Monday Funday, Ain't it great? Good morning everybody? It is the case
O Day Radio program and uh yeah, another week of punching that alarm pot,
getting up early, doing your thing and listening to us wine about stuff.
But hey, that's you know, that's why you're here, and we're
glad and we got lots to wine about today. That's some other stuff just
to gawk at too, So I'm always down for a good gawking floridamand makes
an appearance. Let's see Ross's back, by the way, is the neat?
Did you see that you weren't here last week? And I did my
best not to send you any stories because you know, vacation to the extent
that you can take one kind of thing. But last week it was announced
that there's a pasta shortage and pasta crisis, and it happened to coincide with
you not being here, and there were some questions that were raised. Yeah,
that's because of a ross Fest brought to you by alve Garden. That's
where I was out, so they sponsored the event. Right, you weren't
there, which is you shouldn't say unlimited by the way, exactly on anything
almost like Firefest Metallic, who was there, Hoodie Kesha, Jo Rude.
Yeah, it was a big show man, Thank you everybody for being there.
You never showed up. It was very sad chicken out. Well.
You know, the last time I showed up to your thing, which was
your Twitch thing, I got booted. So I didn't want to. I
got moderated out of there. I don't want to be there, you know,
you don't want an incident where like w r L can get a video
of me being like thrown screaming from there, like Kyle's dad screaming. Is
this America right? You missed Jesse Camp in the dunk tank? Oh no,
Yeah, it's a big event. Man with Alfredo, saw Water,
Slaughter, Pincina, God, the stuff that happened at ross Fest. Appreciate
it. It showed up. I didn't. I admittedly I didn't know any
of that was going on. I just saw that in Italy their version of
the FBI is investigating because there's apasta show. No. I actually missed like
any news last week. I did a few streams on Twitch and some people
were like mentioning news stories, were like, hey, what do you think
is gonna happen on Friday? And I was like, I am completely oblivious
to all the news. I gotta tell you it's a and you know this
and Ross Ross can a test, it's a It's one of the best parts
about vacation. It is and it wasn't. It wasn't a legification Markie and
I take when we visit family. We travel separately because it's really hard to
travel Lincoln due to the autism long you know, plane rides or car rides,
they're nearly impossible, so we take turns. She visits her family,
I visit my family. It's weird, but it's what we do. So
she went down Louisiana, so it didn't really feel like a Besides Ross Fest,
it didn't really feel like a big lego vacation because I was taking care
of him alone all week, school pick up, all that sort of stuff.
But when it comes to the news and prep, I didn't like my
Twitter feed. I kept it on the four U tab instead of the following
time. I didn't watch any news, completely oblivious to anything to happened last
week. So any story you're gonna bring up, I have no idea.
Yep, and I and I didn't send you any news. I may have
sent you like dumb stuff, but dumb stuff doesn't count because dumb stuff is
just entertaining. But as far as news stuff, don't care. It's the
best. It's absolutely the best. And I gotta tell you. On the
weekends, even on the weekends like Sunday before noon, like some of you,
I you know, God bless you. You get up Sunday morning or
Saturday morning even and you'll send me like three or four links. Just know
I ain't reading your crap until Sunday after twelve noon. It's not the personal,
No, it's amazing what a week off like that, away from the
news cycle and the doom scrolling of Twitter or social media can do. It's
like you feel like you're back in the old days, like you know,
the days before social media, where it's like you go to fine, Yeah,
like everything's fine. It's like you open the door, this birds chirping,
the sky is blue, it's beautiful, gonna go to the gym,
I have no stress. And you come back and you start doing prep on
Sunday night, you're like, yeah, life sucks again. It's like and
you realize that things are really the same. The difference is now we're more
aware of them because of social media. So back in the day, it's
like, you know, you know, you're like your head is in the
sand. You weren't you weren't really aware of all the crap that was going
on. And now it's just magnified by a thousand and it brings people down.
The feeling, the feeling. And I've had this feeling. You've had
this feeling. Anyone our age or older's had this feeling of going to school
on Monday and finding out about something that happened, even as like Friday after
school. That is one of the biggest news stories to hit your town,
you know from or hit your social group, I should say, right,
like somebody's uh, you know, like a like a family that you know,
or a kid was killed in a car crash or um. So there
was a big old raid and it happened right across from the school. You
know, those kinds of news stories which you would instantly see on Twitter or
Facebook. Now we had to wait till Monday. And I know most of
you can identify with this and it would blow your mind. It may be
more so mine because the town I grew up and was so so so small,
but like to not know about that stuff. I don't. I don't
live there anymore, and I know instantly when something happened. Now only would
it just take you the weekend ness? He would learn about news, But
there would only be one thing that you'd be talking about. It wasn't like
forty or fifty negative stories that you're constantly you know, that are constantly going
into your brain. So you'd come back on Monday and you'd be like,
oh my god, Paul Pfeiffer is Marilyn Manson and he had what removed?
Right? Like that would happen, and it's like that would be it for
the week. Well, you have lots of ribs. I mean, you
know anyone who's ever done endless ribs at Chili's. Have you thought of incorporating
that into Rossfest? Or is it strictly an olive garden promo? I can't
really, it's contractual, I can't. All right, Yeah, that's fair,
that's fair. It's a business thing. You don't want to screw that
up. So but but no, But on that story, in a more
serious note, So the price of wheat isn't up, but the price of
pasta is up like twenty five percent, and it's becoming scarce, and so
they're pretty sure someone's manipulating the pasta market, so they're doing investigation. Can
you imagine somebody in Italy in a criminal manner, perhaps organizing that crime that
crimes to manipulate um the public for profits. You're trying to say, like,
I'm like, I'm like the Nancy Pelosia pasta. I appreciate it.
No, no, no, no, I'm saying in Italy, perhaps somebody
t commit a crime, organized the crime I nah to never facilitate building the
public on pasta, which is obviously a staple then all across the world.
But you see, impossible is what you're saying. It's impotantly completely impossible organized
crime at of Italy. No, no, okay, all right, hey,
you know what, this is why we do the show. We speculate,
We bounce ideas. These things happen. So I'll give you a rundown.
You want to speculate on that you can. Um, we got we
got crime fighting cows, we got all. It's a weird Monday, so
you know, just buckle in case. O Day Radio program hang on ten
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PTI in the Triad and one six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All
right, good morning six twenty here on the Cacoda Radio program. Do Do
Do Do Do do? Uh Man? All right, that's fun. I
had to relog in with micro nutchem on my computator here. It was acting
weird Friday too. It was your computer okay this morning. I didn't even
ask. Yeah, so far everything's fine. Oh all right, I know
there's some weird update, or it's just me. Maybe it's just this particular
maybe it's just targeted at me. Thank you whoever heads are technological center of
excellence, appreciate that. So, m dude, I gotta tell you.
I saw this story over the weekend, and it's just one of those that's
in a long line of predictable water carries. We'll call it that. Right,
Where's somebody either at the Washington Post or the New York Times or perhaps
like like Hoffington Post can't do it, Maybe like NBC CNN can kind of
do it. But you have to you have to have this this pretentious pretend
game that that you're above the frame, you're just looking at the facts,
and you have enough gullible idiots who believe that. Well, Washington Post decided
to do this, so obviously you know that Netflix is doing a docu drama
called Queen Cleopatra, and there's been some discussion, mostly the part where they
cast Adele James as the person to play Cleopatra. I like Adele James actually
from an actress perspective, but Adele James is bi racial. But see this
stuff, and this this is the kind of crap that makes me so um.
I just think it's so stupid societally because while she's mixed race, somebody
can be mixed race and if they have the wrong opinions, they may get
accused of you know, well, how society allows you to pass. But
Adele James is definitively recognized, at least in my opinion, as a as
a black actress. Right, there's some that are mixed race where people will
go, well, but they really pass more for a white eye, and
which I think is just dumb. Right, people's heritage is people's heritage whatever.
Don't care. All right, I'm not pointing this out because I got
beef with the del James, but as many people have pointed out, including
the country of Egypt, Cleopatra was Hellenistic Greek, Macedonian Hellenistic Greek, and
we have a pretty firm understanding of what she looked like. And it's important
in and of itself because she was able to rule Egypt as an outsider and
not an outsider that you know, was seen as a an occupier. I
guess would be the best way to describe it to the extent that we know.
I mean, you know, you're still filling in the gaps when you
go back this far, but and and and then you ever crossing pass obviously
with Mark Antony and all sorts of stuff, right Julius Caesar report of a
relationship with Julius Caesar. I mean, there you go. There's all sorts
of milestones there. So if you're going to make a docu drama, obviously
there's going to be artistic license there. But as many people have pointed out,
including Egypt, it is not an accurate representation of who she is from
an appearance standpoint, a racial standpoint, Nor is Liz Taylor Okay, who
obviously is very famous for playing her. But arguably Liz Taylor's features, which
are Mediterranean features, are closer that being said Washington post saw this, saw
people putting this out there. The standard line that all sorts of the racists
are fired up and they're threatening this actress, Which how many times have we
heard that? Now? Anytime that there's a project coming out where they decide
to cross cast somebody or casts a reimagine a character's heritage, okay, well,
generally that's taking place on characters who aren't real. This is a real
person. So if if we're in an era where you don't culturally appropriate and
you want to as you want to cut through the whitening of history or however
it's described to divide people, you should strive for an appearance of accuracy with
artistic license in the sense that it's Hollywood and it does what Hollywood does.
