Nobody. We shouldn't be up. We should still be reeling from the weekend
that was of probably not you probably didn't do a beach trip. Maybe you
did a beach trip. I don't know. Maybe you went to the mountains,
hung out with your family, you went to church, went to uh
maybe maybe some of you decided to, hey, that whole hog over there
that needs to be edible, and you did that thing and then you didn't
invite us. That's fine. You're just going about your business doing your thing.
As was I on Saturday. It was it was pretty crazy to hear
and think about whatevery you know, what all of me and my colleagues were
up to. And obviously you're going to this is my version of it.
You have your version of it, and I'm not going to go with the
you know, the Pearl Harbor. You know, day lives an infamy thing.
You're more mature than that. You do talk radio, obviously, you
keep you keep an eye to the news, but it's easy to be disconnected.
It's easy to be doing one hundred other things, you know. For
for me, I actually make an effort, as weird as it sounds,
on Saturdays, because Saturdays is the Saturday is the only day that I don't
do radio stuff. Friday, obviously we do a show, but everything,
you know, get all of our commercials, cut, any promos cut that
need to be done, and then by about early afternoon on Friday, you'll
see I kind of I'll go. If you follow us on Twitter, and
you should. If you don't, we will hunt you down. It's at
KC on the radio at k C the two letters like Kansas City. You'll
see like a volley of tweets after the show, and that's me going through
and giving everything a once over, and I can't help myself. I see
stuff and I'm like, ah, people need to know this. Why wasn't
this Why did I not have this before nine o'clock today? And then the
spiggo just shuts off. You'll notice, I mean, sure the random stuff
will come up, but it's not until Sunday after lunch where I'm like,
oh, yeah, I have a job. Oh they want me to do
stuff. And then I cracked the I cracked the Twitter app or whatever.
It's it's not easy, but you have to train yourself when you do this,
and I know for many of you that is a version of your life.
Some of you can't stop and you send me like super deep political articles
at like sat on Saturday, at like five in the morning, and I'm
just like, you need to do something, anything, not this. And
so by the time you get later in the day Saturday, I am blissfully
unaware of what's happening. But I take precautions. Obviously many of you do
too. You get alerts, you know, iHeartRadio app. We send alerts
on that thing. So if you get on there and you you know,
set it up, some notifications can come in. You may hear breaking news,
you'll hear about some you know, if we've got a big guest,
we'll let you know that kind of stuff. But that on Saturday is a
really eerie feeling when the phone starts going off and I'm gonna tell you something
and you're not gonna believe me, but it's true. Every phone I've ever
had I started doing radio, and yes, I use the job as a
crutch. Doesn't ring. I don't turn it on. I never turn it
on. My excuse being I'm in a studio or in a studio setting a
lot, and it can't be making noise. It can't even be vibrating because
it's sitting right here, literally next to next to the base of my microphone.
I kind of lean it on the base of the microphone sometimes so I
have a visual on it. And if that thing started vibrating, that's that's
going to be a problem. So it requires me to visually inspect what's going
on. And it just so happened that on Saturday afternoon, I was eating
some delicious and I mean delicious Korean fried rice mm hmm. But it had
the sound bowl sauce on it, which is a tie thing. We don't
need to we don't need to dice. It was good, and I'm in
the restaurant I'm in is busy, and I sit at the bar. I'm
a bar sitter, so I'm sitting up at the bar, but I have
a good field of view on everything that's going on. And you know that
scene in a movie where oh, and they don't have TVs in the bar
of this restaurant. They there are some for whatever reason out in the dining
room, but not where I'm sitting. And I see that scene in the
movie where like like it's a part like what's the movie swat or whatever.
I don't know why this popped in my brain, but I watched it recently
where they're all at like a barbecue and they all they're all Swat team people
and they got their you know, their spouses and their kids and eh,
and then all of a sudden, everyone starts reaching in their pocket. They
start pulling things out and start looking at it. They start talking to each
other in tables, start talking to other tables, and the Spidey sense goes
off, right, what happened? And I'm like, at first, I'm
like, because there's a bunch of like finals. If you're into soccer,
this was your weekend with Spain playing England. England. I'm sorry, I'm
not super into soccer on that side in the in the US, but as
part of like the Latin America One Copa, it was Columbia versus Argentina,
which I understand is a big deal, but it was those were Sunday.
Those were yesterday. So immediately I'm like, if dawned on me, I'm
like, something bad happened. And I grabbed my phone because I'm not a
phone reader while I'm even when i'm eating, because I'm not a tween.
And then I saw it. What happened at the Trump rally, and it
spun into a wild next few minutes, and I'm sure it did for you
as well. What happened? Trump was shot? Somebody says there's blood,
He's down. Is he down because he's down because somebody shot him? Is
he down? Because that's what Secret Service does, right? Sometimes they get
you down. He down on his own accord. And then he goes to
Bruder film on this thing. You watch it and it's wild, the visual
is crazy. And then the analysis starts. And that's what we're going to
try to do this morning. We're gonna do the analysis. We're gonna talk
about the ways others did the analysis, the way that some couldn't help them
so, and we're gonna start at the very basic part of this to try
to unpack as much as we can. And along the way, I want
to hear from you. Try to say something smart or interesting or new or
crazy. Don't swear, and I think we'll get along. Okay. For
me and my colleague spread all over instantly, it required us to you know,
kick into what we do, which, even with a bunch of seasoned
radio people, is not easy because your head's elsewhere. You're doing that.
Ross is not here today because he had he had to go, and I
know he posted about it on on on both the show account and his account.
One of his wife's relatives passed away and so they were going to Tennessee
to go be with the family and go to the funeral and all of that.
So he'll be back Wednesday. But you know that space, that time,
that divide, that that doesn't stop it. I uh, when our
program director who is there, say hello, Sir Trevor, Hello, Hello,
that's Trevor. Trevor was trying to get himself a DAP on a Saturday
afternoon. I can respect that. Is that usual for you? Saturday nap,
sir, Saturday and Sunday? Oh beautiful? Yeah, dude, if
you want to start doing mornings, you can make it a weekday thing too.
Oh it's amazing you're you're taking a DAP and I don't, I don't,
I don't. Did you wake up on your own? Was your phone
making noise? Did somebody wake you up by the fifth call? Like the
phone vibrating? Woke me up? Okay? All right? And you know,
instinctively, because you're in radio, you're like some bad's happening, right,
Okay, that feeling in your stomach, that's that's challenger exploded stuff.
That's all of it. And then it just begins. To quote Mark Wattney
from The Martian, you just begin and I have my brain has I had
trouble sleeping last night Saturday night, Not as much because I was I was
headed to a party with some friends, but found found a way to make
me sleep. But the fact remains that I've got so much I'm gonna try
to bottle it into the next two hours in forty three minutes, and we'll
see where we go from there. And I'd love you to hang out with
us and do that. The phone numbers eight eight eight nine three four seven
eight seven four, and where we're gonna start. We're gonna start with twelve
year old me. Yes, I'm gonna make it about me, but you're
gonna understand why in just a few minutes, you're on a CaCO Day radio
program. By the way, unless a nurse has just come into your hospital
room where you have stirred from a coma. First, congrats, glad that's
working out for you. You're probably aware of what happened in Pennsylvania over the
weekend, a Trump rally and a town called Butler. It is north of
Pittsburgh, pre standard stuff. Pittsburgh. Very similar from a size perspective,
a socioeconomic perspective to what we call home here in North Carolina. Triad Triangle
and just a bunch of folks like you and me want to go see Trump
and they show up and some find themselves in the Garnish section. There's other
names for it, but that's the one I've heard that I like, the
Garnish section. And the Garnish section is a really important place at a campaign
rally. It's the visual, it's the backdrop. It's the background, and
it's interesting and very telling to see who's in the Garnish section, because sometimes
it's thematic, right it's a hey, look a bunch of military people behind
and then insert candidate. Oh look at all the kids, look at the
Native Americans because that's the theme of the speech, and you get the gist
and people get asked to be in there. I had a conversation with a
woman I know herd her friend showed up. They're very energetic, they're easy
on the eyes. They were asked to be in the Garnish section when Trump
did that rally at Dorton Arena in twenty sixteen, and they were beside themselves,
They're like, hey, we got look, we got super good seats.
