I had to start my morning with a bummer, so I might do that
to you. Nothing personal, but oh my gosh, so I you know,
alarm goes off this morning, I swear into the ether and then you
know, get up, start first thing I do, Man, grab that
iPad bone whatever? Just what happened overnight? And Lord knows what everything going
on right now? Something may have happened overnight. What other late breaking stories
from the news cycle? After when I sent ross, prep is going on?
And I'm greeted with this. Okay some of you, some of you
may not have seen this, so we'll make a game out of it.
Okay, here's the headline from w r a L News. And by the
way, this is an on wr L. They right, this is this
is a pretty straightforward story, quoting identified people and their takes. The headline
reads, quote it was not a good look. UNC committee discusses Interim Chancellor's
actions during pro Palestinian protests. Okay, for a moment, because remember we
were riding high baby, for a moment, I'm like, huh, you
mean the totality of everything right is not a good because I would agree with
that right regardless, regardless of the frat insanity that we'll discuss and the national
spotlight that's been shown on here. You would almost prefer not You don't want
to be one of the You don't want to be one of the campuses where
lawlessness not only is occurring, but is embraced. And as we pointed out,
that was good. So if the committee met to talk about it,
what do you think was not a good look? What Ross I was to
tell you that what happened on the UNC Chapel Hill campus quote some of it
was not a good look. What would you think, in your mind as
a rational person, was not a good look? Just okay, all right?
So Ross is gonna go with the Palestinine flag going up, That's probably
not a good look. Did you see the video of the protesters throwing their
drinks on that black police officer? Some would say in the state of North
Carolina, when you have white college students throwing food and beverage on black North
Carolinians, it has a certain familiarity. I would say that's not a good
look because if you asked, like because obviously you know what I'm referencing,
and I think that if you asked every student on every camp every person for
that matter, Hey, remember that woolwurst thing. Knowing what you know today,
where what side of that would you be on. I don't think there's
a There's probably one or two, but I think that overwhelmingly everyone would reflexively
say I'm not on the people covering the students and ketchup and spinning on them
camp right, every and I think every single one of those those protesters would
say that, because you are if you're doing that, So I would say
that's not a good look, all right, So uh, ross's flag.
I'm gonna go with the woolworst part two. But you would be wrong this,
by the way, this committee is the faculty advisory committee, all right.
So these are the very folks shaping the young minds that make their way
over to Chapel Hill, and this is the committee that gives voice to their
collective feelings. That's not the part they had a problem with, all right.
So I'm gonna read this verbatim. The already ten situation at UNC escalated
Tuesday after the American flag was lowered and replaced with a Palestinian flag. Dozens
of officers intervene to restore order. Members of the faculty committee, I think
technically it's the Faculty Executive Committee, but it's a faculty's advisory committee to leadership.
Members of the committee want interim Chancellor Lee Roberts to come to the table
to explain his decision making. Quote. All we heard was that he was
forced to deploy law enforcement, said chu Chi Mohanti, one of the committee
members. What was it that pushed the chancellor to make that decision. After
protesters were clared, Roberts marched through the campus before saying that the American flag
will stand here as long as I'm chancellor. Now, I'm going to go
back to quote a committee member, quote, I think a lot of people
want to know if he believes that this is a violation of some UNC policy
by students, faculty, or anything, then they should bring that to the
table so he can say this is why I did it. Some committee members
were concerned about the optics of roberts march through campus after officers cleared out protesters.
Member Anthony Charles. He is Charles, by the way, is a
He's a doctor, medical doctor. He teaches surgery. I believe he teaches
the UNC School of Health, but or medical school, excuse me, And
yeah, so there we go surgical teaches surgery, so and I point that
out because used to be that's once you got away from the humanities, you
also got away from this nonsense. In a lot of instances, you get
into some of the business schools, medical things like that, things that are
a much more finite science. But no, Charles went on to say,
it was not a good look for the interim chancellor to be standing on the
steps of the building with armed guards next to him. It made the situation
a lot worse. Remember I told you they don't like this dude, right,
The folks on the left student activist groups have faculty for that matter,
Basically, anyone who is not a foeman at the mouth the moon bat.
They just can't see in that position or at the very least, remember remember
you had, you know, the treatment that was bestowed upon who arguably was
somebody ideologically aligned with you know, previous leadership over there. But this guy
had the audacity to strongly be suspected to be a Republican and they were already
launching a campaign. He can't There's no way this is this needs to be
the dude in charge. This is the escalation of that. This is the
committee, in my opinion, seizing upon this to very shamefully misconstrue what was
going on. And these are supposed to be learned individuals and using it once
again as a weapon against somebody that they do not feel should be there.
And there is a lot of resentment of the you know, some of those
appointed to the board, obviously this interim chancellor, and basically any sort of
what they see is meddling by Republicans in this state school. So yeah,
of course they see a problem with this. I have a question for this
committee because I'm not going to read the totality of what was said. Yeah,
here we go. I will read this one quote. Let me find
Claudia Yahubi, who is one of the committee members, said quote, what
we need to do is try to identify shared values on how to move forward
and acknowledge that they may have different values on protests and the use of law
enforcement. All right, so I'm refrain you're referring to the chancellor here,
but let me approach it from the totality of it. I don't think,
I don't think that there is inherently differing values unless you will go on the
record as to say, lawless behavior that is intimidating to other students is part
of your values? Uh? Yeah? Shared or concern that students associated with
the protests will face retaliation. Sjared that some students suffered concussions after police moved
in. I have not seen that. I saw some people flopping like it's
Lebron in the playoffs, and I did see some who refuse to move there,
But I didn't even see any aggressive entanglement. The most aggressive things that
I saw going on there they did use was it pepper spray along those lines.
I don't know what was deployed. Something was deployed. Here we go.
Protecting our students is our first job, and for faculty in administration,
no matter where they stand politically, I don't believe you. I think that
protecting students a very specific set of students you see as your first job.
Because the vast and by the way, what happened to the protesters screaming for
intafada are interlopers? What happened to that? Now everyone's a student, Okay.
The vast majority of students at UNC did not take part in this,
and I'm even accounting for the ones who came in and held the flag as
quote taking part in it, but the vast majority didn't. They're just sitting
there. You know. They may even agree, but they didn't take part
because they realized that this is a situation that from the very start looked like
it was going to violate rules. They used like a one percent slice of
their brain to arrive at the only logical conclusion that this particular set of protests,
which ran the gamut from tearing a flag down to attempting to store in
the administrative hall to assaulting police officers, wasn't going to be a good look
for their future. And then the rest of the students, like that caller
we had yesterday whose daughter goes there and is calling her dad, not for
money, right, not for normal college kids stuff, but because she's like,
how do I fight the Commi's dad? Because she found herself in that
area where the flag was coming down and felt fear. And it's easy to
say, well, don't go over there. But it's about setting a standard
for what is permissible and not permissible, and it's in black and white.
So if you care so deeply for the students, what about all the other
students who are sitting there staring at finals trying to go about their business.
They don't need this distraction. There was a video going around yesterday that I
got misconstrued from Columbia. I don't know if you saw it. There's a
bunch of students standing there with their phones filming, and then outside you see
a line of police officers. And I saw that going around where they were
saying because one of the girls makes a comment, let me get out of
here. It's finals something along those lines, and people are like, look
at the protesters saying this. That was not the protesters. That was a
you'll notice none of them are wearing the face masks. I shouldn't say none
of them. I think one or two of them are, but they're not.
They're not in the gear. Those are Those are students of Colombia in
a residence hall who are in the you know, the the main area out
front, looking out their window and staring at the backs of police lines.
And it's because the police had established a no go area, right, so
if you're at that protest, you're not going to come over here unless you
have a valid student ID card to be able to get into this dormitory.
