Latest / Wicked Radio with Bill Adams / Wicked Radio 3-25: Delta Downgrades Congress, ICE At Polling Places, & Colbert Lord Of The Rings?
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- 0:04Speaker 1: Not to beat a dead horse, but sometimes you gotta
- 0:06Speaker 1: check in, back in on a story to make sure
- 0:08Speaker 1: it's a real trend, something's really happening. And it wasn't
- 0:11Speaker 1: just a fluke. You know, the whole Ice at airports thing,
- 0:13Speaker 1: and all the Democrats said they gotta shoot people. It's
- 0:15Speaker 1: gotta be up. Oh, and then we started to see,
- 0:18Speaker 1: wait a minute, this is starting to the airport line
- 0:21Speaker 1: down in security. And then something really happened, and this
- 0:24Speaker 1: is the part I wanted to get to. Then all
- 0:26Speaker 1: of a sudden, the American people started to say, this
- 0:29Speaker 1: is awesome. And then something else happened late yesterday as
- 0:34Speaker 1: Tom Holman, you know Tom Borders are remember him. It's
- 0:37Speaker 1: the big He's a guy pretty much in charge, if
- 0:39Speaker 1: not even in title. He's the guy in charge of
- 0:41Speaker 1: directing ICE in operationally, and he's the guy that knows
- 0:44Speaker 1: all this stuff. He hinted at something yesterday that would
- 0:47Speaker 1: be so unbelievably awesome. I think it has the American
- 0:50Speaker 1: support ICE when you're voting. This is the ultimate fear
- 0:56Speaker 1: of the Democrats and why And he asked the perfect question.
- 0:59Speaker 2: Got that to talk.
- 1:00Speaker 1: But we'll hear some from some of the travelers yesterday
- 1:02Speaker 1: as things are getting better, and we'll wrap it up
- 1:04Speaker 1: today with I'm going to talk about Lord of the Rings.
- 1:08Speaker 1: I've never seen I read the books when I was
- 1:09Speaker 1: a kid. I've never seen one of these Lord of
- 1:11Speaker 1: the Rings movies.
- 1:12Speaker 2: It's just not my vibe. It's not my thing.
- 1:14Speaker 1: But we're going to today because Hollywood has made the
- 1:17Speaker 1: dumbest decision in the history of Hollywood. And who's going
- 1:20Speaker 1: to be involved, directly involved in writing one of the
- 1:22Speaker 1: new ones coming out hugely successful movies probably until now
- 1:27Speaker 1: it's going to be.
- 1:28Speaker 2: An epic fail. Anyway, we'll get to that.
- 1:29Speaker 1: Thanks for I appreciate it, go through all the news,
- 1:33Speaker 1: but what you can do, think or say about it,
- 1:34Speaker 1: it's wicked radio, the live stream on x and YouTube
- 1:36Speaker 1: and Facebook, and the audio podcast afterwards. But let's get
- 1:40Speaker 1: right to it, shall we. What's the situation today? Two
- 1:43Speaker 1: days in Earth, they always say two days in a row.
- 1:45Speaker 1: You start to see a trend when things are getting better,
- 1:48Speaker 1: like at the nation's airports, how are they going? Well,
- 1:50Speaker 1: we've heard from We've seen and I played clips from Houston.
- 1:54Speaker 2: Atlanta, LaGuardia, all the major ones.
- 1:56Speaker 1: Right, Well, let's hold on now let's go to Philadelphia.
- 2:01Speaker 3: But I do there.
- 2:02Speaker 1: This is an empty line right now.
- 2:04Speaker 4: We are standing in the middle where travelers come to
- 2:07Speaker 4: check in for TSA.
- 2:08Speaker 2: Yesterday, this was all the way back to the garage.
- 2:10Speaker 4: So good news.
- 2:11Speaker 2: Today lines aren't too bad.
