 Okay, here we are I don't have to say a damn thing about who we are what we are where we're from or any of that other stuff because it's all the intro hey man if you don't want to pause hit the pause button and read it's not my problem seven lucky bells for this week's progressive discussion show everything we discuss politically is part of our series crappitalism in a conch shell that's right crappitalism in a conch shell and there's the conch let's see if King Neptune has anything to say oh what out of doubt you're just as pissed as they are the yes I will mention that right now yes and there is an article and actually the ring of fire mr. Cousins from the ball headed guy from the ring of fire was furious about it and I watch his video yes sir okay Neptune all right all right how's you try it in is a nice and sharp oh it's self-sharpening all right cool self-sharpening try it in all right I'll see it I mean I'll see it what a stupid thing I can't breathe underwater I'll talk to you anyway speaking of it appears that the the mainstream Americans the poor the middle class the people who generally vote Democrat are absolutely furious more than ever before with the Democrats in Washington in the pacifist way they are handling the Republican Congress and the Trump administration lately they are really getting I don't want to say they're militant but they are if you want to call them if you want to say that they got flames coming out of every or orifices of their body I would say that's pretty accurate and what mr. Cousins and ring of fire was saying is besides the fact that they have every right to be angry at the Democrats the establishment Democrats in Washington this has something to do with the Democrats in Washington telling the people their supporters to be nicer online on social media to the Republicans to be nicer and it kind of goes with Chuck Schumer telling Bernie Sanders to ease up and be nicer to not only them but his fellow and a fellow to the Democrats in other words Bernie was has been being a little too truthful lately and and people are really pissed off and this includes protesters that voted for Trump protesting again and heckling people like Mitch McConnell and so on and so forth America is getting really angry across the board so have you heard as well they should as well they should have you caught wind of any of this nice nice stuff Democrats want everybody to be nice nice now to play footsie well I guess they they figure if they can't be nice and they can't reach the other side nothing's going to get done yeah but but being being nice and passive to this type of Republican Congress is equals a compromise as not exactly 50-50 there is no compromise in there is no compromise in out okay so being nice to them and all the way when they want to take absolutely everything away from the poor and low-income people being nice is not the emotion that arises when you're in a corner and you have nothing else to lose well they will try to do what they want to do in some underhanded fashion as they always do all right so for their people their people will not get it until later yeah well the DNC has it will get done and then the damage will be done yeah well the DNC has not of course has not learned its lesson from the 2016 campaign year it they're not embracing anybody that's really progressive they just throw the word progressive around you know as it sounds that's what happened with the Hillary right well it was not a progressive when she started out or when she was you know she was never if she was senters well a lot of a lot of dedicated die-hard Democrat supporters still think that Hillary is progressive and I hate to break the news to them but now you have you have two sides two sides of the same corrupt coins she just borrowed some of Bernie's policies and stuff that's all yeah well because of Bernie Bernie's yeah getting all the Bernie's popularity his rallies were were like light years larger than Hillary Clinton's rallies yeah you know and but you know what I said when I had posted I unsubscribe to the emailings from our revolution and they asked me why and I told them I said the same thing I posted I copied and paste my response also to the our revolution Facebook page it is a waste of time to go to attend our revolution rallies and is one nearby and at the Hackensack New Jersey County Courthouse to attend our revolution rallies and to donate money to our revolution if their own if they if they if their only ability is to send a message to the Democrats in Washington because you know Bernie Sanders is pretty much working all by himself again so to donate money to an organization that can only send a voice to the demon crats in Washington is useless and now if I had mentioned if our revolution evolved into a progressive third-party non-establishment party then people would feel gee I'm donating to something tangible I'm donating to a real team a team of real progressives where there's gonna be candidates coming out of that of a it's a party it's in other words I could say goodbye to the Republican and the Democratic Party I could say bye-bye to them and you know and you it's like it's like somebody who belongs to the to the Elks Lodge they belong to something or the Knights of Columbus even though Columbus was a scumbag you know they belong to some tangible tangible now we all know and I was speaking to our news lodge the moose lodge yeah honeymooners no I was the loyal order of raccoons raccoons yeah because we're about the Shriners aren't they con they're they're kind of fancy right Shriners are a group they're happening there are there they're muckity mucks you know there you know well they take care of St. Jude's Hospital real worthy cause they pay for all the kids and everything yeah no they're real worthy you know real worthy causes I don't know how much they get you know but but you know getting back to some tangible like for instance I'm gonna use this as a prank hey my kid my chili man this is a little too mild for me don't think I eat this yes the other one the Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman's can or not as ass I mean this can't this is tangible you you know what it you know what it is it's a can it's got a pretty red flip top you know it's inside of it's tangible the only thing our revolution can do is send a message to Washington who's in Washington establishment Democrats and and and and the lone wolf Bernie Sanders all by his lonesome tangible speaking of tangible I hear Donald Trump wants to uh get rid of the Federal Reserve and go back to a gold backed up well I guess there's not gonna be any money for the poor because you told me they can only print so much money that's right don't need so much gold in the world yeah well I was talking to William H. Morrill after I never heard him say anything like that who trophy no they're just tons of I never heard him say that that he'd like to go back on the gold well I guess there's a lot there's a lot of people posting a lot of videos and a lot of articles online yeah but but but you know I was talking to William more about how as every week flies by there is more and more insane things coming out of the mouth of Donald Trump that's for sure hey he was accusing Barack Obama of taking too many vacations but look at all the vacations he's taken so far already in a month and a half he's going to break WGW's record in no time I didn't I didn't even I didn't think old man Bush went to Kenny Bunkport really that often did he I mean he did no I'm talking about the GW yeah and Ronald Reagan those two you know yeah they had a lot of vacations and that's not counting the lavish