I was just gonna skip over it because it's usually pretty, uh perfunctory.
But man, I don't want to be this teacher because I never liked this
teacher. It's Friday, it's not Unfortunately, we're gonna have to have a
pop quiz. I know. I'm sorry, and by pop quiz I mean
Ross, you have a pop quiz, so hopefully know the material. It's
just one question though, and i'd like to hit you with it this morning.
You don't know. Ross did not know any of this is coming.
He's probably really excited. Why do we have leap heer? That's your that's
your quiz question. Why do we have leap here? Because the Democrats change
everything and they change the calendar. It's disgusting that your final answer you don't
want to saylation understand what you're saying was what they want you to believe.
All right, So that's the globalists, right, Okay, Uh, the
correct answer is the patriarchy. So we're both wrong, unfortunately, and I
look, I didn't know I was wrong. Some of you out there probably
came up with the either the same thing I said, or perhaps the same
thing Ross said with the Democrats changed it global at whatever but all of us
are wrong according to and PR. Yes, that's right, NPR yesterday,
why do we do leap here? And actually let me let me read you
the read you the whole headline, the reason NPR, the reason leap days
exist such as the one yesterday, and they're surprising gender bending traditions. And
I'm like, what that? What is going on here? I'm hook?
So now I got to dive into this thing. And it's actually it's two
claims, all right. So the first claim because if it and both of
them will lead to the moonbat point. The expert in this article is attempting
to drive at so according to NPR's morning edition, and what is this it's
a professor I'm sure, all right, yeah, Catherine Parking, Yes,
all right, Catherine park And a professor at American of American Social History at
Moondmouth. Okay, all right, So anyway, that's the expert in this.
So it's twofold one one. Is this the gender bending element basically rather
than just being you know, hey, the earth takes actually three hundred and
sixty four at a quarter days, so you know, do the math.
Here she explains that according to legend, complaints from Saint Bridget prompted Saint Patrick
to designate February twenty ninth as the one day when women can propose to men.
The custom spread in Scotland and England, where the British said that any
man who rejects a woman's proposal owes her a pair of fine gloves. All
right, And if you actually dig through this, it's not that there's not
almost like a humorous tradition of this, but it's then it's sold by this
expert in the NPR reporter as this was women beginning to push back on the
patriarchy, right right, So they were like, ah, they were asserting
themselves to men rather than a folkish tradition or running joke, which is is
kind of how that was portrayed. But then she pivots to that because people
point this out, they're like, this is a this is like pinching people
because they're not wearing green. Okay, it's not a It was an organized
pushback and if you call her out on that and they do kind of go,
well, that's you know, it was not something that's been today.
Obviously. That really didn't have anything to do with the reason, the scientific
reason for the season so it sounds like people built tradition, albeit humorous kind
of tongue in cheek stuff around it, and to evidence that it was in
fact a push back against the patriarchy, though one that failed. She then
goes on to say that if you look at post there there were humorous postcards
she said that proved darker undertones behind the tradition, namely that it was actually
a trick to a ridicule women. And and she has like a handful of
stupid little like almost like political cartoon postcards which are popular around the turn of
the century, you know, nineteen eight, nineteen ten, I believe for
the dates on them, and she says that those are they're meant to mock
women and make them look stupid. But if you look at literally the ones
she puts up there on the website, they're comical, like both the men
and the women are drawn in comical fashions, and whether or not whether they're
drawn in a more natural, you know, human looking, non clownish way,
it's not derogatory and the women at all. In fact, it ironically
kind of gets the vibe of modern day TV commercials right where the woman is,
you know, three thousand IQ and she's married to essentially an orangutang of
a man. Is this an idiot? And yeah, yeah yeah. NPR
spent an entire segment, yes, say, I guess I kind of did
too, explaining that that was the reason for leap here, and then they
did touch on the math part of it. So unfortunately, I know it
was early, I know it was Friday. I know it was a little
unfair springing a pop quiz on everybody, But you know, I didn't realize
I had it so wrong. I just saw math and stuff, and even
then not necessarily a perfect derision of In fact, I think they had just
after a certain amount of time to make up for that even smaller now open
gap. But had I known it was a a move against the patriarchy but
also a trick of the patriarchy, perhaps we would view it through a very
very different lenses. What is this? Oh yeah, no, no,
no, no, I know all these guys like, damn it, I
missed out. Yeah, you could you could be patriarchy right, well,
yesterday you could have been patriarching and you probably weren't. All right, coming
up on the show, we got dual border battle visits. I guess I
mean, battle is not the right word. Yet we get into that.
The White House Press Secretary continues to shine, and holy crap, any of
you who choose to live a little small town life, maybe yeah, I
live out of town. Got a few acres, you you bet person?
How do I know? MSNBC told me And wait to hear the audio on
this plus Pete calendar at eight o five. But right now, six fifteen,
let's take a break, be right back the NFL combine. Yeah,
there's lots of news. Somehow, the biggest news story of the combine is
Tom Brady for some reason. I don't know if like I want to go
kind of glance at what's going on, because there's a few things that happen
there that occasionally kind of weave into our world, like somebody's crazy good,
somebody's crazy bad, or the interview portion. There's always something and it's almost
I'm a little torn. You've heard me complain, like as somebody who literally
had to cover like postgame NFL press conferences in when I worked in Minneapolis for
iHeart. You don't realize because you're there for the totality of the event,
how few of the questions sometimes are about anything having to do with football or
the game we just witnessed. And it's either because people think they're creative and
interesting in trying to draw players, be they NFL players or combine kids hoping
to go to the NFL, into other issues, sometimes stupid issues, but
some, you know, just conversational, not end of societal big you know,
introspective questions. But but a lot of times they want to drag him
into the politics of it, and it can't help them, say, and
the combines kind of turned into that. So I'm over there, I'm like,
all right, so what's going on? First of all, I'm inundated
with Tom Brady stuff because apparently he runs a faster forty now they did at
the combine. Okay, I didn't he have a really bad combine forty.
I'm probably I'm not faster than him, but so yeah, I don't think.
You know, the joke with Brady is you look at his combine picture
and then you look at really how healthy and in shape he looked on the
day he retired, the real day he retired, not the fake ones.
Okay, fine, but what's with the current class? And I got to
tell you the interview with a guy by the name of Tyler Owens. Owens
is projected to be the fastest person in the combine. He is a TEXTI
plays for Texas Tech. All right, so they're interviewing him, not about
his blazing speed and expectations. But let's just say the conversation drifts a little
because what these reporters do is they they scour the top prospects social media for
interesting questions to ask, and they were kind of waiting for Owens to get
up there. Why well, listen, you guys are discussing that you don't
believe in talking about all right, so it's it's really hard to hear him.
I'm gonna kind of give you what the first thing he said. Listen
through it. Then I'll tell you exactly what he said. He said,
I don't believe in space, not like you know, getting space between my
pursuers, which you know that would be good. You should believe in that
as the likely fastest man at the combine. But now he means, you
know, up there, you guys are discussing that you don't believe in I
don't believe space, talking about like what what what led you to that point?
I believe I'm really I'm not myself for being like start can I starting
bad? All right? All right, all right. So again it's hard
to hear because they're in it's they're in that there's like nine interviews going on
in this room at the at the same time kind of and he's not up
on the microphone, so I think it's a reporter from barstool who's asking him
this. But he says he doesn't believe in space, like you don't believe
there's other planets, and he feels that flat earth theories have some really valid
points. He's been doing his research on the on the tube. So and
I that's not threecent even bringing this up, because then I saw idiots,
you know, trying to analyze this, going, well, this is this
is the kind of stuff that will you know, could impact his draft status.
Do you think an NFL team gives a flip if this dude thinks Mars
Israel at the end of the day, Do you didn't wasn't there a hype
there's a hn't a high profile basketball player kind of in on the dome stuff?
