All right, good morning everybody, and welcome. It is Wednesday, and
uh oil boy, thank you Microsoft teams for rebooting three times this morning.
Appreciate that, not using you. Okay, all right, that got that
remedied. Oh, just counting down the days. Eight The number is eight
and then Ross and I are going to get fired for about two and a
half weeks. So you hate to see it, but it's an annual thing,
all right, coming up on this show as they literally fight Microsoft teams
for the privilege of opening Microsoft word. I don't know my Microsoft's able to
do one thing but not the other thing. Very singular focused, but thank
you for all of those updates, all right, coming up on the show.
I I'm failing to understand the Nicholas Cage that that's right, I'm teasing
this first. Just deal with it of failing to understand the Nick Cage thing,
because like, I don't know that this dude's out of debt. And
if anyone has followed Nick Cage over the last few years, by the way,
I got no beef with the dude. I like Nicholas Cage. Okay,
however, go to Netflix and just search by movie for Nicholas Cage.
He's done like thirty movies. You have no idea exist in the last like
what two years? Maybe it's crazy and what was it? What was the
thing with him? It was? Was it all tax issues? I can't
even remember. But like, dude has been banging out movies and now he's
like, I may retire. So I feel like we need to talk about
that. Because who doesn't like Nicholas k You may not like the movies in
you may think he's a little mean worthy with his delivery, but generally,
and I'm not really talking about the hey, I need to pay the irs
movies, but like, generally, if you watch a Nicholas Cage movie,
you're entertained, right, You're not going into it expecting big stuff. What's
your favorite Nicholas Cage movie? I was just trying to think about this.
Is it national treasure? A lot of people like that. I will tell
you what mine is, and I hope to god y'all have seen it,
and if you haven't, go out and watch it. Are you familiar with
the little flick called Raisin Arizona? Yeah, that's the jam right there.
Ross you ever see Raising Arizona? Of course? I have? Okay,
dude, I'm sorry, and this makes me a horrible person. That little
cut scene where the biker is shooting the rabbit off his bike, that's great.
I don't know why that makes me laugh so hard. It's a great
movie. Is that? Would you say that's your favorite? Nicholas kaf That's
right, I forgot. That is a good movie. And I arguably,
if you were to tally the movies we've referenced on the show over the years,
it's had a pretty prominent spot. So Uh, anyway, Nick k
yes, again, this is where I'm starting because this is what I was
fascinated with this morning as I was doing my research. Uh, if you
go to if you go to Nick Cage IMDb, it's you're gonna be scroll
in a while. And he's doing weird stuff. He's doing horror flicks.
He's doing movies where he doesn't talk, which I have not seen that still,
Ross saw it, like he doesn't talk during the whole movie, and
I keep a movie and he drinks like grape grape soda the entire time.
It was like it's like a one of those what is it the five Nights
at Freddy's or whatever before five Nights at Freddy's say, you know, these
animatronic things come to life and they try to take over the arcade. It's
a great performance. What's the What's now? I'll tell you the one that
I thought was really interesting is him playing himself, but himself if he's a
douche so he's he's the actor, but he is he's a different version of
Nicholas. I mean maybe I don't know, maybe that is how he is.
And that one was pretty funny. That came out a few years ago.
But Cage, who's set to turn sixty next month, said I might
be done with the movies. The actor said at this point, maybe you
know, three or four different projects he's already either committed to or he's talking
about. But after that, I want to quote leave cinema on a high
note. So but then he starts talking about doing TV and stuff. I
don't know, man, I'd hate to see him go. You know why,
because Nicholas Cage is still one of those Have you ever seen Nicholas Cage
tweet stupidity? I never have. I'm maybe it's out there, maybe somebody
can dig it up. But you know, I like the guys that are
just there to act just you know, entertain Sometimes they do, sometimes they
don't. People have bad movies. But like, I don't know how Nicholas
Cage feels about Gaza, and I'm cool with that. I'm not sure how
he feels about trans athletes. I'm fine with that. And I feel like
that era of actor, or at least the ability of an actor to be
like that is probably woof. That's probably going by the wayside, man like,
because they're especially among young actors trying to break in. One of the
ways that they're going to appeal to moonbat producers or movie folks or fellow actors
who are activis is you know, they got to be down for the struggle,
and I think very few actors are able to uh to slip that.
One good example of I guess you would say younger actor though he's you know,
he's not eighteen, would be Chris Pratt. And what do they do
for sport? They just write Chris Pratt sucks articles in many media outlets because
like, dude just wants to make movies, make jokes, have a family,
occasionally eat meat. He raises by himself. And I don't know if
you're gonna be able to have these actors who don't want anything to do with
it. Now. Don't get me wrong, there's obviously very old actors who
won't shut up. De Niro, I guess would be the prime example with
stories we've had recently. But I don't know. I get a little nostalgic
over this stuff. And that's insane that I'm getting more nostalgic over actors,
not because of their acting, but because they don't tell me how to live.
They don't. They don't tell me I suck because I have an opinion
that doesn't jive with Hollywood's right. They're not getting up and screaming like a
lunatic, going and grabbing their phone to give a speech. They're just there
to make movies. And again, some are good, some are not.
But that's the game, man. So yeah, let's ruminate on that.
Right there, we have a little more. There, We've got Santa News
Keith Oberman speaking of lunatics. Oh yeah, here we go. And speaking
of down with the struggle, I'm gonna need you to be down with the
struggle tomorrow. And I really torn as to whether you go all in on
the request or just out of sheer stupidity, you go one hundred and eighty
degrees on this and this has to do with the Washington Post, everybody's favorite
publication, and I'm almost i almost feel like I have an obligation to do
the opposite of what I'm being asked to do. However, in a way,
you're sighting with Jeff Bezos. At that point, the whole thing's done,
so we'll get that for you, and it's gonna be this. I
was just counting the number of stories that I hope to get to today.
It's easily, probably five or six more than we normally do. So we're
gonna be bouncing around cause it is what we do. And Lieutenant govern we
should have Lieutenant governor today. I'm very interested how the trip to Israel went.
So that's just a little of what's on our plate. It is the
KCO Day Radio program. Hang on, This is one O six one FM
Talk in the Triangle and Near's Talk ninety four five WPPI and the Triad.
All right, six twenty one, Welcome back. It is the KCO Day
Radio program. Oh, where to go? Where to go? Where to
go? Oh wait, hold on, just looking at this email. Then
Ross and I were talking about something. Oh, okay, good, I
thought somebody was saying negative things about raising Arizona. No, yes, absolutely,
sir, all right, good, good, good. I knew that
our audience would have the best taste on this topic. Yeah, if you've
never seen it, you should watch it, and it holds up. I
watched it, I don't know, maybe like six months ago, and I
was concerned because it is kind of a goofy movie. But no, it's
good man, so do that. Here's what you don't do though, all
right, So hypothetically, I don't have an electric vehicle, so I'm not
I'm not one hundred percent on any issues that may arise in cold weather.
But I know how batteries work, and let's face it, cold weather not
great for batteries. I don't care whether it's your cell phone. Right,
If you have your cell phone and it's zero degrees out and you're outside all
day, your battery is not going to last as long as it would if
it was eighty. That's just reality, and that obviously extends upward into other
batteries, car batteries and even the giant EV batteries. So with that in
mind, and again, maybe somebody with an EV can help me here because
I don't fully understand it. There is a concerning trend, and that is
people coming up with their maguivering ways to heat up their EV battery. And
I don't even know why you would do this. And it was quite a
doozy that culminated yesterday, according to authorities, a fire which claimed not just
an EV but also an adjacent house. And it wasn't even the house of
the dude who owns the alle electric car, was his next door neighbor.
A fire broke out after a EV driver decided to warm his battery by placing
toasters under his electric vehicle, which, by I have questions, like I
was just thinking the how tall a toaster is, and then I was also
thinking of every electric vehicle, I don't know how you'd get a toaster under
there. But also how at no point does this idiot's wife not come out.
I'm I'm going to play into the dumb husband trope for just a moment,
because as I was reading this, even before they finally identified the gender,
I just knew it was a dude because at first, for just a
split second, I'm like, maybe that would work, Maybe that you know,
you don't put it right on there. You're not slipping cables into the
toaster. But the fact is it didn't work and as a result, heated
the battery. It was successful there to the point of catching fire, destroyed
the vehicle and damaged his neighbor's house with a fire that I guess hit a
garage and a few rooms, but thankfully they were able to get it put
out. Yeah, according to police, the cause of the fire most likely
to be found in the toaster the owner of the car placed under the front
of his car to keep the battery warm. Do you all know what a
block heater is. I'm assuming that technology is it has to be something that
can be expanded to batteries. And I don't know, maybe you don't know
what a block heater is, but if you've lived anywhere where he actually gets
really cold, it's a thing, and it's a really useful thing. And
we had block heaters and all our vehicles and you know, and that's why
you see those vehicles where it looks like there's an extension cord sticking out of
the grill, although nowadays they hide it a little better. But back in
the day, every truck in Wyoming had a damn cord sticking out of the
grill man, and you plug your vehicle in, not because it's an EV,
just to because it's going to be forty below that night. So I
don't know why that technology doesn't exist there, but authorities would like you to
know to not put a toaster under your vehicle. And by the way,
as I go through the article, they then go over a bunch of other
scenarios, including you know, like the little little heaters you get that.
