M R. Good morning everybody, and well it's not a good morning.
I can't believe I just said that out loud, How insensitive of me.
It is a very, very very horrible morning, a very sad morning,
and unfortunately I have to be the bearer of bad news here. I had
to digest this information prior to the show, committed to memories, so that
I could now pass it along to you, and I hope that all of
you were You're in a safe place right now. Perhaps the padded room in
your home. We all have one of those right near whatever that item is
in your home that your wife decided there needed to be seventy two pillows upon
being a couch or perhaps your bed, not pillows you're allowed to use,
mind you, No, no, no, no, those those pillows go
off to the side, perhaps for you know, one day if needed,
like a nuclear fallout of some sort. Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy
Kimmel, and Seth Myers have all announced that they're shutting down as the Hollywood
Writers Strike kicks off to day for the first time in fifteen years. Are
you all okay? You guys got you're doing okay? I mean think about
this disruption to um, to your your old evening routine not being able.
I'm assuming you watch one one or more live and then get a couple of
TVs in their TiVo the rest, because that's still a thing not gonna be
there, and um the pain keeps on from there. Not only will America's
favorite late night, nonpartisan, humor filled interview slash comedy variety shows find themselves
on a hiatus, while the eleven thousand, five hundred members of the Screenwriters
Guild fight for a bigger chunk of the pie from primarily Netflix and Disney,
but also writers for those two entities and various other streaming entities. The writers
who handle the seventy two projects currently underway in the Marvel Universe, all of
the Star Trek writers, all of the writers for the the New History offerings,
where all of a sudden, Cleopatra is no longer a Macedonian Greek but
rather a much mark, much more darker complexed individual because progress where all of
the weird new many of them romantically themed. You know, British old timey
Victorian things are as multiracial as you can imagine, for you know, fifteenth
century Britain, where messages are inserted into everything you consume from a media standpoint,
because you're just a big dummy and you don't get it. But they're
virtuous and they understand and they understand why, perhaps, I don't know,
big green Marvel characters would all of a sudden be overpowered versus somebody who had
the power literally saved the Earth multiple occasions and had been donning the power for
literally decades. Gone are the days of the Mary Sues roster? Are you're
gonna be able to function without Mary Sues being shoved down your throat on the
daily? I mean, is that something that? Frankly it's Is it even
worth getting up anymore? Is what I guess I throw out to all of
you, because the Writers Guild of America has announced that failure to agree on
a new three year contract their new one expired just after midnight. By the
way, well that's um, that's not something they're ready to sign off on.
And I don't I frankly, I don't know if I'm going to be
able to to go a day, let alone a week and not finding out
that my understanding of a popular franchise that's uh, you know, in some
cases older than me. Even everything I thought was Cannon is no longer canon
because you know, the message and stuff, or my favorite character for many
many years is all of a sudden either transgender or gay or some sort of
political activist. You know, that's that realization that you're finding out on almost
a weekly back. I don't know how I'm going to be able to do
it the dark days at the Oday household, Ross, are you and the
family probably just gonna huddle in a dark room? I don't, I don't.
I don't know how everyone's going to handle all this. What are you
going to do without Mary Sues? Knew Mary Sues in your life? Every
week? Do people still watch network television? I guess maybe they do.
I don't know. But it's also like Disney and Netflix and all that stuff,
so and so that that's Marvel and Star Wars and all of that.
But yeah, I think there are some to do watch the network television.
I mean, there's got to be, right, because why would you do
it if literally no one was watching. I know that we joked no one's
watching, but but yeah, not having any of the late night shows,
oh man, I don't know what we're going to do luckily we don't have
writers here, just you know, Ross and I say, whatever stupid thing
pops into our brain. So, uh, you guess you're stuck with us.
Joey, what's up come morning? Casey? How you doing, buddy?
I'm devastated, sir. Yeah, me too. I'm not gonna build
a seat of view nah that who No, I'm gonna write for the view
now. Unfortunately, I think that they just they just drop acid and then,
you know, say stupid stuff. I think that that's probably gonna keep
trucking. Man. Oh and they need to drop a little morning that well
in order to be relevant. That's fair, That's fair, all right,
I have a good day. Yeah, look at that Joey's favorite shows still
on the air. Yeah, I don't I think that'll probably that'll remain unscathed.
Michelle. Yes, hey, Casey, what what do you think about
maybe possibly chat GPT replaces all those writers after they go on strike. I
think that if chat GPT replaced them, you wouldn't notice a difference, because,
as we've talked about, the AI is super woke. You've seen all
of the examples out there. I know that all those writers would be out
of a job. Wouldn't they. Well, I mean that that is a
thing, and somebody may play a cutesy little experience or experiment and we'll see,
but I would not expect it to result in some sort of restoration of
the Hollywood product that people know and love. So they're freaking out because the
Workers movie is doing well, So I just thought I would add that.
But you know, you may want to renegotiate and try to do a little
bit better job negotiating because you may get the place. That's all I wanted
to say. Thanks, Casey. Yeah, well it's like thank you,
Michelle. You know, it's like if the callers, if you guys want
on strike, we'd have to get like a magic eight ball or something.
So I'm just warning you. Just know that, you know, we got
we have that, we got that plan in our pocket. We're not afraid
to use it. So keep it in mind, all right. Eight eight
eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Coming up on the show speaking
to Mario Brothers movie. We'll get into that because something amazing has happened,
apparently for the first time. Yeah, I can't even what evil geniuses have
come up with. What I'm going to tell you it's pretty crazy. Is
he speaking of crazy? How do you not notice a prisoner's gone for over
a day? I mean, I understand the oh he made a paper mache
dummy of himself under a blankie and they didn't find out for four hours,
right or Andy du Frame with his poster shenanigans. But in reality, I
don't know how the hell this happens. And yet this is um, this
is what we're expected to believe up there in Virginia. And uh surprise,
sex dungeons. That's the thing on the show todayd right now, six seventeen
and we'll be right back celebrating ten years. It's still going strong. Thank
you. Casey's on five double PTI in the Triad and one O six one
FM Talk in the Triangle. All right, well, today is actually it's
more than just the writer's strike kicking off and your favorite beloved and ratings positive
obviously late night shows under the Gun, as well as all of your favorite
woke Marvel and Star Trek and Netflix series and oh Man, tough times out
there, but today also marks apparently the end of the COVID nineteen federal mandate
for employees, contractors, and other federally funded workers as well as international travelers,
because we're still under that. And actually it doesn't mark the end of
it. It marks the announcement of the end. The technical end will be
May eleventh, at which point the Biden administration will officially declare an end to
the public health emergency, mostly because by now they've probably thoroughly scrubbed the existence
of anyone who would want to actually do business with the government and a contracting
standpoint, but also retain body autonomy as it pertains to vaccines and other things.
Said. Yeah, so you know, if you were a contractor,
if you were anybody wanted to do business with the government till now, you
had to meet these vaccine requirements. Even though arguably the science as it is
understood even by the mainstream media has changed drastically, you still had to.
So in a way, this was about purging the pocket books of any dissenters.
And so now it's now, it's been a long frigging time, and
hopefully they've killed off any of those people who might think for themselves. So,
yeah, you know, this is really the federal government doing it is
supposed to be the least of the options, and the sense that it's supposed
to be indicative of only when absolutely necessary, and these scoundrels decided it had
to go all the way till May eleventh. And there's a whole apparatus of
compliance stuff here that expanded greatly, which I'm sure those employees, uh,
you know, they have offices of compliance just on this issue, because it's
it's a significant task to keep the ninety eight percent compliance which they're currently at
where all all workers and actual contractors have had at least one dose of the
vaccine or impending or approved exception. So I'm sure that those workers will will
will, we'll stay on. So yeah, big stuff, big stuff,
big stuff. In the news, Gordon Lightfoot died. That's that happened today
as well, or that was announced overnight, I should say. So busy,
busy, busy, busy, busy. Supreme Court's got a big thing
coming up. And this, oh man, I read this this morning from
ABC News, and let me just say this. It is phenomenal timing that
in the article they were able to get the photography necessary completed before these four
hundred these excuse me, these four hundred and seventy anti gay bills, that's
their words across sixteen states found themselves signed into action. According to ABC News,
LGBTQ plus lawmakers find themselves fighting to quote exist. State Senator Chevron Jones
can often be seen at the Florida Capitol greeting staff and colleagues with a smile
or a laugh. But when he's alone, it's a different story. The
outward expression is to show God's love, he says. That's what I was
taught, said Jones. I but I have enough tiers in my car to
fill a lake for Jones, who is gay. The past two years have
been emotionally draining as Florida past a flurry of anti LGBTQ plus legislation. More
than two hundred gay lawmakers across the country feel like Jones at a time when
anti gay legislation is flourishing, as if they were under personal attack and continually
fighting and defending their right to exist. The issues exploded into the spotlight last
week when Montana Republicans voted to bar Democrat reb Zoe Zephyr, who is transgender,
from the House floor after a standoff, well, not standoff in the
traditional sense, you mean incredibly disruptive non parliamentary stoppage of all business, kind
of like what you saw there in Tennessee, right where a set of rules
that are part of the process were violated repeatedly and intentionally for public grandstanding.
