Here we go rock and roll right into the weekend. But before we get
there, we got three hours of Oh Boy, Oh Boy, the Big
Boy speech. Here's what I didn't know about the Big Boy speech yesterday.
That would be Joe Biden hanging with the NATO folks, hanging with Zelenski,
hanging his future. Perhaps on how this event goes, I didn't realize the
big boy in question was Lenny from of Mice and Men or Sloth. I
haven't decided who do you think would make a better big boy because they didn't
specify the big boy. But I'm assuming that's what it is after watching this
thing, and actually I don't know why, and I'm sure AI can do
it now. I want Sloth in the Bob's big boy pose holding the tray,
and I don't know why I would find that amusing, but I I
was. I'm left with no other alternatives for who the big boy in question
is. So this thing kicks off. Ross and I just traded some texts
on prep, you know, the the larger prep stuff, and I'm just
say hey, and then if you see anything on the during the Big Boy
speech, you like, make sure we grab that as well. And I
can see that he saw it. You saw I see you noticed one or
two things that may have may have yeah, a few things, sure,
yeah, but right the the first thing I text I texted it to Ross
and he told me, would you tell me? You're like, go hold
seven and you're like, dud try you know, Biden said this day.
And I'm like, I've already got to go away, Just go away.
You've got it. I got it handled now, I got a hold bar
worth a sound. I'm just trying to help. And I was going to
make a comment on it because I had a It was the names thing.
It wasn't that I didn't think you have it. I just didn't realize that
we can choose pseudonyms, and I want to make sure that ours are awesome.
By the way, you can refer to me as the mad monk.
Okay, I mean we did that begin with, Like you know, when
you were in the room, we already did that. So so it works.
That's person, what's your wife's what's your wife's pseudonym? Or does she
get rest putin? Now I'm trying to who's who's the lady? Who who
would take the baths in virgin blood? Oh? I remember hearing about her.
Yeah, I don't know. I you know, I hate to generalize,
uh, you know, uh with you know, with women and men
and all that. But I think if I was a woman and I was
wanting to have a new horrible person moniker, I might go with that one.
That's pretty mean. And and by the way, if if you're a
sir in her court or you're in her vicinity, and you really like maybe
you're not on the inner circle. But you know how the rumor mills go,
They're like, ah, do you know what they're doing upstairs? You're
like, no, I work down here in the you know the whatever,
right, I'm on the outer layer. Yeah. So every night they get
a bunch of virgins and they cut their throats and she bathes in their blood.
Aren't you going and finding some dude and just being like, you know
what, let's do this. Make sure the rumor mill make sure you're crossed
off the list. So anyway that would be that'd be a good one.
Uh what did so we did exchange some texts. Hold on, this is
Ross's new Moniker. I want to make sure that I can say this problem.
I feel like I feel like this right here might be a little much
and Vlad poll maximillion, pot robesphear the impaler. I like how he just
rolls off the tongue. I can't read that at a normal piece. Well,
anyway, if you're Zelensky, wait till you hear your new one.
Go ahead, mister president, and now I want to hand it over to
the President Ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination. Ladies,
john' my president putin plug that into any other scenario. Plug plug pick
plug that into any other scenario, and embrace the cringe that comes with it.
He didn't mispronounce it. He didn't call him. I'm trying to remember
the previous Ukrainian president's name. I think he did call him that one time.
But like that would be understandable. Imagine, imagine in calling Churchill Hitler.
That's it. He stole it. I was going there. That was
the exact example. Churchill would he wouldn't rough you up, but it wouldn't
go well for you, wouldn't go well for you. Wait, there's no
other scenario where that's oh oh oh, that's so awful. And yet this
was the speech to watch. This was the how do you mess this up?
How many times has Biden been with Zelensky in the last year? I
mean, how much money have we sent him? Well, no, no,
no, and it is for monetary purposes, but just you know,
and the reason is the money. But how many times? How many times
he's been in Washington or they been together? A lot? Right? I
think he's been to the White House with his his you know, his green
military sweater a half dozen times. But you know, people would say,
well, you know he did he mentioned putin, which he did. But
Ross was just able to mention Churchill and Hitler, and even though he was
comparing them, he used them in the proper order, recognizing who they were.
That's right, And so that's what I said. And then we decided
to pick monikers. But that was it. Right then, you know,
all on the straight and narrow. Probably maybe please please, we're on the
world stage. Please that I'll take your questions. I've been given a list
of people to call on here Reuters, Jeff Mason. All right, all
right, so now we're sounding a little more normal. No, even that
is not acceptable. I was saying to my friends before this thing. He
said, if he gets on the stage and there is a teleprompter, or
he has notes or there is a list of reporters to go to. It
is disqualifying. That is not a big that big boy press conference. Is
this your buddy, Joseph Mousey stalin tongue? That is that is a staged
event, especially after all that's what people have been saying over and over again
that you're especially yesterday with the news that was coming out about the cabinet meetings,
right that at all that is staged And then you come out and you
can't actually do a real presser. I'm I am old enough to remember when
when presidents would come out there and they you know, they wouldn't need note
cards to know who the reporters were. Barack Obama would do it, George
w would do it. They would all do it. They would Meagan.
Reagan was famous for it, right, and and in having a ridiculously deep
knowledge of the reporters, which he used to try to charm them, and
successfully so in some instance. But he used it as a tool. Right.
They'd look down from the podium and they would say, there's so and
so from so and so, and they would address them and at what is
your question? That's you don't note cards and then people are gonna say,
okay, we have note cards. Well, obviously, does that mean that
the reporters had to submit their questions in advance? Because that is not what
this was supposed to be. I would and and to your point, the
question crossed my mind. We never really get a straight answer on that.
And like, do you remember the incident where the question you could visually see
a couple lines of the question on it was when the cards first made an
appearance, right, And and you said, they got a camera shot and
you can see what sure looks like a very close version of what the female
reporter was saying. And then they were like beating around the bush about whether
the questions were submitted and you're like, I don't know, Like it looks
like it's on the card there. If the all of these reporters who had
their come to Jesus moment where they're like, oh man, you know we
should have been more diligent notice in this stuff, right, Can you just
be honest about whether they made you submit the questions? That's please? And
why do you even have a list of reporters that you're going to? Those
are the ones that you're that you know, KJP is cool with or what
Well, they'll tell you, they'll tell you it's a rotational thing, but
no, it's not. It's just not. And then that's not what I
was picturing my head, and I think most people are when it comes to
this big boy presser. Right, And because we've watched the Stephanopolis interview,
the way that they were both described is because you were going to use your
off the cuff abilities to show that you still got it. That was the
point of all of this, right. The fact that we had to have
a press conference to show that our president was capable of vocalizing and putting together
coherent thoughts is ridiculous. Should not be at this point, let me ask
you a question. Would you feel more comfortable with Biden's vice president in charge?
I would not. I do not want that cackling banshee. I said
this, bore, I do not want for you cut three look at it?
Oh oh that guy? Oh yeah, no, yeah, I mean
that's that's like four D. That's like eight D chests like because he can't
beat himself if they're both in the same ticket. All right, So mixing
up Zelenski and Putin, they're both you know, Russia e. You know
what I mean, Like, and they're they're from over there, so you
know, some people look at it and they're just like, yeah, all
used to be the USSR. I understand why you can make the mistake.
But closer to home, that would that would be a little much, right.
I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, so I
think she's not qualified to be president. Hm. And this comes after the
Big Boy press conference was delayed one hour, hour and a half. Yeah,
an hour, which it was. The hour that it was during that
hour was gold on Twitter, man, but not for good reasons. You
know, you say these things, man, they got things to do.
Yeah, Barack Obama was never on time for press conferences. It got to
the point where if we would get I'd be sitting there and I'd look at
like the White House, the President's going to have some remarks from the g
sixth summit at whatever, or from the White House, you know, the
Rose Garden or whatever. And with Barack Obama, if it said it was
starting at six o'clock, I was happy, like six am when he's overseas,
because presidents who started six am and you're on a news talk that's a
problem because we're in like news, traffic, weather, all of that.
But with Barack Obama, chances are we could come back and say, hey,
welcome back president just moments away, and then like the dude was always
late, a few minutes late. But I think the difference is when somebody
like Barack Obama or you know, w or Yeah Bush or Clinton or Rate,
when they were late, you're like, oh, well, they're doing
presidential things. Now, I just assume they were being jerks. Sure,
yes or that. But when Biden is late, you assume. You automatically
see that meme of mister Burns with the big dilated eyes being injected with drugs
so he can function, and they call that college for some folks. Yeah,
no, it's you assume the worst behind the scenes. You don't assume.
