All right, good morning everybody, and happy Friday. It is the CaCO
Day Radio program. Another weekend, another stack of the weather to worry about.
We'll obviously touch base with Race Stagic a little later on. Lets you
know what you can expect. I saw the they're doing all the standard issue
power stories. They're standing by waiting, so you know, hopefully that means
that if there is something, it is quickly resolved and we don't see a
repeat, obviously of what we saw in North Carolina last weekend, with obviously
one person killed, a lot of severe damage, some idiot having to be
pulled up a riverside or whatever the heck it was because she wanted to film
a porta potty floating by I mean, we don't need any of this.
So yeah, that's the thing, and we will obviously try to set the
scene to the extent that we can. Sorry, I'm just sitting here fighting
with a Why does it when it first boots it doesn't say anything about an
update, and then like twenty minutes later, it's like, ah, we
need to do this thing, and if you don't, your computer is gonna
explode. All right, very frustrating, but we we got a remedy there.
Okay, all right, we have so much audio today, lots of
stuff we're gonna lose. We're gonna learn about food justice. I have no
idea what that is. It's a thing, though, and I frankly I
have a solution, and it's one that frankly, I also assume that has
occurred to any of the people that are sitting there in government or at government
meetings talking about how their rights are being violated because the grocery store nearest them,
which loses money hand over fists due to shrinkage, that's theft, shoplifting
everything else. Why they want to wrap it up and why the people feel
they're entitled to something. And yes it is California, so ready yourself for
that insanity. There is a story in the stack. I was laughing so
hard reading this thing yesterday. The espn Emmy story might be one of my
favorite stories for a while. And if you don't know what this is,
I will share it with you and we will all we will all have a
good laugh. How's that? But not really, because it's it's just weird.
I guess would be the best way to but it's just like I don't
even understand it. I don't like why, why they were doing it,
or what they were using it for. And if you don't know what it
is, don't worry. I'm gonna get to that pretty quick. So uh
do do ready yourself for that? And I oh, I don't want to
pair this Texas story with anything, so maybe I'll just maybe I'll just get
this out of the way now. I don't want to hit you with this
thing at six eleven in the morning. I can make all the h I
can make all the wood chipper jokes and all of that, but the fact
remains that this is just this is sap, you know, sap humanity from
your soul stuff. And the fact that it's in Texas, I guess is
the only upside. Because I gotta think some folks down in Texas if they
run into any of the other six individuals that police say they are interested in
speaking with, Texas made just Texas. You get what I'm saying. So
any who stick around for all of that fun and for volity in one of
the most horrendous stories I've seen in quite some time, But just saying something,
saying something, all right? Phone number eight eight eight nine three four
seven eight seven four. You want to be on the show. That's how
you make that happen. And let me do this because we got all sorts
of San Francisco stuff. Maybe I'll start west coast and we'll head east from
there, and then obviously we've got a few things locally we need to talk
about. And boy o, boy I just realized something on the tunnel,
that tunnel story. H Ross sent me. Ross texted me something this morning.
You sent me a tweet this morning. If if it couldn't get weirder,
it's getting weirder on that story. But then when you think about it,
kind of not. So listen to this. We'll take a break,
I'll give you the update on the tunnel story, and we get to California
things and uh even we got floored in the mix. It's it's busy,
it's Friday. Plus we got Pete Callender, he'll be at eight oh five
and uh uh we're gonna be chatting with Stephen Kent uh today seven oh five.
That's confirmed, right, Ross, I forgot to ask you if that
was confirmed. Yeah, he was moving that so so yeah, a couple
guests, lots of stories, lots of audio and uh we'll do it coming
up here on the CaCO Day radio program. The case is on ninety four
PTI and the Triad and one six one FM Talk and that triangle because uh
six eighteen. That is so weird because I getting I've already got an email
from other folks. Ro I was just trying to send me an email and
it's not showing up. I just tried it again, and I've already got
Boston. Paul's already sent email, and I emailed myself some stuff. I
don't know what the heck. Man, Oh okay, all right, well
well that works just fine. I'm telling you what, man, crazy.
I wonder if maybe it has something to do with the update right there?
Do do do? Okay? All right, well whatever, I'll screw it
that here in just a moment. But thank you. Sorry, I'm having
to do this because I absolutely need this thing right now, so dude,
do all right, Well, I'll figure that out here in just a little
bit, all right, so let me let me actually hit on this because
I guess I don't need that for this right here. Uh, thank you,
thank you. So San Francisco, Uh, if you know San Francisco
has been in the news this week, I think you probably saw the weird
Dancy celebration thing that was going on in San Francisco because the city council passed
a resolution for a ceasefire, because obviously that's something that is within the purview
and control of the San Francisco City Council. So you know, that whole
thing just looked weird as hell. But now this as apparently the safe Way,
which is a West Coast grocery chain, announced plans to close a location,
or actually several, but one of which is in the Fillmore district of
San Francisco, has been there for forty years. Safeway didn't give a reason
for the closure, noting simply that they would be reassigning employees at the location
to other locations. However, that area of San Francisco is like ground zero
for theft retail theft, other stores closing as well, so that's what people
are speculating it is. Well, then they had folks when they heard the
news show up at the city council meeting so they could talk about why they
don't think it should close, and hint, hint, the reason is,
I guess social justice. Kind of listen to this woman here to speak about
the closing of Safeway. I was deeply angered to hear about the sudden enclosure
because it is not only unconstonable, it is cruel, it is mean.
It is disheartening to think that we have to come here in twenty twenty four
to defend food food justice. What what is food justice? What I'm I'm
trying to figure out because every there's everything now is justice right. So we
got work justice, we have higher education justice, we have you know,
social justice obviously is the catch all there. But you just throw justice behind
something and it's you know, justice in this usage means thing I should be
entitled to and some justice you should That's the compact, that's the contract.
That's the agreement we made, even though you know we didn't make it per
se, but the one we live by. So if you're talking about criminal
justice, like you know, the rules surrounding what the government must do as
it pertains to searches and seizures and the speediness of a trial and all of
that, then I'm fine. But you can't just justice everything right. That
doesn't like it's some things are just a preference you would prefer to go to
that Safeway And I understand that I you know, you close the grocery store
just down the street, that's gonna be a little frustrating. But I don't
think I'm entitled to it. But when your brain is just cooked with all
of this garbage, you think you're entitled to it. And you know,
so here's my question, And this is what I kind of fall back on
every time I see one of these stories, because remember remember the term food
desert. We all learned that was who is That was Michelle Obama right after
she because she had the initiative with kids lunches, and then there was some
food desert stuff like, ah, look at these neighborhoods, there's no there's
no food there, there's no grocery store there. What are we going to
do? And I want to say, was it New York City or maybe
the State of New York where they like to the way that they were going
to solve it was to mandate that like convenience stores sell fresh fruit and vegetables
whether they wanted to or not. I mean, they may want to go
into the VP right around the corner from the station, and they always have
apples and bananas in there, and that's probably because in the morning, people
grab an apple or a banana, but it's when they grab all the other
stuff from the cooler and then they go running out of there, then people
start evaluating. So here's my question for this woman and others who would sit
here and talk about food justice, which isn't a thing. Why don't you
look at this map of where Safeway's closing these stores? Right here's my get
rich quick scheme for you. But it only works if you honestly believe that
Safeway's just doing it to be I don't know, mean, or racist or
whatever the allegation is. Why don't you open it? Why don't you literally
purchase the property and and do a grocery store. I mean, it's all
set up for it. It's gonna have the coolers that you need, it's
gonna have, you know, the parking lot size you need. It's gonna
have everything you need, and people already know where it is, Like you
don't you don't even have to do branding, a branded advertising. Right,
one day, it's a Safeway, the next day it's I don't know,
whatever you want to name it. If if this is such a profitable endeavor,
one that is a necessity and you believe that closing this is being done
so for erroneous reasons so much that you you had to go and you had
to ask the city council to stick their nose in it, which they love
to do out there. Open a grocery store. Go ahead, look at
that. Think of all the money you make because now you don't have competition
in that area because you just you just said, oh, it's way too
far. Great, that's great. If if all things are equal and uh,
and you know, you take some of the other concerns out of the
equation, which you're not even you're not even mentioning uh when you're speaking to
the council, and no one was for from what I was reading in a
longer article, then this is perfect. You have the ultimate turn key business
based on how you perceive this situation. You'd be a fool not to jump
on that. That'd be great. Ross you want to open a chain of
grocery stores, I got if there's I got forty locations picked out, sounds
like a good idea. Right. By the way, the shrinkage will be
a third of your product inventory from several departments. That's what Target was talking
about when they mentioned they were closing and it's not far from here. They
said that there were departments that saw thirty three one third shrinkage. Now,
I you know, I don't know how they fully quantify that, but I
think the point that they were trying to make is, Yeah, this sucks
and it's really hard to do business. Here's the other thing, and it's
not just about the almighty dollar. There's also and I know you probably wouldn't
give them credit for this, there's also the concern that I would have with
being able to maintain employees and keep them safe. You gotta have employees,
and you gotta you know, you can't create a scenario where the liability is
just too much, not just from you know, stuff getting stolen, but
people coming in there and and uh doing something violent maybe, but no,
we're gonna have food justice absolutely all right, six twenty seven. I'm I've
run out of room for justices. And then people who go, well,
why do you hate justice? Nobody hates justice. In fact, I like
it, and uh, I like different forms of it. The stuff I
laid out earlier, right with the Constitution and stuff I'm a big fan of
that. I'd sometimes get nostalgic for Western justice. You know, it's it's
not a thing that I necessarily think we need a one bring back. But
every now and then I see a story where I'm like, you know,
this calls for little Western justice, and this story out of the out of
Houston. We need, we need all sorts of justice. And I don't
care whether it's current Old West or who the hell knows, but justice,
uh something, something needs to be done. And I'm warning you is a
tough story. So I will I'll only get into what I need to get
into, but you'll get the gist of it. All right, we'll do
that coming up after the news. Hang on keeping you connected. This is
ninety four or five WPTI and the Triad and one six one FM Talk and
the Triangles. All right, welcome back. It is six thirty five Pcoday
Radio program. Oh dear God, this the story. A man is in
custody and I guess it's unclear. I mean, I'm assuming cops are looking
for the others. But seven men in Texas allegedly filmed themselves assaulting, sexually
assaulting two toddlers. One of the incidents because there's actually I think what five
videos six videos seven videos. The toddlers were allegedly assaulted in the bathroom of
the galleria, which we've ever been to. Houston. Gallerias is really really
yeah's where it's. It's a very nice area just off downtown. It's actually
where the iHeart Houston studios are. But they got big. I think it's
the biggest ball in Texas and like the second or third biggest in the country.
