Pretty slow around these parts. Thanks for asking. Ross is back and he
was just wondering if he missed anything. No, we you know what was
good we got now we got a couple of people trained to run the board
for when you're gone. So that's good kind of that was that was something
we were needing to do. So no, we took this very slow opportunity,
this, this this dearth of news to go ahead and do that.
Why do you ask? You know, I'm just saying, after the nice
twelve hour drive back from Tennessee yesterday, ten of which were in North Carolina,
what about right, it seems that way. Yeah. Yeah, it's
just good to be back, refreshed and see if any news happened while I
was gone. Yeah, understandable. Yeah, Oh seriously on Saturday though,
So on Saturday we drove into Tennessee Markey Markey's grandmother passed away. She had
a stroke last week, very sudden, and she died due to complications.
So we drove to Tennessee and we checked into the air and after d eleven
twelve hour drive and I look at my phone. Oh, and I've never
seen so many individual texts from different people all at the same time. And
I'm looking at my phone and I said to Markey, I said, dear
God, did a bomb go off or something? Right, like, what
is this? And we have messages from the boss saying, hey, can
you guys come in, and I'm like, I'm a little bit I can't
do it right now. I'm sorry. And then I you know, check
social media. You told me what happened. You're the first person that told
me. You're the first person. I responded to him, like, what
is happening here? Yeah? Yeah, And I'm like, this is bad.
And then everybody from the family who was there for the funeral it's texting
me as well because they all want information from me. And I'm like,
I'm just finding this out in the same time you guys are, yeah,
like you have the magic you know, you have the magic tablet that's connected
to the inner circle there. And then we have the wake on Sunday,
we have the funeral on Monday, and then stuff about the RNC starts popping
up, and I'm like, this is the R and C week as well.
It was a little busy, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. So
you know that scene in a movie where a bunch of people are at a
thing. And I'd tell you a good example is like, uh, you
see it in like that movie Swat. I think there's a scene in Top
Gun like it or something. But but but but where everyone's device starts going
off simultaneously and it's in the whole mood is just done right because something bad
happened. We need we need you over there. And but it is that
slow realization where just all of a sudden, something's happening. So I'm sitting
in a Thai restaurant. I am eating a bowl of the was it tom
young guy? Whatever the soup is with the coconut and the chicken spicy.
Oh, it's good stuff. I like that stuff. And I see people
literally looking at their devices and and you have to understand the ross understands the
oddity of this people looking at their devices and conversing with each other. And
I'm sitting at the bar because I'll sit at a bar if it's just me
and eat. So I'm sitting there, sitting at the bar, eating my
soup. They don't have TVs or anything in this bar, because I mean
it's a you know, it's a Korean restaurant. It's not a not a
bar. Bar per se, and everyone is sitting there, and there's two
guys that are sitting at the bar as well, from Boston, of all
places, because I can hear their accents, and I'd spoke to them for
a few minutes, and all of a sudden, one of them sees what's
going on and he just kind of turns his phone and points it at me,
and I'm like, okay, all right, and here we go.
And it was minutes later that you and I and station management and everybody is
trying to coordinate this thing. It was. It was wild, and if
you think the day of was wild, every preceding day since then it has
somehow gotten crazier with little factoids. The factoids that came out yesterday are almost
more mind blowing than the idea that a twenty year old has no digital footprint.
I can't stress enough how that's the This is the first thing when Ross
and I talked this morning that he started in on that was the very like
I said, I had a long drive yesterday. First thing, Yeah,
to contemplate all of it. I had a long drive and I was figuring
by the time I got home, Uh, there'd be some more information on
this dude, because yeah, you're yeah, what so, so you're telling
me maybe maybe maybe more has come out that I am unaware of. But
so, dude is twenty right, right, and he was involved in obviously
a political assassination. So you would think at some point in his life,
at being twenty years old, he would post some sort of political meme on
a TikTok or Facebook or on Twitter or on Instagram, or at some point
in his life he would thumbs up a YouTube video or he would have a
YouTube account, or he had been on Reddit. You're telling me this twenty
year old, twenty years old has never posted anything political on the internet.
That is kind of hard to be not just political anything anything you didn't you
know it does. He didn't take a picture of a sandwich and go,
oh my omg, look at this the only thing that I saw when I
saw this yesterday before I went to bed, and I can't I don't know
if it's true or not. They say that they found his Steam account,
like video game account, and he was playing some game about the president,
like there was a political game he was playing. But at this point,
you don't know if that's going to be staged or not. But it's very
odd to have a twenty year old, right was he? Was? He
a modern day Ted kazinski I When he had like the explosives in the back
of his car, he like self taught, went to the library or whatever.
Because how does that even happen in four I don't know. I don't
know, you know, could I make a device that explode? I think
I could with the help of the internet. Yeah, I don't think the
complexity is there. Now would it work? I don't know? Right,
And maybe this has also been debunked, but I was reading it. So
this kid's aloner and who's bullied in school that I believe from we did.
There are videos from other students of them screwing with this kid, so I
think he absolutely was. But he was also in a black Rock commercial in
twenty twenty two. That is true. That is true. That one is
true. That's true. We were talking about it. He just never introverted
so well. But understand listening, I've been in media for a long time.
Yeah, I've been doing this now almost thirty years, and I still
hate being on camera. I'll do the twitch thing, but I still have
like anxiety attacks from that. So you're saying this kid is like so like
super introverted, because I'm saying if they were to come here, like the
boss, Trevor goes, hey, we're going to be filming a commercial tomorrow
for whatever the company is, and the camera is going to be here,
I'm going to be sneaking out of here like I'm Jason Bourne. I'm gonna
be in and out because I do not like being on camera. And this
kid, who was a super introverts like, yeah, I'll do the black
Rock commercial. Put the camera on me. I'm cool with that. So,
so the commercial, the crutch of the commercial was it was black Rock
trying to portray you know, it's one of these hey we're we're a good
neighbor, right, you know, we're just we're just like you and not
this behemoth that is manipulating culture and forcing companies to literally play along with our
DEI want so that their score will allow them to get working capital or go
out of business. Right, We're not the monster that, frankly we appear
to be on paper. And so here's some teachers making a difference. And
so he is in a classroom and he's sitting right up front and the camera
is on the teachers on the board, you know, you know, write
and teacher stuff, and it's just a quick little shot there. But yeah,
yeah, he's straight up right there center frame. Another thing and another
question for you. So yeah, yeah, I'm just gonnappeal the onion here.
Okay. It's gone through a lot in the past weekend. You know,
I've been thinking about life and how precious it is, and I'm thinking,
but I'm trying to focus on work as well. And it's so you're
telling me this kid shows up at the rally with a rifle and a ladder,
a twelve foot ladder or five foot because the receipt says twelve foot,
but the reporting is five foot. So that's another like, what what is
going on with that? Maybe he traded on the way because he parked he
parked a mile away in the home depot parking. Okay, So he walks
a mile a mile with a rifle and ladder and a twelve foot ladder or
five foot door five foot to the rally, sets it up and goes up
on the roof. Have you a rally ladder? You don't have a rally
ladder? Have you ever, like you know, tried to walk because I've
done this before, going from my backyard trying to work on the gutters.
Right, yeah, and I've got one of those twelve foot ladders, and
it's very awkward. You're walking from like one side of the yard to the
other, and you feel like you're like, it's like three stooges, like
you're actually knocking out shemp and you're like, you're stupid, You're you're you're
the poverty stooge. Anyway, get out of my yard. So this kid
is just walking and you've seen him. He looks like a complete soy boy,
right, So he's not like, he's not like he's jacked or anything.
Putting this ladder over his back and just walking. So this kid is
like fumbling and walking with the rifle in one hand and the twol full ladder
in the other hand. You're put on the roof that has the slope and
slope roof not an issue, no very dangerous roof too. It's so dangerous
that apparently law enforcement couldn't be up there because it's sloped. I'm sorry,
have you ever been on a roof it's not perfectly flat? Have you seen
my roof? Has she been on there? You're you're literally a Navy You're
literally a Navy seal. Congrats. Yeah, it's it's so dangerous to be
saying, pitch. I have some questions as what I'm saying. You know,
Okay, first of all, you don't have a rally ladder, that's
what it sounds like. So that's just weird. Who doesn't that's how,
you know, so you can see better. But but all of this,
and what the left is focusing on is the bandage in Trump's ear. Oh
yeah, covering up nothing probably huh, probably nothing under there. Did you
see somebody who's posting is this like a pillow? You get a team,
you like, you order the pillow and that shows up as a little tiny
one, little tiny yeah, or what's the other one? What's the other
one that they always make fun of? It's not teamy. I can't remember
what it is that was. That was obviously gonna beme. So like the
thing you think it is right thing when you get it off this but yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, well it's uh, you know, he's
the guy's putting in eighteen hour days plus. Donald Sutherland passed away three weeks
ago, and you're telling me that's a coincidence. I think Don just because
he's been in a few movies about this. He was mister Black and JFK
remember sitting that bench. Yeah, and I could hear like when I'm thinking
of this stuff, I'm here and I'm thinking in his voice from that movie,
like, we would never let that your roof one hundred and fifty yards
away from the president be you know, not watched. We would never let
a Sway boy who weighs one hundred and twenty pounds walk a mile to the
rally with a rifle and a twelve foot letter or five foot or five I
have a rally cherry picker. You've seen it? Oh do you? Yeah,
you don't have to carry it. Then you can just kind of wheel
it in. What a cherry picker is. It's the big thing with the
basket that's on like the four wheels, with the heavy bass that you see
guys working on power line. Anybody can watch the rounds or yeah, from
like you know, a regular point of view. But when you can get
your cherry picker and watch the rally from above the candidate, that's pretty impressive.
