Latest / Wicked Radio with Bill Adams / Wicked Radio 11-20: Never Double Down On Dumb (like Rep. Crockett), & Record T-Giving Travel!
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- 0:03Speaker 1: Do you ever find yourself falling into the trap? I
- 0:05Speaker 1: know I've definitely done it in the past. I have
- 0:07Speaker 1: to catch myself every once in a while of thinking, oh,
- 0:09Speaker 1: you know that the power players in the country, the elites,
- 0:13Speaker 1: as the media calls them, they're just they run everything.
- 0:16Speaker 1: They must know something more than what we know. Don't
- 0:18Speaker 1: ever fall into that trap of thinking that our elected
- 0:21Speaker 1: members of Congress are even that smart. Now have there
- 0:24Speaker 1: been brilliant people? Are there brilliant people now in the
- 0:28Speaker 1: halls of Congress on Capitol h Of course there are.
- 0:30Speaker 1: But for the majority of them, they're not that smart.
- 0:34Speaker 1: They're just not Don't ever call them elites, They're not.
- 0:38Speaker 1: Perfect example of this is Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett. You
- 0:44Speaker 1: probably saw this story already. We'll take a little deeper
- 0:46Speaker 1: into this whole thing. Never double down on dumb, which
- 0:51Speaker 1: is exactly what she did. But the guy who she
- 0:53Speaker 1: was talking about, Lee Zelden, he's the EPA administrator. He
- 0:56Speaker 1: handled this perfectly. And I know this kind of is
- 1:01Speaker 1: like an outlier story revolving around the Epstein thing. I
- 1:04Speaker 1: probviously I'm not going to get into Epstein. This is
- 1:06Speaker 1: more about their reaction to it and how this is
- 1:08Speaker 1: backfiring because it's amazing to witness it really is. But
- 1:11Speaker 1: it's actually believe it or not, it's actually great news.
- 1:13Speaker 1: There's more great news. Here's another lie we were told.
- 1:16Speaker 1: Were we really led to believe that? Trump and Elon?
- 1:20Speaker 1: Remember a couple of months back? Oh they're fighting, Oh
- 1:22Speaker 1: they're Yeah, there was a little spat. Did we really
- 1:25Speaker 1: think they weren't going to get together and work on deals? Ever? Again? Please?
- 1:29Speaker 1: The boys are back in town and speaking of town,
- 1:32Speaker 1: leaving town? Weren't we told? I remember specifically a few
- 1:36Speaker 1: months ago, we were told that the economy was going
- 1:38Speaker 1: to be so bad that no one was going to
- 1:41Speaker 1: be able to afford to fly or especially drive for Thanksgiving. Yeah,
- 1:46Speaker 1: that turned out to be a bunch of crap. Get
- 1:48Speaker 1: ready for record already travel. That shows you something else.
- 1:51Speaker 1: People believe in the economy. The futures are very confident.
- 1:55Speaker 1: So that's good news too. We'll get to it here
- 1:57Speaker 1: in a second. Right now, I want to thank you
- 1:59Speaker 1: for joining me as always, all the platforms replay later
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- 2:16Speaker 1: when you know we're going live. All right, let's get
- 2:18Speaker 1: to the good news here. Classic, classic story of the
- 2:22Speaker 1: media taking hold of something and telling you, oh, this
- 2:25Speaker 1: is and hyping it up and creating fear and distrust.
