My voice, sound it fine, and then start talking and it's like,
nah, clear your throat, loser, all right, So good, good
Thursday morning to you. Glad to have you along. And I hate,
I hate that I have to open a show like this, but I you
know, I try. I feel like one of the responsibilities that we have
is if we get it wrong, own it. Okay, Now we may
own it in a somewhat comical way like yeah, I'm dumb, it's early
whatever, but you have to at least acknowledge if if you mess something up
that way, even if you're you know, jokingly acknowledging it, people know,
hey, this is wrong information. Here is the correct information. How
much better would our news ecosystem be if everyone was willing to do that?
And I'm on the commentary side, right, I'm on the side that allows
you the freedom, with the knowledge of the audience, to go out and
obviously you don't have to shoot right down the middle. You can have an
opinion that's talk radio, but the very foundation of what you're talking about you
can't mess that up. And yesterday I messed it up. I'm not even
gonna Rosamon, I'm gonna throw you under the bus. The responsibility lies with
me, although I am a little surprised you didn't catch it. So yesterday,
February seventh, we did. We did an entire three hour show,
and I failed to acknowledge the anniversary of something that you know, frankly,
is one of those things that's just falling out of favor and knowledge with the
younger generation, and it's unfortunate. Yes, I failed to acknowledge the anniversary
yesterday of Japan's brazen attack on Pearl Harbor, and I I sure about that.
I am paused. Did we mention it? Do you want? Do
we do? We need to go back here and listen to the entire party.
I listened to the whole podcast. You are correct, we did not
mention it. Thank you, thank you. We did yesterday being the anniversary
of Pearl Harbor, we definitely did not mention that. Yeah, February seventh,
nineteen forty one, the Empire of hands United States at Pearl Harbor,
leading to our entrance to World War two. Some would argue that that's what
FDR won is. Once again, I'm not so sure about that date.
Okay, well, look you know what it's speculation that FDR let yeah is
it really well, I mean, that is it's a theory that's out there.
Reading right here from Yahoo News is Spectator Index. Quote on this day
in nineteen forty one, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service carried out an attack
against the US military of Pearl Harbor, leading to the US leading the US
to enter World War Two. It's right here from Yahoo News is Spectator News,
which is kind of their historical tab. I guess if you will see,
because I've been alive for several decades on this planet, I don't know
if that date is accurate. Were you alive on February seventh, nineteen forty
one? I was not? Okay, well, I mean neither was I,
which you know probably contributed to our inability to remember this and comment on
this. I mean, is that not a day that will live in infamy?
It is? It was specific day? Yeah, yeah, calendar,
I'm not really sure if it's in February though. Are you with nineteen forty
one? I mean quibbling with Yahoo apparently? Yeah, you don't think nineteen
forty one, I'm not, but that day, no, the year was
oh wow, okay, all right, so you do agree? Okay,
thank you? So we missed this, We missed this yesterday and all right,
all serious, how the F do you? And there's theories. The
theory is that somebody use you scheduled a tweet and instead of this is what
they're saying. And I'm gonna explain why this is bs here in a moment,
Uh, they're saying, well, somebody accidentally scheduled schedule to tweet and
they left the one off, right, That's what they're saying. There's oh,
we didn't mean to say February seventh. We meant to say December seventh,
but those but there's different years. So I guess when you're keying it
in, I don't know that. Or you have people that are stupid working
for you, or people that are young. How many have we had?
How many times we had this conversation where you have people who are writing and
and look, it is the inevitability, right as things get later and later
on the calendar and the people who were actually alive at that time become less
and less and eventually there's no more. Right, it wasn't It was not
that many years ago when the final World War One veteran died. I remember,
I remember seeing that story a few years ago. So as we get
further and further from World War Two, and we couple that with what we
know about, how many people are being educated on this. I don't know
if I buy your Twitter thing. Plus, this is your little side grave,
you know little on this day in history, part of your news service.
So something tells me you're not stacking your most seasoned reporters. I was
going to say, you could possibly blame AI because you have these AI stories
that are just sometimes the errors are just hilariously wrong. Right, But one
thing AI tends to get right are dates. Yeah, number of heart facts
and stuff. Yeah yeah, But I mean you got a whole generation.
Where was it? What was it? Was better than fifty percent? I
can't remember underwooch age that didn't know about the Holocaust, Remember that horrible staff.
So if you know about the Holocaust and you don't know about World War
two, I suspect you don't know anything about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
I saw a stat yesterday which was staggering. It was talking about when
it comes to gen Z over twenty five percent don't believe the Holocaust ever happened.
I'm sorry the what they don't, well, at least they know about
over twenty five percent it was fake. And but again I thought it was
when you get younger, there's this much smaller percentage that even know about right.
So like so either they don't know about a portion of well no,
no, no, But I was gonna say of a portion of that group,
whatever that portion is, sixty percent that actually know about it. Like
when you say twenty five percent think it's fake, they have to know about
it first, which means it's actually a significant number. More so because like
if they don't even know what you're talking about, that's one thing. But
these are folks claiming to know what it is and and have dismissed it,
So that's crazy. Rather than comment on why they thought February seventh was it
and some of the speculation about oh well I was a date missed in a
you know, a little something we plugged into a you know, tweet deck
or you know, one of the social media handling things. Yeah, yeah,
they really didn't be like, oh are bad. And then I thought,
well, maybe maybe they're getting their info from Joe Biden. He seems
to be having some trouble with historical perspective. So I mean, there's that
theory. Ross. You saw that he talked about another dead leader he was
having a conversation with. No I missed it, oh because because he was
talking about the French a few days ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
all right, a new one. Yes, yes, Helmet. What is
this dude's name? Helmet Cole, the former chancellor of Germany. And that
dude when did he die? He died in twenty seventeen. But he was
talking about spending time with Helmet during his first foreign trip as president in twenty
twenty one, and he actually he talked all about it at a fundraiser in
New York yesterday. Yeah. Even NBC News wrote an article. The headline
reads. In his second mix up this week, Biden talks about meeting with
dead European leaders, previously referring to Francis Mitterrand, who died in nineteen ninety
six. That would be the French ghost. Ross is referring to former French
president. Then talked about his twenty twenty one visit as his first European visit
as president and spending time chatting with the former German chancellor, who again died
in twenty seventeen and last held office. It's been a while, but I
mean I know that it's a rabbit hole according to the White House, But
that's two in a week, right, That's that's too ross. Are there
any former world leaders that you tend to seek advice from, such as the
former president? Well, first off, what you have to know about Biden
is you got to let that go a he has stuttered, but he spent
to a lot of places where you just passed a week alone. How many
places has been here? So KJP was saying yesterday personally myself, I was
recently speaking to Gorbachev. Oh he agrees with a lot of your points,
so does he? Well that's probably not what you got to understanding though,
is I've been to Wilmington. I've been to uh oh yeah, I've I've
been to Sneed's Fairy. Yes, I've been to I've been all over the
place. So back off, man, Wow make those three then? Obviously,
who am I to argue? Listen, man, I've been to Omaha,
Yeah, no you mentioned that. Yeah, I wouldn't go right now,
a little cold there. But so there I was talking to Yelson,
right, yeah, Well I that it was Gorbagshaw and he was like,
oh my god, I love I love the alve Guarden. I was like,
dude, me too. Back off, bro, I've been to Salt
Lake City. Which one did the pizza Hut commercial? Was it Yeltsin?
I think it was Gorbachev? Yeah, it was Gorbio with the with the
was that with the cheesy bread, like the cheesy crust? He went,
he went to the he went to Pizza Hut. I think it was just
and it was. Remember it was the good pizza Hut. Yeah, a
great pizza Hut. Yeah. Yeah, back when it was like a sit
down dining experience. Now you can still look, you still get a pizza
to go, but if you were going to go, you had the Remember
the brown little overhead lamb I too, I remember the lighting, I remember
the salad bar. I remember the red cups. Yeah, oh it was
amazing. So anyway, so you and the two folks leading the USSR following
the breakup, we're at Pizza Hut. Is that what you're telling me?
Or Olive Garden? Which one was it? Didn't you say you were chatting
with Paul Pott the other day too. Ross. Ross is very busy when
he's not here, so listen, man, I've been to Rotterdam, New
York. Okay, I've been all over the place. Do you know where
the back? I mean, you can't just invoke a European city. I
will say Rotterdam, New York is a bit different than than the other Rotterdam,
Yeah, a little different, like it's really much nicer. But the
issue of me talking to dead people, it's it's not an issue because I've
been places. But according to KJP, uh, how do you get the
how do you get the Pearl harbor wrong? How how does that even happen?
And and is it still a rabbit hole? I mean I'm assuming that
KG. I'm assuming that Jean Pierre doesn't want to hold her presser today.
By the way, the Rotterdam and the one in the Netherlands is super boring.
Just let me just say. But they have like bridges. They're very
happy about case your case you're wondering, like, oh, look at her
bridges, look at look at a look at how we conquered the sea.
