All right, good morning. As I throw my phone for some reason,
that was good. Don't need that. Actually that may be a blessing in
disguise. I can't see. If they fell to broke, then nobody can
bug me. Ah no it's not broken. Boo, all right, whatever,
Good morning everybody. Uh seven seven, you know, seven, it's
not you know, it's an odd number, but still it's a nice round
number in the grand scheme of things. If you're somebody who's a little OCD.
I mean, it's not the number of days in a work week,
but it is the number of days in a total week, so you can
comprehend it. Ross, seven more shows, seven more shows, twenty one
hours of broadcasting and really not even that because you know, commercials, we'll
get some guests, things like that. It's my mental advent calendar. Ross
has an actual one and it's the size of a wall. So but yeah,
so your daily reminder that after next week we have some stuff to do.
Ross is fighting communism or whatever. His although you were fighting communism during
Thanksgiving. I got your email bounce back. At the moment, I'm fighting
technical issues in the studio. So see he is, he's fighting a he's
fighting wars on multiple fronts. Ross is literally what we were during the Greatest
Generation. So there's you know, just keep that in mind. So that's
yeah, that's the thing that's happening. Okay, And I know it will
not matter how many times I say it, but I will do what I
need to do. Okay, little connections with what happened in Las Vegas yesterday,
we're gonna have to get into that one Virginia connection and two North Carolina
connections. And I am wondering if somebody knew this dude, I'm not going
to get into his name. I could have thought about this. It might
be easier. You just I will say it once as we do the story,
and then after that, you know how we roll here. I feel
like you do have to say it once, especially when you're talking about things
locally, but then after that, no mus Okay, So we got that.
We got Disney News, although it's a little different. It's a little
different, and you know, because really Disney and enters into the show in
several key ways. There's all the woke garbage, there's the very political side
of things having to do with how you know, with the with the really
sweet agreement that they had there in Florida to essentially rule themselves, which would
be amazing and but probably not ideal. And frankly, I have to think
that most smash capitalism moon bats would have a huge problem with a megacorp being
autonomous and not in the way that they claim that they are right, which
they're kind of right. I mean, when you're when you're one of the
biggest companies in the world, you do got some flex but but actually having
it down on paper I always thought that was odd. But that goes back
to the woke stuff. And then there's the movie offerings, which obviously there's
been a lot of discussion about over the last I don't know entirety of this
show. In fact, Stephen Kent, who we chatted with last week,
he he's gonna join us. I thought that was a really good conversation,
and lord knows, there's enough of this stuff. And he's got a piece
out called The Right what the Right needs to figure out or the Right needs
to figure out what it really wants from Disney, and I thought those were
And then there's just the very entertainment focus but not woke stuff that we do
with Disney or Crazy Park, stories like, hey, everybody, stop using
the bathroom like you're on the streets of San Francisco because you don't want to
get out of a line. And I thought we had really tapped all the
Disney I was wrong. I saw this story yesterday, and I gotta tell
you, I was I I don't I don't generally openly laugh when I'm just
by myself because you look like a crazy person. I guess if somebody's watching
from a distance, but you know, it's like you'rean you're getting chased by
a bee, but one hundred ft one hundred feet from somebody else, so
they just think you're crazy. But I saw this story and I just started
dying laughing the deeper down. I got not Stephen Kent's story He'll join us
to day do five, but this story. Disney has announced plans to open
a new residential community. Oh yeah, all right, tell me more.
Now, Disney is not. Disney is not It's not their first rodeo on
this front. You know a lot of I think the one most people are
aware of is and I'm not even sure when they tried to officially. I
watched a little documentary, but it's been a while but you know what is
it celebration right, Celebration in Florida's I guess technically the name there. But
you know, Disney sought to create their own I don't want to call it
utopian because this goes back to like when Disney was still alive man, and
he just he realized, Hey, we got all this real estate around us.
Let's let's let's build neighborhoods in a community. But that is, you
know, has Disney branded on it, right, the happiest place on Earth
and the happiest place to live. I can't remember what the slogan was,
and they had they didn't achieve what they wanted to achieve because I think even
then it was just a little too grandiose. And you gotta really love,
really love Mickey to want to live within spinning distance of the park because I
don't know if you know this, it's really not easy to get around places
like at all. I have a friend who a radio friend. She bought
a place across the lake from Disney. There's there's a little community there and
she's right on the lake and she wanted that and it's and every night on
her back porch she literally can watch the fireworks do their thing whenever they're doing
that, but just getting in and out of there is a nightmare. I
remember right after she first bought it, I was driving to Tampa and I
told her, Hey, when I'm going through Orlando, yeah for sure,
I'll check out the new house. And I'm like, oh this is And
I get off the egsit and it's like it took forever to get over there.
And so look, they had some things that they ran into. However,
what you don't know is Disney is still in the community development business,
and lo and behold, I see this story yesterday where they have announced a
they're planning a new residential community Chatham County. Now, for those of you
in the Triad and maybe a lot of you in the Triangle, I don't
know if you're fully up on everything that's been going on over these giant swaths
of land that sit basically between you know, Apex and Apex and Kerry and
the town of Pittsburgh. Right, there's a lot they have talked about huge,
huge. I mean there was one development that I remember them describing where
they were just going to do it all, and it literally was they're gonna
build more houses than currently exist in Pittsburgh, and as you can imagine,
there are a lot of residents they're a little concerned because, you know,
not my backyard, right, But regardless, Disney wants to take this on
and build their own villages kind of thing. Described as a fifteen hundred acre
community include four thousand single family multifamily homes. It says the housing is aimed
at people aged fifty five and older. Ross and I were talking off there
about this because he was said, why does it say Some say it's four
fifty five and older and some says it would focus on For what I've seen
with the fifty five older communities and not just with Disney, is depending on
where you are, you can't just limit it to fifty five because of the
way that we develop now and carve outs that generally are part of the agreements
for these large things that include affordable housing. And then if you're doing affordable
housing, you see where I'm going with this. You can't limit it just
to fifty five plus in a lot of states. I have to admit I
don't know exactly how it works in North Carolina, but I do have a
pretty good understanding how it works in Florida and how it worked in Minnesota,
because I've covered the complete development of a huge fifty five plus community that was
very controversial up there, and they had to carve out. So the way
is you had all the the you know, really the houses you're trying to
sell, and then you may have you may have a neighborhood that has a
percentage allotment that will coincide with what's affordable housing, so you know, it'll
be like town homes on the edge of the main place. In fact,
if you go to the villages, they I believe they have carve out,
but it's not inside the gate. But if you know anything about the villages,
they like the party yep, yep, yep, big fans of the
party, and some interesting stories, numbers and news has has spilled out over
the years. That was just crazy. I think one of the more recent
big villages won is this this couple that was essentially breaking bad right. They'd
moved to the villages to retire or whatever, and then they're like, hey,
you know what, they have all of these weird swinger parties around here.
How about we be the drug supplier for those? And so they literally
just busted some retire. I can'tmeber what he did, but some dude who
saw I guess Walter White, and went, hey, let me do this,
so they had that. Then they have, of course the STI stuff,
which is that joke right where if you look at zip codes with percentage
of the population dealing with some sort of sexually transmitted infection, unfortunately the village
is outpaced their neighbors. We'll just say that that's polite. So it creates
this scenario of these fifty five plus communities where it's just a bunch of folks
who were, you know, retired or semi retired, who have a lot
of time on their hands and open marriages or so. I don't know,
man, but I do know that because the name of this is well,
i'm gonna tell it to you in a second, is so on the nose.
That's why I was laughing. Are you ready? The community? The
community would be known as and I want to make sure I'm pronouncing this correctly.
It's spelled as t r I A. That's asked Terriot, right.
I mean, I'm not. I'm not an English professor, but I do
use English every day at work because you know radio that's that's asked Terria.
That's amazing, that's like, just let everybody know what's up, Disney.
I appreciate that. I have a question. Is it a little too on
the nose though? And really because it has a quasi knotty word? Is
that the like? What about swingers Borough? Is that way? Hold on,
let me make sure that's not taken as I willed that one town into
existence in Virginia if you were a month ago or so. All right,
hold on, I'll look this up. Because Ross is banging equipment with two
giant hammers. It looks like he's forging a broadsword. All right, swingers
Burrow, would it be b O r O like Greensboro? Or do we
go with the borough with the g H nine. Let's just go with b
O r O? All right? Is there a swingers Borough? No,
there's not, so you guys can use that. Okay, just let everyone
know what's up. But you know, with with just a slightly more polite
pronunciation. Oh that's a good point. Swansboro probably be upset. Well,
geographically they're not the same, so I think. And yes, there is
a Pittsburgh there obviously, but not a swingers Borough. Or you go to
Swingers Ferry. We'll play on Sneetz Ferry or something. I don't know,
man, But yeah, So the Disney community in the beginning stages, and
I don't know exactly what you get and what you get in the you know,
in a Disney if you live in celebration, are there things that you
get? I don't know, And I don't know how it works for other
communities. But that's it. And this will be all part and parcel of
Chatham Park, which is that the bigger the bigger vision, So this will
be its own thing in there, and and they're calling it Asteria and that
amuses me. I don't know, why don't you put this over in Raleigh
at the near the Destination Park. I'm just saying, yeah, got options?
