Ecoday radio program. I'll tell you what I don't enjoy, and I am
so glad the weekend is upon us. I don't enjoy literally every morning this
week, the following the initial morning where I'm like, I'm sorry you murdered
Batman, I have woken up to stories about some other element of this game.
Ross are you are you? Are you clicking when you see stuff or
you at least scanning stuff on Twitter when you see the various things in this
game. Obviously Batman being killed was a spoiler. I've seen a bunch.
Did you see the Lex Luthor one? I've not. Oh, okay,
all right, everybody, Just so everybody knows who Lex Luthor is, right,
it's Mark Zuckerberg or Jesse Eisenberg or whatever in the modern but you know,
Lex Luthor has been the arch nemesis of Superman, going back to I
want to say, within the first like five Superman comics or something. He
is the OG. And you know, back in the day, he was
portrayed as a like a military junta kind of militia dude, and he only
gradually years later they kind of reinvented him into this corporate thing. That's it.
That's the short story, and then he is you know, he's portrayed
as the smartest human out there but also the meanest and most ruthless and okay,
all right, so apparently there's a scene where Lex Luthor talks about things
that are important to him, and in the in the video game, his
character is actually, even though he tried to kill her for a very long
time, Lex Luthor, in his uh is going on a diatribe because he's
decided that he's going to use his powers to solve toxic masculinity. I'm sorry,
what do you laughing? Dude? This guy's evil man like, he
wants to take over the world, rightly, he wants to destroy Superman,
not just the world everything. Remember, so he's remember Lex Luthor essentially partnered
with the Multiverse lady, who's portrayed as kind of the person who built the
multiverse on the DC side, and basically he wanted to partner to take over
everything, not just the world. Everything is Superman supposed to be symbolic here
of toxic masculinity, because I don't see that or just in general, just
in general he wants to and in fact he actually it's it's it's less that
he's going to he's gonna put the finishing touches on it. But he is.
He is praising wonder Woman and the Amazons for having solved toxic masculinity.
He's like Mark Cuban or something. I don't know what the hell's going on
in here. Yeah. In the Suicide Squad killed the Justice League game.
The in game, if you go the in game profile for wonder Woman,
you'll find a that Lex Luthor, as it's describing her and her journey,
is a great admirer of Wonder Woman and the Amazonians over the fact that the
toxic masculinity doesn't exist within the Amazon side society of I can ever pronounce it
them scarier or whatever it is, which is a passion of his. Is
a corporate leader. He wants to make sure there's no toxic masculinity. Admittedly,
I don't read the comic books, but I shouldn't say that I've read
Superman comic books before. I'm not like every week, but I off the
top of my head and somebody can correct me. Didn't dude basically kidnap all
the female relatives of Superman at some point and torture them, including his mother
or Lex Luthor do that? I mean that was that was one he made
a Lois Lane sex stall or sexpot. I don't know. I feel like
that would be seen as a rather aggressive move. But it does have guns
for hands, which raises a lot of questions. Like we've talked over the
years when they've introduced some some interesting little versions of robot companions, right like,
hey, what if we what if it quotes philosophy? I think Ross
that was your favorite, right, you wanted to know that he was the
one that would quote Niche Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're like getting
it, You're getting it on and it's like did you know God is dead?
Like wait what? Oh? Man's like why are you stopping? You're
like, you don't understand human physiology? Psycho? Yeah? And then what
was it? Then they had one that said no, right, that was
someone that would get a headache. Yeah, I have a headache. Oh.
They decided they wanted to give one a menstrual cycle. I remember that.
Well the other way, this sounds like, like you said, it's
much more of a Jesse Eisenberg Lex Luthor as opposed to who else has played
him? Gene Hackman? Right, gee, absolutely legend. And then what's
his face? What can I think of him? No, but he was
originally found not guilty of all those sex crimes. Kevin Kevin, Kevin Spacey,
he played him. Oh, that's right, and he had like a
major drop off with Jesse Eisenberg. Actually, wow, look at all the
people who've played him. You know who else? Geez? Wait, hold
on, I think Vince McMahon should have a shot. So either if you
count the movies and or video games, there have been so many. So
if you count all media, so voiceover actors and movies, actors and TV
series and actors and specials. Jesse Eisenberg, Gene Hackman, John Cryer,
that's right, John Cryer, the dude from Two and a half Men,
Kevin Spacey, James Woods g and Carlo Esposito. You know him right,
you know that actor? Did he really play him? Yeah? In the
Harley Quinn series, he plays Lex Luthor. That's badass. He probably was
a good lectu. Yeah, he's a great villain. And you're ready Dwight,
that's fantastic. What do you mean that's fantastic? Did Dwight play him
in the DC Universe animated series? He was talking about Dwight from the office,
right, I'm talking about Rain Wilson. Yeah, I'm fine with that.
That's great. I mean he already exudes some of his uh probably some
of his proclivities. Man. But yeah, so this this Lex Luthor big
He's very concerned about toxic masculinity with somebody who wants to control everything and murder
everybody. Not everybody, but everybody who he sees is not falling in line,
which sounds a little toxic. By the way. Oh, here we
go. Since I called this thing up. Lex Luthor first appeared and it
was the twenty third edition of Action Comics in nineteen forty, so a couple
of years in there, but holy carried a couple I don't know if that's
a couple of years. I don't know the rate at which they printed in
nineteen forty. But wow, well that's good. I'm glad that they're you
know, they're dealing with the big issues issues there. Well and if you
think about it, man, now it makes sense why they killed Batman.
Remember that time he's took the entire Russian ballet on his yacht so he could
have his way with him. Just a super predator man or forced those women
to swim in the pool at that restaurant. I think we all remember that
Batman was out of control. Dude. He didn't even show up when the
chickil like got killed. It's all the Christopher stuff. The game is absolute
garbage. I can't play it. I'm not going to bring myself to stream
it. How is selfish? He is a villain. If anything, you
should want him to be rot with toxic masculinity. But the problem is,
and we talked about this yesterday when we were chatting with Stephen Kent from Bounding
into Comics, which is, by the way, where I saw his story
this morning, the villain in many people's minds is not the villains. It's
it's the hero, right, Bruce Wayne is just an evil, rich dude,
which ironically so is Lex Luthor. Wasn't he president too? Didn't they
make in the comics? Did they make Lex Luthor president or something? Whatever?
But when you've decided that the hero is the villain and you still have
to have conflict, you have no other choice but to make the villain the
hero. It's just in a you know this ridiculous make belief side, absolutely
incredible man, So you ain't gonna be streaming the game. Huh, well
that's unfortunate. Oh dude, we got some We got some serious puns going
on, name puns today. Kyle just sent me his second story. All
right, well, well we'll get to all those. Let me give you
a rundown of a few other things. Like I said, it's Friday,
So Rossie, you got the text from Pete? So that I did,
and I'm so confused by it. I have no idea. All right,
okay, I'm the same way. So I thought, let's not check,
and either he is on at eight h five or he's not. I think
he was so medicated out of his mind that he had no idea. Who
was texting us? No, it's Pete goes to the dentist. Oh was
it the yeah right, yeah, famous video but I can't remember the kid's
name. And they're like, ah, I'm gonna film you on your old
Yeah. So I think he had some something done. But yeah, never
text on you know whatever the whatever pain killers they give you there. I've
been saying for years he has a morphine problem. Did you you know what
that's I'll back that up. Sure, why not? I like conflict and
he's a proponent of toxic masculinity, and I feel like that's something we really
need to address on the show today. So, by the way, do
you like my new polar bear statue? You all you have all the toys
in there, so I thought maybe spruce my studio up with the five hundred
pound giant polar bear standing on its heels ready to eat somebody statue. Isn't
that nice? I saw that this morning when I was dropping off prep and
to scare the crap out of me, Like, what is this doing?
He intended effect you babe, I want people backing out of the studio slowly.
So yeah, now, anyway, it is a crazy story, man,
I this is one of those where it's like, you know, somebody
stole the giant mascot out in front of the school and the damn thing's thirty
feet tall, and you're like, oh, we got a polar bear story
to plug in, plug in there. We got more court insanity doing what
they do. And I don't even know what to make of this Florida fish
science story. I feel like I wouldn't want to know if I was if
I if I lived in the Tampa area and I was one of the residents
of this neighborhood, and we were trying to get to the bottom of whatever
this thing was. I don't want to I don't want to give any away
because I want to do this story straight man. And and it was determined
that that's what it was. I feel like I wouldn't want to know.