So it's it's a very very busy place. Arthur Fernandez, twenty nine,
a Kiosk worker at the galleria, is charged with assaulting the toddlers.
By the way, the toddlers are two. There's two two year olds.
And in case you're wondering, all right, well, where do you get
two two year olds? The he knows the parents and they also work at
the mall. And when they're working and they have to work and they need
to do something with their kids. Apparently one of the solutions is to leave
their kids with this guy. The FBI says they launched a probe last month
after the videos were posted to an online forum for such things. Initially,
it was Australian officials who brought the videos to the attention of the FBI.
There's four videos. Each of the four videos shared with authorities reportedly shows a
different assault, and they take place in different rooms and locations, one of
which is the bathroom at the mall. And the way that they figured out
who it was is they figured out who the kid was first, and it's
I'm not totally sure how, but once they did, they showed some sanitized
video clips to the parents. And you don't see the face alleged. I
haven't seen the video obviously, but this is the way they're describing it.
He wears a bunch of bracelets, Fernandez, and they're very identifiable. And
mom immediately went, oh my gosh, just by looking at that arm with
bracelets, I know who that is. And that's how we got there.
It's I guess it's unclear what's up with the other six. It's unclear if
they've been able to identify them. But again, like, that's the dude
you're gonna be going for. Can we just can we just gen pop all
of them? Just I gotta think you go right to the top of the
UH prisoner interest list, rolling in with these types of charges there and then
you and then you do it allegedly, Fine, but but then you and
then film it and and and share, and there's seven of you, there's
seven of you. Just I can't even I can't even beget Okay, everybody's
got a different execution method. I feel like Kim Jong un trying to decide
if I'm gonna go with the the missed missile or something a little slower here.
I you know, I gotta I gotta say I I'm not on team
missile turned and missed. I think that's too fast. Just well, you're
just staring at it. You hear the noise and then boom nothing. Now,
no, no, no. The FBI is working with the Harris County
Sheriff's Office in Houston, and that's that's all we really have right now.
But I mean, that's that's as bad as it gets right there, just
in the in stuff. I'm I'm literally like, I don't I don't know
that I want to put that in the prep. But people need to know,
and now you do, all right, six thirty nine CaCO Day Radio
program. The World Economic Forum yesterday released a well, it was a video
and a study and some graphs and all sorts of stuff. Because obviously we
everybody inherently trusts the World Economic Forum, and they do this thing at the
beginning of the year and they want to talk about, Hey, here's what
you need to be looking out for. So the UN along with the World
Economic Forum both do this, and the UN is cited in this research.
The Global Risks Report is what it is called. So for twenty twenty four,
according to the World Economic Forum, based on I'm going to have fifteen
hundred experts and then they have folks over at the UN, what do you
think is the biggest societal risk? The biggest threat to society according to the
World Economic Forum in the UN, the biggest threat to society in twenty twenty
four. Just yeah, you go ahead and Ross, you want to guess
what do you think is the biggest societal risk for twenty twenty four? Climate
change? You know, that would be a good one. That's not it.
It's not climate change. I would have gone there too. No,
the biggest societal risk according to the World Economic Forum and the United Nations and
fifteen hundred experts is misinformation on social media. Misinformation and disinformation is actually what
they wrote there. Yes, the greatest threat from you know, Klaus and
crew is that you're online and you see something and I guess it's not they
they don't want you seeing it. I mean, can I get a little
conspiratorial to here. Remember the UN was the one who was immediately with COVID
tweeting out Chinese talking points, So I think that's rich. The World Economic
Forum, don't even get me started with the stupid fifteen minute cities and stuff.
Give me a break, you know, these are the These are John
Kerry's buddies, which, by the way, I saw something like the budget
of his office is like ten million dollars or so, what the hell is
he doing? Doesn't he just go to a couple of climate things every year?
What's he doing with that money? Maybe it's not ten, maybe it's
like eight or something. So, uh yeah, there you go. Biggest
threat I you know, some would say, some would say as I.
And by the way, let me look, uh, let me look the
list down here. So first is misinformation disinformation? Number two ROSSI were almost
right. Number two is extreme weather events, which I think that's that's under
the climate change umbrella. Cyber and security, you know, admittedly that's that's
that is a big deal. Cyber stuff, security, all the all the
different stuff, especially with like with you know, China trying to hack us
thousands of times a day. Somebody got these securities in exchange commissioned Twitter account
the other day. Is that what they mean by disinformation? I don't know.
H And then fifth, you have to go to number five armed conflict.
I don't know if you from a world perspective right now, I think
that's insane that that's number five. Iran just took an oil tanker and it's
kind of ours Iran took. I'm gonna repeat this, Iran hijacked an oil
tanker. Not Hooty Rebels, not Bob from Portland that guy again, but
the Iranian guy. And they're bragging about it. And remember these are the
same pieces of garbage that we you know, this president keeps trying to release
funds to right the frozen funds, and then he does it, and what
do they do. They seize an oil tanker that I don't know if it's
I it's America, it's it might be American owned but Greek flagged or the
other way around. But my but my point is they knew what was up.
You know, these ships, obviously you can tell what the name of
the ship is. It's very easy to look up, especially if you're a
government and they're just like, yeah, screw you, what are you gonna
do about it? This is where we find ourselves. All right, six
forty four KCO Day Radio Program. I do have one other grocery store story.
I probably should have mentioned that, and that's in North Carolina, So
let's do that. Coming up and Stephen Stephen Kennell joined us from bounding into
Comics. That's at seven oh five and Pete Calendar at eight o five.
So busy Friday. Hang on. This is one o six one FM Talk
in the Triangle and News Talk ninety four to five w PTI and the Triad.
All right, good morning everybody. It is six fifty one KCO Day
Radio Program. It's been a been a fun week for some folks like Hunter
Biden, obviously the result of the insanity going on when he showed up at
the carrying over whether they're gonna request contempt charges and that whole awkward. As
soon as Green Connor Ssilm Green started talking, he's kind of got up and
left. I'm assuming he thought she was gonna say something because Nancy Mace did.
But the whole thing was just strange. And then of course the the
question, and everyone's like, ah, listen to this reporter's question. I
don't is that a reporter? I guess I never really saw who asked it.
That just sounds like some smart ass. It's funny, don't get me
wrong, but I you know, describing that as like one of the pool
reporters that didn't I didn't sit right by the way, here is that quick
little question from the reporter or individual or whomever it is. Why And let
me make a statement, crack you normally smoke, mister Biden. I mean,
he kind of has a reportery voice. I don't, but I got
a hard time saying that's a that's a reporter there at the very least it's
a reporter's not acting like a reporter. But when is that new up in
Washington? I And also, I don't, I don't know. Do you
think you think Hunter Biden shows up somebody's got it like the hooker She's like,
oh, I brought a bunch of crack. And then he opens it
and it's like the night it's not the right kind of crack, and he's
like, no, I I just couldn't because I feel like, if if
you're addicted to crack, and crack shows up, and again this is if
you're addicted to it, you're probably not. You know, well, what's
the what's the providence of the of this crack? Is it aged? Is
it artisan? Is it free range? Is it flavored? None of these
You're just like, oh my gosh, crack. Right, So I don't
know that that question is particularly useful. By the way, here is I
mentioned Mace and all of that. Here is Mace dressing him down in that
here there is but Hunter Biden, you are too afraid to show up for
a deposition, and you still can't today. I believe that Hunter Biden should
be held completely in contempt. I think he should be hauled off to jail
right now, because it wasn't long ago two of my friends on the other
side of the isle that you also believed in the power of a congressional subpoena.
