We'll call it the Feels Like Friday Edition because Ross just told me. He
says that he feels like it's Friday. Yeah. I feel like this week's
has been pretty even because we've had some bangers here as of late. Although
today's show does prove to be fun, maybe not as fun as you know,
roasting Boston for thirty minutes. Dude. By the way, Ross,
I did confirm with our bosses and our Greensboro ped sent me a photo.
He doesn't just have a kiss tattoo. He also has a Red Sox logo
tattoo. And yeah, he has a tattoo of our radio station we worked
out to like twenty years ago, but I guess twenty four years ago.
Hold, I'm gonna send you this, and I'll say I'll send you I'll
send you the response. Tell me I'm not wrong on this. Hang on,
doude do do? Do? I want to hit Ross with this cold
So I didn't send it to him before the show. All right, that
is swoosh on its way to you. Well, I continue to explain where
we're going with this, so uh, CNN might have conducted one of the
most destructive joke heighten interviews I've ever seen. And that's saying something man,
and I I don't understand it. I guess it is is the way that
I'll first approach it, like I understood it when you know they were kind
of shopping Gavin Newsom around with not really shopping Gavin Newsom around. But remember
even though and and I think people are forgetting this in some of the comments,
even though you remember you're dealing with souper. They have super delegates and
stuff, so like until that convention's done, I don't know, plus the
conventions in Chicago, so that'll be wild. All right. I'll get to
some of that audio. So you've had a chance to review my observation.
Am I wrong? I guess I could see how you're seeing that. I
see like the top of a superhero mask, like with the eye holes.
Oh okay, this is like a rorshack test. But I mean to be
fair. I mean he's posing his arm, so that's not how you see
on his arm right like, because it's yeah if you if you look at
it, what he's done is he's sitting at a desk, his desk and
it's on his left arm, and he just took a photo of his arm.
Just kind of sticking out to him. So if he's standing up,
then the logo straight, but when you're arms doing something like typing, the
logo is going to be sideways. I just pointed out that if you look
at the if you look at it and at that angle, it looks like
where the insides of the letter B are because of the the the font,
I never realized it looks like two butts in the air, maybe like two
butts surrounded by fire, surrounded by fire, or I assume they are waiting
for the Yankees to show up, who lead the all time series by almost
twenty five percent, so that's a possibility, or that's Bill Buckner and whoever
made the Ruth trade. But either way, that did amuse me. So
AnyWho where was I sidetracked there? And that's okay, that's how we roll,
all right, do do do? I guess we'll start with Biden because
I'm gonna have to play this audio multiple times and it's it's worth it,
and like I know people are obviously and we'll get into the more serious stuff
or hung up on that, but that like like him saying things like INFLA,
was it nine percent when I took office, which is something he said
yesterday. It wasn't it was at one point four percent. You know,
that's that's the usual cringe. That's politicking. Right. And then as you're
hearing this cut, he also in one of these cuts we we got several,
he also just kind of goes, it's not well, it's not true,
which, by the way, is a hallmark response, not just for
Democrats, many Republicans will do that too, but when you stack it with
everything else, yeah, it's not a good. Look. Here we go.
Let's just get into this, and let's start with that cut, the
serious cut in question. Okay, it's also true right now, mister president,
that voters by a wide margin trust Trump more on the economy. They
say that in polls, and part of the reason for that may be the
numbers, and you're aware of many of these. Of course, the cost
of buying a home in the United States is double what it was when you
look at your monthly costs from before the pandemic. Real income when you account
for inflation, is actually down since you took office. Economic growth last week
far short of expectations. Consumer confidence, maybe no surprise, is near a
two year low, with less than six months to go to election day?
Are you worried that you're running out of time to turn that around? All
right? Real quick? For I let him answer. So in her list
there she mentioned a poll, right, who trust? Who's trusted more?
On the economy? You probably seen that reported. But then she went with
straight fact numbers that are not polls. Okay, The home prices are not
a figment of your imagination, as anyone knows. Buying power is not a
figment, as anyone knows. Okay, all right, So with that in
mind, let's say, you, sir, we've already turn it ond.
Look look at the Michigan served at Okay, okay, all right, So
he hits it with another poll. All right, fair enough, let's go
for sixty five percent of American people think they're in good shape economic d I
think the nation's not in good shape, but they're personally good shape. The
polling data has been wrong all along. Look, I don't disagree that.
I think that a lot of the polling we see is a bs. But
do you guys follow his tweet? I want to say, follow him because
he's not typeding it. Do you follow his Twitter account and the official potus
one because we do. I do on the show account. That's because we
follow newsmakers and every day, all day with a community note attached. Within
three minutes, they put out the same rotation of about ten tweets, right
like I created yesterday that you know I created fifteen million jobs? How about
you know that, which obviously is like post covid, like you understand the
caveat there, and he puts that out, but he'll put poll numbers stuff
out like just rinse and repeat, and it's just garbage in, garbage out.
Okay, But that's honestly, I'm not surprised by that assertion. And
I don't think that that's just a Biden thing. I think that's somebody who's
staring at a big stack of numbers that don't want to answer fair enough.
Here here's the part we got to talk about, and I'm just gonna play
it, and I want you to. I want you to try to tell
me what you think he meant to say, because I know what he meant
to say, but he didn't. All right, So uh, here is
him talking about and I'll set the seat. He's talking. She's talking about
Trump versus him, and the point that Biden's trying to make is that,
you know, look at some of the some of the stuff that Trump supports,
our Democrat stuff, and we thank him for that, you know that
that kind of stuff. Right, So you're that and that's fine. He's
welcome to have that opinion, but it is what he was wanting to do
with the opinion. Here we go curiously, just like they did in September
seven, I mean on Changuary sixth, the guy is not a Democrat with
a small D, all right, And and it's actually a little more round
about how they how they got onto the January sixth thing. But again,
I'm gonna play this cut for you. Tell me what you think he's going
seriously, just like they did in September seven. I mean on Changuary sixth,
the guy is not a Democrat with a small D. Okay, all
right? But I mean, I know what he's trying to say about what
he just said was that Trump has a giant sports car. That's what he
says. He's not a Democrat with a smile. And at the same point,
he's trying to say that Trump has a small sports car. But what
he actually says is all Democrats have small sports cars. Small right. Mmmmmm,
it's completely backfired if you let me, let me tell you as as
a dude, okay, as a dude, making jokes about another dude like
that within a circle of friends is a time honor tradition. These two are
not friends, but it's okay. They're politicians. They're going to do some
of this. But let me tell you what if you're gonna if you're gonna
lay one of those jokes out and what he what he was meaning to say
is he's he's not. This is my theory. Okay. I think what
he was trying to say he was trying to attack Trump's some of his political
decisions, but also he wanted to he wanted to even say that when you
do things like that, you're not a big d Democrat, you're a You're
not a democrat, but with a small But he didn't land it, okay,
and you gotta land it. And frankly, the reason it didn't land
it, if I could for just a moment, is because it's there.
There's too much going on. I got a comic buddy, like a professional
comic friend. And the thing that he told me that comics will sit there
and do is whittle a joke right, and you want you want to be
able to get to the setup and then into the punchline as clearly, quickly
and concisely as possible, with only the things that are important to it.
So even though some comics like Chappelle tells really long jokes, but it's all
meat in there, you know what I'm saying. So he said that you
sit there and you're always trying to find a way to work it so it's
as smooth and pops and as concise as pop. That makes sense. Nor
mc donald was really good at that too. Yes, yes, and good
comics are very good at that. I'm not saying that Joe Biden's a comic.
I'm just saying that if you're gonna go with it. The concept holds
true. In my friend group growing up, we had one of the one
of our one of our bros. His name was Morgan. Okay, big
m little Organ. He he that was. That was the inside insult joke
for probably still is he still lives. I think he still lives in our
hometown, and I know some of the other dudes do. So I got
to think that even his forty something year old adults when he's in the DJs,
which is the grocery store there. He's just trying to pick out the
you know what soup he wants, and all of a sudden he hears Chris
or Darren OLLI hey, big big m little Lorgan, how you doing?
See you quick, punchy concise And it accomplishes the mission there and and don't
get me wrong, then he give it right back. So but he just
didn't get it done. Now, I will say this because there's another cut
where people are like, ah, look at this guy, and it was
another Ron Burgundy incident prior to that, prior to that interview airing. He's
up in Green Bay, Wisconsin or is he just in Green Bay or he
was in Wisconsin. I think he was in Green Bay, but anyway,
and he's doing the smart politician thing. If you're a politician in the state
of Wisconsin and and you invoke packers in there, that's probably gonna go well
for you, unless it's like you know, boot packers, right. So
I can't tell you the number of serious adult politicians running for governor. This
is when I lived in Minnesota. So you've seen all the Wisconsin stuff too,
because you know you're right on the border there, and like the number
of grown ass adults who would show up to like political events with those cheese
heads on. But it works there, it works. This doesn't work.
My theology professor at the Catholic school I went to was a guy named Riley,
last name, and he had been drafted by the Green Bay Packers.
