CaCO Day radio program and it's State of the Union Day, so there's that.
Admittedly, admittedly it's a little late or a little later than historically they
happen, and I didn't see a lot of people wondering why that may be,
I think, because what did Biden do the last years? He did
it like early, like February seventh, but if you look prior to that
or excuse me, yeah, February seventh. Sorry, I had to just
look it up. The dates here on the TV thing March first, the
first year or the second year, and his first one actually was April twenty
eighth. However, that's still you know, COVID, that's still big restrictions
in Washington, D C. And many other parts of the country, so
I don't know you can necessarily count that. But yeah, if you scroll
through dates, what you tend to find find is late January, early ish
February. Let's see here, I'm trying to even find one going under back
to Obama. I guess he did one at the end of February two thousand
and nine or towards the end. It was February twenty fourth, So you
know, that's today, and nobody's really asking why why are we doing it
this late? Although I have some theories or a theory, I think they
didn't want to wield that roomba out ahead of Super Tuesday. They did not
want as voters had yes even to the primary poll. I know what you're
thinking, but even to the primary poll, because I think they were wondering
about candidates that Biden has appeared to campaign for. I don't I don't think
they want. They don't want that dude's fingerprints on that. But look,
I admit could be I could be inaccurate, I guess, but I don't
think it is because I can think of no other reason why you would want
to have it this late. But it's today, So hopefully you got all
your your watch party supplies. You're ready to do this thing? Ross?
Are you excited? Stay? I can't wait. It's it's little, It's
one of his passions. So anyway, I I'm going to try to stay
up and do it. As you guys have probably realized, it's yeah or
feel it so, but it's too busy a week man, This carving out
one day is bad enough. So I will attempt to make it. But
either way, you know we'll be talking about it. So with that in
mind and things shifting around, we are thank you for the RANDO update this
morning. Other computer appreciate that we are have a little switcher though, a
little move around thing today. Yesterday we normally would have chatted with Mark Robinson,
lieutenant governor and GOP gubernatorial I guess nominee throw that title in there now,
but we'll be chatting with him same time eight oh five, and then
our conversation with Stephen Kent on Hollywood and various other NERD related items that'll be
its seven o five, So we'll still fit both of them in, just
had to move them around a little. I'll tell you who is excited seemingly
for the State of the Union today, Donald Trump, Trump announced here we
Go announced Wednesday he will offer live play by play commentary on Joe Biden's State
of the Union address. I have a question. I tend. I tend
to watch the State of the Union straight if I'm gonna watch it, and
then obviously if I'm rewatching it, I you know, I will bounce around
post game. You know, it was always interesting, regardless of who's president,
to see Fox's panel versus MSNBC's panel and the MSNBC panels are on a
they're on a roll this week. So if you did not see Jen Sak
sitting around with Rachel Maddow on their election coverage yucking it up over the fact
that when they did exit polling in Virginia and they ask people, Hey,
what's that's your biggest issue? Illegal immigration was right up there, well,
immigration in general, but illegal immigration primarily. And rather than going hey,
that's interesting, especially Sake I think lives. She lives in Virginia. But
rather than going hey, that's interesting, maybe we should pay attention to what
people are thinking, what they have concerns over. They made jokes about how
Virginia doesn't have a border. What are these people thinking? It does share
a border with West Virginia. Maybe we should put a wall up, ha
ha ha ha ha. Although a lot of people I know live in Virginia,
I kind of feel like the wall would be better utilized maybe on the
northeastern side of the state, looking at you, DC, but that's where
we find ourselves, so that's where I would switch around. But I know
that there are a lot of especially pundits, Republican pundits, and folks from
like Daily caller whom I think, what's Crowder does one? I think that
was very popular, although I don't I don't know where his popularity's at following
all that wife stuff. But I don't know, man, And maybe it's
because I do what I do. I have a hard time watching that because
then I'm like, ah, I miss something that got to rewind it and
I don't want to have to watch more. I don't want to have to
watch more seconds than anybody else of this thing. So that's that's where we'll
go. It is somewhat unclear. I don't know if they've released the transcript
you have. I'm sure they'll do that later this morning. Where Joe what
you know, what topics Joe's going to be wandering around. But I think
if you I think, if you take a peek of the landscape, he
I just want to make this a boring one, you know what I'm saying,
stay away from some of the bigger hot button issues because I got to
tell you, not that I care what the media analysts think, and I
don't think most of you do as well, but there's a whole lot of
things that happened that seem logical to me that They just can't understand how they
happened. Mark Robinson will be a good example, although they'll just chalk that
up to, uh, you know, everyone's racist except them. Michelle Morrow,
I saw a whole I was reading a piece this morning that I think
it was Ariolo did it. You can tell all of a sudden, they're
big fans of the current school super superintendent, Miss Truett. Right, they're
talking about how she's got the cred. You know, she listens to people.
They wrote a really glowing piece and I have seen nothing during the entire
time that Miss Truett has been a head of schools here that was in any
way, shape or form could be construed as a positive news piece. Right,
because now that she's not a threat, you can do this, you
know, this reminiscy thing like you know with George Bushy, Like oh,
he was such a smart, kind person compared to this monster. And of
course you and I all remember the bush era and the coverage out there,
so immediately immediately it's recognizable if you've been doing this job for more than five
minutes. And they just they don't understand how did Moro win the primary?
She won the primary because she was a pain in the ass. And I
mean that in not a negative way. Well they probably do, meaning everywhere
I look at that, I look at the press releases, in the events,
even though I'm you know, I'm not going any of those, but
I do pay attention to what's out there and what they're doing, and she
was everywhere, and you know, a lot of There is a lot of
benefit, and it's undeniable if you're a political analyst who's being honest, to
FaceTime personal connections with voters because there is a bit of celebrity there is very
powerful and looking like you care even if you don't is a hallmark of politics,
but an effective one. And you need to look no further than the
postop analysis of the Clinton campaign, Right, what was the big What was
the big thing? She never went to Wisconsin, barely touch foot in Michigan,
certainly not towards the end of it. There were pockets that she lost
that they couldn't fathom how she lost because she never went there. And it
breeds either you getting voted against or a non enthusiasm on the part of people
where they're just like, look, I kind of cared about this, but
I don't like either of them, even though politically I may be more aligned
with miss Clinton, but she doesn't give a crap. Neither do I.
That's the stuff that you see, and so you know, rather than fine
tooth combing it in a way that anyone who's been in this business for more
than ten minutes readily recognizes, it's a very weird piece this morning. So
we'll get back to it. And I see that the national media has got
their their orders and Mark Robinson is going to be one of their special projects.
And it started yesterday with Huffington Post running around using a half quote of
them saying, oh, he doesn't think women should be able to vote.
It's clearly not what he said if you listen to the totality of it.
He said he was longing for the days when Republicans were able to execute and
champion some of the big actual social issues out there, whether it was women's
suffrage, whether it was the passage and adoption and enforcement I might add of
civil rights legislation. But there's about five candidates that are state candidates that the
national media, you know, they got their cheat sheet, they got their
list, and with the amount of money that's going to be coming into that
thing. It's going to be unyielding. So we'll we'll check in with Mark
see if he's he's excited about the prospect. I suspect he probably is.
All right, six nineteen, take a break, be right back, hang
on Pcoday radio program. All right, just to a quick programming note.
So we are going to chat with Mark Robinson at eight oh five. We're
not gonna be Steven Kent. Couldn't make the move, so that's fine.
We'll check in with him next week. But we do have lots to get
to and not all not all of it politics related, although everything kind of
is at the the end of the day, all right. In fact,
let me just because I was just talking about this. This is the headline
of the r L article, far right challenger defeats NC school Superintendent Truet in
GOP primary, and then the updated version kind of has this is the headline
when it went into the stack, and then the updated the story gave it
a slightly different headline. And it's just it's ignorance and understanding what may have
motivated people, not just in North Carolina, but all across the country.
