All right, good morning and welcome. It is six oh eight Thursday,
Rossbord, damn near to two weeks buddy, oh man, so clow you
can taste it right? Oh dude, I was thinking that last night.
Dude, I can't wait do this show, do tomorrow show and then two
weeks? Ah what Yeah, we're oping somebody's did send me an email.
A few day I forgot to tell you that somebody sent me an email and
it was like, you know, it's you guys talking about taking time off
on the radio. Yeah, trillly in poor taste? Is it you sure
about that? Because how you taste delicious? Why don't you take time off?
Sir? Sounds like you need it, so yeah. Anyway, Oh
we're to start. Where to start? Where to start? You're not original
with your rest in p word hashtag, you know that, right? The
absolute mind loss that transpired yesterday following the death that at one hundred of Henry
Kissinger, every moon bat you can imagine had to put up their little hot
takes on that. And that's fine. Look, you don't have to like
Henry Kissinger. You know how I generally feel about everybody in Washington and Kissinger
from a the power has gone to their heads. Standpoint, man, he
was living right in the in peak times at least within our current era.
And uh like this dude was Secretary of State two different presidents. But also
he was at the same time for Nixon, he was National Security Advisor.
He was betting all of the top ladies of the time. Did you know
this about Henry Kissinger? By the way, what an absolute ladies man he
was. So he was he was like on par with like Ben Franklin right
where it wasn't somebody that traditionally you would think was like would get the ladies
right right right, yeah. And he said in an interview he said power
is the ultimate aphrodisiac. He's probably not wrong there, but it was who's
who? He had a bond girl he dated like he had Cannas Diane Sawyer.
Did you not know? Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Oh. The list goes on. Hold on, I gotta I saw
a list yester. Let me call this bad boy up. Oh I'm sorry.
Now the website's top story is what these jackasses did the Christmas treat.
We'll get into that, don't worry. Henry Kissinger once called Washington's greatest Swinger.
I don't think they mean it quite like that, but who knows.
All Right, here we go, Candice Bergen, Shirley McClain, Jill Saint
John, that's the Bond girl, uh Marlow, Thomas liv Oldman, Samantha
Anger, Diane Sawyer. I mean, this list is crazy. And it's
not like no offense because I'm no prize. It's not like he was robustly
good looking back in the day. He always kind of looked like Henry Kissinger.
So to his point, yeah, earning the title in nineteen seventy one
as quote Washington's top swinger, and then eventually he got me. He had
been married and then he and then he was divorced, and then he went
through his ho phase and can we use that term? I guess okay,
and then eventually he married the woman that is now his widow. So,
but also there's a lot more going on there, right, And if you
here's the deal, if you don't like Henry Kissinger, then be able to
enunciate why, and don't just go he's a murderer. I got news for
you. Basically, Basically, anyone who sits either in that highest office or
is among the most important of their staff members and cabinet appointees are probably murderers
in the sense that they've been involved in operations to kill people. You realize
that, right, Wait do you get to hear Wait till you hear what
George Washington did. It's crazy, so anyway, but you know, be
able to enunciate it. What it comes down to is, when I've seen
people have actual adult discussions about this, they're beef with Kissinger. Although I
don't think I don't feel that they I don't feel that they enunciate it correctly.
But I'll explain to you what it is Kissinger's mindset for what the Secretary
of State, and I don't just mean the individual in that job, but
what the office in and of itself should be. That is it's called what
is the trying to harken back to the time I paid attention in class?
Was it real political? Real politic? I believe is the term? All
right, So if you don't know, let me explain. Let me explain
to you how that works. Basically, the philosophy of Kissinger within that office
and really his philosophy for really what the government should do from a from a
strategic standpoint is he did not believe the Office was for grand sweeping social change,
save the world, right, and and you know, obviously you go,
well, come on, I mean Vietnam, right. He was absolutely
involved in that. We have Pentagon papers and stuff like that, but in
reality, his big thing was working with China. There's policy within Latin America
obviously that people have beef with, but he didn't feel that the office required
it to be grand sweeping change. His thing was behind the scenes, let's
work out practical stuff. And practical stuff is things like you don't throw a
nuke at me, I don't throw a newke at you, and let's figure
out what to do. And by the way, not that it's apparently been
a success, but he was also the first individual who was heavily involved in
trying to keep things from turning into the dumpster fire that it is in the
Middle East. And if you don't like that, that's fine, but be
able to enunciate that rather than making a video. I saw some comedian and
he's holding his infant daughter, screaming obscenities and trying at her to say some
of the words. It's just it's just so damn creepy man. Did you
see the ruling Stone headline. I have not seen all of them, but
I'm sure it goes right along with this NBC and others. Yes, Henry
Kissinger war criminal, I'm good, beloved by America's ruling class. Finally dies.
Right, Okay, you know what, let me say that he might
be a war criminal. He might be a war criminal, remember, and
you could. There's lots of examples of this. About the problem is is
the technicalities that we use, like people throw war criminal around. I'm not
defending it. By the way, again, Kissinger likely if he was in
power, would have been just as annoying to me as everybody else, because
the one thing that he embraced that I didn't like is this I control everything.
I'm from the government, and I'm so powerful, I'll do whatever I
damn well please. There was a lot of that attitude there, and some
people thought it was a benefit, but I think it's problematic in Washington.
And if you want to start throwing war criminal stuff around, Barack Obama greased
a kid and his dad American citizens with a missile in Yemen with a drone
missile without due process. All right, now, is that a war criminal
in the general sense, I mean kind of. But is it something that
is we would think of as criminal from a US legal standpoint. Yes,
And I'm not here to do that. I'm just pointing out that if you
have a beef with somebody and you're glad they're dead, be able to announciate
why it's just crazy. Man. Look, I think Joe Biden would have
liked him, probably probably did. I'll bet what you're not going to see,
and I'm sure they exist, is hundreds of photos of Joe Biden,
who's been in Washington that long, sitting there with his arm around Kissinger.
Because Kissinger wasn't just buddy buddy with Nixon or you know, or people within
that administration. He was He was the swamp personified. And so all of
these cats in Washington love him because he was a very powerful person, and
that includes Joe. I did see a couple photos of them, like Schmuzen
at a at a party, and I understand. Look, you go to
these things, it doesn't mean you're necessarily friends with them. But this is
the standard by which we've decided to decide whether somebody is guilty of associating with
the wrong person. Right, if you appear in a photo like let's say
you're at an event and Jeffrey Epstein walks into the back of the photo where
Trump is, how many times did you see idiots throwing that online? You
know, like they were they were they were roomies or something. So and
also Joe Biden would like him, because I think Joe Biden loves the power.
Did you hear what he said yesterday? Good lord man? Hey,
Nick, this is an I look my my marine cards out. It has
a crows to blow up the world that is not ruclear weapons. All right,
okay, so, uh, you know, and obviously I'm sure you
know the president travels with a wide variety of people, one of which is
a member of the armed forces in charge of carrying around the football, as
they say. But it's just a really weird way to put that. By
the way, it's not the only insane and cut her Byden related cut but
I just felt it fit really well right here. So and luckily I don't
know that Biden will be able to remember that code. So there's that,
all right, six nineteen hang on one six one FM Talks and PTI two
stations driving the best end Talk this is Casey Oday and Carolina's Morning News.
I'm sure it's probably longer and more complex than that, and that the end
of the World Code is not ross one hundred Okay, I mean not everything's
about you, man, what's that? I mean, I've got my sources.
How horrible that would be, right? I mean, I guess you
wouldn't be around to sharing the shame, but I don't think I would want
my name associated with blow in the world the smotherings. Man. It is
a power move though, So there is that. Let me ask this email
because somebody point, Look, it's absurd to imply that the most powerful person
in the world, the president of the United excuse me and others, aren't
affecting largedale social change and that the policy and the practices have been different for
presidents since George Washington. No, it is. Do you really think that
the office of the president, the priorities of the president, and the level
of influence at the federal government attempts to exert across all fifty states is not
different from our first ten presidents versus our last ten. Hell yeah, it
is government back in the day. If you want to know who was president
after election you'd have to wait a few months. Depending on where you live,
you'd have to wait. We have journals. We have family journals from
my great it would be great great grandpa John and Amy Coomer, right,
and so we have we have actual journals from John, my great great grandfather,
just talking about stuff. Do you know how long it took things to
get out to Wyoming from a news standpoint in the eighteen seventies, It took
a while. And so the influence of the federal government wasn't something that really
stalked the day to day life of you know, eighteen seventies era homesteaders.
It just wasn't. It doesn't mean that there weren't policies that were impactful.