I'd rather just be a mystery because it's both super creepy and uh anticlimactic all
at the same time. But I was aware that this is a thing that
can happen with this particular species, but not to the extent that scientists are
pushing this. I don't even know if I believe it, but we will,
uh we will get to that coming up here. Let's see and uh
Roy Cooper on the executive order front. The irony, of course, well
I'll explain. The irony is he'd he decided to do this executive order,
and he very likely had he simply participated in the budget process, during which
remember he got Medicaid expansion. He probably he probably could have got Republicans to
put to actually put this stuff into law man. They may have quibbled over
some of the cash side, but so to go out and do it as
an executive order. When you're in a position where you could have probably accomplished
this in a legislative manner, it speaks to you not being serious about wanting
to accomplish this, because an executive order will never have the teeth of law,
although some judges would, I guess, pretend that it does. In
fact, here is here's what I'm talking about. North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper
signs executive order to support freed prisoners through education and assistance. He is he
is one of several Democratic governors that have either done this or in some cases
it you know, was put into law via the legislative branch. Cooper sign
an executive order Monday that seeks to reduce recidivism through formal training and workforce tools
for incarcerated people so more can succeed once they're freed. Now here's the thing.
I don't fundamentally object to this. I think, and without without ignoring
you know, the reason for the season, the reason we're having to sit
here and determine in most instances, because somebody is strong man, Well,
this person was innocent, right, Well, from what I've seen, that
person's going to get paid if it's a high profile case. But it doesn't
make it right, but no, the reason that we're having to contemplate how
somebody's going to function once they've been to prison is predicated on their inability to
follow the law. So as long as we understand why we're there, and
there's certain consequences that come from that. But I do believe that it is
a very very tough row. I don't have any experience. I've never done
a stretch in prison, but you know, it's very difficult. And I
think that when people come out and they're not getting the results that they want
and they have some criminal knowledge, that yeah, you get recidivism for a
variety of reasons. But this isn't the only one. So I'm going to
dive in into what the order is. But it's quite the virtue signal,
and we'll get into all that coming up here on the CaCO Day Radio program.
Bud Light has they brought on some some new spokespeople, some new the
new celebrities and at reinvigorated relationships they had with others, Like I see there's
a whole new slate of Manning Brothers bud Light commercials, although Peyton Manning has
done but I don't know about Eli. But I know Peyton's been uh with
bud Light for years and if you watch the either of the Championship games,
they ran a whole craps under those. But it is the newest person who
I have to assume based on the timing, he is probably gonna be in
a Super Bowl ad that I think, when you really process it really speaks
to the desperation over there. I'll share that with you here in just a
moment. Let me grab a phone call, Janet, what's going on?
I just had to call to you know, PSA with everybody there, Lex
Luthor's man card is officially and permanently revoked. He shall only be referred to
as Lexi Luthor from this point forward. I mean, he's uh, he's
he's fighting for women, even the ones he tortures or makes sex robotside of,
or disappears as he did to a former CEO of his company. So
all right, I'm with you, Janet. They really definitely fighting women,
will right about that? They're trying again, once you make the actual hero,
thanks for the call there the villain then, because you have to have
a protagonist and an antagonist, what are you gonna do? I guess the
lazy thing would be like to put Trump in there or something. But uh,
if no, it wouldn't be because it would probably be some sort of
right straight because they did do that. I'm trying to remember the video or
the comic they did do that. They probably did it to a few of
them. I just didn't hear about all of them. All right, let
me flip back to this. So, bud Light's new spokesman, and I'm
sure he identifies as a man and probably doesn't have time for the pronouns,
is Shane Gillis. If you don't know who Shane Gillis is. I talked
about Shane Gillis on the show here not that long ago. He's a comedian
and we were talking, Oh, we were talking about the really edgy bit
that he does now where he's talking about presidential assassinations and he's saying that Trump's
would be the funniest, and there's a whole way he gets I want you
to watch it before you get outraged. Would be the funniest because it would
happen when he's on stage talking crap, and he probably would be talking crap
to whoever it is before, during and after and then he pivots to Biden
and says with Biden, he's the only president you could punch assassinate, and
obviously he delivers it a lot better. I'm not a professional comedian, but
what you have to remember about Shane Gillis is Shane Gillis was announced a couple
of years ago. Has it been that long as one of the newest cast
members on Saturday Night Live? And the Internet did what the Internet did,
They waged a bot campaign to shame Saturday Night Live because of Shane Gillis.
Shane Gillis does a bit. I can't play it because it's got a bunch
of f bombs in and I'm not gonna make Ross do it because it's I
can explain it to you. So the bit goes, think of any army
in history is a lot more, is a lot scarier if they're gay,
right, So he or and he goes through. He's talking about you know,
gay mongols, gay Nazis, you know, and I think the line
is could they look any sharper? But the bit is around gay vikings and
I don't remember what predicates the bit, but he's talking and this is the
joke. This is what got him canceled from Saturday Night Live. It's actually
one of two, I think, but I was the one I saw being
posted. He says, Imagine you're a villager, and medieval villager, and
you look out over the ocean and you see Viking longboats approaching, and you're
like, oh no, oh, this is horrible. They're gonna burn our
village and rape our women and daughters. And then all of a sudden,
as it draws closer, you see it. You see them raise the rainbow
flag, and now the villager goes, oh my god, it's worse than
I thought. That's the joke again. He's a professional comedian. He tells
it better than I do. But so for bud Light to pivot from Dylan
mulvaney to Shane gillis a once canceled like it would be a redemption story if
it wasn't so obvious that bud Light is desperate, absolutely desperate. They took
all that goodwill, they took, you know, thirty percent or whatever their
market share was, and just squandered it from the number one beer sold in
the world to losing that and by quite a bit. And so they go
out and get somebody who ten minutes ago in woke corporate circles, was untouchable.
Couldn't even a comedian who couldn't even go on Saturday Night Live because he
told jokes about gay vikings, which in reality that joke's less about gay vikings
and more about the perception of obviously the male villagers. It's it's that is
staggering to me. Man, you're all Dylan mulvaney out to Shane Gillis,
who was too toxic to be on Saturday Night Live. Eddie Iszer back in
the day. I think it was from his special dress to kill. He
had a joke similar to that. I wonder if he, LIKEX, you
know, took bits and pieces of that to make it his own. He
might have set it up with that, you know, sometimes they'll set it
and set it up or with the story or something, because the joke had
a very similar premise. Yeah, I can't, honestly, I can't remember
the totality of it, but I remember it was. I remember the gay
vikings thing because people were making memes and stuff to mock SNL and they made
gay vikings memes and not just and it was fine when it was just norse
vikings. But then a few of my players got caught up in that where
they were like they were meming Vikings NFL Vikings players, and I did not
appreciate that. So that's why it sticks in my brain there because I'm like,
oh, man, who made these memes? So there you go,
all right eight eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four back to
our gov So you know I told you that obviously when you know each legislative
session, you'll see similar bills, like parents Bill of Rights. That's the
thing that's the thing going on, not just in North Carolina but other places,
and there's and it has different versions, but it's kind of predicated on
the same thing. And you know Democrats will do it as well. They
find some cause or some pet cause, and and then a bill emerges,
and if they have legislative control, then they're gonna go ahead and get it
put in there. And it will differ from state to state. And like
with the Parents' Bill of Rights, you have the most water I don't say
water down, but the most simple version in North Carolina where it's really just
two things. And then in Oklahoma, I swear they had like one of
the Republicans there is trying to outlaw the any pornography, anything that would be
defined as pornography that is not quote what educational, scientific, or whatever.
So it's it's just one of those when you read that, now, I
gotta find it because I was going to do this the other day and then
I spaced on it. But it's it's it's it's so there's such vaguary there.
Like I you can understand what the dude's trying to get at, but
also like feasibly that would make illegal a photo that one would produce for their
partner, which isn't for science or anything, but rather to uh you know,
some would argue in furtherance of their marriage, right, you know,
keep them, keep them, keep them interested like this. And so when
you have when you have these things and and you have all of these different
iterations, they'll go about it in different ways. Well, Roy Cooper wanted
to be part of I think it's twenty states now that have taken up some
sort of criminal justice reform. It aligns with what is known over arching as
the re Entry twenty thirty. This is Council of State stuff. So I
know many of you are big fans of the Council of state stuff, which
is kind of like our version of the EU if you don't know what it
is. Basically, it's a bunch of moon bats who and they love doing
this because if you hold power half of the time, but during your time
when you hold power, are able to offload some of the decision making to
another body, an unelected body, I might add, that aligns with your
views seventy five percent of the time. That's a lot of people will be
like, that's a good deal, man. That's what you're seeing with EU
now, And that's what Council of State is man, and they want to
work on integration. But because he doesn't, he didn't go to the legislative
route, and again he was in quite a position to do it. He
probably could have got this stuff in there. I think people across I think
there's some things in here that are relatively cost neutral and UH are are probably
a good thing, right, Expanding expanding UH employers willing to hire people coming
out of prison and basing that on a certain set of goals that are available
in many instances to prisoners within the North Carolina prison system. But this is
it's it's like a it's like an agreement kind of right, So there's some
there's training, right that you can get in prison. You can try to
achieve ged, you can try to go for some college credit and some some
formal training in a more hands on blue collar kind of job. And so
what this would do is it would bring to the table more employers, and
those employers would say, Okay, well, if the prisoner meets these requirements
and then checks these boxes and does this training, then we will We'll have
a program to get get them in there. And if you're an employer who's
having trouble filling certain positions, this might be a good thing for you.