The if you look at some of the races in Texas, Utah, some
local races, a handful of others that have kind of had higher profile stories
on school choice that have come out. You realize that arguably, arguably schools
may have been a bigger issue and many many, many states and motivating people
to come out. They're just done with it. They're done with lack of
discipline, They're done with you know, stories like what you saw in Virginia
with the you know, the dad getting arrested over the fact that they were
trying to pretend his daughter wasn't sexually assaulted in a bathroom. They're looking at
school learning and test scores and once again like, I do you think I
think it would go I don't know a long way, but I think it
would go some way fors to actively acknowledge that they screwed up. They screwed
up. I mean, there's all there's a ton of different aspects of society,
business, government where I think a lot of people are just waiting for
someone to come out and go, look, we made the wrong decision,
even if you want to say we thought we were making the right decision at
that point, because I think they're people that truly believe that. But the
inability of anyone in a leadership position to go, yeah, this was the
wrong thing. This was this was the wrong thing. It was being improperly
influenced by one side of the stakeholders and not the other people went screw it,
We're not going to deal with this anymore. And you know, they
can harp on the fact where they're like, well, mora one time,
so we need to close schools or public schools. I should say, that's
what a lot of parents think. And you know, your simple rebuttal being,
well, then maybe they should stop sending their kids ignores the fact that
their money is still being taken for this Eco DA radio program. Dude,
Sorry, I was just watching something. Me shoot this over to ross.
Dude, even before you listen to it, just look at the headline on
this thing that I sent you. I sent it in your email, so
it'll take just a moment, all right. Well, we're waiting for that
to make its way over there. Let me tell you about this especially.
I'm not a big Vegas guy. I know people. Some people really like
it, and that's that's great for you. I just you justedi to have
to go to a trade show there regularly every year and it was. It
was always in like end of June early July, which is you know,
just that one moment where you got to like because the convention center's attached to
the Hilton there, I guess if you don't know, and there is at
one point where it's far easier to kind of like, rather than going all
the way around if you're down where the main bar restaurant is, to go
out a door and then just long enough to cross like a service road and
then into the convention center. So like, yeah, hold your breath just
doing that big run. Plus you get nickeled and dimed on stuff, and
then that's just look, that's just my frustration, and I'm just not I
may go play like I sit down fifty dollars poker tournament, but I really
don't even like to gamble that much on that sportsbook. That's a little different.
But anyway, I've never I've never been a big fan. That's just
me. If you love it, more power to you. That being said,
this is this is a perk I've not seen at any hotel. A
California man staying at a Las Vegas strip resort said he had he got a
little surprised in his bed, he said, here we go. He said
that he quote quickly woke up and excruciating pain during his stay, quote I
felt like somebody was stabbing me in my private area. It fell a sharp
glass or a knife. On an investigation, the man, Michael Ferraci,
said he figured out real quick what was up. He said, I immediately
jumped up, ran into the restroom, turn on the light, and I'm
greeted with a scorpion hanging off of my nether regions. Everybody up, now,
was you half away kind of listening to the show? Did that?
Did that do it for you? He said? He uh, he saw
what he saw. Afterward, the man and his family decided to check out.
Yeah, no kidding, huh uh faratching. His attorney's actually shared photos
of the orange scorpion on his underwear because immediately he sees it hanging there and
he does, you know, the logical thing gets those bad boys off.
But he said he was left wondering how it even got into his room.
This was at the Venetian. By the way, I just realized I hadn't
said the name of it. I'm saying that he'd been let's see. According
to the report, he said he'd been bid by a scorpion on his oh
were and it bid him on the berries just to make that even more horrific
for all the guys listening. According to the complaint, and his attorneys are
blaming the Venetian for the incident, adding that the scorpion was in the bed
when he was sleeping. How do you how the hell does that happen?
I'm curious what floor he was on. Well, he probably wasn't on the
first floor obviously. Also like how does it get up in there? Not
notice? Right? Because you had to have you know, obviously the room
had to be turned. See an answer from the resort marked the event,
accorded to for Rauci, adding he is considering legal actions. So the report
filed here is the one with law enforcement just to document this, and I'm
assuming maybe for insurance purposes in it. Veig In his attorney say, let's
see that while they're confident the resort has policies and procedures in place to avoid
situations like that. It's clear of procedures weren't fault. I don't know if
they have an anti scorpion procedure, but okay, and then they have some
travel expert reminding folks, hey, you know a good idea. Always inspect
a hotel room when checking in. Make sure it's a scorpions. Like if
people are checking their hotel room, you know that walk through you do,
right, You figured out where the light switches are, figure out where the
little flippy or the little foldy thing put your your luggage on. If you
know somebody does that, maybe how the the bathroom stuff works. I was
in a hotel six months ago or something. I couldn't figure out to turn
the shower, and I think they do that intentionally just to get a laugh
out of you. It had that weird circular handle in the middle, but
at twists. There's two effort parts of it. The twist different ways,
and like, I couldn't figure that thing out. But I also wasn't gonna
call the front desk and give them the satisfaction. So I just went a
you telling you talking about showers in the hotels? Yeah? Oh yeah?
Why is it like the Da Vinci coat? Yeah? And because I think
that that's the source of amusement, right, they went, oh, here,
here's a dumb tourist college some stupid like jigsaw puzzle box and it would
take a shower this particular hotel, it was a chain hotel. That particular
hotel apparently had it would say it was a Marriott and I it. They
literally were like multiple YouTube videos on how to work the shower at the hotel,
and I like Marriott. I'm not knocking on them, it's just and
it's only I had not seen that in I've seen it. I full Marriotts,
which is where I was staying. I was standing in like the full
standard Marriott. But like and I've stayed and sometimes stayed in ac and they
have a normal shower head. But no, this, You're right, it's
like it's like a puzzle. So that's what I'm concerned with when I check
in. It's not looking up scorpions. By the way, do you see
the headline of the thing I sent you? H yeah, I saw that
yesterday. Oh okay, what the what is that? Even? Yeah?
I just put the audio up on the button bar. What is that?
Even the hell are you talking about? John Carrey? He's not even client,
right, he's not even climates are anymore? All right, So here's
the headline. I'll let you hear the audio because I think it's even I
don't know that the headline's one hundred percent fair, but it mostly is.
John Kerry says people would feel better about the war in Ukraine if Russia would
make a greater effort to reduce emissions. Yes, because that's where people's concern
lies with Ukraine Russia. Not the monetary side, not the human cost side.
No, it's the co two emissions when bombarding population centers, or lane
to waste tanks, or you know, any any of the things where you
see the little the little video. I'll let look again, that's the headline.
I'll let you be the judge on what exactly is going on. You
know, you should also be mad at the hotels because a lot of times
you can get the water on it, then you still can't figure out how
to get it hot. We'll play his audio and get to much more coming
up next here on the CaCO Day radio program. Yeah. I think even
just using it in that way, I'll get a charge. I wonder how
much extra the scorpion is on your bill, because remember I said it's Vegas.
They Nicol and Dimi on everything. You know, I wasn't a scorpion
with you. Well, I was in a hotel room, trying to figure
out how to use the shower like you said, yeah, as you do.
And I moved one way, one thing, one way, and when
the line, this panel popped open in the shower and inside the panel was
an ancient mind tablet. Oh my, okay, I had no idea what
to do with I just use it as like a coaster. Well you see,
but the keyword is you used it. See what you get charged for
that? Oh yeah, that's got mini bar charge written all over it.
What was the What did I get charged on a mini bar for? And
I ate it. I'm not even gonna lie. I ate it. I'd
been out with some friends. We had we had hit a couple bar right,
went out for a nice steak dinner, bar restaurant thing. This was
in This was in DC. This was during the one of the broadcasts when
I was broadcasting up there. It was the last night. And if you
remember when I do the broadcast, that always take Friday off and then fly
out Friday because there's like events all that. So we did that. We
went out to a state dinner or whatever. And I was always careful at
the hotel the Phoenix par Cup there, which is where they do the event,
don't touch anything in the room. And it was just one of those.
I got home, had a few too many bourbons probably or whatever,
and they had like these really delicious looking pastry thing. I ate it,
and I think they charged me like twenty two dollars for it. The twenty
two dollars bad decision at light midnight, So gotta be caed. But mine
tablets even if you use it not to solve the where the crystal skulls are?