Yeah, it's got a bunch of like Trump twenty twenty twenty Yeah,
it's got the it's got the whole series going back twenty sixteen stickers all over
it, so it fits right in, it blends right in. So,
dude, I had this other thought, and I was waiting to run this
by you because the dude was wearing some YouTube channels merch that's got to be
nightmare fuel right there, because like, you don't want anyone committing to crime
or for sheriff thing right at that point. It's a complete rebrand of your
product. Yet. Yeah, yeah, so you know then the conspiracy,
I would say that there's a lot of conspiracies that are emerging here. And
are there some on the right. Yeah, absolutely, But like you know,
you have a member of Congress that's a former sniper, right and he's
being interviewed and he's just saying, like, there's so many things that are
so insane here that a simple investigation of response to him. Did you see
the video I tweeted yesterday of them unable to their quick response team is unable
to gain access to the building. I, like I said, I wasn't
on social media at all yesterday. Okay, go on go to the Twitter
and look for the one where you see about twelve cops Secret Service standing there
behind a chain link fence. So if you haven't seen it, there's things
going down, and the quick response team is inside the rally and they never
left an opening even when a controlled opening right of this fence, so they
are they can see the building, you know, one hundred feet away.
It's right there, except they have no way to get through that fence to
where this is happening. And they are ramming the fence on multiple times with
a squad car trying to knock a hole in. This is jump over the
fence. It's a slope fence. It's very I'm thinking, I'm watching the
video time about right now, and it's like like a fence you'd have in
your yard. Just jump over the fence, dude, Yeah, yeah,
Hm. Then you see the squad car on the left trying to bang the
thing down. It's wild man. Now, Dan Bongino take this for what
it's worth. Dan Bongino says he has an unimpeachable source that says that there
was supposed to be somebody. Oh and the other thing is the building is
literally housing a swat team or a sniper team. It was the sniper gathering
point, the building that the dude's in with his five and or twelve foot
ladder on the very dangerous slope roof. So we're all the snipers in there
like to protect Trump, and this kid walks in with his ladder and his
rifle and he's like, how do you do, fellow snipers? Right?
Yep, yeah. And Bongino's thing is that there was supposed to be somebody
to actually be on that roof, which would make sense if you look at
the aerial footage of the of the event, and you've probably seen it with
the pac Man diagram that gets passed around when you do the security circle,
there's this V carve out and it's for those buildings. And don't get me
wrong, a security perimeter in a lot of cases isn't going to be a
perfect circle, right, But more often than not, it's going to go
in the other direction. When you have a series of buildings in an elevated
position that are within a and I can't stress this enough, even though I
stressed the heck out of it on Monday for nearly an hour of the show.
When you have something that is heaven for a sniper or somebody wanting to
do harm. That is within a range that even the even the most basic
person who signs up for the military and goes to basic training is a shot
that they're expected to make within a few weeks, not that they can make
or that they're really good. They are all expected to make that shot.
It is such a it is such a short distance that you would think that
that'd be in there. Bongino's thing is that there was supposed to be somebody
who just didn't show up that day, and they were they were undermanned,
and then they just didn't pivot to cover it, which I don't know if
that's conspiracy, that almost seems human naturey. So oh yeah, there's a
lot we need to know, and we'll dive into what we can coming up.
Hang on, it's weird that an individual who has no online presence but
an affinity for twelve and or five foot ladders would be adorned in merch from
a YouTube site of some sort, considering normally the way you come about merch
from a YouTube video site is by I don't know, watching the video.
I mean, it's just super weird, dude. They keep saying that there's
no internet presence on this kid. He's the only twenty year old on the
planet, right, no Internet, no YouTube, no Twitter, no no
Facebook, no reels, no nothing. He's never had a YouTube account.
What is YouTube? He has no idea, he's never liked a video.
But he's wearing a shirt from a YouTube channel. It makes no sense.
I'm gonna go with uh, I'm gonna go with one the object of ayre
because it is a gun you tube, right, I don't know if you
actually checked to see what the YouTube was. I'm gonna go with because they
the left has to identify the boogeyman, right, and Van Jones is doing
a fine job on the CNN with essentially everyone being it. But I think
that by honing in on a gun site on YouTube, that's probably gonna be
the wind for that. Once again, I was unaware of this because have
been gone for the funeral in Tennessee. So you're telling me the shirt that
the kid was wearing was a pro gun shirt. Well, yeah, I
mean it's a it's a gun tobe. It's a gun tube YouTube channel,
all right, where they It's weird because I kind of eyeballed their videos.
I'm not super familiar with it, and I didn't see anything in there about
assassinations or anything, mostly like Tanner right and stuff. But you know,
you get the spin on this stuff, man, and you're able to uh,
you're able to deflect from the horribleness. Can I offer a possibility just
and this is just a theory. I want to be one hundred percent clear.
I have nothing to back this up. I'm I'm like everybody else,
just trying to plug in the pieces. What if this kid was and we
keep calling him a kid and he's not a kid. He's twenty, right,
he has reached the level of adulthood. What if this individual when he
was a kid obviously dealt with an immense amount of bullying. He strikes me
as somebody who would if I could just stereotype for a moment. And that's
backed up by the videos. And you see the other kids at school doing
all the stuff the bully kids do right where they kick your foot out from
under you, They you know, kind of flick you in the back of
the head, your ears and stuff. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah,
all the stuff they do that teachers will just ignore in many cases,
although maybe less so nowadays with his crazy as it's getting. And and that
follows him all through his adolescent years. Eventually, now he's an adult,
and even though he is away from that behavior, it probably was. It
probably was really the only time he as weird as his sounds, he had
a lot of people interacting with him. It's people are gonna get mad at
me over this, and that's not my intention. And he's sitting there and
he's realizing that he thought getting out of high school would make all of this
stop, when in reality now he's suffering through adulthood, not having a big
friend circle, and things aren't getting better for him. And maybe he's not
political, but maybe he says, you know what, I'm gonna do something
and they're never it's not even I'm gonna show them. I'm gonna do something
and they're gonna know who I am. Not only that, but he's gonna
do it to the person he's been told since he was what twelve years old,
is the worst person on earth or the next Hitler is exactly where I'm
going, And he says to himself, what can I do so they will
always remember me? Now? The only thing that flies in the face of
that is that attitude. Generally I would assume has some sort of manifesto.
You know what I'm saying, That sounds somebody with that mindset generally wants to
make sure that they're remembered exactly as they want. But to your point,
if you're now looking for what you can do, and you know that this
would be the biggest thing you can do based on what you've been what you've
been fed for most of your life, that falls squarely into the rhetoric discussion.
That falls into the I keep hearing how he's the worst person ever right,
an existential threat to democracy, or he'd be better off gone, and
and so that's and then boom, here's this gift right in your backyard.
This is happening right here. He knows the area, how any how many
of you grew up in a small town and you know your fair grounds?
How many of you grew up in Raleigh and you know the fair grounds?
Dude, I've been here since what two thousand and six? And the end
of the fair grounds right, how many in the triad know who have frequented
the Dixie Classic over the years, could probably in your head draw a map
of the fair grounds there up in Winston. Absolutely, Now that being said,
I don't know even though I know where the Dorton Arena is, right,
I don't know if I could bring a twelve foot ladder and a rifle
and carry that a mile to Dorton Arena without knocking myself over somebody else on
the way. I mean that might be a little difficult, right right,
A little problematic. A five foot or twelve foot ladder, Well, the
receipt would say twelve, but the media would say five. I see,
what if it's that magic ladder? Remember the magic ladder from the infomercials.
I want to say it was the was it the oh? I can't remember
who was Billy, who did it or whatever? But they had a ladder
that the US to have an infomercial over it did everything. I heard people
rally ladder that seems like a good one. I heard people too. I
was reading a social media when I did get home yesterday, and they were
like, well, was it an aluminum letder a fiberglass letter? That would
make a big difference. I don't know, man, But going back to
my theory, if in fact that was, that was how it played out
where he was looking for something to fulfill this this this fantasy or this this
end game that he has envisioned in his mind and he's settled upon this thing
that he's been hearing about for you know, since twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen.
That is an absolute indictment of this language discussion that we're having. How
about how about Jack Black? How about Jack Black with having to sit there
and and now canceled. Now he's canceling the rest of the Tenacious detour politicians
in Australia trying to get him and Kyle Gas deported Black saying he was horrified
when he heard Gas say what he said on stage the other day, which
was for his birthday. He just he wants he wants to not to miss
next time, and Black said he was horrified. He's very sorry, but
he repeated it. If you if if you listen to the audio, Jack
Black repeated it and kind of chuckled. Now you might do that because you're
really uncomfortable with somebody has said. But it doesn't help that Black was one
of the hosts of the Joe Biden thing that was along with George Clooney three
weeks ago. And uh he the talent agency has dropped Gas. I guess
I honestly, I didn't know his name. I just knew him as the
other dude from uh Tenacious D. But that guy's a piece of garbage.
