All right, so you're on team You're on team coincidence, right. Ross
is acting like I just sold Jesus for thirty pieces of silver. I'm just
saying that I woke up this morning, my stomach's like, you know,
like when you eat a bunch of buffalo wings. And now I'm looking back
at what I had yesterday for dinner, and I was running around, I
was doing errands. It was a busy day, and I'm like, oh,
I don't want to cook dinner, so I got take out from the
olive garden. You're telling me there's no coincidence, that's not even possible.
No, there's no way. But I mean, if you ever have been
to Tuscany, because that's where the chefs are trained in. I've been to
Tuscany, O. The plumbing is elite. Actually actually when you go mostly
let me let me just tell you this as somebody who hasn't traveled all around
a lot of places in the world, the plumbing is not elite, but
Tuscany it is. I mean in the tourist areas, yes, but like
there's whole swass of the world that if you go, you can't even put
toilet paper in the toilet. Did you know this? And they have trash
cans. They have these separate trash cans next to the toilet. That's where
all paper products is supposed to go. It's gross. So just you know,
FYI on that. Sorry, it was literally right for the show.
I ran away and Ross is probably like, where did he go? And
I just send him a text from the Little Boys room. But nobody wants
to hear that at six in the morning. Unfortunately it's Friday, so you
get to hear it. So anyway, we're gonna get through this. Pete
calendar will help us get through it. That's coming up eight oh five today.
And boy oh boyd, we got a lot to talk about with the
police bodycam stuff. I know we didn't get into it yesterday, but obviously
that was excuse me, that was part of our several days of our shows.
This week, we will get into that. Boy. And there is
some interesting news coming down in the world of Merrick Garland and Anthony B.
Lincoln, the Secretary of State and the Attorney General as it pertains to Hunter
Biden, Hunter Biden's laptop, all of that insanity. This stuff in any
other era would have been like super maximum scandal. It would have been crazy.
So we will uh well, we'll we'll touch on the details. It's
I don't want to say it's complex. It's mildly complex. But anyway,
So I had soup these zupp at Tuscana. What's your preferred? What's your
preferred soup? The you like the chicken in? What I'm trying to think?
What is the Oh you're the Italian wedding guy. Okay, what's the
newest one they entered? I tried it once. I'm like, nah,
it's no z up at Tuscana? What was that? The chicken in Joki
naki rum Ah, it's up at Tiskana. Farstity, the Corleone chicken?
Is that what it's called? The corrion Corleone chicken? Um? I like
the Italian sausage with the kale and all that. So a salad and I
had uh linguini and meatballs, not spaghetti and meatballs. And I'm sorry,
those meatballs are elite? Can we just agree on that as far as I
mean, it's my unbiased opinion. I think the entire place top tier.
But the meat balls are better than they should be for the price point.
Is I mean it's yeah, you're right, it's authentic Italian cuisine. Ah,
when you're there your family. Nobody treated me as family. I was.
I was treated as a person who wanted to give them twenty ash dollars
and they wanted to give me a thing of food. So and they took
your face and they kiss bull cheeks. Uh no, No. The girl
that handled the take out, she was very nice. I will say that.
I will say that she was very nice, but there was no kissing
involved. Although I'm not gonna lie. You know, weekend's coming up.
If she'd have given me the you know, the the nice little flirty eye,
I don't know. Maybe, although at that point I would feel obligated
to take her to Olive Garden, which probably wouldn't wouldn't impress her because she's
just swimming in it daily. So but all right, well it must be
something. We'll just go that it's something else. You know what it was?
It was probably the caesar salad I had for lunch. I had left
over caesar salad from another thing. But all right, trying to get to
the bottom of it. But don't worry, we're gonna truck through the show.
Not a fear just uh, you know, just one of those things
this morning, and it's Friday, and nobody likes that, all right.
Also coming up on the show, got crash Chest Dummies. Nope, not
that, not the band from the nineties, but our own little little discussion
on because apparently Mayor Pete is just awesome according to according to the chick from
various fantasy movies from the nineties, BuzzFeed is in the news, but for
a good reason. And we will get into this the where is it?
AOC has decided that something she did back when she first came into office was
apparently such a win that she has to recreate him. All right, So
with all that mind, there's a little rundown for you. We'll dive right
into it all. Coming up here on the case od Radio program celebrating ten
years and still going strong. Thank you. Casey is on ninety four five
WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle.
All right, good morning, it is six nineteen. You're on the Casey
O Day Radio program. All right, my board is was on crack this
morning. Um, everything sounds correct, now, what so what did we
have? We had some sports guy using my studio. Yeah, I guess
he came in last night from Fox Sports Radio some using your your like everything
in there, and they moved everything. Then everything, they moved everything you
had in your studio into my studio, like the mini fridge. Stop,
that's not a thing on the other side over there, everything that you had
and your student. Why can't see the mini fridge from the board. It's
so it's over on the on the opposite side of your board that's normally there.
It's in here. I walked in this morning, I'm like, what
the heck is this? All right? Now? I gotta I'm sorry.
I had no idea you were frustrated this morning, but I thought it was
just like I thought maybe you had olive Garden as well, So I didn't
all right, good lord, all right, No, everything's fine. I
the now it's now. It sounds it sounds, you know how that it's
it's so weird because the audience doesn't hear the difference. I'm convinced of that,
right, But you and I we can walk into any studio where we
worked the day before, or any audio chain for that matter, or any
anything, right, and then the moment like somebody moves a slight little slider
on the board, you can tell the difference and and like, and it's
just the OCD nature being in radio where you you know, you're you're trained
to listen for all this stuff. Whereas once it leaves the studio and goes
through the whole process and the exciter and eventually the tower or the digital chain
for those streaming it, you can't notice the difference. They touched your board
too, didn't they They always do. Yes, you want to make an
enemy of Ross for life, go in and mess with his board when he's
not. It's not just the board, like I can deal if you're messing
with you know, different sliders are taking this out of program whatever. What
pisces me off is that my board has a specific thing that messes with the
EQ of the headphones. Because I've been doing this like you for like twenty
five years, and my hearing isn't exactly great, so I have any I
have a thing that messages with the EQ. So I turned the high end
up right, it messed the low end. And sometimes people come in and
they're like, oh, what cause this sounds and they move it all around
and then I put my headphones in the morning and I can't hear anything,
and it drives me insane, Like if you if you use something, put
it back to what you found it. I believe it's legal to firebomb one's
car, not with them in it. Not with them in it, of
course, but you know, just to send a message like an old mob
thing or right where that scene where they're walking towards their car and all of
a sudden it blows up, to send a message like the Brad Pitt in
the One Ocean's movie where where he blew up one of his cars just to
be like, you need to pay me back all of my money I got.
I gotta say this, if you're ever in a situation where your car
does tragically blow up and possibly things your fiance or wife is inside it?
Right, Oh no, what what will make you feel bad? What'll take
that pain away? Is the poor Leoni Chicken from Olive Garden was the wife
in this scenario, just learning to drive. She was, Yeah, that's
sad because she's probably by the way, How did I How have I never
seen an interview before with al Pacino where they ask him whether Godfather one or
Godfather Two's better? Wouldn't that be the first. If we had al Paccino
on the show, wouldn't that be the first question you'd want to ask him,
just to settle that. Are you on team one or team two?
But I am on team one. Love on both movies. I think they're
both fantastic, bull reserving of the best picture I have. I really have
nothing negative to say about either of them, but I prefer one over two.
Gee, I prefer two over one. But I'm with you. It's
by an inch, and it's just maybe it's just I like the whole back
and forth of the timelines. But if you, if you've said I force
you to renounce that you have to go, I wouldn't be far off doing
that. And then the second question would just be me looking at Pacino Gone
number three, And then I wouldn't ask anything, but I would say that.
And I think that in and of itself would be an acceptable question.
And what would the answer? The only answer that would appease me is him
taking his wallet out, holding it up as a visual, and then putting
it back in his pocket, because at least that would be honest. There,
so I'm reading something? Or do you do you not want him to
make any excuses. Do you want him just to beg forgiveness when you bring
up three or actually had? Maybe the better answer would be, what do
you mean three? What are you talking about? Where al Pacino himself has
blocked out the existence of Godfather three. I would just, I just I
don't want to make him feel comfortable. I appreciate him. I would like
to take him out to the Olive Garden maybe have some some Alfredo sauce.
Did you know the Alfredo sauce is named after Fredo from the Godfather at the
Olive Garden? Did you just make up a new fact that's now canon?
Is that? What? Just? Sure? Do you know how much cannon
the show has provided for the world? All right, so now the Alfredo
sauce was named after Fredo? Well that was that's horrible considering you know spoiler
alert what happened. I did not have the Fredo sauce yesterday. I had
them. I had the meatballs with linguini and the um the five cheese.
So rather than the meat, they will sub that for you. Just ask.
They're very I guess when you're dealing with family, they're they're they're willing
to do that. So no, I was reading a Pacino interview yesterday and
they were asking him. Mean, he didn't really give an answer, but
he actually deviated it. He kind of did, though I think he's been
he's being diplomatic political about it, but he did so he did give an
answer. He kind of did, but it was based on screen time.