- 2:13Speaker 1: We live from phl bere on a Gallagher Channel six
- 2:15Speaker 1: ACT Channel six local Yokal at Philadelphia, PA. All right,
- 2:20Speaker 1: here's another one we haven't heard from yet. Uh, Newark
- 2:23Speaker 1: Newark Airport. Let's go there, right. Sometimes you get a
- 2:25Speaker 1: fly in Newark and the best light to get to
- 2:27Speaker 1: New York. It's not that far, all right.
- 2:31Speaker 2: They got they hand to help.
- 2:32Speaker 1: They're not bother nobody's the only they can check my
- 2:34Speaker 1: bags and get me on my flight, and I'm good
- 2:35Speaker 1: to go.
- 2:37Speaker 4: Right.
- 2:38Speaker 2: I want to get I want to get to the Bahamas.
- 2:40Speaker 2: I want out of here.
- 2:45Speaker 1: He's my favorite of all time because he sums up
- 2:47Speaker 1: perfectly with the American people.
- 2:49Speaker 2: That's saying, they're not bothering me.
- 2:50Speaker 1: I want to get to the Bahamas, so all they
- 2:52Speaker 1: care about just get me to the Bahamas.
- 2:53Speaker 2: I want to get the hell out of here. All right,
- 2:56Speaker 2: what's the deal?
- 2:57Speaker 1: Then, Well, here's part of the reason why it's becoming
- 2:59Speaker 1: so successful. First and foremost, we're all selfish consumers and travelers,
- 3:03Speaker 1: as we should be.
- 3:04Speaker 2: That's what makes a good consumer your selfish.
- 3:06Speaker 1: You look out for your own best interests and needs,
- 3:08Speaker 1: your best deals, the best customer service.
- 3:09Speaker 2: That's what everybody should have.
- 3:11Speaker 1: It should be your mindset as a consumer in any facet, right,
- 3:14Speaker 1: you just want the best for yourself. That way you
- 3:16Speaker 1: demand these things of companies and cities and public travel
- 3:20Speaker 1: and all that other good stuff. Well, here's a great move,
- 3:22Speaker 1: and this is why the ICE agents get it. First
- 3:25Speaker 1: of all, let's just put yourself in the position of
- 3:27Speaker 1: one of these ICE agents for a second. If they
- 3:30Speaker 1: reassigned you and you had the opportunity to go to
- 3:33Speaker 1: an air conditioned American airport instead of on the streets
- 3:35Speaker 1: hunting down these illegal criminals, wouldn't you.
- 3:38Speaker 2: Take that job? And wouldn't you be happy to be there?
- 3:40Speaker 2: They understand that and they get it.
- 3:42Speaker 1: So not only were they helping out TSA agents who
- 3:44Speaker 1: aren't getting paid, they're helping out travelers during spring break
- 3:48Speaker 1: and incredibly busy time in American travel. Right. Well, there'd
- 3:51Speaker 1: being nice about it, and people are appreciating it, and
- 3:53Speaker 1: like I said yesterday, I think this point stands to
- 3:55Speaker 1: be repeated. This is the first time many Americans, because
- 4:00Speaker 1: they don't live in the inner cities, not most Americans,
- 4:03Speaker 1: have had face to face interaction with ICE. If you
- 4:06Speaker 1: want to call it a public relations moment, it's perfect.
- 4:08Speaker 1: And they did things like this, handing out water while
- 4:11Speaker 1: people are in line, being nice to them, having conversations.
- 4:14Speaker 2: Guys, it's work.
- 4:16Speaker 4: You tell me, they're four dollars here, they're free with us,
- 4:19Speaker 4: four dollars, four tens. You take our waters down and
- 4:26Speaker 4: you charge waters.
- 4:30Speaker 2: What are you hear here?
- 4:31Speaker 1: Chit chat, idle chatter, this and that, laughing, take my water,
- 4:34Speaker 1: joking back and forth. Don't discount how important that is.
- 4:37Speaker 1: First of all, when's the last time you went to
- 4:39Speaker 1: an airport and you're in a TSA security line.
- 4:40Speaker 2: It's usually people are like stone faced, miserable. I'm waiting
- 4:44Speaker 2: in line.