They love Uh that's if you ever, if you ever go to the Netherlands,
they're very excited about that. You go to Belgium, very excited about
that. They look at our dykes, and it's it's pretty impressive. I
guess if you're going to nerd engineer stuff. But I don't even know where
Roberterdam, New York is, so I'm a bad American. But I also
didn't know we missed the Pearl Harbor anniversary, So what are you going to
do? All right? So there you go. That's our mea culpa is
we kick things off this this morning. All Oh, dude, So my
buddy, my former roommate, actually, dude, he sent me is when
I lived in when I first moved to Minnesota, actually had a roommate and
we've been we've been very good friends since then. So but he's really not
a political dude. So it's kind of when he sends me something, I
pay attention. And he sent me this thing, and I'll admit, I'm
like, this has to be fake news, you know, nothing, nothing
bad. It's you know, he's just he's not somebody who's super news oriented,
which I'm I'm a little jealous every now and then. So I thought,
ah, somebody sent them something. We can't be real. So I
looked into it this morning. It's real and it has to do with the
the presidential primary ballot up in Minnesota. Wait till you see who's on this
thing on the df Now they just for your for your reference. In Minnesota,
the Democrats are called the DFL. It stands for Democrat Farm and Labor,
but that's that's the moniker they go by. So if you ever hear
any news out of Minnesota and they say DFL leader, I mean, they
use it exactly in the same way you'd say Democrat, but that's what it
means, and their primary ballot is interesting, to say the very least.
So I'll share that nugget with you. And again, sorry about the Pearl
Harbor thing. Thank you Yahoo for correcting us. Glad you're on it.
Glad you're on of Facebook's fact checkers. All Right, we'll be back.
Hang on, we got we gotta do an extra show because it's a stupid
leap here. Good morning. Uh. I don't know why it took my
brain, so I guess maybe because I was looking at I was checking out
the uh you know, the uh Pearl Harbor anniversary stuff on the calendar.
I forgot it's a leap here this year. So it's not just the fact
that the last you know, because the last paycheck is the last day of
the month. But in reality, Ross, we have to do an extra
show because the twenty ninth is a Thursday. Did you sign up to do
an extra show? I didn't. I mean, we'd still have a Thursday
either way, right, So yeah, but they would then, but we
would be hurriedly on our way to the end of the year. So right,
it would be March first, but we would then be moving closer,
whereas in this case we're kind of sold out, and then Friday we kind
of pick up where we normally left off. That's an extra show in my
book. So I mean that's good. I mean I'm hourly, so I'm
getting paid more. Well, yeah, but you still like if I know,
it suck to be salary though, all right, But like if I
picked a random day that you had off, and I'm like, hey,
buddy, why don't you come in. Don't worry, We'll pay you for
eight hours. I know it's your day off, Why don't you come in?
What would your response me, I don't feel but I mean that Thursday
would be there anyway. It's just it's the middle of the week. All
right. Well, you know what you're not you're not gonna be part of
my I will say this. It was last month Lincoln and night we were
playing video games or something. We're just, you know, hanging on the
couch. Yeah, middle of a weekend. And if you don't know my
son Lincoln is autistic, He's just sitting there being very quiet, focused,
and out of nowhere. He goes, this year's a leap year. There's
an extra day in February. And I'm like, is it and he goes,
yeah, he goes, Chris and what I can't remember which sat him,
but I can't remember which on he said, but he's like, Christmas
is on a Wednesday or whatever it was. Yeah, that's why I wouldn't
quite And I'm like, I can literally the day of the week from like
years ago, right, And I looked it up and I'm like, you're
right, buddy, of course you're right. He's really good with dates and
calendars and stuff like super weird. Like if you were to ask him like,
hey, what day is you know, Thanksgiving going to be on or
what? Just name a holiday, he'll give the date, the time,
and he's always right. So so he agrees that this can't stand. I
think he'd be excited about it. Oh all right, well yeah, well
it isn't anomaly. So if you're really into dates, anomalies are probably your
thing. Is that why Pear Harbor was like a whole two months off?
Is that does have something to do with it? Maybe not to defend Yahoo,
but there has to be a reason, right, No, no,
no, no, So the the speculation is that the person scheduled it and
instead of writing twelve seven they wrote they forgot the the one, so they
keyed it in, which actually makes sense the way that like who's suite and
tweet deck and work right, you go and you go through and your schedule
all the you can literally schedule and roll things over. So that's that was
the theory. Pearl Harbor orthodox or something. It's not like some weird Jewish
Uh. That was nothing to do with that. No, I don't.
It's a horrible error. Well who knows. I mean, that's that speculation.
Maybe they just have somebody really stupid working who didn't didn't bother just oh
it's February seventh, right, I mean if that's the case, I'd be
shocked. Yeah, obvious, Yeah, no, no, no, no,
it's pure nonsense. That I'm spewing right now, speaking of nonsense.
All right, you're ready for this. So my but my buddy in Minnesota
is like, bro, have you seen what's going on with the uh with
the primary ballot? And I'm like no, no, do tell and and
then he texted what it was, and I for a moment. He he's
a smart dude. I'm just like, he's got to be wrong, got
to be wrong, but he's not. So if you are voting in the
Minnesota primary, which what is the day, I know early voting is going
on already because they have like super early voting there. Do you remember that?
But I don't remember which date is their actual primary. It doesn't matter.
If you're voting, and you're voting the Democratic ballot, or as they
refer to it in Minnesota as the DFL ballot for president, one of your
choices. In addition to Joe Biden and you know the folks you expect to
see on there, you can also vote for Sank. I can never pronounce
this dude's name, Uger the You know him as the moron who hosts The
Young Turk And if you've watched any of the election Night twenty sixteen super cuts.
They are prominently featured in there because he's just losing his crap. In
fact, if you if you have a few minutes, there is a there's
a rolling video that's compressed to about fifteen minutes of the Young Turk's election night
coverage and you know, from arrogant and pompous to the end is nigh in
just fifteen minutes. And it's a fascinating watch. But I digress. So
yeah, Uger, who previously I think he had ran for a California congressional
seat and got absolutely stomped. I want to say he got like five percent.
No Sarered is seven percent of the vote in the moonback California district.
Is now on the presidential primary ballot in Minnesota. Now, he had announced
on his show that he was and I'm making air quotes because he made air
quotes. He's running a twenty twenty four presidential campaign on the platform of pro
abortion and pro ceasefire. But it's a media stunt. So him actually being
on the ballot means some folks up there went through and went through the process.
It's necessary to get him on the ballot. And the head of the
DFL party, Ken Martin is this dude's Oh he's a piece of work.
By the way, Ken Martin is unapologetic. Now, why would it be
interesting that the founder of the Young Turks, one of the the easiest to
own idiots out there, is on the ballot? Why would that be an
issue? Ross? What do you know about mister Uger chank? Well,
I mean I would I would guess, yes, that is because he was
born in Turkey. There is that. Yes, he was in fact born
born in Turkey, and doesn't debate that. It's that's him. He was
born in Turkey. He and the fam they came to America eventually becoming citizens
and yeah, yeah, he's not eligible. When when are you sure?
Does it say that somewhere? Because well, hold is there like a document?
All I thought, mister, I thought you like, this country wasn't
founded on paperwork, right, wasn't that your position? Well? Yeah,
my campaign, I mean, I'm not going to do the paperwork. I'm
very busy, like i'd run on you know, sheer will gut and determination
and not on paperwork. Fans of the Young Turks Presenter had previously tried to
get him on the ballot in several states, all of which turned him down
because not born here. This is double ironic. I'll read you Ken's this
the idiot quote here in just a moment. But it is ironic because Minnesota,
ever since I left, I think I was the only thing holding that
place together. Man, they have gone full leftist moon. Bet Remember they
had when I left, they had or they had just had a multi term
Republican governor, Tim Polenni, and the House and Senate there bounced back and
forth. It was very purple. That's gone and it's due in large part
just too. If you are a if you are a Democrat from the Dakotas,
Western Wisconsin, Iowa, whatever, and you want to go to the
big city, they go to Minneapolis. And so there's in when I when
I was like there was equally it was equally broken down, like the twin
cities, Metro and outstate Minnesota had roughly equal populations. And now it's just
exploded. So do you think their swing to the left has anything to do
with Jesse Ventra because he was so to the right. No, no,
just and and quite honestly it was more of a libertarian right. Yeah,
he wasn't really seen as to the right. Sure, I shouldn't say this.
