Remember all right, good morning everybody. It is the Casey O Day Radio
program. It is six o eight, it's Tuesday, so you know that's
a thing. But you know we're here or so, oh what are we
gonna do? Um? Oh oh that's fun. Thank you for that.
Computator Apparently have to do a some sort of weird security update as soon as
I try to launch another program. Love that. Oh there we go.
Ha ha, I knew the password. Screw you anyway. Um, what
a morning, dude. I'm telling you, I was reading that Christopher Nolan
story. You saw that when you were putting in the prep packet yesterday.
Are you the one who doesn't like Christopher Nolan Ross? No love? Now
you like Nolan? Who was it? No, Michael Bay? That's right.
That's your beef, right, Michael Bay, because it's all explosions and
screw everything else. Yeah, Michael Bay, I seriously old, really fast.
Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah. I don't know why that popped
in my Hey. Yes, I was reading that Christopher Nolan thing, and
I have never been so jealous in my life. So like Hollywood director,
obviously you know he's doing his thing. Um, I'm I'm I don't know
if I've ever heard Christopher Nolan moonbat out. Actually, now that I think
about it, right, I'm sure he has, because you gotta and and
honestly to like some small extent. I don't even fault most of the Hollywood
people because it's like you're just mostly you just want to shut up the other
moonbats at the bay. But some are really like, um, who's the
actor who plays the Hulk? Ruffalo? Mark Ruffalo. I blocked him like
two months ago. I was so tired of hearing from him, I had
to block him. But yesterday he was. There was two things, um,
the second of which was him like when one day the three names of
the people will most hate and then he named the CEOs of like the three
big whale companies, and you know how they'll you know, go down in
history is essentially and then you know, insert whatever the worst people from history
are. But like everybody was, and I think this was part of it.
Everybody was bugging on him because he put on his poor people clothes to
go to the picket line. He had like he had like busted old T
shirt and jeans and like choose, but they had like paint on him or
No, he's the absolute worst. And they're all hypocrites because get off your
phone and trade in your mansion, give everything up if you're a whole about
the earth and stuff. But they're all they're him and Ron Perlman. I
blocked him both. Yeah, it's just a tragedy because mostly if I see
Mark Ruffalo on screen, or even Ron Perlman for that matter, I'm probably
into whatever movie. Yeah, I mean that's the thing. Hell Boy is
awesome. Ron Perlman also the voice and Fallout great. Really I didn't even
realize, like the narrator. Yeah, Mark Mark Ruffalo as the whole in
Marvel the Marvel movies, love them, but I mean movie did that Lawyer
movie a couple of years ago I thought was pretty interesting, which is still
a little bit of an activist movie. But whatever. Um, But like
everybody was on his butt because he's like, let me put my poor people
clothes on. They're loving this stuff. Yeah, we're loving the fact that
they get to protest because that's what they always want, right, they want
something to protest against. They want to be like very important and in this
spotlight obviously down with the struggles. Yeah. Yeah, the irony of course
is um and I know this as somebody who and and you know people on
people on the show, they're like, oh, what do you hate unions?
No? No, no, no no, My my bigger beef is
uh is public sector unions, right, government stuff, And like even some
of the biggest moon bats in history realized actually gonna be a little bit of
a problem. So when I was after high school, when I was in
college, I it was a casual for the Iatzi Union three three six out
of Santa Barbara and that was that's a stage hand union, and it was
a pretty kind of it was a sweet gig for a college kid because you're
doing you're you're working like a dog, don't get me wrong, and you're
doing like tours and concerts, but as from a local perspective. So I
worked when they did shows at Arlington Theater and Santa Barbara Bowl and a couple
other venue and basically anywhere they had a union gig. And you'd show up
at like eight am. You work all damned unloading these trucks from Rabanda because
and then you know insert whatever the tour band is. And so like you
work like a dog, you go through all the show and then you would
work almost this twenty four hour period, but you'd make so much damn money
and you'd get to be backstage and meet all these acts, and it was
it was a really good gig. But there's a huge swath of people who
work for IOTSI in some capacity, that work on movie sets and TV productions,
and so Mark Ruffalo getting to show up in his poor people clothes and
hang out with the riders and everybody's got a beef. They look like they're
doing something. The reality is because they're so dug in and the studios are
so dug in. Those people who you know, get these sometimes get these
titles, is like Best Boy and Grips and any of the rest that are
AATSI people, they're all screwed. So they're the ones that during the entirety
of the shutdown are really going to suffer because Mark Ruffalo's like, hell no,
we won't go, and he loves the photo up, so to Ross's
point, stroking his ego is going to starve those individuals. Now, you
also understand what industry you're in and who you're working with, so to some
extent it shouldn't be unexpected. But I did giggle and then all of a
sudden, he's like he was calling for the heads of oil people yesterday.
Just the weirdest thing. Man, it's so dumb. All right, you
know, produce one of your movies without fossil fuels, go, it's impossible.
Well, what you don't understand is the message, man. So the
message it overwhelms what they're doing. And they're making the investment. And yes,
they're using the fossil fuels, but because in their show and in their
movie, like what did what did I watch? Like a some snippet of
yesterday? I watched some like travel show right where they were? Where were
they? I think they were in like they were in like Lima, Peru
or something. It was like street Foods or something. You know, it
was on Food Network or something, flipping through there and those are the kind
of things I can put on in the background while I'm doing prep and be
quite fine and so. And it was really high production quality. And they're
like, so they're down in Lima, and there are they in Lima?
There in Bolivia? The point is there, you know, they're somewhere down
in like deep South America and they're showing, um, they're showing these uh
the street foods or something, and it's on in the background and I happen
to be listening to it while I'm looking up different stories for prep, and
they get into this whole conversation about how the sun's hotter than it ever was.
It was Bolivia because they were talking about the elevation and much of Olivia's
way, like Lapause and and all of that stuff is way up there,
and they're like, ah, the sun used to be warm and now it's
scolding and and uh, you know Maria Concerto or whatever her name was,
and her her her stand where she sells casidias or whatever it was. So
they got into this whole litany, and I'm like, the production quality is
fabulous, to the point where I realize that you probably needed to crew that
required a crap ton of carbon to accomplish your mission here. Meanwhile, on
YouTube, there's lots of people like Bold was it Bold and Broke and some
others who they tour around and they do this stuff and they you know,
they make these films where they're interacting with locals and they're talking about cultural stuff
and it's late him and another dude. Meanwhile, you put this high production
quality thing that's on. It was on Netflix, but I think it originated
from Food Network or something. You put this whole thing together, and I
guarantee your crew is like five people, more cameras than you've ever seen,
plus local production people, plus all of this so that you could show me
about this beef heart delicacy they make in Bolivia. So to Mark Ruffalo and
his painter clothes, I just have to laugh. And then all of a
sudden he's like, oh, I'm not having a good day. Pr Wise,
let me call for the heads of oil executives. It was just the
dumbest thing, man, But hey, that's the current activist culture. Get
yourself a little hashtag, feel better about yourself. It's gonna be amazing,
all right, eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four Coming up.
Well, i'll tell you what. It's six eighteen. We'll hit a
break come back. I'll give you a rundown of where we're going. It's
gonna be a it's gonna be a weird Tuesday, but hey, that's why
you tune in. We'll do it next. Hang on. This is one
oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle and here's talk w PTI in the
tryad. All right you, good morning six twenty three. Welcome back Caseo
dame radio program. Dude do do do do? All right, petators fun
this morning? Got that handled? Uh, A few things to go ahead
and wet the whistle on this morning. That's some fun audio too. H
It's only Tuesday. I will say though, at least this week doesn't feel
to um thus far that it is dragging at the same level last week was.
I'm sure that will set in as the as the week unfolds, just
due to the sheer weirdness of like all of my Microsoft update stuff. So
all right, um, the battle continues on the raising awareness for child sex
trafficking. Yeah, no, it's a weird way to say it. The
Sacramento b which is obviously one of the big papers of record out there in
the Bay Area death threats and pedophilia accusations, how child trafficking took over California's
capital. If you don't know what's going on, There was a bill that
was working its way through that basically would have added teeth to the crime of
child trafficking, making it a serious felony because it wasn't prior to that Okay,
all right, who's voted against that in a land or they loved laws?
Well, the majority, the majority Democrats out there voted it down.
Except the problem was they didn't calculate the public reaction to it real well,
and it was so people were so upset that you literally had Democratic Assembly members
in California in close districts coming out and like apologizing on Twitter because they didn't
get the read write and should have voted for it. So that irritated some
of the hardcorees there because they don't they don't like to be second guests.
