All right, good morning everybody, and welcome. It is Friday. It's
it's two for Friday. Two for do something we haven't done in a while.
We're gonna have not one but two guests. Uh one you probably know.
At eight oh five, Pete Calendar will join us. And boy,
what a week, man, what a week it is or has been.
Where's I guess technically still is big old fat, thirty billion dollars budget.
We all get to fun with our taxes. That'll be fun. That's good.
Everybody's miserable, so I guess they would say, well, that's a
good agreement. They're all a bunch of treacherous scum. The governor off,
if you just do this, I'll be nice. And he's just been a
piece of garbage in every tag or every tweet i've seen him, him put
out or his people. I didn't see that tagged RC. But there are
things too. Oh and the lawmakers, in addition to the budget thing,
yesterday they passed they passed a law saying that you'll have to have if you're
a porn site, you're gonna have to require age verification. Louisiana so far
is the only one to actually pass that and I want to say that they
talked to some of the adult websites and they said they saw an eighty percent
of reduction of people coming in the Louisiana because, believe it or not,
people don't want a porn site to have all of their identification, which I
think is part of the reason you do it right if you're a lawmaker who
wants to find yet another way to inject yourself into something. So we got
that and look, it's petty, but it was petty getting petty, Okay,
so petty on petty violence, I don't mind. Are you aware of
what happened to Ross's representative? This is your dude, by the way,
he represents your your little slice of heaven up there and Wake Forest, so
you should be outraged. He's a moon Beth though, So you have to
know how this started, right, That's that's going to be important context here.
So Wake Forest Representative Terrence Everett said he was on the House floor waiting
to vote on the budget when he was informed that somebody was in his office
box and all of his stuff up. So they're boxing everything in his office.
Why because the speaker or whomever decides these things, I mean look,
Tim Moore and Philburger, those are the two people running North Carolina. Just
know this also as signs offices. And they decided that his office was not
the office he needed. Instead, the office that he needed was in the
basement in a storage closet. It's a rather big space. I will say
that judgment by the photo here the storage closet. Yes. Representative Terrence Everett,
a Democrats, said he was on the House floor waiting to vote when
someone boxed up all the stuff in his old office building. Janitor said they
were told to clean out the supply room this morning. Everett then got a
letter from Tim Moore telling him the move was for his own good, all
right, And everyone was like, oh, it's so petty. It's so
petty. I want you to understand that if you read ever, it's Timeline
he's talking. He was running this whole tax Tim Moore's doing taxpayer funded orgies
and was running around trying to get district attorneys to dig into it. So
basically to do the political hit jobs, all the crap that they were doing
to Trump, he was trying to execute on a local level. You don't
have to like Tim More, you don't have to like the fact that the
you know, the woman he was connoodling with is separated from her husband.
We read the damn thing. It's messy as it's messy as messy gets.
But a single allegation from a sperned lover, a guy who's who's really upset,
even if even if he's right, is not. That's not how you
move mountains to have major, highly publicized investigate. He wanted it to.
This was a way to handicap Tin Moore, or attempt to if you got
some other evidence, some video emerges, God, don't send it to me.
But if it emerges all of that then fine. But trying to get
this thing that you knew that all of your moonbat media buddies would run around
and it would be the only story they would cover because of this pure salacious
nature of it. No, you're being petty. It's politicized garbage. So
you belong where the garbage used to be. I told you I'm sick of
everybody. I don't want to hear anyone whine in about it. You want
to play this game, you want to play in the mud with everybody else,
then you gotta understand who's the bigger kid when it comes to hurling that
mud ball, right when you play dodgeball, wasn't there always one kid You're
like, please, God, don't throw at me? Right, because the
kid was like a minute away from signing a Yankees contract. I remember the
kid, Doyle, Oh Doyle really yeah, throw it at my head.
He'd be like, oh Doyle rules every single time. Wow. Yeah,
he had a high opinion of him. Was super fast though. I would
push girls in the way, free equality, right, big, yeah,
you're not misogynistic, that's right, not me. So they moved him to
the base. But can you, I mean, can you even well up
a tear? All? Right? By the way, I have received all
of your all of your all of your memes of a certain red stapler having
dude who got himself moved to the basement. I'm on it got all the
office based stuff, thank you. But it is funny. It's like the
first thing that pops in that pop, first thing that popped into my mind
too. Did they give him that? You know? I gotta tell you,
man, if Tim Moore had had a red stapler placed on his desk
in the closet in the basement that he had never had before, I would
be busting a gut this morning, because then the inevitability as you got the
what's her bucket, van van van hateful or whatever down in Apex. She
has a pretty big Twitter presence, so she's on there. She's like,
we're just worth the adults in the room, and we're trying to just do
what's best for everybody, and these monsters keep doing this. Feel bad for
us, Send us ten dollars. And she is absent. She is just
as unbearable as all of them. You went out and you try to get
your political buddies to sit there and do a salacious, high profile taxpayer fund.
Could you think of a more salacious, high profile story that the media
would not let go than taxpayer funded orgies. That's that's an editor's dream,
man, or it would have been when people still read their stuff. Ril
would probably have a whole panel that the tax fayer and the taxpayer funded orgy
panel, just to break down the latest happenings each and every evening. I
would argue that's a lot more playing for keeps than making you go work out
of a windowless basement room. By the way, first world problems go home.
You live in wake forest. How about that. If you don't have
any votes, go home and work. Ross says, other building his mansions
up there. I'm sure you have one and sun blotting out buildings, but
those are only near him. So all right, sorry, that's how we
chose to start. And they voted on the budget, so you know that
thing happened too. I guess that's why I started that whole segment. All
right, now, I mentioned and we'll get into that with Pete. We
got two guests, guests Numeral Dose at seven o five Jennifer Martin from the
Merchants Association, or as you know them, if you don't know who that
group is, they're the group that annually put on the Raleigh Christmas Parade,
and as we have documented here on the show with fake puppy snuffings, the
city has decided that I think you need one of those. And then when
the when, the when the feedback got too much, they all right,
you can have one, but we're gonna put rules in that really make it
not a parade and destroy children's dreams. And so that back and forth is
going, and I hope the Merchants Association we'll find out a little more.
I hope they're going to reject that out of hand, because I don't know
how you do that unless you get a bunch of Clydesdale's and then if they
spook, God help us. All all right, six eighteen hang on,
Thank you. Casey is on ninety four five w PTI in the Triad and
one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right, good morning,
and welcome back. It is the case O Day Radio program. Who
wants to Solve a mystery? Do you guys want to solve a mystery on
this on this beautiful morn Oh I need my button bar please, but I'm
sorry I had I'd made Ross turn it down. The prize good do do
do do? All right, We're gonna solve a mystery and it's called spot
the gaff. So Joe Biden had a little whoopsie last night. I know
you're shocked. It's a word problem. So follow along. So the eighty
year old president yesterday was hosting a Galla award That's Nice at a at an
event and started rambling on about the Gospel of Matthew and his Father and all
of that. The award ceremony, which was taking place during the forty six
annual Congressional Hispanic Caucus institutes galla. All right, did you retain that information?
Now, I'm gonna play what he said. You tell me based on
that information? Where's the gaff? My dad taught me? And I mean
it sincer that my dad, you say everyone, everyone is entitled to be
treated with dignity and respect. Congressional Black Hawk has embodies all those values.
Just think of the work we've done together on civil rights, labor rights,
healthcare, education. Did you spot the gaff? The President who's providing the
award? The word recipient I believe was a woman who runs a let's see,
she's a kid. It's a Catholic charity, so it's a it's a
sister, Norma Pimental who runs Catholic Charities of the Rio Grand Valley, Okay.
As part of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus's forty six annual gala, the President
said this zechoh, and my dad taught me, and I mean it sinceer
that my dad you say everyone, everyone is entitled to be treated with dignity
and respect. Congressional Black Caucus embodies all those values. Just did you did
you pick up on it that time? Did you solve the mystery? So
I know it's early, and if it is, I won't toy with you
any longer. He's at the Congressional Hispanic Caucuses awards show and he keeps calling
him the Congressional Black Caucus. I'm told they're two different things. That's what
I heard. And by the way, they're they're all a joke anyway,
because like they'll keep Republicans out of it. Remember Tim, Remember Tim Scott?
Tim Scott? Yeah, I know it was Tim Scott wanted to get
in there. And they're like, nah, that new uh the guy from
Florida, the black representative from Florida. I can't remember his name, but
he's popping up everywhere. They're like, nah, because it's not it's they're
Democratic caucuses. But so with that in mind, these are all your buddies,
and you can't tell the difference between the Black Caucus and the Hispanic Caucus.
That's awkward, man, you know what. I hope Twitter's right.
That's that's all I can take ipe. I hope Twitter's spot on. Man.
If you haven't seen what's trend in this morning, boy, are you
gonna be surprised or you won't then you will. Some of you will be
surprised immediately, others surprise will come shortly thereafter, and then you'll have about
as seven years or so to get over your surprise and then everything's fine.
Right, well, what what? What? Hold on? There's more?
Oh no, all right, well we'll get into that coming up. Casey
O Day Radio program. Hang on, keeping you connected. This is ninety
four five w PTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in
the Triangle. All right, good morning, it is six thirty five.