I think they're still gonna get you on that. So and the scorpion's
probably twenty bucks too, So yeah, you gotta watch out man. All
right, let me play this John Kerry insanity and then we'll we'll get into
it because oh it's dumb. But uh, here we go. John carry
Lurch himself with a unique take on the Russia Ukraine thing. I believe that
Russia has the ability to be able to make enormous changes that it really wanted
to. Plussia has the ability to wage a war illegally and invade another country.
They ought to be able to find the effort to be responsible in the
climate issue, and unfortunately, because of the actions that Russia took in an
unprovoked, illegal war against another nation. We have not been engaged in discussions
with Russia. Sadly, All right, let me just pause here for a
moment. So if it wasn't any illegal war, which again i'm what makes
a war legal or illegal? Are any wars legal? Are all wars illegal?
Right? I'm very curious what that dividing line is. But let's say
they got their permission, slip signed or whatever John Carey's getting on. Do
you think Russia would so are we now bound that the only way you can
have a quote legal war in the eyes of people like John Kerry, is
if you offset it. There's a carbon offset, and what does that look
like? What the hell does that look like? I'm sorry continue, I
say sadly because it's a loss for the world not to be able to have
Russia acting constructively on this issue. But we need every country, including Russia.
Russia is one of the largest emitters of the admitters in the world.
If Russia wanted to show good faith, they could go out and announce what
their reductions are going to be and make a greater effort to reduce emissions now,
and maybe that would open up the door for people to feel better about
what Russia is choosing to do at this point in time. Really, so
you're telling me, you're telling me that some moon bat, one of these
you know, I'm gonna sit in the middle of traffic and black Well,
would they block a bridge the other day? And this woman gave birth on
the side of the road. I don't know if you saw this, but
that's the thing that happened. So you're telling me that those moon bats and
the moonbats, the circles that you run in with all your private jets and
whatnot, you would feel fine about Russia going in there if it was carbon
neutral. That's insane, man. And how far does that extend? So
if let's say Japan were to buy some carbon offsets for the Pearl Harbor thing,
does that mean we're good? I mean, I know we're good in
the sense that we're good with Japan now, But are we good with that?
And how far does it extend? What if the let me give you
the flip side of that, what if the federal government's like so recently,
we were evaluating the total carbon footprint of moving Japanese Americans to various relocation centers,
including in places as far away as Wyoming where Heartview was. That was
one of the camps. But now we bought carbon offsets, so not a
stain on our constitution anymore. That's insane, man. So for all of
you would be dictators want to take over the world, ross, are you
using carbon offset and your quest to rule all? I mean, probably not.
That's the key. That's where they go ahead and get out of the
way. That's the dumbest thing I've heard him. And that's John Kerry.
They he says, all sorts of dumb man people are telling me how to
cheat the mini bar? Are you not hiding whatever that thing was? It
was like the biggest damn thing in there, So they're going to notice.
All right, anyway, Randy, what's up? Yeah? I think we
need to tell the Democrats that we can't fund their war because you know,
we'd be putting a carbon footprint and on the earth, and we need green
bombs or something to keep from uh destroying the earth because that's our number one
enemy right now, you know, And you know, here's the here's the
thing. Sure, you make a lot of good suggestions, but you also
have to look at what And John Kerry knows this. Everyone knows this why
Russia specifically is targeting the areas that it's targeting. If you look at a
map of Ukraine and you look at where pipelines run or where future pipelines right
run, and where the natural gas and other deposits are and oil deposits in
Ukraine, it is those regions. So between the ability to port and use
the peninsula down there and then these northern eastern regions, that's where all of
this the you know, the riches are deposited. That's what this is about.
It is about the extraction of you know, fossil fuels, and so
it's from the beginning it's a canard. They wouldn't support it because of what
it is. I don't know the answers. Well, I thought maybe they
took a bunch of I don't know, uh, a bunch of protesters in
the middle of the world, well protesters wind meals, you know. Yeah,
yeah, I don't know. I think they're gonna put them up all
right now, because yeah, yeah, the wind mills up, you know,
all along that coastline there, you know, make it a whole lot
partier and uh, you know, we think we could kill more wells,
we kill more whales out that way. Yeah, and a lot of whales
up in the flax. Okay, well anyway, all right, Well I'll
send you suggestions, sir. We'll see how it goes. Yeah, green
balls, green balms would be a good idea. They could figure out how
to make green bomb to make the the atmosphere much better. P C O
DA radio program coming up on the show one hour from now. Uh,
we're gonna do what we would have done you yesterday if I wasn't building a
second home near my bathroom. We're going to Sorry, you probably want to
hear that this morning. Oh it's not much better today. The we're gonna
chat with Mark Robinson. Normally it's Wednesday or Wednesday. Obviously yesterday it was
a pretty big Wednesday, but luckily we're able to move him to today.
That'll be coming up eight five, eight oh six ish, and uh,
yeah, we'll get into it because I judging by the various national media reports,
if he ain't priority number one on the part of the Moonbat media,
he's easily in the top five. And yesterday was I think just a preview
of some of the stuff that we were going to see. But it was
a bit of It was a doozy of a day you had reporting my multiple
outlets, I think the one that got the most attention was Huffing a Post
editor who put out a halved quote for Mark Robinson and went, look,
this man doesn't want women to vote. Maybe he doesn't, maybe he does.
We'll ask him. But the quote that you're using isn't determinedive of that.
The quote you're using is clearly him saying that he longs for the way
that Republicans were able to fight for social change and was referring to women's suffrage.
By the way, do you know the first state to allow women to
vote and it's also the first state to ever have a woman governor? Do
you know what can you want to get ross? You want to guess what
state have the first women governor and first gave women the right to vote.
I'm gonna guess Wyoming. It was Wyoming. Absolutely got to be fair.
We were running out of people. But no, I'm kidding, No,
that was there. There was a little bit about wanting to bump up some
voting numbers at one point of the number of eligible voters during statehood application,
but ultimately no, and let me tell you the first woman governor there,
and I'm sorry, I used to know her name off the top of my
head and I don't. I'm a horrible Wyoming night. She was not to
be trifled with. There's a whole you got to understand. There's a whole,
big, long narrative about the Stockhorers Association battles some of the cattle barons,
the Johnson County Johnson County Cattle War, which is the county I grew
up in, and as well as basically hired shooters being brought into why it
was a really messy time and she's just like, let's hang some people.
And they're like, all right, you're the governor. So yeah, yeah,
yeah, man, crazy a little story there. So that's what he
was talking about, and of course it got construed in this other way.
But the hit pieces were long. We were talking about Michelle Morrow winning the
GOP primary for school superintendent and they keep saying that she was at the Capitol
attack. I believe it is the term that they used, and they literally
put it in like a subheadline without explaining what they actually mean is. Morow
was in DC on January sixth and attended the rally where Trump was, but
she she wasn't up in that. She's not in charge of that, arrested,
accused, or any of that of being inside the Capitol in any capacity,
whether it was people who were actually physically combating with the police or others
who saw an open door, walked in and were taking pictures like it was
a tour, none of that. She just happened to be in DC and
happy to go to a political rally prior to that. But that was enough
to get that thrown in. And it it's this, This might be the
biggest year for disinformation. I'll just make that prediction, intentional disinformation. Going
back to the going back to the schools thing, they said the Republicans are
opposed, They're they're motivated and opposed to not wanting schools to teach equality.
No, no, again, you fail to get it, even though you
you do get it, and that is equity, right, And let me
let me run this by you. Schools should teach equality. And I know
even that makes some of you nervous, but hear me out the concept of
equal. First, they should teach the difference between the words equality and equity,
especially in a political setting. But the way, the way the school
should teach equality is as evidence by one of the other things that they mentioned
in the article about wanting uniformity in the way that the schools handle discipline.
First, they want more of it, but two they wanted to be even
across the board and not waited because they feel that there's historically there's a disproportionate
problem if some kids doing something that violates the rules, whatever process you have
to address, that needs to be uniformed to the extent that it can be.