lifestyle that that Trump's family is more tax payers money because of the Secret Service yeah New York wants the money back for protecting him it's something like 32 million dollars already it's a it's not it's not the the city of New York's fault if if malaria Trump and and Baron don't feel like staying in a White House a Baron can get a tutor he can get tutoring in the White House man yeah he could easily get the finest tutoring that you can do that to do to to you know I mean seriously no no no no joking yeah I mean I mean there's not there's nothing that would hinder Baron's education if he lived in the White House not at all you know so this is all an excuse because the mega rich are spoiled and they just have to have what they want and blah blah blah same old crap so that's pretty much it the mr. Stephen you know the person who had issues that were resolved with social services he told me that the he he got a letter that his Medicaid card is still good until May but he can't use it it's good but it's no good in other words he tried to pay for his pharmaceuticals with it and the pharmacy at Walmart says it's rejected so he called the office and he said they keep on saying yeah it's good till May but you know you can't use it because you had affordable care act horizon of New Jersey he says yeah but they dropped me because I got Medicare they dropped me so and they kept on playing a mind game with Stephen on the phone you know I mean it's good till May but blah blah blah stupid reasons you can't use it so it's done so of no useful purpose but it doesn't expire until May so that's the good old state of New Jersey for you well any state social service programs they all suck especially if you have a Republican governor they suck the big one people and I told Steve to tell them that if you were a corporate CEO and you wanted a hundred million dollars I'm sure you would get it no questions asked it's a drop of a hat but if you're a little guy that needs a little help forget it so but you know what more desperate people becoming poor and homeless means more free slave labor in privatized prisons and Donald Trump is all for privatized prisons from what I hear yeah yeah yeah what else is new of course the rich are for slave labor woman Mexican woman lived in the United States for over 20 years her children were born and raised here guess what she's being deported you know all the farmers that work the all the all the farms that down south they all split they don't they don't want to get the guess who was stopped from coming in the other day who Muhammad Ali's son oh gee and they asked him a very important question yeah where'd you get the name Muhammad my father dopes where'd you get the name Muhammad yeah did he I hope he said you ever hear my dad Muhammad Ali five water fly and sting like a bee obviously those I mean floats like a butterfly did not know they just heard the word yeah let me do how it goes out they only heard the word in my hammock cash is clean and they use that again okay I just claims a slave name and they use that against it you know when Muhammad Ali came back from I believe yeah winning gold medal in the summer Olympics he had to come home to to much racism in Louisville Kentucky even hit even he Olympic gold medalists yeah well that was before 1965 yeah well that's why because the civil rights laws were not in effect yet we were still under Jim Crow what a stupid fucking question to ask Muhammad Ali son I know that that that's the only thing they were interested in cash your question was Muhammad Ali son born in and grew up in the United States of America yeah and what's their fucking problem because he's my habit he was he was somewhere else and he was coming back home so he's got to be afraid now to go abroad to travel abroad that's what it looks like you're a born and raised in the US I don't care about that I want to know more about your first name my hammock name this conk man this conk has more benefits than just a prop and a telephone to King Neptune my hammock which sounds but my hammock no this is better my hammock anyway it's absurd it's absurd you're talking about a conservative ilk that is very much like the right-wing Roman Catholic Church in back in medieval times anti science anti-education anti-progress and they want to turn to Republicans want to turn back the right to at least the 1950s what well they think the 1950s 1950s I had a great president of Dwight Eisenhower with a night with a nice juicy 90% tax rate on the rich with with prosperity there's nothing wrong with Eisenhower's you know they never say much about that no they don't mention they it's like they don't know it you know well he's not right-wing enough for them well no no I I don't think they know what the rate was they're that fucking stupid absolutely well Ronald Reagan was just a just a famous puppet Ronald Reagan was not a rocket science scientists I mean he they say Hollywood said he wasn't a very good president of the screen actors Guild either you know but he I'm sure Reagan followed orders to well that's what the Republicans want when he went to president to finagle with the tax and house members and they want people who will do what they want this getting back to the fit of the fit the original fair progressive tax system let's go back to Eisenhower yep the rich paid her fair share in taxes guess what they're still living on high on the hog and they're still rich despite their crocodile tears and their whining the more money so I gotta be I gotta talk simple to you Americans out there because you're all bunch of imbeciles and numbskulls the more money you put back into the pocket of the little guy the more the economy is stimulated because the more money goes back into the economy through spending you lame brains customers it's called the customer moves the economy the customer moves the economy how many refrigerators does the rich buy does the rich buy you know a friend of mine said to me yeah but the rich buy less but they they they pay much higher sales tax because they buy expensive items I says yeah but sheer volume alone data it doesn't compare to the taxes that are collected from the middle class in the poor we're talking volume man volumes the answer to wealth but hey listen a car dealer that sells I won't pick an expensive car but let's say a Honda good car car that sells itself you get a Honda dealer it's pretty well established alright then you compare that to a supermarket chain now of course the the the markup the profit is much higher with the car dealer but that supermarket chain man they make money on high volume so they they may they very well may greatly I'm sure they do greatly surpass the profit of the car dealer which has its ups and downs you know and what a look at Walmart I'm sure they make money on volume you know I mean how much the markup that's the whole policy behind Walmart's you know low prices from their producers and in low prices so selling to the customers right therefore you sell to more customers hey economics 101 in a conch shell made simple for the general public by yours truly and dr. Bill of progressive discussions newsletter censored Megalife 21 we pull no punches there's no holds barred here we don't try to act cute we don't you know when we crack jokes it's totally ad-lib off the top of our head nothing is planned just like kind of like when Jackie Gleason did the honeymoon is that's the way I like it ad-lib and I did it I did a I want to thank McVon Raven for doing a wonderful enjoyable show with me progressive discussions after dark the other day live streamed from YouTube I love it I love it you know what the