You don't assume it's just because they don't respect your time, or you
know they're off glad handing and you know, kissing babies or whatever. You
assume that somebody looked at him and went, Nope, can't put that on
the stage. You're absolutely right, mister Robespear, somebody's gonna call him get
mad about how I'm pronouncing that. Don't care it's Friday, So how we
do these things? All? Right? But that's it, right, just
the just the the put the Putins, Lensky, whoopsie, Trump's the vice
president. The questions are not all that organic, Like this thing is supposed
to be noisy. There's eleven cut. Dear god, there's eleven cuts.
I'm sorry what these press conferences are supposed to be noisy? Right? Like
who wants a question? And everybody in the in the press wool and you
be you look down and you say, I will take you, mister doucey
or whatever, and you take the question. It's not supposed to be weird
and quiet with teleprompters and note cards. It's a brave new world man,
brave new world. Putin's in charge of Ukraine and Trump's vice president. You
know, maybe we're in the multiverse. Maybe it's not he who is wrong.
Did you consider that for a moment you're cutting all the audio up this
morning? You ever stop to think. I wonder if I, you know,
like slipped into a wormhole or something. And I mean he does have
the power of the Hadron collider, so passively he might know something we don't
know. Yeah, yeah, in this timeline Trump's VP and uh puutin runs
Ukraine. Well, the first one might not be that far off. Who
the hell knows. We'll see where that goes. Yeah, there's a there's
a bunch more if that makes you feel better. And the media, remember
this is all the media who last week were they weren't begging forgiveness, they
would never do that, but they were simply saying, we have a hard
job. You know, we can't pay attention to everything, but you know,
we see what's going on, and where we strive to work to do
better. That was the That was what most of the media was sitting there
saying, where you do a better job? Really, because you immediately succumbed
to Ross's weird quiet Uh uh press or observation. He's right, so that's
going on? And uh what was that? Well, there's there's a few
things. Well, well we'll get into it as as we break down the
the insanity there. But I don't I don't believe you've changed. If if
you would sit there and go, yeah, no, this is normal and
then not say anything because it's it's not normal. None of this is normal
except under the multiverse theory, which isn't a thing. So anyway, all
right, so we'll uh yeah, we got we'll get to that. I
think it's safe to say that it did not go as probably many members of
the media would like it to go. Also, uh, Ross, I
stumbled yesterday afternoon. I stumbled on a billion dollar business idea, and I
can't believe nobody thought of it. So I'm gonna go. I'll go on
the record with it, so none you got can steal it. You like
you're the Chinese government and it's my intellectual property. So that much more coming
up. Plus Pete Callander, hang on everybody. Not that it would be
a first, you know, to be physically scrapping with people, But I
just want to see how the modern day media would spin it. Had Joe
Biden literally physically attack that reporter, because to your point, Ross, he
looked very angry, and because it is a reporter, I would think the
other reporters might be more upset with it, even the ones who are usually
there to carry the water for him. Or maybe we just need to go
back how it was. I don't know. I don't know if you guys
know this. Like US presidents used to fight people, It wasn't a common
occurrence, and it was a personality thing. Andrew Jackson was a doozy.
Andrew Jackson loved getting in fights and love duels, and like he would,
he would challenge you to a duel with pistols, man, and I ironically
only I believe only one time were pistols ever fired and Jackson killed the dude.
And then they're like, I think the people around him were like,
yeah, you can't, you can't. You can't challenge people to duels,
mister president. It's just it's not a good look. So he's like,
well, can I fistfight? Sure? Okay, all right? Can you
imagine if Joe Biden walked in the pressroom right and they're all they are yelling
at him and Peter Deucy Remember the exchange where he called Peter Deucy and what
do you call him? Sob right, something along those lines. What if
instead of that, he challenged him to a duel at thirty paces on the
White House lawn? How are you ever missing White House press briefing? Again?
Hell no? And but to be fair, Biden does challenge people to
modern day duels and then pretends like it was their idea, referring to the
golf there, So yeah, he's not the only one. Who's who am
I thinking of? With the the giant mutton chops, the chest Chester a
Arthur Right, the big ol' mutton chops. Didn't didn't he beat a member
of Congress or something? Or did I hallucinate that that'd be the other thing?
Right? State of the Union rolls around and instead of bloviating and then
the response, you just get party leadership from all around, and then out
of the ceiling a giant cage drops. Once a year, You missing that
event that's on your calendar right now, for all the februaries you think you're
gonna be alive. The point is all of those are equally as nonsensical and
not related to what people are expecting, and when those expectations are what you
are attempting to appease because of your previous bad performance in the in in the
case of the Stephanopolis interview, right, you want to see that he,
without providing the questions, can sit down and go back and forth with a
reporter, even one who is as legendarily in the tank as Stephanopolis. You
remember, he's a Clinton White House dudent. He's who you put. If
you're a Democrat and you're and and you are in trouble or you need a
narrative out there, George Stephanopolis is your man. He's an absolute hack,
one hundred percent. Well, I've watched it over the years, but that's
your guy. It's like it's like back in the day, if you did
something naughty and you needed to regain the public's trust or go cry, what
would you do? You'd go on what Oprah or Larry King? Right,
And then if you went and you and and you were very sad and he
cried on Oprah or Larry King, you could cry on there and you might
just maybe restore at least a little bit of semblance of your reputation. George
Stephanopolis is that dude. He's just the modern day version of it. And
look, there's a lot of up and comers when it comes to water carrying
members of the media. But the as we see it, the back and
forth between the media though the watchers of government and government, some of those
are amazing. There are a lot of amazing examples of politicians who are very
good at that, reporters who are very good at it. Both of them
understand their job and watching them go back and forth have very interesting conversations.
I enjoy watching those, even if I don't agree with whomever the ability.
This is why back in the day there was such a fascination with a much
better version of the right versus left ninety second debates that we have. Right
you go back to like what Buckley was doing. People show up at an
auditorium for that, and I understand that they still go to that, but
that was a big damn deal and there was no ad hominem. It was
just we're going to do this thing, and so all they wanted is a
little slice of that from the most the most powerful person in the world.
And they fall down on that front. Round two, the big boy presser
yesterday. Go in there, and now, rather than just one hand selected
member of the media who wasn't going to challenge you anyway, you've got all
of them to choose from. And here's the deal. I don't want to
tell you how to do your job, but you you get to choose,
mister President as soon as you have a list there. And there's even this,
the remotest idea that you may know not just who you want to call
on, but the topic that they want to ask about, or God forbid
the verbatim the question. You've now violated the two basic things. All of
the rest of the stuff that surrounds that is not what people are tuning in
for. They're tuning in to watch you work and to do so in a
manner that reminds them of the normal way that this is done. And instead
we get him introducing Zelensky as Putin, calling Donald Trump his vice president.
Then he gets up on the poet to him and he's like, I have
a list here. I'll take your questions. I've been given a list of
people to call on here. Reuters, Jeff Mason, you fail one the
moment he said that it's not the thing that I tuned in for anymore.
Now, if you think, if you think that you know, stopped him
from creating wonderful audio, well you would be wrong. Let's uh, let's
keep going down this list and look, there's some issues that people want to
know about. Like let's let's start with the bedtime thing. Right, you
missed a meeting the other day because it's like, oh, it's my bedtime,
I can't go. I can't. I wish I could, I wish
I wish I had control over this, but my bedtime is this, and
your meetings after that, and there's nothing I can do. So all right,
well let's get into that. How can you say you'll be up for
that next year, in two years and four years given the limits you've acknowledged
that you have today. I have acknowledged I have. There's been reporting that
you've acknowledged that you need to go to bed earlier and your evening around eight.
That's not true. Yes, it is true. I reddit New York
Times. I said, was oh, instead every day starting at seven and
going to bed at midnight, it'd be smarter for me to pace myself a
little more. And I said, for example, the eight seven six stuff,
Instead of starting a fundraiser at nine o'clock, start at eight o'clock.
People get to go home by ten o'clock. By the way, I'm gonna
I would like to back the president here, but only for the purpose of
excoriating the NCAA and others who feel that starting a tournament game at nine to
thirty on a weeknight East Coast is not the worst thing ever. And I
hate you, But I also work very early, so yes, I'll get
behind that the difference is duke versus unc while exciting is not somebody launched an
intercontinental ballistic nuke, so you have a little more control. All right,
I'm sorry, Finish, finish this, whatever this is. That's what I'm
talking about. I'm not talking about. And if you looked at my schedule
since I've since I made that stupid mistake of in the campaign and the debate,
I mean, my schedule has been full bore, you know. It's
funny. He mentions that, uh r, Ross, are you on the
do you get the daily schedule press release? I still get it. I
signed it out. I do not. I've looked at schedules going back to
Bush, right, that's when I first signed up for this, and so
uh and it does carry over, so I get now. Sometimes they're delineated,
and sometimes for whatever reason, I assume it ends up in junk and
I almost never look at it unless I gotta go call back on it.
