WEBVTT 1 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:31.079 Oh who whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa whoa what dude? 2 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:34.479 What are you doing? This is our This is our starting music, 3 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:38.920 right, this is our opening top of the hour music. I need you 4 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:44.799 to play the end of show music. Do we have the end of show 5 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:49.159 music? A vida'saye? You know some? Yeah? Yeah? Oh? 6 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:51.200 Or else does have some? Okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 7 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:53.840 We got everything backwards today. This is kind of my fault. I was 8 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:57.439 just cracking ross earlier because we're talking about setting stuff on fire or whatever. 9 00:00:57.479 --> 00:01:03.680 But yeah, I need some goodbye we're out of here music. Unfortunately, 10 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:07.120 we wanted to do the show today. Tell me know when we have it, 11 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:08.879 because I'll explain it to me this. I'm sorry if you tuned in 12 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:12.719 and you were really excited to hear a show today, because it's FDA. 13 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:15.560 I have the song we play at the end of the show every day. 14 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:19.200 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's what that bumper music. 15 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:25.200 Okay, we go, oh man and of the show. Unfortunately, uh 16 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:30.599 Raleigh Mayor Mary Anne Baldwin has denied our show requests, so we're unable to 17 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:34.400 do the show today. It's a shame. Really yeah oh yeah, she 18 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:38.120 said She said that she consulted with some people and it's all their fault. 19 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:46.040 She didn't want to make this decision. But unfortunately, unfortunately it's just not 20 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:49.000 gonna happen. We don't have the permits. We're facing lawsuits, except we're 21 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:53.439 not actually facing lawsuits, which was which was a b s excuse the city 22 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:57.319 used yesterday. But hey, you know, I'm not a lawyer, so 23 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:01.120 I'm not I'm not able to think of the things they canceled or excuse me, 24 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:09.439 they canceled the Christmas parade. Man, what is going on? They've 25 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:15.000 canceled the Christmas parade and these are the state for the city of Raleigh has 26 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:23.199 denied the permit to host the Christmas Parade for the what seventy ninth year? 27 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:31.639 Now they had a few, yeah, exactly for the seventy ninth now they've 28 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:38.199 had a few. It hasn't been a straight seventy nine years because and actually 29 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:45.840 it dates a little for the bat because Hitler and COVID there've been somewhat non 30 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:52.439 traditional but otherwise the parade, which I want to be clear, the parade 31 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:57.800 is not put on by the city. It is not put on by the 32 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:02.159 city. It is put on by an organization, a collective, but not 33 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:07.639 in that weird hippie commune way, a collective of the Raleigh downtown businesses. 34 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:14.000 And I'm sorry for our Triad listeners who are like that just doesn't defend it 35 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:16.759 doesn't yet, But I just want you, I want you to listen to 36 00:03:16.759 --> 00:03:22.240 this insanity so that can keep a sharp eye on this. And I promise 37 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:27.840 if if the try, if any Moonbats and the Triad pull this, we'll 38 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:32.000 be all over their crap. Man. So the list of reasons why they 39 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:39.479 had to cancel the Christmas parade? Hat does this sound like I'm a grin? 40 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:47.639 I'm a I'm a grinch narrator like it's so it does a little Doctor 41 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:52.599 Seuss like, yeah, can you rhyme the entire segment? I cannot, 42 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:55.039 if you get if I had some notice, maybe because I you know, 43 00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:59.599 I can rhyme because I put songs and stuff together. But it's not on 44 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:05.599 the fly eminem. I'm not or that one dude on YouTube who looks like 45 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:10.360 a nerd and then goes to the hood and rhymes and it's all stage but 46 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:14.400 he gets a lot of clicks, so but more powered to him, he's 47 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:20.439 making bank. I cannot and Baldwin. Baldwin doesn't rhyme with anything, really 48 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:30.879 doesn't. Is there anything Baldwin rhymes with? Now Mary does, although it's 49 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:35.079 Mary Anne and Anne does. So I guess you got some options there, 50 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:43.480 but I don't even know what you'd rhyme with Baldwin. That being said, 51 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:47.160 I still feel dirty. I feel dirty in case your kid hadn't heard about 52 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:54.800 it, and I just destroyed their day. The sheer volume of kids where 53 00:04:55.399 --> 00:05:00.000 annually this is where they see get to see Santa. Uh, and it 54 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:04.079 is a tradition. Did you guys have a tradition where you would do the 55 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:09.240 Santa where you'd go visit Santa when you were growing up? I did do 56 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:12.439 it. What's that I did? Yeah? We would, uh Dad, 57 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:15.160 my dad would take me. We'd go to the VFW. Okay, but 58 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:17.360 it was a very specific location. It was, Yeah, because Santa's busy, 59 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:19.399 he's all I mean, He's in a lot of places, yeah, 60 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:24.879 but you tend to kind of settle into one. So you guys did it 61 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:27.680 at the VFW. My dad was the commander there, Yeah, so he 62 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:30.519 would like set the whole thing up and everything. Did he order Santa around? 63 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:32.399 He was he was very tight with Santa. Now he respected Santah, 64 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:35.639 he didn't he didn't do like, he didn't do like an inspection or whatever. 65 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:39.480 Pull a jelly because Santa would have a jelly donut. I'm not gonna 66 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:42.000 lie. Perhaps they did, but I mean I was so oblivious. I 67 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:45.120 was so young. But if you would agree that if somebody's gonna have a 68 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:47.360 jelly donuts in their locker at Santa right, oh completely, yeah, yeah, 69 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:51.439 dude's got to maintain his form. Totally understandable, is h He'll be 70 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:55.079 like, eat that jelly donut and he'll be like none issue, dude. 71 00:05:55.399 --> 00:05:59.879 Yeah yeah yeah. Meanwhile, all the elves are doing push ups, thinking 72 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:04.279 about giving them a code red. It's dark anyway. So the reasons that 73 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:12.920 they wanted to cancel Christmas and we're just gonna say Christmas, and I don't 74 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:15.959 feel I'm exaggerating because the response of well, we're not gonna have a Christmas 75 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:20.680 parade, but we're gonna have holiday activities. Do you notice a change there? 76 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:29.480 Anybody noticed? Uh? Language change there? If I could just get 77 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:34.839 my go again on the wars, I'm just saying I'm not the tinfoil hat 78 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:39.680 is on. But it's in the shape of an elfse hat so and I'm 79 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:45.000 you know, I'm keeping the spirit. Look, I'm the last one who 80 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:49.040 wants to swim through a sea of sugared up kids. So I can go 81 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:59.199 drink a bloody Mary downtown or two and watch football or whatever. Like I'm 82 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:03.519 not that guy. That being said, I respect it all right, So 83 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:06.920 ross Uh, we got people email and said their parents also took him to 84 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:13.120 the VFW. Yes, Santa does love doing the vfws. We didn't do 85 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:16.959 the VFW. Uh. We did over at the theater they had one. 86 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:26.560 But the point that I'm making is the even like having to deviate from what 87 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:31.240 is the norm to something else, but you don't even want to do that. 88 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:34.120 Okay, So if you all, if you take your kid too, 89 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:38.839 and then pick one of the local malls where Santa has an appearance, right, 90 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:41.000 and that's kind of your thing. That's your thing, or the VFW 91 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:43.279 is your thing, or for us, it was the theater where they did 92 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:48.040 it, although I do remember we went to one at the Sports Sports Lure, 93 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:55.120 which was the hunting fishing place, and Santa had like camo stuff. 94 00:07:55.120 --> 00:08:00.360 He's got He's got alternate uniforms see kids still know. But I was. 95 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:03.399 I was way too old and hip and cool. So but I didn't think 96 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:05.879 that was interesting because I'm like, that would have been a kind of cool. 97 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:09.800 My buddy Harbingerer fifty coming through with a rhyme for Baldwin. Oh, 98 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:15.279 it's a good one. Cauldron cauldron Baldwin. Yeah, that's you know what? 99 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:20.000 Who uses cauldrons? I'm trying to remember, can you Ross? Can 100 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:26.399 you? Can you she witch is satan Witch? Have anything that rhymes with 101 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:33.159 it? Could you look that up? Like twitch switch twitch the haze for 102 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:35.200 sheriff twitch channel. I always see what you did there? Anything else? 103 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:37.960 Like the kids are gonna have to switch where they go visit it? Can 104 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:45.039 I get thinking a few things? Okay, all right, So the reason 105 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:52.320 for the lack of season there, I'm rhyming for you in respect respect to 106 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:56.039 the family of the the eleven years. She was eleven year old girl who 107 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:05.600 tragically lost her life after being struck by that truck the last parade. The 108 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:09.919 problem with that is, and I actually realize I know they're they're lawyer here 109 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:16.759 because he's quoted in the article. The problem with that is the family does 110 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:22.600 not want the Christmas parade canceled. They don't want the Christmas parade canceled. 111 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:33.440 What they asked for are a set of guidelines for making sure that best practices 112 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:37.639 are being followed from a safety perspective, and I read them and they don't 113 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:41.720 seem unreasonable, and in fact, in fact, you're gonna be shocked to 114 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:48.320 learn that many of those guidelines were mirrored in the parade permits that the city 115 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:52.480 of Raleigh did permit. Because it's not like they're not doing parades anymore. 116 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:56.879 They gave three other parade permits this year. So this idea that you can't 117 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:01.120 have parades anymore is garbage. But we'll get to that here in just a 118 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:07.080 moment. However, there was there were things that the family, as part 119 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:11.559 of a piece of legislation which it has passed the House but not the Senate 120 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:16.120 here in North Carolina, has asked for. And we can debate whether things 121 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:22.840 a good thing or not. But I don't think a vehicle inspection for vehicles 122 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:28.679 that are going to be in the parade is unreasonable. I don't think that's 123 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:35.039 unreasonable. So stuff like that, the family does not want the parade canceled. 124 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:43.960 Their lawyer communicated that the family communicated that they they they want, they 125 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:48.240 want some stuff and they feel that it's going to create a safer environment. 126 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:52.679 And that's where adults sit down and have a discussion. Does this accomplish that 127 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:58.240 gold? Is this thing we think doesn't? This thing we think does And 128 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:03.679 at the end of the day, perhaps you provide a safer environment. I 129 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:09.960 mean it parades are pretty safe also, let's see, so we had that. 130 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:16.879 Yeah, here's the statement from their attorney, Jason Miller. The Brooks 131 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:20.720 family is disappointed the city of Raleigh chose to cancel the twenty twenty three parade 132 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:26.159 rather than adopt basic safety measures. They say that the family disagrees with the 133 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:33.840 decision to cancel the parade. So that's BS number two. By the way, 134 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:37.000 our phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. 135 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:39.759 Don't worry. I'm not just going to complain and crack. Wise, I 136 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:48.840 have a solution to this number two. Baldwin said she consulted with the various 137 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:54.600 different sections of the city, so very you know, there's different divisions of 138 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:58.080 the city who all come together as part of a worthy one of these permits, 139 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:03.639 and they all they had some concerns. So it's not really hurts. 