- 4:44Speaker 1: I have to do this anybody and anything that offers
- 4:47Speaker 1: a little bit of levity is always appreciated.
- 4:49Speaker 2: And you remember that.
- 4:51Speaker 1: The second thing is if you're directly responsible for helping
- 4:54Speaker 1: people get through the line and get to where you're
- 4:55Speaker 1: trying to go safely faster, they will always remember that
- 4:59Speaker 1: like the guy and Newark said, I just want to
- 5:01Speaker 1: go to the Bahamas.
- 5:02Speaker 2: It's all I'm looking for it. Just give me the
- 5:04Speaker 2: hell out of here.
- 5:04Speaker 1: That's all they care about. That's why this is having
- 5:06Speaker 1: a long lasting impact. Now this is going so well.
- 5:12Speaker 1: They hinted at it that this may be not the
- 5:16Speaker 1: only time you see Ice in your everyday life, helping
- 5:18Speaker 1: out the situation, helping out with security, helping out with
- 5:20Speaker 1: getting that the things move faster when record time. Tom
- 5:25Speaker 1: Holman hinted at this and where he may be able
- 5:27Speaker 1: to see him next at the polling place. Why not
- 5:31Speaker 1: a lot of people have said this is Trump's backup
- 5:33Speaker 1: plan at the Save Act doesn't get passed.
- 5:35Speaker 2: A lot of people have said that that.
- 5:36Speaker 1: Okay, all right, you know you don't you don't pass
- 5:39Speaker 1: voter ID and election security, we'll have We'll have ICE
- 5:43Speaker 1: at polling places checking ID to make sure everybody's legal
- 5:47Speaker 1: and asking questions and looking at the papers.
- 5:49Speaker 2: Okay. That seemed to be like the backup plan.
- 5:52Speaker 1: B I don't know how many of us expected for
- 5:54Speaker 1: Tom Holman on day two of ICE agents at airports
- 5:56Speaker 1: to announce this because he hinted right at it and
- 5:58Speaker 1: makes a good point by asking a real aliens voting.
- 6:02Speaker 4: I mean, bottom line is what are they afraid of?
- 6:04Speaker 4: And they say aliens don't follow. But look, you know,
- 6:08Speaker 4: part of Gyes' job is secure elections. And I'm not
- 6:11Speaker 4: going to say, you know, you know what our plan
- 6:13Speaker 4: is going forward, but if only US citizens can vote,
- 6:19Speaker 4: I don't see the issue what they're concerned about. They
- 6:22Speaker 4: ought to be concerned about the safety and security of
- 6:25Speaker 4: this nation.
- 6:26Speaker 1: He said it right there, exactly what by asking a question.
- 6:29Speaker 1: He said it right there, and he actually made a statement.
- 6:30Speaker 1: This is always one of those telltale signs I'm not
- 6:32Speaker 1: going to reveal our future plans whenever anybody in an
- 6:37Speaker 1: administration says that that's part of the future plan. Because
- 6:40Speaker 1: the question was from I think that was the guys
- 6:42Speaker 1: who are doing Turning Points podcast now. They asked him
- 6:45Speaker 1: that question, Okay, this is going so well at the airports,
- 6:47Speaker 1: or we're going to see ice agents at voting places.
- 6:50Speaker 2: Jump to the answer, well, I'm not going to reveal
- 6:51Speaker 2: our future plans.
- 6:52Speaker 1: That means yes, yes, yes you are, and it will
- 6:54Speaker 1: tell you if they had just jumped to this without
- 6:57Speaker 1: this tsa issue happening at airports it would have gotten
- 7:01Speaker 1: much more pushback, and it'll still get pushback. This is
- 7:03Speaker 1: the ultimate fear of Democrats, the ultimate fear of anybody.
- 7:07Speaker 1: It would be Republicans to anybody that's trying to cheat
- 7:09Speaker 1: an election.
- 7:09Speaker 2: Oh but what are you afraid of? He asked the
- 7:11Speaker 2: question there.
- 7:12Speaker 1: If you're on the up and up with your elections,
- 7:15Speaker 1: why would you possibly be afraid of ICE agents there?
