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That is commitment to the craft.
I mean, I don't respect it to

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screw this guy, and you know, we'll go through the judicial process and

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then I have some you know,
I got some ideas. So I was

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just reading a follow up story on
this. What is this? You know

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what? Screw this guy's name.
I'm more concerned with the officer, all

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right, NYPD officer Jonathan Diller.
Uh if if you don't know, on

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Monday one of the NYPD officers who
was I mean, he's dealing with a

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really little thing, and in fact, likely I don't think they would have

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run this guy's name. A guy's
name is Guy Rivera, and I'll tell

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you this because it's important what him
and the other guy in the car's name

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is. But they have a specific
title for this particular beat, so to

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speak. I think it's like quality
of life officer. They when this mayor

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came in, they did some like
renaming the stuff. So take it for

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what it's worth. But basically,
these are the broken windows guys, but

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without really the enforcement action. So
if you don't know what the broken windows

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policing thing was, the keyword being
was Basically it's the idea that simple vandalism

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i e. Broken windows, if
left unchecked, eventually leads to bigger stuff.

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I don't know that you could argue
that nowadays. I don't know that

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you could look at one of our
major US cities, which is basically said,

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you know, we're we're gonna defue, we're going to defind, or

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we're going to uh decrease the role
of police, uh cash, cashless bail,

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lenient judges, and law enforcement that
basically has looked at the situation and

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went, you know, unless it
is unless they're literally holding a gun to

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a woman's head, and then even
then, yeah, we're just we're not

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gonna get in this because if this
thing goes sideways, the city's on fire

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and the you know, the president's
condemning us even before all the information is

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out. It's just not worth it, right, you know. So,

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but that was a policy that cleaned
up New York City. Going back to

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Giuliani and Koch and I'm missing somebody
in there, but yeah, the fact

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is is that's what New York did, and they saw immense results. It

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was not the only thing that they
did, but and you know, New

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York City was that example of you're
not going to put up with the little

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stuff because if you do, then
people go, oh man, I can

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get away with stuff, and then
the big stuff happens. So it created

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this whole level of officer. And
that's what this police officer was quality of

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life or I'll find the word as
we go through here. Sorry, I'm

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sitting there and there's a lot of
info here and wait till you hear the

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kicker. So anyway, this YPD
officer here we go described as a quality

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of life cop. Okay, all
right, so you know he's not outsolvent

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murders. That's not me hacking on
the dude. But I just want to

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be clear why he was interacting with
these two. He was interacting with these

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two because he observed them for ten
minutes, for ten minutes, parked in

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a bus stop, right, so
you know it's a little carved out area

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there. Only the bus can park
there. And they were in front of

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a te mobile store. Neither of
them was out of the car and they're

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parked there and even where I think
a lot of officers would wonder, well,

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wait a second, what are you
staring at intently for ten minutes?

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Like that's gonna get you know that
that's gonna set off radars with a lot

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of officers. Likely it did with
this officer, but as a quality of

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life officer, NYPD officer Jonathan Diller, he's thirty one, married father,

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was simply going to go in there
and be like, look, you can't

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park in a bus stop. The
bus comes every fifteen minutes or whatever.

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You've been here for ten minutes,
you gotta move. But he never got

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those words out. Instead, according
to police, as he approached the vehicle

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where Guy Rivera is the passenger.
Police say that Rivera almost immediately opened fire.

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That's what's so crazy here. This
officer was going to go up and

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likely, I mean, they don't
know exactly, but this is kind of

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how they're policing now. Was going
to go up and just be like,

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hey, you guys, you can't
park here. Whereas you know, back

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in the day, it would have
been the whole ideas everybody, the whole

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thing. And obviously Rivera and the
driver, Lindy Jones, they didn't want

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that, but the reality is they
probably wouldn't have had to deal with that.

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They would have just had to drive
like twenty feet. But it never

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got there. According to officers,
Rivera opened fire outside of the window,

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the passenger window, and shot the
officer five times. And here's where we

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get into the details. Office NYPD
says that the first shot, one that

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basically hit the stomach just below the
bulletproof vests, was likely the fatal shot.

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So it you have this tragic story. Now, let me get to

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this Rivera, who had in recent
times twenty one arrests, twenty one prior

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arrests, robbery, fell in with
a firearm, drugs, a lot of

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gang related stuff. The dude who
was driving also a lot of gang related

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stuff. In fact, I gave
you his name, but actually his name

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was you ready for this? His
street name was Killer with an H at

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the end, and they say he
was known to most of the officers in

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the precinct, including the officer Diller
who was killed. The gang. Can

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I say this gang name? I
don't know, man. While they have

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not documented a specific gang affiliation during
the previous arrest, it was suspected that

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both Jones and Rivera had some sort
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that area, known as the Gang
of Apes. However, that was according

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to the spokesman here, that was
not the focus of the interaction. Instead,

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the officer most likely was simply going
to tell him to move. Now,

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what charges do we have, Well, the most previous fourteen arrests included

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robbery, assault, attempted murder.
Before judge last year, prosecutors asked for

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eighty five excuse me, seventy five
thousand dollars bail and an anklet basically electronic

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monitoring. The judge did give some
cash bail, but balked at the monitoring,

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so you know, it wasn't the
softest of sentences while while they were

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playing. The problem is he had
twenty one previously, so the other twenty

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other than a stint for attempted murder
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he hasn't been He hasn't really been
held responsible for the last five arrests,

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not yet. But this is not
even Look, there's a tragic story.

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There's a lot more to it,
but it's gonna get weird in a

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moment. As the other officer the
partner or I guess another responding officer,

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I don't know that I should say
partner actually did get a few shots into

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this dirt bag. He didn't die, but the hospit little report is amazing.

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So, uh, here's what we're
gonna do. It's six eighteen.

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I'll give you a rundown. We
got we got, we got nerd news

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as we call it on the show
that's coming up. Just a lot of

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weird stories and somehow a small fly
which is taking up residents in the studio

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area that you're gonna hear me chase
all morning. But what the hospital report

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said, just wait for it.
We'll do it next kc O Day Radio

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program CEO Day Radio Progrip. Don't
worry. I'll get to it. Dude.

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I did see it though. We
get we get a lot of video

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game news, so you know chances
are we seeing it, but still send

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it. If you see something,
just be like, hey, these guys

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gots to know, oh what's on
sale? All right, I'll get to

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that here in just a moment.
I gotta I gotta finish this story out

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of New York, all right.
So you have a thirty one year old

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NYPD officer killed essentially telling a couple
career criminals, hey, you can't park

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in the bus stop. That's what
a life was worth to them. The

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officer who is seen in one of
the you want to tug your heartstrings.

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The picture I keep seeing is the
very recent one where he's holding his one

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year old who's got an adorable little
hat. Quality of life. Officer noticed

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they were parked in the bus stop
for ten minutes and rather than even the

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start of a conversation, career criminal
accused of just opening fire. However,

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and this is where this thing just
gets weirder and weirder. According to reports,

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the pistol that was used to allegedly
murder this officer not the only weapon,

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not the only weapon in this individual's
possession. Who again, the suspect,

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Guy rivera twenty one prior arrest,
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he's served, about fourteen total years, So I guess I can say this

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he has actually been sent to prison, though it kind of goes back,

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and when you look at some of
the more recent arrests, you can tell

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that they've decided to take a different
approach. So even though he has four

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no excuse me, five active cases, he not only was in possession of

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a pistol, which I believe is
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everywhere, mister Felon. But according
to the hospital reports, when they brought

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him to the hospital after another officer
attempted a mag dump sadly was not able

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to get the whole thing in there. Surgeons say that they noticed via X

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ray a strange object inside of the
suspect turned out to be a shiv.

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Turned out this dude is so what
is I'm trying to remember the term that

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was used in the criminal justice class
elective I took because I thought, what

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was it? Jailing right where?
Where? You? You know, people

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just even when they're out, have
spent so much time in that. Frankly,

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that's kind of changed their nature about
them, and in some cases they

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just can't deal with being out obviously. I guess the best example from a

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cinema stamp point was the old dude
from Shawshank Redemption. Why can't I never

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remember his name even though he carved
it into wood. Who's the dude who

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hung himself after they let him out? The librarian? That dude, right,

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he never he just been in jail
so long. He just he was

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unable to deal. Well, this
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This guy, according to authorities,
because he had the current open cases,

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he was out doing crime in his
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here, he was so expecting to
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he kept his shiv in his butt. I'm dancing around it, but let

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me get to it. Just with
this story, this guy so expected that

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he was going to go back to
jail, probably because he realized he's a

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criminal dirt bag, that he just
always had a shive in his rectum.

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Two of you sent me the same
question. I realize it didn't do a

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good job of explaining it, which
is unlike me because I am a professional.

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So you're going, well, wait
to say, if he had a

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gun, why does he also have
a shive in his prison wallet all the

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time? I want to I want
to stress this. This guy got I

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must. I don't know if he
kept it in there at night. It

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doesn't say, but this dude started
his day with a knife in his butt.

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And I'm not saying it that way
to be funny. It just I

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mean the words in other story,
because this is this is a predictable,

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tragic story that's going to continue to
unfold. Unfortunately, in the world of

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law enforcement, there's always going to
be officers that are wounded or lose their

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life. It's because there's always going
to be criminals. But this era of

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making it easy and even empowering criminals, that's the problem here. So the

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reason that he had it was not
for law enforcement. Okay. According to

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the New York Post story here,
the suspected shooter had been arrested again twenty

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one times, but fourteen times just
in the last two years. It's a

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busy boy. It was the part
where he did ten years. It kind

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of caused a little bit of a
gap and some of his stuff for a

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violent attempted murder, but went before
the Queen's district attorney. The prosecutor did

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request seventy five thousand in bail and
an anklet was did provide a cash bail,

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didn't provide tracking, and then the
cash bail amount was lower, so

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family and friends had him bonded out
real quick. Was expected back in court

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April first, so just days away. By the way, here is the

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accusation that sent him to jail for
excuse me, the case that sent him

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to jail for ten years. Back
in two thousand and one, he was

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accused and convicted of shooting a man
over some sort of financial drug related dispute,

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hit him three times twice significantly,
and that led to a collapse lung

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and mobility issues that he did not
kill him, but to this day that

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guy is wounded. Sounds like he's
another criminal dirt bag based on what I'm

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reading here. So still you got
to punish the guy, even if he's

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doing God's work. Mayor Adams appeared
to choke up Tuesdays. He warned,

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it's good guys versus bad guys.
That's what kills me about Adams Adams is

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his background is law enforcement. But
even he has during the speech he gave

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Tuesday, he says, the bad
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Okay, why is that? Why
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criminals are gonna do whatever they want. Don't care. I understand that,

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but like that's the word on the
street. However, it has also provided

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a challenge for Vera Rivere or whatever
in this story, and that challenge is

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he fully expects that even if he
does go out and do whatever he wants,

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he'll still be arrested and have to
spend a little bit of time at

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rikers right before eventually he can go
in front of a judge who doesn't care,

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and so the shive is not for
law enforcement. The shive is literally

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kept permanently encased so that if he
is arrested, he has a weapon when

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he gets to rikers. How do
I know? That's what he told police.

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That's what he told the hospital,
because you know, if you go

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into a hospital and you got you
know, got a chef's knife in your

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butt, they're going to ask about
it. Now. The weapon which was

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described wait, hold on, was
it inside or just in the crack?

