and the music's playing are we going welcome to downtown los angeles this is the weekly wrap-up where we get you caught up on the week's biggest stories the least depressing way possible like us on facebook subscribe free at the itune store uh you can always make sure you listen to the show uh by subscribing like i said free at the itune store you can also follow us on twitter at weekly rap and uh now you can also listen to our rebroadcast on extreme xm channel 165 and you can always listen live every sunday four o'clock pacific time right here at our home at skid row studios.com i am joined today by the host of bad advice mr drew marks how are you buddy i'm doing well thank you i am your host ken august we thought we'd have becky kluger here last we heard she was swimming with sharks and now i can't get in touch with her you know what i today i will be becky kluger you have suddenly become more pleasant immediately i don't know how you pulled that off uh we got a lot of stuff to get to today uh we do want to wish everybody a happy holiday season a happy new year uh whatever you celebrate before this new year i hope you enjoyed it and uh be safe don't trust anybody on the road for the next ever i am quons it up oh nice good use of the a's by the way uh so coming up later on the show in a clear sign of how things are going for the syrian government the general in charge of preventing defections defected to turkey this week plus egypt ratifies its controversial constitution while its former president hosni mubarak goes back into the hospital which begs the question hosni mubarak is still alive and the sick bastard who set up a trap that killed two firemen in new york was out of jail after killing his grandmother with a hammer how many years do you not have to kill someone with a hammer for it to be considered good behavior then we will get to some sports and we'll finish with headlines but uh first we're now two days before the fiscal cliff you know if i had a gps that kept leading me towards a cliff i would replace it let's listen to this from nbc news the president left his family in hawaii to return to washington with the health of the economy and the bank account of every american family on the line but the back and forth bickering continues the only people in america who don't think taxes should be a problem is the rich or the republicans who work in this building make no mistake the only reason democrats have been trying to deflect attention onto me and my colleagues over the past few weeks is that they don't have a plan of their own that could get bipartisan support taxes go up for every worker next week unemployment benefits for those out of a job longest run out deep spending cuts kick in that could hasten a recession republicans aren't about to write a blank check for anything senate democrats put forward just because we find ourselves at the edge of the cliff so but have you noticed by the way that he said that the democrats aren't putting forward any plan that uh could actually get bipartisan support but it's hard to get bipartisan support when one side refuses to vote for anything you put forth exactly it's like what is the only plan they seem to like is their own that requires no negotiation no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no White House? Oh, they've noticed. There's no doubt they've noticed. They've had a hard time. Now, with this fiscal cliff thing, I mean, first of all, I was kind of hoping for the world to end on the 21st so I didn't have to hear any more fiscal cliff crap. So if anybody, if you, I don't know if you have a death by fiscal cliff in your death pool, but if you do, you're still in it. I would say still alive, but it seems inaccurate. However, you would hope this thing would end in two days, but I don't believe it's going to. No, I don't believe it's going to. No, this is kind of like the political version of that never-ending hallway and poltergeist. You just keep running and you can't get to the end. I think the whole reason is neither side really has any stake in avoiding it because if the Democrats, let's say we go over the cliff. The Democrats, their big thing is raise taxes on the wealthy and we'll have certain spending cuts that we approve of. So when all these things go into place, retroactively, they then can just lower taxes on the people they want to give those breaks to and not give it to the rich and get their way. And the Republicans then can say, well, we're voting for tax cuts after this as opposed to if they do it first. And, you know, I agree with that outlook, but does it not, I mean, does it not strike them that it comes off as a junior highlight game when you're saying, look, we're going to get to this place, but nobody can take the first step because we don't want to look like, like we're letting out the 2%, leaving the 2% out with the tax cuts. Say the Republicans, Democrats are saying, well, first of all, like you said, well, first of all, the Republicans will probably get blamed more anyway if we go over and then they can still just pass what they want as far as they can individually, you know, start proposing. And their insane group of constituents are going to probably support them more. In other words, they have to appeal to the Tea Party people and these other people who will see it as weakness. And everything else, if they give in now. So even though it's not for the benefit of the country, and even if it's against those people's self-interests, they don't view it that way. Well, yeah, once you're in Congress, it is stupid to not keep getting yourself reelected. That is a money-making scheme, if I've ever seen one. That, I think, is, you know, that's their impetus for not doing it. Well, they got two days. Do you think they come up with something or do you think neither one of them can give in enough? No, I don't think they do. Right now? Now they have, what do they have? Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell locked in a closet trying to, I like how they come with, well, time's running out. Now it's time for action. You know, I remember when I was cramming nonstop in college and this was rare already, but for a final, and I'm cramming for like three straight days to make up for the three months I was not paying attention. And my dad looks at me and goes, why wouldn't you just work half as hard for a longer period of time? Yeah, but wouldn't you like to see Harry Reid on like Black Beauties? I don't even know what that is. Black Beauties is speed. Yeah. No. There's certain people in Congress, and Harry Reid, I got to say, is one that could benefit. He is not an animated individual. No, well, no. He's barely awake. If he has any left, they should give it to John Kerry, who we'll get to shortly. John Kerry. No, he speaks long enough as it is. I disagree. John, are you kidding me? Speed that man up is what I'm saying. Let's, John Kerry. Yeah, but you don't want him any more long-winded. No. He speaks for very long periods of time. He is almost done right now with his concession speech in 2004. Yeah. Yeah, no, that is a problem. Well, I mean, I think they, I want to say that they're still going to come up with some last-minute deal. I like, I want to say that, and I don't think it would matter, to be honest. You can say it. I think you'll be wrong, but you can go ahead and say it. I mean, I think there's something about these guys walking out saying, oh, we did it, with like three hours left, when it's still unimpressive, but these guys feel like, oh. But even if they do that, it's a partial sort of thing. They're still going to have to revisit it as soon as we come back. Yes. They're not hashing out. That's where the never-ending hallway aspect, comes into play. Yeah, they will find something short-term. I also think that one of the main reasons the Democrats won't, are not very eager to get to a settlement, is the Republicans want to be able to tie the, Raising of the debt ceiling. Raising of the debt ceiling to it. Yeah. Now, for anyone that