You ever got upgraded on a flight or at a concert or something,
that's amazing, But also with what happened on Saturday, it's dangerous. As
a former fire chief found himself in the gardners section, and I don't know
how he got there. If that was his ticket, he showed up early,
they asked a group to move in, it doesn't matter, and I
bet he was ecstatic and whoever he was with just over the moon man.
And then mid speech, as Trump is referencing I don't know if it's a
campaign sign or I think it was a sign somebody had, and then he
referenced another visual aid which talked about immigration stuff and border stuff. He ever
so slightly kind of repositioned himself, and it's clear as day on the video.
It's clear as day that audibly Trump hears and the people around him here.
What is unmistakable if you have ever you don't even have to have shot
a gun, if you've been in nature during hunting season and in the distance,
you hear a firearm retort and then a bunch of them. And sometimes
people say, oh, well, it might be fireworks. I I don't
know how to explain it on the radio. It's not fire fire. They
just they some sound similar, most sound different. And you saw an instant,
uncommunicated group reaction as people know that a that a bullet has passed through
there. And it could be because the person near you is hit and you
just happen to be looking in that direction. It could be because you were
hit. But there's there's more than just the round. There's the velocity.
I don't know how to describe it. The you don't have you know,
you don't have to be hit by a bullet to be killed by a bullet.
Hang on, everybody. Uh, I'm gonna read you a tweet I
sent yesterday, and I'm gonna let you know where we're going. But I
want to I want to know where your thoughts too. And yes, I
see many of your thoughts and uh, according to my email center around some
of the coverage and uh yeah, yeah, we're gonna get into that.
But also we're gonna when we get into it, I'm gonna I'm gonna cut
a wider berth than I normally do, because things done in rapid society in
an emergency situation need to be evaluated as such, and you're only as good
as what the information you're armed with at that time. You're writing a story
about something, you got a deadline later that day. That allows you,
if you're worth your salt, to gather information and hopefully make sure it's accurate
and go from there. It's not a little better informed, but when you're
standing there, you're armed with what's in your brain. Man, and I
guess whatever hand signals your team can get you. So the thing that is
normally really messy is anything having to do with firearms. There is a distinct
lack of understanding among most of the media of firearms, and I mean not
real complex stuff Like I got into a debate over a over what's a good
carry gun for bear country with like two different people this weekend, because you
know, that's what you do. And you know was somebody tweeted or are
commented on one of the tweets and somebody else saw it in real time,
and I was talking to that person and they had a thought and I had
a thought, and you know, that conversation was able to happen because this
is literally a thing that I thought about and put into practice. And the
answer is complicated. Right, It's easy to make some guy go, oh,
I'm going to carry a fifty cow desert eagle. I have one of
those, and I would never use that as the last resort bear gun.
If I had other choices. When I was a kid, he had id
lean into a four to sixty mag Look up that thing, man, that's
a wristbusting machine. Now I tell a guy to get a glock forty ten
millimeter good gun. That long slide twenty thing they tried. That didn't work,
not for me. And if you understand that, great. So when
I'm watching what's happening, and you're watching what's happening, what is your thoughts
once you realize that somebody is firing rounds downrange and at a former president and
hitting people based on you know, the initial reporting, you're thinking that movie
shooter right from the distances you're talking about where he's planning that, where they've
got Wahlberg down there, and they all, right, we need somebody who
can make a thousand yard shot. We need to shoot from a mile away.
And he's you know he's got he's checking windage and and it's hollywood.
I understand that, but it it in our mind. It is is not
comprehensible. It is not is not it's not even thought of that you would
be inside of your scope distance for big game hunters in the West, And
to me, that's what was so striking. So I thought, and what
I mean by that is a hundred more than thirty yards. I don't want
to sound cocky if I if you asked me to make a standing shot,
no rest standing with a rifle I'm comfortable with with a with a round uncomfortable
with and shoot bowling pins at one hundred yards, I'll hit them more often
than not. I'm not bragging that is That is a shot I'm comfortable with.
And I'll you get twenty you give me a two twenty three, three
oh eight, three hundred some some. The flatness of the shot almost doesn't
matter at that point. We're not getting into drop charts that are that matter.
If you have that thing scoped at one hundred yards or sighted at one
hundred yards, one hundred and thirty yards is is not a long shot.
I know it does sound a long shot if you hunt tree stand in woods.
But where I grew up, every rifle that I might hit a deer,
an antelope, ernoque was sighted at two hundred yards. That was it,
that was your that was how we sighted firearms. And so to make
one hundred and thirty yards shot, I wouldn't adjust a thing. I'm still
within the happy zone there. I'm not going to be too high. And
so if when I hear it's one hundred and thirty yards, I can't balance
that against the the thoughts that what we would normally think the distance somebody would
have to be to be able to fire a shot, and not from a
dug in secret chamber, hidden in the side of a building, or an
earth you know, like carved out of the earth, some burn that had
been constructed, but rather the this guy was prone. He was able to
take what is probably the best. He was able to lay flat. I
don't know what he used as the rest, but he was able to position
himself flat in the open, albeit at an elevated position, and take his
time and get centered and get ready. And I understand that there was an
interaction with a sheriff's employee or sheriff's deputy. I don't know if it's a
deputy it says somebody from the Sheriff's office. I'm assuming it was, and
that obviously forced his hand to hurry things up. But if you're going to
make a shot, if it's on a deer or a person or a target,
he's literally in the best position. So everything is going his way that
one hundred and thirty yards. The wind was not a substantial factor, and
it wouldn't be. He should be able to hit a dinner plate all day
if he's reasonably competent. And the fact that somebody was able to get in
that position, hold that position and be able to fire off shots, I
still can't wrap my head around it. And you know, Secret Service has
a tough job, But that seems like as to the to the guy,
you know, just Monday morning quarterbacking this that seems outside of the bounds of
what I would think the person of the security bubble would would even allow.
For now, Pittsburgh's gonna be a tougher putt because it's it's a bowl,
right three we've heard called three River Stadium, Right, there's a reason for
that. There's three rivers that come together, and so it's and if you've
ever been to Pittsburgh, it it has It's got the bluffs up around.
Hell, they have cable cars there for tourists and stuff. So if you're
down below that now he again he's in Butler. But if you're if you're
anywhere there and you're in one of the places where most of the towns are,
there are higher positions all around you, albeit from a much further distance.
This guy was one hundred and thirty yards. I wouldn't outside. He
was outside of the security bubble. Well, you're never outside of it because,
as you'll come to find out, they have people out there that are
eyeballing this stuff. But they didn't see him, so people saw him.
So people saw this dude shimmy up that building a spider man, and they
contacted law enforcement, which is why the sheriffs responded. And a sheriff's sheriff's
employee or deputy or whatever whatever this individual was shimmied up a ladder I guess
made visual contact with crooks, which I try not to use these idiots' names,
but and had, and the rifle was pointed at him. So he
did what I think most people would do at that point, because he doesn't
have a he's up that la he says, he's not up there with a
weapon in his hand. He goes, uh no, And then I don't
know if he slid down or jumped off or what. And at that moment,
the shooter turned around, and that's when the shot was fired, according
to witnesses. So people saw something and they said something. And then I
started thinking back to twelve year old me. Twelve year old me so excited
because twelve year old me was when I first got my firearms, that's right,
And like many of you, I cut my teeth on a Mossburg shotgun,
three different chokes, twelve gauge. That thing was a you know,
for kid, that thing's a punisher man, but you shoot everything. And
my first rifle was a twenty two Yeah, rim Fire Baby twenty two Marlin,
and I think that was probably the first rifle that many of you had.
