As I pointed out yesterday, there at the end of the show, somebody
sent me a little screenshot from one of the mom's groups, which I guess
these things are a doozy. That's what I find so funny. So because
I posted this thing, and because I'm confused, it's a mom of a
nine year old or whatever, who was like, my daughter was so excited
she was making something for all of her classmates, and I guess she really
loves Valentine's Day. And they're like, God, no, we're not gonna
call it that anymore. It's a friendship Day or something, which is Look,
as I pointed out yesterday, not that I'm rooting for it, but
I don't understand why you would have groups fighting tooth and nail to be able
to explain to little kids all about really really adult topics, you know,
like your ten year old, you know, let's talk about you know.
This is the irony of all of this, Like if I wanted to give
an actual list of what some of these curriculums have, I would be nervous
to do it on the radio, even though I could probably do it in
a clinical way, Like I couldn't even get into all the ideas, So
you're gonna arm little kids with that information then take away their the romantic holiday.
It's just, you know, I find that a little ironic. But
what was funnier is I had like four or five people go, yeah,
I'm in that group. It's insane. And now they've been sending me all
these screenshots. So well, look, people are going to go on there,
people are gonna have questions, People want to have different ideas, they
want to debate them on. So the question becomes not the debate of that
stuff on social media, but rather the way that one side of that debate
is, you know, their comments end up down in the additional comments.
Remember how it used to be on Twitter, used to be this was you
know, this was just over a year ago. What would happen. You'd
go to Twitter, You'd see a story and every response would be the far
left reply unless you literally made an effort to scroll down to the bottom and
click additional replies. Then you could see some you know, balanced counterpoint kind
of stuff. So yeah, by all means, discuss your stuff, but
also people people send me the funniest stuff. And I and I'm not picking
on Carrie, but I had the game. This is what Carrie apex school
moms or something. But Carrie, some of the carry groups are just doozies.
I think my favorite Ross. Do you remember the woman who was in
the very nice neighborhood in Carrie who was concerned about the gangs coming in and
haag in or street. Yeah, man, it was terrifying. It was
how do you how do you sleep at that? You move at that point
you have to move, You think you have to like where probably you probably
don't want to be anywhere near the source, so maybe somewhere safe, like
I don't like Durham or something maybe or maybe Fayetteville get away from that.
So yeah, it was. It was underground locating markings and the best part
was as I sit here and I remember more of this, didn't the dude
whose company it was called, I think, yeah, somebody somebody or not
you know, called in the show and you try to explain, like what
those markings actually were. Well, of course that's what he's gonna say,
right when he's off mark and that you know, he's like, ah,
this is where fiber optic lines are. And it's like, I don't know,
why are the other gangs nervous to come to that neighborhood though, I
you know, maybe there's some duality there. But yeah, yeah, that
was. That was right up there with my favorite. So keep sending that
stuff. I won't always use it, but it was been damn entertaining.
Man, doesn't doesn't your wife? She participates in those Facebook groups, right
like I some I there's a few that I got. You know how you
can just add people? Please don't do that right right to your to your
friends and your family and just drag me and you're asked them is the polite
thing. But whatever, the show will get signed up for stuff, and
I'll see some of that stuff, but you know, a lot of it.
I got to get the spy reports, So feel free to send the
spy report, but don't invite me to join your your mom's group, because
like it, I'll look a little suss in there. All right, very
good? All right? Coming up on the show. I you know,
it's been a while since I've been to a water park. I was trying
to remember the last last water park I was at. Humm I think maybe
the I the one north of Kitty Hawk. Once you go across the inlet
there and you're headed up like you're going to Virginia. There's a water park
there, but I think that's the last one. I don't at no point
in that water park did I worry about catching fire. I'm gonna be honest
with you, it's it's never been a big concern. And I've been to
some I've been to the Wisconsin Dells. Some of you maybe know what that
is, some of you maybe don't. In the middle of Wisconsin, they
have what's called the Dells and it is you got a great wolf lodges there
and it's just a ton of water parks, a lot of indoor as well
outdoor. There's some big concerts. You know. It's kind of a it's
a summary place, but it's been transitioned to be winter two with all the
indoor stuff. And again, that was when I lived in Minneapolis. That
was a huge destination, all those nothing ball of America. Nothing. Sweden,
Yeah, something crazy video as a raging inferno erupted at a new water
slide water water park, excuse me in Sweden. Check this out. When
you can hear the ascension of the flame, that's a thing that is crazy.
The massive blaze ripped through the yet to be opened. So right,
the only thing they got in there as they're getting ready is you got some
employees, which which is good. Obviously, you know, there wasn't a
thousand people up on one of those big risers or something. What initially caught
fire was the Oceania was this forty three foot slide. I don't know if
Oceana is the name of the slide or the park, but harrowing footage shop
by witnesses showed the slides engulfed by flames as several fire fighting vehicles descended on
the area. There were at least three explosions in the video. Like it's
bonkers, man, but you know, new fear unlocked, as they say
right there, like what's uh? You know, we try to gauge possible
things that could happen, right, what as as a parent or just as
somebody would use the water proer, what are your what are your concerns?
Right sunburn? I guess probably that's primary number one. I don't know Russ
Went's last time he went to a water park. Oh, I kid,
no idea? Did you? But not not enough to remember like twenty years
ago? All right? But you really hit twenty five yeah, okay,
you didn't. You didn't. You didn't concern yourself with catching on fire,
did you? I did not. No drowning, sunburn, just annoying people.
Yet apparently this thing's not going to open on time now, so I
to know, Sweden, maybe this ain't your bag, man, like,
stick to what you're good at, like chefs and bikini teams. Right,
I'm trying to remember what else Sweden's known for. Fish? Well, yeah,
yeah. When I think of the Nordic countries and you're talking about fish,
I think Norway, but I think you know, they're all pretty prevalent.
Also, you know, having to do with water there, so there's
but but you know, boats sometimes I got it. But yeah, maybe
cheffing and bikini teams. Because this ain't for you. Let's see how I
was trying to father there's any injuries. I've not seen anything. Yeah.
No, they were super efficient. Nobody including a hotel. You're by,
hotel and office facilities all evacuated without people stomping each other like it's a Black
Friday sales event. But crazy video tweeted out at Casey on the radio if
you want to check it out, all right, coming up on the show.
Sorry, I just had to hit that story fresh in the mind.
At eight o five today, Senator Ted Buddle join us. I don't expect
Ted to answer for his counterpart. But you know, there's one thing that
annoys me and I've talked about here on the show, is it's the the
Rubes thing right where you know, if you if if if you, if
you're around some people from d C, and not just DC but elected if
I've been around elected officials before, they get a little too comfortable and they
start getting a Rube attitude. Now, don't get me wrong, some constituents,
just like some radio listeners, are dumb, just like people who go
and deal with whatever your business is, right, whatever business you're in.
We've all encountered an idiot, and I understand that frustration. It becomes a
little more complex though, when one you're an elected official, so there is
a different level of perceived although there should be actual, but at least perceived
accountability. And secondly, yeah, just because I think occasionally we get stupid
people that call in. Your attitude can't be everyone who calls in, for
the most part, is just dumb. Although on some days it has felt
like that I'm sure, even you, as a passive listener, have been
like, what is going on today? Because I get your emails? But
what is what has talked about in this story? Yeah, yesterday having to
do with both Senator slender Man, excuse me, Senator Tillis and Mitch McConnell
is not a good look. According to Tilli's quote, our base cannot possibly
know what's at stake at the level that any well briefed US senator should know
about what's at stake if putin wins Now. I don't disagree with Tom Tillis
there, I said it. It's on record that people who are going to
have access to additional information, classified information, information that's reasonably not going to
be in the public purview unless it's a Trump administration. Then you know,
people bureaucrats will just release that stuff where there's a little more going on.
However, once you've made a big claim, you have to understand that the
people are snake bit on this stuff, whether it's you know, going back
to boy, you name it. I think of all sorts of things throughout
political history where people don't necessarily believe what you're saying, especially when it's really
high stake stuff. You just watch everything having to do with Vietnam from Kennedy
through Nixon, right, depending on papers you name it, going into how
a rack Afghanistan was handled, going into all of this, people are because
you're what Tillis is claiming here is an illusion, and I'd like him to
clarify an allusion to if Ukraine is grabbed, Poland's next, we have to
do something. That's the narrative I've seen emerging. But I haven't seen any
evidence in the form of intelligence it's actually been released, and I understand the
complexities of it, but also I haven't had it had it explained to me
right in a convincing enough manner that Putin would go in to take Poland.
