So here's what I'm gonna do this morning, because I am what's the word
when you're a when you're a ruler, but you're kind of nice to the
peasantry every now and then, magnanimous. I am a magnanimous ruler. Well
we are. Uh, it's surely a code dictatorship. When it comes to
the following topic, I'm I think we've got to rename the Patriots. And
I'm and but I'm willing to provide options for the renaming of this particular NFL
franchise, and I will let you guys choose. But so I was thinking,
and and Ross, if you could think of anything else, please Sjw's
or Moonbats, New England moon Bats or New England Sjw's. What what merch
is better? What rolls off the tongue? I mean, I think they're
going to be fine. I think they've made a great choice. And not
only that, but they need to extend mac Jones immediately. And yes,
that's a good point his opinion. I feel it's for the best of the
franchise. I think also, you know, sometimes you ever see the word
franchise sometimes will bring back a legend. Right, So what is what is
Hernandez up to like they could. They probably use some help at tight end,
right, I don't so that so, but yeah Moonbats or s or
if I'm missing something, that's fine. But I ross you got to skin
this game because you got to play the moon Bats twice twice years. Yeah
oh yeah, yeah yeah right, but you're you're all in. You think
there's a good hire right here. Huh. I can't see nothing wrong with
it, can't foresee anything bad happening. Here's the newly uh newly christened head
coach of the New England s j W's Now I like Moonbats better. Here
he is talking about, Yeah, the the philosophy, the the the culture,
the the feel at Foxborough going forward. And uh, yeah, I
do see color because I believe if you don't see color, you can't see
racism and whatever whatever happens black white, disabled person. I've always even someone
with disabilities, I always, uh, you know, for the moment,
I I want to be very sensitive here, Okay, I would be very
sent and you know what I actually I believe that there have been NFL player.
I believe there was an NFL player with dyslexia that played for the Vikings
so but is that a this is a hey, how I'm the new coach?
How you doing? Ask me what my favorite food is? Right?
Hey, that's what this is. And and yes, also them promising to
go win a super Bowl for you, right because everybody, even even whoever
will take the next Panther's job, is expected at the pressure to go all
right, well look I have I got a plan. But but but anyway,
what do we what are we doing? So you're not going to discriminate
if somebody I guess what it comes to a training camp and what is why
are we having this conversation? People are like, you know, don't you
know when they're young, they kind of make the spot hot. Younger people
know what that means. But what I would say is like, no,
I want you to be able to go up to those people, really understand
those people. So it goes back to whatever it is, black, white,
yellow, it really doesn't matter, but it does matter, so we
can try to fix the problem that we all know we have. I especially
in an NFL locker room, do you I mean this like organized team sports
and people want to go well, you know, Casey, you have to
understand things like you know, the integration and the Alabama not integrating until the
nineteen seventies, or with Jackie Robbinson it is twenty twenty four. Bro,
whoa let it go? Yeah, no, it's just like Jackie Jackie Robinson.
Remember the current lead MVP candidates, right, Patrick mahomes Lamar Jackson,
Uh huh Tua. For some reason, somebody mentioned dak for about a hot
sec Dady Prescott. So what do you eat? Been talking about? What?
What planet are you living on? A man, it's gotta be fun.
Can't wait? That is well, I know you can't. Can't wait
right because you I no way that's gonna bring this function into the under the
field or into the locker. Use that because I mean, if that's your
first impression, your first press conference, where is this thing gonna go?
I don't know. I don't know. Jerrem Mayo was a good player,
man, and I've seen him interviewed and I think he's a smart football guy.
But I didn't realize all of this, and I just I don't know.
Man. You go from Bill Belichick to to him where it's like good
luck getting like a few you know, more than a few words out of
Bill Belichick. You know, what I mean right, Well, you know
why because obviously he wanted he kept wanting to use the hard r and they
were they were like, no, you can't do that. Shut up,
Bill, angry old man. No, like Bill First, for all the
grief, we get Bill Belichick at the end of the day. I bet
he was equally horrible and fine with his players. And it was based on
what have you done for me lately on the field? Great output? Yeah,
production, Like he was a coach and he was there to coach,
right like Bill Belichick has been was their coach for how long? Forever?
Right right? I know absolutely nothing about the dude except that that he was
a great coach. That's all I know. Yeah, he just either put
up or shut up. And if you're not or if you caught, you
come in and cause problems. Do you remember the Riot Act? He read
Corey Remember Corey Dillon, the Bengals running back who was there was there was
a bunch off field issues and like teams are ready to give up on him,
and Belichick's like, you come here, but you don't pull that crap.
He did that to Randy Moss too. He got Randy Moss to shut
up. I'd never seen that Randy Moss was out slapping meter maids and holding
a press conference to destroy the UH, the the team chef. This is
an incident most people outside of Minna Minnesota football don't realize. He got like
he didn't like what was being served at the practice facility, or maybe it
was a round game the stadium, but he got mad and he went on
like this diatribe against the chef for the team, which is a bit of
an honorary position. I mean, it's it's it's good, but it's also
it allows generally, it allows you to use your staff as that chef to
do everything that they're doing. They don't. But also they tended to have
a restaurant. In fact, that's that's kind of how it is in a
in a in UH, in a lot of places right that that's a position
that that parlays well. And in this case, the chef who was the
chef for the Vikings, he had he had a restaurant among others in the
Mall of America, which is really expensive real estate. And Randy Moss just
went berserk on this dude, and it was, uh, it was not
good for for his business and and it wasn't like, hey, I found
mice in my food. It was something like he didn't like the way the
corn was prepared or something that day. But but but it caused strife.
And and Belichick, you know, took that on. I'm watching this thing
yesterday and I'm like, and if I was a Patriots fan, oh,
I don't even like saying those words, I would be like, yeah,
how about we uh, how about we do something so that a hole on
the radio stops making fun of us every morning? You know who that you
know, frankly, who they need as the head coach, right that witch
doctor chick. That's the ticket, right, Dave, you don't know what
the witch doctor chick is? Wait for that, Oh can't wait. All
sorts of fun happenings with the UH, with the World Economic Forum, idiots,
good stuff, good stuff, we'll get it. We'll get into that,
including obviously the president of Argentina. We got airplane insanity and Ross's Ross
Wat's his insurance to go at forty two percent. They do this crap every
every year. But we'll see so all that and more coming your way.
Uh plus oh yeah, and uh we got I we got so much stuff
to talk to our Stephen Ken about from bounding into comics. If I'll give
you a rundown to the rest of that, and right now I'm on team
Moonbat for the name. So if you want to convince me otherwise, feel
free eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four Hang on one O
six one f M Talk and ninety four five w PTI, two stations driving
the best in talk. This is the Day and Carolina's Morning News. Ah,
there's a pushback. I expected. He's only answering the questions that he's
getting asked. He doesn't have to though. This is what good good coaches,
well, good good pro sports guys are, are good at directing where
that's going. And yes, we've been very critical here on this show.
Of sitting there and it's a postgame press conference and one or two things happened
that, you know, from a sports perspective, people want to know about,
and they're like, what do you think of the what do you think
of the number of you know, minority oscar winners? Right, and it's
and it takes somebody looking go, I'm a football coach, asked me about
football? But but no, no, no, no, if there was
some like incident or demonstratable thing. I would understand that. I'm just pointing
out that, like why I don't know if there's I don't know of anything
that has happened in New England. Obviously they you know, they have players
of all different backgrounds. Robert Kraft is a big supporter of the Asian community.
Ross you had heard that, right, he yes, yeah, especially
the South Florida Asian community. Big fan, big fan, big big supporter.
So like it's just dumb. So that's why we're changing the name.
Okay, all right, very good, wonderful. Oh to this the president,
the new president of Argentina rolling into the uh World Economic Forum, a
room chock full of globalists. Oh you know what, if I'm going to
do this, you know whose audio I need up on the button bar,
if I'm going to use the word globalists and not as a joke and then
any other thing you went up there most forgot anyway, So route full of
globalists. The new President of Argentina rolls in aliir Malay and uh not mince
and words. Not mince and words here he is via translator. Good afternoon,
thank you very much. Today, I'm here to tell you that the
Western world is in danger, and it is endangered because those we are supposed
to have to defend the values of the West are co opted by a vision
of the world that inectumbly leads to socialism and thereby to poverty. Unfortunately,
and recent decades, motivated by some well meaning individuals willing to help others and
others motivated by the wish to belonged to a privileged cast, the main leaders
of the Western world have abandoned the model of freedom for different versions of what
we call collectivism. We're here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the
solution to the problems that afflict the citizens of the world. Rather, they
are the root cause. To believe me, no one better place than us
Argentines to testify to these two points. All right, so he's going off
and trust me, it's so much more there. But the crux of it
is, hey, all of you idiots, all of you guys sitting here
and in unimaginable wealth even one hundred years ago. From a global perspective,
the very thing that has that has provided all of this innovation, all of
this growth, and this this yes, lengthening of the gap in some instances
primarily based on philosophy, but there's a lot of other stuff like where you
live, resources available, you name it. But like people have been able
to overcome this and and and and to build these these modern day empires.