Would you agree with that? No? Okay, well, maybe I'm misinterpreted
this. Hold on, all right, let me all right. At one
point during the interview, the star Wars asked if he thinks the original Godfather
is superior to the second one. He said, no, I don't.
I really think it's more what would you call it, artistic or something?
I don't know. I don't mean to play it down and be overly modest
because I start in it with Bob de Niro, but at the same time,
it's a different film, So you think that's him hard selecting too.
No, I read that paragraph over and over again because you know how much
I love the film. The way I interpreted it, he was saying the
first movie was better than the second movie because it was more artistic. Yeah,
all right, all right, I mean, he goes on because that
paragraph in the article was on it and it talks about how the second one
is more linear, whereas the first one is more artistic, and like he
talks about the individual scenes and how there's a lot going on in every scene,
but that's how the second one is more of a linear movie. I
guess I the way that I read it, I understand where you're coming from.
The way I read it is it sounded like him kind of not wanting
to pick a favorite and just saying, well, they're not. It's like
you can't compare two movies that one is artistic and one is more storytelling versus.
But you think that was him heart selected. There's yeah, I really
do. There's certain there's certain scenes in the first movie, Man, like
the opening, wedding, them in the kitchen, making the pasta. There's
these certain scenes where you watch it and I when I watch, I don't
feel like I'm watching a movie. I feel like it's like you're getting like
a like a sneak peek and as somebody's actually like kitchen, there's somebody's wedding,
and it's just you know, not necessarily like the Vito Corleon, you
know, study scenes, but like just the scenes where they're side dancing,
you know, It just reminds me of certain portions of New York where you
would have, like I said, we would have the Italian Feast and these
these uh, these big parties with all the Italian food and stuff, and
it's it reminds me. It's like it's like a sneak peak of what it
was really like what it seems like. It seems like I wanted. I
wanted when I was when I was in New York, when I was literally
I was in Staten Island, and it's it's not that far from where I
was. I wanted to, but I would have had to take a cab
over there, and I thought the guy would think I'm weird. But I
wanted to go and just take a picture, like in the front of that
house, because it's still there. I think it was for sale here a
couple of years ago too, but get a picture in front of it.
And I never did, but I've looked at it on Google Earth. All
right. Well, he had a couple other things to say too, which
I thought were interested. We may get into that. It's from celebrating ten
years of keeping you connected. This is ninety four five WPTI in the triad
and one oh six one FM talk and the Tryal wait, so so wait,
people are tweeting at us making fun of your board. Now what did
you just say? Hold on? What happened? Well, I mean they're
making fun of both of our boards to get the conversation. That's a fire
tweeting. That's great. Look what they did to my board? Love it?
Okay, they shot my board dead in the causeway? Why why did
they don't know what they do? I don't know. Do you have to
call in undertaker and bakers and all that? You have to call in favors?
Now, I mean, what's gonna happen? Okay, I get the
all that is funny. I'm telling you it sounds OCD is all get out,
But just translate it to what it is you do for a living,
because I promise you the same example, Like, yeah, all right,
So I had one uncle who's a mechanic ian. He really doesn't work as
a mechanic, but he was a mechanic. And yeah, he works obviously
in the ranch environment, and but he has like I'm pretty sure that he
owns part of the company at snap On, right, So he had all
the big red cases. If you went over to his garage and every tool
I believe that's ever been made, And if you won, you had to
be on the list to be able to borrow a tool. But I promise
you, if you borrowed a tool, got done with it, went back
over to phills, open the drawer where you knew the tool to be,
and you put it right where it was. But it was one eighth of
one degree slightly tilted one way or the other. Hell would rain down upon
you. So whether if you have a cube or desk and somebody tweaked something
slightly or borrows it's that. It's that right there. For us, that's
just our version of it. I'm sure other people deal with that as well.
So it just it throws you off, especially, let me tell you,
especially early early morning, if one thing's out of place, it can
ruin your whole morning. If one thing's out of place when you're trying to
leave your house at o dark thirty in the morning, Like let's say you
for ten seconds you can't find your keys. Somehow that will compound into fifteen
minutes behind schedule. And I don't know how it works, what the deal
is, but yeah, you screw with a board. That's a problem mentally,
you know, in the in the grand scheme of things, it's not
the end of the world, but that's how that goes, all right,
eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four h Let me dive into
just a couple of things. So, um, yesterday was meltdown day over
on Twitter, as they finally purged the legacy blue check marks. By the
way, I lost mine, not on the show account, but my personal
account had a legacy blue check mark, although I only had it for like
a very short period of time, and I'm sure I slipped through the cracks.
But what I didn't do when I saw that it was gone, although
I almost took a screenshot and was going to make a joke post about it,
but I didn't because there was too many people really flipping out and I
was too busy laughing on all of those idiots. I don't know that it
ever benefited me, because mostly I didn't tweet from my main account. I
would just use it to retweet stuff. However, although the only time there
was one time it benefited because like last year, somebody made a fake account
of me, which was they, and then they sent one tweet on the
account. Ever, because I reported in and that one tweet that they sent
went viral, and so I was more irritated that somebody made a fake tweet
about of my account sent a tweet and it was it performed better than I
believe any tweet on my personal account ever did. We've had show the show
account tweets have done well, but on my personal account it went went viral.
And so in that sense, the blue check actually was helpful if people
were trying to delineate, but other than that, it was just there.
And ironically I was trying to get the show account verified and I used I
entered my personal account to show that, and they ended up verifying my personal
rather than the show, which was irritating. But anyway, but it obviously
everyone was losing their mind. Who swears that they're leaving And I want to
say that that meme about it's not an airport, you don't have to announce
your departure was probably utilized more or so yesterday than it had ever been utilized
in all of history. You had, you had Twitter. There were a
couple of Twitter accounts I follow that said they're gone. I'll tell you the
one that killed me is there's a Twitter account, and I would have recommended
you follow it prior to yesterday, because remember I used the show Twitter account.
People wonder why we don't follow back on the show Twitter account, and
it's because I really have it tweaked so that when I look at the feed
from it, it is useful from a story standpoint, right. So it's
mostly news sources or newsmakers sending news stories out so that I can scan it,
especially during the show, so during the show and then I can look
at just kind of that. So it's nothing person but with that in mind,
Scotus Blog. Scotus Blog was a Twitter account that whenever any whenever there
was Monday during the Scotus term, the Spring Court term, and there were
decisions coming down, they were arguably the best at just giving you the straight
dope, right, No NBC Spin, no Fox Spin, none of that.
When a ruling was coming down, you go to that Twitter account and
they were like that. So I did find them useful and I understand,
I actually understand their frustration. I think that they bring a lot of value
or brought a lot of value to Twitter because I wasn't the only one people
knew that Scotus Blog Twitter account was the best place to get instantaneous or as
close to instantaneous Supreme Court rulings as possible. That being said, that being
said, correct me if I'm wrong. I don't. I have not paid
for a Twitter blue check, but I don't begrudge people who do who want
the features of it. Isn't there a way to monetize if you are a
Twitter account that gets lots of interaction? Or am I wrong? Was that
just a beta thing or they they're allowing people to monetize their Twitter accounts?
Correct? Yeah, you can still do that, and also you can you
have to qualify for it. I was looking at it yesterday. Actually,
where you can do you can hook up subscriptions to your Twitter account. Be
I qualify for it. I'm not going to do it, but I was
just, like, you know, interested, curious to see what it would
be, right. I want to see what it looked like during during the
Supreme Court ruling Scotus blog. Hold on, let me see how many should
spell Scotus right? Here we go. Yeah, we follow them. They
have six hundred and thirty thousand followers. I would assume that they're able to
monetize enough to cover the cost of the of the blue check, would you.
I don't know how it pays out. I'm going to bet that they
can make eight to eleven dollars a month off of that. They sent out
a tweet they said, by Twitter, by Twitter. The tipping point was
having to pay for verification when we feel we add a lot of value and
they do. And and here's the only here's the only thing that I would
say, But it turns into the old situation. There are Twitter accounts that
do add value, and I understand that it's subjective. And unfortunately, once
you get subjective, you kind of get back to the system that we had
where subjectively they thought the people who added value to Twitter were a bunch of
moon bats and Hollywood celebrities. Right. That's why you and you could go
and you'd see like or people who knew people at Twitter. You know,
it used to be it used to be that if you and I'm not talking
about the people who would literally pay for it, where you had people that
were doing that. It used to be if somebody had a conduit to somebody
who worked at Twitter, you just you send them an email and then they
would get them verified. And so you had these like activists who had six
hundred followers that were verified, and it was because somebody knew somebody, and
it was always seemingly activists on one side. So there is plain favorites.
But there are Twitter accounts like scotus Blog, and I've said this, Twitter
is a great way when it comes to breaking news that I think did add
value. I think people who figured out that the scotus Blog was probably if
you weren't standing on the steps of the Supreme Court, was going to be
your best way just to get the straight here's what they ruled, and then
you know, follow up with the documents you can draw your own conclusions.
