Wonderful weekend. Sorry, I had to grab my phone that I left over
literally in another room. So good morning eight eight eight nine, three four
seven, eight seventy four. It is the CaCO Day radio program. Where
do I start? Oh my goodness, from over the ross? Did you
have a good weekend? By the way, let's start there. Make sure
everyone was an amazing weekend? Yeah, okay, all right? Would you
do anything you wanna? Probably the end of the Masters, right, no
totality, you know, I forgot to check it out. I feel I
feel bad. Now. Did Lee Trevino pull it off? He did not.
He didn't. He didn't didn't even make the cut actually, so some
would say that's because he wasn't there with the start, but I'm not a
golf expert. But no, it was a young Scottie Scheffler, one of
the gentlemen with the very pregnant wives that we talked about. He ended up
pulling it out. Was it the Billy Old Concert? Is that it was
that the topper for the weekend? Oh? For us? No, man,
it's it's a long story. If you want to hear it, I
would love to hear you. All right. So about two weeks ago,
Okay. Lincoln has these playlists that he makes on YouTube playlist of fifties,
sixties, and seventy songs. Yes, loves him. He's like an encycling
He's like an encyclopedia this music. So he has the YouTube playlist and listen.
This has nothing to do with me. I have nothing to do with
this. I would not encourage this, but I sort of did. So
he has his playlist set up. He started doing this about two weeks ago.
This song would end, he would hit pause in his playlist. He
would walk up to the TV because it's playing off the TV. He would
intro the song like he was the DJ, and he would continue the next
song. And he would do this throughout the entire playlist. And I'm like,
what are you doing, buddy? And he goes, I'm playing radio.
I want to be a radio man. And where did this come from?
I and probably drugs or kids at school. Right, you need to
be a doctor or a video games or probably yeah, work for the CIA
or the Department of Defense. Right, isn't there isn't there isn't there a
radio station in Grand Theft Auto while they're out murdering there, there's multiple radio
stations Yeah, So he's been asking to come to the radio station and he
wants to record breaks for his playlist, and you realize there's so much that
he takes. I don't talk about work a lot. He sees me working
on prepping stuff right right, And you brought him in a handful of occasions,
and it's always been around him, but you realize that he's been taking
stuff in without even knowing it. Like he knows. He knows that it's
called a break when you talk between the songs are up the ramp. He
knows who the post is. He knows what a cold intro is. He
knows what a fate is, he knows what a cold out is. No
child should be burdened with. He is twelve, and he knows what a
stop set is. Twelve especially, Yeah, twelve year old knows that a
commercial is called a spot. These are things that he knows that he is
just sort of like picked him nately, yeahately. Yeah, So we brought
him into the radio station. He was very, very nervous, and we
were he wanted to He has over like one hundred and thirty songs or something
on his playlist. He wanted to record a break for every single one,
and I said, buddy, I love you, but that is like,
plus, that's not even how an a rotate works, correct, Right,
So I could explain it to him how He's like, hey, you should
talk over every three or every five. Right. So we brought him in
and he recorded his show, his quote show, and he uploaded the playlist
to YouTube, and I shared it on my Twitter, my x account,
and Facebook at Hayes for Sheriff, and I retweeted it in the show account
at Casey on the radio. Did he get monetized or no, No,
it's not MONTI. I mean, we can't do it anyway because it's all
you know, it's music exactly. Yeah, yeah, I just it sucks
that he has to learn this sucky side of this too. So but you
know what, it sounds like he literally would learn it regardless of whether you
showed it to it. He started off very nervous. Towards the end of
it, dude, he was having fun and he was sounding good. Oh
yeah, yeah, like you can you can tell a major difference even between
the first break he does in the second break, but if you want to
check it out in the whole playlist, and he's like, by hand.
He has chosen this playlist and it's in a very specific order that I don't
quite understand. But I do not move a song in that playlist because he'll
know like traffic, Yes, yeah, yeah, that's cool man. I
saw your wife posting pictures because you know that's what she does all the time.
Yeah yeah, I'm just like that. Looks like that was probably they're
probabing a good time, so a hundred he wanted to do a bring.
I'm like, how many do you want to do? Every song? Like?
Guy, all right, you better watch out. They may hire him,
wouldn't it be surprised? Ah, have you heard of? What do
you mean? You're my boss? Now? Yeah? All right, that's
cool man, it's cool. So uh yeah, yeah it was. I
saw those pictures, so I was cheating. I alays saw your wife posting
the pictures. I was cheating a little, And you know what, good
on you. I love the masters, man. And there was some there
was some crazy stuff. But the amount of time that you have to invest
in that, well, listen, that's easier when you don't have a family
at home. Man, did I was hooked all weekend? Did I want
to come into the radio station of my day off note. But in the
end I was very happy, Oh yeah, yeah, that's not but that's
not coming into work. It would have been one thing. If you're there
and then all of a sudden, like like it's uh, you know any
scene from the movie Office Space right, We're like Boss Mike, he watchs
in there. He say, hey, you're here on a Saturday. Can
you do something ps reports? And he's production. You're like, no,
my family's here. Man. He's like, we'll have a BELP check your
PPO, buddy. Oh wow, have you even checked your PPR? Are
you down with PPO? Oh? So all right? Cool? Cool?
Did you witness although by the by the time the Billy Joel concert kicked off
on CBS, yea, I'm sure you were home because it was post prep.
Did you get into that for a second? No, smart, we
we We've been into the new Fallout show on Amazon. I had to resist
the urge because I have, like, I have shows backing up on shows,
and I took the plunge on one of the others because I didn't have
a bunch of time this weekend to watch Rando shows. I didn't go fall
Out. You know what, I watched Franklin. Are you familiar with the
New Franklin series of Benjamin Franklin or there's a mini series of Benjamin Franklin.
And Oh, that's the thing. The Kirk Douglas is in right, Michael
Douglas. Yeah, Kirk Douglas way dead, rest in peace too, although
kind of when you watch you're like, is that Kirk Douglas. Yeah,
it's Michael Douglas. Yeah, was gonna be in it. And I was
like, I don't know about it, but I saw like a still photo
of him, like promo Photo'm like he sort of looks like Benjamin Franklin.
I'm gonna tell you all right, Well look i'll tell you. I give
you. I'll give you the the rundown here. Now it's I broke my
rule because I thought I want the whole thing to be there before I start
watching it. Ross knows this. We've talked. I mentioned on the air,
but every time we talk on That's why the Fallout series was gonna be
it. But this weekend was tough because the whole thing is there, right,
So I was like, oh, watch the I'll watch the Franklin series
and if I only get through a few episodes. It won't kill me.
Well, I my brain didn't like check to see. I thought it was
all there and only three episodes were there, which was actually the right amount.
But now I'm kind of committed to that. I have some thoughts,
and then I saw this morning, Like the first thing I saw this morning
was Michael Douglas being asked about it. I have I have some additional thoughts
that'll go with it. So we'll get to we'll get to that, We'll
get to the masters insanity. I think there was some stuff that happened in
Israel that a bunch of you in my email are clamoring for me to make
the whole show about this. Reads Uh, what happened in Israel? Don't
don't don't don't don't don't? How do I not? How do I?
How do I not? So hang on, we'll fit it all in coming
up on the Cacoday radio program. So when you work in broadcasting, you're
going to be presented with choices, especially depending on the type of broadcasting you're
doing. They are they will come at you. They will come at you
for a variety of reasons. And those choices, especially when they surround a
decision during an event broadcast, are going to be important choice, not just
during event broadcast. And here's what I mean by this. At some point
in a radio career, likely you are going to have to make a decision
to transition from a piece of programming that is ongoing but is going on outside
of when it was normally supposed to for whatever reason, into some other piece
use of plan programming. And you know, I will say this, even
though it's I don't know, the gap has been closed. Usually your decision
was not supposed to be one that was just a fiduciary decision, right,
and and that's fine, but one rather that's going to reflect the best and
be the most explainable on air to the audience, which is ultimately who you're
accountable for, because it is even though your audience is technically they're not your
financial they are, right, or your financial reason for existing, they they
still are. Because the model is we want as many of you folks to
listen to Ross and I say dumb stuff, and then our salespeople can go
out and find advertisers who are like, hey, so those guys are funny
sometimes, and then that's how this that's how this works, right. So
then you don't. We don't just bill you every month. And that's the
circle of life. So with that in mind, there are on occasion going
to be times where there isn't a right decision, but there is an easily
definable wrong decision. Now, I've worked in talk longer than Ross, but
it's not just talk. I've had to make this decision in music settings too.