You know, if you got a cold spot in your house, right,
you got the little block, the little thing that's about the size of a
half microwave heats it up. Don't put that under there. Don't put a
mister, buddy, do you know what that is. That's that's the pro
pain heater that people use in like cabins or if they go ice ice fishing.
Don't put that under your vehicle. All have resulted in fires, including
one, okay, including one person who actually put hot coals under their vehicle.
I don't care whether you have an electric vehicle or regular one. At
what point are you sitting there shoveling hot coals under your vehicle and it never
for a moment goes you know this could end horribly, and apparently the answer
is it. It's not something that crosses some people's minds. As as I'm
sitting here looking down the list, I think at that point they just take
your license away from you and you're just done. No more driving for you.
But uh, yeah, that was uh. I want to say it
was a heartwarming story. But there's a certain satisfaction I get. And I
think it's because then you're like, you think of the dumb things you've done
that didn't end in this, and you feel just a little smarter than these
these folks here. All right, don't worry. We have actual news.
It's not all Nicholas Cage and idiots with toasters, including congressional news here in
North Carolina, a little bit of a surprise. I'll give you the details.
I have a theory and I and and by the way, it's more
than a theory. I'm I'm convinced I'm correctly, and that is that journalists,
and I use that word loosely, of course, they want another Trump
turn, I think more than Trump's supporters do, because I think they feel
like they're fighting the good fight. They're doing what they maybe when they were
young and in college and idealistic. They thought, is the work of a
journalist, right, They're they're inspired by what the Washington Post did with Nixon
and the Pentagon papers and you know, just insert whatever it is. They
feel like they're fighting a definable enemy and their work is going to propel them
and not just to notoriety, but also show how they work in the defense
of people right and society. Just this this real idealist, uh idealistic thing
that doesn't really manifest in reality most days when you're reporting on just the stupidity
that's out there, because like the Atlantic, their whole thing that the did
the other day with their series of articles is all straight like TDS man,
our own local media has been running op eds about how, you know,
a second Trump term now this is don't worry, this will be the one
that manifest into you know, Hitler. They weren't wrong, they just yeah,
they didn't predict the timeline correctly. It's just dumb. So you pair
one of these idiots at the Atlantic who just put out a laundry list of
TDS style Trump Derangement syndrome style articles predicting the end is nigh, and you're
nothing more than the dude on the street corner with the sandwich board that everyone's
ignoring and he's screaming. And then you take that guy and then you take
him in and sit him down with Jake Tapper, who occasionally does acts of
actual journalism when it comes to Trump. Yeah, not so much, not
so much. And you put those two in a room and you get this
deliciousness, this discussion of all things, you know, end desnigh, Trump
revenge angles. It's crazy, man, and we're gonna we're gonna get to
A stark warning in our twenty twenty four lead, a special issue, A
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A stark warning in our twenty twenty four lead. A special issue of
The Atlantic magazine Today lays out a detailed, compelling case that specifically, what
could happen if Donald Trump returns to the Oval office. Two dozen essays by
Atlantic writers outline how the threats to democracy will be bigger than ever before,
potentially changing America forever. Twenty four stories. I want to repeat this,
twenty four independent writers. In some cases there's multiple reporters on those bylines,
or I should say reporters some are our ed, but the fact remains that
like thirty people sat down and started making their predictions. And it gets more
and more insane as you read down the list. So this is what Tapper's
talking about, and it's all the stuff they predicted the first time. And
then there's some new wrinkles with you know, Revete Well, here these are
the new wrinkles. The Trump who comes back is going to be very different
than the Trump we had the first time. And then okay, hang on,
Atlantic, dude, what do you mean by that? Because I remember
you guys saying that the last Trump was literally hit No, I'm sorry.
What did they end with? Wasn't it a Trump? Was Hitler and Mao
and Stalin? Right? He was all three? I did they throw Paul
pot in there? I can't remember, but like they took it to this
stratospheric level that was just it would be unachievable for an actual maniacal madman in
this day and age. And that's where that's what they said of the last
Trump. And it's like I've said on this show, once you've gone,
once you've gone full Hitler, where do you go? And they proved me
wrong by going Stalin Hitler slash MAO. But that's still in the ballpark.
So the Trump that comes back if you think he's literally Hitler and you think
he's going to be different, and obviously you can't say he's going to be
different in a positive way. Like, I'm a a loss for where we're
headed Trump. We had the first time culminating in January sixth was a pretty
troubling phenomenon. But I think this time he is coming bent on revenge.
David Frump has a very excellent essay about that. He's coming with the idea
of revenge. He knows how government works, he knows how he was thwarted
the last time. He's not going to be hiring the so called grown ups
to run the cabinet. You know, you remember jam Mattis and Rex Tillerson
and John Kelly, all these establishment figures who were there to Bill br Bill
Barr, to keep him in check. No more people keeping him in check.
You know what's crazy about that statement is they're acting like they liked all
those people, like, oh no, we were we were great. Uh
you know Bill Barr, Yeah, wonderful, even even Maddis. I think
Mattis probably they didn't go hard on, but they still trashed the dude.
Anyone who was anyone who was in Trump's orbit who dared to do anything short
of, you know, undermining him openly, they they you know, they
they literally were Hitlerlte. So the adults are And when you say the adults
aren't going to be in the room, remember several of those folks. They
didn't serve with Trump very long. How long was Madis there? How long
was Tillerson there? I mean that was off the front. But they were
gone pretty quick, those two. By the way. Still I still don't
like the way that Trump treated Madis. That's just my personal opinion. That
being said, politics is ugly, all right, So ramp it up,
scare the crap out of people, and yes, especially from an international standpoint,
tell me more so. It's not that Russia is afraid to attack Poland
because you know, we wrote something down into treaty and somebody signed it and
ratified it. It's because he genuinely believes that if he attacks Poland, or
he attacks Germany, or he attacks Britain, that the United States will come
in and all the NATO countries will come together and fight, and once we
have a president who makes it clear that he won't do that under any circumstances,
even if there's pushback, even if the military starts shouting, even if
the Senate tries to prevent him, that psychological barrier is down. And then,
really, you know, at any moment, when Putin says, right,
all these arms are coming into Ukraine via Poland or via Romania, why
don't I hit the train stations are coming in on And I'm gonna I'm gonna
pause this idiot for a moment, so I want you to understand the scenario
she's laying out, what she's intimating. She's saying that if you put Trump
in, Putin will not fear retaliation from NATO because the US will not be
participatory, which I don't know, maybe, but let me ask you this.
If you're also implying that Trump, or when Putin's in office, or
when Trump's in office, Putin can do whatever he wants, why didn't Putin
go into Ukraine when Trump was in office? This is like the if Jake
Tapper was worth his soldier. Any journalist who's I guess interviewing other journalists and
they proffer something like this, I feel like that's the that's the initial logical
question, all of these things that you're predicting, where Trump would just be
like, Oh, that's my buddy, he can do whatever he wants.
Do you think why would Putin have waited if that's honestly what he thought.
Do you think that dirt bags and crazy deskpot leaders and whomever they may be
around the world, who do you think they're more fearful of, even if
it's due to unpredictability, Joe Biden or Donald Trump. I don't even think
it's a contest, man. I don't think it's a contest at all.
You know, people said, ah, you know with Trump, you know,
the guy's sitting there chugging diet cokes, his finger on the button.
Well, if you're a crazy dude, but you're just saying enough to know
that there's certain things you don't do if you want to hold on to power,
and you're unable to predict what the response would be because you know Trump's
a lunatic, That in and of itself is a deterrent. I know it's
crazy, and it's not the route that I would necessarily want to go.
In their theory of it, I disagree with their theory of it, but
like, you can't have both things be true at the same time. Trump's
so unpredictable he could blow up the world, but also he's so passive that
anyone who wants to can do whatever they want. You got to pick one.
It's the old it's it's it's kind of a little twist on the old
standard how to trash on any GOP president. Right, one day, it's
like he's the dumbest person ever. You saw this with Bush, Right,
He's the dumbest person ever. And then the next day, evil genius.
Right, he's so smut, he's working around all the fail safes. He's
got it all figured out. He's doing what he wants, and what he
wants is to roll us back and then insert whatever your fear mongery scenario is.