Again, all of this stuff probably could ended up in the budget because there
is a cost to this. There are some tools for incarcerated people that North
Carolina currently doesn't offer. And so you have all this stuff and then you
give these directions and it's it's a bit of shuffling chairs on the Titanic in
the sense that while he can't allocate spending, he can change what it's intended
for. This is what you see at the presidential level, right. Trump
did a little bit of it with the wall stuff on his first ag.
Joe Biden took that money back and decided, hey, six billion for a
wall, why not spend twenty billion in just housing. That's a good deal.
So yeah, here we go. North Carolina has set challenging numerical goals
while joining re Entry twenty thirty, such as increasing the number of high school
and post secondary degrees or skill credentials. See all this has a cost.
Now, doesn't mean doesn't mean that I think that the opportunity shouldn't be there,
because I do believe that the criminal justice system is about reformation, right,
and you can almost apply Christian tenets to this right if you want to
look at it from that perspective, and you know the criminals are the sinners,
and then what you want is you want people to come correct. Okay,
all right, that's fine, because inevitably people are going to get out.
And anytime I read an article about a guy who's on his one hundred
and sixty seventh, the rest steam blows out my ears. But you didn't.
There's no teeth here in the in the same sense you're you're robbing,
you're robbing where you robbing money from. I'm told that our justice system is
broke, financially broke at the state level, within state prisons. So it's
it's virtue signal, and it's just it's so irritating because again, he he
could have involved himself in the budget process and probably gotten this put in there.
The governor said, there's already funding in place to cover the efforts.
Well, sure, yeah, I mean there is money allocated for our state
prisons, but where's it coming from? Just so hollow, dude, The
governor said, uh. Also, he will be going to the Republican controlled
General Assembly for assistance to accelerate the initiatives. Meaning I promised stuff. I
realized that even though I said the money's there, it's kind of not there
because it's you know, this is like, this is money for you know,
this thing, but we're the money they have right now is for their
food budget. So inevitably, even though I put this down on paper and
I'm going to try to force their hand and say how much they hate prisoners,
and I'll probably bring a racial component into it too, Like this is
the thought process I believe behind the Governor's people here with this strategy. He
could have just started with trying to go to the General Assembly and done some
horse trading, but he doesn't want to he doesn't want to do any horse
trading. He wants this, he wants what he wants. He wants his
Medicaid stuff, and he doesn't want to give up an inch and Republicans will
probably give it to him now they'll like they gave him the Medicaid stuff.
Is everything's so dumb. I'm sorry. It's early on a Friday morning,
and frankly, is the last thing I want to talk about. But it's
just bizarre. It's not bizarre, it's just so strategic. And it's like
you're a lame duck. I understand that. And it's I feel like it's
the idle hands thing with this guy. He's just not getting the lovey one,
so he's just coming up with all sorts of weird stuff and it just
it throws out the process. And I know that the part of the process
here that he's that he's undertaking will require him to throw around the insults.
Anyone who objects to this hates hates minorities. Why well, why is that?
Because if you look at our prison system, it's disproportionate, Yetta,
And then we have to get into that stupid stuff again. I think people
want folks who go to prison and come out of prison to be functional members
of society while recognizing that, you know, consequences, actions have consequences.
But now it's just setting up to be another thing where we all have to
scream at each other. All right, six fifty one to hang on,
Let me sneak a call in here, Raoul, go right ahead, sir,
Good morning, CAZy. I enjoy the show very much. I agree
with you ninety nine percent or you've used on opinions. But I have to
draw the line some point, man, Okay, I'm thinking tire of you.
He's pronunciating our governor's last name. Uh you know, let me say,
you know, yeah, you know what. A lot of a lot
of people in my position would just hang up on you and ignore your your
criticism. But you're absolutely right. It is pronounced Cooper Cooper. He made
a whole press conference to that point to make sure everybody knows his rast name.
Yeah. Well, I mean, like I said, he's bored hour
number two here on your Friday. I would normally I tease our conversation with
Pete Calener coming up eight oh five, but I don't know whether that is
or isn't happening. Uh uh Pete had a guy in a dentist or diary.
He went anyway, he went somewhere and they shot him up with the
good stuff. You know that, you know the good stuff, right,
which think of David goes to the dentist. I don't want to get too
into it because you know it is he texted us. I guess he didn't
put it out there, but still he did. He did mention something on
his Twitter, so I feel fine. But the way that he wrote it,
it sounds it's written ninety percent of it as a setup to I'm not
gonna be there, like you know, explaining what's up, and then the
last line is like I will be there for for the hit. So I
don't know, but I arrived the same conclusion rosted because he texted to both
of us. Dude as high as a kite when he's writing that tweet or
he's writing that text, man, and understandably so right, you know he's
he's not you know, he's not out doing heroin and the thing the doctor
gave it to him. But still, yeah, those are the times we
just got to you got to put the phone down, I mean, or
you know, just keep texting. It's also an alternative there just keeps it
going. Does that end well though? Or possibly what's your web hits?
Yeah? For us does yeah, it's because then we're like, oh my
gosh, a druggy druggy Pete texted, now you got a massive open wound
on your back or whatever it is, and you're high on morphine or it's
not even the morphine, it's this stuff on top of like the the stuff
that's better than morphine. I don't remember it's called. When Marky had Lincoln,
it was an emergency C section and like everything that could possibly go wrong
went wrong. It was like really scary and really tense. But afterwards she
was hooked up in the bed and she didn't have the morphine stuff. She
had like the stuff that's above, like better than morphine, and there was
I don't remember what it was called, but all she had to do was
push a button and it would, like, you know, help her out
and ease the pain. And she just kept pushing that button, going,
it's not doing nothing, it's not doing nothing, and oh my god,
did it do something. She was on like a different planet. It's amazing.
So I'm saying, if you, if you are going through something horrible.
Yeah, big massive opening. You were shot in the back by a
cannon The doctor removed the cannon ball, but you were now on this super
morphine. Send us all the texts. Yeah, yeah, well pine on
whatever you call us repeatedly. Well, we'll make a whole segment out if
we get a bunch of them. Yeah, I'd be a little nervous on
the call, just because you know, we've got to make sure we have
plenty of delay built in. But yeah, now I'm down with that.
Look I I try to make a point. I try to make a point.
If I, if I, if I have a buzz on, like
I'll physically be like, nah, you don't. You don't need to be
you don't need to be texting, emailing, posting on social media. Just
don't. Nothing good comes from it. But that's because I did that to
myself, So I would have no one to blame but myself. If I
went on there and did something horrible, you get a free pass. If
the doctor shots you up, you got the whole Look at all the stuff
over the years that people have been like, uh, where they've they've justified
it through. I had an adverse reaction to medication. It's like you killed
thirty six people, right, or uh, you rammed your Remember the chick
who like hit like ten cars? Try was that Charlotte Orr name was down
in South Carolina. She but she said that she hit ten cars because she
had just been to the dentist and they had given her not just the numbing
stuff, but they also gave her some sort of something else. And she's
like it was the doctor's fault. And it's like, I don't know.
I think we've all known or gone to the doctor or gone to the dentist
and got you know, we're not probably can't drive, so we do uber
a family member or something. So but you can try to use the excuse.
See how that goes? All right, check this out. Slip back
over to this. I don't know why. There's a bunch of stories about
STDs like yesterday and then today. So yesterday and I didn't get to it,
so I'm gonna pair it right now with this. They had this that
the ten states with the highest STD rate in the US. If you had
to guess, which state do you think has the highest rate of STDs?
So file that away, and then where do you think North Carolina lands,
so file that away. We'll get to that here in just a moment.
And then yesterday I saw a new graphic, a new map, and they're
talking about a sexual health crisis in London. They say that London has the
fastest growing and now one of the highest rates of STDs in all of Europe
and it's crazy. And then somebody thought it'd be a good idea to construct
a map of London. And it's burrows because that's what they call it,
call them burroughs over there, So all the little suburbs, if you will,
but not really suburbs because they're part of the city. And color code
it based on STDs per one hundred thousand, and so it ranges from dark
purple to very very light light yellow. Uh. Ross, you saw this
map right because you had to put in the prep. I see it's in
the actually physically in the prep. You saw the London STD map, right,
I yeah, yeah. Anything about that map stand out to you?
Not a thing, nothing, nothing. I just see a map full of
colors. Why what do you see a PERV I see, I see with
the city of London with its burrows, and it gets very very pink in
this Uh, this gash right in the middle, and then it's surrounded by
more of a I would say, like a skin tone. I'm just following
you here. Yeah, so it's like a like a we'll call it a
European skin tone color on the outside, and then this this slice through the
middle there that is very pink. And then that's the graphic they included with
the story. So probably want to stay away from I mean, it's just
confusing. I'n't well, I don't know where you're going with this. Oh
really, what's going on? You know? You know what, Maybe I'm
crazy. Let's let's get that on the twitters and perhaps people I don't know,
maybe if you just just give it a give it a glance. Now
back to this, all right. So the ten states here, all right?
