Hm, Well, there was the possibility we weren't going to be here because
you know, and was nigh, and it was a conspiracy to not let
Yukon win again. That was the lamest conspiracy I think I saw on Twitter.
You know, they handled their business pretty if you were if you were
paying enough attention to really break down how teams were going about winning. Right
if if you're that plugged in watching what Purdue did yesterday and what you know
Yukon matched it with, you know, just say it looked like one of
those things where that looked like a pretty good way to handle it, or
attempt to handle it. And basically it was the big dude in the middle
who likes to party I guess with hot co eds, which I'm hearing that's
the thing among athletes in college, so look it up AnyWho. You know.
Basically, they said, all right, let big dude eat. Even
if he puts up forty and we shut down outside shooters, we win.
And that's that's basically what worked. I think he had thirty seven, Purdue
managed one, one three pointer and that was the end of them. So
there you go. College basketball in the books. Now we can turn all
of our attention to his baseball and hockey man, get on with this thing.
Yeah yeah, yeah, I know you got NBA stuff and all that,
but baseball hockey at least uh, at least around these parts. Although
the Twins did get slacked by the Royals, like eleven nothing yesterday or twelve
nothing the other day, not yesterday, it was a few days ago.
So I don't know, maybe i'll uh pick up a new sport route for
that, Like I don't know, watching uh watching the cell phones on the
view. Oh yeah, oh, we got we got that coming for you.
That's that's gonna be on the show today. Let's see. I saw
something. Oh yeah, here we go. I saw said this morning that
just just hit me and and and I think it's gonna hit you too.
Wait when again, you see how blatant the corruption is? Oh? Why
yes, it is in the state of Illinois. And it has to do
with a what do they call her the I've heard worst mayor in America?
But what were they calling her? Super mayor? That's right? Well were
they weren't calling her that? She was calling herself that. So if you
don't know who the super mayor, Tiffany Hainard is, or have read anything
about this woman. It's bonkers. Now it's alleged, but this mayor and
the expenditures that I again, I don't know how you justify them. This
is not a large community in the greater Chicago area Dalton. Honestly, I
don't even know if I could find it on a map. But I do
know that reading the stories about what this woman's accused of doing is is just
crazy. Now she's going to be out the village board and then let's see
here, investigators, federal prosecutors, you name it. I have all weighed
in on this, and seemingly there is not a lot of interest, even
though you can sit here and you can look at the accusations against this mayor,
like tax funded economic development trips to Vegas where they just blew it out,
a series a series of SUVs, high security SUVs, which are not
something a small community is typically spending on COVID nineteen relief funds that just didn't
make it to where they're supposed to. There's accusations of going know bypassing the
bid process for different different jobs, and there's a couple of different ways that
people will do it. A lot of towns have a a bid requirement once
you hit a certain dollar amount. So one of the ways that public officials
in the past, it's seen attempt to squirt skirt this is they break the
job up right, so instead of this job that is five thousand dollars and
maybe the threshold's twenty five hundred or whatever, they may break it up into
three different things and yeah, it's it's one of the popular ways. Or
they will simply overpay the vendors. So friends will come, you know,
friends or people who are wink wink, nod, nod. They'll put in
a lower bid and then they will exercise a flex which can be built into
these contracts or emergency spending powers that a mayor may have to sweeten the pot.
And look, there's death by a thousand cuts here. And if you
read and you read about even the resolution that the tad that the village board
had to come to when they learned of serious sexual assault allegations made against the
former mayor while they were in Vegas, it's just there's so much going on
here, and what is it turned into. It's turned into if somebody says
something, they're attacking her because she's a strong black woman who's in a position
in a power and maga country in and around Chicago can't handle it. They
can't handle it. They can't handle the overt racism when people are going,
where's all the town's money? All right? So all of these allegations are
out there. Obviously the board things that something's up. So what the city
needed to do is they needed to bring in an impartial investigator to get to
the bottom of this. Remember they did this with the Juicy smole a stuff,
right, They want to get to the bottom of it, specifically as
it pertained to a couple of the prosecutors there, all right, So who
do you think they brought in? This is the whole reason for the long
setup, even if you just knew a little about this mayor. Who do
you think that the yesterday the Dalton Village Board has brought in to be the
official investigator and arbiter of whether they're mayor who is accused of being corrupt about
twenty seven different ways, if in fact that is the case. And remember
what I told you, feels very convenient who they brought in? So with
that, am I ross you have not seen this story? Would you like
to guess who will be investigating the most corrupt mayor that I've heard about in
a while, allegedly. I remember the state of Illinois. State of Illinois
very important. Are you guys ready, ready, ready, ready, LORI
Lightfoot, Yes, that's right, the former mayor of Chicago until she was
thrown out for not being corrupt enough. I guess right. Remember it was
the Teachers' union who ended up running her for somebody who seems far crazier but
is more than willing to stroke the check. Yes, that's right, Lightfoot,
who was an attorney prior to her term as Chicago mayor, a former
federal prosecutor, lost her bid for a second term last year, but has
now accepted the position at her standard legal rate of four hundred per hour.
She wanted to do this for quote her minimum minimum rate. And then she
will now probe Hainard and see if anything's up. And I'm not saying that
there's a bunch of girl power pictures of them at like mayor's conferences and stuff,
but you know those exist, so h every single day. And meanwhile,
while all of this perceived corruption, I'll let you decide whether it's actual
corruption. I tend to think that a lot of it is we'll let you,
you know, we'll let you ponder what that could mean for her future
and the the thoroughness and speed of Lightfoot's investigation all the while. The meltdowns
that took place yesterday on MSNBC, CNN and online after a certain rumor started
to swirl just shows you the rank hypocrisy of all of this. We'll get
that story for you. Senator Ted Budds joining us this morning. So that's
the thing that'll be at eight oh six, So ready yourself for that.
We have FISA stuff. We got, like I said, the freak out
and we got to get into a little Coastguard news here and then yeah,
I'll share with you what the rumor is. We'll do that next here on
the CaCO Day radio program. And yes, yes, yes, we did
not have the end of the world yesterday. What we did have is traffic
jams, people screaming at each other, people stopped on the highway, people
doing TikTok dances, and airplanes is unfortunately a thing. They were all excited.
They run some flight where they got to see stuff. Uh and uh,
about one hundred articles this morning telling people, hey, if you can't
see anything stupid. Uh, maybe you know you shouldn't have done the thing
yesterday. It sounds like one of those things where you gotta test the theory,
like what your mom said, your face is gonna stick that way.
Some people are just I'm gonna look at the farm. Good lights. That's
why we have these stories. Dooche with nothing you protect bisi lights, look
up a douche nothing you protect by lies, look black a douche. Wait
how bad could some a cardboard cutout could out smart being right? I help
people found out him some with the trips fall and fat tell the chapars and
I had to be the chunk who had no special grass father from the stonar
I wheels. I wasn't over my headache. Kids was brought out. It
was very a please in my ras of the stream. It was like corny
a crash through the crowd. My cordis cry through the world man most time
her bi bis looked up like a douche with nothing to protect. My eyes
blinded by the lights. Looked up like a douche with nothing you protect My
eyes finded by the lights, look up like a noose with nothing you put
by blind pig of ds look up like a douche built in Jupi jupus.
All right, there you go. So and in fact, what was the
number I saw? During the last August twenty seventeen, more than twelve hundred
people reported some sort of injury that they had to escalate, likely due to
staring at the sun. And it hurts. I've never steered at the sun
and gotten hurt, but I've had I've had the snow blindness, really bad
ones. Just you know, out there, you don't think of it.
With the reflective power of that snowman, sometimes we'll just get you. And
we we were hunting over two days, we're doing a lot of walking,
lot of glass ing, and by the second day, ma'am, I just
in front of my face just burned. So I just I held it up
in the cabin the next day. But yeah, there's it's a fair amount
of folks who didn't listen. So there you go. You made it through
the eclipse. Unfortunately, if you were one of these folks, who would
you know already given your stuff away and we're just waiting for the I guess
the comet to fly by or whatever. You're gonna be a little disappointed.
But you may not be totally out of luck yet. Yeah, if you
need a good doomsday thing to buckle into, I gotta tell you they have
over delivered over at CBS News. So we'll have that story for you coming
up. And it's a dues, so don't miss out, all right.