- 2:29Speaker 1: Remember all the hyped up thing. And were there a
- 2:30Speaker 1: couple of spats about policy and Doge between Eli and
- 2:34Speaker 1: Trump a couple of months ago about Elon excuse not Eli,
- 2:38Speaker 1: Elon and Trump a couple of months ago. Of course
- 2:39Speaker 1: there were of course they disagreed on things. Elon and
- 2:42Speaker 1: his doge dorky geniuses found all kinds of corruption, and
- 2:47Speaker 1: he wanted to keep on going, get it done. We
- 2:49Speaker 1: found it at the federal level, it's in Congress. Let's
- 2:51Speaker 1: push a little further. And I think Trump pushed back
- 2:53Speaker 1: on that. Elon was pissed off. I'm sure Trump was too. Listen,
- 2:58Speaker 1: two massive egos. You could make an argument for the
- 3:01Speaker 1: two biggest egos in the world right now. Does it
- 3:05Speaker 1: mean they were going to never work together again? That
- 3:08Speaker 1: was never true. In fact, the boys are back in town.
- 3:12Speaker 1: This is Trump just yesterday talking about Elon and reference
- 3:16Speaker 1: him specific.
- 3:17Speaker 2: If you think about it, if Kamala, who's the same
- 3:21Speaker 2: basic thing, grossly incompetent he was in. They're all incompetent
- 3:25Speaker 2: because their policies are in open borders, men playing in
- 3:29Speaker 2: women's sports, transgender for everybody. I mean, they got the
- 3:34Speaker 2: worst policy. I don't talk about it too much because
- 3:36Speaker 2: if I talk about it, they might change. So no,
- 3:40Speaker 2: I don't talk about it. I tell people, don't talk
- 3:42Speaker 2: about it. Wait till two weeks before the election, and
- 3:45Speaker 2: hit the hell out of them.
- 3:47Speaker 1: Right.
- 3:48Speaker 2: We talked about that, right, Elon said, we wait two
- 3:51Speaker 2: weeks before.
- 3:52Speaker 1: This is before the election. All through there, and they
- 3:55Speaker 1: were in together and Elon was telling him, listen on
- 3:57Speaker 1: social media, this is how you do it. Get the
- 3:59Speaker 1: most bang for your buck, and wait two weeks before
- 4:02Speaker 1: the election. Then you come out with this stuff. And
- 4:04Speaker 1: then the Doze thing happened. I honestly, I honest to
- 4:07Speaker 1: God think they work together in cahoots to tell the
- 4:10Speaker 1: media that they to take the heat off a little
- 4:12Speaker 1: bit so Doge could do its work, you know, without
- 4:14Speaker 1: the spotlight on it so much. I honestly think there
- 4:18Speaker 1: was a little bit disagreement there on how to go
- 4:19Speaker 1: about policy. I think they concocted this fight together to
- 4:23Speaker 1: take the media off their backs and to throw them
- 4:25Speaker 1: down a rabbit hole. That wasn't true, I swear to God.
- 4:28Speaker 1: Yesterday after the meeting, and by the way, the meeting
- 4:30Speaker 1: was the You Saudy Investment Forum in Washington, d C.
- 4:37Speaker 1: After that, Elon posts on his x account, which is
- 4:40Speaker 1: the biggest in the world. I'd like to thank President
- 4:42Speaker 1: Trump for all he has done for America and the world. Yeah,
- 4:45Speaker 1: the boys are back, but the takeaway is for you
- 4:48Speaker 1: and me and normal people. I don't think they were
- 4:50Speaker 1: ever gone. I really don't. At some point with all
- 4:54Speaker 1: the work. And remember now, remember earlier on in the
- 4:57Speaker 1: year when Doge was just on fire, the way they
- 5:00Speaker 1: haven't stopped uncovering corruption number all of the media attention
- 5:04Speaker 1: on it. I mean it was like it was eight, nine,
- 5:07Speaker 1: ten weeks in a row, whereas just NonStop coverage of
- 5:12Speaker 1: Doze and what they were doing through the mainstream media
- 5:14Speaker 1: because they were covering uncovering their corruption. I I think
