CODA radio program. And it's Friday. You made it, I mean almost
you got it, you know, three more hours well that you know,
that's me and then you probably the rest of the day. So I have
fun with that. But yeah, so and we it's Friday. Here's why
it's a good Friday. One. We got Pete Callender joining us at eight
oh five and Ashville gonna Ashville. And even though he escaped, he and
his wallet escaped that insanity up there of bad moon, bad ideas and even
worth spending decisions. Uh, they've got themselves a doozy bruin. And I
can't wait to talk to him about it. So that'll be, you know,
coming up eight oh five. So you're gonna have to wait through a
few things. By the way, hold on, just realize something, hang
on, hang on, let me grab this. Yeah, I mentioned I
get I get uh like uh, and it's it's like an industry email.
So and then in it they have little fun facts so you know, to
con talk radio guys into reading it, so you can also try to get
them to, I don't know, pay attention to your publication whatever. And
at the top I always glance at it because I'll see it in my inbox.
Even if I don't give it a scroll, it has like what is
today's celebration day? And uh I just saw this reload my email, so
ross it is National Shrimp Day, all right? I like shrimp. Oh
little little garlic butter actually sounds pretty good right now? Yes, for breakfast,
what of it? But it's also give Sharks a Voice Day. What
a horrible idea. I don't know anything about your organization and how you got
this, as you know, somebody somewhere to recognize the proclaly. What the
hell is give sharks a voice stake? Can you imagine how much more terrifying
that would be? Did you see the video this week of the guy who's
out he's in a fishing kayak, puttsing around and he sees you know,
by the way, I love those kayaks, especially the ones with the petals
all those are. They're fantastic, especially if you're you're fishing like in you
know, way in the middle of nowhere and you need to, like if
you need to portage stuff, you know, between lakes, like up to
the Boundary Waters in Minnesota or we have you know, chain of Lakes,
the Seven Sisters up in Wyaoming, where I grew up. And you gotta
kind of gotta be able to pick your boat up, move it if you
really want to get it. I think they're great. You're also right at
water level, and that's fresh water. This dude's in the ocean and he
sees this giant shadow move under him, and so he's filming. I don't
know if he knows it's a shark yet. Maybe it's a dull bab,
it's a I don't know, maybe it's a baby whale and there's nothing.
Oh my god, here comes And then I retweeted this video just a couple
of days ago, I think. But and you see firsthand what it looks
like when a shark decides you're a meal. The speed at which because it's
going away from him, and then within a half second, it has its
entire mouth. Yes it's that big on the side of the kayak. And
then it's like, oh, I got fooled, and then you know,
dives back into the ocean. Was it a move for plastic that day?
And like I I I have to hold out to see. Excuse me,
I had this? I got to if that was my kayak? Well not
if it was mine, I'd be fine, But for most people, you're
hitting that with a pressure washer when you get home. Holy crap. Now,
imagine that thing could trash talk you too. So but maybe that's not
what it means. I don't care enough to look. I just want to
go to this. Did you guys see the Ohio State University commencement speaker?
All right? I saw even if you didn't see the whole let me explain
to you why college graduation season is a blessing and a curse. Okay,
it's a blessing because somebody will get up there, they'll have an approved speech
or whatever, and then they'll get up and they'll be like, you know,
I don't know, pledging allegiance to Hamas, I don't know whatever whatever
the flavor of the week is, or they have their climate protester moonbat buddies
throw soup on them, which there's an idea for you guys, And then
you know that insanity and ends up a little story, a little cut.
Hey, look at these idiots. So I saw that people were like,
oh my gosh, this Ohio State University commencement speaker worst ever. But I
didn't see them assigning any like political motive or that there was any like he
was dragged off stage by officials or anything, just that it was. It
was super weird, and so I gave it a I watched the first few
minutes and when he started awkwardly trying to lead the twenty thousand people at the
Ohio State I refuse to emphasize the the you can all deal at Ohio State
University, and it wasn't going well. I'm like, I'm out, dude,
dude thinks he's cute, coupled with I don't know, maybe he's kind
of nerve. I did twenty twenty thousand people staring at you. So the
guy who gave it was he's he's in his mid forties. So this is
important because I thought when they say it was commencement speaker, I didn't realize.
I thought he was one of the student ones at first, and then
because he I mean, obviously he looks old to the students. But that's
what I thought at first, which is why I didn't have any interest.
But when I gave it the first five minutes, I realized, Okay,
well, this guy's the past grad. He mentions it, but still he
is a social entrepreneur too, So that's things that started getting weird. Well,
they ended up booing him, but he got his he got his speech
in. Okay, I said, twenty thousand and seventy thousand, excuse me?
Then I read this all right, here we go a quote misunderstood.
Ohio State commencement speaker defends viral speech he says he wrote while on Aihuasca did
not expect the booze. All right, So so wait a second, now,
now this and you're not looking at this as as an l I understand.
You gotta have you gotta have, you know, the thick skin you
want to I want to make sure you I just realized it put an error
in there. How long it ross? How long after you post something on
on Twitter? If you have the pro the premium account, can you go
back and fix it before it's permanent? What's that window? I want to
say, like a few minutes. I'm not exactly sure what it is because
whenever I use it, it's like a media it's like, oh, spelling
error undue super fast. I've never tried to do it after like five minutes,
like two, because then I'm like, I want to say two or
three minutes, because there's another. There's nothing worse than uh, you know,
I'll tell you, he'll I'll write another. Worst in posting it,
Yeah, okay, there's nothing worse than posting it and then realize it's an
air and then having to decide that you're going to like delete it or not
because the algorithm. Right, yeah, right, so look, I'll just
do it now. So I'm right in whoopsie post. I wonder how long
I have you spelled whoop these sixty six sixty minutes? You have a whole
hour? Yeah, because you you misspelled whoopsie. It says Casey is a
serial killer? So is that how is I don't think that's how that's spelled.
Oh wow, okay, yeah, I would have saved my behind.
All right, I'll fix that. I tweeted something before the show in the
Ohio State. But anyways, so yeah, so dude's up there. Everyone
hates what's going on. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna play it for you.
It's like because it's a full on whatever. But you know, as
far as commencement speeches, go Ohio State Big University probably could get alumni whatever
dude is. Now it makes sense because like he's so it's it was like
a Biden speech, but where you realize, dudes, probably you know what
I'm saying, so and and and but it was awkward rather than hyper political.
Except now I'm upset because sometimes you got to know when to take your
medicine. Okay, you gotta no one to take the l And I understand
they'll tell, well, if he's you know, he's an entrepreneur, that's
fine, influencer, entrepreneur, whatever. I'm not in a beef. If
he's if he's making a work for him, that's fine. That being said,
not everything works. And the worst attitude that you can have, with
very few exceptions like Galileo. All right, and you'll understand what I mean
in to say, the worst attitude you can have is it's not me,
it's literally everybody else. And I, uh yeah, no, he said,
I quote am the most misunderstood person at one point. Oh and the
really one. You want the boy to start uh ross towards the end of
the speech, and they're already anoyed with this. Dude, do you know
what he did? Started shillin bitcoin? He went, he went, he
wanted to convert all everyone, uh to crypto. No, I was busy
doing something here. Did you say he gave the speech while high in Iahuasca
or he wrote the speech. He claims he wrote it while hi. Some
people are wondering and he didn't go back once he was sober and look at
that and say, man, I shouldn't do this. Have you ever like
I don't. Yes, I've heard, I know exactly where this is going.
I I've heard this has happened before. There's certain people in their youth,
like they would get like, you know, high is a kite or
drunk or whatever and white stuff and then be like, this is the most
important thing ever written. Right, This is like so deep and so real,
And then you're looking smoking weed whatever else, And you look at it
the next day and you're like, what is this gibberish? What was it?
Like? What was a new language writing? Yeah, like you don't
even know what you wrote. You're like, what is this makes no sense?
This is not a sentence. But while you're writing it, Hi is
the kite, you're like, this is a great you know, I'm Hunter
Thompson, I'm writing I'm writing the great American novel. And the next day
you're like, no, this isn't even English. Yeah, well college this
is college graduate. Went back and looked at and said, maybe I shouldn't
change some of this. There is a college graduate with some yours under his
belt and is in the communications business, and said, I wrote it I
on Hyahuascar, and I decided let's go ahead and do this thing. The
crypto stuff that was that was his own thing. I guess to try to
save the speech because if there's one thing that all these parents at the what
don't you want to look if you when you go to an event, right,
don't you want to be don't you want to have people start explaining crypto
and finite dea say, so I'm up there and I'm like, I'm the
most persecuted person ever exists on Earth, and you need to invest in ross
coin. Yeah, oh wait, no, we're not going to show ross
coin. That's not happening today, not after what the SEC letter said.
Uh the he said that he defended excuse me, he defended his insane address
and using the hallucinogenic to help him write it, while admitting the jeers from
his bitcoin portion was hard to digest and caught him off guard. So not
only did dude go, hey, you know, they really need to hear
about his doge coin or whatever. And he said he doesn't understand why they
would like because I don't know. They just paid like two hundred thousand dollars
or whatever. I don't know what it costs go to I mean it's a
state school, so I guess it depends where you're from. But they just
paid a really nice car up to a house to educate their kid, and
you know, traveled in from wherever they traveled into they're having they're at.