And they've done so not in the old way where you roll in, you
murder all the men and then you rape all the women and uh, you
know, there you go. But rather you do provide economic freedom. And
yes, some people, uh you know, get screwed in that deal,
but uh, the opportunities there, and if you want to work to make
the opportunity be more there, that's fine. And I get that. But
we've skipped that and now we moved on to equity, which is no longer
about opportunity. And that's what he's bemoaning to all the globalists goblins. Yeah,
oh, I'm sorry, I hit the wrong G button, but you
know what it works, goblins, globalists, goblins, same thing. And
so they're sitting there and the reason and then even calls out their reason right,
not just hey, you think you have a better idea, but you
realize you want to position yourself to control everybody. You want to have all
the power, you want to be the purveyors of what is information and what
is disinformation. There was a stat that he cited in there too, but
he did in a kind of roundabout way, which basically said that the large
scale growth economic growth, the making of more money and not in the printing
of it, but the provision of inherent value is something that wasn't achieved,
but it's merely transfer for for most of modern history until they got into ken
You're thinking yourself, well, how does that work? And the way it
works is this if if there's a if, if basically all the currency and
all of the value is simply stuck in you know, gold to balloons,
and there's only so much gold to balloons, it's going to be a thing.
But through the process of innervation, you've now brought to get brought inventions
and various things together that are inherently more value than the sum of their parts.
This is one O six one FM talk in the Triangle and here's talking
ninety four five w PTI and the triad. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Now this uh, there's a bunch of different places that are gonna be
dealing with shutdowns or delays or if if you're basically anywhere between RDU and falls
of Dews and this in the triangle obviously, and route and anywhere in that
route. I'm not sure how how far downtown he's going. I'm gonna look
at this, but I did get a notification about falls of news from from
a business I'm on a list there. They're just like, hey, it's
gonna it's gonna suck a whole lot during this time. So, uh,
the president is in town and as they were talking about in the news,
he's gonna get some FaceTime with Democratic leaders. So I'm sure that would be
a very deep and in depth conversation about extreme maga Republicans or something. I
don't know. Don't know, man, but that's the thing that happens.
Man. Yeah, I'm doing prep last night and I'm just sitting there and
we're watching ted Lasso and Marky just goes, I think she got like a
similar notification, Yeah, yeah, yeah, And she's like, why are
they shutting down falls of News and like Durant tomorrow in the afternoon, What
the hell is going on? Like what's so important? I'm like, ah,
Biden's in town, and she goes, they shut down the roads for
him. I'm like, this, sure new she goes, what if he
drives in like five forties? So I'm like, are you sitting down with
it? You or you're right there? You are? Yeah, man,
they're not gonna let of course they do. And the one thing you the
one place you don't want to be. Ah, I know he he's at
an airport when the President flies in. Yes, sir, yes, sir,
dude. I was on a flight taking off from Miami. I can't
remember if I was coming back to Raleigh or going down to I think it's
I think it was because it was during Obama, That's how long ago it
was. I think I was headed I think I was headed down to the
Caribbean or something for some sort of vacation whatever. So and yeah, I
think it was headed down because I was in a really good mood. Right,
I'm not on the like, ah, I gotta go back to work
and I'm going down And like we knew Obama was in South Florida that day,
but it like in my brain, I'm in vacation mode. I'm not
thinking about it. And we get to the Miami airport. We pushed back
from the gate and the pilot is like he's hauling from a taxi perspective,
and he literally the copilot comes on to the first officer and explains it to
us, like, we are trying to get out of here before Air Force
one needs to land, because not only are they landing, but they're holding
a big press event at the airport. In fact, we drove by the
outs that outside area where they had the riser, the podium, the seal,
the chairs, you know, the stairs, ready to push over to
Air Force one, and we went flying back there just under enough speed I
think to achieve lift, and we were, according to the pilot, we're
the second to last plane to get out of there before what would have been
a very very long time spend just sitting on the ground chilling. So yeah,
in fact, what is get back and look at real quickly. Yeah,
this is the message that I got from it, says per the Raley
Police Department. On Thursday, between one and six pm, Falls of News
Road will be closed sporadically from five forty to Millbrook due to President Biden's visit
to the area. So was he is he going to Millbrook High School?
Why do I not have this in front of me? I need to find
this or not? Millburg hig School. That would be spring Forest, ah
man, So anyway, just know that that that you know, that might
be a might be a thing there. So he gotta gotta do that.
And you know, because look, I get it, you got the president
going there. You don't want them wandering off if there's traffic. And also
like if they didn't and you're on five forty, can you pass the limo?
How does that mean? I was just thinking about the time when remember
when Trump won election and he he was doing like like that parade down d
C. And that's like in a confined, closed area like in front like
in d C. Oh, yeah, the route up to the White House
and he lived there and he got out and they were like freaking out about
it, like you can't do that's dangerous, let alone driving down a random
highway somewhere. Yeah, shut it all down. Well you don't look.
Remember that time the president was kidnapped and held in the catacombs under Mount Vernon,
Yeah, I do so, like you don't need a repeat of that.
I can't even believe that happened. I can't believe. I can't believe
that he was willing to walk down there with that Yeah, just randomly with
that and then tell Secret Service to wait. I remember seeing that movie.
It's a national treasure to referenced by the way. Yeah, I remember seeing
that movie when it came out. We were visiting. I was visiting my
in laws in Louisiana. It was Monroe, Louisiana at Tinseltown. Uh huh.
We're sitting there and it's that big scene and it's like, you know
Nick Nick Cage and John Voight and that German girl that was in uh inglorious
Bastards, right, Oh yeah, And it's the big dramatic scene. He's
like, he's telling him what he's gonna be. He's like, and then
he delivers the line. He goes, I'm goin to kidnap the President of
the United States. Wow. And you have never heard a theater erupt in
laughter so much. It was supposed to be a serious scene. In the
entire theater, it was just laughing. Would you like to apologize? Because
what did he do? He pulled it off? All right? Look at
you guys, leat you doubters. So I was reading something the other day
where somebody was like, the next stage of Nick Cage's career has to be
remakes of his classic movies, but instead of the character like from that movie,
it's one of his iconic characters from another movie. So what's the one
where he doesn't speak and he's insane. I don't remember what that was called,
but it was like the Freddie movie the what is it? Five?
Yeah? Before, because it's like he's in like an arcade with like the
the animatronic muppets or whatever they are, the animals, and they come alive
and he's gotta like it. But he doesn't speak in the entire All he
does in the movie is play pinball, he defeat evil demonic robots, and
drink grape soda. There's not one speaking line of the movie. And it's
a great movie. I okay, we'll take that dude and put him in
Snake Eyes Love It or or Rains from con Air. But in Leaving Las
Vegas, that really dramatically and it gets some weird like multiverse tightly crossings.
Yeah, this is like he's got. There's so many different characters that would
be so insane in other circumstances, but still not as insane as the getting
things started session over at the World Economic Forum. Yep, we're back there
again and did we not just have a story yesterday that they had in New
Jersey? They're having COVID uptick. And now if you want to go to
the Sandy Hook Memorial, you have to wear a mask. Which there is
a certain amount of irony there. Over the World Economic Forum, where,
no doubt, they are discussing the effectiveness of some of the tools that they
use to subjugate the world's people during that while never discussing the actual things that
people want, like are we going to hold people responsible who were wrong?
Are we going to make changes so that certain things can't happen up? And
again all of that will be ignored. They decided the best way to get
things going is to bring in a witch doctor lady to violently breathe into their
faces. Is is that an inaccurate description, by the way, it is
not. Ah, well, she's wearing a mask too. Well, she's
doing it kind of sort of. I guess what do you mean, she's
wearing whatever that is over her face? Paint? Oh is it paint?
Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Oh well never never mind. Then if she
had darker skin, it would almost look a little like if she or she
had darkened any other part of her face. It's dangerously close to like you
know what I'm saying, old characterture style. I just love how like they
have like a female version of Papa Shango, Like, yes, you can
do whatever he's doing there, Mama Shango. You're you're not familiar with Mama
Shanko is not familiar with her work, Well you would have if you watched
the video then you will be. And that's what happens here. She does
this whole thing and then all of a sudden goes right down the row on
the stage breathing, and you'll hear it audibly, breathing aggressively into the face
of the Economic Forum idiots. I threw them. I threw knew nah look
my lookame my nuka ka nah no yu yu wa. Now she non kick
it on it's I could on. It's not even kick it on it.
I want my winn you know what. That's the first time I've listened to
that without seeing the video at the same time, you know what I mean,
just kind of okay, anyway, I want my woman, my woe
and white. Why should I you're all healed or or or you're not.
What is happening? Yeah, you know it's you know, what's you know,
it's gonna okay, thank you, coughing violently in their faces. I
what if somebody whoever was in charge of procuring the you know, the various
kind of other things that are going on there. What are they screwed up
and all those people are dead in a week? Like what if instead of
hiring somebody who was you know, here to to you know, to bless
their whatever, what if they accidentally hired the gypsy lady from Drag Me to
Hell right, should have given him the loan. That's all I'm saying.
So we will see. But it didn't stop them. And remember, the
main tenant of what they say is wrong in the world today is misinformation and
disinformation, and so it created this scenario with that I have seen. I
saw a super cut of this, and I've seen various news articles where they've
quoted this. This weird thing happened. So every one of these power hungry
globalist pieces of garbage who now have COVID got up to give whatever their spiel
is, they had to take a portion of it to virtue signal. And
virtue signal on a college campus is cringey from a world leader perspective to each
other in the room. It's just it's some of the most awkward crap.