So what are MSNBC, CNN and others flipping out over this morning? Well,
that, my friends, would be the little rumor about who Donald Trump
may likely pick as his attorney general schedule really was some show prep. I
was reading part of a part of a book that somebody had sent me.
We kind of diving into that. I'll tell you what it is once I
have an opinion and I'm done. And then basketball. So yeah, I
didn't. I didn't really deep dive into some of the MSNBC CNN stuff,
which I just kind of, you know, doom look at for a few
minutes in the evening. So watching it this morning and lo and behold,
I start to see a trend. And the trend was Pundit's discussing a guy
by the name of Kash Patel, which I don't know. You may have
heard the name before him, maybe you haven't. The skinny is this during
the Trump administration. He served as US National Security Council official. Specifically,
he was the senior legal advisor to the Director of National Intelligence right, which
is a big lawyer muckety muck position. He also was he worked with the
Secretary of Defense as chief of Staff and chief legal advisor. So that's his
background. He's forty four. You know, there's few other capacities, but
look, he is for all practical purposes, he's a DC guy. But
he's a guy that seemingly folks like and one that is not afraid to most
definitely be very forthcoming with what he thinks needs to happen if Republicans or in
a position in this case through Donald Trump to seize power back and more specifically
to fix maybe what's wrong with the dj and that terrifies, absolutely terrifies the
rumor. Mill Adam Schiff and Dan Goldman both basically started this rumor in separate
statements and concluding. Goldman actually issued a congressional statement saying that Donald Trump would
end democracy by weaponizing the Justice Department against his political enemies. Adam Shift says
he is already operating under the assumption that if Trump gets in there, he
could you know he could face jail time, and he's putting on a brave
face. He's also running for Senate and he is the scoundrel you know him
to be. But just like the instantaneous freak out over over you know why
it really Shift was pushing this and then Goldman came in. But how,
how and why they're freaking out and how and why they can't recognize the the
immense amount of irony here. Now here's where the problem lies. So Patel
is on Steve Bannon's podcast and in no uncertain terms when asked by Bannon,
what do you think from a legal priority, specifically with the d o J,
what do you think is going to be the you know, the Trump
What are they going to be doing? What will people see who are concerned
that the government has been turned into a weaponized attack dog for a handful of
politicians and Patel uh and they played the clip, but basically in it,
Cash said that if there are if there are anyone out there, anyone out
there who has broken the law, who was complicit in the abuse of things
up to an including the FISA court, right if people are out there committing
state of defenses and we're in a time where the DOJ is taking a traditional
parading charge and using it to add a year of jail time at max to
various j six defendants and giving fifty dollars fines to people who were running in,
screaming and throwing period blood during Supreme Court hearings in the Senate, A
lot of people share his opinion, and that is what put him in a
meltdown because among those listed, Patel said, if you have complicit medium members
who have broken the law, look some of the stuff that was going on
behind the scenes with Twitter if you are a government bureaucrat or elected official.
But if you're from the government, some of those things don't look strictly legal
for you to be doing, especially when it comes to, you know,
the amount of effort that seems to have went into at the hand of the
government to kill your First Amendment rights. But and here's the devil's advocate.
Let me throw it out to you. There are those on the right who
don't necessarily agree that it's in the Republican's best interest to go, hey,
you started this, we're here to finish it. So that is going to
be the big argument breaking out. Kash Patel if he and he does have
a history of following through what he says he's going to do. But that'll
be the indicator the direction of the Trump administration wants to go. So yes,
MSNBC and CNN should be nervous because, unlike some, I think that
Patel has the potential to go effort. I'm going to burn this down and
uh and get something better and do so not out of from a revenge perspective,
but simply say, look, we're using the DOJ all in one direction,
and it has so emboldened and empowered people in DC to break the law
that this is a crisis that is out of control. But yeah, they're
they're they're freaking out over it. So uh and then people are just tweeting
back mutually assured destruction. How do you like it? I don't know.
I wish we weren't in this position where we have to go, Oh,
the the entire DOJ apparatus may be uh stage four cancer and uh, you
know, something's got to be done, man. But I think a lot
of people are there all right, six forty one Cacoday Radio program. None
of it may matter as yesterday about the time I'm sundown rolled around, right,
not the first one with the you know, the eclipse, but the
actual sundown. Right. You breathe a sigh of relief, even though you
don't, you know, clearly understand how time zones work, and you just
kind of wait and nothing happened, and you think, well, I'm off
the hook. Crap, I gotta go to work tomorrow. I'd like you
to know that you're in luck because the folks over at CBS have a brand
new thing for you to lose sleepover and I'm excited. I hope you're excited.
Yeah, buddy, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Cicadas.
Yeah, so you get it's actually too you got to freak out over
the avian flu, which is cattle avian human hybrid or something except not really
if you read the article, but you know, that's one thing to think
about. And number two is CBS News warning of the coming cicada get in,
which is I guess what we're going through going for. I don't know,
do you like cicada get in or cicada lips? I think probably getting's
better. But it's not just you know, the bugs which make a lot
of noise in the evening when you're just relaxing, listening off in the distance,
usually usually finding great comfort in the sound you hear, unless you raise
crops. So but it gets far worse. According to CBS, it's not
just one brood. No, no, no, it's in fact two broods.
Yes, that's right, cicadas who spend most of their lives underground and
only emerge after thirteen or seventeen years. This year happens to be the year
where the broods will coincide, which mathematically shouldn't they always but whatever, I'm
not a cicada expert. Yes, this year two of the largest broods will
begin to emerge, Brood nineteen that's going to be greeting us here in the
South, and Brewed thirteen, which will be up Illinois. Ways. However,
the convergence with the bugs will arrive in numbers that have not been seen
in generations. And there's another problem. The cicadas, which are referred to
as zombie circadas as cicadas will be among It'll be among the most prevalent years
for that. And the reason they're called zombie cicadas is they are from a
breeding perspective, there's something wrong with them, right, There's only one thing
they do rather than traditional cicad you know, all the different stuff that cicadas
do. They have one overwhelming driving goal and it also has caused a health
problem. All right, So the cicadas, the zombie cicadas to be zombie
cicadas and as part of this murderous brood collective that CNN's freaking out. What
you have to know is the reason they refer to them as zombies is because
the only thing they want to do is, all right, you catch you
what up putting down here? So they're popping out of the ground and they're
like, they're like a middle school boy man who things is starting to figure
stuff out. They got one thing on the brain. Yes, that's right,
We're going to be overwhelmed with slutty cicadas. And according to CBS News,
here's the headline, hyper sexual zombie cicadas that are infected with STDs expected
to emerge this year. The hell you say so? Yes, CBS News
hyper Sexual zombie cicadas infected with sexually transmitted fungal disease expected to emerge this year.
Who had that on the twenty twenty four Bengo card. That's what I
want to know. You know it's already bugs that pester you are already problematic,
but ones that do so like drunk frat dudes at closing time, there's
something that seems remarkably more more terrible about that. So, yeah, between
the Avian flu and you know, the the horned up cicada is get ready,
get ready for a summer of freak out. Man. They have all
this, they have all this stuff you concern yourself with during the h you
know, once we get in the warm season, right, you're like,
ah, we gotta make sure it always got ticks these, you know,
for those you like to get outdoors. I gotta make sure we reapply the
sunscreen nine thousand times to the kids, and then we forget about our own
feet and then our feet burn on the top on the first day of vacation.
That's something I did. Don't do that. But now you got to
watch out for mobs of horny, std ridden cicadas. I'm telling you this
is one you got. The pollen suck. For anyone who's new here.
Can you imagine this being your first year in North Carolina, right, and
nobody really prepared you for the for the pollen. That's always a shock the
first one of those and they're like, oh, I made it. You
know, even though there they went through all the clarity and like, no,
I made it. This is this is great. Made it through the
pollen. It wasn't so bad, dude. I had a friend who recently
moved to the Carolina South Carolina. Yeah, yeah, yeah, from Colorado.
It's so different because you think pines pines. I have the same thought.
We got pines everywhere out there. We don't have it doesn't happen.
He recently sent me a picture of his car. Yeah you know, it's
a typical covered in pollen. Your car looks yellow car. Yeah yeah,
yeah. But he was in a panic. He said, what the hell
is going on? He had no idea what was going on? He goes,
what is all? Like, what is it? I'm like, dude,
that's the pollen I was telling you about. He didn't believe me.