They're already having to go to an event where there's seventy thousand people, which
if that's not like a professional sporting event, you're not getting me there,
and they've just had to watch you essentially crap over everything because you wanted.
You're in your mid forties and you want to write a speech while you were
stoned and hallucinating, and then when that doesn't work, you start lecturing them
on crypto. How are you surprised by that? And again it's this attitude
you got to ask yourself and I look, it's hard to do. Admittedly,
am I wrong? Or is absolutely everybody else wrong? And when you
find yourself in that situation. You have to reflect on what it is.
What is the thing that is that you believe you are correct on and everyone
else believes you're not. And if that thing is, hey, I'm pretty
sure we rotate around the sun and not the other way around. Like those
you know, those are milestone moments. Those are you know, those are
the ones that are going to live on in history. Man, this isn't
that so awful? Oh I'd never been booed by seventy thousand people. It's
not a good feeling. Well, I imagine not, although I will tell
you this or eventually it just kind of blends into the you have to.
You just gotta let it blend in. But that doesn't mean you don't you
don't take something from it. He said, what was I gonna do?
Start crying? I mean, dove walk off the stage? I mean that
would have been dramatic too. No, wrap up your speech and then even
if you don't want to just be like I'm an idiot, just be like
on social media, go I'm I'm kind of an idiot, but I'm also
kind of an idiot, and I got nervous, or you know, say
something. People will move on. But you coming out and going, no,
they're the ones that are wrong. That's a horrible attitude. And I
know you're in your mid forties, you're doing your thing, but that attitude,
man, is one that is seen by people as stereotypical of younger generations,
not just this one, but always right. You know, it's it's
that great cycle. And but to for you to do it with such reckless
abandon and then not apologize for it or at least recognize it, and then
conveyed all these students, Hey, you know what, you know what you
want to do when you're wrong? Double down? Baby? Yeah, absolutely,
it's not you, it's everybody else. That attitude is cancer in a
workplace. So yeah, sorry, sorry, bro, I was just gonna
ignore it. But now there you go, entire segment on what a tool
you are. All right, we'll be back hang on. Yeah, hey,
Ross, did you just see the product there? So I was doing
a little research on this Ohio state speaker. I I when they said he
is a social entrepreneur. I took that to think that it was purely endorsement
stuff, but no, he has a company. And then in the in
promoting it, that's when he kind of he got the following. He's one
of these positivity dudes kind of so what does he make the He makes motivational
bracelets. You can do it and by the way, their top seller.
It looks exactly like the one my five year old niece made me out of
a washer and some some random string or you get it. It's like it's
like a washer engraved with like a black wire forming the bracelet. It's not
even like a friendship bracelet. It looks like it looks like it's it's lead.
For those of you who fish, it looks like, uh, it
looks like it's like lead you'd get if you were fishing for some with teeth.
And then yeah, it is a brace He's put it around your and
then he put your word on there and you can be like, I'm a
good person. That's what he sells. And then I guess he shills them
to corporate events because he says he was criticized in Ohio State said, look,
you know that I speak to corporate and so the speech I gave,
while crazy as hell, that's kind of how I do it. And I'm
like, I'll bet you don't do it more than once at a company.
Oh how that that is the best Ohio Ohio State could get from an alumni
commencement speaker. A dude who makes bracelets out of scraps in a in a
workshop. What you get what you paid for? And I'm sorry again,
I had no beef with this dude. And tell now I'm reading this stuff
here because like he was, he was making him do sing alongs. He
made him stand up or told him to stand up. Most of them didn't
to do so he could teach them navy seal breathing exercises. And he then
did a magic trick not well in my dad before he went launched into the
crypto stuff. It's all you gotta do is just be like, yeah,
yeah, that was dumb. Like there's a lot of good motivational speakers you
can find in YouTube, like Les Brown is a famous one. Yes,
he's fantastic, right, and you see these guys if you're looking for like
is that sort of motivation? But this is this is coming across as like
as like a poverty Mick Foley, right, any Asian dude so or I
don't know, kind doesn't look anything like Chris Farley, but same concept.
Yes, but he's hiding a kite living on a van down by the river.
Iyohasca. Yeah, but he has a bracelet that says it's okay to
live in a van down by the river. If you dream it, you
can achieve it. Buy my T shirt. I'm going to make that a
T shirt right now. So wait a second, chilled, you just shilled
crypto and now you're making Yeah, but I'm doing it as like it's ironical.
I'm doing as like a joke. Oh well that it's okay, completely
different. I got you. I got you because I don't believe what I'm
writing. Yeah. So this dude, I was just reading some more of
his quotes and he just like he deserves everything he gets. Let's see here,
Hold on, where's the quote I just read Ross It's so bad?
Uh yeah, he said, uh he this is his normal style as he
speaks to corporate workers. But he's chilling his bracelets. I guess, can
you imagine being the duke? I guess in a way, you got to
respect it. This is a guy who looked at remember those those hack motivational
posters you see around HR rooms, right, Yeah, we used to have
a bunch the frog and all that. Because and this guy went that's not
stupid enough and soul sucking enough in a corporate environment. Let me make my
brand it. So, I mean he monetized, well, he monetized that
in a different way. He then went on to say, I am the
most understood person right now in the world. And it's okay because people will
eventually understand. So remember that Galileo thing. He thinks he's Galileo. Yeah,
I don't. I know he's locked up in the tower because he's so
smart. Oh no, what's the pope gonna do to him? Do we
know? All right? Hold on, because the second line is where it
really you can get the full breadth of the ego here. I do it
for creativity, referring to the psychedelics and all that stuff, as well as
for healing. Uh. And then he went on to compare himself. He
says, John Lennon, Steve Jobs, they all work this way to fuel
their creativity. Okay, yeah, and then you know what, you know
what Lennon did with it? Ross, go on, go on, iHeart
the iHeart app and then type John Lennon in and see if there's anything there.
Ross is gonna look real, Yes, there is, Oh tons of
stuff yeah, yeah, that's pretty famous. Apparently like just one one hit
one not it goes back decades here. Yeah, does he have a is
he touring? Do we have he's not? He passed away? Oh unfortunately?
All right, did we confirm that it's been confirmed yet? Yeah?
Concur uh Steve Jobs? Would you do you see if he if he did
anything, if he made product? How do is that like s T E
P H or s T E V E the the the v the like the
idiot immigration lady yesterday in Denver? Yeah all right? And and jobs like
job but with an S. Yeah yeah, okay, reading the Book of
Job twice okay, yeah, okay, so plural job yes, right,
okay, yeah, yeah there's there. Yeah, there's a Steve Steve Jobs.
I see it. Oh wow, okay. And what did he make?
Ah? Man, he's he's made a bunch of stuff, all the
stuff. And this dude made a bracelet that says you can do it.
I believe Steve Jobs made the thing where you can order the bracelet that says
the thing. Is he touring? We know Steve Jobs? Yeah he also
passed away. Yeah, very sad. He gave a favorite famous commencement speech,
though, he is like that guy he did very famous one. Yeah,
you can see it's also motivational on YouTube. Yeah, and everyone hated
it, right, No, people thought it was fantastic. Oh wow,
it's weird. Okay, what did he have him sing? You know?
Don't I think there was a song did he have did he do? It
looks like he had them sing imagine oh by that John lennont know he didn't.
Yeah, that would be amazing. But yeah, in my wildest dreams,
I didn't think and it was in the realm of possibility. Did not
occur to me that they would not get it, because again, it's not
him, it's all the rest of you, everybody else. Dude. Man,
oh that is so cringey. All you had to do was shut up,
and now everyone's gonna talk about you again. And maybe he's like,
great, I'm gonna sell more bracelets. Oh ross, you want a custom
slat bracelet with a motivational message or the dangerous Oh that's that is a good
point. Oh it's not an You said it was an Etsy shop. He
sells on Insta. Okay, I didn't know that that they had Instagram shops,
but I also not on the install all right, Well, there you
go. That's that's probably not what you're expecting to hear this morning. But
I think, I think once you understand the totalent here, here's the problem.
On one level, it's what a dumb speech. But again I don't
know. Sometimes things just go a little sideways. But now that I know
he's got experience and he meant to do all that stuff, and his attitude
is it's not me, it's all of you. When it's when it's when
it's clearly you, bro, you deserve everything you get. So we're happy.
