All right, good morning Kcoday Radio program. So do you think it was
because I said something or do you feel that your brain independently arrived at the
wirey twenty four hours off? No, I was feeling the exact same way,
Okay, like I saince Wednesday. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So
on Wednesday I had this weird thing around just say, I kept I had
to literally stop myself. I think I said it out loud ones but then
I had to stop myself, like you know, happy Thursday or something,
and I'm like, oh, yeah, it's Wednesday. And then even after
you know, you do it later in the day and then Thursday. I
don't know. Oh man, Obviously we have to uh run it through Okham's
razor, and I think probably we jumped a multible. So I'm sorry,
Okham's what do I want to talk about wrestler today? Just to clarify,
it's it's Aukham Ockham's razor ramone. Oh wow, it's a technical term.
I'm sorry. Do you want the item named after razor ramone? I mean
everybody has their thing. Oh okay, who am I to judge? If
you don't know what we're talking about, you will and maybe you wish you
wouldn't. Yeah, I would steer clear of the razor ramone. I would
also steer clear of Well, we'll get into it. Then I got a
whole list. It would make me some some questions. There. The Vince
mcmand story's nuts and it's it's nuts, and it's weird, and there's even
some there's a lot of ick factor. But again, and you're dealing with
allegations, you're dealing with a It sounds like a deal that was struck that
the person the deal was struck with, who was a former employee of WWE,
who had a whole laundry list of kind of me too style McMahon allegations.
And this goes back, man, yes, early. I don't want
to get right into this. Yeh. So this goes back at least a
couple of years. And apparently the two sides had struck a deal and her
through a lawyer, claiming they paid like one third of it and then just
ignored her. So now we're back here, but we're back with deats details,
not necessarily receipts details. So and this is this is a civil thing.
Although I know security is in exchange. I think was doing an investigation
on McMahon and something similar to this was was part of that. But I
have I don't know if that's still going on or what even like I didn't
see anything, so maybe nothing happened with it. I don't know, but
yeah, we'll fill We'll fill you in on the details. There we got.
We got a wonderful entertainment news for you. Pete Callander will join us
coming up eight oh five. Uh New Hanover County, the superintendent of schools
down there in Wilmington, apparently very inspired by what's going on in Guildford County.
I I, you know, this is something I've advocated for, and
I think that people who are in higher ed or excuse me, people who
are in public head and even private for that matter, but especially in the
public sector, whether it is state to state, district to district, if
if you're if you're running a school, or you're running your county commissioner,
city council member. Okay, it's the Peatrie dishes man. Chances are somewhere
they are doing something more efficiently that you would also be able to adopt and
it would bring efficiency to your governmental entity. That's good, that's great.
Love it However, this is not what I meant, so let me just
start here this morning. New Headover Schools. There's a school down there called
Mosely, and I don't know if you're familiar with it. I've seen it
actually written about a couple of times, so I'm I kind of had a
working knowledge. Moseley was an academy, and right, so you get the
math and sciences academy the districts will do, but Mosley was unique in that
it was an academy, a very well funded academy within the public school system
for students with special needs. And it's closing. They said specifically, the
students would be filtered back into the district's various schools, and as you can
imagine, parents of students within Mosley and parents in general, thought it was
this is a good thing that they're doing were ranging from scratching their head to
absolutely outraged. But then the other shoe dropped Wednesday at a joint meeting between
New Hanover County commissioner commissioners and by the way, there's not ped peace in
the Carolina Journal by Dane Scalise. He is one of New Hanover Counties commissioners
and he's writing about this, he relates a conversation he had with doctor Faust,
who is the superintendent there. Let's see here, Yeah, and real
quickly, the it's called the full name of Mosley is called the Career Readiness
Academy at Moseley. So this was more than just This was more than just
adaptive education based on the needs of students who obviously deal with unique challenges.
But it was more than that. Even it also was as students got older,
it was preparing them for you know, being able to go to work,
perhaps you know, living alone, or you know, getting some maybe
some depending on what's going on, maybe some additional hands on training or vuccasion
following K twelve that could be beneficial within their particular situation. They were trying
to do a lot there, and look, I get that that's expensive.
I understand, And it's likely that even with funding and additional what do they
call Title one funding I can't remember, which is federal funding that is attached
to special needs students, even with that, the likelihood is the new Hanover
County was subsidizing it kind of well in the way that schools do, so
it's not profitable. But then last Wednesday they acknowledge that one of the possibilities,
and apparently it's the one they're very excited about, because the superintendent has
traveled out of Guildford County on multiple occasions, is to replace it with a
newcomers school, of which Guildford County has two, the old Jewish Day School
and they just they just literally just opened another one. But that's the Nate
ROSTI are you are you picking up on what a newcomers school is? Newcomers
school? Yeah, it's a school that, like the Jewish Day School it
would be, would then contract and essentially just be filled with migrant kids.
Now you understand why everyone's losing their crap down there in Wilmington. Man,
they're taking this. This not not wholly unique, but uh, this what
most people see is a very positive solution to the education of students who require,
you know, independent educational plans. Uh, that's not what it's called.
I That's what it is. I e P right, individualized. I
almost said I ED, And I'm like, don't make the Wednesday Thursday thing
and please don't teach the kids to make IEDs. So they have individualized plans,
the teacher to student ratios higher, all of these things, but New
Hanover was getting it done at least within the acceptable parameters of their constituents.
But you know, it's really profitable, heavily heavily subsidized federal spending for newcomer
schools. And so that's the debate. And the interesting thing is they go
in throughout the article they talk about how let me flip over to the latter
part, but let me read from the article for the opped mostly is a
one of a kind public school offering custom tailored education to students who require special
learning. And while newcomer schools may be called schools, they're more akin to
migrant resettlement and assimilation facilities. The purported mission the facilities is not to educate
students in the traditional sense, but to allegedly help and tire immigrant and refugee
families integrate into the local community where they're relocated. You know, we had
a stat I didn't get into the other day. Do you remember do you
remember the that I've referenced this several times in the last week, the the
sit down with Trump and Pelosi and Schumer and she's poking her finger and all
that. Okay, well that was about that was about border stuff. And
immigration stuff. And Donald Trump was sitting in there willing to give them dhaka
and a pathway to citizenship, or or at least he was he had indicated
he would be. I mean, when it came pushed to shove, who
knows. But and all that he asked was it was a little over what
six billion dollars for border wall, and that was they wouldn't do it.
And then lay that we had that government shutdown because again they wouldn't just give
six billion dollars. Now, if Trump had known, he could have just
executive ordered it apparently I'm looking at you student loan stuff, but he didn't.
So the Biden Whitehouse has disclosed that the totality of spending just for housing
just housing, right, that does not include secondary programs like this, It
does not include other benefits that may be received through state programs and non housing
related federal programs. Totaled for migrant resettlement, twenty billion dollars, twenty billion
dollars was spent just on the housing aspect. And his government, so you
know that that once you tally everything, that the number would be astronomical or
and all this all this for just at just the housing. You know,
roughly four times the price of what the wall would have provided. And one
has to think even if people, even if you still had people coming through
and they came through the proper as asylum process, it would it would be
an astronomical savings. It's not even close. So this is going on down
a new handover. Guilford County Schools elected a pioneer the new This is from
WUNC, so take it for what it's worth. Guildford County Schools elected to
pioneer the newcomer school concepts. Guildford County has subsequently experienced a rapid influx of
immigration and has been identified federally as one of the Hubs Regional Hubs for Refugee
Resettlement. What happened well a little over a month later, because remember that
they had another newcomer school open in October. In November of last year,
representatives from New Hanover County Schools went to Gopher County to visit the newcomer schools
or I think they only visited the second one. I don't know that they
went to the Jewish day school. But just two weeks later, New Hanover
County School administration publicly announced they were closing Moseley and the superintendent and the school
board wants you to believe, Look, this is just one of a number
of things, but this county commissioner, he lists out this whole thing where
they were really excited about it. They took trips. The superintendent took two
trips, I guess, or maybe he took one and Reps took the other
or something, but there were two visits, and then right in the timeline,
then they announced, Hey, we're closing the school. This this kind
of one of a kind thing that we've been doing, and we'll just we'll
shuffle the kids back into the other schools and we want to do a newcomer
school. I don't know whether it's financially that's what's driving it. Ideo Lodge,
there's the possibility that they really did they just have to close that school
and they're looking at an empty building going what the hell are we going to
do with it? But that's not what they're saying. And folks down in
Wilmington are seeing that, and Guildford County is the model for it. So
there you go, happy Friday morning. You don't make of that what you
will. A little closer to home, I saw a very I saw three
words together. I just don't expect to see when reading a local crime report.
But I'll get We'll let you be the judge of that. Like I
said, we got the McMahon stuff. And Ross, did you see the
couple who went to the on vacation down to Mexico? And they were the
only one in the resort did because this thing was blown up behind me it?
Oh dude, all right, I don't want to say all of you
are wrong, but you all are wrong, and I will I'll be happy
to explain that. And yes, we even have a Stanley Cup update,
which you know what, I'm not surprised. All right, good morning everybody.