Not long ago at all. You believe in holding those who refuse to
comply with congressional subpoena accountable. And I stood with each and every one of
you. I am the only member in this room today who has held a
member of my own party in contempt of Congress for not showing up for a
subpoena. And I see nothing but complete hypocrisy on the other side of the
aisle, all right, and she's not wrong. And again this is the
game, right, the game is I want to testify, but only in
public, knowing that that will limit the ability to get into some things.
And then when you try to do the the deposition, the private side of
it. And yes, I understand it's rot with problems. You saw it
where all these J six committee members were leaking stuff right to the press.
You saw that. You saw all of the leaks during the Trump administration.
Like, I get it, Adam Schiff going, oh man, you should
see what I'm looking at. Like you, if you could see what I'm
looking at, you'd just be like, ah, he's you know, put
him in the goolog right, so you're going to get that. However,
it is the very same process that's Chase six folks used right where they'd interview
one, you know, in person, But before that took place, there
was also a deposition and then occasionally there was follow up meetings too with some
of the people who testified. If they were providing information that was not for
public consumption, i e. Protected or classified in some way. Well,
then it's Taylor Green's turn, and this is when booped, they're up before
she starts saying anything, I recognized miss Green from Georgia. For now,
you stand up right there, thank you, mister chairman. Excuse me,
Hunter, Apparently you're afraid of my words? And why all I like to
reclaim my time? All right, all right? So yeah, yeah,
the whole thing was strange. Why am I bringing this up? Well,
we found out yesterday that the actual trial for the latest series of charges,
not this committee, but the actual judicial side of things is probably going to
be it's going to be in July, end of June, early July,
so we got got some time to get there. And you know, we're
under three hundred days from the uh the election too, so like it's it's
just it's it's baffling to me. It's crazy to me that we're gonna literally
find ourselves in this same window timeline on a lot of this as we found
ourselves ahead of the last presidential election, right because if that if that kicks
off in July, and you know, it'll probably be a continuance it'll probably
be some other stuff. It could well play right to in front of the
election. Well, and then we're almost to the anniversary four years prior to
that date, where social media is like, nah, you don't need to
see this, and you at the account you New York would it post or
whatever you call your said, nah, you don't need to be able to
post stuff. So that's how long this is going on. And I saw
Jill Biden in an interview refer to what's happening to Hunter as quote cruel.
I'm sure it's not fun. But also there's the you know, there's the
whole consequences for one's actions. If in fact, what is out there and
what is you know, literally portrayed really within his own digital fingerprint right now,
the political side of it, that could be cruel. But also this
is a very public family, and if Hunter wanted to use the notoriety of
the public nature of his father's office, which even the White House admits,
you know, look, if Joe comes over and asks about the weather,
that's you know, that's just dad helping out. Obviously they know the benefit
of that. So I'm sorry, no, that's not gonna work here,
but we will see how that plays out. All right, lots to get
into it the world woke Hollywood. We'll do that with Stephen ken next right
after news. That's first here on the CaCO Day Radio program. All Right,
good morning everybody, Happy Friday, as we get rolling into hour number
two and god, look like it'll be as severe as last weekend, but
definitely as you can tell, some some weather bruin coming up at seven five.
We'll chat with Race Agic from the Weather Channel get the lowdown on that.
But I want to welcome in Stephen Kent from bounding into comics or go
to on all things Hollywood and woke and maybe it's just some cool stuff.
In fact, let me can I start there? What's some cool stuff before
we get into all the stuff that irritates me that's on the Horai and that
we're looking forward to. Well, it won't be Saturday for the houfy pirates.
I hope you guys are having a better a better day than those guys.
Good morning to you both. What is cool? Right now? We
talked a little bit about Percy Jackson last week, and you know, I
still got to reiterate, just for for everybody tuning in here, that you
know, the Percy Jackson series on Disney Plus for those of you who have
not canceled your subscription and refused, is a really really good show. Interesting
on the on the front for you understanding Greek myth uh. You know,
kids are watching it and enjoying the show. It's not really that steeped in
woke politics, which is a nice refreshing trend. And I would recommend it
to anybody. Okay, all right, and then you hold out more hope
I think than me. But I'm just I'm just I don't know. I'm
just a curmudgeon for some of these Star Wars projects. And I think that,
yeah, we get, we get when when we're listening to the director
of the next Star Wars movie and it seems to me she's never watched any
of the other ones. That's easy to get irritated about. But if we
know one thing, they're not just doing, you know, one Star Wars
movie, they are clogging the pipeline with Star Wars projects. So is there
anything out there that people should have a little hope for. Yeah, So
I'm still blown away by the market success of The Mandalorian. That is a
show which for me, I feel like dragged a lot of people back to
watching Star Wars, enjoying just the very basics of that universe. The Empire
is in pieces. You've got a Mandalorian bounty hunter, You've got a cute
creature from the species of Yoda that he's trying to protect. So the announcement
that they're going to be doing this movie the Mandalorian grogu directed by Jon Favreau,
who noticeably Didney iron Man movies, and then most of the Mandalorian this
is them, I think grasping for what has worked, because the sequel trilogy
featuring Ray and Kylo Ren was a complete disaster. In this movie that's going
to be directed by documentarian Charmino bit Chenoi, is also going to be a
disaster, not just because of her background and her political intentions with that movie,
but because the character is just not popular. But the Mandalorian grog who
are this is the Way is the new May the Force be with you.
So I'm excited about this movie, and I also have to profess excitement for
the Ahsoka show that Dave Feloni, who I think is the heir to George
Lucas, is getting a second season on Disney plus that was announced this past
week also very exciting and a wonderful show. The Hollywood is And I just
want to make sure I'm citing my sources here. Let me flip back over
to this. Hollywood is obviously dealing with there in crisis. And you know,
even with everything we saw with Disney, I believe what Disney was number
one right, They were the most profitable last year, even though they had
all of those big flops, which is saying something, but I saw it
quoted here we go that Hollywood has seen a twenty percent dip and care continues
to see a twenty percent dip in moviegoers. Basically, you had you know,
COVID, everything did its thing, and the numbers just never came back
in what they were, so you got eighty percent of it back. That's
it. Do you think that we're just stuck there and it's self inflicted?
Do you think? Or it's just the further evolution of people going, I
got a big TV and a soundbar, why would I go to a theater?
All? Wait, so what are we doing here? Yeah? I
just got myself a big TV and a soundbar like yesterday, Casey, you
must be spying. But this No, this is the continued fracturing of the
media environment. It's impacting everything from legacy movie theaters and cinema to radio and
now even podcasting. Now even podcasting is just kind of now on the decline
again after a decade of looking like it was going to take over the world.
The world is always changing and Hollywood does not have a stranglehold on film
anymore. You know, you've got insurgent studios like Angel Studios, who made
that wonderful movie The Sound of Freedom, who are making their own movies,
handling their own distribution. They just announced about a month ago that they are
going to be doing a movie set in Nazi Germany focused on the rebellion,
the underground rebellion of the Christian Church in Nazi Germany, which is going to
be like a really exciting movie for Christians in America who are really interested in
that story. And I'm excited ab that. And so the more rebel studios
you have out there being willing to put their money where their mouth is,
make movies, make stories. Guys. The guys at the Daily Wire are
doing this too. They had that comedy Ladyballers on the on the Daily Wire,
which was like a throwback to Adam Sandler's style comedy of the early two
thousands. These things are worth investing in, but it is going to take
your investment. If you're tired of what Hollywood is peddling, you're going to
have to support somebody else. So that's that's one way you can do it.
You know, Angel Studios movies, Daily Wire movies, they're good stuff.
Yeah, And here's what I'm just going to irritate some people because I
think they're going to not understand the point that I'm trying to make. But
it there. I've seen some in the past. I've seen movies that were
definitely positioned as correction movies like Oh, Hollywood won't do this, movie will
do it. And it's not that the subject matter of the plot problematic.
It's that it gets it gets a little too inside baseball on the religious stuff.
And this is why people are gonna get irritated. And as a result,
I think it potentially does a disservice to establishing some studios and some producers
out there who would be more inclined not to do stuff that leans into religion,
but also to not do anything that leads into the religion. Of woke
politics, and it is that middle ground where if people people forget who made
it and they just enjoy it. I think that would be good. But
like Kirk Cameron did a couple a couple of movies. I like Kirk Cameron
too. We did a couple of movies and I saw people who probably would
have liked the content but didn't what they felt they were going to get preached
at. I don't know that that was the case, but that's the impression.
Then. I don't know that you have as broad an audience as you
potentially could have if only just to return to the middle ground, which we've
long abandoned. Yeah, and the middle ground is when someone just makes a
movie and they let the message speak for itself through the story being worthwhile.
I don't want to bore your audience with philosophy. But I was reading C.
S. Lewis the other day and C. S. Lewis had a
bunch of essays about this very subject, about whether or not it was the
duty of a storyteller. And again, this is the guy who wrote the
Chronicles of Narnia and the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe about whether or
not it was most important to entertain or enlighten your audience. And his takeaway
on this and his essays were that it is the duty of a storyteller to
not insert a moral into a story unless they have figured out the story.