you know what the beauty of a live stream show on YouTube is besides not having to pay for any software so what's the time that was after dark was the title no well the the main topic was the assholes of social media I know but when you want to go find it yeah what's the title you progressive discussions after dark okay because I well you'll see the gimmick why I call it after dark it's actually after dark but I make it look after dark let's put it that way there was an HBO program like yeah dark shadows I was a little kid he's just get a crap out of me ah come on he was not a good vampire on the bus barnabas but I was a little kid I was in fourth grade man you ever seen that for a toothy or whatever he was named with the big law on the finger of the German guy that's a nasferatu man sorry yeah yeah nasferatu there's something what it frightened you when you creep when he creeped up on your bed women tend to get turned on by a man biting their neck they like their neck manipulated touched well touch is a very important thing for animals and but the biting of a woman's neck is is erotic to to the wall it was sensual yes yes sensual but getting back to when the blood gushed out that's more exciting like on the fucking no what's that program I think it's on amc go it was gory poor well it's got vampires yeah and they're in the city with normal humans and they bite you know humans oh Wesley's night oh that one oh and and the Quentin Tarantino movie that he did out in the desert of Mexico with Cheech Marin I don't know about that one yeah they were what is core see today people like when they're you know like come out like a hose listen this is why even in professional wrestling people the wrestlers have to do much higher risk maneuvers because people got bored with the right yet of of wrestling that maybe you know the wrestler went home healthy see now they want to be entertained but they don't care about what happens to the person who's entertaining them well you know I mean it's like what my grandfather said mark my word they will bring back the Roman Coliseum style entertainment people will become so desensitized and and sadistic that they will slowly we'll look at the UFC ultimate fighting competition well we you know we already have it there and maybe of course you got well you got to Timothy three in the Bible exactly yeah all right I'll get them back to live streaming on YouTube yes it is free but this is what I love about it that I was actually unaware of now you got the show going yeah did you know that when a person speaks the program automatically goes to the person who speaks and makes that person widescreen like the whole screen like let's say let's say I I'm not around I'm not in the area and let's say I'm doing the show with you you start giving a reading in a second it goes to it goes to you giving a reading then I start talking then it goes to me it makes me a big screen and then let's say there's a third or fourth person let's say you got three guests then Joe blow from Idaho starts to talk and then he becomes big screen you don't have to press anything you got your own director it's automatic that's what the director does you understand it's automatic yeah I don't have to click on anything well that's what amazed me it's automatic so you're amazed now no but I'm just saying it is amazing it's automatic whoever talks automatically gets the big screen without you having to press any buttons so anyway let us sink our teeth into these damn readings please we're going or natural because it's what is it high of 65 degrees Fahrenheit today I don't know exactly but it should be somewhere it's our holiday coming up this week or not really is there anything coming this week now nothing we're done breakfast day yeah and that was it and it's like the 28 was it 28 days that leap year will be 29 days in February right 28 this year yeah I planted some herbal medicinal herbal seeds yesterday but I have to put a mesh screen dollar store hamper over the the seeds because when I plant seeds the damn birds like to come and eat my seeds huh when I put the the mesh screen thingy they don't get to Alan combs okay the radio and television hosts and commentator like best known as the amiable liberal foil to the hard-right Sean Hannity on Fox News channel has died holy shit the famous Alan combs wow you know oh you know Jimmy Dore is great I don't know if you ever listen to the aggressive progressive Jimmy Dore if you want to know a a a a an aggressive progressive yes you go online and look up Mike Malloy I heard him well you don't want to hurt of him you want to hear him no hear Jimmy Dore every day no not only does Jimmy Dore get to the nitty gritty but he gets pissed yeah well so does Mike Mike Michael Michael tell you have I told you how much I hate these fucking Republicans that's good I like that that's one of the same I don't know why these guys don't get a time slot on aura TV along with Jesse Ventura and Larry King you know I mean a bigger company bigger streaming company because he these are these are bona fide talents the Jimmy doors the Mike Malloy's the the cousins I forgot his first name cut something cousins of ring of fire he's bald headed sank I don't know man sank I get the feeling sank with support Hillary Clinton when he almost had a fistfight with the Alec Jones who barged in on his show yeah Alec Jones try to taunt him I don't know Alex Jones you can only take so far well he's a libertarian but he's off the wall no he likes Trump okay and he's a right you know he's a right wing libertarian see me and you were more like populist we're like populist either populist I have no label I am just a human being now what what seems to know in certain instances right from wrong now a populist is very close to democratic socialism right populists are for the people well like like like northern Europe the democratic socialism if that's what they want to call it right but you know when you're for the people in America you're for democracy I wish Americans go to the dictionary and please read the political no they don't political definitions they need to read them too much of the Cold War has painted their ideas of socialism and kind of like that douchebag McCarthy well of course yeah McCarthyism the douchebag of McCarthy you know no yeah yeah Pinko Kami right right right people people be yeah yeah McCarthy McCarthy was probably a corporate whore well I'm sure he you know he had his yeah suppliers you know but all the evil really started with the Industrial Revolution and those guys JP Morgan and his buddies well in a capitalistic sense in a capitalistic sense yes but there's always been evil in the world well they had monarchies they had monarchies they had Baroness Baron nun nun nuns they had all you know all kinds of different economic systems before listen capitalism Robin Hood with the jolly or the jolly chubby friar tuck and his band of merry men were not allowed to hunt in the King's Forest yeah for the Kings and shoot the Kings deer with the arrow that's great because everything belonged to the King because I guess because he said so and he had the power to invoke it yes and the Irish had a mere plot of land around their cottage around their home they they couldn't have any industry in Ireland no agriculture of any kind they normally you know they had beef they raised cattle they they had a commercial I think cod fishing industry but the King says no it's all mine thank you anyway it sounds a lot like today you know today we say corporate oligarchy back then they said imperialism feudalism monarchy all right continue box spokeswoman Dana cling hopper confirmed his