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We'll call it the Feels Like Friday
Edition because Ross just told me. He

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says that he feels like it's Friday. Yeah. I feel like this week's

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has been pretty even because we've had
some bangers here as of late. Although

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today's show does prove to be fun, maybe not as fun as you know,

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roasting Boston for thirty minutes. Dude. By the way, Ross,

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I did confirm with our bosses and
our Greensboro ped sent me a photo.

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He doesn't just have a kiss tattoo. He also has a Red Sox logo

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tattoo. And yeah, he has
a tattoo of our radio station we worked

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out to like twenty years ago,
but I guess twenty four years ago.

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Hold, I'm gonna send you this, and I'll say I'll send you I'll

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send you the response. Tell me
I'm not wrong on this. Hang on,

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doude do do? Do? I
want to hit Ross with this cold

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So I didn't send it to him
before the show. All right, that

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is swoosh on its way to you. Well, I continue to explain where

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we're going with this, so uh, CNN might have conducted one of the

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most destructive joke heighten interviews I've ever
seen. And that's saying something man,

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and I I don't understand it.
I guess it is is the way that

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I'll first approach it, like I
understood it when you know they were kind

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of shopping Gavin Newsom around with not
really shopping Gavin Newsom around. But remember

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even though and and I think people
are forgetting this in some of the comments,

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even though you remember you're dealing with
souper. They have super delegates and

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stuff, so like until that convention's
done, I don't know, plus the

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conventions in Chicago, so that'll be
wild. All right. I'll get to

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some of that audio. So you've
had a chance to review my observation.

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Am I wrong? I guess I
could see how you're seeing that. I

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see like the top of a superhero
mask, like with the eye holes.

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Oh okay, this is like a
rorshack test. But I mean to be

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fair. I mean he's posing his
arm, so that's not how you see

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on his arm right like, because
it's yeah if you if you look at

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it, what he's done is he's
sitting at a desk, his desk and

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it's on his left arm, and
he just took a photo of his arm.

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Just kind of sticking out to him. So if he's standing up,

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then the logo straight, but when
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logo is going to be sideways.
I just pointed out that if you look

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at the if you look at it
and at that angle, it looks like

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where the insides of the letter B
are because of the the the font,

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I never realized it looks like two
butts in the air, maybe like two

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butts surrounded by fire, surrounded by
fire, or I assume they are waiting

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for the Yankees to show up,
who lead the all time series by almost

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twenty five percent, so that's a
possibility, or that's Bill Buckner and whoever

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made the Ruth trade. But either
way, that did amuse me. So

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AnyWho where was I sidetracked there?
And that's okay, that's how we roll,

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all right, do do do?
I guess we'll start with Biden because

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I'm gonna have to play this audio
multiple times and it's it's worth it,

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and like I know people are obviously
and we'll get into the more serious stuff

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or hung up on that, but
that like like him saying things like INFLA,

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was it nine percent when I took
office, which is something he said

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yesterday. It wasn't it was at
one point four percent. You know,

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that's that's the usual cringe. That's
politicking. Right. And then as you're

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hearing this cut, he also in
one of these cuts we we got several,

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he also just kind of goes,
it's not well, it's not true,

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which, by the way, is
a hallmark response, not just for

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Democrats, many Republicans will do that
too, but when you stack it with

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everything else, yeah, it's not
a good. Look. Here we go.

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Let's just get into this, and
let's start with that cut, the

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serious cut in question. Okay,
it's also true right now, mister president,

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that voters by a wide margin trust
Trump more on the economy. They

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say that in polls, and part
of the reason for that may be the

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numbers, and you're aware of many
of these. Of course, the cost

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of buying a home in the United
States is double what it was when you

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look at your monthly costs from before
the pandemic. Real income when you account

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for inflation, is actually down since
you took office. Economic growth last week

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far short of expectations. Consumer confidence, maybe no surprise, is near a

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two year low, with less than
six months to go to election day?

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Are you worried that you're running out
of time to turn that around? All

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right? Real quick? For I
let him answer. So in her list

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there she mentioned a poll, right, who trust? Who's trusted more?

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On the economy? You probably seen
that reported. But then she went with

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straight fact numbers that are not polls. Okay, The home prices are not

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a figment of your imagination, as
anyone knows. Buying power is not a

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figment, as anyone knows. Okay, all right, So with that in

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mind, let's say, you,
sir, we've already turn it ond.

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Look look at the Michigan served at
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he hits it with another poll.
All right, fair enough, let's go

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for sixty five percent of American people
think they're in good shape economic d I

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think the nation's not in good shape, but they're personally good shape. The

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polling data has been wrong all along. Look, I don't disagree that.

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I think that a lot of the
polling we see is a bs. But

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do you guys follow his tweet?
I want to say, follow him because

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he's not typeding it. Do you
follow his Twitter account and the official potus

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one because we do. I do
on the show account. That's because we

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follow newsmakers and every day, all
day with a community note attached. Within

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three minutes, they put out the
same rotation of about ten tweets, right

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like I created yesterday that you know
I created fifteen million jobs? How about

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you know that, which obviously is
like post covid, like you understand the

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caveat there, and he puts that
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out like just rinse and repeat,
and it's just garbage in, garbage out.

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Okay, But that's honestly, I'm
not surprised by that assertion. And

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I don't think that that's just a
Biden thing. I think that's somebody who's

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staring at a big stack of numbers
that don't want to answer fair enough.

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Here here's the part we got to
talk about, and I'm just gonna play

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it, and I want you to. I want you to try to tell

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me what you think he meant to
say, because I know what he meant

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to say, but he didn't.
All right, So uh, here is

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him talking about and I'll set the
seat. He's talking. She's talking about

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Trump versus him, and the point
that Biden's trying to make is that,

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you know, look at some of
the some of the stuff that Trump supports,

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our Democrat stuff, and we thank
him for that, you know that

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that kind of stuff. Right,
So you're that and that's fine. He's

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welcome to have that opinion, but
it is what he was wanting to do

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with the opinion. Here we go
curiously, just like they did in September

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seven, I mean on Changuary sixth, the guy is not a Democrat with

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a small D, all right,
And and it's actually a little more round

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about how they how they got onto
the January sixth thing. But again,

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I'm gonna play this cut for you. Tell me what you think he's going

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seriously, just like they did in
September seven. I mean on Changuary sixth,

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the guy is not a Democrat with
a small D. Okay, all

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right? But I mean, I
know what he's trying to say about what

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he just said was that Trump has
a giant sports car. That's what he

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says. He's not a Democrat with
a smile. And at the same point,

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he's trying to say that Trump has
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he actually says is all Democrats have
small sports cars. Small right. Mmmmmm,

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it's completely backfired if you let me, let me tell you as as

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a dude, okay, as a
dude, making jokes about another dude like

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that within a circle of friends is
a time honor tradition. These two are

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not friends, but it's okay.
They're politicians. They're going to do some

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of this. But let me tell
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lay one of those jokes out and
what he what he was meaning to say

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is he's he's not. This is
my theory. Okay. I think what

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he was trying to say he was
trying to attack Trump's some of his political

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decisions, but also he wanted to
he wanted to even say that when you

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do things like that, you're not
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not a democrat, but with a
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and you gotta land it. And
frankly, the reason it didn't land

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it, if I could for just
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There's too much going on. I
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comic friend. And the thing that
he told me that comics will sit there

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and do is whittle a joke right, and you want you want to be

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able to get to the setup and
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and concisely as possible, with only
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So even though some comics like Chappelle
tells really long jokes, but it's all

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meat in there, you know what
I'm saying. So he said that you

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sit there and you're always trying to
find a way to work it so it's

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as smooth and pops and as concise
as pop. That makes sense. Nor

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mc donald was really good at that
too. Yes, yes, and good

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comics are very good at that.
I'm not saying that Joe Biden's a comic.

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I'm just saying that if you're gonna
go with it. The concept holds

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true. In my friend group growing
up, we had one of the one

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of our one of our bros.
His name was Morgan. Okay, big

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m little Organ. He he that
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for probably still is he still lives. I think he still lives in our

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hometown, and I know some of
the other dudes do. So I got

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to think that even his forty something
year old adults when he's in the DJs,

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which is the grocery store there.
He's just trying to pick out the

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you know what soup he wants,
and all of a sudden he hears Chris

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or Darren OLLI hey, big big
m little Lorgan, how you doing?

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See you quick, punchy concise And
it accomplishes the mission there and and don't

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get me wrong, then he give
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didn't get it done. Now,
I will say this because there's another cut

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where people are like, ah,
look at this guy, and it was

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another Ron Burgundy incident prior to that, prior to that interview airing. He's

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up in Green Bay, Wisconsin or
is he just in Green Bay or he

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was in Wisconsin. I think he
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and he's doing the smart politician thing. If you're a politician in the state

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of Wisconsin and and you invoke packers
in there, that's probably gonna go well

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for you, unless it's like you
know, boot packers, right. So

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I can't tell you the number of
serious adult politicians running for governor. This

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is when I lived in Minnesota.
So you've seen all the Wisconsin stuff too,

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because you know you're right on the
border there, and like the number

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of grown ass adults who would show
up to like political events with those cheese

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heads on. But it works there, it works. This doesn't work.

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My theology professor at the Catholic school
I went to was a guy named Riley,

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last name, and he had been
drafted by the Green Bay Packers.

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All right, so you hear what
he said there, And the assertion is

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that he clearly read a teleprompter that
said Riley and then last name. And

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I guess what they think is the
theory is is that it was a placeholder,

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which it would be on him for
reading it, but also his staff

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for not figuring out the name and
the and or. And this is how

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I heard it, he says,
and listening, I'll let you listen to

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it again, he says, Riley
last name. Do I thought maybe he

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was indicating, he was clarifying that
because Riley could be both first and last

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name, that it was a last
name. That's the benefit of the doubt

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on this. Hold on, that's
the that's the d joke. Here we

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go. My theology professor at the
Catholic school I went to was a guy

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named Riley last name, and he
had been by the Green Bay Packers.

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All right, so and so it's
like Riley Kama last name, Like that's

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his last name? Oh well,
I that or he he threw it in

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because there is a little pause there, like he went mildly off script because

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he said Riley and then he realized, oh, that's I got to tell

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people that's his last name, which
is how you would address like to this

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day if I asked you, what's
who's your favorite high school teacher that you

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had? Or mister Howard, Okay, what's his first name? I have

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no idea exactly. I I guess
I know John John? Is it John?

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Yeah? I had to scrap my
Mister Bader was probably my favorite,

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and it's Jim mad But I only
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uh forever when I was a kid, and uh for all of the livestock

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stuff and and then. But he
was also a really good teacher. But

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that's how you refer to it last
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I don't know, I'm not I'm
not gonna People were going pretty savage

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on that. I think the CNN
stuff is far far tougher to explain what's

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going on? And feel good about
some of the some of the reactions,

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even from never Trump vers. It's
pretty crazy of a scene online, but

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who knows, Maybe they're all bots. I don't know. And then one

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more, this time over on MSNBC. Has not enough damage done on CNN?

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And what about Joe Biden confronting Donald
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or on a number of issues.
Will he be mentioning him by name?

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Will the campaign be going after Trump
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that contrast? Is that necessary?
No? I think absolutely it is,

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Mika. And look, President Biden
has made it very clear he will be

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debating Donald Trump. Okay, all
right, so this is yeah, you

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have surrogates on there, it's not
Biden. But are we still going with

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this? If that still can continues
to be the campaign's positions, because like,

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one side of me really wants to
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is I'm in that elder abuse stage
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I'm soft whatever. But yeah,
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to the protesters. We'll give you
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We may realize if you head over
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at Apple and Microsoft, but for
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are these two tries? I thought
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with you, but it was.
And we'll get into more of this as

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with us. But I'll give you
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start with Apple. So Apple yesterday
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their brand new super duper iPad uh
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newest pro but this one has a
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their there. It was at their
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boy there and and yet the thing
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seen. And I like this stuff. There's a couple tech reviewers online that

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i'll generally watch stuff by, and
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British dude, but he goes by
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he does. I think he does. Between those two, there's there's some

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really good stuff there. And I
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I had not seen the commercial,
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know, that was smattered in with
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what the gist of the commercial was. In fact, I'm gonna start running

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it under me because there's only herbage
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what you're listening to. And so
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you feel like an industrial crusher,
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instrument, you see jars of paint, you see a metronome. You see

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objects that are meant to represent digital
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and the metrom obviously on the music
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but this is the crux of their
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this. You'll probably explain it.
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however, is also the finist All
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all the herbage there. Now.
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there because and I guess I don't
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of some sort. In fact,
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I I didn't know that. I've
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to crush musical instruments. And then
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how do I? How do I
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their craft is being insulted, which
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and some people sit there with,
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make music purely digitally, others use
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then you know, you're always going
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it on reel to reel, whatever
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the point that they're wanting to make
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to be accomplished because we're but we're
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you have this pad, which when
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biggest surprise was how light this thing
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which is going to be my you
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you thing or in the overhead or
whatever that will generally have what is a

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pretty small lat Lenovo laptop, which
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heavier laptops, but it's not a
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think pad. I have an iPad
Air two. Yeah, yeah, that's

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that thing's like a decade or plus
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you know iPhone and those those tooth
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they account for the majority of the
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it's noticeable with those so Apple wanting
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not need? Oh? And then
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the crusher there, like you get
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po because they think that they're insulting
their artistry or something. And then Japan

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it has to do with the musical
instruments, like I don't understand any of

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it. Ross do you do you
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of these idiots on Twitter or what? Because I don't know, man,

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I don't get it. We can
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I guess maybe just need something to
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we'll chat with Stephen Ken about that. And then the Microsoft thing is I

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know less about that, but because
I I really hadn't. I'm not familiar

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with the game studios. But Microsoft
also was taking the vitriol of Twitter and

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some other corners of the internet because
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do this for a long time.
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studios right and rolling it into their
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has Xbox, right, and they
tried to do with little ones, but

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they've done it. They tried to
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which you know had that was literally
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And when they acquire them, you're
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They will roll them into their program
and if there is redundancy, then there

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will no longer be redundancy. Do
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It's not something that Microsoft just came
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And look, it is that always
a good thing? Well, it

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depends who you are if you're somebody
who's redundant, or more importantly, if

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you are someone or a division of
something that is always in the red,

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is not a profitable sector of it, and you have a new set of

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eyes on your books, try to
figure out, Okay, how are we

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going to structure this within our company? That's not good for you? And

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it may be not your fault at
all, but that's the reality of it.

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And then it was it just turned
into this giant attack on capitalism again.