And they wrote twenty four articles about this, and Jake Tapper went off,
we got to get those people on the show. So, man,
oh man, are they gearing up for this? Joe Biden's running around talking
about how he's got a code to blow up the world, and I know
what you're saying, he's joking, and I agree with you, he's joking.
Kind of he's also very confused, in my opinion, And what how
does that not factor into your concerns when somebody has that level of power,
if they're confused, if they may not understand stuff. Have you seen Joe
Biden deal with criticism like you saw on the campaign trail where he's screaming at
supporters. He's screaming at supporters. He tried to fight a dude who is
a supporter. Trump will nasty you up and he'll say stuff. I never
saw him try to fight a dude. Maybe I missed it. Maybe you
can point me to it. Without the assurance that the United States will do
something about it, he's therefore much more likely to do it. And of
course, once we lose the assurance of collective defense in one part of the
world, then why would we have that in another part of the world.
If you can't trust America to help it's NATO allies, which are its oldest
allies, then why do you think America would help Taiwan or South Korea?
Okay, And we can get in a whole bunch of examples where people have
literally went on and on about well one, Ukraine not a NATO member.
Two. Most people that i've talked to that are in, you know,
in that upper echelon of intelligence, members of Congress who have served in that
commanity. They don't want NATO in there, right, because then they feel
that they're an obligation, Right, you let you let Ny, You let
a country that you know is likely going to be attacked or there's a high
probability of it by another country that you don't want to go to war with.
You're not signing a document going we got your back if something happens.
And that's that's why they they're very strategic about who's in NATO. The whole
thing is just shaping up to be like they're having to dig, they're having
to figure out, all right, so what's the new freak out? Because
they went full Hitler and excuse me, they went full Hitler, Mouse Stalin
all rolled into one and they're leading the charge here. It's absolutely insane.
I will tweet out a link to this if you want to get through it.
But yeah, it's all end of the world stuff. It's in a
way, it's like a lot of really great conspiracy theories. And speaking of
conspiracy theories, the more I read about this dude who's hou blew up the
crazier that gets we'll explain coming up kc O Day Radio program. Wow,
this is a terrifying little deed right here. You know, we do those
stories where you wonder, all right, what's going on with the people around
me. It is the study survey well from the university researchers University of Michigan
putting together the first of its kind a a overview of the use of drugs,
and it ranges from marijuana up to all the drugs, you know,
the from marijuana to Motley Cruz dressing room, and is among older Americans.
Okay, so senior citizens, what percentage of senior citizens do you think in
the United States use regularly marijuana? So senior citizens United States, what percentage
and what do they define regularly as within the last let's see, on multiple
occasions within the last year. So I guess it could be daily, it
could be once a month. What percentage twelve percent? Now I'm not sure
from a legalization statewide standpoint. You still have the federal laws, but I'm
not sure what the percentage of legal states is currently. And you're going to
have a higher propensity when you get into older folks who will be able to
legally use marijuana from a state perspective, because they're going to have a higher
propensity of some of the ailments that trigger it in states that don't have recreational
but do have medical. That's not what I'm interested in. That's its own
thing. Honestly, I thought it would be higher because you know, glaucoma
is a thing. No, no, no, Where this starts getting real
interesting is when you start dipping into the other stuff, including nearly one percent,
and I need to figure out exactly what this definition is. Nearly one
percent of retire or retirement age admit to using synthetic amphetamines, and that runs
the gamut. One of them is bath salts. That would be one that
would fit into that. Do we really have, you know, one out
of one hundred old person walking around on bath salts? I'm terrified by that,
but also really intrigued. Why are you using that? Did you not
hear about the dude who ate the other dude's face? Older people watch the
news, they listen to the news. That's you know, when we look
at our audience, it's us older than you know, the adult contemporary station,
and then you know it's it's small percentages of people. Let's see using
cocaine, using a lot of a lot of what you would kind of consider
painkiller kind of stuff, but not actual pain, which you know that actually
makes sense to me, because people, if they're in a lot of pain,
they may they may decide that's the route to go, and then you
get into the federal stuff. But if you run across one hundred old people
day one of them was to eat your face, just know this and be
terrified. All right, Good morning everybody, and happy Wednesday. It is
seven o seven here on the Cacoday radio program. I'm gonna see if I
can get your brain to explode in three minutes in twenty eight seconds, not
three minutes and twenty eight seconds from now. But I have a little piece
of audio. I guess it's not little if it's three twenty. It is
a mashup of the presidents of three Ivy League schools being asked what I feel
like is not a difficult question. Actually, when you're the president of m
I T Or Harvard or Penn what we consider to be the krem de la
creme of our institutions of higher learning. So reasonably the people running said institutions
should be able to answer pretty complex questions. I don't expect. Look,
if if you're the head, if you're the president of m I T,
should you be able to you know, essentially be a walking quantum computer as
some of your students are. No. No, because you're you're you're You're
there to manage the chaos. And I'm fine with that. This is a
question that is squarely about managing the chaos. All three of these women,
it's the all three of the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and pen are
all uh are women. They hold the title of doctor. I believe in
all three cases they themselves obviously highly educated, and they're being asked a really
simple question. We're gonna get to that audio, and man, you want
to lose some faith in humanity, that's how you go about that. Okay,
well, hold on. Somebody feels that maybe the people, the elderly
folks asked about drug use were confused. I mean that's a possibility. Like
if you asked Joe Biden about drug use or anything right now, what he
ate this morning, he might be confused. But I don't know about that.
I feel like there's enough people that are like, yeah, hell,
yeah, synthetic amphetamines, which isn't just bath salts. I want to be
very clear here, but it is also bath salts. And I just have
this image of that, and I don't understand the motivation of it. So
thank you for the email. I don't know if they were confused, but
I don't think they're so confused that they thought because they didn't say salt in
the bath, I think it literally said various synthetic drugs. And it's not
just that. Do you remember that that South Carolina girl she took what did
she It was synthetic marijuana, I think for her, and she took it,
got really really high, and she's like, you know, I don't
need my eyes anymore. So she solved that problem with like a spoon or
something. Right, crazy crap can go down, man, But when you
put it in a like an assisted living facility context, I don't even know
what to think. Marijuana thing didn't shock me. It's the other stuff also,
the cocaine. I mean that that can't be good for you when you're
in your seventies, right, I mean, it's not good for you when
you're in your twenties, but it's got to be really not good for you
in your seventies. But yet some folks like the party. And it's not
just the Rolling Stones. I think they're all clean now, right, So
there you go? All right? Ross got the audio dubbed in Ross,
Does that make you want to quit humanity? Listening to that? Like?
Maybe just go on vacation early? Should we give that? It's not a
complicated question. The act you were not You were not flum mixed by it?
Right? You and I did not go to an ivy leagues. I
mean, I mean, dude, it depends on the context. What the
word flumxed? You mean me? It's all it's all contextual. So I
played the fid the it's but you're not being indictedtained. Do you even know
what that means? If you don't know what flumbs, you're like a sidebar.
You're the but you're not on trial here and and frankly, to some
extent, these women are. But all right, so Ross one. Ross
is obviously using their strategy. But more importantly, to his point, it's
not a complicated question. And you don't even have to use uh, you
know, Jewish students in this. You could use any other example and ask
the same question, and I promise you they would have an answer that would
be remarkably different. I believe that here we go. I'm gonna do minimal
interruption to the extent that I can, because there's a few things need to
be said. But I want you to listen to the uh. You know,
three of the individuals who have the privilege of heading three of the most
prestigious universities in the world. Harvard, Harvard, M I, T.
And pen are always always in you know, in the top universe, not
just in the US, in the world. These need to be the best
of the best of the and unfortunately, as we've seen, you have lunatics
running around on campus banging on doors. You saw what happened to Columbia University
where they trapped a bunch of students in like a you know, some sort
of student center. Nobody really did anything. The only thing that happened is
all the donors went out. You're out, by the way. Did you
see that Harvard changed? What is there? They have different donor statuses.
But if you really want to be a player there, get you know,
get some name recognition, get things done. It used to be twenty million,
was the was the minimum for entry. So if you want to be
considered among the top donors, twenty million, that numbers two. Now why
do you think it's two? Do you think they're fighting inflation or do you
think people went No, I'm not writing you a check, not this year.
So here are the leaders. We'll start with doctor Sally corn Blooth.
All right, Sally Kornbluth, who excuse me, doctor Kornbluth. I'll give
her the title. She earned it. She runs MIT. Let's get into
this, and you're gonna hear from all three. By the way, this
is at least Stephonic, the congresswoman from New York who this is a congressional
hearing yesterday. She asks, She goes and asks the same question of all
these women, and it's mind boggling. Here we go at MIT. Does
calling for the genocide of Jews violate MIT's code of conduct or rules regarding bullying
and harassment? Yes? Or no? Okay, all right, that's the
question. Ross said was pretty it's pretty So you agree, it's a pretty
simple question. You're calling for the genocide of a particular group of students.