But this seems to be this this cornerstone recasting to empower black actors and actresses,
and so Hollywood just needs to be upfront that's why they're doing this.
And if they just say that we're doing this because this is what we want
to do and screw all y'all, then that's their position and you can decide
whether to watch it or not. The producer of all of this is Jada
Pinkett, Smith. You may know her from g I Jane Jokes and her
husband Will Smith and Chris Rock and all that. All right, So so
with this going on, Washington Post gets the job of carrying the water and
it says, was Cleopatra black? We're asking the wrong question. Experts say
critics of Netflix's docu drama Cleopatra are applying modern racial constructs to an ancient civilization?
What the hell does that mean? So let me just on just a
couple of things. Let me let me ask this question one because I'm confused
now. So if experts say critics of the docu drama are are are applying
modern racial constructs to an ancient civilization, I thought, I mean, I
don't think this, But I was told this is how it is. I
was told that everything from past days historically should be filtered through modern racial constructs,
modern morals ideas, what we would, what we do find, okay,
what we don't find okay, And only then can you judge somebody from
the past using today's metrics. That is my understanding, as it's been explained.
Every time I see one of these freak out, we got to cancel
something articles and then I see it in actual practice. When I'm sitting there
and I'm reading a story where this was last week. Ross, you weren't
here, but it was another one of those stories where it's like most of
the kids don't know George Washington was the first president, but they know he
owned slaves or something. Right, all right, so that's job number one.
But Washington Post goes a step further, and boy, oh boy,
are they going to carry water on this and they're going to literally try to
reargue Cleopatra's background. Hang on celebrating ten years and still going strong. Thank
you. Casey is on WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM
Talk in the Triangle. All right, good morning, six thirty four case
O Day Radio program. Oh people are I know? You can email me
on Saturday. I'm just telling you. I'm not gonna read it. You
can email me at one in the morning on Saturday morning. I don't care.
I'm just telling you. When I actually dive into the stuff, I'll
give a cursory scan. And I actually have like with the iPhone, I
can VIP email addresses and so, like Rosses, a few of our bosses
select salespeople. So if I see their stuff on the weekend. I can
glance at that because obviously maybe priority, but no, no, no,
you can send whenever you won, just on Sunday. Once I turn it
on, the first thing I do is I just barrel through all my email.
Look at this, look at that. I mean, yeah, the
prep. You have to take a break for your sanity. Yeah. Like,
there's some people I see them on Twitter. They're they're they're apparently up
like twenty four to seven posting stories and arguing with Internet strangers, and God
bless them. I don't know how well, if they're arguing, that's fine
posting stories. Obviously you can you can get tweet deck and you can time
posts and all that stuff. So I like to think that's what they're doing.
But you're right, once they're interacting with people, I don't know how
they do it. Don't understand it. And nobody wants to get you know,
nobody wants to get emails during you or you and I were just talking
off the year. I won't get into the details, but we were just
talking off the area. And it started with a salesperson sent you an email
that started with I know you're on vacation, but which of the time.
It makes me want to lose my mind, although in this case it was
fine. I don't mind me being contacted about stuff like that, but um,
but it shows you this expectation, and so also you got to kind
of guard against it. I've had a number of conversations with people we work
with and I'll say something like, all right, so I get off the
air. Obviously, any you know, production, we need done promos,
things like that, we got to tape something to a client, thing,
whatever, Let's get it all scheduled. Let's do it. Because during the
middle of the day there's a few hours where I kind of disconnect and then
I start prep again, and they they're just so, yeah, I noticed
you didn't answer right away when I texted you at two o'clock in the afternoon,
and I'm like, yeah, yeah, I didn't because I'm gonna work
now until seven o'clock at night, eight o'clock, and you're gonna work till,
you know, seven eight o'clock at night, putting stuff together. It's
it's part of what we do. And then of course the day starts really
early. We've we've split stuff up or Friday afternoon because Sunday afternoon we work,
so Friday afternoon, I'm gonna turn it off, and I don't want
anyone to think, Well, no, the twenty four seven connectivity. I
miss those days. I miss those in the nineteen In nineteen ninety, if
your friends said they called you and then you can get a hold of you,
you would believe them, right, because maybe you weren't home. Nobody
picked up the phone. If I told you, Hey, Ross, I
tried to call you on Saturday, you could through the use of technology,
you would know whether I was telling the truth or not. Right. I
miss those days. Man, How many times have you called somebody's house fifty
times trying to get a hold of them in and after, especially when you're
younger. Oh maybe they're home now. Maybe they're home now. Maybe they're
home now. We just don't do it now matter. There's a disconnect to
between like the different generations, like the younger Zoomer generation. If they if
somebody like if a zoomer sends you to and not now all of them,
but majority if a zoomer sends you attacks because I've seen this actually play out
from viewers on Twitch that are younger, where they'll just send me to a
text and sometimes I don't feel replying to the text, or sometimes I'm busy,
or sometimes I'm just tired, and I'm like, you know what,
I will reply to this when I want to. I'm not getting back to
them now, and they can't comprehend that. They're like, why are you
not answering me right now? That is rude. I demand I demand an
answer. It's like, once upon a time, you didn't have access to
people twenty four to seven, right, And I was thinking about singing about
my dad a few weeks ago because he passed away on May fifth, And
every I think about it, I made a post about social media and a
sing about my dad, and I got jealous. I'm like man back in
the day when he would get home every day at like four o'clock. He
was done with work. Right, They couldn't contact him. He was done,
the work day was done, and you could focus on family. He
could sit back in his recliner, he could watch TV whatever you want to
watch. He could talk to the family. Now those days are over management
and random people sending you text They assume that they have total access to you
twenty four to seven, and the younger generation sort of demands it like they
don't because they can't comprehend it. They've never known a world where we're that
we're talking about. They've never experienced. So for us, it's different.
Like if you send me a text and I don't get back to you,
you're like, well, he's busy, Well he's doing something. He'll get
back to me eventually. Maybe he doesn't care, but like maybe answer right
right, scure you buddy, you know, but these not necessarily in that
way. It's like, okay, you you you've supplied the information, right,
I have the information. We're done right range over. Sometimes right,
well yeah, sometimes there's no reaction, Like it'll be a meme and I'll
look at the meme and I'll say that's funny, and I'll move on with
my day. I've seen it, I've acknowledged it, but like you don't.
You don't owe it to everybody to apply to every text or every DM
the second you get it. I said, rassamme this morning before the show.
Just something, just something I found funny from a conversation. I had
no expectation he'd write me back, because it's just it is what it is.
But you're not gonna look at it. You know, I'm gonna look
at it. I'm gonna giggle a little bit and it'll be great. That's
it. That's the end of it. Before why I here write me back?
Don't you see my tip? Because of I wan too? May lea
me alone, you narcissist. Uh So, anyway, Cleopatra may not have
been black, or may not have been actually Hellenistic Greek or Macedonian Greek.
Okay, not really, And in fact, when you read the giant Washington
Post article, you find out that it's it's basically a word salad. Queen
Cleopatra. The second installment in the African Queen anthology arrives It's I guess Wednesday
of this week on Netflix. And despite the ongoing controversy over the docu drama's
depiction of Egypt's last pharaoh, is not about whether Cleopatra was black. Well,
I understand that it's not about whether Cleopatra was black, but if I
was doing a Winston Churchill okay, or a Malcolm xcu drama, right,
and I cast characters that didn't look anything like them, even though the story
might be about how you know, the the organization on Winston Churchill's part,
of the boat lift out of Dunkirk, or his interactions with the British Parliament
during World War Two, which you know, several pretty high profile movies were
or Malcolm X about his time and eventually his demise, and even if I
was speculating because we really don't know about the motivations of the individuals who reportedly
killed him, whether Lewis Farricam was involved in these are all things I would
expect that the person looks like Malcolm X. And let's when you saw Denzel
Washington as Malcolm X, do look like Malcolm X. Gary Oldman as Winston
Churchill, dude, look like Winston Churchill? Or even Lee Harvey Oswald right,
who was played by was it Chris or Cross from Criss Cross? I
can't remember? Right? Was that? Or am I thinking of a different
movie? I'm done JFK. When he played Lee Harvey, Gary Oldman played
him, he looked just like him. Yeah, man, Gary Oldman is
such a good act. He is just all the different stuff. You know,
Daniel Day Lewis, I think it's even underestimated for just all the stuff
he's been in. But man, I was I was skimming through one of
the streaming services this weekend, and I'm like, like, Gary Oldman's in
that. I don't remember what the movie was, it was just one of
those things. I'm like, oh wow, Gary Oldman was in that too.
