Latest / Wicked Radio with Bill Adams / Wicked Radio 7-16: Atlanta's All Star Revenge, DOGE Cuts Pass, & UNO In Casinos!
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- 0:03Speaker 1: Maybe you're starting to day to day and you're now
- 0:05Speaker 1: generally curious about these things, but you don't really pay
- 0:08Speaker 1: attention to sports, and you're wondering, Oh, yeah, that All
- 0:10Speaker 1: Star game thing that was happening in Atlanta last night.
- 0:12Speaker 1: I wonder, I wonder who won. I'll tell you who won,
- 0:15Speaker 1: the city of Atlanta won. That's who. And this is
- 0:18Speaker 1: the biggest takeaway from this whole thing. It's not about sports,
- 0:20Speaker 1: It's really not. It's about it's about things getting right
- 0:24Speaker 1: for a change, honestly, with common sense prevailing. Never forget
- 0:28Speaker 1: what was taken away from Atlanta four years ago. This
- 0:30Speaker 1: is a big story actually, and good for them. I
- 0:32Speaker 1: feel good for them. Also, speaking of wins, big win
- 0:36Speaker 1: for the Doge cuts yesterday. Now, let's face it, President
- 0:39Speaker 1: Trump has had an awful couple of weeks here, not
- 0:43Speaker 1: made any better by his statement about the Epstein thing yesterday.
- 0:46Speaker 1: Nobody understands that. But with nine billion dollars in DOGE
- 0:50Speaker 1: cuts passing yesterday thanks to jd Vance being the tie breaker,
- 0:55Speaker 1: we'll explain why that had to happen. That's a big win.
- 0:58Speaker 1: Tell you who's on the chopping block on that. And
- 1:00Speaker 1: going back to games, for a quick second, are you
- 1:02Speaker 1: ready for one of America's favorite family games to hit
- 1:06Speaker 1: the casinos in Las Vegas. That's right, Uno is coming
- 1:10Speaker 1: to a casino near you. Well, not quite yet, but
- 1:13Speaker 1: they're kind of like test marketing this thing, and you
- 1:15Speaker 1: know it's gonna be huge. We'll get to that as well.
- 1:17Speaker 1: But first of all, all right, not exactly sports related,
- 1:21Speaker 1: but I'll update you on exactly what happened last night
- 1:23Speaker 1: the All Star Game from Major League Baseball in Atlanta.
- 1:27Speaker 1: They righted a couple of wrongs. First of all, who won? Well,
- 1:32Speaker 1: let's find out rallied in the game, and now has
- 1:34Speaker 1: rallied in the swing of tracks. Massive League takes side
- 1:43Speaker 1: to swing off? Wait a minute, what, Yeah, I was
- 1:48Speaker 1: confused to So National League wins this thing. They were
- 1:51Speaker 1: tied to come back for the American League after nine
- 1:54Speaker 1: innings at six y six, So this is so dumb.
- 1:58Speaker 1: Major League Baseball Institute did a swing off kind of
- 2:01Speaker 1: like a little mini home run derby, and that was
- 2:03Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber from the Phillies, who apparently won it for them.
- 2:08Speaker 1: This is where I get to be old school sports
- 2:10Speaker 1: fan guy, because I think back of the you know,
- 2:11Speaker 1: watching Pete Rose in the All Star Game as a
- 2:13Speaker 1: kid who would like he would kill somebody in the
- 2:15Speaker 1: other team just for the rights to say his league
- 2:17Speaker 1: won it. You know, it wasn't all this high five
- 2:20Speaker 1: and it being friends with everybody on the other team,
- 2:22Speaker 1: and he would have he would have hated a swing off.
- 2:25Speaker 1: Keep playing till you get a regular win, That's what
- 2:27Speaker 1: I say. But apparently that's what they did. But yeah,
- 2:29Speaker 1: nationally wins it. I guess. I don't know. But the
- 2:32Speaker 1: thing they righted, first of all was this. I don't
- 2:34Speaker 1: know if you pay attention to this, but it matters.
