All right, good morning everybody. It is it's so eight year on the
case O Day Radio program, Happy Monday. What a day on Friday after
we left the building. Holy cowt Sitting there you're trying to shift into you
know, because it's kind of weird the way our schedule works in that.
Yeah, we I mean, we work work five days a week, but
obviously you work outside of that because that's just the reality of things. But
really when it comes to Fridays and Sundays, they're a little different, just
because our work day is really kind of encompassed in the latter half of one
day in the first half of another because you've got a prep like you know,
yesterday on Sunday, sitting down in the afternoon, start going through the
stories, putting stuff together. Hopefully throughout the course of the weekend you're seeing
some stuff, so it makes it a little a little quicker, a little
easier. And then on Monday, obviously get up and to do the show.
But on Friday, you get done with the show. You do you
know, commercials, promos, production, any of any of the side stuff
that we do, which is, believe it or not, we actually do
do that stuff. It's not just three hours a day. But then by
Friday, you know Friday, by you know, by you getting into the
afternoon and evening, you're off, it's your weekend already. So and it
has its ups and downs. It's nice if you're wanting to travel right,
especially like if you want to beat the crowd, like maybe if you're headed
down to the beach or whatever, you want to leave Raleigh and you work
morning radio. I don't a Friday, you don't have to make as many
changes as a lot of people do. Just if you plan right, you
be up out the door. So when stuff happens on Friday afternoon, which
can tend to be a dump day, sometimes, you know, you get
these like four o'clock White House things, were like, oh yeah, just
a little memo here, and then it's something that's crazy, and you wonder,
well, is that about hiding it from the news cycle. So I
don't think that's what happened Friday. I think that was just the court doing
what the court does, since the Supreme Court of North Carolina is not like
the US Supreme Court, where they tend to do these Monday decisions so they
can get chewed on and analyzed and reported on throughout the rest of the week,
but a whole pile of news, basically multiple lawsuits, lawsuits in some
cases that had been revisited that made their way to a review, a judicial
review. And remember we're dealing with some of these lawsuits. Where As we
sat there and we looked at the decisions that were being made, even quote
unquote I would say quote unquote independent or at the at the very least fairer
reviewers realized that they were just making stuff up, man, and they were
fast tracking cases and it was all about getting in under the gun before the
Democrats knew that they were going to lose control of the North Carolina Supreme Court,
control that they had achieved, in my opinion, in a lot of
people's opinion, through some very interesting candidates a couple cycles ago that tended to
split the GOP vote. I'll I'll let you dig into that a little more
if you want. But upon review, they reviewed these cases and restored the
state's voter id law, took state courts out of the partisan jerrymandering disputes,
basically saying that there is no law like it or not as it pertains to
jerrymandering from a partisan perspective, which is which is the case North Carolinas somehow
found that all of a sudden it wasn't the case, and they took these
maps when if you look at them, compared to literally anything over one hundred
and ten years, Democrats are running things, including maps that were voted on
by our own governor during his time as a legislator. Uh, there was
no comparison in in terms of compactness, which is an actual legal term that
is utilized in determining. UM. You know, whether whether a district is
is it is the it is the gold standard of what you're supposed to achieve.
All right, you want to you want to equally distribute the number of
people. You want to go for compactness, and you also want to strive
for um, some sort of community investment in the sense that parts of the
district to the extent that they can be shared the same needs, wants and
representative needs. Those are those are what you're striving for. On the jerrymandering
and the partisan jerrymandering side, that's not something that's addressed. UM, I
think it was. Phil Berger pointed out that when he first entered the Senate,
is the burger I think it was burger you know what it escapes.
One of the Republican legislators pointed out that they when they first entered the legislature
the North Carolina Senate, in the very same year that Bush won by thirteen
points in North Carolina, there were two thirds of the Senate was Democrats and
one third Republican. So the Republican president wins by thirteen points, which I
don't know that we'll ever see that again one way, either one way or
the other. And yet two thirds of the Senate was in fact Democrats in
that And how do you achieve that? Well, you're talking about state Senate
districts. Now, could you make an argument that with how close the presidential
election was last time, that North Carolina with veto proof majorities isn't exactly represented.
Yeah, you could make that, but that's not the standard. But
if you want to claim that it's the standard, then you need to recognize
the disparity, which was much more aggressive back in the day. So,
if anything, they've worked to close that. Now, if you want to
argue community interests, what you see and what Democrats have done in many instances,
if they sliced and diced, arguably community interests. You know, if
you take if you take one city and you try to make the totality of
that city one district, say one congressional district, you can't argue that as
a city that the interest of that city aren't most closely aligned. But as
soon as you turn it into a stack of pancakes, like they did with
Chicago and Baltimore and every and Detroit. This is really what happened in Michigan.
They took these districts and they pancaked him. So you take a big
slice of population out of the city, knowing that it's going to generally be
a locked in Democratic vote, and then you build a long arm with it.
And then once you do that, you find yourself with, you know,
four or five slices out of this major metro. Yet the metro still
drives it. In some cases, like in the state of Illinois, they
have districts of Chicago that that loop all the way down towards Evingston. And
I'm sorry, if you've ever been in Illinois for five minutes or excuse me,
Evingston, Peoria, if you've ever been into Illinois for five minutes,
you would recognize that what is referred to as Chicago Land, that great area
and basically the rest of the state really don't share a lot of common interests.
It turns very rule, it turns very red, and while the red
does not in any way outmatch the blue there, ultimately it's easier to chew
up. So if a case was decided based on this new standard of partisan
gerrymandering, which doesn't exist, then it doesn't mean that you still can't have
problems with what's going on, but you can't make up a new legal,
new legal language on which to not just file but be victorious in a lawsuit.
Because you feel like it, you got to go after it, and
arguably the most efficient way to go after it is to go out and campaign,
win the legislature, maintain you know, maybe do it this time around
while the governor's still there, or get a you know, get Josh Stein
or whoever you put in there, and fundamentally change the system which is legal,
change it to change it. A quote unquote nonpartisan board love to see
you try, considering that even in places where they say they've done it,
it's become abundantly clear that they have. At Denver is a good example.
Colorado did this too. They sliced up the Denver Metro and they have they
have one of those nonpartisan boards. So that was ruling one and two.
Also, they ended voting for felons who have not completed their sentence, so
in each ruling five to two party lines split. As expected, that happened,
but something much more interesting happened. And frankly, if they're able to
get this thing off the ground, and there's not some hidden thing that I'm
missing here, it is probably going to be one of the biggest political fights.
Even though it looks like they have the vote secured in quite some time.
Implementation is going to be crazy. And the amount of lawsuit money I
can't even imagine. And that has to do with your kids schools, and
we'll talk about that coming up up here on the case O Day Radio program.
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It is six twenty three here on the case O Day Radio program. This
is the headline from w r L GOP lawmakers want to pay for students private
education. How we got here, what's new and why they face resistance.
So basically this is what is UH backpack funding, I guess is one of
the terms you use you here described as money follows the student, although it's
not as simple as that. There's still going to be a sliding scale if
the current law or proposed law should say is to pass, which basically that
sliding scale will be dependent on income levels of the participants. But as you
can imagine, public education have a kids are freaking out, freaking out saying
this will draw dollars away. But also you have a student that's not going
to be there, so you you have the money attached to the student,
basically in the way that moneys are allocated for students anyway in public schools.
Right, That's why they get really weird about if a kid doesn't meet a
certain number of requirements for attendance, because that money or that student isn't shown
as a student after a certain number of days, and it affects funding levels.
Now, it's obscenely complex, and North Carolina makes it even further complex
just in the way that they do it, which is somewhat non traditional,
where you have both the state funding model, you have your federal funding side,
but you also have local funding in many districts, especially many of these
cities just basically upping certain things as it pertains to like teachers pay. Okay,
but in this instance it also creates competition if they're able to put this
through. And one of the big pushbacks that you're seeing is that well,
once you get into a rural area, you're going to there is no other
option. Well, if that's the case and people live in that, which
it's not, I'll give you some examples. I'm sure in some places it
is. Some places it isn't. In those particular areas, then if students
don't have another alternative other than you know, homeschool or an excessive amount of
travel, then the likelihood is the students are going to stay in that school,
but in other areas they're going to have options. And as much as
they want to throw it up on Twitter saying well this is basically funding for
religious schools, I would remind you that, yes, in some cases private
schools that have either avertly religious overtone like I'm talking you're going to chapel or
church or mass if it's a Catholic school. Literally during the course of education
during the week, they have others where it's thematic right, where it is
part of it, and much of what they do is seeing through the lens
of But for all practical purposes, it just feels like a regular old public
school and it runs the gamut of religion. People fail to realize is that
for a time one of the Islamic schools in Greensboro, with another one in
Fayetteville, were literally among the most utilized for voucher vouchers in North Carolina.
Yeah, yeah, I believe it or not, those are Islamic schools.