I remember which one it was. He is an All Star. I
think Kyrie Irving, Kyrie Irving. That's something. Yeah, Kyrie Irving was
posting some of that stuff. Now somebody got into, you know, buzzing
his year because I remember him going, nah, I was just playing or
something along those lines. Were just kind of ignored it. But I don't
know if this if if Owens goes out and uh, you know, get
damn near sets the record for the FORTIETHH to combine, uh, the other
skills seem to be there. He had. He was very good at Texas
Tech. I think there is one injury issue that we're looking at with him,
but all things, all things, I don't know if on draft day
if some team thinks that's the dude, if they care if he wants to
send YouTube links about ocean horizons or whatever the whatever. There's a lot of
those videos are about look the ocean horizon, look at the ship. You
can still see it. If he wants to send that to other teammates,
I don't think they care. Roz, if you thought the dude carrying the
rock for you could get you to the NFL and make everyone look to the
super Bowl, make everyone look stupid, but also isn't and bought in on
Jupiter and stuff, maybe you care as a fan. Maybe if he thought
it was flat as opposed around, he wouldn't be adjusting his running accordingly.
Right, Well, they say, of course don't care. Man, if
you can run, you can run, You don't care. Yeah, you
nobody cares. You know, it's good effect his draft status. I don't
know, man, Like didn't that what they were saying that about guys last
year who were outscrewing around in a car and killed a teammate who still went
in the uh the top projection there right or that within that projected window.
So nobody cares if Tyler Owens thinks this. And it's like I've said about
the NFL, whenever we get into this is the light version of it.
When they go the discriminary stuff, they're like, ah, there's never there's
not this, And this is what they're I'm telling you. If they think
they can win and you possess that set of skills, they don't care to
have a long case O day radio program. We got you know, Florida
Flora folks going to make their way into the show today. This might be
dude, I gotta tell you, I don't want a victim blame. But
the one story out of the the Gentleman's Establishment in Florida. So they are
right there. You know it's going to be a good one. This might
be This dude might be the least manly dude ever. I wait to hear
the details. We'll get to that here in just a little bit, but
first I got a head here. So yesterday, yesterday you had really contrasting
visits going on as Joe Biden made his way to the border and Donald Trump
made his way to the border, and so you had, you know,
these dueling camera narratives as Joe Biden is being shown stuff, right, you
know, they give give him a tour when they go down there, and
Donald Trump's being shown stuff, and so you're able to literally watch it.
They weren't right next to each other. They were like three hundred miles apart.
So there's that. But did Joe Biden actually make it down to the
fence. Did you see him trying to shuffle down that little pathway, whereas
Trump's running around and he's you know, he's he probably was doing beer balls
with some of the border guards that looked like they were having a fine time
there. But no, it was was pretty staggered and he had his cheat
sheet cards. So Joe Biden, who just had a physical and everything's fine,
is clutching those those infamous cards. You know, they're like, sit
in your chair. I don't know. I don't know exactly what they said.
You could see just for a moment a little of it, Like,
but like, how in depth was it, like the big fence that's the
border, Like, I don't know how deep they went into this, but
you're supposed to. It's supposed to be an impromptu Hey, how you doing,
because he's just sitting there, He's talking like five people members of border
patrol. Looks like there's a couple Democrat lawmakers there, and then you got
Secret Service obviously, and any of his staff. All right, So it
was fun watching people try to fill in what some of them were like,
oh and he had a ball cap on with the suit. Now Trump,
of course he wore a suit too, So politicians get a politician whatever.
Trump likes hats, probably because he sells them a lot of them too.
But so you had like almost this this perfect mirror image there, and you
know, body language says a lot the statements by some of the folks,
especially within like the board. Now I granted the border patrol Union they are,
they're not a not a big fan of Joe Biden. Haitian whipping stuff
was really the last straw for what what previously had been kind of a more
middling approach. And so yeah, it's it's probably pretty apparent that Trump's gonna
seem to be getting along with them just a little better, all right,
So let's see here. And it was kind of it's kind of weird because
like they brought him, they brought him to a part of the border,
but as as per usual, it's not really it's not a problematic the sector
is, but where they actually brought him is not because they have like multi
layered fencing and you dry, like they were able to drive him through one
of the first security perimeters and then everything took place in this buffer area between
the two fences, right, that's not really where the issue is. In
fact, had he gone what do they say, twelve miles about twelve miles
down the road, there literally is there's a gap where the fence just stops
next to these rocks and just people just walk through there. So they did
not go out and tour it. And you also know how I feel about
politicians touring stuff post immediate, like you know, hurricane stuff. It's a
little obnoxious when they, you know, because opponents will play the game.
They haven't been there, and they you know, they must they must hate
everybody. But ultimately, in those those first few minutes in days after a
disaster, a president flying in or out of there is just it just stops
what people are trying to accomplish. This. On the other hand, you
got all the border to choose from. Obviously it is an unmitigated disaster when
you see some of the photos, but you can find a spot that fits
your narrative, do you know what I'm saying? And they kind of,
they kind of were able to do that, but I don't know necessarily what
it accomplishes. What it should accomplish is perhaps making a meaningful connection with people
on the ground who work within, you know, the chain of government.
So not just the top brass, which is obviously who a president mostly talks
to or should anyway, but you know, maybe district district supervisors, Hey,
tell me what's going on now versus what was going on a year ago?
Right, And you ask these introspective questions and it's fascinating look, I've
interviewed when we did the radio row for years up in DC. It was
about immigration with the Fair Organization, and they would bring they bring the head
of the union up there, and they'd always bring along some like more regional
supervisors, little lower down the totem pole. But the people whose eyeballs every
day are seeing what's happening, and it's pretty fascinating. And you've heard me.
You hear me interview some of the ranchers there. I remember interviewing that
ranch the couple a couple of years ago, and they run a cow calf
operation with almost the exact same amount of acreage my family has. And so
what was mind blowing to me, if you remember the interview, is they
were talking about the frequency of which when they're out doing ranch stuff. So
we do we call it checks or spies, which kind of suck to do.
But you know, you got to go put an eyeball on your property
and so you drive fence line, You make sure the fence is up because
cows can knock it down, elk can knock it down. People can knock
it down. Uh, So you're checking that, you're checking out wells and
things like that. So you spend. Part of ranching is spending time combing
over your property, seeing if something's up natural or unnatural, and making sure
it's not problematic for your operation. And they were. And I can't fathom
finding a body once a week and checking what is essentially about five square miles,
riding around on an ATV or a horse wherever you choose to do it,
or just driving a truck on the edge if you have a wrap around
road like we had for a lot of it, and then just there's a
body about once a week, not for necessarily just the uncomfortableness on the part
of the ranchers, but the humanity of it, that this thing continues to
persist and and and move forward, where people, many many, many desperate
people would put themselves in the situation where they would expire, you know,
a few miles into the US border. These are the conversations you're supposed to
be having. And so I only in the days going forward, I guess
will we find out fully what it was, because it was a very cookie
cutter explanation, and you sure as hell can't ask Jean Pierre. She got
asked yesterday during an interview about the the death of the Georgia College student.
And I am every day impressed with her inability to handle what this is an
easy question. I mean, it's not an easy topic, but it's an
easy question in the way that most White House spokespeople would handle it. It'd
be very business, do you know what I'm saying? Sympathy and we're looking
at all the issues and all that and and like, but worded in the
most heartwarming way they can think of without actually communicating that they're doing anything if
they're opposed to doing anything. But she can't even muster that. Listen to
this, and this is a horrific, horrific loss for any family and obviously
any if whoever is found guilty, we need to make sure that make sure
that that happens. And obviously we don't want to we don't want to see
anything happen like that again. But here's the thing, Okay, all right,
all right, I mean, even in the part that I'm kind of
on board with, right like whoever did this, and you know, we
have some thoughts on who it might be, you know, we need to
see that happen. I'm assuming that means that if you know, they're found
guilty, the process she's implying, but that's like eight seconds of the cut,
and here's the rest of the answer, because she just can't help herself.
We have done the work to make sure we're dealing with a broken immigration
system. Which, by the way, we have done the work to make
sure we're dealing with a broken immigration system. I don't know if you wanted.
