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I don't know why you're like that. You're like, oh, it's Monday

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morning, and you miss a bunch
of big stories here. Let me fill

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you in on those. Ah,
what a crazy, crazy weekend of finally

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a news cycle that died down just
a little, yet apparently didn't and apparently

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we have to fill out with stuff
like that. So I'm just saying you,

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obviously you saw the tweet that I
put out because on Saturday, I

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was just trying to mind mer noses
Saturday or Friday night, well whatever,

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just trying to mind my own business, scrolling through the Twitter timelines, doing

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my my own thing, right,
And I'm like, oh, man,

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a lot of a certain type of
story in here. And since it was

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in football season, it's not just
Buffalo Bill's stuff, No, no,

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no. It was a lot of
like flat earth stuff, a lot of

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dome stuff. And I found it
interesting because it was connected to obviously the

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Elon must story from last week,
which apparently the Washington Post has figured out

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was a horrible, horrible thing and
so they had to coverage it because some

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chunk of debris somewhere hit a midivan
that was parked very near the launch site

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or something. Yes, jet,
Jeff Bezos media puppet empire decided that all

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of a sudden, this is a
it's a blight upon society and nature and

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everything else, and so they decided
to go ahead and write a big piece

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about how horrible the rocket launch or
the I'll call it a failed rocket launch

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because technically it is, although it
was kind of expected, but Elon Musk

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launching a skyscraper into the sky on
Thursday of last week, all of a

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sudden, it's a it was a
huge problem and required some journalistic endeavor on

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it. And so are we doing
the I'm sorry, I just got on

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Twitter this morning. Are we doing
the Seth Seth Rogan rip hashtag? That's

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a trending thing. Obviously he wasn't
quote found naked and tied up behind a

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nightclub in LA. But that's how
we're starting our Monday morning on Twitter.

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Okay, all right, thank you
Twitter for that. Just trying to go

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to something else, crazy crazy,
all right? So anyway, Yeah,

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the Washington Post video sharing on social
media showed debris slamming into a van several

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hundred feet away and striking the nearby
beach and shoreline as if it was a

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war zone. That's the actual language
they used. Yeah, when you launch

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a rocket on the underside of the
rocket, it's kind of a war zone.

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And if you look at the photos, what happened, obviously is the

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launch pad or part of the launchpad
looks like you explode. It basically got

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burned through. Do you know.
One of the reasons that might be the

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case because we attempted I say we
because that's how we describe um space endeavors.

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Right, we went to the Moon
and all that stuff, but Elon

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Musk and SpaceX attempted to launch the
largest rocket not just by like ten percent,

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but by light double And actually when
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all that, it was more than
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we'd ever attempted to launch. Think
about that. This wasn't this wasn't just

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you know this the Gemini to Saturn
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differential. This was Hey, remember
that time we launched uh you know,

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basically this thing that's easy to imagine
from a size standpoint. Yeah, well,

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what if we launched the then you
know, pick your building in downtown.

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And that's what they attempted to do. And they didn't even expect obviously

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it wasn't man, they didn't expect
it would get up there. So Washington

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Post is like, oh, well, you do look like look like a

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war zone out there. Well,
yeah, that's what's going to kind of

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look like. The evolution of space
travel and rockets and everything else. It

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um it requires uh, it requires
some uh, some some testing, some

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fail and fix and and go forward. And the problem is is that you

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have this, you have this endeavor
that is done in the private sector for

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a lot of it, although there
is government funding there right, there's contracts

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that are utilized for the delivery of
satellites and things like that, which,

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by the way, I've been overwhelmingly
successful to the tune of like two hundred

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and fifty launches with the smaller rocket. But you know, we're looking at

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something that can can go further,
can do Mars, can do the assembly

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of space station stuff. This is
this is the evolution of travel. This

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is the space race of of now
and and the Washington Post has turned it

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into well, we got SpaceX didn't
want to blow up it's launch pad,

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but it may have done just that, well may have You know why Jeff

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Bezos hasn't blown his up because he
built a tiny rocket, and I'm not

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begrudging him. I think it's a
good thing that you have about four of

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these dudes all up in this.
So though it looks like virgin Jeff Branson,

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Richard Branson or whatever, it looks
like he's dialing it back a little,

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but that's good. But like,
the ship is bigger, right,

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The rocket is bigger because Elon musk
vision is bigger than what Jeff Bezos is

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doing. No offense to Bezos,
yeah, well no, no, no,

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no, now, offense to Bezos. I'm sorry. I don't think

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for a moment, the Washington Post
decided to do a hit piece and nobody

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told Bezos said oring what it is, right, because I mean, his

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goal is to eventually bring one hundred
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that's why the ship is so big. And by the way, I'm putting

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a list together for the first hundred
thousand of people who I think need to

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go to Mars. I think it
should be everyone, all the celebs who

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had their blue check taken away.
Oh no, the ship first one's over,

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dude, I mean you had these
people have had it bad enough.

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I mean it's it's pretty bad.
So away with all of this going on,

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and Washington posts like, oh yeah, I do a hit piece bur

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I'm on the timeline, and all
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up because they hit the dome or
the firmament or whatever that I don't even

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know what the stupid language is of
this damn thing. And I'm like,

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why am I reading this? Why
is oh Ross liked it? I mean

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that was a that was a lot
of word salad for me to scroll and

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and liking things that thought was funny. I know that's a bravity right there.

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Well, no, no, I
hadn't do the Washington Post story.

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It's two stories, Washington. It's
not that complicated. I said, that's

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funny. And then all of a
sudden somebody's like, did you see the

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rocket bur which likely the reason that
some of the rockets failed was because the

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launchpad was obliterated. Part of it
was obliterated. Pictures are amazing, and

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they're saying though SpaceX is saying it's
salvageable. They're gonna be able to fix

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it. And they said, now, prom we're gonna fix it. None

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issue. They prepared for that.
Yeah, yeah, it's not no,

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no, no, Look, here's
the thing. Even if that thing had

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blown up on the launchpad, it's
the first time with the current, with

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all the you know, with the
the engines the way that they are and

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all that that you decided you were
going to launch a skyscraper. Okay,

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I'll give you one. I'm cool
with that. But the rockets kind of

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when they burned out, kind of
if you squint right, kind of looks

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like it makes an X. I
don't know if you or excuse me,

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a Q. I don't know if
you know this. Some people when they

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see the letter Q in the wild, they have some thoughts, and I

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just can you imagine the amount of
control and power you must have to be

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able to specifically burn out the engine
load of the tightened rockets so that it

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forms the letter Q, but never
accomplish any think you said you were going

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to. It's it's all coming together, Okay, it's a it's a slow

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burn. Well trust the process,
my friend. I'm just saying I read

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that old because you're like, oh, nothing that's happened in six years.

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I read on the same app you're
talking about, the Twitter app. I

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read that Oprah Winfrey was actually taking
the GITMO, given a military tribunal,

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executed, and now her clone is
in her place, So boom progress.

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This happened when somewhere last year.
Oh okay, see once again, these

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are the ones that I don't like. You should see the ones that I

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don't like. You can say look
in certain profiles, like you know,

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retweet doesn't necessarily mean endorsement, right
right, Yeah, it just means I

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thought that's funny, and I'm going
to click like because these people are so

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in. They're all in. Man, it's oh cute. It's a queue

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at the bottom of the ship.
Well, I mean, how much more

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visible could it get than that?
It's right there, dude, what's the

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firmament? I don't even know what
that is, the one you did click

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light on so that you don't even
know what they're alleging. They're alleging that

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that Elon was thwarted by the dome
or something. Yeah, it's it's the

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dome from the Bible, the firmament
from the Dome from the Bible. No,

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it is, It's in the Bible, man, the dome is So

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what about all the two hundred and
fifty other rockets. It's a barrier that

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God put there to protect man.
It's in the Bible. It's biblical.

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Are you talking about the atmosphere?
Just no, google it. I'm not

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no, no, no, no, you know why because then that's forever

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on my Google history and ad feeds
and nope, nope, nope, I

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trust you. So anyway, they
so they uh they executed the Oprah.

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Huh at the getmo. Well,
at least they're having mule. At least

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they're you know, they're having a
military or a tribunal process. I should

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say, all right, So here's
the firmament in Wikipedia. In Biblical in

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Biblical cosmology, the firmament is the
vast, solid dome created by God during

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the Genesis creation narrative to divide the
primal seat into the upper and lower portions

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so the dry land could appear.
I know, I is it not the

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Key James Edition? Is it?
I've read the Bible specifically. Um,

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here's the parts of the Bible that
are easy to read, basically New Testament,

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all the different Disciples books. But
you know, if you're looking for

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stuff there, especially as a kid, where you like read the Bible,

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Okay, look, numbers is not
getting it done right. I don't.

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I don't need all the different families, you know, due to Rod.

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But Genesis, Genesis is the jam
nude, and so that's the part of

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the especially you know, being early
and stuff. That's the part of the

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Bible where you're going to read that
a whole bunch. And I don't remember

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the dome part, so I don't. I don't know if I don't know

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if that makes me a bad Bible
reader or what. That's also the part

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where they're fit, you know,
Genesis and Exodus. That's story time,

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baby. And then when you get
older you get it. You know,

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you're like, oh, what's the
all right, those are the first books?

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What's the last book of the Bible. Then you go into that you're

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like, oh my gosh, that
is that doesn't sound fun. But yeah,

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I don't remember the part about the
dome, so maybe I gotta do

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a reread anyway. Six twenty Hey
gun, a new decade on the calendar

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and celebrating ten years on the air. This is one oh six one FM

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Talk in the Triangle and Near's Talk
WPTI in the Triad. Well let me

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say this, whether it's the Firmament
or weird que conspiracies or rockets or whatever.

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You're gonna be sorry you got out
of bed when we get to the

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Earth day stuff, because apparently I
guess this this stuff kicks off right away

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and simultaneous or something. That's the
way I read in a lot of bad

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news coming our way. So we
got that for you. You'd be like,

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oh, why don't even get up
this morning? Well, one,

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you know, we need the listeners, so continue to do that. But

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it's gonna be very depressing. So
we got that for you. And I'm

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gonna tell you this all right.
Be a little secretive on this. I

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thought about promoting it more openly and
widely, but I don't trust some of

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the people who might get a little
little clenchy in the shorts over over this

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happening. We have a very interesting
guest at eight o five today, Ross,

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would you say that we have a
very interesting guest at eight o five

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today? I would yes, uh. One, maybe one that people probably

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wouldn't want to miss, yep.
Perhaps one that there are some folks in

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positions of power here within let's just
say, one of the larger cities in

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North Carolina who frankly seemed to not
want this individual talking about stuff. Would

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you say that that would be an
accurate description of that individual? Yes,

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I would. Okay, So I
think I'm gonna play at coy and not

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tell you who it is because I
don't want I don't want somebody running over

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to a judge that they've essentially hands
selected and being like, oh kay if

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this person on the radio talking about
stuff, because I don't trust some of

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you, you folks that are pulling
the levers of power. I know you're

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shocked, but you're not an eight
oh five. You're gonna want to be

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here, Okay, and we'll just
we'll leave it like that. It's not

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que by the way that I have
to specify that is it Oprah? Which

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one? It's a good point,
yeah, yeah, yeah, because you

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know that's like one of those philosophical
questions, is it Oprah? That's a

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clone joke. So anyway, eight
o five, don't miss it's on one

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of the big stories we've been talking
about here as of late. But I

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figure it out show after the show
is on the iHeartRadio app. Searchs Casey

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O Day for the podcast on the
iHeart Radio app. All right, six

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thirty five, Good morning, ac
O Day Radio program, good news,

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bad news. Good news is um
nice weather, nice weather out there,

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especially Sunday weather. Add some good
golf and weather bad news. N it's

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gonna change and you're all gonna die. So womp womp, Yeah, that's

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the thing that's coming. How do
I know? Because I made the mistake

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of reading some of the doom and
gloom over the weekend Earth Day in Sandy.

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Yes, it was Earth Day,
you know, that annual holiday which

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is now almost religious in nature.
But you don't get a day off.

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What's up with that. If there's
any holiday that would make more sense to

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have a day off of, it's
Earth Day. Think about this. You

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can't do it on a Monday,
because any create a long weekend and people

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travel. But you stick it in
the middle of the week or something,

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what are you gonna have. You're
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lower emissions. Maybe an opportunity for
people to rather than drive their gas guzzler

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suv or whatever, you know,
whatever you're mad about on this particular day

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and get out and enjoy nature.
Right, have a free day at like

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state parks or something, so people
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hey, this is nice and then
you can indoctrinate them with whatever you want

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to indoctrinate them with rights. That's
a day. That's a day to take

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a day right there. But no, no, no, instead, Yeah,

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it's just you know, you grind
out as normal. It's scared,

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get terrified by all of these articles
that look like every other article you've been

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reading for years, where we should
be visiting kiddie Hawk right now via submarine

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and what was ross? Do you
remember the story we did years ago where

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they're like giant rocks were just gonna
fly out of the ocean and crush people

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on land. You remember that there
were so many of them. I just

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ignore him now, Like I saw
the headline from Mario tech Wire and I'm

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like, okay, And I told
you this fear. I used to have

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this fear when I was a little
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line at the grocery store and they
have like the tabloidge in the side there.

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They at least they used to up
in New York, like the weekly

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World News and stuff. And remember
one of them was like the World's gonna

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end in a year or whatever it
was, and my dad was like,

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don't pay attend any attention to that
crap. It's all stupid, it's all

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just made. They just want you
to buy the magazine and they want you

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to spend your money. Yeah.
But I said, of wanted bad Boy

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to be a thing. I did
too. I did too. Well,

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he was a thing, right,
was it the one? Yeah, that

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was the one that put him on
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have something correct to get them to
where they were, right, Well they

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did, John Edward, it's in
horse face. Well that was like way

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in the future. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just saying, you know,

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every now and then, you know, a broken clock kind of thing.

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that was always the same thing.
Man, it would be there in the

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in the tabloid aisle. We're all
gonna die in like two weeks or whatever.

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The asteroid has come in, or
it's gonna be acid raining or the

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ozone, and it's just eventually to
the point. Now where were these headlines?