They were. They were as just as if your kid goes to a Baptist
private school or any other Christian or Catholic or Jewish for that matter, or
whatever it is. They were utilized. Greensboro had the largest, or I
believe they were number one for a while. I can't remember the name of
the school off the top of my head. But you look this stuff up
and as you saw expansion, I saw people were going, well, now
it's not the number one anymore. Well, you're still limited by what percentage
of students come from families that practice Islam, who are going to be likely
to send their kid there, or more likely, I should argue but you
still you still had this fight every year over the limitations on the number of
vouchers. This opens it up and as a result, it also opens up
the ability of schools. Tom And in a rural area where I saw somebody
who's from Pamlico County, right, we would agree that that's a rural area,
would we? They have three They have three school options currently. They
have charter option, they have private option. I believe it's a Christian academy,
and they have you know, your traditional public schools. So in other
rural areas, if parents band together and want to start an alternative, thus
forcing the competition. Now they can be secured in the fact that if they
build it, they will come in. If they build something the parents want,
it creates the competition. This is a good thing. And we'll talk
more in a moment Your day Smarter and celebrating ten years of keeping you better
informed one oh six one FM Talk and News Talk nine four five WPTI more
with Casey starts. Now, Well, you know, there have been a
lot of cutbacks in the world of media, and there's gonna be more oversight
these things happen. Apparently, ABC has apologized for a cutaway shot utilized during
the Knicks Heat game yesterday evening. You know, you know, when you're
watching sports and they do that thing where they're going to commercial break, they're
coming back whatever they're making announcement, sponsor thank you's, or maybe promoting another
broadcast. They have these transitionary shots, just like we have transitionary audio like
that rejoiner you just heard, except in this case, obviously you have a
visual component. And so because it's the Knicks, the New York Knicks playing
the Miami Heat, they're playing in New York, you're gonna get one of
those standard New York shots. It could be a hot dog vendor, it
could be here's people skating at Rockefeller Well not this time of the year,
but you know what I mean. Or you could do the skyline or the
Statue of Liberty and the skyline. That's a very popular one. You want
images that scream where you are. And unfortunately, apparently over at ABC News,
who's headquartered in New York City, they have been unable to acquire any
additional stock footage of either the Statue of Liberty and the New York Skyline since
oh September ish of two thousand and one and Skyline is being generous. It
actually is a shot from a lower angle of the Statue of Liberty, making
it look more majestic. And the only other two images that you see in
the photo other than like clouds and stuff, are the two towers of the
World Trade Center. And just so we're clear, there was no there was
no kind you know, if there had been commentary, as today is actually
the anniversary of the raid on the bin laden compound, right, so if
there was, if there was context, I would understand that. But it
was and it was just a standard. I think it was an ad for
Facebook at the moment they're doing it, you know, met quest or whatever
sponsoring. And there it is a Statue of Liberty in the two twin towers,
which are more than twenty one years old at the very least. We
don't actually know how old that shot is. So in twenty one years,
they've apparently been unable to acquire photography of the city in which they are head
quartered. That's bad, man, I mean, how is it impossible?
I know Patrick Ewing was there, yes, did they think he was playing
or something like? He had thirty five points? He did? John Starks
go off oh, dude, can't even look at the box score. Just
it was Patrick Ewing even playing that, I think things they're tired by the
really, you know, I don't know. I don't know how that doesn't
escape. And even for people who are like, ah, you know,
you know, you're just look at you're looking at a file. I've heard
people make this excuse from from a video standpoint, and I'm sorry, it
just doesn't work like that. There's, at the very least there's still images.
This seems to be a still image. Actually it's kind of hard to
tell, just because there's not a lot of action in the photo at stationary
items. But no, um no, how about just no, there's just
no frigging way, shape or form that you don't notice that, especially as
prominent as it's not just the skyline it is the two twin Towers and the
Statue of Liberty. You only have three things to worry about. And yet
that's what happened, all right anyway, six thirty eight case O Day Radio
pro. I'm trying to remember who'd be even playing for the Heat back in
that time, like Glenn Rice Alonzo Mourning. I don't even know. I'd
have to literally I'd have to call up a thing. But anyway, let
me grab a call here, Jamal, what's up, hey, Taylor Ross?
That Patrick ewing at that by that time they got traded. I believe
to the Orlando Magic. They're trading him to the Orlando Magic by two thousand
and one. But I say this casey as someone who has children in a
private Christian academy. I think the Republican Party did great by saying we can
get some of our money back. However, I think the Republican Party needs
to stop worrying about Democratic activist. I put my child in private school because
I don't want them being taught by durm public schools. I don't want my
children learning that just because they're black little girls, they're always gonna have a
whole and now everything America ever wanted to do was aunt your mama and they
blackness, all racism. I didn't want that from Durham public schools. I
didn't put my children. That's why I work overtime. That's why I took
ah fat classes to become certified age back and now trying to become certify plumb.
This is why I did that. This is why I worked for a
great company. They letting me work my overtime because I put my children in
private school, I don't want nothing to do with Duram Public schools. They
sat there and they kept the schools closed a whole year and a half longer
than my children's school they go to now. And my children are doing good,
they're they're doing great. I don't have to work about a teacher coming
in the classroom trying to translate the kids. I'm not having that at the
Christian school children go to. I don't have to worry about drad clings in
the school, don't get to worry about debt. So if you want to
know, and the Republicans fail to bring parents like myself who are outspoken and
want their kids the money to follow the kids. No, I don't want
not a dime of money that John Public Schools didn't for my children to get
it. No change the way you are. Republicans. They did good.
I gotta men, they did good with the Boksey well gold On. It
ain't passed yet. It looks like they have the votes and you're gonna ge
after the process, and look if they get it passed and they get it
overridden, which likely have to happen because Cooper is going to veto that.
But they seem to have the votes thanks to I caught them coming over.
I'll give them a big old kudos unless there's some aspect of this that I'm
missing, and it needs to be functional in the way the parents are able
to easily do it. But you would agree that parents have become much more
outspoken. And I warned this during the pandemic. I said, right now,
public schools are squandering supporters, and they're doing it at an alarming rate.
And if you remember when we did have shut down, and we did
have private schools that shut down as well. Once things started to reopen,
private schools were at the head of this, and they were first through the
wall. They took the brunt of it because every day some news outlet was
doing a story about how they're trying to kill their kids and how irresponsible these
parents are and it's just horrible. And I'm telling you, between that and
what people were learning more and more about what their kids were learning, it
was a tipping point. It was the primust of opportunities to do this,
and I'm not glad to see that the momentum moving forward, just doing it.
You know, at the end of the day, I'm the one who
is the least arbitrary here because I don't have a kid, so I don't
have to make that decision. There's no possibility that the moneys that I paying
for school funding, that I will ever see that in any way, shape
or form back to me unless I decided, Hey, you know what,
I need a kid because tax credit. So and I'm thinking this is a
good idea because I genuinely want people to have the opportunities, and I want
competition to drive a better quality of service wherever it may be, especially when
dealing with a governmental entity. And you know what, Casey, And I'm
gonna say this to you, Casey, I hope and praying five years.
You tell about two to three kids. I can't wait. You know you're
gonna settle down, man, but you're gonna have three, three to five
kids. Hey, I want it. I wanted all three to five boys.
And I'm almost if my wife could just give me one more chance and
I get three kids. I have three. But Casey, this is the
thing. Republicans have to start calling on fans to come down there and tell
our stories of why we put our children in private school because here's the thing.
Everybody complain about schools because private schools don't put up with their breasts.
I'm from Rocky Mountain and we saw that fight that happened with the student attacking
the teacher. Well, you don't have that in private school because those type
of children that display that behavior, they're not going to stay in the school.
They're not gonna even private schools aren't even putting up with that crowd.
They'll throw you out. And too many of these activists want to keep children
in school. One because Barack Obama did a twenty fourteen saying oh yeah,
yeah, suspending too many black children and in Latino children. So you know,
you got to explain to why people don't know if that's what really hurts
schools too. But in private schools, we don't have to worry about our
children have to wear about keep at catching the game. Fights. You don't
have to worry about that because you fight in a private Christian academy, you're
getting thrown out. And a lot of people like to stick their kids in
school as a private daycare. And that's why our schools are getting bad.
Just to know that during this pandemic casing the school. My children, they
had to do that stupid man's thing because of Durham City, but they still
was opened, had contact, had things and my children. If you are
better off now than what those kids that was in private school, I mean,
excuse me, public schools who waited a whole year and have some too
in order to go back to schools and Republicans need to contact the local Republican
gops Durham County GOP wait Cound of gilp Join County GOP person County GOP.
Ask them, Hey, who are your people that goals to private school who
are outspoken about this? Help them come to the capital and speak and tell
people. I don't want your public school crap. This is why I don't
care if you call this diversity. I don't care if you call this police.
I'm not gonna tell my children a man can be a boy, and
a man can be a woman, and a woman can be a man.
