Oh, all right, I guess we have to good morning six o seven
Wednesday, and it is the cac O Day radio program. Oh wait,
hold on, I shouldn't just say Wednesday. A note has crossed by Big
Stacko Press releases. Hold on, figure out what's going on here? Oh
it's not just Wednesday. Really, you're gonna do this right when I'm about
to look at it. Oh, I hate every person involved in the creation
of pop ups. Apparently it's today's a themed day. Okay, here we
go, here we go. All right, So apparently Hesba Lah has declared
today quote a day of unprecedented, unprecedented anger. Oh wow, Ross,
are you feeling unprecedented? Undentedly? Why can I not say that word this
morning? Angry? This morning, I'm feeling all those words. I'm not
even gonna lie all of them, all the words, because you know,
last Friday was day of rage? Right? Were you feeling rage filled last
Friday? I mean we were off. It was hard to be very rage.
I think last Friday was more tired. I think, yeah, less
rage, more tired, so hard to keep up. So today is a
day of unprecedented anger. Friday was day of rage. I don't know if
we have room on the count. Do you have a show count called get
the show calendar out here? No? No, No, I'm sitting here.
I'm looking at this. I'm looking at this, and right already on
the calendar, I have Day of Unmitigated Malaise? Did we So we scheduled
that what like several weeks ago? Right, the unmitigated that that was an
advanced Yeah. I mean it's been on the calendar for a while, and
that's a corporate thing. I'm sorry, Hesbelah. I'm in a tough position
here. Hmm. I could maybe sneak you in. Uh, this is
so difficult. I could maybe sneak you in next Monday. But I have
that down as super duper double Dog Anger Day, and I was pretty pumped
about that. And the dogs were happy because they're getting their moment. And
you don't want to you know, you don't want to dogs. You don't
want to screw it dogs. They're useful. Hmm. Uh, this is
tough, man. Yeah, I don't know if I can do a Day
of Rage part two. We're gonna have to see. It just happens to
coincide obviously with the visit. I guess the uh, Joe Biden is in
Israel, or has been told he's in Israel and is at the Second Street
Deli in New York eating some mats of ball soup I don't know, which,
by the way, was vandalized overnight with swastikas and stuff because it was
determined that the incredibly famous Jewish deli might support Israel. Who knew. That's
one of the things that, by the way, that prompted by Day of
Blaze, which is currently on the calendar. So yeah, I don't know.
I don't know how we're gonna fill all. And it's already the holiday
season. I mean, you get into October, but especially November and December,
calendar's full, buddy, lots of stuff on there. You really,
you can't come out of the gate like a day in advance on this.
It just doesn't. And trust me, I'm somebody who hates scheduling a bunch
of advance. We didn't even like that. We don't even like schedule guests
very much. They call, We're like, oh, yeah, no,
we got an opening because we don't schedule anybody. And then maybe and then
it's a maybe, So yeah, probably have to get back to hesblon and
be like, I don't know, dude, I don't know that we can
do it. Mm and then and and so, and I was thinking maybe
I can squeeze him in Friday, but I have that down. Is a
day of deep introspection that's mostly about the inability of a certain NFL franchise who
released multiple Pro Bowl players to then do anything. And then when they find
themselves ravaged with injuries, pretending like they'll just fill the gaps, And then
I have to think, is that a team that I want to invest emotional
energy in anymore? Was going to be a busy day? M is tough.
It's tough, all right, Well, we'll do our best to work
all this stuff in, but I don't know that it's going to happen.
Not sure, So sorry little housekeeping as we kick off the show today.
Coming up on said show, which again is either rage or malaise filled,
depending on whose calendar you're working off. Apparently some of the some more additional
college students who are not like fans of the Jews, apparently they're now the
victims for some of the stuff they did. Like you realize you can you
can have a problem with Israel's policies and record on how they've dealt with this
conflict. You're more than welcome to that has been a perfectly acceptable societal position
for a while. You can be you can be in that, But then
you don't have to go out and do stuff like tear down missing persons,
posters of fellow students, well filming it, you don't. You don't have.
That's not a thing that you have to do. You don't have to
participate in that. And yet you know, here we are, some students
did and then they got called out on it. And you're not gonna believe
this, are you sitting down? They're the victim, I know. And
then who did you see ross? Did you see who was standing in front
of the White House gates screaming like a madman yesterday about about how much Israel
sucks and he's Jewish? By the way, Do you see who was standing
in front of their screaming like an idiot that nobody was really paying attention to.
And then somebody went, wait, aren't you that guy from the Princess
Bride? Uh? Yeah, you mean you mean Vincini. It wasn't a
different guy, Wallace Shawn, Oh my god, it was Vincini. Yeah,
wow, really, yeah, he's screaming, I don't believe in revenge.
This is revenge. By the way, do you know what he called
the Israeli plan of action? Do you know how he described it? Can
he guess? Uh? The inconceivable? Ah, yes, thank thank you.
See we did not rehearse that, by the way. That was I
just knew that Ross would get there. He didn't actually say that, but
he does. He does appear to be an idiot there. He is a
good watching it. He's going on and on about it. You don't go
in on death when it's you know, when a Sicilian is there. Well,
look at it. He's going on and on. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, he won't shut up. Won't shut up. Just drink
it, man, you're so sure, just drink it. I don't think.
I used to think we lived in a great world. And now it's
like, did you see that meme going around? They're like the America you
thought you grew up in, and it's a picture of Britney Spears at like
sixteen, look at all the wholesom and stuff. And then it's like the
America you actually grew up in, and it's a still frame of her doing
the knife twirling in her underwear, right, Like, if I thought we
grew, I would want Wesley to show up and be like, oh,
you're so sure of this. I would like to challenge you and then,
you know, in front of the White House boom, do the thing.
That would be amazing. And you know, frankly, he should participate because
you know, it's it's gonna bring a little more notoriety to your cause other
than you just standing there in a black trench coach screaming inconceivable. You know,
some are saying that he may not understand the words that he's saying.
So I don't know if there's some mental issues or what's going on there,
But I had heard that he's holding a sign that says Jews say cease fire.
Now, I mean some of you do, but not the ones running
the country apparently. I mean that's just the reality. I'm just calling it
like I see it. So, and he looks like he's completely unguarded,
you know what. It probably because he's putting himself out there, he probably
should have security, perhaps, I don't know, a giant maybe, or
a swordsman of some sort. Well, no, he said he brought a
brute squad. Oh, he brought a brute squad. I don't see the
brute squad in the photo here. Are we sure that he brought a brute
squad. M Well, it's still frame photos, so it's hard to tell.
Maybe the brute squad's off to the side there. But yeah, I
did like this. So this same group they were protesting yesterday before he showed
up too, and they're like, ah, bucking of the White House and
then like these two White House workers just kind of walk through them and then
they're like, duh, you suck. So they're not quite as effective as
the glue myself to stuff moonbats, but they're there and they have very very
highly produced signs, very nice, which is fine. Again, that's fine
if you want to go that route, and some of these college students maybe
should have gone that route, then people can just judge you on whether they
think you're right or wrong. The problem is they went a different route.
And we'll share that story and many more coming up. It is six nineteen
hang on, Thank you. Casey is on NUR w PTI and the Triad
and one six one FM Talk in the Triangle. That's a good point,
I you know, I don't know, because it is it is a bit
of a debate. Ross one of the listeners feels that we are being too
hard on former Princess Bride actor Wallace Seawan for standing with his microphone in front
of the White House screaming about Israeli apartheid. But in reality, what he's
simply attempting to prevent is the US involving itself in a land war in Asia.
Do you think that's a valid point? I know it is a good
point. But the problem is, if you ask people is to be at
least in Asia, some would say no, some would say yes, some
would say it's its own thing. I don't know, and there are examples
of land wars in Asia that did pan out. So I guess it just
depends who you are. But we'll look into it. So thanks for that.
Okay, all right, rock on, let me grab a quick sorry
I'm reading here this His Spaniard was bested, Yes, Spaniard was bested.
What I know? What? Bested by whom? Do we know? Do
we know? By whom? We're looking into that? We got a lot,
Look, we got a lot of irons in the fire. The little
checkout thing at the little store downstairs is broke. We're pretty sure that the
Israeli Air Force did that, right, that's initial reporting, is that,
that's what we're hearing from sources. Right. I'm having a hard time getting
in to my mic today because I'm actually broadcasting from the cliffs of insanity.