Glad to have you a long case O Day radio program. For some reason,
trending right now is the Rapture. So that's why I have big news.
I mean, you couldn't do it at five fifty nine and to do
a whole show or what? What's up with that? Man? I mean,
maybe it has started? What do you? What do you? What
do you mean? Maybe you know it's possible. I'm not. I'm not
in the air, so if it had started, I mean, yeah,
I've got some bad news for you. Oh it's I'm not in the first
boarding group. Actually, I'm after the show down. I'm flying up to
New York City for at two at in the two o'clock hour. I'm gonna
gonna tell you what my flight is when you psycho pass anyway, so I'm
flying up New York City. I would be amazing if it happens there,
because I think if you're at thirty thousand feet, you're like first in.
You know, it's like first when you're like the first group to get on
the plane and there's luggage space, right, that's how that works, right.
Yeah. I'm not sure how they determined it was supposed to be today
either, no idea that was gonna be my next question. How does Twitter?
No? All I know is I woke up. I'm like, hey,
what's trending? Yep, Yeah, there's the rapture over like nine thousand
posts yep. Like what's this about? Click it? I'm like, oh,
today is the day. I guess they crunch some numbers, they figured
it out. I thought, no man shall know. And it wasn't even
about the rapture, right, it was just you know, when he's head
it, when he's coming back. Wouldn't that thought? Didn't that kind of
say that in the Bible, no man shall know? I'm not sure it
doesn't even like the rapture is not in the Bible, is it No,
no, no, no, I'm not talking. I just mean, you
know, the beginning of the end, so to speak. Right, I
don't think the raptures in the Bible. The rapture was always confusing to me.
I thought that, like I thought the rapture or something that showed up
around like the eighteen eighties or something like like later on. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, I don't remember, but you're right, it was something a
little later on. And like you know, like a lot of things within
the Bible sometimes we try to create, you know, things are allegories.
It is open to interpretation. Yeah, like did did this thing? Did
the story in the Bible happen exactly like that? Or is it the message
that was the you know, the point and it you know, don't take
it literally, but yeah, to know which date is? Although what I'm
trying to I was trying to think about this, how many this is the
last day? Days have we done? Shows? So many of us,
so many It never pans out. We just gotta come back to work the
next day, Like twenty twelve, back in the day, why two k's
and oldie but a goody, Yeah, twenty twelve. And then there was
another random one, and I don't remember how that originally. Of course you
have Planet X. Oh deboo U, yes, where's our deboou listener to
update us on how that's going. Remember how mad that dude he used to
get out of you? So pissed off I couldn't read his emails on the
air. The Planet X day would come around, and then the goal posts
and move. Oh, we forgot to carry the decimal the one pm theorem.
It's actually in two weeks. It's just that meme of Julia Roberts with
all the math going on overhead. Ah, what if it's not the rapture
but it is Planet X today? Do you get half credit? I'm not
sure how that works? All right, So I guess if at some point
you don't start ascending, probably shouldn't have kept that twenty you found on the
on the floor in the store, Okay, without at least trying, you
know, without asking do better? I mean you can't, right, she
should have done better? I guess. Oh, anyway, it does.
It did make for cool TVs and comic books and their TV shows and movies
and all that. And again I think we tried to vision. Maybe maybe
somebody can help me out of the cloth, as they say, help me
with the rapture? Is that an allegory? Because Ross is right, that
wasn't a thing initially, and then it was a thing, and I don't
really understand it. And frankly, I don't want to go to Wikipedia for
religious history, considering who enters most of the Wikipedia stuff. But I and
if you believe, I don't want to insult it. I'm just telling you
it wasn't you know, It wasn't something that I had a lot of background
in growing up, but it was a concept I was aware of, and
I guess I always chalked it up to it's you know, it's an allegory
when if you try to match it up with the way that you know his
return is is talked about within the Bible to the extent that we know.
But the one thing I do remember is no man shall know. So I
don't know how Twitter knows, unless Jesus got a Twitter account and has trouble
keeping secrets, which I suspect he doesn't. So anyway, all right,
six six forty one case D radio program. That's right, we're having a
rapture discussion. It's a thing that's happening this morning, and I didn't pick
it. So eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four doo do
doo, doo doo. All right, we get some calls coming in.
We'll get in on this. Oh oh hold on, Uh yeah, Chris,
what's up, hey, Casey, Goodmarens. Thanks for taking my call.
It's the Ford Rapture. They're trying to sell trucks because the evs are
you're telling full me, sir. I know it's the Raptor. Oh,
I'm sorry, man, I can't read either. I thought I was rapture
this whole time. I was gonna buy the truck, but I guess not
now. So well, that would be good because that means Elon's getting some
advertising dollars back from some of the more traditional companies. Love you, guys,
than you. What if you're in Afford Raptor and then the rapture,
does the Ford Raptor come with you? Or do you just you know,
phase through the ceiling and then you're on your way And then if you don't
go, at least you got a speedy truck to get away from the hordes.
Yes, Wade, what's up hey, morning morning? You know the
right. You're exactly right. The Rapture of Plot is a very good book
that explains the rapture. It was Margaret McPherson was a young lady's name.
She had a dream in eighteen thirty and she said at the time the dream
was evil. Scofield and some of the other preachers of the time. Rand
with the theory, had a giant revival and planted the idea that it was
gonna be any moment return of Christ. It was sucked the believers upright up
into heaven. Fortunately, that's just not biblical. The Trible very clearly states
that you know, no man is to know the hour. That's what I
said. You're close casing and yeah, and you know, and what it
is, guy, this so simple. There's an Antichrist coming, and that's
a fake Christ. He's gonna look like Christ. He's gonna perform miracles.
It says he can call lightening down from heaven. He's probably gonna have you,
Grandma and grand Daddy's standing there and not really looked just like him telling
his Christ. The whole world mostly is gonna believe his Christ. But it's
not. It's the fake. It's five months maybe just two and a half.
Well, i'll tell you, I'll tell you. I'll tell you this,
sir. If Twitter thinks they know the hour of the rapture, my
audience thinks they know who the anti Christ is. Every election cycle I get
these emails. So truder is the science. Yeah. Yes, those are
two words never used together. For example, it's a six six six deal.
That's to six seal to six l to six Trump. That's Satan Antichrist
seven seven seven seventh seal seventh thousand, seventh Trump, that's the treat Christ.
So we're supposed to wait. I always wanted to say, he won't
be taken out of feel if they're taken by the Antichrist. He tells you,
he tells you wait, wait, wait, be patient, be patient.
Wait. So I don't want to know if so, Now, if
you are the one floating away, you're going that you're a bad person.
No, they're not gonna fluat, They're gonna fake you. Okay, all
right, that's what I think. You can you imagine how you could dupe
the American public, Sir, will also probably be a super are Also,
it sounds like that'd be too hard to do. It's gonna be it's gonna
be tough. Yeah, he got your mind. Solid it. Here's you
to the first supernatural being you ever say on this earth. He claims to
be quiet. Who ever, pitch yourself if you feel it, it ain't
him. There you guys. Okay, all right, all right, sir,
I appreciate the call this morning. Okay, thanks for bringing up Yeah,
well take thank thank thank Twitter, sir God Twitter. All right,
thank you. All right. That man's got energy. I like him.
I'm I'm slightly less confused on the main topic, but now I'm more confused
on a bunch of other stuff. If the high bar is they're going to
be able to dupe the American public, we're doomed. Man guy might as
well roll in tomorrow and just you know, give him some free stuff,
Give him some COVID bucks, call him rapture bucks. American public is not
gonna care if you're sending them a check. All right, six forty five
k c O day radio program. Hang on, this is one oh six
one FM Talk in the Triangle and here's talk w PTI and the Triad.
Yeah. It's really slow though, and the GPS doesn't work so well.
It's telling ross I got a new Chevy Limbo yesterday, I got my pontiac
purgatory. Oh wow, yeah, that must suck to write it does,
doesn't sounds like any fun, super boring. Oh well, look at that.
Everyone's getting new h new rails. D's awesome. All right, So
six fifty two, we're probably not getting raptured today. So that's good or
baited on penn on, how you look at it, it's bad. I
don't know. I don't know. I've got a busy schedule. So there's
that the president can't tell when he's at the Congressional Black Caucus or the Congressional
Hispanic cofer Caucus. And I mean it sinceer that my dad, you say,
everyone, everyone is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect. Congressional
Black Hawcus have bodies, all those values. Just think of the work we're
done together on civil rights, labor rights, healthcare, education. No,
all right, let me can I help you know? Sometimes? Do you
RUSSI used demonic devices? Ever? Yes? They do? Okay, all
right, I find them incredibly helpful. Little little memory tricks, you know,
like what was the planet one? My very earthly mother just stold Uncle
Ned's pie. I don't know why. I remember that from like third grade.