Guys all over the place. So no, it may not just be
about the heritage of Cleopatra, but it is about the story. And when
you're irritating Egypt to the point where they're going to make their own the whole
thing just gets dumb. At that point. The scenes, which are interspersed
with commentary from experts, well, now this sounds less drama and more documentary,
and that's when you got to be closer. Interspersed with commentary from experts
such as Shelley Haley, a retired professor of classics and Africana studies, and
Deborah Heard, a PhD candidate in Nubian archeology. The series details undisputed facts
about Cleopatra, including you ready for this, the Macedonian Greek descent of her
father's line, Greek being her first language, but also makes clear there's things
we don't know, including the identity of her mother and whether her dalliance was
Caesar, the father of her firstborn son, were romantic, strategic or both,
or consequently her racial background. That's fine. So if just in that
sense going, you know, saying we don't know the mother, then you
need to look to representations, and the representations of Cleopatra are quite clear.
She stood out due to the fairness of her appearance, right, So you
couple all these together. But this whole article is just about telling people that
it's okay to run around and argue she might have been. There's one line
in here, and I'm sorry, I can't read the whole thing to you,
but they're just like, you know, Egypt was a gathering point for
the modern North Africa as well as parts of the Mediterranean, and so there's
a possibility that she could have been a Nubian or or you know, both
both Greek or whatever. And it's just about riding this water carry article.
So they can sit there and say that anyone who pointed out this might not
be the case is some sort of big fat racist. It's just sheer absurdity.
But you know, modern journalists, we're willing to pick it up.
Given the Cleopatra represents herself as an Egyptian, it seems very strange that we
insist on depicting her as more European. We're talking about two different things.
She may identify as Egyptian because she ruled Egypt and spoke the language and practiced
the religion, but that doesn't mean that it changes her heritage. That's you
know what argument that is. That's the Rachel Dolazel argument. Is it not?
That is transracial identity. That's the absurdity of the Spokane INAACP president.
Well, she styled her hair in a black fashion, she was interested in
black culture. She seemingly exclusively dated only black men. Okay, but she's
still that little girl in the picture from Montana looking like, uh, you
know, Pippi Longstocking. But they're willing to do that, man, They're
willing to write this whole article. And then they point out that, you
know, nobody had a problem during um what was that other show that was
basically just turned into a romantic thing on Netflix? Ah, here we go.
Sorry again, I'm trying to jump around in this article. I don't
have it here, and oh yeah, here we go, all right.
The director noted that portrayals of Cleopatra have flouted historical record. The series Rome
portrayed one of the most intelligent, sophisticated and powerful women in the world as
a sleazy drug addict. Yet Egypt didn't seem to mind. You know why,
because it wasn't referring to itself as a docu drama. It was soft
porn like most of those HBO series right there. They weren't putting. They
weren't there to represent Cleopatra in that fashion. Ross, are you sitting down?
Hold on, Ross, I am sitting down A back promised, and
now I have to sit down. Yes, okay, so you are fully
and you're secured and there won't be any issues. I'm strapped in all right.
We got one of those racing harnesses. It's pretty amazing technology, but
anything to keep Ross safe. All right? You ready for this because I'm
gonna drop a bomb. You're ready. Abraham Lincoln didn't hunt vampires. I
don't believe it, but I've seen it. I saw the show. Abraham
Lincoln did not hunt and kill vampires, Nor did the people who run the
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum have a beef with it. You know why, because
it was it was not meant to be something to inform people of historical fact.
That's why they didn't have a problem with it because they realized that you
were just making a skin flick for all practical purposes. But here you're wanting
to do something different. And that is why people are pointing out that it's
not as you say. So for Washington Post write this giant article explaining how,
no, you know, we don't really, no, you do.
It's different if they're just doing it for like artistic vision, like like a
Hamilton type thing, right right exactly. But if the dude, don't you
know, if the guy that made Hamilton came out and said this is based
on historical fact and this is the documentary, you'd be like, you're crazy,
You're saying, what are you talking about? And then they're like,
ah, you're a racist if you don't believe so. And how many movies
have you seen where they announced something and then all of a sudden, a
bunch of racists or attacking people in on social media? Right, we saw
it, which with Star Wars, what was the the Han solo one?
Right, Oh, they're going after this or any of these other instances and
then it turns into a marketing strategy. The dumbest argument I saw on social
media for the Cleopatra thing is there like easy one percent serious where they say,
oh, well, y'all are bigots and dumb. You guys don't understand
that Egypt is in Africa, so obviously Cleopatra was black, right, yep,
big dummies. Man. It's just so bad and I can't decide whether
it or this CNN article I have talking about how great single parents and and
don't get me wrong, it's not talking about the strength of single parents or
that people can rise up and and and still parent and uh and no,
no, no, no no. This CNN article is in a way arguing
that it's a preferred position. And I don't even understand why they wrote it,
But we'll get to that coming up later in the show. We got
lots to cover here on our Monday right now though six fifty we'll be back
one oh six one at them Talk PTI, two stations driving the best in
talk. This is Casey O Day and Carolina's Morning News. All right,
good morning, everybody's six to fifty seven. Rosse was just tally who's going?
Just tasted me off? Theory goes, how did uh how did the
uh trumptown hall go? That's right, you missed that too, man,
because you you would have seen either it was the greatest thing ever or it
uh for Trump, or it was the worst thing ever. And I you
know, I don't. I can't get on the bandwagon of the worst thing
ever people. But it was something to behold. It was classic how we
would go through this stuff where like at one point he called the host a
nasty person and then he congratulated her on doing a good job at the end
where it's like partially sarcastic, but also there were tons of tons of catchphrases.
They're now on our button bar. Yeah, he used that term.
Do you know what that refers to? By the way, not in the
general sense, but what Trump was using it, as I do know what
that is is not not the technical term I have experienced, Okay, but
the reason Trump was using it, I have no idea. Okay, Well,
we'll touch on that real quickly. On that, well, we'll not
cut it's not a pun. All right, Good morning everybody. It is
seven h six year on the PCO Day radio program, and it's welcome,
Happy Monday. Hope the Mother's Day went well. That was good for all
your mothers out there, especially single mothers. CNN, and he's got your
back home. Explain why coming up? Have some thoughts on that as well.
Jianna wrote a just a weird article, man, and they were close
to writing one that I don't think is a bad article. But then of
course they just they had to do what they had to do. And we'll
explain here in just a little bit. Gavin Newsom, we got that story.
We gotta get to and you know, when you decide you're gonna lean
in and literally fulfill a meme, probably not a good idea, but Levi's
doesn't care, and they decided, well, we're, um, we're basically
gonna make SNL look like psychics. So we'll get that story. Now,
Ross's back. This week was gone last week? You really didn't watch any
of the Trumptown Hall Huh, I'm jealous, man, not a second of
it. Oh, I'm jealous, jealous, jealous. Well, there was
lots of stuff everyone's arguing. Of course, CNN was getting lambasted for people
on the left or by people on the left because they gave Trump a free
hour of prime time. Yeah kind of, I mean, it's still CNN
prime time. Although the ratings were good for CNN compared to what they usually
are, and it had all the hallmarks of what you would come to expect
from some of the previous stuff that we've seen him involved in. And keep
in mind you don't obviously it was the day after the Gene Carrol jury decision
where they say he didn't rape her, but he may have groped her,
and he didn't libel her saying he didn't rape her, or he did libel
her saying he didn't rape her, even though they didn't find that he raped
her. And it was all civil, so it's preponderance, not you know,
a criminal requirement. So the whole thing was crazy, man. And
of course it's it's under appeal, and it's in New York, so you
get a jury of potentially, you know, eighty seven percent who didn't vote
for the guy, probably hates the dude. Just crazy. Remember this is
the this is the accuser, This is Gene Carrol. This was when she
was on Anderson Cooper. Okay, so I just Lawrence. I wish I
had said, I wish I said I'll tell you my age if you show
me your tax returns. This is that's when she was on their documentary What
happened, because of course they breath was we put her on right around the
time her books coming out tell the story, tell what happened. And at
this point in Bergdorf Goodman's, which is the greatest department well and at this
point in Bergdorf Goodman's, which is the greatest department store on the face,
it's cozy, it's posh. They take care of their customers beautifully. And
we're going up. The store is not very crowded. It is like six
thirty seven in the evening, and we go walk down to the lingerie department.
There is nobody there. There's empty and on the counter, which was
to the left as you enter. This is in nine nineteen ninety six,
there were a couple of really fancy lingerie boxes and there was this really beautiful
filmy gray see through bodysuit, and he snatched it up. He said,
go put this on. It struck me as one of the funniest things I've
ever heard of. Man, say you put it on? All right?
So she getting kind of the gist of it there, but she made some
weird comments about sometimes rapist sexy and all that she came across as strange to
be polite looney tunes some may describe her, but ultimately I guess, you
know, it's not like she's just some random person who's not used to being
in the public spotlight. So anyway, that was that was the state of
New York literally, and she was part of those lobbying that had to carve
out a new law to even allow this lawsuit to take place. And then
during the trial, the judge is not allowing you know, a lot of
stuff that the Trump defense wants in there, but she can put on the
Billy Bish audio and then bring in two random other women who were connected to
this to make allegations have neither been prosecuted nor judicated, which seems to fly
in the face of everything I learned on law and order. So they get
to that portion of the town hall ross and this is what this is what
she missed. Speaking of New York, I'm going to ask about a significant
verdict that was reached yesterday. I know this is something you want to weigh
in on as well. Manhattan jury found and you sexually abused the writer Egene
Carroll and defamed her. You've denied this, but what do you say to
voters who say it just qualifies you from being president. Well, there aren't
too many of them, because my poll numbers just came out. They went
up. Okay, I think, I think I'm I'm the only person in
history who had a charge like that. And usually you leave office, you
say I'm sorry, but I'm going to back home. I'm back home to
my family and everything. I'm going to be resild. My poll numbers went
up, and they went up with the other fake charge too, because what's
happening is they're doing this for election interference. This woman, I don't know
her, I never met her. I have no idea who she is.
