You know, if I never opened my microphone, we're never back and then
it doesn't count and reality doesn't have the sett up. So but unfortunately I
did. So here we be happy Tuesday, everybody. It is the new
your edition, new Look, New Resolutions. Don't know what they are k
Coo Day Radio program. Oh and you know new first Early Alarm for a
while. So but we made it, Ross and I alive. Ross did
not self immolate, as many of you sent me emails asking, because there's
some video you may have seen on the Internet of Bill's fans ofame. So
yeah, there was that. Although I was thinking about it, Ross,
if I was going to be a fandom who self immolated, I would want
to be a Panthers guy because then the owner would throw liquid on me to
put me out. So I mean, that's got to be one of the
benefits of owning a team, right right, what being a billionaire throwing your
drink on Well, technically it wasn't a Panthers fan. It was a Jags
fan, but whatever, man, that whole thing is crazy. I mean,
I get the frustration, but it would I guess it would be the
frustration of everyone else because, like, if Ross is frustrated was something his
team is doing or I'm frustrated with something my team is doing. Really,
all we can do is complain about it. I mean, granted we have
a little bigger soapbox, but we can't do it. But if we own
the team, right, right, you can't sit there as the owner of
the team be like, you know what they need to do. They need
to they need to throw out this plan that they've they've they've been doing,
and and go and try to get draft picks. Like you're the owner,
so you can actually do stuff. You're not just some fan complaining about what
he thinks should be done. So like your your your frustration should be somewhat
tempered because you can actively assist in whatever the problem is. So, yeah,
that story is crazy. It wasn't by the way, it wasn't just
one Bills fan. It was like three different ones. So I don't I
don't know what was different, man, But there you go. Yeah,
I mean, I mean it's gonna be a stressful week, and sometimes the
best way to deal with stress is to let yourself on fire. Is is
that jump through a table? Yeah? Yeah, I mean some people do
yoga, not fire. They do the hot. Yeah, say, is
there fire yoga? Well, there's hot yoga, right, that's the thing
where they do the yoga in a room that's really hot. So then,
oh my, when I worked in Omaha in the building on the bottom floor,
there was one of those hot yoga places, and like you'd go outside
and there was always people like just dripping sweat. Yeah, oh it's so
bad. Yeah, but they weren't on fire. They were not. Oh
okay, all right, so I guess maybe that's a new classification. How
was how was Vaca for you? Trap? The first week was absolutely horrible.
Lincoln and I were incredibly sick with the RSV. Oh no, it
was so bad, including like having to drive down to Louisiana with that on
Friday. We're cleared up by Saturday. We stopped on Airbnb in Alabama,
absolutely beautiful. It was nice when we got to Louisiana with the in laws.
It was a great time. When Marky got sick, she was only
sicking for about three or four days. But it was absolutely horrible. But
the second week was pretty good. Okay, all right, got so much
bill stuff. I yeah, I was gonna ask new hat, new hat,
these red, white, and blue Bills, Sneakers. Okay, Josh
Allen Jersey, get that America so much stuff, dude, Okay, all
right, you know what, here's the thing though, I know that you
guys like to play the early game. You don't like to play outside of
that. However, you you have the best position for this scenario in front
of you. Do you know what I mean? It is? So yeah,
it's gonna be Bills at Miami on Sunday night. They moved this Sunday
out of the Miami Sun so they don't have that advantage in their stupid stadium
here. They're very sad about they are. Yes, if the Bills win,
they take the division and then they are the number two seed. If
they lose, then either the Ravens have to beat Pittsburgh or the Titans have
to beat Jacksonville and then they'll be the sixth seed. Yeah, but it
doesn't happen and they're out. But with my point though, but by the
time you play, you'll know what yeah right, So, which means there
is a definite possibility I will have a heart attack on Sunday night if it's
for all of them. Yeah, like like, because are the Ravens gonna
play their starters. They've already clinched, right, so they might put their
backups. So if Pittsburgh beats the Ravens backups, then it's over and the
Bills are out. But then the Bills have to win that game on Sunday
night to get the two seed. So you wanted that point. It's two
seed or nothing? Yeah, yeah, yeah, do you want to trade?
I mean, what is your I'm not really familiar with the NFC stand
Like, how how is it looking for the Vikings? Well, where we
still have we still have a chance. Why are you why are you getting
up in front of that Glenn Beck chalkboy. Yeah, yeah, it's a
it's a it's a whole thing here. I'm gonna need some red yarn so
I can attach. So we need to have like five different teams lose and
then of course win and and so it it's a tougher path. And you
know we're playing the Lions too, but there's there's a chance they're leading the
division. Yeah, we need we need like five different like there's four teams
that have to lose specific I know everyone's just on the edge of their seat
over this hold on. All right, So the Seahawks, Saints, and
Packer. I'm sorry, we need four teams to lose. Seahawks, Saints,
and Packers all have to lose, and then either the Falcons or Buccaneers.
So we need four teams to lose. You just probably have to go
in and hell, you probably don't even have to play for it, you
know what I mean. So I don't think the Ravens are just gonna sit
everybody unless I'm missing something because you know, home field, homefield, baby,
Well I guess they did. Then twenty nineteen and twenty nineteen, the
Ravens they got the number one seed. Yeah, like you know, before
the end, like the second week of the end of the season, like
week seventeen or sixteen, whatever it was, right, and then in that
final game they saw all their starters. But then they had a bye week
the next week because they had, you know, their number one seed,
and then they lost in their game because they've been sitting out, and they
then played in like two or three weeks. Yeah, that's a mess at
NFC is just a mess too, like Eagles getting beat and a Cowboys benefiting
from apparently a little confusion about who or who isn't an eligible receiver. That's,
you know, just the latest in a long line of whoopsies. Although
now the NFL is saying it's Detroit's even though you could see the video,
but then you hear the state of the whole thing is a mess. But
oh, dude, dude, we got a we got a New Year's Eve
Christmas card in the mail. Okay, I open this at four am when
I got here, but got here before you. Yeah. I put it
in Kyle's studio because give me, I gotta go get you'll understand why I
put it in kyle studio. Give me one saying all right, oh,
hold on, hold on, Ross's off, Ross's trekking. All right.