I'm not gonna tell my children. And I don't want no school teaching my
children that. Yeah a Jamal, just because I got I got up against
the clock. I completely understand what you're saying. And those are decisions.
By the way, when public schools are now having to compete, that they're
going to wrestle with because if they realize that that turns a certain number of
parents off because they just want the basic academics, that's going to be you
know, that's going to be something that they're going to have to look at.
But I would say this, if they want testimonials on parents who avail
themselves of private schools and love it, in most cases, they need only
look across the aisle, whether it's the governor of North Carolina, Yeah,
and and ask them, you know, you made this decision, do you
feel that it was beneficial? And they'll haramp and they won't answer it.
In they'll off to skate. But ultimately the opportunities abound. Jamal, I
gotta go. Thank you very much for the call this morning. Okay,
oh okay, case they still play for you to have three keys, right,
don't? All right? Well, you know what, I hope you
get shingles. Okay, I'm kidding, all right now. I like kids
just fine, So I'd just like to, you know, sleep on the
weekends too, all right. Six forty seven case O Day Radio program Hanging
celebrating ten years and still going strong. Thank you. Casey is one four
five w PTI in the Triad and one o six one FM Talk in the
Triangle. So actually kind of a busy weekend for stuff. He had,
you know, hockey hockey playoffs at NBA on the sports side of those two,
and then of course the NFL Draft which actually started on Thursday into Friday
and then Saturday with the you know, the rest of the draft picks there.
So you know, you had that aspect of things that were going on.
You had what I guess they referred to his NERD prom the White House
Core Respondence Dinner, which boy boyd, we got some audio from that.
We're going to get into to kick off the next hour. But yeah,
here a lot out there, a lot of stuff going on, and the
news cycle didn't wait. In fact, let me just real quickly on a
couple of things with the draft if I could for just a moment. Dion
Sanders is very upset by the way. Beyond Sanders has been been angry here
as of late. If you don't know, Sanders was brought in to the
University of Colorado the Buffalo's to be their football head coach pulled away ironically from
an HBCU Jackson State, where he had he had really really a lot of
success in recruiting. Initially, I was getting some big names down there.
Of course we got into this, this whole portal thing, this transfer portal.
COVID drove this, and some rule changes drove this. Some players following
him to Colorado, some who did instead went to other schools after they went
to Colorado. And you could tell that that chapter him. But now he's
just very upset over the draft position of Isaiah Bolden. And if you don't
know who that is, I didn't either, But he is a cornerback from
Jackson State, and he went in the seventh round and was the only HBCU
player selected in the draft. And that's what set Sanders off. One.
He's his guy, right recruited him. Obviously, he's really proud of him,
and you know, once all the best for him, and I understand
that, but you know, he said, very proud of you, Isaiah
Bolden. You deserve to be drafted much higher. I know how much you
want this. I'm ashamed of the thirty one other NFL teams that couldn't find
draft value in all of the talented h BCU players and we had three more
draftworthy players. All right, look, here's the deal. And it's one
thing to air your frustration there, but it then prompts this bigger discussion where
everyone's accused in the NFL of being racists for HBCU players. And I'm telling
you, I just this is the stuff that I don't understand when you get
into professional sports, which is all about money. Now, are there some
things that trump money? They appear to, but they really don't. And
here's what I mean, Like when we get into discussions about off the field
issues. So if you have if you have a player in college who's out
there and you know, gets into some sort of police issue, whether it's
stealing crab legs or laptops or driving and street racing to the point where somebody
gets killed, Teams are going to look at this stuff and maturity and these
types of things do reflect And any any any kids going into the NFL draft
coming out of school, I guess they're not kids. But any young man
who is going into the NFL Draft has that level of talent and has that
level of talent in college, there's a thousand people around him telling him,
hey, you just don't screw this up. It will impact you. Look
at Jalen Carter. He didn't drop as far as people thought he was going
to, but there were some concerns there. He was doing the street racing
thing, and you know what, we all do, dumb stuff. You
do dumb stuff in high school college, and I think he got to balance
that and you're gonna you know. I didn't have a conversation with him,
and I hope he's a successful player except for any games where we play against
what the Eagles took him. I hope he hasn't off any of those days.
But it's not necessarily behavior issue on the part of HBCU. There are
other intangibles that people are looking at, one of which is competition that they
play. You may have immense talent, and there are very talented players.
Let me give you a list of just a few players that have come out
of historically black colleges and universities. You may have heard of some of them.
Michael Strahan, Jerry Rice, Walter Payton, and there is there's literally
hundreds of others who have been part of the NFL Draft coming from HBCUs.
However, that number has declined, but it hasn't just declined for HBCUs in
the sense that smaller schools aren't having as many players drafted. The concentration of
NFL quality or level potential level talent in universities has become far more concentrated,
and arguably even when you get into that top division one has been far more
concentrated into certain divisions. That's the reality of it. So unless you really
really stand out of there's some other intangibles. This is the reality. Not
just for HBCUs, it's the reality for many smaller schools, schools that don't
traditionally get Bowl games. So be passionate, but let's not start this insanity.
They'll pay for the talent that gets them the rings. All right,
good morning, everybody. It is seven oh six. You're on the KCO
day and the radio program phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
seven four. So look, and there's a lot of talent from a lot
of schools, be the HBCUs or even major universities that went undrafted that will
eventually find themselves with a shot at the NFL because you know, these teams
can go out and grab them and sometimes that strategy too, because when you
draft somebody, you're making financial investment. You're you're rolling the dice. So
especially when you get into later picks, unless somebody is a superstandout talent at
a smaller school, and we have seen where teams will go out and they
will snag those players. Ross I remember you guys had a quarterback you drafted
from what people would consider a nonpowerhouse division and a nonpowerhouse university in that division.
That worked out pretty well for you guys. I'm thinking, yeah,
he turned out to be the goat. So it's been pretty good. And
you know those stories exist out there. Obviously, you've had quarterbacks from like
North Dakota State that have flourished in recent years. So you know, if
you want to turn it into an issue where well obviously racisms of foot,
it's that HBCUs are not very competitive. That's not a rule, but not
very competitive in the current college landscape, and non HBCUs in divisions that don't
start with you know an S or or a you know a Big ten style
division. Basically three divisions rule the roost on this. You know where you're
gonna get the majority of your high talent and it's because it's so easy for
kids to move to these divisions since become a recruiting thing all in its own.
But other players will get out there. I saw what did NC State
end up with. I think what Zavala got taken. But other than that,
I think they had what five or six lads players? Two of the
linebackers, the who's the kicker done? Christopher Don'll probably get picked up by
a team given a shot. So uh yeah, and you know if Isaiah
Moore and Thomas and I can't remember who the other one was, is the
dirting frenzy State. I mean they're from a draft grade standpoint, they're in
that window, and some players take pretty crazy routes to NFL success or at
least NFL rosters. Buffalo got a guy from ECU. Oh you know what?
Yeah, absolutely Noaherson. By the way, I did review. I
did look it over there. Um obviously wanted to see what was up with
the the Was he from ECU or did he played ECU and then transferred to
another school? So it was crazy this year the number of kids that played
it two different universities. But you're pretty happy with your draft stuff overall,
right, Yeah, it wasn't bad. Vikings just crapped the bed man.
I don't know, I don't know what. I don't know what the hell
we were doing. Yeah, we got Josh a few more weapons, we
improved the oh line, So I'm happy with it. Yeah. So I
know a lot of teams, you know, it's the whole. Some teams
come out looking great. Some look like what a waste of their time?
But listen, man, they do these like scores in the draft. You
know, they're like, ah, you know, a plus for you,
a minus for you, and it's like, you really don't know. I
mean, it's all they're they're all just they're just guessing. Because you could
have somebody that's it's great and it turns out that they're a flop. You're
not going to know it for like a year or so. In you know,
who I feel the worst for in this draft is this year is mister
Irrelevant. Yeah, because obviously everything that happened with mister Irrelevant from the previous
year, who ended up, you know, looking like a stud quarterback there
at the end of the year. And so if you're think it was a
defensive end or somewhere, yeah, Johnson, uh, Dejean Johnson came out
of Toledo, not exactly powerhouse by the La Rams. Oh wait, hold
on, I just got this email here, Man wish Oh this is from
Oh, this is from Corey. Uh Man. I wish we knew of
anybody who was a late draft pick and ended up being a really huge player.
Can you guys think of any Um? Yeah, actually I could think
of quite a few that were, you know, taken very late in the
draft. But um, you know, we don't need to necessarily go down
that list. We got, um, you know, Dan Marino. Dan
Marino was taken pret late. All right, let's see here, uh Colston,
Um, let's see this is this is post merger stuff. I'm you
know, I'm just gonna try to look for things that are Troy Brown Patriots
guy. I think that's probably the only one from the Patriots I can think
of. Seth Joyner. Let's see here. Hastleback, I think came out
what he was like six or seventh round, got himself a Super Bowl.