Oh wow, is there a rope? Do you see a rope? Okay,
all right, you got what you want to want to do. You
gonna want to find a giant and we'll do that and then I'll tell you
the rest. So oh wait, now we're hearing that maybe the Israeli Air
Force didn't actually break the machine at the little store downstairs. Sorry, our
initial reporting might have been way off. Uh. Yeah, it was one
of those days. So if you do want a day of rage or insanity
or whatever that might be, what's prompting it? All? Right, let
me grab this call here, which is way not on topic. Yes,
Michelle, what's up? See? I just wanted to know if you go
play the vikings they were going to go to you can't because they stop from
the Vikings. Well, what I didn't say I was going to leave.
I was deciding whether I was going to remain actively emotionally involved, right,
you're still going to pull for them. Yeah, you know, like somebody
decides they're going to stay in a marriage even though they don't love that person
anymore, but they don't want to divide the stuff. So right, and
maybe one day you reinvigorated. So well maybe next year if we give out
our number one pick to the uh Chicago Bears, maybe you can pull for
the Bears. Well they're gonna have all the they're going to have like the
first two or three picks. So craziness, Michelle, I know, appreciate
it. Thanks then, keeping you connected. This is ninety four five w
P t I and the Triad and one six one FM Talk and the Triangle.
So I'm just saying, I'm looking at the list here and I thought
we had what what is this? So we have? I thought we had
two guests today. Ross is telling me, or the list here is telling
me we have three. So we're going to talk to Jennifer Martin from the
Parade, the Parade. That is correct? All right, that's seven,
so Lieutenant Governor, right, that's on the list. What is this the
healer? What is it's a miracle? Max? What what is what is
a miracle map? What what? What? Why is that a thing on
the show? Is this? Oh that miracle map? Oh? Okay,
all right, I hear he's good. He used to work with the king,
he did you? I did hear that? Married? Right? Yeah,
he had a full nice with Humperdink. I think she's nice, the
wife, she's kind of a witch. Oh no, can we make sure
he's not unnecessarily Jewish, because I don't want people to think. I don't
see any signs of that playing of the day there, So all right,
Well, so he's very Nordic, okay, all right, So he does
use like a lube nut or something and he gets the job done. Okay,
all right, Well on my list, I have Jennifer Martin seven oh
five, and then I have Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson eight oh five. So
we'll see if the max thing pans out. Okay, all right, very
good. Ross is also claiming there's large rats out in the hallway, so
be careful. I don't even know what that means. It's a weird day
around here, Percy is really Defense Air Force takes out our vending machine.
And now this now the reason, of course I'm mentioning that is because either
a hospital got blown to smotherings or it didn't, or it did but it
didn't get blown to smotherings with a missile with a bomb, or it did
with a missile, or it was dismissal, or the missile was a failed
launch missile, or the whole thing's crazy. But yesterday it made for rather
interesting news cycle. Claims of up, you know, hundreds potentially dead immediately
went out and immediately through the likes of various news outlets, Keith Oberman because
you know how he rolls and others claiming that Israeli air Force had bombed a
children's hospital bombed a children's hospital, which, yeah, that's a bad look.
And for those of you like, ah, you're you know, you're
unsympathetic to the no, I'm not. I think I think it is horrendous.
I think it is horrible and horrendous that citizens, especially young ones,
who are drawn into an indoctriative nature by their own government, who is in
fact a terrorist organization, would also then be used as a site under which
to uh do things. I think that's horrible and that's not by the way,
that's not decreasing, uh what have been actual instances of Israeli forces doing
stuff that frankly, probably the US wouldn't have engaged in, and understandably is
only going to uh spur things forward. Right, there's no clean hands here,
and everybody's trying to justify stuff. But war is ugly. I recognize
that. So when it is ugly, it's really important that if you're going
to report on it, you attempt to make sure you got the facts.
And while you may have a beef about Israeli settlers pushing into areas they're not
supposed to, there's a thing about story munitions under a children's hospital because you
think it won't get blown to smitherings or in the case of the AP a
lot of people are forgetting about the AP Tower, the AP news outlet a
few years ago. I don't know if you remember, there was a building
that was targeted because missiles were literally coming out of it, and so they
hit it and they didn't even knock it all the way down, but they
hit it. And it also happened to be where the AP had offices.
Associated press went bonkers, they're just like, oh my gosh, Israel's bombing
our offices, when in reality, the building which AP had been offered offices
in by the local government. Hamas was in and of itself utilized in a
military fashion other parts of the building because Hamas realized that if you have the
associated press in one of the upstairs offices, you can do all of your
shenanigans downstairs, and if somebody does do something, then they'll get outraged on
your behalf. And AP is not stupid. They know what's up. So
that level of shenanigans continues to unfold. So this hospital thing happened, and
then video started coming out, and they're like, it doesn't really look like
a rocket flying out of wherever and slammed into it. It looks like either
something failed to take off or did take off but never really got off the
ground from a nearby area, and that's what did it. So and at
no point did anyone go, yeah, we should probably get all the facts
together before we dive into this. And that shoot up a whole hell of
a lot of news cycle yesterday. So I know they want to have like
day of unprecedented rage or whatever with that, but I'm just I'm just day
of exhausted with everybody doing the same old stuff and pretending that it's not the
you know, it's new and shiny as I try to dig through the the
tons and tons of stories emulating and admittedly the hundreds of people attempting to spin
each and everything coming out of there. So what is the president on the
ground to do today? Some say it could be part of a larger,
combined one hundred million dollar package, which seemingly the military is not questioning,
combination being funding for Ukraine, funding for Israel. Don't. I don't is
Israel asking for anything. I know they ask for some like hostage negotiators,
which I guess I don't have a problem with borrowing some people. I know
we have two thousand marines on standby in the area. We've got a few
ships bobbing around. But again, the difference here is I don't really understand
why US personnel need to be up in this. The Israeli military is far
superior technologically and from a number's perspective to anything Hamas is rolling out there.
So that's not the issue here. The issue is what will the world do
as these things are unfolding? That's the debate. So the fact that there
are people who are who are licking their chops at being able to turn this
into what we have to help Israel. Ironically, people who would never help
Israel in any other shape, way or form because it wouldn't be good for
their election chances. But they will then package deal it with Ukraine stuff and
then go, oh, if you don't vote for this, you hate the
Jews. That is that is the theater that is probably going to get set
in motion today. So I would encourage you to understand that you heard it
here first, I guess would be the best way to say that. Okay,
all right eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four, Yeah,
yeah, I'm a little cynical this morning. What of it? I
can't help it. I didn't want to be this way. This is what
years of this crap has has born. Did you see, speaking of my
cynicism? So, did you see the Daily Wire? Right? The Daily
Wire, which is the Ben Shapiro I can't remember the other dude's name,
who's his partner, but whatever, big conservative news site. They've done movie
production, TV production. Obviously they did the what was the the Matt What
is a Woman? Right? That documentary that was everywhere, but then it
wasn't and everybody said it sucked and then it went out on Twitter, and
then he realized that a bunch of people watched it and nobody wanted to admit
it. And so they've they've been doing various production things and they had this
whole like we're going to make an announcement thing going on for a week on
their website, which is really annoying because I send ross a lot of links
off of their site for the show prep and it doesn't matter how many times
you go there, you still have to weave through all of the pop ups
for all of their promotions. So they were promoting something, well, they
announced it yesterday and what was it? It was children's programming. That's right.
The Daily Wire has producedly four children's programs and they've actually they come up
with a name for the Broken Key. They're calling it broken Key. I
don't know if that's a latch key play or what that is. And immediately
the standard media lost their crap, including The Guardian, who did a full
takedown piece on bent Key, the children's lineup of offerings from the Daily Wire
and they they seem to target their ire on chip Chilla, Chip Chilla.
I'm not up on the kids. I'm not up on the kids shows Ross
do you know of a show called Bluie? Okay, what is what do
you understand blue to be? I I kind of. Lincoln doesn't watch it.
I just know it's a thing and I know it's very Marky thinks it's
funny, and Markie watches it because her best friend has younger children, who
sends her clips of it. I see, okay, but it's but it's
a popular it's Australian. I think, yes, yes, yes, yes,
it's funny. Yeah yeah, this is this is what I learned.
However, however, it is very funny, it is, but it has
it has some progressive messaging in there which is not gone unnoticed and I don't
know that they're necessarily targeting that. But the Guardian article is claiming that the
uh Chipchilla, one of the Daily Wires programs, is quote a blatant ripoff
of blue because Chipchilla uses are you ready for this? A family of talking
animals and bright colors, a thing that Bluey invented. So apparently, I'm
sorry that is a claim. I'm sorry that is a take. Bluey,
the Australian children's program, invented cartoon talking animals and bright colors, which The
Daily Wire has included ed in Chipchilla quote a blatant Bluey knockoff for conservatives.