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want it to land on people so
like all him and haunt this, but

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I wanted rocks. Giant rocks come
flying out of the ocean because that's like

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old Greek myth stuff, you know
what I'm saying. That's like all Poseidon's

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mad, you know, right,
Well, like that was one. There's

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been some doozies. I used to
it sucks because of my old laptop which

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bit the dust. I had a
folder on there, but it wasn't on

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the cloud, and it was just
crazy predictive stories or stories I'm like saved

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for later, and that had all
of those. It had like at all

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the women's were going to be prostitutes, right because it was basically mad Max

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or something that was in there,
just you know, a bunch of these

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predictions, which I guess if there's
some girl you crushed on back in the

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day, that's good news for you
if you got some dope. But otherwise,

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you know, it's just stuff or
you just roll your eyes when you

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read it. Man. But then
every Earth day, man, they just

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they trotted on out, trott it
on out, get it out there for

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you so you can have a new
thing to create anxiety that affects more than

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fifty percent of kids under the age
of eighteen. Because that's another story,

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that's a thing. Oh yeah,
So according to the r L story.

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Here's what you need to worry about, and do know that it's come an

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asap. And so what do they
do? They go get themselves a college

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professor, sir. This case,
it's Marshall Brain, who is a futurist,

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inventor and North Carolina State University professor
and writer and creator of How Stuff

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Works. This is kind of a
go to for L. They always talk

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to this guy and he wrote a
book called The Doomsday Book, The Science

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Behind Humanity's Greatest Threats. Saturday was
Earth Day. By the way, what

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if I told you the climate change
is about to enter a new phase?

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Oh okay, all right, I'm
listening, a phase where it's deadly and

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disruptive to millions or billions of it. We'll hold on. I just thought

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that we were anytime we just had
hurricanes or typhoons or stuff, that was

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all so. But it's new,
all right, on the eve of Earth

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Day twenty twenty three, let's take
a detailed look. So here we go,

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and I want to remind you that
what I'm about to tell you not

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only is all gonna happen, but
it's all gonna happen pretty quick and simultaneously

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so it's not even like the plagues
of Egypt at least had the good sense

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to go one after another. Apparently
this is all like one on top of

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each other. So let's see here. Here are the eight of the most

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important shifts that will soon be upon
us. Heat waves will kill millions of

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people. Well, sometimes heat waves
do kill people. That's I mean,

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it's not new, but I guess
these are gonna be new ones. Number

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two blue ocean event in the Arctic. Number three perma frost melting that will

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cause a doomsday feedback loop. That
sounds scary as hell. A doomsday feedback

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loop. Is that like when audio
feedback happens, because I can understand that

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being in radio. That's the worst. Or you get some guy on stage

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with a microphone who steps in front
of his his monitors. Yeah, it's

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baffling to me the number of people
that use microphones on stage and don't understand

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why that happens. It's like,
Bro, you're now standing in front of

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your monitors or your PA speakers stand
behind them. Number four glacier collapse in

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Antarctica. Number five collapse of the
Amazon rainforest. What do you mean?

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What does that? What does that
collapse. Look like, what does that

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mean? Collapse? Is it a
giant sinkhole? Is going to suck Brazilian

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confused? Number six, collapse of
the g off stream, number seven,

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overheating notions number eight, droughts of
destroy cities and crops. And here is

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the amazing this I'm gonna read this
verbatim. Here is the amazing thing.

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All these catastrophes could arrive at the
same time. When that happens, it

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will be spectacular and the worst sort
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they document all of this stuff.
This stuff that gets me is when they

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talk about the potential food shortages.
Right, We're like, ah, we're

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gonna run out of food, So
what we need to do is get rid

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of all the rice because that creates
this problem with the CO two and then

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oh never mind, everyone's dead.
Oh no, rice is rice is the

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new one man. Yeah, that's
what I'm saying. Yeah, this is

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their point. They're like, oh, it's gonna be food shortages, and

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their solution is to get rid of
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rice to prevent the food shortages that
it's gonna kill everyone. As Sri Lanka's

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working out. It's working out great. Is that the first time? Do

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you remember they were rather like back
in the day, they had like a

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little mini rice shortage. Oh yeah, they had a little mini rice shortage.

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Back it was more than ten years
ago, because that's how long we've

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been doing this, uh, doing
the show. But yeah, they had

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a little rice shortage, and they
were like, this is it. This

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was This was easily over a decade
ago, and they're like, this is

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it. Man. The reason that
rice is important. It is the primary

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carb for the majority of the world. And you know, we obviously we

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eat rice here in the US,
but when you look at the two most

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populous countries in the world, they
consume a crap ton of rice. So

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if you have a problem with rice, or rice is bad, or rice

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is whatever, is overpriced, any
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the the the amount of poverty in
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sectors of the world, that's a
big damn deal. And then I remember

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they're like, this is it.
This is in fact, it was such

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It was such a weird thing because
they were rationing rice and they were doing

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it here in the US and I
don't you know, And it was obviously

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it was a big story, but
it was a much bigger story when you

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get into you know, the Asian
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remember reading stories and they're like,
this is this is the end We did.

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We did a parody song over the
damn thing. That's how you know

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it was a big enough news story
that we got off her lazy butts and

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did a parody song. Your Sunday, let's kick it. The price of

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rice is crazy. The price of
rice is crazy stuff. I'm filling up

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my kitchen. The price is jack
That's why I am bitching. We eat

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it with lemon, a whole lot
of curry. The price is going up,

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and I'm starting to worry. We'll
whatever stuff. You know, I

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don't know the rationing rice I cost
goo if you ask me. The whole

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thing's been mishandled. It is part
of our culture, like tourings and sandals.

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Americans wanted in the Chinese dood too, but nobody eat it like a

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grain loving Hindu. I hate some. To day was filling me, but

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these days the price of the rice
it is killing me. I love it

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least steam it put it on my
plate. I eat a lot of starts,

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but I never gained weight. Now
that it's been rationed, I can't

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share it, but I don't look
so Sunday prepares it. The price of

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rice is crazy. The price of
rice is crazy. The price of rice

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is crazy. I mean, that's
that's how you know it was big enough

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deal man, Ross, I don't
have you ever heard that parody song,

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because that actually predates this show predates. Yeah, exactly, No, I

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have not heard that before, but
yeah, I mean it shows like the

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this stupid cycle they're in where they're
like, oh, there's going to be

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food shortages and you're all gonna die, and we need to or reduce the

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COEO two. Okay, so how
do you want to do that. Well,

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one of the main contributors that CO
two is rice, and we need

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to get rid of it. But
that feeds a huge percentage of the Earth's

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population. So then there's some people. Right then you get a conspiracy theory

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land where people are like, is
your goal to reduce the population? What?

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No? What no? What are
you talking about me? Some people

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might look at saying, you know, I can't believe anyone's ever brought that

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up. I feel like, now
now you know it. Now you're just

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going conspiracy theory. That's true.
Oh wait wait, hold on, that's

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ironic, isn't it. Hold on, that's true. That's true. Check

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hu true. Didn't hurt her mom
sit there on their stupid video that that

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audio's from, and that's what she's
saying that's true, is that they need

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they need to reduce the population to
like one fifth of what it is now.

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Yeah, and they're saying it all
calmly too. Yeah, those are

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two nitwits. Where do you think
they get their information right? Doing their

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yoga poses and stuff with their trankful
music in the background all along talking about

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like human genocide, how you need
to get rid of, like, you

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know, eighty percent of the Earth's
population whenever it is. Yeah, but

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never them, no no no no, not them, not them, no

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no, no the other people.
Yeah, any of these uh, any

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of these uh people who are like, yeah, we need the population there

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to be about half, you need
to be about half. And then I

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we had that story where they're like, oh, a six hundred pound satellites

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coming in and there's a one in
whatever chance of it hitting somebody, not

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just one person, but anybody at
all, and you're you're like, well,

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that's weird because if we're stacked like
cordwood everywhere around the earth, and

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yes, let's let's just say,
all right, we'll yield the oceans,

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which are what sixty five percent of
verse, so there should be feasibly a

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forty five percent chance it bonks somebody
on the head. Well, they don't,

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you know why, because things are
wide damn open, and maybe I

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have a maybe I have a screwed
uh perspective, just because I've literally traveled

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all around the world and there's giant
gaps of nobody and I grew up in

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Wyoming, where you are like,
I'm gonna go to the store and drive

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one hundred and forty miles to do
it, and you don't think anything of

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it because you're just like, that's
how far stuff right. People don't realize

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how big the Pacific Ocean is.
It's it's crazy, crazy big, especially,

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you know why, because we don't
have Southern hemisphere perspective. Especially when

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you have the Southern hemisphere, there's
nothing. There ain't a lot going on.

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I was just and I was just
in South America, and yes,

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I was in you know a couple
of really big cities there, but it's

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the moment you get outside the city. Do you know what? There is

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nothing. There's coca, hippos and
cartel checkpoints. That's it. We can't

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even complete a can American highways.
You can drive from north you know,

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uh, basically Alaska to the tip
of South America because there's a giant swath

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of nothing. I think the Darien
Gap, I think it was they say,

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if you were to take everybody on
the Earth and stack them side by

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like Tetris, right Texas, right
Austin, it would Yeah. I think

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the Texas thing was if everyone had
us uh what they consider livable space,

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or they saying the other one that
you could compare it to is Easter Island.

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You could put everybody on the planet
on Easter Island side by side like

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Tetris. That's how big the Earth
is compared to the people. There's a

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lot of space. Anyway, we
gotta take a break. We'll be right

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back. Hang out ten years.
There is twice an hour and smart talk

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all day four PTI in the Triad
and one six one FM talk in the

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Triangle. Oh man, all right, good morning everybody. It is the

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case O Day radio program and here
we go. Wow, things things building

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fast here? Uh, Ross,
bad news. Apparently your estate, your

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compound has been destroyed by doomsday feedback
loop, so that that kicked off fast.

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So sorry buddy. Then tomorrow,
what's that? Do you have to

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00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:39.119
come to work tomorrow? Of course
you do. Yes, that will never

407
00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:44.359
change. Yes, yes, yes, that will never change. Not only

408
00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:50.880
will that never change. Simultaneously,
all of these woke companies right that make

409
00:33:50.920 --> 00:33:54.400
sure that they're getting there what are
they called their basically their CPI score or

410
00:33:54.440 --> 00:34:00.960
whatever it is up right for their
diversity stuff, who also have us,

411
00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:04.759
you know, said everybody's got to
come into the office. And even when

412
00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:07.200
pointed out we'll wait a second,
that'd be a good way, they're like

413
00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:10.559
no, no, no, no, so f YI on that. But

414
00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:38.199
yeah, sad news for Ross's house. Womp whomp. Now I saw him

415
00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:42.719
one of the mock drafts you guys
are taking Bobby Bouchet. Is that still

416
00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:47.679
still where you guys are going?
Oh dude, he's a powerhouse. I

417
00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:53.000
mean yeah, but it's a little
bit of a bias when you're taking kids

418
00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:58.119
out of the sec COUMP. Did
you hear what his Mama said no,

419
00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:00.760
no, did she did she weigh
in on it, I'm said, Patriots

420
00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:04.760
of the Devil. Oh wow,
I mean mama. Who's to argue with

421
00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:08.000
Mama? Sounds like she nailed that
one. Yeah. NFL Draft later this

422
00:35:08.039 --> 00:35:13.159
week, so that's fun. I'm
assuming you guys are going, oh line

423
00:35:14.079 --> 00:35:20.400
I saw in most of my drafts. I hope so or some more weapons.

424
00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:22.840
Just I think we're fine defensively,
just o line and maybe like a

425
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:30.079
wide receiver too. It's um strangely, if you if you need an edge

426
00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:34.400
rusher, defensive end or something,
this is your um, this is your

427
00:35:34.480 --> 00:35:39.039
draft because there's a gazillion good guys
out there apparently, but in the world

428
00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:42.880
of old line there's some good ones
as well. The question will be there's

429
00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:45.119
that one old lineman and his name
escapes me. Who's who was like he

430
00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:49.239
was expect to be top five and
he's got a bunch of like side issues

431
00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:52.599
and stuff, so he keeps drop
and drop and drop him. But um,

432
00:35:52.679 --> 00:35:57.039
yeah, a lot of good options
out there. Uh. I you

433
00:35:57.079 --> 00:36:00.800
know, I've I spent some time
over the weekend digging into figure out exactly

434
00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:04.800
how the Vikings are gonna waste their
draft pick, So I shouldn't say that

435
00:36:04.840 --> 00:36:08.400
they actually uh, they actually draft
pretty well. They just don't lock these

436
00:36:08.440 --> 00:36:14.880
guys in. I mean, justin
Jefferson was a steel Man. We'd never

437
00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:20.000
thought we were gonna get him.
Everyone assumed that the Eagles were gonna take

438
00:36:20.079 --> 00:36:24.119
Jefferson, and instead they took Jalen
Rager. No, no, Jefferson is

439
00:36:24.119 --> 00:36:29.320
the devil. What we see that? Dude, You just Kirk Cousin,

440
00:36:29.400 --> 00:36:31.880
just just throw the ball over there, man, he'll catch it. Randy

441
00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:38.800
was so talented. Yeah, oh
yeah, dwhere go get it. It

442
00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:44.519
just there was a particular game against
the Bills this last year were Jefferson.

443
00:36:44.760 --> 00:36:50.760
You know that catch he made against
you guys, but it was ridiculous.

444
00:36:51.400 --> 00:36:53.679
It was to the point where even
after I saw the catch, saw them

445
00:36:53.719 --> 00:36:57.880
review it for like an hour,
I'm like, there's no way he made

446
00:36:57.880 --> 00:37:00.840
that catch, right, I should
just be Homer on it, like,

447
00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:04.000
yeah he made that catch. That
was no way he made that catch.