I had a picture taken years ago with her and her husband, nice guy,
John Johnson. He was a newscaster, a very nice man. She
called him an ape. Happens to be Africa, African American called him an
ape. The judge wouldn't allow us to put that in. Her dog or
her cat, was named Vagina. The judge weren't allowed to put that in.
He says it just like he says China, right, So it's pretty
much what I would expect. Yeah, yeah, I went out Vagina.
So I was reading and they were saying, like AOC was freaking out because
she's like, oh my god, this is a horrible thing for CNN because
the crowd is for Trump and they're cheered Trump and they're laughing at joke something.
But it was a Republican town hall, right, So it was the
Republicans in the crowd, right, it was so it was either Republicans or
unaffiliated. So yes, yeah, and some moonbat got mad at me on
Twitter. He's like, ah, you didn't tell everyone. I'm like,
I literally said it when we said, well, apparently, I am shocked.
She doesn't understand how primary town halls work. No, she does.
No, she does not, although she did well the last time she went
to one, though she got accosted by her own peeps, so because she
wasn't as moonbatty as they wanted her to be. So maybe she's just traumatized
and blocking it out. By the way, that's not the cat's full name.
Do you want to know what the cat's full name is? I look
this up. But the reason we know she wrote it in her book.
That's only half the name. That's only half the name. It is idiots
Vagina t fireball Man, you're at the vet and that they come out and
say the cat's name or whatever. Yeah, we put your vagina down vagina
has fleas. Yeah, absolutely, well, but that's un unusual. I
don't own any cats. I didn't realize how you guys name them because it's
what OLIVERR D sports car. Right, isn't that the cat's name, Oliver
D sports car? Or is that not accurate? I'm not sure how do
you name a cat that? I guess maybe because the cat never knows that
it's it's it's name, So I don't know, man, But yep,
that was Um, that's the cat's full name. Uh female lady part refer
lady part reference and uh sorority girls shots. Okay, all right, so
there, now you're up to speed. Now you're caught up on all of
that. Uh let's see here. Well, let me do this seven fifteen
and then we come back. I'll get that CNN story. Also, a
herd of cows up in Boone are snitches, and um, I'm just saying
they might get dealt with. We don't know, but what we're talking County
Sheriff's office used to help nab a suspect who had literally taken into the woods
to get away out of a funny story there. All that and more coming
up here on the case O Day Radio program, Your Day Smarter and celebrating
ten years and keeping You Better Informed one oh six one FM Talk and News
Talk nine four five w PTI more with Casey starts now, Hey, everybody
want to hear something that's going to really, really, really really irritate you
this morning. You know, they say that in a derogatory manner. They
say, well, you're right wing. Talk radio is nothing, but just
you know, people find it stuff to be mad about. Meanwhile, the
twenty four hour news cycle CNN, MSNBC, especially during Trump, I mean,
holy crap, man. But sometimes sometimes you're just talking about what's in
the news and it irritates people because it ain't right. Case in point,
I know they're trying to downplay what the whatever thing looked like over the weekend.
I think ma Yorkis came out and he's like, oh, no,
we only had half the apprehensions we normally do. Well, that doesn't tell
me how many people were trying to cross the border or anything like. You
could have zero. You could say we had zero apprehensions. If you decide
you're not going to apprehend anybody I need some context, and context at least
some was provided in various videos that got posted over the weekend where you saw
people large scale trying to cut through areas in the Texas National Guard literally putting
up razor wire. You saw folks who had crossed over one the old border
fence and were staged on the outside of the new border fence. You saw
individuals that once they got across the border literally disposed of and in some cases
burn any idea stuff because they understand fundamentally the rules and the rules are at
with the with Title forty two out and going back to what the administration's using
now, there is a five year penalty if you're apprehended on the other side
of the border, which could preclude you from even trying to claim any sort
of uh, you know, reasonable fear that allows you to enter the country
because you have these these NGOs, these uh, these charities which are political
action committees in their own right that are over there and are you know,
giving scripts and and and and talking this through. CNN was doing an interview
with one guy and he was talking about how he calculated when he was going
to come in, and the CNN guy kind of stops the interview and boil
boy, do you see a lot of military age mail there rather than the
family units which are supposed to be quote unquote prioritized, pretty crazy, or
the the grab bags. There was video Ross retweet that video I sent you
would you we'll retweet it on Casey on the radio. And it's basically it's
a bunch of folks lining up, a bunch of twenty something year old mails,
lining up and being provided, among other things, their own phone.
In fact, I'm reminded of Obama phone. You know what, Actually,
if we're gonna do this story, because I never get a chance to play
this anymore, let's just why don't we Why don't we use our Obama phone,
which I'm not have to now do a Biden phone, although it could
be difficult. They're they're just lining up, getting that there's a whole,
a whole little welcome welcome kit, and some reporters were over talking to them.
And wait till you hear how the court date stuff works. But first
I wanted everybody in Cleveland loh minority got Obama fall. Hit Obama a president,
you know, he gave us a fall. You signed up and drink
your full snaps. You are so security you got low inn to gets a
billet? Does she work for her perks or do they come from me?
A wellfair angel too, but rock presidency. You know I saw her on
you too, thought it was a disgrace. But you're in the English language
trying to make her case. You know nothing about world affairs, on the
economy. But she's eternally grateful. She got her cell phone for free law.
She goes to the post, it looks as if her votes been sold.
She's got it Obama phone. She's got that Obama fa. When she
goes to the post, it looks as if her votes been sold. Oh
my nity, got Obama fat. She's got it Obama fall. It's okay,
I understand, it's easy. Just hold out your hand. He say
you're out of luck. According to her Romie's side, keep my woman president.
You know he gave us a fall. When she goes to the post,
you know, it looks as if her vote has been sold. She's
got in Obama phone, she's got Obama fall. When she goes to the
post, you know, it looks as if her vote has been sold.
Oh my naughty got Obama fa. She's got in Obama boon no Obama phone.
Yes, everybody in Cleveland. Oh my naughty got o mama fall my
woman. President. You know he gave us a fall? My lord?
How he give you a vote if you sign up during your full steps will
so security? You got low womb your dissability? Okay, what's wrong to
Robbie again? Romie? He sucks? You know? There you go.
Yeah, so yeah, that's the thing that's happening. But the question is
where they head well with paperwork in hand that shows court dates, I'm not
making this up. In twenty twenty seven and twenty twenty eight, in some
cases they were allowed into the interior of the United States and from there obviously
Texas, Arizona. Others were bust too various other areas, including New York
and in some cases the Vice President's lawn. Again, I think Abbott moved
some up there. But in New York this is where the controversy arose.
So in Newburgh, New York, which is described as upstates. So that's
what anywhere that's not New York City or Western New York right from a New
York perspective, upstate New York, I don't know exactly where Newburgh is.
However, the controversy surrounding what's going on, and it's at several places,
but the articles about the Crossroads Hotel is going to chat you a bit.
Also there's a Hampton and sweets of Super eight and others involved. All right,
So what happened and has people crying foul? Well, we'll tell you
coming up next here on the Cacoda Radio program, Hanging celebrating ten years of
keeping you connected. This is ninety four five WPTI in the Triad and one
oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right, seven thirty five,
Welcome back, casey Oda Radio program. Now let's get into this story
here, uh, about what happened when a group of my well, there's
two stories, one in Chicago who voted ninety eight percent in this in Chicago
proper or something ninety seven percent for Biden migrants being sent to Chicago. We're
part of a protest that took place over the weekend, Chicago residents banning together
and they're very much opposed to this. They're very upset. I believe the
number was four hundred and fifty in Chicago, the third largest city or second
second or third largest city. I guess when Chicago land total is well,
I guess it's an individual city thing to Chicago second from an individual city,
but in an area wise they're third, all right, just because I don't
need people's sentiments, do well, tact lay it's this four and fifty people.
Is it's a plane. It's a planeload of people. Okay, big
plane, but one plane in New York. They spread them out, including
New York Mayor Eric Adams, wanting to alleviate pressure. So what they've done
is the city has contracted various hotels not in New York City, but they
had to find hotels that were willing to do this. And on one of
the hotels that they approached is a hotel that currently works with a a foundation
known as the Euroche Israel Tony Foundation, and that is a organization that works
with homeless veterans and part of what they do is they provide housing in addition
to counseling, work training, addiction services, those kinds of things. And
they had contracted three hotels in Newburgh, New York, which is in the
Hudson Valley. They were paying those hotels eighty eight dollars a night for each
room or for each veteran. I maybe they're doubled up. I'm not sure.
So City of New York is trying to do what they're trying to do.
They get a list of hotels that are willing to do these deals,
and the City of New York came in and off for these hotels two hundred
dollars a night. And what do you think the hotels did? Yeah,
I mean that seems a bit shortsighted if you've been working with this organization,
but you know it's more than double. City in New York knew what was
up because initially they had offered lower and then they upped it to two hundred,
at which point they decided, yeah, we'll go ahead and do that.