It is six point thirty four. Sorry cross diffon was gonna start talking
and all of a sudden the age reloaded. Oh man, okay, all
right, whow tgif I could just imbew that from the nineties and fast casual
restaurant advertising. All right, ros, you didn't see this. I'm gonna
start here on this thing. Hold on, ah, okay, super Bowl
was played in eighty six. It was eighty five, Okay, all right,
I said, it's the anniversary of that, So again, sir,
I think it's Saturday right now, So you're not. That's where my head's
at, so just just roll with me. So I was reading this this
morning. It started as one of those weird, little light hearted things,
which I don't know. Maybe back in the day we could talk about stuff,
but the Internet, internets and everybody is perpetually offended or a victim.
And I'm not necessarily implying that the people who made the video feel like that,
although that you could tell that they kind of do. But sometimes things
don't go well, and it's perfectly appropriate if you have a problem with a
with a company to attempt to redress and if you don't feel that it were
you were properly dealt with and have reasonable expectations. Some people are just wholly
unreasonable. Those of you who are face forward customer service you know exactly what
I'm talking about. But sometimes you got to go, all right, we'll
screw you. I'm not going to do business here anymore. I gave it,
you know, I just I had an example one of the last times
I flew with American Airlines. They you know airlines are the airlines, right,
and they canceled the flight eye was or they moved it to the point
where I had they had to move me and like it screws everything up,
and then they had a way to rectify it, and they wouldn't do it,
even though I had all the stuff in front of me, and I
was talking on the phone talking to the customer service person and I and I
was basically I was asking not for the totality of the ticket. I was
asking for a credit in the amount of what I didn't get to do but
I had paid for. That was my that was my reasonable thing. And
they basically told me to pound sand. But now, as an formed consumer,
I can sit here and I can do that. And then I called
them back and they took care of part of it. But that's you know,
that's what that's what people do. I'm not a victim. I'm just
somebody who got poor service. And now I have to decide, all right,
do I want to them next time I'm in the market for air travel.
So this couple they decide they're going to go to uh Los Cabos,
Mexico, the Grand Theos boutique, which is described as a brand new luxury,
five star all inclusive resort. It is a parent or a sister resort
to a very well established one that is really nice. But this was going
to be the Krem Daily Krim, and I'm looking at the pictures. It
looks amazing, other than the part where if you get too far away from
it, your head goes in a cooler. But this is this is,
this is what it was, and it's one of those resorts where they there's
no peasant rooms. Okay, there's no other rooms that most people would probably
book it a five star because I screw it them on vacation and be at
the beach, at the bar, at the restaurant, or at the golf
course. The whole time cares. So you're paying good money. And if
people want to do that, God bless them. Go do your thing.
You get a good five star resort. The service is amazing. So they
go down there and the couple who they say were let's see, sell,
let's see. Let me just read this to you. The couple uh said
that their dream vacation took an unexpected turn when they started to wonder where the
other guests were. The couple, uh, Cameron and his wife and of
his wife's name here, Uh, we're celebrating their baby moon. What is
that? Ross what is a baby moon? What is this? Is this
another thing that I have to buy a gift? We never heard of that,
the baby moon, celebrating their baby moon? How many this is?
You know this? This is like push presence. Isn't it your baby moon?
Isn't it the the birthday hit your baby? The anniversary of making the
baby? This is so dumb. I just uh yeah. The first time
I heard about push presence, I'm like, I'm sorry that right, because
it's if it's a honeymoon, Yeah, that's the anniversary, Like, that's
your the baby. I guess this is their vacation from their baby. They
just had the baby, and they're like, oh, we're going to vacation,
alright, we're celebrating. You gotta, I gotta, I gotta know.
Oh no, what? Oh my god? What? I have so
many questions? Now? All right, Ross, you're ready for what it
is? You're ready, ready, ready, all right? Oh. A
baby moon is a romantic vacation taken by parents to be before the baby is
born on the eve of the third trimester. Okay, so what you definitely
want to do is go out on a cruise or whatever. Well, that's
all it's it's kind of all inclusive Mexican resort five stars. Look, here's
the thing, here's where I would question it. But I'm you know,
if there's a lot of people don't drink, so you know, one of
the reasons that people will justify a five star resort is the food and booze
is included, and you know, hopefully it's it's not poison like that time,
and and then that other time, and then recently the other time.
So but if, but if you want a really really nice resort, and
this one looks like it, I just didn't know that was a thing.
So now if if, if a couple is is pregnant, and as the
woman is transitioning into the the uncomfortable phase of the pregnancy, you board a
plane for a week long all inclusive baby moon vacation. And by the way,
it was a hell of a vacation. They started their vacation in Amsterdam,
which again is a city of a thousand things that they pregnant woman probably
shouldn't be consuming. Then flew to Mexico. All right, I'm sorry,
I haven't even gotten into the meat of this. I just never heard that
term, and now I know it's a thing. Ah, Okay, So
the couple who was celebrating their baby moon said that what started is a little
bit of a joke turned into a very strange experience. Yeah, and people
are emailing it's the last trip before you have a baby. I didn't know
that, sir. People are acting like I'm insane. I don't have kids
one but Ross does. And he didn't know what it was. I never
heard that ever. Yeah, and the last thing I'm gonna do is spend
money before baby's born on a t The other thing, yeah, I saved
my money for the baby. Really, you don't want to go to the
casino in money? Carlos put it all on thirty three. Okay, all
right. So anyway, so they go there and they they noticed that everywhere
they go in the resort, everything is perfect. The pool, the restaurants,
the bar, fully staffed, everywhere they go, fully staffed, perfect
turn down. Everyone's great. But they never see anybody. And they said,
quickly, within a couple of days they were starting to get a little
concerned, and they were like, where is anybody? And of course the
internet thinks they're at me, you know, they got sucked into a wormhole
or something. But they post this video and like, hey, we have
the whole resort to ourselves. The resort, which again is sweets and above,
does not have a huge capacity, but yeah, that's odd. It's
it's a pretty big building. Oh and when they say sweets, they mean
actual sweets, not the weird language that hotels will use, like oh,
it's a sweet and you're like, what does that mean. It's like there's
room between the bed and the wall. It's amazing. Yeah, we tend
to over use that word. This and this one is very expensive, and
that's because they the people got mad and they were upset, and they were
upset because they felt that the resort should give them part of their money back
or all of their money back, because part of going that is you're you're
you're buying the atmosphere and the experience, and so uh, they you know,
they get there and there's not a bunch of I guess other drunk American
and British tourists and they they missed out on the part of that, And
I'm like, are you insane? Can you can you imagine showing up to
a five star all inclusive resort with non poison alcohol and it's fully staffed it's
not like that time. It's not like those weird times in COVID where you
did have to travel and there was like if you want uh, if you
want housekeeping, let us know a week in advance, right, that kind
of No, they were full on. They got everything they wanted. They
had the whole play, They had a private beach, a private pool,
and people are upset because what they didn't have is a bunch of other people
to talk to. Do you understand the level of excitement and smile that would
cross my face? If I like that, that would be the greatest thing
ever I would. I would like I would. The only thing that would
concern me is I would want to make sure nobody did show up, right,
So you like, oh, I'd be concerned. Like you said the
entire time that it was like somehow in the twilight zone or something like,
yeah, there's some weird dimension where how is this happening right now? So
the way, here's why it's happening. By the way, So it's a
brand new resort. It is. It is directly next to a very well
known, very high end resort. But this is the Krem Dayly Krem version.
It has a much more limited number of rooms. It just opened.
It's the middle of January, which is a horrible, horrible travel window until
until you get you about February. Most people because of Christmas. That's they're
just not taking these trips. They have very low occupancy, and not all
of the suites are open yet because they literally are. They wanted everything to
be perfect, and so the block that they're in is open. And they
didn't lower their prices, which is something that resorts do this time of the
year because of the aforementioned lull, because their reputation they're establishing is more important
than discount weeks. If that's the corner of the resort. So if you
want to go there and you want the level of luxury that these two experienced,
then you will pay top right, and you'll pay it all the time,
probably more during very busy seasons, because again this they are they're looking.
They're I set out to do one thing, man, and just talk
about how happy I would be if I showed it Ross, if you showed
up in Disney was empty except all the employees were there. Everybody who's supposed
to be there is there, Just no guess that would be the day wouldn't
it. I would be doing like the Buffalo bills. Don't mention the score
thing because you don't want to jinx it, like, don't even bring it
up, don't even think about it, just go and just go with it.
Yeah, you just like you ever you ever ever been someplace? You
ever been on a plane alone. I was on a flight once from like
Greenville to Omaha and there was like no one on it. It was it
was awesome. We had a flight for Greenville where I can't remember where I
flew out of it, but I went to Omaha. Yeah, or maybe
I had a new hanover so I don't know who the hell knows, but
yeah, yeah, and there was you were the only one or there was
just a handful. There was like maybe two or three people on it.
Yeah, yeah, I was. I've been on a flight twice, commercial
flight twice, let's be clear, and it was me both times. Now,
both flights were both flights were Denver to shear It in Wyoming and so
and it and it all so and it acts like a bus that route.
So you take off and you if there's somebody on the plane where somebody needs
picked up in Rock Springs, then they land in Rock Springs, and then
they do, and then Gillette and then Sheridan's end of the line, they
turn around. That literally is how it works. I was the only one
on a couple of those flights, and they have you know, they obviously
they got crew, they got a flight attendant, all that. I remember
the flight attendant. She just comes over and I'm like, you don't have
to do anything, right, it's fine. We talked for a little while.