But like I said, luckily, I'm sitting here, I'm looking at the
article. They were able to get a photo of Jones before he I'm assuming
Ross they just fade away like Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future
when he's on the stage looking at the photo. Um, why there's more
to this story, and I know you know that some context coming up on
the kc ODA radio program show. After the show, he's on the iHeartRadio
app search or the podcast on the iHeart Radio app. Oh my god,
I just had a I just had a realization over the over the commercial break.
I'm sorry, you can go. Tom having a hard time emotionally with
the writer's strike with Disney and Netflix and late night shows and all of your
beloved stuff that you watch and get indoctrinated by. I'm assuming that the Hays
for Sheriff Twitch channel also on hiatus. We're fine, fine, trouble un
along, but the writer's strike there, Yeah, I know there's no union
here, but uh, but they're on strike and they write the stuff for
the entertainment, and arguably that's entertainment. I guess for some people, Um,
others it's where they go to get banned. Um how how how will
you move forward? And you have fresh gebbles like sizzle reels I saw posted
on Twitter. Yeah, and the more will be produced very cited. We're
gonna be taking the Twitch streams and we're gonna be streamlining, streamlining them and
cutting them down and putting them on YouTube. So I'm very wow. Yeah,
it's gonna be a new endeavor. I'm getting into. It's yourself a
little partner program before you get ousted for you know, some innocuous comment he
said, do you watch it's a Gundham? I do not. Oh okay,
dude, you should. That's one of my favorite YouTube channels. You
should, uh because it definitely the stuff he's talking about too is right now.
I was like super big into YouTube, but then I got back and
now I'm into like, you know, I got into Twitch and now I'm
just on YouTube as much. But he does twitch too. He does twitch
too, But I find is produced things because he's kind of like um critical
drinker, you know, he's putting stuff out that's kind of in that range
and a lot of on those topics kind of stuff. So but he got
basically he got deep platform or got deep platform, but he got kicked out
the partner program. And they're like stories crazy super two does. They're super
strict now, like more so than before. Well you wouldn't want to have
fun or you know, ideas dissenting. And he was able to get back
in, but it was like they're forcing guys on YouTube to do shorts and
stuff, and basically they're using as an opportunity to purge people because that in
the shorts, what they're doing is they're editing down some of their longer form
stuff right to meet these requirements so they can continue to be in favor with
the algorithm. And and then if you have, you know, if you're
not one percent in lockstep with the current accepted thoughts, they then will they'll
go and mass report them for posting content, right because right, the shorts
can't violate obviously they're ts and their ts is crazy political and out there.
But also like if you swear, you're not allowed to, like no profanity
in the shorts at all, So if you do that you'll be demonetized.
It's like they're just looking for a different as they can check to get the
people off the platform. They know why, and then and some of it's
so arbitrary. It's like, and I told you this. When I watch
YouTube videos, Pete, they will intentionally not say COVID. They won't say
the word rape or sexual assault, even not in a joking manner, even
if it's a in the most clinical manner, or if they're having an important,
very serious discussion, like you know, if they were having a discussion
about the percentage of minor females who find themselves sexually assaulted who are part of
these caravans, right, which is an incredibly sad statistic and something that requires
serious discussion because when you incentivize people stacking at the border, it also increases
the likelihood of these horrific crimes. Or a discussion about legislation being proposed in
Florida where they're talking about the death penalty for certain child sex crimes, which
we're going to talk about here on the show. You can't have those discussion
and use those words. No, same thing. They demonetize the channel that
was about World War two, and like would post like you know, Holocaust
Hitler documentaries, right, but they were just historical documentaries like you know.
And then he invaded this to daton Land and like stuff like that, and
they're like, no, boom, you're demonetized because you're Nazi. This is
Nazi content. You can't look. I understand it's a heavy lift, right,
And there are from a YouTube standpoint and I you know, it is
their platform. You're gonna have to have certain standards, right. You don't
want people posting child porn on there, right, you don't want, um,
you don't want people that are going to do things, at least from
a monetization standpoint, um, where people are posting things that an advertiser may
not want to be associated with. But um, well, hold on Boston,
Paul sending me feverishly, sending me emails this morning. You don't want
to. You don't want to put at risk your your revenue stream. Right,
So you're gonna have to keep an eye on it. And the amount
of content. I saw the number one time. The amount of minutes of
video that's uploaded to YouTube every day is just astronomical, right, something like
in your entire lifetime, you wouldn't be able to sit and watch what is
uploaded in like seven seconds or something. It's crazy, But to your point,
if you're going to build these algorithms, some stuff seems pretty obvious that
you'd be able to program around, right, you know, even if you're
looking for consistent keywords or footage. Right, they're so good at the computer
recognizing footage for the purpose of determining whether there is a copyright infringement. I
you know, I I tried to upload I was gonna start uploading our parody
songs on the YouTube, right, And with the first two I ever tried
to do it, they immediately, immediately they got taken down because you know,
it's listening and it's hearing music that sounds the bars down familiar enough,
they just assume I'm uploading copyrighted music. However, it meets the requirement for
parody under their own terms of service. If you listen to the words,
it's obviously a fundamental rewriting of the song for comedic or or even political messaging.
I mean, it meets exactly what is the requirement there. And then
I got to sit there and go through and challenge it, and I'm like,
you know, what if I'm if I had to spend thirty minutes of
my time screwing around with two parody songs, there's no way in hell I'm
putting this content up there. So then my question is, if you're going
to be putting content from your your stream, you know you have drops that
you use in there, right, so people come on and they can you
know, they can put little snippets of audio for bits or whatever and it'll
be a little a little drop of a movie or whatever. Right, give
me an example of one of the drops you used, just so people know,
because my brain's just not working from like movie like during the twitch stream.
Yeah, so if somebody wants to spend twenty five bits or whatever,
oh well, we pretty much have like everything that's on the show button bar
Okay, that would but we've got like Joe Dirt drops, We've got yeah,
stuff for movies like Ricky Bobby, I'm on Fire. Okay, so
yeah, the on Fire. Um, that's the kind of stuff that you
uploaded and then boom, you get a strike or it'll turn into a problem,
and so it's it's a real tough put for YouTube creators. Man.
This is what because I was exporting Twitch streams to YouTube and I had to
stop because we have a lot of those sounders an interaction that the audience uses
on the twitch stream, but you would upload it to YouTube and YouTube would
be like, Nope, you can't publish this because of this two second clip.
So now, like I said, we're gonna be streamlining and cutting them
down, So cutting all that out and just like the meats of the streams,
and honestly, I'm just gonna use it as a way to filter people
to the twitch channel. Yeah. Well, and that's so if somebody's on
YouTube and they've never heard of the twitch channel before and they're like, hey,
who's this guy, then they follow that link to the twitch. I
mean. So, um, so the writers strike not going to be impacted.
You're gonna it will not. I have I have another question on the
writer strike. So in the bottom of the hour news they said that they'll
be taking to the picking lines. How do the writers how do writers strikers
um? How do they create their signs? You know what I'm asking Like,
if you're if you're a writer and you're on strike, how do you
make the signs with which you walk around on I think that's that's the last
thing that you do before you strike. Oh, so you better be spot
on. So if there's a wrinkler, yeah, there's there's a specific timeline
you have to follow, so you have to write all of your hell no,
we won't go kind of signs. I mean, you're time right,
I mean, you're a Hollywood scriptwriter. You're a man of principles and standards
and things. You can't sway from those, just rock solid. It's the
old it's the old Mitch Edberg joke kind of I'm against protesting, but I
don't know how to show it or something I can't remember. But now if
you're if you're a writer and you're refusing to write because principles and negotiation and
whatnot, I don't know how you come up with your signs. So Ross
says, you just gotta get ahead of it. These are the questions we
asked. What was this email? All right, hold on, do do
do Boston Paul? What is t OS t O s um? I was
going to make up something and lie to you. It's terms of service,
Boston Paul. Terms of service. So basically all that stuff that you click
accept and agree to, that's you know, nine thousand page long pages long
that nobody ever reads. That's your terms of service. So that's what that
means. By the way, Ross, did he said it? You?
Boston Paul sent me a picture of his new granddaughter flipping us off yesterday?
Did I did you see that? I may have to forward that to you.
Oh well wait wait he is new granddaughter. Yeah, so it straight
out the womb. Huh. Well, I think a little blanket doing the
old finger thing that all the babies do. Oh, it's holding a bottle,
which I'm assuming has some sort of spirit inside of it, you know,
I'm assuming that's how Boston babies they start him young. But yes,
well, congrats to Boston Paul. Well, he didn't do anything. I
mean, well he did. He produced the person that produced the person.
He put that time in, he put in the you know, all the
time raising that person, keeping him away from the dangers of Wetty Boulder.