So, oh what I had done, I called it up on a
different one. In this one, of course, is photo gallery. Oh
I hate you, all right? So number ten Arizona, nine, Arkansas,
and North Carolina has the eighth highest rate. Let's see here, what's
the most popular. Chlamydia is the most popular, and then gonerhe and then
syphilis. So I guess if you're putting a collection together and you average those
out, you'd have to hook up with nine hundred and fourteen people if you
want to get the set. You know, you collect to collect the whole
set. Alabama seven, South Carolina six, Georgia five, Alaska number four,
South Dakota three, Louisiana two, and Mississippi number one. And looking
at these numbers compared to everyone, you should probably not hook up with anyone
from Mississippi. It's it's bad, man. But I was surprised to see
North Carolina on that list, uh, you know, on the top ten
list there, and uh what I'm I'm also surprised that California is not on
there. To be quite on California and Florida, yeah, oh and Florida.
Yeah no, no, it's very good point. Yeah, or at
least think like like Nevada or something like that. I think that in Florida,
Uh you know, think of all the Florida stories that involve some sexual
component and then but they also involved such horribleness and vileness and you know other
elements that like maybe the other stuff they're doing with it is little killing the
STDs. It's not transferable, like like the people who were hooking up in
the in the uh like the little sewer creek thing, that story from Tampa
the other day. Man, if you if, if you're chlamydia and you're
you're like, wait, they were hooking up in the sewer it was they
thought it was a creek, but it was actually part of an exposed sewer
runoff pipe. You didn't we did? We did this story. I think
I don't recall us doing that story. Maybe I was busy on the phone
or doing something else. Yeah, yeah, well look, if you don't
have a pool, right, and it's and everybody else has a pool,
weird ninja turtle role play or something? Hey, man, wait, do
you think there's ninja turtle porn guaranteed? Okay, all right, well not
if now with that and and with that fall under the Oklahoma exception for educational
or scientific or whatever, that thing's going to be wrought with lawsuits. I'm
telling you what. Yeah, I know Florida or California that that is weird.
And they did. Look, they put in the work over at the
villages man, and they still couldn't get him on the list. What's even
going on? Kind of sad? Actually? All right? Eight eight eight
nine three four seven eight seven four Speaking of sad. Let's hear from Governor
heay up in Massey shoots its and a really really tough decision that she had
to make in a situation she's dealing with that she didn't you know, this
is she's not to blame, as I'm told explained by her spokeshole in this
other article. She's just making the best of the hand that was dealt to
her, and it's taken an emotional toll. Here is the governor explaining why
she's decided to take a rec center that serves a predominantly minority community and call
the kids out to house migrants, motional guys. Okay, because I'm committed
to this. Little kids need to be able to breathe clean air. They
need to be able to access swimming pools. They need to have lifeguards there
who are going to teach them how to swim, and they need to have
activities. I don't know what we're going to do for a couple three months.
I'll call universities, I'll call other places. So that is the governor
of Massachusetts who scanned over the entirety of her state and determined, I guess
the only place that they have to house the flow of now, what do
they have up there. It's like fifty thousand or something into the state of
Massachusetts is to kick the kids out of the rec center that they use for
all of their after school programs and sports programs and all sorts of stuff who
maybe don't have another option, which is the reason that you put the rec
center there, because that's what and that's the only building I guess in the
state of Massachusetts. And as she goes on too, she's like, you
know, how did we get here? I mean, it's not like she
and others told them to come there right right that that didn't happen. It's
not like they, oh, oh dear god. There's an executive order right
there that she passed, yes, telling them that if they do want to
come there, they'd be welcome with open arms. Well that backfired. But
also, why is this And I'm going to get the same pushback I did
on the school thing up in New York right where they moved the tent city
over to that school, and they're like, no school for you, and
also no teacher access unless you prereserve it. And they're like, you know,
just trying to get people out of the storm. They're trying to do
something man, and so I will give you the same argument that I gave
with the City of New York. I've been to New York City. I
was there not long ago, to be fair, I was in JFK waiting
to transfer flights. But it looks like there's a lot of buildings there.
Uh. And I've been to Massachusetts. I believe they have other other buildings
uh there in the uh in the state. So you you weren't forced to
close the rec center, which, by the way, you are also dangerously
close to being the antagonist from the Breaking movies. You realize that, right,
what happens if a bunch of the kids from the rec center that you
just closed to house migrants show up and beat your dance crew, you have
to reopen it. Right. This is I mean, this is this is
case law dating back to the to the eighties. I believe process we're talking
about that was the pune you're talking about, like rec center stuff. Well,
remember the Massachusets governor said, apparently there's no other buildings in Massachusetts,
so they got to kick all the kids out of this rec center, which
is uh specifically serves a a predominantly minority community, and UH is the focus
of a lot of programs in also dealing with some crime issues in the area.
So this is and and by all descriptions, it has a lot of
buy in from people, a lot of people. And that's the only building
apparently in Massachusetts that the governor could find. And I just I said,
you are dangerously close, Governor to being the antagonist from the Breaking movies,
which, if I understand correctly, some of the kids you just kicked out
of the rec center, if they show up in dance battle your people and
win, you have to reopen the rec center for him. You have to
the wall, right correct? Okay, all right, I told you this
is stifle a lot of careers. Though, remember, like me, what
if b Rabbit can finally take on Papa Doc. Well, are we doing
a dance battle or a rap battle? No, he'll go on. He
doesn't need a clock. He'll go a cappella. Oh well, dude,
that's intimidating. Yell man, I'm still gonna mock him, even though even
though I've watched him, you know, throw a couple of verses and I
realize he's superior to me, I'm still gonna mock him. Is that a
good plan. I think that's a good plan. So, oh yeah,
but her crying, I why are you forcing me to do this? You
have no other buildings, you have no other buildings. You got you got,
I know, I know. Well the governor's mansions right now, it's
very nice. What about the Boston Garden, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, they're not really using that right now. Quincy Market,
it's pretty nice. Uh huh uh huh uh. What about Harvard Yard.
There's no cars in there. You have the right, all right,
there's no cars, I believe, I don't know. I'm not sure.
How about Boston Paul's relatives, right, yeah, I mean we come on
these people of standards. What do you mean? What do you mean?
Like I'm out, I'm leaving the state. Ah, it's a look,
they're not red coats, you're not forcibly, you're not quartering troops. So
I think it's a loophole. I'm pretty sure. Yeah. No, So
she had no choice, just like uh the mayor up in New York.
I have no choice. I gotta do this. And look, somebody's always
going to be mad. But it's like that's the one you pick in all
of Massachusetts. That's the one you pick. You should have let you invited
everybody there. You should have left them all on Martha's vineyard considering the number
of bedrooms those houses have a right and uh, that'll never not be funny.
By the way, Russ and I were just talking about that off the
air, and uh, you know what, Uh maybe they get jobs as
lifeguards over by that pond next to Obama's house. So I'm look at me,
I'm I'm I'm not even the governor, and I'm coming up with ideas.
So yeah, there you go. All right, seven twenty three KCODA
radio program. We get some calls and uh, we got some wait to
hear this fish story next hang on phone number you want to be on the
show. Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. So we
got the the governor of Massachusetts. She's very sad, she was forced,
she had no other choice. Is you know, it's a small state,
it's not a very big state, and apparently the only building in the state
where they could house the overflow of migrants is she just doesn't understand how they
got there, even though she literally wrote will you welcome with open arms on
an executive order is the rec center that is heavily utilized and ironically is utilized
in a predominantly minority community. But she's the Democrat, so they're not going
to call that out, although it sounds like some of the people near the
rec center, some of the parents are very upset, and I guess I
get it. So we got that going for us, and this real quick
from Florida, and then we'll get into calls Tampa residents say that they've had
trouble falling this sleep and there has been this really this vibration right this VI
and this is and this has been going on in in uh in certain at
certain levels pretty much non stop for the last I don't know see how long
has it been going on for a while, and they were trying to figure
it out. It's like the coastal the coastal booms in North Carolina. That's
always that's an interesting little rabbit hole if you want to go down that.
But because everyone, you know, everyone assumed that they were just you know,
like fighters or aircraft out of the military basis. But it doesn't it
doesn't align. However, in this case, it's not a mystery anymore.