She got me, you know, like a soda or something to drink,
and she just sat there and read a book. I'm like, this
is great, man. She's like, yeah, you sit wherever you want,
do whatever you want, just you know, don't go in the cockpit
please. But yeah, I and at no point, I'm like, am
I on the Twilight Zone. I'm like, this is amazing because think about
all the stuff that irritates you about flying, and you'll find out so much
of it as all the people around you. So yeah, yeah, you
roll into a five star resort. Now hold on, now, people were
not here to debate what baby move means. I just needed a mini example,
all right, Ross, just so you can catalog this. You don't
have to be pregnant. You can also it can also be your baby moon
if it's your last trip before trying to get pregnant. Okay, well then
why in the story or why in this is a reference trimess. I don't
know how about this if if if you and your your significant other want to
go on a vacation and then go, then go. And by the way,
you have to film everything. I don't know if you know this,
you have to film anything. What I'm trying to remember what I I had,
some somebody said something to me ross what I'm trying to remember. What
photos I showed you of the glotpaghost. I showed you. I showed you
this the hotel dogs because I thought that those that was insane a turtle or
something else. But like the if you go over to a couple of the
areas there and the glopaghost because they try to they they don't you know,
they don't want you to be solo traveler. But you can kind of get
around that because I don't like to hang out with groups and tour groups and
all that stuff. But like everybody's taking a picture of every like a bug,
even a bug that we have, and they're like if they're fascinated by
it, and like this lady's like, aren't you got to take a picture
of this? And I'm like no, I'm good, I'm fine. I
told her my phone was dying because I didn't want to deal with that.
And there's like this little walk thing you do where you can see a bunch
of cool stuff. So all right eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
seven four, Yeah, that's crazy. And everyone said they're mad at the
resort. How dare you offer the greatest? You know what you are.
You're a billionaire at that point, think about it. You're a billionaire.
Yeah. No, I'm walking around like I'm a king. I'm like,
finally they respect that deserve you snap your fingers alitas, which is a chicken
wings in Spanish. You just snap your fingers go alitas, and they appear
in front of you because you're at a five star whatever you want. I
would completely like fall into the role play too. It'd be like, what
am I going to pretend I today? Today? I am a I'm Pablo
Escobar today. Oh so you know it, just change it every day.
Get a hippo in the pool. What do you want? Spot pool?
This week? You can deal with the hippo after. Oh that's so great.
All right, hang on, we'll be back. One O six one
FM Talk and ninety four five w PTI, two stations driving the best in
talk. This is cac O Day and Carolina's Morning News. All right,
good morning, and uh yeah, so fifty seven CaCO Day Radio program.
Good. I'm glad our audience is normal. Everyone's like, that's amazing.
Where's this resort? Well, the problem is now, well it's in Mexico.
Five. The problem is now obviously it's getting some pub because I I
you know what, Frankly, these two I think are kind of I think
one of them thinks are an influencer. What a brilliant marketing thing that would
be. Ross Huh. You want to stand out, you're a go to
like uh, you know, especially like can't cut the area on, can't
coon Like you just got on the coast and it's like it's like driving a
one A in Florida once you get south, like you know, sunny aisles
and basically everything Miami up to, like Palm Beach, it's just a never
ending, you know, giant beach front in this case resorts. But yeah,
so alling at this guy. I had no idea what the baby moon
was either until my wife's exected. Well of course she did. Yeah,
take the internet away from hers her. I'm just kidding. I hope everything
worked out there with the baby, all right, So yeah, yeah,
I think they're gonna do just fine. And if it was a marketing stunt,
very well done. All right. Other stuff to get into will coming
up that stand up run and everybody, I'm welcome. It is hour number
two and we're glad to have it on. One hour from now. One
hour from now, we will have Pete callaner on him. We got all
sorts of goodies to talk about fen one of those weeks President's out doing his
thing. First Lady, I guess I couldn't remember if it was yesterday or
today that the Joe Biden's in North Carolina that's today, So hopefully her husband
doesn't need walked off a stage. Where would he was at a brewery yesterday?
Hmm, Frost, do you ever feel like we're piling on? I
questioned this just due to the sheer frequency of this of these cuts, these
audio cuts, like I want to accurately represent and if also if we find
something funny. We're probably gonna do it. Yeah, I mean I don't
find it funny. It funny sad now No, no, no, I'm
not saying that we find it funny. I'm sitting here well, and there
is that transition. There is what the funny part is. And it's not
funny in a haha way, but it's the it's it is every day.
It is a giant reminder of the double standard right in in coverage with that's
going on here and they and as I think you said at one time,
it is the real world representation of that meme with the where he's like in
the fire room and he's like, oh it's fine, right, and as
what the media does every day, but also the people around him here he
is in a brewery yesterday and again, as I said before, listen to
the audience. Look hold on, yeah all right, so here we go,
but bar listen to the audience. It is used to make the crew
beard and the fire ooh Worth rider, thanks for the great lakes. I
wonder what I at least yesterday I could try to figure out what he's sitting
there saying. But also you know what it felt like? You felt like
a rock star saying the town's name he's in right because gets no reaction until
he says the name of the brewery, and then everybody's very jovial about it.
Also, I kind of they probably have a choca choca chocolate chip beer
or something, which probably is true because some of you casual beer lovers,
with your pumpkin spice and Christmas nutmeg stuff, you've ruined beer or at least
tap space where valuable good beer could be. But that's a constant problem.
So uh, but there he was, and again he's running again. So
this is where we are. Let me let me do this. Let me
grab a quick call here. We're talking about that resort insanity. Yeah,
Chris, what's up? Hey, good morning, case, thanks checking my
call. I was just commenting on the Mexican thing for the resort. It
sounds like Cartman Land where they where Cartman didn't want anybody going to his car
or his Yeah, because then the whole spent the whole episodes on them.
They can't come in because he was mad he had to wait at the other
one. That was a great episode. Yeah, right, so that's a
stroke of marketing genius. I'll tell you the whole world turning into a South
Park episode. Man, I'm just again the reason I'm doing the story is
it's like, what are you complaining about? This is right? This is
you have all it's yours and they have nothing else to do but wait on
you hand and foot and complain about it. And yeah and again, I
don't know that they're complaining as much as some people, but the reaction and
thank you for the call there, sorry, appreciate it. The reaction just
blew me away. You know, you know what one of the most exclusive
resorts in the world is just from a from a cost standpoint having to get
there, right, it's in French Polynesia. But it's not Tahiti, though
obviously there's some really impressive stuff. It is a different island. Is actually
it is Is it in Polynesias? And well it's it's out in that area
and the island is called the brand O. It's amazing. I've never been
there. I will not be affording that in my lifetime, I'm pretty sure,
but it's the Brando and it is this beautiful private island and you know,
you know what it looks like there with the you know, the stilled
houses that you see over in in the resorts normally over there where you're out
over this beautiful, beautiful water. Well, it is its own kind of
a toll there, but it was. It was a private island owned by
Marlon Brando. And in fact, I remember I remember reading something that said
after he acquired the island, he became difficult to work with because he didn't
want to leave. I had never heard that. I thought he was wonderful
to work with at all times. But I digress. Now, that island
is a super exclusive to the point where you can you can be the only
person there if you've got the jack for it. So and so, you
know somebody is willing to pay a week's vacation that is, uh, what
your home's worth. That's what they'd have to do it you paid what maybe
six hundred a night or something down there, one thousand a night if it's
really really upper end. Shut up, man, shut up and enjoy it,
all right. I gotta, I gotta, I gotta pivot to something
I spend the whole time on that. That's a yeah, Ross, that's
a good point. Instead of waiting for Disney not to have you should build
your own theme park. Man, on you're up at the compound there,
and then those poor bastards in the new condos that have to watch you through
the window having fun and there's nothing they could do right good and they can't
come in. They can't come in. Yeah, yeah, you could have
signage. You could. Literally people have started moving in there. People have
started moving in there now and to hate it. Oh no, like because
and like none of them, like they don't have like drapes up reately,
It's they're just one. I'm like, and I'm like, I I'm definitely
putting drapes over this window now, like something over it. Don't you look
it in my kitchen. It's weird. I don't know why you you would
spend that much money, Like these are like four hundreds yeah, I'm not
kidding you. Yeah, but they started. They they're like townhouses like three
four level and they start at four hundred thousand. And your your view on
your balcony is my backyard in my tiny house. What are you doing,
dude? You gotta start doing weird stuff? Man, completely, I want
and just like all right, so we'll just come up with stuff. Here's
number one. Once it gets dark tonight, go out there dragging a giant
sack and maybe you know, I want to be heavy. It's got to
be it's got to look like you maybe fit a body in there and then
just start digging a hole. That's all. Or or or dig a hole
and maybe I could like conceal it. And they're like stumble across and start,
you know, taking stuff out of it, like, oh my god,
I fund this whole? What is this right? You know what I
mean? Or make it look like you struck oil, right, yeah,
or something. I don't know, man, because the likelihood is considering their
housing style, they probably don't have mineral rights or even own the land underneath
them, so so they when you have access to the oil, it's just
you looking like you're getting ready to move to Beverly Hills. Oh, speaking
of speaking of country, to to Hollywood. All right, So check this
out. A North Carolina legend has passed away. Herbert Cowboy Coward, Cowboy
coward you know who that is or who that was? Coward? Uh from
Clyde, North Carolina played toothless man. That's how it's written in Deliverance.
