M hmm. All right, Good morning everybody, and happy Monday, although
it's not gonna be a happy Monday because it's gonna feel like you know,
hell, um, I see that feels like temp could be one hundred and
one hundred and eight for some folks. So yeah, that's the thing.
So I would recommend the uh you know, you do the stay indoors thing
inside, the uh the comfort of ac and uh, you know, forgo
any outdoors unless you work outdoors and you're kind of screwed, I guess.
But but a great way to get out of honeydoo list stuff you're thinking of,
you know, mowing the lawn or doing anything outside. Um, you
got your excuse. We'll get into more of that coming up a little later
in the show with Ray Stagic or Jeff always. So it's so hot Stagic
didn't even show up. That's amazing. Look at that. Well if you
need, if you ever needed an indicator, there you go. It's too
hot for Stagic. So we'll chat with Jeff mahr. Let him be the
bearer of bad news. Ain't that how it always works? All right?
Sorry? I was just fighting with um. There we go, fighting with
this one story I saw it. I thought I emailed myself this morning,
and then apparently I didn't, so I had to go find it because I
was fascinated by this. I was watching an interview with a Let me make
sure I get the Yeah, he's a marine, Okay, all right,
So a marine who was among those who was injured during the Afghanistan withdrawal where
thirteen American service members were killed. Obviously you're aware of this. It is
it's absolute insanity in the way that we decided to go about this and what
was going on at the airport at that time. But here we are.
That was two years ago, almost two years ago, August twenty six,
two twenty one, and a marine who was among those who was nearby but
near enough to be among the thirteen killed, however, who suffered significant injuries,
Sergeant Tyler Vargas Andrews. So he testified in March to the House Foreign
Affairs Committee, So we got a little we got a little snippet of this,
but he did a follow up interview and he was talking about how being
among these service members who was significantly injured, he he lost one of his
arms and his other arm. They were barely able to save it. So
I want you to picture this as he's lying in the hospital where he has
lost an arm. Another arm is significantly damaged and it is in a full
cast. Right, I don't know. They don't describe the extent of the
injuries, but they were pretty significant. Pretty much. His upper torso was
hammered pretty good. So he was talking about how when Jill and Joe Biden
came to visit them, little a little photo up there, and he said
it was it was beyond awkward. So he says, I'm laying in the
hospital after losing my arm and the other one is fully in a cast.
I can do nothing, and in walks Jill and Joe Biden. Well,
I guess Joe Biden walked in first, and then Joe came whole entourage of
people, photographer, you name it. And he said, at that point,
eventually the President came up to his bed and put his hand out his
right hand to give him a handshake. Now that's the arm that the sergeant
lost. He lost his right arm. I get. I have to assume
that this was visible. I mean, he's in a hospital bed, so
I don't know. Maybe he's got the blankets all up but I suspect not,
so he reaches out the right hand to shake. The guy can't shake
with his right hand, obviously, he says, at which point Biden then
had tried to shake his left arm, which is in the big cast,
and he was able to grab the tips of the sergeant's fingers and they took
a photo. And at that point, this is that's not even the weird
part, Like I understand the muscle memory thing of going through and shaking hands
with a bunch of people, and you you reach out and before you realize.
But he pivoted. He went with the photo up on the cast arm.
But he says that at one point the President leaned in so he could
whisper in his year and said, quote, what do you want? It's
the only thing you said. He said, what do you want? He
said? I was confused. I just got blown up. So my friends
die, and now the president is asking me what I want. I have
no idea why? All right, I have no idea why Joe Biden would
ask him that some ram, I mean, what do you want? Is
such ano. Maybe maybe Joe Biden had a moment where he felt bad and
he was like the genie for all practical purposes. He's the closest thing to
a genie. You're gonna have, right if you want something, the President
of the United States, the most powerful man in the world, is a
pretty good person to ask for it. I suspect it wasn't that. But
if the President of the United States ross came up to you and was like,
you can have one thing. What do you want? What do you
want? What is it you select? What would you ask the president for
If he's you know, rolling out the book his secrets and saying you could
have whatever you want, I'm going to pretend it was like that, and
then I'm like, this dude missed an opportunity. But more likely, judging
by the handshake portion of it and everything, he was just really confused,
and maybe he thought the soldier was or the marine wasn't as enthusiastic as he
should be. The whole thing is just weird. He's got photos and video
of it. You can't hear what he says, but you can see what's
up. And by the time that they took the photo, which is the
after or the video which is after the handshake, you can clearly see that
the marine is missing his right arm and his cast is engulfing his left arm.
But then he's like, yeah, what do you want? So and
I had to think about that. What if you could have one thing?
What do you ask the president for? Not some big sweeping policy thing,
just like some you know, very selfish thing for you. I never want
to pay taxes again. So you go literally that scene from Armageddon. I
was thinking more of the the movie Pixels, the Adam Sandler video game movie.
Oh yeah, Peter Dinklich plays them. I can't remember the character he's
based on. Ah, it's gonna drive me nuts. Now a real video
game champion or quote champion from the eighties that I ended up being a Anyway,
he says, you know, I just want no more taxes for I
want a little card. You know, even when I go and purchase things
as stories, I say, I don't have to pay no taxes. I
mean, like, all right, sir, no taxes for you? I
mean yeah, I mean it'd be great. Right. I'm reminded when you
said that. I'm reminded that seen from Armageddon, where they're all having to
agree to go up there and they have a whole list of things, some
more ridiculous than others, Billy Mitchell, sorry that was his name. Oh
yeah, I saw that dude getting roasted for using a he cheated. Yeah,
he used a video game that was not of the era to set the
high score on Donkey Kong or something. I can't remember what it was,
but anyway, Peter Dinglich's characters like, yeah, no more taxes ever again
for the rest of my life. Yeah. I mean, don't get me
wrong, that would save you a bunch of money. But this is the
president of United States, man, he can Okay, so I want no
taxes that I want, airwolf you want? I feel like you're not thinking
big enough, right, we have we have protectorates. You could be like,
you could be head of of of a society feasibly and you just want
to not pay ten sounds like too much work. Yeah, well you know
what I mean. I don't know. Have you seen how some of these
cats run them? It's basically all leisure all the time, and then they
just, you know, they just hire a good subjugator to run around and
bust kneecaps. You don't really have to do anything. You can just eat,
whereas the people under you can't. And until Biden sends in someone to
topple me. Do you think he has that level of stick tuitiveness? Though,
Like, I mean, I'd probably forget. But I mean, this
story is based on a complete lack of organizational awareness on a military incident.
I feel like it turn you know, I could go Bay of Pigs real
quick on him. So, but it would be a very woke group that
came to topple you. So there is that everyone would be represented in the
in the beach landing. So you got that going for you? He said,
uh, so, he said, what do you want? He then
quote talked to him about his son Bo, who obviously served in Iraq and
later died of cancer, which sometimes he likes to tell the story that he
died while he was serving in Iraq. Yeah, the whole thing strange,
man, But yeah, if the president asks you what you want, you
should probably have an answer ready. I have an answer ready because if he's
if there's video of him doing it, it kind of puts him on the
spot. You just ask this wounded warrior, this guy who lost an arm
based on poor decision making. Many people believe on your part and you you
you open up the checkbook. You were the genie that popped out of the
lamp. You gotta give him one. What do you want? Are there
RULESO? Is it like like the genie, like you can't wish for more
wishes? I you know what, I have a feeling that's up to the
intellectual pushback on the part of Joe Biden. So you do the math.
He may think that's a brilliant loophole. Yeah, maybe you want to Maybe
you want to party with Hunter. Dude looks like he knows how to have
a good time, you know, if you're into that. Um, so,
you know that's an idea. The tax thing, obviously is an idea.
You could run something. You could be ambassador or ambassador to something.
I know you don't like to leave the country ross but wouldn't you like to
be the most powerful American? And then insert whatever country it is. You
know, I just sti't want power. Your your whole stick is you want
to be share of Okay, all right, it's for the It's for the
people. It's not for me, right, Okay, Yeah, it could
be for the people of Rossistan, you know what I'm saying. Like,
then it's then it's for the people directly from you. You got options He
apparently didn't even respond when he said, which I guess most people wouldn't because
you're like, what is he asking me? Um? His mom, though
at some point, did respond saying um, and I don't think she was
asked what he wanted. Apparently Mom at one point looked and said, quote,
I don't give a flip, which you guys say, I don't care
what you do. You better just take care of him for the rest of
his life, a response that Vargus Andrews says left left the President slightly confused
as just bonkers man. So anyway, yeah, yeah, I saw that
this morning, thought, hey, what are you gonna do? Now?
People are I just went out of the room. No no, no,
no, no no no. I understand everybody wants out of that room.
And and a interaction as awkward as that, of course you don't want to
be there. That's not my point. He just asked, what you want?