They want to do whatever they're going to do. And they've decided because this
issue is attached to a movie where the talking points are it is, you
know, it's all a Q conspiracy. They didn't like that, so they
get their friends in the media to write these articles. California Democrats spent the
final few days before summer recess in an unusual spot, embroiled in a legislative
fight with publicans, who typically operate in the shadow of the state's blue supermajority.
The cause a bill to strengthen penalties for child sex traffickers. The lawmakers
killed ahead of a looming legislative session. All right, so the author is
very upset here. So how did a party with almost no power in California
manage to achieve a political win? In part by employing simplistic, fear based
messaging that exploited the divide between progressive and moderate Democrats on criminal justice reform.
Their argument in favor of the bill carried a whiff of the far right GOP
conspiracy related to Democrats and pedophilia. So again, you could sit there and
identify that you have nothing to do with this, and you also think that
people who literally traffic in the sexual trade of children should receive significant criminal penalty,
But instead you don't like it because you think the people who are concerned
about this are motivated by conspiracy. And it gets crazier from there. If
they didn't like the apologies, it's all, it's all que it's all people
who don't know what's going on, and they're going to use their own government
numbers to prove it. So I'll get you more on that at student loan,
insanity, craziness, and Oxford, you name it all coming up?
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Good Morning you Could? Is the case a radio program. So there's
a pretty crazy story up in New York. I actually had in the stack
for earlier this week. I didn't get into it just, you know,
because it's New York whatever, it didn't have the priority that certain other stories
had. But then I saw this interview they did with one of the dudes
in the story, and I'm like, oh my gosh, so we're gonna
get into it. Basically, the state of New York is getting ready to
pay a huge amount of money too. Would be teachers, folks who just
who wanted to educate the next generation but couldn't pass what was the standardized test
for teachers in the state of New York, and in some cases, many,
many, many, many times took the tests. They didn't get it.
But when he looked at the failure rate for the test and he broke
it down from a racial standpoint, you had a much higher percentage of black
and Hispanic would be teachers failing this. So what did they decide that only
decided the test was racist? Yep, it was a big racist conspiracy and
ironically when he looked at other tests that were very similar to the New York
one, because there is a national standard and then there's some state by state
stuff, there wasn't a lot of difference. And also there wasn't a lot
of difference in the sense that there was a failure rate that wasn't on you
know, if you break it down per one hundred thousand, right, so
you negate the percentage the total percentage of people taking it, and just break
it down for every hundred white persons or black persons or brown persons or whatever
who take the test. There was a difference in the failure rate of other
standardized tests, including the one that New York pivoted to. I'm pointing this
out because it would seem that maybe it's not the test for whatever reason.
And look, I don't know the reason, but simply saying it's the test
is is lazy, would, I guess would be the way to put it.
And it's interesting because there's other discussions you can have, like maybe,
you know, maybe one of the problems you saw with people who took it
who identified as Hispanic was a second language issue, right, And if you
did, now I'm not necessarily saying that that shouldn't just because that is an
issue. It doesn't negate whether somebody should be teaching kids. But at least
it's an understandable discussion. Although you know, there's some classrooms in America where,
even though it's not Spanish, a Spanish class just due to the population.
You see this down in Texas, just due to the population of the
student body where there is a lot of Spanish spoken in the classroom. Whether
that has problematic effects for students who don't speak Spanish is a legitimate discussion,
But that's not where they're talking about here. They just decided that based on
the past fail rate. Obviously, what you're dealing with, you're dealing with
some discrimination. And one of the people who was set as part of this
one point eight billion dollars payday for roughly fifty two hundred black and Hispanic X
New York City teachers or once aspiring educators, this decided because there was this
differential in the past fail rate that obviously racism was at play. And this
is Look, this has always been my biggest problem with public education, and
even going back to the days before I did my own talk show, I
worked more on the news side and would have to go and cover. In
Minnesota, I would have to go and cover public education, including the school
board meetings, And I found it insane when you really dive into this,
the constant pushback on any sort of standardized, lips test for how things are
going. And I understand the complexity of it. Simply deciding that a teacher
in their classroom should be solely graded on whether every student in there gets an
A or a B or a C doesn't recognize the differences in various district the
teachers deal with, right, and so maybe the better way to gauge this
stuff is improvement, Right, you're over your improvement or something. And it
seemed like at every turn when somebody would propose a standard to gauge the effectiveness
of a teacher, it was there was a huge pushback, generally on the
part of teacher union organizations, but really people within the district. And I
found it very frustrating because I can't think of any other job where there's not
some standard for how things are going. But in this case, the standard
is simply do you have the requisite knowledge and skills to teach kids? You
have to have a standard there. Well, one of the people who took
the task quote a bunch but never could pass. It is a a guy
who's set to get about two million dollars, which is just crazy. Herman
grime was a word of the largest of the judgments, two million and fifty
five thousand dollars after he was unable to pass the test. This based on
lost compensation and interest. I guess how the court figured it out. Excuse
me. So they interview this dude, and this is him, to the
best of mine. I've listened to this like four times. This is him
reacting to hearing that he's going to get this payday. There's two million dollars
payday because he never was in the classroom because he couldn't pass the test.
And I just want you to evaluate if you think this individual would be good
at communicating learning elements to your kids. Okay, Ross, you had never
heard this before. He dubbed it incorrect. Do you feel that you were
able to understand a damn word this man was saying. It was a struggle.
I wasn't even sure at first if he was speaking English. It's so
bad. I thought it was because I saw it on Twitter. I thought
somebody had I thought somebody was having fun and they grabbed another interview because you
don't. He couldn't. He can't even tell what's what he's answering. They
had grabbed something else to be comical on Twitter. But this guy is going
to get two million dollars because he can never pass the test and obviously there
was discrimination a foot he is. He's black, Um, so you know
he is. That's the the box that he's ticking in this judgment. But
this is him literally talking to the reporter. I have no idea what's going
on. And they knew it wasn't taking serious because, um, I just
wasn't you know, by the way, that's not an audio mishap, that's
him being interviewed in his living room and it's his smoke detector which needs a
battery, a sap. And they knew it wasn't taking serious because um,
I just wasn't. You know what you're seeing about is in Timmy bow um.
Also because I know Wilson, either they go through, they won't go
through, you know from reading hearing news and know what that stuffed. And
I know a couple of people that had um were not in education, but
they've been through lawsuits and they didn't um went or anything like that. So
to me, just like fabric, you know either you know, but it's
been getting my head. They kept pushing and kept explaining things piece by piece
your phone. I started get in my head and just listened to him and
they went from there. But still today I don't really believe it. But
you know, and you sayson from for a long time trying to convince me
that it's real. It's new game's non um, you know finals also to
all that stuff, but this is not I'm a normal person. Um,
I had to struggle for money. What's the ocean doing? Noah, there's
a smoke detector. What. I cannot imagine why they didn't want this guy
in a class room trying to explain something to kids they need to know.
He just talked for a minute four seconds. I have no idea what he
was talking about or what he was saying anything, right, You would rather
have an easier time understanding Joe Biden at like four in the afternoon. Oh
no, does it? Isn't it so bad that you think it's a punk
like somebody's like somebody's inserted a video. That's what I thought when I Initially
I scrolled past it because I saw it. I'm like, Ah, somebody's
thinks they're funny because you can't even tell if he's on topic until you really
listen, Like at one point you can make out the word lawsuit and somebody
telling them and it's crazy, and Fixer smoked it too, I don't even
know. And also why at no point does any because the reporters shown up.
Obviously they've got him in a you know, with the lights and they
positioned for the camera, so and there's sound people. I'm assuming at the
very least, there's one probably two other people from the reporter and as you
and I both know, who have you know, we record audio from time
to time with like clients or whatever. You're telling me. It's not a
live thing you're telling me. At no point does anybody go, can you
put a battery in the smoke detector? Because we're picking it up on the
mic, and yet in one minute, in four seconds, because I guess
it beeps every thirty seconds, you hear that damn smoke detector and everyone knows
that they can't figure out what the hell this dude saying. And they're sitting
in the room with him listen to the reporter and they know it was taking
serious because um, I just wasn't you know what you're seeing that is in
timmy bow? Um also because I know we'll also either go through they won't
go through from beating hearing news no that stuff. And I know a couple
of people that had, um, not an education, but they've into and
they didn't so to me just like it comes the beep, you know,
you chirp, you know, but there's I mean, I finally get him
hit, how is he going to explain? And then you know, insert
whatever it is. I didn't even look to see what his u his specialty
is and like I'm not even hacking on the dude necessarily for that. There's
people who are not good communicators, but it's kind of something you have to
have in that particular profession. And also it doesn't necessarily translate to testing.
Some people are quite good at testing but not good at you know, real
world interactions. But if that is any indicator of it, I don't know
that that's the best person for that job, or at the very least that's
something he's got to work on, because I don't know how you'd sit there
as a kid in that class and follow anything that man is explaining to you.