He was the He was the toothless dude who wanted to welcome the canoe guy
or the vacationers in the did they welcome him? I think they did.
It was that's been a while since I've seen the movie. Yeah, the
seven let's see. No, the eighty five year old had left a doctor's
office in a vehicle that was being driven by his seventy eight year old girl,
Robin the Cradle, Good for you guys, seventy eight year old girlfriend,
Bertha Brooks, and sadly they got an accident and were killed. In
fact, they were killed along with the woman's chihuahua and coward's pet squirrel,
which were in the vehicle at the time. And I'm not an accident investigator,
so before I figure out exactly what happened here by continuing to read is
at this moment I'm like, again, not an accident investigator, but you
had a chihuahua and a pet squirrel in a car together. Is it wrong
to think that may have contributed? I don't. It doesn't look like it
probably was, but like just the imagery of that, Like if you told
me you were gonna put a chihuahua and a squirrel in a confined space together,
I would I would say you should rethink stuff. Who knows. Maybe
they loved each other. But like dogs and squirrels, I can't even imagine.
I haven't been around a chihuahua when it's seen a squirrel, I gotta
think it would be losing its mind ross you had chihuahuas. If you were
to PLoP a squirrel in the middle of the living room when you had the
three of them, is that Is that a calm moment in your house?
If it wasn't my house, it might be the greatest thing ever. If
it wasn't your house. Yeah, right, if I could just watch it
be destroyed slowly, you know, maybe like my one of my enemies,
or or maybe you need to start seeding chihuahuas into the town homes and then
at the right moment drop a couple of squirrels in there, and then from
your kitchen window with no blinds, you can watch, and since they have
no blinds, you'll see it all. Oh man, that's so country man.
He's got his pet squirrel. He's just packing it around. She's got
her chihuahua. Sadly, though, it appears a pickup truck driven by a
sixteen year old struck the vehicle as it so the way it looks is this
the couple was leaving and they pulled out and they didn't I guess they probably
maybe they didn't see the I guess they obviously didn't see because it says here
in the report the sixteen year old was not speeding. It doesn'tok like he
was sighted for anything. It was just a It sounds like it was a
tragic accident. It may have been distracted. Again. The chihuahua squirrel thing
is is weird. But I don't know, but I could see how that
might be a distraction. We're just like, shut up, please, because
dogs love to You know what happens when your dog sees a squirrel a thousand
feet from your house just glancing out a window. You think you were being
burglarized. Coward actually got his act I love this, by the way.
So do you know how he got his acting start. He got his acting
star way back in the day working at a wild West themed amusement park.
This is in Maggie Valley. It was a ghost town in the skies.
I'm sure is that still there. I don't even know if that's still there.
But he he would do shootouts. He was a shootout actor and he
had to quick draw and he had all of that, and I guess Burt
Reynolds came to the resort and he's like, hey, I want to put
you in the movies. So there you go. Little story there, and
obviously they had a sad ending, but I wanted to throw that in there
because I found it interesting. All right, seven eighteen, we're going to
take a break, come back. We got this Vince McMahon's story, and
you ready for this. Somebody's going to jail for defying a congressional subpoena.
It's happening. I think kind of maybe we'll fill you next. Hang on
your Day Smarter one six one FM Talk and News Talk ninety four w PTI
More with Casey starts now seven four Friday Morning. Glad to have you along
phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. That'll get
you up on the show. And reminder eight oh five in that window.
Obviously we'll be chatting with Pete Calender, but you know, a bunch of
other stuff. Glad to have you way in on. All right, let's
let's just dive right into this story. And it's a weird one, and
you know, there's elements of the me too stuff. There's also questions because
it's not it's like a civil thing and is you know, some people are
claiming it's a nuisance suit. Others are saying that, you know, Vince
McMahon should be criminally investigated. I'm not here to take a position on that.
Admittedly I don't know all the details, but the ones that I do
know make it sounds like there was a resolution and then McMahon didn't pay and
now there's a lot. The whole thing is just strange. So again,
I'm gonna get into that, and we're gonna do that at seven thirty five
because there's a lot here. But let me grab a quick phone call,
real quick, don what's up? Good morning, Casey, just calling in
to let you know that I'm listening from day one a just around both are
his own, loving you guys. I was telling her as I listen in
every morning, I don't understand why you guys don't have a national radio gig,
because it's really amazing what the two of you do together, ma'am,
ma'am. We would like an international radio gig. They should have to they
should be forced to listen to us every week. So but well that may
be true. Let's just get started on a national level first, and not
seriously. I really do enjoy you guys. It's it's humorous but informative and
without all the snark, and you and Oss together are just it's brilliant.
Well thank you. Are you going to comment on the resort? So?
Uh, you'd be down with that, right, especially around Boca? I
mean yeah, so elbow to elbow down there. Well, that's what I'm
saying. I would love to be on a private island resort without anyone else
around, Are you kidding? Yeah, I might set up defensive perimeters so
that nobody comes in. This is really I mean your Mexico. You probably
have easy access to any of the weapons you'd need, so well, everybody
down here is pretty loaded up too, So yeah, but yeah, whoo,
who in the right mind wouldn't want to be on a private in a
private setting without having to listen to all the duleads and the speaker funds don't
get done. I think, well, there, look people, and I'm
not even gonna make it. This just a generational thing. Some people are
introverts, some are extroverts, and some people, you know, they're the
ones who are generally really chatty on a plane or at a resort or something
like. They crave having that social contact because it's part of who they are.
So it's pretty jarring when it's not, Whereas I usually go into the
woods for a week, right, right, So it's like, yeah,
I mean that was That's fine. I'm happy, so yeah, but it
was just the people who were upset. Thanks for the call so much,
don We're so glad you're listening down there, and we're so sorry about all
the Florida demand stories. But that's not on us because y'all just keep producing.
But yeah, so it depends on the kind of person you are.
That's why when I saw this story, I'm like, Ross and I would
love this. I'd be mad if I showed up and Ross was there,
and I'm assuming vice versa. Right, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
what's the old line? I would not be I would not want to be
a member of a club who would have me as a member or something,
right in this case, I don't want to go to a resort for keeping
you connected. This is ninety four or five WPTI and the Triad and one
six one FM Talk and the Triangle, all right, hold on, hold
on, that blew my mind. You should have led with that. So
we just we just got fact checked. Yeah, yeah, my bad.
Yeah, my wife is completely correct. Yeah. The actual value of the
townhouses they built behind my tiny shoe box of a hole down into your shack.
Yeah, seven hundred thousand, seven hundred for all of them, right
you have. Hey, they come with a garage. So yeah, it's
how many units are there? I'm surprised, not eight hundred and fifty thousand.
How many units? Yeah, the entire block, I don't know,
maybe three, four or five, twelve, maybe twelve, So sweat twelve
condos for seven hundred thousand doesn't sound bad. Wait, you know what is
that? What is that divided by twelve? No? No, no,
no, that's per, that's per it's every Oh my god, it's not
a total. They didn't think that was possible for there. I mean,
look, yeah, I will say this. I'm not going to give out
where you live, but you're not out in the boonies, so you know
there is some value I guess there to be able to walk this stuff.
But still, oh, it's crazy and all the tax stuff's about to get
crazy. And you know, here's the thing, you know, it used
to be some municipalities would have they would have a taxable amount. Right,
So if you were a municipality and you know that, and you needed a
million dollars, let's go the round number. A million dollars to run the
functions of government and and a million dollars from property taxes, then you would
go, all right, we need a million dollars, and then utilizing the
values of each of the homes within the community, they would be assigned a
percentage of that, and then that's how you would arrive at that that way
of doing it. The other way is the dumb way where they're like where
you kind of figure out what you need it to be, and then when
values of homes go up, you just add more taxes to those homes.
But the chances are if there is massive, a massive increase in home prices,
it's probably across the board, and then all of a sudden you're getting
a lot more taxes. So yeah, it'll come down to how we got
used to structure. We got there just because your value it used to be.
In some places, just because the value of your home, if everybody
also went up, your share probably didn't change. Does that make sense?
Yeah, we got that notice from the from the county. Yeah, a
property tax where you know, you pay whatever it is. It goes into
your mortgage every month. And they're like, hey, by the way,
your property value has doubled, so your tax is going to double or whatever.
Ridiculous. Yeah, and it's like, well why would it doube?
And then you look at the back here, and you're like, oh,
what's that thing blocking at the sun. It's a seven hundred thousand dollars townhouse
with a garage. They done, Yeah, you can park your car right
there. I think maybe so option. I don't know. Are they made
of gold inside? What is? Are they like a Stanley cup where there's
no I'm just saying, if you can afford a seven hundred thousand dollars townhouse,
I would assume you can also afford blinds and close them and stop looking
into my kitchen. I'm just what do you Oh no, man, you
turning into porch dude, and you're fully just completely yeah, you're fully justified.
Oh man, you gotta be out there like uh the that you know
that Simpson's meme man yells at clouds. It's literally it started like killing the
grass in my backyard because the grass is not getting the sun anymore because it's
blocked out by the townhouse. Oh man, it's just turning into mud,
I imagine. So well, that's where the pit has to go and the
wrestling and then we'll have tour. Yeah, oh man, that's you know
what, that's another good point. You should start pulling random stuff out,
Like you said, you have to get you dinosaur skull, cursed voodoo bones.