You didn't have to track far. It's just right next to the studio here,
all right, all right, it's not running right, Oh, here
we go. All right. So I opened this card. Yeah, and
it says meow Christmas. It's it's to you and I good. Yeah,
I open it. M hm. It says Merry Christmas and a happy meow
year. Merry Christmas from the Griffith family and your cat Whiskey, your friend
from twitch griff zero three one seven. And I opened it. It's been
doing this and it won't stop. Well there it's been going. It's been
going for two hours and fifteen minutes. Like you know, in engineering,
there's lots of tools. Oh it's horrible. You know what. I was
trying to do commercial production records of stuff, and I'm like, this thing
won't stop. Here's what you need to do, all right, during the
break go down, go down the sales and find one of the cubes where
nobody's in it, and then just stick it in the door there, so
that all day in sales, I need to put it in the drop ceiling.
Yeah. Yeah, Like faintly they're just like, what is going on?
Cat dying? Oh that is awful? Okay, all right, we'll
go with that. Dude, put that, put that in. Yeah,
go take that and go do something? Drops it? What the hell?
Man? Oh dude? All right? So uh yeah, we got but
we got news. We got. I don't know why. I don't know
why. Annually there's always these stories that almost almost let's just be very clear,
almost make us want to come or be at least come back and do
a show. Not that we're gonna do that, but we got to talk
about Reverend William Barber insanity because of course everybody, everybody who's covered uh uh
the Reverend Barber over the years in their mind can probably surmise how that whole
movie theater scenario went. And like there's this lack of critical processing of the
information and thinking to at least bring about questions that you may have about the
official scenario that was expoused during his press conference, like reasonable questions. And
you can also reasonably think that if possible, accommodating him because he's he does
have health issues is also something that you know, I don't have a you
know, if you if you're a business and you want to be able to
accommodate that you have a way to do that, then than good I got.
I got the The whole thing is is just stupid squared man, and
had to watch all that play out. We got at all sorts of research
insanity. We've got secretaries of state in in this case Michigan just deciding just
partisan partisan grabs. Man. It's just craziness. And we'll try to get
in everything we can and smash that card to pieces coming up here on the
CaCO Day Radio program one O six one FM Talk w PTI, two stations
driving the best in talk. This is Cacoday and Carolina's Morning News. All
right, good morning, six twenty four here on the CaCO Day radio program.
I didn't run it through the keys since it was a little more light
hearted. I was doing that. But one other story, and I want
to make sure we we hit now and of course later in the show as
well. Very tragic story out of Greensboro. And I mean, just so
many irustrating angles as you go through this. The Greensboro Police Department Sergeant Philip
Dale Nicks, who was a watch commander, who was off duty by the
way at the time, just stopping it a sheets, it's the sheets on
Sandy Ridge, attempted to confront three individuals. I saw it at first.
I saw somebody refer to as juveniles, but nobody's under the age of eighteen.
Apparently two of the folks arrested eighteen, the other one twenty eight.
Lengthy histories of larceny, drugs, you name it. Who apparently decided they
were going to go into the sheets and get themselves. Let's see here eighty
three dollars worth of medello cases of beer. I don't know what that comes
out to. What is a case of medello. Was that three or four
cases and you know, and then do the hip new thing where you just
don't pay just to roll out of there. It just so happened that Nicks
was there and attempted to intervene. According to the you know, the warn't
reports we've seen, it also sounds like there may have been some sort of
bolo of some sorts on one or two of the individuals. But while attempting
to intervene, one of the eighteen year olds, identified as Jamior Foster,
according to authorities, decided he was he was not going to be captured,
and even though there was some first responders on scene, they were not able
to save the Greensboro officer it previously had worked. Let's see his detective,
let's see here. And so there was another off duty officer in a Guildford
County paramedic who were at the gas station who attempted to aid, but by
then it was just too late. M let's see you here court the police
department, Nicks worked many assignments, including criminal investigations, detective, patrol sergeant
and most recently supervisor of the Family Victims Unit. Let's see, so Foster
is who they believe killed them. And then the other two arrested. Oh
look, I have an apostrophe in my name, but I don't even know
what this the Quera z apostrophe Choir Querra, Lapierce Blackwell and John Morrison,
the other two arrested over eighty three dollars worth of beer and this idea that
hey, you just if you want some, just walk in and take it.
Who's going to stop you? And in this case, off duty officer
who said, you know what, but I'm an officer. I mean,
very often, very often, we have these scenarios where they're they're off work,
but they're not off work. And in this case, you have an
eighteen year old who just decided, Hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna go in
here, I'm gonna take whatever I want. This is what they're alleging.
And what are you gonna do about it? And this this scenario unfolded,
and I can't help but be really frustrated. Then when I when I see
these articles which are just adorned with all of these Twitter statements from individuals who
I feel, through either their policies or attitudes or rhetoric or pandering or whatever
it may be, contribute to this I don't lay it all at their feet.
You know, people, people will be committing crimes for a long time.