death on Thursday Fox also aired a tribute to combs narrated by Hannity how old was combs 66 he's rather young man that's correct and a statement from his family saying he died Thursday morning after a brief illness combs was 66 and he survived by his wife Jocelyn Elise Polly the sister of longtime Fox contributor Monica Crowley yeah I never liked the word Jocelyn annoyed me in a statement issued through Fox the name Jocelyn Hannity called combs one of life's most decent kind and wonderful people I'm a personal lovely most likely was combs was a New York City native Hofstra University graduate who worked for years in radio notably on WABC and WNBC and performed stand-up comedy really before joining Fox in 1996 so that account of first person is radio personality so personality see Alan combs represented old-time American journalism that same year he and the conservative Hannity began a 12-year run as co-host of the popular Hannity and combs program I remember that which brought combs both fame and ridicule admittedly a minority voice on the conservative channel combs was often mocked as too nice and easily overshadowed by the ever-aggressive Hannity you see he applied the the old hipster passivism of the of the old neoliberal hipster you know make nice nice with everybody please like me please love me the liberal media watchdog fairness and accuracy in media likened him to the hapless Washington generals the dependable losers to basketball's Harlem Globe metal lock lemon curly kneel I remember them well Al Franken in his best-selling lies and lying liars who tell them imagine combs earning his salary by adding toner to the copiers and printers Lufa in a Roger Ailes in his personal steam room and ordering Chinese food for editors working on misleading video packages hey what's wrong with Chinese food I love it combs was aware of the criticism but he said getting mean was not his style and that's his downfall people say to me why don't you fight fire with fire he told the Associated Press in 2003 quote you fight fire with water not fire unless the fire is coming from the Sun then it all it will evaporate the water he was also an author his books including thank the Liberals and Red White and liberal yeah and give it to me up the ass oh boy well you know what anybody else died recently not that I know famous I think we did our little moment of silence last last week well for a couple well you know what a moment of silence for Alan combs alright he deserves it okay well I'm gonna silence for Alan combs and I you know I just want to thank my friend in the Philippines for sending me these two lovely t-shirts Erlene Calilas I salute you thank you for these lovely very festive tropical looking shirts don't get ease it is a resort town in I think the southern archipelago or the Philippines archipelago look it up if you don't know what it means I'm not gonna explain it the White House unsuccessfully pressed the FBI and other intelligence agencies to discredit recent news reports asserting alleged contacts between associates of President Trump and the Russian officials the official who is not authorized to comment publicly said the White House sought to specifically rebutt reports earlier this month in the New York Times claiming that Trump associates had repeated contacts with Russian intelligence officials during the course of the past year CNN first reported the development earlier on Thursday in addition to the FBI the official said other agencies were approached with a similar request the official declined to elaborate or identify which agencies received similar requests from White House chief of staff ranked previous earlier this month a US official said a month's long inquiry into contacts between Russian government officials and associates of Trump's campaign and business interest was continuing despite the firing of national security adviser Michael Flynn for misleading White House officials about his communication with Russia the federal inquiry which has amassed intercepts of telephone calls business records and subject interviews is looking at how Russian officials sought to meddle in the November election said the official who was not authorized to comment publicly the official added that there was no current evidence of collusion to tilt the election the extent and purpose of those alleged contacts believed to involve a limited number of Trump campaign and business associates continued to be weighed including whether the associates were aware they were communicating with Russian intelligence officials or those working on behalf of the Russian government hmm well this article today was stating that the Supreme Court does in fact have a lot of clout involving the Russian involvement in Donald Trump's winning the election they they can investigate and they can do something about it I mean not the Supreme Court the Supreme I'm saying the Supreme Court the article saying Supreme Court can do something about it yeah but it can't investigate it cannot investigate it what investigative arm do they have you bring a case to them and they judge the case whether it's constitutional so they need all their job they need an outside organization to investigate for them well obviously the FBI and 15 other intelligence agencies are investigating so what happens we don't know yeah well that's what's good about having an FBI and a CIA that can work independently of the president that's an office because the president that's an office could be stark raving mad and have or or have malicious intent or malicious agenda agenda so you know you how else could you hold anyone's feet to the fire if the governor or the president has control over everybody yeah that's like that guy Stevens Steven whatever his name is for Trump one of his advisors or whatever if the president does it there's no law against it he can do anything it was the same thing with me as a dictator it's the same thing as the Republican Congress passing a law that they cannot be investigated for wrongdoing that talk about obvious obvious guilt that they're trying to hide and corruption and and corruption that's a red flag and a half yeah you see people should look for not only patterns patterns be formed but they should also look for red flags these are two skills that are there seem to be lacking today I recognize what the opinion section is however I take exception to the record giving almost full-page coverage with only one purpose in mind that is trying to drag President Donald Trump through the mud he's already if he already has mud in his sandbox and he's already playing in it and he might as well be dragged through it he's only been in office one month he is having a bit of a rocky start a bit but he is determined to accomplish getting things done for a change he is actually falling through on his campaign promises when was the last time that's been done let's give him a chance he is your president too we've had many worse presidents in mind Jimmy Carter Millard Fillmore Herbert Hoover to name a few I agree that we should have left Washington and Lincoln's birthday separate so that their outstanding performances stand up I am surprised someone hasn't suggested that even in Washington now they like that retail holiday with all the retail sales on a Monday father of our country should be ostracized because he was a slave owner well weren't they all the founding fathers yes they break you know well the one thing I agree with Donald Trump on is the fact that being that this country is in such deep turmoil that the attitude of America should become should come first I agree 100% where we have to stop giving money to these other