He wasn't seen as representative of the Republicans because they all hated him too,
and people were, at least remotely, they weren't as patently dishonest as
they are now. But why this thing in Minnesota's pretty rich? Is Martin
and his cohorts have they damn near became Maine in Colorado? They just they
just realized they couldn't get the pushed. They wanted to not let Trump on
the ballot because of and you know, in at fourteenth or twenty fifth or
whatever it is, but fourteenth is what Colorado relied on, So that was
something these nitwits actually wanted to do. They just they just couldn't get over
the hump and doing it, and they didn't want the legal So I think
they're aware of a document that might outline parameters. To answer your question,
Ross, I think they are aware of it. But when asked, hey,
you know he wasn't born in you you know for a fact, he
doesn't deny it, Martin said, and I quote, well, we also
believe in airing on the side of ballot access. Our lawyers advised us it's
better to allow candidates to appear on the primary ballot unless the court determines they're
ineligible. So what Martin's doing is he is repeating what stopped him from not
letting or from protesting Trump being on the ballot. So I just want you
to understand how childish this is. And a bunch of his moonbad friends didn't
want Trump on the ballot. Their lawyers are like, yeah, it's not
going to hold up. So in this case, you need to let him
on the ballot. Now that they really have controlled it's a Secretary of State
issue up there, but they could protest him, then they could sue over
it. They didn't, And so the very same thing that their lawyers told
him, he's using to justify that and simultaneously point out, well, look
this is what happens when we don't have any control over it. Look at
this guy, he's not even born here, and I have to let him
on the ballot. You should have let us not let Trump one. I
just want you to understand the childish connection that's going on here, But that's
what's going on. Attempts to remove Trump from the ballot are currently ongoing in
eighteen states, Minnesota one of them. Although it's kind of out of the
hands of the party, and there's some activist groups doing it. Now,
let me see here what other state is. So every other state that people
have tried to put this Uger on, they the states went, nah,
you got like dude. Dude's got a Turkish burth certific in and owns it.
So that's going to be a no. I want to see. Hey,
here we go. Uger ran for a vacant seat in the US House
of Representatives. Oh you know which one he ran for is naked hair combing
lady, right, the one who was having trysts in her office with her
staff. That's the one he ran for, which is a pure moon to
that place, during which he got seven percent of the vote. Good times,
Nikki Haley, he's got thirty three percent. She just lost to none
of the above, which got sixty three. So any who, there you
go. Yeah, the insanity is strong there in Minnesota, all right,
six forty seven, forty eight Now case o day radio program, hang on,
Oh man, uh, you know, in the world of radio stunts,
I've I've seen and participated in a few. And you know, it
even used to be like you could stunt on your competition and people would Ross,
you ever do stunts against the competition, openly calling them out or screwing
with them in any way. I remember we did a concert in Salt Lake
and it was a Delta Center, right, yeah, there were the jazz
played. There was some sort of concerts that we were doing, okay,
and the the competition had these helium balloons, these giant balloons with their uh,
their logo on them that they put all inside the perimeter of love the
arena, and I just remember somehow, oh no, somehow they somebody cut
the strings. What now, they're new inflatable balloons just floated away. Oh
wow, all they did then. I mean, but we had we had
our van and I we had our logo and our banners everywhere, and it
was great. But somebody, yeah, somebody, I mean just disgusted and
gross. That is tragedy. I mean, they spent money on those and
they just snipped and floated away. I'm trying to We did, we did
a thing where we had some but some they had these these bumper stickers.
I can't remember exactly what they said. They had these bumper stickers, you
know, and you know some stations are the bumper sticker station. They did
a really good job of handing them out. So we had some printed that
were very close but were quite derogatory and just kind of put him into the
mix, including slipping them into a stack that was on one of their tables
at the state fair. So, you know, nothing too aggressive, but
a little bit of that. But we may have a winner for best all
time. I don't know what the hell's going on, so I'll let you
decide radio stunt or meth heads. And for this we had to Alabama and
radio station. Uh wait a second, the jet I know what the heck
ross? I just realized, I know the general manager. What a small
business this is. I haven't talked to him for a lot. I'm not
going to call him. I should call him, though, shouldn't I?
Now he's probably pretty pea about what happened. That's got to be the same
dude. That name is. Well anyway, a radio station in Alabama is
trying to figure out what happened after their tower was taken. Going to repeat
this again. A radio station is on standby after somebody stole their two hundred
foot broadcast tower in Alabama. How is that even possible? Dude? You
see one of these towers that are because I once worked at a radio station
in Albany where the tower was right outside of the broadcasting facility, so we'd
have to go out and look at and and do the ratings and stuff.
Yeah. Yeah, so is this like remotely because I well, I don't
know if it's remote or on their property. I've worked in both situations.
I've even climbed the tower when when we had we had a we had a
lighting issue. And this is when I worked. This probably worked for iHeart
when I worked for this mom and pop when I first went to Minnesota and
the lights were oute and it was it was a very tall tower. I
can't remember the exact height. But that's a huge problem if your tower.
If your tower lights go out, you literally have to call the FAA.
Yeah. I had to fix them during a hurricane. Yeah. I had
to climb the tower during a hurricane. So they need he wanted to get.
He wanted to get what. I don't mean to one up you there,
but I'm just you're telling your story and I did during a hurricane.
Hurricane Floyd kc O Day Radio program, Glad to have you along. Coming
up one hour from now. We're gonna chat with Stephen Kent from Bounding into
Comics. We got to talk about the Gina Carano thing. Uh. Actually
got a few things here, the Gina Corano thing and Elon Musk lawsuit.
Ross and I were just talking off the air. You mentioned tell me say
what you said again, because I think it is important to point out for
folks who are following now Karano with the help of Elon Musk, suing her
former employer. You know, it's testing Stephen last night, Yes, and
somehow they're they're they're trying to get a reinstated or that's part of it.
Like she went. I was like, why would she want the job back?
Like, okay, so because she's suing for unlawful dismissal and violation of
her contracts. So uh from my reading of it, and I read I
read a piece actually on Inside Radio and they had the one dude who literally
is he's an agent lawyer dude, and he was talking about it from the
aspect of that's how you have to sue. It doesn't mean you want your
job back, but basically you're suing saying I wanted this job and they fired
me, so to make me whole give me the job back, and then
what generally happens in those instances because obviously they can't just put her back on
the show. You would agree, right, They're never gonna do that.
They're not just gonna write, oh she's back, she wasn't killed. There's
no way, okay. So in those instances, that's what you're suing for
from a remedy standpoint. But there's also what's known as pay your play,
which used to be a thing more in our industry and it's not anymore.
But basically there's a certain level of it with Krono's contract, which basically says,
you agree that for however many years, you're gonna pay me, with
the exception of these points where I can't contest it. But if I don't,
you don't have to put me on the show, but you still have
to pay me. And that's that's how they're suing. So the expectation is
a lot of money, not that she's going to go back and her character
is going to return. So it's predicated on that is how I saw it
broke down, which actually makes sense because you're suing initially, you're suing the
remedy this and you're hoping to force some sort of negotiation because it may not
be the practical remedy, but it's the one you have to start with.
So yeah, we'll chat with him about that. Where did I put a
couple other things here? All things NERD related? Oh yeah, well we'll
talk about Disney this guy. This is a local story too. Disney apparently
is partnering with Epic Games. Those would be the Fortnite folks based out of
Raleigh, and it's worth like a billion and a half dollars and don't I
don't know exactly what they're gonna do, but it is Disney, so I
wouldn't hold my breath. It's it's gonna be correct. So we'll get into
all that and much more when we chat with Steven Kent coming up at eight
o eight oh five. So all right, back to this real quick.
So I just thought this story is crazy. So this radio station in Alabama,
I wonder when they found out because you know, it's most it's so
automated. Now, back in the day when I first was in radio initially
and obviously Ross you too, you had to every and there was you had
like every hour there'd be a clipboard sitting in our studio right. For me,
it was KBBS and the stations after that, and I would dial a
number, and I would have to take tower readings, and we would have
to make sure that the towers whatever power it's supposed to be run an am
so power can be different depending on the time of the year. But and
then you'd have to log all that stuff, and it was a big deal
if you didn't do those readings, and in fact we had, we had
a part timer got fired for faking them. I'm like, how lazy are
you can't call the eight hundred number? It was, it was like an
eight hundred number and automated voice. I also, ross, did you ever
do a bit with the with the tower voice or did you not have the
tower voice? No, we didn't have a tower voice, dude. I
also know, like you said to, somebody was fired. We I was
at the staff there in Albany. Yeah, it was a hot a C
station was a KLi and KRBE and literally everybody would just look at each other's
numbers and just like right right, a little very right, a little up,
little down, and nobody actually did it. Like nobody the PD,
the program director, the APD none of us did it. We just chains
are flying into your tower because the lights are out. Don't you feel bad?
I remember that was like doing the overnight shift. And I went to
go get my numbers and the night jock was a big knight jack there in
all but name is Jim Steele, and he goes, what are you doing.
I said, I'm gonna go to the numbers for the tower. He
said, what do you know? Just do it like this? You show
me to do it. He was He was my assistant program director. So
we had we had it. We'd call the number and they're being an automated,
you know, super robotic voice, right, but uh, one one
of the towers, because we had two stations, one of the towers you
call it was a dude's voice, the other one was a woman's voice.
And I went through the entire phone tree of command, just rolling tape on
her and I cut it all up and then I would have her randomly call
in and hit on me during it. And my boss at the time,
she did not have a sense of humor for things like that, and she
came absolutely uncorked. And I was like six months after I started doing it,
So like obviously she was paying attention, and she's just like, Oh,
we're gonna get in trouble with the FCC. And I'm like, I
don't know. If the FCC cares, then I'm having a robotic voice that
nobody but myself and three other staff members have ever heard calling in and suggestively
saying things to me. I don't think that that's but I remember she got
really upset about that, and I found that to be the only useful thing
for all of that business. However, I have to wonder if they weren't
taking tower readings, because to your point, if somebody steals your entire radio
tower, they don't do it all at once, right, I imagine that'd
be a big project. I mean, what was you notice your tower?