448
00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:07.079
But he did. He did.
The guy's incredible. Hell, we even

449
00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:10.119
screw up into good stuff. We
were. We were the ones who missed

450
00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:15.679
our pick one year and ended up
getting an eight time Pro bowler out of

451
00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:21.239
it. In alignment because we missed
our pick. I don't know how that

452
00:37:21.320 --> 00:37:23.400
happens, but we did it,
and we're like, okay, I guess

453
00:37:23.400 --> 00:37:30.519
we'll draft Pat Williams or whatever.
But yeah, that's on Thursday, so

454
00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:32.800
and that's good. Today's a good
day to do all of that if you

455
00:37:34.159 --> 00:37:38.719
align yourself. Excuse me. With
a new trend out there, all right,

456
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:43.000
Ross, I didn't send this story
in prep, so you've not seen

457
00:37:43.079 --> 00:37:46.079
this. The new trend is called
bare minimum Mondays. How does that sound

458
00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:54.159
to you? That sounds fantastic.
Tell me more. Everyone dresses in speedos.

459
00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:58.679
No, no, no, no. So this story I'll paraphrase.

460
00:37:58.760 --> 00:38:04.079
I'm not gonna read the whole thing. Basically, the newest generation of workers,

461
00:38:04.079 --> 00:38:09.960
all right, so we're talking,
you know, the twenty somethings basically

462
00:38:10.280 --> 00:38:15.199
are attempting to lobby for I like
how they couch it like that, and

463
00:38:16.199 --> 00:38:20.039
that's fine. I'll get on board, all right. So basically, the

464
00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:24.920
claim is that there's a new trend
called bare minimum Mondays, which prioritizes doing

465
00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:30.000
less work on people's least favorite day
of the week as a way of demonstrating

466
00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:32.440
to companies that a four day work
week, which they say in the story

467
00:38:32.519 --> 00:38:37.800
here has been scientifically proven to be
more efficient. Look, I've seen some

468
00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:43.440
studies and stuff like that, but
I don't know that you have enough data

469
00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:47.400
to claim that, because when you
have here's the deal. If ross,

470
00:38:47.480 --> 00:38:51.159
Let's say the company came to us
tomorrow and they're like, all right,

471
00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:54.519
going forward, four shows a week. Okay, four shows a week.

472
00:38:55.920 --> 00:39:00.679
Well, not only you sold,
but how enthusiasticastic would you be in at

473
00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:06.000
the beginning? Oh so so excited? Right, You're like, oh,

474
00:39:06.079 --> 00:39:08.280
Tuesday to Friday or what you know, whatever the four days are. You're

475
00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:12.400
doubtful of the data. Now I
have also seen the data. I can

476
00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:16.559
confirm that. I'm just saying that
when you get a company that does this,

477
00:39:16.679 --> 00:39:21.440
of course everyone's going to be in
a great bood. Right. How

478
00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:24.679
much energy do you have on the
first day of vacation? Right? So

479
00:39:24.920 --> 00:39:29.519
when in this case, when you're
just super excited something's happening, you know

480
00:39:29.880 --> 00:39:31.199
you need to look at it in
the long run. But that's fine.

481
00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:37.239
So now they're trying to force the
company's hand by doing bare minimum. Mondays

482
00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:45.159
a commitment to basically phoning it in
on Monday and accomplishing most important tasks on

483
00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:51.480
Tuesday through Friday is a way to
demonstrate how a so this is a self

484
00:39:51.519 --> 00:40:00.159
fulfilling prophecy. I'm sure companies are
ecstatic about this, and and and here's

485
00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:06.880
the deal. Maybe people, look, there's a lot of there's a lot

486
00:40:06.920 --> 00:40:10.360
of wasted time from a work perspective. Ross and I, even though the

487
00:40:10.760 --> 00:40:15.840
hours are what they are, radio, you have a lot you can you

488
00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:20.800
have a lot of freedom to do
stuff like if like on Friday, we

489
00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:25.840
took valuable airtime to figure out if
wizard porn was a thing. By the

490
00:40:25.880 --> 00:40:30.519
way, wizard porn is a thing, right. And you know I've worked

491
00:40:30.679 --> 00:40:37.400
I worn't many jobs where there's no
way you're gonna be able to carve fifteen

492
00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:43.119
minutes out to figure out if wizard
porn's a thing, right, And many

493
00:40:43.159 --> 00:40:45.519
of you work those kinds of jobs. You're busting your ass doing you know,

494
00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:50.800
whatever it is you're doing. I
did roofing, UH did installation of

495
00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:59.400
hypelon roofing and welding. And you
know that the slave drivers as far as

496
00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:04.639
the foreman in boom boom boom,
boom boom, right, So you know,

497
00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:07.760
the depending on the kind of job
that you have, there's there's more

498
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:12.679
flexibility there. But when you're when
you're doing those kinds of work, you

499
00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:15.320
know, simply not working on Monday
is not going to be You're not going

500
00:41:15.400 --> 00:41:19.960
to be able to accomplish as much
as you're able to accomplish in four days

501
00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:25.719
as you can in five days.
So your mileage may vary, so to

502
00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:31.920
speak. But with that being said, going out there and bragging about how

503
00:41:32.599 --> 00:41:37.880
you're not going to do crap on
Monday as a way to demonstrate to your

504
00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:40.320
employer, I don't know that they're
going to feel that that's a good idea.

505
00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:50.400
Also, it's really if you want
to demonstrate how lazy you can be,

506
00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:53.880
you're not even doing a good job
of it. Ross, I'm proposing

507
00:41:53.960 --> 00:41:57.079
a new thing. You're ready,
Hold on, let me get the breaking

508
00:41:57.079 --> 00:41:59.599
news sound or very important. Let's
see if you want to get on board

509
00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:06.079
my new trends That two breaking news
is in like twenty minutes. First Ross's

510
00:42:06.159 --> 00:42:13.320
house got wiped out by a climate
disaster, and now we're doing my version

511
00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:17.039
of this, which i'm more probably
bare minimum week days. Have you heard

512
00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:20.559
of this new trend? I just
started. I haven't, but it sounds

513
00:42:20.599 --> 00:42:24.800
interesting. Tell me more bare minum
is so bare minimum week days is where

514
00:42:24.920 --> 00:42:29.760
you phone it in every day.
Wow wow wow yeah yeah yeah. And

515
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:34.639
by the way, I would also
point out that that's our starting point and

516
00:42:34.760 --> 00:42:37.559
if the honey dew list get too
long Bare minimum days, that ended.

517
00:42:37.679 --> 00:42:45.320
Why looking into this? Right,
So nobody tries to take advantage of the

518
00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:49.039
you know, any of the days
off. I mean the real days off,

519
00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:51.519
not just the days where you actually
go into work and don't do anything,

520
00:42:51.519 --> 00:42:55.199
but the ones where you're at home. Ah, because if there's one

521
00:42:55.360 --> 00:43:00.960
thing that wives and girlfriends hate,
it's a day that doesn't have a giant

522
00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:07.119
calendar of stuff attached to it,
gross generalizations. That's what we do here

523
00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:10.320
on the show. So yeah,
bare minimum weekdays, but now bare Minimum

524
00:43:10.320 --> 00:43:17.800
Mondays. During Mays's first day,
all right, so this is Marissa Mays

525
00:43:19.519 --> 00:43:24.480
who worked at I don't know,
some digital creators startup. During Mayze's first

526
00:43:24.519 --> 00:43:30.599
year of employment after leaving Corporate America, she found herself overwhelmed, stuck in

527
00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:35.840
burnout, and struggling to operate on
Sunday evenings. I used to feel a

528
00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:40.000
ball of anxiety in my stomach.
She refers to it as the Sunday Scaries.

529
00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:47.280
As something you tell a four year
old. Anyway, when thinking about

530
00:43:47.320 --> 00:43:51.639
all the things I needed to do
on Monday, I would wake up on

531
00:43:51.679 --> 00:43:55.840
Monday already feeling behind, overwhelmed,
and anxious. This feeling would only compound

532
00:43:55.920 --> 00:44:00.000
on the week or as the week
continued. I was trying to get myself

533
00:44:00.119 --> 00:44:04.039
to overachieve my way out of the
burnout, but of course it didn't work.

534
00:44:04.719 --> 00:44:08.000
Then Maze, along with others,
figured out a way to deal with

535
00:44:08.039 --> 00:44:14.079
the quote instant panic that Sunday brought, and that is to be able to

536
00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:21.280
roll into the work week slow roll
in excuse me by making Mondays a day

537
00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:27.000
where little was to be accomplished.
It was quote extremely liberating because I've been

538
00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:31.039
conditioned by hustle culture and toxic product. Oh here's the thing I haven't heard

539
00:44:31.079 --> 00:44:45.519
before. Toxic productivity culture. Wait, there's a culture. There's a horrible

540
00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:51.239
culture for anything, toxic masculinity culture, rape culture. Now we have toxic

541
00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:54.639
product is this is the people that
this is the same thing lay like other

542
00:44:54.639 --> 00:45:00.079
people that screw up the curve,
like the grading curve? Right, what

543
00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:01.639
do you mean? People are being
all productive and now I have to be

544
00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:06.760
productive and I'm finding that toxic because
they're making me look bad. So now

545
00:45:06.800 --> 00:45:09.199
I need to actually have to work. Oh, because d bag over there

546
00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:13.960
is key keeps being productive. Yeah. You like the guy who shows up

547
00:45:13.960 --> 00:45:15.880
to the union gig and works right. Yeah, it's the guy in the

548
00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:22.559
class ruining the curve, toxic product
Here's I have an assignment for everybody.

549
00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:27.199
Okay, as you're as you're making
your way to work today, I want

550
00:45:27.280 --> 00:45:30.960
you and then report back because you'll
probably have a lot of free time to

551
00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:35.719
do it today at work. When
you show up, I want you to

552
00:45:35.719 --> 00:45:38.960
go to whoever your boss or supervisor
is, right, whoever your taskmaster is,

553
00:45:39.519 --> 00:45:45.880
and explain to him that you're not
doing crap today. Maybe you do

554
00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:51.400
some shopping on the Amazon, uh, catching up on social media whatever.

555
00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:57.119
Tell them, tell them that you're
trying to avoid becoming a part of toxic

556
00:45:57.239 --> 00:46:01.639
productivity culture. Yeah. No,
I remember the movie Big Yeah where Tom

557
00:46:01.679 --> 00:46:06.400
Hanks where Josh Bashkin Baskin gets his
first job in the office and he's just

558
00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:08.639
typing away and he's doing his data
entry and John Lovett is everything like,

559
00:46:08.679 --> 00:46:14.199
dude, slow down, buddy,
yeah, slow down. So go tell

560
00:46:14.239 --> 00:46:17.519
your boss today, Ross, would
you text aj and tell him that we're

561
00:46:17.519 --> 00:46:21.880
not going to be We're not going
to be part of toxic productivity culture.

562
00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:25.400
I'm already on it. Oh are
you so you're doing anything with your phone

563
00:46:25.400 --> 00:46:31.400
there? Uh? Yeah. So
everyone tell your boss that you are not

564
00:46:31.480 --> 00:46:38.199
going to be part of toxic productivity
culture. And so you ain't doing crap

565
00:46:38.239 --> 00:46:43.400
today and then tomorrow since you know
you won't, you don't have to go

566
00:46:43.440 --> 00:46:45.480
to work. Probably is you're fired. Um, let us know how it

567
00:46:45.519 --> 00:46:52.039
went. That's your assignment. Let
us know the story goes on. May's

568
00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:55.880
believes alleviating the pressure and choosing to
cut herself some slack was a much needed

569
00:46:55.960 --> 00:46:59.639
change of mindset going into the beginning
of the week. All right, So

570
00:46:59.719 --> 00:47:07.519
here's the deal. So if your
beef is that motivated you to do this,

571
00:47:07.559 --> 00:47:12.440
and I'm not going to read the
whole article, is that you dreaded

572
00:47:12.519 --> 00:47:15.960
Sundays. Which, don't get me
wrong, I hate putting prep together on

573
00:47:15.039 --> 00:47:21.519
Sunday because the idiot, it does
signify the It signifies the end of the

574
00:47:21.559 --> 00:47:28.679
week end right funds over. In
fact, if we go on vacation the

575
00:47:28.800 --> 00:47:30.679
first day back before we come on
the air, when we have to do

576
00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:36.599
prep tonight before and I start sending
ross links. He'll start sending me texts

577
00:47:36.639 --> 00:47:37.920
or something. It's like, what
do you think you're doing? No,

578
00:47:38.840 --> 00:47:42.519
Like, I get it. I
feel the same way. But if I

579
00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:45.000
know my work week starts on Tuesday, I'm just going to feel the same

580
00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:51.639
way on Monday, do you know
what I'm saying? So you're just shifting

581
00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:54.199
the part where you were off and
now you got to go back to work

582
00:47:55.079 --> 00:48:00.000
or back to school or you know
whatever your grind is depending on your age

583
00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:07.960
and your status, which is why
you have to you have to go uh

584
00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:14.519
days that end, and why bare
minimum days that end, and why absolutely

585
00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:20.199
So you know, this chick's just
not she's just not taking this as far

586
00:48:20.239 --> 00:48:23.960
as she could take it, all
right? Seven twenty case O Day Radio

587
00:48:24.159 --> 00:48:34.159
Program. How many of you bosses
can't wait to hear somebody tell you about

588
00:48:34.199 --> 00:48:40.440
toxic productivity culture today? Oh yeah? Eight eight eight nine three four seven

589
00:48:40.519 --> 00:48:45.599
eight seven four. Make sure you
tape that conversation. We would love to

590
00:48:45.599 --> 00:48:50.480
see it, all right, seven
twenty Coming up eight oh five, we

591
00:48:50.559 --> 00:48:54.679
have a guest who is at the
center of one of the very big stories

592
00:48:54.719 --> 00:49:00.079
we did last week. I'm not
gonna tell you who it is because Frankly,

593
00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:07.320
I don't want anyone run in to
get a run into court, and

594
00:49:07.519 --> 00:49:10.480
um, you're not gonna want to
miss that. And that's the tease you're

595
00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:15.960
gonna get. And I don't normally
tease like that, So trust me when

596
00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:20.679
I tell you. It's one of
the stories that everyone found very very very

597
00:49:20.719 --> 00:49:24.920
important last week. And part of
the story the person is from the Triad,

598
00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:29.199
but the crux of the story takes
place in the Triangle, so it's

599
00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:35.559
super serves both markets that frankly,
we're screwing up the whole don't do anything

600
00:49:35.599 --> 00:49:42.400
Monday by having a big guest for
you on Monday, right, we're we're

601
00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:45.119
screwing up the curve. Well,
so to speak. You told me,

602
00:49:45.159 --> 00:49:46.719
you said you said book hit early
in the week, and I actually thought

603
00:49:46.760 --> 00:49:50.400
about I said Monday or Tuesday,
said secure less, do it Monday.

