That is commitment to the craft. I mean, I don't respect it to
screw this guy, and you know, we'll go through the judicial process and
then I have some you know, I got some ideas. So I was
just reading a follow up story on this. What is this? You know
what? Screw this guy's name. I'm more concerned with the officer, all
right, NYPD officer Jonathan Diller. Uh if if you don't know, on
Monday one of the NYPD officers who was I mean, he's dealing with a
really little thing, and in fact, likely I don't think they would have
run this guy's name. A guy's name is Guy Rivera, and I'll tell
you this because it's important what him and the other guy in the car's name
is. But they have a specific title for this particular beat, so to
speak. I think it's like quality of life officer. They when this mayor
came in, they did some like renaming the stuff. So take it for
what it's worth. But basically, these are the broken windows guys, but
without really the enforcement action. So if you don't know what the broken windows
policing thing was, the keyword being was Basically it's the idea that simple vandalism
i e. Broken windows, if left unchecked, eventually leads to bigger stuff.
I don't know that you could argue that nowadays. I don't know that
you could look at one of our major US cities, which is basically said,
you know, we're we're gonna defue, we're going to defind, or
we're going to uh decrease the role of police, uh cash, cashless bail,
lenient judges, and law enforcement that basically has looked at the situation and
went, you know, unless it is unless they're literally holding a gun to
a woman's head, and then even then, yeah, we're just we're not
gonna get in this because if this thing goes sideways, the city's on fire
and the you know, the president's condemning us even before all the information is
out. It's just not worth it, right, you know. So,
but that was a policy that cleaned up New York City. Going back to
Giuliani and Koch and I'm missing somebody in there, but yeah, the fact
is is that's what New York did, and they saw immense results. It
was not the only thing that they did, but and you know, New
York City was that example of you're not going to put up with the little
stuff because if you do, then people go, oh man, I can
get away with stuff, and then the big stuff happens. So it created
this whole level of officer. And that's what this police officer was quality of
life or I'll find the word as we go through here. Sorry, I'm
sitting there and there's a lot of info here and wait till you hear the
kicker. So anyway, this YPD officer here we go described as a quality
of life cop. Okay, all right, so you know he's not outsolvent
murders. That's not me hacking on the dude. But I just want to
be clear why he was interacting with these two. He was interacting with these
two because he observed them for ten minutes, for ten minutes, parked in
a bus stop, right, so you know it's a little carved out area
there. Only the bus can park there. And they were in front of
a te mobile store. Neither of them was out of the car and they're
parked there and even where I think a lot of officers would wonder, well,
wait a second, what are you staring at intently for ten minutes?
Like that's gonna get you know that that's gonna set off radars with a lot
of officers. Likely it did with this officer, but as a quality of
life officer, NYPD officer Jonathan Diller, he's thirty one, married father,
was simply going to go in there and be like, look, you can't
park in a bus stop. The bus comes every fifteen minutes or whatever.
You've been here for ten minutes, you gotta move. But he never got
those words out. Instead, according to police, as he approached the vehicle
where Guy Rivera is the passenger. Police say that Rivera almost immediately opened fire.
That's what's so crazy here. This officer was going to go up and
likely, I mean, they don't know exactly, but this is kind of
how they're policing now. Was going to go up and just be like,
hey, you guys, you can't park here. Whereas you know, back
in the day, it would have been the whole ideas everybody, the whole
thing. And obviously Rivera and the driver, Lindy Jones, they didn't want
that, but the reality is they probably wouldn't have had to deal with that.
They would have just had to drive like twenty feet. But it never
got there. According to officers, Rivera opened fire outside of the window,
the passenger window, and shot the officer five times. And here's where we
get into the details. Office NYPD says that the first shot, one that
basically hit the stomach just below the bulletproof vests, was likely the fatal shot.
So it you have this tragic story. Now, let me get to
this Rivera, who had in recent times twenty one arrests, twenty one prior
arrests, robbery, fell in with a firearm, drugs, a lot of
gang related stuff. The dude who was driving also a lot of gang related
stuff. In fact, I gave you his name, but actually his name
was you ready for this? His street name was Killer with an H at
the end, and they say he was known to most of the officers in
the precinct, including the officer Diller who was killed. The gang. Can
I say this gang name? I don't know, man. While they have
not documented a specific gang affiliation during the previous arrest, it was suspected that
both Jones and Rivera had some sort of business affiliation with the gang that controlled
that area, known as the Gang of Apes. However, that was according
to the spokesman here, that was not the focus of the interaction. Instead,
the officer most likely was simply going to tell him to move. Now,
what charges do we have, Well, the most previous fourteen arrests included
robbery, assault, attempted murder. Before judge last year, prosecutors asked for
eighty five excuse me, seventy five thousand dollars bail and an anklet basically electronic
monitoring. The judge did give some cash bail, but balked at the monitoring,
so you know, it wasn't the softest of sentences while while they were
playing. The problem is he had twenty one previously, so the other twenty
other than a stint for attempted murder where they actually did send him to jail,
he hasn't been He hasn't really been held responsible for the last five arrests,
not yet. But this is not even Look, there's a tragic story.
There's a lot more to it, but it's gonna get weird in a
moment. As the other officer the partner or I guess another responding officer,
I don't know that I should say partner actually did get a few shots into
this dirt bag. He didn't die, but the hospit little report is amazing.
So, uh, here's what we're gonna do. It's six eighteen.
I'll give you a rundown. We got we got, we got nerd news
as we call it on the show that's coming up. Just a lot of
weird stories and somehow a small fly which is taking up residents in the studio
area that you're gonna hear me chase all morning. But what the hospital report
said, just wait for it. We'll do it next kc O Day Radio
program CEO Day Radio Progrip. Don't worry. I'll get to it. Dude.
I did see it though. We get we get a lot of video
game news, so you know chances are we seeing it, but still send
it. If you see something, just be like, hey, these guys
gots to know, oh what's on sale? All right, I'll get to
that here in just a moment. I gotta I gotta finish this story out
of New York, all right. So you have a thirty one year old
NYPD officer killed essentially telling a couple career criminals, hey, you can't park
in the bus stop. That's what a life was worth to them. The
officer who is seen in one of the you want to tug your heartstrings.
The picture I keep seeing is the very recent one where he's holding his one
year old who's got an adorable little hat. Quality of life. Officer noticed
they were parked in the bus stop for ten minutes and rather than even the
start of a conversation, career criminal accused of just opening fire. However,
and this is where this thing just gets weirder and weirder. According to reports,
the pistol that was used to allegedly murder this officer not the only weapon,
not the only weapon in this individual's possession. Who again, the suspect,
Guy rivera twenty one prior arrest, had served what was the total time
he's served, about fourteen total years, So I guess I can say this
he has actually been sent to prison, though it kind of goes back,
and when you look at some of the more recent arrests, you can tell
that they've decided to take a different approach. So even though he has four
no excuse me, five active cases, he not only was in possession of
a pistol, which I believe is illegal in New York and oh yeah,
everywhere, mister Felon. But according to the hospital reports, when they brought
him to the hospital after another officer attempted a mag dump sadly was not able
to get the whole thing in there. Surgeons say that they noticed via X
ray a strange object inside of the suspect turned out to be a shiv.
Turned out this dude is so what is I'm trying to remember the term that
was used in the criminal justice class elective I took because I thought, what
was it? Jailing right where? Where? You? You know, people
just even when they're out, have spent so much time in that. Frankly,
that's kind of changed their nature about them, and in some cases they
just can't deal with being out obviously. I guess the best example from a
cinema stamp point was the old dude from Shawshank Redemption. Why can't I never
remember his name even though he carved it into wood. Who's the dude who
hung himself after they let him out? The librarian? That dude, right,
he never he just been in jail so long. He just he was
unable to deal. Well, this is kind of a version of it.