So that was not a protester showing irony to the tenth power that, in
fact was a student, Who's going, I do we have finals? What
are we doing? I gotta get out of here. So where is the
commitment on the campus of UNC to those students? And if it was a
bunch of here's what I would ask the committee. If you had a bunch
of students, go to that flag pole, tear down the American flag and
put up the Gadston flag. All right, little that comentate or or you
know, a little, a little you know, don't tread on me action,
or who the hell knows, just a just a gop flag. I
promised that this committee might have different conclusions if it was done so in the
in the same manner that this was done. So, yeah, I had
hope. Yesterday I told you how great it was to see adults adulting in
what happened there. And I still believe that by getting a handle on this
to the extent that you can. Sure there may be people radicals who want
to escalate it. You should see what's going on at UCLA. I'll give
you an update there. But ultimately it draws a line in the sand that
says, this is the behavior that won't be tolerated. And arguably that's the
job of every adult within an organization. I mean, people will want to
act like adults right that are in a leadership position. And if you are
an instructor, I don't care if you're on this committee or not. You're
in a leadership position. You have authority and setting those guidelines for what he
is or is not permissible is not outside the bounds of how we do things.
And yes, you can still offer a wide berth within an academic setting,
there has to be certain standards. So yeah, that's the part that
they think is a bad look. These are highly educated people. These are
folks who have the ability to fail or pass your kid. That's terrifying and
that is the real cancer here. All right, we'll be back Kcoday Radio
program. Yes, so college insanity that obviously will continue to be featured here
on the show. I'm blown away. I shouldn't say that. Initially I
was, and I think it's just because my head was in the wrong place,
right, I just I came up for a little happy air for a
half second on the whole UNC thing. I was really enjoying watching it Will
fund Me yesterday. I'm just so sad. I didn't see it till the
end of the show, but yeah, all came cra I should back down
to earth when I had to read that. The Faculty Advisory Committee thinks that
it wasn't a good look to I don't know, restore order to the campus
because it's one it's the ideological part of it, but it's also the Heckler's
veto thing right where they're like, oh, you've done it now now these
people who were breaking the law are going to break the law more and it's
all your fault. I don't think they needed that. I don't know if
you've noticed on the various campuses that there's escalation of things, right, and
on other campuses they have not escalated at the same rate and in some cases
ceased. Florida largely in Florida, you're just not seeing this. You see
little squirts of it during the day and all of that. And by the
way, that's perfectly legal. You want to go do that instead of going
to CALC, then you're within your rights to do it. But there's things
you can't do. And in Florida they're just saying, look, this is
the line. If you cross it. Here's the consequences. You know,
how life is supposed to work. So that approach seems far better than what
is devolved on UCLA's campus. I don't know if you know this overnight police,
LAPD officers, or perhaps it was campus police. Anyway, please at
UCLA, they went in because the encampment they were given until six pm last
night, and you got to get your crap out of here, and a
big swath ignored it, and they barricaded themselves with like palettes. And what
happened was you had this incident with a Jewish female student who she got injured.
She got injured while being surrounded in the middle of frantically moving protesters and
ended up literally getting knocked out, and they drag her unconscious body out of
there and they took her to the hospital. I think she's a med student
too. And everyone's like, oh, the only video is here already on
the ground with crap kicked out of her. How do you know they did
it? And I'm like, I don't know, I kind of know.
What were you guys was at a prayer circle? Were you guys were using
your feet? I'm unfamiliar with how that prayer circle works. But okay,
and what happened, Well, a group of students, some of they're being
say that they're all Jewish students. They're clearly not all Jewish students, but
people who were irritated by that, they decided they were going to go uh
melee with the protesters and police didn't inject themselves. One dude got racked in
the face with one of those palettes because he's like, I'm gonna bring him
a shield, and that got taken away from it, and that didn't go
well. But it's a general state of lawlessness. Students or student group or
people affinity you know, outside agitartan whatever you want to call it. They
shouldn't be literally having a what's the what's the why? Kind of never remember
this term battle royale I just think of the video game in a way.
Anyway, they should not be having a battle royale in the middle of campus.
Okay, So police gave until six last night, and in the middle
of the night they said, all right, we're going to do this,
and they moved in and the protesters won. They literally fought them off,
and the police retreated and set up a perimeter outside. It's crazy. Meanwhile,
in New York, I'm telling you man. Meanwhile, in New York
you had actions by the NYPD of both Columbia and the City. Cooney or
CuNi or is that what they call it? Was allege the City College of
New York right, Sorry, I've only ever seen it on Law and Order.
But they went in there and Mayor Adams gave a little pressure. And
remember I mentioned escalation and how things escalate. Well, now I hope the
Faculty Committee of UNC sees this. Well. There were two operations tonight.
One was with Keuney and one was with Columbia University. And once I became
aware of the outside agitators who were part of this operation, as Columbia mentioned
in their letter and their requests with the New York City Police Department, it
was clear we had to take appropriate actions of when our intelligence division identified those
who are professionals, well trained, one of them was married to someone that
was arrested for terrorism. We knew these children were being exploited and they were
in danger, and would have been irresponsible not to reply to requests from Columbia
University. And I saw people saying, well, you're not your spouse on
some of this, but when you are a protest consultant. Yes, that's
the thing. By the way, there's a couple of big ones, both
of them women, and one of them was there at Columbia. There was
another video where they had brought in an instructor to train train. I guess
to the extent that you can in hand to hand combat. So you're just
flying a drone over watching that. But when you have the you know,
the term that I like to use a nexus to terrorism, you have to
stop and ask yourself, how is it that people associated with terrorism saw what
was going on and decided that their services were needed. Like this is the
insaneanity of it. You sit there and run around in a HAMAS headband.
The logical conclusion is that a group that is public relations oriented might seize upon
that, and there might be some bad folks considering HAMAS is literally a terrorist
organization. And that's not just me. That's our State Department and the United
Nations specifically part of it. With the UN they slice and dice a little
tighter. But so the logical conclusion, if you're walking around going I love
terrorists, that a terrorist may go, hey, how you doing, and
by the way, not with your best interest in mine with their own is
highly predictable. So yes, maybe at UNC we should not be in a
position where it could get to this. Just my two cents right there,
But hey, what do I know, just just an idiot barking into the
radio that you know can think and literally has watched this, and all these
committee members have watched this. They know what's up, they know what's up,
and they just don't care. By the way, did you see the
food delivery coming into Columbia yesterday? So like remember remember the quote yesterday was
humanitarian supplies. We need humanitarian supplies, and then you see this food delivery
where they're literally pushing all of this stuff through the fence and it's high end
sandwiches and my personal favorite, these German butter cookies that are have been around
for about eighty ninety years, so if you want to do the math on
that when that might have been popular in Germany initially they're really expensive, but
I will say this, I believe there is a whole stick of butter in
each cookie. And you know, when you're talking about your comrades dying of
thirst in a building equipped with water fountains, as somebody put a little photo
gallery, there's water fountains everywhere and are starving to death, and you're eating
a twenty dollars sandwich with a twenty dollars box a small box of cookies.
Some are questioning, really how insane you are? But also very on brand
that you would have legacy German butter cookies. And if you think I'm reading
into this, then you didn't see the list that was floated of the protesters
needs Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're
going to get into that. Also. I didn't even get into this yesterday.
I was gonna hit Mark with it yesterday, but obviously there was some
very serious topics with the lieutenant governor, the college stuff, and obviously the
the officers killed in Charlotte. But I feel like I do have to address
it today. Ross. Are you following the Hulk Hogan seven hundred club insanity?
I knew you would be to use the words of the of the the
faculty there. Do you think some of that might have quote not been a
good look or again no, it's good? Oh okay, all right,
all right, see if you don't know anything about this, here's the teaser
ready ghost voicemail. We'll leave that there We'll get to that and much more
coming up here on the CaCO Day Radio program. Dude, that is going
to be a hellacious party. I can't even imagine. I'm referring to the
what would started as a fifteen thousand dollars rager. I just realized its probably
go check to see if they taking it down yet, because that was my
prediction. If you don't know what it is. A go fund me emerged
yesterday and I didn't see until like twenty minutes after the show. It was
very sad about that, and the go fund me in this case was a
I will read. I don't worry. I'm gonna read the listing because it's
it's pretty funny. But basically it was on behalf of that the photos that
emerged, which I are now iconic. They're everywhere of the students standing around
and they're, you know, holding the weight of this giant American flag that
their cohorts had torn down so they could put the Palestinian flag up. And
a lot of the the guys pictured in that are a are part of a
fraternity, okay, so they you know that that goes viral. That whole
thing, just the whole incident but then also specifically a thread that was written
by one of the students, which wasn't it didn't give me bro all right,
so I have a derogatory term that I'll use not just for college students.
And frankly, this totally probably would have fit me at this age.
