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Dec. 31, 2010 - Jimmy Dore Show
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It's the Jimmy Door Show.
The show for...
The kind of people that are...
It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper say.
It's hard to talk on your TV again.
So sit back or sit up or keep driving.
Because it's the Jimmy Dore Show.
And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Door.
Hi, welcome to the show.
Let's let everybody know what's coming up on today's show.
It's the last show of the year.
We're going to take a look back at some of our favorite bits.
First up, hey, the Catholic scandal happened, and our favorite Catholic, Bill O'Donoghue, president of the Catholic League, decided to stop by and foam at the mouth and tell us some stuff about Jesus and his love.
So we're going to look at that for a little while.
And then after that, the healthcare debate was a big story last year.
It eventually passed.
We're going to look into some of the clips from Russ Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly, who both of them could fix healthcare without even trying.
They have ideas.
Also, Wall Street and unemployment.
We all know the unemployed need to stop hanging out and not working.
They need to get back to work.
They're on vacation, according to Fox News.
We're going to talk about Barack Obama's Wall Street policy and the crazy...
Are you still middle class?
According to CNN's news reporter, you are.
And race relations have never been better over in America.
And when I say over, I mean right here.
Okay, so let's get back to the show.
I'm going to let you know who's in studio with me.
Sitting to my right, Steph Semarano.
Hello, Steph.
Next to her, Robert Yasamura.
Hey, Jim.
And then, right across to me, diagonally, this is a diagonal.
We're sitting around a table would be Paul Gilmartin.
Hi, Paul.
How are you?
I'm coming out of the turn.
That's where I would be at.
This was her racetrack coming out of the turn.
Seated directly across from me is Ben Zalovansky.
Hi, Ben.
How are you?
Hey, Jimmy.
I'm in the hot corner, except for it's freezing in here.
Yes.
And thanks to everybody who came out Tuesday night for the Poppin' Politics at the UCB Theater with Bill Burr and James Adomian.
Wow, that was a fun show.
That was a fun show.
That was an amazing show.
That was probably the funniest show they've ever done there, and that's saying a lot for the UCB theater because...
Maybe the funniest show ever in Los Angeles.
How about that?
Let's do it that way.
Why are we limited to the West Coast?
Okay.
Funny show worldwide?
They should just burn down that theater because they're never going to do better.
Well, they had to call in.
I had to pay extra because they had to bring in the union guys, the carpenters, to put the roof back on.
Sure.
Well, Axe, it didn't blow up.
I just had to get it down to the regular level.
We did raise, we raised the roof a little.
That's good.
So we're going to start with our wrap-up.
Actually, wait, Timmy, but before we go, Ben, what?
Is this, would now be a good time to do my year-in-review wrap-up?
Yeah, I mean, I guess so.
We could have discussed this before the show, but whatever.
You want to do your year-in-review thing?
Yeah, yeah, wrap-up.
Okay, go for it, Ben.
Thanks.
Okay, well, folks, things have been pretty crazy over the past, you know, however many months.
So let's get started.
This was the year our first African-American president took office.
We said hello to a hero named Captain Sully Sullenberger and goodbye to the king of pop, Michael Jackson.
Ben?
What?
You need to check your research.
No, no, I checked it.
The president's really black.
But most of that stuff happened last year.
It was a heck of a year, that's for sure.
The world was dazzled by the Winter Olympics in Calgary, devastated by the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, and electrified by the Democratic Party's nomination of Michael Dukakis for U.S. president.
Ben, I don't think that that was, you've got the wrong.
Hey, hey, stop trying to horn in on my segment.
So many highs, so many lows.
Nevada became the 36th state in the Union.
General Sherman led his infamous March to the sea.
And a nation rejoiced at the birth of future peanut enthusiast George Washington Carver.
Okay, I'm going to stop you right there, Ben, because that was 1864.
You're supposed to be doing a year in review, but nothing you're talking about happened in 2010.
No, I'm not doing a year in review.
I'm doing a year in review wrap-up.
That's all the most memorable moments from previous years in review.
Oh.
Okay, sorry, Ben.
I didn't get that.
I still don't get it.
It sounds pretty stupid, actually, but go ahead.
Well, that was all I had.
We should just start the show, I guess.
Okay, thanks, Ben.
That was great wrap-up.
Whatever.
That was fantastic.
I'm glad we stopped.
All right, no.
Thanks, Ben.
Okay, no.
The union just called and said the roof is safe in this building right now.
You know, last year reminded us that some things never change.
How about the Catholics, right?
The president of the Catholic League, Bill Donahue, if you don't know him, he likes to spread Christ's unconditional love by putting an angry face of indignation on it.
Here he is resorting to one of the Catholic League's favorite tricks of taking no responsibility for its systematic harboring of molesters, instead smearing the gays in a proud display of bigotry followed by a litany of lies.
So what we did here with this clip is we took Bill Donahue talking about he's trying to make the scandal, the pedophilia scandal inside the Catholic Church, sound like, oh, we just had too many gays in the priesthood, and now we're getting rid of them, and we got it all under control now.
And so, of course, we all know that that's a, that would be a lie.
That would be inaccurate.
It's not a gay problem.
It's a molestation problem and systematically covering it up.
That would be the real problem, right?
Okay.
So we put a bell every time.
So he was on with Larry King, who is, again, another guy who had big story this year.
Larry Kingsby.
And so we put a belt every time Bill Donahue tells a lie about the scandal.
Here we go.
William Donahue, is it going to get better before it gets worse?
Oh, it's already gotten better.
The timeline of the damage was the mid-60s to the mid-80s.
But Rossiker's taking a number of important steps.
It's harder for practicing homosexuals to get into the priesthood, and that's a very good thing.
Like Flather said before, we've only had six cases of allegations in the last year or so.
I'm very encouraged about the future.
I just hope that the other religions and the public schools will look at the Catholic Church today as a model of excellence because we have a lot to teach them.
You know that if you were to confront him and say what you're doing is really just scapegoating, the first thought to pop into his head would be, how do you talk a scapegoat into taking his pants down?
Only children in Catholic schools behave well and do well because they're afraid of getting buggered.
Like, that's why the schools are so good.
You know, I went to Catholic school.
Paul, you went to Counter Catholic School.
And by the way, nobody ever tried to do anything.
Okay, no priest, no teacher.
You got very lucky.
Very lucky.
They only tried to hit you, right?
They did.
Well, they didn't try.
They did.
