It's that Monday. Does my mic sound different? Question? And it probably
doesn't, but you know how, or no, you know what, it
probably does. There's probably somebody in there screwing with all the controls or something,
considering the massive effort it took to rigged. Is the number two trending
thing, and frankly, I think it's probably the number one trending thing.
I think they just forced super Bowl to be the number one because it's Lucy
goosey where it's not a hashtag, it's like the event. You know how
they do that? Okay, when you get to actual hashtags, it's that
ninety percent of it. Let me break down people using the term rig following
the all the super Bowl insanity, I would say ninety okay, five percent
of it are people who firmly believe that it is rigged. And to those
people, I'd say, you should have also taken Kansas City money line.
I mean, if you believe that moneyline, that don't you have to worry
about the don't have to worry about are they going to cover the whatever?
None of that. I mean, if you believe I don't believe that,
but I believe about one. So you know, I'm just saying, where's
your commitment? The another five percent are people joking. Okay, they're joking
but not necessarily clouding on the other five percent, but they're joking about stuff
like how are their three teamu or gosh, I wish I never had to
learn about this this site or I mean, I know what it is.
It's where you go if you're a billionaire, excuse me, and by ninety
nine cent two pays apparently, and it's probably pretty much run by the UH
Chinese government and it's primarily stocked with stuff that literally is. They don't just
like, let me explain this. They don't just brag about it, you
know, being slave labored in China, but a selling point that is literally
on this team or Tamu or ross. Have you or your wife ever used
it? I've never used it. I'm assuming it works just like Amazon,
only it's all made by slaves instead of just some of it. I just
know I can add for ads for them like all the time, and it's
like crazy stuff. It'll be like like, look at this is like crazy
nail gun you can get for like two dollars. It looks like six shots
nails and apparently when you buy stuff from there, it's not exactly what you
ordered. There's a whole yeah, there's whole like things where people go expectations
reality that's just based on ordering. And then I also think like they just
like they just had all their credit card info or a bunch of their credit
card info was compromised, so you know that's that's nice, but all right,
but they just sell crap, and their their marketing thing was like,
this is how billionaire shop. And look, I understand. Remember I'm going
with the five percent that are joking on this stuff. Okay, I understand
how lovely a setup that is to go a billionaire goes on TA mood or
t mood by ninety nine cent two pays to make Trump jokes. And and
by the way, that's funny. Okay, if you can't laugh at Trump's
hair, come on, man, whisp it in whisper it in the wind
man. But that's fine, you know whatever, everybody's got their thing.
So people were making that joke that was actually funny. And then the other
ninety percent, including the account of the President of the United States. I
say the account, because sure as hell wasn't him. At ten thirty at
night, Come on, are using rigged to say that all MAGA Republicans think
everything's rigged, continuing to escalate the Taylor Swift, Kelsey Mahome, you know,
whatever it is. And so ninety percent of people who honestly believe that
their political opponents believe that a cabal of Satanists put Usher up and then screwed
him over. I guess, I don't know, maybe he didn't want to
do enough devil signage or whatever, like, you know how far you had
to delve down into that hashtag to find anything remotely where somebody's being serious about
that. So that was that breakdown. And yet and yet they were not
the most annoying people to me as I sat there with the football on the
television right in front of me. Yet somehow in my phone doom scrolling,
the people who irritated me the most are the big long diatribe prior to the
game, all right, going, hey, you know what, they don't
respect you. They'll use any money as they earned to essentially violate your political
beliefs. Why would you watch them garbage? And then you also had some
who are like, ah, they're NFL's racist, right, I'm just pointing
out you're getting it from opposite ends there, and that's fine if you want
to be like, you know, it's it's the Lord's Day and my boys
are with me and instead of watching a bunch of overpaid athletes chilling for you
know, a big comedy or whatever, we're gonna go out in the yard
and play. And I'm not I'm not upset with that. That's fine.
Let people know. Twitter and part is about that. Yet I saw a
bunch of accounts where they're like, ah, big long diatribe and then they
had a hot take on every element of the Super Bowl, like those the
Chinese slave labor ads or and then insert whatever commercial it is, or can
you leave this play? And here's some clips, and it's like, well,
hold on, what are you? Your boys are probably in the art
crying right now, sir, because they're like, where'd daddy go? Daddy's
over there on his phone. They're having a conversation about how you never loved
them therapy. It's it's gonna be it, you know, that's your future.
So yeah, I for some reason, I just found that doily obnoxious
yesterday. It's like, cool, you don't want to watch It's fine,
because that's me, that's you know, and I think that's most people.
It's like, you know, do whatever you're gonna do, not affecting me,
don't care. So uh ross do you watch? So sometimes you don't
watch on TV, you watch on Twitter. I'm assumed with the super Bowl
you watch it because commercials. I didn't. I didn't watch you a damn
second and I didn't pay attention to it. Really, I can't. I
can't. I can predict what happened, though, hold on, hold on.
Prior to doing that, did you post a big diatribe about I did
not? Oh, okay, all right, I didn't. I didn't.
I didn't pay one one since one millisecond of a thought on the super Bowl?
It was it was glorious. We actually watched the Marvels, which was
not glorious. It was it was so bad it was we wanted to watch
it to say it was as bad as people say. Anyway, was is
now? Is that what's? Yeah? It was on a Disney Plus,
but I listen, I didn't. I didn't watch one second of this thing.
Yes, yes, all right. The Chiefs were down at half uh
huh. They had panting shots of Taylor Swift looking very concerned. Oh yeah,
and then Patrick Mahomes Wy Spice and Ice Spice looking concerned as well.
And Patrick Mahomes won in the final like ten seconds. I think it was
to nail it six. No. Well, look, a lot of people
don't realize. Within the entertainment industry, ross Is is known as the puppet
master Ross puppet Master Hayes. So for those of you who do think it
was rigged, he's the dude who rigs it. I have all the power,
all of it. That's why I hit like a quadruple parlay Mega parlay.
You hit a mega quadruple Mega exacta parlay. Well, actually, some
of the many parlays do have dumb names like that, as do teasers.
No idea what I'm talking about. You can be you can get a you
can get a ten team mega teaser. Yes, concur yeah, but the
problem is because you control this, it would be too obvious if you did
go hit you know, sixteen way parlays and open your own you know,
Biff's casine. I don't. I don't gamble because I have an addictive gene
and it'll be really bad for me if I start gambling like gambling when you
write the script though, it is not right. Okay, yeah, see
I think that that's but I'm guessing this will happen at the Super Bowl.
Yeah, all right, well hold on, let me all right, So
I'm gonna quiz you. I'm gonna, I'm gonna I'm gonna see how psychic
you were. What would you say? You can say, these are just
yes or no questions. Okay. Did the commissioner of the NFL make a
point prior to the start of the Super Bowl to go and schmooze Taylor Swift?
I have no idea, yes or no? Did Roger Goodell? So
did she say hello? Like? So, did Roger Goodell say hello to
her in the box or whatever? Did he go up into the definitely hang
with her? Yes? Okay, all right? Did did When one team
scored a touchdown at the end when it mattered, was there a penalty negating
the touchdown? Whereas the other team, where it looks like there's a lot
of holding going on, their touchdown was not negated. Would you say that
that was or wasn't part I would if I had to bet, I would
say yeah, because it's the Chiefs. Wow, you're shut Wow, you
are nailing it, dude, absolutely so. So there was a touchdown called
back Yeah yeah, it was what quarter? Uh yeah towards the end?
Or was it wasn't at the beginning? How? How? Yeah? How
end of the end? Like? Is overtime part of the end? I
don't did did Travis Kelcey get the final score? No? Because that would
be like two unscript right you? Uh, that would be that would be
two unscript. They can't do that because it would then it would be like
then everyone would be like, this is the u W E. This is
completely fake. There's no way. Well, everyone was already like that.
The only thing that it didn't have was the rock coming out turning heel and
then everyone saying there's aw we protest listen. It needs to be Roman Reigns
and Cody. It needs to be Rains and Cody. Nobody wants the rock.
Wow, man, don't you want to? So people are saying w
W is more real than the NFL. I've heard that. I've heard I
heard like a second ago. Yeah, so my sources myself, would you
say that for no reason that I can fathom, especially based on his performance?
Uh? That Christian McCaffrey would fumble at one of the most important times.
No, it did he really? Mmm, I would have not guessed
that I would have not. Yeah, yeah, so uh no, and
it was not Kelsey you got the final touchdown. Although there is a picture
of him screaming and Andy Reid that's turned into a memes. I did see
the screaming at Andy Reid. I do like that me all over the place.
Yeah. People are making like, you know, pretending what he said
during the moment. Yeah, effective, Yeah, there's some really good beams
out there. Who is hard Hardman, I'm trying Tony was Hardiman who scored
the final one? Oh? Uh no, they did not in this particular
script. They did not give Kelsey a touchdown. And here's another fun stat
Do you know who the rushing leader was for the uh for the Chiefs,
Patrick Mahomes. That's correct, sir, Yes, yes, yes, Kelsey
did. He was. He did have the most receiving yards of anyone though,
nine catches for ninety three yards. Yeah, and I'm sure it's all
yards after the catch, right, most of them. Anyway. Yeah,
he had a couple, he had a couple of big plays, shickdowns,
and then like you know, just run forever because they can't tackle him.