So as a result, the homeless veterans, the majority of which we're
living in the Crossroads Hotel, although some were also in Jason Hampton Inn and
a holiday in we're told last week they're out, and the organization then had
to scramble to figure out where they're going to put them. So they literally
kicked homeless veterans out of housing to fill it with migrants who were coming to
New York that they didn't want in New York, so they sent them to
other cities in the state of New York. Just bonkers, man. Yeah,
people are mad at the hotel's fine, but the hotels are also being
offered double I'm not justifying it, but I'm explaining what the reasoning was.
And it sounded like New York was willing to foot that bill, which is
why the number kept going up. Plus there is if you are a licensed
establishment in New York and your scene is not playing ball with Democratic politicians there,
I have a strong suspicion there's other ways they could make your life miserable.
And they didn't waste any time revealing that the vets had at least two
weeks left on their stay, because there's a certain period of time where they'll
put these guys up. They were they were ejected a full week ahead of
schedule. Thus far, some twenty veterans at Crossroads Hotel, five, others
at Super eight, seven others at Hampton in and suites. And that's just
one area. That's just the one area the story's talking about. They say
that this organization and other organizations also struck deals throughout the Hudson Valley and the
Upstate New York area to house everything from homeless veterans to individuals who were part
of domestic abuse situations, you name it. Yeah, yeah, that's irritated
some folks, and frankly, rightfully so. But man can't have them in
New York City, God forbid. There was another hotel I saw a story
of that canceled a wedding because the hotel struck a deal to house and this
is upstate New York, I can't remember where, and they canceled a whole
wedding that was the hotel had been booked out, obviously, the ballroom,
everything in there, and New York came in contracted the thing and they told
the folks for the wedding, Yeah, I know, you have a reservation
and everyone's booked rooms and it's happening here in a couple of months. But
no, you're out. Here's a deposit back. So obviously those folks were
mad. But I think when you get into the homeless vet situation, holy
crap. Oh wait, Boston, Paul's waiting in here on something. Today's
Peace Officers Memorial Day and it's National Police Week. I did know that,
you know how I knew that Boston Paul One. I watched Black Mass over
the weekend. Didn't see you in there anywhere. You're seeing that movie Ross
Black Mass? H yeah, with Johnny devit's brutal, Yeah, yeah,
yeah. Did you see Bob. I didn't see Boston Paul anywhere unless he's
that cop who's sending the message on the part of the mob too, Whitey
Boulger. I mean he did take down Boulger. He's in and went in
his protection. So I mean they changed his name. You think Boston Paul's
his real name. Well, no, Boston Boston is just a it's a
it's just a nickname obviously. So it's a leper coun i according to his
email here. So I didn't see him in the movie. I'm just saying
he got left out or so you're saying it's a witness protection whatever the safety
thing. Man. Then I got to put him in there. Come on,
we Whitey Boulger's dead now, man, So living on the streets of
Santa Monica not no more? It is. And I think what's good or
what's good about that movie too, is you. I think a lot of
people don't understand what was it? Connelly, the FBI agent everything that went
down there, And I think they did a good job of explaining that because
a lot of times it was just ah, he was just he just he
was corrupt from the moment he went in. But in reality, yeah,
he was corrupt. But he was corrupt one out of some sense of loyalty,
but two because he saw his career advancement not about in riching himself with
millions of dollars. And it shows you how Bulger kind of played this dude.
The only sad thing is I think they should have done more on the
Bulger lottery story because that is a fascinating component of Whitey Bulger about winning fourteen
million dollars in the lottery and said it's not how it went down. I
would encourage people to look it up if they care. So anyway, saw
the black mass over the weekend, But yes, I knew it was Peace
Officer Peace Officers Memorial Day and National Police Week because I had to read over
the weekend. How WRL every Officer's friend, strong, strong proponent of law
enforcement turned the News tower lights to blue in honor of National Police Week.
WRL joining a number of other Raleigh locations and shining blue lights to subalute police
officers to keep an eye off for other blue buildings and lights glowing in the
downtown skyline, including PNC Tower, the Dylan, Wells Fargo, and wake
Med even the village district. Excuse me, Cameron Village. I mean yes,
Midtown Park, Park Central and three or one Hillsborough are joining the blue
salute. I love it, man, just so like going through the motions
big fans of law enforcement, every one of them. Well, I can't
speak to Wells Fargo from a corporate standpoint, although I do think it is
interesting that many of these are large scale apartment complexes that are mostly mostly in
deep dark blue districts within the city of Raleigh, so largely populated by primarily
left leaning voters. So some people might make assumptions. I'm not. I
think you could be a left leaning voter and still be a police supporter.
But actions speak louder, and so when I see w r L lightening up
their towers, I chuckle, So we got you, hey, Remember when
we were the ones who were sitting there and um trying to defend police officers
or in this case, sheriff's deputies who literally had their careers stripped away from
him because some moonbat you voted for for sheriff has an ego a mile wide
and didn't feel that he was getting enough play even though one of his officers
was dead. And uh, we're willing to do the heavy lifting here.
So Ross turned the tower blue. Ross gonna work painted myself blue. He
is all blue. He looks like a crazy uh seven forty five race agick
from the Weather Channel Boys Cowboys blue. He's painted up too, all right.
You see the schedule. We don't get to play you losers, so
sad, No, that's okay, yep, yep, yep, if you
don't play the Eagles though week two. I'm not looking forward to that,
know who. I don't think anybody is looking forward to playing the Eagles this
year because, um, they certainly didn't get any worse with their draft defense.
No, they did not. You guys should have grabbed that first round
tight end or something that'd be scure to you. But yeah, but you
know somebody had to slip in there and jump us on the pick and took
our guy. But well that's another sta. Just remember what Bill stands for,
boy, I love losing Super Bowls. Just in case you forget.
Oh wow, yeah, so there take that's a boomer comment found on Rogue
Dead. I'm a ha, no, no, yeah, that's the best
I could do on a Monday weatherwise. Over Are you good on the schedule
though? I just yeah, I mean okay, yeah, Giants opening night.
That's a tough division. Man, It's okay. It's a tough division.
Commanders will be better Eagles Giants. I don't know. Daniel Jones not
not convinced, not convinced that he's going to be the answer to New York
or we're what they're paying him. And write this down. He shredded us.
Yeah, I know, write this down. The Jets will not win
ten games? Okay, write it down. Is there somebody who thinks they
will? Yeah, everybody's got him going to the super Bowl. You see,
somebody's fine. They got Sauce. Gardner's very good player. They've got
some other weapons. I got it. But still they got a jive And
what he means did you say, did you say Aaron Rodgers fine? Or
Aaron Rodgers fine? You got Aaron Rodgers. I think Rodgers is done.
I think he's washed up. No, I said, fine, you have
Aaron Rodgers right, Okay, that's what you're hanging your hat on. Even
if I don't even know. I don't even know that he's done done.
But the problem is is he had trouble molding and gelling with new guys coming
in last year in paying green Bay. Now it's everybody's new. Yeah,
but he was he was scrolling. I mean, he was really messing.
I think he was messing with Green Bay and it wasn't fair to anybody Ross's
series because he did a hallucinogenic stuff. I'm telling you, man, it
changes your mind. I'm not mess I'm not playing like you do that stuff
and you see the clouds turn into angels and you're playing you I'm all the
Beatles at once and you're weird and you're playing it. Come on, it
changes you. It is. He doesn't have that competitive drive anymore. I
don't believe he does. No, I don't think so either. So,
as I said, maybe you didn't hear it here first, I don't think
they'll win ten games, all right, Yeah, so get to it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, here's what we're here for. Actually, is
most of us dry today, A load of mid sixties. There maybe some
spotty showers that's about it. Then the rain chances go up a little,
soil temperatures tomorrow, a few scattered showers, thutter showers, load of mid
eighties. Believe it or not. We are going to get a front to
come through here midweek and that's going to bring showers and butter showers tomorrow to
Wednesday, and by Thursday and Friday, very pleasant air mass, lower humidity,
mid seventies for highs. Lows near fifty degrees with some forties around.
So a little cool downcoming with some beautiful weather towards the out of part of
the week. Kind of iffy between now and then, but starting about Thursday,
I'm gonna look real nice around here. Feel good too, cool,
cool, all right, appreciate it, my man. We'll talk in an
hour. Thank you, all right, seven forty nine, we'll come back.
Got that CNN story for you a little on the Daniel Penny. I
guess there is a witness that has come forward and I just want to help
any of you pervs out if you're going to the pool this week with some
of that nice weather. I'll explain coming up. Hang on the show.
After the show is on the iHeartRadio app Search case O Day for the podcast
on the iHeart Radio app or Welcome Back Case O Day Radio program. We
get a Disney story for you too. I might have to mention that because
I was busting busting it gut reading this over the weekend. Let me grab
a couple of calls real quick, Boston, Paul, what's up? Stay?
