What a day yesterday. Oh my goodness. Now we got a we got
a pretty busy show today because yesterday Stephen kent uh from bounding into comics.
He he was traveling and normally we chat with him. Uh so we had
to move him to today. So at seven oh five we'll get into that.
Uh Ross, did you really read down into the Gina Carano lawsuit any
of the stuff that came out of it. It's pretty fascinating. I thought
it was a little more cut and dry and we knew what was up.
But if you read into it, so the thing that triggered them seemingly wasn't
even the post. They say that they parted ways with her over the cake
was baked since Bebop boop. And if you don't know but what I mean
by that, if you went to Karana, I'm sure if you still do,
I guess I could check, but I'm I'm sure she didn't change.
It's the sticking point where in her profile she wrote at the end beat bob
boop, and it did so in the same the same I guess formatting as
you would put your pronouns. That's what did it. And if you if
you get in there and you actually read into it. So that happened,
and immediately she started getting phone calls from everybody. Yeah, what a dumb
thing to get angry about. Yeah, and they so they demanded that she
come in for this sensitivity thing, right, Yeah, they wanted her to
change it to her actual pronouns yes on her personal page of Twitter at the
time, Yes, yes, yes, yes, And she pointed out that
it wasn't even about the pronouns. She didn't have any pronouns in there and
was perfectly happy just doing her thing. And she, you know, the
the Twitter activist collective descended upon her and demanded that she put it in there.
So in her explanation, she was she was mocking people who are you
know, demanding of others. She's mocking the people that were horrible to her.
And anyway, so she goes, she gets the call and first they're
like, we like you to meet with like a dozen members of the LGBTQ
community and organizations. Well, she agreed to and she went and folks within
Lucasfilms afterwards talked to the folks that she had met with and they're like,
no, she's fine, we like her. And that didn't sit well,
including with Harvey Weinstein's former assistant, who for whatever reason Kathleen Kennedy decided should
be brought on to direct a Star Wars project. And so Krono said,
she did that meeting, and then after she got she was getting calls from
Kathleen Kennedy yes and saying, Hey, here's what we're gonna do. We
want you to come to come to a room and we're going to have two
dozen, like twenty five people who work for Lucasfilms, but who are members
of the LGBTQ community, and you're gonna sit there and get listen to this,
you know. So it was described as a struggle session, and Karana
looked at the list of employees and ironically, just prior to them asking for
that, she had she'd gotten a link for what she thought was a fundraiser.
And you know, when you work in Hollywood, when you work with
people on a show and all of that, if if they send you a
fundraiser, a lot of times you'll donate, right just to keep the peace
any of that. And she was going to go donate to this fundraiser,
which she thought was a fundraiser for LGBTQ stuff. And she found out that
the fundraiser was get Gina Carano and she was literally listed as the reason we
need to raise money because she's a monster. And then she realized that it
was the fundraiser was started by one of the Lucas employees she was going to
meet with, and a bunch of the others, including this big time director
Lady Weinstein's old assistant actually donated to it as well. And so she said,
no, I'm not gonna go sit in a room with a bunch of
people who are literally having a fundraiser to cancel me. Right, it's not,
that's not because Kennedy described it to her agent as a room full of
people who want her to succeed, and it was at that point She's just
like no. And then they they were waiting and they found what they were
looking for in Boom. It's I mean, it's really really nasty b of
work. And you realize how early on it was the plan was to get
her out of there. So I'm curious to chat with Stephen ken about that.
Also, Pete Calender, he'll join us coming up at eight oh five.
So yeah, boy, how do I sum up yesterday? Oh jeez,
all right. There were two very important and unique things that happened yesterday.
One one is the interview with Vladimir Putin by Tucker Carlson. Was was
posted to Twitter. It's uh, yeah, it's our twenty minutes or whatever,
and Tucker's interviewing him. Putin is choosing to speak through a translator.
And I want to point that out because I think it's important to my analysis.
Because Putin speaks English. So we're all clear here. He speaks English.
He can hold a conversation in it. He will do so if he's
uh, if he's not on camera. And but it was through a translator.
And I've seen some Russian speakers who I tend to believe are going to
be accurate, who rightfully point out that there is look, there's there's some
of it's lost in translation, especially when Putin's body language doesn't necessarily comport with
his emotion on something. And so I thought that was interesting to fill in
the gaps. And and in that case, I wonder if instead maybe do
translator, but maybe subtitles where you have multiple people have had a chance to
maybe that's better. But that's always going to be the reality there. But
what was not surprising to me, but apparently it was to people who just
are out of their minds that this could even be taking place. Is you
know, they're going, we'll see see he's sitting there and he's trying to
tell everyone he's right. Yep. Did you not think that? Did you
not think that was That's how that was going to go. Nobody was denying
that Vladimir Putin was going to attempt to propagandaize maybe he's right, maybe he's
wrong when it comes to the specifics on a couple things like the nord Stream
or some of the others. But that's where post analysis happens. It's not
surprising that the like I feel like the only world leader out there, or
world leaders out there who wouldn't attempt to take an opportunity for an interview like
that that they feel may reach an audience that they haven't to promote their se
seemingly are ours right, or maybe even expand that to the UK, Australia,
parts of Europe and whatnot. You fully expect that, and when you're
analyzing what's being said, you have to see it from that perspective. And
keep in mind that Zelensky's been running around and also whenever doing an interview,
Hey, this is why I'm right, And then you got to do the
analysis and you got to look at it. And the fact is you're starting
you're from go, You're starting with two countries that have an immense amount of
corruption baked into the cake. Obviously, you know, we talk about the
window problem they have there in Russia. Apparently they're very poorly designed and people
are constantly falling out of them. But the reality is that's something you have
to take in and you arm yourself with that knowledge and you recognize that just
as Vladimir Putin didn't speak English, because the propagandic value of that interview is
not just people are misconstruing. They think it's it's it's purely to reach an
American or a Western audience, but in reality it's so one could argue it
was more important to Vladimir Putin to be able to speak to his people and
be seen as you know, and and so utilizing and speaking Russian is far
more important because there's no nuance there to his his citizenry. I guess as
long as they speak Russian. And and and then Vladimir Zelensky showing up running
around. Uh where Uh the only the only outfit he owns is coup or
you know whatever that look is. But it's it's a visual thing, right.
He has to be shown to be that wartime president. And he here's
his buddies and they're not asking critical questions, which is analysis somebody. So
that's going on, and there's some there's interest, there's a lot of interesting
little nuggets in there. And I look, I know this is going to
be analyzed to death today, so I kind of wanted to approach this from
the big picture. Did Tucker Carlson ask go and ask him questions where Vladimir
Putin gave propaganda? Answers? Yes, does Vladimir Putin think he's right on
this? Yes? Is he a guy who you couldn't convince me otherwise that
doesn't have his enemies murdered? No, that's who he is. That's who
he is, right, And and you understand that going in it was Mike
was a Mike Wallace who did the last that big bin laden and I can't
remember which one of the news anchors, but like you run it through that
filter, if you see Vladimir Putin, as you know Osama bin laden In
enemy and all of this, by the way, all of this still makes
me laugh every time. I remember Mitt Romney and Barack Obama and that debate,
and and Romney said, you know, Russia, Russia, although I
would I think China is currently, but maybe that you could make that argument,
and they all laughed at him. And then of course we had you
know, all things Russia throughout the entirety of the Trump presidency, and now
here we are. So yeah, but you know, at no point it
bin laden go, you know what, You're probably right. Maybe I shouldn't
be doing this. Maybe I shouldn't be attacking the United States. Maybe I
shouldn't be organizing further attacks on members of the US military. Maybe I shouldn't
be hiding out and Pakistan continuing to run my terrorist network. Now he didn't
say any of that. He's said, no, I'm right, here's why.
And now the irony of ironies is it wasn't that long ago where his
little manifesto, his Letter to America was being lionized by idiots on TikTok.
So with all of that out there and all of the ability to take out
of an hour and twenty minute interview to say, look, here's Tucker Carlson
giving aid to the enemy. There was a lawyer yesterday discussing whether Carlson could
be charged under the Espionage Act. That was a real piece of analysis that
I actually watched yesterday, and the analysis was probably not but who knows with
Washington, which is actually probably fair analysis. So with all of that,
all of that opportunity to go and out of those hour and twenty minutes for
both sides, so to speak, politically, to grab whatever nuggets they think
proves their case. Joe Biden wandered out to do a press conference yesterday following
that special prosecutor's study their recommendation, and it was a train wreck. Now
let me get this out of the way before you call. I understand that
some people's take, so I'll put it out there, is that it was
the Hail Mary. And the reason they put Biden out there, even though
they knew it would be disaster is one, it distracts from the interview with
Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin, and two they knew it would be such a
train wreck because he spent all week talking to ghosts. Then it also provides
an opportunity coupled with that report to clear the way and get somebody else on
the ballot, which I understand that that is. That's a takeout there,
and who the hell knows it's it's abundantly clear that there's nobody around Biden.