I don't know if that's how you wanted to word it, because that
it means like two different ways, like you did the work to make it
broken, or you've done the work to deal with it, and I don't
the second one, where you've done the work to deal with it is obviously
not true, right, because the problem persists. So I can only assume
you meant the first one, which is very telling. I've gotten in the
way. They have gotten in the way. Yeah, and that's what we
continue to see over and over and over again. Yeah, Republicans keep getting
in the way. So it just mindless word salad Man, and a question
she has to know she's going to get, whether it's in the White House
briefing room doing this the quick little interview with CNN or whatever, like,
she's got to know that question is going to come up. And that's the
thing about Jean Pierre, Like when the the amount of times where everybody knows
it's going to be probably the number one thing she gets asked about if she's
taking questions that day where they seemingly have not prepared an answer because she sounds
like she's winging it. She's just like, I gotta blame Republicans, but
I can't sound like a monster right off the bed. So all together,
I don't know that a damn thing was accomplished from a border perspective or even
on that particular issue. But like, that's an issue that's still political strategists
trying to figure out who's going to come believe it, well as much as
you can believe it, but who's going to come out on top. As
twisted in the world of politics as that sounds, because that what happened in
Georgia there, that's stuff that people find very impactful, especially swing voters in
swing states, and the polling on it is not positive for the White House
all right, six forty seven, But don't worry. The rest of the
media is here to help. Will explain as the show unfolds. Coming out
Hang on Aco Day radio program Phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven
eight seven four. All right, I promised, not because I want to
do it to you, but because it's just so insane, to the point
that I think even Mika, you know, the half the ms NBC Morning
Joe Show, I think even Mika was a little little taken aback by the
opening volley from her guests. So the new book dujure caused ajoure. But
you know, the the white fragility of our times, the new hot book
among the boon bats, which of course then you know gets the MSNBC and
c and promotion is called white rule rage, the threat to American democracy,
because of course it is. So the authors of the books, they bring
them on to Morning Joe and it's going to be an interview with authors.
They're not really always that exciting. I'm not picking on authors. Good for
what you do, but you know, a lot of times you get authors
to push on books and it's kind of filler stuff for a lot of a
lot of shows, both radio and TV. But this book is supposedly special.
It's a once in a generation book really drilling down to you know,
what's wrong in America, in our political system and the way that we interact
with each other. And so she turns these two idiots loose. And I
got to tell you this might be among the most racist openings to an interview
that didn't receive any pushback by the way, other than Mika. Given like
her face, you could tell she's uncomfortable, which is saying something. Listen
to this and know that if you find yourself living in a rural environment,
small town out in the country, find yourself white, you are the problem.
And here's why. Here we go joining us now professor of political science
at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Tom Scheller and journalist and opinion
writer Paul Waldman. Their new book, out tomorrow is entitled White Rural Rage
The Threat to American Democracy. All right, and you know it's a setup
going in on it, but because it is the political narrative out there while
ignoring many many things we bring up on the daily here on the show.
But that's where the problem lies. These are the authors. One of course,
is the Moonback College professor from Baltimore of all places, which will come
into play here. All right, let's get into it. What's the book
about, gentlemen, We'll start with you. Why are white rural voters a
threat to democracy? At this point, you would think, as we pointed
out, looking at Joe Biden's background and Donald Trump's that that the opposite would
be true. I mean, we lay out the fourfold interconnected, but I
have to stop there. Do you hear what she's You hear how she's positioning.
She's positioning under the you know, scrappy, hard scrabble Joe Biden,
Right, you would think it would be the opposite. People would identify with
Joe Biden and you know his hard scrabble image. Well, the problem is
is you look through the totality of his life and this guy, the majority
of has clearly not been identifiable with somebody who's living near the poverty line in
Rule America. Okay, no matter how many trains he takes. And that's
not to say that Trump is either you know, you didn't. Trump didn't
grow up like most of us grew up. Okay, I got that.
But actions, It comes down to actions. But fine, that's your positioning
going at that white world voters post of the country first of all, and
we show thirty polls in national studies to demonstrate this. So we provide the
receipts. In chapter six, they're the most racist, xenophobic, anti immigrant,
and anti gay geodemographic group in the country. Most most xenophobic. Huh,
that's okay. They're the most conspiracist group. Quanon support and subscribers.
Election denihalism, COVID denihalism, is scientific skepticism, Obama birtherism, Cacoday Radio
program and uh yeah, look at that. A third of the way through.
Coming up one hour from now, Pete Callender will join us little radio
chit chat from across the great state of North Carolina. We got a few
things to get into, all right. So I was mentioning this book,
right, and I've seen these flaw I don't even know when it comes out.
If it comes out what next week or something, or maybe came out
this week, don't care. But you know, just a a wonderful new
novel that everyone in leftist circles is like, this is it. This is
the answer. So it's it's like the new White Fragility or one of you
know, the the must read book. And the authors of the book are
on MSNBC. It's called White Rule Rage, The Threat to American Democracy and
I just I want to play the audio again of how they set it up,
even making Mika Brasensky a little uncomfortable, but just point by point,
listen to the gas lighting here and it's it's just a and I check it
up for these guys as uh, this is just this is just cash grab
city. Right, That's how cynical I am. But they're But the people
who then read this, they they believe this. And it shows you how
much we are literally watching the same program, but think we're watching two completely
different programs. Right. That's the baffling part of the political divide. You're
just like, how does this person who likes the same sports team I do,
have kids the same age maybe work with this? How do they see
things so differently? But luckily, if you're one of these hustler authors,
you just decide everything is the opponent's fault, even when even when people who
generally ideologically or are along with you raise very valid concerns or even themselves kind
of question the narrative. And you're seeing that with immigration, as much as
the White House is trying to push this stuff that you know it's all the
Republicans fault. The vast majority of voters don't believe that, and that is
on both sides. You know that the majority of voters believe this is on
demis Democrats down there that or they have the most culpability. Is the way
the question was answered, This is that Harvard Harrison Harris poll from earlier in
the week. The majority do think that Joe Biden did enrich himself in unethical
ways. And it's like forty percent of Democrats. Oh no, no,
no, the one is forty percent I want to be accurate here of forty
two percent of Democrats, fifty percent of independence and like eighty percent of Republicans
think that the Trump court cases are politically motivated. And people were shocked at
that number, and I said, well, the follow up question you need
to ask is then do you have a problem with that? Cause you know
people are going, I don't believe that many Democrats will one it's a Harvard
harrispolt. I mean, that's like it tends to skew left on most things
that that I've seen in my history with that poll. But also just because
somebody thinks it is politically motivated doesn't mean they have a problem with it.
So that's the disconnect when people are analyzing it. But then they bring these
two on to pimp the book and just listen point by point as we go
through on joining us now Professor of political science at the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County, Tom Shller and journalist and opinion writer Paul Waldman. Their new
book, out tomorrow is entitled White Rural Rage The Threat to American Democracy,
And Tom, we'll start with you. Why are white rural voters a threat
to democracy? At this point you would think, as we pointed out,
looking at Joe Biden's background and Donald Trump's, that the opposite would be true.
No, I mean, we play out the fourfold interconnected threat that white
world voters post of the country. First of all, and we show thirty
polls in national studies to demonstrate this. So we provide the receipts in chapter
six. They're the most racist, xenophobic, anti immigrant, and anti gay
geodemographic group in the country. All right, let's uh, And there's there's
a lot packed into point number one. Are they the most I'm just gonna
see it on xenophobic because it is the the thing, you know, the
the cause of the day. Are they the most. Now, don't get
me wrong, it's it is. It is fascinating to watch people across the
political spectrum really weigh in on how they you know, how they feel about
Israel or Zionist or Jews or however they wish to to word it. It
is very eye opening. That being said that ain't just Billy Bob right there,
right for every you know, for every quote unquote white rule voter who
may post something online that you feel is xenophobic. I feel like I could
find you a few others that ain't his neighbor if he catch them a drift.
But all right, a little bit of what about is in there.
But you you put it out there that they are far and away the most
and I just I don't know that that's the case watching all of the protests
and the insanity and the tearing down of the flyers and stuff that any dude
throwing the bowl in league, is that what I'm seeing? But okay,
all right, continue They're the most conspiracist group. Quan On support and subscribers.
