I call it an interesting collective of stories today. Okay, obviously we got
everything, almost everything. I have a little bit of a frustration. It'll
become evident when we get into Joe Biden over in France. Okay, just
and I don't know maybe if it's maybe it's just because I'm in a surly
mood because I'm still, you know, recovering from not feeling well this week.
But so much meat on the bone that you didn't have to smuggle in
a hamburger. I'll explain I'm doing a bad job setting it up, but
I don't want to tip my hand on it. Okay, So yeah,
well we'll break down what was going on over there. But I feel like
everyone started looking at one thing and they made that their passion, and it
kind of detracts from what the real problem is, would be the way to
say it. And then in the rest of the stack, every just dumb
stuff, just you know, a lot of really great Friday stories, little
goofy stories, interesting stuff that ain't going to ruin your life, but at
the very least may make it more interesting today so you can share it with
other people. We're cool with that. And then in the final hour,
beat calendar will be here, and you know, we'll do what we do,
which is generally a mix of some stuff that's actually probably important from a
North Carolina perspective, coupled with dumb stuff. So Friday in a nutshell,
not much of a rundown with oddities. Uh, you know that's uh,
that's how we're going to roll today. But first we got to uh.
I think that we've got to start with the biggest upset in the history of
sports, in the history of the world. That is a quote I'm reading
which which took place yesterday. The US men's cricket team beat Pakistan or Pakistan
or however you want to ever you want to say it, the biggest upset
ever in the history of sports in the history of the world. Again,
that's a quote, that's not me saying it. So that's a thing.
Okay, it explain it to me like I'm three or maybe five. I
don't know what's an appropriate age too to explain that toy like five. I
read an explanation on it today because I was also curious that that sort of
explained it to me. Okay, good, good, good, good game
was I could do the thing where I'm like, oh, roster cricket expert.
But no, no, no, no, hell, I mean I
kind of understand it, but it's a blue check to sports dude. So,
you know, a reporter guy, and he said, imagine like it's
the biggest sport in your country that everybody in your country knows how to play
from the age of like one, Like everyone knows this, So so soccer
in a lot of prices in the world. Not only does everybody, not
only is it the biggest sport in your country, but your team is considered
the best players in the world. And now imagine you get beaten by guys
who just happened to play this on the weekend as like a hobby. Yeah,
I mean I didn't. Did you know we had a national cricket teammate?
No idea, I mean I yes, I assume that we probably did,
just you know, just out of sheer people are. Everybody's into something,
right, So I and I and I know, and I've seen them
play. If you ever go to d C, you'll see us, you
know, when the when the weather's right, you'll see guys out there in
the in the parks, around the you know, around all of the the
attractions. You'll you'll see people playing cricket. So like I knew it.
I knew it was a bigger FOURG in sport. But you know, people
play it around. Uh, people played around the universities. They played around
Chapel Hill and over by Duke casually and and so yeah, I guess I
assume, but to be any good. No, you're right, but Pakistan
is how many how many people live in Pakistan? I don't know, but
apparently they have the best players in the world, Like they're considered the best
players. Okay, and then we just beat them with some dudes that were
in a bar. Was like, yeah, put me in code I one.
I don't think that's necessarily fair to all. It is not. It's
not, but comparatively speaking to you know, the interest of what cricket is
for the country and how good our players are in a national ranking, that
is what it was. We just came in and we're like, okay,
let's play this game, and we beat their ass. Can I This is
gonna sound really ugly American, but I don't care, especially because we got
some history with Pakistan. But it I don't know if it hits different,
but I like it when we whip somebody's butt at their own thing as as
a lark. Do you know what I'm saying? This has to be like
imagine some crazy like I don't know, imagine Kazakhstan back in the day beating
Michael Jordan's dream team that just happened. That that just happened to Pakistan.
I mean, that'd be posters coming off walls in the US, fair or
unfair. Now, I did see some I did see somebody who appeared to
be a Pakistan fan said, well, it's not like you guys did anything
every you know, everyone on the team's just second generation US. And I'm
like, Aaron Jones, Uh, what was it? What was one of
the other dude's name, Like, like, I are the dude who never
got out his name is Aaron Jones. Now, don't get me wrong,
we gotta sing a mod zimon. Uh what there was one other dude whose
names like Smith or something? I mean, Aaron Jones got bullied in Pakistan
growing up there with that, I'm sure, Yeah, dude, yeah,
yeah, you're dude named Aaron Jones. Probably a little rough come up and
all right, I don't understand all of the scoring mechanism and all of all
of that. So I will just say I'm not gonna be able to break
down like how everything transpired, but apparently it was an ass kicking. I
tried to learn how to play cricket over the internet, like streaming it on
twitch like the video game. I tried playing it, like learning how to
play it. And that might sound funny, but that's literally how I learned
how play football when I was a kid, like a little bit. They
they have a cricket, yeah, right. So I was like, I'm
gonna stream this. It'll be funny. It'll be like American plays cricket or
whatever. And I got a bunch of people from like England and you know,
Middle East like watching and commenting. And so I played this game and
I streamed this game for five to six hours. It was a pretty long
stream. At the end of the six hours, I still had no idea
what I was doing. If you ask me, how does it, I
have no idea. It's just confusing. There's a wicket and there's a You
think it's like baseball, but it's nothing like baseball. Yeah, there's They
got some interesting terms too that I've heard use. And I'm just saying I
don't know if I want to learn whatever that is, but no, I've
never, never successfully learned it. So okay, all right, well,
hey, you know, congratulations and you know we're number one, so woo
hoo. Do our women play too? Would that be a big deal?
Again, I don't know how any of this stuff works. Here's what I
will say. It'll be good to not have to listen to the twenty eight
and three Patriots people. Do you know what I'm saying, because now anytime
they bring that up, I'll just be like twenty twenty four men's cricket team
scoreboard or whatever they use in cricket, I don't know, and then we
just move on from there. So look, there is there's an upside for
everybody, I guess, is the point that I'm making. So you gonna
play some cricket over the weekend with your new found uh never inspiration at the
end of it, at the end of the stream, I'm like, I'm
never playing this again. Any knowledge that I did have about this game is
completely like, my my brain is defragged. It's get rid of it.
Put it in the bill. All right, Well, hey, it was
it was good for what it was a nice little victory lap and uh,
it'll continue today because I've got ways to tie this into like nine stories,
all right. Also coming up on the show, Yes, Florida, we'll
do the Florida thing. Goblins. We got goblins. Maybe probably not,
but uh well we'll check the allegation. And ah China again to China.
All that more coming up hanging on Good Friday morning, six twenty two,
CaCO Day Radio program, proudly uh probably covering are Oh that's right, greatest
cricket team in the world ever or something. Oh, and I just realized
it took place in Texas, So I suspect there's a bunch of people in
and around the Dallas area that have zero idea what the game is but are
still driving around with flags on their truck. Oh that's got it hurt.
It reminds me. I remember in the Olympics when the US curling team was
like kicking Sweden's ass or whatever it was. I have no curling, but
I was flipping and these guys that were on the ice they looked like you
met like the old SNL cast sitting around going dubb bears, like sitting there
going I'm having a heart attack. They look like that, but they're in
the ice with those brooms. Watch that had them in studio because like the
one team was like three dudes from the Midge right, and it was like
it was like every north Woods bar in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and and it's
say the Olympic athletes are here, and it was great. I loved it.
I loved it. You know what we need to do. We need
to go. We need to we need to now pick another random world sport,
get some like volunteers from a tavern, and then just go dominated.
I'm thinking the Dead Goat Polo. I was just thinking the same thing from
Rambo three. Yes, I was just gonna say that, yes, And
that's the only training they get is watching the movie. Is watching Rambo three?
Well, just that part we're not gonna make and watch the whole thing.