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Oh, I'm getting to that guy. I got law enforcement or former law

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enforcement guys who were like, why
was it just? No? No,

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no, no, he did have
it protected. According to the report,

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it was inside of a prophylactic with
some patting. I guess to make sure,

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but like, correct me if I'm
wrong, one of one of our

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fine law enforcement folks, or even
are just okay ones? Wow, Look,

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there's gonna be a spectrum. How
do you train for that? And

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how do you can you prepare it
so that when you make them do the

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cough thing, because that's what that's
for, right. I've never had the

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squat and cough, so I don't
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understanding from all the law enforcement stuff
that was if they did it and they

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did have something in there, that
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Am I correct? So in some
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guess enough to prepare it that he
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rikers. Or maybe they're not searching
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one time we had a guy who
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his cane. It's not his prison
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Mount. Years ago, we had
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nether regions and I mean in it. And I also don't mean it was

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twenty five caliber derringer. I don't
mean it was a hammerless subcompact that a

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woman might keep in a pocket of
or purse. It was. It was

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like an old West fighting gun.
So you know, I'll never put it

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past what they're going to do.
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and this is important because in the
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is under four inches, it does
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a felon right, So I guess
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justifying it, but that would make
sense just in the you know, should

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a boy scout knife, which is
going to have a blade under four inches,

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should that violate? And maybe it
should. If you're twenty one charges

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into this with attempted murder, but
just prepared like a boy scout, should

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he go in. I think it's
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though you haven't proven gang ties,
although it doesn't look like you, you

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looked real hard based on the tattoos
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he's planning for that forty eight hours
or whatever. He's gotta he's gotta survive

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in rikers versus enemies of a of
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is dead. Uh, there was
a story not put out. There was

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there was a story. I'm sorry. Ross's type don't do that when I'm

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talking about serious stuff. Man,
I was just gonna laugh, and now

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I have to explain to you I'm
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what Ross is the story. We'll
get to all right, dude, I

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didn't even know where I was,
but just garbage, just garbage all around.

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Officer dead yesterday when uh, the
officer's wife was meeting with these her

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her husband's, her now deceased husband's
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called and spoke with the widow and
then immediately the uh what's the name of

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it? Tunnels to it tunnels to
towers? Right, they called and they're

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paying off the mortgage. Uh,
they're setting up a college fund for the

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one year old, which in the
long run I know she appreciates, but

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never wanted to be there obviously,
And I who was I think it was

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it was the funeral director, who
who is handling this? Who is contractor?

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Who? Who spoke to a neighbor? And that neighbor posted it on

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Twitter? So wasn't the Trump people
putting it out? And so literally the

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tweet says the widow of the slain
officer received a phone call from Trump and

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then the charity people and people were
upset with that. Where is the where

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is the organization and where is the
former president when police are out murdering you

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know, innocent people, that old
narrative, And I'm like, can you

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just pause for a moment where we
have a situation where a guy with twenty

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one charges years under his belt in
incarcerated, running around with an illegal firearm

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which again you already made illegal,
and a three and three quarter inch blade

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on a homemade shive permanently possessed.
Can we just focus on that for five

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seconds? Like, can we just
have one scenario where you're not mad at

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Trump? And why don't you ask
yourself if you're mad at Trump for quote

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unquote taking advantage of the situation,
why don't you ask yourself why Biden didn't

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call? Why don't you ask yourself? Although it did happen, but at

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the time, the family had said
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the mayor of more than a quick
phone call. I guess they did so

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credit where credit is due, but
it's the least you can do. And

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instead I had to watch two thousand
moonbats lose their mind. Who does he

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think he is? He's a former
president, he may be another president?

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Like that goes? That sticks with
you, man, You get to hold

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onto that title. In fact,
even though it irks people, you can

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still refer to him as President Trump, even though he's not the sitting president.

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You just don't call him the president. He's going to have that.

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In fact, Barack Obama famously on
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said and literally physically dropped the mic. Was responding to mean tweets. Whatever

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that segment is. I just I
don't watch the garbage enough to know which

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one does it? Is it Fallon? I don't know that was his whole

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thing. He said to Trump,
well, at least I will be a

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former president back in twenty fifteen,
and obviously we saw how that worked out.

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It was Kimmel, all right,
I've seen this. I think this

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segment's funny for the most part.
I like when they do the sports people

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because they're not as they're not as
quick as the actors, and so you

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can see, like you can see
it bother some of them, but you

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know, it's just human nature.
But yeah, whatever, like two seconds

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off and then ask yourself why felons
are running around with guns and butt shifts

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murdering police because they want to park
in a bus stop. Sir. I

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don't know why this thing bothers me, so I mean it should bother you.

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But all right, what is all
right? Now? I have a

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corrections officer who is ross. Do
you want to know what they teach corrections

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officers on the length of the storage
capacity of a prisoner's rectum? Do you

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want to be armed with that information? Because I just got it in eight

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inches? You can. The totality
of it for the average human is that

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I didn't need to know that,
sir. I guess, I guess unless

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I turned to a life of crime
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forty nine. That's where we are, phone number eight eight eight nine three

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four seven eight seven four. I
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I was just flabbergasted to see people
on Twitter just you know, being garbage

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humans on social media over a phone
call that seemed to provide a minuscule modicum

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of maybe just pause in the grief
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even have that. So all right, six point fifty, I'll give you

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a rundown on some other stuff.
We'll do it on the flip side of

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the break. Hang on, do
we're in the marketing business and I don't

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want to tell is this guy?
I think this guy's a billionaire? Yeah,

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yeah, yeah, all right,
So obviously he knows how to make

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money, or at least payoff government
officials. I don't know what is he

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a mining? Yeah, mining,
that's all right. Clive Palmer, who

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is described as an Australian mining billionaire. He's got a side hustle and we've

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talked about it on the show.
I didn't realize this was the dude doing

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it. But it's going to be
important, all right. His dream is

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not just to you know, extract
the precious metals of the world, but

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also he's getting into the cruise business
and he's got a he's got a marketing

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strategy. You've heard of what it
is, but I had not heard of

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the strategy. And frankly, I
don't know that. I don't know that

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this dude or any of his his
people have really thought this out, because

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I feel in like Ross and I
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we've identified a lot of flaws in
this. By the way, I said,

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like two people send me emails Ross, I don't want to three under

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the bus people are like is where
is Ross? Uh? Just so we're

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clear, Ross doesn't feel good,
and we've we've had a lot of changes

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in our well, you're dealing with
like technical nightmare. So it's like it's

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so there's like all that, but
he's he's here. The first time I

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heard this, and immediately we talk
talked about on the airlight. I don't

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know if that's a good marketing strategy, but who knows, maybe it is.

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So you have this Australian billionaire Clive
Palmer who back in twenty twelve announced

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the Titanic two. Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's a name that carries

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some weight there, right, And
he was his dream was to construct contract

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market and fully, I guess book
and staff the inaugural sailing of the Titanic

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two, and even as far back
as twenty twelve, which was, by

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the way, that was the one
hundredth anniversary, which is why this first

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came to light, announced that they
were going to do that, and I'm

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say, and they're like, how
are you gonna how are you gonna sell

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stuff? Like, who's going on
that? I'm a like, I love

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me some history, but also I
don't want to go on Titanic too.

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Even though the likelihood that there's a
problem is extremely minimal, right, the

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really the worst case, well,
no, the coast of the coast of

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Concordi or Costa Concordia. I guess
stands out if you remember that was a

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small cruise ship. We're uh in
the in the Mediterranean where they you know,

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a bunch of people did die.
But you know, the reality is

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if you go on a cruise ship, really your your your bigger concern is

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the poop cruise, uh, which
you know was the neurovirus nightmare. And

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holy crap. By the way,
they have a documentary on that thing on

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like Netflix. Don't eat and then
watch it because it is fascinating, but

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it's also incredibly disturbing where society.
I'm sorry, I'm not laughing. I'm

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not laughing at this because it had
to be horrible. But one of the

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things that apparently was the problem is
passengers who were fistfighting other passengers over buckets

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so that they could use them to
go to the bathroom. In like society,

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how quickly society can break down to
wear one minute. One minute you're

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just like, I'm gonna get the
most out of a drink package and uh

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yeah, this is gonna be amazing. I'm not wearing any shoes, you

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know, all the all the normal
little things on a cruise ship to wear.

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You're punching a dude in the face
to steal his bucket. That's half

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full of you know, feces.
Nobody envisions themselves there, but sometimes things

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go sideways, right, So that's
really worst case scenario. In fact,

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they had a cruise ship when we
were on vacation. I don't know if

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it was one of the one of
the big I think it might have been

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a haul in America. It's one
of the Alaska cruise lines, and you

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have all these passengers that were filming
because they hit an iceberg kind of it

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obviously was a floating chunk of ice
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you ever go on Alaska crew by
the way, if you like a cruise

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and I don't even like to cruise. That being said, what you see

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going up the inner passage of Alaska
and eventually making your way like halland America

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and a few others do this,
and then going on that glass train to

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DINALI absolutely amazing. And these passengers
are up there like, oh, we

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hit it. They can see it
and they felt it strike the ship,

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and then they were just upfilming it
with their iPhones. Now let me let

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me tell you this. Obviously,
the construction of ships, the hulls,

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the the safety measures. There's a
reason if you go on a cruise,

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you gotta do the muster thing.
Although now I guess they will. I

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don't cruise. I just I'm not. I'll do the Alaska thing. But

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like I don't need to go bopping
around the Caribbean with you know, three

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thousand other people all in my way. That's that's that's not for me.

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That being said, I I would
never be concerned that the ship's gonna sink

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due to the fact and even if
it did that there wouldn't be safety measures.

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So when you know they they have
enough lifeboats, they have a plan,

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they have radio communications and other ships. Fine, However, if I'm

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on a ship that hits an iceber, I ain't filming that. In fact,

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if you're one of those people standing
there with a phone and let's you

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know, the moment you're done filming, you turn around, you're gonna see

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me over there with trying to work
that pulley to get one of those orange

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boats into the ocean. Like I'm
out of there. Is done. So

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this guy wants to do Titanic too, and now says that they're gonna be

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able to do this the let's see
here, Palmer wants the ship to have

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cutting edge navigation equipment. Okay,
good safety systems, right lifeboats for everybody?

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Got that? Although are you really
historically doing it accurately? If there's

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enough lifeboats? I mean, and
you're not really sticking with the history there

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are you? Also? I got
to quit if I could just bring this

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because in a moment, I'm gonna
tell you as marketing, let me provide

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a modern twist on this thing.
If you were to have the same incident

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with the same supplies in the same
area and same technology today, do you

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think in our society that that plays
out like it did on the Titanic?

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And I don't take them, Although
to be fair, I haven't seen the

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movie seen parts of it. I'm
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with this sketching big passion of mine. But other than that, but I

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do know historically a lot of the
mini stories there and which I assume we're

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in the movie, or I know
we're in the movie because I did read

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the synopsis. I feel how many
people would be immediately trans on that boat.

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Can I am I allowed to ask. I think if the Titanic happened

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today like the same scale it did
back in the day, Right, so

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we're talking, we're bringing that disaster
up to like twenty twenty four levels,

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right, I think you'd have more
casualties because people are probably more self lion

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back then. Now, like you
said, everybody would be taking photos and

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videos and posting it and but maybe
the response would be quicker, right because

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of that. While I'm talking about
like lifeboat negotiating, Oh no, and

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you know everyone trying that whole right, Like you know some day like I

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feel like, let me in.
But also you know, you don't even

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have to go there, you know, because everything's about equality in women's rights

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and all that. Like from a
social experiment standpoint, that would be fascinating

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to watch how that how that plays, right. You wouldn't even have to

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be like Billy Zane from the movie
pretending to be a woman. You would

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just go up to the lifeboat happened, yeah you really haven't seen. You

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would just be like, you know, you just go to the life boat

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and be like, I'm a woman, identify a woman. I know that

408
00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:50.679
there were the the the which is
an accurate story, like you had,

409
00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:54.519
uh, you had one boat that
literally was just dudes posing as women,

410
00:39:57.239 --> 00:40:00.199
and it was like some it was
like two people from the band, it

411
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:06.599
was some of these ship employees,
and then it was one of the onassises

412
00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:09.960
or something. There's a connection with
the Kennedy's there, as there usually is,

413
00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:14.960
but like, how does that go? Like, because I'm even and

414
00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:17.239
I think a lot of folks out
there, I'm still one of those people

415
00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:22.239
who like, chivalry is not dead. Do you know what I'm saying,

416
00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:27.679
Like, I'll you know, if
I take a woman out, I'll pay,

417
00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:30.440
I'll open the door. I respect. This is what my mother taught

418
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:36.840
me. Like, but I feel
like that all goes out the window in

419
00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:38.559
this modern age where you know,
you got a bunch of women going to

420
00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:43.360
the lifeboat and you're like whoa,
whoa, whoa whoa. Yeah, we're

421
00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:45.480
not doing the women and children thing. Like maybe the children thing they'd still

422
00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:49.000
put up with, but the women
thing. Hell no, get me on

423
00:40:49.039 --> 00:40:52.880
that boat. Yeah, you film
your stupid TikTok. I'm lowering this thing

424
00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:54.440
into the ocean. I know what
you're saying, KC. That's a boat

425
00:40:54.440 --> 00:40:58.880
for like twenty four people, and
I my response would be, well,

426
00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:01.519
twenty three other people should be quicker. Okay, I think you get your

427
00:41:01.559 --> 00:41:05.199
own boat because you're in the media, right, Yeah, no, no,

428
00:41:05.079 --> 00:41:07.119
no, that's how it works.
Dude, we gotta you want to

429
00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:09.840
go on this thing, you gotta
get you tics. I've sent this now

430
00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:14.719
to several people. Yeah, Steven
Kent actually sent it to me. All

431
00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:15.800
right, So, by the way, Steven, I should tease this.