Uh, And I'm trying to remember who, Yeah, Presston Development.
That's the company that is the larger thing. So yeah, I again,
I don't know exactly what these Disney communities look like, but I did get
because I'm two, all right. In addition to that insanity, we got
details on what happened in Las Vegas yesterday, because yes, there are some
local connections. Porch pirate stuff and Boyle boy just a bunch of stupid on
the show today, so stick around back in just a few All right,
good morning and welcome. It is six thirty four CaCO Day Radio program.
Actually, I can say I was so blown away. Even though this wouldn't
really impact you, it just shows you the lengths the people are willing to
go to and I don't. I don't. Admittedly I don't understand the endgame
here. So one of the things you got to know is all day,
every day, while I'm awake, while I'm asleep, while I'm grocery shopping,
while I'm watching a movie, well, who knows, chances are interview
pitches from various agencies. I want to say agent, I mean like private
rep agencies, you know, people who handle talent and doing that. Say
it's a whole industry. Then unless you're in this business, you may not
be aware of authors. Pr People for not just elected officials, but for
everything are sending you pitches and they want, you know, because they want
to get their guests booked on the air, And the way that they make
money is they go tell people who crave being famous. So if you're in
a if you're a lawyers, who's you know, charismatic and or you're a
doctor, or you are a and an insert whatever it is. And you
want to raise your profile, you want to do TV hits, you want
to do radio interviews, things like that. You can go out and you
can essentially hire an agency. You're hiring a you know, a manager,
and then they you know, you work out whatever the revenue is and then
they claim that they're going to get you interviews all over the country and that'll
raise your profile. And ninety nine point ninety percent of them I just ignore
because we don't really do many guests on this show. But some talk shows,
and I'm not everybody's got their own thing. Some people who do talk
radio can't do what we do. Whereas I could sit here, I could
sit here and talk for three hours with no guests, no problem. You
put Ross and I together, we just standing on the head man. We
don't need guests. So any guests that we put on there needs to be
a reason, and we want it to be good, which is and so
when we have the regular guests like the Pete on Friday and and you know
you guys like that, and then we track this stuff. But some guy
who just wrote a book on moles, I get a pitch for it.
But that's how I'm telling you this. I'm telling you this because I was
talking to some folks and there was a pitch that got sent to a radio
station not here, somebody else who do who does a talk show? And
it looked like an organization that does like veteran stuff. And there's a lot
of them, the ones that you're probably most familiar with Tunnel to Towers,
right I just because I know Clay and Buck talk about him, Glenn Beck
talks about him and others. And by the way, I'm not telling you
which charities to do stuff, but during the holiday season there's a lot of
charitable pitches because there's a lot of people in need. I get that.
But what was crazy was the person I was talking to or and on the
email list with this isn't they think it's a scam. So that's how brazen
some people are willing to go. And I don't know all the details yet,
just what's on here, but basically it's like, hey, so and
so is the communications person for such and such charity, and you know this
year they hoped to write what were they wanting to do? They were wanting
to end veteran homelessness or medical needs or something, which is good. That's
that's that's great, addressing suicide issues. I'm fine with that. But basically,
I guess I guess the scam is they get on the air and then
they give a website and then people make donations, and that's the scam.
That's crazy to me. That's not cold calling grandma saying you're the grandkid,
you lost your wallet and you need money. Wired that's not even niger So
to me, that somehow sounds crazier than Nigerian prince. And I guess it's
just the part where somebody be willing to go on the air. But then
I thought, well, maybe that's not it. Maybe they think the host
will just put it on a list of charity. So I don't I don't
know. I did. I wrote somebody back, so did somebody book this?
I'll let you know. But that was crazy and I know it's a
little inside baseball, but and then just send it to radio hosts either,
So I people are getting creative. Man, you just never know, you
never know what. You don't trust anyone. But I mean, if you
do want to give, you can give to the Hayes Global Initiative. It's
people helping people and it just drop off whatever you want to donate on my
porch and I'll give it to the people. Are the people you. I
am a person. I can't they who gets it, but I am a
person. So right, yeah, there'd be no fraud there, right,
didn't you? U? What didn't a Hogwarts lego set? I believe was
something one year that I believe this organization was attempting to fundraise for. Can
you imagine I have to think that if you called the book that that they
wouldn't book it. That there's another element to this scam that I'm missing.
But how elaborate is that considering all the crap that hits your inbox every day?
I mean that being said, I mean, yeah, it's awful,
it's it's you know, you're probably going to hell. But it's really smart
because people that listen to talk radio tend to be charitable, right, yeah,
it tends to be some toys six thousand toys during our stuff with us
last weekend, six thousand toys And yes they do. I remember, you
know, we merely mentioned remember the GoFundMe for that for the for the sheriff's
deputy who was who was murdered to help with his you know, his family,
but also is a bit of a screw you to the former sheriff who
if you don't remember that debacle, holy crap man. And people gave generously,
and look, it's important to do your research on anything in anyone you
want to give to, whether it is I'm not I'm not gonna give you
any details on this. I'm not gonna put their name out there, but
just to say that that's what it kind of looked like. But and instinctually
you see something like that and you're like, yeah, I don't I don't
think that people who serve this country should be living on the streets. So
sure here's yeah, absolutely, and you feel good doing that. And that's
part of it. For some people, I think that's all of it,
which is weird, but but you know, it's just the human nature of
it. But you still got it. Check stuff, okay, go and
research stuff. Charity navigators pretty good for search and stuff up. But some
charity is are very small, but they're still you know, they're still doing
stuff. But you know, google it through there and if you hypothetically go
to Charity navigator and you entered Hayese Global Initiative. You don't see anything there.
Yeah, you might want to check the People Helping People charity. It
could it could be under it's a subsidiary of the Hayes First Share of Global
Initiative. Yeah, that was just Hayes Global Initiative. So now there's politics
particular you hate, you hate to see it, but you can't really drop
off the gifts on my porch. Gifts you want to wrap for the people?
Should they be wrapped from Santa if you want to, if you find
that in your heart, hm hmm. Got to help the people again.
I'm very I'm on the I'm on this thing here. It doesn't say who
the people are. So are you guys at least going to build houses in
Haiti? Oh? Yeah, because those global initiatives I can get behind.
Well, how much money are we talking about? If I'm gonna be building
houses in Haiti, get a hundred mill how many houses could you where land
is probably pretty cheap, perhaps like three or four houses, maybe one neighborhoods
like development neighborhoods, But I mean you can fit a lot of people in
that one house. I'm sorry, neighbor developments. Beggars can't be choosers,
you know, or literally just four houses, I'm confused. Four neighborhoods,
four houses, you know, for for individual homes. Oh, there are
lots of people could fit into what Well, yeah, I guess the best
part of is Haiti. So there's no fire coat, just as many people
as you want. But there's fires full this globe. I'm not sure if
that's actually a fact. They somehow don't have trees but have massive fires,
right what? Oh? The problem is, though, you don't want to
leave your house. When you come back, it'll look like it'll look like
the frame of an automobile on blocks in that comedy fashion. So you'll probably
want to build it out of really not up to par materials and have the
five you did build basically be uninhabitable already. Do you guys think you could
do that? Because that's the standard right there. Yes, that's a Clinton
foundation, but it's not a joke. Look it up. They ended up
with like five houses. They were gonna save Haiti, and they built five
houses, and I think some of them are uninhabitable now. At least one
of them is the one I was reading about because some materials they used.
I know I'm shocked too, So all right, I get a little little
Loftari, how about I teach you how to survive a tiger incident? You
guys want that. That'd be useful, right you? You know you could
run into a tiger today, and I bet it never crossed your mind as
you walk out your door today that at some point you could be confronted with
a giant cat that would eat you. I know what you're saying. You're
saying case tigers are not native here, And to that, I would say,
google Big Cat Sanctuary and North Carolina and you're got You're surrounded by more
tigers than you know, and you know other stuff that'll eat you. So
one of them gets out, boom, Now you got an incident. So
yeah, I'd say that my information could be pretty helpful. So we will.
We'll get into that. Another reason to leave Australia. And coming up
seven o five, the shooting in Las Vegas yesterday and there is lots of
local connections with the guy who is I had to be the shooter. Can't
ask him because's dead, but you know, we'll give you the details.
Cacoday Radio program let me tell you something, and this is something that is
always always impressive when you watch it in action and you realize that as many
comparisons as we make generationally, right, and you know, the old the
old adages, man, everyone's getting soft, and whatever generation you are,
it's natural that you look at the generation under you who doesn't have the lived
experience and didn't necessarily have to grow up with the same set of circumstances,
and you're just like, look at these cupcakes, all right, you know,
they get off the lawn thing and for the most part, it's harmless
whatever. And but I'll tell you you saw it. I saw it within
my generation with nine to eleven, but not to the extent that you saw
it back in nineteen forty one with folks. You know, today is the
eighty second anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It's December seventh. I
want to give it a mantion because even if I don't mention, even if
I mentioned it every segment, I still get people go, I can't believe
you didn't bring Pearl Harbor up. But I think about it. I was
thinking about it through this context. Today I'm trying to think of twenty.
He would have been twenty or twenty one. I'm trying the context in which
you watch, and I want to I want to remind you, well,
maybe not watch, but you hear. And then he kind of watched maybe.