- 5:20Speaker 1: Elon has to get back to with his other companies
- 5:23Speaker 1: first of all, and I think they had to take
- 5:24Speaker 1: the heat off. I think this whole spat we were
- 5:27Speaker 1: told about for weeks on end was all concocted by
- 5:29Speaker 1: the media. There was never a There were a couple
- 5:32Speaker 1: of disagreements here and there, for sure, there was never
- 5:34Speaker 1: any breakup that was ridiculous. So don't buy it, and
- 5:38Speaker 1: don't buy this boy, you know, and I promised you
- 5:40Speaker 1: before I'm I'm not gonna make this about. Nothing's gonna
- 5:43Speaker 1: happen from this Epstein story. We're all tired of hearing
- 5:47Speaker 1: about it. The whole thing is disgusting. I expressed my
- 5:49Speaker 1: outrage on Monday that the victims are being forgotten in
- 5:52Speaker 1: the politics of this whole thing. But there is good
- 5:55Speaker 1: news coming out of this, believe it or not. The
- 5:58Speaker 1: first thing is I think it's gonna start to go
- 6:00Speaker 1: away because it's only backfiring on the people that were
- 6:04Speaker 1: clamoring to get this thing exposed. Why do I say that,
- 6:08Speaker 1: let's just review, Okay, and this is all I'm gonna
- 6:11Speaker 1: spend in the story, and then we'll get to the
- 6:13Speaker 1: fun part, which is Representative Jasmine Crockett doubling down on
- 6:17Speaker 1: being dumb about this. Look at who's been exposed just
- 6:20Speaker 1: in the past couple of days. And if you're tired
- 6:22Speaker 1: of hearing about Epstein, I get it. So maybe you
- 6:24Speaker 1: weren't aware of this stuff happening. Hakeem Jeffries, minority leader
- 6:28Speaker 1: in the Senate, exposed throughout all of this as they're
- 6:33Speaker 1: clamoring to release the Epstein files. What's Trump hiding exposed
- 6:38Speaker 1: for him taking campaign donations from Epstein himself after he
- 6:43Speaker 1: was already accused of being a pedo. Okay, that was
- 6:46Speaker 1: the first one. How about Stacy Plaskett. This was the
- 6:49Speaker 1: chick the other day who that was exposed for taking
- 6:53Speaker 1: advice from Epstein while he was still alive on how
- 6:56Speaker 1: to handle the questioning of Michael Cohen in what was
- 6:59Speaker 1: it twenty in that house hearing? That was another one. Oh,
- 7:04Speaker 1: how about this guy? Here's another one that got exposed
- 7:07Speaker 1: Larry Summers, former Clinton adviser and until yesterday Harvard professor
- 7:13Speaker 1: economic professor, who has had to resign from the board
- 7:17Speaker 1: of Open AI and Harvard his job there because he's
- 7:22Speaker 1: literally named in these so called Epstein files. So that's
- 7:26Speaker 1: another one. We're on to three, but maybe the best
- 7:28Speaker 1: one of all, Jasmine Crockett. How about this one. Now,
- 7:32Speaker 1: we've talked about her before because she is boy, she
- 7:36Speaker 1: is just something representative from Texas, and you're thinking, oh,
- 7:39Speaker 1: I didn't vote for what the hell do I care? No,
- 7:41Speaker 1: I understand that. But once they're in Congress, they do
- 7:44Speaker 1: represent you. They represent us as a nation. So she
- 7:47Speaker 1: gets up there, and it was an attempt to defend
- 7:52Speaker 1: this Stacy plasket chick who was caught red handed exposed
- 7:55Speaker 1: by The Washington Post in getting texting advice in real
- 7:59Speaker 1: time from Jeffrey Epstein himself. Crockett, in an attempt to
- 8:04Speaker 1: defend her, actually brings up Republicans who had taken campaign
- 8:12Speaker 1: donations from people named Jeffrey Epstein. Here's the problem, not
- 8:16Speaker 1: that Jeffrey Epstein. Here's how it all started and how
- 8:21Speaker 1: it all went down in flames for But this wasn't enough. No, no, no.