We're happy to give you the minutes. Okay, all right? Coming
up on the show, Oh my gosh, Ashville. Oh and I referen
you know what, let me do this ross? Will you put the cause
I played it right at the end of the show. Will you put the
Denver audio up again for our early listeners because I actually wanted to hit that
earlier yesterday and then I didn't hit it till the last segment. And I
just mentioned the immigration lady named v in Denver, and if you missed it,
it's a doozy. So here's the here's the gist, real quick,
lady immigrants, she's talking to the Fox affiliate or whatever in Denver, and
she is now, I guess, the spokesperson for the the migrant camp there
right where they you know where they shipped them up to Denver because Denver lotsh
sanctuary city, all right. So she's over there in a tent city under
an overpass, and the city of Denver has literally been doing everything up to
it, including firing parts and defunding parts of the city budget and employees to
pay for this, while screaming bloody murder over it. And now they want
they have a problem with this big ten city and they're trying to move them
literally to an indoor thing. And somehow this activist who is not a migrant,
she is one hundred percent every granola white liberal hates her, you know,
self loathing Moon Bad, activist Moonbad, who has stuck her nose in
this and she has, she said, caused a little bit of a hitch
owing. By the way, at the at the camp, they're flying Palestinian
flags. And you'll understand why here in a moment, here is the audio
from yesterday. Let this sink in the camp as a collective came up with
a list of demands. By the way, I will let me explain something
to you. If you're a migrant that just walked two thousand miles, you
don't do it. And then quote form a collective, right you don't you
you don't speak in language. Well, it is a collective. It's a
community. No no, no, no, no no no, because where
you just see where they're going, this is, this is She should have
used the word commune. Okay, but anyway, since you now essentially hijacked
this thing, I'll allow you to continue. That came after a petition by
city officials for migrants to move from this encampment near train tracks under a bridge
to indoor shelters funded by the city. This morning, they sent buses to
take people over without presenting that document and without having any kind of signature for
accountability that So, so I want to I want you to understand what happened
there. So she walked in there said I'm your savior, and they want
to move you from your raggedy ass tents out here in the Rocky Mountains camping
outside in Maine. As I pointed out, as somebody grew up in the
Rocky Mountains, there could be five feet of snow tomorrow there. It's we
get snow into May. Looking up. Denver just had a bad May snowstorm
last year. So when you have a bunch of kids, you have a
bunch of people living there, an you couple it with you. I promise
you you ain't done with easing tempts in Denver before they hit summer. There'll
be one or two more nights of that. It just it's the elevation.
There's nothing you could do about it. And so the city, even with
all that insanity, has indoor temperature controlled places, and you have convinced them
that they should not go to that place unless your list of demands is met.
I mean, I'm gonna make fun of her a little more. But
then we got to talk about the serious side of this. Migrant advocate V
Reeves says, the city, by the way, your name is not just
the letter V, or maybe it is. I don't know. There's some
weirdos in Colorado responded with, instead of meeting the migrants' demands, we've been
offering time in shelter, basically, just trying to get families to leave that
camp and come inside. John Ewing, all right, hang on, and
you know what this is. In the similarities to what's going on in campus
or not. There's you don't have nobody nobody walked to that camp from Guatemala
with a Palestinian flag. I was just thinking that, right, this is
another symptom of like a crazy white progressive woman who's making something even worse.
Right, he said, you're not gonna drag your your your family through the
desert, right? Risk that or like being smuggled by a coyote where you
don't know if they're gonna murder you when you're done or leave you for dead,
and you get to where you're supposed to go and then you hang up
a Palestinian flag. That never happened. That's ridiculous. They don't they don't
care about Palestine. I'm sorry to tell you. They don't think. You
don't think that that woman with the three kids that you see in the opening,
they're the little little kids, right. I think they have more important
matters at Hay and then the than the freedom of a fictional state called Palestine.
I don't think that that ever happened. All they had to do was
sign and they would stop harming these people. And it's the same attitude,
you know what, it is, same attitude with a hunger strike check right,
She's like, oh my gosh, I'm gonna die from starvation if only
they would just acquiesce to what I want. And everyone is like, I
don't know what you eat something. Also, I don't think you're starving.
But that how insane is that I'm going to keep poking myself with this knife
ross unless you agree to these ten things and there's no deviation. Why why
must you keep me getting poked with a knife? And a are you doing
it? And once again, right, I'm the guy in the meme standing
up in the meeting saying I don't care. Yeah, have fun, stab
on yourself, buddy. Yeah, well in this here's why I slightly care
here and you know, don't call scream with the parents made this say I
understand it, but it is what it is right now and as again as
somebody who my birthday, I'm not gonna tell you what it is, but
is in the month of May, I would have snow. We'd have snow
on our property, at least a portion of the property most years. Now
this is a little lower, but still, and you have kids and you've
convinced them not to get on a bus to go someplace where the city has
already carved out millions of dollars to at least heat cool and feed them,
if only for the kids, and you you have convinced them otherwise you realize
somebody literally could die of exposure. And I don't mean that as a joke.
It is. It is one of the ways that when you get into
a cold weather climate, but more specifically into a climate like in the mountains
where you don't have as much humidity, and it becomes harder to tell the
temperature differential the number of people who will dive from exposure because they miscalculate what
it is that they have to do. It's a thing, okay, and
you're making it more likely you lun it to Denver. Human Services says shelter
comes with its perks, namely getting out of these conditions outdoors, which comes
with you know, three square meals a day. You can cook your own
if you'd like to. That is one of the main demands by these migrants
who have had their grievances in the past about the food provided by the city.
There have been so many complaints about the food being spoiled or not being
enough, and malnutrition amongst children. Migrants who do stay in shelters are off
can put on a path toward a work permit. By the way, I
have to pause this because I hear the same the same argument, they're giving
them spoiled food. They're giving them spoil food. No, you're being provided
food. You're being provided food for that is beyond a best by date.
And uh if if you think that anyone or best is their best fresh date,
right, not the it's bad, but there and there is a window
there, and I'll see these these activists like, oh, they gave us
rotten food. And it's like the food hill, the fresh the fresh by
date on it says May fifth, and you have it less than a week
late. It's fine. And I don't know, if you're sitting down,
why don't you ask military folk about that. I think they have some thoughts
on that fresh by date. I feel like they're not being tortured. But
yeah, this lunatic could kill somebody. All right, we'll be back thought
exercise for you, and uh let's start here. Raise your hand. You
can just I don't assume you did, uh if back in your day and
back in my day, but back in your day, things were a little
looser when it came to what children could actually do, right, Like I
I'm people raise their kids. You're not, you know, sticking them with
a fire poker. It's that's fine, do your thing. But but like
I know people whose kids aren't allowed to even walk around the neighborhood that will
be driving in a few years, well maybe not quite a few years.
How old is the one is the eight they don't live they don't live here,
so and he never listens, but like they're eight year old is not
allowed to like walk around their neighborhood. And let me tell you, the
neighborhood they live in is gated. Well, I don't know, man,
I was in the woods at eight. When I was twelve, me and
my buddies could go camping in the woods. And I don't mean a little
patch of woods behind the house right where you can kind of if you get
up on the second floor you kind of see what they're still up to.
I mean, like we'd walk past the trail heads into a place to go
camping at twelve. It's become like a gen X meme, right that we
have we had more freedom. Obviously we're from different parts of the country,
right, so you'd have the outdoors. We had like a similar thing where
we would just get a dangerous place. Yeah. No, we would just
get in our bikes and I'm going to be back, and you'd be like,
all right, we'll get back, you know, be back by dinner
or whatever. And I remember like walking home from school there was a big
abandoned factory that was like half on this half. It took up like half
the block. It was this ginormous, big decrepit like factory. And we
would go like squeeze ourselves through the chain link fence with the barbed wire on
top to take a shortcut to get home through the old apended factory like an
old like you know what I mean, it's like didn't even think about it.
And now we'll be we'll be driving along and we'll see kids like probably
around that age eight, nine, ten, maybe early teens, walking by
themselves and you know, be like, oh my god, where their parents
can't believe they're walking out by themselves. It's it's wild. So with that
in mind, this grandfather who is is is gonna get charged because he made
a decision and it is definitely one that's probably not gonna fly today. But
what's the guy to do. So Grandpa's with his grandkid who's seven, and
he needed a little break, right. Apparently, me ma wasn't there to
hand the kid off too, so he hired a babysitter and was arrested for
hiring a babysitter so he could go drink at the bar for four hours.
For hiring babysitter, he got arrested. Now, now, if I'm telling
you this story, you're going, what else is there? And there's one
small other little thing about who the babysitter is. No, the babysitter is
not an eight year old, right, that's what you thought was coming.
The babysitter in this case is very much an adult and also is a random
homeless woman that he encountered while walking to the bar and paid twenty dollars to
watch his kid for his grandkid. Now, is it like a completely new
homeless person, Like you're going to the bar and you're like, I've never
seen this homeless person before. Are you familiar with the homeless person? Okay,
all right, so they're a different debate That is a up that is
debated because she claims they don't really know each other. He says they do,
and when she says not really, I don't know what that means.
So there's a you know, there's a weird, mushy middle there, right,
because there's different sorts of homeless people. Right. There's kind that you're
like, I'm not turning my back on you because you could possibly stab me.
You look crazy, stop asking me for bus money. And then there's
like, oh, there's Bob that I see every Friday, you know,
silent Bob. I don't know, at the corner of the drug store or
whatever or the gas station. Right, which one is his homeless vets signed?
I kind of sounds like the second one, it sounds like they didn't
nothing wrong. Well, but did he know that she wasn't a lunatic who
was going to stab his grandkid with a needle or something like? That's what
I think. That's where the police are hung up on. But like he
like, every option is a loser for him. Yeah, you don't get
a sitter, You're going to prison. Get a sitter, you're going to
prison. And I know what you're saying, Like, there's what you're you're
leaving one out and you're right, Yeah, you can't take the kid to
the bar either, right, I mean some bars you can if their bar
restaurants. But if he needs a break, dead it, you know,
grandpa needs a break and uh, you know it's like a homeless person then
took the kid to a bum fight. Although that would be amazing probably if
your seven year old boy. Instead, she actually was given instructions. So
the woman confirmed that the grandfather paid her twenty dollars to watch the girl and
then gave her some another twenty dollars to take the girl to the thrift store
to go shopping. Oh so it's a I'm sorry granddaughter. Still, she
probably wants to watch a bum fight. So also, it doesn't sound like
grandma's around, and if she is, he's gonna be dead anyway when he
gets home. It doesn't sund like she is. Maybe he just wanted his
granddaughter. Look is the great Is your grandfather the best person to take a
young woman shopping for clothes and stuff? Probably not if you want to be
fashionableague walking out there with some dung grees or whatever. Yeah, like that
does that work? Does it cover? All? Right? It's sold?