Lifted me off the ground by my hair.
So it was no gentle touching.
No.
It was mostly the...
It was like, hey, try to sexualize this.
That's right, but there was no orgasm.
So, okay.
well, not yet.
What about now?
I actually was, Father Hollahan tried to molest me.
Did he really?
Yep.
Yeah.
Didn't he have a nickname?
Yeah, we used to call him Happy Hands.
Happy Hands Hollahan.
That was our name because he would always, you know, his hands were all over you if you got an error.
But in his defense, I mean, with a name like that, he sort of had to become a molester.
Oh, yeah.
I can't waste this.
With a name like Hollahan?
Hollah.
Happy Hands.
Hollahands, you know.
I never understood why the Catholics didn't monetize their pederasty.
Like, like, Trappist monks sell jam.
And you could have like a monastery that just sells ripe young boys to the pedophilia community.
Send your letters or just email.
Time assumuro.
All right, let's move on.
So do you ever say, I mean, and then the Pope recently came out this year, big milestone.
The Pope came out and he said he's now in favor of condoms to prevent AIDS.
And it was nice to see the Pope come into the mid-1900s.
And so these, and I look at this guy as he's saying this, and they have him on the news, and I think to myself, this is the people look to him for guidance.
The guy who just came around on rubbers.
He's just getting around on rubbers.
And now you said, you know what?
I better ask this guy's advice on something.
If you're asking that guy's advice on any, he can't even, he doesn't even want to put pedophiles in jail, but you can't wear a rubber.
That's the Pope.
And people look to him, like, how could he be spiritually leading anyone?
The most morally bankrupt spiritual leader I think I've ever seen next to maybe Sun Young Moon Ill, whatever that guy's name is.
I mean, do you really want to kiss the ring of a guy who hasn't been using condoms?
Well, that's when I stopped being when my dad kissed the bishop's ring.
I was getting confirmed, and my dad was like, oh, come backstage and meet, you know, backstage.
Green room?
Back wherever.
What do they call it?
The sacristy or the whatever.
Behind the altar.
And so there's a little green room back there where everybody gets ready.
Blue cheese, cheese and crackers.
And the altar boys drink the church wine.
Nobody's looking.
And by the way, it was VO at my church.
They didn't drink wine.
They drank VO.
That's cognac?
Yeah, it was whiskey.
Well, I mean, isn't that how largely how the Catholic Church has kind of kept their power over the last couple hundred years is not really through being morally taking actions that people admire, but through smoke and mirrors, you know, the big gold cap, you know, the ornate thing.
And so people just kind of, you don't question it and you go, well, this must be important.
That's got a lot of frills.
Sure.
You know, that's got a lot of dew dangles on it.
That cirque dule keeps selling out.
That's your.
I love it.
Let's talk and let's move on to the next topic is healthcare.
That was the big story, I think, from last year.
It had to be.
So the people who were against health care reform found themselves scrambling for reasons why we're going to be against it because there's really no good reason to be against healthcare reform.
So here is my favorite Republican operative.
He's a black Republican, which is that close to being a gay Republican, right?
It's like it's really.
So it's a psychological disorder.
We don't have a name for it yet.
So here he is defending, here he is defending not having health care reform.
And you'll see how desperate it is.
It doesn't have a legacy.
You're here representing the conservatives.
Where's your solution when it comes to the people?
39% increase.
Well, let's see.
That was right after, I don't know if you remember, earlier in the year before they passed health care reform, Blue Cross Blue Shield in California jacked up everyone's individual policy rates by 39 to 40 percent.
I was one of those people.
They just gone, okay, we're going to increase yours.
If you buy it individually, you're going to be jacked up 40 percent, right?
So that's what he's talking about.
And which guy is the black Republican?
You know, he's the guy who's always on the Ed Show on MSNBC, and I'm blanking on his name right now.
No, which voice is he in this?
He's going to be, you'll know the guy.
Okay.
The one who's talking insanity.
Yeah.
The third time you might listen, Ed.
The fact of the matter is, if you look at that case for the Blue Cross case out in California, why do you think insurance companies are so worried?
Why?
Because the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. are going to take control of the healthcare industry.
They're jacking rates up.
Look at what they did with credit cards.
They said, oh, we need to have federal regulation, more increased regulation for credit cards.
What did they do?
They jacked up fees for credit cards.
You guys want government to go.
So he's basically his arguments against regulation would be an argument for regulation.
That's how bad, that's how much of an argument they didn't have.
They have to squeeze all their gouging into just a few months.
Right.
What do you expect them to do?
They like to gouge you over a longer period of time than Ryan.
Gentle gouging.
Right now, they're just going to...
I mean, that was really...
But you know what?
Anybody who has to describe a policy where they're going to keep jacking up prices.
That's right.
They're jacking you up.
They're going to jack you up.
And that's what...
That's right.
That's how business works.
People get screwed over when business feels like they might get screwed over.
Here's the difference.
I can get rid of my credit card.
I can cut it up.
You know?
Yes.
I can choose not to have a credit card.
I think I need to go to the doctor.
I'm pretty sure.
I'm pretty sure I need my credit.
I'm pretty sure you have to go to the doctor.
But largely, you also can no longer cut up your credit card because try to buy a house with no credit rating, try to do anything.
You can't even run a car without a credit card.
By the way, I have an excellent credit rating because I don't use my credit card.
Oh, I have one credit card.
I don't use it.
But they're setting it up in such a way that you can.
We're going to get to this.
We're going to get to all this.
Let's talk about healthcare.
Joe Lieberman was the guy who stood in front of health care.
Most importantly, the public option, which is really the only thing we needed to get.
And here's what he had to say about it.
Morally, every one of us would like to cover every American with health insurance.
But that's where you spend most of the trillion dollars plus or a little less that is estimated.
The estimates said this healthcare plan will cost.
And I'm afraid we've got to think about putting a lot of that off until the economy's out of recession.
There's no reason we have to do it all now.
Yeah, he always sounds like his cheeks are asleep.
Yes.
But I like how he's saying that morally, it would be nice.
Morally, you're supposed to take care of people when they get sick, but we don't have the money right now.
I mean, our economy is more important.
Money's more important.
The war in Afghanistan.
And the intractable war is more important than your liver failing.
Yes.
You know, Jimmy, morally, we'd like to get rid of slavery, but cotton would go through the roof.
Morally.
That's his argument.
Again, that's the other argument.
Morally.
That was the other.