- 8:24Speaker 1: If she had just left it there, maybe this one
- 8:26Speaker 1: had gone away. But then she did media interviews after
- 8:28Speaker 1: the fact to double down on being.
- 8:30Speaker 3: Stupid folks who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein.
- 8:35Speaker 3: As I had my team dig in very quickly, met Romney,
- 8:39Speaker 3: the NRCC, Lee Zelden, George bush Win read McCain, Palin
- 8:48Speaker 3: Rick Lazio. I just want to be clear. If this
- 8:52Speaker 3: is the standard that we gonna make, just know we're
- 8:54Speaker 3: gonna expose it all. And just know that the FEC filings,
- 8:57Speaker 3: they are available for everybody to review.
- 9:00Speaker 1: This is absolutely ridiculous. Oh they're available. Oh they're publicly available, right,
- 9:06Speaker 1: which means she could also look at them and realize
- 9:08Speaker 1: that the people she's talking about weren't that Jeffrey Epstein.
- 9:14Speaker 1: But because they were named Jeffrey Epstein, she gets up
- 9:17Speaker 1: there and tries to connect it to them. Now, that's
- 9:20Speaker 1: bad enough, and that's really stupid. So here's now the
- 9:22Speaker 1: guy that you mentioned there, Lee Zelden. He's the ep administration.
- 9:26Speaker 1: He had run for governor of New York, but then
- 9:28Speaker 1: he got the cabinet position. He's headed of the EPA. Apparently.
- 9:32Speaker 1: Here's his response, and this was handled perfectly. If you're
- 9:34Speaker 1: ever accused of something so incredibly stupid, it's a good
- 9:37Speaker 1: lesson for all of us in a public forum and
- 9:39Speaker 1: how to respond to it. Here's what Leezelden says last night.
- 9:43Speaker 1: When you find yourself in a hole, it's best to
- 9:45Speaker 1: stop digging. The public FEC Requirement Report Crockett, referenced on
- 9:50Speaker 1: the House floor very clearly states that Jeffrey Epstein, who
- 9:53Speaker 1: donated to Mike past campaign, was a physician, and the
- 9:57Speaker 1: donation date was well after the and he did this
- 10:00Speaker 1: in exclamation points other Jeffrey Epstein was all ready dead.
- 10:07Speaker 1: Great way to handle that, But no, that wasn't enough.
- 10:11Speaker 1: This is why you should never double down on stupid
- 10:13Speaker 1: and never assume that these elected people of Congress, just
- 10:16Speaker 1: because they're elected members of Congress, are any smarter than
- 10:20Speaker 1: you and me. In fact, I would venture to guess
- 10:22Speaker 1: that a lot of them are a lot dumber than us.
- 10:24Speaker 1: She goes on CNN last night to try to defend
- 10:27Speaker 1: herself and made it, Oh, I don't know about a
- 10:30Speaker 1: thousand times worse. Here she goes and.
- 10:33Speaker 4: Dale Zelden there he's now a cabinet secretary. He responded
- 10:36Speaker 4: and said it was actually doctor Jeffrey Epstein, who's a
- 10:38Speaker 4: doctor that doesn't have any relation to the convicted sex trafficker.
- 10:41Speaker 4: Unfortunate for that doctor, but that is who do it
- 10:44Speaker 4: into a prior campaign of his. Do you want to
- 10:46Speaker 4: correct the record on the people?
- 10:48Speaker 3: And I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein,
- 10:50Speaker 3: just so that people understand when you make a donation,
- 10:52Speaker 3: your picture is not there. And because they decided to
- 10:55Speaker 3: spring this on us in real time, I wanted the
- 10:58Speaker 3: Republicans to think about way can puts in happened? Because
- 11:00Speaker 3: I knew that they didn't even try to go through
- 11:02Speaker 3: the FEC.
- 11:03Speaker 4: So my team.