432
00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:22.920
Stephen Kent is our NERD media consultant. We'll be talking to him in about

433
00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:25.599
fifteen minutes. Yeah, it's from
a geeky stoics in the consumer choice center,

434
00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:30.599
right, He wrote back. I
went from chuckling about this and now

435
00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:32.119
wondering if I could afford a ticket. Is it bad? I really want

436
00:41:32.119 --> 00:41:36.480
to ride in third class? Well
yeah, but you have to pretend you're

437
00:41:36.480 --> 00:41:39.199
in first class. My other buddy, Michael, who I'm going to bulldoze

438
00:41:39.199 --> 00:41:43.679
this house when I win the power
Ball? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,

439
00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:46.119
this is your leftist buddy. Yeah, be important, He writes back.

440
00:41:46.159 --> 00:41:51.800
Well, I do love DEI and
history. So right, so a lot

441
00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:54.119
of people want to buy tickets.
I you know what, Maybe it works,

442
00:41:54.119 --> 00:41:58.559
but here's where it gets weird.
So Palmer in the article says that,

443
00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:05.519
let me read the headline. Billionaires
says his long delayed Titanic two ship

444
00:42:05.639 --> 00:42:10.639
will be the antidote to woke politics. Well, what does that mean?

445
00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:15.480
What a headline? What is that? I've read this story. He's just

446
00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:20.320
like, hey, snowflakes, get
on the boat free trip. Is that

447
00:42:20.360 --> 00:42:23.360
what it is? Is that?
Is that not? Because like I'm reading,

448
00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:29.280
I'm reading some of the other quotes
in here, and and by the

449
00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:32.079
way, it's been a nightmare for
twelve years trying to get this thing off

450
00:42:32.119 --> 00:42:38.440
the ground pay disputes. Initially a
Chinese shipyard was building it. That would

451
00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:42.239
be, by the way, the
Chinese shipyard. That's enough for me not

452
00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:47.199
to go right there, because all
you gotta do is watch one video of

453
00:42:47.320 --> 00:42:54.599
these these condo buildings in China.
Because in China, the entirety of the

454
00:42:54.639 --> 00:43:06.840
population that did have investable income,
like was convinced that property ownership was your

455
00:43:06.920 --> 00:43:10.639
key to retirement. So that's why
you see all of these condo buildings that

456
00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:16.519
are literally unoccupied because people in China
invested in these condos, which were sold

457
00:43:16.679 --> 00:43:23.679
very cheap. Culturally, they were
convinced that you couldn't lose and then you

458
00:43:23.679 --> 00:43:30.599
see the video of people literally grabbing
what should be the stone facade of the

459
00:43:30.639 --> 00:43:37.039
building and it pulls away like packing
styrofoam. That's why they're demoing these things.

460
00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:40.880
So you tell me a Chinese shipyard's
doing it. I got questions,

461
00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:45.760
But I also don't understand how this
push is back on the woke. I

462
00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:49.800
just I feel like this dude has
been unsuccessful in booking it and now he's

463
00:43:49.800 --> 00:43:53.639
figured out who he wants to pander
to. And I'm just I'm here to

464
00:43:53.719 --> 00:43:59.280
ask those of you who tune into
the show to hear the latest woke insanity

465
00:43:59.320 --> 00:44:05.000
so you can feel that are about
being a rational human being. Do you

466
00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:10.039
want to get on this ship?
I don't, But as Ross's pointed out,

467
00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:13.280
he sent it to people and they're
jat they want to go. So

468
00:44:13.880 --> 00:44:15.239
tell your all right, Well,
if you won't go, because you'll have

469
00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:20.599
to leave the country because this thing's
gonna go all over, tell your buddy,

470
00:44:20.599 --> 00:44:22.719
we'll do it and will fly him
to Sydney, where I guess it's

471
00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:27.400
gonna lone. Now, why is
it launching in Sydney and instead not up

472
00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:32.679
in uh uh England, Scotland?
Up and there. Well, actually,

473
00:44:32.800 --> 00:44:37.280
uh, if you go to Northern
Ireland, uh, and uh, you

474
00:44:37.400 --> 00:44:42.039
go to Belfast, you can actually
go see the berth and the shipping where

475
00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:47.800
they built the Titanic. That's a
it's a tourist attraction. So like tell

476
00:44:47.880 --> 00:44:53.280
him, uh, We'll fly him
to Sydney on the the Malaysian Air too.

477
00:44:53.880 --> 00:44:57.559
Uh je, No, I was
gonna ask. I was gonna ask

478
00:44:57.599 --> 00:45:01.960
what hates for Sheriff Hindenburg too?
Oh that sounds that sounds fun. Free

479
00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:07.360
tickets, okay for anyone anybody majoring
in like liberal arts, free ta get

480
00:45:07.559 --> 00:45:13.440
get on, get on the balloon. What about what about feminist studies?

481
00:45:14.280 --> 00:45:17.679
You know? Okay? All right, well we should go paper the uh

482
00:45:17.760 --> 00:45:25.119
over at the universities see if they
want to go on this thing. Yeah.

483
00:45:24.519 --> 00:45:28.519
I don't want any part of this, but if they're gonna do it,

484
00:45:28.559 --> 00:45:32.000
I also don't know how it's pushing
back on woke politics. Sorry,

485
00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:36.159
I'm literally trying to read this story
that Ross sent me in a four minute

486
00:45:36.199 --> 00:45:43.480
spot block and while I'm actually talking. So um, all right, so

487
00:45:44.119 --> 00:45:47.280
here we go. Uh back to
what Ross was mentioning a lot of the

488
00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:53.079
original descendants of people who died on
the Titanic have indicated their desire to go

489
00:45:53.159 --> 00:46:00.320
on this. Okay, why helped
me out here? Well, I could

490
00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:01.159
say this. You know, my
dad was a Vietnam van. I said,

491
00:46:01.159 --> 00:46:04.480
the one place I'd love to go, like visit I would love to

492
00:46:04.559 --> 00:46:06.519
visit Vietnam. Right, it's sort
of like, you know, walk in

493
00:46:06.519 --> 00:46:07.559
his foot. I don't know.
I don't want to get shot multiple times

494
00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:10.239
right right, or get ambushed or
whatever in Quang Tree, but I would

495
00:46:10.239 --> 00:46:14.239
like to like go there just to
kind of understand what he went through.

496
00:46:14.679 --> 00:46:17.079
Well, I hear if you if
you go upriver, there's literal there's like

497
00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:21.480
Playboy playmates up there. Really had
you had you heard this? Yeah,

498
00:46:21.599 --> 00:46:23.039
yeah, it's the thing. So
although not and then they get in a

499
00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:28.440
chopper and I don't know what happened
to him. Yeah, but yes,

500
00:46:28.679 --> 00:46:31.800
and and look, I do understand
it even though I'm sitting here, like,

501
00:46:31.840 --> 00:46:36.880
do you have anyone Do you have
a historic family member that died in

502
00:46:36.920 --> 00:46:45.440
in a unique or historical way.
I I do not with this, I

503
00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:52.519
have I have one of the folks
who was literally killed in the retaliation of

504
00:46:52.559 --> 00:46:57.719
the retaliation of Custer's thing. So
if you don't know, obviously bat a

505
00:46:57.760 --> 00:47:01.760
little big Horn and then they're like, Ah, that didn't go well for

506
00:47:01.880 --> 00:47:07.800
us. Why don't we go up
to Dull Knife where there's a summer Indian

507
00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:15.440
encampment in the big Horns and murder
a bunch of non warriors, including a

508
00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:19.119
bunch of women and stuff. And
then they had a retaliation on some homesteaders

509
00:47:19.239 --> 00:47:24.039
and one of a person who had
married into the family was among those victims.

510
00:47:24.679 --> 00:47:28.000
I mean, that's as historical as
it gets. But you know,

511
00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:30.280
Titanic's a big deal. So I
guess I kind of see. But again

512
00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:36.719
I don't understand how it pushes pack
on woke politics. So whatever. Anyway,

513
00:47:36.719 --> 00:47:38.320
we'll take a break, be right
back. So five of you want

514
00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:45.199
to go on the doomed cruise?
Two huh Again obviously technology, Now,

515
00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:52.519
why would you want to do that
when Ross's Hindenburg thing is that's going to

516
00:47:52.599 --> 00:47:55.280
be amazing. So the only problem
I have with that is you have to

517
00:47:55.280 --> 00:48:01.119
go to New Jersey, right,
So you know, do you wanna you

518
00:48:01.119 --> 00:48:06.000
want to cruise off the coast of
Alaska or excuse me, of Australia,

519
00:48:06.159 --> 00:48:09.960
or do you wanna do a short
flight in New Jersey? That'll come down

520
00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:17.599
to individual preference. But good,
I see here your Hindenburg thing is non

521
00:48:17.679 --> 00:48:22.800
refundable. That's probably a good idea
too. All right, very good?

522
00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:24.960
Uh yeah, all right, So
everyone wants to go on the uh the

523
00:48:25.159 --> 00:48:31.400
Titanic two again. I'm I'm a
fan of the history. But I've just

524
00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:36.800
been watching this dude for like twelve
years try to figure out how to market

525
00:48:36.800 --> 00:48:42.639
it. And now he's decided,
let's let's market it to uh the anti

526
00:48:42.760 --> 00:48:46.320
woke folk, which is not unusual
in the cruise industry, right, We've

527
00:48:46.599 --> 00:48:52.719
we have advertisements periodically on this show, on this station for conservative cruises,

528
00:48:53.599 --> 00:48:59.079
uh, generally with our conservative tours. Sometimes they do cruise stuff so you

529
00:48:59.119 --> 00:49:04.480
have a ship with you know,
a bunch of like Heritage Foundation speakers,

530
00:49:04.559 --> 00:49:08.840
couple ex politicians, radio hosts,
things like that. They do tours obviously

531
00:49:08.880 --> 00:49:15.239
of the d Day sites, which
you're fascinating. That being said, I

532
00:49:15.239 --> 00:49:16.920
don't really understand what's going on here. All right, hold on, let

533
00:49:16.920 --> 00:49:21.400
me go to the phones. Yes, Donna, what's up? Good morning,

534
00:49:21.480 --> 00:49:27.320
Casey. I was Yes, it
is very nice spring. We're getting

535
00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:30.760
rained for the flowers. It's lovely. Yeah, No, thunderstorms A barrelance

536
00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:35.599
through the studio anyway, what's up? So I was gonna send you some

537
00:49:35.719 --> 00:49:39.440
dimes for your trip on the Titanic
so that you could get drawn like one

538
00:49:39.480 --> 00:49:44.360
of his French girls. But you
wouldn't get the reference because you're the only

539
00:49:44.400 --> 00:49:49.199
person in existence who's never seen that
movie. I don't know that that's true.