- 7:17Speaker 1: And they'll come up with every piece of nonsense in
- 7:19Speaker 1: the world and to try to push the narrative. And
- 7:21Speaker 1: they'll get to their favorite news sources and they'll say,
- 7:23Speaker 1: because they're gonna intimidate people, they gonna like they tried
- 7:25Speaker 1: with the airports, they're gonna shoot people at the TSA line.
- 7:28Speaker 1: Remember that nonsense, And it turned out to be completely
- 7:31Speaker 1: not true. They're gonna do the exact same thing. They'll
- 7:33Speaker 1: try to push it. But again, we've already gone through
- 7:35Speaker 1: the whole season where you've had people ICE agents helping
- 7:38Speaker 1: out people at the airports. So we've already seen it
- 7:41Speaker 1: in action. They know it works. More people feel secure
- 7:44Speaker 1: about this, and it's I think it's gonna happen, and
- 7:47Speaker 1: I think it's a great move. I think it's absolutely brilliant.
- 7:50Speaker 1: I said this once yesterday, I'll repeat it again today.
- 7:53Speaker 1: Possibly the biggest backfire in policy in political history for
- 7:56Speaker 1: the Democrats to decide not to fund TSA agent intentionally
- 8:01Speaker 1: during spring break season to try to disrupt Americans travel plans,
- 8:05Speaker 1: to cause harm, to do that, to piss people off.
- 8:08Speaker 1: They didn't account for this one. Thank god they're dumb.
- 8:11Speaker 1: I mean, honest to god, thank god they're not smart.
- 8:13Speaker 1: Because if they were smart, and they like they used
- 8:15Speaker 1: to be in really deceptive in what they do. But
- 8:17Speaker 1: they're not even trying to hide their strategy anymore. They try,
- 8:20Speaker 1: you know, let's not fund DHS so that TSA agents
- 8:24Speaker 1: don't get paid, so it'll cause reek avocate American airports,
- 8:27Speaker 1: so that the American people will turn around and say,
- 8:29Speaker 1: see we can't have ICE agents. No, no backfire. Put
- 8:34Speaker 1: the ICE agents exactly where the problem is and fix
- 8:36Speaker 1: the problem. And America says, yeah, that's pretty good, Okay, yeah,
- 8:39Speaker 1: I'm all for I'm.
- 8:41Speaker 2: In favor of it.
- 8:42Speaker 1: And then the next thing, you know, midterms come along
- 8:44Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you start to see ICE
- 8:46Speaker 1: agents at polling places and they say, well, they helped
- 8:48Speaker 1: me get through my line at Atlanta Airport going to
- 8:51Speaker 1: spring break before.
- 8:51Speaker 2: So these guys aren't too bad. Major major backfire. But
- 8:55Speaker 2: I'll tell you something else.
- 8:57Speaker 1: Congratulations to Delta Airlines. I cannot recall a time podcast
- 9:01Speaker 1: World or Radio World when I actually congratulated the airlines
- 9:04Speaker 1: for something.
- 9:04Speaker 2: But what a move this is. First of all, First
- 9:06Speaker 2: of all.
- 9:08Speaker 1: Did you know that elected representatives get priority on commercial flights?
- 9:13Speaker 1: I know, it's obvious.
- 9:14Speaker 2: I get that. I know, it's like you think about it,
- 9:16Speaker 2: It's like, of course they do.
- 9:17Speaker 1: It's like they're they're not you know, they got to
- 9:19Speaker 1: get to where they're going there. They're recognizable by you know,
- 9:24Speaker 1: facial recognition only. I get that that that's a thing.
- 9:26Speaker 1: But Delta stepped up and took away their privileges while
- 9:30Speaker 1: TSA is.
- 9:31Speaker 2: Not getting paid.
- 9:32Speaker 1: This is a ballsy move from a commercial airline. Very ballsy.