According to researchers and scientists in the Tampa area. They vibrations which permeate homes
to the point of causing some residents not to be able to sleep is from
drums or drum, I should say, and I don't mean like drum,
like the drummer in a band, black drums because they're getting busy. Yes,
that's right. According to the folks who looked into this down in Tampa,
the reason that folks in this area of Tampa, which is near the
Bay are unable to sleep and their homes are vibrating is because the black drums
are having quote rough mating, which is shaking their homes. Man, I
thought, you know, one of the things they tell you if you're going
to buy a home or just a slice of property, is you want to
go there, and you want to go to the property at different times of
the day, different times of the week to get a sense of what's going
on, because if you don't, right, you think it's perfect because you
went every time you went it was on a Saturday, and then you find
out like I did that. Oh, by the way, a car line
will obstruct your driveway five days a week, twice a day, and then
people literally look at you like you're the problem. That's the thing you got
to know. So I'm sorry to these residents, but it sounds like this
is where the fish like to you know, this is kind of their their
hookup bar. So, but that's crazy. You're shaking a whole neighborhood.
What what are they into? That's what I want to know. What kind
of kind of weird David Carrodine, Uh, that dude from CNN with the
octopus stuff. I mean, what kind of the hell are these fish into?
Other? Being into octopus for your fish in the ocean is probably not
weird. So just a thought. All right, to the phones, here
we go. Oh, Boston, Paul, What what's going on? Boston,
Paul? Why do you work? Today's a holiday? What is it
some weird mass Massachusetts holiday or something I don't want to know about. Man,
come on, he saw a shadow. They did not see. So
they said six more weeks of I mean, you don't even know you call
it, don't even know how it goes, You don't know how it works,
he said, in early spring. But I think it's going to be
revised like the jobs report, you know, next month they'll probably say six
more weeks a winter. But hey, Mara Healy, right, there's so
many places that they could put these people, but no, they can't go
into the beautiful communities of of Cambridge, you know, well Islington where she
lives with their girlfriend, uh Tent City and Harvard Yard right. Well Habid
Habrid Stadium is empty. I mean they only use it ten times a year.
I mean, put him in there, a big beautiful stadium. You
know, wow, it's like two hundred years old. It's just it's just
like the optics of it. I'm like, come on, man, yeah,
we know there's other facilities right there is and and she's before, like
you said, she was open arms, you know, come to Massachettes and
then see they the bluff was called. They think they're so far removed from
the border it wouldn't happen. I mean, because they did. They do
have uh illegals coming in, you know, from government most of the one
time there's a big Somali rush that went in. Well, look you're gonna
get you're gonna get a lot of people that are going to go there,
especially you know, people people who don't have legal status to work necessarily are
going to in some cases they're gonna they're going to gravitate to where they can
find work, which is understandable. And uh, you know, if if
you're if the work that you're that you're willing to do is of manual labor,
then yeah, going where people have nice homes with uh and you know
certain needs is not dumb. I get it. This was just accelerated through
uh them getting saying this and the other governors on the border going all right,
all right, well I got a plane, so get ready for it.
So well, these these communities that get loaded up like when and little
they in all these hotels. You know, they took over a bunch of
hotels. The hotels are like, you're gonna give me how much? Come
on in and they're you know, you're getting three meals a day delivered to
them, cash, brand new clothing. I mean, these people you see
them coming across the boarder all money and stuff. But when they come off
the buses wearing a brand new sneak is, brand new coats and just beautiful
clothes. And these people in Roxbury, a lot of them fought a long
time to get that building and they finally got it. And and now to
have a sign on it that says, not one close to the public.
I mean, come on, a public building close to the public, it
said, But you've seen it all over in fact Boston, Paul, thank
you very much for the call there. Why don't you figure out what the
groundhog stuff means? I don't care. I just have another cock deal.
All right. Well, that is a that is a man who's honest right
there. He does have a good point. Can't believe they're forcing us to
work on a holiday, all of us and not just you and I.
Everybody should be outreached. Yeah, because its imagine you know. Here's the
thing too, because if you ever then get stuck in Oh that's not good.
See Ray calling in on. Oh that's right, never mind, I
know why. Yeah, if we get stuck in an infinite time loop,
would you rather be stuck in an infinite time loop on a day you're working
or on a day off? And I think the answer obviously is day that
you're working, right or no, it's obviously day off? Come on,
man, all right? Uh, well here is I'm sorry. I'm sorry
to Race Agic from the Weather Channel. Let's get him in here. Our
caller stole your thunder. Although he doesn't understand the groundhog stuff works, so
I couldn't make out what he was saying. So if you want to tell
us, go ahead, but don't dwell all right or always sprank liar.
There should be penalties, don't you think? Look like like if you if
if you get a certain if you if your percentage drops below fifty percent,
Yeah, we'll figure out the time period. I think you know, you
go to the farm up state, we get a new ground. Hug.
I don't agree. Now. Somebody told me this morning that the accuracy is
usually at about thirty percent, and I said, oh good, at least
I don't have much competition then, because that's what I average. I think
about thirty percent Accressy, well, I'm just teasing, but yes, the
official, the official. We're going Fox to TONI Phil no shadow early spring,
as they say, most of the East Coast actually shrouded in cloud Coverer,
and the cloud even locally is honestly hanging on a little bit longer than
I had thought. So yesterday I was thinking that maybe we did clear out,
but now a lot of that clearing is still west, just getting into
the northwestern parts of the state of North Carolina. So we're still shrouding in
clouds. There is some sun at times, but we'll go through the day
and see more and more of the way of sunshine. And you know,
y case, that is going to be the theme as we go through the
next five to maybe seven days. Low pressure that's come out of the west
is going to pass south of us, believe it or not, so in
through parts of South Carolina and Georgia. There med be some rain, but
other than that today, how about the mid sixties. That sounds like a
golf day to me in Sebruary. Yeah, a little bit of a breeze
around, which should see more sunshine later. We'll get some clouds tonight,
load of mid thirties Sunday weekend, but the front comes through and we are
cooler but where we should be or even slightly above. Load of mid fifties
overnight lows upper twenties to low thirties. Early next week looks sunny, fifty
to fifty five, probably load of mid fifties once again with lows in the
upper twenties to low thirties. It's kind of like lather Ridge repeat Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, all similar sunshine with those temperatures and then even Thursday is
going to be sunny and warmer, near sixty. Well, I had to
cancel my trip next week, so i'll actually be here. My snowmobile trip
has been put off to March fourth. We're hoping for a late winter in
northern New York State where right now they're riding on snirt. If you don't
know what that is, yeah, combination of snow and dirt and rocks and
crossing streams. And so we put it off. We're going to wait.
Hopefully the polar vortex will return and mid month maybe is I've shown some signs
and some colder I may try it works out from Canada once again. So
when are you doing that? In March? March fourth? Now, so
the week of March fourth, Yeah, Russ and I have a week off
in March, so oh wow, the same week. No, no,
no, no, it's later in March. So it's the eight week of
the eighteenth, so gotcha, gotcha. Yeah, So if you do move
it again, try to move it there and then boom. So yeah,
then we'll light that up. Thank you, sir, appreciate it. Okay,
yep, all right, there you go. Ray staging from the Weather
Channel. Appreciate that. All right, more calls hang loose. We'll get
to that and much more here on the CaCO Day radio program. It's wonderful.
So yes, really over the last couple of days, but again yesterday
watching the Biden administration and their positions and their's thoughts on what going on over
in Israel as bonkers. They yesterday they announced that they were going to sanction
people who were going after civilians. And the example that they used were Israeli's
building inside of what is perceived although some say it's part of the b Zone
which is in dispute territory, so homesteaders if you will. And I'm like,
what about the cats that are still holding one hundred citizens hostage? Right,
so you get to sanction, all right, whatever? But that wasn't
that was that was, That's not why we're here. Here's why we're here.
So, as you know, following the the killing of three US soldiers,
three National Guard soldiers with that suicide drone, the Bide administration said they
were going to do something. They'll get back to us. And what generally
when you hear that, they don't tell you the something, they show you
the something. You know what I mean. And obviously, if you're going
to do something and you tell everybody, that could make it more difficult to
do the thing that you want to do. So in the case of you
know, some good example like Barack Obama didn't come on and hold a pressure
before they went in after Bin Laden, he did it after Donald Trump.
Same deal, in fact, same exact position in the White House. I
kind of think he was wanting to go for that. He's like, set
it up where that red hallway is, yeah, yeah, yeah, cames
out and it comes out and then we have to hear how we just turned
a dude to miss and then he did it again and it's like, ah,
we chased him with dogs. All of this was after because well this
apparently NBC News and various others have been privy to information from sources within the
White House, and of course they were prettying it. And the picture that
developed was that the White House had put together a strategy that quote they'll call
it a campaign, and that's because it would last weeks and they would be
targeting quote Iranian targets outside of Iran, including various military groups receiving aid from
Iran. That's pretty specific. Right, like we're would we we're talking about
I think it's like thirty some groups throughout the totality of the Middle East and
and other parts of the world that I ran backs, but really three big
ones, right, so you got you got Hamas, although to some extent
I don't believe Hamas is where they're going. Initially they're letting Israel do that.