It's because it seems it seems laughable if you were to describe to somebody like
the way or they think you're being sarcastic or just exactly are you know,
trying to scare the new guy kind of thing. Well, imagine you get
through all of that and you're like, all right, that was even worse
than what Ross said. But at least I made it right. And now
I'm in, and now you're getting ready for summer. And then all of
a sudden in the distance, people are moving right, is zicata wearing garters?
Yeah? Look, as soon as the cicada shows up, dress like
the gimp from per you know, from pulp fiction. Are you moving right?
You're like, you know what, I'm gonna check out the Tennessee Nasal
sounds nice. Of course they'll have them there too, but yeah, yeah,
let's cicadas show up for a key party. Man, you need to
get out of there. That's all I'm saying. So you've been warned,
and I'm sure they'll harp on this again about the time the little pervs buzt
out all right, six forty nine, Hang on, Ted Buddle, join
us, probably on the new national nightmare that is the slutty cicadas with their
STDs. Excuse me, these slutty zombie cicadas. Dude, I'm telling you
the headlines over the last few days on avian flu, like it's a hundred
times worse than COVID. Get ready, And then CBS yesterday with their with
their headline hyper sexual zombie cicadas infected with sexually transmitted fungus expected to emerge this
year and they're freaking actors. They're like, it's two broods. It's gonna
be the worst. And look, you know, you know how this goes.
You know how much they love freaking out about the cicadas. And don't
get me wrong, you know they could be very damaging. I'm not going
to I'm not going to pretend like that's not a thing. Is from an
agricultural perspective, something that you know, folks have to deal with if you're
growing, whether it's feed crop or you know you're a farmer and that's what
you're growing. I mean, these are things you're concerned bound. But you
know, CBS has to hook everybody. So now rather than guy who's trying
to figure out whether he is field of and then insert whatever cicadas can devastate,
now, he's got to worry that that they that they got some sort
of weird kink and STD. I mean, that's how you freak people out.
Man. I feel like, I honest, I feel like the goal
through all of this is just to achieve that weird dystopian sci fi thing where
everyone just sits in like the you know, it looks like a dentist chair,
and then they're just jacked into the matrix all day. I mean,
what how much I mean to be fair? That look like some delicious steak?
Did it? Though? It? Did it? Really? All of
your line? Do you want? Do you want to stay out of the
matrix and struggle and eat porge all the time? Or do you want a
delicious steak? What it has all of the nutrients that is necessary. I
don't know if you remember Link telling you that, but you know, I
think Ceipher gets about that's all. I think he even admits it's not steak,
right, he knows it isn't, but it tastes it is. So
what's the difference if your if your mind tells you your honor? I don't
know. Well I'm staying in there and make me a rock star. So
but all right, well that's there. I'm telling you that's the goal,
man. I have no other conclusion to draw than that. And hey,
you know it would be a lot of I think China's demonstrated it's a lot
easier to rule people when they're welded into their house, right, Yeah,
yeah, I mean it's a viable strata or ros. Didn't you say you
were going with iron masks and towers the other day? You don't get to
do jury duty? Yeah, open the best deal. So that's the thing
there. So imagine you know, that's everything else you got going on?
And why would you want to go outside? Now? Was zombie cicadas with
st d s and uh if you're that farmer and you're looking out what you
know used to be your I don't know, wheat field or whatever, and
it's gone, and now you're like, oh my gosh, the family farm,
it's been, it's done. Do these broods? Can you imagine how
extra insulted you're gonna feel when on their way out, one of them is
trying to get you to sign up for their only fans. I'm assuming that
if we got slutty cicadas, a few of them are on the of and
some freaks somewhere is watching it. Maybe some freaking Texas because apparently they got
a few freaks down there will introduce you to a couple. In fact,
let's do this now. This is just awful, And what makes it even
more awful is then I saw like internet super lawyers. Those would be not
actual lawyers, but super sluice out there in some way, shape or form,
trying to find a loophole for the wife. All right, So if
you don't know this horrific story, there ain't nothing good here. But there
are some questions. So let's just let's see where we go here, shall
we? Eas This spring couple now looking at prison time, charged with felonies
after investigators say they discovered the two had been engaging in loot and illegal acts.
It all starts here at this atb on Rayford Road, where officials with
the Montgomery County Precinct three Constable's Office say they were dispatched back on March thirteen.
They say William King was following kids around inside the supermarket as he exposed
and touched his genitals. During the course of the investigation, officials say they
seized William King's phone. All right, I'm gonna pause here, all right,
so you catch the gist there. The husband is he's accused of,
you know, running around in a store, showing off the goods, touching
the goods, doing so obviously where you know, when women are around and
children are around. Is the accusation. Right, yeah, this guy's already
in alleged bury him under the and company. Right, we can agree,
all right, So God help us? What are they going to find on
this man's home found not only child pornography, but also evidence of beast reality
involving his wife. They say they found a video of Jolie King having sex
with the couple's Great Dane dog. Today, they were both arrested at their
home in the Harmony subdivision Nearby. Officials say they were not only able to
rescue that abused great Dane, but also two other dogs from the couple's home,
and say that they've prevented them from further sexual exploitation. Now, I'm
all right, so and I understand people love dogs, got it, big
fan of dogs, and I know that people are gonna be concerned and they're
probably glad to hear that part. They also put pulled kids out of there.
I mean, we just quite that. I understand that really the great
Dane that you know, part of this, that's the that's the that's the
twist in all of this. But they also they removed children too. They
had at least one minor child, I think it was ten, and then
they had a kid who's eighteen who was living there. He's I guess technically
not a kid, but I'm glad they got the dogs out. But you
know, you might mention the kids. But also how do these two find
each other? How do they and and what do you do to Marmaduke?
Right? Was Marba Duke a great Dane? I don't know, can't remember,
been a while since I was a kid. But yeah, So just
remember each and every day as you go about your business. You're just going
through life trying to do what's best for you and your family. Just remember
we're surrounded by psychopaths. Okay, all right, then the better off you'll
be. Okay. Speaking of headlines, Salon has a doozy and San Francisco
this is progress, so they you know, they just officials in San Francisco
have looked around and I think they've realized, Man, a bunch of businesses
that used to do business here in our community are either no longer doing business
or they're doing like a weird, slim down version of it, like the
taco bells. Remember the taco bells. They're not going to open the inside
of them. And that has members of the public obviously clamoring to their elected
officials, going what are we going to do about this? We got these
We got grocery stores leaving remember Target, Whole Foods, all of which have
closed, several stores, fast food joints, in and out Burger, and
pretty much every retailer of decent quality that was in that downtown area of San
Francisco. There used to be a big shopping district and is now a big
defecated on the ground district with drugs system. And uh, I think that
this has caused for some self reflection, right, I mean, that's how
you would do this. That's the story saying city officials are trying to figure
out how to solve this problem. Obviously you're going to have to look and
go what is it? What kind of environment are we creating where Target and
Whole Foods and in and Out Burgers and businesses that have been long successful.
What environment do we have where they're they're wanted to get out of here.
Well, that's what they should do, but maybe it's not what they actually
did. We'll get to that coming up here on the CaCO Day radio program.
So as you're well aware and it's not just San Francisco, Oakland,
a lot of a lot of Oakland in the news parts of Chicago, Baltimore.
What I see up in Philadelphia right, wasn't wasn't the gas station up
there was the gat what the no. Two of the chains wah wai and
then one or the other to remember, one of the others have either stopped
or withdrawn frandly in case of wah wah, they shut. I think they
shut every whah wah technically in Philly city limits. So you have to go
the suburbs. Right, it's a it's just a mess. And yet we
then we have to watch these politicians scream about, oh, well, obviously
what's going on here is racism or whatever you know, insert whatever the charge
is, and not literally uh people going, well, wait a sec.
We have a storefront, we're losing more money than we're making. And in
the world of business, that generally doesn't mean you stay open. You have
employee concerns, your your insurance has went up based on incidents. There's the
whole host of things. And then immediately if it's big companies, they're like,
they're just doing this too, you know, bullyk consumers and it's like
or they just don't want to deal with this is it's not making them any
money, it's creating a hassle. And generally these are going to be in
very very expensive areas to operate, right San Francisco, doing business in the
city of San Francisco, Chicago for that matter, there's you're gonna make an
investment. That's why it is especially egregious what the San Francisco lawmakers are talking
about. Now. So here we go. Let's see, San Francisco lawmakers
have introduced a proposal that would require grocery stores in this city. So this
starts with grocery stores, but as you'll see, with the discussion and the
way that they want to write this, it easily be expanded to anybody who
attempts to open a business of public accommodation in San Francisco. So faced with
the reality that these stores are fleeing, that hurts revenue, that hurts people.