Yeah, Kelsey, uh, Kelsey's a good player man, completely. Yeah.
Yeah. And you know, if you got a really good, big
tight end like that, it's not an easy guy to I did see the
photos of his brother arriving before the game dressed like zou Zach galvanick Is from
the Hangover, and the people who didn't get it were crazy. When I
first saw it, I thought it was like photoshop. I was like,
he didn't really show up like that, but he did. It's funny.
Yeah, no, that was funny. So you call, did you write
that in the script or was that just a happening? That was just what
I just stumbled across that. Oh well, it's great man. Maybe add
that to future scripts. How often did they show Taylor Swift like every other
you? You know what, here's the here's the vibe that I got.
I you could tell at some point like and I'm sure in like the pre
broadcast meeting or whatever, they were like, all right, look everyone's saying
all this stuff. Let's make it about football, guys. And and then
you had a game that was back and forth like there was, and then
that progressively at you know, you had the Goodell shot and then you had
you know, they would go in there and around halftime they entered and exited
halftime, and I'm probably Usher would have wished that they stuck with the with
the crew up there, so they didn't notice the how is the how is
the Super Bowl so bad at getting audio linked lip sync systems that work or
mics I shouldn't say lip sync mics that were cutting out. I think one
of the problems is now is they they show it Unlike, there's so many
different ways to watch it now right. You can watch it on YouTube,
or you can watch it on is it Paramount Plus or Peacock, and you
can watch it on CBS, and I mean all these different things. So
maybe they have a hard time linking the individual systems up. I don't know.
I just no. But dude's doing the halftime show and the mics he
his mic kept cutting out? Oh Usher, yes, yes, how does
him? Man? He looked like he was sweating his butt off. Yeah,
well, yeah, I know it's climate controlled. He's like nearly like
what sixty It's not fair. I told you. One of my fondest music
memories is the first time I got to work a concert. Is a stage
hand for the Iazzi Union in California, and we were doing Mary J.
Blige, but I was on I basically I was tasked with the opening opening
act, who was a guy nobody had ever heard of named Usher. He's
incredibly nice. I was doing my first broadcast live club gig in Atlanta.
I was stumbling, you know, live broadcast, at the microphone, and
I look over and he's just sitting over there, and they're like, do
you want to talk to Usher? I'm like, you know, I want
to talk to Usher. I never talked to him. No, no,
no, no, no. What happened was because I kept having to go
back and forth from spot World where the spotlights were even after they opened house,
and I'm wearing a lanyard that says Usher on it. So people are
asking me about seats. You're like, no, no, no, no,
but I don't know Usher Raymond. It's different. Yeah it was Usher,
wasn't he? Usher was the opening opening like the middle act was next?
Remember next? Yeah? Too close? Oh man, I'll look at
that. We're too close to the break time. All right, let's go
ahead and do that, and you opine anything you want on the super Bowl,
we'll do it coming up, Ross and I don't care about spoilers between
ourselves. So he was giving me the rundown of the Marvels movie. What
did you I mean, I don't want to ruin it for anyone else,
but no, I'm not no, I'm not going. I'm just gonna like
you're telling me that, And all I can see is the albino from the
Da Vinci Code, right, because like, who would subject themselves to that?
Right? Right at that point, you like you were strapped in for
the ride. Really, we got to finish this thing. Oh my gosh.
Okay, there's a point in the movie. Yeah. I don't want
to get too sidetracked because you know, Super Bowl and Prepp and stuff,
But there's this point in the movie where they land on a planet, the
Marvels and it's a matriarchal society. Well we knew that was coming. Okay,
So like Amazon, Amazon or what no likes us a wonder Woman?
Yeah that the planet communicating, No it is not. The planet communicates via
musical and song. That's so they talk. I'm sorry, you know how
they drags from Guardians like his people are incredibly literal right on this planet where
they lead, which is led by women. So three women land on the
planet led by women. It's a matriarchal sight. Yeah, they are a
planet that communicates via musical, so it turns into a musical for like fifteen
twenty minutes. This is this is what I'm talking about. He's telling me
this. I'm like, I that sounds too everything. That just sounds too
well, obviously it's going to be a matriarchal planet if their form of communication
is show tunes, right, I want to know how the I want to
know how the population continues. Well, you're saying, because you know,
some sort of big event happens where and the planet's in danger and market I
were saying, like, how do they communicate where the like does the song
get really tense and like really oh yeah, it can't be upbeat and shiny
then right, like no second act stuff right there? Man? Yeah,
now you got that. We got to bring on this. You just don't
okay that Ross's gonna give two thumbs down instead he cut his thumbs off out
of protest. It's that bad. Marky just got up and she's texting me
in the super Bowl and we have not discussed this at all. Oh do
you guys fall asleep? For it was over. Mar We didn't watch any
of it. We went to watch some marvels and went to bed. So
she writes me this first thing she writes me, she gotta it is such
she she she googled, you know, she woke up and checked Facebook whatever
to see who it is. Such a scam. I find it really hard
to believe that the one person people have been obsessed with this season just happened
to make it to the super Bowl and they win. Okay, sure,
Exects knew it would be great for views money to have him in the super
Bowl with her there. Someone got paid to throw those games. I'm very
upset about this. In Red pilled, I love my wife so much.
Some people are defending champions. Some people are saying it's faker than w w
E. I've heard that like two times now this morning. Did you hear
that like two times? Do you hear that? I'm hearing it everywhere?
Dude. Oh wow, okay, all right, yeah, I'm telling you
man, I mean, they were the defending champs. But then also,
uh, you know the un dynasty, the Kim the Kim dynasty is uh
you know, they keep winning, so you know whatever. Wait, Corey
is sending me a text. They did a flyover over a dome. Yes,
didn't I mention on the I thought you I mean Friday? Wow?
Yeah, yeah, yeah he was because they like they have to actually have
ground crew go on top of the stadium, so it looks like, I'm
not sure what I guess that's just a lighting device for path or I'm sure
it's actually much more technical than that. But that's kind of cool to stand
up up top of the stadium and you're the only one who gets to see
the flyover. That's you know, part of the game. So there you
go. You know, I I'll tell you what the real tragedy is.
There was a far superior sporting event that took place over the weekend. Ross.
Do you catch into the other sporting event that took place over the weekend?
Also, I was unaware former the the PGA's Phoenix Open. Yeah,
the Waste Management is what it's called Waste Management Open down in Phoenix, and
it's always had kind of a rowdy ambiance. It went off the rails.
You didn't want watch any of it, but you saw the super cut obviously
because you dubbed it in Does that is that remind you of a golf tournament
as you understand it? I mean I might watch Yeah that was the norm.
It's it's like the it's like the what is it like the common Joe's
whatever golf tournament? Yeah? Ye shows, yeah, average shows. Yeap,
Yeah, I watched I watched those videos before this is this was pandemonium.
Dude, when they're when they're cutting off beer sales midday at a PGA
event, Yeah, you're that's something different, man, Like I'll tell you.
I'll tell you. The only people I think you can identify are some
of the folks used to go to the old Greater Greensboro Open because that used
to have a rep band back in the day that had like you might get
in a scrum at that thing. But this was fat shirtless dudes running running
down on a grown a grown adult man in a polo shirt and short standard
luxury box stuff right sitting in a chair in one of the luxury boxes,
just wetting himself because he's too hammered to move. Zach Johnson going food a
full shooter McGavin on the uh on the crowd and it was funny. They
insult how they insult him. They compared him to what was it? It
wasn't Nick Saved. I can't remember who was. It was so stupid.
And then he goes over and screams at the crowd, but they're all hammered
so they don't care. It was pandemonium. Shirtless dude in the sand trap,
loubed up, shirtless dude coming down a hillside which was very much in
play, so I had somebody landed there. They may not have grass.
Now there's noather chanting. They want their beer back, man. And it
was everything that a tournament could and should be. And did you accidentally that
sounded like audio from Bill's Mafia? Can you play the actual cut please?
That that was the actual cut that was I'm a big fan. That's amazing.
Oh I gotta throw one of these. Oh it was so good.
Oh it was the gift that kept on get and every time there was a
super that there would be more and more and more, and then there's just
big random fights a couple of times. I mean it was special, So
you know, kudos, Although now I guess the PGAs ticked and now they're
gonna ruin that tournament because it always had this rowdy thing because it has this,
it has this hole, it's got a signature hole there and at the
that tournament's the sixteenth and it is I mean, you look, you feel
like you're in a stadium because they have the big the big bleachers and boxes
surrounding the whole damn thing. And people are very vocal. And there's a
couple of courses that get a rep for that, like Beth Play, Bethpage
Black. The New York fans up there, they always said they were kind
of rude. But that Phoenix Open is just pandemonium every year. But it's
always been managed. Uh this was not managed, So you had options,
is all that I'm saying, if you know, from the sports standpoint.
