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Right, good morning on the middle of the week. Ain't good, ain't
bad, just it is what it is. Aco Dame Radio program, Glad
to have you along. I need to add one more thing to the that
story of the high school up in New York where the decided, Hey,
you know what, I know, it's school supposed to supposed to be in
school today, but we're into remote learning because we're going to move two thousand
of the the migrants into the school. This is what kills me. Right.
There isn't a city in the United States that has more resources available,
right, just out of sheer size, population set, in valuation, you
know, of of everything there, the amount of money I mean, la,
I guess could compete, but New York still beats them out. And
even with all of those resources, everything is like a panicked decision where they
don't know what to do, right. They're like, all right, let's
take all our sports fields and now they're a camp. Let's let's take hotels
in Times Square and we'll convert those to migrant housing. Oh no, there's
a bunch of problems and asks. So what so let's do that? What
was the what was the other big one where you're just like, what are
you doing? And but I point this out because the numbers that New York
seen, even though it is a lot by New York standards, pales in
comparison to what communities in Texas and Arizona and even parts of California and especially
small communities have dealt with for ever and especially now in a much more significant
fashion. Like where was it Brownsville, Texas? Do you remember the video
where they showed downtown Brownsville and the entirety of it looks like San Francisco with
but like one big homeless camp, just people camping there. That was it.
That was That was like the totality of their business district just covered.
Just trying to deal with the numbers. And remember we saw those numbers,
and like, you look at those numbers and you realize if you you could
fill four Michigan football stadiums with with the with the latest round of numbers in
retrospect for twenty twenty three, it's just it's crazy. Man. So now
they're going to do this. But I was slightly inaccurate. They're not doing
remote learning in the sense that everybody's tuning in to the normal class and then
there's the teacher on the other side. No, no, no, Instead,
actually what they're doing is why can't I never remember the name of this.
The students are being provided their assignments, which are available on this Google
Docs thing that they I guess the school has that, you know, to
provide resources to the kids. And also during remote learning, Google Classrooms is
what it's called. So students were sent a message instructing them to log into
their Google Classrooms account, pick up the required assignments, and spend the day
doing those assignments. And then at the bottom they write, teachers will be
available via zoom if requested prior by email. What does that mean? So
if a kid is doing their assignment today and they're stuck that it's too late
to request a teacher help them, what are the teacher are the teachers?
Are the teachers there, like, I don't know, catering for the two
thousand folks that were moved in there? The hell are they doing that?
They can't just teach a class that they all learned how to do. So,
No, they didn't just decide to go remote learning. They went that
whatever that ross I can remember the name of it. What's the day where
you were the teacher? Right? And you just they didn't need legal I
think those are called asynchronous days. Asynchronous, that's the word I'm looking for.
So they went they just they just pulled an asynchronous day. Yeah.
Yeah, that's gonna irritate some parents for sure. All Right, I have
a call here, Casey. What's up. Hey? I just had a
question of comment. You're you're talking about the emailing and stuff like that.
I think what they meant is you email the teacher and then the teacher gets
back to you on zoom after the email. But my question was how long
did they plan on having them in the school? Was it for the rest
of the year, was it for the rest of the month. Was it
just then they're moving them back out. Well, here's the problem. It
Initially it was explained that it's because of the storm. The problem is they
hate it over there, and there's a bunch of advocacy groups that because it's
in it's temporary, it's like tent housing, they feel that it's inhumane.
So now activists are demanding they don't move, and a bunch of the migrants
are not keen on going back to tent city, Ireland Island, which I
guess I would understand this time of the year a tent versus inside a physical
building. But again I'm just flummoxed at New York with all those buildings and
all the resources and all the money and everything. I understand things are cramped
there, but just the sheer size of it. That two thousand is this
overwhelming number, right, Like they have high schools with two thousand students in
it, which is why they're housing them there. So but we would agree
that during a storm that would be a humanitarian issue, right, you don't
want them how in the storm the right, right, but put them in
the Berkley Center, do you know what I'm saying? Right, put them
in you know, yeah, put them in the arena. I mean,
I know that didn't work out great in Houston post Katrina. There were some
issues, but I get it. And then that might be why they didn't
do it, because they saw how poorly that worked out well. But you
could also you could also figure out how to police that, right, because
there's gonna there's look, there's gonna be a heavy lift on the part of
resources. You would agree to move two thousand people likely to be regardless.
Yeah, the resources are going to be an issue regardless of where you put
them. So if it's not where we have people living in the super dome
for months and it's just going to be a day or two as as stated,
And then I don't understand why you couldn't utilize the uh the arenas there
go to Madison Square Garden, you know what I'm saying. And instead of
instead of yeah, sure, pushing them out of this school, that's the
part I can't wrap my head around. And I understand why parents are med
looking around at all these I'm a teacher, Casey, and I will say
this remote learning, especially for if it's just a day or two, it's
not that big of a process. Yes, you get the simons. Teachers
are available for a day or two if that's how long they plan on doing
it. It's not a hard thing to do now, moving scheduling and stuff
like that. For an arena where you're dealing with millions of dollars in contracts,
that might be a little tougher than sending out a couple of Simons via
Google Classroom. That's the way I view that. All right, Well,
I don't think every Arena's got a Billy Joel concert today. I'm gonna meet
you halfway because I think that here's where the frustration lies. It's not the
idea that because like I mean, let's face, you're a teacher. You
know how those days right ahead of a vacation or at the end of the
year, you are right like, there's not a ton of learning going on
usually, and it so people people, we're back, We're back. It's
actually it's actually it's messer for us. Well, no, no, no,
I'm not saying in your individual I'm just saying in the generic sense me
remembering my time as a school kid, like you know, there's certain times
of the year where there's not a lot going on, and if there is
a day like you know where where it has to haven't fine. But the
problem is is that people who would have been sympathetic to that, uh,
they were lied to and they were gas lit about the idea that there would
be no learning loss for the kids. You know. That's and the beef
isn't necessarily with the teachers, although it isn't Randy Weingart and the Teachers' Union,
but it's the idea that they were told one thing, and then they
were told not to believe it when their kid is struggling, that it's anything
but the kid's fault. That's what irritated so many people. Instead of being
adults and saying, look, this isn't ideal and is going to be problems,
but we've had to weigh the problems and we feel this is the better
solution. Instead they were told that they hate teachers and they hate well.
And you're talking about learning loss over a year, year and a half period
as opposed to two to maybe five days. But you understand what I mean.
They're going to have a short possible learn loss, but then they are
able to recover that very quickly when they get back with the teacher. But
some of them, some of them, that hasn't. That actually hasn't been
the case among the younger sets we've seen now absolutely, like I said,
over a year and a half period, yes, that is much harder to
recover, and I agree with you there, but that was also a much
different situation than housing people for a storm that's coming through and now is gone
and then recover good. But once you told a bunch of people that they're
irrational and they're dumb, and that they are they don't know what's happening with
their own kid. People get a lot less reasonable to hear you out.
You know what I'm saying, right, But I also don't think this has
anything to do with the learning loss as much as it does immigration obviously,
and that's another issue whenever you can't and when you can't even agree on simple
legislation to alleviate that Republican or Democrat. Yeah, again, there's there's a
there's a range of emotions here. But let's not pretend that that you know
the previous, the previous remote learning. Like if you hadn't done all that
and you just told they were doing remote learning, I don't I think people
would be like, well, let me see what that's about, because they
didn't know. Well now they know absolutely, But when you have to do
it for a year and a half, yes, it's not ideal. Nobody,
nobody, even teachers, the people that came up with that, would
have said, yes, we would rather do this than in person learning.
No one ever, except for the Chicago teacher lady. She was like,
yeah, let's do this all the time. That that one lady, that
one person lady, that teachers union got that the creepy look in Chicago mayor
ousted, and then they got the uh, the insane guy in so it
was they were pretty powerful. All right, I got a roll man,
thank you very much for the call. So yeah, that's that's what's going
on up there. But yeah, I look again, if it was your
first time hearing the words remote learning, like I think people would be all
right, well, let's see if this is just for a day. But
now you've run into all these issues like are they gonna what's gonna happen if
they don't want to go back there to the tent city? What are you?
What are you going to do? And then with all the crap that
went down and all the the bs the people were fed, they don't have
the patience to hear you out when you're doing that stuff. And you think
that's unreasonable or reasonable, that's fine, but I at least understand why people
are just done quote listening to the experts and being told by their government better
is what they're going to do. That's that's there's there's there's a lot of
fault here as to why we're here. And it doesn't just live with parents
who people think are being irrational over immigrat stuff. There's a lot more all
right, eight eighteen CaCO Day Radio Program. We can get some more calls
if you like. We're gonna have to contextualize stuff. So you probably saw
this story journalists joke about assassinating Trump a kind of kind of I but not
really, I know, I know, stupid me trying to actually you get
some context here. We'll explain it. Coming up next. Hang on smart
Talk all day ninety four or five w PTI in the Triad and one six
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the CaCO Day Radio Program and is six thirty five, and everything is doomed,
as we just found out together listening to graduates, people who just brought
diplomas bestowed upon them, explaining when the country was founded, why you know,
the independence? Who we declared it from? You know, Thomas Jefferson,
Abraham Lincoln and uh oh yeah, the declaration of independence? Think about
it, this monster? What did he do? I declared like the freedom
of the USI from who George Washington? From my mom from the British?
