I don't know why you're like that. You're like, oh, it's Monday
morning, and you miss a bunch of big stories here. Let me fill
you in on those. Ah, what a crazy, crazy weekend of finally
a news cycle that died down just a little, yet apparently didn't and apparently
we have to fill out with stuff like that. So I'm just saying you,
obviously you saw the tweet that I put out because on Saturday, I
was just trying to mind mer noses Saturday or Friday night, well whatever,
just trying to mind my own business, scrolling through the Twitter timelines, doing
my my own thing, right, And I'm like, oh, man,
a lot of a certain type of story in here. And since it was
in football season, it's not just Buffalo Bill's stuff, No, no,
no. It was a lot of like flat earth stuff, a lot of
dome stuff. And I found it interesting because it was connected to obviously the
Elon must story from last week, which apparently the Washington Post has figured out
was a horrible, horrible thing and so they had to coverage it because some
chunk of debris somewhere hit a midivan that was parked very near the launch site
or something. Yes, jet, Jeff Bezos media puppet empire decided that all
of a sudden, this is a it's a blight upon society and nature and
everything else, and so they decided to go ahead and write a big piece
about how horrible the rocket launch or the I'll call it a failed rocket launch
because technically it is, although it was kind of expected, but Elon Musk
launching a skyscraper into the sky on Thursday of last week, all of a
sudden, it's a it was a huge problem and required some journalistic endeavor on
it. And so are we doing the I'm sorry, I just got on
Twitter this morning. Are we doing the Seth Seth Rogan rip hashtag? That's
a trending thing. Obviously he wasn't quote found naked and tied up behind a
nightclub in LA. But that's how we're starting our Monday morning on Twitter.
Okay, all right, thank you Twitter for that. Just trying to go
to something else, crazy crazy, all right? So anyway, Yeah,
the Washington Post video sharing on social media showed debris slamming into a van several
hundred feet away and striking the nearby beach and shoreline as if it was a
war zone. That's the actual language they used. Yeah, when you launch
a rocket on the underside of the rocket, it's kind of a war zone.
And if you look at the photos, what happened, obviously is the
launch pad or part of the launchpad looks like you explode. It basically got
burned through. Do you know. One of the reasons that might be the
case because we attempted I say we because that's how we describe um space endeavors.
Right, we went to the Moon and all that stuff, but Elon
Musk and SpaceX attempted to launch the largest rocket not just by like ten percent,
but by light double And actually when you get into the engine size and
all that, it was more than double, but by at least double that
we'd ever attempted to launch. Think about that. This wasn't this wasn't just
you know this the Gemini to Saturn too, you know, uh, rocket
differential. This was Hey, remember that time we launched uh you know,
basically this thing that's easy to imagine from a size standpoint. Yeah, well,
what if we launched the then you know, pick your building in downtown.
And that's what they attempted to do. And they didn't even expect obviously
it wasn't man, they didn't expect it would get up there. So Washington
Post is like, oh, well, you do look like look like a
war zone out there. Well, yeah, that's what's going to kind of
look like. The evolution of space travel and rockets and everything else. It
um it requires uh, it requires some uh, some some testing, some
fail and fix and and go forward. And the problem is is that you
have this, you have this endeavor that is done in the private sector for
a lot of it, although there is government funding there right, there's contracts
that are utilized for the delivery of satellites and things like that, which,
by the way, I've been overwhelmingly successful to the tune of like two hundred
and fifty launches with the smaller rocket. But you know, we're looking at
something that can can go further, can do Mars, can do the assembly
of space station stuff. This is this is the evolution of travel. This
is the space race of of now and and the Washington Post has turned it
into well, we got SpaceX didn't want to blow up it's launch pad,
but it may have done just that, well may have You know why Jeff
Bezos hasn't blown his up because he built a tiny rocket, and I'm not
begrudging him. I think it's a good thing that you have about four of
these dudes all up in this. So though it looks like virgin Jeff Branson,
Richard Branson or whatever, it looks like he's dialing it back a little,
but that's good. But like, the ship is bigger, right,
The rocket is bigger because Elon musk vision is bigger than what Jeff Bezos is
doing. No offense to Bezos, yeah, well no, no, no,
no, now, offense to Bezos. I'm sorry. I don't think
for a moment, the Washington Post decided to do a hit piece and nobody
told Bezos said oring what it is, right, because I mean, his
goal is to eventually bring one hundred thousand people per year to Mars, and
that's why the ship is so big. And by the way, I'm putting
a list together for the first hundred thousand of people who I think need to
go to Mars. I think it should be everyone, all the celebs who
had their blue check taken away. Oh no, the ship first one's over,
dude, I mean you had these people have had it bad enough.
I mean it's it's pretty bad. So away with all of this going on,
and Washington posts like, oh yeah, I do a hit piece bur
I'm on the timeline, and all of a sudden, it's like they're covering
up because they hit the dome or the firmament or whatever that I don't even
know what the stupid language is of this damn thing. And I'm like,
why am I reading this? Why is oh Ross liked it? I mean
that was a that was a lot of word salad for me to scroll and
and liking things that thought was funny. I know that's a bravity right there.
Well, no, no, I hadn't do the Washington Post story.
It's two stories, Washington. It's not that complicated. I said, that's
funny. And then all of a sudden somebody's like, did you see the
rocket bur which likely the reason that some of the rockets failed was because the
launchpad was obliterated. Part of it was obliterated. Pictures are amazing, and
they're saying though SpaceX is saying it's salvageable. They're gonna be able to fix
it. And they said, now, prom we're gonna fix it. None
issue. They prepared for that. Yeah, yeah, it's not no,
no, no, Look, here's the thing. Even if that thing had
blown up on the launchpad, it's the first time with the current, with
all the you know, with the the engines the way that they are and
all that that you decided you were going to launch a skyscraper. Okay,
I'll give you one. I'm cool with that. But the rockets kind of
when they burned out, kind of if you squint right, kind of looks
like it makes an X. I don't know if you or excuse me,
a Q. I don't know if you know this. Some people when they
see the letter Q in the wild, they have some thoughts, and I
just can you imagine the amount of control and power you must have to be
able to specifically burn out the engine load of the tightened rockets so that it
forms the letter Q, but never accomplish any think you said you were going
to. It's it's all coming together, Okay, it's a it's a slow
burn. Well trust the process, my friend. I'm just saying I read
that old because you're like, oh, nothing that's happened in six years.
I read on the same app you're talking about, the Twitter app. I
read that Oprah Winfrey was actually taking the GITMO, given a military tribunal,
executed, and now her clone is in her place, So boom progress.
This happened when somewhere last year. Oh okay, see once again, these
are the ones that I don't like. You should see the ones that I
don't like. You can say look in certain profiles, like you know,
retweet doesn't necessarily mean endorsement, right right, Yeah, it just means I
thought that's funny, and I'm going to click like because these people are so
in. They're all in. Man, it's oh cute. It's a queue
at the bottom of the ship. Well, I mean, how much more
visible could it get than that? It's right there, dude, what's the
firmament? I don't even know what that is, the one you did click
light on so that you don't even know what they're alleging. They're alleging that
that Elon was thwarted by the dome or something. Yeah, it's it's the
dome from the Bible, the firmament from the Dome from the Bible. No,
it is, It's in the Bible, man, the dome is So
what about all the two hundred and fifty other rockets. It's a barrier that
God put there to protect man. It's in the Bible. It's biblical.
Are you talking about the atmosphere? Just no, google it. I'm not
no, no, no, no, you know why because then that's forever
on my Google history and ad feeds and nope, nope, nope, I
trust you. So anyway, they so they uh they executed the Oprah.
Huh at the getmo. Well, at least they're having mule. At least
they're you know, they're having a military or a tribunal process. I should
say, all right, So here's the firmament in Wikipedia. In Biblical in
Biblical cosmology, the firmament is the vast, solid dome created by God during
the Genesis creation narrative to divide the primal seat into the upper and lower portions
so the dry land could appear. I know, I is it not the
Key James Edition? Is it? I've read the Bible specifically. Um,
here's the parts of the Bible that are easy to read, basically New Testament,
all the different Disciples books. But you know, if you're looking for
stuff there, especially as a kid, where you like read the Bible,
Okay, look, numbers is not getting it done right. I don't.
I don't need all the different families, you know, due to Rod.
But Genesis, Genesis is the jam nude, and so that's the part of
the especially you know, being early and stuff. That's the part of the
Bible where you're going to read that a whole bunch. And I don't remember
the dome part, so I don't. I don't know if I don't know
if that makes me a bad Bible reader or what. That's also the part
where they're fit, you know, Genesis and Exodus. That's story time,
baby. And then when you get older you get it. You know,
you're like, oh, what's the all right, those are the first books?