But now there's no pie. So oh yeah, no, we had
my very educated mother just served us nine pieces. I like that. You
get changed. The e even as a kid had bothered me because I thought
it was cheating to say my earthly mother. But whatever, all right,
educated? Wow, Look now who's the misogynist me? Okay, all right,
so let me help the president of the United States. Okay when it
when you're when you're talking to the Black Caucus, you need to remember,
those are the people you say are you're gonna they're gonna get put back in
chains? Okay, right, so that's those are the back in chains people,
right, So maybe get him like a little you know, like an
emoji. Is there a chains emoji? I don't know if there's a chains
emo. I know there's an emoji for the other one I'm gonna use,
but I don't know if there's a chain's emoji. Oh, I thought we
had the Biden chains thing. I was gonna play the audio and where was
that that was in? Uh? That was right up here and just in
the listening area. But Virginia, is that in Danville? Where he said
that? And Danville. All right, So those are the chains the put
them back in chains people, right, because you said that your political opponents
want to put them back in chains. And then the Hispanic caucus. Those
are the different tacos people, according to your wife, right, remember,
Joe Biden. As distinct as the bogadas of the Bronx. I forgot about
the bogadas part. Does she mean Bogata Columbia or does she mean Bodega?
She means Bodega. Well that's not even a bad part. As distinct as
the bogadas of the Bronx, as beautiful as the blossoms of Miami, and
as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio, as unique as the
breakfast tacos of sa in Todio. Now, don't get me wrong. I
love a breakfast taco. Sign me up for a breakfast taco. Good breakfast
tacos. And I had a buddy used to live in Houston and like and
so I went down to visit for a few days, and you know,
he's like, yeah, you used the extra room radio buddy I used to
work with, and and like his you know, his wife would love to
cook breakfast and I'd be out the damn door when I woke up to go
to one of the three thousand gas stations that sells breakfast tacos because I don't
get I'll get that every day. There's a couple of places here in North
Carolina where you could find them. Over on Capitol there's they got one of
those joints. But man, I found the one with the good charizo.
I was game on mmmm, breakfast tacos. So yeah, So, mister
President, I'd go with a taco emoji and a chain emoji. So you
understand which minority you're attempting to dupe and keep on the you know, keep
on the team by attempting to scare them of ever deviating in their thought process.
It's very important, very important thing for you to do. Also,
how much is enough for you pumpkin spice people? Do you know it's the
twentieth anniversary of that. I just saw this at this point. It's the
twentieth anniversary of pumpkin spice lattes, which set off pumpkin spice everything. You've
had a good run. Can we be done with this? How long did
disco last? It wasn't twenty years and many of you listening. Probably had
pretty good time during that. But then you're like, what are we doing?
Why do I own these pants? Why has this whole thing got a
boon in it? Right? Or however? You know, however you celebrate,
but it didn't last twenty years. Remember Jenko's. If you're of my
generation, you remember Jenko's. Remember those jeans that were the size of a
tug boat. They were so wide in you know, the hippie kids would
wear them, right, that didn't last twenty years. Nah, Back in
my neighborhood, it was like the gangster kids wore them. Well, you
have to understand a greb wyoming. So unless you want to Malibu's most wanted
scenario, it's not happening out there. So but still I remember I remember
looking at those and okay, well it doesn't matter he's wearing them. They
looked dumb, didn't they. Oh yeah, there was never a point where
it's like I need those. Yes, why they didn't last twenty years?
All of this stuff, they're super ex everyone's super excited. Gone, maybe
less so on the Jankos with the disco right, so no, no kick
the habit this year's say no sorry. I was at a restaurant yesterday and
like two of the taps, perfectly good beer taps. It could have perfectly
good Belgians in there or something at Pumpkin Spice crap. Just say no,
all right, good morning. It is seven h seven here on the case
O Day Radio program phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven
four. All right. So we have had a lot of discussion going back
to the end of last week about the Raleigh Christmas Parade, stupidity of politicians,
and it's it's it's not it's not been figured out yet. So we
continue, we continue to monitor the battle and what I wanted to do because
I don't Ross you think the Merril come on the show robily note some some
would say we were very we were a little oh, we were just right,
Okay, all right, Ross, tellmy we're just right good. I
agree, so she won't. However, the group that puts on the parade
is not the city. I still see there's people who think that it's not
the city. The organization that puts it on is and it's a mouthful Shop
Local Raleigh Greater Raleigh Merchants Association. I'm just gonna call it shop Local or
Merchants Association, and I'm gonna chat with the woman behind the scenes is having
to do all this negotiating, all this organizing, and that is Jennifer Martin
from the organization. Jennifer, how you doing this morning? And well,
thanks for having us. I'm gonna call you this Merchants Association and stumble over
it, so I apologize in advance. Okay, all right, that's fine.
First of all, give me the scope of who your group is,
just so people. I mean, it's somewhat self explanatory, but how many
businesses we talk and how many folks are are part of this organization, and
what's your goal is? As an organization, Sure Shop Local Rally, we
try and work with locally owned, independent small businesses all throughout the county.
Primarily all of our members are wally based, and we do work with them
day to day, whether it's helping them within in consulting work, if it's
an advocacy work, if it is just being an ear and a voice with
them, connecting them, giving them educational seminars, training, anything a small
business owner might need. And then we also put together a program to give
them competitive advantages that a big box might have. That they won't have as
an individual, Okay, and then you guys involve yourself with you know,
with various events. Obviously, the events have the net impact of drawing people
into the county, into the city, into the wherever the area is,
and generating revenue right because people are shopping or maybe they're discovering a store for
the first time. I mean, this is part of what you do,
that's right. I mean from an outset perspective, it does look like we
operate like a chamber by day, you know, for those small businesses.
But then we also part of our mission is to connect business in community together
and how we do that as through event and so we're very heavy on social
media, having a presence on Facebook and Instagram, you know, connecting the
consumers, making sure they're aware what's happening in our area. We're very passionate
about our town, you know, keeping the small businesses or the backbone of
our economy, and they're really the heartbeat and the soul of what we do
here. And so with these events, it gives small businesses an opportunity to
market themselves to the Kennedy but it also creates vibrancy and events and like you
said, it does create tax revenue in jobs. And I don't care where
you go in anywhere in the triangle for that matter. Right now, you
could have lived, you could have been born here and never went on vacation
anywhere, and you could still be constantly surprised. That's the look at that
new business. I mean, that is the growth that is going on right
now. So people getting downtown. If you haven't been downtown in a few
months, I bet there's probably three restaurants you've never heard of that are that
are there now easily easily. And you know, with the small businesses collectively,
when you put them all together, they are the largest employer in our
area. And I mean that's you know, a lot to think about when
you look at it that way. Right now, we have over eight hundred
members. Pre pandemic, we were over a thousand, So obviously we're still
working ourselves to come back to that as well. But we serve a lot
of people in our community, which is a lot of tax revenue. Yeah,
yeah, And that's that's going to come into play here because I want
to kick into two things, and we're going to start with what we've been
chatting about. This week. The Christmas Parade, for those who don't know,
is roughly the same age as the president, you know, right around
eighty years minus a couple World War two years and a video version. But
how long have you guys specifically been doing the Christmas Parade? Your organization putting
it together? Sure, all of them day and actually founded it. Part
of the parade is the old history of Raleigh where downtown Raleigh Stay at Bell
Street was the original retail district at this town. You know, Belk actually
started down there back in the dayla It's called Hudson Belk. I'm a lot
of those businesses there is a and Burke's Hardware, things like that, and
they all came together and wanted to give a gift back to this community,
you know, thank them for supporting them, for helping employ them, keeping
them going. And that's actually why it is also the weekend before Thanksgiving.
It's because black sidea happens and so those most tends would be busy, but
they wanted to always give a gift back to this town. When you guys,
when you look back to what happened last year and the tragedy that struck
as one of the one of the girls. I wish it was a dance
team or a baton team. I can't I'm sorry if I can't remember.
And you know, obvious, obviously at that point, you guys had to
take a look at what was going on within the parade, the rules,
the requirements, the family of that girl, where it was working with the
legislature to actually put together some some legislation. I read it. It seemed
mostly reasonable. What did that cause you guys to do proactively before you ever
came to the city asking for another permit for this year's event. Sure,
you know, I think a lot of things happened. Obviously, we're individuals
ourselves, and we have grieved every single day since that day. I mean,
it's been one of the hardest things to have to go through. And
considering that family that they're going to, I can't even imagine. And so
we looked at this and said, Okay, we've got it. We've got
to fix this. We gotta make this right for next year. How do
we honor this family, this child, and then how do we improve and
making sure that not only is this parade safe, but how do we improve
every single how can we work with the sea of rally to improve every single
event. And so we're brought in together a committee of people with past experience
and events safety management doing different events themselves, and brought them to the table
and said, okay, let's look at this, and came up with a
set of rules and regulations and requirements that we would mandate that have to be
followed, you know by all participants and things like, you know, knowing
the towing capacity of the trailers, knowing the weight limit of the trucks,
of towing capacity, you know, all of those factors that would play in
the age of drivers back in you know, knowing their license, their inspection
history, knowing having a passenger in the car with windows rolled down. And
furthermore, we we looked at having a safety consultant come on board and had
been in talks with them since the morning of day would actually do the ones
to actually inspect every vehicle to make sure the tires look good, you know,
confirmed that the driver we had been told was coming is actually the one
coming, all those kind of things, and checked that all before it left
the start line that morning. Sorry, but microphone is actually weird. Uh
yeah, I want to get that on the record, because when I then
saw the story and and oh, and also keep in mind that the city
of Raleigh, during from from the point of your Christmas parade last year to
your application this year, had permitted multiple other parades, but did include some
additional safety stuff, a lot of which was what you you were just talking
about. So I wanted that all out there because I, like many others,
was shocked when I when I saw the miryor's response that no, we're
not going to give you the permit, We're going to do some other holidays
something or other whatever, but it and then the reasons why, which included
the family who I in my opinion, and you don't. You can agree
or disagree or not comment, that's fine. I think that that was the
most horrific thing that she did because it gave people the impression that the family
didn't want the parade, and that was not true. The family didn't want
the parade, they wanted additional safety measures, of which you seemed to be
meeting what those are, So I thought that that was a cop out.