Isn't he even George Washington to England? I mean technically George Washington was a
citizen of England. But I'm not even going to give that to her.
So she's running that hot garbage. She's in her graduation gown, holding her
cap and has has more tasseling and some other indicators on their meaning. In
some way, shape or form, she has she has exemplified herself from her
peers. She's one of the smart ones. Ross started to say it,
but then we had to go to break because you know, time management and
stuff. And then him and I talked about it off the air what he
was getting into. He's he said, you know, there was a time
when if you didn't know stuff, then they didn't give you a diploma.
And he's absolutely right. I'm sure many of you might have experienced this in
your life. So the way that it worked in Wyoming was you went to
school, you did your thing at the school in Wyoming, and if you
got if you were in the upper echelon, you could have a score at
the end of the year where even if you at the end of your testing
you didn't you failed them completely mathematically, you would still technically graduate, but
you could tank your GPA doing that. Other students and the majority of students
had to sit, had to hit a certain number on that end of your
testing to maintain their ability to graduate. And I and believe it. And
there were some kids who didn't, and you know what happened. They didn't
graduate because the school went, you don't know nothing, dummy, you need
some more schooling. And that was there were consequences for it. Is that
Does that even happen today? I don't think it does. I was.
I was always put on like from sixth grade to like my final year high
school. I was always put on like the fast like the AP courses,
like the base place and the enrichment courses. Yes, I remember, and
for some reason that that include did like AP science and AP Physics, and
I should not have been in those classes because I'm so bad at math,
like I was, like I was good at like English and history and that
sort of stuff. So I remember sitting there. My final year high school
was easy because I had already gotten rid of all the classes. It was
like such a super easy year. Yeah. Yeah, but that eleventh like
eleventh grade, I remember sitting there taking that AP Chemistry final and being like
I need to pass this to graduate to go on to my next year.
I was terrifying. What was the issue the entire course? Like, I
don't know, it was I just should not have been there. I got
like, that's the only course that I've ever gotten, like A D N.
Everything else was always like B plus A minus states statistics. Oh god,
it was. And I remember sitting there, I should not be in
this class, but but I was able to. But the math worked and
I tested well. And you're right, you know, like even you didn't
have to be one hundred percent in every academic field, right, that is
correct? It was it was they were trying to They were attempting to garner
the totality of knowledge that you've consumed in your ability to learn. Yeah,
but I have friends that are like really stressed, right, stressed about graduating.
I had. I had a friend who did not graduate. We all
left, he stayed. He ended up doing a summer thing, and he
was able to get it because they had that was a possibility rather than having
to do another year. And it was a combination of you know, learn
learning one this thing. He really didn't have any aspirations and eventually he just
you know, his thing was, I'm just doing this because I got to
do it and I'll take over the family rain. He's good guy, that's
what he does to this day. But like he didn't graduate with us because
that was the consequences for it. These these these are individuals, and what
I'm told is a vaunted school system, a school system that should be admired
and funded in the same way that we should chase after. And they think
that we declared independence from Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Abe Lincoln. I
have a lot of questions, although I don't because I like, I get
why we're here, but then it permeates into I guess government, right,
because I'm sure a bunch of them will get a government job. And they
were asso go the DMV, and that's who he's got to deal with.
Of course, those people are going to help other people cheat on a test,
you know what I'm saying. They got, they got, They got
shamed by a microphone in Times Square after the graduation ceremony. Oh my goodness.
But I guess they're easier to control like that. I bet they know
all the Kardashians' actual birth dates. I bet they know every one of their
birthdates. They probably know all of the various surgeries they've had too, every
single one. They know all the real housewives name and bios. Oh yeah,
that's where we are, and that's how you can convince people stuff like
do you see what the Chicago Mayor's doing? Now? Check this out.
So the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, Right, this is the guy
they bring in because they ousted the the the chick the from Lord of the
Rings who just wanted the ring gull them or whatever is that? Oh they're
not saying, Okay, they're not the same person. I'm being told anyway,
So the school, basically the teachers union, got her run because she
wouldn't just give them all the money. So they went and they found a
dude who's even nuttier. And as Chicago has continued to dwindle in u crime
enforcement and liveability and has fallen into the same Hey, if people are just
gonna loot, we're not even going to prosecute mindsets. Stores are moving out,
and that includes Walmart pulling out, Whole Food's pulled out, and now
they have a little bit of a food desert crisis. They can't figure out
how they got into it. They don't have grocery stores in a lot of
these areas. So Brandon Johnson, the mayor, rather than creating an environment
through law enforcement where people want to do business, I promise you, if
you are in the business of selling selling stuff, you want the ability to
place your store inside densely populated areas. I don't know if you understand how
this works. Right, So, if I got a store, if Ross
has a store selling whatever, Ross sells mugs or giant inflatables or whatever,
and he has a choice between putting that store in the center of the shopping
district of wake Forest, or he's got to put that store into field out
in the middle of the other side of Rollsville. Where do you want the
store? Right location, location, location, right right, you want try,
you want people around. That's where he's putting the store. Is that
the far It is not the old store. It's the store in the middle
of the shopping district. So people will see the store and they'll say,
whow it's in that store. It maybe go in there and spend money.
I mean probably not. It's a giant inflatable of me to be vandalized.
That's one of our biggest sellers. I'm sure it is. I'm sure it's
right there in the window. Got one on the roof too, just flying
around in the wind. Crazy town. So like, that's a no brainer.
Stores want to be in there. So what is his solution Rather than
enforcing laws and all that and protecting the investment that has made when you place
a store because it's not cheap in a densely populated area, He's announced that
they want to open government run grocery stores. Can you think of a better
grocery store then a government run grocery store. So they got rid of the
crap mayor. She was horrible. They elected this crazy moon bat socialist right
communists, realmar and all these stores are like, hey, we got to
leave because y'all keep stealing and we can't really enforce a law because a nice
because they're racist, right, yeah, it's a racist of capitalism. So
then they leave, right, and then the socialist mayor is like, hey,
what we need is socialism and breadlines. Yeah, literal government stores.
You ever been in a government store? Government cheese? As a kid,
It was amazing, But I've been in a government store. There's you know
some countries you go to where the government runs the store. We just we
run the liquor stores here, but they run the store and even if you've
never been in one, go watch a video of what it looks like inside.
And I don't mean when they the one that they show the reporters in
North Korea, but the actual store. There's video of it that Lisa Ling's
sister caught or in Cuba. In Cuba, you go into a store and
like, you go into the aisle and there's one thing and I don't mean
it's I don't mean it's the pasta isle, like, oh, look at
all the different you know, where there's one hundred different varieties and six different
manufacturers, and then the sauce. I mean, for the government was able
to get a hold of gorilla penne pasta right they got to they were able
to get a shipment of it, and so the whole aisle is that just
that it's so funny. You see this meme, I know, I know
you've seen it. It goes around social media and it'll show like a grocery
store and it'll be in whatever is like the pasta isle, yes, and
it'll be like, you know, fifty different versions of pasta as we have
here in the States. And then the socialists who posts the meme will be
like, oh, look, this is all capitalism could do for us.
There's like fifty different versions of the same thing. Yeah, it's like you
know what though, dude, that coet that you know, competition is good.
It keeps prices low, it's opposed to anyway. And then you have
like different you can things you can choose from as opposed to what you said.
Yes, you go in there and you're like, well, that's your
bread, that's your pasta if we have it, yeah, if you have
it, and and it may be the only carb in there, because all
they're aiming for is to represent roughly the totality of needs. And then you
go in like, go over the butcher. What does the butcher have?
The only thing the butcher has, for some reason is chicken thighs. That's
it. I guess you're having some sort of chicken thigh pasta tonight. Enjoy
your food. Remember when, like you had the supplying chain issue during COVID
and they're putting up fake pictures of stuff and people were like freaking out and
they're like, oh my god, I went to go get whatever at the
grocery store and they only had wand or they had none. Well, this
is what you're asking for all the time under the system. Yeah, Columbia
was a little like this Columbia, and they're not that their government run,
but they are so fixed on controls and they deal with such poverty is use
from a supply chain that I went into Exitoe. Exitoe is the name of
the grocery store chain there. And it's crazy because you go into an aisle
and look like a normal American aisle, but then you'll go into another aisle
and it's clear that they're having trouble getting oils like vegetable oils, sunflower oils,
all that. So they just have ex oil whatever it is over there.