He thought that that was hilarious. He went out and did it. Now
he issued a stay been saying, well, you know, I was just
trying to be edgy or something. I'll read their stuff coming up. I'm
paraphrasing right now, but it's not good man. And now do you think
it was really like, you know, surprised by it, or was a
matter of it happened? And then suddenly he's starting to get calls from venue's
canceling, and he's like, I've got to go into in the control this
and I gotta take control the narrative be like, oh, I'm so appalled,
I'm canceling the tour. You know what cynical me thinks that I think.
I think that. I think that had there not been blowback almost immediately,
including uh uh politicians in Australia wanting to deport them, right, I
think if that wouldn't happened almost immediately, I don't know that Jack Black would
issue the statement. No, I don't think suddenly he like grew a hard
overnight. I think it's a matter of they started canceling on him, so
then he took the u oh yeah, he took control of it and canceled
the tour to make himself look like, oh no, we're we're appauled that
I'm taken me up completely by surprise, that I'm not going to stand for
this. And people are like, well, he had to throw his he
had to throw his partner of thirty years or whatever under the bus. But
no offense to you, Ross. But if you got on here and started
calling for assassinations, I'm gonna dip out. So sorry, man, Yeah,
you know, I assume then that's why I would never say something like
that, because you know, it's disgusting. Yeah yeah, yeah, it's
pretty horrible. Typically you know it just want to put you out notice,
and I would expect you do the same for me. Okay, all right,
I mean we can't call for karma to you know, or the the
veil to be lifted on stuff. But it that is very different. And
that is not how because I saw some people trying to spin it, which
was amazing to me. Of all the things to try to spin, that
was that seemed the most obvious. But anyway, all right, I'll get
you exactly what they said. We'll get into that. We'll hear from a
handful of politicians. Also, the Morning Joe thing is interesting. I didn't
know what to think on Monday, and now that's turning into a whole thing.
And is MSNBC and CNN growing a heart, I don't know. That's
pretty crazy. We'll get into those details next here on the Cacoday radio program.
When this latter enthusiast was spotted by law enforcement doing questionable stuff to when
the shooting actually happened, have you seen the timeline is now, I've not
twenty six minutes, twenty six minutes from the time that a member of law
enforcement saw him doing stuff he shouldn't be doing, including and not limited to
using a range finder. Do you know do you know what it looks like
when somebody uses a range finder right with the one hand they're holding the device
and they click the button and they'll give give him a range Golfers will use
it, hunters will use it. People wanting to shoot stuff will use it.
Twenty six minutes. It's like the more the more that comes out,
the more insane and almost near impossible in it is to take what you think
you know about Secret Service protection? What do you think you know about Secret
Service protection? If you can attempt to divorce the happenings of Saturday from it,
you probably the most people's opinion was tight as a drum, right,
kind of cool, Right, And if you ever get into like the tactics
and what they do, it could be a little intimidating if you've ever if
you've never been around Secret Service, to be in close proximity to them,
because you're like, I don't do anything stupid, right, and they're just
out there. You can pick who they are and they're scanning this, scanning
that. Yeah, they're supposed to be. I would say, like,
you know, like a few moves ahead of everybody, right, they got
a plan for everything, Right, this happens, we go here, this
happens, we go there, and and you know, understandably that's how it's
portrayed. But to be fair, there have been a lot of incidents where
Secret Service has they have been able to do things maybe not you know,
to thwart something at this level, or at least nothing we're aware of.
Right, there's probably some stuff we're not aware of where a well oiled machine
or apparatus was definitely what was on display, and here it does not appear
to be that. And whether it's because the new boss is an idiot who
was put there at the best of Jill Biden's office, which is what the
reporting is. Who doesn't want to put agents on sloped rooves? Does she
have a particular pitch where it becomes untenable. I don't know how many of
you are listening to the show right now who are going to be on a
roof today. Probably you know, any of you contractors out there, roofers
obviously, but people who do gutter stuff. I mean, you don't want
to put a secret service agent up on the roof though it kid's so hot
in the summer, dude, it does. Yeah, you're putting that,
You're putting their knees in danger. Yeah, well, he get some knee
pads. If you look at the little sniper kids, a lot of them
will have knee pads on there, especially the dudes who are kidded out.
So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, just absolutely rot with danger,
just the worse and worse it gets. Yeah, here we go. We
heard Monday from DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkis that he has full faith and Secret Service
director Kimberly Cheetle, who said she's not stepping down after the assassination attempt on
Donald Trump. Cheetah was interviewed by ABC News and said the reason the Secret
Service didn't have snipers on the roof is because it was a sloped roof.
We've seen the video. You've seen the slope on it. It's very minimal.
Yeah, there's such a slope that the shooter was laying face down on
the roof without falling off and getting up. If you see the video,
he keeps getting up to reposition himself, move stuff around, you know,
get ready for the get ready for the shot. People are yelling while this
is going on too, and he's just like he didn't care or it at
least doesn't seem to react in the video. The building in particular had a
sloped roof at its highest point. Yeah, you know what I'm here to
tell you? Do you know why I, if I was to take a
shot off of a building, would would like that? Because I now have
my rest. You've provided my rest for me. I don't have to I
don't have to fold up a jacket or you know, flip the bipod sticks.
I don't have to do any of that, and you've provided me an
extra level of concealment. So if I have a slight slope on a roof
and I want to shimmy right up to where the slope is, I can
put my rifle on that I can remain where most of my body is hidden
from behind the other side of the slope. So somebody looking from the direction
I'm shooting is going to have less to profiles. Yeah, sure, they're
going to see the rifle, and they're probably going to see, you know,
the the upper half of my body. But it actually solves some problems
for me that a perfectly flat roof would would would bring about the building in
particular as a slope proof. And I'm reading this isn't this is an exact
quote. Prepared to lose your minds Okay, that building in particular as a
slope proof at its highest point, and so you know there's a safety factor
that would be considered, So you wouldn't want to put somebody up on a
sloped roof, and so you know the decision was made to secure the building
from inside. Does that make any sense? What do you mean secure the
building from inside? That makes sense if they're going to rob the building.
That's like, it's just so insane to me. It's like, oh,
no, my house is perfectly secure. We're all inside here. Well,
what if somebody I don't know is up on top of your building of your
house? Unfathomable. Have you seen the pitch on the roof? Everything's fine,
but if a law enforcement officer. This is where these things come together.
And by the way, you've seen the photo of all of the officers
standing over the deceased body of him. They're standing on the sloped roof.
You can't tell they're standing on a sloped roof. Nobody's balancing themselves on anything.
They're all standing there normal. It's the shot of the three dudes in
excuse me, the two dudes in like military tactical and two local law enforcement,
one crouching and the other one just standing there and they're just staring down
at the body. The poor guy's trying to digest in twenty four hours what
you and I have been chewing on for four days because he had some family
stuff. So and it all makes perfect sense to you, right, all
the pieces logically fitting. You got no questions, I'm sure, so it's
kind of kind of like the opposite. I'm feeling like if you go to
your big your puzzles or your passion, you buy a puzzle and you put
it down there. Oh yeah, I figure out that, you know,
every single piece of the puzzle is actually a piece to a different puzzle,
and none of them fit together. It's sort of like that makes perfect sense.
A lot of people like puzzle games, right, isn't that a whole
section on like the Apple Store or whatever? Those Some people are into puzzles
and it's a puzzle. It's a doozy man got we got secret service.
Who doesn't want to put people on a roof that's a quote sloped roof,
Except that's not true, as you'll come to find out. One of our
callers wants to make a very valid point, you know, for safety.
They secured the building and by putting people inside, I guess drinking coffee or
whatever. Meanwhile, some dude parks a mile away at a home depot and
proceeds to haul a long gun and a ladder a mile going towards a rally.
You ever send it on a busy, busy event, concert, political
rally, whatever it is you're not alone. The closer you get, the
less alone that you are just wild man. And whether it's dereliction of duty
or some deeper conspiracy or whatever, Honestly, the vibe I'm getting is nobody
gave a crap. And when you have that attitude from leadership, right,
we talk about how leadership can exude an attitude that then permeates the rest of
the folks. If you had a no show, as Dan Bongino's reporting this
morning, right, you just had somebody to say I can't make it.
I gotta playing golf for whatever the reason, and a decision was made.
It's okay, it's fine. Nothing ever happens anyway. That is that attitude
of who gives a crap? That is how people who work for you are
going to operate. Not everybody, because some people's work ethic won't allow it.
But if somebody's sitting there going, well, now I don't got to
sit on a hot roof and Bob didn't show up, but it'll be fine.
We're in the building. What's the worst that could happen? That is
an absolute indictment there, man, And that's a person you have, as
they say, you have one job. Now technically with Secret Service, you
have two jobs, but you basically have one job, right, because most
people are not going to be parsing your efforts as prevention of counterfeit bills?
Do you know what I'm saying? Like, I don't know that there's people
are doing a real deep dive on it because there's not that big emotional connection.
There's not the living, breathing humans that are on the other side of
this. So if you're the head of the Secret Service, you're you're big.