It's insanely popular. And I that was the summer if you didn't want
to be around me, because I had no time for you. I was
out there shooting everything. Don't or I would shoot neighbors, pets or anything.
I'm not that psycho. But the point is the point is that.
It was then that I started familiarize myself with firearms before then, right,
because you get to shoot if relative's gone at the range, or you got
to police brass. You were so excited, and I quickly became pretty adept
with that thing. And then it was on to the big boys. And
you notice I called that a rim fire. I started to educate myself as
to why do you guys know why it's called a rim fire. Most you
probably do, but if you don't, it's because the the whatever strikes the
round, it could be a firing pin. There's other options hits. If
you'll look on the back of the bullet of a of a round that has
been shot of any caliber, you'll see an indentation with a twenty two long
rifle. The it's the primer material is actually around the rim and not in
the center where a primer sits on a larger round. That's what ignites the
powder. Although the very first twenty two twenty twos they didn't have powder.
They were French. I'll let you make your own judgment, and so the
primer itself would would provide the velocity for the round and they would shoot him
indoors, which try that in your basement and see what your mom says,
don't, don't, don't do that. But it was And then right around
the time of the Civil War they fail, Hey, what if we put
some powder in here? They were still rim fire, but it ignited the
powder that way. And in fact, there were there were Civil War soldiers
found who were found to be in possession of these of these rounds, even
though they didn't have an apparatus to propel them, they actually physically had them
because they were a novelty. Look at this thing, we other pack and
musket span wild times, dude. And then the evolution from there into the
center fire cartridge that most are familiar with. And for me, that evolution
for twenty two and Mossburg twelve gage led to a Mauser German Mauser thirty odd
six and a dropping a drop chart nightmare when you get out too far,
the velocity of that round. After even if you have incited a two hundred
gets dumb. You had another one hundred yards, you get seven inches.
You had more than that. You're talking almost two feet. But I murdered
everything with that rifle, and a bunch of other people did, because if
we had hunters come out and they're rifle got damaged, I would offer it
up variable scope and with that thing in my hands. If you were a
coyote and I saw you within three hundred maybe even four hundred yards, you
weren't a coyote anymore, and I could do that. Rest across the hood
of my truck, a fence post, you name it, and get in
a comfortable enough position and if the conditions were okay to make that shot,
and I could do it very quickly because they don't stick around when they see
you. But if I'm driving I see one out in the field, and
especially where we got calves, that's bad news, mister coyote. You're not
shopping at act me anymore. So just wrapping your hand. I know I'm
taking my time, but I'm going to peel this onion for three hours today
because there's a lot to get to. So from the distance to the position
with the shooter, it made me start to analyze this and in a morbid
way. And the morbid way was how did he miss? And the factor
I can't in my mind add to this is what he was shooting at.
I don't know how that interrupts your basic setup and and trigger pull right,
most of us have a most of us have a process, even if we
can't verbalize it when we're getting ready to fire a gun, or if you
don't, you should. You've heard squeeze the trigger, fire on the exhale
right, breathe in, and as you're exhaling, squeeze the trigger. Don't
chirk it, squeeze it because you risk moving the weapon. But with a
heavy rifle, and this was an ar platform, it's no different than that
mouser I just talked about. It looks different and if you showed it to
your average gun grabber, they'd be like that would's scarier than that. One
works the exact same. There are almost zero differences. And the functionality of
this versus that. And as you set up, even if you're having to
do it in a speedier manner, and we'll get away from the fact that
he's shooting at Trump, that deer is getting ready to move. I've been
in those positions, and you hasten the process to the extent you can,
but you do the things necessary to make a shot. And even with the
speed up of law enforcement on him and what he's shooting at, the two
factors I can't necessarily fully apply. I still think I make that shot,
but then I started thinking, well, what is he aiming at? And
that's where I think we start to deviate. And I'm gonna call it the
video game influence, and I don't want to just pin it on younger people,
but you know, the younger you are, the higher likelihood that you've
spent some of your days playing a game where you're shooting stuff, and the
incentives within those games I think can give an inaccurate understanding of what you need
to be shooting at. And that part of this we'll get into. I'm
going to read you this tweet real quick because this is where my mind went
to give you a roadmap for where we're going. It says, random Sunday
thoughts getting to fire prone shots from one hundred and thirty yards is incomprehensible.
That's where we are now. If you call Trump literally hitler and now you're
glad he's okay, make that make sense to me and Joe Biden. Remember
we talked about what happens if something happens on a moment's notice what it This
was the softest test, and I don't think it went well, plus your
calls. We'll get into it next. Hang on, I don't even I'm
not even working off a prep packet right now. I had nothing. I
have some I have some details in front of me. But that's a good
Jeff, that's a good point. I'm gonna we will all laugh at your
email coming up here because that is funny. So I'm not gonna do nine.
But I I also am kind of talking to you now because I want
to address what somebody called in and said, because I gave this some thought
and I want to answer him and give him an answer. So what was
the gist of what the caller said that you should not be giving advice on
how to have a better shot? Correct? Yes, and and and I
want to be I want to be abundantly clear. I thought about this,
I believe it or not. Sometimes I do think about some of the stuff.
I say, Trevor, doesn't that, but you should. And here
here's the thing. I get it. Like I I don't want anyone who
uh who's gonna go do bad stuff. I don't. I don't want to
be the one who helped them on their journey. But the basics of of
UH setting a round down range right. This is you could click through a
website having nothing to do with it and and just keep clicking a link to
link to link. You ever do that as a kid? Seehere? You
give from A to B and and end up with an advice video in like
two seconds. This is not this is not secret stuff. And I and
something outweighed for me, and the reason that I have so gone down this
road so delicately and spent such amount of time. I want everyone listening to
me, even those who have never pulled a trigger, understand how dead or
grievously injured Trump should be. You take that out of context, whatever,
then your scum, you understand what I'm saying. I want everyone to understand
and not be lost in this that a prone shooter with a firearm that they
are familiar with. At one hundred and thirty yeard, I'm not even getting
into a scope situation. You'd iron sight that bad boy at that distance.
So I'm trying to figure out why he isn't what happened And there's two things
I come to one, as I have described his whole his routine got messed
up, he got hurried, His breathing is going to be off. At
that point, your adrenaline is rushing. So that's factor number one. Factor
number two is what I'm going to and this is me speculating. This is
I call it the video game mentality, and I've seen it manifest before and
usually it manifests at the range. Right, you're out there with your buddies.
Any of you ever have a gangster shootoff? You ever do that?
Ah? I mean my old part of Radio Buddy, we would go out
and do a gangster shootoff, right, And that's where you take your pistol
and you turn it sideways and you elevate it up above your head like you're
buy them. Try to hit a target like that. That's unsafe. No,
it's not. You're still following all the basic safety procedures, but you're
firing the weapon in a way that is insanely hard to hit the target.
If you hit the target in our gangster shootoffs, you probably won. So
that's where we're going. That's in the video game pop culture mentality. What
I call video game mentality is how many of you, or whether it's you
or you've seen your kid play it or whatever, have have seen a video
game or played a video game where when you shoot something or someone and you
should have been the head, you get more points head shot or you get
that, you just get the thing goes head shot, and so there's there's
like dopamine attached to it, and before you know it, everyone thinks or
you see you see a grizzled cop at the police range, right, and
he's barely hanging on and you just won't listen to the captain And he's at
the range and he puts eight, he groups eight at like in in two
inches in the middle of this dude's head. That's not where police are shooting.
That's not where you should be shooting center mass. You've heard it,
that's where you should be shooting that. Don't get me wrong. I once
you get into people who shoot for a living, that's a different thing entirely.