So you know he's seeking out maybe an influence that he's not able to impart.
See, my dad had a loophole. He would take me to the
VFW when he wanted to drink. Yeah, but he earned that right by
fighting in a foreign war. Yeah, it's loophole there. That's a benefit
wright. It's a benefit of serving is you can go drink with your child
at the VFW. We had a good time, man. We would play
pool and stuff. It was super fun. Yes, yeah, absolutely,
man. And it's not like he took you to Tommy wa was or Jimmy
watscuse me to Jimmy Jimmy. Yeah, to the best best beer in Vietnam.
Really, your dad took you there. You know what The secret is
a little bit of formaldehyde, just a little bit. It's like it's a
humid, tropic environment. So you gotta you gotta do things different, all
right. So the uh, yeah, the down to the how much does
Yeah? So, by the way, he's also being held on seventy five
thousand dollars bond in Sacramento, if California. And you got seventy five thousand
dollars bond. No, that can't it's gotta be. It's gonna be a
Sacramento No, it is Sacramento. How did you actually end up with a
bond in California? And uh, yeah, let's see the Okay, the
child's aunt has full custody of the girl, but she but had asked Warren
to watch her that day because she had to work. So yeah, that
that is her one female. But it doesn't sound like anybody else is in
the picture. Uh. War until Fox Well, he didn't really know her.
He was confident she could take care of his granddaughter just the in the
interactions they had, so again it sounds like they've seen each other and all
that. But also, let me let me ask you this. All right,
I don't have kids, but if I had, let's hand, like
a seven year od, let's have a seven year old boy or a four
year old boy or any young boy who's louder than a jackhammer? How is
the do you guys know the screaming dude on Wilmington Street at Harget kind of
by where Raleigh Times is and uh, tazz is that well if you don't
just downtown there and near the bus depot where all good things happen. Uh
and and by the way that goes for Raleigh, it goes for Durham I
think somebody was just shot at the bus depot yesterday. Uh, the one
in Winston Salem downtown. That one's a little creepy like so, by the
way, I'm starting to sense a trend on bus depots. But with that
being said, there's a screamer. There's a dude who just screams at people
down there. Not always, but a lot of times. He who better
to watch a five year old rambunctious boy. All they do is scream.
Now he screams. You don't want your five year old screaming with this dude
does. But still there they're gonna there's gonna have be some crossover. They're
gonna have some similarities. But it comes down to right, it's a different
in the homeless people, like for another Robin Williams reference. Right, not
not all homeless people are the Fisher king right, right, You've got if
it depends on who the homeless person was, yes, but yeah, to
your point, I mean, if you just want someone to scream with,
sure, why not. I'm just saying there's gonna be There's gonna be some
crossover there. You just don't want him picking up on the words, especially
if it's a hot hot younger woman who walks by the stuff. I've heard
him scream, but somehow he uh, he remains out there. So weird,
because I promise if I was screaming that at co Ed's in downtown,
right, well, it wouldn't go well for me unless I found the one
and she's like, oh, yeah, that's amazing, tell me more.
No the uh Usually they just kind of start walking faster when this dude's around
because he's really creepy. Oh, I haven't seen him for a while.
That's a few times I was down there. But if I want to go
spend four hours in Raleigh Times drinking nine dollars tap beer, and I can
get a deal on a babysitter for twenty bucks. Like now the math starts
math, and you know what I'm saying, all right, seven seventeen,
We'll be right back. All right, what's your beef? What you know?
You don't know anything about that woman, and you have to ask,
all right, mister serious, I understand what you're saying right that there's a
higher propensity for people who are homeless to be dealing with substance abuse issues mental
health issues. One hundred percent agreed. I got all that that being said,
like a whole movie trope is hobo with a heart of gold, right
or that kind of thing, and right, that always goes well in the
movies. I'm not saying that the movies are real life, but it's just
weird that like society like let me give you a like let me get let
me throw this out, and it's not a homelessly but it's similar. I
have a strong suspicion if you were to go to the bad part of New
York City or back in the Times Square days when you know it was very
open there. But if you go to the bad part of the city,
there's no street walkers that look like Julia Roberts at twenty two. Okay,
I'm just I don't know. I don't live in New York City, but
I have a strong suspicion that's not who you're encountering. They're like the like
the day workers at Hooters plus syphilis from twenty years twenty years ago, right,
yeah, twenty years than the Yeah. Yeah, it's not Julia Roberts,
right, it's it's different. It's gonna look a little different when you
get out there, and uh and so, but that doesn't mean that the
you know one's gonna get murder, You're gonna get murdered. I guess I'm
done encouraging to go pick up street walkers in New York. But it was
how popular was that movie? What's a real life version the guy the guy
with the Voice? Right? Uh? Yeah, the Man with the Golden
Voice, the radio guy on the side of the road. Yeah. It
seems like a nice enough dude. But unfortunately, you know, I don't
know if he recovered, but I remember there was like a relapse or a
problem or something, right, Yeah, because there has to be issues there
to begin with, right, he had like substance abuse. So then you
get up giving a guy a ton of money, and this is going to
repeat itself, but on a greater scale, because it's way I mean,
sometimes she's psychic. How do you know if you give an addict money that
it's not going to go work. I mean, sometimes sure, people are
just really there because of bad luck or something didn't go their way. But
a lot of times, and we've mentioned this before in the show, there's
previous addictions or there's mental illness, and it's if you give somebody a ton
of money or a brand new house. Yeah. See, oh it's gonna
look in a month's time. The house things make me laugh. I've told
you this off the air, I'll say it on the air because I think
it's hilarious. So years ago, years ago, on a Buddy's radio show,
we can cut a guy this is yeah, the guy by the way,
this guy who sat around smoking the hallucinogenics or writing that speech and then
crashing and burning at Ohio State right, and he was bemoaning like, ah,
this is how Lenin did it. This was his process. You have
to inherently have some talent there. And I'm gonna be a little self bragging
here. When real radio guys and professionals and people in the entertainment business sit
down and you know, put something together, even on occasion where people are
consuming a little too much alcohol, sometimes it does work. So we're sitting
around and like, do this bit where I am this moon bat calling in
on the show. Well, April Fool's action. And I'm telling an audience
in Texas, in Texas that once you are thoroughly annoyed with my character,
who would just call in And it was just it was like the the the
Biden White House Twitter account right, just the incessant troll on, but it
was packaged into too this this thing. I then proceeded to tell the audience
when I when the host was asking, you know about my charity, but
at a charity that the charity was, I would I worked with the homeless,
and I would go get the homeless, and then I had I would
buy these houses that were fixer uppers, and then I would let him live
in the house while they renoed it for me, and then I would flip
it for a profit. I mean, that's a great deal. People lost
their crap, dude, So you're flip it houses with free labor, free
hob No, no, it's not free. You're giving them a place to
live. And I made this far. I made this argument to outrage people.
I said, look, if you hire a guy who doesn't live in
that house to come in and rip out all the asbestos without safety equipment,
or you get a guy off the street who's got nowhere else to go and
he lives in the house, who's going to take more pride in ripping out
all the asbestos at San Francisco and still continue with this The commitment is overwhelming.
I know that there are a lot of people that are fed up there
and they'll stick it out, but at least they've voiced concern. Do you
remember the one of the TV stations in New York a few months ago,
they basically were out filming a turnstile at a subway and you literally like every
third person just hopped it or they did the thing where they grant they caught
it when the person in front of them went so it didn't have a chance
to lock, and then they would kind of flip it back so they could
go through. And uh, the TV station ended up apologizing for filming in
public people committing crimes. They apologized for it because activists lost their crap.
Those people people are probably going to work, and it's like, oh,
maybe I don't think those dudes work. I'm just saying because like it's they're
drunk, they're falling around, they're in a group together and they all don't
want to pay and but so so anyway, that video was just that was
stupid. But California, they said hold my whites in here we go.
Here's the headline of the regular normal story that most people will hear, and
it says target thief arrested after over one hundred and twenty visits to the store
and sixty thousand dollars an items stolen. This is at one store and they're
mad at ABC seven in the Bay Area as well as law enforcement and prosecutors
for arresting this woman, because again, you go steal whatever you want,
you just you just need it for bread. Did you see it San Francisco
or Nos Nah, maybe it was Sacramento, Oakley, it was in the
Bay Area. It was you know, it was in the Bay Area.
It was Oakland or San Francisco. They there's there's the theft ring is so
big. They just raided a warehouse and it was full of nothing but stolen
stuff from like CVS and Target and Walmart and everything just full. And they
have open air farmers' markets that some of the locals were pre to as felons
markets. Uh, where you go and the reason you grab stuff? Like
you're going why are they stealing big things of tide detergent. When's the last
time you bought the big sized tide detergent? What does that cost? I
just bought one a couple of trips ago. Every time, Like, ah,
what, I don't want to smell bads. So we'll do this.