There. We had a guy for Minnesota who was very late. His name
is Matt Burke, who had he played for Harvard, and it was kind
of the same issue. But he was a pro bowler six or seven times.
Dwight Clark Ross. You remember who Dwight Clark is. Dwight Clark.
You remember a certain catchy made in the back of the end zone for the
forty nine ers, Yes, I do. Yeah, Donald Driver was a
late pick, Terrell Davis, Richard Dent, Ken Houston, and Shannon Sharpe
was a late pick. And then that's it. I can't think of anymore.
So yeah, no, I know what you're saying, dude, Thanks
for the emo. Yeah, Kurt warn't a great example, obviously. You
know, guy's working at a high v which is essentially like a Harris Teeter
of the Midwest. It's to shop at hive stock and shelves, gets a
call, play some Canadian stuff, boom where you know it. You and
a few of your friends or hoisted Super Bowl trophies, So the opportunity exists.
Minnesota Vikings were blessed to have Adam Thielan for so many years. He
played at Minnesota State man Cato didn't get drafted, didn't even really he showed
up at this this this tryout day. Guy goes on to light it up,
go to the Pro Bowl multiple times, so you know, the path
exists. It's not easy. It's a lot of hard work, but it
is the reality of things. All right. Let me get into one of
the other events from over the weekend. Oh and I did enjoy watching parts
of it, especially on Friday where Thursday and Friday where you get to see
all of the college girlfriends on one of their last dates. I'm sorry,
that's rude. I'm sure they're all gonna so they're all gonna stick it out.
It'll be fine. Oh wait, hold on Boston. Paul's upset feels
that my list was in complete? Ross you fact checked my list? That
was it was not? Was it inaccurate? Out? Yeah, sir,
we've it's been. It's been double peer reviewed. So I don't know what
you think calling in a question there emailing question in this show. We checked
it out. Looks good. All right, onto other things. Nerd prom
the White House Correspondent's Dinner, you know, the one where they decided,
in the absence of Trump one, what Barack Obama mock Trump. There's famously
that that correspondence dinner when Obama is still in office, and it's the whole
line about, you know, he's mocking Donald Trump about presidential aspirations and how
he'll never be president, And if anyone, one of the most one of
the most amazing montage videos, I think in recent memory, or not even
so recent memory, probably of all time is that video, which there's one
hundred versions of the original one, which is about six minute long, six
minutes long, and shows all of these folks that Donald Trump never be president,
people on Bill Maher laughing about it, when Ann Coulter says that he's
the front runner, Barack Obama mocking him a couple of times. Tom Hanks
is in there, just all of this stuff, and then of course there's
the lead up of each state and every time they call it for Trump and
the pan nick in this sounds made by the analysts on the various networks.
And then eventually here's Trump walking across the stage after finding out he'd won,
him and his family. So you know, these um, there are there
are moments that stick with us, and there were arguably a few in this
Weekend's one where you had, um, I think what was some actual astute
analysis by political commentator by the name was Scott Jennings who works for CNN,
and I never thought i'd say that, and it was based on a joke
that was done by the comedian, because I was good a comedian to go
in there. Roy Wood Junior was the comedian. I think he's a funny
dude, and he dropped a little little truth, little truth. Check this
out. I don't know about for me, um, the easiest scandal to
follow was the Trump documents scandal. That was the one that was easy to
follow. It was simple, there's some stuff that's supposed to be in the
White House that ain't and the media, y'all did y'all's job. Y'all jumped
on that story. As soon as the Trump documents story broke, everybody was
down to moralogle. We're reporting love from the documents and we're going to find
him. And then we found out Joe Biden had documents too, and it
was like, oh, it's not a big deal. I started. Everybody
got documents, everybody got document. Mike Pith has some document about them.
Oh look the Chinese bib balloon. Would you look at that? Well done?
Media? Yeah, and so they're laughing it up, right, that's
funny. That is That is the prettiest student indictment of the way that they
handled it, and everyone's just busting up, including Joe Biden. He's busting
up while they're talking about how he's got documents that he shouldn't have in his
garage sitting next to his corvette or whatever. But it was what Joe Biden
said that raise the ire of at least some political analysts, and rightfully so.
Here is one of the jokes that Joe Biden, I'm sure totally wrote
himself, totally off the cuff. Here we go a lot of ways.
This dinner sums up my first two years in office. I'll talk for ten
minutes, takes zero questions, and cheerfully walk away. They're laughing. They
think that's funny. But you know what, that's true, and they should
be embarrassed either that they're not trying hard enough or they should be upset that
this individual is not giving them the access that they claim they're entitled to.
And I know they claimed that because they were. They would whine that Donald
Trump wasn't doing enough pressers and that guy would hold marathon press conferences. Was
crazy and at least for one person, the Scott Jennings over on seeing and
he called it out for what it is. Then the line that will stick
with me is in a lot of ways, this dinner sums up my first
two years in office. I'll talk for ten minutes, take zero questions,
and cheerfully walk away. I'm just gonna for the journalists in the room.
He wasn't laughing with you, he was laughing at you. I mean,
the reality is, I think he's mocking the press. The guy does not
take questions. That he's up there joking about it, and I just and
they're clapping and they're laughing about it, and I I don't know. I
just I think he owes. I'm I'm pro reporter, and I think the
President United States ought I have to talk to these reporters and not mock them.
Now, that is that is a well one. That is an astute
point because I agree with that, so therefore I will call it a stute
But yeah, yeah, he is. And you're all clapping along like seals.
And while access is one half of the discussion, the quality of the
access in the sense that you know, you're actually able to ask your own
questions or you don't have to pre pre feed him, that's a whole other
issue that we've been discussing for week and the question should be substantive. There's
more than enough here to dig into if you want to, but to let
you know the general attitude of how they award, you know, the best
of the best within their own little group, the White House Correspondence. Under
Donald Trump, it was, you know that people were getting awards for stories
that, by the way, it turned out having to be retracted in two
instances and at the very least we're highly suspect in the other. But they
were gotcha stories. Listen to this year's winner for the Spirit Award, right,
So this is to best embody what it means to be a White House
reporter, somebody who is there at the threshold of power, holding to account
those in the highest office in the land and arguably the highest office in the
world, the leader of the free world. And this is this is how
you This is how you get a win. This year Beckman Award for Overall
Excellence in White House Coverage is named for a former Association president, the late
Chicago Tribune correspondent Aldo Beckman. This year, the award goes to Matt Visor
of the Washington Post. Wait judges said Matt Visor stood out among his competitors
for work that went beyond the humdrum of covering the managed events of the presidency
and the White House Viser captured the spirit of Joe Biden, particularly with stories
about the president's brother and how his Catholic faith influenced his strategic vision of the
office. The what WHCA is pleased to give the Aldo Beckman Award to Mattvisor.
I just want to repeat what you just said, So Matt Visor,
the Washington Post gets the Spirit Award for his hard hitting journalism profiling Joe Biden
and his brother and how Biden's Catholic faith instructs what he does in office.
That's it that it's a celebration of religion, which I thought was bad if
somebody's a Supreme Court justice nominee and they happened to be Catholic, right,
attempting to eviscerate her over that. But how his faith, but arguably in
many Catholics eyes, including several cardinals, might get called into question over some
of the things that Biden supports. But that's what they decided was the most
hard hitting journalism. And they're probably not wrong because they're not really chewing into
the meaty stuff. So yeah, that whole thing is a joke over the
weekend, but unfortunately one that nobody in the room is self aware during,
hence the results that you get. All right, seven twenty two, hang
on, all right, long segment there, but wanted to jam in all
that audio. We're gonna get your phone calls us. We will roll into
the second half of our number two. Also CNN with some doozy headlines,
thought they were getting out of the partisan business. And wait to hear what's
coming to the Smithsonian. Just reading this, missle? All right, hang
loose, it's all next there ten years of news twice an hour and smart
talk all day nine four five WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one
FM talk in the Triangle. Well well, well, well let me hit
this real quick. We're gonna grab a phone call Grant's been holding on and
then get into this story about the Smithsonian. You're gonna find rather interesting.
Uh, there we go, all right, Grant, what's going on?
Oh? I was calling because I you could call me a California grant if
you want. I lived there thirty years until I came here three years ago.
Why would I or why would I do that too? Because I've made
the observation that right under our nose, the media never ever says anybody is
likely to take the spot over Biden because they don't have anybody. Well,
Gavin Newson certainly doesn't have a good record, But look at Roy Hooper when
he gives the State of the State address. You look a guy in a
blue suit and he walks up to the crowd like he's the president of the
United States. Then when he has an interview, he sits across like Hannity
sits across from Trump, and everybody treats him here and like he's the presidential
candidate. But they never mentioned being kept under wraps. So the Democrats will
unveil him at the last minute, the October surprise, and he won't have
to go through all the fighting and the warfare of candidate. But I think
he's he's he's the whore like Reagan did. I'll make the United States like
I did California. We've got a best economy in the nation. We're number
nine and we're going to the eighth largest state economy. Uh, We've got
firepower and we'll win big time. Well, there's there's parts of that that
I will agree with. I think that um in Democratic circles, and it's
not so secret. Roy Cooper has been seen. He was I think he
was seen potentially as somebody who could have filled Kamala Harris's shoes back in the
day. But he just got yeah he didn't didn't. Hang on, hang
on, no, no, no, no. I'm agreeing with you,
but let me because there's a couple of things I don't understand and I want
you to clarify. But where I agree with you is that, yes,
I think that Roy Cooper has definitely made inroads in Washington, d C.