This guy, according to authorities, because he had the current open cases,
he was out doing crime in his mind or at least alleged in the report
here, he was so expecting to get thrown back into jail that he caught
he kept his shiv in his butt. I'm dancing around it, but let
me get to it. Just with this story, this guy so expected that
he was going to go back to jail, probably because he realized he's a
criminal dirt bag, that he just always had a shive in his rectum.
Two of you sent me the same question. I realize it didn't do a
good job of explaining it, which is unlike me because I am a professional.
So you're going, well, wait to say, if he had a
gun, why does he also have a shive in his prison wallet all the
time? I want to I want to stress this. This guy got I
must. I don't know if he kept it in there at night. It
doesn't say, but this dude started his day with a knife in his butt.
And I'm not saying it that way to be funny. It just I
mean the words in other story, because this is this is a predictable,
tragic story that's going to continue to unfold. Unfortunately, in the world of
law enforcement, there's always going to be officers that are wounded or lose their
life. It's because there's always going to be criminals. But this era of
making it easy and even empowering criminals, that's the problem here. So the
reason that he had it was not for law enforcement. Okay. According to
the New York Post story here, the suspected shooter had been arrested again twenty
one times, but fourteen times just in the last two years. It's a
busy boy. It was the part where he did ten years. It kind
of caused a little bit of a gap and some of his stuff for a
violent attempted murder, but went before the Queen's district attorney. The prosecutor did
request seventy five thousand in bail and an anklet was did provide a cash bail,
didn't provide tracking, and then the cash bail amount was lower, so
family and friends had him bonded out real quick. Was expected back in court
April first, so just days away. By the way, here is the
accusation that sent him to jail for excuse me, the case that sent him
to jail for ten years. Back in two thousand and one, he was
accused and convicted of shooting a man over some sort of financial drug related dispute,
hit him three times twice significantly, and that led to a collapse lung
and mobility issues that he did not kill him, but to this day that
guy is wounded. Sounds like he's another criminal dirt bag based on what I'm
reading here. So still you got to punish the guy, even if he's
doing God's work. Mayor Adams appeared to choke up Tuesdays. He warned,
it's good guys versus bad guys. That's what kills me about Adams Adams is
his background is law enforcement. But even he has during the speech he gave
Tuesday, he says, the bad guys no longer fear the good guys.
Okay, why is that? Why is it now? There's always gonna be
criminals are gonna do whatever they want. Don't care. I understand that,
but like that's the word on the street. However, it has also provided
a challenge for Vera Rivere or whatever in this story, and that challenge is
he fully expects that even if he does go out and do whatever he wants,
he'll still be arrested and have to spend a little bit of time at
rikers right before eventually he can go in front of a judge who doesn't care,
and so the shive is not for law enforcement. The shive is literally
kept permanently encased so that if he is arrested, he has a weapon when
he gets to rikers. How do I know? That's what he told police.
That's what he told the hospital, because you know, if you go
into a hospital and you got you know, got a chef's knife in your
butt, they're going to ask about it. Now. The weapon which was
described wait, hold on, was it inside or just in the crack?
Oh, I'm getting to that guy. I got law enforcement or former law
enforcement guys who were like, why was it just? No? No,
no, no, he did have it protected. According to the report,
it was inside of a prophylactic with some patting. I guess to make sure,
but like, correct me if I'm wrong, one of one of our
fine law enforcement folks, or even are just okay ones? Wow, Look,
there's gonna be a spectrum. How do you train for that? And
how do you can you prepare it so that when you make them do the
cough thing, because that's what that's for, right. I've never had the
squat and cough, so I don't know, but I guess it was my
understanding from all the law enforcement stuff that was if they did it and they
did have something in there, that was going to go horribly wrong for them,
Am I correct? So in some way this guy was knowledgeable, I
guess enough to prepare it that he was confident he was going to get into
rikers. Or maybe they're not searching them thoroughly. Uh okay. I remember
one time we had a guy who came in with cigarettes and a lighter in
his cane. It's not his prison wallet, that's a cane that's different.
You know. We had and I can't remember if it was Goldsboro or Rocky
Mount. Years ago, we had the dude who had that pistol in his
nether regions and I mean in it. And I also don't mean it was
twenty five caliber derringer. I don't mean it was a hammerless subcompact that a
woman might keep in a pocket of or purse. It was. It was
like an old West fighting gun. So you know, I'll never put it
past what they're going to do. But that's the reason he kept the shift.
Now, the shive, the blade is three and three quarters inches,
and this is important because in the State of New York, if a blade
is under four inches, it does not violate weapon possession laws, even for
a felon right, So I guess you know in that case, I'm not
justifying it, but that would make sense just in the you know, should
a boy scout knife, which is going to have a blade under four inches,
should that violate? And maybe it should. If you're twenty one charges
into this with attempted murder, but just prepared like a boy scout, should
he go in. I think it's probably a good indicator too, that even
though you haven't proven gang ties, although it doesn't look like you, you
looked real hard based on the tattoos this dude has. Yeah, he's just
he's planning for that forty eight hours or whatever. He's gotta he's gotta survive
in rikers versus enemies of a of this gang. And now a police officer
is dead. Uh, there was a story not put out. There was
there was a story. I'm sorry. Ross's type don't do that when I'm
talking about serious stuff. Man, I was just gonna laugh, and now
I have to explain to you I'm not laughing at this. I'm laughing at
what Ross is the story. We'll get to all right, dude, I
didn't even know where I was, but just garbage, just garbage all around.
Officer dead yesterday when uh, the officer's wife was meeting with these her
her husband's, her now deceased husband's superiors, there was a report that Trump
called and spoke with the widow and then immediately the uh what's the name of
it? Tunnels to it tunnels to towers? Right, they called and they're
paying off the mortgage. Uh, they're setting up a college fund for the
one year old, which in the long run I know she appreciates, but
never wanted to be there obviously, And I who was I think it was
it was the funeral director, who who is handling this? Who is contractor?
Who? Who spoke to a neighbor? And that neighbor posted it on
Twitter? So wasn't the Trump people putting it out? And so literally the
tweet says the widow of the slain officer received a phone call from Trump and
then the charity people and people were upset with that. Where is the where
is the organization and where is the former president when police are out murdering you
know, innocent people, that old narrative, And I'm like, can you
just pause for a moment where we have a situation where a guy with twenty
one charges years under his belt in incarcerated, running around with an illegal firearm
which again you already made illegal, and a three and three quarter inch blade
on a homemade shive permanently possessed. Can we just focus on that for five
seconds? Like, can we just have one scenario where you're not mad at
Trump? And why don't you ask yourself if you're mad at Trump for quote
unquote taking advantage of the situation, why don't you ask yourself why Biden didn't
call? Why don't you ask yourself? Although it did happen, but at
the time, the family had said that they had not had a conversation with
the mayor of more than a quick phone call. I guess they did so
credit where credit is due, but it's the least you can do. And
instead I had to watch two thousand moonbats lose their mind. Who does he
think he is? He's a former president, he may be another president?
Like that goes? That sticks with you, man, You get to hold
onto that title. In fact, even though it irks people, you can
still refer to him as President Trump, even though he's not the sitting president.
You just don't call him the president. He's going to have that.
In fact, Barack Obama famously on was one of the night shows, remember
said and literally physically dropped the mic. Was responding to mean tweets. Whatever
that segment is. I just I don't watch the garbage enough to know which
one does it? Is it Fallon? I don't know that was his whole
thing. He said to Trump, well, at least I will be a
former president back in twenty fifteen, and obviously we saw how that worked out.