Now would he do it if he thought he could get away with it?
That that becomes a little different, because I think Poland is seen different,
especially with the emerging new government there, as different than than Ukraine. I
think you would see countries with actual boots on the ground. I'm not suggesting
it, but Tillis, if he's going to make that argument, I think
needs to explain it rather than ending up in this story looking like he's saying,
look, they're all dumb they don't know. It's not a good look,
McConnell. McConnell also quoted claiming that opposition to this horrible bill is among
the dimmest and most short sighted views of critics. We'll then do a better
job explaining it, because what you're what you're doing is the internet meme,
right source, trust me, bro and the And the problem you have is
nobody trusts you, and not just him, but but all these cats with
some exceptions. Right, people will pick favorites, and I'm like, God,
whatever they say is gospel, all right, But nobody's sitting there looking
at the totality of lawmakers across the spectrum and going, now, they're doing
a great job. No, it's it's it's not even remotely close. If
you look at if you look at positivity ratings, Uh, they've created they
ain't never coming back. We're just too divided. But we're also internally divided.
So I don't know that that's a good look. So uh uh so
we'll talk to Bud. What time did senator, what time did we schedule
Slenderman for? Uh? He's yet to me, we're not confirmed yet to
be working on that. Oh, I'll let you know the second we know
because the only thing, correctly from the only time he's ever shown any interest
in the show is right in the heat of election, right, and then
we did what one interview and no, we did two interviews with him,
right, two? I think we did two. And then I got in,
I got into that tiff with him at the restaurant where I saw him
and he's just like ghosted. Yeah, I think we did two. So
you know, I have to wait for for reelection, I guess. But
we'll talk to we'll talk to half of the delegation with Ted Budd coming up
eight o five, So looking forward to that. And this the former Dutch
PM story is crazy, and we got some we got a little church debate,
okay, although I don't know that it's going to be a debate,
but maybe it is. I don't know. So the phone numbers, we
get things rolling. Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.
A is Tuesday, here on your Valentine's Eve, here on the CaCO Day
radio program. Hang on all the update on the the Joel Osteen church shooting,
because it's bonkers. We will we will get to that here in here
in just a little bit. I was gonna do that at seven o five.
I might, I'm might leaning into it earlier, but I got a
couple other things I want to do, by the way, somebody right,
two things. One, somebody pointed out, yes, meatballs, we forgot
Swedish meatballs. That's a very good point, sir, And that's at least
on point. Whereas other people said army knives and chocolates and stuff. You
realize that's not the Sweetish, right. I mean, I'm sure they have
knives, and I'm sure they have chocolate, but now you're thinking of Swiss.
But yeah, meatballs the only the only thing keeping Ikea financially viable.
In my humble, humble opinion, I remember the first I remember the first
time. This is what not not to Charlotte Ikea. This is when I
lived in Minneapolis and they opened an Ikea next to the Mall of America and
already you couldn't Chinese water torture, bamboo shoots under the fingernails. Get me
to ever want to drive down to Bloomington, which is where the Mall of
America is. For all of you who hate busy shopping centers, that's the
king, Okay. And then they put the ikea basically in the parking lot
of it. And first I was dating at the time. She's like,
ah, I want to go get some office. She was she had a
room in her house. She wanted to put an office in all right,
all right, and I had I had a tahoe at the time. She
had a little car. So I'm like, here's the deal. I will
drive to the Ikea. I had never been in an ike at that but
I will drive down there. I will park, I will load crap up
that is in mine. However, when we go in that store, I'm
going to go into the restaurant and I'm gonna eat meatballs until you're done.
So if you don't want me to be, you know, get physically sick
eating meatballs, I wouldn't. I wouldn't, Doddle, okay, And I
remember because you go in, and I'll try to remember the show because I've
been to Charlotte one once too. But anyway, so you're going up that
big escalator card escalator that weird like moving upwards walkway lake at the airport,
and then you get in and you go left is the where the meatballs are,
and then right is where the giant Hamster Maze that is that store is.
And I remember turning left and she gives me this look like yo,
you're serious, and I'm like yep. So while I've been to the Ikea
in uh in Minneapolis, I've never been past the restaurant and I think that's
uh, that's say it's a lotable goal. So and then the Charlotte one,
I did have to, but to be fair, I was buying something.
I needed two things, and I did not want to be down there.
But yeah, I turned into a whole fight. I was im,
I told you, I'm just going to eat meatballs. Ross. Have you
had the ike of meatballs? It's pretty good, man, and you can
just keep ordering. I never have when that when that ike store opened,
when it was a Charlotte Lake forever ago, Marquie wanted to go and I'm
like, I'm not driving to Charlotte to go to a furniture store where you
have to put the furniture together just for the meatballs. It is not going
to happen. And we were like, yeah, let's not do that.
Oh that's good, sounds awful. It sounds like a horrible weekend. Yeah.
Yeah. And then you get the furniture together and you get in the
you know, the the fight, the fight over putting it together, because
everything uses a stupid Alan wrench and it's awful. Like anytime you open up
anything and it's like, you know, all the pieces fall out and one
of the first things you see is an Alan wrench. You know you're about
to have a good time. M I think, yeah, I remember I
assembled her desk. But the deal was I'm like, I'll assemble this.
You go do anything that's not this. But you're right, yeah, because
like you know, you try to move something together as a couple. People
get in these big fights. But I'm like, no, I told you
because I knew I was gonna end up putting this together. I'm like,
I'm gonna eat all the meatballs. There's nothing you can do. Back in
the day, the fights would start at the blockbuster, right, You'd go
there and like pick out a movie and those absolutely horrible. And now like
the blockbusters are close, and now it's like, ikea, why would you
do that on the your weekend? You know, you raise a good point,
like yeah, you could get you could get in a horrendous couple fight
in a blockbuster. But I don't know that I've ever gotten in one while
cruising to see what's on the Netflix. You know what I'm saying. So
I think maybe, like why why would be more inclined to I guess maybe
because all the movies will still be there. Even if the one you you
got got sucks, you can just flip over to another one. I don't
know, but I've never had a big Netflix fight. But yeah, Blockbusters,
you know why? Because women rent stupid movies? Can I say that?
You know? I'm like, why are we not in the wrestling section?
Yeah? They're like, oh, it's rob Com And I'm like,
there's a whole isle there, and I'm just looking at it, like like
the the it's maam game stop Psycho? Like what if I kicked the rack
over? Does that? But then you realize the movies aren't really in there.
You're not gonna do anything, and then you're gonna end up with two
rom com so what are you gonna do? But also, you know,
rent better movies, I guess would be the takeaway there? All right,
what is this Boston Paul sending me a But why why are you sending me
your reason to drink? That's this is this is what I don't understand.
Okay, all right, all right, thank you. He's in the Marty
Grass spirit, all right. Eight eight eight ninety three four seven eight seven
four. When we get over to this, this is uh, this is
awful, man, this is awful right here. So the former Dutch Prime
minister drees van Ach I guess is how you pronounce that. I'm not up
on all the Dutch prime ministers current or I mean Biden probably is. And
this dude's dead now so it probably will talk to him this week. But
I just want you to like think this, but think it through our our
system of government, and it gets really awkward real quick. So the former
Dutch Prime minister Dreez van Okt and his wife, who were both ninety three,
died yesterday hand in hand. And when you see that, at first,
you're like, that's going back to the stupid movie selection, right.
I don't know why, but like women love movies where the couple dies at
the end old holding hands. And isn't that I'm trying remember, which isn't
that one of the plot points in a movie that's very popular. It's that
notebook I'm trying to remember. I've seen pieces of it, and I think
that's a spoiler. I think that might be it's in one of those ones
that you you probably don't want to watch. But here's where it gets really
unromantic, really quick. They didn't. It wasn't one of those where like
they're sitting there, they're so in love and he passes away and then she
dies of a broken heart within two twenty four hours. That's not what we're
talking. Even though it seems like what they're trying to set up, they're
gonna Paul Harvey the rest of the story here in just a moment, they
did well. They did die hand in hand together, and that is technically
accurate. When you read down the story, you realize they had themselves euthanized,
and you know how, you know how moonbats love this whole ethanism,
euthanizing right under cover of Look, if somebody's got, you know, a
horrific disease for which there is no cure and they find themselves in pain,
why should the government stand in their way of you know, taking that out.
