Latest / Wicked Radio with Bill Adams / Wicked Radio 4-2: Artemis Perfect Launch!, POTUS at SCOTUS, & Providence Mural Hypocrisy
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- 0:04Speaker 1: Picture perfect launch, at least from our perspective. I'm sure
- 0:08Speaker 1: there's some details here and there that they had to fix,
- 0:10Speaker 1: But Artemis is on its way. Sure it took a
- 0:12Speaker 1: little fifty four year break between Moon missions, but we're back. Baby.
- 0:16Speaker 1: Don't discount and don't let people discount and downplay how
- 0:19Speaker 1: important and inspiring this is, because it is. This is incredible.
- 0:23Speaker 1: You want proof. Just saw this. This just came across
- 0:26Speaker 1: my timeline. Maybe you've seen the two in nineteen seventy one.
- 0:30Speaker 1: Nineteen seventy one Grand Scheme of things wasn't that long ago.
- 0:33Speaker 2: You know what?
- 0:34Speaker 1: The number one they asked high school and elementary school kids.
- 0:37Speaker 1: Number one goal for kids what they wanted to be
- 0:41Speaker 1: when they grew up in nineteen seventy one was an astronaut.
- 0:44Speaker 1: You know, there's the other side of this coin. You
- 0:47Speaker 1: know what it is now they want to be influencers.
- 0:50Speaker 1: Time to change that, and I'm telling you this Artemis
- 0:53Speaker 1: mission just may do it. So God speak to them.
- 0:55Speaker 1: We'll get to that as well. Unfortunately, I hate to
- 0:57Speaker 1: break the news to you. I know I've said this before.
- 0:59Speaker 1: I think we have a stupid Supreme Court justice. We've
- 1:03Speaker 1: all disagreed with some of them before. I think we
- 1:04Speaker 1: have a dumb one. I think we really do it
- 1:06Speaker 1: because it was Scotus. It was Potus at Scotus yesterday
- 1:09Speaker 1: with a birthright citizenship. Man, oh god, I wish there
- 1:12Speaker 1: were cameras in the Supreme Court room for that one,
- 1:14Speaker 1: but we don't have that, and it took me a
- 1:16Speaker 1: few days. We're going to get to the Providence, Rhode
- 1:18Speaker 1: Island Arena Zarutzka story because now we finally can wrap
- 1:22Speaker 1: our heads around it, and it's the hypocrisy is so bad,
- 1:25Speaker 1: but well there's some good good news in this too,
- 1:28Speaker 1: and we'll talk about it anyway. Thanks for finding Wicked
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- 1:42Speaker 1: after we get off the live stream. Let's get right
- 1:44Speaker 1: to it a little long, starting from ten. I think
- 1:47Speaker 1: it's completely worth it. I don't know if you saw
- 1:49Speaker 1: this on TV. Some of the shots from people in
- 1:52Speaker 1: Florida along the Space Coast, even like Orlando. Amazing views
- 1:56Speaker 1: of this and did you see the view from that
- 1:57Speaker 1: one airliner looking out the window and saw Artemis launch
- 2:01Speaker 1: right outside their flight unbelieved.
- 2:04Speaker 3: Ten nine eight seven FORRS twenty five engines L four
- 2:12Speaker 3: three two one booster, ignition and lift off.
- 2:18Speaker 1: The crew of Artemis two now bound for the Moon.
- 2:21Speaker 3: Humanity's next great voyage begins.