I glanced at Biden's schedules occasionally or when I need to go back can look
at something. Bull Boar is not what I would describe and and Trump's schedules
were very light the way that they were written because they were written very generically.
It was you know, like I can't remember what they used to call
the media time, but that was that part of the morning where was watching
Fox and Friends because he's scared a ghost or whatever the reporting was. But
there was still more on there, Like you remember the first part of the
Biden administration where everyone learned what a lid? It was just I was just
about to ask you about that, but just remember when he first started and
I was like, what is a lid? Yeah, tod was everyone even
though the lid lids are in there. I could go, I don't know
if I go for that far back in my email, but lids are in
there all all presidents. But but it wasn't so common that they would bring
it up on a daily basis and like the president would just disappear. No,
it was where you see a lid was the president? You know,
the reporting had been the President's going to Camp David or Bush is going to
Crawford where Barack Obama's going to, uh, Chicago or wherever. And and
you know on Friday, it may there may be a lid at like one
o'clock, and you realize, okay, that's because the official events are over
and they're going to be you know, going to wherever. And that was
it and so like nobody knew what it was. And then with Biden's it
was like like multiple times a week, like right after lunch. And again
this is where we started into these norms that members of the media chose to
ignore and now wants you to believe that. You know, they're just there's
so much stuff. Christ let me ask you a question. Regardless of what
you do for a living, there are patterns in what you do, right,
There are normal ways of doing things, and when something is done abnormally,
it stands out. I could give you a thousand examples. In the
world of radio, not the least like there's such because we're on a clock.
If a bed fires a little differently, yeah, it ross and I
perk up like prairie dogs. Man, We're so ross because ultimately he's you
know, he's running the master control there. But no, we were talking
about that this morning before the air, before the show, about how regimented
and scheduled, at at least my morning skin. Yeah, you were giving
me the rundown from the gym and everything. I don't think people realize it.
So before I go to bed, and depending on how much audio and
video we have for the next day, I look at my schedule and figure
out what it's going to be. So set the alarm according right, right.
So last night I understood because I was going through Twitter and watching all
these things from the Big Boy presser, and I was bookmarking and liking them
so I could figure out what order to load the audio in. I was
trying to help you on the moment, right, Yeah. But I realized,
I'm like, wow, I'm gonna have a lot of audio to load
tomorrow morning because this is a complete disaster. So I'm like, well,
I'm going to get up a little earlier. So I got up at one
thirties because today was a gym day. Was at the gym from two to
three thirty. If the gym at three thirty started loading audio at four had
all that scheduled out, then they had commercial production to do. Uh.
Then I had fifteen minutes of some other production I had to do, and
then I had literally on my schedule, I had five minutes to go to
the bathroom before the show. WHOA on company time? Yeah? Can you
believe it? On company time? You spent five company time minutes in the
I did I saw the five minute lid or something. Oh, I got
to go. I don't know why. I just don't like that name for
it. I don't know why. Ah, that's what we call time theft
kids. Yeah, but I mean, yeah, there are ways of doing
things, and there are norms. And for this administration to have the norms
they have when they that's remember that's why they were they were elected, right,
they're going to bring back the norms, bring back the norms. Oh
maybe they met the dude from cheers. And and that's us for misunderstanding.
No, And and so when you're a member of the media, and you've
been a member of the White House Press Corps forever, little stuff stands out
to you. I promise it does. Because you don't even have you't have
to be a member of the media. You could be somebody who's gonna go
work at Dollar General today. And I'm not insulting that, but I'll bet
if you work at Dollar General and you go in and I don't know what
the processes are, but let's say one of the processes how you receive your
till Okay, and let's again, I'm just making this up. But you
go in, whoever's the manager has to provide the till for the individual cashiers.
Maybe you count it. There's a process for signing a slip, and
that's it. And let's say you go in today and it goes differently.
It stands out in your mind because it's not the norm. So all of
these media folks that are like, look, we're so busy, we didn't
notice this stuff was happening, or the cognitive stuff or whatever they're all lying
to you. They know, they know. And by the way, there's
among the most petulant children on the planet. All you had to do was
watch Jim Acosta. You remember when he thought he was like he was one
of the dudes being assaulted on the civil rights line when they took the microphone
out of his hand and they wrote all these articles. Look at Trump's trying
to literally rob the media of their voice. What a bunch of hacks.
They either knew and didn't say anything, or they were too focused on the
previous dude one hundred percent, both absolutely both and and without a sense of
like, oh man, I'm gonna look like a hypocrite. That as wild
to me, Like I'm gonna look like a hypocrite. This is happening in
front of you, and I think you'll see that. I'm sorry, right,
why did you edit all these pauses here? Why is there all the
dead? This is this is a thirty eight second cut. What's going on
here? Is the silent sense alarm going to go off? Which was like
seven seconds that thing goes off? All right, Well we'll try and I
think you'll see that some of our European fans, yeah, are going to
be curtailing there involve investment in Russia, I mean, excuse me, and
in China as long as China continues to have this indirect success help to Russia
in terms of being able to help their economy as well as as well as
help them in as a consequence that their ability to fight in Ukraine. Ross,
Can you grab me a vial of the go junice or whatever that they
obviously, because there's one left over there obviously didn't give it to them.
I want to see how that stuff feels, man, because what the hell?
The entire event in itself is a test, and you just I don't
just like you just went through and you just put it. You filled in
all the a bubbles. I don't even know what's going on other than I
need to take a break here on the Cacoday radio program Hang On. I'll
still make jokes about it, but I hate the idea that they have to
have a map where the poop is and you can't use the map zoomed out
because it's just then all brown, the very real destruction of one of the
most thriving economies in the world. Within the city center, business is getting
out of there as fast as they can blean the downtown area now fleeing the
outside areas. You can rob a bunch of people. You can do basically
anything you want to do. And it's all downright depressing because San Francisco visually
one is a very historical city, you know, like the history, but
it's also or and from a topography standpoint, continues to be it's a very
beautiful place and it's very unique right the you know, the what do you
know about San Francisco even if you've never been there, got a lot of
hills, right, But like it doesn't do justice. One of the things
I really liked about California is any of the bigger coastal cities. I was
in Santa Barbara obviously for school, and they have this to some extent,
but not to the extent that San Francisco does is wild man and it makes
and it's also why it makes for some of the best, going back to
Clint Eastwood stuff, some of the best chase scenes in the business. Allah
Dirty hairy Man. You couldn't in seventies. In seventies movie making, you
could not. You could not write a movie in San Francisco that didn't have
at least one chase scene or speeding scene where the car going down pick whatever.
The not the curvy road, but one of the straight ones caught air
just due to the sheer drop of each section of street. But usually I'm
not left smiling. I'm kind of left smilet here. I don't know why.
There's a there's a video floating around ross Is. He'll tweet it out
to you so you can go ahead and gand or add it. And before
you watch it, I want you to pick your fighter. Okay, all
right, So here's who you have to choose from, and I'll give you
I'll give you a little a little background on what's happening, so you have
a newtist. This is right, now this is like the Mortal Kombat selections
screen. Okay, so you got we actually have two nudists, but only
one is wanting to tangle. So in this corner a nudist, you also
have a Brazilian tourist. Pretty standard Brazilian tourist, although not standard, would
not be standard in Disney because there's not fifty of them and he has his
shirt on. Is that an accurate description of Brazilian Disney tourists? I can't
remember exactly what she said, but this guy is just he's just normal looking
dude, just doing the tourism thing. And unfortunately, in San Francisco you're
gonna meet some characters because in corner number three we have a pirate, but
not a pirate who understands pirrating. We have a pirate who has think of
all of the amazing weaponry available to a pirate. All if you want to
maintain a an accurate rendition of the pirate, if you want to be true
to the pirate, you have lots to choose from ross What if you're a
pirate? What is your weapon of choice? Of all the pirty stuff?
You go, cutlass, blunderbus. What a fun thing to say, blunderbuss.
I think my weapon and choice would be the black pearl. All right,
well, but but you had this guy's just walking down the street.
You can't walk down the street, okay, So I can't choose the krakeet.
Yeah what I mean? I would go sword or I don't want old
timey flint pistol. I don't think it's a blunderbuss. That's what you can
load anything in there, blunder. I was just talking about like the pistol
though, you but oh yeah, yeah, sure, yeah, yeah.
Blunderbuss is great, man, And you know you probably won't kill anybody.