countries really especially Israel we have to stop giving money to our enemies like Saudi Arabia we have to stop giving money period we can't afford to be giving taxpayers money to other countries you know as much as we like to help some of them we can't do it you know the amount of money that we do give in those areas is small not to Israel it's not it's six billion a year not to Israel my friend six billion a year right yeah they're sucking up a lot of money net net on Yahoo what else the money that we give to corporations is a vast amount compared to that's that those amounts given to other countries why are there so many Israel kiss-asses today please collectively go and look at the history go to 1948 look at the history of Israel the country 1948 yeah and then you'll understand why they need help why they are picked on someone like the well the president of Iran wants to drive him off the why does it why does Israel like to blow Palestinian children to smithereens because they are there there's still kids I know but the people the Palestinians want to do away with Israel so this is Israel want want to want to recognize Palestine as a that is one solution it has not been incorporated in years okay for years they get together to yak that out the mom mom mom camp David with the carter and etc and nothing ever gets done hey it doesn't Europe have a tiny country named Luxembourg yeah and I got if you didn't have an army and and a couple other little microscopic countries but they're not hated like Israel is Israel's hated buddy right it had to win so it had it to win wars to stay in place six day war look up the six-day war yeah well that's what happens you mean you mean for its very existence for a very good existence yes hey look look at you know what's worse than the Muslim ban is the Japanese Americans going into the internment camps by by during FDR FDR mind you right exactly if they you know a president can do bad a president can do good not all the time you know I bet if FDR was still alive view he would look back and say you know that wasn't a very nice thing I did with Japanese man all he said it while he was in power yeah wasn't a nice thing to do damn even George but it's the same thing as what Trump is doing with a ban on muds lums George Sakai and his parents with that you're in a concentration camp yes they will look all all the crops in all the crops on all those plantations of farms and down south they all rotted because the Mexican migrant farm workers split they abandoned the farm because they were afraid of Trump and and the crops rotted and it's true if if Republicans think Americans you know Caucasian Americans or American eyes like Americans they're gonna work on some fucking plantation picking tomatoes or turnips or whatever rutabag is whatever a frick they grow their sugar beads they gotta know the thing coming it ain't gonna happen I'm gonna say they're gonna say go fuck yourself well that is one of the things they say that David the immigrants will do jobs in America yeah unless they send people from privatized prisons on the farms now you're talking at a slave labor you're talking I says a bill moral says to me well yeah but they have to earn their keep I says keep for what what did they do to go to prison what do they do they had a little bit of marijuana on them give me a break some people and they're in there for life yes give me a break earn their keep instead of earning their keep what about what about the prison teaching them or whatever you know a job a skill or whatever there's no job when they get out yeah when they get out there's no jobs for people that are not criminals correct can you imagine I think marijuana is the best freaking thing that could ever happen to the United States oh I tell you I gotta salute that Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada oh this guy I'm telling you man he want he wants to start a base salary like Northern Europe in Canada Canada base salary that's the way to go base salary but before you do all that you got to jack up the tax rate on the rich you know the rich have to pay some taxes and they got one more small change of pace before before break yeah tomato paste all right I am a mature 25 year-old college educated man with a great career really matured at 25 so he doesn't go on spring break and and get drunk and walk on the terrace for lauderdale walk on the on the railing of a terrace tightrope dude no you don't do that okay I was on the dating scene for several years when I met Julie the girl of my dreams we fell deeply in love and after four months we began to speak of a long-term future together we seemed compatible in all the important ways for a good marriage and I was happier more secure with her then with any other woman I ever knew Julie had just ended a long-term relationship when we met long-term yeah one day she told me that this old lover was coming through town and wanted to see her she asked me if I cared I said that it was her business and do whatever she thought was appropriate I later found out that she spent the weekend with him mind your mind you when I confronted her she said that she was only saying goodbye she said the trist didn't mean anything remember trist trist are for kids remember that serial commission and I had nothing to do with her love for me it had nothing to do with her love for me apparently she thought it was appropriate to sleep with this guy and that doing so wasn't really cheating on me I was shocked and appalled my problem isn't just that she slept with an old lover but that she seems to think that such behavior was perfectly reasonable and I shouldn't be upset about well it's not exactly sleeping if you know what I mean they don't really just sleep with the other person now I wonder if I really know her at all and I'm thinking that I should break off our relationship even though I love her with all my heart Amy this the gentleman is asking ask Amy right right Amy should I end this relationship or take my chances that she will break my heart again Amy's answer Julie's choice is giving you a window onto your value system in temperament you say that you wonder if you even know her at all I say that you actually know her much better now she does not acknowledge she did anything inappropriate or hurtful or wrong she certainly refuses to validate your feelings or beat of betrayal you two are a mismatch this might also be her cowardly way of ending the relationship with you for some people getting caught is easier than having a hurtful challenging breakup conversation okay you know when I was having coffee with our voice-over artist William H. Morel of the third there's this girl as Irish girl you know who's seems to be very desperate to get married Lee and she's having problems with this so-called fiance that's using her she thought this was an engagement ring she's so obsessed with marriage she thought that this was an engagement I said this is not an engagement it happens to be a medieval ring in the shape of a band it is medieval style from the Middle Ages and it is copper which makes it good for you in terms of your energy it's not a wedding band would you get it is what makes you think you know you think it's that like it has its drawbacks let's put it that way if you get married is that the one you're lost no this is the one that actually fits my finger perfectly therefore it doesn't fall off the one I lost is the stainless steel medieval ring I got from China that wasn't fitted even though I gave them the right size of my finger it was a little loose but the mystery of that ring was why didn't I hear the ping when it fell off my finger clunk or clunk clink unless it went bing clink unless it fell off and went clunk on the front lawn which would not make a large sound you know what I mean jelly beans anyway we're gonna take a break how to how to defeat a conservative Bible verses hit the pause button read and learn followed by promo and then we'll see you know the deal for the rest of the show yeah this is James P. 