That's a bunch of maloney there with the blue. Isn't that their station
color anyway? Blue? And I think Police Week's been going well. Memorial
Day has been going since the sixties. Police Week I think since the early
nineties. But you know what else is what cracks me up, as with
these phonies, Josh Stein coming out. There was a couple of weeks ago
looking for a few to secure a few million dollars to retain police officers and
hired back we tired cops, and you know, he went all about the
cops. Now they're the guys that wanted to to fund the cops. What
are they doing? Well, then everyone started getting murdered and stuff, and
they're like, oh, this isn't a good look. So yeah, that's
probably what it was, huh. And I wanted to tell you though,
because I might not have a chance to call you a couple of days,
A happy birthday? Why are you not gonna be able to call us for
a couple it's not my birthday to day, I say, and a couple
of days I'm not going to be able to call you. Probably I'm not
my birthday in a couple of days. Either what are you doing? They
moving you now? That ross out at you on the radio or what?
No, I'm busy this week though, I just wanted to say happy birthday.
I didn't see you anywhere in black masks, is all I'm saying.
So I don't even know he brought down the Winter Hill Gang or whatever.
That's how. That's how under cover I was. You didn't even see me.
See see how good they are? Well? Were you one of the
prostitutes? He was in the movie. He was wearing a green screen,
so you couldn't see him. Okay, that's right, that's right, all
right, all right, get out of here, right yeah, yeah,
Wow, that's craziness, Donna, real quick, what's up? Good morning,
Casey. I was wondering if um in black mask did they include how
white he got caught. They just showed the black masks. They just showed
him walking out of the parking garage in Santa Monica and then the FBI is
there. Yeah, well, let what led up to it was a straight
cat? Yeah he started he started feeding a straight cat, and him and
his mall and ever, Oh, what do you mean? I thought you
saw white indulge. Are belonged in prison? The cat was the hero.
No, I'm just pointing it out from a technical standpoint. No good comes
of it. So hey, I wanted to give you one of my old
cats names. His name was Fuzzy, but his full name was Fuzzard Sea
Bucket. Okay, what fuzzet Fuzzard Sea Bucket. Yeah, No, one
of your cats look like they want to murder people. They have a good
day. Well you know why because I don't have murder cats around me,
not surrounded by little little potential serial killers. That's what's truly terrifying. So,
um, unless you are a birdwatch account, um, you see community
notes once they've decided to go forward with them on Twitter. But if you
are a Birdwatch account, which our show is, and this is something they
started under the previous Twitter as kind of people who get to vote on whether
community notes are helpful or not, it's interesting scrolling Twitter on our show account
is my personal one of Ross's personal one aren't. But if you're on the
show account you can. So you see these battles within community notes before it
ever actually gets attached to a tweet that's visible to the rest of the public.
And I tend to not weigh in. I'll sometimes vote yea or nay.
But it's crazy, especially Pope with Elon. Now you see these huge,
huge, huge battles and then they get suggested, and normally they're over
something political, but not this one. This is one over the weekend,
over a Disney fun fact from the premiere of Pinocchio, and I have to
share it with you, So hang on, that's coming up, a good
one. And everybody, it is eight o seven here on the case O
Day Radio program. Glad to have you along here on our Monday. Oh
we're to start, We're to start. Well, let me start on the
slightly humorous side of things, because I just anytime somebody posts something that's even
uh, you know, mildly political on Twitter, there's a pretty good chance
the community notes are going to pop up. And if you're a birdwatch account,
basically this was some program the instituted under the old Twitter, which allowed
people to add information. Now I did it not because I wanted to add
tags, but I signed up the show account to do it and we got
accepted because I want to be able to read the tags. So while I
may occasionally vote on some stuff, I don't know. I've never actually written
a note, but I find them fascinating and it's curious, like a Biden
a tweet from Biden's account, which is such gas lighting. Most of the
time it'll have a ton of stuff on it, but generally there's also just
like a whole bucket of crazy that goes into this stuff. And so you
know these accounts that post like historic photos and videos and they're just random click
through accounts you may follow. I follow a few of them because I find
them fascinating or colorized. There's a there's a Twitter account that just sends you
a post colorized Twitter tweets colorized photos of World War Two, which I find
really fascinating generally with the context around them. Libs of TikTok just repost videos
from TikTok. So there's account call of Historic VIDs and they try to find
some of the more obscure stuff and put it out, and they put one
out over the weekend, and I'm just looking back at it a lot of
times too. Of the end up removing a bunch of community notes because it's
people just fighting. So I should have taken a screenshot, and I was
going to, and then I got distracted on Saturday. But in it they
posted a pretty innocuous thing. It's a photo from nineteen forty and it's a
balcony above a theater in Los Angeles where the theater is promoting a big movie
preview that is happening that day. That movie is Disney's classic Pinocchio, which
nineteen I came about nineteen forty. That's crazy that that movie's what eighty three
years old and was part of my childhood. It's part of a lot of
your childhood still part of you know, childhood's today. So in the photo
you see actors described as little people that were hired obviously adult actors who were
hired to dresses Pinocchio and stand on the balcony and wave at people. It
was all part of the premiere for Pinocchio. And they left them up there
all day and then into the evening and boom, except they didn't make it
till the evening. As news accounts of the time provide context there, and
in the photo you see them up there, and the news descriptions go as
follows. Disney the Disney Company placed them on the balcony above the theater to
promote the premiere of Pinocchio, which was to take place that evening. Left
them on the balcony with enough food and wine for the day. This is
the nineteen forties, They'll give you that. However, by late afternoon,
the costumes, which were too hot, had been removed, and they were
mostly or partially or mostly naked and drunk. And we're screaming at pastors by
that's the story. And I don't know, there's something incredibly hilarious about a
naked uh Pinocchio drunkenly screaming a pastor's pie on a city street. I don't
know why. I just find that really amusing. Like today, that would
be the viral video of all viral videos. Ross you're telling me, would
you it would be a badge of honor to get screamed at by a drunk,
naked Pinocchio person, wouldn't it from a balcony I find it definitely would
be a story. You'd be an a story. So this is where the
community notes come in because rather than just going oh, that's crazy, it
turns conspiratorial. One, this account is trying to shame people with dwarfism.
What two the we can't take at face value the reporting of that day,
and it may have been either a hatchet job against Disney or a hatchet job
against little people. These are the community notes that are appearing there about some
innocuous, crazy thing that happened in nineteen forty say you know with this,
Oh well, they had a problem because news news of what had happened on
the set of Wizard of Oz, which premiered what thirty eight or thirty nine,
so just prior to this had come out and so it was it was
bigotry and hatred, and or it was people attacking Disney because of his anti
Semitic belief. I'm telling you, these are things that end up in community
notes. Nothing to back it. All we have is the photo and it's
not them naked even it's just them standing up there at Pinocchio wave it at
people. It's black and white obviously. And then we have reporting in a
newspaper two newspapers that are attached at the time, who both shared a similar
account. I don't know what happened. I don't care. It's a historical
vid. None of the people are alive today. But we're willing to like
inject a social justice angle and then a political angle. And I'm just like,
I just think it'd be hilarious to have a bunch of drunk, naked
Pinocchio guys screaming at people on the street corner. But that's just me.
So anyway, that's that story. I just thought i'd share with you because
I found it rather interesting. The trial, Oh yeah, no, no,
no, I'm I'm I'm all done. I'm not gonna get into all
the Pinocchio, Easter eggs and pub scene and all that stuff. I got
it. Just concentrate on the one thing, all right. So the indictment
and eventually the trial of the marine on the subway Daniel Penny, who is
alleged to have killed Jordan Neely, Well, that ball got rolling end of
last week with Penny turning himself in. They got the perp block photo,
AOC and others got to scream about stuff others have obviously said, well,
you know what, thank you Daniel Penny for doing the work that the police
won't do. And I would only point out, and I will say this,
as I've said before, it's whether you think it's by design or is
just a happy circumstance. This is what happens when people feel that the justice
system is broken, because that's the that's the agreement, right, We're going
to and we can debate over effectiveness all the rest, but we're going to
have a system where instead of vigilante justice, we've identified individuals and those those
identified are the ones who will handle enforcement of laws. And so you,
Joe blow, all you have to do is call them and then they'll come.
They'll handle it, and you do that because when citizens handle stuff,
it's messy. Sometimes they don't have the level of training, they don't have
the experience where they've experienced a particular situation on multiple occasions. They may,
you know, they may or may not have as firm a grasp on the
law, although sometimes I see police videos where I'm like, have you read
the book, the Constitution or anything? But but for the most part,
obviously you want somebody who has that training, experience and the resources you know,
most of us don't walk around with you know, three or four different
ways to deal with something on a on a utility belt, from oc to
you know, some sort of spray, to a baton to the verbal that
they that they teach the de escalation techniques. Obviously up to a firearm.
Most people aren't packing that, so you want that. But when there is
a breakdown of that and people feel that the law is not being enforced and
people will attempt to have forced the law on their own, whether it's that
or the guy who stopped the shoplifter at the TJ Max, And that's when
things get messy. So in this case, Penny retire marine who restrained Neelie
but did so with a chokehold that officials say caused him to asphyxiate and die,
now charged with manslaughter, ironically by the very same DA who seemingly doesn't
want to charge anybody with anything, including Neely, who, for a combination
of forty some offenses, including the attempted kidnapping of a seven year old and
a physical assault of an elderly woman I think, did a grand total of
about six months. Well, on this subway, you also saw a whole
bunch of people that look pretty damn relieved that this guy was being restrained,
and in the longer video you see he wasn't just trying to moonwalk in front
of them, including one of the people who helped restrain him, appearing to
be a man who is black. Because I know the racial component had to
be played in this, but in reality now even people on the subway are
coming forward and might help bolster Penny's claim of self defense or defense of others.