540
00:49:49.880 --> 00:49:53.760
Came out, No, I got
fully I am fully aware of when

541
00:49:53.760 --> 00:49:57.639
it came out. So what you
have to understand is that movie came out

542
00:49:57.840 --> 00:50:00.360
and it was released. I can't
remember the date it was released, but

543
00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:06.559
it was released like right as I
graduated high school. And just to be

544
00:50:06.599 --> 00:50:10.760
clear, I was class of ninety
eight, but I graduated. I skipped

545
00:50:10.760 --> 00:50:15.480
part of a grade and I graduated
early. So I was seventeen and I

546
00:50:15.719 --> 00:50:20.280
was going down and I started college
at semester, so I was making that

547
00:50:20.360 --> 00:50:28.480
transition and everyone was going to see
it, and grown men that I knew

548
00:50:28.519 --> 00:50:32.159
were like, oh, I teared
up, And it was at that point

549
00:50:32.400 --> 00:50:42.199
I refused to go see this movie, and I made the statement. And

550
00:50:42.239 --> 00:50:44.920
the girl I'd been seeing at the
time, she tried to make it her

551
00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:49.199
project, and that relationship is on
the out. So I dug in because

552
00:50:49.199 --> 00:50:52.800
I'm stubborn and at that point I
was like, well, I'm already in

553
00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:54.280
this, so it's never gonna happen. So I've never seen it, so

554
00:50:54.679 --> 00:51:00.159
okay, Well it came out on
December nineteenth, nineteen ninety seven. And

555
00:51:00.639 --> 00:51:05.239
speaking of dates, that was my
son's very first date he had was what

556
00:51:05.360 --> 00:51:07.840
was the date that came out?
December nineteenth? Yeah, that would have

557
00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:12.239
been right, because we hit semester, I graduated and then I went to

558
00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:15.519
kaiok so yeah, I was right
in the middle of that. So well,

559
00:51:15.639 --> 00:51:17.599
you could watch it at home by
yourself and try all you like.

560
00:51:17.719 --> 00:51:22.840
Nobody will ever know. Why Why
would I want to watch it when I

561
00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:29.920
have I have the Godfathers, I
have? You have Godfather three? I

562
00:51:29.960 --> 00:51:35.239
mean I do, only because it
was the same price as buying the other

563
00:51:35.280 --> 00:51:40.960
two on that ross he has I
have Titanic. Yeah, it would have

564
00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:45.159
caused me the same to buy one
and two to add my add to my

565
00:51:45.239 --> 00:51:49.679
library. And I appreciate that.
But I've never been to watch though.

566
00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:52.880
It's never been just to watch The
Titanic. It's really Oh that's good.

567
00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:55.039
I like that. It's a horrible. I wouldn't want to watch it.

568
00:51:55.079 --> 00:51:59.079
I know what happens. I like
movies with a twitch. If you tell

569
00:51:59.159 --> 00:52:02.280
me they're doing a tight Tannic but
you know they're gonna put a Shyamalan but

570
00:52:02.320 --> 00:52:07.840
a good one kind of twist in
there. Maybe I'll watch it. It's

571
00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:09.960
good some twists. It's like Passion
of the Christ, like I knew where

572
00:52:09.960 --> 00:52:15.039
that was going. Oh God,
yes, oh God is right, yes,

573
00:52:16.079 --> 00:52:22.599
absolutely, all right, Well remember
Christy king Easter. I hope you

574
00:52:22.639 --> 00:52:25.760
have a lovely day, all right. I see later that movie came out.

575
00:52:25.800 --> 00:52:29.599
That movie came out while I was
interning in the top forty station in

576
00:52:29.639 --> 00:52:32.000
Albany, New York. Okay,
And I can tell you because i'd also

577
00:52:32.039 --> 00:52:35.559
I was so focused on my career
that I wasn't really I didn't go to

578
00:52:35.599 --> 00:52:37.880
movies, so I did not see
that movie in the theater at the time.

579
00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:39.280
But since then I have seen it. But I can tell you that

580
00:52:39.360 --> 00:52:43.320
back then, right December of nineteen
ninety seven or whatever, it was,

581
00:52:43.960 --> 00:52:46.440
that stupid clean Dion my Heart Will
Go on song, you know what,

582
00:52:46.599 --> 00:52:51.000
number one. That's a good point. That was the other thing. It

583
00:52:51.320 --> 00:52:54.480
was the number one song in the
top ten at ten for it had to

584
00:52:54.480 --> 00:52:59.960
be like a year ridiculous. Oh
it a stupid song. Yeah, because

585
00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:02.159
I you know, I was in
I was in radio still because I worked

586
00:53:02.159 --> 00:53:05.440
in radio in high school. I
worked you know, I've literally worked in

587
00:53:05.519 --> 00:53:09.599
radio since I was fifteen, and
we had the station at that time was

588
00:53:09.639 --> 00:53:13.760
you know, today's hits, yesterday's
favorites, so that Selene Dion was all

589
00:53:13.840 --> 00:53:16.280
up in there. But you know, here's the thing. Here's the thing

590
00:53:16.320 --> 00:53:21.920
too, I'm not some big Sleid
Dion fan. All right, let's just

591
00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:23.920
let's just be clear. I don't
know that I own an album, but

592
00:53:25.199 --> 00:53:31.079
she's she's extremely talented. And the
way they did her, I don't know

593
00:53:31.119 --> 00:53:37.239
if you watched, basically everyone around
her just turned on her over the last

594
00:53:37.280 --> 00:53:42.079
like five years. That was brutal. I feel bad for her, but

595
00:53:42.199 --> 00:53:45.760
I also still don't want to watch
the movie, right, I just I'm

596
00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:51.559
good, thank you for that.
What was the one comment with Selene Dian

597
00:53:51.599 --> 00:53:55.400
I'm sorry, I'm so sidetracked.
Some some Rolling Stone guy was talking about

598
00:53:55.519 --> 00:54:01.320
how Lizzo was comparable vocally to Selene
Dion, and I just couldn't anymore.

599
00:54:02.599 --> 00:54:06.360
And here's the thing. Liz O
can go out and do whatever whatever they

600
00:54:06.360 --> 00:54:10.719
want. My annoyance is not with
her. My annoyances with people at Rolling

601
00:54:10.840 --> 00:54:21.239
Stone who've decided that they can't evaluate
vocal talent in the same people who are

602
00:54:21.320 --> 00:54:28.840
phenomenal singers impress me because I can't. I literally I work with my voice.

603
00:54:29.280 --> 00:54:30.480
You don't want to hear me singing. Day lost respect for me.

604
00:54:31.519 --> 00:54:35.800
I can't so so long ago,
but I saw it was like the top

605
00:54:35.920 --> 00:54:38.079
whatever it was, like one hundred
vocalists or whatever it was like that was

606
00:54:38.119 --> 00:54:43.960
the article time, and Michael Jackson
was not in the top ten. What

607
00:54:44.280 --> 00:54:46.920
I don't think he's the top twenty
five. Was it right in the middle

608
00:54:47.039 --> 00:54:52.119
of like the trial stuff or no, it was not. It was pretty

609
00:54:52.119 --> 00:54:57.519
recent. How do you not recognize
even if you look, Michael Jackson's thing

610
00:54:57.719 --> 00:55:02.639
wasn't just that he was vocally talent
wollented. His voice sounded like nobody else's

611
00:55:04.079 --> 00:55:10.119
right. You couldn't never you could
never know seconds of Michael Jackson from the

612
00:55:10.159 --> 00:55:14.079
time he was a kid. It's
a Genis Joplin, right, like immediately

613
00:55:14.159 --> 00:55:22.320
recognizable, And that's that's just repugnant. Man. I don't yeah, yeah,

614
00:55:22.440 --> 00:55:24.760
no, you're right, I got
yeah, I'll tap out on that

615
00:55:24.880 --> 00:55:30.239
whole thing. Absolutely. You know, we're just we're in this modern thing.

616
00:55:30.320 --> 00:55:32.599
Oh look at this, Ross,
I got another booking for your Hindenburg

617
00:55:32.639 --> 00:55:39.000
trip. All right? Can I
take Ross's Hindenburg to Sydney and then go

618
00:55:39.079 --> 00:55:43.440
on the titan I No, I
don't think the range is there. You're

619
00:55:43.480 --> 00:55:47.639
gonna have to take it and then
get on the Malaysian Air too, and

620
00:55:49.079 --> 00:55:52.079
then to Sidney where, like you
mentioned before, we're not doing refunds because

621
00:55:52.119 --> 00:55:54.440
the money goes to charity anyway.
So, oh, that's right, the

622
00:55:54.519 --> 00:55:58.199
Lambeau Fund, Now, I say, hey, it's for Sheriff Global Initiative

623
00:55:58.199 --> 00:56:04.320
Fund, which fund sayes for sheriffs? Are you? Are you herically involved

624
00:56:04.360 --> 00:56:07.800
in Haiti? No? No,
nothing to do to Haiti because I hear

625
00:56:07.840 --> 00:56:09.000
that's a good that's you know,
there are a lot of money to be

626
00:56:09.039 --> 00:56:13.159
made there, so I want to
get in on that. All right,

627
00:56:13.199 --> 00:56:15.960
Well, so be it. Yeah, if you want to go on the

628
00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:19.239
cruise ship and you want to get
there, the Hindenburg will only get you

629
00:56:19.320 --> 00:56:22.920
so far, all right? Eight
eight eight nine three four seven eight seven

630
00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:27.960
four Race Stagic he could go be
the official meteorologist where I could. Frankly,

631
00:56:28.000 --> 00:56:31.519
if you're the Titanic, you probably
need so this this billionaire has been

632
00:56:31.519 --> 00:56:36.320
trying to get Titanic two going for
like twelve years. Apparently, right,

633
00:56:36.639 --> 00:56:38.760
he's ready to go, and he's
doing the marketing, but he's marketing it

634
00:56:38.840 --> 00:56:43.239
as an anti woke cruise. So
we're trying to figure out what the hell

635
00:56:43.320 --> 00:56:47.480
that means. But also I was
thinking about it, like you know,

636
00:56:47.639 --> 00:56:52.559
the Chivalry of nineteen twelve, where
they're like, all right, let's get

637
00:56:52.599 --> 00:56:55.119
all the women on the boats and
you know, we'll fiddle while we drown.

638
00:56:55.840 --> 00:57:00.039
Like not today. Man, No, did you see the cruise ship

639
00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:04.519
that hit like a small ice flow
up in Alaska a few weeks ago?

640
00:57:04.800 --> 00:57:07.719
People are out they're filming it with
the iPhone. If I'm on that ship

641
00:57:07.800 --> 00:57:12.800
and you turn around from filming,
you're gonna see me running the pulley on

642
00:57:12.840 --> 00:57:15.920
the lifeboat and it's just going to
be me in there and all that food.

643
00:57:15.039 --> 00:57:19.519
So right, screw it. You
wanted equality here, it is,

644
00:57:19.920 --> 00:57:22.400
right, figure it out there.
It is. Yeah. But anyway,

645
00:57:22.480 --> 00:57:27.440
yeah, they's like to see I
would actually like to see that Titanic too,

646
00:57:27.559 --> 00:57:30.599
or something like that. Well it's
happening. I mean, we go

647
00:57:30.760 --> 00:57:34.800
on our Twitter where you go to
the article in that and then Ross saw

648
00:57:34.800 --> 00:57:38.320
the money making ability, so he's
doing the Hindenburg too, so that should

649
00:57:38.360 --> 00:57:45.320
be and says here they're going to
strive for historical accuracy, so probably going

650
00:57:45.400 --> 00:57:47.480
to use the same gas probably shouldn't
be a problem. It'll be fine.

651
00:57:47.480 --> 00:57:51.840
It's a problem, probably gonna be
okay. And everybody should have to dress

652
00:57:51.880 --> 00:57:57.159
in nineteen period Garb period Guarb nineteen
early nineteen hundred star. I think that'd

653
00:57:57.159 --> 00:58:01.039
be fun. I mean, I
wouldn't particular only I want to kind of

654
00:58:01.079 --> 00:58:04.639
do that. There's a lot of
I can't get it were books, So

655
00:58:04.760 --> 00:58:10.239
unfortunately I can't let you too.
Sorry, heartbroken for sure. You know,

656
00:58:10.320 --> 00:58:14.119
here's here's the thing too, Just
if I could for a moment since

657
00:58:14.119 --> 00:58:17.159
already on this the way that people
dressed in the early nineteen hundred, it's

658
00:58:17.159 --> 00:58:25.159
like you ever see pictures of unemployment
lines back in the night period, Yeah,

659
00:58:25.239 --> 00:58:30.039
during the Great Depression, and they're
all in three piece suits and stuff.