But for you me, all right, double long heart, that's what
I want when I go deer hunting. Give me, give me a double
long heart shot all day. And so you train yourself that that's where you
shoot. But if you have this idea that you have to shoot somebody in
the head, you are now limiting the possibility that you're gonna hit them greatly,
limiting it so now judging by the fact that the round pass close enough
that all of these people reacted, And this point needs to be made.
It's not just the sound in the distance. By the time you hear that
sound the bullet. The reason the bullet is making that sound is because it's
traveling faster than the speed of sound, and you have the gunpowder and all
of that, right, it's breaking the sound barrier to do what it's doing.
So it's why if you ever watch a hunting video, if you ever
watch guys out hunting and you're getting that scope view, you may see the
animal fall before you actually hear it, depending on where the positioning is.
Okay, so one of two options is out there. One he did shoot
for center mass, and he's so bad he so badly placed the shot or
jerked the rifle up that that the shot went where it went. I don't
believe that. I believe it's shooting for the head. And maybe he thought
he had to shoot for the head because Trump was wearing bodies That president's probably
wearing body armor. Maybe maybe not. I don't know. I think he
was shooting for the head. And then I have to go, well,
why are you shooting for the head dummy. And the only thing I can
conclude, if it's not that body armor thought is he thought that's where you
shoot people, and it is a place you could shoot people. But that's
not that's not really going to tell you if they're training you with a firearm
in a situation where you may have to shoot somebody. Harley, Ermi's not
banging down the range screaming at you because you're not putting putting headshots downfield.
Where would you get that idea? You get that idea because for me,
you played Golden Eye and he loved Whack and your buddy Mike in the uh
in the head in for your sniper Pisi. I was that guy. I
was a proximity mind guy. I'm not a coward, but you know I
get me a nest and have some fun. And also yeah it was.
So it's all of these things adding up. And the third thing is there
is you can go to the video the way Trump turned to look at something,
Andy go, well, why would you when you turn to look at
something? Why would that necessarily be problematic? And for that, I want
you to try and exercise that I try yesterday. I want you to be
in a standing position facing forward at something, but it's something that defines your
position. So it could be a podium, it could be you could be
standing on a matt, like a little little bath matter or something, and
I want you to turn your b I want you to reference something to your
right or your left, and watch what happens with your center of where you're
lined up. Your head may turn, but we have a natural inclination to
move our shoulders and the and and the the mass of our body the opposite
direction to compensate for it, and it has the effect of kind of pulling
you in the other direction. It's hard to determine exactly if that's what happened,
but it may have saved his life. So yes, I spent a
lot of time on this, and I understand that I'm not here to teach
people how to go out and snipe folks. But I think that the thing
the media does a poor job of is explaining this to folks who don't have
any knowledge of firearms, shooting any of the rest, and so those folks
do not appreciate how insane it was that a prone sniper gained access outside of
a security bubble to a President in a shooting distance that I would bet you
twenty dollars I could hit a plate and win your twenty dollars every time distance.
And this was with a firearm he was familiar with and a round that
likely was around that has You don't even have to compensate for it that distance
two two, three, three h eight something similar. I feel that that's
the importance of this. Okay, all right, let's get to the phones.
Donna, thank you for hanging on. It's just one of those mornings.
What's up. That's cool, Good morning, Casey, good morning.
Two things, just one thing out? Uh. He said, there's three
things that was the reason why he was he wasn't hit. No, the
third one was the trump, the Trump turning. The second was the sheriff
spooking. Uh there, and the third was the selection of where he was
shooting. It was a fourth okay, all right, and that's divine intervention.
Fair enough. Yeah, I'm going to let's say, I'm going over
the technical side of it. So right, So, the the which we're
talking about a bullet that can pass by someone and kill him. It's just
a point fifty Browning machine gun. And it says the pressure and vacuum created
by the bullet as it passes something or someone can cause instantaneous death. Yes,
and you know, we've had people killed by blanks. They have blanks
in a gun and they they yeah, including famous Hollywood people, and the
blank they don't realize that the amount of pressure that's going to be discharged from
the from the gas release is enough to kill you. And uh so yeah,
all right, all right, just let me go have a wonderful day.
Yeah, you too, appreciate it. All right, let's grab Janet.
We'll make this our angry woman segment. What's up, Janet? You
mind if I call it that? All right? Right? Yeah, so,
yeah, I agree with the congressman. I believe it was said it's
the democratic speech and sundiary speech and oh yeah, right, we're gonna we're
gonna get into that. We're gonna get into I I just wanted to get
the technical stuff washed over. Now we're going to get into the media and
the rhetoric. Yeah, he's definitely right. It's the demo press and the
leastest top propaganda mill. But if you think back, I mean, as
far as I can remember, ever since Lincoln, historically it's been the last
who has done things like that, or the CIA. Yeah, yeah,
I mean, I mean Lincoln obviously, if you know, if you want
to get into a pure political example, Lincoln would be a good place to
start. So I can't disagree with you there. That was definitely Uh.
That was about politics, and the politics of the Daves was more than just
slavery. It was the the what was what was happening in the South?
Government? That what it was well and and and and it pushed in,
It pushed in a thank you for the calor jenet, It pushed in austerity,
uh, to the extremes within the South, because your infrastructure is gone,
remember Sherman, he didn't leave anything man, and so your infrastructure is
gone, your apparatus for production is is gone. To yes, to whittle
it down to such course terms, but you know that was not the That
was not the majority of what the way that Southerners made their living right,
it was it was ancillary stuff. It was it was other other things that
uh that that continue to fund the South. There was other agricultural pursuits that
had nothing to do with slavery, and the apparatus for milling, that shipping,
that packing, that the the you were not in a position to be
able to trade all of these things. All of these things added up there,
and it all culminated with the assassination of Lincoln in that theater, who,
by the way, is the very same individual who found to the Secret
Service. If you don't know that now, it was to stop counterfeiting,
which had become a huge problem. But that's why there was this transitionary role.
The Secret Service still serves today in those dual capacities. So from there
we get into the why. And we don't maybe know all of the why,
but I got time to fill, so we'll speculate. Okay, all
right, we'll do it as best we can in an informed way as possible,
and I think we'll probably at the end of the day get a few
of these right, and we'll start that journey next hang on CaCO Day radio
program. And so we got into the mechanics there. I could do a
whole show just on the mechanics of all of this, but I want,
I want there to be no doubt that anybody listening that how insanely that should
have gone the other way because of all conditions weapons everybody, And I don't
care if you're twenty year old who doesn't know stuff. If if you've shot
that and he had shot that, fire him it was his father's, is
what they're reporting. He was familiar with it. The fact that we're talking
about what we're talking about with Trump with his ear hit and or as the
press says, Trump says his ear was hit. I'm not I understand everybody's
on edge. Hang on. If you've listened to this show for any length
of time, and especially during the Trump administration, I had this. I
had a ceiling right and I would constantly reference it, and the ceiling was
literally hitler. I don't mean I'm saying it was literally hitler. I mean
the two words literally hitler. That because once you've gone someplace in the world
of politics, there's no coming back. And you see it. You see
it evidenced in rhetoric, you see it evidenced in action. Harry Reid's decision
to uh the nuclear options it was called that not just because it was a
scary thing he could talk about on the news, because it fundamentally changed the
process within the Senate for confirmations, and nobody wanted to touch it because they
realized that they may not necessarily always be in charge. And his colleagues were.
There were many colleagues telling Harry Reid, who was the individual who had
the power, the loan power to make that decision. If you do that,
this is going to get bad. And you, I know a lot
of people are like, hey, thanks, thank you Donald Trump for those
Supreme Court nominees and Chevron and abortion and all this stuff. Yay, thank
Harry Reid. That's the nexus of this thing, man, because Harry Reid
did that. And when Harry Reid did that, it wasn't just for federal
judges, It wasn't just for various appointees, cabinet members, things like that.