And I think they did a good job of not looking partisan because it was
just what it was. And I don't know. Maybe maybe Elon Musk would
have benefited from identifying accounts that did bring value. However, I think the
way he got around it was attempting to incentivize them to be able to make
money on it, because it got away from picking and choosing winners. So
now, if you want the features, you want the verification, with the
exception of gray checks, which are governmental accounts, could you could acquire those,
you can go and you can get the blue check, you can get
the verification, you can get the extra features, and some people are willing
to pay for him, and that's fine, that's you know, it's commerce.
So they said, we felt that we added value. We also feel
solidarity with NPR. And this is where they lost me. Remember NPR is
the one who didn't just ignore the Hunter Biden laptop story. They put a
statement out about how it's not a story and they don't want to waste everyone's
time. You can find and then they said you can find us on the
blog and TikTok. So wait, hold on, so you're leaving Twitter to
go to the Chinese government app. That doesn't. That doesn't. I thought
you were smart. And then it says if we I'm sorry, where were
you gonna say? I don't know how TikTok works. Do you get verification
like a check a pretty check mark on you can that you can? The
irony is gootis blog is not verified on any of the other social media account
of Cords, but also goes both ways because I see this argument and they're
like, oh, I'm adding value to your platform. Yeah, well you
can't do that without the platform. No no, no, no, it's
Twitter that's given you your relevancy because it's given you that platform. So how
about chipping in eight dollars to support it, your greedy bastards. Well,
but but I will say this, do you think do you think that?
All right? So we got Pete Calendar today, all right? In the
world of radio, we call that a benchmark, a benchmark segment, and
we track these things. So we got Pete Calendar coming up at eight oh
five yesterday, we had Mark Walker at eight oh five, and they are
recurring benchmark segments. Obviously those segments don't exist without this show existing, right,
But obviously the reason we do those segments is you enjoy them. Maybe
you personally don't enjoy them, but more people enjoy them than not. And
I can look at literally minute by minute ratings, I can look at second
by second to see what happens when we have those guests on, and believe
it or not, most guests are not a net benefit, so their segment
wouldn't exist. However they do. They do add value to it, and
these are things that we look at. So from a business person, not
just because I enjoy chatting with Mark or chatting with Pete it's also there a
net benefit and therefore there's a benefit to you, believe it or not.
Ross and I do sound like half the time we just want to talk about
Godfather and Joe Dirt and any of the rest. However, we do actually
check to see if that stuff works. And based on Ross, you've seen
the ratings, I would argue that what we do, what we do works.
Would you agree with that, yes, I would. Okay, so
I understand that argument. I totally do. But remember it also if there
is a huge influx of people that when it's the during the Supreme Court session
that are going and they are viewing not just what a Scotus blog is tweeting
out, but also the reaction. Right you scroll the comments, that's where
you're seeing the ads, and so there is a financial benefit to Twitter there.
Now, I don't know how it's calibrated or how you would even determine
what that is. I'm sure they have tools internal tools to do that.
But you know, I thought they did a very good job of not being
partisan, and now they're like we're going to We're taking our ball and going
to TikTok. You just sound stood it's a symbiotic relationship. Absolutely, we're
giving you relevancy. Well you wouldn't have that without the platform, so I
mean, yep, yep, yep, totally agree. And then they wrote
if we joined another platform, we'll send word here. We'll wait a second
thought, you were leaving, are you? How are you going to send
send word there? I don't know, but people were losing their damn minds
over this yesterday, including Alexandrio Kasio Cortez. And and she's just so dumb.
I mean, I so somebody posted a screen shot, right, they
posted a screen shot yesterday of the City of New York, all right,
so at NYC gov and they lost their blue check and they wrote, this
is an authentic Twitter account representing the New York City government. This is the
only account run by New York City government. And then somebody who duped the
logo so it's they took the same avatar logo and had an account that's NYC
underscore Government, which is obviously a knockoff, wrote no, you're not.
This account is the only authentic Twitter account representing and run by the New York
City government, obviously trolling them. I mean, I believe the second one.
I think you should shoot the first one. Well, the Kirks shoot
the first one. They capitalized this, so I mean the name business right,
so quartet, So she latched onto it, she says, jokes aside.
This is setting the stage for major potential harm when a natural disaster hits
and no one knows what agencies, reporters or outlets are real. All right,
Ross, do you remember before Twitter, when a natural disaster would happen
and everyone, everyone died. That was in just everyone. I mean there
was no Twitter. There was no way of determining what was real, and
everyone would just because they didn't have they couldn't go to a tweet and figure
out information. That's a great point, casualties everywhere. Remember on nine to
eleven when everyone in New York died. I was in the Ork during nine
eleven. Yes, oh wow, you were the only one. You're like
snake bliskin, So good for you. I mean to to what AOC is
saying, I would my thing. I would simply go click the account and
if there's millions of followers, I believe that's the real account. That's because
the other one and there's twelve people, I would probably say it's probably not
in the real account, I would say, Also, there's this other thing
that I would do. Let's say I wanted to tweet at somebody and I
couldn't figure out what their Twitter account is, because it's still kind of a
clumsy way to determine, even with checks, what the Twitter account is,
because you still got to hone in on what the addresses. If I wanted
to know like a business or some agencies Twitter account, I don't know that
there's a website out there now where at some point you don't see the Twitter
and Facebook logos and Instagram logos on them, right, So I just go
to their website, which is easy to determine, and I click on their
little Twitter logo and lo and behold, there it is. And that's pretty
good verification for me. One extra step. But to your point, yes,
if you see five million followers, chances are you're probably onto something because
trolls, as in this case, tend to have like forty or fifty because
that account's probably getting banned. And she tweets this, and then she also
all the while she has a great check mark next to her name, which
the City of New York would be eligible for because they're a governmental agency entity
or politician. But yeah, that was just some of the stupidity there,
all right, six fifty two, hang on, Hide, very good morning
to do seven six hour number two here on your Friday pc O Day radio
program. Glad to have you along and let us let us dive into this.
Oh, we do have to an update. We have to to an
update to a story that we did yesterday where I played the audio for you
of the transmil to female individual who just wanted you to know that if you
see them walking into a women's bathroom and you try to stop them, it's
not going to go well for you. Back a wild animal into a corner.
They're going to become a dangerous animal. So if you want to die
on that hill of yours, of righteousness and moral majority, then you go
right ahead. I dare you to try and stop me from going into a
women's bathroom. It will be the last mistake you ever make. All right,
And a lot of people are like, you know what, challenge accepted.
Now Again, I don't know the laws specifically in the state in which
this individual will lives. I don't know any of I do know that yesterday
they arrested a trans male to female who had a history of and apparently was
continuing allegedly to go in there and spy on young girls, right, and
that story it's interesting. I didn't see it too many places. You kind
of had to dig for it, but that was out there, and that
is a concern that some folks have. Now. Admittedly, people who are
transmile to female and identify as female but are biological males going into the bathroom
and using it is just them going into the bathroom and using it. That's
not discounting concerns or the awkwardness that others may feel in there, but they're
going in there and because they have to use the bathroom, right, because
you know, ultimately, at the end of the day, most people are
not sexual predators. However, it is in the concern that lies out there,
is it facilitates the ability to do so. Right Ross or I walk
into the women's bathroom, it's there. You know, it's it's going to
stand out and people are going to have concerns over that. So I think
we can be adults about this conversation. That's the thing that happened. However,
in this case, they go on in this TikTok to detail a whole
bevy of threats, and I just I don't understand how you feel that's going
to bring people to your side. Well, as you can imagine the aggressive
nature of that TikTok and the fact that it got amplified, going viral on
Twitter and other platforms, people had something and they had thoughts based on the
fact that you know you're you're kind of threatening folks. Well that created a
new TikTok. Hello TikTok. I just wanted to say thank you to each
and every one of you who are leaving negative comments and death threats in my
comments section because you have proved my point. So thank you. So I'm
surely you proved your point. Well, what is your point because in the
thing that you said, you were the one who was threatening violence. So
go ahead and explain to me what your point is. Again, take a
bow. You've proven me right, You've proven my point. Who knew all
it took was getting some divorced, lonely guy on Twitter to notice me,
to get other people to see what I've been talking about, what I've been
referring to. Huh, So, thank you to this Graham Lynn lynn Ham
or something like that Lynn Hamlyn Ham. So thank you, Graham, really
appreciate it. You again, you proved my point. Um. Sometimes that's
all. It takes what was your times out of ten? From what I've
noticed over the years of being a content creator, it takes the hateful people
to make you go viral to help others see what's really going on. Okay,
Um, I have a question. Do you think which bucket of hate
we'll call it? Do you think caused that to go viral? Do you
think the the the hate on the part of Graham, whatever the I guess
she's tracing back. I thought it was on libs of TikTok, but maybe
that guy posted at first? Um, which do you think it was him
posting it? Or do you think it was you preemptively threatening anyone who may
have an issue? What do you think was the driver for why people reacted
to your TikTok? Because I kind of feel like it was the aggressive nature
of your TikTok because there's a lot of and maybe because we're just we're so
deep into this where jaded where somebody says, I'm not going to be deterred.
