Latest / Wicked Radio with Bill Adams / Wicked Radio 1-28: Selena's Tears, Trump's Gulf, & Love From The Ashes In LA
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- 0:05Speaker 1: I love it when a podcast all comes together with
- 0:08Speaker 1: a flow, and that's exactly the theme today. I don't
- 0:10Speaker 1: know how, I don't know why, but I'm here to
- 0:12Speaker 1: explain it to you. Selena Gomez is tears the water
- 0:16Speaker 1: in California and in Trump's Gulf of America. Somehow, someway,
- 0:21Speaker 1: the water is all flowing together, and all the topics
- 0:24Speaker 1: are flowing together. But what does it all mean? Well,
- 0:27Speaker 1: people are talking about this stuff, and you need to
- 0:29Speaker 1: know what the hell they're talking about. And that's why
- 0:31Speaker 1: I exist. So here we are. Thanks finding Wicked Radio.
- 0:34Speaker 1: Trust me, it'll all come together. Plus, at the end
- 0:37Speaker 1: of this one, I'm going to talk about a I
- 0:39Speaker 1: mean truly a beautiful love story speaking of California, out
- 0:43Speaker 1: of the fires there. It's truly a story of love
- 0:46Speaker 1: from the ashes. And even if you have a hardened,
- 0:49Speaker 1: jaded heart like I do, after following so many of
- 0:51Speaker 1: these stories over the past couple of decades, this one might,
- 0:56Speaker 1: even this one might even get to you. Maybe we'll
- 0:59Speaker 1: see it's beautiful story though. Thanks for finding Wicked Radio
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- 1:28Speaker 1: Facebook now under Wicked Wisdom. All right, all that crap,
- 1:31Speaker 1: let's get to it. Let's get to the stuff that
- 1:33Speaker 1: actually matters. You've heard people talking about Selena Gomez. You
- 1:37Speaker 1: probably have people in your life saying, she's so brave,
- 1:40Speaker 1: it's amazing what she did. It was incredible, and then
- 1:44Speaker 1: you got other people criticizing her, and a lot of
- 1:46Speaker 1: people even in the media who are criticizing her. And
- 1:48Speaker 1: here's what it's all about. And I was actually wondering
- 1:50Speaker 1: which of the celebrities, which of the entertainment folks would
- 1:56Speaker 1: come out and criticize the deportation policy first in the
- 1:59Speaker 1: biggest possible way. And a lot of them have done it, obviously,
- 2:02Speaker 1: but I mean the biggest possible way that made the
- 2:04Speaker 1: biggest impact that most people are talking about so far.
- 2:08Speaker 1: And it turns out our winn winner is Selena Gomez
- 2:12Speaker 1: a now deleted video she made yesterday and put on Instagram.
- 2:15Speaker 1: And I'll get to the deleted part here in a second,
- 2:17Speaker 1: because I think it's very relevant to the story. She
- 2:20Speaker 1: went on there and she expressed her feelings and her sorrow,
- 2:24Speaker 1: I guess for the people who are being deported in
- 2:27Speaker 1: a very uh, I guess, impactful kind of way. And
- 2:31Speaker 1: the video sounded like this, I just.
- 2:34Speaker 2: Want to say that, I'm so sorry.
- 2:39Speaker 3: Only people are getting detect the children don't understand.
- 2:51Speaker 1: But isn't that it She doesn't really understand. I know
- 2:53Speaker 1: she was blubbering there, and I'm not here to make
- 2:55Speaker 1: fun of her emotional turmoil, and just that's not my job.
- 2:57Speaker 1: It's not me, It's not what I would do anybody
- 3:00Speaker 1: in that kind of condition, you know, they shouldn't be
- 3:01Speaker 1: made fun of for that at all. My takeaway is this,
- 3:05Speaker 1: she's obviously upset about what she said there. If you
- 3:07Speaker 1: heard through the tears, was my people, I don't understand
- 3:10Speaker 1: and I'm so sorry. That was basically the theme of it.
- 3:13Speaker 1: And I get that. Here's the interesting part to me,
- 3:16Speaker 1: that's fascinating that it's a now deleted video but we
- 3:21Speaker 1: got a hold of it obviously in the sound because
- 3:22Speaker 1: the Internet lives forever, so once something is posted anything,
- 3:26Speaker 1: it lives forever and you can find it. That's just
- 3:27Speaker 1: a matter of fact and a good tip. By the way,
- 3:29Speaker 1: don't ever post anything you don't want to resurface later.