Election denialism, COVID denialism is scientific skepticism. Obama, all right,
all right, and do you want to go down the conspiracy. The thing
is is, once you've weaponized it into you know, the Russia collusion thing,
and you've given it some official patina since we like using that word now,
Yeah, in the minds of the academics doing this, they don't see
that as conspiratorial. Even if they think that some of the reporting was inaccurate,
they go, well, they look they were trying their best. But
again, unless you recognize that this stuff exists across the spectrum instead of saying
it doesn't on one but does on the other, then this is a griff
fur There is a third anti democratic sentiments. They don't believe in an independent
press, free speech. They're most likely to say the president should be no,
no, no, no. The thing is, they do believe in
the concept of an independent press. This is the greatest misnomer here. They
do want an independent press, but that also means a press that is independent
of the cozy relationships, the protectionism, the you know, the the immediacy
at which fact checker like Glenn Kessler over the Washington Post will run out and
provide cover al. They'll ignore stuff and have huge double standards and be blatantly
open about it. They let of politicians say something they know to be wrong,
that they would have challenged if they had an R after their name.
That they just pretend like, Noah, it's fine. So no, I
would argue, they most want an independent press. They recognize that that is
not what we have in most instances right now. But continue, Oh,
and you're prosecuting your political opponents. So there's that too, a unilaterally without
any checks from Congress or the courts or their bureaucracy. They're also the most
strongly white nationalists and white Christian nationalists. And fourth, all right, well,
I will say this are that's probably true? Right, because again I'm
trying to be an honest, arbiter and an analogy. So yes, do
I think that white voters probably are most represented among white supremacists. Yes,
other than that Clayton Bigsby did, Yes, Yes, I do. I
do believe that in the same way that I believe, and you guys can
fact check me, I believe that black voters are probably the most represented among
black nationalists. Ross would you look that up? Would you like the Panthers
and the that weird Israeli group who was screaming at the kid at the mind,
would you see if that tends to predominantly have a no, I'll look
at that, but so what are you even talking about? The hell are
you talking about, sir? Ninety ninety percent of what you're talking about can
be laid squarely at the fringes, as you say. But also there is
there's no receipts in this book. What he claims are the receipts. And
I can't remember who he said it was, but you know, whatever page
it was, these are these a what was it chapter six? Yeah,
uh, they were there. There are collection of studies that are peer reviewed
within this circle of DEI style professors that shockingly, all of these moonback professors
whose grift is largely connected to the necessity for them to come in and teach
diversity, equity inclusion stuff and and and opera. Of course, of course
their academic studies are going to support that position. But when you get down
into the non anecdotal, you know, within just the world of academia,
I should say, and you get into yes, some of it anecdotal,
but also some of it clearly connected to statistics. The FBI Crime Report,
the most recent one of which came out just what six months ago? But
I don't see that being bannied about when we're in these discussions, and uh,
you know the promotion of violence among protesters. Did you not see the
fiery but mostly peaceful summer we had not even closer. We're most likely to
excuse or justify violence as an acceptable alternative to peaceful public distance. All right,
So I'm just gonna cut it because that's last thing he said, And
that's what I was just commenting on. Really, they're the they're they're the
most the most right words are violence. Therefore violence against you can be met
with violence in return. This is that was common practice on college campuses.
Punch a Nazi, not an actual person who goes, hey, I'm a
Nazi, look at my uniform, but like people that you disagree with,
burn stuff down the And you're going to hearing more and more about that book
because I guess it's either out now or it's soon to be out, and
they're very excited about it. But yes, I want to want to bring
that to your attention. For any of our listeners, you know, like
Hornett County or Rockingham or you know, just trying to live a peaceful country
existence out there, it's all your fault. So you should feel bad according
to these two idiots, and if you do any want to apologize eight eight
eight nine three four seven eight seven four you absolute bigot. All right,
hang on, we'll be back. It is the Yes, it was the
fiftieth anniversary of Blazing Saddles. So if you went and saw that in the
theater, how you feeling? That's crazy though, But you know, white
rule listeners all super bigots learned about it on MSNBC, So that's well.
I thought i'd share that. All right, let me grab a call or
two on this. Chris, you're up first, go right ahead. Hey,
good morning, Casey, thanks for taking my call, Adam. I
was listening to the sector what you guys are just talking about about this book?
And uh, I live in a very rural town in North Carolina,
and all my neigh most of my neighbors are black, and even one of
them, a very old black guy, even puts up a Confederate flag.
And one day I'm gonna go ask him why. But I haven't talked to
him yet. But I don't even I don't even want to ask him why.
I don't even want to ask him why. You know what I mean,
because it's his business, you know what I mean. But uh,
you know, we all get along. And I mean there's a time where
I needed fuel for my generator. Yeah, I was just gonna ask you.
I don't understand where that guy got that. Oh very well, Oh
my god, I needed fuel for my generator. The guy gave me a
propane tank. I gave it back to him, full of course. But
uh, I mean, there's no we don't talk about race or anything because
we don't see that. We just see each other, you know, neighbors.
Well, I call my neighborhood. Then it's racist, more racist,
so well then brand me a racist because I love everybody. So thank you,
all right, thanks for thanks for the call. There. That is
a man in denial right there. Listen to him, just trying to be
a good neighbor and interact with people around them. And by the way,
that's another bigness misnomer because they're like, yeah, I if you say you
don't see race, then you know you're missing racist. No no, no
no no. To say that you don't see race versus to say that you
don't see racism are two entirely different things. When people say they don't see
race, they're indicating that they feel that they interact, whether they're accurate or
right or wrong, they feel that the way that they approach life and the
way that they interact with people isn't one that is torn based on racial divide,
right, Like, whatever your philosophy is. Here's the thing I'm this
is cynical me. I just assume fifty percent of the people that I don't
know are jerks or a holes. I know that's and the other percentage are
not. But to what extent I don't know. So I approach everything with
the open ended possibility it is going to go one way or the other.
That's it. And all you got to do is be a human being to
enter that lottery. Zach, go right ahead. Hey, how you doing
case, I'm good, sir. Do you want to apologize? Yes,
I would like to apologize for being an overall wearing, gun toting, goods
smoking country man. Sir. Have you ever have you ever utilized smokeless tobacco
or ridden in the back of a truck? Oh god, yes, Oh
wow, Okay, I'm only I'm only twenty eight and I've done all that.
I've done that well, sir, you were on a path of destruction.
I don't know how you made it through the call screener. I have
to let you go forget our license canceled. So one more call on our
little uh why white folk? White country folks are the bane of society?
Book and MSNBC segment Yesday, which sounds I don't know, incredibly racist on
behalf of the authors, but I'm told it's not by by our intellectual betters.
Uh, Anthony, go right ahead, thanks for hanging on. Yeah,
I just want to apologize because my son goes to a fire, a
fiery protest at least once a month out and either bone ors everyone. I
don't know. I call them bonfires. I call them bonfires, but some
people may call them and they're on some different stuff. Because he actually they
actually tear up their own stuff. He tore career in out of his truck
doing donuts and protests or something. Yeah, probably mud. Probably mud was
protesting mud. That's how I do that. One time. You can't Yeah,
you can't. Uh, you can't do donuts with mud. Grab some
Yeah, they don't do well. We did custom and not for nine inshup
under an old Chevy one time, just to give its stability and that worked,
but you know, extraordinary circumstances. Well I like that you're an apologist
for this behavior, sir so. Yeah, well yeah on fire and they're
burning their own stuff on their own property and it's you know, usually trash
or would yes, more excuses, Okay, all right, all right,
I'm sorry you failed as a father, sir so. Poor poor guy be
disappointed his kids out there hanging out with his friends and doing donuts and having
a bonfire, maybe even maybe even a domestic beer. I well, look,
I'm just now I'm just putting words in his mouth. I shouldn't be
doing that. Let me move on to something else where I insult a larger
swath of our audience there. Who you know, I just want to go.
I want to go, not be in the city. Absolute insanity.
Uh yeah, all right, I'm a couple these. Even though it was
kind of I'm gonna hit Pete with this a little later, I really enjoyed
yesterday after this story came out, all of the people posting all of the
clips of Liam Neeson doing comedic bits, whether it's the Ted movie, some
skits, some skits he's done on both SNL, but in other capacities but
there's really Liam in each of those instances where it's being played for comedic purposes,
it's still kind of the same dude, you know what I'm saying.