Obviously at that time. You know, you got a little Civil War thing
coming out of that, coming through that, But you know, was that
was obviously a big thing. But arguably that also was a president more thoroughly
flexing their power if you watch the way in which Lincoln went about doing it.
But don't sit here and give me that the Barack Obama wanting his wife
to control what your kids eat at school is the same level of power flex
that somebody was dealing with in day to day you know, Raleigh or Wilmington
right in eighteen fifty Okay, so and legacy building the example of that and
using political influence and diplomatic influence to do it. A good example of that
would be things like the Paris Climate Accord right where we have the audacity to
send diplomats to go sit around with a bunch of other diplomats so that they
can dictate to us how we do things, which is ironic considering we are
the most successful country ever. So no offense to the you know, the
the tie foreign minister or others who are on this thing. But I don't
care what you think, dude. I'm happy to take suggestions and be friendly.
But at the end of the day, I feel like we need to
do best for us, what's best for us. This is one O six
one FM Talk in the Triangle and he's talking ninety four to five w PTI
and the Triad. Alrighty, welcome back. It is six thirty five.
What a catch this chick is. Yes, she's not a Florida man,
she's a Florida Well maybe she is Florida man. Florida man is something in
the Wanderty errors hand that makes you do all that crazy crap. It's like
the state is one to be dumb ass trapped. Nowhere else has the Florida
Man. It is almost like as the weird Factor climbs if you find out
it happened in Florida every time Florida Man, Florida man. If anyone can
jeer me of you know, you can just mind life, be crazy.
But of course, but it's not a bad crap crazy as yours. Nowhere
else are you gonna find him? They're so used to it they don't mind
him. Hooray for Florida man. You're ready for this headline. I know
it's early, but I don't want one of you to advertently run in and
start run into and start dating this woman. Florida woman allegedly stab boyfriend and
I with rabies needles for looking at other women. Seems reasonable. Also,
what's a rabies needle? Is that something you give your dog so it does
he get rabies? Or is it? Is it needles DIPTD rabies. I'm
gonna be honest, I did the same question. I mean, yeah,
not that one, not that the one. If it's like, ah,
it's preventing rabies, not that that's a pass, you know what I'm saying,
Or she's just like I wasn't Matt. I just didn't want him to
get rabies, like you stabbed him in the eyeball, which is I'm I'm
pretty sure is not where they administer rabies needles. I remember back in the
day, they used to give you a shots in your stomach, or that's
how it was described. I never actually had it, but so I hope
it's the first one, because you'd have to go out of your way to
get you know, rabies tipped needles, right, you have for you have
to go find a rabbit dog. You got to get close to that bastard.
And I don't know if you know this, animals with rabies don't really
dig you getting close to them. So like it would have been almost more
impressive in that sense because she had to hunt down what was essentially a you
know, a wolf at that point and somehow get her needles tipped with it
to then go and stab her boyfriend in the eyeball. I love this part
of the story. So it says she stabbed him with the needles before leaving
their home. When she quote realized what she had done, what You've never
inadvertently stabbed somebody in the eyeball with a needle and the only later realized what
you had done. I mean, yeah, once, but like not repeated,
Okay, so repeatedly that it stands out, So you learned your lesson.
Oh I'm not gonna do that again. That's a good point. There's
other parts of this story to love, too, so I'm not gonna leave
a moment out. The forty four year old charged with aggravated battery. Police
responded to a hospital following a report of a man. I'm sorry, I
shouldn't like by the way, just thinking about a needle going into the eyeball.
Oh, man, that just gives you the willies, doesn't it.
Officers responded to report of a man who stabbed in the eye with the new
So this dude came in looking like hell Raiser up front? Yeah what or
what was it? No? What's the guy's name from? A pinhead?
Right? Pinhead from hell Raised? So this guy was like low rent pinhead
from hell Raiser because only on the front and he strode to the hospital like
that. God help those of you work in the yard, hartment man.
Between this and the chick who came in with the phone melting in her in
her fat rolls. That's stunk, right, I don't want any part of
that. The victim told police that Jimenez Assandra Jmenez is her name, used
the dog's rabies needles to pierce his eye his right eye during an argument about
him quote looking at other women. Jimenez allegedly jumped on her boyfriend of eight
years while I was lying on the couch and stabbed them with the needles before
leaving their home. When she realized what she had done. Yes, but
wait, there's more, the victim called nine one one and was rushed to
the hospital. Here we go. Police later found Jimenez sleeping in her car
outside the home and arrested her. She claimed that her boyfriend's injuries were self
inflicted. What what, yeah, as you do? Like, but I
don't even understand what the lie is? Right? Is is it? Is
it like he was depressed or he has an eye needle fetish? I mean,
what was the No, he accidentally fell over on the needles. Oh
no, well at least he fell forward, because you know what happens if
you fall backwards? Light bulbs straight in your butt? Oh man, okay,
well hold on here now, I feel like whether we have an informal
poll, ross, would you rather fall backwards have a light bulb, you
know, possibly break in there or fall forwards? Rabies needle in the eye.
Man, this is this is a no win situation. I didn't say
there was witting to be had here. This is my kobe shi ma roo.
Yeah, I'm saying I would have to sit down. It's about the
eye with the eyeball. Wow, so you just boom, here's your new
My butt has more thickness so it won't hurt as bad, but your eyeball
is that's what it is. If it breaks, it will Well. Hey,
man, if if I have to choose, if this is your jigsaw
moment, yeah, well, hey, do you want to get out of
the pit or whatever it is? Keys in your belly have fun? Oh
yeah, I don't know, man, I mean, it wasn't both eyes.
Now on the other side, if you could convince me the light bulb
would stay intact, it's a it's a toughie. So uh. Anyway,
she's at the she's in custody. I know you're shot. Her bond is
seven. She got a bond of seventy five hundred dollars for stabbing a due
in the eye with rabies needles. That woman's a menace man. And finally,
are you ready for this? Not trying to be a jerk here,
but it is abundantly clear the hot crazy matrix did not hold up here because
you would agree that's unicorn level crazy, right, that's up there with uh.
And they always lay in wait to do it. Women are very very
plotting, right, because because it said she waited for him to lay down
the couch before she went old needle in the eyeball. You know, Loraina
Bobbin did her thing. Remember the chick who she She waited till the guy
went to see it was only a pullout couch in the living room next to
the kitchen. He went to sleep, she like handcuffed him or tethered him.
Then she Lorena bobbitted him, and then while he's watching, she took
her capture and threw it in the garbage disposal in front of him. That's
diabolical because there's obviously there's the fear that comes with waking up and you can't
move. There's the horrific you know, inability to stop as you watch that
happened to you with some scissors, I believe is what she used. And
then when you have that little speck of hope right where you're like, I
remember this having that guy and if they got to the hospital in time,
they were able to save it. She takes that little bit of hope,
the last thing keeping you going, and then flips that noisy switch on the
wall and tosses that bad boy in there, and you are now having it
while you bleed out. You're now having to realize that you will never be
whole again. So she's up there, are you ever? At nine and
a half? But on the other part, remember it's the hot crazy matrix.
It didn't hold because the whole point of that was, you know,
the hotter they are, the crazier they are, and if they're super hot
and not crazy, that's a dude, I believe, is what they arrived
down. So there you go. No matter what happens at your house today,
maybe you and the spouse you get into a little argument over something.
It happens. It's part of being an adult, being in a relationship.
You work through it. However, you work through it and nobody gets stabbed
in the eyeball with a Rabi's needle. So count yourself lucky six forty five.
Hang on, which one is I'm trying to remember the sex and the
city checks which one is Cynthia Nixon? I think that's Blanche, So Blanche.
It's not tooty, is it Mona? No, it's tooty right,
yeah? Okay, so the Redhead oh my, anyway, the fifty seven
year old actress who began a five day hunger strike to shame the Biden administration
into ending the Israeli Palestinian conflict, which obviously they could do with the flip
of a switch. Ha is over after a little less than two days.
Yes, what had been promised as a week long hunger strike reportedly lasted just
two days. Is that even a hunger strike? Or is that bad meal
planning? Remember back of the day when you're poor and you're just trying to
figure stuff out or your go go go or your energy and you're like and
you realize you hadn't eaten like all of yesterday, like dawns upon you.