They stole the model of talking animated animals and bright colors. I'm offended on
their behalf, right, I mean, you do all that work and somebody
just slides in there and steals your intellectual property. I mean, come on,
man, Apparently before Blue we had no talking animated animals and bright colors.
And again, I'm not up on kids shows, so I'm not able
to fact check that ross that checks out though, Right prior to Blue there
was no talking animated animals or bright colors. Right, Yeah, I'm not
so sure about that one. Whoa, whoa, whoa, this is your
wheelhouse, buddy. What do you mean you're not so sure? Are you
saying that there possibly could have maybe looking from what I'm seeing here on my
you know, on the research that they're they're really wrong. So maybe I
mean he's in the wrong search engine. I mean he could hah yeah,
yeah, I see what you're doing is you're probably using like, I don't
know, some conservative search engine. Big an apologies for this, and you
didn't even think of this. Uh, Let me. Let me just go
right to the article. One of Benke's four original series is Chipchilla, an
animated show about a family of chinchillas who were home schooled by their parents,
and feature Rob Schneider Laura Ownsnis they really they're really upset at the homeschool aspect
of it too. Do you realize that actual chinchillas don't go to K twelve
public U education? Right? You know why? You know why? I
should say that some of them do because they're class pets. Maybe they go
there because they're the pet in the class. But chinchillas otherwise are rodents that
live in uh, South America. That's pretty much their their thing. Also,
I love this. While the chinchillas are are from uh appear to be
from South America, there's nothing vaguely litinicks about the American accented characters in Chipchilla.
Do you know that the chinchillas in South America or the chinchillas in captivity
in North America? You know, none of them can talk, right?
You know that, right? That's not a thing. They don't actually speak.
The chinchillas. I've been to South America. We've talked about this on
the show. Do you know what didn't happen to me in South America anywhere?
Uh, talking chinchilla, because i'd have went and seen that. I
was seeking out things that I want to go see, and that would have
been one of them. All Right, there's more to this insanity as we
investigate this super unique concept of animated talking animals and why the Daily Wires a
monster. We'll get to that and much more coming up. Hang on,
This is one O six one FM Talk in the Triangle and Mears Talk ninety
Foupti and the Triad. All right, long segment there, We're going to
roll into the top of the hour break. We got your news coming up,
and yeah, of the news related stuff to get into, but I
want to talk about the latest update, the latest iteration of people saying,
hey, you know what, maybe we should probably have that Christmas parade which
is inexplicably still up for debate, and the folks went in front of Raleigh
City Council yesterday. We'll chat with Jennifer Martin from the Raleigh Merchants Association.
See what happened, See where we're at. All right, good morning everybody,
and welcome. It is seven oh six here on your Wednesday, KCO
Day radio program, Glad to have you along. Do you do You do
you boy? Boy do? We got a bunch of stuff to get to
and we got two guests. We don't normally do two guests, but we're
gonna do two guests today. We got Mark Robinson. He's coming up at
eight oh five. Apparently everyone's either surprised, happy, or sad he didn't
stage a coup when the governor was in Japan or something. I don't know.
Man I admittedly, having a couple of days off last week for VAK,
I didn't pay as close of attention to that nothing burger as everyone else
did. But well, we'll pick his brain on that. But one of
the stories we've been following is what's happening with the Raleigh Christmas Parade. And
when we last left you, we were basically at the mayor didn't want it
kind of in my opinion, kind of related. So it sounded like the
parents of the girl who was killed last year didn't want it, or at
the very least that she didn't want it because they didn't want it, which
couldn't be further from the truth according to their own attorney. And it just
was a really bad look. And we were starting to hear stories emerge of
individuals who really really liked the parade. And I don't mean they like going
to the parade. I mean like people and individuals and kids whose participation was
life changing. And after making what, in my opinion, is a really
dumb decision, which should be a no brainer when it ross is your desk,
do we cancel the Christmas parade? We were in this weird stale stalemate
where the Mayor of Raleigh has kind of went, well, you can do
it, but you can only do it with no vehicles or any of that,
and that creates a lot of logistical problems. And I was a little
hopeful because it sounded like some on counsel were going, hey, why don't
you tell us more about this when they spoke with individuals like Jennifer Martin from
the Raleigh Merchants Association, which is the actual organizer of the parade. But
that's where we left it. Well, yesterday public input City Council and Jennifer
was there, so let's hear how this is going. Jennifer, how you
doing this morning? I'm great, thanks for having me. So what happened
yesterday? And where are we. We had several folks at her participants in
the parade, and even her grandmother who has a child with her grandchild with
disabilities, that she is immobile, she's non responsive, she are nonverbal.
However, every year she rides on that float, her chair is secured,
and she spoke about the importance of this and how her granddaughter she does react
when she's on the float, and what it means to have her in that
parade. We had a pageant Colin and leave a message about how they have
a girl that when she rides on the float, she's the same as everyone
else her peers, her chair secured and it's too hard to navigate the route
given the distance with the chair, and multiple, multiple people spoke yesterday and
unfortunately there was still no motion taken up at the end of the meeting,
So go ahead, this is this is So did they even discuss the issue?
I know it was part of the public imp it wasn't it's own thing.
You had said that some members had asked for your organization to explain more
thoroughly safety plans. I mean, how has that been going. There has
still been no discussion about that with any of the city's gaffs. We've tried
to present that several times at the end of the meeting. There was no
discussion after any representations. At the end of the meeting, when counselors do
you have an opportunity to share thoughts or kind of give update on reports.
One counselor did say that while she appreciated the presentations, she would absolutely not
support having floats or vehicles in the parade this year. They've been advised by
the legal council from the city not to and that she was not comfortable.
They felt they have a fiscal responsibility to the city not to do that,
even despite having permitted three other parades with floats and vehicles in the city and
that they are not under legal litigation. So my question is, all right,
so the obviously it appears that they're treating you differently, But I guess
in their mind they would say, well, this was the parade that had
the incident that sparked all of this. Is this like a one off in
their mind? Or is this the permanency that is the Raleigh Christmas Parade if
it is to go forward with no floats, Like, are they just saying,
look, this will be in perpetuity like this. Have you had conversation
do you know we've had We've had one counselor tell us that this is just
for this year, that he wants to fight very hard for us next year
to make sure that this is just a one time thing. But you know,
we don't know. It's you know, who knows what will happen after
this year. I am just I'm it's impossible to wrap my brain around this.
The lack of communication, not that you're not making the effort by by
the city count. Have you spoken to the maryor directly since then at all?
We have not. We have not. So we've reached out, we've
spoken too, I think every other counselor, but we've not had a conversation
with the mayor. The father of the young girl showed up at a council
and we played the audio last week on the show that that didn't create any
ripples. Huh. Apparently we were told that there was a lot of folks
that that's why we came back this last Tuesday yesterday, and that it did
move some heart strings and it did move some cause for question of you know
what, maybe we need to reverse this. But then after Essay's meeting,
there was no action taken. What is? What is? Where do we
currently stand? Just for folks who are wondering, because we're halfway through October,
so we still are. We are still where we were a month ago.
The float or the Christmas Parade is permitted to happen without floats, without
vehicles, and without golf carts, and so we were hoping essay that maybe
golf Kirk would be ad so that we could at least for those with mobility
issues have the opportunity to have that, but that was not taken up for
discussion yesterday. So you can do like ben her chariots right if horses are
involved, or we can we can we can do horses, we can do
camels, we can do dogs. That we can do. You can have
people walking, you can have people on still, you can do all those
kind of things. But my concern also I had to be careful how many
horses we put in there and how close together, how close they are to
be in you know, things of that nature. That's that's a very bo
act. I need that. Yeah, realize the liability. I'll just share
something. So one of the things that as a kid growing up on a
ranch on Wyoming that had hunters that would come out and hunt on the property.
Our largest insurance liability was not the guns, it wasn't the vehicles,
it was the horses that we would we would utilize for that hunting endeavor because
horses, right, there's a certain unpredictability there. I'm not knocking on horses.
And obviously they are part of a lot of parades. Do you think
you're going to be able to put on a parade? And will you put
on a parade under those circumstances If we're limited to seventeen hundred's tech, we
will, we will do it. It's going to be quite a challenge,
to be honest. Is It's going to be difficult as far as staging and
things like that. And obviously I'm going to limit how many horses our organization
is just because of the fact, like you said, that they are unpredictable.