- 9:35Speaker 3: This was the report yesterday, and some airlines out there
- 9:38Speaker 3: are getting fed up with Congress. Delta announced today they're
- 9:41Speaker 3: going to end all special priority perks for lawmakers as
- 9:44Speaker 3: long as this DHS shut down is ongoing and TSA
- 9:47Speaker 3: workers aren't being paid until it gets fixed. Brett Congress
- 9:51Speaker 3: is going to be treated like the rest of us.
- 9:53Speaker 2: Good for Delta, right, Bill.
- 9:55Speaker 1: Thanks, You didn't used to see this, you really didn't.
- 9:58Speaker 1: And the report there from Bill from Fox was saying that,
- 10:02Speaker 1: you know, even the airlines are getting fed up with Congress. True,
- 10:07Speaker 1: I'm sure they did, even though the airlines have gotten
- 10:09Speaker 1: bailed out by Congress many many times, quite a few
- 10:12Speaker 1: times actually in American history. But to come out and
- 10:14Speaker 1: say this and then have a move to take away
- 10:16Speaker 1: their special priority passes, that's pretty that's pretty bold. I
- 10:21Speaker 1: think it's something that's going kind of unrecognized. Maybe the
- 10:23Speaker 1: other airlines will follow suit, but good, that's the kind
- 10:25Speaker 1: of thing you need. Usually it would take the American consumer,
- 10:30Speaker 1: you know, to demand that the airlines do this, and
- 10:32Speaker 1: there'd be some kind of a movement, people would get
- 10:33Speaker 1: a petition going on social media. Now they just did
- 10:35Speaker 1: it on their own, and they should be congratulated for that.
- 10:37Speaker 2: Good.
- 10:38Speaker 1: Absolutely, And they're smart. They know that Congress has never
- 10:42Speaker 1: been less popular. They're just not talk to those people
- 10:46Speaker 1: in line that's aid TSA lines even now when they're better,
- 10:49Speaker 1: and they'll tell you fire every one of them.
- 10:51Speaker 2: I heard that.
- 10:51Speaker 1: I saw clips of that on the news yesterday quite
- 10:53Speaker 1: a bit from airports around the country.
- 10:55Speaker 2: Just people, just fire every.
- 10:56Speaker 1: One of them.
- 10:57Speaker 2: We're sinking a fire up. Get rid of them. Smart delta.
- 11:00Speaker 2: Good that they did that.
- 11:01Speaker 1: So we shall see I set polling places. I think
- 11:06Speaker 1: it's already decided it's going to happen, whether or not
- 11:09Speaker 1: the Save Act pass is whether they can get this
- 11:12Speaker 1: thing done reconciliation or not.
- 11:14Speaker 2: I think you're going to see it.
- 11:15Speaker 1: And why not? Tom Holman asked the most relevant basic
- 11:19Speaker 1: common sense question in that interview there, Why wouldn't they
- 11:23Speaker 1: if their job is to secure If DHS's job as
- 11:27Speaker 1: part of keeping American safe is to secure elections, why
- 11:30Speaker 1: not What would you possibly be afraid of, either as
- 11:34Speaker 1: a voter or a politician or some kind of a
- 11:39Speaker 1: leader in one of those one of those political parties.
- 11:42Speaker 1: Now throw Republicans in with this mix too. What would
- 11:45Speaker 1: you possibly be afraid of to have people checking more,
- 11:49Speaker 1: to have more identification, to have more security at polling
- 11:52Speaker 1: places coming up in November? Or would you be afraid of? Well,
- 11:56Speaker 1: you're afraid of if you want to achieve an election,
- 11:58Speaker 1: that's all.
- 11:59Speaker 2: That's all it is.
- 12:00Speaker 1: All right, let's get out of this for a second.
- 12:03Speaker 1: Even though things are getting better, So it's actually good news.
- 12:04Speaker 1: That's the big takeaway there. I am not a Lord
- 12:08Speaker 1: of the Rings like fan. I remember reading the books
- 12:10Speaker 1: when I was a kid, from the Hobbit and Tolkien
- 12:13Speaker 1: and all that good stuff. These new movies, it's just
- 12:15Speaker 1: not my thing. I know that they're great, and I
- 12:16Speaker 1: have a lot of friends that love these things. They
- 12:18Speaker 1: absolutely love them. They're all excited about the new movies
- 12:21Speaker 1: coming out, new in production. I think there's one now
- 12:24Speaker 1: coming out and then then the next one is gonna
- 12:27Speaker 1: be a little bit different.