Even if you watch the City like that Been and Ted where the you know,
the talking bear thing that where he's interacting with him in that grocery store
scene over what was it tricks or something? He's playing the dude from taking
in there. But it's so comedic in that situation now, and I,
by the way, I love Liam Neeson. I'm good with it. I
think Liam Neeson being the action star for the period of the time that he
was was awesome. And even though they would just go all right, let's
take the same dude and then just change it's behind him, They're like,
what if he's on a train, all right? What if he's on a
plane, what if he's in Alaska or in this you know, in the
snow, and like, they just kept making them and people kept watching them,
including me, But does he have the chops to make the transition to
this paramount picture says they are moving ahead with the remake. Of course,
it's a remake of the Naked Gun. He of course tapped to play Frank
Drebin, Leslie Nielsen killed it. What is everyone's thoughts on Naked Gun?
Yay, nay. I thought the movie was hilarious and I think it held
out I watched it not that long ago. I think it holds up to
ross you Naked Gun fan, I have never seen it. You've never seen
Naked Gun. I've also never seen Blazing Saddles. Did I just like completely
blow your mind. You're dead, aren't you? The best part is right,
we've talked about this. Everybody passed. We've talked about this for ten
years. Yeah, and I've kept like I've seen all the clips from the
movie so I can have like a conversation with which one of the two like
punch on the horse and where the white women at and all that kind of
stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, good scene. Good scene. That
told booth one's good too. Okay, I guess I never realized that.
Had you said you've never seen Laces, probably no, Sure, Okay,
I'm not gonna buy. If you don't want to see you don't have to
see it. But I am curious just because that sounds like a movie you
would have at least laid eyes on at one point just kind of with the
vibe of other stuff. But no, it's just like one of those things
where like I've just never gotten around to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I get it. That's fine. Same with the Highlander. You're just
making stuff. No I'm not. I'm being one hundred percent series. But
you've seen Joe Dirt. Oh dude, Joe Dirt is a top three movies.
We've gone over this before, now I know how it happened. You've
only seen three movies. You've got Godfather one, Godfather too, and Joe
Dirt, not specifically in that order. Yeah, and the only three movies
you've ever watched. I guess so. Oh and Guardians of the Galaxy.
I guess you watched that because we've talked about on the air. All right,
I feel like you and Jeff need to have a movie time or rased
agent for that matter. What was it that he had never seen? It's
weird those little little pockets in there. And people get into the debate.
Do you think Liam Neeson's funny when they when they're doing the comedic stuff,
Because you've seen some of those clips on time was just talking about, right,
Oh, I've seen all the clips. Yeah, yeah, no.
But do you think Liam Neeson could pull off a full slapstick comedic movie.
I do not. Yeah, I I mean maybe he can bring typecast,
but he's sort of like been typecast now where like every time you seeing Leam
neeson movie show up on Netflix or Amazon Prime or whatever, it's like the
same movie, right, Yes, he's just redoing movie different. He's just
redoing taken over and over again. He's the old retired CIA guy who kicks
ass, which is great, he's great at it. Mm hmmm hm.
But yeah, no, all of the movies are that. I readily admit
that that that is one hundred percent. I'm trying to think of a deviation.
I g, what was the one where he couldn't nobody remember it well?
That? But I don't want to spoil that because that's a good That
Unknown that's a pretty good movie. But yeah, it's it's in that genre.
Kind of all of them kind of are. Yeah, it's just all
right, it's just they move the pieces around him. So this would be
a departure for sure. But also you're kind of you're screwing with a with
a movie that is you know, it has a has a cult following My
bigger question is they going to bring OJ back? So I mean, do
you do you? Do? You do it? OJ cameo? And how
would that go over? Raced Agic from the Weather Channel. Let's ask him
if he's ready to rock and roll. Nope, not yet. All right,
must be a big weather somewhere going on. So we'll chat with Ray
here in just a moment, Pete Callen or he'll join us at eight oh
five. But yeah, that's the announcement. It looks like Liam Neeson will
be Frank Dreben. Who is I'm trying to see who else is in on
this thing because it's also about the folks you have around you. It doesn't
say anything about OJ. So anyway, Race Agic for the Weather Channel,
I were just talking about Liam. You saw Liam Neeson is gonna be Frank
Dreben now Naked Naked Gun. Remember the Naked Gun movie? Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, they're redoing it but with Liam Neeson.
Oh okay, how you feel about that? Well, I'm going to tell
you a couple of things. The first thing is I don't like remakes.
So is it like the Naked Gun two and a half or is like the
Naked Gun six they're going back. They're going back to the original Naked Gun
and doing it is how I understand it. Yeah, right, right,
so you know, and that's the first problem. And then it would be
like, just because you know, everybody knows what a Star Wars fan,
that would be like him Qui gone Gin being played by somebody else and doing
the Phantom Menace over which was not really great movie anyway, but if you
put a different character in as Qui Gone So, yeah, I probably won't
watch it. Right, But you saw the True True Grit remake, right,
you didn't see the the the Cohen Brothers True Grit I did not.
Well, yeah, sometimes it works, but I'm very rare. Yeah,
it's it's a rare occasion that that that it does work. Yeah, you're
right, all right, Well, well, yeah, we'll put it out
there for the audience and we'll just talk about all of the beautiful summertime whether
you're bringing us. Yeah, it'll get back. Yeah, yeah, it
might take a little while, but eventually we'll start to get some better days
ahead. Today. You know, I'm not putting on the list of top
ten or top twenty for that matter, as starting to see the clouds are
rolling already, and might see a few sprinkles of rain here this morning,
especially to try it in west end of the mountains, but other than that,
most of us I'll see the rain hold off into our Friday evening plans.
Hey, it is first day meteorological spring, so there's that, yeah,
so we can celebrate later a little mid fifty. So it does stay
cool, and that rain will continue tonight into tomorrow morning. Now that's where
we do the reset. So until about let's just say conservatively, just before
lunch, there'll be occasional rain clouds, but by tomorrow afternoon cloudy but dryer
air comes in and that'll help us get to the little bit sixties. So
not complete rainy day tomorrow. First half, yes, second half. No,
Sunday much better as we're going to get close to seventy degrees and some
sun will start to come out with the clouds identical day on Monday. Before
the middle of next week, starting Tuesday afternoon, we'll start to get a
little bit more unsettled, but it will stay mild though, just about putting
the lid on this kettle for winter. As we begin this meteorological spring,
gonna be tough to get any kind of winter or icing events here in March.
Not gonna say does it happen, Casey, but the chances with each
passing day become less and less. Okay, all right, thank you sir.
We'll talk in an hour and we will be right back. Hang onkc
O Day radio program Pete Calender. He'll come in eight oh five and we'll
start slicing and dicing various news stories. But before we get there, I
thought, hey, you know what, why don't we take a little trip,
as we do from time to time here on this show, down to
the great state of Florida. And I'm not gonna play the whole Florida man
things. I want to get to these two stories and that'll shave a minute,
but you know the drill. All right, we're here to start.
Let me start down in Miami area, may do. I don't know if
you saw this. There is a diplomat's son. He is an Israeli diplomat
in the Miami and his kid was arrested for literally running over a police officer
with his motorcycle. And it didn't look accidental. It looked like I'm a
diplomat's son. I can do whatever I want get out my way right kind
of crap, and they actually there was some debate as to whether they were
going to be able to do it. State departments said no, he's fine.
They so they arrested him and they put him put him in the Miami
Dade County jail. Well, there was an incident yesterday. The nineteen year
old, who if you read the backstory, I'm not getting into all of
it, kind of looks like another kid afflicted with f fluenza. Apparently he
was in a debate or an argument however you want to describe it with some
of his fellow in mates, and a beaten broke out. But it's what
it's over that is rather interesting. So, while he was waiting in the
jails holding cell, the nineteen year old's name is Avram Gill got into a
debate with another inmate, a thirty two year old identified as Blake Ermis,
over sausages. As you do. Yeah, they got into a sausage debate,
and so I'm like, okay, well, what's the debate? Like,
what is the superior sausage, which, by the way, I mean
pork breakfast sausage kind of my go to I like Cherizo's good Chariso's too.
