Well, I guess if you're a fifteenth and end of the month, a
payday person, you got that going for you today. Man, I'm in
a really good mood. What is what? What is the other thing that
has me happy? Ross? Would you check and see why I'm in such
a good mood this morning? If there's anything, Oh, it must be
because Sat Patty's Day's coming up. Oh yeah, that could be it.
Yeah, although you know, I kind of hate that it's on a Sunday,
you know, right, because you know Monday. Roll My god,
buddy, are you sitting down? I am actually yeah, we actually have
next Monday off as well. Oh okay, so we're doing that. You
know, that's that's not always a good look. I was reading something one
time that says, if you're an employee and you always take like the Monday
Monday adjacent to like Sinco de Mayo or Saint Patty's Day or something like that,
and then you know after the Super Bowl that employers may may have a
little questioning, a little questioning look about you or everybody? What can ease
your uh, your nerves here about it? Because we also have Tuesday off
as well. I feel like that would exacerbate the problem. Right, Not
only does the employer think that you can't go on a Sunday like a responsible
adult and not get uh you know, wrecked and not come in on Monday.
Uh, now we're gonna Tuesday as well. I feel like that's not
good enough cover for Monday. What if I were to tell you we also
have Wednesday off of next week, following St. Patty's Day? Yeah,
I mean that looks less suss right as the kids say, because now they're
like, ah, maybe maybe it's because he's Saint Patty's Day and his last
name's Oday, and you know he he talks about whiskey way too much.
Yeah. Yeah, I don't. I don't know if it's good enough cover
anything else. Maybe you think we could do to really detract from the fact
that we just wanted Monday off to uh celebrate our heritage. Well, let's
see how far this guy can go. I already got Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday climbing d d oh my god, look look, oh my lord?
Four days? Yeah, Thursday. My side's hurty with the altitude climbing.
Can we get five? A? No? Look at that? What does
that mean? Does that mean? Five? That the whole week off next
week. All right, Hey, we don't make the rules. Uh.
The Yodler is actually middle management, so one of our nine thousand bosses.
So look, who are we to argue? All right? All right,
well I guess we're taking all the next week off to fight communism. Right,
that's my plant. Ross, that's usually your thing too, Right.
You don't take time off just to sit around. You're you're out there improving
society. I'm doing that. I'm also trying to raise money for the Lambeau
for the Children Fund, So jesu this thing again? So for beyfore the
children, because children can't drive a Lambo. That would be irresponsible. I'm
not saying that we're going to use the funds to purchase a painful Lambeau and
then you know, give it to the children. That would be horribly irresponsible.
Yes, I'm not sure that. So we're raising fun for the Lambou
for the Children Fund through the Hayes for share of Twitch channel there, and
uh, what we're doing is we're getting the Lambeau and then the children that
see it drive by randomly here and there. It'll bring them joy and inspiration.
Kids love cars like that, he do that is. Remember when you
were a kidding we see like Carl like that would be like, oh my
god, it's amazing. Yeah, he's on the patmobile or something. It's
like that. You remember when I drew, Remember when I drove the viper
up on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Yeah, posted some pictures of that.
I would say, hell of a good time. So I pull into Mount
Mitchell. So Mitchell one of the one of the state things inundated. We
kids, they all wanted to see the viper, right, so, which
is ironic because they haven't really produced them when those kids were alive. But
yeah, so lambo, that's that's that's hands down. So but where are
we going to store the lambo in between you know, showing the kids?
Like have you? I don't know that you've thought any I haven't thought that.
Yeah, I haven't gotten that far. Okay, say that you're now
like a Lambo for the children garage or something, or well is a garage
good enough? I think you need? Like really is it? Yeah?
I think you need like one of those showroom style garages with the you know,
the thing that spins in the ground, right, sort of like a
museum for the children. So yeah, but then you can you know the
thing where you pull into your You can't. You can't. You're so rich
you can't be troubled to back in. So you pull in and your driveway
spins like a lazy Susan. You see one of those things. No,
we need to get one of those camera and houses from Ferris Bueler. We're
with a garage hanging over a ravine out safe, dude, I'm telling you,
man, did you ever see that? You ever see the car lazy
Susans? You ever see those things just in a video or whatever? Maybe?
All right, so I won't I won't tell you whose house it was,
But I was in somebody's house in uh, one of the towns adjacent
to Miami. And let's let's just say the dude's done very well for himself
in radio but also TV, and we we beat him up there. He's
friends with another radio buddy of mine. We go to this house. He
made the jump to owning his own company, so he's just killing it.
And I get to this dude's house and we pull we follow him into the
driveway. We were just down the road where we met him at a like
a bar restaurant in there and he pulls uh uh McClay was mclareney has something
weird, some crazy nice car pulls it into his garage and so we're kind
of stopped behind him. All of a sudden, I see the car start
spinning around, and I'm like, the hell is that? I get out
and I realize he's got this rotating cylinder and like this giant garage which also
has like three stackable parking units for cars. It's so tall, but he's
got like this lazy Susan for cars on one on the small part of the
garage so he never has to back it. He pulls in straight, it
spins around, it comes out, and I'm like, I don't know,
how do you even begin to go? You know what? Uh? I
hate back in the car? How much? How much is that gonna cost?
All right? So it's the current Lambo for the Children fund is two
hundred thirty seven and forty eight dollars. Where did you get that? Uh?
Google just googled how much is a lambo? Yes, you know it's
not as simple as that, right, I mean that's a bay see you
know, it's just a base. Do you know that some of the cars,
cars like Lambeau's ferraris various others like you can't you have to like know
somebody for the privilege of buying them. I don't know if you know this,
Like some we're in the Media's fine, Like there's billionaires that have invested
onto the priority list for like Ferrari. Some of the ferraris man. Yeah,
but it's for charities for the children. So much lazy Susan for your
car cuss. Wait, how are the kids gonna benefit? The kids aren't
I will tell you because the kids will see see it, drive past them
randomly whenever they happen to see if they do see it, and order to
bring them joy? Why are you guys to bringing children joy? Hold On,
I must see how much your car turner? It's called a car turner,
I guess, is one of or anything. Yeah, I'm sure there's
other ones, but that's the first one that comes to Well, how much
is a car turner? Hold on, I'm very busy. It is our
turner. Oh okay, well look at that. Actually, car turners are
have so picked up in popularity that just ten years ago I would have set
you back seventy thousand dollars. But now, depending on what you're looking for.
They can work if you if without the foundational poor they can do it
for sixteen just for equipment. So i'd say probably another twenty thousand because you
got to get you know, you get people to put it into the pad
too. So yeah, all right, so add twenty thousand to your charitable
endeavor. So good stuff. Man. I'm glad we helped the kids this
morning. So anyway, we're not here next week because we got to go
do all that stuff, help the kids fight communism, fascism, whatever.
You know, always always be out there seeing what you can do. So
let me do this. I'm going to hit a break, give you a
little rundown of what's coming up. We got Pete Callender. Obviously we'll give
you details on that. It is six seventeen CaCO Day Radio program. You
know, I gotta tell you I wonder for having bigger issues on the email
front, because I emailed myself a story last night after I'd already sent the
prep so I had just sent it, and the stuff I sent this morning
ended up in my email. So I don't know, maybe we had some
weird outage last night. Well that's fun, and I'm just saying this a
lout on the air, not just because I like to do housekeeping on the
air because it fills time, but also when you send an email in the
last twenty four hours, I assume it made it, but I don't know.
I better read it before I get out of here on vacation though,
because I ain't looking at that all right, coming up on the show.
Uh yeah, eight oh five p callender will join us do that little Friday
fix before we part ways. Wait, hold on if by fighting crime,
if by fighting crime you mean playing video games and uh and getting drunk on
Saint Patrick's Day. Well, first of all, we didn't say crime,
serb, we would fight crime. Uh. Secondly, secondly, you can
use video games to fight communism, which is what I said, communism and
fascism is what I said. Right, you can do that because like any
media out there, the infiltration of Western media within repressive societies, it has
a detrimental effect on oppressive societies because eventually people go, what the hell,
look at all the stuff they have? What are we doing? So don't
discount Ross's contribution. And yeah, well I made party for Saint Patrick's Day.
I'm doing I'm gonna go Argentina, where you could argue that one they
just overcame it. Did you know that their monthly inflation since the new president
went in down there has gone, has dropped from twenty five percent, and
that's out of the same kind of calculations we use and you know our numbers.
Job, So what do you think is going on there in just a
few short months is down to thirteen percent? Yeah. I love the fact
that he said, hey, if you guys start printing more money, I'm
gonna throw you in prison. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Well the
job donect because again, money to some extent, although it has manipulated,
is also supply and demand. Right, That's why. That's why when you
print money, it dilutes the value of the money, even if you go,
well, we're staying within the range of inflation, so it's mostly neutral.