But with the stuff that you show at theaters, you get news.
You're you're a you're a you're a ranch kid. You and your four brothers.
Your father just died of als. They didn't call it Louke Grigg's disease
yet because I guess that would have made things uncomfortable for lou But and now
it's just you and your mom and your four brothers and your dirt poor and
you're literally you're you. You're doing like a local ups where you and your
brothers will deliver packages from place to place near round Up, Montana, which
is where my grandfather's side of the family is from. And and you you
hear about what's happening for a little while. Uh there is concern as to
how much of the Pacific Fleet was destroyed, right, they didn't have the
numbers at they're ready, and uh so people a lot of people were thinking
that they basically obliterated half of our navy, and so what do you do.
You and two of your other brothers who are old enough you go to
Billings enjoyed the RB like the same week because you're just like, oh no,
screw me, Oh no, no, no, no, screw you.
And you saw that. You also saw that, you know, post
nine to eleven. But it it obviously and and I understand and that within
World War Two and then up to Vietnam, we had, you know,
different ways in which people go in the military. You had draft stuff,
you had, But the factor remains, that's the decision he made, as
I understand it, and that's the decision a lot of people made. And
I'm trying to think of twenty year old me literally half walking, half half
riding almost I guess that'd be about eighty miles round up to buildings, just
so you can go over and kick the crap out of the guys who just
blew up your island, little island paradise there and your military base. And
that's where we're at. And I don't want to sit here and play favorites.
Whatever motivates people to want to go do that. You know, the
naysayers would say that people joined the military because they're economically challenged, not all
of them. My grandfather sure was, but most people were obviously in coming
out of that era. But that's that's not everybody. People do it,
so people do it for a variety of reasons. I can't speak to ultimately
what the motivation would be because I did not serve. But that's just crazy,
man. And the only and the only reason the other two brothers didn't
go is they were one they were younger, and two somebody had to stick
around and essentially help mom. It would be my great grandmother. So ah,
you know what I'm saying, ross like that motivation of twenty year old
me versus twenty year old my grandfather. It's just not on par. I
had a grandfather in the Pacific, and I had a grandfather that went to
Europe, and it's absolutely incredible that he just got up and went yeah,
they're just like, oh no. It reminds me of you know, the
movie Paton, where Patton's given the speech in the beginning, he's like,
you know, granddad, what did you do in the Great World War two?
You know? And like do you want to say that you shoveled blank
in Louisiana or do you right? Well, you can't really say some of
the other stuff. But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's exactly. It is. Your grandfather slap people too, because if you
want the full patent experience, you also got a backhanded coward at least once.
So but yeah, that is that is definitely. There are so many
unique stories there. And then there's the I've mentioned on the show. There's
the totality of all the series of events that had to transpire for me to
be here, right is the uniqueness of it. It's his military service experience,
his experience, his his his wound, the way that they handled that,
the where he then moved and met my grandmother who he grew up like
sixty miles from and they'd never met because that's just how things were. And
then they met in Japanese internment camp kind of plau Heart Butt in Wyoming.
There, but all of those other things had to happen, all of the
other things for two sets of Ross's grandfather's had to happen for him to be
here. And it's just this is why I nerd out on history stuff,
especially when you get into the unique stuff. So I did. I didn't
want to take him out. I get the tiger stuff. We got,
we got debate, all sorts of stuff. But I did want to make
mention of that because I was just thinking about that. I might I was
barely motivated enough to go and uh uh go by had something to drink this
morning. It's so lazy, I was. I'm like, ah, I
don't want to go grab something to eat, something to drink. I'll deal
with that later. These guys are sitting on a he's sitting on a stump
out and round up Montana, and they're just like, all right, I
guess I'm gonna go. I guess I'm gonna go. Uh blow up all
the Japanese. Well you know the motivation at the time, but yeah,
take nope. Man, take note, that is today eighty two years my
grandfather you passed away at ninety nine here, not that long ago, but
man, craziness, Good morning everybody, and welcome in his Thursday is hour
number two. We were at seven oh six KCDA radio program. So the
headline they put on Drudge, and I only go to Drudge to glance at
it. I don't even really click links anymore because I don't know what happened
there. But the right at the top. It says Gop hides forth debate,
and they're playing off of the New York Times saying that, oh,
they didn't do a lot to promote at well, I mean I don't feel
that they did any less, Like, were you not aware that the debate
was going I was aware that it was going on. Ross was aware because
he knows that he's got to pull audio the next morning, and of course,
you know, watch it intently with his family. Do you guys have
a good time. It's a good time, okay, good or you know,
sometimes things come up and then all I ask to do is pull the
audio one the morning. And he did so, like he knew. I
knew, you knew. And I think it's it's situational, but you know,
let's allege a conspiracy. I would also understand why people don't want to
watch it because even back when Trump was and there was sixteen of them up
there, it wasn't that they were pleasant to each other. It was just
so it was so, what the hell's gonna happen next? It's you know,
it's very car accident in that standpoint. From that standpoint, and so
it's not the way that politicians are battling each other and landing body blows when
they're speaking. It's that some politicians have the ability to do it in a
way that's not annoying, and others are nails on chockboard. And I think
when you have candidates, by the way, this is not me endorsing,
unendorsing, picking whatever. I'm just not entertained as much as I'm annoyed.
And I don't know why that is. And and by the way, doesn't
that Trump doesn't have to be there for me to be entertained. There's lots
and lots of situational debates and discussions that I that I find entertaining. But
sometimes I'm just like, yesterday, Ross's three provinces in Ukraine. I cannot
But however, what however, I don't think we should be over there,
and I don't care about Ukraine. So that's my point of view. It's
like if I cared about it, maybe I should know. But I I
just name a city in Massachusetts, Boston. Oh wow, look at that,
right. It's important to me because it's the rivalry. Yeah, but
you know, in the United States, it's important to me, Like you
don't want to do anything over there? Because I mean, those people are
crazy. But all right, so you can't ross But if you wanted to,
Let's say, hypothetically, you wanted to use that gotcha question against somebody
else, how would you go about doing that? Hypothetically, Let's say you
wanted to appear very smart on this particular front, and you're the one who's
gonna get to pose the question even if you know nothing about Ukraine. Just
go remember three, ask your opponent when they can't rattle them off when right,
and be like, haha, I can't believe you didn't know what I
just found out like twenty minutes ago. Yeah, And I'm not saying that
that is necessarily what happened. I'm saying that it's not a test of one's
ability because I don't know that that didn't happen, you know, vivic.
And by the way, that's the pronunciation we're going with. I just don't
If he gets elected, I'll learn it. It's like I did with Kamala
when she got elected. I'm like, fine, I better learn how to
say it. So like he may very well know all of them and Hayley
may or may not or Christy may and may not or whatever, but I
also don't know if you're the one pushing it, if you didn't just google
it on your phone before the debate, So it doesn't prove what you think
it proves, even though it may is. I guess what I'm saying here
and for future future reference ross three good ones, blight Town, Los Santos,
and Tristram are the three big province. I don't I don't think that's
correct. I know the to the audio. What have you never been to
Blake Town? I have been numerous times. Oh, look at that the
back in my hand. The Great Club there? What do they have clubs
there? The Great Club? Is it like a? Is it a hip
hop club? Is it a rock club? Is it? Obviously that is
a that is a certain unit's a that's a world or the level of dark
Souls the Ukrainian province. I don't know. Have you are you familiar with
Eastern I feel like in Dark Souls in Diablo, which is Tristram, I
feel like I feel like there's more, Uh, there's more influence from Eastern
Europe in designing those towns, because it really kind of you know, it's
it's they're going for medieval hellhole, right, I mean, really, when
you put together Tristram and Diablo or Blake Town in Dark Souls, right,
they're not fun places, right, And it's not a fun world you're living
in. And you know, plague era Europe and especially parts of Eastern Europe
were not nice places. I think if Ukraine you featured chaos, which kuay
log, I think I might be paying more attention. It's talking about Spider
Woman. Yeah, she's over by the nuke plant, except now she's thirty
times the size, so watch it. I would explain it. Yeah,
how do you think those the bosses get like that? Chernobyl? Come on,
man, do you not know stuff? Look at that Ross is unqualified
to be president? He didn't know. All right, let's get into this.
It's you know, of course we had to make Creer. We had
to have Chris Christie fat jokes him and him and around Aswami do not like
each other. It is clear. I don't think any of them like any
of them, although I think Christy and Haley probably don't want to punch you
each other in the face. But still it's only because I think they both
hate Ramswami more and so we get stuff like this. I'm having three things
right there. First of all, Chris Christy also doesn't know what provinces in
eastern Ukraine he actually wants to fight for. Chris, your version of foreign
policy experience was closing a bridge from New Jersey to New York. So do
everybody a favor. Just walk yourself off that stage, enjoy a nice Neil,
and get the hell out of this place. So when it comes to
Nikki, I think if you're gonna ast you to send your sons and daughters
to go die in somebody else's ward, Excuse me, Chris, I'm speaking,
and I'm not done yet. I haven't heard a time when we're going
to be done. So listen up to this is. If these people want
to send your sons and daughters to go die in Ukraine, they've been arguing
for it for a year, two hundred billion dollars of our taxpayer money sent
over. Neither of them could even name for you the provinces that they actually
want to protect, all right, And I gotta be honest. When I
saw this, I thought I thought I could name three. I couldn't.