I identify as a female and I'm going to use the female bathroom.
But without threatening any violence. I don't think that goes viral anymore. Maybe
back in the day it would have. I'm pretty sure it was the aggressive
nature of the way you delivered it. Right, It'll be the last mistake
you'll ever make. That's a preemptive challenge to folks. Some people don't have
thick skin, like idea Ross, Do you feel that that individual has thick
skin if they're immediately posting rebuttal stuff? Not at all? Okay, that
was my first thought. I'm like, oh, know about all that thick
skin. The whole thing is nuts. Like the original video was like,
hey, I'm gonna murder you. Yeah, yeah, don't f with me.
If you're a woman and you you try to stop me from going into
your restroom, I'm gonna shoot you in the face. It's pretty much the
interpretation of the first video, right. And then when people are like,
yo, buddy, hold up, hold up, what's up? What's up
with that? You just said? You're gonna like that sounds like a threat?
Man, You're like usually you're like pee wee herman fallen off the bike
in Peewee's Big Adventure, where you're like, hah, I meant to do
that where you're like, oh, I was testing you and you failed.
Friday, we got a Peewee reference and a Godfather great and an Olive Garden
reference. What a show you all should say? You know what we need?
What's the what's the thing where people preemptively send us money? Was it
Patreon? We need Patreons because where else are you gonna get this content?
All right? So yes, glad that was your interpretation as well, because
I'm like, I don't know about all that thick skin. Some people don't
have thick skin like I do. Some people can't defend themselves like I can't.
And those are the very same people that I stand up for. I
stand up for body autonomy. I stand up for women's rights, pro choice.
I do stand up for freedom of speech. However, you may have
freedom of speech, but you're not free from consequence amendment. I support my
Constitution. But what I do not support is hate speech. Oh I do
not support transphobia, homophobia, racism. But any who. Again, thank
you from the bottom of my heart. I love each and every single one
of you out there. Thank you for the negative comments, thank you for
the death threats. Thank you again for proving me right. I wish you
all the best. Right, have a bud light. Ah see, oh
look at that getting that in there in it you don't support hate speech?
I don't know. This sounds pretty hateful. Right to get back a wild
animal into a corner, They're going to become a dangerous animal. So if
you want to die on that hill of yours, of righteousness and moral majority,
then you go right ahead. I dare you to try and stop me
from going into a women's bathroom. It, yeah, I'm just you know,
it's just me. It's the timing of the video two. Right.
I know people have or the media has quickly forgotten, but we're not that
far away from a trans person going into a Christian school and murdering six people,
including three children. And then your video is I'm going to shoot you
in the face if you don't let me in your bathroom. Yeah, people
are gonna have an issue with that. Man. Well, Ross, obviously
this is hate speech that you're engaging in even bringing that up, right,
I mean, because that is that is essentially the justification for what has been
some very aggressive takes. Right. You got KJP over at the White House
and she's and immediately their thing was trans people are under attack, they don't
um and or gun grabbing. But other than that, that's that's really what
they extracted. By the way, did you know the FBI is UM probably
not going to release this is this is a crazy story. They're not going
to release what the shooter in that case wrote their their diatribe, which apparently
is has scared scared some over at the FBI. UH. It is referred
to as quote a blueprint on total destruction, the manifesto by the Nashville shooter.
UH. The Nashville shooters manifesto described as a blueprint on total destruction,
which the FBI is stalling the release of, UM, referring to it as
quote astronomically danger risks. Why is it astronomically dangerous? This is what I'm
trying to understand, because the way that they're playing it off is that it's
dangerous in the sense that some other crazed individual would read it and go,
you know what, that's a great way to go out and cause a bunch
of death and destruction, and then they would literally just take the game plan,
the blueprint and go out and enact it. And I kind of feel
like that's being disingenuous. I think that people are reading this and they feel
that they feel that by reading it, it may cause more people to question
the mental stability of somebody who may identify as in the same situation, which
isn't necessarily fair. Right, even if you feel that gender dysphorias a lot
of people do is an untreated mental condition because of the way that society and
the government deals with it. Now, it doesn't mean that anyone who identifies
as the opposite gender of which they were born biologically is also bent on murder,
right, because most people aren't murderers. And I have to wonder if
they feel that it's going to color people's opinion. And you know, the
thing is the very act may color people's opinion. I don't know that the
manifesto necessarily contributes to that, So I'm very interested in what they're not.
The problem is is because of the current political situation, with it being a
federal justice department that is under a democratic administration, it's probably not going to
leak, whereas if it was under Trump and they thought for a moment it
could harm anything having to do with Trump or an issue that Trump is on
the side of. This thing had already been leaked, right if in that
manifesto, and remember the New Zealand shooter that went into that mosque. Remember
how immediately that leaked because and only parts of it and then eventually the whole
thing. But remember how that leaked initially because they segments of it literally referenced
quote unquote right right wing individuals. I do now if you, if you
read in its totality, you'd realize that this person was all over the place,
just an absolute angry nut job and was taking not just inspiration, but
was citing a bunch of different individuals. I don't know that we'll ever see
all of this. They say they're going to release parts of it, and
I'm going to bet that the parts that they release are ones that are beneficial
to the cause and not hey, this person hates Christians because X y Z,
but rather I, you know, I felt bullied throughout my life because
of the way in which the you know, the Bible was applied to help
counsel me by this past or things. Those are the things that you're going
to see. You're not going to see the part where they just sat there
and ruminated and decided that all trans people have to not that they speak on
behalf of all people who identify as trans, but rather the politics is just
so thick these days, it's crazy. We got to get into the Blinking
story and the Merrick Garland story, which would have been the scandal of all
scandals. If it is as it's as it looks, should be a giant
scandal. These are people who hold some of the highest positions in the land
Attorney General and Secretary of State, who appear to have manipulated the political process.
And while it may not be illegal necessarily the way that they did it,
it's definitely cancelable in their ability to have any credibility within the political process,
and they should not hold those offices if it's true. And I cannot
imagine the feeding frenzy if all the roles were reversed, if you were talking
about Bill Barr and you know, basically any Republican appointee. So we'll get
into that story coming up seven twenty one. Also, this interview that MS
or CNN's Don Lemon did yesterday, I'm telling you this is why you see
this fervor to convince people one that they need the family, the family unit.
It doesn't matter woke ideology is what matters, and if people don't come
around to your side, it's important that you divorce yourself from them. And
the idea that anyone who is a white, straight male, Christian male is
of a certain age is irredeemably racist. This is why you run around and
you tell people everybody's racist, and it works. The grandson of the eighty
four year old man who shot and wounded the sixteen year old who went to
his house to pick up his siblings is the story as we understand it.
He was interviewed by Don Lemon yesterday and he is the use of the most
useful idiot I've seen in quite some time. So we'll get to that story
more coming up here on the Cacoday Radio program. Because I talked forever,
but yes, we're going to get into this Don Lemon interview. Will do
that coming up next here on the Cacoda Radio program. Hang on one oh
six one FM Talk and w PTI, two stations driving the best in talk.
This is Casey O Day and Carolina's Morning News. Okay, then all
right, so I think I understand this. By the way, just y'all
know Ross is apparently perfect, never made a mistake in his life. That's
what um, that's what I'm to understand here. Let me flip over to
this story. All right, So here he is. Here's the headline.
Only Fans Model facing backlash after she accidentally filmed a video with one of her
subscribers who happened to be a minor. UM some questions ross you seem to
think she should be facing more than backlash. Just so I'm abundantly clear here,
I mean that sounds like child pornography. I mean, yeah, but
accidental accident. The word is accidentally, so it's not's how pornography people are
paying for it, and only fans he and he happened to be a minor,
which is another way of saying accidentally. So there's two accidents here,
and unfortunately, two accidents led to this unfortunate event that the Only Fans Model
is now facing backlash. Four It's so simple, no, So here's the
deal, and yeah, this is all right. So I read this,
and I now read in another place, so I am clear. So in
the she in this is in Italy, she broadcasts out of Italy, and
in Italy the age of consent is fourteen, which is yeah, but he
was not under fourteen, which is given the impression of the first story,
he was under eighteen, and I believe it's in terms of service thing with
only fans. Then obviously tobtos like they can't broadcast that to the world,
right, So if you're going to you know, they're going to pick whatever
number allows them to operate and broadcast in all countries. So if you're in
a country where the age of consent, you know a lot of countries,
sixteen is the age of consent, A lot of Europe is that way.
So Italy happens to be fourteen, they're going to require that the person is
eighteen because if not, you couldn't broadcast that stuff in the United States.