How many people are under Secret Service protection? How many? How many
people? Maybe fifty? And that's that's accounting for past presidents. You may
not realize this, but from time to time cabinet officials, cabinet officials are
under Secret Service protection. And I'm not sure what the what the number is.
That's family members for the current president vice president. That's candidates, right.
RFK finally received Secret Service protection and he will be on the ballot in
North Carolina, but not Cornell. We because we have a corrupt board of
elections in my opinion, don't want people drawn votes from Biden at this point
though, I don't even know if it matters, but you got, you
got, like fifty people. And if I'm wrong and somebody has a firmer
number, I'd love to hear what it is. But that sounds about right.
And you have you are the most you are the best funded protection agency
in the world. And it's not close. Right, you look at all
other agencies, all other organizations who are who are out there, who are
protecting high profile individuals, politicians, the pope right, keep in mind that
the you know, the Vatican, obviously they have their they have Swiss Guard.
That's an agency in and of itself, and it's more than just the
dudes and the very loud clothing. They have a very high level of technology
and that was ramped up quite a bit following the attempted assassination of Pope John
Paul the second. That's how we got the popemobile. But it's it's just
wild to me, and for you to sit there and go, I'm not
resigning whatever. You either failed massively or something else is going on. Meanwhile,
the conspiracy is run in the other direction, arguably more so. I
have to sit there and watch people who are convinced that there's nothing under that
bandage. Well, simultaneously, there's reporting out from Axios this morning, saying
that editors are very concerned about the quote over use of the now iconic photo.
So there's two photos. There is the one where you can see the
bullet, which is wild man. Well, you see a blur because even
with that frame rate, it's still going to be a blur, but it's
very clear what it is. And then there's the one you saw everywhere where
Donald Trump is flanked by Secret Service, blood spattered on his face, his
ear is all messed up looking from a blood perspective, and what is he
doing. He's getting them to start chanting USA USA by putting his fist in
the air, which, if you remember, some people had a problem with
because how insensitive of him to give the IMO case signal when there's when others
are not. Okay, listen, I haven't commented on this yet. That's
the most badass inspirational thing I've ever seen from an American politician. I don't
care what side of the aisle you're on. That is incredible, And I
go back to listen. One of the first things I remember about a political
campaign is when I was little and Decoccus was sitting in that stupid tank and
yeah, that was, and you're trying to portray like you have strength this
was you can't. The dude is shot at he goes down, he shot
right, he shot right, he shot he goes down. And you had
people on the left for the longest time saying if this would ever happened,
because people were saying they wanted it to happen. On the left, right,
you have what's her name, m Kathy Griffin holding the bloody trumpet.
Right, it is somebody that they've wanted for a while, and they've said,
when this happens, you're gonna see who he really is. He's gonna
grovel and he's gonna he's gonna beg for his life. What does this dude
do? This dude his first reaction is to get up and to let the
crowd know that he is okay. That is leadership, because what because if
he panics, they panic and he understands he starts screaming right like a little
girl or something. I mean, as course as that sounds, he if
they they would have sunk their teeth into this. If he's if he's curled
up in a ball and he wets himself, that photo is everywhere, But
that's not the photo. You got unbelievable. The reaction that is leadership,
and that is just the initial Did you see the initial way it was reported
that he quote fell down and had to be carried. Yeah. Yeah,
yeah. I posted on ex a montage of various headlines where people were like,
oh, Trump falls on stage, Trump rushed off stage after weird noises
from the crowd, popping sounds, crackling sounds heard from the crowd. No,
your headline is Trump survives assassination attempt. That's what the headline should have
been. It's not difficult. Well there's a problem with that photo, and
you literally just prove their point that people may find that as it's his inspiring
and yes, well now we have to now we have to now we have
to question all iconic photos. Daniel, How do you think the Japanese military
feels about that? Eugen is about to say that, I was about to
say, that's on par with the Eugima photo. It is. Yeah,
people don't want to hear that because of who he is, But you have
to look at it through the lens of that's a president. That's a president
who just had his ear shot through. Did you see the the graphic I
tweeted yesterday of where it's real time his head turning. Yeah, he was
a second from getting shot in the brain, like a million You see this,
you see this like model, it's like a computer modeling of his head.
And you see that for in that like five second gap that it covers
four point ninety five seconds, he's probably dead. And you say, you
see why he turned his head. I don't know if you talked about this
while that's going, but yeah, he was pointing over at the h he
decided the numbers. He decided to go off prompter. Mm hmm. He
said, I'm going to go off prompter. I hope that's okay. This
Then he doesn't like how the cant it sounds canned when he's on the prompter
and you throw up the uh the immigration legal immigration graphic. Yeah, and
he looks over at the and it's when he looked over he tilted his head
that the bullet whizz by his ear and then closed his ear. Yeah.
Yeah, And people don't realize. We talked about this Monday that when you
turn your head to address something, you also reposition your body a little.
And so because people are going, well, just construct how to just turn
in his head. If you again, I would encourage you to do this,
not if you're driving, but stand up and attempt to address something like
forty five degrees to your right, and you'll notice that it's not just your
head that turns you. Actually, you know, this is just this is
just the human balancing right. You turn your body a little, just a
slight bit, and Trump does that. He actually turns it quite a bit.
But the net reaction to that is you actually back up a little.
So if he'd had just turned his head and not reposition his body slightly,
he still gets shot in the head. Right, his natural tendency to go
off script, which people are always like, you know, that's gonna be
the end of them. You know, he's gonna go off script and say
somebody's not supposed to say that literally saved his life, this wild man,
just absolutely. And then you have these idiots right that are like, oh,
well, you know, it wasn't a bullet, it was a shard
of glass, which is not true at all, because the teleprompters were not
destroyed, and they were worth two in front of him and at the angle
the shot was taken. I mean, this is even if that was the
case, which it was not right if it was a shard of glass hitten
by a bullet from an assassin. Do you understand how ridiculous you sound?
No, no, they don't know. So now let me just finish this
and letna get into the calls here. Now you have Silver Outlets reporting that
is part of the Axios media trend assessment that multiple photographers and at least one
editor. They don't name who they are, but this is Axios. This
is not a right leaning Siting reported that there was concern within newsrooms that the
overuse of that photo would be nothing but quote free pr end quote photo ganda
obviously a play on propaganda because the Trump campaign will use the photo to quote
further their agenda, despite the intent to be simply capturing a news event.
You all are lunatics, man, you all are absolutely backcrap, crazy lunatics.
So he's going to use a photo, but he's not using the phone.
He's using the thing that happened. Okay, the photo is just a
record of it. Yeah, they would prefer if you know, he just
didn't mention the fact that he was almost assassinated by a crazy lunatic. Well,
it's unfair. It's not fair. I know that he almost was killed
by the stairs a few times, just said a compare comparing that side by
side two weeks ago, or what it would know? No, two days
before it was two days two days before the assassination attempt on Trump. We
were all glued to our TVs, wondering if Joe Biden could get through an
hour, if he could put coherent sentences together for two hours, right,
or an hour? Like can he do it? Oh my god? It
Collectively we held our breath. And then two days later, Trump gets shot
in the ear, goes down, pops up, power fists bloodied, and
then he plays around a golf the next day and once his shoes. Did
you hear the audio? The actual super service audio? But I imagined it
because I read about it. I just imagined him being like, they need
my shoes, and they're like, yes, it's their president. They're just
like, but have you seen the shoes? Have you seen the shoes.
They're the greatest shoes. Go play the shoes. Have you seen the shoes?
It's funny. It's funny audio for a horrible situation. It was the
first thing that made me laugh about this, right, because you have to
find something within because if not, you're just like this is where we are,
which is a stark realization. And then he's like, where's some shoes?
Can we get my shoes? And it's like, I just feel like
if I was shot, even if it's in the year, f the shoes,
you know what I'm saying. But no, he's like, have you
seen the shoes by the way, Yeah, I bet what do you think
those shoes would go for it auction? Right now? You can probably find
this entire campaign with the selling the shoes. Now, Elon Musk is doing
that forty five million a month cheese. Yeah, I was. They had
asked me, and I'm like, I don't know that I can spare it
this month, so I canna be able to all right, let me grab
but we'll start some calls. Anthony, what's up? Thanks for hanging on?
Hey? Well, first, I was just want to say, before
they built that monstras say, run of Ross's house on, I could take
cooking him out of any given time. But I was just gonna say that
the not that I would, but okay, the snipers, the snipers that
were behind Trump were on a steeper pitch than what that guy was on.
Yeah, for her to say she can't, they don't, they won't worry
about it. It's a little bit druth is ridiculous. Oh and I did
you see the Secret Service grow to put him in the car and then shut
the door and turn around, put her glasses on and like straighten her jacket.