I really I look, if you tell me, hey, I'm making sausage,
chances are I'm I'm gonna be happy with what's going on. Okay,
pretty good Elk sausage among my favorite back in the day. Oh, I
love that stuff, A lot of deer sausage. But I leaned into the
oak. No, that wasn't the debate. The debate, according to jail
authorities, was what goes what are the correct ingredients for sausages? But he
didn't say what side everyone's on, which I thought it was just ecstasy and
deliciousness was salt, you know, stuffed into an intestinal casing. But apparently
they got into a bigger debate, so that prompted a fight. And yeah,
so everyone there is going to catch new charges. I can't tell if
he won or lost him looking at both their post pictures, nobody looks really
badly beat up. So and the second story is another assault story, this
time in Port Saint Luci, where a strip club patron who's getting his man
card revoked right now, I'll explain why was assaulted. At least that's what
he told. And one of the dancers was arrested after the report says he
was assaulted with a small stack of ones. The female worker went up to
the table they say that, you know, it's a gentleman's club, and
even if you've never been to one, I think you know how it works.
Right. Dancers, dance patrons share small tokens of appreciation, sometimes you
know, one at a time, sometimes making it rain because they're filming a
music video, whatever it is, and that's the circle of life there.
And according to according to the report, the dancers became upset as the table
full of men had not tipped, and when told, hey, you tip,
said that they did not believe that to be how it worked. So,
in frustration, one of the answers came over with I guess a lot
of ones from others who had tipped, and threw it at him and said
something along the lines of this is how it works, this is what you're
supposed to do. This dude called the police because eight one dollar bills fluttered
into his face and you see the mugshot of the worker there. The the
employees were upset the victim had not throw money at them, and in the
report they also they like they spell it out illegal ease, so of when
you go to a gentleman's club. This is the way that it normally works.
So I guess a scene setter for some judge who doesn't know how it
works. I don't know. Sheriff Deputyes did say the man in question was
drunk and being rude and also had been following employees from table to table verbally
insulting them. And then once they said that they didn't tip and they weren't
going to like their bischemy from reservoir dogs, they became frustrated and one of
the dancers simply threw the money back, saying, quote, you need this
obviously more than I do, to which the man responded that he's really really
rich, which is why he doesn't tip. So I guess he's playing the
how did I get rich? Not giving you money card? And that's when
police got called so and they actually they arrested the dancer and charged her with
misdemeanor battery. CODA radio program, It is our number three and this is
where we kick it into cruise control, which is very lazy on my part,
but quite fun as we chat with our radio buddy to the South Middays
WBT and on the iHeart Radio app pete calender. What's going on, sir?
Oh? Nothing, nothing, not a whole lot. No, not
a whole lot. I don't think so. I mean, I think there's
something coming up next week. Isn't there trying to put my calendar together?
Here? Are you? How's the Groundhog Day? With laughter there? Yeah?
Yeah, not Saint No, Saint Patty's that's a few weeks. Yeah,
Saint Patrick's Day. That's it. I wish, but no, it's
uh, it's an election. I don't know how your ad load looks down
there, but we've got some we have we have some fiery contests, uh
that I hear during my spot blocks. But it's uh, it's an interesting
primary season. Uh. We talked, we actually talked a little about the
Mark Walker and uh Costelli stuff with the They keep saying AI deep fake,
but it almost sounds like somebody doing an impression of him. M are you
super plugged in on this? I know, I don't. I don't know.
I didn't creeps down. No, I looked at it yesterday. Yeah,
I looked at it yesterday. And isn't Castelli also accused of like re
re re upping a bunch of endorsements that aren't current. I saw say something
about that on Twitter. I pay so little and I pay so little attention
to the endorsements to be honest with Yeah, yeah, I did see somebody
alleging that, but I admit that I haven't. I haven't dug into it.
And I would also point out that even though we actually, yeah,
we had Mark Walker called in. We were talking about this show yesterday on
the show yesterday. You know it's with him, Well, yes, it's
because what I did is I asked him to create an image of a white
family and he was able to do it. So it was the joke that
we used. But yeah, you know that is that is the that is
the night mirror of right where everyone says this is going to go. And
then you couple that with the this weird parody thing they're doing, the Mark
Rotten Rottenson. I know, if you're familiar with this, I have not
seen that. No, not seen Mark Rottenson. I have this is billboards.
They got bill boards and basically it is you know what it is.
It feels like what they're trying to do to Mark Robinson, the Tina Fey
thing with the I can see you know, I can see Russia from my
front porch because it's they it's a parody of him, and it does use
some of the quotes that obviously draw the ire of so many in the media,
but there's also quotes that are wholesale made up and so and then it's
well, well, it's all you know, it's all parody. Don't worry
about it. And I'm sitting there and I believe that Ril's analysis was they
just refer to it as quote controversial, and I'm like, you guys stuck
a dude in jail for seven months over a Hillary meme, right because it
was the end of democracy. You went and got he went and docksed with
the help of Facebook, a black forklift driver over a slowed down Nancy Pelosi
video that was clearly meant to mock her. Why is this just, oh,
it's controversial. I mean that sounds like what they were jailing people for
six months ago. Well, uh, I think there's a very clear standard
for people who are not aware. Uh. The standard is it's different when
Democrats do it. That's the that's the key to always remember, right that
when they mock somebody makeup stuff. Uh you know, uh, do parodies
quote unquote like all of that stuff is totally fine if they're doing it.
If it's being done against them, with the mockery and the joke telling at
their expense, that is the threat to democracy and that has to be eliminated
for the democracy to survive and for free speech to be protected, they have
to curtail the free speech that mocks them. Okay, so memes very clear
for people who do parody. Uh and white you heard that white rule voters
are the bane of America? Right? I have heard that. Yeah,
yeah, I have heard that, and I'm I am kind of curious that
that was any other. Look. I got into a fight yesterday on the
air with an emailer over uh, you know, of course, you know,
oh, you're a racist because I'm talking about the story that the that
the Assembly did about Josh Stein having a problem with black people, as you
did you see this story yet Scien's got a problem with black people. And
so I was just doing the story and and then I get attacked by a
member of the audience who then of course says he's never going to listen again
because you know, I'm a racist, and yeah, yeah, I'm like,
well, then why are you listening to a racist radio show, like
why would you do that? And uh, And then of course he's like,
I'm never gonna listen again. But you know, when you speak of
the demographic generalities, right there, there is truth in those uh, in
those demographics and in the generalities. That's why they exist, right, that's
why we know of them. For example, I'm sure you saw this came
out but a day or two ago, where they broke single, single men,
married women, married men, and educated all of that, yeah,
right, And every demographic votes Republican except for one, which is single females,
which is you remember the life of Julia, right that we all mocked
and made fun of when Obama's team put it out, talking about this little
cartoon figure Julia and how she relied on the government from cradle to grave,
and we all thought that was the most absurd thing, but it actually resonated
with a certain demographic, and that demographic is the most reliable votes for Democrats
in addition to black voters. Right, So when talking about demographic realities,
these things do matter, right, The generalities do matter. Now, all
of that being said, if you were talking about roal white voters in a
way that with or should say, you're talking about say, black urban voters
like you're talking about roal white voters. I suspect there might be a bit
of a different reaction from the Democrats and the media, But I repeat myself
in the way that you are demonizing an entire group of people as the cause
for all of America's problems. It's the it's the basket of deplorables again,
Yeah, and it obviously it. You know, it's a it's a losing
thing, right, and which is why they tried so hard to do it
to uh Romney right with that video, because they realize they realize that it's
a losing thing. And yet this is the new white fragility. I'm told
this book, right, this is the must read among circles. And they
say things like they're the most xenophobic group, are they? I mean,
are they the most But and then but then they'll also say stuff like white
rule voters are most represented among white nationalists. Yes, yes, they probably
are. Wait to hear about who's over represented in the black nationalist move movement.