Then there was a lawsuits, blaming lawsuits. The city was not being sued.
It was shocking to me, how shocked for you guys, when they
initially said no, you know, it was very disappointing. We actually mentioned
and again at this time we were told that the decision was coming from city
council, that they had weighed in on this. We later learned that they
had not weighed in on this as a whole, and that this was more
of a scaff decision right now. When we when we got the call and
met with them, it was a very quick call. It was a very
abrupt call, and about thirty minutes later the media had the press release so
that this is not happening. But during that call we did mention to them
that in the lawsuit, on the first page of the family did mention they
did not want to pray to continue or to end, and to us,
we knew, okay, we have to do this, we have to keep
going and we have to make these improvements for it, and we mentioned that
on the call, but unfortunately, you know, that was not taken into
consideration. And so it's a lot of work on us to do these events.
We don't take them lightly. We are very We love serving our community
and when you work for a nonprofit, a lot of people know these are
labors of love. You don't work forty hours a week. You work much
more than you do it because you love it. Yeah, especially this time
of the year with all the events going on to the other events, I
lost my mind. We were we were aggressive in our coverage, but that's
fine, that's what I do. And I further lost my mind again when
it looked like the city was going to try to save a little face and
come back and say, all right, you can have it, but you
can't have motors or floats or vehicles or any of that other stuff. It's
a purely Stone age era parade. And because I'm like one, that doesn't
work for everything that people have come to expect with these parades and and how
people some people choose to participate in these parades because they have mobility issues.
That doesn't work. And I would hate for your organization to just go okay,
because it's allowing a very bad decision by somebody who just doesn't get it,
in my opinion, to not look like the person that they are being
here. So I am glad to see that you guys have not You didn't
just agree to that and go on. So let's talk about that process and
where you are now. Sure, sure. So we were called less than
twenty four hours later with the option of having a non motorized parade. And
our concern, like you mentioned, is the mobility issues. You know,
we asked about having golf carts to help with those and things like that.
Unfortunately those are not approved and we've with that, We've taken too consideration.
You know, obviously you've got you can have horses, you can have bands,
you can have animals, you can have dancers, but how do you
get the music down the street? How do you base out the music from
the animals, And that's also a big concern, making sure that you know
animals, those floats a lot of times are buffers between that. Yeah,
horses can be jerks having raised with being raised with horses, man, and
especially with crowds around. But yeah, no, it's a very good point.
I didn't even think of. I want to make sure, yeah,
yeah, I mean, you don't want to put a marching band next to
a horse, and so things like that we try to be very very careful
of. And so it's going to create obviously, you know, we were
what sixty days when the news broke, we're now is it fifty six days
away? That including weekends, So a lot of work is going to have
to happen to figure out how we creatively do this, but how we also
give this city what they you know, has come to love and know to
the caliber. I mean, it's televised throughout the state. And when we
had this option to do this, it was it was a very quick option
that needed to be answered, and at the end of the day, you
know, we said, we're committed to make things this parade happen. We
want this for the city of Rali, for the people, for the residents,
for the community, and it was in that litigation that they wanted to
continue. We knew we had to continue, and so with that we accepted
it that we would we would do the parade because we'd said we want this
to happen for this town. However, we then since learned that the council
did not weigh in on the matter, and some counselors asked us for the
opportune for us to at least present a safety plan since we were not given
that plan before that option to do that, and so the only option was
to speak at city council in that public comment section, which we had a
three minute opportunity to present to them that we just wanted it. We wanted
them to reconsider. They didn't give you. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
They didn't give you your own agenda item. If there was request by council
members to hear from you, the agenda was already set at that time.
So the way the process works, we'd have to wait until the next meeting
to get our own agenda item. And so we were only a late allowed
to do that. Bats garbage. I've covered city council for years, early
on in my career. If they want to add something, they added,
well, there was a process to do it unanimous. I don't Yeah,
if I don't know how all that works, Yeah, I guess I don't
know specifically Raleigh's rule. I'm sorry. I'm just so disappointed in all of
this. And so you're gonna so you spoke, and then what do the
councilors say, what, we're going to have a vote on this, We're
gonna look at it, We're going to ignore you. I mean, what's
going to happen? No, we were told thank you, and then one
counselor did ask the question and asked us to go ahead and say you have
said, you have a safety preventation, you have requirements, can you tell
us more about those? And that gave us the opportunity to start sharing some
of what we've worked on in our plans, and then we were asked to
email the document to all of them to review. We actually had printed out
copies, so we handed them to printed out copies and emailed all of them
with that information. All right, and this is I only have two minutes,
and I just want to hit you on this. Would the thing that
you should the thing that you should be talking to council members over should not
be having to slice anddise how this parade works. This should be perfunctorary.
It should be what is going on downtown and many other places in the city
of Raleigh that your membership, who provides millions and millions in revenue for this
city, are doing about the safety concerns there. Would you mind hanging on
and talking about that? Sure? Absolutely, because I think that's another really
big issue. And so with the parade, you're just on a weight and
here approach, right, that's where you are right now. But the parade
will go down one way or the other though, correct, correct? Okay,
all right? It's so frustrating. All right, Jennifer, I'm gonna
throw you on hold. Is Jennifer Martin from the Greater Raleigh Merchants Association.
And yes, if there if the parade insanity wasn't enough, there's also the
safety concerns. You've heard about it people people, You had a manager at
a restaurant who was literally beaten to death. You've had so many police interactions
where they've had to be called people with weapons, drugs, fights after fight
after fight, and it all serves to detract from people who've made big investments
in the community to provide what it is the community says that they want,
and for whatever reason, I don't feel like the city is providing the services
back to them. So we'll see what Jennifer thinks. We'll do it.
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All right, welcome back, Good morning everybody. It is seven thirty six
here on the k c O Day Radio program. We were chatting and we're
going to continue to chat because I got two things on my list with Jennifer
Martin from the Shop Local Raleigh Greater Raley Merchants Association, organizers of the Christmas
Parade, and where it stands right now, Christmas Parade nothing motorized, and
maybe some interest on the part of some of the city council members if there's
a safety plan that perhaps they can revisit that, but who knows. Jennifer
Martin joining us. Jennifer, I'm sorry, I didn't have one other Christmas
thing, and I want to drive this point home with something that was posted
online and it was it was a story about one of the people who participates
in your Christmas parade. And I read it on the air the other day
and let's just say, got a little dusty. Here a young man who
has lost he had lost both of his parents, He had he had turned
into a shell of his former self. He stopped speaking, and it was
the experience of getting to participate in the parade and all of the all the
magic that that brings for a kid that had his grandmother in tears with how
it was changing him back to the kid that she used to know. Is
that an accurate recitation of it, that is that is and I think what
people may may not realize is we have those stories every single year. And
you know, I mean, you know, I'm a believer, I know
what Christmas is about. But also this parade to so many people, it's
about bringing people together. It's about starting the celebrating of the season. And
this one event. Another reason we just love it so much is you look
and you see the crowd. I know, people get there at four am
to start saving their seats and that's that's commitment. And they come and they
say, you know what, like I was in the parade as a kid
and now my kid is in it, or I'm here to see my grandchildren
because I was in it when I was in school. And again going back
to why we agreed to go on no matter what is our kids deserve this.
You know, when we went virtual in twenty twenty, my staff and
I we went around all these different locations filming them and taking this back with
the news station and editing the videos so that they could still have a chance.
These kids have. You know, they lost COVID during that twenty twenty
year. They lost so much. Now that you come back, we had
twenty twenty one obviously twenty twenty two, they and then now you know it's
in theres now. A lot of these kids that refresh from back then and
this is their chance to march and to participate. And a lot of these
bands will use the footage from this event to submit to other parades like the
Rose Bowl Parade or the Macy's Day Parade, things of that nature for their
consideration video for them to participate. Yeah, this is there's there's so much.
I'm sorry, finish your thoughts. Going back to the child that we
mentioned, you know, that's that's literally what got him, made him come
alive again, if you will, made him be human again. And there's
so many stories like that. With last year, we had a girl that
you know, stage war cancer and so she wanted to walk with her band,
but couldn't do to her mobility issues with her legs and cancer, and
so we rented a golf cart for her as a surprise to have that.