But they did the interview, nobody said anything about the smoke detector,
and then it was so bad I just assumed it was somebody having fun on
Twitter attaching a video that didn't have anything to do with it. But then
I tracked it back to the actual interview from New York Post. Here,
dude's gonna get two million dollars because he can never pass the test to be
a teacher. Absolute insanity, explained to me. And my school choice is
bad again. Eight hang on smart Talk all day, PTI in the Triad
and one six one FM talked in the triangles. You know, I ran
into a situation back in the day when we used to have a large amount
of interns and a bullpen, so to speak. In the world of radio,
which just like a lot of places, that's just not how things especially
after COVID, it's just not how things are. But we used to get
There was a radio school in Minnesota called Brown and it was it was one
of the bigger radios in Minneapolis. It was one of the bigger radio schools
out there, and we would have I don't know, probably five or six
kids a year that went to Brown that would then intern through us and maybe
one of them would end up with the position. And we had we had
one Brown student. I remember because I a part of my duties for a
while, we're eventually managing their passage through our through our cluster up there.
There was one of them who was his poor a communicator verbally as the guy
who was in that interview where I still do I have no idea what he's
talking about, but I know he gets two million dollars, And it was
this delicate thing where he was a nice kid. He was a hard worker
too, but he just didn't have any communication skills. And so I was
like, I had this conversation with our program director at the time, Steve.
I'm like, what, I feel like I'm doing a disservice in fostering
an idea with him that he's going to be an on air guy. Do
you know what I'm saying? Ross you ever, you ever, you ever
dealt with an intern or somebody, We're just like, maybe something behind the
scenes is a better radio fit for them. But I like, I don't
want to be the judger of one's future. But like I would have him
do ads since I couldn't understand anything he was saying, and so I like,
I was, I was in my mind, I'm like, maybe I
should show him like some of the behind the scenes editing stuff more. But
I didn't want to like differentiate his experience. We weren't gonna hire him,
but he was in turning through there and again he wanted the job. He
just didn't have any of the skill set. And it's like delicately trying to
get him to to expand upon it. But I don't want to be negative
in the sense like did you ever do you ever work with somebody you knew
who was doomed on that particular front? I mean, but that's kind of
what I knew personally. No, but I've known people in the building another
shows yes yeah, well yes, yeah yeah, or just you've you've come
across somebody really the what's that? Now? What are you doing? And
this guy is a teacher, Like I don't know that it's his bag.
Maybe he's a perfectly fine dude any of the rest of it, but holy
crap, All right, well we'll get some calls on that. Also,
they put a list out of the most miserable cities in America. They did
a state by state breakdown, and then we just got a you know,
like unemployment rate, poverty rate, crime, you know, all the stuff,
all the negative stuff that's out there, and um, we'll see what
you think of the most miserable city in North Carolina and whether it's true,
but also the happiest cities. We got one of the happiest. All right,
good morning everybody. It is seven h seven here on the KCO Gay
Radio program. So under a settlement that actually the settlement was initially, at
least the basis of it was initially ironed out during the waning days to build
the Blasio's final weeks in office. However, it was signed off on by
the current New York mayor. The City of New York will set aside and
pay one point eight billion dollars to a series of folks who wanted to be
teachers but could never pass the teachers exam. And they decided that the reason
was because the tests was racist, and the City of New York, in
accepting the settlement, basically agreed with that. And then they go they interview
this dude who is who took the tests? Like, where did I see
the number he took the tests, like because he can take it every six
months or something he did for years, could never pass Herman Grime, who's
set to receive the largest settlement, roughly just a little over two million dollars.
And they go to interview this guy at his home and not only does
his smoke detector badly need batteries, and nobody like does anything, they move
it, move it outside, go sit on the patio or something. I
don't know what the hells. I don't know why that bothers me so much.
But you got the reporter, you got this guy that wanted to be
a teacher. You've got whoever's running the camera, you got maybe a sound
person, and nobody's like, yeah, this thing sucks, we need to
not do this interview. There the guy is has no ability to communicate,
at least based on this interview. And you know that doesn't really always translate
to testing. But I don't know how he sits in a classroom and the
kids know what the hell he's talking about. They taking serious talking about the
talking about and then hearing that he got the money. I think I know
Wilson either go to they won't go to reading hearing news know what that stuff.
And I know a couple of people that had um not in education,
but they've been through two million dollars. I can't I just can't listen to
the whole thing. Yet two million dollars, two million dollars out of one
point eight billion the could be going to other elements of public at or what
the hell ever? Just absolutely bonkers to me. So we got that story
and let me hit this before we get into phone calls. Also, there
was one of these lists right North Carolina. Actually, they just had the
annual list of best places to do business. We were first, and then
Governor Cooper took all the credit in an interview while simultaneously trash and his political
opponents. Never mind that most of the fiscal policy, if not all of
it, in the state of North Carolina, as originated with the current Republican
makeup in the General Assembly, the business environment, and granted, the governor's
office does play a role in some of the incentivizing for various big companies.
But yeah, he did a national interview. He's like, dah, everything
that's good about this is me, and everything that's bad is my political opponent.
It was just the dumbest interview. So this is the most miserable cities
and the happiest cities in America. And they went state by state on the
most miserable and it's all the negative stuff, crime rate, unemployment, poverty,
love, where they have mental health stuff, there's a there's a bunch
of components that went into this, so take it for what it's worth.
It was interesting though, And then they had the list of the happiest cities.
So on a state by state basis, they did name the most miserable
in the state of North Carolina. What do you think the most miserable city
is? Ross You haven't seen this. What do you think the most miserable
city is? Based on those various elements, I just told you most miserable
city in North Carolina. If you had to guess right, it's not I'd
probably get on up my block, specifically my house, your neighborhood. You
think, no, no, it's not. It's not in the Triangle,
it's not in the triad. It's Rocky Mountain or any the report it's Rocky
mount What do you think it is in New York? By the way,
I would probably be Schenectady. No, you were number two most miserable.
You lost, so arguably you're the most miserable because you couldn't even mad that
you lost to Binghamton. I've never been to Binghamton, so I don't know,
but apparently they had more stuff that was bad. So there you go.
So Rocky Mount the most miserable. However, when you look at the
happiest cities, so I found kind of interesting. North Carolina actually has two
cities in the happiest the top twenty a nationwide, Raleigh and Durham. And
actually Durham is happier than Raleigh according to this list here, so I thought
that was kind of crazy. The happiest city in America is Sarasota, Bradenton
down in Florida. Number two, l Pass so these are the happiest.
Number three Honolulu, s and Diago at four, and number five was Durham
Chapel Hill. Actually where was RALEI were number ten, I think, and
the happiest but yeah in the state, yeah, number ten and the happiest.
But yes, the most miserable city in North Carolina is apparently Rocky Mount.
Ironically in in Virginia. Actually, there are some of you in our
listening area who are currently in this city. They say, in Virginia,
the most miserable city is Danville, which I don't know. Every time I've
been in Danville, everyone seems fine, so, but I also don't live
there, so I don't know. But maybe some of you Southern Virginia listeners
can help us with that. Yeah, Rocky Mount mostly due to poverty level
test scores among students and the unemployment rate is what got it there. So
there you go in case you're interested in stuff like that. Now you know,
all right, let's get to the phones. Jamal, you're up first,
Go right ahead. I'm from Rocky Mountay, that's the most miserable city
in North Carolina. I'm not surprised, Casey. When I heard dude talking,
I'm like, what the heck is he talking about? Like teachers can't
pass them the exam. My wife is a teacher's fellow. She she went
through um the old teachers fellow here in North Carolina, graduated from Nancy State
and everything like that. So I'm like, this guy's racist. But then
I heard the sign. I'm like, is he black? Is he?
I forget? Oh? He black? I hear the smoke detective. Yeah
wait wait, so it's so you're implying that because somebody doesn't have smoke detector
batteries changed out that that is a racial thing every time. Look, it
is a it is a skit and he's a askey tail for more blackc got
told for about thirty seconds or church that other people going church. Yeah peeled,
he impealed at the skit that I saw one time on this where they
were they were liking it to being a black stereotype. But I'm not black,
so I don't know. But so you're saying that's the thing. Yeah,
idiot, does it happen to me live? Oh there that people was
like, yeah, you can tell the wall you black black stop that podcast
to say you the battery? Hey man, I look, I've been there.