What was it somebody stole? We did a story where they stole Remember they
stole some out of a park. Wasn't like an entire bridge? Do you
remember that somebody went to a park and stole an entire bridge. I do
remember that. I can't remember what it was. It was so stupid,
though, and I remember thinking that had to take forever. This is a
two hundred foot radio tower. I can't even imagine how long that would take
quote David Copperfield, illusion like, how do you even pull that off?
Yeah? But the statue of Liberty's still there? You know what I'm saying,
it's still there. This is not still there? Uh, general manager
of the station, brett Elmore Station w j LX quote, I've been trying
to all weekend to figure it out and I just can't. How do you
make off with an entire two hundred foot steel structure? Hey, man,
crackheads are industrious. Meth Head's industrious, dude. So so when they noticed
that the tower is gone, they've had the how are they broadcasting? Like?
Is that how they noticed that? That's what I'm that's this is this
is the thing. So it's a really bad sign for the company if you're
like, hey, we've been broadcasting for like a week or so and we
actually weren't broadcasting, but nobody called this up because nobody listens, Like,
how does that? That's awful? Yeah, it's so bad. Yeah,
that's Uh. You probably gotta want to bring in some consults. If you
think of you were off there, somebody would be calling you saying, hey,
where where did the station go? And then you'd be like, I
don't know let me check the tower, and you'd be like, oh my
lord, it's gone, or or another possibility. Maybe this dude is looking
at the numbers, he's like, oh, this isn't going well. And
he knows the big boss is going to be in town, so he's like,
all right, I got a plan, right, what right? You're
like, oh, my tower is stolen by vector or whatever. I double
the numbers. Look, but here be out. Yeah. Yeah, Elmer
said, I've been in the business twenty six years and I've never heard of
anything like this. I can say I've seen at all. Oh what if
they're stunting you know what? Yeah, it could be. I mean that
was my first reaction. I said, is this a bit because I'm so
jaded from being you know, doing this for twenty five years, and it
has to be a bit. Yeah, But then the tower would still be
there, Like they have law enforcement investigating, so like it's if you ever
ruled, like, all right, so our tower, our tower is well
technically I guess they moved our tower once, but like our towers are not
near town, right, so like you know, for the Greensboro station to
be PTI technically we're licensed out of Rockingham County, so right, so like
I couldn't just step outside and see that our tower's gone. So if I
was to tell you, oh, somebody stole the PTI tower one, if
you're listening on PTI, you'd be like, ah, I know you're lying,
but like nobody could really check it. So I could see how his
stunt might work like that. But in this case, the entire tower's gone,
so that's a that's commitment. Elmore said he learned of the theft Friday
when a landscaping crew went to the tower who made They have a contract to
maintain the property, right, and the landscaping crew called him and said,
your tower's gone, at which point Elmore says he went out there and sure
enough, tower's gone. Initially, though, Elmore said he thought that the
company simply was in the wrong field, but when he showed up, the
tower was missing. However, there were wires everywhere, and that's because the
towers have guy wires on them and he apparently didn't take those. Here's the
other thing. How do you report on the story? Right, you're this
you're a small town radio station, right, you had a news department all
this stuff, Like, how do you tell people what's going on? And
do your do your jocks have to come in and do their shows. Still,
I have a lot of questions, Well they check the punch shop,
well, and so this is but this is where I was headed, right.
You know the big problem with people still Copper is you know, they
show up and they show up to people buy this stuff, and it's like,
you know, the police will tell you, like they know what's up,
right, the scrap dealers know what's up or they turn you know,
they don't ask questions intentionally. If you show up with a two hundred foot
rate, what's your backstory? You're like, yeah, I was, I
was in the radio biz, but I quit. Right, You say,
oh man, I gotta I gotta promote it. And I got a frame.
Man, I gotta put it up on the wall. I gotta call
it an expert. Five bucks? Five bucks? Oh man? Can I
talk to the old man? Will he do better? I don't feel like
that's fair. There's like a competing station pops up suddenly, like hey it's
Tim FM or whatever, it's ross Am. I know your competitors like now
twice the power twice the towers. Believe it or not, it's whoever did
steal it is gonna have big problems. It's actually a big, big,
big time federal offense, like super felony, because we have laws that were
written around people attempting to sabotage the ability to do eas amber, provide news
information, all of those things, and so simply tampering with the tower to
take it out of commission is a federal felony. Stealing the whole damn thing
puts you right at the top of the list. Oh, Jasper Alabama.
Police is Jasper, Alabama where this took place. Police have say they're looking
for the public's help and then if you have any information, there is a
reward, and then they give their phone number there. So now I want
to know, do they just steal the tower? Do they steal all the
other people? Don't? Really, I shouldn't be saying this because now some
crackhead's gonna be like, really it's let me just say, it's not just
a tower out there, So there's a lot of crap out there. Yeah.
In fact, whoever did steal it is facing ten years in prison on
just the single charge. And they that somebody's like, it's probably a ham
radio operator. Why are you gonna throw them under the bus. Oh they
did steal the transmitter too, okay, all right, good, good good,
Oh very nice. Yeah, so all right, so somebody's just telling
me, okay, and this other story, Yeah, they stole the transmitter
too. This is like that. What was that nineties movie where he's a
high school kid running a pirate radio station. Pump up the volume, Pump
up the volume, Christian Slater. Yeah, I just remember that they had
that topless scene in the movie, and it was that first time where I'm
watching a movie in my mom's in the living room and then there's nudity and
it's that whole awkwardness. So that movie will always stick in my head.
But any who, all right, let me grab a call here, Sam,
what's up. Yeah, I wouldn't lay, but I'm a ham operator.
It wouldn't lave with I want to tell that, but I was gonna
tell you K ninety five or five in Oklahoma, LUs and Hugo they had
the same thing handing them. They got the hard line dropped down tire jack
tip the generator to call that for the cofer, And how they got called
was all out at the jump yard. They want you to no scrap of
that. I tho. I'll tell you that in you st in case you
won't look at it. Oh you sound your signal? Yeah, your signal
sounds very clear, sir So. Oh yeah, I mean I don't blast
I here. Yeah, all right, we'll enjoy your new tower, sir.
All right, have a good one. Didn't that sound that sounded crystal
clear? Ross? Would you say like broadcasting? Very well? Sir So?
Yeah, No, that's the other because like it's two hundred feet.
I'm trying to remember what our longest. I guess our ten horse horse trailer
would be our longest. I'm trying to you'd still have to cut that thing
six times get it in there, you know. I mean, I'm just
like, it's it's it's it's baffling the amount of work that would be necessary.
But I guess you know what's there to do in Jasper, Alabama.
So you got to make your own own fun all right. Two. It's
a dumb story, but it's also an amazing story. And I feel like
mostly because it's the business we're in. So and if you're the radio station,
like you can't you can't just go to the you can't just go to
radio shack can get another tower, right I. I suspect they have a
backup, which is generally like a low power that's sitting on something else,
another tower, or a cell phone tower or something like. We have those
as well, but they you generally get almost you will never get the entirety
of your coverage. It'll be very localized. So but yeah, that's that's
a pickle right there. Maybe it's a dude who just didn't want to work
that weekend. He's lazy, but also very very very motivated. Could be,
I don't know. We'll ponder that and get some other news coming up.
Hanging on eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four, I've
been just I'm sitting here during the break try. I need to determine what
the here we go, here we go, all right, I'm trying to
figure out how much the radio tower weighs. I want, I need to
know exactly which kind of tower. But I'm gonna go with it's just one
of the straight structures and not the old timy you know, like Eiefull tower
construction, you know where there's very wide base. So we'll go with modern
tower. Because I was sitting there doing the math on this stolen to hundred
foot radio tower, and I you know, I can math out like the
trailer that you would need, like we had our horse trailer. The one
horse trailer was forty feet. But again that's the you know, it's not
even the sheer interior of the trailer, right, because there's like a little
there's the horse part, and then there's actually like a little camper thing on
the front of those a couple bunks and a little kitchenette. So like I'd
have to cut that thing five times minimum and probably more to get it in
there. But then I don't even know what the damn thing weighs. It's
really impressive. I think that's why people are absolutely interested. So I mean,
it's just the logistics of it. You know, you're not just rolling
up in your Scooby Doo van throwing it in there and then driving off.
You know. It's like if the news broke that the the water tower and
wake Forest is gone, you'd be like, oh no, what, like,
how is it even possible? It is? It's like Despicable Me,
where he's just like stealing the statue of the Moon or the Statue of Liberty.
Like it's nuts. Well, I mean it's it's a twitter foot radio
tower. It's not the Statue of Liberty, but it might as well be
if you're not working with a crew and you have the right equipment. So
your point is taken. Wait, somebody stole the water tower and wake for
it. No, no, no, no, I'm just saying, oh,
oh my gosh, it's God. Also, Ross has all the water
he could ever use, so and of too, nice two hundred foot bird.
