Latest / Wicked Radio with Bill Adams / Wicked Radio 12-20: Crypto For Christmas, Knives Out For Elon, & How To Spot The Propaganda
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- 0:04Speaker 1: So I figured we're days before Christmas. We're getting real close. Okay,
- 0:08Speaker 1: looks as though this is yesterday afternoon. Looks as though
- 0:10Speaker 1: they got the Continuing Resolution bill settled and everything, so
- 0:14Speaker 1: we can forget about that stuff and the swampy political
- 0:16Speaker 1: crap and just talk about Christmas stuff and holidays and
- 0:18Speaker 1: all that.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Right.
- 0:19Speaker 1: Nope, rug pulled out from under because what it's turned
- 0:23Speaker 1: into now and again, all I wanted to do was
- 0:25Speaker 1: talk about lighthearted stuff.
- 0:26Speaker 2: We'll still still get to that. It turned into a
- 0:30Speaker 2: lesson non propaganda, and I can't. I can't come on here.
- 0:33Speaker 1: You know. I was trying to be honest with you
- 0:35Speaker 1: and not tell you what I see and what I
- 0:36Speaker 1: feel is going on here, because it's right before our eyes.
- 0:39Speaker 1: So it's okay, you know what. Though at the end
- 0:42Speaker 1: of it though, it's a it's the moral of the story.
- 0:44Speaker 1: It's a good thing. But just telling you, if you're
- 0:47Speaker 1: tired of hearing about the swampy politicians, I think we
- 0:49Speaker 1: all are after this year. There's the reason why we're
- 0:52Speaker 1: going to talk about it, and we will. But first
- 0:56Speaker 1: of all, thanks for finding me, Thanks for finding out.
- 0:57Speaker 1: I hope it's a great holiday season for you.
- 0:59Speaker 2: Thanks.
- 1:00Speaker 1: We've had a wicked radio and the podcast will be
- 1:02Speaker 1: on the audio version wherever you get those just past
- 1:05Speaker 1: nine em usually a posts on all of those things.
- 1:07Speaker 2: And again it plays as a replay.
- 1:08Speaker 1: Here a little bit later on on x and YouTube
- 1:11Speaker 1: and now on Facebook two. And by the time you
- 1:13Speaker 1: see this or hear this later on, maybe they've passed
- 1:15Speaker 1: a continuing resolution bill. Maybe it's all said. Maybe the
- 1:18Speaker 1: government stays open. I don't know, but maybe not. Because
- 1:22Speaker 1: here's what went down yesterday, and again we'll lighten it
- 1:25Speaker 1: up here in a little bit, don't worry about it.
- 1:27Speaker 1: So they had the big monstrosity thing we talked about
- 1:31Speaker 1: yesterday that got up ended because we the people got
- 1:35Speaker 1: ahold of this thing and shot it down and pressured
- 1:37Speaker 1: Congress people to not sign this thing because it was
- 1:40Speaker 1: just it was awful. Of all the swamp political porky
- 1:43Speaker 1: stuff that happened before, this was probably the worst. It
- 1:45Speaker 1: was fifteen hundred pages plus that we went over yesterday.
- 1:48Speaker 2: Not to go over that.
- 1:49Speaker 1: Again, and it was all kinds of censorship, all kinds
- 1:52Speaker 1: of control, all kinds of just awful, awful stuff.
- 1:55Speaker 2: Well that got shot down, thank god.
- 1:58Speaker 1: So then there's the way it works up there with
- 2:00Speaker 1: those people, and then it came back with another thing,
- 2:02Speaker 1: and Trump was pushing for this other resolution and looked
- 2:04Speaker 1: like they had a deal there and then that got
- 2:06Speaker 1: shot down. So let me give you better than I
- 2:09Speaker 1: can explain. Jad Advance was coming out of the halls
- 2:11Speaker 1: of Congress yesterday and he explained where we stand at
- 2:14Speaker 1: this moment.
- 2:14Speaker 2: Let's go to JD.
- 2:16Speaker 1: The Democrats just voted to shut down the government even
- 2:20Speaker 1: though we had a clean cr because they didn't want
- 2:22Speaker 1: to give the president negotiating leverage during his.
- 2:25Speaker 2: First term or during the first year of his new term.
