K co O Day radio program, and holy cow, you know, on
the grand scheme of inaccurate got you journalism, this is uh, this is
a doozy and it is shockingly still up the there's a piece the what is
this the Palm Beach Post, and editorial writer for the for the Palm Beach
Post had himself a He had himself a gotcha. So if you don't know
what they're currently roasting DeSantis over is uh the it's not just a santist but
basically, in the state of Florida, lawmakers and the governor put together what
is referred to as the State of Florida Immigration Healthcare Dashboard. All right,
so you know they they love them. They love some dashboards up in government.
By the way, this idiot's name is Frank Sarabino Palm Beach Post.
This is an opinion column. I would just point this out. This is
an editorial column. However, even when you're doing an editorial column, and
arguably more importantly so, when you're doing a an opinion column and you are
one team to present facts to your readers, in this case Palm Beach Post,
you want to do so in a way that convinces them of what your
position is. That's how these that's how the editorial stuff works. So you
know they they're editorial writer. Sarabino, he's got he's got some thoughts,
and his thoughts just happen to coincide with many of the legacy media in Florida.
And that is the dashboard, which, by the way, here's what
it does. The dashboard, which was put into place last year, collects
information and it is a mandatory report. Right, So I guess if you
want a beef that government has required additional compliance time on the part of healthcare
providers in Florida, that's fine. That's not what's being argued here. The
reason that they're gathering data in mandatory reporting is when you get up at the
federal level, while there had been some actual sampling and reporting going on,
as you can imagine imagine under the Biden administration, if you can't gather the
data to show that it's going on, is it ever really happening? Is
an attitude, and we saw it with the revamp of the FBI criminal reporting
numbers. Remember we talked about this, the updated FBI crime statistics, where
all of a sudden, in this iteration, they stopped breaking stuff down by
certain demographics, so there's charts you can't look at. Many of those charts
were charts that people would post online when they were having discussion about crime,
and if you posted any you were immediately labeled super bigot. Even though they
were the FBI numbers. They cleared it out. They cleared it up this
time, and the numbers are a lot harder to grasp well when it comes
to providing healthcare in this case, specifically healthcare that is provided to somebody who
is who has entered the country and does not have a legal immigration status in
this country, so you're talking about illegal immigrants, you are talking about those
within the quote quote asylum program to catch and released, and basically Florida healthcare
providers using this dashboard would upload data to the Agency for Healthcare Administration in Florida
and it would allow a county by county map that showed the total number of
hospital admissions, emergency room visits, and the total cost associated with undocumented residents.
The stated purpose was to provide actual data which had been missing that allows
individuals in Florida to evaluate whether they're comfortable with how this issue is being handled
and lo and behold, the numbers came out and for the first year in
existence, the state of Florida and this is not in debate. This is
what they're reporting. You can question their methodology. Spent five hundred and sixty
six million dollars just in the state of Florida for uncompensated hospital business. Now
doesn't mean the State of Florida recompense these healthcare providers. These are a standard
accounting byline for healthcare providers and that is undocked or uncompensated hospital visits. Right,
So if somebody who's here illegally, doesn't have status, goes into the
er, gets treatment and you know, they don't have a Social Security number
to track them with any of the rest uh those those costs, while they
may not be reimbursed by the government, some are the healthcare provider will have
to write them off. And that is that is something that happens in our
healthcare system a lot. But when you write something like that off or if
you eat the costs, as you and I both know because we understand how
businesses work, somebody else is paying for that. And the likelihood is if
you look at various studies, not just studies done by Florida universities under DeSantis,
but specifically pretty much anyone who's ever looked at this, it unquestionably is
a cost that is then bore by people who are pain or their insurance is
pain. So you know, knowing what that is is probably pretty good.
So when that number came out, it was kind of shocking, even in
Florida, which is one of the higher population states, knowing that five hundred
and sixty six million in hospital costs are going to have to be absorbed in
some way, shape or form, either through tax write offs into the federal
system or the state system, or the costs that are bore by Floridians going
and getting healthcare. That number of blew people away. So that's how we
get to damage control. So the Palm Beach Post and editorial Frank Serebino wrote
this, DeSantis blames undocumented immigrants for healthcare costs, but his supporters cost Florida
more, all right. So the sub headline the cost of the uncompensated hospital
visits put it five hundred and sixty six million statewide by the agency is actually
less than the five hundred and seventy seven million the taxpayers paid to create and
this is how he describes it, the anti immigrant online dashboard. So I
want you to think about what I just said. According to Sarabino, e,
the cost that was borre by taxpayers to create this online dashboard ran five
hundred and seventy seven million, and the dashboard only showed only five hundred sixty
six million in uncompensated hospital visits. So who's who's really screwing over the state
of Florida? Is the point of this? Because they hate the Santas all
right? So those are the numbers. There is a problem. There is
a problem. Ross. Do you think maybe you're picking up on what the
problem might be that it costs five hundred and seventy seven million to create an
online dashboard just so you could show five hundred and sixty six million in uncompensated
hospital spending. What may have what may in rushing to get his peace out,
which again is still up. What do you think, mister Sarabino,
a decades long newspaper man who has a severe case of teds, Well,
what do you think Maybe it should be a fact check there? Oh,
okay, Ross doesn't have a degree in economics. Would you say, let's
say you needed an online dashboard, all right, So basically one of any
one of our online tools, like the podcast tool or something, or you
know, one of the others that we use. And I told you that
that software costs five hundred and seventy seven million, wouldn't you be like,
what are we doing? Why would you spend that much? Did the Obamacare
website cost that much? Yeah? I mean, I'm sure it did.
But well, Frank Serrebino missed a decimal point on the cost to taxpayers.
In his fervor to show that DeSantis is wasting a lot more money just so
he can demonize people, Serrebino misread. I don't know, it's weird how
these mistakes happen seemingly in one direction. So yeah, So the problem with
that is is the new dashboard didn't cost that much money. It didn't even
cost close. In fact, he was only off by a factor of a
hundred percent. I want to repeat this. He was only off by a
factor of about one hundred times. Excuse me, not one hundred percent,
one hundred times. See, it turns out the cost of the dashboard was
five thousand dollars. But what oh, Now you've got a degree in economics,
huh yeah. And then even if you factor in and this is how
they got to the five seventy seven because it's five K to create the dashboard,
there's five K for outside out of its hosting services or what. And
then there is four hundred and sixty seven thousand dollars that is the cost that
was utilized for data collection on the part of the state. So these are
our people work within the Florida Health Department whose job it is to maintain this
dashboard. You've got a team there. And so they added five thousand plus
five thousand to five hundred and sixty seven thousand, which which which got five
hundred and seventy seven thousand dollars for this thing, and instead of five hundred
and seventy seven thousand, this moron wrote an op ed piece claiming that DeSantis
and his administration spent five hundred and seventy seven million dollars. I'm shocked as
someone like this would be wrong about the facts, or are you? Are
you? Yeah? I mean it's yeah, five hundred and sixty seven thousand,
And you know what, I like, to some extent if you told
me that a government entity spent five seventy seven on the dashboard. I might
believe you after the all of the Obamacare website debacle and all of that,
but I yeah, i'd probably scratch my head. He thought this guy thought
he had such an exclusive. They he was going to show that, yes,
yes, five hundred and sixty six million may have not been paid to
healthcare providers will now be passed on to you by the state spent more than
that. Except they didn't. They didn't not even close, not even remotely
close. And it was too good to check. And the piece remains on.
There's no correction, nothing. I'm looking at it right now. It's
just up there, and it's been up there all night, and I don't
know. We'll see, we'll see if they pull the whole story or if
they just they just to fix at the very bottom of a quick little whoopsie.
Yeah, that's how I started mid morning. But you should too,
all right, six twenty coming up on the show. Well, i'll tell
you what. I'll give you a rundown in a moment. Hang on,
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based restoration. All Right, just retweeted a little summary of what I was
just telling you about from was it a g Hamilton tweet? I think does
a pretty good job of the rundown. But yeah, so I there.
How you can't amend an article that is totally predicated on this this cost that
has people in Florida up in arms and likely will be impactful on the elections.
Uh, this idiot over at Palm Beach Post can't abide by that.
So it is the number being so high so as to show wasteful intent by
desantists. That is the point of this article. And the whole thing's predicated
on not just a dude who missed two decimal points where you know, maybe
he would come back and he'd be like, well, the numbers had omitted
the period and that typo blah blah blah is what caused it. No,
you missed it by three zeros. It doesn't make any sense unless it was
too good to And by the way, the story was published on April second,
because for a moment I'm like, maybe this is a no, No,
it's it's it wasn't it was. It was the second and it was
up all day yesterday and it's still up now. AnyWho, All right,
coming up on the show. It is Thursday, So Stephen Kent, our
official NERD correspondent, he'll be with us at plenty of stuff to get into.