It was a wholesale rejection of the norms and the process, which isn't
constitutionally bound in its specifics, but the process is, and and it provided
that flexibility that Congress realized would be problematic unless they had a defined way of
doing it. The way back in the eighteen hundreds. They found a defined
way, and then they groomed it and then it became what we knew,
and that was a sixty votes requirement for individuals who were being a pointed to
these spots. And once it was thrown out the window for one, it
became thrown out the window for others. And you saw it when the logic
ab of Mitch McConnell was, Hey, this is what you guys wanted.
This is what we're going to do for all judges. And yes they had
to expand it beyond that, but the dam was broken by then, and
so eventually you got you got these incredibly, you got what bork started.
So we have these phrases, man, all these fun phrases getting borked.
The last time you heard that, the last time you really heard that was
when they made that change because they wanted to reject Gorsage, who I know
that some other right aren't happy with. And here we be, this is
where we are. So you have to have a standard. And once the
dam's broke, it's crazy. And I thought the standard when reporting on somebody
was there, literally Hitler was the ceiling. And then Politico or somebody wrote
an article and they said, no, no, he's not literally Hitler.
He's worse. And I don't even think i'm paraphrasing. That might be a
line from it. And in the article they went on to project the number
of people who would be dead by the end of the Trump term, and
then add that number up, carry the one, and you found a number
that exceeded the total deaths that were attributed to a combination of Hitler, Stalin
and Mao. And I thought, you know what, I was wrong.
There's more. So I want to talk to you in the pundit class,
you in the political class, you in the journalism class, who ran around
and literally Hitler Trump, It's the end of the democracy. That's it.
Good game, America. We're over. If you and and and you said
that, you wrote that, you tweeted that, you intimated that, you
any of that, if you honestly, if you honestly thought he would never
give up power, we get it. It would be the Handmaid's Tale.
They were posting photos last week of the why of the Handmaid's Tale over Project
twenty twenty five, which isn't a Trump thing that he's spoken against, is
a project by a think tank in Washington called the Heritage Foundation, which probably
has some stuff Trump agrees with and Republicans liking it, but a bunch of
stuff they don't. It's like when they tried to attach uh defunding Medicare because
some idiot senator in Washington brought it up in a Q and A. That's
the thoughts of the Republican Party. If you think this, if you think
all of these things, if you think an individual would get into government and
fundamentally change us into a religious based government, theocracy, or dictatorship for any
of the rest, how dare you thoughts in prayers yesterday or Saturday? How
dare you If I thought somebody was literally Hitler and somebody shot at them and
didn't kill them, I'd be like, can we get another shooter? If
I thought they were literally Hitler. As bad as that sounds, I'd be
disappointed. But I'd have to think it's literally that. That's a very high
star and and obviously Hitler's that. Oh though the German there's a movie out
in Germany, I know of all places a few years ago where Hitler.
I can't remember the premise of how he emerged from the bunker. He was
in a different bunker and he just woke up, I don't know, cry,
oh whatever, and he like emerges in modern day Germany and he's running
around trying to convince everyone I'm Hitler, and they just think he's a comedian
and and he's a really funny, spot on guy and like it. It's
famous for it, so weird. But I'd have to think that, I'd
have to think it's literally that, because that message that you're sending out,
that's literally hitler. That hits people different. Man. Some people believe that
there were protesters in front of the hospital that treated Trump, and I saw
some a blue haired wilderbeast holding a sign like can we get another shoot?
Or up along those lines. She had poor penmanship, but she too was
in a hurry, had a rush down there to be a piece of garbage.
So when you say these things, when I say things, they hit
people different. So going like earlier, we had the emailers like why are
you explaining how to how to position yourself to take a shot, Because I
don't want anyone to bypass the fact that I did one hundred and thirty yards
shot in a good rested position should be a cake walk. It's amazing.
The Trump, it's it's I mean, it's terrible. You had one of
the people they're killed. But essentially that's his backdrop. His backdrop is is
flesh. It's the inevitability of sending something into a crowd of people. Somebody's
gonna get hit, but for his target not to get hit at that yardage
and those conditions is amazing and it shouldn't be lost on you, and it
should raise a lot of questions. But what drives a person to do that?
He registered as a Republican, he donated to act Blue. What is
going on? He's twenty. People didn't know him. He was a loner.
They think he had some friends. Maybe he didn't. His dad's firearm.
Should dad be charged like the Michigan parents. That discussion was going on.
I listen to it on CBS yesterday. I heard analysis. The people
were mad that Trump did the i'mok thing right, You know, the i'mok
thing right. You see it in these situations, but you see it more
often on the football field. Right. Your player goes down, there's a
ton of people crowded around. Here comes the little cart and what happens.
If they're still conscious, they'll give you an indicator they're fine or at least
with it. Their leg is, you know, now behind their head for
some reason. But they'll get thumbs up. Maybe. And Trump did that,
and I will credit NBC News. They did a kind of amazing thing
that I can't do on radio because you need the visual. They had the
Secret Service audio laid over the timeline of them extracting Trump, who really wants
his shoes by the way, he wanted his shoes. I don't I don't
know. I'll be curious that somebody asked him about the shoes. But it
it becomes it becomes apparent that at the time they're trying to get him out
of there, the Secret Service and Trump have knowledge that the shooter has been
taken out, right, they But that doesn't mean they don't know that there's
not another shooter, but they know that they that the shooter has been neutralized.
Do you hear it? And Trump indicates through something he says that he
I not that he hears it or somebody said it to him. So does
that change things? Know? And so you see this turtle moving off of
the stage, and inside of that turtle is Trump. And you see his
head when he's still on the stage in his hand indicating to people he's okay.
And then when they get him just where they load him in the vehicle,
he does the thing again. And the analysis that I heard by NBC
was he is how dare he do that when people around him are not okay,
and not to detract from the tragedy that destruct the family of this former
fire chief who was killed, or the families of those who were grievously injured
but now unstable condition, thank god, because he's the president, he was
the president and he probably will be the president again. That's why he did
it. That's why there's ten human beings laying their bodies over him, because
of who he is and who some of you think is literally Hitler, who
then said, I'm glad he's okay. Are you lying then or are you
lying now? Because it doesn't work both ways. Raced Agic would never lie.
He's just here to give you the straight facts from the Weather Channel and
h boil boy, did you pick a day to come into work? Huh
yeah? Yeah? The weather marches on though, Yeah, you know we
got enough going on? Could you not make it suck? So go ahead,
OK, I will, but it's gonna take a few days. We're
still like yesterday. Try it. Ninety seven Triangle one hundred. Neither of
those records though today about the upper nineties to low one hundred seat advisory for
most of the triangle points east catches some of the counties to the east of
Winston, Salem, Greensboro. Either way, it's hot to humid, it's
uncomfortable. No rain, but that's gonna change. It'll start changing tomorrow.