Really, That's that's why everything costs what it does. Huh. Even
Janet, do you see Janet yelling in an interview she said that she she,
uh, what was transitory? Remember they were coming out, Oh,
it's transitory because they wouldn't admit we're in a recession based on their own math,
their own literal definition of it, and everyone's saying it's transitory. She
was doing an interview the other day and she said, you know, I
was wrong, It's not transitory. And I I just happened to see that
on some like Twitter post. I didn't see it on any of the national
sites that I go check. That's pretty big news right at the federal reserves,
Like I was wrong on this thing that literally governs how much you're going
to pay for everything. Whoops? So uh that? And I would also
point out I mentioned fascism. Do you know which country had the greatest influx
of Nazis post World War Two? Argentina? Baby, So maybe I'm not.
Maybe I'm a Nazi hunter. You don't know, sir. And if
the Nazis happened to walk into these uh uh these two different steakhouses that are
really famous, I want to try. I'll deal with it. How's that?
Okay? Is that a deal? Questioning people's You're gonna put that on
your email like auto response. I'm even I'm out of the country hunting Hitler?
What not? Just Hitler? Right? Not just Hitler. I look
if I if I see some ninety year old something or other man walking around,
you know, and uh, he's he's gotten like little Joe Biden seniles.
So he just happened, and he's like, I'm a run to the
store in my SS uniform like dead giveaway. I'm investigating. So you're not,
sir, to what you do. You're watching a Bond movie. Like
even when they're on vacation. He's not on vacation. He's doingly off duty.
And you know, frankly, we can't tell you about all the stuff
we do. Some of it's uh, you know, you don't want to.
You want to tip off the enemy, sir, So you know I
understand. Like, because here's the deal. Could you tell me every mission
one of the Sealed teams did this year or last year twenty twenty three?
Ross, could you name all the missions? Could know? Why is that
why it's classified? Look at that so, I mean it's it's for our
own protection, yes, and for theirs as well. O Day Radio program
phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. What is
somebody sending me messages about NFL stuff? What? All right? I'll read
that later, sir. I have very important stuff to do. First.
We're trying to get Ross's charity up and running. So I mean, that's
that's the whole thing. So you know, just one day at a time.
You know, I'm really ept because people are saying, I'm just doing
this to try to score myself a Lambo and it has nothing to do with
me car spinner and a car trip. Yeah I'm not. There's nothing greedy.
Yeah, and the car spinner. Thank you. When I got the
price right, because that's our goal. Two hundred thirty eight, eight hundred
and forty dollars for the Lambo for the Children Fund plus twenty thank you.
I went to Google and I searched cheap Lambo because it's not about me.
It's not about getting myself a Lambo. It's it's for the children, kids,
right right Exactly. People look at a Lambo, they're not able to
but yeah you get guys that are really into the cars, and there's like
they have get over versions of the car, and then they make fun of
guys with your limbo's poverty, right yeah, so uh uh yeah, No,
it's for the kids though, right right. Otherwise I would have searched,
you know, like amazingly expensive Lambeau. That's not what I did.
Sure, I searched cheap Lambeau for the children. No, and there's some
there's some doozies out there, some famous models and individual cars. I am
concerned though. It's just still a significant investment obviously, and you want to
you want to protect your investment. So the car spinner's nice, so you
don't have backing up issues. But I was just thinking about the garage for
it, like I do you just want like one of those cheap outbuildings you
buy if you live out, you know, five miles out of town kind
of thing, got a couple on the property, or do you think we
need to go maybe something a little bigger, a little stronger, maybe something
little uh past the test of time? Yeah? Yeah, oh yeah?
What are you thinking? Like something made out of what late? I you
know, something strong? Right? Like you? You don't want to be
the first little pig, you know what I'm saying? Saying the Hayes for
Sheriff pyramid for the children, Well, you know what, that's a good
point. Those those do last a long time, don't there. We need
a nice sturdy monolith, you know what I mean, just a monolith or
you wanna you want a pyramid? I mean, what was something sturdy about
a pyramid with a monolith on it, and on top of the monolith in
gold like the old Roman toppers that uh it's it is your lambeau with you
waving out at some kids. What about the Hayes for Sheriff yacht for the
children? Kids love the beat they Uh, I guess my only concern would
be, like if you were a philanthropist in a seaside town, that would
make a lot more sense because you got but you got the travel time.
Right, So let's say you your yacht is stored in uh you know,
Havelock or is or or maybe uh what out there by uh kiddie Hawk right
at Pirate's Cove when you're going to like that, right, nothing against Atlantic
Beach, but I want the best for the children. Well that well,
look that's uh Pirate's Cove there over by Rono. Yeah, that's Mantio there.
That's that's pretty nice, nice area there, all right, But you
still have to get there. And I've driven there because I know somebody who
lives there and it's it's exciting to go down there, but it's still like
two and a half three hours of your time, man, And like that's
gonna cut into your ability to you know, help children with the yacht stuff.
So we're gonna need to find a way to get you to and from
the yacht so that you can entertain the most amount of kid like something speedy
and something very aerodynamic. Right, yeah, well that's speed, you know,
aerodynamic is I've got it. What about the what about the the taking
the lambo to the yacht? Mmmm? It's all coming together now Now you're
putting too many miles on that thing. I think what you're gonna need is
gonna need a city lambo and a seaside lambo. Right. This is by
the way, this right here, if it weren't parody, would and you
change the words, would be how government planning meetings go. Sometimes I've sat
in them. I'm just like you, like doing the math, right,
just more ridiculous spending after more ridiculous spending. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
well we can't. I can't have one. We need three because of and
then insert some minor problem that people in the private sector have dealt with and
overcome every day of their corporate lives, and they're just like, no,
we can't do that. Only the best So yeah, I don't know,
we'll we'll come up with something maybe get get the maximum use out of all
of the four of the kids vehicles. So as we work on that,
let me hit you into a couple other things. I mean, I think,
I guess the only teaser I've mentioned is Pete Callender. He'll join us
coming up at eight oh five, and uh, we'll look back at the
week that was, and Lord knows there's enough to talk about. All right,
go find that story that I know I emailed myself. There's like three
stories that didn't show up. Do I have rounded them up? And we're
gonna, We're gonna, We're gonna stick in Raleigh, home of the Lambeau
for the kids. I guess technically wait for us, all right. I'm
I'm glad to see that they have located these five young individuals, young folks
that you know. That's obviously that's your priority. That's the big priority.
When you have five young people who are dealing with the issues that young people
deal with, that requires inpatient mental health care, right, it runs the
gamut. And uh, when when that happens, a lot of young folks
end up at a facility called Hollyhill Children's Hospital in Raleigh. This is supposed
to be a secure facility. And again, obviously what you're dealing with is
you're dealing with very, very vulnerable people. You know, you're not just
dealing with people who are dealing who have mental health you know, diagnosis,
treatment, but you're dealing with people where it is substantial enough that requires impatient
treatment. In some cases it may or may not be attached to uh,
you know, criminal court cases, which too often can can be part of
the experience for somebody who's dealing with a mental health issue. And this is
this is part of the Hey, let's let's do some about it. And
you know, for all the conversations that we have about mental health and whether
you think it's ignored or you think it's overemphasized or whatever, as it pertains
to serious issues like mass shootings, teen suicide, group cluster think into some
dangerous alternative lifestyle stuff, I think we can all agree that that if if
somebody is dealing with a mental health issue, especially a minor, and it's
risen to this level, we need to ensure that the facility that we have
to treat them is able to adequately do that. And so when you have
this children's hospital where the kids just keep running away, and it is supposed
to be a secure facility, right, miners can't they just can't leave,
but apparently they can. This is a problem, and it is not a
It is not just a recent problem. So Raleigh, please say the five
young people who escaped earlier this week have all been located. And then this
after three patients ran away Sunday night, they were found in kerries. So
that's in a week, that's eight people just walked out of their miners miners,
some of them. I don't know the individual story for how everyone got
to Holly Hill, but I suspect it's a combination of families who sought out
treatment, as well as some who may have been ordered treatment through court proceedings
or through less formal means. Right, maybe a physician who feels that this
is what needs to be worked on. But there's a lot of trust that's
put into this facility by parents, by in some cases criminal justice system,
and by the kids too. Right today, it's bad enough that you're you're
juvenile going through all of the mental crap that that we go through as we
mature and figure out who we are and and grow into adulthood, But to
be saddled with significant mental health issues. These are the folks you got.