Also, dude, I don't know that I feel bad for Sodamayore,
but you can tell that what happened with RBG is going to weigh heavily in
the minds of senators for a very long time. Right, I'm talking the
narrative where everybody and their mother was like, you know, Bader Ginsburg probably
probably should be retired. And remember there was a portion of time, and
I mean time when the court was in session where nobody saw Ginsburg for quite
a while. Do you remember that time? You remember that era, that
window of about a month where they're like, she's working from home and her
clerks are the only ones who talked to her, and you know, the
internet, they're like, people are going, well is she or are we
doing a weekend at Bernie's thing here? All right? Like I said,
I retweeted, I think what is a pretty good summary of the what the
hell are they thinking? Over at the Palm Beach Post. Well, I
know what they're thinking. They're thinking, you know, get them, but
just absolute journalistic malpractice, claiming that a dashboard which gathered data from all the
healthcare providers in Florida showing an unreimbursed expenditure five hundred and sixty six million dollars
that no doubt would be at least in part passed on to people wanting medical
care in Florida. The dashboard, the data entry widget. So we're clear,
what we're talking about called a website is not even is not wholly accurate.
It is a data collection portal, and it does have associated costs.
You got to have people to collate the data, report it, put it
in report form, make policy recommendations, all the stuff that goes along with
it. And in the gotcha moment, the reporter claimed that it costs five
hundred and seventy seven million for the database, but it didn't. It cost
five thousand dollars. It costs five thousand additional for I guess hosting just it's
a coalition of services, so maybe hosting in printer inc I don't know.
And five hundred and six these six thousand dollars for the actual folks that are
in charge of utilizing that information for all the things I just mentioned. By
government standards, it's you know, being around a half million dollars, that's
not gonna bat an eye. But this guy moved to decimal point three times
to create the senatorial and it is strikingly bad. So I retweeted that also
another day and other this we have a police shooting. It's pretty I just
had Ross watch it too. It's pretty intense. You you have the officers
responded for what would you say that is ross a mental health crisis considering what
we're talking about, something affecting the brain. Yeah, I see mental health
crisis. You see this, This officer roll up, the suspect is is
right there, is fairly aggressive, and what does she do. She takes
out her service weapon and puts a couple in them. I mean, the
suspect reminded me of Tony Montan at the end of Scarface. Ah. Yeah,
yeah, I think that's where like nothing can take him down. Yeah,
well that's the thing, right because and then if you're an officer and
you're dealing with somebody who you've utilized. In this case, she used her
firearm. Did you ross. Did she even try a taser? I didn't
see in the video. Looks like she straight for the and I don't know
if she doesn't look like she's trying to shoot the legs either. No,
she was. She was going for the head. And then and then at
which point the suspect pops up comes after her again, but it puts a
couple more into him at like point blank range. Yeah, I mean,
right, well, look, you know they talk about closing distance a right.
You ever seen that demo where somebody has a knife and there I can't
remember that, it's like twenty some feet or whatever. And then they do
what exercise where the person with the knife comes at the officer and you know,
once you get within that whatever that distance twenty one feet, it really
is not in the officer's favor because that before they can get their weapon out,
get it aimed properly, they maybe overtook. So yeah, I think
the proximity had some to do with it. And then after putting two more
in the suspect, the suspect up back at it again, and now the
officer is you can tell in her brain it's click with her that something may
write here, and she she looks like she saw a spider, and I
said, people are hacking on her. But I gotta be honest, like,
nothing there seems like what you would expect is going to happen. So
to say that you would be able to deal with it, like you're an
old Clint Eastwood character, maybe I don't know. Every time that dude got
back up, it looked disconcerting, so I want to check that out.
Also, it's a raccoon with mate with probably rabies, so but that would
be mental health, right, because the rabies affects the brain. So I'm
just trying to figure out if I if I could get a spot on the
writing at the Palm Beach Post. And I feel like my representation is exactly
what they'd be looking for to demonize this this officer. Yeah, that thing
like if I don't know which PD, but it might be the Raccoon City
PD can and considering it's a raccoon, all it all fits. So that's
that's a reference to zombie movies, folks. And I think it fits the
bill all right. Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.
It is a crazy video. Yeah, I don't know if it's fair.
Also, and I'm not sure how they tell them to do it. It
was my understanding and correct me if it's old wivestale stuff. I was told
that if we ever, because we had a coyote one time that was like
it was like way too friendly. Wasn't the word. It was just way
too cut. It had all the hallmarks of rabies. It turns out it
didn't have rabies, but it did have It wasn't encephalize. I can't remember
what it was. It was something that I antelope used to get and somehow
the cowdi had it, so it was similar. But I remember being told
one time that if if we're dealing with a rabbit animal that you shouldn't shoot
it in the head. You should, you know, center mass that thing,
obviously, but doing part to the fact that they want to then dig
through the brain. But I might well, if I shoot it in the
head, you're gonna have a lot easier time to getting to it. So
I don't know if that was true. I don't know what they tell officers
to do. But about the time you've got you know, five forty five
rounds into a raccoon and the thing's still coming at you, I'm gonna be
I'm going to start to get uncomfortable with the situation. Yeah, it looked
like she put two to the chests and one of the head. Absolutely,
she might be a hitter for the Russian mob. I don't know, but
you can check that out eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.
And then if you really want to work for the Palm Beach Post,
you then take that story and you juxtapose it with Donald Trump calling all immigrants
animals, which of course is a drastic misrepresentation which requires very creative editing of
a statement he made. I'll let you listen to it. Tell me if
you could pick out who he's talking about, twenty two year old nursing student
in Georgia who was barbarically murdered by an illegal alien animal. The Democrats said,
please don't call them animals. They're humans. I said, no,
they're not yumans, they're not yemans, they're animals. And Nancy Pelosi told
me that, she said, please don't use the word animals, sir,
when you're talking about these people. I said, I'll use the word animal
because that's what they are, all right. So if you are most of
the media, obviously what he was referring to is probably not just illegal immigrants,
but all immigrants, just calling him animals as he does. Just like
remember that he did with that Sheriff's group when they were explicitly talking about MS
thirteen in that scenario, and in this case, he literally started off with
the the death of the college students. So yeah, yeah, so if
you're gonna hopefully misrepresent that as as folks were doing and running a shorter video,
shorter clip than even that, I think you can tie these two things
together. But hey, yeah, you be the judge. Okay, all
right, six forty three. Speaking of being the judge, you know I
have I have a suspicion that has long lingered based on just a lot of
coincidences. I've talked about this off the air. We are Ross, We're
still convinced that the Glenn Beck Show steals stuff from us? Right, uh
completely, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah right. It's like like eerie.
Now is this slightly tongue cheet, yes, okay, but dispair with
me. No, I'm being serious. Is a thief. There's a lot
of times where I feel like Ross and I have appealed the onion on a
story in a somewhat unique way right, Like you're not hearing analysis like that
on mostalk radio. And then all of a sudden it's the uh, it's
the hot take on the next hour of Beck Right, so we may like,
ah, they're listening, bro, they're listening. There they gotta be,
Because did I not create an entire scenario on Tuesday show where to console
you for not getting jury duty? We were going to allow you to adjudicate,
uh, you know, various disagreements because you've got a powdered wig and
you wanted to justice. Did I not say we could do like judge Judge
Hayes. And then I'm the dude in the pot because I remember saying,
Hey, I would love to do that, but I'm just too busy.
I understand, I'm just way too busy. Yeah, no, no,
no, And then, uh, what happened yesterday? What do we find
out? Daily Wires stole our stuff? Man, Daily Wires stole our bit.
Everybody's stealing from this show. Just just want everyone out there to know,
this is why you've made such a good decision decisions starting your mornings with
us. Daily Wire announces a new series that will star Matt Walsh as a
judge, so you know, basically in the format of a reality courtroom.
Uh, if you don't know how those things work, the judge, whoever
the judge is, uh, is a licensed arbiter, right, and so
when you speed read the stuff at the end, that's that's how So anyone
could be a judge who can uh you know, get past a short arbitration
certification training. So immediately on the heels of us wanting to do this,
now they're going to do their own and the photo there at the least of
him. Yes, for the promo material, there's no powdered wig. None
did well are trying, no, they're trying not to get caught, right,
Like if they're like, oh, if we don't have a powdered wig,
if it's him behind the bench with a powdered wig and an iron mask
to put on someone up in the beast, it's very obvious they start from
us, Yeah, we go to court and we're rich, you know right
away. But no, they had just enough differences so they could, I
guess, have plausible deniability. So I did see that. I don't know,
it'll be interesting. Me and Matt Walsh don't necessarily align on everything.