And I don't know if it's because he'll brate them or or for whatever reason,
because they just realize, you know, he's useful and he basically does
kind of what they want. There's nobody around this dude going no, no,
it's no, you shouldn't do that. And at times I was watching
it, yes, saying I'm I find myself feeling bad for him. Does
that make sense? I'm just like, yeah, if if, if,
if you're dealing with something and you might be in denial over it because nobody
wants to be dealing with something like that, and nobody around you will be
honest with you. Of course you're gonna you're gonna be like, yeah,
what's the big problem? All right, We'll get more on this coming up
here on the CaCO Day radio program. We got some audio for you.
Uh Um, I got a little less than a minute here, just just
a little a little a little snippet. Well, actually, no, because
I want to play these in sequence. So, uh, well, we'll
do that. And where is this? Ah? Here we go. I
saw this. I saw an amazing story this morning. Um and get it
to load because I emailed it to myself and then I just started talking to
you. That's some of my brain works. Ah, here we go.
Yes, mutant wolves and one of the most one of the craziest post breakup.
What do we uh? Lawsuits? It's a it's bonkers, man.
It's out of Michigan. So look is it fighting over a pet that you
guys got when you're get No, No, this one's a little different.
So we'll do our own little people's court all coming up here on the CaCO
Day radio program. And look again, is Adimir Putin using the media opportunity
to propagandaize for his side or his interests or neither? Yes? Yes,
because there's good I just I have to say it out loud, becuse there's
gonna be a bunch of pundits on CNN and MSNBC, and I'm sure they're
already doing their thing. I can see them on the TV over there that
are going to go see, we told you he said this thing, and
this thing is inaccurate and they're probably right in some instances, but nobody thought
that he wasn't going to do that. What the nord the nord stream exchange.
Let me just give you. Let me give you a sample of how
the vibe in there. This is on nordstream. Uh at Carlson asks,
who blew up nordstream? All right? This is that gas pipeline in the
Baltic Sea. YadA, YadA? You know? Okay, all right?
Uh and again you're going through a translator, so just when you're hear in
the audio, it's well, you know, you know how it works.
All right, here we go, who blew up nordstream? You for sure
I was busy that day, Nate. I did not blow up nordstream.
Uh, thank you. Though you personally may have an alibi, but the
CIA has no such alibi. Okay, all right, what did you think
he was going to say? And by the way, that analysis tracks with
analysis of people within the United States and European Union. Now, whether we
did or didn't, I don't know. But I saw people sitting there looking
at it, going, you know, oh, look how chummy he is
and the rest of it. If you've never watched Carlson interview, somebody the
an undercurrent of silliness isn't the right word. Sarcasm tends to tends to be
part of his process. So I just saw it for that. There's another
part where he said, hey, can we take that Wall Street Journal reporter
home with us? Said it right to Putin, He's like, hey,
while we're here, we got an extra seat on the plane. Can we
have that Wall Street Journal reporter that apparently the administration kind of cares about,
but not as much as WNBA players, So to which you know, Putin
said no, but he's willing to negotiate again exactly what you think he's going
to say. I don't know that there was anything groundbreaking presented. I think
that there was. Putin wanted to make the historical argument, but that's not
surprising anybody, because that's a dude who craves the good old days, right
his I mean, arguably you could say he's living his best life now,
but in his mind, his country was living its best life back in the
old USSR. And he's always been but heart over the failure of that.
It's it's abundantly clear that's always bothered him. And yeah, look at it
from his perspective too. Imagine if, rather than Russia collapsing at the end
of the Cold War, the US did, how many of you would have
something in your craw So again, you you have to know these things to
understand the person, even if you think they're a lunatic who murders their political
opponents. So you want to do that, you know, I'd be very
telling Ross, I'm curious what floor of the hotel Tucker stayed on? Right,
you gotta go ground floor, do you get well, but you gotta
go ground floor, man Like, if you're Tucker, you have to cause
you know, look, you know that the the Russian secret police or following
Tucker the whole time he's there, Right, that's just that's just commy.
Look like if I I would assume everyone was right. So they're going to
report back that you've got a ground floor room, and then you know you're
gonna wake up and be like in a sinkhole. Yeah, but what happened
to my bedroom? The whole comes from me? Yeah, what's that be?
Like? What happened to my bed? Where did this whole come from?
You know? Me? Well, you know, look, Russia's uh,
you know, got a lot of underground natural gas and oil, hence
the whole nord stream thing. So you know, these things happen. Look,
we got sinkholes in Florida. What are you trying to say, commie?
So no, it's like, yeah, like that could be indicative,
like that may that may be a cultural slight, right, you know,
a little cultural It is never run into there like ah, if you check
into the first floor, you're gonna be meeting with Putin and that means that
you think that he pushes people out windows. So I don't know, but
yeah, I watch the interview. Take take all of it, take none
of it at you know, question why is this person saying this? Why
is this person? You know, like I said, even even the way
in which Putin did the interview purely in Russian, even though he can speak
English, which is not uncommon for him. But again it's about because he
you know, he's dealing. He's obviously dealing in his own country with pushback,
which is why he's got to keep, you know, having window incidents.
He's, uh, you know, there's like any other place, there's
gonna be a lot of people in Russia's like why, you know, why
is my kid dead? Why did my kid die in Ukraine? And as
I think, adults you can do it, but I'm seeing a total inability
for the media to do it. Meanwhile, on the other side, which
again I understand some people say, Ah, the reason Biden held a pressure
up that disastrous report was he wanted to distract from anything that was going on
with Putin. But I'm seeing the Internet have the distinct ability to deal with
both. So real quickly, let me just give you the you could tell
what's stuck is speaking of sticking in somebody's craw, you can tell what's stuck
in Joe Biden's craw. And it was specifically the special counsel, Robert Herr
talking, And this is they're doing legal analysis, right, but they're doing
explanation, and sometimes a prosecutor will choose to bring or not bring a charge
and give an explanation and reasoning, perhaps even a legal reasoning. And so
in some part that's what was going on, but in others it was just
them explaining how the interview went with him. And according to according to the
special prosecutor, when they initially interviewed him, he couldn't remember when his son
died. He couldn't remember when he was vice president the dates he had just
had two incidents where he was talking to ghosts this week, and so you
couple that you read the report here going back to I don't know a few
months ago when they did the interview with him. Here we go in his
interview with our office, mister Biden's memory was worse. He did not remember
when he was vice president, forgetting the first day of the interview when his
team when his term ended, if it was twenty thirteen, When did I
stop being vice president? That's literally a quote from him. He's asking the
interviewer that forgot on the second day of the interview when his term began,
again, asking him, so in two thousand and nine, am I still
vice president? He did not remember even within several years when his son Bo
died, and his memory appeared hazy. When describing the Afghanistan debate that was
once so important to him, among other things, he mistakenly said is he
had a real difference of opinion with Carl Aikenberry, which that particular general was
not who was confronting Biden on some of the decisions. That was his yes
man. So he forgot who was his dude? Who he cited he literally
wrote a memo to President Obama like this guy gets it. But then they
get into why they're not going to charge him, and it's this line that
I think really irritated the president. Mister Biden's memory was significantly limited, both
during the recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in twenty seventeen and in his interview with
our office. We've also considered that, and this is explaining why they're not
going to bring charges. And again this is over the documents in the garage.
Okay, we have considered at trial, mister Biden would likely present himself
to a jury, as he did during our interview, as a sympathetic,
well meaning elderly man with poor memory. So they're saying that you put that
dude on the stand, it'll be so ugly. The jury will feel bad
for him. And I watched his pressure yesterday feeling a little bad for him.
And they think that that would prohibit them from achieving the goals. Now,
you could think that's all bs charging Trump not charging him. It's another
double standard, and you know what, you could be right, probably right
actually as far as some of this goes. But that is also something that
a prosecutor is going to think about, you know, for the same reason.