Is that bullying? What do you say, doctor Kornbluth, You've targeted at
individuals not making public statements. Yes or no, calling for the genocide of
Jews does not constitute bullying and harassment. I have not heard calling for the
genocide or Jews on our campus. But you've heard chance for Intifada jeez,
that chance which can be antisemitic depending on the context when calling for the elimination
of the Jewish people. So those would not be, according to the MIT's
code of conduct or rules, that would be investigated of as harassment if pervasive
and severe. MS miguil At Penn does all right, before we get into
idiot number two, And I don't say that lightly. I mean they're at
face value, they're probably not stupid people. But on this issue, and
with this simple of the question, I don't know what you're expected to draw
from this. So she never answered it. I would argue that that that
the first uh, doctor Cornbluth, is probably the closest you're actually going to
get to an answer, because this just gets calling for the genocide of Jews
violate PENS rules or code of conduct? Yes or no? Wouldn't you be
into conduct it can be harassment? Yes? Okay, I just and I'm
sorry I stepped on it a little bit. I wanted to accentuate two things.
One the pause, right, I'm gonna be pretty I would have a
quick answer too. If it turns into acts, meaning yes, but only
if you genocide the Jews, right, or if you kill the Jewish students,
then yeah, yeah, no, you're probably gonna get time out or
in school suspension or whatever whatever they punish. That's I told you, you're
gonna walk away from this feeling a little worse about society. But it's got
to get out there. So at am I excuse me, at pen you
can call for it, but don't actually exterminate all of the Jewish students.
Okay, I guess maybe that's probably in the handbook. I'm not sure I
am asking specifically calling for the genocide of Jews? Does that constitute bullying?
Harassment? If it is directed and severe or pervasive, it is harassment.
What does directed mean? You mean like saying that you want infantata or you
want the death of all the Jews. I mean that sounds directed. It
sounds like it's directed at Jewish students or just Jewish people, Like it couldn't
be more directed. Like if I'm like, ah, death to all radio
producers. That's pretty directed. I feel like Ross would have a case to
feel a little bothered by that. I would never do that because I'm not
insane. But that's what we're talking about here. So the answer is yes,
it is a context dependent decision, Congresswoman. It's a context dependent decision.
That's your testimony today, calling I got a Ross Kenny you while I'm
playing this, I want you to just think. Think of a context where
you call for the death of all the Jews. But it's not but it's
like it's it's one hundred and eighty degrees, it's not a negative thing.
Because I was I was racking my brain during the last break trying to figure
that out. What in what way could you do that and it not be
negative? And I couldn't come up with one. So just contemplate. I'm
going to continue to think, we'll continue to listen for the genocide of Jews
is depending upon the context. That is not bullying or harassment. This is
the easiest question to answer, yes, miss McGill. So is your testimony
that you will not answer yes if it is, if the testory go,
if the speech becomes conduct, it can be harassment yes. If you then
do the genociding, then time out or suspension or something conduct meaning committing the
act of genocide. The speech is not harassment. This is unacceptabless micguil.
I'm gonna give you one more opportunity for the world to see your answer.
Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Pen's code of conduct when it comes
to bullying and harassment? Yes? Or no? It can be harassment.
The answer is yes. And doctor Gay at Harvard, does calling for the
genocide of Jews violate Harvard's rules of bullying and harassment? Yes? Or no?
And before she answers, I want to remind you that at Harvard we
have audio of that, right and Pen they did the thing where they were
shining stuff on the buildings, but at Harvard this happened. And then remember
the truck of shame was coming around and harassing folks. It didn't happen in
the letter, but it happened at the event. So like, this is
a real world example with audio that I think we played it on the air,
and if we didn't, it's floating around out there. It can be
depending on the context. What's the context targeted as an individual targeted at an
individual, it's targeted at Jewish students, Jewish individuals. Do you understand your
testimony is dehumanizing them? Okay? And also what does that mean because you're
calling for the death of all of a group. But it's not harassment if
you do it that way, only if you name Yeah, I guess you
name you're like and especially Arise screw that guy, right, that's what she's
saying, and that's what makes this possibly, I would argue the worst of
the three. You understand that dehumanization is part of anti semitism. I will
ask you one more time. Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard's
rules of bullying and harassment? Yes? Or no? Anti Semitic rhetoric?
And is it anti semitic rhetoric? Anti Semitic rhetoric when it crosses into conduct
that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation, that is actionable conduct, and
we do take action. And by the way, I said, the first
one was close to an answer. That's what she just should have said right
there, right, And she knew because she was third, she saw like
there was no surprises. She's third. That things that last little part she
said, if she'd just done that, she would have looked so much better
than her colleagues. But she had to start with the whole Nah, you
gotta no, it's got to be an individual, not just all of them,
which was the dumbest way to begin that. Oh, the answer is
yes, that calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard Code of Conduct.
Correct. Again, it depends on the context. It does not depend on
the context. The answer is yes, and this is why you should resign.
These are unacceptable answers across the board. Feeling better about your day because
I'm sure not. And uh, you know, shaping young minds absolutely,
So what have we learned? If you want to call for somebody's death,
but you don't name them, and you group them together within these three institutions
of higher learning, it may not be a thing. Probably, Okay.
I tend to believe somebody when they are outspoken about wanting all of something dead,
right. I remember my uncle wanted all the prairie. And I'm not
comparing the two from a humanistic standpoint. I'm just pointing out that like he's
like he wanted He's like, we're going to write We're gonna kill all the
prairie dogs. This is like his fixation. He's like he's like in Caddyshack,
He's the groundskeeper, right, Okay. He meant it to the point
where it was kind of crazy with some of the stuff that he was trying.
And I understand why he was doing it, but he would say it
on the regular basis and I never questioned it, And those were arguably pess
In this case, we're talking about human beings, a large group of them.
And if you put any other group in their LGBTQ, black students,
Native American students, and you said that, you whispered that you thought that
you'd be out of these schools. All right, we'll be back. Hang
on your day. Smarter one six one FM Talk and News Talk Ninetti More
with Case starts now. Oh wow. All right. By the way,
thank you to all of those of you emailing telling me about your older relatives
who are a giant drug addict. I'm not saying it's not a thing.
I just I want to know if there's a one and one hundred chance if
I go to a senior center that somebody's going to try to eat my face
and not, you know, for non batsalt reasons. That's all, Uh,
Jack ro limited. I know, sir, I really didn't want to
interrupt it that much, but I would have interrupted it three times as much
if I didn't attempt to control myself because it was so insane. These are
learned individuals who, in any other circumstance would have categorically condemned even a whiff
of anyone going, hey, we need to eradicate all of the gay students.
It would have been done. The DOJ probably would have investigated the student.
And I want to be abundantly clear. If some students are walking around
campus calling for the death of all, you know, all gay students,
they shouldn't be walking around campus anymore. That's not okay, all right,
So, uh dude sent this ema. He's he's not a fan of the
show, but he listens, so I, you know, thank you.
Uh, and UH explained exactly how hypocritical we are. I'm idiot, and
he referred to Ross as my assistant idiot. Ross is actually the executive idiot,
as he is the executive producer, sir. So he said, I
have listened for years. So you hate the show and you listened for years?
I mean, I if I don't like doing something. I don't do
it for years, but I appreciate your commitment. Have you not called for
the death of Isis? So let me get this straight and and and by
the way, if you would have put all the idiots stuff, I would
actually just answer this in a non combative manner. But do you not see
the difference between calling for the eradication of ISIS fighters, which is a very
specific group, versus anyone who is Jewish, which could also include I don't
know. Maybe you heard about this babies, right, I don't for the
ISIS folks like I don't want their babies murdered, So I feel like that
would be the difference. But I appreciate your brainstorming. How do you write
that email and not realize the difference? Whatever, All right, let me
get to let me get to some phone calls. Bob, you're up first,
go right ahead. I'll think we're gonna work. Yeah, I'm here.
You there? Yeah? Okay? Working? What's up? Oh?
I just my head blew up? So I thought i'd call you. Sorry,
I was speaking you reported earlier. These reporters that are saying that Trump
is worse than all these dictators, including the Hitler which killed Nians of Jews.
They obviously graduated from a higher institute of learning. Then you get all
the students in these higher institutes of learning calling for the death of all Jews
not being punished or recognize that they're even threatened or do anything wrong. Let
me put that in comparison. If you have a fifth grade kid in school,
in the elementary school, and they said something like this, it would
be terrible. I mean, your kid would not go to that school anymore.
Everybody involved, police, parent, probably everybody being involved and called in.
Right, So, how's we have a higher standard of ethics for elementary
school kids than we do for our higher levels of education. And I guess
the and the flip side is like if it's if you know, some six
year old saidate, you would explore it. But there's always the possibility they
don't necessarily mean it, right, They could be repeating some sort of movie
Who the hell? When you're twenty? I feel like you mean it?