It was Kimmel, all right, I've seen this. I think this
segment's funny for the most part. I like when they do the sports people
because they're not as they're not as quick as the actors, and so you
can see, like you can see it bother some of them, but you
know, it's just human nature. But yeah, whatever, like two seconds
off and then ask yourself why felons are running around with guns and butt shifts
murdering police because they want to park in a bus stop. Sir. I
don't know why this thing bothers me, so I mean it should bother you.
But all right, what is all right? Now? I have a
corrections officer who is ross. Do you want to know what they teach corrections
officers on the length of the storage capacity of a prisoner's rectum? Do you
want to be armed with that information? Because I just got it in eight
inches? You can. The totality of it for the average human is that
I didn't need to know that, sir. I guess, I guess unless
I turned to a life of crime and then whatever. All right, six
forty nine. That's where we are, phone number eight eight eight nine three
four seven eight seven four. I don't know what there is to debate.
I was just flabbergasted to see people on Twitter just you know, being garbage
humans on social media over a phone call that seemed to provide a minuscule modicum
of maybe just pause in the grief for this officer's family. And we can't
even have that. So all right, six point fifty, I'll give you
a rundown on some other stuff. We'll do it on the flip side of
the break. Hang on, do we're in the marketing business and I don't
want to tell is this guy? I think this guy's a billionaire? Yeah,
yeah, yeah, all right, So obviously he knows how to make
money, or at least payoff government officials. I don't know what is he
a mining? Yeah, mining, that's all right. Clive Palmer, who
is described as an Australian mining billionaire. He's got a side hustle and we've
talked about it on the show. I didn't realize this was the dude doing
it. But it's going to be important, all right. His dream is
not just to you know, extract the precious metals of the world, but
also he's getting into the cruise business and he's got a he's got a marketing
strategy. You've heard of what it is, but I had not heard of
the strategy. And frankly, I don't know that. I don't know that
this dude or any of his his people have really thought this out, because
I feel in like Ross and I just talking for two minutes. We have
we've identified a lot of flaws in this. By the way, I said,
like two people send me emails Ross, I don't want to three under
the bus people are like is where is Ross? Uh? Just so we're
clear, Ross doesn't feel good, and we've we've had a lot of changes
in our well, you're dealing with like technical nightmare. So it's like it's
so there's like all that, but he's he's here. The first time I
heard this, and immediately we talk talked about on the airlight. I don't
know if that's a good marketing strategy, but who knows, maybe it is.
So you have this Australian billionaire Clive Palmer who back in twenty twelve announced
the Titanic two. Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's a name that carries
some weight there, right, And he was his dream was to construct contract
market and fully, I guess book and staff the inaugural sailing of the Titanic
two, and even as far back as twenty twelve, which was, by
the way, that was the one hundredth anniversary, which is why this first
came to light, announced that they were going to do that, and I'm
say, and they're like, how are you gonna how are you gonna sell
stuff? Like, who's going on that? I'm a like, I love
me some history, but also I don't want to go on Titanic too.
Even though the likelihood that there's a problem is extremely minimal, right, the
really the worst case, well, no, the coast of the coast of
Concordi or Costa Concordia. I guess stands out if you remember that was a
small cruise ship. We're uh in the in the Mediterranean where they you know,
a bunch of people did die. But you know, the reality is
if you go on a cruise ship, really your your your bigger concern is
the poop cruise, uh, which you know was the neurovirus nightmare. And
holy crap. By the way, they have a documentary on that thing on
like Netflix. Don't eat and then watch it because it is fascinating, but
it's also incredibly disturbing where society. I'm sorry, I'm not laughing. I'm
not laughing at this because it had to be horrible. But one of the
things that apparently was the problem is passengers who were fistfighting other passengers over buckets
so that they could use them to go to the bathroom. In like society,
how quickly society can break down to wear one minute. One minute you're
just like, I'm gonna get the most out of a drink package and uh
yeah, this is gonna be amazing. I'm not wearing any shoes, you
know, all the all the normal little things on a cruise ship to wear.
You're punching a dude in the face to steal his bucket. That's half
full of you know, feces. Nobody envisions themselves there, but sometimes things
go sideways, right, So that's really worst case scenario. In fact,
they had a cruise ship when we were on vacation. I don't know if
it was one of the one of the big I think it might have been
a haul in America. It's one of the Alaska cruise lines, and you
have all these passengers that were filming because they hit an iceberg kind of it
obviously was a floating chunk of ice that had broken off. If you if
you ever go on Alaska crew by the way, if you like a cruise
and I don't even like to cruise. That being said, what you see
going up the inner passage of Alaska and eventually making your way like halland America
and a few others do this, and then going on that glass train to
DINALI absolutely amazing. And these passengers are up there like, oh, we
hit it. They can see it and they felt it strike the ship,
and then they were just upfilming it with their iPhones. Now let me let
me tell you this. Obviously, the construction of ships, the hulls,
the the safety measures. There's a reason if you go on a cruise,
you gotta do the muster thing. Although now I guess they will. I
don't cruise. I just I'm not. I'll do the Alaska thing. But
like I don't need to go bopping around the Caribbean with you know, three
thousand other people all in my way. That's that's that's not for me.
That being said, I I would never be concerned that the ship's gonna sink
due to the fact and even if it did that there wouldn't be safety measures.
So when you know they they have enough lifeboats, they have a plan,
they have radio communications and other ships. Fine, However, if I'm
on a ship that hits an iceber, I ain't filming that. In fact,
if you're one of those people standing there with a phone and let's you
know, the moment you're done filming, you turn around, you're gonna see
me over there with trying to work that pulley to get one of those orange
boats into the ocean. Like I'm out of there. Is done. So
this guy wants to do Titanic too, and now says that they're gonna be
able to do this the let's see here, Palmer wants the ship to have
cutting edge navigation equipment. Okay, good safety systems, right lifeboats for everybody?
Got that? Although are you really historically doing it accurately? If there's
enough lifeboats? I mean, and you're not really sticking with the history there
are you? Also? I got to quit if I could just bring this
because in a moment, I'm gonna tell you as marketing, let me provide
a modern twist on this thing. If you were to have the same incident
with the same supplies in the same area and same technology today, do you
think in our society that that plays out like it did on the Titanic?
And I don't take them, Although to be fair, I haven't seen the
movie seen parts of it. I'm more into the artistic portion of the movie
with this sketching big passion of mine. But other than that, but I
do know historically a lot of the mini stories there and which I assume we're
in the movie, or I know we're in the movie because I did read
the synopsis. I feel how many people would be immediately trans on that boat.
Can I am I allowed to ask. I think if the Titanic happened
today like the same scale it did back in the day, Right, so
we're talking, we're bringing that disaster up to like twenty twenty four levels,
right, I think you'd have more casualties because people are probably more self lion
back then. Now, like you said, everybody would be taking photos and
videos and posting it and but maybe the response would be quicker, right because
of that. While I'm talking about like lifeboat negotiating, Oh no, and
you know everyone trying that whole right, Like you know some day like I
feel like, let me in. But also you know, you don't even
have to go there, you know, because everything's about equality in women's rights
and all that. Like from a social experiment standpoint, that would be fascinating
to watch how that how that plays, right. You wouldn't even have to
be like Billy Zane from the movie pretending to be a woman. You would
just go up to the lifeboat happened, yeah you really haven't seen. You
would just be like, you know, you just go to the life boat
and be like, I'm a woman, identify a woman. I know that
there were the the the which is an accurate story, like you had,
uh, you had one boat that literally was just dudes posing as women,
and it was like some it was like two people from the band, it
was some of these ship employees, and then it was one of the onassises
or something. There's a connection with the Kennedy's there, as there usually is,
but like, how does that go? Like, because I'm even and
I think a lot of folks out there, I'm still one of those people
who like, chivalry is not dead. Do you know what I'm saying,
Like, I'll you know, if I take a woman out, I'll pay,
I'll open the door. I respect. This is what my mother taught
me. Like, but I feel like that all goes out the window in
this modern age where you know, you got a bunch of women going to
the lifeboat and you're like whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. Yeah, we're
not doing the women and children thing. Like maybe the children thing they'd still
put up with, but the women thing. Hell no, get me on
that boat. Yeah, you film your stupid TikTok. I'm lowering this thing
into the ocean. I know what you're saying, KC. That's a boat
for like twenty four people, and I my response would be, well,
twenty three other people should be quicker. Okay, I think you get your
own boat because you're in the media, right, Yeah, no, no,
no, that's how it works. Dude, we gotta you want to
go on this thing, you gotta get you tics. I've sent this now
to several people. Yeah, Steven Kent actually sent it to me. All
right, So, by the way, Steven, I should tease this.