Morally, he'd like to do it, but we can only be moral when it makes sense.
We'd like to spend money on people in excruciating physical pain without a solution.
So it is moral to be involved in wars and not provide health care.
That is moral.
And people want to know how do guys like Joe Lieberman, like, how does he get on TV and say stuff like that?
And is it because he's bought and paid for?
Well, somebody asked him that question.
Some of your critics say that the reason that you are so dead set against a public option is because there are so many insurance companies headquartered in your home state in Connecticut, and they've been some of your biggest supporters.
What have they given you this year?
$400,000?
Something like that.
Does that have anything to do with your position on the public options?
No.
Okay.
Yeah, I don't think he's going to say yes.
I think even Yavio, who calls Electrodes up to his nuts, I don't think he's going to say yes.
And the thing I love is that they pretend there isn't a problem.
Then there might be a problem, but we can't afford to fix it now.
And if there is a problem, we can afford to fix it.
We just don't need to do the stuff that would fix it.
And here's what, like, here's Rush Limbaugh's fix.
I've run the numbers, and the real number of uninsured that want insurance is 12 million.
Take some of the unspent stimulus.
We have 85% of the stimulus unspent.
Take some of it.
For $35 to $40 billion a year, you could insure those people.
Not $2 trillion, not $1.4 trillion.
That's the objective.
Do it now.
Why do I picture him, the running of the numbers is him leaning back and puffing on a cigar while an intern uses a calculator?
Also, I believe Rush Limbaugh ran the numbers just as soon as I believe he ran anything.
I would believe he ran a marathon before I believed he ran the numbers.
By the way, what he's saying sounds really benign, but if you actually realize why he says those numbers instead of 35 million, which is the more accurate number, it's because he does things like take away people like illegal immigrants.
He takes them off the number.
Like he does everything a hardcore right-wing Republican would do to get that number down to 12 million.
The number is 35 million people.
And I think it's hilarious that, again, there he is.
He pretends, okay, so there isn't a problem.
Maybe there's a problem.
We can't afford to fix it.
Oh, there's a problem and we can afford it, but that really wouldn't fix the problem.
And here's about, and Bill O'Reilly, he also can fix the problem very easily.
I don't care about either political party.
I'm an independent, but I am.
And apparently a comedian.
Okay, wait.
Okay, wait.
See, he does that.
He does that.
He's not even trying.
That's the beauty.
Somebody said Jenkin Uger said about Fox News, they were making fun of Jon Stewart for being serious and getting that 9-11 health care bill passed.
He did a whole serious show, and they were castigating him for that.
And Jenk said, hey, you know what?
Instead of making fun of a comedy show that makes us think once in a while, how about doing a news show that doesn't make us laugh?
That's awesome.
Jenkins.
Jenkins, he's getting shooting.
I emailed him.
I emailed him.
So Bill O'Reilly, he's not a partisan.
He's an independent.
He doesn't care either way.
And then his listen.
And they're in targeted abuses in the healthcare system.
I think I could have fixed them or at least made them better without this massive government takeover and expenditure.
Yeah, see, he could have fixed them.
He could have just went in there himself.
And here's what he says is the problem with our health care reform.
And this is what I think the crux of the matter is, Governor.
We're giving 32 million Americans health care.
You're giving it to them.
Let them earn it.
I earned it.
Let them earn it.
Okay.
And so to me, that is, I've said this before.
You know, health care should be something like clean water, right?
It's like something that a society makes available to its people because it's something we all need, and we know we need to do it at the lowest cost.
Instead of having this, everybody has to earn it, everybody has to do their own thing.
Like, you go up to people, you make people earn the polio vaccine, right?
You go up to them.
So then when you see somebody with polio, you go up to me and go, ha ha, slacker.
That's right.
So these are the big problems.
It's coming down to a.
And it kills me that these people call themselves Christians.
It's that's Christians.
This is the part that just do you not hear yourself?
Do you not hear yourself?
I think they do.
I think that it's all, you know, it's all a scam.
I don't think, you know, do you think that when Representative, when Senator Kyle says that we shouldn't have to do this because we shouldn't have to work over the Christmas break being one of the most holiest of holidays to Christians, you know he's full of crap when he says that.
You know he couldn't give a damn about it.
We all know that the real holy part of Christmas are the vacation days around the actual day.
Yes, that's You can work till the 24th, come back on the 26th.
And these are the same people now.
It's like not only do people, but we talked about this before.
Not only do people agree with what Bill O'Reilly just said, though, earn it, it's that people who don't have health care feel like if they don't, if they can't afford it, they don't deserve it.
That's how they really feel.
Let me just say this, because we ran into an interesting stat two weeks ago, which was that the number of people on food stamps is over the number of people who are unemployed.
So there are a lot of people in this country who are underemployed.
There's no way they can afford private health insurance.
So I just would tell Bill O'Reilly, like, there are millions of people who want to work.
They want to work.
They want to work 40 hours so that they can get unemployment.
They don't want to work.
Why don't you go talk to them, you psycho freak?
You know, in addition, you know, they'll talk about how you have to earn it.
You have to earn it.
So a little kid has to earn it.
So a person who's born with some sort of illness, they still have to earn it.
You know, tough luck, kiddos, until you're 18 and legally able to work.
Or 16.
Why do we even have child labor laws?
Because these kids need to get out of it.
A lot of these babies today aren't earning it.
Unless there is something genetically in the right wing that loves to punish.
And they are always looking for any type of issue or policy or stance that lets them feel like they're getting that energy out that punishes.
I don't agree with that.
I think what I mean, I'm not talking about fiscal conservatives.
I'm talking about being angry.
I sucked up all the stuff at Catholic grade school, and I don't question anything, and it makes me angry.
I'm going to blame it on the immigrants.
The core of the Republican position is like, well, we believe in people taking responsibility for themselves, which I don't totally disagree with, but what they do is they push it out to the craziest end of like, people should take responsibility for their own actions.
That guy has had bad luck.
That guy lost some legs.
Maybe we help him out.
And that's not punishing?
That's not punishing?
No, I think it's terrible, but I think that they start from what sounds like a common sense core and then they push it out to insanity.
Okay, we got to move on.
But that's by their desire to inflict pain.
You guys made their indifference.
I think you're both wrong.
What's happening?
I think you're both wrong, too.
What's happening is that you're talking about a coarsening of the debate in our society.
There is this kind of, there certainly is that if you're poor, you're poor because you're a bad person.