- 2:29Speaker 1: And number two, because they would rather shut down the
- 2:32Speaker 1: government and fight for global censorship bullshit.
- 2:37Speaker 2: They've asked for a shutdown, and I think that's exactly
- 2:39Speaker 2: what they're thirty.
- 2:40Speaker 1: Republicans, well that reporters right by the way, thirty eight
- 2:44Speaker 1: Republicans voted against this too, who just wanted the pay raises.
- 2:46Speaker 2: I mean, that's exactly what it is.
- 2:47Speaker 1: There's still a lot of rhinos fighting against anything for
- 2:51Speaker 1: the American people in there. But anyway, that's where we
- 2:53Speaker 1: are now. So apparently, as we stand right now, they're
- 2:55Speaker 1: going to vote on it again in a couple of
- 2:57Speaker 1: hours in real time, that'll be about ten am Eastern time.
- 3:00Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 3:00Speaker 1: Again, by the time you're watching this later on a
- 3:01Speaker 1: replay or hearing it, maybe it's settled.
- 3:03Speaker 2: Maybe it's not. I don't know.
- 3:05Speaker 1: So let's get to the basics now, because I had
- 3:07Speaker 1: the same questions, because it only happens every once in
- 3:10Speaker 1: a while. What what actually happens in a government shutdown?
- 3:13Speaker 1: Like who's affected? Obviously federal employees, right, federal government just
- 3:18Speaker 1: going by NBC news. Boy, you gotta take this with
- 3:20Speaker 1: a grain of salt, huh, But it's true.
- 3:22Speaker 2: These are just the facts.
- 3:23Speaker 1: Federal government unable to pay its millions of employees, members
- 3:26Speaker 1: of the military, and reservists just before the holidays.
- 3:29Speaker 2: That stinks.
- 3:29Speaker 1: Obviously, hundreds of thousands of government workers could be furloughed,
- 3:32Speaker 1: meaning they would temporarily stop going to work. There was
- 3:36Speaker 1: a shutdown in twenty thirteen about fifty thousand workers were
- 3:38Speaker 1: fur load. But the most essential to keep like everybody
- 3:42Speaker 1: safe in the country actually running, they're not fur load,
- 3:47Speaker 1: but it's everybody else, which is a tough tough thing.
- 3:48Speaker 1: It really is' that's tough, especially before the holidays.
- 3:52Speaker 2: And I understand that but my god.
- 3:54Speaker 1: So anyway, that's where we stand right now, what we
- 3:58Speaker 1: learned yesterday, and again we'll get to lighthearted stuff here
- 4:00Speaker 1: in a second. Don't worry what we learned yesterday, if
- 4:03Speaker 1: you paid attention to this at all, if you can
- 4:05Speaker 1: stomach it, was a real time lesson in propaganda. And
- 4:09Speaker 1: I got to tell you, it's like I can't come
- 4:11Speaker 1: on here, Like I said, my whole goal was to
- 4:12Speaker 1: come in and talk about Christmas lighthearted stuff, but I
- 4:15Speaker 1: can't when I see it.
- 4:16Speaker 2: Because when you've for thirty.
- 4:18Speaker 1: Years, when you've dissected news, you get a really good
- 4:21Speaker 1: sense of how propaganda works, and you can't unsee it
- 4:25Speaker 1: once you see it, once you learn it, right, And
- 4:27Speaker 1: what we're learning here is we're all starting to understand
- 4:30Speaker 1: this now. One of the keys to watch out for,
- 4:33Speaker 1: here's my gift to you. One of the keys to
- 4:35Speaker 1: watch out for when this propaganda is when one of
- 4:38Speaker 1: the political and it happens with the Republicans too. Don't
- 4:40Speaker 1: kit ourselves here, but when one particular party keeps using
- 4:44Speaker 1: the same keywords over and over again, that means the
- 4:47Speaker 1: talking points went out and you heard the talking points
- 4:49Speaker 1: all day long yesterday and you'll hear it again today,
- 4:52Speaker 1: President Musk. You heard that. I heard it no less
- 4:57Speaker 1: than ten times from government officials and media ha talking heads.
- 5:01Speaker 1: Because the knives are out for Elon because here's what happened.