I think that, and it is fine. I don't got a beef with
the dude, but I think he's just he's a I have a I go
a little more libertarian on stuff than some of the stuff he does. But
that's fine. I'll watch him yell at people. He's generally he's generally pretty
good at it. So but you know, I would like a little uh
residuals. That's all I'm saying. So think it over all, right,
six forty six? Hang on, I got it? So why don't you
just give him back? Dude? We let you borrow our guy as friends
do friends. Vikings fans and Bill's fans with you know which I'm happy to
jump on that as my AFC team. I like, I've said the same
thing. I've said the same thing like if it comes to NFC, I'm
a Vikings fan if I have to choose a NFC team, And so what
do we do? We're like, Hey, you guys wants to fond Diggs
and you're like, yeah, let's have him. And uh, yesterday when
you were done with him instead of letting him come back to Minnesota, where
I mean, do you really want him back? Though? You guys are
like, dah, We're gonna give him the Texans or whatever your trade was.
I remember I did see that the Dolphins fans were thinking they were gonna
get him yesterday and their souls were crushed. But also his reason for leaving
Minnesota was there were too many good receivers there, right. You had you
had Digs, obviously, but you had Adam Thielen, and then you had
Joe Jefferson coming in and he just he wasn't getting the time. And I
have a feeling it's the similar thing. Who's the top target is Knox?
I'm trying to think who your top target is? Shakiir Is is Shakiro Okay,
because listen, Diggs did not have a great season last year. For
the first half of the season when the Bills went five and five, Diggs
was doing great. For the second half of the season when the Bills went
six and one, Diggs had one game over sixty five yards and one touchdown.
But are they putting two or three guys on him another play they were
double team in him? Yeah, yeah, for sure. But then he
disappears in the playoffs and like the one thing he's known for in the playoffs,
this past year was the fumble that he gave up that was return for
a touchdown, and then there was a big wide open sixty five. They
would have gone ahead and won that game against the Chiefs, and then ball
went right through his hands. Yeah, I don't know that you can shot.
You're not shouldering the entirety of it. Because there was also some issues
with some calls in that game. Some would argue, but yeah, no
he didn't. He didn't look real good. But he's been good for so
long. I mean he has. But you get to that point, man,
and it seems to be around like that. Not everybody, but they
seemed around that thirty year age mark where it's like the drop off does become
significant. I would say yesterday of the news when they were letting him go,
I would say, a that doesn't happen without Josh Allen's Josh Allen Green
letting that his approval. That does not happen. And I think there was
so much drama in Minnesota fans, to their credit, warrened Bills fans that
this would happen in the locker room. And there's been a lot of drama
behind this with Stephan Diggs, every other few weeks. It seems like the
rumor is he wants out, he's not happy. You have him blowing up
on Josh Allen the sideliner in the snow game, and it's just I have
feeling Josh Allen was like, enough, we need to move on, and
that I mean it was it was clear that all that stuff festered for months
with Minnesota, so people were not surprised when they're like, all right,
you don't want to be here, let's let's do this. But that now,
the Texans are kind of built. Oh dude, they are. Yeah,
if Stroud is If Stroud is good and you know he looks like he's
not going to be bad, you got now, you got digs, you
got Dell, Tank Dell, you got who's the other receiver or that running
back there? Or is Dell the running I can't my brain's hut. But
like, their offenses look a pretty and they have a good line too.
I have faith in Brandon Bean and it's like, you know, cliche and
the me in the process, but I believe that they have something in the
works, and I in the draft. They're obviously I believe going to go
for a younger wide receiver. And when you look at the Bills what they've
done in the off season, it's been they've got a lot, They've gotten
rid of a lot of older guys, and they're going younger and faster.
I'm excited to see that. There's also the only way you can win right
now with the with the structuring of stuff. If you've got a if you
have a quarterback that's not under a rookie contract, your entire other the way
you staff your team has to change just because of the hits and this this
is similar to win in my opinion, when Tyreek Hill left the Chiefs and
Patrick Mahomes to go down to Miami, right and people are like, oh,
well, Patrick Mahomes is done. Well, Patrick Mahomes is Patrick Mahomes,
and the Bills so have Josh Allen. So I think the Bills are
going to be fine. I was seeing yesterday the Vegas odds of them winning
the Super Bowl. They're third now they're still number one for winning the division.
So they didn't drop off at all when it comes to Vegas odds.
If you put any stuff, yeah, yeah, yeah, I took your
but I you know, Carolina was twenty five thousand plus their twenty five hundred
excuse me, plus twenty five hundred. So I mean, yeah, the
bills are fine, but you're not gonna make much money there. That's why
I put it all on Carolina this year. I mean that payout is going
to be amazing, all right. So yeah, so Digs is off right
and Ross thinks forty chess is afoot. So I just I just have faith
and I believe that. I'm I feel like Michael Jackson eating the popcorn like
that. Hey man, I was wrong. I was gonna have I will.
I will admit that I was wrong last year when we took that receiver.
I you know, I didn't. I didn't think he was gonna be
he was taken in the first round. Everyone said he was second round at
best. And I was wrong, and I and that's a good time to
be wrong. So we'll see how it can hear me out, Okay,
justin Jefferson's the bills. You know what, I can't dream, right,
No, you don't have to dream. I think that there's a scenario where
our front office does that because they hate the fans, which is where I'm
at caz O Day Radio program and coming up in one hour we'll chat with
Stephen Kent. We're gonna talk amusement parks and the Disney saga rolls on.
Also we'll talk little entertainment that's not wholly Disney related, Like I honestly if
you saw the New Roadhouse, because I watched The New Roadhouse the other day
and I I still don't know how I feel about it. And look,
I'll be the first one to be hyper critical I think on a lot of
productions. But also I think that I'm able to recognize why a movie is
being redone, and that's going to inform a lot of how I may feel
about it. Right, Because chances are the only reason you're redoing a movie
is you just want to get it ready for a modern audience. Right,
You're like, so take any like what if Tony Montana was gay or trans
right, and you're like, all right, we're gonna redo Scarface. That's
what people are not responding well to. But there are many times where you
could do an updated version of a movie. You could do an expansion of
it. Ross just saw you just saw the new Ghostbusters right last week or
whatever the newest of the new I guess you had the one with the key.
You know, we enjoyed the kids. This is the one past that
you went all right, so yeah, good right. And we also recognized
that the the women's the women Ghostbusters thing was dog crap, and of course
they would tell, well you think that because it's women. No, no,
no, no. It was like there was a lot going on now
that was that was a matter of there's a difference in tone and delivery,
and they were yes, And I liked I liked the people who were in
that movie generally, right, like Melissae McCarthy. I'm fine with her.
Again, I think the Sean Spicer things. Senl is one of my favorite,
beloved Kristin Wig and I felt like they took the Ghostbusters, which are
like smart funny, if that makes sense, and they turned it into like
zany wacky funny. And part of it had to do with what was the
thing there was, like there was no script, right, weren't they improving?
Most of those scenes was the DNS And that's not surprising to hear,
oh, drink of water here, maybe it's a ghost. I don't know
anyway, So that didn't work, and it didn't work for a lot of
reasons. One coming out and knowing that you're going to have a crap product,
so you you go on the offense if you're like, just so you
know when you see this, if you don't like it, you hate women
right well, and it's like, well, one, you're poisoning the well
there. But two Also, I think people felt a lot of disrespect when
you got some of the original actors back but then made them play other parts.
So Bill Murray isn't his character in that one, but you know that
has progressed, and in the new one they do honor the legacy of the
characters. I remember they were interviewing they even tried debate who we just talked
about this off the year the other day, who's the who's the black Ghostbuster?
I can't remember the actor Winston when I know it was that dad,
I can't remember the actor's name. But anyway, they were interviewing that guy,
and they were and they were the reporter was straight picking a fight.
He's like, so, how did you feel finding out that is the fourth
Ghostbuster and the only Ghostbuster of color that you were making considerably less than you
know, Ackroyd and Murray in the movie. And he's like, he just
looks at him like because they're Ackroyd and Murray and also they had like producer
writer credits, they got paid for it. That's a that's Ernie Hudson.
Ernie Hudson. Yeah, and he's just looking at him like what there's no
fight here, right like because that was Bill Murray in the early eighties and
Dan, yes, yes, I give you a hint. The h what's
it? What is? What is it? Arguably the bigger name in that
movie aside those two was who's the nerve? Why am I? Rick moranis?