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bells I could get a cowbell so but remember Stan Hanson used to have a cowbell tied to a rope or a chain or I think it was a rope used to hit people on the head with a cowbell nice stand a larry at Hanson what's the hold up House Republicans during the Obama administration you passed literally dozens of bills to repeal all or part of the Affordable Care Act they were mostly obstruction bills knowing that none had any chance of being signed into law now that President Trump is in the White House why can't you seem to pull the trigger that's a rhetorical question of course Republicans have two choices they can snatch health insurance away from millions of people or they can replace Obamacare with something that is suspiciously like Obamacare with a different name the Affordable Care Act just don't use the word Obama or they can give you nothing and everybody could drop dead wary of both alternatives erstwhile anti ACA as zealots have spent the first month of the Trump administration doing little more than clearing their throats the framework laid out by House Speaker Paul Ryan and other GOP officials last week is part of capitulation party vision in no way is it worthy of being called policy the surrender comes in the promise to keep the most popular features of Obamacare which are a guarantee of coverage for those with pre-existing medical conditions and a provision ensuring that dependents can remain on their parents insurance until age 26 Republicans accurately calculate that taking either of these benefits away would be political suicide and that Trump who has promised health care for everyone probably would box the evasion is that the GOP framework promises not to pull the rug out from anyone who received care under the ACA's expansion of eligibility for Medicaid the federal health insurance program for the poor but Republicans also plan to change Medicaid into a program of block grants to the states with sharp reductions in federal's funding that's what Reagan did by the way in effect House Republicans threaten to force states to do the dirty deed and strike millions from the Medicaid rolls governors from both parties are not amused the fundamental lie of omission in the GOP's repeal and replace framework is the absence of any sense of what the new system would cost or how it would be paid for hey just cut the military waste you'll have plenty of money a plan without a budget is more like a daydream Republicans do make clear they want to eliminate Obamacare's direct subsidies designed to help the working poor afford insurance instead they prefer a system of tax credits based not on income but on age a 50 year old billionaire would receive the same amount of tax relief as his or her 50 year old gardener why that's keep asking okay keep asking because it makes no sense oh boy anything that makes our tax system even slightly less progressive warms the hearts of today's GOP leaders because they're greedy selfish stingy scumbags that's why but whether the federal government pays out more in subsidies or takes in less revenue because of tax credits the reality is the same guaranteeing access to affordable health care is expensive Republicans can decide it's too costly and throw people off the insurance rolls but not but not the military bloat that's not too costly but if they do they will pay a grievous political price hey corporate welfare is way too costly to make no mistake this has been a bad pack for the ACA the chief executive one of one health insurance giant etna opine last week that Obamacare has finally entered the death spiral yeah too bad the the Republican Party wasn't entering the death spiral that Republicans have so gleefully predicted and officials of another mega provider to mana announced that the firm will not participate in the Affordable Care Act exchanges in 2018 that is called a self-fulfilling prophecy Republicans predicted from the start that Obamacare would fail and then did everything they could think of to sabotage the program but in one crucial sense the Affordable Care Act succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams it fundamentally changed the nature of the health care debate in this country access to affordable health care is now seen as a right not just for the elderly and the desperately poor but for all Americans and government is seen as the guarantor of that right the fact that Republicans pledge to continue protections for people with pre-existing conditions the pendants up to age 26 and 12 million individuals covered by Medicaid expansion illustrates how things have changed the GOP once fought these provisions tooth and nail now the party embraces core elements of Obamacare as the new normal house Republicans have been hearing from their constituents who would be or very bereft without the insurance they obtained under the ACA a couple of GOP senators have been been talking about repairing the law rather than replacing it and whatever Congress eventually comes up will have to pass muster with Trump who promised to expand health coverage not to reduce Republicans will win the battle over the Obamacare label but Barack Obama already won the war of repairing Obamacare is just simply removing the name Obama exactly and calling it the Affordable Care Act so all those redneck teabagger evangelical hillbillies that they don't have to worry about calling it old bummer I know like so a bummer old bummer care that's great well see affordable care right what imbeciles what imbeciles oh did you hear about those two Russian hackers that made a prank phone call on on senator John McCain no John McCain kind of like gave a bit too much information to them they suckered they suckered too much information out of John McCain well if you remember John McCain was photographed in Syria with ISIS a while ago so I'm sure he told some stuff to them too well you know Donald Trump was right John McCain was not a Vietnam war hero he was far from it they called him I think the singing canary yeah he to to to gain favor by the Vietcong cacti captives he kind of like spilled the beans so to speak sang like a canary yeah rolled over yeah yeah scientists have discovered a remarkable cluster of planets resembling the core of our own solar system that's right I read the article but better seven earth-sized worlds each potentially capable of hosting liquid water and therefore life in an orbit around a nearby star well you can be assured that humans from this planet will pollute and screw those planets up eventually if they cut if they choose to colonize it preliminary data as suggest all seven planets 40 light years from our son a rocky which would make them more similar to earth than say Jupiter a huge ball of gas rocky planets seem a better bet than gaseous worlds for offering the sanctuary to life as we understand it at these wormholes to get there as a shortcut ever before have astronomers found a star circled by so many earth-like planets with relatively pleasant climate better yet the Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories peering at these newfound worlds should be able to pick out chemical signals of any living organisms oxygen for example is a product of plants while methane is made by certain