And you know, you can process it through religion, you can process
it through a variety of things, but ultimately, if you're you know,
limited government. Should you know, if that guy wants to do that,
you don't have to agree with it. You can be concerned for their soul,
you can all of those things. But like in countries where they actually
get this rolling, it's like they have to keep figuring out how to add
new customers. And that's where this gets weird. Like up in Canada,
I don't know if they've passed this yet, but some they do have some
semblance of when kids can be euthanized. And I saw the numbers. The
amount of Canadians that were signing up for this keeps growing, and you know,
sometimes it's for really reasons that you wouldn't think would be on the list.
And to some extent, where the complexities lie is when you either get
the government involved in like regulating the Kavorkian clinics of the world or promoting it.
It feels like in some instance, but if you're one of these,
you know, these big world government moon bats who convinced yourself that we are
the plague, then I I understand, uh, why why you may be
drawn to this. But then I started thinking, like, can you imagine
remember that photo of the Carters from what the last two years ago where it's
the Carters and the Bidens and they're all and it looks like a weird optical
illusion because the Carters look like little people and it's it's it's a it's a
perspective thing. But also the Carters were not big and the Bidens are tall.
Okay, this is just based on the age. This is like if
there was a news report that that the Carters decided to go and uh and
have a suicide pact. That's that's a kin to what what's going on here.
And I don't know why, but it gets far creepier like that.
Now I did see people. Well, look if I had to put a
list together a politics and I understand what you're driving at, but you know,
try to be adults here. They had been both suffering from deteriorating health
before some time, including cognitive issues. M DUO euthanasia or two people receiving
the injection simultaneously, while still relatively rare in the Netherlands, is slowly gaining
more popularity. Let's see here last year how many they have last year twenty
twenty two couples. I got a question, how do you keep them honest?
Can I just can I can I just go a little dark here for
a moment, Like how do you like you go in? Are you sharing
the same IV? So there's no question there? Or like what was that
stupid Matt Damon movie that came out a few years ago where they were shrinking
people like you could like the whole premise was where you could be shrunk down
to be like, you know, dollhouse size. I'd never watched it because
it looked incredibly stupid, but I think I did read the synopsis of it,
and I think in that movie, like his character and his girlfriend or
wife or whoever it was, they were gonna do it together, and so
they showed up and he walked into whatever first and she's like, oh no,
that looks like that. That didn't look like fun. So like if
you show up down there, you're like, you know what, why don't
you go first? I'll be along shortly. And then you watch that like
if you've starready signed the papers, like do they let you out change your
mind? I don't know how it works. This is why this thing is
so dark. And then my weird early morning brain just starts breaking down all
these scenarios, like would you have liability there? I don't know. I
also, what do you do You go back to the house or your family's
packing up all the stuff, and then only one of you comes back and
you're like, so, so something came up. The Dutch royal family praised
the former Prime minister for his time in service with administrative responsibility for turbulent times
people are making Canada jokes now anyway, but also for making the tough decision.
All right, well maybe that's I don't know, maybe more former politicians
need to look into the Dutch model. At least then they won't be showing
up in Davos still trying to run my life as unelected idiots. All right,
six forty eight, Hang on, somebody's taken an old child molester looking
van and let's just say they gave it an upgrade. You want to go
check out the gun van. Scroll down on Twitter at Casey on the radio,
the dudes and they're out at the range with this thing, driving at
the berm with the targets up. It's pretty funny. So and it's funny
to watch people who don't think it's funny, which is always funny around those
things. So that's one. Also, an Indonesian soccer player. This video's
out there. So this was a big match. Let's see. I don't
know what is their I'm trying to think what their league is called. There.
It doesn't matter ross obviously, you and I big fans of the Indonesian
Premier Soccer League. This is normally what we talk about off the air.
I can't remember who you were rooting for in their big super Bowl game?
Was it? Was it the FBI Sue Bang? Or are you more of
an FC bum Dung uh enthusiast? Uh? Do you have a preference?
I was just to see both of them make it to this event. So
are you know? I'm really I'm I'm I'm conflicted here because you know I'm
a fan of uh Sue Bang? Oh yeah? But bum oh my god?
Yeah? I mean what what what is there that hasn't been said about?
Yeah? Yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah. Well sadly uh Septeine Raharji?
Who does he? Does he play for bum Dung or Sue Bang?
I don't know anyway, the thirty five year old is you know, the
match is going on and then all of a sudden you just see it.
You see that lightning bolt come down and uh and hit this dude the thirty
five year old train to the hospital. Unfortunately the damage was done and he
did pass away. Oh he was on Subang. So I was gonna ask
if you had powers now, but I guess not. No, no,
because that sounds like it could be an origin story. No, it does,
absolutely, but but not in modern comics though, I mean, because
that's a dude. Fine Tuesday morning, coming up on the show one hour
from now, Senator Ted Buddle join us, and you can bet we're going
to get into that god awful bill and a few other things. We chat
with the Senator because they ain't done. They ain't done with that. That's
not the it's just a matter of seeing what they come up with next.
And uh, you know, feasibly over in the Senate. Over in the
Senate, you know you should have the split the going on if you especially
if you can pull one of the one of the two, the mansion or
the cinema. So so we'll we'll see with that. Over in the house.
Who the hell knows. I did think it was funny, though,
a little funny when they were trying to impeach may Orcus that the other day,
and it was what two fifteen to two fifteen, right, and George,
that that psycho from New York, George Santos, who again I can
think he's a psycho, but if you're gonna not throw people out like Cory
Bush or Elon Omar or others, and then you throw that dude out.
And he just wrote miss me yet, referencing that he would have been two
sixteen. So so you know, that's its own mess over there. But
we'll get into it. But first Texas, so as as the weekend came
to a close, even with a tension going, you know, to the
Super Bowl, no doubt, on Sunday people heard the story a shooter entering
Joel Ostein's megachurch down in Houston and a child, a child being shot.
I mean, I'm trying to remember how the initial report it was, because
there's things we know now that we didn't know. But basically, a woman
with a long gun came into the church during the Spanish language service and the
child was shot, and then another man who was shot. But more importantly,
you rolled into a church in Texas, ma'am sir, which we'll figure
out here in a moment. That's not the state to do it not the
state to do it, as the woman was quickly taken down by two off
duty police officers who were at the church working in a security capacity. But
yeah, that that didn't last very long. Then this story picked up steam.
So initially there were reports that the individual and I'm not going to get
into names here, the individual had actually attended the church in some capacity I
don't know, as the regular worshipers or what. But there was a lot
more history as well. Specifically, as they started digging into the background of
this individual, who authorities identified as a thirty six year old woman, stuff
started popping up on the Internet where instead of what is that, let's go
with the first name Genes Genesi, I guess it would be Genesa. Genessa
didn't always go by genessay, didn't always go by female identifying stuff Specifically,
the individual actually would use a man's name as well. It doesn't sound like
they identify. This is where it gets so stupid with this audio I'm gonna
play you. It doesn't say whether they identified or specifically any instances where they
identified then as a with different pronouns, but it's abundantly clear that this individual
was trying to present as male. So you have the transgender angle there.
You also have the political angle as they started diving into the background. I'll
take it for what it's worth, but there seems to be an affinity there
for Bernie Sanders. Now that Bernie Sanders make that person go and shoot up
Joel's attempt to shoot up I should say Joel Ostein's church. No, however,
not as not on an individual basis. But there's a lot of debate
going on right now over the you know, the the immediate recency of gender
dysphoria and gender identity disorder being not a clinical identifiable thing for which here's how
you treat it. And by the way, you need to look for other
things that go hand in hand with this and statistically significant cases such as depression,
such as potential suicide connected to it, which is a stat that within
the transgender community is on par with what's this bench. Burro uses the example
of German Jews in the early forties. It's a staggering suicide rate and one
that is statistically not is not statistically different pre or postop. So the debate
yesterday was once you tell an individual who they believe, and many people believe
needs psychiatric care right to address all of this once you tell them they're fine
and it's everybody else it's the problem. Some are wondering if that's contributory.