I've been there where I didn't have another battery. And then you make
that decision, You're like, should I disable this with a bat I mean,
what do you? What do you do? I don't know. You
can't disable it because because it's because as you know me and my experience with
fires, I want to make sure oh my smoke take coople work. So
I had to go out late at night go to one up the Walmart and
get some batteries. But why do they keep saying DRM Chapel Heel. It's
not DRM Chapel Heel. It's DRM and it's dams Chapel. You know,
they're not the same cities, they're not the same counties, they're not the
same lawfuls. Because the stuff you get away win in Durham, you don't
dare get away within and Chapel Hill. All them liberals always talking about equity,
diversity and crap. But the crap you pull in Durham with it with
certain officials in the District Attorney office. If you tried in Orange County you
get locked up. Well, I think it's it show us the way it's
it's just the way that metro metro designations are assigned. So Durham Chapel Hill
is a media and actually depending on which media you're talking about it, it
actually differentiates. But sometimes it's Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill. Like in Radio Um
it's it's by county. So each of the two markets were in there's a
certain counties that are primary markets. So but I've seen yeah, and then
Raleigh Kerry tend to pair together in some instances, so its just a pet
Yeah, like Greensboro High Point will get paired, and then Winston Salem will
be its own things sometimes and then sometimes Winston Salem h and High Pointer paired.
And it just depends how they slice it up. So but there you
go if you move from the least happy city to the to the most miserable
city to the happiest city. So aren't you proud of yourself? Okay,
people get shot. People get shot on fourth of July here in the city
I've currently live in. Now, Oh, the people did just so happy.
Just keep just keep a bulletproo vest when you grabbed put the list together?
Man, I didn't put the list, guy, I don't know,
So all right, Jamal, thanks for to call there. Go change your
battery in your smoke detector or whatever. Yeah, I didn't. I don't
put the list together. I just read them, Alan, what's up?
Hey? I was just curious. You know, we've gone from giving participation
trophies to kids who can't play a sport to get at one point eight millions,
to people who get pass a test. No, no, no,
all the teachers who hold on, hold on, He's getting over two million
the total payout is one point eight billion to all of them. Um,
he's right over two million. Yes, but what about all those teachers who
did pass the test? Teach the color who did pass the test? Well,
they're done. You know, we're going to give one point eight billion
dollars to somebody who can't pass the test, but we can't pay the ones
who are actually teaching our kids. Well they're they're they're dumb. That's their
own fault for passing the test, sir. Then they had to go to
Oh okay, yeah, I mean look at that. They had to go
to work, get up, put lesson plans. Yeah. I didn't think
of it that way, Casey had that's a great guy. That's a great
way to get who's smarter here? That guy who didn't do crap and it's
gonna get two million or people. They had to bust their butts. So
come on, man, you're not thinking this time. And I appreciate the
who's the who's the real genius? Um? Maybe the guy getting a check
for two mills? Bob, go right ahead. Oh, I know,
if if it hadn't been for that darn test, he could have been teaching
our kids. I mean yeah, I don't think we should have I don't
think we should have had to pay out anything, but maybe it's worth it.
Well, why is it worth it? What? You know? The
real solution here is just we didn't pass the test. So that sucks good.
I mean, I mean, how do you how do you get to
that point? I mean, I'm assuming did he have a if he had
a teaching certificate or had passed the college that taught education, they should go
back and look at accreditation of that college, because that was the first film
face that should have stopped it. He had the requisite educational requirements, So
I don't know which college he went to, but I was reading the list
of what the requirements were, and if not for the test, he would
have gotten his teaching license. So there you go. Sounds like there's there
was a lot of promotion or whatever within the school. He shouldn't have got
out of the school. Some would argue there was some drop balls along the
way. So and again, maybe you know, maybe his his biggest problem
is his communication skills and he doesn't test well. And you know, maybe
he met in that educational environment, maybe met the requirements, and maybe he
was maybe he was a fully functioning adult when he took the test and then
went into a depression and a life of crack or something. But he's not
functioning now, I'm not here's the deal. I'm not going to hack on
the guy from an intellectual standpoint, because again, he did he didn't test,
He didn't pass the test. But you know, I don't know that
he's a bad person, but I think he's definitely taken advantage of this and
uh, and it's pretty shameful. Um, But you know, I don't
get the impression that he some sort of crack addict out he's you know,
he's not the dude from Chappelle's show. But yeah, nobody, nobody's ever
went you know what, maybe this ain't for you, and he went,
you know what, maybe you're right, which is something that seemingly should have
happened. So, I mean, I just I think that the tests should
have been sufficient to weed him out, and it did the job it was
supposed to do, right, But I think damage would have been higher if
he'd actually made it into the classroom. Yeah, so it was some of
it. I don't even know, sir. After I read that article about
the rubber room, and thanks for the call up there in New York.
Who the hell knows? Man? All right, seven twenty one case O
Day Radio Program, what's going on in Oxford? I'm gonna have to get
a spy report from but one of you lives up that a way. What
are you guys doing up there? You got some crazy dude running around stabbing
people, just willy nilly all over town. So a weird story. We'll
get to the details on that. And I'm shocked they're suggesting some mental health
issues there, Absolutely shocked. We'll do that coming up here on the case
O Day Radio program one oh six one FM Talk and nine four five w
PTI, two stations driving the best in talk. This is case O Day
and Carolina's Morning News. Let me get one more quick ball on the Miserable
city slash Happy Cities. And then coming up on the show, the story
out of Oxford, North Carolina, the craziness Man Scottie. What's up?
Hey? Um, I just wanted to time in on the Rocky Mount being
the unhappiest city in North Carolina. I'm almost forty years old. I grew
up in Rocky Mount. My parents still live there, and there are so
many things that have gone into the downward slide of that town. The textile
industry got screwed in the nineties. Um. The was the huge Hurricane Floyd
flood that happened in ninety eight or ninety nine wiped out like my like just
total neighborhoods and my entire childhood neighborhood has gone. People just left. Um.
They had the same mayor for thirty five years from ninth from the nineteen
seventies until the early two thousands. He had like nine terms or something.
Um, the instant he was gone, we had the first like new mayor
in three decades. I got ten seconds. It doesn't sound like you're all
the way. Yeah, Will you hold on because I gotta go to Yeah.
Absolutely, all right, So I hang on. Okay, your day
smarter one o six one am Talk and News Talk w PTI more with Casey
starts now, all right, breaking into this Oxford insanity and a few other
stories, including a rather ironic follow up to the launch of the quote unquote
Twitter Killer the threads compliments of the meta folks. I was chuckling reading this
story yesterday. We were we were chatting with Scottie who uh ross worshing from
the Rocky Mount Chamber of Commerce and Visitors beer over something. She was regaling
us with all the fun lure from Rocky Mount. And here's the thing,
I don't have an opinion one way or the other. I've been to Rocky
Mount obviously, um see would trying to remember what I was. I was
actually there there. Obviously I passed through it a bunch, but um I
was there there for a couple things. One was for a golf thing,
and and there was one other time. I don't even remember why I was
there, and I don't know. It felt like every other middle size city
in North Carolina. Obviously, they got their challenges. Some of them are
not a unique when you get into the implications of NAFTA and textiles industry and
things along those lines. But admittedly we've done some stories over the years,
especially when it gets into it. Didn't they just have like they had a
city council members like I don't even have to pay for my utilities, And
from the outside looking in, it looked a little like corruption. So you
know, there's there's that out there. But I don't want to judge at
all. I know we have some fine listeners in the Rocky Mountain area.
And if you're happy, great, But according to this list, based on
factors like unemployment, raid and poverty, raid and crime and all the rest
it, it has a lot of things working against it. So you know,
we we put it out there. Anyway, Scottie, go right ahead
back after the breaks. Used to live there, and so I'm born and
raised, Yeah, born and raised, grew up there. Like I said,
my parents are still there, and um having number one, gosh,
the place really does feel completely different now than it did when I was growing
up. And even that's without the rose colored glasses of childhood. Um.
But just to continue the list, I mean, you're on the junction of
sixty four ninety five. The drug trafficking there is just nuts. Yes,
we believe that the city council is corrupt as well. Um. Again,
the list seriously can just go on and on. I don't feel unsafe when
I'm there, but shootings definitely happen all the time, and shoot even so,
there was a Sheets gas station that literally closed because the theft problem was
so bad there. Um. I mean, has anybody ever heard of a
Sheets closing any wherever? No, you know, I can't think of one
off the top of my head. Um, yeah, I did have a
beef with your heart. You know what. Here's the thing I remember.
I was driving through and there's a hearties right as you're cutting through town.
This is literally just right off the highway there, and they can't their clocks
don't work, and they switched from breakfast to lunch five minutes early and wouldn't
yield. So that's that's the Rocky Mount memory I have. So I know
it's petty, but you know it's me, so whatever. Well, one
last petty thing. Um, I actually, uh, Roy Cooper is from
there, as I'm sure you well know, and I knew him. I
went to church with him and his girls and don't worry, we don't.