- 3:32Speaker 1: So she got rid of it now. Usually, at least
- 3:36Speaker 1: from my experience, whenever you have somebody from the celebrity
- 3:39Speaker 1: world who deletes something, it's usually one of two cases.
- 3:45Speaker 1: The fan backlash was so strong that they realized themselves,
- 3:50Speaker 1: oh this, I made a big mistake. I got to
- 3:53Speaker 1: delete this video. I have to stop this, or you
- 3:54Speaker 1: know whatever to try to stop the damage right or
- 3:57Speaker 1: in most cases, it's a publicist, or it's a manager,
- 4:01Speaker 1: or it's somebody close to the celebrity that has a
- 4:05Speaker 1: vested interest in that person's career. In other words, somebody
- 4:07Speaker 1: that also their livelihood is dependent on the celebrity. I
- 4:11Speaker 1: hate to be so cold about it, but that's usually
- 4:13Speaker 1: how these things work. Somebody got to her and told
- 4:16Speaker 1: her to delete the video, and it has been deleted.
- 4:19Speaker 1: But like I said, the Internet lives forever, so that's
- 4:21Speaker 1: how we got a hold of the video now. It
- 4:25Speaker 1: could be one of two things. But in either one
- 4:27Speaker 1: of those cases, either the fan backlash or a manager
- 4:30Speaker 1: or a publicist got to her and they said, hey, Selena,
- 4:32Speaker 1: you gotta get rid of that because it's not a
- 4:36Speaker 1: good look. Now, let me ask you this, in your opinion,
- 4:38Speaker 1: just as you get the facts about Selena Gomez and
- 4:40Speaker 1: her heartfelt video, let's put it at two to three
- 4:46Speaker 1: years ago. Three years ago, do you think she would
- 4:49Speaker 1: have deleted it? Would the backlash with the awareness out
- 4:53Speaker 1: there about the open border and the immigration policy, would
- 4:56Speaker 1: it have been so strong that a publicist or or
- 4:59Speaker 1: self for somebody or the fans would have wanted her
- 5:01Speaker 1: to delete that video. I don't think so. I think
- 5:04Speaker 1: whoever got her to delete that maybe it was just
- 5:06Speaker 1: her self realized this whole support and the polls support this,
- 5:11Speaker 1: by the way, mainstream news polls as well. The whole
- 5:14Speaker 1: support for the deportation plan is really strong in this
- 5:20Speaker 1: country among most people because throughout the whole election remember
- 5:24Speaker 1: that little election we had a couple of months ago, November, Yeah,
- 5:26Speaker 1: you remember that. As it turns out, the immigration, the
- 5:31Speaker 1: illegal immigration and open border issue, it was way way
- 5:36Speaker 1: more impactful than anybody realized at the time, even the
- 5:39Speaker 1: nerdy political people or the pollsters are the people that
- 5:42Speaker 1: actually study this stuff. They thought it was like maybe
- 5:46Speaker 1: a top five, top three issue. You gotta look at
- 5:49Speaker 1: this kind of stuff now and realize among support and
- 5:51Speaker 1: among how people really felt about this, whether they were
- 5:54Speaker 1: outspoken about it or not, open border might have been
- 5:58Speaker 1: the number one issue coming out of this election and
- 6:01Speaker 1: why people voted the way they did. It really might
- 6:02Speaker 1: have been. So to delete the video really says a
- 6:06Speaker 1: lot now. Interesting response last night from Tom Holman. You've
- 6:09Speaker 1: seen him in a lot in the news a lot lately.
- 6:11Speaker 1: He's the director of ICE, and in some cases Tom
- 6:14Speaker 1: Holman is actually in some of these immigration raids on
- 6:17Speaker 1: the street. I've seen him in a video in Chicago.
- 6:18Speaker 1: I saw him in New York. He's all over the place,
- 6:21Speaker 1: actually at the ICE arrests with some of the hard
- 6:25Speaker 1: and criminal criminals that are in our country and shouldn't
- 6:27Speaker 1: be and getting the hell out of here. Well, he
- 6:29Speaker 1: responded directly in an interview which I think I'm pretty
- 6:31Speaker 1: sure was on Fox last night, addressing the Selena Gomez
- 6:37Speaker 1: video and the reaction so far and the takeaway on
- 6:40Speaker 1: this was no apologies.
- 6:42Speaker 4: I don't think we arrested any families. We've arrested public
- 6:45Speaker 4: safty th rest in national security tests. Bottom line, And look,
- 6:49Speaker 4: President Trump won the election on this one issue, secure
- 6:52Speaker 4: in our border and saving lives. What happened on our
- 6:55Speaker 4: southern board last four is the biggest national security threat
- 6:57Speaker 4: this country scene, at least in my lifetime, because we
- 7:00Speaker 4: got over two million known guitherways, you've got six hundred
- 7:02Speaker 4: percent increase in sex trafficking. We got a record number
- 7:05Speaker 4: of terrorists crossing the boarder on terrorist wash list.