Is that a bird feeder? That's very I put it right next to
my gazebo near the hinge. Wow. And I'm willing to give up some
of the water if you need some for a small price. Yeah, I'm
sure it would be a small price. All right, let me have a
call on this in sanity. Yeah, Anthony, what's up? Yeah,
so I used to walk on y'all. Style was not necessarily on the towers
there in the Yeah, sure you equipment pool the dours And yeah, you
weren't kidding about them things in the middle of nowhere, because there's one in
a clear in the middle of the cal pasture in Middlesex, and then one
on the side of the mountain up and King. But the fact, yeah,
and king. I think it's ours, so I think it belong start.
Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying. We used to take care
of all y'all's all of us clear channels, but it was clear channel back
man. But yeah, yeah, but like the one in Middlesex. You
go in there and it's like razor wire around this cow pasture. Yeah,
but then there's like six six inch stameter pieces of copper. But there's cameras
all over those things. So I don't understand how they were they're able to
get away with it, just the amount of time that would be necessary.
I understand it's rule Alabama, but it's still and it's the whole How do
you how do you flip that thing? I mean, that's I'm just impressed.
I gotta be honest, man, And you never thought of stealing one
of our towers selling it for well, the ones I went to were like
fifteen hundred or two thousand, two thousand feet, So I was like,
what, don't be lazy, sir, Look at that. You could have
got so much more money than this dude's gonna get. Yeah No, but
I mean I don't. I can't. I can't follow a tree without damaging
something though, right right, yeah, that's just all right, Well that's
uh yeah, it's so yeah, it's uh, it's it's it's actually an
impressive feet. I appreciate the call this morning, thank you, Anthony.
Yeah, well hold on, why does the phone being the phone? All
right? Sorry, bro said that. I can't even run our phone screener
this morning because I'm concerned somebody's out jack at our tower right now. Although
this is good, next time I do a topic that it was I when
I put it in prep, I was absolutely sure it was gonna kill we'll
be like, oh, we'll get calls for a half hour and it doesn't.
I'll just be like, ah, probably somebody probably stole the tower.
Very simple, they're right eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.
Everybody's got man, people got suggestions. I again, I'm I'm in.
I'm in. Oh wait, hold on, you want me to click
on that, don't you, mister Hayes. You want me to click on
that line one, don't you? I'm sorry, I'm very busy in here.
What's going on? I'm just looking at I listen. I didn't turn
my microphone on somewhere like you're because you were giggling, and that's that's ridiculous.
I'm busy doing producer things that do you and understand and it's you're spoiled.
Host was the host? You're living on a different planet here, and
it's get the job, all right? Yeah, James, can I do
for you boon right now? The big Beer's gone? Somebody stolen? Oh
my god. And I stole the big, big big beer, not the
food, Big Bear. The Triple Band's gone. Oh my god, North
Carolina stolen. Who would do such a thing? What if? What if
I'm everywhere? Man, I don't know, Yeah, James, what if
I was to tell you it was always gone? No, Man, I
heard on the radio that it was there for sure. I'm just saying,
like, I just want you to open your mind to the possibility that it
wasn't, in fact stolen because it never existed in the first place. Did
you consider I saw a picture on the internet. Yeah, I saw the
same thing, James. Good point. Yeah, look to look to your
north. Is there a large bowl of pretzels? They stole the pretzels too.
This is the Biden economy. This is he needs. That's what it
is, all right to Time's out there, man, people think it about
him everywhere. All Right, we'll enjoy your your Wataga trip. Okay,
all right, we're going allright, dude, I knew that that at some
point was going to enter the chat. I didn't know if you were going
to do it via email or in this case, via caller. You can
just predict these things. I know it's a little early, but I want
to talk to Stagic about this. Is he around yet? Tell me if
stage, because yeah, dude, did you see the radio Alabama radio tower
story, the one that got blown down? It didn't get blown down.
No, no, no, no, no, no, okay, maybe
it's a different story. Yeah. So w j l X, which is
in Huntsville, No No, Jasper, Alabama. It's one to one point
five. It's the FM w j l X. So on Friday. On
Friday, the general manager guy my name of Brett Elmore, gets a call
from the they have, you know, they have a maintenance crew that handles
where the tower is, you know, cuts meats and all that stuff like
most of us do. Uh. And they called him and they're like,
yeah, we showed up at the tower. Where's the tower? And they
went out there and somebody stole their radio tower. Listen, that's no easy
task. No, this is what we're saying, you're talking about, and
I'm like, if I know, I'm like, is this your competitor stunting,
right, because like back in the day, you used to be able
to screw with your competitor, right, and you know, it was all
in good fun, and that's sort of nowadays you just you can't get away
with that because everybody's too sensitive. But well, I mean, because if
that's what this is, you win, You've won. Yeah, yeah,
I mean and if everybody you know, it might be people don't know.
I mean, these are no little, tiny little tower some to No,
it's it's a pretty impressive structure when you're talking several hundred feet of metal there
and and we're just trying to like, how do you haul that away?
Yeah, they stole the tower in the transmitter and they yeah, they told
they told this. So they stole the transmitter, the excit, all the
stuff that's normally in the shed there and the tower. So yeah, it's
probably a Johnny Cash song about that right on Pie the Time man whatever he
quick though, dude's doing. That's what you need to give to people.
Who don't want to work because cash down your pants, hunt in the lunchbox.
You know, a lot of people don't realize that that that was one
of the lesser charges. When he shot that man to watch him die,
he also had stolen the tower. That it was a whole litany of things,
but only one made this, So yeah, a lot of people well
yeah, but also they they had to have the ground crew tell them,
which means for a period of time they're just broadcasting, going why is nobody
call it? What's going on? Well, there's a reason for that.
Yeah, that's a great excuse too if your numbers, so you steal your
own tower, and you'd be like, ah, the reason I didn't hit
my goal is because they took the tower. So yeah, put that in
the sales deck, right, all right, so yeah, yeah, yep,
I was impressed when they tried to They were stealing air conditioning units off
of the jail at one of the in one of the counties here, which
yeah, that takes stones. Man, right, you're going you're literally going
to the line and then you're stealing their ac for the copper or whatever.
This this is something different, so man, all right, yeah, anyway,
yeah, all right, so it's but uh yeah, well it's not
a sea weather. I mean always like to give the perspective that it is
early February. I think later. I think second half of the month will
be cooler than what's coming yesterday. Officially, let's pick on Raleigh. We
made it to fifty five officially the advertise fifty four. Now we will go
above average, near sixty today, a little cooler to tryad maybe upper fifties,
but either way, more mild weather, some high cloud around filtering sunshine,
more clouds tomorrow, upper fifties to low sixties. Could hit seventy on
Saturday, maybe a little bit of rain. I really don't think there's going
to be much Saturday with cloudy sky. Then I think more rain Saturday night
to Sunday, especially through about midday Sunday. So there is some rain coming
in low sixties on Sunday. Early next week, some showers Monday than sunshine,
and still in the mid sixties on Monday, low in mid fifties on
Tuesday. Wednday might turn a little bit colder after that, but really not
bad. Heier. Over the next next four or five days, we'll get
some rain. It doesn't wash out the weekend. I do think Saturday is
the better day of the weekend with the mild weather and the small chance of
rain, and Sunday it's probably going to be cloudy with them, you know,
better chance of showers than not, although it doesn't rain every hour of
the day. I think everybody knows what that is, at least it doesn't
look that way right now. But hey, Sunday is a big game,
so yeah, it's there's other things to do. Swifties are going to be
watching the ratings are going. Yeah right, did you see? Yeah?
That? What that is? Sifty thing? I saw basically just uh super
Bowl party planning tips with a bunch of women and pink dangly things and they're
all very excited. So uh do you even want to know what? Maybe
I save it for next day? Do you want to know the theme of
our party? Oh? Yeah, hold on to that. We'll do that,
okay, because I'll have to live with it. It does fifteen does
a right, Okay, appreciate it. Race Stag. By the way,
also, four people have called or emailed me now to confirm that the Boone
Big Beer has been stolen. So ross do you feel? Do you feel
happy that you corrupt the truth narrative with things like always been for a while
on the show that Boone Big Beer deniers that we don't. I can't.
I can't tolerate that. But it's like it's a family tradition. You corrupt
the way people communicate. Like on Facebook, like people were talking about the
olive Garden the other day and you got all the I was scrolling through and
there's a dude, Adam, who were friends at Facebook and he's a listener,
but I'm just scrolling through and randomly he's just in front of an olive
garden. He goes, I'm at the most authentic of restaurants. And I
go down to the comments and I'm like, I'm going to say the chefs
are trained in Tuscany. And I go to the comments and like the second
comment is some guy going the chefs are trained in Tuscany, and I'm like,
I am doing the Lord's work, yeah, or something else. By
the way, I just called up the Google satellite view of where this tower
was. It's not in the middle of nowhere. It is right on the
edge of town in jat Or it was, and it's behind the it's behind
the the street department, a mattress firm, and a police station. Maybe
they smuggled it out through the mattress firm tunnels and hold on, and it's
so, this is it's surrounded by the street department, a mattress firm,
and a poultry plant. Just looking at what all is around this, But
it's surrounded by this stuff and a police a regional I may be state police.