- 2:25Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it is American Ingenuity. Where are Humanity Ingenuity
- 2:30Speaker 1: putting it all together? It's inspiring, it's awesome, it's an
- 2:32Speaker 1: incredible mission. So much went into this, and little details
- 2:36Speaker 1: here note all of them. But when you look at
- 2:38Speaker 1: the entire scope of this entire mission just kind of
- 2:41Speaker 1: wrote this stuff out from some stuff that was sent
- 2:42Speaker 1: to me. It's a ten day total mission. It's five
- 2:45Speaker 1: thousand miles from the Moon's surface. The crew is going
- 2:49Speaker 1: to sleep in the four hour time periods. That's how
- 2:51Speaker 1: they take shifts. They were talking about that all day yesterday. Today,
- 2:55Speaker 1: Riot Engines will accelerate the craft to escape velocity three
- 3:00Speaker 1: and five. They're going to fine tune the approach to
- 3:03Speaker 1: the moon. Day six is when the crew flies by
- 3:05Speaker 1: the Moon. When they ricochet by Day ten will jump
- 3:08Speaker 1: to that. The crew will put on their proper suits,
- 3:10Speaker 1: they get ready for re entry. They will re enter
- 3:13Speaker 1: the Earth's atmosphere at twenty five thousand miles per hour,
- 3:16Speaker 1: and godspeed to them. It's incredible. It's incredible what we've done.
- 3:19Speaker 1: And we're not if you're my age, if you're in
- 3:21Speaker 1: your fifties, your gen X, we're not used to this
- 3:23Speaker 1: kind of stuff. A long mission. We can follow for
- 3:25Speaker 1: ten days like they used to back in the Apollo
- 3:27Speaker 1: or even Mercury days. It's a long mission. We can
- 3:30Speaker 1: follow day by day. And the communication and the cameras
- 3:32Speaker 1: are so much better too. We'll forget about that. We're
- 3:35Speaker 1: gonna get incredible shots of the Moon as well from
- 3:36Speaker 1: this whole thing. But it's about inspiration for everybody, including
- 3:41Speaker 1: some of the former astronauts, to listen to. Not Mark Kelly,
- 3:44Speaker 1: not that little garden home. Don't listen to him. Some
- 3:46Speaker 1: of the other former astronauts, a lot of them from
- 3:48Speaker 1: the Space Shuttle program. We're all over the news yesterday
- 3:51Speaker 1: talking about it. Let's how excited this guy is. Jerry Lininger,
- 3:54Speaker 1: former astronaut, listen to this also.
- 3:57Speaker 4: They gotta be so excited and.
- 4:00Speaker 1: Two years have worked in hard.
- 4:02Speaker 3: God bless America.
- 4:03Speaker 4: I mean, the things with the Trump space policy is unreal.
- 4:07Speaker 1: He started it his first term and this is a
- 4:10Speaker 1: fruition of it.
- 4:11Speaker 3: A big beautiful Bill had enough budget to make this
- 4:14Speaker 3: kind of stuff happen.
- 4:16Speaker 1: And you know, America is great again.
- 4:18Speaker 5: That's just I am so proud.
- 4:20Speaker 1: The controversy popped up again. He was on Fox News,
- 4:23Speaker 1: so he's, you know, Simpottico to the big beautiful Bill.
- 4:26Speaker 1: But he's right. You're gonna have a lot of people
- 4:28Speaker 1: telling you today, Oh, it's got nothing to do with him.
- 4:30Speaker 1: NASA's a space agency and it's okay. Go back to
- 4:33Speaker 1: when he first announced you remember the Golden Escalator days.
- 4:36Speaker 1: He said it. He said it when he first ran
- 4:39Speaker 1: the first time and won. We're going back to the moon,
- 4:42Speaker 1: not boots on the ground yet. It is the first
- 4:45Speaker 1: big step.
- 4:45Speaker 6: Now.
- 4:45Speaker 1: That guy was inspired. But nobody, nobody has been more
- 4:49Speaker 1: inspired by the artemist mission, anybody in the world. I
- 4:53Speaker 1: will go to say, then, who's being called space kid?
- 4:56Speaker 1: That's right, CNN. I know you've seen this, but it's
- 4:58Speaker 1: worth another replay and oologize for the language. There's an
- 5:02Speaker 1: F bomb in here. I promise you it's totally worth
- 5:04Speaker 1: it if you haven't seen or heard it. CNN goes
- 5:06Speaker 1: to this kid, the kidnedy space Nary says, what inspires you?