Yeah, no, you got to go full black sarcophagus. They need
to be staring out the window when he cracked that bad boy and start drinking
the bone juice. They'll move, they'll move. No, they'll probably banded
together and have you thrown out of there somehow. But he got options.
Now, if you are going to do mud wrestling in your yard because an
iore has blotted, your son and your family will now suffer calcium deficiency as
a result. Probably you know, you got you're competing against uh you know,
WWE, UFC, all of that stuff. Although one of those one
of those groups in a little bit of turmoil right now. Vince McMahon.
Now again I don't know fully what happened. You're talking about civil stuff here,
but holy crap, the information that was released. Janelle Grant, she's
the one that provided her name. It's gonna be abundantly clear, has decided
to break her silence about the relationship and uh Levy some significant allegations, but
also understand that right now she had a deal, or she says she had
a deal behind closed doors where McMahon was going to pay her three million dollars
and then she received the first million and then crickets. So that's why she
says she's suing now. But she also is speaking. Previous to this,
she had not documented other than individual a very generic way, which she said,
we're troubling incidents, according to Grant, and I'm gonna have to dance
around here the wrestling magnet Ross. I don't think I can talk about the
one thing right with the where there was the three people in no way,
there's no way I could talk about it. But let's just say it's really
gross. Okay, We're gonna tweet tweet the New York Post article out and
then it's right there in the headline. I just I don't feel like I
need to get into that particular. I don't know if there it was two
girls, if there was a cup infall, I'll let you figure it out,
all right anyway, So with that, please don't drive off the road.
But then it just gets weird, like Prince Andrew weird, and I
want to be clear, I'm not there's no allegations to McMahon did anything with
anyone in underage or sounds like. It's not like the vibe there was a
very party atmosphere, which I'm shocked was something that was surrounding pro wrestling.
But remember, like my weird one of the weirdest things about the Prince Andrew
was the allegations that he had a hand puppet of himself that he would use
to touch the underage girls. That's like, that's like a weird level of
strange there. It's not the worst thing that he's accused of doing, but
come on, man. So in the lawsuit, she goes on to point
out that it was also kind of what was the what's the stupid movie that
all the women liked? Where it had Dakota whatever her name is in there?
Great as No, it was the book series. Why can I not
remember with the damn fifty Shades of Gray? Oh, I'd almost purshed it
from my brain. I was doing so well. It kind of had that
vibe. She alleges that McMahon it seems like they had like a dom submissive
kind of thing going on, and as part of it, McMahon would send
her text messages saying I'm the only one who owns you. So there is
dispute over the text that she provided, which also involved her participating in adult
acts, not just with McMahon, but McMahon and others or individually. She
might be told, hey, you know, go take care of this executive.
But then we get to hear McMahon was also, according to Grant,
had an entire collection of adult toys, each themed on a different wrestler finger
on the button. I mean that would have to be one, right,
if you're making a list there. I mean, I'm not saying I've made
one, but well why wow, Okay, no, you know, no,
you're not gonna want to know consider any catchphrase. Probably don't want to
bring that into the bedroom with that. No, Oh my gosh, No,
dude, if if you're if, if you know this going on,
and he has what you don't want the razor like that would be off putting
the razor ramon. Come on, man, this is still going in the
best of category. No, no, what all right? If you had
to pick one, I'm just I met the Rick Flair ones interesting, but
the rais of ramone one that just sounds like a horrible, horrible idea.
So that's just weird, man. And when you say that they are let
me read the actual language adult items that were fashioned after and named after individual
wrestling stars. I don't even know what to say about that other than Roscott
to play all of his Oh that's the other thing. When you take it
out of the drawer or the weird closet or the whatever, you have to
have the walk On going right. Wait, was he sitting in the room
too, Oh, that'd be weird. No, But if you remove one
of these items, right, you have to over some sort of I'm sure,
massive stereo system because he's really rich. Like you got to play the
walk On music for it, right, And that's one of the positives of
owning the rights to it. Yeah, Yeah, that's a good point.
Yeah, write no copyright issues when you're grabbing the razor ramone. Also,
if you are a wrestler and you find out that you are not among the
individualized ones. Do you feel like McMahon never really liked you or you got
it all out your system? Are you? Yeah? I feel great?
Okay, good. Yeah. It doesn't have a list of all the different
ones there. I'm just saying, like I have, I have some some
questions. But if you had to convince me that it was, as they
say, a fratish atmosphere around there, I would probably believe you because it
is what it is. But again, this is this is civil stuff.
It's just really strange, and it's having the added the effect that she wanted
right throwing it on out there, and uh, you know they didn't if
if they agreed to pay her three million, whether they was just hey,
go away because we want to deal with this, or if they actually think
that she deserved it for whatever. I wasn't behind the scenes. But if
you say you're going to pay three million, you only pay a million,
what did you think was gonna happen? Just contemplate that, all right?
Rased Agic from the Weather Channel. He's here that make man's stories crazy.
I'm not going to drag you in, you but I'm sure you've seen it
right. No, Yeah, that was a good listening though, I mean
I was enjoying. I think, well, I'm going to drag you into
games. Yes, the Razor Ramonau so yeah, yeah, it's not going
to do any of that. We will see better weather, yeah, we
talked about it yesterday that things would get better. Is going to take a
few days. A lot of clouds today, most of the showers now pushing
east of the triangle. Up sixties, low seventies today, So might get
close to a couple of records. I'll get them for you next hour.
See if we can see how close those numbers are. Tonight slight chance of
showers really not much for your Friday night out in terms of rain, but
staying mild too, mid fifties tomorrow little mid sixties, better chance of rain
probably it's going to be midday into the afternoon, so try it first and
through the triangle because the system's coming from west southwest to north northeast, so
thatn'll make sense, right, And the showers and maybe even a thunder stom
will continue tomorrow night into Saturday into Sunday mid day, excuse me. And
then the next change will come in with some drier air, cooler air for
early next week more like normal. Plenty of sunny days coming up through Wednesday
in the fifties, overnight lows back down in the thirties, might be a
couple of nights in the upper twenties, especially early in the week. But
it does look like we'll get out of this kind of this jam that we're
in right now. Casee you get to some beautiful weather starting Monday. I
won't say Sunday. There might be some drier air Sunday, but especially Monday,
big area high pressure coming in and it should dominate most of the week.
So hang in there, okay, all right, appreciate it. We'll
talking an hour, sir, Thank you very much. Okay when we come
back. Well, a couple things, Oh Ross, you're partially to blame
for this. Did you see what's Do you see what's now? Congress?
You have members of Congress saying they're going to do something over people using AI
to manipulate Taylor Swift. No, I've not seen that. You wouldn't know
anyone who's done anything like that. Okay, all right, because they're very
they're big bad. So I'll explain next hang on. So after the show's
on the iHeart Radio app. He searched Casey O Day for the podcast on
the iHeart Radio app A little bit of House You've been here, Ross,
I got a message from some of the bosses wanting to know if we have
any interest in going to the d n C and r n C. You
remember last time around we were actually we were putting together all of our broadcast
coverage plans for Charlotte. Uh. We you know, that's a pretty big
operation. Is we had stations all over the country, so we get everything.
We were all ready to go, and then obviously, you know,
everything happened, so we found ourselves not doing that. It's been a while,
but yeah, So do you have any interest in going on to Chicago
in mid July to the Democratic National Convention. I mean, I mean it
has a history of Chicago. Yeah, it's one of the yes Chicago read
that. I'm i gotta look at my I'm very busy. I'm sure you
can't go to can't go to Chicago for a Democratic I mean, what's the
worst that could happen? Sure to be fine. The Republic was in Milwaukee,
which ain't much better actually right now, although I did like Millwake,
there was this Milwaukee the other thing I kind of liked about Milwaukee is one
of the politicians up there. He was at the fair and he saw some
dude to costing a woman. He went over and just beat the crap out
of him, and they partially beat him up because there was a group of
them, but he's just like, yeah, we don't put our hands on
women. He went old school, and he got a little us, got
a little heroic story for a moment, and then he did something I can't
remember, some scandal, but so all right, I'm gonna put us down
for probably not. I mean, sure, it's nice. Actually Chicago mid
July. I've been to July fourth in Chicago because they have this big Taste
of Chicago thing. I went to and it was so miserable the humidity in
you know, July right there. It was You're at a food festival,
but you're so hot, you know, want to eat anything, and if
you did, it would cash you like forty bucks now throw in I don't
know all the protesters and as Ross mentioned a little bit of history, and
God help us as to where that might have gone. All right, so
apparently now because I guess it wasn't a problem before or not one that people
could rally around. But now that it's Taylor Swift, here we go.
Several lawmakers and advocates say it is time to crack down on AI deep fakes
after Taylor Swift AI fakes emerged. I can't believe somebody would make an AI
fake Taylor Swift. Yeah, they're discussing right the pornographic AI images of Taylor
Swift. They were hitting and listen. Perhaps I created one that was her
eating chicken wings in Buffalo where she was morbidly obese, but they were not
pornographic food porn perhaps, well, it depends on how you feel about wings,
right and right? Yeah, yeah, no, I know that overall
unbiased opinion, not guilty unbiased opinion here to your point, yes, really
what drove this is AI Taylor Swift adult stuff. But it's like everything with
government. Uh, we're watching this show. The stuff they're doing over in
the EU right now is insane. And do you know, have you followed
what's going on in Poland? The the the prime minister, the new Prime
Minister of Poland who is not of the Conservative Party, Uh, there is.