Uh. I saw some people, one smaller lady because she had trouble
kind of shoot. Sure, her draw was like she kept getting her gun
stuck in her jacket and she did duck. And I don't know. Here's
here's the thing. I don't know exactly what her what her reaction, her
trained reaction was supposed to be. You don't like, I don't know what
her job is because there's obviously the body people. And eventually when they did
that whole turtle thing, she was in on it. But yeah, the
one I was talking about, she came up, she's going to came up
on the stage. And then when she got him in the cars, she
she turned around, pulls her glasses out, puts them on like she's in
a movie or something. Well, one of the reasons that they wear glasses
is so they can't you can't see where they're looking, which you know that
actually I can see that from a tactic and thanks for the callers, or
I can see that actually being like I understand that, but like the whole
thing's wow. And here's the thing. Even if you're a member of the
Secret Service, you train, you train, you train, You can train
as hard as you want, but very few Secret Service agents are ever going
to be in a position where somebody's taking shots at the president. And most
Secret Service agents probably go their whole career without having to experience that. So
again, if I had to look for holes in this, I think we
really need to start at the top and then work our way down. Just
my two cents. All right, we got a bunch of folks want to
weigh in on stuff, and uh, we're gonna we're gonna do that.
Coming up your calls right around the corner, plus news. And I even
got a few stories that aren't necessarily related to this that we got to get
in. So stick around, we'll be right back. Conversation continues on.
And let's see here. Now we got we got Mark Robinson coming up right.
My correct, it is a Mark Robinson day. I believe it is.
It is, It is supposed to be, but he has not gone
back to me yet. Oh no, okay, I because I bet he
has some thoughts on this, so I hopefully we hear from him today.
Let's get some calls, folks been hanging on and Jake, you're up first
or right ahead? Hey? Yeah, oh Jake, your phone is really
let's try all right? Thank you? Hold on that, uh you sell
like yeah, go ahead, sir, Okay. Yeah. I was gonna
say this is there's a tale of two Trumps and two secret services. Somebody's
head on secret service needs a role because there's one dead, two shot or
three shots totally yeah, and uh and uh this is a different Trump too,
because remember when Trump was rested at the stage, how freaked out he
looked? How did he look this time? He looked freaking awesome. Oh
you're talking about the Vegas thing. Yeah. I actually was comparing what happened
in Vegas and that was a dude who That was a dude who jumped on
stage. And I was doing it because people were claiming that, you know,
this wasn't a thing. Uh. You know, Trump heard a noise
and he was scared, and he said, I want you to watch everyone
around Trump because when a bullet, bullets make a noise, not once just
when they're being fired, but when they are literally moving. And anyone who's
been too close to a bullet it's moving. Whether somebody is served in a
military or police capacity, or you just have idiot friends arrange your friends anymore,
they know that it makes a noise. So uh, yeah, yeah,
he was that that photo is iconic, sir, and I love the
fact that they hate it. They hated so much, but we will see,
all right, Yeah, but fortunately, uh the phone. Let me
ask you a question, and I know that this is a dark question.
Do you think that the same attitude to be had if that photo showed an
actual impact shot? You think that that wouldn't permeate the leak on the internet
within minutes and be shared in some very dark circles. Honestly, they would
be playing it on Loop like it was the modern days of Prouder film that's
the next tept. Not on CNN because they couldn't get the host to stop
touching themselves. I think would be the problem there. But otherwise, yeah,
it would be Zapruder film on steroids and we wouldn't be having this conversation.
But because of what the iconic photo was that emerged. Now now they're
like, wow, we can't show it too much. It might make people
feel bad for him. And I had this thought, and I'm sure you
had it too. I'm so thankful that Elon Musk bought Twitter because it would
not have been this way. And I was talking, you know, it
was posting some stuff on social media while I was in Tennessee, and people
were on Facebook posting the same stuff, and people were like, you know,
it was like forty minutes to an hour before I saw anything on the
internet even about the shooting. And I'm like, well, I was on
X and I was seeing it, Oh, rather instantaneously. It was showing
up, and people were saying on Facebook and on other forms of social media,
it was taken a long time for to show up. Not only that,
but once you would post something, a lot of the times it was
being taken down. They were censoring it on other platforms, But on X
it was there right away. The video. Do you see the video of
the people in the parking lots screaming, Hey, there's a guy on the
roof. There's a guy on the roof. So a couple people reached out
and said that they posted that on Facebook and and it got taken they were
taking them all down. Yep, yeah, yeah, no, absolutely,
it would have been to the extent that I guess they could have managed it
a bit of a media blackout, which is wild when you consider this is
I want to this is this will be one of the biggest stories in the
lifetime of people listening. And that's not look, that's normally I would not
say that until we've really had some time to chew on it, but it's
it's you can't argue that most of us will never see or I shouldn't say
that most of us, most of us probably will never see a completed assassination
of a president. Would you agree with that? Yeah, I would hope
so, And yes, I absolutely hope that's the case. So obviously there
are people within, you know, listening within the sound of my voice,
who were alive during the JFK assassination. I understand that. But for the
most part, this will be the this hopefully will be the closest that most
people will witness. And so I think at that point it ends, you
know, how you just know when some things are never nine to Eleven's one
example, obviously within my lifetime, in this no, I could tell you.
I could tell you just by the reaction of my phone. I can't
remember another news story since I've been on this radio station where I said,
we checked into our airbnb. I looked at my phone. See I'm going
to tell my mom that we got here safely, right. I looked at
my phone literally over forty individual people texting me, and all the text said
were, oh my god, did you did you see that? Dude?
What just happened? Dude? What do you know? And I said,
what happened? I thought a bomb dropped. I'm like, did a bomb
explode somewhere? Because it reminded me to a bigger extent of when the Boston
bombing happened and they had us come in and cover it. Remember when that
happened, it was a big deal. This obviously a lot bigger. But
when it comes to stories that have happened in my lifetime, dude, the
historic doesn't he it is I don't know what word you could use for it.
And and the way, look, people are going to process this in
a hundred different ways. I'll tell you the most disgusting thing that I saw
on social media over the weekend was and I'm assuming that they were. They
were a leftist. They were they were almost upset that it wasn't Biden that
it happened to not because they wanted Biden dead, but because they resented the
fact that this would probably be helpful to Trump. How screwed up is your
mind? No, Like I was saying, it's that side by side comparison.
And they know that because two days before the assassination, we all held
our breasts wondering and watching. Right, can Biden go an hour in a
press conference? Yes? Does he have the stamina to answer the questions from
the press for at least an hour and not pre selected predetermined ones like on
the fly right? That was the deal. And then next to them,
you have this incident with Trump just like standing up power fist, yelling at
the crowd to fight. You can't shake, you know, just shaking it
off. But there's no comparison there. It's and and by the way,
he did not at that moment he rallied the crowd to fight. So it's
clearly he is the danger. And his first instinct was to tell the crowd
that he was Okay, yes, and you know what, yesterday we had
a report that the FBI was readying for retaliatory riots. Really, where where
where are they? Where are where are the mass riots after this? Because
I don't know, I'm old enough to remember many incidents, and within hours
we had riots. Yeah, but look at what happened in France recently,
the loss, and they burned cities down, and they started fires in their
rioting, and then they won the election, and then what did they do?
They started fires and they burned cities down. Well, there's still there
were still cities to be burned. Russ. You don't you don't want a
city. You don't want one city to think that you're playing favorites with another.
Sitting point, I haven't got to burn yet, equity, dude.
I mean, we don't want to think it. Like we said, we
don't want that to happen. But if if, if the shoe was on
the other foot, right, Yeah, what do you think the reaction would
have been? Yeah? Yeah, I don't. I don't. I don't
think the Trump riots of twenty four or something. So for the FBI to
put that statement out is to not even remotely understand how people are reacting.
I'll tell you what though, and I'm not gonna lie if if if there
is some nefarious thing where somebody is more than just incompetent, then I don't
know, maybe maybe it's off, Maybe maybe somebody does something, and that
terrifies me more right, because I don't want to see any of that.
I don't want any of that. But I also don't want people who are
in a position of power who are either willing to let something like this happen
or god forbid, it's even worse than that. And I'm not going to
go there now, but I'm going to recognize that it's a possibility, and
whether it's because they absolutely needed extra agents to go help with the Jill Biden
Pittsburgh event, which you know that in and of itself, I don't want
to be. I don't want to come across as a jerk here, but
Jill Biden's not president and is not going to be president. Yeah, Forard,
initially like I didn't have a changed, but I also read when I
was in Tennessee they were saying that a lot of those agents, the ones
you see fumbling trying to get their guns back in their holsters in front of
the motorcade. Yeah, some of these agents. The reason they were reacting
that way is they were not Secret Service agents. They were Homeland security agents
that were transferred over because Jill was getting more Secret Service agent. That hurt,
right, Yeah, it's still true. I don't know, but that
is I'll tell you there's there's just little pieces floating out, but that is
not that is not reporting that he is just conspiratorial. Right. The fact
is is there was a call for more agents, but we don't know the
conversation that happened. I'll tell you what's crazier a CNN's reporting. I talked
about him using a rangefinder. I want to be clear. He didn't just
use a rangefinder when he was on that building. According to reports, he
entered the secure area prior to the events, So you know, well before
Trump was to speak, and he walked in and had he went through security
with a rangefinder in his possession. And I don't know if he told him
it was was the only thing he had that he could use, is to
zoom in or whatever. But that's that right, there is weird. And
then in there he reportedly used it to range the building and range the other
snipers and one of the other one of the snipers noticed this and radio that
this. You keep an eye on this dude. He's he's literally using his
rangefinder on us. And then when he left, I guess they're like,
oh, he's not a threat anymore. Absolute lunacy. All right, Logan,
thanks for hanging on. What's up, hey, Casey? Can you
hear me? Okay? You sure? Okay? So I just wanted to
share a story regarding uh interaction I had with a friend of mine yesterday.