I'm calling it now complete domination gold all day, man, just one
to all. They'd be so mad, and then, you know, we'll
do some research. We'll figure out. I'm sure there's some other sport with
some you know, like dah who can put the coconut through the thing or
what Who the hell knows. We're going to number one Dream Team, baby,
dude, get Jordan out of retirement. Can you imagine? Can you
imagine, dude's got two three peats. He's just been banging around golf in,
smoking cigars, buying progressively larger fishing boats. I mean, where he's
at is amazing right now. But and then all of a sudden he's just
say, all right, let me put this on hold. Yeah, not
gonna golf things, not no, not not playing baseball. And then like
he scores all the dead goat goals or whatever the rules are. That would
be, oh, I ah, what an exciting week of sports. That
would be. You go straight from US Open, you know, right here,
right around the corner, and then uh, we're just dominating the world
sports man USA, USA, all right, eight eight eight, that's the
dream. So and it's Friday, so we can speculate with stuff like that.
Well, you know what, we'll run it by Pete. We'll we'll
see where Pete said, I think he's gonna be on a team. Let's
let's shame him. And you know what, maybe next time, if you
don't wanna, you don't want to get dominated at your own thing, don't
house a terrorist in a compound for years. Okay, Okay, we're good,
got it, perfect, wonderful. AnyWho on the goblins saw this one,
you know it's gonna be a good story. When the audio cuts the
ones like in the archive, you already know exactly what's coming outlins. Thank
you Alex Jones with your goblins. So what's up with goblins? Well,
apparently there's a goblin infested police station. I know there's all sorts of jokes
that people can make and little fun stories, but let me give you the
let me give you the straight and narrow. This is in Zimbabwe. Police
abandoned or cops abandoned police station after claims that goblins were terrorizing them at night.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, here we go. Uh.
Officers stationed at a police station in southwestern Zimbabwe have reportedly abandoned it,
citing harassment nightly by goblins. Oh excuse me, I gotta if I'm going
to read it, I gotta might as well. You know, goblins say
it. So anyway, every night, whoever's working the overnight shift, pure
goblin harassment. Just the worst. Nobody wants to see that. Let me
let me finish this goblin story because I was going somewhere, I promise goblins
right because I I admittedly when it comes to mythical creatures, I think goblins
I know the least about or pretty close. Like and for those who just
joining us, a police station was abandoned because the officers who work the overnight
say that goblins are harassing them. It's in Zimbabwe. So I don't know
what are goblins origin story? Like where do they come from? I'm not
ask like do they come out of portals? Or where do they come from?
Like vampires? Right, like the whole the origin story is kind of
the thing people know the most about vampires, right what they did? Yeah,
at least they know how you become a vampire exactly where Wolf? Same
deal Goblin? Where do goblins come from? M? Do you know?
I don't know? Uh? So you know, I I don't know.
I don't know how to determine how scared they should be at the police station
in Zimbabwe. What was that documentary in the eighties with the Goblin King?
Uh? David Bowie was in there, right? Yeah? Labyrinth Labyrinth?
Yeah yeah, I always conflated with the Tom Cruise one legend legend. Yeah,
I mean I don't once I actually look at it, but like for
whatever reason just in my head since they that movie is literally the only thing
I know about goblins. That's it. So it's not much to go on.
So do you think it's goblins? I mean, I don't, like
I'm thinking about that obviously. I don't think it's actually goblins. Okay,
but I think there was some story a while back about I think it was
a government agency was trying to destabilize an area and there was a myth in
the area about vampires or something, and so okay, no, no,
no, no, no, no, remember know what I'm talking about.
I know because I like I do. I literally went through the entire thing
because it's so fascinating. So just real quick, going back to when h
under uh, when the Philippines were first brought into the world of democracy,
right, okay, So, and we wanted to control who was going to
be president in the in the US. So there was the dude we wanted
who had literally written a letter saying, Hey, if you may be president,
whatever you guys want, I'm basically your puppet, and you know,
Cia loves that stuff. And then there was the other dude, you know,
the guy from the Mountains, the you know, had the freedom fighters
and all that, and they needed to like get these freedom fighters out of
the mountains because it was it was a big problem. And the way that
they ended up doing it is they were so paranoid about this weird mountain vampire
thing which was a local legend that they went and they found near where the
where they were, and rather than fighting the rebels, they killed one of
their centuries and then hung him with bite marks and they drained his blood so
that when the guy, I guess, when the other guys came to relieve
those guards, it looked like dude had been, you know, vampired,
and they the rebels literally came down because they were they didn't want to get
eaten by the vamp right. So that's where my brain went, like,
maybe this is some sort of like CIA or leaning up where they have like
a little person division that they're dressing up like goblins that they dropped into Zimbabwe.
But then I'm like, why would we want to stabilize this police department
in Zimbabwe? But maybe just because you can, maybe you're bored and you're
like, we have this new little person division, what can we do with
them? I know, we'll drop them into Zimbabwe, and if you're part
of the new Little Person division, you're like, yes, finally some action.
Drop me in there, buddy, send me in coaching. You jump
out of the plane and you parachute in and now you're taking over the police
station. How high is the plane? I'm just for it to be uh
what, I'm gonna get so much trouble here, all right? So,
so you think it could be like one of those government use it or lose
it budget situations. Break Do you don't get that money backward in the budget?
Do you right now? You might as well use it? Do they
recruit for that? And how awkward is that? Right? Right? So
they you know, they're like on America's campus because you're not recruiting out of
the military, so you know, you're you're you're in civilian world, and
you're like, you know that person would make a really good spy goblin.
But then you have to go broach that topic and you know that individual maybe
like that's interesting. Why are you trying to recruit me for the goblin thing
and not not her over there? But what made you come over here?
Sir? It's like it could go sideways. It's not so crazy to think
that we would do something like you learn about these like weird crazy oh yeah,
you know CIA type things where it's like why would like remember they had
a plan to blow up the moon or whatever it was, and it's just
something to blow it up. They just wanted to make it. They wanted
big explosions to let the Russian snow. Remember they wanted to weaponize bats on
Japan during World War Two. Yeah, we were like five minutes from Yeah,
light everything on fire. I mean I think a lot of times they're
just there and they're just like, we're bored. What can we do today?
Let's say the goblins? Yeah all right, well yeah, no,
I guess not a lot going on. I shouldn't say, and there's there's
probably a lot going on at all all times. But this is the Goblin
Division, and so what this is a test run. That's probably what this
is. Or I mean possibly maybe they really are goblins. I've never been
Zimbabwe. I don't know. Now you're just being ridiculous, So all right,
look Ross believes in goblins. Everybody just saying goblins. It's probably the
recruiter. Maybe it's an ad, right, like maybe a Hollywood casting ad.
Oh no, you can't because the snow white with the with the dwarves.
Remember, oh man, they people are gonna be those actors. Remember
they put they wouldn't even hire them. So yeah, I think for the
CIA, at that point you realized that your your your casting calls, so
to speak, for goblins is probably gonna be well received. It could be
an inside job like trying to boost tourism Goblin enthusiasts. Well, why do
people go to like say Romania, like Transylvania, Why do you go there?
They have a big hot springs there it became vampires, Stracula or you
want to go there. Maybe they're just trying to be the Goblin capital of
the world and people come here and spend all their money. Yeah. No,
the southern part of the country is like crazy hot springs and stuff,
but which I didn't know. I did that, yes, But then the
other stuff is, you know, you want to get eaten by Dracula or
flat or whatever. I understand. So so yes that and dude, if
you ever go to like Ireland haunted haunted castle and church stuff is I would
shake that out Free Town, scot One and I've done all the one I
remember I was at the one where like the one of the actors was kind
of like injured by the way that the uh the kid. The kids reacted
to that because they have like some of them have like actors along the way
for jump scares and like it's it was the whole thing. But you know,
Marky and I love doing those like sort of ghost walk things. They're
fun. Yeah, yeah, we've done one of a few times done in
Wilmington and oh yeah so much. This is before Lincoln was born and we
got to there's a point you get to where it's like it's an old gallows
where east of the gallows, and they talk about how like the first time
we went there, the dude is like, sometimes we come here and people
get suddenly really nauseus and sick and they have to sit down, and that's
because they're possessed by the people that were hung in the gallows. We're standing
now is this is where the gallows was. So the second time we did
the tour, as soon as we start walking in an area, I'm like,
oh, I'm not feeling good. Oh my god, and I like
sat I'm like he's like, oh, what's going on. I'm like,
oh my god, I feel sick. I feel so cold. Did you
sit right where the gallow was? Like if they're if they it was still
up, you'd be in a rope right. Oh yeah, the guy was
so freaked out. Dude, you reverse who knowed the tour guide. Let's
see, all right, the CIA guys trying to spend their money with goblins.