So yes, if that's the point, sir, I'm one hundred percent with
you. And by the way, Trump went to Penn. He did his
business degree as postgrad at Penn at Wharton, right because that's that's pen So
think about it. They're calling him for home sitting president, worse than Hitler.
No, it was worse than Hitler, Mao and Stalin combined. Sir,
there was an actual article. There was an actual article claiming that that
Trump would lead or had already was well on his way to leading to more
deaths than those three cats, which I mean, obviously would be like what
half the US popular third of the US populations. So give me a break,
all right, Yeah, no, good way to tie it together,
sir, Absolutely right. I wanted to do fun stuff today, Bob,
what's up? Good morning? Here are you guys? I'm good. Harvard
and all these other institutions, and mentioned Harvard because that's the one that stands
out in my mind have considerably large endowments. Yes, So what would happen
if say, a Jewish student union got together and filed a massive lawsuit and
that amount against the institution, these institutions for allowing harassment and I say they
won. I don't and then you know, donated to Ukraine. I yeah,
honestly, I don't know. I don't know what would happen? You
know, one you're dealing with private there might be some changes. Well maybe,
but I also don't know that they would necessarily win that lawsuit because one,
it's not a governmental entity. Uh in the case of Harvard, it
is a private university, as is m I t is, but maybe Peddan's
not. But my point is, yeah, something's got to give that's going
to make them care, and it can be a lawsuit or tragically, it
could be a horrific incident, and I don't want it to be that.
So that's why I'm I want the lawsuit would be the better, the lesser
of two evils than God. Well, no, no, no, I
want to. I want to, I want to be I agree with you.
I'm just I agree with you. I don't I don't want the bad
thing to happen. I'm just nervous that it could. So that's why we're
shining a light on this. I'm with you. So they're hurting in that
direction by because the dancers we heard in that congressional meeting, they're basically saying,
go, you know to me what those women as presidents and these institutions
are saying, they're green lighting that behavior towards your students. Well, the
very least there at the very least. They're terrified of their own student body
and they think they're walking a lot and uh and thanks for the call,
Bob, but obviously they're not, because it is inexcusable. All right,
real quick, James, go right ahead. Yeah. I was wondering,
since we're failing to protect the class of stud of a race, why don't
we just pull off federal funding, including any student loan to any student that
is attending they can obtaind a different school and they never get any more federal
funding. Well, in the case of Harvard, they don't need it.
Not only they have this endowment, but Harvard announced that they're doing away with
tuition, so you know, you're not going to have that stranglehold. I
guess maybe the only way you could screw with them from a governmental standpoint is,
you know, based on their footprint of their property. But you're not
the city or Boston and the surrounding cities aren't going to do that, so
they're free to do what they want. I see, I see your point.
But eventually that endowment is going to run out if the Democrats crash fifty
fifty billions, sir, I could budget that and I and I buy stupid
stuff all the time. So but I feel like I could, I could
manage it, all right, all right, thanks for the call there,
James. Yeah, I feel like. Look even that that dude who won
the lottery in West Virginia who is like hauling suitcases of cash to strip clubs
and then he's like what happened in the suitcases? Right? And then he
lost all his money? Like that dude, I'm pretty sure he could budget
fifty billion a lot of cash are talking about. That'd be an interesting experiment.
Ross, you could budget fifty billion if you will give you fifty billion
dollars and see if you go through it. You'd be willing to attempt this
experiment, Okay, rased agic he could do it? I think I don't
know sure. Maybe maybe he goes crazy. Maybe you're that guy you're maybe
you're that cautionary tale every time the power balls up that they tell everyone about,
don't be that guy. Talk talk to a financial advisor. But anyway,
maybe a B football team. I could think of a football team or
two that could use a new owner, right, Yeah, I mean you
have fifty bill. You couldn't go Brewsters millions with fifty bill. I just
I don't even know how that would happen, but yeah, it sounds like
a lot of money. All right, Well, easy job for you today,
huh Yeah. Next few days not bad in the mountains. There was
and still is some snow with winter weather advisory, so there's that. But
we'll be in the cool air at the colder air next couple of days,
but quickly modifying before our next change comes in for the weekend. Now it's
a fifty to fifty weekend, and we'll tell you right now, the best
day is going to be Saturday. There's gonna be some wet weather around Sunday
with the mild weather, could actually in some spots get close to seventy degrees.
So kind of these ups and downs continue today, fifty tomorrow just above
fifty. This morning it's chili. This Tomorrow morning's going to be in the
upper twenties to low thirty, so another chili start. And then on Friday,
we believe in that sunshine, but it will get milder as we climb
to the low sixties. So rest of the work week, good chili,
midweek, milder end of the week, and then Saturday looks great with lots
of sunload of mid sixties with a chance of showers by Sunday, but a
high near seventy degrees. Would be shocked if we start throwing in some thunderstorms
too. As this will be a springtime system with a front coming in,
we'll cool off again early next week, but sunshine will return it. Right
now, looking a head casey, it looks like it's going to be every
four or five days, we'll probably get a pre sip threat with a front
and then cooler weather, a colder weather coming in, and you know,
we get to the middle and end of the month, start talking about late
December, early January, who knows, who knows? Maybe that white stuff
in the mountains. Yeah, we start sending everybody crazy and scrambling hopefully maybe,
I mean, we won't be talking about it late in the money.
Could we ain't gonna be here? All right? I mean, yeah,
how amongst the meteorological community, you know us meaning us being talking right,
I guess yeah, text Ross, yeah, text Ross, Yeah, he'll
get right back to you. Right, he'll be right on that. Yeah,
all right, we'll talking the next now, okay, oh yes,
all right, so we're gonna I said that there are some fun stories I
want to do, and so I'm gonna I'm gonna have to jam a couple
in here and then on to UH. It should be the Lieutenant Governor.
We'll talk about his trip to UH to Israel, and then obviously tie in
what we just heard in the congressional testimony, because holy crap, it's all
coming up. Hang on, this is ninety four or five WPTI in the
triad and one six one FM talks in the triangle. All right, here
we go seven fifty two I. So we gotta get We just have to
have a little something that doesn't make you want to quit society. Well this
might still, but at least it'll be for humorous reasons. And to kick
it off, we gotta do this. Florida. Then Florida then be something
in the water, the rare sand that makes you do all that crazy crap.
It's like the state is wanta be dumb ass trapped. Nowhere else has
the Florida Man. It is almost like, as the Weird Factor climbs to
find out it haven't in Florida every time. In Florida, men, Florida
man, If anyone can jeer me, if you know you can to find
life be crazy. But of course, but it's not. It's bad crowd
crazy as yours. Nowhere else are you gonna find him? They're so used
to it, they don't find him. Hooray for Florida man, all right,
and in this case Florida woman. But as explained, man as in
mankind. Now I don't have to have another song produced a Florida man.
Although he's not the bad guy here. I think a Florida man's tender date
nearly turned deadly. This from the Miami NBC station, who reported that a
twenty five year old woman named Destiny Johnson from Miami arrested on charges of attempted
murder, aggravated battery, arson, you name it, all right. So
here's what happened. They met on Tinder, and they set up a date,
which just happened to be at the Holiday in Express. Apparently they both
want to you know, be smarter, because remember that's what it does if
you stay there. Except I didn't go well, so they decided so for
their date they were gonna go smoke pot and then go to the motel,
which, hey, you know what, whatever, The problem arose as they
returned to the hotel I guess they had to go smoke pot elsewhere and then
went back to the hotel, and the woman asked the dude, hey,
by the way, dates going great? Do you have money so I can
fix my car? And this guy actually offered to give her money, just
this woman when he just met according to the rest report. The victim said,
look, I only have sixty dollars on me, but you can have
it. What a simp anyway, at which point she shouted, quote,
you guys are out to get me. Understanding she's in the car. They're
in the car at the holiday inn. There's not guys, there's one.
And she had just been normal, according to the police report, and then
screamed this when he offered sixty bucks. She then reached into her purse,
pulled out a can of lighter fluid, sprayed him and lit him on fire.
And also because she's in a car, things are crazy, kind of
let herself on fire. The victim managed to escape the burning vehicle, rolled
on the pavement put himself out. It was only later that they were able
to find this woman after they received a report from several people of a burned
naked woman and screaming that she blew up a car running down the street,
and I guess they were able to put two and two together. So man,
dating, Ross, You're lucky you're married. Man, dating's tough these
days. Yeah, you know, one minute you're having a great holiday in
express date and the next minute you're on fire. I mean it's tough out
there. Doesn't say whether I don't know if she got the sixty dollars or
what. No, she did not get the sixty dollars. She should have
taken it before she let him on Firely she would be, you know,
part way to her goal. So yeah, crazy, crazy abounds, especially
on the tender app and probably if your thought for a first date is not
you know, hey let's meet at a restaurant or a bar, or let's
you know, go to a movie, and it's just hey, let's let's
do drugs and go to the holiday and you're really rolling the dice there,
and more so nowadays, according to new research that suggests that having a pet
cat doubles your risk of schizophrenia, and even more so in women. No,
this is not a joke article. This is actual research that was done
by the University of Queensland, Australia. As well as researchers here in the
US at the University of a Temple University, and they basically said that individuals
who have a cat had approximately twice the odds of developing schizophrenia as a total
population segment, and a slightly higher risk if you are a woman, and
especially a younger woman. Now what's the reasoning. It has to do with
parasites. Oh and as soon as you start, you know, you start
stacking cats, you're stacking your risk too, because it is this parasitic thing.