Uh but yeah, to your point though, Ross, I didn't see anyone
on fire, so so you know there's there's that, all right? Eight
eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Everyone's sending me the commercials
that they like. Okay, good, that's a dunkin Donuts enthusiasts, the
Schwarzenegger commercial, not the sword. Ross. Did you watch any of the
commercials other than the ones you dubbed? No? Okay, all right,
Well I saw some like but without the audio at the gym this morning,
they were TV Schwartzenegger. The whole joke was he he says, ah,
what he should say? Hey, right, you know, get to the
chop uh, you know that kind of stuff. And that was the whole
premise of the thing. And I'm like, okay, it's fine. And
then they had you know, Schwartzenegger with Paschi there and but that's kind of
a hack joke. I'm just saying, you know, but also there were
politics. Uh well, let's just go ahead and start with this. Proved
the fact that Donald Trump says I want to cut Social Security or raise the
age. I've never said that. There's the red challenge hapen Trump's challenging Haley's
statement. Hailey's claims she didn't call for raising the age of Social Security is
under review, Tony. Here's exactly what the official is looking at Social Security,
medicare. How would you manage the entitlements? We say the roles of
changed. What we do know is sixty five is way too low and we
need to increase that. Sixty five is way too low and we need to
increase that. Let's take a look at another angle. We changed retirement age
to reflect life expectancy. I think the call is pretty clear, but let's
go down to the field and see what official gene tuny he has to say.
After review, Nikki Hayden clearly said she plans to change the rules and
raise the age of Social Security. This results in cutting benefits for eighty two
percent of America. Bob, that was a rookie mistake by Hayla. I'm
Donald J. Trump and I improved this message. Yeah, on a night.
You know. Here's the thing, there's some Trump's got some really funny,
mean people around him, a lot of creativity. I don't know,
that was just I wasn't super excited about that. RFK had one is I'm
sorry, did you so this Israeli Super Bowl ad? Or Israel super Bowl
ad? Did I did? I was reading this. Did Robert Kraft pay
for that or something? I don't know what the hell that's about. I
guess I never really looked into it, but I saw people associating that here,
by the way, is that commercial to all the dads, the funny
ones, the cili ones, the strong ones, the adventurous ones, to
all the dads held in captivity by Hamas for over one hundred and twenty days,
we vow to bring you home. So no, it was a different
I'm sorry, it was a different one that they said he paid for.
So somebody's telling me, so, look, you had, you had the
funny, you had the you had the political, you had the more serious,
and then obviously you had all all of the the insanity that was the
Chinese Tu tamu thing ninety nine cent two pays, you know if you're in
the market for that, all right, Well, like I said, you
want to weigh in on anything from the super Bowl or the golf tournament because
that sounds amazing. That's a tournament i'd want to go to, but also
kind of from a safe distance. And I was reading like the number of
like I saw there was a dude getting carried out, grown man slumped over
another grown man's shoulder because he had he'd been overserved. So and then they
put a little snarky statement out some fans don't know what it means to drink
responsibly, and it's like, I don't know. You also got a beer
thing every three feet at this tournament. So and it's the Phoenix Open or
the Waste Management Open, So people have a little bit of a history there,
so whatever, at least it was damn entertaining. Man, I get
you know what, I don't even know who won that. Let's see that.
Lets you know it wasn't about the event, it was about everything that
surrounded it, all right. Coming up on the show, we got a
slutty sting ray get into that ap running cover the weekend shows in Sanity,
Florida. Man woman all over producing. It's a busy Monday, and we'll
get after it. Coming up, what was I'm sorry, what did you
what? You didn't watch? So I didn't know, but I read that
Patrick Mahomes dedicated his third Super Bowl to his dad's third d w Y And
I didn't know. Was that a joker? Did that really happen? Let's
go with that it did happen. Okay, I don't know, but I
think it's funnier if we just go. Oh and I never finished my Taylor
Swift thing because we were up against the clock there, so I said that
they were kind of restrained showing her. But by the end of the game,
there's right at you know, they've won. The light show. That
looks like it was probably the only one rigged ready to go. Some some
people are questioning that, but they cut to it and it's that, you
know, it's that time when everyone's down on the field and the trophy's been
handed and there's you know, they're gonna go to separate and they like and
they just here you go, Travis Kelsey. And then so Kelsey's there with
the trophy and like, off to the side, about fifteen feet away,
you can see Taylor Swift and she's just in the periphery of the camera.
And then I'm like, in my mind, I'm like, oh, but
at least she's not right there. And then they cut the camera to a
tight shot of just her and uh, I believe it was Kelsey's mom,
just her and Kelsey's mom at the moment Kelsey's hoisting this thing he just won,
and he's not in the frame anymore. I still can't believe they gave
Taylor Swift a ring. Well, I think you know what are you gonna
because if not, then the Swifties come after you on Twitter and it's the
whole thing. So all right, hold on, Boston, Paul, what's
up, you dirty bastard? You that junk and horny that you had to
jump in the tank at the aquair and dragmate Stringley, what is wrong with
you? What is wrong with you? I assumed you would be in a
puddle somewhere this morning. Were you not on the hill with the fat dude,
fat shirtless dude beer slipping slide at the Phoenix Open Because if not,
I'm very disappointed. That looked like you're you're kind of a vent. It
is, but uh no, I wasn't there. I wasn't in I wasn't
in Arizona. But Charlie Hoffman and Taylor ended up in tie and uh the
Canadian man tailor at one and on a second hole hot Oh, so you
know, now I kind of didn't I look it up, but yeah,
it was you. You have to admit the crowd. The crowd was the
entertainment. Now the question is where you in western North Carolina at an aquarium
getting it on thing? Right? Yeah? Our story has it? Yes?
Yeah, all right, let's get back to your you know, drinking
your leftovers. That's a joke. There's no leftovers. So uh we'll get
to the sting Rays story coming up on the show. Though, Well you
know what, I'm gonna get his analysis, Dale fallwell, Treasurer and Gubernatorio
cant he'll join us. We'll be chatting with him coming up here in just
a few minutes. See if he's more super Bowl or insane golf tournament,
you know what, what's the preference. And then we might even talk about
some actual you know, like issues and stuff. So that's how we roll
Man should have, could have, would and maybe we'll get to it.
So but we will. We will be chatting with Dale coming up here in
just a few minutes, all right, phone number eight eight eight nine three
four seven eight seven four. So yes, we will get to the Stingray
story, because that is that is weird and I have some parenting questions as
a non parent. We've got lots to get to, including the Treasurer of
North Carolina and agubinatorial candidate Dale Folwell's joining us this morning. How you doing
today, sir? What's going on doing? Fantastic lots going on with being
the keeper of the public person a candidate to be the next governor of North
Carolina. All right, well, I'm gonna and I want to get into
all that. But uh uh, you did you watch the game or did
you prefer the the Phoenix open insanity. Are you more a golfer or football
guy? I'm more of a supercross guy. So I was watching Supercross UH
replays from Glendale and uh filling out candidate surveys, which we have a lot
of those to do these days. Yeah, I got a quite so like
I'll see some of those surveys where like you must, you guys must get
so many, and then it becomes a story if you don't do one and
they're but it's like you still got to prioritize that stuff, like do you
do you just say some of these are not useful because you know Dale that
there are news agencies here that don't want to see you or Mark or anyone
with an R after their name winning, So do you prioritize that? Or
what we tried to do everyone that we can. And it's it's easy if
you know who you are and who you love and who you belong to in
this world and after this world, and because you can be consistent and not
tell one group one thing and and tell someone else something else. And I'll
find these surveys to be somewhat like a job application. You you fill out
the application just like you would applying for a job, and that's what I'm
doing in order to be the next governor of North Carolina. Well, it's
just one of those things. As soon as I get to that, you
know, how when did you stop beating your wife? Kind of questions,
And I feel like that's that's where I've seen pushback from from candidates. So
uh, in addition to that, let's let's let's stay on the money side
there and get over to some of the issues I was reading over the weekend
simultaneously, and you can correct me if I'm wrong that the federal economy everything's
great, but North Carolina's economy is crap and Republicans are to blame. And
you, as Treasurer under what we've seen over the last ten or so years
here in North Carolina, do you feel that that is an accurate representation,
because that seems to be what Cooper was saying over the weekend. Well,
you know, I don't know where Governor Cooper learned math, but NC stands
for nothing compares And for your listeners, you can't manage what you can't measure,
and so let's put the facts on the table. No state is in
the process of retiring sixty percent of the state debt six zero. No state
who had a corporate income tax is in the process of eliminating it. No
state has cut their personal income tax rates by nearly over fifty percent in the
last twelve years. So the n C stands for nothing compares. And I'm
sort of shocked that he would say that because Democrat Secretary of State Elaine Marshall
constantly every month brags on new record setting numbers for businesses that are opening or
expanding in North Carolina. We do face higher prescription and healthcare costs, the
highest costs and the lowest quality in the United States. There's still lots to
be worked on in that regard. But you know, Governor Cooper is just
wrong about North Carolina economy not being good. Well, that'll be. That'll
be for the general election. Let's talk about the primary. People say,
do you how do you feel the race is going. Do you think that
it's I saw some people saying that it's it's it's gotten a little nasty.
