I good morning, everybody. I I spent a wow. Let me get
it. It is the CaCO Dame Radio program. It is six o eight.
The phone number, as per usual, well when it's working is eight
eight eight nine three four seven eight seventy four, and I believe it's working,
but who knows. I have spent almost the entirety of my adult career
in some capacity covering politicians, federal, state, local politicians, whether it
is in the capacity as a news talk host, which I've done for since
uh it was six ish, and even when I was doing music before that,
part of my duties was as a newsperson as well. So I would
do my music shift, but I would also worked in the news department,
and I would literally go to like city council meetings, county board, school
board, which it's so exciting and in that and mind you, I've worked
radio with the exception of like because I worked radio in high school and college,
and I also had other gigs, like I did welding and roofing and
ranching obviously, but the majority of my life has in some way, shape
or form been to analyze what politicians do, whether for the purpose of just
you know, trying to report it in a very even handed manner to what
I've done for the majority of it, which is analysis and my opinion and
your opinion and talking to them sometimes and getting ignored by them most of the
time, and a lot. There's a lot of people in the radio world
who have this. Eventually, they're like, I don't know what it is
because I don't feel it, but they're like, you know what, I
need to be one of them, And I gotta be honest with you.
I've never really felt that way. This is much more fun. And I
realized yesterday evening that in addition to kind of where I'm at right, I
don't I don't really want to do that. I realize I am so uncut
out for it because I personally okay, And again this is a hypothetical I'm
speaking of I personally me, I would I would have a real problem going
after your Christmas parade and and and and right there, I'd be like,
oh my gosh, like what the hell? Ross and I've talked about this
on the air, like we don't understand how Hey, the Christmas pread comes
across your desk, You're like, nah, no, no, you don't
get that. And and then after realizing I would say the backlash, but
I don't know that there's really any penalty for that in the current voting environment
in the city of Raleigh. So you know, you know, cancel the
Christmas break or make it suck well sucks not the throat, make it make
it near impossible to pull off in any representative fashion by banning the use of
motorized vehicles. Uh. And and then you hear the stories of you know,
obviously the floats you have, you have kids who want to participate,
and they are suffering from, you know, a whole assortment of problematic afflictions
or or or things that make not writing on the float and participating damn near
impossible. Right that that, Like I a little missy talking and reading that
one that one letter about this kid who literally stopped talking after both of his
parents died, and and and then you know, this was this was something
that at least was changing his life for the better. And then no,
this is again, okay, So already I'm in this place where I'm like,
I I'm glad I never really had political aspirations because I don't know that
I could tell I don't know that I could be Scrooge and and and worse
arguably because at least he came to his senses. And I don't know that
people are here. But I also wouldn't then be able to, you know,
take a breath and then go. Also f veterans, that would be
difficult for me, So I don't know that i'd be able to say,
screw your Christmas parade and your eighty year traditions and your your kids, you
know, kids love Christmas, and your family who who suffered an immeasurable loss
last year, who was taking that heartbreak and that horribleness and wanting to use
it to make things safer and better in their opinion, and agreeably looking at
their list, I think there's things there that should be a natural part of
it. I don't disagree. And then you're thrown under the bus like I'm
sorry, I'm just I'm gonna lose my crap today and I don't mean to
and I want and it's not just over the vikings going like, hey,
our future is Josh Dobbs. That's just that's just another straw on the camel's
back. But then you go and screw it the veterans. For those who
don't know, and you're wondering, what is this guy on? What is
he rambling about this morning? Please permit me to bring up to speed if
I could so. The North Carolina Veterans Day Parade is canceled kind of retroactively
because it was supposed to be Saturday. And just a reminder, Veterans Day
is not Memorial Day. Memorial Day is for those who have who have paid
that ultimate sacrifice, but Veterans Day is about those who have paid the initial
sacrifice, okay, and and decided that a portion of their lives, whether
it be you know, three years or like I said, I got,
I got a cousin. Who the guy you have twenty five before he's done?
Right? And uh? And I you know, in a state that
has the largest represented representation of population that counts themselves as a veteran. So
if you don't know that, in North Carolina we have the highest per capita
number of veterans of all fifty states. And you know that makes sense when
you consider the immense amount of bases that we have here and proximity to other
nearby bases because the South is laden with them, and North Carolina is a
nice place to live unless you want a Christmas parade or a veterans parade in
the city of Raleigh. Organizers say that they have canceled it after by the
way, this had already been approved obviously because it's Saturday. They canceled it
after being told and I'm going to I'm going to read Wral's version. I've
heard some others that are close to this, but a little more in depth,
because obviously people reached out to me and I honestly I saw the messages
last night and I'm like, no, come on, it's a Halloween prank.
So the announcement comes after the city and the Greater Raleigh Merchants Association announced
in September that it would hold the Raleigh Christmas Parade without vehicles. To be
fair, the city announced that the Christmas Parade organizers at the time, as
we've talked to Jennifer from the association there, they were not down with this
for a thousand reasons, and she did multiple interviews with us, and also
people went and tried to solicit help from other council members. So with that
in mind, and me, I guess on this is probably my fault because
I was on the radio pointing out that, so you going to screw those
that parade, and yet other parades have been approved, you know, with
some additional safety measures, but ultimately to be able to operate as they have
in the past. So this was approved, and as best I understand,
it was approved to have, you know, to be consistent with previous Veterans
Days parades, and organizers told members of the city. And by the way,
if somebody in the city says I am misrepresenting this in any way,
shape or form, I have reached out to the two couple folks in the
city and I have heard nothing on this. But obviously everyone's really busy that
when the city realized that on Saturday a Veterans Day parade would involve one hundred
and fifty motorized vehicles, they were told they couldn't. Am I do I
have the right timeline here, because that's what I understand it to be.
Because quote, uh, and this is this is an actual quote from maryor
Mary Ann Baldwin. We are trying to create consistency. Quote there was a
staff decision, by the way, so just the staff are blaming it on
this time or are we going to go with the uh? The family of
the girl who was killed, or we're not throwing them under the bus for
this, Okay, all right? A staff decision designed to ensure consistency and
safety for all parade events, you went and undermined the ability because look,
if the thing is the thing is coming up, the parade is right around
the court corner. I just I can't this morning. I don't know as
a By the way, November eleventh is Veterans Day, so you know that.
How do you think they're going to be able to operate a parade that
up until I guess yesterday or the day before, they were planning to do
in the way that they normally do them. And you're like, hey,
by the way, anything with a motor you can't have it. What the
hell is wrong with people? This? Again, this is why I couldn't
be a politician. I took a very long, roundabout way in this very
long segment. Whatever. I'm just trying to wrap my head around this.
You understand that there are veterans that have mobility issues, right ross, had
you heard of this? Some of our veterans who because of their service,
have found themselves with mobility issues that they will deal with for the rest of
their life. Are you aware of this? Have you ever seen any Yeah?
I have heard of that. Oh wow, okay, yes, not
just me. I I can't wrap my head around it. This morning.
You tell some guy, you tell some guy who at you know, nineteen
or whatever or seventeen in some cases, who you know did use a motorized
vehicle, but it was only to land on Omaha Beach and Russia pillbox and
and you're like, nah, I no, I'm sorry, you can't you
can walk? And you're like, I can't walk because you know, when
I landed on Omaha Beach, a German dude with a machine gun made it
so I can't walk very well. I cannot understand what the it has thrown
off my ability to do like a concise analysis. I'm just so baffled by
it, because there is no analysis. It's just it's just the dumbest thing
that I've ever heard, followed by another dumbest thing I've ever heard. Yeah,
especially when you consider like who they are, right, Like, yes,
you know, like you you pilot or whatever you had, you were
in charge of an amphibious vehicle in the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam, But
you can't drive down Capitol Boulevard or whatever in a right you know, yeah,
that's a very good point. You can, you know, you can.
You can traverse one hundred miles of river to go find Colonel Kurtz.
But you okay, I just ah, oh my brain. I have to
take a break. I'm sorry. We'll get into this and much more radio
program. Try not to pass out from anger. It's gonna be one of
these days. Richard Sprisen or Spreesen. I hope one of those two is
right. I'm sorry. Wake County Council of Veterans says they had been making
preparations for months, as you do, and during phone calls and inspections in
the emails, he never received any indication the vehicles would not be allowed.
So I'll let you know what they're doing. Just gonna know it very long
in that segment, because they are going to hold an event and a ceremony.
And if you are so inclined and you don't hate veterans, you know,
and and it works for you, then maybe you can attend that.
But I am I am at a loss how that well, hold on,
hold on, oh wow, Ross has just handed me a statement from the
city here Okay, hold on, it's from the mayor. Oh it says
orphans. Wow, wow, orphans. Really this is where we are.