He busted wetty Boulder. You know. Oh really yeah, that's oh yeah,
how silly of you? How could I forget hold on? Let me
forward this to you. Uh yeah, So he says, my three month
or three month oh, I said, three week three month old granddaughter has
a message for you patriot haters, and it's a baby with a bottle that
probably has Bailey's and Irish whiskey in it or milk, I don't know,
flipping us off. So there, I just forwarded that out to your email,
very rude, and look at that. I even took time out of
the busy show to explain what terms of service were, because I don't hold
grudges. We're a class act around here. So anyway, Yes, ABC
News with a big piece about how the LGBTQ plus lawmakers are fighting for their
literally trying to just exist, talking about the four hundred and seventy anti gay
bills making their way through states. Well, let me just point this out.
So of those four hundred and seventy, really they run the gamut because
we have fifty states and they cover Wait, what is this the right?
Did you just tell a Stephen Right show? Is that a Stephen Right choke?
I probably did. I probably heard that somewhere. This is why I
don't listen to a lot of other talk radio, by the way, because
I don't want to be subconsciously influenced necessarily in coming up with topic takes.
Twitter will do that to some extent, but with talk radio, you know,
you try to have some originality, and i'd like to think on this
show we do things that other shows don't. But yeah, probably I did
give me a YouTube strike. So anyway, back to the four hundred and
seventy anti gay bills, they really only touch on four issues. And because
we are a peatree dish of fifty states, there is a certain repetition to
it. So when you throw that number out, in reality, if this
was laws that were being crafted at a federal level to cover all fifty states,
likely they could be accomplished in a singular bill. But it sounds more
overwhelming to say that there's four hundred and seventy bills out there trying to unexist
gay lawmakers. Let's see men in women's sports, gender affirming care for kids
children at stripper style drag shows, and the gender ideology and sex ad within
K twelve education. The bills almost exclusively covered those four issues, So you're
really talking about four issues. And it's not as though there's a bill purging
anyone who identifies as LGBTQ plus from existence or from a serve let alone existence.
And I would I would point out that they will continue to exist.
They will continue too, as long as they're abiding by all the same rules
that all other lawmakers are expected to follow. They will continue to participate and
be heard and vote and represent their constituents and any issues that they may find
important. But they're not not existing. They're not fading out of existence like
I mentioned, like Michael J. Fox there on the stage where he's watching
him and his siblings disappear from the photo. That's just absurd. If if
I let me test this theory, Ross, can you google something for me
real quick? Will you see if Pete Botagedge exists? Still? All right?
Ross is gonna let me check? Yes he does? Oh wow,
still right there? Huh that's crazy? So um yeah. But you know,
hey, it's it is a hell of a a fearmongering article there,
rather than you know, discussing the issues and pre arguably they exist with more
support In New York City, where and I kid you not, police are
now recommending in the Mayor's office is encouraging all residents of New York City to
purchase Apple air tags and place them somewhere hidden in their vehicles to help combat
auto theft. When you know there's other ways to combat auto theft, like
holding to account auto thieves in they have a whole task force and that is
on the hunt for somebody who defecated on a pride flag. Now, somebody
shouldn't go and vandalize somebody's property. However, the property crime and ignoring of
it that is is rampant in many of these big cities is legendary. Right.
We see these stories all the time, and the public defecation stuff too,
especially in the Bay Area. Yet they have a whole task force and
the news media is going along with this, looking for an individual who may
have defecated on somebody's pride flag and then grabbed a second flag that was nearby
and used it as TP. Should that person be held accountable for theft and
vandalism? Absolutely should. The immense amount of NYPD resources that is being thrown
out here and the coverage that goes along with it outweigh the thousands of other
instances of crime which are largely ignored, and if even the person is caught,
the punishments are simply not being told out. No, it all sounds
absurd. Six fifty one hang on a near decade on the calendar and celebrating
ten years on the air. This is one oh six one FM Talk in
the Triangle and News Talk ninety four five w PTI and the Triad. All
right, a whole lot of chit chat there and that segment, But we
could confuse everybody with acronyms for stuff. Boston call what is kep? You
know what, don't worry about it, you don't need it. You're fun
anyway being a Boston I got a Boston story. I'll share that much more,
plus your calls next. Hang on seven six on kc Obey Radio Programs,
retwitted his video. I was watching for these YouTuber I guess he himself
his army infantry. But he's got a side hustle on a TikTok channel where
he does the stolen valor call out. UM and uh. He's in a
parking lot and there's this older gentleman he's wearing. He's wearing what is definitively
unaltered, uh, set of dress screens from back in the day. UM.
Altered in the sense that he's placed a peace sign on the shoulder and
he has at least one other patch there that's you know, clearly not army.
Regg but um, he's got his name tag on there, and he's
he's got his blue cord and all that, and he's asking this guy questions
and it's pretty clear this old guy is giving him partial answers, but doing
so because he clearly doesn't want to get into it. And I don't I
don't know if you've ever had a conversation with somebody who spent time serving in
combat, uh, and you start asking them about it because maybe maybe you
just feel your title to the answer and they don't want to talk about some
of it. So he comes to the conclusion that this is so he decides
to take the leap, comes to the conclusion this guy's line because he's asking
dumb questions like the guy's wearing dress screen dress screens, but he had do
you did you actually have friends of yours who died wearing that? And the
guy goes, no, why because most soldiers aren't killed while they're wearing U
their dress uniform, right, And he's not processing this and he calls this
old guy out, who obviously that does not go well, and it ends
with him pulling out his VA cards shove it in his face, and the
silence is is overwhelming. I'm just I can't believe the dude posted it on
TikTok uh. I guess part of his service was Korean War but post fifty
three and he was talking about infiltrators because he doesn't understand the language around it.
And that's that's uncountable. Man. You ever watch any of those stolen
valor videos that don't get me wrong, there's some real idiots that are out
there. And you know, the issue of stolen valor is a is a
touchy one. I can't approach it from a veteran standpoint as I never served,
but um, you can tell when guys are wearing it and are you
know they're they're you well something, they're using it to extract free stuff.
And one court case the guy was attempting to impress women. And there are
laws surrounding renumeration and profiting from it. But you know, some of these
guys just weared around because they like the attention they get. And there's whole
channels. There's there's an old salty marine guy who's you got a big channel.
His name escapes me on this, but man, you better be damn
sure before you just call somebody out. I don't care if you're active duty
military, as the TikToker purports to be. Yeah, shoves it right in
his face. All right, Well, anyway, I retweeted that video.
I don't I just found that fascinating this morning. All right, let me
grab a quick phone call here. We got the writers strike dealing with that
late night television shows. They're on hiatus. You're not going to be able
to get your Stephen Colbert or Jimmy Kimmel for a little while. The The
Star Wars, Marvel, Uniforms, Universe, and various other favorite Netflix and
Disney programming. Those writers all on strike, eleven thousand, five hundred of
them. And we had a caller call in talk about AI. Maybe why
wouldn't you You want to talk about something that's gonna chap their behinds. By
the way, if they do some experiment where they go, all right,
well, we're gonna see if they can write a script based on and actually
I wonder if you get into some legal issues there. I was thinking about
this. If you start plugging and playing stuff where people have some sort of
ownership interest and you're using old scripts to inform new can that work property be
used to formulate ahi scripts and I don't know the answer to it. You'd
probably have to do a project that's a standalone, but I wonder what that
would look like. And I wouldn't put it past one of these streaming services
to do it as some sort of experiment. And these things can write scripts.
Man, they can write whole movie scripts in in very short order.
So anyway, Janet, what's going on? Hey, So I wanted to
call him. I'm super super excited about the writers strike. You know,
First off, it it means that you know, no new LEFTSBS content to
put on TV, which is great. Second, I'm really runs content but
okay, he spent well, I don't watch it anyway, saying I'm just
you know, saying, stop recruiting for a minute. Anyway. Um,
I'm really hoping it means that Stephen King will shut up about politics too,
like, oh, he can't technically even think of words if he's on strikes,
right, Yeah, I'm not. I'm not sure. I'm assuming he's
a guild member too. I would, I would almost, I would almost
assuredly he's a Writer's Guild member, if only for residuals and stuff that come
his way. I don't know the answer to that, So, um,
I think that unfortunately, if anything, some of these guys that are writers,
that are they're gonna have a lot more free time, and I wonder
if it won't actually be worse. So all right, we should have awesome
investigate that so that we know what the rules are here. All right.
Well, well you know he's always looking for more to do, so we'll
we'll add that to his list. Okay, all right, yeah, thank
you, Janne. I like it now. Audience is calling in putting together
honeydoo list for Ross keeping them busy, busy, busy busy. Now is
Stephen King too? How how many of you are taking great joy and watching
the blue check the forced blue check meltdown? Right, So all of these
all of these Hollywood folks and news folks that were like, oh, I
can't take the blue check. It's gonna be meaning list and it's horrible.