And they got to figure out, Okay, well, what does he do
now since he's getting termed out? Um, I don't know if he has
the recognition necessary and I don't I don't know. They are loath to allow
primary to the point where the DNC has already said that they're not going to
be doing the traditional debates, right Biden the guy, And they have a
few people like Kennedy in this thing now who were out there and who were
taking very moderate positions on things. They're essentially going into the Democrat where they're
not putting up with a lot of this woke stuff. And I think that
they are very nervous about what that could mean, because then it starts to
create similarities with potentially maybe not Trump, but perhaps a Republican candidate like Asa
Hutchinson. I just cringed when I said that um or a even de santist
to some extent. So I don't I don't understand a process where you think
they could just plant Biden or any of these guys with with Roy Cooper though,
I mean, what does that look like. I just think he is
the savior that they'll they'll turn to and say, hey, all this time,
we've kept quiet about him, but he's got the image is he even
says that we're not going to emphasis cultural issues where it's the economy stupid all
over again. And uh, well he can say that, we can say
that, and I think they would. I agree with you. I think
that's the route they take. They say, look at North Carolina. The
dirty secret of course being that, especially when you get into the economic side
of things, largely Republicans are responsible for the way that the budgeting has worked
in North Carolina. Going back to agreed, but he'll offer from it.
He'll say, I've been the governor, sure, and people don't know that
nation wide. They'll just look at him, look at look at Nucon he
claims. Uh, people say he's he's a he's got the look, he's
got the number of delegates, the votes, you know, from a state
that's all blue. But I just think Cooper is the Democrat de sandis well
I with a lot less energy. Um, you know we uh, well,
they he can get coached. And I'm not. I'm not not in
favor of them. Don't get me wrong. R No, no, no,
I know, I just I'm analyzing along with your grant. So um
but yeah there, yeah, all right, all right, appreciate the call,
thank you. Yeah. I think they very much want to do slide
Cooper in somewhere. The problem is you couldn't give him Harris his spot because
you needed to as the you needed to tick the boxes that the Biden's campaign
himself said that they were going to tick. Well, we're going to pick
a woman, We're going to pick a woman of color. And once that
was said, then that's where the analysis was. And obviously Roy Cooper unless
he changes how he identifies, um, that's that's where he's at. But
I do think Cooper the grant to I don't understand the process that Grant thinks
it would be. But I do understand why Roy Cooper could take that reagant
approach saying, I'm the governor of a moderate state. I was re elected
even when Donald Trump was you know, elected once again for president, was
both elected and re elected, and I, um, look at look at
how how the state is growing. But you know the reality is that when
it comes to a lot of these uh, these these quote unquote woke issues,
Cooper was very much at the forefront going out as we talked with me
and Pete Calendar were chatting about on Friday, going out and actively recruiting companies
to take very public stands against HB two. So, um, you know
where he goes from here and what that looks like. I mean, he
could run into Senate race, he could who knows, he could find himself
in a cabinet position after leaving office with the next Democrat in office. Try
to build his his his cred and his visibility from there, all right?
Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seventy four. The phone number checked
this out. So a new exhibits set to open this month at the Smithsonian.
Thank you pop up at the Smithsonian's Museum. Thank you. Third pop
up. Appreciate that Essence Magazine. I hate those one. It's just pop
up when I load the page, but don't do it when I start scrolling.
Set to open this month, the exhibited Smithsonian's National Museum of African American
History and Culture is going to embrace the broad and impactful spectrum of afro futurism.
Now, Ross, I actually, when you hear what's in this exhibit,
or most of it, I think it sounds pretty cool. So you're
talking about African Americans in history, much of a recent history that embrace afrofuturism.
I would argue just futurism. It's got a sci fi edge to it.
Okay. So among the items that will be exhibited will include plenty of
stories and relics from black astronauts. Okay, that's cool. Remember one of
the astronauts black astronauts, a very famous Black ask or Not, was one
of the folks on the Challenger, Right. It gets gets talked about quite
a bit as Tom and he's got a he's got a hillacious backstory. It's
a very cool one where basically, when he was a kid, he would
he would try to go and he was very interested in space and science,
and he tried to go to a segregated library and he couldn't get in there.
And there's a whole story with this in the library is named after him.
Now, so that's the reader's digest version. It's much more complex than
that, but it's a cool story. Um. They have let's see here,
they have Chadwick Boseman's black panther suit. That'll draw some folks in.
Obviously you're dealing with superheroes and stuff, but I'm cool with that. Uh,
the typewriter, us box, Tavia Butler, Nonah Henderson's space suit inspired
outfit. Uh, Lieutenant O'Hara's uniform from Star Trek. Let's see Trayvon Martin's
flight suit. I'm sorry what was that? What? I'm sorry her?
She was on Star Track Pig Pig finish, you know all that sounds great.
And the last thing you said, the typewriter you mean the typewriter,
not the typewriter, Oh, the Trayvon Martin flight suits. Yeah, yeah,
what, Well, it's afro futurism. What so they just had to
like stick it in there, didn't they. Well, Trayvon Martin when he
was a boy. U you'd think of the picture that most people associate with
Trayvon Martin because it was roughly that age. He was very interested in space
and flights and all of that. Are they not aware of how that trial
went down and smith sony and they probably know a lot about history, right,
so they've done their research on that trial and the facts surrounding it.
Or no, Well, the museum is entitled you know, African Marian History.
It's in the name there. So when he was a younger, a
younger man um he was very interested in working in the aviation field and got
to attend what is called experienced aviation and he went when he was banging Zimmerman's
head against the curb there, that's not it's not it's not the that's not
in the exhibit. No, No, are they using the younger photo of
him too, and not the actual photo of what he looked like jury be
more active. He was kind of like a big linebacker. They weren't they
would be well, to be fair, the flight suit is sized for his
smaller self, which is that younger photo when he was just uh twelve and
thirteen, so so he uh it's a badge of honor for the students to
have the flight suit with the patches on it, said his father, Tracy
Martin. Um and uh, it was part of the uniform for the program.
He loved it. He loved it so much. The exhibit opens March
twenty fourth, and we'll run for one year at the Bank of America's Special
Exhibitions Gallery. So that's uh, that'll be out there for you, you
know, if you like museums and stuff. Seven forty six Race Stagick from
the Weather Channel. We really missed you last week, really missed you.
We had the NFL Draft going on. It starts Thursday. We could have
talked about all this, So, um, how's that doing for you?
Shame about that tit end he didn't get. Yeah, you know he remember
where he went? Yea name, Yeah, let out a couple of choice
select words. When I saw the bills, as I said, I knew
it, and I said I knew there. Take. I said, they're
taking our guy. Did you see did you see Skip Bayliss lose his mind
and social media over that, He's like, you did. Buffalo Bills has
ruined my life. I'm like, really, you ruined you ruin your life?
Really yeah, yeah, right in my life, and I'm still paying
for it. Yeah, Honestly, I didn't know much about the Michigan defensive
tackle. I think it was an okay pick, but I was biased.
I wanted them to go at one of the Clemson defensive linemen, which it
could have. I mean Brazil went um twenty nine or thirty, I mean
him and Miles Miles Murphy went back to back. But I think we did
okay. I look at anybody, anybody, as long as you're not the
Vikings, you're fine because no good no, and we usually draft Well,
I don't know what was going on. Maybe I hope I'm wrong. I
hope I'm one hundred percent wrong. Well I'm not feeling real confident. We
didn't have a second round pick either, so right, right, yeah,
but you look at it though, even for the forum, Bryce, Bryce
Young and CJ. How many times are these top level, top pick quarterbacks
end up being sensational it It really doesn't happen a lot. I know,
Andrew Luck, you know recent well, I mean it's okay, there's one
right, so well, I mean it just you know trying. Yeah,
we all remember that disaster, right, right, And I think that I
think the percentage of NFL quarterbacks that are dropped in the first round that start
for I can't remember how long they had to start for. I think it
was at least two seasons. It's about it's about fifty percent, it's forty
five percent or something. So but yeah, no, I feel what you're
saying. And when you get into a lineman and certain other positions, it's
easier maybe to pick a winner. But still yeah, usually tight ends are
helpful too. There. They have a pretty good version rate, so I
should get one of those. They all right? Anyway, man, let's
were some some weather and let's do better this weekend, because it was a
little of it. It was the payoffs this week of a beautiful week.