- 11:04Speaker 3: What they did is they googled. And that is specifically
- 11:06Speaker 3: why I said a Jeffrey Epstein. Unlike Republicans, I at
- 11:10Speaker 3: least don't go out and just tell lies holy crap.
- 11:14Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, I knew that. I was just I
- 11:17Speaker 1: was just trying to point out that there were a
- 11:18Speaker 1: bunch of people you could accuse of being Jeffrey Epstein.
- 11:20Speaker 1: They have it caught in real time. The whole topic
- 11:23Speaker 1: of the conversation was the actual Jeffrey Epstein was texting
- 11:28Speaker 1: this Stacey Plaski, but she tried to tie a bunch
- 11:32Speaker 1: of randos named Jeffrey Epstein to these people. She mentioned,
- 11:35Speaker 1: like Lee Zeldon, you just can't. You can't fix stupid,
- 11:40Speaker 1: but don't ever double down on stupid. And again the
- 11:42Speaker 1: takeaway for us, don't assume these folks are smart in Congress,
- 11:46Speaker 1: because you really can't. Just absolutely amazing but that's the
- 11:49Speaker 1: good But that's the good news. So again, I'm sorry
- 11:51Speaker 1: that it was even a topic to bring up, but
- 11:53Speaker 1: they won't let it go. But they might be letting
- 11:55Speaker 1: it go, and that's the good news. How badly is
- 11:57Speaker 1: this entire thing backfiring on them? I mean, honestly, all politicians,
- 12:02Speaker 1: this may actually go away once and for all because
- 12:04Speaker 1: they it talk about stupid? What did they push for?
- 12:09Speaker 1: Jeffrey's plasket, Larry Summers, her Crockett all looking bad in this.
- 12:14Speaker 1: You know who's not? Yeah, you guessed it. The guy
- 12:18Speaker 1: they tried to get with this another get Trump attempt
- 12:20Speaker 1: that failed horribly. I don't know if this is the case.
- 12:23Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of theories on this. I don't
- 12:26Speaker 1: think this was the case. I really don't, because he
- 12:27Speaker 1: was just pissed off he even had to talk about
- 12:29Speaker 1: him in the first place. Trump hates talking about this.
- 12:32Speaker 1: But there is a theory out there. One of my
- 12:34Speaker 1: favorite new conspiracy theories is that this is how he
- 12:37Speaker 1: played it all along. I don't happen to think that's
- 12:39Speaker 1: the case. But if he did, if we ever find
- 12:41Speaker 1: out that he played possum and this entire thing just
- 12:45Speaker 1: to get them to make a bunch of noise about
- 12:46Speaker 1: it and they got exposed themselves. That would be brilliant.
- 12:50Speaker 1: I would love so much for that to happen. But
- 12:52Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't really believe that theory, but it, boy,
- 12:55Speaker 1: that would be something. All right, let's get to some
- 12:57Speaker 1: holiday stuff, because now we are officially a week away
- 13:00Speaker 1: from the Great American Holiday. All right, listen, here's another
- 13:03Speaker 1: takeaway on this. Do you really think months out of
- 13:08Speaker 1: a holiday, when the media tries to fear monger and
- 13:11Speaker 1: tell you all that they do, really think they're basing
- 13:13Speaker 1: that on anything other than the fact that they're trying
- 13:15Speaker 1: to keep you scared in scary panikin headlines. No, i'd
- 13:21Speaker 1: put it at I was trying to remember back I
- 13:22Speaker 1: think three months ago, maybe four months ago. I remember
- 13:25Speaker 1: specifically all the stories once again, all came out of
- 13:28Speaker 1: the same time with the same wording, which tells you
- 13:30Speaker 1: it's propaganda telling you that this upcoming Thanksgiving, this coming
- 13:34Speaker 1: fall in twenty twenty five, You're most Americans aren't gonna
- 13:38Speaker 1: be able to go anywhere this year.
- 13:41Speaker 4: No.