660
00:58:30.320 --> 00:58:35.079
Just I like, I don't I
battle with am I gonna put pants

661
00:58:35.119 --> 00:58:37.920
on in the morning because you know
sporting radio, Like I have the same

662
00:58:38.079 --> 00:58:44.239
struggle. Yeah, And today I
decided, yes, these guys are eating

663
00:58:44.480 --> 00:58:49.159
uh you know, ketchup soup for
for weeks and just standing there hoping to

664
00:58:49.159 --> 00:58:52.880
get higher. And they're dressed nicer
than anything I own. The craziest thing

665
00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:58.639
about all those pictures that they're all
in black and white, and I just

666
00:58:58.719 --> 00:59:02.000
think it's I always thought as a
kid, I always thought that everything back

667
00:59:02.000 --> 00:59:05.920
in the day was black and white. And can you imagine seeing something like

668
00:59:05.920 --> 00:59:08.960
that in color? Its just weird. It was we have if it weird,

669
00:59:09.280 --> 00:59:13.199
I mean, I know they colored
some of the old black white,

670
00:59:13.280 --> 00:59:15.679
like the World War two thing they
did was amazing, But yeah, it's

671
00:59:15.800 --> 00:59:21.440
crazy. Let's see not black and
white, but green and yellow. All

672
00:59:21.519 --> 00:59:24.320
right, that's what we how we
can segue into this and the green and

673
00:59:24.400 --> 00:59:30.039
yellow is don't make don't make packers
references. Oh wow, there we go.

674
00:59:30.199 --> 00:59:32.480
Yeah, that'll be coming up soon. And uh, you know it's

675
00:59:32.559 --> 00:59:37.079
rain and actually it's working out okay, just like we expected. The floodwatch

676
00:59:37.119 --> 00:59:42.920
from about the triangle east out into
the outer Banks, you know, that's

677
00:59:42.960 --> 00:59:46.199
where the heaviest rain and thunderstorms are. There's low pressure getting ready to go

678
00:59:46.360 --> 00:59:52.239
right through the eastern parts of the
state. It's sitting down just to the

679
00:59:52.280 --> 00:59:55.800
northwest of Hatteras right now. And
going over land, and so that's keeping

680
00:59:55.800 --> 00:59:59.920
it from gathering even more more so. But the rain from about the try

681
01:00:00.400 --> 01:00:04.400
east here this morning on ninety five
pretty wet right now, and it's not

682
01:00:04.440 --> 01:00:07.400
going to end anytime soon for some
of us, especially east of ninety five.

683
01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:09.920
It'll start to break up just a
little bits. You go west out

684
01:00:09.920 --> 01:00:14.159
in the other triad, there's some
showers, but you go west of really

685
01:00:14.199 --> 01:00:20.079
a line from about I want to
say, Winston Salem and up into Danville

686
01:00:20.079 --> 01:00:23.039
in Virginia, all right, and
then painted down to the southwest toward Charlotte

687
01:00:23.079 --> 01:00:27.480
and west of that there's no rain
all right. So it's pretty variable as

688
01:00:27.519 --> 01:00:30.199
you drive across the state here today, so better chance of rain and thunderstorms

689
01:00:30.199 --> 01:00:36.079
triangle east, few showers, tryad
west to nothing as we go through today,

690
01:00:36.119 --> 01:00:38.599
some heavier rainfall, especially the further
east you go. Today's highs will

691
01:00:38.599 --> 01:00:42.599
be upper forties to low fifties.
Tonight the rain will come to an end,

692
01:00:42.679 --> 01:00:45.920
leaving us with so pretty decent weather
as we head on through Friday in

693
01:00:45.960 --> 01:00:49.519
the upper sixties with the gusty breeze, though the weekend is going to be

694
01:00:49.559 --> 01:00:53.000
gorgeous seventy five to maybe eighty by
Easter Sunday, lots of sunshine around even

695
01:00:53.320 --> 01:00:55.880
into early next week. It does
look like it tries to get colder again

696
01:00:55.960 --> 01:00:59.440
late next week, so I'll keep
an eye on that too. Okay,

697
01:00:59.559 --> 01:01:01.840
all right, appreciate it, sir, and we'll talk in an hour.

698
01:01:01.920 --> 01:01:07.559
Okay, okay, all right,
coming up the apparently the WNBA players are

699
01:01:07.599 --> 01:01:16.920
mad and the irony here is this
is an incredibly teachable moment, and I'll

700
01:01:16.960 --> 01:01:23.239
explain why, and we'll check in
on the student occupation of the administration building

701
01:01:23.239 --> 01:01:30.400
at Vanderbilt University because it's hilarious.
I'll give you the details next here on

702
01:01:30.440 --> 01:01:36.960
the KCO Day Radio program PCO Day
Radio program. It is Thursday. Glad

703
01:01:37.000 --> 01:01:40.719
to have you long. And you
know, we had the little VAK last

704
01:01:40.760 --> 01:01:45.280
week, and then we had some
scheduling stuff, so we got a lot

705
01:01:45.320 --> 01:01:51.000
in the bunker for Stephen Kent who
joins us now. Steven, good morning

706
01:01:51.000 --> 01:01:53.400
to you. How you doing,
sir. I'm doing well. Glad to

707
01:01:53.440 --> 01:01:58.159
be back. Yeah, man.
So I got a bunch of stuff.

708
01:01:58.159 --> 01:02:00.400
We're gonna rapid fire and try to
fill too segments. So let's get into

709
01:02:00.440 --> 01:02:06.559
it first and foremost Ross and I
were just talking about the Titanic thing like,

710
01:02:06.840 --> 01:02:10.039
I don't understand it, but whatever, people want to go on Titanic

711
01:02:10.119 --> 01:02:15.440
two. More power to him.
Ross has just started a new Hindenberg experience.

712
01:02:15.480 --> 01:02:21.159
I'm excited about that. How could
you not understand, Casey? I

713
01:02:21.199 --> 01:02:25.360
have already signed up on the newsletter
on bluestar line dot com for updates about

714
01:02:25.360 --> 01:02:30.119
when I can buy tickets for third
class. Well, well, one,

715
01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:34.519
you buy those, but then you
have to prepare. Yeah, you got

716
01:02:34.519 --> 01:02:37.159
to pretend you're first class, right, I think that's the scale. I've

717
01:02:37.199 --> 01:02:39.159
never seen the movie, and people
are don't understand that. So I don't

718
01:02:39.159 --> 01:02:44.840
know fully what happened. But I
love history and I've read a couple I've

719
01:02:44.880 --> 01:02:49.480
read a couple big books on the
Titanic that told a lot of little anecdotal

720
01:02:49.519 --> 01:02:54.559
stories, and there is there's so
much amazing stuff there that is period based,

721
01:02:54.639 --> 01:03:00.119
right. The ideology, the way
in which we inner from a societal

722
01:03:00.159 --> 01:03:06.400
standpoint of nineteen twelve obviously is far
different from twenty twenty four. So we

723
01:03:06.400 --> 01:03:07.960
were just trying to think of the
differences, Like, first and foremost,

724
01:03:08.000 --> 01:03:12.760
did you see the video a few
weeks ago where one of the cruise ships

725
01:03:12.760 --> 01:03:15.840
in Alaska bumped like an ice flow. All right, it's not a full

726
01:03:15.920 --> 01:03:19.159
iceberg, but they hit it with
a cruise ship and it did nothing because

727
01:03:19.840 --> 01:03:24.000
today's ships are either ready for that. But I'm watching these idiots film on

728
01:03:24.039 --> 01:03:28.199
their iPhones and I'm just like,
if that, if that was on that

729
01:03:28.280 --> 01:03:30.119
ship, and that woman turned around, who did the video that went viral,

730
01:03:30.519 --> 01:03:35.239
she would see me lowering my own
lifeboat into the water, right,

731
01:03:35.679 --> 01:03:40.280
the whole women and children first.
I don't think that's sell sales, sales

732
01:03:42.519 --> 01:03:46.320
in the modern age of equality.
So but you're pumped over this, right,

733
01:03:46.400 --> 01:03:51.480
So oh, I'm pumped if I
can afford at least third or second

734
01:03:51.519 --> 01:03:54.159
class tickets, I guess I'm just
writing out the possibility of first class.

735
01:03:54.400 --> 01:04:00.519
I will be on the anti woke
Titanic too. You can bet your bottom

736
01:04:00.559 --> 01:04:04.679
dollar on that, and I will
be on the deck. This is what

737
01:04:04.760 --> 01:04:10.920
I'll understand anti woke if you evaluate
what happened on the original Titanic, chivalry

738
01:04:11.199 --> 01:04:15.360
and putting women first and all those
narratives that like, that's all stuff that

739
01:04:15.360 --> 01:04:19.280
we're supposed to divorce from our mental
existence now. So like, I don't

740
01:04:19.280 --> 01:04:26.079
know, this is market This is
fascinating so the millionaire billionaire from Australia,

741
01:04:27.079 --> 01:04:30.760
Clive Palmer, who is putting this
project together and funding it. He gave

742
01:04:30.760 --> 01:04:36.719
this interview the other day to Rolling
Stone in which he framed Titanic Too as

743
01:04:36.760 --> 01:04:43.639
sort of a anti woke answer to
Titanic, which is fascinating because there was

744
01:04:43.719 --> 01:04:47.000
nothing particularly woke about the first Titanic. But what he means in this interview

745
01:04:47.440 --> 01:04:53.360
is that the world is woke,
that people are forcing vaccines upon you,

746
01:04:53.480 --> 01:04:59.239
that people are conscious and all these
worries about class and class difference, and

747
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:03.760
Titanic two is going to be the
answer to that by not requiring vaccinations and

748
01:05:03.840 --> 01:05:09.360
apparently being opposed to cancel culture.
Which this is just sort of the kind

749
01:05:09.360 --> 01:05:12.880
of thing that I feel like a
weird boomery, you know, hopped up

750
01:05:12.880 --> 01:05:17.320
on Fox News kind of person would
say without any sort of actual basis right.

751
01:05:17.360 --> 01:05:20.400
But here's where it's legitimate, and
uh, you know, in the

752
01:05:20.400 --> 01:05:27.039
world of talk radio, especially you
know, conservative talk radio, there are

753
01:05:27.239 --> 01:05:31.440
companies that literally sell conservative cruises.
I know you know this, conservative cruises,

754
01:05:31.599 --> 01:05:36.639
conservative trips. We've marketed. I've
I've helped market trips to go see

755
01:05:36.679 --> 01:05:41.119
the d Day sites, and I
like history, so I'd like, I'm

756
01:05:41.159 --> 01:05:47.960
down with that. But but also, a cruise ship can't exist without classes,

757
01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:50.480
do you know what I'm saying,
Like, you go on a cruise,

758
01:05:50.960 --> 01:05:56.280
your state room, your package,
your you know, whether you get

759
01:05:56.280 --> 01:05:59.559
some of the tours of the bridge
and all like. So is he saying

760
01:05:59.599 --> 01:06:01.440
that none of that's going to exist? So is like the ship just have

761
01:06:01.559 --> 01:06:05.480
all the same I'm just so confused
by this, but also have no desire

762
01:06:05.519 --> 01:06:10.920
to be on it. So,
I mean, it's a pretty confusing concept

763
01:06:11.079 --> 01:06:15.920
unless you are a huge fan of
the Titanic and want to see human triumph

764
01:06:15.119 --> 01:06:21.280
succeed. Because like the people who
criticize Clive for doing this, they basically

765
01:06:21.480 --> 01:06:28.599
hate the spending of money on anything
that is not soup kitchens and housing for

766
01:06:28.679 --> 01:06:32.119
the poor like Rolling Stone again,
kind of like how they attack Elon Musk

767
01:06:32.239 --> 01:06:35.440
for daring to try to take us
to Mars. You know, they ask

768
01:06:35.519 --> 01:06:40.119
him, well, why aren't you
spending any of your money to help the

769
01:06:40.239 --> 01:06:44.199
poor or build housing for the unhoused
and all this kind of stuff, and

770
01:06:44.239 --> 01:06:45.519
he goes, well, yeah,
I do lots of that. I'm a

771
01:06:45.559 --> 01:06:50.199
billionaire with a foundation that supports a
lot of people in different ways. And