And for a media cycle that loves to, you know, have panel debates
over whether Sarah Palin's campaign flyer with targeted districts was some sort of driving force
to mass shootings, they don't seem to want to entertain that conversation. Also,
the firearm that was used, by the way, I don't. I
don't choose to decal and logo my firearms. I know a lot of people
do. They'll get engravings, and especially if you're into an ar platform of
some sort, you know, you can buy. It's all about customization anyway,
so you can get some It's some crazy stuff, you know, in
a fine way. But I'm not super familiar with like this, like the
can I tinfoil have for just a moment, how many recent you know,
national profile incidents where somebody decided that they were going to do something dastardly or
deadly or or whatever it may be, where immediately we just have to look
to their firearm because it's all logoed up as some sort of like avatar indicator
of their politics. Right, wasn't that the thing down in Florida with the
guy who went into the what did he do? He went into the porn
shops? Right like his was gun? And then the one whose parents released
his manifesto in about sixteen seconds in the Panhandle there that gun was decaled,
logoed up. What was the Hispanic white nationalist down in San Antonio? Well,
in this case, according to authorities, the firearm used in this incident,
an incident described as a long gun, included a pro Gaza patch on
the firearm. Let's see here. And with all of this known, the
police in Houston decide they're going to hold a press conference, which I think
the way that you open that is, Hey, do you want to walk
into a Texas church? Do you think you're going to do something? Think
again? Which is probable, it's a good deterrent. But when it's time
now just to learn the facts, like what may have motivated this person?
Did they have you mentioned that they had had a relationship that they have specific
beef with somebody at the church? Did they go and they the way that
they identified themselves was no longer comporting with some of the teachings that they were
hearing, and now that they've been told, everyone else is the problem.
I don't know, but this is how Houston Police is spending their time on
the investigation. She has utilized both male and female names, but through all
of our investigation to this point, talking with individuals, interviews, documents,
Houston Police Department reports, she has been identified this entire time as female.
She her good and so we are identifying her as Jensen moreno, Hispanic female.
Why did I understand You're asked the question, so it's not totally on
you. Why are we spending a moment on this. Why are we explain
to me why you think that this individual went in and shot up the church?
I understand. Look, I understand this as part of the larger conversation.
But for police it should just be like, because this person's dead,
they don't have pronouns right now. Okay, I mean they do, but
there their feelings will never be hurt hearing the other one again? So what
are we doing? Goes on in the article this from this New York Post,
But they're quoting some local media here. A significant previous arrest records,
some violence, some not. Uh, this individual actually came from El Salvador,
And some people are wondering, based on the booking photo and the classification
as to whether this person was identified as white non Hispanic, right, because
remember Hispanics and whites get thrown into one group for a lot of categorizing,
and then they have this further breakdown, and I saw people scratching their head.
Although I've seen two versions of the idea, because you can go on
the Texas site and then there's the actual booking stuff, and there's two different
there's two different descriptors, and so I don't know if one was an initial
classification. But even if it was, how do you take somebody into Spanish
language service who's from El Salvador and mark them as white non Hispanic And it
looks like it is correct now on the state site. But yeah, it
was just a weird day. Let's see, oh and here we go.
Police also said that the shooter had penned anti Semitic writings some about the river
to the sea. So I don't know if that's buffalo by you to the
you know, Galveston. Sorry, it's the only geographic things I can think
of about Houston. Oh it's hot there too, and the traffic sucks.
Authorities now believe that there may have been a familial dispute, so some sort
of family beef between the shooter's ex husband and family, some of which are
Jewish, so we believe there might that might be where the stems from.
Sent investigator hasseg but we're delving into it more. Officials say that an AR
fifteen rifle was used, and also they were in possession of a twenty two
caliber rifle, but it was not used. It was in a bag.
According to ABC News, authorities say that free Palestine. Okay, all right,
So just because I want to be abundantly clear here, so the initial
reporting was that the gun said free Palestine. However the rifle's butt plate just
read Palestine. But then he coupled out with their writings online and I don't
think they mean Palestine, Texas or East Palestine, Ohio, which obviously ended
up on the news for their own little train thing there. Please say.
The shooter died from injuries, and as she was dying reportedly poured an unknown
substance on the floor and told officers that there was a bomb, so that
that complicated how they went about investigating and reporting on this because then they had
to evacuate and I guess get the sniffer dogs in there, and it was
a whole thing. Hours after the shooting, FBI agents and other law enforcement
searched the home in Conrod, Texas. Word he said that reasonably that there
were more guns, anim or explosives inside, but didn't say necessarily what they
pulled out of there. This is crazy. So I'm just going to status
here. The church founded by Ostein's late father is attended by forty five thousand
people weekly and it's, by the way, that's only the third largest megachurch
in America. By the way, what is up with these megachurches? Man?
I And I mean this purely in a discussionary way. I mean because
that look, that's gonna be somebody's jam, but others are gonna, I
don't know, they're gonna crave smaller, more intimate. Obviously, there's gonna
be a delineation of faiths. Somebody who's raised in the Catholic Church, I
don't remember ever attending Mass or any sort of church event where a tank might
roll out like that amazing video that we had a few months ago where they
were literally driving a tank through an arena and they're like, no, that's
a men's What was It was a men's a Christian men's organization like national gathering,
and it looked like it looked like the Mad Max movie update. It
was amazing. So, look, I understand, and especially when you live
in a society with tragically small attention spans, why that may be a thing.
But is it enjoyable? I mean, we got a couple of big,
big church. What's the one on Capital Boulevard. I have a few
friends to go to that, that big beast, it's Capital and and they've
invited me over to it, but I'm just like, I don't want to
go. I don't feel I don't want to go to a church with thousands
of people. But that's just a look, that's just a personal thing.
But I feel like the reason I'm bringing this up is because we're going to
transition now into another story having to do with the church and what they were
doing on Sunday, and uh why that's raised some eyebrows, But it's like,
don't you eventually get into where there's a competition. Because I watch video
not just this church, but several others where these megachurches like they were all
in on Super Bowl. And I understand embracing, you know, current culture
and bringing a religious practical view of that to individuals. But it's like it's
like a circus thing, man. So wait, wait to hear what some
pastor there were. I guess it was almost like a game show within a
church. But now folks have some questions and we'll get into that story.
Plus Senator Ted Budd eight oh five, all coming up here on the CaCO
Day Radio program. I am not an ordained anything, okay, So I
will view church things through the lens of church experience. Somebody who was raised
in a Catholic household, uh uh, you know, went to uh left
the Catholic church and that's the whole thing. But but you know, within
the Christian faith and and variations thereof that's that's what I can view through.
However, you know, uh, Catholicism that you know, the joke is
right, Uh, if you you're you're imbued with a guilt complex, which
you know, I understand joking about that to some extent. That's that's religion
in general. When you're a kid and you're just trying to figure things out.
But you know, eventually you get into uh within Catholicism, uh when
you when you start getting older, you get into Catechism and you start learning
about the tenets of the Church and it's a whole process and then you can
communion and all that. And it doesn't matter whether you're Catholic or not.
Every church has its processes and and and different things there. And I remember
as a kid, one of the cringiest things was some of the that that
that we would watch where it was it was the Catholic church, but it
was the church trying to you know. It was it was the hey kids,
we're cool. You're cool, and this is cool and and as a
kid, right, you're just anti authoritarianism, and it's just you're looking at
it going, oh man, and it becomes that meme with was it who
is it Schneider? With this? No, is it Rob Schneider. No,
it's right. It's the bumy meme where he's like, hey, fellow
kids. But that is what it is. And you know, the takeaway
for me on that stuff when it comes to church is yeah, you can
make all those jokes, but ultimately it's also how do I please call and
disagree with me if you want. Faith isn't supposed to be easy and and
church isn't supposed to be easy, but that doesn't mean you can't make it
welcoming. But at the end of the day, ultimately with the within the
Christian denominations, I understand kind of the Catholic message that I got grown.