I could name two, though, because obviously CRIMEA is even though it is
technical under Russia Ukraine still considers it its own province, and then obviously you
have the cities which generally share the name of the province. But to that
point, Nicki Haley said she wanted everyone on the internet to have to say
who they are on social media? How is that not your plan of attack,
not just from Ramswami but Christy and everybody else, Like shouldn't I just
assumed it would be a Nicky Haley pile on after that, right, because
that was just so like, why would you put that out there? And
she said in like three different interviews, and while it was brought up,
it just not really, man, not really. They mentioned it and then
they floated past and I found that particularly horrific when I heard it. And
so you got Ramswami throwing that out there. Christie, of course he's doing
the attack dog. That's the reason. Yes, it's exactly what you said.
You do this at every debate. I didn't interrupt you. Okay,
you say this. You you every debate, you go out of the stuff
and you say something. All of us see it on video, we confront
you on on the debate stage, you say you didn't say it, and
then you back away, And I want to say I'm not done yet.
Well, this is look something. This is the fourth debate, the fourth
debate that you would be voted in the first twenty minutes as the most ubnoxious
blow hard in America. Shut up, so you know good times if you
watch I was, I remember that thing your TV did. We're just burst
into flames, RUSSA. It tends to happen in every debate. I'm like,
I'm gonna sit down, get the popcorn ready for the debate. Boom.
Yeah, something happens to my TV and I can't watch. It's a
shame. This is why people need to donate to the Global Initiatives. You
can replace your TV, right, Yeah, mine didn't burst into flames.
I just didn't. I looked at the remote and went, nope, no,
I'll I'll watch a little some on my iPad and then occasionally glance at
Twitter. That was a good speed for me. All Right, we got
we got lots smarter. What is this one debates summed up? Did you
do a master edit of the entire Oh? Okay, because that's because if
not, I have let's see here forty two three. No, if you're
pressed for time, just see I like seven and a half minutes of all
the other cuts, this one is only twenty two seconds. That sounds like
an amazingly efficient menagerie here, so super cut? Is that what we're going
for? Okay, well let me yeah, let's uh, let's hit this
and shed some light on all that you would have missed had you not seen
him. Then you're crazy? I know you are, but what am I?
You're a ner? I know you are, But what am I?
You're an idiot? I know you are. What am I? I know
you are? But what am I? I know you are? Am I?
I know you are. I know you are, But what am I?
I know you are? But what am I? Infinity? No,
I'm not, you are no knock up? I know he's dead now.
And one that is not a combination of moments from yesterday's furs GOP debate.
If you didn't pick up on that too, Paul Rubins, but in character
as president would be amazing because of how uncomfortable it would make other world leaders.
Do you know what I mean? If he's full bow tie suit enacting
his Pee week character. Yeah, and a miss Evona secretary of State.
Yeah, no, no, no, it kind of looks like idiocracy.
Really with the cabineting there right where it's you know, it's more a group
of friends and they just kind of sit around mildly smarter than everyone. Ah,
it would be great. Can you imagine Cherry in the Oval office in
what could pacity is behind the desk? Are you like John F. Kennedy,
Bill Clinton behind the desk or working? Uh? Yes, I have
that is that's that's like one of the creepiest things. Uh. That just
did just the whole vision there. You've ruined. Thank you, You've ruined
my childhood. So I'm I'm I'm incredibly uncomfortable. What about can we do
crossover to can like hands across the aisle and then we get some of the
talking furniture there, but then we incorporate some characters from other kids shows of
the era. I mean, we can compromise something. I'm open to it
because I feel like if we wanted to put together a super team team of
children's or kids programming from the nineties, think of all of the people we
would have access to and all of the great jobs that we could put them
in, you know, either because one we think they might be good at
it, Like you know, even though LeVar Burton is a little moon battie.
I'll take some LeVar Burton over at you know, Library of Congress.
Boom. That's yours, buddy. But we got some other crazier options too,
so but yeah, no, Pee Wee's at the forefront and Ross has
Cherry doing some other stuff. So what a morning? All right, seven
nineteen the Tiger Insanity. I'll get it next. Hang on keeping you connected.
This is ninety four to five WPTI in the Triad and one six one
FM Talk in the Triangle. Oh man, Yeah, welcome back. At
is seven twenty five here on the KCOD radio program. So as we were
sitting here and wanting to share with you what happened over at the debate,
Ross is thinking about a Paul Rubin's presidency or something. But then we started
thinking, because this is quote labeled debate summed up or super cut, then
you're crazy. I don't know you are, but what am I? You're
and near And it's not that he's not right, it's just that, I
mean, technically it's not them. But then I thought, you know'd be
amazing in character Pee Wee Herman going around to the you know, like the
G twenty but acting in exactly that same way. Just to watch Trudeau and
others, just their level of discomfort would be wildly amusing, because you got
a little bit of that with Trump. I mean there was also seething hatred
this. They would just be like, I have no idea what to do.
I don't know. I mean the difference is if you're going to look
at like Paul Rubins as pee wee there, it's like he was likable,
which is why this show was great, right, it was funny, right
yeah, And a lot of these candidates on stage, I like, there's
no reason for me to watch it because I know who they all are at
this point, and I'm not I'm not going to really care and pay attention
until there's two of them on the stage going to be the candidate. And
so now we're putting together basically, let's do that and then but only eighties
nineties that kids TV stars can be in cabinet positions. Somebody brought this up
and you, I asked you, and you immediately had an answer. But
I feel like there's like four or five correct answers, and that is where
within the Herman administration, where does Ernest fit in this I would put him
as Secretary of the Interior because he has an experience at camp. He does
like camping, yes he does. But also somebody's got to run the Department
of Prisons. And there's also look, there's also Secretary of State. Look
at the look what he was able to do when he traveled to Africa that
time, he was warmly welcomed, according by to the box cover of him
in a full tribal mask. So yeah, and the problem with Department of
Interior, which I like that, I kind of want to stick the cast
of Hay. Do you remember the show Hey Dude on Nickelodeon. I do.
It was after my time, but yeah, I do, yeah,
yeah, yeah, and yes, and it was agreeably after my time too,
but it stood out for I had younger siblings and they'd watch it,
and that show annoyed me so much because every actor and actress on that show,
if they were in an actual agricultural environment, would be dead in three
days. And maybe it's just because you're seeing it through the lens of somebody,
and it's like that's TV and all that. But I want in there
just so I could watch the bears get them all right? Good morning,
it is seven thirty five. And I've said them before and I'll say it
again. Jeff Jackson's a moon batman. Understand why some people would be like,
oh, it seems like well, and admittedly I have never met the
dude in person, but I tend to get an opposite vibe on some of
his videos. But it's not about the personality thing here. It's about bad
ideas. And I just watched what is a doozy so a video he posted
yesterday on how he's going to tackle which he's not wrong in the sense that
this is a thing that happens, and this is a thing that is happening,
and it is having an impact on housing prices, but politically, democrats
want to act like it's the only thing having an impact on housing prices,
when in reality, there's larger things impacting all the prices, you know,
like the store prices for food for your families you don't starve to death,
utility prices, the cost of go to a restaurant eat the other day and
it had been a while and I'm like, this is twice what it was.
I what was it was? Trying to remember it was a fast food
item. I'm like, how is this twice what it was? But I
know the answer inherently. So this has to do with the cost of housing
and corporations, right, the big evil corporations, the corporations so evil that
they're cool with Disney running its own kingdom literal kingdom, governing itself in Florida.
But if you're a corporation that buys houses and you rent them, and
I'm not here saying it's a good thing when they're buying twenty thirty percent of
the housing stock from a mass standpoint, it's definitely impactful. It's disruptive,
especially for first time home buyers. So if you want to recognize, hey,
this is a problem, what you have to do is you have to
figure out Okay, so one is this the government's job to step in and
do something? And two, if you do think it is, how do
you exert influence or do something? But in a way that is fitting with
frankly what you should have your fingers in any way, but also not incredibly
against almost every law that we have ork intoor constitutional protections, which, as
much as people hate it, do extend to corporations, especially from a First
Amendment standpoint, Right, that's that's something that is a constant point of discussion.
All right, So I'm bouncing around here just a little bit. I
wanted you to get the gist of it, so I'll get into that coming
up here in the next segment. I got to go this this direction first
though, because I promised the tiger story. I feel bad. I don't
want any all to get eaten by a tiger to well, some of you,
not necessarily you the listeners, but like if I have a list if
let's say you're out doing something in your yard today, just say you're raking
leaves. Okay, you're rake and leaves, and you want to your beloved
pets out there with you, you know, doing what pets do. Probably
a dog because cats ain't sticking around for that. But yeah, and every
time you get a pile together, your dog like blows through it because you're
now dogs. When they when they kick into a super super speed mode,
man, they could be hilarious. Right. But right in the middle of
your dog, you know, doing all that, a giant Siberian tiger comes
out and snatches your dog. What do you do? What's your game plan
there? Because you don't have you're not armed to the teeth, although I
suspect some of you when you rake are But let's say you're not armed.
You're armed with a rake. Giant Siberian tiger. You have a small dog.