I think that's Alabama Trooper's office. I don't know if they're. This
thing's right next to it, and they still got the damn thing. So
you think they used the secret Illuminati tunnels under the mattress firm, which,
by the way, if you want to google a crazy conspiracy theory, mattress
firm tunnels, just have fun with that, or Walmart tunnels. It works
kind of the same way. Yeah, this thing is, this thing is
not rule well, just knowing where it is now, I'm leaning more towards
it being a bit. I don't know, man, they got the police
actively involved, like he Once you got the police there actively, That's when
I'm not convinced what else is over here? You know? These businesses looks
like there's a charter school. Yeah, yeah, somebody saw something anyway,
seven point fifty. Hang on, what's he doing? He's on the road.
He flew back into town yesterday, I'm not sure from where. And
now he's to drive to Atlanta. He's having like issues with his phone and
stuff, so he's not driving to Atlanta via I don't know Alabama, is
he. It's a good point. I don't know, because you know,
this thing is along the interstate just store at the Birmingham or this tower disappeared
and it's just weird. Now all of a sudden we start talking about and
he's like, I can't do the interview. You ever see his car?
Uh No, it's a modified version. It looks like lu Scott Luke Skywalker's
floating car from a New Hope. Oh wow. Yeah, I mean if
Stephen kn't goes from bounding into Comics drives past you, you know, it's
hid me like, oh, that's a dude. And it's got a large
tower on top of it, j enormous tower at least two hundred feet.
Yeah. Well, yeah, you wouldn't want to go a footless. All
right, let me grab a call, so we'll do that. We're going
to reschedule for tomorrow, so uh, fear not, we'll do that and
we'll chat with Pete. So it'll be a busy Friday. Yeah, Bill,
what's going on? Good morning? Hey guys, how you doing?
Uh? Pretty good? We still have our towers, so yeah, you
do. Look so you don't understand the capabilities of a couple of tower hands
there. These are a rare breed of guys here, dude, they don't
don't, don't put anything against what they can do. And also at two
hundred foo tower that ain't nothing but on what you're describing is a two hundred
foot god God tower. It's only held down. It's it's a skinny structure
right tensioned with three with a triangulation of wires. If you cut one wire
with the grinder, that tower's gonna fall. Once that tower falls, cut
it into pieces, throwing on a trailer, and get out of there.
I I hear you siring that one percent makes sense. I'm just baffled when
I looked up this thing on the map and I realize it's surrounded by like
everything. It's not out in the field somewhere. That's what's crazy. You
got if you've got four or five the Scronald Tower dogs, they and a
trailer. Hey, I wouldn't put it past them. With a couple of
grinders, they can knock that thing down and have it disassembled. And crackheads
stole a ten thousand pound bridge, sir, So I don't put anything past
anybody. We're gonna chat do our you know, our little Hollywood movie news
whope, woke Hollywood kind of chat that we normally do with Steven Kent.
Unfortunately he is he's doing some traveling right now, and you know how that
goes. You don't get a signal. It ain't gonna work. So we're
gonna move this thing till tomorrow and uh it is then that will dive into
the Gina Caranos stuff. Elon musk lawsuit stuff. By the way, Elon
Musk ross Elon Musks twitter account is giving me peak Trump vibes right now,
Like I find myself actively wanting to go see what he's tweeting, because that
dude has been on a rampage for a few days now. And I'm sure
you saw the the whole Zelensky interviewing Zelensky and what he thinks of reporters.
Uh tweet that was banging around the internet. Yeah, he is, he
is. He's straight gihat on all this stuff and it's very entertaining to watch.
So you couple that that that talk with money, and that's what he's
throwing his support behind Ginakarano for be going after Disney and I'm here to I'm
here for that. So and she and if I had to guess, she,
Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson are public enemies one through three right now.
Have you ever seen somebody so mad that somebody's interviewing a world leader as what's
going on right now. The irony, of course is Vladimir Putin has been
interviewed. NBC interviewed him and it wasn't It was prior to Ukraine, but
not that much prior. People are losing their mind, including over in the
EU. This is from Newsweek, according to let me let me give you
the sources. Here we go. According to a former Eljin prime minister,
so that is named Guy Verhofstat Verhofstadt, I don't know, former Belgian prime
minister and current member of the European Parliament. He is suggesting that Carlson could
find himself with some travel restrictions complements of the EU. This is crazy.
Carlson's interview with Russia President Vladimir Putin could see the conservative pundit targeted by EU
lawmakers that, according to not just the former Belgian prime minister, but several
other current and former members of the EU Parliament, Carlson's work in Russia could
see the Fox News host in hot water, the lawmaker who has called for
the EU to explore imposing a travel ban on Carlson, described Carlson as a
mouthpiece for Trump and Putin. So this this is and by the way,
this is what happens when you give these you know, these these globalists.
I'll use that word where it is actually accurate. Right, you know,
this is right now. They just they were able to cobble together the unelected
bureaucrats to rule Europe and they would love it to be the whole world is
now wanting to ban a dude from a continent for interviewing a sitting world leader
and the hasn't even seen the interview. You can't fight back against these folks
hard enough. And anybody in any position of power in the US who yields
even an iota of power influence to anyone of these would be dictators there doesn't
deserve to be to be holding an office here in the US. I just
want to I just want to be abundantly clear here. You can like stuff
that they're doing. You could even look at different ways that EUS handling stuff
and go, oh, that's an interesting idea. Would that work here?
And have that conversation, But don't give these people a say in anything.
They want to ban a dude from a continent for interviewing a sitting world leader,
just just when you think about it in that context, I want you
to understand how insane that is. Newsweek reached out to Tucker Carlson by email
the request comment. He did not comment. Yeah he's probably not going to
and I don't blame him, but yeah, everyone's just losing their damn mind.
Now then, an one of our MSNBC lady who was damn near in
tears yesterday. That's what's baffling to me. And these are the same folks
who are more than happy to sit there and hold a microphone and let you
know, Biden run around unchecked and say stuff like every day between now and
November. The American people are gonna know that the only reason the border is
not secure, is Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican friends, right, So
obviously you guys have a strong commitment to making sure that what you think to
be inaccurate or misinformation or disinformation or propaganda or any of it, which arguably
every all of those labels applied to that audio I just played. You'll fawn
over that dude, you'll excuse the fact that he's now in three days time,
bragged about having recent conversations with dead world leaders. He did it again,
by the way, if you don't know, he was at a fundraiser
yesterday and up in New York. It was talking about sitting down with the
former German chancellor who died in he's sixteen or seventeen, and he was saying
that he was with this dude in twenty twenty one. This after the whole
thing with the former French prime minister. So you know, save me your
tears. Don't really care, all right? Uh oh, hold on another
tower call, let's do this, yes, Jake, what's up? Hey
Waarren, I know what happened to that tower? Okay, Well, there's
a reward, so you have to give you the number or you want to
tell us I'm gonna tell you, Uh, it burned down, fell over,
than think into the swamp. So there's not a I'm looking at that.
There's not a swamp here, sir. Oh one could appear burned out,
fell over, and somebody took it to the swamp. Oh okay,
are there's a small there's a small crick in the edge of the field,
and there's a holiday in express so which explains how they figured out how to
do it. Obviously, I guess they must have say there last night.
But yeah, I don't know. All right, Well we'll add it.
We'll throw it in the hopper. Okay, sir, all right, add
that to me. You'll have to rebuild the tower at that point. What's
that? You'll have to rebuild the tower at that point if it fell into
the swamp, do we have to rebuild? You have to rebuild it.
And if that one falls in the swamp, you do it again. Oh
wow, wow, you're so smart. Where'd you learn that? But the
third tower, it'll stand at least fourth? All right, now we're under
the fourth. I mean, this is getting expensive for a small Alabama radio
station. So I'm just saying, do you the amount of people who are
in detail explaining exactly how you'd thieve a giant radio tower. Why do you
all know that? Like, we had one caller and I've got two people
via email who are explaining the logistics of it. And by the way,
the logistics sound true. Are you guys out stealing towers? There's something going
on I'm not aware of. Could you not steal ours? That'll be right,
thanks, Yeah, all you need is XYZ okay, all right,
well have fun with that. Oh all right, hold on, dude,
I hate I hate this pop up. Now there's a pop up on red
State. I don't know that website, Red State. I can't even look
at their stuff. It pops up and it's that generic thing where it takes
it over and it's like, hey, do you want to know more?
And you can click no and then it'll close it. Except now the very
same pop up with the same picture is the words are in Chinese not in
English, so you don't know where to click. So I don't know.
Maybe we got conquered or something. All right, let me jump back to
jump back to this. And it's always for the same ad with the chart.
They're like, if you do this one fitness thing, here's the what
you should do from age eighteen to twenty five and twenty five to and then
it's you know, it's got the uh the old cut dude on there,
and and they're selling some creatine or something. I don't even know. No,
creatine actually probably won't kill you. Whatever they're selling you will kill you.
Roz. You're at the gym this morning, weren't you? You?