I went to Catholic school for a while too, so it was that was
the whole thing, and that is Look, not all aspects of going to
church and you know, not sitting and doing good things and being a good
community member and helping people in the It's not all of this is sunshine and
unicorns. Man. But if you think this is tough, wait to hear
what this guy did for you, right, he had a much worse day
than you're going to be having running around doing food deliveries or whatever. And
it is through those acts that people can still find joy, but recognize that
there is a certain tedious nature to it, and that is something that some
people will find off putting, especially in a society that's all about main character
syndrome, because it's really, look, you can't if you're in a church
and you're the main character, then I think you're misunderstanding what you're there for
because they kind of have a main character or three, depending on you know,
how you look at it. But so I'm I I understand why churches
try to make things more entertaining, more palatable. I get it one hundred
percent. This is one of the things that people complain about on this show
is they want us to do do politics all the time, and you guys
are talking about this other stuff. And my argument is, look, I
do a medium where we're going to talk about whatever we find entertaining, amusing
any of that, and inevitably there's going to be stories in there. And
if I've got somebody listening because they want to hear about the naked Florida woman
with the potato peeler the other day, and then from there I transition to
a story that I'm providing opinion on that has you know, real political consequence,
then perhaps people who find themselves not very partisan or you know, really
into the politics, they may be inspired by what they hear see take the
good with the bad. But man, I look at some of these megachurches
and it's crazy. Now the men's Christian Christian men's group gathering with the you
know with the tank and stuff. That's that's a bigger thing. But if
that's a weekly thing, does anybody here go to a big, big megachurch?
And what is the appeal over the smaller church? Obviously the pyrotechnics seem
vastly superior to what I remember at the church in Buffalo, Wyoming, we
did not have pyrotechnics. But at what point are is it still about the
message? That's what I ask. And I'm not getting into things with like,
you know, pastors who need you to help them upgrade their jet and
all that, but like I don't know how and I should Should I be
showing up to church to uh, you know, to grow spiritually or because
I want to see little people on a motorcycle in one of those death cages
for for the Lord? Right? This is this is the stuff. So
when I see these videos, I'm like, holy crap, And don't think
of it. Say if that's how you want to go to church, I
don't care. I just recognize it's not gonna be for everybody. And and
and then it's as you you keep having to one up yourself, you turn
into you get this story. This is in Ohio. Sorry, it was
such a long setup. But I people get very sensitive about this. This
is an Ohio megachurch. Oh wait to say? Is that a woke word?
Or is that that actually what they so confused? Pastrix? Is that
what we call female pastor? Is that like latinix? You know what?
I don't care. Ohio Megachurch Pastrick Ali Patterson as part of a super Bowl
themed church service. And I've seen a few videos of different ones, and
one of them does have motorcycles in the the Rolye cage, So it's I
didn't just pull that up for nothing. They were having a little bit of
like a little on like a game show, like if you ever go on
a cruise and they're doing one of those stage game shows kind of looks like
that. Okay, And it's football themed. And so her and the this
other pastor she's in competition with, they decide that they're gonna, oh,
they're gonna have a field goal, you know, kicking stuff. Well,
that's good, right, that's definitely football themed. How how are you going
to work that into a into a church setting? Please demonstrate call it when
it lands, call it in costing the coin. Okay it Yeah, let's
just go with tails would you like to kick or receive the Bible? Well,
I'm sorry the what so you want you want to kick or received?
He obviously he meant to say ball, right, ball? Bible is supposed
to start with the bee, obviously, because right the other thing would be
insane? Right, Tom, when's the toss? Chooses to receive the Bible?
Patterson? Why is there a Bible on a tea? Oh? My
gun? She got a leg? By the way, is that a touchback?
Can you get a touch Baptist time? In eighteen years? There's a
touchback for the kickoffs? Hold on, hold on, hold on. Now,
ask yourself if you went to church this Sunday and you know, one
of the the worship leaders or your pastor whoever it is, decided that,
uh, they're gonna get a Kickers tea, put the King James on there
and then kick it into the crowd like it's a T shirt. Gun?
Is that normal? This again? This is why I'm asking people? Or
would some people probably be like, yeah, I don't know, because I
you know, I gotta say this. There's only so much stuff you can
take reverence off of. You know, there's a there's if if you if
in the Bible. They literally have they have almost an entire book just telling
you about who's supposed to do what, the families are supposed to do it,
and uh, you know, but basically the message is, hey,
all of this stuff that's part of the religious side of us, you know,
the the the relics, and the artifacts and the and the scriptures and
and the scrolls and all of that. Like they were they were deemed so
important and so reverent that there's biblical and instructions on how they're supposed to be
respected and treated and like, not that long ago, you know, people
were like, ah, I shouldn't look into the arc of the Covenant.
Ross have you ever seen what happens somebody looks in the arc of the Covenant,
But it doesn't go well, especially if you're a Nazi. From from
what I've seen, and now they're like, I'm gonna kick some Bibles and
and by the way, uh probably what do you say she got probably twenty
yards on that twenty thirty yards. It doesn't look like the first time she's
kicked the Bible anyway. Seven forty six Race Stagic from the Weather Channel.
Yes, sir, okay, one of my you know, we still you
good, cause yeah, we're good. How about you? Yeah? Did
you? Okay? Yeah, it was alright, it was alright, uh
huh, how about you? I was fine. I didn't have anyone hijacked
my Super Bowl view party so for Taylor Swift themed items so named yeah yeah,
yeah, yep, well they did and it was amazing too. It's
like every next thing, you know, the halftime show was over and everybody
left, and I was left standing there all by myself with all those how
do people do that? Well, the firs stand. We got the hours
that are different, but right, yeah, I mean left it all the
Taylor Swift tater tots and all the other good bunchies, and I just opened
the bag and threw it all out. So you got a little trouble for
that. But what are you gonna do? Well, take tater tots and
you know, yeah, I know you can put them back in the air
fry and all that stuff. But right, they're not real good, definitely
not. No. You know we didn't actually get into the karaoke, did
Yeah. I was glad that we did. We did. You know,
they wanted to hear a couple bull of Taylor Swift songs. We had to
do our red solo cup shot to memory of Toby Keith all the guys.
So we did that and then you know, the game was kind of boring,
so it was a lot of a lot of talking and socializing and I
managed to get on the chair watch the second half and most of the second
half. I did actually wake up for the second part of the fourth quarter
in the overtime. So yeah, watch your Boy basically ruined the end of
the game. So which one was that Romo had no one to shut up?
Man? Oh? Yeah, he's really gotten a little bit more than
yeah. But anyway, so what's going on. That's okay. Yeah,
we're looking pretty good. Yeah, better, milder, wet weather's now off
the East coast, storm going up the East coast, and we're into mid
and upper fifties today. Still a little cloud hanging around for the triangle east,
so if you see some clouds, they won't be around too much longer.
Tonight we will clear a little bit thirty, so certainly jackets tomorrow morning
and then mid upper fifties again in the afternoon, even milder by Thursday,
lit to mid sixties before another front comes in, but still only slightly cooler
for Friday and Saturday, mid to upper fifties, and the next chance showers
in here Saturday, a little chillier by Sunday, but over the next few
days that really pretty quiet. Night's warm up Thursday. It's beautiful actually,
if I want to get a head start on the spring golf game, as
we'll be in the sixties and well into the sixties with the gusty breeze,
so best day of the week will be. Then the days around it not
too bad either, especially as we get into the middle of February. So
yeah, it's not too crazy out there. Casey, all right, Well,
I'm sure you'll think of something, so yeah, yeah, something muster
up late in the month or yeah, absolutely, all right, Well we'll
look forward to that. We'll talk in an hour. Thanks. Okay,
all right, there you got race stagic from the Weather Channel. I thought
we were. Oh, by the way, I'm curious your calls on the
if you want to comment on the church thing, like, I'm just surprised
at a giant church when people are kicking bibles for distance that I don't see
anybody walking out in the video, so and I get maybe that surprised me,
uh, just a little all right, so weigh in if you want
eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four hang on. Uh.
People go to megachurches because they you know, they they like the energy,
they're more engaging, all of that. And again, I got no problem
with megachurches. I got a problem with creepy men of God telling me that
they're G six or they're G five meets upgraded to a G six and I'll
you know, I'll laugh in South Park, Moxham. But in reality,
if that's where you're getting it, fine. The point that I was making
in this, let me piggyback on an email. We'll grab a call here
is casey, Perhaps churches are training are changing because people found them, and
I think they haven't met stuff. You're stifling here and unapproachable and and this
is and that's fine. Yes, Look, go to a Latin mass.
Right. As a kid, you're like, what is going on? Man?
And we would go It's the holidays. You always go to the Latin
mass, right, grandmother liked to go. And I'm just like, I
don't know what's got but you kind of know because it's still follows the basic
process of Catholic mass but at what point in your if you remove every objection
that people have to attending church and you remove the mystique from it, right?