A little windy today at times with a few clouds of the wise sunny met
upper sixties chili night met upper forties or in the mid upper sixties again Tomorrow
and Wednesday. It's still gonna be breezy at times, especially the next few
afternoons. I think we'll get closer to seventy late week with more sunshine.
And if I went as far out as the weekend, we may continue this
stretch of dry weather into the weekend and might start getting a little warmer.
As temperatures are staying down below normal. We should be about the mid upper
seventies across the region this time of year, may not get there until the
tail end of the weekend, and then next week, if I want to
go ahead that far, maybe we'll start getting a little bit warmer and starting
to feel like, may, oh, okay, thank you sir, appreciate
it. I'll probably pick your brain on that in an hour, So sure,
all right, thank you, and coming back, we have a backcrap
crazy story about an FBI training exercise. I guess I just just wait for
it. Also, we will have to get into I want to load there
we go. We have to get into a Indian and I think they're call
him councilman, but they're technically it's a county representative. For anyway, he
is going. He's going straight serious on this thing, and to the point
where the local news is having to take him seriously and the audio is hilarious.
So those stories are much more coming your way here on the case O
Day Radio program one oh six one FM Talk and ninety four five w PTI
two stations driving the best in talk. This is case O Day and Carolina's
Morning News. All right, let's go and get into this insanity. Ryan
Webb is this guy's name. He's an Indiana GOP councilman representing Delaware County,
Indiana and UM. He made an announcement post on social media and people got
big mad, big mad. The problem was sticking with it. And it's
to the point too where the rules are who gets to be the arbiter of
whether that individual is doing this for serious reasons or not? And so watching
the local news then have to go through the machinations of you know, respecting
his decision and yes, I'm getting the pronouns correct. As you'll come to
find out, is it's very very interesting here is by the way, just
a little of that kind of councilman is coming out as a transgender, As
transgender and a woman of color, Delaware County Councilman Ryan Webb announced that he
now identifies as an Indian American woman. Since that announcement, he's received some
support, but a lot of backlash, many calling him childish, despicable,
even calling for things like execution. In a statement Webb gave to it eight.
He says, quote, it is unfortunate that I cannot simply be given
the same space and respect to explore my identity that so many of those targeting
me demand for themselves. It's possible I may change my mind down the road.
The process of identity exploration is complex, and oftentimes at the end of
our personal journey we end right back where we started. What goes on to
tell I tmmate this is just his true, authentic self. By the way,
his statements I read his whole statements and there's been several of them,
are on point in the sense that he's not alluding to this as a joke.
He's only alluding to literally the language. It mirrors statements that you've seen
from people like what is Elliot Page? Right? Formerly Ellen Page the actors
now Elliott Page, the actor statements from several of the what was it Sam
Smith? You know some of these musicians that have and idiots. One there
and says that while he does identify as a woman of color, he will
retain the he him pronouns, and as you can imagine, people just lost
their crap. Man. To clarify, he says, I never claimed to
be trans anything I am simply expressing my own gender identity. I'm being dead
serious. It's not a joke. I said what I said. I don't
know what to tell you. You don't get to question me. You don't
get to require proof. You were part of the movement that established these rules
and set the bar. You don't get to come in later when someone else
joins the club that you don't want in. You do not get to question
how I identify. So that sets folks off there in Indiana. If you
were serious, i'd seeing his praises said they transgender female identified as Charlie's Jamison.
But instead I know better we all do. This is not something transgender
people do to one another. He is purposely, purposely mocking us. Well,
tell me what the litmus test is? Well, that's right, there
isn't one. Remember at morning, everybody, seven hour number three casey Okay
radio program, glad to have you a long it's a busy Monday. Bots
to get into in a rapid fire here in the final hour, and I
want to kick it off with this. I want you to imagine you're had
a long day at work, You're on the road doing some traveling, settling
into a nice, RESTful, blissful, relaxing sleep at your hotel when all
of a sudden, somebody starts pounding on the door. You go, you
look out and you see you see people with credentials right say, they're from
the FBI and also the US military in this case, special operators. You
open the door to see what it is that they want, and they immediately
shove their way inside of the room, slam you down, throw you in
cuffs, and start an interrogation. And they put you in the shower too,
and they started interrogating you. And they're interrogating you because you are a
person of interest in whatever this this cases they're trying to crack, except you're
not and it's not a real case, and it's part of a training exercise.
It's not one that you're involved with. You just happened to be the
poor bastard who's in the room that they mistakenly went into thinking that they were
going to another room. And that would be the story of what transpired in
Boston at the Revere Hotel, because you know Boston where horribleness happens. Here
is some of the cover the Ree Hotels to help the pilots, had people
claiming to be FBI agents room and handcuffed them into the bathroom. It played
out like a scene out of a movie. FBI agents working with the Department
of Defense barged into a room on the fifteenth floor. Inside was a sleeping
Delta Airlines pilot who was a guest at the hotel. He opened the door,
and sources say agents barged in, handcuffed and interrogated the pilot for more
than forty five minutes and put him in the shower. Nearly an hour later,
sources say they realized their mistake, took the cuffs off and released him.
Well, actually they did one more thing after this hour of interrogating him,
being forceful with them, scaring the crap out of him. Undoubtedly,
they released him and then they told him that under penalty of law, he
was not allowed to talk about it. In fact, when the news agency
reached out to talk to him, he had he no commented them because he
was threatened by the very same entities who didn't get this right, that if
he said anything about their massive blunder, that he could himself be in trouble,
so he wouldn't comment. When they went and did the story, the
stuff the whole thing is backcrap, crazy man. And yet it went for
quite a while before anyone was able to dig in and figure out what the
hell was going on. Now, I under let me let me say this
because a lot of people are like, well, why would they be running
a training exercise in this Well, you you still have to train agents to
do stuff, and yes, you can do it in a setting where you
know, like those artificial cities where you see, like where they go to
run drills to learn how to you know, clear areas where maybe there's a
hostage situation going on, they're using either non live fire or they're using live
fire and shootouse situations so where the walls make sure that rounds don't pass through.
I get all of that, but you know, really being in an
environment where you have all of the people around you, you have the normal
comings and goings of hotel guests, You're trying to operate in a way that
doesn't get you noticed. I understand why you'd want to trade for that.
I've mentioned here on the show that I participated actually in a training exercise for
somebody in this area who does training contractual training as part of US military stuff.
Basically they're training bodyguard people for well, I'll just say that they're training
people who in a military capacity really act as bodyguards. And they asked me,
Hey, do you want to be the muckety muck? And I did,
and I was asked to go to a standard office building in the Raleigh
area waited in the conference room like I'm in a meeting or I was eating
lunch is what I was doing in there, And then the guys came in
and they extracted me. There was a threat we needed to get out of
there, and it was a scenario where they were having to figure out how
to get me out of this building where people were coming to do me harm
or whatever it was. I don't remember the exact scenario, and I thought
it was just the coolest damn thing ever. But that's a real world situation
that they may have to deal with. So I understand that the good news
is they came to the right conference room and they moved me instead of going
to one of the other floors. And this is I think a ten or
twelve floor office building that's very busy in Raleigh, and you know, pulling
some other guy who's just trying to eat lunch in a break room, it
doesn't know what the hell is going on. So in this case, it
was FBI agents out of the Boston office as well as Army Special Ops units
who were conducting this exercise. They went to the wrong room, grabbed the
guy, then told me could never speak about what happened, and when it
finally did become public, basically they're like, whoops, are bad? Whoops
a daisy. So I don't know. I'd be interested to learn exactly how
forcefully they handled this guy, and frankly as part of a training exercise too,
I don't I guess there's a certain interrogation level, so like when the
guy's telling them, I have no idea what this is? Who? Who
are you? None of this makes sense. I guess maybe that would be
part of what they would have expected, so it wouldn't have raised red flags.
I don't know. But for people who are just like ah, they
shouldn't be able to you know, they shouldn't be doing any of this in
a real world environment. My question is, I wonder if the hotel knew
that's crazy man? All right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
seven four. So I look the screw ups, the screw up. And
I don't know how that happens right there, Like, how do you not
have somebody monitoring this? Right? How do you not have a person who
ultimately is sitting there and just visually monitoring and then sees, hey, they
got off the fifteenth floor and they should have got off with the thirteenth floor,
and and you know, stops in to stop this. That's the part
that I can't wrap my head around. But just grabbing some poor Delta pilot
just yeah, he's probably probably work the red eyes, burning through it and
just trying to get some sleep where he's got to go back to work.
And now you're in a shower in handcuffs with four guys interrogating you for an
hour? All right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seventy four.
You want to comment on that? And I know some of you guys
down here, especially some of the folks in and around here, just because
we have all the military bases and whatnot, you know, training stuff and
contracting to private entities, many of which are former military guys, is not
that uncommon. The FBI twist in this Boston story is a little bit different.
But now I know that stuff happens, and I understand why it happens.