And so that in and of itself is a limiting factor because the government
monkeys with the trade stuff. Now they're running the whole damn grocery store,
and of course it'll be government employees there, and I mean that in the
sense that they'll probably have to pay them way more in the city of Chicago
than the normal grocery store. And people will go, well, that's good,
they're making a living wage. Well they're not one. They're not incentivized
too. It will not operate like a normal grocery store in three What happens
when people just come in and loot that store? Will they actually enforce it
because now you're stealing for the they will. Yeah, yeah, that now
you're going to prison, they will. And then the other grocery store chains.
The few that are there going, well, screw this noise, because
now they can steal from me. And you don't do anything, but they
steal your thing, and then you're now all of a sudden, you're Johnny
Law. I'm out of here. The best example I saw how to stop
this crap? Uh is this where you want to taser everybody again? Uh?
Nope, you know under Hayes for sheriff administration, that would happen.
Okay, all right, probably a lot. You're all gonna you're all gonna
pay and gets. It's that video that went around a few months ago of
the convenience store where the guy just comes in with the trash bin. The
trash can starts like, you know, emptying the shelves, and you have
those like shakes or whatever, like who just beat him down with a cane?
Yeah? Yea with a stick, Like you know, I'm saying,
these like Walmarts and the whole foods there in Chicago. If you had somebody
standing there at the exit with a big cane and whenever people would leave like
hey, I'm stealing all his food, if you beat them down repeatedly with
the cain. Now listen to this, it worked. It was effective.
Yeah. Did you say sheikhs? Yeah, this seeks seeks? Oh wrong?
Oh you said sheiks? Like no, I understood what you're saying.
But then I'm like, did he say sheiks or seeks? Yeah? No,
no, but guys with a stick, yes, doesn't matter. Stick,
guys, the poor thing is the stick. Yeah. I don't don't
care what's to use the stick. I don't care what your race is,
what your religion is, what your gender is, what your sex is,
if that doesn't even exist anymore. In this story is can you wield the
stick on the person stealing the things? Stick of justice? Oh, it's
doomed. It's not the only thing that's doomed, but it's you know,
it's one of the big things that's doomed this morning, so doomed. We'll
be back, Thank you. Casey is on ninety four to five w PTI
and the Triad and one six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right,
good morning and welcome back in his seven twenty six kco Day radio program.
Want to be super duper annoyed? Oh well, allow me. You
know that governor of ours, Governor Roy Cooper probably aware, yeah, so,
uh, you all have been calling them the wrong name, a bunch
of dummies. I guess I'm actually on that list too. For no reason
that I can understand. This was a thing that took place during a press
conference this week, and I don't know why I find it so grading and
annoying, but I do put the sound in between the C and the P.
We're hooked on phonics today, all right, Cooper, So it's not
ooh Cooper, it's like foot, that's the So this whole time, when
you know, not just during his uh you know, his time as governor,
right, but also as Attorney General, as a lawmaker in the General
Assembly, the whole time, everyone's been calming the wrong name. Sure it
is absolutely isn't that right? Ross hyas hyah I was pronounced hy yes,
yes, And it's not Joe dirty, it's Joe Durtey. All right,
good morning everybody, and are welcome and happy Thursday to you. It is
eight o seven. Glad to have you along here on the CaCO Day Radio
program. It has uh, it's been a little while with the vacation and
some scheduling stuff since we chatted with the Lieutenant governor yes yesterday. We had
to move him to today, but we're gonna do this thing and Mark good
morning to you, sir. How you doing? Hey, Kathy, how
are you doing? I'm pretty good? And uh, since it has been
a while, lord knows, the laundry list of things I want to talk
to you about has has built up. But I got to start here and
and let me, let me, let me put this. Let me put
this somewhat self from a self deprecation standpoint, but lightly if you and I
were members of the Donner Party, we wouldn't starve to death. First,
do you know what I'm saying? Like, Yeah, okay, all right,
so uh at kudos. I know you're doing the gym thing, but
let's say, look, we deal in honesty here on the show. And
I know then that if I want to take myself, or if it was
you and I want to go to a theater and get a high top barstool
and put it in literally in front of other patrons. I'm probably going to
get talked to by staff at the at the theater. Yet, for some
reason, the former NAACP head, the Reverend William Barber, he he feels
it's it's it's akin to, you know, a sixty zero civil rights struggle,
and the media just laps this stuff up. But I don't know what's
what's your take on all this insanity. I'm sure you saw the story over
the break I did, and it's just another attempt just to continue to be
an eternal victim, to try to break the law. It's not about being
equal. It's about being special, always about making up your own rooms.
It's about not following along with with with with any type of social moras.
It's just about I'm gonna do exactly what I want to do, and if
you don't let me do it, I'm gonna claim to be a victim and
I'm gonna sue the pants off of you, because, uh, this is
all about me being special. This is not about me doing the right thing.
This guy doesn't have a single solitary leg to stand on when it comes
to this that theater provides handicapped seating it makes exceptions for folks. Uh,
it gives you every opportunity. Uh, it makes uh provides every opportunity provided
by the law. And he just wants to be special and just wants to
get attention and just wants to cry victim of status all the time. Completely
ridiculous. Of course, the media is gonna go along with it, because
as you've seen most of our news media right now, it's totally complicit in
it's booishness. Yeah, well, it's just it's just a failure to process
something so so simple, like as like I think if you removed who it
was and you just showed somebody a picture of a high top stool in front
of low top seating with people behind there, they'd go, maybe that's not
a quote reasonable accommodation. And the problem is that you and I both know
how the conversation played out. Some staff member who doesn't want to be dealing
with this, right they are just you know, there is a minimum wage
job for them or they're thereabouts, goes in there. And I suspected if
somebody escalated it based on what I've seen with that video where Barber was on
the plane and others that he was the one who escalated this and the fallout
then is any of the staff there, but also the police officer who when
they show up to do a trespass, they don't care why you're getting trespassed.
If it is illegal, the courts will remedy that. But police are
just there to do paperwork and leave. And yet now those officers and those
staff members are the object of ire to some of Barber's supporters. And I
don't know what they wanted them to do. Well again, Casey, it's
not what they want them to do. They want them to do what they
want them to do. Now, the sheoe was on the other foot.
He was a theater owner and he was calling the police O someone who was
breaking the rules. He would want the police to follow the rules, and
he would be demonstrative in them wanting to follow the rules. So again,
it's not about it's not about anything except getting their way. I want to
get my way. I don't care what the rules are. I'm going to
break the rules because this is not about equality. This is about me being
special. It's about me being a victim. It's about me being able to
sue the pass all of you because I'm special in a victim. Just total
total movecy and greed is what it really boils down to. Well, it
is. It is beyond frustrating when when you sit there and you see the
same canard work over and over and it's just and it's just so logical in
one's mind. And by the way, let me say this, Mark and
I'm I'm I'm having any guests because I don't know who is he obstructing to.
This is the other thing. So if he's obstructing patrons who are watching
the movie and it's a showing of the color purple, I guess horrible racist
me just assumes that there's a higher likelihood that the people he's obstructing are people
of color. Absolutely Again, another reason why it points to him not caring
about the rules. I don't care, But he does not care about the
rules. He cares about getting his way, about making his point about ultimately,
ultimately about making our case. And the case is going to boil down
to money extortion. That's why, Casey, it is so important for us
to have leaders in positions or not leaders, but represent this in positions of
authority. Governors, the governors, mayors who stand up firmly against this because
when folks stand up against it, when those folks that are they're on the
news, who have those microphones, who have those seats, when they stand
up and say this is not right and we're not gonna stand by those people
who oftentimes will be solid that majority, who are solid because everybody a lot
of other people are going along with it, they'll stand up and say,
you know what, that's absolutely right. We're not gonna stand up for this.
And I believe that's how you stand up against it. You stand up
against it by having people at the very beginning, those people in those positions
are so called authority who stand up to say we're something not gonna put up
with this. Judges, lawyers, others who stand up firmly against it.