All right, so you hear what he said there, And the assertion is
that he clearly read a teleprompter that said Riley and then last name. And
I guess what they think is the theory is is that it was a placeholder,
which it would be on him for reading it, but also his staff
for not figuring out the name and the and or. And this is how
I heard it, he says, and listening, I'll let you listen to
it again, he says, Riley last name. Do I thought maybe he
was indicating, he was clarifying that because Riley could be both first and last
name, that it was a last name. That's the benefit of the doubt
on this. Hold on, that's the that's the d joke. Here we
go. My theology professor at the Catholic school I went to was a guy
named Riley last name, and he had been by the Green Bay Packers.
All right, so and so it's like Riley Kama last name, Like that's
his last name? Oh well, I that or he he threw it in
because there is a little pause there, like he went mildly off script because
he said Riley and then he realized, oh, that's I got to tell
people that's his last name, which is how you would address like to this
day if I asked you, what's who's your favorite high school teacher that you
had? Or mister Howard, Okay, what's his first name? I have
no idea exactly. I I guess I know John John? Is it John?
Yeah? I had to scrap my Mister Bader was probably my favorite,
and it's Jim mad But I only knew that because his dad was the auctioneer
uh forever when I was a kid, and uh for all of the livestock
stuff and and then. But he was also a really good teacher. But
that's how you refer to it last name. So I maybe he was clarifying.
I don't know, I'm not I'm not gonna People were going pretty savage
on that. I think the CNN stuff is far far tougher to explain what's
going on? And feel good about some of the some of the reactions,
even from never Trump vers. It's pretty crazy of a scene online, but
who knows, Maybe they're all bots. I don't know. And then one
more, this time over on MSNBC. Has not enough damage done on CNN?
And what about Joe Biden confronting Donald Trump, either on the debate stage
or on a number of issues. Will he be mentioning him by name?
Will the campaign be going after Trump on a regular basis to try and draw
that contrast? Is that necessary? No? I think absolutely it is,
Mika. And look, President Biden has made it very clear he will be
debating Donald Trump. Okay, all right, so this is yeah, you
have surrogates on there, it's not Biden. But are we still going with
this? If that still can continues to be the campaign's positions, because like,
one side of me really wants to see that, but the other one
is I'm in that elder abuse stage and I don't know, I know,
I'm soft whatever. But yeah, pretty crazy day and we haven't even got
to the protesters. We'll give you the update coming up KCO Day radio program.
We may realize if you head over to the social media that everybody's mad
at Apple and Microsoft, but for different reasons. So I'm like, why
are these two tries? I thought they gotten to beef, to be honest
with you, but it was. And we'll get into more of this as
we enter our number three because Stephen Kent, our NERD correspondent, he'll be
with us. But I'll give you why they're mad. Okay, So let's
start with Apple. So Apple yesterday released their latest commercial and it is for
their brand new super duper iPad uh and it's the the new it'll be the
newest pro but this one has a laptop processor in it, and it has
their there. It was at their M four I think is their their big
boy there and and yet the thing is as light and thin as you've ever
seen. And I like this stuff. There's a couple tech reviewers online that
i'll generally watch stuff by, and it's Marquis Brownlee and a guy who's a
British dude, but he goes by mister who's the boss, and I think
he does. I think he does. Between those two, there's there's some
really good stuff there. And I watched both the reviews of this thing yesterday
I had not seen the commercial, just kind of clips of it, you
know, that was smattered in with some news coverage. But I I saw
what the gist of the commercial was. In fact, I'm gonna start running
it under me because there's only herbage at the end, and then I'll explain
what you're listening to. And so what you see as you see like this,
you feel like an industrial crusher, and you see a stall of musical
instrument, you see jars of paint, you see a metronome. You see
objects that are meant to represent digital things that can be accomplished, whether it
is editing music right and his instruments, paint for the for graphic artist stuff,
and the metrom obviously on the music side. There's a few other things,
but this is the crux of their advertising. Listen to the tag on
this. You'll probably explain it. Here we go on the most powerful I,
however, is also the finist All all right, that's it. That's
all the herbage there. Now. People are are super mad over this.
And what's even funnier is in Japan, the whole country's mad at Apple.
If you are to believe literally, there's literally some uh some elected officials over
there because and I guess I don't know there was a it's a cultural slight
of some sort. In fact, I have to read it to you because
I I didn't know that. I've been to Japan, but I never attempted
to crush musical instruments. And then others are just approaching it from the uh,
how do I? How do I say this? They like they're like
their craft is being insulted, which I don't know. Some people paint digitally
and some people sit there with, you know, a paintbrush. Some people
make music purely digitally, others use the common nation of the two. And
then you know, you're always going to have your guys that want to do
it on reel to reel, whatever may, whatever floats your boat. But
the point that they're wanting to make is all of these things will be able
to be accomplished because we're but we're crushing it down to size. And now
you have this pad, which when I watch the reviews, both reviewers their
biggest surprise was how light this thing is and how thin this thing is.
And for if you're somebody like me who when I'm traveling in my backpack,
which is going to be my you know, under the seat in front of
you thing or in the overhead or whatever that will generally have what is a
pretty small lat Lenovo laptop, which are company laptops. I've I've had much
heavier laptops, but it's not a super duper thin just your standard kind of
think pad. I have an iPad Air two. Yeah, yeah, that's
that thing's like a decade or plus old. I think still works. And
you know iPhone and those those tooth well, I guess the two things there
they account for the majority of the weight that's in that backpack. I mean
it's noticeable with those so Apple wanting to go hey, not only do you
not need? Oh? And then there was also desktop computers and laptops in
the crusher there, like you get the message that they're sending. Yet everyone's
po because they think that they're insulting their artistry or something. And then Japan
it has to do with the musical instruments, like I don't understand any of
it. Ross do you do you want to go burn Apple's headquarters like some
of these idiots on Twitter or what? Because I don't know, man,
I don't get it. We can get some calls on this, but I
I guess maybe just need something to be bad about today. Now we're gonna
we'll chat with Stephen Ken about that. And then the Microsoft thing is I
know less about that, but because I I really hadn't. I'm not familiar
with the game studios. But Microsoft also was taking the vitriol of Twitter and
some other corners of the internet because they were acquiring and they've been trying to
do this for a long time. They're acquiring video game studios, small independent
studios right and rolling it into their video game side. Because you know Microsoft
has Xbox, right, and they tried to do with little ones, but
they've done it. They tried to do with big ones like Activision Blizzard,
which you know had that was literally being reviewed at the but the federal level.
And when they acquire them, you're gonna be shocked to learn this.
They will roll them into their program and if there is redundancy, then there
will no longer be redundancy. Do you understand what I'm saying? It is
It's not something that Microsoft just came up with. It's literally how businesses work.
And look, it is that always a good thing? Well, it
depends who you are if you're somebody who's redundant, or more importantly, if
you are someone or a division of something that is always in the red,
is not a profitable sector of it, and you have a new set of
eyes on your books, try to figure out, Okay, how are we
going to structure this within our company? That's not good for you? And
it may be not your fault at all, but that's the reality of it.
And then it was it just turned into this giant attack on capitalism again.
I keep seeing more more things on Twitter and social media where when I
see it, I feel more and more like the guy and the memes standing
up in the meeting. Yes, well, they're like, oh my god,
can you believe Microsoft laid off these workers and got rid of these studios,
and you know these studios that haven't you know they produce these great games
like Prey and Dishonored, which are like eight years old, and I am
actually I was surprised that I have heard. Yeah those games, they're yeah,
they're good games. I just downloaded the Prey game the other day.
I'm by playing to playing it. But like I said, your examples of
great games they've made are eight to a decade year old, right, right,
and you need to produce. And it's like, I'm like, well,
what is the drama here, Like, well, they're laying off workers
in these studios. First off, these workers have gone on to other studios.
They're they're moving a lot of them into different areas of their companies,
so they're not exactly all laid off. But you have these communists in this
bubble on x slash Twitter that are like, can you this is the problem
with capitalism is you know, this is a creative medium and you're firing these
creative people. It's not about profit, it's about creating art. And I'm
like, I'm sorry, welcome to Realville. It's a business and it's exactly
about producing and making money. And by the way, so I feel like
the guy's standing a year. Yeah, every year there's some independent, never
heard of studio that comes out, puts a game out and where it's like
because it's like five guys passion right now, they're one of these studios.