Rick branis who? Let you know, Rick Moranas is an amazing story
when you look at why he left where like where he just there's a big
arc there when it comes to his comedy. It's sort of like when you
learn how Bob Sagett really was before Full House, right, You're like,
oh my god, this Bob Saget sack. Rick moranis was very sort of
cutting edge like that too, but you start thinking of him as the nerdy
character all the time, and you're right. And then he left the movies
because his wife got sick and passed away and he wanted to take care of
his children. And it's yeah, very noble and then I think what the
thing they got him out for was what a mint mobile commercial? Right?
And I think because him and the Deadpool actor, like, I think they
both have some financial thing in that. But yeah, but Rick moranis was
Arguably he was you could say he was probably what the third biggest name in
that movie at the time, right, because he had done a little shop
and and he didn't make close to what mariinnat Croid did. But yeah,
so you tell you that Ernie Hudson's looking at him like, what what does
it mean? You also at Sigourney Weaver? Right, Oh that's right.
I'm sorry, Yes, Sigourney Weaver. Uh, well, yes, I
guess we're gonna go. You have a lot of big names in that film,
and it's not surprising that Ernie Hudson, not because of racism but just
because of name recognition, wasn't dead as much. Yeah, in the recent
film though, when we saw a few weeks ago, he has a big
I mean, he's a major, big part of this movie. What's good?
That's you know? He also, uh, what was what else did
you say? I try to remember the other thing he said in the interview.
He's just basically he was just like, this is amazing. I just
you know, I'm a Ghostbuster and I'll always be a Ghostbuster. So next
question. So kudos to him for the answer. But now I'm glad this
they gave him an expanded part there. I don't even know what the premise
of it is, right, I'm assuming the kids leave the cornfield and the
head of the city. Yeah it does. It takes place in the city
yet, and there's a lot of good cameos in it. All right,
cool, I'm looking forward to that, so like it can be done and
then with the Roadhouse like but the difference to with this Ghostbusters film. It
was a good story. It had good writing, like it felt like an
old Ghostbusters movie. I mean, we really so weird. It's from the
money. It looks like that's worked out for them. But with the revenue
they're making off of it, man, I wonder if the other studios might
wish to emulate this model. Good writing, not a bunch of identity politics
and characters that people actually care about. Now that you mentioned it, I
can't think of I'm sure it was there and just I didn't notice it,
but there wasn't like any over knocking you over the head politics in it or
woke stuff. There really wasn't not not that immediately comes to mind. Somebody,
I did see somebody write something about one of I don't I don't know
any of the protagonists, so or the antagonist. Excuse me, I don't
even know who the bad he is in that. But somebody was saying something.
But I mean because I didn't care, but because there's people where it's
sort of like you have race hustlers and now you have these like well custlers
who are always looking for something to attack or say it is is woken you
should boycott it or this. So if you're going to reach I'm sure you
could say, well, the female young female Ghostbusters, this is a woman's
empowerment movement. Well nah, I really. I mean she's the daughter of
the one Ghostbuster who has passed away, so I mean she has there's a
purpose for her being there. Yes, And she's not a perfect Mary Sue
character. She makes a big mistake in this movie and she redeems herself.
So that's a that's fine, that's a new thing. There's a hero's journey
there, which is missing in a lot of these films. In these days.
It's like you're just the perfect character and you have no flaws, and
I think it was great for you. And it's that that's not relatable.
People can't relate to that. I can relate to that. That's pretty much
how I'm always right. Yeah, I started doing radio when I was two.
I didn't have a first word. I had a first fifteen minute opening
segment commentary. It's just a fun fact there. So yeah, we'll get
into you know, we're just talking about the the the grievance mongers, the
the wold custlers. I gotta find this. I just I was looking for
it the break. Maybe it's on College Fix. I was scrolling Twitter yesterday
and there was this this dude, who's where And he looks like he's just
trying to walk through this area on campus, and he's wearing a shirt that
says USA two undefeated, two time World War Champion, Right, you've probably
seen that before. And this this moonbat student just she starts losing it on
this dude. She's very She's just like and she's going, did we did
we? Yeah? We did? Wait? Wait wait that we came out
of the war as a superpower. So yeah, there's a reason we really
win too. He did, though, why the dollar is the dollar today?
I feel like if he didn't win, right, if the only said
one, I don't know if he's done the German marketing weapons of mass destruction
on the on the world. I think it was her point, the rosses
of the opinion. We did win and we are undefeated in World Wars.
So wow. I mean, there's some people to say you might have gotten
some help from Britain or Canada or Australia or whatever. I mean, and
that's your opinion. Well, that's true, that's you know, right,
you know, if you're or even the dare you say, the Soviet Union
at the time. Yeah, apparently they lost a few people. I don't
know. I think there's yeah, there was, there was there was one
or two. In fact, let's get the Palm Beach Post editorial to estimate
how many they lost. Yeah, yeah, but did we You didn't answer
the question, but I did answer, did we really win? It's apparently
open for interpretation. A loon man just triggered by his shirt and the dude
is clearly in the in the video, and I will find I'm gonna find
this damn thing in the video. It's it's not one of these where he's
you know, he's over. He's like, ah, the moon bats are
on the quad. Let me get shirts that will trigger them and then just
stroll around with your chest puffed out trying to walk across like he's got stuck.
And he looks like he's in a hurry too. I mean, it's
a meme shirt. Like it's become a mean three year letterman uses it all
the time, right, he used to trigger people, dumb people. Well,
it works like a charm. Apparently did we win? Did we?
Yes? Yeah? We uh, we just looked it up. Apparently we
did all right, seven seven seven seven seventeen. I yes, sidetrack by
all that stupidity. China's really upset, speaking of global issues, but they're
they're mad at the Netflix. Yeah, you know what I gotta I'm here
for it, China. Netflix. It's the whole Godzilla meme. Right,
let them fight, right, I'm here for this, but I'm gonna have
to back Netflix here because it's the Chinese government. And two, this isn't
new stuff that the this new series is about. It is creepy though,
if you've never heard about him, what do you think of the Marxist cultural
revolution. I think what most people in vision is the the struggle session.
That famous photo where you have the the landlords or these uh yeah landlords who
were standing up there like their Abu grab prisoners with the sign around their neck
while everyone screams at him like that. That was very real. But also
what was very real is genocide and uh and with genocide, the you know,
basically the large, large scale starving and decimation of huge lots of population
for these big projects, the purging of any politics or thoughts that may go
up against uh Mao and his team. The atrocities were numerous, and one
that I think a lot of people don't know about is the the Gwanjee uh
the Gwanji cannibal stuff. And if you don't know about this, I'll fill
you in because you know, we learned stuff and we'll do it next.
Hang on, this is pretty dark what I'm about to tell you, but
I think it's necessary, especially because of the kicking and screaming on the part
of China. So the folks over at Netflix have a new a new offering.
It's called Three Body Problem and it is loosely based on an individual set
of incidents within a larger problem that gripped China during the Cultural Revolution, specifically
in Wufusheng and the Guanshi province. Right. So this is I'm not sure
where the percentage of the population is, but within the individual provinces and then
the counties within them, local Communist Party leaders pretty much had free reign as
long as they were out there, you know, purging dissidence, and they
could do it through re education, or they could do it in the way
that they chose to, mostly by murdering them or starving them to death.
And as a result, the Cultural Revolution killed tens of millions, five to
seven million, I think, just in Guangxi, right and along the Yellow
River. So and that doesn't even account for all of the deaths following that
when they started changing fundamentally damming and changing so many parts of the river,
and they would just be like, oh, yeah, this town of people
who are agricultural subsistence farmers, Yeah, this is going to be a lake
now, bye bye. So in this case they cover one of the darker
aspects of it, and that was the records, which are as far as
I know, not disputed and across many political ideologies not disputed, and even
researchers in China have spoke to this before, but because it's the focus of
this doc documentary, and it details the roughly one hundred to one hundred and
fifty thousand people who were purged just in this area. And when I say
purged, I mean they were boiled, they were let's see here, disemboweling,
live burial, and the list went on, and they had a couple
unique little twists like if you were a student in you know, whatever level
of school and your teacher is deviating from you know, Mao's thinking, you
were encouraged to execute the teacher. And it took place. It took place
on multiple occasions, including in nineteen sixty eight when middle school students were who
were not happy with the instruction by their teacher as it deviated from the stand
under communist rhetoric, reportedly beat their teacher to death, drug her body outside
to the flat stones of the Quan River, and then Communist Party officials who
were they were stationed in schools, so they were there forced another teacher who
had the students had said was friends with the teacher who they had just beaten
to death. Remember, these are middle school students. The party officials forced
the other teacher to remove her friend's heart and liver, at which point they
headed back to the school, where they barbecued and consumed the organs. Because
part of the ideology there was the total domination of your ideological opponents, which
required this. The majority of the one hundred and fifty thousand who were said
to be killed were landowners as well as the intellectual class, teachers and whatnot.