This is where you got to get the treatment. This is this is where
they need this to work. Because once they slip into adulthood and maybe you
know they're not they're under their own guardianship. There is a very good possibility,
without proper direction or treatment, that they find themselves among the the the
huge percentage of people who are mentally ill, who find themselves homeless, find
themselves engrossed in the criminal justice system. So yeah, that's pretty shocking people
and just roll up out of this thing. One employee tells w r A,
Well, two factors are to blame. The employee's spoken anonymously since they
still work there, said short staffing and poor security are to blame for the
growing number of children who've escaped. The employee also believes that the staff is
set up for failure. Let's see, let me read the direct quote.
Staffing is most definitely the issue. If we have more staff or more help,
I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be that hard to keep the kids in the
right environment. The only thing stopping a patient from leaving. This is what
my question was, Well, what's the security apparatus, right, I'm assuming
the door doesn't just open or it's got like an old timey door code like
we have at the station for like our studios, which is adequate for a
studio, but not for a secure facility for mental health treatment. But no,
it's a badge, right, which makes sense. You got to use
a fob or a scan badge. How are the kids getting in or getting
out? I should say, if they need an employee badge, how are
they badging the door open? They say the things stopping a patient from leaving
as a badge carried by employees. However, and here's the answer, once
it's stolen, understaffing makes it hard to stop a patient from leaving. How
I you know, you know how many facilities deal with and have a policy
to deal with a security fob or badge being lost or stolen. I'm assuming
any of you who have a fob or like a key card that you use
in the course of your work that if you lose it, your employer is
expecting you to tell them because now there's a security issue. So if you
guys have so that's on employees either not saying anything because you know, I
don't want to get in trouble, lost my badge, and then I guess
my question is, well, how do you get a new one? Or
basic security measures not being followed? We have ROSS and I were just talking,
you know, whenever we have a staffing change or something like that,
one of the first things they do, depending on the story behind it,
right, is they change some of our access. I won't get into all
of what they do, but they literally will change it, and they'll change
it on a whim, right, because they want to maintain a secure environment.
If that's not happening here, I got some questions now is when you
get into a staffing issue thing, it's twofold. I understand because I've heard
employers complain, Look, we have adequate staffing. Here's what literally is recommended
by an oversight agency. Blah blah blah. We have it, we just
don't have employees executing. Uh so basically saying look, we have the correct
amount of staff, they're just lazy. I you know, I've heard that
thrown out there. But ultimately the BUCKS stops with management of a facility like
this, So I can get that. I I understand going, Hey,
look, it's not that we're understaffed. By by guidelines within this particular industry,
we just have employees that suck. Well, then you got to figure
out getting the employees that don't suck. If you're going to make that argument,
if you just keep the same employees, I'm going to I'm gonna think
they're not the problem. And I understand the frustration, and I think a
lot of people understand the frustration of getting pulled in nine thousand directions. Especially
Look, let's let's let's face it up around COVID and around so the downturn
in the economy, you get a whole lot of people, get a whole
lot of more things added to a job description that never were part of it.
And there's just this expectation that you're going to go ahead and do it.
That's part that's part of business. It happens to us, it happens
to other people. That's that's the name of the game. The question is
how do you follow through with that? And if it's not working, what
are you going to do to fix it? Following initial reports, numerous patients
started reaching out patients and or parents, i should say, reaching out with
concerns about the facility. Michelle Foutrallz that her daughter was attacked by another teenager
at the time. Well, that, yeah, that's that's a whole that's
a whole other issue. That may be the reason the kid wants to leave.
And you're never going to quell all of that. That's just when you're
working in a facility that's dealing with mental health issues, there's gonna be there's
going to be incidents. It's just undeniable. And yeah, this thing is
very, very disconcerting. Documents obtained by North Carolina Health News reveal other instances
of breaching protocol through Tarl said she'd like to see a system in what she's
able to choose where her daughter received care. So she falls into my daughter
was sent here as part of a either legal or doctor's thing, and so
she really didn't have any choice. Yeah, I don't know, man.
And it makes it hard when you hear stories because if you're a parent,
is listening to me right now, and you're dealing with you have a child
who's dealing with behavioral issues, mental health issues, all of this, and
you want help, and you're at the end of your rope, and you
know, this is the kind of stuff you may search out. You read
stuff like this, and I think it inhibits parents maybe wanting to do so.
But when you hear these stories, and that's not good for anybody.
Hey, I just wanted to say I didn't get to call about Aaron Rodgers
yesterday being the VP choice. But I don't. I don't think it's real.
I don't. But because now in the world, can he play for
the Jets and the vice president? There's no way. And I don't think
he's going to give up fifty million dollars. I really don't. But at
least can we agree that if he were able to be the vice president,
he would be better than Kamala Harris. I mean, seriously, I think,
are Michelle you're missing? You're missing the amazing, amazing thing that could
happen. Let's say he was the vice president and the quarterback for the Jets.
Can you hit him right it? What happened? If you're if you're
an edge rusher and you come around like, are you met with three Secret
Service guys? I don't know. I'd like to see how that works.
So or maybe the SHO glad to have you along here on Friday, two
more big hours and then for Ross, and I have two more big hours
till one week's vacation. Oh yeah, that's a happening. But in the
interim we'll do this thing and Pete Calender will join us. Calendar will join
us. Not Calendar. Some people write me and they go Pete Calendar and
it might be an autocorrect, but it's calendar. So any anyway, what'd
you say calender? Ross thinks it's Calender. So Ross also puts nicknames up
for callers. So and then I look over and I'm not prepared, and
then I giggle when introducing people that are important, and then they're probably self
conscious, so pro tip there. So anyway, yeah, he'll join us.
Eighth five. A couple things they're talking about this Hollyhill Children's Hospital.
Get five kids who are on lockdown impatient treatment just wander out the facility earlier
this week, three on Sunday, the last Sunday night, and quite a
few incidents. And that's a problem, especially as some parents they're you know,
they don't have a choice that their kids over there, so understandably they're
going to want a secure facility inside, and you have to do what you
can mitigate for problems inside. Knowing that in a mental health treatment facility,
there's there's always going to be incidents. It can't be helped. So it's
how you mitigate and the you know, the oversight that you that you provide,
but above and beyond that, like that should be the thing you're having
to worry about. How do you continue to make it safer for patients so
that they can thrive in their treatment. But the part where somehow they can
get a hold of a keyfob wander out and nobody does anything if a keyfob's
lost or stolen, I mean I can't even fathom that. So we got
that going on. And then also the like our last caller was talking about
the idea of a NFL quarterback being vice president. Again, I just like
that angle. And also what if they figure out what if that that that
is like a loophole? Right, that sounds like Bill Bill Belichick level of
evil research. Right, what we need is a quarterback who's under Secret Service
protection then nobody can touch them. And then that would require you to either
get an NFL player elected to president or vice president or start signing their their
mediate relatives, like if you go sign hunter. Biden made the Vikings Price
sign them. We do stupid stuff. That's the we signed Hunter Biden.
You can't touch him. He's under Secret Service protection. Plus I bet he.
I bet he's fun to party with, you know, if you guys
the off chance you win something, so and he can alternate that and the
the hallucinogenic parties. As you didn't catch that. When the news broke of
RFK casually mentioning Aaron Rodgers on his short list, all of the media tried
to get a hold of him and they couldn't because he was in Costa Rica
on a one week hallucinogenic vacation which I told you, traveling to this very
same area where he went, though not staying at this facility. That's a
whole tourism arm thing in Costa Rica, where most people are coming for the
beach of the jungles or the ziplines, volcanoes, the monkeys, whatever,
surfing they have hole they because it used to be lawless, and like in
some areas that cater to families, they had like people just tripping and so
now they have like these really high end like I'm not affording this vacation.
He's on super VIP service thing and they do weddings. They literally they sell
weddings where it's a destination wedding for you and the guests, and you go
down and there's the nuptials, but also there's like all the hallucinogenics. I
don't think they'll let you take them for the ceremony though, I don't know,
but I remember they had a big when I happened to be in in
around Tamarindoh's is beautiful little coastal city and if you for folks who traveled to
Costa Rica taking vacation's probably one of the big American visit areas. But they
have like they had a big wedding that was going on, and I was
talking to the dude at the restaurant of the hotel and it was not at
our hotel, but it was at and they had like they had like we're
talking money. They had like well known DJs from the US in they had
like an EDM thing with it. They had the wedding. They had drones
flying around everywhere, and uh, it's my understanding to turn into pandomum because
the guests got some of the guests got high and just like now we're gonna
go check out the bars. Oh yeah, so they kind of restricted them
back into these very specific out of the way experiences and a lot of them
are in the middle of the jungle or on a couple of the small islands
there. So yeah, and they have these super nice cabins. It's crazy,
man. I don't at my age, I don't need to be hallucinating
anything, but that's me so whatever. Also, I was just thinking about
this. It is a nice change. I was talking at the wedding roster
was just thinking of this. Finally you're at a wedding in a third world
country when a drone shows up and you're not scared. So that's nice for
the for the couple there. So yeah, we got all sorts of weirdness
in the stack today. All right, let's get back to the hospital thing.