- 7:07Speaker 1: Yeah, I forgot. He's actually said that himself too. What
- 7:10Speaker 1: we just said that was number one. I'm convinced of
- 7:14Speaker 1: it right now, talk about anything that the economy obviously
- 7:16Speaker 1: was huge, right, you know, government efficiency and tax as people,
- 7:21Speaker 1: you know, people's money in their pocketbooks. But number one,
- 7:24Speaker 1: as you look back, and if people now feel safe
- 7:27Speaker 1: about talking about it, if you talk to most people
- 7:29Speaker 1: in your life, if they voted for Trump, if they
- 7:31Speaker 1: voted the way that they did vote, they'll probably feel
- 7:33Speaker 1: safe enough to tell you now, oh, it's that border.
- 7:35Speaker 1: It was that open border issue, and I think circling
- 7:38Speaker 1: it all back, I think that was the reaction that
- 7:41Speaker 1: got back somehow, some way to Selena Gomez. On that
- 7:44Speaker 1: for sure, Trump was speaking again last night. The guy
- 7:46Speaker 1: has not stopped. I don't think he sleeps. And he
- 7:48Speaker 1: was at another conference last night talking about the immigration issue,
- 7:51Speaker 1: and no he didn't respond directly to Selena Gomez, but
- 7:54Speaker 1: he did talk about it.
- 7:55Speaker 5: Also, have many violent criminals in our country, however that
- 7:58Speaker 5: did not necessarily come here illegally. But I've been arrested
- 8:02Speaker 5: thirty times, thirty five times, forty one, forty two times
- 8:06Speaker 5: in a couple of cases, twenty five times, eighteen times,
- 8:10Speaker 5: many for murder, other HANGUS charges such as pushing people
- 8:14Speaker 5: into subways.
- 8:16Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that was it. I really think the
- 8:19Speaker 1: backlash for her was was it They realize that this
- 8:22Speaker 1: is not going well, This probably isn't look celebrity. Like
- 8:25Speaker 1: I said, I'm not here to make fun of Selena
- 8:27Speaker 1: Gomez in her moment of emotional turmoil, which it obviously was.
- 8:31Speaker 1: That's neither here nor there, and what good would it do.
- 8:34Speaker 1: But the takeaway is if you delete that video, somebody
- 8:36Speaker 1: got to you and said, hey, you're kind of living
- 8:38Speaker 1: in a bubble here and you don't realize how the
- 8:40Speaker 1: American people lot. Do your fans really feel? And I
- 8:42Speaker 1: know she got the support, but I would bet you
- 8:45Speaker 1: a shocking to them. To her team, a shocking number
- 8:48Speaker 1: of people said, hey, wait a minute, I don't see
- 8:50Speaker 1: the I haven't seen yet families being deported and babies
- 8:54Speaker 1: being ripped away from the moms. I see criminals with
- 8:57Speaker 1: their career criminal records be posted online. Those are the
- 9:01Speaker 1: ones that are being deported so far. And people aren't
- 9:04Speaker 1: afraid to talk about it anymore. It's another amazing thing
- 9:07Speaker 1: that happened yesterday. Another thing that flows. I love when
- 9:09Speaker 1: the topics flow together, more water to talk about. Remember
- 9:13Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, everybody was laughing about this,
- 9:16Speaker 1: including me, The whole concept of well, i'll let Trump
- 9:20Speaker 1: describe it to be.
- 9:22Speaker 3: Changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the
- 9:25Speaker 3: Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers
- 9:30Speaker 3: a lot of territory. The Gulf of America. What a
- 9:33Speaker 3: beautiful name.
- 9:34Speaker 1: Full disclosure. And I think you remember me talking about
- 9:36Speaker 1: this at the time too. I thought for sure this
- 9:39Speaker 1: was just one of those Trumpian things, you know what
- 9:40Speaker 1: I mean. Trying to make now. There was one rumor
- 9:42Speaker 1: online as well that the whole process, the whole idea
- 9:44Speaker 1: behind this was call it the Gulf of America, because
- 9:47Speaker 1: the environmental law is about stopping drilling in the gulf.
- 9:49Speaker 1: Just say Gulf of Mexico, So if you call it
- 9:51Speaker 1: Glf of America, you can skirt around that. I don't
- 9:54Speaker 1: think that was really true. But this shure is son
- 9:59Speaker 1: of a bit. It's happening all right. Other countries aren't.