But when every time you get more permissive on stuff like this, and
people honestly think, hey, I could just walk into a gas station with
arm, you know, under my arms full of cases of beer and walk
out. What are you going to do about it? Or go to a
CBS lease that. I mean, that's it. It can't help but add
to create a scenario where this might this might in fact be be something that
plays out. So excuse me if I roll my eyes on some of this
stuff. But I don't want to make a hyperpartisan but it's really frustrated and
my thoughts with everybody in law enforcement, especially the Greensboro Police Department. We'll
be back hang on ARK Talk all day ninety four five WPTI in the Triad
and one six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right, welcome back
six thirty five here on your Tuesday morning, as we try to get back
into the swing of things, all be it through a new and positive lens
and outlook on the twenty twenty four and what may be in store. But
or dude, I saw now and look, it's like every man on the
street thing. I didn't put this in the prep, but they were like
asking people what they're hopeful in the new year. And you'd have thought that
they were interviewing a bunch of like angry New Yorkers and it was like in
Missouri or something. So I don't have people are there's some optimism about there,
but a lot of people, man, they're just in a funk.
So we'll see, will continue to cover the news that goes from there,
and and look, there's reasons out there, there's stories, there's tough stories.
We're doing this morning, we were just talking about what happened with this
this this this murder of a Greensboro while off duty, still somebody who was
acting in that capacity and willing to even do so when they're just, you
know, stopping by the convenience store to grab a few things. When confronted
with individuals who just think they can do whatever the hell they please. And
I feel like we're allowed to have conversations why that attitude may be becoming more
permissive or more persuasive within society. And it's very frustrating to read the ways
in which some people are responding to it. All right, let's get let's
get a call or to a few other stories as well. Mike, you're
up first, what's up? Yeah, twenty five year retired deputy out of
Massachusetts, sixty five, retired down here to get out of the cold weather.
Right, you're always on duty, you get sworn in and believers like
doctors and nurses, Lauren, enforcement is a calling like a firefighter, and
that officers stepped up. My condolences to the Greensboro PD and to the family.
You hurt one, you hurt us all. We all bleed blue,
as we say, and it's a terrible thing. But our society has gone
to heck in a handasket, and children are not being taught morals, and
this is what we end up with. And this happened first thing this morning,
from what I understand. No, this this happened over the weekend,
but obviously we're getting into it this morning. Yeah, I enjoyed the show,
by the way, Casey, well, thank you. Yeah, this
happened on Saturday specifically, sir, but thank you for listening. And yeah,
now that is my understanding. And again, I just whatever you can
do to have a society that is it is less likely you're always going to
have people regardless, Right, there's still people in you know, think of
the like Singapore where you know they'll cane you for putting chewing gum on it.
There's still going to be people that break the law. You have to
ask yourself, you know, where is that balance of you know, how
strict and how thorough enforcement is going to be versus And I understand balancing other
interests, right, We're still we're still handing over to other people the ability
to remove a constitutional right for us under a very certain set of circumstances.
And that is you know, that's something that has to be managed and governed
by individuals. But the more permissive you get, the more likely people think
they can do something right. There's a reason people will speed in some places
and not others. And there's a reason that some people will get in their
head that they can go in and that they can commit larceny with zero repercussions,
even within a defined dollar amount. That's why you see people adding stuff
up in stores they're looting in California. So yeah, when I started seeing
that thing swing, that pendulum swing too far, I'll call it out.
And why you can never prove that that would be it. I don't think
it's a big logical leap to wonder if one contributes to the other. By
the way, it was also the first time here we go that they issued
a blue alert, right, So you've seeing the alerts we have. We
got silver alerts here, we got all of that, which at first when
moved to North Carolina, like, what's the different swit's of silver alert versus
namber alert, all of that, But in this case, what was issued
on Saturday was a blue alt, which actually was added to the system in
twenty sixteen, and basically blue. Right, you're thinking law enforcement, Yes,
that's what attracts with Blue alerts were to be issued when a suspect poses
imminent incredible threats to law enforcement or when an officer is missing in the line
of duty. And apparently according to state archives, this was the first time
it's ever been used, been around for you know, eight years or whatever.
I saw people reacting to that on Twitter. I'm not even gonna get
into all this stuff. Why is there a separate you know why? Because
if somebody is willing to shoot a police officer, it's in the minds of
most people it's an escalation and now it also is going to create a much
more in the I would assume in the suspect's mind, a scenario where you
have to assume that the blowback is going to be fierce, and you know,
desperation sets in or whatever, and you have somebody who is out there,
who is violent, who is willing to shoot a law enforcement officer,
and I haven't seen specifically if he identify I'm sure he did, who is
absolute danger, menace to society. So you know, that's why you have
this scenario. That's that's that's that's that's potentially a worse situation and a more
volatile situation than just your standard be on the lookout. Here's a short description
of a guy who broke in and stole something. Let's see here. Yeah,
I just got the various comments from the governor, Lieutenant governor, Josh
Stein, you name it, all included in the article here and incredibly frustrating.