So we've you know, those that have trade experience, those have you
know, training and carrying carriages, those that have training in you know,
we've got a group that they do a rodeo. So they are performance horses.
It's meaning that they carry the flags, they carry you know, the
parade style shows and things like that. The performances, unfortuately, we'll have
to restrict it to those types because of you know, animal gar unpredictable in
that sense. So it's going to be very much a balancing act. Staging
will be a challenge because again you've got to be careful of how many trailers
you have coming in, where do you emode them. Also, cleaning up
after the horses, it's going to be fun, just because again you can't
have golf carts to follow them, so we'll have to have and I guess
you know trash cans strap to Dolly's and people walk behind them, or you
get the city council to do that. That would be good, right do
not have We don't have any politicians. The only politician that's allowed in the
parade every year is the current sitting mayor. There's actually a standing rule with
the prey. Oh is she going to be in the parade? Have you
asked her? She was invited back in June. We have not heard a
response. Was she in the parade last year? He was? We always
the current sitting mayor is always in the parade. Well, that's another interesting
question. Did you have a chance. I know. One of the other
issues we talked about where I let you go was security in and around downtown.
I mean, obviously, you guys work with merchants, and one of
the things that helped them do the merchant thing is confidence of their customer base
are going to be able to come in and do the business. Do you
feel that if I guess they're not working on this at the very least,
the city is trying to be more proactive and providing a better merchant environment with
some of the issues we've seen on glen Wood and Fayetteville and various other areas
of the city. Or sure, we have heard that from several businesses down
there that the increased police presence has been great in terms of the quicker response
times. It does kind of send a signal to people that you know,
this means business. However, it's still there's so much work to be done
down there, you know, and our homeless population is growing substantially. The
drug problem unfortunately, a lot of people have substance abuse issues and those can
be visibly seen downtown, and so I think, you know, they are
working on those issues. It's also, though, you know, we still
have a shortage of police officer in our town, and you know, the
police chief is doing everything she can and trying to staff that and trying to
adequately adequately address those issues. But it is a challenge when you're down officers
and down resources of how do you how do you balance all that with a
growing city and when you have an entire city that's got some issues. I
mean, since we talk last go ahead yeah no, no, no go
ahead business, you're saying I was going to round it out, but we
even we're talking about in the North Raleigh having additional break ins, and you
know that that area of town, those businesses are still being hit, and
it's just it's it's not falling down in that sense, but I do know
that the chief is trying well. I mean, and obviously there's the very
high profile stories that make it in there. You had a stabbing and shooting,
a guy who was literally punched to death, but it's also the just
the day to day nuisances, right that you have to figure out. And
we've long battled this in not just Raleigh, but you know many cities that
are trying to figure out how do we revitalize our downtown, whether it's changing
parking access right making it because all of these things have an impact on whether
people are going to feel that they want to go down there. You know,
if you get a scenario where, let me give you a hypothetical,
let's say hypothetically, you know, you get the folks who want to go
down to I don't know, like a brewery near Glenwood or whatever, and
they park their car and their car happens to get broken into while they're in
they're trying to dine. One would think that that experience would be off putting,
not just to them, but to you know, people that they would
tell, and that would have an impact on the ability of others to drive
downtown, park their car and not have it broken into near say Cloud's brewing
company, right Like, you want to make sure that those experiences are not
what people are experiencing when they're headed downtown and they feel safe, and that's
what the merchants really want, right Yeah, you know, I think they
want employees to feel safe too. Their employees to also be able to park,
you know, walk to the business, do their shift, and be
able to walk back to their car and not be passled. And I think
that's a decent request. I think that's a request that any of us would
want, and hopefully we can get to a point where we can make Raleigh
safe again, you know. I mean that's that's something that I worked here
in Glen with Zas for ten years. I love that district form for reasons,
you know. But it's the downtown area has definitely changed. Yeah,
and then and it's not just a Raleigh struggle. Obviously, we have a
lot of cities in in our listening range here and this is what they all
struggle with just due to changing demographics, reinvestment in downtown businesses, restaurants,
bars, all of that. It is a balancing act. Well, I
am sorry that for whatever reason, this Christmas parade needle doesn't seem to be
moving. Where can folks go? Just so they can follow along with what
are your firm plans as they move forward? What's the website? So it's
actually g r M a sort for Greater Raleigh Merchants Association dot org. They
can also follow along on Shop Local Raleigh on Instagram and we'll be actively posting
updates about those. You can sign up for our email newsletter any any of
our social sites. You can follow and hear more. Okay, all right,
Jennifer Martin Raleigh Merchants Association, appreciate the time this morning, thank you,
and I'm okay, all right, look at that well, oh and
I just hung up on ours put her on hold. Ross. That was
you hear that scenario described that nightmare scenario where somebody would go downtown and try
to do something and have their car broken into while they're just you know,
trying to enjoy a business downtown. You would think that that right there would
send a message to those individuals whose car was broken into that Wow, something
needs to be done, right, I mean surely that would stick in your
brain. If it was you and your wife right who had your car broken
into, I would yeah, yeah, you probably want to do something about
that, be proactive if you were in a position, which you are in
a position you're on the radio, but like maybe if you were in a
position of elected official, like if you get the sheriff's thing worked out,
just saying somebody should totally look into that scenario I just explained and see if
there's a connection. Seven two Cacoday Radio Program. Appreciate you hanging out with
us. Sorry that that seemingly hasn't fixed itself because it just seems inexplicably obvious
that it should. As multiple people, including literally the grandmother of a girl
who is nonverbal and immobilized, is coming to the realization that her grandchild can't
participate in this event that does seem to actually shed a little bit of positivity
and into into her life, and it just makes me so flipping angry.
We're not gonna let it go. So there's your update. Seven twenty three,
Hang on you will one six one FM Talk and n w PTI,
two stations driving the best in talk. This is Casey Oday and Carolina's Morning
News. All right, seven thirty five, Good morning. Oh no,
we got some conspiracy theorists in my email. What are you doing? It's
too early for this people. Hey, guys, love the show. Oddly
specific hypothetical you threw out to your last guests, they're about the car break
in. No, I mean, it's just something that happens. Unfortunately,
it's something that happens and influences people's decision as to whether they want to do
business in a particular area, not just downtown, it could be anywhere.
Right, You're not gonna go, You're not gonna go someplace, or you're
not gonna often go someplace that you feel is inherently unsafe, and that's when
it starts to become an issue. So in the hypothetical, let's say,
you know, I throw it a hypothetical. Let's say instead of you know,
the Glenwood South or the area directly adjacent maybe cotton mill, maybe you
google incident reports of car break ins near the cotton mill, see if anything
comes up having to do with any politicians who might be in charge of this?
Do you think, Pops, so you can understand the sweet, sweet
iron that I'm reveling in this morning. Ah, what a day. Poor
Jennifer. She wouldn't take the bait, and rightfully so, but I did
kind of a lot. But I wanted her to explain that they have now
they it seemingly doesn't matter what they put up and out there you have this
position where elected officials are just like, no, you're not going to do
this, and it's inexplicable. It's to quote one of the folks that we
talked about earlier on the show, it's inconceivable that you would continue down this
road after having smeared the parents of this girl and just irritated the app out
of everybody else. Man, why don't you just go back and go you
know what we screwed up? Yeah, yeah, we got this one wrong.
But they don't. Meanwhile, some of them have their husband's cars broken
into. I hear there's video, not that we have access to it,
but what a day? What a day? What a day? Uh?
Pivoting? Could everyone stop pooping on planes? Not in the lavatory? I
guess you can go there, although you shouldn't really, you know, you
want to schedule that. No, nobody likes that. And I told you
what happened. I was on a flight not that long ago where it was.
It was a longer flight, like three and a half four hours,
and immediately hear the ding at ten thousand feet right, seatbacks back, trade
tables coming out, and all of a sudden, here goes bline for the
bathroom and in there a long time. Everybody knows what's up, and it's
like, really couldn't handle that on the ground at all. The problem,
of course, becomes when you have an incident like you had here last month,
where a plane which was in flight to Barcelona from Atlanta. I believe
Atlanta Atlanta to Spain had to turn around mid Atlantic after a passenger reportedly went
the entire length of the aisle and there's video and it's horrible. Well,
this dealing also with Spanish territory and easy Jet. Flight was canceled and its
passengers made to disembark after somebody onboard the aircraft decided to go on the floor.