- 10:03Speaker 1: Mexico sure isn't going to call it the Gulf of
- 10:05Speaker 1: America like ever, and most world organizations won't. But guess
- 10:09Speaker 1: what just happened yesterday. Whether you heard this about Google Maps.
- 10:15Speaker 1: Google Maps I probably use five times a week somewhere
- 10:20Speaker 1: locally or across the or to look something up a location.
- 10:23Speaker 1: Google Maps, which is fully ingrained in our culture now
- 10:27Speaker 1: and will be for the next few decades, has agreed
- 10:32Speaker 1: to call the former Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
- 10:37Speaker 1: When you've got when you've got a cultural change like that,
- 10:40Speaker 1: because you will have now generations of kids who will
- 10:42Speaker 1: get used to Google Maps or whatever technology they have,
- 10:45Speaker 1: and the list right there in that body of water
- 10:47Speaker 1: is going to be called the Gulf of America. Yeah,
- 10:50Speaker 1: you've you've won. That's exactly what's happening. Here's the other
- 10:54Speaker 1: thing that Google Maps is going to do. It's going
- 10:57Speaker 1: back to Mount mckail Mount Denali. The name was changed
- 11:03Speaker 1: from McKinley a few years ago. It is now at
- 11:05Speaker 1: Trump's not order but suggestion, being called Mount McKinley. Again.
- 11:11Speaker 1: I didn't think this kind of stuff would happen. I
- 11:12Speaker 1: thought this was just like fun talk at rallies. No,
- 11:15Speaker 1: it's happening, all right, Sure enough is golf makes it go?
- 11:20Speaker 1: All right? Speaking of Trump, this was another big thing
- 11:22Speaker 1: that happened yesterday. And for this we go back to
- 11:23Speaker 1: the LA fires. Sure enough, as one of those Trumpian
- 11:30Speaker 1: things that he had promised would happen. Within a week
- 11:33Speaker 1: and a half, you'll see the water flowing in California again.
- 11:35Speaker 1: And a lot of us who don't live there weren't
- 11:37Speaker 1: fully aware of the issues that had happened. Most of
- 11:41Speaker 1: the California residents had told you, had told us, and
- 11:44Speaker 1: had told the media anybody that would listen. The reservoirs,
- 11:47Speaker 1: especially the ones that were supposed to protect palisades, were empty.
- 11:51Speaker 1: Why why is that? They also, for the past two
- 11:54Speaker 1: seasons had record rainfall in California. All of it washed
- 11:58Speaker 1: out to the ocean. They didn't capture any of it
- 12:00Speaker 1: to help with these fires. And by the way, yes
- 12:02Speaker 1: they are a ocean state bordering the Pacific Ocean. Water
- 12:07Speaker 1: shouldn't be a problem for the state of California. So
- 12:09Speaker 1: a lot of us didn't really understand that. But Californians
- 12:12Speaker 1: had told you that the natural resources and the people
- 12:16Speaker 1: running that re removal, fire mitigation, water retention, you know,
- 12:21Speaker 1: cutting staff and salary from fire departments throughout the state,
- 12:25Speaker 1: that that was an actual thing happening. We started to
- 12:28Speaker 1: understand that. Now we get a full understanding of this.
- 12:31Speaker 1: Look what Trump posted last night on truth Social The
- 12:33Speaker 1: United States military just enter the great state of California
- 12:37Speaker 1: and under emergency powers and this is all in capitals
- 12:39Speaker 1: turned on the water flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest
- 12:43Speaker 1: and beyond. And then he goes on to say, the
- 12:46Speaker 1: days of putting fake environmental argument over. The people are over.
- 12:50Speaker 1: Enjoy the water California. I don't understand all of the
- 12:54Speaker 1: issues on this, but if you're telling me, if the
- 12:58Speaker 1: reality is that now they will have enough water to
- 13:03Speaker 1: update and maintain their resources in case God forbids something
- 13:06Speaker 1: like this happens again. You're telling me that that could
- 13:09Speaker 1: have been done before, that you could have just done
- 13:13Speaker 1: something years before, as the people in California had clamored for. Wow, boy,
- 13:20Speaker 1: is that something that's unbelievable. This might be one of
- 13:23Speaker 1: the most impactful things for this country in the longest time,
- 13:25Speaker 1: is to realize the extreme environmental policies like I had
- 13:31Speaker 1: seen that hashtag Trump had put that out there too.
- 13:33Speaker 1: People over fish because apparently there was an environmental policy
- 13:37Speaker 1: to protect a certain breed kind species of fish out there.