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I keep seeing more more things on
Twitter and social media where when I

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see it, I feel more and
more like the guy and the memes standing

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up in the meeting. Yes,
well, they're like, oh my god,

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can you believe Microsoft laid off these
workers and got rid of these studios,

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and you know these studios that haven't
you know they produce these great games

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like Prey and Dishonored, which are
like eight years old, and I am

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actually I was surprised that I have
heard. Yeah those games, they're yeah,

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they're good games. I just downloaded
the Prey game the other day.

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I'm by playing to playing it.
But like I said, your examples of

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great games they've made are eight to
a decade year old, right, right,

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and you need to produce. And
it's like, I'm like, well,

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what is the drama here, Like, well, they're laying off workers

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in these studios. First off,
these workers have gone on to other studios.

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They're they're moving a lot of them
into different areas of their companies,

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so they're not exactly all laid off. But you have these communists in this

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bubble on x slash Twitter that are
like, can you this is the problem

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with capitalism is you know, this
is a creative medium and you're firing these

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creative people. It's not about profit, it's about creating art. And I'm

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like, I'm sorry, welcome to
Realville. It's a business and it's exactly

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about producing and making money. And
by the way, so I feel like

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the guy's standing a year. Yeah, every year there's some independent, never

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heard of studio that comes out,
puts a game out and where it's like

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because it's like five guys passion right
now, they're one of these studios.

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So but I feel more and more
like the guy in the meme because I'm

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reading all this stuff and I'm like, I don't care. I don't care

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about any of it now, I'm
starting to see some pushback on social media

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from people that are like, yeah, I don't care either. This is

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how the real world works, and
you've got to deal with it, you

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little baby communist. But then these
same people are like, oh, well,

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to show that we are against Microsoft, we all need to canceall our

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game pass accounts. We need a
boycout. So you're you're saying your solution

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to show solidarity with the workers that
have been fired or these studios that have

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been they're gone, don't do it
is can your game pass account, which

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is going to cost more people their
jobs, as if you're a moron and

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you don't know what you're talking about. That's true. Oh man, it's

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always that come on, dude,
how long you've been doing so dumb solution

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like everyone needs twenty dollars fast food
salaries in California. Yeah, that'll do

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it. What happened. But I
love it like it goes back, you

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know, the like rock Star.
This was another game outrage that I remember

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when Rockstar came out with Red Dead
Redemption two, in my opinion, the

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greatest game ever made. There is
a big outcry for people saying, yeah,

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but you know, the the the
devs and the workers had to put

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an extra hour what they call in
the game industry crunch time. They're all

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putting in like one hundred and twenty
hours a week or something stupid, and

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can you believe it, I'm not
going to buy the game. And once

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again it was a guy in the
meme standing up in the meeting going,

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I don't care. I don't care
where the game comes from. You they

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were using those workers. That what
you're saying. They were paying the workers

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and they were doing they they were
there on their own accord, right,

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But yeah, worst case scenario comes
out and they find out, hey,

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this game was produced by slave labor
in China. I don't care. I

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don't care. I just don't.
I am playing my game, and if

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it's a good game, I'm gonna
play the game. If it's a bad

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game, I'm not going to play
the game. I don't. I don't

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care. I'm not more and more
child slavely more and more. I don't

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care. I just don't care.
It's all. The solution is always like

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immediately recognizable to people with two brain
cells to rub together that it will have

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a negative effect. It will literally
have a negative effect. It is wholly

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predictable, and yet every damn time, and I they know, but they

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realize if we if we march around, cry baby, block traffic and throw

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stuff on people disagree with us,
and then we get our way, if

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it does have that impact that we
know it's going to have, then we

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have another reason to march around and
throw stuff at people and whine and cry

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about it like it's in a way, it's like they're recognizing that to maintain

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their industry, decisions have to be
made. If you want to get as

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deep as that. Maybe they don't
think of it as that deep, but

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that's the net effect of what's going
on. But it also shows, and

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you know this, that social media
Twitter is not real life. No,

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it's a bubble. These people are
living in a bubble because if you go

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when you talk to the average gamer, go down to the water cooler,

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those still exist at your workplace,
in the kitchen whatever, or knocking so

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you know, random gamer's door,
and if they happen to open and not

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shoot you in the face and have
a conversation with them, you're like,

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can you believe Microsoft shut down arcane? What is don't even know what the

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name of the studio Arcane, whatever
the studio is, or they shut down

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the creators of Hi Fi Rush that
studios. The average gamer is gonna be

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like, who what are you talking
about? To your point too, they

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shut down the projects within that company, and many of those devs are now

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literally working on games in other capacity. Well, like I said, they

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move them around within the cometro bussoff. Yeah, welcome to the real world.

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This happens in every industry. If
you don't produce right, you're not

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going to be around for a long
time. It's one of what I can

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think of, except if you work
for government. If you're in the government,

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you know what you just do?
You just solved it. We get

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rid of all these game studios,
one massive government game studio. Huh,

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that'd be great. It reminds me
of that quote in Ghostbusters, the original

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Ghostbusters where they lose their job at
the college, and I think it's Dan

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Aykroyd. It's like, oh my
god, we're going to have to go

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into the We have to produce the
private sector now, and it's different.

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Those people expect results. Yeah,
it's a great that's such a great line

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in that movie. Well, and
it's not like they weren't in the private

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sector. But no, no,
no, my problem solves all of that

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one massive game studio gov dot GOV. I think Russia didn't Russia recently say

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they were going to do that.
They were going to start creating their own

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video games because they felt like the
games coming out were propaganda for the game.

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Well no, no, no,
because now you're talking they wanted to

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create their own propaganda, right right, Well, and that's but here's but

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they didn't say they were going to
shut down all the other ones in my

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plan, and they seize the means
of productions. Right, Commies are happy,

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right solidarity. Can you imagine how
awesome those games would be and it

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would just be like it would your
character would literally it would just be one

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big struggle session. To be fair, a lot of these woke developers,

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right, would probably fit in with
the government over video game because it'd be

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like, oh, this is perfect. We can already do all this vanilla

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bland, PC bull crap. We're
very good at producing that. And like,

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here's the other thing too. Even
though it's government, it would be

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a government one and we can make
all the jokes in the world. I

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think they'd still be able to churn
out a Diablo sequel in less than twelve

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years, so you know, might
be that's a good point. Yeah,

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dude. Here's the other thing too, the Democrats in charge. I don't

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think they would make I don't think
they'd make any changes to Grand Theft Auto,

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except that you could kill more cops
and maybe even some some Jewish missions

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with the current crop of leaders.
So because Mayhem is the name of the

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game with the ruling class right now, so I think that would fit in.

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But good lord man, all right, well we'll get into I got

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pretty we got pretty deep into that. Oh, just one thing on the

408
00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:21.200
Apple thing. Here's the other problem
with your Apple. You got like high

409
00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:26.039
expectations when you put a commercial out
because Apple. If you ever look at

410
00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:33.519
a list of the top fifty ads
of all time, n of them will

411
00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:38.079
have Apple's nineteen eighty four ad either
at the top or right there. And

412
00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:41.799
if you don't remember that, that's
the one where they're all sitting in the

413
00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:45.839
you know, this dystopic futuristic theater
staring at a screen, you know,

414
00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:48.880
obey, and there's some you know, it's it's every v for Vendetta looking

415
00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:55.200
kind of thing, and then this
woman in athletic gear runs in and spins

416
00:31:55.200 --> 00:32:01.359
a hammer through the screen. Now
it looks old, but it was groundbreaking

417
00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:05.839
at the time, so they always
put that right. So and then their

418
00:32:05.880 --> 00:32:13.519
iPod ads over the years have been
have been very very famously followed like if

419
00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:15.680
your song appears on there, now
you're a star kind of stuff. So

420
00:32:16.319 --> 00:32:20.559
if you want to judge it by
that ads is kind of stupid, fine,

421
00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:27.000
but calm down, people to quote
Ross, I don't care. So

422
00:32:27.599 --> 00:32:34.000
anyway, six fifty one, hang
on CODA Radio program our number two we'll

423
00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:37.440
do in one hour. We'll have
Stephen Kent, our NERD correspondent join us.

424
00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:42.559
We got what more woke Star Wars
stuff. We'll get into the Apple,

425
00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:46.000
Microsoft stuff, few other things.
So make sure you're here in one

426
00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:51.240
hour. In fact, I'm ordering
you to stick around for the next two

427
00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:55.440
hours. Okay, all right,
very good. So where do we even

428
00:32:55.559 --> 00:33:00.160
start here, Well, let me
let me start with this. So uh

429
00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:05.559
this, I was reading this this
morning. Oh even picture of that thing?

430
00:33:05.880 --> 00:33:09.400
Yeah, buddy, all right,
So Raleigh Animal Control uh said that

431
00:33:10.079 --> 00:33:17.519
they had to go wrangle a five
foot iguana. And it's not the first

432
00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:21.920
one this year, but it is
the biggest holy cow. Uh. Lieutenant

433
00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:27.720
Jason Burreno said this and this is
the part kind of raised my eyebrows said.

434
00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:32.000
The missing animal most likely belonged to
a traveler who was coming through the

435
00:33:32.039 --> 00:33:37.359
area. Officials believe the iguana somehow
got out of a vehicle. I'm curious

436
00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:40.000
to know why you think that.
It's because nobody called about their loss iguana.

437
00:33:40.039 --> 00:33:45.640
Maybe they didn't know anybody missing an
iguana. Oh my god, is

438
00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:47.720
that little iggy? Well yeah,
I wouldn't say he's little. I mean

439
00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:52.440
that thing is called oh it's like
what do you call it? That guy

440
00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:54.200
time because he used to be little
as a bait, a little iggy.

441
00:33:54.400 --> 00:34:01.960
Well, yeah, this is my
iguana, little iggy? Is it like

442
00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:07.199
is it like kind of like scally
in the back sort of? Uh a

443
00:34:07.239 --> 00:34:15.320
picture? Yeah? Did your iguana
have a really long tail? Like?

444
00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:21.800
Like so it's not in the frame
anymore. I mean it depends on the

445
00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:27.079
angle. Does he have sharp claws? His yess on his feet? There

446
00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:35.800
is he a greenish color? You're
you're boss pens in the season, does

447
00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:40.320
it? I think you're thinking of
chameleons right anyway? All right, well,

448
00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:45.119
are you doubting my story? I'm
just if you want to eat it

449
00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:47.800
or put it in a terrarium like
the weirdos with the snakes, which,

450
00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:52.199
by the way, speaking of snakes, this is a bigger deal because after

451
00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:55.599
what after zebra, cobra and sanity, you all remember that, like can

452
00:34:55.639 --> 00:34:59.280
you I don't can you order?
Or can you own a big iguana?

453
00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:04.280
But I'm curious why I think it
was. I think maybe because nobody reported,

454
00:35:04.360 --> 00:35:07.719
or maybe and they don't say the
location. They they actually found it,

455
00:35:10.079 --> 00:35:14.480
where we located it. Why are
you being secretive of where you locate

456
00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:17.719
where we located it. We believe
whomever had it was traveling and somehow it

457
00:35:17.800 --> 00:35:22.639
was released. Was it that like
is it of the sheets by was it

458
00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:28.480
the sheets by the airport? That
would raise more questions because I don't know,

459
00:35:28.599 --> 00:35:32.800
man, but that's what they're saying. So it has to be location

460
00:35:34.280 --> 00:35:38.760
or they just think since nobody called, but they took it over the Wildlife

461
00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:44.840
Rehabilitation Center of North Carolina, so
they'll deal with it. So that's where

462
00:35:44.840 --> 00:35:49.639
you gotta go. Pick up a
little iggy? Is it little with tease

463
00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:53.360
or little like he's a round l
I l with the apostrophe? Okay,

464
00:35:53.559 --> 00:35:59.639
all right there we go, so
that mystery solved. On to the next

465
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:07.920
mystery, a mystery of who they
think their target audience for this is what

466
00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:10.320
is? Let me, guys,
let me ask you guys something, and

467
00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:15.239
I want you to I want you
to view this through the eyes of like

468
00:36:16.559 --> 00:36:24.079
a ten year eight to ten year
old boy. What's the coolest gift?

469
00:36:24.280 --> 00:36:29.119
Not nowadays, but let's go back
when I you know, late eighties early

470
00:36:29.239 --> 00:36:32.280
nineties would be the period for me. I guess late eighties because I was

471
00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:38.239
born in eighty What would be the
just about the coolest damn gift you could

472
00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:44.000
get? In there? Ross did
you have? Did you have, like

473
00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:46.280
a really thing that you really really
wanted? I mean other than the video

474
00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:52.440
game stuff? I mean because that
obviously was right around that time, because

475
00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:54.960
the only stuff besides video games there
was a thing, like I mentioned this

476
00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:59.639
before for Christmas, I wanted stuff
from the army surplus store. Yes,

477
00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:05.559
like helmets and shovels and pickaxe and
a gas mask and like an army utility

478
00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:07.000
belt and all that kind of stuff. What is wrong with you? I

479
00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:12.480
don't know. It was super cool
though, Yeah, how about a Swiss

480
00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:15.880
army knife. Hmmm? Will that
be Do you want you have one of

481
00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:17.159
those? Did you want? I
never asked for one, but I do

482
00:37:17.320 --> 00:37:22.360
have a Swiss Army knife. Story. Okay, you didn't have one,

483
00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:23.840
but you have a Okay, I
was. I was working at the World

484
00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:28.880
of Science. Uh huh and uh
that was in the back room and I

485
00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:32.840
was, you know, putting stuff
away and as you do. And I,

486
00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:36.320
you know, it was a Swiss
Army knife, and I said,

487
00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:37.320
look at this thing. This is
amazing. I took it out of the

488
00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:40.480
box and it was just looking at
it. I opened up the blade and

489
00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:44.760
I, for some reason, I
wanted to see how sharp the blade was,

490
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:47.719
so I, you know, just
briefly rubbed it against my thumb,

491
00:37:49.239 --> 00:37:52.320
because up to that point every Swiss
Army knife had seen had been older and

492
00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:57.079
duller. This thing went through.
I didn't even feel it. It went

493
00:37:57.280 --> 00:38:00.440
like I remember looking at it going
that's weird. Didn't even feel went right

494
00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:02.880
through my thumb like a knife through
butter. And my thumb starts bleeding like

495
00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:07.760
a spickett all over the stock room. And there's these ancient world the World

496
00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:09.880
of Science, in the back of
New York all but in New York.