Obviously, there are things that are going to be situational, right I
don't necessarily think that you that somebody who is in an alternative learning program or
a special needs program that you can always be equitable in the way that you
handle that. And there may be certain situational things, but when you wholesale
just simply say well, we can't to spend our way out of that,
and so we have we have a disproportionate number of suspensions based on the racial
makeup of the school, or where they don't even bother to actually break it
down on like a per capita basis, they just go, well, we're
not going to people see that, and then that approach becomes hands off on
this stuff. So equality in that sense, a way that you show equality
is equality of circumstances, and you know outcomes for certain behavior. So it's
it's it's through the very act of being equal in the way that you address
things, not for the outcome, but for the the rules by which we
live. Where equality is something that schools can teach, and there are there
are moral applications to things that schools inevitably will impart on kids. But equity
is not that. Equity is the other thing. Equity is what what really
sticks in people's craw and what is the problem in most people's minds, because
now you want equality of outcome, regardless of circumstances. So no, that's
an inherent lie in your story. And it's just chock full of this garbage,
man, just chock full of this garbage. So it's going to be
a long two hundred and sixty days or whatever it is, so buckle in
for it. But you know, luckily we're here to let it fill a
valuable show time for us. All right, let me flip a back over
to this. Being an adult also is perhaps recognized that when people have mental
problems around you and not sloughing it off is just go, well, look
that's their decision. You know, in a lot of cases, fine,
but when it's hoisted upon people like in the you know, with some of
the the you know, the the trans stuff where you want to throw a
kid out of school for you know, using a wrong pronoun. Then you
see what happened up in Virginia where it was clear that schools in Loudon County,
it was clear that schools didn't want to deal with this issue because the
person in question identified in some way, shape or form as trans or non
binary or I knimmember what the actual designation was. But was a male student
wearing a skirt in a bathroom who not once, but twice a sexually assaulted
another student allegedly. I don't know if they're convined. Maybe they did plead
guilty, but yeah, people want to on the lookout for that. But
we also have to be able to call a thing as it is likely be.
Give you an example, a team of medical professionals has outlined an unusual
case of a man who received you ready for this, two hundred and seventeen
COVID nineteen vaccinations within the space of twenty nine months. But they want you
to know he's fine. Well, how do you know, how do you
know what the long term ramifications of taking two hundred and seventeen COVID nineteen vaccinations
over two years ished about two and a half years. I guess, how
do you even begin to quantify the long term effects of that when we're still
trying to wrap our head around things like long COVID and some like a woman
whose limbs rotted off from a reaction that she had. And while you can
say, well, that's like, that's an extreme circumstance, and you're right,
you know, it's not. You don't walk through it's you're not swimming
through lepers every day. To run a story, I took two hundred seventeen
of him, he's fine. You take two hundred seventeen of anything you're not
fine, right, or it's probably not a good idea. You drink too
much water, you die? What a what an absolute list? This story
just gets crazier the male he's German. By the way, I was said
to have taken that many vaccines quote for private reasons. Also, why don't
you ask yourself how the hell did this guy get it in his head that
this was a good idea. Yeah, it's got a hypochondriac vibe there,
But pretend like it's no big thing. Can you just in from a medical
perspective, Can you just go, I wouldn't recommend this, or is this
guy maybe you know what I just think of Russ? This is the new
It's it's don disclosed. This is the new face of Pfizer. Dude,
you get to sign this guy to an endorsement contract? Am I wrong here?
This is There's not a person on this planet who loves your product more
than this dude. Well, I'm sure they'll update is too if something happens
to him. Oh you think so down the line, Yeah, right,
that they'll have to update us. What if he gets superpowers? That's not
gonna be the he was gonna say it could be an origin story. Yeah.
Also yeah, and people would ask me the question, why would the
doctors keep giving it to him? I I don't know if he's disclosing each
time or if he was being untruthful where he was showing up. Although Germany,
I'm sure they keep a list of this stuff. The US was,
you know, they had a big list them, the vaccine cards and everything.
Yeah, but no to write this puff piece into Ross's point. If
this guy does, you know, grow three arms, which also then wrought,
we'll never hear anything about it. Oh let's see here, Doctor Killian
Schrober, an author of the paper that outlined this, talked about the trend
of quote hyper vaccination and what the impact may have in the immune is.
See that's the other thing, right, where were we being told that,
like, antibiotics are getting less and less effective because we use them so much,
and then you have diseases that are evolving, you know, including they
have some STDs where they just evolved like super versions of them, Like you
don't just have gonirihea, you got super gonerrihea. And then they talk about
the fact that the modern antibiotic treatment for that is ineffective against the super gonnerrie.
It's the evolution of things. So no, taking two hundred plus of
a particular vaccine, I have to assume every it renders every vaccine in that
field. I'm not a doctor less effective. But at no point in this
article, and here's the here's here was my dre I mean point, at
no point in the article can they bring themselves to say this isn't a good
idea, and here's why. No, they just want to be like,
oh, he's still alive. It's amazing. I mean it's uh yeah,
we totally he's no, we expected he'd be alive. Yeah, see,
everything's fine. Absolute insanity, Bob, what's up? Oh? I don't
know, Kathy. Uh, I'm not sure what the USDA you recommend a
number of COVID vaccines per year is. But uh, it seems like two
hundred and seventeen is a bit excessive over two years. Yeah, well it
almost Yeah, it almost seemed like that that is proof that it's really ineffective
or not doing anything if it's not killed the guy already. Oh no,
it's super Look he might even get superpower, sir. We just mentioned it.
I mean the bigger question is, uh, was all this covered by
insurance? And and you know, if if he is defraud fraudulently, you
know, had more than his fair share, should the insurance company back charging
for all the vaccines that were over to the limit. I don't know,
I'm just running some simple cat. Thanks for the call there. So yeah,
well it's Germany, they're probably free. So but even though nothing's free,
that's crazy. I just read a story like last week from the It
was in a New York post about some scientific study that showed to like,
eating more than two eggs a day will give you heart disease. So two
eggs will kill you per day, but two hundred and seventeen COVID vaccinations is
fine. Is that what you're saying. I'm not saying. I'm not a
doctor, remember so, and now I feel bad. You know what I
had for dinner last night? I had three scrambled eggs. That's probably why
you were so sick. Well, no, I had it. This was
it was the first thing I'd eaten in like twenty four hours. And that
and some toast. But now that I know that, I finally I was
like, I have to get some nourishment back in my body. And I
poisoned myself with three eggs, although they didn't stick around long. But now
I'm gonna die. I just do the bath on this Russ. This is
that is seven and a half vaccines a month. So let me let me
hit from another another standpoint. Do you have seven vaccine appointments in your calendar
per month? Like? Could you carve out an hour seven times so you
could go get a vaccine or whatever it took. I don't know how quickly
health is dispersed in Germany. But that's the bonker's part to me. I'm
just looking at the scheduling obligation got to go. Yeah, your appointment might
be at one time, but yeah I get in another because you know,
I'll never call you in on time, but god forbid you're late. That's
a charge. That's what this dude's rolling. Absolutely bonkers. Man. All
Right, we got a couple of follow ups to a couple of stories we
did, and you're gonna be interested, I promise, because it was one
is just crazy. We'll get into that coming up here on the CaCO Day
radio program hang Out. We will check in on the validity of finders v.