- 13:43Speaker 1: Why they released a lot of that water into the ocean.
- 13:45Speaker 1: I don't know all the details, but a lot of
- 13:47Speaker 1: people had said that and claimed that now for years.
- 13:50Speaker 1: If that's the case, where they could have had the
- 13:52Speaker 1: water this whole time, Holy God, is that going to
- 13:55Speaker 1: open up a lot of eyes, including my eyes, about
- 13:58Speaker 1: environmental policies now damaging they can be if not directed
- 14:01Speaker 1: and maintained properly. Oo boy, but this great news out
- 14:05Speaker 1: of California. Listen to this story, and I'm telling you,
- 14:07Speaker 1: like I said in the intro, even if you've got
- 14:09Speaker 1: a jaded, hardened hearts, pessimistic mind and soul like I
- 14:13Speaker 1: do after following all of these news stories for so
- 14:16Speaker 1: many decades, even this one, even this one got to me.
- 14:21Speaker 1: But it's awesome and it's real. Not a lot of
- 14:22Speaker 1: video from this thing. It's not too exciting there because
- 14:25Speaker 1: it's just ashes of a couple that lost their home.
- 14:28Speaker 1: But this is a case of literal love from the
- 14:32Speaker 1: ashes they got back. And let's face it, this is
- 14:35Speaker 1: still happening now. A lot of people waiting weeks and
- 14:38Speaker 1: then when they get in line, they have to wait
- 14:40Speaker 1: hours in a car just to get back to their
- 14:42Speaker 1: homes to try to sift through debris. That thing is
- 14:45Speaker 1: still happening. Well, there's one couple in Pacific Palisades got
- 14:48Speaker 1: there and they were able to sift through all of
- 14:50Speaker 1: their stuff. Listen to what the guy in the relationship
- 14:55Speaker 1: finds here and the story he turned this into. It
- 15:00Speaker 1: touches even my heart.
- 15:01Speaker 2: We're digging around where my desk is, where you can
- 15:04Speaker 2: see that the dusk frame, and then you pick it
- 15:06Speaker 2: up and you pick up the thing and there's a
- 15:07Speaker 2: little there's a little diamond. And I was on my
- 15:09Speaker 2: knees and I was like, hey, will.
- 15:11Speaker 1: You marry me?
- 15:13Speaker 3: And uh, and.
- 15:14Speaker 2: I'm in you know I'm in complete ppe zipped off
- 15:17Speaker 2: with the white hood and everything.
- 15:19Speaker 3: I'm crying.
- 15:20Speaker 2: Yeah, we're really hoping that Los Angeles can support Altadena
- 15:24Speaker 2: and it's rebuilt efforts for the next couple of years,
- 15:26Speaker 2: and that we're able to return.
- 15:28Speaker 1: Oh my god, way to go, dude. First of all,
- 15:31Speaker 1: what a miracle they found the little diamond in the
- 15:33Speaker 1: ashes in what was their house and their property. Turns
- 15:36Speaker 1: your eyes, says will you marry me? I mean, come on,
- 15:39Speaker 1: come on, I'm not a love story kind of guy,
- 15:40Speaker 1: but even that has got a got to you. And
- 15:42Speaker 1: what an example, right, even that love survived that and
- 15:47Speaker 1: those people out there, they'll survive this catastrophe. Strength of
- 15:51Speaker 1: the human spirit, baby, that's got to put you in
- 15:52Speaker 1: a good mood, right, has to. All right, good for them,
- 15:57Speaker 1: Thanks for finding me. That's all I got for you.
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- 16:16Speaker 1: It's called Wicked Wisdom with Bill Adams Because they wouldn't
- 16:20Speaker 1: let me call it wicked Radio. Zuckerberg may be getting better,
- 16:23Speaker 1: but he's still a pain in the butt, So that's
- 16:25Speaker 1: what happens there. And now replay on x here is
- 16:27Speaker 1: always so who knows what we'll have to talk about tomorrow.
- 16:30Speaker 1: I doubt the stories will flow as nicely as they
- 16:32Speaker 1: did today, but hey, whatever, can't ask for everything. Take away, man,
- 16:39Speaker 1: I guess I guess it's this. If you don't agree
- 16:43Speaker 1: with what the celebrities are telling you, you can push
- 16:46Speaker 1: back on them too, like Selena Gomez. I guess the takeaway,
- 16:49Speaker 1: as always every single day, is don't take any crap
- 16:51Speaker 1: from anybody, have a wicked, awesome Tuesday, and all that
- 16:54Speaker 1: zat will touch it. Buck has sevens