Would you agree with that, Well, it's I would say that people deserve
to know who they're hiring to be the next governor and that this is not
a garment you buy next month. And then if you don't like it,
you get to return it. A couple of weeks later, we're trying to
decide who is actually going to represent the Republican Party in the general election.
I'm in this race because there's more to fix, and I fight and fix
at DOT and DMV and Board of Elections and DHHS. And the other reason
I'm in this is that I believe, as a sixty five year old,
this is the last opportunity in my lifetime to elect a Republican governor. And
I don't say that emotionally or politically. I say it mathematically. And lastly,
the presumptive front runner in this race is really good at not showing up
for work, and he's even better at not showing up for debates to actually
answer the tough questions about who he really is, not who he has told
people that he is. And I will say this that if you look at
any aspect of any words that he's ever said, any SEID document, he's
ever a file statement of economic interest, anything he's ever said in this book,
or what's going on in this campaign, financial reports, anybody who's ever
come in contact with him and his family has been fleeced and that's that is
an absolute fact, and it's mathematical and it's measurable. People deserve to know
what they're voting for. Yeah, well, let me ask you this.
You know, from a strategic standpoint, I see people saying, why are
why are Republicans internally airing this laundry? The reality, of course is you
know this is uh, well I I why do you think? What would
you say to those people who go, well, why are these guys getting
into it? Why are they posting stuff like this? Why? Why help
the other side? So what do you what do you say to that We
have a responsibility as Republicans. That is, if we're not tired of losing,
if we're if we want to keep losing, then we have to you
know, we can just go along as we see fit. But the fact
is is that people deserve to know when someone is applying for the job to
be the CEO of the state, they deserve to know what they're getting.
And at the end of the day, the Republican Party that I joined nearly
fifty years ago is a party that's based on conservatism, which means to save
common sense, not so common as you report on your show, A lot
courtesy, which means answering the phones at state government customer service humility and ethics.
And ethics is what you do when no one's watching. But ethics is
also what you do when the powerful forces in this state, in this country
want you to look in a different direction that is typically against the average person
in our state in North Carolina. What do you think is going to be
the driving in the general election? What do you think the driving issue is
going to be? And based on what you think it is, how are
you the best person to make that argument? The driving issue is going to
be who is actually performed in terms of customer service, who has a vision
for the challenges they're going to face North Carolina over the next four years.
And one of the biggest challenges that's going to face the citizens of this state
is how to protect our citizens, our way of life from Washington, DC's
inability to balance their budget or protect our borders. And the third thing,
maybe most important, is that people are so exhausted and so tired and they
don't even recognize their political parties anymore. And that's why the majority of people
of this state, going back to the game last night, do not have
a name on the back of their jersey. They want someone who they can
vote for, not against. And that's the option that I'm giving them.
And that's why just in the last few weeks, I've won every straw poll
everyone number two. I'm the only verified conservative if you go to the I
Voter Contact, which represents family based coalition I mean, Policy Counselor, and
a lot of other conservative groups. I'm the only verified conservative in the governor's
race, Grassroots Government, North Carolina, Health for Freedom, Vaufort Observer.
I mean, these are people who have vetted me, read my surveys,
my answers, not some consultants' answers to these surveys, but my answers.
Because at the end of the day, people want someone to vote for,
and they do not want a counterfeit conservative because we are sure to lose in
November. The last thing I'll say to your question between now the general election,
the voters are going to ask themselves why would anyone spend one hundred million
dollars getting elected to a job that pays one hundred and sixty thousand dollars a
year. Because it's not about the job, it's about how these elected officials
enriched themselves. You know, Mark Robinson and his family are the latest and
his consultants of the latest millionaires who have made money off the taxpayers, are
off donors. But who is going And the reason that people spend one hundred
million dollars getting elected these jobs is for so that they can have access to
the state budget, which is the money that belongs to the taxpayers. And
people know that I've always been the best treasure money can't buy. I'll be
the best governor money can't buy. And that's what's going to make the difference.
I got a question, are you watching what's happening with the Durham schools
over there? I'm curious what you're your brain thinks of that insanity. I'm
saddened. I'm saddened because this is just another structural failure in people not figuring
out what's right, getting it right, and keeping you right. At the
Treasure's office, we set this culture that I mentioned earlier, conservatism COmON sense,
courtesy, humility, and ethics. But we also live under the former
governor Jim I mean Governor Jim Martin's mantra that's doing rights rarely wrong, who
has also endorsed me in this race. But we have another dalism at the
Treasure's office called disclosure, and we don't mind being wrong for the right reasons.
This staff and this administration in Durham County schools have known this was going
on. We have another school district in another part of North Carolina who had
not made their pension payments to the Treasure's office for six months because of issues.
And at the end of the day, whether it's Durham or Gastonia or
any of these other situations, it's the students who suffer. And it's the
employees, especially the low income employees, who suffer when these school systems don't
operate efficiently. And lastly, and I was in this situation for most of
my life. When you under or overpay a person that makes twenty bucks an
hour one hundred dollars four hundred dollars, when you under or overpay anyone,
it puts them in a financial vortex that, in many instances, they can
never recover from. That's what's so sad about this situation. And they have
responsibility to get these schools back open, figure out what's right, get it
right, and keep it right on behalf of their customers through of the students.
We're chatting with Dale Folwell, current treasurer and gubernatorial candidate. All right,
I do I got to follow this question up because a couple people,
I mean, this email, maybe they don't know this, They go,
was he really watching super cross? You damn near killed yourself. You're such
a fan of the sport. I should just throw that out there because one
thing I've known about you is you're into this to the point of participating,
and you actually had an accident, what two years ago, That's been about
four years before I covid. I've been racing forty seven years. Forty seven
years. I've been racing National champion ten years ago, two times state champion
in this decade. But I've never had a broken bone until the last lap
of my last race and broke my arm, and that's what happens. And
then that got of course, that turned into a political football right there.
What was it? What was the beef? Because like, literally you're in
the hospital and like, oh, all the money's gonna get I mean,
and it was it was that level of insanity. However, we've watched a
lot of stuff going on, maybe with this with this administration, Lloyd Austin's
back in the hospital, and we saw everything that was going on there.
You talked about the fact that you're sixty five, you're a young and compared
to the two favorites in the presidential race right now. So fundamentally people are
of the opinion that maybe we need a retirement age for politicians. What do
you think of that we do need a cognitive test for public servants? One
hundred percent agree with that. It's also important to not conflate these two the
broken arm. I was back at work at Treasure's office within a few days.
When I was fighting fly life with COVID in March of twenty is when
the governor reportedly was pursuing having me removed from office for being incapacitated. Because
your viewers, your listeners need to know that the constitution says that if he
had been successful in doing that, then he could have appointed my replacement period.
Oh no, not that anyone would take advantage of some under hunted loophole
like that, Come on, Dale. Yeah, But at the end of
the day, I'm just I'm very excited. I'm happy. Between my ears.
The momentum in this race is shifting, very very hard because, as
I said earlier, people are tired of losing. And I'm the only candidate
in this race who is voted against the casinos, vote against sweepstakes, vote
against the lottery. And then the last two presidential elections got more votes than
President Trump did, twice more votes and nearly five hundred thousand more votes than
Josh Stein did. So we have a track record of not only governing,
but we have a track record of explaining conservatism without offending people, attacking problems
and not people in order to save lives, save minds, and save money
for North Carolinians. Yeah, thirty seconds left. Just see if I can
corrupt you? Can you fast track my tax return from the state today?
Can you? Can you just hit a button? Or how does that work?
Get that into my account? Well that's the twe revenue. But at
the Treaser's office, no one breaks in line except those that are in hospice
or killed in the line of duty. And I don't think you qualify for
either one of those. But people want to learn more about our candidacy,
read what my wife said about me over the last thirty five years. They
can visit through our website at dalefallwell dot com. All right, Dale,
thank you so much and we appreciate it and we'll be back. Hang on.
Yeah, there's football. There's the uh you know, all the all
the Super Bowl stuff. You can definitely get in on that if you want.
Ross you see the video I sent you. I forgot about that,
the NFL tweet texted to your phone. Oh yeah, it looks very important.
You think there's beer in there in the in this suite, in whatever
Taylor's because she's so relatable, so like they just have this. There's this
shot that the NFL tweeted out where they go to the suite and Taylor Swift
and I don't even know who always with. I know there was somebody called
Ice Spice. I don't know what that is. And then I googled and
turn your safe search on. But she's a singer, I guess, and
then I and then but it was but she I kind of like her because
she's got the resting bee face like I do. But the other chick and
Taylor were slamming something. I don't know if it was beer or white claw
or water. But the NFL was very excited by that. So see you
weigh in on any of that and the golf, you know, any of
the golf insanity, whatever. But we also we got to solve a mystery.