If you're a modern day pirate, that's probably good. Although it's California,
you probably won't get right. But no, this dude, who knows nothing
about pirrating has the classic uh uh cutting torch? What? Yes, he
has a blow torch, I say, cutry. He's got a blow torch,
which, yeah, I I'm trying it was that Teach? Was it
William Teach who used the blow torch? I'm trying to remember my pirate lore.
No, none of them did. What do you what are you doing,
sir? I'd rather watch you trying to wheel a cannon up one of
those steep ass hills, all right, So to set the scene, those
are your those are the choices, right, And the scene is the pirate
is attacking the Brazilian who is then defended by the newtiest. That's the scenario,
very sand fro and it's in the Castro district for extra points, I
guess I don't know, so I don't know who the hell knows? Who
you got who comes out on top rando Brazilian tourists and just by himself blow
torch wielding pirate attacker or naked dude and spoiler alert, naked dude. It's
a very effective weapon, even this dude who is so insane he's dressed as
a pirate attacking somebody with a blow torch standing in the middle of the Castro
district where feasibly most I shouldn't say most dudes. There's gonna be many dudes
in that district who don't mind the site of a naked dude. And yet
immediately the pirates like I didn't sign up for this. I'm out go look
at the video, don't worries blurred? Okay, So got that? Let
me read the read the story here. Naked dude's name is Peter Sephara.
In the video, Sefara can see standing off to the side while a man
holding a blow torch, dressed as a pirate appears to confront the Brazilian.
Another man, who was later identified as a tourist from Brazil. An onlooker
then appears to sneak up behind the alleged attacker, swiftly stealing the blow torch
from his grasp. The perpetrator then swings at the tourist, even though he's
not the one who stole the blowtorch. Other dude runs off with the blow
Also this can you imagine you're a naked dude and you have to confront a
guy with a blow torch. A lot of guys are gonna go They're not
gonna They're not gonna like those odds and be like, no, you know
there is uh, there's even a minute chance, you know, no,
nope, not having that on fire. But that didn't stop these good samaritans
who don't can't even afford clothes. The tourists can be seen covering his face
as the alleged attacker starts to walk toward him. The other nudist then jumps
into action and begins pummeling the suspect while he's distracted by one naked dude other
naked dudes kicking his butt. Seferah told my buddy Lloyd is quite a quite
respectful guy, but he didn't waste any time and nailed the guy with a
right hook. Safarah told the outlet that his friend was the hero of the
incident. YadA, YadA. Anyway, So there very uh very insane West
Coast moment caught on tape, blurred for your view and pleasure, and uh
not who I thought was going to come out on top. Look crazy pirates
with blow torch. You know he obviously doesn't understand pirating. But if if
you made me pick one, that's who I would have picked, and instead
you got dude. It's like I need a weapon. I am the weapon.
And here's the best part. According to the Castro Merchants Association President Terry
Bennett, blow torch pirate guy is a known problem in the neighborhood. Wow,
they have a high bar for the neighborhood crazy homeless dude, don't they.
I mentioned on the show there was a guy on in Raleigh and Glenwood
Avenue who would wear a pimp coat a full lane, full on. I
don't know what the fur was. I probably didn't want to know. And
it could be the hottest day in July with the most humidity all year,
and that dude to be strolling Glenwood in that coat. That was an amazing
commitment to his who his character or whoever he was, or what the motivation
was. But this dude's a pirate with a blow torch harassing people. I
feel like if you're the law enforcement in any other community, that becomes a
priority, especially a tourist area. Apparently the dude for years likes to go
into shops with his blowtorch and his pirate garbs screaming at people. Well,
to be fair, pirates plundering merchants is a thing, So maybe, you
know what, maybe I should be so harsh on his his pirrating there.
But either way, it's Friday, so there's a little some to lift your
spirit because hey, it wasn't you, and you're probably all the better for
it. You're still having a better day than anyone who works in the Biden
staff. So I played a few cuts from the Big Boy Presser yesterday,
which let's just say it had its moments, and not when I mean moments,
I mean not good ones. Well, now I want to hand it
over to the President Ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination,
Ladies and gentle my president putin oh boy, and that worn't a one
off. He also refers to Trump as his vice president. I wouldn't have
picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, so I think she was not
qualified to be president, you know. And I can't even do that cut
justice. And here's why. If if you watch the video, there happens
to be a moment where they get a camera shot as he's saying of his
staff because they wide it out they must be well, I know, they
just have political or somebody just had an article where they like they had to
bring in additional mental health services because all the appointments were chewed up. It's
got to be damn depressing, right. Do you ever work at a company
where they're having layoffs? Right, like large scale? We've had it in
the radio industry, you know, as we reformed our company. And now
I mean I'm not I don't speak for the company, but I can speak
as it's something many of you have experienced within your own line of work.
Right, you know that your company is what's the term, Oh, I
hated this, Remember the term right sizing. Whoever came up with that should
be drawn and quartered. Oh, we're not downside that we're right sizing.
That only a dude with a golden parachute to come up with something like that.
But my point stands, if you know that your company is gonna be
there's gonna be a lot of job cuts or restructure in any of the rest
it's so it could be such a stressful time. I would remind you that
when we really started to flow into the company that we are now, and
you know, into the focus and we were just starting into the digital which
obviously you know the iHeartRadio app and all that stuff. It's it's been a
big process. And I'm not saying, by the way, the companies don't
have to modernize and make sure that whatever direction they're going is is probably the
best. But it's always it's gonna be a stressful time. In a stressful
time forever's in charge, all the way down to somebody who thinks this may
be my last day there. And I remember were sitting in that environment.
I remember, and it's a matter of public record that one of the biggest
reforming of our company, where we had a lot of people that didn't work
there anymore, was on Barack Obama's inauguration day. And what was wild about
that is it's a pretty big day in the news talk radio world, man,
and you got all this stuff going on, and it's so crazy stressful.
And I still would trade places for somebody working on this campaign. Man.
Oh my gosh, how much liquor how much booze do you think they
go through every day ross at the end of work, once the president goes
to Betty by all of it pretty much all the booze in George is putting
themselves into a stupor for sure. Oh geez, you know this is why
this is probably why he doesn't look medicated now in the debate and then yesterday
because they got to be stealing it. Did you see the the meme going
around of a kjp's head on Ben Affleck's body. I don't I just visualize
that. I don't. I don't know that. I want to see that,
just like outside, just like super depressed smoking. Yeah, sorry,
I have even following the KJP admitted she's lying except every time I go click
a video, she doubles down. It's a really weird kind of meta meme
out there, and it just made me think of because I was going to
bring it up the other day, but I kind of like the affleck thing
too, or affleck, Yeah, the affleck thing, because now we know
why he looks like that, and I don't believe him either. Did you
hear the reason by the way, he said? He looks irritated in those
photos like that, he says, Jennifer because Jennifer Lopez is so famous.
Didn't she just cancel her concert in North Carolina because nobody's bought tickets and so
everyone's like, I don't know. It kind of sounds like you're lying.
So yeah, having kjp's head on there, I'm assuming that's the reason for
the meme. I'm trying to understand it without seeing it. All right,
I'm probably giving this too much thought. All right, Well, we got
we got more audio reminder Pete Callander he'll join us. That's coming up at
eight oh five. Gee, I wonder if he wants to get into I
don't know any of this insanity. I'll take your questions. I've been given
a list of people or this and sollowing the advice of my commander and chief
of the chief of Staff of the military. Wait, wait, who's now
Let's go back to who's your commander in chief? Is it Jill or Illuminati?
I need to know We'll be right back. I have poor time management
skills. Once I get on a topic, sometimes these things happen. But
here we go. Rich people freeze themselves and fortunes for future revival. You
know, I've seen there's some movies, and I think the most famous one
is the utilization of time to make oneself wealthy? So Ross, can you
think of the most famous example of using time or at least a plot point
to use time to make oneself wealthy? Back to the future, right,
You're using Gray's sports Almanac, and so that's there. There's a I try
to remember the movie where the guy travels back to the Old West and he
deposits like a dollar in Wells Fargo and then gazillion and that's you know,
that's a rule of seventy two stuff. Doctor one of our financial guys,
Coach Pete or Dougray or any of the fine folks who advertise here on this
wonderful radio station. They'll they'll explain you that, Yeah, that's a that's
a pretty effective tool. So I guess it makes sense if you're willing to
cryo freeze yourself upon death and you're hoping that one day whatever, you know,
we've tackled this whole, you know, dying thing, and they revive
you and then hey, look Ross's back. There he is, Remember Ross,
there he is. But what would be worse is if they did bring
you back and you were rich enough to do this, except when they bring
you back now you're a poor that would kind of defeat the purpose of doing
all of that, right, mister self important, mister captain of industry.