Hit him up with something big, get a heavy lift out of it,
pick something, do Ross's tax thing? Anything right? You got,
you got, you got him up, You got old Joe on the ropes
there. So anyway, there you go eight eight eight nine three four seven
eight seven four coming up. You may not have heard about it because it's
not getting covered this time, but the Biden administration has purged roughly a third
of their White House credentials, the the hard passes, and there's some some
notable pains in their butt on there. I seem to remember Joe Biden or
excuse me, Donald Trump Bard who did he bar? It was Brian or
no? It was uh well, hold on, let me get into I
just looked at my clock. Here. There was two reporters. There was
obviously his uh r, fake news, but there was another reporter where they
actually pulled credentials and they went to court and got their credentials given back,
and it was a media story for days and days through the court case and
everything. How dare you? How dare you say that so and so who
has been here as a White House correspondent? And a note note that they
didn't kick the media outlet out in this case CNN, they kicked a reporter
out, saying that the reporter was grandstanding. Well, they just did that
to one of the reporters they pulled the credentials of, and many others are
scratching their head wondering how this may have happened, and there's no big news
story, no trying to silence his critics, narrative, it doesn't exist.
Four hundred and forty two reporters have been purged. That's about a third.
And I had to I had to literally come across it on a random news
site that is among the reporters that has had a credential for fifteen years that
if I look at their site, I wouldn't say they're necessarily right leaning,
but they're definitively more center right, and they're they're wondering, you know,
what they did. So I'm sure that the stories will be coming, but
we'll get into that coming up. We've got some insane audio for you,
little well Ross little tax loophole. Since Ross isn't into paying taxes, we
may have a great work around for him. So we'll get into all that
more coming up here on the k c O Day Radio program one O six
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This is case O Day and Carolina's Morning News. All right, welcome
back at his six thirty four. You know, I felt a little underwhelmed.
Look, I understand taxes or they suck man and if the president asked
me what I want, or in this case, asked Ross what he wanted.
He wants to pay no taxes. He wants a little card too,
so it doesn't have to pay sales tax, which by the way, would
be you would be the guy in front of me in line. That would
annoy me because you'd be like the person with the kupin's working at the register
and they're like, I don't know how this works. Yeah, I got
a card here, so that's got the seal on it and everything. So
I upgrade. I just got off the phone with the administration. You're now
the top guy in Haiti. So wow yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,
and and um, any security concerns. They gave me Hilary's cell phone.
You just call her day, noon, noon, night, whenever, three
in the morning. Not a problem, She'll handle it. I appreciate it.
That's great. Yeah, so I've heard great things. Yeah, well
it's it's nice and close to the US. So I did. I got
up the phone with the with potus. Oh wow, yeah. I got
no property rock, no income tax, no sales tax, none of that.
So I can keep my house, you know, once I pay it
off. And but I didn't feel like it was enough. Okay, so
you did. So, yeah, I got something for you because you mean
so much to me. I appreciate it. You know, we've worked.
So I got to some farmland in South Africa. Oh good good, Well
you know how I like to farm. It's your passion. Well it's more
and more ranching. But well it's a it's a farm slash ranch. No,
but I found that in a lot of places that people who are very
much ranchers they referred to as farmers. So that's fine. Um, yeah,
South Africa. You say, hey, you like to travel too,
so yeah, well I hear. It's nice down joy it is. Yeah,
it's cooler. You know, it's summer here. It's a winter down
there right now. So and uh, I'll have to get used to the
toilets, as we mentioned, like Australia, the water comes up out because
you're down there, so and that should be the biggest challenge I face.
Right, it's just the toilets, I mean, yeah, yeah, you
know, and also you know, leadst lions or something. I don't know,
you'll be fine, You'll be finons, I don't know, you'll be
fine. Okay, all right, I think that was a big issue down
there, But that one dude did get attacked quite aggressively. So did they
decide it was a lion and not literally for South African. They're still looking
into it, but you'll be fine, all right, Well, look at
that ross not just thinking of himself. Appreciate that. Look, if there's
one thing you should get its tax advice from us or really anybody in the
social sphere who is not some sort of actual financial person. You find them
everywhere on YouTube and TikTok, and they got some ideas. Man, this
woman though, who I like this new thing. Now, anytime there's a
woman and she has a marginally sexy look or a large chest or anything,
people go it's probably Ai because that's where we are and the right to go
that in that direction. I got a story that we'll get into. But
so she's on there and apparently she has uncovered some information which could save you
a crap ton of money. You don't even have to ask the president,
you don't have to go to all that trouble. You can just implement her
tax saving policy and it's a doozy check it out. Okay, I don't
know who needs to hear this, and I don't care if anybody feels some
type of way about it, but I'm gonna put that out there. Did
you know that if you bury a loved one in your backyard, that your
house now is zoned as a cemetery and you no longer owe property taxes as
well as you're no longer part of any HLA or any government anything. Your
house is a right off you do. It's tax free, any upgrades to
your house, and they can never take your house after that generational wealth.
It doesn't matter if you default on your mortgage or anything like that. They
can never take your house from you. Ever. Um, they can't take
it from your kids. They can never take it. So think about this.
Back in the day when you watch things like Wide Earp and the movies,
they go out back and they love them know their loved ones in their
backyard. When did cemeteries become a thing? Right right? And probably around
the First War when we needed money and we instilled, like you know,
war taxes, property tax so cemeteries became a thing. Um. Yeah,
it's funny that you'd bring up Wide Earp and that little portion of the country
because there was a pretty famous cemetery. There's still it still is. You
can go to Booth Hill Cemetery and many of those graves are older than the
war. I'm assuming you mean First World War. So there's so there's that,
um but anyway, is that all old? There's more? Oh,
because they needed property tax and they wanted you to pay a lot for funerals.
When people used to just do cardboard and you know, bury people six
feet under and put them close to their house. But now they have you
pay for a plot of land, pay for a tombstone, pay for a
casket, put you in debt, basically for a funeral to put your loved
one on a property that's not yours, because if you put them in your
backyard, then you no longer owe property taxes and your house is no longer
owned by the government. I don't know who needs to hear this, but
I'm just putting it out there, just letting you know. You don't need
any government or anybody's permission to do this. You just need a funeral director
and a death certificate, and then your house is zoned as a cemetery.
You don't need anyone's permission to do this, all right, now, boy,
there's a lot to unpack here. First, how many you have a
relative you would love to bury on your property, even though they're still alive,
just for the tax break, even if you don't think it's gonna work,
just under the maybe could be the first useful thing this individual has done
for your family. So that's number one. Number two we had we have
a cemetery of our loved ones on our property, and we still pay taxes.
So I guess we must be stupid. And I know that there are
All I gotta do is drive around outside of any one of the cities and
you'll come across a little mini cemeteries. So and three, I don't know
that cemeteries just became a thing in in the early nineteen hundreds. I kind
of feel like there's big, big, big examples. One of the biggest,
and I mentioned this when I tweeted it out is Roberty Leser Farm property,
which is you now know it as Arlington National Cemetery. And I'm pretty
sure that that predates the First World War. So, but are you Are
you onto something if you're annoyed by the fact that you can't enter your loved
ones, which, by the way, you can in many instances. And
is there a regulation, Yes, there is, there are rules you have
to follow, but you can do it. Donald Trump did it to his
former wife, although that got spun into he was bearing secret documents. But
now you can. You can do it, depending on what the process is
where you live. So and yes, funerals are ungodly expensive, much more
expensive than they ever were. You know, give me the day when you
can throw a guy in a hole, put some rocks, a couple of
sticks crossed, and you're good to go. Does that mean you love the
person less? No, you're just saving money on the deal. So yeah,
absolutely. Does it have to be a relative? I you know what
according to this uh, this tax expert, it does Boston Paul. Boston
Paul is trying to get a tax break. Here. I feel like you're
a brother. I need you to go into my backyard and stand right in
the center of the hinge right right. Okay, it's it's a supermoon or
something this through this week and to line up. But I'm gonna say stuff,
Huh, what should I do when I'm there? Close my eyes to
stare, to stare at the moon? All right? Head up? Not
paying Okay, all right, dude, I saw this and I'm like,
this, chick's crazy, but I got like three names, right, you
know, just a case it works. Worst case scenario, you're out some
slug relative who doesn't like you anyway? Now, is there an iota of
truth that? No, there's not. However, this is what makes social
media so ungodly entertaining is that she felt so confident that right at the beginning,
and she already knew that people were going to push back that she said
this. Okay, I don't know who needs to hear this, and I
don't care if anybody feels some type of way about it, but I'm gonna
put that out there. What is that we feel some type of way?
Shouldn't you feel some type of way about information that could save you thousands and
tens of thousands of dollars And they can't come. They can't take your property
or your home. That's amazing. Why would you pay your mortgage at that
point? Because you know, if they want to kick you out of your
home, they have to they have to go through a governmental process, and
I guess at that point the bank's going to be told no. So look,
this is why you listen to the show right here, right here,
man, we're saving you tens of thousands of dollars. Maybe you gotta do
is lose one relative who you never want to see anyway, So you're welcome,
all right. Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.
We'll have to get into people are asking, I'm not the tax expert.
Ask this woman. Go her TikTok is in the video. You can see
it. Go find her on TikTok and ask her. Maybe she found a
loophole. I don't know. I just share the news, all right.