Those political leaders, those folks that got to stand up and make their voices
heard and say we're not gonna stand by this type of boosts. Now,
let's let's talk about people thinking they can do whatever they want. There's different
versions of this. There is Barber getting to have his Karen moment there in
the theater, but there's also something that I think sadly factors into this tragic
story in Greensboro, where a Greensboro Police Office officer was killed, Sergeant Philip
Nix, Dale Nick. Sergeant Dale Nix, who was not on duty,
I who had spent you know, most of his adult life serving the community
of Greensboro in a variety of capacities, who just happened to be at his
favorite sheets, sitting out on the bench as people do, and he sees
he sees these three individuals parking a handicap obviously as close to the door as
possible, and come hauling out of there with a bunch of cases, the
modello, eighty three dollars worth of beer. And the moment Nix goes over
to you know, ask about it because two of them are under age and
appear to be underage, he gets five bullets flung at him through the window
and he's killed. And you know, it has those it has that vibe
of those videos received where people just go and loot a store, take whatever
they want, don't give a damn, And it irks me. Then when
I see politicians who seem to be permissive of this trend issuing tweets in support
of as we saw. So obviously this is your hometown. Let's talk about
Greensboro. The community, how they're feeling. And also the fact that it
was a record year for murders, yes last year, So talk to me,
well, you know, I you know, I'm not gonna say I
hate to say this, but the fact of the matter of this, this
goes directly on the head of Greensboro City Council. The Greensboro City Council when
it comes to police and has done a terrible job. Terrible They have taken
the city backwards. The city of Greensboro used to be a nationwide example of
what police could be. The police Chink of Greensboro at one time was the
head of the National Police Chiefs Association. We had a shining star for a
police organization right in Greensboro, North Carolina. But since we started this whole
anti police movement, the left that start this whole anti police movement, the
city of Greensboro has been right there with them, The entire council's leftists.
They don't stand with the police. They don't give them what they need to
be proactive in fighting crime. They don't stand by them. They didn't stand
by them during the riots that we have and now we are seeing the effects.
We're seeing the effects is trickly. Now it's hit Greensboro, it's hit
Raleigh, it's hit Winston, it's hit all these areas. These politicians who
have swayed over these police agencies, they don't back them up, they don't
give them what they need to be proactive in fighting crime. They're not pro
police. And now the effects are shown and the effects are chilling. Then
you couple down long cases with these weak das that continue to let these criminals
be in in this revolving door crime. But what I understand, these suspects
had lengthy criminal records, which is not their work. Grow. Yeah,
want to be clear, one of them did, and then uh, the
other two I wouldn't describe as lengthy, although there is some juvenile stuff that
we're probably not privy to. But yes, no, it was uh for
the for the main suspect. Yeah, there's a there's a whole there's a
whole litany of stuff and yeah, yeah right, and these these these week
days, and let's take it to the state level too, with some of
these laws that we have where we have to police officers have to call Raley
in order to uh, in order to arrest juveniles and all all types of
all manners of things, but the way we have handcuffed police officers, the
way we are demonized the police officers, the way the press is complicit in
all this, it is a recipe for disaster. And folks like me have
been saying that from the very beginning. You want to continue to degenerate law
enforcement, You're going to continue to allow our societies and our communities to degenerate
into violence. And this is an example of it, a sad examp of
it, and we need to hurry up and turn it around. We need
people in place or are going to stand all the platform and say we stand
firmly behind law enforcement. We are going to give law enforcement what they need
to be proactive in fighting crime, and we are not going to put criminals
on a revolving door of crime. If you commit these crimes, you will
be punished to the high extent of the law. It needs to come from
the high offices. And right now it's not sadly. Somebody sent me an
email said, yes, you're acting like prior to these changes that there was
never somebody who wanted to steal something and fell okay to fire at police.
No we're not saying that, but the more deterrence, the more situation,
The more situations and I'll call them small situations right where somebody's running in grabbing
a case of beer, the more where you have that that scenario play out
means there is more possibilities for law enforcement to then interact with those individuals.
So if they feel that they can go ahead and do it, this,
unfortunately was the escalation in this case. And it's just mind boggling over eighty
three dollars worth of beer. But that's the difference here. It's not that
there weren't dirt to begin with, it's how you do said dirt bags.
So absolutely, we're talking about we're talking about suspects now who fire on police
officers because they've got a suspended driver's license or because they just simply feel like
they can do it. We're talking about suspects now who just simply ignore police
officers when they're driving down the street with their tags out of gate, speeding
and the police officers put the blue lights on and they just continue to run.
We're talking about an escalating thing here. Back in the nineteen twenties and
nineteen thirties, crime was going to the roof. You saw all types manner
of criminals. And it gave us pauls and said, hey, we've got
to start giving police officers what they need. Because police officers were outgunned,
they were out Now it made us realize crime is on the rise. We
have to fight back. We have to give police officers what they need to
fight back. Right now we're in the exact opposite situation. All police have
what they need. We're taking it away from it. Taken it away from
them, an allow of crime to ride the deal. It's like this lunacy.
It's like something you see on the Twilight Zone. Quite frankly, that's
funny. I was just watching Toilet Zone yesterday, and it would it would
make an interesting episode. I'm The problem I have, too, is with
headlines like this, Mark, eighteen year old charge with murder could face death
penalty. Nobody does anybody really face the death penalty in North Carolina anymore?
I mean, I understand from a parade a procedural standpoint, but anti death
penalty advocates have been successful in creating this stalemate that we've been in for what
fifteen years, you know, something like that when we were still working in
that direction, and I haven't seen energy on the part of lawmakers on the
right or the left to say, all right, we need to settle this
once and for all. Either we have a death penalty or we don't.
So I'm curious where you're at on this. Well, it just to me,
it just all depends. I think. You know. My saying about
the death penalty is, uh, if you're a Susan Smith, if you're
a Jeffrey Dahler, you should get the death penalty. If there's heads in
the fraser, yeah, let's go ahead and pull the death penalty out.
If you admit it that you rolled your children into a lake and drown them,
yeah, the death penalty should be on the type. Unfortunately, neither
of those individuals received the death penalty. Uh So that gives me, Paul
kind of kind of But I am not against the death Yeah, I'm not
against the death penalty at all. It's just I'm completely against the way it
is administered. I think there are people who get it that don't necessarily deserve
it, and there are others who should definitely get it who don't. Well,
this is this is why you gotta have a fundamental conversation. Look,
I know people are conservative, and their objection to the death penalty is it's
the individual against the power of the state, which is which is not a
bad discussion or argument, but just letting It's like the statue removal. I
only got about a minute. We have laws, we have these procedures,
and now we have these quasi gray area situations where individuals, judges or the
governor, like with the statues, where they're just able to come in and
go, yeah, I know what it says, but here's what we're gonna
do. So that's what irritates me. Pick a lane and I'm with you.
Heads in the freezer I think is a good escalator. I would think
murdering a police officer is another good So you know, maybe maybe that needs
to be a discussion and one last thing before we get out of here.
I'm seeing the political pundits and experts that are that are weighing in saying that
candidates, especially statewide candidates in North Carolina, conservative candidates are not going to
do well if they're making abortion a big issue, and so the recommendation is
Republican CA candidates should probably just stay away from it. What do you think
when you hear advice or seepolling like that because obviously you're running the state wide
race, so I got one minute, you know, you know in case.
The only thing I think when I hear that is the media is trying
to just trying to put fear into our hearts. As conservatives and of those
who believe in life, they're trying to put fear in our hearts, and
unfortunately it's working with a lot of folks. It's not working with me.
I'm not afraid. We're gonna continue to stand on our premise of standing for
life. That's what we're gonna do. Happy Friday, Every Friday Friday,
and it is the final hour of the week. I'm telling you, for
day work weeks, this is what we need. Happy. Everyone is Pete
Calender. He's a He's generally in a good mood. I'm kidding. If
you follow him on Twitter, people are insane and he's calling him out,
but he joins us now as he usually does. How you doing, sir?
I'm doing all right? How are you again? I'm just happy.
I think four day work weeks we're onto something and just keep this report.
I'm not you know what we can do the thing where we do it and
then we claim it was our idea. So like the croissant, yeah yeah,
right, they yeah, they made this very nice pastry thing that's light
and fluffy, and then we just like slapped some cheese and ham, wrap
it in wax paper and throw it into people's cars. I'm sorry, a
croissant with some country ham in there, the real salty stuff. Oh yeah,
yeah, yeah, French didn't know what they had till it was gone.
Right, that's fine, We'll go ahead and handle that. Man.
Uh, dude, I gotta tell you, it's crazy. You know,
some years when we get back, you know, into the new year,
there's it could be a bit of a grind. It's insane. It's been
insane since we cracked the mic on Tuesday, and it's like, all the
good, all the all the craziness that happened, uh during the course of
vacation was almost enough, almost enough to get me to one back, want
to come back and do a show, not the least of which is the
William Barber story. And uh, and let me before we get into this,
but you obviously, like me and like most people consuming the story,
have probably digested the details and even though it is speculation, in your mind.
You probably have your own how you think it went down, right,
because I do, yeah, And I based it on history, the videos
I've seen of Barber going all Karen on an airplane. You remember that just
just the rest of this and the logic leap that is required if you're going
to report on this to ignore the chair in question, as outlets did.
So my theory is this, you tell me if I'm if I'm missing some
if you think I'm wrong. He went in there, he had his chair,
as he does. And the chair is a high top like barstool chair.
And in many and in theaters, the handicap area tends to live in
that middle area where you enter, generally carved out of whatever row would be
there. And and in some instances there's a big wall behind it, but
in most that I've seen, it's the same height. It just has there's
no chairs there, so people with wheelchairs can get in there or whatever.