But still it's going to be in the same temperature range, in the upper
nineties with the heat and disease close to one oh five, some scattered storms
in the afternoon. Then as we get into Wednesday and the rest of the
week, good rain chances each day, and that temperatures are going to come
down, believe it or not. By the end of the week. We
may not see ninety degrees maybe low eighties by Fridays. So there is change
coming. It'll be a pleasant change, and with it there'll be some wet
weather scouted around. But we need the rain too, So one, two,
three more days, three more days that I think we'll start seeing some
of that cooler air come in, and as I said, we'll start seeing
the rain chances ramping up, maybe as soon as tomorrow, but especially midweekend
beyond. All right, I write this down. If it doesn't happens,
going on your record, Okay, no problem to added to the list,
baby, alrighty not get an hour all right, all right, they race
agic from the Weather channel. All right, we'll get some more calls and
continue to unpack this, whether it was the refusal to use the term attempted
assassination or one of another thousand things. People's analysis of how the media was
handling it was busy, and I got so many things that people sent to
me. So we'll dive into that and your calls next. Hang on,
did he fall down or was he shot at? Did he duck? Did
he get down on his own? All different variations of that particular act permeated
various pieces of reporting. And I want to say this as we get into
this, Reporting on something in real time is hard, especially when you're in
an environment of your own creation. I'm not nobody's off the hook here,
but you find yourself in an environment where a growing number of people question the
truthfulness of whatever you put out there, and the work in that environment is
not easy. It's it's frantic. I'm not gonna lie to you. On
Saturday, when we were trying to gather the troops to figure out, hey,
what the hell? Right, you got people scattered all over. Nobody's
in the station. Obviously, it's the weekend, so we've got market manager,
We've got Trevor is sitting in for Ross today because Ross is Ross was
is he he tweeted this out. His wife had a family member pass away,
so they went drove to Tennessee to attend the funeral, and so we
knew he wasn't going to be here. But you know, even even Ross,
while he's off in Tennessee doing the family stuff, dealing with that boom,
you got to gather the troops. You got to figure out what the
hell, what the hell are we going to do? Right? And you
got systems and plans and experience and all of this and you and you call
upon that and at that moment, that's what's going to inform how you're doing
stuff. And very early on I had nine different people this is outside of
staff, because I remember, I'm at a restaurant. I'm a I'm at
a restaurant watching this unfold in real time, just trying to eat baby,
drink a beer or two, and and so people around me are telling other
people what's happening, and it's the ten Can game, this that or the
other. The words they're using are not consistent, and so as a reporter,
you have to go with what you see, and you have to also
go with whatever information is being fed back in your earpiece, and you will
be scrutinized. So, yes, did I see the reporting that Trump fell
down and had to be carried off? That was the wording used. Was
it used because at that point they didn't know that a bullet had entered that
area. Should they have known? Yeah? I think they should have known
that something was up based on not just the way Trump reacted, but how
everyone around him reacted. And if you want a visual exercise, go watch
the Las Vegas rally that Trump did years ago where some knitwit decided he was
going to storm the stage and watch the reaction not just of Trump but everyone
around him. It is wildly different than the reaction that you saw at that
moment on Saturday. For an hour number three. These are the shows that
just fly man, just cook, and unfortunately there's usually horribleness that that has
to fall before it, and that horribleness, of course, you're aware of
one dad, two others pretty significantly injured, and a former president, and
I you know, if I had to, if I was a betting man,
which I am, I would say probably the next president as morbid as
that sounds to some people. What happened yesterday helps Trump. I know we're
not allowed to do the political analysis, and I know the campaigns have suspended
their politics. Tough cough. It's the truth and that's you know, that's
what we try to deal with here. So when I'm doing analysis it can
sound a little rough. Hey what did I I just look at some of
the tweets that I sent. There are not tweets a text that I sent
that I chose not to. You don't have many drafts out of my draft
folder right now, because once again, once it's out there, it's out
there, baby, And let me look at let me look at some of
these. Um yeah, we're gonna get into Biden's a lot of it's about
the Biden stuff. I think that is as crazy as it sounds. We
were all having a discussion, uh, post Biden and the debate, right
and if you remember, the White House figured out, hey, there's a
couple of things we can do. And it'll prove to you that that was
one off. And the first thing was he's gonna sit down, he's gonna
do an interview George Stephanopolis, who is an absolute hack he's the guy you
go to. He's a former Clinton staffer, He's the guy you go to
when you need to groom the image of a Democratic candidate. George will give
it to you. And even in that setting, the White House said,
well, we're going to record this thing. Well, that degates test number
one. You can't. It's got to be a live interview. Nobody trusts
what's coming out of there after we find you know, there's the same week
that we're learning that they're feeding questions to people. You can't do that.
So strike one, Strike two. Uh, he's gonna have a big boy
presser, big boy presser everybody. He's got a field questions from the members
of the media, and it'll look like you remember when Trump did the thing
in the Yellow Room. I always reference this. It's when they upgraded CNND
of very fake news. Love him, hate them whatever you want, and
it was a word solid nightmare. But it wasn't incoherent in the same way
that they're looking at Biden and as as he's getting rolling on that thing and
doing things like I don't know this now, I want to hand it over
to the President Ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination,
ladies and gentlemen. President putin what that's his opening volley and then he says
this, I'll take your questions. I've been given a list of people to
call on here strike too. No, that's not how you do it.
And I could play the rest of the audio. You're aware of it.
It didn't go well, But people ask what happens if something happens? What
is the what does that look like? When we're hearing that the president is
not going to schedule things after eight, so he go to bed earlier.
When we find out from the New York Times that's his buddies that he's napping,
which I love being nap, don't get me wrong, And I wouldn't
be critical, I believe it or not. I wouldn't be critical of a
president who undertake a nap. They have a pretty insane schedule. Usually the
lot going on. You want to get you want to steal forty five minutes,
get a cycle, a rem do your thing. But it's the totality
of that that begs the question and the confidence of people. What happens if
something happens, Well, something happened, so we got moments noticed, Joe,
that's what I'm calling it moments notice Joe, which is badsc called him
genocide. Joe minds much more polite and moments notice Joe was what we needed
to see. What happens if something happens and they don't have time to regulate
his sleep, juice him whatever. He's got to get to a podium asap.
Stat as they say on the er, I know that's not on anymore.
And he looked as disheveled as possible. He communicated a very short amount
of information. He said he'd tried to reach Trump, he couldn't get him.
Please don't shoot people, this is not us. Good night, folks.
That was it. And his face looked like where am I? And
I'm not doing this to pile on to all of the stuff that we've been
rushing through over the last few weeks. And I want to point out he
looked that way inarguably the most controllable of crisis situations possible. You got home
field advantage. It's happening here in the US. It's as best you can
tell over this is this is te ball, baby, this isn't We don't
know. We've lost touch with our embassy in Machete stand right, This isn't
this isn't that. This isn't some weird beard somewhere, some ront dictator in
Asia looking at you, Kim. They detonated a nuke. Oh my god,
what do we do where we're getting real time data and information in and
we don't even with all our listening posts and black sites and everything else.
Yeah, they got to stop the waterboarding for a moment and get to the
computers and the listening listening stations right where we're trying to figure out what's going
on. That's the situation where we're trying to execute a raid of a compound
in another country we're not supposed to be in using brand new technology helicopters with
old school technology Navy seals. Thank god, everything goes sideways tech wise,
right, Remember they had to detonate a helicopter and leave it, and you're
trying to manage that while communicating with the American public. I can't even and
we do. I've done crisis broadcasting. I'm here because people had a very
bad day. Do you know that the way that I was able to and
I'd like to think it's not everything, but the thing that I think helped
propel me in my career was two horrible situations that happened on weekends when I
was just doing I was the utility dude. I was doing seven days a
week at one point because I did a Sunday show, I did Saturday Morning
on my own, and then I co was sidekick producer dude for the morning
show on the weekdays, and so I was always in the station. I
was trying to get ahead in this business. And a bridge collapsed, an
interstate bridge in the middle of Minneapolis collapsed, and I was the one who
went on on air I'm there, and we did that and it it was
well received by folks around, and I'd like to think that it helped me
propel my career, as crazy, morbid, horrible as that sounds, and
you have to be ready, and what ready looks like or what ready sounds
like in talk radio is not what it looks like. I've got people coming
in who aren't there. They don't want to be there. They're serving in
some role that they're not familiar with. They're ripping stories, they're running into
the studio. You can't hear it. They're laying things in front of me
that I have to read while I keep talking, which is a weird skill
you develop doing this to be able to read a story. I'm reading something
right now while I'm talking to you. Do you know that I'm reading something
that that Trevor Or program director sent me. I need to stop that.