But there was a theme. At some point each and every one of these
folks who was in there had to talk about how they had this. They
did some soul searching and realized they can't be on Twitter anymore. So,
yes, most of the panelists and speakers from the World Old Economic Form say
that they're not on Twitter anymore, which by the way, is not true.
Probably I'm sure that they still read it interact or let have their staff
to it, because how else would they have stuff to whine about. Is
it was? No, I don't think it was. Somebody was wondering if
that was Hunter in a witch doctor costume doing lines it was. It did
not appear to be. But maybe Elon Muska said it was Elizabeth Warren.
He did not. He did. He said, I didn't know Elizabeth Wardon
was at Davos. Do you are are you insulted with your point two percent
over your twenty three? Am? Yeah? Wow, forgot about that.
Would you like some money for your troubles or something? Oh? Wow?
Okay. In fact, before they do that, I brought somebody in to
bless you. Nah, did you get really close to your face? Don't
move? So also don't I just don't use it anymore. Elon Musk also
was like good so emails with warn joke, that's great seven or six forty
seven, hang on one six one AFM talk and news talkty four f WPTI
more with Casey starts. Now. It doesn't make it right though, But
I also don't know how to get around it, because people want the benefit
of not having to schlept down to a game stop or sit around and wait
for an Amazon package to show it. Speaking to Amazon, Oh, I've
got forgot to mention this. We'll get to that here in a moment.
But like the convenience if you want to do if you want. Back in
the day, if you wanted a movie or video game or something right,
you had to figure out where they had it if you want I'm talking rented,
I mean by it, but even rent it too. Like that was
remember when new releases had come out and you'd have to like every every Tuesday
was a two. Yeah it was Tuesday with the new ones. Every Tuesday
was like one of those concert lines of insanity where you got to kind of
like outplay everyone else to be able to get a copy of a new release.
But going back to you know, the actual acquisition of movies and various
other things that you had to go where they sold them or you had to
eventually then order them. But the ease at which I can be sitting in
my living room and go, hey, I want to watch this thing,
and I pop on and from Apple right on my Apple TV and watch it
and if I want to buy it, I can buy it through there or
Prime or you know, YouTube or various other services like people like that convenience.
I'm pointing this out because more and more the model that they want is
not these individual purchase It's of subscriptions and everything that you do. That's what
they want to That is the model that companies are pushing towards. One of
the one of the biggest chunks, one of the biggest pieces of movement that
you saw was Microsoft's Office product. Gone are the days of you holding on
to you know, Office whatever from you know, I've been using the same
one since college kind of thing. They put the kibosh on that a number
of different ways, not the least of which is to simply not provide updates
that keep that maintain functionality of pre existing products, and they say things like,
well they won't be supported anymore. But planned obsolescence is not new.
And I like how Apple tries to Apple tries to do this thing where you're
like, well, we won't do that. We don't do that, all
right, you don't kind of, but you do. Like my old old
iPad is one hundred and twenty eight gigs, like the old old one that
like, I don't know why it keeps working, and I mostly have it
as a as like a secondary iype because there's it's really weird the thing like
charging and all that, but I keep it and I use it for like
if I want to play some music or have something over, but I can't
load any modern apps on it, I'd get like three right, and then
it's you just out at that point. Well, now the video game companies
they want to get on the bandwagon. Ubisoft houtsa their new subscription services is
the future of gaming, saying that players need to start quote feeling comfortable with
not owning their games, and this is the rub Like I have probably two
hundred movies on Apple TV, but I don't physically have them right. People
are confused. Like when you download a gamer movie, it's been this way
for a while. You're not buying the gamer movie, you're buying a license
to watch it or play it, which they can any time. And you
see this now it's very common. It saw it a few weeks ago.
There was somebody that was like, hey, bought this game twelve years ago.
It's not of my hard drive because the license expired. You don't own
those, they still own them. I will say this. I will say
this, though I don't know if you keep moving down the road. I
don't know from a legal standpoint, because there's lawsuits going on with this.
And the argument is is if you didn't sell it to be an actively updated
product, that may not be legal because like it's one thing if there's going
to be updates, because you're kind of paying for that as well, but
like, you're not updating a movie. It just is the movie. Well,
unless you want to take parts out because your social justice folks are upset
and they're like, wow, we had to update Home Alone too because Donald
Trump said it. But this is a thing, and this is the thing
we're going to talk about coming up with our guests turn about an hour or
two, and Ross and I will get a little we're into in just a
moment. Hang on, what a weird random thing to have just sitting around
over in the uh the break room, and over in the like the table
area where they generally put stuff that's just uh, you know who had first
come, first serve. It's like leftover food or stuff like that. I'm
walking in the break room just a moment. I hadn't been in there this
morning, and there is a deluxe clown makeup. Kid, what are we
doing? We're shooting a video or we're pretending to be all the people in
Davos or whatever. But all so, I'm reading I'm reading the back of
this thing, and it's got you know, it's got the white makeup but
you know, the white cream, the baiting stuff, and then it has
a collection of like eight different color of the you know where you dip the
the brush in and do that. And then they also have the pencils,
the grease pencils with about five of the colors. And then they have actors
and actresses and models who obviously have made it demonstrating this stuff. But I
look on the back and it's just like it's perfectly safe for you and the
kids. But don't use the red, green or purple near the eyes,
and don't use purple green or blue on the lips. If you do,
horrible things will happen. So I don't know should I show up to our
big meeting today with the be amazing right? Who are you? I'm Penny
Wise. I'm here for a very serious big meeting we have today, which
is an actual thing. So all right, looking forward to that. Now
do we own this? Or am I is this? I just have a
license to use the clown makeup here. That's what the problem is. Plus
also, if you you know, if Apple ever goes out of business,
I guess that all of those movies are screwed. Although I'm cheap, they're
not like there's some good ones like I do have my own like collection of
of you know, like Godfather movies and few others. But also I like
those cheap bundles to really get the numbers up. But that's where we are,
Sean, what's going on? Hey, what's going on? Real quick?
Is the clown cross them? Git? Is that kill version? It's
whatever you want, sir, It is purely your artistic abilities here so gotcha.
So once we were talking about with the apples, suscriptions and movies and
video games especially, isn't this kind of like the true concept of what they've
been saying for years, If you'll own nothing and be happy, yeah,
I mean everybody, Well hold on, let me let anybody property, you
know, yeah, the land and stuff. But I mean this is people
are happy sitting in their homes watching TV, playing video games. I don't
own any of this stuff. It's just downloaded. Yeah, I would say
that it is a fringe bonus to that, but obviously you stated what obviously
what they really mean is property, homes, things along those lines, things
of real, inherent marketable value, because then you can't change if you don't
have the resources to make change, right, but you can the slow creep
of that comes about by this, right. I'm not I'm not disagreeing with
you. I just I you know, I the real I want people to
understand the real nefarious nature, and that is, if I don't have anything
of value to leverage, then then I can't I will not have access to
you know, cash, which of course cash is cash is power in a
lot of instances, and so that's the real nefarious undertone, and it is.
It's death by a thousand cuts on stuff. But when you say the
video games stuff, when you say that it applies to things like video games
and movies, I think that it people might miss the real evil behind making
a statement like that because they think, well, it's just video games or
you know, movies, and no, no, I totally understand what you're
saying. I just I think in the long run, I think you and
a lot of your listeners have the commodity of the future, and that times
in the form of bang bag stick. You know what I mean? Fireworks?
Sir? Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, Well that's what I
used to call all my fireworks until they fell off the boat into the bottom
of that lake. And it's very sad. It was a very sad day.
So what are you going to do? All right? I want to
have a wonderful bay day? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. I was
crazy. And all Ross's bang bang sticks are in there too. I don't
know why he stored them on my boat. But don't worry. I just
rent the boat. I don't own the boat. Please, uh good clown
makeup in a little while, just to distract myself, all right, eight
eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. I you know what.
I have explained this in the in the past, but let me get into
it because obviously, you know, every day there's new people here in North
Carolina and if if you've come and joined us and I've got you know,
I get email all the time from folks say hey, move down here.
Didn't know what I was gonna do, but boo boom, We're glad to
have you. Guys. Love listening to you. In fact, I showed
Russ I showed this to you yesterday. I got an Amazon package delivered here.
Yeah, it's just a cop you know what's in here? Just it's
nothing really creepy. It's it's just a few things, but it's it's the
stuff that is normally in the locked case over at the Walmart or Target.
And I when I went because I went up to the Walmart right up here
last last month, just up the road here, and it was like it
was like a an old quest movie, right. We had to like track
down the three Shamans to get the pieces of the medallion to eventually be able
to save the world, to get razor blades, and somebody's going to play
the piano bones, gonna play the piano bones in the correct yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah, to get a to get a key to get into the
damn case so I could get some razors. People like, yeah, iout
a beard, Why would you not? What's you have? You trim around
the beard? Okay? But I I quested all over that store and I
was I now know exactly how many keys actually exist for the case there because
I had unhelpful employee after unhelpful employee explain it to me and then not care,
including the women at the customer service desk. And the irony is the
case of itself was so poorly designed and had such a giant gap where you
could tell people have reached through there. I could have reached through there and
just taken what I wanted and I would have still paid for it. But
it's the absurdity where I'm you know, I'm of the mindset where I don't
do that, and and I'm inconvenience because there's a bunch of people have a
mindset that they will do that, and they'll go a step further and not
pay for it. So that's what that's what I ordered. Now you're going,
why the hell are you telling me this? Because I go the box
ended up over in the bosses by the boss's office, so I had to
track it down when I thought, I have seen my raise yet. And
if if you're a business out there and you really want to advertise to guys
who drive trucks around and gals who drive trucks around all day, whether it's
long haul or delivery drivers or any of that, this is your station.