604
00:49:50.639 --> 00:49:53.159
It's do it Monday. But then
we didn't Now we'd know about bare minimum

605
00:49:53.199 --> 00:49:57.559
Monday, and what the hell are
we doing? I feel horrible. Ah,

606
00:49:57.559 --> 00:49:59.920
well, anyway, that's eight oh
five, no change in it now,

607
00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:07.840
just FYI on that. We'll take
a break, be right back one

608
00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:14.400
oh six one at them talked five
WPTI two stations driving the best in talk.

609
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This is Casey O Day and Carolina's
Morning News. All right, so

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we're two thumbs up that Ross saw
that he has Super Mario Brothers movie over

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the weekend. Oh dude, it's
so good. No politics, just straight

612
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up entertainment and better than the previous
Mario efforts. Oh it's fantastic and it

613
00:50:31.719 --> 00:50:35.559
all makes sense. There's no Wolke
garbage, no politics. It's perfect.

614
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Just because they were trying to get
it from all sides. They're like,

615
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oh, cultural appropriation and I remember
prats, just like, watch the movie

616
00:50:44.280 --> 00:50:46.840
shut your faceball, watch the movie
Get back to the New Zone. All

617
00:50:46.920 --> 00:50:51.679
right, well that's good to hear. Yes it's animated, but good for

618
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kids, good for adults, you
would say, amazing. Woll we need

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those movies. So there you go
your day, smarter and celebrating ten years

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of keeping you better informed. One
oh six one FM Talk and News Talk

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five WPTI more with Casey starts now. All right, good morning, seven

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thirty five. You're on the Casey
Okay Radio program. I'm gonna tell you,

623
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man, things are about to get
fabulous at the southern border if Democrats

624
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get their way. Although they don't
have the House, so they probably won't.

625
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But lawmakers Democratic lawmakers in both the
House and Senate have introduced us simultaneously

626
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legislation that would reclassify vulnerable asylum seekers. All right, so one of the

627
00:51:58.800 --> 00:52:02.880
categories of asylum seekers are what are
known as vulnerable. And they've tried this

628
00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:09.199
before, but basically this is about
where you're explaining to them that you have

629
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a real threat right for your for
your safety. And of course it was

630
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one of the things that was exploited
greatly because these activist groups were going down

631
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and they were literally training people within
these caravans about what to say so that

632
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they could be identified as vulnerable.
And you know, so somebody who is

633
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like like when you have the North
Korean chess player, right who comes to

634
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the US and then disappears from their
hotel and shows up somewhere to embassy or

635
00:52:46.119 --> 00:52:51.559
something, and they're like, look, I need to not go back to

636
00:52:51.639 --> 00:52:55.119
North Korea and me just talking to
you, they'll murder They're probably going to

637
00:52:55.199 --> 00:53:00.840
murder my family for this. So
that's that's what we would classify as vulnerable.

638
00:53:01.360 --> 00:53:07.440
And generally, if you get pegged
as that, then you are you're

639
00:53:07.480 --> 00:53:15.320
in so there's no waiting, there's
no there's none of that. I mean,

640
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you still have to go through the
process, but initially you're you're allowed

641
00:53:19.519 --> 00:53:23.199
to stay, You're not detained in
any way, shape or form. You're

642
00:53:23.280 --> 00:53:27.079
provided information, which a lot.
You know, that's kind of what they

643
00:53:27.079 --> 00:53:29.880
were doing under Obama and they were
wanting to do under Biden, but the

644
00:53:29.920 --> 00:53:35.039
court kind of struck it down at
that point. You're basically given documents about

645
00:53:35.039 --> 00:53:44.920
when and where you need to show, but you're basically in. So they

646
00:53:44.920 --> 00:53:52.159
want to reclassify any any asylum seeker
or immigrant who shows up at the border

647
00:53:52.239 --> 00:54:02.559
and identifies as LGBTQ not be detained
and instead released into the country while a

648
00:54:04.800 --> 00:54:09.840
more permanent decision is made. But
that would get them initially in. There'd

649
00:54:09.840 --> 00:54:13.440
be no detainment, there'll be no
bond, there'll be none of that.

650
00:54:13.480 --> 00:54:17.199
They would just be assigned essentially a
court date, given some information, and

651
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actually made available assistance programs and welcome
to the USA. That is literally the

652
00:54:25.559 --> 00:54:29.599
legislation that they're trying to pass,
and in the Senate it'll you know,

653
00:54:29.679 --> 00:54:31.920
it'll probably move further. Obviously in
the House they're gonna have a tougher time

654
00:54:31.920 --> 00:54:38.519
with that. But it's not just
one congress person you know, suggesting this.

655
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It is a group in both houses
there wanting to move forward. It

656
00:54:52.519 --> 00:54:55.239
would be very interesting to watch the
border process at that point, wouldn't it.

657
00:54:59.280 --> 00:55:01.840
How far are you willing to go
with the whole, the whole Shenanigan's

658
00:55:01.880 --> 00:55:07.679
nat because you know activist groups that
that literally was the law. You know,

659
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they'd be down there priming them up. That's I'm just saying, a

660
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lot of dudes and dresses possibly.
Ah. The extraordinary proposals are aimed at

661
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setting minimum standards for detention facilities where
thousands of illegal aliens are already being kept

662
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as a weight processing. But under
the legislation, those crossing the southern border

663
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from Mexico apparently it only works on
that border, may not be held in

664
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detention if they identify as LGBTQ.
The legislation introduced by Let's see Primilla jea

665
00:55:49.639 --> 00:55:54.079
pale Corey Booker, Well, that's
interesting that Corey Booker would propose then,

666
00:55:54.199 --> 00:56:01.639
huh is being framed as an attempt
to restore humanity and dignity to the immigration

667
00:56:01.760 --> 00:56:07.840
system. It would mean that anyone
claiming to be LGBTQ would be identified as

668
00:56:07.920 --> 00:56:15.239
quote a vulnerable person and would avoid
detention altogether and be allowed into the interior

669
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of the country with a pending court
date. The bill would also expand the

670
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definition of what is considered a vulnerable
person to include anyone under twenty one or

671
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over the age of sixty, pregnant
women, anyone identifying as LGBTQ, anyone

672
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who has witnessed a crime. What
do you think the odds are if you're

673
00:56:40.920 --> 00:56:50.960
coming from Central America or Mexico or
South America or whatever where you've witnessed a

674
00:56:51.039 --> 00:56:57.159
crime. I'm gonna tell you,
the odds are going to be pretty good,

675
00:56:57.639 --> 00:57:00.119
especially the poorer you are, because
that's the reality of where you live.

676
00:57:02.280 --> 00:57:09.840
Those with mental or physical illnesses.
All of these groups would be added

677
00:57:09.880 --> 00:57:17.039
and or expanded under the legislation.
Also, this is my this is my

678
00:57:17.079 --> 00:57:22.840
other favorite part. Ross. What
do you think another category is that would

679
00:57:22.920 --> 00:57:31.000
qualify one for being a vulnerable person
and allowed immediate access to America. Limited

680
00:57:31.159 --> 00:57:45.880
English proficiency what I mean? I
guess see, if you can't you know,

681
00:57:45.920 --> 00:57:49.480
swim, just jump in right,
You'll learn a lot of English being

682
00:57:49.519 --> 00:57:54.360
spoken over here. Hell can't speak
English? Come on in. Limited English

683
00:57:54.480 --> 00:58:04.920
proficiency uh man. In each of
these cases, the DHS would be required

684
00:58:04.920 --> 00:58:08.920
to review each case individually before deciding
to detain. But that takes time,

685
00:58:09.039 --> 00:58:13.119
so you would then be, you
know, hey, welcome, and then

686
00:58:14.719 --> 00:58:19.320
eventually I guess they'd get to the
review part. How do you prove the

687
00:58:19.480 --> 00:58:23.039
LGBTQ. I'm serious, and I
mean this honestly. We just take people

688
00:58:23.039 --> 00:58:29.960
at their word or do you have
to provide proof? And what is that

689
00:58:30.039 --> 00:58:31.679
proof? I mean, what is
it? You got a videotape yourself.

690
00:58:36.000 --> 00:58:37.800
I mean, I'm being a little
tongue in cheek here, but not really.

691
00:58:37.960 --> 00:58:46.320
I don't know how you prove that. The bill entitled Dignity for Detained

692
00:58:46.400 --> 00:58:55.480
Immigrants Act would create a special rule
for vulnerable persons and primary caregivers which would

693
00:58:55.480 --> 00:59:02.159
prevent the detention unless the Homeland Security
Department could demonstrate that it is not reasonable

694
00:59:02.360 --> 00:59:13.480
or practical practical. Yeah, at
that point, I you know, what,

695
00:59:14.320 --> 00:59:19.760
if you ever got something like that
past, just open the border and

696
00:59:19.840 --> 00:59:22.800
save the money. I mean really, at that point, I'm not implying

697
00:59:22.840 --> 00:59:24.440
that they should do that, and
I'm not implying that this is good in

698
00:59:24.480 --> 00:59:28.599
any way, shape or form.
This is this is as dumb as it

699
00:59:28.639 --> 00:59:38.599
gets, but good god. Democrats
supporting the bill argue proposed legislation is necessary

700
00:59:38.639 --> 00:59:46.079
to restore the dignity of attempting to
enter the US. I just entered.

701
00:59:46.719 --> 00:59:57.400
I've just entered the US here,
and there's no dignity instance. See last

702
00:59:57.440 --> 01:00:00.840
time I enter the US came through
Miami, And if you've ever had to

703
01:00:00.880 --> 01:00:05.559
stand in the customs hall in Miami, there's no dignity to that. It

704
01:00:05.760 --> 01:00:10.320
sucks TODT. Everyone's miserable. The
line's way too long for some reason.

705
01:00:10.519 --> 01:00:22.719
The uh, the global entry machines
are all down, can't use your phone,

706
01:00:22.719 --> 01:00:24.239
to use your phone? Somebody comes
buying, squawks at you, even

707
01:00:24.239 --> 01:00:31.400
though you're having to stand there forever. Oh anyway, seven forty five case

708
01:00:31.519 --> 01:00:37.280
O Day radio program Race Stage from
the Weather Channel, standing by, All

709
01:00:37.360 --> 01:00:39.480
right, what'd you do on Friday? You'd get too good to join us?

710
01:00:39.559 --> 01:00:46.159
Huh yeah, family, My daughter
performs and she had a performance Thursday

711
01:00:46.280 --> 01:00:50.559
night, So another one this week? So this is Clemson daughter or other?

712
01:00:50.679 --> 01:00:52.639
Yeah, yeah, Clemson daughter.
So yeah, how to make the

713
01:00:52.679 --> 01:00:55.920
trip. The bigger for performance for
the group is Thursday. So I'll be

714
01:00:55.920 --> 01:01:01.199
out again Thursday Friday, but then
not another scheduled day off until Memorial Day.

715
01:01:01.360 --> 01:01:06.440
What is if you don't mind me
asking, Um, she is in

716
01:01:07.400 --> 01:01:14.360
UMH boy, one of the choir
groups. Yeah, she's performing arts,

717
01:01:14.440 --> 01:01:22.079
so in the performing arts major.
Yeah it is ultimately visit there, Yeah,

718
01:01:22.199 --> 01:01:24.960
yeah it is. It's it's small, it's got a bigger campus field,

719
01:01:25.000 --> 01:01:30.440
but it kind of it's yeah,
we love it, so uh yeah,

720
01:01:30.480 --> 01:01:32.400
head back up there and um,
ultimately she wants to teach, not

721
01:01:32.519 --> 01:01:37.039
necessarily perform, but it is what
it is. Everything yesterday, Yeah,

722
01:01:37.039 --> 01:01:40.039
it would make it all like yesterday. So I'm kind of glad I'm going

723
01:01:40.119 --> 01:01:45.239
to duck out on everybody for Thursday
and Friday, because yeah, it it

724
01:01:45.280 --> 01:01:50.320
does not look pretty starting about late
Wednesday and maybe for the rest of the

725
01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:52.280
weekend. Of the weekend it could
be on again, off again with the

726
01:01:52.360 --> 01:01:57.920
rain and showers and at times some
steadier rainfalls, some disturbances coming from Texas

727
01:01:57.920 --> 01:02:00.000
going to roll this way. I
want to actually rolling through the Gulf.

728
01:02:00.079 --> 01:02:01.679
Right now is going to stay well
south of US, and then a few

729
01:02:01.679 --> 01:02:07.000
more coming in mid weekend. Beyond, Temperatures are going to stay basically in

730
01:02:07.000 --> 01:02:10.159
the mid up our sixties right on
through the week maybe into the weekend,

731
01:02:10.159 --> 01:02:14.519
it gets a little milder, but
don't see any real warm weather coming in.