497
00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:15.840
So it just starts bleeding all over
these fossils we had just unwrapped, and

498
00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:19.119
we're getting ready like these like,
hey, this is an old bronosaur's foot,

499
00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:22.119
or this is a t rex whatever
the hell it is, and it's

500
00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:27.599
lasting, but yeah, it's lasted
millions of years. And then I destroyed

501
00:38:27.639 --> 00:38:30.320
it because my with the blood coming
out of my thumb from the stupid Swiss

502
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:34.000
army knife. So I'm in a
panic and I'm like, I don't know

503
00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:37.039
what to do now, and I'm
just looking at this blood come out of

504
00:38:37.079 --> 00:38:42.079
my thumb, and I wrap up
my arm my thumb with the newspaper that

505
00:38:42.119 --> 00:38:45.079
the fossils had been wrapped up in
before I unwrapped them. So I walk

506
00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:49.039
out of the stock room and I
remember, I think her name was Kathy.

507
00:38:49.239 --> 00:38:52.000
She was the manager there, and
she looked at it. She was

508
00:38:52.039 --> 00:38:53.039
like, oh my god, did
you murder someone? And I'm like,

509
00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:57.480
I need to go to the emergency
room, and so I go there.

510
00:38:57.519 --> 00:38:59.400
I still have I can look at
he right now. This is where the

511
00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:01.519
you know, where the stitches were
put into my thumb. Oh. And

512
00:39:01.599 --> 00:39:05.559
I got a call shortly thereafter saying
that I was no longer needed at the

513
00:39:05.559 --> 00:39:07.920
World of science because I destroyed the
fossils with the blood coming out of my

514
00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:12.119
thumb from playing with the Swiss Army
knife. Oh that's lazy. You know

515
00:39:12.199 --> 00:39:14.719
what you guys could have just dude, can you imagine? Let me,

516
00:39:14.840 --> 00:39:16.320
let me, let me. I
didn't just spin it. You gotta spin

517
00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:19.760
it. No, forget the knife
thing with the fossils. Somebody wants to

518
00:39:19.800 --> 00:39:22.239
come in and they're looking at the
why is their blood? And you're like,

519
00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:24.760
well, what happened? What happened
here before the t rex fell in

520
00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:29.480
the tar he ate it? Yes, yeah, so this is a one

521
00:39:29.519 --> 00:39:34.000
of a kind, right, so
and then charge three times and then if

522
00:39:34.039 --> 00:39:37.119
it works, you'd probably be back
there asking you to blood up all the

523
00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:37.800
rest of the five. I even
asked. I'm like, can I have

524
00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:42.760
the Swiss Army knife because you can't
sell that now because they coated in my

525
00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:45.119
blood? Since sinna, can I
at least have that? And they're like,

526
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:49.000
no, dude, I'm telling you
man, uh I Swiss Army Knight.

527
00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:50.679
Now. I know it's that people
are gonna call and they're like,

528
00:39:50.719 --> 00:39:52.000
oh, this is better, this
is better. No, when you're eight,

529
00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:54.840
you don't know, like you just
see a Swiss army knife. You

530
00:39:54.880 --> 00:39:59.480
see all the crap that can do. That was exciting, man, So

531
00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:01.400
I had I went through a few
of them. And then obviously when you

532
00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:05.800
get older, a lot of people
got into the leatherman phase. Same concept.

533
00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:08.840
But you know, the pliers are
nice, and there's all sorts of

534
00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:13.239
multi tools out there. And so
why am I bringing this up? Because

535
00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:22.079
Carl Elsner the CEO of the parent
company, Victory Knox. I can I

536
00:40:22.119 --> 00:40:23.400
just realize. I don't know how
to say the name of that company,

537
00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:31.719
but anyway, the parent company are
working on new Swiss army knives. Now

538
00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:37.639
they do some stuff. There's they
make a product for golfers. Does it

539
00:40:37.719 --> 00:40:42.760
have a blade on it? I
have one of my golf bag because I

540
00:40:42.760 --> 00:40:45.039
got it. I got it at
a tournament. It was one of the

541
00:40:45.079 --> 00:40:47.559
packaged deals. I don't know.
I just rode in my golf bag.

542
00:40:47.639 --> 00:40:52.880
But I have another tool that I
use that and then my driver has I

543
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:54.199
don't know why when we had to
start carrying all these tools in our golf

544
00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:59.199
bags what we do, and but
I can't remember if it has a blade,

545
00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:02.079
I would assume it did. It
would my other thing, my other

546
00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:05.559
multi tool that I have in there
does have a blade, and I do

547
00:41:05.719 --> 00:41:07.840
use it. I use it for
because I like to. I wrap my

548
00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:10.840
fingers a couple of my fingers because
of my grip. If not, it'll

549
00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:15.880
be a problem. And I'll use
that just to quick cut the tape.

550
00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:23.400
But uh, they're gonna get rid
of the blade and the Swiss army knife.

551
00:41:24.519 --> 00:41:29.719
Gotta get rid of that blade.
Okay. You see, at no

552
00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:32.599
point during my episode was I like, they need to ban this item or

553
00:41:32.639 --> 00:41:36.920
stop selling the item. My My
reaction was, I'm an idiot, and

554
00:41:37.239 --> 00:41:39.239
why did I do that? Well, I was gonna here's what I'm gonna

555
00:41:39.239 --> 00:41:43.000
tell you. Man. No,
you know what. It's kind of your

556
00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:46.920
bad, but it's innate. I
don't know of I don't Why is it

557
00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:52.559
that men, and I'm fully guilty
of this, have this incessant need to

558
00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:58.719
when we're handed a knife for the
first time, rub our finger across it

559
00:41:58.880 --> 00:42:01.039
to check it. Now, you
can do it without murdering yourself. No

560
00:42:01.159 --> 00:42:05.199
like examples. But when I got
my dad's get it when it can't help

561
00:42:05.199 --> 00:42:07.159
it. No, my dad passed
away and they got his k bar from

562
00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:08.679
Vietnam. Right, first thing you
did? Right? But but I was

563
00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:13.840
I was more cautious because I was
aware that it was a combat knight that

564
00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:15.440
was used in Vietnam right during the
Tet offensive. Like I was like,

565
00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:19.840
you know, so I did I
put my you know, thomb I wanted

566
00:42:19.840 --> 00:42:22.199
to see how sharp it was.
With the thing of the stupid world of

567
00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:24.800
science, I never expected this little
knife to be that sharp, right,

568
00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:30.480
absolutely, and it was super sharp
and and the like the holding an edge

569
00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:31.800
on those generic Swiss Army knight,
it's not going to do it for a

570
00:42:31.880 --> 00:42:36.199
very long time, but you hit
it right out of the box, so

571
00:42:36.519 --> 00:42:39.000
you know, uh a for effort
there. But yeah, like the amount

572
00:42:39.039 --> 00:42:43.519
of time that I myself will find
myself touching them. But there's no reason

573
00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:46.079
to touch the blade unless I'm in
a position where I ate is mine and

574
00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:51.039
I may want to sharpen it.
And yet then there's other ways to go

575
00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:53.039
about that. But whatever, I
don't know. It's not your fault,

576
00:42:53.079 --> 00:42:58.519
is what I'm saying. It's nature
and I don't know why, because it

577
00:42:58.559 --> 00:43:02.400
doesn't seem like a productive innate quality
in any way, shape or form,

578
00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:06.840
because it abuses injury. But let
me get back to this now, does

579
00:43:06.880 --> 00:43:10.519
that mean that all models of the
Swiss Army knife. Are they're going to

580
00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:20.480
remove the blades? No, okay, but the main products that you know,

581
00:43:20.559 --> 00:43:22.159
the big ones, those are the
ones that are going to address first.

582
00:43:22.519 --> 00:43:27.719
And then they say that they will
have they will continue to produce a

583
00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:32.960
line of bladed models. So which
sounds fine until you start hearing them explain

584
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:37.960
it, like the motivation here,
because there's practical motivation, but there's also

585
00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:43.719
clearly some moon bad influence. Here's
the practical application though they're wrong. The

586
00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:50.559
practical argument is, quote, we're
concerned about the increasing regulation of knives due

587
00:43:50.559 --> 00:43:54.519
to violence in the world, okay, and then also for travel. All

588
00:43:54.599 --> 00:43:59.119
right, so let me let me
address both of those. If there's one

589
00:43:59.199 --> 00:44:07.199
thing in a world of quote unquote
knife violence that I have noticed is you're

590
00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:14.039
not really the problem. Like remember
the video. I remember the the the

591
00:44:14.079 --> 00:44:19.360
Amnesty drop box in the UK where
they posted all the pictures of the quote

592
00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:23.239
knives people have given up, and
there's like sharpened spoons in there, and

593
00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:27.199
there's some crazy looking knives. They
had a wyoming knife in there, which

594
00:44:27.239 --> 00:44:30.039
I thought was funny because I don't
know that they do a lot of animals

595
00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:34.320
skinning over in the UK. But
but I don't see a lot of people

596
00:44:34.400 --> 00:44:38.440
running around murdering people with Swiss army
knives. Like most of the blades aren't

597
00:44:38.440 --> 00:44:43.519
even long enough. You could murder
somebody, but you got to hit them

598
00:44:43.559 --> 00:44:49.599
right. Two. Yeah, I'm
I actually, I literally this morning when

599
00:44:49.639 --> 00:44:51.599
I saw that, I grabbed.
I have a Swiss, you know,

600
00:44:51.639 --> 00:44:54.639
like a regular standard issue Swiss army
knife. I looked at it and I

601
00:44:54.719 --> 00:45:00.400
realized, of the like twenty different
things on there, nineteen of them aren't

602
00:45:00.440 --> 00:45:05.400
going through TSA even if there's no
blade, do you know what I'm saying?

603
00:45:05.480 --> 00:45:10.920
Like the file thing on there,
the scissors, the probably that toothpick

604
00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:14.559
I got, the one that's got
the toothpick in the side, Like,

605
00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:19.639
who the hell knows, dude.
My buddy, my buddy at TSA when

606
00:45:19.639 --> 00:45:22.840
we were down and we were traveling
in Florida. When I went down to

607
00:45:23.199 --> 00:45:29.679
that heart into the hard rock for
the tobacco cigar thing, I was talking

608
00:45:29.679 --> 00:45:32.360
to one of my buddies and when
he came in through the airport, he

609
00:45:32.559 --> 00:45:38.440
had toenail clippers, but he had
ripped that spinout file off of the toenail

610
00:45:38.440 --> 00:45:42.480
clippers, which I have a pair
that I did that too, too,

611
00:45:42.599 --> 00:45:45.400
And he'd been traveling with him,
and the TSA's like, I'm sorry,

612
00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:50.400
sir, you can't have clippers with
the blade. And he's like, well,

613
00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:52.119
there isn't a blade. There's the
rivet where the blade was, but

614
00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:54.239
there's no blade, and she goes, well, you need to have the

615
00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:59.599
model without the blade. And he
realized that this was going to be around

616
00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:02.599
him, round and round uh conversation. So we just gave it to them.

617
00:46:02.599 --> 00:46:06.599
But the rest of the knife ain't
getting through. But then the other

618
00:46:06.679 --> 00:46:15.000
thing is this also some people want
a multi tool that doesn't have an aura

619
00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:21.199
of violence. This is the boom, bad stuff. It's your name.

620
00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:27.039
Let's let's let's go over this all
right. So, yes, knives can

621
00:46:27.079 --> 00:46:30.480
be violent, but knives are also
useful. Like when I was chopping an

622
00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:34.360
onion last night at dinner, Damn
sure, I was very glad that I

623
00:46:34.400 --> 00:46:39.119
had a knife chopping up some garlic
can onion. And yes, could I

624
00:46:39.159 --> 00:46:43.360
then turn around and go stab somebody? Sure? But also, if you

625
00:46:43.440 --> 00:46:45.519
just want this this aura of violence, this era of violence or whatever the

626
00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:52.480
quote was, you're it's knife in
your name, and you have the word

627
00:46:52.760 --> 00:46:59.400
army in your name. So if
we're talking about impressions and how something makes

628
00:46:59.400 --> 00:47:05.960
you feel army and knife and for
what it is, it's fine, it's

629
00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:09.159
perfect. I guess Swiss. Maybe
just car you're just gonna call yourself Swiss

630
00:47:09.199 --> 00:47:14.840
because I guess what is that cheese? Neutral or it used to be neutrality?

631
00:47:15.239 --> 00:47:17.039
Hot? Chocolate? Oh hot?
Oh? And the guys with the

632
00:47:17.039 --> 00:47:22.599
big horns too, right? Right? Is that yeah? That's Swiss?

633
00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:30.679
Right, let's see chocolate. I
got some, they got some watchcred and

634
00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:35.119
and the knives and and keep in
mind, by the way, this company

635
00:47:35.119 --> 00:47:37.800
that produces a Swiss army knives because
I used to have one of their backpacks.

636
00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:40.360
They make good quality backpacks. It
was one of my more recent ones,

637
00:47:40.400 --> 00:47:45.400
but it gave out after quite a
few years and I bought another brand.

638
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:50.679
But yeah, yeah, So if
that's what you're going for, what

639
00:47:50.679 --> 00:47:53.920
are you doing? Man, don't
screw it the don't call it a Swiss

640
00:47:54.000 --> 00:47:58.239
army knife and a standard model and
not have a blade in there. Can

641
00:47:58.280 --> 00:48:00.480
you imagine a pod you'd be if
you were you just grab you know,

642
00:48:00.519 --> 00:48:04.960
they have like twenty of them on
display at the sports section of Walmart or

643
00:48:04.960 --> 00:48:07.079
whatever. You just grab one,
you get home. There's no knife in

644
00:48:07.119 --> 00:48:10.360
there. What are we even doing? Man? All right? Seven twenty

645
00:48:10.400 --> 00:48:15.480
two. Also, I would say
this, I have a strong I don't

646
00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:22.599
believe that people who would be this
sensitive about the name of this iconic product

647
00:48:22.639 --> 00:48:27.559
are also people need multitools because they
don't strike me as the handyman's sort.

648
00:48:28.199 --> 00:48:31.440
So maybe I'm maybe that's unfair,
but I don't believe it to be.

649
00:48:31.519 --> 00:48:36.000
So. So there's your cancelation,
the knife part. We'll be back.