And the rule number one is, whatever decision you make, somebody's gonna
call and yell about it. Somebody's gonna call and complain about this free product
of ours. It's it's the Ross. Do I speak lies or do I
speak truth? Because I feel like there's a lot of men and you need
to preach okay, right, just whatever happens. You know, it's very
most people are politish. I say politish because some are just very matter of
fact, which is fine with me, but others are not so politish.
And I'll give you an example before I head into what that happened with CBS
yesterday. So I worked the very first talk station I ever had a part
in. I didn't directly work on the stage, but I had a management,
a middle management kind of role in addition to the on air work that
I did do was a was a locally news talk in outside of the Twin
Cities in Minnesota, which is technically where I worked first before I went to
Minneapolis and worked for iHeart. So I was I was. I was in
a position where I could make those decisions, and the worst one to have
to make a decision about was the midday broadcast of KWNO, which is in
Winona, Minnesota. Check that out all right anyway, and it's just you
know, it's a station that starts local host. We had a local guy
there for years. They just the morning round up, reads news obituaries.
Anyone's lived in a in a smaller more rule setting for radio or smaller town,
you know how local you can get there. And it ran Limbaugh,
but you have to understand it's in the Central time zone. So Limbaugh comes
on at eleven and runs till two. But the station's clock or schedule was
we would run live the first hour of Limbaugh eleven and noon, and then
at noon the morning host would come in and he would do a noon news
hour and feature hour that it wasn't just news, it was also remember the
long form Paul Harvey in addition to the rest of the story had a long
form thing. We would run that and that was the format, and the
listeners were fine with it because it had always been that somewhere and I guess
if they were new, But you then got Limbaugh delayed. But that was
the source for Limbaugh. It wasn't the world of podcasts, and it worked.
But if Limba got moved an inch, and if God forbid, there
was a recording air because Paul Harvey. We used to have this thing called
patch chords, remember the old when you see like an old reporter and they're
plugging things in the wall. That used to be how you'd get radio audio
from one place to another. Now we use a digital version of that,
which is much easier, isn't it. Ross Oh, we love it so
much better than patch cords that you can see and you just know work.
And if Limbaugh didn't get recorded because somebody put a patch cord in the wrong
place, or there was an issue and you had to make a decision,
or if there was a breaking news story and you had to move, either
of those just leave the building. Man and I had to make a couple
of calls over the years, so I understand that. But again, there
may not be a right answer, but there's usually a definably wrong one.
Yeah, and if you're forced to make a difference sort of answer, then
somebody likes like involving that Limba situation. Then you're gonna get tons of messages
about how you're you're you're part of the illuminati or the globalists or why are
you trying to censor rush or all that kind of stuff. Fuck you forgot?
Yeah right, Yeah, well it was a different time. I didn't
hear that word back then. Yeah, that's more prevalent. You know exactly
what I'm going to Yeah, all right, So that being said, as
I transitioned from the master's little work, getting the uh well prep together and
just you know, buckling in for another week of busy broadcast. As mister
Limball used to say, I got, I was like, you know what
I'm gonna do, is Billy Joel think it's the right kind of thing.
It's something where there's a there's an entertainment factor, but I'm not going to
be so emotionally involved in it. I thought that it will prevent me from
falling to sleep. And then all of a sudden he gets sting out there
Jerry Seinfeld's hosting this thing, and even though I wasn't a Seinfeld show guy,
I like Jerry Seinfeld, which is a weird paradox. But and you
know, I'm like, I'm in I'm in on this. You know why,
because for a moment, it felt before you all not all of you,
behalf lost your minds. That's what that felt like. Where I didn't
have to think about Billy Joel's politics. I didn't have to or Jerry Seinfeld's
I don't or any of it. I could just go from the thing over
the other thing and be and it was good. I'm like, this is
a good Sunday. And then, depending on which of the affiliates you you
were watching, this thing happened. And by the way I am, I'm
I don't believe CBS, and I'll tell you what they say, but I
want you to listen what happened. And all of a sudden, I was
so emotionally invested because it's a Billy Joel concert. We've been listening to it
for like an hour and a half at this point, Ross, are you
a Billy Joel fan? Do you like Billy Joe? Billy Joel used to
be in like my top three. Okay, so what would you say?
What if you had to introduce somebody to Billy Joel and they're like, well,
what song should I listen to? What might be a suggestion or two?
Uh? Scenes from an Italian restaurant. And by the way, they
killed it last night with that, it was great moving out my life.
It's all about soul some eighties. Yeah, I like it. Piano Man
obviously, Oh wow, that's that's that's weird that you say that. So
pianre you think that's a big one for him? Huh? And then I
think that would be the biggest one. I think, yeah, that is.
If he's younger, you probably think it's fired. We didn't start fire.
But no, piano man is the jam, right. He's well aware
of that too. I mean he said a numerous occasions. He's well aware.
If he doesn't sing that they're gonna burn the place down, he has
to sing it. Well he uh, we don't know because he was doing
Piano Man and look, does Billy Joel sound like Billy Joel from then?
No, And he even admitted he did Innocent Man, which is one of
my favorite Billy Joel songs and there's and he even did this whole thing where
he's talking about how there's there's some high notes. He's seventy. He says
he's gonna try and uh, you know, did he get album quality from
that? No? But he's seventy. And I'm watching this and I'm like,
fine, just look at least you're not driving drunk into somebody's house in
Oyster Bay. I'm fine with this. This is good. There hasn't been
a whiff of politics. I'm enjoying myself here, let's go. This is
from CBS. This is a Watcher and Roy good stuff. I'm taking this.
What what hold on? Pause? This is the pause? Next eleven
A raising awareness for suicide? How one Oak County? Why lost? And
what an appropriate topics? Warm waiters impacting Maple Syrup productions? Oh no,
oh no, my god, man, let's stop one. You've heard it
before? What? What? What I did? The Maple Syrup news?
Is that what you mean? Her piano band? This song? You've heard
it? Come on, I have You're right, I have, I have
heard it. No, what a way to ruin the mood. The worst
possible thing you could do in this situation. You hiding yourself. Heidi's a
thing, and it's not even your thing. It's ABC's thing. Don't be
a Heidi. I understand it's kind of a reverse, you know, but
what what are you doing? And so CBS is like, well, we
had some local affiliates make that decision. Oh that's interesting. You know,
as somebody who is familiar with what being an affiliate's like, it's not as
simple as that. It's not as simple as that generally when you live in
in I don't know how it works at the TV level when it's a networked,
owned stationed station, which some are and some aren't. But I do
know that being an affiliate is has comes with obligations and a lot of times
comes with direction. Like when we were we had contracts with Minnesota Vikings,
Minnesota Twins. Over the years that I worked there, we've had contracts here
in North Carolina with the UNC tar Heels on the Greensboro side, with tar
Hills in state and Wake Forest and these are not new things. And when
it comes to something like that, I understand the local affiliates they are they
want their local news because it's a huge revenue stream. I get that,
But for CBS to sit there and say the local affiliates made the decision.
When it all happened at the same time, you need to better explain that.
Was there a thing in your carriage agreement, your franchise agreement that allowed
them to do it. Did somebody at CBS have to go yep, okay,
all right, We've hit the time you can do it. What are
those conversations like, Because the end product is people in some of your biggest
media markets, many of your biggest media markets, who tuned in for an
event that you promoted for months, watched you flip a switch, and in
each of the instances I've seen, there is this weird delay. Right,
It wasn't a smooth transition, So that's why it's to some extent the timing
was orchestrated. It all happened at the same time. How do you do
that? Why do you do that? Why do you take this little nostalgic
masters to Billy Joel concert moment fun Sunday that I'm a fun Sunday evening that
I'm having him do that. I watch, you know, Scottie Scheffler go
out and fight off the competition. Also his wife trying to baby trap him.