doesn't remember, that was the mess that caused us to lose our triple-A rating in the first place, because, and it was stated, the reason why, the people that lowered, downgraded us, said it was the Republicans, the Republicans willingness to use that as a negotiating tool, that worried them enough to lower it. And now they're saying, well, we should do it again. Yeah. But if you recall, after it happened, the first thing you see on Fox News is, the president allowed the country to be downgraded. Yeah. Well. So it, you know, whether, whose fault it is, is not how it's reported. No, that is true. I mean, even though the people that downgraded us said why it was done, they still did ignore that. I mean, and it's the biggest argument, obviously, with this whole, with the whole fiscal cliff thing is, the Bush tax rates expiring on people making more than $250,000. Yeah. And the Republicans say no. Although John Boehner came back with, how about for just people over a million dollars? That's, that's not a great, that's not a great deal. From 250? From 250 up to a million. But then the president, you know, was willing to go down to four, as I understand it. Go up to 400, yes. Go up to 400,000 from 250, although I think the last, from what I heard, the last deal he put on the table was back to 250. So. So you don't like my 400 offer? Suck it. You know what? You won the election, stick with it. And, and at this point in time, he knows that the Republicans are going to get blamed if they go over. And then if they go over, not a lot's going to happen, I wouldn't think anyway, because despite the, the dire sounding name of fiscal cliff, it is, they will go back in and they will pass something and then make it retroactive. There is only one thing in the whole thing that really negatively affects people right away. And that's the, they take away the long-term unemployment benefits. Yes. And that they say will hurt the people because either they won't get a check or there's just one check left and then everyone gets one check and then you're done. So they're saying that more than anything else could be responsible for pushing towards a second recession. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and this is what, what Obama is saying. If they don't come to a deal, and I think this is a very good move for the white house. If they don't come to a deal, uh, before the fiscal cliff, uh, before the first, he is asking Harry Reed to put a bare bones plan on the floor. I think that would stop the hikes tax hikes for just the middle class, uh, as well as extend the unemployment benefits. So a very small bill that doesn't deal with all the shit they have to deal with, but it forces the Republicans, right. And it forces the Republicans to vote yes or no on allowing those or not. And then they will do what they always do. They say, yes, we're voting no, but it's not that we're against these things. We just think that, you know, the bigger issues should be dealt with and that's what they'll hide behind. Well, and that is what they have been hiding behind. But I think the plan is basically, you know what? Let us try to, right? Yeah, exactly. If they're going to try to hide, let's pull back the curtain. Let's see the Oz that ugly little dude behind the curtain. I think that that seems like a good idea. It'll it'll be interesting. Anytime you see Mitch McConnell, you see that ugly little guy. It's just the great and powerful Oz looks a lot like a turtle. He does look a lot like a turtle. And so, uh, John Kerry was, I would say quietly, uh, nominated to replace Hillary Clinton, but I don't know how, I mean, if you don't count any of the Susan Rice crap beforehand, I guess he was quite nominated. There's no real way after they, the Republican specifically said, oh, we would much prefer him that they can now not. Exactly. What are they going to do now? Give it a hard time that has to sail through. Yeah. You would think that sales through, uh, the Democrats are trying to get behind anybody right now. Uh, Ed Mar, Ed Markey from Massachusetts, they're hoping we'll be able to challenge Scott Brown who hasn't said he's going to play boy model. He'll run. Yeah. Yeah. He, uh, Scott Brown who barely lost to Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts, they're expecting him to try to take that seat. And there's a good chance. I think he will. Uh, but good for John Kerry. Um, although man, he, you know, he'll start a speech into a, you know, by the time he's done talking to people in the middle East, things may be solved over there. Here's the thing. If he's like his own filibuster, if he's, they may just go, we will stop fighting each other. If you will stop talking. You know what? My ex-girlfriend used to say that to me as well. A lot. Now it could be actually now what's nominee season. It could be the Democrats turn to be outraged over a potential Obama nominee. Uh, he had mentioned Chuck Hagel as a, uh, potential to be the next secretary of defense. And uh, it seems, you know, there's a few different people that have had problems with it. Um, and we'll go over what those problems are, but most of them are Jews. Yeah. There's some Jews in there and there's, and there's, uh, uh, homosexuals and not all that happy with it. Apparently he's 14 years ago. Chuck Hagel had been a little chilly to Mr. Hormel. I did it. Oh. How'd that pun feel? That feel good? It stung a little. Uh, 1999 president Clinton appointed an openly gay man, uh, James Hormel to be the US ambassador to Luxembourg, which is a great place to be gay from what I hear. Is that even a real place? It's real-ish. Um, and the, uh, one little chocolate castle. Uh, in 1998, apparently Chuck Hagel said, uh, they are representing America. They are representing our lifestyles, our values, our standards. And I think it is an inhibiting factor to be gay, openly aggressively gay like Mr. Hormel to do an effective job. Not if it's a hand job, I would assume. No. But, but very effective they would be in that case. But yeah, so that is what he said. Now it's 13 or 14 years ago. Um, he has apologized, but his apology came recently once people started talking about him for secretary of defense and he didn't actually apologize to the guy that he was saying it about. Yeah. So, I mean, the apology is very fake. Uh, to me. To me, you know, as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't, doesn't mean that he shouldn't necessarily get the job, but it doesn't mean that it doesn't mean that you can suddenly go, oh, well he apologized and believe that either. No, I think I would give him the benefit of the doubt. I think if something happened 14, it was a different time. You know, 14 years, not a huge, I was going to say it's not that different of a time. No, but it certainly was. Remember he's a Republican. What if he was racist? What if it was a racist comment and you go, well, hey, apologize for it. Is it the same thing? Yes. Really? Was it the same thing 14 years ago? Well, again, I wouldn't like either one. My, what my point is, I think you ask him how he feels about something now and if he hasn't done anything since then along those lines in 14 years and I'd be willing to give the guy if you know, he was a good public servant in all other ways and made one comment because back then no one in the Republican party was openly supportive of the gay lifestyle. No. And if he evolved at all, I give him the benefit of the doubt. And by back then. I mean, I think he's back two weeks and you know, it's not, it's a minority in the Republican party. There have been Republicans now that support gay marriage. Yes. Dick Cheney. I mean, as much as I don't like him. Well, that's because it directly affects him. He has a gay daughter. Yes. Once it directly affects you. Yes. I agree with you. Yeah. And then there's also some that it might not be directly affected, but still have come around a little bit. Yes. Now granted. Not the people that are running the party. The overwhelming majority, no. But I think you've got to be willing