And so there's we don't I don't think we realize sometimes for kids what this
means and why we continue this for them. We work with a lot of
the local nonprofits with kids that have issues related to different f you know,
autoimmune diseases, so we identify places along the route that have window seating so
that they can sit upstairs and still watch it and not be compromised with the
crowd. I mean, yeah, I can't. I can't. The things
that we'll never know about what goes into putting a parade on is is why
you you told me you were like, I'm I was up till two in
the morning the other day or yesterday, and it's just we we love doing
this and again we're we consider ourselves partners with the city of brow and a
lot of events, our event that Dick's Park that we do, the Fall
festival, you know, we help with the bluegrass event, doing this parade,
it's all in partnership and we just simply want to continue that partnership and
do this the right way. You know, I think that there's an opportunity
here. We understand last year's concerns, we do, but we've really worked
hard to overcome that. And you know that we've researched too. There's other
parades across the country that have had accidents and tragedies, but all of them
continued the next year, and they continue and you find a way to pay
it forward and honor that person or that grew or whatever it might be,
because again, our kids deserve this. I don't think I'm I'm going to
disagree with you. From my perspective, I don't think they're your partner,
because partners are partners, right, And I think with this right here,
this is not showing partnership. Have you considered telling the marriage she give me
the Grand Marshal and getting her a scepter or something, I mean, overcome
this? And I don't, And I question the partnership approach to when it
comes to protecting the investment that your members have made in this community, their
physical investments, and their physical safety. When we continue to see stories and
anecdotally hear things. I was talking to some folks who work at a very
very well known, long time downtown restaurant yesterday about like some of the stuff
they've noticed from safety concerns, and it's it's mind boggling. And then when
I hear discussion about unarmed with no arrest power security guards somehow supplanting the work
the police need to be doing because they have those arrest powers, I don't
feel they're being a good partner to you. Guys. So you don't have
to agree with me, but talk about your concerns and the concerns of your
membership, because I know some of them, and I know some of them
have sat in their back rooms with firearms to protect their stuff. This is
out of hand, Jennifer, it's out of hand. I think downtown rolling,
especially Fayetville Street District quarter or especially, is still fighting to come back.
I mean, you know, we obviously know we had the riots,
we had the protests, we had the pandemic, but you know, people
are not back in office in the large majority. There's a lack of foot
traffic. There is a lot of issues down there. You know, the
crime that's happening at the bus station there's it is a it's a huge concern,
and we get calls every day from a lot of our businesses all over
town, but especially in that Fetale Street district that say, we need help,
We need help people, our customers aren't coming here, or this happened
or that happened, or this incident. I've called, you know for nine
one one or I've called police, and I don't know what to do anymore.
Like it's becoming a daily incident where they're calling. I know that we
ourselves have contacted DCX corporate asking them to hire some security outside of their store,
just knowing that that is such a hot spot of activity and with that
DVX store, and that it is a problem in downtown. You know,
again, I don't know what to do. We've offered solutions to the Alliance
Downtown of can we help program events because events do bring foot traffic. So
if we program, if we do weekly programming to get people back down here,
will that help, you know, alleviate some of this the people that
are not doing good. You know, I don't know what the solution is.
What we are definitely willing to sit at the table and to be part
of discussions and proactively jump in and roll up sleeves to do wherever we can
to help clean this up because it is a problem. We're also hearing from
members in North Frawley. You know, there's been a lot of smashing grabs
lately. People are going in overnight smashing out windows, smashing windows at North
Hills, at North and it's the most vanilla No I don't mean this is
in an offensive way, but that's the most vanilla picturesque living slash shopping community
they have and they smashed a bunch of windows out the other day. Yeah,
I mean it's it's a grin. We are rapidly growing city. I
understand that, and with bigger cities you have bigger problems. But we also
have to handle those like bigger cities and look at this and say, okay,
we got to get this in the control now. You know, our
merchants up in North Rowley, they were telling us it's it's thousands of dollars
in damage. It's there. They may be shut down that day for business
or the next. You know, their insurance point, their insurance premiums are
going up because ultimately they're the ones they're going to have to pay for that.
And crime is on the rise. I think we've heard recently that the
business crime in our community is up fifty six percent, which means, you
know, robbing stores or breaking in things like that, fifty six percents a
huge amount. And we want to simply be a part of helping a How
do we help be a resource, be an advocate, be whatever we can
do. Our merchants heat this and you know they're calling us and I don't
have the answers. I'm not security trained. I don't have that background,
but I want to help them and that my heartboats show them is what they're
going through. No, we're rapidly turning to the position where you see you
see this in some West Coast cities where people leave all their windows down and
their doors unlocked so they don't have to replace windows. Right, They're like,
you want to root around in my car? Here you go. And
in downtown Raleigh is becoming I lived in downtown Raleigh when I first moved to
North Carolina, and there were there there were always things that you wish you
had down there, like a grocery store, an ABC store, uh and
many and those things are coming to fruition right now. It's never been more
livable and workable than it is right now. And the thing that is going
to decimate that is the crime. And so the city's got to get on
this all right, Jennifer, thank you so much for so much of your
time this morning. I really hope that the city council, and I don't
know if I the city council is now going to look at your security plan,
which means if they still say no, then I'm gonna instead of just
the mayor, the council members share a little bit of responsibility in this,
and they can all join in the mayor slapping ice cream cones out of kid's
hands or whatever makes them feels. You don't have to say it, I'll
say it for you, Okay. I just want this to happen. And
I want that kid who speaks now, I want I want ten more of
him because you will never at this stage of adulthood. It sucks, but
we'll never we'll never feel like Christmas feels to a kid ever again. And
I really, I really wish we did so. All right, thank you,
thank you for your time and all your support on this. We do
appreciate you absolutely, and we appreciate you guys working out there and all the
different events. Jennifer Martin there seven forty six race stagic from the Weather Channel.
He joins us, what up, man? I don't know. I
just and over all this data, trying to figure all this out, all
this crunching some numbers. Yeah, is it? Well? Is wait?
Does it get thirty? Are you trying to figure out how you guys are
gonna keep winning when you guys are pulling acls in practice. Well, I
at first I was figuring out we were pretty close last night with thirty twenty
eight, so what would say I've regested fourteen, then we said twenty one.
It's kind of a wash. But yeah, yeah, no, no,
no, I'm talking about Diggs. Oh yeah, I know, well
not yours. Your Diggs is fine, his Digs, his bust Stefan.
I thought Willie panic difference John Diggs. Right, well, I'm gonna say
something, and I don't want This is just my opinion. I he's overrated.
I think he's overrated. A lot of his interesting Oh okay, give
me, I'll gonna fight you. No, no, no, no,
for for the Cowboys. Yeah, Trayvon Trayvon over I think overrated. I
mean right east, right time. I mean a lot of his interceptions last
year were almost gimmes. And he got burnt plenty of times too. So
I wouldn't murder I wouldn't murder you for anybody. For a secondary I don't
care. So you say Digs could do better even with the evil yea,
even with the boot, with the boot, Well who the Vikings scot this
week? Nobody see's over We don't talk to Okay, that sounds good.
Maybe on the west coast, yeah, okay, some impact is some of
these. I picked one out just because of it's the closest one East Carolina
against Gardner Webb six o'clock tomorrow evening. So I picked that one because that
could have the most impact. With the rain and wind and the tropical storm
warnings on the eastern part of the state. We'll get some rain here,
still thinking Triangle East, heaviest rain, the flood watches don't start to a
few counties off to the east of us. Still could see quarter half an
inch, maybe up to an inch of rain. But if you're moving out
and about tomorrow, especially east, it's going to be nasty. The winds
could still dust even here. Tropical storm force plus that's thirty nine plus miles
per hour maye to forty five to fifty in some areas as the low comes.
It's closest point tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening, and that's going to be
to the east of US. So again on the western edge to the triad,
less rain quarter of an inch or less, and then even less than
none into the mountains. So pretty variable conditions across the state. Worst out
near where we'll get the water rise and anywhere from one to four or five
feet of storm surge or some storm surge warnings also out near the coast.
So this is a potential tropical styclone right now. Forecasts to become tropical storm
Aphilia later today. Maximum sustained winds now at fifty. Hurricane Center things to
sixty and make it a little bit stronger. So this may be kind of
catching people off guard a little bit. Either way, things will start getting
better towards the end of the weekend and early next week, so try not
to take too much time. The bottom line is wet and wetter as you
go east and windier, but still from the triangle east. Pretty nasty day,
but conditions do worsen as you head closer to the coast. All right,
now, let me uh the important stuff right now? Yeah, yeah,
for all your other data. Hypothetically, if a radio host was to
get on a plane at the middle of the afternoon at r DU flying to
New York's in New York City, would there be potential weather impact? When
is this now this afternoon, middle afternoon. I'm going out of Raleigh.
It'll probably just be starting further off the coast. No, all right,
I think you'll be okay, all right, yeah, you don't okay,
they'll find a way to screw it up, so well exactly, yeah,
all right, all right, thank you sir. To the next hour and
we'll come back. We got Pete Calendar joined us at eight o five and
for all you guys looking for it, I've a viagra alternative science is here
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Can we disagree with that? So somebody created a video that ended up
going viral that was like you know, health health hacks or something, right,
and it's like, hey, did you ever want to see if you're
pregnant but don't want to have to go buy a pregnancy test, which,
by the way, I don't even I don't even know what those costs.