Maybe they were from San Francisco. They didn't think anything of it.
Don't know now it was the floor of the laboratory, so they almost made
it. Or they don't have they don't understand how a laboratory works, I
guess. Aaron ged Hue, a passenger on board, told CNN the flight
had already run into trouble pre departure, when the schedule plane was switched out
for a smaller aircraft. I have to be honest, I didn't know easy
Jet was still a thing because they had that whole Everglades crash. Right,
Wasn't that it was that easy Jet or value Jet? Uh now I'm trying
to remember. Yeah, oh okay, So here we go. Two hours
after the scheduled departure. They had to wait on the ground for more than
an hour while bags were offloaded because the aircraft was overweight. Going back to
the easy jet thing, I've never been in an easy Jet, but I've
heard them described as a tin Cannish tun a Canish. I think that they're
probably a little tight there. So yeah, if you have an incident like
this, well obviously it's gonna get real unpleasant, real fast. And it
marks the second incident in just a couple months time. So there you go,
all right, eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.
Yep, made that transition. What you're gonna do? All right? So
I'm I'm looking a little more here on the The sheer volume of people who
are just unmasking themselves is amazing to me. So we have like we have
got like university professors. What's this? So this is the guy from what
Cornell. This is a professor and I guess he used to teach at Dartmouth
in Colombia. And he's got a bit of a record. Who's perfectly comfortable
going out and saying this by this shifting funny doing. So it a little
hard to hear as he's being recorded there, but you hear him pretty clearly
at the beginning. It was exhilarating it was exciting. What is he talking
about. He's talking about the day of attacks on the music festival and the
various other areas there in Israel. And again he's shaping young minds at ivy
league schools, not an unknow own commodity. Help the women, and how
are those minds being shaped and what do they do with them? Well,
you need look no further than several examples that we saw, including a group
of Uh. I guess technically she's a law student, I guess, so
you have a you have a law student who was who has been outed after
she and several others were seen on video tearing down missing persons posters, so
posters of those thought to have been taken hostage during the initial Hamas attack,
and the posters were in New York City and she and a couple others decided
they we're going to go run around and tear the things down, and they
did. And now she's got beef. Absolutely no, not that she tore
them down, that you got upset about it because you're picking on her.
Yes. One of the NYU students who ripped down posters of Israeli hostages,
Yasmin de he me A Junior, who, by the way, once worked
for the Anti Defamation League. You can't make this stuff up, admits to
tearing apart banners plastered outside NYU's t hall that were caught on video. However,
says she really didn't have a choice, as she has found it increasingly
difficult to quote know my place as a biracial brown woman, especially during these
highly volatile times, imediately immediately into victim mode. Right, I'm a biracial
brown woman. I am so persecuted. It's scrambled my brain. I didn't
know I shouldn't tear down the pictures of people being held hostage by terrorists.
I have felt more and more frustrated about the time we currently find ourselves in
and that misplaced anger into actions that are not an accurate representation of who I
am. Kind Of think they are, sweetie, kind of think they are
one hundred percent. And frankly, you're up there in NYC. Nobody cares
that you're biracial. Nobody cares that you're a woman, you're brown, or
whatever words you use to describe yourself. They care that you seem to be
a psychopath, right, seemed to be a crazy person, seem to be
somebody who's not a fan of the Jews. That is really what people are
judging you on, not any of this other stuff you feel as your persecutable,
immutable characteristics. You're selfish, you're self absorbed, You've been convinced that
you're a victim, when in reality, the very same scenario that you describe
as bringing about your victimhood really ain't a big deal in New York City,
but remarkably would create uneven and unfair situations for you, likely in some of
the places that you are seemingly wishing to represent. And she wasn't alone.
Multiple literally, multiple people in the medical field also just couldn't shut up long
enough after this to not get themselves either fired, suspended, or at least
looked at. We have multiple stories of that, so we'll get to all
of it. But first, Race Stagic from the Weather Channel. He's here
and he's gotten not multiple just one story. It's called the weather and it's
it is what it is, so yeah it is, you know, yeah,
and it's not actually bad forecast right through the weekend. There's kind of
one day a little iffy, and it's probably gonna be mostly a night Friday
night, but maybe between next couple of days and the days after that,
including the weekend, gonna be real nice. So it's a pretty good story
to tell. Some clouds around this morning, there may be some fogging spots,
but we're starting to see some clearing and some sun already in spots.
Low seventies this afternoon, probably stay in the upper sixties and try it in
points west tonight in the forties. Tomorrow will be in the low seventies,
and then some showers around as we get in through late Friday into Friday evening
and Friday night, maybe even a thunderstorm still though we'll be out our above
seventy degrees on Friday, So we go one two, two and a half
maybe two and three quarters days with dryway before those showers thutter showers come in.
That's all associated with a front and back behind the front for the weekend,
dry and cool and sunny, mid upper sixties during the day, and
we'll have upper forties to near fifty at night, maybe some low forties at
a little bit cooler early next week. So casey not terrible, just got
that one little kind of flying the ointment there Friday evening and Friday night.
Other than that we should be in real good shape here over the next five
to maybe seven days. So they put out the standard what's the worst Halloween
candy thing? And what do you think won this year? I don't know.
Candy corn, Yeah, that's what that's what you think, right,
because candy corn wins a lot, not candy corn. Oh okay, ready,
laughy taffy. Never heard of it? But do you mean you never
heard? You've never heard of laughy taffy? Nah, I'm mainstream, you
know, I'm M and M Snickers? Is that not laughing stream? Laffy
Taffy's not mainstream? Well, maybe wrong. It's garbage, banana, especially
banana laffy taffy, straight garbage, right, you know, kill it with
fire, that being said, candy corn man, Okay, I can't believe
you don't know laughy tack. Well look at the simple man. Ve you
got a vending machine there, go check it out the home office. Now,
oh all right, that's that's probably fair. All right, thank you,
sir. Appreciate It is laffy taffy not mainstream. And I don't even
like candy, and I just assume it if you go trigger trading and somebody
gives you laughing taffy you have, you can you you can just own their
home. You're like, this is my house. Now, that's how it
works. It's absolute poverty. Nobody wants that candy. Nobody wants I understand
the banana laffy taffy. I just remember banana laffy taffy being gross. Yeah,
no, it's gross, but they have other laffy taffies the whole,
So all of it's gross. Doesn't matter the flavor. If somebody gives you
life. I I see that in my son's like, you know, Halloween
bag or whatever. It's going in the trash. I didn't realize people felt
so strongly about it, so it's nasty. I had no idea. I
just assumed it's and it has the characteristics that are the things I would hate
most about candy. So I I can't I'm sure. I'm positive I've tried
it, but there's nothing that appeals to me. But I'm assuming it's just
sticky, sweet gooiness, which you know, if you're into candy. I
don't understand why that's a problem. Okay, all right, So that's more
offensive than the people who have stuck Rambo knives and guns and grenades in your
child's candy at least, so you can use that for self defense to defend
your family once you find it. You know, have you go through your
kids candy laughing taffy? What are you gonna do with it? Well,
if it gets really hard, I understand it gets pretty, you can sharpen
it like a prison shive. You can use it like for hurricanes and stuff
like if your house springs a leak. Oh, that's good point. Or
you gotta, you know, keep the windows, seal the windows or something.
All right, look at that Ross is going on mcguiver on this.
So apparently it was voted the worst Halloween candy and I Ray doesn't either know
what it is and uh Ross is firmly against it. I had no idea
that there was this much passion. But anyway, we'll be back. Hang
on your day, Smarter one O six one FM Talk and News Talk ninety
four to five w PTI more with Casey starts now. All right, good
morning, seven fifty six. Let me grab a quick phone call reminder.
Coming up eight oh five Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson, who some newspaper editors thought
was going to stage a coup last week and then when he didn't seem to
be more disappointed than that for whatever reason. Well, we'll chat with him.
Uh, let me grab this, Jimmy, got about a minute.
What's up? Yes, sir, I think what the city council is doing
is they'll wait after the election to make a decision because it's so controversial on
the on the Christmas parade. Well, the election is the parades before.
So I'm confused. What's the what's the Okay? I thought I thought he
was after the election? Oh okay, and I thought you were joking.
You're serious. Okay, I don't know. I don't know, okay.
And what they could do, let's get to the important stuff is laffy taffy?