So now as state attorneys are helping rich people who want to freeze themselves work
through the minutia of doing that, because here's the thing. There is some
complexity here in the ability to own or control the trust, own property,
have bank accounts, these kinds of things when you're legally dead. So they're
having you really clever to figure out, Okay, well, how can we
preserve this money and even grow this money? Well, I think the growing
it's fine. Right. You could take a very non aggressive stance and as
long as there's enough time that passes, you know, a couple hundred years
or what was it, eighteen hundred years or whatever, eight hundred years with
idiocracy, You know how much money you could make with one hundred dollars eight
hundred years from now if you're not a total idiot and he just never touched
it. So that's the easy part, but having to comport with US law
is difficult. So cottage industries have emerged of folks that just put together these
estate trusts, which I actually I have a little I do have a little
bit of knowledge of how these trusts work. This is how a lot of
ranchers try to protect their property from taxes, generational taxes, transfer taxes,
and state taxes. Right, they put it into a trust. Very very
common thing there. So al Core Life Extension Foundation is literally a group out
of Scottsdale, Arizona that deals with cryo freezing that now has an entire wing
of in house estate lawyers. And so even this weird flex right where you
talked about it as an oddity either like did you know Walt Disney's head's frozen
or Ted Williams is frozen? Except not anymore? Right, wasn't Ted Williams
in that one batch. I think he was right. You guys don't know
what I'm referring to when I say the one batch. Let's just say,
you know, want to be an early adopter with everything subs to go visit
the Titanic. Don't want to be an early adopter. Let's see the new
finn system on the US rocket, which was the Challenger. You know that
olough it was a panel issue there, But I digress. And you didn't
want to be first in the barrel on the cryo freeze unless you're a big
fan of whatever that stuff was under New York City and the movie Ghostbusters,
because basically the first big group to elect to freeze themselves for later. I
don't know if somebody kicked a plug out ross. Do you remember why they
turned to go? They turned to goo? I don't have it here in
front of me. Was it just the tech was bad? Right? They
thought it could hold out into just the decomposition started and I guess nobody checked
or what. I don't remember how they got to go, but they they
turned to goo feasibly it's better now they have some folks who have been cryo
froze for a very long time. And now it's just like anything else involving
a bunch of people who've got a lot of money and these you know,
brewsters, millions something style to blow it on. Well, let's go ahead
and uh, let's let's make sure we're captain. Let's make sure that we're
literally the you know, the richest dude in the world. Should the should
this thing work out, I'll tell you where the real flex is gonna be,
right, the real flex, because you know rich guys, they love
flexes. The real flex is when you start adopting the uh, the China
and Egyptian model of ancient burials right where oh no, the pharaoh died or
oh no, the emperor died. Uh, time to go ahead and get
everything ready for the burial chamber. Hey, all of you staff who are
still very much alive, get in there and grab the pets for some weird
reason, and supply here's some livestock. You're gonna need that. And they
would like if the right dude died, a bunch of people died, just
put him in there. And by the way, what do you think that
was like inside that chamber before the oxygen or the food or the water or
whatever ran out right. You didn't have any choice. You traded, essentially,
although some of them were slaves, to be fair, but you you
kind of traded so that you had this high profile gig in life. But
part of it is you got to pay the piper. Got to pay the
piper. And that means when the dudes you're working for kicks in into the
burial chamber, you go, they stick priests in there, they stick all
the wives. Got to need those in the afterlife, and off you go.
So, uh yeah, that's gonna be the ultimate flex ross. Who
would you have buried alive with you? Have you ever thought about that?
Should it come to that, and you're you're able to flex that level of
billionaire attitude? Nope, all right, you're supposed to say the Patriots.
I would have the Patriots buried with you. But now Bill Belichick, he's
got a new TV show. I might get to that here in just a
moment. All right, let me grab Jamal. You gotta be you gotta
be quick this morning. What's up? Hey, Casey? You know what
you know? And I'm here and I told people the media we're gonna start
back covering him. That was nothing was good when he was saying, oh,
you'll nothing was good about that. That was a whole minute gating absolute
that fat stuff yesterday. And for personally, one of the things that really
kicked me off was when the Polish I don't know who that guy was from
the newspaper whatever, said that the you know, Poland is worried about Donald
Trump and you know what is he going to do to stop him? Joe
Biden, if he was talking about democracy as they've been saying they are protectors
of democras, which they absolutely not, because you see they're willing to throw
democracy when it don't work that way, he didn't respond to that guy and
say, hey, this is the United States of America. If the American
people pick a president that does not share NATO values, then that's just it.
We have to accept that. If that part when that man stood up
there picked me off. And then it was come on now, Kamala Kamala
Trump. I don't know if you've seen the theme, you know, Kamala
Trump. No, don't don't even bring that up. I don't want to.
I don't want that in my brain. So, oh, y'all know,
I don't know. I don't have you seen have you seen the what's
happened over in Poland. It's wild what's going on over there, because obviously
Trump went over and he was thank you for the Kale Jamol, you know,
he was real tight with the previous Polish president. And so now they
get new dude up in there, and of course it is you have this
other new dude up in the I guess their version of their legislature, and
it's like this weird Supreme Court. There's a lot of similarities, except over
there they just they just they're not coequal. They all think they're the top
branch of government and then they just do whatever they want to do. Is
it's crazy. And the Left have made inroads in Poland with the young folk,
and so they now have certain positions of power and the first thing they
want to do is use that power to jail their political enemies. So it's
a very turbulent time over there. And this White House has celebrated and encouraged
getting away from you know, the guy who Trump went over and embraced,
even though Poland was doing just fine, the left, the band in Poland
when they were like, yeah, no we're not we're not taking in a
million refugees. We're good and that really ticked him off. So now I
wouldn't expect Biden to do it. But also I don't know that he remembers
any of that stuff I just said. On the other hand, raced Agic
from the Weather Channel, he remembers all sorts of stuff, some of it
more useless than others. Yeah. Well, I almost dropped back fifteen and
pun on this one. I mean, nobody really wants to hear it.
But anyway, what do you mean, well the forecast, we could do
something else? Yeah, we can do anything. Did you did you watch
the SP's last night? I did not. I had to go in the
office last night, sit around and monitor for severe weather. There's nothing going
on, but I was able to. Uh, would you tell your wife
when you go to the bar with your buddies. Yes, that's it.
I'll go into the office to monitor severe weather. I used it, and
then I send pictures from with a radar in front of me, so you
know, it kind of looks like I'm actually there. Yeah, the secret's
out. You know, one day she's going to ask you to hold the
New York Times or something. Yeah, yeah, I would be. I
would be no, I didn't watch didn't watch the SPS last night. It
was it was an unmitigated disaster, was it really? Imagine it's the Oscars,
and you know at the end of the Oscars, what's the big award
best picture? Right, right? So what if you want to do the
best picture and you're like, what if we just accidentally run something else?
Oh? Yeah, what they do? So you know, it's the Humanitarian
War, which is the Prince Harry thing. And then they ran like a
Muhammad Ali I think, which is the award namesake, but they ran it
like a previous one. And then they had they ran some like weird video
and then they cut to Harry but from an earlier thing and it was and
then they just went to the news and uh, for them, the the
the award is the best team, right, top team, right, and
they had they felt that they had to double up on Prince Harry, but
weirdly out of order, and so the South Carolina game Cocks, who would
have won, they didn't. They didn't do their award the boy and then
a guy was on stage talking about death and they cut to DeMar Hamblin sitting
in the audience, and then some lady came up and made fun of Caitlyn
Clark in a really racist manner. So that's your SPS. You go,
there, you go. Glad I missed in the forecast. No, it's
pretty cruddy out there, but most concerns a flash flood warning. This flash
flood warning until nine this morning. Elements Chatham, southeastern Randolph Counties got of
right between the Try and the Triangle. Real heavy rainfall there and spotty heavy
rain elsewhere getting in the Franklin County just to the east side of Raleigh near
Wake Forest, and more showers and heavier storms with the floodwatch in effect.
And there are areas and it's basically all now east of eighty five where the
heavier rainfalls coming kind of in batches. There are breaks. There are some
breaks east of the area where we're seeing heavy rain now out we believe it
or not. The outer Banks where it is going to be kind of a
rough beach day today and even on into tomorrow. But this rain is going
to stick with us on again, off again the floodwatch. Additional advisories and
warnings coming out for flooding, which means that you need to take action.
