Ham and Legs Show #097
The Oscar and Razzie nominations are in! Who are your picks?
The President gave his State of the Union address on Tuesday...
Paul Ryan gave the official GOP rebuttal and Michele Bachmann made the Tea Party rebuttal...boy the GOP seems to be falling apart, don't you think? And what Ryan and Bachmann had to say gives a whole new meaning to the word LIE. Click here to read an amazing article by Media Matters Action Network to see point by point where the GOP's response to the President is filled with falsehoods and out right lies.
Rick Perry (R), Governor of Texas is a hypocrite...yes, we know you are shocked.
Looks like some of the folks who helped cause the financial meltdown will actually face criminal charges...this is good news indeed!
Jury duty ended for Ham, but apparently she wasn't the only one called this past week...Justice Elena Kagan and VP Biden were also called to service. Ham is in good company.
And much more!
Hope you enjoy this week's show. (Matt, if you click on the player you can hear it!)
Talk at you later!
The President gave his State of the Union address on Tuesday...
Paul Ryan gave the official GOP rebuttal and Michele Bachmann made the Tea Party rebuttal...boy the GOP seems to be falling apart, don't you think? And what Ryan and Bachmann had to say gives a whole new meaning to the word LIE. Click here to read an amazing article by Media Matters Action Network to see point by point where the GOP's response to the President is filled with falsehoods and out right lies.
Rick Perry (R), Governor of Texas is a hypocrite...yes, we know you are shocked.
Looks like some of the folks who helped cause the financial meltdown will actually face criminal charges...this is good news indeed!
Jury duty ended for Ham, but apparently she wasn't the only one called this past week...Justice Elena Kagan and VP Biden were also called to service. Ham is in good company.
And much more!
Hope you enjoy this week's show. (Matt, if you click on the player you can hear it!)
Talk at you later!
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Posted by The Ham and Legs Show at Thursday, January 27. 2011 
Categories: Shows
Tags: Bachmann GOP SOTU Obama Ryan Perry
Categories: Shows
Tags: Bachmann GOP SOTU Obama Ryan Perry
Good show!
Loved the speech, Ryan & Bachmann opinions.
Tax cuts...rich get richer & the poor get poorer.
I agree with Legs, CA along with IL need to fix the state before they try new things.
Agree...our society doesn't put emphasis on school like the Asian countries. Although parochial/private schools and some parents do require/want/help in having education be an important part of life.
Beiber...yuck, but I'm a bit old to be one of his fans.
It's GREAT that people closely involved in the financial breakdown will have criminal charges filed against them.
Razzies...a bunch of those you mentioned should be winners.
Nice response to Glees' Murphy! I've only seen it once...when Hams' Mom, Carol Burnett was on it.
Ham every time you say "The Boy", I get a picture of the old Tarzan show. lol
Thanks for the shout out, answers lol & I'm looking forward to Super Bowl.
Have a AWESOME week!!! Can't wait to hear the next weeks show!!!
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Loved the show.
I have to agree with you about Glee. I only watched cause your mom was going to be on it.
And, Carrie on Fame. I remember it well, and what an awesome singer Carrie was.
Keep up the good work.
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so frickin cool to listen to you both for an hour and enjoy it like in the days of Burns n Allen....never thought my ears would be glued to a "radio show" til yours....mahalos plenty !
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Burns and Allen, now THAT is a great compliment. Thank you, Mark.
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This episode was great. I loved the breakdown of the SOTU. I don't really follow politics so it was eye opening to here how our political leaders are making fools of themselves on TV. I loved the story of the Tea Party Express Lady who was looking in the wrong camera. Priceless.
Also, I loved the commentary about Glee. I'm with HAM; I don't get GLEE either. I preferred FAME which showed more true talent.
Keep the episodes coming. They are entertaining and informative which is a great combination.
What do you guys do when you're not doing the HAM and Legs Show?
