Speaker 1: I know I said that we were going to talk
Speaker 1: about Obamacare, but apparently I'm not even in control of
Speaker 1: my own show.
Speaker 2: Obamacare, Brewers Baseball. Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's get to the
Speaker 2: important stuff.
Speaker 1: If you recognize that voice, you have spent a lot
Speaker 1: of time here on News Talk eleven thirty w ISN
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Benjamin Yacht Show Tuesday edition. We are going
Speaker 1: to get to early voting, and Greg, I'm going to
Speaker 1: need your help on this because it's not just a reminder.
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask something of you. And just after
Speaker 1: eight o'clock. You cannot predict who is going to kill whom,
Speaker 1: but you could have prevented last week's headline murder out
Speaker 1: of the city of Chicago. But you heard the man,
Speaker 1: the myth, the semi retired Legenday.
Speaker 2: Webber won't ask me anything because I'm not metally prepared
Speaker 2: to let's answer anything.
Speaker 1: He comes in the door and I'm like, this is
Speaker 1: how they tell me. They fire me mid show.
Speaker 2: This is what you learn when you retire here is
Speaker 2: that you have all sorts of time to drive around,
Speaker 2: even older people who have doctor's appointments. That's your job now. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I actually have a relative that's getting a little
Speaker 2: eye surgery down the road here, and I thought, what
Speaker 2: a perfect time to stop and tell Ben and Greg
Speaker 2: and the entire audience that my podcast is starting April seventh.
Speaker 2: So that's why I'm here to promote the podcast.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Yeah, I appreciate you stealing the few
Speaker 1: listeners I have to go to your podcast. There's nothing
Speaker 1: that that that's a shot in the arm that the
Speaker 1: Benjamin Yon shows.
Speaker 2: Ben, we're gonna we're gonna release it after your show. No,
Speaker 2: it's always that's what I said.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to be like that, but I did
Speaker 1: hear that.
Speaker 2: I think right around Clay and Buck. When Clay and
Speaker 2: Buck start, I think is about the time mid morning
Speaker 2: we're going to be putting posting up the podcast on
Speaker 2: Tuesday and a Friday. But yeah, the time is getting closer.
Speaker 2: And since it was in the neighborhood, I thought i'd
Speaker 2: stop and remind everybody April seventh.
Speaker 1: How different is the podcast is going to be from
Speaker 1: from the show.
Speaker 2: And it's going to be pretty similar. But given that's
Speaker 2: going to be forty five minutes or an hour, I
Speaker 2: think I can move through topics even faster, so it's
Speaker 2: going to be very, very limited ads.
Speaker 1: Are you going to Are you going to keep news
Speaker 1: you may have missed because you have a life?
Speaker 2: No, because I wantedyone to talk to. I suppose Greg
Speaker 2: and I could could kick it around. But I know
Speaker 2: that I think this is just going to be sort
Speaker 2: of a refined our worth of my thoughts and whether
Speaker 2: you want them to hear them or not. And that's
Speaker 2: pretty much going to what it's going to be.
Speaker 1: The question that I always get at ventnows dot com
Speaker 1: talk and text line four one, four seven, nine, nine
Speaker 1: eleven thirty. Is Jay going to curse now now that
Speaker 1: you are freed from the FCC and terrestrial radio? Are
Speaker 1: you going to work blue for some reason? That's the
Speaker 1: big question I get too, but I don't feel the
Speaker 1: need to. But it's kind of nice to know that
Speaker 1: I let if I let something slip, it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: my job on the line. Because of it, I have
Speaker 1: to adhere to the FCC rules. I know that I've
Speaker 1: I've told you this story, but when Howard Stern went
Speaker 1: over to satellite radio that they said, I'll look, guys,
Speaker 1: we can curse, but we're not going to you. There's
Speaker 1: no reason, and within a week it was it was
Speaker 1: curse word after curseword.
Speaker 2: Well ext because you can come up with fill in words.
Speaker 2: You can come up with with alternative words to the
Speaker 2: great curse words of our society, but nothing is better
Speaker 2: than the original curse.
Speaker 1: I think we still use jag. That that's one that
Speaker 1: was invented on on the j Weber Show.
Speaker 2: Well from my youth that that jag is a term
Speaker 2: that was around so long it's sort of everyone forgot
Speaker 2: that it was a term, and I brought it back
Speaker 2: because I was always looking for euphemisms. How about shizzle
Speaker 2: you can use.
Speaker 1: You can use Schmeckel. I use Schmeckel a lot I do.
Speaker 1: Although I made a reference.
Speaker 2: Tended to go with like Member Johnson's unit. I tended
Speaker 2: to go more traditional Schmeckel works.