So that should that change the course of Middy's politics? Also, don't promise
you're gonna do it for a certain amount of days and then give up,
leave it open ended. So she didn't make it. She didn't even make
it halfway anyway, all right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
seven four. Uh we do. We're gonna have to get into this,
this search horn that came out about the the uh Trump's Twitter account. I
would argue that this stuff sounds worse. This sounds more odorous than uh,
onerous than the Remember the NS. Remember the nsa spying scandal right where they
were capturing metadata, especially metadata that surrounded phone that took place both in and
outside, So somebody inside the US somebody outside, and they oh, it's
a loophole. But then they figured out they were getting metadata for a lot
of other stuff too. This sounds worse. I'm sorry, this sounds worse.
DOJ Special counseled Jack Smith obtained a search warrant for what the AP reported.
This is back in August. What the AP reported was records related to
former President Trump's Twitter account. I remember that story, you know, just
another and a long line of Hey, we're gonna do this, and then
the media could then take whatever the situation was and cobble together, you know,
whatever they felt that the crime was, and then they could just report
as though, yeah, that's exactly what happened. But according to the now
unsealed document, they were looking for so much more than just hey, what
when did Trump log in? When did he send these particular tweets? Even
though it's frigging labeled on the tweet and this document's even redacted, I would
like to point out, all right, so what's the part in this that
is awful? Because what the DOJ actually collected data on was all data surrounding
Trump's account, and that included anyone who liked a Trump tweet, retweeted a
Trump tweet. And by the way, keep in mind that retweetment retweets are
not endorsements, right, how many times have you seen that a lot of
people retweeted it out of horror, like oh my gosh, look at what
this cheeto said, or you know whatever, whatever horrible thing they wanted to
write. And and that's fine, and you know, do whatever you're going
to do. First Amendment baby, But now you yourself, you were part,
you're part of the FBI sweep. I hope you know that the the
over broad nature of this warrant shows you how little checks and balances that Biden
and the Special Council and all of the rest who are on the get Trump
bandwagon, the judges, the district attorneys. It shows you how little oversights
being provided there. It shows you again the problems that you have with FISA
courts or in this case, kind of a quasi PHISI court, but a
court that has a certain level of secretness it's allowed to operate with. It
shows you everything that's wrong because it's just rubber stamp. You saw all of
the abuses with the PHISA courts, from the surveillance apparatus surrounding men of Trump's
campaign. This is a known thing, and yet every single time this comes
up for reapproval, all of these jackasses vote for it, including most of
the Republicans. And now, because you may have liked or retweeted a Trump
tweet and I saw people saying this or like wow, KC. Anyone who
likes a tweet or retweets it is listed right there on Twitter. What's the
big to do? Now they are kind of their account is this is the
identifiable information that was provided in those accounts, so it's not just the account
name. And then they when they liked or retweet it, it's any other
information that they have over at Twitter. And actually the lawsuit on this goes
back. This goes back to pre Elon Musk should point that out when this
when this all started, and the documents, the initial documents were turned over,
although to his credit, Jack Dorsey initially wouldn't turn him over and they
ended up finding finding the company. But yeah, the whole thing is Orwellian.
And I guess my question is what are we going to do about it?
Where are the where are the Republican officials going to do something about this?
Because I don't believe you are, because I believe you love to do
this to your political enemies too, and I think there's some people that would
like that because they feel like they're getting back, they're getting even. But
man, every time I see one of these, I'm just just blooded.
Again to be very clear here, so it doesn't accuse me of inciting violence,
and I'm inciting worldwide floods. So get your gopher, would get ready,
Man, we screwed the pooch, all right, seven o'clock hanging on
back in just a few man, his video keeps popping up, and I
realized we hadn't we didn't mention it the other day, so let me just
throw it out there so at least have some contexts. So last week an
event was going on in Moscow called the World Tour of Artificial Intelligence. I'm
assuming in Russia they're just looking at murder bought options, but you know whatever,
And old Vladimir decided he was going to make an appearance there. Okay,
I mean, I guess obviously there's all sorts of applications there. It
was kind of a big event. Russia's trying to promote their own AI stuff
or partnerships with some others, including Google by the way, and handful of
other companies. And it's because obviously Google, like any of the big big
tech companies, they want to make sure that they're in all of the markets.
However, Putin took it in a slightly different direction. According to a
video posted where Putin is is being it's been explained to him AI analysis.
All of a sudden, it turns into this weird thing when reporters get around
there, because Vladimir is using the AI analysis from Google. From Google,
so this is Google's AI bot which Putin used to analyze whether we landed on
the moon or not, and the AI told him we didn't, or at
the very least told him that the video and photographic evidence is a big deep
fake. So Putin decided that that was funny and he went for it.
And you have you have to understand some about Russian culture and the moon landing
to this day, and I shouldn't say it to this day. I think
it was probably a year ago, so maybe things have changed. But even
in like two years ago, half of Russians thought the US faked the moon
landing. Half and the number was exponentially higher for years and years and years,
especially where it was near uniformly accepted under the former USSR and for obvious
reasons, that's what they would teach the Russian kids. That's what they would
tell the Russian people. We were in a space race. And propaganda is
a very very valuable tool. And so if you sit there and you tell
them all you know, the Americans didn't, they're lying to a bunch of
bs. And you make it part of the curriculum, as the Russians did.
Sure, a bunch of people are gonna end up thinking that we have
people in this country who think that, Yeah, I guess you could think
whatever you want. But the part where Putin set up to obviously set this
whole thing up to sit there and you know, take a shot at the
US. But to use Google's own AI to do it. I mean,
that's it's devilish. But yeah, guy's a lunatic. So what do you
want? Man? Now? Should he have to fight buzz Aldren? And
do you think buzz Aldren could beat Vladimir Putin and vice versa? I don't
know. I don't know. I'm not gonna go in their prime, but
let's go. Let's go Buzz and Putin at the age when Buzz punched that
reporter. I could probably beat Putin on the moon. So on the moon
to fight with some the moon, probably around Lake Armstrong somewhere around there.
Why would I? I don't why? Why would he have an advantage just
because he's felt the gravity of it or he's been there? Apparently? Yeah,
thank you Google A, I appreciate you weighing in on this. All
right, So there's this, How do you know that Putin hasn't? Dude,
If somebody's got a secret murder base up there, it's either the Chinese
or Putin. Who else would it be Jeff Bezos, maybe the Google A
I like, I don't know if you mentioned it. He did it,
did you know? Checked out the Chinese photos, so they're lunar landing in
right, It's like, hey, these are legit, but the American ones,
right, sixties are false, super legit. The video went widespread on
the Internet, showing Putin's reaction when he questions the authenticity of the Apollo eleven
images. Let's see then you hear him explaining the neural network allegedly considered all
right, so they did its analysis and the feedback from the Google AI quote
alleges almost everything in the photographs of the US landing are fake. And then
he's just sitting around smiling, thinking that's great. Again we were in a
space race, and I understand the propaganda side, but bro, you gotta
let it go. Yeah, you got to get over it. You got
to move on. I'm sorry your dog imploded or six times or whatever.
Wasn't the same dog, So don't worry that others. And you know,
there's pretty good evidence, if you want to get into space conspiracies, that
there are, because there were rocket launches where it wasn't some public Garrett Gerrigan
or whatever his name is, whoever the first dude was in like that stuff
that was the known commoditie. There were others where like they're like, oh,
we were testing a booster rocket and are like our own intelligence was like,
now you clearly weren't you clearly set somebody into space and then obviously everything
blew to smitherings. And I saw a it's a little investigative documentary on that
one time, and they were because there were some photos that emerged of what
happened to a couple of cats that went up for the Russians and came back
as mummy sickles, and Russia's just like pretended it never happened. And I
even talked to one of the family members like yeah, I think they told
us our our relative ran away, you know, like it's like it's your
irritated cat or something. What happened to Fluffy? I went to a farm
in Siberia. Oh oh no, why you know how cold? It is?
Much room to run around, dude, I mean there is that.
Then there's the white walkers, so you gotta watch out for them. But
plus occasionally a giant meteoriti hit it looking at you tongue Guska. There have
been to tongue guska in the spring. The way the trees are just flat
and brown against the earth and the giant craters. It's amazing. Everybody loves
it. Can't get enough bucket lists that everyone. So excuse excuse me if
I just do nothing but laugh at that story, because that's all you can
do. And it's also all you can do when you turn on MSNBC and
you watch Morning Joe, the narrative on it. It's not new, but
it's delusional, absolutely. And if, by the way, if this little
mint, little nugget of delusion I'm gonna playing for you ain't enough to wet
your delusion whistle. Just know that when we tweet the link out to the
story, there's like a ten minute was nine it's nine minutes nine minute video,
right, So the story's on twitchy, but the actual article is on
the MSNBC with the videos. Click a link to get to the link.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Once you get there, it's a nine to
ten minute video. It's a panel on Morning Joe about Hunter Biden. Oh
that I and the point the part was trying to get to I was not
aware of this until the end is at the very end, see what to
sit through these people? And they are delusional a different planet, but I
mean more so than you. You know that in the back of your head.