- 5:04Speaker 1: We all know the big, the first worst monstrosity of
- 5:08Speaker 1: a spending mill, the fifteen hundred plus page thing. We
- 5:11Speaker 1: got a hold of it and we said, oh god, no,
- 5:13Speaker 1: this is not gonna because Elon posted it what it
- 5:16Speaker 1: was all about on x which is now free speech
- 5:19Speaker 1: and free information, and it got shot down. That's what happened.
- 5:24Speaker 1: That's why they're reacting like this. This guy's name is
- 5:26Speaker 1: Richard Neil. He's a Democrat. I don't know what state
- 5:29Speaker 1: he's from, but here was his reaction, and it sums
- 5:31Speaker 1: it up perfectly.
- 5:32Speaker 2: Your currency in this institution is your word.
- 5:37Speaker 1: We reached an agreement, we came to modest achievements, and
- 5:44Speaker 1: a tweet changed all of it. Yes, yes, that's exactly
- 5:48Speaker 1: what changed it. And the reason why they're freaking out.
- 5:50Speaker 1: And this is why we all have to pay attention
- 5:51Speaker 1: to this. The reason why they're freaking out is people
- 5:54Speaker 1: have information now, you, me, and everybody else. You heard
- 5:57Speaker 1: it everywhere and it's starting to work too. You'll hear
- 6:00Speaker 1: people in your family, You'll hear people who are in town,
- 6:02Speaker 1: you work with. Maybe you overhear it at dinner somewhere
- 6:05Speaker 1: or at a bar today at noon. Oh, Elon is
- 6:09Speaker 1: gonna screw over the people. Once he gets in, He's
- 6:11Speaker 1: gonna take complete power.
- 6:13Speaker 2: This is all. You don't even have to respond to that.
- 6:16Speaker 2: This is all.
- 6:16Speaker 1: This is what will undo that line of thinking. And
- 6:19Speaker 1: the people who buy into the propaganda. What vested interest
- 6:23Speaker 1: would a guy who is a billionaire often the most
- 6:27Speaker 1: well at least the wealthiest person at least in the country,
- 6:30Speaker 1: what does he stand to gain by jumping into politics.
- 6:33Speaker 2: Absolutely nothing.
- 6:35Speaker 1: He's losing money, he's lost advertisers, the knives are out
- 6:38Speaker 1: for him, he's had threats to his life.
- 6:40Speaker 2: But you think he's doing this for power. Huh No.
- 6:43Speaker 1: This is a guy that could not stand what was
- 6:45Speaker 1: happening to the country he loves, and he has a real,
- 6:47Speaker 1: real fear of censorship destroying our society. That's what the
- 6:52Speaker 1: guy's doing. And yet, because there are plenty of people
- 6:55Speaker 1: who believe the propaganda he wants to he wants to
- 6:58Speaker 1: be president. Don't even buy into the people who are
- 7:03Speaker 1: spreading that garbage like this lady. Sometimes I wish this
- 7:08Speaker 1: was a visual, I really do. You probably know you've
- 7:10Speaker 1: seen her, Laura Delaro. She's been in office since I think, yeah,
- 7:15Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one. She's a congresswoman from Connecticut. She's the
- 7:18Speaker 1: old lady with the blue hair and the giant plastic glasses.
- 7:22Speaker 1: I mean, she's nuts. Obviously, she's completely completely off the
- 7:27Speaker 1: cliff on the left hand side of things. Again, what's
- 7:31Speaker 1: that key on propaganda? What do you listen for the
- 7:33Speaker 1: same keywords over and over and over again like her.
- 7:36Speaker 2: Read on a bill? And you know what what? They
- 7:43Speaker 2: got scared because President Musk.
- 7:49Speaker 1: There it is told them rather than Musk, Dad, don't
- 7:54Speaker 1: do it.
- 7:55Speaker 2: Don't do it.