You know, people then don't want to go to these areas to do
commerce because now there's less choice and there's whatever dangerous component led to the decision
making that all still exists and it just cascades and rather than realizing that you've
created this environment where it's lawless. It's lawless as your behest and business owners
who have you know lot probably paid a lot more taxes than the majority of
your constituents. Have just said enough. But rather than changing their ways and
creating once again a high quality you know, business opportunity, city officials would
require grocery store owners to provide six months written notice to the Board of Supervisors,
as well as several other governmental agencies, should they be wanting to sell
clothes or limit over a certain percentage their staff. So if you if you
found yourself in a position where the numbers continue not to add up, you
gave it the old college try but between the you know, the shrinkage you
know from theft UH incidents that may have stuck with you. If you've had
multiple armed robberies on a weekly basis. Is one store in San Francisco dealt
with they had like tour, they had two or three robberies every week for
like three or four weeks. It's just crazy. Rather than making that decision
now you'll be penalized, and should you make this notification, you're not off
the hook. The stores would also be required to post notices at all entrance
and exits as a means of informing customers in general public, but also would
be tasked with an obligation to explore a replacement supermarket at the vacated location.
So if you are a if you have a supermarket, and this doesn't just
go for Vond's or Safeway or you know which I guess are the big ones
out there in California. It's not just them, but you could just you
could be somebody who owns like a bodega style shop. Right, What classifies
you as a grocery store in California's pretty broad because California wanted to do the
thing or they required all stores to have fresh fruit, and they expanded it
to you know, quick marks and quick markets and gas stations. So yeah,
yeah, And if you want to close your store because you're getting rob
blind and the community tried to arsen you, you got to tell people for
six months, and after six months you need to have somebody else willing to
step in and deal with that. Which think about that, Think about the
inherent dishonesty that would almost be required in that real estate transaction, you know,
because a grocery if you're wanting to open a grocery store buying where an
old grocery store is is from a cost standpoint, probably going to be your
best option. One, hopefully it's it's at least in the right area to
be useful. But two, it's going to be fitted out right. All
the coolers you need around the back. Everything store is neat. I don't
know what all of it is, but that's gonna make it, you know,
that's gonna make it a lucrative way to go about what is already a
not very lucrative business unless you're really good at it because the margin is so
small. So the city of San San Francisco realized they had a problem.
Businesses are like bo no saying what it used to be, or the cost
of doing businesses too much, or we have to have everything locked up,
and then customers don't want to come here, like because of the hassle factor.
And I'm feeling that I did one twenty minute wait in a Walmart for
razor blades one time, and I swore never again, never again. Man.
So you know, a decision is made, and that decision has been
to close down in some cases to consolidate, Like you had brands that did
have multiple stores in San Francisco and well they may have closed, and you
know the downtown area which has turned into not the shopping district that used to
be. They it still limits consumer options because now instead of four locations,
maybe they have two. And so that's when lawmakers had to figure out,
well, how do we deal with this? Do you create an environment where
there is law and order and consumers and retailers, you know, feel that
they're able to conduct their business with a certain element of safety and satisfaction.
Do you strive for that or do you do what San Francisco has done and
create a law that, Hey, if you want to invest, and keep
in mind, if you're somebody who's thinking of investing, this is all information
that's now in your head. If I if I commit to try to do
business in this community, in this area where people are screaming, food,
desert, and after six months, I'm losing my butt so thoroughly due to
all of the problems that people have had. Now after I say I'm going
to shut down, the government's going to come in and force me to not
shut down at least for six months. Who the hell are who the hell
are you to come into some mob Pod grocery store where he's like, I'm
on my second mortgage. We're probably gonna lose the house, but I can't
do it anymore. And some bureaucrats say, you sell butter. Get out
there and sell butter now under penalty of you know, some some ungodly trumped
up moon bat punishment. We're gonna dole out like you're a j sixer for
making us look bad. And let me a couple of this. Let me,
have you guys heard what's happened in Minneapolis. Oh man, I'm telling
you there are just days. I am so glad and I like the city
of Minneapolis. I like the people. Yes, I even like ice fishing.
I love having the you know, everything that the woods of Minnesota provide.
There's a lot of rollover with North Carolina. That's why I love that.
But there's just something special about the Boundary waters and all its unique things.
In the same way that I I could wax nostalgic on all the opportunities
North Carolina provides. I think they're fundamentally both great states, especially if you
like the outdoors. But also, man, Minneapolis was on a that was
changing, and by the time I got out of there. It had it
had fully been served up to the moon beets, which is why I lived
out on out the lake Man. And I'm still on the press release and
I can't get off. I've tried to get off all the City of Minneapolis
press, so I go get them, and every day it is something more
and more insane, just absolutely giving it up. So in Minneapolis, the
city council, here we go, The city council recently voted in a new
wage requirement requirement which had been the topic of discussion for quite some time and
was opposed by most consumer groups as well as as you can imagine, representatives
from both Uber and Lyft. So what was it the council they jumped on
this same Seattle bandwagon when they're like, ah, we need to create a
minimum for Uber and Lyft drivers, and so that's what they did. However,
the minimum, which let's see, would create a all right, here
we go, a minimum of five dollars per ride. Okay, well that's
not a bunch one forty per mile. But the net result is to require
that anyone who drives for Uber Lyft currently averages fifteen fifty seven per hour.
So why is that important? Well, some people make a lot more than
that. Some people are able to make more than that, So a lot
of people aren't. Though you know they drive uber lyft, they maybe they
don't drive it with the the same fervor the guy who's constantly you know,
figured out where he's got a park. Have you ever been in an uber
where the driver like has it figured out and they like to tell you about
it, which is fine, like out of my little conversation in there,
and I like, people are passionate about stuff. And he's just like,
yeah, so if I'm from if I'm at RTP at the airport between these
two hours and then I'm by them all during this time, and then this
time, like you know, I'm I'm pulling in a decent little money.
And good for that guy. That's somebody went out and said I'm gonna do
this, but I'm gonna do it better. But it also shouldn't be a
knock on people who are casual uber lyft drivers. Right there are people who
go throughout the day and they're you know, they're out doing they're running errands,
they're doing stuff. Maybe they got a couple hours in there and the
you know, before the kids get off school. Maybe it's uh, you
know, you got to stay at home parent or whatever. And for those
two hours they drive a little bake a little extra income. Well, now
you got to go through and you got a calc during the time that they
were available, was this dollar amount received? And if not, Uber and
Lyft have to supplement that. And then the way that they supplement it is
they then build it into the pricing for the entirety of the community there.
And it's a giant pain and largely has such a negative impact where they've they've
run into this that Uber and Lyft just say no, we're not We're not
going to do that. There there are things, and you could agree or
disagree, right, but there are things that Uber and Lyft will pay and
do have additional things tacked on, bridge and tunnel stuff, and some cities
that have implemented congestion pricing, they'll build those in tolls things like that.
But when it comes to this, no, because now it's not a viable
option. So Uber and Lyft have announced that as of May first, which
is when the law goes into effect, they're out. That's right. In
their effort to do this and this thing that they were told if you do
this, we will know it's not we can't do business here because the math
doesn't math anymore. Now the entire city of Minneapolis will be without the ability
to use an uber or Lyft. That's crazy to me. And you know,
taxis is taxis in Minnesota were never that great. But also they you
know, they had to put up with Uber and Lyft coming in, so
already you have a fundamentally different playing field. But now the companies are to
say, we're not going to do it, We're not going to do this.
And I think this is more of a tactical political position now because then
all the cities be jumping on the carcass. But now Minneapolis Saint Paul,
one of the twentiest largest metros in the United States I think they're fifteenth,
will not have Uber and Lyft and will be at the whim for local cab
companies, which as somebody who on a lot of time in Minnesota pre Uber
and Lyft, getting a hold of a taxi at closing time when it's twenty
below is it's a problem. And you know, frankly, this probably will
have an impact on dui rates too, but it fits with the pattern doesn't
it right? So you got city officials here now they want to punish uber
lyft, figure out ways to force them to stick around. And in California,
if you're own a store, you make that investment, you lose your
behind. If you try to shut six months before six months, then there'll
be penalties, and I guess the government will come in and force you to
sell groceries or something. And that's the pattern many. You have a bunch
of democratic lawmakers who long for a world where people are forced to ply whatever
their trade is for free, under penalty and threat. Think about what that
sounds like, and maybe you'll understand why these democratic lawmakers are such a big
fan of this ross. Can you imagine a system where basically government bureaucrats and
wealthy, wealthy muckety MUCKs literally force people to provide labor to them for essentially
nothing, under penalty of some sort of punishment. Can you imagine a scenario
where democratic lawmakers set up a system like that? I can't even fathom it.