So if you were to set up there, and it's and it's in the
middle of things, so if you set up there, you're going to be
blocking people. And and I so in my opinion, he rolled in with
the chair, I might add, which it's I think it's weird that nobody
said anything before set it up. Obviously there's a problem. The employee who
doesn't want to be there, who doesn't want to deal with this, went
in and is like, hey, this is this is not going to work.
And it it went from zero to sixty in in five seconds, in
my opinion, probably with Barber taking great umbrage to this how dare you when
in reality I get that he has physical issues, and I also get that
maybe some reasonable accommodations which you know, the words, could have been found.
But I don't think that it got to get to that point. I
think he was told no and wigged out, and then you know, made
the statements and how this is for the kids and how dare you and then
took this thing to the media as yet another another case of wild racism and
an injustice. And in reality, you got an employee probably doesn't want to
come talk to him, doesn't want to deal with this. You got a
police officers coming out to do a simple trespass. They don't care the story.
That's for the courts to figure out, and that's how we get to
where we are today. What do you use right? So when this happened.
I was on vacation during that week when this when the story first broke,
so I didn't come to it until after until this week, and so
I saw it and I, you know, bookmarked, and I was like,
I come back and read this. So the first time I saw the
story and saw the video, I should say, was I played it during
my live stream and I was like, let me just see the video.
And I thought at first, like I said, here's my initial impression before
I've even seen the video. I said, maybe it's like one of these
fold out chairs, because one of the key elements to me in this story
is that he has an assistant that walks around with him with the chair.
I kill somebody. I had no idea, I mean, and the first
thing I thought was like, surely this is like a fold out chair.
It's one of those like camp chairs but for really large people or something.
And surely, yeah, surely you're not. You have not put somebody on
payroll that thinks they're getting a job in you know, social justice, civil
rights activism and they're going to make a difference in the world, and they're
like, here, carry this chair. And so then I see the chair
and I admit I had never seen the chair before. And it's like a
full on high top barstools, solid wood chair. It's like it's something you
would see at like an island in a kitchen. You know, it's pretty
heavy duty. And now I feel bad for the assistance, Like, I
just like this person they're going to need a chair themselves because they're carrying around
this thing for however many years following Barber all over the place with the chair.
So then sorry, So that was the first thing I thought, bad
for the assistance. I've never seen the chair. And then I start thinking
through, Okay, we'll wait a minute. This guy is going to drag
this chair in. First, how did he get it through the security in
the lobby? Like do you like, do you drag it up there while
you get your popcorn and soda? And nobody says, hey, what are
you doing with this chair? Nobody thinks to ask on the front end.
Then he gets down into the area and what you've just outlined where the disabled
seating is, the handicapped seating is in a theater is exactly where my mind
went to. And no, you don't get to sit in a chair that
blocks everybody behind you. From seeing the movie, because they're not you know,
they always put them like you said, they have like that center like
halfway up. They've got like a center aisle or whatever. There's no grade
change which is off right. It's obviously where you put it where there's no
grade change other than the right. Then you can't go up the stairs right,
so you've got to be at that lower part where there's like the ramps,
and then they put they they usually they just ripped out a bunch of
chairs, you know, ten fifteen years ago, dot a bunch of chairs
and just gave like this flat area at the base so people could you know,
park their wheelchairs there. And everybody is fine with that. Now.
I don't know why they could have just said, well, why don't we
just slide you over to the side, you know, we'll put you over
here. But I'm and that's why I'm I. It had to have it
had to have escalated so quickly because that seems like a reasonable thing. And
frankly, if I was the guy with the chair, I would be cognizant
enough that that is where I try to set up right, And then maybe
maybe they have an objection because they're like, oh, you're blocking an aisle,
it's a fire thing whatever. But like it doesn't sound like any of
that conversation happened. It was just you can't do this, and he's like,
how dare you? And and here we here we are right. And
also, like you said, the person who was interacting with this with Barber,
uh probably minimum wage a little bit above, you know, they,
like you said, they don't want to be having this this interaction. And
people asked me, oh, do you think that this was a setup?
Do you think that this was staged? And I don't owned for one reason,
I think the video would have started rolling earlier. Yeah, no,
that's fair. Well, unless there was nothing productive there, you know what
I mean? Yeah, maybe yeah, maybe they're maybe they did roll tape
earlier and it didn't it didn't, you know, make him look good,
and so they chopped it out and sent it out that way. That's possible
as well. But I look, I tried to get people the benefit of
the doubt. But like you said, given Barber's past record, I have,
you know, I have little doubt he wants to make this into a
much larger thing, because that is what he does with virtually everything. And
I know that that's his goal. But even like I even try to look
at this and just remove the politics from it and just be like he just
he went off Karen. He went Karen on an employee. He was telling
him. No, I mean, it's as simple as that, because he's
got the ego from what I've seen, and that's you know, that ego
tends to be a factor in so many of these stories where they're like,
you know who I am. He just has he did just because of his
profession, he is able to rom a manual that and not let it go
to waste. So yez, yeah, yeah, I am curious as to
like he says, oh, I've brought this chair everywhere, and like,
okay, first off, you have not brought the chair everywhere. Somebody else
has dragged this chair everywhere for you. I just feel like, I'm not
a big fan of politicians using the Wii for everything. And I understand why
they do it, but you know, they and they get into a habit
of saying we did this, we did that, and then they start using
Wii when they should actually be saying I because like there wasn't like a multiple
group, multiple people group that was doing a particular thing. It was an
individual act that you yourself did. But whatever they use we too much.
But in this case, I kind of feel like he should say the wei,
you know, he should say we brought the chair because it wasn't.
It was a team effort, you know, right right. But let me
let me ask you a question though, because I feel like you're you're too
hard on this a system. Maybe the assistant loves their job, right,
maybe maybe speed you know, I like the work and it also needs assistance,
which man, yeah, no, that's true. I mean, at
least it's not like the full on you know, like the royal cabins or
whatever, the carriages that people would have. They have like seventeen eighteen people
with their you know, on their shoulders walking this thing all around. You
know. It's not that. Okay, well it's it got the intended effects.
Man, Well, how does he take flights down? No, he
sits down in the chair. Remember the video of him on the flight flipping
out on goat? No, I don't remember it. No, I mean
he gets yeah, I uh. One of our one of the guys that
we've had on the show in the past before. We used to have him
on for a regular segment. He was on the same flight as Barber from
DC to and uh, you know so, and he'll get a couple of
different seats, right, make rooms generally sit up front. I get it.
Yeah, if you're if you're a bigger person, whether it's a round
or taller, whatever it is, you're gonna be a lot more comfortable in
the front. I got no beef with that. But it's like, he
does have to obviously sit. But you remember, like he was accused of
getting into it the flight attendant and putting his hand on her. You remember
this video. I don't know, I've totally forgotten this if yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah yeah, dig that bad boy up. So all right,
frankly, and I would say that that story would take the cake for
stupid this week. And then I went up to the WRL website and was
scanning the old headlines as I do, and happened upon one. Now,
granted, this is ap story reprinted on RL, but they didn't change the
headline. So here we go. Harvard president's resignation highlights new conservative weapon against
college's plagiarism. All right, this is a cunce article with a twist.
Partly it's one of the more aggressive ones I've seen. You saw that she
did a New York Times op ed. Did you see that this morning?
I did? Yeah, yeah, Buddy and Gay. It's weird because once
again, man, this this this conspiracy, this plan, this plot that
was hatched to get her, required so many fortuitive turns of decisions she made
to really play out the masterminds behind it. Yeah, she's a leged absolutely
amazing man. I think. I mean, think about how far back and
how deep this must go to have gotten on the books. The rules against
plagiarism low those many years ago, probably decades, right, So they had
to have foreseen this at some point, the people who were not alive,
you know, all the one hundred years ago when they when they crafted their
plagiarism standards and stuff, and then they had to enforce all of those standards
for decade upon decade upon decade against students and staff, and all this all
in anticipation of this one moment where they could pounce, they could seize and
get Claudine Gay to resign. I would point out, three weeks after what's
her face McGill at u, Penn had to resign. She was forced out,
and she didn't even plagiarize anything that we know of at this point.
Yeah, I haven't seen the deep dive, but yeah, well yeah getting
the pass though, she gets a pass. I don't know why. Why
do you think that is it? Because MIT is more like the hard sciences
kind of a thing. I don't know. Yeah, I honestly I have
no idea, but I've seen some crazy you know, like the campus news
them t is no slouch man. They got people screaming in lecture halls and
gluing themselves to stuff. But general I found generally those are probably not students
because you know, MIT students are busy. I also was not aware that
that the scalping was done by the white people, the white colonists, against
the Native American people's. I was not aware of that until the story.