And then so Elon goes and he says, all right, anyone who's got
more than a million followers, we're gonna put the blue check back. And
then they start losing their crab. Who's the guy from MSNBC that's really really
losing his credit? Was Hassan or whatever met Mehdi Hassan or whatever. He's
gotta show he's got a million followers, which not even understands. I barely
know who the dude is. He is absolutely melting down every day on Twitter,
first over the loss of it and then when it came back. Every
day he posts multiple times letting people know that he didn't buy it and it
is unjust and he can't believe how Elon Musk is forcing this upon him,
and he's just crying about it all day. It's a it's a fun little
rabbit hole to go through his timeline and I get maybe, I don't know,
block a bunch of your folks, so you dropped under a million.
I mean, but or there's this other thing where you don't have to use
the platform. I don't know if you know, you could delete your account.
If you delete your account, no blue check, no problems in your
life. But they got bigger issues over there, because for the first time
ever in the world of the Internet, something has happened because Elon Musk is
such an irresponsible individual. Millions of people watched the entire Super Mario Brothers movie
on Twitter after a user uploaded the video using the Twitter blue check subscription,
which allows those with blue checks to post up to one hour of long,
high quality video. And so basically you had a Twitter account, not just
one that posted what was a bootleg copy of this thing. It was actually
pretty decent quality too. I saw just a little snippet of it. I
didn't watch it, and it was out there, and it's funny because there
I'm watching the reaction to this and for the first time ever, apparently somebody
has taken a bootleg copy of a movie and uploaded it to the Internet,
allowing people to watch it for free. This has never happened before. This
is Pureless's innovation, but of a horrible variety compliments of Elon Musk obviously what
he intended, and he has created this new era where people are able to
go online and get access to something that they should have to go to the
theater and pay for right intellectual property never ever, ever happened. Ever,
how do I know, because they never address it anywhere in the story.
Now, some people I saw and we'll have to do some more research on
there their alleging that not only has this happened before, but currently exists on
other places. Like YouTube. I don't know if you know this, they
don't label it right out, but on YouTube there are full length pirated movies
and on websites all throughout the Internet. And when a popular movie where a
bootleg copy comes into existence, as apparently it has here, finds its way
out there. It populates all over the Internet and is easily findable. That's
what some are alleging. But I have nothing to back it up because the
reporter didn't decide to research any of that. They just decided that the only
place it exists is on Twitter, and therefore Elon Musk is obviously this was
obviously his intention with doing this, allowing people to post longer videos. Oh
yeah, it's absolutely crazy, man, Ross, were you aware of this?
Some people are alleging that prior to this, you would have been able
to get bootleg music and movies and other stuff in other forums on the internet.
You know what's funny is this account that did it. I've watched them
stream several other movies in the past, like that's their thing. They would
just randomly throughout the day they go effort. They'd he here's rush hour too,
and it would just be all of rush hour too. They like done
of movies. This is the one that got him, like Nuke though,
right because it's in theaters now and it's Nintendo. Yeah he did. What
was the other one, the Puss in Boots movie, I think is the
one where they He got a bunch of followers for that because it was fairly
new. But yeah, this is the one where he ended up on the
radar and Nintendo doesn't play man. In fact, Nintendo still they have one
of the more famous judgments from back in the day. It's just it's the
absurdity of them acting like this. This is what Elon Musk intended, right,
people'd be able to pirate Hollywood and not allowing people to utilize the format.
Expanding the way that you can use Twitter is a business decision and with
it comes, you know, perils and things you're going to have to work
out. And you know, there are ways to go and police for this
stuff, whether it's flagging and reporting algorithms, things like that. They don't
always work, but as long as you're doing your due diligence, this will
exist. In the same way that I could upload a two hour video two
hour movie to YouTube. Get creative with the labeling and some of the filtering
and stuff that they do and where they put splices and it exists. Go
to YouTube right now, you can watch. You can watch a lot of
movies that were not intended to be on there if you understand how to search
it, how it escapes the algorithm. I don't know, but expanding what
Twitter can do. A good example is if you wanted to do I don't
know, let's say you were a primetime top rated host on Fox News.
All right, just a hypethetical here, and they and you guys parted ways
and you wanted to do your own thing, but you needed a platform to
host that you also felt wasn't going to be crawling up your behind with you
know, woke strikes and takedown notices. If you had the ability to put
one hour of high quality video that was then accessible to the masses anyone with
a Twitter account, that would be pretty valuable. And the chances are you
would expand the way in which your platform is utilized. That person would find
value being able to get their stuff out there, and financially you both could
benefit from this. So acting like Elon did this so they could screw Hollywood,
and because they just decided to never talk about any other instance of this
is just another and a long list of wildly disingenuous news coverage takes. And
we got a story about the faith that people have in the news media,
and you could tell AP's feelings or hurt. We'll get to that later on.
But you know, and obviously I'm referencing like Tucker Carlson. What if
Tucker Carlson decided that YouTube or excuse me, Twitter was going to be his
platform because he felt that Twitch and YouTube and some of these other things,
anytime they didn't like a segment he did, would just take the content down.
Whereas with Twitter, he feels that he would get a fair shake and
it would be financially viable. That would expand how people see Twitter, would
it not, Absolutely, it would. If you had a success story there,
then others may follow. And if others follow, more revenue is derived,
more usage, more minutes spent on the platform, more eyeballs for advertising,
more fees for those who are monetizing it greatly. There's all sorts of
win here, so you know the whole thing. And I mentioned Nintendo.
Nintendo not screwing around. They still have a dude who back in the day
Nintendo went after to make an example of who got forty months in prison and
a fifteen million dollar fine even after he's since been released, and he in
perpetuity Nintendo gets twenty five to thirty percent of his gross monthly income every month
until the fifteen million is recouped. Yeah, and the best part is the
dude's last name is Bowser. So I don't know if that's what spurred Nintendo
to make an example of him when when they were going through all of this
stuff. But if your last name's Bowser and you're uploading stuff to a Torrent
frank and you know, getting Nintendo copyrighted stuff out there, I feel like
Nintendo's like, yep, that's the perfect guy to make an example of.
And they did, all right eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven
four? Uh, Tron, what's up? And then much um. I
was just telling him about the um oh hey, Tron Tron. I'm sorry,
do you mind holding nonster. I'm just looking at my clock. I'm
gonna, I'm gonna. I need to take a break, but I promise
I'll get right back to you. Okay, all right, all right,
sorry so sorry, sorry, sorry, all right, We'll take a break.
Hang on one oh six one FM. Talk at ninety four five w
PTI, two stations driving the best end talk. This is Casey O Day
and Carolina's Morning News. All right, Semetary five, Good morning. Hey,
if you're thinking you know what I'd love to get away with murdered,
good news. Have I got a story for you coming up, But first
let's get back to the phones we were. I had retweeted a video of
this TikToker. Dude, Ah, he's uh stolen valor guy right, And
don't get me wrong. You see people walking around, and especially if you
yourself for a service member or veteran, you're gonna have a keener eye for
the stuff, especially when you look to see. Yeah, you see guys
walking around and they got a chest of medals and ribbons that look like they're
a six star, you know, Junta general from South America. And you
might have some questions. The problem is you gotta be very careful. You
know. It's like it's like asking a woman if she's pregnant. You don't
want to be wrong. And this one video, he's talking to this guy
who's admittedly his he his dress screens jacket that he's wearing, UM has some
patches on it that are obviously not military patches. But you know, the
guys, he's an older guy served Vietnam era, also served in Korea post
fifty three, I guess, and he just he blatantly just calls him out.
And the guy shows a VA card in his face and he's just silent.
Man. So I don't know. You got to balance this stuff,
all right, Tron, thanks for holding on to appreciate it all yours sort
take it away, all right. UM. As far as that with the
guy harassing the military vet, when it comes to that, I feel like
I compared to something you guys mentioned a couple of days ago, how the
um, if you confront homeless people for camping in public, that they can
sue you for a thousand dollars, it should be the same way with the
veterans because of what they went through and the fact that they dedicated their life
for this country. And as far as the Mario thing, it's it's not
the first boothbag movie that's been been on Twitter. It's so it's so much
more on Twitter. So my friends says, oh, it's yeah, yeah,
and I've been waiting weeks to ask you all this question. So we
as the American people, Uh, do you think there's any way that we'd
ever be able to overthrow a government? Me personally, I feel like they
have bought too much irrelevant topics into the into this country to keep us separated,
that we'll never be able to see out the eye. So definitely,
do you mean from like a physical standpoint or do you mean from a coalescing
as as a one person standpoint? Right? No, just like as a
country, if we could, do you think we'd be able to band together
to overthrow the government? I don't see it happenings. Well, I mean,
I mean we're one and oh yeah. If this is the best we
can do with government officially, what can we do without them? That's what
I'm thinking. Yeah, well, look, I sure your frustration there Again,
I would point out where one and oh, but if you want to
look to more modern stuff, obviously we have found ourselves stymied in places like
Afghanistan Vietnam, which I just you know, just mentioned, Um yeah,
I mean they got they got the nukes to quote their swalwell kind of.