This is one O six one FM Talk in the Triangle, and there's Talk
ninety four or five WUPTI and the Triad a radio program. Uh yeah,
I uh, that's not how I want to start the show. I actually
I actually had something I thought was, you know, a good, somewhat
non stressful, little discussion thing that we could do. And then I see
this yesterday evening. People are reaching out to me trying to, you know,
explain this, and I just I can't understand it. Here's what I
want to know. Okay, here's what I want to know. Because now
in both instances, I've had to listen to this mayor say that city staff
now to be fair and the Christmas one. First, she, in my
opinion, made it look like the family didn't want the Christmas parade, but
also then said city staff and blame the General Assembly because of course, but
was consistent in saying cities. Okay, who who I want to know?
Who that? And I know police love to hear this. Who works for
me? Who worked for me? Right? But yeah, but if you're
breaking the law, then okay, But in this case, I want to
know who works for me. That is like, screw you Christmas Parade and
screw you Veterans. I want names. I want to know who that works.
And I'm sorry for those of you that are listening to this show.
This is something that we always struggle with because we're on in the Triangle and
on in the Triad, and so I try not to tend to hyper localize
unless it's a story that I think captures the attention of even people don't live
in the city of Raleigh, and I feel like this is one because it
is that backcrap crazy I want to know in the city of Raleigh who works
for me? That is like, nah, we can't do this, and
then the retroactively do this unless again that I'm missing something, and then by
all means, please set me straight. But I don't feel like I am
judging by the reactions and the statements from the veterans officials, who works for
the city, that works for me and works for you? Right? Because
I pay taxes in the city of Raleigh. Who is it? So that
I don't make the mistake of in any way, shape or form interacting with
that person, right, who is it that is is willing to cancel a
Christmas parade and through their actions, cancel a veteran's parade for no, in
my opinion, no justifiable reason that I've seen explained to me. I want
to know who that is because I don't want to make the mistake of in
any way, shape or form, contributing to conversing with that person, interacting
with them accidentally and inviting them over for a party being you know, I
just because I can't have that stupidity in my life. So if the mayor
wants to throw this off on city staff, tell me who, Tell me
who has tied your hands? Spoiler, They have it. They make recommendations,
But ultimately this, this whole thing, in my opinion, rests at
the feet of the mayor. Who is it? If it's not you,
who is it? And I want to be very clear here, The only
thing that I the only reason I would want that is for two reasons.
One so I don't inadvertently have to converse with that stupidity. And two I
can tell my elected officials, unfortunately including the mayor, that as a as
a taxpayer, I feel because they are my conduit to this that they have
made poor decisions in who they have hired for key managerial position within the City
of Raleigh. Okay, that's what to be be very clear here, because
I don't want I don't want people going out and doing do another crap.
Okay, I'm I'm tempering. I'm tempering my anger by attempting to be very
specific. I don't feel that person's qualified. I know they're gonna say,
well, what do you know about this? Here's what I do know.
They were very easy to implement and perfectly within the UH, within the the
the powers that are held by these elected officials to facilitate these but also work
to upgrade safety where everyone would have looked like a hero, and it also
would have provided some level of comfort to a family who lost their child.
So who are they? That's what I want to know, because this is
this is garbage. And I'll tell you what if a bunch of members of
the military, including and obviously retired members of the military, primarily in these
if they want to occupy Fayetel Street, I've got news for you, They're
gonna do it. Okay, They're pretty good at it, pretty pretty good
at that. So I again, I'm just baffled eight eight eight nine three
four seven eight seven four Chris, what's up? Hey, good morning,
Casey. Thanks for taking my call. I'm just a little confused on this
whole thing myself, because there's a lot of what's the difference between traffic and
a parade? I mean, parades go slower than normal traffic, which is
the mayor still allows cars downtown. I'm a little confused on this decision,
and thanks for taking my call. I don't I have no idea, sir.
They do further restrict your ability to make the right turn. So there's
that, but I don't know. That's again, through this whole thing with
the Christmas brain and now the veteran's brain, I don't understand. I don't
understand, and I you know, even in the efforts that I've made to
better understand, I have not been met with success. Who let me let
me ask the mayor this? Who hurts you? Maybe? Maybe I'm maybe
I'm missing something that that has transpired. Who who hurt you? Who caused
you this pain that you have to go and crap on everyone around? Who
hurts you? What happened? Was it on just a hypothetical situation. Let's
say, hypothetically, you're the mayor of a city that is dealing with very
specific criminal issues and targeting your your your really your your tax revenue, right
because your entertainment districts all that. Let's let's say you're doing hypothetically, of
course, let's say that that's a problem. And let's say that in your
willingness to basically not utilize sworn police officers to mitigate the problem, because you
want to dance around now with the debate over private security and whether they can
have firearms while missing the point that having arrest power is vitally more important here.
And let's say hypothetically, then I don't know, you are a relative,
try to park your car in a downtown area I don't know, maybe
the Old Seaboard area or something, and and then your your your car is
then vandalized, which some would argue is I don't know, really ironic,
And and and and then you you lose your crap and officers because you've been
hypothetically right, Is is that what caused this hypothetic or what did it hypothetically
cause this? I need to word this properly, because again I'm not understanding
this this morning. I don't well, hey, hold on here, because
I want to make a point with this caller. Joey, go right ahead,
Hey Kasey, how you doing, buddy. I'm not I'm not good,
sir. I'm not having a good day. We signed, they signed
Josh Dobbs, and they canceled the veterans great, So I don't know what
me either. I mean, they're taking walk to a whole new level.
I moved here eighteen years ago to get away from it here it is wait,
wait, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,
hold on. I want to guess from from your accent, uh from Idaho?
From Idaho, sir? No, no, not to have about North
Alabama. Get it right? Oh up at the where they at the space
stuff. Really now you say, so what you moved from the northeast because
you were you didn't want to deal with Yes, yeah, exactly, because
and now here it is it's liberal enclaves are killing every state. That's what's
going on. The big cities that are all Democrat and liberal are killing all
the states. But can I correct I'm going to correct you, sir,
but I do it out of uh not noting that I disagree with you.
Uh, Saturday, November eleventh, at nine thirty am, the City of
New York will hold what is I believe it's the largest Veterans Day parade still.
So the City of New York, which you rightfully pointed out is is
is crazy on so many things. They're still having a parade, sir,
and one with motorized vehicles and all of that. So all right, but
you're talking about a city where eleven million people versus a city with not maybe
not even a million, five on a thousand people live in Raleigh, four
on a thousand, of them with dumbasses. Well, some days I think
that's an underestimation, sir. But yes, I hope it's not. I
mean, in reality, thank you for the call. In reality, even
if you love love, love love, I don't will say love. Even
if you feel that the right people are intellected office, right, you can't
think that this is in any way, shape or form appropriate, right.
I Look, I get the you're going to have the you know, the
really hyper political people. But most people, as we know in the city
of North Carolina, most people don't identify with one party or the other.
They purport to be in the middle and and will will in many cases h
on a statewide election be the most important group you go after, so that
has to populate within the cities as well. And I just don't believe even
if you like the current council and the mayor, did you think this is
good? But I have to also believe that after the Christmas parade, and
I guess maybe the complaints stopped rolling in You're like, oh, I could
do anything I want. Nobody. I guess nobody cares. But I also
don't understand the motivation for it. I just tim what's going on. Hey,
I just wanted to say that warsaw Is gon't come out of having their
Metros Day parade. This saturn to me, if I want to attend a
parade, Betcher's Day parade, all right, there you go go to worst
the longest consecutive running Veterans Day parade in the country. Well you better hope
that some folks don't move over to war Saucer. Well we trying to keep
them out. We don't let them movie. And oh well, I'm just
saying, you know, you don't know, you don't know what you got
till it's gone. But I appreciate the call to thank you very much.
Now, I'm sorry. I frankly I think the veterans should. I I
think that in in as safe a manner as possible. I think that in
the in the course of thirty minutes, uh, they should occupy Fayeteville Street.
We'll hit some landing craft, We'll get some what are the what's the
what's the marine aircraft? The is it otter? No? What am I
thinking of? The one where the propellers go up so it can it can
hover land, But it's a plane. And I see him when I go
down to uh, topsail buzzing over there or surf city buzzing back, you
know, and just boom. Just just take that street like you took Berlin,
Okay, but you know, in a non threat because I honestly I
think most people be like this is awesome, like this right, and then
just do it. But they won't. You know why because the people who
are heavily involved in these veterans organizations and do this stuff are also, in
my opinion, in my experience over the years, they're fundamentally good people.