Stephen Kent is our NERD media consultant. We'll be talking to him in about
fifteen minutes. Yeah, it's from a geeky stoics in the consumer choice center,
right, He wrote back. I went from chuckling about this and now
wondering if I could afford a ticket. Is it bad? I really want
to ride in third class? Well yeah, but you have to pretend you're
in first class. My other buddy, Michael, who I'm going to bulldoze
this house when I win the power Ball? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
this is your leftist buddy. Yeah, be important, He writes back.
Well, I do love DEI and history. So right, so a lot
of people want to buy tickets. I you know what, Maybe it works,
but here's where it gets weird. So Palmer in the article says that,
let me read the headline. Billionaires says his long delayed Titanic two ship
will be the antidote to woke politics. Well, what does that mean?
What a headline? What is that? I've read this story. He's just
like, hey, snowflakes, get on the boat free trip. Is that
what it is? Is that? Is that not? Because like I'm reading,
I'm reading some of the other quotes in here, and and by the
way, it's been a nightmare for twelve years trying to get this thing off
the ground pay disputes. Initially a Chinese shipyard was building it. That would
be, by the way, the Chinese shipyard. That's enough for me not
to go right there, because all you gotta do is watch one video of
these these condo buildings in China. Because in China, the entirety of the
population that did have investable income, like was convinced that property ownership was your
key to retirement. So that's why you see all of these condo buildings that
are literally unoccupied because people in China invested in these condos, which were sold
very cheap. Culturally, they were convinced that you couldn't lose and then you
see the video of people literally grabbing what should be the stone facade of the
building and it pulls away like packing styrofoam. That's why they're demoing these things.
So you tell me a Chinese shipyard's doing it. I got questions,
But I also don't understand how this push is back on the woke. I
just I feel like this dude has been unsuccessful in booking it and now he's
figured out who he wants to pander to. And I'm just I'm here to
ask those of you who tune into the show to hear the latest woke insanity
so you can feel that are about being a rational human being. Do you
want to get on this ship? I don't, But as Ross's pointed out,
he sent it to people and they're jat they want to go. So
tell your all right, Well, if you won't go, because you'll have
to leave the country because this thing's gonna go all over, tell your buddy,
we'll do it and will fly him to Sydney, where I guess it's
gonna lone. Now, why is it launching in Sydney and instead not up
in uh uh England, Scotland? Up and there. Well, actually,
uh, if you go to Northern Ireland, uh, and uh, you
go to Belfast, you can actually go see the berth and the shipping where
they built the Titanic. That's a it's a tourist attraction. So like tell
him, uh, We'll fly him to Sydney on the the Malaysian Air too.
Uh je, No, I was gonna ask. I was gonna ask
what hates for Sheriff Hindenburg too? Oh that sounds that sounds fun. Free
tickets, okay for anyone anybody majoring in like liberal arts, free ta get
get on, get on the balloon. What about what about feminist studies?
You know? Okay? All right, well we should go paper the uh
over at the universities see if they want to go on this thing. Yeah.
I don't want any part of this, but if they're gonna do it,
I also don't know how it's pushing back on woke politics. Sorry,
I'm literally trying to read this story that Ross sent me in a four minute
spot block and while I'm actually talking. So um, all right, so
here we go. Uh back to what Ross was mentioning a lot of the
original descendants of people who died on the Titanic have indicated their desire to go
on this. Okay, why helped me out here? Well, I could
say this. You know, my dad was a Vietnam van. I said,
the one place I'd love to go, like visit I would love to
visit Vietnam. Right, it's sort of like, you know, walk in
his foot. I don't know. I don't want to get shot multiple times
right right, or get ambushed or whatever in Quang Tree, but I would
like to like go there just to kind of understand what he went through.
Well, I hear if you if you go upriver, there's literal there's like
Playboy playmates up there. Really had you had you heard this? Yeah,
yeah, it's the thing. So although not and then they get in a
chopper and I don't know what happened to him. Yeah, but yes,
and and look, I do understand it even though I'm sitting here, like,
do you have anyone Do you have a historic family member that died in
in a unique or historical way. I I do not with this, I
have I have one of the folks who was literally killed in the retaliation of
the retaliation of Custer's thing. So if you don't know, obviously bat a
little big Horn and then they're like, Ah, that didn't go well for
us. Why don't we go up to Dull Knife where there's a summer Indian
encampment in the big Horns and murder a bunch of non warriors, including a
bunch of women and stuff. And then they had a retaliation on some homesteaders
and one of a person who had married into the family was among those victims.
I mean, that's as historical as it gets. But you know,
Titanic's a big deal. So I guess I kind of see. But again
I don't understand how it pushes pack on woke politics. So whatever. Anyway,
we'll take a break, be right back. So five of you want
to go on the doomed cruise? Two huh Again obviously technology, Now,
why would you want to do that when Ross's Hindenburg thing is that's going to
be amazing. So the only problem I have with that is you have to
go to New Jersey, right, So you know, do you wanna you
want to cruise off the coast of Alaska or excuse me, of Australia,
or do you wanna do a short flight in New Jersey? That'll come down
to individual preference. But good, I see here your Hindenburg thing is non
refundable. That's probably a good idea too. All right, very good?
Uh yeah, all right, So everyone wants to go on the uh the
Titanic two again. I'm I'm a fan of the history. But I've just
been watching this dude for like twelve years try to figure out how to market
it. And now he's decided, let's let's market it to uh the anti
woke folk, which is not unusual in the cruise industry, right, We've
we have advertisements periodically on this show, on this station for conservative cruises,
uh, generally with our conservative tours. Sometimes they do cruise stuff so you
have a ship with you know, a bunch of like Heritage Foundation speakers,
couple ex politicians, radio hosts, things like that. They do tours obviously
of the d Day sites, which you're fascinating. That being said, I
don't really understand what's going on here. All right, hold on, let
me go to the phones. Yes, Donna, what's up? Good morning,
Casey. I was Yes, it is very nice spring. We're getting
rained for the flowers. It's lovely. Yeah, No, thunderstorms A barrelance
through the studio anyway, what's up? So I was gonna send you some
dimes for your trip on the Titanic so that you could get drawn like one
of his French girls. But you wouldn't get the reference because you're the only
person in existence who's never seen that movie. I don't know that that's true.
Came out, No, I got fully I am fully aware of when
it came out. So what you have to understand is that movie came out
and it was released. I can't remember the date it was released, but
it was released like right as I graduated high school. And just to be
clear, I was class of ninety eight, but I graduated. I skipped
part of a grade and I graduated early. So I was seventeen and I
was going down and I started college at semester, so I was making that
transition and everyone was going to see it, and grown men that I knew
were like, oh, I teared up, And it was at that point
I refused to go see this movie, and I made the statement. And
the girl I'd been seeing at the time, she tried to make it her
project, and that relationship is on the out. So I dug in because
I'm stubborn and at that point I was like, well, I'm already in
this, so it's never gonna happen. So I've never seen it, so
okay, Well it came out on December nineteenth, nineteen ninety seven. And
speaking of dates, that was my son's very first date he had was what
was the date that came out? December nineteenth? Yeah, that would have
been right, because we hit semester, I graduated and then I went to
kaiok so yeah, I was right in the middle of that. So well,
you could watch it at home by yourself and try all you like.