You're like, yeah, I know that, but when you actually have
to sit there and slog through the ten minutes, Oh dude, I don't
know what is up with these people. I would I. I don't feel
bad for Joe because you put himself in this predicament, but I can only
imagine waking up to her and and you know, and also waking up to
him. I'm sure for you know the thing, they're different from other morning
shows too, and we can relate to this, but they're different from other
morning shows you see on TV because they tend to look like they're put together
and they've been up for a while. Who what does that mean? These
two look like and I'm specifically talking about television. Oh yeah, these two
look like they just rolled out of bed, skip the shower and just got
out of their pajamas and changed like two seconds before eartime. And they both
if they were just mute, you're just looking at them, staring at they
look miserable. Yeah, and then they go home together and they're more miserable.
And I'm sure Joe gets his guitar out right, because you remember,
he's a rock artiste. So they're on this just a whole dietribe. They're
reacting to the House Republicans unveiling a Biden impeachment inquiry website and the whole And
by the way, kudos to comber in them for taking my suggestion. I'm
sure I greatly influence this. Don't embrace the gamesmanship of this strategy where they
want to do a deposition. They want to do a closed doors thing with
Hunter Biden first. And the strategy I get, which seems hail Mary at
best, is Hunters should come out, which he did and say I'll testify,
but only in public because there's a reason you do it in both capacities.
And the reason you do it is because if you only do public,
can you only schedule the one thing? This is really important? And he
comes in and sits down and then he goes fitth Amendment for like ninety percent
of it doesn't answer some of the other stuff, and you don't extract anything
if you try to go back to that well, and some of his answers
had been precluded because you're talking about national security stuff. Then the media narrative
will be you already had your chance. Now you're just being mean, You're
horrible, you can't do it. So it's important to establish that you're going
to have an environment where you can ask questions that may have sensitive information attached
to them, because part of the problem is the potential that sensitive information was
extracted from documents that Joe Biden was in possession of and either behind his back
or with his full blessing, I'll let you speculate that was then utilized to
pepper various reports and pitches on the part of Hunter Biden saying, look,
look at what an expert I am on this, And if I wasn't an
expert, how would I have these crazy stats and numbers and heavy research that
is top secret and had been done by our intelligence agencies. Plus, if
I know things that might be valuable to you, if you're kind of a
shady international old business dude who wants to give me a bunch of money,
might be good to know where people's heads are at over at the DOJ or
the FTC or some other regulatory body. And so reacting to that, we
get this family knows or struggles with mental health challenges, or knows someone who
has struggled and suffered as Hunter has and has done things that are against their
core values. Every family is struggling in some way another thing. Voters are
many of them parents. And when you go after Joe Biden's son, as
you pointed out, the reason why was such a turnoff is because not only
was it his son, this his remaining son. He's not eight, He's
not eight? What day? Hell are you? What do you mean going
after he didn't chase an eight year old with his stick? Right? He
didn't lambast a toddler? How old is Hunter Biden? What? Ten years
older than me? And also do we all know a Hunter? I mean
how closely? When you say Hunter, what do you mean? I mean?
Do you mean? Hey, Ross, you ever had a friend who
likes to take naked pictures of himself? Get into crack arguments with hookers,
blow a bunch of money from shady international sources used through influence peddling by his
father, and then may or may not have some kind of weird, quasi
creepy thing going on with a young relative, female relative. Right, you
got a bunch of buddies like that back home. I mean, listen,
I do have a buddy, well jeez, who has seen some stuff.
Yeah we all that part, We all do, right, who might have
had a problem with drugs? You know? My DJ at a strip club.
And the thing that's missing here is the power and influence of your father
being vice president and now president. Oh the money in Ukraine and China and
all the buddy's that buddy's dad is not the vice president, not that No,
okay, is it his dad, believe it or not? Not president,
not very president, not very president. No president. Oh okay.
The other thing where they're around and stuff. Yeah, and again, Hunter
Biden's not eight now, dude, is the hell is he like fifty?
Yeah, he's probably about ten years old or not. I don't know,
but how long? But how long does that? Except? Okay, I
believe you're attacking his kid. Everybody's somebody's kid. You realize that, right,
everybody is somebody's kid. That's like, I can't believe they're attacking Fred
Trump's kid. Ross you see what they're going after Fred Trump's kid? And
Fred Trump, I mean, bless us. He hasn't even commented on it.
Well, that's he's been dead since the nineties. But yeah, so
is that how it works? If your father's dead or your mother's dead,
or your parent, I guess you can't find then it's okay. But if
the parents are living or then you can't. They're acting like he's like,
you know, it's like Sasha and Malia in the White House when they're like
five and six or whatever. Yes. Absolutely, he's on the board of
Bisma or whatever. He's on the board of everything renascence man, and he
still finds time to argue with hookers over crack me and painting is his passion,
it is, and I hear he's selling something, so to me his
point. Yeah, lots of us know people that have had problems with drugs.
The issue is they're not the son of the president and they don't peddle
that influence. Yeah, different, and they don't have all their crimes.
Typically when they do something right, there's a consequence to their action. Right.
I've known people that are phone to rock bottom. The difference is he
is constantly protected, so it's completely different. I tell you, well,
you know this. I have a family member who was a whole thing for
years man, and he did suffer a lot of consequences, and he was
right on the cusp of it turning really, really big. And now most
people fall into this trap. All they do is alienate their family and blow
all their money. So if that's what you mean, yes, but let's
face it, you know that's not what she means. She is being wilfully
ignorant to all of this. And then she had the end. I got
to play one more time because it's oh wait, no, hold on,
I got to take a break. We'll be right back. Hang on,
all right, So thirty six here on the Cacoday radio program. How dumb
are report orders? Man? How dumb do you have to be to include
a line which I'm sure is just one of those like you're fill in time.
No, I'm trying to figure out why it's why that paragraph's even in
there. It had to be an active she had to have actively wanted to
write this. So basically, here's the beef. I don't know if you've
seen this. Musk has kind of gone scorched earth a little. It's very
interesting to watch, and understandably so over all this media matter stuff and other
advertisers, and he's really adopted you know what. I would describe it as
the Dana White philosophy. The UFC guy right where I remember watching a quote
with him or he was saying that back in the day, some advertiser.
What was it. I think it was over the use of the N word
or something by one of the black fighters. I don't remember the incident.
It was so dumb. But oh no, that's no, there was use
the N word. But also there was the trash talk where a fighter from
South Africa or somewhere in Africa, but a white sow, a white African
dude, right, an afrikaaner or whatever. So he's fighting a dude,
a black dude from the US, and he made some crack. The fighter
made some crack during the way, and that he's more African. It's you
know, it's stupid weigh in fight trash talk. And by the way,
it's accurate. It's it's accurate in the sense of who is most immediately from
the African continent. And then people went, wow, that's not what it
means because he's he's an invader from you know such and such play. Okay,
well, at what point then, because I thought here once people were
ingrained at least legally into society. Most people would consider them American. But
that's a little controversy. Was and Dana White had an advertiser call him and
be like, God, I need you to do something about him. He's
like, no, how about how about screw you. You don't tell me
how to run my stuff. Well, Elon Musk has gone in that direction.
So Mosk has ripped companies this week that are boycotting advertising on his social
media platform. Don't even get me started on all of the media matters.
Corruption in the way that they wrote is. But this woman in this story,
this is is talking about how he's just basically telling advertisers, screw you,
don't want advertise, don't do it, which is true. He is
saying that he asked about the boycott during an interview wednesday, quote you know,
said of companies that were boycotting, quote, I hope they stop.
Don't advertise. You don't want them to advertise? The host said no,
said Musk. If somebody's gonna try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me
with money, go blank yourself, go blank yourself. Is that clear?
I hope it is. And that is what we refer to as fu money.
Just the case a little unclear. But then there's this not it's not
clear how the comments will sit with investors. He doesn't I guess he does
have some co investors in Twitter. You realize that Twitter is not a public
company right now. I'm assuming what they would say is, well, we're
talking about, you know, with some of the other companies, right We're
talking about Tesla and m But that's not what any of this is about.
And you're talking about comments that were specifically associated with one company that's not a
publicly traded company. Y'all are dumb. I mean, not all of you.
You're fine, but thos other people. Jamal, what's up? Hey,
Jacy. I just wanted to say that this morning, but I heard
Ross. He was talking about how bad Nika presents Caim morning, Joe.