But it's kind of stereotypical frat stuff. And I call them bro bros and
WU girls, right, bro bros and WU girls, And I think it's
fairly accurate. Woo girls are just a rid of bar and a bunch of
twenty sums there and every now and then when the fuzzy navels roll around,
whooo yeah, okay, all right, great when I was twenty obnoxious now,
but hey, if you want to have fun, have fun. So
the thread didn't strike me as some you know, some frat bro exaggerated frat
bro from like Revenge of the Nerds, right, struck me as somebody who
was pretty balanced. I saw some of them also point out that they they're
not even taking an official position on this because they don't feel that they have
enough knowledge to dig into a side, just simply their individual in the individual
overriding reason that they injected themselves. There is because it flew in the face
of what what what they feel is proper behavior here in America, and you
know, desecrating that flag. You can have a variety of opinions of what
the flag symbolizes, but you're not going to do that, especially when it's
not your flag. And they also realized that it reflects on the totality of
them. So it was at that point they decided to get up in there,
and uh, that went super viral. In fact, I saw somebody,
sorry, this this go fund me, and I'm gonna read the language
of it, and and all of a sudden, within like thirty minutes,
things just got crazy. The original GoFundMe requested fifteen thousand dollars be raised so
that the brothers of Pi cap of Phi could quote throw a rager. I'm
just making sure it's still up. Oh, I cannot believe this is still
up. And they have set a new goal. They'd have to. It's
entitled PI cap Offi men defended their flag, throw them a rager. What
initially stated a goal of fifteen thousand dollars quickly surpassed that. I got win
of it at about the two thousand dollars mark. We you know, like
ten minutes into it, and by the time I went back just to check
some of the comments on the post that I'd made on social media, they
were already at like thirteen thousand. That number right now stands at three hundred
and twenty five thousand dollars three hundred and twenty five. I don't know how
many fraternity members there are. It probably wouldn't pay all their tuition, but
you can have a really nice party and probably save yourself some student loan a
headache down the road. You didn't go to a bad art school, so
you're not gonna get yours forgiven, so kudos to that. But here's the
listing for this. Uh oh, they have an update says, we are
overwhelmed by your glorious patriotic Americans who value good beer in great times and in
contact with multiple leaders from fraternities whose members help defend the flag and they're given
credit. Look at that. They're even giving credit to other fraternities a p
few others. That's alf epslum pie anyway, So they'll keep you updated.
But here's what the initial listing said. Quote Kami, Losers across the country
have invaded and I want to be very clear, this is not for the
fraternity guy talked about. Who organized this? All right, Kami. Losers
across the country have invaded college campuses to make dumb demands of weak university administrators.
But amidst the chaos, the screaming, the anti Semitism, the hatred
of faith and flag, stood a platoon of American heroes, armored in vineyard
vines and Patagonia. Probably you forgot, Peter Millar, probably should thrown that
in there. Fueled by zin and white clause, these triumphant brohemians protected old
glory from the unwashed Marxist horde, laughing at their shrieks and whales, and
shielding the stars and stripes from Soviet missiles. These boys know, these men
of unc Chapel Hill Pi cap I give their best to America, and now
they deserve the best. Help us raise funds to throw this frat the party
they deserve, a party worthy of the boat shoed rolatariat. Who did this
country proud? That is crazy, man. I think I neglected to tease
one thing at the beginning of the show, excuse me, and that is
our conversation with Steven kent our NERD corresponded, that'll happen one hour from now.
Okay, so and we got we got all sorts of insanity to talk
about with him. I want to continue on this topic of this go fundme
because when I initially saw it yesterday and I tweeted out what was it along
the lines of this amazing, I got to think that GoFundMe takes this down
because we've seen that right where there has been very very political decisions made seemingly
with double standards on what will or will not be allowed on go fundme and
a couple of the others. You saw it with the truckers in Canada,
but she also saw it for much more innocuous stuff. And at the same
time, you could you could go out and there'd be fundraisers for every moon
back cause under the sun, and that was fine. Or better example,
they you know, go fund me came out and they'd be like, oh,
you can't raise money for you know, surrounding criminal activity and they and
they were remember they were raising money for life. Think it was it was
January sixth, fundraisers right where they were lawyers and stuff they were doing it.
They took all those down and yet allowed for fundraisers for people who were
arrested to be LM protests, and so I didn't think this thing stood a
chance. And I am so glad to bring you this update. Remember the
amount of money is now three hundred and twenty five thousand or something like that,
and the original goal was fifteen. So that's a hell of a party
you're talking about, all right. So here's the update from the organizer,
says quote a programming note. We have identified a world class event planner.
Her name is Susan. Is this well, yeah, I think I know
exactly who this is. Her name is Susan Charity Hart at work. Yeah,
because she's the beneficiary here. It is Susan Ralston. Oh, that's
funny. She was an assistant to Bush, worked in the White House.
We have identified a world class If it's the same person, a world class
event planner named Susan already hard at work who worked in the White House,
knows what that's about. So literally, the person planning this party now is
a person who was involved in planning presidential galas. Now she worked in a
slightly different capacity. I don't know to the totality of her duty. If
it's the person I'm thinking that it is. Yeah, you know this turn
it, This thing's gonna turn into brewsters millions. Right, how do you
spend three hundred and fifty thousand? I mean, I know you can you
read about those crazy uh you know, celebrity yacht parties or whatever, like
they spent three million or some of those Middle East parties like in Dubai and
Era, you know, the Arab Emirates folks. So everyone's running around and
like, you can't just have a lambo. You gotta have a lambo with
an eight inch lift kit and mud tires or something. Right, you got
to stand out. So when they throw parties, it's crazy town. So
yeah, you could spend three hundred and fifty I don't know how I would.
But I also I don't like big old parties, even though clearly the
things that would normally annoy me about it, like having a clean up after
those, it all be negated because I got three fitty to drop on a
party. So they top tier planners there. And here is the part that
I'm good with. Let's see another fine America. I'm just gonna I'll read
you the whole update. Another Fine American is Wheels Down in North Carolina,
and I working to identify all of the noble born Rochacho's How many puns does
this dude have anyway? Who stood down the frumpy hordes with nothing more than
a pastel shirt and a smile. Go Fundme has dispatched a member of their
team to work closely with us and ensure your donations do as God intended to
show these guys enough fireworks to blow their Oakley aviators right off their face.
It was forty eight years ago this week the Cubs outfielder Rick Monday snatched the
American flag from that grimy from the grimy hands of law hair Trotskyites. I
do remember that the videos out there, It's pretty iconic, saving it from
incineration the crowd, then giving them a standing ovation. All right, so
this thing, so, I guess they're not gonna take it down. But
I guess what does that mean? They're gonna Every penny has to be spent
on a party? Can it go towards tuition? I don't know what the
parameters are. I'm sure we will know more. Uh, but as the
oh yeah, they gotta invite true oh straight up. I saw John Rich
offer to play it. I think Kid Rock, the Kid Rock way in
or somebody somebody said that, I have to verify that the kid Rock weighted.
I didn't. I forgot to look it up this morning. But again,
I don't like big parties, but I want to go. I want
to go see that. Can you imagine Kid Rock and John Rich massive party.
Gotta have gotta have fireworks, obviously that's a that's a given, and
you know everything else, and then Trump rolls in on that thing, the
absolute pandemonium. These kids are gonna have themselves a big old party and it'd
be crazy. And I promise that if even if there's even a slight disruption
in the traffic flow because the former like if Donald Trump showed up or Kid
Rock or whoever the hell it is, all of a sudden, these same
faculty members who are you know, down for whatever, are gonna have problems.
Just my prediction. I guess we'll wait and see. I guess we'll
wait and see. Also, I do feel for him, because I also
think you might get people tried to the provocateurs, you know, roll in
there and then all of a sudden they they get a little that little Patriot
Front vibe, right, attempting to reflect poorly on those guys who the hell
knows man, that's how paranoid I am. I don't think I'm wrong either,
because remember, you know, the ends justify the means, standing there
and lying, lying during a press conference. Miss, I'm studying Marxist poetry
to get my doctorate. Lion conflating humanitarian aid with your need for a twenty
dollars high end Deli sandwich and some German butter cookies. German butter cookies that
been around for about as long as your World War II relative. Interesting look,
And if you think it's not deliberate, then you don't know what's up.