- 7:57Speaker 1: They're coming knives out for Elon Musk because they know
- 8:00Speaker 1: that he got information out to the people. Otherwise, if
- 8:02Speaker 1: that hadn't happened, Honest to god, it sounds like hyperbole,
- 8:05Speaker 1: but it's true. If he hadn't got involved, and the
- 8:07Speaker 1: biggest thing he did was by Twitter and turn it
- 8:10Speaker 1: into x and free it up, and it wasn't just
- 8:12Speaker 1: a Democrat propaganda talking point anymore, none of us would
- 8:16Speaker 1: have known what was in this bill ninety percent of
- 8:19Speaker 1: the congress people didn't know what was in this bill,
- 8:21Speaker 1: but they read it, dissected it, got it out to
- 8:23Speaker 1: the people. We got back to the lawmakers, we said
- 8:25Speaker 1: we're not passing this no, and that's why they're freaking out.
- 8:28Speaker 1: And that's why the propaganda is there. Also in the media.
- 8:33Speaker 2: This is barely media, but it is so the lowest
- 8:37Speaker 2: IQ people among.
- 8:38Speaker 1: You will be watching the View, right. I still can't
- 8:41Speaker 1: understand why they're on the air, but they are, you know,
- 8:44Speaker 1: cat Lady shut Ins eating bond bonds or watching the View,
- 8:47Speaker 1: but they're still on there. Here's what be Goldberg's take
- 8:51Speaker 1: on this. That was the day before yesterday, and then
- 8:55Speaker 1: she had to once again retract it because she's probably
- 8:57Speaker 1: gonna get sued.
- 8:58Speaker 2: I don't remember last time we even talked about JD. Right,
- 9:02Speaker 2: he's planning the presidency when he can I get rid
- 9:05Speaker 2: of Trump. Oh so you think it's Musk. It must Vance.
- 9:12Speaker 1: Hey, you know who stay away from the stairways. So
- 9:17Speaker 1: implying that that's another theory, more propaganda out there that
- 9:21Speaker 1: Vance and Elon Musk are trying to take out Trump
- 9:25Speaker 1: to gain power. They really believe or if they don't
- 9:27Speaker 1: believe this. They're trying to get you to believe this.
- 9:29Speaker 1: They're trying to get me to believe this. That's what
- 9:31Speaker 1: they're saying. But because now we've got information and people
- 9:35Speaker 1: like Trump who just want a lawsuit against ABC are
- 9:37Speaker 1: fighting back. Well, the retraction happened almost immediately.
- 9:41Speaker 2: Isn't that something's thinking of that. I wasn't trying to
- 9:44Speaker 2: indicate that they were actually standing there with their legs out.
- 9:48Speaker 1: Oh the huge.
- 9:51Speaker 2: Was. It was lighthearted and it's the holidays. Come on, holidays, guys.
- 9:59Speaker 2: You we didn't imply that they're trying to kill Trump.
- 10:02Speaker 2: That was just laughs. Ahaha.
- 10:04Speaker 1: Do you think they would have come back with that
- 10:06Speaker 1: retraction on the air unless they had been sued before,
- 10:09Speaker 1: because they've had to come back and read legal letters
- 10:12Speaker 1: and everything else, and now you got Trump suing major networks, ABC,
- 10:17Speaker 1: the parent company of the View.
- 10:19Speaker 2: You think they would have come back with that and apologized.
- 10:23Speaker 2: I don't think so. All right, So that's where we
- 10:24Speaker 2: are right now.
- 10:25Speaker 1: All I'm saying is my takeaway from this whole thing
- 10:28Speaker 1: is I don't know whether we're gonna be able to
- 10:29Speaker 1: shut down the government or not. I have no idea,
- 10:31Speaker 1: but watch out for the propaganda. And again, if I
- 10:33Speaker 1: can give you anything, I'm burdened with this, watching this
- 10:38Speaker 1: stuff for decades. When you see propaganda, you can't unsee it.
- 10:42Speaker 1: And one of the keys to see what's bullshit and
- 10:44Speaker 1: what's not is when they use the same keyword over
- 10:47Speaker 1: and over again. Count how many times from yesterday through
- 10:50Speaker 1: today and maybe going forward you'll hear the term president
- 10:54Speaker 1: musk every time you hear that. Somebody's trying to lie
- 10:58Speaker 1: to you saying, I'm just saying, all right, can we
- 11:02Speaker 1: get out of the swampy stuff please for a quick second, please.
- 11:04Speaker 1: Yesterday we were talking about last minute Christmas gifts. Shocking
- 11:08Speaker 1: amount of people. I saw more surveys that said people
- 11:10Speaker 1: wait even later than I do to buy Christmas gifts.