Remember that, Remember that dad who was sitting there waiting, pretending he's
on the payphone, and he was waiting for a I think it was a
flight, right, it was a flight that a coming because they'd apprehended some
they'd apprehended the guy who they said was molesting his kid, and I don't
think there was any question about it. And he turns around for the payphone
and shoots that dude in the head, kills him, puts the gun down,
like, all right, that's what I came here to do, right,
the legal analysis if you go back and read that on why they arrived
at how they were going to go after him, and they didn't just let
him go. But also they had to mitigate it because they realized, you're
gonna stick that dude in a courtroom. And this is what the eighties.
You gonna stick that guy in a courtroom. There's there's photographic evidence and and
you see all the horribleness that this guy did to this guy's son, and
you're not gonna get a jury to go. Yeah, no, absolute murder,
give him the chair. So I know that's an extreme example, but
I think it's important. All right, So to the press conference yesterday,
here we go. I know there's some attention paid to some language and report
about my recollection of events. There's even reference that I don't remember when my
son died. How in the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when
I was asked the question, I thought to myself, wasn't any of their
damn business? Okay, I have two thoughts on that one. If it's
not their damn business, why do you say it at every campaign event that
has anything remotely to do with the military, Which, by the way,
I don't begrudge him, I wish he'd be accurate about it because the legitimately,
in his mind, he thinks that burn pits and some other processes within
the military that his son had to participate in that many soldiers do, contributed
to his death. And that's you know, that is from a medical perspective.
That is a theory that is out there and many people believe and may
not be inaccurate. But you can't conflate stuff like that. And I am
curious if did they tape these recordings or was it handwritten notes? In all
instances, I know there's video from the ghostwriter thing I'd be curious to see.
Okay, so that's that's his response there. Well, let me do
this because we've got a few more cuts. It's six forty seven. Let's
take a break. When you watch it, I want you to ask yourself
that does Vladimir Putin look like a dude who is suffering from a terminal condition
could be cancer, whatever was speculated, and whose mind is scrambled and is
just unknowingly in spite of himself pushing forward with a war. Because you remember
that whole narrative was out there. He's crazy, Yeah, he's lost his
mind, remember that Oldah, there was that doctor who fled Russia and then
the other one who didn't because fell out of a window. Right, But
the stipulation was that he is he was so scrambled from whatever the disease was
that he wasn't even coherent. Roz, you dubbed some stuff into that.
Look like a dude whose brain scrambled on the verge of death, who's incoherent.
No, So I you know people may see that and go, well,
wait a second, this was the narrative out there. What else what
else may have been inaccurate? Which By the way, I understand why you're
going to go out and you're going to paint your enemy as a lunatic.
So then you have to go to the tape. And if I go to
the tape from the two events yesterday, I see Vladimir Putin obviously, Look,
he's going to be prepared to go certain stuff, all of that Russian
history, which he was he wouldn't shut up about. I understood that.
But the Biden presser, I even think he knew what they were going to
say. But then the question started from Peter Doosey. Fox knew something special
Counsel said in his report is that one of the reasons you were not charged
is because, in his description, you are a well meaning elderly man with
a poor memory. I'm well meeting. I'm an elderly man, and I
know what the hell I'm doing. I'm in president. I put this country
back on his feet. I don't need his recommendation. It's totally memory.
And can you continue as president? My memory is so bad, I let
you speak, which, by the way, that's a funny line. Can
we admit that that is kind of a funny line there, And I'm sure
one that was recited over and over to commit to memory. But here's where
it gets different, because that's the kind of snappy answer that Jean Pierre will
give Deucy Biden's given Doucy before, and the rest of the media will they'll
kind of chuckle or smile. But it was different yesterday. And it was
different because the moment he said that, the rest of the media jumped in,
you know, how it's supposed to be like it should have been the
other day when John Pierre's like, I'm not going down that rabbit hole.
I know, he said he talked to dead people, but it's a rabbit
hole. He was in transit yesterday, actually headed to Atlanta for their comic
con down there, so that's where we're talking to him from right now.
And I want to make sure you're okay. Are you okay, Stephen?
I'm doing okay, but I might lose my cool when I meet Andy Serkis
from Lord of the Rings. I don't know if I can handle it.
Well, if you do, I will, I guarantee you dude, you're
in you see you see that Alec balls there right, Yes, that is
why I'm wearing my flat jacket, got body armor and a helmet handy.
You know, it would be a really funny bit for our radio and probably
uh not great for your career. But go over and do your best stuntman
getting shot impression in front of the booth and just fall down and then film
it for TikTok or whatever the kids do. If we wanted a viral video,
that's how you get it. That's how you get it right there,
because he you know, he'd loses crap, he does have. He does
tend to get a little angry, so anyway, what's that. He has
a famous temper, but we love him anyway, yeah, yeah, yeah,
and if he calls you a little piggy, even better. So because
that audio is could you ever hear did you ever hear the audio of Alec
Baldwin? Somebody up at like w ABC in New York or one of the
stations up there, thought it'd be Hey, we needed a fill in talk
host, and they asked Alec Baldwin to do it. So he comes in
and he has never done talking. I mean he's done it in the sense
as a guest, I'm sure, And he is the most painful audio that
I've ever heard of. Somebody because he just assumed the moment he sat down,
all the phones would fill, and he's having a grind out, and
he keeps going to the producer. Are there any calls yet? Are there
any calls yet? Everybody's got a call screener in front of him. So
that's a big difference between radio and TV. I mean, the guy was
an MSNBC host in like two thousand and thirteen for only a little while,
but you know, TV, or even off a script, it ain't the
same thing. No, And so now there's two things I do better than
him. That and not shoot the people I work with. Ross, Have
I ever shot you? Ross will tell you not yet? Look at that,
so boom leading. He might be afraid, he might be afraid to
speak out for fear of retaliation. It was now, no, no,
no, all right, I gotta I gotta pivot over here, because I
was just about to go down a rabbit hole. I was scanning all,
you know, the big list of folks who are going to be there,
and I don't see Gina Carano at the at the event, and I gotta
tell you, obviously, you're gonna you're gonna be much more deep dove on
this. I reiterated kind of the reader's digest version. The Beep Boop Bop
controversy coupled with the go fundme, coupled with the struggle sessions is a crazy
story that I absolutely believe because Hollywood Go and Hollywood and most people think that
it was the you know, the whole Germany comments, But in reality,
it looks like the powers that be, and very powerful powers that be,
had it out for this woman from the moment beat Bop Boop appeared on her
Twitter account. It's a crazy story. Yeah, this has been just such
a weird saga. And I was thinking this morning in preparation for this,
just all the weird things that happened ever since Derek Chauvin ran into George Floyd
in twenty twenty, and just like all these things that you just wouldn't expect
that happened in the culture, from the protests to the overhauls and education to
the weird things that we see going on in classrooms, to the firing of
Gina Carano for having beat Bop boop in her Twitter profile as her joke pronouns,
the world has just changed so fast, And yeah, she got fired
from the Mandalorian despite incredible success on that show, good reviews, good performance,
and she is now suing with the help of Elon Musk at X And
I mean, I'm not a lawyer, I'm not your guy for that kind
of commentary, But I am fascinated by this suit because there have been many
politicized firings in Hollywood just in the past couple of years, but she is
the only conservative to ever sort of take this fall for explicitly political speech and
without any clear indication that it was affecting her job or that it was causing
tension with her colleagues. Because she is one of the most liked members of
the Mandalorian cast, who all the cast members had nothing but good things to
say about her. She just happens to believe the pandemic might have been planned.
Well, look, you know, they can all talk about how great
they got along on set. The reality is nobody stuck up for nobody came
Pedro Pascal didn't. And I kind of like that dude, Like I like
stuff that he's in. I think he's a good actor. I think he's
funny too. And it's like, and he gave some comments like months after
it happened, but at the time, nobody put it out there. If
there was one person powerful enough, although maybe he wasn't. Maybe all the
power lined lied with Again, here we go with Kathleen Kennedy again and this
this BS organized struggle session thing where Toronto figured out that bunch of the people
and there were people who were donating to a campaign to have her canceled.
I mean, it's it's it's just Lugal DRIs. So people are misunderstanding,
I think though, because they're saying, well, she's suing, it's trying
to get her job back. Now when you're suing in this capacity, it's
my understanding what you're telling the court is like, you want to work there.
You're not the one who wanted to leave, and if not for their
actions, you would not have left. And by the way, you think,
their actions going against the law. So she has to the goal in
her mind is not to be back on set at Mandalorian. That's never going
to happen. But she needs to represent to the court that she wants to
be there, and I believe that she does, and they prevented her from
doing it in an illegal manner. So now okay, so you're you're I
mean, because she says in the in the suit of the entitlement to reinstatement.