Because there is an insane demands list, or not demands, they have
their own demands list. There is an insane request for donations list I saw
yesterday from one of the student groups. Here we go, urgent needs headlamps,
air soft goggles, gas masks, skater helmets. Wait, what are
you guys gearing up for? Huh? Rain ponchos, utility gloves, umbrellas,
knee pads. What are those four? I've seen your anyway meta EpiPens?
Uh? I hate that feature. There we go, headlamps. We're
gonna say, but here's what here's what's for food? Here we go.
This is this is the part that that that struck me. Hot food for
lunch. Important. It says vegan food, gluten free food. Ice.
However, and then in bold caps they have the nose do not donate you're
ready coffee, packaged food, bananas if you don't know the bananas thing.
One of the member or one of the protesters is allergic to bananas. So
counter protesters have been standing on their side the line eating bananas. No no
bagels? All right, I think I know the end. What's wrong with
the bagels? I mean, this is this is from Colombia. You're in
New York City. What's wrong with the bagels? Why? Why is that
on the list? Do New Yorkers not enjoy a delicious bagel? You don't
even have to You don't have to be from New York. Hell, if
you live in the Triangle. Now wait, hold on, Ross has a
theory here? What is what is that, sir? That there might be
a Jewish connection with I mean, yeah, possibly, I mean if they
want to make one, well, how come Matza ball soups? Done?
On there? They want hot food bringing matsa ball soup or something or mana,
although they wouldn't get that. So yeah, this is how this is
how dumb all of this is. No bagels to Jewish that's the only reason.
I mean, yeah, that's absolutely horrible. That's the only reason that
that's on there. If you need if you know, if you're still on
the fence somehow in this issue and you're like, man, which side should
I be on? Yeah? Yeah, it's probably you want to be on
the side that's gonna eat bagels. Like if you're the point where you're like,
I'm not gonna eat bagels because there you know jew bagels, kid,
right right, you're on the wrong side of history there, buddy, hold
on, hold on, can I you know I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna
do the Kleinfelters thing, Like with the trans argument, they're like, what
about all the people with this? And you'd be like, oh, you
mean this thing that wouldn't even account for one half of one percent? Okay,
what if instead of eating the evil bagel, you threw it at a
minority during your protest? All right, so it was like a super old
bagel because you wouldn't want to throw. No, no, so it's like
a rock, it's like a stone. Well, I mean that would be
I'd be one way to uh. I mean that probably would be preferred if
you're gonna weaponize them. But let's just say any old bagel and and your
drink. And let's say I don't know, you're a white college student and
you're throwing that on minority police officer and he used the bagel that way rather
than consuming it. Like is that a loophole? I don't know. But
you don't write no bagels on there if that's not a Jewish rest reference,
because I can I can't in my brain come up with any other reason for
them. No nuts, what else? I don't know, Yeah, basically,
but yeah, the bagels thing just like what what now? I want
a breakfast bagel? Sausage on that? Or oh? Or no, what's
the the spicy cap cola? You ever have that fried up? And then
put on a breakfast bagel with some eg? Oh, what is the what's
the bagel place? On? Falls of the New York bagel? I think
they have one? They have one too down south there? Ah, they
do not, They do not advertise, and the line will be long if
it's weekend. But I could eat those every morning, but not if I
was a protester, apparently, all right, eight eight eight nine three four
seven eight seven four. So h yeah, We're just we're surrounded by insanity,
and so much insanity that I haven't really had a chance to dip into
this, but I feel like we have to. So Hulk Hogan is getting
some attention following an interview he did with the seven hundred Club. Okay,
all right, look, I don't know. I don't know that you know
the faith Hulk Hogan's faith journey. I don't know all of that. I
know obviously, you know there there is a certain complexity to somebody who is
a very public person but also has found himself controversy within his own sport,
controversy with the whole bubble, the love sponge stuff and that. Like,
there's a lot to unpack there. But okay, I don't know where he's
at on his journey of faith. But let's hear what the Holkster has to
say. And he says some stuff. One, he's got some new merch.
We'll talk about that in a moment, but it's this part right here.
I was trying to extract it from this longer. I'll just read it
to you. It's not that long, and I will not do it in
a Hogan voice because it'll it won't sound good. All right, So during
the interview, and I'm quoting verbatim here, PAULK. Hogan talked about the
death of Roddy Piper, and specifically a voice message he received two days after
Roddy Piper died. Rowdy Roddy Piper, all right, two days after his
death, Hulk Hogan told the seven hundred Club quote. It was a voice
message that came in two days after he died, and it goes, I'm
just loving you, my brother, just walking with Jesus, walking with Jesus
and loving you, my brother. You got a ghost voicemail from Roddy Piper.
Some people are questioning that, some people that Rowdy Roddy Piper called Hulk
Hogan from heaven. No, I mean I got a voicemail from the Iron
chic when after you passed, after you passed away, Oh wow, he
called Hulk Hogan a jabbroni and he hung up the phone. From beyond the
gray, from beyond, so hold on the iron cheeks in heaven. For
this or I'm not judge. I'm judge. I'm just trying to I want
to understand the parameters here. Yeah, you know he didn't make that clear.
He just made the Japroni thing. Okay, all right. My buddy's
wife has one of the funniest takes on all of this insanity. And you
know, this is this is why, this is one of the things I
do love about doing this right, because people see things through a different lens,
a different thoughts on it, and sometimes it annoys you because it's opposed
to your position. Sometimes it's just fun to have the debate, and other
times it's kind of fascinating to see how people's brains work. And it was
it was predicated on did you see the Megan Kelly clip where she kind of
voiced what I think we've said on the show before and others it's like why
are none of them hot? And then the the comments yesterday where the guy
and that's the man on the streets, like, you know, the only
reason they're doing this because they don't get invited to the frat parties and nobody
left sex with them. That was a college professor who said that during an
interview the other day and it kind of came full circle, and it was
to explain why there is this gravitation of these uh, these liberal white women
to so embrace what is going to be a culture in practice that would be
as almost almost as completely opposed to the role that they feel women have in
society, and why they would embrace that. Why would you if you count
yourself amongst a you know, some sort of feminist freedom fighter, would you
think that you would be able to maintain that attitude if you lived in Palestine?
I don't. That's this is or or I Ran. Did you see
these did you see the fire Iranian women doing a TikTok dance? Except this
one's finally one that's not annoying because they're doing it because a fourteen year old
showed her hair and was beaten to death. So these five women decided to
do, you know, their clothes like they look like you would see an
American woman walking around, but obviously far outside the bounds of what the morality
police in Iran would allow, as well as big segment of society that does
the you know, the murder and on behalf of the state. That's that's
just that's that's who you want to cozy up to. Only her theory was
this, and I can't remember what's the what's the is the kerfuff? What
was called it? A kerfuffle? Whatever the next scarf thing is like?
She said that. Her theory was that the reason that you have all of
these white women doing that is not for not because they are immune from social
press, but because it is fashionable. And when she said, the outfit
is fashionable, including that scarf, and these are women who won't admit it,
but they're literally chasing trends within their metropolitan area. And you can't just
show up with one without because then you look like you're a follower. So
you have to be amongst the trend setters to pull the look off. I
can't explain all the stuff she said. I was dying, man, I'm
like, so it all comes down to women mad at other women over fashion.
Not my take, but one that I thought was was pretty funny.
So I throw that out to you. I told her she should call the
show and explain it. She didn't want to do it cause she she has
all the fashion terms down. I don't. I didn't even I didn't even
know what was that movie with Meryl Streep Slow the Fashion One and Anne Hathaway,
Like, I didn't even watch that thing. I just know it exists.
So my level of high end fashion is unfortunately not where it should be.
That's gonna be one of the weak points here on the show. All
right, let me get over to this. Oh yeah, I'm sorry.
I did the I did the Hogan thing, and I read the quote and
I forgot he has merched too, and that has people upset. Help me
out here because I haven't seen it yet. So he's selling in his merch
story. It's like a John you know, three sixteen on the front,
but on the sleeves it says Hulk Cogan, So that looks like he's profiting.
And he has another one I saw where just on the front of the
shirt it's in the hul Cogan yellow a crucifix. So imagine the crucifix,
imagine the cross in the shirt, and then on the you know where Jesus's
arms would be, right, drawed two vertical lines there. That's the design.