772
01:06:50.239 --> 01:06:54.519
this is sort of the main reminder, like human beings build stuff. We

773
01:06:54.639 --> 01:07:00.000
do amazing things and build amazing features, and that's part of what makes us

774
01:07:00.119 --> 01:07:03.639
special. And that's what I love
about this guy's attitude about building the Titanic

775
01:07:03.679 --> 01:07:09.360
too, to try to redeem the
disaster of Titanic one, I will do

776
01:07:09.480 --> 01:07:12.679
it, and I will take a
selfie of myself on the front of the

777
01:07:12.719 --> 01:07:18.119
boat with all of the other voyagers
across the Atlantic. That's a good point

778
01:07:18.239 --> 01:07:23.119
the whole It's gonna be like remember
when that congressman was worried about guam tipping

779
01:07:23.159 --> 01:07:28.199
over. Remember remember that famous exchange. By the way, Uh it turned

780
01:07:28.239 --> 01:07:31.760
out that he had like advanced hepatitis
and which eats the brain, which I

781
01:07:31.800 --> 01:07:34.119
did not know. That was a
follow up. So I'm glad he got

782
01:07:34.119 --> 01:07:42.320
treatment. But now I have that
same concern, right because if every jackass

783
01:07:42.360 --> 01:07:45.760
on that ship wants to go do
the bow shot, doesn't the thing just

784
01:07:45.880 --> 01:07:48.199
like capsize? I mean, I'm
not. The trick is you got to

785
01:07:48.239 --> 01:07:53.679
put a net underneath the front of
the bow to catch all the jack legs

786
01:07:53.719 --> 01:07:59.360
like myself, who are going to
be botching that that selfie opportunity watching you

787
01:07:59.480 --> 01:08:00.880
take out. I don't know how
many people fit on this, but you

788
01:08:00.920 --> 01:08:03.559
take them all, you put them
away. There's a reason that if you

789
01:08:03.559 --> 01:08:08.840
get on a commercial airlines flight,
from time to time, the flight crew

790
01:08:09.079 --> 01:08:14.360
will walk through and reseet people because
it's about load balancing. So if everyone's

791
01:08:14.400 --> 01:08:18.159
going for the photo op, because
we're a society that's driven by TikTok opportunity,

792
01:08:18.199 --> 01:08:21.760
this thing, they're dead five miles
off shore. If I could be

793
01:08:21.760 --> 01:08:26.439
a negative Nancy here. So well, you said you haven't seen the Titanic

794
01:08:26.520 --> 01:08:29.920
movie. So the quote no,
but iron there. I assure you,

795
01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:32.840
she can think it probably doesn't mean
anything to you, but this ship can't

796
01:08:32.920 --> 01:08:39.039
think. Wow, you're he woke. Yeah, that's I know that.

797
01:08:39.119 --> 01:08:45.319
I have watched the artistic scene,
so where you's sketching her, I did

798
01:08:45.359 --> 01:08:47.359
catch it. Oh yeah, yeah, that's part of the movie. Yeah,

799
01:08:47.479 --> 01:08:49.920
okay, as far as I know, that's the whole movie. All

800
01:08:50.000 --> 01:08:53.880
right. So so anyway, all
right, so you're pumped over that,

801
01:08:54.199 --> 01:08:58.239
we'll get you a tiken on the
Hindenburg Transport and have fun with that.

802
01:08:59.399 --> 01:09:03.720
Let me flip over to a couple
other things here. Did you see Microsoft's

803
01:09:03.920 --> 01:09:10.840
game guidelines story. So for those
who I've heard about this, yeah,

804
01:09:10.880 --> 01:09:13.560
okay, all right, let me
just because I haven't seen said it for

805
01:09:13.600 --> 01:09:17.479
the audience. So basically, if
you're not into video games at all,

806
01:09:17.600 --> 01:09:21.279
that's fine. You don't have to
be whatever, but you do have to

807
01:09:21.359 --> 01:09:28.840
understand, much like really, much
like everything that you utilize on your phone,

808
01:09:29.760 --> 01:09:32.000
it's only a handful of people that
really control it. In fact,

809
01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:38.199
when you look in the tech sector, there's very little competition in a lot

810
01:09:38.199 --> 01:09:42.840
of areas. It's why Google can
have such an outsized influence. It's why

811
01:09:43.039 --> 01:09:46.960
social justice warriors, when they're wanting
to get things purged from the Internet,

812
01:09:47.199 --> 01:09:56.319
are attempting to manipulate not the individual
websites, but rather the organization that allows

813
01:09:56.520 --> 01:10:00.560
the assignment of sites, as well
as the hosting companies, because if you

814
01:10:00.560 --> 01:10:04.359
can get a hosting company, that'll
that'll solve a lot of your problem because

815
01:10:04.359 --> 01:10:10.720
there's just not that many in the
game in the gaming sphere. Correct me

816
01:10:10.760 --> 01:10:17.000
if I'm wrong, Microsoft, Sony, Google, because of the Android stuff

817
01:10:17.279 --> 01:10:23.359
and Apple, they probably are the
gatekeepers for what like ninety nine percent of

818
01:10:23.399 --> 01:10:28.840
games out there. Would that be
fair? Yeah? Both, you know,

819
01:10:28.880 --> 01:10:33.159
if you buy a system versus your
computer. So Microsoft has published new

820
01:10:33.399 --> 01:10:39.319
inclusion guidelines for video game developers.
So if you are building a video game,

821
01:10:40.399 --> 01:10:45.760
then you want it to run on
anything that Microsoft so Xbox or Microsoft

822
01:10:45.760 --> 01:10:49.600
operating systems. You got to abide
by this. And as you can imagine,

823
01:10:49.600 --> 01:10:54.119
there's a bunch of wokee garbage stuffed
in here. One of the things

824
01:10:54.159 --> 01:11:00.479
that comes up constantly is the way
in which female characters, though it's not

825
01:11:00.560 --> 01:11:08.039
just female characters are depicted with we'll
call it non traditional proportioning, which is

826
01:11:08.079 --> 01:11:15.279
literally how they worded in here.
Any any depiction of sexualized or unrealistic female

827
01:11:15.359 --> 01:11:20.880
characters would not be allowed to operate
within the Microsoft sphere. Other guidelines are

828
01:11:20.960 --> 01:11:30.439
representation diversity score, including creator community. Right now, I don't know if

829
01:11:30.479 --> 01:11:33.760
people, if you're not like in
this topic, you don't realize what's going

830
01:11:33.800 --> 01:11:40.560
on with this company called sweet Baby, which is essentially a diversity coordinator,

831
01:11:40.600 --> 01:11:44.880
which has went in and arguably like
screwed a bunch of games over with their

832
01:11:44.920 --> 01:11:50.319
suggestions. Microsoft wants to build this
into the system. How do they they

833
01:11:50.319 --> 01:11:56.279
basically how does It's sort of a
workbook that they want game developers to go

834
01:11:56.399 --> 01:12:00.640
through their video games and ask themselves
a handful of questions, and not only

835
01:12:00.199 --> 01:12:04.039
covers, like you said, sort
of the sexualization of female characters and sort

836
01:12:04.079 --> 01:12:08.239
of wanting their body proportions to not
be like I don't know, like I

837
01:12:08.239 --> 01:12:12.920
guess the old Tech and im Mortal
combat and anime games, you know,

838
01:12:12.960 --> 01:12:16.319
where every woman who's in the game
is incredibly bucksome, incredibly skinny, and

839
01:12:16.439 --> 01:12:20.119
also can fight. But they also
want you to consider whether or not your

840
01:12:20.199 --> 01:12:27.520
male characters quote display a full range
of emotions including joy sadness, and vulnerability,

841
01:12:27.560 --> 01:12:31.159
which I means I guess they want
your male characters to cry more,

842
01:12:31.920 --> 01:12:38.000
which is just this is so stuff. This kind of stuff nowhere in this

843
01:12:38.119 --> 01:12:44.359
booklet of developing guidelines for Microsoft that
they say, make the game more fun,

844
01:12:44.800 --> 01:12:48.119
make it more fun. This is
what you're supposed to do. It's

845
01:12:48.199 --> 01:12:55.119
not making it like this is This
is is somebody who is admittedly not as

846
01:12:55.479 --> 01:12:59.439
like I don't game to the extent
that you do, and ross right,

847
01:12:59.760 --> 01:13:02.520
I'm that's not my thing. There's
a few that I like. Diablo has

848
01:13:02.520 --> 01:13:06.520
always been a game that I've enjoyed. Well, we can talk about the

849
01:13:06.520 --> 01:13:11.720
current one all we want, but
there's nothing accurate in there. Like,

850
01:13:12.359 --> 01:13:16.840
what's that Ross's Dark Souls? Right, that's the game he plays like.

851
01:13:17.079 --> 01:13:21.600
There's not an actual dude running around
with a sword that's imbued with the souls

852
01:13:21.640 --> 01:13:25.600
of the dam giving you magic boost. Right, that's not a thing.

853
01:13:25.960 --> 01:13:29.039
There was, No I don't Well, maybe there is, and they just

854
01:13:29.039 --> 01:13:32.680
haven't. For Indiana Jones hasn't comet
like it is that fantasy aspect of it.

855
01:13:32.720 --> 01:13:38.079
And then I'm reading this line.
Also, developers need to make room

856
01:13:38.159 --> 01:13:43.840
for accessibility. This is about making
games and experiences playable for people with disabilities,

857
01:13:44.279 --> 01:13:48.479
as well as providing representation. Okay, you know what people who are

858
01:13:48.520 --> 01:13:53.800
in wheelchairs do not want to do. People in wheelchairs do not want to

859
01:13:53.840 --> 01:13:59.039
play video game characters where their hero
is also still in a wheelchair. This

860
01:13:59.079 --> 01:14:03.319
is where I'm saying, like they
would like to live outside of their body

861
01:14:03.359 --> 01:14:10.319
and outside of their experience and walk
in someone else's shoes. That's what these

862
01:14:10.439 --> 01:14:15.960
games are for. Look, when
I select Barbarian class, it's not because

863
01:14:15.039 --> 01:14:18.479
I have the physique, do you
know what I'm saying? Right? So,

864
01:14:19.560 --> 01:14:23.600
like I when I play what was
the other game? What I'm thinking

865
01:14:23.640 --> 01:14:26.760
of? Oh God of War?
Right? God? Like I don't I'm

866
01:14:26.760 --> 01:14:29.600
never gonna look like that, dude. Let's just be straight up honest.

867
01:14:29.680 --> 01:14:31.840
And I don't need them showing emotion, even though there is an emotional aspect

868
01:14:31.840 --> 01:14:35.640
of that game if you play it
because of the kid. But like people,

869
01:14:35.720 --> 01:14:40.520
this is escapism one oh one.
So all of these things you can

870
01:14:40.560 --> 01:14:45.279
accomplish, as you pointed out,
whether it is because you are somebody with

871
01:14:45.319 --> 01:14:51.079
the disability, like it makes sense
that people they have remastered controllers to work

872
01:14:51.119 --> 01:14:57.119
for people who have disabilities. Those
products exist out there. But to your

873
01:14:57.199 --> 01:15:00.239
point, yeah, I don't.
I don't don't think I need to run

874
01:15:00.279 --> 01:15:05.680
a dungeon. Uh you know my
dungeon farming on Diablo in a wheelchair.

875
01:15:08.439 --> 01:15:13.359
That's just me and and and so
if Microsoft is going to force the hand

876
01:15:13.439 --> 01:15:16.600
of this, this is this is
where I wonder if this starts to spell

877
01:15:16.760 --> 01:15:24.479
doom for the creativity that used to
abound with within video games, where a

878
01:15:24.520 --> 01:15:30.279
lot of it. If you see
the the the updates to many popular games,

879
01:15:30.399 --> 01:15:34.640
they wholesale killoff characters the we just
talked about, all the Marvel stuff,

880
01:15:34.760 --> 01:15:41.279
Like, all of this wokeness is
is potentially ruining yet another aspect of

881
01:15:41.439 --> 01:15:44.800
entertainment or am I overreacting. I
don't know. Maybe well, no,

882
01:15:45.079 --> 01:15:46.720
I don't feel so in this case, I really don't think you are.