Nobody will ever know. Why Why would I want to watch it when I
have I have the Godfathers, I have? You have Godfather three? I
mean I do, only because it was the same price as buying the other
two on that ross he has I have Titanic. Yeah, it would have
caused me the same to buy one and two to add my add to my
library. And I appreciate that. But I've never been to watch though.
It's never been just to watch The Titanic. It's really Oh that's good.
I like that. It's a horrible. I wouldn't want to watch it.
I know what happens. I like movies with a twitch. If you tell
me they're doing a tight Tannic but you know they're gonna put a Shyamalan but
a good one kind of twist in there. Maybe I'll watch it. It's
good some twists. It's like Passion of the Christ, like I knew where
that was going. Oh God, yes, oh God is right, yes,
absolutely, all right, Well remember Christy king Easter. I hope you
have a lovely day, all right. I see later that movie came out.
That movie came out while I was interning in the top forty station in
Albany, New York. Okay, And I can tell you because i'd also
I was so focused on my career that I wasn't really I didn't go to
movies, so I did not see that movie in the theater at the time.
But since then I have seen it. But I can tell you that
back then, right December of nineteen ninety seven or whatever, it was,
that stupid clean Dion my Heart Will Go on song, you know what,
number one. That's a good point. That was the other thing. It
was the number one song in the top ten at ten for it had to
be like a year ridiculous. Oh it a stupid song. Yeah, because
I you know, I was in I was in radio still because I worked
in radio in high school. I worked you know, I've literally worked in
radio since I was fifteen, and we had the station at that time was
you know, today's hits, yesterday's favorites, so that Selene Dion was all
up in there. But you know, here's the thing. Here's the thing
too, I'm not some big Sleid Dion fan. All right, let's just
let's just be clear. I don't know that I own an album, but
she's she's extremely talented. And the way they did her, I don't know
if you watched, basically everyone around her just turned on her over the last
like five years. That was brutal. I feel bad for her, but
I also still don't want to watch the movie, right, I just I'm
good, thank you for that. What was the one comment with Selene Dian
I'm sorry, I'm so sidetracked. Some some Rolling Stone guy was talking about
how Lizzo was comparable vocally to Selene Dion, and I just couldn't anymore.
And here's the thing. Liz O can go out and do whatever whatever they
want. My annoyance is not with her. My annoyances with people at Rolling
Stone who've decided that they can't evaluate vocal talent in the same people who are
phenomenal singers impress me because I can't. I literally I work with my voice.
You don't want to hear me singing. Day lost respect for me.
I can't so so long ago, but I saw it was like the top
whatever it was, like one hundred vocalists or whatever it was like that was
the article time, and Michael Jackson was not in the top ten. What
I don't think he's the top twenty five. Was it right in the middle
of like the trial stuff or no, it was not. It was pretty
recent. How do you not recognize even if you look, Michael Jackson's thing
wasn't just that he was vocally talent wollented. His voice sounded like nobody else's
right. You couldn't never you could never know seconds of Michael Jackson from the
time he was a kid. It's a Genis Joplin, right, like immediately
recognizable, And that's that's just repugnant. Man. I don't yeah, yeah,
no, you're right, I got yeah, I'll tap out on that
whole thing. Absolutely. You know, we're just we're in this modern thing.
Oh look at this, Ross, I got another booking for your Hindenburg
trip. All right? Can I take Ross's Hindenburg to Sydney and then go
on the titan I No, I don't think the range is there. You're
gonna have to take it and then get on the Malaysian Air too, and
then to Sidney where, like you mentioned before, we're not doing refunds because
the money goes to charity anyway. So, oh, that's right, the
Lambeau Fund, Now, I say, hey, it's for Sheriff Global Initiative
Fund, which fund sayes for sheriffs? Are you? Are you herically involved
in Haiti? No? No, nothing to do to Haiti because I hear
that's a good that's you know, there are a lot of money to be
made there, so I want to get in on that. All right,
Well, so be it. Yeah, if you want to go on the
cruise ship and you want to get there, the Hindenburg will only get you
so far, all right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven
four Race Stagic he could go be the official meteorologist where I could. Frankly,
if you're the Titanic, you probably need so this this billionaire has been
trying to get Titanic two going for like twelve years. Apparently, right,
he's ready to go, and he's doing the marketing, but he's marketing it
as an anti woke cruise. So we're trying to figure out what the hell
that means. But also I was thinking about it, like you know,
the Chivalry of nineteen twelve, where they're like, all right, let's get
all the women on the boats and you know, we'll fiddle while we drown.
Like not today. Man, No, did you see the cruise ship
that hit like a small ice flow up in Alaska a few weeks ago?
People are out they're filming it with the iPhone. If I'm on that ship
and you turn around from filming, you're gonna see me running the pulley on
the lifeboat and it's just going to be me in there and all that food.
So right, screw it. You wanted equality here, it is,
right, figure it out there. It is. Yeah. But anyway,
yeah, they's like to see I would actually like to see that Titanic too,
or something like that. Well it's happening. I mean, we go
on our Twitter where you go to the article in that and then Ross saw
the money making ability, so he's doing the Hindenburg too, so that should
be and says here they're going to strive for historical accuracy, so probably going
to use the same gas probably shouldn't be a problem. It'll be fine.
It's a problem, probably gonna be okay. And everybody should have to dress
in nineteen period Garb period Guarb nineteen early nineteen hundred star. I think that'd
be fun. I mean, I wouldn't particular only I want to kind of
do that. There's a lot of I can't get it were books, So
unfortunately I can't let you too. Sorry, heartbroken for sure. You know,
here's here's the thing too, Just if I could for a moment since
already on this the way that people dressed in the early nineteen hundred, it's
like you ever see pictures of unemployment lines back in the night period, Yeah,
during the Great Depression, and they're all in three piece suits and stuff.
Just I like, I don't I battle with am I gonna put pants
on in the morning because you know sporting radio, Like I have the same
struggle. Yeah, And today I decided, yes, these guys are eating
uh you know, ketchup soup for for weeks and just standing there hoping to
get higher. And they're dressed nicer than anything I own. The craziest thing
about all those pictures that they're all in black and white, and I just
think it's I always thought as a kid, I always thought that everything back
in the day was black and white. And can you imagine seeing something like
that in color? Its just weird. It was we have if it weird,
I mean, I know they colored some of the old black white,
like the World War two thing they did was amazing, But yeah, it's
crazy. Let's see not black and white, but green and yellow. All
right, that's what we how we can segue into this and the green and
yellow is don't make don't make packers references. Oh wow, there we go.
Yeah, that'll be coming up soon. And uh, you know it's
rain and actually it's working out okay, just like we expected. The floodwatch
from about the triangle east out into the outer Banks, you know, that's
where the heaviest rain and thunderstorms are. There's low pressure getting ready to go
right through the eastern parts of the state. It's sitting down just to the
northwest of Hatteras right now. And going over land, and so that's keeping
it from gathering even more more so. But the rain from about the try
east here this morning on ninety five pretty wet right now, and it's not
going to end anytime soon for some of us, especially east of ninety five.