You know, part of it is, especially within the Christian faith,
is recognizing that, like what would be alluring about a god or a deity
if they were just you another you? You know what I'm saying, right,
there has to be the mystique, and with the mystique comes to the
respect and the all of that. So you can remove stuff. But once,
uh, there was a quote unquote Christian Church. I remember we did
a story of where they decided that Jesus was just a man. And I'm
like, well, now you're into the you're into Islam, you're into Judaism,
right with recognition of prophet versus uh, you know, actual son of
God. Like, so now you've removed what is a basic tenet of the
religion because you wanted to be more welcoming and now it's like, well,
now you're not the religion you purport to be like. And you know,
there's a there's a big difference between hey, we're not gonna burn witches anymore
versus the recognition of the person whose name is on the religion Christianity. All
right, I got a lot of questions, and I'm so glad we are
chatting with this gentleman today. It is US Senator for North Carolina, Ted
Budd. How you doing today, sir? Taking doing great? Not pleased
with the outcome this morning, but yet here we are. I don't worry.
You know right where I was going? All right? All nighter his
way it's described. I don't know the exact hours. How on God's green
earth do you guys work all night in essentially a split Senate chamber? And
somehow rather than that steam and piece of crap you said you would vote against
here a week ago, which was like a little bit for the border but
not really anything new. And then all that money, how does that debate
turn into last night? Ninety five billion being voted by what was it,
seventy to twenty nine in the Senate for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan and not
a cent of border money? What is going on up there? Did Tip
O'Neil come in and fool you guys again? Now, to be fair,
you didn't vote for it, but the other half of our delegation did explain
what's going on? Yeah, the you know of the minority. Unfortunately GOP,
the majority of US did not vote for it. But it's pretty close
to fifty to fifty. So that's that's a real heartbreak. You know,
what do you have? You had a three hundred and seventy page bill.
The bulk of that was about the border. Uh, the other part was
Taiwan, Ukraine, Israel, you know, things we needed to address.
But hey, we're like, hey, we're going to do our border first,
which has been my promise to North Carolinians. And all of a sudden
they stripped three hundred and ten pages of border. Not saying it was great,
I'm saying we should have continued to debate that part. They throw that
part away, they go right for stuff you know that, you know,
the global estware after without the border, and then and then all of a
sudden they send it over to the Senate or over to the House. Right
now, so thank goodness, we have a majority in the House. And
now they're talking about discharge petition, which means they forced Mike Johnson to speak
or the House to put it on the floor with this game again. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, that's what the discussion is now. We hope that
he can find that off. But at some point you know the rules of
the US House or that they can eventually go around the speaker and force it
onto the floor. And that's a real problem. Do we need to deal
with these things in some way? Absolutely? Do we need to forget about
our border and go straight to this stuff for Ukraine border first? That's that's
not what I told North Carolinians. Okay, And I want to be clear,
because I do. I do check on this stuff. You were a
no on the other bill, as it's said, you did release the statement
till us was a yes. Then he was a no. But he was
a yes on this thing. And I know you don't answer for Senator slender
Man as we call him here on the show. That being said, I
fail to understand how twenty two was it? Twenty two Republicans a twenty summer?
How they got drug over us? Yeah? Out of the forty nine,
twenty six of us were nos. Okay, Democrats were nos, but
for very very different reasons. Okay, So how how are they able to
and trap I have the names here, but it's you know, it's a
lot of the it's the Romney's McConnell, Jony Ernst is in that. I
saw quite a few others. Uh, what is the reasoning? Do do
your colleagues who voted for this, do they honestly believe after they just spent
the pre the cent the president out to blame all border ills on Trump and
you guys, that there's some sort of good faith border bill that's going to
emerge that actually has some teeth. Tell me that's not what they believe.
Yeah, I can't. I can't speak for that. I'm you know,
I'm going to handle how I vote and what I promised North Carolinians. I
think they're part of, like, Hey, yeah, of course we need
to do with the border. Sorry that didn't work, but we got other
matters to tend to and we're going to focus on that. But again,
it's a bad process. No matter where as a Republican you came down on
this, it was horrible process. And let's remember who runs the Senate.
That's Chuck Schumer. You may make your complaints about Mitch McConnell, you know,
or be a fit I don't know, but Chuck Schumer because of who
we got sent in twenty twenty two back to the Senate. I was the
only swing state victory in the country of Casey, and had I had some
of my colleagues, you know that would have won, we would have been
a very different place. Right now. Well, I hear you there,
and I know that you have to answer for your vote. But what I'm
looking for is the behind the scenes conversation, because I mean, look,
you're lobbied on this stuff, and obviously there's only you know, fifty ish
of you forty nine or whatever, and so like you have conversations. I'm
just wondering what the schoolyard buzz is because I don't understand the plan, but
I do understand that it's not a good look when I'm sitting there and reading
about Tillis and McConnell and those quotes where till us to a lesser extent.
It's I call it the Rube factor. And one of the things that I
found extremely off putting in hanging out in some political circles is occasionally some of
your colleagues and I will say that you've never done this. Will they get
into this my constituents or a bunch of rubes that don't know any better attitude?
And I find that immensely off putting. With politicians, and I think
a lot of people got vibes from some of the statements. Tillis is not
wrong insomuch as a senator who has clearance during a briefing will likely have more
information. But just saying look I have the details, don't question me.
That's not gonna work for a lot of people, because inherently trust is a
problem up there. So I'm wondering what the hubbub is there. How you
think they may appease Republican voters going into what we got a primary lest in
a month. Man. Yeah, you know a lot of this stuff is
folks that they aren't in cycle right now. Like I've got, you know,
because I was elected in twenty twenty two up till twenty twenty eight.
But those that are in cycle right now, they're up in you know,
twenty four. They may have voted differently. I don't look at it that
way. I'm just going like, look, this is the wrong principle,
it's the wrong process. I came here. I think national security it doesn't
start in Ukraine. It starts at our southern border, and we've got to
handle that first. So that's that's how I look at it. When it
comes to North Carolinians and the rest of you know, those in our country
and the voters out there. At any given moment, I might have more
information because of a breathing, but I'm not smarter than those folks out there.
They sent me there to represent them, and so I really want to
be sensitive to what they're saying and what they're feeling and what their priorities are.
And I did a here's very very helpful. So I did a telephone
in town hall. We have thousands of people on this call. We take
as many calls as we can, and not just the ones where we feel
that they're going to agree with us, like you bring your calls, right,
But yeah, all right, you're right. So this was before Christmas.
I think it's still very consistent that we said, if the southern border
was secure, how many of you believe that we should still help our partners
and allies including Ukraine. Two thirds of the people out there said yes.
And that's a pretty good cross spectrum, you know, across the cross section
of folks out there. Uh and even probably slightly tilted conservative that knew that
I was calling them, and you know, they picked up the phone and
they stayed on for an hour. U. So I think that's a that's
a real good dead where people are. But we have to make sure that
our southern border is secure first. And the problem is that three and ten
pages of this prior bill got sliced off and now we're going direct to Ukraine,
right, So then your cohorts shouldn't vote for it, and maybe in
the House they won't or it'll look different and we'll get into some dumb back
and forth. I am curious though, like, how is how's the Senate
bill on this work? Doesn't this stuff need to originate in the House.
Talk me through the process, because I mean, it's money, is you
don't want to spend money? Yeah, we can float over there. It
has to pass passes obviously, and then we're if they differ, then we're
going to have to take it to conference and that's where uh we agree,
and then you vote on the final product that comes out of conference. So
the House could send something back that looks similar to the other bill, maybe
has some improved border stuff. But on on this if it's taxation or lated,
remember the tax bill that was floated and really gotten kind of covered up
with all this, Uh, international and border issue. But they originated because
that sends, you know, with taxes that comes over to us. So,
uh, but but we can we can originate this one. You know.