Look, okay, now I'm gonna have to date it back a few years
for you. Casey, dude, you remember Batman star Michael Keaton, Jack
Nicholson, and Kim I think Kim, I forget her her name. Who
played the girl. Michelle Pfeiffer, Kim Basinger, It Kim Basinger, I
think it was. Yeah, I'm talking about the first Batman with a joker
with Jack Nicholson as a joker. I thought that was Pfiffer, Wasn't that?
No, Pfiffer was the catwoman thing. Okay, yeah, you're a
catwoman in two. Okay, Well that was a thing when when the joker
was mixing chemicals and make smiley, and the reporters got it and they didn't
know they could. They stopped using deodorant, they stopped using makeup, they
stopped using lotion, and they come on and you see them right, you
know, know how this tempical. And that's one that I tagged y'all to
this picture looking with Meca for this picture with those reporters, and how they
look in that scene where they didn't use any makeup, any lotion, nothing.
They were just looking horrible because Ross was subscribing our Mecca and Joe was
looking I'm like, Joe, if you're miserable, man, just say it.
I think they make each other. I think they make each other perfectly
miserable equally, and that's why they're such a great couple. Yes, Trump
arrangement syndrome will really make you miserable, but if you but like I was
saying, because like I said, IM gonna stay on topic. But if
you look at that picture, you look at how those reports, how they
look. If you've seen the movie Batman and you've sing that scene, anybody
who's seen that scene is laughed because they know exactly what I'm talking about.
Because these people are crazy. You cannot take up for a fifty five year
old blown man. That's a speechish sweet away, be a mistake. He's
smoking crack and with underage girls, a sniper, cocaine or BBW. But
let me just let me just be abundantly clear. If his only crime,
so to speak, or problems where he is drug addled and he's a giant,
you know it's a giant liability because you know he's constantly trying to hit
his family up for money so he can continue the addiction, that would be
incredibly relatable. It's for all the other things that like Ross mentioned that I
mentioned where it's it's how it's impacting things that are not Hunter Biden. Even
somebody sent me an email they said he slept with his dead brother's wife.
Is that arguably that's better than his life brother's wife, isn't it? You
know what, Casey, I have to disagree with you. Everybody ain't got
crackheads in the family. I'm sorry, everybody ain't got no crackhead in the
family. This to some of us are like white head black. We like,
oh no, bro, we don't got cracked kids in the family.
Pigre for money because you know what that goes to show you. And let's
not talk about his sister holding the lesson bout it. Oh dad, you
know, okay, I'm gonna say take so nobody get in trouble. See
Damon called in case she didn't correct them, I'm gonna correct myself. It's
just a diary, West said Joe Biden toil naked showers with his daughter,
and she knew it was inappropriate. Thirteen. That's all the stuff. But
again, but again you're missing But I think you're missing my point here.
If it was as simple as hunter Biden has himself a drug addiction, you
still have to deal with the potential for common promising issue right because of whose
kid he is. But that's not That's not where most people's I or lies.
It's how it then impacted potentially the job that his father was doing.
And you know, and of course you know the allegations of using that influence
and actually wielding that influence within decisions that were made. So I mean,
that's that's the part where they're just randomly ignoring. And yes, I understand
that not all crackheads are created equal, but he's also not the first.
He's also not the first relative of a powerful person to to be a drug
addict. And in fact, sometimes it is that the reason that their drug
addict is probably largely due to the who their who their parent is. So
all right, I gotta I gotta roll them all, but thank you very
much for the call. Okay, all right, but not all crackheads are
equal. You're telling me if you've known two people that have dealt with drug
addiction, that you could there weren't differences there. Think about functional alcoholics versus
the dude from Chappelle's show, Right, doesn't mean they're not both dealing with
issues. However, they tend to present a little different although sometimes they don't
when they're in the throes of it. Man, so we get Florida Man's
stories seven forty six Ray Stagic from the Weather Channel. He's not from Florida,
so he's safe. He's not in Florida. Anywhere are you from Florida?
Uh? No? Oh okay, good, No, I want should
have freaked out. Some lady got mad at her boyfriend for staring at other
women, so she stabbed him in the eye with a rabies needle. Oh
wow, come to Florida. Yeah, it's gracious. Next time I'll go
to florida'll be sure to duck. I'm just saying, man, and the
hot crazy matrix didn't hold up. She is hideous. Yeah, but at
least he doesn't have to look at her now, so exactly. Yeah,
it's good. So what's up? Man? Man, I'm excited for tonight.
Excited. No, you know what, I've got to be honest with
you. Less. My cousin reminded me, I forgot all about it.
Oh yeah, I listen. This is what happens to almost like bills fans.
You know, after years and years dragging ross in your misery, keep
dragging that poor guy yed. Well, I don't want to drag you into
it. I mean, you just I mean we just know. But it's
I just I don't know it. It's almost like I don't look forward to
it anymore when you know what the result is going to be at the end,
meaning you know, maybe win the first round. You're so egotistical so
you don't even look forward to it because you just know you're going to beat
the Seahawks. Can I remind you of the card? No no, no,
no, no, no no no no. I'm the end of the
season because I know it's maybe win first round playoff game and then get destroyed
by who's ever left. And I'm saying maybe when first as predicted, He's
basically this is very similar to his prediction yesterday for his team. The Bills
are gonna do the most Bills thing possible. They're gonna run the table,
they're gonna get to the super Bowl, and they're gonna lose it in the
final two minutes after going ahead with two minutes left, and it'll be for
the dumbest, dumbest possibly yes, right, yeah'd be like holding in the
end zone or something, or fumble out of the end zone something like that.
Yeah, well, you know, we can always be hopeful. We'll
see, we'll see how it goes. It is what it is. Weatherwise,
are in great shape. Temperature is still cool, but getting milder,
closer to normal. Actually, right at it in the upper fifties this afternoon,
some clouds mixing in with percentage wise mostly sunny. More clouds tonight.
We're in the thirties and a little rain tomorrow afternoon. Now when I say
little, I mean I don't even think we'll make puddles tomorrow into Tomorrow evening,
and then the next round coming in later on Saturday. Saturday night could
be some steadier rain a quarter of an inch. It's not really a bunch,
but it'll be some. There'll probably be some in Charlotte for the ACC
Championship game, and then some showers around on Sunday afternoons. Another round comes
in, but we will get milder, in the upper sixties by Sunday.
Another cool down coming about the middle of next week, about Tuesday Wednesday of
next week, so we'll turn off to dry chili weather get back to a
damper weather pattern. I don't see heavy rain. I think that is going
to stay south, but at least some rainfall on again, off again.
I'm starting tomorrow afternoon and right on through probably the weekend. But it doesn't
rain every hour of each day, so they'll be dry periods too. So
okay, all right, thank you, sir, we'll talk to an hour
there. You got to raise staging from the Weather Channel coming out. Well,
we got a guest coming up, BETO five, Stephen Kent will join
us. This is a dude that from a journalists standpoint is he is all
up in the pop culture and the politics that that injects. It's so from
the Star Wars to the Pandaverse to all of that. Uh. He's he's
a writer for Bounding into Comics, which is one of the sites that we
find a lot of stories on around these parts. So we're gonna chat with
him at eight oh five, and if it works, you know, make
it a regular thing, because Lord knows there's enough of this crap on a
weekly basis. But for now, we'll take a break and be right back,
all right, proofree, look do do do do do? Okay,
all right, So I'll just scroll on the Twitter during the during the break
there, and I come across this tweet by the the unc young Democrats.
Very excited. They tweeted this yesterday afternoon, me and our new twenty twenty
four executive team, Let's turn Carolina blue. And then they got all you
know, the hashtags and whatnot there and they show the four members of the
twenty twenty four executive team for the Democrats, the Young Democrats there at UNC.
I mean, I looked at it and I'm like, oh, hmm,
man, there's something that stands out to me. I just retweet it.
See if you can figure out what it is. It's just kind of
glanced at the four photos of the four individuals and I'm just like, I
just can't put my finger on it. And then I thought, are they
all sisters? I don't know what's going on here. It is a remarkably
non diverse executive leadership team, or at least it appears that way. Who
knows. I'll at least hold out that maybe one of them is a member
of the Chumash Indian tribe like that in Kansas City. I don't know,
but that looks like four white girls, which normally I wouldn't care. But
it's a group of four white girls who probably think that I should be forced
at some point in my professional life to sit through one of those DEI diversity
seminar bs things right if you they probably believe that. I feel like I'm
not putting words in their mouth. You know, most of this is evidenced
by policies and whatnot. They're supported. So with that in mind, since
you want to force me to sit there and go through this diversity thing and
talk about white fragility and white privilege, don't you think it's deeply ironic that
your entire executive leadership team you just announced is four white chicks, or at
least what appears to be. Unless I'm missing something, I didn't see any
clarifications on that. That's a hoot, man, that's hilarious and wildly hypocritical.