As what they're saying, could I offer another theory as somebody who's obviously
smarter than three of the Ivy League presidents. I feel like this might be
a chicken egg thing, like maybe you are schizophrenic and that makes you want
to buy a bunch of cats, because why else would you make that decision?
And I don't feel that they explored that option. So anyway, if
you have a cat, you might start hearing voices. I didn't do the
research. I just share the news. Have we got another hour of news
sharing to go? Lots to get into, happy, sad and everything in
between. We'll do it coming up all right, Good morning, everybody,
and happy Wednesday. It is the CaCO Day or the radio program our number
th three. And I said, as we were kicking off the show today,
I've got like normally I try to get about twelve twelve, fifteen stories,
and I got like twenty. I am hell bent on getting these in
and I am doing a horrible job of it. So bear with me.
We will probably be picking up the pace this hour. We're open to chat
with Lieutenant Governor. I wonder if maybe just because is where the calendar fell,
Like maybe he's confused on the week because he had that trip and then
we had to push it off because he was in Israel. So if he
calls, we'll definitely chat about it. But maybe I'm the one who's off
here. Oh well, well we'll plug that in if need be. Now
Washington Post Union, so not the Post, but the Union is asking for
your help. These would be the the journalists over there who have such great
journalistic integrity. They don't opine, just the facts, both sides, nonpartisans,
you know, those those cats who are none of those things. They
still want your help, and that is tomorrow, So tomorrow, all day,
all day. They want you to respect the picket line. What do
I mean by that. So they're having a one day little little mini strike
or something, and they're asking tomorrow that everyone refrain from posting on social media
or engaging with in any way. I guess maybe is there some comments not
on the main paper, but maybe some of their other stuff, and not
engage with any of their content. Don't go to the site of the website
to read it. I guess if it's in your yard, kick it into
the street. I don't know how that works, But don't buy it in
person. Don't take a link from an article, post it on Twitter or
Facebook or any of that so that you can show your solidarity with them and
the Post Guild as they're known. UMM. They put a letter out and
says we're applying these core principles to our workplace. For eighteen months, members
of the union have sought to negotiate a fairer contract. The problem is,
and I'll get back into this, we're gonna Chatt Lieutenant Governor is like,
either you kind of have to either be on their side or Jeff Bezos side.
It ain't easy, but we'll get to more of that in a moment.
Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson joining us this morning. How you doing, sir?
Hey, how you doing, Tyson? Sorr. I was a little
laid out, just got home from the tail. I'll get this morning so
that it's all good. It was weird because you had the trip and then
the calendar and all that stuff. Don't stress over and I will remind you
though. This is gonna be our last chance to chat before the new year,
because Ross and I get real lazy and take a bunch of time off.
So I don't blame. I'm gonna try to get a few things in.
But first I want to hear about your trip over to Israel. I
don't know if you know this, some of the local media was not happy
about that. So well, you know, with at least of my worries,
those folks have abou as much integrity as as a drug dealing bankwabber.
So I don't really care about those folks. They they make up narratives,
they don't tell the news, so we don't really take much stock at what
they say. But our trip was fantastic, Casey. When I say fantastic,
I mean that in the most solemn of ways. It was a trip
that had been planning for ten days. It was supposed to be an excursion
for about thirty of us. We're gonna go over see all the holy sites,
really see the country as tourists and just you know, really take a
visit and take everything in. But after the events that happened on the seventh
of October, we changed those plans. We were all only on the ground
for three days and it was a whirlwind trip, but it was a very
good and informative trip, very eye opening and light changing experience. We went
over, we visited the minuscript Foreign Affairs, We met with id F officials
who updated us on the war and how they were regrouping and fighting back.
We had the the the the occasion to go to some of the to one
of the villagers that was attacked, one of the kibbutzers that was attacked,
and saw places where whole families were slaughtered. We met with families of falling
IDF soldiers. And I can tell you tase it, I've never taken a
trip or been anywhere that affected me like I was affected on that trip.
From the moment we got off the plane, from the moment we got off
the plane that we were greeted with smiles and hugs and thank you for being
here. And it was a wonderful trip. And the thing that we left
with more than anything, we left encouraged by the resolve and the strength of
the people of Israel are they are determined to win this war, push back
against the evil terrorists that the attacked their country. And I would hope that
the United States of America would certain to continue to stand arm in arm with
them, because I know that's here North Carolina. I'm going to do everything
to make sure that we do. So. It's a very good trip taking.
Okay, And here's why I asked this, And it's not just you,
it's anyone who serves as a politician in a local capacity, be it
state or city or county or school board or whatever. I'm always curious,
like, why, you know, what is what are we trying to accomplish
with these trips, because too often, and I think you would agree,
too often, it sounds it feels like these things turn into junkets. I'm
yours is a bit of a unique situation because it's an active war zone right
now. But you know, what is accomplished other than somebody getting to go
do something and you know, in their capacity as an elected official going on
these, though they'll call them like fact fighting missions or any of the rest,
I tend to see very little emerged from it. What would you say,
emerge make me think this is a good idea If you would, well,
I can tell you this case. The trip was not sponsored by the
State of North Carolina. It was sponsored by private individuals. It was by
private entities, and so it was non official trip. I did not even
I didn't even take my own security. I had private security provided by those
who organized the trip and invited us to come along, and so it was
not necessarily a state sponsored trip. Of course, I let the folks there
know who I was in my capacity as a Lieutenant governor, but it was
not sponsored by the state, so to speak. It was sponsored by private
group. We went over and the thing again, Tasey. The thing that
I left with that I believe will help me in my capacity as an elected
official, is to visually see, just like we do when we go to
see places that have devastating effects from natural disasters, to go there and visually
see the devastating effects of a terrorist attack in the immediate aftermath. It's something
that I think elected officials, if they have the chance to do it,
should do it because it's a very eye opening experience. It gives you a
view of it that you cannot get from watching it on a screen. And
I think that's the thing that we left with. We have to be strong
in our results to stand up against those who operate our pure hatred and terrorism.
We have to be strong in that result. And that's the thing I
think. Even heighten that even more for me was by going there, seeing
it in person and hearing those stories. I've never been to Israel, but
I have spoken with a couple people who went, and one of the things
that they talk about is the security apparatus and whether it is at the airport,
whether it is when you're out on the streets in the communities there,
and the way in which the government actually partitions funds of an unimaginable percentage of
their total spending in Israel. It's crazy. And then you compare contrast here
in the US, and you see like easy things that they do over in
Israel that seem like no brainers from a security standpoint, that we actively reject
over here. So did you notice those things when you're comparing and contrasting and
what would you say stuck out? I did, And again, Casey,
this is another thing that gives me. It encourages me to continue to fight
for public safety in this nation. Right now, we are in a very
precarious situation. We have a wide open border, and you know, I
know for a that there are most of the people who are coming across our
border are not coming across for the various reasons. I've met some a lot
of those folks. They're running from death spots, they're running from bad situations.
But there are a number of people who are coming across our border right
now because it is open, and they're coming across from the various reasons,
human trafficking, drug trafficking, and possibly even terrorism. We now more than
ever need to take a look at what happened in Israel. We need to
heighten our security in this country in every corner because the time is ripe in
this country right now for just that style of attack, and we need to
be on our p's and q's and again taking that trip seeing what Israel is
doing, seeing what they went through, it doubles my result to increase public
safety right here at home. There's a story and it's not a news story.
It's one that they recycle all the time, and I always usually do
it because they leave context out. This one's in Durham. They just had
a big meeting. The headline from Mario. Students in Durham schools suspended and
expelled at higher rates, a new study shows, And of course it's all
about who's doing the study, but the fact remains that if you go on
a per capita basis and you took a hundred black students and a hundred white
students, more of the black students would find themselves either suspended or expelled over
the course of their learning. And they never address how we got there or
what the students may have done. They simply say, because the number is
not equal, therefore racism. Look, if they're not there to learn,
obviously that's a problem because you know, then I guess you lean into the
criminal behavior if it was something that got you expelled. But how do you
even begin to address that when we're starting with this dishonest narrative rather than actually
digging down and well, I mean, what do you think needs to be
done? Well, I can tell you this casey. We could talk about
a mirrord things, but what I'm always interested in is when they talk about
these numbers, I would like to know who it is that's doing the suspending,
who's doing the suspended, and what do those folks look like? Because
I have seen in my capacity. Excuse me what you say. I said,
that's that's absolutely fair, and it's of course not addressed here. So
who's who's doing the suspended? There are a lot of schools that are predominantly
let us be fair about there are a lot of schools that are predominantly black,
have predominantly have lots of black staff and even black principles, and in
those schools there are high rates of suspension. Are those are those black principles
and administrators who are suspending those black students? Are they racists? You know,
we got to get past this foolishness case, like you said, and
get down to the root cause of what is going on here. And I
would submit to you what is going on here is we have a system here
in North Carolina from the top, there's top heavy that has created a system
where there's no accountability and no discipline in our classrooms and in our schools.