If that's a thing, right, Remember he was the one who said
he'd get out of there. He won the thing again, second time in
three years. It was great. I watched the an amateur who looks like
he is serial killer who plays really good golf play with Tiger Woods when he
saw him. Bit interviewed after because he was top amateur. Oh what are
we doing CBS. We'll explore next hang on the CaCO Day radio program where
we've we've struck everything with a wrench, so we'll go from there, all
right, Ross. So I didn't have a chance to watch this normally,
I don't make this stuff a high priority because SNL has become what SNL has
become. But yeah, dude, that would have added to this whole weekend
where you're just like, for a moment, like, is it before everyone
lost their damn mind? No exactly. So I stumbled across the SNL skit
this weekend. It was so funny and a Cole Markey in and it's more
of like a visual gag, but it's probably the funniest SNL's been in years.
So I almost, well, hold on, I don't want to I
want to ruin all this for everybody. I want you to. I want
you to go see the damn thing. We got it on the blog at
Casey on the radio, and then we'll we'll link it out to you.
By the way, here is it's it it raw. This is right.
You gotta visually see it. But if you are our age, you're older,
you're I'm sure you're very familiar with Beavis and butt Head. Beavis and
butt Head was, you know, Zeitgeist during the time I was coming up.
It was such a big an MTV for that matter, because when I
was in middle school, MTV wasn't a regular It wasn't on the regular cable
package. Even so you had to be one of the ranch kids with satellite
to get it, and so we had a chance to watch, so people
would come over and watch it. And Beavis and butt Head irritated the entire
state of Wyoming too when the Beavis and butt heead Do America came out because
of a few seconds of gag jokes where they made fun of Metitzi and big
Piney, which are two which by the way, we all did because they're
funny words. Big Piney. When you're a you're a a twelve year ol
thirteen year old boy, that's funny as hell. And Matzzi if you're a
kid from Metitzzi. Now I was an adult, I'm like, oh,
it's yeah, that's fine, nice place. But it was funny, and
so they made the jokes. They made the jokes and went, you know,
did their little Beavis and butt head laugh and like they had like the
governor was mad. It's it was so weird. But anyway, so for
whatever reason, they did this skit where they're at a you know, like
a town hall meeting learning about AI. So you have like the serious news
reporter lady, you have the uh, you know, the learned professor who
who is also obviously somebody who's a Beavis and butthead fans she's not. And
uh, there's two guys dressed in the in the audience who are wearing the
exact hair shorts T shirts they were always in, you know, they're whatever.
Yeah. Right when I found the skit, so I'm scrolling and I
stopped really fast before even hit play because I'm like, the guy in the
background looks like Beavis, and I'm like, maybe that's just me. And
then I'm like, oh, it's s and l I'm like, oh,
my it's part of the skit. So at this point in the beginning,
you can only see the Beavis guy. Yeah, and and so the so
immediately the professor locks on because it's right in his field of vision, and
the the woman who is the the interviewer, even I I didn't hear that.
Ross was literally just dubbing an audio, so I don't know which part
she got, but she's like, she she has not seen it, she
said, because in high school she was pretty or something, right, And
then to Ross's point, that happens, and then all of a sudden,
he said he he needs him to move, So the guy trade seats with
somebody off camera, and then the guy who sits town looks like Butt.
Heead and even has his upper lip ups. He can see his gums,
And then that turns into it thing it is. It is funny, but
it's absolutely something you gotta lay eyes on. But I'll play a little lo
Yeah, there's a gentleman in your audience who looks strikingly similar to Beavis from
the cartoon Beavis and Butt. It's just a little distracting. I'm not familiar
with that cartoon, but wouldn't help if he moves seats. Yeah, yeah,
that might be a good idea. It's the gentleman in the blue shirt
and blonde pompador. And by the way, at that moment, she starts
laughing, and it's just over for her. I have a feeling from her
reaction that they didn't tell her or she didn't know what they were going to
look like, maybe you do a full but just her reaction is she looks
like really shocked and surprise, like how funny it is? Especially butt Head.
Butt Head looks right, yes, yes, yes, it's put the
curled lip and every oh yeah, spot on. Man, sir, do
you mind moving? I'm sorry you're talking about me. I have no idea
what's going on? I'm sorry? What? Yes, can you move the
seats? Okay, sure, I'm sorry. I just I've never heard of
that cartoon character. And you really never watched Beavis and butt Head when you
were a teenager? No, I was pretty so I was going to parties
and hooking up. Now, Professor, if AI is left unregulated, what
is your worst case scenario? Oh my god, are you serious? What?
I think that's a valid question. No, Now, they're a gentleman
behind you that looks like butt Head. Honestly, the adience members aren't as
informed the question on Twitter. I don't know if you didn't hear that's where
I watched and hang out butt Head from the cartoon. He beabs his friend,
I hate it, like to move on and discuss AI, So would
you like him to move? All right? All right? So this goes
on the part where I lost it just because it was kind of a quick
thing. Is then they go all right, well, let's get a question
from our from our audience, and then they do that thing where they cut
to a tweet like it's an audience question and it's I don't have it in
front of me, but it's a I am cornholy and I need more tpee
for my bung hole, which is you know anything about the show that's an
immediate and and he's like, that's from the show, and then she plays
dumb and then starts laughing again. It's it's yes, yeah, it's very
good skit, but it's like it's it reminds me that you're saying talking about
the past before people went crazy. It's like SNL back when they're funny,
and SNL would was always at its best when it was random and silly and
weird. You didn't tell me anything about it, by the way, And
so when I saw it was a political setting, because I did not see
it it was Beavis and butt Head. I thought it was going to be
I thought they were going to be representative of Trump and Biden. And I
would have been fine with that, by the way, right because you're going
on there and you're scuring you know, us, skewer both. I thought
it was going to be some I thought it was gonna be some political thing
when I clicked play, and I was pleasantly surprised that it was not.
And no, to your point, no I don't. I don't expect that
from them anymore. I have very low expectations. So uh but anyway,
we got we got the link for you, or if you just want to
go right to the blog at Casey on the radio, you will find it
there and do with it what you will. All right, let's see here
so mentioned obviously the masters uh yesterday, that was a good watch over the
weekend watching uh Scheffler watching Texas defeat uh Ludvig. I got nothing against that,
dude, It's just so there was there was a golfer a lot of
people are not familiar with because European golfer named Ludwig Auburg, I'm probably mispronouncing
it, not for Germany, actually from Sweden, but actually also I think
he lives in Texas like Scheffler does. So okay, but yeah, so
you had you had that and then Mark marcaw at third. But it was
interesting, you know, it was. It was a good tournament. There
was some there were some great shots, there were some big you know,
the Master's chorus causes guys to go, uh tin cup if you remember that
Kevin Costner movie. They literally Sergio Sergio Garcia did it a few years ago
and one of the holes just kept hitting balls. I mean he had to,
but what do you take on the hole, like a thirteen or something.
That's my kind of golf, So there's always the possibility of that.
So yeah, it was. It was just it was very nostalgic all around.
Now Scheffler has two green jackets now and at no point during the ceremony
yesterday Ross did I see them reference him being able to stack now. Yeah,
no, he could stack it. That's fifth. That's half off at
all of garden. But nobody said anything during the jacket ceremony. I watched
the thing. It's dereliction of duty. Maybe they probably just did they give
you a little sheet because there's so much, so many discounts that you just
don't have time when you're in Butler cast and probably what it is like you
ever you've been broadcasting before and you've get like a sponsorship list where it was
like yeah instance, right, yeah, just like get a few in each
break kind of the yeah, now that's probably what it is, all right,
So uh, yeah that happened. I did have one other entertainment.
Oh, I watched the the The Franklin uh is what it's called The Benjamin
Franklin Show with Michael Douglass, and it is a very stylized, hollywoody version
of the time, which I think is by the way, I think it's
one of more a very fascinating story of US history, the all of the
events that transpired during during his long dormancy in in France during the during the
US Revolution, and like if if you've never most of it looked accurate.