What's the last book of the Bible. Then you go into that you're
like, oh my gosh, that is that doesn't sound fun. But yeah,
I don't remember the part about the dome, so maybe I gotta do
a reread anyway. Six twenty Hey gun, a new decade on the calendar
and celebrating ten years on the air. This is one oh six one FM
Talk in the Triangle and Near's Talk WPTI in the Triad. Well let me
say this, whether it's the Firmament or weird que conspiracies or rockets or whatever.
You're gonna be sorry you got out of bed when we get to the
Earth day stuff, because apparently I guess this this stuff kicks off right away
and simultaneous or something. That's the way I read in a lot of bad
news coming our way. So we got that for you. You'd be like,
oh, why don't even get up this morning? Well, one,
you know, we need the listeners, so continue to do that. But
it's gonna be very depressing. So we got that for you. And I'm
gonna tell you this all right. Be a little secretive on this. I
thought about promoting it more openly and widely, but I don't trust some of
the people who might get a little little clenchy in the shorts over over this
happening. We have a very interesting guest at eight o five today, Ross,
would you say that we have a very interesting guest at eight o five
today? I would yes, uh. One, maybe one that people probably
wouldn't want to miss, yep. Perhaps one that there are some folks in
positions of power here within let's just say, one of the larger cities in
North Carolina who frankly seemed to not want this individual talking about stuff. Would
you say that that would be an accurate description of that individual? Yes,
I would. Okay, So I think I'm gonna play at coy and not
tell you who it is because I don't want I don't want somebody running over
to a judge that they've essentially hands selected and being like, oh kay if
this person on the radio talking about stuff, because I don't trust some of
you, you folks that are pulling the levers of power. I know you're
shocked, but you're not an eight oh five. You're gonna want to be
here, Okay, and we'll just we'll leave it like that. It's not
que by the way that I have to specify that is it Oprah? Which
one? It's a good point, yeah, yeah, yeah, because you
know that's like one of those philosophical questions, is it Oprah? That's a
clone joke. So anyway, eight o five, don't miss it's on one
of the big stories we've been talking about here as of late. But I
figure it out show after the show is on the iHeartRadio app. Searchs Casey
O Day for the podcast on the iHeart Radio app. All right, six
thirty five, Good morning, ac O Day Radio program, good news,
bad news. Good news is um nice weather, nice weather out there,
especially Sunday weather. Add some good golf and weather bad news. N it's
gonna change and you're all gonna die. So womp womp, Yeah, that's
the thing that's coming. How do I know? Because I made the mistake
of reading some of the doom and gloom over the weekend Earth Day in Sandy.
Yes, it was Earth Day, you know, that annual holiday which
is now almost religious in nature. But you don't get a day off.
What's up with that. If there's any holiday that would make more sense to
have a day off of, it's Earth Day. Think about this. You
can't do it on a Monday, because any create a long weekend and people
travel. But you stick it in the middle of the week or something,
what are you gonna have. You're gonna have less people commuting to work,
lower emissions. Maybe an opportunity for people to rather than drive their gas guzzler
suv or whatever, you know, whatever you're mad about on this particular day
and get out and enjoy nature. Right, have a free day at like
state parks or something, so people can go walk around and be like,
hey, this is nice and then you can indoctrinate them with whatever you want
to indoctrinate them with rights. That's a day. That's a day to take
a day right there. But no, no, no, instead, Yeah,
it's just you know, you grind out as normal. It's scared,
get terrified by all of these articles that look like every other article you've been
reading for years, where we should be visiting kiddie Hawk right now via submarine
and what was ross? Do you remember the story we did years ago where
they're like giant rocks were just gonna fly out of the ocean and crush people
on land. You remember that there were so many of them. I just
ignore him now, Like I saw the headline from Mario tech Wire and I'm
like, okay, And I told you this fear. I used to have
this fear when I was a little kid, because you'd be waiting in the
line at the grocery store and they have like the tabloidge in the side there.
They at least they used to up in New York, like the weekly
World News and stuff. And remember one of them was like the World's gonna
end in a year or whatever it was, and my dad was like,
don't pay attend any attention to that crap. It's all stupid, it's all
just made. They just want you to buy the magazine and they want you
to spend your money. Yeah. But I said, of wanted bad Boy
to be a thing. I did too. I did too. Well,
he was a thing, right, was it the one? Yeah, that
was the one that put him on the map. I mean they had to
have something correct to get them to where they were, right, Well they
did, John Edward, it's in horse face. Well that was like way
in the future. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just saying, you know,
every now and then, you know, a broken clock kind of thing.
But anyway, you know, you month after month, year after year,
that was always the same thing. Man, it would be there in the
in the tabloid aisle. We're all gonna die in like two weeks or whatever.
The asteroid has come in, or it's gonna be acid raining or the
ozone, and it's just eventually to the point. Now where were these headlines?
And I'm like, Okay, I wanted the giant rock. I didn't
want it to land on people so like all him and haunt this, but
I wanted rocks. Giant rocks come flying out of the ocean because that's like
old Greek myth stuff, you know what I'm saying. That's like all Poseidon's
mad, you know, right, Well, like that was one. There's
been some doozies. I used to it sucks because of my old laptop which
bit the dust. I had a folder on there, but it wasn't on
the cloud, and it was just crazy predictive stories or stories I'm like saved
for later, and that had all of those. It had like at all
the women's were going to be prostitutes, right because it was basically mad Max
or something that was in there, just you know, a bunch of these
predictions, which I guess if there's some girl you crushed on back in the
day, that's good news for you if you got some dope. But otherwise,
you know, it's just stuff or you just roll your eyes when you
read it. Man. But then every Earth day, man, they just
they trotted on out, trott it on out, get it out there for
you so you can have a new thing to create anxiety that affects more than
fifty percent of kids under the age of eighteen. Because that's another story,
that's a thing. Oh yeah, So according to the r L story.
Here's what you need to worry about, and do know that it's come an
asap. And so what do they do? They go get themselves a college
professor, sir. This case, it's Marshall Brain, who is a futurist,
inventor and North Carolina State University professor and writer and creator of How Stuff
Works. This is kind of a go to for L. They always talk
to this guy and he wrote a book called The Doomsday Book, The Science
Behind Humanity's Greatest Threats. Saturday was Earth Day. By the way, what
if I told you the climate change is about to enter a new phase?
Oh okay, all right, I'm listening, a phase where it's deadly and
disruptive to millions or billions of it. We'll hold on. I just thought
that we were anytime we just had hurricanes or typhoons or stuff, that was
all so. But it's new, all right, on the eve of Earth
Day twenty twenty three, let's take a detailed look. So here we go,
and I want to remind you that what I'm about to tell you not
only is all gonna happen, but it's all gonna happen pretty quick and simultaneously
so it's not even like the plagues of Egypt at least had the good sense
to go one after another. Apparently this is all like one on top of
each other. So let's see here. Here are the eight of the most
important shifts that will soon be upon us. Heat waves will kill millions of
people. Well, sometimes heat waves do kill people. That's I mean,
it's not new, but I guess these are gonna be new ones. Number
two blue ocean event in the Arctic. Number three perma frost melting that will
cause a doomsday feedback loop. That sounds scary as hell. A doomsday feedback
loop. Is that like when audio feedback happens, because I can understand that
being in radio. That's the worst. Or you get some guy on stage
with a microphone who steps in front of his his monitors. Yeah, it's
baffling to me the number of people that use microphones on stage and don't understand
why that happens. It's like, Bro, you're now standing in front of
your monitors or your PA speakers stand behind them. Number four glacier collapse in
Antarctica. Number five collapse of the Amazon rainforest. What do you mean?
What does that? What does that collapse. Look like, what does that
mean? Collapse? Is it a giant sinkhole? Is going to suck Brazilian
confused? Number six, collapse of the g off stream, number seven,
overheating notions number eight, droughts of destroy cities and crops. And here is
the amazing this I'm gonna read this verbatim. Here is the amazing thing.
All these catastrophes could arrive at the same time. When that happens, it
will be spectacular and the worst sort of ways. Then they go through and
they document all of this stuff. This stuff that gets me is when they
talk about the potential food shortages. Right, We're like, ah, we're
gonna run out of food, So what we need to do is get rid
of all the rice because that creates this problem with the CO two and then
oh never mind, everyone's dead. Oh no, rice is rice is the
new one man. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, this is
their point. They're like, oh, it's gonna be food shortages, and
their solution is to get rid of the nitrogen fertilizer and to get rid of
rice to prevent the food shortages that it's gonna kill everyone. As Sri Lanka's
working out. It's working out great. Is that the first time? Do
you remember they were rather like back in the day, they had like a
little mini rice shortage. Oh yeah, they had a little mini rice shortage.