But when you delivered from from that direction, it's a combination of insane
gas lighting, obvious statements, and seal clapping on the part of Mika Brazinski
and others who are going to help, you know, get this narrative out
there, all the while missing the forest for the trees. So yeah,
so like things used to be their voters. No, these used to be
their voters. That's the kicker on it. And they abandoned the Democrat Party
because the Democrat Party lost sight of what they were No, no, no,
it's a red Rover and everyone changed. Yeah. So like so if
you're sitting there and you're watching it and I played the audio this morning and
you're like, because it it gets you, it gets you upset here in
it, right because you just like this is so blatantly not accurate and and
one and racist, right, and but on the other hand, like,
is it such did they sow overshoot, you know, punch out their weight
class that at the end of the day it will have the same impact that
when you do pulling around what happened down in Georgia is having among independent voters,
where this narrative, like from John Pierre, say that it's you know,
it's the Republican's fault more than even the guy who did it, Like
they're not resonating with voters. So it's not like the art of war.
Do you just you know, while your enemy's doing it to themselves, don't
you just step back or what? Yeah? Well, and also it is
a it's an example, it's a it's a byproduct, right, where the
result of them not having much to run on in the first place. Right,
And this is why they're focusing on these types of things. They they
will tell you what they're afraid of if you just listen to them, right,
And they are afraid that they are not going to spite all of the
efforts by our you know, youngest Democratic Party chair of North Carolina around the
country and all this, you know, the who doubt apparently they made it
a full time job for her, so I guess good for her. But
you know, she's talking about going around getting the rural vote back for the
Democrats. So yeah, the publication of this book is probably not going to
help. But there's also this really thick layer of the virtue signaling. And
there's got to be a way for these these progressive Bolshevik leftist white Democrats to
distance themselves from all of the all of the other white people. They don't
want to be seen as being part of that group. And so how do
you You can't do it based on race because they're white, right, So
how do you how do you virtue signal that I'm better than these other white
people. Well it's to say, well, they're from the rural parts.
So now rural is getting coded, you know, as different as I'm superior,
I have better ethics. I'm down with you. Now. The irony
here is that I mentioned this story at the Assembly that was written by Dawn
Battaglia and Jeffrey Billman that was talking about the attorney general candidate in North Carolina.
You know, white Democrat guy who's you know, beating four black Democrats
in the primary, and one of whom is a you know, former state
Supreme Court justice, right, and yeah, and the whole top of the
ticket looks like it might be white. And they're very concerned about this.
It's got black voters inside of the Democrat party upset. And you know,
you got probably Mark Robinson that's going to be at the top of the ticket,
and people are worried that Robinson is actually going to attract enough votes in
the black demographic to undermine Josh Stein, who barely squeaked by in his statewide
races. And I think one of the things people in the media are not
really keyed in on is the effect that Robinson is having by going to those
churches for the last you know years. I think they're fully aware because that's
where they scream the most bloody murder when he shows up at one, right,
that's where they pull the audio and they run this, and then they
do this where they don't realize they're not just demonizing him, they're demonizing that
whole congregation because in the videos the congregation is is cheering along, is cheering
right. Yeah. So but here's the thing. So they will promote those
clips that are the most egregious in their minds, the most controversial in their
minds. But what we're not seeing is Robinson's been doing this every weekend.
You know, he's oh for yeah. So these are just the clips that
have come out. There have been what half a dozen over four years?
How many other churches has he been to and he been talking to where As
you said, people have been cheering this stuff. And I think I think
a lot of people are going to be surprised if Robinson does get through the
primary. I don't think they'll be surprised at that. I think he's probably
got the the inside track to win that. But then when he gets into
the general, I think, you know, they're gonna throw all of this
stuff at him while trying to say, you know, we're down for the
struggle. We are the best defenders of black North Carolinians versus this black guy
who's been talking to the churches. And I think there might be a bit
more support, stronger support for him coming out of those, you know,
culturally conservative types of churches that that otherwise have voted for Democrats but are now
starting to wonder what are we actually getting for this sporting Yeah, hey,
Pete, can you hang on just a second. I got to hit a
break, come back a break. Yeah. Yeah, you know, we've
got Pete bills man, we got congressional candidates accuse the other of trying to
murder people. Yes, I'd like to hear some political spots and maybe some
gambling spots. Oh well you are in luck, so yeah, lose Yeah
all of that. Pete's stay is made and yours is too. Hang on,
here is your treat s Pete calendar this morning, And Pete, did
you happen to see any of the video of the president and former president both
visiting the newcomers yesterday down at the border. Did you see any of that?
Yeah? I saw former President Donald Trump waving to some people that were
crossing the border that were like Trump. Trump was funny, man. Of
course everyone lost their way, him and Abbot and he's waving and he turns
and he says, like, you say they liked me or something. Oh
yeah, He's like, they like Trump. Well he doesn't say me,
that's right, right, right, they liked Trump. Can you believe it?
They like Trump and the governor too. Yeah, I mean they liked
bother where he was bocking them. It was like the example somebody who was
so but hurt said it would like, you know, it's like when people
are eating delicious food in front of their pets but won't give them some.
And I'm like, no, no, they're both funny, if that's what
you mean by that. But no, that's that's not the same thing.
And then to go down the hill. Yeah I didn't. Yeah, I
didn't see Biden's trip to Brownsville. I was because I thought that was mainly
on a on an ice cream finding mission. I assumed that they were there
to figure out whether or not there was you know, ice cream available at
the border, so very hot, so right, but you know, maybe
I assume he found some. I'm assuming he probably did. Although in Brownsville,
they there is a part of Brownsville where it's literally a double fence.
Remember that golf course and all that is if you've ever looked at on Google
Maps, you can kind of pick it. So they actually pull pulled him
in there, which is weird because that's where they took uh Kamlo when she
came down, and so you're in what is arguably physically one of the most
secure parts of the border because like most people wouldn't try to cross there because
it's near population and it's double fenced, and and that's what that's what he
wandered around staring at So what that what? That's weird because I thought the
Republicans were preventing immigration, uh, border security. I thought they had stopped
all of the border security. They right, despite Joe's protests and all of
his diligent efforts to make sure the border is secure for the last three years
by undoing everything that had secure the border. But apparently, yeah, I
thought Republicans were making America unsafe, so it's good again. But he found
one spot on the border that has some fenses. But every week, once
a week, there's gonna be some dog attack story. And by the way,
I want all of you pitbull people getting ready to type your angry emails
about oh my pitpull's great, it's the Gandhia piples. I understand yours is
fine. Volunteers at the battered Women's shelter and the soup kitchen, and you
know would never do that. You have. Yours is fine, But you're
off the hook here because you're not going to see this twist coming. How
old is this guy? Sixty six? All right? So here is the
scene that Tuesday morning police responded to after getting a call from some of the
man's neighbors who said that they heard they heard sounds of distress coming from inside
of his apartment, and so they went over showed up around two am.
When they entered the apartment, what they found was the man in a insignificant
danger. He was bleeding profusely, he had significant injuries around his middle section.
And then the story started to emerge as the guy is rushed to the
hospital and police try to figure out how the heck this happened because there wasn't
anyone else in the apartment, just the man's pet dog. Well, what
authorities eventually learned, although it's not one hundred percent, but this is the
hypothesis according to investigators and medical professionals, the dog did it. And it
being by the way, this dude's in a he's in an artificial he's in
a coma right now, force coma because they got medically, they try to
figure out the injury was because something. And again their theory is the dog,
only other entity in the home, bit off the man parts and they
the hypoth and ate them, is the theory, and that's what caused the
injury. I don't know if they're theorizing that he was sleeping, he didn't
have any clothes on, and the dog went that looks delicious, and that's
what happened. But that caused him to scream, obviously, and that's the
sounds of distress. And then the police showed up. Now here's the part
I know that everyone in their mind's like, I don't play with me.
What wasn't remember the dog from Frasier It was a jack Russell. Holy crap,
I didn't know Jack Russells to do something like that. I admit,
I don't know that I've been I think I've been around one actual Jazzjack Russell.
They used to have a neighbor who had one, and I don't remember
if I interacted more so than just over at the house and went, oh,
that's a dog. But yeah, so like the little dogs showing up
every now and then, Remember that woman who was killed by the pack of
docsons in like Oklahoma a couple of years ago. This guy in a medically
induced coma because while he's sleeping, his dog bit off his nether regions and
allegedly consume them. I don't know how you mend that relationship. Described as
a Jack Russell, however, also described as not a purebread with characteristics and
having the size of a Jack Russell, So make of that what you will.