- 5:10Speaker 1: Why are you excited to be here? You know, look
- 5:12Speaker 1: for the deep stupid you know, typical talking head reporter
- 5:15Speaker 1: emotional response, and this kid nailed it perfectly.
- 5:19Speaker 4: Why do you want to be here?
- 5:20Speaker 1: Why do you love space? Why do you love being
- 5:23Speaker 1: a part of history? We're going back to the fucking moon.
- 5:26Speaker 5: That's why.
- 5:28Speaker 1: I just love that his face. I think he's going
- 5:32Speaker 1: to be on T shirts by the end of the day.
- 5:35Speaker 1: That was one of the Sorry for the F bomb,
- 5:38Speaker 1: but come on, tell me that wasn't worth it. So
- 5:40Speaker 1: we'll follow Artemis as we go by godspeed to him.
- 5:42Speaker 1: It's inspiring, it really is. This stuff matters. Don't let
- 5:45Speaker 1: them tell you it doesn't matter. You have to. It's
- 5:49Speaker 1: better to have kids like him inspired to be astronauts
- 5:52Speaker 1: and technicians and robotics engineers than it is to be
- 5:56Speaker 1: social media influencers. Believe me, this is a better way
- 5:58Speaker 1: to go. All right, let's get to uh Potus at
- 6:01Speaker 1: Scotus yesterday, the first time ever I'm told that a
- 6:05Speaker 1: sitting president went to walking down the street not exactly walking,
- 6:10Speaker 1: but the motorcade to the Supreme Court courthouse. This is
- 6:14Speaker 1: all over birthright citizenship. No, we don't have cameras in
- 6:17Speaker 1: the court room at the Supreme Court, but god, I
- 6:19Speaker 1: wish we did, just to see President Trump's reaction when
- 6:23Speaker 1: he heard these arguments. He loves the guy that made
- 6:25Speaker 1: the argument. I don't know how it's going to turn
- 6:27Speaker 1: out about the birthright citizenship. It's being obviously, the systems
- 6:29Speaker 1: being abused, mostly by very, very wealthy and influential foreign
- 6:35Speaker 1: dignitaries who claim, like seventy seventy five kids over here.
- 6:38Speaker 1: A lot of them are China from other countries as well.
- 6:41Speaker 1: This is what Trump's trying to stop. The argument devolved
- 6:46Speaker 1: into something that to me was absolutely incredible. No, there's
- 6:48Speaker 1: no video, but we do have audio. I've said this before,
- 6:52Speaker 1: and it pains me to say it because I don't
- 6:54Speaker 1: want to live in a country like this. But we
- 6:57Speaker 1: have it for the next thirty years, the lifespan, but
- 7:01Speaker 1: the working life span of a Supreme Court justice thirty years.
- 7:04Speaker 1: Let's give it, give or take the newest one, Justice
- 7:09Speaker 1: Brown Jackson. The last time she said something really dumb
- 7:13Speaker 1: made a big deal because we have the audio of it.
- 7:16Speaker 1: This even topp that I hate to say it. It
- 7:18Speaker 1: pains me to say it. I think we have a
- 7:20Speaker 1: dumb Supreme Court justice. I think she's just dumb. I
- 7:24Speaker 1: really do. People have said now you may have Supreme
- 7:26Speaker 1: Court justice is back then Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Maybe you
- 7:29Speaker 1: or I didn't agree with her for many things, many
- 7:31Speaker 1: stances on issues, policy issues, right couldn't You couldn't argue
- 7:36Speaker 1: argue that she wasn't smart though brilliant person. This one,
- 7:41Speaker 1: I don't think so much. She likened birthright citizenship to
- 7:45Speaker 1: allegiance to a country, but used used a crime to
- 7:50Speaker 1: make her argument. I know it doesn't make any sense.
- 7:52Speaker 1: You got to just listen to her.