He came in and he just started firing people. He's not allowed to
fire start doing stuff. He jailed some people. It's and he did it
under the purview of I need to do this to protect democracy. Does that
sound familiar? So the president of Poland, who is the could you know
is the Conservative Party over there? Like it's crazy, he just fired a
bunch of his people, which he can't do. The even the even the
media is like, yeah, you can't do that, buddy, and the
President's that you can't do that, and the guys like I'm restoring democracy.
He's trying to purge the president's party, which, by the way, do
you know what the do you know what the Conservative Party in uh Poland is
called? It's spelled it's a The acronym is p I S S Party.
Ross google that, will you P I S S Party? Because I'm sure
as hell not saying that party name on the air. But yeah, things
are breaking down and part of it is AI stuff and much more we'll get
into. We got Pete calendar next. Hang on, all right, good
morning and happy Friday. And it's not a billion degrees below zero or anything
this last week and now warm weather we're chat with race stage is coming up
a little later. Unfortunately, some rain to go along with it, but
it is fri and uh, we do this thing in the third hour where
we hang out for a little while with Pete Calender, Pete Midday's wb Key
and Charlotte and how you doing this morning? Sir? What's up? Hey?
I'm doing it right? How are you? You know? It's good?
It's good we do this on a Friday and not a Monday. I
feel like our attitudes would be mildly different. Although Mondays can be fun sometimes
because craziness over the weekend. But yeah, yeah, anyway, but you
Fridays there's hope and stuff. So oh oh, that's that's interesting. You
have hope today. I do have hope today? Are you not? Do
you not? Because you know, there's some guys that do what we do
and I just feel like they never come out of the pit, do you
know what I mean? And don't get you're wrong if you want to be
in the pit, it's easy to be in the pit and all the time,
and like if I don't find one or two things that are just not
that for a few minutes, because it's really it's really easy to like,
look at the border. I saw you were going back and forth with some
moonbat on Twitter and right, do you all have I do? Do you
believe I live? Do you believe that the majority of Biden supporters actually think
the border is fine? I don't know that I believe that. Yeah,
I don't. I try not to ascribe motive to people, and I try
to give people the benefit of the doubt. It's particularly hard on social media
to do that because you you know, you lose a lot of inflection if
you're you know, talking to them like on the radio or over the phone.
You can't read facial expressions because you're not in person with them. So
it's difficult. But when you see people making these arguments that we're now seeing
over the last you know, twenty four to forty eight hours, that you
know, Texas is defying the US Supreme Court, which it's not, or
that like you said, the border is secure, and that Texas is murdering
women and children with their razor wire and stuff. I again, I try
to give them the benefit of the doubt, and I assume that they are
simply regurgitating the only talking points and stories that are fed to them by the
Democrats and the media that I repeat myself. And that's why they believe their
cause is just you know, for example, they they're hammering away at Congress,
the Congressional Republicans for not being willing to secure the border. They rejected
this border deal. First off, we don't even know what the deal is,
right, nobody has. Nobody has seen any of the write up on
what they're they're hashing out behind closed doors among some of the top Republican and
Democrat legislative leaders. So we don't know that, first of all. But
more importantly, Joe Biden can simply reinstitute the policies he dismantled on his first
day office that would automatically immediately reduce the flow. Because the people are coming
for a rational reason. They believe correctly that if they get across and they
say I'm yeah, I'm a seeking asylum, because if I go back,
I'm going to be killed, right, and that's all they need to say.
They are then processed and released into the society, and they are given
court dates of you know, seven eight years down the road. These people
will never be sent back and they know this, and so they are acting
in a rational manner trying to get into America in the way that is most
you know accessible for them to do so. Meanwhile, the cartels are profiting
off of a massive human trafficking operation that's victimizing young kids, little girls being
raped, women being raped, people being murdered all along the border, cartels
making billions of dollars hand over fists, and more importantly, by overwhelming parts
of the border in Texas, it allows the cartels to continue smuggling in the
fentanyl in other parts of the country along on different parts of the border.
I want to, I want to, I want to stop here because I
want people to really take that in because there's two questions or two rebuttals or
questions that I always here, and one is, well, if you bring
up smuggling, they go, look at the look at the little girl.
She's not smuggling, And you're probably right, she might be being trafficked,
but she likely doesn't have fentanyl tape to her body. But when you it's
the same reason you would create a distraction if you want to do a criminal
thing, which is a movie trope, right, you know we're gonna go
rob this bank, so let's go set a bomb off across town and they'll
all be over there. In reality, it does allow that because it pulls
people away. Did you see the video of the the mom whose son was
killed by an illegal immigrant in Texas. I've interviewed that woman. Actually,
she said radio rowd thing in DC that we used to do annual, that
your coworker would come up to one. She was one of the moms up
there, and it's a very tragic story. And that idiot Goldman or whatever
up in New York is like he's almost berating her, like she doesn't understand
what the issue is, and she was talking because she was talking about the
fetanyl and all that stuff, and like he's got to sit that he might
be one of the dumbest members of Congress who would initially peer that way until
you hear him speak after watching his work with the committee work here recently.
And the other thing is, well, the people are under the mistaken plan
that everyone comes across the border. The Democratic plan is because they want them
to vote right now illegally, and it's not as it's not. There's a
lot of nuance. And there was a congresswoman in California kind of gave away
the game. They don't have to vote to be a net positive for your
political party. In fact, it's almost better because then you don't have to
woo them. Then they just have to exist geographically where you are amongst all
of your liberal friends, and you'll be a shoe in. Plus, your
district will never go away, which is what California right now was looking at.
They're going to lose a bunch of districts right. So for people who
don't understand that the nuance you're referring to, which is the counting of the
census. So if you put enough people that can't vote and don't vote because
they are prohibited because they are illegal immigrants, they're not allowed to vote,
but they count in the census. So you can pack a bunch of people
into a congressional district and never actually have to listen to anything that they say,
knowing that the people who can vote are Democrats, and so you will
continue to win re election even as people who are citizens and can vote for
you flee your district or your seat. So you can have a district representing
eight hundred and fifty thousand people, but only half of them are eligible to
vote, and only a fraction of those actually do yes, And so that
is that's the immediate game. And sure, there's the long term, you
know, a tip O'Neil Reagan style discussion over amnesty. Booled me once,
But that is the immediate impact and effect, and it's important that people understand
that. All Right, we got you've got a whole host of stuff here.
I want to touch base with you. Can you give me a favor
because I didn't realize how awesome they were and I don't have firsthand experience how
great are electric buses, mister guy who used to live in Nashville, because
you guys have some that have some there, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
In fact, when we got I was there. I was working in
Nashville. I worked in Nashville for about eight years, and I was there
when we first got the electric buses, and oh my god, super exciting
until like I think it was the first week or so something like that.
It was very early on after we first got our buses that one of them
broke down and I got a picture. Yeah, we got pictures sent to
us, and so we had a little bit of fun with that because these
were like the brand new buses. They broke down, and now apparently they've
got they have five electric buses, which is super exciting. Except for the
fact that, like they haven't been able to run because they've got software problems,
they've got mechanical issues. One of them need a door and slight problem.
The company that made the buses for Ashville they're bankrupt. They're bankrupt.
Yeah, so they can't that's true. Ye, Well, and yeah,
I mean maybe they roll it back out for summer time. Well, so
here's the other problem is that when it gets cold. I'm not sure you're
aware of this with electricity batteries such yet. Yeah, when it gets cold,
the batteries don't hold the charge for very long, so they don't go
very far before having to come back to the recharging station and then juice up
for like several hours. So it's not quite the most effective system. Now,
I like what the city of Gastonia is doing. Have you heard what
Gastonia is count No, they are scrapping their entire bus system and they're doing
like, yeah, they're doing like an uber lift ride share deal. They're
contracting with a company that's going to do basically taxi service. Because the thing
it might be cheaper, it might be cheap than some of these mass transits,
which are just money pits. Man right, and the routes are terrible.
They don't cover all of the areas. Like you said, this has
always been the problem with a fixed route system, right. It makes sense
in sort of an urban, dense core that makes sense subways that take you,
you know, to this area and then you can walk around whatever.
But in a more rural setting with a town center or something, it doesn't
really make a lot of sense, especially you know, because it's all spread
out. So what you're going to take a bus and then be you know,
a mile from where you need to go after you get off the bus.
How do you fix that the last mile problem? And so what GAFSONI
is doing is they're like, you know what, We're just gonna go ahead
and do ubers. Oh, I mean if again, I ran the math
in my head and I'm like, I'll bet having covered I watched the rollout
of the light rail in Minneapolis, which by the way, is in the
news again. Yeah yeah, hold on for that. But I remember,
I remember being there and through the whole process. Right, we want to
do this. Here's the real They had a route that went to Saint Cloud,
Minnesota. I mean, it was crazy, which that ended up getting
scrapped. But they were doing things like they like they didn't they weren't going
to have it go to the airport. Everyone lost their minds, like why
would because they were trying to protect the parking revenue, and they got just
enough pushback that it does go to the airport. The initial route ran from
them all of America north to the airport into downtown Minneapolis, and now it's
expanded from there. But at the time, before they even expanded it,
it cost twelve dollars for every writer. Twelve dollars that was That was a
combination of their fare and the subsidized cost of running it. I don't know
what Charlotte's was, but twelve dollars will get you a lot of places in
an uber Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I want to say Charlotte, their
fares were in the single digits. If I recall correctly when we started ours
about twenty years ago almost and I guess ten years fifteen years ago. But
the I recall at the time the prices, the actual cost was somewhere north
of twenty bucks. That's the actual cost. So yeah, and again,
like people look at the light rail as as a transportation deal and to an
extent. Obviously it is, but it's also a development deal. It is.