But your your read of it is that she does actually obviously want to
be reinstated in a hostile ork environment. But that's just kind of going through
the motions. You say, you want to work there, you want it,
you never wanted to leave. That's yes, that's what that's what you
You have to indicate that it was they who violated the contract and did so
in an illegal manner. I mean, that's that's remedy that I have within
my contract. Right, I can challenge certain things that are stepped, that
are that are put forward, but it has to be predicated on the idea
that I didn't want to depart and and they made me depart, and they
did so in a way that doesn't comport with the law. And whether they
did or didn't, I don't know. These contracts are wildly complex. So
yeah, And one of the elements of California employment law and the lawsuit that
you know, I'm still trying to wrap my head around as sort of a
conservative commentator and looking at this stuff, is the is the sex discrimination part
of the suit. So you know, we've got the the politicized speech,
and the ability under California law to be able to engage in political speech.
Lord knows it protects a whole lot of employees who consider themselves to be Democrats
and liberals. But the sex discrimination part that she's going with, you know
that Pedro Pascal to basically tweet whatever it is he wanted, whatever it is
he wanted, and that Guang Carlo Esposito, the villain on the show The
Mandalorian, could also make political tweets, and they could also allude to how
the bad guys in American politics are like the Nazis, which is pretty much
the ground that Gina Carano was on as well, but there are no repercussions.
You know, I don't really know what to make of it from an
authenticity standpoint, because we know that it's politicized fire. We know that they
were going after her for political speech, But it does seem to me that
the sex discrimination part is a vulnerability. It's like an achilles heel. In
the courts of California, they've set up a system where that kind of suit
is very easy. So maybe this is just sort of getting what you ask
for in terms of califor you law. Yes, I think that. Yeah,
I think that that is absolutely it, although they have, Uh,
there have been some cases where I'm trying to remember the name. I can't
remember the name of the actress. She's a black actress, was in Clueless,
what was she was on Fox for a little while. I can't remember
her name. If you you know that, you know the woman I'm talking
about. I don't know why it escape remember the movie Clueless, the one
friend who was black, Stacy Dash, Stacy Dash. There was something she
sued over that and they and it became kind of clear that, yeah,
they take that very seriously, but not in all instances. Yeah, I
don't remember the exact the exact cause, but I do recall. Yeah,
so we'll we'll wait and see. Uh, let's talk. By the way,
what are you doing down there other than avoiding mister Baldwin's quick draw demo?
You know, the greatest mistake of my life was published a book about
Star Wars because there will always be a convention to go to to talk about
it. And three years after the fact, I am still out here hustling
books. So I'm down here given a speech about Star Wars on one of
the main stages and how it can make our politics just a little bit worse,
better, better, I mean it's better having a Joe Biden moment there.
But yeah, pushing copies of how the Force can fix the world.
Very excited to do it. Unless you were thinking that the Mexican president is
in Star Wars. You're not there yet. So and in Star Wars you
can talk to dead leaders because their force goes so different. That's true.
No one's ever really gone. Yeah, so we'll do that. Do you
find Actually, let me let me get into this. Do you find because
I'm assumed when did your book come out? December twenty twenty one? Okay,
all right, see, just a couple of years under your belt.
But we were well into I think what was some of the fandom you would
agree to arding to push back to considering what they were seeing out of the
last trilogy. Oh yeah, how have those conversations changed and the audience that
still wants to attack this purely from just like you know, your your standard
kind of nerd debate rather than the politics that is intrinsically attached. I mean,
has has the panels changed? You've got you got Ron Perlman at this
thing, I'm just like Ron Perlman, is you want to talk about somebody
who exercises their political speech on top, Yeah, right, when you're in
a room with him, and uh, well, for that matter, Baldwin,
and there's I'm just looking down the list here, there's there's a few
people that are very outspoken. Does it just evolve into that or are are
you guys able to kind of stay on task because of what the event is?
Well, i would say at conventions you certainly stay on task. When
you're trying to go to you know, a Raleigh Comic Con event or Charlotte
Comic Con event and you want to actually present programming, the programming better be
left of center. Most of these comic conventions are run by management groups,
and so these management groups will put on, you know, five or six
comic cons in the region all at once, and they are the same people
screening every single panel, submission, and speaker, and there will not be
a you know, conservatism in Star Wars panel or a talking about the classical
liberal virtues of the Jedi sort of thing that just is not allowed, you
know. So I'm going down and kind of giving a talk about Star Wars
and morality and you know, I kind of like weave my way towards my
values there, but it has to adhere to liberal sensibilities if you ever want
to present at a comic con. And that's that's a real problem because the
SANDOM community by and large is very heavily male and very heavily conservative. They
just simply have no voice at these conventions at all, and they keep their
discourse online where they know they will not be harassed, bullied, or targeted
for that kind of speech. And it does happen at these conventions quite a
bit, okay, And I was just going to say, we've seen some
examples, so these things aren't cheap, especially if people are traveling, you
know, from they say they're traveling from outside of Atlanta to this thing.
You got hotel, now, you got whatever goes with it. If it
is that cesspooled, that dearth of ideas from one side, and like why
would you go not you necessarily understand why you're there, but like why would
people show up if they if they are literally being threatened over questioning the strong
female lead narrative or making pandaverse jokes and all the things that will have people
literally tattling on them on Twitter. Why subject yourself to that? Why feed
the beast? You know, I think that there's people want different things from
these kind of conventions depending on what they're there for. You know. I'm
always there to sell, to meet people, and to also speak on panels
and do stuff like that. But most fans, and I would say particularly
the kind of fans who have political views that are not allowed on the stages,
they are there to enjoy autographs, get photos of their favorite stars.
Hayden Christiansen, you know, the Anakin Skywalker actor and Ewan McGregor, who
were both together just the other week in Orlando doing joint photos with people.
And you know, all fans want to enjoy that kind of thing if they
have one hundred and fifty bucks that they never want to see again. So
I would just say that people come to these things for different reasons. I
love to come and buy stuff myself and bring my daughter. Look for a
cool sword for the wall. We could get you a sword sometime if you
want. Well, it's kind of it's a tough sword week. I had
a guy I got to write this guy back. I a guy offer to
give me a sword, and I'm not gonna because yeah, slightly, No,
I did not. I would feel I would feel bad. I really
appreciate it. It was very nice, but you know, in reality,
it's kind of a running joke that I'm like, how come everyone has the
sword but me, Well, I don't have a sword. I have enough
weapons, so we're probably probably good there on that. All right, real
quick, I got just a minute left. I'll tell you one thing I
am excited about. I saw that there, and I know we talk a
lot about, you know, Disney, but Disney partnering for a billion and
a half dollars with Epic Games, that's obviously big for the region. In
thirty seconds, do you think that goes sideways? Do you think maybe some
cool products come out? Well, I'm sure that they will be able to
make cool products, but both of these companies are finding themselves an increasing increasing
legal turmoil and their enemies are coming after them on both sides, so I'm
sure it will not be drama free, but good for the carry, I
would say that's a positive for back home. Well, yeah, I understand
that. I just want to know are they going to because I'm not a
Fortnite guy, so it's like, give me, give me something I like,
and we'll see, but for now I'll let you get back to it.
We're out of time, but I appreciate you calling in this morning.
Thanks, you have a great week one. All right, there you go,
Stephen Kent joining us here on the CaCO Day radio program. Hanging about
a half hour from now. We'll chat with Pete Callender coming up here on
our Friday, so stay tuned for that. There's lots of pouncing to be
done, so we'll get into that discussion. All right. Thank you to
Stephen Kent for joining us, even if we had to move it a day
accommodating, So that was good. Uh So, let me just jump back
to the Biden thing real quick, because there's one other element to this story.
Well there's actually there's actually there's two other elements. Ross. Why are
you not like writing a book on legal theory right now? Because, like
you know, I I thought yesterday, are you expoused some I've questioned from
time to time some of your legal theories, like simply asking if you're being
detained, we'll have the officers salute wheel out of their direct respect for your
let you go, yeah, or for your knowledge? And another one was
you can't wait to be old, so you can steal stuff at stores because
all you have to do is I'm old. I can't wait all the all
the stakes are going down my pants, all of them. I'm just gonna
walk in the stakes actually be like these are all mine. And then once
they bust me. Right, your defense is, oh, I don't know
what's going on. I'm old, and they're like, oh, I look
at the key, old man. Let him go right with his steaks?