A moral will present itself when you are telling a story that is worthwhile for
the human spirit. And I still cling to this, like, you don't
start with the moral and then write the story. You do it the other
way around. Speaking to the Daily Wires movies a little bit, you know,
they've they've had some hits and misses on making their own films because sometimes
they start with a message. The Ladyboller's comedy that I mentioned started with a
message about the transgender controversies that we're dealing with and kind of making fun of
wokism, and then so the movie has to be built around that like scalf
scaffolding, and it's not going to be as good as when they do it.
Did a movie called Run the Hide Fight, which was just simply a
movie about surviving a school shooting, and that was a that was an action
thriller that was devoid of politics. It was devoid of politics. It was
an action thriller, and that's what conservatives are often looking for They're not looking
for a conservative message, They're looking for a story. And that's kind of
hard for liberals to square because they always want it to be message first.
Yeah, no, I clearly, and I think that that is a That
is a very good example of it. It's don't I don't want to feel
on getting preached at even if I one hundred percent agree with what it is.
And I think I have to think that's where most people's heads are in
this. But who knows it is. You know, we tend to overcorrect
when politics is involved, and will will gladly do the opposite while still doing
the same thing against somebody we feel is doing wrong, and we again ignore
that middle ground. I think a good example of this is actually the Barbie
Movie. The Barbie Movie was a huge success this past year. I've never
seen lines for a movie quite like that, or as many butts and seats
as when I went with my wife and my daughter and the movie was a
success. It was also pretty funny. But there's also the monologue at the
end of the movie where one of the main characters goes on a monologue about
how impossible it is to be a woman and it is like the definition of
preaching. Nobody talks like that in the real world. Again, we're talking
about a Barbie movie here, but people don't talk like that. They don't
have that good of a stream of consciousness to be perfectly articulate and say everything
that it is to be hard or everything that is hard about being a woman.
And so that moment is not one of the great parts of the Barbie
movie. What works about the Barbie movie is it's a movie about the realities
of tender in a time period where men and women are losing sight of reality
and we don't even know what a woman is in the public culture anymore.
Barbie's actually quite clear. It's very clear about men and women and their differences,
some of their weaknesses and their strengths. And then that monologue comes out
of nowhere and it's like, hey, hey, if you didn't already get
what this movie is about, here it is spoon fed to you. Nobody
likes that. Nobody likes watching movies like that. I will say, and
I haven't seen the end of it, but you hit one of the streaming
services, was it on Max or something a couple of weeks ago, and
I did watch about I probably got about an hour into it, and I
didn't stop it because I, you know, for any other reason except I
can't remember what it was. I realized I was running late for something.
I'm like, i'll finish it. I haven't finished it, so I didn't
hear the monologue. But I know that I know that people were a little
up in arms. Other than a couple little things in the hour that I
did watch it, You're right, it really was just it was. It
was a fine movie. It's not my cup of tea, per se,
but you know, it wasn't as preachy as I've seen. So I'm sorry
to hear that that monologue was at the end, but I'm also glad I
missed it. Yeah, and it's it is. It is one of those
things you can take or leave. Kevin Costner was talking about that monologue at
the Golden Globes and said that it's something important that everybody needs to hear,
and it's that very attitude. The people need to hear that, this attitude
that got Charmin obeyed. Chenoi, who's directing the Star Wars movie, into
so much hot water with the audience because in her monologue that she had given
in twenty fifteen about enjoying making men uncomfortable, which in context was not unfair.
She was talking about acid attacks on women in Pakistan, but that she
was saying that monologue that men in this part of the world, men are
broken, and when they watch my movie, they will see a message that
they need and they will look in the mirror and realize how bad they are.
And my message in response to that is then that people don't think like
that. You don't show somebody a well crafted monologue and then go, Okay,
now go look in the mirror and see everything that's evil about you.
We are more inspired to realize when we are wrong when we see something relatable
in characters on screen, and when we see false and relatable flaw in characters
who we don't normally identify with. Building empathy is a lot more complicated than
doing a self righteous monologue, you know, And that just reminds me mentioned
the Golden Globes. It was either the Golden Globes or one of the recent
awards shop we're two of the Barbie movie actors, a black female and an
Asian male, so one of the Barbie's one of the Kens. They were
up there talking about they were sitting there and they were like demeaning white people.
It was just so weird, and that clip went around there. So
if you haven't seen Barbie and then you see that at that point, like
you're not going to give it a chance because it's the snow white crap.
Again. It's like the studio. Do the studios ever pull them aside or
are they just not able to control actors because I don't know, man,
I don't know. I guess I have an old world mindset where you've got
like studio bosses at a really tight level of control and actors who don't want
to screw anything up. But the thing about the social media eras everybody has
a platform and their own audience, and when you're a movie star or even
a well known director, you can shame and overpower the studio system by sicking
your people on them on Twitter. So if they, you know, fire
you or something for being political in the public square, you can then shame
them in public back, and then the power is sort of balanced out.
Now you could say that that is a good thing, but that didn't work
for Gina Carano who was fired from Disney and the Mandalorian. Yeah, for
having the audacity to suggest that the Holocaust was bad and we shouldn't treat people
like that in the United States when it comes to politics. It's a rule
that is only applied in one direction, and that was that was going to
be my point. So if you don't want them talking politics and you want
to just say, hey, if you're working for us, you're not doing
I'm fine with that, right, you're protecting your investment. But as you
just mentioned, that's not how it goes Steve, and I'm out of time
unfortunately. But see we got some happy stuff. Then usually we just st
so I'm happy for that. But we'll chat next week, okay, sir,
Yeah, have a great weekend. All right? There, he goes
Stephen Kent. The website is bounding into comics. You want to read some
of his stuff and also a lot of a lot of the other writers.
I was just scanning it over this morning. There's some good stuff. Go
check it out. Coming up, Pete Calender will join us. That'll be
at eight five and we're gonna chat with Ray Stagic coming up here in just
a few minutes, about fifteen minutes, so stick around. It is the
CaCO Day Radio program one six one FM Talk w PTI, two stations driving
the best in talk. This is Cacoday and Carolina's Morning News. All right,
seven thirty five, and we are back. I I don't understand it.
It's like, and it was to some extent, it was like during
during his when Trump was in office, there were there were times where I
was like, why in the world would you give five minutes to particular individual?
But I could also kind of, you know, try to map out
what the thought process was like, you know, because I think that Trump
genuinely thinks that he can he can schmooze whomever, and if you like,
if you remember, that's what he was trying to do when he first got
into office, and I think the reality set in. But now he's seasoned,
right, he was president for a term and he sees everything that's come
down the pipe, and so this isn't the biggest thing. But it's the
thing that I still failed to understand because because this is not the same.
This is not him trying to buddy up to Pelosi, right, if you
remember, he initially was trying to do that, And the logic there,
I think was, hey, this is how I'm gonna get stuff done.
And obviously that didn't work out. But some of the folks that are in
orbit around the campaign, I don't understand it. Did you see what Laura
Lumer tweeted? Okay, I'm gonna read this verbatim, and when I'm done,
you explained to me why this woman should be within ten miles of mar
Lago unless there's something I'm missing, And if I'm missing something, let me
know. So Lumer, uh, she Lumer was with she was with Project
Veritas back in the day, then she did her own thing, then she
got booted off Twitter. Then she went to the Twitter headquarters when Dorsey was
still there, and I thought, I didn't think it was funny her like
camping in front of there. But so I don't. I don't have beef
with lumur per se. I just I almost never see anything that she tweets
that being said this, I did so Lumer because there's this there's a big
snowstorm coming to Iowa, right and then obviously got Iowa caucuses all that,
So she writes, quote, is the Deep State activating harp to disrupt the
Iowa caucus? We all know Nikki Hayley has a lot of friends in the
defense industry and military industrial complex. She's losing in Iowa and now Iowa is
set to get hit with a once in a decade blizzard as Trump is set
to dominate. Is the deep state using harp to rig the Iowa Caucus looks
like weather manipulation to me? Take a look. And then she includes the
graphic of the weather dar showing, uh, the predicted snow storm acceleration.
Right, and it's a doozy man, It's the whole state of Iowa was
basically at some point under the heaviest blue there. Why why why would you
want that person around? Or is it just like so he doesn't have to
make the jokes? Yeah, Like I was trying to theorize why that Like
Ross and I talk about harp, but we're joking or I am Ross.
I'm assuming you don't think. I mean we talk about you know, harp
and flat earth and domes and right, none of it is really like you
know what I believe in? Yeah, you don't think Nicky Haley's manipulating the
weather d I do not, now she could. I think she might right
like her white like, oh, everyone online, if you had the pla.