They're fundamentally good people, and they roll with the punches and they do what
they gotta do. And in this case, what they're going to do is
they're going to hold a ceremony and they want you to go to that because
this is the only recourse that they have. By the way, fifty thousand
veterans live in Wake County alone, and your elected officials in the city Raleigh
don't give it crap man. And I have had some people email me and
go, this is just a parade, you gotta go. It's not that
it's just a parade, sir. It is a parade. I understand that.
But also it is the representative example of I don't want to say necessarily
reminding people, but honoring individuals who did serve and yeah, look, some
people, you know they never served out of an office stateside. I got
that, and others did you know, six tours in nom But ultimately it's
recognizing that, which is why we have a federal holiday for that, and
people like it and people enjoy it. And here we are. Let me
do this. I'll take a break when we come back. Ausbrey, thank
you. My brain's not I'm so thrown by this. My brain hasn't turned
on yet. I will. I'll give you the details on the what they
are doing because I promised i'd do that. So the Sarah It'll be eleven
am, and I'll eleven am. Well, let me just do it.
Since I'm talking about it. The ceremony will be at eleven am on Saturday.
Obviously there won't be a parade, so be a little easier getting there.
I guess it will take place at War Memorial, which is the north
side of the Capitol Building. As you're making that transition into that big field
where they always have stuff. So ausprey, everybody say, Ausbrey Osprey,
yeah, Ausbrey. Yeah, you bust a few of those down. There's
some get some old landing craft or whatever. You have to put wheels on
it. I got it. But right, make a show of it.
Man, do something something I don't know. We'll try to figure it out.
Coming up, hang on, all right, good morning everybody, and
uh well, you know, as goodness, it could be I guess seven
o six or seven now k c O Day radio program. Sorry mad literally,
ted's a freak go on the air, brea you got a snooze?
That is that? Ah? Ah? Good morning? Uh if I guess
you're just joining us, I have I lost I lost my mind, but
not in a bad way, but like I'm just unable to comprehend things that
people do. And the thing this time is now the City of Raleigh's like,
hey, that Veterans parade that literally is scheduled for you know here in
just a few days that the Veterans Organization has been spending months putting together.
Yeah, you can't have motorized vehicles in that according to the City of Raleigh.
So like this retroactive adjustment, which is not a little thing, And
now They've canceled the parade, and I'm on here and I'm just like,
you know what, just just I'm pretty sure that members on military, former
members of the military could probably take Fayetteville Street. And so we're gonna have
the I want the entire eighty second Airborne, I want the Golden Knights,
I want I want landing craft. Obviously, you'll have to make it so
they are they can operate on land what else Ausprey's right, the planes with
the pitch the propellers, so they can those are, yeah, and just
do that. And then some screaming fighter jets over it. And somebody wrote,
actually somebody wrote an email. One of our regulars she said, he
goes, so you want everybody else to do it, and you're not going
you guys are gonna do well, you know what, give us a tank
ross you want to drive a tank down Fayetville Street. I've never done it,
but I think in my gut is telling me that I'm qualified. I
think I think they can do it. I think it would I don't even
want to at all. Look like the guy in San Diego crossed with that
scene from Indiana Jones, I would Here's the thing I was about to say,
Indiana Jones. Remember at the end of the first movie where you have
the World War two plane with the propellers going that takes out the Nazi.
I want like an old school I don't know what kind of plane that is,
full disclosure, don't know. I just want to have a World War
two playing our side. Obviously, I would prefer not to have the other
side. Just my opinion, right, going down, going down the street,
propellers in motion. Oh no, right, okay, yeah, I
don't see how that would be dangerous substandable safety concern actually there, So I
what if I told you, I know somebody's probably listening to the show.
I know somebody who has a World War two and he has a World War
One restored US military plane. But I listen, I'm willing to uh,
And it's right within it's went thirty it's within thirty miles of the studio.
Right, I was gonna say, it's not piloting if it's still on the
ground, taxiing, I'll taxi it through the parade. You'll get taxi Okay,
to the children, I'll do the tank. Yeah, I'm gonna look.
I want to look like patent liberating polantic right, Okay, Right,
I want that's me, And that's that's the look I would go for.
But I'm not a veteran. I have a lot of veterans in my family.
Your father was a Vietdnam War veteran, So I would be willing to
do it in the honor like my grandfather, who has an amazing story of
World War Two and then what happened with him and the fact that literally after
he was after he was wounded, coming back state side, recovering, taking
a post state side, and because of all of those chain of events,
he was a he met my grandmother and now I'm here. Much of the
dismay probably of some city officials right now, that would be I would do
that to honor that legacy. And so all right, and then Ross's taxing
military aircraft, well for doing it. Like his memory my dad, he
would geek out and freak out and nerd out over the amphibious vehicles. I
mentioned him last hour from Vietnam, right he was at Vietnam. He went
over there. That was his thing. If they showed one of those on
TV, he would talk for hours about it. So I mean, I'm
willing to drive one of those as well. Oh you can't do the plane
that So look at that right right there. I've just organized this thing and
I think it's gonna be great. And also what are you gonna do about
it? Really? Oh, I've had like three people go, you're gonna
get yourself in trouble. No. Not. You can't have a veteran state
parade, but you can rally downtown for Hamas. Is that it? Yeah?
Well yeah, that's you know, that is a point that has received
I've received in my inbox here, which I think the mayor wouldn't like it
because she has what she's got an Israeli flag on her social media avatar.
Yeah, she had a Ukrainian now that Israeli one, so I would think
she wouldn't want that. But by the way, did you see the problem
that they're having in Gaza Ros just random they can't figure out what's happening.
Apparently sinkholes have started opening in in Gaza That yeah, just you know,
just everything going on and all of a sudden, these random sinkholes. According
to the official spokeshole for Hamas that they I'm sure it's an underground aquifer or
something, right, So it's something like the area under under the buildings isn't
yeah, isn't the streets is like a field or whatever. So when they
get bombed the buildings, they're just boom right in the sinkhole, like there's
something wrong with the foundation of the buildings. It's probably they probably have a
karsed geography. Uh yes, theological situation. Intubitably. I was gonna say,
what do you say, cars, that's what it is accurate? That
is accurate. Maybe not for this, but I heard that word once and
I just now I sound very smart, So you agree though the geology is
my passion, it is true, right, because what's the hinge made of?
Right? If not Stone. So it's a great point. All right,
to the phones, here we go. I want the I want the
I don't but I don't want to look like do Caucus when I'm doing the
patent taking Palermo uh tank photo things, So I'll have to work on that.
All Right, to the phones, here we go, Michelle, thanks
for hanging on. What's up, hey? I just wanted to know,
are you gonna have an election that you can kick this mayor out living the
seventh? I mean, my theory is right that maybe I have to assume
that as a politician, they've taken the temperature of the reaction they think they're
going to get from this, and they feel that they're still going to get
elected, and they're probably right. Look the area, uh you know,
the the the district, my voting district in Raleigh. Let's just say,
let's just say the Republicans don't even show up to hand pamphlets out, because
that's it. I have an idea. I have an idea. Maybe you
should get all these veterans to go vote and then get them their their dress
blues or fatigues or whatever, and then you have San Claus and the fatigues
get somebody and go to every time, because I think on a typically on
a mayor's election, they don't have a turn out. So if you just
get every Republican too, yeah, yeah, I look, yes, absolutely,
But remember I mean told it's city staff, and I I'd like to
know who that is too, because so I don't accidentally ever talk to them
and have my Q lowered. So you know, there's much bigger issues than
just one one mayor. But I'd be very surprised if she was unsuccessful.
I would appreciate it if you would also remember the mayor of Greensboro who has
allowed all the children to come in and be housed over in the Jewish school.
Could you remember that too? Yeah? And I also remember basically people
bringing it up and her going whatever, I'm doing it anyway. So I
just I refuse to recognize and shock it up to people who just don't inform
themselves of stuff. I refuse to believe that the majority of people who may
have voted for either the mayor of Raley or the Greensboro mayor for that matter,
did they think that they would agree with this decision, but are probably
not in Like it's not driving, it's not driving. Their thought process,
even while the story thanks for the call, Michelle is unfolding, and I
wish it would, frankly, because what you have to do is you have
to go, look, this is dumb, and any of you who are
representing me. While I may love all these other issues, we agree on,
this is not. You can't do this. And if you do do
this, or you do do other things like not create a safe environment in
economic or you know, in economic driver areas, whether it's whether it's Elm
Street in Greensboro it's Fourth Street, or Cherry in Winston Salem, uh,
you know, downtown anywhere that if you're not going to do it, then
we're going to find somebody else. It would be good to be able to
send that message, but you have to get people inspired by it. So
you know, here's your homework for the day at one point today, and
you can do it in a very non political manner. Go up to somebody
who you think probably does vote for politicians who would do this, and go,
can you believe what happened with the veteran's parade? And don't even give
your opinion, just be like, ah, I've listened to this craziness,
right, and just make somebody, make somebody knowledgeable on this, because it's
it should transcend traditional political uh you know fights. I would hope. I
don't. Maybe I'm one hundred percent wrong. I don't know. Mike,
what's up, Mike? Yeah? What can I do for you? There?