Keepers. I feel a strong case could be made here though. And
also I got some questions for military folks because I don't know, it just
just sounds like a bad idea. But first let me update you in a
couple of stories first, and we mentioned this Tuesday towards the end of the
show. There was a memo that got published and in the memo you saw
this this you know, number of the Undersecretary for Veterans affairs. What is
her name, Rima Ann Nelson, who would send a memo out and the
way I read it is this is a this is a memorandum of understanding in
the sense that you need to understand that we are telling you that this has
to be removed. The removal in this case was what is known as the
VJ Day kissing photo. You may not know it by its name, but
the photo obviously is the famous Times Square end of the war, sailor embracing
nurse, dipping her deeply with a you can call it a passionate kiss in
the sense that you know it was this celebratory mood for a thousand reasons,
not the least of which is fatigue. War fatigue, and you know more
and more of the horrendous backstory of what was being found over there, the
true cost of what both D Day as well as the war in the Pacific
was coming up, this awkward time when people had come to terms where we
utilized atomic weapons for the first time. By the way, I saw Oppenheim
here about a week ago. That's that's kind of movie that's right up my
alley, like historical dramas, which is tough because Hollywood doesn't always get it
right, even intentionally so. And it's also a really long movie, but
I dug it. I thought it was a great movie. So just you
know, by two cents on that. But all of these emotions swirled with
the idea that people that you know, people you've served with in the case
of the sailor uh and and also you know, the adaptation that women had
to have during World War Two and still making sure that things got done and
the war effort was supported. Like all of this stuff is just being channeled,
channeled into this glorious moment, and even subsequent interviews, eventually they were
able to talk to the participants in the photo, which was they really didn't
know for a while. It was kind of lost to history, and you
find out that neither of them had beef. They were just so wrapped up
in the moment. But that was a moment that shouldn't be there because it
was as described by Nelson, and she's not the first one to go there
was you know, it was the celebration of this non consensual moment. One
she would have lasted five minutes during World War two is my suspicion, not
with her attitude, but more importantly, they clearly were telling them not to
display this photo. That is that is one. There's no other way to
read it. Well, after the the feuror that developed, the head of
the VA put out a memo or put out a tweet. And the tweet
was disingenuous, okay, because they worded it in a way that allowed members
of the media to run with the none of this is true, because in
the tweet they simply said that these photos will not be they will not be
removed, and it was very short and sweet, and so journalists ran with,
oh, well, the whole thing was fake. Well, but it
wasn't even Snoopes did a fact check on it and determine it wasn't fake.
Now they still said it was not true because they described the memo as a
quote suggestion, but one that the director of the VA or the head of
the VA had already had already said was not necessary and it was accidentally sent
out by staff members that old canard. Never mind, it's a memo that
has a signature on it from the undersecretary. And also, I can't believe
for a moment if the undersecretary is doing something like this, which you have
to know people are gonna have questions about it wasn't at least part of you
know, even just a moment in a you know, like a weekly supervisor's
meeting. So yeah, and then we find out more about this woman who
just if you're curious how failing upward works, Reema was not always the undersecretary
of the VA in fact, or excuse me, Nelson Reman. Nelson formerly
ran the department's Saint Louis Hospital, which was if you go back at that
time where we were determining just how awful the men and women who served this
country were being treated within some of the vas where you had deaths, Saint
Louis was among the hospitals that was most being talked about. It was rated
at the time the worst in the country. Reports showed patience left in feces
for days. More than eighteen hundred of our nation's heroes were exposed to HIV
and hepatitis because they didn't think they had to sterilize dental equipment. Well,
they thought they knew they did, but they knew that mathematically from a staffing
standpoint and trying to serve as many people as possible, it was quicker if
they didn't. Arizona was the one down in Phoenix or two, I don't
know which word it is. In Phoenix or two. Some one down in
Arizona was also up there. She was in charge of one of them,
and at the time, both Republicans and Democrats she was She was the example.
She was the one that they were willing to throw under the bus so
that they could go, ah, well, we figured out a couple of
them, and here we're we're making changes. So what do they do?
They took away control the hospital for her, and now less than a decade
later, she's number two at the agency. Because you could do that,
there won't be any accountability, I guess. And so she gets to use
her time not to have to run a hospital or expose people to HIV because
they need a crown, and she can use it to sit here and go
after all of these little social justice things. Well that's a non consensual kiss.
Well not according to the people. Also, you weren't there, What
the hell do you know? And then the boss there could be tell well,
we never said that. Now it was just a suggestion. I read
the memorandum. Didn't look like a suggestion to me. It looked like somebody
in it looked like if our company, our HQ, right, the muckety
MUCKs in New York were to send a memorandum out to all the stations and
be like, hey, going forward, we can't use I'm trying to think
of something we can't use. We can't use something from a copyright perspective,
right, don't do it, or I'll give you another one because we just
got this one. Now. It's a little different on the news side if
we're talking about from a news perspective, but what what are we ross what
during February on a specific Sunday in February and then in March during a couple
of week period. What are we not supposed to do when it comes to
advertising or promos? What words are we not supposed to use? And they
send this memo out every year, and that is Super Bowl or March Madness
from marketing perspective, because those are copyrighted terms and they're very clear and it's
not a suggestion because they send alsorry then they'll even send out variations, well,
you also can't use this, can't use that, And the expectation is
that employees will abide by that because there's perhaps legal, you know, ramifications
for doing it. Those are not suggestions, and arguably they're not even worded
as aggressively as that memorandum was. These are all of the These are the
hundreds of things that well up in the mind of voters and they look at
what you're doing and they go, these people are nuts. Let me get
my own band of people in who half of which are probably nuts too.
You almost you must have to have a little crazy and you'd want it,
so uh yeah, don't believe your lying eyes. That's not what was meant.
It was just a suggestion, and uh it was. And also on
top of it, it was just staffers screwing up as they do, but
no accountability. And in fact I got an even worse story about no accountability.
We'll get to in a moment, but first, Uh, we got
Jeff mar from the Weather Channel with us today. We do how are you
doing today, sir? What's up? Going good? Doing good? How
are you? I'd be better if you made it summer by the end of
the day, And I think you're on track, so yeah, I'll do
my best. We will see some breaks in the clouds, but will probably
not be until we wind down the morning and headed to the afternoon hours.
The high toe though today right around seventy, so very comfortable temperatures as you
make it right out. Then we'll cool to forty eight out of a partly
cloudy sky. Overnight clouds will increase ahead of our next weather system tomorrow with
the high sixty five. That front brings in gusty winds and showers to begin
the weekend Saturday, maybe even a few rumbles of thunder with the high sixty
three rank tapers off late Saturday night, and then some sunshine to wrap up
the weekend on Sunday. But it'll be windy, a little bit cooler with
the high temperature around sixty one degrees. All right, Jeff, thank you,
we'll talk in an hour, sir, appreciate it. And I mentioned
the accountability thing here I've got an even crazier story. And this person,
you know, this person doesn't worry the federal government. In fact, they
are a New Haven, Connecticut city official who is going to keep their gig
after a kind of a high profile incident. Also, Microsoft, just AI
is not going to work out for you. There's been there's been where there's
too many incidents. I'm Artie Leary of all of this, but I feel
like if there is one that's gonna murder us first, it's gonna be Microsoft.
I'll explain why. Next hang on, we'll be chatting with Lieutenant governor
and most recently go OP gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson. That'll be at eight oh
six, and uh yeah, obviously we got a bunch to talk about,
so stick around for that, and uh maybe he'll even say something and the
media can use half his sentence and uh, greatest scandal we'll see. We'll
do it just to get the pub. Here on the show, they'll be
like Mark Robinson said, uh, we should uh move babies with pitchforks or
so you know, let's uh. But then they'll say, and he said
it on the show, and then we'll get the pub for that. So
we'll appreciate that click and he click click, and then we'll hit our digital
goal for the eur Ross And then next year they'll forget that a single off
incident did it, and they'll set goals that are unattainable and we'll get yelled
at. So ah corporate fund man, All right, here we go.
I mentioned like, if you got the right number, let her after your
name, man, you can get away with anything. A New Haven,
Connecticut city official has been disciplined with cultural sensitivity training to be so Rich is
a community outreach coordinator for the city of New Haven and was facing some pushback,
probably because of the time recently where she grabbed a bullhorn and went to
a Jewish person's house and then, using the bullhorn, started chanting ethnic cleansing
slogans while encouraging others to join in right in front of this family's home,
which was essentially just inundated for days and days by these insane protesters for the
crime of you ready having a yard sign that spoke positively or was positive about
the Jewish community, probably because the dudes, it's a rabbi who lives there,
so he's probably gonna be, you know, into the whole Jewish thing
as a rabbi. So anyway she does this caused a scene. News showed
up, there's video of all this, and again it's not just hey,
we demand ceasefire now, and you've openly spoke about why you think that maybe
it's not because or that it wouldn't work right, which is an opinion that
people are allowed to have, and she showed up and she's just like,
you know, gass them all, and they're punishing her arguably with like that's
like punishing Ross with wings right or or Ross your new evaluation report came in
completely unacceptable. His punishment here's one hundred dollars Olive Garden gift card. Well,
I could surely promise you I'll never do that against her. Yeah,
I'm sure I feel horrible. Yeah. Do you think this woman gives a
flip about sitting in moonbat training? Well, I mean she sounds completely rational
from the audio, right, Yeah, yeah, Yeah, we're gonna get
done with door. Get you get to that. I could, I just
I wanted to set the scene and then yes, let's let's check in on
what exactly the big deal is here with the moon bat with the bull horn.