More specifically, in a New York Post article, we learned that a
woman came forward anonymously to speak up for Penny. She's not anonymous to the
police, obviously, but anonymous to the reporter here, but it was able
to be verified as one of the people who was on the subway. When
Penny plays neely in the fatal chokehold, she says she's praying for Penny after
it was revealed he'd be charged. I hope he has a great lawyer.
I'm praying for him, the sixty six year old woman, who did not
want to be identified, told the Post. The writer said Neil, who
had a history of mental illness and threatening people on the train, was yelling,
quote, I don't care. I'll take a bullet. I'll go to
jail, and that he would kill people on the train. He said,
I would kill an MF or I don't care, I'll take a bullet,
I'll go to jail. He said that Penny did not initially engage with Neelie
during the rant until things got out of hand, and at that point she
and others felt that somebody needed to step in, and he did initially said
mister Penny did not stand up, did not engage with the gentleman, did
not say a word. It was all Neely that was threatening passengers if he
didn't get what he wanted. So, yes, there was a certain panhandling
angle that, according to this witness, devolved into threats since nobody was I
guess given him what he wanted. So now you're getting into escalation of things
any kind. This is continuing from the article Any competent lawyer recognizes there are
several avenues of defense. First, was force justified as a matter of law?
Second? Was deadly force justified? And how do they still have to
prove that he knew it to be deadly forced and didn't just think that he
was providing force? And screwed up. So there's a lot of complexity here,
but ultimately a lot of it should come down in a perfect world too.
What the what a reasonable person thought? And if you if you start,
you know, taking the pulse of people on this car, and they
are all sitting there telling you, or the majority are sitting there telling you
that they saw a situation that started as one thing but was quickly escalating to
another. That should be a good thing for the defendant, because that's the
story they're going to tell. The problem, of course, is in you're
in New York and you've got the lawyer for his family out there doing press
conferences saying crap like this, No one on that train. That's Jordan,
what's wrong? How can I help you? He was choked to death?
Let me just pause here. You know why, because he's screaming at them.
That's not debatable that he was yelling at them. We can argue over
whether it was just you know, First Amendment or all that, but the
fact remains that most people are not going to engage with somebody who is at
that emotional level they don't know and is potentially making threats. Most people will
just tend to ignore that kind of you know, look back at their phone,
not want him involve themselves. So you're right, maybe nobody did ask
him, But at a point where he's talking about taking a bullet of if
he doesn't get what he wants, I don't know that anyone has an obligation
to ask how they can help him. Because he stated what he wants,
it didn't seem like people were willing to give it to him, maybe because
they thought he was loony tunes dead. So for everybody saying I've been on
the train and I've been afraid before, and I can't tell you what I
would have done in that situation, I'm gonna tell you ask how you can
help. Please, don't attack, don't choke, don't kill, don't take
someone's life. Don't take someone's loved one from them because they're in a bad
place. No one on that train said you started out by saying, I'm
hungry, I need food. I'm done with it. I don't know where
to get food. I don't care if I die, I don't care if
I go to jail. I'm just done. No one said, here,
you are certain, let me meet your need or help you in a situation
or give a word of encouragement. That's not what happened on that train.
No, it's not. And it's one they don't have an obligation. And
two, the way in which that is delivered was not nearly as calm as
the way the lawyer delivered it, and he left out a few keywords.
But the reality is people are going to be afraid in that situation. Most
people are just going to ignore it, and once it escalates, that's where
the dividing line is. So those witness statements are going to be very impactful.
And there's video upon video that have emerged of this guy basically going into
a train and that's what he does. He is a very very he was
a very aggressive panhandler, which in and of itself, right where you're doing
the hard sell isn't necessarily illegal. But when you start talking about I don't
care, I'll take a bullet, I'll fight you, you put hands on
somebody, we're at a new level there. And when people experience that and
they don't see any police looking around to doing anything, this is where you
go. You've seen did you see the video of the woman who tried to
get up and this is another panhandle her aggressive dude. It's it's not the
Neelie Neely In this case. He goes in, he's making he is very
menacing in the way that he moves around, and he sits down next to
this woman, and as people are moving to the other side of the car,
she goes stand up. He grabs her hair and holds onto it like
he'd grab a horse's mane. You're riding bareback. Don't do that, by
the way, And did this to this woman that just held her there,
and the terror on her face is it's palpable. In that video, there's
still frames of her face and then the whole video, and he's screaming the
whole time. But he's physically grabbed this woman. He's holding her hair,
she's sitting next to him, she's got nowhere to go, and he's screaming
at other people. And you see individuals bearing their faces into their phones and
trying to ignore this situation. And now that this guy's being prosecuted, I
feel that people who might have stepped in in certain circumstances, they're going to
be pressured to ignore it even further. So it's going to take everyone on
that train, and maybe it's going to take someone on that jury who's experienced
this, and it's going to take a recitation of the facts in the proper
emotional state to adjudicate this. And I hope that there's a fair trial that
could be had. I believe the fundraiser was at two million dollars when I
looked at it this weekend, so they are working on it. All right,
We can get some calls on this and much more coming up case O
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This is one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle and News Talk
ninety four five WPTI in the Triad. All right, good morning, eight
thirty six here on the Cacoda Radio program. So I'm not sure what all
I got planned for the week, but some advice, some advice from Florida.
That's right, we got us a Florida Man. Florida Man. Florida
Man is something in the water, the air or scent that makes you do
all that crazy crap. It's like the state is one being dumb ass trap.
Nowhere else has the Florida Man. It is almost like as the weird
factor climbs, you'll find out it happened in Florida every time. Florida Man,
Florida man. If anyone can cheer me, if you know you can,
does mind life get crazy? But of course, but it's not as
bad crap crazy as yours. Nowhere else are you gonna find him. They're
so used to it they don't mind him. Hooray for Florida Man. Clearwater,
Florida man that police were so and to arrest at the Palms, which
I guess is a development there at the community pool, was alleged to have
taken to the apartment complex's outdoor pool connected his phone to a bluetooth speaker,
because let's face it, the speakers on the phones are not that great,
especially in an outdoor setting. I'm the same way for doing a beach thing,
or if on the golf course even I've got a little like square bows
bluetooth speaker that I got at a golf tournament years ago. Keep that in
the old golf bag. I know some people don't like music on the course
whatever, or at the beach or whatever, but yeah, bluetooth speaker,
understand it. The problem was it wasn't music. According to police, he
rolled into the community pool, set up the speaker, removed his pants,
and then started streaming porn on his phone, which was then amplified through the
speaker. Wait, so he intentionally hooked it up to the bluetooth. That's
what I see. This is why I bring this story up because I had
the same what the hell right, because there were the headline and I assumed,
right that accident accidentally. Oh my god, the bluetooth is on.
I'm busted. Wait but wow, hmm, Well, I mean, do
you want to watch porn with bad audio? I mean, this guy doesn't.
He's not going to stand for that. He wants the top quality porn
experience on his phone, so he went bluetooth speaker. I thought the same
exact thing you thought initially, But after reading it, I'm sitting here and
I go, no, he's not claiming that it was an accident because that
I could see, right, And so it's not even like headphones like plugged
into the speed. It's just right. It's like the guy who's speaking at
an event when he's got one of the Lava lier mics on and he goes
to the bathroom and it doesn't turn off and like, ahh right, or
when you're when you're in a car that like sinks phones and you're if you're
having a conversation, or if you're if you're texting, you're having a conversation,
it can show up on the dash, so watch out for that,
right, there was an awkward situation where that actually happened. Yeah, I
don't get that impression. I think he had his Bluetooth speaker and was listening
to it out loud as on the on the speaker. I don't know,
maybe speaker on his phone didn't work. I mean the part where he's at
a public pool. Yes. Now, And here's why I believe that he
intended to do it, because according to the arrest half of David, he
admitted to connecting the video to the Bluetooth speaker and playing the video out loud
as he you know, did that and said that the reason he did it
is because when he's drunk he does stupid things, which is accurate. He
was sighted. And then I guess they released him that same day, so
there you go. Yeah, yeah, no, I thought it was a
mix up. Two one to mix up, just him going yep, I'm
going to the community pool. I mean his tax dollars paid for the pool,
right or his h maybe her his apartment fees or yeah, yeah,
I mean that's one way to look at it, that he's got some skin
in the game. But in this case it's the double and Tundrous. So
uh yeah, yeah, don't don't. Don't do that at the pool at
your apartment place. By the way, the palms described as a Mediterranean oasis
just minutes from Clearwater beaches, So yeah, sounds nice. And unless there's
some drunk dude blasting porn on a bluetooth speaker, probably not something the neighbors
are gonna like. So it's fun when art becomes reality and life imitates it.