140 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:09.320 See, yeah, it's the bureaucrats. That's not how that works. You 141 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:13.080 guys are the elected officials. You guys are the city council. You're the 142 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:20.639 mayor. Number three. I love this one right here. What if the 143 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:26.279 North Carolina Legislature they haven't fit, they haven't got this done, and then 144 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:30.440 we issue the permit, and then they issue the rules and then the conditions 145 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:37.039 change. Make that part of the permit issuance. This is not that difficult. 146 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:41.240 And also I feel like you're trying to shift blame to the General Assembly, 147 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:50.720 which seems a little political. You issue those other permits. Number three. 148 00:12:52.600 --> 00:13:05.440 Lawsuits, Yes, that's right. Lawsuits. By the way, we'll 149 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:07.039 get into that here we go. Let me get down to the lawsuits. 150 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:11.679 Think at the end. Yes, so one of the concerns is lawsuits. 151 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:13.679 And you would read that, you'd be like, yeah, oh, the 152 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:20.519 City of Raleigh. The City of Raleigh is not being sued for the for 153 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:26.080 the the tragedy that happened last year. They are not, in any way, 154 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:28.919 shape or form being sued. They did not suit. The people being 155 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:33.960 sued were the twenty year old now twenty one year old driver of the pickup 156 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:46.360 truck and the organization that actually puts the parade on the law, there's no 157 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:54.919 city lawsuit. And again they've issued three other parade permits. So yeah, 158 00:13:54.039 --> 00:14:00.440 I'm gonna get my elephant shaped tinfoil hat on. And I have some thoughts. 159 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:07.159 I have some thoughts about we're not gonna do a Christmas parade, but 160 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:13.200 we're gonna do holiday activities. Why this parade is being singled out. Yes, 161 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:16.720 there was a high profile, but let's face it, there have been 162 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:26.120 other incidents, not to this level of tragedy, but controversial incidents within the 163 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:30.480 parade. Am I allowed to talk about the one because it kind of involves 164 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:33.480 some people used to work with. But the parade trucked on is the point 165 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:43.000 that I'm making, and and and and this is where we're gonna go. 166 00:14:43.879 --> 00:14:48.559 Like I said, I have a solution. I'm going to work within the 167 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:54.679 bounds of knowledge that I have, my acute ability to remember stuff, which 168 00:14:54.679 --> 00:15:03.399 I think is sorely lacking sometimes within our uh, within this, uh, 169 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:09.039 this entire discussion. But yeah, now I've got a way to solve this. 170 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:11.919 And uh and and frankly, it'll be it'll be the city won't have 171 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:13.679 to do it. Any they want to let the fire in fact, that 172 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:18.679 the downtown business folks won't have to either unless they want to come over to 173 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:22.720 the dark side with what I'm going to suggest. Yes, that's right. 174 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:30.720 I will make some observations coming up k c O Day Radio program, Hang 175 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:41.840 on help Smart talk all day, w PTI in the Triad and one all 176 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:50.000 six one FM Talk in the Triangle. Now, now it's not all negative, 177 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:54.480 not all conspiracy theory. So though there is one other one that stop 178 00:15:54.600 --> 00:16:00.639 bloking around that I totally didn't kind of occur to me. It's a little 179 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:03.440 inside baseball, but I know the players, so I'll throw that one out 180 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:11.360 just to be irresponsible. But then solution, potential solution, not not anything 181 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:18.320 I'm organizing. I'm just pointing out some things that I've observed that maybe could 182 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:26.320 be useful to people who are filled with the holiday spirit. We'll get into 183 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:45.320 all that coming up after the news k c O Day Radio program. All 184 00:16:45.399 --> 00:16:48.720 right, welcome back everybody. It is six thirty five. You're on the 185 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:56.679 CaCO Day Radio program and losing our minds this morning. So the Yes, 186 00:16:56.200 --> 00:17:00.879 the Mirror of Raleigh is announced that they have they will not issue the permit 187 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:06.000 for the what would be the seventy ninth Christmas Parade in downtown Raleigh, and 188 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:10.440 then listen a bunch of reasons like the lawsuit if you if you don't know, 189 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:12.960 there was an incident last year where a eleven year old girl who was 190 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:19.039 part of one of the groups marching in the parade was tragically struck and killed 191 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:29.599 by truck that was following the group. And the reasons stated by the mayor 192 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:34.359 include out of respect for the family, except the family doesn't want the parade 193 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:41.359 canceled. They want some they want some additional safety measures, and more specifically, 194 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:47.400 what they want is they want the passage of a bill that has passed 195 00:17:47.400 --> 00:17:51.920 the House here in North Carolina but not the Senate that would add some safety 196 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:56.799 requirements for parades. And you know, adults can debate whether it's I have 197 00:17:56.880 --> 00:18:04.079 no problem with things if they're effective, right, that's fine, if they're 198 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:08.039 effective. But that's where that debate should be. It should not be where 199 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:12.720 the mayor is making up and making it sound because here's the deal. That 200 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:18.559 family has to live in the community. That family has to live in the 201 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:23.720 community, and obviously they have dealt with an immense amount of tragedy over the 202 00:18:23.799 --> 00:18:29.920 last year with what happened, and I think everyone's heart goes out to them. 203 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:33.880 However, it's really scummy because when you say that, it makes it 204 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:42.680 sound like the family wants the parade canceled and some people are going to sit 205 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:47.440 there and that is that should not be the object of their ire. That 206 00:18:47.599 --> 00:18:52.319 is not fair to the family. Oh you're so and so you got the 207 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:57.160 parade canceled, right because people are people and they don't necessarily take everything into 208 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:03.240 account, but don't push it off there. Then the mayor claims lawsuits based 209 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:07.599 on the incident. They're still pending. The city is not being sued. 210 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:14.480 The parade organizers are. And if you, I guess you want to look 211 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:18.240 at it in that way. That being said, if the City of Raleigh 212 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:25.960 didn't do business with any entities that were facing lawsuits, they wouldn't do business 213 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:32.279 with large organizations or businesses, right because inevitably that's that's part and parcel of 214 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:38.559 it. And this is the collective of the Downtown Business Association there should probably 215 00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:48.039 use their their technical name, that's on me, but the Downtown Merchants Association. 216 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:52.359 The point the point is that's that's garbage. And it's not as though 217 00:19:53.519 --> 00:20:00.440 parade permits are not being issued. The city has, following the incident, 218 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:04.920 allowed three other parades. Now, I did go a little a little tinfoiling, 219 00:20:06.279 --> 00:20:07.720 by the way, let me do this rag get into this other theory, 220 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:12.240 because I'm just I'm just all about causing trouble this morning. So, 221 00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:18.400 following what happened, when the city did go and issue its next permit, 222 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:23.720 which was the permit for the Saint Patrick's Day parade, they included many of 223 00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:29.079 the items that the family is in fact looking for. From a legislative perspective, 224 00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:36.279 all drivers need to be at least twenty one Miners participating in the parade 225 00:20:36.279 --> 00:20:41.960 should have adequate adult supervision. Passengers and parade vehicles are limited to one adult 226 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:45.839 eighteen year older. That's a you know, to a distraction thing. All 227 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:51.279 vehicles and trailers must have current and valid registration plates. All vehicles and trailers 228 00:20:51.319 --> 00:20:56.279 have to have insurance coverage and valid licenses. Now, there are additional items 229 00:20:56.279 --> 00:21:02.799 that the family was looking for with the legislation that us that they worked on 230 00:21:02.839 --> 00:21:07.960 with lawmakers up to and including a vehicle inspection seven minimum or a maximum of 231 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:14.079 seven days prior so within a week prior, there were some mechanical issues with 232 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:18.000 that pickup. It sounded like based on the way that I think it was, 233 00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:21.480 the way the lift kit was done and how it affected the braking system. 234 00:21:21.880 --> 00:21:26.759 But all right, the city has shown that they have the ability to 235 00:21:26.759 --> 00:21:34.599 do this and a thing happened a few years ago and I don't know that 236 00:21:34.640 --> 00:21:38.200 the public fully understood what was going on. So I'm happy to air this 237 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:45.160 dirty laundry. I don't know this to be the case, but it's a 238 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:52.160 theory. Okay, Ross, would you say that Mary Anne Baldwin probably is 239 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:56.119 friendly with w R e L. If we can just drag people unnecessarily into 240 00:21:56.119 --> 00:21:57.720 the story, I'll yeah, I think it to be more than fair. 241 00:21:59.079 --> 00:22:03.799 It'd be more than fair. Were you aware that formally WRL did the Christmas 242 00:22:03.799 --> 00:22:12.160 bread coverage but that changed a few years ago and ABC eleven because again that 243 00:22:12.319 --> 00:22:18.200 coverage, that media exclusivity lies in the hands of the organizers who strike a 244 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:22.519 deal to do it, and that was a big deal and r L did 245 00:22:22.599 --> 00:22:29.200 not deal with that well the first year where ABC eleven had the exclusive coverage 246 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:33.640 rights, ral said screw you. They brought in Clay Aken and they set 247 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:38.400 up on the steps of the Justice Center on Fayetteville Street, and did it 248 00:22:38.440 --> 00:22:45.359 anyway, did it anyway, just totally just now. They would have sued 249 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:52.640 ABC into oblivion if ABC dared screw with their broadcast rights prior. But they 250 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:55.880 said that's public property. Will do what we want. Am I being detained? 251 00:22:55.960 --> 00:23:00.240 And in a way, I guess they can do that. But all 252 00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:02.920 of that, all of that was just flushed down the toilet. And I 253 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:07.440 don't know that r L really got over that, and it was really nasty. 254 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:11.000 They're like behind the scenes kind of stuff. So I mean, if 255 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:15.079 you wanted to mock a conspiracy theory together, you could do that. But 256 00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:18.599 I have nothing to believe that that influenced the decision. I just have to 257 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:22.079 go on what she said, and what she said is garbage. Now, 258 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:29.000 by the way, eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four, 259 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:34.359 you want to talk about this, I'm also a problem solver. That's what 260 00:23:34.400 --> 00:23:41.240 we do, not just here to gripe about stuff. And I don't. 261 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:56.480 I'm just gonna make some observations about things. Okay, Hypothetically, if let's 262 00:23:56.519 --> 00:24:00.160 say, I don't know, let's say a big old group of people, 263 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:11.720 big old group of people decided they wanted to on the very same day, 264 00:24:11.880 --> 00:24:18.880 at the very same time, in the very same location, decided that they 265 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:26.079 were going to essentially what is it called with the things on the YouTube where 266 00:24:26.119 --> 00:24:30.359 the everybody just starts singing? Try remember the name of those I don't know 267 00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:34.240 why the ross? What's the thing where everyone's like you see those YouTube videos 268 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:37.480 where all of a sudden, everyone in them all starts singing because there's a 269 00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:40.720 big group of them. What am I thinking? Like a flash mob? 270 00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:42.599 Flash mob? All right? So, let's say a giant group of people 271 00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:47.559 wanted to all show up at the same time in the same location, Let's 272 00:24:47.559 --> 00:24:52.279 say Faetteville Street, downtown Raleigh, and it just happens to be around Thanksgiving, 273 00:24:52.599 --> 00:24:56.519 and they all wanted to show up dressed in a very particular manner, 274 00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:03.200 all with a very particular agenda. Uh and uh permit be damned, take 275 00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:10.799 over the entire street. Would you, Ross, would you say you've seen 276 00:25:10.839 --> 00:25:15.319 anything over the last few years that would indicate that those people would be stopped 277 00:25:17.920 --> 00:25:19.599 if that, let's say that that situation were to happen. Are there any 278 00:25:19.599 --> 00:25:25.200 examples where you've seen a bunch of people to send on Fayetteville Street in downtown 279 00:25:25.319 --> 00:25:27.720 Raleigh, no permit necessary and just do whatever they damn well, please, 280 00:25:27.720 --> 00:25:30.000 Well, you gotta make sure if you're gonna do that, some has to 281 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:33.519 be on fire. Yeah, no, you're You're probably gonna have to have 282 00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:37.359 like God's the fiery spirit of Christmas. Yeah, around the fireplace here in 283 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:41.160 Christmas or something that, because yeah, yeah, with the stock absolutely, 284 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:47.000 yeah, you gotta have fire. Except with this one, I feel like 285 00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:52.960 the business owners would be open and doing business rather than huddling in a darkened 286 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:57.079 back room with a shotgun, which is a thing that I know a couple 287 00:25:57.160 --> 00:26:02.400 did because I spoke to them. They weren't really huddling either. I think 288 00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:04.680 the one woman was kind of like, yeah, come through that door. 289 00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:11.559 She was, she was too excited. But yeah, I mean, you've 290 00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:15.200 already indicated the city of Raleigh that if people want to just large mass gather, 291 00:26:15.400 --> 00:26:19.039 hell, the governor might leave the mansion and come walk the parade route 292 00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:30.079 with you. It's a thing. Again, I'm not I'm not putting anything 293 00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:36.079 together. I'm just saying that that's the thing that feasibly could happen, and 294 00:26:36.119 --> 00:26:40.759 it would be interesting to see if the city would react in any different ways. 295 00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:45.359 I'll bet the police officers as signed duty that day would probably be a 296 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:49.920 lot happier about it, because nobody would be throwing frozen bottles of water at 297 00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:57.799 their head. Probably, you know, probably would be a little bit of 298 00:26:57.839 --> 00:27:04.240 a difference there, but you know, the city has indicated a willingness to 299 00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:11.720 put up with that. And lastly, these are individuals. These are the 300 00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:17.960 very same individuals from a leadership position who are now so and this is why 301 00:27:17.960 --> 00:27:22.880 I tweeted yesterday. They are so seemingly concerned with safety that they had to 302 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:26.839 shut down the Christmas parade in lieu of some soon to be announced holiday activities 303 00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:32.640 which totally won't be Santa in a rainbow suit or whatever they decide to do 304 00:27:33.519 --> 00:27:37.119 God knows for holiday activities, so they don't even use the word Christmas. 