So it looks like two h's on the cross. Ah. Some are
saying sort of blasphemous profiting that way. Here's here's I have some thoughts,
and the first on the first T shirt, my thought is oz Steve Austin.
You get what I'm driving at. Oh yeah, of course, okay
Austin three six like yeah, I think once you put your imagery or name
on, it's on the cross. It's part of the cross design. It's
a crucifix with two vertical lines where the arms would be, so it forms
like two h's on the cross. You know that, you know that,
you know the worst part of that is too is people people can be mad
at him for religious uh you know, idolatry or blasphemy, but also what
you know what h H is right anytime? Yeah, even though they're his
initials. That's a white supremacist code. Remember we learned that that's on the
list of white supremacist code because it means Hyle Hitler. So Paul I forgot
all about that. Yeah yeah, and he can be like, well,
it's uh, oh Cogan. I mean it's obvious, and you would make
the mistake that obvious means obvious. By the way, when I am literally
doing sorry this is listen, pay attention people people sending me an email mad
that I said Palestine, I'm was doing a character of one of these moonbat
women. Do you understand that? So you're arguing with something that doesn't exist.
Make better use of your time this morning, follow along or wait for
the podcast. You can slow the speed down or speed it up. These
are constitutional republic emails. So you're giving me permission to speed up the podcast?
Where because that'd be funny? You I'm gonna speed it up by like
ten Not you, I mean people who would go on the iHeart radio app
and listen to it. You can. Ah, that's a shame, because
it'd be fun. Why would you do that? I don't be fun,
do you do? You want to deal with the hell that would be the
inbox? I just ignore it anyway, he would, But I would.
I would like a chipmunk version of the podcast, or a really uh like
a nine hour version? Why is the podcast nine hours? This morning?
And then you do youse something? Andre? Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Man uh AnyWho? All right, let's let's race here. I got
a pivot on this. Man raced agic from the Weather Channel joining us and
man, oh mine, what a day? What a day? Dude?
Did you see that bear? Did you see that bear? Oh? How
do you not know about this, dude, But should I live a sheltered
life? Okay? So a bear name bears name is Juniper. Okay,
and Juniper lives at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, right all right?
And uh, you know, I don't know if you know this. Bears
are omnivores, but they're really the opportunistic, Like they don't just eat meat
and vegetables, they eat anything. It's crazy with a bear will in jest
and so bears just chilling in its enclosure and then uh well, let's let
me just play some audio and then I'll fill in the black. Hey man,
Oh no, okay, we can't watch this, Hey buddy, can
you leave them alone? Can we not? She's negotiating with the bear.
It's not nice. But by the way, by the way, you know
it's a bunch of moms there because they're using formal names in a scolding manner
and it's every mom other all right. So what did what what did Juniper
do? Uh? A mama duck and her ducklings. I guess saw the
barren closure. It has a giant like pond in it, and they're like
that looks like a nice lake and Juniper is like those look like chicken nuts.
I and by the way, I'm using the quote from the story because
Juniper collects the ducklings and starts and does what nature does, but like drags
them over right against the glass where everyone is and just one by one like
quote. There is the quote in the story like nuggets, man, and
some people are freaking out. I ironically, it doesn't look like the kids
were that phase by it, which is crazy. I guess, well,
I believe that. Yeah, that's what that's what That's what happened, ye
man, Yeah, yeah, well, I appreciate that. It's well,
let's think I'll put off lunch for a little while but help people with their
diets, right exactly exactly. But the people upset, you know what,
go to Yellowstone and uh just stand around covered in uh honey for about ten
minutes and try to negotiate with the baron. Let me know how it goes
anyway. I'm sorry, you go right ahead. Yeah, yeah, I
was gonna say. It's pretty decent. Next couple of days do have some
problems visibility wise to the east the triangle leven just east, there are some
lower visibilities around Smithfield. That's southeast of Raleigh, and also as you get
near Franklin County at the airport two mile visibility quarter mile in Smithfield, and
then further east down there Rocky Mounts about quarter mile there is a dead fog
advisory to go east. It doesn't look as good as you go west.
We got ten plus mile visibility and it looks great. Most of us basking
in the sunshine of the warmth again today, mid upper eighties. Tonight clear
in the sixties. Tomorrow near nine for the Triangle. Try it mid up
for eighties. And then as we go through the weekend and some showers around.
Maybe a few thunderstorms on Saturday, and showers are likely Sunday afternoon,
and that will keep temperatures in low eighties. So two bar drive warmth even
hot days for this time of year. For the weekend looks a little bit
damp. Okay, all right, man, I appreciate it. Sorry about
the duck thing night, but if I have to know, no, no
problem, I can bear it. Really see yeah, sorry, no,
no, nope, that's not okay. Speaking of not okay, there are
some people that are not pleased with a pastor, and I kind of understand
why I will explain coming up next. Hang on, all right, you
know what, here's what I'm just I don't I do not have the energy.
Why do you say Palestine? And we're of a lot of nuances.
You're you're not aware of a lot of nuances you have. You have demonstrated
the inability to comprehend the conversation that was just going on. I am,
in that conversation pretending to be one of these insane, insufferable Marxist poetry white
women, justifying why I would feel that my super girl boss attitude would even
remotely comport over in what I would affectionately refer to as Palestine, because again,
it's through that lens, in the same way that her doctorate is through
the lens of Marxism. And it is a it is a way to be
sarcastic and mocking to obvious insanity. Okay, so and now let's see,
now I just blocked your emails. Well you just go to my junk folder
now, Yeah, now I'm in that kind of mood though. Pay attention
to people. Here. Here's something to pay attention to. Do you know
who Pastor John MacArthur is the big, big, big church out in California.
But I think most people probably know him if they watch any of the
Christian radio or television program I goes listen to. He hosts a program called
Grace to You, and he's doing some event and they were talking about what
I think is a very valid topic and I think an interesting one through the
lens of faith and religion, and that is the pharmaceutical industry. Mental health
issues, especially mental health issues surrounding kids, mental health issues surrounding the way
in which we treat soldiers, and are we doing the right thing or are
we being led around by a farm big pharma who just want there, let's
just have a pill for it. Everything's got to have a pill for it.
That's a reasonable discussion because there's a lot there. You know, what,
why why are our gis different today from a PTSD perspective than perhaps GI's
in World War Two? And you know, there's a lot that says that
they aren't that you know, people just they were more they would bottle stuff
up. But there's also the idea where you have this you had this time
to decompress, especially if you were returning via ship, and so you know,
you spend in three weeks or whatever on in the open ocean around a
bunch of other people that just saw the same horribleness you did. You talk
about it or you don't, or you commiserate or you or you learn to
deal with it. There's these are all very valid discussions. This though from
MacArthur. People are pod and I absolutely get it. There's two cuts here.
I'm gonna play the in order, but the first one is really where
this thing kicked off and oh why is this thing being crazy? Now?
There we go? All right, so here we go, fire away,
mister pastor, sir, there's no such thing as PTSD. There's no such
thing as OCD. There's no such thing as ADHD. Okay, that's that's
a that's a big statement there, And I feel like you have to take
these one at a time. I agree, because there's like there's like an
affliction for everything. Some of them are just ridiculous to the point where we
talk about them here, and if you want to think that, that's you're
welcome to think that. But let's take them one at a time, because
I think where most people are sticking on this is the PTSD, Because now
this isn't a debate about whether we're too quick to go to pharmaceuticals and maybe
there's better alternatives. You're just straight up saying it's not a thing. Maybe,
but maybe I'm misconstrained it. I'm gonna let's play the all of it
audio, so I'm not accused of misconstruing it. Those those are noble lies.
Two basically give the excuse two in the end of the day to medicate
people, and Big Farm is in charge of a lot of that. All
right. So again the assertion, because he's now clarified and he's still on
this is not that PTSD maybe being improperly treated, but that it's not real.
What this Isn't this dude doesn't He has one of the big study bibles,
is his, the Protestant Bible and MacArthur Bible or whatever that's out there.