- 7:54Speaker 5: I was thinking about this, and I think there are
- 7:58Speaker 5: various sources that say this you can have. You obviously
- 8:01Speaker 5: have permanent allegiance based on being born in whatever country
- 8:06Speaker 5: you're from. That's what everybody recognizes. But you also have
- 8:10Speaker 5: local allegiance when you are on the soil of this
- 8:15Speaker 5: other sovereign. And I was thinking, you know, I'm i
- 8:19Speaker 5: US citizen and visiting Japan, and what it means is that,
- 8:23Speaker 5: you know, if I steal someone's wallet in Japan. The
- 8:28Speaker 5: Japanese authorities can arrest me and prosecute me. It's allegiance,
- 8:34Speaker 5: meaning can they control you as a matter of law.
- 8:38Speaker 5: I can also rely on them if my wallet is
- 8:40Speaker 5: stolen to you know, under Japanese law, go and prosecute
- 8:45Speaker 5: the person who has stolen.
- 8:47Speaker 1: Huh again, Oh my god. I wish there was a
- 8:51Speaker 1: camera in that, just a flash to Trump's face or
- 8:54Speaker 1: anybody else's or opposing council's face on that she like,
- 8:57Speaker 1: and show her argument for allegiance to a country that
- 9:00Speaker 1: for birthright citizenship. She used a theft example. I don't know,
- 9:08Speaker 1: and I don't know how it's going to turn out,
- 9:09Speaker 1: but I mean, the history part of this thing was
- 9:11Speaker 1: President Trump first sitting president to go to and witness
- 9:15Speaker 1: in person oral arguments before a Supreme Court case. Pretty wild.
- 9:19Speaker 1: We'll see, I don't know. We'll see how it turns out,
- 9:21Speaker 1: all right, this one I held off for now three days,
- 9:25Speaker 1: first of all, to be completely honest with you, because
- 9:27Speaker 1: I had to get my head together for this, because
- 9:29Speaker 1: I'm enraged by it so much. And I know you've
- 9:31Speaker 1: seen the story because now it's making national headlines. That's
- 9:34Speaker 1: part of the story, and that's believe it or not.
- 9:37Speaker 1: As outrageous as this is, as infuriating as it is,
- 9:40Speaker 1: that's the good part of this story is that people
- 9:42Speaker 1: are more aware of it now because they didn't used
- 9:44Speaker 1: to be. I'm talking about Providence, Rhode Island. It's a dump.
- 9:47Speaker 1: I will just tell you that as a as a
- 9:48Speaker 1: native New Englander, I will tell you Providence is a dump.
- 9:51Speaker 1: And there's a reason why it's a dump is because
- 9:53Speaker 1: they vote for consistently and have for years. People like this.
- 9:57Speaker 1: Here's the background of the story. Business owner happens to
- 10:01Speaker 1: be a bar. Business owner happens to be part of
- 10:04Speaker 1: the LGBTQ community. Also part of the story. Bar property
- 10:09Speaker 1: has a big wall side, you know, facing like street level,
- 10:14Speaker 1: and they wanted to and did hire an artist from
- 10:18Speaker 1: the artist community to hire a to paint a big,
- 10:22Speaker 1: beautiful mural of Arena Zarutzka. She of course, was the
- 10:26Speaker 1: Ukrainian girl who escaped war to come to the United States,
- 10:30Speaker 1: and she was well. She was murdered on a commuter
- 10:31Speaker 1: train in Charlotte. Happened last year. I'm sure you remember that.
- 10:34Speaker 1: It was horrifying because a criminal that was on the
- 10:37Speaker 1: street and shouldn't have been, you know, you know the
- 10:38Speaker 1: whole story. So they wanted to honor her. What happened.
- 10:42Speaker 1: What's the result The politicians in Providence, Rhode Island demanded
- 10:46Speaker 1: and successfully did, by the way, get that mural taken
- 10:49Speaker 1: down and destroyed and removed. Ask yourself why, you know why?