So I get this very nice note on the box says enormous fan. I
mean, I'm not enormous, I'm regular sized. I think it's funny,
but I love you guys, signed David So and he wrote that little thing
on there, and I'm like, I hope the My first thought was,
I hope the boss saw that. Right. That's good for us, right,
But then I haven't opened it yet. If I want to, if
I'm not saying that's what's going on, but if I wanted to make sure,
I wanted to make sure that somebody would open a package that I sent
that may or may not have a bomb, I'm gonna do you know what
I've gotten at that'd be a great way to get them very trust worth.
You'd be like, oh, wow, let me just pop into that.
That seems safe. So either it's the razor blades and a couple other things
I ordered, or it's catering to my ego and uh, it's gonna go
kabluey. So maybe you have ross opening. Did I make you open with
something one time? I can't remember what it was. I'm sure you did,
but I'm like, I'll be over in the I'll be behind his lid
shield and the annex. It just head over there. In fact, here,
let me uh, let me I rush. I'm gonna send you a
picture here. Would you tweet tweet this bad boy out. I don't think
we have to cover anything on it. No, it's just guys. Got
the radio station address to my name on it. That's fine, all right,
dude, do do do do do do? Sorry, very important.
Wait, we're conducting very important business here. Please listen to the witch doctor.
She's blessing the box. I do this. I'm pretty sure that she's
cursing. It's a cursed that's why you're opening it. How would you know
it's a curse? I got No, it's all right, cool, get
away from my box, crazy lady. So back to back to this as
I just rambled on forever, I feel like I have to explain this because
do you see these stories a lot, and it's it's this odd. North
Carolina has a few oddities in the way that they do stuff depending on where
you're from. Uh. ABC stories are not exclusive to North Carolina, but
I think that's one that really like hits people when they move here first.
That whole concept, I remember, I always thought that was really weird.
We fund school districts differently in North Carolina than a lot of states. Some
of our Council of State jobs don't do what their counterparts in other states do,
but then do other stuff like Secretary of State is not the elections head
per se, although they do provide oversight in certain capacities, But like that,
that would just be one big difference. And the way that we do
insurance in North Carolina is strange, and which is why there's a lot of
companies that insurance companies that have chosen not to do business in North Carolina and
others who've really made a cottage industry of it. Because you can't just come
in and be like I'm going to charge X, y Z and leave it
up to the market. To dictate that we have. We have a whole
commission that did essentially not just influences but is a stop gap for rates and
rate increases. And so every time i'm the group of insurance companies North Carolina
Rate Bureau, there's a couple others, but but the insurance companies, it's
their turn to ask for an increase. They don't ask for three percent,
they don't ask for you know, five percent, They ask for all of
it or some number that is that will shock your senses. And the first
time I ever saw it, I'm like, it makes you like the whole
system of the process makes you just hate insurance companies, which maybe you do
already, and this is not adding to it, but it creates a scenario
like we have now where the rate Bureau is asked for rates for homeowners insurance
in North Carolina to increase statewide by August first forty two percent. Forty two
percent. Think of about what your costs are monthly that people are looking at
that they're going, I just can't. It's death by a thousand cuts again
everything and that won't happen. I'd be very surprised. However, you hear
that number and people freak out. Likely though, there will be some sort
of increase allowed, but it's like this art of the deal thing that they
do where they're like they're going to ask for the moon, because what they
really want is ten percent or five p I mean, they really want forty
two percent probably, But in the past you've seen these big numbers ask for,
then smaller rates be a rate increases be allowed. At In fact,
November twenty twenty, they requested a twenty four and a half percent rate increase
and they were actually granted an eight percent increase. But that's what that's about,
and again it's just becoming unsustainable. Man, have two separate friends.
They both work in real estate. Yeah, and I sent them this story
yesterday and they immediately texted me back and said they actually they both different companies,
different people their their places of business, had individual meetings discussing this issue,
and they both are saying, yeah, it's gonna go up, but
not that much. Yeah, that's that's the Again. They don't they don't
they don't envision they're gonna get forty two percent, But they did realize the
last time they asked for twenty five percent, they got eight percent, So
I'm sure some genius somewhere is like, let's ask for forty two and maybe
we'll get twelve fifteen. Meanwhile, you, the homeowner, what is what
is you know, what is the average for homeowners insurance in North Carolina?
I don't know know the average would be, but I know that it's not
cheap like everything else. And it's not only not cheap, but also it
seems like you get less and less coverage. They're like, well, technically
it was baseball sized tail and their policy here it limits it to tennis balls.
So you're an eighth of an inch over and I am and her and
I'm sorry, we just can't do anything. And and you're like, well
policy said balls, and you're like, ah, you should you know,
read read the fine print. Right recently, when I had the roof done
on our house after the storm, yes, yeah, the whole roof replaced,
and you know, the roofing guy, he was like, well,
what insurance company do you have? I told him. He was like that's
good because he named two different insurance companies. He were like, you know,
the insurance company X and Y. They never prove anything anything. They
spend all their money in advertising and they never approve anything. I had the
weirdest one ever has. I was driving in the radio station to work.
This is when I was in Minneapolis, and I'm coming down the bass Lake
Road, which is this big, long, windy road from where I lived,
towards the station, and it's snowing, it's crap, it's garbage,
and and a friggin deer runs out right in front of me. And I
know better than to aggressively do things, but I did a little to try
to and I missed the deer, which then caused my tires to slide right
into the side of the curb and bust it up, you know, the
tire assembly there, And the insurance company is like, nah, you're screwed.
But if I had to hit the deer, you get one of those
for free. And they're like, well, you should have hit the deer.
And I'm like, this is the dumbest stuff ever. But I digress.
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The rest of the last hour and a half. You think I'm joking,
Russ. I won the lottery right here? Man? Look at that?
Is that powerball ticket right there? Yeah? Would you win the lottery?
Yeah? How much did you win? I? So I had five numbers
on this on this ticket, and uh I won two of them. So
the lottery I won. All you only have to get the power ball right
the other ones are optional? Is that how that works? I'm not familiar.
You know, ended up, you know, ended up getting a lottery
ticket yesterday because I almost I almost never, I very rarely will I ever
buy one. I was in at the I was at the BP and for
whatever reason, like they acted printed the wrong one or whatever the woman in
front of me asked for and in my brain, I don't know why,
it's like, you should buy that one. So I'm like, I'll buy
it whatever. Ten bucks. Here you go. And now I won the
lottery and I'm out. So let me look at the prize chart. It's
been so long. How is that going to the powerball website to see the
prize chart popping? Urse are scam filters? I mean it's saying something I
don't know, but I'm not I don't know what would it be saying I
might be mad. It's for the kids, man, it is for the
kids, all right. So let me look at this. So the powerball
was two yesterday and the two of the five that I have the powerball?
All right, so we go do and then like you said the other that's
it right because it's called powerball, right, So if you get the powerball,
you win whatever it is, which is what like the gazillion dollars?
Oh, it's four dollars, okay, but it's four dollars twice. Do
I have any of the numbers, it's the beginning one of them. I
have one number and one doesn't have others. So that's wait a second,
hold on, I'm ready to Cleare this a scam? Do you know that
if you get the power ball by itself, it's four dollars? But if
you get the powerball in one number, you know how much it is?
Four dollars? What is that? What is that? Even I did better?
Maybe in that box you got there, the package, Maybe it's gold
bars, dude. The speculation on what's in here could be anything. Even
though I know what I think, I know what it is. I think
the leading vote getters are my wife's head, which it isn't because I'm not
married, although to be fair, Brad Pitt wasn't then married anymore. And
uh my personal favorite. Multiple people have suggested that it's an illegal ar conversion
kit and that if I open it all of a sudden, FEDS will bust
in and be like, what do you got their son? And then that's
how they get you. What's in the box? Right? Yeah? Fox?
All right? You ready to find out real quick? Maybe because maybe
he was he was maybe what you ordered and then he was a go ask
for a k C and with some gold bars in there. Well the driver
left a nice note. Yeah, so, but again it could be a
trick. Hold on, it's anthrax? Is an old powdery? Please let
it be cocaine. What's in the box? That's the stuff I ordered?
There's no, there's not a single cursed ass tag gold piece of the whole
thing. That's a It's a co feeling, though, is that? Like?
I remember Marky was sitting on our front bench at her house and the
UPS driver driver was dropping off a package. She was on the phone with
somebody and the guy was like, the guy goes, I just want to
I just want to tell you I'm I'm a big fan. And she's like,
of me, wait sold that to your wife? Yeah, he's like
the radio show. And she's like, okay, well thanks appreciate that.
Oh I feel bad for her, like because she does. You know your
wife's an author, a Ben fan, Yeah, biggest fan. Like for
a moment she's like, yeah, wah wah, well that was nice.
Yeah. Man, we got an in with the delivery drivers, which is
great. I do feel bad though, I did see some poor FedEx driver
whose truck had just been t bone in a car, not t bone but
smashed into a car right up here on Atlantic essay, and because I was
driving up that way. But all right, anyway, all right, so
it's just the stuff I ordered. We didn't get a nice note, so
we got that for us. But yes, that's uh. Speaking of traffic.