- 12:28Speaker 2: Because this is true, it's from Variety.
- 12:31Speaker 1: You know, most of us don't, like, you know, subscribe
- 12:33Speaker 1: to Variety online or the magazine because it's an inside industry,
- 12:37Speaker 1: Hollywood kind of thing. But when something going on in
- 12:38Speaker 1: the entertainment industry, Variety is usually right on it. And
- 12:42Speaker 1: they had a big story yesterday that has people in
- 12:44Speaker 1: an uproar because already, and I can tell you, as
- 12:47Speaker 1: somebody that hasn't watched these movies, even I know this
- 12:50Speaker 1: is gonna suck because the new Lord of the Rings movie,
- 12:56Speaker 1: they've got a new co writer, Stephen Colbert. That's right,
- 13:01Speaker 1: He's going to be co writing the Lord of the
- 13:04Speaker 1: Rings Shadow of the Past. It's a working title, says Variety,
- 13:07Speaker 1: which we'll go into production after the Hunt for Gollum.
- 13:10Speaker 1: That's the one coming up like right now that they're
- 13:12Speaker 1: working on right now. This is like lost on me,
- 13:16Speaker 1: It's probably lost on you too. But here's the synopsis.
- 13:19Speaker 1: Fourteen years after the passing of Frodo, Sam Mary and
- 13:22Speaker 1: Pippin are set out to retrace the first steps of adventure.
- 13:26Speaker 1: Colbert is co writing the script with his oh, with
- 13:28Speaker 1: his son Peter McGee and franchise veteran Philip Boyan's now,
- 13:36Speaker 1: for obvious reasons, kind of think this is probably gonna suck.
- 13:39Speaker 1: This is the same Stephen Colbert.
- 13:42Speaker 2: Were talking about. I think we can all agree, guys, I'm.
- 13:50Speaker 1: The same guy that during COVID did a little dance
- 13:52Speaker 1: routine with dancing hypodermic needles.
- 13:54Speaker 2: Remember that. Yeah, yeah, this is the same guy.
- 13:56Speaker 1: So I think the takeaway on that is Hollywood is
- 13:58Speaker 1: never ever ever going to learn. They're They're never gonna
- 14:02Speaker 1: understand because you can't. I think it's impossible for somebody
- 14:04Speaker 1: to like Colbert to not insert his politics or or
- 14:08Speaker 1: his worldview into any project. Not even look what they
- 14:11Speaker 1: did to look what they did to late night comedy.
- 14:13Speaker 1: It's like it's like a you know, a sermon. Every
- 14:16Speaker 1: single it's not funny. It's all politics. They're all compromised,
- 14:18Speaker 1: they're all they're all run by you know, politicians. That's
- 14:22Speaker 1: what they were able to kill late night comedy. You
- 14:24Speaker 1: don't think he's capable of killing a series like Lord
- 14:26Speaker 1: of the Rings.
- 14:26Speaker 2: Of course he is.
- 14:27Speaker 1: Of course they you know, what are they gonna have
- 14:30Speaker 1: transgender elves? Is that what's gonna happen? Gonna it's gonna
- 14:34Speaker 1: work in some COVID lines or some digs at, some
- 14:38Speaker 1: shots at Trump and the writing of the script for
- 14:39Speaker 1: this movie.
- 14:41Speaker 2: I don't know. Don't doubt the don't doubt.
- 14:44Speaker 1: The abilitality of these people to ruin entertainment, because the
- 14:48Speaker 1: example is right in front of us. They ruined Late
- 14:49Speaker 1: night comedy until we save it again. They he's completely
- 14:53Speaker 1: capable of ruining Lord of the Rings. Believe me, anyway
- 14:56Speaker 1: doesn't affect me. I'm not gonna see it anyway. Ex
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