I didn't sit there with you know where I was going and checking all of
it on the bigger points, right, like the people, the players are
all there. The process of how it went down. A lot of people
think he went over there and was just chilling at the you know, the
upstart US embassy and then just meeting with folks in regular diplomatic channels, and
that was not it at all. Franklin went over there. He brought his
grandson, which that's a fascinating story too, by the way, because the
reason he has charge of his grandson is because his father, the grandson's father,
the son of Benjamin Franklin, is in prison because he was a loyalist.
He was an active loyalist. So that family dynamic obviously adds a layer
to the show, but is an actual family dynamic. Benjamin Franklin's own son
rejected the cause of independence and did so rather aggressively to the point where he
was actually over the course of the war he was put into prison. And
there's a lot of other factors there. And so Benjamin Franklin has his grandson,
who's seventeen at the time that they go over, and he goes over
to see if he can get France to or wealthy French individuals. It doesn't
even have to be the crown per se to fund the Revolutionary War and the
armaments that were necessary. You have Schumont who's in there, who was a
very very wealthy shipping dude over in France. And you have a representation of
French French society that looks so over the top as to be comically uh exaggerated,
but in reality is not just a weird era. The powdered wig era
of France is weird. Man just by today's standards, this strange stuff.
You have the Marquis de Lafayette. You have h and that story is reflected
in there, and uh, it's but it's very hollywoody. You also have
and I can't people were complaining because there's a one of the the the aristocratic
class in in in France is a is purported to be a woman, but
French society believes it to be a man in drag, which is probably pretty
easy to pull off in French society at that time, because people old dress,
you know, it's crazy how they dress, and there's so many exaggerated
wigs and makeup and everything. And people are like, oh, they threw
that in there, but in reality that that is an important it's it's a
semi important I should say, a portion of the history of what of what
Franklin was trying to do, and he went over there just basically he went
over there at a time when Benjamin Franklin was actually a very very very famous
person in the world, but not for the reason that you think the revolutionary
thing was one thing, right and you know, the thought that France would
want to join this to humiliate the the British, but also everyone thought,
everyone thought at that time that Benjamin Franklin had discovered electricity, and he had
obviously had written a book with you know, little quips and summations, which
was incredibly popular, but also was I believe forbidden in France. And so
he went over there and people were swarming him literally from the moment they landed
to the time he was making his trek from laharv La have Her. I
can't remember which port he landed at to you know, into Paris and Passe
Passe is where he spent most of his time. So and nobody would talk
to him, nobody the king had forbidden anyone who's in his inner circle from
communicating with him because it's a huge diplomatic thing, and so he spent his
time trying to figure out all these different behind the scenes channels and like,
it's fascinating stuff. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I've just watched the first
few episodes. It's very slow, but if you're following along, I thought
it was very entertaining. Here's where the problem started. I wake up this
morning and I see that Michael Douglas and I understand a question was posed to
him, who, by the way, is seventy nine and he's playing a
seventy year old Franklin would have been seventy at the time, and he decided,
here we go. In his interview with GQ, Douglas talked about how
his new series Franklin immediately struck him, like, as a seven year old
in England or in America in eighteen hundred, the average lifespan was thirty nine.
I think it gave me great fate. Now keep in mind, people
think when they hear that average lifespan that that's because everyone just died at thirty
nine. But in reality, that's what happens when you math in infant mortality
rates that are pretty significant and childhood mortality rates, so you know, it's
like when you got a zero one time in class, and he struggled to
keep an a there you go. So with that in mind, he gave
his GQ interview, and inevitably, him being a playing a seventy year old
and he himself seventy nine, the conversation drifted and it drifted over to our
current president situation. Uh, and I'll let you know what He set them
up against the clock here, So we'll get to that and much more,
plus what happened in Israel. We'll talk about it coming up KCO Day Radio
program, hang on Aco Day Radio program, Monday edition. All right,
so we're gonna get into the Iran stuff here in just a moment. And
I got to tell you I'm not one for unless it's to explain how an
entire forest got burned down. I'm usually not one for the gender reveal insanity.
I'm okay with this, ross. I'm assuming you're okay with this.
In the world of gender reveal stories, we've done that, aren't That doesn't
include arsening an entire forest, because yeah, you will be too. I'll
explain what's going on here in moments. So anyway, I was talking about
the the Franklin thing. It's on Apple TV. By the way. Somebody
sent me an email. I'm sorry. I thought I mentioned that it's on
Apple TV, so if you have it, if you don't, I wouldn't
even have it, except it's part of the one package, and so it
gets me the other stuff and I'm stupid, So whatever. So I watched
it, and it is what it is. I enjoy the little nuggets of
history. And they did ring a lot of the bells on what is a
very it's an very important story to the American Revolution. And you have to
understand that this is happening on the after a significant string of losses from Brandywine
to Saratoga to others, where Franklin is over there to try to get French
help, thinking that the philosophy of the enemy of my enemy is my friend
kind of thing would work out with France. So with the because you have
to understand the French position at that time, they thought what was happening in
America was very funny to the British, but also very dangerous that if their
people went, hey, you know, that worked pretty well, how it
could impact the French monarchy. So they were they were very tepid there,
and so Franklin and his grandson literally show up. They show up with not
any official capacity and just kind of make friends with muckety MUCKs. And it's
easy to do because I mentioned Benjamin Franklin at that time not only had a
book that had that had gone viral in those terms, but all and it
was a It was a book that was comedic, that was informative, but
also talked of revolutionary ideas. So France was not a fan. French people
were, as you would come to realize with the French revolution that would take
place following our own, and obviously inspired, but you know, at that
time, he's just there. And the component that there were spies around them
and infiltrate and people we know that were, you know, very high ups
who were tasked with spying for the UK. Those are accurate. Some say
they're overdone here, but it's Hollywood, so it is what it is.
So I'm watching it and I think Douglas does a fine job. People complain
about some of the accent transitioning and why this isn't just it is what it
is. There's a lot that's not on there. But so Franklin and his
grandsons show up and he's greeted as an author and the guy who they who
they? You know, people go, oh, he invented electricity and as
we know he didn't. That was one Thomas Edison and nobody else and that
elephant who knew too much. But it really shows you the predicament that France
was in, because if he had not been well known and not well liked
for those things, it would have France probably would have thrown him out of
they but they had to handle him with kick glove. So all this time
he's having to figure out, hey, how am I going to how am
I going to get in there? And so this is purported to document it.
It's a mini series. It's not done. But I did watch the
first few episodes and I was fine with it. So inevitably, what do
they do. They get Michael Douglas to sit down for an interview. He's
seventy nine, he's playing a seventy year old and he you know, he's
got the grandson with him, and the thoughts drift, thoughts drift. He
goes, I was immediately struck, like seventy years old. In England,
the average lifespan thirty nine. Again, that's what happens when you have a
lot of ones and twos in there. I think it gave me great faith
in Joe Biden and it was a reminder we can go on a lot longer
than we thought. Do you know how Benjamin Franklin of that period is described,
because there's a lot of descriptions, there's a lot of writings from many
of the individuals in France who ended up dealing with Franklin. And I'll let
me tell you the overwhelming first thing that they would say about Franklin, Well,
it's the clothes were a big thing, and they actually satuate that there
he intentionally wore, He intentionally brought like a bunch of furs and stuff,
so he looked like DiCaprio's character in the Revenant. But that was that was
for a reason. So there's comments on that. But his sharpness, his
acuity, his his ability, he's doing this on his own. I mean,
he has some confidants, which if you read I don't a spoiler.