Julie Jones
http://www.twitter.com/webkidjulie
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Thank you, Juiie for such nice praise! Legs and I will answer your question about what we do off air on this week's podcast, which will be up late on Friday night...thank you for listening.
Ham
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Or we may talk about it on-air.
But you gotta promise not to tell anyone.
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I promise not to tell anyone what you do if you promise not to tell anyone what I do... deal?
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Your secret is safe with us..., right Legs?
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I promise not to tell anyone what you do if you promise not to tell anyone what I do... deal?
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"I'm all about going to downtown LA and getting up to San Francisco in two hours"
I had to stop here, because you used actual numbers rather than the endless humor/insight of calling people "stupid" and "hooker."
Do you seriously think a train is going to do that? I mean, seriously? Or is that the "comedic take" on the high speed rail boondoggle?
Protip: Look at the map. Look at the number of stops. For the train to make it from LA to SF in two hours, it would have to travel about 500 mph when it's running at full speed to make that happen.
http://cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/trip_planner.aspx
Start: LA
Stops: Burbank. Sylmar. Palmdale. Bakersfield. Visalia. Fresno. Gilroy. San Jose. Redwood City. SFO Airport.
End: San Francisco.
You are looking a nine stops. NINE! Let's be ludicrously optimistic and say you can do each stop in 5 minutes. Right there, you have 45 minutes of non-movement. That leaves you 1:15 to go 432 miles. Now, add in the time it takes to slow down and speed up...nine times. Easily, another 20 minutes...easily. You now have less than an hour to go 400 miles (took off 32 miles for the acceleration/deceleration areas). And, are you telling me you think the train is going to come anywhere near 225 mph from LA through Sylmar or San Jose to San Francisco? That's absurd. Plus, there's the little issue of mountains between Slymar and Palmdale, and Fresno and Gilroy.
It's as if the people promoting this nonsense think none of us can do even basic mathematics...which is probably the case.
If Sarah Palin said you could take a train from LA to SF in two hours, I would start to believe that the people who think she's stupid are actually right. The thing is, people who think she is stupid actually believe this impossibility.
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As much as I believe that the proposed “bullet train” won’t happen in my lifetime in California, and that is the key word here, as well as in your link, is proposed. There will be other insights/ideas, at least I hope, between then and when it actually might come to finalization. The example you showed, with its various stops, are more akin to Metro-link. Whose routes, I believe, already exist.
Oh, if I happen to mention that someone is stupid, or I proclaim them to be a hooker (oh, I don’t need quotes when speaking of someone who has time and time again talked out of her ass, and panders to the highest bidder), then I hope that I gave the reasons why. I usually don’t just label people as such without giving some kind of merit as to why I believe them to be. Or it could be that if I do mention “Sarah”, “Palin”, or “ Sarah Palin”, that it is, in my humble opinion, synonymous with stupid, or hooker.
Since we’re on the subject of stupid hookers, if Palin were to propose such a case that a “bullet train” from San Francisco to Los Angeles would only take 2 hours, I, much like yourself, would be asking for details.
Thanks for listening, and for the feedback.
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Then why didn't you ask your cohort for details when she expressed support for a two-hour train trip from downtown LA to downtown SF? Only people who don't think things through before offering an opinion come up with nonsense like that.
Next time, ask her if she used that logic to vote to fund the example I linked to, because I have no doubt that she did and she thought she was voting for a two-hour train ride. I would call that voting out of your ass.
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Hi Don,
Legs' cohort here. Look the 2 hour ride from LA to SF would be great, I know I was talking out of my ass on that. But, even if the new rail took as long as 5 hours to get from LA to SF, it is still faster than driving, and depending on where you live in LA, could potentially be faster than flying due to security, distance from the airport, etc.
Right now, on Amtrak, which ain't fast, obviously, it takes 2 hours and 50 mins to get to San Diego, which isn't much better than driving down there, and I mean from downtown LA to the downtown station in San Diego. It has lots of stops too. So, should they devise a non-stop high speed train to San Diego for those that would potentially commute, I would imagine that would cut the trip substantially, even if only shaving off an hour. That is substantial.