305 00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:45.960 There tinfoil hat still on. But they are so overtly dedicated to safety that 306 00:27:45.079 --> 00:27:55.599 in attempting to deal with the situation that is beyond problematic in the nightlife incident 307 00:27:55.599 --> 00:27:59.839 instead of happening Glenwood. And look, I want to be abundantly clear, 308 00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:04.200 there are so many good business owners down there who want to create an entertainment 309 00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:08.160 environment. They don't want to put up with this garbage. They pay a 310 00:28:08.200 --> 00:28:15.119 lot of taxes. I lived on Glenwood when I first moved to to Raleigh 311 00:28:15.319 --> 00:28:18.839 a decade ago. I don't even recognize it with everything that's there. But 312 00:28:18.920 --> 00:28:22.039 even then it was a hot spot, but it wasn't like it is now. 313 00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:26.240 Ross. How many remotes did you do? We had a couple of 314 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:32.519 clubs. I know you guys at G one oh five were doing did remotes 315 00:28:32.599 --> 00:28:37.920 and DJ stuff at Did you fear for your safety walking outside after your remote 316 00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:44.839 back in the day, No? No, So Look, it's it obviously 317 00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:52.400 as it has grown, incidents have grown. But rather than providing an influx, 318 00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:56.920 you know, there's over a hundred unfilled police positions in Raleigh, just 319 00:28:57.079 --> 00:29:03.200 Raleigh. That doesn't speak to most other large cities that are dealing with is 320 00:29:03.240 --> 00:29:06.519 not just in North Carolina Charlotte, Greensboro, instance, Salem, Durham. 321 00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:11.200 You know it. So your solution is not to figure out a way to 322 00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:15.799 incentivize law enforcement officers to increase hiring, to use those tax dollars to go 323 00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:19.319 ahead and provide the level of safety people expect in an area that brings in 324 00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:25.559 an immense amount of tax revenue. You're like, what if we get some 325 00:29:25.680 --> 00:29:32.240 dudes with no arrest power and no weapons, but we give them shirts that 326 00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:42.480 say security, that's the ticket. Pure garbage, man, Pure garbage. 327 00:29:42.519 --> 00:29:45.680 And I've seen some of the bars that have PD in front of them where 328 00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:49.240 they're checking IDs. I'm assuming that's some sort of arrangement the bars make. 329 00:29:53.920 --> 00:30:00.960 But if you're so concerned about safety that you're going to destroy children's Christmas dreams 330 00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:14.759 and cancel Christmas, you're telling me you can't find an actual solution using the 331 00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:22.359 the arrest powers of law enforcement to uh to handle that. Since you're you 332 00:30:22.359 --> 00:30:27.039 know, you're you're you're all about the safety is baffling, man, Absolutely 333 00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:33.279 baffling. Mark, what's up, Hey, Lorne Casey? I was gonna 334 00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:37.400 tell you about ten years or so ago, on nine to eleven, the 335 00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:45.160 Washington DC denied permits for Harley riders to come through and uh and do a 336 00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:49.920 ride through, and we had about one hundred thousand show up just to screw 337 00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:53.000 with them, just so they could. UH. We're like, yeah, 338 00:30:53.119 --> 00:31:00.400 you know, very I did. I was riding with them, and yeah, 339 00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:04.079 we had to stop at every stoplight and we totally shut down the entire 340 00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:10.279 town because we couldn't just do a ride through. Well, luckily, sir, 341 00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:15.039 if you decide to take over the downtown area of Raleigh, you are 342 00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:18.359 not expected. It's my interesting. You're not expected to follow many of the 343 00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:22.000 laws. So well, yeah, this was ten years ago when you still 344 00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:26.720 had too Oh wow, sir. Yeah yeah, but remember these are the 345 00:31:26.720 --> 00:31:32.119 people that roped off inanimate World War or excuse me, War memorials because they 346 00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:34.920 were unable to staff the women objects that are in an open field. All 347 00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:40.039 right, all right, thanks for the call there, Mark, Yeah, 348 00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:42.400 yeah, yeah, yeah, that's another thing I noticed. If if you're 349 00:31:42.440 --> 00:31:47.640 if you're a mob of Christmas revelers or protester, well whatever, call it 350 00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:56.400 a protest against the the grinchiness of the of the city of Raleigh. I 351 00:31:56.480 --> 00:31:59.319 don't know. I don't think you have to follow many laws, not that 352 00:31:59.400 --> 00:32:01.240 I sought. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know, baby, I'm wrong. 353 00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:06.839 Again, this is purely observation. I'm just this is what I see, 354 00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:08.519 and then I think of these things, and I wonder, and I 355 00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:16.440 don't know, you know, the mayor would just make the police the ponds 356 00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:22.119 to shut it down. Oh yeah, yeah, probably, But I understand 357 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:30.680 the police are wildly understaffed. Maybe they should send the security folks. Doesn't 358 00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:35.319 say it what speed they have to shut it down, just saying man, 359 00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:43.039 uh all right, six fifty one, hang on one O six one m 360 00:32:43.079 --> 00:32:50.279 BAM Talk PTI, two stations driving the best in talk. This is Casey 361 00:32:50.359 --> 00:32:54.960 O Day and Carolina's Morning News. All right, all right, all right, 362 00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:58.519 we get some more braid insanity. We've got other stuff as well, 363 00:32:58.599 --> 00:33:00.319 although I did get a couple of emails. Some people are very concerned. 364 00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:04.240 They're like, no, wait a second, don't you guys usually start the 365 00:33:04.279 --> 00:33:09.000 show with sports. Well, that is unless somebody cancels Christmas. But yes, 366 00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:15.279 we normally do, and yes I will recognize what happened yesterday in the 367 00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:22.160 Brazilian league where cruzero shutout Santos three nothing and ross Bundesliga action today. Oh 368 00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:27.000 my god, we haven't gets back. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah 369 00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:37.359 with Lelivera Rokusin and Byry your Munich they play today. Byron Munich is street 370 00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:40.440 fire. I mean you cannot be conta well, it should be a good 371 00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:46.400 match, looking forward to that. Other matches around the world, mazit Lan 372 00:33:46.519 --> 00:33:53.000 takes on Azul and Tijuana stops beheading people long enough to challenge Toluca. So 373 00:33:53.079 --> 00:33:57.599 there you go. I think that's all of it. And I think the 374 00:33:57.680 --> 00:34:04.680 Yankee socks split a doubleheader yesterday or something. Be happy? Are you happy? 375 00:34:04.759 --> 00:34:35.440 Email pess. There you go. That's all the sports. All right, 376 00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:43.519 Good morning everybody. It is seven h six day radio program. All 377 00:34:43.559 --> 00:34:45.599 right, phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven. Cour 378 00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:49.440 See, this is this is not when, this is not where this should 379 00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:52.679 be going. So I got people sitting there like, fine, I'm not 380 00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:55.400 gonna come s from my money in the city, right go. Because the 381 00:34:55.440 --> 00:35:01.880 people who want to put the parade on are literally the downtown merchants. I 382 00:35:01.880 --> 00:35:06.480 mean, I understand the city gets a cut of that, but also I 383 00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:07.639 don't know if you I don't know if you know this, you ever tried 384 00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:13.039 to go into one of the downtown Raleigh merchants around the parade, around a 385 00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:15.679 parade going on, or one of the events going downtown. It's a license 386 00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:21.239 to print money, man. That's why they put it on there. They 387 00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:23.440 obviously they want you to come down there. If if you don't go down 388 00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:27.639 to if you don't go into downtown Raleigh, except like you know, maybe 389 00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:34.400 once or twice a year. It like the amount of stores and and restaurants. 390 00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:38.199 They're putting an ABC store down there. Finally too, that that are 391 00:35:38.239 --> 00:35:44.119 going in there, Like it becomes unrecognizable. They're building so fast. Hell, 392 00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:47.679 just driving by on P Street where they're putting apartments in that thing changed 393 00:35:47.719 --> 00:35:54.239 in like two like two years. It's just the skyline is unrecognizable over that 394 00:35:54.280 --> 00:35:58.840 P Street project. So I just I would, I woul encourage you to 395 00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:05.440 keep that in mind. Oh what's this? They want people to come down 396 00:36:05.480 --> 00:36:07.480 and protest so they could shut it down so that they can claim, all 397 00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:10.679 right, well, here's the deal. I'm just pointing out the large scale 398 00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:15.320 groups of people gathered in downtown Raleigh. However they wanted whenever they wanted and 399 00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:20.360 did whatever they damn well please. So that is the standard they set. 400 00:36:20.760 --> 00:36:22.559 However, if you want to put a happy face on it. In addition 401 00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:30.440 to Ross's suggestion of the parade float with the fire the hearth with the stockings, 402 00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:35.039 which is nice, that's, you know, great comforting image, call 403 00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:43.400 it a flash mob, the Raleigh Christmas flash mob, and then film it 404 00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:46.480 for a YouTube video. You know, many jackasses I've seen standing with those 405 00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:52.719 stupid ring lights and public doing YouTube and TikTok videos and stupid dances. It's 406 00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:58.599 a thing. And they're on public property sitting do whatever they want. I 407 00:36:58.639 --> 00:37:01.840 just don't get it, but I guess I'm old, but I understand flash 408 00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:10.079 mobs. Also, were you ever in rosstery ever in a parade one of 409 00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:14.760 your one of your hometown parades. Did you have been in the parade. 410 00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:19.119 I've had to cover the parade, like because some of these like no, 411 00:37:17.960 --> 00:37:21.880 no, no, I'm talking about as a kid, I understand obviously as 412 00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:24.159 a kid. Yeah, that we've we've all had to know as a kid. 413 00:37:24.199 --> 00:37:29.679 No, So I I was in the parade because I was on I 414 00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:32.239 was on the football team, and uh, I was in the parade for 415 00:37:32.280 --> 00:37:36.360 something else. I can't remember what it was, but but you know, 416 00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:42.800 and we just had to ride on a flatbed in our in our football jerseys 417 00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:45.880 and wave, so you know, it was tough stuff and then throw candy 418 00:37:46.039 --> 00:37:53.400 and stuff. But you know, especially like we talked about the the last 419 00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:59.760 year's tragedy, this girl was part of this. This this this it was 420 00:37:59.760 --> 00:38:01.239 a technically a dance, gir. I want to make sure I'm very accurate 421 00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:05.280 on this, and I'm sorry. I didn't commit it to memory, but 422 00:38:05.320 --> 00:38:10.159 you know, she and her She and her group, the amount of time 423 00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:15.920 that they spent practicing and getting ready and working on their march and the routine 424 00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:21.320 and everything else. The bands that participate, all the groups, it's really 425 00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:29.039 exciting. If you're really into dance or baton twirling or music, you know 426 00:38:29.039 --> 00:38:32.039 you're part of a band or whatever. That's a really cool thing. Man. 427 00:38:32.239 --> 00:38:36.039 All eyes are on you. You're getting to show off your talent. 428 00:38:36.119 --> 00:38:44.480 You're with your friends, you worked hard for this, and cities like, 429 00:38:44.559 --> 00:38:49.519 yes, screw you. That's rough, man, So be part of the 430 00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:55.719 flashmob. Just do a big flashmob. Just have one that's well organized and 431 00:38:55.760 --> 00:39:01.960 advertised. That's what you gotta do. Jennifer Martin, executive director of the 432 00:39:02.079 --> 00:39:10.480 Greater Raleigh Merchants Association that's their technical name, said the organization is deeply saddened 433 00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:14.559 by the decision, and pointed out the city had permitted other parades. Yes, 434 00:39:14.639 --> 00:39:19.360 she is correct. There are thousands of local youth that participate in this 435 00:39:19.400 --> 00:39:22.880 annual event, and when considering if we should hold a parade in twenty twenty 436 00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:25.360 three, we knew we had to continue the event as our youth deserve every 437 00:39:25.400 --> 00:39:30.760 opportunity to provide for them. We also understand that many children, for many 438 00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:34.079 children, the Raleigh Christmas Parade is the only way they will see Santa. 