Speaker 1: I I made a reference to the third leg, and
Speaker 1: Bobby is not let me. He's like, how come every
Speaker 1: time I turn on the radio, you're talking about somebody
Speaker 1: with a third leg. And I'm like, I don't know
Speaker 1: what time you're listening. Pal, that's the way to a
Speaker 1: Jay Weber is back. He's not back for for good. No,
Speaker 1: you're not. You want to fill in I mean opening
Speaker 1: days on Thursday, I really slide right in. I could
Speaker 1: get to the ballpark even even earlier. Do you miss it?
Speaker 1: Are you enjoying retirement?
Speaker 2: I miss sharing every thought in my head with people
Speaker 2: a little bit, but I don't miss the hours. I
Speaker 2: don't miss. I got to tell you, retirement's pretty great.
Speaker 2: It's going to be semi retirement now because I have
Speaker 2: the podcast starting. But one of the things about this
Speaker 2: nice break between January first and in April seventh is
Speaker 2: that I've been able to really unplug. I don't know
Speaker 2: right now, if you quss me, I don't know much
Speaker 2: in terms of what's going on in the world. I
Speaker 2: really don't driving in when I was listening to you,
Speaker 2: listening to you, I learned that it's the opening day
Speaker 2: on Thursday.
Speaker 1: I didn't know.
Speaker 2: Man, you really ought to judge n C two A
Speaker 2: tournament crept up on me, and that's something I really
Speaker 2: pay attention to every year. Even that crept up on me.
Speaker 2: We're like, we're in the second weekend before I knew
Speaker 2: basketball was going on. I mean, I am this is
Speaker 2: blissful ignorance, it really is.
Speaker 1: I cannot wait and I'm never going to be able
Speaker 1: to retire. I got four kids, but I cannot wait
Speaker 1: to never be on Twitter again. That I enjoy it.
Speaker 1: I always enjoy the back and forth, but I just
Speaker 1: to not wake up and have thirty seven responses because
Speaker 1: the liberals have now found me. When I was the sidekick,
Speaker 1: when I was on you know, from five to six
Speaker 1: and from nine to eleven, nobody knew that I existed.
Speaker 1: I take over for you, and now the liberals are ah,
Speaker 1: You're a pedophile protector and raw it just it is
Speaker 1: a fire hose of crazy that I don't need.
Speaker 2: I think it's gotten crazier in the Twitter anyway. X
Speaker 2: has gotten crazier over the last just year or two,
Speaker 2: I think. But what's nice about that?
Speaker 1: Too?
Speaker 2: In retirement has proven to me that you can know
Speaker 2: nothing about what's going on, you can still chime in
Speaker 2: like you'd like you're.
Speaker 1: Know it all. I know what's going on here.
Speaker 2: Let me let me give you my three sentences on
Speaker 2: Iran and.
Speaker 1: Make it sound like I know what I'm It's well again,
Speaker 1: you You were always such a good writer that your
Speaker 1: three said this is on Iran would be far more
Speaker 1: intelligent than the memes that I get sent. Are you
Speaker 1: gonna have any guests on the podcast.
Speaker 2: I haven't decided yet. There are already a few people, lawmakers,
Speaker 2: newsmakers that were upset that I was no longer doing
Speaker 2: the radio show, and I'm kind of retired. So I've
Speaker 2: pushed as many as I can toward you.
Speaker 1: Yes, think you've had some of them on. I mean,
Speaker 1: I gotta find out Robin Voss is retiring from the newspaper.
Speaker 1: I mean that's the phone number hasn't changed, man, you
Speaker 1: can all still call up.
Speaker 2: Are you going to well? In terms of guests, I
Speaker 2: think we will. For me, as you know, because we
Speaker 2: were just doing this off the air. For me, it's
Speaker 2: learning the technical end because for thirty five forty years
Speaker 2: in radio, I turned my microphone on and off. Well,
Speaker 2: when I was a newsperson, I was in the editing tape,
Speaker 2: but we were we were editing physical tape. We were
Speaker 2: using razor blades and cutting and splicing tape. I know
Speaker 2: nothing about the high electronic era era. So I'm trying
Speaker 2: to figure out how to do this remotely from my house.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out how to just get the
Speaker 2: little piece of audio, you know, you just run that
Speaker 2: audio that has trump in it you want to play,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out I can't play that right now.
Speaker 2: So either Greg's gonna have to do that for me
Speaker 2: as I do the podcast, or I have to figure
Speaker 2: out the the technical part of this. But that's the
Speaker 2: thing I'm struggling with.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: What two weeks away from the podcast, Well.
Speaker 1: That's that's very iHeart wait, wait until the absolute last minute,
Speaker 1: and then and then something.