- 13:42Speaker 1: Why this was about the time when the headlines came
- 13:44Speaker 1: out they were all attacking the tariffs, right, You're not
- 13:47Speaker 1: gonna be able to afford turkey. You're not gonna be
- 13:49Speaker 1: able to fail to fly. Gas is gonna be so
- 13:52Speaker 1: high through the roof that no one's gonna be able
- 13:54Speaker 1: to travel. Well, report on gas just came out last
- 13:57Speaker 1: week that said some of the lower of the season
- 14:00Speaker 1: so far. There's the first thing. Here's the second thing.
- 14:04Speaker 1: This should tell you less and less of us are
- 14:06Speaker 1: actually believing these panikin stories from the media. Why is that, Well,
- 14:10Speaker 1: it comes out. This is always a story year after
- 14:12Speaker 1: year after year. I've watched this happen for years about
- 14:15Speaker 1: the Triple A expected travel volume for Thanksgiving. It always
- 14:22Speaker 1: releases exactly one week before Thanksgiving because this is when
- 14:26Speaker 1: most people are putting the finishing touches on their travel plans.
- 14:30Speaker 1: Are you ready remember the headlines Prices are going to
- 14:33Speaker 1: be so high, no one's gonna drive. No one's gonna
- 14:36Speaker 1: drive or fly this Thanksgiving. Okay, Well, let's get to reality.
- 14:42Speaker 1: Here's the story. Triple A expects a record number of
- 14:44Speaker 1: Americans to travel for Thanksgiving. You don't say, predicting the
- 14:48Speaker 1: worst traffic days to be next Tuesday and Wednesday. Of course,
- 14:51Speaker 1: it's always the thing, and then the Sunday and Monday
- 14:53Speaker 1: following Thanksgiving that always happens. They're expecting just under eighty
- 14:57Speaker 1: two million people that head out this year, up from
- 14:59Speaker 1: eighty milli million last year. Hold on a second, but
- 15:03Speaker 1: I was told that no one would be able to
- 15:05Speaker 1: afford to travel. Yeah, that turned out to be a
- 15:08Speaker 1: bunch of crap. And it also turns out that a
- 15:10Speaker 1: lot of us believe the media hype, panicing, fear monger
- 15:15Speaker 1: stories less and less these days, and that's the best
- 15:18Speaker 1: news of all. Seventy three point three million will drive,
- 15:20Speaker 1: six million will fly, two and a half million, according
- 15:23Speaker 1: to tripa A will take buses, trains, and other modes
- 15:27Speaker 1: of transportation, planes, trains, and automobiles. I don't know. Listen
- 15:31Speaker 1: to takeaway there is whenever they come out with these
- 15:33Speaker 1: PanicIn stories about how bad things are going to be
- 15:35Speaker 1: for an upcoming holiday and how horrible it is based
- 15:38Speaker 1: on absolutely nothing but trying to keep you in your house,
- 15:41Speaker 1: don't ever believe them. The other takeaway is don't fall
- 15:45Speaker 1: into the trap of thinking these elected officials are any
- 15:47Speaker 1: kind of elites. Are there some brilliant people in there, oh,
- 15:50Speaker 1: absolutely some, but they're few and far between, because there
- 15:52Speaker 1: are some really stupid people. Best evidence of all is
- 15:56Speaker 1: what's happened the last few months. They tried to expose
- 15:59Speaker 1: this entire Epstein's story and it's backfiring on them, and
- 16:02Speaker 1: they're doubling down on stupid like Crockett, So don't beat
- 16:06Speaker 1: them all right, A week out of Thanksgiving, more stuff
- 16:09Speaker 1: on that is coming out tomorrow. We get the weekend
- 16:11Speaker 1: before thanks even to talk about tomorrow in the headlines,
- 16:13Speaker 1: we'll talk about that otherwise, I'm out of material. You
- 16:15Speaker 1: need to get into your Thursday. Make it a wicked
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