439 00:39:34.159 --> 00:39:37.920 We'll don't worry. I'm sure they'll have some woke Santa reading them very creepy 440 00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:45.440 books or something, and keep an eye on missus clause. That's all I'm 441 00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:53.360 saying, peer, peer, utter garbage. But you know, solutions abound. 442 00:39:54.599 --> 00:39:58.159 And then I thought, well, maybe the mayor just maybe she got 443 00:39:58.159 --> 00:40:01.280 a bad cartridge in her weed pen. And you ever see the picture where 444 00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:04.840 people like that looks like she's got a weed pen on her counter, one 445 00:40:04.840 --> 00:40:08.280 of those little vape weed pens. We don't know for sure, but there 446 00:40:08.360 --> 00:40:17.320 was some speculation, just saying, now somebody suggested another theory for us, 447 00:40:17.800 --> 00:40:23.440 or run this by you. Maybe we are being unfair, and what the 448 00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:30.159 mayor is attempting to do is to avert a walk a Shaw incident. If 449 00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:35.559 you don't just a quick reminder, if you remember, walka Shaw had their 450 00:40:35.639 --> 00:40:38.159 Christmas parade, and do you remember how fascinated the media was that they still 451 00:40:38.199 --> 00:40:42.440 called it a Christmas parise. So they made a point to say that every 452 00:40:42.760 --> 00:40:45.360 dyre in that tragedy, they'd be like, and they still called it a 453 00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:47.840 Christmas parade stead of a holiday parade, which is unusual. And it's like, 454 00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:52.480 why why are you bringing this up? You just had a dude who 455 00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:54.360 decided he was going to go plow through all the white people he could find 456 00:40:54.400 --> 00:41:06.760 in an suv and you blame the suv. So maybe the Mayor's like, 457 00:41:06.760 --> 00:41:08.960 ah, we're also called a Christmas parade. I want to avert tragedy. 458 00:41:09.159 --> 00:41:12.159 Yeah, I'm sorry, sir, I don't. I don't think that's it, 459 00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:17.199 and I don't think you're serious either. So well played, but yeah, 460 00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:25.239 oh wait, hold on now people are up. What is your beef? 461 00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:30.719 Sir? Don't accuse us of stuff if you don't even know what's up. 462 00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:36.159 Somebody's accusing us of not covering the totality of sport. Look, we 463 00:41:36.199 --> 00:41:37.400 can't get it all in. How deep do you want me to go? 464 00:41:37.559 --> 00:41:46.840 Man, you can't cover all the sports teams. I don't know what you're 465 00:41:46.840 --> 00:41:52.800 talking about. I mean, by the way I thought I did. By 466 00:41:52.800 --> 00:41:57.800 the way that well, that's the only Boondeshliga match uh today And those are 467 00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:02.079 the two top teams. They're tied for first with undefeated, so that's a 468 00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:05.960 big deal. But I looked. I understand that there's a lot more soccer 469 00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:12.440 around the world. One of my favorite soccer teams the Botswana Meat. Ross. 470 00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:15.440 You're a fan of the Botswana Meat too, right, didn't say yeah, 471 00:42:15.639 --> 00:42:19.599 the Meat, The meat is my passion. Yeah. Well, we'll 472 00:42:19.639 --> 00:42:28.519 see how they're doing. Or there's a there's a there's a Legua team I 473 00:42:28.519 --> 00:42:34.519 can't remember. We're in South America called the Wanka make a Great Jersey Man. 474 00:42:34.599 --> 00:42:39.480 And then the Morons are another one down in South America. So when 475 00:42:39.480 --> 00:42:44.480 the Morons play the Wanka, watch out. And I don't know who the 476 00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:47.920 Botswana Meat or playing. So oh and once the other one, Oh yeah, 477 00:42:47.920 --> 00:42:53.440 the one in Germany, the what bona get farked? Yeah, because 478 00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:57.519 there's a town named Fart and they have their own team and then it's football 479 00:42:57.960 --> 00:43:02.159 football a get Fart. So is that are those the teams you're talking about, 480 00:43:02.199 --> 00:43:06.639 sir, because otherwise you're just not making sense? All right, Chris, 481 00:43:06.679 --> 00:43:09.400 what's up? Hey, good morning, Casey, Thanks for taking my 482 00:43:09.480 --> 00:43:13.400 call. First of all, I want to say my heart goes out to 483 00:43:13.480 --> 00:43:16.199 eleven year old girl who passed away or died at the Christmas parade. I 484 00:43:16.239 --> 00:43:20.639 didn't realize that happened. I just don't watch the mainstream media anymore. And 485 00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:24.119 they could just make a float honoring her. I'm positive Jesus wouldn't mind sharing 486 00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:29.880 a spotlight with her. Question though, but this is but you're the perfect 487 00:43:29.960 --> 00:43:31.079 person to ask this, And I'm sorry to interrupt what you're saying there. 488 00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:35.639 I mean to cut you off right when you're ringing up God. But so 489 00:43:35.719 --> 00:43:38.880 if somebody who kind of is you, weren't plugged into the news cycle, 490 00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:42.920 if you were just to hear the mayor say we're doing this in honor of 491 00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:45.519 the girl, and you didn't really know a lot of the background, would 492 00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:53.079 you not think that the family didn't want the parade, wouldn't you drive No, 493 00:43:53.239 --> 00:43:58.559 I think the family would want the parade because they're Americans. Okay, 494 00:43:58.639 --> 00:44:02.800 I'm not asking what because obviously we know. But when she said that and 495 00:44:02.840 --> 00:44:07.519 said that they we're doing this to honor the family, that makes it doesn't 496 00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:10.280 think it's not like the family. That's the point that I make. And 497 00:44:10.360 --> 00:44:14.480 I understand that if you try to logically think this through, But remember, 498 00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:19.360 sir, the same reason you avoid the mainstream media is because it's it's it's 499 00:44:19.480 --> 00:44:23.320 it's news for robots, and robots are going that family doesn't want the Christmas 500 00:44:23.320 --> 00:44:28.079 for right, right, and that is right right. That is horrible. 501 00:44:28.159 --> 00:44:30.760 That is horrible in my opinion. Anyway, I'm sorry, go right ahead, 502 00:44:30.760 --> 00:44:34.159 sir. No, Well, I'm concerned. I heard you mentioned these 503 00:44:34.199 --> 00:44:37.639 security forces, and I'm kind of concerned because, for one, do these 504 00:44:37.719 --> 00:44:40.679 people have to even wear bodycams like the police do? And what is their 505 00:44:40.719 --> 00:44:45.519 training for interaction? And what is their criminal background histories? And how much 506 00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:51.039 are they getting paid? And what are their policies in enforcing uh you know, 507 00:44:51.079 --> 00:44:53.559 and is it intimidation? I mean, what are these people? I 508 00:44:53.599 --> 00:44:57.599 mean, I don't understand why they would want to defund the police, but 509 00:44:57.679 --> 00:45:01.239 let's put people who we don't know. I just don't understand the security force 510 00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:05.679 thing, and I don't know what their interactions would be. This is why 511 00:45:05.719 --> 00:45:10.440 I'm blaming these decisions on a bad weed cartridge, because I have no explanation. 512 00:45:10.760 --> 00:45:15.320 The biggest car, I got to agree, Yeah, the biggest caveat 513 00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:22.519 there is arrest powers, right, because if somebody is down there beating a 514 00:45:22.559 --> 00:45:25.559 business owner to death, which just or a business manager to death, which 515 00:45:25.800 --> 00:45:30.159 just happened, just happened, and then the guy went and bragged about it 516 00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:36.800 on social media or stabbing, I don't remember. I don't remember ever giving 517 00:45:36.840 --> 00:45:40.159 up my right to self defend myself to the police or to a group, 518 00:45:40.239 --> 00:45:43.920 you know, or anything like that or anything. So I don't understand why 519 00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:47.599 we need all these I mean, we just need to protect ourselves and come 520 00:45:47.639 --> 00:45:51.679 together as a as a community and just understand that. You know, there's 521 00:45:51.719 --> 00:45:53.960 there's people high around us. And now they're called mental health patients, but 522 00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:58.280 these people are actually high and drunk, and I understand that they don't. 523 00:45:58.599 --> 00:46:01.360 You know, you can't arrest and enter somebody into the criminal justice system and 524 00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:08.119 the citizen's arrest releasing't things to do, and that is yeah, that's how 525 00:46:08.239 --> 00:46:13.039 but that's how you deal with people. I promise you that the very same 526 00:46:13.079 --> 00:46:16.760 people. Look this dude who's accused of beating this guy to death, he 527 00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:22.199 came here from Chicago. He's got a lengthy rap sheet and you know, 528 00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:27.280 you know he's initizents will proven guilty on this and thanks for the call there. 529 00:46:27.360 --> 00:46:30.519 But ultimately, if you have people that are going down to Glenwood and 530 00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:35.880 causing problems or going anywhere and causing problems and they get away with it. 531 00:46:35.920 --> 00:46:43.679 They're able to rob people or intimidate people or get into fights, and they 532 00:46:43.880 --> 00:46:46.760 nothing happens to do you think they're not back there doing it again. This 533 00:46:46.840 --> 00:46:51.559 is why at that point you have to identify those who are ruining it for 534 00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:55.639 everybody else, and you charge them, and they pay a penalty, and 535 00:46:55.840 --> 00:46:59.760 you know they necessarily need to go to prison forever. You know, first 536 00:46:59.760 --> 00:47:05.440 thing first, but you have to be held responsible. And if you're held 537 00:47:05.480 --> 00:47:07.119 responsible, maybe you go you know what, Maybe I shouldn't act to fool. 538 00:47:08.519 --> 00:47:12.639 Maybe I shouldn't go down there and try to fistfight everyone when I drink 539 00:47:12.639 --> 00:47:20.079 too much bourbon or whatever. But that you got people who do arrest powers. 540 00:47:20.119 --> 00:47:23.719 It baffles me. That's the big thing. And I understand the concerns 541 00:47:23.719 --> 00:47:29.400 about training and bodycams and all of that, but you're removing the ability for 542 00:47:29.519 --> 00:47:36.840 there to be penalties other than you can't come in here anymore. And they'll 543 00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:37.920 go, all right, I'll go across the street and be an a hole, 544 00:47:39.199 --> 00:47:44.880 right, all right? Seven nineteen eight eight eight nine three four seven 545 00:47:44.920 --> 00:47:49.679 eight seven four coming up? AI strikes again. Holy ken, Now they 546 00:47:49.719 --> 00:47:52.280 didn't deny the Holocaust this time, but it is the folks over at Microsoft, 547 00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:57.000 so that's the one that did do it. So you know they're a 548 00:47:57.159 --> 00:48:00.800 AI is top notch. So we got that story for you and maybe some 549 00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:15.719 more boondish Leigua stuff we'll see coming up. Hang on your day, smarter 550 00:48:16.320 --> 00:48:21.679 one oh six one at them talk and News Talk ninety four five w pt 551 00:48:21.840 --> 00:48:29.599 I more with Casey starts now. All right, good morning, seven twenty 552 00:48:29.639 --> 00:48:31.920 six. Let me grab a great phone call. Also, somebody corrected me 553 00:48:31.960 --> 00:48:37.440 on the Botswana Meet. It's why do you know this, sir? He's 554 00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:42.360 seving this is this article? Well, they do go by Botswana. This 555 00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:45.159 is just proven you get corrected on anything, man. Well, fans do 556 00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:49.800 refer to the team as the Botswana Meet. The full team's name is the 557 00:48:49.840 --> 00:48:55.960 Botswana Meet Commission Ross. Did your day just change? Knowing that? Are 558 00:48:57.000 --> 00:49:01.880 you? Do? You feel enlightened? It's so bad? And on the 559 00:49:01.960 --> 00:49:07.239 football far the football good fart is not a men's team, it's a women's 560 00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:12.400 team. That couldn't be possible, sir. You've been so exposed that couldn't 561 00:49:12.400 --> 00:49:15.880 be possible. You can't name a women's team fart, right, It doesn't 562 00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:20.800 happen, man, right, yes, I'm starting, I'm starting question your 563 00:49:20.840 --> 00:49:23.079 your passion for the Bundesliga or whatever the hell we're talking about. Yeah, 564 00:49:23.119 --> 00:49:24.880 yeah, yeah, well this is like all over the world. There's another 565 00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:31.760 team called love Ham in Scandinavia. Who doesn't love ham Uh in Uh Switzerland 566 00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:37.039 they have young boys burn because Burne Switzerland. But that is an unfortunate team 567 00:49:37.119 --> 00:49:47.920 name. One of the top clubs in Indonesia a Semen Padong uh Eritrea shoe 568 00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:53.480 factory. Have you seen do they have shoes that's over by Ethiopia there case 569 00:49:53.519 --> 00:50:01.039 you wondering, it's craziness man. So yeah, there's lots of crazy names. 570 00:50:01.039 --> 00:50:06.360 All right, real quick, Scott, what's up hey, Casey? 571 00:50:06.519 --> 00:50:09.400 Love your show? Many? I heard yesterday that they were going to cancel 572 00:50:09.400 --> 00:50:16.239 this parade. Yeah, and I was beside myself. Now, our governor, 573 00:50:16.440 --> 00:50:22.360 if he was any type of governor, he would step in and do 574 00:50:22.519 --> 00:50:25.199 something about this. What's he gonna do? He doesn't have the authority to 575 00:50:25.320 --> 00:50:29.639 order a parade down. He can go participate in one with his mask hanging 576 00:50:29.679 --> 00:50:35.360 off his ear to be cured. He could do something, he could lobby 577 00:50:35.480 --> 00:50:39.320 for it. But thanks for the call there, sir, Please don't hold 578 00:50:39.360 --> 00:50:45.639 your breath, Scott. We'd hate to lose you. Yeah, everything's screwed. 579 00:50:45.679 --> 00:50:50.440 Man. I'm gonna go watch the Meat Commission. We'll be back keeping 580 00:50:50.480 --> 00:50:55.880 you connected. This WPTI in the Triad and one o six one FM talk 581 00:50:57.119 --> 00:51:06.119 in the Triangle. Microsoft and Microsoft's AI who you know from such classic hits 582 00:51:06.159 --> 00:51:10.320 as let's create an AI chatbot and then the users to figure out how to 583 00:51:10.360 --> 00:51:15.239 manipulate it, and within hours it will melt down and start screaming out Hitler 584 00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:20.800 quotes and defending his actions while calling people the N word, which is a 585 00:51:20.880 --> 00:51:28.679 thing that happened years ago when AI by Microsoft first hit Twitter and four channor 586 00:51:28.760 --> 00:51:32.679 Reddit found out. And what was baffling about that is within hours, this 587 00:51:32.840 --> 00:51:38.239 thing's like the Holocaust never happened. Hitler had some good ideas, you're this 588 00:51:38.599 --> 00:51:44.239 you know, racial slur, and and then they left it up for sixteen 589 00:51:44.320 --> 00:51:46.519 hours because apparently there was nobody to go in there and kick the cord or 590 00:51:46.639 --> 00:51:52.199 something. So anyway, that didn't that wasn't a good look. We've seen 591 00:51:52.239 --> 00:52:00.880 incidents now with other AIS where they're making up whole cloth legal cases because lazy 592 00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:07.480 lawyers asked them to put together documents and citations and then so they just made 593 00:52:07.519 --> 00:52:10.320 whatever fit what they're trying to do, which the judge is like, I 594 00:52:10.320 --> 00:52:13.039 don't know what these are. Let me like, oh, you lied, 595 00:52:13.639 --> 00:52:19.039 that's not good. Well. One of the other things Microsoft decided to do 596 00:52:19.280 --> 00:52:24.119 is when they were revamping MSN would used to be MSNBC dot com, but 597 00:52:24.320 --> 00:52:31.639 MSN the news site, which used to have a much larger readership, but 598 00:52:31.960 --> 00:52:38.440 following they're getting away from NBC and it dropped off, but people still go 599 00:52:38.519 --> 00:52:45.239 there and if they did go there. Back in twenty twenty, MSN fired 600 00:52:45.400 --> 00:52:52.760 all twenty seven of their human journalists and has been quote perfecting artificial intelligence news 601 00:52:52.840 --> 00:52:57.440 reporting software. They want to be at the forefront of this. They realize 602 00:52:57.440 --> 00:53:00.159 there's a lot of money to be had there and other entities, including the 603 00:53:00.840 --> 00:53:06.760 La Times. It's got in trouble for this because they decided that because there's 604 00:53:06.840 --> 00:53:12.760 so many youth soccer leagues and very very competitive high level ones, and it 605 00:53:12.800 --> 00:53:16.599 required so much work on the part of humans, they would but it was 606 00:53:16.679 --> 00:53:20.639 really cut and pace. They would just turn it over to AI and it 607 00:53:20.760 --> 00:53:25.880 was a disaster. So the technology ain't there yet how do I know MSN 608 00:53:27.000 --> 00:53:35.519 Microsoft's news aggregation site posted their AI did an obituary for the death of Brandon 609 00:53:35.599 --> 00:53:37.719 Hunter. I don't know if you saw this. Former NBA player Brandon Hunter 610 00:53:37.840 --> 00:53:44.440 passed away at the age of forty two. That was a story this week. 611 00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:52.280 However, it wasn't worded like that. The headline read Brandon Hunter useless 612 00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:59.840 at forty two. As you can impagine, fans and family were not pleased 613 00:53:59.800 --> 00:54:01.480 with this. AI. He's like, well, the battery's dead. I 614 00:54:01.480 --> 00:54:05.519 have no use for it anymore. Well that's fair, yes, because once 615 00:54:05.559 --> 00:54:08.639 they go matrix, you're just a battery. That's you know, they're tipping. 