker 2: little kid, my parents were saying, I would say, and
Speaker 2: this is when Asia was not doing well financially. It
Speaker 2: used to be after World War two, eat all your food.
Speaker 2: The kids are starving in Europe. Well, of course that
Speaker 2: went away. So when I was a kid, the kids
Speaker 2: are starving in Asia, so please eat all your food.
Speaker 2: Well guess what, I cleaned my plate, I got fat,
Speaker 2: and the kids still starved.
Speaker 3: So none of that makes sense. But the death rate
Speaker 3: in the US is actually going down.
Speaker 2: The reason we have such a miserable mortality rate, by
Speaker 2: the way, unusually short life spans, more so than almost
Speaker 2: every other country in the world, certainly the industrialized world,
Speaker 2: because of the drug overdoses, because of the crashes, the
Speaker 2: car crashes, because of the gun violence, which doesn't exist
Speaker 2: in the other parts of the world for the most part.
Speaker 3: Well, here's what's going on.
Speaker 2: The government announced the adult obese rate has declined this
Speaker 2: last year. Man, are we have we decided we're getting healthier. No,
Speaker 2: it's the fat drugs. It's all the what do they
Speaker 2: call the GP one drugs with go V and l zebic. Yeah,
Speaker 2: thanks Anne, Yeah, the GLP one drugs.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: One in a Americans have actually taken the GOLP one drug,
Speaker 2: and one in sixteen right now are taking the drug.
Speaker 1: I've got Manjaro in my arm as we speak.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I am taking because I'm trying to lose
Speaker 2: fifteen pounds and I'm having a hard time.
Speaker 3: Why what is on this plate a bagel?
Speaker 1: Have you thought of cutting off your head?
Speaker 3: Yeah? That makes sense.
Speaker 2: In any case, it's just weird. Now here's what the
Speaker 2: experts are saying. When you look at these figures, it's
Speaker 2: all crap. It's all artificial. We're still dying from over
Speaker 2: dose overdoses, not as much because you just can't get
Speaker 2: the drug anymore. When you could get fentanyl, when you
Speaker 2: could get opiates, I mean, doctors were prescribing opiates and
Speaker 2: you could buy them like skittles. You could go to
Speaker 2: the market and just pick up bags of this stuff. Well,
Speaker 2: those days are gone to the point where you can't
Speaker 2: even get opiates. And and when I was in surgery on
Speaker 2: my back surgery, they gave me three days of opiates.
Speaker 3: I go, what are you guys doing? I hurt, like hell,
Speaker 3: you just you just can't.
Speaker 1: So I remember getting percoset for mouth, you know, maxio
Speaker 1: facial surgery, and I never used them did I have
Speaker 1: no idea what they do. I never use them. But
Speaker 1: there are good painkillers, is what they are. I don't
Speaker 1: even like vicodin. I was off in my kidney surgery.
Speaker 1: I was off the pain meds. I think within the
Speaker 1: first day.
Speaker 2: See and I love It's strangely enough, I really enjoyed
Speaker 2: pain meds way after the pain disappears.
Speaker 3: That's my history.
Speaker 2: But you know, you couldn't get them anymore, which makes
Speaker 2: sense because now the number of opiates overdose deaths are
Speaker 2: way way down.
Speaker 3: So we've got some reasons that we're actually living.
Speaker 2: A little bit longer, we're actually healthier by a tiny
Speaker 2: little percentage.
Speaker 3: However, you're still smoking, you're still fat, you still.
Speaker 2: Don't exercise, and by the way, I'm not looking at Neil,
Speaker 2: although I should know.
Speaker 1: I'm not a smoker.
Speaker 3: All right, everything else.
Speaker 2: But yeah, pretty much, Okay, this is KFI AM sixty.
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