I can't e I can't either. What you know, what would you
even call something like that? Anyway? Seven forty five you ponder it race
stage iqre to give his weather two cents all right, man, Yes,
it was so simple once you figured out the why. It was a really
good strategy. Let the big dude from Produced eat you know, feast all
day, but limit them to one three point shot and Purdue is dead.
That worked, well A yeah, it did, they did. And what
what's it? Ben s it's a big ten's won a championship and been quite
a while, quite a while, but congrats to economy. And what's back
to back? Yeah? First since seven first since. Yeah. Now we
move on raining right now at Augusta. So the rain, yes, no,
I'm sorry, this is all right, go ahead, Okay, some
rain right now at Augusta. But I think the rain will taper off.
We'll get a break, but I think by Thursday we'll have more rain back.
But once it clears out and we'll get into Friday, Saturday, Sunday
should be some beautiful weather. So we'll see about first round I believe starts
Thursday, and that rain hopefully not impacting too much more than maybe the first
round, so hopefully you get out of that. Yeah, some of that
rain heading in our direction and some showers. Now, oh, I kind
of like the music was closed sess talking about Augusta anymore. There are rules
about all this moving towards Sandford and maybe faye Ville in the next hour.
So that's got a little batch of showers up or showers back to the west
of that, and I think we'll get some This big massive rain should weaken
a bit as it approaches low to mid seventies today, then'll break tonight,
a few showers, Tomorrow mid upper seventies, and then it's Thursday, Thursday
night that we'll see showers thunderstorms increase in intensity and coverage. Gonn have some
heavy rain. Hold I want to quote myself, I don't think we're under
a severe risk. I think I looked and we were going to stay out
of Yeah, well we'll stay for the most part out of the sphere weather
risk slight risk maybe for a couple of stronger storms. But I'm hoping that
even that line will weaken as we'll have a sphere weather outbreak today in northeast
Texas and then through parts of the South and again tomorrow and tomorrow night.
But hopefully as that line gets in our area, it does weaken as we
approach Thursday, so hopefully we'll get the rain out of here too. But
as I said, looks damp at least for a part of Thursday for the
Masters and then for us here too, eventually getting some beautiful weather. We
get past Thursday Thursday night, it is going to be great for Friday,
probably through Monday with a warming trend too. Alrighty, hey, can you
promise me something there? Yeah? Go ahead. Can you not be one
of these people that's gonna lose their crap over the cicadas? Have you seen
sitters or headlines? Have you seen the eclipse? No? No, no,
no, Now we're on to the cicadas. Oh, we're moving on.
Okay, right, you know now we're onto that CBS. This is
CBS News. Is actual headline. You're ready, hyper sexual zombie cicadas that
are infected with sexually transmitted fungus expected to emerge this year. Boy, because
this is a kind of crap. Now, I'm not knocking on you guys,
but this is the kind of ancillary stuff that the Weather Channel kind of
pick up because it's weather, but it's not really weather, and I just
CBS News. I mean, how do you get more doomsday than a bunch
of slutty cicadas with sps chasing after you. Well, listen, you can
knock on them. I do it all the time. Yeah, so could
you not? Can you not be part of the CBS problem here A,
I'm gonna put a note in. I'll make sure that. All right,
Well, they don't want the BRD flu man, everyone's losing their damn minds.
All right, thank you, sir appreciated. Seven forty nine. Oh
what if the cicadas, while getting the whatever or transmitting whatever STD they have,
are instead they get the Avian cow crossover human flu thing. I'm telling
you the journals would love it, all right, seven forty nine Cacoday Radio
program, Hang on, seven fifty four KCO Day Radio program, And all
right, prepare yourself to be shook. Everybody in a seated position. Make
sure you got your balance, ross, you're gonna all right, Please prone
yourself. Make sure everything's yeah, no, dug a giant hole. That
sounds safer, Yeah, absolutely, and not like the first part of that
horrible story with the kids at the beach view last week. All right,
So do you know who and Alexander Demadenko I would say he is, but
was mister Damidenko is a not a fan of Vladimir Putin. In fact,
Demadenko a Russian man who is has been described and I'm not the one labeling
this as the Russian shindler, and I'll explain why. But basically, a
man who reportedly since twenty twenty two, even though he had been in the
good graces of Putin and the Kremlin, was found the invasion of Ukraine problematic
and set out to help hundreds of Ukrainians in Russia return home. So basically,
these were Ukrainians that were living in Russia upper And you know, when
this first started, one of the things that Putin's crews were doing as they
were going, and they were wanting to get a hold of all of them,
claiming that, you know, spies and whatnot, but also just to
have the leverage. Well, the activists who set out and openly pushed back
on Putin had a little had a little whoopsie yesterday, all right. So
here's the series of events. So basically, demon deenco is out there.
He is he it's known what he's doing. He's I don't know if he's
quite oligarch, but dude's got some got some bread and was openly like this
is wrong. We're not going to do this and that that put him on
the radar of the Kremlin. Well, lo and behold here, just a
few weeks ago he was caught attempting to literally help cross back into Ukraine a
bunch of Ukrainians who had been stuck in Russia. All right, so they
take him into custody. He reportedly served ten days, was released with a
judge saying, you know, these charges seem a little trumped up here.
I don't know what's up. And he received a phone call saying, if
you wonder if you leave the country, it's going to be worse, following
which officers with the FSB showed up that night and lo and behold, when
they searched his house, the dude had hand grenades everywhere. Now he says,
he doesn't have any hand grenades in the Russian military hand grenades and it
was a plot, but now it's too late. He was then immediately returned
to prison. They then changed the judge, but unfortunately he will not face
his day in court. After an authority say as, he was returned back
to the gulag. Unfortunately, he was in an elevated cell and fell to
his death. Magic Series of events. Yeah, it's bad. Now,
Like whenever you hear you know, as an American, right at least for
myself, whenever I hear a random Russian name that I've never heard of before,
but you say it's a story. I just assumed they fell out a
window. Yeah, well, I don't know if it was a window.
Maybe been a roof here, So I guess our boots on the ground there,
You know him as a senator Ted Budd He joins us this morning,
How you doing, sir? Doing great? I I is it though,
because now I just realized I used a turn of speech that has military over
overtones, So now you probably don't want to be associated with me. They're
coming after me. So oh, boots on the ground, man, dude,
We're gonna the level of crazy gas lighting that that is going on up
there, and I'm gonna get to it here in just a minute. With
Adam Shift's little thing yesterday. Like I don't I don't know how you work
through I Like, I don't know how somebody expects you to work with somebody
like that, as bad as that sounds. And I know from time to
time, like you know, some lawmakers who may spit fire on the floor
of the House or the Senate will also find themselves doing lunch, which is
a thing that people have to wrap their head around. But watching the freak
out over Cash Pattel, watching the idea that he may be one of the
attorney general picks for Trump maybe and what he feels needs to happen with the
DOJ created a lot of consternation on MSNBC and CNN last night because they claim
Republicans when a weaponize the DOJ. But also it has me sitting there going,
look, weaponizing the DJ is wrong. I don't care who does it,
and then callers calling in and telling me I'm a coward for not going,
Hey, they started it, let's finish it. So I'm just curious
where your head's at because none of this, none of this sounds good,
but some of it sounds satisfying. Senator No. You know, you look
at see it in MSNBC, and that's a great litmus test to know if
they're fired up about something, if they're going apoplectic, we're probably doing the
right thing. So, I mean, you don't want to definitely take their
opinions, but if we're for pissing them off, then we're probably in a
good place. But generally, whether it's the DEM's being upset about DJ and
these claims and weaponization, whatever they're claiming we're doing, that's actually what they're
doing right now. I mean the whole gas lighting, the weaponization of government,
all that stuff. Look, that's what they've been doing for decades,
and finally people are waking up to it, and they're trying to scramble for
a response because they realize whether it's a red state or whether it's a blue
state or blue cities, people are ticked off. And I think the big
reconing is coming in November. Yeah, and here's where I get cynical on
this, Like, strategically, if i'm you, or not just you,
but I'm a Republican elected official up there, the last thing I want to
do is solve this thing before November. That's how cynical I am on all
of this stuff. So like, yeah, look, I get the politics
of that. You want the problem to be out there so that people are
ticked and they go to the poll. But look, that's not why they
sent me here. Look I get that they sent me here to fix it
yesterday, and so we got to I mean, we're working on the border
now, we're trying to solve you know, give Israel what they need.