Uh, not all of them are, and that's historically accurate. But for
the most part he's having to figure out how to overcome this thing where nobody
in real power is allowed to be around him, where French officials have banned
him from Paris, which is a thing that happened, and just the ridiculousness
of what France was at that time, and he's got to figure out a
way to get him to eventually, if you know anything, send an armada
of ships, which coincided with the British making the decision to depart New York
following the capture of Philadelphia and sail this. So they captured taykonder Roga,
which is a very important fort at the time, and that had been captured
from the British previously in the upper reaches of the Hudson River of New York,
and the general at the time for the for the British was tasked with
continuing to go all the way up the Hudson because they were they were they
were in a position where they wanted, now that we have Philadelphia and we
have Tykwonderoga, we're going to make everything north of Philly ours and push the
rebels back. So that's but that wasn't glorious. So you had this decision
made where the entirety of those true were moved back to New York City,
which was the base of operations for the British at the time and sailed to
Charleston Harbor, and very famously there's all of what you saw the surrounding of
Charleston, and everything was going swimmingly. But if you've ever been to Charleston,
you know that to get into Charleston Harbor you have to run past several
outer islands, and those islands are fortified to allow for cannon fire. Charleston
was a very protected port. It was the most productive port. It was
the fourth largest city in the US at the time. And the British ran
that they ran that blockade, they ran those positions, those cannon positions ended
up in Charleston Harbor. Which is good if you eventually sacked the city.
It's not great if the entirety of the French Navy, who you do not
realize is coming your way, comes your way at a time when you're in
the channel. And Franklin had to negotiate and coordinate all of this. Biden
figured out a way to get Iran to basically lose their fear of us and
launch all their stuff at Israel. And you have to understand when they launched
it, they launched it knowing it wouldn't get there for hours. We had
an entire news cycle waiting for this stuff to show up, and and I
ran did that. I saw the comment that they were like what, how
what what are their drones like Honda Civics or something like how why is it
taking them eight hours to get from Iran to Israel? It's yeah, I
call you gotta get coffee. They had kids. You know, you ever
travel with kids and a wife? You gonna oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
you know they have bladders. I don't know if you're stuff to pee
every ten minutes? Yeah, dude, yeah, And uh, you know
how many BUCkies are on the way. I mean you got to stop at
the BUCkies. There's none, there's zero. Yeah, it's thankfully for BUCkies
probably. Yeah, So shut up, just shut up and and life and
pre even though that I keep saying the thing with the electricians, they didn't
have electricity. They're talking about eels Man talking about, which terrified people in
Europe because that wasn't a thing that they knew about. And they get over
there and they just think the New World is nothing but wolves and electrical eels
Man. You know, Bo Biden died by eels so it's an appropriate Oh
wow, you know what I'm sorry about that. That's my bad. Ah.
Where in Surinam or wherever that that's that thing was? Where the eel
thing? Well, I can't remember where it was. Oh, everything's dumb,
all right. Anyway, raced agent from the weather channels here. What
a weekend? Yeah, you know dude, what it was? It was
great. And then I was one who decided to watch the Billy Joel concert
last night. H Okay, that didn't know well, you know, I
don't in the CBS who the concert started late through their own ineptitude. And
then Billy Joel is doing the summation of this concert. I'm having a great
day. Got the Masters had great? Yeah, everything was good before that.
And then like I'm like, this is nostalgic in the sense that I
was actually watched Network TV and I followed it through the Masters, through this
weird show that I'm not tracker or something, and then onto it and I'm
I'm in it. I'm I'm good to go. It has been promoted for
months. It's this one hundredth live show in a row at Madison Square.
Guard It's going to be a thing. Jerry Seinfeld hosting, sting, special
guests, whatever, I'm gonna watch that. It's a good thing to watch
as you're winding down. And in the middle of Piano Man. You've heard
of this song, right, Oh yeah, pian In the middle of Piano
Man, as Billy Joel utters you know some of the many of the more
conic lines, including the one about being in the mood for a melody,
it cuts the feed. There's awkward several seconds of dead air and it goes
to the local news. Uh huh. And CBS dipped out in the middle
of Piano Man, which was set to it was the final song of the
set, as I understand, and just they heidied it and didn't and then
didn't say anything. Wow, it didn't come back. That was it.
No, that was it. You're writing the local news. You're now you're
in this room. So that's what you get to learn about whatever the still
you're the talk. Huh. It's just maddening. Man. Oh well,
all in all, the masters, it was good so and yeah, the
weather once it went away, it was crazy to watch that no wind yesterday,
but let's keep that trend up. I think people are happy, so,
you know, set the apple cart. Besides the breeze, I mean
it wasn't terrible. No records, no record today. But I'm going to
use the word hot because we're going to be close to ninety in the Triangle,
probably middle upper eighty try it and west end of the mountains. But
the record for the Triad is ninety today and for RDU Raleigh at the airport
it's ninety two. So warm, hot, whatever you want to call it,
but not records. Plenty of sunshine, some cloud around now. We
do have this little weak disturbance coming through early tonight and there might be an
isolated shower thunderstorm. I'm gonna emphasize no widespread rain, so I wouldn't really
worried about it. Say, if you're going to be out between sunset and
midnight somewhere around there, if the kids are still playing ball games or whatever
it is, Yeah, you know, if you get a rain drop,
I wouldn't be shocked. There's no severe weather expected. Overnight will be in
the low sixties. Tomorrow, we'll have some afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Again
isolated variety so not widespread. It'll stay warm in the mid eighties. Still
low to mid eighties and cloudy. Wednesday, late week looks good too,
with sunshine returning, and will stay in the eighties normal high this time of
year. It's certainly not ninety. I think we're somewhere around seventy or the
low seventies this time of year. So yeah, seventy three officially for Raleigh's
the average high. So yeah, well above average temperatures. Let's see severy
three, eighty three fifteen Yeah, twelve to fifteen degrees above average, and
it'll stay above average all week, even into the weekend where we may see
some showers return. Oh all right, well yeah, wait to save that
for the end. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. You're welcome.
Yeah, just all I want is a nice clear weekend. We'll talk again
in an hour, so appreciate it. And there you go, race Agic
from the Weather Channel. All right. So yeah, So basically, you
know, along a long way of explaining that Michael Douglas like this is this
must be what Biden feels like, and no, no, no, it's
probably not. Also, I would point out that you know, Franklin wasn't
calling Lidds at five o'clock, which is what happened the day of the Israel
Iran thing. Cause like much much of the negotiation and what was going on
was being done quote at court at the time, which was basically all of
the muckety much showing up for their fancy fancy pants dress parties. And so
yeah, no, it's not the same thing, Michael Douglas, not the
same thing at all, not in any way, shape or form, as
we will come to find out as we continue next here on the CaCO Day
Radio program. Aco Day Radio Program. And while we have regaled you with
many of the I don't want to say necessarily always lighthearted side of it,
the it's still less serious than Billy Joel. Cons are getting cut off and
I'm referring to the dumpster fire that continues to be the Middle East. Let
me say this, by the way, the position of the White House seemingly
as stated. And by the way, this is irrespective of all of the
opportunity hopping that we saw the administration do over what happened with the AID workers,
the seven AID workers who are who are fired upon, because there's a
there's a lot of moving parts there that I think people don't understand. You
have eight this is and this is not an indictment of all aid organizations.
You have EID organizations that are at the very least complicit in what Hamas is
doing. And you have others that work within the frameworks that are kind of
forced upon them, but I think or are there for the right reasons.
And one of those frameworks is and it's really really a tough position is you
have this is what HAMAS does. So if you have an AID organization that
has a shipment of whatever, food, medical supplies, whatever, they will
deputize themselves to be the security force for the shipping. But in reality,
what they're doing is they're controlling who gets it is this So you have you
literally have our guys or the Israelis or others, because remember we're still we're
still doing surveillance and logistical stuff bobbing around out there with one of our fleets,
and and that's what we've committed, that's what we've committed to. And
so they have to monitor this because once you create this scenario where some Hamastu
can just roll up and be like I'm in charge of this shipman now,
and nobody pushes back because the shipment still moves kind of. But it also
is a huge security issue. So that's that's all going on. And uh
then the you know, the whole lead up to that, the Israelis saw
an opportunity with leadership following you know, uh, Syria basically being a launching
ground for Hesbolah. Uh. They to striking military target around that same time
and take out one of the Iranian generals. And what you saw over the
weekend was Iran's response to it, or purported response to it. And people
are like, well, you know they did this and they fired into Damascus
and this happened, and yes, yes they did. They make no bones
about it. So Iran launches the suicide drones, some missiles, they launch
them literally from inside Iran, as well as some outward positions like where the
Hooti rebels are, and as Ross pointed out, the distance right because their
drones don't fly that fast and they're not that close. Let's try to watch
the Billy Joel show. Yeah, I am on it. Some of you
were very like, why are you Why is this a jihad for you?