Good? Yeah, okay? And what the kid did? Had the
horses pull the floats? Well you could do that. What if what if
you had vehicles tugging horses just as a big f you you know what I'm
saying, just kind of dragging him along. I'm rooting for me. That
would work. So all right, all right, thank you appreciate it.
Call this morning. I have a good one. So he's pro laughy taffy
and horses being drug against their will. I'm good. Mark and I are
actually texting on the on the Halloween candy thing right now, Mark Robertson,
we're texting right now. Okay. He says there is worse than laughing taffy,
and he's like sending me examples. I was gonna I was gonna ask
him how he felt on but you know he's also he has an opinion.
I know you're shocked he's but he's a politician, so he's gonna be like,
well, ah, candy is good except the candy you don't like,
and then it's not. Well, I have the photo evidence. What did
he say? Okay, hold on me forward that to me. All right,
well that's right. We're gonna bring the lieutenant governor who's also a gubernatorial
candidate in and we're gonna talk about King. All right, Good morning,
everybody, and welcome our number three Happy Wednesday pc O Day radio program.
Glad to have you long phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
seventy four. Uh, Israeli Air Force take out our phones. Sorry,
I keep making that. People getting mad at me. I'm pointing it out
because yesterday and now I'm seeing more and more and more of this, and
I Ross, I appreciate you. Ross reposted something that Pete Calendar had reposted,
which is a thread really talking about this quote unquote hospital attack and with
with pictures so as to determine whether, in fact it does look like a
high end, highly technical Israeli missile did slam into this area and intentionally target
a children's hospital, or if there might be a little some something else going
on there, like I don't know, failed launch detonation or you know,
crappy marksmanship on the part of others, since nothing else around it seems to
be blown to smithereens. But you know, the media went with the one
narrative over the others. So all right, anyway, all right, Pire's
it's fixed, so they didn't do it. Let's grab Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson
who joins us sporting Mark you, Hey, how you doing? Case?
Good beer? All right? Before I get to the coup that people thought
you were going to stage, I got the important stuff. So apparently candy
corn not the worst candy according to this year's survey's laugh he taff He Ross
seems to be on board with that, but he was telling me you were
hitting him up with some other stuff. So uh, let's let's get to
the important stuff. Where are you out on the candy stuff? Yeah,
A candy corn is no, it's right a bit at the top of my
least favorite food ever. Candy corn is not good. Uh. I know
that a lot of people that love candy corn, God bless them, but
I'm not one of them. Candy corn is basically just stuff that I think
Satan puts out there wat people steep out, so what he does, I'm
not. I hate candy corn. I don't like it. Uh. Circus
peanut is another one that I've never liked, even as a child. I
never liked that Nico Wafer's. I know that Bobby wipers, God bless them.
I don't. I don't, I don't. I don't like Nico wafers.
That's that's like a trick to get you to eat a tic tac.
I never understood that. I thought that was European candy when I was a
kid, and it made me not like Europe because that was I think.
I think we're all put it best in all those short conversation. It's like
Tom's without the antacids benefit. That's a good point. Yeah, yeah,
how are you on the taffy itself? Though? Yeah, yeah, is
not that bad, especially if you're down loose and you need to pull it
out. It's great. Okay, all right, well that is a benefit.
I had a guy, uh mark you part of the governor lieutenant governor's
gig. You guys, your security is what state North Carolina state troopers?
Right? Yes, yes, all right? Can I borrow some guys?
Send me an email? And he said his least favorite Halloween candy is Reese's
Cups because he doesn't like peanut butter. Can I borrow some of your true
so we can get this guy out of the state. Is that a thing
I can do? I don't think that would be legal, but it certainly
is an ideal. Come on, who doesn't like Reci's peanut butter cups?
Apparently Jim, who lives and done so God bless Jim Man. Like I
said, everybody's got dim for case. But but I love, loved the
peanut butter cups, so don't keep them going, keep them going. I
don't feel that Johnson County should have to suffer Jim, so obviously he's obviously
not a stable person. All right. Now, speaking of not stableman.
Yeah, the uh uh, speaking of not stable man. The twenty four
hours from when you said, hey, I got me an announcement and oh,
by the way, I'm the acting governor, and before you actually did
the announcement, the amount of wild tall tale conspiracy theories about what you were
up to that came out was wildly entertaining to me. So for those of
those who don't know, when the governor of North Carolina is not here,
the lieutenant governor is technically the acting governor. There's certain situations, either he's
absent from the state or it's similar to like the twenty fifth up in the
federal presidential thing, where if he's incapacitated, then the lieutenant governor would step
in. But when he's out of the state, and for the most part,
it's just a thing that exists in the background. Nothing really happens,
right, you're not out there moving your stuff into into the governor's mansion.
However, you did take the opportunity during Roy's visit to Japan to announce that
you were going to do something, and they thought you were going to stage
a coup. You didn't stage a coup. What did you do? Well,
we declared a week of solidarity with the people of Israeld the nation of
Bisal and we established it a day of prayer for the nation of visual because
we felt like it was something that needed to be done. Uh. Let
me make this clear. This wasn't something to try to upstage the governor,
but we did feel like that the governor, you know, the governor,
let's just let's just get down the right to brass tacks. He spent no
time in coming on television during COVID to tell people they had to shut down
their businesses and then they couldn't go to church. He did it, uh,
without hesitation when these attacks took place. Uh, immediately the governor should
have come out to show a sign, to show a strong stand of solidarity
with our strongest all lit Israel. He should have. He should have done
it. Uh. From from my purview, he should have done it in
the day, the day after, or or close to. It should have
been done immediately. Uh. The flags weren't lowered until the day we announced
that we were going to have a conference or press conference. Uh, and
I still think that was far too late. He should have done it.
He should have done on television instead. Of it from doing it from Japan.
He should have called the press conference and he should have made it clear
that the State of North Carolina stands in solidarity with Israel. He didn't do
it it. So we took we took the the ability that we had to
do that to show the state, to show Israel and show the world that
North Carolina stands arm and on with Israel and this time of crisis and will
continue to stand arm and off with him. All right, Well, there's
about three things that come up with this one, and I thought it was
a little interesting. People were saying, well, it's not it's not Mark
Robinson or for that matter, to the State of North Carolina's place to weigh
in on international issues, and he shouldn't have done it. Ironically, those
people are supporting Cooper, who literally was absent because he was visiting another country's
leadership and business folks there, so you can't claim that. But two,
they said, how dare Mark Robinson do this because he's an anti semi and
uh and then they go look at his Facebook, look at look at all
of this. How do you respond to that because they you know, they
have posts where you put six million killed in quotes and I think that's their
PATCHA. Yeah, so talk to me about that, because that's the culdule
they want to use it. It was playing. The commentary we were making
in that post was not about the Holocaust itself, which is a historical fact
and undeniable historical fact. We were talking about the narrative around gun control in
Germany and how that happened, and that's plain in that post, and I've
made that plane. The second post was basically quotes from from other folks in
the film industry that I used in another post to talk about a movie that
was out that that I made some commentary on as a private citizen. It
was I admit that that post was poorly worded and it completely conveyed my message.
But anti Semitic? Are you kidding me? You want to find anti
Semites, Let's go to the University of Chapel Hill and find those students that
are putting out those posters that are in favor of murdering is rarely civilians,
women and children at concerts who posted, who passed out flyers posting the pictures
of the paragliders mocked up to these paragliders of murdering these folks in Israel.
You want to find anti Semitism, Let's go up and talk to some of
the members of Congress. We have made horrendous statements against the State of Israel
and her people. I'm not an anti semi by any stretch of imagination,
but I can take you and show you a few right now that are not
being held accountable by the press at all. Do you think it's the job
of a state governor to be weighing in on those types of issues to that
original point or do you think really head down and you know, focus,
focus on what immediately impacts you. Oh, no, absolutely. This is
the job of the the state of US, our state leaders to stand up
and speak up against these things that are going on on the world stage.
To let the folks is really, let the people of this country, let
the people of the world know where we stand on this issue, and that
we stand firmly, firmly by allies UH in Europe and and and with the
Jewish people there, and with the Americans who are there and everybody who is
under attacked by this business of terrorist group. It of course is our job
to stand up and speak up. It's certainly not our job to tell people
they can't go to church, but it's our job to stand up and let
folks know where we stand on crucial issues which may end up sending our young
men and women in the harm's way. Well, and that and that,
and that's gonna be the that was gonna be my How how North Carolina really
factors into this. Not only do we have the largest representation of veterans within
our community, but we have a gigantic military presence and and a large representation
in the roughly two thousand Marines based out of Le June who are now at
the ready over there in Israel. And I don't know where you stand on
this. I hope that not a single American boot touches the ground. I
think we're dealing with a situation that is somewhat unique in the fact that it's
not Ukraine where you question their military readiness versus Russia. Israel is clearly militarily
from an equipment standpoint and troops standpoints superior to Hamas. I guess where are
you at this on this? Since you do want a way in, well,
you know, weighing in on the strategy of how we handle it.