Yeah, if you had the actual ability to do that, of course
you would use it. I would we well, I mean, how would
it for good though? Of course if there was an area there there was
a little drought going on. They needed some rain for the crops. If
I could get know, I'm just saying, like, they're expecting sixty five
mile per hour winds and snow in Buffalo and Sunday at Orchard Park, right,
if I could just make it so the snow goes on one side of
the field, Wow, I would do that. You did there, that'd
be crazy, you know. Lake effects snow's crazy, man, as you
know, it's wait, you can I remember when I was in Michigan.
I had to drive to Chicago, and it's sunny and beautiful in Michigan,
and I got right on the south end of the lake there and I had
to pull under an underpass with a bunch of other drivers because there was so
much snow it was impassable. We sat there for hours until the plow came
by, and then I got Chicago and it's fine, right, So lake
effects crazy. So yeah, I could totally see it snowing on one end
of the stadium and not the other that's just science man, all right,
so you would use it for good stuff, but also to help the billsmen,
all right. I mean I see Lo says the same thing. Well,
like you know, I see it that way, and then like one
day I hear thunderclap and now there's football size hail coming down. I'm going
to be suspect of somebody, is all that I'm saying. Because you know,
I wonder if the heart machine would work, you know where people play
under a dome. Could I get it to work that way? Well?
Yeah, don't you remember what happened to the Metrodome? Please tell me in
Minneapolis, although the conspiracy theory is that they did it intentionally because they were
trying to force the issue of a new stadium. So the Metrodome, which
housed the Twins and Vikings for years, the reason they ended up closing it
was because a snow got on the roof and collapsed the roof in so,
you know, because apparently it was the first time it snowed in Minneapolis or
something. But they we got big, big, big snow up there,
and the weight of it broke through the white can't top there, and the
whole field was just a giant pile of snow. And so yeah, yeah,
you can get through a dome. Uh, not a problem, you
just have you just need bigger hail and more snow apparently. But oh anyway,
again, I just that's the thing, like I want to be able
just to joke about this stuff. But and I and I understand that it's
not Trump saying it, but lumours in that orbit and she you know,
she does go and she does visit down there, and that's that's the part
I don't understand, Like in the same way that I don't understand why if
you're Joe Biden you'd go do an event with uh, you know, the
squad, I guess I but maybe so because they're you know, they are
elected. It's weird. And there's an issue a few months back with the
campaign or maybe I don't know how long it was with Nicholas Flints, but
done to mar Lago, Like what is that about? Yeah, and people
were saying that he's just doing patrol people because he was like I didn't know
who that was. Yeah, I think with I think with flent as he
came, he might have come with Lumer Now that I think because I think
they're tight. I think he came with somebody else, is the way that
they explained it. And and but still that's why you gotta have people around
you that can google stuff and then go it's not the best idea. Or
maybe he just figures none of the pushback could be any worse than all the
garbage over the last five years or whatever. I don't know, but yeah,
I was a little confused by that. All right. Speaking of weather,
currently, Ross doesn't have access to harp. He can't control the weather,
so we just gotta we got to go to the expert. That's Ray
Stagic from the Weather Channel. But yeah, how you doing excited? You
excited? Yeah? You know, getting there, getting there, trying to
get Monday off right now. I have to work, But I think I
think it's gonna work out. But man, how about that probably in case
anybody didn't catch it yesterday, how about Kansas City probably gonna be zero either
side of zero at kickoff actual air temperatures. That is going to be a
fun one to watch. That'll buffalo race. Yeah, sixty five mile por
winds at Orchard Park like snow fun. Well, I mean to low my
thunder. I was going to go there next hour. But yeah, who's
playing again? Yeah, he's been thinking about it. That is uh Steelers
at Buffalo, So that's gonna be James season. Yeah, that's the one
o'clock. Yeah. Cold there, I mean finally winters arrived and I was
looking out in close to year old Neck of the woods, casey thirty four
below up in northwest Montana. Earlier this morning it was fifty something below in
Canada. That was without the wind. So some frigid area. Yeah,
a little cold, and guess what, some of that may get here and
we we may have a touch of wintery prese him to deal with sometime early
next week and maybe again later in the week. I don't only get too
far ahead of myself though. Wind advisory today. There's some showers later,
maybe a thunderstorm into this evening, gusty winds forty plus. There could be
some problems with wind right now. The severe weather wrist does look low,
lower than it looked yesterday, but it's not zero. So late today,
early tonight, maybe some severe storms windhil not going to rule out a chance
of a tornado, but it is low. And then sunshine for Saturday and
Sunday, upper forties to low fifties. But the wind's going to be whipping
maybe twenty to thirty miles per hours some of the gusts, so it will
feel colder. Low's at night in the upper twenties to low thirties, still
decent Monday. Then it's Tuesday. We might have a little rain and snow
to deal with with colder temperatures coming in and the teens Tuesday nights. So
that'll be an opportunity there Tuesday to maybe extend the holiday week. And for
some I'm not gonna say it's definite yet. The models have been back and
forth on snow chances, but right now chances snow and or rain on Tuesday.
Well, but then you get into that that little middle ground that just
sucks for everybody, right, you want to know, and you get freezing
rain, so enjoy all right. Well, uh we'll keep an eye on
it. We'll chat with you in an hour, sir, Thank you very
much. All right, man, there you go, Race Agic from the
Weather Channel. All right, coming up, I gotta update you on the
tunnel story. And oh I'm on the wrong little thing here. Uh we
well, I'll tell you what we'll do. The tunnel story. I'm gonna
try to jam pack this because we've got Pete Calender coming up at eight oh
five, so stick around. It is the CaCO Day Radio Program one six
one FM Talk and News Talk ninety pt I More with Casey starts now,
all right, couple stories we're gonna get him in this segment. A couple
of stories. I know. I there's so much I don't understand, although
at least with the tunnel story, we're getting a little more info there.
Now you didn't have to decide whether you you know, you believe the info
or not. But it is shaping up in a way I guess. I
like. Obviously there's some beef. There's some beef with the the synagogue up
there and some folks who deviate into a different version of Judaism, and but
I'm not Jewish, so I don't like. I was reading a couple posts
by people who are trying to explain it to me, and my head started
to hurt because there's all these different little things going on. This though Ross
sent this to me this morning, this this would actually explain a few things.
So there's a report out the Jewish teens who dug the tunnels under the
Shabbad World headquarters started digging themselves, and so they were literally digging, and
then they were removing dirt Shawshank style, I kid you not, that is
a quote here, Shawshank redemption style. So they would dig, they fill
up their pockets with dirt, and then I guess they'd go to the yard
and talk to red or something. But found the work was not moving along
fast enough. So what do they do? According to the report, they
then hired migrants, So you know the folks who've been busted up there to
New York City who are literally just hanging out you see the videos, just
hanging out on sidewalks. The city is talking about in New York putting a
curfew together for any of them. They're living in the facilities that are being
provided by the city. That would be the hook because the panhandling is so
out of control, which is saying something for New York City man. But
no, they they did the work wasn't moving fast enough, So what did
they do. They they essentially went to home depot, you know, with
that that old narrative. No, they hired hired some of the migrants,
and according to the report, to ensure that the whole operation didn't get found
out. The migrants involved actually were they were here, we go, they
slept and worked near the facility. And you know, one of the big
things there was the mattresses. Right, Everyone speculating that it was either hoboes
or child sex ring. People are going just nuts over this. But if
you hired a bunch of dudes to dig it and then he's and you know,
you wanted to stay down there, and then I guess maybe that makes
sense. I don't know, Ross, do you feel like the story's coming
together for you or there's just way too much We don't know. Yeah,
I kind of feel like it is. Yeah. And then we had a
color color in his name was He called himself Sarge. Right. He explained
how it went down, but he pretty much nailed it. He said that
they were taking dirt out there is like a fanatical group of like, you
know, five thousand of them or whatever, and they would they would slowly
do this process. Now he didn't bring up the you know, the migra,
the Mexican part, No, but but that when you go to try
to figure out what's up with the mattresses, because that's the part I couldn't
figure out unless you told me that there were homeless that it went down there.
But now that makes sense, right. You hired a bunch of dudes
who obviously you are desperate for cash on hand, and you tell him,
hey, you got to live down here. I probably find uh several who
will. So there's that, all right. That's story number one. Story
number two, this ESPN story. I admittedly I've read this thing a couple
of times. I don't know that I fully understand all of the different aspects
of it. But the gist is ESPN. ESPN is, oh, all
right, somebody send me an email said that that we're dead on the air.
But then he said, it's the stream. I don't know update you're
app sorry, ESPN allegedly may I don't know if it's allegedly. I just
they admit to it. They were making up like fake names and positions for
employees so they could submit them to the National Academy of Television, Arts and
Sciences, who oversees the Emmy Awards. And there's a certain complexity on College
Game Day, which is reportedly the show that this surrounds of why they were
somewhat limited. They were limited in how they could go for Emmys based on
the known talent there because they're there's a certain amount of time you have to
put in. And I'm not fully aware of all of it, but I
understand what they were saying, and so they would then go and they would
submit. Because it's not just the Emmys you see on TV, the big
show there. That is some of it. But also there are separate Emmy
awards regionally in the sport on the sports side of things. Right. They're
not necessarily the big Best Actors or Actor or award that you see when the
Emmys do their thing, but there's also these It's why you'll see like local
TV stations that go like Winter of seven Daytime Emmys, Right. But ESPN
was just making up names to secure Emmys, and they say that the talent
wasn't in on it. But I don't know. I feel like, if
I want an Emmy, I'd wonder how the hell that happened, or if
somebody won an Emmy for my show and I don't know who that is.