microbes we've made a crucial step toward finding if there is life out there said a more a truck triad of Britain's University of Cambridge co-author of the study on the planets in this week's nature magazine here if life managed to thrive and release gases similar to that which we have on earth we will know three of the planets black basque in just the right amount of energy from their host star that oceans could wash their surfaces assuming the worlds are swaddled in atmospheres three more could feature smaller water bodies and water might puddle on the seven under ideal conditions many researchers refer to the region around a star where the planets are neither too cold nor too hot to support liquid water on their surfaces as the habitable zone often a jokingly refer to as the Goldilocks I've heard that term I've heard that term five of the seven planets are almost the diameter of earth remaining two are a little smaller than earth among our celestial companion Venus is roughly earth size Mars and Mercury are smaller and the four outer planets are much bigger that a tally means the new planetary system boasts more earth-sized worlds than our own solar system I think we should send all right wing conservatives to one planet and and progressives to another I think I don't think we should have a mixed planet politically mixed planet other seven planet systems have been found but none with so many planets in the habitable zone the herd of planets circles a tiny dim star called trappist one which shares its name with the Belgium operated telescope that discovered the plan trappist these stars puniness it's only 8% the mass of our side will make it easier to pin the planet's measurements because smaller stars are more easily influenced by their surrounding planets of all the planets we found this has risen to the top as the most exciting the potential of studying habituality the Hubble Space Telescope should be able to detect methane and water in the planet's atmosphere said study co-author Michael Gillow of Belgium's University of Lee the James Webb Space Telescope scheduled to launch in 2018 will be powerful enough to spot the signatures of other chemicals such as ozone and carbon dioxide finding a cocktail of these chemicals in the right amounts will be strong evidence something out there the researchers say that luck with luck don't know in 10 years whether there are signs of life near trappist one people will get more and more news about this system in the coming months and years Dylan said this story is just beginning you don't say I do say you know what artificial intelligence they say that there's going to be the biggest breakthrough yet for artificial intelligence put into robots and I don't understand why but they said the not it's not the ability for the computer to play chess and be humans it will be the ability for this new computer to play poker they said it requires more it is more challenging for artificial intelligence to play poker against humans which I don't understand since poker has a certain degree of luck involved as well as skill yes it does same thing with Domino's it's luck and skill yep so I would assume that the chess playing computer would be the most challenging well you know something with luck involved in it obviously is going to is going to give the human a chance yeah I well IBM Watson was the first debut of artificial intelligence right IBM Watson I think it played jeopardy played on jeopardy that's like the Star Trek computer on the bridge the woman that the female voice that Kirk spoke to for advice that's how GPS apparatuses are like in the car I have a pleasant speaking woman turn right and go right into the light no no no no no Howard Stern no nasal voice it's a pleasant it's kind of like was was kit from Knight Rider a female voice no it was male he is on tonight you know Knight Rider on channel 109 on optimum it's like it's like it for if a man spent the money and had one of those real feel Android sex dolls that would artificial intelligence and any program there to say are you oh my darling you're the most handsome man that was ever ever conceived in a womb you are you are number one master you and have it wear a pink I dream of Jeannie harem costume they go I mean they have the dolls already but they're they don't have any intelligence cute you know dah duh duh duh duh duh dad dah buh buh 8 team Ranger part Control are on tonight and let me guess why you have to watch them because your lovely headphones did not work your lovely wireless headphones that you ordered for the television have an audio in and audio out jack and your new Samsung TV has no audio in and audio out jacks which leaves you to be jacking off so therefore you cannot watch you cannot listen I'm sorry to TV programs of your choice adequately of your choice adequately in privacy privacy like the British used to say privacy otherwise you will be able to watch any damn thing you want because you would have these wireless headphones and the television will be off and not disturb anyone else the letter writer confuses adherence to right-wing political adagla with the concept of liberty at his core it is clear that Donald Trump has a strong authoritarian personality he surrounds himself with yes men and attacks not only those who disagree with him but those who critically report on his manifest ineptitude well that's that that that goes hand in hand with anyone with a massive ego who is very narcissistic and and his indignance and his lies such a small petty individual is in no sense a champion of liberty moreover John Calvin whom the letter writer elevates as having had a strong influence on the founding of the Republic was hardly a benevolent figure he is best associated with the heresy of predestination which has been used to justify dire poverty obscene wealth, slavery and other inequities and injustices echoes of this thoroughly discredited and un-Christian philosophy can be seen in this country's reluctance to join the civilized nations of the world in constructing a viable social safety net fund the social services for the poor and tackle the obscene levels of income and wealth inequality that plague our nation in addition Calvin's model system of governance was a theocracy when he tried to institute one in Geneva he and his followers were driven out of the city so it appears that the liberties which the letter writer asserts Trump seeks to preserve are of the same type that Calvin allegedly promoted not relating to freedom in any recognizable form but supporting the division of society into the haves the blessed and the have nots the damned I heard I read actually that the planet earth the poles may flip soon which will which will mean our demise so all this squabbling on social media and with political shows means nothing if the poles suddenly do a flip flop and our goose is cooked our goose is cooked you can forget all about political parties and Obamacare and socialism and all that jazz but getting back to seriousness here the Democrats better start listening close to the American voter to the people if the people are getting pretty pissed off at them you know they'll jump at the chance if a new third party is created if they're pissed enough of course then you'll have all your for some reason gays and lesbians just love the DNC and the Clintons and also the Democrats of the Deep South like the Clintons because the slick Willy is from Little Rock, Arkansas you know it's people are funny it's like if you go into, when I was in Venezuela years ago before Chavez, all the statues the Virgin Mary's, everybody was brown skin and Latin looking all the saints, all