Coming up on the show, sad day for the American women's soccer team is
they are out of the World Cup, earliest exit in forever, and it
was not a good look. We'll have to get into that. And we
have to also talk about Asheville. I am shocked. I have to I
am shocked to see what is happening in Ashville. And by shocked, I
mean this was what we predicted. So we'll get into that next hang on
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and welcome. It is six fifty two here on the case O Day radio
program, how many of you have been to Asheville this summer? How many
of you have gone previously, maybe once a year, either Asheville or the
surrounding area and you didn't go. Well, you're not alone. Apparently a
precipitous drop in tourism in Asheville is hurting the local business community. Let's see
here, they got a bunch of anecdotal stuff, but then we'll get to
the numbers. Brandy Howard runs a Mountain Inspiration company, which is gift clothing
shops. She says, as far as we're concerned, tourist season hasn't started,
including her main location, which is right on Biltmore Avenue, So I
mean that's his prime as you get for gift shops. She said that on
a recent full day they had not broken one hundred dollars and that was on
a Saturday, which is crazy down. All right, here we go,
here's the here's the actual numbers. So they say that thus far they've seen
total lodging sales declined by eleven percent and estimate credit card spending by tourists is
off by about three hundred thousand per month. Wow, let's see tourism accounted
for two point six billion and visitors spending in twenty twenty one, so that's
two point six and well, this is more than eleven percent. This has
been going on, so this is just year over year since to A twenty
twenty one, they've only been able to get it back to nine hundred and
fifteen million now A Lee, Yeah, I don't know if that stat is
properly categorized. I can't tell if that's year over year or a typical month
on average, because again it's really hard when you're looking at numbers coming out
of COVID. You almost that's why so many of the comparisons you see are
like twenty nineteen. So I'd be interested with that, but it is down.
There's no question off of what it should be. Let's see here.
The trend has thus far affected restaurants, shop tour providers, arts and culture
venues, and attractions. Nearly seventy percent of all visitors spending is not in
lodging, So if you're off eleven percent there, keep in mind that people
spend more outside of where they stay, although it could be expensive to stay
in Nashville. All right, So anybody want to guess why this may be
going on, why people may not be going to Asheville, Because you know,
in true Asheville form, there is no self awareness on the part of
any of the city leaders as to why people may not want to go to
Ashville. But I suspect that there are some things that people can think of
if they put their thinking caps on and are honest with themselves. Ross,
why do you think people are not going to Asheville for a vacation in the
numbers that they had previously? Dirty hippies? All right, Ross is on
dirty hippies. Okay, I just I just realized the headline is changed on
this again. Asheville business feels the pain of tourism decline, boon, big
beer surges. Really, do you have numbers to back up that people are
going to boon to stare at something that it's not my headline? Dude?
Oh excuse me. It's from the Asheville It's not the newspaper. I don't
even know what this is. I guess, Okay, so this is a
This is a Asheville Watchdog, which is a big secondary news site. There.
Yeah, I suspect that that's not But I think you're onto something less
dirty hippies and more kind of crime. Man. I told I told you
what happened when I went up there with crazy homeless dude screaming at me,
flipping a cigarette at me. But also it's the perception, right, you
know people people sit there and say, oh, well, people think this
and it's not you. It doesn't matter what they think, and it will
tell them whether they want to go somewhere. It's got kind of that San
fran vibe. Yeah, that's exactly. They're like, oh no, everything's
fine. It's just the media as being mean. And I'm like, I
don't know, man, I've seen a lot of pictures. I've seen a
lot of I've seen a lot of died in the woold democrats that live in
San Francisco taking to social media, going enough is enough. People don't want
to deal with that when they get the perception that that is part of the
Asheville experience, which, by the way, Asheville is really expensive compared to
other mountain places you can go. It's really expensive. It's fine, and
I I like the setting of Ashville. I like many of the restaurants that
are around there. But if you're going to spend the kind of money that
you would spend going to Asheville doing all the stuff, staying at some of
the nicer hotels for that amount of money. To have to put up with
any level of crap is going to influence your decision. So you can go
to boone or you can go to Frankly, I don't know why you'd want
to go to a big city. Even when I go to Asheville, I
prefer to stay outside of there. But and for not a lot of money,
you get a wonderful Airbnb cabin for what you would spend for one of
the more moderate hotels in downtown Asheville, and you got a view for one
hundred miles. It's crazy, man, But it's the perception and the crime
stats back it up. So anyway, I'm just curious that anybody put off
an Asheville trip. Let us know eight eight, eight nine, three four
seven eight seventy four. Yeah, they got. They've interviewed like twenty twenty
different businesses and they're all hurting. Yeah. A restaurant over Mike McCarty says
he's only doing half the number of tickets that he did last summer this same
week, so that eleven percent on lodging that is more impactful in the restaurant
scene. Well there you go, all right, go woke, get broke.
I guess all right, good morning and welcome in seven h six year
on the pc O Day radio program. And look, it's tough. It's
tough coming in doing a show the day after day after such a horrific thing
happens. So many people impacted ross I'm assuming it was pandemonia pandemonium around your
house yesterday as the US Women's World Cup soccer team lost to Sweden, first
time they've ever been eliminated in the semi final or earlier round. They've always
gone at least to the final round. Scoreless. Game came down to penalty
kicks, all the action one could ask for, and the whole world tuning
in and and America unseated by Sweden, which has like ten people in it.
So just um, just devastating, devastating there um. I mean you
guys watched, right, I mean, you guys had the party with the
vovo Zellas and all that like everybody else. Oh yeah, absolute pandemonium.
Oh wow, Okay, did you see the penalty kick by a Rappano?
There? I did. Now, you're not a soccer guy, but would
would you have would you have done anything differently than her plan of attack?
Because with a penalty kick, it's a little bit of a site game,
right you kind of you know, you know, you don't want to be
looking where you're kicking. You you might go for, you know, kick
it as hard as you can and and just try to get it there before
the goalie can react. Other times you're going for the fake out and you
could dribble it in. In some of those instances, she took a different
approach. Would you have done anything different than kicking it about six feet over
the top of the net, never allowing a chance for it to score.
I mean I would have tried to kick it towards the net. Okay,
all right, well, but I'm not a professional, so I don't know.
She kicked it look on the left to her left to right access was
fine? Okay, right, that wasn't the issue. But unlike I don't
know, the crossbars of a football game, there is a north south aspect
to it too, right, you gotta so Unfortunately, you can't just kick
it six feet above the now the goalie never got a hand on it.
I will say that, and a lot of people were upset because she she
looked like she was laughing after she missed it that badly, And I don't
know, I gotta you know, I got my beef with Rappano. I
think people react to something a little differently, and it's not the oddest reaction
I've seen. And ultimately it came down to a like an inch basically one
of Sweden's penalty kicks. Did it cross the threshold? They reviewed it and
it did so that's why we lost five to four on the penalty after zero
zero goals scored in the ninety minutes plus overtime, which is it's fun stuff,
isn't it. Can you imagine watching a football game and there's about a
one third chance nobody scores during the regular portion of the game. I think
that's the biggest barrier for getting people excited with soccer. Man, It's why
hockey had to make all those fundamental changes here what ten fifteen years ago they
needed to They need to get more goals basketball fundamentally changing adding the three point
line. Now what you do with soccer, considering that the US really isn't
the mecca of soccer, I don't know what you could maybe allow people to,
you know, sub people in and out more so than the handful that
you're allowed. I don't know what the answer is. But any who,
Yeah, we only get two substitutions. We only are we used one substitution.
I think we were allowed to because of the overtime. So anyway,
but yeah, US is out, Sweden moves on and there you go.
Like I said, sad for folks. Let's see here, all right,
we've got some Ashville stuff here. Oh it's just people saying that they never
go to Ashville. Well, then you're not who I'm trying to talk to.
I want to know why so many people said, nah, not Ashville
anymore, because they're confounded in the article they say, among other things,
let's see here, they feel that some people are concerned about the economy and
are not spending as much. All right, it might be some of it.
Gas prices a little higher, and people don't want to drive to Asheville
when they can get to the mountains faster. Okay, maybe, but um,
you're the tourism people and you're the city people, and I feel like
maybe you should have at least one or two other items thrown in there,
like, do people feel that they're fundamentally safe when they're in Nashville, or
do they feel like if they go to the downtown little triangle or square circle
thing that's there to go to all those restaurants, that they're going to be
harassed by endless homeless people. Because that's where my head's at, and it's
too bad. You know, there's a lot a lot of people have made
a lot of investment in Nashville over the years, and when you're when you're
elected, officials don't give a crap. You You run the risk of being
San Francisco, parts of Seattle, Muscle Beach area out in California where so
many iconic movie scenes have taken place. If you look at it now,
it is one giant homeless encampment. It's crazy. There's some YouTube videos that
people did walkthroughs down there. Well, you know what the real estate costs
to run one of those restaurants or shops or hotels on the waterfront down there.