Speaker 2: January and February went by and I had kind of
Speaker 2: heard nothing from management here, and it's like, am I
Speaker 2: still doing that podcast in April? Or how's that going?
Speaker 2: The iheartway.
Speaker 1: Look, you know this, as long as they they tell
Speaker 1: you when when you are no longer needed. Other than that,
Speaker 1: they just allow it. Jay Webers to join, He's he's
Speaker 1: hanging out on what used to don't have to the
Speaker 1: whole segment here, either, what do you want me to say?
Speaker 1: I just want unaffordable. I can talk about this later
Speaker 1: in the show. I can I can bump the food
Speaker 1: stamp law. I'd rather just sit and chat with you
Speaker 1: for a couple of minutes.
Speaker 2: I can tell you Obamacare is unaffordable because I no
Speaker 2: longer am matured by the company. I'm just I'm essentially
Speaker 2: a part time employee now, and it's nice. I can
Speaker 2: do the ads and do the podcast and kind of
Speaker 2: do what I want to do. But because of that,
Speaker 2: I had to go out and get my own insurance.
Speaker 2: So they of course point your right to the Obamacare
Speaker 2: exchange and if you make more than sixty four thousand
Speaker 2: dollars a year, so that you get no help from
Speaker 2: the government. But then, like the first step of Obamacare,
Speaker 2: I was shocked. The first step in terms of help
Speaker 2: is like half of your overall bill. So you go
Speaker 2: from getting nothing if you make sixty four thousand dollars
Speaker 2: over to getting like six hundred dollars worth of help
Speaker 2: every month if you make under that. So but long term,
Speaker 2: you know, a long story short, I have a thirteen
Speaker 2: I'm going to pay about thirteen thousand dollars to ensure
Speaker 2: just myself this year with a ten thousand dollars deductor
Speaker 2: unless I have some sort of real catastrophe in my life. Wow,
Speaker 2: I just essentially am paying for thirteen thousand dollars for
Speaker 2: no reason.
Speaker 1: Ginger ale chicken soup.
Speaker 2: Ask for.
Speaker 1: You know enough. Doctors. I'm sure you know the the
Speaker 1: orthopedic associates can still help you with that, that that shoulder,
Speaker 1: that that you've got, But that is cobble together my
Speaker 1: health well, that's that. That's what healthcare is. It is.
Speaker 1: It is terrible. What's the biggest story that you are
Speaker 1: glad you didn't have to talk about?
Speaker 2: Probably Iran just just all of that. I'm this week,
Speaker 2: I'm glad I don't have to talk about Donald Trump
Speaker 2: not being gracious upon Robin Robert Muller's death. I'm just
Speaker 2: glad I don't have to talk about that and try
Speaker 2: to defend that because it is just completely crass and
Speaker 2: unnecessary to make that comment. And at the same time,
Speaker 2: Robert Muller was one of these guys who was just
Speaker 2: lionized as an as the ultimate insider for years, and
Speaker 2: in truth, he did go about destroying lives. And you know,
Speaker 2: he was from that era of the Justice Enpartment where
Speaker 2: they would just get you into a into a jail
Speaker 2: cell or a room, and they would just sweat you
Speaker 2: and sweat you and threaten you and threaten you and
Speaker 2: sweat you and threaten you, and you were going to
Speaker 2: jail unless you told him exactly what they wanted and cooperated.
Speaker 2: So he was not. He was hard hitter. He was
Speaker 2: not a gentleman. As much as they want to portray.
Speaker 1: No two things can be true at the same time.
Speaker 1: Muller and what they did, and don't forget, this is
Speaker 1: the same Justice Department that we now know all these
Speaker 1: years later. They really did spy on the Trump campaign.
Speaker 1: They really did try and entrap these guys.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, but Paul Manafort went to prison largely because
Speaker 2: he wouldn't roll over on Trump and cooperate with.
Speaker 1: I always tell this story about when George Ryan, the
Speaker 1: governor of Illinois, got arrested. The Feds came to his
Speaker 1: guy and they're like, look, we don't want you, we
Speaker 1: want we want the governor and two of his dudes
Speaker 1: just double middle fingered the Feds and they did their
Speaker 1: jail time. When Blagoyvitch got arrested, there was a line
Speaker 1: out the front door at as Attorney's office. Everybody was
Speaker 1: willing to roll because nobody was going to prison for
Speaker 1: And that's.
Speaker 2: That all comes back to how you treat people and
Speaker 2: what type of person you really are, because you can
Speaker 2: be a jag and a threaten people and try to
Speaker 2: ruin people if they don't do what you want until
Speaker 2: you're in the crosshairs and then they'll turn on you immediately.