650
00:48:36.480 --> 00:48:40.519
Flood of email I've gotten. Every
person listening to the show has multiple scars

651
00:48:40.519 --> 00:48:45.079
from stupid stuff. Hey, man, scars tell stories, and I think

652
00:48:45.199 --> 00:48:47.559
chicks digam. I heard that one
time, which I don't know if it's

653
00:48:47.559 --> 00:48:52.000
true, but maybe some do.
But yeah, and a scar isn't always

654
00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:55.000
because you did something stupid. You
can have a surgical scar you didn't do

655
00:48:55.039 --> 00:49:00.159
anything. Somebody hit you in an
accident that's not your fault. But the

656
00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:04.360
ones we prize most generally have a
pretty good story with them, like Ross

657
00:49:04.760 --> 00:49:13.119
literally bleeding all over a t Rex
from millions of years ago. That's a

658
00:49:13.119 --> 00:49:15.840
good one. That's a good one. I think. Let's see what my

659
00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:21.440
most prominent scars are my wrist on
my left hand when I tried to jump

660
00:49:21.440 --> 00:49:25.480
a motorcycle when I was ten and
the bone actually came out, So that's

661
00:49:25.519 --> 00:49:30.159
fun. And but on that very
same hand, on the left saw on

662
00:49:30.199 --> 00:49:36.039
the pointer finger on my left hand, that's where a cutting saw like a

663
00:49:36.079 --> 00:49:37.960
handheld, you know, like you're
cutting lumber building. I was literally were

664
00:49:37.960 --> 00:49:44.159
building a deck and I was cutting
lumber, and I took the saw even

665
00:49:44.159 --> 00:49:50.280
though I'm right handed, so I
had released the button and I tried to

666
00:49:50.360 --> 00:49:52.639
spin the saw like a pistol,
you know, like an old West gun

667
00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:58.199
fighter. Well at the same time
trying to brace it and grab it with

668
00:49:58.199 --> 00:50:01.000
my left hand, and at that
moment, my right finger hit the on

669
00:50:01.119 --> 00:50:07.920
switch and right through the I mean
not obviously threw through it, but you

670
00:50:08.039 --> 00:50:10.639
had a wicked scar. And I
didn't even go get treatment. I wrapped

671
00:50:10.639 --> 00:50:20.760
it in electrical tape with some some
glue, and I remember my mom was

672
00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:22.239
horrified when she saw it. We
were up we were literally camping up the

673
00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:27.239
mountains building this deck on this cabin
that summer, so I thought, wow,

674
00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:28.760
in a few weeks it won't be
there. But no, it was

675
00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:32.440
pretty horrible. But those have stories, man, But dudes doing dumb stuff

676
00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:37.800
with knives that's a tail as old
as time. Jake, what's up by

677
00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:40.840
good morning? Yeah. I did
something stupid too with the Swiss Army knife.

678
00:50:40.840 --> 00:50:45.079
I got it for Christmas when I
was eight, and I thought I

679
00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:47.440
was hot stuff. So I decided
to stab a tree or something stupid.

680
00:50:47.880 --> 00:50:52.239
And those knives when they're pulled it
out, they also pulled back in that

681
00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:55.199
they have too much pressure on it, so I got my finger open.

682
00:50:55.639 --> 00:50:59.199
So it would be stupid to use
the Swiss Army knife as a weapon in

683
00:50:59.199 --> 00:51:01.800
the first place, more of a
tool versus the weapon. Well, it's

684
00:51:01.840 --> 00:51:05.880
just, but also the kind of
the idea that anything within and thank you

685
00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:08.320
for the callers, sir, that
anything in that stack is getting through TSA.

686
00:51:08.559 --> 00:51:13.320
I don't get it. This is
because like they realize that they can't

687
00:51:13.360 --> 00:51:15.320
have market share in the UK or
so I don't I don't know, man,

688
00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:20.000
I don't know, but hey whatever, maybe that's what people want.

689
00:51:20.239 --> 00:51:22.039
And then if I bet, if
I see you with a Swiss Army knife

690
00:51:22.079 --> 00:51:28.119
and no knife, I will I
will judge you, just so we're clear.

691
00:51:28.559 --> 00:51:32.920
Unless it is clearly another product from
the company that doesn't have Swiss Army

692
00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:37.840
Knife in the title. All right, fair enough, let's uh, let's

693
00:51:37.880 --> 00:51:45.599
move on to this. So I, by the way, do you believe

694
00:51:45.719 --> 00:51:51.000
that they're actually hunger striking at Princeton
for even for all the the wailing and

695
00:51:51.039 --> 00:51:54.360
crying that we have to hear with
their daily presser, because they don't strike

696
00:51:54.480 --> 00:52:00.000
me as people who haven't eaten in
what would be a week and nobody.

697
00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:02.719
You don't really know what they're up
to in that little house there either,

698
00:52:02.880 --> 00:52:06.679
Like they could be in there just
banging ho hose down their throat. I

699
00:52:06.679 --> 00:52:09.280
don't know, but I don't think
they're mohandas Gandhi surviving on a thin ble

700
00:52:09.320 --> 00:52:15.440
of orange juice for a week.
How about the girl to the right of

701
00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:21.599
the speaker holding the other definitely not? Oh you don't think Okay, yeah,

702
00:52:21.639 --> 00:52:29.039
I had the same suspicion. However, we were subjected to this and

703
00:52:30.159 --> 00:52:36.039
listen intently. My favorite part is
the unironic use of the term literally shaking.

704
00:52:37.039 --> 00:52:40.000
But there's lots to chew on.
So all right, so here's the

705
00:52:40.119 --> 00:52:47.440
spokes person wearing of course a face
mask and having not eaten in a week.

706
00:52:47.599 --> 00:52:59.360
She says, get to the good
stuff. But here is an eye.

707
00:52:59.559 --> 00:53:05.400
We are starting. We are physically
exhausted. I'm literally shaking right out,

708
00:53:05.599 --> 00:53:12.239
you can see I kind of,
but you're also out there drum circling

709
00:53:12.519 --> 00:53:19.519
and you're not literally starving right Cognitively, I don't. I mean, granted,

710
00:53:19.559 --> 00:53:22.719
I feel like there's cognitive issues with
many of these protesters, but like,

711
00:53:22.280 --> 00:53:28.840
you don't strike me as somebody who
is unable to formulate sentences. People

712
00:53:28.880 --> 00:53:35.599
who are really, really really nutritionally
deficient. It impairs your ability to do

713
00:53:35.639 --> 00:53:43.559
stuff and you're saying what you want
to say. So if you're literally shaken,

714
00:53:43.639 --> 00:53:45.440
I don't know. And to under
by the way, you have to

715
00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:50.679
understand their beef. Their beef is
not why why is the problem is the

716
00:53:50.760 --> 00:53:54.280
university is doing this to us.
But their beef is that during their hunger

717
00:53:54.320 --> 00:54:01.320
strike, they expect the university to
essentially have a standby medical team provide them

718
00:54:01.519 --> 00:54:07.960
a temperature controlled shelter even when they're
outside, so some sort of I guess

719
00:54:07.000 --> 00:54:12.159
tent or something, because you know, they if they do a hunger strike

720
00:54:12.199 --> 00:54:14.800
to sit in their dorm room,
it doesn't have the impact of them standing

721
00:54:14.840 --> 00:54:17.119
around all day whining about it.
But anyway, I'm sorry, continue,

722
00:54:17.119 --> 00:54:23.840
why is it their fault at the
time with that I believe, but I

723
00:54:23.880 --> 00:54:29.639
think that that is uh and sorry, ladies, I think that's a female

724
00:54:29.639 --> 00:54:31.440
thing. Okay, all right,
jacket, I don't need a jacket.

725
00:54:31.519 --> 00:54:35.760
Turn the temperature down? Yeah oh
yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah. So

726
00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:38.800
I uh, I don't mean to
gender you, but you just gendered you.

727
00:54:38.880 --> 00:54:45.239
How's that? Okay? All right? Continue? Wait? Wait,

728
00:54:45.440 --> 00:54:51.199
hold on, you're all immunocompromised in
what way? I'm not. I'm not

729
00:54:51.239 --> 00:54:52.920
denying that you are, or not
saying that you are or you aren't,

730
00:54:53.000 --> 00:55:00.039
but like you all are, what
else you've been doing in there university seating

731
00:55:00.199 --> 00:55:05.719
yesterday with some of our bargaining to
you, They would love to continue physically

732
00:55:05.760 --> 00:55:09.679
weakening up because they can't stand as
they go to us murder. Okay,

733
00:55:09.760 --> 00:55:15.000
all right, so they are weakening, They are weakening you. So their

734
00:55:15.039 --> 00:55:19.480
beef, on top of wanting that
stuff, the real beef is why won't

735
00:55:19.480 --> 00:55:22.639
they give in to all of our
demands? Why are they hurt? Why

736
00:55:22.679 --> 00:55:25.840
are they trying to hurt us?
Right? Once again, nobody's making them

737
00:55:25.840 --> 00:55:31.400
do this, if in fact they
even are doing it. But yeah,

738
00:55:31.719 --> 00:55:35.760
yeah, you know you can.
You can stop it even if they don't

739
00:55:35.760 --> 00:55:39.760
meet your demands, right, if
you feel that there's dire medical consequences ahead,

740
00:55:39.800 --> 00:55:44.760
you can just go you can just
go over to McDonald's. Probably not

741
00:55:44.840 --> 00:55:46.840
if you haven't you literally haven't eaten
a week. I wouldn't recommend McDonald's.

742
00:55:46.840 --> 00:55:51.559
Maybe something a little easier, but
still it's there, it's right there for

743
00:55:51.639 --> 00:55:54.280
you. I realized I realized loading
this audio this morning, because you know,

744
00:55:54.360 --> 00:55:58.000
when all it started in the flag
at you and see and all that.

745
00:55:58.559 --> 00:56:01.000
Yeah, I was very concerned,
like is this a serious threat or

746
00:56:01.039 --> 00:56:04.960
a danger? And as more of
these videos come out, I don't think

747
00:56:04.960 --> 00:56:09.480
I'm alone here. You realize how
laughable all of this is. And I

748
00:56:09.480 --> 00:56:15.480
don't really believe they pose any threat
because these are and we've said this going

749
00:56:15.519 --> 00:56:17.239
back now for years, this has
about any point of ours on the show.

750
00:56:17.639 --> 00:56:24.199
This is a weak, soft,
spineless generation that they're not going to

751
00:56:24.199 --> 00:56:30.760
accomplish anything because they don't have the
follow through. I went without eating my

752
00:56:30.559 --> 00:56:34.559
you know, but for a day, and now I'm having hot flashes and

753
00:56:35.199 --> 00:56:37.559
they're not taking care of me,
and they're not pampering me, and they're

754
00:56:37.559 --> 00:56:40.119
not listening to us, and shut
up, nobody cares that they've become a

755
00:56:40.199 --> 00:56:45.480
joke. Well, here's I will
go with the people in the video.

756
00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:49.920
But what happens too often, and
I think this is where concerns lie is

757
00:56:50.480 --> 00:56:55.559
you get the infiltrators, right,
who will undercover of your lunacy while everyone's

758
00:56:55.599 --> 00:57:00.000
staring around at the stupidity of this
woman in her friend and actually cause damage.

759
00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:02.559
They're over there like, uh,
you know, let's uh, let's

760
00:57:02.559 --> 00:57:06.760
smash a bunch of stuff, or
let's hit a dude with a with a

761
00:57:06.880 --> 00:57:12.360
milkshake that's actually quick creed in the
head and cause brain bleeding. They're useful

762
00:57:12.360 --> 00:57:15.840
idiots at this point. Yes,
So that's where the danger is. I'm

763
00:57:15.840 --> 00:57:17.039
not scared of this check. Which, by the way, if she you

764
00:57:17.079 --> 00:57:22.360
want to test whether if she's so
hungry, here's the test. Ask her

765
00:57:22.360 --> 00:57:25.719
where she wants to eat. If
she can actually pick a place, then

766
00:57:25.760 --> 00:57:32.079
I'll believe she's hungry. What I
what You have to have a litmus test,

767
00:57:34.519 --> 00:57:37.159
right. If she immediately goes let's
go here, I'm like, Wow,

768
00:57:37.280 --> 00:57:42.079
she is hungry. But if she
goes starts himming and haunts she's like,

769
00:57:42.159 --> 00:57:45.480
I want burgers, You're like,
or I want burgers. You're like,

770
00:57:45.519 --> 00:57:47.559
all right, Well, here's nine
burger places. That are easily accessible.

771
00:57:47.920 --> 00:57:51.920
I don't want any of those.
I don't believe you. The more

772
00:57:51.960 --> 00:57:55.079
days go go on, it goes
beyond parody. Right, Well, well

773
00:57:55.360 --> 00:57:59.559
I haven't, dude. I'm only
by the way, I am only one

774
00:58:00.039 --> 00:58:04.239
order of the way through this idiot's
audio. One quarter. I'm gonna finish

775
00:58:04.239 --> 00:58:07.679
this first cut and then we're gonna
talk to Ray. But let's just let's

776
00:58:07.679 --> 00:58:17.000
continue. I was here. I
truly do not feel like I'm doing anything

777
00:58:17.039 --> 00:58:22.679
special. This is my choice,
and I would not spend my birthday doing

778
00:58:22.800 --> 00:58:27.920
anything other than seeing here and standing
his solidarity with you. Ale, How

779
00:58:28.039 --> 00:58:31.519
did by the way, how does
somebody not roll the cake in like in

780
00:58:31.599 --> 00:58:38.719
the movie Godfather? How if I
would do look at this delicious double funge

781
00:58:38.719 --> 00:58:44.480
cakes Ross and I would come in
with a cake on a cart and I

782
00:58:44.480 --> 00:58:47.239
would rush show everyone the cake show
we won the cake, right like like

783
00:58:47.280 --> 00:58:52.159
that Cuba. Yeah, yeah,
don't cut the cake until everybody see it.

784
00:58:52.599 --> 00:58:54.920
I give it the cake, all
right, yeah, yeah, yeah,

785
00:58:55.079 --> 00:58:59.239
I was or set up on one
of those little tailgate grills. What

786
00:58:59.239 --> 00:59:07.760
are you doing as a pupil?
And all right yeah yeah yeah, drum

787
00:59:07.800 --> 00:59:10.360
circle. Wait for the rest of
this lunacy, but first weather lunacy with

788
00:59:10.480 --> 00:59:15.400
a race aging from the weather channel. Man, how you doing, Yeah,

789
00:59:15.440 --> 00:59:20.679
we're doing all right. Rough day
for some yesterday, especially Charlotte points

790
00:59:20.719 --> 00:59:24.320
west. Yeah, numerous reports of
a wind in, trees down and power

791
00:59:24.440 --> 00:59:28.719
still out. Did you see the
by the way, I'm sorry to speaking

792
00:59:28.719 --> 00:59:30.119
of those. Did you see the
lawn Did you see the lawnmower picture?