You are morally failing.
If you don't have health care, there's something wrong with you.
And in the meantime, 40 million Americans are on food stamps, as we talk about.
If you're rich, you deserve it.
If you're poor.
Also, by the same token, the far, far left is guilty of trying to save everybody and not having people have any personal responsibility.
Yeah.
It's a much smaller minority than this dangerous element.
Nobody listens to the far, far left.
They have their own news network.
They don't have their own news networks.
And nor do they agree.
I wish paternalism was our problem in this country.
It really did.
Right, exactly.
I would say that that.
I wish I knew what paternalism was.
Okay, let's move on.
John Stossel.
That's never be your problem.
So here's the new thing.
Now, they're going to balance that.
So we have to have austerity politics now.
We're going to cut back on things that people need, like Medicare, Social Security.
Even though Social Security doesn't add a dime to the deficit, they have to cut back on it to help the deficit.
So it's this whole shift that's happening now in our country and our psyche.
It's gone from, hey, we could all have a great country that FDR said we could.
We could have a new deal.
We could have a social contract where if you're willing to work 40 hours a week in America, you're going to be able to have a good life.
Well, we've changed that now.
And it's like now you're going to have to be able to just claw and scratch for whatever you can get because we're taking it all away from you.
Your pension's not safe.
Your pension's not safe because we talked you into getting rid of your pensions and going into 401ks.
And then we let the regular, we deregulated Wall Street.
We screwed it.
We took your 401k and we gave it to these guys.
And we blame the unions.
And here's exactly, and here's John Stossel.
So here's the new lie.
The new big, John Stossel, friend of the show.
Here's the new big lie of how he's interviewing a union leader about what he thinks led to this economic meltdown that we find ourselves in.
And the blame is not to be placed on the public employees.
The fact is we're in deficit because Wall Street abuses have caused so many stock losses that all of us have been hurt.
The government's been hurt.
You can't hurt anyone.
The stock market went up a lot because of those greedy Wall Street people before it crashed.
People say it's you union thugs that are bankrupting governments.
Okay.
And by the way, that gets applause.
That gets applause.
Even the Stossel people are like, okay, that's a little gross, but I know we're here.
Okay.
The applause sign is on.
That's how this feels.
That's a guy who has his own television show on a business news network.
That's like saying, you know, you can't say that this guy was a bad pilot.
Before he hit the mountain, everything was going fine.
Do you know that they were making great time before they hit that iceberg, the Titanic?
And I think that it's not that guy's fault.
They were making great time.
I think it was the people in the lifeboats.
They screwed up at the Titanic.
Let's point the finger where it should be.
I think it was the union.
Probably the union.
What was the question?
But the answer is the unions.
Yeah, the answer.
So that's what's happening right now.
So we talk about how there's 40 million people are on lunch.
I mean, not lunch, but on food stamps.
So because of this depression, a lot of the poorest kids in America, their only full meal they get every day is at school.
So when summer hit this year, they were afraid, hey, what's going to happen?
A lot of these kids aren't going to even get one meal anymore.
Well, Rush Limbaugh had some advice to them.
We're going to start a feature on this program, where to find food for young demographics.
The first will be try your house.
It's a thing called the refrigerator.
You probably already know about it.
If that doesn't work, try a happy meal at McDonald's.
If none of these options work to find food, there's always the neighborhood dumpster.
Now, you might find competition with homeless people there, but there are videos that have been produced to show you how to healthfully dine and how to dumpster dive and survive until school kicks back up in August.
Very nice, very sweet, and I'd have to say vulnerable guy.
And that was Chris Wallace's description of Rush Limbaugh right after.
When I hear an obese mega millionaire kind of making fun of poor, hungry kids, some about it just feels right.
You know, he left out the easiest way for kids to get food, which is to have your maid fill a bunch of fake prescriptions for it.
Why not do that?
Why don't people get it?
So when people say that Rush Slimbaugh and Keith Olberman are the same, I would point to a clip like that.
I would point to that and maybe even maybe even the healthcare.
I used to be one of those guys and I stand corrected.
Yeah, if the art of this year is about nothing, I used to say that I used to do the false equivalency and say that Oberman was the mirror image of those guys.
While I have problems with Oberman, his faults are not dangerous.
Well, he's not overtly lying.
Right.
That's the thing.
Whatever they might share stylistically a little bit in terms of ginning up outrage, like you can, there are things that are appropriate to be outraged about that.
Ginning, good words.
It has gin in it.
Ginning.
Ginning.
Well, you know, like, you know, you're never going to hear.
He's a little too obsessed with making the other side look bad.
That's my problem with Oberman.
Oberman.
But that's, I think, the only thing he shares with me.
Do look bad.
Yeah.
But you don't have to make them look bad.
I've got to point it out.
Yeah.
Well, all you have to do is play the clips.
We could do this show without us commenting.
Okay, exactly.
Like this.
Folks, I got to tell you something.
I think those of you that regularly exercise, playing softball, baseball, basketball, soccer, mountain biking, running, rock climbing, skiing, skating, running, you're the people getting injured.
You're the people showing up at the hospital with busted knees and tendons and skin cancer, ankle sprains, knee and hip replacements, broken bones, concussions, muscle, ligament, tendon, cartilage strains, and tears, tendinitis, rotator cuff tears.
All you exercise freaks, you're the ones putting stress on the healthcare system.
If there is an all-powerful entity in a judgment day, what I would give to see the montage he would play Rush Limbaugh on his Judgment Day and just watch Rush silently let himself out.
Welcome to Rush Limbaugh's America.
Please sit perfectly still.
And that's a good, that's a good advice about the healthcare.
You know what?
I just want everybody who's listening to this show, after you just heard Rush Limbaugh say that, I want you to go over to your grocery store once you get yourself a keg of Dr. Pepper and a skid of cheesecake and go home and do something for your country.
And this is the Jimmy Doerr show on Pacifica.
We'll be right back after a break.
We'll be right back.
Okay, we're back.
And let's really quickly, I wanted to just, we were talking about healthcare, the big stories of last year.
And I just, we talked about a coarsening of the debate or the coarsening of this country's psychology, I think, the mentality of if you don't have it, you deserve it.
You deserve to not have it, I mean.
So here, even people talking about unemployment, here's how people are talking about unemployment.
It is the height of stupidity to extend unemployment benefits.
Americans need to get back to work.
That's right.