Tiger gets the dog. What do you do, ross, You have
pets, you love your pets. Siberian tiger right in front of you.
Boom, got your pet. You gotta fight it to the death. Really,
the trick is you gotta punch it in the back of the throat.
I've done this before, have you? Yeah? Oh, well you know
what I then I'm glad we came to you for expert in Now. It's
dangerous though, because if you do it wrong, it'll bunch your arm off.
You do it super fast, yeah yeah, okay, remember we now
when when she was in the coffin right when in a kill bill and she
had do that like one inch punch. It's the same thing. You put
it in the Siberian tiger's mouth right before it takes your arm off, boom
in the back of the throat, and it'll just it'll it'll assassinate the tiger,
even if you're a spry seventy six, says the guy in this story.
Okay, so like a Joe Biden. Yeah, i'd do you feel
that he's gonna be able to shadow punch because I don't think he's gonna probably
not. Yeah, I don't think. I don't think you're snatching anything out
of a palm if you're Joe Biden. That's all I'm saying. But with
that in mind, the seventy six year old man who and it says in
the in the story, it sounds like he recognized that his dog was dead
almost immediately. The tiger just came out and murdered his dog, and it
was carrying the body away. It's how it's described. So he he knew
what was up the tiger from the Immure Tiger Center, or maybe that's the
one commenting. I don't even know where the tiger came from. It's Russia.
I assume there's tigers run around everywhere. He decided, you know what
I'm gonna do. I'm gonna stalk the tiger. I'm gonna flip the script
on this dude. So, according to authorities, the seventy six year old,
after witnessing the tiger kill his dog and then take the dog with in
his mouth into the woods, wade a few minutes before he began tracking the
tiger, as a fresh snowfall had allowed him to follow the animal's movement through
the forest. And the tiger went deep into the forest. And this seventy
six year old went deep into the forest. And he's a very apparently he's
a very good tracker. So like it's a dude who lives out in the
middle of nowhere, right, got some skills, and he, according to
authorities, was able to follow the tiger and successfully find where the animal had
been denning. And there when he showed up, is the lifeless body of
his dog, which he was able to mourn over for according to authorities,
just a matter of moments before the tiger came out of the trees and killed
the man. In fact, after his disappearance was finally noted, search parties
found the man and his dog literally dead, torn to shreds, laying next
to each other. He had not armed himself elf, and it's simply in
a state of emotion, went to go track down his dog. Man,
Yeah, you gotta you gotta bring a peace I mean, probably a pretty
big one. And you can't fight on his own ground, right, like
you're going into the den of the tiger. No, look, did Rambo
fight on their terms or did he fight on his in the woods of Washington.
I would argue he fought on he fought on his Hence all of the
you know, the various booby tracks, except for later when he actually went
into the sheriff's department. Yeah well right, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,
and then those tunnels. Don't even get me started on those tunnels,
man. Yeah. So if if something, if one of your pets get
statched by a giants. A Siberian tigers are I think the biggest tigers too.
So if a Siberian tiger gets your beloved pet, I'm sorry, I
don't wish that upon. You probably going to have to let that go.
If you don't have a firearm, so you know, new a news you
can use, or you have to learn to shadow punch or whatever Ross said.
So those are your options. Craziness man, all right? Seven forty
four raced Agic. Yeah, man, I look, you got pets,
You got pets you like. Oh yeah, if a giant tiger and you're
out in the yard raking leaves and a tiger comes out because it's out of
the the big cat rescue place down the road and it steals your small dog.
You don't follow it right unarmed out I can have it, take it
away. You're not happy about it, but no, you're going to have
a story to tell at work though, So there's that this guy will never
tell a story because he followed it miles into the woods unarmed, and the
tiger's like, oh dessert. So yeah, the story would be my wife
telling the story how the tiger took the dog and I told Ray to go
get the dog and Rays up not coming back, and it's her really telling
the story. So let's get straight up. You can take a tiger,
right. Do you remember that story a few months ago where they were asking
dudes like what animals they think they could fight and win? And like and
like eight percent of guys, what was it ross? Eight percent? So
they could fight an elephant or something and win. I think that was my
favorite. They were just dumb. Numbers abounded, But I was like,
maybe I could take like a peacock or something. Yeah, a peacock.
People nasty? Yeah, no, they're nasty, man there, yeah they
are? They are you ever have you ever seen a peacock? I didn't
realize how nasty they were until I was in Houston, because they got them
run around neighborhoods in Houston and this thing's in the road and I'm like,
ah, I'm just gonna go wave my fist at this peacock. That peacock
was not having it. I'm like, you know what, I'll come back
here with a with a something, So you better get out of here,
mister peacocky. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. I never really thought
about it. If I what I could take, Well, why would I?
Anyway, It's just kind of because what if because sometimes tigers get out
of their enclosures. Man, they do, they do sometimes, But didn't
they form the other direction around? They had a lion running around some city,
some town in the US the other day for like two days. I'll
have to figure we did the story. I don't remember where it was.
So, yeah, you just look head on a swivel. Prepare for anything.
That's all I'm saying, Just like you tell people to do. From
a weather perspective, Yeah I do. Yeah, there's not much. Yeah,
I hope that everybody prepped for the cold. I've got this little kind
of area of clouds now that's breaking up already. They were a little a
little cloud around the Triad Greensboro and up toward Danville in southern Virginia. Now
that's a moved north of the Triangle and moving out toward Rocky Mountain Greenville,
and it's clear though from most of the rest of the state. That's all
moving east and cold, relatively cold though for the time of year. It's
not terrible. Mostly upper twenties, low thirties this morning, and lots of
sun this afternoon. Already seeing that now low to mid fifties tonight, a
little milder, low to mid thirties, and then the warm up we'll continue
tomorrow as we get near sixty partial sunshine. Saturday, great day, just
a great day. If you're one of those, let me go cut down
my Christmas tree, or go to the store and get a real tree,
or go to the store and get a fake trees outside. Who's doing tree?
I don't know. I don't know. I criticize early, but now
you're way too late. Well I was done at the beginning of November,
so let's time. You don't If you don't have a tree now, then
you have to wait till next Christmas. Those are the rules. Well,
I know people that they wait till like Christmas Eve, and it's like,
why go through all that work for just a couple of days. I don't
get it. But anyway, Saturday's gonna beautiful, good golf day. Maybe
how about that every day? Yes, every day it's good golf even if
it's snow and it is it is before the rain and showers, maybe even
some thunderstorm Sunday, maybe get close to seventy degrees before the next cool down
that comes in early next week make a sunshine return, So it's gonna be
dry, getting milder. Saturday easily the best day of the weekend the wet
weather we'll get in here on Sunday Sunday night, and then I'll get colder
again, but dry and sunny as the next airy high pressures in most of
next week actually looks pretty good, so we should be pretty decent as we
get into the week leading up to is that next week the week no a
couple of weeks leading up to Christmas, so we should be a pretty good
shape there after the rain and thunderstort might get some heavy rain, which we
do need. We'll see. The guidance kind of been back and forth on
the okay, all right, well, well you appreciate it. And if
it's gonna be if you if you bring up freezing rain and I hear those
words out of your mouth, no, we're gonna have all right, we're
gonna add I just say you might see a tiger. I'm just you never
know, all right, soby eight, thank you, sir, appreciated.
Yeah, stage, it's a big dude, Ross like he could probably maybe
not a tiger, but I feel like he could probably go you know,
middle class. But yeah, these are the eight percent of guys saying they
can fight an ell of like, I want to start a reality show and
you all come on and if you win, I will I'll admit I was
wrong, all right, speaking to people who are wrong. What is Jeff
Jackson proposing? Hang on for this. He is on ninety four to five
PTI in the Triad and one six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All
right, before I play this, because it is two minutes and I'm going
to play the whole thing because my brain hurt. I saw it. I
had sent it to Ross. So the first time you heard it is when
you just dubbed it in correct, Yes, are you inspired? I am
not. Oh oh wow, okay, all right. So Congressman Jeff Jackson
wants to tackle what admittedly is a problem, and that is that everything's more
expensive, and that includes obviously housing. The problem is unless we're having an
honest debate about all of the factors, I'm getting pretty sick of people trying
to make it once again just like Biden did, where the only reason anything's
expensive is because evil, greedy corporations, when in reality, it's much more
complex than that. However, if you got some company that comes in and
buys up thirty percent of all the rental properties, the rate at which they
set rent will be impactful across the spectrum. And he's talking about Blackrock,
right, No, he would say he's probably not because they're such big donors.
I think the Zillo's the one they like to throw out, and then
a couple others. Oh and the rich GOP donor dude out in Vegas.