Jennifer, thanks for hanging on. What's up, Hi, Casey,
good morning. I work at Central Regional Hospital for five years. And if
you lost your badge, which what we called it at the time, the
fob, you were incapable. You could not continue with your job. You
were at a dead stop first of all, so you had to access somebody
immediately to let them know because you couldn't go anywhere you were at a dead
stop. Second of all, perhaps they're allowing people at the Holly Hill facility
to keep your coworkers to keep the doors open for you, like, oh,
hey, buddy, I lost my fob, let me through. That
would have been a fireable offense at Central Regional. Yeah, yeah, yes,
And we couldn't even exit the building, literally couldn't exit the building without
our fob. So this just doesn't add up from me. Perhaps the person
who is in charge of making new fobs isn't there, they don't have that
position filled, and that is a staffing issue. But if you lose your
bob at one of those places, you're at a dead stop, and that's
an emergency situation. Well, here's the thing. They didn't say staffing issue
in the sense that we're understaffed right now because we can't hire enough people to
fill They straight up said that they have adequate numbers. So they've removed that
excuse, because to your point, needs to be somebody within the facility who's
that's their job. And if they're telling me that they're fully staffed, and
that means that that position, if it exists, is staffed. But you
know, maybe I don't know. Maybe they contracted out. I'm trying to
think. I've worked in a few different iHeart facilities, and they've done things
differently, And a lot of it's depend on the building in which our studios
were in. But in both instances, if you lose your fom and don't
tell somebody, there's going to be problems. So and we're just a radio
station. Yeah, this is exactly, and it's a The import of it
is so much greater at no offense, but it's so much greater at these
stabilities. Dare you you he wait, hold on, I got you're in
the drop man. Do you want royal majesty or Greta? Which? All
right, all right, because royal Majesty's I don't know, it's pretty majesty.
Yes, that's all right, we get them both, man, all
right, And but you insulted us to hang up on you? We do.
It's important. Ross has raised money for the kids. Question question our
commitment? All right? So uh? Anyway that, Oh my gosh,
why do we have an e A? Hold on? I have I have
asked my I have asked myself this question since nine to eleven? Why do
we have an e A? Yes? System. Why why do Ross and
I every year have to take training on how to work an EAS system,
which is you know in radio, if you have any sort of on air
chain connection or management connection, it's an annual refresher thing, right, whatever
your business in I'm maybe you got some annual training. But like, if
we're never going to use it, because like, if we're going to use
the EAS and they didn't use it in New York City or DC during nine
to eleven, what do we have to have? And I understand you say,
well, we use the as obviously for weather alerts or amber alerts.
Yeah, I understand that. But when you think of emergency alerts system and
you think of how it's represented in movies where it's like people are wondering,
how come they don't why don't I hear people anymore? Right? Or what's
that boom in the distance right just before the monster gets there? They flip
it on boom, there's engage and it's just some guy going, we're screwed,
but we're broadcasting lot and then it just cuts off right because the Godzilla
just stomped on the station or whatever. But if we're not gonna use it
for important stuff, what are we even doing? And this I feel like
it has to rise to the occasion McDonald's system outages being reported worldwide. I'm
gonna repeat this all across the world, binding together humanity. The McDonald's corporation
is reporting system wide outages getting between you and your McMuffin this morning and your
hash brown things patty thing, and you're you know, whatever, you let
breakfast burrito, if you're into that unattainable, unattained not at all Donald's.
So it would be very clear here. So if you're planning on going to
McDonald's, I would what I would do is I would just pay special attention
to if the parking lot looks like it's a tailgate for a state game,
chances are they might be having some issues. What I don't understand as I'm
reading this article here system failures of McDonald's reported worldwide Friday, with complaints emanating
from let's see London, Japan. You're not just basically everywhere, but I
warn you again, it's some McDonald's restaurants other locations who've had problems, though
they feel that they've remedied. They've remedied. Most of these included Bangkok Milan,
London, Denmark, the UK. It says scattered reports in the United
States. I guess that's just because you know they're ahead of us, so
got to have people get up and not be able to do it. So
here's what i'll understand. So McDonald's issuing statements in they're not related to cybersecurity.
They're calling it a technology outage in there behind the seams system. All
right, So this guy guess, I'm assuming they mean their POS system.
I know this is asking a bunch ross. You ever walked into a place
to buy like a three dollars sandwich, Okay, we'll go three dollar breakfast
sandwich, and you go in and you want to get your sandwich, but
like the credit card machine's not working. How do you remedy that? And
how from your experience, how has that been remedied in the past. Not
McDonald's necessarily, but just someplace you ever walked in that situation. I mean,
the other option is obviously cash. Oh look at that cash. So
this is what i'll understand. McDonald's. Will you have all those people scurring
around, I understand that there's a fluidity to your system. You're telling me
that your staff doesn't have the ability to still sell things for cash. But
then I remember what happens when you go to McDonald's. A lot of McDonald's
they don't even trust them to account change. Man, going to McDonald's,
you know, sheets always has a few other places where they've just simplified it
for that process. It doesn't mean necessarily the person who's working doesn't know how
account change, but that at the very least they work with people don't.
Yeah, man, this is uh. I think if you had to rank
things, well, now we're going to report the McDonald's and Fuquay was down.
And again McDonald's keep saying that they're fixing this, fixing this. So
I don't want you to assume, right, if you're planning, I don't
want you to assume that necessarily there's going to be a problem. Dontly McDonald's
suing me. He said they're all closed. No. I said that you
might run into a problem, and the problem apparently can't be remedied in the
way that we've conducted commerce for all. But like fifty forty fifty years of
our of our country's existence, Look some old country store in the eighteen hundreds,
right now till didn't go down, That didn't happen. Go in there,
you want to buy a pig or what you know whatever, boom cash
baby. So look, this is immediately I guess the problem they would say
is it's not necessarily with that. It's the it's the whole ordering system,
I guess is although they're not specific on what it is, but it's there
behind the scenes. I'm assuming it's the system that gets your order from point
A to the folks screen in the kitchen to eventually in your hand. And
understandably that's what your employees are going to be trained on. But you guys
can write stuff down. I've seen them it in restaurants before and the pre
here's the here's the thing, and and by the way, this sucks for
the employees. I just want to be one hundred like I'm on your team
here. This sucks. But like there's there's options. And then there's also
this. Look at the amount of absolute psychopaths fast food workers have to deal
with every day, and those are on days when the system is working.
Like every day it's a new crazy video, some Karen, some guy who's
mad throwing drinks through the drive through. Somebody who's coming in punching employees like
these are all these are all possibilities on days when things are working as they're
supposed to. So I I'm going to predict, although we won't be here
Monday, that there's the potential there's going to be some stories that you're going
to see, uh emerge all right? Coming up on the show, Uh,
the one hundred most obese cities in the US. We'll see how NC
did. And uh it's quite heist. I'll tell you about it coming up.
Hang on, are you living in one of the one hundred most obese
US cities? By the way, you're gonna be shocked to learn the South
is very well represented, although Texas did get the crown. In case you're
wondering, McCallen, Texas is the most obese city in America according to this
list. Here, Uh, what else you got? I'll get in the
n see stuff here in just a moment. It's not that's not the outage.
The order system is to I understand, that's what I said. I
said the internal system, yes, and that's why I suggested pen and paper.
But let's face it, come on, man, you're not gonna be
able to pay you because they the all of the training is up to and
including no I'm getting spy reports all over. I'd say that you got about
a one in three chants you might hit a McDonald's that's got a problem this
morning. So if you're craving Mickey D's, feel free. By the way,
do you know that today is the Today is the birthday of the McNugget.
I just happened to see that on one of my list this morning.
You have forty three years ago today, your child being a picky eater was
cemented with the advent of chicken nuggets. Right. I don't know, maybe
I'm stereotyping, but like friends of mine who've had kids who will eat like
one or two things, get picky, McNuggets generally are on the approved list.
I don't know if it's obviously not the same for every kid, but
there seems to be white acceptance there so anyway. Yeah, so if you're
going carve out a little extra time or keep an eye on the parking lot.