Ross I were just talking about, and like there's much organizations to give him
away for free, right, So so what did they tell them? They
said they that if you want to test if you're pregnant, one of the
things that him and can do is to get a bowl of bleach and then
provide a sample. Do you understand what I mean? Number one into the
bleach, and if the bleach turns a different color a certain color, you're
pregnant, and if it doesn't, you're not pregnant. The problem is when
you number one into a bowl of bleach, you create mustard gas. Oh
no, that's not good. They had a family that ended up having to
lock themselves in a far room and he'd be rescued because the gas was blocking
their ability to get out of their apartment. But like him, I knocked
up, and you're accidentally creating something that was banned after World War One.
Yes, yes, and it's probably like because you saw it on TikTok.
They are relatively cheap, I would imagine it. It's probably suppoor teenage girl
wondering if she's knocked up or pregnant. You know she's trying to hide it
and your parents, Now, no, right there. You know you're knocking
on your kid's door. You're worried about her. She's been a little quiet
at you know, just not something just feels off as a parent, And
all of a sudden, the door opens and mustard gas envelops. You dead
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create mustard gas. I can't believe I have to say these things out loud.
Don't eat slice cheese with plastic on it, and don't do it,
you know, do it yourself home mustard gas. Of course, now you
all know how to make mustard gas, so God help us. I mean
you should all own a gas mask. Anyway, we have several under my
bid. Yeah, and Lincoln there you got kids size for him. There's
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right, that wasn't even by the way, that wasn't even the health the
thing I was gonna do. I'm gonna save that story because I can't do
it in just forty five seconds. But let's just say, if you want
to save money on viagra, we got some tips for you, and I
mean tips. Oh that story is so wrong, and we'll let's see.
Oh yeah, we got to get into the insanity list stupidity yesterday of the
well, I'll probably talk a little about that with Pete Calendar. And remember
how we were talking about those homeless encampments, the one in Seattle with the
pool and then the one yesterday in Denver with a casino and a brothel and
a speak easy. Well, they got nothing on Venezuelan prisons. Man,
they got nothing on them. We'll get to that, but Pete Calendar joins
us directly after the news. Hang on, all right, good morning everybody,
and welcome. It is eight oh seven here on the k c O
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To hold on to that. We'll get back to your calls and stuff
coming up later in this hour. But first, it's our radio buddy to
the South mid Day's WBT, Pete Calendar, who this morning walked in and
they've relocated your studio to the rack room. Huh night, that's it isn't
an upgrade. Okay, sad actually, but supposed to be punishment. I'm
sorry if I talked about this earlier on the show. So wake forrest.
Rep. Terrence Everett has had his office relocated by speaker more to a former
storage room in the basement over at the the Capitol here in Raleigh, and
of course the von von hatefuls or von Hoffen and and the rest of her,
the other Democrats, they are always on Twitter. They're they're outrage.
This is disrespectful. This this, this is a black mark on this institution
because they're all there to do hard work and not politic and and they're you
know, and it's just petty. Never mind that this is the dude who
was trying to drag Das into operating a salacious, full scale, media ready
investigation of taxpayer funded orgies so that they could attacked him more. And I'm
sorry pettiness, but gets pettiness. I don't care. That's where I'm at,
right. This is it's another This is another example of the hyper a
theater kid syndrome that we are apparently at the mercy of all of I guess
theater kids all grown up that engage in these types of over the top exaggerated,
exaggerative, performative theatrics. It's just it's, uh, it's just exhausting.
But look, is it petty? Yes? Yes, it is,
yes, absolutely, And that's yeah, like you get like you said,
it begets itself and so yeah, I find it difficult to really care.
I mean, it's a part time gig and you know, look, you
gave Tim Moore the opportunity to uh, you know, needle you back,
so suck it up. Buttercup, I mean arguably trying to enlist a witch
hunt because I think these they looked at that and they went, Man,
that worked good on Trump, Right, let's do that to Tim Moore.
That's I don't even know if I described that, petty, that's evil man
taxpayer funded orgies. Do you think RL could not or could stay away from
that for two seconds involving two more? No, no of course not no,
no, no no. And that's the thing, like of all of
the other things that you could actually go after lawmakers on, and there are
a number of things to go after the Republican leadership over. Yeah this like
this was this one was you know, trying to essentially weaponize the court system
against him, right, But Lauren Freeman the da Wait County was like,
yeah, no, we're not gonna we're not gonna take this up. But
he got the headlines he wanted. So if you're going to use these levers
of government against your political opponents, then you can't cry when your opponents use
the levers at their disposal against you and so No, I don't care.
Now, maybe if he showed up wearing like gym shorts and some car hard
shirts or something. It's what I'm wearing right now. Stop it. That
was well I noticed did you hear that? During the budget debate last night?
Into the wee hours of the cloak of night? I should say there
was, Yeah, there was, uh, some some complaints and grumblings from
Democrats about people who are loosening their ties. Uh. During the floor debate,
I'm like, hey, have you seen your boy from Pennsylvania up there
who's crying about being bullied and that's why he has to be able to wear
the gym shorts on the floor of the Senate. No, not on the
floor. He Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry you added that. I
was. Yeah, I was getting there, Casey, I was getting there.
He's got a gavel. You ever seen Borat? You ever see the
movie Borat? Yeah? You know that green speedo thing. Uh huh.
That's why you people were wondering, why is you worried about flying in New
York today? I'm presiding at the u N So, yeah, it should
be good stuff. You're gonna wear that? Yeah, I'm gonna wear that
and posed for photos with the Ukrainian president because everyone else already did give me
a favor because you're not going to be wearing a suit. Yeah, that's
rough true, but could you give me a favor and maybe give your suit
to the Ukrainian president He apparently does not own one and does not know where
to purchase one. He's at war. It's you gotta it's it's a it's
junta fashion. So right, this is another example of being governed by theater
kids. Seriously, Yeah, I mean this is with the Fetterman thing,
and with this Terrence Edward thing, it's with the Zelensky thing. That's it's
all performative and it's it's just exhausting, and part of it like makes me
wonder, is the humiliation of the institution and the people who respect it.
Is that the purpose here, because it kind of feels like that's the purpose
here. I really when this all started coming out, I'm like, good
because dress codes are for adults and children who are striving to be adults,
and most of the people up there don't check either box. So I now
I can more thoroughly view them as the whole grifters that they are right and
the incessant violent panhandlers that they have become. And so it makes it,
it visualizes better for me. I guess is what. Yeah, yeah,
no, I can see that. And here's the thing. The deal about
you know Fetterman crying about being bullied. People are not bullying him because of
his disability. They're bullying him because he his campaign, the Democratic Party,
the media. But I repeat myself, they all engaged in a lie during
the campaign, saying that he was fine, he was one hundred percent normal,
no problem whatsoever. And now you see the guy walking around with an
audio transcription app running on his phone all the time because he can't understand what
people are saying. And so that's a problem, and it's a problem,
and it should have been disclosed, but it was not. It was hidden,
and anybody who asked about it was dragged as if they are as if
they were some sort of you know, anti disability person, and uh,
you know, some sort of bigot. And no, you guys engaged in
a cover up, in a lie about this guy. That's why. And
by the way, the disability that he has now because of his stroke,
has nothing to do with his ability to dress himself, right strom Thurman was
able to get into a suit every single day while he you know, drooled
on himself at the age of ninety seven whatever. Like, If he can
do that, there's no reason that Federman can. I would agree, By
the way, I'm going to switch gears here just because I want to keep
it moving. We've got a lot to get to. How you You've You've
been in this business a long time, as have I, and it's not
very often that you get that audio cut that you're thinking about for days and
days and days and goes forever into the system. You know. It's the
it's the you know, the guy who was interviewed after they found those women
in the basement in Cleveland, right dead giveaway, you know, the stuff
that sticks with you forever, the uh you know Greta right that kind of
yea? Or Royal Majesty who was testified the San Francisco City Council, how
dar you? Yeah, I've got two to choose from. So with that
in mind, how great is How great is f thirty five? Dude?
Yeah? Which, But I gotta tell you, Ross and I both came
to the same conclusion Wednesday. We both saw it in the afternoon and immediately
because let's face it, you've noticed Twitter now as a little looser on what's
there. I don't it's not a problem, right because we should be good
consumers. But people mock stuff all the time and put it up out there
and it's obviously fake. That thing, I couldn't see a look. I
thought it was fake. Ross said he made it through five seconds and determined
it was fake. So I went through the rest of my day like that's
so fake. I'm not even gonna bother. And then Low and Behold.
The next morning, right before the show, I'm getting on my stuff together
and I'm like, that's not fake. That dude is real totally, that's
yeah, yeah, yeah, So I was. So I was doing the
show when that story was first report. I forget what TV station it came
from, and uh, And so our news department starts running the clip from
that news report, so they had verified it that it actually came from a
news story. They run the clip and I get a call from a former
producer who says, you need to isolate, Like immediately as soon as he
heard the clip, He's like, you need to isolate that clip. Put
it into the library, because that one is going to last a while.