Well, you get that stuff, load up a cart full of it,
and then you go down to one of these open air markets and rather than
you're the dude selling Fuji apples, you're the guy selling detergent. And then
people who are because it's such an ungodly expensive place to live, people who
want to save, they go to these markets and the police store where they
are. But people are upset shaming this woman who stole sixty thousand dollars in
merch from one Target store, and you have to understand how businesses have adapted.
That is irritating Gavin Newsom and others, and it's not getting talked about
in another story that we had this week. So if you're a business,
all right, so you're Ross is what was your horse meat company? We'll
go with that one. I can't remember it was. It didn't sound good,
but anyway, Yeah, it's a Ross's post apocalyptic horse meat outlet store.
Okay, you're the Ross's post apocalyptic horse meat outlet store. Okay,
all right, so you're doing that. You're in California and every day here
comes people just walk in the brazenly grab a bunch of your horse meat and
the stone you're in California for the sex or so okay, yeah, all
right, then I look at them with the stink guy and they shake my
finger. How dare you? Yeah? And then probably not because then you're
then you're man's plaining if it's a female robber or you know what I'm saying,
So like, be careful, you don't want to get canceled. So
anyway, so let's say, uh, they steal uh, and it keeps
stealing nine hundred dollars worth of horse meat because they realize that they jack that
that that that threshold up to get into felony land or even to get police
to respond, and that that dirt bag horse meat thief, he knows what's
up. And so everyone's playing that game. So what did business owners do?
They got smart and loss prevention. Poul sees at many stores in California
adapted accordingly. And here's now what they do. And a lot of them
they watch you steal stuff. They may kind of stand there and you know,
I try to shame you, but most people don't have much shame.
And eventually you go strolling out and while the reason they're watching and they've upgraded
cameras and even they're using in some cases scan technology, you know like Amazon
uses for their stores. You just kind of push the card through some of
the stores in San Francisco because it is a tech hub, so why not.
And so they are. What they're doing is they're documenting a they're putting
a full a file together on you. And that's what these stores are doing.
They put a file. And the reason they put a file on you
is because eventually that number will be over nine hundred. So if you steal,
if you go in and you steal one hundred bucks a week, they'll
let you steal for ten weeks, maybe eleven, and then they're gonna get
the police involved, and that has activists upset. And then they got really
upset with this woman. Well, if Target didn't want her to steal sixty
thousand dollars worth of birch and then they let her keep doing it, that's
entrapmant, which is bonkers if you understand how entrapment works. And they're mad
not at this woman for stealing sixty thousand dollars from a single store. They're
mad at Target, They're mad at authorities, they're mad at the ABC station
for doing a story about it, and they're mad at how store owners have
adapted out. They're going, fine, I can't call you for the one
time, or you come back and the numbers add up. Now you're gonna
get a felony, or at least I'm gonna attempt to. But entrapment would
be if the target manager met her at the front and it's like, hey,
you know what, you don't really have to pay for any of this
stuff? Yeah, oh, you're fine, grab whatever you want. Do
you see supermarkets do it like that? And then when she runs out,
go hey, stop thief. That might be although it wouldn't even because they're
not a government official. It's all dumb, but you can't, you know,
like and then people are like, well, if they didn't want her
stealing white, didn't they put it in a lockcase? Have you been into
one of the really lockdown stores. I don't know that there's any around that
I've seen in North Carolina to the extent to the one I went to in
DC. So the last time I did that radio broadcast up there, I
went down. I walked down to the if you know where the Chinatown area
is, and they have you know, the Walgreens cvs over there, and
I walked into the sev or I walked into the Walgreens. First, the
cvs. They didn't have the thing I wanted, But I walked in there
and the entire store and this is the one that's kind of not on the
good end of that side. The entire store was either empty shelves with pictures
or actual things locked in cases. The whole store. The drink fridge at
checkout was locked. You know that little one they have right there. So
if you're like, I kind of do want to coke or whatever, that
was locked. That's terrible And so you're bad that they didn't do that.
You all are insane. So yeah, but sixty thousand dollars, man um,
and they and the way they actually got mad is they then they followed.
The news crew followed to figure out what she was doing with it,
and she was she would just go and as I just pointed out, she
would go to these markets and just sell the stuff. That's a pretty good
haul. And I don't know if you saw this in California, Gavin Newsom
and crew are are demanding that these retailers get rid of the the self checkout
I get annoyed by self checkouts sometimes. I think if I have one item,
I kind of don't mind them, but they are that is where in
this case, that's how she was stealing people manipulating it. And the analysis
that I see as people saying, well, they want to get rid of
it because they're trying to pump up the you know, minimum wage jobs.
Okay, well yeah, because it's a bad rea. You don't like the
look of what's happening with your twenty dollars an hour thing, right, it
doesn't look good for you because people are literally closing places. But no,
what you're telling people is you have you can't do this because people committing keep
committing crimes against you that we will not police or enforce. You are the
problem with your self checkout. If that stuff is crazy and nobody's calling them
on this garbage outside of it, I mean, I'm happy to everybody can
see what's going on there, and there are legitimate self checkout concerns. Do
you know how your kids get boozed at these stores? You know how?
You know how it works? I didn't. Kids are smart, man.
I remember they put a firewall in when we first got internet at my school,
and we were or you know, essentially like a parrot monitor. We
had that thing beaten like a day. So it goes like this. They
make give you an example, are the Palmers, the Arnie Palmer and the
can right, they make an alcoholic version and a non alcoholic version, you
know, lemonade and tea. And so what the kids will do is they'll
grab like a couple of the non alcoholics and then a couple of the alcoholics
and the cans, if from a distance, look pretty similar, and they'll
just scan. They'll scan, you know, buy the Like they bought four
non alcoholics and then they ended up buying two alcoholics. Okay, that's it.
Look I obviously if that's something you got to get a handle on,
but this is not. It sixty thousand dollars and the problem is the store
is absolutely amazing. Race stage from the Weather Channel. How you doing,
man, I'm doing all right. Happy Friday. Yeah, everything's everything's culminating
this week with just here insanity and I haven't even got to the stormy Daniel's
testimony. So yeah, well you got a busy day, so we'll get
right to it. Not much left here, not as busy as it's ben
certainly did get officially two E f ones reported in Gaston County from yesterday or
day before. Let's see, yes, I think this was yesterday, No
day before? Sorry, yeah one and damage there wouldn't speed decimated at one
ten For busy week, over a thousand severe thunderstorm warnings issued across the nation.
Incredible amount of severe weather. Now that's moving into the Panhandle of Florida.
We still may get a shower thunderstorm today. There is a chance of
some severe storms that it looks like it's gonna be east of the triangle for
the most part, and then it's over with. We actually get some sun
today with the clouds and some late showers thunderstorms, low eighties over the weekend.
Here's the payoff twenty of sunshine around mid upper seventies for daytime highs,
lows in the fifties to the west and especially into the mountains, some by
sea temperatures in the forties. One more sunny day early next week, and
then middle of next week starting about Tuesday, looks like it gets a little
bit unsettled once again. All right, thank you very much, sir.
We'll talk in an hour. I go raced agic from the Weather Channel.
You're like, how do you steal sixty thousand? I don't know if you
shopped lately? What is that? Three trips now? Because her stuff dates
back over a year when she started. Yeah, you go into Target,
I get I could blow sixty k at Target in a lot less than one
hundred visits. Come on, man, everything's crazy expending. Even if you
bought nothing but children's trans tuck bathing suits. I think you could rack that
number up pretty quick. Think about that and we'll be back. Boy,
oh boy. If you're not, you're not paying attention to the Trump trial
up in New York, which, by the way, I now I'm not
convinced yet, but I'm now holding open the possibility that rather than a communist
style dictatorship political opponent attack, it's that Trump. This is a big pr
thing that Trump did because it's working in that direction. So they had Daniels
testify yesterday and then testified on Tuesday as well. Wednesday a little break there,
so, and so Tuesday you had the prosecutor setting it out, and
that went remarkably horribly because following the testimony, it was clear that she was
not able to connect Trump to any knowledge of the payment, which is the
reason you put her up there. And so it was then the defense Trump's
lawyer's turn yesterday. And you have to understand it. On the first day,
while they did talk about communications, and they played some audio of some
a Coen phone call and a few other things to kind of bolster, and
then they tried to explain that letter that was signed saying nothing happened. They
spent the majority of it deep diving the most salacious stuff you've ever heard in
a trial having to do with probably a politician, let alone him. And
it was stuff like I can't even get into all of it, but it
was. It was things like a detailed walkthrough of an encounter which culminated with
him bringing out a magazine with his face on it. This was, by
the way, I remember this from when this all started. I remember Avingnati
peddling this, but like a detailed descript of that with how he then used
it as a paddle. If you're catching what I'm putting down there, okay,
right, And it was they talked about I can't even tell you some
of the stuff they talked about, But it wasn't like they just wandered into
the silacious with the defense, except it seems that MSNBC and others. I
guess maybe they missed the Tuesday testimony because they were very upset. This lady
is not happy. By the way, Who's that standing next to the reporter?
Is that a transitioned Spangler? What is going on there? Man?