Now, these aren't problems that you want to just linger out there. So
people show up at the polls. Now, whether Biden who is Look,
he's got Schumer in charge of the Senate, he's got the administration, he
is the president. So that's two out of three. You got a very
thin majority in the House. So these problems are very likely. I mean,
just looking at the numbers, they're going to be there. But we
have to fight no matter how many numbers we have, whether we're in the
majority, whether we're in the minority. You have to do the right thing
that people sent you to Washington for. Let me ask you two questions on
that front. Do you think in your opinion, and maybe you just have
to best guess, because obviously there's processor's due process, do you, as
a sitting member of the US Senate, do you think that there are people
within the DOJ, within the swamp, if you will, that have committed
things that rise to criminal levels and continue to I guess currently be unpunished.
Do you believe that in your heart of hearts, do you think that there
are people that frankly should face a jury. Well, let's look at the
law of large numbers. I mean, these are big organizations, way bigger
than they should be, so it's criminal in the size that they are,
so they need to not be as big. They got departments that don't even
need to exist. I'm not saying get rid of the DOJ, but I'm
saying it needs a good thinning and reorganization. So when you have a law
of large numbers and that many people the answers, absolutely are there going to
be people there that have done things wrong for sure, Like those who are
on the judiciary committees can probably name names. I'm not on that committee,
but I know there are major problems in people that they think that they are
doing the right thing when they wake up, but by golly, because of
complete wrong world views that they've adopted for probably decades of their lives, they're
just wrong. And it's probably illegal and unconstitutional as well. And you know,
the apparatus for that, as we've seen in some instances with may Orcus,
is an impeachment process. I wonder if we other than like in a
sporting way, like your team scored a touchdown, kind of raw raw.
I don't know that people take that process seriously anymore. And that's also partially
due to what we saw with Trump. So let's talk about that effort with
may Orcus. So there's others out there. What's going on with what did
I who? The Attorney General is not turning over some documents to a committee
where where well yeah, with this, yeah, I'd said, let's go
back to the may Orcus thing. We haven't scored a touchdown, but we
have been given the ball. And that's what happens right now. It's sort
of halftime right now, it has been halftime for two months. The House
is handing over the ball to us tomorrow when these articles of impeachment gets sent
over, what you're going to You're going to try to see Schumer grab the
ball and then run it up in the stands and out into the parking lot.
He's going to try to table the motion, not even have a trial
at all. There's been about eighteen to twenty one articles of impeachment that have
been sent over in the history of our country. All of them have resulted
in some form of a trial. They've never been tabled before. And he's
going to try to do something never happened in our nearly two hundred and fifty
years of history and not even have a trial. And we'll see what happens
Wednesday. So we're going to do every motion we can to make sure that
we have a trial. Will we win, Will all Republicans, Will the
Murkowskis stick together, will the Romneys? I have no idea, but there's
a great case that he Look, he has falsely testified to Congress that the
border is secure, and he has wilfully and systemically refused to comply with current
law. I mean, that's the current charges of the impeachment, and there's
tons of detail under that. So we need to get this to trial and
see if we can actually score a touchdown for the American people. But the
process correct me. If I'm Ryan and you know me, I'm just so
negative and I just bring it, you'd probably bring you down when you're here.
But I guess work in case, because you're still you still got a
show in a great audience. Yeah, well that's because they can't figure out
how to fire me or something. But no, but like, okay,
so you purge me orcus I just assumed that. Then they put some other
dumpster fire in there, like does do you think if the unexpected happens and
somehow you get the Senate vote. I mean, it's not probably not going
to happen with the math, but at the very least, do you think
that if he is pushed out of there, even if it's just through resignation,
that the Biden administration puts a more serious person in there recognizing the crisis,
or they double down on the it's all your fault. Just from what
I've seen over the past three and a half years, they double down.
I really think like their worldview does not allow him to solve the problems that
the American people are asking us to solve. Whether it's energy problem, you
know, or gas at the pump, whether it's grocery stores. All they
want to do is put in more laws, more mandates to solve these problems,
and that's not what we need. He needs less government, not more
to solve these problems. But when it comes to enforcement of existing laws,
they don't want to do that unless it just hurts the American people. So
I just think that their worldview does not allow them to solve this problem at
the border or whether it's at the gas pop. I mean, it's complete
dysfunction up there for things that work for America. Well, obviously they have
an opposition of the gas pump prices. That's why they just decided not to
refill the oil reserve. So I mean it's it's like, okay, so
you recognize there is a problem when it's you're pumping your tank, so to
speak, but not us all right. Second question, Senator I said I
had two. Do you think, and this will be a crossover, do
you think that there were individuals who abuse the PISA process? And I think
the biggest example in most people's minds is where one Yahoo News article based on
one dots the two were independently treated as double sourcing for the purpose of issuing
PISA warrants on Trump officials within the campaign. Do you believe that people did
abuse it and that something needs to be done prosecutorial or from a law change
standpoint? Where do you stand on FIZA with now this renewal being in the
news. So the bottom line for your question is absolutely it has been abused
and it is a good tool. That's why I mean, I think you
mentioned baby with the bathwater. You don't want to throw it all out.
It is a good tool that has unfortunately been abused. I mean, they've
used a hammer to hit the wrong thing, are the wrong people, and
they've you know, what we need are safeguards, the safeguards at seven or
two to protect innocent Americans. We need to use it to counter our enemies
abroad. We've used it to help stop terrorist attacks in the United States.
We've used it to stop peel presses coming in and fentanyl precursors and chemicals coming
from China to Mexico. But at the same time, it's you know,
and we use it to gather intelligence on China, Russia, and the Mexican
drug cartels. But I've got huge concerns about uses of seven or two by
the FBI, and it has got to be reformed. That's why you just
don't want to rubber stamp it as it is. You need to bring it
up and we need to start amending it with things that solve the problems that
we've had over the last several years of abuses. Okay, And like I
agree with you, and I think that there are others who share that opinion.
But it looks very business as usual with what's going on at least on
the House side. Is there going to be an opportunity for you guys to
make some waves at the Senate side saying, hey, you can't just put
this in as is, we need to fix it, or or how does
how does the process work? Well, let's look at the you know,
back to the numbers game. You've got a one vote majority giver or take
in the House. Out of a body of four point thirty five, it
takes two to eighteen to have a majority, and you've barely got that.
The great thing about US Republicans is that we're very independent. The horrible thing
about US Republicans sometimes we're way too independent, so we don't always stick together.
So you're going to have some straying, and I think this doesn't cut
clean the around party lines. You've got some privacy advocates on the Democrat side,
and you've got a lot of privacy advocates on the Republican side. So
I think we're going to see some reforms. And then you've got people that
want to completely throw it out. I don't think that's workable to throw it
out. What you don't want to do is put Mike Johnson in jeopardy as
he navigates through some very precarious political times right now. So I think we're
going to see it come up because it expires on the eighteenth or nineteenth of
this month, So we've got to deal with it this week or next,
and then I think you're going to see some of those amendments get worked through
over here in the Senate. So it remains to be seen. But I
don't think it's going to be rubber stamped as it is. I think that's
unworkable. Now. Obviously, yesterday you had the eclipse. I don't know
were you in DC, were you in North Carolina? I was on an
airplane on like row fifteen in the aisle, you know, so it didn't
have much of a view. Oh okay, but is that a that's an
exit row, wasn't it. Yeah? I don't think it was on this
plane. Yeah, you know, if that door had popped off, I
would have had a really good view. I mean, yeah, that or
it you know that or the engine cover so everyone's glued against the windows like
on the Southwest flight. You know. Let me ask anyway, Yeah,
let me ask you a question actually, because I think this this does cross
over some of your committee stuff I had. Let me let me say this,
I have an affinity for Boeing. My grandfather worked for Boeing on my
mother's side, and you know we he was I remember as a kid he
used to get me like the little models and stuff from both I was super
excited about it. So I have that affinity just from a family standpoint.