Like immediately the first time he heard it, he knew, do you think
it's better with It's just him? Or the House of Pain remix where they've
so perfectly laid over his scream, over that sound, that part of the
song that you can't it's it's indistinguishable. Have you heard the Loss of Pain
remix? I have not, but I feel like it's kind of like I
gotta believe it's like screeching a whistle, hold on, hold on, all
right, all right, that sounds nice and boom, and I heard us
about screeching between a screeching a whistle, and I mean, what more do
you need for a show? But that's it's It's sort of like when Trent
Resler heard Johnny Cash's version of Hurt, Yeah, and he was like,
that's his song, now, you know. I think that's kind of that's
where we are. Yeah, yeah, that's and good for House of Pain
because I'm sure that like whoever's not odeed already is probably sitting there getting a
check in their mailbox next week. You're like, oh, yeah, look
at this, this is gonna be amazing. Yeah, they may go back
on like a remainder tour. Whoever's left, it's gonna go back on tour,
you know, get their like a rebirth, like John Travolta's movie career,
that time with pulp Fiction. Now, will they make enough money to
afford a burger at Newark? Though? No, yeah, I'm not sure.
Not if you're David Brooks. What a smug I hate that guy.
I'm sorry, man. I believe the best part of this story is that
he got community noted on Twitter that Oh my gosh. Right, So he
goes to Newark Airport. He complains about a seventy eight dollars meal and he
takes a picture of it, and he says, this is why Americans think
the economy is terrible, because this meal just costs me seventy eight dollars.
So he's accusing them of gauging. Just to be clear, he's accusing these
restaurant which, don't get me wrong, stuff's expensive in airports. But right,
yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean so, yes, obviously the
prices are going to be like marked up, I don't know, thirty forty
percent. Everybody expects that. So but he's got a cheeseburger and fries.
Oh wow, and and he and a whole bunch of lettuce on the plate,
like way too much lettuce that could have come scraped off the burger,
right, So I don't know what was going on there, but anyway,
he so he takes a picture of this, and people notice, Hey,
David, what's with the like double maybe triple whiskey on the rocks in the
picture too? Why is that expensive in an airport? Who would have guessed?
Yes. The restaurant then responds, it's called nineteen eleven Smoke House Barbecue,
and they say, looks like someone was knocking back some serious drinks.
Bartab was almost eighty percent and he's complaining about the cost of his meal.
Keep drinking, buddy, we get paid off everything. Nice, yeah,
hold on, hold on, that's true. Yeah. Wait, Ross just
ate at Newark Airport, and that's why you had to sell the house,
right, That's why you guys are homeless. Spells on gobboul on cobb what
is gobbul? It was delicious, But I don't know, but I think
that that is that a hold me, I don't even know what that is.
I'll your word for it, though, So all right for us,
says it's good. Yeah, yeah, it's what yeah, you add the
you add I uh what did what did I buy? One time in an
airport and I'm just about a Guinness and I didn't check, and I think
I want to charge fifteen dollars for the Guinness. It was one of the
big camps. And I'm just like, this is why you sneak airplane bottles,
which you can get through security. By the way, Yeah, what's
the same thing with when you can buy store. Yeah, yeah, you
go to concerts, the same thing. They gouge you because your your captive
audience. Yeah, yeah, they got you. Man. You're literally you're
literally you're literally there under security. Right, So right, you got you
got no choice in the matter. All right, So yesterday budget Budget.
We've been We've talked about this to death. I've had I've interviewed this week
now the Lieutenant Governor Mark Walker and the state Treasurer Deale Folwell all on this
and I can't get one of them to go this is BS. I don't
know, you know, what's what's going on? What's going on? I
guess Mark to some Walker to some extent, but but the other Walker was
the other two are in a position to you know, push back on this,
and if Tim Moore and Phil Burger run things, and I secretly believe
they don't want a Republican governor. They just want to have this, this
what they have because they're they're the ones who are in charge of North Carolina.
You agree, right, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
they don't need that. Time McQuary showed us that, right, they don't
need a Republican governor. In fact, it's helpful politically if they don't have
a Republican governor because you can depend raise yeah right, you can fundraise off
it. You that you can pick fights with him, you can cast him
as the bad guy you or the good guy, and everything becomes viewed through
a partisan lens. When it was McQuary, it became more about the roles
of the executive branch versus a legislative branch, and so it was it didn't
fit that narrative. And when McQuary would criticize Burger and company, then you
know, it undermined this notion that they were simply trying to get good policy
and all that a lot of the stuff was encroaching on executive branch function and
responsibilities. And so it's yeah, I have no doubt. It doesn't really
matter to them whether we're Republican or Democrat wins if they keep their supermajority,
and they're gonna work to keep their supermajority. You you guys, you guys
have how's your fanom pooper going? Is that stuff working out for you?
Because we haven't seen it? Had some more downtown issues here, Okay,
all right, yeah, I haven't seen the as I call her the poo
pooh planter. Oh, very nice. I like it. Man. Hey,
one other thing, and I just got a couple of minutes. Did
you see this other bill they passed for age verification for online porn sites like
like Louisiana did it, and I think porn hubs said they lost eighty percent
or people just used a VPN because people are people, or turned it into
or you can literally turn I'm not I'm helping kids access you and turn your
browser into not that make it look like it's coming from somewhere else. Some
of the browsers, wait, say that again, wait to turn your send
I'll send you a tutorial. No, I think that that's actually I think
it's a very simple thing to do that makes it harder for kids. To
access this kind of material. And yeah, I mean it's and it's a
very it's a very easy fix. I think, well, yeah it is.
There's also the part where you know, people who may want to access
that are going to be very cautious about giving a pornography site all of their
details. True, So, like, you know, does it become I
see both sides this, So does it becomes social control? And I got
thirty seconds on this or as you say, hey, this is a good
way to go ahead and deal with it, because now they'll have to go
check it out of their libraries at school. They want to see point right
exactly, Yeah, yeah, exactly, get the cartoon versions. Well look,
this was always the case with this kind of material, right, if
you would try to buy it at a convenience store back in our day,
right we went into the Yeah, you'd go into a store, you'd have
to present an ID. Why because we curate material based upon age, based
upon maturity level. And that's what the book band are all about. That's
what all of the debate is about about curating material. Oh, Pete,
I got a roll Man biscuit, some porn that's the that's where you go,
all right, thanks sir, and we'll be right back. Hang on,
make the show. After the show something iHeart Radio app. Search case
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could have respect for him if he'd been on it from the get go.
But remember he gotta light to everybody for a long time. So if you
don't know who liver King is, have fun down that rabbit hole. You
see that video I posted at him in front of the in front of the
cereal bowl I put there. No, So I posted this about maybe like
a month ago, and it's a ginormous bowl, and he pours milk into
it, right, whole milk, and then he puts chicken breasts, raw
chicken breasts in it, and then he sprinkles coco protein powder. He dips
his hand in it, he mixes it up, and he eats it raw.
Stop. Yeah, he says, that's how old caveman tribal people would
eat with cocoa, with engineered cocoa powder. Really, that's what they were
rocking with their cheetah with their cheetahs, all right, I saw it on
flintstones. It must be true. So no, So the dude was like
he was a guy's around you just eat raw liver, eat raw liver,
and look at me. I'm foul. He's at fifty something, right,
it's like fifty something. I'm gonna share hold. But he's not. He's
not a young dude. And but he but he's got he's got like a
sixteen pack, right, and it just just ripped. And everyone, everyone
who does any bit of lifting is like bad dudes on steroids. And then
I think, where'd you get? He got busted on Joe Rogan show,
right because some other guy would called him out straight up and it started this
whole chain of events and then he had to like make the worst apology video
ever. But he said that he was doing it because he was so inspirational
to other people or something so that he got called out for that. So
he just put a video out yesterday to announce to the world because he's all
about truth. What. Yeah, I know, it's a few days ago,
we go whatever. He was saying that he did a video and he
said, you know, he went off steroids and unfortunately he lost like twenty
pounds of muscle as you do. Like, so he's decided he's gonna go
back on it. He's going back on the on the juice, okay,
all right, because he can't. He was benching like thousand pounds, but
he had been benching like five thousand pounds, and you know he can't have
that sort of accurate numbers. No, they're not okay, So anyway,
he's gonna go back on the juice. And he's just being honest. It's
gonna be because he's he doesn't like how his Instagram is looking now, but
he still looks amazing, like off it like because once you do the steroids,
even if you take a break, right, you're like you're working out,
You're you're on, You're on the juice, and you make these gains
and say you stopped going to the gym, You're like, I'm just tired
as crabam over yeah where the gym doesn't have power. Right, then you
go back in like another like a few years. You're still gonna have the
benefits of those games. You will gain muscle faster. Don't do steroids,
by the way, you not okay, because it's bad for your heart.
There's a ton of others because he has lots of money. It's a miracle
that dude is still alive. Have you seen like videos of him and this
it's like nine I posted one, two or he's for sure if well I
reposted it's a video of him in nineteen seventy six before the student. Oh
yeah, he's just a dude, and he's true and he just looks like
he looks like you know, Terry. Yeah, he's just Terry at that
point. He's not whole COVID. But like they all did it back then,
right, they all did, but he having the rest of them,
right, and he made the most money. So is that a coincidence that
he's still in he's in his seventies. He survived it and he just happened
to make the most money of all of them. No, he's going in
and getting his veins like redone or stuff. I mean he's doing he's doing
that. He's doing the stuff that women have available to him now on with
cold all the sculpting. I sat at a table not long ago with these
women and they were like, what are you doing now? I'm cold sculpting.