883
01:15:46.880 --> 01:15:54.680
Because what happens here in environments like
this is human resources HR departments start running

884
01:15:54.720 --> 01:16:00.239
the shop of all innovative firms and
creative environments. And when we saw the

885
01:16:00.359 --> 01:16:04.000
Google Gemini AI disaster roll out,
you know the one where you know the

886
01:16:04.279 --> 01:16:10.760
AI was producing black Nazis and basically
erased white people from existence, what was

887
01:16:10.800 --> 01:16:15.800
going on in Google's AI department is
that their entire department of innovation is captured

888
01:16:16.079 --> 01:16:21.239
by the Human resources department. They
can't do anything without running into DEI hurdles.

889
01:16:21.279 --> 01:16:26.560
And so when you have this Microsoft
pamphlet that's going to be passed around

890
01:16:26.640 --> 01:16:32.880
game developers to sort of micromanage and
make them overthink every element of their games

891
01:16:32.960 --> 01:16:39.479
they're developing. Creative people don't like
to work in those environments, but bureaucrats

892
01:16:39.479 --> 01:16:43.520
and pencil pushers do, And so
you're going to have more games coming out

893
01:16:43.520 --> 01:16:48.199
into the mainstream that are just not
inspired. They are not made with heart,

894
01:16:48.239 --> 01:16:51.479
they're not made with excitement and joy. They are made to check a

895
01:16:51.479 --> 01:16:56.840
bunch of boxes and appease the HR
department and let me tell you, and

896
01:16:56.920 --> 01:16:59.920
it's not going to sell. And
I got a minute and a half,

897
01:17:00.039 --> 01:17:02.479
And here is the point I'm trying
to capture in another story. Doesn't the

898
01:17:03.800 --> 01:17:10.880
second time around, and hopefully the
final decimation and demise of Kataku and those

899
01:17:10.920 --> 01:17:15.159
woke schools, doesn't that demonstrate that
this isn't what gamers want. If they

900
01:17:15.199 --> 01:17:20.800
can't stand those people, I think
it's never mattered what gamers want. It

901
01:17:20.920 --> 01:17:26.920
is just mattered what makes the people
in management at these different firms feel good

902
01:17:26.920 --> 01:17:30.960
about themselves. The exits that are
happening at Kotaku are sort of in the

903
01:17:31.000 --> 01:17:38.560
wake of management and I guess ownership
of Kataku asking them to do their jobs

904
01:17:38.720 --> 01:17:43.840
and write more articles about video games, but instead they would like to be

905
01:17:43.960 --> 01:17:47.159
political writers. And I think that
this is pretty normal within the world of

906
01:17:47.199 --> 01:17:50.359
media and journalism. If you've got
a lot of young people who they wanted

907
01:17:50.399 --> 01:17:54.000
to be journalists, they weren't cut
out for the New York Times, and

908
01:17:54.000 --> 01:17:59.399
then they landed at Kotaku, and
then they just want to write as if

909
01:17:59.439 --> 01:18:03.079
they still work for a liberal media
outlet and not about video games. They

910
01:18:03.079 --> 01:18:08.239
hate their audience well, and and
this is the thing, and yet it

911
01:18:08.279 --> 01:18:11.119
doesn't seem to matter in the same
way that the oscars. Right, if

912
01:18:11.119 --> 01:18:14.359
you don't put enough diversity in a
movie, you can't even be considered for

913
01:18:14.439 --> 01:18:16.279
it. I mean, this is
and look at that. We're already literally

914
01:18:16.359 --> 01:18:19.880
up against our break and I have
like nine other things I want to get

915
01:18:19.920 --> 01:18:21.920
to. You want to stick around
for another segment? You want to do

916
01:18:21.960 --> 01:18:27.159
that? Why not? What the
heck? All right? So I'm gonna

917
01:18:27.159 --> 01:18:30.960
take the lazy but fun option and
we're gonna chat with Steven some more coming

918
01:18:30.039 --> 01:18:35.600
up. It is the Casey O
Day Radio program stick Around the Heroes within

919
01:18:35.760 --> 01:18:42.279
the within the video game, which
would literally require the retooling of some some

920
01:18:42.439 --> 01:18:46.319
classic titles. And also they took
a look at the top ten selling video

921
01:18:46.319 --> 01:18:48.920
games of all time. And this
is going to shock you, Steven.

922
01:18:51.600 --> 01:18:57.359
Nobody looks like that. And as
somebody who just spent a week and a

923
01:18:57.439 --> 01:19:00.960
half in South America, let me
tell you something. You've been. You've

924
01:19:00.000 --> 01:19:04.159
been down to Brazil, Argentina,
any of the Colombia is another good example.

925
01:19:04.640 --> 01:19:08.479
You were, I haven't. How
how is the how is the wildlife?

926
01:19:08.800 --> 01:19:12.319
Okay? Look, the food's amazing
and it's like you can get you

927
01:19:12.359 --> 01:19:15.640
can get a steak that with Shamerus
Chris for like thirteen dollars because the economy

928
01:19:15.800 --> 01:19:19.800
sucks down there. And uh and
I want to say this, Argentina has

929
01:19:19.800 --> 01:19:23.840
some of the most beautiful women you'll
ever see just walking around. This is

930
01:19:23.880 --> 01:19:30.199
going to be important. Uh there, it's it's kind of ridiculous, but

931
01:19:30.199 --> 01:19:38.119
but about every other one. Brazil
has a lot of influence over the totality

932
01:19:38.119 --> 01:19:42.119
of South America, is what I
determined because I've been to Ecuador, Colombia,

933
01:19:42.199 --> 01:19:47.399
and Argentina and Brazil all within the
last two years, and every about

934
01:19:47.439 --> 01:19:57.239
every other woman who walked by looks
looks like it's a you know, like

935
01:19:57.279 --> 01:20:00.079
men in black when they're in the
human suits, right, and they're just

936
01:20:00.159 --> 01:20:06.239
off a little because of the propensity
to go out and get giant butt implants.

937
01:20:06.720 --> 01:20:12.920
Right, it's like they look like
the video game characters because of they'll

938
01:20:12.960 --> 01:20:16.000
get the backside and the front side
done. And it's very very popular.

939
01:20:16.119 --> 01:20:18.640
You know, people can do whatever
they want. But I gotta tell you,

940
01:20:18.720 --> 01:20:21.680
man, like we're me and my
buddies are just sitting there like we're

941
01:20:21.720 --> 01:20:26.479
having a beer. They have these
like little outside, little pop up bars

942
01:20:26.520 --> 01:20:29.640
thing these zombie stads down there and
wait, you know, that's how we'd

943
01:20:29.720 --> 01:20:31.479
kill the evening, just before we
go out to dinner and whatnot. We're

944
01:20:31.520 --> 01:20:36.279
just people watching and then you'd see
a woman walk by who's like five foot

945
01:20:36.439 --> 01:20:42.279
tall but five and a half feet
long, right, because of all and

946
01:20:42.359 --> 01:20:45.960
it looks like the video game characters
they're mad about. So apparently nobody consulted

947
01:20:46.000 --> 01:20:51.279
the BBL community in South America because
yeah, apparently not crazy. Man,

948
01:20:51.399 --> 01:20:54.800
it's crazy. And by the way, it's gonna be very clear, I'm

949
01:20:54.840 --> 01:20:59.119
not meaning this to be insulting at
all. It's just wild. It's just

950
01:20:59.239 --> 01:21:01.720
like because you don't you know,
in the US it's not as popular,

951
01:21:01.800 --> 01:21:06.720
but it's just pratty. It's just
like crazy popular. And like I'm you

952
01:21:06.760 --> 01:21:10.199
know, I got a couple buddies
are on the trip or whatever. I'm

953
01:21:10.199 --> 01:21:13.359
like, dude, dude, look
at that, right, and so like,

954
01:21:13.760 --> 01:21:15.960
maybe Microsoft should take a trip down
there. That's all that I'm saying,

955
01:21:15.960 --> 01:21:19.680
and maybe they'd be fine with this. Yeah, I saw this kind

956
01:21:19.680 --> 01:21:25.319
of remark that, you know about
what you were talking about regarding the new

957
01:21:25.439 --> 01:21:29.760
Indiana Jones video game that's coming out
from the Developer Machine games, and there

958
01:21:29.760 --> 01:21:34.119
were some jokes made about the new
character that's going to be following Indiana throughout

959
01:21:34.119 --> 01:21:39.159
the game, named Gina Lombardi.
And you know how, of course,

960
01:21:39.319 --> 01:21:44.680
yet again another female character added to
a game where you have a titular male

961
01:21:44.840 --> 01:21:49.920
Kala character and she has sort of
a lesbian cat lady haircut. Look.

962
01:21:50.079 --> 01:21:54.720
I love women with short hair.
My wife has short, pixie cut green

963
01:21:54.880 --> 01:21:57.479
hair, right now. That's just
who she is as a person, and

964
01:21:57.520 --> 01:22:01.680
she's beautiful. But not every not
everyone, not everyone looks like that,

965
01:22:01.880 --> 01:22:09.279
And for some reason, video game
developers have just sort of accepted this idea

966
01:22:09.520 --> 01:22:14.960
that everyone out in the real world
looks like the girls in their development departments,

967
01:22:15.520 --> 01:22:17.600
and it's just not true. And
you have to wonder if some of

968
01:22:17.640 --> 01:22:23.800
these standards are coming from a place
of scorn, bitterness and resentment and just

969
01:22:23.880 --> 01:22:27.039
people being self conscious and going,
well, you know, we can't have

970
01:22:27.439 --> 01:22:30.720
these sort of idealized female bodies and
any kind of video game because it makes

971
01:22:31.119 --> 01:22:36.840
me feel bad. We don't want
that, and video gamers certainly don't want

972
01:22:36.880 --> 01:22:42.720
that. I don't want I don't
want a character in the you know,

973
01:22:42.800 --> 01:22:45.560
in the in the in the video
games that I played let me tell you

974
01:22:45.760 --> 01:22:50.760
what I'll actually play. I'll play
Diablo just because that was the game when

975
01:22:50.760 --> 01:22:54.359
I was in high school I got
into and I followed it through. Even

976
01:22:54.359 --> 01:22:58.560
with everything that Blizzard has become,
I'll stick with it because I enjoy it.

977
01:22:58.840 --> 01:23:02.840
And then like the Tiger Woods franchise, I've got the newer one that's

978
01:23:02.880 --> 01:23:06.439
not Tiger it's the other one.
I like that sports game stuff like,

979
01:23:06.800 --> 01:23:13.119
And there is not a video game
in my collection, which admittedly isn't that

980
01:23:13.279 --> 01:23:16.520
large, that looks like me.
And that's a good thing, right,

981
01:23:16.960 --> 01:23:21.760
that's that's because I am. I
am escapist here. And one of the

982
01:23:21.800 --> 01:23:25.079
things that we've talked about on the
show, and I don't know if we've

983
01:23:25.159 --> 01:23:29.880
we covered it with you, is, uh, there's a what is a

984
01:23:30.039 --> 01:23:32.319
there's a YouTube guy but called it's
a Gundam. Do you know who that

985
01:23:32.439 --> 01:23:35.680
is? Does? It's? I
know you do, because we've talked about

986
01:23:35.680 --> 01:23:40.720
a thing that he was at and
he does. I enjoy his stuff and

987
01:23:40.760 --> 01:23:43.640
he's having a ball with his Kataku
stuff. But he did a video a

988
01:23:43.640 --> 01:23:48.600
few months ago where he had like
fifteen female game developers and then they had

989
01:23:48.800 --> 01:23:54.399
characters that are clearly them in the
games right where he just kind of rounded

990
01:23:54.479 --> 01:23:59.119
them up and and I think the
best example was the teenage Muan Ninja Turtles

991
01:23:59.119 --> 01:24:01.560
with the revamp of April. So
it's not just games. Sometimes it's a

992
01:24:01.840 --> 01:24:08.159
cartoon right right, And it's like
it's clearly them. And I understand the

993
01:24:08.159 --> 01:24:11.000
ego side of that. Maybe if
I was a game developer, I'd want

994
01:24:11.000 --> 01:24:14.960
me in there, but also I'd
be like, people don't want to around,

995
01:24:15.079 --> 01:24:18.159
want to run around slay in all
their enemies with my build. And

996
01:24:18.239 --> 01:24:21.680
so I sit here and I look
at this, and this is the more

997
01:24:21.760 --> 01:24:29.960
serious side. When you have a
handful of game gatekeepers like the companies we

998
01:24:30.079 --> 01:24:35.479
mentioned, don't you run the risk
of being standard oil where at some point

999
01:24:35.079 --> 01:24:42.600
you've you've you've throttled and choked off
this this industry to anything that you don't

1000
01:24:42.720 --> 01:24:46.079
like. And that's when politicians get
involved in this stuff. We got politicians

1001
01:24:46.119 --> 01:24:50.159
that are getting bent over green bubbles
versus blue bubbles, whether you have an

1002
01:24:50.159 --> 01:24:54.720
Android phone or an iPhone. And
I make fun of green bubble people,

1003
01:24:54.760 --> 01:24:59.640
but I'm joking, but I'm kind
of not. And now politicians are getting

1004
01:24:59.680 --> 01:25:02.279
involved. There isn't this something else
They step in and what's happening with that?