Speaker 2: Time for payback. A lot of people did that with
Speaker 2: the Clintons too, once they were out of off hold. Oh,
Speaker 2: let us tell you the truth about the Clintons.
Speaker 1: Well, you saw you saw it in the vote was it?
Speaker 1: Was it January where you had House Democrats voting to
Speaker 1: hold Bill in contempt but not Hillary. There's there's no
Speaker 1: lovery and by the way, plenty of love for you
Speaker 1: on the advent nos dot com talking text line.
Speaker 2: I ignored this window, by the way, the entire time
Speaker 2: I was on It's just the talking text line in
Speaker 2: my day was just pretty much an open window of hate.
Speaker 1: I got to crutch it through. I'm like, I'm like
Speaker 1: a kid with a busted ankle. I gotta crutch these shows.
Speaker 2: How much sifting are you doing?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll read it out of one eye. I'll keep
Speaker 1: an eye on.
Speaker 2: This is for the people in the EUIs this is
Speaker 2: just an anonymous text line. You can be anonymous, so
Speaker 2: it's a perfect way to just vent and get out
Speaker 2: your hate and call Ben names, which is why when
Speaker 2: I was on the air, these they are just people
Speaker 2: calling me names. I'm not sure why I'm going to
Speaker 2: the talking text.
Speaker 1: They all love you texture in the four one four.
Speaker 1: Great to hear Jay again, Julie from the up. What
Speaker 1: a great surprise. People begging you to come back and
Speaker 1: fill in. They would they would love to hear you
Speaker 1: feeling it's either you or Matt Kittle.
Speaker 2: Just getting up a little bit later. Now, I've go
Speaker 2: to bed about ten, ten thirty. I get up around
Speaker 2: five thirty or six. Makes all the difference, does it.
Speaker 2: It's so nice. I feel like I'm sleeping in late.
Speaker 1: To go to bed like a normal adult and not
Speaker 1: have to go to bed like a toddler. That's it.
Speaker 1: And I mean, you've got to have your afternoons for you.
Speaker 1: You spent your career pre pre I mean, Jay, And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell this. I'm going to Hillsdale next week
Speaker 1: to teach a class on how to do a talk show.
Speaker 2: Are you really I'm teaching. I'm teaching for thirty five years.
Speaker 2: They didn't ask me. You're on for two months and
Speaker 2: you're teaching a class at this.
Speaker 1: I got I got the invitation week one. That's that's
Speaker 1: that's how good. That's how good Uncle Ben is. But no,
Speaker 1: I your career is you know, I have it into
Speaker 1: the lesson plan of Jay was the most prepared talk
Speaker 1: show host I've ever seen. I do this, spend hour
Speaker 1: or so the day before, then three or four hours
Speaker 1: every morning, and I still don't feel like I've gotten
Speaker 1: quite as prepared as you have. But sell the podcast
Speaker 1: one last time because we got to get to it.
Speaker 2: We haven't heard April seventh. It comes back, starts April seventh,
Speaker 2: and it's every Tuesday and Friday. Belling is doing the
Speaker 2: Monday Wednesday Thursday thing. I'm doing the Tuesday Friday thing.
Speaker 2: So it's sort of the ogs of w I.
Speaker 1: S N like college class. It's like a college class. Well,
Speaker 1: I got I got Belling Monday Wednesday Friday, and then
Speaker 1: I got Weber Tuesday Thursday.
Speaker 2: We promised not to post it during your show.
Speaker 1: You can find it on of course the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: Can Can we get it through the wous in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just through the website News Talk eleven three website.
Speaker 1: You can. Is there a subscription, No, this would be
Speaker 1: no subscription free to you folks. You need to come
Speaker 1: up with a subscription service. You need you need to
Speaker 1: where's your voter by the way.
Speaker 2: We're already prattling on too long. We should have taken
Speaker 2: a break half a minute ago. I'm now running your ear.
Speaker 1: It's my show. It's my show. We take the commercial
Speaker 1: when I say April seventh, I heard Jay Webber pod.
Speaker 2: By the way, I heard Dan promoting his new venture.
Speaker 2: I'm going, oh Man, thirty years ago, when I was
Speaker 2: starting out, I could have done so much with this
Speaker 2: digital era and gone national on podcasts and things like
Speaker 2: just do you guys have the opportunity if you want
Speaker 2: to take it, you can really monetize all of this.
Speaker 1: I think I think he's looking for interns. So I
Speaker 1: put a good word for you. If you need me to.
Speaker 1: I know the guy who runs it.
Speaker 2: I'll put in a good word if he needs help.
Speaker 2: Give him your phone number.
Speaker 1: Jay Weber, The Jay Webber Podcast, April seventh. Find it
Speaker 1: on All Things. iHeartMedia.