732
01:02:14.559 --> 01:02:20.280
So enjoyed Today. Got a little
cloud around, especially just east of

733
01:02:20.320 --> 01:02:22.239
the try In and into the Triangle, but there's more clearing west where there

734
01:02:22.239 --> 01:02:25.960
are frost advisories and freeze warnings of
the mountains. But today is a real

735
01:02:27.039 --> 01:02:30.159
good looking day, probably the best
looking day of the week. Mid upper

736
01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:32.800
sixties, if it didn't already say
that. Tonight upper thirties to low forties,

737
01:02:34.159 --> 01:02:37.599
so a little chili once again,
and then Tuesday, clouds will go

738
01:02:37.639 --> 01:02:40.719
on the increase, mid upper sixties
for the showers arrived Wednesday afternoon, and

739
01:02:40.800 --> 01:02:45.320
we are on again, off again
with the scattered showers for Wednesday night,

740
01:02:45.480 --> 01:02:49.800
Thursday, Friday, maybe even into
the weekend. I think there'll be some

741
01:02:49.880 --> 01:02:53.119
dry opportunities mixed in there, but
shower chances will well, it's not a

742
01:02:53.159 --> 01:02:58.000
lot of sunshine, just kind of
unsettled, kind of the word I'm picking

743
01:02:58.039 --> 01:03:02.880
here. Starting Wednesday afternoon and maybe
even I'm through this upcoming weekend as oh

744
01:03:02.960 --> 01:03:07.000
gosh, Sunday's the last day of
April already, Yeah, it looks like

745
01:03:07.039 --> 01:03:09.360
April's gonna go out with showers.
Oh crazy, all right, and then

746
01:03:09.360 --> 01:03:15.119
we get into flowers, right exactly
May flowers, And it does look like

747
01:03:15.199 --> 01:03:17.960
after the first few days of May, maybe we'll get a pattern change again,

748
01:03:19.000 --> 01:03:22.679
back to some warmer weather. So
hopefully that will happen, because like

749
01:03:22.719 --> 01:03:25.800
I had said, we'll stay cool
and a little bit damp starting about mid

750
01:03:25.800 --> 01:03:29.199
week and for the rest of the
month from that. Yeah. Unfortunately,

751
01:03:29.800 --> 01:03:32.039
may's my birthday month, so I'm
gonna need perfect weather the whole time,

752
01:03:32.079 --> 01:03:35.880
if you could in the whole month. Wow, not asking for much.

753
01:03:36.199 --> 01:03:37.599
Wow, It's not like I'm asking
for the whole year. I mean,

754
01:03:38.480 --> 01:03:43.000
yeah, one month. Yeah after
it, we'll talk in an hour,

755
01:03:43.079 --> 01:03:45.079
thank you, sir. Yeah,
alright. Seven forty eight k c O

756
01:03:45.199 --> 01:03:50.960
Day Radio program Hang on celebrating ten
years of keeping you connected. This is

757
01:03:51.079 --> 01:03:55.280
ninety four five WPTI in the Triad
and one oh six one FM Talk in

758
01:03:55.400 --> 01:04:02.360
the Triangle. You know, of
all the people they interviewed for this story,

759
01:04:02.440 --> 01:04:06.880
not one of them went yeah,
that was brigging cool man. Over

760
01:04:06.920 --> 01:04:15.280
the weekend, one of Disneyland's popular
shows Bantasmic, which ross have you seen

761
01:04:15.320 --> 01:04:18.519
the Phantasmic show when you've been down
at Disney I know of it. I've

762
01:04:18.559 --> 01:04:20.760
seen it on video, I've never
actually seen. I know they do a

763
01:04:20.840 --> 01:04:25.480
show on Epcot and from the Water. Okay, I didn't know they also

764
01:04:25.519 --> 01:04:27.599
did at Disneyland, but yeah,
I'm familiar with it, all right.

765
01:04:27.639 --> 01:04:31.159
So this was at Disneyland, and
as part of the show, there is

766
01:04:31.280 --> 01:04:40.320
a portion of it where a giant
animatronic dragon, fire breathing dragon is being

767
01:04:40.360 --> 01:04:43.920
battled by Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse
taken on the dragon. I'm assuming Mickey

768
01:04:43.920 --> 01:04:47.679
wins spoiler, I don't know,
but in this case now so much.

769
01:04:48.039 --> 01:04:55.880
Apparently, while the fire was there, if whatever whatever was utilized propel the

770
01:04:55.960 --> 01:05:01.679
fired forward wasn't working. So as
a result, when the flames um started,

771
01:05:02.239 --> 01:05:06.239
rather than being propelled out of the
animatronic dragon as part of the show,

772
01:05:06.280 --> 01:05:11.039
which is probably pretty cool to watch, instead it just kind of bursted

773
01:05:11.119 --> 01:05:15.199
into flames, first the head and
then the entirety of the animatronic dragon.

774
01:05:15.239 --> 01:05:20.679
According to Ryan Lowe, frequent Disneyland
visitor, he said he knew something was

775
01:05:20.760 --> 01:05:25.400
awry when flames didn't come out and
the head burst it well, yes,

776
01:05:25.920 --> 01:05:29.920
good, good job, Sherlock.
Yes, when the animatronic thing is now

777
01:05:29.920 --> 01:05:33.480
engulfed in flames, probably something's amiss, he said. The show was stopped

778
01:05:33.519 --> 01:05:38.960
almost immediately. Uh, in fact, that the at that moment, Mickey

779
01:05:39.000 --> 01:05:45.079
Mouse was battling the dragon whose name
is Maleficent. Maleficent right, Maleficent is

780
01:05:45.119 --> 01:05:47.360
the word. Wasn't that a movie
too? I think that was Evil Queen

781
01:05:47.440 --> 01:05:55.719
from Sleeping Beauty with the horns and
stuff. It was a Jolie Angelina Jolie

782
01:05:55.840 --> 01:05:59.880
right, yeah, I knew the
movie. I couldn't remember that that was

783
01:06:00.000 --> 01:06:03.559
the name, all right, at
which point he says, Mickey quickly vanished

784
01:06:03.599 --> 01:06:12.360
off stage. The way Mickey Mouse
is a coward now he'll balance poor.

785
01:06:12.719 --> 01:06:15.199
Now. I feel bad that the
guy who's in the suit, the employee

786
01:06:15.320 --> 01:06:17.719
not employee, What the hell did
they call him? You were one of

787
01:06:17.760 --> 01:06:24.199
these cast member. You were a
cast member, weren't you. You didn't

788
01:06:24.199 --> 01:06:28.519
battle a fire dragon, did you? I volunteer? But they kept saying

789
01:06:28.519 --> 01:06:32.360
no, oh okay, um A
guy in the suits say, I don't

790
01:06:32.400 --> 01:06:36.159
get paid in under this crap.
Nobody was injured, by the way,

791
01:06:36.239 --> 01:06:43.679
so um, that's good. But
yeah, the animatronic d well, the

792
01:06:43.719 --> 01:06:49.360
animatronic dragons obviously food bards. So
oh no, Actually two things, look

793
01:06:49.440 --> 01:06:51.519
you see Ross did you read this
story? Did you read it to the

794
01:06:51.599 --> 01:06:55.800
end? I thought it was just
the dragon that burned down. Apparently the

795
01:06:55.800 --> 01:07:00.480
people mover burned to the ground,
so yeah, it's it's wampwomp. The

796
01:07:00.480 --> 01:07:01.800
one in Orlando is still good.
No, no, no, no,

797
01:07:01.880 --> 01:07:05.559
that's the one that fought Yeah.
Yeah, it's so weird how that happened.

798
01:07:06.639 --> 01:07:12.639
Oh yea, yep. That is
the greatest ride at Disney, I'm

799
01:07:12.679 --> 01:07:15.760
telling you, and a getting that
thing, just sit down as a piece

800
01:07:15.760 --> 01:07:20.119
of quiet. Put your feet up. It's great. On the seats.

801
01:07:20.159 --> 01:07:24.239
Do you put your feet up on
the seats on the like the the one

802
01:07:24.280 --> 01:07:28.079
to cross from you. Yeah,
those are seats, man. People have

803
01:07:28.079 --> 01:07:30.360
to sit there. There's no one
sitting there. Man, my family's on

804
01:07:30.400 --> 01:07:33.280
this sidement. You don't. You
don't go around with other people and the

805
01:07:33.320 --> 01:07:39.280
people mover like, not in your
own not in your little contained union there,

806
01:07:39.760 --> 01:07:42.559
I know. But right after you
get off, it's some other porchemuck's

807
01:07:42.599 --> 01:07:45.239
gonna sit where your feet were.
We were down in Orlando, I can't

808
01:07:45.239 --> 01:07:46.679
remember when it was. And you
know, they have the random parades they

809
01:07:46.719 --> 01:07:49.679
do, which can really suck because
if you're trying to get to one end

810
01:07:49.679 --> 01:07:54.280
of the park and suddenly you're caught
and there's a parade. There's no way

811
01:07:54.320 --> 01:07:57.079
to sit to wait for the parade
to end unless you want to walk all

812
01:07:57.119 --> 01:07:59.480
the way around the park, and
you don't have to. I'm sorry if

813
01:07:59.519 --> 01:08:01.960
you never watched a chase scene in
a movie. A little different at Disney,

814
01:08:02.039 --> 01:08:05.920
so what we were watching there and
the same dragon, the Maleficent dragon.

815
01:08:06.840 --> 01:08:10.480
I don't think it's the same one
they have for the Fantastic Show,

816
01:08:10.719 --> 01:08:14.519
but I mean it's the same dragon
from the same character. It started because

817
01:08:14.559 --> 01:08:17.880
it because it breezed fired during the
parade going down Main Street, same exact

818
01:08:17.880 --> 01:08:20.600
thing. It stopped like it caught
on fire. They had to stop the

819
01:08:20.600 --> 01:08:25.640
parade. So, I mean they've
had issues with this. Uh Am.

820
01:08:25.640 --> 01:08:28.359
I the only one who'd be like, this is awesome. It's different when

821
01:08:28.359 --> 01:08:30.880
you have kids. No, no, no, no, well, okay,

822
01:08:30.960 --> 01:08:32.640
yes, from the kid's perspective,
although I don't know if I was

823
01:08:32.680 --> 01:08:35.840
a kid, i'd probably be like, this is awesome. No, because

824
01:08:35.880 --> 01:08:39.520
nobody's getting hurt any of the rest
of it. You're just like you,

825
01:08:40.079 --> 01:08:44.399
but especially not at the Fantasmic Show
because there's a big distance between you.

826
01:08:45.399 --> 01:08:47.840
The choreograph, lighting and fire show
that you're watching. Well, I mean

827
01:08:47.920 --> 01:08:53.760
after they basically smushed that the one
that check in their one ride back in

828
01:08:53.840 --> 01:09:00.399
the day, Disney's really really you
know they they they're a hesitant about something

829
01:09:00.439 --> 01:09:03.880
happening. Do you remember that what
was the thing where you'd go in and

830
01:09:03.920 --> 01:09:08.039
it was like something of America or
whatever, and it was like you would

831
01:09:08.039 --> 01:09:11.479
spin around. You were in a
big circular thing. Basically, one of

832
01:09:11.520 --> 01:09:15.199
the women working on the ride got
between the wall and word spun and so

833
01:09:15.319 --> 01:09:18.520
Disney has been a little ocd.
Of course, we also think they're covering

834
01:09:18.640 --> 01:09:25.840
up gat gator killings with fantastic stories. But all right, hey remember the

835
01:09:25.880 --> 01:09:30.439
whole bodycam story we did last week
of the little pregame by Raleigh p D

836
01:09:30.600 --> 01:09:33.640
ahead of the arrest of Monica Usury. Well, we're gonna talk to Monica

837
01:09:34.079 --> 01:09:39.840
coming up here in about six minutes. Yep, that's the big guess that's

838
01:09:39.840 --> 01:10:19.159
on the way right. Good morning, everybody, and welcome. It is

839
01:10:19.680 --> 01:10:26.039
Monday, Everybody's favored day of the
week eight oh seven, a c O

840
01:10:26.159 --> 01:10:32.039
day radio program. Last week on
several different days we were talking about but

841
01:10:32.159 --> 01:10:35.359
I think a lot of people were
talking about, although not any in the

842
01:10:35.359 --> 01:10:41.439
mainstream media for some reason. And
that was a little a little snippet of

843
01:10:41.439 --> 01:10:47.000
footage that showed up on Twitter,
little snippet showing about a minute and a

844
01:10:47.079 --> 01:10:54.560
half of officers with the Rally Police
Department ahead of the very first Reopen NC

845
01:10:54.840 --> 01:11:00.680
protest, which took place shortly after
Governor Cooper decided they he can unilaterally,

846
01:11:00.720 --> 01:11:05.560
I guess, set all of the
emergency order policy, not consult Secretary of

847
01:11:05.720 --> 01:11:10.680
or excuse me, the Council of
State or the legislature, any of the

848
01:11:10.720 --> 01:11:15.159
rest and basically put us into a
lockdown situation in North Carolina. And that

849
01:11:15.199 --> 01:11:19.000
did not sit well with some who
were told they couldn't go to church,

850
01:11:19.720 --> 01:11:25.479
they couldn't shop where they had wanted
to, and apparently they couldn't assemble to

851
01:11:26.039 --> 01:11:30.359
redress the government on any grievances they
may have. And at that protest,

852
01:11:30.880 --> 01:11:34.920
police were getting ready to go bust
it up and as we heard in the

853
01:11:34.960 --> 01:11:42.039
audio, to make examples so that
a planned second protest didn't move forward.

854
01:11:42.840 --> 01:11:46.000
And in the video, they're not
socially distanced, they're not wearing masks.

855
01:11:46.600 --> 01:11:53.319
One of the officers is heard referring
to the protesters as mffors, and we

856
01:11:53.439 --> 01:11:57.680
talked about why it's not a good
look, and it's especially not a good

857
01:11:57.680 --> 01:12:01.760
look because some of that same behavior
it was on bodycams where the people and

858
01:12:01.920 --> 01:12:06.640
protesters that police interacted with weren't even
around, but we're spoke about in a

859
01:12:06.720 --> 01:12:14.359
derogatory manner. Officers were disciplined for
that. Those would be the other protests,

860
01:12:14.359 --> 01:12:16.760
though we refer to him as the
burn it down protests, but those

861
01:12:16.800 --> 01:12:24.199
would be the protests where the governor
who put all of these edicts into practice

862
01:12:24.520 --> 01:12:28.720
himself, violated his own order,
took to the streets, dropped his mass

863
01:12:28.720 --> 01:12:33.359
in march with protesters. So a
huge double standard and a huge problem when

864
01:12:33.439 --> 01:12:40.560
already the relationship between the community and
law enforcement is let's just say fraid,

865
01:12:41.399 --> 01:12:45.279
which is not a good situation for
anyone. You need only look at crime

866
01:12:45.319 --> 01:12:50.600
statistics out there. One of the
individuals who was protesting and was subsequently arrested

867
01:12:51.239 --> 01:12:56.159
is Monica, and I was referring
to you, and I apologize for this.

868
01:12:56.239 --> 01:13:00.079
Monica. Your last name is Usury, but it's not pronounced that way.