It was, and look, Pat McCrory when he was mayor, was
very explicit about this. He said, this is to direct growth and give
people an option right to pack more density into the urban core so it's not
sprawling everywhere and where we got traffic jams at everywhere. So if you want
that kind of a lifestyle to to be able to hop on a train,
get into center city and work, then you should. Then this is going
to be the option for you. Now. Of course, nobody could predict
that office space would be clearing out after a pandemic like it is, but
you know, details whatever the other thing is, we don't have our light
rail running to the airport either, and everybody's complaining about that. But and
they're like, look at the look at the passenger numbers. We have so
many passengers. Well we do, but they never get out of the airport.
It's not originating traffic. It's you know, when we when they were
building this thing, and McCrory was like, we should have this thing run
out to the airport, the transportation people were like, they're all flights that
are layovers. They're coming from somewhere else, getting on a different flight and
leaving. It's a hub. Charlotte doesn't have enough people leaving from the Charlotte
area to justify a train from downtown to the airport because nobody lives downtown.
They do now, but not at that time. Right right, right,
right, yeah, let's speaking of Well, I'll let you because the seat's
in your stack. Here I mentioned that the mass transit in Minneapolis Saint Paul
is in the news again. Is it because they bought their they brought their
costs down, right, and it's cash flows now or something? Oh,
I haven't seen that. That seems like it would be newsworthy. Maybe something
other jurisdictions could emulate. No, I think it's because well it's so.
There was a campaign a couple of months ago down here with the DA and
the US Attorney and they were putting up billboards and they said think again,
think again, Think again, And it was about crime. So, in
other words, before you go and murder that person, think again, right,
don't commit a gun crime. Before you commit a gun crime, think
again. No, no, no, no, dude, you're missing it.
You're missing it. It's genius. You don't understand what is something if
you want to convict somebody for the higher level version of a crime that is
necessary to prove by prosepecting premeditation. There you go. So they're trying to
hang more charges. Oh I gotcha. Yeah, that's probably See, this
is why you're so much more successful because you see around these corners. I
just took them at their billboard word and I thought, that's just a ridiculous
thing to try to advise people who were going to make county interesting. Well
maybe that's what's going on here. Then they've told people in Minneapolis, hey,
don't be raping people on the bus. Uh, and don't be peeing
and pooping on the bus. Yeah, and the light rail don't what you
do it on there either. So yeah, so they posted signs which will
totally take care of the problem, as I understand it, because once you
post a sign, for example, like a gun free zone, nobody ever
brings guns in them. The signs are I think one hundred percent effective.
I know. In fact, they put them in shower prisons and it's everything's
fine. Oh that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, it does make me
wonder with the with Minneapolis, why it took so long for them to think
of this like why, yeah, yeah, you want to hear something crazy.
This was an this was an issue when I was there. Yeah,
there were certain routes they're just like, yeah, you shoul probably not go
on that route if you're not a criminal. Yeah, it was really bad
man. Yeah. So why and so how long ago was that? What?
Ten years? Fifteen years ago or so? And two thousands? Yeah,
late two thousands, mid to late yeah, So why did it take
all of these years to figure out how to write on a sign? Hey,
don't be raping and robbing and booping and being Well, there's a lot
of lakes, you know, if you're in the if you get to fish
them all, man, it's it's very time consuming. So that's a thing.
By the way, did you see a cowboy? Coward? Do you
know who that was? Cow Yeah, coward? Yeah you see Yeah,
wait, did you see the details of that? For a car accident?
His girlfriend's driving, but in the vehicle they have both their her pet,
her pet chihuahua and his pet squirrel. Now, I'm not saying that that
might have caused the distraction, because it sounds like they pulled out and the
young man hit him but he's not. He was not speeding or anything,
so just pure tragedy. But I can just imagine how I distracted. I
would be if you were too, Like if at a light as a prank,
you threw a chihuahua and a squirrel into a car, that sounds like
pandemonium. Man. Yeah, I mean I got to believe that they got
along, but I mean, like literally, it is the example of distraction.
Squirrel, Yeah, it's the Yeah, the dog seemed yeah, but
yeah, it was crazy story there. Like he was he was doing Old
West shootout stuff in Maggie Valley and Burt Reynold showed up and he's like,
I want to put you in your lack of teeth in the movies, right
delivery Yeah, off the deliverance you go. So I think eighty five or
so. Yeah, and it's his girlfriend was in her seventies, so he
was, you know, he liked liked him a little younger there, but
yeah, yeah, the squirrel and chihuahua component definitely caught me off guard.
All Right, Well, hopefully you're alive next week because he got the new
signs. I'm sure everything will be fine, very safe for you. Yeah,
we'll do this thing again. Okay, that's good, every great weekend.
And I'm sitting on a pile of audio. So let's go ahead and
go ahead and get into this. Let me start with this Taylor Lorenz,
who is boy, she's a peach. She writes for the Washington Post.
She's as moon bad as they come. And uh, what was her Her
claim to fame was the gamer Gate thing, right, wasn't that her big
thing? Well that in the moon the moon rocks. Oh, I forgot
about the moon rocks. Remember the moon rocks. I'm almost yeah, that
was Lorenz? Yes, all right. So she is a journalist who at
one point her what was her her concern is that they could drop a rock
off the moon and hit the Earth, right, because that's how that works?
Do you am? I am? I halluciny? You guys remember the
story, right, And everybody's kind of laughed at her. She's like,
that's not what I meant, and I'm like, I don't know, I
saw what she said. That's kind of what you meant. So anyway,
so she had her little self a little diatribe, and she's reflecting on a
few things that have happened this week. One sports Illustrated is just like,
yeah, we're not going to do this anymore. And I can't imagine what
happened. LA Times laid off one hundred and fifteen. I think it's the
number. And you had people reporters who didn't get laid off, who were
showing, you know, what they'd do. They were showing pictures, but
they were also taken it away. So it was kind of like when you'd
see those pictures of libraries in Florida. They'd be like, look, they
took all the books, and then you realize, no, they found a
single area where there's no books and there hadn't been and took that picture.
So so, but it's the state of journalism. And she goes on this
dumb rant yesterday, here we go, what is this thing? Here?
Come on, button bar? All right, here we go. They are
dude, I'm telling you, I want to do radio the old way with
coconuts and all that. Their journalism industry is basically in a free fall today.
The Los Angeles Times laid off one hundred and fifteen employees. They wiped
out their entire DC bureau in an election year. They laid off pretty much
all of their sports teams, They killed their entire tech and business section.
They laid off breaking news writers, social media editors. The list goes on.
But what's really dark is this is just the latest in months and months
and months of layoffs in the media industry. In fact, tens of thousands
of journalists have been laid off in the past year. Major media companies like
BuzzFeed News have completely shuttered their news operations. Time Magazine also just laid off
a ton of people, and Oh, Sports Illustrated basically shud down last week.
Okay, all right, and all of that is true, by the
way, but all of the you know, there's a lot of similarities there
in that it's print publication, you know, and you know, so then
the learned to Code thing came out, and then people thought they were going
to debunk it because Joe Biden never said that, and then people posted all
the video of him saying literally saying it. Everything got dumb. But she
goes a step further. Pretty much the entire digital media ecosystem that myself and
a lot of other millennial journalists came up in has been completely hollowed out.
And it's not just digital media sites. Local news has been obliterated. The
newspaper industry is cratering. Radio is essentially dead, aside from NPR, which
has been gutted. Really is that true? Is that because I can't speak
to the economics within the you know, in McClatchy, right, I mean
I can follow, like, you know, various things that happened, whether
it's layoffs, hirings, expansions, selling a properties, banquote, whatever it
is. And yes, in radio, the compression of the industry is something
that has has gone on for a significant amount of time, although the meat
of it really was back during the Obama administration. But it's not the radio
is basically dead. We're doing pretty well. Like I'm not gonna go I
can't get into the details. I'm not going to get into the details,
And I just want to be very clear, I'm not when I says,
I'm speaking within my own personal experience and not as some sort of corporate entity
for our parent company. But there there's a lot of stuff where we're seeing
a lot of gains, and so a lot of it's picking up slack from
some of that stuff. And the amount the percentage of the American population they
love this stat you know, internally at our company. But it's very true.
You know, of all of the people, all the people out there
who consume media in the United States in the ninetieth percentile, well, at
some point consume our product every week. That's that's that's crazy high there.
So and so I would push back on that, But I feel like while
she is, she is accurate in a lot of stuff that she's saying.
At what point do you think somebody's gonna go? Man, I wonder why
BuzzFeed, the LA Times and many other publications that seem to have a similar
bent are suffering the way that they are and somes in their control, somems
out of their control one hundred percent, and and you've got to be able
to adapt to it. And it sucks. And I look, I'm fine
with local media. I I can be critical of it, absolutely one.