It's not a great habit. I don't need to read that right now,
but you do it, and that got me more responsibility. And it's because
you have to be able to handle things like that. And so when I
hear reporters out there who are having to make a judgment call did Trump fall
down as some reported and had to be carried away? That's a set of
words that tells a story that is wildly different from what should have been visually
apparent. And you know the situational awareness we talk about. And you don't
even have to say somebody shot at him. You can say something happened.
It appears that people are wounded, which was which was unquestionable, and Secret
Service has whisked the president away or but to say that he fell down and
was carried away? Is it intentional? It's inaccurate and whether it was done
out of your subconscious because you're just programmed to not like the guy, or
you intentionally use those words. I think it's the former, not the latter.
It speaks volumes man, And so whether the reporter's there or moments notice
Joe having to roll in on the softest, the shortest putt you'll probably experience
of a crisis in a in a president's reign, and to not look like
you know where you are. That cannot be lost in this. So yes,
am I am I injecting politics. I am a little bit, but
unfortunately this is a test that you can't fake and it shouldn't be unnoticed.
All right, Jamal, thanks for hanging on? What's up? Hopefull we
get the phone? We got your phone spotted up there or turn on?
Okay, hang on, hang on. See this is why we have a
team. The phone's on there, all right? Yeah, I can you
hear me? Yeah, I can hear you. Now, what's up,
sir? You okay? I want to say this. I'm doing great,
k well, horrible because of what happened is weekend, but it will sing
number one. And I'm scared for Mark Robinson too, because the same way
they talk about President Trump, they talk about Mark Robinson and me and Mark
Robinson are friends. I'm really scared for Mark Robinson as well. Because of
this, the Democrat Party keeps saying, oh, you know, political violence
isn't isn't isn't a choice is wrong and we should have a disagreement of opinions.
This is not a disagreement of opinions when you call people that disagree with
you bigots, omphales, racist, members of the reiterated real quick Jamal Mark
Robinson in a in a cartoon by W. R. A. L.
Was made as a clan member. That is that is that cannot be lost
in this. You charactertured him as a member of the clan, a black
man, a member of the clan. And I think if you got one
hundred people in a room and you said, hey, the grand Wizard of
the clan got run over, you know, uh, run over by a
truck. Uh, there wouldn't be very very many sad people. So it's
really, it's really I I share I share your concern absolutely, and so
to me, when I hear them and you forgot what they said about thoughts
and prayers, you don't hear the thing I didn't forget. I rolled my
eye. One of my eyes is still stuck in the back of my head,
Jamal, I didn't forget. So they sit here and say, you
know, thousand prayers. But to me, when they specifically say that this
is a threat to democracy, that the people at the Trump Riley's are terrorists,
they are supporting anti you can't call yourself a patree if you support Donald
Trump. Watching these people for all this time keep saying this to me,
them saying we're gonna unify, it's crazy. And I'm gonna tell you some
casey, And you may think I'm crazy, I disagree with you when I
say this is gonna help President Trump. This is gonna help President Biden.
I'm gonna tell you why. Because now also happened. The Democrat Party said
that we're gonna coalists around Biden. Also, the press stopped covering Biden screw
us like last night when he did that press conference he said the battle box.
This man literally said we're gonna be all We're gonna go to the battle
box like what he was, screwing all up, slunning his words. But
nobody talks about that because the media is back doing what they did before,
covering for him, because hey, this is their God, so they're gonna
try to get President they getting President Trump. Oh, this is on both
sides. This is not both sides, because when President Trump talked about illegal
immigrants killing Americans, this has actually happened. Just because I oppose gay marriage
does not mean I'm against democracy, because at one time, less than twenty
years ago, gay marriage was not a thing people had a right to say
they were against it. Just because I'm opposed to abortion, that doesn't mean
I'm enslaving women or I'm trying to murder women. Just because I'm against DEEI.
Just because I'm against affirmative action doesn't mean I'm trying to put black people
back in slavery. And that number too many black folks, and I have
said, Oh, and Joe Biden, he sat there and said, Brent
Romney, gonna put y'all back and change. How you gonna put somebody back
and change? You got the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth Amendment. Will
have consik constantly on that side. Make it look like if you disagree with
that progressively the thing that you are a threat and extential threat to the nation
because you have a difference of opinion. This man, mister Corey, I
don't want to butcher his last name this man who was a retired firefighter one
year older than me, fifty died shot and killed because he was at a
Trump riley. And you know what, there are many people George Stepanopolis,
who are blaming this on President Trump and his ride and trying to say January
of the sixth people, so they are they're already blaming President Trump and Republicans
for this. They're saying this is our fault, January of the sixth,
But don't talk about the Black Lives matter. Jamar, Jamal, you're on
a roll. I am so incredibly late for my break. I'm sorry because
what's gonna happen in thirty seconds is I'm gonna get fired. So I got
you my very oh man. Okay, but I hear a lot of passion
here and your points are not lost on me. And that's why that was
point number two on my big stack of stuff. If you think somebody's literally
hitler and you're simultaneously glad they're okay after something like this where you're lying then
or you're lying now, we'll get on with it next. Hang on a
Cacoda radio program, and you know, we just we have one one story
today. I know it's obvious and it's strange when you have those days,
but that's the world of talk radio. Sometimes the events that precede those kinds
of days are some that will never ever forget. Right, nine to eleven,
nine to eleven. I laugh when I say that, not because it's
funny, but because it's just you kick the old memory bank, kid.
It was a fundamental change in the way that we do what we do,
Like there was stuff we didn't know we needed to be ready for on our
side of things that manifested and change staffing, change the way that we plan
for things. Without getting too technical, there are things called macros that we
utilize to tell the basically tell the radio station what to do. And when
I say the radio station, I mean the log right, the series of
my voice commercials, news, weather, and traffic that you hear. And
you can build a command that tells it to do a variety of things.
But when you fire that one command, that one macro, it it changes.
And so like when my show starts in the morning, there's a macro
for me, and it changes what studio to pull audio from and what promos
and bumpers to use. Like it's all built in and so it's one touch
boom. Now you're in this room and I built a macro. I can't
tell you what it was called. It's rather coarse humor, but it just
says we bef't because I amuse me sometimes. But I knew that if the
peanut butter hit the fan or whatever that commercial says, that I could hit
that and whatever was going on, whatever is happening, whatever breaking news is
going down, it would stop everything else, give me total control, but
continue to have audio coming out of your speakers. And so all of that
behind the scenes stuff is what news agencies do. It just took a very
long, roundabout way of telling you that when you are a member of the
press who covers a rally that involves secret service, these are possibilities that are
not foreign to you, from the screening that takes place, to the behind
the scenes the paperwork, to them telling you where you can and can't move.
You ever been in a press pit and have to go to the bathroom
and you're in this weird window, you're kind of screwed man, depending on
the setup. So this is why I take issue with the way that the
wording was on some of these things, and the analysis in real time that
was attempting to be done where you, yes, you can't call something certain
things until you have a a confirmation of some sort. But also you're the
media, so you can call it like you see it when it comes to
important things. To sit there and say yesterday, as one reporter did,
down to this is for the first time I'm gonna go to a story and
not just off the top of my head. So that's probably good for all
of us. Maybe I'll even get it right when when when you have a
reporter arguing with people about refusing to use the term attempted assassination because they have
the government hasn't told us that's what it is yet do you even hear yourself?
I won't call it this thing that everybody with eyeballs knows it is.
I'm not talking to at the moment, right we're where we've moved away from
the initial Trump fell and they carried him off. That in and of itself
is problematic. But now we're into this thing, it's abundantly clear. You
know that a shooter is dead a male. Remember for a long time it
was just male shooter is dead. That was what was said. You know,
that somebody in the crowd is dead. You know that Trump has blood
on him and the analysis of people on Twitter is amazing. Ah, he
put it there. Yeah, because he just carries vials of blood around with
him, costume blood with him everywhere he goes, so on the off chance
that somebody near him is murdered with a rifle, he can smear it on
himself. For political points, that's a rando. You're a reporter. You
have a person with a gun who has shot and wounded and killed people,
and one of the people who was wounded was the President of the United States
for four years, maybe the president again for four more years, but will
carry that title and thus Secret Service protection for the rest of his life.