- 10:54Speaker 1: You know the answer, because this happens to be a
- 10:56Speaker 1: pretty white girl. That's who Arena Zarutzka was. That's why.
- 11:01Speaker 1: But the reasoning was something completely different. Doesn't align with
- 11:05Speaker 1: their values in Providence somehow. Okay, again, private property paid
- 11:10Speaker 1: for by a bar owner, part of the LGBTQ community,
- 11:14Speaker 1: but the image of that person didn't align with their values.
- 11:16Speaker 1: First of all, here's a state politician and he went
- 11:21Speaker 1: on the local media and then it kind of exploded
- 11:22Speaker 1: from there.
- 11:23Speaker 2: Ultimately, we want to make sure that every community member
- 11:26Speaker 2: that calls Providence home feels safe. And we can both
- 11:29Speaker 2: agree that this mural behind us does not reflect Providence's values,
- 11:34Speaker 2: nor does it reflect the creativity that we want to
- 11:37Speaker 2: see in our city.
- 11:39Speaker 1: The mural of a murdered Ukrainian girl who came to
- 11:42Speaker 1: the States to escape war does not reflect their values. Again,
- 11:45Speaker 1: all you have to do is ask yourself out loud.
- 11:47Speaker 1: Why you know why? You know the answer? Why, it's
- 11:49Speaker 1: because the image of it. They have George Floyd statues
- 11:52Speaker 1: in that city, yes they do. But here you have
- 11:55Speaker 1: a girl again who escaped war from Ukraine and came
- 11:59Speaker 1: to the United States and what hacked to death on
- 12:00Speaker 1: a commuter train in Charlotte, North Carolina. Business owner in Providence,
- 12:04Speaker 1: Rhode Island wanted to put a mural up here to
- 12:06Speaker 1: remember her, so she's not forgotten. That does not reflect
- 12:08Speaker 1: their values. They're telling you exactly what they are. So
- 12:13Speaker 1: here you go, here's the national story, and it explodes.
- 12:16Speaker 1: So now you've got the mayor. You might remember the
- 12:17Speaker 1: mayor actually, do you remember the Brown University the terrible shooting,
- 12:21Speaker 1: you know of that whole incident, and he kept on
- 12:24Speaker 1: hijacking the news conferences and saying that, you know, stop
- 12:26Speaker 1: asking questions and we're working too hard and all this idiot, right,
- 12:31Speaker 1: Mayor Smiley, Well, now, and this is the good part
- 12:33Speaker 1: of the story. National outrage is forcing him to speak
- 12:36Speaker 1: on it. And of course he is going to start
- 12:38Speaker 1: with the local Providence TV, local yocals.
- 12:39Speaker 6: Here's whatst some national media attention for your response to this.
- 12:42Speaker 6: And because I'm paraphrasing here. You said the intent behind
- 12:46Speaker 6: these murals is divisive and does not represent providence. The
- 12:50Speaker 6: mural's artist sort of feels like he was stifled. Do
- 12:52Speaker 6: you have any regrets about what you said and how
- 12:54Speaker 6: you handle that.
- 12:55Speaker 4: I regret the state of where we are in politics today,
- 12:58Speaker 4: where absolutely everything political and controversial and hard. There's nothing
- 13:04Speaker 4: we should be doing to take away from the tragedy
- 13:06Speaker 4: of the loss of life that was represented here. But
- 13:08Speaker 4: then it was distorted by an erroneous tweet by our president,
- 13:12Speaker 4: and then a movement was funded by some right wing
- 13:15Speaker 4: billionaires and it found its way to our community.
- 13:19Speaker 1: Okay, I love that. I love that statement. Well, I
- 13:21Speaker 1: hate the way I hate. I hate where politics is
- 13:23Speaker 1: going now. You know, I just hated, Oh who took
- 13:26Speaker 1: it there? Mayor? Who did that? Who exactly did it?