the statues were dark so everybody thinks that you know, God and everything looks like them everything important is them is like them they tend not to be all inclusive only the white neoliberals want multiculturalism that's what kills me they want to sing kumbaya they think the rest of the world wants it, no no, no, no, no other lobbying groups, other races other cultures just care about their culture and their people so all the fools, all the white hips better forget about all this fucking kumbaya shit if there is any independent voter left out there still teetering on the fence teetering old Palmer's column thrust us decidedly to side with Donald Trump I am an immigrant of Hispanic origin a teacher and a woman, in spite of my independent political standing every four years I have voted mostly for the Democratic presidential candidate to be expected, yes but felt the freedom to vote for who I felt was the best candidate, particularly in state and local elections in 2008 with much illusion I voted for Barack Obama by 2016 for myriad reasons but primarily was the fact that he was not a politician I voted for Trump I really loved what Barack Obama had to say before he got elected in his first term I really dug what he was saying but anyway I have since been called every name in the book a racist a homophobe a woman hater an idiot and morally bankrupt now after months of the press's inability to present facts it seems there is no turning back for me Trump is our president to have given Palmer's column such prominence was irresponsible it burns bridges rather than building them it stokes the fires of hate and division and it undermines our democracy put simply, if you do not want to help or give to the poor then you are morally bankrupt you are lacking morals and you are not a true Christian period because the God of the Bible says quite differently so if you're a Republican and an evangelical that claims to be closer to God than everyone else well guess what you're a lying, phony hypocrite and you're a cultist your religion is a cult the proof is in the pudding the proof is always in the pudding and speaking of pudding not in mere words alone, yes I have a change of pace there I said paste tomato paste because I had a promising past prior to getting married it was understandable that my husband and I have gone through some rough batches nowadays all couples go through rough batches it's been three years since our wedding he still can't let go sometimes let it go sometimes a recent argument just escalated into his calling me a terrible word and stupid we have a beautiful little girl together so it's not like I can just up and go whenever I want everybody says that the kid is beautiful when is enough enough where is the point that I can give in to the thought I can't do it anymore or is this just what marriage is we have already done counseling and it just made things worse I feel really alone so can you please give me some feedback Jean Phillips I would solve a lot of problems for you man when you make your statement to your significant other your airing of grievances when you air your grievances it's a good idea to also tell your significant other why you feel the way you feel tell them how you feel but tell them why so there's no misunderstandings so there's no assuming we don't want any assuming going on clarify it that's communication and there's a lack of communication in relationships there's no doubt about that alright what does the expert have to say if your husband knew about your promiscuous past when he married you he has no right to throw it up at you when he's angry I mean everybody has a past that's fighting dirty and it never resolves the issue at hand you are neither the word he called you nor are you stupid and this is not what marriage is that's like tormenting Sylvester Stallone that he did a porno movie when he was young you're gonna throw it up to his face for the rest of his life and ruin his respectable acting career because of his long past hell no are you going to not buy Ron Jeremy's rum because Ron Jeremy was a porn star and now he's in a rum business called Ron the Jeremy you know what I mean the past is the past good husbands build their partner self-esteem they don't undercut it the way yours is doing because that is abusive that's true I always complimented and gave encouragement but sometimes it doesn't do any good if somebody's got a big bone up their ass and chip on each other there's nothing you can do since the counseling you had did not work you must now decide whether you need to try again with a different therapist or talk to a lawyer if I were living like this I know what I would do this guy's pissing me off man but the only person who can decide what's best for you and your daughter is you some women and men are really that insecure I mean really to the point of being childish you know grow up and forget about the past okay chief that's about it unless you got a small one let's do it amid all the reporting regarding Donald Trump's ramblings and incoherent statements and news conferences the press is failing to report Trump's actions that paved the way for future threats to the lives of American citizens he has undone Barack Obama's executive order to keep handguns out of the hands of 75,000 adults who are mentally disabled that's a comforting thought having a mentally unstable person have a firearm Trump is overriding an Obama executive order to permit mining companies to pollute rivers and streams endangering not only the environment but also the lives of people who already are vulnerable and voiceless that's another comforting thought and I guess they call it the clear skies Republicans have this fairy tale pipe dream that the planet earth will somehow dilute the toxins being diluted dilution is the answer to pollution picture one of those big sponges in the auto department for cleaning your car and just picture yourself putting a couple drops of a chemical or filth a couple drops every day eventually that big giant car sponge is going to get filled up it is clear that these are the acts of someone detached from the mainstream and someone who panders more to the influence of lobbyists and to the welfare of his fellow citizens profit before people in the planet so much for draining this wall and you have bottom feeders left over remember when the planet earth is dead mortal listen carefully of the filthy rich the mega rich when the planet earth is dead remember not only not only not only can you not take it with you but you cannot eat money enough said that's it have a lovely pleasant early spring a lovely pre I believe it's still winter pre upcoming spring of 2017 not for a while yet March 21st or 22nd but you wouldn't think it now I watered my akinacea I planted more sage and thyme just how medicinal the herb time is and of course sage you know any herb that has oils in it has aromatic oils in it tend to be very medicinal yeah we're not volatile we're going to explode on you you call the essential oils you know volatiles cloves, cinnamon things of that nature anything with aromatic oils is either a very powerful antioxidant and also medicinal of course akinacea is very potent immune system builder and the beauty is all of these seeds that I have planted in my home last year are all perennials which means you set it and you forget it that's how I like it easy we'll see it, enjoy enjoy, invigorate, it is very invigorating actually all the shows I've been doing lately have been extremely invigorating from Sucka I don't know if it's I think it's a combination of things it's a combination of things it's been a mega live 21 production