Addelson's company used to do it too. Those are the ones they tend to
demonize. But to your point, Blackrock is one of the largest, if
not the largest, I believe so. But no, he'd probably tell you
he's not. All right, So let's get into this. The reason that
housing is so expensive is that there aren't enough houses and a big rea Okay,
I just pause there. Yeah, it's almost as if he understands supply
and demand. Luckily, the Hayes Global Initiative is building houses right now,
sir, five of them for what was it, one hundred mill So it's
a good deal. Yeah, sounds good. One of the Haiti houses that
the Clinton Foundation built, I think is uninhabitable because of asbestos. Now,
and this thing was not built in the fifties. Where would you find asbestos
and I and what capacity would you use that? Well, anyway, I
don't even have time to get into that. So let's so Jeff Jackson wants
you to know that there's not enough houses. Okay, let's get some solutions,
shall we. And there aren't enough houses is because there aren't enough duplexes,
triplexes, and town hops. And the reason there aren't enough of those
is because most cities made them largely we go to build. That's yes,
yes, that is by the way, that is absolutely correct. That cities,
not all cities, but many cities are reevaluating what is and isn't allowed,
and some cities are going to the opposite. I remember when I was
in Ireland ten years ago, in Galway and a few other places, they
made it illegal to build single family disconnected housing within the interior part of the
city. You can only build multifamily housing. So yeah, you know cities.
Cities do contribute to this with zoning, but there's a lot of reasons
why some things are zoned. Multifamily housing has much more impact on street usage,
parking, wide, variety of things, so that's why sometimes they didn't
want it. It's kept the supply of housing woe while demand has been high,
so we get higher prices. Lots of cities are trying to fix this
bi legalizing duplexes and triplexes, but that will take years. Here's why I'm
telling you this. What's making this problem even worse is a small handful of
large companies that are saying, what we're going to do. We're going to
buy up as many houses as we can out of a very limited supply and
then rent them. They're not just profiting from a shortage of housing, they're
making the shortage worse. The more well kind of, I mean. The
fact is that generally those companies are coming in and they're not grossly over pain.
So if individuals had, you know, entered an offer, then they
too might acquire that house. Or they can take a small number of houses
for sale and make it even smaller. The more they can charge for rent,
and the more expensive the remaining houses will be. This is a bigger
problem than you might think. In Charlotte, where I'm from, we're talking
about roughly twenty percent of all the houses getting bought, but in neighborhoods with
lower income starter homes, it can be half the houses that are getting bought.
Here's how this problem looks across my state. But we're seeing this in
cities across the country. Here's the growth we've seen in large corporations buying houses
Solutionuanta and Memphis and Birmingham. It's the places that are growing the fastest that
have the worst shortage of housing. So that's where it's the most profitable to
buy up the women. It's all right, he's got a Babylon. Here's
what he wants to do. If you're a corporation who buys a house,
he wants to charge you ten thousand dollars tax extra kind of. In fact,
I'll get into more of this after our guests, good morning and happy
Thursday. It is our number three here on the CaCO Day radio program.
And we we had going back to last week. You know, we always
try to figure out the trifecta there of celebrity deaths, and it was a
it was a pretty crazy time on social media, you know, hashtag rest
in Urine obviously attached itself to our former secretary of state. We had Sandra
Dale O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court and a Reagan appointee.
There was some in the moon bat's not a big fan of her. And
there's one other and I find it very interesting. I'm going to start with
our guest on this particular topic because as political, as political as you think,
and obviously they served in governmental capacities as Sandra Day O'Connor was, or
you know, the near one hundred year old former secretary of State who's responsible
for I guess every bad thing that's ever happened ever. Ever, Henry Kissinger,
arguably from a direct action influence, funding activist groups and everything under the
sun. Norman Lear might be among one of the most politically active in Hollywood,
and you see at evidence within shows you may not realize that he funded
like organizations with the express intent of pushing back on the moral majority thing.
And there's there there are groups to this day that flourish due to the immense
fortunes that he was able to throw there. And you know, that's where
you get into the world of entertainment, and I think it inspires a lot
of the conversations we have these days. Yet most people, if you asked
who you know, who are the big moonbats in Hollywood? Who would you
say? Rob Reiner? Who who was? Him? And Norman Lear were
thick as thieves? Man? Uh? What's uh? What's Kathy Griffith,
Deborah Messing? Robert de Niro who looks insane every time he's had an Awards
show. But in reality, Norman Lear, less words and more monetarily,
was much more active and in what he did. And that's why we're going
to welcome in Stephen Ken, who I left on hold now for two extra
minutes. I apologize, but I needed to set this up. He's a
writer for Bounding into Comics, also The Blaze. He's got a piece that
we're going to get into about Disney. How are you doing this morning,
sir? Hey doing doing all right. This morning, I Ross and I
were talking off the air Stephen, and I think it's one hundred percent.
Social media has got to be to blame here. But if Robert de Niro
may be obnoxious and his TDS is off the charts, even at award shows
like the Gotham Awards, which I would think of your de Niro status,
you wouldn't attend something like that. But I think he likes the platforms.
But in reality, if you want to talk about somebody using the Hollywood apparatus
to influence political narratives or progressive thought or whatever it may be, Norman Lear
is an og man. Yeah, Norman Lear takes these things to the next
level. I don't want to start off by saying that, you know,
he comes from a time period where I think America had very different sort of
social problems than it does now. This is the guy who is behind all
in the Family mod good Times, the Jeffersons. You know, I think
early on in Hollywood tackling sort of a post segregation society, bringing black and
white Americans together and you know, trying to help everybody see the best and
the humanity and one another. But over the course of Norman Lear's time in
Hollywood. He poured his fortune into foundations and nonprofit organizations as well as you
know, projects through the University of Southern California, to basically bake scripts and
show and movie ideas that advance very particular narratives all throughout Hollywood, to get
Hollywood promoting the same singular message of progressivism and big government that we see tearing
apart our country today. Yeah, and let me say this, I don't
regret if somebody doesn't. I don't agree with somebody, but they're passionate enough
that they're willing to literally spend their fortune to get it out there. That's
not my beef because them doing I'm able to make that separation. You remember
obviously the Chick fil A Charitable Foundation versus Chick fil A corporate right, And
it's this idea that you know, and they're not here to insult customer base,
but there's going to be things on the side that they do feel strongly
enough and they and that's you know, that's what they go ahead and do.
With Norman Lear. The difference is compared to let's say Disney and the
whole Hey, let's bake progressivism into all of our offerings. Norman lear was.
He also produced wildly successful shows that were I mean just you mentioned a
few of them. The list is long, and movies I mean he was,
He produced, He was one of the producers on Prince's Bride, which
we often quote here on this show. And so he was able to balance
what it seems that many of many of the Hollywood companies aren't these days,
and that is being extremely politically active and even baking it into the product,
but still entertaining people. So why is that so hard when it looks like
he was able to do it so effortlessly, effortlessly, you know, I
just I think that he comes from a different time period, you know,
I think about just the character of like Archie Bunker and sort of how this
is sort of an archetypal conservative, white working class patriarch and a situation where
you still enjoy this person. You see how these people share space. His
characters and all these TV shows like All in the Family and The Jeffersons and
the like, where these people share space, get along, they fight,
they argue, but then they make up at the end of the day and
go home. What we have a very different, very different kind of environment
today where it is religious in sticks, the divide over politics. It's all
a matter of righteousness. Who's a good person, who's a bad person based
on opinion. And again I do think that Norman Lear plays some part of
this. What he has done with his funding of the Media Impact Project,
the University of Southern California and this organization called People for the American Way is
to basically work with screenwriters in Hollywood and get everybody producing similar messages, whether
it be on climate, whether it be on LGBT issues, you know,
to things like vaccines. There's a reason that every procedural crime show like CSI
and they're like the X Files and Law and Order, that they all have
their anti VACS episode. Then they all end up having their religious extremist episode,
you know, you know what I mean, Like every Law and Order,
it can kind of be Let me guess the homegrown terrorist is a veteran,
right because I saw every time, every time Obama and the Janet Politano.
Yeah. Absolutely, And this is part of what he has done,
is to green light and fund projects that then can be copy and pasted all
throughout television. And it's it's why we see so many derivative lefty stories dominating
television today. The and I was talking about Disney there, and it is.
Yeah, I mean it is a different era, I think, with
the ability of your actors, Like but it's not like actors didn't have a
chance to speak to the public back in the day. But like you know,
I don't remember any and and perhaps I'm not old enough, but I
don't remember any of the actors on many of his more popular shows that used
all of their pr time to crap all over the source material. And he
also is producing original stuff too, Like I don't is there some I'm sure
there's some snow white style incidents that happened because actors have thoughts, but it
you just don't see it this today. And with Norman Lear, I don't
think people understood the scope of what he was trying to do or and what
he was successful in doing so. Honestly, it might have just had something
to do with that back then we were dealing with daily newspapers, and we
were dealing with daily newscasts. When Sean Penn and John Legend can go on
TV or social media Twitter at any single time and mouthed off about all the
ways in which they have been victimized by the world that made them rich.