Back it was more than ten years ago, because that's how long we've
been doing this, uh, doing the show. But yeah, they had
a little rice shortage, and they were like, this is it. This
was This was easily over a decade ago, and they're like, this is
it. Man. The reason that rice is important. It is the primary
carb for the majority of the world. And you know, we obviously we
eat rice here in the US, but when you look at the two most
populous countries in the world, they consume a crap ton of rice. So
if you have a problem with rice, or rice is bad, or rice
is whatever, is overpriced, any of it, especially when you look at
the the the amount of poverty in both China and India and basically those entire
sectors of the world, that's a big damn deal. And then I remember
they're like, this is it. This is in fact, it was such
It was such a weird thing because they were rationing rice and they were doing
it here in the US and I don't you know, And it was obviously
it was a big story, but it was a much bigger story when you
get into you know, the Asian continent where rice is life, and I
remember reading stories and they're like, this is this is the end We did.
We did a parody song over the damn thing. That's how you know
it was a big enough news story that we got off her lazy butts and
did a parody song. Your Sunday, let's kick it. The price of
rice is crazy. The price of rice is crazy stuff. I'm filling up
my kitchen. The price is jack That's why I am bitching. We eat
it with lemon, a whole lot of curry. The price is going up,
and I'm starting to worry. We'll whatever stuff. You know, I
don't know the rationing rice I cost goo if you ask me. The whole
thing's been mishandled. It is part of our culture, like tourings and sandals.
Americans wanted in the Chinese dood too, but nobody eat it like a
grain loving Hindu. I hate some. To day was filling me, but
these days the price of the rice it is killing me. I love it
least steam it put it on my plate. I eat a lot of starts,
but I never gained weight. Now that it's been rationed, I can't
share it, but I don't look so Sunday prepares it. The price of
rice is crazy. The price of rice is crazy. The price of rice
is crazy. I mean, that's that's how you know it was big enough
deal man, Ross, I don't have you ever heard that parody song,
because that actually predates this show predates. Yeah, exactly, No, I
have not heard that before, but yeah, I mean it shows like the
this stupid cycle they're in where they're like, oh, there's going to be
food shortages and you're all gonna die, and we need to or reduce the
COEO two. Okay, so how do you want to do that. Well,
one of the main contributors that CO two is rice, and we need
to get rid of it. But that feeds a huge percentage of the Earth's
population. So then there's some people. Right then you get a conspiracy theory
land where people are like, is your goal to reduce the population? What?
No? What no? What are you talking about me? Some people
might look at saying, you know, I can't believe anyone's ever brought that
up. I feel like, now now you know it. Now you're just
going conspiracy theory. That's true. Oh wait wait, hold on, that's
ironic, isn't it. Hold on, that's true. That's true. Check
hu true. Didn't hurt her mom sit there on their stupid video that that
audio's from, and that's what she's saying that's true, is that they need
they need to reduce the population to like one fifth of what it is now.
Yeah, and they're saying it all calmly too. Yeah, those are
two nitwits. Where do you think they get their information right? Doing their
yoga poses and stuff with their trankful music in the background all along talking about
like human genocide, how you need to get rid of, like, you
know, eighty percent of the Earth's population whenever it is. Yeah, but
never them, no no no no, not them, not them, no
no, no the other people. Yeah, any of these uh, any
of these uh people who are like, yeah, we need the population there
to be about half, you need to be about half. And then I
we had that story where they're like, oh, a six hundred pound satellites
coming in and there's a one in whatever chance of it hitting somebody, not
just one person, but anybody at all, and you're you're like, well,
that's weird because if we're stacked like cordwood everywhere around the earth, and
yes, let's let's just say, all right, we'll yield the oceans,
which are what sixty five percent of verse, so there should be feasibly a
forty five percent chance it bonks somebody on the head. Well, they don't,
you know why, because things are wide damn open, and maybe I
have a maybe I have a screwed uh perspective, just because I've literally traveled
all around the world and there's giant gaps of nobody and I grew up in
Wyoming, where you are like, I'm gonna go to the store and drive
one hundred and forty miles to do it, and you don't think anything of
it because you're just like, that's how far stuff right. People don't realize
how big the Pacific Ocean is. It's it's crazy, crazy big, especially,
you know why, because we don't have Southern hemisphere perspective. Especially when
you have the Southern hemisphere, there's nothing. There ain't a lot going on.
I was just and I was just in South America, and yes,
I was in you know a couple of really big cities there, but it's
the moment you get outside the city. Do you know what? There is
nothing. There's coca, hippos and cartel checkpoints. That's it. We can't
even complete a can American highways. You can drive from north you know,
uh, basically Alaska to the tip of South America because there's a giant swath
of nothing. I think the Darien Gap, I think it was they say,
if you were to take everybody on the Earth and stack them side by
like Tetris, right Texas, right Austin, it would Yeah. I think
the Texas thing was if everyone had us uh what they consider livable space,
or they saying the other one that you could compare it to is Easter Island.
You could put everybody on the planet on Easter Island side by side like
Tetris. That's how big the Earth is compared to the people. There's a
lot of space. Anyway, we gotta take a break. We'll be right
back. Hang out ten years. There is twice an hour and smart talk
all day four PTI in the Triad and one six one FM talk in the
Triangle. Oh man, all right, good morning everybody. It is the
case O Day radio program and here we go. Wow, things things building
fast here? Uh, Ross, bad news. Apparently your estate, your
compound has been destroyed by doomsday feedback loop, so that that kicked off fast.
So sorry buddy. Then tomorrow, what's that? Do you have to
come to work tomorrow? Of course you do. Yes, that will never
change. Yes, yes, yes, that will never change. Not only
will that never change. Simultaneously, all of these woke companies right that make
sure that they're getting there what are they called their basically their CPI score or
whatever it is up right for their diversity stuff, who also have us,
you know, said everybody's got to come into the office. And even when
pointed out we'll wait a second, that'd be a good way, they're like
no, no, no, no, so f YI on that. But
yeah, sad news for Ross's house. Womp whomp. Now I saw him
one of the mock drafts you guys are taking Bobby Bouchet. Is that still
still where you guys are going? Oh dude, he's a powerhouse. I
mean yeah, but it's a little bit of a bias when you're taking kids
out of the sec COUMP. Did you hear what his Mama said no,
no, did she did she weigh in on it, I'm said, Patriots
of the Devil. Oh wow, I mean mama. Who's to argue with
Mama? Sounds like she nailed that one. Yeah. NFL Draft later this
week, so that's fun. I'm assuming you guys are going, oh line
I saw in most of my drafts. I hope so or some more weapons.
Just I think we're fine defensively, just o line and maybe like a
wide receiver too. It's um strangely, if you if you need an edge
rusher, defensive end or something, this is your um, this is your
draft because there's a gazillion good guys out there apparently, but in the world
of old line there's some good ones as well. The question will be there's
that one old lineman and his name escapes me. Who's who was like he
was expect to be top five and he's got a bunch of like side issues
and stuff, so he keeps drop and drop and drop him. But um,
yeah, a lot of good options out there. Uh. I you
know, I've I spent some time over the weekend digging into figure out exactly
how the Vikings are gonna waste their draft pick, So I shouldn't say that
they actually uh, they actually draft pretty well. They just don't lock these
guys in. I mean, justin Jefferson was a steel Man. We'd never
thought we were gonna get him. Everyone assumed that the Eagles were gonna take
Jefferson, and instead they took Jalen Rager. No, no, Jefferson is
the devil. What we see that? Dude, You just Kirk Cousin,
just just throw the ball over there, man, he'll catch it. Randy
was so talented. Yeah, oh yeah, dwhere go get it. It
just there was a particular game against the Bills this last year were Jefferson.
You know that catch he made against you guys, but it was ridiculous.
It was to the point where even after I saw the catch, saw them
review it for like an hour, I'm like, there's no way he made
that catch, right, I should just be Homer on it, like,
yeah he made that catch. That was no way he made that catch.
But he did. He did. The guy's incredible. Hell, we even
screw up into good stuff. We were. We were the ones who missed
our pick one year and ended up getting an eight time Pro bowler out of
it. In alignment because we missed our pick. I don't know how that
happens, but we did it, and we're like, okay, I guess
we'll draft Pat Williams or whatever. But yeah, that's on Thursday, so
and that's good. Today's a good day to do all of that if you
align yourself. Excuse me. With a new trend out there, all right,
Ross, I didn't send this story in prep, so you've not seen
this. The new trend is called bare minimum Mondays. How does that sound
to you? That sounds fantastic. Tell me more. Everyone dresses in speedos.
No, no, no, no. So this story I'll paraphrase.
I'm not gonna read the whole thing. Basically, the newest generation of workers,
all right, so we're talking, you know, the twenty somethings basically
are attempting to lobby for I like how they couch it like that, and
that's fine. I'll get on board, all right. So basically, the
claim is that there's a new trend called bare minimum Mondays, which prioritizes doing
less work on people's least favorite day of the week as a way of demonstrating
to companies that a four day work week, which they say in the story
here has been scientifically proven to be more efficient. Look, I've seen some
studies and stuff like that, but I don't know that you have enough data
to claim that, because when you have here's the deal. If ross,
Let's say the company came to us tomorrow and they're like, all right,
going forward, four shows a week. Okay, four shows a week.