I'm I'm fully entrenched in this. A little bit of a sensey humor.
Oh that's amazing. All right, Well there you go. See look
at that all the goblin news. Uh. Fit for your weekend. We
have it for you right here on the cac O Day radio program. All
right, coming up, Uh, we have an update to a story that
we did out of Texas where we learned what patina was it? Patina right?
Patina is the stuff that's on antiques. Yeah, yes, stuff you
don't want to take off because it takes away the value. If I learned
how different pawn stars that's it. Because people come in and they're like,
oh, I had this ancient knife from you've lad the impale or whatever,
and you're, yeah, I cleaned it all off so I could sell it.
And they're like, dude, you just screwed yourself over so worth like
nothing now. But we'll remind you what we learned here. What it was
a couple of months ago when the story first broke we got we got an
update to it where we all learned where the petina comes from, or at
least it's a theory, might come from goblins. Don't know, but we'll
let you be the judge. And uh, the the the parade saga in
the city of Raleigh continues, and uh, it's just it just the absurdity
of all of this and that it likely will end up exactly as it was
and it could have been without government ego having to involve themselves. It's just
so it's so frustrating and depressing when it all finally pans out. Plus,
we'll talk about the President's visit to Normandy coming up next here on the CaCO
Day Radio program. Coming up on the show Reminder eighth five Pete Calender,
he'll join us and lots we got oodles to get into. Okay, and
I'll probably put more a little more of the Normandy discussion there, but I
do have to hit the highlights. But first I have to say this,
and it's there's there's like a weird. I'm gonna make it. I'll even
make a reference here that Ross will enjoy. There's like this weird bored style
organism of Twitter accounts that all do the same thing and then all like feast
upon each other right where they all they all have the same content, they
all immediately post it. They all have the same take, they're cross linked.
They post, they'll post links to their own stuff within the comments of
other other people's posts that have the same content. And it's a lot of
like big conservative pundit accounts that have this is how they've transitioned to monetization.
And it's dumb. And I find myself unfollowing accounts that I previously had followed
because they would they would post stuff up. But now none of it's useful,
none of it's none of it's unique and interesting. It's just bad.
Yeah, I've noticed that too, and it annoys me. It's so it's
so annoying because when news breaks, I tend to do this thing, which
is the you do too, I think, where it's the exact opposite of
what they want you to do. Now, So a new story story will
break and they want you to post some immediately or talk about it or have
a take or tell people what's going on. But a lot of the times,
right you don't know, and you need to sit back and wait and
form an opinion that's actually based on what's happening and not just the immediacy of
the time. Or I find myself posting things to clarify because I recognize,
here's the thing. Joe Biden didn't almost poop himself yesterday. Okay, did
you watch the video that is roughly even just two seconds longer of what was
going on with him in that weird kind of lean back squat position. What
was going on there is dude starts to sit down because he's because and this
is the deal, there is literal cognitive stuff going on there, or he
got confused with it. There's other stuff to talk about. He did that
half getting ready to sit thing where his wife went it's not time to sit
yet. And if you watched any video that was longer than the one that
was shared by all of those accounts, just to everyone making poop jokes all
that, perhaps you'd realize how dumb that was. Okay, and it ignores
the bigger problems, is the point that I make. I saw all of
the posts yesterday about that, I say, poop in his pants. And
you know, I'm not a fan of Joe Biden at all, worst president
in my lifetime. Can't stand the man. I think he's evil. But
I'm seeing all the posts. But I didn't actually watch the video until this
morning, loading it right, and now I'm hearing the sound and it's in
context, and I'm seeing what's going on in the music fades. And as
the music fades, he goes to sit down, but then it's not over
because there's a big pause between the music fading and the guy talking yeah,
And I'm like, he's looking for a chair or he's looking for some way
to sit down or something, but I don't he's doing the thing that you've
done at church and your wife sits you on the shoulder for now. Does
that detract from the fact that he like his interaction with McCrone, the way
that he exits a stage at a moment's notice, Like it's that there's so
much there there. Yeah, the dude is gone, Like you can see
the interactions between him and macrone, and it's just like or him getting out
of the yeah, you know, the car and looking away and he's he's
gone. It's sad man, it's elder abuse. But like for every one
of those accounts and every one of those folks and the and they'll justify and
they go, well, look this is what they did. You're absolutely right.
It is what they did to Trump one thousand percent. But you know
what, now, I don't buy now when you post stuff, I don't
buy what you're saying. I'm done. I'm going to or I'm going to
automatically assume there's a longer video. And you know what, it wasn't easy
finding a video that was just three seconds longer that clearly showed that in context,
not when the flurry of everything that was coming out, And it frustrated
me so much because I gotta I've got enough stuff that I'm fishing through and
trying to put together so that it can be on the show. And I
want to understand it and make sure that we have you know, audio that
we can we can utilize and and and now I'm I have to dig through
this because people who would tell you that they are a fairer arbiter of information
than you know that the CNN maggots are are squandering it. So they can
make poop jokes once a month. It's it's baffling to me, absolutely baffling.
But to Ross's point, when he's dealing with macrons and he's randomly telling
him that his advanced team says he has to leave first, and and don't
even get me wrong, there's also something about literally ditching your allies on the
beaches of Normandy. But you can make all these intellectual or fun, little
history nerd kind of pun jokes, but the reality was everything looked awkward over
there yesterday. There were dudes that are over one hundred years old. They
were actually on that beach right, yes, yes, yes, who were
where they needed to be when they needed to be. We're having conversations coherently
doing interviews caz O Day radio program. Ross and I just banging through important
Goblin news this morning. See important Goblin news. Cricket, yes, the
sport. No, we still don't know how to play it, but apparently
we stuck it right in Pakistan's face yesterday, so a lot of people very
excited about that. And uh oh yeah, the president was over in Normandy
trying to run away from the French president, getting getting down onto the lower
beach road there where if you ever go to visit any of that area,
remember it was the the the landing. The beaches that that the Allies decided
to take were more than just the ones that the US was involved with,
the Canadians, the Brits, any of it. There was a whole host
of beaches, a whole host of fascinating interesting stories that frankly, I saw
one of those men on the street things where they were asking people under the
age basically college age, what what D Day was? And oh boy,
so you know that exists out there, and I'm so glad that we see
it highlighted. Obviously extra extra highlight this time around, because we love numeracle,
we love round numbers when celebrating anniversaries, so that's fine. Unfortunately,
I'm sitting there and I'm trying to get a scope of, you know,
everything that's going on, how this event go. There's a lot, a
lot of pageant, a lot of ceremony. Sometimes it's the President, sometimes
it's first Ladies. Sometimes it's this weird Camilla, you know, yes,
that Camilla and the French First Lady try wanting to hold hands but not wanting
to hold hands, and some weird things like there's there's all there's the there's
the reason that you're there, and then there's all the ancillary stuff that happens
and instead, well, I'm trying to digest little bits that are going on.
Everything is just Biden pooped himself and I don't know, I just kind
of lost my crap yesterday, no pun intended, but I understand it's there,
so uh, with that in mind, was it a good look?
No? No, And there's things that are just unnecessary to have him do.
That's the other part of this. It's like some of its unforced air
stuff. I don't know, maybe the big maybe it's like a big reverse
psychological thing. So now I'm more upset with the fact that Twitter is,
uh the the former news accounts on Twitter have become echo chambers and they're all
fine with that. And then I don't know, maybe I spend less time
breaking down what matters, but I didn't because that's where we went first.
And I would encourage you to look at it and ask yourself if if that's
the best look for the US, And then remember that anything that was said
by Donald Trump over there turned into the Atlantic story. Remember right, it
was during Trump's visit and the cancelation of one event that was it was supposed
to be an outdoor event, and then obviously it was gonna pour it.