to. Yeah. Like the other. The other issue that some had was that he referred to. He referred to the pro-Israeli lobby as the Jewish lobby. And claimed that it is quote intimidating. A lot of people in Congress. I am a United States Senator and not an Israeli Senator. Which is. I have no problem with that statement. I'm Jewish. I have no problem with that. First of all. Your Jew. Ish. I'm Jew-y. Yeah. Yeah. But oh no. You know what? I don't. I don't have a problem really with that either. Like I'm talking about the same thing. either. I've probably referred to it and I've heard people, you know, people refer to Israel and Jew, you know, interchangeably, whether they're doing it on purpose or not often. If he misphrased something, I think, and his larger point was, look, just because Israel is our ally doesn't mean we support everything they do. No, but apparently, especially during election season, you're not allowed to say that. I mean, they tried to do it with Obama this, you know, this time around, they tried to do it with Obama again, but I think that leads to like the whole politically correct thing. It's like, no, no one is right all the time. And you're not going to come to any sort of agreement or fix if you don't acknowledge that. No, I, I, I tend to agree with you. I also tend to agree with it. It gets annoying with it. It's not enough to be outraged. The Republicans have been manufacturing outrage about anything that they can think of from the white house. And that pisses us off constantly. It's annoying. And even though I understand the a desire to retaliate and say, oh, now we can bitch. It's not, it's not gonna, it's not gonna help. If Chuck Hagel had said something like they really need to get over the Holocaust, you know, fine. That's something to get upset about. Yes. Vic would be furious with you right now. Vic would be furious. He would agree with me. Well, yes, but he didn't, he wouldn't even like that statement. All right. Let's move to, let's move to the Middle East while we're, while we're over there. In Syria, the opposition's, the opposition forces are gaining momentum as president Assad vows to stay till the end. Have you ever played Risk? Yes. Assad is kind of like that guy at the end of Risk who knows he's not going to win anymore, but he's like, you know what? Fuck it. I'm in. Let's just roll the dice as fast as we can so we can get to the game as quickly as possible. I don't think that he will stay till the end. Uh, he could find that vacancy in Saddam's old hole, I believe, in somewhere underground. I think that he will go to a country willing to take him, whether that's Iran or Tunisia or something, you know. Let's listen to this from Euronews. Russia has proposed holding talks with Syria's main opposition coalition and has made contact through the Russian embassy in Cairo. Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov's comments again hint that Moscow may be resigned to Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, losing power. Lavrov urged the government to negotiate with the opposition. The message from Egypt's foreign minister was less optimistic for Syria's current leadership. We should look at the situation now in terms of the managed transitional period, which would lead to a new government. We should look at the situation now in terms of the managed transitional period, which would lead to the creation of the transitional government and to the managed development of Syria on a democratic basis in the future. So things, things are falling apart over there yet. The, the opposition basically has said to Russia, you know what, where have you been? No, we have no desire to go over there and talk. We can maybe talk in an Arab nation if you want, but you should also apologize. I don't foresee Russia doing a whole lot of apologizing. No, they're not going to apologize. They might do it in Russian, so nobody knows what the hell they're saying, but no, they're not going to apologize. And Syria's top general responsible for preventing military defections defected to Turkey. He apparently was not very good at his job, but that's, that's not a good sign. And it's not a good sign at all. And by the way, there are seemingly a lot of people going over the border into Turkey. That's a busy area. You may want to look into opening a business. I don't think anyone believes Bashar Assad is staying. No, but. It's a matter of time. And I think it's going to be a one of those things like when it becomes abundantly clear, now is the time to take my money and go. I just see him. Why would he not? But I tend to agree with you, but I thought that about Saddam as well. I mean, there might be when you're in power for 40 years. I mean, Saddam stayed. He didn't eventually go anywhere. He went underground. I think he had a harder time when you've got, there was a much broader military thing after him at that point. Well, no doubt, because it wasn't just his own people. It was, it was NATO forces. Yes. But still that, that alone would make me think before it got to that point, he would go, oh, I'm not getting out of this alive. You know what? Why don't, here's the thing is I can't imagine. I can't imagine the second things look like it might go bad. You don't go live somewhere in, I hear Luxembourg's a wonderful place to live. Why would you not go grab a freaking place and not get killed? Especially if you're not like gay ambassadors. I don't understand why in the world you wouldn't just save yourself and get the hell out before you're now going to be in a place where you're not going to be able to live. I don't understand why in the world you wouldn't just save yourself and get the hell out before you're now going to be in a place where you're not going to be wanted for war crimes all over the place. Because he still commanded the military. I think in his head, he was like, I can still beat this. Which one? Assad? Assad. I mean. The other guys. Still, you think he still thinks that now? Even with Russia. No, not right now. No. I think right up until two weeks ago. Did he, have you been speaking to Assad? No. Well, he, we write. He's very big on texting. Bigger, that is bigger than I thought. You may want to look into opening a business over there at the Turkey border with all that crowd, by the way, maybe a Turkey cheese or Chucky Aziz, maybe. Yeah, thank you. Thank you very much. And then, you know, if things are not good in your country, when Egypt looks at you and goes, you know what, things are a little messed up over here. And, and Egypt is having that problem right now. I'm sorry. Syria is having that problem right now as Egypt has just signed their constitution. That is, that is not making everybody happy over there. They win all the elections. They stop, you know, they, they pass the constitution. Let's listen to this first from Al Jazeera English. It's a yes. The document that will guide the new Egypt has passed. At roughly 33%, turnout in this referendum was the lowest in any key vote since the revolution last year. Turnout in the parliamentary and presidential elections ranged between 50 to 60%. The opposition says this backs their argument that the majority of Egyptians were not satisfied with the document and the process. They plan to push for amendments when a new parliament is elected next year. The constitution passing, there'll be immediate ramifications on politics in Egypt. All decrees issued after the revolution are now void. Apparently, by the way, that was for a message from Al Jazeera's answering machine, because that was an interesting voice. But Egypt has been seemingly continuously overthrowing a rotating group of leaders for the last two and a half years. It is a little bizarre. I mean, to the point where I didn't even know Mubarak was still alive until they said he went back into the hospital. Really? I did. You did? You really? You write to him also? No, no. We had a falling out. No, he's been having the medical problems. Remember, they used to just kind of like roll him in on the stretcher