Is one thing, weighing in on our support for Israel's another, and my
support for Israel lives in this. I don't believe any of this would have
happened if we had a president that wasn't helping to fund Hamas from the very
beginning, six billion dollars sent to our ran for them to use to help
fund these terrorists. I believe that it would not be happening if those folks
in Iran and the leaders of Hamas understood that we have a president who would
back Israel absolutely to the hilt and allow Israel to do whatever it needs to
do to eliminate the threat without any type of interference or without calls will quote
cease fires, and having allies in our Congress that are more interested in seeing
a mock succeed than they are the Jewish people in Israel to survive. And
so, while I don't know whether or not we should send truths because I'm
not privy to all the information that's going on in Israel on the ground,
I am in favor of allowing them to do whatever is necessary and backing them
one hundred percent of whatever is necessary to eliminate this threat completely. You know
what, is strange to me on this issue is I have not seen an
official party statement from the Democrats here in North Carolina. You think that's a
little weird, we're out now on that. I don't think it's a little
weird because, like everything else, from defunding the police to allowing crime to
become a revolving door where those who could commit violent crimes and hangus crimes are
hardly held accountable for their actions, Democrats are soft on crime, they're salt
on terror, and they have allies who are let's just go ahead and say
it. They have allies who support criminal action and allies who support terrorism,
and they don't want to offend those people, so they remain silent on this
issue. There is a lawsuit that has been filed on the transgender issues,
which obviously are a you had legislation, you had vetos, you had gubernatorial
over or overrides by the General Assembly, But lawsuits filed on behalf of a
nine year old, obviously via the parent and whatever group is attached, basically
suing over access to gender affirming care. These lawsuits and series of lawsuits play
have played out all across the country. North Carolina is now dipping its toe
is the latest into it. I got a question, what would Mark Robinson
say to this nine year old who is now being put at the forefront by
his parents over this issue. I mean, how do you talk to kids
about this, Mark, Because that's what we're actually debating. I wouldn't talk
to this child at all. It's not my pur view to talk to the
child. That's his parents' job to talk to him. Now. If his
parents want to talk to me, that would be fine. And what I
would tell his parents is this, in the state of North Carolina, we're
not going to allow you to make this life change the decision for this child
at this age. It is illegal. It should be illegal. We will
not allow you to let your child get a tattoo. We will not allow
your child to buy a call or a home or sign a contract at that
age. We are not going to allow them to change the sex at nine
years old. It is a ridiculous proposition to do that to a child.
It's ridiculous, and quite frankly, I don't even know why we're having this
conversation. I really don't. It is a ridiculous proposition and it is an
absolute no go for me. And I'll tell that to his parents. Well,
we're having it because, as you know, there is a ton,
ton ton of activist money that's going to come in and support this lawsuit.
The child who goes by the name Victor, obviously an alias here, is
described as a nine year old from Durham who is suing via the parents because
he was not able to now access the life the way that they were.
The stuff in the media is incredible to me, life saving medical care to
help transition genders. Do you sometimes feel like the narrative war is just been
lost within the medical community and especially within the media community because the way that
they control the language surrounding this. Absolutely, and I can tell you this
Casey, and I say this with full confidence. If we continue down this
road as a nation, if we continue to do this, God help us,
God help us, we are going to create an Absolutely, we're going
to create absolute chaos in this society. When we start breaking down the basic
tenant of science, basic science male and female, When we start destroying that
line because of this type of activity, we are descending into madness and chaos.
And if we continue down this road and don't have some grown ups to
take the helm and stand up with other grown ups and just say no,
this country is going to fall into chaos. And I would assume that would
be long before we fall because the nation that would allow this kind of activity
and a permit through courts if they do, if they do, and I
play god that they don't, but if they do, this nation is just
going to continue to fall into madness. Okay, Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson joining
us, appreciate the time there, Sir. I don't know if you guys
are gonna give candy out at the Lieutenant Governor's mansion, but it sounds like
it'll probably be not Nico Wafers in Circus peanuts, so that's good. We'll
talk about a wide variety because we know everybody likes kind of everything, so
we'll have a whive except for Jim and Dunn, who's crazy. All right,
we got a roll, but we'll be right back. Hang on dental
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Oday for the podcast on the iHeart radio app. Yeah, well what if
then what if the dude's into that? See, you didn't even think of
that. Cross trying to win an argument but not having fully thought it through.
One of the most insane stories in the stack today, and why the
hell not. Here we go a funeral homeworker whose job it is to basically
transport dead bodies from places to said funeral homes. So somebody dies in their
house or whatever, they diet the DMV while they're waiting. Then and this
funeral home is tasked with it, then they will go and they will retrieve
the body and take it to the funeral home. All right, pretty standard,
all right, that's somebody's job, even if you think it's a little
weird, that's somebody's job. It's several people's jobs out there. James Ryan
Smith, that's his gig. He's just going about his day. And he
and his colleague were dispatched to a home this is in Omaha, Nebraska,
to collect the body of an individual who had passed away. Just you know,
standard nine to five, nothing, nothing crazy, been there one hundred
times. Except there was a little bit of a twist as the property manager.
Property manager let them into the property to retrieve the body. It was
apparent to all in the room, well maybe not the deceased, because he's
deceased, but that the scene was a little weird because yeah, dude was
dead, and on the bed. Next to dead dude was a very very
realistic, high end sex spot, you know, sex doll, sex robot.
Whatever. It was a nice one he had, he'd saved up.
Well. Ryan Smith took one look at that thing, took one look look
over at the dude who is now again deceased, and apparently, according to
authorities, he concocted a plan. According to the property manager, Smith had
then informed him basically. So they got the body and then Smith and then
left, and then Smith called him and was like, oh, by the
way, hey, the sheriff asked me to take the sex spot so I
could collect swabs for biopsy or something. I threw a little science out there.
He said, oh, okay, yeah, we got to do the
thing with the guy, David Caruso is gonna run it and the team and
they're gonna look at it. So I'm gonna need to take the sex robot
and nothing to see here, and so he did. However, the manager
said he was so he was a little creeped out, and he said,
no, I think the manager wanted it for himself. He said that sounds
nobody told me anything. About that, so you can't do that, and
he did not allow him access. However, shortly thereafter, the manager returned
to the apartment to discover that somebody had gained entry and lo and behold who's
in there? According to the manager, it's Ryan Smith, the forty one
year old worker at the funeral home. By the time the manager arrived,
Smith was attempting to exit the home and described as quote, leaving with his
shirt untucked and his pants in disarray. Cops recalled. Smith later arrested on
felony burglary charges. A post arrest examination revealed the sex doll to gosh,
how do I say this to be? It was gross, freshly, freshly
adorned, nasty, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And ironically at
that point, because of this, then the law enforcement did have to see
said sex bot because now they did have to process it for DNA. Okay,
all right, Ross, I'm not a lawyer. You're not a lawyer,
right, not a lawyer? Yeah, I'm not. You're but you're
familiar with finders v keepers, right I am? Yeah? Okay, dead
dude's not using it anymore, you know what I mean, he's he's done
with it, and maybe his family doesn't want to when they go to pack
up his stuff, maybe they don't want to find that he's so in a
way, guys just trying to do him a favor. Do you know what
I'm saying. It's like a family, you're not gonna hand that down,
right, So you think he's doing it to, you know, as as
a favor for the guy. Well they're twofold twofold now, because he stumbled
across it and he was like, I need me some of that. Well,
and and what he realizes that by re recycling, reusing, renewing,
he's limiting the carbon foot print that would be required to manufacture another sex doll.
What if it's haunted? And the what what by the guy who died?
Who's going to He's gonna haunt it, haunt his doll? Like literally,
isn't that the Insidious movies or what? No, it could be cursed
whatever that series is, it's insidious, that's what. But it's the one
with the couple who does the paranormal. It's adult, right, Annabelle.
Okay, So so you think that there's potentially while this guy is in this
dude's house hooking up with the doll, the ghost of the deceased. Guy's
like, what are you doing? Stop? You think that might be a
thing? Not exactly Okay, what if the dude, I can't go into
details here. Yeah, what if the guy's into that though? Right?