But you know, ultimately, if you're asking from a coalescing as as a
one people. Yeah, I know we're incredibly divided, incredibly divided. So
I don't know the answer to that. But you know, if you've got
enough people behind you, could you do it? Absolutely? But you think,
well, have you got to have the people that are there pushing the
buttons on behalf of the government, right, they have to buy any of
what you're wanting to do. Yeah, it was like it seems like almost
it seems like they're the problem. I don't want to say it's not asted
like I've been an issue before, but like I hear you, yeah,
I don't know. I'd have to know all the parameters and stuff. But
all right, yeah, I appreciate the call this morning. Man, Okay,
yes, I see, all right, all right, later you catch
that last far ross Man says he still needs his five dollars in quarters.
So, Ross, do you think we could overthrow the government? Not just
you and I, but you know, like collectively. I mean maybe,
but of course I'm not promoting that, sir. Of course we would never
ever do that. Ross is trying to overthrow it with his Twitch channel,
Sir. So, I mean it's a campaign, you know, it's constantly
in motion. It's been going on for what is it a decade? Now?
What do you mean? You see chat GPT yesterday figured it out all
right? When as chat GPT my buddy Harbridger fifty putt in there. He
said, yeah, he said, what is Hayes for sheriff And it was
like we had not enough information, but by the name, it sounds like
somebody running for a political office for sheriff. It's too much and knows too
much. We need to shut it down. I did think, I did
think it was interesting. In that response, it also said that it doesn't
have the ability to real time search the Internet. I'm like, what is
what have them? A two year old can real time search the internet?
You tell me chat GPT can't google stuff. I don't feel that it's being
honest. But then when it yes, obviously it's showing signs that it knows,
it knows what you're up to. And I'd be very nervous if I
were you. That's how you get the robot Boston Dynamics dogs with the oozis
on him banging on your door. Then you got to go hide in your
bunker or your your furry dungeon, or if you're lucky enough like one individual
your sex dungeon. A man reportedly found a quote sex dungeon underneath his nineteen
hundreds era home following two years of living on the properties. So he moved
in two years ago and just now discovered this. He said that he was
encountering some plumbing problems, was down in the basement of es getting the issue
and started to move some panels at near a crawl space under there which he
had previously not went into. Was the first time he had removed the venting
and basically they'd kind of sealed it off. And he said that the paperwork
home inspection and he act just he actually has not plans, but he has
a detailed, detailed pictorial of his home did not did not show any of
this stuff. But there was concern that the plumbing down in the basement reached
back into this era this area. So he went in there and lo and
behold in the back of about a four foot by ten foot storage closet where
you would use to access the backside of this crawl space. There was a
stairway behind the wall leading down into a secondary secret basement plea with a solid
permanent floor and he said. As he went into the secret room, he
came across newspapers dated from the nineteen eighties, chairs, a bed frame,
a note pad, and then, uh, just a bunch of really really
filthy, filthy, filthy stuff. I can't read some of the stuff.
Also, it appeared that somebody had been staying in there and they had been
feeding them. There was some food trays and stuff. So, and he
was pointing out that you're able to um able to seal it off, lock
somebody in there essentially, So he found a sex dungeon. So what do
you do? I mean, what do you do with that? Do you
do you update it to you know, match the rest of that. This
isn't the first time we've heard this happening on this show. I've gone over
before. I've talked about how this has happened. Right where I was down
in my basement, I was working on the dry wall. I heard something
behind the wall. Yes to what the hell is that? Like the bob
vila. Yes, I I punched through the wall and it was Darude Sandstorm
playing in a giant furry dungeon that came with the house. Did disco ball
oh wow? Illuminating the room and there's about twenty thirty furies in there.
How'd they get in there? And they came with the house, None of
my business. But if I found books, yeah, I would have kicked
him out discussion, none of that crap. Well, books of my house,
that's the thing. As as he started to dig through, there was
also these weird, creepy old books. And the books were documenting all sorts
of let's just say, horrible force sexual acts and just uh, you know,
just all the stuff that would make your skin crawl if you were to
stumble upon it. And that's what this dude found. So he probably should
have just sealed it off and then you know, like told his wife he
was building a man cave or something. But instead he was like, what
the what the hell is this? So, um, did you convert your
furry dungeon or do you just put the thing the drywall back up and let
it be? You know, I mean they're still there? Oh wow,
okay, I mean this they have squatters rights at this point. I contacted
this city wake four, so there's nothing they can do, okay, absolutely,
and they're just they continue to party on with their the rude. Oh
good for the seven forty five case of Dave radio program raised Agick from the
channel. Oh man, so some dude was he had some plumbing issues in
this basement. He'd moved in the house two years ago. And he goes
in, finds a false panel behind this closet to access the back of the
crawl space and there's a sex dungeon back there. Yeah, you need to
be where those false panels. They'll get you every time. Does that?
Does that make you wonder if there's like stuff in your high if you have
like an older house, do you wonder if Mike, maybe there's something there?
You know? I always, um, you know, not for me,
but every time I go home and I go in my sister ended up
purchasing my grandparents' house and whatever, I go down into that basement. You
know, there's like this little coal seller. I don't know if you know
what the cold celler is, but yeah, I know what that is.
Um, And then it's like, I don't know, it looks a little
and there's like a little opening where you look in. You're like, hey,
there's still open space in there, and I can fit in there.
But then I'm like, Nope, not a chance, not even gonna venture
down that path, yeah, I am. But if there's treasure there could
be there. You're willing to live with the fact that there could be literally
like long life altering amounts of treasure back there the end. There could be
because there had been some found at one point or another in the floor boards.
But that's a story government, okay, Yeah, they always know stuff
that had the then, um are my grandmother's sister's house. They actually called
their basement the dungeon, which kind of made me a little nervous, but
you know, yeah, I mean it was perfectly fine. We used to
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Anyway. Anyway, yeah, beautiful good basement
weather or should you yeah great, yeah, good to get out, I
mean get out. Temperatures will probably be about ten degrees or so below average.
The average highs this time of year should be in the mid nupper seventies,
probably only the mid sixties today for most. Um. Yeah, that's
stiff wind at times, just south of Greensboro, Winston Salem. Um.
Some wind advisories too, so fairly windy, but it'll look nice, same
thing tomorrow. It's still gonna be some stiff winds out of the northwest,
mid nupper sixties again, we'll finally crack seventy. Thursday and Friday actually gonna
be the best days. There'll be a light breeze Thursday, how much wind.
Friday's gonna be gorgeous, low seventies, overnight lows coming up into the
forties, the forties nonetheless, and then maybe some showers Saturday, but Sunday,
Sunday, and we'll start a warming trend I think, starting Sunday into
early next week at or now maybe flipping the switch on some above average temperatures
as we get this upper level low pressure system in the northeastern part of the
US and the Great Lake States pulling away. Which I don't know if you're
a weather buffer or not, but Marquette, Michigan had like nineteen inches of
snow yesterday, so they not only may have my hoary, Yeah, I
mean, you know, it's it's kind of unusual snowy as May Day a
record, I think, and having one of their snowiest seasons on record,
as are many up in the upper Midwest and out in the West where the
snows beginning the middle Now, okay, all right, appreciate it, sir,
Thank you very much. Talking to an hour. All right, race
staging there from the Weather Channel. I gotta real quickly, well, and
we'll get into this down in Florida. Some new law and order style bills,
one of them I have some questions about all. So we'll check in
in Hollywood where they were like, oh, we don't need police, let's
get quote security ambassadors. We'll see how that experiment's going. And another balloon.
We had another balloon to distract us from bank takeovers or whatever you think
the conspiracy is. So all that and much more coming up. Hang on
your day smarter and celebrating ten years of keeping you better informed one oh six
one FM Talk and News Talk nine four five WPTI more with Casey starts now.
All right. The US military said they were tracking a mysterious balloon that
blew over American soil. This time whole I E and I guess they came
to the conclusion that it didn't pose a threat, it wasn't over sensitive places,
so they just let it keep cruise. In the end, it is
from a trajectory standpoint headed towards southern Mexico. So anyway, I don't know,
man, I think if if it's if, because it did cross over
US soil. I don't know why you don't just grease this stuff, you
know, and I get it, don't you know, wait for it to
get whatever, or I guess they saw it coming, so the moment it
enters US waters and you could tell it's on its way to Hawaii, just
shoot the damn thing down. This is a no brainer. This isn't even
the Oh, we don't know if it'll land on the one guy in eastern
Montana, Right, blow that thing out of the sky. I promise there's
some person in the military somewhere is just itching to shoot something like this down.
Practice man, get Maverick to handle it. I don't know. Guy's
got a pretty good track record. They'd actually been tracking it since late last
week, determined to pose no threat to aerial traffic or national security. And
they said it's not communicating signals. Well again, if it's gathering stuff that's
later offloaded, serves the same purpose. But I don't know. I did
see one US officials say that they actually don't believe it belongs to the Chinese.
Okay, well, then tell us what it is. Is it somebody's
advertising balloon that they forgot to write The ads on. Is that somebody's screwing
with you? Is it the old dude from up Is it that weirdo in
Colorado with this guy? We just want answers. And the reason people want
answers is they don't really trust you after all that crap and the irony.