Today is going to be a day and around the triangle as Joe Biden's
gonna come down here and wander around the stage. Probably at some point the
question will be come and you got to keep your eyes for this, your
eyes on this. Will he will They have a walker which we've now seen
where the wife either comes over or somebody who's part of the event and their
job is to kind of do that arm, you know, lock arms with
Biden and walk off stage. There. We'll keep our eyes peeled. I'll
look at this, you know, he's keeping his ice peel. Look at
that. Mark Walker's calling us, Hey, Mark, how you doing?
I am doing well, Ross and Casey hope you guys are all right.
I mean I just won the lottery, so yeah, well I would I
would, you know. I was just thinking, we have four dollars.
Of course you could buy take eight y eight eight dollars eight. I had
two of the the power ball twice. Well, you're you're doubled up.
You can get all the way under two dollars in that package. You know.
I'm wondering with Joe Biden coming to Raleigh, I'm wondering if Hunter get
word and maybe get the wrong shipping address. I was wondering exactly what might
be in your box in case Dad was stopping by the studio or something.
If that was Hunter's box, it would be uh probably. I was just
saying I'd be I'd be able to finish the show in about three minutes.
So, well, you have a little more protection. Yeah, you wouldn't.
You wouldn't be primly charged as quick, that's for sure. Well,
and if today was going to be a day to do it, it would
be because I'm making fun of all of the Davos idiots or the World Economic
Forum idiots who got less at Argentinian president for laying it out. Of course,
they'll just ignore him and probably find a way to go after him.
But it is what it is. Yeah, Now, I mean Davos,
and we've even had members of Congress go over there at different times. I
mean, what, what is there any more useless conference? I think there's
a lot of useless conferences, frankly, but is there any more useless one
than Davos, where you know, you have this status or supposed to have
some kind of intellectual elites that get over there and grub about the economy without
being reiterating it too much, all all in their private jets. But I
think they're losing credibility the more and more they have these events, like judge,
Yeah, I wonder with some people if they had credibility to start the
the idea though that you know, they continue to gather and put on display.
I guess this is my thing like the mindset to think that if when
people see video of you getting your face blown into by a witch doctor and
brag, you know, bragging about how you don't use Twitter anymore while talking
about how we don't need to own stuff in fifteen minute cities and all of
this. I like innovation. I like ted the whole ted Talk concept,
even though there's crazy people on there, because it's just presented as here's some
ideas, figure out what you think of it, whereas with World Economic Forum
minute pushback just turns into this person is trying to be catastrophic to society,
and you know they need to be marginalized. And that's where this stuff gets
dangerous when they say that misinformation and disinformation are the biggest problems facing society while
we're embroiled in some pretty nasty war stuff right now, attacks like we saw
on Israel and in Ukraine, and god knows what China's thinking because I ran
just decided they don't care what this president says and took an oil tanker and
they're letting rebels shoot at us so well. And speaking of China, I
was wondering if Joe Biden might come and visit over here, to his camp
for illegals. We've now found that there's a one hundred and seventy seven million
dollars contract. But the boards that used to be called the American Hebrew Board,
the top three positions are the president, the vice president, treasurer are
now Chinese and the company that they're doing business with is the third largest China
education program company called Tukes and Limited. The more we deep dive on this,
they're shipping these illegals at all times a day and night into this camp
right here in the heart of Greensboro on one hundred acre what looks like a
college campus with swimming pools. And why our school children are meeting in these
trailers? This is this is insane. The more we look into this,
and you can't even get into the property. It's got a gate all the
way around it. They've got guards at the front and at the rear.
And it's something I was curious with Joe Biden coming in if he would even
bring attention to that, or maybe pop over to the Triad and see how
his camp for illegals is going. I wouldn't hold my breath Mark say that,
did you see what happened to Seymour Johnson. Yesterday I did not,
Oh, all right, well you know what, let me yeah real quick.
Yeah. So yesterday at Temar Johnson Air Force Base, like four dudes
showed up to the main and they called the gate or the military ended up
obviously calling local police. So four dudes from Mexico, who none of which
had a valid driver's license, showed up and tried to gain entry to Seymour
Johnson has come through like not physically like overrun them, but just like,
how do you I don't even understand what's going on with that? Just four
dudes from Mexico, just like, hey, can we come into your air
Force base? That's a thing that happened yesterday. And the baffling to me,
Well, they hadn't been stopped at any other point coming across the border
any place else, so I'm sure they were wondering why would they be stopped
there? But no, it is it is a critical place. And I
do see I do think that the Democrats are seeing that this has become the
number one issue not just for Republicans but for people for all Americans, and
I think they're scrammling to try to change the narrative and the message where they've
given the green light because they're seeing the data, they're seeing the fechanol dance,
they're seeing the trafficking. Now, I don't know that they can get
back from it. When you're setting records like we did in December with the
you know, the size of Greensboro, three hundred plus styles and coming across
the border in one month. I think this is an issue that's going to
take I think it's going to hurt the Democrats in November, and so it
would be interesting to see what they try to do to try to salvage some
either because they're not going to change the policy, what they'll try to do
is change the messaging. I'm shocked. I'm shocked that they would try to
spend things. All right, Mark, I got I got a roll.
But thanks for you know, buzzing in this morning. So always Casey,
take care, all right, yeah yeah, Seymour Johnson thing I get to
that venomum. Oh I just looked at the the clock too raced agic,
Sorry, sorry buddy, little sidetracked. Then at your show man, your
show, that's right, that's right. I just want to not want the
power ball. So yeah, I just have the power ball. So I
think that's all you need, right, Yeah, that's all you need,
all right, go all right? I clicked orders, so well we're good.
All right, sounds good. It's not good. Yeah, no,
no, it's cold. Teen's west and twenties. As you get closer into
the Raleigh Durham around Carrie twenty two right now down at Sanford eighteen. And
as you get back near Statesville, the Triad, or near the Triad and
the Winston Sale Mary, you got upper teens, even some mid teens.
The good news is this is all go away. We get in the upper
forties today a lot sunshine. Might see a few clouds the exchange on deck
for tonight after midnight, probably between three and five am. Some rain coming
in now Triad west. Maybe some sleeer, freezing rain. I'm not anticipating,
though. Eddie traveled trouble to get into the mountains, a line from
Boone to Asheville. That's where the winter weather advisories start. So Chili rains
only a few hours of it, because by seven eight o'clock tomorrow morning we're
probably done and the cloud's a good way to sunshine. Gusty winds kind of
on the cusp during the day tomorrow, the Arctic air coming back. We're
gonna get close to fifty somewhere around there, and then we'll see temperatures drop
for Saturday sunny low to mid thirties on Saturday, So very cold Saturday,
where the gusty breeze, the midteen Saturday night Sunday sunshine up near forty and
then fifties, and then maybe even some sixty degree weather coming in towards Tuesday,
Wednesday, if next week, so everybody's gonna warm up, even to
the north. I'm gonna see some mild weather next week. Case so one
more shot of art the are coming in and then longer term looks like next
week should be a milder week. All right, thank you, we'll talk
in an hour. I appreciate it. Okay, all right, they gotta
race agic from the weather channel. Ross. I think I saw the for
Mexico dude showing up to Seymour Johnson. What if they have like one like
a weird authority law enforcement kink? Could Mark help me figure this out?
Right? And their whole thing is they want to be subjugated. They want
to be and and then when they went to the border, it didn't happen,
And then a couple other places like all right, we gotta do something,
and they're like on this weird David carroting kick. I don't know,
I'm just looking. I'm just speculating, because otherwise, would you ever,
as a US citizen, you three of your buddies show up at a military
base in some other country and be like, hey, do you mind if
we come in and look around, like in China? Would you do that?
Would you get down to Brazil and do that? If I play GTA,
you know what happens when you do that? Instant five stars? Not
good? What is that a thing? That's Yeah, if you try to
break into a military bas it's not good. Gal, So you get to
hijack that fighter jet? Fly in there? They love that? All right?
Seven to fifty hang on, thank you. Casey is on ninety four
to five WPTI in the Triad and one six one f M talk in the
Triangle. You know, sir, that's a that's a pretty good theory as
to that that kind of strange incident over at to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base
after base officials called the local law enforcement after they say four individuals approach the
gate from Mexico without valid driver's license. There's not a lot of details there.
I guess I forgot that that was the thing is. So the construction
and the main gate reno and all that stuff's still going on. So maybe
they thought that maybe they could get work over there, all right, Well
I don't I don't know, but like I would think that if you're one
of the contractors working on the gate of a military base, that probably there's
a certain amount of vetting and probably don't take walk ups. But also,
you know, we have scenarios that have played out in several stories now where
people, you know, people do come here as part of the you know,
the the rampant run on the border down there, and they're in a
position where they're now in all over the country and there's only so much work
to go around. Remember that's one of the elements of the whole like Jewish
Tunnels story from last week, where there were reports that they were literally hiring
migrants to come dig. So yeah, perhaps, I mean, if and
you know that's the that's the reason that they're coming here, it's for opportunity.
Not in all cases, there's always there's obviously some very nefairious stuff,
which is why it's so important that you have control over this, so you
can sort those kinds of things. But now I could believe that did you
see the Babylon Bee drama yesterday? A touch on this for just a moment.