A lot of people use it. But you're getting over into like faith
healing stuff here. Man. It's been a heavy week from a news perspective,
some uplifting, most of it not, and frankly just haven't been able
to do a lot of deviations. So I'm very excited to welcome in Stephen
Kent, our official NERD correspondent and distraction from all the horribleness, although occasionally
where politics does overrun entertainment, we'll get into it. How you doing,
Steven, I'm doing great. It is my life goal to distract you case
you deserve it. Me. You need the audio to distract the audience because
if not, all they see is lunatics burning stuff on campuses and you know,
all the other horribleness of the day. Although that can be amusing about
the time the hats and bats come in, but how dare you say that
they are liberating buildings? They are, and they're liberating expensive Deli sandwiches,
German butter cookies, but not bagels, according to their own list of demands,
So you know, it's wild and poorly I was harassing yet. I
remember I was harassing you on Twitter about yesterday. What was it? A
some Star Wars thing that you had posted and I couldn't just like Hani and
I had to drag politics in it. So I kind of feel bad for
that. Oh this was you were. You were on my case about Palestinian
Palestinian protesters taking over the Jedi temple. That's liberating that building. You posted
a meme there and my question was we could settle all of this because now
we're talking about, you know, the Star Wars integrated timeline here, it
would be very helpful to be able to go back to long long ago and
far away and maybe determine, you know, who was first. And I
put you on the spot asking you to check the cannon map of it,
and you deflected. I saw you deflect on that. I did. Yeah,
I didn't take a position, and then I galaxy far far away in
the complicated place, and then I asked who shot first? And you didn't
take the bait. So can you imagine Grito is in fact to blame for
all of the unrest in the Middle East? I think he certainly is the
first break in the time space continuum. When George Lucas redid Grito shooting first,
shooting first, I think that's when our culture broke. But you know,
that's all nonsense stuff and I need to get to the important stuff.
You can stay in these X men school, what all right? Tell me
about this? This is great, This is this is pretty exciting. The
nerds are going to have their moment. So up in Westchester, New York,
Airbnb is rolling out its new Icons series where they're going to have you
know about ten really really high end and crazy experiential airbmbs, and you are
able to stay in the X Men ninety seven animated mansion. They basically bought
a mansion and then repainted it to look two D on the inside, make
it look like a cartoon, and the entire building is filled with everything from
the X Men's briefing room to Wolverine's gym to Cyclops's bedroom. Like it's just
all sorts of total insanity. And you can stay there in Westchester, New
York. I don't know the price tag, but I bet it ain't cheap.
No, I'm sure it's not. If it has a roof in Westchester,
it's probably gonna cost you. So that got me thinking. Ross and
I were talking off the air, if given the opportunity, which base layer
iconic thing, which would you choose, both on the good guy side and
the bad guys side, if you had to choose, And I'll ask you
first, and then we'll get some from from any ip, any ip that
you know. Yeah, I definitely would like to stay in the Separatist control
room on Moustafar, where Anakin slaughter to all of the bad guys. At
the end of episode three, I think that would be a really cool bungalow
area to have some hammocks. So I was thinking maybe I could stay there
as a summer getaway experience. That would be pretty neat for good guys.
For good guys. Uh, you know, I would probably still like to
stay in SpongeBob's house. That would be pretty cool. That's got a nice
slide on the inside, and you know a lot of time spent watching SpongeBob
and that weird like triple quadruple stacked mattress that he has. So I'll stand
the pineapple. I feel like you're wrong anyway, Ross what is yours?
Before I tell you the correct answers? Because Stephen like literally just stole all
my answers. So I'm going have to go the board cube in pee Wee's
playhouse? Good Peewee or pee Wee wants to go to the movies? Pee
Wee p G p G pee Wee. Oh, okay, guy talking to
the chair. Okay, all right, so you went with that. I
think, I I know it's uh, it sounds I will you gotta go
a Wayne manor in the back cave man on the good guy side, right,
all those toys at the ready and then on the on the backside,
Uh, snake Mountain. Maybe that looked like a cool place, right you
could really what about classic classic Jumanji once taken over by the animal looking out
of them? M. I don't know, man, that'd be pretty cool.
Your foot was a little breakup on your phone there for a moment.
Sorright, So we'll we'll truck through it. But that's actually a thing you
can do. So yeah. Oh and now I got Ross's attention real quick.
So Ross has finally also seen the New Roadhouse and he didn't he didn't
have his positive experience. Did we talk about this on the air, No,
we didn't. I thought it was a good movie up until, like
you know, connorm I would say, before Connor McGregor came into that movie,
I would I was giving it like a seven or an eight. It
was. It was believable. It's great. He comes in and that movie
takes a nose dive. He's cringey, and it just goes from like he
goes from being like Jake Gillenhoal goes from being a bouncer to like John Wick
making car bombs and stuff, and the movie plummets to like A three or
A four. Connor McGregor is bad. Did you see the movie there?
No, I can't watch it because my wife has been planning to leave me
for at least fifteen years for Jake Killenhall, and I can't do it.
Well, I you sh'll have to stare at Connor McGregor's naked butt the whole
time. So maybe she'll change her tune. You can point her in a
different direction. Yeah, he's hard to watch that. He's hard to listen,
to speak and watch walk I guess would be the uh. I don't
understand. I don't understand what accent was he trying to do in that movie.
I think he was trying. I think somebody coached him too to be
UH so that you could understand him, which has been a problem in audio
cuts of Connor McGregor in the past. Have you ever seen a commercial for
his whiskey? I don't know what he's selling, so I think that that,
for whatever reason, I feel like that's maybe a vocal coach so they
could understand I guess. Man. Now in the world of movies, though,
the one I haven't seen that, I guess you have. And UH
is civil War? Right? And this is a twenty four studios who I
like their stuff. Man, they get a lot. That's from the indie
studio standpoint. They put out a lot of good stuff. And but you
know, this is a this is gonna be a touchy subject. It reminds
me of that movie where they were the Hunt or whatever and the room We're
gonna boycott this. And then I watched it and I thought, no,
I mean, frankly, one the Liberals are the bad guys in that movie,
if you really hung up on it. But I also don't think it
was unfair to either side. I just think it was a it was a
horror movie. So Civil War. I saw the trailer where it looked like
a bunch of country country dudes, former military or one of the military guys,
are standing around trying to decide if they're going quote, are you the
right kind of American? Right? And I'm looking at it, going this
looks like it's going to be a hit piece, right, Hey is it?
What say you? It's really not. And I would recommend that everybody
goes see Civil War. This movie got a really bad shake right out of
the gate, and it's because we are in a moment of incredible division and
tension and suspicion of our neighbors of different political stripes in this country, which
is why there's a market for this movie at all. But this movie doesn't
address that. It's simply a reflection of this divisive time that we have.
The movie begins with the war in action. In fact, it's in its
final, its final weeks, like the war is almost over, and this
is the way the movie begins, and we never find out why it started.
We never find out any belief systems of either sides of the war.
There is no explanation for what this fight is about or the clash of values,
and so right out of the gate, you have nobody feeling like they're
getting the finger pointed at them in America's culture war. Hollywood is very bad
at writing scripts that don't sort of wink wink, nod nod at things in
the news headlines, and this movie just doesn't do that. It gives you
a civil war and you're following a series a group of photo journalists who are
just documenting and taking photos of what they're seeing in between New York, West
Virginia, Northern Virginia, and Washington, DC. And it's a beautiful,
dark and really really entertaining movie. So yeah, that was going to be
my thing. How heavily do they lean into, I guess, the stereotypes
of the two sides, or is there some crossover that you don't see?
So there are no stereotypes of either sides. Conservative liberal, you know,
left wing? Right wing is a dead thing in this movie. It doesn't
it doesn't exist. You're dealing with late stage civil war where this has been
going on for X many years and nobody knows why the fight began in the
first place anymore, which is pretty much how these things always go. At
certain points in war and violence, people look in the mirror and they're like,
I don't even know why we were doing this in the first place.