It'll start to break up just a little bits. You go west out
in the other triad, there's some showers, but you go west of really
a line from about I want to say, Winston Salem and up into Danville
in Virginia, all right, and then painted down to the southwest toward Charlotte
and west of that there's no rain all right. So it's pretty variable as
you drive across the state here today, so better chance of rain and thunderstorms
triangle east, few showers, tryad west to nothing as we go through today,
some heavier rainfall, especially the further east you go. Today's highs will
be upper forties to low fifties. Tonight the rain will come to an end,
leaving us with so pretty decent weather as we head on through Friday in
the upper sixties with the gusty breeze, though the weekend is going to be
gorgeous seventy five to maybe eighty by Easter Sunday, lots of sunshine around even
into early next week. It does look like it tries to get colder again
late next week, so I'll keep an eye on that too. Okay,
all right, appreciate it, sir, and we'll talk in an hour.
Okay, okay, all right, coming up the apparently the WNBA players are
mad and the irony here is this is an incredibly teachable moment, and I'll
explain why, and we'll check in on the student occupation of the administration building
at Vanderbilt University because it's hilarious. I'll give you the details next here on
the KCO Day Radio program PCO Day Radio program. It is Thursday. Glad
to have you long. And you know, we had the little VAK last
week, and then we had some scheduling stuff, so we got a lot
in the bunker for Stephen Kent who joins us now. Steven, good morning
to you. How you doing, sir. I'm doing well. Glad to
be back. Yeah, man. So I got a bunch of stuff.
We're gonna rapid fire and try to fill too segments. So let's get into
it first and foremost Ross and I were just talking about the Titanic thing like,
I don't understand it, but whatever, people want to go on Titanic
two. More power to him. Ross has just started a new Hindenberg experience.
I'm excited about that. How could you not understand, Casey? I
have already signed up on the newsletter on bluestar line dot com for updates about
when I can buy tickets for third class. Well, well, one,
you buy those, but then you have to prepare. Yeah, you got
to pretend you're first class, right, I think that's the scale. I've
never seen the movie, and people are don't understand that. So I don't
know fully what happened. But I love history and I've read a couple I've
read a couple big books on the Titanic that told a lot of little anecdotal
stories, and there is there's so much amazing stuff there that is period based,
right. The ideology, the way in which we inner from a societal
standpoint of nineteen twelve obviously is far different from twenty twenty four. So we
were just trying to think of the differences, Like, first and foremost,
did you see the video a few weeks ago where one of the cruise ships
in Alaska bumped like an ice flow. All right, it's not a full
iceberg, but they hit it with a cruise ship and it did nothing because
today's ships are either ready for that. But I'm watching these idiots film on
their iPhones and I'm just like, if that, if that was on that
ship, and that woman turned around, who did the video that went viral,
she would see me lowering my own lifeboat into the water, right,
the whole women and children first. I don't think that's sell sales, sales
in the modern age of equality. So but you're pumped over this, right,
So oh, I'm pumped if I can afford at least third or second
class tickets, I guess I'm just writing out the possibility of first class.
I will be on the anti woke Titanic too. You can bet your bottom
dollar on that, and I will be on the deck. This is what
I'll understand anti woke if you evaluate what happened on the original Titanic, chivalry
and putting women first and all those narratives that like, that's all stuff that
we're supposed to divorce from our mental existence now. So like, I don't
know, this is market This is fascinating so the millionaire billionaire from Australia,
Clive Palmer, who is putting this project together and funding it. He gave
this interview the other day to Rolling Stone in which he framed Titanic Too as
sort of a anti woke answer to Titanic, which is fascinating because there was
nothing particularly woke about the first Titanic. But what he means in this interview
is that the world is woke, that people are forcing vaccines upon you,
that people are conscious and all these worries about class and class difference, and
Titanic two is going to be the answer to that by not requiring vaccinations and
apparently being opposed to cancel culture. Which this is just sort of the kind
of thing that I feel like a weird boomery, you know, hopped up
on Fox News kind of person would say without any sort of actual basis right.
But here's where it's legitimate, and uh, you know, in the
world of talk radio, especially you know, conservative talk radio, there are
companies that literally sell conservative cruises. I know you know this, conservative cruises,
conservative trips. We've marketed. I've I've helped market trips to go see
the d Day sites, and I like history, so I'd like, I'm
down with that. But but also, a cruise ship can't exist without classes,
do you know what I'm saying, Like, you go on a cruise,
your state room, your package, your you know, whether you get
some of the tours of the bridge and all like. So is he saying
that none of that's going to exist? So is like the ship just have
all the same I'm just so confused by this, but also have no desire
to be on it. So, I mean, it's a pretty confusing concept
unless you are a huge fan of the Titanic and want to see human triumph
succeed. Because like the people who criticize Clive for doing this, they basically
hate the spending of money on anything that is not soup kitchens and housing for
the poor like Rolling Stone again, kind of like how they attack Elon Musk
for daring to try to take us to Mars. You know, they ask
him, well, why aren't you spending any of your money to help the
poor or build housing for the unhoused and all this kind of stuff, and
he goes, well, yeah, I do lots of that. I'm a
billionaire with a foundation that supports a lot of people in different ways. And
this is sort of the main reminder, like human beings build stuff. We
do amazing things and build amazing features, and that's part of what makes us
special. And that's what I love about this guy's attitude about building the Titanic
too, to try to redeem the disaster of Titanic one, I will do
it, and I will take a selfie of myself on the front of the
boat with all of the other voyagers across the Atlantic. That's a good point
the whole It's gonna be like remember when that congressman was worried about guam tipping
over. Remember remember that famous exchange. By the way, Uh it turned
out that he had like advanced hepatitis and which eats the brain, which I
did not know. That was a follow up. So I'm glad he got
treatment. But now I have that same concern, right because if every jackass
on that ship wants to go do the bow shot, doesn't the thing just
like capsize? I mean, I'm not. The trick is you got to
put a net underneath the front of the bow to catch all the jack legs
like myself, who are going to be botching that that selfie opportunity watching you
take out. I don't know how many people fit on this, but you
take them all, you put them away. There's a reason that if you
get on a commercial airlines flight, from time to time, the flight crew
will walk through and reseet people because it's about load balancing. So if everyone's
going for the photo op, because we're a society that's driven by TikTok opportunity,
this thing, they're dead five miles off shore. If I could be
a negative Nancy here. So well, you said you haven't seen the Titanic
movie. So the quote no, but iron there. I assure you,
she can think it probably doesn't mean anything to you, but this ship can't
think. Wow, you're he woke. Yeah, that's I know that.
I have watched the artistic scene, so where you's sketching her, I did
catch it. Oh yeah, yeah, that's part of the movie. Yeah,
okay, as far as I know, that's the whole movie. All
right. So so anyway, all right, so you're pumped over that,
we'll get you a tiken on the Hindenburg Transport and have fun with that.