That is the problem. We've put diversity over discipline we've put equity over excellence,
and now we found ourselves with schools that are just completely out of control.
We've got to get back to the basics excellent discipline and the things that
it breeds. And what does it breeds. It breeds safety, and it
breeds great results out of the classroom. So we got to get past just
these glaring headlines that are used by the news media to get clicks and likes
and sell newspapers and get viewers on the television. Get down to the root
calls and find out where we can get some great solutions. Because I submit
to you, it's not about race, It's about the poor state of our
schools now and the lack of discipline in our schools. Well, you know,
people will say, they'll be ah, you know, schools are they're
crazy dangerous compared because you know, you see all these videos of fights.
I would only argue that there were fights when I was in school, but
we just didn't have smartphones to tape it and put it on on the internet
for all due to gaze. But like you saw this, you saw the
stabbing. Obviously, yes, what happened in Wake County. There's a myriad
of other examples. The other day, three different students in North Carolina had
guns in three different communities. So there's there's a lot more than just a
suspension. But some would argue that it feels like kids are getting more violent.
There are more horrible incidents, and as a result, you're going to
have more suspensions. And should it matter if you got video of them doing
it, whether they're white or black or Asian or whatever it's on video.
That's exactly why I see now. So that's what I'm saying is the problem.
The problem is not that we're punishing more black children, or punishing more
white children, or left white children the problem. The problem is we're not
putting the mechanisms in place to not tolerate this type of behavior. I know
teachers who have told me personally, time after time. I've met teacher after
teacher that they've been shoved, pushed, assaulted by students, and those students
will come right back into their classrooms thirty minutes left the next day, the
next week. When I was in school, if you put your hands on
the teacher, you were gone from the school. You weren't going to be
there anymore. We need to set some strict standards of behavior in our school
the same way we set strict standards in the workplace. Violence is not tolerated
in the workplace. Sexual harassment is not tolerated in the workplace. We shouldn't
tolerate it in our schools either, But all too often we do at school
systems. Do it shade their numbers, keep their tendance up so they can
continue to have great numbers on paper, while actually inside the school, the
school is failing. Do you I just had a couple of minutes left,
about a minute and a half, you know, one of the predictions,
and you can actually you can look at this in the state of Florida and
New York, where the expansion of vouchers actually led to a marked improvement within
the public schools, right because competition broke out so how quickly as we expand
here in North Carolina. Do you think that it might have an impact on
public schools to be more competitive, to create an environment that is more inviting
for parents, if only to compete and thrive. Uh, what do you
think? I think that I think it is going to pay off. It
is going to pay off, and I think that's exactly what's going to happen.
These folks that want to support systems over students, These folks who want
who think that we should just continue to grow money at the problem instead of
bringing real solutions. They're gonna find out quick that parents are not going to
settle for that. They're gonna pull their children out. They're gonna put their
children in places you're going to give them the success they need. Whether it
be public, private, uh, charter, it doesn't matter what it is.
They're gonna pull them out and get it done. Because Casey's parents are
tired of this. And when the public school finally wakes up and see that,
I think they're gonna start. They're gonna start making the changes they need
to make. Well, we'll find out, all right, uh Mark Robinson,
Lieutenant Governor. Well it'll be the new year before we chat again.
So I have yourself a dare I say a Merry Christmas, sir? And
well, I'm sure it'll be crazy in a month. Still, you know,
I'll take it even one step father from me. I'll take it even
one step father. Merry Christmas to you. Jesus is the reason before the
scenes seemed to less celebrate his birth and the piece that he bought there,
so thank you. Oh wow. All right, well you know they're probably
gonna run that in an attack ad on you now, so that'll be fine
with me. All right, all right, thank you, appreciate it.
Have a good one. Okay, thank you, sir. Yeah, well
you think I'm joking. I could totally see some moon bab You're like,
did you hear what he said on the radio? He said, Jesus is
the reason for the season, and then you have really ominous and then you
have a black and white picture of him saying it. Oh, it's straight
up. That's how attack ads work. And we're getting into that season as
well. All right, hang loose. Like I said, we got lots
to get to. Uh, We've got the most did Atlanta crime story?
I think I've seen it quite some time, and I'll finish up on the
Washington Post thing. We'll do it next. It is the CaCO Day radio
program. It is here on the Cacoday radio program. How Atlanta is this
story? So a twenty eight year old man is in jail. According to
authorities, he boarded a Marta bus. So MARTA's the public transit there.
I've never been on one, I'm sure it's if it's as terrifying as the
Marta train I rode once, I'm sure it's just it's awesome. Ross.
Did you ever ride the Marta when you live down there, either the train
at least or the no No, I saw it and I said nope.
Yeah, well, you know what, you made the right decision, sir.
But I digress. So this was the bus. So he's on the
bus, he gets there's some beef with the driver, and the driver uh
decides he's gonna call he's gonna call police, he's gonna call for help.
And so he literally exited the bus right because this dude's in there going berserk,
and I guess there's uh, there's another there's a there's all the passengers
left but one, and the passenger has he is not He does not know
this guy, but he's like, I'm gonna watch this. This looks exciting.
So that dude stayed on the bus and that's going to be important.
So the driver gets off of the bus and is on the phone. I
call him police or his supervisor or whoever. And at that point, uh,
this dude decides, you know what, it's my bus now, and
I don't know if he It says he got into a physical altercation with the
driver. I'm assuming maybe to get the keys from him. I don't know,
but here's what I do know. He then left with the bus and
the RANDO passenger, only to be arrested later. And then we start filling
in the blanks. So, according to police, Jamari Lee is dude's name,
drove the passenger to the waffle house that the passenger was trying to ride
the bus to get to. So now he's not just hijacked the bus.
He's like, I'm going to fulfill the duties, although he drove him directly
to the waffle house, whereas the bus stop was a couple of blocks away,
so arguably providing better service. And then after he dropped that dude off
with the waffle house, he said, you know what, I'm going to
go to Stone Mountain. That'll be nice, and went to a Stone Mountain.
However, when he got to the when he got to the gate,
I don't know, something look right. So according to the video, he
tried to just pull a U turn in a bus. But it's kind of
a narrow it's a narrow windy I've never been to Stone Mountain, but I'm
assuming it's just like a normal city street the entrance and then drive in h
and he was unsuccessful, almost hit a car, and then eventually he's like
this sucks, so he stops, gets out, puts on his jacket,
and just walks away, apparently not wanting to be a bus driver anymore.
And then obviously police figured it out and they went and the rest of the
dude. They're using the term hijacking and in the statement for Marta and then
for whatever reason, WSB doesn't so I don't know, and they say that
it started because the customer when he got on didn't realize he would have to
pay, and that made him mad, so that's why he took the bus
and again provided phenomenal service for that one passenger, who authority say simply was
just a dude who didn't get off the bus. And then the guy asked
him where he wanted to go, and he said, I'm going to this
waffle house and the suspect said, I'll take you there. I wonder how
long he was doing this, because like downtown Atlanta to Stone Mountain, traffic
sucks there. How long would that even take on? Now people are sending
me their Marda horror stories. I know when I lived in Atlanta and it
was like traffic like that, it was like two hours anywhere again, any
any direction you go in in that traffic, it's like two hours. I'm
also curious why this dude wanted to go to Stone Mountain because you know,
that's been in the news lately, because they're still like, hey, we
should you know, we should eradicate this or at the very least eradicate the
shot. Didn't they stop the shows during all the protests? Are they doing
that again? That's a that's a weird thing. That's you know, that
in and of itself is kind of a strange thing, especially if you're not
from the South. The whole Lazer or extravaganza there, and I know Ross
has seen it. I've watched a video and I've never seen it in person.
But whatever, that's where the guy wanted to go. Andy did,
and now he's in jail. Who's not helping people? State of California.