Which how's he if he's so old, Like, how's he gonna eat the
steaks? That's been a little tough, right, So thinking this out,
uh, but in like reality, that's kind of what was said yesterday.
The Seinfeld Uncle Leo defense. Okay, you know, you know, my
lack of Seinfeld knowledge is very old. And he shoplifts and that's his thing.
He's like, I'm oh, okay, yeah, And Jerry's like,
I saw you steal and he's like, I'm so confused. I'm old,
But you knows exactly what he's doing because you can shoplift and you can flip
kids off. Right, those are the those are the two things along with
social security. Right, So that's what I understand. But like, that's
that's going to be your argument. Well, you got a deep dive further,
right, because now people are like, wait, you're too you're too
out of there to prosecute, but you're still president. That's not good,
right, And then so like that's why Biden decided he would come out yesterday
and in his defense give a long oratory and a variety of issues. In
fact, we kind of clipped this last clip, but I want to play
it in its entirety. This is not the thing to be doing. It's
you're no, no, I'm fine, press conference this right here. The
conduct of the response in Gaza, in the Gaza Strip has been over the
top. I think that, as you know, initially the president of Mexico
CEC did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get
in. Well, I talked to him. I convinced to open the gate.
I talked to Babie to open the gate on the Israeli side. Oh
okay, So he's referring to the gate on the southern end of the of
the strip there known as the Sinai Peninsula, which is in Egypt. Well,
it was in Israel and then it was in Egypt. Again, that's
the whole thing. So the president of Mexico you think, is the president
of Egypt. I mean, well, look correct me if I'm ross correct,
If I mean they are, they are right next to each other,
so it's I mean, I guess there is some distance there between them,
is there? Yeah, you share a border. There's some water between them
two. Yeah, oh they have a lake. Right, Maybe in his
mind he was thinking that they're both sort of like deserts or something like that.
They're both very hot, dry, right, Well, parts of it,
I mean, yeah, absolutely. I mean part of the US is
also deserty, but Egypt you kind of see it as all deserty, which
isn't one hundred percent accurate, but it's more accurate than not. Whereas Mexico,
Yeah, we think of you know, along our southern border, but
in reality, when you get like Mexico City is not hot, it's very
temperate, so like, and that's where he goes to meet the president of
Mexico, which he did not that long ago. Well, I've been I've
been to Mexico City. I've never been to Egypt, but I've seen some
pictures and I would not say that they look alike well, I've also been
to Mexico in Red Dead Redemption, and I can tell tell you that there's
a lot of stand in there, a lot of desert, very to magic,
some pyramids too, right, I mean there are pyramids in both places.
That is true. If you go to the Catana Peninsula, you're like,
that's it's easy to figure out why he was so confused. Listen,
you should not have to have to I should not be put in the position
to defend Joe Biden in this way. Right, it's such a especially after
he comes out and says that he's fine, Hey, I'm fine. You
guys are overreacting by the way. The President of Mexico opened his side of
the gaza stir what Yeah, that was big of him. Good for cc
man or no, he refused to and then and then Biden called him.
Do you think Biden actually did call the President of Mexico who was so confused.
He's he's telling them no, but he's not telling him no because he
doesn't what to but because he's not the president of that country. Do you
think that happened? Right? And he's finally had enough and he's just like
fine, whatever, and he hangs up the phone, and Biden's like pulled
it up. All right, you went, sir, you're the victor.
All right, Well that is a theory. That's you know, I guess,
I guess we can entertain because not much else is making sense there.
But here's the other other thing not charged was this ghostwriter and the ghostwriter,
like I said, they had videos, but prosecutors only ended up with the
transcript. The reason I mentioned that is because most of the video evidence or
recording of it, even though there was a transcript that the ghostwriter purports to
be accurate, one hundred percent accurate, they didn't have access to the videos
because the ghostwriter deleted them, and he deleted them after he was informed there
was an investigation on this stuff. And I point this out because his argument
is I had transcripts, and frankly, they didn't indicate that they wanted anything
from me, so I didn't think anything of it. I just knew the
investigation was going on. But even if you believe that right there, if
you look to the because it wasn't just Trump charged with on his version of
this, it was also members of his circle, right, so they charged
numerous people for essentially, remember it was over the security tape saying that some
security tape. Now their argument was the security tapes only kept this long and
also there are you know, we have a process for purging any of these
videos, And Prosecutor Jack Smith said no, nope, I don't believe you.
And so they charged two individuals over that. But in this case they
decided no. So for everyone who's going to be running around saying that this
is a Republican prosecutor, he's hold over any of the rest. They write
a very different decisions on things where there's a lot similarities. So it's not
just about his perception of Biden or any of the rest of that. It's
also the analysis on people who nobody's claiming that they have cognitive issues, and
they still went in a different direction. So yeah, that's that's just a
little nugget that I think is getting left off here. But we have more
important things. Rased Agic has lost control of his household. We got to
do somebody. I can't allow this to happen on your well, this is
this is an intervention, like we're sit down, we're all friends here.
I mean, his wife has decided that their Super Bowl party is going to
be Taylor Swift theme. Wow. Yeah, and we got into it about
twenty minutes ago. Maybe you already heard what. Yeah, we got into
it down the road. Yeah, Mark and I got into it. Oh
no, I don't text smart very much, so Eddie And so that was
my What was my colleague in Ashville's take? Well, I actually had asked,
and I actually have some of the theme food names. If you want
to do that now or you want to wait like that, No, let's
yeah, I want that, so I just do on it mock you again
in an hour theme food. So yeah, so remember Taylor Swift. The
wives came up with this. So my wife is doing a loaded tay turtot
tay as in Taylor and you belong to Brie. You belong to Brie.
I do like, how about that instead of you belong to me? And
my sister in law is doing this is why we can't have nice wings instead
of nice things. Okay, all right, this is that is exactly what
you should have said to them, not the wings say things to them when
they decided that this one thing, this is a guy's high Holy okay,
sorry, gonna break it down here. This is like your one thing.
This is like this would be a kin. Do you guys have like a
walking closet and then there's this small like steamer trunk, right, and that's
where your clothes go because your wife has the whole closet. And then she
would have the audacity to be like, I'm gonna put my shoes in the
steamer truck. You just have to you gotta be like, this is my
last stand, this is it, this is all I have. You got
to push back, and now they're mocking you with the food names and you
don't. Oh dude, well basically they told me Mark told me that that
sucks. And yeah, that's my wife. And we're having the conversation on
the air and she says, well, you plan the menu next time,
And I said, I better stop. What do you mean? What do
you mean ross plan a menu for watching? I was just thinking, this
is like the easiest thing ever I want. Yeah, I want chips,
I want some subs, I want some I want something. Come on,
dude, yeah, what this is so easy? Joe Biden, Joe Biden
could plan a mini This isn't like she said, This isn't like you's saying,
plan a wedding. Yeah, right, that's for about a picture,
about a picture to burn like a spicy afriget picture. I'm just you.
You you've surrendered your last castle. Surrendered one A. That's what the castle
is called the bar. Yeah, surrendered one A. It's the Swifties.
So listen. I like Taylor, so I'm not a Swiftie. But you
know, now we've got this. It's not it's the it's the scene.
It's it's like it's pickles and ice cream, right, this is football,
right, and I think a line was crossed, But I mean that's for
me to try to figure out on this end by your wife or Taylor's Yeah,
yeah, I mean this is why so many of us were against Taylor
being all the attention for the games, because this is the inevitable outcome,
right, Like, you know this is gonna and look at us, now,
what are we about? Three minut It's all right, exactly what everybody
wants. I don't care. But the problem is you need to push back
hard and right. So you can't just be like I need to take back
my uh my football viewing. We need to go deeper. And you know,
I so you got this art of the deal. I think, really
what you have to do is you have to go full you have to come
fully out against the Nineteenth Amendment and then negotiate from there. So all right,
I'm writing this down right. Tell your wife. Tell your wife,
we need to do away with the nineteenth Amendment. Okay, how that goes?
Yeah, and then she'll then she'll look it up and then her face
is gonna contort. So have fun to be outside with the black and white
TV with the rabbit ears watching the game. That's wrong, you know what,
But she'll be free, that's what. Yeah. Anyway, sorry,
best chance of rate. So you got time for weather? You want to?
Yeah? What the hell? Okay, okay, yeah, that's Friday,
right, The best the best day of the next few probably be today.