So but I feel more and more like the guy in the meme because I'm
reading all this stuff and I'm like, I don't care. I don't care
about any of it now, I'm starting to see some pushback on social media
from people that are like, yeah, I don't care either. This is
how the real world works, and you've got to deal with it, you
little baby communist. But then these same people are like, oh, well,
to show that we are against Microsoft, we all need to canceall our
game pass accounts. We need a boycout. So you're you're saying your solution
to show solidarity with the workers that have been fired or these studios that have
been they're gone, don't do it is can your game pass account, which
is going to cost more people their jobs, as if you're a moron and
you don't know what you're talking about. That's true. Oh man, it's
always that come on, dude, how long you've been doing so dumb solution
like everyone needs twenty dollars fast food salaries in California. Yeah, that'll do
it. What happened. But I love it like it goes back, you
know, the like rock Star. This was another game outrage that I remember
when Rockstar came out with Red Dead Redemption two, in my opinion, the
greatest game ever made. There is a big outcry for people saying, yeah,
but you know, the the the devs and the workers had to put
an extra hour what they call in the game industry crunch time. They're all
putting in like one hundred and twenty hours a week or something stupid, and
can you believe it, I'm not going to buy the game. And once
again it was a guy in the meme standing up in the meeting going,
I don't care. I don't care where the game comes from. You they
were using those workers. That what you're saying. They were paying the workers
and they were doing they they were there on their own accord, right,
But yeah, worst case scenario comes out and they find out, hey,
this game was produced by slave labor in China. I don't care. I
don't care. I just don't. I am playing my game, and if
it's a good game, I'm gonna play the game. If it's a bad
game, I'm not going to play the game. I don't. I don't
care. I'm not more and more child slavely more and more. I don't
care. I just don't care. It's all. The solution is always like
immediately recognizable to people with two brain cells to rub together that it will have
a negative effect. It will literally have a negative effect. It is wholly
predictable, and yet every damn time, and I they know, but they
realize if we if we march around, cry baby, block traffic and throw
stuff on people disagree with us, and then we get our way, if
it does have that impact that we know it's going to have, then we
have another reason to march around and throw stuff at people and whine and cry
about it like it's in a way, it's like they're recognizing that to maintain
their industry, decisions have to be made. If you want to get as
deep as that. Maybe they don't think of it as that deep, but
that's the net effect of what's going on. But it also shows, and
you know this, that social media Twitter is not real life. No,
it's a bubble. These people are living in a bubble because if you go
when you talk to the average gamer, go down to the water cooler,
those still exist at your workplace, in the kitchen whatever, or knocking so
you know, random gamer's door, and if they happen to open and not
shoot you in the face and have a conversation with them, you're like,
can you believe Microsoft shut down arcane? What is don't even know what the
name of the studio Arcane, whatever the studio is, or they shut down
the creators of Hi Fi Rush that studios. The average gamer is gonna be
like, who what are you talking about? To your point too, they
shut down the projects within that company, and many of those devs are now
literally working on games in other capacity. Well, like I said, they
move them around within the cometro bussoff. Yeah, welcome to the real world.
This happens in every industry. If you don't produce right, you're not
going to be around for a long time. It's one of what I can
think of, except if you work for government. If you're in the government,
you know what you just do? You just solved it. We get
rid of all these game studios, one massive government game studio. Huh,
that'd be great. It reminds me of that quote in Ghostbusters, the original
Ghostbusters where they lose their job at the college, and I think it's Dan
Aykroyd. It's like, oh my god, we're going to have to go
into the We have to produce the private sector now, and it's different.
Those people expect results. Yeah, it's a great that's such a great line
in that movie. Well, and it's not like they weren't in the private
sector. But no, no, no, my problem solves all of that
one massive game studio gov dot GOV. I think Russia didn't Russia recently say
they were going to do that. They were going to start creating their own
video games because they felt like the games coming out were propaganda for the game.
Well no, no, no, because now you're talking they wanted to
create their own propaganda, right right, Well, and that's but here's but
they didn't say they were going to shut down all the other ones in my
plan, and they seize the means of productions. Right, Commies are happy,
right solidarity. Can you imagine how awesome those games would be and it
would just be like it would your character would literally it would just be one
big struggle session. To be fair, a lot of these woke developers,
right, would probably fit in with the government over video game because it'd be
like, oh, this is perfect. We can already do all this vanilla
bland, PC bull crap. We're very good at producing that. And like,
here's the other thing too. Even though it's government, it would be
a government one and we can make all the jokes in the world. I
think they'd still be able to churn out a Diablo sequel in less than twelve
years, so you know, might be that's a good point. Yeah,
dude. Here's the other thing too, the Democrats in charge. I don't
think they would make I don't think they'd make any changes to Grand Theft Auto,
except that you could kill more cops and maybe even some some Jewish missions
with the current crop of leaders. So because Mayhem is the name of the
game with the ruling class right now, so I think that would fit in.
But good lord man, all right, well we'll get into I got
pretty we got pretty deep into that. Oh, just one thing on the
Apple thing. Here's the other problem with your Apple. You got like high
expectations when you put a commercial out because Apple. If you ever look at
a list of the top fifty ads of all time, n of them will
have Apple's nineteen eighty four ad either at the top or right there. And
if you don't remember that, that's the one where they're all sitting in the
you know, this dystopic futuristic theater staring at a screen, you know,
obey, and there's some you know, it's it's every v for Vendetta looking
kind of thing, and then this woman in athletic gear runs in and spins
a hammer through the screen. Now it looks old, but it was groundbreaking
at the time, so they always put that right. So and then their
iPod ads over the years have been have been very very famously followed like if
your song appears on there, now you're a star kind of stuff. So
if you want to judge it by that ads is kind of stupid, fine,
but calm down, people to quote Ross, I don't care. So
anyway, six fifty one, hang on CODA Radio program our number two we'll
do in one hour. We'll have Stephen Kent, our NERD correspondent join us.
We got what more woke Star Wars stuff. We'll get into the Apple,
Microsoft stuff, few other things. So make sure you're here in one
hour. In fact, I'm ordering you to stick around for the next two
hours. Okay, all right, very good. So where do we even
start here, Well, let me let me start with this. So uh
this, I was reading this this morning. Oh even picture of that thing?
Yeah, buddy, all right, So Raleigh Animal Control uh said that
they had to go wrangle a five foot iguana. And it's not the first
one this year, but it is the biggest holy cow. Uh. Lieutenant
Jason Burreno said this and this is the part kind of raised my eyebrows said.
The missing animal most likely belonged to a traveler who was coming through the
area. Officials believe the iguana somehow got out of a vehicle. I'm curious
to know why you think that. It's because nobody called about their loss iguana.
Maybe they didn't know anybody missing an iguana. Oh my god, is
that little iggy? Well yeah, I wouldn't say he's little. I mean
that thing is called oh it's like what do you call it? That guy
time because he used to be little as a bait, a little iggy.
Well, yeah, this is my iguana, little iggy? Is it like
is it like kind of like scally in the back sort of? Uh a
picture? Yeah? Did your iguana have a really long tail? Like?
Like so it's not in the frame anymore. I mean it depends on the
angle. Does he have sharp claws? His yess on his feet? There
is he a greenish color? You're you're boss pens in the season, does
it? I think you're thinking of chameleons right anyway? All right, well,
are you doubting my story? I'm just if you want to eat it
or put it in a terrarium like the weirdos with the snakes, which,
by the way, speaking of snakes, this is a bigger deal because after
what after zebra, cobra and sanity, you all remember that, like can
you I don't can you order? Or can you own a big iguana?
But I'm curious why I think it was. I think maybe because nobody reported,
or maybe and they don't say the location. They they actually found it,
where we located it. Why are you being secretive of where you locate
where we located it. We believe whomever had it was traveling and somehow it
was released. Was it that like is it of the sheets by was it
the sheets by the airport? That would raise more questions because I don't know,
man, but that's what they're saying. So it has to be location
or they just think since nobody called, but they took it over the Wildlife
Rehabilitation Center of North Carolina, so they'll deal with it. So that's where
you gotta go. Pick up a little iggy? Is it little with tease
or little like he's a round l I l with the apostrophe? Okay,
all right there we go, so that mystery solved. On to the next
mystery, a mystery of who they think their target audience for this is what
is? Let me, guys, let me ask you guys something, and
I want you to I want you to view this through the eyes of like
a ten year eight to ten year old boy. What's the coolest gift?
Not nowadays, but let's go back when I you know, late eighties early
nineties would be the period for me. I guess late eighties because I was
born in eighty What would be the just about the coolest damn gift you could
get? In there? Ross did you have? Did you have, like
a really thing that you really really wanted? I mean other than the video
game stuff? I mean because that obviously was right around that time, because
the only stuff besides video games there was a thing, like I mentioned this
before for Christmas, I wanted stuff from the army surplus store. Yes,
like helmets and shovels and pickaxe and a gas mask and like an army utility
belt and all that kind of stuff. What is wrong with you? I
don't know. It was super cool though, Yeah, how about a Swiss
army knife. Hmmm? Will that be Do you want you have one of
those? Did you want? I never asked for one, but I do
have a Swiss Army knife. Story. Okay, you didn't have one,
but you have a Okay, I was. I was working at the World
of Science. Uh huh and uh that was in the back room and I
was, you know, putting stuff away and as you do. And I,
you know, it was a Swiss Army knife, and I said,
look at this thing. This is amazing. I took it out of the
box and it was just looking at it. I opened up the blade and
I, for some reason, I wanted to see how sharp the blade was,
so I, you know, just briefly rubbed it against my thumb,
because up to that point every Swiss Army knife had seen had been older and
duller. This thing went through. I didn't even feel it. It went
like I remember looking at it going that's weird. Didn't even feel went right
through my thumb like a knife through butter. And my thumb starts bleeding like
a spickett all over the stock room. And there's these ancient world the World
of Science, in the back of New York all but in New York.
So it just starts bleeding all over these fossils we had just unwrapped, and
we're getting ready like these like, hey, this is an old bronosaur's foot,
or this is a t rex whatever the hell it is, and it's
lasting, but yeah, it's lasted millions of years. And then I destroyed
it because my with the blood coming out of my thumb from the stupid Swiss
army knife. So I'm in a panic and I'm like, I don't know
what to do now, and I'm just looking at this blood come out of
my thumb, and I wrap up my arm my thumb with the newspaper that
the fossils had been wrapped up in before I unwrapped them. So I walk
out of the stock room and I remember, I think her name was Kathy.