I don't have a very high opinion of him either. So well, the
man has COVID be sensitive Okay, oh darn time. Right. Well,
I don't know if it's the fifth I did find it and thanks for the
call there, Scott. It did find it interesting though, because what does
his tweet say? Because I'm confused, and now that the his right hand
woman in the form of Mandy Cohen, is now a head of the CDC,
I wonder if maybe she's giving him some advice here. Yeah, oh
that's right, I have it over here. Sorry, that was in my
stack, but it's after all right, this is what he tweeted yesterday U
and he know it's him because he put his initials after, which is indicative
of he wrote it and not his staff. So I tested positive for COVID
today, but thankfully it's mild and I'm feeling fine. I'm working remotely for
the rest of the week and ready to be back out and about by the
weekend, probably when the fundraisers are. Um, I'm confused. Um,
oh that's right. Let me just reminded me the one on South Maine and
Rocky Mountclip they did, but I think that had more to do with the
fact that they that they built the one north of there. So talking about
sheets, but I don't know. I'm not on the sheets planning committee.
So anyway, back to Roycob, I thought that if you had a positive
test, and I'm pretty sure it's still the policy for a lot of businesses,
maybe even ours. Weren't you if you pop positive, aren't you supposed
to be not around people for like ten days following your a positive test?
Is that not still the rule. Do they change that, because I remember
it was two weeks and then they backed it to ten days. I remember
when they backed it to ten days, Everyone's like, dah, they're trying
to kill people because it was I think it was in the course of the
Trump administration. But I did it decrease since then? I don't even pay
attention anymore. So if he pop positive yesterday because he said I pested positive
today, how is he going to be out and about doing stuff around the
weekend. Yeah, that's not ten days. I can do the math.
So I'm very confused with the parameters are there now? So somebody may have
to help me with that. But maybe now that Mandy's gone, he doesn't
have somebody to be like dods got you gotta do ten days, you know,
for appearances, because remember famously we had the video of her walking up
to the meeting, not realizing the cameras were in white pan and like putting
pretend putting on her mask and then taking it off almost in the same motion.
One of my favorite videos from all of that political theater. But yeah,
if he tested positive yesterday, I don't I don't think you should be
doing any fundraisers or whatever he's got planned this weekend for ten days, because
that's what it's literally attempted murder, I believe, or however it was explained
to me. So I gotta be careful there, all right, Um,
this story so threads threads the Twitter kill, right, this was going to
be the end of Twitter. A lot of gleeful moonbats. The Twitter Killer
released by the folks over at Facebook, Instagram apparently running into some issues now.
And here's the thing, I frankly, there should be a there should
be a bunch of social media that is successful because, especially when you get
into the digital side of things, even though the dynamic has changed with Elon
must buying Twitter to some extent, it really is a very small selection that
you have. And when they're all operating the same way from a penalty standpoint
and from an oversight standpoint, and they all decide to go moonbat, it
was a very tough time for people being able to communicate on social media.
However, I remember one of the things that Twitter announced last week that everyone
lost their minds over is a sliding scale of the number of posts that you
can essentially interact with their view and depending on whether you have the blue check,
they still have a limited number. And the reason was as you essentially
had these bots that were crawling all of this interaction and in harvesting data,
and so in an effort to put a stop to that, and there was
a couple other reasons they were doing it, but to put a stop to
that, basically, they limited interactions rate limits. I believe it's what they
called it. And everyone lost their mind, Like I can only look at
what was it, like six thousand posts or something to day, I scrolled
Twitter a lot, and I don't have a blue check, and I think
the numbers even less. I've yet to get the you've seen everything you can
see today warning, So I don't know how long you've got to be on
Twitter during the day to actually hit that number. But people were screw even
bloody murder over this, and it was yet another sign that Twitter was essentially
dead in the water. Well, those rate limits had the net effect of,
I guess, pushing some of these folks to Threads, these folks who
were harvesting data and running scams and all of it, and because they didn't
have a rate limit. So Threads yesterday announced they're going to put a rate
limit in the very thing that was supposed to be the last dying kick of
Twitter, Threads is having to do. Adam Morsi, the head of Instagram,
which is essentially Threads it attaches to your Instagram account, says they're going
to have to tighten up things like rate limits due to spam attacks. This
craziness man running into those very very same issues, which I guess between the
ability to spam you and harvest data was something that wasn't being policed by the
previous Twitter ownership, because I don't think it just started. I think that's
been a gold mine of information for those who would want to spam for a
long time because it has all the engagement. But yeah, they declared Elon
was destroying Twitter by implementing rate limits, and now Threads right out the gates
got to do it, and they're still having some battery issues and some other
stuff they got to work out. Now they probably have a better chance for
a couple of reasons, not the least of which is, as we've talked
about on this show, the fact that if you're already associated with Facebook Instagram,
it's a one button joint. You don't have to fill everything out,
so it's a lot easier for people to get on there, and there is
obviously an appetite for some to continue to be on Twitter but also tweet simultaneously
about how they went over to threads and you should join them there. So
there is a virtue signal that goes along with it. But now they're having
to do the same stuff, which I thought was rather interesting. All right,
seven forty six kse Ody radio program. Oh no, we're on the
phones again. Okay, all right, race agent from the Weather Channel.
What's going on? My man Matt going on? He smoke and some of
that smoked down the ground level. So yeah, quality alerts for most of
the state. Actually, it's a little uncomfortable, kind of hazy looking out
there once again as we head through today, there's not going to be much
relief. Maybe a pop up shower of thunder shower, a load of bid
nineties, just like we had yesterday, were a little cool. And the
Triad as compared to the triangles eighty six at the airport Triad and Wally was
ninety degrees today. Load of bid nineties, So that's that variation. Will
still feel even with the hazy sunshine. Uncomfortable close to one hundred, and
we may get a shower of thunder shower tonight and tomorrow after a little better
chance with a few showers thunderstorms in the morning hour. Something may try to
sneak through also, so I have to keep an eye on that for about
this time Tomorrow upper eighties, low nineties, and then Thursday Friday. It
looks like the next change you'll start working in as it's still going to be
hot Thursday, but we will get a shower thundershower threat to come on in
and that's going to clear us out by Friday. As that system passes through
on both days ending upper eighties to low nineties. The hotter day will probably
be Thursday, so a few days here ninety plus, maybe into the mid
nineties, especially for the Triangle. But the storms will start tomorrow Thursday.
Some better weather ahead is a head towards Friday. In the weekend, my
seat temperatures come down just a little bit casey, But I think the bigger
story today is really the haste and smoke with the air quality alerts, a
little bit uncomfortable out there for some of us. There's not many of us.
Yeah, yeah, it sucks. Everything sucks. You now, but
you know it is what it is. It is July, so we truck
through. All right, thanks sir, appreciate it. We'll talk in an
hour. Yep, all right, race stage it there from the weather channel.
We'll come back here in just a few we can grab a call or
two and then yes, I got to get into this Oxford story. I'll
do it next. Hang on keeping you connected. This is ninety four five
WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM talk in the Triangle.
All right, seven fifty three back now here on the KCO Day radio program.
So three people stabbed the course of about nineteen minutes up in Oxford,
man north of Durham. There, Gordon Police say twenty one year old man
um M y l I E cad is that Malik my Leek Malik Webb was
arrested in connection with the stabbings. It started very early yesterday, around seven
thirty in the morning, so basically almost exactly twenty four hours ago near Granville
County Administrative Offices where one of the employees there was stabbed. Then, according
to police, Webb left the county offices, went to the walmart on Lewis
Street and stabbed a dude there and then left the walmart, and then went
to McDonald's and stabbed somebody there, So one person each location. All victims
taken to the hospital for treatment, expected to pull through. They haven't released
the identity of the victims. About ninety minutes following the first stabbing, police
had him in custody. I guess what is this. They received information about
his vehicle, located it near eighty five, and then the chase was on.
It wasn't a long one. They got him. As for motive,
it appears mental health. I guess they're speculating. That's Sheriff Robert Fountain who
said, quote, it was just somebody may have had a bad day,
may have been a mental health crisis. We're working with the DA's office to
figure it out. You can have it's more in a bad day. I've
had a bad day, You've had a bad day. We've all had a
bad day. You got to go to three different places starts stabbing people,
So it's more in a bad day. Arguably you maybe thought about it.
Some guy cuts you off in traffic. It just compounds everything going on.
You're like, daw what I wouldn't do? But you don't do that,
obviously dude allegedly did so, Yeah, just craziness. I'm surprised it wasn't
shot, be quite honest with you. But I don't know the stealthiness of
the individual attacks there. And I guess maybe there's some advantage to doing it
a bunch of different places because once you once you do it at the one
time, everyone's kind of on guard man once they figure out what's going on.