So this is the last weeks of the war. And the only thing that
maybe got a lot of flak right out of the gate with this movie was
the fact that the movie stars journalists, because journalists are, you know,
to the right, the enemy of the American people. But I think it's
worth noting that we're not talking about columnists for the New York Times. We're
talking about war photo journalists, like the kind of people who spend most of
their careers in Africa, Bosnia and you know, Eastern Europe keep documenting humanitarian
disasters like that's who these characters are. And what we get to see is
kind of how photo journalism and taking pictures of horrible things works. You know,
how how can you stand and watch a genocide occur or executions occur and
just take pictures of it? That is literally people's jobs at certain news outlets
and national geographic They're just meant to be flies on the wall. And that's
a really really cool aspect to work into this movie, and it's not sort
of like righteous, pious journalists on a mission of truth. I went to
I went to the National the Association of Journalists. I'm trying to remember what,
just because it happened to be in Minneapolis when I was working up there,
and I actually went, and I remember one of the most fascinating seminars
that I went to was the work photographer Ducer, and they had a guy,
one of the guys there, who was in Vietnam and took a couple
pretty kin of pictures I can't remember exactly, and listening to those dudes was
more fascinating than almost anything I heard there because they were literally talking about that,
So that's a that's an interesting little ange I was not aware of having
just seen the trailer there. But if you forgot the other thing, people
are naturally untrusting of Hollywood, and that's their own fault, right, So
absolutely, I mean they kind of made this bed and people don't trust the
movies that they make or the stories they're telling. But A twenty four,
like if you do like you said, you followed A twenty four In their
horror movies, there are a really good and interesting movie studio and I think
Hereditary was that's crazy, ye crazy, Hereditary, Midsomar and that movie x
IF. They just do a lot of really good art house style movies with
big budgets. So I just would really recommend people go see this movie.
I haven't seen anything quite like it in a long time. Let me,
speaking of movies, this is why people don't trust Hollywood. I want to
read you two headlines and these are literally posted right next to each other,
so they were both written yesterday posted to the internet. Okay. Headline number
one. Avengers Endgame director blames decline of MCU on shorter attention spans. The
next generation is looking for ways to tell their own stories that service their own
sort of collective ADHD. Al Right, So that's one headline, So this
is the this week. We're blaming it on attention spans and not the obvious.
And then the other headline directly next to it is quote. Despite audiences
growing tired of quote girl boss stories, Marvel Studios still wants upcoming X Men
reboot to focus on female mutants. How do those exist next to each other?
Because you know, Hollywood is not necessarily well, it's not a hive
mind. Like when we talk about Hollywood, just like when we talk about
mainstream media. You know, it's not like three or four people who sit
together and just like call the shots. We're talking about an industry of a
bunch of different people with competing goals and movie movie executive but it's one ideology
usually. Yeah, But I just you know again, I see, like
hear in this interview with the in game directors, in game directors with the
Russo brothers, like they they are the creators who are trying to you know,
make movies, and I'm sorry the Russo brothers, and they're always up
against the executives, the boardroom people who are trying to put their thumb on
the pulse of the culture and determine what's going to sell. And I think
that those two forces are always in conflict. They always have been. And
the Russo's are not like there is a collective ADHD in the culture, but
they participate in it by making movies for studios like Marvel that kind of dumb
everything down and make people want things to be shorter. The longest one they
made, the longest one of the Marvel true it's true attention spans and they
were and by the way, was very good. I don't people loved Endgame.
I think it's great. It's yeah, and then we're onto this and
they're like, all right, we're gonna girl boss the X Men. Yeah.
But it's not just that it was a long movie. It was a
long march to the movie. It was a four I mean, it was
a five to six year campaign of movies to get to Endgame and have it
all make sense in a completely cohesive way. It was a it was a
master class in ten years of planning by a movie studio. So this this
little thing about it being ADHD, I'm not really sure that that is true.
What has changed since Endgame is everything being television and episodic series. So
Marvel and Star Wars have gone the route of television since Endgame came out,
and you could argue that that caters more to the short form, thirty to
forty minute episodes with multiple, multiple seasons kind of storytelling that is reflective of
people with short attention spans. Well, and yeah, that of course you
just that's another point too. When you create, the only way that you
can stay fully immersed in it is you have to watch nine different series between
the movies. Don't bitch about it, exaustly fans. All right, I
got forty five seconds. How insufferable and close to divorce? Will you be
on Saturday, May the fourth? You're going to be one of those guys.
Yeah, you know. We are dressing up and going to the Phantom
Menace. I'm pretty excited to go see episode one in theaters because truth be
told, Casey, I don't really remember my experience when I was ten years
old seeing that movie. So I'm excited to go see that with my daughter,
and we're all going to dress up and have a good time. But
I will be a little bit manic, so I hope everybody praise for my
family. All right, well, live long and prosper if I could conflate
those two and we'll talk next week. Okay, thanks Cassie, you made
the force be with you. Uh huh uh huh. All right, we'll
be back hang on. And I didn't realize this. So apparently in the
EU you can food companies have additional leeway to include and not disclose in easy
to understand terms, the utilization of bug parts in food. Now, I
will say this to some extent in the US, there are some of the
dies are actually uh from there. And again just because you you're eating a
bug part, it doesn't necessarily pose a health risk. But it's the idea
where there's kind of a little secretive nature of what they allow over there.
And and in Germany, some app developer created an app so that if you're
in a grocery store, you can scan the food and it will tell you
if it's bug parts in there and not just you know that old white you
know the old legend if you made a can of chili, there's seven drops
of rat boop. But everyone, right, remember that one people used to
tell Like in this case, it'll literally tell you Hey, this super scientific
name that's actually like beetle butts or something. I don't know exactly what they
use. So at least you're an informed consumer because chances are, especially with
the amount of dies that are even utilized in the US, you've consumed products
that did include bug parts. However, you should if you want to research
that, that should be easy to find. But now some guy had to
build an app and you see these people just walking around a grocery store.
That is crazy to me, man, And I keep getting told there nobody's
telling you to eat bugs. Well, I guess that's technically a true state.
And if they just slip it in there on the sly So there's that.
How did we get here? Man? How did we get to this
point where some guy has to develop an app so that he can know if
he's eating you know, cockroach wings or whatever ross. You like wings?
Right, what's uh what's the difference wings or wings? Right? Yeah,
wings are wings. To put enough sauce on it, it'll be fine.
Oh what is this? What's making that? Yeah? Yeah, people are
peop they're seeing some holes in the Uh this this X men thing? Somebody
did send me an email on this hold on this, or maybe they tweeted
it. They're like, uh oh, yeah, what is Jubilee gonna be
pan sexual? On her path to Here we Go? They sat the marketing
and conflated high ticket sales with widespread acceptance. I think most I think that
I will say that into the Endgame, I think it's not a farce that
there was widespread acceptance. I didn't see a lot of beefs, right.
I mean, people obviously thought some movies were better than others. But I
don't think in that first phase of Marvel this was particularly an issue that was
raised, right or or am I just it's got so bad that I miss
I'm not remembering it correctly. I remember people mocking the that scene in in
Endgame where all of a sudden, all the female superheroes are standing there looking
swoll. But I don't think anyone hated the movie for it, unless I'm
wrong and I but no, I think that really a lot of this stuff
was when we was well after that how we got here? So anyway,
let's see, they will find a way to screw this up. Watch The
Next X Men followed Jubilee as she finds herself and becomes a non binary free.
You know, maybe I don't know, Like I don't even know who's
playing. They have like nine different actresses that have played that character, so
I doubt it's It was a Lana Condor, which, by the way,
that's not her name was. Their screen name is Lana Condor and her name
is something dong. I realized why she changed it, so anyway, but
I you know, that's fine, that's gonna be the storyline whatever. I'll
probably wait until everyone else is wait in all right eight eight eight nine three
four seven eight seven four all right, few things we got to fit in
here. Dude, I thought I thought the Onion was dead. I was
so wrong. Now it's dead. Now it's dead. And the Onion got
a little WOKEI woke kind of got away from there. We'll roast anybody for
anything, and that's what really allowed Babylon B to catch on, because old
school Onion is good stuff. It's a lot of stuff, but a lot
of it's good stuff. You know, the the newscaster bits that they used
to do. Ross did you get in any of the Onion like kind of
regular series or any of the or the Onion. I mean, they used
to be funny. Did you know the ones where they have like the news
panel ones and they're like, my favorite one is they're like are they were
talking about Rock of Love and they're like our TV hores teaching our nations whores
how to not be good whores? Right, And it's just this straight read
like where they're arguing, like they're debating Middle East policy. It was good
stuff and then it wasn't They newtered it? College humor got newter too,
But Onion was really like, oh I used to check in all the time
with the onion to laugh. Probably over like a decade ago. Remember the
one where they have the new execution method. They had Ripper offer you the
pless you do look fine? Yeah, very quick twist up. It's like
opening a bottle coat. Yeah you're fine. Well, believe it or not.