She was the manager there, and she looked at it. She was
like, oh my god, did you murder someone? And I'm like,
I need to go to the emergency room, and so I go there.
I still have I can look at he right now. This is where the
you know, where the stitches were put into my thumb. Oh. And
I got a call shortly thereafter saying that I was no longer needed at the
World of science because I destroyed the fossils with the blood coming out of my
thumb from playing with the Swiss Army knife. Oh that's lazy. You know
what you guys could have just dude, can you imagine? Let me,
let me, let me. I didn't just spin it. You gotta spin
it. No, forget the knife thing with the fossils. Somebody wants to
come in and they're looking at the why is their blood? And you're like,
well, what happened? What happened here before the t rex fell in
the tar he ate it? Yes, yeah, so this is a one
of a kind, right, so and then charge three times and then if
it works, you'd probably be back there asking you to blood up all the
rest of the five. I even asked. I'm like, can I have
the Swiss Army knife because you can't sell that now because they coated in my
blood? Since sinna, can I at least have that? And they're like,
no, dude, I'm telling you man, uh I Swiss Army Knight.
Now. I know it's that people are gonna call and they're like,
oh, this is better, this is better. No, when you're eight,
you don't know, like you just see a Swiss army knife. You
see all the crap that can do. That was exciting, man, So
I had I went through a few of them. And then obviously when you
get older, a lot of people got into the leatherman phase. Same concept.
But you know, the pliers are nice, and there's all sorts of
multi tools out there. And so why am I bringing this up? Because
Carl Elsner the CEO of the parent company, Victory Knox. I can I
just realize. I don't know how to say the name of that company,
but anyway, the parent company are working on new Swiss army knives. Now
they do some stuff. There's they make a product for golfers. Does it
have a blade on it? I have one of my golf bag because I
got it. I got it at a tournament. It was one of the
packaged deals. I don't know. I just rode in my golf bag.
But I have another tool that I use that and then my driver has I
don't know why when we had to start carrying all these tools in our golf
bags what we do, and but I can't remember if it has a blade,
I would assume it did. It would my other thing, my other
multi tool that I have in there does have a blade, and I do
use it. I use it for because I like to. I wrap my
fingers a couple of my fingers because of my grip. If not, it'll
be a problem. And I'll use that just to quick cut the tape.
But uh, they're gonna get rid of the blade and the Swiss army knife.
Gotta get rid of that blade. Okay. You see, at no
point during my episode was I like, they need to ban this item or
stop selling the item. My My reaction was, I'm an idiot, and
why did I do that? Well, I was gonna here's what I'm gonna
tell you. Man. No, you know what. It's kind of your
bad, but it's innate. I don't know of I don't Why is it
that men, and I'm fully guilty of this, have this incessant need to
when we're handed a knife for the first time, rub our finger across it
to check it. Now, you can do it without murdering yourself. No
like examples. But when I got my dad's get it when it can't help
it. No, my dad passed away and they got his k bar from
Vietnam. Right, first thing you did? Right? But but I was
I was more cautious because I was aware that it was a combat knight that
was used in Vietnam right during the Tet offensive. Like I was like,
you know, so I did I put my you know, thomb I wanted
to see how sharp it was. With the thing of the stupid world of
science, I never expected this little knife to be that sharp, right,
absolutely, and it was super sharp and and the like the holding an edge
on those generic Swiss Army knight, it's not going to do it for a
very long time, but you hit it right out of the box, so
you know, uh a for effort there. But yeah, like the amount
of time that I myself will find myself touching them. But there's no reason
to touch the blade unless I'm in a position where I ate is mine and
I may want to sharpen it. And yet then there's other ways to go
about that. But whatever, I don't know. It's not your fault,
is what I'm saying. It's nature and I don't know why, because it
doesn't seem like a productive innate quality in any way, shape or form,
because it abuses injury. But let me get back to this now, does
that mean that all models of the Swiss Army knife. Are they're going to
remove the blades? No, okay, but the main products that you know,
the big ones, those are the ones that are going to address first.
And then they say that they will have they will continue to produce a
line of bladed models. So which sounds fine until you start hearing them explain
it, like the motivation here, because there's practical motivation, but there's also
clearly some moon bad influence. Here's the practical application though they're wrong. The
practical argument is, quote, we're concerned about the increasing regulation of knives due
to violence in the world, okay, and then also for travel. All
right, so let me let me address both of those. If there's one
thing in a world of quote unquote knife violence that I have noticed is you're
not really the problem. Like remember the video. I remember the the the
Amnesty drop box in the UK where they posted all the pictures of the quote
knives people have given up, and there's like sharpened spoons in there, and
there's some crazy looking knives. They had a wyoming knife in there, which
I thought was funny because I don't know that they do a lot of animals
skinning over in the UK. But but I don't see a lot of people
running around murdering people with Swiss army knives. Like most of the blades aren't
even long enough. You could murder somebody, but you got to hit them
right. Two. Yeah, I'm I actually, I literally this morning when
I saw that, I grabbed. I have a Swiss, you know,
like a regular standard issue Swiss army knife. I looked at it and I
realized, of the like twenty different things on there, nineteen of them aren't
going through TSA even if there's no blade, do you know what I'm saying?
Like the file thing on there, the scissors, the probably that toothpick
I got, the one that's got the toothpick in the side, Like,
who the hell knows, dude. My buddy, my buddy at TSA when
we were down and we were traveling in Florida. When I went down to
that heart into the hard rock for the tobacco cigar thing, I was talking
to one of my buddies and when he came in through the airport, he
had toenail clippers, but he had ripped that spinout file off of the toenail
clippers, which I have a pair that I did that too, too,
And he'd been traveling with him, and the TSA's like, I'm sorry,
sir, you can't have clippers with the blade. And he's like, well,
there isn't a blade. There's the rivet where the blade was, but
there's no blade, and she goes, well, you need to have the
model without the blade. And he realized that this was going to be around
him, round and round uh conversation. So we just gave it to them.
But the rest of the knife ain't getting through. But then the other
thing is this also some people want a multi tool that doesn't have an aura
of violence. This is the boom, bad stuff. It's your name.
Let's let's let's go over this all right. So, yes, knives can
be violent, but knives are also useful. Like when I was chopping an
onion last night at dinner, Damn sure, I was very glad that I
had a knife chopping up some garlic can onion. And yes, could I
then turn around and go stab somebody? Sure? But also, if you
just want this this aura of violence, this era of violence or whatever the
quote was, you're it's knife in your name, and you have the word
army in your name. So if we're talking about impressions and how something makes
you feel army and knife and for what it is, it's fine, it's
perfect. I guess Swiss. Maybe just car you're just gonna call yourself Swiss
because I guess what is that cheese? Neutral or it used to be neutrality?
Hot? Chocolate? Oh hot? Oh? And the guys with the
big horns too, right? Right? Is that yeah? That's Swiss?
Right, let's see chocolate. I got some, they got some watchcred and
and the knives and and keep in mind, by the way, this company
that produces a Swiss army knives because I used to have one of their backpacks.
They make good quality backpacks. It was one of my more recent ones,
but it gave out after quite a few years and I bought another brand.
But yeah, yeah, So if that's what you're going for, what
are you doing? Man, don't screw it the don't call it a Swiss
army knife and a standard model and not have a blade in there. Can
you imagine a pod you'd be if you were you just grab you know,
they have like twenty of them on display at the sports section of Walmart or
whatever. You just grab one, you get home. There's no knife in
there. What are we even doing? Man? All right? Seven twenty
two. Also, I would say this, I have a strong I don't
believe that people who would be this sensitive about the name of this iconic product
are also people need multitools because they don't strike me as the handyman's sort.
So maybe I'm maybe that's unfair, but I don't believe it to be.
So. So there's your cancelation, the knife part. We'll be back.
Flood of email I've gotten. Every person listening to the show has multiple scars
from stupid stuff. Hey, man, scars tell stories, and I think
chicks digam. I heard that one time, which I don't know if it's
true, but maybe some do. But yeah, and a scar isn't always
because you did something stupid. You can have a surgical scar you didn't do
anything. Somebody hit you in an accident that's not your fault. But the
ones we prize most generally have a pretty good story with them, like Ross
literally bleeding all over a t Rex from millions of years ago. That's a
good one. That's a good one. I think. Let's see what my
most prominent scars are my wrist on my left hand when I tried to jump
a motorcycle when I was ten and the bone actually came out, So that's
fun. And but on that very same hand, on the left saw on
the pointer finger on my left hand, that's where a cutting saw like a
handheld, you know, like you're cutting lumber building. I was literally were
building a deck and I was cutting lumber, and I took the saw even
though I'm right handed, so I had released the button and I tried to
spin the saw like a pistol, you know, like an old West gun
fighter. Well at the same time trying to brace it and grab it with
my left hand, and at that moment, my right finger hit the on
switch and right through the I mean not obviously threw through it, but you
had a wicked scar. And I didn't even go get treatment. I wrapped
it in electrical tape with some some glue, and I remember my mom was
horrified when she saw it. We were up we were literally camping up the
mountains building this deck on this cabin that summer, so I thought, wow,
in a few weeks it won't be there. But no, it was
pretty horrible. But those have stories, man, But dudes doing dumb stuff
with knives that's a tail as old as time. Jake, what's up by
good morning? Yeah. I did something stupid too with the Swiss Army knife.