1005
01:25:02.439 --> 01:25:06.840
Why is Apple in a hotwa Yeah, so what you're referencing is the

1006
01:25:06.920 --> 01:25:15.159
Department of Justice under America Garland has
launched a sweeping and broad antitrust lawsuit against

1007
01:25:15.279 --> 01:25:20.079
Apple for a variety of different accusations
that they are making, one of which

1008
01:25:20.159 --> 01:25:27.359
is what you just referenced, which
is sort of a way of gatekeeping against

1009
01:25:27.439 --> 01:25:34.159
outside devices and competitive texts such as
Android Samsung devices, where if you are

1010
01:25:34.199 --> 01:25:39.920
an iPhone user, you know an
Android user in your chat threads or in

1011
01:25:39.960 --> 01:25:44.520
your text message section. Basically like
a second class citizen in the green bubble

1012
01:25:44.600 --> 01:25:50.279
versus blue bubble. You can't do
emoji reactions, toss androids sent over different

1013
01:25:50.319 --> 01:25:54.239
networks. I just want people need
to understand these because this is very clear

1014
01:25:54.239 --> 01:26:00.159
because Apple is using not the the
text network that we know, they are

1015
01:26:00.239 --> 01:26:02.760
using their own digital version that is
Internet based, And I just want to

1016
01:26:02.760 --> 01:26:06.039
be abundantly clear. He set it
up, so it's yeah, that's right,

1017
01:26:06.079 --> 01:26:10.279
and yeah, and just very oddly, you know, what the DOJ

1018
01:26:10.560 --> 01:26:15.920
is basically arguing here is that the
walled garden experience of using an Apple device,

1019
01:26:15.960 --> 01:26:18.640
which I'm an Apple guy, which
is very special. All the devices

1020
01:26:18.680 --> 01:26:23.640
sync with one another. The smart
watch, the MacBook, the iPhone,

1021
01:26:23.680 --> 01:26:27.279
they all work in concert with one
another, and they encourage the use of

1022
01:26:27.279 --> 01:26:31.840
other Apple products. Their argument is
that this is illegal and that the special

1023
01:26:32.000 --> 01:26:39.359
Apple experience that those consumers enjoy that
they are a being corralled and coerced into

1024
01:26:39.439 --> 01:26:45.439
it, and b that they are
not being competitive and conducive to their competitors.

1025
01:26:45.800 --> 01:26:49.760
So it's essentially an argument that Apple
should make products that accommodate Samsung,

1026
01:26:49.880 --> 01:26:55.199
their main competitor, which is a
strange one. And it's also an anti

1027
01:26:55.279 --> 01:27:00.880
consumer position which scolds and criticizes consumers
of Apple product for enjoying Apple as much

1028
01:27:00.920 --> 01:27:04.119
as they do. Yeah, and
just to be clear, because people look

1029
01:27:04.159 --> 01:27:08.119
at it and they go, well, Apple dominates in the US and a

1030
01:27:08.119 --> 01:27:12.359
handful of other markets, but I
encourage people to leave the confines of the

1031
01:27:12.479 --> 01:27:18.800
US. Apple's almost non existent in
many countries because the networks just aren't build

1032
01:27:18.840 --> 01:27:24.079
out. It doesn't sync with stuff. WhatsApp is kind of janky on it,

1033
01:27:24.119 --> 01:27:28.680
which is primarily source of communication in
a lot of countries. So like,

1034
01:27:30.239 --> 01:27:32.640
this is a US problem, and
I point this out and last question

1035
01:27:32.760 --> 01:27:39.399
for you, you could make the
same argument if that Microsoft is gatekeeping to

1036
01:27:39.479 --> 01:27:44.800
the same extent if they have a
proprietary game for Xbox that doesn't play on

1037
01:27:44.880 --> 01:27:48.159
PlayStation or am I taking this to
an unlogical place I got about a minute.

1038
01:27:48.920 --> 01:27:55.960
No, not at all. It's
a progressive argument that platforms developed by

1039
01:27:56.079 --> 01:28:00.159
specific companies have to work for all
companies to play their games on. If

1040
01:28:00.199 --> 01:28:04.680
you have a PC only game,
or you develop a game that is an

1041
01:28:04.840 --> 01:28:10.720
Xbox only product with even exclusive skins, you know, player skins for Call

1042
01:28:10.760 --> 01:28:15.319
of Duty that only Xbox users get, you know. Biden's DJ and FTC

1043
01:28:15.479 --> 01:28:20.960
department have both involved themselves in these
cases, the FTC in particular against Microsoft

1044
01:28:21.039 --> 01:28:29.560
and Activision Blizzard seriously arguing in court
that Xbox having an exclusive skin for Call

1045
01:28:29.640 --> 01:28:34.319
of Duty that PlayStation users can't get
is an anti trust violation and some kind

1046
01:28:34.359 --> 01:28:40.640
of anti competitive behavior. We like
having different brands, different products that are

1047
01:28:40.680 --> 01:28:44.119
in competition with one another. And
if there is a competitive sector in the

1048
01:28:44.199 --> 01:28:47.760
US economy, it is technology.
Consumers have a lot of decisions they can

1049
01:28:47.800 --> 01:28:54.880
make, and if everything has to
be exactly the same, why why in

1050
01:28:54.960 --> 01:28:59.720
ava? Yeah? But no,
seriously, I just it's it's just it's

1051
01:28:59.760 --> 01:29:03.199
so frustrating, and we see a
hundred examples. This is just the digital

1052
01:29:03.359 --> 01:29:06.479
version. All right, thank you
for rambling with me today. I'd like

1053
01:29:06.640 --> 01:29:09.960
nine other things I want to get
to, but it ain't gonna happen.

1054
01:29:10.039 --> 01:29:14.520
But we'll talk next week, sir. Case you see that. All right,

1055
01:29:14.560 --> 01:29:17.880
there you go, Stephen, Steve, there we go. All right,

1056
01:29:17.880 --> 01:29:23.079
Stephen Ken joining us and Race Stager
joining us. Now from the Weather

1057
01:29:23.399 --> 01:29:27.119
Channel, what's go? Are you
a Are you an Apple or a Samsung?

1058
01:29:27.199 --> 01:29:30.560
Dude? Are you an Apple bubble
or a blue bubble? Okay,

1059
01:29:30.600 --> 01:29:32.520
I don't know. We're a green
bubble. Does it when you're in a

1060
01:29:32.600 --> 01:29:36.319
text and you want to like actually
send rich media to each other, there's

1061
01:29:36.399 --> 01:29:42.680
one person in there with a non
Apple and uh yeah, yeah, yeah,

1062
01:29:42.840 --> 01:29:44.720
they mess it. I do have
a friend. I do, and

1063
01:29:44.760 --> 01:29:48.960
you know they'll swear by non Apple
and that's fine. I just yeah,

1064
01:29:49.159 --> 01:29:53.960
you're ruining the text threads. I
know, ruin it for everybody. And

1065
01:29:54.119 --> 01:29:59.079
you know I ruined the day for
everybody. East. I'm just gonna it's

1066
01:29:59.119 --> 01:30:01.279
just easier to say from triangle East
and it's ring. It's heavy years ago.

1067
01:30:01.319 --> 01:30:10.079
East, get out into let's see
Wilson and Rocky Mount and Neurono Rapids

1068
01:30:10.079 --> 01:30:11.960
and east of that in the outer
Banks just a mess. Today. You

1069
01:30:12.000 --> 01:30:15.359
go west and there's hardly any rain
around the try it. There are a

1070
01:30:15.359 --> 01:30:17.199
few showers, but the bed rain
is east and we'll cont to theous the

1071
01:30:17.199 --> 01:30:20.079
occasional rain and showers depending on your
location. You go west, there's no

1072
01:30:20.239 --> 01:30:26.239
rain. We'll probably stay basically low
fifties today, might get the mid fifties,

1073
01:30:26.560 --> 01:30:29.720
and then the suddenly back for Friday, mid upper sixties. Beautiful day,

1074
01:30:29.720 --> 01:30:31.239
but a little gusty breeze around,
so a little chili with some thirties

1075
01:30:31.279 --> 01:30:34.279
around in the morning. Weekend's gonna
be greay early next week let's good.

1076
01:30:34.279 --> 01:30:38.119
We could get close to eighty by
Easter Sunday. I promise you this the

1077
01:30:38.159 --> 01:30:43.199
payoff for what you've got today,
especially from as we mentioned Raleigh east and

1078
01:30:43.239 --> 01:30:45.680
out to the Outer Bank. The
payoff is going to be fantastic. So

1079
01:30:45.720 --> 01:30:47.520
hang in there with the rain.
Watch out for some heavier rain in some

1080
01:30:47.560 --> 01:30:51.760
spots. I could call some flooding. After that. I think we're gonna

1081
01:30:51.760 --> 01:30:55.880
be pretty good, and everybody's gonna
be pretty happy with smiles on their faces.

1082
01:30:55.960 --> 01:30:59.279
See all right, make everybody feel
good. We appreciate it. We'll

1083
01:30:59.479 --> 01:31:01.199
chat with you Bellinger next. Hang
on, hey see, the job market

1084
01:31:01.279 --> 01:31:05.079
remains resilient. Just got word from
the Labor Department. Two hundred and ten

1085
01:31:05.159 --> 01:31:10.439
thousand first time claims for unemployment benefits
were filed last week and that was two

1086
01:31:10.520 --> 01:31:14.560
thousand fewer than the prior week.
And it turns out the economy was a

1087
01:31:14.600 --> 01:31:17.439
little stronger than previously thought at the
end of last year. The final estimate

1088
01:31:17.439 --> 01:31:23.079
of the fourth quarter Gross domestic Product
says the GDP expanded at a three point

1089
01:31:23.119 --> 01:31:27.960
four percent annual rate from October through
December. The prior estimate was three point

1090
01:31:27.960 --> 01:31:31.119
two percent. Stock market futures are
mixed this morning. Dow futures are up,

1091
01:31:31.199 --> 01:31:34.920
S and P in Nasdaq futures both
a little lower. And this report

1092
01:31:34.960 --> 01:31:39.720
is sponsored by Total Wine. Casey, all right, did I let you

1093
01:31:39.800 --> 01:31:43.159
drink wine during the report, because
that'd be an awesome, awesome No,

1094
01:31:43.359 --> 01:31:46.680
they they refused to even give us
samples. Oh are you red or white

1095
01:31:46.720 --> 01:31:49.359
guy? Real quick RhD or what
red? All right? Very good?

1096
01:31:49.399 --> 01:31:51.840
All right, thank you about surfing. Okay, have a great weekend,

1097
01:31:51.880 --> 01:31:54.920
Happy Easter. Take it. H
Yeah, yeah, there you go.

1098
01:31:55.279 --> 01:32:00.720
Jeff Ellinger appreciate that. Yeah,
that'd be the endorsements. If any of

1099
01:32:00.760 --> 01:32:02.600
our salespeople are listening, I will
endorse moonshine. So