All right. Back to this story, which actually ties in, I
think to McDonald's about the obesity mobile Little Rock Shreveport, Jackson, Mississippi.
In fact, North Carolina doesn't creep into the list until let's see, they're
not even in the top twenty. No, it's number twenty two where we
see our first North Carolina city making the list, and the crown in North
Carolina goes to one of our broadcast cities, Winston. Well, they wrote
Winston, but Winston Salem. That's right. The Triad got it on lock
number twenty two nationwide, number one in the state of North Carolina, beating
out things like Myrtle Beach. Didn't see that coming, Greensboro's number thirty role
he or Charlotte even on the list, they gotta be. Yeah, Charlotte's
at number fifty, raleighs at number fifty eight. I'm sure Durham's on here
somewhere, doesn't I don't believe Durham's not on this list, at least in
the top hundred. I wonder it. Yeah, I don't see it.
I went maybe they rolled it into the Raleigh metro ummmm. Man, I'm
even trying to find some of the other I don't know how Portland's not on
here when you see their protesters, you know what I'm saying, Which,
by the way, if Haitian cannibals come here and they go to Portland.
You anti foot chicks, you're in trouble feed a family for a month.
Yeah, I don't see it on here, all right, So there you
go. How do they cobble it together? Yeah? Most of this usual
measurements, although they I guess it comes down to let's see obesity and weight
rank, health consequences rank, So that's a you know, heart disease things
like that, and then food and fitness basically the percentage of healthy restaurants and
or the number per capita of healthy restaurants and fitness facilities. So look at
that. Not quite number one, but still putting on a good show.
All right. Check out this. Police are trying to figure out who stole
a shipment of yam or yagur bobble heads. Dude, is there anything in
California they won't steal? And that's assuming that in California, not somebody just
you know, slung in there. Uh, now you go in wait,
Yoger plays for the Penguins. What are you talking about? Well, the
entire crate of bobbleheads, or a shipping container of bobble heads had arrived at
the Port of cal port in California, and then was going to be trucked
to Let's see, right at the port, was gonna be trucked to San
Jose for the Sharks Penguins game. Why are they given yoger? Tell me
it's gotta be I think they screwed that up. It's got to be shipped
to Pittsburgh. Yes, okay, all right, it wasn't route to Pittsburgh.
The reporter can't even read this the team statement. I was like,
why would you get bobbleheads of an opposing player? So yeah, and it's
an entire ship. It's an entire arena full of bobbleheads because it's Bobblehead night
and somebody stole all of them for for how I don't know, Like how
are you gonna flip those? You take that, you're gonna take that into
the pond shop and be like, hey, I have how many? Is
it even? Like? Fifteen twenty thousand bobblehead? And I check Ross does
not have any yamor yoger bobbleheads, nor does he probably follow the Penguins.
I don't so, all right, so be on you look if you know,
if at any point some dude in the trench coachs trying to sell you
Yamir yagur. Bibbleheads today, see something, say something, perhaps just throwing
it out there. Bernie Sanders, he's always it's always interesting to see the
bills that he puts forward. Most of them are about ignoring the fact that
he owns four houses and screaming how everyone else is rich and then attempting to
sabotage the economy. Uh, this one, though, I don't know,
he might get some converts here. Bernie Sanders introduced to bill Wednesday that would
shave eight hours off the standard forty hour work week that is been around for
several decades. Basically, the legislation called the thirty two Hour work Week Act,
but amend the Fair Labor Standards Act by lowering the maximum hours threshold for
overtime. Now, I know what you're immediately thinking, Oh my gosh,
this is going to screw a bunch of people, right because thirty two hours.
You know, your status with your employer full time part time is partially
dictated by their wants and needs, but very much dictated by the financial hit
that comes with stepping into part time to full time and the health insurance requirements
that were tacked on with Obamacare. And you know, for those of you
not in business, a twenty dollars employee doesn't cost an employer twenty dollars an
hour the hell of a lot more. But fear not, the bill would
require that there'd be no change in Hey, so if you work a forty
hour week and you bring home one thousand a week, just keep it easy.
If your employer would then be forced in thirty two hours to pay you
the same, now, they could still require you to work forty hours and
in those instances, in those instances, any hour over that would be paid
either time and a half or double time, so that you'd get time and
a half from thirty two to forty and then double time after forty hours,
and work day longer than eight hours would also kick in. So yeah,
I can't think of any negative consequences on the economy here. A poll shows
a high level of support for a hypothetical four day work week, although businesses
say that they need to be able to do business five days a week.
So Sanders people are calling this the compromise. All right, well, you
still do business Monday through Friday, But he is six hour workday or whatever
that would math out to. As you can imagine, many of the business
industries are like, here's nine thousand ways this goes sideways. And even if
I expect that they will over you know, they'll fear monger a little,
right because you know, ultimately this is a negotiation. They're going to be
right on some of these. And the inevitability when that happens is then less
employees, right, because that's how that works. But whatever, ross,
what do you think you have Bernie bru on this one? Or you're good
because that thirty two hours? Like that? I mean it is. It
does sound pretty nice, doesn't it? Like it like if you if you
don't think it through, if you're like, oh man, that sounds amazing,
Yeah you're stupid. That sounds great. Yeah yeah, if you're like,
ah, what would they? And who know, look, there are
some here's the thing within any of this, there's gonna be some industries where
there's it probably would be functional, right, but everyone's got to be comfortable
working, you know, perhaps because what they would do is they would stack
you. This is a way of kind of forcing the employer to go,
all right, well do I want to have them come in for a little
bit five days a week or four days a week at eight hours. That's
it's a way of trying to force the four day work week. So I
don't know. Here's the thing. Any business who wants to do this,
you can already do. This is the point that I wanted to make.
You don't need legislation. If management wants to come to somebody where you work
and go, all right, I know you're working forty hours for one thousand
a week. How about you just work thirty two, bob, and we'll
still pay you the same. An employer is welcome to strike that deal if
they want. All right, seven forty six. This man works one hundred
hours a week. It's race stagic o' yess with his doppler? What's up?
Man? Not that much? Why'd you get to storm where I'm from?
Why'd you do it? Oh? Yeah, yeah, big time,
big time. How about when my buddies are posting pictures of snow, considering
it's like an everyday occurrence, then I know it's screwed. And then I
said, you see the bus story of the women trapped on ice seventy?
No, I didn't see that. Oh my gosh, all right, So
a lot of times people are gonna go skiing up in Breckenridge Winter Park,
even up to Vail. You have big groups. They'll fly into Denver's airport
rather than Veil Eagle for obvious reasons cost. And then you get a charter
bus, right and uh, and then people will party all the way up
the mountain by the time they get there. So this charter bus picks up
fifty women, a women's group in Denver, and it was driving them up
to one of the ski areas, and that's that storm moved in, that
blizzard in it and they their bus got stranded and they've been They were stranded
for sixteen hours on ice seventy wow. But the bus driver said that about
six hours in all the the wine and pot brownies had been consumed and then
they started sobering up. And it was it was pandemonium because you got fifty
women with a hangover, stuck in a snowstorm in a bus. The dude
didn't say, but you could tell he was probably ready to walk right to
get out of there. Yes, I'm walking, yeah exactly, yeah,
yeah. Bottle blame Well, that storm getting into the Colorado Rockies a place
like Denver getting snow in it. In case you didn't know, March is
one of the snow you're months for Denver March February traditionally, so it's not
unusual we have severe storms go through a high at least three fatalities. Unfortunately,
they are the good news for US as as that line of rain in
thunderstorms approaches today does weaken and we don't expect severe storms. They'll be south
southwest of US, so showers and even thunderstorms are in our forecast. They'll
spread west east later this morning into the afternoon. Already started to see some
on the western edge of the try A still could be near eighty today.
Yesterday was eighty three and Raleigh seventy nine at the Triad, neither of those
records, but still well above average. We'll get into the weekend, we'll
see more in the way of sunshine, developing near seventy tomorrow, maybe some
low mid seventies on Saint Patrick's Day, and plenty of sunshine before we cool
off early next week. Tuesday morning, we may sneak into the twenties in
some spots, with the high in the fifties to near sixty Monday, and
only in the fifties on Tuesday, so we'll get a little colder shot of
air coming in. But all in all, after today early tonight, looks
like some great weather coming up. Really don't see my train. Pleasant temperatures
too, and above average through the weekend. All right, thank you,
sir. And again that bus man, that's I can't even imagine, just
how lon right? So yeah, all right, I'm going that's Lord of
the Flies, right, that's mutiny. Right, you're the pirate captain and
they ran out of barrels of ale and you're just like, all right,
well that's my ship now. So and you know the dude was under selling
it because he works for the bus company. All right, seven fifty coming
up, Pete calendar eight five. We will get into that. And this
Dylan mulvainy story, all right, just if your bud light, how much
do you want Dylan mulvaney to just shut up? I'll explain next hang on
Kcoday radio program. It's just cold, man. That is what I love
about baseball, though. Every now and then you get one of those clips
of somebody either making an amazing catch or doing something wildly irresponsible in the stands
like that dude who had a beer and a baby in his hand and somehow
caught a baseball. Some people are like, ah, what are you doing?