793
00:59:31.000 --> 00:59:37.320
I did not this this it was
it was. It was near I can'member

794
00:59:37.320 --> 00:59:40.119
one of one of the smaller towns
here, Charlotte, and in the picture

795
00:59:40.280 --> 00:59:45.320
of riding John Deere mower, like
a standard yard one, and it's in

796
00:59:45.440 --> 00:59:51.800
it's it's literally looks like it's been
deposited and just smashed. But it's in

797
00:59:51.840 --> 00:59:55.360
a parking lot and all the vehicles
look fine. So it's like somethings God

798
00:59:55.440 --> 01:00:01.719
had beef with that lawnmower. Dude. It was interesting photo. Yeah,

799
01:00:01.960 --> 01:00:07.719
all numerous reports of damage on I
think there's it's close to eighty something thousand

800
01:00:07.760 --> 01:00:14.840
customers across the state without power,
and most of those are west and southwest,

801
01:00:15.199 --> 01:00:19.280
down south of even Asheville and out
near a bunkhom County or Bunkham County

802
01:00:19.400 --> 01:00:23.679
where Ashville resides southwest of that in
Mecklenburg County, Gaston County around there,

803
01:00:23.679 --> 01:00:29.159
where they had very strong winds.
Don't see any tornado reports officially yet,

804
01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:35.800
but there were reports of some scene
of potential tornado. The threat today is

805
01:00:35.880 --> 01:00:39.440
limited showers around town now more to
the west, and stronger storms. The

806
01:00:39.519 --> 01:00:43.880
guidance is saying the weekend and as
they approach. But I will be surprised,

807
01:00:43.960 --> 01:00:46.960
especially from the Triad west this morning
through about midday, if we get

808
01:00:47.320 --> 01:00:51.079
a stronger storm. But I really
think most of this is going to be

809
01:00:51.079 --> 01:00:54.239
over with lunchtime or earlier cloudy the
satterdude could climb to the blow to mid

810
01:00:54.239 --> 01:00:58.159
eighties. I'm not quite sure we'll
get that mild tonight. We're going to

811
01:00:58.239 --> 01:01:02.119
drop back into the sixties, maybe
near sixty degrees by tomorrow morning and maybe

812
01:01:02.199 --> 01:01:07.800
a shower thunder shower tomorrow afternoon with
clouds and sunshine. And the weekend there's

813
01:01:07.840 --> 01:01:10.960
still going to be pretty decent.
We have thrown a slight chance of a

814
01:01:10.960 --> 01:01:15.519
shower in Saturday. I really don't
see much rain at all Sunday, clouds

815
01:01:15.559 --> 01:01:20.159
otherwise low seventies, sunny on Mother's
Day. On Sunday, mid seventies,

816
01:01:20.199 --> 01:01:23.159
overnight lows in the upper forties to
low fifties. So certainly looking like some

817
01:01:23.280 --> 01:01:27.960
better weather ahead as we had two
on the weekend. All right, thank

818
01:01:27.960 --> 01:01:30.320
you, sir, appreciate it.
All right, Racey staging from the Weather

819
01:01:30.400 --> 01:01:35.119
Channel. Everyone's trying to outdo my
cake. Let me explain why my cake

820
01:01:35.280 --> 01:01:37.639
torture would be the best, because
you're missing you're missing a big issue here.

821
01:01:38.119 --> 01:01:44.519
It's not just because it's you know, Godfather reference. In that scenario,

822
01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:52.800
the person giving them the cake would
be a hymen rough and they may

823
01:01:52.960 --> 01:01:55.760
they it might not click with them
because they probably didn't watch Godfather because they

824
01:01:55.760 --> 01:01:59.559
had the word God in it.
He always made money for his partners.

825
01:01:59.559 --> 01:02:04.079
Though. Yeah, I think that's
one of their beefs. Like that's good

826
01:02:04.280 --> 01:02:07.039
that they chant because they have the
Uh did you see them? What did

827
01:02:07.079 --> 01:02:13.400
they call? They were calling it
like they had like the money jew or

828
01:02:13.480 --> 01:02:16.400
something. Dude, it's all it's
all the stereotypical stuff they had, like

829
01:02:16.440 --> 01:02:22.360
this this mannequin dressed and it was
literally the characterture stuff that you saw in

830
01:02:22.400 --> 01:02:25.519
the papers. Yeah in Germany,
right, Like here's a cartoon and they

831
01:02:25.559 --> 01:02:29.320
were doing that for real. So
you know, can help. That's why

832
01:02:29.320 --> 01:02:31.679
they didn't want the bagels brought to
them. Yes, it's awful. So

833
01:02:31.719 --> 01:02:36.840
a guy doing a hymen Roth voice
bringing you your birthday cake at your hunger

834
01:02:36.880 --> 01:02:39.960
strike, I feel like that cuts, Like that cuts more than a brand

835
01:02:39.960 --> 01:02:45.800
new Swiss army knife at Ross's job. We'll be right back. Somebody's getting

836
01:02:45.800 --> 01:02:49.639
an uber NERD tech with me on
stuff. Well, luckily we got a

837
01:02:49.679 --> 01:02:52.480
nerd correspondent coming up, sir,
So we will get into the Apple stuff

838
01:02:52.559 --> 01:03:00.559
and the Star Wars stuff and just
a few other things with Stephen Kent,

839
01:03:00.639 --> 01:03:05.320
who will join us here in about
eleven twelve minutes. All right, let

840
01:03:05.360 --> 01:03:09.960
me get back to the chick who's
literally shaking and both hot and cold at

841
01:03:09.960 --> 01:03:16.199
the same time, which now I'm
going to assume her gender. But anyway,

842
01:03:16.280 --> 01:03:21.000
back to the bullhorn, back to
the hunger strike. Let's do this

843
01:03:21.440 --> 01:03:24.800
us as strikers. You will continue
to starve until they meet our demands.

844
01:03:25.960 --> 01:03:31.320
Okay. In addition, I would
like to note that the administration is also

845
01:03:31.599 --> 01:03:37.880
lying to the media. Oh no, to the shame the media. They

846
01:03:37.920 --> 01:03:45.480
have announced that they have been consistently
sending their own doctors to come to our

847
01:03:45.559 --> 01:03:50.639
area and monitor us hunger strikers,
and monitor our health. This is a

848
01:03:50.719 --> 01:03:57.559
lie. They are not They are
not monitoring our health. They are not

849
01:03:57.800 --> 01:04:02.199
keeping track of our vitals. They
are not at all taking care of us

850
01:04:02.320 --> 01:04:09.800
in any regard. They have only
sent a spokesperson from UHS twice to give

851
01:04:09.880 --> 01:04:15.239
us informational pamphlets. But they are
not at all at all taking care of

852
01:04:15.320 --> 01:04:18.239
us in any regard. And I
want to make that very clear that they

853
01:04:18.280 --> 01:04:21.559
are not caring for us, that
they do not care for us, and

854
01:04:21.599 --> 01:04:26.360
they are yeah, okay, all
right, they're big, big poopy lars.

855
01:04:26.360 --> 01:04:31.079
Got it. You realize that you
speaking right now is not the only

856
01:04:31.159 --> 01:04:35.280
thing on video, right, ma'am. But I don't know if you know

857
01:04:35.440 --> 01:04:40.039
basically every second of every minute,
even though people are wearing masks and you

858
01:04:40.079 --> 01:04:45.519
know, slapping phones at like somebody's
recording it. Okay, And when you

859
01:04:45.559 --> 01:04:54.239
all first started this, you got
mad over a doctor attempting to communicate with

860
01:04:54.280 --> 01:05:00.119
you, not a person with pamphlets, a doctor, And I saw the

861
01:05:00.159 --> 01:05:04.960
doctor's last name, and some people
think that might have been part of your

862
01:05:04.960 --> 01:05:13.000
beef. You get what I'm driving
at. So I'm not sure one hundred

863
01:05:13.039 --> 01:05:15.559
percent would happened, but I remember
that, or the doctor could be coming

864
01:05:15.559 --> 01:05:17.719
in and looking at him, going, you guys are in any danger at

865
01:05:17.719 --> 01:05:20.960
all? You're fine? Yeah,
or well you're not fine obviously, but

866
01:05:21.119 --> 01:05:25.039
well I mean mentally sure. Yeah, they're like, I am not the

867
01:05:25.159 --> 01:05:29.639
kind of doctor you need. Here's
my But maybe that's not like you know,

868
01:05:29.639 --> 01:05:31.119
maybe she's not realizing that, like
you know, the reason the doctors

869
01:05:31.119 --> 01:05:34.360
aren't having you to take your vitals
is you're absolutely fine. There's something wrong

870
01:05:34.400 --> 01:05:39.000
with you again? Does that look
like someone from who hasn't eaten in a

871
01:05:39.000 --> 01:05:45.800
week? Think about the mental acuity
drop off if you're supretty hydrated, right

872
01:05:45.000 --> 01:05:50.039
or you haven't eaten. There's a
reason hangry is a thing. Because it

873
01:05:50.119 --> 01:05:57.079
is a thing. It is the
CaCO DA Radio program Phone number eight eight

874
01:05:57.159 --> 01:06:00.800
eight nine three four seven eight seven
four. But hold on to those thoughts,

875
01:06:01.559 --> 01:06:08.639
those calls, because we're going to
welcome in our official nerd politics entertainment

876
01:06:09.000 --> 01:06:14.440
in the intersection thereof Stephen Kent,
our go to guy on this Steven,

877
01:06:14.440 --> 01:06:18.480
How are you doing this morning,
Casey? I was doing fine until Comcast

878
01:06:19.199 --> 01:06:26.039
Exfinity texted me just a few minutes
ago saying that they're doing more service in

879
01:06:26.119 --> 01:06:30.239
my neighborhood today, and I could
have another day of internet outages from nine

880
01:06:30.280 --> 01:06:33.719
to five. So if I lose
you, that's why, Casey, They're

881
01:06:33.760 --> 01:06:36.239
out to get us. Wait,
how would you lose? Are you?

882
01:06:36.440 --> 01:06:41.880
Are you calling? Are you skyping
or something? I'm a professional, Casey.

883
01:06:41.920 --> 01:06:45.079
I do this from my office on
a hard line with a beautiful Joe

884
01:06:45.159 --> 01:06:50.679
Rogan Schure microphone connected to the Internet. Yeah. Phones are old school,

885
01:06:51.000 --> 01:06:55.280
dude. Every guest was like you, I swear the amount of members of

886
01:06:55.360 --> 01:06:59.760
Congress who I assume have placed a
cell phone on the far side of their

887
01:06:59.760 --> 01:07:02.679
death to talk to me is maddening
in the world of radio. But that's

888
01:07:02.719 --> 01:07:08.480
another thing for another day. Let's
get on. I woke up this morning

889
01:07:08.719 --> 01:07:12.840
to as I normally do, sleep
out of the eyes, you know,

890
01:07:12.960 --> 01:07:16.320
o dark for something in the morning. And I'm sitting there like, and

891
01:07:16.400 --> 01:07:19.079
one of the first things I do
is I I got an iPad that's just

892
01:07:19.159 --> 01:07:24.159
next to my desk or's next to
my bed, uh, and I will

893
01:07:24.480 --> 01:07:27.760
clip that open. I'm like,
all right, what insane thing happened overnight?

894
01:07:28.119 --> 01:07:30.920
And Twitter trends is generally one of
the first things I look at and

895
01:07:31.039 --> 01:07:35.679
I'm like, why does everyway?
So everyone's mad at Apple and Microsoft?

896
01:07:35.840 --> 01:07:42.559
What is going on? Was your
iPad? Was your iPad made with the

897
01:07:42.599 --> 01:07:50.800
bones and the innards of retro record
players and pianos and metronome I hope so

898
01:07:50.960 --> 01:07:55.119
because I think I'm gonna I'm gonna. I'm gonna not defend this. I

899
01:07:55.159 --> 01:07:59.400
think it's dumb, but so so
I to get into it. And I

900
01:07:59.480 --> 01:08:01.800
had not see let's start with Apple, I had not seen the commercial.

901
01:08:02.280 --> 01:08:08.360
However, I when there's something techie, do you know? Obviously you know

902
01:08:08.360 --> 01:08:13.280
who Marquis Brownlee and uh, mister
who, mister Who's the boss? Right?

903
01:08:13.320 --> 01:08:15.479
You know those YouTube accounts. They're
tech guys, right, the two

904
01:08:15.520 --> 01:08:18.279
of the biggest tech guys out there. And I like their I like their

905
01:08:18.279 --> 01:08:21.520
reviews. I also like how last
week they said that Brownlee was trying to

906
01:08:21.880 --> 01:08:27.439
sink companies because they produced bad AI
products. But that's another thing, and

907
01:08:27.840 --> 01:08:30.880
they had reviews. The British dude
was he was infatuated with this thing,

908
01:08:30.880 --> 01:08:35.640
and Brownlee was complimentary. And I
like Apple products. I'm not gonna pay

909
01:08:35.680 --> 01:08:40.680
thirty six hundred dollars for a pad
and my iPad is an Air two,

910
01:08:41.199 --> 01:08:45.479
which is like a decade old,
but it works. And but people's beef

911
01:08:45.720 --> 01:08:53.239
was in an effort to market a
device that is is way more advanced than

912
01:08:53.279 --> 01:08:56.840
any other pad they've ever put out. It's way lighter, it's thinner,

913
01:08:57.359 --> 01:09:02.520
and it has a the processing power
of a laptop with their new incredible Yeah,

914
01:09:02.760 --> 01:09:09.159
it is an incredible thing. And
that bridging that gap and finding a

915
01:09:10.039 --> 01:09:12.800
the an iPad. Remember when it
used to be, hey, let's get

916
01:09:12.800 --> 01:09:15.039
a laptop that can do desktop stuff. That'll be amazing when it is well,

917
01:09:15.119 --> 01:09:18.079
yeah, I mean I remember those
days. And I mean all this

918
01:09:18.199 --> 01:09:24.239
goes back to this this iPad debut. There there crush ad that came out

919
01:09:25.000 --> 01:09:28.039
just two days ago. So you
know, this ad for anybody who hasn't

920
01:09:28.039 --> 01:09:30.960
seen it, has gotten like a
huge reaction, at least online where everything

921
01:09:30.960 --> 01:09:38.800
gets a huge reaction. And the
ad depicts beautiful retro devices like record players,

922
01:09:38.960 --> 01:09:44.399
an arcade machine, a guitar,
piano. Yeah, paint all that

923
01:09:44.439 --> 01:09:51.880
stuff being crushed by an industrial like
trash compactor Star Wars style and mashed into

924
01:09:53.000 --> 01:09:56.840
what is the new iPad. And
this has triggered, like you know,