Water covered roadways do not cross them. Heads up for rising water too,
creek streams, you know, the drill, and we could see anywhere from
one to three inches of rain over the next two days. The shower thunderstorm
chances best today, with downpours into the nighttime hours tonight, scattered showers thunderstorms
around tomorrow, with some partly sunny sky less rain tomorrow, but more out
toward the coast of low ninety. And then as we get at the Sunday,
just some isolated stuff in the afternoon, and here comes the heat and
humidity back lot to mid nineties. He didn't see's close to one hundred triangle
close to one hundred Monday, Tuesday, even Wednesday, tryad not quite that
hot, but hot enough for everybody. As the ridge is going to dig
in, we'll be back to dry, hot, humid weather as we get
towards the tail end of the weekend and early next week. But I think
it's critical today, tonight and at least through part of tomorrow with the heavy
rain of the flood threat. Alrighty, thank you, sir, we'll chat
in an hour. I appreciate it. Yep, all right, Race aging
there coming up on the show. Well, Pete Callener, he'll join us
at eight oh five. We have a celebrity death. And Ross and I
were talking about this extensively off the air because I did. Maybe we misremembered.
I don't know, because there's there seems to be a chunk missing from
the biographical here and uh where where is it? Oh yeah, I don't
say this often. I think Justin Trudeau has a wonderful life idea. Oh
yeah, wait for it, it's next. Shelley Duvall has passed away.
You know her from obviously the Shining the pop Eye movie. Shelley Devall was
in this weird era of actresses, and I don't This is not an insult,
It's an observation where there was this kind of strange mia Pharaoh like there
was a weird Hollywood beauty standard, or at least a very different one.
Gaunt, the short hair, the whole thing. I wasn't alive for this
era, but you see it when you see media from it. What they
seem to have left out with Shelley Duvall is not her diabetes, but the
fact that the reason she disappeared and people wrote articles was largely due to some
serious mental health issues. In fact, she went on Doctor Phil not that
low? How many years ago was this? Maybe? What five six?
Wasn't that long ago? And listen to doctor Phil nod politely Friday on an
all new Doctor Phil, The Shinings Shelley Duvall from Red Carpet to Near Reclars.
I love Robin Williams. I don't think sting. Where do you think
he is? Shape? Do you see him? Yes? Stars to set
into mental illness. The man you threaten me is the Sheriff of Nottingham.
I think there's a worry disc inside things. I'm very sick. I need
help. Well, why I'm here? That's Friday. Yeah, and again
I'm not making fun of her mental illness, but I think it's uh,
it's like a major part of her life. And when you see the reproaching,
I had to have you long and boy oh boy, we got one
hour left and we know how to do it right on Friday, we figure
we're just phoning it in anyway, So let's bring in as many people as
possible. And as we do, more radio folks make for more better radio
A. So like Joe Biden, content the star of two thousand and fives,
must love Dogs Air America personality Janine Garoffalo joining us. How you doing,
Janine? I'm doing well, Ross, how are you? Yeah?
Come on, man, I didn't really we're going there. You wanted me
to call you don Imus so. But then we uh, but then we
had to look up The year of Must Love Dogs came out. What a
weird era of movies where Janine Garoffalo was the love interest In a few years
before that, Rosie O'Donnell is a leather lingerie detective in Exit to Eden,
and then Whoopee is a slutty not real nun. What were they putting the
view together like psychically with Janine's politics and then the other two's presence, because
mind is blown? Man? What were we thinking? Well, you got
to remember that the people who were writing that that stuff, right, they
were older, you know, so they'd done probably a lot of hallucinogenic drugs
in the sixties, you know. And but anyways, I should just stop
right there. Well, you know what, that's fine because the hallucinogens now
apparently being done by the Commander in chief. Here's the deal man. Between
the Big Boy press conference of the George Stepfanopolis interview, it was not what
they were it is it was the normalcy of how they're normally ran that the
American public, you would agree, right, that's what the American public wanted
to see. They wanted to see one a president Mono Imano with a reporter,
even one as soft and water carrying as George I need a boost of
my democratic political career Stephanopolis. They just wanted to see the president be able
to conduct a conversation without notes on the issues of the day. And then
yesterday they wanted to see if he could handle a room full of reporters on
the fly. Let's take question, lets go to you, and you and
you and in both instances, then they immediately sabotaged and cashed in the elements
that were the things people wanted to see by taping the Stephanopolis interview and by
the president yesterday. Uh, you know, in between calling Zelenski, Putin
and Trump, the Vice president did the old I have a list they gave
me. I've been given a list of people to call on here. Did
they not understand the assignment? Well, look, everybody does this, you
know, everybody has Yeah, just like you know, every every campaign sends
a list of the questions that radio hosts are allowed to ask, and then
if their candidate goes a bit off script, they every every campaign will then
request that the recorded interview get edited so it doesn't make the candidate look bad
all the time, just because I have that story and I hadn't got to
for we talk to you. So what what Pete's referring to is not the
Philly woman who was fired, But it's profically a host in Milwaukee who's on
a progressive radio station there, who had the questions. Use the questions and
parts of the answers, including things like uh, I don't even hanging or
not. But they but they said convicted the murder, all right, So
that and that I have more blacks in my administration than any other president,
all of the presidents combined. This radio host shut up, all right.
This radio host, who is still employed on My Dad, produced two different
versions of the interview, one minus those two gaffs or whatever, at the
request of the White House, I might add, using the questions that they
provided, and it Pete's joking, it's not that it's so outside the norm.
In fact, if a politician suggests a question, I won't ask it,
or I will try to ask something that is pure lunacy, so they
understand that I'm screwing with them, so they don't ever do that again.
Fair, I think that's fair. Yeah, I don't. I don't.
I don't believe I have ever had a campaign or or a politician directly tell
me, hey, ask me this question. You know, the uh you
do? You do sometimes coordinate on topics, like if there's a lot of
stuff going on, you'll say, hey, I only got you for you
know, ten minutes or something, so I want to focus on immigration and
crime something like that. Right, So, but that's it. You don't.
You don't tell them. And on the occasion where I have had usually
it's younger staffers that don't know, and so they will just ask, you
know, hey, what what do you plan on asking the candidate? And
I usually say something like, well, I never give my questions in advance.
You don't make up. You don't make up questions. Why do you
do this job if you're not willing to do that? This is one of
the funnests to make up an insane thing that where they have to go and
like staff time has to be dedicated to getting background on it and then just
never ask it, Well, it's a teachable moment, Pete, Well,
I prefer just to short circuit it. And I got to, you know,
because I'd rather spend my time, you know, messing with leftists on
Twitter. So I just say, hey, you know what I'm like.