They were gonna pour rain, and Trump did not take part in one event
out of like eighteen and then he hated the troops, and then the Atlantic
piece came out where he was telling everyone I was there that they're losers and
suckers. And then that's where we get that. And of course there's nobody's
ever on the record as being the source on that. It's anonymous. Even
though the writer said that he would, he would, you know, have
receipts. No receipts ever emerged. But it became one of the off repeated
talking points the good people on both sides suckers and losers, if if if
they're willing to do that level of analysis and really hit Jobbery over there,
and the conservative pundits on Twitter think it's funny that it's it's far funnier in
a serious manner. I just want to point this as one thing. If
you want to make a meme, and it's clear you all, you know,
oh, shouldn't trust a fart, you know, something like that,
right, But that's not what was going on. People were serious, and
then when you're serious, you're not serious because you're not serious about the things
that are important that stick, that that will resonate with people, because within
a half second, if people research that video more, they lose. You
lose all your credibility. Not that the dude who wrote the article in The
Atlantic with that had credibility, but within the sphere he's hoping to influence,
he did, and it was influential enough that now every lawmaker in wanting to
insult Donald Trump on the military front because there, you know, their records
sucks so much. That's their go to. All Right, I promise I'm
done ranting about that, but you get it, You get where the frustration
lies. All right, let me pivot over some other stuff and I'll lose
my mind on that for a while. Okay, all right, very good.
So a long road to apparently get where we're going to be going with
this. I'm referring, of course, to the parade rules in the city
of Raleigh, right, so jump back with me. Twenty twenty two Raleigh
Christmas Parade. Eleven year old Haley Brooks was struck and killed by a truck
while dancing, as you know, in the parade. Following her death,
the city of Raleigh moved to cancel future parades, and it was almost immediately
by her parents, an issue that became a passion project, and understandably so.
Where the family in their grieving, they took their time there, but
also they wanted to get proactive, and to do that they worked with lawmakers.
They worked with folks at the General Assembly, and what they attempted to
do was to craft a bill that had some parameters that if you wanted to
have a parade, these are the requirements you had to meet. And then
those parameters, cities could utilize them for permitting purposes, maybe throwing some of
their own stuff they wanted to, but there would be more stringent safety records,
the age of drivers in parade settings, the age of vehicles, you
know, the mechanical checks, insurance, liability, all of this stuff.
And I remember we went through the list. Seem mostly pretty reasonable. Some
of it I would need explain to me because of the technical side of it.
But the point was, like this was this was taking this tragedy and
attempting to do something with it, and then all of a sudden we get
this weird. Nah, we're just gonna not let you do parades, or
then we'll let you do them. But you can't have vehicles and stuff in
the parades, which obviously is you know, you have vehicles to pull,
floats to pull, some large equipment, some pieces of equipment like old fire
trucks and stuff, right are hallmarks of parades. And it was it was
presented in a manner, and I think this is important to remember. It
was presented in a manner, and we immediately called it out here on the
show that the cancelation of the Raleigh Christmas Parade was somehow what the family wanted,
and it clearly wasn't, and it was. It was one of these
scumbaggiest things you could do as a politician is to take your unpopular position.
One I still cannot wrap my head around you wanting to make right where you're
just like, hey, you know what, maybe tomorrow let's cancel Christmas parade.
Huh yeah, yeah, they'll love that. But to take an unpopular
position like that, an attempt to hang it on the family of a dead
eleven year old girl, was horrific and I and we called it out,
and we called it out so much that it became obvious that they were responding
to that. The mayor of Raleigh was responding to that because I hope she
heard about it from everybody. Yo, I can't believe you just did that.
You need to say something. So then they tried to soft pedal it,
and then they came up with this whole no vehicles, We're gonna slow
roll this, and the whole thing was baffling and frustrating and scummy and nasty
and not at all what Christmas is supposed to be about, whether you celebrated
from the religious perspective of the non religious. It ain't it, chief,
And we've expended a lot of energy on this for it to now end up
here. Vehicles may be allowed again in the Raleigh Christmas Parade and other Raleigh
parades. Remember the Veterans Parade was impacted, and there was one other they
were permitting. I can't remember what it was, but so it's not just
a Christmas parade. But vehicles may be allowed again in the Raleigh Christmas Parade,
according to recommendations by city staff. Oh that was the other folks they
tried to blame too. Sorry, I got to move forward or I'll just
backtrack into infinity with these people. Let's see here. On Thursday, a
city spokesman for Let's See City spokesman said that special Events staff met with parade
organizers to review the city's protocol surrounding motor rise parades. Oh okay. Among
the new recommendations that will be shared with the city council next week, staff
will recommend allowing vehicles to return to the events. The recommendations would come with
safety checks within thirty days of the event, assessments of the vehicles, breaks,
tires, lights, horn, the missions, registration, you name it
here. Let me save you the read. Ninety nine point nine percent of
what I'm reading here are exactly exactly what the family was looking for. But
also we're specifically included in the Raleigh Christmas Parade proposal that was eighty six,
right, So the parade organizers themselves suggested they implement this stuff. So now
here we are a year later and your overlords within the city, you're going
to go, hey, you know what, we looked at it, and
here's what we think we should you know, should happen. Because this is
what we do. We're so good at this. We got all the answers,
and here is exactly the thing that everyone said they wanted to do,
and we said it and canceled the parade over like that is what is so
frustrating about this. This all, this is, this is all exactly how
it would be if that proposal had just been accepted. Everybody went about their
business with the new parameters, the new safety stuff. They never would have
missed the parade. There never would have been this controversy. And it's it.
It is a capper to one of the dumbest non issues that became an
issue I've ever seen in the in the world of unforced airs and unnecessary bureaucratic
hold ups. And that is exactly what this is looking like it'll be.
And it is exactly as I predicted. I said, this is where we'd
end up. This is where we're going to end up and to this day,
and I just I have to know whatever it is, I have to
know what was the goal was? What were you wanting to accomplish? Mayor
and council members And yeah, that's right, you council members who sat there
too and did nothing. What was the goal here? To irritate as many
people as possible? And then accomplish nothing. I so what was it?
Because some people speculate it was this weird crackdown that we saw in some cities
where they just didn't like Christmas parades. They wanted holiday or seasoned greetings or
you know, one of these other softer words that they use in many cases,
like in the city of raleighs to change something that has been called something
for eighty years and is clearly not religious, core religious thing. If you've
ever been to the Christmas parade, no, you know what it was.
It was a flex that's my guess. It was a flex. Hey,
we're the ones in charge. We're gonna do what we're gonna do. What
do you think of that? Which is the pettiest of reasons, If in
fact that's what it was. I guess the timeline they're gonna present it next
week, and if approved within the current timeline, then it should allow parades,
the current crop of veterans and Christmas and others to go ahead and get
their certification and get working on their respective parades. But not before we did
all this dumb We did all this dumbness. I don't know why we we're
gonna do all this and come out exactly the same. It is. It
is just the dumbest stuff on the planet. All right, coming up,
we got to we got to update you on the story out of Texas.
If you guys like antiquing, you're not gonna want to miss this, okay.
And a streamer is in a little bit of hot water for I don't
know something I think the founding fathers probably could have envisioned. We'll give you
that story, and Pete Calender joins us at eight oh five phone number eight
eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Hang on to that and
we'll be back here on the CaCO Day Radio program. Ross's right, do
the live the live read right the promo copy? Okay, all right,
I just want to make normal because normally we don't do the do the live
read here. Let me go ahead and do this all right, Sorry,
but hey, we got to pay the bills to so eighty years ago today,
thousands of Americans fought to protect democracy on the shores of Normandy. But
this November, all you have to do is tune in to the Haze for
Sheriff Twitch Channel today's sponsor. There we go. So did that feel scummy?
Because that should have felt scummy. See what happened there is somebody took
what happened eighty years ago and is arguably one of the most important historical events
that feeds into the current status makeup, geo political setup of the world in
which we live. Okay, right, things could be so fundamentally different if
not for the just the the insanity of it. Your copy would be in
German, yes, yes, it would. You know, it would be
man in high Castle esque at the very least, might be in Japanese.