925
01:09:56.960 --> 01:10:00.640
a disgust response and some people because
they just really hate seeing these kind of

926
01:10:00.680 --> 01:10:06.640
beautiful devices annihilated for technology, and
then you know, some people think it's

927
01:10:06.680 --> 01:10:11.640
super cool. I'm curious what side
you're on, because it actually triggered my

928
01:10:11.760 --> 01:10:15.079
discuss response and I wasn't prepared for
it. All right, I'll say this,

929
01:10:15.319 --> 01:10:19.199
I one hundred percent get what they're
trying to say. And because it

930
01:10:19.279 --> 01:10:26.800
is to justify the purchase price,
your sole marketing endeavor needs to be able

931
01:10:26.800 --> 01:10:31.159
to convince high end users, right, people who are running things like Final

932
01:10:31.239 --> 01:10:34.840
cut Pro, which I watch.
Yes, these two tech guys run on

933
01:10:34.920 --> 01:10:41.039
there, and it looked with the
key pet with the magic keyboard attached,

934
01:10:41.439 --> 01:10:45.319
it looked like there was no functionality
difference between what you can now run in

935
01:10:45.359 --> 01:10:48.880
an iPad and as somebody who has
tried to edit, who has to edit

936
01:10:48.880 --> 01:10:55.640
stuff over the years, it's all
there's always been this big divide in editors

937
01:10:55.680 --> 01:10:59.680
in a pad or within an iOS. And you know something you're gonna run

938
01:10:59.680 --> 01:11:04.840
on a den so incredible, Yes, selling me or something I'm not gonna

939
01:11:04.840 --> 01:11:09.279
pay thirty six hundred dollars, but
selling somebody who can justify that because of

940
01:11:09.279 --> 01:11:14.439
what they do on the fact that
this can this can do it is the

941
01:11:14.600 --> 01:11:18.000
challenge and so demonstrating all these things
and making that claim and then being able

942
01:11:18.000 --> 01:11:21.119
to back it up, well,
that will be the success or downfall of

943
01:11:21.159 --> 01:11:25.279
this product. So I get the
messaging, but where it got weird for

944
01:11:25.359 --> 01:11:29.279
me? I don't. I just
think the ad is not good and Apple

945
01:11:29.359 --> 01:11:33.359
has a high bar because most people
think that Apple is the has the number

946
01:11:33.399 --> 01:11:36.720
one ad of all time, right, the nineteen eighty four ad. That's

947
01:11:36.800 --> 01:11:40.600
why when you look at the rankings
where they do these stupid list, that's

948
01:11:40.600 --> 01:11:44.479
almost always at the top. So
there's a high bar if you're Apple.

949
01:11:44.600 --> 01:11:46.760
I don't think. I don't think
the ad was very interesting, but I

950
01:11:46.760 --> 01:11:50.600
think the message is the key here
and it's fine. But where God whacked

951
01:11:50.640 --> 01:11:55.199
out is in Japan? Do you
see how bad the Japanese are and like

952
01:11:55.319 --> 01:12:00.119
Japanese public because it's like there's a
cultural slight. I guess we're destroying music

953
01:12:00.239 --> 01:12:03.319
instruments, which I was unaware of
it. So yeah, I mean there's

954
01:12:03.359 --> 01:12:06.680
a lot going on here. Yeah. One of my favorite, one of

955
01:12:06.720 --> 01:12:13.039
my favorite corporate communications accounts that I
follow is Lulu Maservi. She used to

956
01:12:13.079 --> 01:12:17.560
run comms for Substack and then she
was at Microsoft activision, you know,

957
01:12:17.640 --> 01:12:25.840
before the Microsoft or the merger that
just happened recently. But she she kind

958
01:12:25.840 --> 01:12:30.920
of laid out here that like Apple's
history with its founding was that these were

959
01:12:30.920 --> 01:12:33.920
supposed to beautiful products. There are
sort of works of art in and of

960
01:12:33.960 --> 01:12:38.920
themselves, you know. The whole
idea behind Apple was that they were supposed

961
01:12:38.960 --> 01:12:43.079
to be as beautiful on the inside
as they're outside, and that they were

962
01:12:43.119 --> 01:12:47.399
supposed to be about the power of
people, not the machine, which in

963
01:12:47.479 --> 01:12:54.000
that time was Microsoft, Apple's competitor. I'm sorry, not not Microsoft,

964
01:12:54.039 --> 01:12:58.039
but some of Apple's competitors in the
early days of computing and the internet,

965
01:12:58.119 --> 01:13:02.880
Dell and the Life. So,
like the whole idea here is counter to

966
01:13:02.960 --> 01:13:08.920
that, Like in this ad you
have beautiful works of art and human ingenuity

967
01:13:08.960 --> 01:13:14.119
and classical stuff being literally destroyed.
And so it's it's sort of like this

968
01:13:14.199 --> 01:13:19.119
weird branding pivot in another direction where
I think like Apple back in the day

969
01:13:19.119 --> 01:13:23.920
would have never shown something like this, but they were an edgy brand.

970
01:13:23.960 --> 01:13:28.159
They used to do sort of transgressive
things, and this is a little bit

971
01:13:28.159 --> 01:13:31.439
of a transgressive ad. Well.
But here's the other thing. I reject

972
01:13:31.439 --> 01:13:36.199
the idea that the just people who
are painting van Go style or banging away

973
01:13:36.199 --> 01:13:40.680
on a on a piano, or
artists. They are, don't get me

974
01:13:40.680 --> 01:13:44.520
wrong, and I'm down for that. I love people who are really good

975
01:13:44.520 --> 01:13:49.840
at stuff. I find that amazing. But also I think it's pretty artistic.

976
01:13:49.880 --> 01:13:54.920
You got a duel. You got
duel was the only screens. There's

977
01:13:54.920 --> 01:13:59.319
two on there, there's the amount
of storage is crazy, the processing speed

978
01:13:59.359 --> 01:14:03.159
is crazy, and it weighs twice
what my iPad air two which kind of

979
01:14:03.199 --> 01:14:09.960
mostly sometimes works. Ways, how
is that not an achievement? Uh,

980
01:14:10.039 --> 01:14:14.239
an artistic achieve I understand it's a
product, but yeah, you can't argue

981
01:14:14.239 --> 01:14:17.319
that the first iPhone was not also
artistic in nature, and this isn't that.

982
01:14:17.560 --> 01:14:23.760
Yeah, that's what they strive for. And the I don't trust the

983
01:14:23.920 --> 01:14:27.000
what I was told. The weight
of this thing is boggles my mind.

984
01:14:27.039 --> 01:14:30.319
I believe it. But holy crap, man, that is amazing. Yeah,

985
01:14:30.359 --> 01:14:33.680
and this is this is the kind
of a thing for consumer products.

986
01:14:33.760 --> 01:14:38.720
Is you when you're making ads,
you want people to be having the right

987
01:14:38.960 --> 01:14:43.239
conversation about your products. And so
when you're going to roll out this piece

988
01:14:43.319 --> 01:14:45.640
of technology which apple, oh my
gosh, Like I am excited as an

989
01:14:45.640 --> 01:14:49.079
Apple person, this is going to
be such a cool new era where you

990
01:14:49.079 --> 01:14:53.960
can take some of these really powerful
MacBook Pro tools on the go with you

991
01:14:54.000 --> 01:14:58.039
almost anywhere, and they're going to
be perfectly functional. That's that's what you

992
01:14:58.159 --> 01:15:01.640
want people talking about. And so
I'm not really of the belief that all

993
01:15:01.720 --> 01:15:06.079
press is good press. I actually
don't believe in that old marketing adage.

994
01:15:06.079 --> 01:15:09.199
And you know, when it comes
to the new ad, you want people

995
01:15:09.199 --> 01:15:13.760
to be talking about the beauty of
it, not the waste and the bones

996
01:15:13.840 --> 01:15:18.000
of retro products that went into making
the iPad under the weight of industry.

997
01:15:18.039 --> 01:15:24.159
That's not a beautiful image. So
I think I love little cultural slights too

998
01:15:24.199 --> 01:15:27.159
that you don't know about. Do
you try to travel inside the US a

999
01:15:27.199 --> 01:15:30.319
lot? It's wild to learn.
I do. I do recently. Yeah,

1000
01:15:30.479 --> 01:15:34.800
I've been traveling recently for my my
work at the Consumer Choice Center there.

1001
01:15:34.880 --> 01:15:39.399
When I when I've traveled in there's
many countries. There's several countries in

1002
01:15:39.439 --> 01:15:45.239
Latin America I traveled to and I
didn't know a thing for a long time,

1003
01:15:45.319 --> 01:15:48.039
and I could never understand. So
when somebody says you speak any Spanish

1004
01:15:48.039 --> 01:15:53.800
at all, you almost does right, How are you right? That's that's

1005
01:15:53.840 --> 01:15:57.359
one end the end. But that's
not the correct answer. Did you know

1006
01:15:57.399 --> 01:16:00.039
that you go to coast Town?
I didn't go to Panama. No,

1007
01:16:00.279 --> 01:16:05.720
the correct answer is Bienny two.
It's because it is culturally rude for me

1008
01:16:06.000 --> 01:16:10.479
not to ask how you're doing after
you asked how I was doing, and

1009
01:16:10.560 --> 01:16:14.760
so pee I've answered people and they
give me a weird look, and I'm

1010
01:16:14.800 --> 01:16:17.000
like, what did I do wrong? And then somebody explained it to me

1011
01:16:17.039 --> 01:16:20.560
one time, and it's just but
it's those little nuanced things like I didn't

1012
01:16:20.560 --> 01:16:25.479
know in Japan the demolishing a musical
instrument is a cultural slight. Did you

1013
01:16:25.560 --> 01:16:29.079
know that? I didn't know that. But Apple probably not know that.

1014
01:16:29.119 --> 01:16:32.039
But that's that sounds like a thing
that the Japanese would feel. That just

1015
01:16:32.199 --> 01:16:35.920
feels very Yeah, well there's a
lot of tradition over there, which is

1016
01:16:35.920 --> 01:16:40.079
fine, but like, but Apple
should probably know that. So if there

1017
01:16:40.119 --> 01:16:43.199
is fault here, maybe that it
would be. But I got we got

1018
01:16:43.239 --> 01:16:46.840
to pivot over to Microsoft because actually
I can solve the Microsoft problem. Explain

1019
01:16:46.880 --> 01:16:49.760
what the problem is. Explain what
the problem is first, and I'll explain

1020
01:16:49.800 --> 01:16:53.359
the solution. Go right, ahead
set this up. Why are people mad

1021
01:16:53.399 --> 01:16:58.680
at Microsoft? And by people I
mean Commons. Yes, well, Microsoft

1022
01:16:58.920 --> 01:17:05.800
Xbox is joining the rest of the
industry in around another round of layoffs within

1023
01:17:05.840 --> 01:17:13.439
its video game division. So there
have already been at least nineteen hundred layoffs

1024
01:17:13.479 --> 01:17:18.079
at Activision, Blizzard, and Xbox
since their merger that closed just a couple

1025
01:17:18.079 --> 01:17:23.600
of months ago. And you know
there's another round coming. And this is

1026
01:17:23.680 --> 01:17:27.239
right next to Sony, you know, who has PlayStation who just announced that

1027
01:17:27.239 --> 01:17:30.119
they're going to be laying off nine
hundred employees. So there's a huge level

1028
01:17:30.159 --> 01:17:36.560
of staffing retraction going on across the
video game industry. Despite some breakout hits

1029
01:17:36.600 --> 01:17:41.720
here and there. You know,
they're not like struggling in all cases to

1030
01:17:41.800 --> 01:17:45.319
have hit games. But there seems
to be a disconnect, at least in

1031
01:17:45.399 --> 01:17:51.560
the consumer side between the perception that
these companies are consolidating and doing well.

1032
01:17:51.880 --> 01:17:56.800
So why are they laying off employees? I mean, I have a couple

1033
01:17:56.920 --> 01:17:59.880
answers for that, but I'm curious
what you have to say about that.

1034
01:18:00.119 --> 01:18:01.920
I have, Well, I have
a final I have a solution at the

1035
01:18:02.000 --> 01:18:05.039
end of it. So why,
I mean, my theory on why they're

1036
01:18:05.039 --> 01:18:12.680
doing it is because it's literally how
acquisitions work and when you're rolling different things

1037
01:18:12.680 --> 01:18:15.079
in. And by the way,
a lot of these folks are not doing

1038
01:18:15.199 --> 01:18:18.159
the job that they were initially doing, but they are now still working within

1039
01:18:18.199 --> 01:18:24.319
the company or have went in with
other studios. Well, there's a little

1040
01:18:24.319 --> 01:18:29.000
bit of a problem there Casey though, which is that when the FTC came

1041
01:18:29.039 --> 01:18:35.039
after Microsoft Activisions. Yeah, there
was a guarantee that was made by Microsoft

1042
01:18:35.079 --> 01:18:39.079
Activision that they were not going to
be layoffs because there was not going to

1043
01:18:39.159 --> 01:18:44.039
be any duplication between roles. They
were going to virtual vertically integrate, and

1044
01:18:44.119 --> 01:18:47.800
so having layoffs makes them appear as
if they are going up against that.

1045
01:18:48.439 --> 01:18:51.560
But you know, the real problem
here is that it's not about the vertical

1046
01:18:51.560 --> 01:18:58.720
integration. It's that the business is
not growing. This business is in retraction

1047
01:18:58.960 --> 01:19:03.960
because of the massive cost of Triple
A games that are not competing quite as

1048
01:19:04.000 --> 01:19:11.520
well as indie games that are on
Steam for PC gamers. Indie studios are

1049
01:19:11.600 --> 01:19:15.520
crushing it, and these big studios
and these big consoles are being annihilated by

1050
01:19:15.520 --> 01:19:21.399
the cost of production for big blockbuster
video games. Yeah, and I get

1051
01:19:21.439 --> 01:19:25.560
it. And you know, generally, even when you have those agreements.

1052
01:19:25.560 --> 01:19:28.680
This is where you get the politics
of it, if you when people deep

1053
01:19:28.720 --> 01:19:33.119
dive agreements like that because I didn't
want I didn't want Microsoft to buy Blizzard

1054
01:19:33.760 --> 01:19:38.760
when they first brought it up,
because I was concerned as a Diablo fan

1055
01:19:38.920 --> 01:19:43.399
that and a guy who had PlayStation
equipment, I was. I was worried

1056
01:19:43.399 --> 01:19:47.039
that these guys would try to not
put it on PlayStation or something crazy like

1057
01:19:47.119 --> 01:19:51.840
that. But like after that,
I'm just sitting there and I'm looking at

1058
01:19:51.840 --> 01:19:55.920
it, like, okay, all
right, you made this agreement. But

1059
01:19:56.119 --> 01:20:00.640
those agreements also generally have somebody from
a glatory standpoint is looking at it.