Well, not only you sold, but how enthusiasticastic would you be in at
the beginning? Oh so so excited? Right, You're like, oh,
Tuesday to Friday or what you know, whatever the four days are. You're
doubtful of the data. Now I have also seen the data. I can
confirm that. I'm just saying that when you get a company that does this,
of course everyone's going to be in a great bood. Right. How
much energy do you have on the first day of vacation? Right? So
when in this case, when you're just super excited something's happening, you know
you need to look at it in the long run. But that's fine.
So now they're trying to force the company's hand by doing bare minimum. Mondays
a commitment to basically phoning it in on Monday and accomplishing most important tasks on
Tuesday through Friday is a way to demonstrate how a so this is a self
fulfilling prophecy. I'm sure companies are ecstatic about this, and and and here's
the deal. Maybe people, look, there's a lot of there's a lot
of wasted time from a work perspective. Ross and I, even though the
hours are what they are, radio, you have a lot you can you
have a lot of freedom to do stuff like if like on Friday, we
took valuable airtime to figure out if wizard porn was a thing. By the
way, wizard porn is a thing, right. And you know I've worked
I worn't many jobs where there's no way you're gonna be able to carve fifteen
minutes out to figure out if wizard porn's a thing, right, And many
of you work those kinds of jobs. You're busting your ass doing you know,
whatever it is you're doing. I did roofing, UH did installation of
hypelon roofing and welding. And you know that the slave drivers as far as
the foreman in boom boom boom, boom boom, right, So you know,
the depending on the kind of job that you have, there's there's more
flexibility there. But when you're when you're doing those kinds of work, you
know, simply not working on Monday is not going to be You're not going
to be able to accomplish as much as you're able to accomplish in four days
as you can in five days. So your mileage may vary, so to
speak. But with that being said, going out there and bragging about how
you're not going to do crap on Monday as a way to demonstrate to your
employer, I don't know that they're going to feel that that's a good idea.
Also, it's really if you want to demonstrate how lazy you can be,
you're not even doing a good job of it. Ross, I'm proposing
a new thing. You're ready, Hold on, let me get the breaking
news sound or very important. Let's see if you want to get on board
my new trends That two breaking news is in like twenty minutes. First Ross's
house got wiped out by a climate disaster, and now we're doing my version
of this, which i'm more probably bare minimum week days. Have you heard
of this new trend? I just started. I haven't, but it sounds
interesting. Tell me more bare minum is so bare minimum week days is where
you phone it in every day. Wow wow wow yeah yeah yeah. And
by the way, I would also point out that that's our starting point and
if the honey dew list get too long Bare minimum days, that ended.
Why looking into this? Right, So nobody tries to take advantage of the
you know, any of the days off. I mean the real days off,
not just the days where you actually go into work and don't do anything,
but the ones where you're at home. Ah, because if there's one
thing that wives and girlfriends hate, it's a day that doesn't have a giant
calendar of stuff attached to it, gross generalizations. That's what we do here
on the show. So yeah, bare minimum weekdays, but now bare Minimum
Mondays. During Mays's first day, all right, so this is Marissa Mays
who worked at I don't know, some digital creators startup. During Mayze's first
year of employment after leaving Corporate America, she found herself overwhelmed, stuck in
burnout, and struggling to operate on Sunday evenings. I used to feel a
ball of anxiety in my stomach. She refers to it as the Sunday Scaries.
As something you tell a four year old. Anyway, when thinking about
all the things I needed to do on Monday, I would wake up on
Monday already feeling behind, overwhelmed, and anxious. This feeling would only compound
on the week or as the week continued. I was trying to get myself
to overachieve my way out of the burnout, but of course it didn't work.
Then Maze, along with others, figured out a way to deal with
the quote instant panic that Sunday brought, and that is to be able to
roll into the work week slow roll in excuse me by making Mondays a day
where little was to be accomplished. It was quote extremely liberating because I've been
conditioned by hustle culture and toxic product. Oh here's the thing I haven't heard
before. Toxic productivity culture. Wait, there's a culture. There's a horrible
culture for anything, toxic masculinity culture, rape culture. Now we have toxic
product is this is the people that this is the same thing lay like other
people that screw up the curve, like the grading curve? Right, what
do you mean? People are being all productive and now I have to be
productive and I'm finding that toxic because they're making me look bad. So now
I need to actually have to work. Oh, because d bag over there
is key keeps being productive. Yeah. You like the guy who shows up
to the union gig and works right. Yeah, it's the guy in the
class ruining the curve, toxic product Here's I have an assignment for everybody.
Okay, as you're as you're making your way to work today, I want
you and then report back because you'll probably have a lot of free time to
do it today at work. When you show up, I want you to
go to whoever your boss or supervisor is, right, whoever your taskmaster is,
and explain to him that you're not doing crap today. Maybe you do
some shopping on the Amazon, uh, catching up on social media whatever.
Tell them, tell them that you're trying to avoid becoming a part of toxic
productivity culture. Yeah. No, I remember the movie Big Yeah where Tom
Hanks where Josh Bashkin Baskin gets his first job in the office and he's just
typing away and he's doing his data entry and John Lovett is everything like,
dude, slow down, buddy, yeah, slow down. So go tell
your boss today, Ross, would you text aj and tell him that we're
not going to be We're not going to be part of toxic productivity culture.
I'm already on it. Oh are you so you're doing anything with your phone
there? Uh? Yeah. So everyone tell your boss that you are not
going to be part of toxic productivity culture. And so you ain't doing crap
today and then tomorrow since you know you won't, you don't have to go
to work. Probably is you're fired. Um, let us know how it
went. That's your assignment. Let us know the story goes on. May's
believes alleviating the pressure and choosing to cut herself some slack was a much needed
change of mindset going into the beginning of the week. All right, So
here's the deal. So if your beef is that motivated you to do this,
and I'm not going to read the whole article, is that you dreaded
Sundays. Which, don't get me wrong, I hate putting prep together on
Sunday because the idiot, it does signify the It signifies the end of the
week end right funds over. In fact, if we go on vacation the
first day back before we come on the air, when we have to do
prep tonight before and I start sending ross links. He'll start sending me texts
or something. It's like, what do you think you're doing? No,
Like, I get it. I feel the same way. But if I
know my work week starts on Tuesday, I'm just going to feel the same
way on Monday, do you know what I'm saying? So you're just shifting
the part where you were off and now you got to go back to work
or back to school or you know whatever your grind is depending on your age
and your status, which is why you have to you have to go uh
days that end, and why bare minimum days that end, and why absolutely
So you know, this chick's just not she's just not taking this as far
as she could take it, all right? Seven twenty case O Day Radio
Program. How many of you bosses can't wait to hear somebody tell you about
toxic productivity culture today? Oh yeah? Eight eight eight nine three four seven
eight seven four. Make sure you tape that conversation. We would love to
see it, all right, seven twenty Coming up eight oh five, we
have a guest who is at the center of one of the very big stories
we did last week. I'm not gonna tell you who it is because Frankly,
I don't want anyone run in to get a run into court, and
um, you're not gonna want to miss that. And that's the tease you're
gonna get. And I don't normally tease like that, So trust me when
I tell you. It's one of the stories that everyone found very very very
important last week. And part of the story the person is from the Triad,
but the crux of the story takes place in the Triangle, so it's
super serves both markets that frankly, we're screwing up the whole don't do anything
Monday by having a big guest for you on Monday, right, we're we're
screwing up the curve. Well, so to speak. You told me,
you said you said book hit early in the week, and I actually thought
about I said Monday or Tuesday, said secure less, do it Monday.
It's do it Monday. But then we didn't Now we'd know about bare minimum
Monday, and what the hell are we doing? I feel horrible. Ah,
well, anyway, that's eight oh five, no change in it now,
just FYI on that. We'll take a break, be right back one
oh six one at them talked five WPTI two stations driving the best in talk.
This is Casey O Day and Carolina's Morning News. All right, so
we're two thumbs up that Ross saw that he has Super Mario Brothers movie over
the weekend. Oh dude, it's so good. No politics, just straight
up entertainment and better than the previous Mario efforts. Oh it's fantastic and it
all makes sense. There's no Wolke garbage, no politics. It's perfect.
Just because they were trying to get it from all sides. They're like,
oh, cultural appropriation and I remember prats, just like, watch the movie
shut your faceball, watch the movie Get back to the New Zone. All
right, well that's good to hear. Yes it's animated, but good for
kids, good for adults, you would say, amazing. Woll we need
those movies. So there you go your day, smarter and celebrating ten years
of keeping you better informed. One oh six one FM Talk and News Talk
five WPTI more with Casey starts now. All right, good morning, seven
thirty five. You're on the Casey Okay Radio program. I'm gonna tell you,
man, things are about to get fabulous at the southern border if Democrats
get their way. Although they don't have the House, so they probably won't.