It's insane, and you pay an insane amount of taxes and you get
nothing from your leaders in attempting to help protect your investment. Plus, if
you're in Asheville, and you speak out on this, you're probably gonna get
moon batted by your fellow business people. Well, they'll call you something with
an isst on the end, when all you're trying to do is stay in
business and protect your investment. So good luck. I guess what I would
say, Yeah, and then I just go through all the different hotels and
shop. Everyone's saying the same thing. Now, when I found this interesting
when you look at other tourism options that draw people from North Carolina, like
Charleston. Charleston has a big, big, big chunk of the revenue that
emanates from North Carolina. They're even they're flat, actually they're up in May
and flat for the rest of summer, so people have no problem taking the
drive to Charleston. And Charleston is equally as expensive, arguably more expensive depending
on what you're gonna do, than it is in Asheville. So I don't
know. Maybe maybe you have a meeting, put on the thinking caps and
figure out if there's anything else at play. That'd be my two cents,
all right, eight eight, eight nine three four seven eight seventy four.
Let me get to this. NASCAR has suspended driver Noah Gragson indefinitely. All
right, So what high level crime did Noah Gragson commit? According to NASCAR
and a journalist who combs Twitter, who suspiciously looks like an activist but calls
himself a journalist, Gregson had the audacity to like a meme on Twitter,
the meme which was a I didn't actually I didn't even get the meme.
Ros did you see the actual meme? I didn't get the meme, but
it had George Floyd's head on like a spider or something. So it was
and it's described as insensitive in the story. I don't know. But NASCAR,
when they heard this, immediately invoked a section of the rules which states,
in part that members should not publicly disparage people based on their background.
NASCAR said the suspension would be indefinite. All right, Um, was he
disparaging him based on his background? What does that mean? When you say
background, do you mean like past actions? So, as a NASCAR driver
allowed to point out that George Floyd stuck a gun in the belly of a
pregnant woman, can can can you bring that up? Can you can you
bring up any of the drug stuff, the other robbery, any of the
stuff or I'm just asking what or when you say background, do you mean
ethnic background? You know which that one I guess makes sense. Right.
You got some NASCAR drivers run around like I hate Mexicans. Right, that's
probably not going to be good for your brand. But a single meme based
on an individual, I understood the meme was referencing something having to do with
him, so it is individualized. It's not a meme where you could just
stick another person's head in there and it would mean the same thing. But
NASCAR, NASCAR didn't care. They said that here we go, that the
that the incident. Well, this is actually the Motor Club Legacy group which
he drives for, says that his actions do not represent the values of our
team. So right under the bus he goes. Now, he did issue
a statement on Twitter X whatever you want to call it, and it said
quote, I'm disappointed in myself for the lack of attention and action on social
media. I understand the severity of the situation. I love and appreciate everyone.
I try to treat everyone equally, no matter who they are. I
messed up, plain and simple. So he doesn't say that that was the
thing, but it seems to address that that is in fact why he was
suspended, because they didn't give specifics. They just said that he violated that
and there was big hubbub among activists on social media that he liked that photo.
And then the day after that's what they do, and then they tell
the whole George Floyd's story in the in the back half of the story,
I guess, in case you didn't know. So, yeah, now they've
they've suspended other drivers indefinite and have allowed them to come back. So whether
that is a permanent expulsion from NASCAR or they're going to wait for the dust
to settle, I don't know. But it did draw a rather interesting elon
musk tweet and that's where we're going to head next on the case O Day
Radio program. Thank you, CAPTI in the Triad and one oh six one
FM Talk in the Triangle. All right, so several of you have explained
the Floyd meme. I didn't make the connection because I couldn't remember having seen
I know I've watched The Little Mermaid, but I can't remember anything about it.
I know. That's horrible. So it was He's they put George Floyd's
picture on a crab and then the words are a riff on a song from
the movie Under the Sea, in this case, it's under the knee all
right? Now? Is it? Is it a rude meme? Absolutely?
Is it funny? Not really? And I gotta tell you, man,
if I'm gonna get suspended for something for clicking on a meme, it better
be funny. Better be really clever, really funny. And I don't know
if that rises to it, but you know that's where we are, man.
So he liked that. I'm always I'm always like super cautious too,
less so from like the getting canceled part of it, but from the like
I don't I don't want like weird questions from the audience when I'm scrolling on
the timeline of the show account Ross. My greatest fear is not noticing that
I liked something or you know, because you hit the button and you're just
scrolling and you just tap that part on your screen and then have get some
weird email like I can't believe you like this, and I'm like, I
would have no idea what they're talking about. I was reading where there was
the reading where they're gonna like make us so like people can't view your legs
because a lot of people use the legs before the bookmarks as like ways to
go back and see like, you know, tweets that they want to see
again, right yeah, well, um, yeah, obviously the algorithm informs
it because if you follow somebody and you and well, I don't know how
the how it works currently used to be if you followed somebody and they there
was people I had to unfollow because they would spend all day liking stuff,
and then my entire news feed would be stuff that they I remember a time
where the likes when they show up on my feet, and now they do.
Yeah, now I remember, because right above it in little little letters,
it would say so and so like this, and then if I saw
that every other one, I'm like, I need to not follow so and
so because they are chewing up my entire timeline. But yeah, So whether
that is something that Elon's going to do, I don't know. But he
did put a tweet out and it says, if you were unfairly treated by
your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund
your legal bill, no limit. Let us know. And he also added
and we won't just sue. We will be extremely loud, and we will
go after the boards of directors of companies too. So he's throwing down the
gauntlet there. You know what that looks like. I don't know, but
a lot of people, a lot of people we're assuring anecdotal stuff, and
I I the problem is is you put that out there and you get a
one hundred thousand people all with the story that's nuanced and you don't know all
the details of I don't know how you sift through all of that. I
guess what you're gonna have to do is you're gonna have to figure out the
high profile stuff like the NASCAR driver and go from there. In addition,
they are going to put together a public relations campaign against companies that punish employees
for what they do on social media. And I saw people responding with,
oh, you know what, maybe they're just making a business decision. Well,
this isn't a government messing with them. This is another business. So
if two businesses want to duke it out, you know, let them,
let them do it. You don't you don't have to agree with Elon's position
or the business's position. But that's what they're gonna do. And he's got
a he's got a big old megaphone, man. And remember he sued a
he sued a non off at which five and read the descriptions of this.
This nonprofit is essentially funded by his competitors and is demonstrably in each of the
stories that I read about them ideologically driven. And they don't like Elon Musk
because they liked the level of control that they had. But he's out ready
to sue. So there you go. This is one oh six one FM
talk in the Triangle and here's talking naught four WPTI in the Triad. All
right, set five and happy Monday morning. It's gonna be a billion to
hurries out. Well, we'll chat with the Jeff Mahr god who rostolm is
on Race AGEIX. A coward. He didn't want to show up when he's
gonna have the feels like up near one hundred and ten. So but we'll
talk to the folks here in just a few minutes from the weather Channel and
we'll see how that's how long that's that fun's gonna last. Let me get
back on this. I don't I don't admit that I know all of the
rules of Twitch, but I do get the sense that they are somewhat arbitrary
at times in some of the stories I've read and some of the videos I've
consumed from content creators talking about situations like when m who was the big,
big, big streamer that they they eighty six and no one knew why doctor
how what is his name? Doctor disrespect? Right? Well, they knew
the reason why he was thrown off. Well what he broadcasts live from a
bathroom at twitch con at a twitch convention, like a live stream from inside
a bathroom, which is like, you can't that? Okay, all right,
But they didn't know for a while, right was the thing? No?
I think they knew immediately. Oh now, I then maybe we're talking
about two different things. I remember reading this story where it was like people
were probably trying to figure out what it was, okay, and and and
then they would point out that even if it was that didn't one of the
female twitch streamers literally have sex on her stream? I mean you couldn't see
the bottom half of her. Would you say that twitch twitch is a bit
arbitrary in the way that they enforced there wood, Yes, okay, all
right, I'm only asking because over the weekend, there was a gathering or
a riot, Benny, and I guess what you want to call it.
It looked pretty riety to me. But a gathering that was an impromptu gathering
that was promoted by a twitch streamer by the name of Kai Sennet Snet.
I don't know how to pronounce his name. I'm assuming he's a big deal,
considering he's got I was able to get all of those people to show
up on a whim. The popular twitch streamer held a giveaway saying that he
was gonna be giving away ps fives and some other stuff at a gathering at
Union Square in New York City, and literally thousand plus people showed up.
And I don't know the totality of how it started and how it evolved,
what it evolved too, but it turned riot real quick. Yeah, PlayStation
five's overwhelming number of people showed up. I saw some people saying he didn't
even give the PlayStations away, And I don't know whether he didn't have him
or it's because it's hard to do a giveaway in the middle of a riot.
But yeah, So among the things that transpired is altercations with police.
There is a video that I saw that people are calling police brutality. Were
a one individual? Is they? The cops just grab them because some had
been trying to break a window and they slam them against a van and the
back windows smashes in. They're saying that they did it with his face,
but it looks like it's the officer's hand that broke it, and it might
have been the wind and it was the window they were trying to break,
so maybe it was cracked. So that's its own incident, all on its
own. A teenager accidentally shot himself in the arm, so that's good.
All the barricades were stripped down, massive fighting broke out, jumping in,
vandalism of cars, chairs were thrown, windows were smashed on adjacent businesses.