And he and I don't see eye politically, so we try not to bring
it up a whole lot. But while we were out there, I felt
compelled to ask him, like, Wow, what did you think about,
you know, over the weekend, how insane was not? And his first
reaction, after having a few days to marinate on it, was how was
that not a setup for Trump? Look at all of the great publicity that
he got? And I said, you know, well, first of all,
you sound like Alex Jones now and then and he said, I don't
know who Alex Jones is, so that tells you, you know, kind
of how plugged in he is politically. But he h, I said,
did you do you really think that the Trump team would allow for a five
five six to come within an inch of his brain for a photo lot and
where he's quiet, and where he's where he's moving, like I might you
might be able to convince me of all of a sudden, he looked like
he was frozen and in plays or something. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm
thinking like there's like a like a circus act with the knives and the rotating
as you know, I wouldn't even have that my end laws take such a
risk, you know, much less than one of the most influential and political
figures of our time. Well at that point, sir, I just hope
you you kicked the crap out of him on NASSA and made a few bucks.
Okay, I didn't make a few, So yeah, thanks for taking
me. Call it Casey good because now he can't send it to politicians,
all right, raced Agic Weather Channel, Sorry bro, and you a little
late. This is what we do in the worst part. Ross, Oh
yeah, everything's off track right, Ross is just trying to have it.
He was just disconnected and then like his phone on Saturday, apparently you'd explode,
so oh goodness, Yeah, I'm sure it did well. The news
really not different by too much. Today. Just got heat advisories now,
mostly for the Triangle try it just about out of them now, but it's
still gonna be hot, little mid nineties depending on where you are. Still
feels about one hundred and one oh five cloud sun this morning. There might
be some sprinkles of rain north but for the most part, I think we're
dried till this afternoon. The storms will start firing into tonight and then Thursday
Friday, probably through the weekend scattered showers and thunderstorms. A lot of them
will be during the afternoon hours, but some mornings, like we're seeing this
morning in southwestern parts of the state and out across North Georgia, you may
get it in the morning hours. There'll be hours to dry. Whether the
bigger change will be temperatures coming down upper eighties to near ninety on Thursday for
Friday on the weekend maybe the middle eighties. So nice little cool downcoming when
we do need the rainfall, so we'll have some on to get off again
rain too. And by the way, this Philadelphia set the record for snowfall
at their airport. Really yes, yeah, only hell counts or something.
You guys just love it. It'll do that. Yeah, yeah, one
of your headlines. Man, Ye, well that's just interesting our headline to
click then you got me to see that's what it does. Well even this,
Uh well, we'll get into the tornado report in New York State.
You know a lot of a lot of beat not so accurate information comes out
sometimes. Okay, all right, we'll talking an hour and uh all right,
we have more calls coming up. It is the case O Day Radio
program. Jamal, what's going on? Hey, KC number one. I
just want to say I am scared for Mark Robberson. Like I said before,
I am scared for k C. I have been watching for the last
past three days. They never wanted unton I'm talking about as of last night,
MSNBC need to be thrown out of the R and C. They they
have press covered, so the freedom of the press does not necessarily mean this
particular agency. I have watched them now say basically, President Trump is responsible.
Casey. If I was to call if something like this was to happen
to Barack Obama and I was to call in the show now and I literally
say, well, you know what he deserved, or something like that,
you will throw me off the air and say, you know what, Jamal
can't call back in. I don't care if people like him. He can't
call back in no more for at least for a year or something like that.
That type of accountability be done for good. I just want to let
everyone know that it's a very short list, but we have a list.
So you know what on our list? Okay, and you know what,
Casey, that type of accountability is on our side. I am watching MSNBC
hosts sit here and say, oh, well, his rhetoric. Joe Biden
was asked by Less to hold did his language cause it because they've kept and
people need to remember this. Back in two thousand and six, Sarah Palin
did the show about rhinolds. They was talking about rhinos Sarah pay and she
said cross heads. Do you know Joe Biden said, I said bulls,
I not cross ass like there was a difference. He literally is trying to
not say cross said because he remembers the law that they sat there and said
about Sarah Pail, So now he wants to make a difference. I'm watching
these people. I'm seeing these who they did this and I shared with Russell
I don't know if he's seen this. They walked around California and asking people
about it. People saying they don't care, people saying that it's faith,
it's not real. I'm sorry but them. I know people wanting to do
the unity thing, but people are saying Democrats don't want unity. These people
are not our fellow Americans. And until somebody showed me the yeah, Jamal,
I got like forty five seconds and I agree with you hundred percent,
and I think the and thank you for the call. Ah. There's so
much stuff floating around. We were hoping to chat with Mark Robinson, but
when did he spoke Monday at the RNC. Monday, Yeah, Monday up
there, So I don't know if he's still up there, what he's doing.
Uh here, And by the way, he is just a little from
that, and you know, if he calls in, obviously, well we'll
do some chit chat. But here is Robinson speaking Monday at the RNs.
The brave heart of our time. President Trump has had our economy. Roy
Das was a below two dollars. Unemployment was at a historic lob people could
afford homes, and we had a president who protected manufacturing jaws under President Trump,
the American dream was alive and will. Under President Trump, there was
hope and we need that now more than ever. So this November less then
the brave heart of our time, Donald J. Trump, to get our
economy back on track, restoring the American dreams and make America great again.
God bless you all the God bless you nice types of America. Thank you.
And it's been an interesting cast of characters up there speaking. You know
that, Mark. I kind of expected the amber Rose thing. I gotta
tell you, between amber Rose and the reaction to the har Meat Dylan,
who during her time on stage did a unity prayer, it's a seek prayer,
she seek, and the reaction from some on the right is baffling to
me. I gotta tell you, I am done with Matt Walsh. I'm
just done. Man. He you know, do his thing whatever. He's
entitled to his opinions. But like I understand, I understand the frustration one
would share if you feel that Overall is an organization, it's not trending in
the direction of where you'd like to see it go, and people are gonna
be critical over that stuff. But I absolutely don't understand. Uh, some
of these folks who who have an audience, and Walsh was more of the
amber Rose thing. The harm Meat Dylan thing is some other pundits who were
like they were visibly upset that Dylan was up. Do you know who harmat
Dylan is? Do you know what she does? Like if there's a lawsuit
that needs done to battle back against the law fair and the suit, tell
their blue mentality that's going on. Dylan's been the one who stepped up for
this right there. So it is wild to me that people are so upset
and and and are are you know saying that the RNC they've lost focus.
They don't understand it can only be a Christian and specifically a particularly type of
Christian perspective that is that has spoke about on that stage. I don't have
time for you, because all you're doing is setting yourself up to not win.
And it doesn't mean you have to expand your your ideals. I haven't
seen har meet Dylan advocate for anything that doesn't really strike as kind of core
conservative principles other than the fact that she's in fact of another religion, especially
a religion like is there a lot of is there a lot of seek terrorist
attacks going on. Now, don't get me wrong. When you get into
other parts of the world, that may be a different discussion. That may
be a different discussion, but I would also point out that it is a
different discussion for pick whatever heritage or background you want and in different places.
Whether it is some of the violence that you saw in Basque Country between Spain
and France, whether it is violence that permeated the streets of Northern Ireland.
Right, this is it's not exclusively a brown person thing. So the fact
that people want to make it that is beyond me. Now, that doesn't
mean that you shouldn't be a stute and watching what's going on in today's world.
And yes, that might even involve questioning if somebody wants to be part
of the quote unquote program, but take things in a decisively different direction,
and that's where adults have conversations. But the whole thing was just baffling to
me. And you know, to the credit of people that I saw that
I saw criticizing this, at the very least, they're at least sticking with
their positions so that people can decide whether that's something they re or disagree with.
But as for me, I got zero time for it, man,
and I and I really tried to understand where these folks are coming from,
and I'm unable to do it. So maybe I'm part of the problem too,
and you can go ahead and cancel me. Let's see here, by
the way, we got other problems. A knife wielding homeless man who allegedly
heard voices was shot dead outside the RNC yesterday, marking the second fatality to
GOP event in days. I believe there was another. They even had another
dude. They didn't shoot him, but who was like, I'm gonna go
kill some people, so, you know, for for whatever, all the
motivations were the fact that we're sitting here and watching grown adults have conversations about
how you know Donald Trump, Donald there's nothing under that bandage. Well,
then what happened with the photo? Are you implying that he's carrying like vials
of blood with him so he can slap him on to get the right photop?
You all sound you sound insane. You sound as insane as like all
the people all the QAnon stuff that you criticized. Right, that's you now,
wild, I said weeks ago, I remember what was like two weeks
ago, I said it. I feel like a lot of things are switching
sides where now that because you know, for the longest time, the crazy
conspiracies were coming from the right, not the ones that came true, that
were actually fact right, but the crazy ones. And now you're seeing more
and more of this on the left, and it's nuts. I saw one
where somebody was saying, well, you know what the blood came from?