You're going to hear about people's politics often and with very little thought. But
maybe it's it's just the difference of the times. You know, like Hollywood
actors and directors, if they had something to say, it might have been
running a newspaper in print and then you never really heard about it. But
now you can't really get away from this stuff. Well, tweet out a
link to this your piece for the Blaze the headline. The right needs to
figure out what it really wants from Disney. Explain the headline and what you're
exploring here. Well, so there's just another wave of combat going on between
conservatives and the Disney Company, which you know is somewhat justified. But this
latest flare up came when Elon Musk did the New York Times deal Book summit
last week and he told Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney, to go
f himself. And this has been sort of the latest opportunity for conservatives to
go, Okay, let's boycott Disney because Disney has pulled their advertising from Twitter
or x And so I guess the idea is that Disney is trying to smother
Elon Musk's Twitter, stifle conservative speech online, and therefore you're not going to
watch Disney. My honest argument here is that I'm just a little bit exasperated
with boycott after boycott call. I have always felt like that's sort of a
far left tactic and conservatives need to do better. We need to build things,
watch things that we like, not just engage and retweet campaigns of burning,
burning Nike shoes and unsubscribing from Disney. Plus there are alternatives out there
that I talk a little bit about. Okay, well, and let me
say this just off the front there. When you talk about you use the
terminus a micro protests micro Yeah, yeah, yeah, But basically I don't
think that a lot of people when they said enough with Disney, we're going
back and resubscribing then unsubscribing, I think it's just I think for a lot
of people, they just said, you know what, screw this noise at
whatever point they did. And I don't know that they ever came back because
Disney's subscriber numbers, we know what those are, and it wasn't like there
were there's not peaks and valleys. Do you know what I'm saying it's a
lot of valleys where they're headed, which is why they're trying to reformulate their
digital offering anyway. Yeah, now, they are absolutely responding to consumer distrust
and outrage that Disney has been running into over time. But you know,
I do think that conservatives and you know, enjoyers of entertainment and media,
they need to pour their efforts into showing what they are subscribing to what they
are watching. There are great alternatives that are rising out there, The Daily
Wire run by Ben Shapiro. They have poured millions of dollars into this new
venture called vent Key, where they're actually producing not necessarily conservative kids entertainment and
cartoons, but kids entertainment and cartoons that you don't have to check in advance
to make sure it's not filled with ideological content. It's just neutral. You've
got Angel Studios, this awesome studio that also happened to produce the live action
movie The Sound of Freedom that they also produce The Tunnel Twins, a really
awesome animated series about kids learning about the virtues of capitalism and free markets and
free speech. It's a really great series, and you need to be subscribing
to these alternatives, not just you know, screaming at the clouds about the
latest wokeism from Disney. Yeah, agree that most people's plan of attack.
Sure, there are very activist people, and why wouldn't they be inspired.
I mean, what the left has proven is that with thirty anonymous Twitter accounts,
you can get people fired, you can get people what's the group sleeping
giants? Right, Look how successful they were in using bots for all practical
purposes in some cases or at the very least the business owners or a corporate
officer's lack of understanding of how a social media platform works, where they're just
scared and they go, look, I don't want to deal with this.
They were able to get an All Star game moved from a city to another
city over voting, you know, crackdown on voting rights, and then they
moved it to a city that has more restrictive voting laws. And yeah,
so yeah, I understand why people are inspired. But I think people for
the most part, while they may personally boycott in the sense that I'm not
buying Miller Lite anymore, and then they just do it and occasionally poke funny
meme, Right, they're not in the activist side of this, and and
I don't see people coming back and reevaluating those positions. So with that in
mind, that person has already done what they think needed to be done to
combat what they feel is a company that doesn't align with them, how do
you motivate them to do other stuff? Right? Because you would agree that
Disney when it was firing all cylinders, the new wave, some would say,
the new wave of cartoon movies, animated movies like you and I probably
grew up with. We're about the same age of like that was peak Disney.
And I think most people, if that's the Disney that exists, think
that the world's a better place with that. But I don't know how you
get those people to turn the corner and start, you know, handcrafting what
they think Disney should be. How do you motivate people to do that?
Well? I, first of all, I think having children in your life
and you know, build families as a big part of what motivates you to
actually want Disney Corporation to be built right? Right? But you have,
but you have And I'm sorry I didn't word it right. It was very
But what I'm saying is if I don't want Disney and I want to entertain.
You know, I got you know, three cat don't have any kids.
But if I did, I stole some at the store. Today I
have a billion options, you know what I'm saying. Whereas back in my
day, we had we had the Disney Movie Club, I don't know,
so we had all the Disney movies and those things on vhs were played into
perpetuity, and we we had a couple channels that might have had stuff gone
are those days? So does Disney need to be rebuilt or or all the
good things that used to be on Disney available just from a bunch of different
sources. Now, well, I wish I could say that they're available on
other sources. The problem about the streaming market, you know, there's there's
the good and the bad of it. But a lot of Disney products used
to be on Netflix and available on Amazon and all the like, so you
could support an alternative plot and still watch those shows and movies. But now
everybody has taken their intellectual property, their IP back to their native platforms.
You've got HBO taking all of their stuff, You've got Paramount taking all of
their old cartoons and Nickelodeon products over to their own streaming platforms and Disney doing
the same, and so no, you can't really like you have to have
a subscription to every single platform now to watch any of their stuff. Well,
we had to buy all the movies. We had to buy all the
movies back in the day. So I mean, yeah, that's been still
there. I got about a minute, so please go ahead and sum up.
But I mean to cut off. I just I think people going to
be less motivated because they're going to find things like the Daily Wire or they
get their own movie collection out or whatever it is. Thirty seconds. That's
there are activists Disney. There are activist Disney shareholders who actually want to try
and steer Disney Company back towards telling stories for families and for children. People
will buy up lots of stocks and then they will actually show up to Disney's
annual meetings and they will advocate for better content. And I kind of feel
the same way about being a subscriber. If Disney starts making better, more
virtuous, family friendly content and nobody is there to see it, then they're
going to go to the market that that will listen to them and will watch
them, which will be the people who hate family values. I want Disney
to be better. I want to return to a golden era when families can
trust Disney, and that might require being part of the family. I'm sorry,
I got like four seconds. I had a role, thank you very
much, and we got to go to have a good one. I don't
know. I want to retweet. I'm going to retweet this just because it's
I'm annoyed two different ways. So it's a video you got three perfectly,
Oh would be editor to hit the right button. I'll just retweet it,
all right, Ross, you you had not seen this, so basically you
have three. I want you to in your mind before you look at this,
and once you do, envision what three progressive baristas look like in your
mind, Ross, don't click to it yet, progressive verista in your mind?
What do you see? There's there's three of them, and I don't
know their genders because they don't identify. But what are some characteristics you might
find? Uh say it? Come on, think of the first one of
possit in your head? Week yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there
is that anything with the hair and the hair yes, yeah, yeah,
probably white. What do you think they're all wearing on their faces too,
Is it only pierced up? I can't tell because they're wearing giant masks.
Of course. Come on, man, well tis the season? So yeah,
yeah, absolutely right, Which is it? Which is? By the
way, that's fine. I don't begrudge anybody if they want to wear masks,
because my beef was never if you want that, don't want you to
wear a mask? It was it's a decision. So, like you know,
if he goes some I know, some people get weird, like you
beieve those guys still wearing a mask. The only people I think that of
are people driving alone in their cars. Those are the ones that caused me
to scratchheads. But if you if look, if you work in an environment
with customers and food and all that, you want to wear to do your
thing, don't care. In the video though, these three have posted up
in front of the customer restroom, it's I'm gonna say that what it appears
to be is a blue haired, larger white woman. They all look to
be about college age or slightly older. Probably have their degrees to live with
the parents because the philosophy thing's not working out yet. You have a smaller,
louder. She peers that from a background perspective, and because I think
background is important, right, she appears to be Asian, but I'm unable
to tell. And why that would be important is because they're making the bathroom
denial quite obviously about the fact that the woman he clearly an elderly Jewish woman.
And I saw some idiots and community notes were like they never said Jewish.
No, but the week going back to Ross's pradition, the weak barista,
the guy here kind of I use that word loosely. He keeps saying
history didn't start in nineteen forty eight, lady, and I didn't hear her
bring up any of that. So Ross, what do you think that reference
might be? I would think that would be like Israel, right, yes,
so like nineteen forty eight. These people going she they didn't. They
weren't deny. They were denying it because anyone can deny anyone, you know,
access what she And she didn't just wander off the street. She's a
patron. They don't even argue with that that obviously bought something. That argument
is so stupid though, Let's okay, let's not count nineteen forty eight.
Who are the indigenous people of that land? Hey, let me ask you
another question referring to my previous one. Yes, So in the Bible,
are there any Jewish people around that area around the Israel the Dead Sea?
And then of course maybe one or two or then he is Jewish people,
know, you know, I believe, I believe I remember some stuff.
In fact, I remember some stuff that involved I don't know, conversations about
lands allowance and actual physical trackable geographic features that are referenced both in the Bible
and easily discernible on a map today. So yes, to answer your question,
yeah, one or two things. I don't mean to put unwanted pressure
on you. Well, I know you're not a theologian. I'm just saying
off the top of your head. So your answer would be yes, with
the facts you just gave, Yeah, okay, it would be interesting.
Okay, And I do you remember do you remember that? That's more Old
Testament reference? But uh, do you also remember perhaps one of the ways
in which they mocked Jesus as quote king of the Jews? Really? Yeah?
Where is he born again? Can we believe this Bethlehem? That's in
what? That's what in Ohio? Pennsylvania, Bethel Pia, Bethlehem, Pa.
Right, that's probably that is. I think it's a different Bethlehem.
What, Yeah, I think there might be. Yeah, this is the
desert too, I guess. So, man, I can barely keep up.
And how old is the Bible, by the way, the Old Testament?
How many? How far does that go back? Well in it comes
down to what you and you understand periods of time to be right, Okay,
I would ask you this is it? Was it written before nineteen ninety
eight? I thought we I thought that was the year we did not speak
of. It's a good point, yeah, check made, I guess.