- 13:28Speaker 1: Here's what you hate. Here's the translation of what he's saying.
- 13:31Speaker 1: He hates the pushback and the pushback therein lies the
- 13:34Speaker 1: real story, and that's the takeaway, because pushback happens. Now,
- 13:37Speaker 1: let's just pretend that this story happened a couple of
- 13:40Speaker 1: years ago, three years ago. Let's just put it at that.
- 13:41Speaker 1: Three to five is there national pushback? Probably not because
- 13:46Speaker 1: the mindset wasn't there and the exposure wasn't there. But
- 13:49Speaker 1: we control social media now and that's why this exploded.
- 13:51Speaker 1: That's why this story has national outrage for a little providence,
- 13:54Speaker 1: Rhode Island because of their hypocrisy. And it would bet
- 13:57Speaker 1: you dollars to donuts. I didn't look myself. I don't
- 14:00Speaker 1: want to delve that far into their social media. I
- 14:01Speaker 1: don't want to get into the mind of these crooks.
- 14:03Speaker 1: I really don't, but I would bet you dollars to
- 14:05Speaker 1: donuts that the state politicians, that mayor and all these
- 14:10Speaker 1: other little wimpy, disgusting, hypocritical tyrants still have Ukrainian flags
- 14:15Speaker 1: in their bios and the social media. I would bet.
- 14:17Speaker 1: I would bet you they still do. But you know
- 14:19Speaker 1: the irony third time have said it. You've got a
- 14:21Speaker 1: Ukrainian girl who came to this country to escape war,
- 14:24Speaker 1: who was murdered in North Carolina. Bar owner in their
- 14:28Speaker 1: city decides to put up a mural to make sure
- 14:31Speaker 1: that we don't forget about her. That doesn't reflect our values.
- 14:34Speaker 1: You know why her look doesn't reflect their values? You
- 14:38Speaker 1: know exactly why, You know exactly what they're doing there,
- 14:41Speaker 1: you absolutely disgusting hypocrites, and now and again, as outrageous
- 14:46Speaker 1: as that is, and that's why I've waited three days
- 14:48Speaker 1: to talk about it. I too had to wrap my
- 14:50Speaker 1: head around it. Now, the national outrage got ahold of
- 14:53Speaker 1: this thing. That's the good news. Don't let people like that,
- 14:56Speaker 1: mayor Smiley. Oh I hate where politics are right now, No,
- 14:59Speaker 1: you hate that people push back. It exposed your hypocrisy,
- 15:02Speaker 1: you little whimpy, disingenuous clown. Because now people like you
- 15:06Speaker 1: are getting exposed. That's what they hate. Keep exposing them,
- 15:09Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens. Oh, and there's always here's
- 15:11Speaker 1: another here's the other piece of good news on this.
- 15:13Speaker 1: There's always a counter effect. So this outrage happened, and
- 15:16Speaker 1: the pushback happened nationally. About the Providence mural story with Arena,
- 15:20Speaker 1: different city, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that's not too far from me.
- 15:23Speaker 1: There's a building that put up an even better, bigger,
- 15:25Speaker 1: more beautiful mural because of Providence's action of Arenas or Rodska.
- 15:32Speaker 1: There's always a counteraction, and that's happening. Now, that's the
- 15:34Speaker 1: good story. All right, let's get out of here, be inspired.
- 15:36Speaker 1: Let kids be inspired. This is a great thing. Don't
- 15:39Speaker 1: let anybody downplay it or pour water on Artemis. If
- 15:42Speaker 1: you've run into anybody today that's saying, oh, it's just
- 15:44Speaker 1: a rocket, it's got nothing to deal with her. No,
- 15:47Speaker 1: this is a big one. God speed to him. Be
- 15:49Speaker 1: inspired today and making a wicked awesome Thursday. Thanks for
- 15:52Speaker 1: hanging out with me. I appreciate you again. If you're
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- 16:11Speaker 1: a wicked awesome one. I'll talk to you tomorrow.