for the trial? You would think you continue to have that medical problem, whether you have it or not, because he just goes back to prison. He is serving a life sentence for not stopping the deaths, is how they worded it here, for not stopping the deaths of the protesters when they were trying to overthrow him. But again, I mean, what's going to happen in Egypt when you have basically, they're saying only 30 something percent of the people have voted for that constitution. So the opposition saying, you know what, this isn't even a real referendum. That's why nobody's coming out to vote. However, there's been four votes since Mubarak has been overthrown. A couple of them have been heavily attended and a couple of them have not been. And the same people win all the time. The Muslim Brotherhood, who basically has the ability to get a shitload of people out to vote, win everything. What do you do if you're Egyptian and you're saying, hey, they're putting Sharia law into everything, but they did it legally. They've been voting. That's a tough call. If you're more progressive, all you can do is protest. Move to Luxembourg again? I mean, what else do you do? I don't know how welcome they're going to be. Now, Morsi is trying to bring the country supposedly together. He said he had a speech afterwards and he said there's been some mistakes made and called for, quote, national dialogue. However, the opposition. Says that means nothing because there were no concessions. He gave no concessions to us at all. So he's calling for national dialogue after getting everything he wants. Didn't he also say that they want to have elections and bring the opposition representatives into the mix? He said, well, they have they're going to be voting in their new parliament. And from what I understand, he he just called for a reshuffling of the parliament seats, but has not offered any of them to the opposition. And this also probably. Won't help heal the divide. Egypt's chief prosecutor has ordered an investigation into allegations that the opposition leaders committed treason by inciting the supporters to overthrow Morsi. So now you got an investigation into whether these people. Well, if they start arresting them, yes, they're going to have some problems. Yeah. And that is that is what the opposition is saying. The opposition saying this is the same shit as Mubarak's regime, where you're using these vague laws to go. You know what? That's treason. You were protesting. You're going to jail. Right. I do think that eventually, if you have. Strict Sharia law take effect. You're going to have the populace rise up. If you have enough people that don't want to live under that sort of rule, you will have another revolution. I think that's that way pretty much everywhere. It's like it's unfortunate. It takes time. But when the people are overwhelmingly unhappy, they will do something about it. Yes. This is a unique scenario, however, in like I said, they've been constantly overthrowing somebody. And then. The the Muslim Brotherhood is going to say, hey, we've won. We've done this through elections. Now, a lot of people are upset because earlier in the year, apparently the Muslim Brotherhood said they were only going to challenge 30 seats. They weren't going to look to dominate the political process. But then once they saw how things were going, they have challenged basically 100 seats and have won almost all of them. So they have a strong, strong say. So, I mean, I don't know what you do. And it's only I mean, you. How long can you protest? They've been protesting. How long can you keep protesting, especially when it's been voted in? I don't know what else you can do. I, I have no idea. You make sure I eliminate. Yeah, that's that's nice. That's not that's not bad for you. All right. So you know what? We're going to come back home here. There's enough crap going on here where we can we can be back in the states where I guess now we have to add firefighters to the list of people we're supposed to arm. Let's listen to this from Newsy and Fox News. The information regarding the ex-con who killed two firefighters Christmas Eve suggests that killings were preplanned and he had intentions of killing more people. In a news conference, the police chief read a line from a note William Spangler Jr. left at the scene. I still have to get ready to see how much of the neighborhood I can burn down and do what I like doing best, killing people. According to The New York Times, Spangler set fire to a car outside his home as a trap. When first responders arrived, he fired shots that killed two volunteer firefighters. The police said no one was responsible for the shooting. The police said no one was responsible for the shooting. The police said no one was responsible for the shooting. The police said no one was responsible for the shooting. The police said no one was responsible for the shooting. The police said no one was responsible for the shooting. The police said no one was responsible for the shooting. at the iTunes store to the weekly wrap-up. So another horrible shooting. This one was a trap. A guy basically set fire to buildings and then sat there with his rifle and started shooting. I heard he set fire to the car and that in turn spread to his house and then some neighbors' houses. And then he sat and waited for first responders and then fired away. Mm-hmm. Now, this guy was out of jail because he pled guilty and so they gave him a lesser sentence. He was out on jail for, I believe, the 1980 or 81 murder of his grandmother, which he beat to death with a hammer. How do you get out of jail for that? Like at what point in time are you like, you know what, this guy's probably fine now. He's calmed down. I think that's more of a sentencing issue, to be honest. It's, in other words, we have a legal system, whether it's plea bargaining or whatever, where once, you know, the sentence is set, they have guidelines. They have to follow. It's like, okay, well, this is it. Let's say he got 18 to, you know, or 25 to life, whatever it is. It's like, if that thing's in there with good behavior. But if somebody is, well, first of all, again, I'm not saying he should get it. No, no, I understand. But I asked this earlier. How long do you have to not beat somebody to death with a hammer for it to be considered good behavior? How long was he in? There's your answer. Yeah. I mean, that is, it is ridiculous. But I mean, even with that sentencing, there is, if somebody is, if there is a danger, they can be locked up. How is a guy who does this not a danger? I mean, I understand now that he's done this, but it's not like he, the other one was an accident. I accidentally beat my, his grandmother. She fell into the hammer. 45 times. Yeah. I mean, that is ridiculous. So with that letter, by the way, in that letter, he also revealed who he got the gun from. The neighbor. His neighbor, a woman who was just arrested, Don, Don Gwynn, I believe, purchased the guns for him. So he was also a monster to her as well for turning her in. She, she is arrested for illegally purchasing guns for somebody who could not legally buy themselves. Now, of course, people who say, you know what, see, even if you outlaw guns, people who shouldn't have them can get them anyway. That to me just shows you that the less accessible it is, the harder it is to just go to somebody else to get guns. You're never going to convince the people that say it's not guns. They should just be available. Logic's not coming into it. The idea that if there were less guns, there might be less gun violence doesn't seem to factor in. No, that does not seem to factor in. The NRA waited. Last time we were on the air, we were talking about the Newtown tragedy. The NRA waited a while, let everybody supposedly try to calm down a little bit because you don't want to come right out after a tragedy and defend the weapons. However, after about a week, they came out and this is, this is Wayne LaPierre, I believe, from the head of the NRA on