- 2:36Speaker 1: The visual matters, right, It's a great American tradition. So
- 2:40Speaker 1: they let the teams wear their home uniforms for the
- 2:42Speaker 1: first time in a couple of years. Thank you for
- 2:44Speaker 1: writing that wrong, first of First of all, but the
- 2:48Speaker 1: big story is regarding the All Star Game is the winner.
- 2:51Speaker 1: The really the only story that matters if you want
- 2:54Speaker 1: a sign that things are getting back to normal, that
- 2:56Speaker 1: America is healing, is just the fact that Atlanta had
- 3:00Speaker 1: this event last night, which means it's proven. Anytime you
- 3:03Speaker 1: have a Super Bowl, an All Star Game, a draft.
- 3:08Speaker 1: Now that they're so huge for the NFL. Any of
- 3:10Speaker 1: that stuff. It means not millions, billions of dollars for
- 3:14Speaker 1: the local economy, millions trickling down to the local vendors
- 3:17Speaker 1: and restaurants, you know, any stores, anything you could possibly imagine.
- 3:22Speaker 1: Never forget what happened in twenty twenty one. This game
- 3:26Speaker 1: was supposed to be in Atlanta the first time around.
- 3:28Speaker 1: They got it this year. Well, what happened in twenty
- 3:32Speaker 1: twenty one? The game, the All Star Game, this very
- 3:34Speaker 1: same event was taken away from the city of Atlanta
- 3:36Speaker 1: and moved to Coursfield in Colorado. Why would that be
- 3:41Speaker 1: such a drastic move? Don't forget because it was horrific
- 3:45Speaker 1: as mad as I was at this happening and other
- 3:47Speaker 1: people around the country. Officials in Atlanta, City of Georgia,
- 3:50Speaker 1: those vendors, people around that stadium were pissed because of
- 3:54Speaker 1: the money they lost. And why why did this all
- 3:58Speaker 1: happen in the first place. We should never forget this
- 4:02Speaker 1: because they dared to institute tougher voting laws. Remember Biden,
- 4:07Speaker 1: you might remember this. Maybe you blacked it out. I
- 4:09Speaker 1: black out some of the things he had actually said
- 4:11Speaker 1: in some of the moves he made as well. Called
- 4:13Speaker 1: it Jim Crow laws. You can't have this. Well, let
- 4:17Speaker 1: let's go to the official records here. Let's look it
- 4:19Speaker 1: up and see exactly what they What did they do
- 4:22Speaker 1: to get them to lose the All Star Game in
- 4:24Speaker 1: twenty twenty one the first time around? What exactly was it? Well,
- 4:28Speaker 1: it was the Georgia Election Integrity Act of twenty twenty one,
- 4:34Speaker 1: signed by Governor Brian Kemp. We'll hear from here on
- 4:37Speaker 1: him in a second introduced new voting restrictions, including stricter
- 4:42Speaker 1: voter ID requirements for absentee ballots okay, limits on drop
- 4:47Speaker 1: boxes okay, and provisions allowing challenges to voter eligibility. And
- 4:54Speaker 1: over this they called it. The Biden administration called it racist,
- 5:00Speaker 1: and they actually said these were Jim Crow laws for daring,
- 5:04Speaker 1: daring to tighten up their voter election laws, to clean
- 5:08Speaker 1: up their voter rules, to make it harder to cheat
- 5:11Speaker 1: elections in the most milk toast possible way. This wasn't
- 5:15Speaker 1: even very strong of a bill for this. To punish them,
- 5:20Speaker 1: they took their All Star Game away. This is how
- 5:23Speaker 1: insane it was. If you want a good takeaway from
- 5:26Speaker 1: all this, the first story is Atlanta got it back
- 5:28Speaker 1: and they kicked ass last night. Good for them. Good
- 5:30Speaker 1: for you Atlanta officials, Good for you. But the second
- 5:33Speaker 1: day takeaway is when things get insane like that, there's
- 5:37Speaker 1: always a chance for things to get better like this.