Let me flip over to a couple other things here. Did you see Microsoft's
game guidelines story. So for those who I've heard about this, yeah,
okay, all right, let me just because I haven't seen said it for
the audience. So basically, if you're not into video games at all,
that's fine. You don't have to be whatever, but you do have to
understand, much like really, much like everything that you utilize on your phone,
it's only a handful of people that really control it. In fact,
when you look in the tech sector, there's very little competition in a lot
of areas. It's why Google can have such an outsized influence. It's why
social justice warriors, when they're wanting to get things purged from the Internet,
are attempting to manipulate not the individual websites, but rather the organization that allows
the assignment of sites, as well as the hosting companies, because if you
can get a hosting company, that'll that'll solve a lot of your problem because
there's just not that many in the game in the gaming sphere. Correct me
if I'm wrong, Microsoft, Sony, Google, because of the Android stuff
and Apple, they probably are the gatekeepers for what like ninety nine percent of
games out there. Would that be fair? Yeah? Both, you know,
if you buy a system versus your computer. So Microsoft has published new
inclusion guidelines for video game developers. So if you are building a video game,
then you want it to run on anything that Microsoft so Xbox or Microsoft
operating systems. You got to abide by this. And as you can imagine,
there's a bunch of wokee garbage stuffed in here. One of the things
that comes up constantly is the way in which female characters, though it's not
just female characters are depicted with we'll call it non traditional proportioning, which is
literally how they worded in here. Any any depiction of sexualized or unrealistic female
characters would not be allowed to operate within the Microsoft sphere. Other guidelines are
representation diversity score, including creator community. Right now, I don't know if
people, if you're not like in this topic, you don't realize what's going
on with this company called sweet Baby, which is essentially a diversity coordinator,
which has went in and arguably like screwed a bunch of games over with their
suggestions. Microsoft wants to build this into the system. How do they they
basically how does It's sort of a workbook that they want game developers to go
through their video games and ask themselves a handful of questions, and not only
covers, like you said, sort of the sexualization of female characters and sort
of wanting their body proportions to not be like I don't know, like I
guess the old Tech and im Mortal combat and anime games, you know,
where every woman who's in the game is incredibly bucksome, incredibly skinny, and
also can fight. But they also want you to consider whether or not your
male characters quote display a full range of emotions including joy sadness, and vulnerability,
which I means I guess they want your male characters to cry more,
which is just this is so stuff. This kind of stuff nowhere in this
booklet of developing guidelines for Microsoft that they say, make the game more fun,
make it more fun. This is what you're supposed to do. It's
not making it like this is This is is somebody who is admittedly not as
like I don't game to the extent that you do, and ross right,
I'm that's not my thing. There's a few that I like. Diablo has
always been a game that I've enjoyed. Well, we can talk about the
current one all we want, but there's nothing accurate in there. Like,
what's that Ross's Dark Souls? Right, that's the game he plays like.
There's not an actual dude running around with a sword that's imbued with the souls
of the dam giving you magic boost. Right, that's not a thing.
There was, No I don't Well, maybe there is, and they just
haven't. For Indiana Jones hasn't comet like it is that fantasy aspect of it.
And then I'm reading this line. Also, developers need to make room
for accessibility. This is about making games and experiences playable for people with disabilities,
as well as providing representation. Okay, you know what people who are
in wheelchairs do not want to do. People in wheelchairs do not want to
play video game characters where their hero is also still in a wheelchair. This
is where I'm saying, like they would like to live outside of their body
and outside of their experience and walk in someone else's shoes. That's what these
games are for. Look, when I select Barbarian class, it's not because
I have the physique, do you know what I'm saying? Right? So,
like I when I play what was the other game? What I'm thinking
of? Oh God of War? Right? God? Like I don't I'm
never gonna look like that, dude. Let's just be straight up honest.
And I don't need them showing emotion, even though there is an emotional aspect
of that game if you play it because of the kid. But like people,
this is escapism one oh one. So all of these things you can
accomplish, as you pointed out, whether it is because you are somebody with
the disability, like it makes sense that people they have remastered controllers to work
for people who have disabilities. Those products exist out there. But to your
point, yeah, I don't. I don't don't think I need to run
a dungeon. Uh you know my dungeon farming on Diablo in a wheelchair.
That's just me and and and so if Microsoft is going to force the hand
of this, this is this is where I wonder if this starts to spell
doom for the creativity that used to abound with within video games, where a
lot of it. If you see the the the updates to many popular games,
they wholesale killoff characters the we just talked about, all the Marvel stuff,
Like, all of this wokeness is is potentially ruining yet another aspect of
entertainment or am I overreacting. I don't know. Maybe well, no,
I don't feel so in this case, I really don't think you are.
Because what happens here in environments like this is human resources HR departments start running
the shop of all innovative firms and creative environments. And when we saw the
Google Gemini AI disaster roll out, you know the one where you know the
AI was producing black Nazis and basically erased white people from existence, what was
going on in Google's AI department is that their entire department of innovation is captured
by the Human resources department. They can't do anything without running into DEI hurdles.
And so when you have this Microsoft pamphlet that's going to be passed around
game developers to sort of micromanage and make them overthink every element of their games
they're developing. Creative people don't like to work in those environments, but bureaucrats
and pencil pushers do, And so you're going to have more games coming out
into the mainstream that are just not inspired. They are not made with heart,
they're not made with excitement and joy. They are made to check a
bunch of boxes and appease the HR department and let me tell you, and
it's not going to sell. And I got a minute and a half,
And here is the point I'm trying to capture in another story. Doesn't the
second time around, and hopefully the final decimation and demise of Kataku and those
woke schools, doesn't that demonstrate that this isn't what gamers want. If they
can't stand those people, I think it's never mattered what gamers want. It
is just mattered what makes the people in management at these different firms feel good
about themselves. The exits that are happening at Kotaku are sort of in the
wake of management and I guess ownership of Kataku asking them to do their jobs
and write more articles about video games, but instead they would like to be
political writers. And I think that this is pretty normal within the world of
media and journalism. If you've got a lot of young people who they wanted
to be journalists, they weren't cut out for the New York Times, and
then they landed at Kotaku, and then they just want to write as if
they still work for a liberal media outlet and not about video games. They
hate their audience well, and and this is the thing, and yet it
doesn't seem to matter in the same way that the oscars. Right, if
you don't put enough diversity in a movie, you can't even be considered for
it. I mean, this is and look at that. We're already literally
up against our break and I have like nine other things I want to get
to. You want to stick around for another segment? You want to do
that? Why not? What the heck? All right? So I'm gonna
take the lazy but fun option and we're gonna chat with Steven some more coming
up. It is the Casey O Day Radio program stick Around the Heroes within
the within the video game, which would literally require the retooling of some some
classic titles. And also they took a look at the top ten selling video
games of all time. And this is going to shock you, Steven.
Nobody looks like that. And as somebody who just spent a week and a
half in South America, let me tell you something. You've been. You've
been down to Brazil, Argentina, any of the Colombia is another good example.
You were, I haven't. How how is the how is the wildlife?
Okay? Look, the food's amazing and it's like you can get you
can get a steak that with Shamerus Chris for like thirteen dollars because the economy
sucks down there. And uh and I want to say this, Argentina has
some of the most beautiful women you'll ever see just walking around. This is
going to be important. Uh there, it's it's kind of ridiculous, but
but about every other one. Brazil has a lot of influence over the totality
of South America, is what I determined because I've been to Ecuador, Colombia,
and Argentina and Brazil all within the last two years, and every about
every other woman who walked by looks looks like it's a you know, like
men in black when they're in the human suits, right, and they're just
off a little because of the propensity to go out and get giant butt implants.
Right, it's like they look like the video game characters because of they'll
get the backside and the front side done. And it's very very popular.
You know, people can do whatever they want. But I gotta tell you,
man, like we're me and my buddies are just sitting there like we're
having a beer. They have these like little outside, little pop up bars
thing these zombie stads down there and wait, you know, that's how we'd
kill the evening, just before we go out to dinner and whatnot. We're
just people watching and then you'd see a woman walk by who's like five foot
tall but five and a half feet long, right, because of all and
it looks like the video game characters they're mad about. So apparently nobody consulted
the BBL community in South America because yeah, apparently not crazy. Man,
it's crazy. And by the way, it's gonna be very clear, I'm
not meaning this to be insulting at all. It's just wild. It's just
like because you don't you know, in the US it's not as popular,
but it's just pratty. It's just like crazy popular. And like I'm you
know, I got a couple buddies are on the trip or whatever. I'm
like, dude, dude, look at that, right, and so like,
maybe Microsoft should take a trip down there. That's all that I'm saying,
and maybe they'd be fine with this. Yeah, I saw this kind
of remark that, you know about what you were talking about regarding the new
Indiana Jones video game that's coming out from the Developer Machine games, and there
were some jokes made about the new character that's going to be following Indiana throughout
the game, named Gina Lombardi. And you know how, of course,
yet again another female character added to a game where you have a titular male
Kala character and she has sort of a lesbian cat lady haircut. Look.