And they researchers were able to independently document one hundred and thirty seven people,
though they they're confident in saying the number was four hundred and twenty one
who were ritualistically eaten. And in fact, it was so common that they
had classism break out right in this communist utopia, as you know, where
everyone is equal, almost everyone is equally worthless, and then the higher ups
do what they want. So they had let's see here, all right,
So they had an edict come down, and in it the leaders and party
officials were allowed to feast on the heart and liver, and then they had
a dish where they mixed it with pork sausage. However, ordinary villagers could
face execution if they were to eat the heart and liver without making it available
to leadership. Villagers were allowed only to remove areas of the victim's arms and
thighs for consumption, but could not eat the organs, which were seen as
the I guess the good stuff, and you wonder why somebody ate a pengulin.
So yeah. Following more information coming to light about this period, in
an effort to downplay some of the you know, the really gruesome stuff,
the Communist Party decided to do its own investigation, during which they arrived at
the conclusion that only thirty eight people were eaten. Fifteen people were prosecuted and
received essentially fourteen years in prison, but then were let go like a year
later, and any party official or higher up who was not necessarily a party
member but still part of the program they received a five to ten percent salary
cut for eating their opponents. So yeah, so that's what the show's about.
In China's big mad So that's a that's a thing. So so they
murdered. Even under your own admission, you had a party higher ups that
executed uh and then consumed fellow citizens, and you you you gave them a
pay cut. That's crazy. Man. But hey, that's again, this
is why I like history, not because everything's good, but because arguably everything's
important. And I want to hear the We just didn't try it right,
people explain, you know where you just get up in the middle of the
lecture, right, you don't like what's going on in math class today,
and you're just like, you know what, I'm uh, let's just let's
eat the teacher. Then we don't have to do this. But uh,
you know, good luck convincing folks on that, all right, eight eight
eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Seattle with a rather interesting move.
They got a they got an equity problem. Well they don't really they
they have a moonbat problem. But we'll let you know what it is they've
decided to do. And again it's like Seattle has like an inferiority complex against
San Francisco when it comes to who can out moon bat the other ones.
And since we're in the Pacific Northwest, what the state of Oregon has done
or I guess undone? And just how poorly this whole thing was handled with
their Hey, let's make all the drugs legal is pretty crazy. There's some
stuff I didn't realize that maybe people who don't live in Oregon didn't realize.
But I do want to share that with you. But first you want to
share the weather with rage Age because he's ready to rock and roll. What's
going on with man? Yeah? How much are you? I don't know.
Ross's team borrowed my wide receiver and then instead of giving him back,
they gave him to Houston going on. Yeah, I did see that.
Yeah, Stefan DAGs going to Houston. Man, Yeah, that's a little
that was a little unusual. I didn't think that he would leave, but
uh, well, yeah, he he went through this whole period with the
Vikings where he was, he was, he was all the time, he
was bitching because yeah, that dude, dude is by polar. The problem
was is he had at that time, he had theling and he had you
know, we had three Pro Bowl receivers and he wasn't getting the ball.
And then he goes to Buffalo and he was the man and now and then
he wasn't and now he's upset again. So whatever. But yeah, and
then I'll go to Houston and probably repeat the whole thing over. No,
no, no, Now he'll probably win the Super Bowl because that would be
the most thing ever. Ross has already taken this to the darkest logical conclusion
for him. But look, Houston's got a good team now. Stroud holds
up man a lot of a lot of players around him. Fourth eighteenth,
three weeks from tonight's the draft. How about that and next week's and we'll
see. Oh that's right, it starts next week. Updates in the weather,
Yeah, yeah, all right, yeah, what are we dealing with?
Man, If you don't like the cold, breezy weather, you could
turn it off for a couple of seconds. When we get to the weekend
and early next week, it does get better. Start to see the clouds
increase from west to east. Still a few breaks, but they're gonna go
away eventually. There's more sun east now of Raleigh, and still some sundown
Fayetteville. But we are seeing even the clouds there come in and we might
get a few showers. This supper level low to our northwest is just stubborn
and sticking around, and until it kicks out, we'll keep that shower threat.
It's not gonna be a bunch numbers today, way down only near fifty
tonight in the mid upper thirties and a chance of a few showers, a
passing shower Tomorrow, a lot of clouds and still a light breeze and cool
again, upper forties to near fifty. And then by the weekend we'll start
slowly getting milder. Thirties again Saturday morning, low fifties in the afternoon,
partial sun and then upper fifties on Sunday and mostly sunny. Get into the
sixties Monday, sunshine expected for whatever the percentage we get here the eclipse,
I don't know, sixty or seventy or whatever. Maybe less as you go
toward the trying a little bit more as you get into the mountains. But
I think the warming trend will continue into Tuesday, into the mid sixties,
so it'll get better. It'll be a slow process, but no big warm
up. Next couple of days kind of cloudy at times, might be like,
oh was that a shower? It really won't be much at all.
All right, Well, we'll complain when we get there, So no card,
Thank you much, sir, appreciate it now, Ross, I was
just reading. I was reading this quote from Brandon Bean who for those you
who knows the GM from the bills. He claims that Josh Allen wasn't told
and found out at the same time as the general public. Do you believe
that? I don't know. I don't. I don't think any quarterback who's
the you know, a franchise quarterback, You're you're moving a wide receiver without
talking to him. So, but I don't know. Maybe they're just trying
to in some ways say face. I think you're right though, because that
the wide receiver room is getting bigger and younger. Yeah, and then Diggs
is like, man, I'm out. Yeah, I don't. I don't
know that. I believe that they did not say anything. But any who,
all right, let me do this. We'll take a break again.
Stephen Kent will join us. We got Disney stuff, theme park stuff,
the new Silver Surfer. That's I'm sure some people are real, real pumped
for that. We'll get into all of it more coming up here on the
CaCO Day radio program. Oh apparently I'm getting ahead of myself. All right,
Chris, what's up? Hey, Hey, Casey, Hey. I
appreciate that you're getting all excited for the Masters next week, right, but
it's probably not gonna happen because of the eclipse and when the polls flip.
It's it's going to freeze everything. And I got you don't play I mean
they play it. You can play a practice round on Monday, but the
tournaments, you know, Thursday, sir, so well there everything will be
dead. But anyway, you're overlooking a bigger event, arguably a bigger event
in WrestleMania forty this weekend in Philadelphia. I mean it's a big event,
don't get me wrong, and all that. The Masters, bro, come
on, I can't know after what they did, What's who's the Chelsea Green.
I'm not up on all my female wrestlers. Admittedly, sir, after
what happened to Chelsea Green, I don't know if they're gonna be able to
do it. And for those of you who don't, i'll tell you in
a second. All right, Well, look, I'm glad you're excited about
that, sir. And I'm sure Ross will have you know, probably incorporate
some of his stupid walk on music in the library that he missed labels so
I can't find it and delete it, and then we'll get to the Masters.
Okay, all right, yeah, I will, especially if I find
those beds. Are they the ones labeled not ww E? Beds. Others
are not all right because it says not there. I won't even check that.
Yeah, I was reading this story, this is won't you do here?
So on Monday, of course you had Monday Night Raw which where were
they at the Barclay Center, so in New York. And one of the
matches was Chelsea Green, who wrestled Natalia. Again I'm not sorry, I'm
just not up on this enough to but she's described as pretty good and it
was a big match, and now she's headed into WrestleMania. So the problem
was she does that and then they had them, They had them all up
at one of the I think of the Fairmont, which is a nice hotel.
That's where they had the wrestlers. So after the rest after the event,
she heads back. Yeah which fair Oh was the Plausa Okay, so
yeah it was the Plaza. I didn't know which of the Fairmonts. Yeah,
well so the Plaza hotels pretty nice. The problem happened as she returned
from the event, and I guess she went into the lounge area, at
which point Green says, hotel staff immediately descended upon her, and at first
she couldn't figure out what was going on. But eventually, as they informed
her that she was going to have to leave the premises, she started protesting.
While I'm staying here, and she says that staff did not believe her,
and eventually one of them commented that she could not work the bar,
and she realized they thought she was a prostitute. That's like going up and
asking a woman with a little bit of a belly when she's due. That's
not gonna end well for you. So yes, the staff of the plaza
thought because of the way I and I don't know exactly how she was dressed.
I did look at a couple photos. I mean, she's in an
visual entertainment medium. She shows off the goods, you catch them a drift.