So in this case, persons under eighteen but apparently over it says just shy
of eighteen in this other story, but that's still child porn. So there
is that the headline where they're like facing backlash. Well there's but if she's
in Italy that she's not gonna face any legal ramifications apparently so, but maybe
she is. I don't know. Maybe it's illegal if they're under eighteen to
film it. But it was an accident, so you're telling me, you've
never accidentally filmed yourself making child pornography? No, I mean, okay,
yeah, well hadn't happened to me either. But the way that they kind
of couch it in this headline makes it sound like it's a common occurrence.
So um, I don't think And by the way, I don't think she's
gonna fa face backlash. How many people right now are googling her name with
nude or sex or some sex act next to it, Because we're all pervs
and anytime there's a woman in the news like this, what's the first thing
that guys want to do? Wow, wonder what she looks like naked?
So, if anything, it's probably going to be financially beneficial to her.
That's how twisted things are, so honest mistake not at all about exploiting.
Now, I did see this. I was reading a story actually on where
only fans girls are making viral TikTok videos. Now it's not there's no sex
in there, there's no nudity. And they did have an example in this
story of one of them, and it's smacks of pandering to try to get
underage people to subscribe, right, So, like they had this one this
one only fans chick. And she's out there and she's you know, she's
dressed, you know, appropriately for being outside, and she's got a bunch
of rapped presents, and she's intentionally stopping people who look like they're right on
the cusp of eighteen and asking them if they want a free subscription or a
mystery prize, or dinner with her or quote a night with her or a
mystery prize. And the mystery prizes are like Apple AirPods and a TV and
all sorts of stuff. Man, But in reality, she's promoting her only
fans, and she's doing it with people who look like their high school seniors.
And it feels a lot like the criticism the cigarette industry used to get
for joke joke, Cammell. You know what I'm saying, we're using cartoons.
That's why you can't use animated characters for vaping stuff or any smoking or
any of those things. Right. I'm glad that you have experienced in Italy,
sir. That is I'm sending your email to the FBI anyway, So
yeah, they're already you know that, that's already something where there was some
concern, and it was some law enforcement was looking into it. I can't
remember where it was filmed. It was in the US somewhere. But yeah,
yeah, that's um as creepy as I'll get out. Man, I
don't know. I guess now we're in the age of groomers, so maybe
it's okay. And we just had literally the week I was on vacation,
there were six female teachers in the US arrested for, you know, messing
around with their students. That's right. I go away for a week and
everyone thinks they can do whatever they want to do. Craziness, And I
suspect they'll all get much more lenient sentences than their male counterparts would. Although
I gotta tell you, man, the quality of the female teachers doing it
is slipping immeasurably gone. Or the days of Mary kay Laterno or that other
blonde one from Florida. So anyway, all right, well that's just there's
some creepiness for your Friday. So Don Lemon was interviewing the grandson of the
eighty four year old man in Kansas City who was arrested for shooting the sixteen
year old who reportedly went to the wrong house to pick up his siblings now
we don't know the totality of the story yet, but um, what the
motivation immediately because it's an old white guy and the sixteen year old is black,
is one that it was? It was because of racism. Ironically,
we had multiple other stories out. You had this uh, this uh,
this girl this uh in New York she was in the passenger seat of a
car that pulled into the wrong driveway. Uh. In North Carolina in um
Gaston County, we had a father, mother, and a six year old
girl who were fired at by this career criminal because a ball went into his
yard or something and the father was was hurt very badly and he's on the
run. They're looking for him. And all these stories. But of course
the one that the White House keyed into was this Kansas City one because it
has the right complain action makeup. But we don't know, We don't know
fully what transpired. We don't know what the motivation may have been. However,
we have this narrative for years and years and years that if you're an
eighty year old man, white male, you're probably an ex clan member or
you are you have deep seated racism. That's the narrative in fact, everybody
has deep seated racism who's white. And racism only can work in the one
direction, it can't work in the other. And you know this is this
is what they're shoveling on your kids. This is what's taught, and people
eat it up. How do I know? They brought on the grandson of
the man who, by the way, Roster, those look like dreadlocks in
the picture. This dude's sporting the grandson. It looks like Joe Durr at
the end of the movie. I'm just saying, isn't that cultural appropriation?
Shouldn't he be canceled for that? Anyway? So they bring him on and
Don Lemon's interviewing him, and he asked him basically, he says his grandfather's
racist. And Don Lemon wants to know and if if the if the kid
had come back, I say kid, but he looks to be an adult,
if the grandson had come back and said, yeah, you know,
the entire time I've growing up, whenever we're you know, whenever we're alone,
all he talks about and uses the he uses the N word, talks
about how much he hates black people. He considers the white race. You
know, some pertinent specific example. That's what I was expecting, but that's
not what came. We're gonna get into the audio here in just a moment.
Instead, he gave a much more interesting answer, which we will touch
on when we return. But first, Jeff Eno from the Weather Channel.
He's hanging out and hopefully you got a good weekend on tap or else,
sir. What's going on? Not a whole lot. Today looks pretty good
nowadays, going to be warm, gonna be a little sticky out there.
We've got that Bermuda high pressure and also this is ahead of a cold front
that is going to bring the rain it looks like for Saturday, but we
do recover nicely for Sunday. Now today we get up to eighty six degrees
that is ten plus degrees above average. Tonight, mostly cloudy, sixty for
the overnight. Now for Saturday, showers become likely later in the morning.
We could hear some thunder and we'll get up to seventy five. Showers stick
around into the early part of Saturday night, and then we recover on Sunday
with lots of sunshine to finish out the weekend and a little cooler than average.
We head up to the upper sixties. So that is going to be
a pleasant day there for Sunday. All right. It sounds a perfect Gulf
weather right like it? So, yep, yep, thank you, Jeff.
We'll talk in an hour. Appreciate you, sir. All right,
So, what answer did the grandson give to Don Lemon as to why his
grandfather's a big fat racist. We'll share that with you. We got the
audio next here on the case O Day Radio program, Your Day Smarter and
celebrating ten years evening you Better Informed Talk and News w PTI more with Casey.
He starts, now, all right, I do want to and I
want to add one thing. I was talking about the guy in the shooting
in Gaston County. Apparently he did turn himself in in Florida to authorities,
so he's not on the run anymore, but he was so just you see,
you have the latest news, all right. So I mentioned this interview
with Don Lemon by the grandson of this guy in Kansas City, this eighty
four year old man, and um, you know, I feel like context
matters. And so when Don Lemon was asking them, ir, so,
what makes you think your grandfather's racist? I thought there was going to be
some specific examples. And don't get me wrong, there's some racist people.
There's some race especially when you get into older generations. They exist. They
exist. Man, it's out there. And I could cite there's a couple
of people that I've interacted with over the years where I'm just like, wow,
okay, then, and you know what I did. I didn't interact
him with him anymore. And frankly, I could cite specifically what they said,
and you know exactly what was said and the time and the place and
all of that where it happened. So this being his grandfather, obviously he's
interacted with him, obviously a lot more. Maybe he's gonna have some specific
examples. Before I play the audio, I want to share with you who
his name is, Clinton Ludwig Ludwig the grandson. If you go over to
his Twitter account, Rossie, have you seen his Twitter account? I bet
have you seen it yet? It's I have not bonkers all right. So
in the description right in the bio, it says, quote, I am
a human male, haile satan. We don't have to listen to the lunatic
ravings of this paranoid hippie trans writes a brands flag, abolished prisons, a
cab which stands for all cops are bastards BLM, and his pin tweet is
f this country, America is broken, slipping backwards into a dangerous era.
I feel for all my LGBTQ plus friends and anyone with the womb. You
all have been under attack for far too long. All right, So just
you know, just a little glimpse into what he considers to be important to
him, things he wants you to know. All right, let's go ahead
and get into this. So here is that. It's about a minute.
This is the snippet of the interview where Don Lemon's trying to figure out whether
the grandfather's a racist, because that's the narrative and even though we don't we
don't know any of this stuff, right, and his grandson, who was
more than happy to come on CNN and throw his granddad under the bus.
Here we go. Do you believe your grandfather is racist? I believe he
held and holds racist tendencies. He believes. Why do you say that he's
just the stock American Christian male. It's older, you know, That's just
how they are. It's the conspiracies and weird, random racist things and they
say, yepp so and it doesn't make sense, but they're just scared.
Listen, you're generalizing a lot here about you said, older Christian white males.
But what do you mean by that? What do you mean they're scared?
Talk to me more, please, Yeah, just I feel like a
lot of people of that generation are caught up in this twenty four hour news
cycle of fear and paranoia perpetuated by some other news stations. And he was
fully into that, said, and watch Fox News all day every day,
blaring in his living room. And I think that stuff really kind of reinforces
this negative view of minority groups and leads people to be overness and doesn't necessarily
lead people to be racist, but it reinforces and galvanizes racist people and their
beliefs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, So no specific examples
other than he watches Fox News, but it is this, uh, well,
if you're an older white Christian male, obviously you have racist tendencies,
and then you watch the Fox News and it gets amplified. And I guess
my question would be, you have all of these other instances that literally happened
during that same week, but Obviously it's not white male on black victim.