I don't ever say I don't ever tell that my subjects in advance of what
questions I'm going to ask them. Now, there is a carve out there
for authors of books that you haven't read. You know, they send over
the publicity kid and they got a list of questions and they're usually generic questions,
but if it's a well known author, uh, then you know it
obviously you you can go anywhere you want to go with the interview, and
if you've obviously got any kind of rapport with the person, you can do
so. But they send those lists of questions over because they know they're doing
these massive publicity tours and it's just one interview after another for you know,
weeks on end, and the hosts are not reading the books. And so
that's why I just don't book a lot of authors for that reason, because
I don't have a lot of time to uh to read your books because I'm
rarely, Yeah, because I'm usually on Twitter, you know. Uh uh
yeah, like fighting with leftists. Right anyway, anyways, I've said too
much. Well, look here's I'm going to trust. Let me from a
political semi, here's as close as I I I I'm comfortable with. So
like we had Senator Ted budd On earlier this week, Ed Bud, what
did I say? No, I was just saying I can never say his
name without saying it like Donald Trump said it when he endorsed him. Head
Bud, Bud, you forgot anyway. Anyway, Look, look here's here's
the here's the thing. So it and when a when somebody books Now Ted's
people didn't do this, but when he was in the house and we would
book a thing with him, and I'm assuming it's a lot of the same
staff, uh, they would send me, uh the press releases that they
had sent out. They didn't suggest anything, but they and I'm on the
mailing list and yeah for a while. And so that's wholly appropriate because those
are sent to all of the media, all of it, and and they're
not directing that I pick or choose. That's it though, that's the dividing
line. Yeah, right, they'll say like, hey, we just introduced
some legislation. He'd love to come on and talk about it. Okay,
fine, but that's in no way we're tricks me to to asking a specific
question or to just that topic. And usually it's like, Okay, he
wants to come on and talk about this, fine, I'll ask him a
couple of questions about that, and then I'm going to move to questions I
want to ask him. And they all understand this, Yeah, they do,
but they get But there's a lot of people I don't. I don't
want to indicate that you and I are far superior than a lot of our
colleagues, but there's a lot of there's a lot of people who do this
job who are very bad at it, which is why, which is why
you and I get one hundred pitches a day for the dumbest interview topics you've
ever seen in your life. People have no idea, Oh yeah, the
pitches that are in there. Because there are folks who just do a magazine
style show because they do not have the ability to do prep, to do
show prep, to do spoken word, to do stream of consciousness, and
and that's fine, but it's a different and then the other one that I
really grinds my gears is a failed one or two term congressman who goes back
to a mid market and they give him a show just because he was in
Congress, and all he does is book his buddies. I think it bastardizes
what we do. That being said, and I'm slowly trying to remember exactly
why I was going here. You know, no, no, no,
no, no, no, I don't okay, now, I can't make
a recovery, can just prepary to him. But the fact is the reason
that they do that stuff is because if you and I object, three people
probably go okay, yeah, yeah, we'll ask that, or we'll yeah,
absolutely and allow themselves to be controlled because it's for work to come up
with your own stuff. It is yeah no. And people ask me like,
oh, how much you know do you prep for your show and this
sort of thing, And my general rule of thumb is two hours of prep
for every one hour of the show. So I'm usually doing at least six
hours of prep for a three hour show, and I usually never get to
all of it. I've done shows where, yeah, where it's like everything
I have prepped, I have abandoned because something happens or I make one comment
or we get one call and the next thing, you're talking about a topic
for three hours and you've done no prep on it, or you've got a
single sheet of paper that you're working off of for three hours, and yeah,
I mean that's just and then that stuff sort of expires because it's not
a nevergreen topic and you move on. But I mean, that's that's what's
so one of the one of the side stories and all of the Joe Biden
is as bad as we thought he was. A story that we're now witnessing
in the legacy corporate media is the extent to which Democrat comms shops are lazy,
inexperienced, and intellectually and professionally flabby because they have not worked out any
at all against a combative or adversarial press. And it shows, it really
shows that the you know, cheap fake stuff that watch me, watch me,
and like, oh my gosh, that's enough for us, and there's
no pushback on any of that stuff. And it's just this this adoption of
fundamental assumptions that come from the Democrat Party and the left that then get translated
into questions for Republicans, and so they're constantly being confronted by this stuff and
they have to they've got to learn. They got to be better, right,
the comms people have to be better versus the Democrat comm shop where they
don't be. Though, why would you why would you put a plan together
for a polar bear attack if you live in Charlotte, That's what we're talking
about, right, Yeah, Yeah, eventually, like I'm doing, I'm
doing violent hoboes and uptown, right, I'm gonna have a plan for that,
and then you know, the list goes from there. I gotta pivot
to one thing that's kind of on this, yeah, because I I love
don't you love it when you predict something and it comes to pass and then
you're able to get back on the Twitter machine and be like, hey,
remember this thing I said was the and it's a thing so rare for me
though, Oh stop it. I see you. You're on Twitter so much.
You love Victory laps the so the thing and I and I'm sure that
you probably ride at the same conclusion. The unwillingness of Legacy Media North Carolina
during the Roy Cooper Virtual Press Conference run by the way Through Software designed by
Democrat Party affiliated company which allowed for almost zero questions for any combative media the
but the media who was getting questions unwillingness to who use their question to go
why are my colleagues not getting any questions over this more than a year process
would come back to bite him. And I would argue that in the case
of Mark Robinson and his campaign with Lonagren, his campaign guy in the quote
he gave wr L where he's saying, you're not getting an interview today and
probably not one in a while. I have long told these folks not to
talk to WRL and watching Ral then freak out about it. How can this
be? This is exactly you didn't step up, And I said, when
you don't step up, and then this is going to be turned around on
you, because now we're getting we get deeper into the well right with whether
it's the nuclear option or any of the rest, and and and once we
keep going down this road, you're gonna be the ones not getting what you
want. I consider Roskin texts Mark Robinson right now and ask him his favorite
wrestler from the sixties, and Mark will answer him, not because he's in
the bag for Mark, but because when uh or right, Because when we
have Mark on, we schedule it, we coordinated, we talk about the
issues of the day. It can be done. And uh yet Aril can't
figure out how this happened. I would argue it happened. And that was
one of the gestation points right there. Well, you can only I spoke
with Mark the other day like the like like an hour or two, adser
He refused to Yeah, yeah, like an hour or two after he said
to all of those TV cameras that crashed his Medal of Valor ceremony to ask
him, like who do you want to kill? Like if you like,
if you go in ascribing motive and adopting the underlying assumption that came from Greg
freaking Sergeant right at the New Republic, you're going to use that as sort
of the baseline from which to operate off of. That's not good faith.
Have you watched the speech that's been two hours going over that speech at the
church that he did, and when I and when you listen to the speech
and it's in its entirety, it's very clear what he's saying. The only
people that misinterpret what he's saying are the people who are trying to spin it
to create fear and the paranoid, hysterical narcissists that that think that you know,
the the world is going to end next year and that Project twenty twenty
five is something that is going to enslave everybody like they're there. We should
not be governed by the most hysterical demographic in our state or our country,
and that is where we are, unfortunately, and and we will continue to
evolve for all of these reasons. But this is this is the media and
political atmosphere they wanted. I got, I gotta go. But I hope
they're enjoying it because it's it's not going to get any better. Nobody's going
to respect ral more in my humble opinion, as time goes by. But
we'll leave it there. Pete will chat next week, sir, have a
good one YouTube brother, appreciate it and be back. Hang on because being
referenced is the cabinet story, which and this is this is a good example
of how if there was a certain level of competency that Pete was talking about,
you know, it's like planning for a polar bear attack in Charlotte's pretty
low on your on your to do list. Well, if you're the den
comms person for a candidate or for the party planning on the mainstream media,
actually, I don't know digging into these issues like that, that's something you
probably didn't brainstorm for. And so the report came out that Joe Biden has
not met with his full cabinet meeting. He's obviously met with individual cabinet members
since let's see it was it October of twenty twenty three. Yeah, here
we go, Yeah, since October twenty twenty three. Remind me again what
month it is? So ten months he hasn't met with his cabinet in a
full cabinet meeting in ten months. Now, a competent comms person, especially
if you work for a left leaning you know, a left candidate, and
you're having to address the media. So, you know, somebody from CNN
broke the story. So CNN calls like, hey, we're just looking here
on your thing, and it says you haven't met with your full cabinets and
since October twenty twenty three. If the candidate himself could formulate sentences and if
your comms people had planned for this, the easy response is this, and
CNN would have gone away you ready. Well, we strive for efficiency,
and as many of you know who ten meetings is part of your work,
a large scale group meeting isn't always the answer. So what we do is
identify the issues we're working on. I meet with all of my cabinet members
regularly, and when we have issues that may touch on one, two,
or three different cabinet positions, it's then that we schedule meetings. In fact,
we had a school transportation issue and we brought in the Education secretary and
the Transportation secretary, and YadA, YadA, and and and and then maybe
they do write the story, but they write about how efficient you are.
You know why, because they want you to give them the narrative that they
can run with. But you can't even do that. So what do we
get? We get he hasn't met with his full cabinet since October twenty twenty
three. And me case the radio guy, not the comms guy anymore.
I have a memory, and my memory said, I think there was a
Trump story like this. If you remember early on there was there were various
narratives about Trump, but one of them was he doesn't want to win.
Do you remember that? Weird during the during the campaign, you saw that,
right, that was that was one of these things getting pushed by a
bunch of like leftist bloggers that Trump doesn't actually want to win. In fact,
they had, and then the rest of you had me like mainstream media
doing articles about how they had sources saying that Donald Trump is terrified that he
might win or am I did I hallucinate that? I remember that, but
I here's what I did look up when he was in office. It was
a version of that where they said he hadn't met with his cabinet in a
month, and then the narrative was, see, he just wanted he just
wanted to say he was president and he wanted to do president stuff. And
then from there, obviously he did want to so he could rule the world
and subjugate you. But yeah, yeah, that was a month that everyone
freaked out. This is almost a year. Has anything happened in the last
ten months that might necessitate a all hands on deca meeting? Yes, yeah,
arguably a bunch of stuff. And don't get me wrong, I,
like everybody else, I find the least the more people in a meeting,
the least useful. It generally is, with exceptions where it's not much of
a meeting and more of a presentation. Right, here's the direction of the
company, here's this big initiative. Here's a new way to dub spots that
only takes seventy two easy steps. And uh yeah, but in a meeting
meeting, those aren't as effective as you know, Ross, and I have
a meeting with our program director once a week, and there's three of us.
Right, you can be far more efficient with three than he can with
twenty three. But no, they're not getting that together. I have a
theory. Ross. When you hear my theory, way he hasn't. I
think he thinks that they'll twenty fifth amendment him and that they can only do
it at the meetings. He just has bad info. Yeah, it makes
sense, right, He goes in with his gavel and uh yeah, one
of them snatches it away. Sit down, mister president, and then all
right, we're all here, and then boom, you're not the president.