Twelve people injured. They asked to make two thousand people were at the event
and it just turned into straight pandemonium. And now they're trying to figure out,
well, what do you do? Do you charge this guy with inciting
a riot? I mean, you have all the permitting crap. Obviously the
New York's need to be like, you didn't get a permit for your gathering,
to which I think he'd say, look, I went on Twitch and
I said, I gotta I'm gonna give these away and I'm gonna be here
and if people want to show up, they can show up. I don't
know that you're gonna win there, but you know, what responsibility does one
have if they I don't think he told anyone to riot unless I missed something,
And I don't know. Maybe the guy's a d bag. I know
nothing about him, but I know that his fan base sucks. I had
never heard of the person, yeah, never heard the name before, but
watching the video, I'm like, man, that community is like the community
he's built, apparently, little toxic, little bit a little bit, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, So you know, but you know,
here's the thing. If we on the radio said, hey, you know
what Ross got. Don't ask how it happened, but a box fell off
a truck and now he's got a bunch of PS fives he's gonna give away.
Join us at something later. I mean, that actually happened this weekend.
I can't believe you haven't brought it up yet. A box of PS
fives fell off a truck I gave away. I did a witch giveaway.
Okay, it was unlimited breadsticks at the Olive Garden wake Forest, and at
first I want to apologize. As a twitch streamer, it's my responsibility not
to destroy my city and not to cause there. Yeah, there was,
I mean it was awful. We had at least like twenty people show up,
and uh, I can't believe the Olive Garden is still standing. I
just want to I want to apologize in my defense. Um, it's a
Thentic Italian cuisine and the chefs are trained in Tuscany, right, So I
mean that's out of my hands. So I apologize for the for the damage
that the haze for Shaff twitch channel did at the wake Forest Alive Garden.
I apologize. Nice promotion problem. Hey, um, you know I will
say this about your Olive Garden riot, which I was not aware of till
now. Um, I went to Zaccatti Park, remember when they were all
gathered down there, and it didn't smell so good the occupy stuff, Yeah,
the occupy it didn't smell good at all. But I bet this your
riot smelled great. Say like like Italy and Tuscany. You close your eyes,
you're like, am I and then you know Tuscany or whatever. But
during a riot and then you're just you're you're ported back to that memory.
So, like I said, I don't know much about this twitch streamer that
caused the panic in New York City, but just seeing the you know,
comparing that to the damage there in wake Forest that my channel did, I
think we're pretty much at equal levels. I yes, yes, you're right.
They should do lots of news stories about you and use your handle uh
in in all of the coverage. I can't imagine if they did, I'd
feel so bad. No, But but I'm like, obviously his his followers
suck and uh the suckiest of the sucks showed up and they're on top of
like cars, like like right, just destroying them. But does he you
know, is that is that on him? If he said something like ah,
you know, go go destroy cart fine, but is that on him?
It reminds me of the yes, much smaller version, but like War
of the World's right, Like, was he responsible for that broadcast in the
panic that it created? Well, yeah, I don't know. I for
two reasons. One and I don't I guess I don't know what the licensing
was at the time. I know that they they literally there are rules now
on radio the day back to that, but you know, it was federally
regulated at the time, just not to the extent that it is now.
And in this case, yeah, you know what, maybe it's because I
don't choose to see even big time streamers as big time celebrities. But he
is. He's got millions of followers. Yeah, obviously he is right,
and he has the same sort of impact that that sort of broadcast would do
back in the day. It's free, you can tune, right, you
don't have to pay for or so it's no different than terresto radio in that
respect. I mean, you have to pay for your internet. But the
only thing I would say is if you, let's say, if you honestly
believe that aliens were here and they're murdering, yes, like because you heard
it on this thing, that only tells the truth at least in your mind
to that point, Is that the same as reacting to you didn't win getting
a PS five and aliens right encountering ear at the same level. No,
no, no, no, But I miss if your reason for writing is
you didn't win the PS five or there wasn't a PS five, is some
were claiming the reaction if you honestly believe that to the reaction that you honestly
believe the aliens were, it's your neighbor's house eating their brains at this moment,
and they're coming for you. Right if you honestly believe both of those,
I don't feel that an equal reaction is would be Okay. You've obviously
never been looking for a five and couldn't find one, Nor have I been
accosted by aliens want to? Yeah, so you're right. Who am I
to question it? All right? Anyway? Seven forty five, you said,
Jeff Mark for the Weather Channels. Hello, So mister Stagak picks the
day one of the hottest days that they're going to drop on us and then
loads it off to you. I feel bad, man. Yeah, not
only a hot today, but maybe some severe thunderstorms tonight. So well,
all right, take us through it. How long is it gonna last?
Yeah? Well, the heat it's going to stick around for a few days
obviously to start off this week, and the hottest day will be this Monday,
with the heat advisory from eleven this morning till seven this evening. We'll
see some sunshine. The high ninety six they heat index as highs one hundred
and one oh five. That's how hot will feel. I we're gonna out
to mount with this humidity level min tonight ahead of a front, showers and
storms roll in. Some of these storms may turn severe and proves damaging wins
avernight of clearing. Trend is the front moves out a low down to seventy
four study slightly cooler tomorrow high of ninety one. We'll see some more sun
Wednesday and hit the low nineties than into the upper eighties on Thursday, with
some scatter showers and thunderstorms. All right, thank you, we're talking an
hour, sir, appreciate it. Yep, alright, seven forty six k
c O Day Radio program coming up this um, here we go this White
House press credential purge. You're probably not seeing a bunch of news on it.
I remember when Trump tried to have two individual reporters have their credentials pulled.
It was the end of journalism. This is a third of credential White
House reporters, and it's interesting who's on the list. We'll give you that
coming up next here on the k c O Day radio program Smart Talk All
Day four five WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM talk in
the triangle. All right, seven fifty one and welcome back. What the
White House is doing with press credentials. I think people need to fundamentally understand
it and understand that this kind of gate keeping goes on in many situations.
I don't know if it still is the case, but even at the North
Carolina General Assembly as it pertains to press credentials and more permanent press credentials hard
passes as the White House calls them, but also use of space which is
limited. I understand, right, you look at if you ever looked at
the amount of reporter workspace and the press room at the White House, it's
not a ton That's why the room always looks obviously full, you know,
overflowing people standing there. However, they've seemed to get by. Okay,
they've seemed to get by. So the White House in May announced that they
were going to update the credentialing rules for reporters. At the time, they
had one thousand, four hundred and seventeen individuals who had access but didn't certainly
attend every day obviously, but had a hard pass allowing them to access the
entire campus. There the White House, all of the press stuff, the
press, not just the daily pressers, but anytime the president's doing some in
the Rose Garden. Right, this is all, this is all there,
and you're asking yourself, why is there fourteen hundred? And that's because,
you know, unlike some outlets that have a person that is solely all the
time there, some of the outlets have multiple people, right, and then
they have press credentials not just for the reporters, but for the photographers,
for other individuals. Well, they wanted to make a change, they said,
And now the number of hard passes is under nine hundred and eighty.
It's nine seventy five. Actually, so they went from fourteen hundred and nine
seventy five. Well, who's impacted the smaller outlets? Absolutely? Smaller outlets
are alternative news outlets and seemingly a bunch of people who tend to ask critical
questions, including what is the what is the name of Simon to Teba's outlet
Today News Africa. Have you ever seen this dude on Twitter? He is
a pain in Jean Pierre's but he is, and he points out loudly in
many instances during the actual press conferences that he still has never been allowed to
ask a question, and when he does get starts firing a question, she
won't necessarily answer it, but it is a much more critical question than is
being asked of most of the people who get a question a week or a
question to day. He's out Under the new standards, Let's see here.
Under the new standards, reporters who wish to qualify for a hard pass will
be required to currently have press credentials from Congress or the Supreme Court. This
is the dirty little trick here. So the Suprememny reporters have a hard pass
for the Supreme Court twenty five. It's extremely limited, so most most reporters
don't have that. And when I see reporters, it can be the same
outlet, it doesn't have to be necessarily the same reporter. For Congress it's
different though there are a lot more press gallery passes, but the Congress doesn't
issue the press credentials. This is this is where you get into the gate
keeping. And I remember when we first launched this station back in the day,
when we were going through everything. When we when we had we had
a much fuller news room. Part of the job of getting everything organized is
I wanted to get us credentialed for the North Carolina General Assembly. We had
been credential where I worked in Minneapolis. I actually had a credential myself and
I didn't use it very much, but we used it when we needed to
use it and there weren't any problems. But I was It was very interesting
because I started looking at how do you get a credential for the General Assembly?
And the people who decide whether you get a credential is the Press Association.
And I think at the time when we launched w r l's Laura Leslie
was in charge of it, and so if and I'm not Laura didn't deny
or anything, but we did have a little back and forth over it about
space and I'm like, I don't need space, I just want us to
have a credential, but that organization has to agree to give you one.