So what may have motivated that. I feel you were less disingenuous if you
just came out and said it's guns. But also, some people are crazy,
Some people are crazy paranoid, and some people are also living in an
environment where the people from law enforcement leadership, mayors and district attorneys have yielded
to the idea that we don't need to be incarcerating or punishing people. That's
a real that's a reality. Kansas City is one of those places where it
is a reality. Now, whether that whether the grandfather did think, you
know what, any any black mail comes to my door is obviously a burglar
and I'm just going to shoot him and ask questions later, or if there's
something else that transpired. We don't know. We don't know any of this.
But the generalizations of bringing this this this guy on this grandson, when
if you just dig into him for more than thirty seconds, you realize he
is all in on this. He's not a he's not somebody who is a
neutral party who's just trying to interpret things based on his own experience. He's
all in on this. One believes it. He's he and he believes it
over even family members. M Ross, You said that one of his other
grandkids came out and said that this grandkid's full of crap, right, yeah,
yeah, his brother. Yep, his brother. Now maybe the brother's
full of crap and this guy's one hundred per I don't know, but it
seems mighty irresponsible to put him on and just let him run that garbage.
And then he's talking about twenty four hour news cycle instilling fearing people while he's
sitting on CNN with Don Lemon, who who wanted to know whether a black
hole sucked a jetliner in? But also more importantly spent the four years of
the Trump presidency and also the time you know, during the when he was
running and then obviously post presidency, instilling fear that the Russians were controlling our
government every day he showed up on the set. But it fits the narrative,
and that's a narrative that's pounded twenty four hours a day on CNN.
Obviously Fox goes in a different direction, and yes, they're twenty four hour
news cycle, and you that they're doing a bunch of look I roll my
eyes watching Fox News. Also, I'm just one of these. Just give
me this, this straight dope. And there are people on Fox that I
think do a good job of it. But I also recognize who's an opinion
person, who's the news person. Lemon's always claimed to be a news person.
He's clearly an opinion person. Frankly, probably not long for this world
considering all the stories that have come out about him. But to not even
ask him about some of his other beliefs is crazy, if only to give
context. All Right, get morning, everybody, and welcome eight o seven
hour, number three year on your Friday. Boy, what a week,
What a week it has blown by. And as a capper to it,
as we usually do, our radio buddy to the South, Midday's WBT and
Charlotte Pete Calendar joins us, this morning, how you doing, sir?
Hey, I'm good. It's been a little while. Yeah, I mean
not because of anything I've done. No. I see in the tweet that
you sent out, you you you libeled and slandered me. Expect service later.
Um, it's only it's only because I've I missed the discussions, I
miss our chats. Dude, I get a lash out. I was hurt
and so I lashed out. I apologize. It's okay, that's okay,
I had you know what, it was good. We all got to get
a little vacate time and all that. I will tell you it was.
It was really interesting. So part of the part of the trip I was
in Colombia and yeah Carolina, uh no, no, the the other one
with all where they have all the the cartel stuff. Um I did.
I did resist the urge to start a narco empire though, so good.
Okay, that's good. Yeah, but you know, more so I did
see the cocaine hippos though, so yeah. No. But on a more
serious side, what was interesting, and you know, it went to place
like what to pay And I mean, I love traveling. There's all sorts
of cool stuff and everyone makes the Columbia jokes. But on a more serious
note, it was interesting talking to Colombians because they're terrified right now, some
of them. They're terrified from a political standpoint. Do you know what happened
in Columbia during the last election. Um no, I don't think I do.
By the way, I also found out that you did you know when
there's an election that they suspend the sale of alcohol for three days in Colombia.
Can you imagine it toward that here in the US. Yeah, right
before the election or after the election, to the day, the day before,
the day of, and the day after and the day after. Interesting.
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, I wouldn't you just buy a whole bunch
beforehand? Well that's what they do, but I don't know, just one
of those weird rules. But no, it was interesting because one of the
things that you'll see in Colombia is and I wasn't even on the border of
Venezuela. I wasn't up in like um Santa mart Martin or Santa Martin or
whatever that is. I was in. I was in medin and Guatepe.
So I'm in the interior part of the country, and there are Venezuelans everywhere,
many of them just living on the street. Obviously, with what happened
in Venezuela, you have this huge influx into Colombia and it's it's really sad.
Man. Yeah, but Columbia signed up for the same thing. So
the last presidential election, they essentially they they elected a new president who was
like, where you're gonna get everything for free, It's going to be a
socialist paradise. All of that. This is the direction that they went,
and this is why this is at the same time that their country is covered
with Venezuelan refugees. Right there, if ever there was an example, right,
if ever there was an example to like look in your literally in your
streets to see the ramifications of these policies. Right. Yeah, there's there's
a there's kind of a main street in this area called Laurellas, which is
a nice area of MEDAINI and that's less Intento, which is just Spanish for
seventy um, so it's seventieth and it's where all the higher end bars restaurants
there. And there's another area called Pablado, which these are These are the
really nice These are the Beverly Hills area, if you will, right,
the big houses, um, the really nice restaurants, bars, Disco Texas
they call him down there. But and it's just there's just venezuel Island refugees
everywhere. But it's also where where the politicos are going to be, right
um. And they people are terrified, they're immediately their currency. One of
the reasons that I included Colombia in that trip is it it's it's half the
price of what it used to be information. I know it's shocking, but
I am I'm constantly baffled. Now. Obviously we get a version of that
here where politicians can run on, hey, vote for me and you won't
have to pay your student loans anymore, stuff like that. But this is
that on steroids, and I I just don't I don't understand it. Maybe
you and I don't have the right mindset to understand how so many people can
get duped by that insanity. It's well, I mean, well, I
want to say it was. Rush Limbaugh used to say, you're you're competing
against Santa Claus. Yeah, I mean when you go up for an election.
I mean, I remember hearing um few years ago with Noah Rothman from
Commentary magazine, and he said, it really is amazing that conservatives win any
elections at all, considering that their primary philosophy is vote for us, we
will do nothing for you. And right, that's our philosophy, is that
the government shouldn't be doing like any of these things that it's doing, and
the other side is saying, oh, we'll do all this stuff for you.
And it's a very attractive it's an attractive cell because people want to be
relieved of the burdens of this life. And I mean the look, life
is difficult, right, life is hard. There's tragedy and pain all around
us all the time. And sometimes people I just you know, give me
the blue pill and I will go back to sleep, you know. And
I think a long time Christopher Ruffo just did a speech in Budapest actually about
and talked about this very this very topic, and that in America we have
been uniquely positioned to get taken over through this long march through the institutions because
because of our separation of church and state. Right, because of that tradition,
we have allowed the state to grow as this sort of secular religion.
And that then has you know, because of our tradition of separating church and
state. We say, well, and I understand people like, there's no
separation of church and stay in the constitution. I understand. I'm just pointing
this out. That's our tradition is like, let the government do this,
let the religions do that, but you have the protection of the religion.
But the problem has been is that the people who are for limited government and
are Christian now are left with no way to transmit their values because the government
has grown so large and it has taken over all of these sort of institutions
in society that used to be just by norm was run by us, right,
like our civical organizations and such. We would just do these things ourselves
through our churches and local groups. But as government got bigger and bigger,
and conservatives lost that war about the size and scope of government. Now we
are left, and this is what RUFO pitches is we are left to use
the levers of the state in order to transmit conservative culture and standards to the
next generations. Yeah. Yeah, And meanwhile we're producing three hundred page how
to grow a how to grow the debts ceiling responsibly? Right, it's not
even the issue of this is insane what are we doing? It's how about
we do it? And we compromise about how fast we're going to do it.
And then that, of course is rejected out of hand because the endgame
was never compromised from the other side, right. And then you get our
pal Scott Huffman, perennial loser candidate and Democrat Moonbat, who you know is
out there saying in order to just pay your bills and like that's what they
distill this conversation down to. First of all, okay, let's pay our
bills. Yeah, we can't afford it. We're spending more money than we
take in, so we cannot pay the bills. Okay, now what right?
And when you you know, when you make these these are right stupid,
immature slogan pitches to the electorate, and you say, look, you
don't understand the Federal Reserve, fractional banking, you don't understand all these things.
I'll just tell you it's a very simple slogan. Pay your bills.
Oh yeah, it's okay, pay our bills, and then you don't have
there have to peel the onion back. This is I know, I'm not
going to get into like this is not a pitch to go to the abortion
debate, but it's one of the reasons why I welcome the Supreme Court decision
because for my entire life, literally my entire life, we were not having
the debate about abortion and what is a reasonable standard, how many weeks is
too many weeks? When does life begin? All of those questions were sort
of put aside because we didn't have to have the discussions because well, you
know, Rov Wade settled the topic. Let's move along, and most of
the citizens of America did not need to have any kind of in depth exploration
of the issue. Now we are having it, and this is what it
looks like. And it doesn't mean that the pro life side is going to
win every time, where the pro choice side is going to win every time.
I don't know what's going to happen, but this is worth having.
This is dare I say it? This is what democracy looks like. Oh
no, no, no, no, you gotta say it through a bullhorn.