Yeah yeah, I mean yeah, yeah, Chris Rufo said, oh scalped,
and the ap dare I say, pounced or seized on that tweet and
they pointed out they gave us all the history lesson that it was the white
colonists who were scalping Native Americans, which, of course, yeah, did
not you know that happened? You know the history? If you if you
when you take the your your history class in high school in Wyoming instead of
core focusing on like Civil War things like that. Western history is a big
thing, and I had a growing up, I had a huge fascination with
obviously the settling of the West, the tribes. I could name almost all
the tribes in that region and tell you something about them. And because I
find this stuff fascinating. Yeah, and and obviously we have a rich history,
uh not just within my family has been there for since it was settled
out in that area, but also you know Jim Gashl Museum and others.
So I thought I had access to all of this information. I had it
totally wrong, man, totally way off. Yeah, I feel dumb,
right, Well now, well maybe not, because they did come back,
right. They came back, and they they clarified, they stealth edited their
peace to note that they then said they tacked on the phrase the white colonists
who sought to eradicate Native Americans, and then they tacked on and also used
by some tribes against their enemies. So they get the they get the soft
pedaling. Some tribes hashtag not all tribes, right, but apparently all the
white colonists, the white colonists. They didn't get any of that. Some
white colonists who sought to eradicate Native Americans, I guess all by colonists did
the scalping, but some Native Americans. This is so dumb. This is
what's so dumb, Like you don't have to make up horrible stuff that you
know, right, settler Western settlers did, and specifically the government like look
a battle a dull knife, which was retaliation for little big hornets. Monstrous,
but well, yeah they got about a minute minute. Yeah, this
thing went through. The scariest thing is that this was first off, written
by people who are supposedly going to inform us, right, they're supposed to
be informing us of truth of facts. But not only that it went through
I would like to believe that it went through editing, It went through copy
editors like somebody else. Child, listen to you. I want to believe.
I want to lastly, let me just add this lastly, but it
all you know, really, this surrounds Harvard and that is the home of
revisionist history. Right, They've got a whole curriculum with sixteen nineteen, so
may as well change this up as well, all right, appreciate it.
Pepe, you have yourself a good one. I didn't even get into the
New Year's stuff, but we'll talk next week, sir, have a good
one, all right, man, Yes, sir, have a great weekend.
All right, Good morning everybody, and welcome. It is Thursday,
getting back into the swing of things post holiday, all of that good stuff.
And it's been a little while since we've had a chance to chat with
I said, to be sure, I have all this stuff up in front
of me with Stephen Kent here from bounding into comics, and it's like I've
told you, every every day we got some little nugget of Hollywood news,
and that's where we're gonna head. Steven, thanks for joining us this morning.
How was first off? How was traveling? You get to go over
to Poland or something? What was up with that? I went over to
Poland and brought back all kinds of Polish crud and in addition to a stomach
full of parogy. Apparently that's all they eat over there. Can't complaint just
perogy. I mean, if it's good paro, yeah, okay, with
meat, parog, with vegetables, parogi. I have a have a I
have a little bit of a question, Well, was it a impersonal or
was it a professional capacity? We're over there a professional capacity out there changing
the world. Okay, all right, well good because if it was just
family vak, I wasn't going to pick your brain with it. I'm interested
because Poland, up until the most recent election was it was kind of seen
as one of those countries who didn't have a lot of like the Dei stuff
didn't work there, do you know what I mean? That was so they
generally they were seen as us rejecting a lot of that. And they're not
alone and from an Eastern Europe perspective, but they're not. They're Poland.
And I'm just wondering, like, with all of the stuff that you write
about in the different discussions and beefs that we have, like can you believe
they change this all of that? How does that look through the eyes of
a European audience, especially one that's probably more more inclined to reject some of
the stuff that woe Hollywood? Does you know? That's that's interesting. I
mean, if we're talking about Poland, I mean, this is a country
and a part of the world that is still very much living in the middle
of the twentieth century in terms of the things that they talk about, the
history that they celebrate. You know, every day Polish people, in addition
to chain smoking entire packs of cigarettes, are still talking about crushing the Soviets
and beating out the fascists from there. They were pretty thoroughly kicked in the
teeth by those cats. So they absolutely were and they have a lot to
celebrate. But you know, it's it is just a part of the world
that does seem to be still living in previous generation. So I just don't
think that they would buy that kind of stuff at all. I am surprised
by the outcome of the Polish election, but I'm not an expert on it.
All right, let's get into a few things, and I want to
start with this. I was just Ross and I were talking about this because
neither of us were alive when the first Star Wars came out, and nor
were you. And to think that in my lifetime, and in Ross's lifetime
and in your lifetime, that nobody thought of this right here, So the
first woman and the first person of color to direct a Star Wars film.
It's set to be released in twenty twenty six. You can say that the
force is strong with this one. Here's Charmino beitchenor you know, I'm very
thrilled about the project because I think what we are about to create is something
very special. And we're in twenty twenty four now, and I think it's
about time that we had a woman come forward to shape the story in a
galaxy far far away. All right, So since nineteen you know, late
nineteen seventies, seventy seven or whatever, throughout the entirety of our lifetime,
apparently nobody said, hey, what if we got a woman involved in the
creative process on the Star Wars franchise? So does this bring excitement for you?
Is this is you know, this is your wheelhouse man? Yeah,
I mean, I just can't tell you the level of my excitement that we're
finally going to have a woman shaping Star Wars. I didn't know that Kathleen
Kennedy was a she her, but apparently she is. And you know,
then we've got in our background, we've got Marcilla Lucas, who shaped behind
George Lucas all of nineteen seventy seven, a new hope and gosh, that
leaves out Carrie Breck, Bryce Dallas Howard. He got Jennifer Gretzner, who
did the Ahsoka series and the Mandalorian. This is just such insulting garbage,
not only to everybody who has come through the Star Wars universe and done work
on these movies and these shows, but also to the audience. This leading
with it's twenty twenty four kind of stuff is just your first signal that you're
dealing with an NPC level creative who is coming to try and add to this
universe. Where did they find this? Lady turns out the World Economic Forum.
I don't know what they're doing, but this is probably Kathleen Kennedy's worst
cafiette. That's what you need to go next time you do a europe Don't
go to Poland any Parrogi's man. Go to where the jets are. Have
you seen some of the food those cats have over at their little conference.
Go to Switzerland when they do their thing there. Go to Davos. Man,
I'm not polite enough company for that. Well, but I've if you
want to meet future Star Wars creative folks, that's apparently where they're hanging.
Man. Well, here's the this is this is this is where it lands
for me. And I don't care whether it's this woman. I don't care
whether it's a you know, a young black woman. I don't care what.
I just want to hear when a director is introduced for a franchise that
I have interest. I want to hear them nerd out a little. Do
you know what I'm saying right? I want the first thing on stage to
be you know, them talking about some you know some why this is so
exciting for them. They love it. I don't believe that the woman that
they and you this is just me speculating. I don't believe for a moment
she has consumed all Cannon Star Wars. I don't believe that she has no
and she doesn't demonstrate it. I agree with you completely over at Bounding into
Comics dot com. I've got my column up about this this week, and
I really said about the same thing that you know when you go out and
start doing media on your Star Wars movie, that you are incredibly lucky to
be able to touch or direct. We want to hear a little bit about
your passion for the Lord Smugglers, the Force, inquisitors, bounty hunters,
stiff acolytes like tell us something about how Star Wars excited to you or is
added to your life and what you are excited to bring to it. It's
really not that hard, but instead we get the snow White interview. Again.
Now, to be fair, she's also people are also quoting something she
said. But I want to make sure that we have a accurate date on
this, because I believe it was in twenty seventeen where she said she likes
making men uncomfortable, right, and so that wasn't something that she just said,
but it obviously is included in this. And so when I see that
that's the attitude or what we saw with the you know, the snow White
insanity, it's hard for me as a fan to get excited. And it's
understandable. I think why people go to doom and gloom, even though,
as you've pointed out in one of our previous interviews, and Ross and I
were talking about on the air, you know, if you can't treat everything
as doom and gloom, because there are some positive aspects and I want to
get into some of that with you, but it just kills the buzz man.
It killed like you remember what I was talking about, real quick?