And that's how it works in Congress. So the very same large news outlets
that are generally on the you know, hold the office within these press associations,
Well, what's their incentive to have you competition to have a press credential,
Especially if you're an outlet like many of these smaller outlets are that don't
keep a large enough staff to cover Congress on the regular. They have a
person there whose job it is to cover the White House, and that's a
lot of them, and now that person is not going to be able to
do it. They're among the four hundred and forty two reporters who lost their
press credentials, and it just so happens. Many many are like the Daily
Signal is where I'm reading this article there among them. They tend to they
tend to be alternative media. They tend to be religious media. I think
two of the Christian outlets lost theirs. But they are individual news agencies that
have, you know, like a maybe one team in Washington, DC and
have covered for fourteen years. In the case of two of the reporters here,
Fred Lucas, yeah he's been their fourteen years covering it. But the
Daily Signal writes critical stuff and they ask critical questions if they're ever allowed a
question, as do many of these other outlets, And now they don't have
to be they can say, well, we're not the ones. We'll give
it to them if they can get a congressional pass, and then they'll leave
it up to CNN ABC, NBC and the rest on the congressional side to
deny them the credentials and then the White House doesn't have to deal with it.
I remember Donald Trump took all that grief for literally being hitler, for
not wanting Brian Caram and CNN's reporter there and not a peat that four hundred
and forty one just got run. But yeah, there's some there's some dirty,
dirty pool going on here. All right, we'll be back. Hang
on, all right, get born in, everybody. I'm Welcolm of our
number three eight oh seven year around the ACO game radio program, Do do
do do? All? Right over the week band. If you're a fan
of one of the ACC teams and you were watching yet another weekend of poaching
going on, um, get ready for it because now and people go,
why are you doing sports? Well, sometimes we do sports, but this
is more than sports, even you know, with the ACC being in North
Carolina institution. So let's see what's the list. We had, Oregon,
Washington, USC, UCLA all went to the Big ten, Colorado, Utah,
Arizona and Arizona State to the Big twelve. So basically all the Western
conferences are ransacked. And now it's up to the ACC. That's right.
Many of the big schools that seem attractive for both the Big Ten and SEC
now reside in the ACC. The problem thus far as to why teams have
not been poached while other conferences has has to do with the media deal,
which is in effect to like twenty thirty six at the ACC secured and it
is extremely, extremely poison pilled against teams leaving the conference. How about I'm
trying to think, well, how about to Maryland get hit? Yeah,
I got pop pretty good. But I think in the end I read an
article where they're like, yeah, totally worth it. So I think that
this latest media deal, in the length of it, was about not having
Maryland happen again. Big finds and payouts have to be paid for teams that
wish to leave. Among the schools that are on the couldn't leave list Clemson.
Clemson wants to be in the SEC something terrible. Florida State does not
like the ACC. They've been very vocal Virginia, Miami and U n C.
Could you see UNC leaving the ACC. And by the way, if
you're a State fan, or a Duke fan or not a fan of UNC,
don't go yeah, yeah, they should totally leave. I mean,
you can have your feelings about it, but the conference is what it is.
Man, just because you're awake Forest fan, do you really want UNC
gone? I don't know about that. Yeah. Florida States Administration express desire
to leave the league last week, and reports say the school has started to
talk to JP Morgan about financing what would be a rather heavy financial lift to
leave the league. Duke's a bit of a wild card, although I did
see a comment where they said Duke said that they're not looking to leave unless
the ACC breaks apart, and then they would look at it. I guess,
but I don't know, man. Virginia Techs indicated that they might.
So just just know that if you watched all that over the weekend and you
haven't seen a lot of ACC talk on this, it's because of that.
But now they're to the point where if you're going to get out and get
into a new conference, now's the time. So expect I think some of
that to worm its way into the news. All right, let me grab
a called Janet. Good morning to you. How you doing. I'm getting
casey, I hope you are. I'm pretty good? All right? You
we were talking about Ashville earlier, because I believe it or not, their
tourism numbers are way down, and in the entire clueless article of them wondering
why that might be, Um, they never mentioned perhaps that people might feel
it's unsafe a little bit. So where are you at, Janet? Yeah,
people who go work generally are a bit clueless. Um. So I
put probably the best rest and trip I've ever had in Asheville. Um and
before I've know on, let's know, we can't. So it didn't even
cost that much, It wasn't terribly expensive. It was awesome, and we
had every intention of going back into one and again. Then they came out
with the reparations nonsense. And my family has literally been here for three generations.
We had ready to do with that. I don't owe anybody anything,
an apology, a penny, nothing. That's when I decided not to go
back to Asheville. That and the fact that I already knew they had a
bunch of already hippies out that supporting man. Yeah. But but but hippies
in Ashville, that's that's been a known commodity for a very long time,
and you know, people knew that they knew that there was going to see
the were buskers downtown and all that, and that never bothered people. But
it's obviously it's it's different when you're talking about some of the homelessness, some
of the crime and the concept of what you're talking about. Well, if
I'm spending money there and that money's going to support things like they remember they
tried to set up their own autonomous zone there and thankfully the police did something,
and then they gutted the police for their efforts. So yeah, right
right, And that's that's the whole reason I want to ever get met because
all that working on, I don't want to do anything to support it.
Well, I again, I know what's driving people, but I think it's
um, I think that that could be some of it. And them coming
up with a couple of things like, oh, it's gas prices, Well,
okay, how does it compare to other years when gas prices are high?
And you and you see that those years maybe had a slight dip,
but they weren't losing as much as they're losing now, So something else is
going on. All right, all right, all right, thank you very
much for the call. Appreciate it. This morning, Janet, I have
a go one. Okay, all right, did you do you do so?
Yeah? Yeah, I think people are more concerned. I did see.
Oh, speaking of people pushing back with their dollar, one of the
one of the legacy Anheuser Bush family members is um read that as somebody who
owns I'm sure a massive amount of original stock in in Anaheuser Bush still following
the purchase. He's not a fan of Dylan mulveney and the decision to do
that. And it's like, yeah, I suspect when you're just you know,
you didn't work and you're just living on an inheritance and it's all dependent
on the stock price, You're you're gonna be out and be vocal. But
where were you before, man, where were you on the when this was
going down? And remember it wasn't just mulvaney. Mulvaney was part of it.
What was more offensive to a lot of people was the attitude of the
marketing check referring, you know, referring to the people, the loyal people
to continue to be your customers and make you the number one beer as fratish
and aloof and and you know, just a very derogatory attitude towards them.
That's what really tick or that at the very least Dylan drew the eyes.
But that is what captured I think people's minds when they heard that. So,
yeah, you're gonna see consumers and perhaps, yeah, it's right.
Perhaps some of the it is just a work for consumer going, I'm not
going to spend money when all I read is insanity out of there. Oh
they didn't bring it up in their article. But perhaps it is in fact
part of the equation. All right, check this out. Well, let
me do that. Let me do this. So I remember we covered this
story. This woman's gonna get no jail time and what she did is pretty
horrible, and frankly, I don't know why she wants to be here,
and that didn't seem to come into the equation. So if you don't remember
the story of the woman who was so mad over the killing of Iranian General
Solomany, what she did in Las Vegas, she's gonna get no jail time
for and it's pretty horrendous. We'll get to that coming up here on the
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All right, good morning eight nineteen. Boy, this is a this is
a tough decision. I don't know man. All right, So, a
seventy four year old Florida man has been arrested for manslaughter after deputies say they
identified him based on a photo that ran in the newspaper. This is crazy
story, so us, I'll tell you what the photo was about here just
a moment. But first, Robert Moore Junior was charged with punching an eighty
seven year old man in the face, which eventually led to his death.
And how old is he's seventy four? Dang? Tangling it up? Do
you go as harsh on a seventy four year old for punching an eighty seven
year old considering that, you know, you see these stories where somebody punch
as an elderly person and they die, but they're you know, the stories
are like they're thirty or something, or it was you know, some random
attack. Yeah, two retired dudes fighting. I don't know, man.
The Sumter County Sheriff's Office says it responded to what was referred to as a
vehicle accident at Glen View Country Club Before the arrival, the victim's wife told
deputies that a white male had attacked her husband after accidentally. So it's a
road rage thing, the victim told deputy as he was pulling into a parking
spot when he struck the front bumper of Oh all right, so old old
person, golf club member. What do you think it was? Kind of
car was he driving? Of course it was Alexis. If you got Alexis,
that's fine. It's just do you ever drive over to a country club.
It's like when there's a lot of alexis Is, usually the gold ones,
and if you go to a realist state. I went to a golf
tournament for one of the big real estate companies here, and I show up
and I pulled into the parking lot. And this was years ago when all
of those midsize Lexus SUVs were very popular, and it looked like it was
a Lexus dealership because you know, real estate agents, man, they love
those luxury SUVs. And I was just I'm sitting there and I'm like,
okay, I can't help myself. So we're there and we're talking and I
come walking in. I meet my buddy, who's one invited me and he's
got a bunch of agents around there, and I'm like, yeah, man,
I hit a hit Alexis SUV when I was trying to back in just
to see how many heads turned, because I found that amusing. But anyway,
so Black Alexis a little dust up in the parking lot. According to
the Sheriff's office, More approached the scene and yelled, what the heck you
hit my car. The victim admitted to hitting the car and provided his insurance
info, but More was he was unhappy, and he punched the dude in
the jaw. So it wasn't even they were both fighting. Yeah, all
right, So how did they figure out who he was? Because they couldn't.