I'm just saying so, don't know. And and this whole exercise is not
to promote Ross's twitch channel. He would never use what happened in Normandy to
do that. It is to highlight the absurdity of Hillary Clinton doing that yesterday.
And she wasn't the only one. Now. Actually, what she wrote
is eighty years ago today, thousands of brave Americans fought to protect democracy on
the shores of Normandy this November. All we have to do is vote.
I e. Hey, you know your grandfather and his seventeen year old buddies.
All they had to do is try to storm those pill boxes on the
beach of Omaha and uh and and many didn't even make it to the beach
because they they exited the landing craft trying to dive away from the hail of
bullets, and the equipment that they were wearing even drug them down, as
as the rest. We were cut through and in one of the bloodiest days
of fighting in modern war. But all you gotta do is just don't vote
for Trump Man. And then to put that out on on on the anniversary,
just the goal, and then to turn the comments off on top of
it. Oh, it'll make it, just make your head explode every day
with something new, And maybe that's the goal. Maybe they've determined the only
way that they're going to salvage this is to make us all be that dude
on stage and the movie Scanners. Well, what I mean, what's the
what's the other alternative day? Watching that yesterday? And I know that this
turns into a tired conversation, but every day I am more and more convinced
there is zero chance that we see Joe Biden and Donald Trump on a debate
stage, and there is quickly approaching a zero percent chance that Joe Biden is
the Democrat nominee on the ballot in November. You're gonna have to help me
out here how we're going to get there. And that's a problem. That's
a problem for Republicans. You know, a lot of people think they're gonna,
you know, stick try to get a Michelle Obama on there, and
that's a thing that could happen, and that's h you know, and maybe
it's too far gone for that to work, but that could alleviate some folks.
But every day are more convinced that at least one, if not both
of those things are are are true. The debate stuff. I still there's
no way I see that happening. And maybe I'm wrong. It's fine.
I'm not always right. The debates happen, they're going to have to have
them so jacked up on uppers, Dude, I have to come in with
an IV. Yeah, but it would be to the point where it would
be so obvious that it's now injurious. I mean it was obvious during the
State of the Union, though, it was, but there was enough side
you know, there's enough side stuff going on. You know, people with
the with their fake balloons they're carrying around and screaming stuff. And you're right,
especially if they want it to be the way they have it set up
and no audience, no audience, and you're it. You're the only show
in town on the debate stage. I don't get it. If anything,
you'd want to hold that thing in the middle of you know, like a
soccer riot, right, because you'd be like, well, look, he
was distracted by the soccer rioters, right, So you know you can't you
can't judge what was going on, but you're you're eliminating all the other side
stuff. Hey, the only thing you're going to be left with is,
holy hell, that guy's in charge of something absolutely wild. Speaking of wild,
how many of you, especially this time of the year, right when
we're back in the you know, the traditional North Carolina bust out, do
something for the weekend, go to the beach, go to the mountains.
Kind of season. Great season around North Carolina, so many cool places to
explore. How many of you liked to antique? Well, guy down in
Texas, who also was a kilt enthusiast, found himself at the center of
a story we talked about when it initially happened. Here was the allegation.
Basically, a dude in a kilt, big dude too. He's like six
' six six' seven, this is in Houston, rolled into a couple
of different antique stores and uh, according to well, store clerks proceeded to
grab various small antiques and smuggle them or shoplift them, or attempt to.
And he didn't have pockets on the kilt, I say, like a Duffel
bag or some He did not have a duffel bag. In fact, he
was one of the very slightly dressed here support backpacks or some. No,
he's clearly clearly not wearing a background like a plastic bag like from Target or
whatever. I don't know what was under his kilt. I just know stuff
was disappearing there. Ah and uh. When confronted, explained to the explaining
of the officers, he did not know how a hold on. Let me
give you the list. An antique bottle opener, a tobacco tent can.
What else did he have here? Was it a small it's like a small
vase looking thing, a makeup brush kit all ended up basically in his prison
wallet. Everything is bigger in Texas, yes, including the storage space and
an antique bottle opener. How many sharp edges are on that? So?
Yeah, according to police, vest that's the guy's name, visited one store
and where he acquired the makeup brush kit and the small vase, put them
there, and then I guess there was a second there's a couple of these
little antique stores right next to each other. Then went to the next store,
and that's where he acquired the tobacco tent can, the antique bottle opener.
Toerty say, he placed them directly into his storage unit underneath the green
kilt. However, then returned the items to the shelf. And don't know
if it's because he thought, Oh, I wonder if they saw me do
that. But according to these store folks, the items were tainted and I
had to be disposed of. And then I and then that was the day
we figured out that that was what Bettina was. Maybe because I don't know.
I've watched The American Pickers a couple times. They used the term antiques
road show. They loved the term. So, dear God, I hope
that's not what it actually is. Well, here's your update. Apparently he
did steal them. Yes, yes, he's now decided to plead and said
that he did in fact put the items there, but did not intend to
steal them, just try them out. I guess I don't know. Is
that like, is that like eating a grape in the produce section? Just
one, just because you want to see how the grapes taste. But technically
it's stealing. I don't know. But that's good because there's too many of
these stories where people are like, oh, no, I don't know how
the and then insert whatever horrific object it is, I don't know how that
got there. Well, it turns out that sometimes they do, in fact
know how it got there. So yeah, by the way, dudes rich
too, which is kind of crazy in this story. So this is this
is not him stealing defeat his family. This is his jam, which what
must his wife think? Right, he's getting ready to leave, He's wearing
that kilt. It's clear there's nothing underneath. Wife's like, what are you
doing? He's like, I'm going antiquing, Like she has to assume he's
cheating on her, right, but he wasn't. Well, unless you consider
an seek can openers something you can cheat with. So there you go.
Update to that fun story seven forty five. Let's get an update to your
weather. Jeff maher here, Hey, Jeff's what's going on today? Sir,
looking good, looking good. As far as the weekend forecast, I
know you're happy to hear that. So yeah, it usually Ray screws it
up with rain. Well, we're getting rain, should be we should hold
off until Sunday night. So I think most of the weekend's going to shape
up to be very nice if you have some outdoor activities lined up, and
certainly nice today as you make your way out drive this morning. A Sunday
afternoon, eventually up to eighty nine for the high with a light reason from
the west and clear overnight as we drop to sixty three around eighty seven for
a high. Tomorrow will be another Sunday afternoon, a Sunday, breezy Sunday
with a high climbing in the low nineties. Then a few showers and thunderstorms
may develop on Sunday night before dryer weather into Monday afternoon. Okay, all
right, we'll talk one more time in an hour, sir, Thank you,
you got all right? There you go. Jeff Maher from the Weather
Channel. Reminder, Pete calendar, he's coming up. He'll join us in
about twenty minutes. In the interim, I got a couple quick stories.
We got to chat about, including a oh mission impossible reference. Don't want
to miss it. It's next hang on. Yeah, we got Pete calender,
he'll calender, he'll kick off the next hour with us. But first,
a couple of other things I got to tell you about how bad is
it getting in Oakland? Well, let me give you a little backstory and
then i'll give you the current story. So we had about a month ago.
Two months ago, you had remember the in and out burger that closed.
They made the decision we're done. It was the first time they had
literally closed an in and out burger. It was a big deal. And
the reason was people were getting robbed at the drive through every time they went
to the drive through, so people would go, they'd want to get a
burger. They ended up closing the inside of the restaurant first, right because
they were, you know, robbing the restaurant. And then they made it
purely a drive through. So what did thieves do? They just waited for
folks who are now because you're you're kind of encumbered in most drive throughs,
right once you've you know, you know a lot of drive throughs. Once
you've made that turn into the order window between there and getting out. A
lot of times you're not in a position to be able to get your vehicle
out, especially if they got one of those uh like the like the McDonald's,
Uh the McDonald's closest to my house has Once you've made that turn,
they have like a they have a concrete wall on the right side of you
as well, So you got the building and the windows on the left,
but they have it on the right as well, And it's just because of
the way it butts up on the property line there. I remember, once
you're in that, you're in there. I used to drive like a piece
of crap car and it was always terrified that it would die in the drive
It like the drive what do you do? Then? No, you just
you get out. You literally like my car is dead and everyone still hates
you, right, and you still got to deal with it. So so
thieves saw this and they were just like we got them, and then they
would just rob people in the drive through. So in an outside we're done
right, okay. And then a week after they closed, middle of the
day, a news crew showed up to do a story about that because now
they had the information as to why they closed it and they're they're literally setting
up and what do you think happened? They robbed the news crew, Of
course they did, and they beat the crap out of two of them.