So Babylon Bee does what Babylon b does. They put out parody stories,
and sadly sometimes a lot of times they put out stories that two years
later but then become true. But they did one. And you know,
anytime you're in a in a primary situation, everybody's feelings are just so everybody
turn. You all turn into a bunch of big babies, not all of
you, but a lot of people out there where all the stuff in the
in the way that people discuss things and have opinions never mattered. And then
all of a sudden, how dare you? How dare you make a joke
about a candidate? I like, never realizing that literally we trash on everybody
and we make or we make jokes at the very least I would even call
it trashing. We make jokes where they're appropriate, and so there's plenty of
there's plenty of funny things to talk about, surrounding Donald Trump, Right,
Donald Trump's a funny dude or or a very awkward dude, or create situations
that are like that, you know, and and then you you know Ron
DeSantis, right, he's got his stuff, which it Sometimes it's funny,
sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's say what the hell, like like what happened
to the campaign momentum? It's so weird? Uh and Vivek the same.
And so they made a joke of Babylon Bee about Trump offering him a job
at the White House seven eleven, and everyone was upset, but Ramaswami who
made a joke, and then Bucky's offered him a job chopping chopping barbecue.
But man, the butt hurt was going on seriously. Alrighty, good morning
and welcome. It is eight o seven here on your once again very chilly
Thursday morning. Glad to have you along. And uh boy, dog got
a stack of stuff to get into this week with our guest on all Things
entertainment slash uh well, a little bit of nerd, a little bit of
nerd stuff that we like to talk about around here, Stephen keV from bounding
into comics. But lord knows, this is it's a lot of money we're
talking about. And Stephen, thanks for joining us. How you doing,
Hey doing good? Good morning. I'm going to start whereas I saw something
yesterday and I guess it was it still struck me as up in the air,
but maybe I maybe I'm not as plugged in on this is the new
Star Wars movie? Is that the kibosh is on? Or at least they're
just thinking about it. What's happening here? Yeah, So Disney Lucasfilm changes
their mind every couple of weeks about what Star Wars movies they're going to make.
You might remember there used to be a Ryan Johnson trilogy in the works.
There was also going to be a Star Wars trilogy getting made by the
guys who did Game of Thrones, And they just sort of quietly move projects
into the trash bin every so often when they're interested in a new idea.
So what was supposed to be up next was a movie focused on Ray,
you know, the character played by Daisy Ridley, and the sequel trilogy.
And I was immediately confused by this because I recall there were three movies about
Ray called The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and the Rise of Skywalker.
So it was a puzzling announcement that they made at Star Wars celebration a
couple of years ago, and it was going to be a standalone movie,
or it is going to be a standalone movie directed by Charmino baie Chenoi,
and it's going to focus on Ray rebuilding the Jedi Order. But then the
internet blew up this week in Shatter that the movie had been iced. But
the problem is that the rumor just kind of came out of the ether.
Okay, so the difference you, as you know, is somebody who covers
this, like, the amount of projects that stop start that you never hear
about is crazy. What was I reading something yesterday? Oh? Yeah,
they were talking. It was the guy who did the movie Constantine. Did
you see this? And he said, okay, So the guy who did
costing and his name escapes me was saying that like they they the movie kept
they kept not wanting to make the movie, they'd start and do it.
And it was because the studio was enamored with the concept of a oh,
a swamp thing movie, a new swamp thing movie, and so and and
and for whatever reason, whoever was ahead of the studio wanted it so bad
that they kept putting a hold on Constant, which was obviously a big hit
when it came out. And those are the things you never hear about.
The difference with the Disney and the Race stuff is to your point, they
went to conferences, they held press conferences, they did these big announcements and
interview things. So if you're not going to do a movie, you don't
do all that stuff. Yeah, this is this is the perils of doing
movie by committee and within sort of the corporate setting. I mean, this
is what George Lucas rebelled against when he went out and made Star Wars,
against the wishes of everyone who he was involved with, and in many ways
spurning the entire studio system. But of course today Star Wars remade the studio
system and is now at the heart of it, which is kind of a
great irony of Star Wars history overall. It's sort of become the thing that
it sought out to destroy. These are just very silly processes for making movies.
So, I mean, this Ray movie, which is going to be
taking place after I guess the sequel trilogy, which not many people liked,
is going to have Ray rebuild the Jedi Order. It was being written by
this guy named Stephen Knight, And the report that came out from this outlook
called World of Real was that an anonymous source within Lucasfilm said that Stephen Knight
was frustrated with studio input on the script and decided just to put the script
on the back burner. Which is kind of a funny rumor. You imagine
like Disney hiring a writer to do a movie and he gets bored, right,
and then he just stopped, and then he just stops writing it,
and then so we're like, Okay, well, I guess maybe we're not
doing that movie. It's sort of the number one reason why I distrust rumors
like this, because Disney, for all their flaws, is a is a
machine. If they want a movie made, they'll just have chat GPT do
it. So I assume that this movie is still coming out despite rumors that
it's dead on arrival. But you know, the real thing to do is
not make this movie because fans didn't respond to those films. They didn't respond
to Ray Well. The problem but then, of course the problem is is
when they get responses they don't like, then I and you and everybody else
get treated to this the blame, right, you know, they're like,
you know, it'd be like a thought. It would be like Ben and
Jerry's making an ice cream flavor. Ross, what was that horrible ice cream
flavor? You ate? What was like vomit flavor? The jelly beans?
Remember they have like fish flavored jellybeans and dead fish That's what it was.
But that's a joke. But that'd be like Ben and Jerry's making a dead
fish flavor and then people going, oh my gosh, that's not no,
and then them going, you're a bunch of unsophisticated you know, Rubes,
how dare you? And I get that vibe. I got that vibe listening
to Tatiana Maslani, who, by the way, I really liked her in
Orphan Black. I don't know if you got into that show. I thought
that was a great show. Oh, this is a that's a great show.
It has to do there's a science fiction angle to it. And I
also enjoyed it because it was shot in Minneapolis, so it was I lived
there for a lot of years, so I thought that was cool. But
that was a really good show, and that's where I got to know this
actress. I really liked her, and now she's out there because it doesn't
look like they're going to do another She Hulk season, and you know,
it's every it's and it's not necessarily her fault. She's the actress, but
it's like people didn't like that, and you can't just make them like it.
And now I got to listen to the staff, including Jamilla whatever her
name is, who is outspoken about how screw you if you don't like her,
about how it's our fault that Disney's probably not going to do a She
Hulk season two, when in reality, as you pointed out, largely that
may have to do with the response to season one and the amount of money
that they spent, which was obnoxious on each episode. Yeah. I mean,
you hear this every couple of weeks out of Hollywood. A movie or
a show fails, or a film doesn't get nominated for awards, and the
actors go on camera and they immediately allege racism and attack the audience. Has
happened with one of the recent Cleopatra movies that got made that you probably haven't
even heard about because it was so ridiculous that it bombed immediately and the actress
came out and attacked America as being too racist to enjoy a Cleopatra movie,
which, yes, is just ridiculous. And hold on, hold on,
hold on, I'm sure if you're wasn't there another country that almost had a
bigger objection as officially as a country, like the government came out. Do
you remember, because that doesn't get mentioned. I don't Egypt. I don't
remember which Egypt it was. The government of Egypt came out and lambast did
this. So yeah, obviously we're the problem. Yeah, we are the
problem. And that's that's also what Anthony Anderson had to say at the Emmys
just the other day. He was hosting this dying Awards show with about four
million people in viewership for this week's Emmy Awards. I mean, god,
when I watched the Emmys in the two thousands, like around twenty fifteen,
that show pulled at least twelve million viewers every single year, so we're talking
about a third of the audience. And he's also on the show Blackish,
which is a funny show, and he's a comedian. He goes up there
and he just sort of rips into the audience and the the Academy for not
bestowing awards to Blackish and throwing around the claim of racism but doing it sort
of masked in a joke. And I think it's just one of those things
where people really don't know anymore if they're supposed to laugh at this or if
they're actually being hit with passive aggressive claims of racism. And I don't think
audiences care to sit through it. They're bored with it, they're antagonized by
it, and it's it's killing Awards season. It's also just killing Hollywood more
generally. Well, this is what I wanted to ask, and I'm I'm
just old enough to remember when I and the family would sit we'd sit down
and watch like the Academy Awards because you had you know, Billy Crystal and
they it was even though I understand it for the vapid exercise that it is
today, at least there was entertainment that was attached there and not lecturing.
And so my question to you, and I did look it up. Yeah,
it was a they had a point eighty five share, which, working
in a business that does ratings, that's not good at all. That's horrible.
And so my question is do these award shows ever go away? No,
because rich people will always be able to afford to gather and give each
other awards. That's what we're doing in Davos right now in Switzerland apparently,
so they won't go away. But at some point there's going to have to
be some sort of reimagining where it's a kind of streaming show that happens on
YouTube or twitch. I mean, I'm being completely serious, like this is
where the potential audience for this stuff is. I say that because I didn't
even know the Emmys were happening this week. And I'm an entertainment I'm an
entertainment rider. I've been watching the Emmys kind of on and off for ten
fifteen years. I'm an entertainment rider by day. And I didn't even know
that they happened because I don't have a cable package. And then I got
online that, you know, a couple of days ago. I was like,
oh, they happened, because I never heard about him, never saw
an ad, and I didn't even know that Anthony Anderson was hosting. So
there's a huge gap here, which is just a knowledge gap for consumers.