And I don't know what's up here. An aquarium and shark lab in
Hendersonville is expecting a miracle birth any day. Now. Let's see here the
aquarium and shark lab by Team Echo. I've not been there. I've only
been to Hendersonville one. I kind of liked Hendersonville, but I was not
familiar with this. They have a stingray named Charlotte. See what they did
there? Any who, Charlotte's knocked up. The problem is Charlotte, there
ain't no there ain't no dude stingrays. So, and I know some of
you are like, ah, I know the twists because there's some you know,
there's see animals that can you know, literally don't need that and can
reap it. Nah. They think she hooked up with a shark. I
does that work? Is like? If it does? Has anybody told the
dolphin dude to be careful? I mean, how far away can you get?
I'm not a science I'm not a scientist. Ross, I'm not a
scientist. Right. Ross is always treating phone calls let me assure you,
I'm not a scientist, but what's up with that? What do you mean
you think it was a shark too? Right? Because if we're gonna go,
if we're gonna go down this rabbit hole, like, how well,
what's the night security dude up to? I don't know. In a very
rare process called thing that I can't pronounce a niesis in which eggs develop on
their own without fertilization and create a clone of the mother. They say that
that is one way. However, that's not what they think here we said
that. They said we're doing an ultrasound. Charlotte's in September's begun to swell
or documented. You don't need to get into all that. Here we go.
H One possible explanation for the pregnancy is more from the quote Jurassic Park
Arena. According to the aquarium's founder, Charlotte could have made it with one
of the sharks that was added to the tank in July. I have a
question, and look, I know stingrays vary in size, but I remember
when I was where was I was in Grand Cayman. If you ever go
to Grand Cayman, and I'm sure you guys know what I'm talking about.
If you go up to the very north tip of the west side of the
island, which you don't want to go. You want to go, uh,
you want to go to the other side of that bay where it's actually
relaxing rum point. But if you go to the busy side on the very
north thing, that have a huge sting ray exhibit right, and it's just
all day, it's just family swimming with stingrays. I drove up there,
but it was all it immediately was like tweetsee railroad and I'm like, I
got to get out of here. But but I have and I've seen him
out in the other Like I know what size they are? Is she gotta
be okay? Right? If that you know, if if Jaws did come
over and uh, you know, accomplish that, Like do you have ross?
Do you understand what I'm asking Because you've seen a sting right, It's
not that big, right, I mean some of them are pretty big,
but these are they just don't look that big. Right. You get some
ten foot mako in there, and I gotta like, I have questions.
I don't know, but the whole thing sounds it sounds crazy. Man,
so I don't know. I'd say, test everyone who works there. We
sting ray killed Steve Steve Irwin right, Yes, isn't that it took him
out? Yes, just terrifying. Yeah, they got them with the barb
there. It's crazy because, like I assume that when people are stinging with
them they've done something to remove it. But a lot of times no,
they're just like, nah, this one's this one, this one will be
fine. I'm like, I don't know. I think that dude do animals.
So there's that. But also as the whole thing, the whole thing
sounds just a little little convenient. That's all that I'm saying. Oh wait,
hold on, I gotta get this phone call. All right, Damien,
what's uh? What's going on? Hey? You in Casey? Good?
Awesome. So I live in Winston, but I'm in Phoenix. I
worked for the PGA. Okay, and I thought i'd add a little bit
of insanity to you guys are talking about helping That was your best show ever
ever since Tiger's ball took thirteen minutes to fall in that hole. So kudos
all around. Yeah. But I'll make it, Yeah, I'll make it
quick. I work, I Basically, I'm responsible for putting up the fan
shop and taking it down. I go to about twelve or thirteen cities a
year. This is the only tournament out here where last year we had to
stop installing sitting rooms because people were going into them and using them a space
porta. Oh thank god, I thought you were gonna go the other way.
I thought it. No. Yeah, a little mile high club at
the Phoenix Open. Oh my gosh. Well that dude, I'm sure that
was happening too. But what I know, you don't speak on behalf of
the PGA. Everything that I saw from from the players, from certain officials
who comment, and of course from the PGA's own account, everyone sounds like
they're pissed. I'm assuming that that tournament may not look like it used to
anymore. Oh. I'm sure there's gonna be some major changes to the next
year. And I'm more behind the scenes tych stuff. I'm not ever here
for the tournaments themselves, which I'm kind of glad they know I don't want
to be around it. But yeah, I think there's gonna be some huge
changes. And I just realized how much this sucks for you, because clearly
from the video. I saw nobody was buying shirts yesterday, so well we'll
see. I mean, normally we do very well out here, so I
don't know how it's going to be this year. I know I've walked into
your one of your things and seeing what you charge so and yet it's always
full. Now, all right, all right, I'll stop busting your jobs.
Thank you for the call, sir. Have a good day. Yeah,
absolutely, yeah, Ross, I got you this three hundred dollars PGA
scarf, so it looked great. No, I'm just I'm teasing. Golf
stuff's expensive. I don't care where you buy it. So it's just the
way that it is. All right, Ken Boone is in because the coward's
not. How you doing ten going? I'm doing well yourself a lot better
than a man who just had a Taylor Swift theme super Bowl party. You
saw Racey did? Did race share this with you? No? His wife
decided to take over the party planning this year and did a Taylor Swift theme.
He was he was posting pictures. He's lost, man. I mean,
we tried to intervene, got friends together, we all wrote letters,
and it just there's nothing we could do. No, that's news to me.
I'll have to I'll have to acquire more about that. Yeah, do
it in snarky ways, repeatedly around the office. All right, well,
until he gets back to take his punishment. What do you got? All
right, Well, we're gonna have a rainy day here today. Want to
get off again, rainforest here today, even if he rumbles the thunder out
there, and there's the possibility that the rain could be locally heavy. Get
time. So keep that in mind as we head through today, especially later
on this afternoon and through this evening. Temperature today low sixties. Rain will
taper off overnight winds pick up. Temperatures overnight middle to upper forties, dry
air pushing in for the rest of the week, becoming sunny tomorrow, but
it will be windy. High temperature's middle tow upper fifties. Less wind through
midweek, with a little milder temperature, sunshine Wednesday, Thursday, upper fifties
Wednesday, LOADI the mid sixties Thursday. Okay, all right, thank you
sir, appreciate it. Alrighty oh man, everyone's got a everyone's got a
sting ray theory. I'm just saying, like, how far between species can
we get Ros's ear screen and calls. But like, I see this story
and if I'm that dude with the dolphin or well he's dead now, But
if I'm John McPhee with the whales, like I'm paying attention. Do you
know what I'm saying? Just I have questions about how far away you can
get and what the hell that thing's gonna look like? Do we need a
shark that can also kill you with its tail? I guess that's the question
we'll explore coming up. Hang on, hold on, I gotta check this
out. Do do do? Do? It? Just says stingray. Somebody's
trying to tell me that the stingrays is not a sting ray. It's a
shark ray, a sting shark. Hold on, I'm sorry. I'm very
confused. I just went back to look at the story and they all say
stingray. So it's a shark ray? Is that true? What are you
wait? Are you saying that she was asking Furtzer or what does that even
mean? Now it's his sting ray in my story, so I'm going to
go with that. But if it's you know, if it's wrong, it
doesn't really matter because it's just a dumb story. Anyway, let me move
on to this. I have well, I have to have words because we're
doing radio and that would be a problem. But I almost have no words
for this. And it's not the horrific nature of this story because I don't
put anything past people anymore, just doing this job for that long. It's
the way that and I want to be clear here, the prosecutor's describing what
a witness said, not what the prosecutor necessarily thinks. But with that being
said, uh, Kansas City, Missouri. A Kansas City mother has been
charged after placing her one month old baby in a then on Friday, police
investigated a suspicious death of an infant. On Saturday, prosecutors charged the mother
for allegedly killing the baby by putting the one month old child in the oven.
All right, like you said, it's a horrible story, and likely
I would not have done this story because there's not you know, this is
not there's no debate here. The debate is how do you do you go?
Really slow? Wood chipper that giant ant mound from the Indiana Jones crystal
skulls, I mean, what do you That's the debate. However, as
I read through the headline is as follows, Oh they changed, never mind
they change. Oh it was the way it was shown up on Twitter.
All right, well here, let me read the part of the story.
Prosecutors say they were told the mother was putting the child down for a nap
and accidentally placed the child in the oven instead of the crib. All right,
I'm not a parent, which is why I give such great parenting advice.
What that is that? How does that happen? How? How do
they remotely look like? How is there you know, there's probably going to
be a stupid warning on an oven now, But in all seriousness are are
they implying that she was so exhausted, which I understand, right, newborn
babies to be absolutely exhausting. I don't have to have them. I just
have to know people have them and see death in their eyes. That being
said, I can't fathom that unless there is a drug component here. That's
the only way I can get there, The only way I miss Ross.
I'm assuming you or any of the other parents you know this is this has
never been an issue. I mean, it's a horrific I can't joke about
it at all. I'm not joking trying to fathom like it has to be
a drug issue. But if but I'm not seeing that. And then so
like, are they going to argue that they were just so exhausted? Yeah,
it's going to be sleep deprivation. I I don't even know what else
you charged with. Now, obviously, uh, you know, second degree
the charge are with. So the way Missouri is they have the initial charge
and then they'll obviously they'll be getting down to uh no, first degree child
endangerment resulting in the death of the child. So it's not even second degree.