I think it's got it's got major challenges. One of the things that's
it's we should really be watching is what President Trump tweeted the other day or
or message the other day, is Hey, we need anything that needs to
go to our allies and partners needs to be in the form of a loan
on very very favorable terms to them. For instance, you should see curate
the loan to Ukraine with the minerals over there. There's all sorts of things
that we could do, and we need to make sure that we're sending them
lethal aid if we decide to go down this road rather than you know,
direct payments to the Ukrainian treasury. I think that's a problem when we do
that. We have Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, they had what
we just have to forty million. Forty million was pilper here that right,
Well, let your handle the social stuff because they're closer to it. And
you know, we've got we've we've got great military, we've got you know,
we need to replenish our own military. And if you're messaging to make
people, don't throw these high numbers in there that we're sending Ukraine when a
lot of that needs to be replenishing our own stocks that we either center there,
we sent the Middle East. We've got to build our own magazine depth
back up for our own national security, and so I think that needs to
be looked at separately. Ah, No, it'll be fine. That's why
you guys don't have her recruiting issues at all. So but yeah, they
had Look, this is this is the thing nobody seems to be able to
have an honest conversation, and so let me let me pose it to you
because it's so polarizing, and you're right, I think that it probably is
pretty split on Ukraine stuff. That being said, it seems like the people
who got thrown to the wolves are people like me who sit there and went,
you know, here's what I know about Russia and Ukraine. They're both
corrupt, af right, they have a lot of problems, and it's not
just over there. There's lots of parts of the world where this is an
issue. And even when people were bringing up that kind of nuanced look on
this going, you know, kind of with the Reagan Trust, but verify,
I feel like they weren't surprised when you saw like forty million dollars of
like just kind of of money that was supposed to go to This just kind
of seems to have trickled to some high profile people over there. That's not
a decision on who you think. You know, if you guys are going
to do a proxy war, I feel like I would just prefer you just
come out and be yes, this is a proxy war, but at least
it's not our guys, which it would at least be an honest opinion.
But I feel like some of your colleagues are deluded that everything was hunky Dori
and Ukraine and and you know it was just Russia where they were killing their
enemies. But like the whole the whole discussion with Ukraine even go back to
the Trump impeachment, is there's a lot of problems over there, and ignoring
that just kind of irritates people. More So, how do you continue to
do what you say the constituents say they want you to do, but provide
the checks and balances. Yeah, I think I think we got to win
in November Yeah, sorry to be very simplistic about this, but we got
to be in the majority, and then you got to send to Washington folks
that think you ought to be very accountable with where you send taxpayer dollars.
Jade Vince has been very good on this. Now we're not one hundred percent
in the same place. Like, I'm open to supporting Ukraine, but you've
got to have an inspector general in there. There's some bills that I supported
on that I think Josh Holly originated it. And look, if you got
seventy sixty someven different inspector generals, you basically got none. Because you don't
know where the money's going. You need to have one that is responsible to
the United States inspector General that says this is where the dollars are going.
It's been verified and it isn't according to the wishes that we voted for.
Otherwise that money gets slid around and you don't know where it is. So
look, I'm accountable to voters, I'm accountable to taxpayers, and I think
we have to be responsible if we're going to support Ukraine. Yeah, you
know it's JD Vans. You run up JD Vance. Let me just hit
this real quick. So he sent a letter I'm assuming he sent this to
you. He got reported on, and basically he was pointing out that if
you look at the Foreign eight Package, the ninety five billion, the language
and numbers are directly aligned with the very same information that is utilized as part
of the Trump impeachment. Right, this was the phone call impeachment. And
he claims that the language in that bill, which they in the Senate passed
is a quote impeachment trap in case Trump gets back into office. Do you
believe that? And it's really yeah, well, look there's debate in the
Republican Conference, so that's a good thing. But really it's about let's say
that he's sworn in on January twentieth, twenty twenty five, and the appropriation
that would be spent now would go all the way through September thirtieth, so
the end of September twenty twenty five, and so he's got nine months basically
of other people's wishes he's got to deal with. In that sense, it
happens all the time. You've got a prior appropriation that covers an incoming president.
That happens all the time. But I will tell you when Trump is
sworn in, they're looking day one, if not already before, for how
to impeach him a third time. I will tell you that. And and
Republicans couldn't even impeach may orc As, So run the house side. I
mean, that's right numbers. Yeah, I mean, whether you're in Washington
or what are you back home, Matt is still important. You got to
have folks, You got to have books physically to actually show up in the
House, and then you got to have the right numbers elected every year.
And I'll tell you what, Mike Johnson, God bless him. He has
razor thin margins. You know, you may get mad, you know,
George Santos for all his craziness and dishonesty. But at the end of the
day, when people say what do you think about this? What do you
think about that? You know is this person? It comes down to red
versus blue policies and how it affects us at home and how it affects us
in our countries. And I'm going to vote with red policies which lead to
human prosperity and human flourishing. And I think it's more in line with the
Constitution. Blue policies. Now, they may call themselves progressive, but it
ain't progress and it's really regressive, is what it ends up doing. Santos
actually tweeted miss me now after the two fifteen tigo, and he's not wrong.
Uh, you can because again, this is the this is the inability
to separate, you know, the sides. Like there's a lot of members,
there's a lot of your colleagues I think are crazy, Senator, I
mean just backcraft crazy. Yeah, And and it runs the gamut. But
it's like I think, I think the biggest pressing, uh more non specific
but overriding concern is and this is where I'm at now. I just want
to feel that government's getting back to equal treatment, which I feel that every
day we move further and further away from in the world of politics and the
world of the bills that are passed and and just like the criminal justice system
would be I guess the most shining example, what what are you doing in
a minute? I know it's a complex question, uh, to honor that
promise of equal treatment that we hold deer here, what are you guys doing?
Yeah, first of all, when I'm traveling all one hundred counties,
they asked me, are you gonna you know, are you gonna go at
Washington? Are you going to come back glad you're elected? And I said,
you know what, I'm coming back. So you never want to lose
track of what folks feel in the state. I'm pulled over to gas station
driving back to North Carolina right now in this conversation. But I think folks
in the primaries, not just in the general, You've got to elect folks
that actually represent you well and they're not going to go off the rails.
They're not gonna they're not going to embarrass you. Once they get to Washington.
They may be a rock rib conservative, but again, you've got to
have somebody that's not going to embarrass you and they understand the issues. I
think that's the folks that we need in Washington. Okay, all right,
I gotta go, but and I appreciate the time. Obviously, it'll be
very interesting the next few weeks. Thank you, senator, appreciated. God
bless see you. All right, and we'll be back. Hang on,
it doesn't sound like the House has interest, but it also didn't sound like
this and it had interest. So I don't know, man, But if
Republicans somehow allow you know, one hundred billion or ninety five or ninety six
billion, whatever it is, and get nothing from a border standpoint. I
mean, I feel, you know what I feel. I feel. It
feels like Medicaid expansion, where there's probably some benefit behind the scenes in the
h the scummiest of ways, but you won't reap any of it. And
uh, I kin'd I hit him with a what is? What is a
more in depth question, and I'll probably get back to him with it.
I've tried to. I was thinking about just what I was putting prep together,
more so yesterday, but a little the day before too, And like,
if I had to put my finger on on what I think drives discontent,
it's also the same thing that's marketed. And here's what I mean by
that, And it is the equality, equity, opportunity, or at least
duality of the way that we deal with things right, the equal protection under
the law. There are people of all political walks right now who do not
believe they feel that there is a double standard, whether it is conservatives within
any of the Washington judiciary or within the media, whether it is pockets of
Democrats who feel that it is born of race or gender or whatever it may
be. And that's a really easy way to gin people up where they are
willing to they're willing to eat them those the jelly beans that Ross mentioned that
tastes like fish and vomiting stuff, and then and then tell themselves, I'm
still eating a jelly bean. And that's what I wanted, right so,
because that is such a great way to fundraise and marshal the troops, Like
there's no net benefit to going. Yeah, you know what, maybe maybe
whether it is in policing or within you know, oversight government, oversight within
the bureaucracies, to the elected officials out there, and most importantly to the
judges out there, that people feel that at the end of the day,
when it's the core functions of what we entrust within government, that they're achieving
that. And I don't believe the majority of Americans believe that. In fact,
I think the vast majority believe that there is inequality, albeit for different
reasons. So I had to put my finger on it. I think that's
the biggest driving force, the other great threat to society. Cats. I'm
sorry, Look, we just report the news here. I am I am
a slave to the facts. Right, if the Vikings played a Sunday night
game and got you know, beat by thirty, I can't come in on
Monday morning and go they won, because you know that that's not true.