But but you have you know, just over in Libya you got the
hoot these and uh you know, uh it's the one. I'm well whatever,
But these groups, right, they're they're on a list and it's a
public list. So you report all this. So what they're going to do
for weeks is they're going to any of these groups and or Iran Iran targets
not in Iran. What do you think happened? What? What do you
what do you think happened? Well, you're gonna be shocked to learn that,
uh, the Iranian backed terrorists responsible for murdering three US soldiers and is
en gingering dozens others uh in an attack over the weekend have evacuated their bases.
Man, I wonder if Ross do you think there might be a connection
there where the President of the United States is like, yeah, here's here's
who we're going to grease, and and then the people are going to grease,
like moved. This reminds me of when he gave putin that do not
hack these these things. List said whatever you do, don't hack these these
are the brilliant and then it was like shortly thereafter some of those things got
hacked, and he's like, how could this have happened? Coincident? Yeah,
strange coincidence. Yeah, so the sou I don't I can't believe I
have to sit here and explain this to people. If you're gonna do that,
right, and you are gonna do it, we just do it.
You're already gonna do it. Just do it. And then after you do
it, I'm sure people can argue, hey, you should have done that,
he should have done whatever. But if you're gonna do it, do
it. Take a stand. The one the one thing I've never been critical
because you know it is is the bin Laden rate. Right when you when
you read about that and not I don't mean just why zero dark thirty,
because there are elements in there that are part of this and you realize that
you had you're gonna be violating another country's airspace. So you make the decision
that you don't care because if they're you know, if they're housing this dude,
then screw them. And you're going on not one hundred percent sure,
Uh you know the uh, the intelligence had not the there's nothing definitive saying
that that was bin Laden. So you know he had to make that decision,
and he did, and I got I got no beef with that.
That's how you do that. So like it's it's it's just dysfunction within this
and it's it's the and it shows you the relationship, just how cozy relationship
is with because you know, they're not telling this stuff to Fox, they're
not telling this to lend Back. They're telling to their buddies over at NBC
run Out and they're like, Hey, we're gonna we're gonna do this thing.
Can you imagine World War two? How screwed we would have been.
Yeah, that's a NBC news reporter. They're like, oh, that Calai
thing, that's that's not true, that's a that's a psych And meanwhile Hitler's
sitting there and oh okay, all right, well let me let me move
my tanks again. I mean in actuality, Hitler was a n apple because
he was coming down from his meth high. But yeah, I got your
point. I love the he was napping during all that, like during the
during d day and because he's so stories went to the doctor that Pete was
at right, he was napping and that you have all his appears that are
like should we wake him up? I don't know, he's kind of grumpy
in general. Ah, this is the part we're ready to talk to Pete
and I like that segment. Well, we're not doing it today because we're
here to destroy everything you love. Or Pete had a doctor thing and wrote
us a hilariously drugged up text yesterday where Ross and I still didn't know whether
he was going to be in or not, but it was like David goes
to the dentist, but with Pete. So we'll mock him next week over
that. But yeah, he's uh, he was given the good stuff.
Man, not making a lot of sense, but that's okay. We'll truck
on. By the way, thank you many of you have sent me the
the hoodie story. Ross, did you hear about hoodie? I don't care
about the hoo thies anymore, mate, just but just bomb yem it.
I don't care well, I just don't care. Well what no, who
tea? Who tea? Yeah hooies No this bomblem. Well, I was
looking at a I was looking at like a missile chart where they were firing
their munitions at ships, and it's like it's like he played battleship but you
didn't understand how to play it, and you didn't and you were also using
numbers way outside the grid. They're really bad at it, so so that
you know, if you're gonna if you're doing a pun, then you could
say that they're blowing fish up. So that's all I got. So Darius
Rucker arrested and tried it, says arrested. It sounds like he was pulled
over his tags were expired, and they hit him with the possession of the
most minor drug possession trip. I assume he probably had pot in the car,
he had a vape or something. I think what I think is funny
is people are like, oh my gosh, I can't believe this, and
I'm like, did did you ever hear him back? Like if listen listen
to I mean, obviously things have changed now, but like back in the
day. He was talking about how they would do a thing where they would
party and then the any in the band they would just party while they're on
tour, and there was a contest to see who could stay up for the
most days, and like somebody was awake for four days or something. But
do you think that was with coffee? So yeah, it's rockstar lifestyle.
What I think that might surprise a lot of people though, because it is
Hoody and the Blowfish, because they do seem like a bit more wholesome than
other bands of like the nineties, like you compare them to with a Nirvana
or somebody like that. Yeah, no, no, no, you know,
I get that. But it's like, come on, man, that's
uh is right there? Just google it now. He you know, he
says, that's all in the past, and look, that's that's the rock
star life, even if you're a country artist or if you're a pop artist
or whatever. It is. So yeah, but thank you. I do
have the story. Okay, all right, very good. Uh let's see
speaking of actually speaking of let me do this. I was gonna pivot over
to another story, but I want to make sure I get this in.
So I'm gonna kick off the hour with this. Have you seen the insanity
that that a lawmaker? And I say a lawmaker, And I think it's
very important to differentiate, right, because the media loves to go out and
like gim her when like Charlie Christ said something and they and because he had
an opinion on something that was the state, that was the position of the
entire Republican Party, and then they decided to use I can't remember what it
was. It was just something where he was the only one wanting to do
this thing, and because they felt it would reflect badly, the media is
like, oh, they all want to do it, so you have to
provide context. So I will provide context. A Illinois state representative from Chicago
introduced legislation. Now, to be fair, he did have a few other
legislators who tweeted out how they liked what was introduced, but it was his
name on the bill. However, it's important to point out that he is
chiefs chairman of the Judiciary Committee. So this is not some rando who got
in at the last election. This is this is somebody who served for a
while. This is somebody who chairs what is a very powerful committee in most
legislative bodies, and obviously in the state of Illinois with crime in Chicago and
everything, you bet, and he proposed the following legislation under the under the
terms, and now he is saying now he's pulled back on this again.
Context matters, But under the bill, cops would not be allowed to make
many of the traffic stops or enforce many of the traffic laws they currently do.
This would include things like expired plates so hood he would have been saved,
tinted windows, improper lane usage, and speeding unless there are more than
twenty five miles an hour over the posted limit. Think of that insanity,
right, you know, when you're on you know, you're on I forty
and somebody's twenty five over, they still stick out. You're on your kids
schools street and somebody's twenty five over. The people are drag racing there.
So to just do that across the board was crazy to me, and it
gets even crazier. The legislation also stated that any evidence of criminal wrongdoing discovered
during a traffic stop could not be used any trial, hearing or other proceeding,
and it also reads the evidence could also not be used even if the
driver permitted police to search their vehicle. A Ross. I don't think your
show could last if there wasn't the stuff that happens once the stop is made
and they're like, oh the cocaine blue in here right right, the on
patrol ivy at least no way, dude, dude actually has an ARCI,
So it's not going to happen. It's like done, little math a little
bit. I feel like they stole my platform though, because they said once
I become sheriff, there's not going to be any more traffic. Violet.
I'm not going to pursue that because I'm just too busy, right, just
too busy. So, but you were so busy with what dude. It's
technical, it's it's law legal in the constant. It's the kind of above
your head. I don't mean to insult you, but I kind of did,
right listen. I just I'm too busy. I can't do it when
what you do in your car that you paid for in the roads, that
you paid for none of my business. Vote hates for sheriff, right right.
So in Chicago, if this bill would pass, I could literally get
pulled over. Look like a powdered donut. Just covered in cocaine cake.
No, I don't even have to expeact it, like, yeah, that's
cocaine. Oh you pulled me over, isn't you? Meh huh. You'd
be dude, if you had that much blow in your car, you just
be like if you're hauling like you're you're smuggling for the cartels, you got
like fifty kilos in your trunk. The first thing you should do is drive
by police. They're like sitting there doing paperwork or clocking people or whatever,
and do whatever you can to get them pulled over, to get you pulled
over. You know what I'm saying, Because now all of that evidence is
fruit of the poisonous tree. Well, here is uh, here is the
best part. The name, the name, which very often, right,
very often is tacked a legislator's name is tacked onto a bill, right,
McCain, fine gold. You know there's lots of examples. Obamacare, even
though it's called the Affordable Care Act, we associate the names. And frankly,
I'm sad and this dude doesn't call this his name, and the word
would act or whatever after or reform because his name is justin slaughter. And
I think calling this the Slaughter Act would be absolutely on the nose man,
just too perfect, dude, I love that. Oh you pulled me over.
Well, Jad now you can't. Now it's all now, it's this
cocaine's legal rights as the founders intended. That's what they said. Did you
read the Federalist paper? Well, that's right, you're busy with your technical
stuff, so busy, so busy. Yeah, but he has now withdrawn
the bill. After he said quote, he received surprising pushback from someone within
the party. Don't worry. They'll get there for you. Eventually, they'll
get I'm sure what the actually told him is not right now. Little by
little you can't go full force, which is you know, which is really
the strategy, and a lot of this stuff, but terrifying that the at
the same time, all right, let me let me grab this. So
PBS has a documentary out about January sixth, and not necessarily the day,
but the committee. So they were filming. What was weird is do you
remember they were filming and then Nancy Pelosi's what daughter was filming on January six
shooting a documentary. It's like there's a lot of documentaries going on. This
is about the committee and so the what is it's it's it's the name of
this thing, Well, the January sixth Committee. This is a PBS documentary
and and actually it was ABC News dude who started to have this produce and
then he went over to PBS, so he brought the documentary with him.