But just retweeted it at Casey on the radio. You want to check
that out and you'll be happy to learn that Mayor Brandon Johnson, the new
Chicago Mayor, has now taken time to digest the problems that are being faced
by the City of Chicago and rather than just you know, coming up with
solutions instead yesterday he wanted to real quickly let you know whose fault it was.
Right, So, if you had to guess, who do you think
is to blame for the ills of Chicago from a monetary standpoint, to the
housing standpoint, to the inflationary standpoint to the violence to who do you think
is to blame? According to the new mayor of Chicago is not at all
trying to start a race Ward looks insane. Maga, You're right, yeah,
Maga extremists, just like I'm sure the ones that attack Juicy Smolee on
that faithful evening apparently are everything that's wrong and everything that is poisoned Chicago.
And he's calling him out. So good morning, everybody in welcome. He
is Thursday. It is our number three and it's eight oh seven, So
I guess you're supposed to be to work at eight. You're late, so
that sucks, or maybe it doesn't, depend on how you feel about your
job throughout the course of the show. On a weekly basis, I would
say that I would say at least every day there's at least one story over
what continues to be pushed as mainstream entertainment standard stuff, you know, the
movies, the comic books, the music to some extent, and that intersection
with politics, which is inevitable. Sometimes it's inevitable because it's a you know,
there's politicians involved, or there's laws surrounding things with the entertainment industry.
And sometimes it's political because some jackass decides that she's going to get a starr
en role in a Disney movie and then insult all other iterations of the movie
leading up to it and everyone who participated in it. And then of course
there's just the motivation by the powers that be and to document all of that.
A lot of those stories come from a website called Bounding into Comics.
One of the contributing writers is Stephen Kent, and he joins us this morning,
Steven, how are you doing today? Hey? Doing really well?
Good morning? You want to talk about a gold mine, my man?
For all the reasons and so many more that I just listed right there,
you're never going to be out of work at this point. No. If
your job is to keep an eye on entertainment and look at what the movie
studios are doing and cover on it and you know, put in a little
bit of commentary, they give you endless amounts of stuff to be a little
bit concerned about, Kasey. That's one way to put it, unless you're
here's the thing I don't understand, and let me go into one of the
things we mentioned earlier, and you actually have a story about this. I
can't wrap my head around the Disney thing, and not for the the more
base reasonings behind it, Like I almost get some of that motivation there,
because it's pandering. Uh. There are ways in which companies who need to
carry cash uh and need access to it have really signed this deal with the
devil for a lot of these companies where they have to meet certain DEI requirements.
I'm talking about how investors don't just mutiny, and I have a couple
theories, but I'm curious why when you look at what's going on with Disney,
you look at the bath they're going to take here from this month over
their last two movies, that animated feature and of course the live action,
but or the Marvels. Excuse me, your live action. How is it
that they don't have an absolute investor revolt when you see these numbers and this
stuff look so obvious, What do you think? Well, I do think
it is a little puzzling. You would expect that there would be a full
scale riot. And they do have one activist investor on the board of Disney
named Nelson Palace who's been raising just righteous hell for years about the direction of
Disney and their inability to deliver for their investors. And I was reporting over
a bounting into comics on this SEC filing that the Disney Corporation put in last
month, and in this SEC filing which is required by big companies by law
to you know, show investors kind of what they might be investing in if
they get into bed with them, that Disney sees that they have quote huge
risks relating to misalignment with public and consumer tastes and preferences for entertainment, travel,
and consumer products. Yeah, it's a pretty shocking admission, like,
hey, please invest in Disney. We're misaligned with what consumers want right now,
but we haven't really shown any progress at fixing it. There's so many
Look, there's so many. If you got money, there's a lot of
places you can park it, regardless of what's going on in the economy right,
whether it's you know, shorting mortgage backed securities as some guys figured out
to do here about fifteen years ago, to all the ways in which people
invest in in the stock market. Is a large scale investor, and they're
generally pretty savvy, which irritates a lot of folks, right because they just
see Wall Street as this corrupt organism. But if you're somebody who wants to
put money somewhere and you look at Disney and you read that, how do
they still have investors? Because they still do, they have people lining up,
and again, Casey, don't man, it's it's it's almost like the
corrosive nature of the Disney Hope brand. You know, I've heard this a
number of times from your investor types to the Wall Street analysts that Disney was
at one point the stock you could always count on. They will always rebound.
They may have a bad year, but they're always going to deliver for
you in that three to five year span. But that is just no longer
the truth. It does take I think investors a lot of time sometimes to
see where this is going, that things are not turning around Bob Iger since
he's come back on as CEO after his little Game of Thrones about trying to
reclaim it from Bob Shapek, it's still continuing to go downhill because he just
cannot cut out the woke tumor that has grown inside Disney. We're talking about
the DEI commitments and all that nonsense from the company. Well, it's not
like anybody's making them do that. They just can't get a hold on their
twenty thirty year old something employees and middle managers who are driving the company into
the ground for fun. I have a theory too, and you tell me
what you think. I think that there are institutional investors that are not high
profile guys, right, They're not the Warren Buffetts, not the guys who
are on squak box all the time. But they're also a little chilled by
the idea that if they very publicly rebuke Disney, right remove all of their
investment and maybe even advise people not to do that. I think they have
to fear a little bit of the mob, you know, who might single
out either who they are or where some of their other major investments are,
because that's that's Internet Army one oh one right now. Do you think that
that is something they consider. I do think it is something that they consider,
and it's hard to feel any sympathy for it because it's just sort of
exhibit a of cowardice that has run a mock both in our financial scene in
this country as well as the entertainment scene. You should not be afraid of
online rabble rousers and lonely journalists when it comes to putting your money in the
right place, and Disney is failing to deliver on that again. In their
SEC filings, they go on to say that generally, our revenues and profitability
are adversely impacted when our entertainment offerings and products, as well as our methods,
make our offerings and products uninteresting to consumers and fail to reach sufficient consumer
acceptance. They just kind of continue to use this very safe and coded language
to say that, you know, we haven't been able to make anything that
resonates with consumers, but we're going to continue to try doing that. Anyways,
keep finding themselves on the outside of what they call matters of public interest,
which might be something along the lines of trying to introduce queer and trans
content to your five year old. Yeah, well, it's it seems unabated.
And by the way, this is a company that can't stop random guests
from pooping in It's a small world, right. They have a whole host
of issues that they're dealing with. But if you had to really narrow it
down, what do you think has been the most injurious as of late.
Is it the snow White debacle? Is it the the bastardization of Star Wars
that many fans consider having had happen that apparently they're gonna they're gonna go at
that well again, or is it? Is it? Is it something else?
I mean, what, what do you think really was the the thing
that started this ball rolling? Well start of the ball rolling might be different
than what's the most injurious as of late, I I do. Actually I'm
gonna punt on the opportunity to talk about Star Wars, because you know,
I love Star Wars, But it's stuff like the snow White story that I
think is the most damaging for Disney overall, because snow White, these classic
story tale, these classic fairy tales, these are what Disney has been built
off for the generation that grew up in the eighties and the nineties and are
now starting to buy movie tickets for their children. When you've got some you
know, woke actress like Rachel Zegler going out there and trashing snow White and
the Seven Dwarves, like the whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm sorry,
whoa, I'm sorry, the who snow White and the who oh seven companions?
Is that what you're sorry? The seven? The seven multi racial companions?
Yeah, it's I mean, this is the kind of vet this guy,
Did you not vet this guy before you put them on. You know,
I thought you knew he was, but no, I'm not so sure.
Oh man, I'm sorry. You guys are trying to throw me under
the bus. The Bide administration is going to come after me post taste.
Yeah, well no, I think that this kind of stuff is just really,
really toxic for this brand. It's a family company, and it is
made of you know, witches and damsels in distress and princesses, and you
know, I think Star Wars troubles are a little bit of an afterthought.