What if his thing is hooking up with an inanimate object ala ghost harasses him?
His stories we've done where people like police find these things and at first
they think it's like a body. Yeah, they're like, oh, police
think they discover a body and it's just like something that somebody threw out off
to the side of the road. And we've gone over this before in the
show. Like the theory is the people either upgrade or need to get rid
of it, and they don't want to put it out into the trash,
so they just drive and they just throw it out their car. That's it.
Or their relative dies, right, the weird uncle kicked right, and
they go to his house to pack it up, and you know, everyone
was like, ah, I'll take the records. Oh look at this.
He's got a collection of coins, and then you divvy that up. But
at no point do you get into the weird sex spot, you know,
in the closet and people go dibbs, right, nobody does that. Nobody
wants that handed down. If you're at a will reading right and they're going
who gets the grand Yeah yeah, no uh uh. And to my nephew,
Ross, I leave annalyin what is that? My uh my most faithful
companion? And then boom, that's your and now that's that's you know,
that's your cross to bear. So this guy is just trying to make that
not a thing for people to have to deal with, and now he's going
to jail. Smith has subsequently been fired from Mid America First Call, which,
according to the website, specializes in removals, transportation and bombing, cremations
and shipouts and apparently uh sexpot stuff. So it's a sub subdivision there.
Nah. I feel like, I feel, look, there's nobody should be
going to jail here and I and I honestly believe the manager wanted it for
himself, right because way, if you're the manager, why would you not
just be like, yeah, get that the hell out of here, you
know what I'm saying, unless you had like plans, that's my theory anyway,
eight forty five. Yes, that's a story that exists in our world,
and you're welcome. Ray stagic. He has stories that exist during the
weather. Did you hear that whole thing? Man? I did not.
I only cut the tail end of it. Oh my gosh. Basically,
some dude died. The funeral homeworker went over to get the dude and the
dude's dead on the bed and next to him is like a real high end
sex robot. Oh, and the guy's like he makes up this story to
the manager. He's like, oh, yeah, the sheriff wanted me to
take that so we could swab it for stuff. And the manager's like,
I don't think so, because I assume the manager running and the dude broke
in to get with it, and now he's you know, he's gonna go
to jail, and I'm like, no, the dude's not using it anymore
and nobody's gonna want that. At the will telling you it could be haunted,
and Ross thinks is haunted because he thinks everything's haunted. So yeah,
well, but like like if you went to your your weird uncle's will reading
and you found out that you get you know, you know, you get
crystal right, You're not gonna be happy about that. No, No,
you wanted the coin collection. This is right, is too much? So
no, anyway, all right, yeah, that's the thing. That's the
thing. So weather's the thing too, and it's stead is less creepy,
I hope. Well it's not going to be bad at all. Beautiful fall
weekend coming up if I jump to that. If you want to do some
fall things outside, Hey, pumpkin picking and pumpkin patches are popular this time
of year. I've I've been asked, but I declined, and you know,
like pumpkin patches. Crystal Ross yeah, oh Crystal, Yeah, she's
a big fan. So you guys. Yeah, So I got the old
We're not going to have any pumpkins this year. I was like, really,
it looks like, well, you know, the kids are we've got
interested in easy man. Well, I've got a feeling. I've got a
feeling I'm not gonna get off that easy. But anyway, should be great
for it. A little cloud around Starter rode away. We'll get some sun
as we go through this morning into the afternoon, probably not mostly Sunday,
especially triangle to the west seem more clearing right around seventy degrees either side of
that in the forties tonight near seventy and sunny for tomorrow, and then it'll
go downhill a little bit Friday afternoon and evening, could affect Friday night football
and Saturday there'll be some showers around, maybe a thunderstorm as we go on
through the early morning hours, maybe even before sunrise. But then it should
be gone and we'll clear it out and have a beautiful weekend up sixties and
upper forties, low fifties at night and then a little cooler by Monday morning.
But early next week looks good to You're gonna have a big ridge and
we met at sea rain again until potentially maybe next weekend, after we get
these rain showers Friday and Friday night. So the message really dry and let's
say seasonably cool nowhere extremes coming in. Mostly we'll see dry weather over the
next few days. Okay, all right, thank you sir, appreciate it.
Okay, you tomorrow and we'll come back, Joan Donagher. Next,
hang on, thank you. Casey is on ninety four to five WPTI in
the Triad and one six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right,
fifty three Bloomberg update. Now, Joan Donagher, what's happening? Well?
A subscription fee to use the social network formerly known as Twitter. Elon Musk
is testing that idea in New Zealand and the Philippines starting today. The subscription
fee isn't much. It amounts to a dollar a year for accounts that want
to post and interact with others. That means if you don't pay, you
won't be able to use, like or bookmark a post. Open Ai is
building a way to detect images created by artificial intelligen Since the company says it's
ninety nine percent reliable, the need for that kind of tool growings, and
say I can be used to manipulate or just plane makeup news reports of global
events. All the airlines figured they would be flying high now post pandemic,
but United sees its fourth quarter profit falling short of estimates. The suspension of
flights to Tel Aviv will really hurt. It has the most service to Tel
Aviv among the US based airlines. It's not the only issue, though higher
jet fuel costs are eating into its profits as well. Things are getting better
for Adidas. It expects a much lower loss than anticipate it this year.
Originally after it broke off all its ties to Ya you know, Kanye West,
following his anti Semitic comments, Adidas had warned it might post about a
three quarters of a billion dollar loss if it had to write off all the
inventory from Ya's Easy brand. Instead, it's alled It's Easy inventory and could
see a boost from selling more of it during the holidays. And the Federal
Reserve is getting ready to drop a plan to lower the fees stores pay to
banks when we use debit cards. The Wall Street Journal says it could happen
as early as next week. And finally, Casey bosses are getting impatient with
people taking sick days. The Wall Street Journal says payroll data shows the number
of sick days we take each year has shot up since the pandemic. Employees
between the ages of twenty five and thirty four are taking sick days most often.
Stilantis has made it part of its bargaining with the United Autoworkers Union.
Really that age I could ross and I did the math, we could be
gone for like months which have so many sick days? Rolling over he quick
question every year they go what's the worst? How wing candy? And usually
candy corn wins this year somehow laughy taffy one. How do we feel about
taffy. You like laffy taffy taffy. I'm good with that candy corn I
hate, but laughy taffy, even the banana laughy taffy, which is a
thing. Okay, that's gross, that's gross. All right, all right,
fair enough, all right, Joan, thank you appreciate it. Talk
yep, so Joan likes laughy taffy. See there are people like it.
I don't really solve whether it's a Halloween candy. Oh wait, people are
sending me emails. Oh. I would never take a relative thing like doctor
should have given it. You know what, sir, you might have inherited
something that one of your relatives absolutely hooked up with. Did you ever think
of that? That thought ever cross your mind? Right, got your uncle
Jim's toaster or pillow or couch or something. What do you think happened on
that? Dude? We used to have a couch at one of the radio
stations I worked at that I wouldn't sit on because I knew that one of
the morning shows did a bit where they had really really really really obese people
come in and hook up on it. Ross. You know the couch I'm
referring to, don't I sure do. Yeah, you do. Right,
So if you inherited anything from any relative, you don't know what happened on
there. That may well be their companion. And now it's in your man
case. Definitely not. My dad's a bean bag chair from Saigon? Right,
what it's good? It shoots ping pong balls? Right, Yes,
that's amazing. Who does that except that chair? All right? Real quick,
Chris, what's up, Casey? This is a pretty good subject.
Maybe that he was just trying to find a new way to embalm it,
or maybe it's a procedure for embalming sex dolls. I don't know, sir.
I just know that when its head starts spinning around, it's either a
mechanical malfunction or you know, satan. So there's that that theory. Jason,
real quick, what's up? But I got a question. Has anyone
thought that maybe that they guys prsted a girlfriend might have been the one that
kid him? Well, it might be too early an investigation, sir,
And I think that one of the things that might push that forward is had
they let this work or taken and he too ended up dead, you might
see a pattern emerged, you know what I mean? Oh, yeah.
Yeah, Now we won't know I guess unless the manager dies or something.
So there's that, all right, Bosh, how much you want for that
beanbag chair? By the way, I'll do this priceless? Is it because
it shoots ping pong balls or other stuff. I'm just saying, if you
had inherited something from a relative and they were kind of weird, probably want a bleaching