So just h all right, So new problem. Also, the City of
Oakland, like any other city, you gotta you gotta, you gotta take
care of the roads. That involves, you know, stripping them down,
repaving them, fixing potholes, doing all the stuff. Well, now,
contractors in East Oakland say they're done. In fact, several paving projects which
are already underway, sit abandoned after Cruise decided it wasn't financially worth it,
even though they had contracted with the city. Contractor and worker union reps saying
the city is not doing enough to provide a safe working environment because their road
crews keep getting robbed while they're repaving the roads. So they just walked and
there's a whole lot more there. But that's you know, that's the gist
that you need right there. And now they're in negotiations to try to figure
out, well, what are we going to do? I don't know,
maybe there's you know, where they're working. Maybe you have a few cops
over there that do something or are enabled to do something I should say,
I don't even want to put it on the patrol officers. You've scared off
construction workers and if they're not being robbed. One crew has currently had to
stop work twice due to drive bys that took place within the construction zone,
which is pretty crazy. You do six over in a construction zone in North
Carolina, they'll damn near take your license. Oakland, you could do a
drive by wild times man, And speaking of wild times, is anything real?
In China? Fresh off faking red pandas a few other things, it's
now come to light that the tallest waterfall under interrupted waterfall in China called judent
Thai Mountain, which was said to be a one thousand foot drops and foot
high. In fact, the photos are crazy cool looking. I mean,
it's just absolutely beautiful. If you're into waterfalls, it's a it's a very
nice looking one. Well, somebody climbed it, you're not supposed to,
and they determined that it is not in fact a natural waterfall. It's a
pipe that is installed one thousand feet up a cliff side that they just pump
water through to create a tourist attraction. To digest the week. That was
we welcome in our radio buddy to the South Pete calendar Middays WBT Pete.
How you doing, buddy? Hey, I'm doing all right. How are
you, Kasey? I'm pretty good. You know, I have my little
roundabout of North Carolina TV stations and newspapers. I'm sure you do too,
where you just kind of check on the regular, make sure you got all
the news for your show. Right. Yeah, And I'm noticing something down
the Shark Way. I feel like I nagged in on this. Can we
come down and I'll what we'll do is you get a station vehicle. I'll
get a station vehicle. And I want to what a station one of your
one of your station vehicles. You guys have station vehicles there at your radio
station that you use for like promotions and appearance and stuff. Yeah, we'll
say sure, okay, yeah, we'll go with yes. Well, I
don't this is this is the easy part. Well, well it's difficult because
as a you know, a news talk station, I can tell you we
we we did have two vehicles that were news gathering vehicles. I used to
drive them when I was a reporter twenty years ago. Right, they don't
run anymore. No, they don't run anymore. All right, Well,
promotions may have one. I don't know. Oh right, I think they've
got like one van for all of the stations. Van's gonna be great.
All right, Okay, here's the deal. Grab whatever you want. I
want to I didn't know you could do this in the city of Charlotte.
I'm really I want to take over an intersection and just do downuts. So
yeah, that's a thing. Huh. Apparently so well, a couple of
years if it well, maybe now like five or six, maybe ten.
How to remember it used to be cruising. People used to get in their
cars and yeah they would they would drive really really really slowly through the center
of uptown Charlotte. And apparently that has now been replaced with the quote unquote
takeovers, where a whole bunch of people coordinate on social media. They gather
usually a very large intersection, you know, in the horror of uptown,
when you've got like three or four lanes coming in in each direction, so
it's a really fat, wide intersection, and then they just start doing burnouts
they call them, you know, where they squeal their tires and burn rubber,
and then they doughnuts all over the place. Although there is I saw
that down in Florida, there is a real risk. I mean not aside
from like the you know injuring people or you know, destroying public property or
anything like that or wrecking your cars. All that's not a problem. The
real issue, though, is down in Florida they had a rainbow painted on
the crosswalk for ye evil young person in a black pick them up truck.
Yeah, yeah, I saw that. Yeah, they did the burnouts on
the on the rainbow on the intersection on the road. I mean, yes,
it's road in the thoroughfare, right, so they and but they did,
but they did it on top of the painted rainbow. And which by
the way, I object to the idea that that's a mural. It's not
a mural. It's just paint right on the road. It's just especially yeah,
it's just it's just like a series of lines. They're just different colors,
just like a crosswalk has lines, right, but they're just different colors.
So whatever, and not a mule. So they did the burnouts and
now they're like wanted on like felony, hate crime charges or something down in
Florida. So we don't have that law as I understand it here in North
Carolina. But I thought that that could be a solution for the city and
the police who are trying to crack down on this kind of behavior. And
if we just painted every single intersection with some sort of you know, appropriate
intersectionality logo, then you raise the you raise the punishments. You know.
Well, can I, oh, I hate to do this. Can I
point out a little flaw on your logic? I mean, is there one
a right? Well, you tell me. Let me. Let me offer
it up. What I'm seeing when it comes to these takeovers, which by
the way, I've seen quite a few of them where people like to play
tag with cars. I assume that's what they're doing. Yeah they're cars.
Yeahs back end of the car slides around and just slams a dude into uh
next Wednesday. I've noticed they don't want to break those up or they wouldn't
last for hours, right, wouldn't that be the case? So if you
already for whatever reason, and it's not just in the city of Charlotte,
but like you see these takeovers in places, and these they go on for
a long time. Right, there's a hundred plus people in some instances,
the ones in like Stockton, Oakland area are bonkers. And if you,
for whatever reason don't want to go in there and actually make a rest and
enforce the law and stop people from doing that, then adding an extra piece
in there almost seems like overkilled. Do you know what I'm saying? If
if, if you don't want to bust in the first place, it doesn't
it doesn't. It doesn't matter how many laws you don't charge them with,
is the point that I'm making. If you don't charge them, well that's
fair. But so state the state lawmakers made and made an adjustment that the
Charlotte Mecklenburg Police asked for, which was now they can take your car and
so asset forfeiture, like hello, these are you know these are hot rods.
I'm thinking now they want to take the cars. This might incentivize more
Charlotte. Yeah. Well, Charlotte Mecklbert police they they have made this a
priority targeting this kind of behavior. They really have. They've been trying to
crack down on it. Unfortunately, these things they pop up very quickly and
they're very far away from police headquarters, like three or four blocks, so
they can't ever get there in time. And so they they've said they've made
a priority and they have made some arrest although no can I think there was
one guy who pleaded guilty so far all of the others either want to quittle
or the DA's drop the charges. And and that's you know, that's the
DNA side of the equation. What if they had faster cars to get from
the police station to where it's going on, you know, three or four
blocks away, right, speeding up response time. I don't know anytime.
I but here's a problem. Anytime I hear asset forfeiture, I I get
a little cringey. Man, So no, I do too. But like
that's an incentive, you know for stepped up enforcement, is that you guys
in the department could now get a whole bunch of sweet rides, you know,
so that might that might prompt more, you know, more crackdown behavior.