I would also have questions. The whole thing is just weird, man.
I'll tell you what else is weird though, is also this idea because I'm
they're doing it to bolster image. I don't believe the host didn't know what
was up. It's just there's too much weirdness here. But you know,
also the idea that somebody, you know, people within the you know,
media and entertainment, would uh, you know, subjugate the value of their
own work to meaningless awards right where. You know that that is what justifies
what you do rather than everything else on a day to day basis. That's
what's disturbing to me right there, you know what I mean Ross where people
just just awards is what gives them value and not the you know, so
strange right there? Did you move up to first? Jet? Are you
still second on the best radio? Liss? Sorry? As crazy as can
the ESPN story and the tunnel story, you know what, there's so weird
might I was waiting for him to overlap the day Oh and something else too.
I just thought of, Well, anyway, Pete Calendar will join us
next. Can you corn on? Everybody and welcome? It is our number
three here on your Friday. It's some lamar weather coming through. We chatted
with Ray here a couple of segments ago, and we'll touch base with him
one more time. But I am very excited to announce our next guest winner
of the twenty twenty three Marconi an Oscar and the Fields Mathematics Medal, which
is only given every four years. Thank you, Goodwill Hunting. It's Pete
Calender Middays WBT. Absolutely amazing, sir, congratulations on the whole. So
I'm sorry, congratulations for what for all those awards you want? Are you?
Did you not see the ESPN story? Yes? I did. That's
amazing. You're telling me that the host like, because I'm putting So you
want to you have a show. I have a show, right, You
have people you work with on your show. I have people I work with
on my show. It's it's me and it's Ross and then Kyle's our news
guy. And so if you're the host of College Game Day and you read
the trades when the awards come out, because it's what we do, right
when the talk you look at the talkers list, don't you when that thing
comes out? Yeah? Maybe? Yeah? I mean I saw you tweet
something about you guys. Yeah, because you guys had a couple. Yeah.
So if if I'm sitting there and I'm Kirk Herbstreet or whatever, And
I'm like, the Technical Emmy, Because people, it's not just the Emmys
you see on TV. They got tons of other Emmys. They got Region
Lemmys, they got Technical Lemmyes, they got Sports Emmys, you name it.
If I'm like, if I see that an associate producer with a name
I've never heard of won an award for my show, and I don't know
who the hell that person is, You're gonna be aware something's up right.
The only thing I could think is that there are so many people that are
you know, behind the curtain, you know, behind the scenes, that
the talent sitting in front of the camera doesn't know all of those people's names.
But what's amazing to me is that somebody they would make up stuff.
Why would you make up the names? I don't understand the point of the
racket, Like, why would you make up fake names and then submit entries?
Why not just submit real names on the entries? Why were they not
allowed to just do that? I think I think what I read is that
their hosts, at the very least in some of the production staff was not
eligible yet because there's a there has to be a certain amount of time that's
lapsed with the current structure or something I believe is how it was described in
this story from the New York Post. Yeah, that's the That's the thing
I don't get like either, Like content is king right if it if it's
good content submitted for the award, and then you know, see what happens.
But the fact that you could make up a bunch of people's names and
put those fake names onto actual content work that was done right, that that
you want an award for, and then when you get the award, so
then you win proving that you did good content right supposedly, then you then
you re engrave the name plate to be somebody who actually does work at the
at the plate. Yeah yeah, yeah. And there's one little, one
little nugget still to that. The names they would submit, So if your
Pete calendar, you'd be p k right, So they would the name they
would submit. They would make sure that the first and last the initial were
the same. So if I was gonna, you know, try to cheat
for you, I'd be like Paul Kessler, right, and then and then
they would literally have that engraved and then I guess what, scratch off the
rest and fill in the right name. The whole thing is so weird.
It is so weird. I'd like all of this just for for these awards,
Like do they have bonus money attached to winning awards or something. I
don't understand. I don't understand why they just wanted the you know the you've
seen the promos like TV stations around they'd be like winner of seven Daytime Emmy
Awards. It's blah blah blah, you know news, and so I think
that's the flex, but I don't know. There's there's a couple of stories
this week that have just confused me. That's one of them. And then
all the tunnel insanity up in New York because I feel like I have not
been doing my part in digging tunnels. I feel like everybody's digging tunnels nowadays,
and I haven't dug any tunnels. So I feel like I feel like
I'm missing out on that well now. But not all tunnels are the same,
Like you know, Rambow digs tunnels and then he uses it to avenge
the death of a family member, and he's a hero of New York.
It's either hobos or Jewish students who are on a different path of Judaism,
and they're doing it because they want to be able to access part of the
Like I did see a report now they're saying that the students who did it
were Shawshank Redemption removing dirt, but realized it was taking so long that they
went and they found a bunch of the migrants and hired them to do it
and had them sleep there, which I guess is explains the mattresses. So
yeah, yeah, after I read that story the first time, I like,
I read it and I thought, I don't even know what I just
read. I still and I've read. We think we've had four different stories
this week. It just it's crazier and crazier. Let me hit you,
uh something, Hold on, I'm sorry, I have your your list here.
I think we're gonna coincide. Okay, yeah, yeah, all right,
let me let me do this and then we'll get to a couple of
things on your list here. Did you see the Laura Lumer tweet? No?
I did not, Thankfully. I do my best not to see her
tweets. I you know, I don't see them organically like when she tweets
usually, but a couple Travis Fain, who used to be with R L
and a couple of us who you know, because I follow the local reporters
and we'll see what they're up to. They seized upon it, so Loomor
sent Loomer sent a tweet out accusing Nikki Hayley of calling her buddies at the
at the do O D to use harp to create a once in a decade
snowstorm to ruin the Caucuses so they could cheat. Yeah, like a Laura
Lumer. Yeah, no, no, no. And if it was just
that, but the thing that kills me, and and this is what I
was talking about earlier, why would you let that woman within five miles of
mar A Lago. I don't. I don't know the upside there. I
don't either unless they, I mean they, they have got to believe that
there is some sort of following that she has that that they need. There's
no other explanation. She's insane and she has been for a long time,
and I don't understand why anybody treats her with any degree of seriousness. The
stuff that she says is I mean, it's Kem trail stuff. It's it
is so out there. And then oh, look at all the conspiracy theories
that came true, like, no, she just makes up stuff and you
can see it happened in real time. And once you realize, once you
realize that there's no point in following her or reading anything. And I don't
understand why anybody in the Trump campaign allows her to be anywhere near them.
I don't get it. Yeah, I U. I racked my brain a
lot during try. Actually I kind of understood it at the beginning with Trump
when he was in office, because I think, and you tell me if
I'm wrong, I think he absolutely thought he could schmooze everybody. I think,
oh, yeah, yeah, and so you would, yeah, you
would see him like trying to schmooze Pelosi or whatever, and and and other
people who it was clear they didn't have his best interest in mind. And
I never I never understood that. And I never understand how he could keep
having meetings with four people in it. Everything would leak and they'd never figure
out who it was. But I understood the mindset that he had in office
where he thought he could schmooze people, and he thought, hey, even
if I got to work with this person I find revolting, maybe I'll get
some benefit, Like but now I'm just like cut the cord, babe,
Like you need to not have that person around you. I said, well,
a couple of things. I think he is transaction and dald Trump is
transactional, right, which is why? Right? Which is why to describing
what you know you just described. That's that's the nature of a transactional kind
of mode of operation. Also, growing up as he did, you know,
powerful father, real estate guy, and surrounded himself throughout his entire professional
career with people that were in awe of him and his business and his dating
life that he wrote about extensively in his book. And you know, like
I said, you know the access Hollywood tape and all of that, they
let you do it. Right. This is somebody who grows up their entire
life being told that they're the bees needs and everything they say is correct.
Absolutely would think that they can persuade everybody because honestly, a lot of people
go along with what he has you know, asked for or tried to negotiate.
People go along with it. Right, Well, there's a lot of
power in being a billionaire. Well yeah, you know what I'm saying that
like that in and of itself, you're so far ahead in most negotiations and
discussions because people will be intimidated by that, right, right, And so
I think that when you yeah, so that's the one he goes in there.
And this is the thing I never understood about Democrats when he got into
office. They could have they could have had their way with him if they
had just like flattered him. All they had to do was praise him,
and they could have gotten almost anything they wanted. And going to get DAKA
amnesty, right, they were going to get a pathway to citizenship for Daka.