869
01:13:00.119 --> 01:13:03.479
How do you pronounce your last name? I pronounced that silly that I

870
01:13:03.600 --> 01:13:10.439
answer to a lot of things recently. Well am efforts apparently too so um

871
01:13:10.640 --> 01:13:15.880
no, I'm so so so I
would like I would like to clarify there

872
01:13:15.000 --> 01:13:20.000
that, um, you touched on
something the other day when it came to

873
01:13:20.439 --> 01:13:28.520
UM needing a wicked sense of humor
sometimes to get through emotionally stressful things.

874
01:13:29.399 --> 01:13:34.680
Yeah, I'd hate to be on
camera myself when I'm under emotional dress because

875
01:13:34.680 --> 01:13:40.840
of my ADHD and my tunate sea
of blurt out silly things. And I

876
01:13:40.960 --> 01:13:44.960
believe that some of what we're seeing
and we need to, um, we

877
01:13:45.079 --> 01:13:47.800
need to keep that in mind.
Really, Yeah, I was talking about

878
01:13:47.840 --> 01:13:53.079
it in the context of, you
know, the the gallows humor that UM,

879
01:13:53.439 --> 01:13:56.880
you know, people have, especially
when they're when they're at work and

880
01:13:56.920 --> 01:14:00.640
they're talking to other people they work
with, UM, in this case law

881
01:14:00.760 --> 01:14:04.680
enforcement. And the thing that makes
me sad is I think that law enforcement

882
01:14:04.800 --> 01:14:11.159
and the relationship to you know,
to the public is already strained enough.

883
01:14:11.680 --> 01:14:15.399
And I think that watching that video, which enraged me and I know bothered

884
01:14:15.439 --> 01:14:18.560
a lot of people. Monica,
I'm sure yourself when you saw it for

885
01:14:18.600 --> 01:14:28.800
the first time, you because you
realize that this further deteriorates that relationship because

886
01:14:28.880 --> 01:14:34.479
people are seeing rank and file officers
that are acting like that. So I

887
01:14:34.560 --> 01:14:38.159
want to I want to start there, and then we'll get to the day

888
01:14:38.199 --> 01:14:41.319
of you said you was so when
you saw that video, and it was

889
01:14:41.319 --> 01:14:44.800
a long road, and we'll get
to the story behind it. Did the

890
01:14:44.880 --> 01:14:48.279
attitudes and what you saw though there
was one officer their questioning why they were

891
01:14:48.279 --> 01:14:53.119
doing this to you guys anyway?
Was that the attitude of most of the

892
01:14:53.199 --> 01:14:58.079
officers there, or were they for
the most part, just going through the

893
01:14:58.159 --> 01:15:02.920
motions but not necessarily be being disrespectful? I can I can only speak from

894
01:15:02.960 --> 01:15:13.079
my point of view and the officers
that handled me, um. And it's

895
01:15:13.119 --> 01:15:18.239
funny that all the newspapers were reporting
Capital police officers being my arresting officers,

896
01:15:18.279 --> 01:15:24.439
but even the officer test fighting Court
stated that it was rally PD, so

897
01:15:25.560 --> 01:15:30.159
that that part is still confusing to
me. But they all handled themselves professionally,

898
01:15:31.800 --> 01:15:36.720
and I didn't I didn't see a
bad attitude that heart from a lot

899
01:15:36.840 --> 01:15:43.600
of law enforcement after that. And
I also attended back the blue rallies after

900
01:15:43.680 --> 01:15:48.640
that and was asked why I attended
back the blue rallies after being arrested,

901
01:15:48.840 --> 01:15:53.520
And I can tell you why.
I'd love to tell you why, go

902
01:15:53.560 --> 01:15:58.520
ahead. Yeah, absolutely, So
it's not so much what was said by

903
01:15:58.640 --> 01:16:03.600
officers on that day bothers me,
but what wasn't said. You can't retrain

904
01:16:03.680 --> 01:16:09.079
an officer that's length to commit perjury. I don't think you should. And

905
01:16:09.159 --> 01:16:16.039
you can't successfully retrain officers on constitutional
freedoms if their superiors are willing to rape

906
01:16:16.039 --> 01:16:21.760
the constitution and lead by rotten example. But I finally believe that it's elected

907
01:16:21.880 --> 01:16:26.680
superiors that we need to be focused
on, because if we get the right

908
01:16:26.920 --> 01:16:33.720
superiors in place, the officers will
be trained properly and monitored properly. I

909
01:16:33.760 --> 01:16:36.800
agree, one hundred percent. And
that's why it was very disappointing to me.

910
01:16:36.800 --> 01:16:42.159
And I'm so glad that you came
on. We tried to because the

911
01:16:42.239 --> 01:16:45.760
chief, the Raleigh chief, is
not the same chief as as when you

912
01:16:45.800 --> 01:16:49.399
were arrested, and we wanted to
and are very positive things about writing a

913
01:16:49.520 --> 01:16:54.520
chief right, and then we wanted
to talk to her, and they would

914
01:16:54.520 --> 01:16:58.359
not come on, and we gave
them multiple different spots, and you know,

915
01:16:58.399 --> 01:17:00.760
we were willing to be flexible.
So I'm glad you did, and

916
01:17:01.479 --> 01:17:10.039
I'm extra glad that you did because
of the quote unquote gag order, which

917
01:17:10.079 --> 01:17:14.319
we'll get into the specifics of what
that actually covers, but I want to

918
01:17:14.359 --> 01:17:17.479
go back to that day. I
and others I think were under the mistaken

919
01:17:17.520 --> 01:17:20.239
impression that you were one of the
organizers. You were not one of the

920
01:17:20.359 --> 01:17:25.960
organizers, and in fact, it
wasn't even your idea to go to this

921
01:17:26.119 --> 01:17:30.800
rally, So how did you end
up there? So I had a friend

922
01:17:30.840 --> 01:17:40.880
of mine who has a common interest. So I've volunteered with domestic violent victims

923
01:17:40.880 --> 01:17:45.039
and at risk teams in one fashion
or another for nearly thirty years. And

924
01:17:45.119 --> 01:17:50.640
a friend of mine who knew my
interests and my volunteer work, had contacted

925
01:17:50.720 --> 01:17:57.000
me and a message Facebook message and
let me know about the group. And

926
01:17:57.119 --> 01:18:02.000
I had jumped in just a few
days before or that first protest, And

927
01:18:02.319 --> 01:18:08.479
my bonus side at the time was
at home because you know, they didn't

928
01:18:08.479 --> 01:18:14.479
have a school, and that was
my concern. My concern was that suddenly

929
01:18:14.520 --> 01:18:23.319
these domestic violence victims, the children
would be home and the fathers and abusers

930
01:18:23.399 --> 01:18:30.720
would be home, so and some
of these abusers would have recently lost their

931
01:18:30.800 --> 01:18:42.760
jobs and be very upset. So
I could foresee just an epidemic explosion of

932
01:18:43.399 --> 01:18:54.319
people needing rescuing and the domestic violence
housing getting overloaded very quickly. And you

933
01:18:54.359 --> 01:19:00.119
know, the governor had skipped a
couple of steps there, and I I

934
01:19:00.239 --> 01:19:06.920
felt like that really he needed to
maybe listen to a few valid concerns before

935
01:19:08.119 --> 01:19:13.520
going gung ho. So this was
because people will sit there and couch and

936
01:19:13.560 --> 01:19:15.880
say, these are a bunch of
yokels who were mad that, you know,

937
01:19:16.199 --> 01:19:18.680
they don't like government telling them what
to do, they don't want to

938
01:19:18.720 --> 01:19:24.079
maar a mask. They're trying to
kill grandma. But in reality, over

939
01:19:24.199 --> 01:19:28.079
the course of talking about this on
the radio, Monica, the amount of

940
01:19:28.239 --> 01:19:31.880
different reasons and that one right there, you know, the hundred and one

941
01:19:32.000 --> 01:19:36.560
concerns that are out there. People
had a lot of concerns and it's not

942
01:19:36.640 --> 01:19:42.560
necessarily what people stereotypically think was bothering
folks. So let's get to just because

943
01:19:42.560 --> 01:19:45.520
I want to kind of move this
along, Let's get to the day of

944
01:19:45.800 --> 01:19:49.279
because in reality, and I read
the lawsuit that you and your lawyer have

945
01:19:49.439 --> 01:19:55.560
just recently filed, and people need
to understand really how it broke down that

946
01:19:55.640 --> 01:20:00.840
day, because ultimately you had actually
already left the rally and had come back,

947
01:20:00.760 --> 01:20:05.039
and it was at that point you
were arrested, even though you were

948
01:20:05.079 --> 01:20:12.039
basically standing there by yourself, because
others had already left the rally. How

949
01:20:12.079 --> 01:20:15.880
surprising was that? And what was
that interaction? Because you had already left

950
01:20:15.880 --> 01:20:20.760
and then came back. So I
hadn't actually left the rally. I left

951
01:20:20.760 --> 01:20:27.479
the parking lot. So we were
in the back and one of the ladies

952
01:20:27.479 --> 01:20:31.479
who had been parked beside me called
into your show already, So, and

953
01:20:31.720 --> 01:20:36.159
I'm going to re mention that we
were in a very back corner. So

954
01:20:36.720 --> 01:20:43.600
because of music being played and horns
being blasted and everything, we couldn't hear,

955
01:20:44.239 --> 01:20:47.439
but we could clearly see that something
is happening, and people were leaving,

956
01:20:48.039 --> 01:20:54.760
and we saw from the motioning of
arms and stuff. We started thinking

957
01:20:54.800 --> 01:20:59.159
that maybe the protest was going to
be moved to the streets or something.

958
01:20:59.239 --> 01:21:01.560
We were just trying to figure it
out. So I had left the parking

959
01:21:01.640 --> 01:21:08.439
lot in order to try to determine
where the protesters would be driving. And

960
01:21:08.479 --> 01:21:13.560
I'm thinking very quickly because I have
an underaged miner with me. So the

961
01:21:13.680 --> 01:21:17.039
person that drove me that day was
my bonus son, and he was only

962
01:21:17.079 --> 01:21:26.239
seventeen at the time, and I
didn't want to involve him if there was

963
01:21:26.279 --> 01:21:29.079
going to be a problem. So
as soon as we saw that police were

964
01:21:29.159 --> 01:21:31.960
in a parking lot, I walked
out to see where they would go.

965
01:21:32.079 --> 01:21:36.319
And I'm thinking in my mind that
maybe I could join walking, like walk

966
01:21:36.439 --> 01:21:42.560
the sidewalks beside the cars or something. I wasn't really sure what I wanted

967
01:21:42.600 --> 01:21:47.880
to do at that point, but
I turned alone. So that parking lot

968
01:21:47.920 --> 01:21:54.159
was cleared so fast, so fast
I think that we counted at one point

969
01:21:54.159 --> 01:21:58.800
and it was only like a minute
and a half. Once it seemed like

970
01:21:58.960 --> 01:22:04.520
they the police were actually inside the
parking lot, and I turned around from

971
01:22:04.520 --> 01:22:09.640
outside of the parking lot and realized
that my bonus son's car had already been

972
01:22:09.800 --> 01:22:15.960
surrounded. I reached in my pocket
to pull out my cell phone to call

973
01:22:15.079 --> 01:22:18.800
him, and I realized I had
his I still had his car keys.

974
01:22:18.880 --> 01:22:24.279
I had his car keys. He
couldn't leave, so I didn't reiner the

975
01:22:24.319 --> 01:22:29.359
parking lot. And then the police
have this like formation, and I guess

976
01:22:29.359 --> 01:22:31.880
it's training that I'm not, you
know, I wasn't aware of that day,

977
01:22:32.520 --> 01:22:35.960
so I think when I'm re ino
the parking lot, that I might

978
01:22:36.000 --> 01:22:40.560
get arrested, but I have to
reach him, give him his keys.

979
01:22:41.399 --> 01:22:44.279
He hasn't stepped out of the vehicles, so I need to take this stuff

980
01:22:44.319 --> 01:22:46.479
off the car put it back in
the car. And I look at the

981
01:22:46.560 --> 01:22:53.479
officers and they they just stand like
they're in such an aggressive stamps that I

982
01:22:53.560 --> 01:22:57.680
actually said, you'll have to arrest
me because I'm you know, I My

983
01:22:58.479 --> 01:23:00.880
job at that point is to get
bonus Son safely out of the park a

984
01:23:00.880 --> 01:23:04.880
lot. The car can't leave at
all, I mean, and this is

985
01:23:06.119 --> 01:23:11.760
war. This is a public parking
lot, right, So I had held

986
01:23:11.840 --> 01:23:15.119
up the keys to let them know
why I was re and I an't park

987
01:23:15.159 --> 01:23:17.960
a lot. They allowed me to
do that, and they allowed me.

988
01:23:18.039 --> 01:23:21.800
They stood by and allowed me to
put everything in the car, and then

989
01:23:23.000 --> 01:23:27.159
my my bonus lot son left as
soon as I saw him driving away,

990
01:23:27.159 --> 01:23:30.319
and I mean as he was safe. I turned back around, planning to

991
01:23:30.439 --> 01:23:35.279
go back in the direction from length
side to come right. And at that

992
01:23:35.359 --> 01:23:41.880
point, I don't know, I
can't speak for anyone else, but it

993
01:23:42.239 --> 01:23:50.680
seems as though that was observed as
defiant behavior. Um they appointed me.

994
01:23:51.279 --> 01:23:58.239
Yes, I never got in the
car, so the the state Capitol police

995
01:23:58.279 --> 01:24:02.920
officer who test There was only one
person who testified for the prosecution, and

996
01:24:02.960 --> 01:24:06.600
he testified that it wasn't me who
left the parking lot, it was actually

997
01:24:06.640 --> 01:24:10.840
my bonus son, and that he
even came back from me, and that

998
01:24:10.920 --> 01:24:15.199
I got in the car and then
got back out again and was warned multiple

999
01:24:15.239 --> 01:24:19.640
times. There was this whole big
story. Part of it was written up

1000
01:24:19.640 --> 01:24:23.960
in the incident report, part of
it was said on the stand. None

1001
01:24:24.000 --> 01:24:29.479
of it matched the reality of the
situation, and these things who were regurgitated

1002
01:24:29.520 --> 01:24:32.560
in the newspaper. So all along
while I was trying to get people to

1003
01:24:32.680 --> 01:24:41.119
understand the truth of the situation,
these fabrications kept being repeated. So I

1004
01:24:41.159 --> 01:24:45.600
couldn't get help from anybody because I
couldn't prove who was telling the truth.