I love women with short hair. My wife has short, pixie cut green
hair, right now. That's just who she is as a person, and
she's beautiful. But not every not everyone, not everyone looks like that,
And for some reason, video game developers have just sort of accepted this idea
that everyone out in the real world looks like the girls in their development departments,
and it's just not true. And you have to wonder if some of
these standards are coming from a place of scorn, bitterness and resentment and just
people being self conscious and going, well, you know, we can't have
these sort of idealized female bodies and any kind of video game because it makes
me feel bad. We don't want that, and video gamers certainly don't want
that. I don't want I don't want a character in the you know,
in the in the in the video games that I played let me tell you
what I'll actually play. I'll play Diablo just because that was the game when
I was in high school I got into and I followed it through. Even
with everything that Blizzard has become, I'll stick with it because I enjoy it.
And then like the Tiger Woods franchise, I've got the newer one that's
not Tiger it's the other one. I like that sports game stuff like,
And there is not a video game in my collection, which admittedly isn't that
large, that looks like me. And that's a good thing, right,
that's that's because I am. I am escapist here. And one of the
things that we've talked about on the show, and I don't know if we've
we covered it with you, is, uh, there's a what is a
there's a YouTube guy but called it's a Gundam. Do you know who that
is? Does? It's? I know you do, because we've talked about
a thing that he was at and he does. I enjoy his stuff and
he's having a ball with his Kataku stuff. But he did a video a
few months ago where he had like fifteen female game developers and then they had
characters that are clearly them in the games right where he just kind of rounded
them up and and I think the best example was the teenage Muan Ninja Turtles
with the revamp of April. So it's not just games. Sometimes it's a
cartoon right right, And it's like it's clearly them. And I understand the
ego side of that. Maybe if I was a game developer, I'd want
me in there, but also I'd be like, people don't want to around,
want to run around slay in all their enemies with my build. And
so I sit here and I look at this, and this is the more
serious side. When you have a handful of game gatekeepers like the companies we
mentioned, don't you run the risk of being standard oil where at some point
you've you've you've throttled and choked off this this industry to anything that you don't
like. And that's when politicians get involved in this stuff. We got politicians
that are getting bent over green bubbles versus blue bubbles, whether you have an
Android phone or an iPhone. And I make fun of green bubble people,
but I'm joking, but I'm kind of not. And now politicians are getting
involved. There isn't this something else They step in and what's happening with that?
Why is Apple in a hotwa Yeah, so what you're referencing is the
Department of Justice under America Garland has launched a sweeping and broad antitrust lawsuit against
Apple for a variety of different accusations that they are making, one of which
is what you just referenced, which is sort of a way of gatekeeping against
outside devices and competitive texts such as Android Samsung devices, where if you are
an iPhone user, you know an Android user in your chat threads or in
your text message section. Basically like a second class citizen in the green bubble
versus blue bubble. You can't do emoji reactions, toss androids sent over different
networks. I just want people need to understand these because this is very clear
because Apple is using not the the text network that we know, they are
using their own digital version that is Internet based, And I just want to
be abundantly clear. He set it up, so it's yeah, that's right,
and yeah, and just very oddly, you know, what the DOJ
is basically arguing here is that the walled garden experience of using an Apple device,
which I'm an Apple guy, which is very special. All the devices
sync with one another. The smart watch, the MacBook, the iPhone,
they all work in concert with one another, and they encourage the use of
other Apple products. Their argument is that this is illegal and that the special
Apple experience that those consumers enjoy that they are a being corralled and coerced into
it, and b that they are not being competitive and conducive to their competitors.
So it's essentially an argument that Apple should make products that accommodate Samsung,
their main competitor, which is a strange one. And it's also an anti
consumer position which scolds and criticizes consumers of Apple product for enjoying Apple as much
as they do. Yeah, and just to be clear, because people look
at it and they go, well, Apple dominates in the US and a
handful of other markets, but I encourage people to leave the confines of the
US. Apple's almost non existent in many countries because the networks just aren't build
out. It doesn't sync with stuff. WhatsApp is kind of janky on it,
which is primarily source of communication in a lot of countries. So like,
this is a US problem, and I point this out and last question
for you, you could make the same argument if that Microsoft is gatekeeping to
the same extent if they have a proprietary game for Xbox that doesn't play on
PlayStation or am I taking this to an unlogical place I got about a minute.
No, not at all. It's a progressive argument that platforms developed by
specific companies have to work for all companies to play their games on. If
you have a PC only game, or you develop a game that is an
Xbox only product with even exclusive skins, you know, player skins for Call
of Duty that only Xbox users get, you know. Biden's DJ and FTC
department have both involved themselves in these cases, the FTC in particular against Microsoft
and Activision Blizzard seriously arguing in court that Xbox having an exclusive skin for Call
of Duty that PlayStation users can't get is an anti trust violation and some kind
of anti competitive behavior. We like having different brands, different products that are
in competition with one another. And if there is a competitive sector in the
US economy, it is technology. Consumers have a lot of decisions they can
make, and if everything has to be exactly the same, why why in
ava? Yeah? But no, seriously, I just it's it's just it's
so frustrating, and we see a hundred examples. This is just the digital
version. All right, thank you for rambling with me today. I'd like
nine other things I want to get to, but it ain't gonna happen.
But we'll talk next week, sir. Case you see that. All right,
there you go, Stephen, Steve, there we go. All right,
Stephen Ken joining us and Race Stager joining us. Now from the Weather
Channel, what's go? Are you a Are you an Apple or a Samsung?
Dude? Are you an Apple bubble or a blue bubble? Okay,
I don't know. We're a green bubble. Does it when you're in a
text and you want to like actually send rich media to each other, there's
one person in there with a non Apple and uh yeah, yeah, yeah,
they mess it. I do have a friend. I do, and
you know they'll swear by non Apple and that's fine. I just yeah,
you're ruining the text threads. I know, ruin it for everybody. And
you know I ruined the day for everybody. East. I'm just gonna it's
just easier to say from triangle East and it's ring. It's heavy years ago.
East, get out into let's see Wilson and Rocky Mount and Neurono Rapids
and east of that in the outer Banks just a mess. Today. You
go west and there's hardly any rain around the try it. There are a
few showers, but the bed rain is east and we'll cont to theous the
occasional rain and showers depending on your location. You go west, there's no
rain. We'll probably stay basically low fifties today, might get the mid fifties,
and then the suddenly back for Friday, mid upper sixties. Beautiful day,
but a little gusty breeze around, so a little chili with some thirties
around in the morning. Weekend's gonna be greay early next week let's good.
We could get close to eighty by Easter Sunday. I promise you this the
payoff for what you've got today, especially from as we mentioned Raleigh east and
out to the Outer Bank. The payoff is going to be fantastic. So
hang in there with the rain. Watch out for some heavier rain in some
spots. I could call some flooding. After that. I think we're gonna
be pretty good, and everybody's gonna be pretty happy with smiles on their faces.
See all right, make everybody feel good. We appreciate it. We'll
chat with you Bellinger next. Hang on, hey see, the job market
remains resilient. Just got word from the Labor Department. Two hundred and ten
thousand first time claims for unemployment benefits were filed last week and that was two
thousand fewer than the prior week. And it turns out the economy was a
little stronger than previously thought at the end of last year. The final estimate
of the fourth quarter Gross domestic Product says the GDP expanded at a three point
four percent annual rate from October through December. The prior estimate was three point
two percent. Stock market futures are mixed this morning. Dow futures are up,
S and P in Nasdaq futures both a little lower. And this report
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