They didn't know who it was. Well, idiots, picture ran in
the paper, because are you ready for this? He got a hole in
one because I guess karma is you kill somebody and then you get a hole
in one, which I don't have a hole in one yet, but I'm
willing to try. Whatever. So that happened in the middle of July,
and then here we go. Oh no, I'm sorry he passed away middle
of July. I'm just trying to get the timeline here. So then the
police are trying to figure out, Okay, well, who would have done
it and what we need to find somebody who's wearing this outfit. Well,
it just so happened. Are you ready for this? That the suspect got
a hole in one while wearing the same outfit he wore the day of the
crime, one of his standard golf outlets outfits, and that's how police tracked
him down. More on this in a moment. Hang on, Oh geez,
I'm sorry, you know what, I'm stupid. Ross's Russ for some
reason. Man, I was sitting there and I'm like, I didn't take
the break yet. So anyway, so this dude wearing the same out wasn't
the same day he wore the same outfit when he then went back and got
a hole in one at a different golf club that ran in the paper,
and based on the witness description and him wearing the same outfit, that's how
they caught him. But so here's what I'm torn on. Okay, I
really want a hole in one, and I really if I get what I
there's a few people I feel need to know about it, and maybe you'd
have to run it in the paper. But I'm not gonna hide it.
So is it worth potentially going to jail to tell everyone about your hole in
one? Well, if you play enough golf, maybe it is. Dude,
I had not this summer, but two summers ago, I had the
worst hole in one luck around me. I watched two of them, and
I was with a group where there was eight of us and they were behind
us where they got one. So I was I was connected to three and
none of them were mine. But yeah, so this guy gets a whole
he literally is arrested for manslaughter of this guy now, but he does that,
then gets a hole in one a few weeks later, and they run
a picture of him wearing the same outfit. Here's here's a pro tip.
By the way, if you ever do kill somebody, whatever clothes you're wearing,
you gotta get rid of them, right, do we not? This
is like the same thing with people that have like a trunk full of drugs
that are doing one hundred miles an hour with no tail lights on ninety or
nine five. Excuse me, like I'll never understand it. But yeah,
although golf clothes can get really expensive depending on what brand they are, So
anyway, he's in jail. Now he's awaiting and he's charged with manslaughter obviously,
but he's not going to have himself a good day judging by the amount
of evidence they claim to have in this story here. And as if one
Florida story wasn't good enough, check this out. Florida National Cemetery has They've
had a few incidents this year already, and this, um, this is
a doozy. A deceased widow was interred with the wrong husband at the Florida
National Cemetery. Salutes of twenty one guns are common at the hallow grounds,
where it has earned honor for veterans and their spouses to be laid to rest.
However, going back in August of last year, the remains of a
woman who was cremated were mistakenly mixed with the wrong veterans remains. They use
the term cremains. I've never liked that word, and I think once you've
done that, you're all in right, there's you can't just you can't just
chop it in half and be like, all right, we'll try it again.
I mean, once they're mixed, they're mixed. So that's a huge
screw up there. And now they've done it again, this time with a
not a remains, but a casket, I should say, not a cremain's,
but a casket. Yeah. So family goes looking and they said that
the woman's casket was found in a crypt with the wrong late husband. How
does that work? Man? Aren't you pretty specific when you bury somebody or
you're handling the remains of a loved one, especially there's a military cemetery too,
So yeah, here we go. According to the Press Secretary Terence Hayes,
the spouses had quote similar names. Okay ah. The mistake discovered in
June. A Tampa Bay woman who was almost eighty died with plans to in
place to be buried with her late husband, but when his grave vault was
open, there was already a second casket inside, at which point they figured
out, yeah, yeah, somebody screwed up. And while the names are
similar, they're not exactly the same. If your ghost as account of cheating,
you know what. I have several questions, and that is definitively one
of them. I don't know. I don't know, but we'll find out
together. Next after the news Hang on your Day Smarter one O six one
FM Talk and news Talk PTI more with starts now, No, I wouldn't.
I would like to think that they would be so happy to be reunited
that he would not the blame would not fall on this individual since it was
wildly out of his control. So and you know, frankly, this isn't
even the most egregious scandal at the VA. So that's why I guess,
because this is a VA cemetery, I guess maybe just possibly we can you
know, whatever happened with the other stuff, it didn't seem to improve,
It just kind of went away. That's so weird. So if you if
you're just joining us, we'll do better and join us earlier next time.
But secondly, down in Florida at one of the veteran cemeteries down there,
they've had some booboos here lately, they've had some whoopsies. And this was
a doozy. This is Bushnell, Florida, where this is. And this
is the second incident in less than a year where they've put the wrong person
with the other wrong person. Now this one was a casket. Previously,
back in August of last year, a woman had passed away and they went
to mix they were mixing her remains she was cremated with her husband's remains,
except they didn't get her husband's remains, they got the wrong ones, so
now she's forever jumbled with somebody else. I don't know how you fix that.
This one was a little more fixable, albeit pretty weird. So a
woman died, her husband had passed away before her, and they had a
plot there where or a crypt where the two were to be buried. So
when she died, they opened up the crypt to put her in there,
and there's already a second coffin and there turns out it was another woman,
not his wife, who was married to a guy that had a similar name
to her husband. So she has since been put in there. But to
Ross's point, man, if you're a ghost and your husband's been cheating on
you now with um this other ghost chick, but it's not, it's not
it wasn't anything you did, or do you really carry blame there? I
mean, it depends on the woman, right or the ghosts, because I've
I know, I've dated women in the past where they'll have like a crazy
dream involving you and they wake up pist off at you, like like you
actually did something, Like dude, that wasn't me, that was your cheated
Yeah, so like I didn't do that, but yeah, it depends on
your spouse, right, She's like, you cheated on me in my dream?
In my dream? Yeah, I may, I would. I would
just like to think that she's just now they're reunited, so you don't worry
about any of that stuff. But to your point, that isn't always the
case and logic doesn't have to come into play on some of this stuff.
So, uh, what if the dude, what if that guy? For
however long? How long did they say that this had been there or do
they even they probably don't even know. Good lord? Um? Also when
now also the mix up the person who was in there who was not supposed
to be in there? Um, where were they supposed to be? What's
their spouse thinking? You know, he's heard his wife died. He's waiting
for to show up and she doesn't show. What thoughts are going through his
head? If he's no, no, no, no, no no,
no, not that guy, but the guy of the woman who was accidentally
put in this guy's crypt You know, she was supposed to be buried with
her husband. So he gets word that his wife finally died, he's waiting
for to show up, and she never show us up. That's got to
be nerve racking as a ghost. You're like, did did did she change
her mind? Did she not want to be around me? What happened?
And in reality, it was just to screw up on the part of the
employees. There three years three years ago, there we go. So what
if this dude though, who got the wrong life put in his crypt What
if he you know, I was like, you know what, I kind
of like her more? And then his original wife gets there and he's just
now now he's upset because he took the other ghost away and now he's got
to put up with the woman that he died early to get away from it.
This is so complicated. I don't even know. I don't even we
you know, we need we need a psychkick or something that can tap in
and tell us what the deceased the deceased you're thinking about this because who knows.
Maybe he wants the new one to stay and doesn't want the the original
one to come. And and maybe the other guy whose wife was put in
with this dude whose wife never showed up, maybe he's happy. I wonder
how often this sort of like mix ups happened because my mom still as my
dad's remains in the house. And I'm like, well, how do you
know? Or you have people that have their pets, you know, we
have like a three of our pets remains in the house, like the ashes,
because you can get the box of the name and like the pawprint stuff.
You don't know, it could be a scam. You could get a
made into furniture. Now what you didn't know about this? No, there's
a dude. There's a guy. I'm sure it's more than one guy,
but I remember seeing this guy at a hunting and fishing show years ago,
right, so I'm in there, you're why you know, it's mostly outfitters
and products and stuff. And he's got like a bunch of benches and stuff,
and on the bench is like a dog's picture or horses picture, and
I'm like, oh, I gotta see what this is. They take your
animals remains and then they put it into the mix and then they make a
piece of furniture out of your pets so you can sit in your garden on
your pet. It's not cheap. And he I guess he was. They
were selling like Gangbusters, and then it comes with a picture of your pet
kind of you know, I'm saying grave but lacquered in there. So yeah,
a lot of the times when it comes a stuff because we've had to
put down in several animals rights, it's always the absolute worst. And they
confront you with the piece of paper, well the options while you're sobbing and
you're a complete mess, And a lot of times you just because you're like,
this is representative of the love I had for my pet. Right,
you don't want to do the top box because that's like, you know,
you throw them into like the communal bind that's awful, So like the communal
Yeah, and you're sobbing because I did that once accidentally and I checked the
top box because it wasn't thinking and then I had to go back and look
at I'm like, oh, I don't want that one. I want this
one. So you could just be like a sobbing wreck and they're just like
which one do you want? Which? How much did you love your pet?