1005
01:24:45.920 --> 01:24:48.800
Well, and this is where,
and I hope you don't mind. I

1006
01:24:48.880 --> 01:24:53.199
want to I want to keep chatting
with you, so I hope you got

1007
01:24:53.239 --> 01:24:57.119
some time to stick around. But
this is why it's important to set all

1008
01:24:57.119 --> 01:25:00.880
of this up, because this shouldn't
be in question, and it shouldn't be

1009
01:25:00.920 --> 01:25:06.119
in question because of bodycamp footage right, and the odyssey that you and your

1010
01:25:06.159 --> 01:25:13.000
attorneys have gone through on bodycamp footage. I read the read the whole lawsuit

1011
01:25:13.039 --> 01:25:16.000
that you filed. It's about thirty
pages. Um and UM. I think

1012
01:25:16.000 --> 01:25:18.439
it does a good job of laying
it out. In the entire time I'm

1013
01:25:18.479 --> 01:25:24.479
reading it, I'm like, why
is this stuff in dispute when bodycams exist?

1014
01:25:24.520 --> 01:25:27.600
And that's that's one of the parts
of the story where it gets into

1015
01:25:27.600 --> 01:25:35.880
the leadership and because this should have
leadership. Lauren, Lauren Freeman, who

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01:25:36.079 --> 01:25:42.119
are I believe just gave a statement
in another article I believe yesterday. Um,

1017
01:25:42.520 --> 01:25:46.880
she was quoted in articles on the
day of my arrest and shortly thereafter

1018
01:25:47.439 --> 01:25:53.439
as saying one of those quotes was
that she said, and it was she

1019
01:25:53.520 --> 01:25:57.920
was quoted. Now again I wasn't
there, but she was quoted as saying

1020
01:25:58.119 --> 01:26:00.840
she planned to be the bodycamp footage, which, by the way, is

1021
01:26:00.840 --> 01:26:03.640
the reason that I believed all along, even when I was being told that

1022
01:26:03.680 --> 01:26:09.600
there was no bodycam footage, I
believed that if the DA was saying she

1023
01:26:09.720 --> 01:26:14.439
would be reviewing it, it must
exist, which is why I never gave

1024
01:26:14.479 --> 01:26:19.680
that bottle up and finally called internal
affairs lolly PD. Okay, So,

1025
01:26:19.720 --> 01:26:23.239
if at this point you've been arrested, they take you and I got about

1026
01:26:23.239 --> 01:26:25.119
a minute here. We're going to
take a break and then we're going to

1027
01:26:25.199 --> 01:26:29.439
come back and keep chatting. But
at that point you've been arrested. They

1028
01:26:29.479 --> 01:26:33.279
take you down. I'm they held
you for what about an hour? Processed,

1029
01:26:33.319 --> 01:26:36.399
you gave you a ROACHO, I'm
sure, a summons to court.

1030
01:26:38.039 --> 01:26:41.359
And at that point you're back out
and you're on your way. Is that

1031
01:26:41.359 --> 01:26:46.399
correct? Yes, except the person
I was calling to come pick me up

1032
01:26:46.479 --> 01:26:49.520
had gone the mod of the yard, so I walked around Lolly for a

1033
01:26:49.600 --> 01:26:54.439
little bit. Okay, all right, well Monica, hang on because this

1034
01:26:54.560 --> 01:26:59.439
is really where this kicks off.
That's the day of it's it's what happened

1035
01:26:59.520 --> 01:27:03.199
after that we're going to dive into. So hang on and we'll get into

1036
01:27:03.600 --> 01:27:10.479
really the part where I'm baffled.
I'm baffled by the whole process, how

1037
01:27:10.520 --> 01:27:15.319
how it took this long, and
the odyssey that Monica went through just to

1038
01:27:15.319 --> 01:27:18.239
see the body camp footage. So
hang on, we'll be right back to

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01:27:18.359 --> 01:27:25.720
your car for More's celebrating ten years
and still going strong. Thank you.

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01:27:26.279 --> 01:27:30.319
Casey is one five w PTI in
the Triad and one oh six one FM

1041
01:27:30.399 --> 01:27:38.039
talk in the triangle. Eight thirty
five. Good morning. We're continuing our

1042
01:27:38.079 --> 01:27:44.680
conversation with Monica Ussery, who was
the woman arrested at the reopening c rally.

1043
01:27:45.640 --> 01:27:49.119
Obviously, bodycamp footage of officers prior
to going and breaking the rally up

1044
01:27:49.920 --> 01:27:55.479
emerged here about a week ago,
raised some eyebrows, caused some concern,

1045
01:27:56.239 --> 01:28:00.319
and I thought we dive into this
because the story gets crazier and crazier the

1046
01:28:00.359 --> 01:28:02.960
deeper you get. All right,
Monica, I'm going to kind of speed

1047
01:28:03.000 --> 01:28:10.119
this part along just because I got
got about ten minutes so after the arrest

1048
01:28:10.680 --> 01:28:15.239
and the notice that you need to
do appear in court. Obviously, at

1049
01:28:15.279 --> 01:28:17.880
that point you go out, you
get legal counsel, and as part of

1050
01:28:17.880 --> 01:28:23.239
your legal counsel's request, they want
to see the body camp footage, which

1051
01:28:23.279 --> 01:28:28.119
seems natural. Let's figure out exactly
what's going on. The way I read

1052
01:28:28.119 --> 01:28:33.000
it in the lawsuit that you filed
last week, it was quite the process

1053
01:28:33.079 --> 01:28:38.279
of either not giving it to you, denying that it existed, then saying

1054
01:28:38.319 --> 01:28:41.640
it did, but it had been
deleted because it was ninety days old.

1055
01:28:42.279 --> 01:28:48.760
And unfortunately, legally, this evidence
is it's pretty pretty clear that legally they

1056
01:28:48.840 --> 01:28:53.600
have to give you this stuff,
So just give us a little summary of

1057
01:28:53.640 --> 01:29:03.199
how that whole thing went. At
the bench trial, still believing and having

1058
01:29:03.279 --> 01:29:10.960
been told that first, I was
told bodycams weren't on because and I did

1059
01:29:11.000 --> 01:29:15.399
look it up and on their online
on the Rally Police Department website, it

1060
01:29:15.479 --> 01:29:20.880
does say that they don't have bodycams
on during protests. There's some kind of

1061
01:29:21.119 --> 01:29:26.760
um I think that's in their training. I'm not sure, but somebody sent

1062
01:29:26.800 --> 01:29:30.600
me that. And then I was
told by a couple of different officials that

1063
01:29:31.119 --> 01:29:36.840
there had been no bodycam footage.
And so I'm told they I have people

1064
01:29:38.479 --> 01:29:43.079
calling me, you know, I
have all different people telling me different things.

1065
01:29:43.560 --> 01:29:47.960
But all along I was focused on
the statements from Lauren Freeman, multiple

1066
01:29:48.000 --> 01:29:53.239
statements that kept telling me. I
just kept feeling like there had to have

1067
01:29:53.319 --> 01:29:58.600
been bodycam footage. So I finally
called myself. My attorney didn't. I

1068
01:29:58.720 --> 01:30:04.479
called Rally Police Department, asked to
speak to someone in intern affairs and asked

1069
01:30:04.600 --> 01:30:11.279
for a search to be done to
determine whether or not body camp footage existed.

1070
01:30:12.119 --> 01:30:19.600
And he called me back and he
mentioned one one one recording. I

1071
01:30:19.680 --> 01:30:27.279
now have multiple. I think it's
two or three gigabytes a lot, but

1072
01:30:28.319 --> 01:30:32.119
the second that I knew any existed, and prior to that, but after

1073
01:30:32.239 --> 01:30:38.439
I had been sound guilty for my
Hills process, I was handed a couple

1074
01:30:38.479 --> 01:30:45.159
of tiny, little irrelevant ones,
I think from state Capital. But I

1075
01:30:45.199 --> 01:30:55.319
really wanted the parking lot footage,
the RPD footage, so I called Attorney

1076
01:30:55.560 --> 01:30:59.520
Anthony Biller immediately, and he was
the one who had initially sent the letter

1077
01:30:59.560 --> 01:31:03.159
to Governor Cooper and he did a
fantastic job with that, and I felt

1078
01:31:03.279 --> 01:31:08.800
like he was the one that I
needed to call to get this footage protected

1079
01:31:08.880 --> 01:31:14.399
because I'd already been told that they
could delete it after a setiment of time.

1080
01:31:14.479 --> 01:31:16.680
Now I don't understand that if there's
an ongoing case, how they could

1081
01:31:16.720 --> 01:31:20.680
delete it. But because I didn't
receive the prior to court, I felt

1082
01:31:20.720 --> 01:31:26.079
like I really needed to protect it. So I called all put him on

1083
01:31:26.119 --> 01:31:31.680
it again, and his top priority
I requested was to police protect about footage,

1084
01:31:31.680 --> 01:31:36.399
and that's what they first did.
That's what they did first, okay,

1085
01:31:36.439 --> 01:31:39.439
but as part of it, and
I'm sorry, I'm just gonna I

1086
01:31:39.479 --> 01:31:41.680
have to move this along just because
I'm gonna run out of time, and

1087
01:31:41.720 --> 01:31:45.880
I want to get to all of
this that that was what was under the

1088
01:31:45.960 --> 01:31:51.479
quote unquote gag order, right,
you were not the footage you were provided.

1089
01:31:51.479 --> 01:31:56.880
Eventually the judge said that it was
a gag order in that you couldn't

1090
01:31:56.920 --> 01:32:00.479
release it. Correct. Yeah,
so that's Judge Greggory, and that's the

1091
01:32:00.479 --> 01:32:05.920
one that I'm having to appear before
I can now in order to receive the

1092
01:32:05.920 --> 01:32:12.279
footage, that was a condition that
I couldn't dissininate it publicly, I couldn't

1093
01:32:12.279 --> 01:32:15.920
share with it. I can discuss
my view on it. I can use

1094
01:32:15.960 --> 01:32:21.600
it to prepare in that case.
I did share it individually with a couple

1095
01:32:21.600 --> 01:32:29.239
of people that were helping me with
the case. But I can't, you

1096
01:32:29.239 --> 01:32:34.560
know, I can't do what your
Twitter account or your Facebook account or something

1097
01:32:34.600 --> 01:32:40.840
like that that is right now that
the police or the attorney for the Raleigh

1098
01:32:40.840 --> 01:32:45.560
Police I has essentially wants to hold
you in contempt for violating that order.

1099
01:32:45.960 --> 01:32:51.000
This whole thing has been going on
for literally years, and I'm sure it's

1100
01:32:51.000 --> 01:32:56.720
been defensive and emotionally taxing and all
the rest of it. And in your

1101
01:32:56.800 --> 01:33:01.479
lawsuit, what your alleging is essentially
eiracy on the part of many of the

1102
01:33:01.560 --> 01:33:06.640
people there in the sense that they
knew, especially once the governor's office came

1103
01:33:06.680 --> 01:33:12.800
out and clarified that, yes,
people can protest that it should have been

1104
01:33:12.880 --> 01:33:15.520
dropped at that point, but they
didn't drop it. They kept going and

1105
01:33:15.560 --> 01:33:18.720
it sounds like they kept switching out. Ada's on you. And so it

1106
01:33:18.920 --> 01:33:24.359
is a whole host of folks,
including the governor, violated his own order

1107
01:33:24.439 --> 01:33:29.640
for publicity. In my opinion,
what is it you're hoping to accomplish with

1108
01:33:29.720 --> 01:33:33.640
this lawsuit? And from the body
camp footage standpoint, they say that you

1109
01:33:33.800 --> 01:33:40.920
released it? Did you release it? I didn't release Okay, So what

1110
01:33:41.039 --> 01:33:44.239
is it you want to accomplish with
this lawsuit? I think it's pretty straightforward.

1111
01:33:44.279 --> 01:33:48.039
But save people the thirty page read
basically, you're not asking for one

1112
01:33:48.119 --> 01:33:53.319
hundred million dollars. You're basically asking
for people to be held accountable and to

1113
01:33:53.399 --> 01:33:59.000
recognize that they violated your constitutional rights. Is that accurate? So from the

1114
01:33:59.039 --> 01:34:02.760
start, yes, this case.
So this has been a three step process,

1115
01:34:03.399 --> 01:34:09.960
and I've regurgitated that to the point
of nauseam. So there was the

1116
01:34:09.960 --> 01:34:13.680
criminal aspects of the case, which
was just me individually, and we've handled

1117
01:34:13.680 --> 01:34:17.720
that and now we're getting to the
parts that really my heart belongs to,

1118
01:34:18.000 --> 01:34:23.760
and that is civil, and not
because of me personally, but because there

1119
01:34:23.840 --> 01:34:29.760
is a methodical approach being used in
a copy and taste manner nationwide in countless

1120
01:34:29.800 --> 01:34:36.800
persecutions of individuals that are deemed to
be anti any progressive agenda in order to

1121
01:34:36.840 --> 01:34:44.560
protect optics, and the keyword here
is optics. I want to bust that

1122
01:34:44.880 --> 01:34:50.760
wide open and I want truth to
be surfaced. So there was a deadline

1123
01:34:50.800 --> 01:34:56.039
quickly approaching on the civil complaint that
I just filed, and I need everybody

1124
01:34:56.039 --> 01:35:02.119
to understand that that thirty pages I'm
reading that this was like a knee jerk

1125
01:35:02.239 --> 01:35:08.479
response to me being held in contempt. But I want people to understand that

1126
01:35:08.760 --> 01:35:14.119
thirty pages, that all of that
wasn't written up as a kneeds inner reaction.