Okay, so they're talking to the various committee members and discussing this, and
there were some and I guess technically I was one of them who realized,
with like the coverage the times, they were picking right where they wanted this
write in prime time. They scheduled it so it didn't conflict with high ratings
events with networks knowing that that would get them their best coverage, and then
it underperformed in network broadcasting to the point where the networks, after a couple
bites, decided, now we're not going to do this anymore because they were
averaging four to five million less than they would have in those time slots.
But this gives you some perspective on the thinking of the committee members, who
if you remember all Democrats. Well, I was going to say, with
the exception of the two Republicans that Pelosi put on there, but I'm going
to go with all Democrats and all really just just Trump. We're here to
get Trump Man. But they would never say that out loud. You know,
that's the quiet part. You don't say out loud, right right.
Thompson's committee had gathered a trove of information. The challenge what to do with
it. The one thing that we knew was the information that we have is
compelling. The thing we needed to do was tell that to the American people
in a compelling way. So that's why we brought in the former president of
ABC News. Yeah, I got a call pretty much out of the blue
from the January sixth committee. They wanted a storyteller. And while they were
brilliant, they were brilliant lawyers, storytelling for a mass audience is not what
they do. To bring in a guy like this who would fain think outside
the box really did prove to be fruitful, And it was Goldston who really
began to envision this as in a way, a kind of mini series that
there would be, you know, sort of nine episodes, and that these
episodes would tackle particular themes. Do you remember do you remember hearing when because
they reported that they literally brought in this former ABC News guy and it was
what was the reasoning They said, Well, they said basically they needed they
needed to know how to structure it so it was you could digest a lot
of information. That's not the conversation they're having as you listen to it.
They're talking about, how do we make a mini series out of this?
I mean, if you didn't think it was theater before watched this little just
watch the little snippet. Man, it's not just theater. It's theater where
they brought in consultants so that it's better theater. They're not they're not even
bringing up the reasons they were lying to people about it back then, Tackle
the Capitol the investigation first hearing was primetime television as the nation is about to
witness it a fighting moment, the first hearing before the country the results of
the January sixth investigation. This is an extraordinary moment in American history. When
it came to that first hearing, we knew how high the stakes were.
It's about to hold its first prime time hearing. We were either going to,
you know, make people realize that this is important, you know,
or once once you've lost them, you've lost them for good. I mean,
this is It is exactly the same way that you would structure any TV
show or mini series or whatever. At least I these are conversations I would
assume or had, But this is this is literally the functionality of government.
So it gets more insane when you start talking about mini series and everything seems
to be ratings driven. I mean, that's the mindset here, it's all
ratings driven. On the evening of June ninth, eight oh one pm,
the doors opened. My heart was beating pretty fast on June ninth, and
it was a real question of is this gonna work or not? H right,
everybody, here we go five on the line, please, I'm in
this tiny control room right on the stairs from Canon Coolcus and we calmed down
to the start of the herring and at that point, what can you do?
Here? We go in three two one, the Select Committee to Investigate
the January sixth Attack on a United States Capital will be in order without objects.
We wanted to make sure that this was a presentation that would grab the
audience and hold on to him. Chairman Thompson loved to say, it's got
to pop. No, you just have to. If you're holding this and
you're doing this and then people know what it's called. That's the extent of
the obligation there. This bringing in of a crew, bringing in people that
have produced all these events, calling it a miniseries, structuring a mini series
over this, and then putting a documentary together to boot that was done by
his own people partially to create this this like you know what, it feels
like a documentary that would be done in retrospect of some big important TV thing,
right, some historical like Live AID. Right, this sounds like this
sounds like a behind the scenes thing where they were talking about how to structure
Live AID right where because remember that was what it was three cities in Philadelphia
was the one in the US. It's been that's a long time ago.
But like this is the kind of discussion and documentary put together. And they're
doing this for a function of government, for a committee that one side wasn't
even allowed to appoint their own members to. And it became abundantly clear based
on those ratings, so that it doesn't matter how much you polish said turd,
it's still a turd. I remember the majority of Americans minds. I
remember when this was going down, we said that the whole thing looked too
polished. Yeah, and so so when you're seeing someone this, you're like,
there's sort of like a feeling of fakery behind it. One hundred percent
loose people automatically. Yeah, if you watched a congressional hearing, that's just
congressional. Here. There's bloviating, lots of bloviating, and a lot of
times there's questions that are just the dumbest thing you've ever heard, because you're
dealing with people who have no knowledge of the subject matter or or or don't
do any research and are asking things they're at you know, they're asking my
Mark Zuckerberg in that hearing, wait you can Facebook's free? Don't you want
to make any money? And he's like, yeah, we sell ads,
like like the tech stuff was embarrassing, although him getting cowed in that meeting
the other day was kind of funny. But yeah, you're right, too
polished and and and like that's the hallmark of a hearing. I want to
hear some INFI a little complaining, the chair being smug, dumb questions,
dumber answers. Let me look, is guam gonna tip over or not?
The public wants to know, give me the guam hearing man. You can't
fake that. You have to be a seventy seven year old lawmaker with syphilis
or some of sort of STD I think is the final excuse for that behavior,
as the founders intended. Yes, yeah, that's on the fly,
that's live, that's real, and people know the difference. We'll be back,
get this Friday over and get the weekend thing going on. Although no,
I shouldn't say no football, depending on what you think of the Pro
Bowl, I guess, but uh, we'll see, we'll see. So
I was just mentioning to Ross off the air because we'd brought up on Patrol
that this goes for the on patrol cops or really any video showing law enforcement
interacting with the public. Some of my favorite right moments are when somebody is
like, they got to come up with a lie, and they forgot the
kiss recommendation, not the band, but the keep it simple, stupid recommendation,
which really will serve you in a lot of lot of instances. Uh,
And so they come up with the with the craziest, most convoluted thing
you ever heard, and then there's a few out of that selection every now
and then where it is true like they're like, oh, we found out
he's got a long lost twin. It really wasn't him, but most of
them are just immediately you're just like, oh, dude, you're so screwed.
I think they make it over complicated, assuming somebody wouldn't think they would
make it over complicated. Yeah, but now there's twin. Instead of one
data point to check the veracity, there's fifty. Right, Well, the
difference is you're not messing around with, like, you know, your boyfriend
or girlfriend trying to get away with something. You're dealing with a cop that's
probably really good at this. Yeah, it very at least has access to
resources, immediate resources. But you know, like, oh, the cocaine
in my purse, it was he It blew in through the window and landed
in there. It's the Gulf Stream. Happens all the time, is it.
Yeah, it's the Gulf. It's when the Gulf Stream hits El Nino
and then there's just cocaine everywhere. Gotta be fair, Like, if you
had a beachfront home and there was palace cocaine, you could literally go that
just washed up there, and you probably might be right. If you're in
the Florida keys. Okay, So I point this out because this uh,
Philip Morton is this guy's name. He was arrested outside of a what is
the name of this lockup facility? Oh, it's in Portsmouth, whatever,
I doesn't matter. He's outside of a jail and he's doing a thing that
unfortunately others do and is a thing and as a result, jail officials are
keeping an eye out for, and that's using a drone to literally drop contraband
into the jail. Right, so, it can be bag of drugs,
it can be cell phone. In this case, it was a cell phone.
And so they they've seen this, they've seen this show before. And
so the reaction and I guess, if you're an idiot like this guy,
you didn't cont you didn't contemplate what the reaction is. The reaction is exactly
what I thought it would be. If I know people are using drones to
drop stuff in and I know the range requirements for most drones, most consumer
drones. I'm gonna have one. I'm gonna have some officers, some deputies
whatever deal with whatever was dropped and if there were prisoners there, get a
lockdown it, get it handled. But I also from the moment I see
that drone, I'm having I'm having deputies outside the walls finding whoever's flying the
drone. Who's gonna stick out. He can't be too far or she can't
be too far, and she's gonna have a drone controller or a bewildered look
on their face. Well that's exactly what they did within moments. Sheriff pino
A Medio pino A Media is the dude's name. Okay, that's the sheriff,
he said. The deputies moments later were outside of the prison and came
upon this Philip Morton dude in a shrub. So he said, he's down
in the bushes, thinking they can't and of course they find him because they
got dogs and stuff. Here's where it gets good. All are you ready?
Deputies armed with dogs. So they heard rustling in the undergrowth near the
prison and when they happened upon Morton, they asked what are you doing?