I'm doing UV this I'm doing And I'm like, is this all stuff
you have? Is this why it takes you six hours at the clinic place,
the health place, is there anything that's I mean, I want a
ticking time bomb that in twenty years from today at the same moment, any
injectable or manipulated whatever short of standard diet and exercise that somebody's done and then
lie that, oh I never did that. I just worked hard like these
Hollywood people. Right, yeah, I want it all to like I want
just green die right, like a die pad. I mean in that part
of your body, and we'll know who's full of craps like a pool pee
pattern. Yes, yes, like way turning green man. Right. You
know how many women to be running around their lips, their eyebrows there.
You kind of see it now in photos. You'll see like celebrities or like
be a picture of famous people and you'd be like, wo, how come
this person look so different? They look so much older. Conspiracy theories to
be like dah, they ran out of a drina chrome. But really what
it is is that a lot of them stopped doing these procedures and stuff,
and yeah, you know, reality catches up to you. What was the
what's what was her name? I'm trying to think of the actress's name.
Who was the one who's like, remember this was years ago, like she
was unrecognized, misable the chicken from Bridget Jones's diary, Rene's elder. Yeah,
the who farted face? Remember how like you saw the post surgery and
you're like, who is that? Who is that person? Even so,
sometimes it goes really bad, like Madonna. You know, you have so
many procedures. One of them is about to go. Would she looked like
a two thousand year old vampire? I mean she was, you know,
she was in character. You don't think she was just scrunching her face that
way. Maybe Okay, she just means she was like the society. Maybe
she ran out of Adrena chrome two. I like the casualness with what she
announced. He's going back on the roy Can you imagine you have a you
have a big yellow Yeah, you have a big coke habit right or meth
habit right, and you quit right and you're clean from five years? You
know, like you know what I'm making it. I'm going back on it.
I need more energy, was less teeth right, Yeah? Because it
was very casual, just like guys, you know, I've lost twenty pounds
of muscle in like a month and a half. I'm going back on the
Royds. It's for the best, for the betterment of all mankind. In
the children, for the kids. Yeah, kids want to kids want to
see that. All right, Look, there's more natural ways to achieve your
goals. How many of you worry about taking medication for anything? I want?
These guys, I don't like taking medication for you know, prescription or
otherwise over the counter or any of it. But unfortunately you require a prescription
of what is the of the viagra, okay? Or what are the similar
products or the generic or whatever? Okay, no shame, no whatever,
that's you know, better better living through science or whatever. Plus it irritates
feminists for some reason, which is always fun. But you're worried about the
pharmaceutical nature because maybe maybe your your trust in pharmaceutical companies with all the stuff
we saw during COVID, maybe that's waned a bit. And you know Fizer
makes that so well. Good news new alternative scientists say that a spider found
in Brazil known I guess they call it it the Brazilian wandering spider or the
banana spider. But this is a variation of the normal banana spider. So
the spider that they found in Brazil. Let's see here fo new trio nigrivente.
Okay, all right, that's a scientific name. It's venom causes the
same reaction that the viagra causes. Whoop, more banana, less plantain,
catch them adrift? Okay, little mini plantains. That's great. No about
think of the thank of the most beautiful woman in your opinion, most beautiful.
I understand it's your wife, but then go second most beautiful. All
right, she's there, you're there, soft lighting. You just had some
gobblin gook or whatever Ross likes the Italian food or gobblgol whatever. All right,
she just had a big old helping of that, right, and now
we're on this little chocolate's dessert. Everything's romantic, everything's going perfect. This
is your dream realized and nothing and then you realize, I don't have any
pills, but I do have a Brazilian wandering spider. How bad? I
mean, that's a hell of an origin story. Yeah, but do you
have to have it bite the But she just pulls the string and the spider's
falling you. Yeah, that's it. It's a lot of the canopy from
the top of the bed. Just put spiders. Is why would you do.
Halloween's coming up, So I guess that's the thing. That's the other
thing too. What if she's the one is like, you know what,
this is not working, this is unacceptable, and she just like she like
has a little you know, just lets a little spider down there. You're
like, oh, I just got bit. You're like, she's like,
oh man, oh that's terrible. Get over here. Sidists say, based
on this, they are going to launch a study at the Federal University of
Minas Garris, which is in Brazil, coupled with the University of Pennsylvania here
in the US. All right, here's the other thing you want to be
part. You know, we run commercials sometimes for people to take part in
studies. I have a feeling they want to get you in the door and
explain all the other aspects of that first and then show you the money,
like it's a timeshare push. You know. Well, a lot of times
like they can't tell you exactly what's gonna happen, right because it then it's
like placebo. So you just like you just kind of put it into a
box or something. And that's a good point. So what's the placebo?
A research assistant with some with a with a with a hot dog fork.
What's what's going on? Oh that would be awful, but hey, college
kids needs money or something. All right, Oh crappling at the time,
A forty seven race stage. It real quick, tell us how much it's
gonna suck, sir? Dry today, went rainy tomorrow and to tomorrow night
and dry Sunday. They've ima they found a spider. If you bite you
down there, it works like viagras. So you wait, Oh that's great.
Yeah, So that's commitment right there. I guess right, well,
I'm just like thinking the hottest the hottest one, and you've ever imagined and
ye you know, yeah too, death to us part right, I take
the zero on. Yeah, yeah, exactly. But in all seriousness on
the rain, heaviest rain east. There are some flood watches, tropical storm
warnings closer to the coast, rain wind storm schurche, storm surge warnings for
the outer banks and all that will become tropical storm Ophelia later today. Triangle
more rain than the Tryad and towards the mountains, probably none worst is going
to be as we head on through probably the daytime hours tomorrow. Some of
the winds in the triangle could gust maybe forty plus, so I'll be ready
for it. It's gonna be a nasty day tomorrow in too tomorrow night,
but better as I had said Sunday into early next week. All right,
thank you, sir, have a good weekend. We'll talk Monday and Jeff
Ellinger's next hang on, all right, eight fifty three your Bloomberg update,
Jeff Bellinger, what's happening? Good morning, Casey, Happy Friday. Wall
Street's bad week got a lot worse yesterday. Major averages had losses that range
from one percent to nearly two percent. Could get a bit of a rebound
this morning. The futures have been higher all morning. The Dow futures up
thirty eight points at the moment. Apple's new iPhones and watches went on sale
around the world today. Amazon dot Com out with a plan to start inserting
commercials into the Amazon Prime video content starting early next year. The company says
the number of ads will be limited, and Prime members who want to continue
watching ad free content will have to pay an extra three dollars a month.
The United Autoworkers strike against the Big three automakers as a week old. Today
the UAW is threatening to expand the walk out to more factories today unless contract
talks are making significant progress. Will hear from UAW President Sean Faine in a
webcast at ten o'clock this morning. More talks are planned for today by negotiators
for the Writers Guild of America and the Hollywood Studios. The news from those
negotiations is rather encouraging, and the casey McDonald's going to bump up the fees
it charges to some franchisees. Owners opening new restaurants or taking over locations previously
run by McDonald's will have to pay five percent of sales to the parent company.
Current rate is four percent, Casey, all right, which I'm sure
we'll pay for because that's how that works. Okay, it does, Yeah,
thank you much. Okay, you two take care. Yeah, there
you go. Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg News, Oh good lord, stop it,
of course, said AOC. Now they want to do paper wine bottles.
It's just yeah, it's just because they want to drink it faster.
But the whole thing with wine is the snobbery factor. Right, So you
could have these bottles, you build whole rooms in your house for them that
have better temperature control than your own bedroom specific refrigerators just for your wine.
Yes, and they're all customed. And now you want to do paper.
In an effort to further decarbonize the industry, several companies have stepped forward to
work on the technology, including Let's see what's the big one Frugal pack who
holds a patent for a rather unique paper alternative to the glass wine. Are
we running out of sand? Ross? Would you? Would you look and
see if there's any sand left at the beach? If l on one of
the beach cams or something, maybe killed Evil Hills or maybe go to Kiddie
Hawk. That's sand. You know, those dunes are kind of Is there
any sand still there? Do we have any sand? Yeah? Let me
check it. We do have sand. Oh, we do have sand.
Okay, but just a little in a really little bit right right. Let
me check on this. We have tons of it. Hell, if you
went to the beach this summer, there's probably a bunch in your car just
floating around in there, because you know how that works. I hate sand.
It just gets everywhere. But it also makes glass bottles that you could
put wine in, and windows that you can see out of Do you like
windows? I know you don't drink wine, but do you like windows?
I am a fan? Yeah? Do you like glass bottles of other beverages?
Oh? Okay, Plus, you got all that leftover bud light glass,
so you could you know, can use that. And finally, an
Iowa man is charged with drunk driving after authorities say he was racing ambulances that
were lights activated emergence making emergency runs. Yes, that's right. Upset over
being passed by an ambulance, the man decided he would race the ambulance.
And he didn't just race it. Once he raced it. This is at
two in the morning, and then they thought he got away, and then
he went and then the police found him trying to race another ambulance. I
mean, feasibly, you should be able to win, right, Yes,
the ambulance is going to be exceeding the speed, but they're not going to
exceed what is still a safe speed, whereas you are making bad decisions,
sir. So if you didn't beat the ambulance and it doesn't say who won,
which is a big downer, you probably should be able to pull ahead.
I don't know, I don't know how to RaSE ambulances. I just
never something I did there. All right, have a good weekend. Everybody
see him on it.