Man, If you don't see any bullhorn, it doesn't count. And
then just one last thing on it too. And also I'm talking to you
know, on several occasions, I'm talking to some of these Colombians down there
and there they are under They were of the opinion that the reason that they
have Venezuelans everywhere is because the US refused to help. And I explained to
them, I said, do you know that after you guys, obviously due
to your proximity, the US has the most Venezuelans refugees from from when when
when everything crashed? And that's true, that we do. I happened to
happen. And I explained this and because from Venezuela, right, yeah,
yeah, yeah, they have, but they were fed this constant stream of
quasi government funded media there. Uh that of course did the bidding of the
now current president down there, and UH basically ran that and said, you
know, the US hates you, so when they tell you that this stuff
is not you, you shouldn't want to emulate the way that their economy runs.
And so that it was. It was baffling to me. And one
thing I don't do really is talk politics because that's not my country. Right
when I'm traveling, I'm not going to get into it. But it was
very it was very eye opening, UM to see that this is what this
is what a bunch of people signed up for, and the disinformation that that
was was part of the presidential campaign. And now I'm sitting here and we're
seeing these stories Pete where Merrick Garland and UM and the the Secretary of State
UH may have been complicit in getting this letter of fifty intelligence people UM forward
saying that the Hunter Biden laptop was all garbage. In any other era,
this would be a major scandal here in the US, wouldn't it I would
think so. Yeah. I mean, you've got all of these former Intel
Community chiefs and officials that all signed onto this letter, and it was done
at the behest of now the Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln or Anthony blinkoln but
he was a member of the Biden campaign at the time, and he reached
out to Mike Morrell, who was, you know, a retired CIA leader,
and he then got the letter drafted and got all of the signers,
uh you know, to to well the signatories to the letter, which then
of course was put out in order to camp down the veracity of the Hunter
Biden laptop emails and information that had that had dropped as this October surprise.
Of course, we now know number one, the laptop was legitimate, the
information on it was legitimate. It does document that Joe Biden lied about not
having any interaction with his son about his business dealings, right, that was
a lie, and Joe Biden then cited this letter as proof that it was.
It was all the Russia misinformation campaign during the debate, and he attacked
Trump for promulgating quote this lie. But there's you know, there's also this
idea here that going back to like the big Tech component where you had roundtable
war game strategy sessions going on where they literally crafted this example of Hunter Biden's
laptop gets released, you know, a hack and dump misinformation campaign by the
Russians just mere weeks before the election. Okay, tech companies, how do
you react to this? Right? They literally had conference, They had a
conference on this weeks before this happened, and they knew the laptop existed.
The tel community knew that the laptop existed because they had been given it almost
a year prior. So. But you line these all of these pieces of
evidence up and it becomes very clear what occurred, and it's it's kind of
terrifying. I just know we're gonna make a swift change just because I only
have three minutes. Obviously, you've seen this bodycam footage of Raleigh PD,
Capitol police having a rally of their own prior to going busting up the reopen
n see thing. You hear the one officer refer to the people as mffers,
which is interesting because bodycamp footage during the burn it down riots where officers
didn't speak to protesters, but we're talking amongst themselves. They were actually punished
for being derogatory about the protesters. There's obviously different ways the protests. The
latter protests were handled. My big concern is already we have a problem with
the community and police. So when you see a big video of rank and
file standing, they're ignoring the protocols with the mass everything, referring to people
as m efforts. I don't know that the relationship between between police and community
can take another hit. This is really bad. And now they're dragged.
They drug the woman who was arrested back into court, the holder in contempt
yesterday. This is all right, So what are your in two minutes?
Just what are your thoughts on this? Because this is bad all around man,
right number one, to your point about lack of trust with the community,
there is you know, on the political right, there has been long
standing support for the rank and file police officers. This video undermines that and
at some point when you lose you know that other half. Now we have
serious problems, right number number two. Yes, you've got the rank hypocrisy
of the law enforcement agents that are standing around assembled without masks, not socially
distancing, about to go and make arrest of people who are assembled, not
wearing masks and not social distancing. Numbers three cases they were in their cars,
they were actually social distance. Yeah, so right, and number three
there was no law being broken, right, These people were not breaking laws.
These were executive orders and they were being recommended saying don't do these things.
Right, And so this was obviously what prompted the viral tweet from the
Raleigh PD that said, you know, protesting his non essential activity. And
look the captain that's on the recording there, it's very clear, like he
tells everybody, make sure you put your masks on and make sure you do
it all by the book, because the optics dictate that I have to look
like I'm taking this ppe stuff and this you know, these protocols seriously,
even though we all know it's a big joke, right, and this is
the most infuriating part of it. And now, yes, they're going back
after what's her name, Atsuri, I believe, yeah, yeah, and
they're going back at They're going after her again. And look, this is
this is an attempt to send a warning to the normans, to people who
are trying to be law abiding citizens. This is your warning, all right,
that you will be punished. We will drop the hammer on you,
So shut up, go home. Don't object to any of our our lockdown
edicts going forward. This is the morning. Yeah, I gotta roll,
but thank you very much. I appreciate it. So we'll talk week this
week and we'll be back. Well. Show after the show's on the iHeart
radio app. Search Casey O Day for the podcast on the iHeart radio app.
Because you know, that's been the that's been the narrative forever, right,
video games making kids go out and do all horrible stuff. I know,
Um, it almost became kind of it became kind of a meme.
Right. So there's some footage floating around out there, and basically it's a
video game that's in development, and it's a combination of two things. One,
it's the signers of the video game. The game is called Unrecord all
right, and it's a real life bodycam footage essentially, and you're running around
and in the uh, the sample you see there's, um, they're clearing
they're clearing a house of bad guys and the protagonists is shooting them. It's
like any first person shooter really in that sense. It's but it looks real
and it's combined with the unreal engine, which is basically a building block.
These engines are building blocks of games. There's a couple big ones out there.
This seems to be the one that is the most progressed, newest,
and really really really really hyper realistic. And it was interesting because I'm watching
the footage and it looks like it looks like any first person shooter. Right,
You're running around, there's bad guys, you shoot them, and you
know you gotta you gotta pay attention to how many rounds you have in your
firearm, you switch it up, you relow, do all that. But
it looks as realistic, I think as any game I've ever seen, Like
you're almost watching footage, and even the death spasms of the guy who's shooting
there pretty you know, the body just doesn't disappear as they do on some
games. And it was interesting because I saw people who I guess are wheels
in the video game sector, right streamers and developers and things like that,
and some of them are making the argument that once it looks like actual video
footage, now it could have those negative effects because it decens. It's all
the arguments that you heard from when remember when Doom was out and they were
making these stupid arguments, but now that it looks so real, it could
actually desensitize people to violence and cause real world violence. All right, So
ross you buying any of that garbage? I mean, I saw the and
I was it was okay. It didn't look any different from a lot of
other games I've seen. I saw, and I saw their feedback. We're
like, oh, it looks amazing. I'm like, I've seen games that
look like this. I gotta be honest, I don't know that I've ever
seen a game that looks bad. Well, it depends on how you play
it and how slow you're moving, because I've seen there's a game, what
is it called um it's on game passed now as playing. It's The Communist.
It's the game where you're playing like a communist utopia where the robots turn
on you. And there's certain segments of that game where you can watch,
you know, twenty second clips you're walking really slow, and it looks just
as good. And if you're on PC and you turn up like the we've
talked about Atomic Hearts. I played that game. It looks amazing at certain
points. It just depends on the video that you see of it. Or
I saw a video twenty seconds of Dead Island two yesterday where it was like,
you know, a bloodstained bathroom and it looked, it looked good,
it looked I don't understand what the everybody's I don't know. Do you think
if it ever gets to the point where you're unable to tell the difference between
actual video? Do you know I believe we're in the simulation, so okay,
all right, well let's say it catches up with the realism of the
simul simulation. Okay, sure? Do you think at any point that there
is a legitimate argument that it desensitizes people? And I ask it like this,
did you ever watch I don't know, if you ever watch did you
watch and did you watch like the Daniel Pearl video the journalists they be headed
or any of them? I don't want to watch that. Yeah, I
know, but just hear me out on this, yeah, or any of
those videos where they were marching the guys around in the orange suits over in
Somalia and killing them, um, and you know they videoed all this,
or even the faces of death stuff. It hits you different than what is
clearly graphic animated violence. Yeah, I think I could get to the point
where it's too much because when it comes to those videos like I've never I
don't like the faces of Death stuff, and I don't like um like the
Orange Jumpsuit videos that never watched them. I'm okay, people, I sit
there, like, I watch the whole thing. I'm like, how could
you do that? I'm not gonna do that well and the other the other
piece of that, because I saw people making that argument is with Orange Jumpsuit
or Daniel Pearl. I knew going in what I'm watching right, that that's
real, that actually happened, versus watching thirty seconds of you running around yeating
a horse off of a cliff for money because you're an animal abuser digitally.