That's why that's why I'm sitting there talking about this one. There's the
whole how do you mistake an oven for a crip? I got that,
But also based on that the charge there, they they have to think that
there's something mitigating here, and is it gonna sleep deprivation? Is it going
to be some sort of you know, they were on bath salts kind of
thing. I don't know, but I did not you know, reading those
words in this story is not something I expected. Let's see. Yeah,
that's really and that's really the only nugget there. There'll be a lot more
documents coming out today, so maybe we'll get get some sort of explanation.
Not that not that anything will obviously matter considering what has transpired here, but
they seem to think that there's something mitigated. I have to assume it since
they charged her with that versus you know, murder, dedicated murder or just
even murder where you kind of snapped because they wouldn't stop crying, as we've
seen with some stuff. So we'll need to see it. But also,
you know, Kansas City has got you know, just like Saint Louis,
they got a rogue prosecute your issue there, so which is easy to point
at some of the things going on and be like a little bit of politics
going on here. Okay, there's a lot of it, but I didn't
want to hit it because I suspect that story, especially with documents coming out,
is going to get to pick up some steam, all right. Eight
eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. He did not do a
sit down, you know, full scale interview. They were just way too
busy for the second year in a row. Biden didn't do it, and
I think even if he was scheduled after that presser the other night, it
probably wouldn't let him. But they did produce a video I'm sure during whatever
peak time of the day they were able to get it done. And it
was literally positioned as hey, here's the White House official Super Bowl video,
and I'm like, all right, I'll watch this thing. And I've I
thought, maybe we're gonna get some analysis. Yeah, he's going to talk
about that time he played the flankerback, flankerback, right, that time he
played flankerback, But nah, he went in a totally different direction. And
it's just it's just the laziest pandering, gas lighting insanity that you could come
up with if your task was to create something that was literally defined by all
those words, and they knocked it out of the park. And I guess
what's insulting is it's so obvious that I'm embarrassed that there are people fall for
it. How were you not inspired going into the big game? Yesterday?
After Joe Biden stepped forward to I guess Talk Football, even though he didn't
want to do that interview, they did get a video produced. So let's
let's hear let's hear him prognosticate on what may happen during the game here or
go ahead, mister President, the Super Bowl Sunday anything like me, you'd
like to be surrounded by a snack or two. Well, that's that's relatable.
Ross. You prefer snack or two surrounding you when you're watching sports,
right, that's who. That's who. Doesn't you know it's good for stress
eating. Oh yeah, that's a very good point. Yeah, you can
stress eat do all sorts of stuff. But you know, gorging oneself on
watching football, that's not unusual. This is like Pete's Nightmare holiday. I
saw that. They were like, oh, if you eat the chickens the
wings, they need the wings. And I'm like, I don't know,
I've never seen a chicken that needs wings. That's a strong word. But
AnyWho, and that's people are like, all right, tell you what,
We're not going to kill the chicken anymore, but we will remove the wings,
like it's some sort of weird saw experiment. They didn't seem happy with
that, but anyway, I'm sorry, go ahead, mister president. Let's
talk footballatching the big game. You know, when buying snacks for the game,
you might have noticed one thing. Sports things bottles are smaller. A
bag of chips is fewer chips. They're still charging it chest as much as
an ice cream lover. What makes me the most angry is that ice cream
cards have actually shrunk in size. I'm not in price. I've had enough
of what they call shrimp flation. It's a rip off. Some companies are
trying to pull a fast one by shrinking the products a little by little and
hoping you won't notice. Give me a break. The American public has tired
of being played for suckers. I'm calling our companies to put a stop to
this. Let's make sure businesses do the right thing. Now, what does
that have to do with football? This guy is such a jackass. What
does that hat? How How angry does that? I again, I'm more
angry because people look at that and go, yeah, you're right man,
right right. That's why it's disheartening, because the people that they're going,
yeah, you know, there are less chips than the bad I'm want to
vote for that guy. Yeah. Maybe if you didn't print all the money
in the world and to value the currency, yeah, I don't know,
costs wouldn't go up and they could charge with the Easter charge. It's ridiculous.
Then you're literally spent. Yet you need to stop. You caused the
problem, bro, But that in your green energy policies, making gasoline for
transportation of the things more expensive. It's like if I come into your studio
and break your legs, right, no one, not as I ever thought
about it. It's just a hypothetical. I come in your studio and I've
got a giant sledgehammer, dual wielding a Kimbo boom, and I braked yesterday.
This is this should be happening. So I hobble your legs like that
movie with Kathy Bates. Yes, yes, Misery, Misery, you're in
that boom. I just hobble your legs and it's oh, it's so painful.
And then you're like, oh, bro, my legs are hurting.
I'm like, hey, I got you these crutches, and you're like,
oh my god, thank you, you solve my I'm the one that broke
your legs. I shouldn't get credit for giving you the credit. The crutches
said, they're crutches with like razor blades under the handle, like Halloween candy.
Making another problem. And then I come out with the other solution for
the problem that they just created. Why your hands all shredded? Here are
some gloves. Yeah, yeah, it's just like I'd prefer just don't say
anything, right, and it's like we're to take it. And then the
line in there where he's just like break the American people are tired of being
played for suckers like you're doing at this very moment, which if it's trolling,
it's genius, right, that's some top level like old school YouTube trolling
right there, and but it's not. He's just He's just him. And
I've realized now somebody somebody had a wonderful parody song too, And I feel
like this, like we do the Florida Man for the Florida stories. Sometimes,
I think occasionally're gonna have to work this in. What's the song that
is playing where everybody goes on the chair everybody had you know, my mind's
going to blank, my mind's going to blank out, going I don't know
what I was talking about going, And then we can dip it down or
I'll tell you whatever. The stories to television. I was telephone ready to
watch this, so he's got that going in the background, and then yeah,
so we can talk about and do the analysis and stuff. So we'll
uh, well, we'll tweet that video out if you want to I'm not
going to play the whole thing, but it's uh, it is mildly entertaining.
I got I gotta chuckle out of it, but I had to like.
And it's funny because Ross is visibly angry at the same line I am.
I just needed it to balance my mood out. All right, all
you Stingray? What is what? I don't know how the sting ray got
knocked up? Why does everyone have some Why are we overly because it's just
a funny story. And if a shark did knock it up, fine,
right, I didn't know that could happen. Now I know something else,
but I have questions. Also, you noticed that shark ain't sticking around.
That shark went out for krill or whatever they go out for. He's gone.
Why because they're having to speculate. There's nobody there taking you know,
going Yeah, I did that? Nah hit it and quit. That stingray
got hit it and quitted. That's what happened there, all right? Eight
eight eight nine three four seven eight seventy four. The slutty Stingray story is
receiving the most feedback. All right, let me grab a Biden call here,
Yes, Jay, what's up? Hey, good morning, Kasey.
How you doing. I'm good, sir. What can I do for you?
Well, look, the subject is the classified documents taken by an elderly
man with a bad memory. And I say, did he always have a
was he always an elderly man? Or did he always have a bad memory
as a senator and as a vice president, because you can't have it both
ways. I think Claudia Kenny from New York wants to invoke Article twenty five.
I don't know if that'll work, but wearing down to cabinet people,
sir, and I don't know if you saw may Orcus say that the most
power of the most the hardest thing about a meeting with Biden is to be
prepared enough because he's so sharp, so you're not getting that cabinet to flip
on him. So nope, okay, I mean that's just from what I
saw from maw York is that's like feelty upunt death. So but yeah,
now AP wrote an article and you all should feel bad if here we go
verbal verbal gaff or sign of trouble is the headline. Mixing up names like
Biden and Trump have done is pretty common. That's that's fantastic. I mean
the amount of water carrying on this. Okay, look here's the deal.
I mix up names. Okay, you mix up names. That's something that
happened my mom, My mom when she would get mad because it was where
there was two boys and two girls, and that meant that could go anyway.
Right. I was really mad my brother's name had come out of her
mouth, and even though I knew it was me. Then she get madder
because she realized she just said my brother's name. But I never questioned her
memory. She that one was able to remind me of stuff I did when
I was six. Is a steel trap on that anything horrible i'd ever done,
ye instant recall, but yeah, no, she'd be in a moment
she's like Casey or it's like, ah, my brothers he's doing it.
She's like, that's what I meant, all right, that's normal. Or
me like Jason Kelcey, Travis Kelsey, Right, one's the place for the
Chiefs, the other one place for the Eagles. Ones in the box addressed
initially like zach eliphan Akus's character from Hangover, the other ones on the field
trying to assault his coach with with a rather aggressive chess bump there. Oh
yeah, that moment, by the way, that was That was another one
of those awkward moments. Comes over to Andy, he goes, keep me
in. What happened is on the fumble he was not in the game.
No, great went in and he had to block. I don't want to
question the lip reading guy there. I don't think he said keep me in,
coach, if I had to guess. But I'm not a lip reading
expert. But there was way too much lip reading, and there were a
couple things that I recognized, So maybe I am a lip reading expert,
but no, it was rather aggressive. Take oh look at this all right?
Well cool cool. This is the intersection of politics, sports, stupidity,
and knocked up stingrays. So glad to have you along for that.