You were talking about like the bag of fake blood or whatever, being right,
it be it silly. But I saw somebody who was really serious about
this saying, well, he has history in the WWE WWF, so he
knows how to how to cut himself. So when he went down, he
was a razor blade like they do in wrestling where you put it in your
your spandex there and you take and he cut his he cut his eyebrow or
whatever. So is heeling this? I'm trying to figure this out. I
guess you would be the heel in this person's opinion, right, probably,
yeah, okay, but what is the twenty year old? He's the jobber
here. It's looney tunes, is what it is. Yeah, I try
to like make it all make sense, and that's the problem with this.
You can't necessarily make it make sense, Like it doesn't make sense that Ross
is wearing a neck brace. Now, I don't know, come back,
I can barely move. I was attacked during the break by ninjas and I
came to this leg just get you. I run to the bathroom in Ninja's
good Jerry Lawler came in and pal drove my head through the studio floor.
Oh that's who's crown there, That's where I got the crown. Yeah,
that was nice for him to leave you a little uh little something there.
You probably should probably should take the rest of the week off now that they
think about it, right, I mean, if you mentioned that I was
gonna pull, I was gonna persevere, you know, like, hey,
I'm not going to move the convention. Yeah, Ross the show right now?
Yeah, double fist. I can't see it. Yeah yeah, pretty
uh pretty inspiring actually, so, but hey, you know, you gotta
do what you gotta do. Man. All right, let's see here.
I promise I was gonna I promise that we do other stuff not connected to
this, but I just have so much to get to for so these morning.
Joe wasn't on the air Monday and you know, there was a lot
of thoughts from well, they're just it's just continued coverage still from the weekend,
or MSNBC is like, you guys need to not be on the air
because of the crap you say, or it was just having to do with
the fact that broadcasting from the RNC right and and really Monday morning is pretty
slow in the grand scheme of things till till everything gets fired up. But
apparently no, apparently there might be a little more going on. So we'll
get we'll get into that here in just a few minutes. We got audio
for you because they're not happy. All right, let me grab a call
here, Matt, Matt would okay, all right, I see you.
I look at my call screener here, Matt. You are a you are
a Democratic candidate for a North Carolina House seat. Is that correct? Yes?
Yes, Good morning, guys. How are you doing. We're good,
sir, We're just we're trying to drink from the fire hose that is
this news cycle. So what do you what do you want to come?
Well, unfortunately, good brother, that's what happened. Look, here's what
happened. If you want to know a little bit, you know, In
about nineteen ninety two, Rush Limbaugh started teaching people how to argue in a
disingenuous ad hominem type way. Right, and it is elevated to the point
where and an unaverage person thinks that they're filling their mind up with something concrete.
It gives them something to grab a hold up and guess what I'm talking
about? Democrats right now? Okay, So being am I would see what
you have to know. Please do please no, no, I'm no.
I didn't say I'm in a bad cell area. So just it just understands
I'm a Democrat who has been shot by a criminal, a black man,
and I don't want to confiscate. I'm a Democrat whose kid goes to a
private school and I don't want them to close. So instead of this who
is saying it, we need to spend a little bit more time about what
we're talking about. So in North Carolina, where between ten and fourteen,
kids kill themselves more than anything else, and between fifteen and seventeen they shoot
each other, and at eighteen, we want to give them a weapon of
mass destruction. So instead of having that common sense conversation about that, or
Duke regulating its pollution and all that other stuff. Instead of saying, hey,
let's have a real reasonable conversation about something, It's almost like Casey,
we can't even freaking have it like that. I hate Yeah, Okay,
I'm sorry. I was gonna say, what conversation do you think we should
be having right now that we're not one that deflects any sort of hasty generalization
about a policy. Okay, And I'll am example, I did an interview
with the best of Johnson County, right, and the guy asked me a
question to go down to zero. What do you think about that? And
I said, well, if things are underfunded, any number other than zero
is a good answer. Right. So there's a substance conversation that we can
have about something, and I'm not really hearing it filling people's minds. So
I think we need to kind of up the production of what people kind of
rally around and discuss. I mean, I'd love to come on there and
trade jazz with you guys in a funny way, but I'm not so damn
serious that I got to be right, and it frustrates everything. And I
listened to the show yesterday and I felt that through you sir, you felt
what that I was just a frustration. You bet, I'm frustrated. I
but you know, I also recognize that right now, the amount of emotion
that's connected obviously to this story, it prohibits like there's a There are a
hundred things I could be talking about. I got a bunch of stories that
we're not going to get too mad because the reality is, and people can
call it panderin in the audience, but people are very single minded on where
they're concern lies. Right now. The idea that in our lifetime, with
we almost witness, for most people it would be the only one in their
lifetime the assassination of a president, former president, potentially you know president again
is is nobody planned for that to be their Saturday? And and so I
understand. I don't know if I blame it on Limbaugh telling people to ask
questions and then, as you say, argue in a divisive manner. But
you know, people people don't people don't feel that they're getting the truth are
going to be naturally divisive. You would agree, right because they're saying I
don't believe yes, of course, But I'll tell you what if you and
I were sitting in any sort of reasonable long form conversation, then we could
get into a cause and effect relationship between anything relative to the platform that this
two party system provides. I mean, there ain't but two stinking teams.
It can't be that difficult to discuss stuff. And well, the only reason
I brought up Limbaugh is because he made it like nouveau Reese to try to
have public policy discussions and just be insulting as hell at the same time,
And that carries a lot of card brunch. I'm gonna say this, Matt
Walsh is an example of opportunism within a commercial endeavor, and that's him selling
his politics to somebody. And I just can't stand that, and I don't
think our nation can stand it for too much longer. Right, But do
you think Look, people are going, I'm not a registered Republican, but
I recognize that a lot of what I think would definitely overlap. So is
I'm being hostile? I'm being argumentative to Matt Walsh sitting there and criticizing the
army, Dylan and Amber Rose for being there. Isn't that positive discussion amongst
two people who probably agree on a bunch of stuff. Yes, absolutely,
But The unfortunate thing is is that what was his intent? It was to
be salacious, to create some sort of spectacle, which which gives him a
unique perspective. Well, guess what tax policy ain't sexy? You know,
kids out in rural North Carolina, outside the seven zones of economic prosperity,
who have never had equal opportunity to get educational advances. That's a boring ass
conversation, but it's one that needs to be had as opposed to this,
what's what's preventing What's what's preventing them from accessing equal Uh see, I'm being
argumentative now, you know, sometimes we are having a look. If I
if my dream was to work, if my dream was to work at a
downtown show up in Tabor City, North Carolina, that is an unreasonable dream.
I don't know. If you've driven through Tabor Cities downtown it is destitute.
You bet you bet so. If that was my dream to work at
a mom and pop shop on an idyllic Mayberry style main street, Tabor City
is not where it's happening. And I don't mean to pick on them.
They've got struggles and they're they're doing what they can. But Ultimately, you
can't. We can't get everything. You know what, Man, I just
looked up at my clock. I'm gonna bug out forty five seconds. Look,
you call any time, especially on any of these topics, and uh,
we'll get you right on there and we'll have the discussions to the I'm
a democrat. I'm not from a different planet. I don't believe you are,
sir, unless you are, because that's what you tell me. Right
to be fair, See I outed him is three heads. No, that's
fine. Look call in man, you're not swearing. We don't have to
agree disagree any of that. I'm here for it. So we'll get some
more calls and more stories and yes, maybe even some that are not connected
to this phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four Hang
loose will be back in just a few minutes. See. Elon Musk even
tweeted out the photo of the roof of the White House, which I know
you'll be shocked to learn has a slope on it. And yet there's teams
up there. Man. And if you don't believe me, you can go.
Well. Now I'm telling how people how to get in position across the
street from the White House is the w Hotel, I think it is,
And they have a really kick ass rooftop bar restaurant up there. In fact,
every year when I go to DC to do the little radio road thing,
and I always make a point to head over in that Direction's a couple
of restaurants. II like over there, and then go up that rooftop bar
and just kind of gaze out over the Washington, d C. Metropolis.
But yeah, you look right down on the Way House. This is obviously
the biggest failure they've had in a long time. But they've had a weird
track record lately anywhere. Remember when that dude just jumped the fan and ran
into the White House and we were like, how could that have happened?
Got into like the east room or something. Yeah, yeah, it's And
then what was the And he wasn't the only one, because remember somebody else
got over the fence and then they put the little spiky things on the top
of the fence and state they altered the fence of the White House. And
when I was there last time I was there, you couldn't approach the one
excuse men pop it on the mic. You couldn't approach the one side of
the of the White House, because it was we were still on the cusp
of mostly peaceful protests and so on the ellipse or whatever they call it.
On that backside, you couldn't get right up on the fence line. So
now you're right, there's been some craziness. Man. All right, let's
get some calls and let's start with Ryan, Ryan, what's up? Hey?
The moone Casey, I've got an answer for the Democrat and they just
call it in. And I'm not a rephilic kid, I'm a registered independent,
but I mean the Democrats. We can't have a normal conversation because the
Democrats inject venim into every conversation we have. If they can't win a debate,
they go to the straight to the York racist. You're a terrorist.
If you fort Trump, you're a national and white nationalist, you're They inject
gent them into every conversation. So we can't have a real conversation until we
start getting real with each other. You know, if you support Trump,
that doesn't make you a terrorist, that doesn't make you make you a white,
white nationalist. If you believe the election was stolen, and there's some
shenanigans going on, You're not an election denial. They've been denying Republican elections
since Bush Junior every election, and they call it doesn't mean you're right,
but it also doesn't necessarily mean you're a psychopath. Right, Yeah, exactly.