Oh okay, well that's all. I could explore that for about twenty minutes,
but I would I wanted to go back to the animation. It's not
like Disney doesn't have wildly successful animation offerings that they've you know, I'm trying
to think of the redheaded chick with the bow. I can't remember the name
of that, but there have been Brave. Yeah, Brave was very successful,
right, And is that not? I guess I'm not for I don't
have kids, so I don't remember if I actually saw any of it,
but from what I understand, that is exactly what they claim that they're wanting
right now, right, strong empowered women, but not of a Mary Sue
varietal, ones that actually had an arc and struggles in accomplished. So Disney
can do this without alienating people, except now they can't. Yeah, you
know, Brave came out in twenty and twelve, just a year before Frozen
came out in twenty and thirteen, and those are kind of your your last
gasps of breath for a company that knew what they were doing and knew their
audience again, like Frozen, very classic fairy tale, and you know it
draws from Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen. It's what Disney is all about.
But it's in those ten years sense that you know, this kind of
leftist mind virus has taken over the entire corporate sector, emanating from our higher
education institutions. The whole like woke thing and the DEI thing began in about
two thousand and thirteen, twenty and fourteen. So Brave is a wonderful example
of one of those last movies that it right before they were invaded. About
the barbarian how you don't excommunicate those folks from your company. I mean,
I understand the teeth gnashing in the lawsuits and all of that, but what
an absolute poison. Man, Like, when I'm sitting here and I'm having
to watch people like Tim Sheridan try to beg people to buy his gay Green
Lantern. I guess people don't know about this, the new Green Lantern.
He's gay. And it's not just that he's gay, it's that within the
comic book they want to show a lot of sexual situations, which, regardless
of whether it was gay or straight, is not even traditional in that format.
And so you know, now you're now you're forced to sit there and
beg people. Am I am I misconstrying this because that's how I read that
stupidity. Well, you know, all the cool kids and pretty girls in
school always said all this super serious superhero stuff was kind of gay anyways,
So I guess Green Lantern is kind of just catching up to it, you
know, this is this is DC kind of just joining Marvel with Race to
the Bottom. I do think it's pretty disturbing. I've looked over a handful
of the frames from this Green Lantern comic that is on the way out,
and yeah, it's just kind of like that gender queer book that is showing
up in elementary schools. It's just who is this for? I mean your
audience for comic books. Yes, there's going to be a diverse range of
people who read comic books, but they don't read it for softcore porn.
That's not what it's for. No, there's other magazines for that. And
there's something else that is characteristic. I think of people who are your core
comic book characters or excuse me, readers. What might that be if you
were to break this down from a demographic standpoint, because I feel it might
be leaning just a little male. Well, it absolutely is male. But
you know, I will concede as the father of a thirteen year old daughter.
You know, the world has changed girls read comic books to girls love
graphic novels. But superheroes, superheroes as a genre like that is still just
your little boy's dream and nothing they've been able to do at Marvel or or
DC has ever changed that. There are just little boys who run around on
Halloween dress as Spider Man. That's my thing. Miles Morales a lot of
America. Miles Morales, Miles Moraless, Miles Morales. Absolutely, I mean
that that I think was a revolution sort of in storytelling for Spider Man that
opened it up to more people, and also borrowed from the very popular trends
of anime. I don't know if y'all have kids, but anime is what
younger generations are consuming by and largely, yes, anime has never been more
popular house. Oh well, oh, I'm thinking about the thing, not
the anime. What's the other thing? It's the dirty version of anime.
I can't say, yeah, I'm sorry, I got those totally complainings.
I don't know what that is? No, what is it? Come on?
What you got? I'm like, I'm drag Sorry, Now what a
mystery? This is a hard drive right now? It's just in his pocket
it. By the way, how obnoxious is it to be friends with Ross
if you're a Star Wars fan? When you figured out that Ray was in
fact Palpatine, and then like he had to rub that in because he made
that prediction, it wouldn't shut up for years? How artist Ross has ever
proven himself to be? Keep screaming it by radio? Yeah, all right,
I got look, I got it. I got just about a minute
and a half left. I've enjoyed this and there's definitely going to be enough
fodder coming up. What is something that maybe needs some more publication, that's
not quite hit, that's going to be the next great outrage that you're sniffing
around on right now, you're seeing anything else. Well, caseie, I
have to I have to rebut that I don't sniff around for the next great
outrage. I try to sniff around for the next great joy that I'm excited
about, but they are hard to find, you know. I will say
that something good that is going on in the world of Star Wars right now
is my boy Dave Felloni, the commander of the Mandalorian TV series, the
Clone Wars animated series, your kids watch, the Star Wars Rebels series.
I hope he is now going to be stepping up to be the chief creative
officer of Lucasfilm, moving him ever closer to dethroning Kathleen Kennedy from Lucasfilm.
And that is cause for some hope and good storytelling, magical storytelling, I'll
say, in Star Wars for the couple of years to come, I hope
he's not I hope he's not the enveloped in the in the suck, so
to speak, where his hands are tied because look, there's nothing worse.
If you get there, you get to you're gonna be able to craft your
dream. And then they come and screw it all up, which is not
an uncommon thing in Hollywood, and your name still attached to it. So
hopefully they give him autonomy and that. But I got Steven Ken, I
got a role. Appreciate you joining us this morning, and we'll chat next
week. Okay, all right, there we go. You guys really not
gonna tell me what the name of that is. It's not anime something out
Well, I can't remember. You look like you know, Steven sound like
he knew. I'm the only one in the room. He doesn't. I'm
innocent, that's why. All right, Well, I guess I'll look it
up on Ross's computer during the break. And thank you to our guest Stephen
Kent, contributor to Bounding into Comics, and obviously this is a ton of
meaty topics on the regular. We'll continue to chat with him, and we
got another big half hour to go, including more audio from Joe Biden mad
at business owners or so, I don't know, we'll get into it.
Hang on fuck all Day ninety four five PTI and the Triad and one six
one FM talk in the triangle. I mean just over under we're talking about
a half dozen. I mean at least after every half right, Yeah,
I tell you, I think so. Try and figure out how many times
today that Joe Biden will be told that Henry Kissinger died before later this evening
at an event, likely asking him to stand up her round of applause.
What did he say yesterday? I didn't pull I didn't pull this audio,
but uh, we got some other audio. We're gonna go to hold on
to sack. Hey email, Why are you being a jerk? Okay,
now you thank you, appreciate all that, and you're the worst. Okay,
there we go. Yeah, where is this? Oh yeah, he
called Trump congressman Trump. So uh, Pope Kissinger's probably on the probably on
the table today. That's, of course, once he gets done blaming all
you business owners for being a holes. Wages for working families we've gone up
while inflation has come down sixty five percent. Give me, I can't even
begin to describe how dishonest by the way, this telling of facts is.
Sorry, I'll let you hear it now. Wages for working families, we've
gone up while inflation has come down sixty five percent. Give me families a
little more money in their pockets and a little more breathing room for this holiday
season. But we know the prices are still too high for too many things,
that times are still too tough for too many families. But we made
progress, we have more work to do. Let me be clear to any
corporation that's not brought their prices back down, even as inflations come down,
even if supply chains have been rebuilt, it's time to stop the price gouging
giving the American consumer a break. This is, by the way, this
is the usual and incredibly disturbing, same thing, over and over. Barack
Obama used to do this. It was whatever's going on, whatever financial hardships
are out there, it's because of evil, greedy people. The irony,
of course being many times the people saying that are themselves evil greedy people.
They just have a different way and a different funnel for the for what they
want to do. Do companies take advantage? You bet? Is their frustration
there? Yes? Is this supposed to be something that's worked out via company?
Absolutely? Is that always the case? No, There's certain things that
come in there's market segments where you have very few people in there most of
the time when you get into things since most of the time, but a
lot of the time when you get into the reasons why companies may find themselves
in a situation where really they and they themselves are setting the market price,
is a lot of it due to government intervention. I would point to utility
contracts and cable cable deals that are done with municipalities, these franchise agreements.
Lot of finger in there, you know, on the scale from government officials,
but it's not everything. But how disingenuous to simply decide that anyone who's
doing business who hasn't reduced prices because you you will lie and say that it's
down sixty five percent. That would indicate to the consumer who's not paying attention,
that that whatever they bought at the store for five dollars that used to
be three should now be you know, sixty five percent less than whatever the
increase was. Sorry not doing math this morning, but you get the gist
of it. When in reality, that's probably not what their cost is.
It's not what their cost is, and there is an inherent cost with raising
wages. Don't believe me. Look at what GM just stated that they that
whole strike and everything costs them, and going forward, how much that will
add to the price of a vehicle. It's an excess of one thousand dollars.
So what do you do while you go out and you blame people who
are in business for being greedy and not bad policies or just bad economic times.
Not everything that hits is one hundred percent at the foot of the president.