But it looked like a really good catch. You remember that clip yesterday
at the Kansas City Royals preseason game. There's these kids that are standing in
this like home run porch, you know those kind of areas in there,
and so they're saying they got their gloves. They're all excited, and I
don't know if it was Soto or Wit Junior, somebody, somebody hit a
home run, right, and you see these two kids there, one of
them it's his birthday and the ball's coming right for him. What a great
birthday. Man. You set up, you pick the right spot, you
got your glove. Here comes a big, big, major leaguer's home run.
You're gonna have this thing. And this grown ass man literally gets in
there and blocks him out and catches the ball and then just walks off with
the damn thing. Now, part of me is like, why would you
do that to a kid? Man? But the other part of me is,
I bet that kid's gonna learn to hustle. Yeah, throw a few
elbows, bro. Life Life, ain't gonna give it to you, but
yeah, I'm gonna. I just Rea tweeted the video of this. The
good news is following the incident the kid whose birthday it was other HeSE eighteen
was his eighteenth birthday, so I guess he was just on the cusp of
kid. I actually ended up getting signed balls from several of the big players
at the game and a bat I think so, and then the other dude
got his baseball and the scorn of humanity. All right, So we got
that video out there for you. Check that out onto this. Yes,
by the way, everyone's convinced the bobbleheads are full of heroin. You're probably
right, as you know. That's how you smuggle drugs, right, you
want to get heroin in stuff, I'm in the bobbleheads. You want to
get cocaine into the country. Back in the day, you literally bribe Avianca,
the Colombian Airline, to remove all of the life vests under the seats
and fill each flight with bricks of cocaine, which was actually really how Escobar
was getting coke into the country. Just one of them many ways. Kcoday
Radio program phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven before hang
on to that in case you hear anything during our next conversation. Uh,
and you want to opine, But let's welcome in our guest radio buddy to
the South wbt's Midday iHeart Radio app. You want to listen in. It's
Pete Calendar. What's up? Pete? Oh you know not a whole lot?
How are you? You know we're on vacation next week? So I
am oh static? Man? Wow, yeah, okay, take a big
If I have the I guess I have Friday morning off too, then yes,
this is me informing you of that unless you want to Unless you want
to just out of pure like habit, you want to call in and just
kind of sit on hold for thirty minutes, we can set that up for
I can do that, sure, okay, all right, good dad.
So or you can just fight with you people on Twitter as per as per
usual. So I'm gonna say that's like any other day, come on,
man, he though, I don't appreciate some of your sycophants trying to change
my language here. Really, yeah, I was sitting there just trying to
do I don't I don't even remember what I was talking about. And some
guys like, actually, it's not vote getter, it's vote tainer. So
it is, yeah, well you know what you know what that is that's
up at the uptown Charlotte Elitis bs man, Hey, put your model in
and tell us all about it. Go ahead. It's not even that it
came from It came from western North Carolina. It came from the mountains of
Appalachia. This idea. It didn't come from Charlotte. This was a couple
of years ago while I was working in Ashville and we were talking about how
I hate the term vote getter. I hate it. It's just it's a
cumbersome, awkward sounding word. And you know, I'm all about solutions,
and so I figured, hey, I whant to throw it out there to
the audience, get some people to give give us some different words that might
work. And a woman called in and suggested votainer a sort of a combination
of vote and you know, attain attainer, and so you are the top
votainer. It's very useful in like an at large race where you've got several
candidates and you want to say, okay, this person finished, you know,
first, second, third, uh, in the in a crowded field.
You could say they were the you know, top votainer in that election,
and it just sounds so much better. And I just you could say
they got the most votes. I mean you can. But that's what's so
nice about votainer is that it is a shorter word to describe something that would
otherwise take more words. And so you know in media we're always looking to
uh, you know, simplify the language and the phrasing and stuff to save
space, to get more simplify it. It's literally more syllables. Votator,
Yeah, then vote getter. He was the he was the top votainer.
Would that be using it correctly in a sentence or you could just say votainer.
Well, no, no, because that's not how people speak. They're
literally because they have to identify who they're describing. So you would say,
like Martin Walker was the second largest votainer in the people could but you yeah,
I mean, if you wanted to say that Walker got the second amount
of most amount of votes, that's funny, simpler you could just say,
well, you could say in a second, But if you're trying to say,
like in an at large race, the top three, what the top
three candidates, those who finished in the top three, whatever you could say
candidates, Sure, yeah, yeah, go ahead. All I'm saying is,
if you're going to say vote getter, don't say votainer. All right,
you know what, that's all. It's just a swap out. It's
one word. It's a swapout of the votainer and you're about to win.
Stop talking. I am yielding your position that it's not a Charlotte hipster,
uptown elitist thing. It's an Ashville douchebag hipster thing. So it's not even
it's wow. You just insulted all of the Appalachian thirteen county area out there.
That's just wow. What are they going to do about it? My
hummus away? What I mean literally the guys had up there is the giant
homeless due with this cigarette who flicked up my windshield. That's the only guy
I'm scared of. You cannot blame all of western North Carolina for the actions
of a mentally ill Ashville homeless person like that's it's a blue dot in a
red We've done a blue dot in a sea of red. This is redundant,
by the way, just you know, having to use all of those
adjectives to describe this individual, because I think everyone in that triangle of restaurants
there in the middle, all of the tobos were nuts. Man. Oh
dude, all right, enough with that. I think I've wont Let's let's
move on to this. So yeah, I use Mark Walker as an example.
Walker so number two in votes following the primary, and uh, well
within the current law to request a runoff, as I didn't get to the
thirty percentile. Addison didn't, and that was what everyone expected was going to
happen, and then apparently not. Mark Walker congratulates Addison for victory, he'll
be a member of Congress because there's no opposition in the primary, and announces
that he's joined the team Trump hand in faith and minority outreach for the campaign.
All Right, people don't call it. Don't call it a bribe.
Oh sorry, but but I did not. I didn't. I simply said,
people have a lot of thoughts. I don't want to Sully years before
I hear this, what do you Yeah? Kind of sounds like a bribe,
you know. Look, And he also he said that he's going to
get an endorsement. Trump has promised him a one hundred percent total endorsement,
I believe is the correct phrase. If he decides to run for another office,
we'll see. I don't know if he actually will or will not,
if that's going to be something that Walker attempts to do, But I don't
know. Maybe he was looking at his internal polls and stuff and knew that
he wouldn't be able to beat the Trump backed candidate in this race. I
think a couple of the other candidates that had run in the primary, they'd
come out and endorsed his opponent at Addison. What's the last name is it,
McDowell, Addison McDowell. Yeah, So, and so this guy is
gonna, you know, he's got the seat. And so maybe Walker just
kind of reads the writing on the wall and says, I'm going to go
ahead and get what I can and you know, make make it look like,
you know, he's you know, doing the best thing for for the
Trump backed candidate, you know what I mean. It's politics, right,
and he's got I mean, he got that's let's face it. That's what
happened, you know with the Senate thing. Right. Remember remember Walker Walker
had was with you know, Trump's support for previous stuff. But you know,
the behind the scenes without getting into all of it. The behind the
scenes that people don't realize is, you know, people, the reason people
go down to mar A Lago to sit with the don quite literally is they
and a couple organizations have a lot of They have a lot of pull over
who even kind of is going to be that person? Right, Like we
voters, you don't realize in some cases how little actual way you have based
on how the district's set up. And you know Walker, initially, when
Bud made that transition, he said, well, I'm not gonna I'm not
going to challenge you, right initially was the thing. And then I think
Walker figured out that without without that endorsement, uh, he was dead in
the water. And I got to think in a district where the power and
the purse strings of the Trump folks coming in, that may very well be
what he figured out. But is it necessarily an endorsement for future or do
you think Walker's hoping to parlay that if Trump is elected into some sort of
a job within because that probably both Yeah, yeah, I mean I don't
know if this is going to be like a long term thing for him.