Wow, But yes, I believe it's slightly older. Trying to I think
King Solomon's older than fifty. I think he's dead too. So but you
know, just now we're just talking versions of the Bible. So yeah,
but oh, look at this, apparently there are two Bethlehem's. So good
on you, dude, good on you. So the history did start.
They're openly telling some woman who came in for it now who knows maybe before
that she's spit in their face. There's no reference here to that or anything,
because they're not even being aggressive with her other than to stand they're morbidly
obese bodies and screaming in front of this woman and and then they're like,
ah, no, we didn't do that because she's Jewish. Well, well
is the reason that she didn't pay for her bagel? Or something like?
What's the other thing you're in New York DELI? Have you stopped to think
about some of the food you so that you know people would tend to associate
with. Right, if you got a pot of mats of ball's bots of
ballsuit going and you're also shutting this one, I don't feel like you understand
the needs of your customers. But anyway, we got that out there,
and I was mention just mentioning before UH. And then we got a little
pinch for time that Jeff Jackson audio I played, here's what he wants to
do. I'm not going to play the whole thing again. So the congressman
is saying that he has he has proposed a bill. I haven't seen the
script of it yet or the but basically to tackle the high cost of living
and UH and companies buying rental properties, which is a legitimate discussion if you
want to have it. I don't you'd have to convince me what government's role
is. But company, if you're a company who buys a home that you
then rent, then you would be required to pay ten thousand additional dollars.
But it's not a tax, it's money that would go into a fund then
be redirected, redistributed as some would say to quote low income first time home
buyers to be their down payment and not at all to buy votes. Yeah.
Uh, let me ask you something. So do you and obviously Jeff
doesn't, But do you understand how people evaluate a rental property and do you
also realize that I have I have friends who own like they own their home
and then they own one property. A lot of times it's the house they
used to have and they kept it and they rented it. But do you
know, you know what they do? Sometimes they put it into a uh,
they put it into an LLC, right because there's the business aspect,
there's protections that will provide other things. So now if I buy something for
two hundred thousand dollars and I'm math it out, I want to look to
see if that's going to cash flow. And obviously these corporations are paying cash.
But I don't know exactly what their parameters are, but they have an
number, They have an algorithm saying we can pay this much because we can
rent this much, and we can we can get our money back in this
period of time. What do you think happens if something that would have been
two hundred thousand is now two hundred and ten thousand for the consumer, for
the person wanting to rent a property, what do you think happens? They
bake it in, They add the cost of it to what they're going to
charge from a monthly rent perspective. And if you're concerned that these companies own
quote twenty to thirty percent of the rental market, then you just added a
ten thousand dollars surcharge which will surely be passed on to the consumer, to
the renter for a third of the rental properties in a city. You absolute
dunce. And it is once again that failure to understand. I don't even
know how it would be legal to do that, but who knows, but
it would be really stupid. And I think that's the important takeaway, all
right, not stupid, ray stagic. He's got Doppler's go lore and yeah
of other stuff. So yeah, Doppler ten thousand, and he gets to
make educated guesses as well. Yes, so they are, they are educated
guests. Dude, I'm going to tell you this. I'm sorry, just
real quick. So I just got this pitch. I got this pitch from,
you know, just one of these agencies that pitches everybody. I think
the guests. They're pitching as some meteorologists who hired an agent. But the
pitch is, hey, here's the US cities most likely to have a white
Christmas in twenty twenty three. So they just they did what you would be
able to do. They went and they looked up zip codes to see who
has the most years with recorded snowfall on that day. Right, except on
the list they listed the US cities. They don't know where a lot of
these cities are because they got the states wrong. So like Missoula, Minnesota,
was Provo, Colorado. Oh boy, I mean, who's booking guests
from this this list? Half of them are wrong. I won't ask I
booked him for tomorrow. Oh oh you wait, no, but tell them
what tell him our tell them our stations in Provo, Colorado, and to
show up and we'll do a live interview okay, all right today, Yeah,
I just google it. Come on over, sir, Yeah, we'll
see seven. All right. I'm sorry to I'll just keep going to you
cut me off anyway, so that's fine. I just do it in a
minute, So you got no problem. Cold morning, but we'll get milder
over the next few days. Going to be in better shape by the weekend.
And it looks fifty to fifty rain one day. The better day is
going to be Saturday, so expect milder temperatures after this chilly start. Today,
we'll get close to the mid fifties tomorrow, near sixties. Saturday,
we could be near seventy degrees. We'll see lots of sunshine and some clouds
at times, especially tomorrow. Then we'll get the showers thunderstorms in here on
Sunday, but still could be up close to seventy degrees for some of us,
especially around the Triangle. Now, I did look between last hour and
this our on the severe weather assessment. Doesn't look like there's gonna be any
severe storms. But I would be shocked if we get some thunder stronger storms
on Sunday, especially later into Sunday night. The cooler again ed drier airsotles
in most of early and middle of next week. Actually looks pretty good,
so it should be. What about Duluth, Maine. What's the main Maine?
Well, probably about the same as Green Bay, Minnesota. Oh,
dude, don't even don't put packer stuff on. No. Oh, we
leave our Vikings fans alone. I just love that the d Luth Maine is
funny because Duluth Trading Company is in Maine, and I wonder if that's how
they got there. So ah whatever, alright, eight forty eight, Thank
you sir. We'll come back to Jeff Fellinger's next. Al Right, a
fifty three bloomberg ing now with the Jeff Bellinger. Jeff, what's happening?
Stock market futures are mixed this morning. The S and P futures are up
twelve. Nasdaq futures are up to thirty two eight two. I'm sorry watching
the Dow futures and they've just turned positive, so they're up five points right
now. There was a small uptick last week and the number of workers signing
up front employment benefits. The Labor Department counted two hundred and twenty thousand first
time claims. That was one thousand more than the prior week, Continuing claims
went down. Employers were less anxious to cut their payrolls last month than they
were in November of last year. Challenger, Gray and Christmas As companies announced
plans to cut more than forty five thousand jobs, but that tally was down
more than forty percent year over year. Game Stop posted disappointing quarterly results after
the markets closed yesterday. The video game retailers fell sales fell short of analyst
expectations. Meta platforms moving to make messages on Messenger and Facebook more private and
secure. End to end encryption of personal messages will be the default setting on
the social media platforms. Encryption has been an option since twenty sixteen, but
user had to turn it on. Messages on Instagram will be encrypted as well,
but that probably won't happen until sometime next year. In Casey, Comcast
cable and internet rates will be going up in twenty twenty four. The nation's
biggest cable operator, says customers will be charged about three percent more starting with
the January billing. Comcast says programming costs have risen and it has made big
investments in its broadband network. Other PayTV providers have recently raised their prices,
even though the number of subscribers has stalled or fallen. Casey, all right,
thank you, Jeff. We'll chat tomorrow, sir. Okay, sounds
good. Have a good day. There you go, Jeff Bellincher Bloomberg News
joining us Ross. Did you know, by the way that Jeff is actually
he's not from the northeast, he's from Provo, Colorado. Well, we
didn't have time to get into it, so he doesn't talk about it much.
Oh I just scan in the other charts. They're all jacked on this.
That is somebody who doesn't give a crap, but it is funny.
All right, A couple quick things before we get out of here. I
think this is probably going to be a Raji didn't go to the gym this
morning? Right? No gym? Right? And I know today was a
rest ding Well, you know what good for you? And frankly, you
may have you may have slipped the news from Washington Post. Exercise may not
be the king to living longer, and in fact may be aging you.
So that's right now. You know how sometimes stuff's good and then the next
year there's another study and it's bad. They do this with milk a lot.
Well, now, exercise that's why not. New studies from Finland confirm
that exercise exercise isn't always the recipe to live longer and healthier if, in
fact, the researchers found that physical activity may be just a small part of
the larger picture and other things like healthy diet is far more advantageous. But
they don't stop there, right, that's fine, make that debate because we
all know people who don't really exercise per se but have very fit figures and
trims, and yeah, it's genetics to some extent, but also it's what
you eat. But they go a step further and saying, in fact,
it could be of such little value to many people that you run a greater
risk of injuring yourself. You know, like you're all the vikings starters or
something. So if I guess, if you want to talk your way out
of the gym, that article can help you. So you're welcome for that.
We do that for you. And finally, we know Australia to be
a place that has Look, it's not unclear that Australia's wildlife population is very
vocal that they don't want you there, which is why that's what like is
it? What would they say? There's like a poisoned spider within eight feet
of every Australian or something, I can't remember what the stat was. You
have marsupials that want a Mike Tyson, you, you have all the sharks,
and now even something as innocent as seashells on a sea shore could kill
you. And Australian tea nearly died after he was collecting seashells. Unfortunately inside
one seashell. What is a it's one of the smallest octopuses in the world,
called a blue ringed octopus, and it's one of the most poisonous pound
for pound creatures. And apparently this hang out inside seashells on the seashore.
Can we just abey? Can we just call it good like it's a failed
experiment and then we just move everyone out of there? Or what if the
if the seashells on the seashore are trying to kill you two, you should
probably you should look at you should look at moving just what sucks because there's
some real beautiful stuff there, but even the beautiful stuff wants to murder you.
So you know, there's that