Uh Chris Christian District six, right, Yeah, there it is right there,
one of the congressional candidates calling the show. Because that's what we do.
Folks just call in, want to talk about stuff. But I got
to let you know who they are. How you doing this morning, sir,
I'm doing well. How are you guys? Do you go by Chris
or Christian? I always screw this up because we got I go by ball,
you know. Yeah, growing up, my father called me Christian.
When I was in trouble, my mother always called me Chris. It was
one of those situations. Yeah, yeah, So like so you've obviously,
you know, you've used that examples of your parents. Would you say in
all your years on this planet, that you've been able to develop some sort
of ability to tell the difference between I don't know, talking to dead people
repeatedly all in one week and an angry parent calling one kid's name another kid
because that's AP's comparison. Oh yeah, oh yeah. You know, I
grew up in a household where my dad was a drill sergeant literally and then
a state trooper. There wasn't much deviation for right or wrong. It was
black and white. It was right or wrong, it was illegal or illegal,
And as with many households today, it's still the same either right or
wrong. But you know, things are changing in our society very quickly and
faster than we can stop it. And it's not it's not for the better,
just because I got you here and we kind of deviated on that.
So the sport, the Super Bowl over the weekend and the greatest golf tournament.
I've ever watched what's your sport of choice? When it comes to watching
sir, You know, all of my in the army, I really didn't
have a lot of time for watching sports because I was deployed. But since
I've retired, I've enjoyed watching football, except for when they're kneeling for the
national anthem, which miraculously they do not air anymore other than the other night
for the Super Bowl. They won't show you people kneeling and protesting and locked
arm in arm quite frankly, you know, I just want to watch the
game and enjoy it with my daughter. She likes to watch football with daddy.
It's a good daddy daughter time. And I don't want to hear people's
political you know, protests or see it when I'm watching the game. Just
do what you get paid for playing ball, That's all I want to see.
So you did well when you were to play. You didn't even get
into that weird goat sport thing they carry around the dead goat. What the
hell is that thing? Yeah? I think it's called buskaki, although I've
watched it a few times. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty pretty gnarly stuff.
It's called called bush Cockey. That it has a name. I believe
that's the name of that sport with a dead goat. Yeah. No,
it's the weirdest thing I've ever seen. Now now that I know the name,
it's just it's just so perfect. You got to be really careful saying
it too. So let me let me just real quickly on the politics stuff,
just because like, the primaries are crazy. Man. We got some
districts where there's what like twenty seven people in the race and you've run before.
I mean, how is this different from what we talked a couple of
years ago with what's going on and what that road is for candidates. So,
you know, last mid terms, we were able to flip the state
Senate and General Assembly to a super majority. We've got a five to two
Republican majority on the state Supreme Court that green lighted the state for one instituting
universal voter ID, some other things like bills to keep men out of women's
or parents Bill of Rights. They changed the abortion laws from twenty weeks to
twelve here in the state. One of the most important things that came out
of that is redistricting, and so we are currently a seven to seven states,
seven Democrats, seven Republicans in the House of Representatives. Each one represents
seven hundred and fifty thousand North Carolinians. And so we have just been redistricted,
you know, after my loss in the mid terms to the Democrat,
which by the way, I won on election day the popular vote and lost
when they added the absentee ballots. Imagine that I got right, I got
right back in the race, and so we never stopped running. And here
we are a year later. We've just been redistricted from a p plus nine
district to a Republican plus eleven, and the intent is to win back some
Republican sea. To know, North Carolina has always leaned Republican, whether it's
you know, an eight to five ten four kind of I'm sorry, nine
to ten four scenario. The intent is for us to lean Republican again with
this map, and one of the districts they're hoping to recover to help save
the majority at the national level is District six. And so we are six
candidates in District six. I'm just going to point this out. Arguably it's
not the busiest, but there are there are a lot of recognizable names.
Obviously, you because you've you've ran before. Folks have been getting to know
you over a couple election cycles. Mark Walker previously was in Congress. Bo
Hines who is running for that district now, who ran for South of Raleigh
last year. And see Addis McDowell, who am I forgetting? Oh,
the mayor of high Point is in it. There's a plastic surgeon from Greensboro
to and so how do you stand out in the six of us total?
Yeah? How do you stand out in that? Yeah? So well?
Number one, I'm the only veteran in the race. I'm the only one
that served my country in uniform. Not only am I a veteran, I'm
a five time volunteer, one for the Army, two to be Airborne,
three to be a Ranger, four to be a Green Beret, and five
to go to combat for my country over and over again. And I don't
say that lightly. There are no other veterans in this race. There are
three VA hospitals and a VA home and eighty thousand veterans, and I hope
they all come out because not only do I speak Army after twenty two years,
I'm married to an Air Force veteran. And I also speak VA and
so there's nobody that's going to help veterans or knows more about their issues than
I do. So that's a significant thing that helps me stand out amongst this
field of candidates. The other thing, well, thirty seconds. I just
want to let you know. I got about thirty seconds, but go ahead.
Yeah. The other thing, I'm the only one that's worked on a
contended international border. I'm the only one that's patrolled our southern border with law
enforcement. So I have more foreign policy and national security experience than all these
candidates combined. And when you look at the issues we're facing internationally and nationally,
my skills set is perfectly suited to represent these votes in Congress, more
so than any other candidates in the field. All Right, christ and Costelli
joining us. Don't worry, We're not we don't care about the southern border
anymore. We're just not even monitoring that, so you see, But I
appreciate the time. I gotta roll, but thank you, Okay, and
we'll be right back. Hang on. Sorry, Ross and talking. The
most annoying thing is everything having to do with Super Bowl and all of that.
And by the way, this is not some conspiratorial I hate Taylor Swift.
I really don't care. I don't necessarily listen to her music. I
didn't meet her once when she was first starting out. She came into she
came in, you know, with the whole student She was doing the morning
radio thing, not on ours but on the Country, and she was in
there and she was with the an, A and R guy from her label,
which is actually Toby Key's label, and so we were all chatting.
She seemed very nice at that point. But you know, politics and all
of it, it's not even that, it's where does where does this thing
end? Up? Right? Ross? Do you want to go through a
training camp scenario where they're still together? And the NFL is like, yeah,
let's lean into this because the same people have produced the I can't I'm
having a Joe Biden moment the NFL training camp show. Brain's not working today,
but whatever. Basically they're looking at and they're like, how can we
do a show with these two? But to your point, like, if
they're not together, what's the attention span on going into next year? Do
you think it's done? Right? I think so, because that's what people
are saying, like, oh, well, this is over now and they
won the Super Bowl and it's all good. But yeah, if they're still
together, do we have to go through this again next year with the same
amount of focus, because it's a matter of like you said, I was
very indifferent towards Taylor Swift and now it's just I'm just tired of it.
Yeah, And then I say, here's what I was really tired with yesterday.
One of the Taylor Swift fan accounts, which I looked, it's not
a parody, it was clowning on some player because quote, they got a
Super Bowl in it in six months or whatever off the year. You said,
one of the annoying Taylor Swift accounts, Whereas I would come back and
say most of them all are They're all super annoying, right, Yeah,
Like they have this insane allegiance to this person that they're probably like it doesn't
make any sense, like way overboard at least to say that some people that
are like over Trump or over Biden like that, and that's that's probably fair,
but that's not something to brag about. So I'm sorry what we're saying.
No, But like I said, they'll they'll be You have these people
that like, you know, like myself, or you're a Bills fan and
you dedicate your entire life and you want to see one super Bowl, right,
And we're going to be back next season, right because this is who
we are, It's part of who we are. Keep stipping our sticking our
hand in the wood chip, or we're just so stupid two weeks they're going
to be over football Now. It's just a matter of will she be back
next year to do this again? To all of us. Oh man,
it's gonna be. Look with the production teams, between what the NFL has
and Taylor Swiss people and all that, it's gonna be it'll be bonkers because
they'll they'll they'll lean into it one hundred percent, and who knows, maybe
they maybe they will have successfully expanded into a part of their brand that's always
been very tough for NFL to grow. And I understand from a corporate standpoint
wanting to do that. But I don't need some some you know, twenty
something who didn't know about football and probably still doesn't, uh, bragging about
getting there. Oh, look at that, we got a super Bowl already.
When you and I have been sitting here since what fifty nine and sixty
I believe for the founding years of our teams, you guys were just I
think you're a year older than us and we were sixty. So yeah,
fifty nine and sixty. The last thing I want to hear you is you
go, ah, I I got my first Super Bowl thing. Well one,
no, you didn't shut up at two. The difference is you won't
care anymore. And if they'd have lost, you probably said you'd have been
sad for about five seconds. Then you flip some TikTok videos and you write,
but it means absolutely nothing to you. Yes, whereas if if the
Vikings or Bills win the Super Bowl, I'm just gonna let you know that
it's gonna be uh, there'd be some time off happened. I had this
conversation with Marky yesterday. We were at the dinner table. Yes, and
before you after you watch the Marvels before Oh okay, so we did watch
the Marvels instead of the Super Bowl because screw that WW you need you know,
fake fixed noise. But we were all saying, you know, like
I said, I said, you don't understand, like, if the Bills
win the Super Bowl, it'll be the third greatest moment of my life,
like let me let me guess, right, go ahead, married, and
then when you had your son. Yes, And then fourth would be when
you hit that pumpkin on the third shot, that is right. Third would
be the Bills winning the suit. I would I will cry. If the
Bills win, I will cry. It'll be one of the greatest moment motion
out of emotion, right, like if the Vikings win the Super Bowl,
it'd be one of the greatest moments of your life. Yes, And you
know what I won't do go on Taylor Swift fan accounts and clown on them.