But also, how do you just roll up on and immediately assume that's
a prostitute without doing anything to determine based on how badly this could go for
you? But apparently that's what happens. Eventually, she says she was able
to explain to him, hey, no, no, no, I'm not
a hooker. I'm a wrestler. Now to say, I will say this,
though, the sheer volume of female wrestlers who are putting out pretty consistent
porn movies. This is I guess you had a few of those over the
last a few years. I don't know. Maybe somebody got confused with something
they're watching, but that's that's that. I've not seen a response from the
from the PLAUSEA on this. I don't know. Can you stay there at
that point? Again? Maybe if you give you a fat like the Donald
Trump upgrade. Man. Yeah, she said, one night you're you're wrestling
at Barcley Center, having the time of your life, and then later you're
kicked out of the the plaza and accused of being an escort because of your
outfit. Yeah, you gotta check. The other thing is too. I
have to assume that the staff at the hotel knew that it was chock full
of wrestlers, Like they knew there was gonna be some interesting characters in there.
They just had to because again, it's not like it was just one
room booked. It was basically where they put everybody. So there's your lesson
for the day. Don't assume somebody's pregnant or a hooker. Steven Kent joins
us, as per usual, how are you doing this morning, Stephen?
Very good, casey, nice to be with you. I'm gonna start with
a softball Laura Croft over the Mario brothers. Are you frigging kidding me?
For those of you who don't know, because I didn't tease this story yesterday
or no two days ago at the baft does I understand you're dealing with a
British audience. The BAFTA Game Awards voted Laura Croft the most iconic video game
character ever, beating out obviously Mario Sonic One. So what's up with that?
Because that's dumb? That's interesting. Yeah, I wonder if they surveyed
four thousand gamers worldwide, this was like a gamer poll that went out online
around the world. Laura Croft comes out on top. To me, that
seems like a very simple matter of maybe generational cha. Look, I get
that Mario is classic, but Mario is not as popular as it once was.
There's a lot of competition in the video game world these days, and
for people like myself who grew up in the nineties, yeah, Ura Crop
tomb Raider was actually a huge part of the video game experience, right next
to like Crash Bandicoot and Zelda. But I am a little surprised. I
think this might be just a result of girls being more involved in gaming than
they used to be. That's my that's my hot take. Maybe. Yeah,
you know, here's the thing though, and I could go, I
think that that is probably I could get eighty five percent of the way there
where you're at. But you had there not been a resurgence of Mario for
you know, each generation has had a Mario resurgence, you know, whether
it's Mario you know, flying with a raccoon tail or Mario driving you know
in a racing iteration like Mario's done okay for mult for decades, right,
always something new. So that's that's yeah. I mean that that ip,
that ip marches on and they're keeping it fresh. The Mario movie was actually
a huge hit and was considered to be incredibly funny. Laura Croft that ip
that's been a sleep for a long long time. Angelina Jolie, I guess
as the as the lead actress in the movies. Nobody talks about that anymore.
Well, no, the one chick took over the alex Alicia of Aconder
Alisha of Aconder in twenty eighteen. Yeah, but I don't know, I
wouldn't call that particularly like a hit. Or a real revival of Laura Croft.
I'm surprised as you are. Yeah, by the way, for that
actress. I think her best performance was it so but that's better know that
one you never seen ex Machiana. You've never seen that movie O x O
x Machina. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that's her. I
think that's her break co performance. But actually, so you said you said
Mario should have won. Who would be kind of your your number one pick
as well? Like if you took Mario off, who's your who's your runner
up as the most most iconic? Uh? Yeah, and it's not it's
not the Mario franchise because Mario. To me, that's just a super easy
answer, right you know. Yeah, honestly, here you want me to
give you, like the the the Deep Thinker News panel one right where I'm
just in the pot John Madden, Yeah, you are stirring the pot?
Now? How is that not an acceptable answer? You know, sports games
are incredibly popular, right, and so that's that's not only a name,
that's a figure of people vastly appreciate and understand. You know, pac Man
came in it a number to THI Yeah, pac Man, that's another good
thing or master Chief is fine. They got the new have you seen the
new series? Rot I until everything's out before I binge it. Ross has
been very complimentary on the the Halo and I've never I was never into the
games, but apparently the new TV series he's given that two thumbs up.
Well, to be fair, I've never played the games either, so I'm
watching it from the clear clean slate there. But people that are fans of
the game are not fan of the series. Oh well, all right,
I like the book people, So yeah, this is this is kind of
where I think the when people ask you what's your favorite movie, casey,
or they ask you what is the greatest movie of all time? Those are
two very different questions. You know, you can like garbage movies and actually
it's considered them to be one of your favorites, like right, yeah,
right, and it's not. It's not a piece of cinema necessarily. But
this is the problem with this question. You know, the most iconic video
game character was the question, and so you get characters like Arthur Morgan from
Red Dead Redemption place now umber eleven in this poll. Arthur Morgan is an
incredible character. Red Dead Redemption is a really great games sort of like the
you're mispronouncing his name Arthur Morgan, No Ross, how do you pronounce the
guy the protagonist from Red Dead Redemption? It's dig Bickham's right, So,
like you think that's a good point that, yeah, you know, Arthur,
that's prestige gaming. That's like really hoiity toydy a MC breaking bad level
television. But for gaming, he is not iconic. He's just a really
great character. Crash Bandicoot and Solid Snake are iconic. They're like coke and
PEPSI uh and so I again, I'm a little surprised that Laura Croft topped
it, but that's fine. She was a cool It's a good game,
okay, all right, Well look and look they're gonna get as much out
of any I P as they can. We've seen Hollywood's uh I would say
ability to do that, but want to do that? And aren't they like
they're reinventing Loura Like they're going back at it right because where they're debating over
whether her body type needs to change, because of course these are the annoying
debates that we have. But they're not done. I think they're working on
something right. Oh, I'm sure they are, And definitely, if there's
some sort of Laura Croft revival within the fandom going on there, they'll definitely
make a game, and they will also probably have her wear a hoodie and
sweatpants. I think that when they release the game, we need to have
photos of any of the female devs and then we'll figure out who just made
themselves, because that's the trend that I tend to notice there. So uh,
all right, let's see here they slip back. Sorry, realize I
closed the other story. I was going to go to damn it. Okay,
there we go, all right, so let's talk. Let's talk Disney
just a little bit. I know we have an updated fully what's going on
down there for a while, But it's more than It's more than just you
know, debating over Disney having special privileges or land use or any of the
rest. You know. Disney is also and I didn't realize it. I
didn't realize the amount of the park that they were essentially shutting down. Now,
the failure that the Star Wars thing has been, and how they've given
up on seemingly all the properties, and then the question becomes, well,
where do they go now, And how does Disney continue to appeal to this
next generation, and how do they do it in spite of the popularity of
anime, which I admittedly is something I and Ross are not. I don't
know much about. I thought it was called hentai for a while. I've
been corrected. I'm just not into it. That's another thing about it.
It's all the same, the same. Yeah, this tentacles and weirdly drawn
eyes. Right. So, but I can't deny you can't deny the reality
that anime, especially among the lat the two youngest generations, is seemingly much
more expansive, uh, you know, within them. But that's not Disney's
forte. So let's let's get into that. How do you adapt and overcome
when Star Wars couldn't money? Just man, So there's a lot there.
We'll start real quick with just Disney World and Star Wars Galaxy's Edge. That
park has not performed like Disney hoped it would. Uh, they are at
least shrinking development and expansion of that park. I don't anticipate it being closed
down. Yes, the hotel is dead. The hotel is dead. Massive
advancement. I don't expect Galaxy's Edge to go anywhere. But this is kind
of a great example of where Disney has mismanaged that intellectual property, the fact
that Galaxy's Edge, the Disneyland Star Wars park is based in the pretty unpopular
sequel trilogy after Return of the Jedi in the timeline, and when you go
to that park you encounter Rey BB eight, Kylo Ren and all of these
new characters instead of Star Wars that p belove, which would be the Empire
era, you know, Darth Vader, Princess Leah Luke, Skywalker. It's
actually an incredible failure in their thinking on that park, and the best thing
they could do to save it would be to actually just what you would say
is reskim the park, you know, different characters and just move the park
into a different part of the timeline. But that is not going to save
the core fundamentals of Disney, which is that a lot of their IP is
considered to be pretty stodgy. With young consumers today who love anime more than
anything, we are way beyond the world of princesses and fairy tales that Disney
has thrived in for so long, and young people by and large like Japanese
imported anime programming, and we can kind of go into the specifics of what
that is and is not. But you know, even compared to the super
Bowl, the super Bowl has nothing on Netflix's average watch viewership with gen Z
subscribers for their anime program and yeah, yeah, just the amount of titles
that they have on there. And I've seen let's talk a little about what
it is, you know, to see it as a Japanese kind of graphic
novel comic book, I guess, and you can come if you think that
that's not a fair definition. But what it is or what it isn't And
I've seen a lot of people argue, this is it. It hasn't been
tainted. It hasn't been tainted. And when I say tainted, I mean
properties that have been you know, redone to modern audiences every time they've tried
to redo. And I'll give you the probably the biggest example on Netflix was
what Cowboy Bebop? Right, which was an immensely popular anime, and the
way that they decided to kick it off is they the the woman I can't
remember the actress's name, she filmed a video berating male viewers and over the
fact that her she didn't dress like the character. It was obviously like in
many anime, it's a character that has exaggerated features, especially female features,
tight clothing. Uh, It's it was known, but you could tell that
they made an effort to not just attempt to as closely as possible follow it,
but to outright reject it and then make one of these dumb videos like
this, like the Snow White Chick, where you're on camera going, you're
all stupid, you are your a bunch of pervs. This is what we're
gonna do. And that thing failed miserably. So every time they've tried to
screw with the product, people have rebelled. I know that there are some
that are upset. They're saying that the translations are having woke stuff put in
there, But ultimately consumers want purity of product there. And if you're Disney
and you monkey with everything, how the hell do you do that? And
and Disney is way down the rabbit hole with monkeying with a lot of different
classic ip whereas anime that's being imported from a bra is more reflective of Eastern
values, Japanese traditions and sensibilities. Now you do have some instances, I
forget what the word is called, but when Western developers and managers are tinkering
with the dialogue to adapt to sort of Western sensibilities. But by and large,
anime has been inoculated from the culture wars that we're experiencing in the United
States and the Western world more broadly, and people love it. Gen Z
watch anime more than any other property, and that's why you had Netflix do
this adaptation of that graphic novel one Piece, and One Piece has been incredibly
successful on Netflix. It's very true to the anime tradition, and that's why
you also have a resurgence of anime even in other parts of the world.