And I know, like yes, like wokeism and all this kind of you
know, activism in Hollywood is definitely hurting the ratings, but the fundamentals are
what really hurts the ratings. I like this stuff and I didn't even know
what was happening. Now we're ross and I yesday had a conversation where I'm
like, dude, did you know the Emmys? And it's just he shrugged
because I didn't. And that's bad because while we're not entertainment writers, yeah,
that should be stuff that crosses our desk. If you look back to
the uh yeah, host Mike Keenan Thompson, the Awards. Let's see here,
Sorry, I try to look at this. So they went from five
point nine million last year to four million this year. Yeah, that's awful
at or four point three million. And there's there's a lot of shows I
don't know that, the Oscars or the I don't basically, I don't think
if it's an egot. If people know what egot is, which is Emmy's,
Grammys, Oscars and Tony's and yeah, a handful of people of one
all of them. Like, if it's one of the big egot ones,
is probably not going anywhere. But like you start dipping into people's choice and
stuff. And I have to wonder if if one day they just they just
kind of quietly do away and nobody notices. Oh, I don't think anybody
will. I will give it to them that there were a lot of interesting
and thoughtful winners that happened in the Emmys this year. I mean, you
did have the Bear sort of take call them a lot of awesome awards.
That's an FX show. It's a really great show about the troubles of starting
a restaurant and surviving in America today. You also had a lot of Star
Wars nominations, which I appreciate. The awards have gotten a little less pretentious
than they used to be, so it's not all shows and movies that you've
never heard of. They've actually made an effort to nominate things that people are
watching. So Star Wars shows, Marvel shows, you know, the Zombie
and the Zombie Apocalypse shows and Better Call Saul. There are shows that do
get nominated that deserve it. But at the end of the day, the
problem is just a knowledge gap. People don't even know that these things are
happening. No, And I think they peaked when the artist won. I
think that was real. I think that was the one that really like everyone's
going maybe people would watch, if, maybe people would watch if Taylor Sheridan
of Yellowstone directed via He seems to be the only guy who can get everyday
Americans to watch his content over on paramounts. So maybe Taylor Sheridan should just
produce the Emmys have horses jogging around the stage and cowboys lassoing the celebrities.
Maybe then we'll watch. Well, it's a you know, another thing we
were talking about recently is, as you said, we're chatting, by the
way, with Stephen Keent from mounting into comics about all of this, and
we got about two other things I want to hit before we're out of here.
But yeah, Also, do you remember that show, that Chris Pratt
show where he was a Navy seal dude? That mini series they had last
year and then I vaguely remember it, Yeah, well Reacher, and then
you're familiar with the Reacher TV series. I point this out because it gets
those are the kinds of things that get marginalized. Yellowstone probably doesn't to that
same extent, but those shows are seen because they're just you know, they're
just there's not a there's not deep meaning there, right, it's just your
classic revenge tale and and like there are some progressive people have problems with it,
but it gets marginalized as those are old man shows. And when it's
the award shows, when they're talking about their ratings, they're not talking about
you know, plus six plus or twelve plus, they're talking about eighteen to
forty nine, like this is the sweet spot. And so if they don't
feel there's value based on who they think watches the show, then there's no
reason they're going to end up getting awards a lauded upon them. Nobody cares
about reach or if they don't feel that they can market to a younger generation.
Yeah, there's always been a disconnect between sort of the elites who make
movies, which you know is great. We need a creative class and any
I think civilization. But there's always going to be the people who watch Breaking
Bad versus the people who watch The Apprentice. And I remember this when Trump
was elected in twenty sixteen, someone on TV said it might have been Joe
Scarborough. Actually it was like most of the country was watching The Apprentice for
the past ten years while we've all been jabbering about the fall of Walter White,
and that says a lot about the country that you live in. You've
got a certain class of people who like these kinds of stories and content.
But everybody else is watching Big Bang Theory and The Apprentice, and they like
Donald Trump and they like Sheldon And that's just kind of the thing that always
has exist is anybody like Yellowstone too supposed to be inherently unlikable. I'm but
I think that's why we left him. Okay, look I got about ninety
seconds. One of my favorite things that we covered in a long time on
the show was the the the uh, the intrepid journey that was the the
the anti Trump Shia laboufe Era, right from fighting people at an art installation
to getting four chan hunting a flag down in middle of nowhere, Tennessee.
It was amazing to watch. And then he got in that incident with police
in Savannah or Charleston or something, and now they're like, he's he's like
he's turned his life around, and he's, uh, he's really religious and
all of it. Have you been tracking all of this? Shilah buff is
one of my favorite actors. I consider him to be and you know,
a member of my generation where about the same age. I grew up watching
him on the Disney Channel and even Steve. And then of course he goes
big in the Transformers franchise. He makes it to Indiana Jones and then he
completely flames out, just loses his mind, mental illness, alcohol and all
that. I want to let you know, I am following the Shi Lah
Buff saga and I'm just like I'm I'm relieved and I feel great for him
to see this guy find Christ, join the Catholic Church. And apparently he's
going to be a deacon. Uh so we might call him Father Labuff in
a couple of months. It's going to be interesting to see how Hollywood responds
to that too, because you know, anyone who's getting on a set who
inherently brings religion sometimes they like that. Soap back to this week, all
right, but we're out of time. I'm sorry, and I think you
say we had so much. Talk to you next week, sir, Okay,
all right, we'll see you. All right, we'll be back.
Hang on mart tongue all DAYPTI in the triad and talked in the triangle now
and what literally happened yesterday. I feel like seals the deal. So,
you know, as we uh, it's the beginning of the year. But
like a lot of companies, you know, what they really want to know
if Ross and I are planning any vacation, anything that we can really put,
you know, our finger on so for planning purposes. So always try
to kind of look ahead in the year to see if perhaps there's at least
some info we can we can we can give over without getting into all the
details. But as you know, one of the things I like to do
is I do like to plan a trip somewhere I love. I love to
travel. I don't necessarily need to just go to the same old places send
me. That's you know, that's how you end up going to Galapagos and
go out to pay and all that stuff. But I think it's fascinating.
Ross always thinks somebody get murdered in the coup, but whatever. But I'll
tell you what. I was just having this conversation with my buddy Robert the
other day, who he went to galop Ago. We had a group of
us that went. But like him and I were talking where we're watching Dallas
get destroyed and because the other guys are Dallas fans. So, but I
was telling him, you know where I really want to go is Argentina this
year. It's it's for two reasons. One, it's the inflation there is
so out of control that it like people from parts of of of Central and
South America literally fly to Argentina to shop and they live in hell holes finance
economically, right, they live in economies that you would go down there as
an American tourists and be like, why is this hotel room five dollars?
This is amazing, right, And they go to Argentina to shop. That's
where it's at right now, which is probably a big factor as to why
you have this new Argentinian president. And also it's there's a lot of stuff
that i'd want to that I want to see obviously, uh you know as
you've got to check out those the German communities there, dude. So on
the list I felt, I thought, I don't know even if I want
to say that, because people think I'm going there as some sort of affinity.
No, I want to go there for the insanity. Yeah, it's
fascinating, the just the insanity, and you're gonna you're gonna flee to Argentina.
Huh, I'm not well when you put it like that, I'm only
gonna. I would only flee for the week. I don't know that that
counts. It's not like I'm creating my own as a definite fleeing. I'm
not creating my own village to see how many twins I can produce, which
is also a thing down there. I don't know if you're aware of that
and that monstrosity, but no, so yeah, no, there's some look
you go into the jungles of Argentina and there happens to be a beer hal
and for a broadstand. I'm looking forward to your video blog really Hunting Hitler
with case O d Hey man, if I see him, I'll handle it.
What That was a good show on History Channel, Yeah, with Tim
Kennedy or Tim Yeah, Tim kens How. I learned a lot of the
different stuff about that. And what was crazy is they were interviewing and this
is where it gets creepy, like the grand children of some of the Nazis
that fled there are still all about Nazi. Yeah, Joe Rogan's talked a
lot about it too. They're like way too still into it. But I
think it'd be interesting. No, where I really want to go as you
go all the way the southern tip down where the literally the ships depart to
go to Antarctica is a really cool I can't remember the name Ula something or
other, but Patagonia. Yeah, submarines there to flee, So why not
everything is about that, And and that would even make geographic sense because it's
really disconnected from every other part of Argentina. Full disclosure, I'm not really
familiar with maps, so yeah, no, but I think that I think
that would be fascinating. Look, one of us are he is is a
is a crazy historical and not just for Nazis, but and then you couple
that with what's going on. I'd love to just get a little sneak peek
into that. So yeah, man, And if I have to go to
a Bavarian village in you know, a forest canopy somewhere, you just don't
see that every day, but at the very least I'd like to do the
other. So yeah, and then when I see the President of Argentina sitting
there and given the business to these idiots at the World Economic Forum, explaining
that everything that has been has led to the success of Western civilization you roundly
reject because it doesn't provide you the amount of control that you want. And
we should know because if there's been a country that has had more new currencies
in my lifetime than any other, I don't know that, it wouldn't be
Argentina. It's been an unmitigated disaster with all of these collective social experiments down
there. And that's what he was speaking about. I mean, they just
didn't try it right though they had didn't do it correctly again which time the
like at least the first four or five they just haven't done it. But
what about the I think they've had what eight currency changes or something? You
know what they say, ninth time's the charm. They just have to figure
it out. Unfortunately, they're in a pausemode because that's not the philosophy of
this, of this current president down there, who totally won't disappear. That's
my one fear, right, Like, I have all that plan and then
all of a sudden they're like, ah, he killed himself. He's always
he's always been very depressed ever since we've known him. Yeah, went into
a room and then shot himself nine times with his revolver, stopping only to
reload. Oh my god, yeah, who does that? Yeah, that's
my uh like they got Epstein man and then everything else you see with with
Phutin's regime, it's it's at least in the realm of possibilities, Thank you
very much. Today, I'm here to tell you that the Western world is
in danger. And it is endangered because those who are supposed to have to
defend the values of the West are co opted by a vision of the world
that inectually leads to socialism and thereby to poverty. Unfortunately, in recent decades,
motivated by some well meaning individuals willing to help others and others motivated by
the wish to belonged to a privileged cast, the main leaders of the Western
world have abandoned the model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism.