I got it for Christmas when I was eight, and I thought I
was hot stuff. So I decided to stab a tree or something stupid.
And those knives when they're pulled it out, they also pulled back in that
they have too much pressure on it, so I got my finger open.
So it would be stupid to use the Swiss Army knife as a weapon in
the first place, more of a tool versus the weapon. Well, it's
just, but also the kind of the idea that anything within and thank you
for the callers, sir, that anything in that stack is getting through TSA.
I don't get it. This is because like they realize that they can't
have market share in the UK or so I don't I don't know, man,
I don't know, but hey whatever, maybe that's what people want.
And then if I bet, if I see you with a Swiss Army knife
and no knife, I will I will judge you, just so we're clear.
Unless it is clearly another product from the company that doesn't have Swiss Army
Knife in the title. All right, fair enough, let's uh, let's
move on to this. So I, by the way, do you believe
that they're actually hunger striking at Princeton for even for all the the wailing and
crying that we have to hear with their daily presser, because they don't strike
me as people who haven't eaten in what would be a week and nobody.
You don't really know what they're up to in that little house there either,
Like they could be in there just banging ho hose down their throat. I
don't know, but I don't think they're mohandas Gandhi surviving on a thin ble
of orange juice for a week. How about the girl to the right of
the speaker holding the other definitely not? Oh you don't think Okay, yeah,
I had the same suspicion. However, we were subjected to this and
listen intently. My favorite part is the unironic use of the term literally shaking.
But there's lots to chew on. So all right, so here's the
spokes person wearing of course a face mask and having not eaten in a week.
She says, get to the good stuff. But here is an eye.
We are starting. We are physically exhausted. I'm literally shaking right out,
you can see I kind of, but you're also out there drum circling
and you're not literally starving right Cognitively, I don't. I mean, granted,
I feel like there's cognitive issues with many of these protesters, but like,
you don't strike me as somebody who is unable to formulate sentences. People
who are really, really really nutritionally deficient. It impairs your ability to do
stuff and you're saying what you want to say. So if you're literally shaken,
I don't know. And to under by the way, you have to
understand their beef. Their beef is not why why is the problem is the
university is doing this to us. But their beef is that during their hunger
strike, they expect the university to essentially have a standby medical team provide them
a temperature controlled shelter even when they're outside, so some sort of I guess
tent or something, because you know, they if they do a hunger strike
to sit in their dorm room, it doesn't have the impact of them standing
around all day whining about it. But anyway, I'm sorry, continue,
why is it their fault at the time with that I believe, but I
think that that is uh and sorry, ladies, I think that's a female
thing. Okay, all right, jacket, I don't need a jacket.
Turn the temperature down? Yeah oh yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah. So
I uh, I don't mean to gender you, but you just gendered you.
How's that? Okay? All right? Continue? Wait? Wait,
hold on, you're all immunocompromised in what way? I'm not. I'm not
denying that you are, or not saying that you are or you aren't,
but like you all are, what else you've been doing in there university seating
yesterday with some of our bargaining to you, They would love to continue physically
weakening up because they can't stand as they go to us murder. Okay,
all right, so they are weakening, They are weakening you. So their
beef, on top of wanting that stuff, the real beef is why won't
they give in to all of our demands? Why are they hurt? Why
are they trying to hurt us? Right? Once again, nobody's making them
do this, if in fact they even are doing it. But yeah,
yeah, you know you can. You can stop it even if they don't
meet your demands, right, if you feel that there's dire medical consequences ahead,
you can just go you can just go over to McDonald's. Probably not
if you haven't you literally haven't eaten a week. I wouldn't recommend McDonald's.
Maybe something a little easier, but still it's there, it's right there for
you. I realized I realized loading this audio this morning, because you know,
when all it started in the flag at you and see and all that.
Yeah, I was very concerned, like is this a serious threat or
a danger? And as more of these videos come out, I don't think
I'm alone here. You realize how laughable all of this is. And I
don't really believe they pose any threat because these are and we've said this going
back now for years, this has about any point of ours on the show.
This is a weak, soft, spineless generation that they're not going to
accomplish anything because they don't have the follow through. I went without eating my
you know, but for a day, and now I'm having hot flashes and
they're not taking care of me, and they're not pampering me, and they're
not listening to us, and shut up, nobody cares that they've become a
joke. Well, here's I will go with the people in the video.
But what happens too often, and I think this is where concerns lie is
you get the infiltrators, right, who will undercover of your lunacy while everyone's
staring around at the stupidity of this woman in her friend and actually cause damage.
They're over there like, uh, you know, let's uh, let's
smash a bunch of stuff, or let's hit a dude with a with a
milkshake that's actually quick creed in the head and cause brain bleeding. They're useful
idiots at this point. Yes, So that's where the danger is. I'm
not scared of this check. Which, by the way, if she you
want to test whether if she's so hungry, here's the test. Ask her
where she wants to eat. If she can actually pick a place, then
I'll believe she's hungry. What I what You have to have a litmus test,
right. If she immediately goes let's go here, I'm like, Wow,
she is hungry. But if she goes starts himming and haunts she's like,
I want burgers, You're like, or I want burgers. You're like,
all right, Well, here's nine burger places. That are easily accessible.
I don't want any of those. I don't believe you. The more
days go go on, it goes beyond parody. Right, Well, well
I haven't, dude. I'm only by the way, I am only one
order of the way through this idiot's audio. One quarter. I'm gonna finish
this first cut and then we're gonna talk to Ray. But let's just let's
continue. I was here. I truly do not feel like I'm doing anything
special. This is my choice, and I would not spend my birthday doing
anything other than seeing here and standing his solidarity with you. Ale, How
did by the way, how does somebody not roll the cake in like in
the movie Godfather? How if I would do look at this delicious double funge
cakes Ross and I would come in with a cake on a cart and I
would rush show everyone the cake show we won the cake, right like like
that Cuba. Yeah, yeah, don't cut the cake until everybody see it.
I give it the cake, all right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I was or set up on one of those little tailgate grills. What
are you doing as a pupil? And all right yeah yeah yeah, drum
circle. Wait for the rest of this lunacy, but first weather lunacy with
a race aging from the weather channel. Man, how you doing, Yeah,
we're doing all right. Rough day for some yesterday, especially Charlotte points
west. Yeah, numerous reports of a wind in, trees down and power
still out. Did you see the by the way, I'm sorry to speaking
of those. Did you see the lawn Did you see the lawnmower picture?
I did not this this it was it was. It was near I can'member
one of one of the smaller towns here, Charlotte, and in the picture
of riding John Deere mower, like a standard yard one, and it's in
it's it's literally looks like it's been deposited and just smashed. But it's in
a parking lot and all the vehicles look fine. So it's like somethings God
had beef with that lawnmower. Dude. It was interesting photo. Yeah,
all numerous reports of damage on I think there's it's close to eighty something thousand
customers across the state without power, and most of those are west and southwest,
down south of even Asheville and out near a bunkhom County or Bunkham County
where Ashville resides southwest of that in Mecklenburg County, Gaston County around there,
where they had very strong winds. Don't see any tornado reports officially yet,
but there were reports of some scene of potential tornado. The threat today is
limited showers around town now more to the west, and stronger storms. The
guidance is saying the weekend and as they approach. But I will be surprised,
especially from the Triad west this morning through about midday, if we get
a stronger storm. But I really think most of this is going to be
over with lunchtime or earlier cloudy the satterdude could climb to the blow to mid
eighties. I'm not quite sure we'll get that mild tonight. We're going to
drop back into the sixties, maybe near sixty degrees by tomorrow morning and maybe
a shower thunder shower tomorrow afternoon with clouds and sunshine. And the weekend there's
still going to be pretty decent. We have thrown a slight chance of a
shower in Saturday. I really don't see much rain at all Sunday, clouds
otherwise low seventies, sunny on Mother's Day. On Sunday, mid seventies,
overnight lows in the upper forties to low fifties. So certainly looking like some
better weather ahead as we had two on the weekend. All right, thank
you, sir, appreciate it. All right, Racey staging from the Weather
Channel. Everyone's trying to outdo my cake. Let me explain why my cake
torture would be the best, because you're missing you're missing a big issue here.
It's not just because it's you know, Godfather reference. In that scenario,
the person giving them the cake would be a hymen rough and they may
they it might not click with them because they probably didn't watch Godfather because they
had the word God in it. He always made money for his partners.