616 00:54:08.679 --> 00:54:12.079 You could say they're tipping their hand, kind of like the new Mexico 617 00:54:12.159 --> 00:54:15.480 governor, right right, I see what you're up to. But it wasn't 618 00:54:15.519 --> 00:54:21.199 just the headline. The entirety of the obituary was all sorts of AI generated 619 00:54:21.280 --> 00:54:25.159 gibberish. A few of my favorite lines. Throughout his NBA profession, he 620 00:54:25.320 --> 00:54:30.239 performed in sixty seven video games over two seasons. That would be accurate for 621 00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:36.920 you, wouldn't it right? You performed sixty seven video games over two years? 622 00:54:36.920 --> 00:54:40.440 Probably? Oh yeah, easy? And it literally that would be correct 623 00:54:40.480 --> 00:54:45.559 for you, but it's he wasn't just an NBA jam character. Okay, 624 00:54:45.679 --> 00:54:52.559 but don't worry gets stupider achieving a career high of seventeen factors in a recreation 625 00:54:52.760 --> 00:54:58.360 in opposition to the Milwaukee Bucks in two thousand and four. Dude, seventeen 626 00:54:58.480 --> 00:55:05.320 factors. You ever scored seventeen factors in a game in a basketball game? 627 00:55:05.320 --> 00:55:15.079 There? Ross probably not. I haven't seventeen factors very impressive. As you 628 00:55:15.159 --> 00:55:17.400 can imagine, they've now pulled. They'd have a human come in and pull 629 00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:25.239 the article from the site. However, if you check archives, you see 630 00:55:25.320 --> 00:55:31.239 that the not only was it posted on MSN, they also feed stuff, 631 00:55:31.239 --> 00:55:36.119 so they're not just an aggregator, but they feed stuff as well. And 632 00:55:36.519 --> 00:55:42.159 the obituary was fed in the main news real news section that was not just 633 00:55:42.280 --> 00:55:45.320 them, but was sent out to other entities who hopefully looked at it. 634 00:55:45.360 --> 00:55:51.559 When what the hell is this? I mean, look, if hey, 635 00:55:51.599 --> 00:55:53.599 I was gonna do its thing, I'd rather it be screwing up and making 636 00:55:53.639 --> 00:56:00.039 the battery admission here than murdering the human drone higher ups who try to stop 637 00:56:00.039 --> 00:56:07.800 it from murdering other humans. That being said, not a good look at 638 00:56:07.800 --> 00:56:13.559 all. Speaking of not a good look, the old President was out doing 639 00:56:13.599 --> 00:56:28.119 his thing yesterday, in between oddly romanticizing the governor of Maryland's biceps. It's 640 00:56:28.159 --> 00:56:34.400 just so weird. He was calling him small. By the way. He 641 00:56:34.440 --> 00:56:37.239 wasn't like, oh, you have great biceps, so he was actually talking 642 00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:42.320 in a very creepy way about him, but also insulting the mayor or excuse 643 00:56:42.400 --> 00:56:50.039 me, the governor. There he had another thought. Oh and he could 644 00:56:50.039 --> 00:56:52.000 do. By the way, he did get lost trying to get off the 645 00:56:52.039 --> 00:56:53.920 stage too. I almost like, I almost don't even put that into the 646 00:56:53.920 --> 00:57:00.480 thing anymore because it's just assumed. Right. He also lie and said that 647 00:57:00.519 --> 00:57:02.840 he taught a class at Penn State. He did not. But the other 648 00:57:02.880 --> 00:57:07.920 day he lied about being going to ground zero for nine to eleven or on 649 00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:14.599 nine to eleven, and that was bus So no, no, this one, 650 00:57:14.639 --> 00:57:16.320 I think he's telling the truth. Rosy, You think he's telling the 651 00:57:16.320 --> 00:57:19.960 truth. You think he's telling the truth, right, even if he doesn't 652 00:57:19.960 --> 00:57:21.800 mean to. I think he's telling them. Oh yeah, I think so. 653 00:57:22.719 --> 00:57:24.440 All right, So here's what he said. If you're one of the 654 00:57:24.480 --> 00:57:31.719 listeners who is black, you are you are? I'm not gonna say latinis 655 00:57:31.920 --> 00:57:37.920 but if you have any Latin background, or or if you now serve in 656 00:57:37.960 --> 00:57:42.039 the military or have served in the military, you're gonna want to listen to 657 00:57:42.119 --> 00:57:45.719 this. You fools were not only recovered all the jobs he lost during the 658 00:57:45.760 --> 00:57:50.519 pandemic, We've had a millions more. We've seen record lows and unemployment, 659 00:57:50.679 --> 00:57:54.239 particularly and I've focused on this my whole career, particularly for African Americans and 660 00:57:54.320 --> 00:58:00.960 Hispanic workers and veterans, you know, the workers without high school to Colomas, 661 00:58:07.199 --> 00:58:13.880 does does he think does he think that veterans and UH and Hispanics and 662 00:58:14.159 --> 00:58:22.440 UH and and blacks don't have high school diplomas because the majority of them. 663 00:58:22.480 --> 00:58:30.440 Do you realize this right or or a you know, the UH the equivalent 664 00:58:30.519 --> 00:58:37.039 of it may have those What are you talking about? So if you're black, 665 00:58:37.119 --> 00:58:40.159 Hispanic, or a veteran, you likely don't have a high school diploy 666 00:58:40.199 --> 00:58:44.039 We have a lot of veterans, Listen, do you all not have high 667 00:58:44.079 --> 00:58:53.840 school diplomas? Is that a thing? I am really confused and it just 668 00:58:53.960 --> 00:58:57.760 it's like a pattern with him. Remember when he said this, We have 669 00:58:57.840 --> 00:59:01.599 this notion that somehow, if you're poor, you cannot do it four kids 670 00:59:01.599 --> 00:59:07.159 are just as bright and just as tall as white kids. What wealfy kids, 671 00:59:07.280 --> 00:59:09.880 clock kids clappy as your kids. It really mean, But think how 672 00:59:09.920 --> 00:59:13.559 we think about it. That's, by the way, it's not just what 673 00:59:13.599 --> 00:59:15.920 he said that. The one thing that's bothered me about that clip over the 674 00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:21.760 years is the seals. They're clapping away like I just heard that, and 675 00:59:21.800 --> 00:59:23.239 it's like, yeah, I don't know if you meant that's Is that what 676 00:59:23.280 --> 00:59:28.280 you meant? And then I remember his racial jungle speech, right, didn't 677 00:59:28.280 --> 00:59:31.199 want his kids to go to integrated schools, And I'm like, yeah, 678 00:59:31.199 --> 00:59:36.039 that's probably what he meant, just like he meant that he not only recovered 679 00:59:36.079 --> 00:59:37.880 all the jobs he lost touring the pandemic, we've had a millions more. 680 00:59:39.159 --> 00:59:44.599 We've seen record lows and unemployment particularly and I've focused on this my whole career, 681 00:59:44.719 --> 00:59:50.199 particularly for African Americans and Hispanic workers and veterans, you know, the 682 00:59:50.239 --> 00:59:54.719 workers without high school diplomas big dummies about your high school diploma. I mean, 683 00:59:54.760 --> 01:00:00.599 the president said it obviously, so you know, dude, what a 684 01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:05.039 train wreck. Speaking of train wrecks, well, technically I can't say that 685 01:00:05.079 --> 01:00:08.000 because race Age's team has yet to give up a point this year. What's 686 01:00:08.039 --> 01:00:13.719 going on, my man? Not much? What about you? Nothing? 687 01:00:13.800 --> 01:00:19.039 We're just you know, they canceled our Christmas parade here they did, yeah, 688 01:00:19.079 --> 01:00:22.559 apparently got elected, so oh I got you. Yeah, she's just 689 01:00:22.559 --> 01:00:25.599 like, don't more Christmas parade. Oh that's too bad. It's a whole 690 01:00:25.599 --> 01:00:28.920 thing. It's not too bad. I'm like, you know what I happen 691 01:00:28.960 --> 01:00:30.719 to notice a couple of years ago that if big groups of people just want 692 01:00:30.760 --> 01:00:34.599 to go and block a street and have their own thing, you can do 693 01:00:34.639 --> 01:00:37.039 that. There won't be any alloverisements, so called a flash mob. Put 694 01:00:37.039 --> 01:00:40.719 it on YouTube. Boob solved. Yeah, there you go. You want 695 01:00:40.719 --> 01:00:44.360 to come be? You want to come be the Grand Marshal. I can't 696 01:00:44.360 --> 01:00:47.159 do that. Casey o day problem solver her. Alright, Grand Marshal. 697 01:00:47.719 --> 01:00:52.960 Actually I let a Christmas parade once, playing the accordion as Grand Marshal time. 698 01:00:52.440 --> 01:00:57.920 All right, you're not you don't know, no, never mind, 699 01:00:57.960 --> 01:01:01.800 it's okay, extended the offer. Yeah yeah, yeah, we're gonna get 700 01:01:01.800 --> 01:01:07.880 snookie now. Sorry. Yeah, alright, anyway, Well it's a good 701 01:01:07.880 --> 01:01:12.440 parade weather, probably not Christmas parade weather yet, but a lot more comfortable 702 01:01:12.559 --> 01:01:15.039 huh, well, yeah, I mean if you've already been out from you 703 01:01:15.039 --> 01:01:19.519 know, car to house or house to office, et cetera. Temperatures have 704 01:01:19.599 --> 01:01:22.719 come down now from yesterday morning six to about ten even fifteen degrees in some 705 01:01:22.760 --> 01:01:28.519 spots, a nice drop, as the numbers now will stay reasonable, near 706 01:01:28.559 --> 01:01:31.000 seasonable numbers, most in the fifties this morning. We'll probably get close to 707 01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:36.280 eighties this afternoon, low fifties tonight, which means in some areas we could 708 01:01:36.280 --> 01:01:38.440 get into the forties, especially the further west and up in elevation you go 709 01:01:38.480 --> 01:01:43.280 into the mountains. So if the weekend trip includes previously mentioned mountains, the 710 01:01:43.280 --> 01:01:46.000 weather is going to be great, good looking Saturday, low mid eighties and 711 01:01:46.039 --> 01:01:50.679 then maybe some showers, cutter showers on Sunday. I get this little weak 712 01:01:50.719 --> 01:01:52.280 area of low pressure is going to pass south of US. I'm still getting 713 01:01:52.320 --> 01:01:57.199 ripped up out near the coast two to four foot of inundation and some of 714 01:01:57.239 --> 01:02:00.199 the coastal areas out near the outer Banks coast to North Carolina, and obviously 715 01:02:00.199 --> 01:02:04.440 there'll be some flooding there from lee high surf. I think as we go 716 01:02:04.480 --> 01:02:07.360 through late today and especially tomorrow, just in time for the weekend, things 717 01:02:07.360 --> 01:02:12.840 should still start to improve there. But you know, certainly, certainly be 718 01:02:12.920 --> 01:02:15.639 careful and listen to if you're on a lifeguarded beach and you do happen to 719 01:02:15.639 --> 01:02:19.840 put a toe in the water, you'll pay attention to them because they'll be 720 01:02:19.880 --> 01:02:22.079 able to identify, you know, the risks and flag warnings and all that. 721 01:02:22.159 --> 01:02:25.320 If there's a rip current wrist there. Still maybe the bottom line is 722 01:02:25.320 --> 01:02:30.320 at least improving after another rough day today, with maybe some twelve to eighteen 723 01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:32.800 foot breakers out there too, So surf's up. But I wouldn't do it, 724 01:02:34.480 --> 01:02:37.280 Okay, all right, Well that's why you're not the Grand Marshal anymore 725 01:02:37.280 --> 01:02:39.920 because you're forward. So all right, talk myself having accordion, all right, 726 01:02:40.280 --> 01:02:45.400 all right, later there you go race stage accordion master kco DA radio 727 01:02:45.480 --> 01:02:50.360 program. All right, so the President is really excited because all of you 728 01:02:50.480 --> 01:02:53.039 people don't have high school diplomas, who thinks are morons who also happen to 729 01:02:53.039 --> 01:03:01.880 be veterans and black and Hispanic people here in the US. You want to 730 01:03:01.920 --> 01:03:05.679 call the show? Please, don't you know what rosa destry? They probably 731 01:03:05.760 --> 01:03:07.639 can't. They don't know how to do that right right? They look at 732 01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:09.360 them, they're like, what is this thing? What do you? Yeah? 733 01:03:09.360 --> 01:03:12.880 All right, let me help you out, please, squiggles, all 734 01:03:12.920 --> 01:03:16.159 right, eight, get get the phone, all right? The phone is 735 01:03:16.199 --> 01:03:22.079 the square thing there with that you okay, all right, so get that 736 01:03:22.599 --> 01:03:27.800 where you watch the children's cartoons that are on your left, and then it's 737 01:03:27.880 --> 01:03:30.639 eight eight eight, So snow man, you see the snow man, the 738 01:03:30.719 --> 01:03:35.239 snow man. Snowman nine, which kind of looks like the snow man, 739 01:03:35.280 --> 01:03:39.239 but a little chunk taken out on on the one side. Three which also 740 01:03:39.440 --> 01:03:43.519 kind of looks like the snowman, but now two chunks, one high, 741 01:03:43.559 --> 01:03:47.360 one low. Hey, well you get and then four, which looks kind 742 01:03:47.360 --> 01:03:51.199 of like a half barn. Is that hopeful? Like a half an a 743 01:03:51.320 --> 01:03:55.280 frame? You've ever seen a barn? You're doing great? Yeah? Seven? 744 01:03:57.000 --> 01:03:59.400 All right? So that oh, you're gonna have to dial A one 745 01:03:59.440 --> 01:04:01.239 at first, and I just lost them all Oh it's too bad. Eight 746 01:04:01.239 --> 01:04:08.119 eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. So the one it one 747 01:04:08.199 --> 01:04:14.639 looks like free military when you're standing at attention, all right, So please, 748 01:04:14.719 --> 01:04:16.840 if you need to get somebody to help you, please do. But 749 01:04:17.119 --> 01:04:20.639 I'm curious what you think of that, because it's weird. I know quite 750 01:04:20.679 --> 01:04:25.880 a few veterans, and I even know some veterans with crazy degrees. So 751 01:04:27.760 --> 01:04:30.039 apparently they didn't have a high school diploma. Just the colleges got fooled. 752 01:04:30.079 --> 01:04:33.760 So that's amazing. All right, seven forty nine, Hang on show. 753 01:04:33.840 --> 01:04:38.920 After the show, he's on the iHeart Radio app. Search case O day 754 01:04:39.000 --> 01:04:44.679 for the podcast on the iHeart Radio app. All right, it is seven 755 01:04:44.840 --> 01:04:49.079 fifty three coming up in just about twelve minutes. We'll chat with Deek Calendar 756 01:04:49.239 --> 01:04:57.880 and we're obviously the Christmas pard castlations. I on the list because crazy, 757 01:04:57.920 --> 01:05:05.800 I think Asheville stalls a Christmas pred Charlotte sto, dude telling you, but 758 01:05:06.119 --> 01:05:09.599 we got a bunch of calls. Everyone gets about a minute and a half, 759 01:05:09.639 --> 01:05:12.760 so a rapid fire here we go. Want to get everybody in. 760 01:05:12.800 --> 01:05:15.360 Tom, you're up first, go ahead, Yeah, just one. Let's 761 01:05:15.440 --> 01:05:20.559 back in Vietnam. During Vietnam you didn't have to have a high school education. 762 01:05:21.159 --> 01:05:26.000 However, in order to re enlist, you had to have a high 763 01:05:26.039 --> 01:05:30.599 school equivalency exam, and nowadays you have to have a high school equip high 764 01:05:30.599 --> 01:05:35.519 school at Palmore equivalency before you can even join. Were you in the military, 765 01:05:35.559 --> 01:05:40.639 sir, twenty years what was the what was your rank achieved? If 766 01:05:40.679 --> 01:05:45.920 you don't mind me asking, shardon major. Well, this is the commander 767 01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:49.880 in chief, sir, so I mean technically he would be like a CEO. 768 01:05:50.039 --> 01:05:55.239 Right. Well, he's the worst commander. He's the worst commander in 769 01:05:55.320 --> 01:06:00.760 chiefs that military's ever this country has ever had. And us in your jobs. 770 01:06:00.920 --> 01:06:02.719 Man, thank you for twenty years, man, But yeah, this 771 01:06:02.840 --> 01:06:06.079 is what an embarrassment. All right, Tom, appreciate the call this morning. 