You know, get off your vacation, you know, that vacation where you don't go anywhere, don't do anything, and just sit around and worry all day.
You know, that's what...
Where are they?
Remember, there's a lot of jobs in the military because we're fighting all over the place.
Okay, so let's just keep that in mind.
Wow, that let's just keep that in.
That's just bad advice because the contractors pay better.
So it's bad.
Like, go work for a contract for Blackwater.
And why are we, and why are we fighting all over the place?
We're in Afghanistan.
And what is the goal in Afghanistan, fellas?
And yet, the fundamental purpose, the mission that the president's laid out is that we have to go after Al-Qaeda.
We've got to disrupt and dismantle Al-Qaeda and their militant allies so they never attack this country again.
Okay, and so, and we're, and how many al-Qaeda are in Afghanistan?
How many al-Qaeda do you think are in Afghanistan?
I think the, you know, the estimate on the number of al-Qaeda is actually relatively small.
I think at most we're looking at maybe 50 to 100, maybe less.
Yeah, there you go.
Okay, so, yeah, we got a lot of people fighting over there.
We're trying to get those 50 guys.
We're spending about $5 billion per al-Qaeda member a month.
Yeah.
Yeah.
To go after them.
Wouldn't it be better to just buy them off?
Wouldn't that be more if you're a real capitalist?
Well, you know what?
Someone said this.
I don't know who it was, but like, why don't you just, we're going to spend $200 billion a year, it seems like in Afghanistan or $100 billion a year, somewhere in between there.
Why not just have a plane, go over Afghanistan, and just start throwing the billions of dollars out.
Feldman said that.
Was it Feldman?
Yeah, just throw it out and see what happens.
See if those people, instead of putting it into a tank that blows something up, just give them the money and I bet they'll be a lot happier.
Or what about like building a country?
Maybe.
But it's more complicated than that.
Barely.
We had a long discussion about this, and I've come around a little bit where I'm like, okay, Afghanistan's a mess.
You come around?
No, I originally, I was for the war in Afghanistan.
I still.
But I'm like, okay, this is like the last season of the missiles.
We got to get out.
We're trying to defeat an idea.
And yet our policies fuel the idea.
We constantly give them gasoline for the fire, and then we run in with water and gasoline.
But we also pay them to help us make the gasoline.
Let me just suggest something, though.
If you're in Afghanistan, you're trying to build a school and a hospital.
There are people trying to blow up the school in the hospital the whole time you're doing it.
I'm just saying, like, winning hearts and minds, not as easy as it sounds.
But that's because we're not just building a school in the hospital.
We didn't show up there to say, we're going to build your school in the hospital.
We bombed the hell out of them for a couple of years and then said, well, hey, we're trying to build a school here.
What are you doing?
Like, you know, if the number of schools were equal to the number of dead Iraqis and dead Afghans.
Hey, I know.
And hey, this is hard to tell.
I don't want to be the man who brings the news.
There are many things that I say that I do not want to say.
Our children are being submerged in the filth of communism.
Submerged in the filth of lies.
America, I tell you these stories not to get you angry.
I tell you to steal your determination.
You must steal yourself.
You must know what is true and then rely on divine providence.
Well, how very Kim Jong?
America, well, you have been working hard.
Well, you have been busting your butt.
Well, you have thought that we all generally agree on things.
We have been setting up re-education camps.
We call them universities.
What is it about Glenn Beck that's so great?
Everything that he does.
If it wasn't for Glenn Beck, I think all of us would still be in the dark.
He's opened up our eyes to everything, really.
Okay, so I love hearing clips from A Face in the Crowd.
It's my favorite movie.
Histrionic personality disorder.
Go to the DSM, look it up.
I want everybody to stand up and say histrionic personality disorder.
Histrionic?
Histrionic personality disorder.
The guy has a personality disorder.
If it weren't for Fox News, this guy would be sitting in his own poop in the day room.
So he was, but he was on, it's funny because when he was on CNN, they wouldn't let him go this crazy.
You know, like he could say things with, and that's why he wasn't that big of a name until he went to Fox, and then they were like, just go crazy.
And he did.
Just say whatever you want, whatever you could say.
Go ahead.
Call Barack Obama racist within three months of him being elected.
Go ahead.
Say he hates white people.
Go ahead, do it.
Do you think the way we feel when we see clips of Joe McCarthy and we're like, how did that ever happen?
That was in the Senate.
Do you think 30 years from now, 40 years from now, people are going to look at clips of Glenn Beck and go, how people do that now?
People do that now, I'm hoping.
But in 30 or 40 years, those guys are still going to be around.
They've always been around.
It's just now that we've gotten rid of the fairness doctrine, and we have cable news, and we have right-wing radio.
They got rid of regulated, the Telecommunications Act, got rid of the regulations on all that stuff.
So now it's everywhere.
It used to be there was those guys, and they were marginalized in society.
But now they're not anymore.
Now they're almost, well, Fox News says it.
We're the most watched cable news show in the country.
And we cut school budgets so that you can't teach history so that people know that this happens constantly.
There's always somebody that does this.
Do you think 30 years from now, people that love Glenn Beck and Fox News are going to be walking around tiptoeing through a foot of water because global warming has melted every ice cap and there are no jobs to be had except for fighting in the military and intractable war.
And they're going to think to themselves, maybe even though he had a pen and seemed like he was connected to facts, Sean Hannity wasn't maybe a journalist.
Maybe I've always said something to me.
We need to tag some of these people.
Like, if you deny global warming, we need to be able to put a chip in you somewhere just so that when the ice caps do melt.
And there's a limited amount of dry land, you don't get to go to dry land.
Okay, so I don't know if you're a know this, but there's been a lot of crazy weather lately.
In fact, just in the last week, there's been a lot of, that's why there's going to be no moron segment this week because moron's trapped in London.
What?
That's true star.
I heard that they wouldn't let him on the plane with his gluggle jug.
I listened to those.
Yes, they wouldn't let him on because of his gluggle jug.
So I was watching Fox because it's been snowing again.
Whenever it snows, it's time for science denying.
Philadelphia Live on the left side on the right, live right outside our studios at Fox Studios or your World Studios.
That's Al Gore's book, Inconvenient Truth and Inconvenient Truth, getting piled on by more and more snowfall.
I guess the East Coast, just relentless with snow coming.
And I'm not sure which chapter Mr. Gore dealt with, record snowfalls across the whole Eastern Seaboard.
Yeah, I know you don't know which chapter because you didn't read the book, you moron.