- 5:41Speaker 1: If you ever think we're going through tough times, think
- 5:43Speaker 1: about what we just survived. We actually lived in a
- 5:46Speaker 1: country where a major American city lost a huge revenue
- 5:52Speaker 1: producing event and a huge motivational event for the entire
- 5:57Speaker 1: city and their vendors and their people and their players
- 6:00Speaker 1: and their citizens because they dared to strengthen their elections.
- 6:04Speaker 1: This is what we survived, guys. But America's healing. Things
- 6:09Speaker 1: are getting better. Yesterday before the game, Georgia Gomta Brian
- 6:13Speaker 1: Camp who signed that very law, he was there during
- 6:15Speaker 1: this whole thing, and he spoke about it. I think
- 6:17Speaker 1: he was on Fox and Friends and he was talking
- 6:18Speaker 1: about it.
- 6:19Speaker 2: And we stood our ground, and we stood for our
- 6:21Speaker 2: values in the state of having secure, accessible and fair
- 6:24Speaker 2: lakes elections in Georgia and making it easy to vote
- 6:27Speaker 2: and hard to seek. And they were just wrong on
- 6:30Speaker 2: this issue, and Major League Baseball was wrong to pull
- 6:32Speaker 2: the game. But thankfully they've righted that decision and we
- 6:36Speaker 2: had the game coming up, and it's going to be
- 6:37Speaker 2: a great week.
- 6:38Speaker 1: And it was great. They did a great job. It
- 6:40Speaker 1: was a great event. Everybody had a good time. I
- 6:42Speaker 1: don't know about ratings. That's more on it. Major League
- 6:44Speaker 1: Baseball's part to see if people are interested anymore in baseball.
- 6:47Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'm interested in this story. It's
- 6:50Speaker 1: like Atlanta's revenge. That's what I'm calling it, you know,
- 6:52Speaker 1: And people don't like the word revenge, but something like this, Yeah,
- 6:55Speaker 1: they deserve revenge because a wrong was righted and they
- 6:59Speaker 1: got their game. They did it, great job with it.
- 7:01Speaker 1: They had a nice Hank Aaron tribute because you know,
- 7:04Speaker 1: he broke Babe roots record in Atlanta as a brave
- 7:07Speaker 1: They had miked up players. That was entertaining. So baseball good,
- 7:10Speaker 1: good for baseball, good for Atlanta, and good for common sense.
- 7:14Speaker 1: Even when you lived through an insane time like we did,
- 7:17Speaker 1: little examples like that will remind you what we survived
- 7:21Speaker 1: over the past four years, the absolute insanity we survived.
- 7:25Speaker 1: Things are getting better. It doesn't always seem that way,
- 7:28Speaker 1: but they are. Good for them, good for Atlanta. I
- 7:30Speaker 1: feel good for them. Excellent. Even if you're not into sports.
- 7:33Speaker 1: Not even a sports story, It's an American story. Things
- 7:36Speaker 1: are healing. Well, this is another win. Not for NPR,
- 7:43Speaker 1: not for PBS, not for USAID. But nine billion dollars
- 7:47Speaker 1: in DOGE cuts passed yesterday? Is it everything everybody wanted?
- 7:52Speaker 1: Was it all of the fraud that the DOGE found?
- 7:56Speaker 1: Is it exactly what Elon wanted? No, nine billion dollars.
- 8:01Speaker 1: There is nothing to laugh at this waste and fraud
- 8:04Speaker 1: and money laundering like in the case of USI AID.
- 8:09Speaker 1: It was passed yesterday. Now it goes to Trump to sign.
- 8:11Speaker 1: And who was the tie breaking vote? Jd Vance? The
- 8:15Speaker 1: Vice President had to go down to the Senate chamber
- 8:17Speaker 1: because three Republicans voted against wasting, fraud and cutting it.
- 8:21Speaker 1: Hmm interesting, But here it was.
- 8:23Speaker 2: If not on this vote the Ya's are fifty and
- 8:26Speaker 2: the nayser fifty, the Senate being equally divided, the Vice
- 8:29Speaker 2: President votes in the affirmative and the motion is agreed to.