Little rain will try to clip us over the weekend. Today will be
in the low sixties and upper fifties, eventually trying to come back for daytime
highs, which is where we should be. But tomorrow is going to be
warm. We could be near seventy and we might have summer in the afternoon
with the gustie breezebor really I think now most of tomorrow during the day may
be dry, and that rain is going to come in on Sunday, so
a great day to sit inside and watch the fat what But yeah, I
don't know. I don't know what we're gonna be stuff. I hope beforehand
Taylor Swift karaoke doesn't break out. Oh my gosh, how could this?
Oh I never thought I could get I could go off on the I should
tell you the Taylor Swift karaoke incident that we don't talk about anymore. We'll
talk about that one day. So rain Sunday and then showers. Are you
like, are you martyring yourself? What is happening? Yeah? I am.
I am at sunshine returning early next week, so best chance of rain
Sunday better, slowly gets better as we get it. The next weekend cooler.
Nobody even knows what I said. This is a cry for help.
Oh I don't even know. Man. All right, Well, look I
gave you some ideas. Run them by. Start with the nineteenth Amendment,
negotiate back from there, the Women's Voting Amendment, and then you know,
I see where you land. All right, you're welcome. All right,
there you go, raised agic doomed. We'll be back. Hang on phone
number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seventy four O though, and
I'm looking at the time, probably hold off on that because I got just
a couple of minutes and then Pete Callender will join us after the top of
the hour, and obviously we'll get into the Biden stop, but also some
local stuff and whatever else enters my brain. But first, but first,
I don't know why I find this so funny, but I saw it was
a Rolling Stone article I was reading yesterday. Obviously you have seen stories of
individuals who are making or producing a or using AI to generate deep fake adult
videos of people, and it's really creepy, right, it is really creepy.
I don't you know. It's one of those things where it's like,
but is it illegal? And then it comes down to is it used to
harass? And but it is just it's just creepy off the get go right
in the same way that that blow up dolls creepy if if you really think
about it, or the sex pot or any of that. But if that's
for you, fine, but most people are gonna have that reaction and you
know, making those deep fake video like okay, fine, we're on the
same page, but that's not what the women in this article are mad about
The women in the article are mad because Internet bros four Chan read whoever it
is, are you using AI not to create nudes of them or you know,
sex videos, but instead they're finding women who are posting really provocative content
online. Right, So maybe they're not full cam girls, but they're thirst
traps if you've heard that term, and using AI to put clothes on them.
So it's just the photo, right, it's some photo of a chick
in a way too small top moments from you know, everyone escaping doing some
sort of like photo where she's been over picking something up by the pool and
oh, I'm just a casual moment. I'm gonna post it online. And
then the dudes are coming on and the and now they're dressed like the Amish,
and they're so mad and the author was so sympathetic that they wrote a
whole article in a four Chan led campaign called putting clothes on thoughts. They
that's what they're doing. They're just finding these photos, these these you know
where these photos are right on the edge of you know, if you ever
go to get a job, I don't know that you want those floating around
out there. And then just dressing them up all conservative. We have vladim
Re pooting stuff. We got Joe Biden holding the pressor which did not do
him any favors at least in my analysis. And to help us break his
down is our radio buddy from the South, Midday's WBT, Pete Calender,
joining us this morning. How you doing, Pete? I'm doing all right?
How are you? I'm good? Ross did did? Did his test
come back clean? As he? Good? To god? I didn't.
I'm sorry we had we had Pete drug tested, so yeah, I'm sorry
about that. That's yeah, I'm sorry. I made fun of you and
you were to see that Daniel at the dentist video, but oh yeah,
no, that was no. I would that, that's fine. I did
not realize that the text message I said you was confusing for you. Guys.
Well it's the part where you said you were going to be on the
show and then the text you sent us the message to tell us you weren't,
but then you said you were. But I also knew what was you
know what was up? And I'm like, oh man, he's got the
good stuff so well, and yeah, I don't even remember if at that
point I had taken a pill. Oh well, I wouldn't admit that I
was. I was like delirious from the pain. So I went in for
what was supposed to be just a consultation for a for the removal of a
cyst that was on my back. And I'd had this thing for like a
decade. But when I went in there for this consultation, they were like,
oh no, this thing. It's very bad under the skin. It
had it had ruptured, it was very painful, and it was growing,
and they were like, we got to take it out right now. I
was like, oh, okay, well what does that mean. I figured,
you know, just a little, a little slicing and dice in local
and on my way, And for the most part that was true. But
it took a long time, and they cut very very deeply, to the
point where they had to go back for like three different rounds. They had
to send out for some more local anesthetic because yeah, yeah, yeah,
they did like three or four rounds of it because they had to keep cutting,
and as they would cut and it's like, oh yeah, that's not
that's that part's not numb yet. So then they had to spray that down
and then cut deeper. Then oh, that part's not numb yet either.
And so by the time it was all over, I think my body had
gone into some level of shock. I was like shaking and all. Yeah,
it was like the adrenaline had kicked in. It was it was not
it was not an ideal scenario. Yeah, and you know, it's not
like you have to work well seated in a chair either, so well,
I couldn't even say ye, it's like so then it's like I got this
big open hole in my back and they wouldn't stitch it up because it had
to keep training. It's all very nasty, and so I was like,
it's a and then they forgot to send in the prescription for the painkiller.
Oh so all right, right, So I drove and then sat in the
line, and then the local anesthetic is wearing off, and then I get
in the to the to the CBS and I'm like, we don't have anything
for you, so they just think you're some drug seeking behavior dude. Now
I know. That was the worst part. And then I have to call
the doctor's office and of course they're not there are closed now, and so
then they're like, oh, you've got to you can call and talk to
some you know, somebody on call. So I get to this person on
call and I'm like, I need the antibiotic, but I also need you
were going to give me a pain pill and h and They're like, well,
we can't just do that over the phone. But I'm not some junkie.
I'm not like I just just tell me something else to take. So
tilanol anyway, I took to thilanol and a big fan. Now I'm a
big fan of the tailan al. Now, you know, when I had
my wisdom teeth out, my dentis was like, I'm not going to give
you prescription, but i want you to take these really high doses of both
aspirin and ibuprofens. You're getting both of them and like amounts that I was
like, okay, I can take that much, but you know what,
it kind of works. So yeah, now it's my it's kind of my
go too, which is this is not medical advice I'm giving anybody, but
that seemed to be the right dosage for you know, wisdom teeth just getting
removed. And I've had a couple other injuries since then where I just it's
like I'll just go this route because you're made to feel bad. Now if
you want painkillers, it's really weird. Yeah right, And I don't want
to get hooked. Yeah right. And so they did eventually call it.
I spoke to another doctor and she was very nice, and she was like,
I don't know if I can call it in, but I'll try,
and she did, and so I got but all I took was the one
pill because I like, I don't I just need enough so I fall asleep
tonight, you know. Uh. And then after that it was fine.
So I was just taking the tiling off. So yeah, and well and
before that, I'm glad that because before that I've been in that situation.
What I had to do was get a Vegas suite, two hookers, and
a pile of crack and then a gun and then like like it was,
you know, this therapy that I had worked out and it worked for me,
but you know I should try that every time. Yeah, No,
it's fun. Yeah, you might need to put me on the plane,
though I might need some help from her to get me on the plane.
Today, I see, Okay, all right, So yesterday just because we
got to get into this, so yesterday you get Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin,
and and here's the thing. Everyone's like, see, we told you
he was going to propagandize his position, and I'm like, no, everybody
knew that in the same way that Zelenski doing all those photo ops is about
instilling like this is and any with the exception, although I've come to this
conclusion with the exception maybe of democrats in the US and European liberals who would
readily denounce their own position seemingly to pander and and you know, do the
struggle session with people. I didn't expect anything less from Vladimir Putin that he
was going to come in and be like, I'm right, here's what I
think. That's not new. And yet that seems to be what they're trying
to hang Tucker on, including a discussion I saw on Twitter yesterday where a
lawyer was handicapping whether he could be charged with the Espionage Act leadership in the
EUSE and they may put a travel ban on him. So was it so
extraordinary as to elicit this response will start with the Putin stuff. No,
No, he just no, he got an interview with a foreign leader that
nobody likes. And if that's if that is beyond the pale. Well,
I mean, join the long list of journalistic outfits for the last century that
have gotten interviews with foreign leaders that people don't like. This is something that
journalists actually celebrate when they get these interviews. They've been a lot out of
them being alten I remember watching was at Mike Wallace. I can't remember who
interview John Miller interviewing him, and then they interviewed remember slogan on Melosovich.