I wonder if Reverend Barber will have a pressure on this or if we're
just going to stick to movie theater seating options. I guess we'll have to
wait and see. Now here's what I'm gonna do on that, because I
got to set up the story. I see some of you already want to
comment on this. Holding is crazy just in the inability of people who know
better, anyone who's worked in the media here for years. Just like any
other story, as you're reporting on it and you're gathering information, you're also
running it through what is supposed to be your professional filter, right to determine
all right, look, here's something we know, but here's some questions that
should be asked so that we can provide context or information. It's the job
of a journalist. And then also, if you know somebody and you've dealt
with somebody, and somebody's been a profile, you know, a person a
profile for quite some time, you can gather past stories and interaction and statements
and and and try to use that to inform what may or may not be
happening here. And then there's just the logic that people have because we're people
and we go about and we have different experiences do different things. Well,
I'm going to get into those things that I feel are missing, and we'll
set up the story for you as well. Coming up here on the KCO
Day radio program on six one f M Talk and News Talk ninety four five
w PTI more with Casey starts. Now. So the amount of in my
opinion, just stupid associated with this story because immediately when I saw what happened,
or I saw what was said to have happened, I through my years
of experience covering the Reverend William Barber and what you know, remembering incidents like
remember happened on the on the plane? There was an incident on a plane
quite a number of years ago. And and just you know, some of
the hyper partisan quite effective, I might add, hyper partisan crap that has
been seen over the years, especially when there's been this ven year that the
media is willing to provide that there's no politics here. This is just somebody
fighting the good fight, when in reality, for years he was like the
de facto Democratic spokesperson. It was just crazy man. So this there's this
scenario where the former head of the North Carolina NAACP, the Reverend William Barber
some some have referred to him as soul glow of the bufface layer. Just
you know, so everyone's following along apparently went to go see the color Purple,
which has been read done and was in theaters. Okay, all right,
goes goes to the movie theater. And one of the things you have
to know is that the Reverend Barber has he has significant hip issues. You
see him why, I don't know exactly what the what it is. But
so when he walks, he has canes and walkers, and and he he
has a chair because sitting low in a chair is problematic. And I don't
begrudge or or or wish that upon anybody like that's that's not my beef here
and and literally he will have he will have a a like an assistant with
a special chair. And that goes everywhere. So when he's doing a sit
in at the Senate waiting to get arrested but then have the charges thrown out,
or showing up to an event or whatever it is, the chair is
there. Well, he went to the theater and as as best we can
understand, he set up in the theater, but set up in I guess
the handicapped area. Now you know, we're where normally you'd have people with
wheelchairs, Uh pull in there. And he's set up on the chair and
at some point somebody at the within the theater told him you can't, you
can't, And it had to do with him. I'm sure, putting this
special chair there, which, by the way, Ross, have you ever
seen the chair? Everyone needs to We got to start from here. Yeah,
okay, And how would you describe the chair? It's not some weird
medical contraption. It is how would you describe it? High top barstool?
Right? Definitely? Yes, Yes, it's a it's a high so it
sits higher type of chair. It's the same heights of the chairs that we
use well in Ross's studio because Ross has a high board. My studio has
a lowboard, right, but high top barstool. And and and I understand
right if you have problems seating real low that's gonna be. Now, Ross,
you've ever been to a movie theater? You're gone to a theater?
Yeah, I've been to a movie a few dimes? Sure. Wait all
right, So when when you're talking about the handicap section, where is that
located in most theaters? I like up front to the side. Yeah,
And it's not even all the way to the front necessarily, it's generally depending
on where the walkway comes into the theater, it's going to be on that
same level. So you know, when you walk into a theater, you
walk past and obviously the seats are to your side there and then you make
entry in about two thirds of the seats are available if you go up the
hill and then down the hills the other third and then that's that pass through
and generally that's where they'll put the handicaps so that because if people are in
wheelchairs, they don't have to change altitudes, right, they just they go
in there. And in some theaters there's a really tall wall behind that,
but in most theaters it's it's not And so if you have an elevated chair
now in the middle of the crowd, that's going to potentially cause problems.
And I don't know the exact scenario, but like this is a fact that
for whatever reason, nobody wanted to discuss. Now you can see it in
the video that they that they posted. Right, there's a woman sitting behind
them in clear there's no possible way she could see the screen. So there's
no out Now the times you buy the seats before you go in a lot
of these theaters, right, yes, yes, yes, yes, And
and by the way, uh pro tip in some theaters there's next to the
handicapped area, depending on how it's I know the one at North Hills is
like this, and it's like there's like there's a there's a couple of really
good seats there. They're not the handicap that are kind of because of how
they had to format that. And I remember sitting there and you're basically sitting
like you're sitting in another row. You just happen to be on that front
row, so you can kick your legs out if you want, but there's
not the extra elevation. And so when this employee came over, it was
like trying to address this issue, which, yes, if that's an issue,
I don't know if there was discussion like, hey, how can we
do this so that we can accommodate what you need? Which if they're able
to do it, then by all means they should do it right. And
nobody's claiming that, but how do we accommodate this without literally creating a scenario
where now nobody behind you can see. And I don't know exactly how it
played out the speed of things, but based on my years of covering this
and the response in the press conference, which I'm going to play a little
love, I think the scenario, in my opinion, may have gone like
this rolls in with the chair, sets the chair in this area, creating
the visual that Ross just described. Somebody says something to one of the employees,
some employee who makes minimum wage or whatever and is just trying to,
you know, solve any problems there may have got in and like, hey,
this won't work, and it turned into a confrontational scenario. And I
have no doubt in my mind, again, this is just my opinion that
the escalation probably wasn't on the part of the employee, but on the part
of somebody who's like, do you know who I am? I can do
what I want. That's in my mind, I think that's a very likely
scenario and one that's never touched on here. You know, how dare you
where you want me to move? I'm not moving Ironically, if you're gonna
have a high top chair in that scenario and they were to ask him to
sit in the back, I don't even want to know how that conversation went.
Yeah, I was gonna say, you know, Lincoln, my son
is severely autistic. He's actually disabled. Yes, and uh, when we
do risk and venture out to a movie theater, we tend to sit in
the back because Lincoln likes to because of his autism. He likes to get
up and he likes to bounce up and down, sometimes on his toes or
or you know, the way he will move his arms around. When he
gets really excited. He'll stammer. Sometimes he'll make noises. And we don't
want to ruin the movie for other people, so we always sit in the
back. Always, yes, yeah, because wants distraction, right, because
people have paid their hard earned money to go see a movie, you know,
at this point on the holidays, and it's you know, we don't
want to run it for him? Well why that why nobody asked any questions
along those lines. They just immediately ate up. He's just like and and
and we'll get into the statements. You're going to play the audio for you
too. I kick things off. I know it was a long setup,
but you know, people, it was Christmas, and Christmas happened in New
Year's and everyone's distracted. But like pushback. I want somebody who thinks I'm
an idiot who just listens to hate What did I say in there in that
scenario that you think is unlikely, because I feel like that is the likely
scenario. Rolls in, decides this is where I'm going to set up.