CNN. There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people through vicious, violent video games. I mean, we have blood-soaked films out there, a thousand music videos, and you all know this, portray life as a joke, and they play murder, portray murder as a way of life. And throughout it all, too many in the national media, their corporate owners, and their stockholders, act as silent enablers, if not complicit co-conspirators. So he blamed everybody but the guns. Yeah. Everybody. You got movies, you got video games, the media, mental health, which, by the way, most Republicans who also happen to be hardcore, not all Republicans, but happen to be hardcore gun enthusiasts for the most part, even they are not big fans of giving more money to the medical industry to help people. So I don't fully understand that, but they call for more guns in school, armed guards at the school. Armed teachers, armed nurses, armed bus drivers. Yes. So, first of all, you know that idiot security guard at the mall, that guy's now going to be armed watching your kids. Paul Blart, mall cop, is going to be armed watching your kids. Do you feel safer right now? I think the plan was to have slightly more trained individuals, but I still disagree with the idea of it. Those more trained individuals are called policemen, and they have other shit to do. Yeah. The cost, the approximated cost of putting armed guards at every school is about $8 billion a year, which, ironically, most of the people that will defend more guns will not defend paying $8 billion a year for something. So I don't understand that. Right now, there's 200 teachers in Utah that are getting free gun training. They are allowed to bring in guns. So you just arm everybody? 11 states back the NRA plan to put guns in school. Well, here's the thing. In absence of, and I almost feel weird saying this, but in absence, and I support gun control laws. In absence of that, you do need armed guards. I don't think that's the proper solution to go. I think you have to regulate the guns, and it appalls me that they would have this argument where they say, it's the games, it's everything. It's like, I don't disagree with any of that. I really don't. I do think those are bad for kids. I think it numbs people to things. I've played video games at your house that would do that. Yes. Yes. You aim for the head. Yes. No, there's no doubt. But to make the connection to all those other- And guns have nothing to do with it is absurd. Yes. For you to make all these unconnected factors, which I do believe can play a role in it, but all these indirect factors that you're saying that may make somebody go do something horrible, yet you don't talk about, and you pretend the weapon he used to be able to pull off such a crime, you pretend that had nothing to do with it, is ridiculous. It would be like faulting me for playing a game that used rocket launchers to destroy things, and going, all right, that game's terrible for you, but we're going to make it easy for you to get a rocket launcher. Yeah. Now, like I said, 200 teachers, many schools are, many schools are, look, Ohio's looking to do it, is looking into a program right now to arm the teachers and give them training. There was a vague message from the chief lawyer for the Utah Office of Education about arming teachers. I believe the vague message was, it's a terrible idea. It's a horrible, terrible, no good, rotten idea, said Carol Lear, chief lawyer to the, Utah Office of Education. Well, the other thing is, like the guy that went into Newtown, okay, he had an assault rifle, which allowed- That his mother legally had. Yes. How did that help her? Did that save her? But I'm saying 30 clip, you know, like 30 rounds in a clip. Mm-hmm. Are you going to arm these teachers with a handgun? Because you know they're not arming these teachers with automatic weapons. Yeah. No, no. That would not be good. If this guy walks, if someone walks into a class with an automatic weapon, now maybe if they walk in with just a handgun and you've got a handgun against a handgun, you've got a reasonable thing. But again, I don't think the argument, you know, people are talking about getting rid of certain kinds of weapons. They're never going to have this major argument like we should just outlaw all guns. That's not on the table. It's not going to be on the table. No, but that is the fear factor that is used whenever something bad happens by the other side. Yeah, but you can't give in to the fear factor. You have to have the logical argument. So what I'm saying is, you know, we're talking about, and there are people within the gun lobby, I think, you know, and people who support the Second Amendment that don't have a problem with, you know, trying to ban assault weapons and things like that. I disagree with part of that in that they're not in the gun lobby. There are pro-gun people. Okay, you're right. There are pro-gun people. And this is a big problem that I have with the public in general. There are people who are pro-guns who say, you know, we had Rich Slayton on here. And some of what he said, I still think is a little crazy as far as he's good with assault rifles for when the shit goes off. But when it goes down, he's got his apocalyptic view and he wants to not have to shoot a person one at a time if he's protecting himself. And he feels semi-automatic weapons, you can't really just hide and walk around so everybody would know it. So he's a bigger fan of getting rid of handguns. Right. Because what else are you using them for? You can't hunt with them. If you get rid of handguns, street crime and that thing, you would have, less people are killing people with assault weapons than handguns by far. I agree with that. Yes. But. The problem is, is that, people, people assume, like, people wait, waited for the NRA's response as if they were expecting a logical response. They, for some reason, the NRA is so powerful and it's been around so long, people refer to the NRA as if it is a government agency. It is not a government agency. It works and exists solely for the purpose of defending. Guns. Gun manufacturers and ammo manufacturers. Right. No matter what the problem is, if you say to them, hey, you know what, my electricity is not working, his answer is going to be, you need more weapons. It doesn't matter what the problem is. That is why they exist. That is it. So, for people to be shocked in any way, shape or form that this guy's response was it's everything else's fault. I mean, he blamed video games, ignores the fact that a lot of these gun companies actually make deals with the video games so their guns can be pictured and named in the video games. But let's not talk about that. You know, it blows my mind, but the fact that these people are treated as if they are going to come out and logically, rationally have a conversation when it's like arguing with a 10-year-old who just says, no, no, I'm not. I know you are, but what am I? That's the argument you're dealing with. It would be self-defeating for them to have any sort of reasonable position. Yes. Yeah. I mean, the manufacturers of these weapons are paying these people to defend making and selling these weapons. Yeah, I agree that they should not be part of the process. Yet, they are. I mean, and it's the same general arguments that you get. Guns don't kill people. People kill people. That's a horseshit argument. I mean, is the world really safer if everybody has the ability to kill anyone else easily? Is that really safer? Like, I don't understand how that argument is even, you know, how, first of all, if everybody had that ability, you would have been dead a long time ago. A long time ago. Why are you picking on me? Well, because you're the only one here. Becky, well, pretend to, Becky, Becky, that's at you, right there. I agree, Becky would be history. Becky, if you were not eaten by a shark recently, we would love to have you here. I mean, that is, that's the one, background checks. How do you argue against background checks? I mean, how do you, how do