The onion, I swear to you got bought by Ben Collins from NBC
News who was a moonbat at his time at NBC News and decide who's gonna
buy the onion and it shows they are. This is the level of humor
you ready. This is on the college protest quote. These kids should be
in school instead of protesting, say people. So tantalizingly close to getting the
point. Uh Russ's supposed to laugh, So that's it's a got a laugh
the joke. I'm sorry, I'm I fell asleep. I'm sure it was
super funny what happened. Uh these kids should be in school instead of protesting,
say people so tantalizingly close to getting the point. You can just picture
the author of this, right you can? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
pretty proud of themselves, you think. Dude. They went and like one
of the other one was they're like, send us a dollar or will disappear
forever, and like people were sending like one penny app you know, like
pictures of not sending them a dollar. And that was the majority of the
reaction. So they got a woke journalist to get run from woke journalism,
and who bought the onion? Who has less sense of humor than a woke
journalist. I implore you to find that person. So if it wasn't dead
before, that thing is absolute toast now. And there's some other example.
I'm not gonna read all of it. You can do your research there.
But let's do this. Let's talk weather with Race Agic from the Weather Channeling.
They were Okay, casey a are you I'm just I'm mourning the loss
of the onion because the guy who bought it thinks he's funny and he's not
funny. Yeah, so the onion went away or you're just stopping. Oh
no, no, the onion is here and the new leadership we were reviewing
some of their quote humorous headlines and they're not so Yeah. I guess you
know humor. You can't have humor anymore. No, yeah, anymore.
So keep a straight read on the weather, don't you dare? No,
we won't dev eight records, probably not, but close to ninety, especially
for the Triangle today, where the record is ninety two degrees. Yesterday eighty
six was the high. And in the Triad yesterday, why not. We'll
cater to everyone here. Today numbers were low, eighties eighty three. Today's
records ninety one, probably be hey five eighty six. There, so a
beautiful day. Most of the fog now's going away. Last hour talked about
visibilities to the east of us down to quarter tomorrow. They're quickly now have
gone up. You've got to go pretty far east down to run into the
fog. As we go through the morning, we'll continue to see more of
the way of sunshine this afternoon. Those mile temperatures plenty of it. We'll
start to get some changes those we go through the coming days, not quite
yet, as we go through tonight and tomorrow, still warm night tonight,
as we drop back into the sixties. Tomorrow we're up into the mid number
eighties again they hit ninety and then over the weekend that's when the change comes
in with scattered showers and butderstorms. So have an indoor plan, especially on
Saturday. The best chance of thunder shell if you're going to be out and
about here, thunders is going to be lightning, going to want to get
under cover, certainly, not going to see any severe weather doesn't look like
or if you've been paying attention to the weather, nothing like we're seeing in
parts of Texas right now. Where you know, we've got a couple of
colleges closed in Walker County and no exactly where that is, but there's water
rescues and there's basically roads closed and just about the entire county shut down.
So there's some big problems the north northeast of Yeah, north northeast of Houston
and around Waco, A lot of rain come down the short period of time,
so they're like evacuated the campuses and stuff. I do know we've got
at least one campus closed. There may be a couple of others. Yeah,
it's been been a little tough here, hold on, I forget which
one it is. But I'm not asking for pure purposes. I just feel
like, if you lunatic college protesters are listening, there's a free place.
There's it's all yours that you all head on down, have run, bring
your water wings or whatever version of that is right. All right, man,
thank you for helping plan that. Appreciate it. Yeah, look at
that. You got a whole campus to yourself. It's underwater and probably snake
swimming around and stuff, but your freedom fighters make it work. Okay,
And then we'll come back chat with Jeff Bellinger while you're buying your ticket see
in a few minutes. Well, Morty Casey stocks were mixed yesterday, only
the Dow finished higher, but futures are looking good right across the board.
This morning, Dow futures are up two hundred and twenty eight points. Employers
have cut back on hiring, Challenger, Gray and Christmas reporting this morning that
companies announced plans to add fewer than ten thousand workers in April. The number
of planned hires for the first four months this year was the smallest since the
same period in twenty sixteen. Challenger also notes there was a drop last month
in the number of planned layoffs. Labor Department reports there was no change last
week and the number of new claims for unemployment benefits nationwide. We get the
agency's full April employment report tomorrow. Federal Reserve left the cost of borrowing unchanged,
acknowledging yesterday. There's been a recent increase in inflationary pressures shared Jerome Powell
told reporters he does not expect interest rates to move higher, but rates will
likely stay right where they are for a longer period. He did not rule
out radcots later in the year. Apple highlights the list of companies scheduled to
post quarterly results today. The Iphonemaker reports after the market's close, Universal Music
and TikTok have buried the hatchet. Universal has signed a new licensing agreement with
TikTok. The label had removed its music from the video app back in January
because the two sides could not agree on a deal. Back at that time.
The monthly housing report from realtor dot com says the average income requirement for
US household to buy a median priced home is one hundred and sixteen thousand dollars
a year, nearly six thousand dollars more than a year ago. Of course,
actual income needed berries market to market. In the Raleigh carry market,
it's one hundred thirteen one thousand dollars a year. And the case. United
Health is continuing to investigate how hackers were able to penetrate its computer systems.
We're learning more about the devastating impact of that cyber attack on the company.
United Health CEO Andrew Whittie told the Senate Finance Committee that hackers may have gained
access to health and personal data on about one third of the American people.
Casey, oh good, Yeah, that's one wonderful there. We'll do that
again. Hey, I got a question for you that's not on that.
Did you see the Airbnb story. Airbnb has added ten kind of fantastical listings.
So like, let me give you an example in the movie X Men,
where the kid the university where the X Men kids go, that house
that you can stay in that now at Airbnb. So the question we're asking
everybody is what movie Abode or layer or whatever would Jeff want to stay in?
People, Oh, don't it be Marvel, It could be any any
ip. What do you think? Oh? Possibly the Home Alone House before
it was destroyed by the intruders. I want to be fair and call can
destroyed it on the intruder's face. So I guess maybe that. Okay,
all right, Home Alone House. We'll put you down for that, thanks,
Jeff. Okay, take care, all right? Yeah yeah, I
mean it is a nice house and it does have a hell of a security
system. But like, I want to dream. But you know what,
Ross, I've changed mine. You know what I want? I want the
palace at Sparta in three hundred. So I have a hole to kick people
in to annoy me. We'll call it, Dude, having a pit would
be amazing. We'll call it the a hole hole. Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah, all right, I'm switching to that, I said back.
I mean, the man the back cave is pretty bad. Rightly, somebody
doesn't read the note for no solicitors right in the pits, it's right there.
How about how long have you had a note on your door not to
knock right five six years. Yeah, and uh has that one hundred percent
been honored that boom boom, boom boom. We want to change your kit
into the pit, Spartan kick right into the pit. They they you're open
the door for a moment, they think that they're gonna be able to sell
something, and then boom, foot to the chest and down you go.
I would also take the Temple of Doom, same concept, more theatrical.
So yeah, it's tough to decide. It's really tough to decide. Oh
and in our God, bless this woman. If only setting a bar so
low that whoever comes to the White House spokesperson job after will never be able
to they will always be better. I want you to listen to Jean Pierre
being asked about the idea. You know, they talk about avian flu and
cattle and all, you know, and this is concerns that people have.
Even if you think it's overblown and it's a tool to seize control or whatever,
it's still a thing out there. And so she's asked about this,
and I want you to listen to her insane response because she speaks on behalf
of the White House and the question is on behalf of the American people.
Okay, here we go. Bring what's your current assessment of the risk to
the US milk meats fly from their food? I got get cattle. Yeah,
so I know that the Apartment of Agriculture has been on top of this.
I know that they are not seeing any any concerns to to milk or
any of the cattle or the meat or meat that we're being that we're consuming.
Why I don't consume a meat, but some of you, all of
you out there, why do why? Why? So so you don't care?
I mean you started, Okay, I don't consume meat. So what
does that mean? So if there is, like, if there's super super
duper covid avian ebola in there, what you're gonna be like? Ah,
I didn't get it because I am vegan.