But lawmakers Democratic lawmakers in both the House and Senate have introduced us simultaneously
legislation that would reclassify vulnerable asylum seekers. All right, so one of the
categories of asylum seekers are what are known as vulnerable. And they've tried this
before, but basically this is about where you're explaining to them that you have
a real threat right for your for your safety. And of course it was
one of the things that was exploited greatly because these activist groups were going down
and they were literally training people within these caravans about what to say so that
they could be identified as vulnerable. And you know, so somebody who is
like like when you have the North Korean chess player, right who comes to
the US and then disappears from their hotel and shows up somewhere to embassy or
something, and they're like, look, I need to not go back to
North Korea and me just talking to you, they'll murder They're probably going to
murder my family for this. So that's that's what we would classify as vulnerable.
And generally, if you get pegged as that, then you are you're
in so there's no waiting, there's no there's none of that. I mean,
you still have to go through the process, but initially you're you're allowed
to stay, You're not detained in any way, shape or form. You're
provided information, which a lot. You know, that's kind of what they
were doing under Obama and they were wanting to do under Biden, but the
court kind of struck it down at that point. You're basically given documents about
when and where you need to show, but you're basically in. So they
want to reclassify any any asylum seeker or immigrant who shows up at the border
and identifies as LGBTQ not be detained and instead released into the country while a
more permanent decision is made. But that would get them initially in. There'd
be no detainment, there'll be no bond, there'll be none of that.
They would just be assigned essentially a court date, given some information, and
actually made available assistance programs and welcome to the USA. That is literally the
legislation that they're trying to pass, and in the Senate it'll you know,
it'll probably move further. Obviously in the House they're gonna have a tougher time
with that. But it's not just one congress person you know, suggesting this.
It is a group in both houses there wanting to move forward. It
would be very interesting to watch the border process at that point, wouldn't it.
How far are you willing to go with the whole, the whole Shenanigan's
nat because you know activist groups that that literally was the law. You know,
they'd be down there priming them up. That's I'm just saying, a
lot of dudes and dresses possibly. Ah. The extraordinary proposals are aimed at
setting minimum standards for detention facilities where thousands of illegal aliens are already being kept
as a weight processing. But under the legislation, those crossing the southern border
from Mexico apparently it only works on that border, may not be held in
detention if they identify as LGBTQ. The legislation introduced by Let's see Primilla jea
pale Corey Booker, Well, that's interesting that Corey Booker would propose then,
huh is being framed as an attempt to restore humanity and dignity to the immigration
system. It would mean that anyone claiming to be LGBTQ would be identified as
quote a vulnerable person and would avoid detention altogether and be allowed into the interior
of the country with a pending court date. The bill would also expand the
definition of what is considered a vulnerable person to include anyone under twenty one or
over the age of sixty, pregnant women, anyone identifying as LGBTQ, anyone
who has witnessed a crime. What do you think the odds are if you're
coming from Central America or Mexico or South America or whatever where you've witnessed a
crime. I'm gonna tell you, the odds are going to be pretty good,
especially the poorer you are, because that's the reality of where you live.
Those with mental or physical illnesses. All of these groups would be added
and or expanded under the legislation. Also, this is my this is my
other favorite part. Ross. What do you think another category is that would
qualify one for being a vulnerable person and allowed immediate access to America. Limited
English proficiency what I mean? I guess see, if you can't you know,
swim, just jump in right, You'll learn a lot of English being
spoken over here. Hell can't speak English? Come on in. Limited English
proficiency uh man. In each of these cases, the DHS would be required
to review each case individually before deciding to detain. But that takes time,
so you would then be, you know, hey, welcome, and then
eventually I guess they'd get to the review part. How do you prove the
LGBTQ. I'm serious, and I mean this honestly. We just take people
at their word or do you have to provide proof? And what is that
proof? I mean, what is it? You got a videotape yourself.
I mean, I'm being a little tongue in cheek here, but not really.
I don't know how you prove that. The bill entitled Dignity for Detained
Immigrants Act would create a special rule for vulnerable persons and primary caregivers which would
prevent the detention unless the Homeland Security Department could demonstrate that it is not reasonable
or practical practical. Yeah, at that point, I you know, what,
if you ever got something like that past, just open the border and
save the money. I mean really, at that point, I'm not implying
that they should do that, and I'm not implying that this is good in
any way, shape or form. This is this is as dumb as it
gets, but good god. Democrats supporting the bill argue proposed legislation is necessary
to restore the dignity of attempting to enter the US. I just entered.
I've just entered the US here, and there's no dignity instance. See last
time I enter the US came through Miami, And if you've ever had to
stand in the customs hall in Miami, there's no dignity to that. It
sucks TODT. Everyone's miserable. The line's way too long for some reason.
The uh, the global entry machines are all down, can't use your phone,
to use your phone? Somebody comes buying, squawks at you, even
though you're having to stand there forever. Oh anyway, seven forty five case
O Day radio program Race Stage from the Weather Channel, standing by, All
right, what'd you do on Friday? You'd get too good to join us?
Huh yeah, family, My daughter performs and she had a performance Thursday
night, So another one this week? So this is Clemson daughter or other?
Yeah, yeah, Clemson daughter. So yeah, how to make the
trip. The bigger for performance for the group is Thursday. So I'll be
out again Thursday Friday, but then not another scheduled day off until Memorial Day.
What is if you don't mind me asking, Um, she is in
UMH boy, one of the choir groups. Yeah, she's performing arts,
so in the performing arts major. Yeah it is ultimately visit there, Yeah,
yeah it is. It's it's small, it's got a bigger campus field,
but it kind of it's yeah, we love it, so uh yeah,
head back up there and um, ultimately she wants to teach, not
necessarily perform, but it is what it is. Everything yesterday, Yeah,
it would make it all like yesterday. So I'm kind of glad I'm going
to duck out on everybody for Thursday and Friday, because yeah, it it
does not look pretty starting about late Wednesday and maybe for the rest of the
weekend. Of the weekend it could be on again, off again with the
rain and showers and at times some steadier rainfalls, some disturbances coming from Texas
going to roll this way. I want to actually rolling through the Gulf.
Right now is going to stay well south of US, and then a few
more coming in mid weekend. Beyond, Temperatures are going to stay basically in
the mid up our sixties right on through the week maybe into the weekend,
it gets a little milder, but don't see any real warm weather coming in.
So enjoyed Today. Got a little cloud around, especially just east of
the try In and into the Triangle, but there's more clearing west where there
are frost advisories and freeze warnings of the mountains. But today is a real
good looking day, probably the best looking day of the week. Mid upper
sixties, if it didn't already say that. Tonight upper thirties to low forties,
so a little chili once again, and then Tuesday, clouds will go
on the increase, mid upper sixties for the showers arrived Wednesday afternoon, and
we are on again, off again with the scattered showers for Wednesday night,
Thursday, Friday, maybe even into the weekend. I think there'll be some
dry opportunities mixed in there, but shower chances will well, it's not a
lot of sunshine, just kind of unsettled, kind of the word I'm picking
here. Starting Wednesday afternoon and maybe even I'm through this upcoming weekend as oh
gosh, Sunday's the last day of April already, Yeah, it looks like
April's gonna go out with showers. Oh crazy, all right, and then
we get into flowers, right exactly May flowers, And it does look like
after the first few days of May, maybe we'll get a pattern change again,
back to some warmer weather. So hopefully that will happen, because like
I had said, we'll stay cool and a little bit damp starting about mid
week and for the rest of the month from that. Yeah. Unfortunately,
may's my birthday month, so I'm gonna need perfect weather the whole time,
if you could in the whole month. Wow, not asking for much.
Wow, It's not like I'm asking for the whole year. I mean,
yeah, one month. Yeah after it, we'll talk in an hour,
thank you, sir. Yeah, alright. Seven forty eight k c O
Day Radio program Hang on celebrating ten years of keeping you connected. This is
ninety four five WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in
the Triangle. You know, of all the people they interviewed for this story,
not one of them went yeah, that was brigging cool man. Over
the weekend, one of Disneyland's popular shows Bantasmic, which ross have you seen
the Phantasmic show when you've been down at Disney I know of it. I've
seen it on video, I've never actually seen. I know they do a
show on Epcot and from the Water. Okay, I didn't know they also
did at Disneyland, but yeah, I'm familiar with it, all right.
So this was at Disneyland, and as part of the show, there is
a portion of it where a giant animatronic dragon, fire breathing dragon is being
battled by Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse taken on the dragon. I'm assuming Mickey
wins spoiler, I don't know, but in this case now so much.
Apparently, while the fire was there, if whatever whatever was utilized propel the
fired forward wasn't working. So as a result, when the flames um started,
rather than being propelled out of the animatronic dragon as part of the show,
which is probably pretty cool to watch, instead it just kind of bursted
into flames, first the head and then the entirety of the animatronic dragon.