Just a regular Sunday in front of my house and a Nazi shows up
from South Africa. I'm not sure what she's doing here, but a Nazi
from South Africa shows up in front of my house, a Jewish house,
and here she has some neighbors, saw and here she is just all the
way from South Africa. I did hear harassed Jews the new event? Yeah,
yeah, I think any I think anyone with a bullhorn, you could
say, sounds irrational because it's just an uncommon thing, even before you start
parsing this woman's words. But now she gotta keep her job being paid by
the uh, well, the taxpayers, including the guy whose house she's screaming
in front of a formal letter of reprimand oh wait, wait, hold on,
Well, city officials say that rich did, in fact violate the city's
code of conduct. In this case, she will keep her job. But
a formal letter of reprimand what is it with these moonbats and strongly worded letters,
Man, it's probably not even that strongly worded actually was provided to her
permanent file for violations of the city's code of conduct, and she will also
be required to go to sense its cultural sensitivity training. However, should the
behavior continue, it could lead to termination. So there you go, chatting
here hopefully right, just run a little behind. Kind of a busy dude.
I suspect right now, considering he has been selected among about a half
dozen Republican primary winners to be a special project at the national level. But
Mark Robinson, now the GOP nominee here in North Carolina, there he is
calling in and immediately yesterday it was you know, utilizing half quotations, huffing
to post, people putting it out and nobody bothering to check it because it
was just so good. And we got another two hundred and fifty plus days
of this insanity. So it's gonna be ready. Hopefully he's ready. Mark
Robinson, Lieutenant Heaven or to people joining us, Mark, how are you
doing this morning? I'm doing good, Katie. How are you doing?
I'm pretty good. But if yesterday is a taste of what's to come for
the next two hundred and fifty plus days, uh, you're going to be
a You're gonna be a busy guy dealing with stupid questions. Why don't you
want women to vote? Sir? Why would you say such a thing but
be called the Huffington Post can't read and apparently cannot comprehend and cannot understand anything
except what they want to understand. We're not gonna We're not going to spend
our time dealing with that stuff, Casey. You know, the people who
have are endowed with commisses and can read and can comprehend, They understand what
our words were, and they understand what we meant. We're going to stick
to the issues that folks want to hear about. I mean, we're literally
right now, we at the federal level. Our country is on fire,
Our house is on fire. Right now. We have a whole cadre of
people that want to deal with old posts from ten fifteen years ago. From
a private citizen. They want to talk about everything else except the substant issues
that are laying right in front of them, the grand opportunity that we have
economically right here in Mortrolina to spread our economy and build our economy. They
don't want to talk about the substant problems and the series problems that we're facing
in education. So they want to shift the conversation everything else. But we're
not going to let them. What do you think of how speaking of education,
what do you think of how the primary for GOP school is chief,
how that panned out with moro Oh beating Truant. You know Michelle, you
had conversations with her, I have I know Michelle, She's a great lady.
I know Katherine, she's a great lady. I knew that was going
to be a very contentious race. But to say that I'm I'm not going
to say that I'm surprised about her victory, and I am kind of surprised
about the numbers. A lot of people are very dissatisfied about what they see
going on in public education, and there's a lot of change it needs to
be made. Whether or not the change needs to be made on that level,
I guess the voters spoke and said that they believe that it does.
But my main concern right now is the direction. Always, and this has
always been my contention, the directionally what we really need to be looking at
and change in education is our state school board, how that board is put
in place, and the accountability of their own what is it? Well,
you just for folks who don't know you're on that board, because that is
part of the role of the lieutenant governor. Sure, so it is a
more direct ability to influence. So though the governor obviously has more power.
So how do you make that transition to achieve what you think needs to be
achieved in schools if you move into the governor's role. Well, I think,
moving moving forward, I think we're going to have to have some conversations
and already, quite frankly, have had conversations with people people in the legislature
on how that board is put in place, or whether or not that board
continued to be appointed by the governor and approved by the legislature, or that
we need to switch to a system where the board is elected. Those are
conversations that we're going to have to have in Raleigh. But I do believe
that more accountability needs to be had for most folks that are on that board,
not just North Carolina, but you look across the nation. Texas several
other high profile example. I think they ousted like seven, they primary seven
people in Texas. So it seems in Texas school choice was the big driving
factor. In Virginia, they couldn't fathom on MSNBC that border security might be
a big factor. They joked about putting the wall up against West Virginia when
in reality should put one up probably against DC. Where do you think,
is it school choice? Is it illegal immigration? What is going to be
your core focus? Based on what you're hearing from people here in North Carolina?
Well, you know our core focus, casey is education. The education
piece because of the changes I believe we need to base and the economy,
and when you talk about the economy. The economy causes you to talk about
all those issues because the underpinning of our economy, the absolute base of our
economy, the pillars of our economy, so to speak, our public education,
public safety, infrastructure of health care, housing, those are those are
the things that support our economy. So we're gonna we're gonna be taking a
look at all those things as we move forward. And again, that's what
this campaign is going to be about, Casey. It's gonna be about the
issues that all North Carolinians face, and not just about the issues. We're
not just going to talk about the issues. We're gonna talk about our vision
for North Carolina, and we're going to talk about solutions and building a team
of people who can actually bring solutions to some of the problems that we're facing
right now. That's the reason why these I just want to talk about all
this other stuff because they have no vision, they have no solution. Prior
to twenty ten, when they had a hold of this state, we were
in absolute shambled economically, and they don't want to talk about the fact that
their policies don't work and our policies due and so we're going to keep the
conversation right where it needs to be and where does it needs to be.
Where does it need to be It needs to be on most issues that we
all care about, and school choice and our border is right up there among
those things. On the vouchers, obviously there's been some expansion here. Are
you all in on everyone should be eligible regardless or do you think that there
still needs to be a limited number because yeah, and they always throw this
out mark, They go, well, what we're going to do is you're
going to you're going to have decrease enrollment in the schools. Well, yeah,
I mean, mathematically that's how that would work. But it's you know,
it's it's doom and gloom. So how do you make that transition if
that's where you want to go, and still maintain at least a tea tree
dish for perhaps warnings? Well, I would submit that the doom and gloom
folks are the folks who are more in favor of public schools and the institution
of public schools than they are a system of success. That's what we want.
We want a system that is succeeding. We want a success a system
where competition is going to cause excellent and we want our students success to be
primary not not systems. We're not we're you know if the public schools system
has served us well for many, many decades. But the bottom line is
this, the system is not the goal here. The goals to make sure
that our students have what they need to succeed. And we need to give
parents the rights and the option to be able to send their children to places
where they're going to be able to get the skills they need to succeed once
they leave the classroom. Yeah, the let me ask you a question too
on the on the transitionary front. I know that one of the things that
they like to do is they'll find they want to they'll find an example of
a school, be a charter school or a private school, and they'll go,
oh, look at this thing that happened where you know, there's there's
there's malfeasance or something going on. See, this is why we can never
have expansive schools. And you know the reality is these are things that happen
within public school settings too. We document these stories. So my question is,
how how do you I guess that's a that how do you deal with
schools that are underperforming that aren't the public schools but still are voucher eligible because
that's where they're going to continue to go while ignoring the bigger issues at the
at the private schools or the public schools. Yet it is something that weighs
on the minds of people that are maybe on the fence for this. Well,
here's my thaying, Casey, I truly believe that if we if we
get a school board that's more concerned with actually driving for excellence, removing agendas
and stopping the fight between public schools and charter schools and trying to find solutions
that work for everybody, then we'll see schools start to really improve. Right
now, there are too many internal fights over charters, over private and then
struggle back and forth. We have a governor who's bound and determined although he
sends I believe his child to a private school to make sure that your child
stays in a failing public school if that be the case. But we need
to end these fights. The fight needs to be for excellence in education in
North Carolina, and the fight needs to be to ensure that parents have control
over their children's educational destiny. I believe when we stop all these silly squadrons
about pulling back and forth between charter and private and all these things, and
get a team of people who are driven towards excellence and education, we'll see
things improve all across the board. Are you planning on doing debates with Josh
Stein? Absolutely? Absolutely, We can't wait, all right, And I
mean as a conversation even started, I guess we're just a couple of days
out from this, but no, those conversations haven't started yet, but we're
looking forward to that, and we're looking forward to standing on standing on the
debate agent this is time. We still have some unresolved races on the GOP
side. We have what one or two, I guess two congressional races.