Clearly, there is a visual line of sight issue. Employee starts addressing it,
and now it's now it's it's turned into you know, the next great
civil rights issue of North Carolina's time. It's just all absurd. You got
a big dude sitting on a big as chair blocking the view of everybody else,
right right, I mean, but you know, no, we're in
a different place and we'll get to audio and your phone calls on this because
oh wait, oh yeah, just just wait for it. Two cuts for
you and your phone calls, plus much more to come here on the CaCO
Day Radio program. All right, good morning, and happy Tuesday, everybody.
It is our number two. Is we make our valiant return. I
don't know why rebelliant, I guess because we're here, right, But you
are too, having to get back into the swing of things. And boy
boy, it's always always fun to kick off the new year, and it
is chock full of insanity. One of the stories that played out pretty quick
when we were into vacation, but was this this incident of the theater in
Greenville. The Reverend William Barber is there. I think he's with his mom,
and they went to see The Color Purple. Okay, all right?
That was the reboot in is it a reboot or rema? I honestly,
I don't know, But anyway, that was showing at the theater, and
he brought his mother, and as part of him going places because of the
medical issues that he has, he has a chair that is of the right
height, and I guess stability to provide him comfort or at least some element
of comfort versus sitting all the way down in a chair. And I get
that, but I also get that in not all handicapped sections of theaters.
Are you going to be able to put a high top chair and not obstruct
other's ability to perhaps enjoy the movie? And you know, is there a
compromise to be found? Sure, maybe if there's not a ton of people
in the theater and it's feasible that maybe some folks can kind of clear out
the area right behind him, that might be a reasonable accommodation the theater might
make. Or perhaps hey, since it is an elevated chair, rather than
setting up there, maybe it's off to the side, although maybe they can't
do that because of fire coats. I don't know, but I also don't
believe that it was a you know, a nice conversation that wasn't escalated.
And judging from things that we've seen, including incidents that have taken place even
on an airplane in the past, that have been videotaped, I don't believe
for a moment that he didn't escalate the situation. And in the same way
that do you know who I am Hollywood celebrity does and that culminated in video
and press conferences. And I mean, just just listen to and I'm gonna
take you out. I cannot go out, Okay, I'm gonna you and
I'm gonna take you out, and I'll charge you on my car. And
that's fine if you if you want to take me on, I do that.
That's this is after obviously, and you are moving, you're enjoying your
saying if you're not a joy today and and and look, the problem becomes
that, yes, there are places of public accommodation. However, if the
business or the the private property owner wants to trespass you, they can for
a wide number of reasons, one of which is not following directions or being
agreeable to what it is they're offering. And and and if he doesn't feel
that it was a reasonable accommodation, he's more than welcome after the fact to
sue the theater if he wants. But you can't just go hey, i'm
not moving. I know that that works when you're in the legislative building because
inevitably there won't be consequences. But it wasn't over. It wasn't over.
Following all of that, statements were issued, press conferences were held. Here
is the Reverend Barbary. I want more. I'm in the White House with
this chair. They've called an officer of the law the A. M Theater
in Greenville, North Carolina. They would not make amends. They're simple to
do the right thing. But we'll deal with it. They brought this off.
What's your name? Ain't trying off the limit. I want to know
your name. No problem. I was, I was in the I said
all the time, right, and and and again. It's the thing is
not the chair. It's the positioning of the chair. And by the way,
I think the officer handled it fine. And other some people are like,
he's attempting to trespass somebody, which is something that officers do on the
regular and Frankly, it's not even something that generally they're having to make a
judgment call over right the property owner. Once an individual trespassed and it's not
for some illegal reason, as best the officer can perceive, So they're gonna
trespass and there they'll let the courts work it out. That's what this is.
That's what this normally is. And again, I don't know exactly how
the scenario played out, but I feel like some reporters didn't leave the opportunity
open that maybe this thing was escalated when it could have been mitigated due to
ego, which is something that's been seen in the past. Let's see.
Barbara went out to say, think about all the people and your family,
your jobs, your churches, your community who are different, but just like
you, were created in the image of God. This is about plain and
simple humanity. You can be humane in attempting to accommodate everybody. Barbara called
for more awareness, education, and policy changes. The theater did issue a
statement here we go, I amc welcomes guests with disabilities. We have a
number of accommodations in place at theaters and our teams work hard to accommodate guests
who have needs that fall outside the normal course of business. Encourage guests who
require special seating to speak with management and advance. That's the other thing.
And I know it would suck, but I would think that if you haul
a chair everywhere, you would also develop a pattern where you may converse with
individuals, because it's not something you see every day, right, somebody hauling
a high top barstool into a theater, Like, I'm surprised the staff wasn't
at the at the where they got the tickets, Like, why do you
have a stool? But who knows? Maybe they were busy, but yeah,
that's where we are. So let's get into your phone calls. Donna,
you're a first, Thanks for hanging on. What's up? Good morning,
Casey, welcome back. You were missed. Yeah, as much as
I hate to blow up your ego, you were missed. So my opinion
is, initially I felt sorry for him. I thought, what he means,
he didn't let him in, he's just able, And then I saw
the chair, okay, and all I could think of was fire hazard.