And the reason I'm bringing this story up because it turned out to be a
bit of a nothing burger, is if you remember when Biden was getting criticized
for this, all of a sudden, they were like, oh, yeah,
this happened under Trump, you know, in this deflection, and when
he looked at the circumstances as to what happened under Trump, it was Hawaii,
That's what they were talking about. They were saying that one of these
aerial devices, reconnaissance devices, passed over US airspace near Hawaii. Okay,
well, if you thought it was important enough to bring that up so that
you could get a little what about ism and injected into that other story,
then quit acting like it's nothing here, but hey, that's just me.
So in West Hollywood, California, West Hollywood, California, a decision was
made to cut funding for the patrols. Specifically in West Hollywood, they have
the Sheriff's department that handles patrols there, which is not all that unusual in
California. Sometimes we're instead of dealing with Pete, you're dealing with sheriffs and
instead implement security ambassadors. Right, this is all the defund the police era
crap, and so that's what they did. They were going to get themselves
some security ambassadors and let them handle stuff. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like
it's going well. There's this man kicking his vehicle and I turned my head
and I saw the block by block officers were crossing. I was literally flabbergasted
because they walked right past, just like they were just like nothing. Yeah.
Well, and it's funny that they refer to him as officers when they're
ambassadors. So what has happened? We'll fill you in on that, But
I believe it or not, the residents of West Hollywood are feeling much less
safe. So that great social experiment. Why it's a good time to get
away with murder and uh, speaking of laws, what they're doing down in
Florida. We'll jam pack it all in next hang on, all right,
good morning, everybody, as eight to seven here on the CASEO Game,
radio program our number three on your Tuesday here, glad to have you one
long phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seventy four. Oh
this is nice. What is wrong with people? Sorry? Sorry, I've
got to stay away from Twitter while I'm literally on the air because I start
falling down these rabbit holes. Man. All right, well we'll get to
that here in a little bit. I was just letting you know that it's
not working out so well. And yet another one of these communities that decided,
well, we don't really need police or in this case, sheriff's The
Sheriff's department handled the patrols, you know, actively showing presence and when they
see a crime being committed or suspected crime, actually going over and seeing what's
up. I don't need all of that. We need security ambassadors. Ambassadors
they'll walk around and ambassador or you know, whatever they do. And that's
what West Hollywood decided they were gonna do. The problem, of course,
is residents say that there has been an onslaught of crimes. Now, ironically,
the security Ambassador program is not something that is or a downtown Ambassador program
or something named similar is not a new thing. For years Raleigh had this.
I think they still do. I haven't seen one in a while,
but but they really weren't there to supplant law enforcement. Right, sometimes you
need law enforcement. Case in point, you've got the block by block security
ambassadors. If they see somebody I don't know standing outside of a vehicle banging
away on the vehicle, screaming, threatening to kill the person inside, and
kicking it violently, I would argue that a person who is more akin to
handing out apps and given directions to places where recommendations for restaurants is probably not
the right person to inject themselves into that situation. And they would agree because
they won't inject themselves into that situation. No, no, no. And
one of the examples was a video that was posted the other day of exactly
that happening. There was this man kicking in his vehicle and I turned my
head and I saw the block by block officers were crossing. I was literally
flabbergasted because they walked right past, just like they were just like nothing.
All right, Well, don't be flabbergasted, sir. This is what you
voted for. Right West Hollywood, as you can imagine, is a very
very very very liberal place. And in fact, what was if I remember,
wasn't one of the lawmakers there that dude that kept having gay escorts od
on Methodist house? Do you remember that? It happened multiple times before.
They're like, you know what, maybe this is maybe we should do something.
So but anyway, the politicians you still have, they're all in on
this. So they decided to expand the program and literally slash the sheriff's patrols
because you know, that was the woke thing to do. And as a
result, property crime, person on person violence, and various other incidents have
skyrocketed, not in the sense that they've even got them down as though there
they were able to intervene. Instead, they're taking that data from observational data
because and the ambassadors will not put themselves into that situation, and instead they
are they are told. According to this article from This is the CBS affiliate
in La k CBS affiliate in LA, along with another report by ka b
CTV in LA, security ambassadors are empowered with the power of a phone.
Yes, that's right. The block by block ambassadors are not allowed to mitigate
situations where they feel that a crime may be occurring, which is an often
occurrence in West Hollywood. And look, West Hollywood isn't the murder capital of
LA or anything, but the Hollywood area does have from time to time some
big crimes. There was a pretty big one if you remember, in North
Hollywood that kind of was famous, where some dudes rolled up to rob a
bank outfitted in body armor, and one of the craziest shootouts you've ever seen
that Michael Bay couldn't dream up actually took place. But if you have some
guy that's harassing another dude in a car and is obviously kicking the crap out
of the car in any other place where you had actual empowered officers, they
would they would or should at the very least go intervene in that. But
I didn't. So I find it funny that there is this totality of reports
of all of these citizens of West Hollywood that are they're just they can't understand
it, they're just how does this happen? And the way that it happens
is this is what you voted for, This is what you were comfortable with.
Politicians who were wanting to appear woke and grandstand to go out and set
up you wanted to reimagine police and reimagine police was a major major campaign issue
for the current crop of elected officials in West Hollywood. However, residents say
this is not what they expected they were going to get with the reimagining.
The problem, of course, is many of these communities they can't. So
the way it works is this with the sheriff's department. Obviously, the sheriff's
department is a is a countywide thing, so if you're in San Bernardino County
or you're in Orange County or whatever it is some municipalities, because they have
all these little towns and separate governmental entities, rather than employ their own police
force, they'll contract with the sheriff's department. So I always thought this was
odd when I was down in California because I grew up where you had your
police department in town and the sheriff's department handled all the county stuff. And
that's pretty normal for most of us. However, in California, depending on
which town you're in, it may be sheriff's deputies that handle the day to
day stuff. Because they don't have their own force, they simply contract.
So now by basically kicking them out from a patrol standpoint. When the security
ambassadors do see something happening that they feel law enforcement needs to intervene in,
they have to get on the phone, they have to call the sheriff's department,
at which point they will then dispatch deputies. And there's a certain limitation
to how many times they can do that because there is a strict budget for
This is what the reimagining of police in its purest form looks like. Yes,
so if you go and you read their websites, you realize that,
yes, only in emergency situations will the Sheriff's department be called, at which
point deputies will be dispatched. So yeah, it's not working out so hot,
not working out so hot at all. And it's just one example.
Meanwhile, NPR runs this story, more people are getting away with murder.
Unsolved killings reach a record high. I want you to think about this for
a moment. More murders across America are going unsolved than at any time in
modern history. Wouldn't you think with all of the technology that we have,
with the willingness and the stupidity of criminals too in many cases basically create the
evidence. It's in a social media environment in some cases or through Google search
results. Wouldn't you think it would be easier than ever to solve a murder?
It's hard to get away forensically with murder now, I mean think about
all of the different and I'm not just the CSI crap you see on TV.
But if I asked you, Ross, if I asked you, do
you think it would be easier to get away with murder when your dad was
a kid or when or or now? Right? Oh, dude, because
you know we love watching those true crime shows and like, uh yeah,
they're all over Netflix, right, like the Ted Bundy stuff and it's kind
of short and Markie and I are we saying to each other it like you
wouldn't be able to do that today. I don't think to the extent that
Ted Bundy did, right, Like it's you hate to think about. It's
morbid. But it was so much easier then, right, Yeah, there's
a there's a there's a vastly in probability that your image would be captured.
I mean you're talking about back then. The different departments didn't even communicate across
state lines, so you just go from one state to the next to the
next, and there was no way they would even know. But you know,
think about the processing through modern days, CCTV cell phones with cameras in
them. Yeah, you know, if you had, if you had what
was the one killing where he took the woman to the reservoir or whatever?
I would assume if you go to a reservoir. Now, well, if
you go over, if you go to Jordan Lake or High Rock or any
of the rest that whenever you're going in and around, why don't you look
up see if there's cameras on the post I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna
get I don't know fully on all of them, but I know if you
go to the any of the marina areas and some of the boat launches,
they have cameras over there. Yeah. No, he had a cabin like
right by the lake there during like a like a big holiday, I can't
remember. It was like fourth of July or Memorial Labor Day. And so
there's the lake and then up the hill is his cat been where he would
keep these and like it's impossible now, at least he would hope to think
so. Well, apparently not. So you have to ask yourself, well,
with all of the forensic advances that we have the amount of surveillance society,
you know, the surveillance society that we live in. How in the
world is it easier to get away with murder? And so you have to
start You got to start checking the boxes. And it's it speaks to culture
right where yeah, don't snitch, right, don't don't say anything, and
uh, you know, don't it's none of my business. All right,
Well that's one part of it too. You have to have the ability to
utilize those resources. So you know, if we get into these discussions about
use of the SBI here in North Carolina or any of the forensic stuff,
you still have to budget for law enforceont to be able to do that.