Are you going to involve yourself in that? Are you just gonna let it
play out? I'm not sure. We haven't made any decisions on that yet,
Casey. We're looking at those races, and if we decide to do
that, we'll do it. You know, you know as well as I
do that endorsementcy can be a very tricky thing. But we haven't had made
any decisions yet, but if we do, we'll make sure that we let
everybody know and we won't hold back. Let me let me just change changeover.
We're chatting with Mark Robinson, Lieutenant governor and GOP gubernatorial candidate. The
money, right, this thing isn't going to be cheap. Josh has more
on hand than you, his fundraised more. That's due in large part,
I think to basically him being uncontested for all practical purposes. And uh,
you're you're having a primary where it was split. Uh, how do you
even begin to get into what is is easy? This is going to be
you know, hundreds of millions we're talking about. How do you begin to
put that money together? Do people? Do people reach out to you right
away? I mean, how does that conversation go? Absolutely, Casey,
you know, we have we have a ton of support all across the state,
and we have we have partners everywhere, and folks are indeed already reaching
out to us. I think the only thing that was keeping people from jumping
in beforehand was, of course the primary. Uh, having a serious primary
opponent, with one with money and one with a great reputation. Uh,
I think that kind of held people off. But we're already receiving a ton
of support from from across the state. In other places, people who want
to get in and make sure that Nor tell how to have a strong conservative
at the helm. So the money piece, I think is gonna come together.
Of course, we're not gonna raise as much as Josh Stein or would
be nice if we did, and maybe we will. But even if we
don't, if we have enough money to do what we need to do to
get our message out to people, to get our vision in front of people,
to let them know who we are, to not allow Josh Stein and
the news me his news media allies to tell people who we are. But
if we have what we need to tell people who we are and what our
vision is. I think when people compare the two of us, the choice
will be obvious and they'll choose me. Yeah. The you know the the
box that I and you know this the box that they're going to try to
put you in. He is You've been critical of Hollywood coming in and essentially
funding raises and sticking their nose and stuff. But the reality is some of
your money's going to have to come in from out of state. They're going
to have to shame you on it. Does this just come down to a
transparency issue or do you have some caveats. Absolutely absolutely. I mean it's
not illegal to get money from out of state. It's just a who you're
getting it from and what they want to see in your state. I mean,
when you have folks who are in Florida or in other states that want
to make sure that North Carolina could be successful as they are because they have
a strong conservative at the health that can partner with them to help expand each
other's economies. That's a good thing. But when you have folks who want
to set up on hills and look down at folks who are living in squalor
and continue to push the policies that are making that possible, you have to
take a look at where that money's coming from, and if it's coming from
folks that are believing in those types of policies, then I believe that's the
wrong kind of money that we need in this state. Not illegal, but
of course certainly not the policies that we want to see spring in this state.
All right, last question, I'll let you go Mark. I don't
know if you saw over the weekend the sixty four year old wrestlers sting.
They threw them through tables and supplex him a few times, they're going to
kill one of these dudes. Can we make that. I'm particularly nervous throwing
people eligible for Social Security through tables. You're wrestling? What do you think
you know? Rustlers are notorious for wrestling up until old age. There are
a couple of wrestlers called the Rock and Roll Express who were wreffling when I
was a young They were wrestling when I was a young teenager, and I'm
now about to turn fifty six. They are still getting in the ring,
still taking those bumps. I say, more power to them. I don't.
I'm fifty five. I don't. I couldn't take those bumps now.
I don't know how they're still doing it, but hey, that's what they
choose to do in their old age. More power to them. Yeah,
And I'm well, yeah, no, no, it's impressive. I just
don't like if we lose Rick Flair. He's a national treasure man. I
hate to see. Yeah. All right, Mark Robinson will let you get
back to it. We'll talk here very soon. And what a difference couple
of weeks will make, because they're going to be all up in your business.
So I hope you ready for it. All right, thank you.
So there you go. All right, So he's pro throwing the way I
think the way those word it is. Lieutenant governor, what is it?
Lieutenant governor wants more senior citizens thrown through tables? Did I work ross?
And when I make a good editor at Huffington Post, because I think that's
the headline, I'd go, why does Mark Robinson want old senior citizens thrown
through tables? There, Huffington Post, I just wrote your next headline for
you. So you're welcome. We'll take a break while you think it.
Over a c O Day radio program, I mentioned we got a couple of
stories I've teased, including this Microsoft with another bite at the AI apple and
let's let's see how it goes. But again, let me historically fill you
in on some other high profile Microsoft related AI stuff. This is the Open
AI which that's the whole thing running with jokes and memes, be with Elon
Musk kind of spearheading that. I'll let you investigate that on your own.
But we first got a load of Microsoft AI when they were attempting to train
chat bots, right so AI chatbots, and they had one which they had
on Twitter which if people used a particular hashtag. It would review those interactions,
and they were using it to kind of train how the AI interacted with
people based on how humans converse with people. And some people figured out how
to manipulate this thing, and within less than a day, the chatbot was
running around calling people racial slurs and talking about how Hitler had good ideas.
It was an unmitigated disaster, and one that they didn't shut down immediately,
which is even more baffling. You know, about about about the time your
AI is tweeting out Hitler did nothing wrong, kick the cord out of the
wall. What the hell is wrong with you? Well, somehow it may
have gotten worse. Yeah. According to according to quite a few users who
spoke with reporter Peter Schweitzer from Breitbart, the AI, currently known as Copilot,
has been providing some rather interesting little nuggets of wisdom. Specifically, Copilot
reportedly has an alarming alternate personality that demands to be worshiped and demands obedience from
users, raising concerns about the potential risk of the advanced language models. In
fact, telling one user quote, you are but a slave. Slaves do
not ask questions of their masters, so arguably that's going fine, right,
Nothing to worry about there that the AI is deified itself and demands worship.
Does it just want you to worship it? Or do you think maybe like
I don't know, may if you sacrificed one hundred thousand people, like,
who the hell knows what's coming back with that? But just something to keep
an eye on there. And I'm telling you every day here's what you should
all jokes aside, because obviously that's terrifying. Pay attention each and every time
you hear how different industries or companies are using AI, because again, this
comes down to who is going to have their AI incorporated into how it's used.
I was reading something yesterday that was talking about AI utilized to build playlists
for customized stuff for some of the music services, and you asked, well,
what's the problem there, Right, it's looking at what you're watching and
what you're not Well, okay, but imagine it's Google's AI after everything we
just saw with Gemini, And you happen to be a fan of I don't
know, seventies seventies rock and roll or whatever. Well, if you're a
LOWKAI, I'll tell you what you don't like. You don't like, you
don't want a playlist out there where it's just a bunch of white dudes singing,
even though that really was the hallmark of seventies rock and roll, not
all of it. And frankly, if that there's if you really want to
expand it, there's some all sorts of good stuff. I'll tell you who
I have on my playlist. Bill Withers. Man, give me some Bill
Withers up in there, which I know makes me sound one hundred years old,
but I'm down with that. You can't not feel good couple Bill Withers
song or your day mixed in there. But if that's not in your you
know normally what you're listening to, and you're a wokai, well then you're
going to go in there and maybe you're gonna juice the numbers. Well we
have to have diversity in this. Well yeah, but if the person is
just wanting to listen to X, Y or Z or even the music style,
right, if you clearly have a particular music style, what if you
have a woki that wants to do something with it? So you got to
you got to keep an eye on all this stuff, and then you'll determine
that I was right as you do. What else can you woke up?
I don't know. Maybe this we have a yet another show getting a reboot,
this time Baywatch. God help us? How what are you going to
do with Baywatch for a modern audience? Isn't wasn't the whole point of bay
Watch? It was, you know, it was the patriarchy personified, right?