- 8:33Speaker 1: And there you go. Big win for President Trump, and
- 8:35Speaker 1: god knows he hasn't had many wins in the past
- 8:37Speaker 1: week and a half or so. Now, why was JD Vance?
- 8:40Speaker 1: Why did the Vice president have to have a tie
- 8:42Speaker 1: breaking vote? Again on the DOGE cuts. Why did that happen?
- 8:47Speaker 1: I thought that I thought there was a Republican majority
- 8:49Speaker 1: in the Senate and in the House. Well, the reason
- 8:52Speaker 1: why is because three Republicans, and let's go to the
- 8:54Speaker 1: official record so that we don't slander anybody. Three know's
- 9:00Speaker 1: no votes on cutting government waste. McConnell. That would be
- 9:05Speaker 1: the Turtle Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski. There's
- 9:12Speaker 1: only one, really, I'm sorry, there's just only one reason
- 9:15Speaker 1: at this point in the process, throughout all of it,
- 9:16Speaker 1: throughout all they've already had the debate. It's been front
- 9:20Speaker 1: page news, if not second page news, for months. Now.
- 9:24Speaker 1: We know what's in it. The general public has looked
- 9:26Speaker 1: into USAID and PBS and NPR, and yet still they
- 9:32Speaker 1: voted no. These three voted no. There's only one reason.
- 9:36Speaker 1: Your family's been infitting from it. I'm sorry for the
- 9:38Speaker 1: money wandery. There's no other way to say it. I mean,
- 9:40Speaker 1: it's clear as day. And these three, I guess they
- 9:43Speaker 1: probably understand they're going to get primaries and they will
- 9:45Speaker 1: be out of there soon. Mitch McConnell's on death's doorstep
- 9:48Speaker 1: for God's sakes, so they don't care. They don't care.
- 9:51Speaker 1: That's why Jad Evans had to come down and issued
- 9:53Speaker 1: the tie breaking vote for the cuts. Now, NPR, you
- 9:59Speaker 1: know how I feel. A This is one of my
- 10:01Speaker 1: honest to God. People don't believe me when I say this.
- 10:04Speaker 1: My own personal most important issues going into this past
- 10:08Speaker 1: election in November twenty four were border security, election integrity,
- 10:13Speaker 1: and I swear to God my top one of my
- 10:16Speaker 1: top three is defunding NPR and PBS. As a broadcaster.
- 10:23Speaker 1: Coming from that world, I know them, I know what
- 10:26Speaker 1: they do. They've never had to compete for ratings because
- 10:29Speaker 1: they were always funded by taxpayer money. I've known some
- 10:32Speaker 1: of the news directors. I've known some of the people
- 10:34Speaker 1: behind that organization. I know how they do it. I
- 10:36Speaker 1: know the propaganda you can't have. If you want to
- 10:41Speaker 1: have propaganda put forth on any network, go ahead and
- 10:46Speaker 1: do it. Hell, that's what MSNBC does, but it's a
- 10:49Speaker 1: private organization. Don't take taxpayer money to do it. I
- 10:53Speaker 1: don't care who you are. Now, if NPR happened to
- 10:55Speaker 1: be in some alternate universe, completely right wing or conservative,
- 11:00Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, and taking tax payer
- 11:02Speaker 1: money I'd also be against that. I would hate that
- 11:04Speaker 1: as well, and I would fight to stop that as well.
- 11:06Speaker 1: That would also be in one of my top three issues.
- 11:09Speaker 1: But don't take taxpayer money and become a propaganda organization,
- 11:14Speaker 1: which is exactly what PBS and NPR are. So I
- 11:18Speaker 1: am happy as hell that they're getting chopped off at
- 11:21Speaker 1: the knees and all the oh and all the they
- 11:23Speaker 1: came out with all their videos. It's like Midwestern kids
- 11:26Speaker 1: who can't afford cable aren't going to be able to
- 11:28Speaker 1: get their news. What news you really think they're watching
- 11:31Speaker 1: NPR or listening to it, No, they're not. You can't
- 11:35Speaker 1: take if you want to be an unbiased organization and
- 11:37Speaker 1: just get the facts out there. Great, you have some
- 11:40Speaker 1: great programming. Don't take my money to do it. Absolutely not.