So what I think is we have an entitled an entitlement problem in this country,
and it's being fostered by liberal judges, and that's why you have criminals
going and stealing beer, just walking out with stuff. We have liberal politicians
and liberal journalists who call flying a balloon over an airport a protest when it
should be seen as terrorism. And these are liberals that are that are causing
these attitudes. I I hear you. I I want to be I want
to be clear to separate uh, you know, shooting police and walking out
with tons of beer versus just a sense of entitlement, because well, be
accommodated is not inherently illegal. It's more how this seems to have played out
when it probably didn't have to play out like this. I agree, I
agree, but I think maybe he wanted to do it to show off his
entitlement. Yeah, you've got to deal with a ramam manual scenario, right
never, you never let a crisis go to waste. And I think that's
part and parcel of his career, right so you s goot these opportunities,
and you know, it's it's the it's the you're running out the world's running
out of its supply of overt racism and it doesn't keep up with demand kind
of things. So right right, Well, I'm starting I know you can't
say it. I'm going to say it, and you may disagree with me.
I don't know, but to me, it seems that there's more black
privilege going on right now than white privilege. And if you know, you
I don't go into a place and steel beer or walk into a place,
you know, but these people are doing it everywhere, everywhere, And why
aren't they going to jail? And now now a policeman is dead? Because
they feel like they can just walk into a place and walk out with whatever
good do they want? And then it's not wait a minute, now it's
not just black people, I realize, but there does seem to be black
entitlement going on when you have somebody like Barber pushing that uh pushing that that
attitude, Well you don't you don't you know there there's plenty of Karens out
there. And yeah, I mean that was what you saw was a Karen
scenario and it's just and it doesn't have to be. But then but then
you drag in the are they this whole subtext with you know, are the
are the theater people doing this because they're looking at a scenario where They're like,
I don't know how to deal with this or did they do it because
they have hate in their heart? And I just don't believe that. I
don't think so. I think the theater has hate in their heart. I
think they just want to mitigate the problems so they can get back to not
dealing with that. So casey, I sit in the handicaps area. If
I was if I was to bring in a chair like that, I would
also get kicked out, But I wouldn't have the journalists surrounding me making everybody
so bad for me. Right well that that thing is a fire, has
it? I saw that chair and I was like, holy cow, man,
if that's so in front of the door and people start tripping on it,
people would die. And then what would they say? You know?
Yeah, I think and dot I appreciate the call this morning. I think
that what what is the core thing that happened here or didn't happen is I
don't think that there was probably a reasonable discussion that was allowed to take place.
I think that immediately like and this again is just my opinion, in
all of the information, all the scenarios I've seen, like he probably immediately
took umbrage with it. And from there now everyone's just dug in. And
it was just this whole thing that didn't have to be a thing, but
it was a thing. But it was a thing for the kids, so
with them, although and they can see it because you're elevated two feet above
everybody else. So there is that, all right, Jamal about three minutes
and I suspect you have a few thoughts, so go ahead. Oh yes,
Happy New Year, and welcome back Ross and welcome back Chase jc O
day week, Misschief, that big fat lion, Jerry Carroll, Whammy,
William Boble. He knows his twenty twenty four and people are not happy with
Joe Biden. And of course what he does is he does whatever he does
for a Democrat Party, claim racism about everything so that he can distract black
voters from what's going on with their money, their their their living conditions.
So the Democrat Party won't pay for it. But he's in eastern North Carolina.
He ain't like too much back there now. He went to go see
the movie Color Purple. Everybody knows that chair he has it because yes,
he does have a disability. He discontinue his ability to push away from the
table. Yes, he discontinued his ability to push away from the table.
The man's fat, okay, And being he's fat, he got to drag
around his jail because he can't sit down because he can't pull his big high
board up, and he can't continue to stand because everything he lean on he
breaks. So they created this jail so he too fat to stand, too
fat to fit. So that's what his chair is. For. Anybody ever
worked in a movie theater knows people with this aphility of wheelchairs. They put
you at the front. What he probably tried to do will sit close to
where people will sit and singing and sit there because of his mom well be
there, attempted to sit in the handicapped section. I don't know if he
attempted to sit elsewhere as well, but I at least know he attempted to
sit there. Let me, hey, Jamal, let me ask you a
question real quick, because I think this is another element too. Okay,
who do you think? And again, I don't know who was in the
theater, but it was a showing of the movie The Color Purple. Who
do you think likely was? He would have been obstructing you if you had
to guess who made someone elderly? Well, no, no, no,
no, some one elderly. No no no, But what do you what
do you think the crowd demographics that are showing of the movie the color purple
probably look like do you think it was a bunch of s racks? Right,
So you have this scenario where there's a higher likelihood, which is why
dragging, racing, all of this is just so dumb, right, and
it is. Yeah, it's it's stupid, casey because of the simple fact
everybody knows. William Barbara always cried. He cries. He cries about Bishop
Brandt of word word tapping. I think it's the word happening because he went
to see the movie too. He said the movie's disgusting of upper rooms.
He's in the upper room. Bishon Brandt said that movie's disgusting. They put
more, They put some stuff in there that the original movie didn't have it.
So TD I call him ten snakes. Just like ten snakes, William
Barber is a fake of pall and what he wants to do since people know
the black community is not happening. Tabby, which was on on with your
fine the Democratic Party and what he does is he goes out there and just
cries racism, racism. The movie theater discriminated against me. Then Movie p
theater down in Greenville. People been going at movie theater. Page has never
had a problem. As soon as he take his big fat lion Jey Curle
wearing the eye for or down there, he's a problem. Yeah he a
fake a fall and a side storm. Yeah that's uh, this is what
frustrates me about this. I and Jamal I appreciate the call this morning.
Have yourself a good one. Okay, you too? All right, there
we go. Yeah, that's this is what Fred. There's like, there's
a thousand reasons why dragging you know, some sort of a big, big
race issue into this is just wildly unnecessary. But here we go. We're
off to uh, we're off to a banging start here in twenty twenty four.