It's not. It's just the dumbest thing I've seen in forever, in decisions
like entertainment decisions like that. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of
dummer stuff out there but just baffled by it anyway. So we got that
little entertainment stuff. But you had a period over the weekend where things on
the international everything's on fire front were pretty crazy. And the first was where
you started to see the you started to see the headlines Iran fires on Israel
and look, that's a pretty big escalation. Not that people don't think that
Iran has been doing it via proxies and even part of it with their own
people up in Syria. But ultimately Iran has always kind of had that just
a little bit of hands off there, even though it was clear from from
day one that the Iran plan, as I think most people understand it,
is the Iran thought, you get all of these proxies doing all of this
stuff, Hamas is going to come in for their big thing. You see
it in the writings and literally what we've learned from Hama's individuals and uh who
these to the right of them, Hesbaalad to the north and several others,
and it all culminates with this big Hamas attack, going back to what we
saw and that under I know and Iran's thinking that would be the lynchpin for
unleashing the flood of all of these other countries who also are not fans of
Israel to get in there and mix it up, and Iran would obviously join
them, and it would be this this unification of a non unit. Remember
i Ran Iraq. They don't like each other, nobody likes each other,
but they all like the fact that they all hate Israel. And so with
that in mind, they thought that that that would be enough things for everyone
to go, yeah, let's get them, and it would be that coalition
that the rest of the world would have to decide whether they wanted to tangle
with them. And it it got there a little, but it didn't get
to where they wanted. So over the weekend they sent all sorts of munitions
Israel's way. Yeah. In fact, according to both this is US and
IDF officials, they say I Ran individually launched more than two hundred drones,
cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles from inside their own territory, the first time
they've ever launched a direct attack against Israel from inside their own borders. And
so yeah, but they take a while, and so like, you weren't
going to hide that, And I don't just mean from people with radar,
Like there's videos of some guy he's like, you know, he's walking around
with goats and a raq and over him. Looks like a sci fi movie
because it's just all the things going and it took hours and hours and hours
depending on positions. You could go the whole day knowing that these were coming
and you know, do whatever you needed to do. And still people think,
well, what's the effectiveness of that? And in reality it wasn't too
effective. But the act is a big deal, and the response from Iran
was one because at the end they they shot and we aided. I don't
know to extent that we aided. They shot down almost everything the other they
had one one thing that got through and did minor damage on a base and
I think the only person who was even injured was a little girl and it
was minor. So yeah, yeah, I'd say they're pretty effective. And
Iran kind of knew that that wasn't But I feel like this is also kind
of what they saw with Hamas, where they I think they thought people join
in, but they said it was in retaliation because one of their generals was
in that military office in Damascus when Israel leveled it last week, which argue
is the one attack that people have the least concern about because everything's been about
oh civilians, blah blah blah. They literally it was a high level meeting
of military individuals in a governmental military esh setting right there, you know,
So that's like, that's what you want if you're gonna do that to avoid
civilian casualties. Sadly, if you work it within an embassy and a missile
hits it and you're the guy who sweeps the floors, it's just not as
impactful as some dude on the street. It's just that, you know,
it's our weird rules of war, but it's understandable and it's what proportional escalation
is about. So they do all this stuff, and then I got to
sit here and listen to people, whether it's Michael Douglas or others sitting there
and trying to make it sound like this is we killed a general of theirs,
and we didn't just kill a popular general. We killed arguably the leadership's
most popular general in Solomoney, who because he was willing to carry out the
atrocities, you know, outside of the normal protocols, Like this is a
bad dude, but he was a dude that if when you're the thug leadership
and I ran, look at that, I used thug. I know.
I was told that people only use thug in a very specific racist setting.
But no, when you do thuggish things, you get thugged. And Solomoney
was a thug and we didn't just kill him. Okay, we didn't just
kill him. The President of the United States then turned all of your TV
off, went to a podium, the same podium in the same position that
was announcing the death of Bin Laden. He went with the same backdrop and
everything, only it was President Trump. He went up there and within the
first fifteen seconds he started mocking the general for quote dying like a dog.
And by the way, I'm here for it. I thought that was that
was crazy man. And and then he talked for like ever he talked for
I want to say, it was like a ninety minute press conference just talking
about what a piece of garbage coward this dude was crying, died like a
dog, some of the other stuff he said. And you know what is
or you know what I ran didn't do it didn't launch a single drone.
Okay, I didn't do anything. You know why because whether it's fear or
respect and I don't care which they looked at Donald Trump as president went you
know what, not right now? No, because this he'll he'll probably come,
He'll probably be riding a missile in like how'd he do to you or
whatever himself or slim pickens excuse me? Yeah, Like they didn't want to
deal with that. And this was a constant component of the Trump presidency of
people. A reporter would do a story and they'd be like, well,
and the reason that they didn't is because they think he's crazy. And my
question would be, so if you don't look if I'm the crazy neighbor on
the block, which by the way, I think I am. But but
if like you know, nobody, if I'm the guy from the sand lot,
remember the house that the kids didn't want to go to because the old
man lived there. It's a constant thing within kids' stories. The fact remains,
whether it's correct or not correct, that guy doesn't get his yard messed
with very much, do you know what I mean? I mean, obviously
there was a breakdown of it in the movie. They had the reasons,
But so what if I ran doesn't want to lob missiles at stuff, especially
our stuff or stuff of our friends, because they think the other guy is
a lunatic. I don't care. I just care that they had no qualms
man. And immediately the White House made their position clear because the White House,
following what happened with the AID workers, had come out and just basically
they had been looking for an opportunity to appease that section of their voting base
who want Israel to sit there and take it. So that's a signal,
man, that's a signal right there. And especially with all of this you
know, this weird Ukraine NATO stuff going on. I understand Israel's already you
know, from a UN perspective in there, but they're the whipping boy of
the UN, and ultimately you only have to stare down a few allies and
you think he can do what you want. And I ran did because one
of the allies they looked at was Joe Biden and they read him as not
caring and I don't know that that was inaccurate. And again, they didn't
fire on a US position per se, but they they're testing, they were
testing the edges here and then immediately all of these nitwoods start running out and
saying that you know Israel and better watch out and uh you know, and
not go overboard with this. And to that I would ask what is overboard?
They fired hundreds of things to make people explode into your tea. Just
because they're bad at it doesn't mean they didn't do it. And the argument
is, like I saw somebody go, would you get a flamethrower for a
mosquito? You know talking about one? Iran isn't a mosquito. And they're
in they're enrichment programs which could which continue even through all of the weird cloak
and dagger stuff and literally sticky bombs and and computer code and everything that's been
a part of it. They're more than that. But two, if you
handed me a flamethrower there was a mosquito around, as a dude, I
would use a flamethrower on a misquit ross. If I handed you a flamethrower
because I saw that there was a bug around, you wouldn't You're you're innate,
I'm a dude take over and you would use the flamethrower on the bug
because the opportunities there, I mean, it would be criminal not to.
Yes, you should be put in Guantanamo if you don't, and we're watching
to see whether you know how to work that thing. Other dudes are because
they love that. Ah. Now, let me show you you women think
that men only like the men explaining to women, you know nothing. Get
some guys at arrange and a guy who clearly doesn't understand the way that the
particular firearm works. Have you not seen the recent US Navy post? Well,
right, yeah, yeah, yeah, I was just literally you read
my bike man, Okay, right, the Marines did a mock. The
Marines, who are a department of the Navy, mocked the Navy. Do
you know why? Because what's the Navy gonna do about it? What are
you gonna do? You're gonna go down to where all the Marines are chilling
on board waiting to go and uh, you know, do some weird crazy
whatever thing down there. You're not gonna go bug those guys. They saw
your CEO up on the up on the deck holding a skull a rifle with
a scoute mounted backwards with the optics closed with a chicken or chicken wing stance
going on, which is fine, some people shoot like that. Whatever,
and what you know what we're gonna do a meme about these guys who drive
us everywhere we want to go. So yeah, yeah, there's there's a
lot of that that goes on. Absolutely. So to sit there and go
it's a mosquito with a flame throw is to not understand what any dude handed
a flamethrower in a mosquitoy situation would do if instructed to do so. But
I also think the position of the White House in the US, at least
in this one instance, that will help you shoot him down or track them
or whatever aid was rendered, But we're not going to help you go forward
and attack. I'm fine with that's that's I think that's the proper position.