Yes? Yeah? Yes? How long? How much? How much time
did you put in this? Only an hour? I decided to sleep in
today. It slept into like three o'clock. Yeah, three, speaking of
three three hours gym for me today? Virtually yeah? Three hours? Oh
wow, yeah, virtually. And so I am a little sore, not
much. I'm in pretty good shape. So I did an iron Man yesterday
virtually two. So you know, go into the gym day are you?
Is this because I went up to on the on the tower story before when
you were talking about climbing of a tower and I explained how I went up
on a tower during a hurricane? Is that what this is? Well,
that's just dumb. But not only was I up, but also it is
struck by lightning and I was transported to nineteen fifty five. Of course you
were. Why wouldn't she be? Yeah, that is everything. Yeah,
you'd mom tried to make out with you, or I'm uncomfortable talking about it,
I would be. I mean that is that was one of the creepy
elements that I didn't appreciate till I was older. But yeah, okay,
So anyway, No, I just found out that if you want to do
stuff, if you can just do it virtually and still get the same credit,
And this is amazing. So the I'm gonna have a pretty I'm gonna
have a pretty significant workout routine, gonna do a lot of marathons. It's
gonna be crazy. I think you're gonna do great. Yeah, how do
I know? Build a Blasio who yesterday was taking all sorts of grief after
he bragged on he took to the twitters and the Instagrams to talk about this
this commitment you thought, you know, click advocacy and click protesting, you
know where you just like, ah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm
gonna get involved in like a post or sign the petition which nobody will ever
give a crap about. And then you feel like you're doing something because you
used a hashtag, or you changed your avatar to the Ukrainian flag or whatever.
Well, Bill Deblasio decided he can go bigger than that. Let me
just read you one of these quote Wall Street is forcing Americans to invest their
life savings to prop up big Oil. I'm virtually marching to tell them we
want a climate friendly option in every four oh one k This, by the
way, this is about some you know folks, including Black Rock themselves,
who were looking at these four oh one and these investment products that didn't that
didn't have energy in them. And it was it became clear that universities in
some states and unions that invest in these they had missed out on like a
crap ton of money for refusing to participate. And so people start talking about
the how they're stupid, and the Blasio is a big fan of these because
he thinks he came up with them. Just so we're clear, but anyway,
so he's virtually marching. Do you want to march side by side with
me? Just choose donate in the app and use the hashtag retire big Oil.
So if you go and you give five dollars, you can pretend you're
virtually marching with bilde Blasio. Two. This is great, man. If
you're just way too lazy to show up to a rally or go to a
public you know here, you know, some public meeting where they you know,
you can speak, or you know, shop candidates and donate to your
favorites, or even put a sign in your yard. If all of that
is too cumbersome upon your way of life, now you can get the same
credit by virtually doing it. I thought the ego trip on somebody who felt
that they were making a difference because they used the right hashtags and blacked out
their photo one day, like those people were obnoxious in their own self righteousness.
This is something totally. This is special. This is virtually marching.
So there you go. That's the thing you can do now, thanks to
Bill de Blasio. All right, oh what hold on, hold on now,
we got all cards of crazy calls here. Yes, Roger, what's
up? Oh thank goodness you answered. I'm actually having trouble because I'm stuck.
I'm stuck on the interstate right now. So, uh, you know
how I can get in touch with the Highway department to see where I can
travel where there's drawbridge overpasses because I've got a huge tower on top of my
truck and uh antenna. I would call it an antenna, sir. If
you call it a tower, they might sup. It's no, it's it's
actually a tower. It's it's about two hundred and twenty five feet up.
Oh wow. Yeah. And I'm in between exit ramps right now. So
here's what i'd recommend. Are you in the Triangle or the Triad, sir?
No, I'm in the Triangle and I'm on I'm on. I don't
I'm on I forty, which is and I don't know if you know the
area, but there's a lot of overpasses. Yeah, yeah, and I'm
here's what I'm gonna help you. Here's what you want to do. You
got to bypass that you want to exit onto one of the surface streets,
Like let's take Wade Avenue. Yeah yeah, yeah, you're gonna take that
straight until you hit Capital and then you'll take Capital to P Street and then
you want to drive directly under the P Street Bridge. Here's the problem.
I can't get there because I'm in between. But hold on a second.
Let me tell my buddy. He's up on top of the tower. Right
now. Hang on, Hey, Jimpo, you gotta climb down. Oh,
you gotta climb down right, you know, we gotta get off the
highway. Okay, all right? Oh crap, he just got struck by
lightning. Huh? What is is every I have a bottle. My water
is bottled this morning, so I haven't Is there something in the tap water
that I'm unaware of? Thank you for the call there, sir. What
is happening? What is going on this morning? How did the tower story?
Because I got all this other stuff out, I don't know. But
this is a top two show. This is at least top at least top
five in the history of the show, at least top ten, Buddy,
top two at least. Okay, all right, oh god knows what this
is? Yes, Cory, what's up? All right? Yeah, I'm
just calling because I have to defend Ross's good honor and his good name.
First, she forgot hold on, hold on, yeah. First you forgot
the Pearl Harbor anniversary, which is unbelievable. And now you're trying to say
that Ross is a influencer of misinformation and Boom Big Beer doesn't exist. I
have a vintage T shirt. Oh but I got off of the Hayes for
Sheriff Merch Store because it's the number one Twitch channel. And this is coming
from a man that a looted my own cat to die. Yes, yeah,
I mean even you know it was confirmed that your cat was Whiskey was
sitting in the window when you went on that vacation. I bought Paul.
And here you are just saying that Ross is a liar? Would you like
Corey? I got thirty seconds. Here's my confession. Okay, you cracked
the case. What I did is I brought Whiskey to the field in Jasper,
Alabama. I cut a guide wire and the poor thing was crushed by
a two hundred foot tower. All right, there you saw that. You're
happy? All Right? I got I go. I gotta go to break
get out of here. All right, everybody's drunk this morning. Welcome to
the Everybody's Drunk Show one day. If you didn't get the Pearl Harbor reference,
I'll reiterate what that is. And God helped me. We're going to
get to our Florida man story next. Hang on, do you want a
feel good story? I will give that to you coming up here in just
a few minutes. But first I have to ying ying to the yang here,
and this is gonna make you lose your mind. Man. The the
power and I and I don't mean a positive power that has come with you
know, walking around with essentially a movie set in your pocket in the form
of you know, instantly being able to go live high quality footage, good
audio, and of course showing everybody everything you do all the time. Uh,
people will take advantage of it. And in public settings it's really obnoxious.
Who's the one idiot who runs around and like bumps people? But he
has bodyguards and that's how he does videos on YouTube? Like somebody's gonna shoot
that dude. I don't want it to happen. I think he's obnoxious And
if you got lost in the woods, I wouldn't be sad. But like
we saw what happened at that Uh you were that the guy was picking up
the food order for a door dash or whatever. He shot that dude up
at that mall in Virginia, Like, all right, I don't think this
is quite that, but this is this is worse somehow in a whole different
way. So in the video you see this woman what is her name,
Ash really that's you know what, No, you don't get to be named
Ash. That's your name. It's probably Ash. You're gonna be called Ash
unless you have a chainsaw for a hand. You don't get to be called
Ash. It's Bruce Campbell's. But anyway, all right, So here here's
the gist. So the woman is, she's at a self checkout at a
grocery store, and the kid is sitting you know, the checkouts, right,
You got the little scanner area, and then on both sides you generally
have like a flat air where the bags are. So she's got the kid
kind of propped up on one of the sides there as she is grabbing things
out of the cart and scanning them and looking them up and doing all that,
except every time she pulls something out of the cart, rather than just
scanning it, she is having the toddler say what it is, and then
quizzing the toddler and correcting the toddler and pronunciation and all of that. It
is clearly taking a crap ton more time than it would normally take, and
there is a line of people behind her who are clearly irritated as she is.
Just she's taking an incredible amount of time because she is she's using this
as a teachable moment, and that's what she wrote. Yes, she said,
quote, you know, the world is a child's classroom. No better
to build confidence and independence by teaching kids to do things for themselves or teaching
them to learn at every moment. So in the video, which she posted
to was a Instagram initially, I guess Instagram, she's doing her weekly grocery
shopping with the toddler and she's going through and every item she scans is taking
thirty seconds because you're dealing with a toddler who doesn't need to be involved in
this, but is. And she then posts the video because she was quote
irritated at how rude people were being behind her. In the video, she
writes POV the line behind you is growing and people are looking at you,
but you don't care because your child is learning and rushing is what gives kids
anxiety. In the video, she slowly asked the child the names of every
fruit and vegetable and encourages the kid to pitch in and help. The entire
clip is captioned Sunday Mornings. This supermarket is designed for families. Take a
step back. If you think this is moving too slow. I think we
make a pretty good team. Hashtag toddler life. I've never met that.
Why do I hate this woman so much? Ross? And I've never met
her? What is because you should? Okay, all right, I just
want to make sure I'm not in the wrong here. Now. There's a
time and place for everything. Yeah, that is not it. When I
do one of those machines of self checkout, it just annoys me, like
a regular person. Going slow drives me absolutely insane. When it's my turn,
dude, I am like, yeah, head of Blackwards liquid terminator mode.