That was literally on the table and and she's her and Chuck Schummer are
like, no, screw you, right, and yeah, yeah, I
don't get it there because I thought they were They're transactional too. But I
think I think they want the issue on the DAKA things specifically. I think
they still want the issue because they motivates some of their voters. They don't
want to fix it because if they fix it, then that means they have
to actually address other problems immigration related, and they don't want to do that
because the solutions there are things that their voters do not want. Well,
to be fair, do you see Pelosi was a yesterday saying that border security
is a huge issue and they've been working towards that. Yeah, like when
you can gaslight at that level, I think it is transactional. I think
she just figured out we can do whatever we want. There's more value in,
you know, trashing this dude from the gett. I think it was
a calculated decision. But you're right, there's things that they would have been
able to get. And more importantly, I think there's things that some voters
who wouldn't swallow it from a more mainstream individual, like if Mitt Romney was
in there having a discussion about DACA amnesty, I think it would the reaction
be very different than Trump. I think some people would have said, well,
at least he's doing something, and that made that argument, And yeah,
I'm with you, it was a miscalculation. A couple things real quick.
What the heck's going on in Charlotte, Man, I'm scared. So
you know, Rollie drops an acorn, Macon Georgia drops a cherry Charlotte for
New Year's drops bodies and so you guys have It's not just the home although
actually I can I solved the homeless issould I tell you this last week I
don't remember I solved your homeless problem in Charlotte. Oh no, I don't
think. I don't think you did tell you? Yeah, no, no,
no, here, here's all you gotta do. Uh And in fact,
you want to pass this off is your own idea. Feel free,
awesome. Round up all the homeless, put them in the three hundred level
of the Panthers stadium. Oh, that's brilliant. There's there's there's bathrooms,
there's satering options. There's nobody up there. You know, boom solved.
So that and we can we can clothe them with all of the Panthers merch
that nobody is buying. So we can give them all of the uh,
all of the jerseys of players that are terrible and keep them warm. I
got and by the way, I got. No, somebody's getting mad.
I'm picking on the Panthers because it's easy to pick on the Panthers, and
I want there to work for to throw a drink in my face so I
can make three five thousand. So it's all. Oh, and temper can
serve drinks up there. That'll be amazing. All right, So but no,
back to the back to this in reality, though juvenile gun violence.
Is this is an issue down in Charlotte, Obviously, it's it's something that
we see up in these parts as well. So is it overblown? Is
the media freaking out for nothing? Or do you guys have a real problem
down there. No, it's a real problem. The increase in violent crime,
they say, I mean there was a statistically they say, it's stayed
flat. It went up a little bit, a couple extra cases sort of
things, and yeah, we have more people, so yes, it's stayed
flat. But aggravated assault rose three percent, shootings went up seven percent,
and the increase in the victims predominantly juveniles. There is an eighteen percent more
an uptick of eighteen percent more juveniles than the previous year. There was a
thirty three percent increase in juvenile suspects in those shootings. So you're seeing and
this is also tied to the raise the age law that was passed by the
Republican General Assembly a couple of years ago, where now a lot of these
kids are getting released back into the custody of their parent or guardian who obviously
stink at being parents or guardians or something, because their kids are just running
wild and they're stealing all of the cars. I mean, we're having there
are twenty two cars stolen every day in Charlotte. Twenty two cars a day
stolen, and it's being driven by juveniles. The vast majority of it are
juveniles that are stealing the cars. They're reckoning them or they're you know,
ditchenum, or they are getting selling them off just you know, to organize
crime. And they steal these cars. People have guns in their cars.
They're committing the burglaries and such because once they take the car, then they
lead police on chases and such. It's out of control. And these juveniles
a out of control and there are no punishments really available to them because they
said in the legislation when they raise the age, they said sixteen and seventeen
year old shouldn't be treated as adults in the court system unless they do something
really really really bad. Well, they and the reason why is they said
that was that their brains aren't fully formed. Right. Well, okay,
so if their brains aren't fully formed, then maybe there needs to be some
kind of other penalty involved here rather than just sending them home, because maybe
their brains are not comprehending that these things are not good for a society and
not good for their future. So there's this now renewed look at that legislation,
and there's this task force that Charlotte City Councilman Talk Cary is trying to
set up, and he got Speaker Tim Moore to come meet with them,
along with John Bradford a couple other local officials. But it's going to take
you know, city, county, and state level interventions, I think,
in order to try to rain this in. I don't We're done are the
days of Republican mayors in these cities, right? Because when I moved to
North Carolina, the mayor of Raleigh was who had just left, was a
Republican. Pat McCarry was Charlotte's mayor, and I got a minute. I
don't know that that ever happens again in those cities. No, I agree,
Yeah, Pat McCrory seven terms, So fourteen years when I first got
here, I mean up until like the about fifteen years ago, Charlotte City
Council had Republican majorities. At one point, the County Commission in Mecklenburg had
had Republican majorities. So within the last fifteen years it's gone full Democrat and
you never want to go full Democrat. No, but they but they did
that with the county county commissioners in wait, because what we do is they
go all right, now everything's at large and then you see what this happens.
It's like California with their sir jungle primary thing. So all right,
well that's where we're gonna leave it for to day. I didn't get back
to the barber thing, but that's how it goes. Uh next week,
sir, and uh you know, uh, feel free to pass the homeless
thing off is your own idea. I intend to do just that. All
right, reap the benefits. We'll talk next week. Thank you all.
The show. After the show is on the iHeart radio app. Search Casey
O Day for the podcast on the iHeart radio app. So I'm not intimately
aware of introduced to like I don't know the rules because I've never been there,
but I would think one of the first rules of Dynamite Meth club is
if you're gonna have dynamite and you're gonna have meth, don't oh d yourself
in the parking lot of a food line. Now od is the wrong word.
Don't do so much drugs you pass out in the food line parking lot
because you know eventually somebody's gonna see that, they're gonna call police. And
then you're this guy. We go to Washington, North Carolina, which is
down by Greenville, but it's towards the uh where the Pamlico River gets really
big. AnyWho. Uh So that's what dude did and now he's in custody.
A man facing charges after investigators found drugs and possible explosive devices inside a
car at a grocery store. Deputy with the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office, so
they saw a man slumped over in a car in the parking lot of the
food Lion, and so the deputy goes up to be like, hey,
what's going on. Is it just some dude catching, you know, a
quick nap or did he die? And so they went investigated stuff, and
they made contact with the man who had in addition to those things, he
also had a weapon and it was in full view, as was some myth.
According to the police report, A deeper search of the car eventually revealed
what appeared to be explosives. And I saw one other story, they said
stick, so I would by stick. I don't know me they think stick
of dynamite or pipe bomber what that means, But I guess filling what you
think it is. Yeah, deputy scared the parking lot, confiscated the items.
Then they get you know, and you get the bomb dudes over there
to check it out. But yeah, he'd have gotten away with it if
he hadn't done way too much meth with everything in full view and passed out
at the food Line parking lot. So you know, just some some tips
for you going forward. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna have to unplug from
sports Twitter. I think just I just flipped over the Belichick story. That's
so weird. Now, hold on the headline of the Bill Belichick story reads
his follows coward Bill Belichick flees New England after twenty four years. Quote this
is Buffalo's division now unquote. I didn't watch this whole thing, so he
said that, Huh, I didn't. I didn't. I didn't watch the
whole thing. Man, It was surprising. It was that would that would
surprise me. He's not the first coward to leave, though. Who is
that the quarterback that I have to go to Tampa Bay? I don't even
know if I remember that. Yeah, I remember that guy. He was
like, I can't take it here anymore. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then I remember when he had passed, like he he kind of and
then he didn't. He he got so involved in the Tampa thing, like
he didn't properly thank some of his fans or yeah, do you remember that?
Oh just classless? No, But like they well, it's not even
just that part. It's the part where they're like, where does he go?
Now? Why does he have to go somewhere now? And I'm not
doing this because I think like the theory is, like people are thinking he
wants to beat Don Jula's record of most wins, and I think he's only
like fifty, like nineteen or something. Away. They're figuring he wants to
beat the record, but maybe he just wants to hang out on a beach
somewhere, you know, right, That's what I'm thinking. Like he's he's
made a few bucks, right hopefully, you know, I'm hoping he invested
it, okay, but he's made a few dollars. But you know,
right now, I have to imagine that between Nick Saban and Bill Belichick,
there's some really interesting phone calls with lots of money attached being made, right,
and Saban's what's seventy two? I don't know how old Belichick is,
but you know those two are just sucking up so much of the oxygen there.
And they go on in the story and they're talking about so first ballot
hall of Famer? Would you agree with that? Ross you think he's a
first ballot Hall of Famer? YEA. With Tom Brady? Sure well?
And that's that was gonna be my question. Without Tom Brady has a losing
records though, I mean, is that something if you're on the committee that
votes on these says something you contemplate. Because here's here's the problem that Belichick
is gonna run into. Okay, He's going to run into the part where
he had a very how do I say this, tumultuous relationship with members of
this sports media who are also the people who weigh in on stuff like this,
And it'll be very interesting to see if that, if if that impacts
it in any way. Right, some guy was cheese because Belichick told him
off in a in a pressor, which he's been known to do, and
he's just been stewing for years and now this is his chance to do something.
I don't know, but the thought did cross my mind. Would you
be would you be sad if he was like consultant for you or something or
not as a coach? No, if not at all. Okay, I
see this from NBC New York. The article we put up about is him
leaving. It says breaking Bill Bill Belichick, who lost two Super Bowls to
the Giants. I expected to part ways with the Patriots. Are you moonlighting?