But you know, now, watching all these people go, well, it's
like Iran can do anything. That's not true, and it's also not true.
Historically Iran has done many a thing, and some of those targets have
been I don't know us targets, whether it's barracks right yeah, whether it
is some of our ships, whether it is that time we set out to
literally shoot down what was or not even shoot down. We wanted to render
inoperable a significant representation of the Iranian Air force, and so we were gonna
go after the air Force and a part of their navy operation. I think
we're going after a frigate, is what it was. They had identified a
frigate over some mining operations, and they were gonna basically make it inoperable.
They weren't even gonna murder everybody. They were just gonna they wanted to render
the ship inoperable. And at every turn, our guys are out there and
they're just like, hey, we're just here to shoot your rudder. And
then some jackass with a fifty cow is thinking he can shoot an E ten
down and the guy's like, well, look, you've now met the threshold
for me making your life, making you missed. And then it was on,
and we ended up literally decimating half of their navy and a good portion
of their their ability to then parlay air at tacks based on what the Navy
provided, and it wasn't significant to start. They like forced like Washington had
to stop at and and like command our guys to stop blowing things up over
their own current standards of whether they're able to open fire. Right. They
had set these very tight window because they thought no one and Iran would be
stupid enough standing on a frigate with a fifty cow to start firing on.
You know, US air superiority, and so the standards were like, you're
fine unless they fire at you, and then after you tell them not to
fire at you and they do it again, then you can open fire.
And these guys were ticking those boxes in the first few minutes and like they
had no choice. So don't give you this Iran crap. And obviously you
don't understand, you know, what's how dudes and flamethrowers work. So the
whole thing was very frustrating anyway, eight eight, eight nine three four seven
eighty seven four. Yes, it's just stupidity around every turn. I did
see that there were a lot of people, maybe you know, hold dual
citizenship with the US. I saw because I was now in the world of
local news and news following the Billy Joel cut off, I did see a
lot of folks basically were able to get on commercial airlines because you had this
this big window and fly to Florida at least that's where I saw the news
news story out of So yeah, yeah, strange stuff, But all of
these comparisons are for not when you realize Donald Trump did everything, but you
know, bring the body of their fallen guy. Unfortunately, it would have
been tough because kind of got ripped apart. But they did everything, but
did everything but have him unzip his fly and urinate on him. From a
disrespect standpoint in that presser and I ran didn't do a damn thing. And
whether it was because they thought Trump was crazy, I don't, I whatever,
I don't care, but they they made a decision, yes or over
the weekend where they said, I don't think Biden's going to do anything,
and that was a lot of it, I think, based over the reaction
that was coming off of what happened with the aid workers and a shift in
position. So where it goes now I don't know. Could be armageddon by
lunch, but for now we'll take a break. We got a again,
a gender reveal thing I normally don't. I don't like these, but I
got to give props where props is due and much more coming your way.
Hang on, I will tell you one of the things that one of the
things, and then people are people are upset in the sense that you know
they did. Hold on, what is this? You can't say Iran didn't
retaliate. They fired missiles at US bases in Iraq. Yeah, they told
us, and they were also missiles. They were there were missiles that we
knew were coming and were expected retaliation, but they didn't fire on is the
actual United States? Right? And yes, so because some people feel that,
but you they did wound people and that there was expectation, but there
was also we didn't do a very good job of dealing with it, just
like we had that. Remember we had that drone that got through the other
day because it was close behind some other I don't know if it was some
sort of returning other aircraft or one of our own drones. I can't remember
off the top of my head. But yeah, but with with the ferocity
of what they launched into Israel, they seemingly have a very different opinion about
what the US will be willing to do here. So but that's a fair
point one to bring that. I bring that up since a couple of people
emailed me. Okay, so let me flip over to this because I find
this fascinating, and then we'll get into the audio. I promised. Why
is it that so many people who are heads of diversity and inclusion and equity
for companies or universe? How is it that they so many times find themselves
literally thrust into what's that? What's that show? On ABC? What would
you do? Have you ever seen that? I don't like that show,
by the way, I think I think it's pure emotional manipulation. But if
you've never seen the show, is it? Jonathan Kieras, I can't remember
the report. I'll pronounce reporter's name, but basically, and I got a
beef with him. But the show is like, they'll be in a coffee
shop or no, it was an ice cream show. This is the one
that blew my mind. They're in a coffee shop or an ice cream shop,
and this dude comes up and he wants to order some ice cream,
and they got a young girl working the cash here or whatever, and she's
like, which one do you want? And by the way, the joke
or that the joke, But the situation is he's illiterate. He's a grown
man who is illiterate, and he isn't presenting a lot of you know,
he's not strumming a banjo or any of that stuff. But the scenario is
the girl who's an actress will then be really really mean to him and start
making fun of a how can you not read you're an adult? Bah?
You know, because that would be a normal thing that would happen in that
retail environment. And then another then they want to see if other customers will
step in to take this dude's side or stand silent. Right, that's this
whole thing, one hundred different scenarios, generally over the top, and these
are the situations that heads of DEI find themselves dealing with every day in America.
Then they take to Twitter, case in point, this dude and I'm
sending this to Ross right now because he hasn't seen it, because I want
him to weigh in on it. This dude is the head of Diversity,
Equity and Inclusion for MI T which, by the way, that's a big,
big get. His name is Carl Reid, and he tweets the following
Just boarded an early morning flight wearing my at MIT gear. A seat mate
looked at me and asked, basketball, I said, no engineering, which,
by the way, is I mean technically, MIT has a lot of
engineering, but you're the head of DEI. You're not an engineering person.
And then he takes a picture of himself and says, what prompted what about
me? Prompted him to think I was playing or coaching basketball? And the
you know, the scenario is he's black, so obviously he's sitting next to
racisty dude here who just made the assumption that he might be a basketball coach.
So I just sent the tweet and Ross can tweet this out too,
a screenshot of it. Russ, do you think that he sat next to
you know, the grand something or other of the clan and that's you know,
and that happened. Or do you think that maybe, just maybe he
sat next to a dude who looked at him and made an assumption, but
not for the reason that he's he's putting out there. What is your you?
No, it's the first time seeing Now. If it was me,
myrie, my question would have been, did you work with Professor Lambeau and
and win the Fields Medal? That'd be my personal question because I've seen Goodwill
hunting about forty thousand times. Yes, but no, he's wearing like a
windbreaker, looks like he's wearing an athletic jacket. Dudes wearing an athletic jacket.
He's clearly clearly he looks too old to be a player, right,
we agree completely? Yes, Yeah, he looks like he looks like a
guy. And by the way, he probably presents as a dude who absolutely,
in some way, shape or form, does in fact is associated with
MI T and some sort of faculty standpoint right, And so because he presents
like that, this is what. This is what people don't understand. I
don't care if you're white, black, brown, or whatever. Chances are,
within a few first few minutes, if you told me you worked for
MI T or not, I can determine whether I think you're telling me the
truth. Especially this guy is this guy is a It's just like some of
the really bad stolen valor stuff out there. Like I don't I'm not even
have the military background, So I'm not noticing out of position, you know,
adornments of one's uniform. I'm just noticing how people carry themselves. And
so dudes looking at him, I can't is he in an upgrade? He's
in a Delta It says comfort plus on the headrest. I can't tell if
he's just in that middle ground on the I don't fly delta very much,
but whatever, the dude's wearing an athletic jacket. He's wearing a coaches jacket
is some people would refer to it a windbreaker is rosters could but you know
what I'm talking about, And he's doing so at the very because I saw
people go well good, you know, oh yeah, because mit a big
basketball powerhouse. I don't know if you know what happened here just a few
weeks ago where uh basketball at the collegiate level had uh it was kind of
a big deal and people were traveling everywhere. But it's a perfectly logical assumption.