So yeah, yeah, is Oxford do they have a lot of crime
issues up there? I remember I've gotten emails from people or like some of
the some of the communities in and around Durham have seen pickups in crime.
Although this doesn't sound like, you know, it's uh, you know some
sort of gang, be for retaliatory something, or you know a bar that's
got a bad rep. This just sounds like some crazy person with a knife.
So maybe it's maybe it's not fair to throw it into the into the
larger collection anyway, I don't know. If yes, if you live up
and around Oxford, you can weigh in eight eight eight nine three four seven
eight seventy four. Also, and this speaks to another story that I had
yesterday. I didn't really get into I was reading about um and these are
I guess nice apartments. One of the new apartments off of Glenwood Devin Apartments
where there has been a rash of the car break ins in the parking deck,
and the residences you can imagine, are not happy, especially because I
guess they assume when they pay the kind of money that these apartments command,
there's going to be a level of security there. But it's what they were
told, is the reason that I have the story in the stack today.
One of the residents of the eleven cars who have their windows smashed so people
could go through and steal everything inside said that they were essentially told by police
and this is their version of it. Oh, well, you live downtown,
you have to expect this. This is this is the death nail for
a lot of cities and central part of the city. So San Francisco is
among those hit hardests through a combination of things. And they accentuate COVID as
the reason that downtowns are in a lot of trouble. But it's far more
than that. People see downtowns in many US cities as lawless. They you
know, they see it as a place, especially as night falls were as
much more dangerous than it used to be. And so all of these city
leaders, like in the San Francisco story I saw yesterday, you were scrambling
a whole you know what, We've got to work on a few things.
But you know, it's it's a big city. It's always been like this.
I'm not really people had a certain amount of confidence. So we'll compare
and contrast coming up. Hang on for that are those chicken wings? What
is that? I think that's very into Are you eating? What are you
eating? It Ross's TECTI, yes, what's that? It's not the wings
from our dual narrative yesterday. I find that very interesting. I was making
a comparison yesterday which had nothing. I didn't use Ross's name once or anything.
But when they said that they couldn't figure out who the cocaine was,
and then in the White House and then Tom Toott mentioned that literally they didn't
even ask Hunter Biden about it. I just thought that was a little odd,
And I painted a scenario like, let's say a salesperson had an event
or whatever, and they put some wings in the fridge, and sometime in
the morning, the wings that are in the community fridge here the radio station
disappeared, wouldn't you be able to narrow the list of suspects at least to
talk to? And I only meant, you know, from a morning show
perspective. And then Ross is like dah no, I was attacked by what
was it a crazed homeless man covered in wing sauce or whatever the narrative was.
The wing sauce strangler apparently went after Ross and now he's eating something that
maybe wings. I don't know. It's weird because they weren't real. It
was just a just a fun little comparison to help people understand the absurdity of
not at least asking Hunter Biden about it. But here's where we find ourselves.
All right, good morning, it is our number three here on the
case O Day radio program. Let's see here. Flip over to this real
quick. I just saw so one of the big discussion topics, because Madden
the video game is obviously a big deal, is where different players overall rankings
are so the you know, each player has a set of ratings that go
into their skill set and on a scale of one to one hundred, and
it turns into a big discussion point they release the wide receiver ratings, and
I have some questions. Now the top wide receiver, I don't question,
it's justin Jefferson plays for a certain team from Minnesota. Maybe you've heard of
him. He is. He has a ninety nine ratings, so damn near
perfect, and he is number one. But I'm looking down the list here,
number two, Tyreek Hill, ninety eight, ninety seven for Davante Adams,
Stefon Diggs former Vikings player. He plays somewhere else now, can't remember.
He's at number four, but you got you go down this list.
I think the second best receiver in football is A j. Brown for the
Eagles. I think if you had to rank them, and I'd say they're
all pretty close, it would be Jefferson Brown and then Diggs. I think
Diggs is actually number three. Some of it comes down to usage, but
but they have browned down at number nine, so I don't know what the
hell's going on there. But as you can imagine, everyone's arguing about that
on the Twitter this morning, so I thought i'd clear you in. If
that's your the way you want to waste a little time this morning when you
should be working, go right ahead, But first I have to get to
this. The folks over PolitiFact at a fact check, and thank god they
did, because this is pretty serious. So here's the here's the fact check.
Is there or isn't there? And now I won't tell you the results
yet. I want you to tell me whether you think that there is or
isn't. Okay, so is this true or not true? And then I'll
tell you what PolitiFact or their research determined. Is there or isn't there a
demonic portal above the White House? That is that you can see if you
if you I guess, if you look look at the right angle or something.
Um. And even in according to this this article or this this this
post on Facebook, which is what really drove this. Um, even the
police know about it. I guess that's the claim that they're fact checking.
All right, So is there or isn't there a visible demonic portal above the
White House? Ever since the Biden has moved in? What do you think?
Ross? What do you think demonic portal? Not a demonic portal visible
above the way? Visible? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I don't know
about that one, but there probably is one. Yeah, so you think
there might be one, but you don't think that one could catch it with
the naked eye. Well, luckily over PolitiFact they were on the case,
and so they did some research. I guess I'm not sure exactly how you
research this? Do you get some priests? I mean, what do you
do? According to a recent post, thousands of people have witnessed a demonic
portal above the White House. The post flagged part as part of Meta's efforts
on Facebook to combat false news. A nearly fifteen minute video takes a while
to get to the claim in the caption, eventually the host referring to a
statement Roger Stone. I remember we played this audio, this is like a
year old where he made some reference to this, although when I saw it,
I don't know if he was talking about a literal visible one. I
think it was more an allegory of policies. But still it was weird.
I remember the audio. It was weird. But they went to go fact
check whether there is in fact a demonic portal hovering above the White House,
and you, according to um, according to the research, there is not.
They were able to determine there is not. And I don't know how
do you determine there's not? Us versus there is because they fact checked the
whole, the whole Rigamarow not chose the visibility part. I guess you could
send your guy there to stare at this guy and go on, I don't
see nothing. As we know from a Skinwalker ranch, you have to shoot
tons of rockets up into it. Yes, it could not, and maybe
not just a demonic portal. It could be a trans you know, transferable
wormhole, a star to view. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
no, it's a very good point. Maybe that was the theory we had
for the busted ass motel down the road, remember where they were doing the
as part of like the military training, and it scared the crap at everybody
on Capitol Boulevard. So how do you determine, because again you can't.
To Ross's point, I don't know that you can just Joe blow go start
shooting rockets above the White House without causing a little bit of a scene.
She drones up into it. Or yeah, yeah, they don't like that.
They don't like any of that. And if there is a demonic portal,
they're gonna be extra careful that you're not over there bugging it, you
know, because you don't want something to fall out of it well, but
you also don't want to lose your your your grasp upon the White House,
right because really the reason for that claim is that demons are now running,
you know, running things, and they're not gonna want you to jack with
their stuff. If you've never seen any movie with an exorcism in it,
they don't want to go. They're perfectly content here with their little little window
into our existence. So they're gonna use everything in their power, especially no
fly zones. So maybe they're hitting it with sling shots and then like the
whatever they were slinging didn't disappear. So I don't know that you can just
come out one hundred percent be like there's not a demonic portal, but if
you wanted to debunk that's visible, I guess you could attempt to do that.
So um. They also literally called the police department. It's so stupid.
They literally called the police department they're in DC and asked whether the agency
in fact was investigating a demonic portal above the White House, which I don't
even think that's their purview. But luckily PolitiFact did the fact check and determine
there's not a demonic portal, So if like, maybe that was. That
was some you know, some bucket list travel summer travel plan for you to
take the kids to go see the demonic portal. Right, do a little
round about, go check out the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the
Demonic Portal, maybe the Vietnam Wall, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
You're gonna have to scratch that one off your list, apparently, although if
there was, and it was ever since Biden was in there. I went
last year during the DC broadcast. I met a couple of the hosts at
the w Hotel just literally right across from the White House, and they have
a rooftop restaurant bar there, and that's where we met. And so you
would almost at that point be eye level with said demonic portal. And I
did not see one. So there's that. I but you know, that's
just I'm just one man. And admittedly it was during the day. Maybe
it's only visible at night. I don't know how the demonic portals work,
but the folks over polit Effect they checked it out. No need to worry
about said demonic portal. So I can't believe Ross didn't recognize it for what
it is. It's obviously an Oblivion portal. Is that a video game reference?
That's gotta be a video game reference? Thanks for the from Elder Scrolls.
Yeah, oh it's from Elder Scrolls. Okay, all right, so
do you I didn't think you did Elder Scrolls. Yeah I do not.
Oh, okay, all right, Yeah he's not into Hobbits and stuff?