Though. Yeah, I think that's one of their beefs. Like that's good
that they chant because they have the Uh did you see them? What did
they call? They were calling it like they had like the money jew or
something. Dude, it's all it's all the stereotypical stuff they had, like
this this mannequin dressed and it was literally the characterture stuff that you saw in
the papers. Yeah in Germany, right, Like here's a cartoon and they
were doing that for real. So you know, can help. That's why
they didn't want the bagels brought to them. Yes, it's awful. So
a guy doing a hymen Roth voice bringing you your birthday cake at your hunger
strike, I feel like that cuts, Like that cuts more than a brand
new Swiss army knife at Ross's job. We'll be right back. Somebody's getting
an uber NERD tech with me on stuff. Well, luckily we got a
nerd correspondent coming up, sir, So we will get into the Apple stuff
and the Star Wars stuff and just a few other things with Stephen Kent,
who will join us here in about eleven twelve minutes. All right, let
me get back to the chick who's literally shaking and both hot and cold at
the same time, which now I'm going to assume her gender. But anyway,
back to the bullhorn, back to the hunger strike. Let's do this
us as strikers. You will continue to starve until they meet our demands.
Okay. In addition, I would like to note that the administration is also
lying to the media. Oh no, to the shame the media. They
have announced that they have been consistently sending their own doctors to come to our
area and monitor us hunger strikers, and monitor our health. This is a
lie. They are not They are not monitoring our health. They are not
keeping track of our vitals. They are not at all taking care of us
in any regard. They have only sent a spokesperson from UHS twice to give
us informational pamphlets. But they are not at all at all taking care of
us in any regard. And I want to make that very clear that they
are not caring for us, that they do not care for us, and
they are yeah, okay, all right, they're big, big poopy lars.
Got it. You realize that you speaking right now is not the only
thing on video, right, ma'am. But I don't know if you know
basically every second of every minute, even though people are wearing masks and you
know, slapping phones at like somebody's recording it. Okay, And when you
all first started this, you got mad over a doctor attempting to communicate with
you, not a person with pamphlets, a doctor, And I saw the
doctor's last name, and some people think that might have been part of your
beef. You get what I'm driving at. So I'm not sure one hundred
percent would happened, but I remember that, or the doctor could be coming
in and looking at him, going, you guys are in any danger at
all? You're fine? Yeah, or well you're not fine obviously, but
well I mean mentally sure. Yeah, they're like, I am not the
kind of doctor you need. Here's my But maybe that's not like you know,
maybe she's not realizing that, like you know, the reason the doctors
aren't having you to take your vitals is you're absolutely fine. There's something wrong
with you again? Does that look like someone from who hasn't eaten in a
week? Think about the mental acuity drop off if you're supretty hydrated, right
or you haven't eaten. There's a reason hangry is a thing. Because it
is a thing. It is the CaCO DA Radio program Phone number eight eight
eight nine three four seven eight seven four. But hold on to those thoughts,
those calls, because we're going to welcome in our official nerd politics entertainment
in the intersection thereof Stephen Kent, our go to guy on this Steven,
How are you doing this morning, Casey? I was doing fine until Comcast
Exfinity texted me just a few minutes ago saying that they're doing more service in
my neighborhood today, and I could have another day of internet outages from nine
to five. So if I lose you, that's why, Casey, They're
out to get us. Wait, how would you lose? Are you?
Are you calling? Are you skyping or something? I'm a professional, Casey.
I do this from my office on a hard line with a beautiful Joe
Rogan Schure microphone connected to the Internet. Yeah. Phones are old school,
dude. Every guest was like you, I swear the amount of members of
Congress who I assume have placed a cell phone on the far side of their
death to talk to me is maddening in the world of radio. But that's
another thing for another day. Let's get on. I woke up this morning
to as I normally do, sleep out of the eyes, you know,
o dark for something in the morning. And I'm sitting there like, and
one of the first things I do is I I got an iPad that's just
next to my desk or's next to my bed, uh, and I will
clip that open. I'm like, all right, what insane thing happened overnight?
And Twitter trends is generally one of the first things I look at and
I'm like, why does everyway? So everyone's mad at Apple and Microsoft?
What is going on? Was your iPad? Was your iPad made with the
bones and the innards of retro record players and pianos and metronome I hope so
because I think I'm gonna I'm gonna. I'm gonna not defend this. I
think it's dumb, but so so I to get into it. And I
had not see let's start with Apple, I had not seen the commercial.
However, I when there's something techie, do you know? Obviously you know
who Marquis Brownlee and uh, mister who, mister Who's the boss? Right?
You know those YouTube accounts. They're tech guys, right, the two
of the biggest tech guys out there. And I like their I like their
reviews. I also like how last week they said that Brownlee was trying to
sink companies because they produced bad AI products. But that's another thing, and
they had reviews. The British dude was he was infatuated with this thing,
and Brownlee was complimentary. And I like Apple products. I'm not gonna pay
thirty six hundred dollars for a pad and my iPad is an Air two,
which is like a decade old, but it works. And but people's beef
was in an effort to market a device that is is way more advanced than
any other pad they've ever put out. It's way lighter, it's thinner,
and it has a the processing power of a laptop with their new incredible Yeah,
it is an incredible thing. And that bridging that gap and finding a
the an iPad. Remember when it used to be, hey, let's get
a laptop that can do desktop stuff. That'll be amazing when it is well,
yeah, I mean I remember those days. And I mean all this
goes back to this this iPad debut. There there crush ad that came out
just two days ago. So you know, this ad for anybody who hasn't
seen it, has gotten like a huge reaction, at least online where everything
gets a huge reaction. And the ad depicts beautiful retro devices like record players,
an arcade machine, a guitar, piano. Yeah, paint all that
stuff being crushed by an industrial like trash compactor Star Wars style and mashed into
what is the new iPad. And this has triggered, like you know,
a disgust response and some people because they just really hate seeing these kind of
beautiful devices annihilated for technology, and then you know, some people think it's
super cool. I'm curious what side you're on, because it actually triggered my
discuss response and I wasn't prepared for it. All right, I'll say this,
I one hundred percent get what they're trying to say. And because it
is to justify the purchase price, your sole marketing endeavor needs to be able
to convince high end users, right, people who are running things like Final
cut Pro, which I watch. Yes, these two tech guys run on
there, and it looked with the key pet with the magic keyboard attached,
it looked like there was no functionality difference between what you can now run in
an iPad and as somebody who has tried to edit, who has to edit
stuff over the years, it's all there's always been this big divide in editors
in a pad or within an iOS. And you know something you're gonna run
on a den so incredible, Yes, selling me or something I'm not gonna
pay thirty six hundred dollars, but selling somebody who can justify that because of
what they do on the fact that this can this can do it is the
challenge and so demonstrating all these things and making that claim and then being able
to back it up, well, that will be the success or downfall of
this product. So I get the messaging, but where it got weird for
me? I don't. I just think the ad is not good and Apple
has a high bar because most people think that Apple is the has the number
one ad of all time, right, the nineteen eighty four ad. That's
why when you look at the rankings where they do these stupid list, that's
almost always at the top. So there's a high bar if you're Apple.
I don't think. I don't think the ad was very interesting, but I
think the message is the key here and it's fine. But where God whacked
out is in Japan? Do you see how bad the Japanese are and like
Japanese public because it's like there's a cultural slight. I guess we're destroying music
instruments, which I was unaware of it. So yeah, I mean there's
a lot going on here. Yeah. One of my favorite, one of
my favorite corporate communications accounts that I follow is Lulu Maservi. She used to
run comms for Substack and then she was at Microsoft activision, you know,
before the Microsoft or the merger that just happened recently. But she she kind
of laid out here that like Apple's history with its founding was that these were
supposed to beautiful products. There are sort of works of art in and of
themselves, you know. The whole idea behind Apple was that they were supposed
to be as beautiful on the inside as they're outside, and that they were
supposed to be about the power of people, not the machine, which in
that time was Microsoft, Apple's competitor. I'm sorry, not not Microsoft,
but some of Apple's competitors in the early days of computing and the internet,
Dell and the Life. So, like the whole idea here is counter to
that, Like in this ad you have beautiful works of art and human ingenuity
and classical stuff being literally destroyed. And so it's it's sort of like this
weird branding pivot in another direction where I think like Apple back in the day
would have never shown something like this, but they were an edgy brand.
They used to do sort of transgressive things, and this is a little bit
of a transgressive ad. Well. But here's the other thing. I reject
the idea that the just people who are painting van Go style or banging away
on a on a piano, or artists. They are, don't get me
wrong, and I'm down for that. I love people who are really good
at stuff. I find that amazing. But also I think it's pretty artistic.
You got a duel. You got duel was the only screens. There's
two on there, there's the amount of storage is crazy, the processing speed
is crazy, and it weighs twice what my iPad air two which kind of
mostly sometimes works. Ways, how is that not an achievement? Uh,
an artistic achieve I understand it's a product, but yeah, you can't argue
that the first iPhone was not also artistic in nature, and this isn't that.
Yeah, that's what they strive for. And the I don't trust the
what I was told. The weight of this thing is boggles my mind.
I believe it. But holy crap, man, that is amazing. Yeah,
and this is this is the kind of a thing for consumer products.
Is you when you're making ads, you want people to be having the right
conversation about your products. And so when you're going to roll out this piece
of technology which apple, oh my gosh, Like I am excited as an
Apple person, this is going to be such a cool new era where you
can take some of these really powerful MacBook Pro tools on the go with you
almost anywhere, and they're going to be perfectly functional. That's that's what you
want people talking about. And so I'm not really of the belief that all
press is good press. I actually don't believe in that old marketing adage.
And you know, when it comes to the new ad, you want people
to be talking about the beauty of it, not the waste and the bones
of retro products that went into making the iPad under the weight of industry.