Do you remember they were talking about, just for a moment, Quentin Tarantino
doing a Star Trek right now, I don't that was there was Was it
Star Trek or Star Wars Ross? Do you remember that? Yeah? No,
no, Star Trek And that's a big fan. I thought that would
be awesome. Yeah. You know why. You know why because I'll bet
Quentin Tarantino knows this stuff, right. He just strikes me as nerd enough
to know this and obviously put his own twist on it. That's all I'm
asking for. I don't care your politics. Yeah, you know, a
boydo. I'm gonna butcher her name a little bit on accident here, but
you know, she's an accomplished documentary feltmaker. She has made a huge impact
around the world, particularly in her home country of Pakistan, telling stories about
women who are up against Islamism in that country, an incredible repassion, honor
killings and violence. And that interview that she did in twenty fifteen, I
think it actually was she was on stage, Yeah, she was on Stay
with John Stewart, and John Stewart was noting that the common thread throughout all
of her movies is that men are a holes and you know. She then
goes on to say that she likes to make men uncomfortable, that she enjoys
it. And the thing about that interview that is probably the nuanced thing to
hold on to is that she's talking about her movies that are situated in the
Middle East, you know where. Yeah, those people deserve it. Honestly,
we're not. It seems like rich fought like that. Seems like there's
a lot of fodder there, right if you want to from a Pakistani woman's
perspective, talk about I mean, I'm one hundred percent with you, but
you know that's not how we rore. No, And so I see people
associating it with the interview the other day, and that's not was not included.
All right, Well, with that in mind, and with that,
with that caveat, where do you predict this is going? I mean you
well, I predicted it's going to lead to just incredible chaos and a further
decline of Disney's holdings over some of these legacy ips like Star Wars and you
know, Indiana Jones and Marvel, Like there's just going to be a continued
downslide. The Marvels from you know, Marvel Studios was just an absolute catastrophe
of a movie. Indiana Jones ended on its just absolute most dud moment with
the Dial of Destiny. Not the worst movie in the world, but a
movie that still was ill conceived and blew one hundred million dollars into the Abyss
and Star Wars, which every one of its theatrical releases made less than the
one that came before. Now we are still talking about movies that make billions
of dollars. Right then people call that a marker of success. But when
it is constantly getting smaller that pie that is not good. And Ray is
a not one of the most exciting or beloved characters across multiple generations to make
a new movie on. And this director just seems to be an arsonist.
I do respect the background that she's come from and the work that she's done,
but she has not given any indication that Star Wars is something that she
cares about, or Star Wars fans or people that she wants to make a
great movie for. All Right, So sometimes I think stuff's pretty straightforward.
So you know, I'm sitting here looking at this and I'm not hopeful,
and for a lot of the reasons that you just expounded upon right. You
can see it in the returns. And by the way, I watched right
as we were off on vacation. I did watch Indiana Jones because it finally
came to the streaming, and I look, I was even able to be
kind of entertained by Crystal skulls uh you know it, because yeah, it
makes Indiana Jones, right, it's still Indiana Jones and we saw something new
and and he just kind of but this. I had a hard time just
forcing myself. I kept having to rewind it back because I'd get up and
do something. And if you'd have told me I would do that with an
Indiana Jones movie, give me a break. My problem with that movie.
The problem with that movie. My opinion was like the first thirty minutes was
like old cgi Harrison Ford and to me, that stuff is weird, right,
yes, yeah, yeah, but you got to go all natural for
this kind of stuff. And I kid you not. I liked this movie
in theaters like I was. I was kind of into it. You know,
you're in you're in the groove, you're in the dark, you're watching
Indiana Jones, and I was feeling it. But then I rewatched this movie
on an airplane on the way to Poland. Uh And I found myself sneaking
glances over at the person next to me who was watching The Notebook because it
was slightly more interesting, you know. I just I was bored. And
I've never I've never experienced that with an Indiana Jones movie where I'm eager to
look away and watch Ryan Gosling return to his love and the Notebook like I
was. That was just kind of a weird experience where I had to admit
something was wrong with this movie. I've never seen that movie. Badge,
you're miss you're missing out, You're missing out. I'm sure that's exactly it.
So h and then let me let me run somebody and we're chatting with
Stephen Ken from Mounting into Comics here, I just have about three and a
half minutes. I feel that there's this middle ground of Hollywood too, and
that is creative folks who are who will put content together, be a TV
show or movie or whatever. And the only thing that's really that woke about
it is the way that they interview on it, like like that's that's their
badge. But then you go look at the content. Case in point,
we're talking about the Percy Jackson Show, which is on Disney now and this
whole Medusa. By the way, if there's ever been somebody who has been
more effective at fighting the patriarchy, I feel like Medusa's on that list,
man. I feel like she has She's us a special, special way to
go about it. So when I hear this Rick Rordon talking about Medusa's character
and the bandwidth for dree deconstructing the patriarchy and all of this insanity. And
I hadn't watched it, but Ross said, it doesn't come across when you're
actually watching the show. So it's like, yeah, go around lip service,
man. Yeah. And that's a thing that creatives in Hollywood do.
They do this to pat each other on the back, do interviews and get
accolades and good coverage, but just to really quickly kind of dive into the
Percy Jackson thing. Yeah, Medusa is the subject of one of the most
recent episodes, and they've been talking about this the reordience, both Rick and
his wife, and talking about how the book didn't really handle or dive into
sort of the victimhood of Medusa. Medusa in Greek myth was turned into this
monster by the goddess Athena because Poseidon sexually assaulted her in Athena's shrine, and
so Athena punished the woman for this and turned her into this snake monster who
devours men for the centuries to come. And this is sprained by them as
sort of like a patriarchal story. I think it actually says more about what
women do to one another when they don't like each other. But that's just
me. Yeah, I think that's the real story. But you know,
it's a good show. I actually do recommend people watch this and consider checking
out the new Percy Jackson series. Your kids love it. They call it
the new Harry Potter. I'm told it's a neat thing to see kids enjoying
Greek myth and diving into some of those nuances. Also, don't let your
kids fangirl gods. You know, you know this is it's kind of like
dating a cartel member. It's it's probably exciting, but it could end horribly
real quick in this case with hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, all
right, we got links. We'll tweet them out to the article's reference there
abounding into comic Stephen Kent appreciate it and we'll chat hopefully at our normal time
coming up next week. Okay, yes, yes, yes, all right,
look at that. So at nine topics and I only got to two.
But that's how we roll. It's one o six one FM Talk in
the Triangle and News Talk ninety four to five w pt I and the Triad.
You don't feel that that I'll get a little graining after two hours ross
out over a video game again. I mean again, I can do different
names too, but I can't wait. Okay, Oh, it's gonna be
exciting. There's some Walking Dead game coming up. Yeah, and it's like
gonna spoil anything here. It's from AMC and it follows the plot of the
TV show. Oh wow, but you can change like pivotal moments. And
I'm just looking forward to where man, you Sherif Fan going coral for like
two hours. Yeah, that's what the people want. Got to give him
what they want. Right when he told me about it, I actually envisioned
you walking around as the Leather Jacket and Egan dude with your barbed wire bat,
just murdering everybody. Just you know, That's what I figured that would
devolve into. But it sounds like you gotta you gotta play through to get
to that point, right, can you play? Yeah, it'll be pretty
far. Yeah, I guess so, like because there's like obviously spoiler.
And then in the show, right, there's a big pivotal event where Rick
and Shane they're like the two the two good guys, right, and they
have to fight. One of them survives and one of them doesn't. I've
always been like, man, I wish like Shane had lived okay, and
that now we can see what happens. Well, luckily Carl's fine, right,
Chorl's fine, coral, but he lives a probably long, healthy life,
right. I'm not I've never watched very much. I tried to get
in. I really did try to get into the show. I mean I
just tried. I think the deal was I got into it too late and
it was just so much catching up. But that was like such a cultural
phenomenon on Sunday nights, like everybody watched this show. But he talked about
the next day. The articles were in everyone. I'm sure we mentioned it.
Yeah, I just fell off. Yeah, as it happens, man,
like Marva, what's that sort of like Marvel dude, they didn't have
time there was an actor strike. They couldn't get out and promote the movie.
I don't I don't even know what you're talking about. The entire deck
deck was stacked against them. There's there's really nothing they could do. Nothing
they could do. I know this because I read about it yesterday in various
places, you know, like gowker sites and the feminist blogs and stuff.
I mean, you just you just don't get it. All right, we
flipped back to this, So, ah, the Harvard thing. All right,
so somebody posted a posted a video of a phone call that they placed
to the Harvard Admissions department. And it's it's real, apparently, and it
it's it's long too. How many minutes is this whole thing? Let me
add it up here? One? Two, Well, you got it.
It's two and a half, two and a half minutes, a little longer
than that. Where it is that it is purported to be a woman who
is a Palestinian woman who is calling Harvard Admissions on behalf of her son,
who is I guess at that transitionary age. And oh, by the way,
her son also is a Hamas fighter. But when the when the fighting's
done, you know, would look forward to higher education. Perhaps at one
of the world's most well known institutions of higher learning. Horror. And so
this dude picks up the phone, and I spent a lot of time evaluating,
like what do you do in this situation? And yeah, dude just
goes with the flow. And I would liken a lot of it too.