This is this is a dude who was actively being sought for prosecution for genocide,
and he was on one of the CBS news I think it is what
it was. Yeah, right, it's a convenient cudgel for the media and
Democrats. But I repeat myself to beat the snot out of Tucker Carlson and
Donald Trump and everybody on the right as being you know, putin loving uh
anti American insurrectionists. That's the saw. Yeah, what I saw, I'm
sorry. What I saw was a dude who I absolutely believes has his enemies
killed, who longs for the days of the USSR and views it as in
the same perspective. I think some Americans would that if we had, like
if the US had collapsed at the end of the Cold War, there'd be
a lot of people very nostalgic. And that is all Putin approaches things because
those even though he's richer than he's ever been, those were the good old
days. But never for a moment do I think he's a good guy or
anyone I would want to be in an elevated window near. So it didn't
change anything. Did anything change for you? Sorry? Go ahead? And
the other I think no. The other thing, just real quick to keep
in mind is that you know, people are expecting or demanding the Tucker Carlson,
you know, do some you know, hardball interview with Vladimir Putin,
Like you are aware that he will throw you out the window if you ask
him stuff that he deems to be inappropriate. There are people literally in jail
right now in uh in Russia for committing acts of journalism. So like to
fix on this was always in but for Tucker Carlson, like he's using Putin
in order to get the interview, so he gets an audience. That's I
mean, And that's I'm not saying that to detigrate the guy. That's what
media does. This is a big get This is an international news story that
he got to sit down with Vladimir Putin and do this interview. So yeah,
he uses Putin and Putin uses him. Oh my gosh, the shocking
nature of media, Right and CNN at their initial position was nobody should be
talking to him, and then when Carlson put that teas around and said,
you know, nobody's none of the mainstreams. That woman is on CNN weeping,
I can't remember her name, damn near in tears, saying we keep
asking for an interview, and it's like, hold on, what's your position
then, but which is it? Yeah? Right, Well, it's the
same thing with the border deal. Right, it's like, it's not a
crisis, border secure, not a crisis, border secure. We keep hearing
that for three years, and then as soon as the bill fails, then
it's, oh my gosh, the Republicans don't want the border secure. Well
wait a minute, I thought it was secure. What's the deal. It's
like Joe Biden being accused of being elderly and feeble minded, so we can't
prosecute him, and then the Democrats are like, no, he's not okay,
so wait a minute, so you should prosecute him, is that what
you're arguing for, Like these positions are just completely ridiculously illogically contradictory all the
time, and but that that position is morphed because you're right, I did
see that initially, or they're like, no, that's not fair. And
then people I saw some were scooting to the Uh it's a Republican conspiracy because
is the special prosecutor? Is Trump pulled over or whatever? And I'm like,
all right, so if you think that he was going all in to
get Biden, Uh, the they chose not to either also charge the people
around him, including that ghost saw the ghostwriter or direted those those videos,
right, which is almost on the nose for what some of the Trump people
were charged over basically basically video evidence being deleted. So I mean, it
still appears that there's a double standard, and I but I want to go
forward. D Chess. Do you think that people around we know, the
people around Joe Biden would never tell him that he's that anything's wrong, right,
But like, and that's got to be tough because like if you're by
I almost felt bad for Biden because like nobody's gonna tell him he's screwing up
and one of the reactions that people have to cognitive decline his anger understandably.
So so letting him go out was that his idea because I can't believe anyone
would recommend it, or did somebody recommend it because two birds won stone.
It gets him out of there, and it simultaneously detracts from anything that was
on the Putent Tucker thing. So how conspiratorial do you want to go on?
Why he took the podium yesterday and talked about the Mexican president not opening
the gates and the Sinai Peninsula. Yeah, well, I think you know,
I saw somebody on Twitter, Sonny right say that denial is not just
a river in Mexico, So yeah, yeah, so I think. Look,
I don't know. I think Joe Biden, when he demands something,
I think staff to first, right. I think that they they do a
lot. If he says I want to go out there, I want to
say, you know what, I want to say, I could do this
news conference. I do think that that they let him do that, So
I have to I got to believe that they allowed him to do this.
They may have tried to talk him out of it, and we're not successful.
But what I'm seeing quotes like at Axios and these are all, of
course, you know, anonymous quotes, but they've got one from a quote
former Biden aide who said taking the nomination away from Biden is like taking the
car keys away from your parents. And look, I do a lot of
work with the Alzheimer's Association. My grandfather died of Alzheimer's years ago. We
had that conversation with him to taking the car keys away, and anybody who
has had this in their lives, they know. And I've been saying this
for years. When I look at Joe Biden, I look at the spatial
expressions, but more importantly, there's a look in his eye that comes and
goes, and I recognize that look, and I don't know what to call
it. It's sort of like a like a gleaming kind of distant stare that
the eyes kind they kind of go to. And when I see that,
that reminds me of my grandfather. And I've noticed that for years. And
I don't say this in order to denigrate the guy. I'm not trying to
be mean. Actually said that there are people around him that continue to have
him in these situations because they don't want to give up the grail. That's
what to me, that's what's occurring. And so he goes out there and
he starts yelling at people, and he presents himself as this irritable, elderly
old man with memory issues, and the whole point was to go out there
and disabuse people of this notion. So, and by the way, there
is a term for this. It's called sundowners where and in that same Axios
piece, you've got a Democrat house member saying, you know, why would
they let him go out this time of night, and you know, do
this thing? He should have done it in the morning when he's fresh again.
That's sundowners. So there are obviously people around him and in the know
in Democrat circles, they understand what's going on. The fact that they continue
to allow the country to be led by him and his aids the people around
him, that to me is the danger. That's a d the argument.
Yeah, But the argument on that is he's not leading it, right,
so they can justify it by going, no, he's not the guy making
decisions. We have like aren't they bringing Axel Road back for something I saw?
But it's like it's the same cats that have been hanging out there since
the Clinton administration. Right, yeah, so in their minds, well,
they know what to do, and you know, we hold on to the
power and he doesn't push back, and which is very devious, right well,
and dangerous before that very reason, which is that he is now a
scapegoat. Right if we assume the premise that other people and these aids and
people around him are actually running the show, and they're doing it without his
knowledge because he's either incapable of understanding it or they keep him in the dark
or whatever, the effect is still the same right where they're running the show.
If anything goes wrong, they make a bad decision, whatever, they're
gonna blame him comes the scapegoat. And that means then that they are there
are machinations involved that we don't know and who the players are and what their
motives are. Right with at least with him, if you know that he
is competent and he's all there and he's in charge, then you know kind
of what his motives can be, which would be to win reelection. But
if we don't know what the leader's motives are anymore, now, now that's
a dangerous situation because they can just kind of pin it all on him,
make terrible decisions and enrich themselves or put the country in a bad spot and
they and they can then skate on that. Yeah, last question, just
real quick. I got about a minute. Did you see that in Alabama?
As somebody stole a radio station's tower in the middle of the well the
headline, but then I never I never followed up and read the piece.
I'm astounded. Would they just do it for the medal? I guess,
is that what they're doing? But I looked at it, and we even
looked up on Google matt it wasn't in the middle of nowhere. It's like
on the edge of town, next to like a holiday inn and a mattress
firm and like some government offices, and it's you know, it's an FM.
Uh, state just stole the tower. Is it like a conservative news
talker? Like, no, it's not like a local oldies and news.
You know, it's very small towns. You know, they're doing stuary and
stuff like that. But yeah, they stole their whole tower, man.
And uh, the industriousness of crackheads is astounding. Man. If that's what
in fact, what it was, but uh, we'll leave it there.
And uh, well, I'm glad you're feeling better. We told everyone you
got shot with a cannonball and we're on horse, so we'll do that.
I mean, that is what it felt like. Yeah, okay, all
right, man, I have a good one old time k c O DA
radio program in case you need more than you know the future of the country
and beating your family and who the hell knows what else to worry about.
I'd like to introduce mutant wolves of Chernobyl, but in a pot positive light.
Hear me out, So this story right here, mutant wolves roaming Chernobyl
exclusion zone have developed cancer resilient abilities. All right. So one of the
things in and around Chernobyl is wolves and was it wild hogs that both when
they study them, they still have elevated levels of radioactivity that far exceed would
we would consider healthy. So it's not the first time they talked about it.
But in studying them, they've also figured out that the animals, because
they are obviously inundated, right, this is this is what adaption looks like.
They're inundated in this environment where their body's normal reaction is to you know,
get cancer, right, that's what radioactivity does. They have started to
literally adapt to it, and it is that adaptation that scientists are discovering.