That's why you would take the book and stick it in a snowbank during a snowstorm and pretend global warming doesn't happen.
Here's Sean Hannity.
Sean Hannity at the end of the show.
I think they put his book in the snow because it was too cold to get a fire going.
That's right.
Well, here's Sean Hannity.
He's going to read directly from he's going to read directly what scientists say about a storm like this and how it affects climate change, and then he's going to deny.
Here we go.
And I just looked at Matt Drudge before he came down here.
The New York Times tomorrow is going to claim the blizzards are from the warming.
And what they're going to say from the story is most client scientists respond to the ferocious storms that they're consistent with forecasts that a heating planet will produce more frequent, more intense weather events.
If it rains, it's global warming's fault.
If it doesn't.
If it snows, it is.
If it doesn't, it is.
If it's a volcanic eruption or an earthquake, global warming.
All global warming.
It's awesome.
It's awesome.
So it's like, you know, if it's their slogan shouldn't be fair and balanced over there.
Their slogan should be, hey, if you're too dumb to understand it, it must not be true.
Fox News.
And by the way, as always, much harder to believe than an all-knowing God in the sky.
Much harder to believe in global warming than it is in an all-knowing God in the sky.
Oh, by far and away.
Nice joke, Roberts.
Wow.
Okay, let's write that one down.
It's very derivative.
No, I like it.
But that's what happens over.
That's the kind of thing that happens over at Fox on a daily basis.
If it's snowing, believe me, the science and I are going to be out in full force.
I'm just fantasizing about when the lakes are high and Sean Hannity's boat can't start and he's hungry and I just motor past him.
Hey, can you give me, you got any extra gas?
With your solar engineering, you know what I did 30 years ago?
Do you know it graze if Fox just cut out the middleman and just had a weatherman who was a global warming denier?
Why don't they do that?
That would be perfect.
Like rain coming down from so-and-so.
Not because of global warming.
Because of the unions.
Ollie, could you bring this down a little?
Okay, now let's just quickly go to the financial sector.
What happened in America, our economy?
It went to the crapper, and they had the people, you know, they rigged the system, these guys who have been trying to repeal the FDR's regulations ever since he put them in place.
They finally did it.
And within 10 years, our economy went belly up.
Okay, and of course they blamed it on working.
Somehow it was because poor people tricked the bankers into giving them money so they could go out and buy flat screen TVs.
Of course that's what happened.
And that's what everybody tells everybody.
And of course that's the lie they want you to believe.
That's the internalization of the propaganda of the plutocracy.
When you hear a regular person say, ah, too many people went out and they took second mortgages and bought flat screens and that's not what happened.
The reason why some people had to do that was because real wages have been stagnant in America for 30 years.
What happened 30 years ago?
Coincidentally, the election of Ronald Reagan, the conservative revolution, and the beginning of trickle-down economics.
30 years later, stagnant wages, our economy goes belly up.
You have to serial bubble after serial bubble because we don't have a real economy anymore.
We're now shipping our jobs to China and to third world countries where there's a rigged economy.
So people are taking their money and investing it in other countries.
They're not investing in America.
Certainly the banks aren't.
And that's why Americans have to go into their home for equity to live on in the last 10 years, which they don't have anymore because it was in a bubble and was inflated.
So the bankers had to go and they had to give testimony in front of Congress.
And here is the chairman of Goldman Sachs and Robert Rubin from Citicorp.
Let me start by saying I'm sorry.
I'm sorry that our management team, starting with me, like so many others, could not see the unprecedented market collapse that lay before us.
Didn't see it coming.
Nobody saw it coming.
Nobody saw it.
Nobody.
Begged for deregulation, had no idea how this might happen.
Nothing could possibly.
We could not anticipate that bankers would get greedy.
Who saw this coming who studies economics?
Who could have seen this coming?
If you ever studied the Great Depression, you would never see the exact same thing going to happen exactly the same way.
Or the market manipulated by all the guys I went to college with.
Okay, more.
My role at Citi, defined at the outset, was to engage with clients across the bank's businesses here and abroad.
Having spent my career in positions with significant operational responsibility at Treasury and prior to that at Goldman Sachs, I no longer wanted such a role at this stage of my life.
And my agreement with Citi provided that I ought to have no management of personnel or operations.
But almost all of us, including me, who were involved in the financial system, missed the powerful combination of factors that led to this Crisis and the serious possibility of a massive crisis.
We all bear responsibility for not recognizing this, and I deeply regret that.
We all bear responsibility, which means nobody bears responsibility.
No, we all.
Why do we differentiate between Treasury, Goldman, Sachs, and Yale?
Shouldn't it just be a hyphen?
Sure shit.
It should be a hyphen.
Yes.
We all accept responsibility and no consequences.
And all the bonuses.
Yes.
Yeah.
Hey, I'd take responsibility, too, if you gave me a couple million dollars.
I'll take responsibility.
I bear that responsibility.
I bear the responsibility.
We all bear it, but none of us are going to give back any of the money we gained by rigging this system, by screwing our economy.
And we're not going to stop lobbying to keep things exactly how they are.
Oh, in fact, they are going to stay exactly how they are.
And, you know, this goes back to the whole idea of taking responsibility.
The banks don't take responsibility.
It's rigged.
It's rigged against us.
So when they say that the regular person has to go and earn their health care, why?
And we thought that Barack Obama was going to be the guy to stand up to these guys.
He was going to be FDR and go, hey, look what you just did.
We need to reinstate Glass-Steagall.
We need to split you guys up.
You're too big to fail.
In fact, it sounded like he was going to do that, but I'm going to play you two clips back to back and you'll see what really happened.
There will be time for them to make profits, and there will be time for them to get bonuses.
Now is not that time.
And that's a message that I intend to send directly to them.
According to the Wall Street Journal, major U.S. banks and security firms are now on a pace to pay their employees a record high of $140 billion.
Workers at 23 top investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, and stocks and commodities exchanges can expect to earn even more than they did in 2007.
Goldman Sachs is reported to be putting aside $23 billion for this year's executive bonuses, the largest figure in corporate history.
So all I'm saying is what those people need now is a tax cut.
That's all I'm saying, because according to CNN's reporter.
You also talk about letting taxes expire for families that make over $250,000.
Some would argue that in some parts of the country, that is middle class.
Okay, that's a reporter.
From where?
From CNN.
Where?
That's $250,000.
There's a two-block section of the east side of Manhattan that that's middle class.