That looks like that? Looks like Spangler from Ghostbusters? Ramis Ramis's character and
Art Garfunkel had a kid. But I don't know. It's not saying anything,
so I don't know. So the reporter this is her hot take.
Just wait for it. Well, as I remind our viewers all the time,
Chris and Andrea, I saw through two Eging Carroll trials and two cross
examinations of Eging Carroll, and I have to tell you I agree with Sue
wholeheartedly. This was very much what I'd call a nuts and sluts defense.
There was a portion of the cross examination where Susan Necklace was focused on the
fact that Stormy Daniels now claims that she is a medium and that she communicates
with dead people and has participated in a tv TV series about the paranormal where
she explores things including the fact that at one point an ex boyfriend of hers
was inhabited by spirits. She was mocking Stormy Daniels. She wants the jury
to think Stormy Daniels is a liar and she is crazy. Ah man,
why would they think that? Why would they? And this she used to
term the Nuts and Sluts defense, which, by the way, isn't that
a movie series? And well whatever? PCODA Radio program phone number eight eight
eight nine three four seven eight seven four keeps it at the red because we're
going to bang through a few stories with our Friday guest, Pete Calendar Midday's
WBT in Charlotte, joining us, Pete, how are you doing this morning?
I am doing all right? How are you doing this morning? Good?
Do you want to do? You want to do a little exercise where
we get started into the real stuff. Little thought, little thought thing?
Okay, yeah, sure, all right. Let's say that, Pete.
Let's say the one of the lotteries goes to a billion and you're the ticket
holder. What's the first insanely stupid but justifiable considering your new found wealth purchase
you make? What's that os Ross is gonna have his buddy's house, Bulldoze
as a joke. So that's cool. Yeah, yeah, what are you
spending that money on? Because remember, once you're in that billionaire class,
it's not about just the cost of everything. It's also about like, you
got to have something the other dude doesn't, right, little showy, that's
kind of how these cats are. So what as you enter that world,
what's your first send a message? Purchase an island? Isn't that ace?
Is that overdone a little? I mean a little. Oh yeah, I
don't care. I mean I would want my own island, and you would
like never hear or see me again. Okay, all right, I went
a different direction. In fact, I mine is a little more cost efficient.
I suppose you can get an island for you know, the less than
the price of a house. But when you're talking, but right, that's
the thing about the island, and everybody misses this point is that, uh,
it's not the initial purchase of the island. It's the maintenance and upkeep.
That's what gets you. You know, you got to get your own
power out there, you got to have your own internet, you know,
food sources and all of that stuff. And then you get a temple.
If you put a temple on the south side of you. You could do
that, Sure, you could do that. You also have to have security
because somebody would probably want to come over onto the island and you know,
they take a boat over, ye would escape. Yeah, okay, we
have a different idea of what the island's purpose. Oh, I thought you
were shopping in the Virgin Islands. So that's no, I'm not trying to
know. I'm not trying to get an island in order to run a honey
trapped extortion thing. I'm getting an island, right, I would get an
island, so like I would, I would get it so this way I
could be await By the way, this also it's not just what happens if
I get a winning lottery ticket. This plan also is applicable if somebody wants
to just give me a billion dollars or so in order to get me to
go away. I'm willing to I'm willing to entertain that offer as well.
The lottery. The ultimate Heckler's veto exactly right, right, Okay, well,
you know I mean, you know me, I'm a giver, and
so I'm giving this as a potential escape route for people who don't want to
see me on Twitter anymore. They don't want to, you know, have
to engage with me on the issues in North Carolina politics. And this is
the way that they can get rid of me. Okay, all right,
well I'm sorry. I agree. That's your dream. Here's mine. You're
ready, yeah, yeah, okay. I would spend I would buy.
What I would buy is I would get a famous porn star in sworn testimony
to say that I am so so good at that one thing, that a
porn star testified that I am so good at it that I did that to
her to the point that she became exhausted and passed out. And that would
be in an official sworn piece of testimony. Because you can't buy that for
one hundred and thirty thousand, you can, but that would be that's something
right there. And and by the way, if I'm that dude, and
then I let's say I have to go negotiate with some you know, a
despot dictator in machete stand you think that dude in a world run, as
a friend of mine says, a world run by a money, hot chicks
and brute force, that that that thug dictator isn't that's the kind of stuff
that registers with them. This man is prowess is legendary, right, So
uh yeah, because now I'm a state now I'm thinking this New York trial
might be a Trump funded PR stunt because you can't you can't buy that man.
That's amazing. Right. Well, and by the way, what is
the deal with the like? Wasn't this one of the pieces of information that
came out against Matt lower as well? Right? Didn't that same thing when
Matt Lawra was accused of having the secret button under the button? I defended
the button because it I don't know how you thought about this. Immediately,
I said, I'll bet with you know, because we're we're in this era
of people, you know, crazy people, and having a panic button is
not a thing that is unusual. And I have literally seen it in dressing
rooms, uh you know, in like concert venues will have these. So
the idea that there would be a lockdown button and and like that for a
high profile talent maybe, I guess maybe because they pointed out that that is
a security system that's on offices in NBC. But yeah, the other stuff
was garbage. I seem to remember. Well, okay, so the button
thing aside Yeah, there was. There was one of the details about uh,
the victim's testimony or the story, was that that she had she had
passed out as well. Well, I don't know, yeah, what is
Yeah, Like, I don't this one's a porn star, and I feel
like that's the higher bar. I think she just had low blood sugar or
something. She shot a scene with sixty five people or something. I can't
remember what the number was, right, I don't. I do not know
that that you have exhausted my knowledge of his career. Dude, watching watching,
even the judge said he watched a bunch of a movie. It was
so dude, everything was so weird in this transcript, So on Tuesday,
all most of the big salacious stuff came out on Tuesday at the Behestan prosecutor,
Right, And I didn't see anything where they show that she was able
to connect Trump to this in any way, shape or formance. No,
her testimony is completely irrelevant. Nobody is contesting. Yeah, No, one
is contesting the two key facts here, which is at the heart of this
case, right, which is that there was an NDA, there was a
non disclosure agreement, and that she was paid. That's it. That's the
only reason to put her on the stand, except, of course, if
you want to humiliate Donald Trump, which is what the judge obviously wanted to
do. So he has her go up there testify about all the salacious details.
And then of course, after the defense has objected, they've objected to
the like her being on the stand at all, they said, just standing
objection to all of this. And then when Stormy Daniels is done, they
go to lunch or whatever or it's the end of the day, and the
judge then says that, you know what, I may have to instruct the
jury like after the trial is over, and he goes to deliberate, like
I might have to tell them to like ignore all of that testimony because yeah,
it might be prejudicial or whatever. And the defenses like, are you
You've got to be kidding me. We objected to this from the beginning,
and the judge says something on the order of, well, you know,
you should have objected more during the questioning. So they have an objection to
the entire thing. So on Tuesday, well, so Tuesday was prosecutor day
and then they didn't they didn't do Wednesday, and then yesterday was defense and
you're right, that literally that Donald Trump was instructed that he could be in
violation for shaking his head at one point. And then and then after all
of the salaciousness, the talking about Donald Trump's nude body, him spanking or
with magazine, I mean, all of this stuff, half of which I
can't even get into on the air. It gets far worse in in what
they're they're talking about human toilets. Just you don't google that, okay,
but that's in there. No, and then this fetish that they keep ascribing
to this guy because he denies all of this, But what is the deal
with the bathroom and the sex being like, I don't know that yes,
that these stories have I don't know. So so anyway, so cross examples
on Tuesday, all of this stuff came out, so the defense they leaned
into it. There's no question. Did you hear the outrage by MSNBC following
are you ready? Are you ready? All right? There are here we
go? You know, as I remind our viewers all the time, Chris
and Andrea, I sat through two Eging Carroll trials and two cross examinations of
aging Carroll, and I have to tell you I agree with Sue wholeheartedly.
This was very much what I call a nuts and Sluts defense was which,
by the way, I don't know if you know that that was her first
movie. Anyway, I'm sorry. Let me continue the thing here. Portion
of the cross examination where Susan Necklace was focused on the fact that Stormy Daniels
now claims that she is a medium and that she communicates with Ded pue.
Bolln has participated in a TV Store TV series about the paranormal, where she
most things, including the fact that at one point an next boyfriend of hers
was inhabited by spirits. She was mocking Stormy Daniels. She wants the jury
to think Stormy Daniels is a liar and she is crazy. Two things I
love. And then what your reaction? One I love that, I love
that whole term there, and her inability to recognize what just happened two days
before that when the prosecutor was having Stormy testify about fecal color. Okay,
and and yet she the part where she said she sat through the Egene Carroll
trial, you know, the rapist, sexy, crazy lady. At some
point, do you start to notice a pattern if you are in fact a
reporter and I do you feel that maybe she's missed a pattern here? Yeah,
definitely, okay, Yeah, And maybe it's a blind spot, which
is why you want to have you know, ideological and philosophical diversity in your
news operations, because you might have a blind spot for something like that that
somebody else sitting next to you might turn to you and say, hey,
have you noticed there might be some common thread here among these two users?