Saudi Arabia, of all places, is building a Dragon ball Z theme park,
the world's first. It's it's incredible. Currently building everything right now.
Everything's in Saudi Arabia. Cracks the new race track, they're building a whole
city. They're like, uh, you know, they want an additional you
know, they're working with Turkey to cut an additional Cora Canal, right,
Like, I mean, I believe it. I just got back from Dubai
Casey and Dubai was just kind of one of the most opulent. It's strange.
Fa Yeah, it's I mean, it's kind of like going like through
the most newly developed communities in Miami and then dropping them into the desert and
going like this feels like I'm in some sort of fake city. But look,
I think it's pretty cool. Dragon Ball Z is the most popular anime
product in the United States, and Saudi Arabia is going to have the claim
to the first theme park. This is what my generation grew up watching on
Cartoon Network in a series called Tsunami. If you came home home from school
at the middle of the afternoon, around four pm, you got off the
school bus, you went into the house, and you watched Dragon ball Z
first thing when you got home from school, and that popularity has only continued
to grow since my generation entered the real world. Now, that's so,
that's straight. Now, hold you, Stephen, this so we're thirty five,
Okay, so you're you're you're you know, but you're not even ten
years younger than me. I know nothing about Dragon ball Z. And it
shows you how quickly this changes. Right, That's why Ross and I contend
like we're basically the same age. So like there's a lot of overlap on
what we watch. So this is why I bring this up, because anime
is is so staunch in not comporting to the the woke stuff and gen Z
can't get enough of it. What does that say about gen Z? Some
would say that that says something good, like maybe they're sick of this stuff
too. From what I have seen, I can't pull up any specific research
for you right now, but what I have seen is that they are pretty
exhausted with millennial pearl clutching over political correctness and free speech issues. Gen Z
does have some very weird left wing quirks gender politics among them, but when
it comes to free speech expression and political correctness, as gen X would also
appreciate as a terminology because that's kind of where this's all started, they're pretty
tired of it all and there is a little bit of a less puritanical attitude
about those things with gen Z and jen Alpha beneath them, and anime appeals
to those things. It's both very macho and hyper feminine. It's also very
violent, and it's just a cool graphic style that you don't see in the
Western world very much. My favorite Star Wars product of the past couple of
years was Star Wars, anime product that they've put out on Disney LUs called
Star Wars Visions where they had Japanese storytellers do original, non cannon Star Wars
short stories as as like short films, and it was incredible. And that
was them baiting the anime crowd just a little bit with Star Wars because Star
Wars is a little bit more of a stodgy old ip that has not thrived
the way that they thought it would. The Stevin Kent, I appreciate it
this morning, and we will. We'll touch base here next week and be
prepared to talk about the Masters, which kicks off Thursday. So and you
be prepared to talk about the next season of Dragon ball Z. Deal right,
Yeah, you can tell me whatever it's could be and I'll believe you
and I will never know. So all right, appreciate appreciate it this morning.
I have a go one man see you all right. Yeah, I'm
gonna do my Dragon ball Z research. It'll be a big part of my
weekend. Anyway. Well, we're going to take a break and we'll be
back. Hang on. I am so I don't need audio or anything,
but I do want you to watch it because I'm pumped. We're just sitting
here with Steven Kent. Obviously we're getting into Hollywood stuff and movies and and
man, every time you think throwing the towel, they're done. What a
shame entertainment mediums going by the wayside over politics and just you know, killing
killing everything. I love. They they redeem themselves. So and I just
I just tweeted this out at Casey on at Casey on the radio. You
want to go watch it. So there's a new movie coming out called Bambi
The Reckoning and it's a horror. It's a revenge horror flick by Bambi.
Now in the trailer, uh, there's two dudes in the woods and they
have like a they have like a duck tied to a tree or something.
It's really weird and they're shooting at it. But you know, obviously it's
to show that they're maniacal. They're horrible, they're mean. And one of
the guys as the other dude, who's like, you, man, you
ever shot a deer? And then there's this real foreboding music and the guy's
like yeah, once, all right, and we all know what's deer obviously
this guy's referring to and they look like a couple near dwells and then all
of a sudden it cuts to the biggest, baddest, most rampaging deer you've
ever seen a right, So, and this is from the same folks who
basically their entire movie strategy is to wait for ips to fall by the wayside.
And as you know, a bunch did with Disney, and then you
saw with what was it, oh, Winnie the Pooh, right winning the
Poop, Blood and Honey. This is the same outfit. In fact,
the movie is part of a larger effort, a series of movies which I
kids, this is the actual name for them. It is Bambi. The
Reckoning is the second installment in the Poonaverse. So just you know, like
the Marvel Universe, theres is the Pooniverse because they kicked it off with the
slasher Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey, and now it's Bamby the Reckoning
and I'm here for it, man. Yeah throw that in there. I
know, Cocaine Bear is its own thing, but they're they're starting their own.
But yeah, yeah, I'll watch Bamby the Reconing. Hell yeah,
And you know what for what is probably not a big budget the the CGI
with the deer in the trailer. It looks pretty good, so yeah,
sign me up. I oh wait. I do have to warn you though,
and I cannot stress this enough. Do not google Poonaverse movies and blindly
click you catch it when I'm putting down, because it's not the first series
of movies that were ref referred to as the Pooniverse series, or search it
on your coworkers computer, so you know, probably go with Bamby the Reckoning
and then Pooniverse, but not Pooniverse by itself, because holy crap, this
is this is the reality in which we live. Yeah, I'll give that
a watch. Absolutely. Hey check this out. Oh the meltdown is fantastic.
All right. So Jamal Bowman, you know him as Captain fire Alarm
or excuse me, a guy just trying to go through the door. Of
course, the accountability there was next to nothing from a legal perspective. However,
it may not be the same not in Westchester County, so that's where
Bowman's district is. The district is southern Westchester north northeast Bronx. It is
a decidedly blue district. So what's happening. Well, even the people in
his own district think he's looney tunes. How do I know? A new
poll shows that the sitting congressman is losing to Democratic primary challenger who's a Westchester
I guess County County executive, Yeah, George Latimer, so also a Democrat,
seemingly from what I've seen, not quite at Jamal Bowman level of insane.
And in the poll, by the way, the primary is on the
sixteenth, so we're not far away the New York primary. Currently Latimer leads
Bowman fifty two to thirty five, so he's probably out Man. And what's
rich as I'm seeing people claiming that the reason that Bowman's getting purged is not
because he's insane, not because he pulled that fire alarm and then lied about
it and there was really no accountability. Nobody his constituents noticed, and they're
done with this dude. And of course, obviously it's because they're racist,
because, as you know, the Bronx in New York, they are not
a fan of black people. I don't know if you're familiar with the Ross
you're from the state of New York, but you're you're familiar with New York
City, the Bronx, Right, obviously, it's a mecca of evil,
racist, it's a mega country. It is mad. You know, that's
a that's a perfect comparison. Yeah, if you're that's a good point.
If you're if you're Juicy Smolet, you justly would not go to the Bronx.
Man. Yeah, that's what. That's why I run Yankee Stadium.