That's not a beautiful image. So I think I love little cultural slights too
that you don't know about. Do you try to travel inside the US a
lot? It's wild to learn. I do. I do recently. Yeah,
I've been traveling recently for my my work at the Consumer Choice Center there.
When I when I've traveled in there's many countries. There's several countries in
Latin America I traveled to and I didn't know a thing for a long time,
and I could never understand. So when somebody says you speak any Spanish
at all, you almost does right, How are you right? That's that's
one end the end. But that's not the correct answer. Did you know
that you go to coast Town? I didn't go to Panama. No,
the correct answer is Bienny two. It's because it is culturally rude for me
not to ask how you're doing after you asked how I was doing, and
so pee I've answered people and they give me a weird look, and I'm
like, what did I do wrong? And then somebody explained it to me
one time, and it's just but it's those little nuanced things like I didn't
know in Japan the demolishing a musical instrument is a cultural slight. Did you
know that? I didn't know that. But Apple probably not know that.
But that's that sounds like a thing that the Japanese would feel. That just
feels very Yeah, well there's a lot of tradition over there, which is
fine, but like, but Apple should probably know that. So if there
is fault here, maybe that it would be. But I got we got
to pivot over to Microsoft because actually I can solve the Microsoft problem. Explain
what the problem is. Explain what the problem is first, and I'll explain
the solution. Go right, ahead set this up. Why are people mad
at Microsoft? And by people I mean Commons. Yes, well, Microsoft
Xbox is joining the rest of the industry in around another round of layoffs within
its video game division. So there have already been at least nineteen hundred layoffs
at Activision, Blizzard, and Xbox since their merger that closed just a couple
of months ago. And you know there's another round coming. And this is
right next to Sony, you know, who has PlayStation who just announced that
they're going to be laying off nine hundred employees. So there's a huge level
of staffing retraction going on across the video game industry. Despite some breakout hits
here and there. You know, they're not like struggling in all cases to
have hit games. But there seems to be a disconnect, at least in
the consumer side between the perception that these companies are consolidating and doing well.
So why are they laying off employees? I mean, I have a couple
answers for that, but I'm curious what you have to say about that.
I have, Well, I have a final I have a solution at the
end of it. So why, I mean, my theory on why they're
doing it is because it's literally how acquisitions work and when you're rolling different things
in. And by the way, a lot of these folks are not doing
the job that they were initially doing, but they are now still working within
the company or have went in with other studios. Well, there's a little
bit of a problem there Casey though, which is that when the FTC came
after Microsoft Activisions. Yeah, there was a guarantee that was made by Microsoft
Activision that they were not going to be layoffs because there was not going to
be any duplication between roles. They were going to virtual vertically integrate, and
so having layoffs makes them appear as if they are going up against that.
But you know, the real problem here is that it's not about the vertical
integration. It's that the business is not growing. This business is in retraction
because of the massive cost of Triple A games that are not competing quite as
well as indie games that are on Steam for PC gamers. Indie studios are
crushing it, and these big studios and these big consoles are being annihilated by
the cost of production for big blockbuster video games. Yeah, and I get
it. And you know, generally, even when you have those agreements.
This is where you get the politics of it, if you when people deep
dive agreements like that because I didn't want I didn't want Microsoft to buy Blizzard
when they first brought it up, because I was concerned as a Diablo fan
that and a guy who had PlayStation equipment, I was. I was worried
that these guys would try to not put it on PlayStation or something crazy like
that. But like after that, I'm just sitting there and I'm looking at
it, like, okay, all right, you made this agreement. But
those agreements also generally have somebody from a glatory standpoint is looking at it.
You can still lay people off, but it has to be within certain parameters
like normal business stuff. Right. So but now you know, if you
can make an argument that meets those requirements, then that's fine and we can
have a debate. But people are going out and they say, now they
can't lay anyone off, and that's not how these things actually work. As
you pointed out specific situations and that well, and that doesn't even account Casey
for like I mean, I hate to say it, but Generative AI is
going to lay off a ton of these kids in the video game industry who
make their bones being on teams of twenty people generating landscapes and environments for massive
online games, you know, like The Red Dead, Redemptions of the World
or something you know, where you can spend hours exploring an environment. Those
are the kinds of jobs that are going to be click one and done for
generative AI technology that can make these environments immediately. More layoffs are coming.
Yeah, let me just say this and then I'll give you my solution.
The thing is, though, this is another eat the rich thing, right,
and it doesn't help with the president's coming out bitching about how much his
snickers cost or his chips or whatever, because the reality is and this I
look, I understand the corporate greed is a thing, but it's also a
thing like everything else that has to be managed because investors notice stuff like that,
and that is that's where the real rubber meets the road. So that's
kind of the stop gap there. But secondly, this idea that making video
games should be about passion and not money is that's childish thinking because of the
cost of these games. And so yes, you can say that, but
the quality control oftentimes is the money. So my solution if you're not worried
about any of that. All the game devs, everything sees the means one
big government game game dot gov. They just produce all the games. I'm
sure they'll be amazing, right, And I think I think it could work.
I love your solution. Yeah, no, it'd be great because even
the government a Yablo sequel in under twelve years. I stand by that it's
possible. If possible, you know, I've seen some of these quotes from
gamers saying that like video games are about making art, not about you know,
making money. Yeah, like you said, childish. There's a really
wonderful quote from George Lucas in twenty ten where he was hosting a film sort
of festival for Isabeli I'll blow you away on this one for Israeli and Palestinian
filmmakers, and he told them in this panel that he was doing with the
filmmakers, if you really want to succeed in this business, make movies that
people want to see. They only have so much money in their pockets,
and it's your job as an artist to make something that people want to spend
their limited dollars on. So the best capitalist critics are capitalists themselves. Yeah,
and then he added put a chicken, it make her gay, So
I believe it was maybe I probably have to do all right, man,
I got a roll, thank you, and we'll be right back. I
didn't pull all of it because I know it was pretty It was far along
in the news cycle and I'm sure you all saw it. But I just
have to verbalize this is the amount of rage. I do a pretty good
job, and I think that it's like it's like I don't want to compare
exactly what we do, so understand the analogy, but it's like you become
desensitized. It's like some dude who just got back from his seventh tour and
now I'm kind of like, well, oh you want that. You know,
they see some horrific car accident you gag induced it, and that dude's
just staring at it. Like but I think with the with if I literally
had a physical reaction to every dumb story I come across and got angry about
it, I probably be dead by now just considering what we do. That
being said old school rage inducing. Watching Chris Cuomo and what's her name,
doctor ren or whatever? Who was the CD was CDC direct. Yeah,
I think she was former direct whatever to watch the both of them in recent
videos talk about the ineffectiveness of mass and the awesomeness of ivermectam. I about
lost but crap man Chris Cuomo, who if you remember remember this dude when
they're like everyone's on lockdown and he's out what he's out in the and he's
supposed to and he had COVID, right, that was the deal. He
had COVID or he was being quarantined and then he's out doing real estate shopping,
right you remember all that and he tried to deny. It was just
so dumb. But he's like, he's taking ivermectam because he says he has
long COVID. Okay, I'm not here to debate long COVID or not,
whether that is a thing or isn't a thing. Some people think that it's
damage that may have been done by a previous COVID infection that sticks with you,
so it technically wouldn't be the same, but it's also it's it's not
again, I'm not here to argue any of this, and I'm slicing and
Dyson here is because whatever you think, whether it is its own thing,
or you're dealing with the damage which now mimics symptoms of the actual when you
have an active infection. The thing you're trying to solve, the discomfort is
it sounds like the same thing, right, your your lung, your your
lung capacity, the oxygen, all of those things that you know indicate respiratory
stuff. You're trying to deal with them. And so you're doing the thing
to deal with it that you say is working for you, trying to say
that this is a different disease even though you're treating the same exact things that
what Joe Rogan and others were saying they were attempting to treat, and in
Rogan's case, seemingly successfully. And then he also is pretending like I wasn't
I wasn't mocking people. And there's video instantly available of him and Don lemon
clown and other eating horse food. Right, just garbage, just garbage.
The CDC official to sit there and pull that same stuff. Screw all you
didn't they try to deep platform Rogan over the ivermectin stuff and the COVID stuff.
Yes, remember this jackass being on uh the j him remember the OJA.
If you don't remember the famous OJ picture on Time magazine where they made
it darker. They did that to Rogan. They they made him look more
jaundiced. And it wasn't by accident. What was the Remember when he had
his brother on the Governor of New York, right, Cuomo, he had
the big, the big goofy covid prop Remember when they were Yeah, it
was a big it was what was it a big? Was it a needle?
Right? And then he's like, well the science changed? Now did
it? Did the science change? Well? I don't know. I think
he's arguing that, I for long covid is effective, but for regular you're
you're eating horse food. I guess maybe maybe that's still his position. I
don't know. He's having verse effects now to the to the vaccine and he's
like, well, maybe you know it's not exactly the safest thing. And
it's like, you push that stuff, dude, You and your brother consistently
pushed that stuff. You're responsible for a lot of people being like injured or
dying. Sorry you are, Yeah. I mean it's not like they killed
a bunch of old people by sticking them into a room together, right,
I got all about that. How did we that's this is what's shazy.