Castion point Levi's so a lot of companies I've now now that we've had
some time to settle after the marketing fund. That is bud Light, which
by the way, is now they keep a list of the most toxic brands
in America. Bud Lights now on that, and you, like you basically
got to be asbestost right or or BP when they were dumping oil. Now,
granted there's a little politicalization of the list, but you're bud Light.
You had to think you'd never end up on this, right, basically like
BP with the with the Deepwater Horizon and the organization that owns the Red Sox.
Other than that, yeah, people come and go, well Levi and
And as a result, companies are having to make a decision whether they're going
to engage in a lot of this type of marketing. And there have been
now minutes that have been explained from various shareholder meetings where it's pretty clear the
companies they don't want any piece of this. They just want to sell whatever
it is they're selling. They don't want to engage in this. They're going
to still continue to do pride stuff and you know, do all of that,
but they're they're not willing to go that extra mile and hire a Dylan
mulvaney to model their makeup or lingerie as some brands have. But not Levi's
man, They're all in. They're good to go. The nation's oldest jeans
company CEO Chipberg shook off any fears of a bud Light style backlash against the
one hundred and seventy year old company as he revealed the San Francisco based brand
is building out a new line of unisex clothing novel which is fine, right,
there's you know, people sell jackets and stuff that are quote unquote unisects
or you know, one size fits all kind of stuff. But the way
that they're marketing it is they're doing this to talk about how gender is not
binary and and so they've got all of that along with it instead of just
saying, Nope, we're selling stuff that anyone can buy. We don't care
because none of our business what should be the smart way to handle it?
And you could still market this Bird promoted Levi's gender neutral efforts in response to
a question that reference Bud lights recent marketing troubles. Quote, how do you
market products in a world where people are more aware of their gender identities?
And he came with studies, he says, you study reveals that one percent
of adults currently described as transgender, non binary, non conforming, or gender
fluid. So their reasoning is to attempt to cater to that. And as
explained now, it's a San Francisco based company, so but still, Levi's
is one of those brands that I thought, for the most part, for
the most oh irritated the Red Sox people. Hey man, I don't make
the list. Plus I don't know if they're really on there, but they
should be. So now this guy's he's all in instead of just being like,
yeah, we're genes and recognizing that, especially with genes in the same
way that people who are archaeologists determined if somebody is a male or female based
on pelvic size, well, genes, styles of genes and the way that
they fit. People are genuinely going to be different between men and women because
we're built differently. So you're making a statement when you're doing that. The
irony, of course, is is that SNL a number of years ago did
a bit that they thought obviously would never be anything on this exact topic,
and it's ridiculous. My jeans tell me I'm a man. My jeans tell
me I'm a woman. They tell me I'm relaxed, that I'm skinny a
child. Yo, you don't know me jeans. I'm not a style,
I'm not a size. That's not me. I am not a child.
I'm me. I'm unique, I'm whoa whoa woke, I'm WOA. So
why aren't my jeans Now they are introducing LEVI Wokes size list style neutral,
gender nonconforming Denham for a generation that defies labels. Levi's heard that if you're
not woke, it's bad. So we made these defined as someone by the
style that's fensive. That's why Levi wokes have no style. It looks like
they're wearing a much uglier version of the mc hammer pants. It looks like
like bigger, ridiculous, more version of the old Jenkos. Remember those Jenkos.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But if you're an upa loopa,
I don't know how to describe it. It's just so obviously it's met
in a comedic way. I like the zipper that goes it's it's like a
hundred eighty it goes from like your belly button all the way back to here.
But yeah, I just I just looked at the clock. I didn't
get a chance to play the whole thing. But yeah, yeah, race
aging. They're crazy looking jeans man. But Levi's all in. So from
snl bit to uh here we go U. It is interesting to see how
companies you're dealing with this. All right, real quick, let's get some
Let's get some wonderful weather, shall we? Yeah we will today right now,
there's more clouds try it and west than there are toward Raleigh. In
the triangle Fayetteville. All looking pretty good right now, But Marshall's sun depends
really on your where you are. I think most of us will get our
fair share of clouds later a little mid seventies tonight, you're sixty. Then
we'll start thrown around showers, thunder showers Tomorrow afternoon into Tomorrow night and at
least a part of Wednesday. I actually got a front coming in tomorrow.
Will still be warm ahead of the front as will likely again make it probably
in the low to mid eighties, and then by Wednesday, upper seventies.
Thursday Friday look real nice as the rain chances are out. It's one of
those air masks, Casey, where you'll feel the difference will be in the
mid seventies, loads of night in the low fifties. Some spots will be
in the forties. So we'll get rid of some of this warmth. Not
terrible warmth, but certainly a feel and a look that'll be a little bit
different later in the week. Cool, all right, thank you, sir,
appreciate it, okay, and we'll come back chat with Jeff Bellinger your
calls as well, coming up next Ten years of News twice an hour and
smart Talk all day, four five PTI in the Triad and one oh six
one FM talk in the Trying fifty three and lumbered update now Jeff belcher Wood's
happening well, Good morning, Casey. The next high level meeting on the
debt ceiling is tentatively set for tomorrow. President Biden told reporters he expects to
meet with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other congressional leaders. Overseas stocks moved higher
and Monday trading on hopes for a debt ceiling deal. On the Wall Street,
futures are modestly higher this morning. Now futures are up fifty three points
at the moment. Vice Media is bankrupt over the weekend, The upstart company
filed for Chapter eleven and struck a deal to sell itself to creditors. Vice
has struggled in recent months as advertisers cut their spending and directed more marketing to
social media platforms like Facebook and TikTok. Vice discontinued its TV news show and
cut more than one hundred workers last month. This is the week the TV
networks present their fall programs to advertisers. The networks sell much of their commercial
inventory during the so called upfronts. The annual ritual is complicated this year by
the Hollywood Writers strike. Picket Lines are likely outside the New York City venues
where shows are previewed for the media buyers, and the walkout means the networks
may not be able to deliver some shows in time for the start of the
fall season. There will be no Tony Awards telecast next month the Writer's Guild
refuses to grant a waiver to the producers. Rising wheat prices could mean further
food inflation, a drought, and key growing regions in the plains among the
reasons that whet wheat prices are climbing. There's also uncertainty about the war in
Ukraine and what that's going to mean to wheat, and from the Everything Old
Is New Again file casey, a lot of young consumers are buying things with
cash. A Credit Carmist survey found that gen Zers, these are eighteen to
twenty six year olds, have found that cash helps them budget their money and
avoid credit card interest charges. USA Today says more young people are cash stuffing,
that is, they set aside cash for various purchases at the start of
each month and they don't exceed the allotments casey oh, do you mean the
Dave Ramsey envelopes? Yeah? Okay, all right, so we used to
use forty years ago, right, yeah, exactly, all right, Thanks
Jeff, appreciate king. All Right, they go fifty five. I gotta
tell you, I was just uh, I was listening to Jeff, but
right as we were coming back from break, I started reading a story I
have found the worst in its scenario base like people will find you like this.
I think I have found the worst way to go. In fact,
I you know what, I'm gonna grab a phone call I. We're probably
gonna do this story tomorrow. This has got to be the worst way to
go, though. Ross, I'm gonna email you this story. I don't
want you to say anything about what it is, but I want you to
look at it while I take this call. Jake, what's up? Hey?
Uh? Talking about that fella who died on the subway? Brother making
a statement. I mean, the brother seems to watch the responsibility on everybody
else but himself. I mean, why wasn't he sleeping on his couch?
Why wasn't he at him for food? I mean that well, I don't
know the full involvement of the family, and I look, I also recognize
this, or I recognize that there are situations where because I literally I had
to deal with this within my own family, where um, somebody's dealing with
addiction issues or mental health issues, and regardless of how involved the family's willing
to get, um, they don't want any piece of it. And you're
sometimes hamstrung if they're not doing things where they appear to be a danger to
themselves or others, at least as far as authorities are concerned. However,
in in you know, in hindsight's twenty twenty, that's absurd. But family
members are grieving, So I don't know, but I share your curiosity.
How's that? Yeah, yeah, I have a good friend he's the same
way, but I want to accommodate him. But if he dies on the
street, I understand. Yeah, yeah, it's well, it's sad,
it really is. This was allowed to finish her and go on and had
all of these instances, and because you know, it's inevitably, I gotta.
I have a buddy I used to hang out with when I lived in
Minnesota who whenever he drinks, he gets really mouthy and I just you just
know the dude's gonna get punched at some point, right, gonna be in
a bar, He's gonna right, it's the inevitability of it. Everyone can
see it coming. And sure enough Mike could get punched, although Mike like
right, right, But my point is everyone around him knew what was up
to the point where I didn't. I didn't want to hang around the dude
anymore because he was just a lightning rod for Bs, thanks for the call
there, Jake, with nearly everyone around him may know what's up. Eventually,
something bad's gonna happen. He's gonna screw it the wrong person, He's
gonna attack somebody. He may take it further when he was trying to grab
people, and uh so you can you can see it on the horizon.
And what do you think, Ross? Have you ever seen that movie Balls
the Fury? Yes? Oh no, oh no, oh no. I
feel like we got to do the story tomorrow. I mean that is a
headline, that's the thing. Huh. How'd you like that in your obituary?
Absolute legend us something, it's something, and it's absolutely going to be
on the show tomorrow. So we'll see then have a good one,