I'm here, Yep, go ahead. Hey, yeah, I don't
think that's gonna make that mayor very popular about election time. There's gotta be
another reason why. I'm sure there's another reason why she's doing this. Basically,
because the solution to this is very simple. If it's just the motorized
vehicle, put all the motorized vehicles down in front, having people walking behind
them. Yep, was that problems solved? Nobody's gonna get run over that
and want somebody slammed it reverse or something. Yeah, uh they Basically there's
got to be another reason why she's doing this. Well, she says city
staff, and that's fine, give me names, tell me who it is.
And I think the arguments that they that I've heard alluded thanks for the
call, alluded to are you know there? There's uh, they're not able
to mitigate all of their safety concerns, but feasibly the restrictions that the family
wanted thrown on and the legislature was talking about are easily implementable, and parade
organizers in the case of the Christmas parade agreed to them so and and they
would arguably be more restrictive than they are in a lot of places across the
country that that still hold parades. It this is not difficult. So yes,
or I agree with you. There's there's something going on. I don't
know, which is why. I just that's why I asked. I'm like,
who hurt you? I was it a veteran in a Santa Hat?
I mean, what what happened? I want to know. I want everyone
to feel be filled with Christmas spirit and civic pride. Bob, what's up?
Well, Tracy? From what's your what's your explaining? It sounds like
the governor or the mayor is it's like a cancer on the city that needs
to be surgically removed at the next election. But to that end, I
guess we need to have a political party or whatever that would be the parade
party, and we could like raise money and have ads on the TV and
radio supporting the parade party. And why I want to you know, but
yeah, you want to read it. Well, what you want to revigorated
reinvigorated tea parties? What you're saying of some sort maybe maybe a parade party?
And why why why is the mayor anti parade? Why does she buy
us against parade friends in Christmas? I don't know. She hates veterans in
Christmas, sir, I seems orphans. Remember that it's not it's not very
original, but it's just an idea. Yeah, no, it's fine.
Although the problem is is then you do it and then within two years,
uh, the larger powers, the political powers, would be uh then invade,
take over and bastardize your party. Yeah, if we're going on track
records for things like the tea party and stuff. So, but you know
we'd have a good run before then. So all right, we're here for
solutions, sir. So I really know. I appreciate the input. Yeah
you too, man, that's we're here for solutions. Look at this.
Sarah's got a solution. Hey, Sarah, what's up? Hey? So
I was thinking about a solution for this whole Christmas the bacle, But the
mayor hired a whole bunch of amish. No no, no, no,
well no, no, no, but this is this is the actual issue.
When we talked to Jennifer Martin from the Merchants Association UH for the Christmas
bread UH, they were sitting there and try to get the logistics together of
doing a parade but also being able to tow floats, and it would be
there would be a highly increased and thank you for the call, number of
horses it would be utilized. And horses. As somebody who has a lot
of experience with horses, we had a bunch, we had wild mustangs.
We go by with our quarter horses and everything else. I have. I
have thoughts on horses just because they were a chore for me, but even
some of our best trained horses, there's still always that concern. And ironically
would we because we had hunters and people that would come out to the property.
The largest portion of our insurance that we had to carry for our outfitters
license was mitigating potential injury from horses, not even firearms. So there's you
know, there's I wish it was that simple. But also not having a
Veteran's parade or a Christmas parade or any parade, we have the ability to
help eighty year old Korean War vets who can't walk make their way down the
parade route in a typical manner. I'm not agreeing to that, so but
that's Look, that's just me. I'm just submittiot on the radio trying to
stage you know, d Day on Fayetteville Street, but without you know,
without no firearms, all right, just everything else, just parachutes and tanks
and landing craft. But I'm a I'm a dreamer. So what are you
gonna do except take a break. We'll be right back the show. After
the show is on the iHeart radio app. Search Casey Oday for the podcast
on the iHeart Radio app. All right, I I try to approach things
and don't worry. I'm going to do some other stories, like the mysterious
sinkholes of Goza. Right that being said, this one more quick thing.
The reason that I think that some people don't react to these things, an
attempt to express con over these types of decisions, to the point of telling
those that we hire through the election process to provide that leadership is because they're
woefully uninformed. And and then I'm proven right by this. Instead of uh,
I'll change a couple of words instead of just whining on the radio,
perhaps you and the parade organizers might consider a little something called compromise. And
you haven't read any of this, have you haven't? Like you, you
know nothing about that. I'm assuming you woke up ten minutes ago. His
name it whole? Are is this holding call field? Are you the dude
from catchering the riot? Because if so, I like I might understand some
of this, because well read that book. I'm not going to spoil it
for you. The the safety stuff that was being pushed by the family of
the girl who was killed in the Christmas parade, as well as the legislature,
and by the way, also much of it included in parade permits that
were issued after the incident. The organization. I can't speak for the Veterans
organization, but the Christmas Parade people were willing to do all of that so
that the compromise existed. So what the hell are you talking about? How
did you get up? Remember to breathe? Manipulate your computer or your phone
or your laptop or your your pad in a manner where you could go and
send me the stupidest message that I'll probably receive on Facebook this year. And
I try to make a point, I don't really check any of my faceboo
book messages. If you send me stuff on there, I almost never see
it. But I just I saw there was one from somebody who I wanted
to see what they sent me because of a conversation or having. And I'll
look, and then I saw yours. Just go read something read. I'll
tell you what, sir, let me. I will in the interest of
compromise. Here's what I'm willing to do. So the safety restrictions, okay,
And and by the way, I have no power over this, but
I'm going to try to sew some peace here. So the the the additional
safety measures, okay, all right, that's good. And how about Holden
and I will get a special VIP area, you know, down the parade
route, and you and the mayor and the rest of your idiot friends you
can stand there and then when the veterans go by, you can spit on.
I mean, yell, baby killer. It'll be the and we'll get
it sponsored by Gerber or something, right would that would that be okay?
If we're going to compromise, because I know that that used to be a
thing you guys like to do. Well, ideologically, maybe not you individually,
but hey, you know what we'll do it. You get front row
seats, We'll get your bottles of water so you can stay hydrated, and
you can pretend it's you know, nineteen seventy two again and planes are landing
here from southeast date with that. See, I'm a problem solver that you
can brag all your idiot moonbat friends about what you got to do. I
have to talk about. So oh and then one buddy mind send me this
message, and he's right, he goes. It's extra ironic because right now
there are very real concerns that the US could soon find themselves involved in military
action, and even people you know that are using the D word, which
I think we have a hard time getting there, but who the hell knows.
But at the very least there's a real possibility because we are we have.
We just sent three hundred more troops over there in advisory roles and things
like that. But that's how a lot of this stuff starts. You're like,
yeah, veterans parade, who needs that? The sinkholes will get them.
That'll be fine. I love that. I love that story. This
is the headline Mysterious sinkholes wreak havoc on Gaza City after airstrike, you know,
like they're water tables too shallow or something. Now you ever see the
movie Tremors. Oh yeah, that's a good point because that was in a
more desert is shedding. Yeah, there's something underneath Gaza and it's giant sandwims.
It's messing with the foundation under the buildings. My why else would the
buildings just sink into a hole? Yeah, it's a fair bomb. Yeah.
Well some would say, you know, they would theorize that perhaps some
of the soil under the building had been removed. Really because when I when
if I were to build a building, you don't want to be on like
solid ground, right, Yeah, that's what generally what you go for.
Yeah, I mean I'm not a contract distressed, right Yeah. So the
sand worms have provided instability, and now we are where we are. Okay,
all right, that's you know what I'm gonna put I'm gonna say that's
a theory that and we'll we'll put that up there as one of the babies.