Is there Hobbits and yeah? Oh yeah it from what i've what what I
know about it, not having not played it, it strikes me as a
hobbity thing. So all right, So yeah, if you if you want
to go see the DC Demonic Portal, probably probably not gonna happen, According
to PolitiFact, very sad there, all right eight eight eight nine three four
seven eight seventy four. A recent survey of millennials on the issue of pronouns
has yielded not an altogether unexpected result, but one that is kind of terrifying.
We'll let you know what about a half of millennials say, should happen
when you miss gender somebody? We'll do it next here on the case O
Day radio program show. After the show is on the iHeartRadio app. Search
case O Day for the podcast on the iHeartRadio app. All right a twenty
two and Welcome Back Koda Radio program. A recent survey done by Let's see
Newsweek, and I'm not sure whatever the polling organization was, Redford and Wilton
strategies not familiar, but anyway, they were trying to determine what the appetite
here in the US is for heat speech and the penalties that go with it.
So one, they tried to figure out what is heat speech. They
I guess, really did pay much attention to the First Amendment. And a
lot of this is based off of a change in Great Britain where misgendering is
now a crime, and I believe in Canada they're doing this as well,
or they already did. And so they ask millennials twenty five to thirty four
do you favor criminal charges for people who misgender somebody? And forty four percent
say the yes. So forty four percent of millennials say that there should be
jail time or the potential for jail time for misgendering somebody, referring to it
as quote an act of violence. As you look through the various levels of
pulling here, and you know, one of the things that we've mentioned on
the show from time to time is if you want to see your future,
look at what the UK is doing in to some extent Canada, but Canada
is now more prominent. But really, over in the UK, who was
remember the guy who had the I can't remember his Twitter handle. Remember the
guy who had the pug with the hil Hitler thing, And that was the
whole thing. He had a pug that if he said Hail Hitler, it
would raise its little paw. And who he's on Twitter? I can't remember
his name. He's pretty prominent on Twitter. But um, you know,
that was a whole That was a whole, big thing. I actually watched
a documentary on that, which was I thought pretty well done, and because
they had him and they really had him going, look I'm doing comedy here,
get over it. And then they had another dude who runs like the
awoke comedy scene, who couldn't have come across as a bigger douche. So
did find that fascinating. But yeah, over in the UK, man,
they keep stacking stuff where literally words are violence. And I have long warned
against this being a mantra, especially a mantra that is ingrained since a young
age in our modern education system, especially when you get into college. Words
are violence, right, because you have to have some justification where either you
can physically respond or you can claim we're outside of the realm of the First
Amendment now, and they then deserve some sort of punishment, be a jail,
time finds, whatever it is, because this is not about free speech.
This is about actual violence words or violence, which is absurd. In
fact, Senator Ben Cardon from Maryland, who is a lawyer, I know
you're shocked to learn this, recently, was talking about how when you are
expousing hate verbally, you're not protected under the First Amendment, which is his
opinion and thankfully not one that thus far is shared by the majority of Americans.
Once you get out of this millennial group, the younger groups, most
people do not think it warrants jail or fines. But things change, things
change significantly. At the very least, I think that number would grow if
you just talk about consequences, like you know, within the cancel culture realm,
oh, this isn't. They're not being canceled, They're simply it's simply
the consequences of their actions, which, of course, as per usual,
only cuts one way, right, So you know, then when somebody or
like bud Light, right, you know, then it's then it's some sort
of grandiose conspiracy rather than quote unquote the consequences in this case, fiscal consequences.
Even some dictionaries now expouse that hate speech is speech that is not protected
by the First Amendment, even though there's no judicial anything for that. Yeah,
here we go. Hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment because
it is intended to foster hatred against individuals or groups based on race, religion,
gender, sexual preference, place of national origin, or other improper classifications.
That's Miriam Webster there. If hate speech is a constitutionally protected pronoun,
use or misuse is also protected as a criminal matter. The amount of mental
gymnastics to get to this point is stunning to me. And actually what's even
more stunning is forty four percent we're like, yeah, there should be criminal
penalties. Only thirty one percent said they were against it, and with the
rest saying, you know what, all consider it And it's that mushy middle
that gets things done. So that is absolutely terrifying. All right, Uh,
near an eight thirty, We got your news coming up for you,
and a rather weird ad out of Ohio. Thank you. Casey is on
w PTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle.
All right, good morning, it is eight thirty five. Oh wow.
So the Right Cooper fundraiser team. I'm on the mailing list. It's
under my secret alias of Michael Hunt. I just go by Mike though.
Keep it simple. AnyWho, um our ocean's temperature. This is the one
of the fundraising emails, and they send out a crap ton which is weird
because he's not running for office anymore. UM strange stuff. Our oceans temperatures
are rising, climate changes to blame. So then they go through all of
this and how you're gonna melt if you go in the ocean, but if
you send him like ten dollars, apparently it'll fix all that. So oh
man is there, and it look he's not alone with the dumb fundraisers.
I gotta tell you some of the fundraiser stuff that I'd see from Trump Trump's
people, it's just it's the most insulting crap out there, and a lot
of politicians and it must work. I don't know, man, but I
look at some of this stuff and I'm like, come, on like they
were. They would send these texts out. They're like, ah, we
just uh, Trump just checked the list and you're not on it, and
he was asking me what's going on with that. I love it when they
have like this this disconnect where Hi, I'm so and so on behalf of
this per and this candidate and we want to secretly raise this or it's it's
a happy birthday donation. Like all of the machinations that they got to go
through. It's just so damn insulting, but they send them out and they
must work. So now, Team Cooper just sent this email. And the
oceans are really hot, but if you send them ten dollars then they won't
be or something. Actually, you can send five dollars, ten dollars,
twenty five or whatever you want to cool the oceans down. Just get it
in his hands. I'm sure that's exactly what it'll go for. Stuff so
annoying. Man. All right, I got a question because I've seen a
lot of have you seen these stories recently where people are throwing crap at singers
on stage? Is it? Is it? I don't know if it's a
TikTok trend or what's causing it, but there has been multiple instances and it's
not like people haven't screwed with singers before, but it's very specific, and
there's been like a rash of them where people are throwing and I don't mean
they're throwing you know, underwear up there if you catch you know, like
the old stereotype there with the crooners. This is like people are throwing heavy
objects up there and hitting people. So if I was a performer on stage,
obviously that is something that would weigh on my mind and I wouldn't appreciate
that. And frankly, if you go to a concert and do that,
the you should be able to your fellow concert goers, should you know,
get about a minute of pumbling you before security drags you out because you're just
ruining stuff. That being said, there are other things that people do at
concerts which baffles me and is I find annoying, but I've also accepted as
just kind of part of the process. Now, like the person who tapes
the whole concert, why you're never gonna watch that again? Would here's what
you're gonna do with it. You're gonna try to show little blips of it
to random people at a party. And they're going to be annoyed by the
whole thing because they weren't there. The video footage is going to suck.
The audio is going to be crap because it's you know, a thousand decibels,
so it'll be all limited on your phone. It's just dumb. And
what irritates me is because then they you know, they hold the phone up
the whole time, thus obscuring your line of sight. So that's that's annoying.
However, one other thing that I've noticed, and I guess I kind
of get it, is where people, if they're close to the stage,
they'll do the thing where they turn their back to the stage and if when
the artist is in frame, and then they'll take a picture of themselves as
selfie with you know whoever singing behind them to show because you know, everything's
status so they can post it online and be like, hey, look where
I was, and which also means hey, look how close I was and
ain't that cool? And then they'll post some picture. Well, that apparently
got on the nerves of Miranda Lambert, who literally halted the show to brate
the people in the front row for doing that. These guys are worried about
selfie and not listening a little bit. All right, so then everybody's chairing
there or whatever. I have a question, is that really that big of
a beef? And you know, when they're taking the selfies in a way,
they're doing it to focus on you, the singer, and when you're
in like you know, standing room only in that big group there, as
it appears the folks are um, that's like, I don't even know that
bugs you as a singer. Is that? Is that really? Is that
really the biggest problem? Is that? Or is that just part of going
to a concert? Now? I just I kind of accepted as part of
going to a concert. And I've seen some artists that that really flipped out.
I mentioned, you know, working on some concerts Tory Amos, I
remember that being one of the weirder concerts that I worked, because she had
all of these rules where like, you couldn't have phones in there, you
couldn't they couldn't sell um uh cups plastic cups that could make a crinkling sound.