But I can't help but you know, watch what's going on with all of
this stuff post Alaska Airlines flight. They didn't put bolts in. It wasn't
even in the safety manual, this thing that apparently was violated. And I'm
sitting there looking at it, and I have to ask myself, because I've
been in this business enough. Is this the summer of the Shark where you
know, at the end the you would have thought Jaws ran rampant, but
in reality it was the same number. Because some aviation officials say, look,
this is these things happen. And anyone who fliving on a flight where
the front tires blew out and they fifty to fifty we were going to land
on a stick, right, and so we were doing the whole brace brace.
So is this being elevated by the media or do we have really big
problems with Boeing that might need God forbid government to stick their nose in it.
Yeah, I think it's some of both. One, it's a recency
effect. It is newsworthy, and you know, you don't hear about all
the planes that made it safely, and you just hear about the ones with
problems. And so I think it is you know, you don't hear about
all the people that swam safely on the beach. You hear about the ones
that you know, I had a shark incident somewhere around our country of three
hundred and some million people. So I think there is some of that.
That's a cognitive bias. That's the recency effect. So I think we're we're
hearing a lot more of these and that's whether they're large or small. You're
going to hear about anything regarding an airplane right now, and there's millions of
miles flown in relatively short periods of times, thousands of lights every day.
But when you do hear about something, you're it's definitely front of mind right
now. But I think there's but also, look, I don't want to
be dismissive. There are some problems in there that have accumulated over the years,
and they got very very complex supply chains. For instance, in Kinston,
North Carolina, there's a great company, spirit Eraw that makes actually the
air bus fuselage and so that gets shipped, you know, around the world
and so these but Spirit Air Arrow in a different place, in a different
factory actually makes fuselages for Boeing. That was Spirit Arrow was related to the
Alaskan Airways. But somewhere in that chain you got to figure out who's responsible.
But it's not like it's a big factory. Then all of it is
done in one place, but ultimately, when Boeing delivers the plane, they're
responsible for it, and then when the Laska Airline takes it or whatever airline,
they're responsible for it at that point. And ultimately it comes up responsible
for the pilot and command that it's a safe aircraft. So there's a lot
of responsibility at different periods of time, including in the manufacturing process. But
they will work this out. But I would say, let's be cognitive of
our own minds and how we look at recent incidents like this, and it's
marks you know, it's safe, and it's probably safer than going on a
ride at the fair. Yeah, well, I mean, obviously we've got
history here in North Carolina. All right, minute and a half. Last
question. This is an actual headline Senator from CBS News hyper sexual zombie cicadas
infected with sexually transmitted fungus expected to emerge. So they're full freak out on
that. You couple it with the Avian cow crossover human discussion, and people
start getting the you know, the goosebumps up, like, oh man,
like are we going to have health experts? Are we going to do the
COVID thing all again? How do you and sure that even if there is
some concerns out there that you guys don't lose your mind again as a government,
not just you specifically, but how do we not do this all over
again when they've got two different things they're freaking out over one minute go ahead
for Yeah, First of all, you don't want a government grant or a
college study on this funded by US taxpayers. That sounds like something that they
would do. The other is, you want to win the majorities in the
House, get a bigger majority. You want to win the majority in the
Senate. You want the president and his administration. That way, you're at
the president's administration. You don't have you don't have bad ideas getting into regulation.
If you have the Senate and you have the House, you can surface
the hearings of bad ideas and expose these things. And that's why it's so
important to have the House and to have the Senate majorities, so that you
can expose the bad ideas of the left and hold government accountable. Well we'll
see, but if they're going to try to lock us down with slutty cicadas,
I'm going to lose my mind. So Senator, I appreciate it.
Thank you very much. Sand We'll talk soon. Okay, great, thanks,
Watch out for the cicadas. Man. All right, we got to
go to break. We'll be right back. Hang on KCO Day radio program.
Wait hold on, let me read this email from Alexandra, who listens
to the show. Says, Hey, I like the show, even like
the silliness, but I don't understand it when you're interviewing somebody with a h
I don't know what you mean by that man, basically somebody who's a muckety
muck. But because it's how we do things around here, and sometimes it
can be a little disarming too. When you're also talking about a serious thing.
So I'm assuming you're referencing the cicadas. And here's the deal. While
the CBS news headline is peak stupid, hyper sexual zombie cicadas, their infected
was actually transmitted fungus, right, Like that's a well, maybe technically accurate,
it's just it's also crazy dumb. And then you couple that with some
of the discussions that I've seen with avian avian flu concerns, and this year's
batch could be one hundred times worse than COVID. And I asked these things
not I asked these things not purely just to be able to crack jokes on
CBS's headline, but if you listen to the substance of the question, more
so on the avian flu side. But I have not, and I don't
think many people have have heard a satisfactory explanation, promise, apology comments on
things we've learned that I feel that even today's crop of politicians wouldn't probably do
a lot of the same stuff they did during COVID. So yeah, that's
why I'm asking it. That's why we're asking it like that. And if
you don't think that there are people who are salivating to be able to just
remember, these are folks who run around most days going, man, you
know, if we just got this socialism right in the minds of some of
the true control freaks during this who whose ego won't allow them to admit that
they screwed up, even when we were adjusting juvenile COVID numbers yesterday, even
when the learning loss of kids and the actual safety within a school setting,
while all of these things proved to move in the direction of people who were
critical with the decision the governments were making. Many of these leaders will never
admit that they were wrong, or the very least they'll know they're wrong,
but will also bow to pressures from special interest groups. And by the way,
that's on both sides. So yeah, I'm gonna ask that question.
And you know, one of the things that the Senator said is he said,
you know, we have to president there is not going to do this
well. And I hope that's because Trump learned, because Trump was not immune.
Remember he was the one who stood up there with the you know,
the two weeks or fifteen days to slow the spread. So yeah, yeah,
I'm gonna ask that stuff. Okay, but I look, your email
wasn't nasty, but understand the method to my madness. Also, you know,
the CNN thing's so stupid, everyone should know about it, so I
just thought i'd pass it along, all right, anyway eight eight eight nine
three four seven eight seven four All right, let me get over to this.
Yeah, a couple Oregon stories. So you probably know by now that
the one point three billion dollar jackpod, which was a a single ticket was
sold in Portland, orgon the single ticket match in all six numbers, along
with the you know, the powerball obviously one point three two six. I
don't know what that is if you take the payout and everything, but it's
a crap ton of money. But here's the headline. A mystery power ball
player in Oregon who won the staggering jackpot is still yet to come forward.
Now, they got a year to do it. And when you're talking about
money that big, if you're doing this responsibly, we shouldn't see your face
for a little while. You got to get you got to get stuff in
order, right, You got to get you pretty much. You got to
protect yourself, right because the moment it's announced, everyone you've ever known,
everyone you've ever walked past on the streets is going to be up in your
grill and people. And they're also very very high, high level scammers.
You know, these are these are the folks that they wait for in the
newspaper to try to stick their nose in. So yeah, but also I
didn't realize it was Portland. Just when I heard it was in North Carolina,
I didn't care. So so okay, I what moon bat do you
think won this thing? That's my big That's what I'm more worried about.
Like, can you imagine they're gonna idiot but I'm sorry you then they're gonna
invest in like a like a super duper high tech jazz chopped area. That's
what I'm like, dude, That's what I'm sitting there, Like, what
if one of these Antifa idiots won, right, and they're like sure,
yeah, yeah, we're gonna do this, but we have a force field
because you know, they got a little bit of a budget to work with.
Surely they would give them money away. Sure do you do you think?
I mean, surely if the communist won the billion dollar jackpot, they'd
give it away to the people, right, sure? Can you can you
imagine the level of dumb assy that three quarters of a billion or what this
thing is post taxes. Remember when they were trying to build the garden with
the dirt on the gard they just put down the cardboard in the concrete and
they poured like one level of dirt on it. And yeah, yeah,
I remember, I believe we had and remember it was it was a non
whites garden, right, don't forget Yeah, you're right, yeah, yeah,
yeah, so yeah, he can have all the racist gardens they want
now they can. Can you imagine the Portland police show up and it's like
they're trying to take the courthouse again. They're like, oh, not this
crap again. They show up and it's just them and then Blackwater standing there.