You ever you ever see a Return of the Jedi? I have the
beginning of that movie, right yeah, or or Dune have you seen that's
a good point dune. Yeah yeah, yeah, but what else could it
be? What a mystery this is? It is? Yeah, I didn't
even use the Unsolved Mysteries music. That's my bad. I'm sorry, but
be a little of it. I mean, what a mystery this is As
to why these sinkholes post bond campaigns are suddenly emerging all out all around Gaza,
I don't know. I don't know that it'll ever be solved, but
I promise you it won't be solved by press releases from Hamas spokeshole that NBC
just uses, and yesterday explained why they use it. One of the reporters
from NBC said that the reason that they use stuff like five hundred people were
killed in a hospital obliterated and it's all kids, even though you can still
see the hospital standing is because they don't have any other sources, so they
use the numbers. But they point out that the numbers are from the Public
Information Office of Hamas, so that you, the viewer can go you can
be more critical about it. That is literally what the NBC. When the
NBC correspondence on Twitter, he said it on Twitter, or I'd play the
audio for you, because it's just that dumb I was talking about. And
remember, throughout this campaign, they're also saying things like, we don't know
why they're sinkholes, and you murdered eight thousand women and children already and blew
up a refugee camp, and that was just run almost verbatim yesterday in the
news cycle. So I forgive me if I don't have confidence we'll get to
the bottom of this very quickly. All right. I do want to talk
about a couple other things. We should be chatting with Lieutenant governor today because
we always at first and third Wednesday, so eight o five on that.
And did you see what happened at the North Carolina State Fair? The video
is crazy. I admittedly I hadn't seen the video until yesterday. I saw
the story and I saw a snippet from the story, and I didn't dig
in, and I should have because I watched the actual video of the assault
and it is it's awful what happened to this woman and her kid. And
just just a few elements though, of how it's being reported and more specifically,
how the I guess the victim in this case is choosing to involve herself,
but in a in a protective way, we'll say like that. So
we'll get to that here in just a moment. But first, Ray Stagic
from the weather channel hanging out and Ray Ray is so mad at all of
you. He is going to make us start using the term wind chill way
too early. So thank you for that, sir, really well gate that.
Yeah, it's great. Yeah, Hey, anytime I could be the
assistance. I'm certainly here to help, you know, starting to feel a
little bit more like what's coming rather than where we are, you know,
still in fall officially although it is November one, but Jullie this morning in
factor in that little breeze and the load mid thirties and a freeze warning for
most of us out in the triad in points west to feel a little colder.
You get closer to the Triangle, it's more upper thirties and even some
low forties round down your Fetteville right now forty four and Durham thirty nine,
but Winston Salem right now thirty five and out of the mountains did see some
teens. So the chili air with a clear sky will stay with us this
morning, and beautiful sunshine this afternoon. We'll get two a round fifties,
so upper forties to low fifties for the area. With the gusty breeze.
Yes, casey, a little bit of a wind chill, it won't feel
like that. I'd be like, boy, it looks nice out there,
and when that win back's off, it actually feel pretty decent. Yeah,
And then you get that wind and it feels worse. Colder tonight by a
few degrees, a widespread frost or freeze upper twenties to low thirties. Obviously
further west of the mountains it'll be even colder, and then we'll start the
recovery tomorrow. So this is a quick shot of chilly air load to mid
fifties tomorrow, low sixties Friday, near just above seventy, and sunshine will
take us right through the upcoming weekend. Could get into the mid seventies for
some of us Monday before we see the next cool down middle next week.
But that next cold front coming in I won't be as chilly as this one.
But the good news is it's dried. Didn't that much rain yesterday?
Didn't you think we would? Even yesterday evening I think it was hundreds of
an inch of rain and now we're dry, cold, then milder, and
then beautiful at least four November standards as we get into the weekend, so
it should be really nice. And we time change, so we have that
coming up we do this weekend. Yeah right, that we lose an hour
gaining the Sunday Yeah fall back right, we crazy, Well, you're you're
crazy, But I mean that doesn't mean the time such changing. Thank you,
thank you well, I appreciate it. I think we fall back,
right, so we gain an hour. Yeah, I don't know. I
always a hesitant anthering radio because I feel like, yeah, throw it up,
but it changes. Yeah, I mean we should inform myselfs of that.
I'm gonna look, I got bigger concerns because we're like, hey,
the answer to our quarterback proms Josh Dobbs. So I'm just I'm not in
a good move. So I did see it could be the Falcons. Well,
we play them this week and we might lose to them. So thank
you exactly that that's gonna be. That's gonna be an interesting match. I
hope, I hope the riots among the fan base in your stands Sunday is
fun to watch because they probably will be oh it will yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. The Dallas was fighting Rams people last week and the Eagles. Eagles
had a big melee with some of the fans from Yeah yeah whoever they played,
I can't remember. So yeah, everybody's ready to go. I did
play Washington, right, yeah, yeah, they played Washington. Yeah yeah
in Washington. All right. I'm hoping for a good game. Yeah,
I'll take that. All right, sir, we'll talk in an hour.
Thank you. Raced Agic from the Weather Channel. All right, uh,
North Carolina fair insanity and some interesting observations to share with you. We got
Politico that's doing the they're doing the heavy lift on the news reporting that apparently
is absolutely the most pertinent as you make your decision within the Republican primary and
not at all looking like vicious moonbat idiots. I'll let you be the judge
and we'll do it. Coming up, hang on, Thank you. Case
is on ninety four f WPTI in the Triad and one six one FM Talk
in the Triangle. All right, good morning, welcome back to the greatest
prob the problem solving device on the planet, k cooda radio program. Just
going over message. We've got a lot of people, you know, Casey,
a wonderful LZ landing zone, Pulling dis Park complex, very good,
lots of room there. We parked a lot of Ausprey's. And if you
remember the stupidity of that public input session where they asked, say, hey,
what do you want to do with this land, we just bought for
a lot of money for for making this destination park which is called Dick's Park
adjacent to Pulland Park. And among the suggestions in addition to a land bridge,
thus completing the Pulling Dicks Park complex and making my day, was a
giant tree house and a gondola that you could ride from downtown Raleigh somewhere to
Pulling Dix. And I don't know from a topography standpoint, I thought it
was is really a thing. I guess maybe you could. But if it
is feasible, then you know, you land people there and then we just
have people, you know zipline in. So yeah, thank you one of
our Twitter followers pointing that out. Very good point, sir. I just
telling you, man, let me flip over to this because I just I
need a mental break from this story. A video that is circulating online shows
an incident that you may have heard about that took place at the North Carolina
State Fair. It's basically something if you've gone to the fair, you probably
you've stood in line, right. If you go to the rides, you
stand in line. Been there, done that, right? And in this
instance, this was October twenty first, it was the lines were long,
and according to the report, we're talking like an hour long, and you
know, some people were cutting in line. In fact, let's go to
the RAO report of my kids and I were in line for a ride for
well over an hour and lots of teenagers kept cutting in line right and left,
and I said, note the back of the lines down there. Now,
teenagers acting like jackasses at the fair is not a new thing. In
fact, when I was a young punk, me and my buddies would go
act like idiots too, but not to this degree. And we weren't assaulting
people. But apparently according to well, if you watch the video that is
in fact what you witness, you see this mom and her kid is about
what ten and you see this gang of teenagers not just push them or but
literally it's those videos you see where mobs decide to go, you know,
because they can't go mono a mono because there's such cowards. You see the
the group kicking as stomping, attempting to literally, in my opinion, head
stomp. It looks like in one instance and beat the crap out of this
woman and her son. You're just standing in line for a fun ride at
the fair. Instead of having a fun ride, they saw their mom get
assaulted. Yeah, yeah, just it's it's really I was coping okay with
the with my assault. I was pretty infuriated after seeing my child get assaulted.
At that point, I thought, I cannot let this go understandable,
get it. I even have kids, and I understand that why that would
be the more outrageous thing here, primarily to have more of a security presence,
or at least the presence of responsible fair affiliated adults on the midway on
weekend nights in the future. Now, if I'm the mayor of Raleigh,
I hear that. What I hear is this mom wants the fair canceled because
she wants more safety. So I keep wandering back to that. No,
what's crazy is that mom refused to be identified in the report out of fear
for her safety. And I feel like maybe there's some other components that people
realize that you just don't want to go there, and so she's doing that.
But it's just a shot of like her arm in it, and it's
it's maddening, and it's not the first time something's happened at the fair.
So check that out. We'll give you the link and we'll be better.
All right, Good morning, everybody, and happy Wednesday. Yeah, Wednesday?
What it is? Our three So technically we're more than halfway through the
broadcast week. Very exciting, and since it is Wednesday, we will do
as we do and chat with Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson who joins us. Now,
Mark, how you doing this morning? Hey, I'm doing good,
Chase, and how were you? I was good until everyone lost their damn
minds over the last two weeks, like you. Maybe you saw the news.
So now the Raleigh Veterans Parade is canceled. You probably know this as
the lieutenant governor of the state. We have the largest per capital amount of
veterans anywhere, and our capital city is not going to do a veterans parade
because the city last minute decided you can do it. But all of the
stuff you've been planning for months, you can't do most of that. I
don't understand the subsurdity following what happened with the Christmas parade, how anyone who's
supposed to be accountable to the voters could go, you know what, screwed
Christmas and screw veterans. Man. I'm baffled, but I'm not baffled at
all by a case. It goes part and parssible with the horrible leadership that
we say see it. Unfortunately in places like Raleigh, like places in Greensboro,
where the city that we have worked so hard, the citizens that work
so hard to build, is now being destroyed by people who simply want to
destroy everything that America, that represents America and the things that we love.