You don't need the government to sign off on those words at that point.
I do not believe, and I'd have to go I'd have to go in
the way back machine and pull up the sound. But I don't think that
reporters in Dallas had any problem using the term assassinate. And there's the famous
report you've all heard where they said that the president has been shot. The
president has been shot, and it's cronkite and you've seen it. I'm sure
his president's been shot, and he's taken the hospital, and almost in the
amount of time it takes him to say those things, you can tell somebody
saying something to him in his ear. He puts his hand to the side
of his head. He pauses for a moment, and then he tells you
the president is dead. Do you think that's because the government signed off on
him using those words? No, it's because the people that work for Knkite
were at that and we're talking to people and garnered and gathered and got the
information. And yes, death confirmation is probably something you're gonna need somebody to
do. But the things around it that somebody shot at the president, there
wasn't a person in the city of Dallas, in the United States of America,
anywhere in the world that didn't go, Oh, they tried to assassinate
him. Everybody knows that term. There's a whole video game franchise calls Assassin's
creed and it's about you ready for this, are you sitting down? It's
about assassinating people. But when in a political spectrum, when you when you
try to kill a politician, assassinate is the term that you use. And
that is whether it is successful or unsuccessful, even when the who is there
was an Ecuador where the guy had a dude shoot at him, so he
would shoot at him, so people would think, No, I can't remember.
I want to be very clear, I can't remember what country it was
where a guy had a like pretend to assassinate me, so my numbers will
go up, like they still use the term assassinate there even though it turned
out I guess it wouldn't technically be that because he wasn't going to shoot him,
so that would be the only reason not to use it. So sitting
there and watching reporters on Twitter, go I can't use it till the government
signs off on that word. Do you even hear yourself? You're a reporter,
report Mark? What's up? Casey? First of all, as real
consequences? Okay, And these folks that are pushing the narrative that Trump is
the worst thing ever to walk the face of the Europe. It almost not
only invites this kind of thing, but it almost makes it a legitimate act.
It is not but your second, your second, your second, your
second point is the more accurate and scarier point. I believe it's it is
it it because It goes back to the literally Hitler thing. If you told
me that literally Hitler, who was in a position to do all the things
that he did. Uh, and and it's moments before didn't get hit I
would say shoot at him again because it's literally Hitler, and we know what's
going to happen. And when you go down that road you get to you're
talking about sir. That's right. And I have something to say about President
Biden's speech last night. First of all, I don't want to put from
the Oval Office for the fake Oval Office about Yeah, well they say a
lot of things, but you know his clan that he's putting politics aside that
lasted until eight oh one, because if you listen to that speech carefully,
he talks about how there's no place for violence, and then he says like
and puts about five things that are related to Republicans for the Right, including
six to assassinate your political phones, crapping out on me just a little there.
So yeah, I look, I I do I think and thank you
for the call. Do I think politics is aside? No? And you
know what, maybe it shouldn't be. Maybe maybe the politics should be there
for the purpose of maybe evaluating it and all, because putting it aside is
pretending that what's going on isn't going on for later to go on again,
someme to think about raced agic real quick. We got a little weather forecast
thing we got to do, so let's do this thing from the weather channel.
What's happening, man, go ahead, Well, not much change yet,
but change coming towards the end of the week. I think everybody probably
going to be happier. I don't know too many people like the heat and
communities thunder heat advisory for most of the try and we'll try it parts of
it upper nineties to low one hundreds. The next couple of days, the
heat index or what it feels like one oh five, maybe even hotter at
times in some spots, so just dangerously hot. Storm chances will start going
up. We'll have a chance tomorrow, a little better chance Wednesday than Thursday.
Friday we'll have the best chances of the week, scattered shower storms,
and then temperatures are going to come down, real nice cool off coming by
Thursday only near ninety and then by Friday only low eighties, maybe some middle
eighties, and then by the weekend, think lodal mid eighty. So a
cool downcoming, but so much needed wet weather with it. Okay, all
right, thank you, sir, appreciate it, and we will be right
back. Hang on. Well, Casey and Jeff Bellinger from Bloomberg News here
at eight fifty three. Jeff, what's happening today? Well, good morning,
Casey. Stock Market futures are pointing higher as Wall Street weighs the implications
of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and its potential impact on the presidential election,
and the price of oil has been fluctuating since the assassination attempt on mister
Trump. The attack on the former president has resulted in more uncertainty about the
election, the dollars modestly higher. That's a headwind for oil. Global demand
for smartphones picked up in the second quarter. Researchers report worldwide shipments rose more
than six percent. Shipments of Apple iPhone stabilized, other manufacturers saw accelerated growth.
Sales were driven by new artificial intelligence features and aggressive discounts. A hacker
who claims to have been behind the theft of sensitive call and text data from
AT and T now claims to have been paid about four hundred thousand dollars to
erase the data. It's not clear how the reported transaction was carried out,
and analysis of a Bitcoin wallet address provided by the hacker did turn up a
transaction that coincided with the alleged payment. They are considered the working poor,
people who have jobs but have no money left over after covering basic expenses.
Bank Rate reports a third of the American workforce falls into that category of workers
who say they're living paycheck to paycheck, and they're not able to say for
the future. And to Casey, it is the eve of Amazon's annual sales
event. The online retail giant will be rolling out big Prime Day discounts on
electronics, clothing, and other merchandise. Adobe estimates internet shoppers will spend fourteen
billion dollars over the next two days, eleven percent more than last year.
And Casey, Amazon won't be the only retailer that benefits. Can I ask
you something real quick? When you got it, when you first got into
radio, did you think at any point in your career you would ever string
the words together? The attempt excuse me, the attempt at assassination of President
Trump. It's just it's so it's still to this day is wild to me,
all of these things. So it is no idea you wouldn't have guessed
over the over the years, I've strung together a lot of phrases I never
expected. Yeah, that's right, Yeah, that's that's the biz. We're
end all right, thanks Jeff appreciation. Okay, Yeah, Like, I
don't know, it just it's just it's just still strange. It's not a
bad thing. It's just strange. It's just weird. Man. Come on,
you gotta admit a little. When when he first got elected first time,
you're like President Trump, You're like, duh, it's a little strange,
right, just in and it's away from all of the standard political I
hate you, you hate me stuff, just because of what you knew him
from. The guy had just sat there on Comedy Central and got roasted like
the year before or something. You still watch that roast. It's weird watching
it now. But this is where we are. This is where we are,
and I will will things get better? I don't know. I could.
I could sit here and do another three hours just playing you audio from
Barry. You notice I didn't this morning, I didn't sit here, And
there'll be time this week, don't worry and dwell on it. And there's
doing a laundry list of people like Benny Thompson's field director, who is no
longer his field director, right, Jacqueline Marsaw who thought to tweet after a
quote I don't condone violence, but please get you some shooting lessons so you
don't miss next time. Oops? Misspelled? Ops's got next time? Oh?
I guess it's for effect. Ah, that wasn't me talking. Oops,
that wasn't me talking. Well, it's not a good look to say
the very least or to the Colorado dude who I thought he was clever with
the simp uh sympathy for the devil? What goes what goes through your mind?
Man? CBS News, who were who were here? We go?
CBS News who was upset that Trump didn't try to uh quote this, uh
lower the political temperature? What? What the hell are you talking about?
What do you so? What do you want him to do? I got
a new ear piercing. Let me talk to you about the political temperature.
He didn't, he didn't go out and tell and by the way, he
did literally there are statements and there are things after this reporting which are clearly
that not just from Trump but from everybody