772 01:06:08.599 --> 01:06:11.679 He sergeant major eight, commander at chief. I'll just say it, 773 01:06:11.800 --> 01:06:15.639 Michelle, what's up, Hey, I'm sorry about your vikings. I have 774 01:06:15.719 --> 01:06:19.159 a theory about why they're losing, Casey. I think they're trying to tak 775 01:06:19.559 --> 01:06:25.920 to go after the USC quarterback and get rid of the cousin's contract. Well, 776 01:06:25.920 --> 01:06:30.480 we we optioned cousin there. We took like that's some four D chess 777 01:06:30.480 --> 01:06:33.000 that we decided to get, you know, pay the dude right there. 778 01:06:34.119 --> 01:06:38.880 And if you're reflecting to the vikings in the Bundesligua right, because I don't 779 01:06:38.880 --> 01:06:42.440 know any others. Thanks for the call, Michelle, Ronnie, what's up? 780 01:06:44.239 --> 01:06:46.800 Yes, yes, sir, great talking to you. Casey I'm a 781 01:06:47.239 --> 01:06:55.480 black man military high school diploma. I heard you looking. You're taking two 782 01:06:55.480 --> 01:07:00.599 boxes, sir, You got two boxes there? Yeah, Well, you 783 01:07:00.679 --> 01:07:05.480 know, I think the Democratic parties over play the hand. I think it 784 01:07:05.559 --> 01:07:12.440 really wouldn't even know is uh Biden is going to start saying some really terrible 785 01:07:12.480 --> 01:07:16.199 things because most of the people that I know have met people and know somebody 786 01:07:16.239 --> 01:07:20.920 that goes that has gone through his condition. So just wait and see what's 787 01:07:20.960 --> 01:07:24.840 going to be said. No, I'll tell you what that is. That 788 01:07:24.960 --> 01:07:29.239 is a very serious and sad point. I've watched somebody within my family and 789 01:07:29.239 --> 01:07:33.880 and and a lot of it's based on frustration right there with their inability to 790 01:07:33.920 --> 01:07:36.480 communicate in the way that they used to. It's a very real thing. 791 01:07:36.519 --> 01:07:39.960 Well, Ronnie, thank you so much. And I'm look at that. 792 01:07:40.840 --> 01:07:44.320 Ronnie's calling up to brag. He's got two strikes against him and according to 793 01:07:44.360 --> 01:07:48.440 the president, and yet knows the alphabet called the show. Sounds like a 794 01:07:48.480 --> 01:07:54.840 smart guy referencing important things that are probably part of the conversation. Probably somebody 795 01:07:54.880 --> 01:07:58.280 should you know, send an email to the White House. All right, 796 01:07:58.320 --> 01:08:01.559 Marvin got about a minute and a half fireway, sir, Hey, Kasey. 797 01:08:01.719 --> 01:08:04.239 I enjoy your show man. It's a really good thing to wake up 798 01:08:04.239 --> 01:08:08.480 in the morning to hear you guys listen. I just couldn't understand why they 799 01:08:08.559 --> 01:08:13.679 casting the Raleigh play when they didn't cancel the State Fair when that riot broke 800 01:08:13.719 --> 01:08:16.640 a few years ago. Well, technically, the city of Raleigh doesn't permit 801 01:08:16.720 --> 01:08:21.600 that because the State fairgrounds are state property. I'm sure the city does have 802 01:08:21.760 --> 01:08:26.960 something based on the parking insanity that happens outside of it, But no, 803 01:08:27.159 --> 01:08:30.000 to your point, that is a thing that is there was a death on 804 01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:34.199 one of the rides and it was a big story, but they added some 805 01:08:34.239 --> 01:08:38.960 additional safety measures. Obviously, there were lawsuits against the company, and I 806 01:08:39.000 --> 01:08:43.479 believe the fair probably got suit too, but they were able to bring back 807 01:08:43.520 --> 01:08:48.600 the giant turkey legs the next year and continue to do so. So you're 808 01:08:48.640 --> 01:08:51.760 exactly right. But look how many people die on the highways every day and 809 01:08:51.800 --> 01:08:58.159 they don't cancel diving. So it's just an insanity, yeah, or cholesterol 810 01:08:58.359 --> 01:09:02.560 from eating at the fair, sir, smoking? You know, Hey, 811 01:09:03.680 --> 01:09:06.680 why is everything so awesome so horrible for you? All right? There you 812 01:09:06.720 --> 01:09:12.079 go? Can you get your arteries clogged? Your lungs filled, half your 813 01:09:12.119 --> 01:09:15.920 stuff taken in a court hearing, and then you go right back to it. 814 01:09:17.560 --> 01:09:21.239 Ah. That's that's American stick tuitiveness right there. You just don't see 815 01:09:21.279 --> 01:09:25.920 that in the Boonjesliga. Dope, dope, Nope. All right, Pete 816 01:09:25.920 --> 01:09:53.920 Calendar, He joins us, coming up next, Casey O Day Radio program. 817 01:09:53.960 --> 01:09:57.520 All right, good morning everybody, and happy Friday. Except it's not 818 01:09:57.560 --> 01:10:01.119 a happy Friday because the Grinches come to Raw and your Christmas parades canceled. 819 01:10:01.239 --> 01:10:04.119 Now, I just told your kids because you hadn't had the spirit to break 820 01:10:04.119 --> 01:10:06.720 it to them yet, and they're crying. And I apologize for that. 821 01:10:06.840 --> 01:10:10.560 But we're a news program, so you should have known what you got into. 822 01:10:12.079 --> 01:10:15.399 Ah, and it helped me further grinch it up. Pete Calendar, 823 01:10:15.600 --> 01:10:18.439 our radio buddy to the South Midday's WB team on the iHeart Radio app. 824 01:10:18.640 --> 01:10:24.439 He joins us, Dude, what is wrong with these people? Seriously? 825 01:10:24.560 --> 01:10:28.239 You saw this story? Right? Are you up on the I think you 826 01:10:28.319 --> 01:10:31.000 might need to be a little bit more specific because that basically is like my 827 01:10:31.239 --> 01:10:34.640 entire show. It falls under that category. What is wrong with these people? 828 01:10:34.880 --> 01:10:41.399 Oh, that's that's fair. Yeah, So they were you. I 829 01:10:41.880 --> 01:10:45.239 don't know if you were familiar. Last year during the Raleigh Christmas Parade, 830 01:10:45.279 --> 01:10:46.600 which is called the Christmas Parade. By the way, I just want to 831 01:10:46.600 --> 01:10:50.079 put I'm gonna have tinfoil hat a little bit here, so it uh. 832 01:10:50.399 --> 01:10:55.680 There was a very tragic incident where a eleven year old girl who was part 833 01:10:55.680 --> 01:11:00.560 of a group marching in the parade was struck by a pickup which was behind 834 01:11:00.600 --> 01:11:05.920 them as part of another float, if you will. And the family of 835 01:11:05.960 --> 01:11:12.439 the girl has been up at up at the Capitol and they had been working 836 01:11:12.520 --> 01:11:19.600 with lawmakers up there to put together a series of require safety requirements here in 837 01:11:19.640 --> 01:11:24.880 the state of North Carolina. We can debate whether we need more laws and 838 01:11:24.960 --> 01:11:28.119 all of that, but that has been the way in which they have chosen 839 01:11:28.159 --> 01:11:30.000 to deal with this. It has passed in the House, it has not 840 01:11:30.079 --> 01:11:34.640 passed in the Senate, and for the most part, it's the very same 841 01:11:34.800 --> 01:11:40.479 things that the city of Raleigh then started requiring of other parades, because they 842 01:11:40.479 --> 01:11:45.039 didn't just stop parades. They issued three more permits following this incident, and 843 01:11:45.079 --> 01:11:49.479 then they decided they were going to cancel this one. And the audacity of 844 01:11:49.520 --> 01:11:56.039 the mayor to list her reasons, as we're doing this to honor the family, 845 01:11:56.920 --> 01:12:00.800 while the family specifically said they do not want the parade canceled, arguably 846 01:12:01.239 --> 01:12:04.840 doesn't. That kind of makes it look like the mayor is saying, if 847 01:12:04.840 --> 01:12:09.079 you didn't know what's going on, you'd think the family wanted this, and 848 01:12:09.159 --> 01:12:12.560 these people suffer tragedy and now they have to be in the community and some 849 01:12:12.600 --> 01:12:14.399 people are gonna be like, oh, those are the people that got the 850 01:12:14.439 --> 01:12:20.319 Christmas parade canceled, which is wildly, wildly problematic. She then said that 851 01:12:20.359 --> 01:12:25.960 there was She talked to the various city entities and they all seem to agree, 852 01:12:26.039 --> 01:12:30.560 so she threw her staff as the culprits here. And then she said 853 01:12:30.560 --> 01:12:33.159 the legislature hasn't got the bill done. What if there's changes, as though 854 01:12:33.159 --> 01:12:36.119 you couldn't just put in the permit, you have to abide by any legal 855 01:12:36.199 --> 01:12:41.880 changes, should they come forward before the parade? And then she said it's 856 01:12:41.920 --> 01:12:45.520 because of lawsuits, but the city of Raleigh isn't getting sued. The family 857 01:12:45.640 --> 01:12:48.399 is not suing the city. So help me, Pete calendar, what the 858 01:12:48.399 --> 01:12:51.560 hell's going on here? From your perspective? I need the outsider's view, 859 01:12:54.000 --> 01:13:00.720 so I would just submit maybe that you have a terrible mayor Yeah. Yeah, 860 01:13:00.760 --> 01:13:04.159 A lot of people have come to that conclusion, especially with some other 861 01:13:04.239 --> 01:13:08.720 things we've seen, Like we have a we have an entertainment district that's had 862 01:13:08.800 --> 01:13:13.560 some big, big incidents. Instead of hiring more police because there's one hundred 863 01:13:13.560 --> 01:13:19.399 open positions and policing it properly with people who have both tools and arrest power, 864 01:13:19.479 --> 01:13:26.640 which is an amazing tool, she's chosen to suggest that we need unarmed, 865 01:13:27.439 --> 01:13:31.560 unsworn security guards. Yeah. So obviously that commitment to safety runneth over 866 01:13:31.720 --> 01:13:36.159 on one side and not so much the other. How about we combine the 867 01:13:36.279 --> 01:13:45.079 proposals and we hire a whole bunch of unarmed, non arrest power holding security 868 01:13:45.119 --> 01:13:48.159 guards to maybe drive the floats. Well, no, no, no, 869 01:13:48.279 --> 01:13:50.159 no, oh no, no, no, I got a solution already. 870 01:13:51.039 --> 01:13:55.960 Oh I'm sorry I have I should have apprised you of my solution. Tell 871 01:13:55.960 --> 01:14:00.000 me what you think, all right. I have noticed things. I've noticed 872 01:14:00.920 --> 01:14:05.840 one thing in particular that if you and a bunch of your folks who have 873 01:14:05.920 --> 01:14:14.880 a shared interest of some sort want to permitlessly gather in mass in a very 874 01:14:14.920 --> 01:14:19.680 busy area of the community, say Sayettville, Street I seventy seven in Charlotte. 875 01:14:20.279 --> 01:14:26.520 That you know places like that and do so for whatever reason, there 876 01:14:26.560 --> 01:14:31.960 will really not be any repercussions and and maybe even the governor will come out 877 01:14:31.960 --> 01:14:36.560 and march with you and so like. But I also know I've seen those 878 01:14:36.640 --> 01:14:40.600 videos on YouTube with flash mobs, right, you go into the mall and 879 01:14:40.640 --> 01:14:43.520 then everyone starts singing. You're like, what's going on? Right? Which 880 01:14:43.560 --> 01:14:48.720 is which is a happier face than race riot? So maybe a little from 881 01:14:48.800 --> 01:14:54.279 column a little from column B, and uh, like what could go wrong? 882 01:14:54.399 --> 01:14:57.239 Right, because that's the new legal standard. You can just do whatever 883 01:14:57.279 --> 01:15:00.680 you want and block roads and they can't. They're not gonna do anything to 884 01:15:00.760 --> 01:15:03.279 you. Yeah. So, if anything, the last three years have taught 885 01:15:03.319 --> 01:15:08.920 us that you really don't need a permit to engage in the parading. In 886 01:15:08.960 --> 01:15:13.479 fact, yeah you can. And you can even parade around wearing masks again, 887 01:15:13.520 --> 01:15:16.359 which hasn't been allowed in North Carolina since the clan was marching through cities, 888 01:15:16.720 --> 01:15:24.159 right, so yeah, so why even bother following the law? Really? 889 01:15:24.439 --> 01:15:26.760 And this is the problem, of course, Like on a serious note, 890 01:15:26.800 --> 01:15:30.079 this is the problem when you have a society that fails to enforce the 891 01:15:30.159 --> 01:15:34.239 laws that are on the books. Is that the people who generally do follow 892 01:15:34.279 --> 01:15:41.119 the laws, they start seeing laws not being enforced and they start asking themselves, 893 01:15:41.119 --> 01:15:44.439 well, why should we follow any of the laws? We get to 894 01:15:44.439 --> 01:15:47.279 pick and choose. It's kind of like it's like a cafeterias style. It's 895 01:15:47.279 --> 01:15:53.279 a buffet style approach to law and order. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 896 01:15:54.199 --> 01:15:57.800 yeah. So you can just pick and choose whichever laws you want to and 897 01:15:57.880 --> 01:15:59.800 you can go. I mean the heck, you can walk right down the 898 01:16:00.159 --> 01:16:02.840 love the interstate, haven't you know, banging some pots and pans. Maybe 899 01:16:02.920 --> 01:16:08.920 have some big banners as such, maybe a bullhorn if there's a truck. 900 01:16:11.239 --> 01:16:14.680 Oh okay. Because cross Pointy did point out that if we're going to do 901 01:16:14.760 --> 01:16:16.800 this thing, or not us because I would never organize this, but if 902 01:16:17.000 --> 01:16:23.680 others wanted to gather as a non collective and a nonentity Antifa, which is 903 01:16:23.720 --> 01:16:28.199 not a thing, Yeah, if they wanted to gather. If you really 904 01:16:28.239 --> 01:16:30.560 want to do it, you're gonna have to have something on fire. And 905 01:16:30.600 --> 01:16:34.760 he suggested a float that appears like a Christmas hearth right with the stockings and 906 01:16:34.800 --> 01:16:40.079 everything, but also getting engulfed in flames. So I like keeping with the 907 01:16:40.439 --> 01:16:45.000 tradition there. I like it. It's a dude, it's insanity for for 908 01:16:45.000 --> 01:16:49.159 a hunt for for so many reasons. One, I honestly, if people 909 01:16:49.199 --> 01:16:53.760 are going to only passively digest this story and they're gonna think that this family 910 01:16:53.800 --> 01:16:57.680 wanted to get the Christmas parade canceled and they've been through enough crap. Okay, 911 01:16:57.800 --> 01:17:00.800 obviously they lost their daughter. They lost their daughter. They they but 912 01:17:00.880 --> 01:17:05.279 then they put their energy into the way that they wanted to deal with this, 913 01:17:05.760 --> 01:17:11.119 and that was legislatively with the with the and most of them. Again, 914 01:17:11.760 --> 01:17:14.479 their suggestions are the ones that are part of the House bill are the 915 01:17:14.600 --> 01:17:18.880 very same ones of the City of Raleigh has asked other parade permits which they've 916 01:17:18.920 --> 01:17:23.439 given out to abide by. Right, yeah, And these they're not controversial 917 01:17:23.439 --> 01:17:26.000 things, right, This is like got to show proof of insurance. The 918 01:17:26.119 --> 01:17:28.760 driver's got to be twenty one years or older, I think, Right, 919 01:17:28.800 --> 01:17:33.279 So these are not it's not beyond the realm of reason here, yeah. 920 01:17:33.399 --> 01:17:38.279 Yeah. And then I think the only difference city hasn't done is inspections. 921 01:17:38.319 --> 01:17:41.359 And if you look at the House bill, you have to your vehicle would 922 01:17:41.359 --> 01:17:45.119 have to receive an inspection no more than a week in advance, because there 923 01:17:45.119 --> 01:17:47.840 were break issues apparently with the truck. But but you know, but even 924 01:17:47.880 --> 01:17:50.239 if you think you know, most of them are fined. But not. 925 01:17:50.520 --> 01:17:56.640 That's what the process is for. Okay, instead of just throwing everything out. 926 01:17:56.760 --> 01:18:00.359 Now you get your tinfoil hat man, Yeah, yeah, throw it. 927 01:18:00.359 --> 01:18:02.279 Go ahead and throw that on real quick. All right, hang on, 928 01:18:02.640 --> 01:18:05.479 I have one that looks like an elth So it's gonna be I get 929 01:18:05.520 --> 01:18:10.439 shaped in like an elth hat. So okay, all right, I'm ready. 930 01:18:10.920 --> 01:18:15.720 So I noticed that. She then sorry, so they're going to cancel 931 01:18:15.840 --> 01:18:21.840 the Christmas parade, but then indicated that they will be unveiling quote holiday activities 932 01:18:23.199 --> 01:18:27.399 to bring the community together. No, but the love of me, what 933 01:18:28.079 --> 01:18:30.960 now? What what you got your tinfoil hat on? So what is that? 934 01:18:31.039 --> 01:18:33.359 Well? I would not have been able interpret that. How do you 935 01:18:33.359 --> 01:18:40.319 interpret that? Yeah? Well, now that I have got the hat properly 936 01:18:40.479 --> 01:18:43.239 to hang on a second, I mean okay, all right, yeah, 937 01:18:43.319 --> 01:18:46.840 right, we go tuned it in. Okay, So it seems like they're 938 01:18:46.960 --> 01:18:53.680 using it maybe as an opportunity to engage in a war on Christmas. I'm 939 01:18:53.760 --> 01:18:57.640 just saying that people are going to take it that way. And I have 940 01:18:57.800 --> 01:19:01.000 not seen anything from this group of mood and bad leaders that would indicate that 941 01:19:01.000 --> 01:19:08.079 that is not something that wouldn't end up with a rainbow Santa and uh in 942 01:19:08.119 --> 01:19:11.520 a Kwanza hat coupled with which, by the way, this is the other 943 01:19:11.560 --> 01:19:15.760 thing too, that it's not just the Christmas parade. They have events for 944 01:19:16.039 --> 01:19:21.439 the other uh, for the various other religions or worms of self. They 945 01:19:21.439 --> 01:19:27.840 even have a festivous thing, okay, and and it all kind of uh 946 01:19:27.920 --> 01:19:30.920 yeah, they have Pride Parade, they had a Saint Patrick's Day parade, 947 01:19:30.960 --> 01:19:34.000 and then okay, it was the other one, Like I can't remember the 948 01:19:34.079 --> 01:19:36.800 other one. But the point is, yeah, they have other parades. 949 01:19:38.039 --> 01:19:40.239 But what I'm saying is, yeah, they're like, oh, we want 950 01:19:40.239 --> 01:19:44.079 to do the festive holidays. I understand that, but and they all kind 951 01:19:44.079 --> 01:19:45.600 of, you know, because they all happen kind of within that window. 