Do you want to do the cheap one, the top box? And
do you want to do like the two thousand dollar bottom box? And you
might just check it and then like a week later, you get a chair
and you're like, what is this chair? Yeah? I did what well,
but at least you have a chair at that point, you know,
so you got that going for you, and you asked about human remains.
I would like to think that this doesn't happen very much, but remember that
story we did out of Arizona last year where they raided the place and it
had like buckets full of sports cars and stuff. Most of the people whose
bodies ended up there thought their bodies were being used differently, So it's not
quite app to apples, but they never expected that there'd be a warehouse where
part pieces of their their loved one or communal in the communal boxes you just
said. And in some cases, I think some of those families thought their
loved ones were cremated, which is what brought about some criminal charges. So,
yeah, you've never seen the bench to make a make a piece of
you mentioned how it is. It does sound more familiar. When you first
said it, I was like, what are you talking about? But yeah,
now I think I remember something like that. I remember talking to the
dude and I'm like, and you could tell that he puts up with people
like me a lot when he's doing those trade shows, like, I'm sorry,
you do the what now? But then he was showing me how much
they cost and I asked him and he's like, there's a waiting list.
I'm like, you know what, sir, Kudos to you, man.
That's a little more of bid that you know, because the only other guy
I know who makes furniture out of deceased things, um was like ed gean.
So you found a way to do it and not end up on the
FBI's radar. So more powered to you, all right. Jeff Marr from
the Weather Channel, he's here. He has no furniture made of remains,
just weather for you. What's up, my man? Yeah, hot and
human out there today. Unfortunately, front's going to bring in some strong storms
tonight. Then we'll start to cool slightly behind that fund into the middle part
of the week. But today a different story. Head advisory starts at eleven
this morning, it lasts until seven this evening. The reason the high temperature
today all the way up to ninety five degrees actually maybe even closer to ninety
six by the time we had in the middle of the afternoon. But that
heat index is the real story between one hundred and one oh five when you
factor in the humidity under some sunshine, then as a front gets closer tonight,
showers and storms move in. Some of the storms may turn severe and
produce damaging wednes during the evening overnight, a clearing trend a low seventy four,
and then sunshine tomorrow and Wednesday highs each day in the low nineties.
All right, thank you, sir, appreciated you with us tomorrow or what's
up? I think Gray is back tomorrow. Okay, all right, we'll
chat with him and you have a good rest of your day. Thank you.
All right, and we will chat next with Jeff Bellen are from Bloomberg
News. Hang on keeping you connected. This is ninety four five WPTI in
the Triad and one oh six one FM talk in the triangle. All right,
good morning, and he is eight fifty you're Bloomberg Up. They now
with Jeff Bellinger. Jeff, what's happening? Well, good morning. Casey.
Wall Street ended last week with a losing session, but the futures are
looking good this morning. Now. Futures are up one hundred and six points.
Negotiators for the Hollywood studios and Representatives of the striking screenwriters met on Friday,
and no progress was made, not even on an agreement on how to
resume formal contract talks. The writer's strike is entering its fourth month that appears
to be on its way to becoming the longest writers walk out in Hollywood history.
Neither side has indicated much interest and compromise. The Barbie movie from Warner
Brothers was the box office leader for a third straight weekend. comScore says domestic
ticket sales total fifty three million dollars. Barbie has now taken in more than
one billion dollars globally for its first seventeen days. And theaters. The shark
thriller Meg two The Trench debuted in second place with ticket sales of thirty million
dollars. The trucking company Yellow, which shut down last month, has filed
for bankruptcy. Yellow indicated it will remain closed. This filing will give Yellow
some breathing room from its creditors as it winds down its business and prepares to
sell off assets. Work came this morning that Campbell Soup is buying SVOs brands
for twenty three dollars a share. That's about two point seven billion dollars total
value. Savo sells frozen entrees and pizza, yogurt, pasta, and sauces
under the Rayos, Michelangelo's and Noosa brand names. A Federal Reserve officials as
central bankers, may not be able to hold interest rates at current levels and
get inflation back down to an acceptable level. FED Governor Michelle Bowman spoke at
a meeting of the Kansas Bankers Association over the weekend. She said more rate
increases will likely be needed, and Casey, the annual rollout of pumpkin spice
treats is a sure sign there is light at the end of the long hot
summer tunnel. Excuse me. Seventy eleven brought back its pumpkin spice lattes last
week. Chrispy Kreme seasonal donuts and drinks are in store today. Duncan's going
to release its lineup of pumpkin treats a week from Wednesday, and Starbucks stores
begin serving pumpkin flavored items on August twenty fourth. Casey, it's going to
be hotter today than they serve it if you buy it, So no,
just what we needed in the inevitability too, is the beer taps are going
to get ruined too, oh really, because perfectly good space for actual beer,
and before you know, there's gonna be pumpkin spice beer, Christmas spice,
all that crap, chewing up two three of the taps that could have
a nice dark Belgian on there or something. I'm not a huge pumpkin spice
fan. It just I just like that. It signifies there's a little light
at the end of the tunnel and the stuff comes out. Yeah, well,
all right, we'll talk tomorrow, sir. Have it go one.
Okay, okay, sounds good, casey, you take care, all right,
there you go. Uh Jeff Bellinger Bloomberg, Sorry, I was I
was trying to get the price on these these cree You cremate your pet and
then they'll build furniture out of it. I'm telling you, I wonder how
often that happens, because I've been in that situation where you're I don't think
you're in the vets office and they're doing it right by the bet, I
hope not, because you're sitting there and you can't comprehend what you're getting.
You're seeing the price tag and you're like associating that with how much do I
love my pet? And you're like zero, one hundred and five hundred,
I'll go to two thousand option and then like two weeks later you're like,
what why is this foot on on my porch? And they're like that's skippy
and you're like what, oh dude, you out of skippy. Look it's
all so you'd go foot one. I don't know if you know what the
options are, well, Uh, generally it's going to be outdoor furniture.
Uh from what I've seen, I guess maybe you could get something indoor.
A lot of benches, there's some chairs. Uh, there's a whole table
set that somebody had done with a horse, because why not. But a
lot of them don't have. So I was able to find some prices because
you're probably wondering. And by the way, it was a creepy search because
one when the first where I actually could see a price was on Wayfair and
that's kids, right, that's code, that's not an actual Yeah, that
that was that's so you don't order that. You probably get traffic children if
you believe in the conspiracy. But um, then there was one being resold
on Facebook marketplace. You're reselling your cremated pets, a bench made of your
cremated I mean, it's tough financial times. This binomics right there. You
have to sell Skippy your food, ton I've to make more, you know,
make to pay for gas or whatever. I'm going to assume that that
the it's either a joke or the person selling it is not the person who
had a commission. And maybe yeah, maybe it was a grandparent or so.
I don't know, man, but that's just if you had benches made
of your pets, and then you go sell the bench, which, by
the way, the cheapest one I could find was three hundred and fifty dollars.
And that's not even a full bench. That's like a little nothing.
So the margin on this thing's got to be insane. Yeah yeah, yeah,
so three hundred and fifty dollars. But that's just the that's just the
base model. Some of these get crazy. But a lot of the sites
don't advertise the price. You gotta click what you're looking for and they'll get
back to you. So you know it's going to be expensive. Then and
oh boy, this one and this one's five thousand dollars. Oh but see
ross this one has it's a bench. It is a bench, but it
has the top comes off and then it has cremation spots for you to put
all of your pets remains in little slots, so you could get you could
get the whole pet family in there. Plus it's said a nice granite bench.
So dude, that is just so creepy. So best I can tell,
it's if you want a nice one, you're gonna pay about fifteen hundred
dollars. That's crazy? Man? Can you do it with humans? Because
what you can compost people in a few states? Now, why can't I
make a bench shout of somebody? I have so many questions, like who
the hell would do this? But I remember talking to that dude and he's
like, I just I just sit around, just print money all day.
People go crazy for their pets. You ever seen a pet taxidermied? You've
laid eyes on that horse? I have not in anyone's house. I was
at a in Wyoming. I was at a buddy of mine who is a
taxidermist, who was he passed away, but um and he was. He
was. I had two shed horns that I wanted connected, so he were
putting that together for amount and he had a cat there, and I'm like,
dude, dude, did you taxidermy cat? It's like that is somebody
contracted that, and I'm like, okay, what does that cost? He
wouldn't tell me, or maybe he did tell me and I forgot. But
the thing was and the cat looked surprised in the in the taxidermy. You
don't want that? What's that if you if you signed up for that,
it came back surprised when you be upset. It had the cat in like
this playful motion where it was up on its hind legs. But surprise wouldn't
be the look that I'd have gone for. I mean, let's face it,
if you want to capture the essence of a cat plotting your murder is
the look you want. There's different levels of surprise. There's wow, it's
a ball of yarn, and it's and there's wow, what are you doing
to my body? You know what I mean? Or what's that noise?
Sounds like a truck? Oh yeah, no it was. It was ball
of yarn. Surprised, I think, But still there was no ball of
yarn there, So I guess you could put whatever you want in its little
pause and tell a story all right, Well on that creepy note, there
you go. Now you got ideas for what to do with your pets after
they pass, You're welcome. We'll see you back here tomorrow.