- 11:43Speaker 1: So I am cheering this. I am cheering these doge cuts.
- 11:46Speaker 1: And again, there's a way to look at this. It's
- 11:49Speaker 1: like like Elon said, we found hundreds of billions of
- 11:52Speaker 1: dollars in fraud. Where's all those cuts? No, I didn't
- 11:56Speaker 1: get everything we wanted, No, but nine billion nothing to
- 12:00Speaker 1: sneeze at. And this giant money lendering organization called USAID
- 12:06Speaker 1: just got stopped in its tracks. This is a great
- 12:08Speaker 1: reason to celebrate, all right, we talked about the All
- 12:10Speaker 1: Star game. How about a different game. You're ready for this.
- 12:13Speaker 1: What's one of your favorite family games? Right? You think
- 12:17Speaker 1: of the classics Monopoly Life? Sorry? God, this, I don't
- 12:22Speaker 1: know if there's a board game that has caused more
- 12:23Speaker 1: family fights than sorry except one. Except one game. And
- 12:27Speaker 1: now it's coming to Las Vegas casinos. It is I
- 12:37Speaker 1: remember that commercial that's Uno. Everybody, that's right, Uno and
- 12:41Speaker 1: all its different variations and forms. Uno is coming to Vegas.
- 12:45Speaker 1: Kind of like a test market right now, but usually
- 12:47Speaker 1: when they do this kind of thing with as much marketing,
- 12:49Speaker 1: it's probably gonna stay. Uno is coming to the Palms
- 12:53Speaker 1: Casino in Vegas. Now. The Palms is very swanky casino.
- 12:57Speaker 1: No word on whether you can gamble with that yet,
- 13:00Speaker 1: but you know it's coming. It is Vegas after all. Uh?
- 13:04Speaker 1: This to me, you know, it's so funny because the
- 13:06Speaker 1: reaction to this so far, and this story is a
- 13:08Speaker 1: couple of days old already. I wanted to wait for
- 13:10Speaker 1: a second to see what the reaction to this was
- 13:12Speaker 1: going to be, because you always have, like people go
- 13:15Speaker 1: to Vegas consistently and the old school kind of guys,
- 13:17Speaker 1: or at least have that old school kind of attitude.
- 13:19Speaker 1: It's like, no, I just go to a poker room.
- 13:21Speaker 1: I'm big, big dollar money, and I don't. This is stupid,
- 13:24Speaker 1: This is okay. That's one thing. But what it also
- 13:27Speaker 1: tells you is that Vegas, at least the palms in Vegas,
- 13:31Speaker 1: is responding to the general public. They just are, so
- 13:35Speaker 1: I would get used to this kind of stuff and more.
- 13:37Speaker 1: I know that they're telling us this is only a
- 13:38Speaker 1: test market right now, and I get that, but I
- 13:42Speaker 1: could see this staying permanently. I really could. I don't
- 13:44Speaker 1: know exactly how you would. I guess you would gamble
- 13:46Speaker 1: on each round of Uno. I'm not too sure, and God,
- 13:49Speaker 1: I hope it's not. Did you ever play Uno Attack?