Well, that's not what I do anyway, you know that. But
yeah, so yes, because I have invested all of this time. You
have invested all of this time. It's not a passing fancy to use the
term I guess I haven't used in a while. It's like it's meaningful if
Taylor Swift's not in that by, ain't none of these chicks wearing Kansas City
stut unless they think it's cute, right, But they're not wearing it out
of loyalty. At that point, I don't think it's cute. They wouldn't
think that Ronald McDonald pattern was cute and if she if she breaks up with
him and starts dating somebody from I don't know, the Lions. I feel
like there's gonna be a palette change coming for many of her fans, Like
guys, I always said I look better in blue than in red, and
now you're basically in a blood crips thing and it's a mess. So but
that's the level of loyalty. When your level of loyalty is commensurate with Patriots
fans who turned it to Tampa fans. Come on, man, can you
break with that? Oh? Speaking of Tampa? And oh boy, oh
boy, oh boy, ready for this. We're gonna go Florida woman here
real quick. Ah oh, And yes she's naked, because of course she
is, because it's Florida, and that's how this works. Police in Florida
say they arrested a woman after she allegedly barged into a gas station naked and
drunk as you do, and threatened to kill the staff and then pulled pulled
a weapon. Wait a sec. What did she pull the weapon out of?
You just said she's name, How would she pull either she had in
her hand coming in or I'm gonna you have to explain. Thirty five year
old Celia Barrett was arrested Sunday after she allegedly entered the race track this is
in Saint Pete and began swinging around and a potato peeler, which, by
the way, people are laughing about this. You ever cut yourself with the
potato peeler? Ain't no joke. That'll sliceing dice. Man. I think
more dangerous might be this mandolin which I had had that I have and it's
got a guard, but I couldn't put it on, so now it has
no guard, and God help you. She was naked and drunk during the
incident, said police. Subsequently charged with six total offenses. Apparently she's got
beef. She got beef with staff there because she comes in there, I
guess hammered. She had some issues and so she took six shots of liquor,
according to the report, and decided she go down and give them the
old what's what. Ultimately, Barrett lowered the weapon and exited the store,
but not before kicking over a red bull display kind of like the It's Maam
game stop video, setting about fifty cans across the floor. What is that?
Probably what three thousand dollars. Red Bull's expensive and that's it. And
by the way, no, it's not like that one time in the Macaroni
was that a macarony gorilla in Applebee's where that woman was a could lee dancing
on the bar and they're like, oh, she's like fifty five and you're
like, oh, she looks like she's twenty. That's amazing. This goes
in the other direction, so it's probably best that there's not CCTV out of
this. Just saying, all right, eight forty five Ken Boone for the
Weather Channel, Man, Florida. It's just a gift that keeps selling gift.
You're cut yourself with a potato peeler though, ye man, but you're
right they are sharp. Yeah, oh and it's nice because but also it's
not just a slice, you know, with a knife. You're just making
a cut with that. You're like, oh, let's let's take the skin
off like it's soft. So yeah, gotta watch out man. All right,
what's going on? Weatherwise? All right, Well, we got a
rainy start to the week, Showers, even storms possible for us here as
we head through the day today and into tonight. They'll tape off overnight temperatures
into the low sixties this afternoon. Showers taper off again overnight tonight, then
the winds start to pick up, middle of upper forties overnight, becoming sunny
tomorrow, but it'll be a brazy windy day with a gusty northwest wind.
He's midle upper fifties Tuesday, Less wind through midweek and milder temperature, sunshine,
upper fifties Wednesday, sunny lo to mid sixties for Thursday. All right,
thank you, and well, I guess we'll give raised grief tomorrow.
But don't forget to do your part, Okay, I will, I will,
all right, appreciate it. Come boon there from the weather channel,
and Jeff Bellinger joins us. Next, Hang on, Jeff Bellinger, Jeff,
what's happening at morning? Casey? The S and P five hundred finally
closed above five thousand on Friday. The index gained twenty nine points six tens
percent. The Nasdaq also finished higher, but the Dow ended lower on Friday.
Futures are pointing lower right across the board. At this early hour,
the Dow futures are down forty seven points. The latest big oil and gas
deal is going to join two Texas producers. Diamondback Energy has agreed to buy
Endeavor Energy for twenty six billion dollars. This merger will create the largest pure
play operator in the Permian Basin. Over the last four months, Zaxxon,
Mobil, Chevron, and Occidental Petroleum have all completed deals to acquire rivals.
Recession fears fading among the nation's business economists. A survey by the National Association
for Business Economics found just a quarter of the members think the economy will slip
into recession this year. You may notice a lot of empty desks around the
office today. The Monday after the Super Bowl is regarded as one of the
least productive days on the calendar. UKG Workforce Institute says super Bowl flu is
real and it's expected about sixteen million people will call out sick today. Washington
may have some security concerns about TikTok and its ties to China, but President
Biden's reelection campaign has opened an account on the platform. The account was announced
during the Super Bowl. The move is part of the campaign's media strategy.
Twenty twenty four maybe a tough year for the nation's gyms. There was a
surge in gym memberships after the pandemic, but gains in the number of sign
ups came into a halt last month, and that's causing concerns because January is
usually the busiest month of the year for gymnasiums. Analysts say much of the
US experienced harsh weather in January that may have kept some people at home.
Attempts to raise prices may have also crimped the number of new members in Casey,
this Valentine's Day, some words of love may come not from the heart,
but from a computer. McAfee says artificial intelligence is having an influence on
dating. Nearly forty percent of adults are at least considering using AI to come
up with a love letter. Forty five percent of love letters from men maybe
AI generated. Casey, what happens when that thing goes sideways like that MSNBCAI
did and started denying Holocaust. You know what I'm saying. You want to
leave it up to the AI to do that? No, I wouldn't.
I leave it up to Hallmark. But yeah, yeah, well maybe that's
fair. And at least those are people I think. All right, did
you make a lot of gambling proceeds yesterday? I did not how about you.
I mean, look, if you didn't take chiefs money line, what
are you even doing? So that's just me all right, well, thank
you, by the way, we just Ross and I just realized that next
Monday is a holiday, so yes it is. Yeah, and I'm I'll
be off Monday and all next week you'll be having You'll have Joan Donagher with
you Tuesday Friday next week. Well we're off Monday too, so okay,
all right, good, thank you sir for taking all right, there you
go. Jeff Fellonser, Bloomberg News. Yeah, Ross, and I was
it on Saturday or Boston you have a Saturday or whatever the boss say,
or maybe it was Fridays. Hey, guys, you off? And I
looked at his company holiday Ross, and I forgot it was President's Day coming
up, which is weird because presidents are your passion. They are, Yes,
they are. Yeah, who's your way? Yeah, who's your who's
your favorite? Coolidge start a fight? Man? All right, he's fantastic.
Yeah, but I think Dwayne I was on Mountain de Herbert Camacho could
take him. So my favorite president. But now as President's Day, ever,
you want to celebrate it. So Ross is on the Calvin Coolist.
I thought maybe the thing where you named your kid after one of the presidents
I might factor in. So, I mean, Calvin, I can't go
with that. That's weird and Coolidge, now that's Calvin's unless there's a Hobbs
in there. Just doesn't make any sense. And speaking of Valentine's Day and
other holidays, I have a question, what are you training these kids for?
Anyway? Then somebody sent me this over the weekend. It's from a
Facebook group which I've received lots of posts over the years from this group.
It must be insane, the Carrie Apex Mom's Facebook group. Oh and at
some moments puts a post up and she said that she wants to know what's
going on with Wake County schools because her kids elementary school is canceled Valentine's Day
and instead it's now called Friendship Day. Help me help me out here?
So like, why why does it? Why do you guys? Why why
is there this this great need to explain to a bunch of fifth graders where
those beads go? And then you can't and then you friend zone Valentine's Day?
What is what is going on? Man? I mean shouldn't that be
an outlet for all of the uh you know, the really creepy stuff you
want to impart on kids way too young. I mean, if you're gonna
arm them with this info, I rob him of the opportunity. But it's
much like Halloween. This is going by the wayside, and frankly, I'm
surprised it's just now or maybe mom. Maybe the woman posting doesn't know because
her kid wasn't in there. I don't know, but her daughter is crushed.
She was she was wanting to make a bunch, you know, stuff
for everybody. And I remember even at my school, the rule was you're
gonna bring something, you got to bring something for everybody, and that was
in I guess they would be the eighties. Uh uh yeah, eighties if
I was this girl's age. But like, if you're if you're gonna indoctrinate
kids and tell them all about butt stuff, don't cancel their romantic holiday.