I mean, we've talked about how there is there's not a lot of love
lost between Mark Walker and Mark Meadows. I don't know if Mark Meadows is
if he's still part of Trump world or not. He's always it always seems
like he's in and then he's out. And so but that was you know
that that drove a lot of that endorsement for Ted Budd also, you know,
so yeah, yeah, I mean I think you're right, Like,
I don't know if this is going to be some sort of a long term
play for a future position if Trump wins. But yeah, like again,
this is where the party is going. It's already there, right, And
you know, I've made this comment for the last year or so, which
is, you know, Donald Trump is now the Republican Party. So you
know, these these accusations of what is a rhino and what is establishment and
all this, they don't really mean a whole lot to me, at least
anymore, because Trump has captured the GOP and has for a long time.
And you can say that's great or you can say that's terrible, but it
is the fact they that the party structured, the power of the party is
behind Donald Trump. And Walker recognizes that. And so if Trump doesn't want
him to be in the race against Addison McDowell, then he won't be in
the race, and he's able to get something for it. Yeah, here's
it. And I've heard, I've I've talked to several people who've done the
you know, the kiss the ring thing down to mar A Lago and the
impression that I'm left with and allow me just to irritate some big wheels is
I was very uncomfortable with the amount of power that Trump was vesting into organizations
like Club for Growth because I really got the vibe the Club for Growth was
dictating all of the candidates. And and I understand too why you know,
Trump may not want to involve himself with you know, four hundred some races
plus whatever Senate stuff's going on. But uh, and know things individually.
And I think people appreciated when he did the short list for the Supreme Court
as part of his knowledgend then carried it out. But it's I don't like
it. I don't. But I don't like the parties either, in the
amount of flex that they have. I was I remember, I was mad
as hell when the parties threatened to not allow, not remove the electoral votes.
If North Carolina voted to move the primary, do you remember that?
And who the hell are you people to threaten something I have to pay for
that it's not on your date, or you're going to screw over half of
North Carolina or I guess the third. Like I get so irritated with this.
So when you have outside organizations that are turning these wheels and are dictating
who can and can't run rather than the voters, and I understand it will
never be that pure pete, But the behind the scenes stories you hear are
it's just all the worst hammery hall kind of stuff that you ever thought you'd
hear. And it's not just trumpet Biden or the Republicans or Democrats. It's
the way that it works. It's ugly, well, it's any man made
construct right and right because people are involved, and so people are fallible.
We are falling, and so yeah, we're going to have that kind of
influence and impact on these structures that we build. Which is why I always
say, whether it's you know your h your way, or it's your government,
if good competent people do not volunteer and step up and help to manage
and fix and govern then you're going to be managed and governed by bad incompetent
people, right, And I think for a long time a lot of people
of a limited government perspective have sort of abandoned the field. Right. It's
like I'm gonna go over and I'm going to make money, I'm going to
be in business, I'm going to be successful over here, and I'm going
to ignore. Yeah. Yeah, and I don't either. But on the
other hand, it's like, you have certain talents that would be transferable and
of benefit to a larger group of people in the population, and so maybe
you should consider, you know, volunteering to help in some manner. I'm
not saying how, but just to volunteer to help. And this goes for
like civic organizations as well, getting involved in I say this all the time
too, which is if you want government to do less, you know,
we need to do more as individuals, and that's through civic organizations and associations.
What you know, Well, how was I gonna ask this? What
do you think of Michael Wattley? You know, well, I mean he's
not as far as I know, he's not. He's not you know,
bribing anybody. Uh No, no, I don't. I guess that's gonna
happened to Look, I happen to think he's a bit of a snake,
but arguably he's uh, he's he You could argue he has been an effective
snake. And those are my works. I'm not going to put that on
you. Him and I have had we had some issues over an incident,
uh back in the day. But but yeah, I get a lot of
look but the people are looking at Wattley and then they're looking at you know,
Trump having a family member in the in the vice chair position like this
is unprecedented. And I'm like ntt Romney's cousins was just right, and and
Reagan one of Reagan's family members. Don't even get me started on the Democrats.
This is unprecedented. This is Triday too well. And in fact,
the Republican Party actually has a rule where they have to have a man and
a woman leading the party like that, I believe. So they by gender
born with or by identity, by gender born well, yeah, by gender
born with, not by identity. Yeah. So and that look, I
get along, you know me, I'll get along with like anybody you know.
Uh, you know, if people want to pick fights with me,
then I'm happy to oblige that as well. See my work on Twitter.
But but no, I like I can get along with anybody, and so
all of my interactions with Mike have been you know, I've been you know,
good, and I don't get you know, I get along with them,
and I asked them all questions too. That was the point that I
was making, Like I happen to. But I'm also able even if I
if I have some personal issue, like I can evaluate Tom Tillis or Michael
Wadley individually. And you know, I think the argument could be made that
Wadley's had a success will run in here, Carolina. So sure it helps,
it helps. So no, Yeah, when he goes around, he
talks about he goes and speaks in front of Republican activists and the grassroots and
stuff, and he's very effective at communicating the message on you know, getting
out the vote and what is needed to win. I'll tell you what,
though, they're going to need it for Michelle Morrow. Two minutes left,
Ril weighing in, I know that it's say how she she wanted somebody execute
it. So if somebody says the president committed trees and it should be held
to the fullest extent guantanamo or perhaps you know, the punishment for trees and
the still top punishment is execution. Is that the same as calling for somebody
to execute them? And I don't know the answer to that, but Aril's
going with that's the exact same thing when I heard a few people suggest that
Trump might be punished for trees and or should be and no beef there.
So minute left, what do you think? Yeah, no, it's the
if you are going to apply a consistent standard across the board, then a
lot of people are going to have to be in the same boat as Michelle
Morrow. That being said, we know that the media and the left,
but I repeat myself, does not apply the same consistent standard to politicians of
both parties. And so yeah, you're going to get this as the prime
focus for the next eight months, along with this stuff from Mark Robinson.
And that's Look, this is what Republicans ask for, this is what they
voted for, is what we're going to get. So like again, we'll
see if it works. We'll see if the strategy works. Thirty seconds,
real quick. So my thought and this is the question, do you think
that because Republicans are willing to go look, the media is doing this,
and there's corruption within government doing this, so they'll overlook things. Do you
think that that causes a blind spot for what independence may overlook when they're evaluating
twenty seconds? No, I don't think so. I think a lot of
unaffiliated quote independents that aren't really independent. I think they don't. Bottom line
is they don't want to be embarrassed by their votes. And I'm not sure.
I'm not sure that they're going to look past this stuff. Okay,
well we'll get into more of it, but that'll be two weeks away and
we'll be back. This is from CBS News. Fifty killed in anti sorcery
ritual after being forced to drink mysterious liquid and Gola officials say, yeah,
so basically fifty people in Gola who were they were rounded up because they were
sorcerers according to the powers that be. And let's see here. The death
occurred in January and February, so that several roundups of the central town and
Angola Kama Koopa. I'm sure it's nice anyway. The local councilor there,
who was representing some of these folks said that government officials accused the healers of
administering the deadly concoction, right, So it's an anti sorcery ritual. They
were rounding up people they thought were bad sorcerers, and then somebody made him
drink anti sorcery liquid, and so government's saying other sorcerers did it. Other
sorcerers are saying government did it. So it's a mess. So this is
like the classic throw the witch in the pond thing. Yeah, pretty Othough,
then after they throw the witch instead of the town council or whatever,
who did the witch throw? And they're like, why did the other witches
throw her in there? Right? So you're getting a little of that vibe.
I will say this if in fact they were evil sorcerers, right,
I'm just I'm going to go along with your fever dream here and Golan officials
slash sorcerers. Technically you solve your sorcerer problem, right, I mean,
but there's also the very real possibility they weren't sorcerers, or they probably wouldn't
let you agree with them, you know, which is the classic sorcerer middle
managed sorcerer problem. Do you know what I'm saying? Saw this in the
classic documentary hocus pocus. Uh, yes, there are elements of this within
the Lord of the Rings. I know you wouldn't be aware of that,
but I mean it sounds like a failure on the What do you say in
Gola and Golay on their government's part, because why would you not try to
harness their power? Right, they should be a subjorb like underground bunkerrap like
in Area fifty one and then Gola and just harness their power. This destroy
your enemies. I mean, this is why you know they haven't risen to
the United States status, right, because I believe our people would. We
would have them in a bunker somewhere loan of goats. They're sorcerers, dude.
This is but no, the classic problem I was talking about, right,
and we can get into the history of Middle Earth and all that stuff,
but it goes like this, somebody who's somebody who's craving power held ben
on power. Generally, they're portraying the movie as not necessarily a good person
will attempt to incorporate a sourcer. It doesn't have to be a sorcerer.