It takes Amtrak between 8-10 hours now for a trip to SF (again with stops along the way), which is akin to driving depending on time of day you leave, where you leave from, etc. It can take as fast as 6 hours, but you better be leaving early out of LA and hall ass up the I-5.
So, again, a non stop, which would be the ideal for any "bullet" train plans, would, most likely shave off at least 3-4 hours...and THAT would be substantial again.
A high speed rail project is also going to bring in a TON of work to this state, and that is good news as well. I don't think it is a waste of funding, I think we, as a country, have wasted time and money on NOT dealing with our infrastructure problems. Europe and Japan both have great high speed rail I hope we will take a page out of their knowledge on how to do these projects the most efficient way possible.
Oh, I must admit, I didn't go to your link. Sorry. Hope you will listen to show #98, we mentioned you.
Thank you for commenting. Love it!
Ham
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Evening Don,
Speaking of nonsense, the link which you noted is still in the mock-up/idea/ drawn up stages. Nothing is set in stone. So therefore anyone, including yourself, can either believe those statements to be true, which I'm sure you'll be disappointed when they change them over and over again, or you can see beyond the rhetoric. Ham, I believe, was stating what she and many in Californian's hope for; something similar to what Japan has in regards to a bullet train, which by the way, does travel faster than 200 mph, but it's my guess that developers/engineers/city councilmen were smart enough not to include routes that were already being used. My complaint, is exemplified in your link as well as your post is that some body did, in fact, want to have every stop from LA to SFO. Which by pure definition is not high speed, its Greyhound.
Since neither Ham nor I are decision makers in this process, we can, and will, wax poetic on such subjects. Now if you should so happen to have that kind of pull to put people such as ourselves in place, then I will be more than happy to drown you in details that you'd wish for the days that we talked out of our ass. But by all means, be angry, be overly emotional, but the fact is we are opinion makers, such as yourself, and if we could, we would, make the world a better place. Alright, my world, hopefully you'll like the colours. And the music.
Thanks for the posts.
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Angry and emotional? C'mon. Let's try annoyed at uninformed people shooting from the hip.
Anyway, "my link" is not "my link." It's a link to the official California government site for the "high speed" rail system the voters approved.
If you voted for that rail system, and I have no doubt you did, it is "your link."
My contention is that you voted for something when you had no idea what it was you were voting for. Even as late as a week ago, you had no idea what you have voted for.
Then, when it's pointed out that you aren't getting the magical train you were "hoping for" (2 hours from LA to SF will *never* happen on rails), all of a sudden it's "my link."
As far as nothing being set in stone, it's about to be laid down as rail.
They're about to spend $53 billion between Bakersfield and Fresno. Welcome to a very expensive Greyhound. You cannot get from LA to SF in 2:40 via Bakersfield and Fresno!
http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/pr_6yearplan.aspx
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Hi Don!
From what I understand CA is receiving $8 Billion for its rail projects which was the benefit of Wisconsin or Ohio not taking the money. The $53 Billion is proposed by the White House, I have a feeling it will be fought vigorously by the GOP. As far as the link is concerned, you posted it, so hence me attributing you to the link. My apologies. I went over there, and CA is hoping to get a lot of that $53 Billion, if it is approved, which it hasn't. Again, the EU and Japan have great high speed rail, we could learn a lot from them. And, even if it only saves 2-3 hours from driving, which it most certainly would, it is worth the thousands of jobs created in the process, updating our falling infrastructure, saving fuel, etc. Stop harping on the 2 hours thing. If the trains go 200 mph, as proposed, they can make it to the bay area from LA in 5 hours or less even with the stops. That is good.
Hope you are having a fantastic week!
Ham
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Would you care if I linked your blog article on my linkedin account?
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Please do.
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Do you be ok if I linked your website article on my facebook account?
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Link all you want!
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