There's a two-block section.
I think it goes from 20th Street to 22nd, and then from that film.
From the Zaybars down to Bloomingdale.
Those bankers do need a bonus, though.
They've had a long year practicing their apology face in the mirror.
Those guys are like, they're like a serial killer that starts to send body parts to the police.
It wasn't even enough for them after they crashed the whole economy to just make the same ridiculous money they made last year.
Like, you know what?
We deserve a little more.
Lay low?
No, I don't think so.
We're just going to keep going.
It's because they didn't see it coming, Ben.
Oh, didn't see it coming.
Didn't see it coming.
Didn't see it, didn't see it coming.
I would love to know how difficult it was for some of these bankers to summon the humility to act as if they're genuinely sorry.
Oh, we didn't see it coming, though.
None of us, we should have saw it coming.
None of us are going to give back any of the money we got.
I mean, millions, tens, hundreds of millions.
Secretary Paulson, the guy himself, made $700 million.
He made as much as Tiger Woods is worth.
This guy made Secretary Paulson, a guy with, and you know what?
At least Tiger Woods, you know, undoubtedly, he knows what he's doing with a golf.
And he earned it.
And he earned it.
He did.
He won.
That ball actually went into the hole.
It actually worked, right?
He got a score.
I can show you.
These guys, Secretary Paulson, what he did was ruin the economy.
He shot an 80 and made $700 million.
He shot $120.
Are you kidding me?
But this is all like, this is the problem with how corporate structure works, is it gives cover to all of these guys.
None of them, as long as they looked like they were making an effort to make money quarter to quarter, they are not responsible for anything.
So isn't this one of the solutions to this is to implement some laws so that bonuses are given spread out over the long term.
So this pillaging of corporations in the short term is it.
Because derivative trading is all done in the dark.
It still is done in the dark, and that's what's wrong.
That's when they gamble.
They gamble and they're gambling with our money.
They leverage with our money.
And we're still giving them free money.
So the banks, when they say, oh, they're making all this money, do you know how they're making this money?
We're giving them the money.
We're giving them 0% interest-free money, and then they're loaning it back to us at 15% to 30%.
Well, that's how they're if they're loaning.
They're not loaning right now.
That's the problem.
On credit card.
I'm talking about on credit card.
They're not right.
They're investing in China because it's a rigged economy.
I mean, Caterpillar's opening up factories in China right now, Caterpillars.
Well, they should be.
Right, because that's where all the building's happening.
That's where things are.
That's where the investment's taking place.
Well, also, I think their usury laws are better than ours.
Oh, that's a very good point, Robert.
Very good point.
Let's talk.
Now, let's switch quickly to something more depressing.
Guess what?
There isn't.
Can we mention that?
You know what?
Let me just say that you're wrong about that, Paul, because I've got a story for you.
Robert, I don't mean to cut you off.
No, no, no, no.
So that's hard to find worse news.
But I think that let's talk about the news.
How about we just talk about the news?
The upbeat news.
The news reporting that's been happening.
I think that's the biggest problem.
I think you see people aren't getting informed.
People didn't know what a public option was.
People don't know that they're really being screwed over.
People are buying the lie that it's their fault that our economy's in the tank.
People are really buying into all this stuff.
And it's this horrible reporting.
And I subscribe to this thing called FAIR.
That's how it's spelled, exactly how you think, F-A-I-R.
And they're a good watchdog on the media.
And they had, so they were talking about how people are trying to give this pretend both sides of the issue thing, right?
And so here, I'll just read you.
This is from Fair's blog.
On National Coming Out Day, October 11th, the Washington Post's on-faith blog decided it would be a good time to hear from raging homophobe Tony Perkins on the Family Research Council.
Perkins penned a column attacking homosexual activist groups under the headline, Christian Compassion, requires the truth about harms of homosexuality.
Why on earth than anyone needs to hear Tony Perkins claptrap?
Well, the Washington Post explained that it is a matter of journalistic balance.
We were working to cover both sides.
Earlier, we had hosted Dan Savage of It Gets Better in a live chat.
So Dan Savage coming on with his It Gets Better campaign, meaning it's a campaign to combat suicides among gay youths.
Who knew that that point of view needed balancing?
Well, you're doing pro-suicide.
You need to see suicide.
You need pro-suicide.
But we had him on.
He's trying to get gay kids to stop killing themselves.
So we have to have on the other side.
Otherwise, the suicide numbers drop off precipitously.
We have to have balance.
We have to have balance.
It's unbelievable.
gay kids killing themselves, and that's what...
It's what I consider to be what's wrong with the news in America, right?
Because I'd like to watch MSNBC.
I like to watch Dylan Radigan on MSNBC, which no one watches, or not enough people watch, put it that way.
But a lot of people watch NBC, the broadcast news with Brian Williams.
And here's a little montage I put together to kind of show you what things they think are important at MSNBC, what kind of things they think are important over at Brian Williams.
Overall, the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan tripling since President Obama took office.
Surge and then get out.
Sounds a lot like President George W. Bush's strategy in Iraq, I suppose.
But will it work?
And more importantly, what's the point?
How do you define success in a conflict that's lasted longer than Vietnam, twice as long as World War II, killed almost 1,500 U.S. service members, and has left thousands of Afghan civilians dead with no clear impact on homeland security, which continues to be neglected?
Word from London that Westminster Abbey is emerging as the favorite venue for the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate, who we're now being gently urged to call Catherine Middleton.
Of course, this also, the money printing that is, covers up the ongoing institutionalized fraud happening in our housing and banking markets that is ultimately then passed down to the pensions, teachers, cops, firefighters, and judges in this country.
Money printing makes it all feel okay.
In fact, a British newspaper snapped a photo of the bride-to-be at Westminster Abbey last night, presumably doing a little location scouting.
In our current economic environment, we risk not only 10% unemployment becoming institutionalized, it could be 20 in real life.
And while a small few continue to hang on to a record amount of capital, they are not investing it in our country's problems by either hoarding it or taking it to places like China where there's a better return because it's a rigged economy.
If the Abbey is selected, and we may learn this as early as tomorrow, it will be the second direct relation, along with the engagement ring itself, to Williams' late mother, Princess Diana.
Westminster Abbey is where her funeral was held.
Now, Robert, don't you think that it's really the problem of the news media?
I mean, isn't that what's going on?
People aren't informed anymore.
There isn't an Edward R. Murrow.