952 01:19:45.840 --> 01:19:51.319 And if there's one thing downtown Raleigh has, it's a traffic obstruction every weekend, 953 01:19:53.640 --> 01:19:57.600 like and that's because there's always something going on, which is fine, 954 01:19:57.720 --> 01:20:01.199 that's you live downtown. This is what you're signed up for. It just 955 01:20:01.800 --> 01:20:05.079 but they it's they do a very good job of that, whether it is 956 01:20:05.119 --> 01:20:09.600 Pride events, St. Patrick's Day, formerly the Christmas Parade, which the 957 01:20:09.600 --> 01:20:14.239 only thing that stopped it before was Nazis, and then one year with COVID 958 01:20:14.279 --> 01:20:18.000 they had to do it via video. But otherwise, you know, this 959 01:20:18.079 --> 01:20:25.239 thing's been banging on since the nineteen thirties forties, and it's yeah, yeah, 960 01:20:25.279 --> 01:20:28.439 and it's like and I then I wonder if it suffers from that, 961 01:20:28.720 --> 01:20:31.600 right, because anything that's more you know, anything that's pre nineteen sixty is 962 01:20:31.640 --> 01:20:38.159 inherently evil. Yeah, Sumacs patriotical, absolutely, yeah. And I put 963 01:20:38.319 --> 01:20:42.239 this out and I point this out because Wake Forrest to the north of Raleigh 964 01:20:42.279 --> 01:20:45.279 several years ago ahead. And then so this is in twenty nineteen pre COVID 965 01:20:45.720 --> 01:20:48.680 where they announced they were canceling their Christmas parade. But it was a little 966 01:20:48.680 --> 01:20:53.520 twist. See one of the groups that was in the parade, or the 967 01:20:53.600 --> 01:20:57.720 Sons of Confederate Veterans, and all they did was march around and you know 968 01:20:58.000 --> 01:21:02.239 in in Regale, right, yeah, the uniforms and such yeah yeah, 969 01:21:02.319 --> 01:21:06.840 yeah, yeah yeah. And Antifa, which doesn't exist, threatened to come 970 01:21:06.960 --> 01:21:12.439 and uh and violently react. Right. There were some there were things posted 971 01:21:12.479 --> 01:21:16.640 onlines they had to be true, and the city to allow the Heckler's veto 972 01:21:16.840 --> 01:21:21.479 to cancel their Christmas parade, and the sleepy, quaint folks of wake Force 973 01:21:21.640 --> 01:21:27.119 damn near burned the town down. They were so peeved and people did ross 974 01:21:27.119 --> 01:21:29.279 what is it? People just said, screw it, We're doing our own 975 01:21:29.279 --> 01:21:32.359 thing, and they did their own thing right. Yeah, so down the 976 01:21:32.359 --> 01:21:34.840 city of Raleigh. I don't I don't know where the reaction is going to 977 01:21:34.920 --> 01:21:39.840 be. But if if people do go down to do their own thing, 978 01:21:40.359 --> 01:21:44.119 I will be dripping with irony if they decided to go hats and bats on 979 01:21:44.239 --> 01:21:46.239 people with elf hats. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, 980 01:21:46.279 --> 01:21:50.119 it'd be comical. No, so I was. I just thought of this. 981 01:21:50.439 --> 01:21:57.479 Would you like some of our urban coopers. We can maybe try to 982 01:21:57.560 --> 01:22:03.800 arrange the like a Charlotte contingent to show up there and march in the parado. 983 01:22:03.920 --> 01:22:08.079 No, you're not sending. If you want to do a hobo swap, 984 01:22:08.119 --> 01:22:11.680 we can because I got some in man. Now we have a unique 985 01:22:11.760 --> 01:22:17.279 we have a unique busting uh program here. And what it is it's art. 986 01:22:17.359 --> 01:22:20.960 Yeah, it's it's performance art. And so we're gonna we can load 987 01:22:21.000 --> 01:22:24.720 a couple of them up and send them up there for you don't even need 988 01:22:24.800 --> 01:22:29.680 to worry about the returns. So that's so nice of you, guys. 989 01:22:29.760 --> 01:22:32.680 You know what, I'm inspired. I'm inspired by your holiday. I got 990 01:22:32.680 --> 01:22:36.359 a guy who, every day, around three o'clock, if I happen to 991 01:22:36.359 --> 01:22:39.640 be in this one area, so I'm assuming he does it every day, 992 01:22:39.920 --> 01:22:45.359 he peas into this great and goes rah rah rah, and then screams it 993 01:22:45.479 --> 01:22:49.760 people. Could I trade you one of those for perhaps now you're missing? 994 01:22:49.800 --> 01:22:55.000 This is part of the Christmas spirit. You can't give a gift and not 995 01:22:55.199 --> 01:23:00.720 have me give one back. I would feel horrible. Okay, how about 996 01:23:00.760 --> 01:23:03.520 two poopers for one peer? Does that work? Well, he's kind of 997 01:23:03.520 --> 01:23:09.079 a team because there's another dude that's always in the vicinity, so it's a 998 01:23:09.119 --> 01:23:12.319 it's a package deal man. Well, okay, fine, but as long 999 01:23:12.319 --> 01:23:15.880 as it's a two to one ratio here, just because you know, the 1000 01:23:15.000 --> 01:23:18.760 peeing you can do way more often. You know, they's way more often 1001 01:23:18.800 --> 01:23:21.119 than the pooping, and so I feel like that would balance out a two 1002 01:23:21.159 --> 01:23:30.000 to one ratio. I'll you know, I'll get with my throw in six 1003 01:23:30.079 --> 01:23:34.720 billion dollars, could you do that. No, No, because we got 1004 01:23:34.840 --> 01:23:39.600 we got a suckle field to build over on the east side of Charlotte that 1005 01:23:39.640 --> 01:23:43.159 they figured out how to Is it gonna be a biggin? Is it going 1006 01:23:43.199 --> 01:23:45.960 to be a biggin? They have no idea. They've owned this property for 1007 01:23:45.000 --> 01:23:48.760 like a decade or fifteen years, and they just they keep they keep going 1008 01:23:48.800 --> 01:23:51.479 back to the drawing board, as local gov Code tends to do. They 1009 01:23:51.600 --> 01:23:55.439 go back to the drawing board over and over and over again, trying to 1010 01:23:55.960 --> 01:24:00.680 trying to goose the private sector into, you know, carrying the costs of 1011 01:24:00.720 --> 01:24:05.039 all of these massive projects instead of just letting the private sector develop this massive 1012 01:24:05.239 --> 01:24:08.880 It used to be where the mall was, the Eastland Mall, which used 1013 01:24:08.880 --> 01:24:13.439 to be sort of one of the jewels and zone. No. No, 1014 01:24:13.439 --> 01:24:15.720 no, that's the North Lake Mall. That's a different mall altogether. That 1015 01:24:15.760 --> 01:24:20.279 one's still standing. The Eastland Mall U formerly the Crown Jewel. It had 1016 01:24:20.319 --> 01:24:24.840 an ice skating rink. They would do Christmas tree lightings and all the stuff. 1017 01:24:24.840 --> 01:24:27.560 It was, I mean, it was the it was big time back 1018 01:24:27.840 --> 01:24:30.399 you know, forty years ago. And then of course it circled the drain. 1019 01:24:30.479 --> 01:24:33.840 It became the war zone. And I had a friend who told me 1020 01:24:33.880 --> 01:24:39.680 that you can track the the health and life expectancy of the mall by the 1021 01:24:39.760 --> 01:24:44.720 number of footwear stores, specifically sneakers. If you get a lot of sneaker 1022 01:24:44.800 --> 01:24:48.399 stores in the mall, then it's about to die. And so Eastland got 1023 01:24:48.439 --> 01:24:53.359 a whole bunch of the sneaker stores. And after they got all of these 1024 01:24:53.399 --> 01:24:58.079 stores and and and maybe a couple of you know, drive bys and uh 1025 01:24:58.920 --> 01:25:00.880 shot into the mall all in that kind of thing. And so then they 1026 01:25:00.960 --> 01:25:04.600 closed down. They tore it down. They tried to make a They're gonna 1027 01:25:04.600 --> 01:25:09.159 make a big transit center there as a revitalization effort, because we all know 1028 01:25:10.000 --> 01:25:15.840 bus stations are fantastic for the nearby yeah, businesses and property values and such. 1029 01:25:15.960 --> 01:25:18.520 You're going to be shocked. That's where the great is. The homeless 1030 01:25:18.600 --> 01:25:23.800 dude urinates into right next to the bus, the bus station, the big 1031 01:25:23.840 --> 01:25:27.319 bus downtown or terminal. I'm actually not shocked. Yeah, no, I'm 1032 01:25:27.359 --> 01:25:30.840 not shocked at that at all. I was shocked at I saw one of 1033 01:25:30.840 --> 01:25:35.319 the stories about the business owners uh in downtown Rale, which, by the 1034 01:25:35.319 --> 01:25:38.479 way, okay, this is a little bit of a tangent. But I 1035 01:25:38.560 --> 01:25:43.119 saw your friend and mine, Colin Campbell on the Twitter mateen this morning and 1036 01:25:43.159 --> 01:25:45.000 he said he called and I was not aware of this. I don't think 1037 01:25:45.439 --> 01:25:49.760 rallyites is what y'all call yourself rallyites, which is a mouthful. I'm not 1038 01:25:49.800 --> 01:25:53.359 a fan. I'm not a fan of the word. You guys, real, 1039 01:25:53.800 --> 01:25:57.439 you guys are Charlatan's. So that's w yes, Charlot Yeah they say 1040 01:25:57.520 --> 01:26:00.159 Charlotteans, but yeah, Charlatan's pretty close. But the like that would have 1041 01:26:00.159 --> 01:26:03.720 been a better one, like Charlotte Tights or something. But but why not? 1042 01:26:03.960 --> 01:26:09.960 Why not Rallians because it sounds like aliens. I don't know. Yeah, 1043 01:26:10.880 --> 01:26:13.520 yeah, I've seen people use that. I rejected, just like I 1044 01:26:13.560 --> 01:26:17.039 won't call it x So yeah, yeah, yeah, call me hey real 1045 01:26:17.079 --> 01:26:20.840 quickly. I got about a minute speaking of enforcing and so your your mall 1046 01:26:20.920 --> 01:26:25.960 doesn't go to crap actually enforcing the laws. I've not seen enough discussion about 1047 01:26:25.960 --> 01:26:30.760 this guy who caused the UNC campus shutdown literally ten days before that, doing 1048 01:26:30.800 --> 01:26:32.680 the same thing in a gas station down the street and then being put back 1049 01:26:32.760 --> 01:26:36.760 out on the street. He picked out again, well he initially he was 1050 01:26:36.800 --> 01:26:40.520 because he did this on the fifth and then he went and did the same 1051 01:26:40.560 --> 01:26:45.279 thing just up the street. Do you think there's a connection, M No, 1052 01:26:45.279 --> 01:26:47.199 No, which is yeah, see, this is the thing. And 1053 01:26:47.239 --> 01:26:51.920 I when I got to whenever I get into the debates with the gun grabbers, 1054 01:26:51.920 --> 01:26:55.239 I always say the same thing, which is, if your solution is 1055 01:26:55.239 --> 01:26:58.399 to take the guns, then that's going to look different than if your solution 1056 01:26:58.520 --> 01:27:01.119 is to reduce gun crimes and gun violence, because there are things to do 1057 01:27:01.600 --> 01:27:04.720 in that vein, and this story speaks to some of the things that you 1058 01:27:04.760 --> 01:27:08.920 could do. Be calendar. Appreciate it, sir. We'll talk next week. 1059 01:27:08.960 --> 01:27:13.800 Thanks very week, guys. Hang on, Timon. This is one 1060 01:27:13.880 --> 01:27:17.159 oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle and there's Talk ninety four five w 1061 01:27:17.359 --> 01:27:28.319 PTI in the Triad. All right, good morning, eight thirty five and 1062 01:27:28.840 --> 01:27:31.560 she glad to have you along here on the PCO Gay Radio program. Or 1063 01:27:31.560 --> 01:27:36.399 we're solving problems and you know what we do. Yeah, I did mention 1064 01:27:36.439 --> 01:27:42.800 the Wake Forest parade cancelation. That was the whole thing, man. So 1065 01:27:42.920 --> 01:27:46.359 apparently you know, if you're a city official and somebody threatens to literally come 1066 01:27:46.399 --> 01:27:49.079 to your city to break the law, rather than telling them, hey, 1067 01:27:49.119 --> 01:27:54.119 if you break the law here, then you know, we'll arrest you for 1068 01:27:54.199 --> 01:28:00.520 breaking the law. They cowered in the corner and people didn't respond well to 1069 01:28:00.560 --> 01:28:04.399 that. So it'll be interesting to see how people respond to this insanity. 1070 01:28:08.760 --> 01:28:15.920 And judging by the the amount of actual inquiry that many of the robots and 1071 01:28:16.199 --> 01:28:21.000 in these communities that allow these moon bats to do this stuff, they'll probably 1072 01:28:21.079 --> 01:28:29.039 just not care. So tell any man, it's just crazy. Do you 1073 01:28:29.079 --> 01:28:31.239 guys go to the wake Forest parade? Is that a thing? Did you 1074 01:28:31.239 --> 01:28:35.439 guys go to parades? Right down there, Roster Lee is linking a parade 1075 01:28:35.479 --> 01:28:39.359 fan. I thought you were mentioned. We went to like one or two 1076 01:28:39.479 --> 01:28:43.720 and then we just sort of stopped. Did you parade people? Some people 1077 01:28:43.760 --> 01:28:45.359 aren't. Well, no, I mean we would, but with the autism, 1078 01:28:45.399 --> 01:28:48.920 it's kind of really hard because there's a lot going on. Yeah, 1079 01:28:49.119 --> 01:28:53.039 there was a lot of potential fire trucks or something he liked. I can't 1080 01:28:53.039 --> 01:28:55.520 remember you were telling me about it one time, but yeah, there is 1081 01:28:55.560 --> 01:28:59.920 too much potential for meltdowns, so we're like we avoid that now. Dude, 1082 01:29:00.039 --> 01:29:02.840 speaking of holiday stuff, and I guess you know at the Meryl probably 1083 01:29:02.840 --> 01:29:06.600 come in and want an ordinance to take these down. So the companies make 1084 01:29:06.600 --> 01:29:11.680 the giant inflatables. Apparently all of you are going crazy with these things, 1085 01:29:12.239 --> 01:29:15.039 and they couldn't keep up the last two years, I haven't been able to 1086 01:29:15.119 --> 01:29:18.079 keep up. They had supply chain issues, and then last year they vastly 1087 01:29:18.199 --> 01:29:20.720 underwhelmed the amount of you who thought, hey, you know what we need 1088 01:29:20.800 --> 01:29:26.640 is a twelve foot Christmas snoopy. So I was reading an article this year 1089 01:29:27.039 --> 01:29:31.560 there are they are all in and they say that they expect the average size 1090 01:29:31.640 --> 01:29:34.239 of the large models, so there's smaller ones. And then they had what 1091 01:29:34.359 --> 01:29:43.640 they concerner large to go from twelve to on average sixteen feet, with most 1092 01:29:43.680 --> 01:29:47.640 of the bigger ones being twenty feet. These things. How much these things 1093 01:29:47.840 --> 01:29:51.720 cost, by the way, they are super expensive, And it's gotten it's 1094 01:29:51.720 --> 01:29:56.119 gotten ridiculous every single year, like more and more. So one thing we 1095 01:29:56.199 --> 01:29:59.920 do enjoy doing, and this starts off like right in October is every day 1096 01:30:00.039 --> 01:30:02.600 a Lincoln like stick in the car and we drive around. He loves looking 1097 01:30:02.600 --> 01:30:05.560 at the different houses, oh you know, decorations and the inflatables. And 1098 01:30:05.560 --> 01:30:09.680 we have our our path we go to in our routine, and that starts 1099 01:30:09.680 --> 01:30:13.680 in October and it doesn't really end till mid January because after the Halloween decorations 1100 01:30:13.720 --> 01:30:16.000 come down, then the Christmas decorations start to go up. There's a little 1101 01:30:16.039 --> 01:30:21.520 pause in the driving around the neighborhoods in like November around Thanksgiving. But I 1102 01:30:21.520 --> 01:30:26.199 mean that's like the big thing he likes to do. And we've noticed these 1103 01:30:26.279 --> 01:30:30.279 decorations have gotten crazy, like they're bigger than some of the houses. They're 1104 01:30:30.560 --> 01:30:32.960 they're taller than how But for sure, man, I was looking at some 1105 01:30:33.000 --> 01:30:35.920 of the models. Here you can and here's the thing, like you better 1106 01:30:35.960 --> 01:30:40.680 tether that thing down, because what's gonna happen is the bouncy house and thing 1107 01:30:40.760 --> 01:30:43.159 is going to happen. Dude, I could see like blown away like not 1108 01:30:43.199 --> 01:30:46.159 gonna kid over some not gonna kid or just flying into the road and causing 1109 01:30:46.199 --> 01:30:51.119 some sort of horrific accident. But there it's more so than just the you 1110 01:30:51.159 --> 01:30:56.680 know, going bigger and better they are because this is what we do with 1111 01:30:56.760 --> 01:31:03.319 the holidays. The companies are trying to really expand the as you were just 1112 01:31:03.319 --> 01:31:09.079 talking about the calendars, So they're going all in on the big inflatable Halloween 1113 01:31:09.359 --> 01:31:14.119 and Thanksgiving ones more so than in previous years where most of the business was 1114 01:31:15.159 --> 01:31:17.600 most of it was Christmas, and then Halloween was second, and then obviously 1115 01:31:17.680 --> 01:31:21.640 Thanksgiving was third. But they basically are trying to get every house to buy 1116 01:31:21.640 --> 01:31:25.000 one of these giant inflatables, to buy three of them. You know what 1117 01:31:25.039 --> 01:31:27.760 I'm saying. Yeah, I know, driving around like the Traditions area and 1118 01:31:27.760 --> 01:31:30.000 Wake Forest, it's gotten like crazy. Like I said, these things are 1119 01:31:30.039 --> 01:31:34.880 so big. You have these giant inflatable santas or snowmen where they're literally bigger 1120 01:31:34.920 --> 01:31:38.319 than a two story house. And if you're inside the house, I don't 1121 01:31:38.399 --> 01:31:42.840 understand how like it's got to block out the sun. Well, what if 1122 01:31:43.039 --> 01:31:46.319 I don't want people staring in my front window anyway. So right, there's 1123 01:31:46.359 --> 01:31:49.680 that, and it's ultimately like I can imagine that it's ultimately keeping up with 1124 01:31:49.720 --> 01:31:54.840 the Joneses, right because somebody, somebody puts it up and you're like, 1125 01:31:54.960 --> 01:31:57.560 look at this weird out on the street. You put up like a fifty 1126 01:31:57.600 --> 01:32:00.640 footalls snowman, and then before you know what your kids are like as now 1127 01:32:00.680 --> 01:32:04.079 man it's only ten feet tall, and then it keeps getting You got to 1128 01:32:04.119 --> 01:32:06.560 buy it to keep up with neighbor. Why did your kids be thankful for 1129 01:32:06.640 --> 01:32:11.399 stuff kids. Yeah, yeah, you're not right. Well, do you 1130 01:32:11.439 --> 01:32:14.640 remember that story we did from where was it in Maryland or something last year 1131 01:32:14.680 --> 01:32:17.319 where the woman got arrested because she went and she like punctured some of her 1132 01:32:17.359 --> 01:32:25.399 neighbor's ones and it was a battle she she punctured that she punctured one. 1133 01:32:25.960 --> 01:32:29.840 I remember the story. A neighbor bought one and bought the same one she 1134 01:32:30.000 --> 01:32:33.800 had, and she took offense to that because that was her ideas. And 1135 01:32:33.840 --> 01:32:38.560 then another neighbor came to the defense of the other neighbor and bought one. 1136 01:32:38.640 --> 01:32:41.800 So she went and sabotaged theres and got arrested. And I think they said 1137 01:32:41.800 --> 01:32:45.520 the value of them was like three thousand dollars something. They're stupid expensive. 