I still believe it was stolen, to be honestly, we did.
There was too much shenanigans going on. And but but the fact that I
mean, I'm not an election denier, that doesn't make need the enemy or
a terrorist. I'm just saying there was something up with it, you know
what I mean? And they inject in every conversation that that's why we can't
have a real conversation anymore, mister, getting real with each other, better
about our conversations, so our presents that get shot at. Yeah, I
I you know I have. There are some Democrat folks that I know.
One is a very good friend of mine, and it's frustrating to talk with
him, but he doesn't go ad hominem. And and so if if the
criticism is just that you can't paint everybody with the same brush, I'm here
for it. I agree with that. However, However, I find myself
more often than not presented with the situation that you're talking about, and I've
talked on this show and thank you for the culture about I couldn't fathom deciding
that somebody who had been a friend more than a friend for the majority of
my life, somebody who I considered a like a second parent, I couldn't
fathom one day telling them I can't ever talk to you again, not for
something I said, even, but because they saw on social media that I
would post stuff and they felt that it didn't comport with their worldview, and
so they just said, hey, this is it. I'm done. And
that was my best friend, my best friend in high school's mom, who
I considered another mom, who just pieced out. And so now that's one
individual story. But I can't fathom doing that, and so yeah, and
we're colored by our experiences. What I would say, what I wanted to
say to the caller and I was running tight on time, is I think
there's a delicate balancing act to teaching somebody to argue disingenuously, which is kind
of what the caller was just describing and recognizing that a eventually a group of
people when when Cronkite said, and that's the way that it is, went
is it is it the way that it is because I thought it was and
then my own eyes are to tell I mean, that's not the way it
is. And you're seeing a lot of that right now. How about the
amount of people. How about watching somebody who wakes up to the good people
on both sides insanity, right, they finally see the whole video that has
to be if if you're honest with yourself, that's got to be earth shattering,
man. And let me tell you there's things that I've believed and then
I, for you know, something came along and it absolutely decimated my worldview
on a particular issue or just you know what I thought of a particular story.
And you're hit with a moment there, right. You can either be
honest with yourself and go, woy, I had that all wrong? Whoops?
All right, and then you moving forward, you recognize that and man,
maybe you do a better job of filtering information, or you can just
double down and be like, Noah, yeah, I know it's on camera,
but nah, I was so right. And I think that that is
where you really get the divide. If you, regardless your political affiliation,
if you refuse used to do you refuse to just accept, not accept,
but consider evidence and allow the possibility that it could change your mind on something.
Then you're not doing You're not you're not doing analysis, you're not you're
not trying to get to the bottom of it. You're just you're like a
speak and say at that point, And I don't have use for speaking says
not in not in discussions about policy or politics or any of the rest of
it, because that's where the frustration lies. So if that's what the guy
was, if that's what our coller was vocalizing, I don't necessarily disagree.
But I also don't think Limbaugh is single handedly responsible. If I keep telling
Ross that the studio door is not purple, and he thinks it's purple and
it's brown, right, and I keep telling him, I keep telling him
that, you know, the the device of nature of me doing that isn't
necessarily because I want to be argumentative with him. It's because I believe that
I'm right, and I'm going to continue that and he can either accept it,
or you can say, we're not having this discussion anymore. Oh you
shouldn't. He should look it because he can't turn his head. I can't
right because of the neck brace because that was attacked by the ninjas and Jerry
Lawler right right, right right, this close to lose in my life.
It was all a hoax, So you should you should have went with the
four lights reference. Oh it's oh okay, the Star Trek four lights reference.
You should want that makes more sense to like five people, the nerdiest
amongst us, but the best amongst us. I would say, yeah,
would you uh, what's on the here? I just put the answer on
the TV screen? Would you look over there? Oh you can't. That's
fright, Oh I can't. Oh man, this is my neck. Oh
that's too bad. All right, Mark, real quick, what's up?
He did more than the first thing. Before I get into my main point
in last twenty minutes, these two previous callers you had better than most of
the commentary I've heard since Saturday. And it's fantastic calls. And Matt out
there. If you're out there, you're a mutant in a good way,
buddy. I appreciate hearing what you have to say. But my main point
is here we are sixty years after the Kennedy assassination, and you know,
people characterize that as an end of innocence. In this country, and we
still have we still haven't gotten the story. And then you know, you
tag that into the Las Vegas shooter. You know, you see the mysterious
people are directed. In January sixth, we still don't have those answers.
Our government institutions really need to step up this time and come clean. I
sincerely hope it was just a lot of incompetence that happened Saturday, I got,
I hope. So you know Harkin's razor, I hope that's sir.
But what's the razor? Don't never attribute to malice that which can be attributed
by stapidity, a stipidity or something. I hope it was pure and competence.
I mean, every we don't I don't need to get into all the
capabilities of shooting a rifle. It sounds like that that that one law enforcement
officer that came up and surprising time and the rough tops spoiled the shots,
thank god, right, But they the Secret Service, Homeland Security, they
really need to come clean on this because we're a state in this country where
the disbelief of our government institutions is so over the top. You know what,
and you know what, people can identify with incompetence as weird as that
sounds, right, you mistakes or we know somebody we work with and they're
they're just like, how does that lazy bastard still have a job? Right,
Like, we can we can identify that is something that and thank you
for the call. That's some people are willing to accept. Not everyone.
Some people will be like it was incompetence, born out of wanting to do
this. But you can look at it and go, yeah, you know
what, we just we dropped the ball in and you know we're not gonna
give you. We're not going to tell you all the changes we're going to
make for obvious reasons, but this is wrong. The inability of the response
team to access without ramming a car through a gate. The fact remains that
the counter sniper when they were able to take the shot, and I'm curious
what the process was for allowing that, Uh they brained him in the gourd.
They one shot of that dude and there's photos if you want to see
it. So where was that response Where was the twenty six minutes? Where
was the dude haul in the ladder? Where was him bringing a range finder
inside the security ring? And ranging snipers who noticed everything's crazy. Uh not
the weather though, It's just just here to scold you. So that's the
one. That's the one sane point in your gentleman. Did he did he
reference Okham's razor? Ross? Do you hear what's happened? Do you hear
what's happening on the air right now? Are you talking about Akham's rasor Ramone?
Right? Is that what? No? But did he reference that?
I thought that's what I heard him? He referenced Harkham's razor. Oh Harkham's
razor. Okay? Is that different? Oh hark rasor Ramone? Got it?
Okay? I didn't. I didn't know. I was like, well,
that's good, so that's worked for me. But I was just curious
because that comes back forget it. It comes from one of my favorite movies.
I got that out of contact. Actually that's when Ockham's razor comes from
the corn Ockham's razor. Where the most obvious solution is probably the right answer.
Don't get a lot of good answers in my business, but I can
tell you this. The rain chances grow up, We're gonna lose this heat
and humidity eventually. Still probably gonna push load mid nineties today. Triangle Heat
advisory try it not so much, but still hot everywhere and humid, a
few showers, thunderstorms. Rain chances go up as temperatures go down. For
Thursday and especially Friday and into the weekend. Still may get some mid nineties
in some spots. Tomorrow and then Friday, Saturday, Sunday we may stay
in the eighties and maybe even some low eighties in some spots the further west
you go. So we're looking at rain chances going up. Drought monitor comes
out tomorrow. You won't see any changes from last week, most likely,
but then next week we may. As a most of the state has been
under some low levels of droughts, so the rain definitely needed and sows the
break and the temperatures still probably going to be kind of humid, but it's
better than ninety seven eighty seven. It'll be better than ninety seven. So
that's what's coming later in the week. All right, leads you do in
math, appreciate it. There we go on and we'll come back with Jeff
Bellinger. Hang on morning. Casey stocks rallied yesterday, but looks like that
rally has no legs. Today there are worries over China trade and stock market
futures are lower. Right across the board, S and P futures down fifty
six, Nasdaq futures are down three hundred and six, and the Dow futures
are down one hundred and thirty. There was a bigger than expected rebound and
new home construction last month. The government says housing starts rose three percent in
June to an annual raid more than one point three million. Mortgage bankers reported
today that home loan demand rose last week. The increase was driven entirely by
refi requests, as the average interest rate on a thirty year fixed rate mortgage
fell to six point eighty seven percent. Walt Disney is revamping at streaming services.
The goal is not just to attract more subscribers for Disney Plus, Hulu
and ESPN, but also to get customers to spend more time watching the services.
Some live channels will be introduced for people who just can't decide what to
watch, and viewers who bail on a series before it's over, we'll get
emails prodding them to finish. Elon Musk announced two more of its businesses.
Well. His businesses will relocate their headquarters. X and SpaceX will move from
California to Texas. Musk indicated he wants to distance himself from California and it's
left leaning politics. And Casey, lest you think artificial intelligence won't one day
make your life better, here's something to consider. The Federal Communications Commission is
calling for the development of AI intelligence tools to filter out robocalls. Casey,
Now, well, it's a trade off because like, it does that,
but then it also murders you. So it's like, I guess at least
it won't murder you while your phone's ringing with spam. So all right,
thanks for the thanks for making lemonade, Jeff appreciate it. Alright, that's
a good There you go.