I can not talk about it. But that's different. But I have to
approach the information wherever it may come from. And I see these two stories,
and something needs to be done. A US citizen may have caught a
bubonic plague from the bomonic plague in Oregon from their house cat. The victim
in Oregon is the first case of the deadly medieval disease in eight years.
I go in to talk about all the horribleness that goes on with it,
and it's pretty horrible, like puff filled boils and all sort you can look
it up. However, when attempting to determine, all, right, well,
how did this happen, they believe that this guy's cats were catching wild
rodents and then the fleas, and that you know, if you look at
the history of the Black Death and plague and all of that, flees be
the name of the game. The owner also, they say, may have
been in contact with the cat's contaminated fluids. They had a guy in Wyoming
who got bubonic. But I remember this terrified me years ago skinning a mountain
lion he had killed and he cut himself or something. So but in this
case, house cat and the irony is that's not even the only story.
Now we also have a new disease to freak out about. You ready,
Alaska confirms the first fatal case of Alaska pox. Okay, I have a
question. First, I thought we were told that we can no longer use
geographic references in the naming structure of diseases, right, remember you can't.
They had to lay oh no, this is no longer called that's cold,
and then some assortment of random letters and numbers, like like a weird password
because you're hurting feelings now. Stuff. Other stuff was fine, like lyme
disease, I mean that's hyper specific. That's Connecticut specifically, and that one
was okay, But like remember monkey pocks had to go. That's not even
geography. They're just like, you know, there's a lot of monkeys over
in Africa, and that's we can't have that, which is crazy because there's
monkeys on everywhere. So but not Antarctica, I guess. But like they
got primates everywhere North America, South America, Europe, Asia. This is
not difficult, but in this case Alaska. Now, by the way,
this sounds horrible according to In case you're wondering, so, I want you
to picture your chicken pox, but instead of those spots, they're about three
times the size and they're wide open, seeping all over your body. It
looks horrific. State epidemiologists say that they believe that the Alaska pox may have
been transmitted to the patient. Bye, you're ready for this, done it
none. Their pet cat in very much the same theory as the ebola.
So I'm just saying, you've got a cat in your house. Basically,
you're you're you might as well be running a smelting operation around your kids.
Is that over the top, I don't think so. I think that's fair.
All right, cat people, send me your worst for now. Let's
go to ray Stagic. He's got got tons of cats. Coverty cats right
now. Though you guys have cats, No, we did, And I
to all the cat lovers out there, I don't miss the cats because you
don't want to get Alaska Park should have been playing exactly and that's exactly what
it is so so glad I got rid of that a while ago, right,
ye man, yeah exactly. So yeah, now we've got a dog,
but dog's okay. I'd be good in the future without any pets for
a little bit. Oh no, all right, yeah noted, No,
no, no, I did. I said for a little bit. You
know, you just kind of want that break from you know, the puppy
dogs get older, they make more messes and things like that, so trying
to you should get into feeder livestock. Yeah, first that's your pet,
then it's your dinner. My sister has never copd that. Well, I
never thought of it that way. They're like, what happened to the cow?
Because we if we're gonna slaughter a cow, we bring it away from
the rest of the cows for quarantine while just make sure nothing and so like
when they were little, they'd be like, I we named it Mary,
and then'd come home one day and Mary's gone, But Hamburger help hers up.
So Hamburger help her. Yeah, like what happened to Mary? She
will tell you. Yeah, well anywhere happened to it anyway. Yeah,
so all right, Well, yeah, we're good. We're good, pretty
good week. Most of us looking at just gusty winds today. The advisories
for the wind we'll expire at noon, but still forty mile proud gusts in
some spots, so a little kind of chill in the air with that.
Other than that, it's nothing to have a whack for this time of year.
The mid upper fifties tonight in the little mid thirties. Tomorrow about the
same as today, but less wind. It'll feel a lot different with that
strong now mid February sunshine should have plenty of it in the upper fifties.
I think we all cracked sixty on Thursday, so Thursday the best day of
the week, and then we're closer to sixty on Friday. As a week
a little push a cooler air comes in. I'm gonna cool down again over
the weekend, which showers Saturday in the mid upper fifties and then maybe only
near fifty on Sunday. But casey doesn't look terrible. I do think the
middle of the month here, now that we're getting into it, we'll probably
start seeing a little bit more at or slightly below average temperatures than anything else.
But don't see any snow, any ice or anything like that. Certainly
over the next seven days. Don't have that. Just a pretty dry weather,
just a chance of showers by Saturday. Okay, and condolences. I
saw one of your former players passed away. Oh who's that, Tony Hudson.
Oh really, I didn't see that. Yeah they. Randall Godfrey,
former Cowboy linebacker, posted about the death yesterday on Facebook, says he died
he was forty nine. They didn't give a cause. Maybe there's as Yeah.
Oh well, all right, all right, sorry to bum me out.
Talk to you tomorrow. Nope, thanks all right. Race Stagic right
there and coming up, Jeff Bellinger, next, Hang on, Jeff Bellinger,
Jeff, what's happening? Well, good morning. Casey. Got a
new reading on retail level inflation this morning, and it's a big disappointment to
investors. The consumer price index was up three tenths percent last month. The
year over year increase was three point one percent. Economists thought there was a
really good chance that the year over year reading would drop below three percent,
so lots of disappointment on Wall Street. Futures are lower right across the board.
The now futures are down three hundred and fifty to five points at at
the moment, small business owners turn more downbeat. Over the last month,
the National Federation of Independent Business Optimism index has fallen to the lowest reading since
last May. Fewer owners expect sales volumes to pick up more. Respondents of
their earnings declined over the last three months, and the share of business people
that plan to boost employment has dropped to the lowest level since May of twenty
twenty. Tiger Woods wasn't without a marketing partner for very long. Woods and
Nike ended their long term deal earlier this year. Now the golfing legend has
a new agreement with Taylor Made, and the line of apparel will be introduced
in the spring. Strategists of Morgan Stanley say there's been a record amount of
talk about cost cutting during recent and corporate earnings calls. The focus on bottom
lines could also mean that bosses will be pressuring workers to do more in the
year ahead. The Wall Street Journal says the feedback delivered during job interviews may
be more brutal than usual because companies are looking for maximum productivity, and the
case CBS says it had a record audience Sunday night. The network says the
Super Bowl attracted nearly twenty one hundred twenty three and a half million viewers,
seven percent more than the twenty twenty three Super Bowl, and CBS says it
was the biggest audience ever for a single US network. Ez. Yeah,
and you just know why they're going to say that is and I just can't.
I just Sarah tune in to see the swift. But we'll see.
All right, thank you, Jeff. Okay, you have a good day.
Talk to you tomorrow. Sorry about your nor'easter. Okay, all right,
pay here by right just at home. You know, it's snowing up
there, which apparently is it must be a new thing, like Razie didn't
have snow when you were a kid growing up in New York. Right,
that's obviously global climate warming change there. But it's getting bad. How do
I know? This doomsday article right here from Vox senior environmental reporter Benji Jones
with a very scary piece about how humans are destroying the planet and then he's
gonna give examples. All right, So what do you think the example is
of the end? Is ni climate change? Right? Because he's heard we've
heard some doozies as to where they're like, ah, this thing happened,
and you're like, wait a sec Last year you said that wasn't happening,
so it was the problem. So what is the thing now? That is
the indicator? All right? Well, tropical forests are getting cut down,
parking lots replaced with replace bird filled grasslands. Climate change is fueling forest raging,
raising wildfires. On the whole, natural plant filled habitats seem to be
disappearing. That is literally like the second paragraph. So I'm like, okay,
so what's the problem. Well, according to scientists, they're concerned because
Earth is growing greener. I mean literally green, as in the extent of
green vegetation on the Earth has increased in its totality over the last four decades.
And that goes for little stuff that goes for trees. Right, we
have more, even though I talk about the Amazonian rainforest, there are more
trees now than there have ever been in North America. Not so much Haiti,
but in the US and many many countries fall into that. If you
don't believe me, look it up, by the way. So they say
that the results are counterintuitive and may speak to a deeper problem that scientists yet
to fail failed to understand. So this thing that is empirical evidence that is
opposite of the predictions and what you're literally saying in the first part of the
article, this thing is happening, and because it's happening, but it doesn't
agree with your predictions. Now it could be more problematic. Great, Okay,
so put that in the box. More plant life bad,