Red hats are so popular. Oh is it? I didn't know, So
next time I'm in New York, I should get a red hat and go
over to the the Yankee Stadium. Oh yeah, oh good, high fives.
Huh? All right, because it's weird because I just see their hands
in their pockets. I don't know what's going on. So maybe I got
to run up on him, all right. So yeah, he's probably gonna
lose his He's gonna and then Latimer would obviously probably win. I think the
district's like seventy six percent Democrat or something. So interesting. Interesting little follow
up there, and this real quick. Seattle Public Schools say they will shut
down their Gifted and Talented program. Why equity baby, that's right. The
school board has voted to scrap their cap. What they call a highly capable
cohort program, what a stupid name. After let's see, they did that
in twenty twenty. They knocked that down and then the schools said, no,
this is dumb. How do we not have this program? So they
started it again on a more traditional lean. However, they said that they
did not fix the problem by reinitiating the program, as the majority of the
vast majority of students who found themselves who tested in to the program were white
or Asian, and by revamping the program over the last four years, they
have not seen any substantial growth in the percentage of students who were black or
Hispanic, and therefore it fails the district's equity concerns. So they're just going
to shut it down. So it's done. Though, So if you're a
parent there and your kid was in that, then no, yeah, you
can't have people excelling. Man wouldn't want that, all right? Eight forty
four raced Agic stand why, oh man, everything is dumb. But then
you have a new movie coming out. You're ready, It's called Bambi the
Reckoning. Oh yeah, and Bambi is not pleased with all that, you
know what now with his mom so well, I love, I love.
There's a couple companies that are looking at all these ips, like Whitney the
Pooh is the one remember the Blood and Honey they did last year. It's
the same company, and they're they are just they're just waiting for IPS to
and then they just make him murder things. And uh, this is the
layer and it's and it's called the it's the Pooniverse of movies who started with
Winning the Pooh and then the next Bambi, and they get a bunch of
others. But do google Pooniverse movies on its own and click. Okay,
I'm just warning, right, I won't do that or do it on al
Rogers computer or something, right, Yeah, probably all right, So what's
up? Yeah? Yeah, I think improving pre SIPs just about done with.
But there's an upper level low. And if you didn't know what that
was, just a minute of meteorology one on one up upper level low was
a cold pocket of air, not even I'll give you ten seconds. The
cold pocket of air upstairs in the atmosphere, and as it spins around very
slowly, kind of rotates in these disturbances. And that's why the clouds are
increasing. That's why we see passing shower for today, and the chili temperatures
with this northwest breeze upper fifties. You might at sixty, especially where you
had some early sunshine in the triangle in points east tonight some clouds mid thirties
to the west, maybe some low thirties. And actually the winter weather advisories
in Avery County and up into Boone and some of those places where they may
get a couple inches of snow instead of rain. And then Friday we'll see
some clouds coming again after morning sunshine, mid upper fifties, and then Saturday
and Sunday closer to or above sixty degrees. I think Sunday we finally get
above sixty with some frost in the morning hours though, so I'm not gonna
say cold weekend, but for this time of year, a little on the
chili side for the morning hours. I do think as we get in a
Monday and Tuesday, we will see temperatures back into the seventies. I think
that's pretty close to average. I think near seventies the average high. With
the Chanta showers coming back here on Wednesday, So grabs heavy your jackets.
You're gonna need them. A couple of chili days coming up, and even
with the sun out on Saturday and temperatures close to sixty gonna be breezy too,
So that don't feel a little bit risk. But for the good the
good news is for the weekend, we don't have any rain to worry about,
but as a cloud to deal with for the eclipse on Monday, partial
sunshine, So we'll see how that all works out. I know we only
see a small percentage of it, but still may be able to see something.
Did you see the Airbnb map that they put out. I did not,
and it's it's a map of sold out airbnbs and it is it is
the line. It is the line the US dude, these communities that are
undering from a traffic per sue, it's it's going to be bad, if
that's any indicator. So yeah, if you've been to somebody these places,
like if I've been like Upstate New York where I go snowmobiling, like Old
Forge is one of the spot's gonna get one hundred percent eclips. Yeah,
but you know he's getting You know, the prisoners up there are having a
problem because they can't like they can't two to five is normal yard time,
but they don't have proper lighting, so they're putting the prisoners on lockdown.
So a group of prisoners has suits saying that they have a religious right to
watch the eclipse. Oh good, lollough, all right, man, appreciate
it having there. You go raced agic. And by the way, I
know what you're thinking. Oh, it must be the guys who think they're
warlocks or whatever. No, no, no, I'll share that with you.
We'll chat with Jeff Bellinger next. Good boarding. Casey stocks were mixed
at the end of a yesterday session, had the Dow down a little bit,
but the Nasdaq and deescentp posts of small games. Remarks by Federal Reserve
Chair Jerome Powell helped to ease some concerns over high interest rates. Powell said
the Central Bank still expects inflation to decline this year to a level that will
allow for interest rate cuts, but he also reiterated the Fed does not have
to be in a rush to do that now. There was a bigger than
expected jump last week and the number of workers signing up from employment benefits this
report just in the Labor Department counted two hundred and twenty one thousand new applications.
That was nine thousand more than the prior week. Stock market futures improved
quite a bit after that report came out. Right now, the Dow futures
are up one hundred eight points. A lot of homeowners across the country were
no doubt shocked when they saw their property tax bills last year. At Them
reports that taxes registered the biggest jump in five years. The amount governments collected
was up nearly seven percent. The average tax bill nationwide now tops four thousand
dollars. Apple wanted to bring an electric car to market. That effort failed,
but the company is still looking to introduce new products. Apple teams are
looking into whether personal robotics might become the next big thing. So to say.
Engineers have been considering a mobile robot and a tabletop device that uses robotics
to move a display. Artificial intelligence engineers working for Tesla seeing bigger paychecks.
Elon Musk says Tesla has been hiking the pay in its AI division to encourage
key people to stay. Musk charges that Open Ai has been aggressively trying to
attract Tesla engineers, and massive compensation offers have convinced a few to jump ship
and like this story. Casey Planters has three job openings. Company famous for
its peanuts and other nut products, now looking for people to drive it's twenty
six foot long nutmobile this summer. The vehicle looks like a giant peanut.
It will be appearing in parades and showing up at events all across the country.
Casey, It's called the Nutmobile, the Nutmobile. Yeah the record just
see dreg Rice with this and the Yasker Meyer Wiener Mobile. Yeah. Well,
I'm just like, so it goes around as parades, maybe maybe driving,
you know, just visibility within the community and stuff. Maybe giving people
rides. I don't know, if there's some woman walking or whatever. I
don't know. I mean, what all do you do with the Nutmobile?
So both just a purit events, just be there, I guess, mister
peanut, I guess will be a present as well. So all right,
all right, well appreciate it. Okay, every day it's something new.
Thanks appreciating. Yeah, I mean, because it's not every day is not
a parade. But yeah, you could probably just non parade days drive around
in the Nutmobile. Maybe, you know, maybe you're driving down a road
in Florida or whatever. You see some would be nut consumers, you know,
walking down the street, Maybe see if they need a ride, maybe
a couple of co eds or whatever, just saying got options, or maybe
I'm misunderstanding what the thing was there AnyWho not misunderstanding this A lawsuit against the
State of New York's Corrections Department filed after it was announced a total lockdown at
several of New York's facilities, including Woodborne Correctional also the one where the dudes,
those two dudes escaped, and one of the other more famous ones anyway,
so it spread over three facilities. The concern on the part of New
York direction facility officials is that the event is taking place what is normally a
time where they're out on yard. However, the yard is not in a
position where it can be used at night. They do not, you know,
they don't let them out there in the dark, at least in the
full expansive park and obviously not usually a problem between two and five in the
afternoon, which is yard time. However, if you're in this line of
near total darkness or damn near it, then they don't want them out on
yard immediately six different inmates, shockingly of a variety of religious backgrounds or non
backgrounds. As you'll hear, all have professed a deeply held religious belief that
they should be able to watch the solar eclipse and they have to witness this
as part of their faith. This includes a one Muslim prison or a Baptist
prisoner, a Seventh Day at ventist, two practicers of Santoria, and an
atheist. And now they're tripping all over themselves. So what do you do
here? Probably gonna let them watch it. I just I don't know how
they're gonna do it. But what a Yeah, they got a lot of
time, get a lot of lawsuits. But is it a deeply hell religious
belief? I guess maybe if you think it's the rapture, which obviously you
know, among a bunch of murders and rapists at the max security prison up
here, I don't know too many of them are gonna have to worry about,
you know, a rapture or I don't know, maybe they turn their
life around, I guess, But yeah, what an interesting lawsuit there