I get so fast efficient. I want to be so fast with the
people behind me are like, wow, it's amazing because I considerate the people
behind me. Yeah, she's she considered them and then she changed the vibe
of her video because they were, you know, giving her stinky and she's
just decide, well, I'm here with my kids, so and I'm teaching
my kid safe, which is good. I'm glad. I'm glad you're helping
educate your kid. Something tells me that probably that will be limited to state
approoved topics, and you'll probably fall in line because you strike me as an
idiot. But no, screw you sitting there and then to make I don't
you know what it is. It's like I can't fathom videos. And maybe
it's because I have a conscience or something like whenever I see a video like
that or I see some I see one of those gym videos where somebody set
up a camera right in the middle of where everyone walks and then is losing
their crap because people are walking there, like how do you get there?
How are you so unaware and have no you know what? I maybe that
might be a good place to be because I mean, think about all the
ways in which I've had to either police myself, change what I'm doing right,
adapt and overcome because I'm thinking about, well, how will this impact
other people? And I don't want to be that guy, and so like
those instances are things that happen a lot, and yet this woman never has
to worry about that, and I feel like that would be amazing. So
I don't know, maybe I'm in the wrong boat. And check this out.
All right, there's your feel good story. So a Oklahoma man by
the name of Scott Sepulpa was announcing or commentating a high school girls was it
basketball basketball game. Okay, all right, and you know, so this
is this is not big town, this is not a you know, Sepulpa
is or was actually a teacher for the school and a part time radio guy.
So he's doing he's doing the play by play for the high school sports.
It's not a little local am whatever. They're doing a stream all that,
and the newspaper, The Oklahoma and wrote a big story that Sepulpa had
made really racist remarks during the broadcast, specifically when one of the team's players
kneeled during the national anthem. The Oklahoma reported that Sepulpa said, and I
quote, they're kneeling, f ing N words. I hope they get their
butts kicked f them. I hope they lose. They're gonna kneel like that,
and then once again use the N word. And they reported that,
which that's I mean, that's pretty crazy. Ross. Can you believe,
I mean, can you think if like we said that on the air,
that'd be that's a career over. Yeah, yeah, you're done. You're
done. So man, there is one little problem. Supaulpa never said that.
He never said that at all. Now, there was another person by
the name of Matt Rowan, who was also doing a stream, just a
stream was not on radio, who did say that because he didn't he failed
to WRECT and he doesn't like as a hobby thing and he, I guess
didn't realize he was still streaming or whatever. He did say that. He
even admits it, and it was after Sepulpa's name, the actual guy who's
doing the broadcast mentioned that or he showed up in there. Actually Norman contacted
the paper and went, nah, that was me, and I did it
because I'm diabetic and I had little blood sugar. But whatever. So Supulpa
in the three hours his name was up three hours, had his teaching license
revoked, was fired. He has a side business of audio, obviously drawn
on his radio enthusiasm, and he would do DJ stuff in a variety of
other things. He said that all of his main clients send him emails saying
that they're severing ties with him. He received death threats three hours. He
said his life was decimated, and only after Norman contacted the paper would the
newspaper make the change. The paper, by the way, owned by Gannett
who obviously they own media properties here in North Carolina, including in the triad
so well, a jury in Oklahoma has spoken and awarded him twenty five million
dollars. The paper has to pay him twenty five million dollars. Now,
the paper obviously said their lawyers say, ah, this is wrong. We're
human. Humans make mistakes. You didn't misspelled dude's name. Don't give me
this garbage. You're right. People do make mistakes, and one of the
ways you can make mistakes is through not having you know, not exercising due
diligence or caution. Right, you have to in the same way that if
I see a story on a site that I don't recognize, I'll go double
check it. You put this dude on blasts saying he said this stuff,
and you did it right in the middle of you know, when Minneapolis was
still on fire, and you didn't even bother to check it, and then
you didn't even and you would even take it down when you were first contacted.
I'm surprised they only it's Oklahoma. That's why it's only twenty five million,
five million actual damages, twenty million in compensatory punitive. And the newspaper's
saying that this will spell the end for reporting, especially among smaller media properties
and other newspapers, so they will have to appeal. I don't know.
I'm good. That's not a whoopsie. You said this. Dude said all
this at a time when there was a there was a good likelihood that if
somebody saw him on the street that they would do him physical harm. And
he's fired, and he got his teaching license revoked and all of his clients
left in three hours. So write the check, shut up and do better.
How's that all right? Raced agic? Real quick, he's here to
give the weather. We won't sue him if he's wrong. But well,
I owe you the theme of the party. I'll make that quick end.
Yes, yeah, it's it's Taylor Swift themed. You're not women Swift to
stop. Yes, the women before I could even before I could even good,
I'm sorry. Who wears the King of the castle right? For some
reason? Not this time. Usually I could have some input, but the
wives all came up with a thing. They're they're bringing like I don't know,
it's like it, oh god, they're like the theme of the songs,
like we're gonna have red sand grease, I mean red sangreas the thing.
But it makes sense because of the album. I'm like, oh gosh,
so I'm just gonna go it's not too late to burn your house down.
Yeah, that too, but what will be any of that? So
yeah, that's how it is. Maybe more on that tomorrow. But we're
in good shape, good outdoor weather until the weekend, when we'll get some
showers in here. Sun, high clouds today, mid upper fifties, a
near forty tonight, so pretty mild on the overnight lows upper fifty his low
sixties, and cloudy tomorrow, with the rain coming in for the weekend.
Better chance Saturday night and Sunday than it is Saturday. Maybe a little rain
Saturday, very warm too, on either side of seventy by a few degrees,
depends on where you are, and then rain, maybe a steady period
of rain Saturday night. Sunday. The showers will taper off in the afternoon,
but there could be another round tomorrow. What's that Sunday night. It's
a Monday, and the mild weather is going to continue. Casey. I
think mid late next week we'll start getting a little cooler, maybe colder,
but you know, we'll see, we'll see, all right, now,
it's gonna stay mild, Yeah, I can't even think about anything else with
this party. We'll get into it tomorrow. Did you bring your man card?
You may not leave with them? All right, see it and we'll
be back. Hang on. Good morning, case Say. Stocks advanced yesterday,
futures are mixed this morning. S and P and Nasdaq futures are a
little bit lower. The Dow futures are up twenty one points at the moment.
Latest data from the labor departments suggests the job market remains healthy. The
number of workers filing new claims for them deployment benefits fell by nine thousand to
two hundred eighteen thousand last week. A decline to the number of continuing claims
also points to a solid job market. There's layoff news from the music industry.
Warner Music is planning to cut about six hundred jobs that would be ten
percent of its staff, and Walt Disney's latest quarterly earnings were better than expected.
The entertainment company also issued an upbeat profit forecast for the year, saying
it's benefiting from cost cuts and strength in its international theme parks. The number
of Disney Plus subscribers, though Casey declined. The company raised the price of
the streaming service, and that sent the subscriber base down a bit. Casey.
All right, thanks Jeff. Sorry for the short shortness there. It's
been a weird weather thing. All right, appreciate it. Okay, have
a good day, take care. Yep, there you go. Jeff Pellinger,
Bloomberg News. Oh my gosh, I love this story. Ross.
We have to get on this you ready. Lawmakers in Hawaii are considering becoming
the first state who has designated an Offish hand gesture. What do you think
the gesture is? The shaka? Yeah, it makes sense, but I'm
very clear in how I'm pronouncing this because you don't want to screw up and
be like and right, the shocker. Well it sounds like you might be
saying that if you're like from Boston. Yeah, well I bet that is
their official hand gesture up there. But yeah, the shaka. If you
don't know what that is, put all of your fingers, your your middle
finger in the two next to it and just you're pinky and your thumb out
and then shake it back or spit it back and forth. That's that is
which. Yeah, you know, it makes sense that it is a Hawaii
thing, but like, also, it sounds like the shaker and if I
wouldn't google that, and also I what hand gesture should North Carolinas be?
We may have to talk about this tomorrow. I think we're enough to talk
about this tomorrow. I mean, I know the one that I like to
use on I forty, but I don't know if they want to enshrine them.
But maybe if you all would not do under the speed limit in the
left lane, we wouldn't need it. So there's that, all right?
Sorry you got distracted there by the way, the amount of moms riding me
losing their crap over mom in line going this is what I do with my
kids at home, unloading groceries, which is perfect. That makes perfect sense,
right, you want to teach your kid about all the groceries, do
that. But I'm also baffled that kids sitting on the scale. You ever
tried to, like put your smartphone on the scale while you're doing groceries.
What happens at a self checkout? It'll like stitle gum up the whole work.
So how do you put a whole kid there? I don't even know
how that works. That's just confusing and real quick. I promised to Florida
man, so let's do this. Oh. Also, Ross Alison wrote and
said that she recently took a trip from the Tryad to Boon to see the
beer. There was no beer. You were there. You misled her,
and she's suing for twenty five millions. So sucks for you, and it
sucks for you and your show. Right, No, it just specifically says
you. I wish it's not the name of the show, though it sucks
for you. I'll be fine. I'll be fine. I don't know, man,