But if you lie about it, even if you don't feel that you
were responsible for it, well screw you then. And what incentive does anybody
have from a business perspective to artificially meet what you claim the inflation numbers are
reducing prices, even if that is not what they themselves are realizing when it
comes to having to pay people having to buy the raw materials that they use
to produce whatever they produce. Can't just go out and demonize them. I
know, I got a friend of mine who's in the restaurant business, and
he's I actually talked to him about this other claims where they've said, oh,
well, the inflation's back down, and he's like, none of my
costs went down, none of my none of the stuff that I buy for
my restaurant went down. In fact, it continues to go up. My
rent continues to go up. He doesn't know in the building his restaurants,
in what he pays employees to get quality employees has gone up, and that's
reflected in the cost. So what are you demonizing that guy for who took
a chance and invested a lot of money in our community, and, by
the way, failed at one point prior to that, kept it going and
did his thing. What are you demonizing that guy for? Because it's easier
than sitting there and recognizing that maybe there's something else you should be talking about,
Like how you have a marine following you around that you can use to
blow up the world. N Oh, look, my my marine carriers out
of it has a code to blow off the world that is not nuclear weapons.
All right, okay, well, what what's the code? That's what
I want to know. Is it the one hundred? No? No,
you think you're just getting a discount of breadsticks and you're bringing about the apocalypse,
bastard. What if it's the Konami code? I think that would be
well for the Obviously the marine could handle it. I was gonna say Biden
could not pull that off. You don't think he's got up up, down,
down left front. You don't think he's got that right? We a
what is it again? By the way, By the way, why can
I not remember what the dirty anime is called? But I could remember the
Konami code. I mean, it was an important part of your childhood,
dude. It's an important thing to remember. It still works today in various
games. Yeah, oh yeah, people, Easter Egg did a bunch.
Man. I can't remember where I left my keys, but I know how
to get unlimited lives or you know whatever. Oh what a failure of our
memory? What a failure? All right? Eight forty four? Or a
win? Depending on Hey you look about it, raised aging from the weather
chat? Do you remember the Konami code? I do not refresh my memory,
do you. I don't know which of the words you know and where
I have to start to refresh you on this. I probably don't know it.
Okay, all right, we don't. We don't have that level of
doubt level of time, all right, sir? So that ship is sailed?
Yeah, yeah, sorry, okay, that's okay, it is it
is. I was just kind of Rosse and I were just chatting about how
we need it to be more golf weatherish than like, I don't know,
freaking twenty like it was the other day, or so let's work on that.
Yeah, we're doing we're doing better already. This morning. We're mild
there, there's still most of us got down into the twenties. There were
some low thirties. Everybody gonna cross freezing today easily and into the upper part
of the fifties, which is right where you should be for the last day
of the month. Interesting note two. We end hurricane season in the Atlantic
today. Yeah, you're saying yourself, well, it didn't seem like much,
but in terms of name storms twenty it's the fourth busiest since nineteen fifty.
So that's your water cooler weather for today. Although we hadn't have much
impact the continental US, there were twenty named storms, so none of that.
We'll get a storm to come in. One round of rain coming in
tomorrow afternoon, most of it light in the mid upper fifties, and we'll
get another rain later, another round of rain later Saturday Saturday evening, and
then some showers again Sunday, so multiple rounds coming on in it still doesn't
look like blockbuster rainfall. The heaviest daying just south of us, so the
mild weather comes back. I think we're into the sixties over the weekend,
and then we cool off again sometime as we get into the early and middle
part of next week. Okay, all right, hey real quick. Yeah,
ever you ever entered in the debate with your wife or whatever about how
men when they're sick, they act more sick than women and they're a bunch
of babies. Yeah, I mean you for you probably every day, right,
okay, And I have the and I have the worst when somebody's sick,
I always have it worse too, yes, absolutely, all right,
Well, now there's science backing it up, so yeah, I believe science.
New evidence shows that the female immune system has hired blah blah blah blah
blah. Anyway, men get men get sicker. Yep, and uh and
uh and that's just the truth, and we hurt more, so uh you
know that's right, that's you with science, so uh, suck it up,
ladies. There you go. That's right. I'm going to bring that
home to my wife tonight. All right, Well, have fun at your
new apartment, so thank you. That you're moving into. All right,
yeah, there you go, Race Stagic from the Weather Channel. Well,
you don't think that's true. The female mind can't comprehend the pain that men
go through. No, no, they're always all dismissive, like die I
had a baby. You don't know. Yeah, I got a toothache.
What do you want? It's not just one toot, that's two. Think
about that what I'm going through. While we take this break, hang on
one O six one haf V Talk and ninety four to five w PTI,
two stations driving the best in talk. This is Casey Oday and Carolina's Morning
News for Bloomberg Update now with Jeff Bellinger. Jeff, what's happening? Well,
good morning, Casey. No drama over the latest economic indicators from Washington.
All of these numbers are right in line with forecasts. The number of
workers filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose by seven thousand to two hundred eighteen
thousand last week, and personal incomes and consumers spending both rose two ten percent
last month. Stock market futures point to a possible early rally. We have
the Dow futures up two hundred and nineteen points at the moment. A ten
billion dollar deal is in the works. In the pharmaceutical industry. ABV has
agreed to acquire the therapeutics company Immunagen. Buying Immunagen will help to speed abvi's
entry into treatments for ovarian cancer. Two supplements makers are merging. Pharmavite,
this is the company that makes nature made vitamins, is buying the women's health
company Bona Fide Health. That's a deal valued at four hundred twenty five million
dollars. Home mortgage lending declined over the summer, according to ADAM, which
reports residential loans fell three percent in the third quarter. Selling off ABC FX
in Walt Disney's other traditional cable channels was an idea that Disney CEO Bob Iger
kicked around over the summer, but Iger says now he's decided against it.
Back in July, Iger told CNBC those channels may no longer be essential to
the company. Transportation Security Administration may be forced to discontinue its use of biometric
screening at the nation's airports. Two Senators, John Kennet of Louisiana and Jeff
Merkley of Oregon are proposing a ban on the use of facial recognition by the
TSA. They want biometrics collected during a pilot program discarded. The senators say
the safety program currently used at twenty five airports raises privacy concerns. And Elon
Musk had harsh, profane words yesterday for advertisers that pulled their marketing from the
X platform after Musk endorsed an anti semitic post. Musk spoke at a conference
here in New York as sponsored by The New York Times. He admitted the
post was the worst and dumbest thing a thing he has ever done, but
he said if advertisers leave the company, its failure will be their fault,
not his Casey well, technically he said something else, but I bet you
don't want to repeat that too. No, I won't do that. And
maybe on my last day in radio, right when people ask can I swear
on the radio, I'm like, yeah once, yeah, you can want
one time you can? So all right, all right, thanks, appreciate
it, Okay, talk to you tomorrow. There you got Jeff Bellinger,
Bloomberg news man. I don't want to bum everybody out here at the end
of the show, but ross we have a climate change problem. We got
another climate change problem, this time impacting folks over in England, whether you
know it or not. All around the UK they have a very very significant
canal system. So if you ever go to if you ever go over there,
I mean they got canals everywhere you can traverse a whole lot of the
cotton or of the island. Kind of cool. The problem is with rising
sea levels and various other climate change related issues. Unfortunately that has forcibly,
even though they have locks, forced them to raise the levels of some of
the canal and one of the most famous traverses, which is in Lincolnshire,
which I'm sure your son would love right, got an old town named after
him. As now, the longboats, the houseboats that people used to live
and traverse, these keep getting stuck in the Lincolnshire Glory Hole. Oh mean,
it's a show wedge right in there. Lincoln's Glory Hole, as it
is famously known, is that old old high bridge in the city center,
which unfortunately they've had to allow via climate change the water levels to raise.
They say now on a daily basis, a boater will find himself lodged in
the glory Hole and requ I mean you don'te gets stuck there, asked,
And then they would have to and they have to call rescue to get them
out. How embarrassing would that be? Can you imagine? Right? Right?
It's the jaws of life? Bob? What happened? I got stuck
in the glory Hole? Okay? What? First, it's on a lock
system. I even looked on the map. It's three. There's three locks
in on this thing. Secondly, name it something else, because I am
way too immature to not do this story. Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue had to
be called to the Lincoln Glory Hole after boter Ray Fisher was attempting to use
the glory Hole, but the current became too strong and eventually eventually he got
pinned in there. At first, he decided to stand on the ledge of
the glory Hole and attempt to wedge the what wedge it out? Wait?
Oh? Wait? What's all this about? Then? Hut boy? What
this is England? Oh? They say, owa there, especially when they
were wedged in the glory hole exactly. Oh, the glory Hole is a
lot narrower than the rest of the river now with the raised water levels,
so be careful, I guess going through the glory hole,