Because they like threw the remote or the controller right and they're like, what
are you doing? And this is what Morton told the deputies. Morton told
the prison officials he was searching for his at chihuahuah that had been dog napped
by a Romanian gypsy circus troop. What the gypsy stole his chihuahua? Man?
What do you laughing? Can you a bad dude? Can you imagine
the stress when you had when you're cha if somebody coming to your home dressed
as you know, the bearded lady with a you know, but a gypsy
and stole your chihuahua. Oh my god. Yeah, you're like Liam Neeson
had taken the Albanian gypsies come in to take her. Believe it or not.
Did they buy it? They did not, They did not buy it,
and then they located the controller and then he confessed. But yeah,
no word on whether the he's getting chihuahua back. I don't even know.
Well they say the tug on people's heartstrings where I bring up your children to
your pets. Yeah, but but here's here's the vergin. Here's the version
of it. I'm looking for a lost dog. Done put a period after
it. But you better have also some evidence that you had a dog.
So if you had a dog and like, then you can go out because
it's tougher to test the veracity of it. But you just made up.
You just made up a television show pilot right me, Like like on the
Animal Animal Network or whatever what is the Animal network called whatever? Animal planet?
There we go like that's like if you want to all right, that's
like you're in a pitch meaning an animal planet. They're like, all right,
we I want to do a spin on taken all right? Like it
what else do you got for me? All right? But you know this
is animal planet, right, So it's not gonna be wife and kids.
It's it's gonna have to be pets. Oh, people love pets. What
candappen they do? This is animal Planet, we know, and uh yeah,
so we're gonna we'll have a little adorable get the taco bell dog people.
Yeah. People love time ducks. Yeah yeah, yeah, what else
you got the tiny duck? You're not gonna believe this. A traveling roving
gypsy circus troop is in the area and they got a hanker in for chihuahua.
Oh my god. Yeah yeah yeah yeah, so that will that'll set
it off and then boom. Our protagonists will go and try to try to
find his chihuahua, and as extra added stress, he will be mistakenly apprehended
by sheriff's deputies for flying phones into prisons in this wacky miss you know,
it's one of these wacky mix ups that happens from time to time on these
sitcom style shows. So what do you think? And they're like, yeah,
green light that absolutely, So I can't wait. Next time I get
pulled over and they go, why are you speeding, I'm gonna tell him
I'm being chased by gypsy circus dog knappers and then probably go straight to jail
a man. Right, sure you win, and uh, because frankly,
I don't know if I've ever seen anything that crazy as what somebody told deputies.
Hold on, let's get rased agic in here, all right, ray?
Did you this is a crazy story. It's it starts as a normal
one that I probably would even do, where some guy was trying to fly
contramand using a small drone into a prison, right, but he didn't realize
like prison people know, the prison officials know about this, and they've seen
this, they seen this show, and so they literally when they see that,
they have a group that goes gets the drone and whatever it had and
any prisoners. But and they immediately send deputies outside of the walls because the
person can't be far for the drone, right, and they and what they
want to do is they want to follow the drone back. They're not dumb.
And so they find this guy in the bushes and he tells the officers
quote, I was looking for my chihuahua, which had been dognapped by Romanian
circus gypsies. The greatest excuse I've ever heard mostly was immediately disbelieved. And
then yeah, right, I would hope they would be disbelieved, right,
But the need of some people to go crazy detailed when you're telling a lie.
That's how you get caught. Bro. You got to go simple,
gotta go simple. Yeah, yeah, I mean you got to be more
creative than that. Right, Well, they're criminals. I mean, what
do we expect today today? You would say you were looking for a groundhog,
so you knew what to wear. Yeah, and you know what.
The groundhog was looking for something too. It did not find it and find
the shadow. Officially, what do we do here? Locally? We've got
like a groundhog or in Georgia they got lee and they didn't see his shadow.
I don't think it's a lot of nay. One of the groundhogs here
in North Carolina I think they stopped doing it or something because it was cruel
or something. I'm just like, it is cruel to me having to hear
about it for a week. But how do you think I feel? All
the shenanigans that we pulled this morning on a cable network. I was just
like, yeah, we were kind of sir, Sir Walter, Sir Walter
Valey. Yeah, the four thing, you had all the people, like,
you know, how many drunk people can you get before six am to
gather? That must have been a fun time. Anyway, Wait, but
you can drink at this thing at six am allegedly allegedly rumor these are all
rumors. I'm not I'm not saying anything that's uh, but I mean the
place is off jammed, and then you know once they put once they made
the call, everybody just split. I don't know if they were going home
to go to sleep or they were going to work, but it was crazy
drink wild turkeys since you're in Gobbler's knob or that's not a bad idea,
bad memories from that one. I'll stay away, but you know, we're
in good shape. On whether it's six more weeks of winter or not.
The numbers are going to be at or above average in the next few days.
Should be around the low fifties. Try a triangle this time of year.
Today, well into the sixties. These clouds are going to go away
already start and see some breaks in the clouds just east of Bringinsborough and Winston,
Sale and Thomasville. I'm here and there down near Troy and Charlotte.
But there's still more clouds west. So we'll see more and more sunshine later
today with the load of mid sixties and a breeze. We'll go through tonight
a little cooler. Tomorrow morning loada mid thirties. Great weekend sun load of
mid fifties early next week beautiful. The rain's going to stay south. Load
of mid fifties through Wednesday, then maybe sixty degree weather, mostly sunny most
of next week. But we're talking Casey on Monday. We're talking Monday,
right, We got all that strained out are here? Right? What do
you mean why would we not talk Monday? Well, I don't know.
I mean you sometimes I'm off. Occasionally you're off on Mondays, Monday,
Ross and I Ross and I will be here till that date in March,
barring sixties or famine or whatever. So well, let's make sure we remember.
Hey, remember you said Friday's going to be sunny all week. Let's
make sure that that's still going to be true on Monday, right, all
right, Well, thank you very much, and uh, we'll chat then,
sir Shady and we'll come back. We'll just cut them off. Dude.
I found another version of this story because I was trying to find one
that would that we could tweet. Well, and there's more details with Shiuawa
gypsy dude, and it's golden, so we'll fit in on that. And
Chef Bellinger next, hang on, Aleinger, hitting you late, Sorry,
buddy. What's going on today? Well, it's really all about the jobs
report. To case the Labor Department to release a much stronger than expected employment
report, The agency says three hundred and fifty three thousand workers were added to
payrolls in January. Job growth for November and December was revised upward by one
hundred twenty six thousand jobs. The nation's unemployment rate held a three point seven
percent. Hourly earnings increase more than expected. Stock market futures mixed right now.
The S and P futures are up six and the NASDAC futures are up
seventy five. The NOW futures are down one hundred five points on the worries
among the blue chip investors that a March interest rate cut now is off the
table light of that strong report. Okay, Jeff, have a good weekend,
sir, appreciate. All right, there you go, Jeff Bellinger,
Bloomberg News. All right, dude, the long I'm at Ross tweets?
Did you tweet it? The dog? This is so great the law.
I don't know how you write a short version of this story with all these
details. So when we last left our hero Philip Morton, police say that
he had flown a drone with a cell phone into a prison and immediately they
see this, they see what's up because they have eyeballs and they look for
this stuff. And so then they did. They did. They actually eyeballed
the drone to see what it went back to, and they had deputies out
there, and initially, it says Morton didn't realize that they were already upon
him, because one of the deputies saw from a distance, uh, the
drone returned go down in below this this little parking area. And then somebody
loading what appeared to be the drone into the trunk of an oudie. So
they came around, and when they say, when Morton realized the police were
coming, he jumped the six foot fence, locked his car, jumped a
six foot fence, and then was laying down in the bushes. And then
eventually, you know, they obviously they found him, and you heard the
excuse that he gave. But there's so much more to this. So not
only did Morton tell them that he was in the hedges looking for his pet
shihuahua that had been dognapped by Romanian circus gypsies, deputies in questioning him asked,
well, okay, but why are you lying down in the middle of
a bush? So mister thinks fast on his feet, decided to add to
it. He said that he is so great. He had been lying in
the bush because once he learned that his chihuahua had been dognapped by the gypsies,
he was distraught and he consumed a leader of vodka makes sense that he's
traumatic. Yeah, absolutely, And so when he then got in the he
was in the bushes, he drank the whole leader of vode cun He passed
out because that's a lot of vodka. And then they're like, okay,
all right, why do you have a drone in your car? And he
said, well, that drone is I was using it to scan the river
bank for the chihuahuaka. And they're like, how you're passed out from the
vodka, remember, and like, oh, it's automated. But then it
got in the car somehow. And then also, do you know what else
was in the car? Ross guest guess guess guess guests a tribe of kickboxing
nuns. I have no idea chihuahua. Oh my god, d chiuahua or
a different showa. Well, uh because it's a miracle, it's so great.
Well do you think God willed it to him and stuffs it in the
out like mana from heaven. Here's your chiuhaha. You've been through so much,
buddy, here's your dog.