you argue against background checks yet you feel if somebody wants an abortion, they have to wait months in order to figure it out and then you say it's too long? Like, those people, they're rushing into it, but if you're angry and you want a gun, you know what, sure, go get it. Well, that's like the Homer Simpson episode. they tell him, it's like, there's a week long wait, but I'm angry now. The argument that just criminals would get guns if you outlaw guns, that, I hear that argument. Yes. And you say, well, here's the thing, is there may be an overlap time from when people will do that, but you're ignoring other countries that have done it. You know, and I brought these numbers up before. The U.S. in 2010, 9,000 murders by firearm compared to Britain, 58. Yeah. Now, they're smaller than us. They're one fifth the size of us, so multiply 58 times five. You're not close to 9,000. Germany, it's nowhere close. Every 100,000 people, there's 0.9 people killed by a gun. We're over 14. I mean, it's not, the numbers aren't even close, yet they will give you one example that they can find here and there, go, oh, we saved them here. I mean, the amount of times that an armed civilian has saved the day does not outnumber the 9,000 times people have been killed by a gun. The other interesting thing is, you know, the NRA, is kind of amusing because, you know, after the kids get killed, right, it's like, arm all the teachers. When Trayvon Martin was shot, you didn't hear a cry like, arm all black people. That is very true. This is not something they're coming out in favor of. Arm all hoodies. Yeah, that is not good. Arm all black teenagers. A one-day gun buyback program in Los Angeles brought in 2,037 firearms. Including two rocket launchers. Thank you for your rocket launcher. Here is a ham. No, they gave them $100 gift cards for Ralphs. $100 gift cards for handguns, rifles, and shotguns. $200 gift cards for automatic weapons. Is it a rocket launcher? What does that fall under? It falls under a $300 gift card. I'm like, here's the thing. And I said this before. They said no questions asked. I would love to own a rocket launcher. I just, I, you should not have one. I don't think I would use it. Use it? I think, I think you would use it and you would use it pretty quickly. Pretty quickly. And then you would go, ooh, ooh. I think that was a bad idea. Can I return it? Yeah, that's, that would not be good for you. I would blow up the Costco then return it there. They say, they, I mean, that's a huge, 698 rifles, 363 shotguns, 75 assault weapons. They said there's no questions asked. Just pull up. It was a drive-through. You pull up, hand in your gun, and they give you a gift card. People were upset because the line wasn't moving fast enough. Like, there's always traffic in LA. You couldn't just drive up and like, someone go, thanks for the gun, here's the thing. It's like. Yeah, you don't want a line filled with pissed off people who have weapons in their car. That's not good. All right, let's go to the lighter side here if we can for the last handful of minutes. No, no, who's dead? Well, no, not yet. First, we're going to move to some sports where we can talk about torn ligaments and neck surgeries. Candidate for Comeback Player of the Year, Adrian Peterson, who, as of when we started this, had about 60 yards to go to try to break Eric Dickerson's single season rushing record. He is up against Peyton Manning, basically, for Comeback Player of the Year or MVP. Let's listen to this from NFL.com. 208 yards in one game. That's what Adrian Peterson needs to break Eric Dickerson's record. It's going to be tight. But if there is anyone you don't want to count out for anything, it is this guy. After all, he's in that position despite having torn his ACL and MCL on this very day a year ago. Who would have ever thought then that his road to recovery could possibly end this way? Did you think it? I did not think it. Okay. So I just had this conversation with a friend of mine as well, and he also disagrees with me. The question between Adrian Peterson and Peyton Manning for who is going to win Comeback Player of the Year, and now MVP is also in the running. I'm looking right now, and it looks like Minnesota, if they win, they're into playoffs, and it's 13 seconds left of a tie game. I don't know where they are. It looks like they're waiting for the last second to try to kick a field goal, a game-winning field goal, which would get them into the playoffs with a below-average quarterback right now, and they lost their number one wide receiver, and you're running back one year ago from yesterday suffered a torn MCL and ACL and had reconstructive knee surgery, and they said it takes a year to come back from. A year to come back. One year later, he is, he was within, it looks like 30 yards. Does it say if he set the record? It doesn't sound it. It does not. Right now, it looks like he needs another 30 yards, but they may be going, oh, no, he's going to need it. He's going to fall like 30 yards short, it looks like. 56 yards short, maybe, I think. Somewhere in that range. Right now, Eric Dickerson is going, hell yes! Eric Dickerson has claimed he does not want the record broken. Yes. Which I like. I mean, nobody really wants their record broken. Right, but yet, most people will not say that publicly. Yeah. I like the honesty. You know, it gives you some more mortality. It's not as bad as the Miami Dolphins that used to get together and root against the team. There's no use to. They still do that, and that's mostly, for anyone who doesn't know, the Miami Dolphins were the last football team to finish a whole season and win the Super Bowl going undefeated. So anytime the last team loses and nobody can go undefeated for the year, the remaining Dolphins will get together, or a lot of them will get together and celebrate. Mercury Morris, the only reason I know that guy is because he shoots his mouth off every time somebody gets close. Like, he in the neighborhood, they in the neighborhood, but they ain't there yet. You're like, well, you know what, he was right. He was right. He was right. All right. But, so Adrian Peterson, he's been gone for a year. He is going to fall just short. I mean, I'm sorry, he only missed one game. This is basically a big argument against him where people, the guy I was talking to who defends Manning for it, he says, look, he only missed one game because of when the injury was. He got hurt in the second to last game of the season. He missed the last game of the season last year, and now he was back for game one this year. To me, that adds to the reason why I would give it to Peterson because he showed up six months before he should. But, he's saying, you know what, he didn't miss enough. Manning, Peyton Manning, had multiple neck surgeries. There's no precedent for what the hell time frame he would need, and he had to sit out a whole year and then change teams. Right. That's why I give it to him. You see, my... And I also think he's taking a team. I don't see the Vikings going too far in the playoffs. Even if they make it in, I just don't see him making it to the Super Bowl. I can totally see Denver making it. but now take that out of it because just getting to the playoffs, the playoffs performances themselves do not take, are not supposed to play a role in that voting. So, no argument, Vikings win 37-34. Vikings are in the playoffs. So, they just got into the playoffs on a running back who looks like he came up five yards short. He has 199 yards. Ouch. No, he needed like 206 or something. Yeah, so he came up six or seven yards short, it looks like, and that's tough. You think he was sitting there going, get us overtime! Missed it. Missed the kick. I'm going to have one shot at the playoffs. I'm going to get this. But, here's the guy, so now, I mean, now you can open up the MVP. He just, they just made, they just made the playoffs without a guy to throw to and without a great guy throwing the ball. They have a great defense, but, they basically, the