They despise everything that America loves. Christmas Veterans. They want to do everything
they can to try to just drive that out of the public square, to
drive it out of the mouth of Americans, to drive it out, drive
it out of our social events. It doesn't surprise me at all, but
it's quite pitiful, and I would think that the people of Raleigh would be
durned, sick of it, that the people of Greensboro and other cities would
be durned, sick of these ineffective, weak, anti American leaders who are
literally trying to destroy our cities and trying to destroy our culture while they're at
it. They've got to vote these people out office and put people in office.
That's got some common sense. If you are a city elder and you
cannot administer a parade, you do not need to be in office. Yeah,
that's kind of where I ended up on this, although then I suggested
we get the entire eighty second airborne to parachute in and we hit some landing
craft, because what are they going to do? So Yeah, absolutely,
Casey. I was at a small veterans parade in the at the State Fair
and they had a tank roll through. Yes, no one was injured.
They had no one was injured at this thing. Yeah, no one was
injured. It was amazing. Tanks, tractors, you name it rolled through
these little tiny crevices at the State Fair and no one was injured. Why
because you had sensible people in charge. You understood how to do this,
all the things necessary for a parade. It's again the city elders a while
they can't figure that out, they do not need to be in office.
You know, speaking of the state Fair, you have you following this story
of this woman and her heir kids who were literally beat down standing in line
for a ride by a bunch of what appeared to be I guess unruly teenagers
is how she described them. But it's these videos that you see more and
more of nowadays, where somebody on the ground and it's a gang of people
trying to stomp their head in. And how did you get here? If
you don't have to worry about the tanks, you gotn't worry about kids,
It's easy to understand how we got here. We got here when we started,
when we started to change criminals from being criminals to being victims, and
when we start changing the police officers to being villains. That's how we got
here. You noticed, Casey, all the conservative pundits, all the conservative
politicians, we're screaming at the rafts. This entire anti police message is going
to come back and bite us in the rear end. And it has in
every city all across America. What we're seeing now is folks who have no
respect for law and order. And they have no respect for law and order
because many of our elected officials, including at the highest levels, folks like
our Vice president who was willing to put up bail for rioters. They have
no respect for law and order and law enforcement, and we are now paying
the costs again those folks that are allowing this, those folks who are who
have created this, the proponents of these things, they need to be removed
from office and they never need to hold it again. Well, there has
been you know, there's been a change as security goes over the state Fair
where they've shifted away from officers sheriffs department as well and went more private security.
And I'm not informed enough on all of it, but I do know
that that's the thing, and I think it was based on the cost savings.
But when it comes to the state Fair, that is a Republican for
all practical purposes, that is under Republican purview, right, the agg Commission
is a Republican and the legislature, who does you know provide there is control
that they have over this. And so what a wonderful what a wonderful example
and opportunity for Republicans to show other political leaders like the mayor of Raleigh and
others how to handle this crap, because this is their ability to show this
is how it should be done, and I hope they take the opportunity.
I'm sure, I'm sure they will. Okay, See, I have confidence
that no folks, and they'll do exactly that, because somebody has got to
stand up and lead on this issue. I starting have been a vocal proponent
of policing good policing, and I've been a vocal proponent of law and order,
and I've been one of those people that's been screaming from the raptors that
we need to stop this anti police sentiment that we have in this country right
now. I mean, we literally have people being killed because of it,
and it's horrible. You know, For every George Floyd out there, I
say this friendly, For every George Floyd out there, there are ten,
fifteen, twenty, maybe even one hundred nameless people who are killed, face
nameless faceless people who are killed through gun violence and through drug violence and all
those associated things that nobody talks about. Nobody talks about. The news media
doesn't care the black lives matter. Folks don't care about the folks that are
being murdered through violent street crimes. They don't care. These folks just go
nameless and face us. Meanwhile, we highlight everything that the police does if
it's the least a little bit wrong, it's on the evening news and it's
all called we have this anti police sentiment that's permeating all landscape. We've got
to stop it and we've got to get back into camp of law and order.
Now, I will tell you what is able to go down in the
downtown area is in many cities we saw these giant protests and you know,
sometimes it was counter protests Israel one side, Palestine the other, and it's
they dedicated a crap ton of additional hours for police to go and facilitate those
events. And let me, let me be very clear here. I'm I
think that people should be able to gather and and in some cases say incredibly
stupid things, so I can hear them and know that they're dumb, but
that I appreciate that, and they're able to facilitate that. So that's where
this disconnect lies for me myself as well o case you. Again, it
goes right back to the premise. Uh. I believe it says in the
Bible, where we're treasure will be, there will be as heart. Also,
the same thing applies to a lot of our politicians you can care about.
You can see clearly what they care about by where they put their emphasis.
And a lot of times are elected officials in these big cities. Look
at where they put the emphasis. They don't put their emphasis on solid solutions
that are going to bring great in problems. They put their emphasis on agendas.
It's all about agendas. It's not about driving solutions. It's about it's
about supporting their agendas. It's about proving themselves to be wrought right on all
these wild ideas that they have or continue to push those wild ideas. It's
not about bringing solutions. It's not about keeping people safe. It's not even
about equality, Casey what it's about. It's about pushing the agendas that they
believe in. And that's all they want to do. The announcement yesterday by
Well the governor and others about Toyota adding three thousand jobs of the battery plan
in Randolph County eight billion additional investment, are you privy to the totality of
what the governor offered? And I got to be honest, Mark, I'm
happy when stuff like this happens. I may not like the process because it's
good for Randolph, it's good for North Carolina. Sure, but this this,
this, uh, this reality where now all of this great business opportunity
is directly because of the existence of Roy Cooper is infuriating to me because,
A, right, that's not how we got here. Kudos right to this
happening. And if he if he helped me, what do you know about
it? And uh, just give me the give me the heads up,
the behind the scenes. Well I can I can tell you this. Toyota
didn't come here for Roy Cooper. Toyota came here because of the groundwork that's
been laid by our Republican legislature. That's why Toyota is here. That's why
there are there are more small businesses in Casey. That's what I'm really excited
about. Sure, Toyota is coming here. What I'm what I'm really excited
about are the service industries that are going to pop up around toios Toyota.
Although so called small businesses are going to pop up and be created by that
industry. That's why there are more small business filings now in North Carolina than
there ever has been. We set a record for small business filings right now
and it's all due to the Republican legislature lowering taxes, corporate taxes, lowering
personal taxes, lowering regulations, making moves to set this state up and not
only be business friendly, but turning us into a business speedway where folks are
ready to come in and do business. Every time I see Roy Cooper taking
a credit for these things, every time I see him at a ribbon cutting,
I literally take you want to show up behind him with a sign and
hold it up and says you had nothing to do with this because if he
had his way that, if he had his way, we would still be
in the economic doldrums we were in in twenty ten, and prior the economic
goal that Democrats who had control of this state had us in, where we
were three point four billion dollars in debt to the federal government, furlough and
state workers and teachers didn't get a race for six years. Republicans came to
rally, took over and looked where we are now five billion dollars surplus and
everybody wants to come to North Caroll Line and do business. That's due to
Republicans, not Roy Cooper. The legislature. Speaking of Republicans closing up shop
for this session. I was doing a little reflection and I can be cynical.
Somebody called me grumpy pants yesterday, but I really feel like the biggest
thing, and please correct me that was accomplished was the Medicaid expansion, right,
and what I mean? I guess obviously some of the stuff with schools.
Pull me out of the gutter here because that thought really irritates me.
What do you think? What do you think was accomplished? And what are
your thoughts on this session that just got done? So people have mixed feelings
on Medicaid expansion. You know my thoughts on Medicaid expansion, Casey, I
was completely against Medicaid expansion. But Medicaid expansion didn't come because of my opinion.
I wasn't able to stop it because of my opinion. It came because
they sat down, discussed it and came to a consensus. But I said
from the very beginning, if Medicaid expansion became a reality in North Carolina,
we want to get the absolute best result we can out of it, and
we want to continue to work hard to make me make sure we get the
best result possible out of it. I believe in this current form, North
Carolina's medicaid expansion is completely different from any other state's medicaid expansion, and I
believe that we're going to be able to get that best response and best result
out of it. I have my fingers and my toes cross and we're going
to continue to work hard for that. But our state budget, Casey,
make no mistake about it, is fantastic. We did some fantastic things in
that state budget, and I think that's the big takeaway from this session.