I don't know if you've seen any of this. California, and not just
California, but retailers in California. They've been dealing with some stuff like people
just walking in and taking whatever they want and leaving to the point where there's
been closures of stores. There has been the locking down of literally everything worth
more than about fifty cents. And now the State of California has decided that
they need to They got to do something. Man, they got to get
up in this. So what do you think. What do you think that
Newsom and crew are going to do? This wasn't in the stacks, so
Ross hasn't even seen this. So what do you think that the State of
California announced yesterday for big box retailers that they're going to do. Do you
think what maybe step up police patrols that might be it? Maybe, oh
maybe actually prosecute people who do this. No, the State of California has
announced and apparently their first object of IIRE is Target, but it will not
just be targeted that even though retail theft last year was seven point eight billion
dollars just in the state of California, seven point eight billion, lawmakers in
California have put Target on notice that starting next year, if Target does not
include more gender neutral toys, a series of fines will happen and other retailers,
big box retailers who want to do business in California will need to have
gender neutral toys as a is it I think it's fifty percent of their offerings
or they will face stiff fines from regulators in California. What are gender neutral
toys? I was just gonna ask this because like the whole the whole argument
is like right, like nothing is specifically from this side, know, nothing
specifically is made for a boy, or nothing specifically is made for a girl.
You're still stuff, Well, why couldn't like a girl play with the
Gi Joe or whatever the kids play with now, or transport? Like,
what is a gender neutral toy? I just stood and watched six thousand toys
get donated right for our stuff, A bus thing. I was out there
Friday, I was out there, Saturday, was out there Sunday. Six
thousand toys were donated and it was eye opening because I don't have kids,
and some of the stuff that's toys now, I don't know exactly what did
I don't know what is referencing, but a lot of the you know,
a lot of the stuff that was donated is the same stuff that were toys
when you and I were a kid, right, well, nerve on action
Plato, things like that, I don't assign a gender to a NERF gun.
We had NERF guns and you know what my two sisters like to shoot
them two Plato. That's like everything is gender neutral to your point, And
that's why I'm bringing this up, like, well, it's only gender neutral
if now you say that it is only for one gender. And the point
that Ross made is is really how this ties together? We were told it's
not. We were told get remember the They're like, hey, get your
young son, get them a barbie, right, get them, get them,
get them dolls. Because whatever, it's the right progressive thing to do.
Well if you how can you hold that opinion simultaneously, And then you're
going through the toy aisle at target going well, this isn't gender neutral,
right, Like if you're saying, like the binaryally doesn't exist, right,
how can you have something in the middle. Let's see here I'm reading And
by the way, this law has been around since tw they just really haven't
done anything with it. And now in the midst of this Newsome is saying,
hey, now we got to go, we got to go do this
while all of your stuff's getting stolen in the other aisles. All right,
so gender neutral section. Uh, the law requires retail stores of a certain
size to the big ones to have gender neutral section. I guess maybe you
just have to have a sign that says gender neutral toys. I don't know
each violation. Each violation will start with a two hundred and fifty dollars a
day fine, which will then increase to five hundred for subsequent and onward and
upward. I mean, I know it's one of the biggest economies in the
world just due to the population and everything, But I honestly I don't know
why if your Target, you're in California or many of these other retailers,
not just for this, but for all the reasons. But also I don't
run Target, and they're down with the so what are you gonna do?
You know, he's down with the weather. Rastagic weather to Yeah, what
is a gender neutral toy? Every toys gender neutral, depending on what the
kid wants to play with. Man, I agree, yeah, yeah,
So anyway, all right, let's go ahead. Is yeah, good toy
shopping weather. Look at that? Just sure, great shopping weather. You
only little thing that stuck up on me here this morning? There were some
showers in northern Virginia. I thought they'd weaken as they crossed the border,
but it looks like a little patches weakening a bit, but not enough as
through the triangle. May get a brief round of some light rain or a
few showers over the next couple of hours. Then we'll get into the sunshine
already to the western sun to the easter is less than the way of sunshine,
but we all should be a pretty good shape this afternoon Chili day,
though with a north breeze, we'll hover at about fifty today, a little
bit colder than this morning, upper twenties to low thirties and clear, and
a sunny Thursday low fifties. Friday up near sixty degrees would be on either
side of that, with sunshine and a great star to the weekend, lit
to mid sixties on Saturday, before we get some showers Sunday, maybe a
few thunderstorms as a storm system tracks across the northern tier of the US.
A Sunday's highs though for some could be close to about seventy degrees case,
so a little kind of now casting here with this batch of showers just getting
ready to come into the north, coming through the triangle here shortly, and
then that'll go away. I think for the most part, it's gonna be
sunny later, sunny for the rest of the week in the beginning of the
weekend. Next substantial rain, shower activity and thunderstorms in here head to the
weekend, and another cool down as I said, into early next week.
Okay, all right, have a good date talk tomorrow. Ok yeah,
right, and Jeff Bellinger he joins us. Next hang on. This is
one O six one FM Talk in the Triangle and nears talk ninety four PTI
and the triad. All right, good morning, eight fifty three year Bloomberg
Update now with Jeff Bellinger. Jeff, what's happening Fanody morning case stock market
future suggests we'll see a positive dart to the midweek session on Wall Street.
Dow futures rough sixty seven points now. Employers were still hiring last month,
but the number of workers added to payrolls was smaller than expected adp S as
private sector employment increased by one hundred three thousand jobs in November. Workers pay
was up more than five and a half percent from November of last year.
Home long demand was up nearly three percent last week, all of it because
of refis, a downtick and mortgage infrastrates triggered a surge in refinancings. The
average rate on a thirty year fixed rate mortgage fell to seven point seventeen percent.
REFI requests jumped nearly fourteen percent. There was a small decline in purchase
loan applications. Strike by Hollywood actors is officially over. The actors have ratified
the contract deal that was worked out in negotiations between their union and the Hollywood
Studios. The actor's approval was not a sure thing, so there's some relief
at this vote. A Most data suggests the economy is doing well, but
it doesn't feel that to a majority of Americans. Nearly six and ten people
responding to Bankrates newest survey say it feels to them like a recession is underway,
and the numbers are roughly the same for lower and upper income households.
Parents with children younger than eighteen are the most likely to say it feels like
the economy is in a downturn. And Casey, Procter and Gamble has taken
a hit on its shaving business. Gillette seems facial hair is in style.
Head shaving is also in style. So now the company is looking to revive
Gillette by marketing a new product to head shavers. P and G introducing a
forty five dollars head shaving kit. It includes a specially designed razor, a
gel primer, and a lotion. It's the Baldly brand. The kits are
being sold online only. Casey, I just like people have been shaving their
heads forever and using the razors that exist. Some idiot'll buy it. I'm
sure of it. Okay, all right, thank you, Jeff, appreciate
it. All right, have a good day. I don't have a shaved
head, so I don't know. But you know, Gellette's problem. Their
other big problem is if they bring the same idiots to market it. Remember
the geleect commercial where it was what was it dad teaching his quote daughter to
shave or something. It was so weird and that had a big backlash.
So I don't know, I screw this. Maybe you inadvertently market it to
a white supremacist or something because they're not real good at it, speak of
it, not good at it. United Nations Secretary for Climate Change his name
is Simon Steele has a message for Americans. Are you ready? You ready
for? You ready for? The UN Climate Change Secretary's message for the American
public. Are you the edge of your seat? Rossell? You excited?
You're ready. You're gonna digest this, put it to work. Okay,
You're ready. Indigenous people are on the front lines of the climate cris Indigenous
people coexist in symbiosis with nature. They're on the front lines of the climate
crisis, and they are well placed to lead just transitions based on their time
honored values, knowledge and worldviews. What do you what have you been to
the US? Sir? Have you been to Cherokee? This is not this
is by the way, This is not me knocking on Native Americans and Indigenous
persons. Excuse me, let me use their language. I'm just does this
guy think that they live like in dances with wolves? Because that's I mean,
it's the noble it's a bit of the noble savage trope kind of thing.
But in reality, most Native Americans in the US, whether they live
in extreme wealth because they happen to be strategically located and they do good casino
business, like the Seminole tribe in Florida, and some others, or if
they live in some of the poorest reservation settings that we have to offer in
Alaska. I guess in Alaska there's maybe a little more of this. But
even in Alaska when they go to the Inuit villages up there, like they
got TVs and houses and but they're using they're using fossil fuels. Arguably they're
using a lot more because you gotta fly in and out of those things on
the regular. What do you think is happening? How much juice does the
casino up there in Cherokee use. It's not in a it's not in a
big teepee. This guy's an idiot man. And uh and but he just
said we need to emulate this, and I'm like, I feel like you've
never actually met anyone who's native. Some of them even go to Kansas City
chiefs games. I don't know if you know this both families. Yeah,
it's pretty crazy. Ah do the absurd and that continues to emulate from that
climate conference or whatever in Dubai is just is bad. All Right. I
think it's my tiger story. We'll roll that till tomorrow. The moral of
that story will be sometimes you just gotta let it go, or the very
least recognized when you're outmatched, So that'll be on tomorrow's show, but for
now, we gotta roll. See you