That job's been given to Jon Stewart.
I'm sorry.
Can you play that bit about Westminster Abbey again?
Because I need to hear that.
It's William Hurt from Broadcast News.
You know, I'm sorry, but I don't like you guys coming down on Brian Williams.
I mean, he is being gently urged to call Kate Middleton Catherine, and he will not do it.
He will not.
He's not.
I just imagine they put him in a case at the end of every night.
You know what I mean?
Float it like a tank full of protoplasm.
Do you think he knows that he is degrading the quality of news in this country?
Or do you think he is unaware?
He's looking for a sketch.
I think he's William Hurt.
I think he's on.
I just was watching.
What show were we watching stuff that he showed up on again?
Oh, we were watching Jimmy Fallon the other night.
And he did this amazing show.
Oh, hilarious.
It was the funniest thing I've ever seen on Jimmy Fallon.
And I'm saying it was funny.
It was really solid.
I'm sitting here saying that this bit was hilarious.
I'm telling you that Brian Williams is like Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh in that he would like, if they paid him to do something different, he would just do that.
He has no integrity.
He has zero integrity.
He's a newsreader.
He's not investigating.
He's an actor.
He's a really good sketch actor, is what he is.
He is good.
He does it every night.
He's a sketch actor playing a newsman.
He pretends to care about the country every night.
Why couldn't he be a good sketch actor?
It's time to get bummed out in a folksy voice by our friend Jim Hightower and the rich versus the rest of us.
Apparently, you and I owe an apology to the extravagantly rich in our society.
They're reported to be in a deep pout and a political funk because we, the people, have hurt their feelings.
This stems from the public's simmering anger over the fact that the Wall Street Barons who crashed our economy are back to paying themselves multi-billion dollar bonuses, while the corporate CEOs who keep downsizing and offshoring our middle-class opportunities are grabbing bigger paychecks than ever for themselves.
The wealthy swells are upset by this anger and feel picked on by us riffraff.
They don't like being blamed for our economic distress, even though they are to blame.
And they certainly don't like the rising populist fervor for more economic fairness in our country.
So they're mad at us for being mad at them, claiming that they are victims of our, quote, wealth envy.
I'm sure you feel as badly as I do about this.
So you'll be glad to know that those living in luxury seem to have found a way to soothe their bad mood.
They've gone shopping.
Yes, while working day Americans are scrambling just to cover the rent and buy groceries, the well-heeled are reported to be splurging again, indulging their consumer whims with such pricey pretties as exotic automobiles.
One analyst of trends in the luxury car market concedes that sales of Bentley's, Lamborghinis, Maseratis, and other ultra-priced autos have been down the past couple of years.
He explained that, quote, it didn't feel right buying a $300,000 Rolls-Royce when people were being foreclosed out of their homes.
But this year, the elites are saying, to hell with what the public thinks, I'm going to get me a new Ferrari 458 Italia.
The people be damned.
This is Jim Hightower saying, how nice for them.
But I don't think their conspicuous consumption is going to make anyone feel better about their greed, nor will it quell the public's rising populist fervor.
Okay, thanks, Jim.
That was great report, and thanks for bumming us out.
The rich versus the rest of us, which has kind of been the theme of this show.
And this country.
And this country.
What went happening?
And so does anybody have any New Year's resolutions, Ben?
Do you have any New Year's resolutions?
Oh, boy.
Well, when he come back to you?
Yeah, come back to me.
You know what?
Really, this year I wanted to, for New Year's, think of some things that I wanted to do differently in the new year.
Jimmy, I have some New Year's resolutions.
Oh, Steph, what are they?
Minor attainable resolutions.
I'm going to take up smoking and gain some weight.
Oh, nice.
You know, it seems like I resolve to do that every year.
Nice.
Yeah, it's tough.
Robert, anything?
I can just say this.
The revolution will be tweeted.
At teamyasamura.com, people.
Robert Yasamura tweeting his head off.
I am going to alternate between watching my SEP IRA shrink and staring out the window and thinking of what might have been.
I did it all this last year and it worked.
It ain't broke.
Don't fit me.
Yeah.
Okay.
My resolution is to not to get as upset at the news this year.
Really?
So you're going to stop doing the show?
I don't know.
I'm trying to find a way.
Like Paul, you just said when you came in today, you're in such a good mood and we were all giggly-giggly.
And then we start the show and it's a different kind of giggle.
It's a giggle with a death rattle.
But sometimes.
This should be your new slogan.
It should be your show.
It's a giggle with a death rattle.
It's a death rattle.
Sure.
So that's what I'm going to try to do.
I've been trying to do that.
You know, I had on Lower House and she was trying to teach me meditation, but you actually, it turns out you have to go to a class.
And I did it.
I actually took it.
You took that her class?
From the person that taught her.
I'm sorry, one of the people.
It doesn't matter.
I took the TM that she does.
And is it working?
Yeah.
I do it twice a day.
Really?
It really helps.
Until you come on this show.
Okay.
Are you still?
I will have to meditate after this.
I do it twice a day.
That's great.
Are you still amenic?
Anemic?
Anemic.
Yeah.
Meditation is not going to help with that.
Okay.
All right.
Well, I'm going to try to let me thank everybody who's done.
I want to thank you for listening this past year.
I hope you enjoyed the show.
I put way more work into it than I ever thought I would have to.
Despite how it sounds.
Despite how it sounds.
A lot of working hard.
A lot of work.
Yeah.
Hours and hours.
The beauty is your parents know that you finally worked.
That's the beauty.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They think I'm just on stage telling jokes.
But I want to thank everybody here for doing a great job.
I mean, it's been a great year.
Ben Zelovansky, thank you very much for all your help.
It's been a pleasure.
Paul Gil Martin, you've been great.
Tom, have you enjoyed your time?
I have.
I have.
Robert Yasimura, have you enjoyed yourself?
All the great beats you've written for me over the years.
I love it.
And Steph Samurano, my resident Mexican and teacher.
Yes, I've enjoyed it as well, Jimmy.
She's our Mexican with a master's, ladies and gentlemen.
That's what we like to talk about.
And I'm here.
That's right.
So I want to thank all you guys.
I want to thank my producer, Ali Lexa, for getting it done week in and wick out, making it sound smooth.
Thank you, Ali.
You've done a great job.
And a big thank you to Alan Minsky for giving me this show and making it all possible.
And everybody who donates to KPFK, I want to say thank you.
Have a happy and safe new year.
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