Sure, we had some contentious things going on in that budget, but once
it was passed, you look through that budget, there's almost I think three
thought two big and dollars were for local projects that are going to contain the
connectivity that we need in this state to help it to grow. And we
had. That's not the only thing that we had there. A lot of
the great stuff in that budget, the expanding vouchers, opportunity scholarships for all
students in North Carolina, and that's inside the budget. So the legislature did
some great work this session. Sure there worth CONTINGENTUS issues, but overall it
was great work. Yeah, I know, and I and again I try
to remind myself of that. I really I think some of the school of
stuff was was very good, but I can't get over that. And I
understand what you're saying, but I feel like with Medicaid expansion, you're like,
this is the best cancer, right, this is the best version of
cancer, just kind of what you're saying there, and I hate that,
honestly, Casey, I would push back against that and say, no,
it's not because the way we have Medicaid expansion strum structured in this state.
I think the folks that are that have Medicaid expansion, they're gonna have it's
gonna it's gonna first off, we're gonna have competition with inside of that,
and second off, that's gonna give people choices. This is not gonna be
the standard medicaid expansion that we've seen across the state, and again, we
want to continue to work hard to make sure we're going to get the best
result out of it. I'm greatly encouraged by the form that we have had
been up to me, now we wouldn't have had it, but it wasn't
just up to me. It was a long, hard conversation there that was
had a by the legislature. We have the result. Now we have to
work hard to make sure we get the best result out of it. Obviously,
this does I'm gonna flip real quickly into just a real quick thing on
campaign stuff. So take off for lieutenant governor, have put on your candidate
hat. It was a really big It was a busy week. And obviously
your race is a state wide race, so districts don't mean as much to
you. But but it did change your race, right one of your opponents
decided he's gonna go run for Congress and Mark Walker and uh, it's you
know, it's shifting a lot of things. Jeff Jackson, whose district I
would argue is drawn for him, is now crying the blues because it's not.
So it's a more interesting AG's race. Do you think that what we
saw over the last week vodes well for Republican voters and opportunity and specifically where
I do? I think it bodes well for us in the sixth district,
of course, of course, in the thirteenth district and Jeff Jackson's former district
at certainly those There are a lot of places across the state now where Republicans
have a great opportunity to increase their increase their majority inside of our inside of
our legislature. I feel like we have a fantastic opportunity to really hammer the
Democrat challenger in the AG's race. Jeff Jackson is not Dan Bishop and will
never beat Dan Bishop, and does not deserve to be the Attorney General of
this state. And I cannot wait for that race to take place, and
I can't wait to see Jeff Jackson on stage against Dan so folks can see
the vast difference between a real legal professional, a real constitutional expert, and
the likes of Jeff Jackson. And then in the governor's race, Casey,
We're gonna keep doing exactly what we've been doing. Folks have tried to drag
us down in the mud, Folks who tried to bring us out and cause
us to start all this infighting. We're going to keep delivering the message to
the people of North Carolina. We want to partner with you to take North
Carolina to its next great level of success, to continue to build our economy
and make us some reformations in our education, education system, and all the
associated things that world around that. Those are the things that we're going to
work on as governor. And we believe if we have that entire package,
MIA's Governor, Dan Bishop of ag we still have our court systems. It's
the Supreme Court and our Court of Appeals and a supermajority in our legislature.
North Carolina is going to see itself take that next step to the next great
heights. Well, well, we'll be watching. Just to be a favor.
And because I've already seen this, don't just do the random stop at
a barbecue joint so you can post a photo on social media to go,
hey, look how regular I am. It's it makes my skin crawling.
Josh Stein was doing it last week, So don't do that. We will
not do that. Trust me. I stopped. I just left the gym.
Anybody wants to see how regular I am, they can visit me at
Planet Fitness and watch me sweat. Maybe maybe we'll get ross do work out
with you. All right? All right, hey, Mar appreciate it and
we'll chat here real soon. Okay, smart talk all day ninety four or
five w pt I and the Triad and one six one FM talked in the
triangle. All right, So yeah, I'm not whining, but really I
was already in a I was already in a mood because the Vikings think that
Josh Dobbs is the solution to their quarterback problems due to Cousins injury. However,
it was busy in the NFL trade online. There some big, big
moves Chase Young, you know, the forty nine ers obviously, but the
one that the one that I found interesting. It's the trade deadline, right,
and you're figuring out your players situation. And then the Raiders decided just
they fired their coaching GM right, that was their big news. So I'm
not saying you're giving up, but it kind of looks like you're giving up.
But so the Bills. The Bills made a good move though, right,
you guys got some secondary help, which you need. Yeah, I
got a Douglas from Green Bay, all right. So there's lots of teams
that I think came out pretty good from yesterday. Unfortunately, I don't know
that we were one of them, but I'm happy for you. I did.
I did see an interesting Bill story though, and uh hold on,
let me click back over this. I was looking at all the football stuff.
This is in the stack. Actually, New York Posts had this piece
yesterday and they were talking about Okay, so you know that the beef with
Trump or one of the beasts with Trump, but in New York specifically,
as they were saying that he was he was inflating the value of his assets
for the purpose of using it as collateral. Right, he was over pricing
mar A Lago, and he was submitting that he was richer than he was.
Right. And ironically, the banks did their due diligence and they even
independently said that they came to the conclusion that they thought the loan was a
good thing and they got paid back. But that's why we're here. But
one of the little side stories that came out is Trump, back back in
the day, tried to buy the bills. I did not know that.
I knew that he wanted to get into it, and I think a lot
of it was around the time around his interest started around the time that Limbaugh
was Remember when Limbaugh wanted to be an owner of a team and they shut
him out right, They're like, no, you can't. It was purely
political. Well, that got Trump interested, and he had been talking about
it for years. But in twenty fourteen, when the Bills were sold,
he was one of the final bidders, and at that time in this story
the writing that he would literally was going to officials within the Bills organization as
well as some of the financiers, and he was carrying around photo copies of
the Forbes list of richest people, and he'd be like, hey, I'm
Donald Trump. Hey, you want to look at something? They wrote a
whole story about this. I can't. I'm torn on this because you know
how I feel about just, you know, taking all of these distractions that
we used to have, movies, sports, all of this to get away
from all that garbage and in wildly injecting politics. And I don't know that
I'd want Trump to own my team, if I'm being honest here, right,
I miss set Ross. It would be it would be interesting if it
was before he was president, which this was This was twenty fourteen, right,
so it was, But think about twenty fourteen Trump and Trump now and
all the distraction that that might cause, because you know, people would just
lean into that in the mainstream media for everything. Before I wouldn't here,
but now it would be it would be all politics. Oh yeah, well,
you try to want sports to escape from that crap. Right. This
is one of one of the reasons why I can't stand Taylor Swift right now,
because now it's all about Swifty's and Taylor Swift and it's like, what
about wold football? Yeah? What about what about maybe the fact that he
was out he didn't have a really good game and then people pointed out that
he was off doing a bunch of other stuff with her, And I don't
know that it's connected, but the you know, that's how these little controversies
get in there. But with if you had Trump, now, every postgame
press conference wouldn't be about the game. They'd be asking players, and primarily
they'd be asking black players, how do you work for a racist? Right?
You know that? Right? That's what those in that's what those postgame
press conferences. But I'm not surprised that he was interested in the bills because
many people say, I mean, that is truly America's real, America's team,
red white and blue, Buffalo, blue collar area. Yeah, America,
you know, So that's why he was interested. The best table hopefully
almost Canada though, I mean, but no, I mean the best table,
the greatest tables are they great greatest porta potties. Many people are saying
it and hearing it everywhere. So yeah, I'm not surprised, So you're
you were you like the fact that he has good taste, is I guess
the point your peccable taste, But you don't want I would be I'd be
afraid he might turn the team color gold. Well, there is that,
there is, but yeah, although that maybe the Saints that have beef with
that. Not so not the light gold, but like like that the greatest
apartment just there apart and the interior of his of his private plane, although
he would get a Bill's logo on the tail problem. Do you remember when
he changed the Oval office to the gold color and the media was like,
oh my god, it's disgusting, it's gaudy, it's tacky. Biden still
has those, Yeah, he an he ain't done nothing. It's still gold.
He swapped some art out and like and I like that was it?
Like he didn't he didn't move it, which is fine, Like I got
it. I look anything he changed. Remember the first day he was in
office. Do you remember what the first contrived fake controversy was his first day
in office? Do you remember what it was? It was the first,
the first of a hundred of these things that permeated his entire term. Uh
did he move a bust or something that he they said some reporter for NBC
or ABC claimed that the first thing that he did when he got in there
is he had the MLK bust removed, which was not true. It literally
had gotten moved from one side one part of the office over to the other.