All right, we'll get more calls on this. We got to talk
about what happened. But at the NC State Bowl Game two, I don't
know what's up. And also I don't know why, but the Frank Thomas
story, if you didn't hear that, this this story kills me. So
your calls that we've got some gas station, stuff to talk about, and
everybody's waiting. Everybody's waiting for the Epstein list, which could come out literally
at any moment. So all that and more coming your way. Phone number
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for the podcast on the iHeart radio app. Oh man, all the police
officers are hung on, all right, I'd probably need probably had to go
police suffer, all right. So we had a police officer. It was
on hold ross and it was about trespassing, and I had I said,
look, I'm not a police officer, but I guess best I can tell.
The process goes like this. I called somebody, be like, hey,
I have somebody won't leave the property. I want to have them removed.
Police officers will show up, they'll trespass them, which generally they'll you
know, it's a little piece of paperwork there, I get this person's name
here here by trespassed. And if you're back here here's the scenario, and
go about your business and leave. And that's how a trespass works. The
officer is not litigating it, right and people will push back and go,
yeah, but if they're having them removed because of a protective reason, then
that's not legal, right. But the way in which you go about remedying
remedying that is not on site. It's the same thing as arguing with the
officer at the traffic stop. Are you going to do it in court?
So if you're trespassed and you feel that you can prove your trespass illegally,
it's not about litigating it to the officer. Your remedy is the courtroom.
So you so you sue and if you know, judge or jury finds that
it was an illegal thing. The only thing that where it gets dicey with
officers is they can't solicit a trespass, which is you know, that's a
that's a whole thing in and of itself. But they can't go somewhere and
just to like screw with somebody, or if they want to do something,
go in and try to solicit a trespass where the property owner whoever's in charge,
wasn't asking them to be removed, but the officers are creating this scenario.
That's where things can get dicey. But uh, I'm assuming ross that
the officer agreed with me. Right, that was basically the scenario. Yes,
right, because he just he just wants to do this and just get
back to me. They explain this like all the time too, because it's
something very common you see on like on Patrol Live or Life ped Yeah,
it's a thing you see all the time, like here, we're gonna do.
We he's gonna do and we're out. Yeah. And if if you
if, if you have a problem with it, you know, get a
lawyer or whatever whatever whatever the remedy may be. But it ain't that not
that right there? All right, one more call real quick, Janet,
what's up? Ok, Casey. I was telling him the kind of brainstorm
with Donna because all isn't exactly her spot a couple of years ago. Then
I thought, if that was other than an observation, that would be really
racist, like that would make me seem racist. Backed up a little bit,
and I came to say it was more like a black brown entitlement thing.
So backed up a little bit more, and I came to see it
was more of a democrat entitlement thing. You gotta kind of follow the fault
going through with it, or or it's it is. There's obviously because now
politics and allegations and racism and everything are being drug in here. But in
its purest form, it's it's a it's an ego entitlement thing, right,
and you you where you see like we have we have all these great audio
clips of like remember the woman, the PTSD woman melting down because she was
an elected official got pulled over, and it's of some of the best audio
out there. But what once you then decide that it's not the one thing
where it would just be a Karen video but instead it's of great news and
societal significance, then you better be able to back that up. And I'm
just not seeing that here. And also if it wasn't, If it wasn't
William Barber, would would this be the discussion we're having or is this a
discussion that was boor from his ability to call you know, uh, either
call his friends within the news media or at the very least know that the
story will make its way there and then this whole scenario unfolds. That's why
it's so frustrating because this this seems such a reasonable, easy thing to deal
with or solve that was escalated and nobody's asking, well, how is it
escalated? They're just right, Well, because you don't make progress to alienate
other people's rights unless you make a big stink like that. Ever, nonsense.
Yeah, And I like to put a pattern. You got to watch
what they're doing. And it's more of that, like you can just break
it all the way down to like we've got a bunch of hunter Biden's running
around America right now thinking that it's okay to run around doing whatever you want
to do. Well, well, thankfully there's not video of all of it.
But all right, well, thank you very much, Happy New Year
to you, and uh we'll talk to you soon. Janet, okay,
all right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm curious. You
know, if another like say Mark Robinson, right, lieutenant governor, he's
a big dude, right, like Barbarie, he's a big dude. But
say he were to roll up to that theater with his giant ass recliner and
park in front of everybody where there's not supposed to I'm going to make my
own seat and sit here behind his tiny patchuser. I wonder how the media
would would treat that. I think the scenario would be that he was there,
attempting to keep people from being able to see the powerful message of the
movie because it's you know, it's got a little he's trying to pan the
movie. Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely. Man. That's which which again
that that would be absurdly escalating the scenario, right, because in that scenario,
I'd be like, wait, why does why does Mark Robinson think he
just dragged his own chair in there? What the hell is that? But
no, you would then escalate it to something it's probably not anyway, but
I mean Mark Robinson, he's been going to the gym. He probably like,
you know, like, why did this guy bring his bowflex into the
movie theater? You know, it's it's in appropriate. It's bring a bow
flex? Are there a lot of bow flexes at the gym? Used to
one so excited. I remember those those things were everywhere back in the day.
I always thought that the bendy metal and like that's gonna snap and murder
somebody. But apparently it didn't. All right, he want some wear craziness.
I saw this story. I haven't even got to the parrot story.
Oh just just wait for it. Just bounce it all around. Because we
got all this stuff today. I thought this was interesting. Wait, hold
on, so I didn't know this was a thing. So apparently near Nashville
there was a gas station that was owned by a quote literal Nazi. And
this is not people embellishing. This is a self identified dude, I'm a
Nazi and in fact at the gas station. Which the reason this is a
story is apparently none of the oil companies want to, you know, be
associated with this, and eventually the owner of the station had to sell.