Oh my gosh. They hired mercenaries, right, all right, Antifa
but with the A team. Huh dude, that can you imagine? That'd
be the saddest thing ever if that van went to Antifa. Be so sad.
Yeah. The last time I saw an Antifa van, and I'm at
an anarchist van was in Minneapolis and they cracked it open right ahead of the
RNC and it was filled with hundreds of poop and pea bombs I'm just saying
they're gonna have upgraded equipment this time. But you know, if you still
want to go with the van, more power to you. Yeah. I
can't even imagine what a bunch of these idiots would use that money for it,
But I'm sure it's not good. I did check. It wasn't my
sister either, So all right, here we go. The current cash value
six hundred and twenty one million, yeah, or one point three three over
twenty nine years. If it was your sister, do you think she'd give
you some of the money. I wouldn't ask her for any of those.
I don't think he would. But do you think she'd out of the kindness
of her own heart, which would be like, hey here, here,
dude, have some money. I think if if it was that that sister,
I think that Yeah, I think she probably would. But she's she
never struck. She's not a particularly greedy person, which is you know,
she's I've always liked that about her. But so she would always do things
like she would give away presents and stuff when she was a kid. So
I think that sister would be like, here's a million dollars for all of
you, Because I think we've all thought about that. I know I have.
I've processed that. I've thought about that information. Like if I won
the power Ball, who would I give money too? Like I have a
list of people, and I know I would give me, and I would
give you, give you. I would too, I'd pay off your mortgage.
I would. I would give you a bunch of money, a lot
of money, and you never have to work again. I would do the
same thing for my sisters, my mom obviously, yeah, I got I
would I bulldoze Michael's house and then buy him a new one. I would
get Linko on those drum sets with headphones, soy yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah for sure. Yeah, I you know, but it
wasn't her. But what if she didn't, though? Would you would you
feel? Would you would leave a party? You be upset? Like I
can't believe this sort of a you know, not really, I you know,
I haven't got into all the details of everything, you know, everything
that's ever been a family thing for me. But there was as we were
reorganizing the ranch ownership, because it's complex when you're in a test and all
of that, there was there was an opportunity where I was kind of surprised
that a family member was being how they were. But I just acquiesced because
I don't want the hassle because it wasn't about the money. And I was
over in like two seconds. So I don't know. But I know some
like blood feuds can form, so but I I until you're presented with it,
I don't know. I'll tell you what. She wouldn't blow the money.
She literally is like she was. She is a financial muckety muck for
a chain, a hotel chain up in the north Northwest, and she's always
she's always been very fiscally responsible. I don't even know she'd spend it all.
I would give a bunch away too. My mom's the same way.
There's no way she'd she'd move out of Schnenectady. She'd she'd stay in the
same house. She wouldn't move. And she'd be like, well, at
least I can order pizza when I want one, now, I guarantee you
That's what she would say. If I'm hungry, that's great. And and
if she sees any any Yankees players flip their bats, she can afford a
billboard to shame them. So all right, do what you're gonna do all
right, race st agent from the Weather Channel, just trying to figure out
who in the Oregon won the giant power ball, and then I had this
horrible thought that it might be one of those Antifa people, and I was
just like, can you imagine the damage they could do with seven hundred mil
cash? Right, They're gonna get that a lot of money. Man.
They're like, oh, we brought in the fresh four in legion stand back,
So all right, all right, let's do this thing, because we
got to deal with the little crap before we get to the good stuff.
But the good stuff beings massives later this week. So yeah, and today
we'll see some showers already seen some around the try it start to roll east
toward the triangle, So a few showers around today, No widespread rain,
just kind of a nuisance mid seventies if you get showers at the right time,
may not hit seventy five, but most of us in that range.
Tonight cloudy fifty nine, tomorrow slight chance of showers again near eighty, and
then tomorrow night the Thursday, the shower chance will start ramping up, especially
Thursday afternoon Thursday night, where we may start seeing some heavier rainfall come in,
and then by Friday, Saturday and Sunday some beautiful weather which is gonna
linger it the Monday. We're gonna get back up near eighty degrees by the
end of the weekend early next week. So we get through today tomorrow,
which there won't be a lot of rain, and especially Thursday and Thursday night,
we're gonna have a real nice run coming on up for the Masters.
If you are so inclined. It looks like the first round may be hampered
by areas of rain and thunderstorms. There'll be one rounds Thursday morning, maybe
a break, and then another round probably coming in in the afternoon, and
then by Friday and the weekend it should be beautiful. All right, Thank
you, sir, have a good one, and we'll come back with Jeff
Bellinser next hang on. Good morning, casey. Major averages ended yesterday's session
on Wall Street within tiny fractions of a percent where they started the day.
Right now, it looks like we could start out higher this morning. Now.
Futures are up four twenty four points. Tesla shares were among the winners
yesterday. They were up five percent after Elon Musk promised to unveil a Tesla
Robotaxi. This summer. General Motors Crewis division will resume testing of its robotaxis.
Sources say the vehicles will hit the streets with safety drivers in Phoenix.
Economists were surprised this morning by the latest reading on small business optimism. The
National Federation of Independent Business reports business operators were in a funk. Last month,
optimism dropped to a more than eleven year low. Apple's fighting last year's
International Trade Commission decision that forced it to end US sales of certain Apple watches.
The company claims the ITC overstepped its authority when it ruled that Apple watches
with oxygen saturation monitors violated a patent owned by the medical device maker Massimo.
Sales of the watches have resumed after Apple disabled that monitoring feature best Bias,
deploying artificial intelligence to streamlines operations. The company says new tools will be able
to assist customers with order deliveries and scheduling, and also helped store and call
center workers to do their jobs. Schools may do a good job with reading,
writing, and arithmetic, but a majority of middle income Americans give schools
an f when it comes to finances. Two thirds of the people surveyed by
Primerica feel they were not taught enough about how they would manage their personal finances
as adults and Casey A Customers at a chicken restaurant New York City are waited
on by cashiers who are based in the Philippines. The founder of a tech
company who dined at the restaurant told Fortune, a friendly cashier appears on the
screen, stands by while he places his order at a kiosk, and then
controls the restaurant's point of sale system remotely. Rather interesting. I thought,
Casey's the what's the name of the restaurant? I had it here, I
didn't put it in if I can. I don't know if I can find
it. Because the Philippines has a chain that they started opening some here in
the US. It's kind of like there McDonald's. I can't remember the name
of it. I remember it wasn't good because they have it elsewhere I've eaten.
I've actually eaten in one of them, but like they it has chicken
and then spaghetti and then burgers. Oh, like it has everything. But
I don't know if it's that. Yeah. This was described as a Japanese
fried chicken restaurant that I can't locate it in my fe all right, no,
probably I'm problem. All right, Well, there you go, Thank
you much, Jeffrey, have a good day. All right, There you
go. Jeff Bellinger from Bloomberg News. You know, I saw this story
and now that I actually started in my brain processing it. What's the big
deal? All right? So speaking of we're just in Oregon, let me
stay there. Environmentalists are raising the alarm after a truck with the Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife. It's a it's what's called a release truck. So
it looks like you know, it looks like a gas truck or a milk
you know, or something and haul and liquid you see on the road.
But instead of that in there is fish, right, so trout, salmon,
all of that. If you've ever seen how they do the restocking,
the big restocking, it's pretty amazing. One of the one of the big
fish farms in the US is actually near where I grew up in Wyoming.
And I'm not saying me and my buddy's snuck in there to fish, but
the fishing is really good, So don't do that. But you know,
the watching the they do the trout stocking through Montana, Wyoming, Utah.
Pretty amazing, all right, So why am I bringing it up? So
the truck turn went sideways on a sharp corner, overturned, rolling down an
embankment, and losing its entire load of one hundred and two thousand chinook salmon,
which they only have so many to work with, and it is so
important they get them to where they need to or it could quote spell disaster
for the salmon population. All right, So here here's the twist. Here's
why I'm telling you. The truck flipped over and loads spilled into looking Glass
Creek, which is a tributary of what is it the Ronde River, I
can't remember the name of the middle, but it all goes into the Snake
River, which is the which is the friggin river they were stalking. So
I'm sorry. Was there an accident that could threaten the salmon population or the
fact that you dumped him into the water which connects to the water you wanted
to dump him in and they all swam away, well most of them.
They did lose some they just didn't make it into the water, but the
majority of them made it in I'd say that you found, I'd say that
you were. You get a gold star. You're the most efficient workers, sir