Is how wild is it? Now? Who the hell knows? Right,
I don't know if this is gonna pan out or it's true even really other
than in a speculative way, but like, can you imagine this world of
the inability to historically provide perspective on things? Can you imagine if what cures
cancer turns out to be the Chernobyl disaster? That's just I don't know,
it's kind of crazy to me. Man. It's like, yeah, we've
used this incident a couple others to essentially handcuff the world from utilizing nuclear energy.
Right, every time somebody brings it up, some moonbat with a flower
in their hair is like, remember Chernobyl, Remember Chernobyl? And then they
also go remember three Mile Island. You're like, yeah, that worked out
was supposed to, right, they had a problem, they had this this
thing going critical and then they implemented the the protocols there and it didn't.
But going back to Chernobyl, yeah, like if that kick starts cancer research,
that's going to be awkward. But Hey, look, any anything,
anything that you got that kills cancer. I mean, if you think that
that's a valid way to explore it, uh, you know, by all
means, I just how'd you like to be the person who has to go
wrangle the the the radioactive wolves. Like, can you think of a worse
job? There's the guy who mops at the you know, with the adult
bookstore, and then there's the hey man, like you think your day at
work sucks? Can you imagine Bill? Come? I will just say his
name is Bill. Probably not because this is in Ukraine, but it comes
in. They're like, Bill, we need two more radioactive wolves. And
is just shredded. And I don't mean in the workout way. All right,
go get two more radioactive wolves. Let's see, in fact, evolutionary
biologists and eco toxologists toxicologistscuse me, it's a title, say that they have
been since twenty fourteen capturing and studying these wolves, and I have noticed that
literally they've started to not react and form cancers to the extent that they used
to. It's just kind of incredible. I just wanted to kind of throw
that in the mix. All right, let me get back over to this
because we are quickly running out of time. We have a cancelation. This
is this is going to hit your kids hard, especially as the weather gets
nicer. But unfortunately we have no cancelation. So now parents need to not
allow their kids to play on carousels. Activists have decided that your kids,
well, I don't know your kid's favorite carnival ride, but definitely one of
the most iconic, which of course is the carousel, usually with the horses.
But yeah, they make with all sorts of things, but in its
purest form. The protesters have targeted Chance Rides, which is a Kansas based
company and is the largest manufacturer of carousels in the country, claiming the organization
that uses designs of horses and other animals is unintentionally celebrating the exploitation of animals,
training kids that horses are to be ridden and it is to be a
joyful experience. Proven once again that there will be no fun had here.
And by the way, why are they only going after the horse one?
Correct me if I'm wrong, Ross, But at Disney, can't you force
an elephant to fly you around? Isn't that a ride there? Oh?
It definitely is. Yeah, yeah, wow, much of them. You
were exploiting baby elephants? Is that true? Did you do that when you
were at the park? Oh? Completely? Oh man, Like, what
the hell are you talking about? It's it's it's intentionally because the alternative is
ponies, right right, So if you want to put a kid on there,
you can take the kid to the carousel where they're carved out of wood
or made out of you know whatever, or you can get them an actual
pony. Have you ever been you ever been to a pony riding operation?
Right? Well, that's just it. That's what it is all day.
There's no life in those horses eyes. Man, So the wood altern it.
You should be celebrating this, but no, we got to cancel those
So no having fun and Ingrid Newkirk, as president of PETE, has quote
in this article saying that quote children learn through play and teaching, and you
need to teach them to have respect and compassion for all living feeling beans.
Well, do you think the kids think those horses are real? That I
don't have little kids. Is there a period where they go through with like,
oh, these are real horses? Because I think I think they don't.
I think they recognize it for what it is even as little kids,
But hey, what do I know? All right? Eight forty three Here
on the CaCO Day radio program, Bloomberg Update, Jeff Bellinger, what's going
on today? Good morning, Casey. The major averages made modest advances yesterday,
and it looks like we'll start out higher this morning. S and P
futures are up thirteen. Nasdaq futures or up sixty five. The Dow futures
are up seventy four. If these numbers hold, this could be the day
we go above five thousand on the S and P five hundred. New rules
may not mean we'll get fewer robocalls, but if callers follow the rules,
and that's a big if we can be sure we're not listening to fake messages
generated by artificial intelligence. The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to outlaw calls that
use AI generated voices. Entirely simulated voices are banned, and so are those
that imitate a real person. You mail reported yesterday, the consumers here in
the US received nearly four point three billion robocalls last month. The global shipping
giant Marisk issued a profit warning today, Marsk saying its earnings are going to
take a hit this year because of the double whammy from attacks in the Red
Sea and industry over capacity. There's a recall you may need to know about
handheld clothing Steamer sold under the Steamfast, Ornado and Sharper Image brand names being
recalled because of a serious burn hazard. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the
recall involves about two million steamer sold since two thousand and nine by Walmart,
Amazon, Bedbath and Beyond and other retailers. Experts are still struggling to get
a handle on exactly how artificial intelligence is affecting the nation's workforce. Casey.
Since last May, companies have announced they were cutting forty six hundred jobs,
either to free up resources to hire more AI specialists or because AI had replaced
tasks. But the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas says that numbers definitely
and undercount. Because layoffs attributed to AI gets so much attention, employers generally
don't mention the technology when they announced cutbacks. Challenger says the firms would rather
fly under the radar. Casey, all right, thank you, Jeff.
You're doing a tailor swift theme. Does super Party Sunday now? With my
schedule, I'll be I'll be in bed before the game even starts. Uh
yeah yeah. Our weather guy, his wife took over and it's it's pretty
horrible, man, So we're pulling for him. But what are you gonna
do? All right? Thank you, Jeff, appreciate it all right,
have a nice weekend. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Jeff Ellinger, Bloomberg
News. There. Speaking of football, I I know you guys have uh
Bill's fans have been dealt a series of disrespectful stories kind of it's like almost
part of your guys's image at this point, you know, Josh Allen,
MVPCE at whatever. But the fact that your dude didn't win Comeback Player of
the Year DeMar Hamlin versus Joe Flacco. They gave that award out yesterday.
How does that work? Joe Flacco came back from what his couch right because
he was out and then brought in what mid season, and then your dude
came back from death, came back from the dark void of death, Like
what, what's the dame? I'm sorry, a Comeback Player of the Year.
I feel like that wins, but it didn't win. So sorry,
you got a little sidetracked. There. Although actually, now that I'm on
a sports tangent, one other thing, dude, what is going on with
the Saudis. So they they're awarding their top their top award for sports right
within the Riad Soccer League or whatever it is, which is you know,
is not the Premier league. But they have so much money. It kind
of is like, remember that's where the Portuguese so much I know about soccer,
Rinaldo, Right, didn't he go play with her? All right?
But so you did all that. You have unlimited funds at least for now,
and so you can do things like have the Undertaker be the trophy percenter
at your thing. Dude, I'm telling you, man, it must be
good to have an endless spigot of money. Yeah, and they recently they
did they did a crown jewel of it now with wrestling with the wrestler Like
right, yeah, I said, like, if I'm ever kidnapped by Saudis,
like if that ever happens, right, there's a good chance it could,
right yeah, right? If I kidding that by the Saudis. The
first thing I do, I just start talking about wrestling and the like a
week I'm like a shaw or however, it works over there. I don't
know that that's how it works. Yeah, full disclosure. Not really sure
how it works over time. But what I'm saying is I would get around
and get away safely. I don't think they have a shot. Let go
whatever you go. There's an opening. Yeah, and still you're right away.
But if you're the Shaw, you got to you gotta open all your
speeches with death to America, so like, you know, you got to
come to terms with that, all right. So that's Ross's kidnapp plan.
He's gonna talk wrestling. Somebody said it and they're not inaccurate. They're like
the Saudis are like, what would happen if a ten year old had unlimited
money or just or me or you? Right, you know what I'm saying,
just doing stupid stuff. Yeah, you're like, oh what if what
do we get the Undertaker to raise the trophy to his theme music? Yeah,
it'll be amazing, but can you imagine how big that check was too
for him to do that? Hey? You know what, because he doesn't
get off his ass for a lot to do a lot these days, he's
retired, so the check had to be just massive, like life changing.
But it was more than that, because it wasn't just they didn't just pay
this dude this year to lift trophies, didn't they? What was it?
This was it last year they paid him to come and almost get his back
broken? Yeah? Was that the Yeah? Yeah a few years back,
but that was over in Saudi Arabia, wasn't I think? So? Yeah?
Yeah, Like the Undertaker showed up and you're like, oh my gosh,
he's gonna die. Nothing personal, but it just it looked really bad. So