According to Ryan Lowe, frequent Disneyland visitor, he said he knew something was
awry when flames didn't come out and the head burst it well, yes,
good, good job, Sherlock. Yes, when the animatronic thing is now
engulfed in flames, probably something's amiss, he said. The show was stopped
almost immediately. Uh, in fact, that the at that moment, Mickey
Mouse was battling the dragon whose name is Maleficent. Maleficent right, Maleficent is
the word. Wasn't that a movie too? I think that was Evil Queen
from Sleeping Beauty with the horns and stuff. It was a Jolie Angelina Jolie
right, yeah, I knew the movie. I couldn't remember that that was
the name, all right, at which point he says, Mickey quickly vanished
off stage. The way Mickey Mouse is a coward now he'll balance poor.
Now. I feel bad that the guy who's in the suit, the employee
not employee, What the hell did they call him? You were one of
these cast member. You were a cast member, weren't you. You didn't
battle a fire dragon, did you? I volunteer? But they kept saying
no, oh okay, um A guy in the suits say, I don't
get paid in under this crap. Nobody was injured, by the way,
so um, that's good. But yeah, the animatronic d well, the
animatronic dragons obviously food bards. So oh no, Actually two things, look
you see Ross did you read this story? Did you read it to the
end? I thought it was just the dragon that burned down. Apparently the
people mover burned to the ground, so yeah, it's it's wampwomp. The
one in Orlando is still good. No, no, no, no,
that's the one that fought Yeah. Yeah, it's so weird how that happened.
Oh yea, yep. That is the greatest ride at Disney, I'm
telling you, and a getting that thing, just sit down as a piece
of quiet. Put your feet up. It's great. On the seats.
Do you put your feet up on the seats on the like the the one
to cross from you. Yeah, those are seats, man. People have
to sit there. There's no one sitting there. Man, my family's on
this sidement. You don't. You don't go around with other people and the
people mover like, not in your own not in your little contained union there,
I know. But right after you get off, it's some other porchemuck's
gonna sit where your feet were. We were down in Orlando, I can't
remember when it was. And you know, they have the random parades they
do, which can really suck because if you're trying to get to one end
of the park and suddenly you're caught and there's a parade. There's no way
to sit to wait for the parade to end unless you want to walk all
the way around the park, and you don't have to. I'm sorry if
you never watched a chase scene in a movie. A little different at Disney,
so what we were watching there and the same dragon, the Maleficent dragon.
I don't think it's the same one they have for the Fantastic Show,
but I mean it's the same dragon from the same character. It started because
it because it breezed fired during the parade going down Main Street, same exact
thing. It stopped like it caught on fire. They had to stop the
parade. So, I mean they've had issues with this. Uh Am.
I the only one who'd be like, this is awesome. It's different when
you have kids. No, no, no, no, well, okay,
yes, from the kid's perspective, although I don't know if I was
a kid, i'd probably be like, this is awesome. No, because
nobody's getting hurt any of the rest of it. You're just like you,
but especially not at the Fantasmic Show because there's a big distance between you.
The choreograph, lighting and fire show that you're watching. Well, I mean
after they basically smushed that the one that check in their one ride back in
the day, Disney's really really you know they they they're a hesitant about something
happening. Do you remember that what was the thing where you'd go in and
it was like something of America or whatever, and it was like you would
spin around. You were in a big circular thing. Basically, one of
the women working on the ride got between the wall and word spun and so
Disney has been a little ocd. Of course, we also think they're covering
up gat gator killings with fantastic stories. But all right, hey remember the
whole bodycam story we did last week of the little pregame by Raleigh p D
ahead of the arrest of Monica Usury. Well, we're gonna talk to Monica
coming up here in about six minutes. Yep, that's the big guess that's
on the way right. Good morning, everybody, and welcome. It is
Monday, Everybody's favored day of the week eight oh seven, a c O
day radio program. Last week on several different days we were talking about but
I think a lot of people were talking about, although not any in the
mainstream media for some reason. And that was a little a little snippet of
footage that showed up on Twitter, little snippet showing about a minute and a
half of officers with the Rally Police Department ahead of the very first Reopen NC
protest, which took place shortly after Governor Cooper decided they he can unilaterally,
I guess, set all of the emergency order policy, not consult Secretary of
or excuse me, the Council of State or the legislature, any of the
rest and basically put us into a lockdown situation in North Carolina. And that
did not sit well with some who were told they couldn't go to church,
they couldn't shop where they had wanted to, and apparently they couldn't assemble to
redress the government on any grievances they may have. And at that protest,
police were getting ready to go bust it up and as we heard in the
audio, to make examples so that a planned second protest didn't move forward.
And in the video, they're not socially distanced, they're not wearing masks.
One of the officers is heard referring to the protesters as mffors, and we
talked about why it's not a good look, and it's especially not a good
look because some of that same behavior it was on bodycams where the people and
protesters that police interacted with weren't even around, but we're spoke about in a
derogatory manner. Officers were disciplined for that. Those would be the other protests,
though we refer to him as the burn it down protests, but those
would be the protests where the governor who put all of these edicts into practice
himself, violated his own order, took to the streets, dropped his mass
in march with protesters. So a huge double standard and a huge problem when
already the relationship between the community and law enforcement is let's just say fraid,
which is not a good situation for anyone. You need only look at crime
statistics out there. One of the individuals who was protesting and was subsequently arrested
is Monica, and I was referring to you, and I apologize for this.
Monica. Your last name is Usury, but it's not pronounced that way.
How do you pronounce your last name? I pronounced that silly that I
answer to a lot of things recently. Well am efforts apparently too so um
no, I'm so so so I would like I would like to clarify there
that, um, you touched on something the other day when it came to
UM needing a wicked sense of humor sometimes to get through emotionally stressful things.
Yeah, I'd hate to be on camera myself when I'm under emotional dress because
of my ADHD and my tunate sea of blurt out silly things. And I
believe that some of what we're seeing and we need to, um, we
need to keep that in mind. Really, Yeah, I was talking about
it in the context of, you know, the the gallows humor that UM,
you know, people have, especially when they're when they're at work and
they're talking to other people they work with, UM, in this case law
enforcement. And the thing that makes me sad is I think that law enforcement
and the relationship to you know, to the public is already strained enough.
And I think that watching that video, which enraged me and I know bothered
a lot of people. Monica, I'm sure yourself when you saw it for
the first time, you because you realize that this further deteriorates that relationship because
people are seeing rank and file officers that are acting like that. So I
want to I want to start there, and then we'll get to the day
of you said you was so when you saw that video, and it was
a long road, and we'll get to the story behind it. Did the
attitudes and what you saw though there was one officer their questioning why they were
doing this to you guys anyway? Was that the attitude of most of the
officers there, or were they for the most part, just going through the
motions but not necessarily be being disrespectful? I can I can only speak from
my point of view and the officers that handled me, um. And it's
funny that all the newspapers were reporting Capital police officers being my arresting officers,
but even the officer test fighting Court stated that it was rally PD, so
that that part is still confusing to me. But they all handled themselves professionally,
and I didn't I didn't see a bad attitude that heart from a lot
of law enforcement after that. And I also attended back the blue rallies after
that and was asked why I attended back the blue rallies after being arrested,
And I can tell you why. I'd love to tell you why, go
ahead. Yeah, absolutely, So it's not so much what was said by
officers on that day bothers me, but what wasn't said. You can't retrain
an officer that's length to commit perjury. I don't think you should. And
you can't successfully retrain officers on constitutional freedoms if their superiors are willing to rape
the constitution and lead by rotten example. But I finally believe that it's elected
superiors that we need to be focused on, because if we get the right
superiors in place, the officers will be trained properly and monitored properly. I
agree, one hundred percent. And that's why it was very disappointing to me.
And I'm so glad that you came on. We tried to because the
chief, the Raleigh chief, is not the same chief as as when you
were arrested, and we wanted to and are very positive things about writing a
chief right, and then we wanted to talk to her, and they would
not come on, and we gave them multiple different spots, and you know,
we were willing to be flexible. So I'm glad you did, and
I'm extra glad that you did because of the quote unquote gag order, which
we'll get into the specifics of what that actually covers, but I want to
go back to that day. I and others I think were under the mistaken
impression that you were one of the organizers. You were not one of the
organizers, and in fact, it wasn't even your idea to go to this
rally, So how did you end up there? So I had a friend
of mine who has a common interest. So I've volunteered with domestic violent victims
and at risk teams in one fashion or another for nearly thirty years. And
a friend of mine who knew my interests and my volunteer work, had contacted
me and a message Facebook message and let me know about the group. And
I had jumped in just a few days before or that first protest, And
my bonus side at the time was at home because you know, they didn't
have a school, and that was my concern. My concern was that suddenly
these domestic violence victims, the children would be home and the fathers and abusers
would be home, so and some of these abusers would have recently lost their
jobs and be very upset. So I could foresee just an epidemic explosion of
people needing rescuing and the domestic violence housing getting overloaded very quickly. And you
know, the governor had skipped a couple of steps there, and I I
felt like that really he needed to maybe listen to a few valid concerns before
going gung ho. So this was because people will sit there and couch and
say, these are a bunch of yokels who were mad that, you know,
they don't like government telling them what to do, they don't want to
maar a mask. They're trying to kill grandma. But in reality, over
the course of talking about this on the radio, Monica, the amount of
different reasons and that one right there, you know, the hundred and one
concerns that are out there. People had a lot of concerns and it's not
necessarily what people stereotypically think was bothering folks. So let's get to just because
I want to kind of move this along, Let's get to the day of
because in reality, and I read the lawsuit that you and your lawyer have
just recently filed, and people need to understand really how it broke down that
day, because ultimately you had actually already left the rally and had come back,
and it was at that point you were arrested, even though you were
basically standing there by yourself, because others had already left the rally. How
surprising was that? And what was that interaction? Because you had already left
and then came back. So I hadn't actually left the rally. I left
the parking lot. So we were in the back and one of the ladies
who had been parked beside me called into your show already, So, and
I'm going to re mention that we were in a very back corner. So
because of music being played and horns being blasted and everything, we couldn't hear,
but we could clearly see that something is happening, and people were leaving,
and we saw from the motioning of arms and stuff. We started thinking
that maybe the protest was going to be moved to the streets or something.