Jack Russell terrier cross was something about the same size. Umm. Initially,
investigators had brought in their essentially their murder squad right so high profile,
Big Time grew someome crimes they came in, but so that they were quickly
able to figure out that they didn't think anyone else was in the apartment.
They don't think the man did it to himself, and he was a combination
of sleeping and they kind of intimate that he may have had some aid and
sleeping. So I don't I don't know if that means they thought he passed
out drunk or what. But that's nightmare scenario. How many of you let
your dog into your bedroom? How many how many of you let your You're
gonna be rethinking that. I know you're like, oh, my dog would
never do that to me. I bet this dude thought that too. Then
he had a little too much vodka or whatever one day, passed out,
woke up, and well you know the rest. Let's see, I had
another incident here, Okay, so Throty saying twenty twelve, they had an
incident where a sixty one. It was actually an dude from Austria who was
bicycling while on vacation who was attacked by dogs and what they did go for
that area. But in that instance they were able to reattach everything. This
that's not happening here. So there you go, be on the lookout.
Maybe have a talk with your dog, Maybe be extra nice to your dog
because they're getting ideas, all right eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
seventy four, Jack Russell Man, Yeah, the only the best representation was
Frasier, the show Frasier. That was I believe what the dad had was
it? Jack Russell and Frankly? I just that looked like something I would
be concerned about in that instance. But apparently apparently when they're motivated, they
can get some work done. All right, let me let me roll back
over to this one more chunk of audio I want to share with you.
Are actually done? And look at him my clock. I did No,
I did play that earlier. Okay, all right, Sorry, my brain
pivoted to something from yesterday, and then I realized what I had done there,
Uh, this is the piece of audio I have so yesterday. And
it was Megan Kelly actually who had this story going back almost a day and
a half ago. And then all the other networks were like, we have
an exclusive. What was it? It was text messages from Nathan Wade's former
divorce attorney. Right, because this whole he and Fanny willis it didn't start
until after and even though the witness has said it started earlier, even though
the cell phone data shows him literally staying over at her house. Now we
have text messages and other stuff, and I'm telling this just gets worse and
worse and worse. It was two pages of text messages between you and miss
Merchant, correct, all right? Now, The first page starts off by
saying, miss Merchant like, just date, don't hire him. Do you
think it started before she hired him? Do you see that they do a
lot of long pauses in Charlotte, Yes, I see it. Yes,
Okay, yeah, yeah, I see it. And it just it just
another nail in the coffin on this stuff. As you go through the text
messages, it's it's abundantly clear. One. It's abundantly clear one that most
people do not like these two, referring to them as arrogant AF. And
I'll let you figure out what the AF stands for. And remember these are
friend and former law part So this is so and it's important when you have
people that don't like people and they're talking about stuff behind the back, but
but they're also talking about things like this relationship and doing so away from the
context of you know, before any of these appointments happened, because that's when
these messages were for it's it's hard to feel, it's hard to argue that
that person is on their side, you know what I'm saying, right,
So you can you can't go for the best interpretation. The likelihood is when
they're talking behind the back and they're calling them arrogant and all these other things,
they're also going to probably be as derogatory about as many things as possible.
And if they thought there was an improper relationship, as it appears that
they did, uh yeah, they're gonna call that out and they're going to
talk about it, joke about it, snark about it, and that's what
they appear to have done here. Now his lawyer can argue, well,
look, they obviously don't like me, so they're gonna make sense. But
remember this is a glimpse prior to this issue, in this timing arising right,
these are in the moment text from a period during which testimony has been
given that they were not together, when it appears that even people they weren't
close to knew all about it. It was an unkept secret, so to
speak. So you couple that with her former friends testimony and yeah, it
just gets worse and worse. Sorry. Raced Agic from the weather channels here
to make the weather get better and better. Well, we're gonna try.
Yeah, you're gonna try it. Hang about twenty four hours and then we
should start seeing some improvements. The rain shield starting to get into Charlotte and
Hickory heading our directions. So even though caseyi, there might be a sprinkle
rain this morning, most of it to start coming late morning, try it
and the triangle so it's basically in a west east direction, and the rain
extends all the way back to Jackson, Mississippi. So you've got all that
to go. As the rain comes in this afternoon tonight, probably tapers off
tomorrow morning. Cool day Today, I get a little least breeze. Load
to mid fifties forties tonight, but tomorrow with some dryer air coming in in
the afternoon, your outdoor stuff or if you don't want to travel the rain
tomorrow, it can be done later afternoon hours. Load to mid sixties.
Sunday the best day partial sun near seventy, and then partially sunny on Monday
near seventy before we start to see the unsettled weather come back. So rain
coming in today, probably got a couple of more hours this afternoon, especially
slow commute slow Friday evening out, and it should taper off before lunch tomorrow.
Okay, all right, yeah and yeh off. Next week, got
supposed to have the snowmobile trip. It was postponed because of no snow in
you. It's so good to be you. Listen twenty eight years and you
know that'll get you somewhere. Good to be you ross hose combined. How
long you and I've been doing this, I think it's more than twenty eight,
right, probably more than twenty eight. I heard this whole every other
week off thing. Sounds sweet. Well. I got myself into a pickle
though, because that it's a stray day here and there until early June,
so you might get tired of me after next week. I'll get the tiny
VI on the level. We'll see you when we see you. Okay,
sounds good. Okay, there you go, race agic off an adventure once
again. All Right, we'll come back. Jeff Ellinger's next hang on.
It was morning and happy Friday. CAC stocks advanced yesterday. Investors were relieved
that the price gauge favored by the Federal Reserve was in line with estimates.
Major averages had gains that range from a tenth of a percent to a nine
tenths percent. Most notable was the Nasdaq closing in a record high for the
first time since twenty twenty one. The S and P five hundred also closed
at an all time high for a fourteenth time this year. The president of
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reiterated his opinion that central bankers will be
able to cut interest rates later this year. John william took part in a
Citizens Budget Commission event. He said inflation has retreated, but officials want to
see price pressures down two percent on a sustained basis. It is the first
Friday of the month, but we'll have to wait till next Friday to get
the Labor Department's employment report. Bloomberg Intelligence estimates about one hundred eighty five thousand
jobs were created last month, down from three hundred fifty three thousand in January.
It's not just the cable companies that are losing PayTV subscribers. One point
two million people canceled Dish Network subscriptions and twenty twenty three that according to the
parent company, EchoStar, Meta Platforms going to wind down its news feature starting
next month. The social media company says there has been an eighty percent drop
and the number of people using the Facebook news tab over the past year.
It's reported there are serious flaws in some Chinese made doorbell cameras sold through online
retailers. Consumer reports as warning hackers could see footage from the camera or take
complete control and block the owner's access. And casey, We've been hearing a
lot about the layoffs by the nation's big technology companies, but what is not
so well known is that the same companies have also been hiring. An analysis
by The Wall Street Journal found that Microsoft, Alphabet, Netflix, Meta Platforms,
and Amazon have added to their workforces more than they've trimmed them. All
of those companies have more employees now than they did before the pandemic. Casey,
okay, all right, Well have a good weekend, sir. You
be here next week. I will be here you have a good weekend as
well, so we'll talk then. Thank you. Jock Bellinger, Bloomberg News.
Right there, All right, just two quick stories. We're following this.
I may get into it more Monday. We'll see how it But what's
going on with Saint Augustine University in Raleigh is kind of crazy, man.
So the reports are out now that the school has had a lean place on
it by the I r S. After the I r S says they owe
nearly eight million in unpaid taxes. Also, if you read through this story,
like like the fiscal nightmare over there, and perhaps potentially yeah, I
don't know, but perhaps should be looked at like what happened to the money?
What's going on over there? So as that unfold, But also how
do you repossess a universe? You just is it that you use a giant
boot? How does that work in that? And especially when you got you
know, people enrolled there then and they just had a presidential change, and
I don't know, man, it looks really really really not good right there.
So I'm not sure. Maybe you got it to one of those really
talented toe truck guy who shows up does the quick grabs