That's just somebody who's having cut And frankly, why are you talking to
me just because I'm sitting next to you. I don't necessarily want to tie.
And it's not just him, it's really anybody. This is what headphones
are for. Have you heard of these? They noise. You don't even
have to by the way, fun trick, you don't have to turn them
on. You don't have to have a damn thing going through them. But
if I get on a plane and somehow my my earbuds are not in,
they're soon to be in. And generally, if I'm traveling, I have
my my older studio headphones with me, cause if I have my laptop the
air. It's a pain sinking my EarPods with my company laptop. So it's
just easier to plug in you know, standard old school plugins. That's it.
That's there. You go. This will never happen to you again,
sir. Just put headphones on. Oh like people already emailing put headphones on.
Yes. Now, if you're a smoke show, as on one of
my recent flights, I won't talk to you. If you want to talk
to me, that's fine, rare exception. And even then, depending on
the mood I'm in, probably not so whatever, all right, so uh,
mitigated racism or and will tweet it out. Or a guy who literally
he looks like a basketball coach. He looks like a fit dude who's wearing
an athletic who's wearing an athletic jacket. And I think that that is a
logical question. And I think that anyone who would be wearing literal sports gear.
And I don't know that the setup to it. If he just out
of the out of the blue, the guy just turned him and goes basketball,
or if they had had some conversation about m I T and he went,
so he went the basketball program. I don't know, but I know
he thought he found himself a hot one, just based on the little smirk
he's got in the photo. You can check it out at Casey on the
radio, but first we check out the weather with Ray Stagic. He's just
sits therey all more, just stairs at a Doppler does nothing else. Doppler
sate the lonely. Yeah, it's a lonely world in here. Must feel
sorry for me. The symphony cars already take a lot of time off coming
from me. That's a claim. Well, I've been doing it long enough,
right, It'll be what twenty eight years in at the end of May,
so yeah, I been edited that long. Probably we've got to do
about another twenty eight in order to get out of here alive. Right.
The radio math is math, yeah, exactly. The math all works out.
But yeah, and the numbers today, mid upper eighties, very warm.
Probably won't see records for the Triad, it's ninety. For the Triangle,
it's ninety two. We may hit ninety in some spots. Raleigh off
to our Goldsboro fit and filling to the west of the Tria. It a
little cooler in the mountains, cooler yet, we'll get a little cloud right
now near Rocky Mountain northeast to that, but other than that, no rain
and just a hit or miss shower thunder shower tomorrow that may keep us down
a little bit with the cloud sun mixed to the low to mid eighties,
and I think Wednesday will be cloudy, low eighties and then back to the
mid upper eighties on Thursday. That's a sunny day. Friday is a sunny
day. The weekend there might be a little unsettled way what. I don't
see those as any big organized system that's going to bring all day rain over
the next five to seven days. But we will see our temperatures finally come
down maybe by the end of the weekend to more like normal, which is
the low seventies. But until that, dry the warmth, and I'll go
with mainly dry weather. Not going to say we're not going to get any
this week, but Tuesday, Tuesday night possibly and then again maybe for the
upcoming weekend. Okay, all right, very good, thank you sir,
and we'll chat tomorrow and Jeff Bellinger coming up. Oh and that gender reveal.
We got to do this because it's kind of amazing. We'll do it
next Hang on Bloomberg Update Now with Jeff Bellinger. Jeff, what's happening?
Good morning, Casey. A story of the American consumer is still one of
resilience. The Commerce Department reporting this morning the retail sales rose seven tenths percent
last month. Sales minus autos we're up one point one percent. Both of
those readings topped economists forecasts, and New York Fed President John Williams told Bloomberg
News this morning he expects the economy to continue to grow at a solid pace
now. Stocks ended last week with a sell off. Major averages had losses
on Friday of between one and a quarter and one and two thirds percent.
The Dow was down four hundred seventy six points. That capped the worst week
for the blue chips in over a year. But the futures look good this
morning. Higher right across the board, Dow futures are up two hundred eighty
eight points at the moment. The Food and Drug Administration has been under pressure
to move quickly and get new drugs to patients who need them as soon as
possible, but data compiled by Bloomberg suggests the agency's haste has led to waste.
Since twenty fourteen, more than three and a half billion dollars has been
spent around the world on medications that turned out to be ineffective or had most
of their uses withdrawn. Here in the US, shipments of Apple iPhones took
a hit in the first quarter. Preiminary figures from IDC indicate just over fifty
million iPhones were shipped from January to March, and that was down nearly ten
percent from the prior first quarter. Price of oil has eased a bit today,
back below eighty five dollars of barrel. Traders are made betting the attack
on Israel will not turn into a wider Mid East war. You may have
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Casey can you do me a favorite? Jeff, I'm so busy today
I got stuff I'm not gonna be able to get there. Can you how
far is CBS's facility from where you are? How far is it probably a
mile or so? Oh? Can you head down there and ask? What
the hell did you see it? With a Billy Joel concert. I'm so
upset I didn't see that. Oh oh okay, all right, so yesterday,
Look, yesterday was a good day, Jeff. You know, the
Masters, And then they had a big Billy Joel Live at Madison hundredth live
show and in the middle of Piano Man the final show because the things started
late. Through their own incompetence, they heidied it. Remember the Heidi incident,
famous Heidi incident right during the Super Bowl? Was it or some some
major playoff game with the Jets? Yes, yes, ok, yeah,
So they made the decision the middle of Piano Man to dip out to local
news at a lot of yeah oh o. This thing that hype for months.
So if you get us some answers, that'd be great. But from
a business perspective, that seems like bad business. But that's just the radio
in me anyway, all right, so uh, you're you're our ms are
okay, Jeff, Okay, I appreciate it, all right, have a
good Monday. Look at that Jeff Bellinger off to get answers. Ross and
I would do it ourselves. Very busy, very very busy. Today I
think I don't know all right. So, gender reveal parties, literally we've
you know, when we talk about them, it's usually after somebody's either taken
a blue Roman candle to the testicles that one was funny, or started one
of the most destructive fires in recent California history, not as funny, but
also, how the hell this one's a little different. We're usually down on
them. I was kind of digging on this. A gender reveal party,
the couple sitting front and center surrounding a ring where a rather interesting thing is
happening. I hosted a gender reveal wrestling match for my sister. Whatever color
wins is the gender of the baby. Now, I got to tell you
something. What's amazing here is that they have all the gear. They got
the ring. One of the wrestlers is a little person. I'm not sure
if it's dwarf or or what, but but you know, you have the
you have the David and Goliath set up. You have the over you know,
the over cell that obviously is you know, wrestling like they're doing everything.
They got chairs and tables and it's a well. I love the visual
because the dude portraying the you know, the the girl is big, right.
It looks like he smells like beef and cheese, right, big hairy
guy. And like the other one, like you said, is like a
little person wearing like a kerr angle like single it you know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So little guy in blue
uh ogre in in pink? All right, so let's do this. I
hosted a gender reveal wrestling match for my sister. Whatever color wins is.
The gender of the Baby God is really well done. And there's so many
twists and turns as you go through. Who's out? Is he gonna make
it? And then it's you know, he's down for the count and one
two, and then up he comes with a slap to the face and where
do you get that chair from? Its great? I'm sorry I hit the
wrong one laughing and the taker bells in there? How great? Was that?
Ross? You hate these things too? You down with this though?
They all go this. Ye I saw that yesterday, even before you put
it in prepping. As a big fan, I almost sent it to you,
and I'm like, there's no way he hasn't seen this, so so
we'll get it out there. Would you like to reveal the gender of the
baby, by the way, I don't think we should. I think we
should lead people to the website. That's what I was just, that's why
I was asking