You have to staff accordingly. You have to staff to the to allow people
to have the time that is necessary to put in the legwork and the process
to solve a murder. Some murders are easy because you know, some idiot
brags about it on Facebook. Others require a lot more intricate investigation detail and
scientific endeavor. But you have all of this stuff available. So the only
way that this is possible and correct me if I'm wrong eight eight, eight
nine, three four seven eight seventy four. The only way this is possible
is if we are actively rejecting all of these tools that we have available to
us. And it's funny because NPR does this whole thing, you know,
and they're they're talking to these families. They're interviewing this one family in East
Oakland where let's see, this was in front of a Filipino fast food restaurant
where one of their family members was gunned down and there's been a bunch of
other murders and they can't figure out whether they can't solve any of it.
And they're talking about how, you know, they talk to the police.
Police aren't really doing anything. Well, yeah, because one you have this
part of town where getting people talking to the police is good luck. Good
luck with that. And also you have a police force that has been demonized
and is not funded to the level that it was. Look, do you
homicide detectives want to solve homicides? Right? But yeah, I know that
we've we've had a lot of discussions been all over the board about law enforce
been you know with like that body Camp footage where we talked about head of
some of the reopen and see things. But this isn't about whether an officer
on the street sees some people fighting and decides whether he's going to inject himself
or not because there might be a racial component and he scared what activist politicians
will think. Right, this isn't This isn't that. These are people who
are tasked with solving murders and people who are in the business. The detectives
want to detect stuff, right, They want to solve murders, they want
to catch bad guys. We throw out the intricacies of it. So why
you don't empower them to do that, considering the technologies to a place where
it should it should be, should be easier than ever before to do this
is mind boggling. And for whatever reason, MPR didn't. They didn't decide
to investigate that aspect of it. No, they made it sound like police
don't give a crap, and to some extent, maybe they don't in some
circumstances, like if you have a bunch of gangbangers that shoots, you know,
one guy goes, shoots three and then they retaliate and shoot two of
them, and it's not bystanders getting killed. I understand why that doesn't draw
as much attention versus somebody who gets murder in a home invasion or something.
We're human, we make judgment calls on stuff. But people in charge of
solving murders want to solve murders. People in charge of running down bad guys
and fugitives, they want to catch them. There's a certain bad assery to
it. I mean, that's just that's another element to this. Right.
They want to they want to do their job. So you wrote this whole
thing wondering why it's so easy to get away with murder, and then you
never answer your own question. Don't understand what's wrong with people? All right,
Sue real quick? What's up? Yes, I agree with you about
all these balloons and stuff, you know, the latest one coming into Hawaii.
Yeah, but I had a question. Some people say these could be
UFOs. If they are, should we be shooting at them? Well,
one, it is a UFO. They don't know what it is. It's
an unidentified flying object. So you know there's that, But I don't know.
Do we want to start an intergalactic war? Is that's your question?
Yeah? N right, you know what I'm saying, Get off the lawn
aliens, Yeah exactly, Yeah, or maybe they just want maybe they just
want to Maybe they were just checking out women in bikinis. I don't know
what the aliens are up to, so huh yeah, figuring out who they're
gonna probe next. So all right, Sue, thanks for the call,
appreciate it, thank you. Yeah. Now you have to assert your dominance
whatever you have at to throw out. If you have like tomatoes that let
us, like Vaude Village, just throw it at boo alien go away.
You gotta let them know. You can't let him like walk all over you
or flower or vaporize you. I just had this image of like three grays
flying over and they're like looking staring down at women's sun bath. They're like,
oh, I want to probe that one, right, and all of
a sudden she's gonna tractor beam. I know what the hell is going on?
I don't know. You know, Frankly too, we never got a
straight answer on what that one balloon that other balloon was up over what was
it? Lake Mission, one of the Great Lakes, right, Remember they
were saying it might be a what did they say it was some sort of
capitalistic endeavor. I don't know. So I don't know the answer to any
of it. I just know that ultimately to Ross's point, whether it's searching
your dominance is is blowing one of these things out of the sky to make
a point that you're not going to fly over and gather down on us,
or it's simply outing whoever it is so that everyone knows what's up. Do
something this wishy washy. We don't know, but we don't think anything bad
happened. People don't trust you after you let that one cruise over all the
military bases. Give me a break on this crap, all right? Eight
eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four back in just a few innovatible
m okay, all right, good morning, eight thirty five. You're on
the case O Day radio program. This is the one of the weirdest articles.
Sorry, this is the thing that got me down the rabbit hole earlier.
So, um, now, where exactly was this? Do do?
Do? Do? Do? All right? Jacksonville, Florida? All right,
So if you're in Jacksonville, Florida, and you took an Uber and
you accidentally left something in there, a whole lot of somethings Uber has it
all right? So tell me if this is yours a back this was left
in a back seat, a a stuffed pet toy poodle, six cheesecakes,
a Danny de Vito Christmas ornament, a lightsaber, weed, and a Gucci
loafer, dentures, and a pregnancy test. Oh, in a painted rat
rat track. What the hell is that is? That? Dude? Was
carrot top in there? Have you ever seen the others? Chicken wings?
They had? There was chicken wings. It was about to say. If
there was chicken wings with the Danny DeVito Christmas ornament and the cheesecakes, those
are mine? Oh, those are mine? So now so they did also
find the wings. Hold on, hold on, three, hold on.
I was picking through the article. Here's the actual list. You ready,
I'm gonna read you the entire list of what's in there. You tell me
what's yours? A Danny DeVito Christmas ornament? Yes, fire sword? Deep,
really it's your fire sword? Remote controlled vibrator Nope, nope. Chicken
wings yes, six mini cheesecakes. Actually there was eight, so I'm gonna
need two others. But yes, painted rat trap. I don't believe.
So what is listed and described as quote an important pregnancy test. I'm assuming
that's a positive test. I mean They're all important, right, Well,
yeah, Densher's a lightsaber? Is it a working functional lightsaber? Earlier time?
I think it's a toy. I'll pass weed. Nope, and one
Gucci loafur wait, one Gucci loafer, a package of fake fingernails. I
only wear crocs and that's horrible. And a miniature slushy machine. Yes,
so I would I would like those to be returned claimed. Really when you
were in Jacksonville, Florida where he claimed? Where were you in Jacksonville?
Very recently? Have you seen the Danny DeVito trend going around? I saw
this on Twitter and Facebook this past Christmas season where there are people that put
up instead of a Christmas tree, they put up a cardboard cutout of Danny
DeVito and they put ornaments and garland on it. Well, I see you
don't have a lot of space. That would be a great choice because it's
not very big. And Danny DeVito saw this on social media and reached out.
I was like, this is amazing. I love it. Of course
you did. Of course. Look if people were putting up Ross Hayes cardboard
cutouts for Christmas, I think you you would be pretty enthusiastic about it,
wouldn't you. I'm not one for self promotion, but I might find its
way into my social media somehow. Someway. He actually accidentally whip the retweet
button. Right, things happened, so so uh so you left. So
you were in Jacksonville, Florida, and you left your fire sword, Danny
DeVito, Christmas ornament, chicken wings, cheesecakes, and miniature slushy machine.
That is correct. You know what you probably considering how much crap you have
in your studio, I suspect that you might have all that stuff in there.
So well, not anymore because apparently I just looked over earlier, said
where's my slush puppy machine? He said, ah, it's not here,
thief, And that's my fault. I left it in the uber or whatever.
Oh wow, okay, and where was the uber again? Do you
remember? Said Jacksonville, Florida. Oh wow, Well he knows, so
it must be his. Oh everything, he's crazy man. All right,
check this out. You're a little more audio I gotta get for you.
So Media Matters for America has decided that they're really excited about Tucker Carlson.
You saw that Joe Biden during the Nerd prom the other night it was mocking
Tucker Carlson too, so so now they've got a one two punch. So
if you don't know, the side streaming platform for Fox News is known as
Fox Nation. And I know that some of you subscribe to it because you've
sent me links to it and then that stuff I can access, so um
because I don't subscribe to it. That being said, some people do and
I have actually heard people bring up frustrations about using it. So somebody leaked
some off. This is not when he's on the air. This is a
video that was taken to Carlson when he seated. He seated, but he's
on a phone call with I don't know, producers or something, and somebody
filmed it and then leaked it out because you know, you got you gotta
get Tucker Carlson. And this is the big gotcha moment apparently for Tucker Carlson.