He's he's telling it to their face. And even though it's easy to
rant on social media, and it's easy to rant on the radio if you
want to call in, just sit in a room with with you know,
all of that leadership, all those high profile people. And yes he does
have an entertainment background, but to be like, no, screw you listen
to me, you're all a bunch of idiots. It still takes a set.
Man, That takes a set because a lot most people want to go
along to get along with stuff, and where they might be critical and say,
hey, let's make some tweaks. He's just like, the only reason
you're doing this is because you realize that doing it the right way means you
don't get to control everybody. You're calling them a bunch of monsters. Really
at that point, or excuse me, excuse me, yes, thank you,
Alex, that's that's crazy man. So uh yeah, absolutely down with
that. Yes, Jake, what's up? Hey? When you go down
to Art and Gina, are you going to visit the meteorite site where the
bug meteorite came in in the memorial in what the Bug Meteorite where he impacted
from Starship Troopers? Yeah, okay, I was gonna say, well,
you know why I thought you were screwing with me because the when they're fighting
the bugs that's all filmed in Wyoming called it. Did you know that?
Did you? Yeah? The bug there's a there's this there's this crazy area
called Hell's half Acre outside of Casper, Wyoming, and that is it looks
like another world, so anytime they want to film some crazy other world they
filmed there. I've actually been over there, but yeah, you're right,
that's everyone. What else Are's was like City of the Future and then they
wiped it out. Yeah killed his parents spoiler. So yeah, I'm like,
dude, the more I think about it and it thanks for the call,
I think that's gonna be it. And as long as there's not a
coup. So I want to avoid coups. You know what I'm saying,
Ray stagic. You know, you want to go vacation, you want to
go visit somewhere. Don't want to coo to break out why there? So
definitely don't want that unless it's your coop and you're successful, because then you're
in charge for now. Yeah, have you had that happen? Have you
had a coup? Have I staged a coup? Not yet? Try to
gather more info, figure out what to do, what not to do,
a lot of coup mistakes people make, you know, Yeah, you know,
like you like not killing all your enemies on day one. Yeah,
you usually have to have a pretty good following to have something like that,
and you probably do. I myself. It would probably be a cop one.
Look if somebody look, let me tell you could stage because it's you
have a following, but you have to have a fanatical following. You don't
want ross to coop, No, you do. You don't want any funny
part of that. This guy got votes for Soil and Water Supervisor the last
time around and didn't even ask for him. Well, people, I'm gonna
waste a vote, so there you go. Watch out for that one.
Yeah, yeah, but you know I wouldn't. I definitely won't have any
enemies with forecast that's coming next week. In the short term, you know,
maybe some people raising a stink about the cold air coming back just when
we think it's gonna get better. I mean, strong sunshine today as we
get close to fifties, so that's gonna feel pretty nice. And then tonight
we'll get some mainly liquid in rain after midnight west to east, and then
the mountains there may be some freezing rain or sleet. Highest peaks may get
some snow. It's a quick moving system though. The logos to our north
and the rain's probably done early from west to east. It'll taper off early
on Friday morning. There might be some sleep freezing rain the Tryad and west,
and as I mentioned in the mountains could be some snow. So if
you're in the try It keep close eye. Tomorrow morning on the Karth thermometerfre
It says thirty two or thirty three. You're close enough that yeah, maybe,
especially on the bridge's overpasses in the back streets, that you may have
a little ice. But then tomorrow we still should get up into the low
fifties. We'll see the timing of the colderrare. It's definitely gonna spill in
tomorrow night, so we're back down to like twenty or the low twenties that
are very cold. Saturday, good indoor day. It'll look nice though for
highs with a gusty wind making it feel and adding a little bit more of
a bite to the air. So colder there teen Saturday night, probably the
coldest night of the weekend, and then near forty for Sunday and your fifty
Monday, could be near sixty on Tuesday, and maybe low to mid sixties
early next week. Nice warm upcoming as we get into the middle part of
next week, especially across probably the entire lower forty eight, except maybe the
Northwest. But yeah, a little milder today, then colder especially later tomorrow
and tomorrow night and for the weekend, and then warm it up real nice
into next week. Appreciate it, sir. We'll talk again tomorrow. Have
a good one, all right, man and Jeff Bellinger's next hang on TALKSPTI
two stations driving the best end talk. This is Casey Oday and Carolina's Morning
News eight fifty three Bloomberg Update now with Jeff Ballinger. Jeff, what's happened?
Well, Good morning, Casey. We have a couple of better than
expected economic indicators from Washington to start the day. Housing starts fell last month,
but not by as much as feared. Groundbreakings for houses and apartments were
down four to third percent in December, and the number of workers signing up
for unemployment benefits was down by sixteen thousand to one hundred eighty seven thousand last
week. That is the lowest number since September of twenty twenty two. Atlanta
FED President Rafael Bostik was speaking at an Atlanta event today. He said he
favors keeping interest rates higher for longer. Bostik says the worst outcome would be
to cut rates too soon and then have to raise them again. Google's chief
executive has really taken an ax to the text giant's payroll. He's told surviving
employees he's not finished. More than one thousand Google workers have been let go
just since January tenth. The vergs as CEO sun Dar Pikai has sent a
memo to employees telling them to expect more layoffs as the year goes on.
Boeing making some progress. We're getting its seven thirty seven Max jets back in
the year. The planes were grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration after the accident
involving an Alaska Air flight earlier this month. Inspections have been completed on forty
jets and the data from the safety checks will be reviewed by the FAA.
Boeing did get some welcome good news today at one in order for one hundred
and fifty Max Jets from India's newest airline, Akasa Air. This carrier started
flying less than two years ago. In casey, would you be able to
put your smartphone away and stay off it for a full month, The yogurt
company will choose ten people and challenge them to do just that. In exchange
for a really nice payday. Siggy's Dairy is accepting entries online for what it
calls a digital detox program. Those who successfully give up their pro phones for
a month will win ten thousand dollars and other gifts. Casey, I'd love
to, are you kidding? Made, But the problem is is we wouldn't
be able to do Yeah, that's that's true. All of the verification for
logging stuff is through up through the phone. Obviously, the company wants to
get ahold of you, so like you got to be in a pretty interesting
place I think to even be able to attempt it. But no, I
don't even I've never turned this sound on on my phone, so that'd be
good. Yeah. So anyway, all right, thank you sir, appreciate
it. All right, have a good day. There you go. Jeff
Bellinger, Bloomberg News. Ross you want to not have to answer your phone
for a week? Ross is through his phone out the window. It's crazy.
Why'd you do that? Uh? Jim, what's up? Good morning,
Casey? Thanks for taking my call. And I just think that you
guys should take your show in the road and become naturally syndicated. You guys
are the best and in that vein, I can't agree more with you and
Ross about socialism just haven't been adequately implemented. Maybe a political movement should form.
Maybe it should be nationalized socialism, and a charithmitic, charismatic leader could
take charge and fire up the crowds and expand this ideal. Maybe across borders
military life might be needed, but just forced these freedom loving people to see
the virtues of socialism, a national social movement is what needed, I think,
I am I'm going to be very curious to see how this plays out
because you have there's a couple of things. Thank you for the call there,
do you so? If you I read this back around the time the
election was going on, if you pulled Argentinians and ask them who are who
historically? Who are the two most respected or too most this is very clear
well known and respected, right because you can be infamous and be well known.
You know, Hitler would be a well known Austrian obviously. But if
you in Argentina just very recently and you asked who are the most well known
people you know who that you know who the most well known or or respected
historic? What just had did all the lights just flicker. All right,
Well, I better finish this segment up. Do they're cutting power? Because
I'm getting to the truth. That's what it is. We're talking about coups.
That last caller probably said something that's about to happen. Man, I
pack them with bags. Got a flee Yeah, Ross is fleeing. Man,
he's got a giant run the seventh floor. You know those slides they
use out of planes. He just deployed oneuffel bag full of money. Oh
man, what's going on? Uh? Eva perone? You know her as
a vita, Yeah, it's Madonna. Well stop. Madonna was the wife
of the former president who decided to war on the bourgeoisie and it was gonna
be a whole thing. And then she got cancer in her early thirties and
then they blamed the rich people forgiving her cancer. Was weird. But you'll
know the other name, the other most well known and respected Argentinian Jay Gavera.
Right, so some history there. I mean he's on all his T
shirts. Man, he's yeah, there is that. Yeah, he's uh
like that. He likes cigars too. Is a thing like uh, jailing
artists and homosexuals. That was the thing. It's all around awful. So
look, it'll be interesting to see if there is a transition