defense just stacks up the line waiting to hit the running back, waiting for him to get the ball and he breaks it. Constantly. Constantly. I mean, it is unbelievably impressive. Now, to me, I think they're both runaways with either one of those, or specifically with comeback player of the year. I think you can argue easily for Manning or Peterson and they're both runaways with it if they're not going against each other. The reason I lean towards Peterson is this. Manning, to me, is one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. And, his head and how he knows the game and thinks about the game, his coaching-like element, that is a big part of what he does. Um, he, he didn't play for a whole year, but, that was basically the doctor saying, you know what, you need to wait until you were strong enough to play, so you have to wait. It was, it was not really a question of, well, it takes a year to come back from this or it takes X amount of time to be able to put weight on your knee or anything along those lines. So, to me, it was just a question of when can he come back? When he can come back, as long as he can still throw and his arm works, he's Peyton Manning. There are guys who come back from reconstructive knee surgery and they're never the same. Um, Manning also is taking a team that made the playoffs and actually won a playoff game with Tebow as quarterback. So, even though he switched teams, he switched teams to a playoff team. You got a running back who everybody on the other team knows they're not going to throw the ball and he still gets 200 yards a game almost now. I mean, 199 and he broke 200 twice in the last like month. So, he has been phenomenal. I would give that to him, but now, I think as long as you give, would you give Peyton MVP and comeback player of the year? I would split those two up. I would give one more to one another. I could see that. Yeah. I mean, I would, I would still lean towards Peyton Manning. I would give one more to Peterson and give the other one towards Manning because, although I'm sure they would both rather have the MVP than a comeback player of the year. Yeah. But, I don't, I don't know how you do it. Now, do the MVP, does that also just season or does that apply in the playoffs? It does not apply in the playoffs. But, both teams have now made the playoffs. But, here's the thing is, how do you say, for MVP, how do you say Vikings can make the playoffs without Peterson? You can say that against Manning because, they did it with Tebow. They did it with Tebow. There's no way in hell the Vikings do that without, without, Peterson? Yeah. So, to me, the only reason I may waiver right now is because since they made the playoffs, I would give Peterson MVP and I would give Manning comeback player of the year. That's, I just flip-flopped right here. You just did that. I was going to say, you just changed. I did, I did. Well, because I think Peterson deserves comeback player of the year. But, now that they both made the playoffs, I would split up those two awards. So, I would give Peterson MVP and I would give Manning comeback player of the year. Because, I can't give Manning MVP when that team already made the playoffs. Can't we just declare a tie? We can. I don't think either one of those people are happy with it. Isn't that like kissing your six-year-old? I disagree. I think that they would, they would be perfectly willing to share it. And they go, we can both be. I think Favre, Favre shared it once, MVP. Yeah. But he didn't share two awards. That's tough to share, to have two guys share both awards. Why? They each get, they each get two awards. Like, we are MVP and we are, You get half. Comeback guy. Yeah. That's nice. You hold this trophy for a little while, I'll hold it, you know. That is nice. That is very nice. You are listening to the Weekly Wrap-Up on Xtreme XM channel 165. Maybe a rebroadcast, so if you have called in, I would just wait until next Sunday. You can always catch us live every Sunday, four o'clock Pacific time at our home at skidrowstudios.com. And you can subscribe free at the iTunes store to the Weekly Wrap-Up. Make sure you don't miss an episode. Let us get to headlines. Headlines. Headlines. Read all about it. Extra, extra. Extra, extra. Read all about it. That guy. That guy has got so much energy. Retired General Norman Schwarzkopf, who led the Allied Forces in the 1991 Gulf War, died at the age of 78 from complications of pneumonia. John McCain came out and said, I don't know where pneumonia is, but we should bomb it. That's my John McCain joke for the Schwarzkopf death. He was 78. 78 years old. Stormin' Norman. Name that for his temper. Yes. Yes. Yes. Which I guess you're fine with if you're a general. Do you want a general with a temper? Yeah, I probably do. He's dealing with killing people. I don't want that guy going, you know what, maybe we should just leave. That's not, I don't know. He, uh. I don't, I don't know that I want a general angry. He, uh, well, here is some of his, he gained, you know, he gained a lot of notoriety, uh, back during, obviously during the first. Gulf War. Yeah, during the Gulf War in 91. And he, uh, he got the nickname because of his temper, but the press loved his frank talk to, uh, to them and to Saddam. Uh, one of, one of their favorites apparently was, quote, as far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man. I want you to know that. That's his quote. That's the kind of shtick I want my general coming out and doing. That is nice. Smack talking. Yeah, that is nice. That is nice. That is nice. That is nice. That is nice. That is nice. That is nice. That is nice. That is nice. Do you have a Groucho cigar going at the same time? Um, obviously, uh, some great words said by, uh, Colin Powell said, uh, the great general, he will be missed. Um, and President Obama said some nice words. But yes, one of the few generals and one of the more recent war heroes. Um, sadly, we will continue this topic. Odd couples Oscar Madison and Felix Unger are now... Do-do, do-do, do-do. Yeah, they are now no longer that different anymore since both of them are now dead. Jack Klugman, who played Oscar Madison, died this week at the age of 90. Also known as, uh, Quincy. Mm-hmm. Uh, Quincy M.E. for a lot of those people in the 80s show. I didn't, I never added M.E., medical examiner. He's one of those guys that, like, looked old forever. Like... Yeah. Is, uh, who's Fish? What's that guy? Abe Vigoda. Abe Vigoda. Is he still alive? Alive-ish, yes. He, uh, he was... You know these guys that have looked old since you first remember seeing them? Yeah, yeah, no, yeah. Fish was old in, uh, Barney Miller, if anyone didn't know. Yeah, well, do you remember the Twilight, like, the original Twilight Zones in black and white? Mm-hmm. There's an episode with Jack Klugman, where he's, like, a jazz musician. Yeah. And he looks kind of old back then. Yeah. And it's like, wait a minute, that was, like, forever ago. And then you add to that, about 25 years ago, 20 years ago, he had that throat... 