So like so, I you thought you were going to be a fired so
you don't walk by the boss's office or they try to like, you know,
reverse his psychology. And so he walks into the meeting and they're all
just sitting there, and then they all start, you know, like complimenting
him and bowing out the race, like he did a great job bowing out.
And he's like I bowed out, and you're like, yeah, you
did, yeah, do it. We all saw it, and more importantly,
two thirds of us saw it. So aye, aye, all right,
let's get out of here. So bad. Speaking of bad, I
look, I'm sympathizing the fact that this this young woman lost her life,
but I have I have a thousand questions. All right, So, nineteen
year old Maria Diana, how do you feel about people with two first names
Ross? I don't know. I didn't realize some people had beef on the
oh, I don't care. Yeah, there's like a segment of people.
It was like a much smaller like Hawaiian pizza hater segment, which I didn't
know about until not that long ago. But anyway, nineteen year old Maria
Diana was hiking with her boyfriend when they encountered a brown bear. All right,
so real deal. Grizzly here brown bear. If you hear brown bear,
it's the same as a grizzly. It's a latitudinal thing, or excuse
me, longitudinal thing. In the US and then obviously Russia's version is essentially
almost the same, although they are slightly larger some of Siberia. But anyway,
oh, the Kodiak is larger than all of those. But there's your
bear. Listen for the day. So they're hiking in an area that is
wrought with you know, the largest of bears. They're not polar bears,
and here comes the bear and the bear is like, hey, look at
that food, and what transpired, dexter is a pretty horrific and caught on
tape. We're not gonna play the audio, but uh, Diana immediately actually,
let me probably say this, Ross, if you see a bear and
you're on hiking and it's one of the big mean it's gonna eat you bears.
What's the first thing you do? First? Top of the list and
square up like old Timmy boxing, and I'm like, bring it, you
know what? Good band? Yeah? Ross and I are the exception.
We don't run from bear most people. No. No. And I throw
my hand into his mouth and I rip out a tooth so I can make
a bear tooth necklace, just one tooth or well, I mean one tooth
from each bear. Yeah, I don't want to be cruel. You're it's
still kind of like almost one of those Vietnam necklaces you hear about. Yes,
I stay away from that, but so most people be like I'd run.
But the reality is it depends on the bear. If there's smaller bears.
I'm seeing baby bears around your topography. There's a lot of you got
at you gotta remember, and there is a fail safe point where you have
to make a decision. And if it's a black bear, the decision is
make yourself look big. Okay, make yourself look big. This is what
they will tell you. Not aggressive, but make yourself look big and formidable.
Chances are that black bear will scamper off into the trees. Done deal,
baby. So if you've done multiple people like kind of like stealing on
each other's shoulders with like like the kids in the trench coat, yeah like
that, would you figure out why Jeff's calling what's broken? Oh? Dear
god? All right, well we're always away from that, but so uh
yeah, make it. Maybe not the trench coat thing, but make yourself
look big. You could, you can do noise they and the smaller black
bear. That will work great. We're doing with the you know, the
Leonardo DiCaprio revenant bear. That's not your best option, and it really depends
if you think if you can get to cover how far it is. They're
they're much faster than you think. But a piece of advice that they will
give you if you found yourself with the bear upon you is lay down.
I know that sounds counterintuitive, with your hands over the back of your neck
and as the if the bear tries to roll you so that it has access
to your stomach, keep the roll going until your back face down again.
And that's the best advice that that that they'll give you. And I understand
that you could go, oh, shoot it with my gun. We're operating
on the premise you don't have one, because uh, miss Diana didn't.
So she she called nine one one and what she called nine one one?
Did they tell her all that what you just said they did? They did
not. They did not, because I don't know if they have that page
in their folder book. I'm being eaten by a bear. Miss Diana on
the phone, uh, talking to emergency services when the bear grabbed her leg
and drug her off a four hundred foot cliff. The injuries, according to
rescuers, what is this? Listen to this this term. The injuries suffered
by Miss Diana were quote incompatible with life. What happened to deadly injuries or
something? And ironically the bear survived. So when rescuers found her body,
the bear was circling it. Because that bear was he came to play,
man, what do you if you're the nine one one operator? What what
was? What were I I get that she panicked, But if you're the
nine one one operator, I'd be like, run he is there anybody near
you who runs slower than you? Run slightly in front of that person?
Right, there's no advice you can give. I almost feel bad for the
nine one one operator, Like, let's see how to clear the breathing pass.
It's Nope, not that CPR. Nope, can't talk you through that
intruder in the house. Be very quiet, turn the light off on your
phone and hide. Nope, that's the and the and we're done. She
called nine one. At least the kayak girl had the you know, the
sense to at least to try to negotiate with the bear. Now, if
you run it through the filter of how leaders will tell you to deal with
criminals, because they don't want to recommend guns, you should inform the bear
that you're calling nine to one one, which apparently she did not do well.
Yeah, and then you need to curl up at p on yourself.
Yes, remember those instructions. But that was to not get raped at the
University of California Davis or a Kimra which campus. So actually it is a
thing that they will from a wildlife attack too, I guess. I don't
know, but I've heard that. I don't know that I think anyone's giving
serious advice like that. But the advice I gave you with the hands over
the neck, that's a real thing, which sounds terrifying. All right,
raced agic, real quick, sorry, very late, ruin everybody's day.
Yeah, go ahead, yeah all right yeah, rain on again, off
again, scattered showers, thunderstorms, floodwatch through this evening. Although the rain
made linger especially on off tour the East tonight and tomorrow. Most of the
heaviest rain comes today, so heads up, there's a couple of flood warnings
around. There'll probably be more. There will be breaks in the action,
but with the rain of keeth, temperatures in the eighties today tomorrow, with
some sun we'll probably get closer to ninety, but still some scattered shower storms.
Emphasizing though it's going to continue to push east through the day. Slight
chance of storms. Mid nineties for the triangle on Sunday, low nineties.
Try it hot week Next week could have a couple of days up near one
hundred and some spots. All right, well, you think about what you've
done over the weekend. We'll talk Monday. Okay, see man, yep,
we'll be back. Hang on, Denise BELLEGREENI again, Denise, what
do you got? Yeah? You know how AT and T had that huge
problem earlier this year with customer data being exposed to all. Apparently there was
another breach way worse than that. AT and T suffered a massive hack of
customer data that included records of calls and texts for nearly all of its mobile
phone users for a six month period back in twenty twenty two. And this
has been called one of the biggest breaches of private communications data in recent memory.
And I've also got one for you on a possible cure treatment for dementia.
This really stunning and it has to do with another side benefit of taking
ozempic believe it or not, University of Oxford study links the Novo Nordist drug
to lower rates of dementia and other mental health problems. The study found after
a year on ozempic, patients had a forty eight percent lower risk of dementia
compared with those who had taken an older drug. So, I guess my
question is, are you better off gaining a lot of weight and then taking
ozempic to fight dementia or if you can remember gaining the weight for story?
I think yeah, I was gonna say, as long as you remember where
the bathroom is. Isn't that the thing with those epic it was? I
think it's as long as you remember to take your o zembic film? Yeah,
yeah, all right, Yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead, did
you have Oh no, that was the att thing. It's like, I
just want to go on record as a customer. Those draw I was hacked
literally and the drunk text are not mine. So if they did make the
way O yeah, would you want the totality of your Google search results and
your text history float around out there that? I mean, everything could be
so misunderstood too. I mean, something you could just look up because you're
curious the other day. I looked up like quintet the other day for other
words for content, and I got it. Took me to like the porn
sites about fivesomes, and I was like, what I didn't, I didn't,
I wasn't looking. I don't Anyway. You ever have an older family
member and you like they're trying to understand the term, and you don't want
to explain it to him, but also the last thing you want to do
is tell him to google it. So it's just struggle. All right,
Denise, make some money on Stuck. So Stuck teaches right now they are
higher casey Becker. Okay, yeah, Hey, I really appreciate having a
good weekend. Okay you all right, there you go, Denise Pellegriny from
Bloomberg News Rose. That happens to me all the time too. I'm just
trying to figure out I'm trying to do the no when I'm in the store,
I'm trying. I'm trying to figure out a word, because you know,
I want to be a flowery as possible, and then it's very innocent,
and then I end up at a at a group sex porn site.
So if I had a nickel right whoopsie. So uh yeah, watch out
for that dude. Your entire Google search history and every text you've ever set
ross would be fine, because he does. He sends very little text and
then he deletes it all. And then, as you know, once he
deleted, it's gone from the internet for us. That's it. Once you
hit that button, it's uh no more. It's as though it never happened
ever, ever, ever, ever