But here's what trigger though, What triggers what? Well? What what
if you let's say you're running late to your show or whatever, and you
do a little uh, you know, you get a little loose in the
corner coming into work, and the cop just really wants to stick it to
you. I mean feasibly could he be like, you know, technically you're
doing this and now your vehicle's mine. Right, This is where I get
nervous on the asset, profrac Yeah, No, I think there's got to
be some some there's got to be like video. Well, first off,
nobody's really getting convicted of it, so there's that. But the other is
that, uh there. I think you've got to have some other elements at
play, you know, in the trial, you would have to have some
elements there, like a mob of people that all descended on an intersection at
the same time, videotaping and so there's you know, video evidence of you
just you know, spinning around in circles for a good thirty to forty five
seconds that kind of thing. What about the ones that are not on the
city streets, that are doing it in the damn interstate m because that's a
thing, that's literally a thing that's happening. Yeah, So I think maybe
the answer here is more drag strips. If we were just like when I
was growing up, and not even when I was a kid, but when
I was older, there were drag strips all over the place, and people
would race on the drag strips. They would go down there and race cars
and stuff. So maybe we do more of those, but I don't know,
I don't know if you ever stopped this kind of behavior as long as
you've got uh, you know, particularly young men that are able to get
souped up cars, and young men have been able to do that since the
car was invented. And so, I mean, I remember I grew up
on Long Island. There's a road called Deer Park Avenue or the DPA whatever,
and people would race on certain stretches of this road because it was long,
flat, straight and uh two lanes wide and so and there was for
some reason, I don't know who did it, but there was a line
painted right across part of the road, and so you would see all these
burnt you know, these you know, peel out marks, all these burnt
rubber right around that line, and people would race from that line all the
way to a stop stop light about you know, a mile or so up
the road. Yeah, we had, we had. It was called the
pipes for us. It was just out of town and it is these two
massive the the pipes actually transport green oil. They're part of a larger pipeline
system but here where that was. They actually go above the road and they
are exactly three quarters of a mile apart, and so if somebody wanted to
race, they go go to the pipes, Like like, I get that,
but you took it out of town kind of things. So I I
don't know, man, just crazy, But no, it didn't. There
was some incidents anyway, can I can? I want to your your guys
on the Twitter a lot, and I kind of lost my stuff yesterday.
I'm getting I hate new Twitter. Why. I hate you know why because
you have this this cabal of all of these the formerly were like pundits,
right, you know, there were Twitter pundits that were on there. I
don't want to say they were there for the love of the game, but
there there would be uniqueness in some variety. And now because of the way
that you know, people want to monetize and I understand that, it's it's
just it's the the echo chamber in the realm of breaking news is so thick,
and it's so hard to kind of like manage your way out of there
to try to find more unique stuff. Case in point, yesterday, I'm
sitting down and I'm like, I want to go through and I want to
see all of the little elements of the Normandy visit so I can figure out
what I want to talk about on the show, what we want to pull
audio from. And I can't because everybody who everybody wants to make Biden poop
jokes okay, and the and that the problem is is if you watch a
version of the video that's not the one that was reposted by the same conservative
pundits a thousand times within like two minutes yesterday, you would term and that
Joe Biden, clearly, while still being incredibly confused, did the thing that
you've done or I've done where you go to sit down and your spouse is
like, yeah, it's not time to sit yet, right, he did
that thing. That thing is not the thing. The thing is him with,
you know, running away from McCrone and like all the weirdness that was
there and it all gets buried by stupid Biden poop stuff. And I don't
know why it irritates me so much, but I don't feel it's as good
of an environment for finding at least nuanced differences and stories. Don't get me
wrong, it's far better on the censorship side, But don't I don't know.
There's just something about it that SAPs my soul and my time. What
do you think? So I gotta tell you I have largely been unaffected by
all of the changes and the censorship and all of that. And I've been
on Twitter since two thousand and nine. Yeah, I have been largely unaffected
because I utilize a function that Twitter has available called lists. And if you
create lists, then you get to mask a lot of the garbage that you're
talking about. So for and by the way, you can subscribe to my
list for free. You just you look at my profile and they'll say lists
or whatever. You click on that and you'll see the lists I've created that
are at least for public view. And one of the lists I have is
called Influence. And there's only about one hundred twenty or so people that are
on that list and ross me and who else, Yeah, a bunch of
other people. Totally, You're on the list, I'm sure. And so
those are the And so then I have tweet deck, right, which is
right, And so I can stack up these different columns and so I've got
one for notifications, but more important to that, have one for that that
influenced list. So that one's always moving North Carolina politics hashtag. Right,
I have a list for that, So that's created in uh in the tweet
deck, and so I see what I want to see, and now it's
on me to uh populate my lists with enough of a broad stroke of enough
people that I'm getting sort of an accurate read on what's occurring. So that's
how I and that that that drives a lot of UH of how I go
about starting research on a particular story. Because I saw, yes, I
saw the poop jokes, but I only saw a couple of them. But
I knew when I saw a couple of them, I knew, like,
this is obviously all over the place among the cat turn brigade. You know,
I have no doubt that this is what everybody is focusing on, even
though it's very clear. Like you said, he goes to sit down because
he knew he had to sit down, but he was a little early.
And then Jill, sorry doctor Jill. Yeah, she does the thing where
like you scratch the top of your lip under your nose to kind of map
the fact that you're telling him, hey, don't sit down right now,
And so she does that and he kind of freezes, and then he stands
up a little bit, and then he goes to sit down again, then
he freezes, and then he finally sits down. So he was corrected.
He had to sit down, he just didn't know exactly when. To me,
the more troubling video with him getting out of the suv, yes,
yes, that was disturbing. And anybody who has worked around people who are
in cognitive decline, they've seen that. They have absolutely seen that behavior,
and that's concerning. I saw people. We got just less than a minute,
but I saw people say what he was responding to the mood of what
he was looking at. And I have been exactly where he is, and
it is powerful, right go in and visiting Normandy and all the stuff around.
It is incredible. That wasn't it? Whatever that was was not I
was. I was rendered speechless at times and it didn't look like that.
Twice I got about fifteen seconds. I'm sorry to pinch you on this,
but it's uh, it's very frustrating. It's frustrating. Yeah, it's frustrating,
and I don't still do this day. I don't know how a debate's
gonna happen, but we can parse that next week. All right, Pete,
thank you very much, sir, Yeah, sir, have a great
weekend, and Charlotte to the burnout session. Yeah yeah, yeah, it'll
be fun. All right, Hang on, everybody, we will be right
back. The flame thrower wielding robot murder Dog. Yeah, yes, right,
we know what we're talking about. Obviously. These are discussions that we've
had on this show before. It doesn't always have a flamethrower. Sometimes it
has like an oozy and sometimes it's just gonna hunt you down. They had
the one with like with a blender mouth on it. All right, anyway,
but the flame thrower, the what is the actual name of it?
Here we go throw flame therminator, the very first robot flame thrower Murder Dog
is now on sale in the US. You can own one, that's right
by the way. It is marketed as and I just want to be clear
here and licensed as a agricultural management tool and a wildlife control tool. So
it's just it's a farm and implement is all that it is, which you
know, it's it's yes kind of you know. Controlled burns are a are
a tool within the agricultural world. That is true. So I mean I
can't argue, true, but I don't know if that's what dudes are buying
this for. How much is it? Anyway? How much is I need
to know? Why do you need? Very important? Okay, I have
to admit I was a little surprised. Was a little surprised. First,
let me tell you what it comes with, and then I'll tell you how
much it is. It's quadruped, so you know, four legs, and
it produces a thirty foot flame and is completely smartphone controllable roughly one hour of
battery life, has light our mapping onboard camera which is then fed back to
the app as part of your smart device. There, and I can do
a hell of a lot of agricultural management work or wildlife control work, all
for the low low price of nine thousand, four hundred and twenty dollars.
What was it, nine thousand, four hundred and twenty dollars, four hundred
and twenty what do you all? Right? So you know how he had
the Hayes for Shriff Lambeau for the children Fund. Yes, yes, yeah,
we had five hundred and sixty five dollars in that account. Wait I
have now I've now divested the Hayes for shriff Lambeau for the Children Fund into
the Hayes for share of flamethrower robot dog for the Children Fund. It's it's
so excited. It's it's to protect the children. It's not one of the
listed reasons here. It's probably a licensing thing. You can't say, should
I put flame on on the the graphic? Should I put the flamethrower robodog
or robot dog? Well, technically it's called throw flame therminator is the name.