1989. Throat cancer. Yeah, he had, uh, he was a big cigar smoker, got throat cancer, had his vocal cords removed in 1989, and his voice was a mess, and he continued to work and continued to do... And put out a Christmas album. That's not true. You're right, that's not true. That is not true. I made that up. However, one thing he did do, which is outside of... outside of acting, which is not known and should be, he was very instrumental in passing a critical healthcare legislation called the Orphan Drug Act in the 80s. And basically what that was, was diseases that were too rare for pharmaceutical companies to make enough profit in order to actually make the medicine, it wasn't profitable enough. He helped push this through. Certain diseases like Tourette's, muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis, ALS, all of these things he helped push through, he helped push through legislation in order to help force pharmaceutical companies to make medicine for that. So he will be missed on many levels, and he's a good man. Also, a bad day for... a bad week for actor Charles Durning to die, since we already mentioned two celebrities before him. He was a spry 89 when he passed this week. A very talented actor, won a Tony Award for Cat on the Hot Tin Roof. He was in The Sting. He was nominated for the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. He was in Everybody Loves Raymond. Charles Durning? Yeah. As who? The priest. Oh, really? Oh, I did not know that. He was the father of the priest that they would always go to? No. And then, wasn't he also in Rescue Me? He was... That I don't know. He was... But probably. He was also Concentration Camp Earhart in To Be or Not To Be. Not a great nickname for anybody. No, I think he played Dennis Leary's father. In Lie to Me? Rescue Me. Rescue Me, I mean. I believe so. That's probable. That's probable. He certainly seems like he can play. Dennis Leary's father. With all these deaths, people seem to be trying to rush former President George H.W. Bush into the grave. There was no reason to rush once the third one went because they always go in threes. I kind of had him as the third one. It just didn't work out that way. The 88-year-old says he is getting better. I'm not dead. Yeah. He says he's not dead. Yes, he is. I'm not. He isn't. Well, he will be soon. He's very ill. I'm getting better. No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment. That is Monty Python's Holy Grail, not President Bush. He remains in intensive care. He continues to improve. He had a bronchial cough, or as other people would call it, a cough. But at 88, you get that taken care of. Also at 94, Nelson Mandela is home from the hospital and supposedly playing with his grandchildren, who are probably in their 50s. His granddaughter... They're playing poker. His granddaughter is asking people on social media to stop spreading rumors about his impending death because I guess at 94, a rumor about your death may be enough to kill you. But he is apparently doing well back in his house after multiple trips to the hospital. Have you seen the movie Django Unchained yet? I have not. Well, neither has Spike Lee, but he doesn't like it. He said it would be, quote, disrespectful to his ancestors to see that film. I wonder if he saw white chicks, because I don't think anybody's ancestors would be happy with that film. You can pretty much say that about any Wayans Brothers movie. Um... He does not like, uh... He does not like Tarantino. Then he has said this before back when, uh... When, uh... What was it, Foxy... What was the movie with, uh... Foxy Brown? Yeah. He didn't like his excessive use of the N-word. The N-word is used 110 times in Django Unchained. Now, of course, I'm pretty sure Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson were aware of this as they didn't seem to have a problem making the movie, so... Here's the problem. It's a movie. Yeah. No one is saying... I'm saying this is like... Look, if you're making a movie like Lincoln or something like that, and I'm not talking about the zombie hunter one, I'm talking about the actual Lincoln. Yeah. You know, if you are doing a historical movie, that's one thing, but no one is going... Quentin Tarantino is making something that should be considered real or historical. Yeah. Yeah, no, I agree with you. This is one of the reasons why I have a problem with Spike Lee is because Spike Lee obviously has a problem with... I have no problems with you fighting your cause, and if I was black, I'm sure I would be significantly, angrier than I am now just for shit that has happened in the past and understandable, but something like this. He obviously has a personal problem with Tarantino because he has not liked him through the years and has spoken about him throughout the years, but he will always try to make it as if it's a reason... Erases the reason why he can't like him. Quote, American slavery was not a Sergio Leone spaghetti western. It was a Holocaust. My ancestors were slaves stolen from Africa. I will honor them. You know what? Tarantino also made a movie about the Holocaust, made in Glorious Bastards as well, and it was the same shit. It was the same over-the-top shtick that he does. It was a Quentin Tarantino movie. Yes, it's not a documentary. It was also the highest Christmas Day gross for an R-rated film, so apparently not everybody agrees with Spike Lee, including Oprah, who seemed to like the movie a lot. If you are an American citizen looking to adopt, don't expect to see Made in Russia stamped on your kid anymore. President Vladimir Putin signed a bill on Friday that bans the adoption of Russian children by American citizens. This ban is part of a bill retaliating against a new American law aimed at punishing human rights abuses in Russia. Oh, all right. Well, you don't look like you were getting ready to adopt anyway. Turns out the Milk Cliff... I don't drink. I don't need a new liver. Turns out the Milk Cliff is not just a funny name for breasts, like I originally thought. If Congress doesn't pass a new farm bill in the next two days, the price of milk will more than double to $8 a gallon. So if you're a lactating woman, I would get out the breast pump and work those moneymakers because... I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. There's going to be a shortage pretty soon, or more than likely they'll do the same thing with the Fiscal Cliff and just fix it shortly afterwards. In Maine, gay couples rushed to get their wedding licenses one minute after it became legal at midnight on December 29th. Although, let's be honest, there's not really a lot to do in Maine. But we were hoping Becky would be here to celebrate. No. But she is not. She was eaten by a shark. So voters in Maine, Maryland, and Washington approved gay marriage in November, making it the first states to do so by popular vote. It is already a fact. It's already in effect in Washington and now Maine. Maryland will take effect on Tuesday. In Maryland, I think, is that where I read it today? They have this trolley that a lot of people used for weddings. Mm-hmm. And the owner said because of his Christian beliefs, they couldn't discriminate against gay couples. So he's like, they're no longer going to do weddings. Yeah. Because apparently the trolley was doing God's work. Yes. Yeah. No, you know what? Well, I hope he loses a lot of money out of it. Kate Winslet has married her third husband, and a man so rich that he legally changed his name to Ned Rock and Roll, and somehow he's not getting beaten up on a daily basis. Really? Yeah. Ned Rock and Roll. Really that he's not getting beat up, or really that he changed his name? Ned Rock and Roll. Ned Rock and Roll. He is Richard Branson's nephew. Nice. Yeah. That's how you don't get beat up. You just hang out in space until... Dude, I would so want to be Richard Branson's nephew. Yeah. But here's the thing, dude. You're a friend of mine, and if you looked at me and said, hey, you know what? I'm thinking about changing my name to Drew Funny Guy. I would bet you're a douche right now. You sound like a douche. Somebody did not tell Ned Rock and Roll that he sounds like a douche. His original name, Abel Smith. Dude, he might be doing better with Ned Rock and Roll. All right. Let's get to what is wrong with people. Let's get to our douche of the week. Who do you got? LaPierre. Seriously, you're going to blame everything but not acknowledge that a gun has anything to do with shooting someone. No. Well, you expect it different from him. No, it doesn't make him any less of a douche. No, no. Fair enough. But it does put you in the category of my douche of the week, which is the American... American people who, for some reason, continue to expect the NRA to act responsibly and actually have a real conversation when they are being paid by the manufacturers of guns. All right, everybody. Have a great holiday. Have a safe and happy new year, and we will see you in a week. 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