So like it turned into a whole thing with them not being able to
sell beer at this concert venue because that's obviously that's what they're doing, and
they didn't have paper cups, so she had this whole laundry list of annoyances
that she wouldn't let pass through. But at most concerts, I see people
doing that crap all the time, and she sitting there to stopping the show
in the middle of it. I don't know, I feel like that's kind
of part of the experience. Or when you know people go to sporting events,
they'll do that stuff too, and I just kind of accept that that's
a thing. I'm much more annoyed by the people hold hold their phone up,
blocking views so that they can tape a concert and that they're never going
to go back and look at. But now she was she would not having
that man and wanted everyone to know. Now I've seen comedians will do that.
But it's also kind of a bit too. In fact, I literally
one of my buddies was busted on by George Carlin back in the day because
he had his phone out and he wasn't he wasn't even he didn't have it
up in filming or anything, but he literally had it out and you could
see the screen and Carlin made a little quip because we were sitting like second
row or something, second or third row and but you could tell it was
prepared material for just such a thing. And it was really funny too because
made my buddy look like a jackass, which he kind of was being because
he was texting. But whatever, that's part of the experience. So I
feel like they are kind of I'm just taking it all in. But that's
my two cents. Race agent from the Weather Channel. He's joining us.
A big concert goer. You got to concerts, are you? Kind of?
Like? Yeah, not so much anymore. M I do. I
do enjoy going. It's the price that doesn't um, that's the thing that's
yeah. Yeah, and if you pay, like I don't know what a
Lambert ticket costs, but I bet it's not cheap, so I bet it's
Selfphie is understandable, I guess, yeah, yeah, And you know,
people take good money and He'll let them do what they want to do.
It just don't throw stuff, right. That's become popular lately. Yeah,
yeah, just a lot of that. We got. I got a straight
with a little big town and uh, Louie Nelson and friends and carry Underwood
actually here in Atlanta October just just just dished out two hundred ticket for that
so oh all right, yeah, you know what it does sound like a
bad show though, so no it doesn't. You know, George Straits,
he's probably in my top three easily might he was being my favorite of all
time. And uh, you know, if you can get a guy out
there, stands there the microphone and things and the crowd goes crazy, it's
you know, it's straight. A couple of times. Yeah, man,
it's a good, good show. But also it's yeah because he's got like
three thousand number one hits, So yeah, what's great is you're standing next
to people and the whole thing like, ohs your front property and people would
be sitting there like, um, you know, worst thing it along and
people next to us have no idea what the works that even songs are.
You know, a lot of people go on three weees or corporate tickets and
yeah, anyway, let's see the haze and the smoke getting our tension.
The last couple of days. I will continue to be the case maybe for
the next few days or have anything. It's going to kick anything out maybe
late week and the weekend. Clouds at sunshine and the hazy sun at most
are a best today load the middle nineties. Yesterday had a range of about
eighty six of the try it to ninety and Raleigh. So we'll still have
a range probably ninety to about ninety four degrees, and we'll head through tonight
with a slight chant of the shower thunder shower. Same thing for tomorrow.
Some isolated showers thunder showers still could climb little bid nineties, and I don't
see too much changing as we go through the week. A couple of days
and the triangle you may try to push some mid nineties Thursday, Friday,
the weekend, Casey, is when temperatures may come down and we'll get the
smoke out of your eyes. Okay, all right, we'll hold you to
it and we'll chat tomorrow, sir, sounds good. All right, We'll
come back chab with Jeff Bellinger. Grab your calls next Hang one six one
FM Talk in the Triangle and news Talk w PTI in the Tryad. All
right, good morning, it is two. You're Bloomberg Update now with Jeff
Bellinger. Jeff, what's going on the morning, Casey? A. Wall
Street started this week with an up session, had some minor gains yesterday,
Futures pointing lower this morning. Now, futures are down twenty nine points.
A Ford Chairs fell nearly six percent. Yesterday, company caught investors off guard
announcing it was cutting the prices on its electric F one fifty pickup by as
much as seventeen percent. There is some evidence today of a deceleration and consumers
spending, rising prices and economic uncertainty maybe finally having an impact on spending.
The Commerce Department reports retail sales increased two tenths percent last month. That was
weaker than expected. Gain. With auto and gas sales excluded, the increase
was three tenths percent that was right in line with forecasts. The chief industry
officer at the supply chain data company Project forty four made a sobering assessment about
a possible strike against United Parcel Service. Mark Dimin says the US would face
massive disruptions, large economic losses and declines, and consumer and business confidence if
UPS workers walk out. Three hundred forty thousand members of the Teamsters union could
be on the picket lines two weeks from today, speak king of job actions.
Network television programmers have no idea yet when new shows will be available because
of the writers and actor strikes. So they're getting creative with their fall schedules.
The cable hit Yellowstone will have its broadcast debut on CBS, starting with
the first episode that originally ran in twenty eighteen. Another cable program, FBI
True will be on the schedule, and CBS plans more game shows and reality
programs. And Casey brand can lose its cachet if everybody can afford it.
You need to keep your snob appeal. That's apparently the thinking at Ralph Lauren.
The company has raised the average prices of its products by eighty percent since
twenty eighteen. It plans to keep hiking prices. Ralph Lauren CEO says there's
no limit as long as the company continues to elevate its products. Casey,
Okay, all right, Jeff, thank you very much, sir. We'll
chat tomorrow. Okay, sounds good. Have a good day, Take care.
All right, there you go, Jeff Balinger from Bloomberg News. Let
me grab a quick phone call here and then try to fit in two stories.
Jim, what's up? Hey, good morning. I want to come
in on the Miranda Lambert reaction to selfie taking goodness gracious. Back in nineteen
seventy seven, I want to a mega concert in Philadelphia with one hundred and
thirty thousand people with Gary Wright to Peter Frampton and yes, and I think
I paid fifteen bucks and it was crazy. It was the best thing I've
ever seen in person. And you know, nowadays people are spending the hundreds
of dollars and I think short of throwing battery act it on the performers,
they should be able to do whatever they want in that crowd. Well,
I mean, yeah, unless they're If they're not, and I don't even
want to say that that's enough disruption. Sometimes people are disrupting the ability of
other people to see or take part in the concert. I understand that beef.
But yeah, if they want to take a selfie with the artist and
back, because there up front, I just kind of expect that's going to
be part of it, which is why I don't really like going to concerts
that much. Well, let's let the crowds police themselves, and let's security
take care of the really fun ruly people and let the do their job.
Yeah, now I'm with you, all right, yep, yep, yep,
thank you for the call. I'll try to remember the last concert I
was at I don't even remember. That's unline. That's when you know you've
worked in radio too long when you still have access occasionally to free tickets.
You're just like they were they were some of the other day that they sent
an email around camera was like Matchbox twenty or something, and I just no
interest. So and maybe it's because I was doing it, did music radio
long time. You had to go to a bunch of shows and so it's
kind of it turned into work. That's what it feels like. Work.
Yeah, you're like, am I gonna have to go do something? Even
though you know, but still it's just like, ah, this is what
work was. Yeah, you worked at g for a music radio for even
longer than I did. Man did so many concerts, concerts, and at
the end, like you said, it's like I don't even want to go,
Like if you're invite me now, I don't want to go now if
somebody has like a like a luxury box at something that's completely different, right
right, right, yeah, yeah, So let's not let's not be universal
in our in our in our hatred of that. But so, yeah,
you got luxury boxes to something you want to send an invite? I think
I think the last concert I went to where it was like, hey,
I want to go to that where it wasn't work. I think it was
like Cypress Hill in like two thousand and five, two thousand and four.
I honestly, I'm racking my I can't remember the last concert I went to.
I remember where it was though, and I can't remember who they act,
but it was at the Ritz. I don't remember now, but yeah,
and I remember even like, ah, this fields like work, even
though I had there was zero work going on there. Check this out though.
Um so they continue to make busts in this human body parts thing.
Remember the guys Bugshot who was stealing this stuff. You're like, yeah,
that looks like a dude who sells body parts. Well, a man in
Kentucky was had his home rated by the FBI the other day. James not
taken into custody. Police say his entire home was decorated with human remains like
he went. He went, like to the point of making furniture out of
it and stuff, which if you remember, was a hallmark of a certain
serial killer. According to police, they discovered dozens of remains, forty skulls,
spinal cords, femurs and hip bones, including a skull that he slept
with like a teddy bear. Yeah. Yeah, it's all sorts of creepy
here. The other remains had been utilized as either decoration or as part of
various adornments within his home. I don't even know what that means. Yeah,
I mean that's like a gene stuff. Yeah, it's ed gean stuff
with the lampshades and stuff. But how do you select which of the skulls
is your teddy bear skull? That's what I want to know, man.
He so he was arrested on that, and then also there was guns and
he was a felon, so he's got a felon in possession of charges.
Butraziness, absolute insanity, man. And yeah, it looks like you do
to sleeps with the skull. So you know, if we're generalizing here,
I'm just saying