I think if somebody were to stumble across the graphic, they really wouldn't
understand what that is. Whereas if they see flamethrower robot dog, it's understandable
what that is, right, yeah, or flamethrower wielding robot dog or something.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, I'm just I'm let people know
what the actual name of it is because if it's on sale and that's a
legit one, China's already got one on sale, I'm sure with some knockoff
names. I just want to be very clear. I'm I need to go
back to why is why is there five hundred and sixty dollars of donated money
in a Lambou fund when there was never going to be a lambo. Maybe
not for you, but for some of us there were there was a dream,
right, we were contributing to that dream. I see okay, and
now the dream is the kids want to see you what light? Intruders on
fire? I mean, what's the what is the where's the joy? Because
that was what the lambo was about with joy. So they'd see it drive
by and be like, wow, dreams come true for him, right,
So they's come true for me because he is a lambo. Say no.
They will see it parading through the neighborhood and they'll be like, I'm safe
as it burns the spiders the Kyle was talking about on the news that parachute
fifty feet onto your face. That's why you need Or they'll be walking down
the street and they'll see it, you know, like they'll be looking around
like, oh, look at all the houses and look at my porch and
be like, look at the flaming what is it? Yeah? Throw a
robot dog not going near that house. After you use it to lay waste
your enemies, you can use it to roast marshmallows, which I don't know
if you know this. Kids, kids lovesmores. Oh, my gosh.
Yeah, the URI, the UI, the guy, the better. Well,
I'm happy that you are contributing to the marketing and the think tank of
this endeavor. Are you going to run? Are you going to talk to
your wife before you go spend ten I'm not spending anything anything. I'm taking
donations though. Es I feel like like one day I'm going to get all
the subpoenas, just all of them, and they're gonna ask me to remember
so many things over the course of so many years. I'm not going to
be able to come up with all of it. So it'll be no more
lambo for the kids. It'll lane throw murder by the finale, like the
Seinfeld finale. Were they just going over all of its crimes? I guess
yes. I are you a little surprised. It's like the fact that it
was under ten K I was actually like, oh, yeah, completely.
I thought the number one was gonna be like super out there. Yeah yeah,
And that's you know, that's that's first year. You get some competition
in there, right, you get a few more of these, uh,
you know, being sold annually, so your production costs come down. It's
it's impressive and you can use it to light campfires in space if you're a
four hundred pound Jedi or whatever? What is go? What the hell did
you send me the other day? Yesterday? By the way, Pah,
it was a post a screenshot I saw of a new I guess character in
the Acolyte. That's one of the newest Jedi. That is an act.
That's I thought that was a joke. It's from the show. There's really
a Jedi, morbidly obese Jedi, and it's not it's not a hut you
like the job like job but no, no, no, no, it's
just it's just a fat kid from Canarsi or whatever that is supposed to be
Ah or Miss Alabama or what. I don't know what the hell is going
on. So all right, well there, I just want to I just
wanted to share the good news. And now we're into morbidly obese Jedi.
Can they still fly around with ease like we learned Yoda could? And the
weird second update movie was that a little That was a little jarring watching him
flip around to the rate that he did. But also that makes sense.
I don't know if I'm buying Butterbean doing it, but I don't know.
I guess if you're filled with the force, you can and and canoli or
whatever. So all right, so you got that, well you know what,
ross this is gonna shoot holes in uh you being able to recreate this.
YouTuber alex Choi is facing federal charges after uploading the video showing two women
shooting fireworks out of a helicopter at a lambo. Well, it's a good
thing I got out of that charity. See, I am always ahead of
the curve here, man, immediate going, you know, but this is
flaming flame. Throw a robot dog. This is where it's at for the
children. I don't know. Man, if you asked me, hey,
you want to come shoot? You ever shot something out of a helicopter?
Do you do? You honestly think I've ever been in a helicopter. Dude,
you need to shoot. You need to shoot a gun out of a
helicopter. I'm sure it would be fun if I could. If I could
make it in the air without throwing up within like twenty seconds, I'm sure
would be fun. I'm not going up into a helicopter up. Well that's
the thing too. So now the guy's charged here and it's just like well,
what you know, what what what's if it's his helicopter and his lambeau
and his fireworks and you know, his two women friends. Oh, then
shall not be infringed, right, So what what are we even doing here?
Do you do you think? Do you think the founding fathers wouldn't want
you to have her Wolf? I don't think that's true. I think if
you got I think if you got them together and got done explaining all the
stuff Airwolf can do, they're gonna be mighty impressed. But uh no,
I think they'd be cool with it. Plus they're shooting fireworks. Uh and
uh let's see here, yeah yeah yeah. The complaint uh and the arrest
weren't, which was issued just a couple of days ago, is based on
quote, the causing the placement of an explosive or incendiary device on an aircraft.
So all of that insane, that insane vision that I just laid out
for you. What they're hitting them with is bringing explosives onto an aircraft,
I e. The fireworks that were then launched out of the helicopter at the
Lambeau. So you know, why don't you do this kind of stuff on
your Twitch channel? Ross? Hmmm, I'm just you know, the bar
keeps going up and up. Man, it's hard to keep up, but
we can keep up with the weather. Jeff Barr from the Weather Channel,
he'll help us. What red blooded American doesn't want to shoot fireworks out of
a helicopter at a Lambeau? Right? Just once in life? Come on?
Yeah? I mean that. Yeah that. I wonder if it's kind
of hard to hit to the lambeau, you know, out of the helicopter.
I think it would be here. It's your moving target. Trying to
hit a moving target. I don't know if you do much shooting, but
that's now you got two really hard things to do. Yeah, crazy towns,
but I'm willing to give it a try. So is it good weather
to do that? Yeah? Absolutely, some good weather for that or anything
else that you may have lined up for the weekend. It's going to be
dry. The next chance the rain will be on Sunday evening, So the
bulk of the weekend shaping it through very nice. Today's sunny high warming to
eighty nine, a light breeze out of the west, and then clear tonight
with a low of sixty three. We should hit eighty seven with more sunshine
tomorrow, and then on Sunday we'll be sunny and hotter with some gusty winds
out of the west at a hind and low nineties. Theead a few showers
and thunderstorms to develop on Sunday night before clearing takes place into Monday, with
a high to eighty seven degrees. All right, have a good weekend,
sir, appreciate it. You got it a good one. All right,
there you go, Jeff Barr from the Weather Channel. We come back,
Jeff Bellinger. Oh all right, boy, I got nine different directions as
we could take it with a well, you know what. Stick around.
You'll find out which direction I go next. I am okay, say good
morning. The job market was much stronger than expected last month. The Labor
Department reports two hundred seventy two thousand workers were added to payrolls in May.
The nation's unemployment rate ticked up to four percent. It was a three point
nine percent in April. Average hourly earnings were up four tens percent, and
we're up four point one percent from May of last year. All of the
numbers higher than expected, and economists say this report likely pushes off the first
interest rate cut by the Fed. Futures are lower across the board right now.
S and P futures down twenty four points. Nasdaq futures are down seventy
three, the Dow futures down one hundred and forty two. Strategists the Bank
of America are not anxious for the Federal Reserve to start cutting interest rates.
Many investors have said a round of rate cuts would begin or could begin,
before there is significant harm to economic growth. The thinking at b of A
is that a cut would be the first hint of trouble for the economy,
and it could increase the chances of a hard landing. Apple has developed a
new app called Passwords. Sources say the app will make it easier for customers
to log into websites and software. The app will be unveiled Monday at Apple's
Worldwide Developers Conference, and it will reportedly be included in an upcoming operating system
update. And Casey, the commissioner of the National Basketball Association, says the
league is considering expanding Adam Silver says league officials will turn their attention to the
possibility of adding teams once they complete new deals for TV rights. Casey all
right, Hey, Jeff do you hear? The good news is a robot
dog with the flamethrower is now licensed as an agricultural tool, and you can
purchase it here in the US for just under ninety five hundred bucks. Wow,
I'll start saving up case you. Yeah, as soon as I figure
out what I'm going to use it for. But agricultural purposes, agricult Okay,
okay, okay. Thank you for take care. You do the same take care