There's certain there's certain jobs and things out there where experience from other individuals
is being passed down and it's necessary to perform whatever those duties are, especially
if it's highly specialized. So it's not uncommon, but it is pretty creepy
that you could just be sitting there trying to sleep and then this happens.
And the certain liability perhaps on the part of the hotel if they were knowledgeable
in allowing this to happen. But it sounds like dude didn't want to answer
any questions and that might be because they threatened him about it, which then
I have a huge problem with that, all right, So we got that
portion of it. Also, bud Light is so screwed man. They had
a window where they probably could have done something, and I think I've mentioned,
but I'll mention it again how they should have handled this, but instead
they didn't. They dug in and over the weekend that wiggle room has evaporated.
I'll share what happened and what we could see going forward on that story
in just a moment or on the case O Day radio program, Your Day
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Talk and News Talk nine four five WPTI more with Casey starts now all right
twenty one body Radio program. Let's have a quick phone call and then a
few things get into Monica. What's up, Hi, How are you doing?
I'm good. So I'd like to touch on that with the Delta Airline
pilot. I'd first like to say I I feel really bad for him because
they're there to sleep and they need that sleep before they catch that next airplane.
I lived with a pilot for seventeen years, so I've heard all those
our stories where they don't get sleep and then have to take a flight.
A lot of times they have to call out because of that. Right,
But I'm thinking that connecting dots here, we're seeing a lot more of that,
and I think we're going to see a lot lot more of that because
I think that in the training process they're now focus more on progressive agenda hires
versus copper education and training. We're seeing that across the board with police,
teachers, military, all the dot gov everything, And I think it goes
back to what I was saying about the police and the men on the ground.
When your leaders are more focused on the progressive agenda stuff, the life
or death training that's needed, it gets lost in the shovel well. And
you know, as far as the actual training exercise, it doesn't necessarily sound
like the guys on the ground, so to speak, got it wrong.
Maybe they extracted all sorts of infotes. Whoever, either they got it wrong
and they went to or the information they were provided was bad, and then
it speaks to a problem up the food chain. But somebody screwed up.
Somebody screwed up, right, and we're going to see rooms I don't know,
Yeah, we'll see more of those screw ups because the focus isn't on
the training that they used to receive. They're spending you know, you have
says for example, you have ten hours for training. More and more of
those hours are getting eaten up by the progressive agenda training and they're not focused
on what they used to be. You're seeing the same thing in education,
our mass scores and English scores, everything across the border dropping while all this
progressive agenda gets You don't want to miss gender a terrorist monica, So right
right, that's important. Also, I agree, all right, thank you
for the call. Appreciate it, have a good one. Can you imagine
right, the bomb there's a bomb somewhere in the DC area and they don't
know where, but they got a lead on one of the guys who may
know, and they got him in there and he's handcuffed to a pipe in
the bathroom. Tell us where it is, sir, tell us where,
sir? Sir? Did you say, sir? Oh, I thought I
had the man drop. Sorry, got all excited. Way I do have
it somewhere. Yeah, we're all gonna wait for me because I was ill
prepared. Oh whatever, you get the gist of it. So, um,
I don't know. Somebody screwed up. And it's not like government hasn't
screwed up before. I mean, let's face it bad, whether it's bad
info, bad intel, acting in ways that have been problematic, especially at
an FBI level, Ruby Ridge, uh, the Waco, Texas. I
mean, we have those examples out there, and you hope that you then
learn from that and go forward. But you know, ultimately, U the
way in which they operate and some of the questions that are out there.
Did you see the the Wall Street Journal story over the weekend or they're getting
to look at Epstein's calendar. This is post conviction the first time, right
where he was convicted of this stuff, and the CI, the current CI
director met with him what and he's and the statement was they did he didn't
know any of that. You're the CIA director. I just assume you know
stuff, or you have people who know stuff. Former White House Council under
Barack Obama met with him, Norm Chomsky. I mean it was now,
it doesn't necessarily mean that anyone who came within the periphery of this guy was,
you know, in on anything he was doing, or really even knew
about it. In all instances, I think if Jeffrey Epstein had walked up
on the street to most people prior to uh, you know, the stories
that came out that eventually led to his last to rest where he then went
into prison and suicide in himself I made air quotes, probably wouldn't know who
that was, wouldn't have any idea. That being said, it shows you
how connected this dude was, because like the reasoning given is like these these
real high ranking officials felt that meeting with Epstein would be helpful in because they
give a reason why this happened. You know why the meeting took place to
help them transition to the private sector. Well, what special expertise does Jeffrey
Epstein have and helping a twenty year government individual transition of the private sector doesn't
make any sense. But in the sense that these are the circles that he
ran in, it lets you know that there's a whole lot more than as
being led on here. And I don't I need to go down this rabbit
hole right now because I got two minutes left in this segment. But it
was a it was a significant who's who as all of this stuff was being
moved forward. Yeah, Norm Chomsky Kissinger consultant, get a Rothchild in there,
just so people can get their their YouTube conspiracy videos all dusted up.
And William Burns from the CIA's his name, and the list goes on and
on. Man top women in finance. Just craziness. Just shows you.
It just shows you these these circles that these folks run in. And then
you know they play fight on the fringes, calling out, you know,
being critical of this policy and that's a horrible person. And yet they'll eat
together, they'll laugh it off because ultimately at the end of the day,
it feels like the only enemy is you and accountability. And I think that's
what really chaps people when it comes to most of Washington and the elite to
the power structure in this country. I mean, it's it's it is crazy
to me. And I think it was evidence so well, and I know
we trashed on them, but one of the last great Saturday Night live skits,
which was when Tom Hanks was on Black Jeopardy, because what you kept
seeing is you kept seeing a shared experience that well, they maybe didn't share
it together. There were a lot of there was a lot of overlap among
Tom Hanks, who was a socioeconomically challenged redneck, and Black Jeopardy participants who
themselves socioeconomically were just as paranoid and conspiratorial as Tom Hanks was celebrating ten years
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eight thirty six. You're on the case O Day radio program. Do
you remember the artwork I'm making air quotes again by Morazzo Catalan. I'm missprene.
I'm sure I'm butchering the name here the art the art installation and piece
known as Comedian, which sold for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars after it
was unveiled in twenty nineteen, which was on display in South Korea at the
Liam Museum of Art. It was a banana duct tape tool wall art.
Well over the weekend, somebody grabbed the banana and ate it. And I
know what you're thinking. You're thinking, Casey, if the thing is twenty
nineteen, that banana's got to be the part of it. They replaced the
banana every two or three days, but they would then destroy the one banana.
They wouldn't you, they wouldn't make it available. Somebody had asked about
it, but the point of it was you couldn't. So somebody just rolled
in, took the banana off the wall, ate the banana, and then
tape the banana peel back to the wall because quote, he was hungry.
So there was no uh, save the planet message or any of that.
By the way, I didn't realize this. One of the people arrested up
at the Museum of National Art up in DC is actually a eco terrorist moonbat
from from Raleigh so I'm glad we had that connection. You know. Um,
Ross, you ever driven to DC, flown to DC, traveled to
DC? Yes? I have? Did you walk or I've driven? You
drove? Oh wow, I drove it through it a few times? Oh
okay. Um the the thing you drove was it a vehicle to burn fuel?
It was? Yes, it was? Oh wow. Okay, So
you would say that from a carbon stay carbon footprint? Uh, there was.
There was a minor carbon footprint with your travels there. Huh yeah it
was a HEMI oh oh wow, it was a HEMI wow. There you
go. So you so you live in uh, you live in Raleigh.
You know, we have an art museum here. I'm not encouraging you go
do anything, but UM got lots of museums because you know, it's Raleigh
capital city, so you know. But instead you went up to DC,
traveled up there, and I don't I don't think you probably walked. So
it's pretty weird for that concern that you would utilize the fossil fuels to go
up there. But he would, They would say, I guess it will
it outweighs because it's about sending a message. Okay, all right, whatever
but in this case, no message. Just message was that somebody was hungry
and they saw a banana. The art museum says that they have replaced the
banana and all as well. And you continue to come pay eight dollars to
stare at a banana tape to a wall, or you could just tape a
banana to your wall at home, I guess. And now you're an artiste.
So congrats to congrats to you in your new artistic endeavors. Hey,
remember when they said that banning gas stoves, that was a Republican conspiracy,
And by the way, they would never do that because one it really it's
stupid, would be ineffective anyway, and it was just fearmongering and pouncing and
seizing on the part of Republicans. Well, Governor Kathy Hokel or Hackel or
Hotchel or however you pronounce her name up there in New York announced that a
budget deal that had been reached would also because obviously you put this in the
budget, prohibit gas hookups in new apartments. Existing buildings, and current gas
stoves would not be affected. However, in the state of New York,
if you are to build new buildings, part of the building code would not
allow gas hookups in the buildings. I don't know that sounds like a pretty
effective way to go ahead and ban gas stoves short of somebody I guess working
with you know, propane cylinders, I guess if they want to. But
if you build buildings, so you build a new apartment building up in New
York or whatever, and you can't put gas hookups in there, then you've
effectively banned gas stoves, and even more than that, gas water heaters and
any other gas appliances that may exist. So the irony, of course,
is the very same media who wanted to say that, you know, people
bringing this up or being conspiratorial and fearmongering and just crazy, and also adding
that they wouldn't do it because it really, from an eco standpoint, wouldn't
be really a difference maker, are now having to pivot immediately and argue that,
well, you know, this is for the environment. I want everyone
to be safe, and they're just gonna jam it in a budget up there.