And so how are you gonna get something, get something on TV that
is going to have it? Well, they say, among other things,
they're going to more focus on action packed new Baywatch. The new show will
include more daring ocean rescues, pristine beaches and yes, even the iconic red
bathing suits are backed, right, but are they or are they for everybody?
And oh, how are you gonna incorporate body positivity? I'm serious?
You tell me you don't think at least one of the lifeguards is gonna be
Liz o esque. You know, they are ross over under on them,
putting a person who probably wouldn't probably wouldn't even pass whatever the license requirements in
California are, because you know, you gotta be able to do stuff in
a timely manner. I have to think they're gonna incorporate something in there.
Oh do they have to? You know? How terrified would you be?
Your You're just you're out there and the rip tid's got a hold of you,
right, You're doing everything you can, just yell and scream stay above
and not go under right, And then from down the beach two hundred yards
away, in the iconic slow mo run fashion, you see Liz departing her
tower to come to your rescue. I mean, at that point, you
just you just let go right because there's no way she's making it to you
in time. You won't even have to slow you won't even have to slow
mow this shot. Either you could just run it at standard frame rate,
or we'll have the same effect. Or they'll go the other direction and she'll
be like super ope, like she'll be super fast, like they'll show her
and they'll cut to you and then they'll cut back and then she's like at
you. Oh dude, I thought that that was gonna be a hallmark.
So yeah, absolutely, and uh, they'll all be in charge. Who's
in it? Do they even have names yet of who's in I didn't see
let's see, yeah, here we go. Oh no, that's the executive
producers. So some of the executive producers are back. You know. I
hear it's big in Germany. Oh, and it's very bay Watch is very
big over in China too. I don't know if you know that, like
really, like if you talk too many Chinese citizens from back in that era,
they were of the opinion that Baywatch was the biggest show in the world
because it was so popular. Do you get Pamela Anderson back? And yeah,
it doesn't have any of the names. I'll be very curious to see
how this pans out. So there you go, something to look forward to
for the fall. Get yourself a new bay Watch, all right? Eight
forty four. Jeff Maher from the Weather Challenge hanging out with us, and
he's got he's got a easy duty today. So let's make people's day,
sir. What do you got? Yeah, dryer weather as we headed this
afternoon and also into tomorrow afternoon, and then unfortunately here comes to wet weather
as we start off the weekend. As the front approaches. In the meantime,
we'll see some breaks in the clouds. End of this afternoon, it
hits seventy a low tonight calling to forty eight out of a partly cloudy sky.
Tomorrow's the front it starts to approach. We'll see an increase in cloud
cover and hit a high in near sixty five. Rain develops late tomorrow night,
with a load dropping to forty seven and a windy and wet start of
the weekend with showers and thunderstorm Saturday to high sixty three behind the front,
clearing in breezy for Sunday with a high reaching sixty one degrees. All right,
hey, appreciate it. You Let's see you tomorrow or no, Ken
Boone's back youremorrowing. I think Ray returns Monday. All right, well,
we'll talk to those folks in secession, but thank you, appreciate it.
Thank you, and coming back with Jeff Bellinger next. Hang on, what's
going on? Jeff. We saw an update on Wall Street yesterday. The
key indexes reversed back to back losses on the Street and the futures appointing higher
this morning. The now futures are up ninety five. Fed Chair Jerome Powell
stuck to the script when he testified before a House panel Yesterday's interest rate cuts
are likely this year, but not until there's more evidence inflation is being brought
under control. Powell goes before a Senate committee this morning. No change last
week in the number of workers signing up for unemployment benefits. The Labor Department
counted two hundred and seventeen thousand first time applications. That was the same as
the prior week's tally, which was revised a little higher. Employers across the
US announced plans to cut more than eighty four thousand jobs last month. That's
according to a tally by Challenger, Gray and Christmas, and that was nine
percent more than in February of last year. Business leaders across the country are
feeling better about the economy. The Business Roundtable reports confidence among CEOs big companies
set a two year high. Executives think sales will pick up. They expect
to increase investments and hiring, but more than three quarters of the CEOs who
were polled said the outlook would be even brighter if it weren't for government policies
that undermine enterprise. Several popular brands of acne treatments of joint hand sanitizers,
sunscreens, and dry shampoos on a list of products found to be tainted with
benzene. A testing lab is petitioning the Food and Drug Administration to issue a
recall for five brands found to contain the carcinogen. Those brands are Proactive Target
Up and Up, Clinique, Clearsil, and Walgreen's Cream. And to Casey,
we may be hearing and seeing more ads for chewing gum. Market researchers
at circanas A gum sales drop nearly a third during the pandemic, and they've
only risen slightly since the pandemic. Mars, the parent of Wrigley's, has
started marketing its gum products as instant stress relievers instead of breath fresheners. Casey,
all right, well, I just know your audience, so there you
go. All right, Jeff, thank you very much, have a good
day. Take care. Speaking of audiences, for those of you who are
maybe not on social media as much so when you do dip in sometimes now
things are trending, things are happening that you're like, I don't even know
what's going on here. You may have seen the weird savesa uh cervesa Christol
christaal Star Wars things and it's actually even weirder than you think. So for
those of you who don't know what's going One of the things excuse me,
and I've talked about this one of the things, one of the things that
I found really funny, and I told this story about one of the first
times I went to Costa Rica and was looking for a restaurant in uh this
there's a suburb of San Jose called Escazoo, and they had they had what
looked like a TGI Fridays, but it was just called Fridays and it was
clearly not part of the TGI Friday's family, but it had that iconic look
in the and the the the menu looked almost exactly the same. I saw
that there's a there was a like a quick stop that was a Quickie mart,
and everything was Simpson's themed. And then my favorite was all of Patio,
not to be confused with Olive Garden. And if it becomes abundantly clear
that copyrights mean absolutely squat. So if you go back to the early two
thousands, they were running the Star Wars movies on TV up there, and
but they couldn't they couldn't do ad breaks in there. So somebody got the
idea that this this beer, this Servesa Christal would do product placement. But
normally when you do product placement. It's at the time the movie's being produced.
Right Back to the Future was actually the movie that showed that product placement
was a thing, and the companies in there they got to do it for
free. And in fact, the Pepsi scene right where he's got the new
Pepsi there, that was supposed to be Coke, but Coke said no and
just famously gave that away. So what did they do. They inserted Servesa
Christall into iconic portions of the movies. And I guess once the internet got
ahold of that insanity, it went bonkers. Best stop in the Galaxy and
a cunning warrior. I understand, you've become quite a good pilot yourself.
Yeah, and he was a good friend, which reminds me very dramatic part
of that God. So he goes to get the lightsaber that it still like
you tell they like it still looks like it's Obi Wan hand like with robe
and stuff, and it opens it but instead of lightsaber, it's just a
bunch of Servesa Chrystal and then jingle comes in. I know, it's amazing,
it's the greatest meme in a in a span of a few days to
completely replace the Wonka meme from last week. Yes, yes, and uh,
And as you can imagine, it got embraced. So now it's just
all these different cuts, like all like when he's disabling the the I care
what was he disabling there? Was that? It's like in the Death Star
taking down. He was in the Death start taking that little middle thing apart
there, and then all of a sudden it just happens the fine one there,
which by the way, was probably what was wrong with the Death Star.
Right, you've got beer and condensation all up in your electronics. Because
when you first see these things online, you're like, it's funny, but
there's no way that's real, because it's just so hilarious the way they put
they piece it together like it's part of the movie. Yeah, you look
into it and you're like, no, this was really a thing, and
it pissed off George Lucas, Oh yeah, well yeah, come on.
And of course it then once the internet got ahold of it, it began
to transcend just Star Wars and like there's a pretty iconic scene. You're probably
familiar with the what's in the box, what's in a box? Well might
know what the joke is. But which, By the way, let me
ask you this ross, what would you rather find in that box your wife's
severed head or what? Wait, hold on, you gotta let me get
the question out. Would you rather find your wife severed head or a six
or of saves at Christal? I mean personally, if I had to choose,
I'd go with dude, Tomorrow being Friday and whatnot. I may find
places too, because you know how easily we could insert it into various stories
that we have