1060
01:20:00.880 --> 01:20:04.920
You can still lay people off,
but it has to be within certain parameters

1061
01:20:04.920 --> 01:20:09.920
like normal business stuff. Right.
So but now you know, if you

1062
01:20:09.920 --> 01:20:13.920
can make an argument that meets those
requirements, then that's fine and we can

1063
01:20:14.000 --> 01:20:15.239
have a debate. But people are
going out and they say, now they

1064
01:20:15.239 --> 01:20:18.640
can't lay anyone off, and that's
not how these things actually work. As

1065
01:20:18.680 --> 01:20:24.920
you pointed out specific situations and that
well, and that doesn't even account Casey

1066
01:20:25.039 --> 01:20:28.800
for like I mean, I hate
to say it, but Generative AI is

1067
01:20:28.840 --> 01:20:32.319
going to lay off a ton of
these kids in the video game industry who

1068
01:20:32.479 --> 01:20:40.800
make their bones being on teams of
twenty people generating landscapes and environments for massive

1069
01:20:40.880 --> 01:20:43.960
online games, you know, like
The Red Dead, Redemptions of the World

1070
01:20:44.119 --> 01:20:48.319
or something you know, where you
can spend hours exploring an environment. Those

1071
01:20:48.359 --> 01:20:53.760
are the kinds of jobs that are
going to be click one and done for

1072
01:20:53.880 --> 01:21:01.319
generative AI technology that can make these
environments immediately. More layoffs are coming.

1073
01:21:01.640 --> 01:21:04.760
Yeah, let me just say this
and then I'll give you my solution.

1074
01:21:06.239 --> 01:21:10.439
The thing is, though, this
is another eat the rich thing, right,

1075
01:21:10.520 --> 01:21:13.279
and it doesn't help with the president's
coming out bitching about how much his

1076
01:21:13.359 --> 01:21:17.439
snickers cost or his chips or whatever, because the reality is and this I

1077
01:21:17.640 --> 01:21:23.079
look, I understand the corporate greed
is a thing, but it's also a

1078
01:21:23.079 --> 01:21:27.600
thing like everything else that has to
be managed because investors notice stuff like that,

1079
01:21:27.840 --> 01:21:30.159
and that is that's where the real
rubber meets the road. So that's

1080
01:21:30.239 --> 01:21:34.520
kind of the stop gap there.
But secondly, this idea that making video

1081
01:21:34.560 --> 01:21:41.399
games should be about passion and not
money is that's childish thinking because of the

1082
01:21:41.439 --> 01:21:45.640
cost of these games. And so
yes, you can say that, but

1083
01:21:45.239 --> 01:21:49.600
the quality control oftentimes is the money. So my solution if you're not worried

1084
01:21:49.600 --> 01:21:54.960
about any of that. All the
game devs, everything sees the means one

1085
01:21:55.039 --> 01:21:58.880
big government game game dot gov.
They just produce all the games. I'm

1086
01:21:58.920 --> 01:22:02.000
sure they'll be amazing, right,
And I think I think it could work.

1087
01:22:02.359 --> 01:22:06.439
I love your solution. Yeah,
no, it'd be great because even

1088
01:22:06.439 --> 01:22:12.359
the government a Yablo sequel in under
twelve years. I stand by that it's

1089
01:22:12.399 --> 01:22:16.000
possible. If possible, you know, I've seen some of these quotes from

1090
01:22:16.159 --> 01:22:20.399
gamers saying that like video games are
about making art, not about you know,

1091
01:22:20.600 --> 01:22:24.520
making money. Yeah, like you
said, childish. There's a really

1092
01:22:24.600 --> 01:22:29.800
wonderful quote from George Lucas in twenty
ten where he was hosting a film sort

1093
01:22:29.800 --> 01:22:35.680
of festival for Isabeli I'll blow you
away on this one for Israeli and Palestinian

1094
01:22:35.760 --> 01:22:39.800
filmmakers, and he told them in
this panel that he was doing with the

1095
01:22:39.800 --> 01:22:44.119
filmmakers, if you really want to
succeed in this business, make movies that

1096
01:22:44.199 --> 01:22:46.800
people want to see. They only
have so much money in their pockets,

1097
01:22:46.840 --> 01:22:50.119
and it's your job as an artist
to make something that people want to spend

1098
01:22:50.159 --> 01:22:56.439
their limited dollars on. So the
best capitalist critics are capitalists themselves. Yeah,

1099
01:22:56.439 --> 01:22:58.880
and then he added put a chicken, it make her gay, So

1100
01:22:59.399 --> 01:23:02.319
I believe it was maybe I probably
have to do all right, man,

1101
01:23:02.319 --> 01:23:04.600
I got a roll, thank you, and we'll be right back. I

1102
01:23:04.640 --> 01:23:09.920
didn't pull all of it because I
know it was pretty It was far along

1103
01:23:09.960 --> 01:23:11.920
in the news cycle and I'm sure
you all saw it. But I just

1104
01:23:11.920 --> 01:23:16.199
have to verbalize this is the amount
of rage. I do a pretty good

1105
01:23:16.319 --> 01:23:21.359
job, and I think that it's
like it's like I don't want to compare

1106
01:23:21.399 --> 01:23:26.960
exactly what we do, so understand
the analogy, but it's like you become

1107
01:23:27.039 --> 01:23:30.239
desensitized. It's like some dude who
just got back from his seventh tour and

1108
01:23:30.279 --> 01:23:34.960
now I'm kind of like, well, oh you want that. You know,

1109
01:23:35.000 --> 01:23:39.680
they see some horrific car accident you
gag induced it, and that dude's

1110
01:23:39.720 --> 01:23:44.119
just staring at it. Like but
I think with the with if I literally

1111
01:23:44.159 --> 01:23:47.800
had a physical reaction to every dumb
story I come across and got angry about

1112
01:23:47.800 --> 01:23:51.239
it, I probably be dead by
now just considering what we do. That

1113
01:23:51.319 --> 01:23:57.960
being said old school rage inducing.
Watching Chris Cuomo and what's her name,

1114
01:23:58.000 --> 01:24:01.920
doctor ren or whatever? Who was
the CD was CDC direct. Yeah,

1115
01:24:01.920 --> 01:24:08.039
I think she was former direct whatever
to watch the both of them in recent

1116
01:24:08.199 --> 01:24:15.199
videos talk about the ineffectiveness of mass
and the awesomeness of ivermectam. I about

1117
01:24:15.239 --> 01:24:20.159
lost but crap man Chris Cuomo,
who if you remember remember this dude when

1118
01:24:20.159 --> 01:24:25.800
they're like everyone's on lockdown and he's
out what he's out in the and he's

1119
01:24:25.840 --> 01:24:29.640
supposed to and he had COVID,
right, that was the deal. He

1120
01:24:29.880 --> 01:24:33.319
had COVID or he was being quarantined
and then he's out doing real estate shopping,

1121
01:24:33.399 --> 01:24:35.359
right you remember all that and he
tried to deny. It was just

1122
01:24:35.399 --> 01:24:41.560
so dumb. But he's like,
he's taking ivermectam because he says he has

1123
01:24:41.600 --> 01:24:44.600
long COVID. Okay, I'm not
here to debate long COVID or not,

1124
01:24:45.000 --> 01:24:47.199
whether that is a thing or isn't
a thing. Some people think that it's

1125
01:24:47.840 --> 01:24:53.039
damage that may have been done by
a previous COVID infection that sticks with you,

1126
01:24:53.560 --> 01:24:56.920
so it technically wouldn't be the same, but it's also it's it's not

1127
01:24:57.680 --> 01:25:00.920
again, I'm not here to argue
any of this, and I'm slicing and

1128
01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:05.199
Dyson here is because whatever you think, whether it is its own thing,

1129
01:25:05.520 --> 01:25:11.439
or you're dealing with the damage which
now mimics symptoms of the actual when you

1130
01:25:11.560 --> 01:25:16.159
have an active infection. The thing
you're trying to solve, the discomfort is

1131
01:25:17.199 --> 01:25:20.239
it sounds like the same thing,
right, your your lung, your your

1132
01:25:20.319 --> 01:25:27.520
lung capacity, the oxygen, all
of those things that you know indicate respiratory

1133
01:25:27.560 --> 01:25:32.960
stuff. You're trying to deal with
them. And so you're doing the thing

1134
01:25:33.640 --> 01:25:38.159
to deal with it that you say
is working for you, trying to say

1135
01:25:38.199 --> 01:25:43.600
that this is a different disease even
though you're treating the same exact things that

1136
01:25:44.119 --> 01:25:47.119
what Joe Rogan and others were saying
they were attempting to treat, and in

1137
01:25:47.239 --> 01:25:54.760
Rogan's case, seemingly successfully. And
then he also is pretending like I wasn't

1138
01:25:54.880 --> 01:25:59.199
I wasn't mocking people. And there's
video instantly available of him and Don lemon

1139
01:25:59.359 --> 01:26:05.119
clown and other eating horse food.
Right, just garbage, just garbage.

1140
01:26:05.479 --> 01:26:10.520
The CDC official to sit there and
pull that same stuff. Screw all you

1141
01:26:10.800 --> 01:26:14.760
didn't they try to deep platform Rogan
over the ivermectin stuff and the COVID stuff.

1142
01:26:15.079 --> 01:26:18.720
Yes, remember this jackass being on
uh the j him remember the OJA.

1143
01:26:18.840 --> 01:26:24.399
If you don't remember the famous OJ
picture on Time magazine where they made

1144
01:26:24.439 --> 01:26:28.800
it darker. They did that to
Rogan. They they made him look more

1145
01:26:28.920 --> 01:26:31.359
jaundiced. And it wasn't by accident. What was the Remember when he had

1146
01:26:31.359 --> 01:26:36.000
his brother on the Governor of New
York, right, Cuomo, he had

1147
01:26:36.039 --> 01:26:41.520
the big, the big goofy covid
prop Remember when they were Yeah, it

1148
01:26:41.560 --> 01:26:45.159
was a big it was what was
it a big? Was it a needle?

1149
01:26:45.279 --> 01:26:46.640
Right? And then he's like,
well the science changed? Now did

1150
01:26:46.720 --> 01:26:50.439
it? Did the science change?
Well? I don't know. I think

1151
01:26:50.479 --> 01:26:55.840
he's arguing that, I for long
covid is effective, but for regular you're

1152
01:26:55.880 --> 01:26:58.960
you're eating horse food. I guess
maybe maybe that's still his position. I

1153
01:26:58.960 --> 01:27:01.319
don't know. He's having verse effects
now to the to the vaccine and he's

1154
01:27:01.359 --> 01:27:03.439
like, well, maybe you know
it's not exactly the safest thing. And

1155
01:27:03.439 --> 01:27:06.960
it's like, you push that stuff, dude, You and your brother consistently

1156
01:27:08.000 --> 01:27:11.159
pushed that stuff. You're responsible for
a lot of people being like injured or

1157
01:27:11.239 --> 01:27:14.479
dying. Sorry you are, Yeah. I mean it's not like they killed

1158
01:27:14.479 --> 01:27:15.960
a bunch of old people by sticking
them into a room together, right,

1159
01:27:16.239 --> 01:27:19.880
I got all about that. How
did we that's this is what's shazy.

1160
01:27:20.439 --> 01:27:24.079
That's what that's what's crazy. How
many people went, oh, that's right,

1161
01:27:24.119 --> 01:27:27.159
he did murder an old people,
including a Fox News host. He

1162
01:27:27.239 --> 01:27:29.960
was completely you know the science change. No, you were just completely wrong

1163
01:27:29.960 --> 01:27:31.680
about everything, and anybody who spoke
out about it, you wanted to silence

1164
01:27:31.720 --> 01:27:35.520
them. You called him idiots.
Even people are they're like, I have

1165
01:27:35.640 --> 01:27:39.800
more questions, and they're like,
why won't you listen? Right, you're

1166
01:27:39.840 --> 01:27:43.760
trying to kill ground, like while
you're literally your brother is literally killing grind.

1167
01:27:43.840 --> 01:27:45.760
You know the talking boys here from
the administration, and you're clearly wrong,

1168
01:27:46.119 --> 01:27:50.359
right, well from China some of
them, the early ones. Well

1169
01:27:50.399 --> 01:27:53.800
I didn't say which administration, but
yes, oh that's fair, Yes,

1170
01:27:53.840 --> 01:27:57.840
yes, yes, yes, that's
that's a fair point. Oh. I

1171
01:27:58.039 --> 01:28:00.279
just it just made me so angry. So then I have to go and

1172
01:28:00.279 --> 01:28:04.920
I got to find stuff that makes
me happy again. And the lawsuit that

1173
01:28:04.960 --> 01:28:12.600
was filed yesterday against the Tides Foundation
makes me happy. Tides Foundation obviously is

1174
01:28:12.600 --> 01:28:17.199
the passer. Yes, this is
you get in the Soro stuff. Ironically

1175
01:28:18.079 --> 01:28:21.840
it's his brother who runs it.
Now, I think that part of it,

1176
01:28:23.359 --> 01:28:26.279
and I don't know if you know
this. They're Jewish, so you

1177
01:28:26.319 --> 01:28:29.079
know, there is that little nugget
there. But that's what this lawsuit is

1178
01:28:29.079 --> 01:28:32.439
about, the funneling of money to
these four organizations that are prevalent on most

1179
01:28:32.479 --> 01:28:41.119
campuses. There are the big campuses. It is the what the money is

1180
01:28:41.159 --> 01:28:44.520
supposed to be for, all right, And so this is where the lawsuit

1181
01:28:44.560 --> 01:28:50.800
comes in. So the Tides Foundation
yesterday was sued by BLM, and BLM

1182
01:28:51.039 --> 01:28:58.239
says that the thirty three or thirty
five million that's already been you know,

1183
01:28:58.680 --> 01:29:00.760
pushed through for this call right here, I was a giant Q tip,

1184
01:29:00.800 --> 01:29:04.640
thank you, Yeah, a giant
Q tip. I remember it was dumb

1185
01:29:05.039 --> 01:29:10.439
as well. But so the thirty
some million that's been you know spread out

1186
01:29:10.600 --> 01:29:16.279
for this all of these you know
this Hamas protests. BLM says that the

1187
01:29:16.319 --> 01:29:26.039
Tides Foundation received donations a donation increase
during their summer of insanity, directly in