But so if you know that going in, you can prepare your brain for
what you're about to watch. So you could watch somebody like you could watch
somebody be beheaded in a movie, right, and you know, you know
what it is? What was the movie I watched the other day that had
or last weekend and The Snowman, which is not a really great movie,
but it was on Netflix or something, and in it there is a there's
a very realistic looking photo of a guy who killed himself or he well spoiler,
he didn't kill himself, but where he had blown his top of his
head off with a shotgun and they didn't. They lingered on that for a
little while. It was very gruesome. But it's also a movie versus I've
seen a video or not a video. I've seen a photo of somebody who
did shoot themselves with a shotgun and had a decidedly different reaction because I knew
that that really happened, versus this being not, you know, just just
being a movie, a serial killer movie. So I think that they were
failing to include that in the conversation yesterday. So, but they were able
to achieve a communist utopia though, and then the robots screwed it all up.
Yeah, yeah, the robots. The malfunction. You finally get it
right, right, This is a stupid AI oh man, that's how they
gets you right there, all right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven
eight seven four The phone number here you want to you want stupid? Here
we go. The dark Wizard of the US House of Representatives, who,
by the way, I didn't really she's ranking member on this Transportation committee.
She is the most powerful Democrat on the Transportation Committee, this congresswoman from Connecticut,
and so she's talking about she's extolling the virtues of Pete Boota Jedge and
what a great job he's doing. And I'm gonna play it for you.
I feel like we got some big issues going on right now. And I
think that especially as it pertains to the performance you've seen from Pete Boodha Jedge,
even if you want to extoll positive things, I feel like we're really
scrape and bottom of the barrel here. But here is what apparently the most
powerful Democrat on the Transportation Committee feels is the real feather in the cap for
our current Transportation secretary, who also plan to make important investments to address the
roadway safety crisis, including the critical funding that would accelerate the development. And
this is an area I've written to you a out of the use of female
dummies and crash testing. This will start to fight the gender inequity among vehicle
safety and crash victims. I guess I didn't know. I didn't realize is
there was so we have gender equality or inequality in crash test dummies. That
is Representative de Lauro from Connecticut, who is again the ranking member on the
committee. There, that's our biggest issue in the world of transportation. Huh,
right there, inequality in because I see a lot of I see a
lot of a lot of pushback on Republicans where they're like, um, you
know, they're they're not concentrating on the big issues. It's just a bunch
of you know, it's a bunch of virtue signal on their part, or
its uselessness like participation trophy legislation, things like that. This woman is taking
her time as the ranking member, ignoring all of the actual concerns that might
be out there or wins if she wants to approach it from a partisan standpoint,
and apparently has been working tirelessly on making sure that the crash test dummies
are female as well as male, which, by the way, also you
can extrapulate that into the larger conversation of well, wait a sec I thought
there wasn't a difference, and you know, just so you know what everyone's
up to in Washington, right there? All right? Forty five Jeff Eno
from the Weather Channel and standing by alrighty sir, let's go ahead and get
a great weekend on tap. And I like what you said last time,
so hopefully it didn't change. It it didn't change. We're still looking at
rain Saturday, but that's gonna be it. We go into Sunday, boys,
Sundays looks and looking very nice. We've got a lot of sunshine a
day, but it is definitely warm. We're running ten plus degrees above average
for the high today as we got up to eighty six, and then tonight
we're mostly clouding. Overnight low sixty. It's close to ten degrees above average.
Cold front running through tomorrow. Showers become likely late in the morning.
May hear some thunder seventy five for the high, showers on into the early
part of our Saturday night, and then the highlight of course coming on Sunday,
with sunshine and upper sixties for that afternoon high. Nice and cool and
dry and lots of sunshine for Sunday. All right, Jeff, appreciate it.
Hav a good weekend, sir, Yes, sir you too. All
right, we'll come back chat with Jeff Bellinger next. Hang on now celebrating
ten years and still going strong. Thank you. Casey is on nine four
five w PTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM talk in the
triangle. All right, good morning eight Sue Bloomberg. Update now, Jeff
Bellinger, what's happening? Okay, s good morning and happy Friday. You
had some disappointing quarterly results from AT and T. Also, economic into caters,
reinforced investors, recession worries, and remarks from feteficials who favor more interest
rate hikes all weighed on the stock market yesterday. Major averages had modest losses.
Shares of Bedbath and Beyond we're down thirty five percent yesterday. There's growing
speculation the company will not be able to avoid a bankruptcy filing. Shares of
Procter and Gamble are moving higher. Pre Market investors are pleased with P and
g's quarterly results. That's helping the blue chips. The ADAW futures are up
twenty eight points now. SNP and NAZDAK futures both a little bit lower.
New Census Bureau data reflect the impact of white collar layoffs and the technology and
finance sectors. The number of people and high income households who are collecting unemployment
benefits has surged over the last year, nearly one hundred fourteen thousand adults and
households with annual income of at least two hundred thousand dollars are receiving jobless benefits,
more than six times as many as a year ago. Twitter is making
good on that threat to remove blue check marks from the accounts of users who
don't pay for the marks that are meant to verify that postings were actually made
by prominent people. Oprah Winfrey, Beyonce, Pope Francis, and Donald Trump
are among the non payers who have lost their check marks. Hundreds of corporate
employees of Whole Foods Markets will beginning layoff notices. The chain, though will
not be cutting workers and its stores or distribution centers. A second round of
layoffs was announced by Chlorox, two hundred positions being eliminated now, and BuzzFeed
is closing its news operation. It's cutting one hundred eighty jobs. And Casey
Tesla apparently decided it cut the prices on its Models and Model X electric vehicles
too deeply. The automaker has bumped up the prices on the high endvs by
twenty five hundred dollars each and even with these increases, though the prices on
the vehicles are still cheaper than they were at the end of the first quarter.
Casey, all right, Jeff, appreciate it. Have yourself a good
weekend, sir. You do the say we'll talk Monday. Take care.
All right, there you go. Jeff Bellinger from Bloomberg News. Ah,
speaking of Twitter, just checking out checking out the bio here Ross on the
show account, which reads not a FED no cap for real, for real
slash host. What was their assertion that I was a FED or you were
a FED man. It's been up there for a while. I know I
was on vacation, so that's true. Yeah you were. And then well
it did say it did say your mom's affiliated media slash host. And then
it reads morning six to nine no hold on. Then it reads are you
saying there's more? Oh, there's more. Then it reads mornings from six
to nine on one or six one w TKK four five w PTI yeah,
And then and that is actually accurate. Then it reads followed by at Hayes
for sheriff. That is true. It's also true. Why have you Why
have you thought it necessary to include that nugget of information? I wanted to
see how long it would take you to see it. I LA I was
giggling while doing it. That's not shameless self promotion. Not I'm not one
for self promotion. You've mentioned that at times, though I've questioned whether that
is in fact true. So yes, when did you When did you do
that? I was yesterday? Oh well that was yesterday. Okay, Well
hasn't been up that long then, Oh the other stuff has been right,
Yeah, No, I didn't pay attention because I was I was on VYK.
All right, I'll fix it for you. How what do you mean
by that that you're going to fix it? You know what? I don't
even want to know. We'll just wait and see. And one of the
dumbest things, speaking of Twitter, that I had to wade through yesterday was
all of these nitwits who were really excited to because they thought that they could
dunk on Elon Musk over the rocket launch yesterday, which if you didn't see
this, and one of the things that I would encourage you to do is
to not just watch the video, which is basically, this rocket, which
is a giant rocket, takes off and it gets to I believe thirty eight
thousand feet it starts yawing. Basically, it went to release one of the
sections, and it didn't. So when it spun, it started spinning the
whole rocket, which is a problem, and they detonated it so and then
it fell into the Gulf of Mexico. There people were doing. People were
like, oh, it's the Challenger, Elon's an idiot, all the rest
of this. But I would encourage you, when you're analyzing this story to
also see a picture where you can see the workers around this rocket so you
truly understand the size. It's as big as a sky it's the it's by
by double. It's the largest rocket we've ever attempted to lift off. And
the point of the rocket yesterday was not to go to space and fly around
and do stuff. The point of the rocket was to get it off of
the pad and get it into the upper atmosphere as close as possible so that
they can get all that data see what issues it's It literally did exactly what
was supposed to do, and arguably even a little more. I don't think
they thought it was going to get that high before it ran into an issue.
It's amazing, and to Rossa's points, the size of a skyscraper.
It's crazy. And all of these these idiots around there like, Look,
they can't even launch a rocket except he's launched literally hundreds where there have not
been issues. But this is a new rocket. This is this is gigantic,
and it uses a propulsion system that is different than all previous And I
would also encourage these idiots. Have you ever heard of NASA? Did you?
Did you happen to see what that looked like at the beginning of NASA
or whenever they developed a new rocket. This is part of the process.
This was it did exactly what it was supposed to do. And even I
saw one of the Krasenstein's was excited about it. Literally not it was not
dunking on elon. So I don't know, man, all right, So
I updated the Twitter by dear god Ah actually followed by you know what,
it's the weekend. I'll deal with it on Monday and we'll talk to you
then. All right, have a good much