- 11:14Speaker 1: And I'm a late shopper, like wait till Christmas Eve?
- 11:16Speaker 2: Man? Is that ballsy?
- 11:18Speaker 1: But c Net Network came out with some ideas for
- 11:24Speaker 1: you late shoppers, and I guess this goes to me too.
- 11:26Speaker 1: For things, get things you can buy last minute for
- 11:29Speaker 1: those in your shopping list, a digital product, online course,
- 11:33Speaker 1: streaming subscription, even a video game. I wonder, you know what,
- 11:36Speaker 1: I wonder if things have changed though, if people are
- 11:38Speaker 1: okay with that because it's nothing you can really open
- 11:40Speaker 1: or you know, touch, feel, I don't. Maybe kids would
- 11:44Speaker 1: be cool with it, like an online video game. I
- 11:46Speaker 1: don't know about that one. But again, you'd be desperate
- 11:48Speaker 1: if you're waiting this long and experience concert tickets, football,
- 11:52Speaker 1: sporting tickets, vacation other future event. But again, what's the drawback?
- 11:57Speaker 1: Can't touch it, feel it, enjoy it right now?
- 12:00Speaker 2: I wouldn't.
- 12:01Speaker 1: I wouldn't just rely on that one gift. I'd have
- 12:03Speaker 1: other stuff to go to. How about this though they
- 12:05Speaker 1: listed number three. This is coming from c net, the
- 12:09Speaker 1: electronics outlet. Crypto currency bitcoins in an all time high now,
- 12:14Speaker 1: So if you can, you know, eh, buy somebody a
- 12:17Speaker 1: complete bitcoin you got one hundred grandest but nah, you know,
- 12:19Speaker 1: or you can buy a piece of bitcoin error. Can
- 12:21Speaker 1: you imagine buying somebody crypto crypto currency for the holidays?
- 12:26Speaker 1: This may be the first year where that's really happening
- 12:28Speaker 1: a lot. It's gonna happen a lot more in the future,
- 12:31Speaker 1: but man, that would be what if you bought it
- 12:33Speaker 1: for somebody who doesn't understand it? That'd be an awkward Christmas,
- 12:35Speaker 1: wouldn't it? I don't know things are changing. A homemade coupon, No,
- 12:40Speaker 1: don't even try that. Photos of you together, No, don't even.
- 12:45Speaker 2: Do that either.
- 12:46Speaker 1: If you want to ruin your bet. There are some
- 12:47Speaker 1: gifts you're better off not giving at all. You'd be
- 12:50Speaker 1: better off like saying, you know, I didn't get anything
- 12:52Speaker 1: this year, rather than a homemade coupon. That's just going
- 12:56Speaker 1: to derail any planes you had. All right up today
- 13:00Speaker 1: with something that's awesome. You may have seen this viral
- 13:03Speaker 1: video and you don't really need to see the video.
- 13:05Speaker 1: You could just hear the audio because it's absolutely worth it.
- 13:08Speaker 1: I thought this was from a few years ago. If
- 13:09Speaker 1: it is, I think it's new though. But it's from TikTok.
- 13:12Speaker 1: It's the number one trending video in the country right
- 13:14Speaker 1: now because it's just awesome. I'm not Sometimes when you
- 13:17Speaker 1: have these TikTok videos, you don't know where they're from.
- 13:19Speaker 1: They will give you the listing of where it's just
- 13:21Speaker 1: that they tell you who it is and who the
- 13:23Speaker 1: who the account user is.
- 13:25Speaker 2: There was a little girl.
- 13:27Speaker 1: You may have seen this at the Christmas special presentation,
- 13:31Speaker 1: might have been a play or whatever, and I guess
- 13:32Speaker 1: they got a chance to grab the microphone and say
- 13:35Speaker 1: something nice and wish everybody merry Christmas and happy Holidays
- 13:38Speaker 1: and all that stuff. What we got out of this
- 13:41Speaker 1: was the most confident little girl I think on earth.
- 13:44Speaker 2: She's amazing. And it starts.
- 13:46Speaker 1: You can you can you can hear how confident she is.