Right, they do sound very similar in some of their uh their they are
more wacky ideas. Look, everybody's got wacky ideas. This is why I
say unchallenged ideas are easy to hold. People have wacky ideas and then they
don't say them out loud because they either recognize the wackiness of it they don't
want to be mocked or shunned. But then other people when they do say
them out loud, they're just surrounded by other people with the same wacky idea
and they're like, oh, that's totally true, that's totally correct. And
this is how you end up with, you know, the todd ake and
legitimate rape comment that tanked his his candidacy for US Senate. You say these
stupid things and then people outside of your wacky circle, they're like, oh
my gosh, you're insane. I'm not a witch, right, Christine O'Donnell.
These types of uh yeah, these types of ideas, And so in
her I'm sure Stormy Daniel's world when she's talking to the dead and all of
the people around her are like, oh, yes, that's that's very very
avant garde. Oh my gosh, like, wow, you're you're a medium
and stuff, and like this is the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills kind of
stuff where people just kind of go along with this stuff, and you got
to wonder are they getting, Like are they getting something for being around Stormy?
Like money, fame, something or other to not push back on these
wacky ideas You but you've been in a riot, We've doing what we do.
You've been in a room, even if it's your studio, right and
you've got a few guests in in there, and at some point while you're
talking to him, especially if there's a huge political ideological divide, you're like,
is this really happening? Do they mean what they're saying? Is that
what's going on? And by the way, just because we've got to move
this along It's funny that you mentioned blind spot. I'm beginning to think the
Asheville City Council might have a blind spot. This was hee was afternoons in
Asheville before we went to Charlotte. Because none of this sounds legal, let
me play the cut. We do have a black business hub that's going to
be dedicated to entrepreneurs. That black business hub is going to be three stories
high. All right, This is the explanation like the Reparations Committee of Ashville's
ideas and recommendations, So that would be a government funded building that isn't allowed,
is only utilized based on racial stuff, which, by the way,
I don't know if you know this, Pete. Here in the South,
they used to have a few of these buildings where depending on what race you
are, you really couldn't use it. Ye heard it, and also Democrats
did that. So let me let me continue with the recommendation that we've learned
the project so far hasn't broken ground. The second recommendation is a Reparations Guaranteed
Income Pilot Program document state Ashville would join other cities, including Durham, to
provide direct payments for low income individuals. The County Attorney express concerns this could
pose some challenges, as written that the problem would be public funding. Dee
Williams said the program could be more focused, specifically targeted towards folks like ex
offenders people. I just I can't with this woman. I have a question.
They just put the ayahuasca in the water supply of Asheville or they have
to procure it on their own. You know, you know that's that's real
fine coming from you up in the Durham area. There, you guys in
Durham are already doing this, just as in Durham. Roster, are you
sitting in Durham right now, your closer? No, No, nobody's sitting
in Durham right now. Cloth. I'm sorry, it's all Raleigh, Durham
to me, I've never lived in Durham. I believe you. I've been
to your house in Asheville, so busted. Remember I picked you up.
I meant to beat you there before I met you and your wife for your
girl for beers. Remember that was an apartment that was in a part man
whatever. So seriously, if you're an ass, why do they have to
San Francisco was a beautiful city. Asheville is gorgeous. I love the mountains
of North Carolina. Yeah, and and yeah, why they got to ruin
all this stuff? They're insane, man, absolutely, Yeah. Well that's
what all fols do. I mean, that is what aw fuls do,
the affluent white female liberals. This is what they do. And this is
you know, their attempt to virtue signal and to uh, you know,
to offer this up, this reparations idea. It's been like two years in
the making, and the contract with the facilitator that's been you know, running
the meetings for them. The contracts up in June, so they had to
they had to come up with something, right, So they took Durham's idea
of like this this guaranteed income, which, by the way, I suggested
this very idea like almost a decade ago when I was having an argument with
an Asheville city councilman, a lefty and whose qualifications to be city councilman was
he was a blogger in ashvill. Yeah, yeah, and so I told
him, I said, you should just do a guaranteed income for the city,
and they were like, you can't do that. You. I said,
sure you can. You're city councilman. You can do that. There's
no prohibition here against it. And they just laughed and laughed and laugh,
Oh, there's pid He's just crazy. And now here they are doing that
very thing, and they're using Durham as a potential model for it. And
the key is, because there's some question about whether or not you can give
money directly to people from the taxpayer tail based purely on the recipient's race,
they are now going to look at whether or not they can do it based
on your carceral status, whether or not you've had any run ins with the
law. You got arrested, and then you get out and then okay,
here's your check. Which I don't know about you, but like I kind
of see where this might get a little sideways, where people might go out
and break the law so they can then get the guaranteed six hundred bucks a
month's income. Now you're a conspiracy theorist, is this? That's what I'm
hearing. But you know what though, but they also they then dumb idea
you into submission on this stuff like they had. Did you see the story
in Santa Monica where they're building a hobo condo building and each unit the cost,
the price per unit will be it was a few million dollars, and
I bet, and they're like studio apartments, and it's like, I know
it's it's not Malibu, but Santa Monica. I know it's Santa Monica.
But if you don't you can buy condos for under a few million that are
studios out there, and you can't build a hobo center. So at that
point then you argue for the income and it almost makes paduciary sense. All
right, uh yeah, I'll crap, look at the clock. We didn't
even get to the uh your police that well, you know, maybe we'll
get into that next week if I remember. But Pete, I appreciate the
time, my man, thank you, and we'll talk next week. Okay,
have a great weekend. All right, there you go, Pete Calendar
Midday's WBT can catch it a via the iHeart radio app even though technically he
were for the competition. All right, we'll be back. Hang on.
I guess maybe I should warn somebody if they go, I don't know if
they're taking their kids up there and they do the Times Square thing, So
somebody there's a new art installation literally right in the middle of Times Square and
it's a giant like bus length or two bus length hot dog, which you're
taking. Okay, all right, giant hot dog. Kids might want to
see that, Like, yeah, I get excited when the wienermobile goes by.
So what's what's the deal with the big hot dog? What's the problem
there? Well, and of course New York obviously hot dogs are a thing,
the worst version of it, because the Chicago dog is far superior,
which is fine because New York's pizza is far superior. Or though the politicians
up there trying to kill that. See, just when you think you're you're
posing in front of the the giant hot dog with your family because it's the
only thing not trying to charge you twenty dollars for being in a picture frame,
it moves because it's an art installation exposing the threat of toxic masculinity.
And so it's not just a hot dog. All of a sudden, it's
a weird transformer. How do I how do I say this? So it
is, you know, it's just long ways sitting there like it would sit
on a plate, right, and then all of a sudden, at a
pre approved at certain times, it then raises in the air like a missile,
like a missile sile, well non missile silo per se, but you
know what I'm saying, like like a big gun on a battleship and shoots
confetti out the front, which is not at all phallic symbolism, And the
message from the artist is obviously in every aspect of this, the hot dog
is not just a hot dog, if you catch my Freudian hint there,
and so, but it's it's docile and it's fine and you want to be
around, and then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, it gets
angry and bah, here's the confetti out the front, And that dude probably
got paid a word and I'll make in my career for that. I don't
know, man. So yeah, so once again, here's another thing where
you might think his family friendly, like a big hot dog. Kids might
be amused by that, but no, it's not a hot dog. It's
it's a something else. But that's pretty much on brand. Oh and also,
somebody send me this email of this or are they on Twitter? And
I get to whenever I do an Asheville story, but I also talk about
how much I love the mountains. I don't understand why people you can think
Ashville's food full of moonbats. There's also quite a few people that are not
moonbats. I don't know if you know this. Generally they're outside the sea
limits in and around there. But if you've ever seen radio ratings or breakdowns
a population, and there are a lot of people who don't subscribe this to
live in Asheville because work kind of beautiful, whatever. But I get what
you're driving at from a tourism dollar standpoint. Most trips to the mountains for
me are you know, Glade Valley to Sparta up to Lancey and I like
to go way back up into ash County there. So I don't really I'm
not necessarily my hang on the bottom end of the state. But yeah,
I'll go to Ashville. You know why, because I'm the one profiting.
And I know what you're saying, Well, you put the money into the
economy and they spend it on stupid stuff. That's fine, but I get
more value out of it. Every time I go to Ashville, there is
an insane story that happens, and then that's less prep I gotta do.
Last time it was the the Kembe Matumbo sized hobo flicking cigarettes at my windshield.
The other time it was the poem lady right, And so I don't
know where in the triad or triangle I could possibly go where I'm gonna find
a thirty year old, dreadlocked white woman, homeless chick who's clearly on drugs,
who wants to write a poem for me for ten dollars. That's not
a good poem. They're not good. I didn't have a right one,
but I saw one of the ones she did. It's not good. Where
is that? Where do I shop for that? Locally? Ross? Do
you guys have a dreadlocked, hobo, drug addict white woman will write you
a poem for ten dollars? Store in wake Forest? You got everything else?
You probably do. Just consider how much they built there. But yeah,
so yeah, but I'm the one getting the value out of it,
so uh please understand sir. All right over this, Hey, it doesn't
a little bit of you kind of want to gaze upon one of these student
protests from you know, from safe place, or maybe you want to get
up in there. There's some dudes. By the way, This is great,
This is the way, as is what I tweeted yesterday. But going
up and interacting with it. Listen to this. How know this is an
outdated term, but this cultural appropriation not a thing anymore. I don't think
they're Middle Eastern. You can't wear that scarf. They're clearly he's cultural appropriation.