Could be a sorcerer. It could be a superhero, like, hey,
what's magneto up to It could be any It could be a mythical evil demon
creature or something right where they're like, oh no, I totally control this
demon, and inevitably what happens at some point the demon or sauron or the
you know, the sorcerer in question, here goes why am I taking?
Why is some rerunt with no magical powers in charge of me? I'm frigging
magical And then it doesn't end well, So that's the blunder I'm trying to
help you avoid. How do you work? This is why you need to
confine them even more. You need to get them even further under the earth
yea around by thicker brick and harness their power. Okay, I can't.
I can't see how this would backfire at all. All right, No,
you know what you've damn youre convinced or you make him drink poison and you
waste the potential. Well, then some would argue they're not sorcerers, right,
But there's also the flip side. Let's say that they are sorcerers.
Unfortunately their Achilles hill is whatever this drink was, right, Yeah, it's
like in a in a mythical movie where there's like one like sword or like
it's like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows where Harry's with Dumbledore and Dumbledore has
to drink the stuff to get the horsecrucks and like weakens him, it almost
kills him. What. I don't know some of the words you use.
I was gonna say the last I was gonna say, thor love and thunder
right, right, the only way you could kill the gods is with that
that sword that they have. What an awful piece of crap movie though,
I know, but I needed an example that where I didn't have to figure
out what you're the hoares, the crux of where the hoares are or whatever
you were talking about. So anyway, so let's say that this mysterious liquid
is in fact a good sorcerer exterminate. Do what happens? What happens if
they have like a comeback and haunt you sorcerer's spell? Right, they guard
smuggled him some chalk, some goat's blood and a candle, and now you're
signing your own death warrant. My point is, don't mess with sorcerer,
right, So we need to put them even further under the earth. The
babe surrounded. But I don't know a letter or something I don't know,
isn't that No, it's mercury, right, I don't know from the mummy.
I'm a full disclosure, not a scientist. But Ross claims to be
like the sorcerer whisper because he treats his sorcerer as well. And now now
he's now he's like, how far under the earth. But I put him
before they burst into flight, to put him in like a black sarcophagus.
Just bury it. This is that's not going to improve morale around You know,
hey, the Hayes Corporation, if your sorcerers are buried in sarcophagus and
the pits of the earth, plus you'll also inevitably what will happen is the
only they'll be confined, But it'll be by some rinky dink talisman that a
curious spelunkernus and now all of a sudden, the sorcerers free. This is
why working in government is a dangerous job. It's not easy. Do you
think there's a sorcerer division, Because if there is, our government, I
mean we know for a fact, right, we know for a fact they
have people doing like remote viewing and they have people like try and explode goats
with their mind and all that stuff. That stuff has happened before. We
know that for a fact, that they've tried to harness like psychic powers.
Absolutely, although although an argument, a very strong argument can be made that
a lot of that was show for Russia, right where like you know,
it's that that premise where it's like we never went to the moon. They
were just trying to bankrupt Russia, right, get them to spend into oblivion,
And there is a certain truth to that. We have also historically done
things where we weren't really doing those things, but we said we were,
so that Russia dumped a bunch of money into it. Famous famously, what
was the alien stuff did? We had a whole operation where we try to
convince Russia post World War Two, and some claim the Roswell stuff is tied
in with that, and that was all about making the Russians think that not
only did we have the stuff they knew we could build, but we also
might have space labor lasers, so don't screw with us. But anyway,
but if you're in Angola and you're a sorcerer, probably I wouldn't be doing
chalk circles and stuff. It's not gonna end. Well, I erased Agic
from the weather channel morning. They they rounded up sorcerers, made him drink
something, and fifty people are dead. So the Angola, which is like
stupid because of their sorcers. They are actual sorcerers. They're going to come
back for you. It's not going to be pretty. No, no,
I don't know. It doesn't sound like it would be. But but not
to self, did not move to. We're just say Angolia, Angola,
Angola. It's a scratch that off the list. Right of place is to
visit or move to. I meant that weather to be exciting. It's one
hundred and fifteen again, yeah, yeah, again it's a dry heat.
Yeah, it's a dry heat. However yeah, and then they're like,
oh, oh he could predict the weather. He's a sorcerer. So there
you go. Now you're screwed. Yeah. I can see into the future.
We'll look a little into the future and we'll see some cooler weather,
maybe back to normal, which is near sixty degrees for High Tria Triangle.
Yesterday most of us were close to eighty or above, but no records seventy
at the triad eighty three in Raleigh. Neither were records, but again well
above average, and we could be close to eighty today. Mid upper seventies.
We'll see as the clouds are starting to think and early starting to see
some showers just to the west of the Greensboro Winston Salem which you get now
into Wilkes County. Some showers Algany County, so that's west of seventy seven
and coming east, so west to east will start to see the showers.
Embedded thunderstorms come in. Most of that thunder of this afternoon and some gusty
winds and the storm should weaken as we're seeing severe storms southwest of this line
that's gonna get us, but we should still see some thunder, a little
bit of lightning in a slow commute this afternoon. Those showers thunderstorms will end
as we head on through tonight, developing sunshine on Saturday and mostly sunny on
Sunday. Over the weekend, low seventies or highs fifties at night. That
a cold shot of air comes in for Monday and Tuesday, especially here,
sixty was actually normal Monday, So get outside Monday with sunshine and be like,
oh, this is what it should feel like that Tuesday. We could
wake up in the mid thirties, highs only in the fifties. But we'll
cook you warm up after that. Next week looks like another beautiful week,
but how much rained all maybe again until later in the WEEKKSE, So enjoy
it. I have a little wet weather today early tonight, then the sun's
back and a mild weekend that a little cooler early next week. Oh that's
nice. You guys have fun. We're on vacation next week. So all
week, all week, buddy, Well the nerve of you, right,
yeah, you should be offended. You have all people Merlin, all right,
get out of here. Okay, So there you go. You're on
notice. Yeah, Racetagic from the Weather Channel appreciate that. We'll talk to
him in a week plus and we'll talk to Jeff Bellinger next. Hang on,
Jeff Bellinger, Jeff, what's happening? Good morning, KC, and
Happy Friday. Stocks started out higher yesterday, but they could not sustain early
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Househunters had more properies to choose from last month. Redfinn says listings nationwide rose
to the highest level since September of twenty twenty two. They were up nearly
fifteen percent from February of last year. The report says the Locke in effect
is easing. That is, the homeowners who have held on to low interest
rate mortgages simply had to move on, and so they put their properties up
for sale. Nearly eight and ten baby boomers think age would be a factor
if they were being considered for a new job. A new Harris Pole commissioned
by the American Staffing Association also found that two thirds of baby boomers think their
age would put them at a disadvantage. The pole comes on the heels of
recent data showing that a fifth of Americans who are sixty five or older are
still employed. Apple is moving ahead with plans to add more artificial intelligence features.
The iPhone maker quietly acquired a Canadian company called Darwin Ai earlier this year,
and sources say dozens of Darwin Ai employees of joined Apple's Artificial Intelligence Division.
Some of the nation's biggest suppliers of granulated sugar being accused of conspiring to
inflate the price of sugar. A federal lawsuit names Domino Foods, American Sugar
Refining, and other companies. The plaintiff's claim the sugar makers have shared non
public information to carry out a price fixing scheme for several years. And Casey,
our pay TV bills will become easier to understand. The Federal Communications Commission
approved a new rule. Cable and satellite companies will have to make their bills
more transparent. Bills and advertising will have to specify an all in price and
end the practice of hiding video programming costs by listing them as taxes, fees,
and surcharges. Casey, all right, hey, fyi, Jeff.
We're on vacation next week, so okay, you're off those Oh okay home.
Yeah, we got no fulling nothing, so all right, all right,
and have a great vacation, A happy Saint Patrick's Day, and we'll
catch you in a week. All right. We'll be back if we survive,
Thank you, sir. There you go. Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg News
joining us here on the show Boy Q, The The Family Guy Drop and
you pull out shows thirty percent of Gen Z women identify as LGBT, primarily
bisexual. So you know every I guess college guys dream, So there you
go. Ironically, that number is up significantly and far out paces almost every
well, every other single generation. Five percent of Gen X, two percent
of Baby Boomers, one percent of the quote silent generation World War two folks
not listed in I don't know where's the millennials one entire there's millennials ten percent,
but it's twenty two percent. So there you go. And this is
among just Gen Z women, again, almost primarily bisexual. And I love
this line. And here researchers are trying to They have theories, but are
not able to explain the growth. I don't know society, I guess also,
I don't want to say picture it didn't happen, but you know that's
people are not always gonna be honest with researchers. But regardless, I feel
like there's a lot of factors that, for whatever reason, are not addressed
in this article, but wanted to pass that on to you.