I'm telling you, I understand why so many of you all moved down
from New York. I get it, but you know, it's just keep
in mind, this is the reason you moved, right, the reason a
lot of people moved. At the federal level of Biden administration considering a propose
energy efficiency rule that would remove up to fifty percent of current gas stoves because
they just wouldn't meet the requirement of it and or would require a significant purchase
almost actually would exceed the cost in many cases of gas stoves of the hood
that would be necessary. So but this is how they do it. They
say, Oh, no, you're crazy, We're not doing that. We're
just you know, we're not banning guns. We're just making bullets a million
dollars each and everybody knows what you're up to. And speaking of bullets,
this horrific story from Texas or a multi time to illegal immigrants. Somebody who
had been deported no less than at least five times, and I think they've
probably found more, decided that the noise being emanated from a crime baby required
him to go and murder five of his neighbors. So he's here illegally.
The neighbors, I believe most of them were in the country illegally, which
when people point that out, people are losing their minds over it. But
it, yeah, I think it's an important component too, just in the
sense to show you the continued issues you have there and the secrecy that needs
exist within the community because people are far less likely to seek out police help
if they are in the country illegally. So you have this escalation of this
individual who murdered five people allegedly over a noise disturbance with a baby, and
in fact, some of the victims were literally found on top of children that
they were trying to protect from the psychopath going through and shooting them one by
one. And of course the immediate reaction was to blame the guns. Washington
Post and others went out and decided that that was the problem here, not
a porous border where somebody who is this violent can continue to come back into
the country time and time again. And I saw people going, well,
what laws. I mean, he violated all the laws. He illegally acquired
firearms each and every time he did that. That was and I saw folks
going, well, what you need is you need to get rid of all
the guns. That's how you actually do it, Which is the dumbest rebuttal
to that whole thing that you can think of, because I would ask you,
how is government going to be able to go in and remove all the
guns. What are they going to need to do that? Arguably they're going
to need guns, right are You're gonna go and you're gonna by force make
everybody give up their guns. You're not gonna go. They're unarmed. I
know a lot of people would comply, but a lot wouldn't saying this is
constant, constitutionally protected. I know by the way, all my guns they
fell into the lake boating accident very tragic. So it shows that you're not
against guns. You're against Joe, you know, the public having guns,
and so that's the position you have to defend when in reality you have a
very tragic story here that where five people lost their lives regardless of immigration status.
None of that is deserved. Who are in a position where they're if
there had been build up and if anybody had wanted to intervene in this instance,
they're going to be let It's likely to start that ball rolling. But
no, we got to sit here and we gotta play all of this game,
and there is a substantial award. As he remains on the lamb.
All right, eight forty five racet agent from the Weather Channel. It's joining
us. All right, man, nowhere to go but up after this weekend's
weather, so you know, start the march, yeah, all right,
and it's gonna be a slow march right up back into some near normal temperatures,
which is mid and upper seventies. That's not coming to maybe the upcoming
weekend, maybe Friday, but until then, try what you'll notice though,
Those temperatures will be in the mid upper sixties today, Tomorrow and Wednesday,
and lots of sunshine. You're gonna have a breeze around, so you'd be
like, well, it doesn't feel like sixty seven, or doesn't feel like
sixty eight, You get the picture. And that wind could gust at times
twenty five plus miles per hour each afternoon, so it's gonna feel a little
bit more like fall. The overnight lows will be in the forties, and
then as we get at the Thursday closer to seventy, Friday will get near
seventy or above, and we'll have lots of sunshine, will lose the wind
too. So Thursday and Friday I feel a lot better. Should be dry
over the weekend, lower to middle seventy. As we see tepatures coming back
just a little bit more so, lots of sun this week, Casey,
a little wind beginning of the week, less wind later and also a little
bit milder later in the week and hopefully for the upcoming weekend. All right,
cool, cool, We'll chat all right tomorrow, sir, have it
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to rescue the bank just failed. That couldn't undo all of the damage done
by the run by depositors, and the FDIC agreed to sell the assets to
JP Morgan Chase. Efforts to rescue, as I say it failed, and
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and P futures are down two NASDAC futures are down eighteen, but the Dow
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a busy week ahead and it all starts tomorrow with the Federal Reserve Board meeting.
We expect another interest great hike. Casey, So that a question.
You live in the Greater New York area, So did you watch the heat
Knicks playoff game and all this weekend? I did not? Okay, Well,
they know how they transition from when they go to break, they go
to commercial and they'll have that, you know, they'll wherever they're doing something,
they generally have a background shot. So if you're in New York,
maybe a guy selling hot dogs street vendor. Right. They call them beauty
shots, right, yeah, beauty shots. Um. So apparently at halftime
they went to break and they put up the Statute of Liberty video and the
Twin Towers are behind it. Yes, you're telling me, in twenty one
years you haven't been able to get any b roll of the greater New York
area and there's nothing else going on, like I don't know Columbus Circle or
Times Square or anything else that would be iconic. So um, yeah,
So a little whoopsie on the part of ABC, which I believe is headquartered
in New York too. So there's that. They are all right, very
good, thank you. So okay, okay, yep, all right,
there you go, Jeff Bellinger joining us. You're on the k c O
Day radio program. Oh let's see look at this. Oh that's cool.
So we put a list of the most the most must drive road in each
state. Well, you gotta know what North Carolinas is. Hold on,
I'm scrolling down ross. Do you want to guess what the best scenic drive
in North Carolina? Probably is going past tweet. No, No, that
would that's not even I mean dangerous. We're running across that street. I
don't know what the hell's wrong with them. I have to assume in North
Carolina, as I'm continuing to scroll here, it would be great if the
state started with an A. Wouldn't it always good? Come on? Come
on, come on, come on, Oh New York's interesting. The Cayuga
Lake Scenic by Way. I don't even know which one that is. Now
this is good because I think a lot of people would assume I'm glad they
did this. A lot of people would assume that, um, you'd go
Blue Ridge Parkway, which I think would be a cop out. But it's
not. It's Tail of the Dragon, and I totally agree with that.
For you motorcycle enthusiasts too, I know this is a must do, I
must do for you. Eleven miles, three hundred and sixteen hairpin curves,
and I could see now some people would probably talk about one of the Outer
Banks roads, which I guess I would understand. That's pretty straight shot,
you know, obviously to get down you're going from like Manuo down to Hatteras.
But yeah, Taylor of the Dragon is amazing, and I'm glad they
went with that on the list instead of just copping out with the Blue Ridge,
which is great, don't get me wrong. But you want a little
little flare, little flare, so if something's wrong there, I guess you
can let me know. I check this out real quick. I mentioned that
bud Light has found themselves in a precarious situation because initially, when all of
this happened, they could have coupled their statement with, well, look,
we do custom cans for a variety of different influencers that we work with.
It's just one element of our just one element of the advertising we do,
and this was just a very small thing. But they neglected to verbally admonish
their marketing woman. And that's important because it would have been very easy,
judging by her performance on that podcast where she was being very derogatory about the
actual core foundational makeup of bud Lights buyers, which obviously are largely men.
They're largely men that are under thirty, but they have a lot of lifelong
bud Light drinkers, very loyal drinkers. They've been very iconic and as a
result, they were the number one beer in America. And if they had
just come out and issued both of those statements, held to account their individual
who was who was being derogatory about their own product that she's supposed to supposedly
in charge of promoting, basically saying, you know, we don't like all
the people that got us here, a bunch of idiots, and instead We're
going to turn our attention to the Dylan Mulvini's of the world. I think
they could have weathered this, but they didn't. And now the Human rights
came and Paign is demanding that Anaheiser Bush go all in and announced that they
stand in solidarity with the trans community. They're done. They had they even
had this this very generous amount of time to try to pull themselves out of
this, but they didn't. And now it's one or the other. And
I know what you're saying, Well, it's an easy choice because they probably
are not big within this liver of a community out there, let alone all
the you know, many of the people that are on there who would never
touch a domestic beer unless it was a local craft brewery, which is their
decision. But now they're all in, and I don't know what they're gonna
do, but this thing is, this ball is going to keep rolling all
weak, So continue to pay attention to that. We got the video on
the blog at Casey on the Radio dot com of the Indiana councilman who's decided
that he is identifying now as a woman of color. Check that out,
and of course we'll see back here right and early tomorrow,