That's shame. Shame, shame, shame. You really should be a
shame to yourself. You know, I'm gonna film it out. Look at
that. That is a white person. That is a white person. Shame,
shame. He's cultural appropriation. I love how By the way, this
dude's buddy, his hype man is clearly the most ethnically diverse dude there.
And he's just he's with the guy filming, AND's and and so like the
even the white people who are angry, they're not they're not talking to the
dude who's clearly not a white dude. They're yelling at white dude. So
that's something. So why they recognize the division, they can't bring themselves to
a break with, which is extra deep funny for me. Shame. You
have a great point, man, I'm shaming her because she's white, just
wearing a Middle Eastern head dress. It's really not okay, all right?
Is it all stupid? Yes? But I'll watch that. I'll why I
would have loved to be there. Did you see the spray paint thing?
Oh? Man? All right, So they decimate they graffeeded up this this
wall. Is it Case Western? I think it's Case Western University. So
anyway, they graffeed up this wall. It's all the same stuff, you
know, the boojuw's and yay this and all the rest. And so the
university they they they hire a dude to come in with the you know,
with this the paint to sprayed down to cover up all this insanity. And
the the protesters are not fans of that, so they literally stand against the
wall, and the paint contractor, who clearly is like, I don't have
time for this, just keeps painting, and there's moonbats lined up and literally
someone brings them over a face mat. But we were a lot of stress
fall this. Here's but here's where they screwed up. Y'all. Ever paint
a wall, Rossie, Ever painted a wall? Yeah? Sure, have
you have a living yep? Okay? Good? Uh? And did it
have paint previous paint on it? It did? Yes, okay? And
did you paint it the same time? Did oh? So what hat you
didn't paint that? Did you put the old the new color directly over the
old color? I don't think we did, because of it it would bleed
through, right. Ah, Yes, that's right. Anybody's painted anything,
especially when they're graffiti, is is dark paint. You know, it's purple's
dark green stuff like that and reds. And they're painting what looks like a
light gray. Yeah, painting one on one, you gotta you gotta get
rid of the other paint or you're gonna be seeing the old paint real quick.
So the university screwed up. You needed to do with a pressure washer
first, you know, so that you want the paint to look right.
And I and people are like, oh, I can't you want the students
to get hurt. No, even with the wild lack of IQ points I
assigned to, somebody would stand there and allow themselves to get painted. I
still believe they would be smart enough not to try to stand in front of
a pressure washer. But who knows. And for those of you who have
never run a pressure washer, and and uh, and you make the rookiest
of mistakes that I made once and I think one of the first times I
used it where I was. I was using it and it was working great,
and but it was blowing. You know, I'd like paint chips and
stuff over some soft old shoes. Don't use the spray or to try to
clean your shoes. There's a reason we do some of our our big as
bad as metal cutting that we do using water. Dude, I was gonna
say, people underestimate the power that water can do. Yeah. Have you
ever seen them cut like a giant pig steel beam with water? I sure
have. You don't want to stand in front of that. Going back to
the previous cut too, with the headscarf from the cultural appropriation, that's a
great point because it was it was like a year ago where if he showed
up on Halloween with a sombrero, to'd expel you from school. It was
it was not even a year ago. We just had the cultural appropriation story
in so uh uh South Carolina with the dreadlocks, right remember, and remember
they tried to ban tacos or something from a university cafeteria because they said that
was culture. But this is fine. Yeah, everyone's pretend to be Islam
now. They were just they were just well, look, you don't have
to you don't have to pretend to be Islam. You can be you can
decide to be a Muslim, right that you can't, but you can't pretend
to be Arabic, right, see right? I mean, if we're gonna
have one standard, we should have the other. Makes no sense. It's
yeah, it does. It's almost as if it's all looney tunes. Oh
my gosh, look at you. Oh hold on, we're gonna get canceled.
Let's get ray stage. He'll do the weather that should keep us out
of trouble, because yeah, yeah, it's all good news for the most
part. Still, we've got a front to the west and guided saying some
showers, thunder showers. I think it's really from Fayette Villa to Jacksonville out
near the coast that we're going to see this line developed as we get into
the afternoon, so triangle isolated shower thunderstorm in the surrounding area west, even
less of a chance for the triad All in all, much less in terms
of wet weather over the next few days, mix a clouds and sun.
Otherwise, Today gonna go late day shower, thunderstorm threat mid upper seventies,
and then that'll end tonight we'll clear it out. Will be in the forties
tomorrow morning, and then sunshine near seventy tomorrow afternoon. Mother's Day looks great.
Monday looks great, mid upper seventies, a gusty breeze around on Mother's
Day. Otherwise we get into a much quieter weather pattern. Then we'll start
to get some wet weather back here Tuesday Wednesday of next week. So today,
again, the east, the further east of the further south, you
go better to have to being on that line as the front comes in mid
to late afternoon, but most of us triangle try. It shouldn't seem much
in the way of rain, but an isolated shower, thunderstorm, It's still
possible. All right, Thank you, sir, appreciate it. Okay,
all right, and uh I'm gonna grab this call because I feel like a
bunch of people. I just I'm really tight on time. But let me
get it said, so Rost doesn't have to deal with all the calls,
Yes, Chris, Do you want to bring up another example real quick?
Yeah, good morning, Casey. Remember the nine year old who were the
Indian headdress to the Chiefs game and he got all cultural appropriated on and everything,
and I guess now it's okay to Yeah, I just wanted to touch
on that. Thanks for taking my call. Yeah, absolutely, yeah.
He is Native America. Yeah yeah, And that was that was literally what
middle of the c NFL season. Everything's insane, All right, hang on,
we'll be back. Well, Good morning, Casey. Happy Friday.
Stocks advanced yesterday. The Blue Chips added a seventh session to their winning Street
futures have been higher all morning. Right now, the now futures are up
eighty points. A growing number of Americans are hoping they can retire early.
The New York Fed says the share of workers planning to work full time past
their sixty second birthday started shrinking during the pandemic, and it has kept shrinking.
People give various reasons for wanting to exit the workforce early. Some people
have health concerns, of course, Others plan to care for grandchildren. The
Fed says there's just been a cultural shift and a rethinking of the value of
work. Apple is canceled plans to run a sixty second ad for its new
iPad pro on television. It's apologizing for the ad, which has been ridiculed
on social media. The ad shows a huge pile of things such as records,
musical instruments, televisions, cans of paint being crushed into an iPad.
The ad was intended to depict all of the things that can be done with
the tablet, but an Apple marketing executive told ad Age the company missed the
mark with that one. A Target got some pushback over displays of LGBTQ theme
merchandise in June last year, and sales suffered because of the backlash. Now
those products will not be offered in some stores during Pride Month this year,
but Target says they will be available online. A lot of the nation's hospitals
and surgery centers have revised their business practices. The Wall Street Journals has healthcare
providers that have had too many bad experiences chasing no pays and started demanding payment
in advance. Patients who can't come up with the money don't get an operation.
And the food inflation that has hit the supermarkets has hit restaurants even harder.
Casey, the restaurant tech company pop Menus, says a lot of people
are eating out less often. As a result, consumers spend on average about
thirty percent of their food budgets on restaurant meals. Now, that's down from
about forty percent two years ago. And some bad news for restaurant servers.
A lot of people who were surveyed said they're coping with higher menu prices by
tipping less. Casey, All right, thank you sir, having good weekend,
you'd do the same. Talk to you Monday. All right, there
you go, Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg News. Dude, learn your lesson what
is ross? Do you remember earlier in this week when Boston Paul got bodied
on this show for a half hour. It was very uncomfortable, Like you
guys got beef. I don't like it. No, we don't have beef.
We don't have beef. Him and I talked an email after he thought
it was hilarious too, And yet he just dude, take your ls man
still setting stuff. Just take the loss. You didn't you know what,
you didn't know who you were messing with. And you and I understand,
right, I mean, you're you're from a people who two hundred of you
lost a fight to six British soldiers. Right, that's embarrassing. Also,
let me ask you this question, Boston Paul, how is it you fought
on the north. Well not well, maybe you I don't know, but
how is it You guys were in the Northern Alliance during the Civil War,
and yet to this day when you ask people what's the most racist city in
America, Boston is clearly always in the top few. You want some of
this keeps setting your ears? It sounds like a beef to me, as
they say, you know what around you know what? Find out? Anyway,
I need to get a little of that out of my system. A
marathon winner in Los Angeles has been decued. Esteban Prado thought he won the
Orange County Marathon uh and uh, only to have his title stripped from him
shortly after when it was uh when it was found out that during the course
of the marathon, he got himself a nutritional advantage, an illegal nutritional advantage.
So what do you do? You pop some steroids? No. According
to reports, what he violated was he he he accepted a water from somebody
who was not in the race, one of the one of the spectators,
some dude on a bicycle was handing out water to people, and he took
on when he's running, which, by the way, I don't run a
lot of marathons, but I see runners they grab water and they dequeued him,
so he uh yeah. And the guy who won is actually I think
he kind of as his friend, so he feels bad about it. But
you dequeued him for having an unfair advantage, and I thought, well,
surely over on the women's side, they didn't have any of this and I
didn't. Apparently the NBA forward sized, well muscled winner in the women's division
did not receive an unfair advantage with the h with the water. Maybe the
testosterone coursing through their veins, but not the water.