That's what that's what's crazy. How many people went, oh, that's right,
he did murder an old people, including a Fox News host. He
was completely you know the science change. No, you were just completely wrong
about everything, and anybody who spoke out about it, you wanted to silence
them. You called him idiots. Even people are they're like, I have
more questions, and they're like, why won't you listen? Right, you're
trying to kill ground, like while you're literally your brother is literally killing grind.
You know the talking boys here from the administration, and you're clearly wrong,
right, well from China some of them, the early ones. Well
I didn't say which administration, but yes, oh that's fair, Yes,
yes, yes, yes, that's that's a fair point. Oh. I
just it just made me so angry. So then I have to go and
I got to find stuff that makes me happy again. And the lawsuit that
was filed yesterday against the Tides Foundation makes me happy. Tides Foundation obviously is
the passer. Yes, this is you get in the Soro stuff. Ironically
it's his brother who runs it. Now, I think that part of it,
and I don't know if you know this. They're Jewish, so you
know, there is that little nugget there. But that's what this lawsuit is
about, the funneling of money to these four organizations that are prevalent on most
campuses. There are the big campuses. It is the what the money is
supposed to be for, all right, And so this is where the lawsuit
comes in. So the Tides Foundation yesterday was sued by BLM, and BLM
says that the thirty three or thirty five million that's already been you know,
pushed through for this call right here, I was a giant Q tip,
thank you, Yeah, a giant Q tip. I remember it was dumb
as well. But so the thirty some million that's been you know spread out
for this all of these you know this Hamas protests. BLM says that the
Tides Foundation received donations a donation increase during their summer of insanity, directly in
front of a presidential election. Quinkin ink and uh so therefore that's their money,
and so they're demanding the Tides Foundation give them the money. So BLMS
suing them for thirty three million or whatever it is. And right there,
this is that Godzilla meme right with the die with the doctor from Godzilla and
you to see him. He just says, let him fight. Yes,
absolutely, moon back on Moonbat violence. I am so. I'm so here
for that. Although when you're talking about the apparatus that is Tides Foundation and
these other big, big, big, big dark money groups, uh,
that is a bit dropping the buckety, But what the hell, man,
what the hell? And all, and and keep in mind that this is
the national organization which is being which was sued by the local bms because they
were fundraising like ah, look what happened and then insert whatever the city and
then the local chapter wouldn't get any of the money. So they're already infighting
themselves. And now they're the one is gonna go sue somebody else, so
then the other ones will probably try to get that money. I'm here for
it. Let it happen, man, can't wait? All right, coming
up, I promised you insanity. Uh, And we got two other little
audio cuts for you. We'll get to in the last segment, but let's
go ahead and get weather right now with Ray Stagic Ray. How you doing
so? Hey, I'm doing okay, Kase. Do you ever have a
Swiss Army knife sir, no, would I have one? But I don't
carry it on me and I don't use you had one. You had one,
so you know they're take they're taking the knife out of it. Oh
okay, So were they called then just a Swiss army nail kit? I
think no, because but no, And like they they make some arguments that
are really like if they're gonna still have ones with knives, but their basic
models they wouldn't have it, won't have one, and they say that there's
people can't travel with them. But even if you take the knife off a
Swiss army knife, everything else on their TSA is going to steal from you,
right, so that's not gonna work. And then also a lot of
countries heavily restrict knives, so they hurts their sales in the UK, which
I guess I kind of get that. And then they said it, uh,
you know, it has a connotation and air of violence, and it's
like, okay, you remove knife, but another part of your name is
army, so you're you're dumb. I thought it was a Swiss party.
And what are they cheese and horns, cough drops, Ross said, Ross
said hot coco. But I've Ross remember they that was on the list of
problematic brands. Now that we're remembering stuff, because when it was when they
had a problem with with uh uh stereotypical versions of individual groups, uh mean
the spokesperson even though they're not existed. This is what happened to Uncle Ben
and Aunt Jemima. And I remember reading the list and it was all those
and then they had the Swiss miss girl on there, and I'm like,
that one's not gonna get canceled. So it didn't, but they tried so
enough like a cork screw, right, you know, I mean, you
take then away. You see what do you see what the Equalizer did with
that? Denzel did with that. I did not. You didn't see the
Equalizer. I may have. Just let's just say it doesn't go well for
the Russian mob anyway. I'm sure. Yeah, it's short term going okay
for us. A few spotty showers across the triangle right now. Heavier rainfalls
start to come back into some of our western counties just west of the Triad,
coming through McDowell Rutford County, that's out near Asheville. None of these
storms are warned on, but I'm serned a little bit about maybe some flooding
with this rain coming in. The storms may get strong, potentially severe through
this morning, but I don't think widespread. I think heavy rain is a
greater threat. And after the wind and the rain that some spots for the
west had yesterday, were kind of glad that we're not seeing anything in the
way of heavier rainfall coming back. Our heavier storms coming back in some of
the storms that are severe, she remain out across North Georgia and Alabama.
So a few more showers and then some heavier rain and showers this morning into
the afternoon. We may see a lingering shower storm, but I think most
of it's going to wrap up. Could climb in a little bit. It's
good to kind how much sun we get. I'm not quite sure we're going
to get that warm tonight. We'll start the clear way, actually pretty pleasant
morning. We should lose some of the humidity by tomorrow. Morning load of
mid sixties had just a small chance of an afternoon shower thunderstorm Tomorrow. Most
of the day for most of us, dry and mild, with some sun
upper seventies maybe eighty in spots, fright chances some rain Saturday afternoon mid seventies,
so big cool down and that much better. On Sunday Mother's Day,
mid seventies again and mostly sunny. Over night loads will be in the load
of mid fifties, and some spots may even different than the forties. KC.
So another day of kind of unsettled. Whether I think by noon it
will start improving slowly? Did mention a shower thunder shower chants tomorrow? Certainly
gets a lot better about the upcoming weekend. All right, cool, Thank
you, sir, appreciate it. And we'll come back with Jeff Bellinger,
And like I said, we'll head to Denver and we got a couple of
things for you. So hang on. Bloomberg Update now with Jeff Bellinger.
Jeff, what's going on? Well, good morning, casey. Major stock
averages were mixed yesterday. The Dow most significantly up one hundred and seventy two
points, and that extended the longest blue chip winning streaks so far this year
that with six sessions. The Nasdaq fell back thirty points two tens percent.
The S and P five hundred was essentially unchanged by the end of the year.
The only car in the Chevrolet lineup will be the Corvette. General Motors
will end production of the Chevrolet Malibu in November. It's going to retool the
Kansas assembly plant that makes the Sedan to produce the electric Chevrolet Bold. The
Malibu has been popular. GM has sold more than ten million of them,
one hundred thirty thousand last year alone. A significant increase last week in the
number of workers signing up for unemployment benefits. The Labor Department counted two hundred
thirty one thousand first time applications, and that was up from two hundred nine
thousand in the prior week. New financial issues affect your psyche. Bank Rate
reports nearly half of all American adults say money has a negative impact on their
mental health at least some of the time. Worries over debt, student loans,
savings, and retirement can lead to stress and sleepless nights. The hackers
behind last year's cyber attack on MGM resorts have new targets. Cyber Security researchers
say the bad guys are going after banks and insurance companies now, and the
Casey Walt, Disney and Warner Brothers Discovery are planning to jointly market their top
video streaming services. Beginning this summer, the companies will offer a bundle that
includes Disney Plus, Hulu and Max. Subscribers will be able to choose either
the ad free or add supported versions of the services. The companies have not
yet said how much these bundles will cost. Casey, all right, Jeff,
appreciate it, sir. We'll talk tomorrow. Okay, Okay, on
to Friday. Talk to you then, have a good day. Yeah,
there you go, Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg News joining us. All right,
So Russ Sam and this link for these shoes and then it was he sent
me and admittedly so so somebody made this really nice business looking shoe. And
the model is called the Joseph Stalin, except now it's not because they've changed
the name. Because I think people saw this and uh, what did you
ask on the price? I can't remember what was your question? Well,
initially, like I thought it was it was like ten thousand something or other,
but I didn't think it was dollars, is it? Because thinking about
him, like, maybe it wasn't. I'm not sure what currency was.
Oh, that's the Uh, it's not that So that symbol is the is
the symbol for Indias because it's a rupee. Oh okay, yeah, because
it was it's a new thing. Yeah, it's so that would be.
Let's see here it's twelve thousand rupees. So well, I got a call
of a converter here. It's about one hundred and sixty dollars right now for
the shoe. But still it's called the Joseph Stalin. Right. It's a
good working demands shoe, is it. I get? I mean, one
hundred and sixty isn't crazy for it, but in India it probably is.
I don't think a lot of dudes are walking around most of India, but
I've been to India. Most dudes are not walking around at one hundred and
sixty dollars shoes. Okay, better named Joseph Stalin. Well, but remember
it's India where they like to name like Hitler chicken. So like, how
many stories have we done where it's just some insane like come to or then
they have the Obama chicken, which people, you know, for the races,
you know, like oh it's racist, And I'm like, all right,
go tell the dude in you know, Bangalore or whatever, who you
know, see how he feels about that. While he's scamming your grandmother,