1127
01:35:14.239 --> 01:35:17.880
We've been working on that. I've
bought this up multiple times when I'm

1128
01:35:18.399 --> 01:35:27.640
sharing things on Facebook with supporters of
my case. So three phases. There's

1129
01:35:27.680 --> 01:35:31.800
the criminal aspects, there's civil aspects, and there's constitutional aspects, and I

1130
01:35:31.920 --> 01:35:36.920
want all three protected. What did
you think for everybody? With just a

1131
01:35:36.960 --> 01:35:40.840
couple more questions, because we're running
out of time, what did you think

1132
01:35:40.880 --> 01:35:45.520
when you saw that video or picture
whichever you saw it first, of governor

1133
01:35:45.560 --> 01:35:49.079
the governor with the mask hanging off
his year marching with protesters, what how

1134
01:35:49.079 --> 01:35:54.239
did that make you feel? So
I actually reached out to him on a

1135
01:35:54.279 --> 01:36:00.119
Facebook page. I'm a sequent flyer
on Governor peper S faceook page. I

1136
01:36:00.239 --> 01:36:05.920
never got a respond I did speak
to Mayor Marian Baldwin concerning concerning go and

1137
01:36:06.119 --> 01:36:13.479
concerning her doing the same thing.
They all did, the little media thing,

1138
01:36:13.880 --> 01:36:23.159
and I think that it speaks loudly
concerning exactly what I just discussed.

1139
01:36:23.439 --> 01:36:28.359
There's a double standard that needs to
stop. And that's why people keep asking

1140
01:36:28.399 --> 01:36:30.800
me, why aren't you saying First
Amendment? Why are you saying fourteenth Amendment?

1141
01:36:31.680 --> 01:36:35.199
First Amendment rights are being protected,
but only for a select few.

1142
01:36:36.119 --> 01:36:41.359
The fourteenth Amendment says that we get
fair and equal treatment. So what's the

1143
01:36:41.399 --> 01:36:45.560
incept on here? Is fourteenth Amendment? Because there is one group and only

1144
01:36:45.600 --> 01:36:53.000
one group that's being stomped down and
muzzled. I don't question that. That

1145
01:36:53.279 --> 01:36:56.920
would be my opinion as well.
It makes sense. I think unfortunately we've

1146
01:36:56.920 --> 01:37:00.359
seen some of these rulings where and
not just here, but where judges go,

1147
01:37:00.439 --> 01:37:03.600
well, it was a crazy time. Nobody knew what to do,

1148
01:37:03.680 --> 01:37:09.159
and I'm sorry. I've read the
Constitution and I'd never seen that exception in

1149
01:37:09.199 --> 01:37:14.159
there. The it's crazy and nobody
knows what's going on. So we need

1150
01:37:14.159 --> 01:37:19.079
to follows a couple of loopholes abused
by Governor Cooper during his executive orient Order

1151
01:37:19.159 --> 01:37:24.399
euphoria, and we have in place
the people that can do that, if

1152
01:37:24.439 --> 01:37:28.399
they just glow a spine and do
it. I don't disagree. And just

1153
01:37:28.439 --> 01:37:30.720
to be clear, you don't even
live in the city Raleigh. You live

1154
01:37:30.720 --> 01:37:33.960
in the Triad, so you live, Oh you did live, Okay.

1155
01:37:34.199 --> 01:37:39.800
I did live in Holly Springs at
the time, and actually because of this

1156
01:37:39.840 --> 01:37:44.159
case, I now live outside of
Wait County. But I will tell you

1157
01:37:44.199 --> 01:37:49.920
there's a great grassroots effort in Wait
County and I've met some beautiful, beautiful

1158
01:37:49.920 --> 01:37:54.760
people along the way. I hope, Monica, I appreciate you joining us,

1159
01:37:54.840 --> 01:37:57.439
and I hope you keep us updated. I guess to the extent that

1160
01:37:57.520 --> 01:38:02.159
you can over this contempt hearing.
Again, I don't even understand the gag

1161
01:38:02.279 --> 01:38:05.800
order. The whole thing irritates me. But I wanted people to understand,

1162
01:38:06.199 --> 01:38:13.399
really kind of the process because this
happened literally years ago and you're still dealing

1163
01:38:13.439 --> 01:38:16.600
with it, and I have not
seen a satisfactory response when we've even wanted

1164
01:38:16.640 --> 01:38:18.840
to talk to people about it.
You're the only one who's come on,

1165
01:38:18.920 --> 01:38:23.439
so I really appreciate it this morning. Okay. Well, Mark Robbinson was

1166
01:38:23.560 --> 01:38:26.880
right. We've gotten to start putting
people in office who are going to fight

1167
01:38:26.960 --> 01:38:30.680
for freedom, period. Yeah,
at the very least not abuse people out

1168
01:38:30.680 --> 01:38:33.560
of it, you know what I'm
saying. Just if you don't like what

1169
01:38:33.600 --> 01:38:38.560
people are saying, and you're an
elected official, it's your purview to ignore

1170
01:38:38.600 --> 01:38:43.600
them at your own peril instead of
going through this whole process. Monica,

1171
01:38:43.720 --> 01:38:45.760
thank you very much for the time
this morning. Okay, thank you,

1172
01:38:45.880 --> 01:38:49.680
thank you so much. You bet, And let's get a race agric from

1173
01:38:49.680 --> 01:38:53.760
the Weather Channel. Get a quick
forecast. What's up, sir, mad

1174
01:38:53.800 --> 01:38:59.279
I'm much gaycy beautiful morning, especially
from about Charlotte to just west of Raleigh

1175
01:38:59.279 --> 01:39:01.560
and west as you get into the
Tribe where it's already cleared out. The

1176
01:39:01.600 --> 01:39:04.479
clouds are continue to clear out the
west east, So if you're not in

1177
01:39:04.520 --> 01:39:09.640
the sunshine yet, you will be
mid upper sixties this afternoon, the other

1178
01:39:09.720 --> 01:39:13.560
chilly night Tonight, most low forties
will be some upper thirties around, and

1179
01:39:13.600 --> 01:39:15.760
then we'll go increasing clouds and upper
sixties tomorrow, with the chance of showers

1180
01:39:15.760 --> 01:39:19.159
coming in as we get into Wednesday
afternoon. And Casey, I'm just gonna

1181
01:39:19.199 --> 01:39:21.840
go with right now, looks unsettled
for the rest of the week, which

1182
01:39:21.880 --> 01:39:26.800
means at times some areas of showers
coming in. The rain may be steady

1183
01:39:26.800 --> 01:39:30.399
at times and made lesson for a
couple of hours, but the trend will

1184
01:39:30.439 --> 01:39:34.239
be wetter weather starting about Wednesday afternoon, potentially on again, off again through

1185
01:39:34.279 --> 01:39:39.239
the upcoming weekend. So hopefully tomorrow
Wednesday we'll talk about maybe some changes,

1186
01:39:39.279 --> 01:39:41.560
hopefully to the forecast. I hope
I'm wrong, believe it or not,

1187
01:39:41.880 --> 01:39:46.399
but starting again Wednesday afternoon into maybe
even Sunday, on again, off again

1188
01:39:46.399 --> 01:39:48.720
with the wet weather. So enjoy
today and tomorrow. I promise you this,

1189
01:39:48.920 --> 01:39:51.880
they will be dry days, all
right, Thank you sir, appreciate

1190
01:39:51.960 --> 01:40:03.840
it, and we'll come back chat
with Jump Pellens your next hang on a

1191
01:40:03.960 --> 01:40:09.479
near decade on the calendar and celebrating
ten years on the air. This is

1192
01:40:09.520 --> 01:40:13.600
one oh six one FM Talk in
the Triangle and Near's talk ninety four five

1193
01:40:13.840 --> 01:40:18.760
WPTI in the Triads fifty three.
It's your Bloomberg up paid. Here's Jeff

1194
01:40:18.800 --> 01:40:21.800
Bellen. You're displayed by my Bed, Bath and Beyond coupons. They're no

1195
01:40:21.840 --> 01:40:25.600
good anymore. What's up, Jeff? Well, they're good for two more

1196
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days. A bad Path and Beyond
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1197
01:40:30.479 --> 01:40:34.119
The big box home products chain,
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1198
01:40:34.159 --> 01:40:40.680
to liquidate its inventory and close three
hundred sixty namesake stores as well as one

1199
01:40:40.760 --> 01:40:45.640
hundred twenty Bye Bye Baby locations.
Bedbeth and Beyond has about fourteen thousand employees.

1200
01:40:45.640 --> 01:40:50.840
The bankruptcy jeopardizes not only their jobs, but also their retirement savings and

1201
01:40:51.159 --> 01:40:56.600
severance pay. Bedbeth and Beyond says
it expects to close all of its locations

1202
01:40:56.640 --> 01:41:00.079
by the end of June, and
it will stop accepting coupons after Wednesday.

1203
01:41:00.319 --> 01:41:03.159
Now, this could be an important
week for the Federal Reserve Board. It

1204
01:41:03.199 --> 01:41:08.199
will bring some of the final reports
that members will see before the May Policy

1205
01:41:08.279 --> 01:41:13.000
Meeting. Data will cover economic growth, inflation, wages, consumer confidence,

1206
01:41:13.039 --> 01:41:16.039
and sales of newly built homes.
Plus we get a lot of important earnings

1207
01:41:16.119 --> 01:41:20.439
reports from the tech sector. Today, stock market futures are mixed. NASDAC

1208
01:41:20.520 --> 01:41:26.560
futures just turned higher, the dial
future still down twenty nine points, and

1209
01:41:26.640 --> 01:41:30.479
there is some cautious optimism Casey.
Among members of the National Association for Business

1210
01:41:30.560 --> 01:41:36.680
Economics, quarterly polling finds a majority
of corporate financial chiefs do not expect the

1211
01:41:36.760 --> 01:41:42.159
economy to tip into recession, at
least in the next twelve months. Casey,

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Well, now I'm glad they're going
out of it. I didn't realize

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they had another store where they sold
babies. Is that? Why? There

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you go? That's it? Okay. I can't believe wayfair got alleged for

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that, now that I know they
they had one. But I appreciate it,

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Jeff, thank you very much.
Okay, you have a good day.

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Appreciate it. You know some conspiracy
theories, Man, Why would you

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go with Wayfarer selling kids and not
bye bye baby. Wouldn't that just be

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a natural fit. I've never seen
one of those stories, is or even

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one of those around. I've never
even heard of it. Bye bye.

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It's spelled buy buy. I mean, you can't you can't advertise you're selling

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kids more than that. Speaking of
conspiracy theories, I went down a little

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rabbit hole over the weekend. Are
you familiar with the AI Isn't Real conspiracy

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01:42:25.760 --> 01:42:29.159
theory? Is that? Okay?
All right? So there's two versions though,

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I just had to all right,
So there's two different versions, but

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they're kind of the same. Basically
AI is not real and instead, and

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this is where it deviates, it's
basically just a room full of wage slaves,

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or in one theory, it's basically
Chinese slaves. Right, So in

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the one, it's people now that
they're not like in a foreign country,

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they actually worked for the tech companies, and it's so that they can further

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control the political narrative. So that's
one version. The other one is like,

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you see those people are like I
contracted my job out to a guy

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in India or China for ten percent
of my salary and I don't do anything

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01:43:08.159 --> 01:43:12.600
all day. That version of it. So apparently there's you know, there's

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some poor bastards sitting in a room
and some guy is on chat GT Peen.

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He's like, write me a screenplay, and then some poor guy's got

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01:43:19.680 --> 01:43:27.119
a banging out. I guess man, that's he's he's really good. Who

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01:43:27.199 --> 01:43:29.560
is the guy you hired to do
all the stuff? Yeah, because he's

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01:43:29.600 --> 01:43:31.079
back in the day. Ping.
Yeah, well you send it to prep.

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01:43:31.119 --> 01:43:33.520
I send it to Ping in China
wherever he is. Yeah, and

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01:43:33.520 --> 01:43:36.119
he sends the bag. It is
a great job. So that's Ping Ping.

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01:43:36.239 --> 01:43:41.239
Yeah. So Ping's just basically sitting
there fielding questions all day. What

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01:43:41.520 --> 01:43:44.720
about the art? The art too, Yeah, yeah, yeah, guys

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01:43:45.000 --> 01:43:49.399
multitalented. Man, So I like
that. I can't tell if I like

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01:43:49.520 --> 01:43:53.680
more than that one where it's just
a you know, a bunch of guys

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in a in a third world sweatshop
kind of situation, or um idiots,

1247
01:43:58.920 --> 01:44:02.840
tech workers and so con valley that
are doing it so they can control society

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01:44:03.000 --> 01:44:08.760
essentially, right, because if you
control all the end I understand why people

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01:44:08.840 --> 01:44:12.000
might think that with the bias nature
of some of the stuff. I saw

1250
01:44:12.039 --> 01:44:15.560
another one over the weekend. Somebody
wrote straight people are awesome and then got

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01:44:15.680 --> 01:44:18.720
like the the AI got mad at
them, and then they wrote gay people

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01:44:18.720 --> 01:44:23.880
are awesome, and the AI is
like super excited about that. So so,

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01:44:24.000 --> 01:44:26.800
man, I don't know. Maybe
the world of conspiracy theories, it's

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01:44:26.800 --> 01:44:30.880
a fresh one. Hadn't heard that, but yeah, you're gonna have to

1255
01:44:30.880 --> 01:44:33.960
have a huge skill set. You
gotta be able to write screenplays, answer

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01:44:34.079 --> 01:44:40.359
questions in a moment's notice, do
the art, do the deep fake videos,

1257
01:44:40.439 --> 01:44:43.159
I mean, busy busy. How
about the poor guy I had to

1258
01:44:43.199 --> 01:44:46.880
come up with all those fake Donald
Trump arrested photos? Was that Ping two?

1259
01:44:47.199 --> 01:44:53.399
Ping's a busy guy man. So
anyway, that's that's who we have

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01:44:53.520 --> 01:44:59.159
out there, all sorts of nonsense. They on that note, we gotta

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01:44:59.239 --> 01:45:01.880
roll. Thank you for joining us
here on mail it in Monday or whatever

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01:45:01.920 --> 01:45:05.880
we're calling it. Love that.
Thank you to Monica al Sreet for joining

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01:45:05.960 --> 01:45:10.279
us as well. If you want
to see her Twitter account, it's linked

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01:45:10.279 --> 01:45:13.600
on where we tweeted out at Casey
on the Radio If you want to follow her