But if they're not there, there's opera, there are things that are missed,
and there are good local journalists, there are people out there doing way
ep I think ap Dyllan's a good journalist because dicing up specific stuff about school
budgets and stuff, oh makes people want to bang their head into the wall.
She seems to enjoy it, and I think does a good job of
making it understandable, and people are consuming that product. So but yeah,
I saw that and chuckle just a little, But I digress. Meanwhile,
in California, they have found a lost city, seriously right under their own
feet, kind of a river bank in Californias is what you're in Modesto or
no, I gott figure out where it is. But in California has they
has a city that's been carved into the side and he can't see it from
the main road up top, and there was just this path, and they
figured out that they would see homeless people go down there. They thought they
were living in the woods and they go down there by the river. They
didn't see them. And then somebody figured out that they had carved almost like
you know those the ancient cities of what Ancora and what's the other one where
you have these ornate temples carved into the side of sandstone and whatnot. And
you go in and it's a hole and it's and it's they got statues.
It's in the front of them. Looks like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,
Right, that's the one probably most people could think of. They had
that a homeless encampment like that. It was pretty ornate. Although I don't
think that at Ancora they had they had heroin needles inside, but maybe I
don't know. But check this out in homeless caves tucked along the Tuolmi River
in Modesto. These are basically stairs that they made to get down to the
dwelling. Tracy Rojas took us on the treacherous walk to see the craters created
near Crater Avenue, and if one of these were to collapse, it would
be devastating. This whole side would come down and into the water. Seventy
six hundred pounds of trash, that's how much was cleared out by volunteer groups
and police over the weekend. So this was fully furnished. Yes, there
was betting. There was little things up on the Mantle block of a better
word, Mantle food items, drugs, gun all right, so don't look
this woman's under selling it. It's kind of impressive. I'm not gonna lie,
but I suppose you got all day plus depending on which drug you're using,
you might be in a very efficient digger. So there's that, but
just Craziness'll tweet the video out, but check it out. I has a
little more audio, but we'll get to that here just month. Also,
Ross, I actually got because I wanted to help support since they had to
have they evicted all these people. So I got you a goblet from their
merch store. It's got a bunch of jewels. That was very nice.
They pulled it out of there. So really wait, Yeah, I want
to. I'd like to, and I want to see you use it when
I when I bring it for you. So you got one there too,
huh. Well, but I here's the thing, and it's because I'm a
giving person. I I budgeted to get one for you one for me,
but I spent so much on your ornate but jeweled one. All I could
afford is this carved wooden one. Look at that poverty wooden. Yeah,
I'm telling you, it's it's all I need. I can't wait to see
you drink that. I'm gonna look at well you drink yours first. Yeah,
I'm gonna Okay, you're gonna feel awful poverty really because yeah, I
know you film that put that on there. It's gonna be very nice,
I would say for you, I have chosen, perhaps wisely, perhaps poorly.
I don't know. We'll see what, We'll see how it goes?
All right, raced agic, he's here, Indiana Jones reference, Sir,
what are you doing? Do you know why? I just bumped my bumped
my elbow on the desk. Okay, we're gonna say, do you know
what? Do you know? I've never seen in Indiana Jones movie in full?
Can you imagine? Sorry to your weather? All right? You want
to play? Do you want to play a wrestling intro? I'd be fine
with that. I feel it's better cut. How does that happen? You
know what I do? You didn't see Crystal Skull or the dial of uh
whatever the thing was that just came out. It was just not that funny
because I've always bet a Harrison Ford fan, obviously with the Star Wars,
h with the Star Wars, you know, favorites. But anyway, you
gonna what are you gonna do now? If you don't have the knowledge that
was imparted? Like what if a some dude with a sword in an ancient
Arab city is chasing you? You don't know how to add No, I
won't do you know how to sell Jesus' name in Aramaic? But no,
definitely will not be able to do that. You are so scary. Guys,
look at the arc man, Yeah, oh what's it here? Oh
yeah, that's great. So where a big gold box going? Yeah?
Right, I start with Raiders of the Lost Ark? Right? Is that
the first one? At this point I just start stacking them, man,
I don't care start with the first three. But yeah, yeah, I'm
gonna get I'll get on that. I'll put it on my to do list.
Yeah, and you know, there's actually if that's the plan, make
it for a plan for Saturday. If it's movies, it's probably an indoor
day more than anything else. Do have a lot of clouds today, very
mild too. It's a little humid out there for this time of year.
Upper sixties to low seventies. Tonight only in the fifties, and tomorrow the
rainbow spread in west from east west east late morning into the afternoon, maybe
a thunderstorm late load of mid sixties, and then finally by Sunday, maybe
some dryer air and maybe some sunshine in the afternoon after a shower thunderstorm threat
early and then early next week into the middle of next week, maybe longer.
We'll get into a nice stretch of load of mid fifties during the day
with mostly sunny sky and upper twenties to little mid thirties at night, probably
starting Monday through Thursday. So after we get through the next couple days,
we'll get rid of this yuck and next week it's really good. One quick
question, what does a penitent man do? Oh? Who a penitent man?
Next question? No, there won't be another question. All right,
get out of here. You're okay man, All right? Jeff Bellinger's next
hang on, All right, good morning, and welcome it. He is
eight fifty three year Bloomberg Update now with Jeff Bellinger. Jeff, what's happening?
Ain't happy Friday? The government just reported American's personal incomes ticked up three
tenths percent last month, right in line with forecasts, but consumer spending was
stronger than expected. In December, it rose seven tenths percent. Spending more
than we're making. Helps to explain why Visus quarterly results were better than expected.
The credit card company reported an eight percent increase, and it's quarterly profit
because people are reaching for their credit cards more. But shares of Intel are
sharply lower, and pre market trading the giant chip maker could end Wall Street's
winning streak. Intel issued a disappointing forecast after the markets closed yesterday, raising
doubts about its turnaround efforts. Boeing shut down production of its seven thirty seven
factory in Renton, Washington, yesterday. About ten thousand employees took part in
the company's first ever full day working session. Boeing says the focus was on
first time quality and safety, and the company says it's planning more of what
it calls quality stand downs. In Casey, after some arm twisting by regulators,
Apple's making changes to its iOS, Safari, and app store offerings in
the European Union. Customers will be able to download software from outside the app
store and use alternate payment systems, but Apple is warning these changes will raise
new security issues. Casey, Jeff, Hey, real quick of the five?
How many of the Indiana Jones movies have you seen? I know I
saw the first one. I believe I saw the second as well. That
was all okay, all right, well you're doing better than our weather guy.
He hasn't seen any what a weirdo? Huh yeah, I won't cast
any all right, all right, all right, thanks Jeff, appreciate it,
have a good weekend, take care. Yeah. Yeah, Oh dude,
I was so close. Do you know how much I wanted audio of
Jeff calling Ray a weirdo he's craving show. Oh I love it. Yeah.
But also Jeff's seen two of them, man, I say, if
people say three, fine, yeah, like I expect that. If you've
seen all five, then uh whatever. And he was mentioning the European Union.
Let me pivot back to that because I started talking about that. We
have a chat with Pete. The think what's going on in Poland is damn
near criminal. Like if you're not paying attention to that, you should.
But also the EU. Man, if you think politicians just on the Taylor
Swift here want to do stuff and then have it also allow them to control
the narrative on other things, just know that that is the end game.
They'll say, Hey, this is wrong. People shouldn't be making Taylor Swift
porn and put it on the air. And they shouldn't, right absolutely,
And I mean that not just from a legal standpoint, but but more in
it from a from a moral standpoint. And also she is a human.
As many jokes as I want to make about football like that would I don't.
I don't want to see them. And I know some I know some
women in broadcasts who have literally showed me like mockups. Although these are old
school bad ones where their head is like clearly almost paper machete on another body
and it's just so weird. Sure it happens to us all the time.
We just haven't seen it, I'm sure. But over in the EU they
want to. They want to reevaluate influencers, and their discussion includes everything up
to and including licensing influencers or at the very least requiring training and things like
that. These guys can't big, they can't not screw stuff up because they
can't have an influencer saying something that goes against it. So this is the
way that you gatekeep that it is Orwellian man or Wellian. And remember the
last time the EU got together and tried to screw with the internet. Why
do you think when you go to a website now, every effing time you're
there you have to click except or decline on cookies before you can do whatever
you're there for. That's because of the law they passed a couple of years
ago. Am I the only if I find that it is the bane of
cruising for prep every day. And also if I say yes to cookies,
should there be a cookies saying I said yes to cookies? So they'll jack
this up ross Some of the people you watch that on twitch, watch you
and you watch are probably in Europe, right, tons of them. Yeah,
so like what if what if you, as a streamer don't have your
EU streaming license, They're not gonna be able to see you, man,
And like probably they probably don't want to hear what you have to say,
even though you don't you're you're you're not doing deep politics on there, but
still you got to. You got to bend the need of them. That's
crazy. And don't get me wrong, there's a bunch of influencer who influencers
out there who serve no purpose and probably makes society a worse place. I
think I think we agree. But still you got to keep an eye out
because well, it may be for them now, it'll be about you tomorrow.
You know the old saying, well not tomorrow tomorrow, because tomorrow's Saturday,
we won't be here, but you know, Monday, we'll see then