1138 01:32:45.640 --> 01:32:49.119 Now we do have like a few We have a polar Bear inflatable, but 1139 01:32:49.159 --> 01:32:53.920 it's not it's like maybe six or seven feet. It's it's normal. It's 1140 01:32:53.960 --> 01:32:57.560 a quote normal what normal used to be. And then we have for Halloween, 1141 01:32:57.600 --> 01:33:00.760 we have the doom Buggy from the Haunted Mansion with the reghost it in 1142 01:33:00.399 --> 01:33:05.560 and that's pretty much it. But like though even those regular six to ten 1143 01:33:05.640 --> 01:33:11.880 foot is like crazy expensive. I can't even imagine how much the ones that 1144 01:33:11.920 --> 01:33:14.680 are bigger than your house costs. Yeah, I'm just I was looking at 1145 01:33:14.720 --> 01:33:18.960 some of these, so they say the hot seller for Halloween is, let's 1146 01:33:18.960 --> 01:33:27.520 see the twenty foot Frankenstein and Ghosts are their two top sellers. Twenty feet 1147 01:33:27.680 --> 01:33:31.960 twenty I just it seems so remarkably unnecessary, right, it's twenty feet, 1148 01:33:32.000 --> 01:33:34.119 and then you've got that's the height, and then like you know, the 1149 01:33:34.520 --> 01:33:38.560 length of the width is just like it's as big as the house, right, 1150 01:33:40.680 --> 01:33:46.720 giant inflatable turkey obviously, the Thanksgiving one, and then Christmas Polar Bear 1151 01:33:46.840 --> 01:33:53.920 Santa Santa is the big one, along with Snowman. The snow Man's right 1152 01:33:53.960 --> 01:33:57.199 pie because the Snowman is conducive to this, right, because of the shape 1153 01:33:57.199 --> 01:34:00.359 of it, So Santa really for that matter. But yeah, the Snowman's 1154 01:34:00.399 --> 01:34:03.439 going to be conducive since it's bottom heavy and all that, so you probably 1155 01:34:03.439 --> 01:34:06.319 get that tethered down. But I had no idea this is what people were 1156 01:34:06.319 --> 01:34:11.119 spending. But I remember walking into Costco, and you know, at Costco 1157 01:34:11.199 --> 01:34:15.199 they kind of get the seasonal stuff right when you walk in, and they 1158 01:34:15.239 --> 01:34:18.000 had a display where they had had like three or four of these giant inflatables, 1159 01:34:18.079 --> 01:34:23.760 and it looked like it looked like it had just been looted right right, 1160 01:34:24.640 --> 01:34:29.720 and and they they couldn't keep them in stock. Every time they put 1161 01:34:29.720 --> 01:34:31.840 twenty more of these things. And I think they were charging like five hundred 1162 01:34:31.840 --> 01:34:35.479 dollars for whatever these were, Like four ninety nine was the price for they 1163 01:34:35.479 --> 01:34:41.239 were just they would instant disappear. So now they're going bigger and bolder. 1164 01:34:41.239 --> 01:34:46.279 Man, I mean, I feel like Ross, I feel like you're gonna 1165 01:34:46.319 --> 01:34:49.199 have to keep up with the Joneses or are you the only inflatable in your 1166 01:34:49.199 --> 01:34:55.239 neighborhood, so you set the standard, because if they're only inflatable, then 1167 01:34:55.239 --> 01:34:58.239 there's no Joneses to keep up with. Yeah, unfortunately, we're like the 1168 01:34:58.239 --> 01:35:00.960 only game in town. Okay, well that's good for you. That's going 1169 01:35:00.039 --> 01:35:01.840 to save you some money there, that's all I'm saying. Well, no, 1170 01:35:02.000 --> 01:35:04.600 I mean, I wouldn't have the budget to like compete anyway. So 1171 01:35:04.640 --> 01:35:09.000 if somebody's like, dah, I'm buying the fifty foot tall reindeer whatever, 1172 01:35:09.000 --> 01:35:11.159 I'm like, well have at it, buddy, because I can't do that. 1173 01:35:13.000 --> 01:35:15.680 Dude. You tell them that would that would be bigger than my entire 1174 01:35:15.720 --> 01:35:17.319 front yard. Like, it wouldn't fit. I would have to go into 1175 01:35:17.319 --> 01:35:19.880 they would have to go into the neighbor's yard. Dude, if you told 1176 01:35:19.960 --> 01:35:24.399 that batch of yokels you want to put a fifty foot reindeer up to obstruct 1177 01:35:24.479 --> 01:35:27.560 the sun from your neighbors, I feel like they that would not be a 1178 01:35:27.880 --> 01:35:30.720 no no, don't don't misunderstand. Like if I made an a mission on 1179 01:35:30.760 --> 01:35:32.720 the Twitch channel'll be like, hey, we got a fund for the five 1180 01:35:32.760 --> 01:35:38.439 thousand foot tall Santa I think to get the condom done back. This is 1181 01:35:38.479 --> 01:35:43.600 how you punish them for taking your son, but priorities. Yeah, that's 1182 01:35:43.600 --> 01:35:45.600 a good point. Like, if they want to start that battle, it 1183 01:35:45.600 --> 01:35:48.239 probably won't end well if I wanted to put the effort into it. Right, 1184 01:35:48.399 --> 01:35:53.520 you get you got minions, man, you got an army. Y'all 1185 01:35:53.560 --> 01:35:58.319 screw with a guy with an army just saying all right, a forty four 1186 01:35:59.119 --> 01:36:01.680 ray staging. He's in the army, except he's got the accordions, so 1187 01:36:02.840 --> 01:36:05.840 right, be the one they shoot first. Anyway? How you doing sure? 1188 01:36:06.279 --> 01:36:11.119 Hey, I'm great? How are you don't so bad? As Jets 1189 01:36:12.359 --> 01:36:17.680 Jets Jets Jets undefeated Jays, the undefeated Jets. Ross's Rossi's a cowboy fan, 1190 01:36:17.800 --> 01:36:24.279 now he should be right. Yeah, I think I'm gonna start golf 1191 01:36:24.479 --> 01:36:30.439 over Jared what's his name there, Bill's quarterback. I'm gonna start Jared Goff. 1192 01:36:31.399 --> 01:36:34.840 Why not? Because pissed off, angry Josh Allen. I don't know 1193 01:36:34.880 --> 01:36:38.920 if you've ever seen the stats of Josh Allen after a bad game. I 1194 01:36:39.000 --> 01:36:42.960 haven't. They're good. Yeah, all right, I'm gonna leave him and 1195 01:36:43.039 --> 01:36:46.520 they're playing the Raiders. Yeah, they're well. The games when he has 1196 01:36:46.560 --> 01:36:49.279 a bad like when he has a game where he has three turnovers or more 1197 01:36:49.760 --> 01:36:53.800 the next the next game, since like twenty nineteen, he has a keepy 1198 01:36:53.920 --> 01:36:57.520 rating of one hundred and one point two or something. It's stupid. All 1199 01:36:57.600 --> 01:37:02.279 right, I will see this be just seeing how like the vibe is on 1200 01:37:02.319 --> 01:37:11.199 Twitter, the Bills drop this game coming up, Buffalo will burn again just 1201 01:37:11.319 --> 01:37:14.880 to get out of the city, run of the cave. Yeah, I 1202 01:37:14.880 --> 01:37:19.760 don't blame I don't I don't blame everybody. And Zach Wilson. Yeah, 1203 01:37:19.880 --> 01:37:23.399 so all right, so I'm gonna I'm gonna keep him. Then I'll take 1204 01:37:23.439 --> 01:37:28.439 your advice as a Bills fan hopefully I won't regret it. And hey, 1205 01:37:28.479 --> 01:37:32.479 the Vikings Casey made it close last night. I mean, yeah, exactly 1206 01:37:33.840 --> 01:37:36.560 that either way. Oh no, no, it's worse. It's worse than 1207 01:37:36.760 --> 01:37:41.159 I would rather be be. Forty nothing than to realize that a couple of 1208 01:37:41.159 --> 01:37:45.239 times when we should have just taken the points but we're stupid, we now 1209 01:37:45.279 --> 01:37:48.720 lost because of that. So yep, yep. And you know, weather 1210 01:37:48.840 --> 01:37:56.720 related games include Harvard, they're gonna play in some rain and wind, and 1211 01:37:56.760 --> 01:38:01.399 then the one I'm more concerned about is a Florida stay at Boston College Wendy 1212 01:38:01.439 --> 01:38:05.159 and Rainy. I don't know if rain is going to play into that because 1213 01:38:05.239 --> 01:38:10.159 Florida State probably more of a passing team they are running team, and you 1214 01:38:10.199 --> 01:38:13.319 know, you know me, I'm hoping for the upset. And by the 1215 01:38:13.319 --> 01:38:15.720 way, beautiful in Death Valley tomorrow night. The range should hold off until 1216 01:38:15.800 --> 01:38:20.960 later. And locally some great weather today tonight if it's high school football tomorrow, 1217 01:38:21.399 --> 01:38:26.560 lots of sunshine most of us low eighties, maybe the upper eight or 1218 01:38:26.560 --> 01:38:29.239 maybe the mid eighties tomorrow, but comfortable, especially at night. This morning. 1219 01:38:29.279 --> 01:38:32.319 It's beautiful tomorrow morning just as nice. It's not until Sunday, we 1220 01:38:32.399 --> 01:38:35.399 start to see a shower thunder shower threat, but that's going to be short 1221 01:38:35.439 --> 01:38:39.680 lived. The next week a long run of sunshine and lower to maybe middle 1222 01:38:39.720 --> 01:38:43.800 eighties and overnight lows comfortable to upper fifties ten the year sixties. So I 1223 01:38:44.159 --> 01:38:47.039 feel like we're making that turn case see to more fall time weather or more 1224 01:38:47.079 --> 01:38:50.279 in line with what it should be this time of year. So it looks 1225 01:38:50.279 --> 01:38:53.680 pretty good to feel good too. Okay, well, just as long as 1226 01:38:53.760 --> 01:38:58.600 lightning doesn't destroy the new fifteen million dollars scoreboard again at NC State. Yeah, 1227 01:38:59.000 --> 01:39:00.560 I think we're gonna be a good shape. Okay, alright, cool, 1228 01:39:00.720 --> 01:39:03.560 tomorrow looks good, ye, all right, and we'll come back to 1229 01:39:03.600 --> 01:39:18.479 chat with Jeff Balinger next. Hang on smart Talk all Day ninety four five 1230 01:39:18.760 --> 01:39:26.199 WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle fifty 1231 01:39:26.239 --> 01:39:30.359 three. Your Blimberg update now with Jeff Bellinger. Jeff, what's happening Blood 1232 01:39:30.439 --> 01:39:35.199 morning? Casey stocks advanced in yesterday's trading. Futures now are lower right across 1233 01:39:35.279 --> 01:39:40.359 the board. They were mixed until just minutes ago. The strike is on. 1234 01:39:40.479 --> 01:39:45.000 The United Auto Workers union began targeted walkouts after talks of the Big three 1235 01:39:45.039 --> 01:39:48.640 automakers failed to produce a contract agreement. At this point, the UAW was 1236 01:39:48.640 --> 01:39:53.199 shut down a Fort plant in Michigan, a General Motors plant in Missouri, 1237 01:39:53.479 --> 01:39:58.439 and a Stillantis factory in Ohio. Each of the plants produces a popular and 1238 01:39:58.640 --> 01:40:01.640 very profitable VIA. There is some movement in one of the strikes that has 1239 01:40:01.720 --> 01:40:06.199 kept Hollywood shut down the past four months. Movie and television producers planned to 1240 01:40:06.199 --> 01:40:11.520 meet next week with leaders of the Writers Guild. The Federal Reserve will meet 1241 01:40:11.600 --> 01:40:15.960 next week. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg are pretty confident that interest rates will not 1242 01:40:15.079 --> 01:40:19.640 be raised at the meeting, but they say because the economy has remained resilient, 1243 01:40:19.880 --> 01:40:25.560 central bankers will likely pencil in one more rate hike this year and indicate 1244 01:40:25.640 --> 01:40:30.800 that rates will remain high for longer than previously expected. And could the ABC 1245 01:40:30.039 --> 01:40:35.840 television network change hands. That is a possibility a casey Walt Disney has reportedly 1246 01:40:35.880 --> 01:40:42.319 heard from a couple of suitors interested in buying ABC and also Disney's local TV 1247 01:40:42.479 --> 01:40:47.199 stations. Sources say Disney has held initial talks with Nexstar Media and the MediaMogul 1248 01:40:47.279 --> 01:40:51.079 Byron Allen is said to have approached Disney with an offer to buy ABC, 1249 01:40:51.479 --> 01:40:57.960 the local stations and the FX national geographic cable channel. So stay tuned, 1250 01:40:58.039 --> 01:41:00.760 casey, Jeff, I was reading this year that it's going to be the 1251 01:41:00.800 --> 01:41:06.560 manufacturers of giant holiday inflatables are they're betting not a big year because they basically 1252 01:41:06.560 --> 01:41:12.680 sold out last year. Do you have any big giant holiday inflatables? I 1253 01:41:12.760 --> 01:41:15.680 don't. I don't even put out type. All I have is my but 1254 01:41:15.720 --> 01:41:17.680 whatever cards I get, go up on my mantle on that show. Okay, 1255 01:41:17.720 --> 01:41:19.720 all right, we'll just see you know, the selection is gonna be 1256 01:41:19.760 --> 01:41:24.000 a big time this year, So there you go. Okay year, Okay, 1257 01:41:24.039 --> 01:41:27.199 I look forward to seeing them in the neighborhood. Okay, alright, 1258 01:41:27.239 --> 01:41:30.600 thank okay, we have a good day. Take it all right. Let 1259 01:41:30.600 --> 01:41:34.640 me grab a couple of calls on this, Jake, what's up, Hey, 1260 01:41:34.760 --> 01:41:40.119 good morning. You guys are talking about the energy it takes. I 1261 01:41:40.119 --> 01:41:44.520 mean, the bigger that they go on these uh inflatables, the heavier duty 1262 01:41:44.560 --> 01:41:47.159 at sea, heavier duty they have to be. The larger. The fans 1263 01:41:47.159 --> 01:41:51.800 are that variables, and they already are raising our electric grade. They want 1264 01:41:51.880 --> 01:41:58.920 us to have these in everything a yard for every seasonal holiday? What are 1265 01:41:58.960 --> 01:42:00.720 they raising? Hold? Are they raising your electric right for? I mean 1266 01:42:00.760 --> 01:42:04.039 I understand that you have to blow it up, but you know, and 1267 01:42:04.359 --> 01:42:06.960 then you then you take it down and put it back in your garage? 1268 01:42:08.000 --> 01:42:12.840 Man, right? Yeah? But I mean if you want it for like 1269 01:42:12.920 --> 01:42:17.920 October, November, December. I mean, I've thought Paul nupper ones. 1270 01:42:19.399 --> 01:42:24.840 But they're raising in the greats in general, though, aren't they? And 1271 01:42:24.920 --> 01:42:28.640 then they want to Paul to have a part. But it's all right, 1272 01:42:28.640 --> 01:42:30.000 Well I didn't really I think for the call the j I didn't realize that. 1273 01:42:30.159 --> 01:42:33.199 I just thought you blew them up and then you know, and then 1274 01:42:33.199 --> 01:42:38.279 when you're done, you pull a little pop thing and then walk them out 1275 01:42:38.319 --> 01:42:40.880 and put them back in the garage. Is this not accurate? Now? 1276 01:42:40.920 --> 01:42:42.960 You plug them in and they have to at least the ones we have, 1277 01:42:43.239 --> 01:42:45.760 like the ten foot ones whatever, like under ten foot you plug them in 1278 01:42:46.359 --> 01:42:50.239 and the outside outlets and like get create a little little fan inside goes up 1279 01:42:50.239 --> 01:42:54.000 and it blows it. It has to constantly be on if you unplug it 1280 01:42:54.079 --> 01:42:56.800 in. It's the place you tell me, these things you're not error pre 1281 01:42:57.239 --> 01:43:01.800 what they're not? Hold the air. Maybe they are every inflatable that we 1282 01:43:01.920 --> 01:43:04.199 have owned, and we've we have owned a bunch. Like I said, 1283 01:43:04.199 --> 01:43:06.159 you can plug him in and as soon as you unplug him, did a 1284 01:43:06.199 --> 01:43:12.600 flate, we'll get I think some duct tape could solve that. That's what 1285 01:43:12.760 --> 01:43:15.520 a scam man? What an absolute? Do? They want to make them 1286 01:43:15.600 --> 01:43:18.079 quality enough to hold the air, so they just you guys can figure it 1287 01:43:18.079 --> 01:43:21.399 out with your energy costs. Oh wait, hold on, yes, Boston, 1288 01:43:21.479 --> 01:43:25.960 Paul, what ross? I put mine on a time so you can 1289 01:43:26.079 --> 01:43:28.960 you can have a time a ticket off and blow it up. I have 1290 01:43:29.079 --> 01:43:31.960 the gridge to twelve foot gridge. But what I wanted to say was maybe 1291 01:43:32.000 --> 01:43:36.399 some of the parade go is, you know, the organizers and the police 1292 01:43:36.439 --> 01:43:42.600 offices can hold an informational picket around Marianne's house that we do want police offices 1293 01:43:42.680 --> 01:43:46.600 high it and we do want a Christmas parade. Yeah, she'll Yeah, 1294 01:43:46.640 --> 01:43:49.479 it'll be interesting though, because then she'll call other police to arrest who ever 1295 01:43:49.520 --> 01:43:54.000 showed up near her house because she's scared. Oh no, police, police 1296 01:43:54.039 --> 01:43:58.680 can pick it. They can picket. They can have informational pickets, Yes 1297 01:43:58.840 --> 01:44:01.039 they can. I agree, you got a grinch one because Ross wrote on 1298 01:44:01.119 --> 01:44:05.680 here that you have a whitey bulger inflatable, So I haven't Ted Kennedy floaty 1299 01:44:06.039 --> 01:44:11.279 pool floaty, but it doesn't float real well. So upside down Well, 1300 01:44:11.319 --> 01:44:14.640 it's constantly thinking does it come with the car? Yeah? Yeah, I 1301 01:44:14.880 --> 01:44:19.159 got the offer yeah with yeah, with Ted and a woman and upside down 1302 01:44:19.600 --> 01:44:25.880 Yeah. But I also got the Leprecron two for Saint Patrick's Day. Yeah. 1303 01:44:25.880 --> 01:44:28.600 I think I think they should hold the signs. They have flowers in 1304 01:44:28.680 --> 01:44:30.600 the pack, flood in the streets. No, we want on polition. 1305 01:44:30.680 --> 01:44:36.760 We want what flowers in the What in the pack? You know the poc 1306 01:44:36.800 --> 01:44:42.000 where they have the slides and stuff. It's a p HK poc. Yeah, 1307 01:44:42.039 --> 01:44:46.439 yeah, yeah, Boston. Okay, go b Owen two. I'm 1308 01:44:46.439 --> 01:44:49.039 out of time, Okay, go be Owen. I gotta go catch catch 1309 01:44:49.119 --> 01:44:51.520 up on cricket. I'm gonna go catch up on cricket. That's good. 1310 01:44:51.600 --> 01:44:57.319 That's a good thought. Okay, h Brestman, I know what it feels 1311 01:44:57.319 --> 01:45:02.439 like to be Owen too. Ross, you better not join this club. 1312 01:45:02.680 --> 01:45:03.720 It's a doomed voy