We were just trying to figure it out. So I had left the parking
lot in order to try to determine where the protesters would be driving. And
I'm thinking very quickly because I have an underaged miner with me. So the
person that drove me that day was my bonus son, and he was only
seventeen at the time, and I didn't want to involve him if there was
going to be a problem. So as soon as we saw that police were
in a parking lot, I walked out to see where they would go.
And I'm thinking in my mind that maybe I could join walking, like walk
the sidewalks beside the cars or something. I wasn't really sure what I wanted
to do at that point, but I turned alone. So that parking lot
was cleared so fast, so fast I think that we counted at one point
and it was only like a minute and a half. Once it seemed like
they the police were actually inside the parking lot, and I turned around from
outside of the parking lot and realized that my bonus son's car had already been
surrounded. I reached in my pocket to pull out my cell phone to call
him, and I realized I had his I still had his car keys.
I had his car keys. He couldn't leave, so I didn't reiner the
parking lot. And then the police have this like formation, and I guess
it's training that I'm not, you know, I wasn't aware of that day,
so I think when I'm re ino the parking lot, that I might
get arrested, but I have to reach him, give him his keys.
He hasn't stepped out of the vehicles, so I need to take this stuff
off the car put it back in the car. And I look at the
officers and they they just stand like they're in such an aggressive stamps that I
actually said, you'll have to arrest me because I'm you know, I My
job at that point is to get bonus Son safely out of the park a
lot. The car can't leave at all, I mean, and this is
war. This is a public parking lot, right, So I had held
up the keys to let them know why I was re and I an't park
a lot. They allowed me to do that, and they allowed me.
They stood by and allowed me to put everything in the car, and then
my my bonus lot son left as soon as I saw him driving away,
and I mean as he was safe. I turned back around, planning to
go back in the direction from length side to come right. And at that
point, I don't know, I can't speak for anyone else, but it
seems as though that was observed as defiant behavior. Um they appointed me.
Yes, I never got in the car, so the the state Capitol police
officer who test There was only one person who testified for the prosecution, and
he testified that it wasn't me who left the parking lot, it was actually
my bonus son, and that he even came back from me, and that
I got in the car and then got back out again and was warned multiple
times. There was this whole big story. Part of it was written up
in the incident report, part of it was said on the stand. None
of it matched the reality of the situation, and these things who were regurgitated
in the newspaper. So all along while I was trying to get people to
understand the truth of the situation, these fabrications kept being repeated. So I
couldn't get help from anybody because I couldn't prove who was telling the truth.
Well, and this is where, and I hope you don't mind. I
want to I want to keep chatting with you, so I hope you got
some time to stick around. But this is why it's important to set all
of this up, because this shouldn't be in question, and it shouldn't be
in question because of bodycamp footage right, and the odyssey that you and your
attorneys have gone through on bodycamp footage. I read the read the whole lawsuit
that you filed. It's about thirty pages. Um and UM. I think
it does a good job of laying it out. In the entire time I'm
reading it, I'm like, why is this stuff in dispute when bodycams exist?
And that's that's one of the parts of the story where it gets into
the leadership and because this should have leadership. Lauren, Lauren Freeman, who
are I believe just gave a statement in another article I believe yesterday. Um,
she was quoted in articles on the day of my arrest and shortly thereafter
as saying one of those quotes was that she said, and it was she
was quoted. Now again I wasn't there, but she was quoted as saying
she planned to be the bodycamp footage, which, by the way, is
the reason that I believed all along, even when I was being told that
there was no bodycam footage, I believed that if the DA was saying she
would be reviewing it, it must exist, which is why I never gave
that bottle up and finally called internal affairs lolly PD. Okay, So,
if at this point you've been arrested, they take you and I got about
a minute here. We're going to take a break and then we're going to
come back and keep chatting. But at that point you've been arrested. They
take you down. I'm they held you for what about an hour? Processed,
you gave you a ROACHO, I'm sure, a summons to court.
And at that point you're back out and you're on your way. Is that
correct? Yes, except the person I was calling to come pick me up
had gone the mod of the yard, so I walked around Lolly for a
little bit. Okay, all right, well Monica, hang on because this
is really where this kicks off. That's the day of it's it's what happened
after that we're going to dive into. So hang on and we'll get into
really the part where I'm baffled. I'm baffled by the whole process, how
how it took this long, and the odyssey that Monica went through just to
see the body camp footage. So hang on, we'll be right back to
your car for More's celebrating ten years and still going strong. Thank you.
Casey is one five w PTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM
talk in the triangle. Eight thirty five. Good morning. We're continuing our
conversation with Monica Ussery, who was the woman arrested at the reopening c rally.
Obviously, bodycamp footage of officers prior to going and breaking the rally up
emerged here about a week ago, raised some eyebrows, caused some concern,
and I thought we dive into this because the story gets crazier and crazier the
deeper you get. All right, Monica, I'm going to kind of speed
this part along just because I got got about ten minutes so after the arrest
and the notice that you need to do appear in court. Obviously, at
that point you go out, you get legal counsel, and as part of
your legal counsel's request, they want to see the body camp footage, which
seems natural. Let's figure out exactly what's going on. The way I read
it in the lawsuit that you filed last week, it was quite the process
of either not giving it to you, denying that it existed, then saying
it did, but it had been deleted because it was ninety days old.
And unfortunately, legally, this evidence is it's pretty pretty clear that legally they
have to give you this stuff, So just give us a little summary of
how that whole thing went. At the bench trial, still believing and having
been told that first, I was told bodycams weren't on because and I did
look it up and on their online on the Rally Police Department website, it
does say that they don't have bodycams on during protests. There's some kind of
um I think that's in their training. I'm not sure, but somebody sent
me that. And then I was told by a couple of different officials that
there had been no bodycam footage. And so I'm told they I have people
calling me, you know, I have all different people telling me different things.
But all along I was focused on the statements from Lauren Freeman, multiple
statements that kept telling me. I just kept feeling like there had to have
been bodycam footage. So I finally called myself. My attorney didn't. I
called Rally Police Department, asked to speak to someone in intern affairs and asked
for a search to be done to determine whether or not body camp footage existed.
And he called me back and he mentioned one one one recording. I
now have multiple. I think it's two or three gigabytes a lot, but
the second that I knew any existed, and prior to that, but after
I had been sound guilty for my Hills process, I was handed a couple
of tiny, little irrelevant ones, I think from state Capital. But I
really wanted the parking lot footage, the RPD footage, so I called Attorney
Anthony Biller immediately, and he was the one who had initially sent the letter
to Governor Cooper and he did a fantastic job with that, and I felt
like he was the one that I needed to call to get this footage protected
because I'd already been told that they could delete it after a setiment of time.
Now I don't understand that if there's an ongoing case, how they could
delete it. But because I didn't receive the prior to court, I felt
like I really needed to protect it. So I called all put him on
it again, and his top priority I requested was to police protect about footage,
and that's what they first did. That's what they did first, okay,
but as part of it, and I'm sorry, I'm just gonna I
have to move this along just because I'm gonna run out of time, and
I want to get to all of this that that was what was under the
quote unquote gag order, right, you were not the footage you were provided.
Eventually the judge said that it was a gag order in that you couldn't
release it. Correct. Yeah, so that's Judge Greggory, and that's the
one that I'm having to appear before I can now in order to receive the
footage, that was a condition that I couldn't dissininate it publicly, I couldn't
share with it. I can discuss my view on it. I can use
it to prepare in that case. I did share it individually with a couple
of people that were helping me with the case. But I can't, you
know, I can't do what your Twitter account or your Facebook account or something
like that that is right now that the police or the attorney for the Raleigh
Police I has essentially wants to hold you in contempt for violating that order.