- 13:48Speaker 1: But the problem with this is, if you want to
- 13:49Speaker 1: call it a problem, is well, she starts to spill
- 13:52Speaker 1: the tea. In other words, she calls out one of
- 13:56Speaker 1: her little classmates, obviously a little boy, that she's not
- 13:58Speaker 1: too happy with.
- 13:59Speaker 2: This is how went.
- 14:00Speaker 1: But at the end, listen, now they shut her off.
- 14:02Speaker 1: Everybody has the same reaction to this. I think they
- 14:04Speaker 1: wanted to hear what she had to say. I'm very
- 14:07Speaker 1: proud of myself and my other friends inside my class,
- 14:13Speaker 1: and my class is very sweet fu except one little pool.
- 14:20Speaker 2: Uh oh, all right. The audience loved it. The crowd
- 14:29Speaker 2: loved it.
- 14:29Speaker 1: She had well what happened You can't see this part,
- 14:31Speaker 1: but what happened at that point was the teacher and
- 14:33Speaker 1: I think there was a parent up there too, probably volunteering.
- 14:36Speaker 1: Might have been her mom, I don't know who instantly
- 14:38Speaker 1: grabbed the microphone and ushered her off. The stage, we're
- 14:41Speaker 1: all thinking and saying the same thing.
- 14:42Speaker 2: Right. I want to hear what.
- 14:44Speaker 1: She had to say about this kid, and I hope
- 14:49Speaker 1: I don't think this is the case, but I'm really
- 14:50Speaker 1: hoping that, like, she didn't get admonished or punished or
- 14:54Speaker 1: or spoken to about this from either the school administrators
- 14:58Speaker 1: or her parents, because.
- 14:59Speaker 2: I let's face it, it was kind of awesome.
- 15:02Speaker 1: And that kid, how confidence, how confidently she started that.
- 15:06Speaker 2: That's an amazing thing.
- 15:08Speaker 1: We all want to teach our kids self confidence and
- 15:10Speaker 1: the ability to do that. I would watch out for
- 15:12Speaker 1: that kid. I don't know who it is. She's going
- 15:14Speaker 1: to be a leader at some point though. She is
- 15:16Speaker 1: not putting up with anybody. And she also had some
- 15:18Speaker 1: nice things to say about our classmates in there. Let's
- 15:20Speaker 1: not forget about that. I want to say, someday.
- 15:24Speaker 2: We'll get the full story who she was talking about.
- 15:26Speaker 1: Someday when she's like when she's in congress herself or
- 15:29Speaker 1: as a leader of industry, she'll tell the complete story.
- 15:32Speaker 2: Because I'm dying here, But what a kid.
- 15:34Speaker 1: That's the best viral moment of the holidays so far,
- 15:36Speaker 1: maybe of the whole year.
- 15:38Speaker 2: It's amazing.
- 15:38Speaker 1: You check out the complete video on your own time.
- 15:41Speaker 1: But that's what it sounded like. All right, thanks so
- 15:43Speaker 1: much for hanging out with me. We got a weekend
- 15:45Speaker 1: to get into everybody. How about that last weekend before
- 15:49Speaker 1: the big Christmas holiday, Santas getting the sleigh ready, feeding
- 15:53Speaker 1: the reindeer, getting maul Fatten energized up. You have a
- 15:57Speaker 1: great last weekend before the holidays. Remember the takeaway, don't
- 16:02Speaker 1: fall for the propaganda, because now you know how to
- 16:05Speaker 1: spot it. And the other thing is, don't take it
- 16:06Speaker 1: a crap from anybody, just like that little girl on stage.
- 16:10Speaker 1: Makes you find a Wicked radio audio podcast wherever you
- 16:12Speaker 1: get those, we'll be posted very soon, and then it
- 16:15Speaker 1: lives on it as a replay here and all these
- 16:17Speaker 1: other channels wherever you find.
- 16:18Speaker 2: Wicked radio and meet Bill Adams.
- 16:20Speaker 1: And by the time you see this on a replay,
- 16:21Speaker 1: maybe they have a continuing resolution in the swamp in
- 16:25Speaker 1: Congress and get their heads out of their asses, but
- 16:28Speaker 1: it wouldn't count on it. With all that said, have
- 16:30Speaker 1: a wicked awesome weekend and we will talk to you
- 16:32Speaker 1: on Monday.