When you call a call center and it's clear the person is not telling you
things from memory or knowledge, but rather reading scripts or they're kind of unplugged,
you know, going through the motions. Some people are saying, well,
well, what you see is you see Harvard encouraging terrorism. I don't
know that, dude. The guy sounds like he would encourage nobody to bug
him during the day because he doesn't really like talking and dealing with people,
even though that's literally his job. He's just so monotone. But the woman
doing the prank call, she's give her this. She's very quick on her
feet, and so yeah, I think it's the combination of her o excitement
even with the really dark subject matter, and his treating it like an annoyance.
You know, one of the many annoyances that he has to go through
during the day talking to his lessons would be the best way to describe it.
But I did laugh a bunch. So for that, here we go.
You. Hello, My name is Jamma. My son Hamid would really
like to register to your establishment next year. I think you might have heard
of him. He was one of the Hamas fighters who participated in the fight
of October seventh. Really political activist. So I wanted to ask if you
have some kind of political activism scholarship. No, all of our scholarships are
need based. There aren't any merit based scholarships. It would not help if
he says that he's a Hamas fighter. Everything that a student helps them in
the process, Okay, So that would be helpful if he writes down that
he was in the October seventh massacre in in addition to everything else. Our
process looks at the student's entire secondary school career, both inside and outside of
the classroom, and the massacres is an advantage what every eighty of their activities?
All right, all right, look, we can't dude doesn't want to
be there, right, we can agree on that. He is, just
like, but do you think you didn't want to be there just because of
this phone call? Or do you think again? Because I bet he takes
stupid phone calls all day. Oh it's his entire day. He does not
want to be there period. Yeah, all right, so but he's so
like if I were to, if I were I didn't look at what this
looked like in waveform uncompressed when you were dubbing it in. But I'll bet
you wouldn't even have to normalize his audio pattern, which doesn't make a lot
of sense to people. But if you've ever seen a show where they have
audio where you can see it visually represented, like in an editing thing,
and you know they stick this in movies when they're doing like FBI recordings and
stuff, Like when I do a commercial or we we have audio, I
have to like, I have to gate the audio because inflection goes one way
or the other, and you want it to be consistent, you know what,
You don't want a bunch of peaks and valleys. I don't think you
have to do it for that dude. He is straight, straight monotone,
coupled with not wanting to be there, coupled with this current line of questioning,
which by the way, gets more insane. But then like she pulls
back from time to time, listen to this. He didn't rape any captives.
He's very respectful for a gender self definition, you only kill them.
He's very feminist, so it would be okay. Right. All I can
say to you is that he can apply great because it's very respectful for ethnic
minorities, the only slot of white babies. We don't need more white male
in the world. Right, Hello, so dark all right, do you
have any other admissions questions? I can answer for you. Yes, we
want to make sure about your campus rules, so we don't By the way,
this is my favorite, hands down, my favorite part of this.
She starts barreling through the rules and what's crazier is the normal pattern would be
saying to crazier, to craziest, but she like bounces in and out of
that. Don't do anything forbidden. You can smoke in the campus surroundings.
I'm sure if you could smoke on Okay, what about drinking? A drinking
is not allowed? Oh what about raping? That's not allowed on campus?
And he didn't rape any Oh crap I just accidentally restarted, all right,
so damn, we're gonna listen to the whole thing. I just love the
part where he's like, no, that's that's not allowed on campus either.
I mean, I understand that that's his world, that's his perview, but
I'm pretty sure that's not allowed off campus unless uh ross, would you see
if rapn's up in the city of Boston are legal? Maybe once I guess
technically what Herbert's and Cambridge, but yeah, we're gonna check on that.
No, it's not. Oh, it's not legal. Okay, I mean,
I you know, you never know, it's frowned upon, you never
know Boston, right, okay, all right? Very respectful for a gender
self definition, yes, yes, yes, yes, you only kill them.
He's very feminist, so it would be okay, right, all right.
All I can say to you is that he can apply great. Great
because he's very respectful for ethnic minorities. The only slot of white babies.
We don't need more white male in the world, right, so this is
right. Here's where I dip out. Man, I'm out. I'm just
say, all right, thanks for the call. I'm out. All right,
Do you have any other admissions questions I can answer for you. Yes,
we want to make sure about your campus rules, so we don't do
anything forbidden. You can smoke in the campus surroundings, I'm sure if you
could smoke on Okay, what about drinking? A drinking is not allowed?
What about raping that's not allowed on campus? E? All right, all
right, So I just thought it was just gonna play the last little part,
but whatever, all right. So and then finally, so she just
asked the raping question. And at that point you could feel, you could
feel this thing grown and this frustration growing. But she don't like well,
she then hits other points on her list that aren't exactly sequential. Okay,
how about the slaughtering babies around the campus that's not allowed on campus? What
about wearing a hat? I think were Oh, I was afraid for a
moment. Okay, he's looking forward to being in your school. He has
a lot of very very fun activity for him and the students and everyone.
It would be so much fun, Thank you, very very much. Imagine
somebody just working at the DMV or like a government office, he does want
to be there, no emotion, just going through the motions that, yeah,
take a number, sat down, Yeah, But at the DMV Nope.
Do you think any DMV person who's dealing with somebody is like getting a
new license at any point? Like you have any questions. Yeah, so
can I rate people with this like that? That's not I feel like then
they might become passive, more interested in what's going on and they're in their
sphere. This dude's just dead in the eyes and it comes across that way.
So anyway, that's the Harvard video I was talking about. You can
check that out. We'll tweet it out for you. That's what we do,
all right, Good news Italian Americans. The Muppets are They're on your
side. I'm actually surprised by this, I gotta be honest, especially when
you consider where the how long the show has been on the air, and
where it emanates from. But although I'm a little underwhelmed with who they selected,
I'll explain what I mean by that. We got to get into what
happened with the Secret Service and where is this? All right? I think
they're playing fast and loose with the verbiage surrounding this. What exactly may have
happened that his indefinitely closed the I ten in LA which look, you can
talk about roads different the four or five UH and various other roads, Pacific
Coast Highway, the Hollywood Freeway, and which is specifically part of the four
or five. You can talk about main arteries in and around Greater Los Angeles,
but you lose the ability, you lose the ten, especially as it
pertains to how it goes between the ports down there on Long Beach in LA.
That that's a huge, huge, huge deal. And I'll explain some
of the some of the reasoning there. But the freeway burned down, well
it burned. It didn't burn down, but it burned to the point where
you can't use it. And people had a lot of theories. And I'm
just looking at the statement from officials in LA yesterday and it looks like they're
trying to say that it wasn't what people were theorizing, but and but the
way that they word it, I think it still could be. They just
want this to go away. There's spending more time on figuring out how to
verbally police this than to actually ask themselves, Hey, is this a problem
and is this a problem that could once again repeat and create the nightmare that
we were about to experience here in LA and already one of the worst traffic
situations in the world. So we'll get into that and much more. Phone
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each and every time I watch these at all I gotta do is and look,
is there going to be editing that obviously is? It makes the point
likely that is intended to be made by the person shooting the video. Right,
So if you go down, remove the politics. Right. If you
go down and you're gonna do a video and you want a bunch of people
to basically either demonstrate what it is you're criticizing or agree with you, well,
if you interview one hundred people and your video has five people, chances
are you found what you want to find. That being said, it's still
it's tough to watch super cuts of some people, somebody going down the microphone
to an education, you know, an educational environment in the United States,
and I'm not talking preschool, I mean college or those just graduated high school
students who couldn't decide whether the US was eighty seven years old or a billion
or something. I can't remember what the horrible number was she gave. This
is basic stuff and I think if you are an enrolled student there, it's
hard to make this. It's harder to make that argument that, well,
you just took the dumbest five people out of a hundred, right, But
if I only interviewed one hundred people who got into a four year university,
I feel like that's more telling than if I grabbed one hundred random people at
the beach, right, and I you know, I got a few snookies
in there. So then I see stuff like that humans can only hold their
breath for ten minutes. Then how was Lewis Armstrong able to become the first
man on the moon? I don't even know where to start on this.
I mean, one, I understood like as funny as there's some people that
are like their take was we never went to the moon. But I would
argue that's the least of the problems associated with just that little snippet that this
young woman has. Second, you know, like her deep thoughts with jack
handy thing going on. I mean, I still can't believe people believe in
the moon. But go on, Queen, are so all right, So
check belief in moon. Check two, we went to the moon. Fine,
I'll super serve the conspiracy theorists out there, but listen very closely.
Humans can only hold their breath for ten minutes. Then how was Louis Armstrong
able to become the first man on the moon? Yeah? How to explain
that? Like this? I researched it. It's true. I am.
It's space older mode Helm loosen co sign. I've gotta suffocate. I mean,
if look, if somebody's gonna have the lung capacity, I mean,
he's sitting on the moon since what you know, late sixties. I mean
he played the trumpet. Yeah, it's gonna be him. Maybe him and
Herb Alpert. Right, he's still alive. Get I mean those two,
you know, just from a A said, chose him