This whole thing has been going on for literally years, and I'm sure it's
been defensive and emotionally taxing and all the rest of it. And in your
lawsuit, what your alleging is essentially eiracy on the part of many of the
people there in the sense that they knew, especially once the governor's office came
out and clarified that, yes, people can protest that it should have been
dropped at that point, but they didn't drop it. They kept going and
it sounds like they kept switching out. Ada's on you. And so it
is a whole host of folks, including the governor, violated his own order
for publicity. In my opinion, what is it you're hoping to accomplish with
this lawsuit? And from the body camp footage standpoint, they say that you
released it? Did you release it? I didn't release Okay, So what
is it you want to accomplish with this lawsuit? I think it's pretty straightforward.
But save people the thirty page read basically, you're not asking for one
hundred million dollars. You're basically asking for people to be held accountable and to
recognize that they violated your constitutional rights. Is that accurate? So from the
start, yes, this case. So this has been a three step process,
and I've regurgitated that to the point of nauseam. So there was the
criminal aspects of the case, which was just me individually, and we've handled
that and now we're getting to the parts that really my heart belongs to,
and that is civil, and not because of me personally, but because there
is a methodical approach being used in a copy and taste manner nationwide in countless
persecutions of individuals that are deemed to be anti any progressive agenda in order to
protect optics, and the keyword here is optics. I want to bust that
wide open and I want truth to be surfaced. So there was a deadline
quickly approaching on the civil complaint that I just filed, and I need everybody
to understand that that thirty pages I'm reading that this was like a knee jerk
response to me being held in contempt. But I want people to understand that
thirty pages, that all of that wasn't written up as a kneeds inner reaction.
We've been working on that. I've bought this up multiple times when I'm
sharing things on Facebook with supporters of my case. So three phases. There's
the criminal aspects, there's civil aspects, and there's constitutional aspects, and I
want all three protected. What did you think for everybody? With just a
couple more questions, because we're running out of time, what did you think
when you saw that video or picture whichever you saw it first, of governor
the governor with the mask hanging off his year marching with protesters, what how
did that make you feel? So I actually reached out to him on a
Facebook page. I'm a sequent flyer on Governor peper S faceook page. I
never got a respond I did speak to Mayor Marian Baldwin concerning concerning go and
concerning her doing the same thing. They all did, the little media thing,
and I think that it speaks loudly concerning exactly what I just discussed.
There's a double standard that needs to stop. And that's why people keep asking
me, why aren't you saying First Amendment? Why are you saying fourteenth Amendment?
First Amendment rights are being protected, but only for a select few.
The fourteenth Amendment says that we get fair and equal treatment. So what's the
incept on here? Is fourteenth Amendment? Because there is one group and only
one group that's being stomped down and muzzled. I don't question that. That
would be my opinion as well. It makes sense. I think unfortunately we've
seen some of these rulings where and not just here, but where judges go,
well, it was a crazy time. Nobody knew what to do,
and I'm sorry. I've read the Constitution and I'd never seen that exception in
there. The it's crazy and nobody knows what's going on. So we need
to follows a couple of loopholes abused by Governor Cooper during his executive orient Order
euphoria, and we have in place the people that can do that, if
they just glow a spine and do it. I don't disagree. And just
to be clear, you don't even live in the city Raleigh. You live
in the Triad, so you live, Oh you did live, Okay.
I did live in Holly Springs at the time, and actually because of this
case, I now live outside of Wait County. But I will tell you
there's a great grassroots effort in Wait County and I've met some beautiful, beautiful
people along the way. I hope, Monica, I appreciate you joining us,
and I hope you keep us updated. I guess to the extent that
you can over this contempt hearing. Again, I don't even understand the gag
order. The whole thing irritates me. But I wanted people to understand,
really kind of the process because this happened literally years ago and you're still dealing
with it, and I have not seen a satisfactory response when we've even wanted
to talk to people about it. You're the only one who's come on,
so I really appreciate it this morning. Okay. Well, Mark Robbinson was
right. We've gotten to start putting people in office who are going to fight
for freedom, period. Yeah, at the very least not abuse people out
of it, you know what I'm saying. Just if you don't like what
people are saying, and you're an elected official, it's your purview to ignore
them at your own peril instead of going through this whole process. Monica,
thank you very much for the time this morning. Okay, thank you,
thank you so much. You bet, And let's get a race agric from
the Weather Channel. Get a quick forecast. What's up, sir, mad
I'm much gaycy beautiful morning, especially from about Charlotte to just west of Raleigh
and west as you get into the Tribe where it's already cleared out. The
clouds are continue to clear out the west east, So if you're not in
the sunshine yet, you will be mid upper sixties this afternoon, the other
chilly night Tonight, most low forties will be some upper thirties around, and
then we'll go increasing clouds and upper sixties tomorrow, with the chance of showers
coming in as we get into Wednesday afternoon. And Casey, I'm just gonna
go with right now, looks unsettled for the rest of the week, which
means at times some areas of showers coming in. The rain may be steady
at times and made lesson for a couple of hours, but the trend will
be wetter weather starting about Wednesday afternoon, potentially on again, off again through
the upcoming weekend. So hopefully tomorrow Wednesday we'll talk about maybe some changes,
hopefully to the forecast. I hope I'm wrong, believe it or not,
but starting again Wednesday afternoon into maybe even Sunday, on again, off again
with the wet weather. So enjoy today and tomorrow. I promise you this,
they will be dry days, all right, Thank you sir, appreciate
it, and we'll come back chat with Jump Pellens your next hang on a
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Now, this could be an important week for the Federal Reserve Board. It
will bring some of the final reports that members will see before the May Policy
Meeting. Data will cover economic growth, inflation, wages, consumer confidence,
and sales of newly built homes. Plus we get a lot of important earnings
reports from the tech sector. Today, stock market futures are mixed. NASDAC
futures just turned higher, the dial future still down twenty nine points, and
there is some cautious optimism Casey. Among members of the National Association for Business
Economics, quarterly polling finds a majority of corporate financial chiefs do not expect the
economy to tip into recession, at least in the next twelve months. Casey,
Well, now I'm glad they're going out of it. I didn't realize
they had another store where they sold babies. Is that? Why? There
you go? That's it? Okay. I can't believe wayfair got alleged for
that, now that I know they they had one. But I appreciate it,
Jeff, thank you very much. Okay, you have a good day.
Appreciate it. You know some conspiracy theories, Man, Why would you
go with Wayfarer selling kids and not bye bye baby. Wouldn't that just be
a natural fit. I've never seen one of those stories, is or even
one of those around. I've never even heard of it. Bye bye.
It's spelled buy buy. I mean, you can't you can't advertise you're selling
kids more than that. Speaking of conspiracy theories, I went down a little
rabbit hole over the weekend. Are you familiar with the AI Isn't Real conspiracy
theory? Is that? Okay? All right? So there's two versions though,
I just had to all right, So there's two different versions, but
they're kind of the same. Basically AI is not real and instead, and
this is where it deviates, it's basically just a room full of wage slaves,
or in one theory, it's basically Chinese slaves. Right, So in
the one, it's people now that they're not like in a foreign country,
they actually worked for the tech companies, and it's so that they can further
control the political narrative. So that's one version. The other one is like,
you see those people are like I contracted my job out to a guy
in India or China for ten percent of my salary and I don't do anything
all day. That version of it. So apparently there's you know, there's
some poor bastards sitting in a room and some guy is on chat GT Peen.
He's like, write me a screenplay, and then some poor guy's got
a banging out. I guess man, that's he's he's really good. Who
is the guy you hired to do all the stuff? Yeah, because he's
back in the day. Ping. Yeah, well you send it to prep.
I send it to Ping in China wherever he is. Yeah, and
he sends the bag. It is a great job. So that's Ping Ping.
Yeah. So Ping's just basically sitting there fielding questions all day. What
about the art? The art too, Yeah, yeah, yeah, guys
multitalented. Man, So I like that. I can't tell if I like
more than that one where it's just a you know, a bunch of guys
in a in a third world sweatshop kind of situation, or um idiots,
tech workers and so con valley that are doing it so they can control society
essentially, right, because if you control all the end I understand why people
might think that with the bias nature of some of the stuff. I saw
another one over the weekend. Somebody wrote straight people are awesome and then got
like the the AI got mad at them, and then they wrote gay people
are awesome, and the AI is like super excited about that. So so,
man, I don't know. Maybe the world of conspiracy theories, it's
a fresh one. Hadn't heard that, but yeah, you're gonna have to
have a huge skill set. You gotta be able to write screenplays, answer
questions in a moment's notice, do the art, do the deep fake videos,
I mean, busy busy. How about the poor guy I had to
come up with all those fake Donald Trump arrested photos? Was that Ping two?
Ping's a busy guy man. So anyway, that's that's who we have
out there, all sorts of nonsense. They on that note, we gotta
roll. Thank you for joining us here on mail it in Monday or whatever
we're calling it. Love that. Thank you to Monica al Sreet for joining
us as well. If you want to see her Twitter account, it's linked
on where we tweeted out at Casey on the Radio If you want to follow her