- 13:51Speaker 1: You know, when you have to draw another card, but
- 13:53Speaker 1: you press the button on the machine and flies all
- 13:55Speaker 1: the cards out at you, infuriating. I don't know, if anything,
- 13:59Speaker 1: I don't know if any family board game has or
- 14:02Speaker 1: card game has started more fights than Uno, except maybe Sorry,
- 14:05Speaker 1: because Sari has, like, you know, trash talk in the
- 14:07Speaker 1: name of the game. But there's the potential, there's the
- 14:11Speaker 1: potential for more drunken Vegas fights with this one. If
- 14:14Speaker 1: you have to draw like fifty guards, I don't know,
- 14:15Speaker 1: and I don't know. I don't know how the gambling
- 14:18Speaker 1: thing would go with this, and maybe it's electronic, I
- 14:20Speaker 1: don't know. But it's a glimpse into the future. And
- 14:22Speaker 1: here's the good news. You can get ahead of this
- 14:25Speaker 1: to understand where these things are going so in the
- 14:28Speaker 1: future of Vegas, and this is your chance to get
- 14:30Speaker 1: ready for it.
- 14:31Speaker 2: Now.
- 14:31Speaker 1: If you love to go out there and you love
- 14:33Speaker 1: to gamble, probably more things that appeal to this younger
- 14:38Speaker 1: generation of kids are coming to casinos. And let's face it,
- 14:43Speaker 1: if you're against the fight against mass gambling in America,
- 14:47Speaker 1: I think you lost that battle. It is here. It
- 14:49Speaker 1: just is. Look at any sporting event we were talking
- 14:51Speaker 1: about the All Star Game just a couple of minutes ago.
- 14:54Speaker 1: Every other commercial besides prescription drug commercials, were online gambling sites,
- 14:59Speaker 1: the fan dual stuff, hard rock stuff, all of it.
- 15:03Speaker 1: Every It's everywhere, and it's not going away. Gambling culture
- 15:08Speaker 1: is here. And point in fact, the Palms Casino is
- 15:12Speaker 1: saying that they're also going to offer this on this
- 15:15Speaker 1: gambling version of Uno throughout other casinos, smaller ones throughout
- 15:20Speaker 1: the country. You're gonna be able to bet on everything soon,
- 15:23Speaker 1: which comes with some inherent danger, but it tells you
- 15:27Speaker 1: one thing too. They're also smart, and they're reaching out
- 15:29Speaker 1: to people to broaden their horizons and their audience. I mean,
- 15:32Speaker 1: kids are into video games these these days more than ever.
- 15:36Speaker 1: Probably going to be able to gamble on all those soon.
- 15:39Speaker 1: I mean big tournaments on World of Warcraft. I guess,
- 15:45Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how that's gonna go,
- 15:47Speaker 1: But the future is looking different, starting with this one
- 15:50Speaker 1: with Uno. Imagine that, boy, what would like? What would like?
- 15:54Speaker 1: The rat packs say if they walked into the Palms
- 15:56Speaker 1: casino and they sub people gambling on a family card game.
- 16:00Speaker 1: But it is what it is. Society evolves and your
- 16:03Speaker 1: chance to take advantage of it. I guess the big
- 16:05Speaker 1: takeaway today good for Atlanta. Things are healing. That's a great,
- 16:09Speaker 1: great example of how even though everything everybody seems to
- 16:12Speaker 1: be fighting these days, everybody's upset er I'm sure about
- 16:15Speaker 1: the economy. You want a great takeaway and how normal
- 16:19Speaker 1: things are coming back. Common sense is coming back. Just
- 16:22Speaker 1: look at what happened in Atlanta last night. That All
- 16:24Speaker 1: Star game huge because of what happened in twenty twenty
- 16:28Speaker 1: one where they lost that money making event, that civic
- 16:32Speaker 1: event for civic pride, whatever you want to call it,
- 16:36Speaker 1: they lost it because they tried to tighten their election laws.
- 16:39Speaker 1: I wrong has been righted. They had their event. It
- 16:42Speaker 1: was great, good for them. It's a country's healing and
- 16:45Speaker 1: that's a great thing. That's a great takeaway. And the
- 16:48Speaker 1: other one, keep behind these dose cuts. I know you
- 16:51Speaker 1: may not be happy with nine billion dollars in waste
- 16:54Speaker 1: and fraud being cut, but it's a start and doesn't
- 16:58Speaker 1: mean it's gonna stop from there. So I'm gonna be
- 17:00Speaker 1: positive and optimistic on that one. Thanks for finding me
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