Are you working on you got a second job? You gotta you gotta
side hustle. You're writ in headlines for NBC Now it was NBC New York.
That's great. Ah, that's some that's some good troll right there.
Yeah. Yeah, I don't if I'm Belichick, man, I'm just like
to get me to a Aruba or something, right, I don't even know.
I don't even know where if he vacations, but like and and same
with saving. But I don't know. Man. There's also the part where
it's like it's very addicting, Like I you know, I know several radio
guys who've made more than enough money by almost anyone's standard, because you know,
they've been around so long that they worked under what you know, the
nostalgic contracts of yesteryear, right, and so they've made crap ton of money
all that they have no reason, and yet every day they pop in and
they do their show, and they're well into their seventies. I'm not saying
they should retire. Two of them are friends of mine. But I'm just
like, if I'm at that age, and let's say that, I feel
like I'm more than financially secure at that point. It's just a judgment call.
It's like, you know, for the love of the thing radio in
our case, or football coaching and Saban and Belichick's and I don't know,
but yeah, I would you know, the shula thing. I forgot about
that. Maybe Hey, let's get stage akin here and talk about this.
Yep. So read Ross read the headline from NBC New York. This is
great. Yeah, this is Bill Belichick, who lost two Super Bowls to
the Giants, expected to part the Patriots. I love that. That's great,
man. Ah, Yeah, that's the way to look at his career.
Right. What was that the post? No NB, the NBC,
NBC. YEA. But here's the thing, and we're talking because in the
story they're like a first ballot Hall of Fame or no question. But if
if he doesn't have a certain player, he's not an exceptional coach. Yeah
No, Like he has a losing record without Tom Brady. Yeah, so
I don't know if that factors in. I don't care either way, but
I just I wonder about these things. Yeah. Yeah, And you probably
look at all the great coaches, they probably have one thing in common,
right, probably the great quarterback at least once that had the tenure. But
you know, if you layered that with what maybe well look at ten or
fifteen years with one team. Well, but look at uh Cower, Bill
Cower, right right, Like, I mean he had Roethelisberger for a while,
but you know, ultimately Cower excelled. And I'm trying. They had
a whole litany of quarterbacks over that time. Who was even the quarterback for
his last Super Bowl? I try to remember the guy, old Donnell?
Was it the old Donald? No? No, Bubby Brister. Oh geez,
all right, we're in now, we're in it. But but but
you know, he excelled in multiple different places with multiple different you know,
people at the helm, so to speak. So I would say compare it
to Belichick though, how many Super Bowls did he win? Right, So
that's kind of the lens I would use. I mean, you could get
there or how many wins did he have? I don't know if it's as
if it's an apples to apples comparison, well not, probably have an MVP
quality quarterback such as yourself. Yeah, come on, man, when they're
talking about him in that discussion in the back listen, a lot is going
to ride on what happened is the playoffs, not only for him but also
for Lamar Jackson. Yeah. I mean if if he goes if he goes
down in a in a bad way in terms of it, and Dak excels,
then it gets NFC Championship. I think he has to get there to
win it. Lamar probably not as much, but I think those two are
the two that are Hey, all right, well we'll carry this conversation on
next week because we got some weather and yeah, we don't get that to
you. Yeah, it could get a little tricky to our dinner time.
West to east this afternoon. We do have a wind advisory. So any
wind that occurs outside of thunderstorms, especially late today and tonight, could go
forty plus miles per hour, So be aware that showers thunderstorms coming in late
this afternoon into tonight. There still may be some severe storms with wind and
hail, even the risk of an isolated tornado, but I think that threat
is lessened, but it's not zero, so just remember that better chances down
to our south. Sunshine then returns for Saturday and Sunday upper forties to low
fifties, but with a breeze whipping at times, it's going to feel chillier.
The nighttime lows will be a few degrees on either side of thirty.
Monday, cloudy upper forties, and then by Monday night Tuesday, chance of
rain or maybe a little wintry precept. So that'll be what we'll be talking
about on Tuesday. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I
was on the phone. Were you talking about mvpce Yeah? Which is name?
Josh? Hey, I don't see I don't see I don't see I
don't see Dak and I don't see Lamar up on the mountain with Peppa Pig
and Aliens. Did you see that commercial? I saw? Now it's commercial?
Oh please okay? Yeah, MVP Yeah, and you know what I
looked ross the Winter store morning for Buffalo's in effect tomorrow afternoon through Monday through
Monday. I mean that can be a very interesting It depends on where the
band sets up. Now everybody knows. If you don't know about Lake effect,
it's very localize. It could be, yeah, snowing at the stadium
or not. But a couple of miles or even a mile down the road,
they could be getting pasty. No, no, no, no,
Ross wants to snow on the visitors side of the stadium. He's right,
and that's possible too, to get it. Hey, I am prepared for
possible disappointment. It comes with the territory. I'm good. You know it's
bad. When the line moved. The line moved down seven on that game.
So yeah, really there you go, all right, what's the right
there's thirty six now, but it was forty two. Oh okay, so
actually we're going get the forty three. I guess you could move seven.
So that's what I'm all right. I got a roll of thanks man,
appreciated day with Jeff. Jeff. What's happening? Okay, see, good
morning. We have a new reading on wholesale inflation from Washington The government's Producer
Price Index ticked a little lower last month, falling one tenth one percent.
Economists we're expecting a tenth of a percent increase now. The PPI is not
regarded as important as the CPI, which we got yesterday, but this is
still welcome news. Stock market futures still just a little bit lower, but
they have improved since that reading came out. Now futures are down ninety six
points. The Federal Aviation Administration is increasing its oversight of Boeing's production and manufacturing
operations after last Friday's accident on one of the company's passenger jets. Delta Airlines
adjusted fourth quarter profit top Wall Street forecasts, but the carrier is backing off
on its profit goals for twenty twenty four. Delta says persistently higher costs are
off setting the gains from the rebound in international travel. More consumers falling behind
on their credit card payments. The Philadelphia Fed reports the percentage of card balances
at least thirty days past due is the highest now in more than a decade,
and the sheriff cardholders making just the minimum monthly payment has risen above ten
percent for the first time. Since before the pandemic. In Casey, a
lot of people who got a taste of remote work during the pandemic want jobs
they can do from home. There are a lot of advantages to such positions,
but new data suggests the lack of FaceTime can be a setback to a
worker's career. The Wall Street Journal says an analysis by Live data Technologies found
that remote workers get fewer promotions than people who work in the office at least
part of the time. Casey, all right, thank you very much,
and we're gonna we'll see you tuesday. That's correct. I'm off also,
all right, all right, have a nice long weekend. Yeah, take
here there. Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg News, Ross, you would agree that,
you know, even with everything going on over in Israel, like,
uh, you know, you don't want to see reporters killed or targeted,
right, you don't want to see that, That's right. Yeah, regardless
of you know, any of the discussions we have about you know, actual
you know, pushback on things that reporters, right, you know, you
still don't want to see him targeted. What about part time reporters? Maybe
part time? I mean, it's a tough industry, so you know,
there's a lot of a lot of in media where people are doing like,
you know, thirty hours a week kind of stuff. I know a couple
of reporters in that in that, but you don't want to see him targeted,
right, they're part time reporters. I mean, I guess no,
I would not. Okay, good, But if their side hustle was making
bombs for Hamas, Okay, that's probably different than Yeah, I knew that
there was gonna be something. But he's got a press credential, see so
so yeah, okay, yeah, but he's got well, yeah, he
had the press credential and then he get you know, they greased him and
then everyone's like, oh my gosh, they killed a reporter, and yeah,
kind of uh it turns out, uh the dude also, in addition
to wearing a flack jacket with the word media on it in Arabic, was
also identified as one of the rocket makers for Hamas. What a side hustle
man, right, Like, yeah, you're not getting the hours in your
reporting job. If it doesn't even sound like that was relieving a thing.
But you're like, I gotta do some do I do? I do?
I do? Uber eats or do I make rockets for hamas Uh, everything's
just nuts. But yeah, that's uh, that's the update right there.
Hamza l Duda Dudah. His last name is dudof Really, I guess I
hadn't read that out loud before. Oh yeah, also known arms maker dude.
All right, real quick, don I got about a minute. What's
up, Good morning, Casey. I'm calling to complain about the smack being
spoken of about Bill Belichick. Was there we were analyst? No, no,
no, no no. The NBC article that was that's just funny.
That's true. Though he did lose to to the Giants. He did,
but you know what, he won two rings with the Giants defense coordinat defensive
coordinator hostile. These are unbiased opinions. I don't understand. You guys are
trying to make it sound like he's going to go sell cars. I don't
know. That's what John Elway did and he made a billion dollars. So
you know what. And as far as Bill Belichick, remember he's the one
who decided to take out Drew Bletsoe and put Brady in and they won the
championship because he was the one who decided that. Yeah, tires because tires
would be deflated probably. Oh that's a good point. Yeah, selling cars
would deflated tires. Nobody wants that