1188
01:29:26.039 --> 01:29:31.159
front of a presidential election. Quinkin
ink and uh so therefore that's their money,

1189
01:29:31.439 --> 01:29:36.199
and so they're demanding the Tides Foundation
give them the money. So BLMS

1190
01:29:36.199 --> 01:29:42.359
suing them for thirty three million or
whatever it is. And right there,

1191
01:29:42.399 --> 01:29:46.960
this is that Godzilla meme right with
the die with the doctor from Godzilla and

1192
01:29:46.960 --> 01:29:49.520
you to see him. He just
says, let him fight. Yes,

1193
01:29:49.680 --> 01:29:55.600
absolutely, moon back on Moonbat violence. I am so. I'm so here

1194
01:29:55.640 --> 01:30:00.079
for that. Although when you're talking
about the apparatus that is Tides Foundation and

1195
01:30:00.479 --> 01:30:03.000
these other big, big, big, big dark money groups, uh,

1196
01:30:03.119 --> 01:30:06.640
that is a bit dropping the buckety, But what the hell, man,

1197
01:30:09.319 --> 01:30:14.159
what the hell? And all,
and and keep in mind that this is

1198
01:30:14.239 --> 01:30:19.000
the national organization which is being which
was sued by the local bms because they

1199
01:30:19.000 --> 01:30:23.720
were fundraising like ah, look what
happened and then insert whatever the city and

1200
01:30:23.720 --> 01:30:27.079
then the local chapter wouldn't get any
of the money. So they're already infighting

1201
01:30:27.199 --> 01:30:31.439
themselves. And now they're the one
is gonna go sue somebody else, so

1202
01:30:31.479 --> 01:30:35.079
then the other ones will probably try
to get that money. I'm here for

1203
01:30:35.119 --> 01:30:39.880
it. Let it happen, man, can't wait? All right, coming

1204
01:30:40.000 --> 01:30:43.520
up, I promised you insanity.
Uh, And we got two other little

1205
01:30:43.520 --> 01:30:45.119
audio cuts for you. We'll get
to in the last segment, but let's

1206
01:30:45.159 --> 01:30:51.399
go ahead and get weather right now
with Ray Stagic Ray. How you doing

1207
01:30:51.399 --> 01:30:55.640
so? Hey, I'm doing okay, Kase. Do you ever have a

1208
01:30:55.640 --> 01:31:00.920
Swiss Army knife sir, no,
would I have one? But I don't

1209
01:31:01.000 --> 01:31:04.439
carry it on me and I don't
use you had one. You had one,

1210
01:31:04.800 --> 01:31:09.520
so you know they're take they're taking
the knife out of it. Oh

1211
01:31:09.600 --> 01:31:13.520
okay, So were they called then
just a Swiss army nail kit? I

1212
01:31:13.520 --> 01:31:19.119
think no, because but no,
And like they they make some arguments that

1213
01:31:19.119 --> 01:31:24.439
are really like if they're gonna still
have ones with knives, but their basic

1214
01:31:24.479 --> 01:31:27.920
models they wouldn't have it, won't
have one, and they say that there's

1215
01:31:28.239 --> 01:31:31.119
people can't travel with them. But
even if you take the knife off a

1216
01:31:31.159 --> 01:31:35.000
Swiss army knife, everything else on
their TSA is going to steal from you,

1217
01:31:35.520 --> 01:31:39.000
right, so that's not gonna work. And then also a lot of

1218
01:31:39.039 --> 01:31:43.560
countries heavily restrict knives, so they
hurts their sales in the UK, which

1219
01:31:43.600 --> 01:31:45.760
I guess I kind of get that. And then they said it, uh,

1220
01:31:45.960 --> 01:31:48.399
you know, it has a connotation
and air of violence, and it's

1221
01:31:48.439 --> 01:31:51.159
like, okay, you remove knife, but another part of your name is

1222
01:31:51.359 --> 01:31:56.920
army, so you're you're dumb.
I thought it was a Swiss party.

1223
01:31:58.119 --> 01:32:04.199
And what are they cheese and horns, cough drops, Ross said, Ross

1224
01:32:04.239 --> 01:32:10.039
said hot coco. But I've Ross
remember they that was on the list of

1225
01:32:10.079 --> 01:32:15.000
problematic brands. Now that we're remembering
stuff, because when it was when they

1226
01:32:15.079 --> 01:32:23.239
had a problem with with uh uh
stereotypical versions of individual groups, uh mean

1227
01:32:23.359 --> 01:32:27.239
the spokesperson even though they're not existed. This is what happened to Uncle Ben

1228
01:32:27.279 --> 01:32:30.359
and Aunt Jemima. And I remember
reading the list and it was all those

1229
01:32:30.399 --> 01:32:31.520
and then they had the Swiss miss
girl on there, and I'm like,

1230
01:32:31.560 --> 01:32:34.560
that one's not gonna get canceled.
So it didn't, but they tried so

1231
01:32:36.600 --> 01:32:40.079
enough like a cork screw, right, you know, I mean, you

1232
01:32:40.159 --> 01:32:43.960
take then away. You see what
do you see what the Equalizer did with

1233
01:32:44.000 --> 01:32:46.319
that? Denzel did with that.
I did not. You didn't see the

1234
01:32:46.359 --> 01:32:50.960
Equalizer. I may have. Just
let's just say it doesn't go well for

1235
01:32:50.960 --> 01:32:58.640
the Russian mob anyway. I'm sure. Yeah, it's short term going okay

1236
01:32:58.680 --> 01:33:03.399
for us. A few spotty showers
across the triangle right now. Heavier rainfalls

1237
01:33:03.399 --> 01:33:09.079
start to come back into some of
our western counties just west of the Triad,

1238
01:33:09.159 --> 01:33:13.159
coming through McDowell Rutford County, that's
out near Asheville. None of these

1239
01:33:13.159 --> 01:33:17.279
storms are warned on, but I'm
serned a little bit about maybe some flooding

1240
01:33:17.279 --> 01:33:21.359
with this rain coming in. The
storms may get strong, potentially severe through

1241
01:33:21.399 --> 01:33:26.399
this morning, but I don't think
widespread. I think heavy rain is a

1242
01:33:26.399 --> 01:33:30.079
greater threat. And after the wind
and the rain that some spots for the

1243
01:33:30.119 --> 01:33:33.520
west had yesterday, were kind of
glad that we're not seeing anything in the

1244
01:33:33.520 --> 01:33:39.560
way of heavier rainfall coming back.
Our heavier storms coming back in some of

1245
01:33:39.600 --> 01:33:43.560
the storms that are severe, she
remain out across North Georgia and Alabama.

1246
01:33:43.640 --> 01:33:47.399
So a few more showers and then
some heavier rain and showers this morning into

1247
01:33:47.439 --> 01:33:50.760
the afternoon. We may see a
lingering shower storm, but I think most

1248
01:33:50.760 --> 01:33:54.840
of it's going to wrap up.
Could climb in a little bit. It's

1249
01:33:54.840 --> 01:33:56.920
good to kind how much sun we
get. I'm not quite sure we're going

1250
01:33:56.960 --> 01:34:00.359
to get that warm tonight. We'll
start the clear way, actually pretty pleasant

1251
01:34:00.359 --> 01:34:02.479
morning. We should lose some of
the humidity by tomorrow. Morning load of

1252
01:34:02.479 --> 01:34:08.119
mid sixties had just a small chance
of an afternoon shower thunderstorm Tomorrow. Most

1253
01:34:08.159 --> 01:34:11.159
of the day for most of us, dry and mild, with some sun

1254
01:34:11.279 --> 01:34:15.520
upper seventies maybe eighty in spots,
fright chances some rain Saturday afternoon mid seventies,

1255
01:34:15.520 --> 01:34:18.479
so big cool down and that much
better. On Sunday Mother's Day,

1256
01:34:18.720 --> 01:34:21.920
mid seventies again and mostly sunny.
Over night loads will be in the load

1257
01:34:21.920 --> 01:34:25.760
of mid fifties, and some spots
may even different than the forties. KC.

1258
01:34:25.960 --> 01:34:29.199
So another day of kind of unsettled. Whether I think by noon it

1259
01:34:29.239 --> 01:34:33.720
will start improving slowly? Did mention
a shower thunder shower chants tomorrow? Certainly

1260
01:34:33.760 --> 01:34:36.560
gets a lot better about the upcoming
weekend. All right, cool, Thank

1261
01:34:36.560 --> 01:34:40.960
you, sir, appreciate it.
And we'll come back with Jeff Bellinger,

1262
01:34:41.039 --> 01:34:44.279
And like I said, we'll head
to Denver and we got a couple of

1263
01:34:44.279 --> 01:34:46.760
things for you. So hang on. Bloomberg Update now with Jeff Bellinger.

1264
01:34:46.800 --> 01:34:50.199
Jeff, what's going on? Well, good morning, casey. Major stock

1265
01:34:50.239 --> 01:34:56.479
averages were mixed yesterday. The Dow
most significantly up one hundred and seventy two

1266
01:34:56.560 --> 01:35:00.119
points, and that extended the longest
blue chip winning streaks so far this year

1267
01:35:00.199 --> 01:35:04.720
that with six sessions. The Nasdaq
fell back thirty points two tens percent.

1268
01:35:04.800 --> 01:35:10.600
The S and P five hundred was
essentially unchanged by the end of the year.

1269
01:35:10.680 --> 01:35:14.960
The only car in the Chevrolet lineup
will be the Corvette. General Motors

1270
01:35:15.000 --> 01:35:18.520
will end production of the Chevrolet Malibu
in November. It's going to retool the

1271
01:35:18.640 --> 01:35:24.840
Kansas assembly plant that makes the Sedan
to produce the electric Chevrolet Bold. The

1272
01:35:24.880 --> 01:35:28.520
Malibu has been popular. GM has
sold more than ten million of them,

1273
01:35:28.680 --> 01:35:32.359
one hundred thirty thousand last year alone. A significant increase last week in the

1274
01:35:32.439 --> 01:35:38.159
number of workers signing up for unemployment
benefits. The Labor Department counted two hundred

1275
01:35:38.199 --> 01:35:42.560
thirty one thousand first time applications,
and that was up from two hundred nine

1276
01:35:42.600 --> 01:35:46.279
thousand in the prior week. New
financial issues affect your psyche. Bank Rate

1277
01:35:46.359 --> 01:35:51.439
reports nearly half of all American adults
say money has a negative impact on their

1278
01:35:51.520 --> 01:35:56.600
mental health at least some of the
time. Worries over debt, student loans,

1279
01:35:56.600 --> 01:36:00.920
savings, and retirement can lead to
stress and sleepless nights. The hackers

1280
01:36:00.000 --> 01:36:06.039
behind last year's cyber attack on MGM
resorts have new targets. Cyber Security researchers

1281
01:36:06.079 --> 01:36:11.319
say the bad guys are going after
banks and insurance companies now, and the

1282
01:36:11.439 --> 01:36:15.199
Casey Walt, Disney and Warner Brothers
Discovery are planning to jointly market their top

1283
01:36:15.279 --> 01:36:19.720
video streaming services. Beginning this summer, the companies will offer a bundle that

1284
01:36:19.840 --> 01:36:25.680
includes Disney Plus, Hulu and Max. Subscribers will be able to choose either

1285
01:36:25.760 --> 01:36:30.000
the ad free or add supported versions
of the services. The companies have not

1286
01:36:30.199 --> 01:36:33.279
yet said how much these bundles will
cost. Casey, all right, Jeff,

1287
01:36:33.319 --> 01:36:35.960
appreciate it, sir. We'll talk
tomorrow. Okay, Okay, on

1288
01:36:36.119 --> 01:36:38.880
to Friday. Talk to you then, have a good day. Yeah,

1289
01:36:38.960 --> 01:36:43.039
there you go, Jeff Bellinger,
Bloomberg News joining us. All right,

1290
01:36:43.880 --> 01:36:46.960
So Russ Sam and this link for
these shoes and then it was he sent

1291
01:36:47.119 --> 01:36:54.039
me and admittedly so so somebody made
this really nice business looking shoe. And

1292
01:36:54.399 --> 01:37:00.000
the model is called the Joseph Stalin, except now it's not because they've changed

1293
01:37:00.239 --> 01:37:02.319
the name. Because I think people
saw this and uh, what did you

1294
01:37:02.359 --> 01:37:05.600
ask on the price? I can't
remember what was your question? Well,

1295
01:37:05.640 --> 01:37:09.520
initially, like I thought it was
it was like ten thousand something or other,

1296
01:37:09.600 --> 01:37:13.319
but I didn't think it was dollars, is it? Because thinking about

1297
01:37:13.359 --> 01:37:15.039
him, like, maybe it wasn't. I'm not sure what currency was.

1298
01:37:15.760 --> 01:37:20.119
Oh, that's the Uh, it's
not that So that symbol is the is

1299
01:37:20.159 --> 01:37:25.479
the symbol for Indias because it's a
rupee. Oh okay, yeah, because

1300
01:37:25.520 --> 01:37:29.279
it was it's a new thing.
Yeah, it's so that would be.

1301
01:37:29.560 --> 01:37:34.600
Let's see here it's twelve thousand rupees. So well, I got a call

1302
01:37:34.640 --> 01:37:41.239
of a converter here. It's about
one hundred and sixty dollars right now for

1303
01:37:41.319 --> 01:37:45.560
the shoe. But still it's called
the Joseph Stalin. Right. It's a

1304
01:37:45.560 --> 01:37:47.680
good working demands shoe, is it. I get? I mean, one

1305
01:37:47.760 --> 01:37:50.840
hundred and sixty isn't crazy for it, but in India it probably is.

1306
01:37:53.000 --> 01:37:55.479
I don't think a lot of dudes
are walking around most of India, but

1307
01:37:55.680 --> 01:37:58.399
I've been to India. Most dudes
are not walking around at one hundred and

1308
01:37:58.399 --> 01:38:02.640
sixty dollars shoes. Okay, better
named Joseph Stalin. Well, but remember

1309
01:38:02.680 --> 01:38:06.720
it's India where they like to name
like Hitler chicken. So like, how

1310
01:38:06.720 --> 01:38:10.920
many stories have we done where it's
just some insane like come to or then

1311
01:38:10.920 --> 01:38:15.199
they have the Obama chicken, which
people, you know, for the races,

1312
01:38:15.199 --> 01:38:16.119
you know, like oh it's racist, And I'm like, all right,

1313
01:38:16.199 --> 01:38:20.520
go tell the dude in you know, Bangalore or whatever, who you

1314
01:38:20.520 --> 01:38:25.720
know, see how he feels about
that. While he's scamming your grandmother,