Hold on the button bar, Okay, here we go. Yeah,
he's on This is airing on the nighttime show. And I wanted to look
official. I don't want it to be like bro talk and I and I
you know what I mean, give it a majority of it, like if
we go like forty five minutes. It's Gonnation, but nobody's gonna watch it
on Fox Nation. Nobody watch this Fox Nation because the site sucks. So
I'd really like to just put the dump the whole thing on YouTube. All
right, So what is happening here, just so we're clear, and let
me tell you this is This is something within the industry, and it's not
just it's not just Fox or CNN or TV. It's radio, it's online,
it's journalism in general, newspapers, you name. It. Used to
be you would create content forever, whatever it is you do, but now
your content gets utilized in a variety of different ways. We were talking earlier
about Ross's Twitch stuff that he wants to put on YouTube, and you got
to go multi platform. You got to do this stuff. It drives clicks,
it drives views, listens, whatever it is. So what they're talking
about Tucker with is they're saying, Hey, you're going to do this,
this feature, this theme, this interview. I don't know exactly what it
is, and you're gonna use like five or six minutes of it on your
primetime show, but we want it to be forty five minutes long. And
we're to use the rest of the content as content for Fox Nation, right,
because you got to get all that content on there. And and Carlson's
issue is they want they want the way that it looks to be casual for
Fox Nation. But Carlson's pointing out that they're going to air five or six
minutes of this on the primetime show where it should look professional. And his
beef is why am I yielding my standards to accommodate where the viewership is going
to be much much much lower. I get his beef. I've had these
conversations before, maybe not this exact conversation, but where you're trying to you're
trying to stick up for what it is you think is going to be the
best for the content that you're producing, Okay, and that's got to meet
in the middle sometimes and you do stuff and it's how it goes. It's
do you remember when Ross and I pre COVID, we're doing that podcast where
we because we had to sit in a studio to do and then we couldn't
do it after COVID and they're like, you need to do this thing,
but they didn't tell me what I had to name it, So I named
it contractually obligated, right. That was that was me meeting them in the
middle, but also being a kind of a jerk about it because I thought
it was funny. That's the conversation that Carlson's having. He's saying, I'm
the top rated cable news show. If we're going to produce something, it
should look like it's quality that I would air on the top rated cable news
show, and not the production not have production value that's so low because it'll
be quote unquote fine on Fox Nation. That's what's going on here. But
anyway, that's just my view. Um uh, just frustrated. But it's
hard to use that site. I don't know why they're not fixing it.
It's driving me insane. And they're like making like lifetime movies, but they
don't. They don't work on the infrastructure of the right, like what.
It's crazy and it drives me crazy because it's like we're doing all this extra
work and no one can find it. It's unbelievable. Actually at you.
I don't know who runs that site. Trunk on the show tomorrow night.
That's the plan, all right, I'm not but this is what they think
is the big gotcha. And the irony is like CNN's running this stuff.
Um, Ross, Uh, how CNN plus doing Would you look into that
real quick? Ross is gonna check on that, all right, let me
check? Oh not good? Oh what good? Yeah it's not there?
Oh gone, just oh man in a big just cloud of mist This is
this is the reality of what what the industry is. And it's not necessarily
a bad thing, but you gotta you got you gotta pick what you're doing,
and you gotta stick up for your end of it. And that's what
Carlson's doing there, and arguably he's not even that's not Bill O'Reilly screaming at
the end of Inside Edition. No, and I say this too. If
Carlson is having this opinion on it, guarantee there are actual viewers who are
trying to use the app who are having the same experience. I've talked to
people said this, Yeah, they like Fox. They want a product,
especially a product that they're paying for. They want it to be functional.
And if it is that bad, then people are going to see this supposed
leaked stuff from Media matters and be like, well, yeah, I mean
that's why I like him, because I agree with him because that's relatable.
He's I mean, he's saying, let's make it work, you know,
let's not de incentivize me. It's like when people send an email, I'll
tell people the podcast or whatever, right, and I'll send an email.
I tried to do it and it didn't work, and I want them to
be able to access it in ninety nine point nine percent of the time.
Either you got to update your browser, use a different browser if you're on
that, or see if the apps updated, right, because I want people
to be able to check our podcasts. That kind of this is all you
know, this is all new stuff. Race Agent from the Weather Channel.
I'm not I don't want you to divulge company secrets, but you would agree
that you know, no longer is it a guy with a stick pointing at
a map right right in the world of weather. It's everything is everything is
different. You got to embrace the digital and you want to put your efforts
where it's appreciated. But you also want the tech to work so you can
expand what you're doing. It's the worst gotcha thing I've ever seen here.
So yeah it is. Yeah, you know, different graphics and yeah,
the you know the immersed reality or I AMAR and all that, and yeah
they do all that, compared to its just a green screen too. I
mean it's huge, it's it's it's just big, and you know it is
what it is. Either like it or you don't. I mean yeah,
And so him wanting the stuff to work. I don't understand why they think
this is anyway real quick, ye, lots of traditional weather, Yeah why
not? I mean it's simple, Yeah, yeah, why not. You've
got a lot of sun mid up her sixties today and tomorrow, gusty winds.
There are some wind advisories near the Triad and points west and into the
mountains. I think better towards the end of the week with less wind and
warmer weather, still plenty of sunshine, so nice roll. We'll go up
for sixties, low seventies for Thursday and Friday. Might be some showers Saturday,
and then Sunday watch sunback. We could be closer to eighty for some
spots by Sunday, and that'll be a nice warming trend that I think is
going to start as we get into at the end of the weekend and early
next week. All right, appreciate it, sir, Thank you, and
we'll come back chat with Jeff Bellinger next. Hang on, but now celebrating
ten years and still going strong. Thank you. Casey is on ninety four
five WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle.
All right, eight fifty three Bloomberg Update Now, Jeff Bellinger, what's
happening? Well, Good morning, Casey. Stock market futures a little bit
lower this morning. The now futures are down eighty five points at the moment.
The Federal Reserve is about to open a two day policy meeting in Washington.
It's widely expected another quarter percentage point interest rate hike will be announced on
that session ends tomorrow. It's expected that work on late night talk shows and
soap operas will shut down immediately now that the Hollywood writers have gone on strike.
If the walkout drags on, it will have an impact on fall TV
schedules and movie releases. The last Writers Guild strike was in two thousand and
seven. It forced the networks to abbreviate the season for dozens of popular shows.
Some shows ended up canceled, and it was estimated the strike cost the
Los Angeles area economy about two and a half billion dollars and talks among congressional
leaders in the White House over raising the debt. Sea Link could take on
new urgency. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says her agency's ability to keep paying the
government bills is limited. The Treasury could run out of money as soon as
next month. And the year got off to a strong start for Uber Casey.
The company posted first quarter earnings the top Wall Street forecasts. Higher prices
and uncertainty about the economy have not kept consumers from spending more on rides and
food delivery while they back in other areas. Casey, all right, Jeff,
thank you. Talk to you tomorrow, sir. Okay, sounds good.
Have a good day. All right, there you go. Jeff Bellinger
from Bloomberg News. Dude, I tell you so, yesterday I didn't want
to cook anything, so I went to the KFC, as you do,
Rosty, do KFC? Or do you like churches or bojang? What do
you get your Yeah, I'm down with the KFC. So I went in
there and um, I got the four four pieces right. You know how
they asked if you want white or dark meat? Right? So I'm like,
ah, I will have the dark meat. So if if I ordered
four pieces of chicken, and I said I opted for dark meat, what
do you think would be in there? Right? Because there's four there's four
different kinds of pieces of chicken, two or white, two or dark.
If you just get four piece regular, you get to end up getting basically
a half chicken. You get a breast, a drumstick, a wing,
and a thought. Right, right, you're not gonna get the breast.
What's up you you and get the breast? Would you know if you get
the dark meat, you're getting right? You should be thigh and drumstick and
you should get too, right, I would think so, yes. So
anyway, I thought maybe it was a trick question or something. No,
no, well, apparently it is for the person at the KFC, because
initially he hands me and I could say I saw him putting it in,
because you know they get with the tongs off the little thing, and I
see him put the four pieces, and I'm ah, maybe he didn't see
that it was dark meat. Said no, no, no, no,
I supposed to be just dark meat. He turned around and looked at me
like I just insulted his mother. I was very polite about it, so
anyway. I then watch him take the drumstick out of the box and grab
another wing, and I'm like, no, no dark meat, and he
turns around. Now I've insulted his whole flipping family, right. He then
takes the box in a frustrated manner, sets it down, grabs a new
box to put the four in, and proceeds to put three drumsticks and a
chicken breast in there. And I'm like, I've come this far, and
I'm like, no, it's I would have even taken one thigh and the
three drumsticks, but I want the two thighs and the two drumstick. And
I'm thinking to myself, I don't know the training at KFC. I've never
worked at a KFC. Don't you think on day one you're gonna cover what
the four pieces of chicken you sell are? I think at this point they're
like, oh my god, there's somebody that actually wants to work here.
Just put on the apron and scoop the mashed potatoes. I think I was
excited to have employees. I was super polite about it, and I got
the slaw with it. You know, it comes. You get the four
and they get the slaw on the biscuit and the So now I got left
over chicken. I'm very excited. So a case in point, I ended
up with one thigh and three drumsticks, and I'm just and I even though
technically I should have two thighs and two drumsticks and it's a whole thing,
but yeah, I was just like and I again, I was polite the
whole time, but I'm like, bro, you don't know the parts of
the chicken, and you work at the KFC. This is the easy stuff.
I get the intricacies of, like the computer system like that, but
job one, here's a chicken. Here's the parts of the chicken. Any
but it was still good, so all right, And on that note, we gotta