So the dude went in there, he didn't see it where it had
been, and he just wrote a story saying, oh my god, look
at that. First thing he does is remove Martin Luther King's bust, and
then everyone just ran with it. So yeah, but let me see.
Yeah, I'm just looking at my clock here. So yeah, as as
as that would have unfolded, I don't know that you'd be able to get
away from her right now, and it'd be a huge, huge distraction,
all right, eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. All
right. So it's Ron the presidential thing. So I told you that Politico
did a big story, very important story, so that you know voters are
armed with the information. They did an entire story on whether Ron de Santa
is wearing lifts and his shoes and I gotta tell you they didn't think this
up on their own, because I'm on Twitter and the amount of people that
I saw that were posting is that slow mo video of DeSantis walking with like
his slow mo but it's just you know, he's from the knees down and
then they're like pointing a circle around what looks I At first when I saw
the video, I didn't realize it was DeSantis because it just autoloaded, and
I'm like, are they are they implying that he's he's he's got ankle holster?
And then I realized what the thing was. And I don't know how
that became a hot trending topic. And by the way, it wasn't Politico
doing it. It's uh, you know, it's his own Republican opponents beefing
over whether he has lifts in his shoes. Okay, you know all of
this is stupid, right, It's really really it's a completely stupid I don't
care if DeSantis has stilts, if Trump has horrible here piece, or if
Biden has diapers, right if he if they if he's doing a good job.
I mean, you don't care, because I think it kind of is
the reality but yeah, but it's like, you know what it feels.
It feels Lincoln project to me, that's what that's what it feels. I
know it's gonna irritate some of you, but I don't care, Like I
don't. I don't under I don't understand because I mean, I get it
and cheer for your guy. And if you have serious, like you know,
beef over a particular issue, highlight the hell out of that. Absolutely.
But there is and it's not a huge group, but it is a
group that gets a lot of engagement. So it ends up everywhere that they
just go on and post crazy stuff like I heard, I heard he's eating
a baby right now, and they and then you look, you're like,
okay, thank you, Laura Lumer appreciate that. And there's no like.
It baffles me when I see it on social media. So the fact that
Politico then used it and grabbed it to do a rather lengthy analysis piece,
it just it just takes it to a new dumb level that this is hidden
hills, hidden heels or no hidden heels, and this is your political correspondence,
So perhaps do better. Politico raced agic. He's doing well, not
as good as he did last week, but it will eventually get back to
a very nice place. So what's up man, A little chill in the
air. I did do a little research, so good between hours. Just
remember I'm not doing nothing, so I'm there for you. We do gain
an hour sleep this weekend, so let's fall back. So now that everybody's
refreshed with that and also had something to come in. I don't know but
anybody paid attention to otis that category five hurricane that win? Just amazing how
little coverage it had before the event. Now I'm still information coming in where
potentially a record wind gust maybe for any landfalling tropical system two hundred miles per
hour. Now that's not confirmed, but that may actually end up becoming accurate.
There's going to be a lot to unravel there, all right. So
anyway, and let me say one thing too about you ever been to acapocal
I have not? Okay, all right, So Acapolco, like a lot
of the Pacific side cities in Mexico and actually in Central America, it's they
sit in bowls because that's how the topography is. It's not a huge flat
approach. They sit in bowls. So when it rains and I and obviously
hurricane level rains and wind. It just decimates everything down low. Even with
just heavy rain. Brow I can't even imagine the way that that city situated.
What a hurricane hitting it dead on looks like, Yeah, the angle
came in with the surge to it. It's just each day I see different
pictures and it it's going to be a long time. Yeah, shoot up
some time there. Anyway, it's pretty easy another couple of cold mornings.
Freeze morning this morning, and'll freeze again tomorrow morning. Tomorrow may actually end
up being a few degrees colder than the mid upper thirties to near forty degree
temperatures we have this morning, maybe like upper twenties, low thirties tomorrow morning,
So expect that. Expect the light breeze around and even some chilly days.
It's not gonna last long. We're not the time of year where we
have hangtime with any of this cold air that's going to be around. So
a lot of sun it'll look great, but a little brisk today. We'll
struggle I think in many places to get the fifties. So how about near
fifty and tonight, As I'd mentioned, upper twenties to the low thirties,
so cold Thursday morning, heat up the car, prep any way you want.
In the afternoon, load to mid fifties. Not much wind around,
so it'll feel a little better. Sunny, low sixties on Friday, and
probably a round seventy or just above over the upcoming weekend. So it's gonna
get a lot better, a lot quicker here now that we're in early November.
You know, these cold snaps usually don't last too long, and this
one, well, another front next week, but not as cold as this
one. It probably could say a rail Tuesday or Wednesday next week. All
right, cool, cool, Thank you sir, Have a good one,
and Jeff Bellinger joins us. Next hang on eight fifty three. Bloomberg Update
now with Jeff Bellinger, Jeff, what's happening, Welge morning, Casey.
Looking at mixed futures this hour. SMP and Nasdaq futures both a little higher.
Now, futures are down twenty five points. The Federal Reserve wraps up
its two day policy meeting this afternoon. Economists are not expecting a change in
interest rates, but they say policymakers may leave the door open for one last
rate height next month. Private sector employers continued to increase their workforces last month,
but hiring fell suore to economist estimates. ADP says one hundred and thirteen
thousand workers were added to payrolls at October. Workers' annual pay was up five
point seven percent from a year ago. There are growing concerns that demand for
elect strict vehicles has begun to ease. Tesla shares have been taking a hit.
They've lost nearly a fifth of their value in just the last two weeks.
It's November, and here come the forecast about the holiday season. Deloit
says almost half of Americans plan to travel between Thanksgiving in the middle of January,
but people will take fewer and shorter trips than they did last year.
Hotel operators will be happy to hear that more travelers plan to stay in hotels
this year, and this gives a whole new meaning casey to the term hair
of the dog. Designers in Europe are looking to harvest dog hair from groomers
and turn it into textiles. Commercial spinners in Italy described the canine fur as
better than cashmere. The fabric. Of course, it can't be just called
dog hair they had to come up with a sexy name for it. It's
being called chian Gora, combining the French mind for dog with a gora.
Yes, get yourself a chian Gora sweater. You'll be right now. You
thinks PETA would throw blood on those because they're not killing the dogs. I
want to be No, they're not. Okay, totally a byproduct and it's
sustainable, so they're just shaving them. All right, Well, a bunch
of cold dogs. If that takes off, I guess sorry, thank you
very much. Day Yeah, look at that. So if you got one
of those big fuzzy dogs that you got a brush like all the time,
or your house looks like, well the dog, save it. I guess
it's a gold mine. There you go. All right, couple quick things
here. I'm telling you what man, how dumbed. I started reading this
story and I was actually I was fascinated a little by the program. I
wasn't aware because it's it is done in North Carolina, it's the East coast.
But I thought the way I thought the direction this thing was going to
go is that kids were getting hold of this stuff. So here's the deal.
The USDA runs a vaccine program for rabies, wildlife wildlife right for uh
raccoons, but also skunks will get it, a few other critters. And
the way that they do it is they have these these things, these little
I don't say they look like candy, because they kind of do, but
they also kind of don't. And they take them and they spread them out
in you know, places where you got a bunch of critters, and then
the critters eat them because they they smell like vanilla. I mean, they
smell like candy. They again kind of look like it. And I thought
that the problem that they were sent a press release about from the Department of
Ag was that kids, you know, keep the kids with no no.
The problem, according to this article I'm reading, is a couple instances,
one up in Virginia where grown adults I guess came across them and thought that
they were weed gummies or weed edibles. So thc laced you know, candy
to get you high, because of course, you know, you're in the
woods and there's you know, some someone must have just dropped one hundred weed
gummies on the forest floor, so the first thing you should do is eat
it, obviously, but some some people are so stupid that now they've received
oral rabies vaccine. I'm telling you, every day, at some point,
you're gonna walk by somebody who if you ever had a conversation with them,
you would be astounded that they're able to tie their own shoes because they were
just surrounded with folks eating candy. You fire, you think is candy from
the ground of the woods, like, but I look, I guess if
you want to get high and you don't want to pay for it, then
you try anything. Then I was gonna do two stories and then you know,
Halloween candy by the way, real quick, Lincoln do good on the
candy hall, good hole for him, Good good, all right. I
was gonna ask earlier. Then I got creaked out by canceling veterans trades because
I'm know I'm insane. I'm a horrible person for bringing it up for an
hour and a half. We'll probably bring it up again tomorrow, but you
have to tune in to find out, so we'll see you then.