But according to officials, the quote actual Nazi not only ran a convenience store
gas station, but also ran a Nazi MMA fight club out of it.
So it's a gas station with a Nazi fight club that takes place on the
premises as well as you know, people just wanted to come in and get
fruit, roll ups or gas or whatever. But after Shell decided to disassociate
itself from the store, there's been a whole bunch of issues and now it's
been sold. All right. My question, Ross, you're driving the family,
Okay, you're doing you know, you're making the road trip. You're
going down some lonely road. You look down either maybe your cardings, you're
running out of fuel, and so you're like Oh my gosh, got to
do something. Don't want to get murdered on the highway or whatever. Let's
find a convenience store and you go to the bottom of the ramp and on
your left you have the Nazi Fight Club gas stop, and on your right
you have the Obama where you're fueling a I'm like, well at this point,
I'm like, well, this is where I die. So I did.
So. You posted a picture of a gas station and it's literally called
the Obama. It's from Patrol Live. Yeah, it's it's a famous thing
if you watch on Patrol Live in Richland County, South Carolina. Yes,
it's a it's a gas station called the Obama and it has the whole tribute
to it's his name on it. It has his like the led screen of
his portrait on it, like his presidential portrait. And it is in the
worst part of town in Columbua. It is so bad. We were driving
home and we you know, we love on Patrol Live, and Mark he
gives, oh my god, we're five minutes away from the Obama. We're
like, oh, we have to stop. Yeah, five minutes. It's
right off the exit. So we go off and I'm like I'm gonna get
it in the morning. The morning, okay, Like I'm gonna get out,
I'm gonna take a picture of it. I'm going like a goofy pose
like I'm at the Obama. It's gonna be awesome posting one of the offices.
Danny Brown, he's our favorite guy in the show, so we're hoping
we get pulled over by him maybe, like what do you do in this
part of town? Son, Yeah, apparently it's on vacation whatever, bad
work ethic, don't know. So we're like, we're gonna go, and
we start rolling up to it, and we knew it wasn't a bad part
of town, like we're very familiar with because it's eight in the morning.
This stuff happens on the show all the time. It is notorious in the
show for crime happening. It is not a good area. It's it's like
Durham on steroids, right. So we're rolling up and when we start to
approach it, we're like, oh my god, we are in a really
bad part of town, like well, and Marky is like, you are
not getting out of the car, You're not getting out of there. And
we get close to it and we realize it's eight am and it is surrounded
by crackheads and not like there's a difference. Listen, there's a difference between
like friendly crackheads and ones that look like they could possibly be like you know,
they're gonna shoot you. We're like, remember that meme of the dude
You're gonna get raped? Yeah, no, no, I said that.
I'm like, if I get out of this car and pose, they're gonna
be like, oh my god, look at my new white boyfriend. And
I am not. I'm not dying. We are almost home. So there
was the picture. There was a red light. I slow rolled through the
red light and we are getting stared at. Dude. We're like like,
because we're in our brand new Mazda, we're getting stared at. We're like,
we're gonna get carjacked. And Marky is like doing the thing where like
she's taking a picture, but she's made it's like a covert, like you
can't tell she's actually taking a picture. She's just looking at your phone but
holding it too straight. Yeah, she takes it from the side and as
he's taking the picture, they start to approach the car. We just boom
out of there. Would you rather deal with two am crackheads or eight am.
I don't know, dude. Like, we weren't expecting that many people
to be there, but what we noticed was when she took the picture,
she zooms into the gas pump and it says on it that you have to
pay inside. There's no pay first, but you can't pay inside. You
can't pay outside. You have to go inside and pay first, because every
day they pulled like three fight cars read yeah completely, Yeah, it's just
the irony that it's like Obama, like a fossil fuel station right, full
of crackheads like you. Then you have to wonder if the owner doesn't like
Obama, you know what I'm saying. Jeez, all right, I'm glad
you made it there. So yeah, I don't know Nazi fight club or
that. You can weigh in. Let's get Ken Boon from the Weather Channel,
who I'm hitting late. I apologize for that, but Ross had a
rather interesting road trip, sir. How was your How was your holidays?
It was pretty good? It was pretty good. How about yours? You
know what, can't complain didn't almost get murdered by crackheads. So that's all
you can ask for, is h is the weather though, going to cooperate
as we try to get back into the scheme of things. Well, we're
gonna have a pretty quiet week weather wise. We do have a chance for
a few showers that'll move through Wednesday night, and then we do have a
potential storm system for the upcoming weekend. They could bring us some more rain
as we look towards Saturday Saturday night. Otherwise, not a whole lot going
on weatherwise today tomorrow, just enjoy the sunshine. Temperatures are going to be
pretty much where they should be this time of year. Heis and low fifties,
upper twenties tonight. Again Wednesday night, there is a chance for a
few passing showers, but it's back to sunshine Thursday Friday to finish out the
week. He's near fifty, a little chillier Friday, middle of upper forties,
and then rain in the forecast Saturday. But the second half of the
weekend looks good with sunshine and fifty degrees Sunday. All right, appreciate it.
We'll talking to now Resirt. Thank you, all right? He sounds
good. And when we come back. Was Ross's trip through Crackheadville. The
most interesting story that happened down in the South or was it this dude in
Alabama? Who? Ross, you may have driven right by this dude.
So just think about that from a safety issue. We'll get into that and
much more. Plus, we've got Beaver News and you name it coming up
here on the CaCO Day Radio program. Thank you. Casey is on ninety
four or five WPTI and the Triad and one six one FM Talk in the
Try. Let's talk about New Year's real quick, shall we? Good morning,
seven fifty three KCO Day Radio program. Ross. Did you stay up?
Did you make it till midninth? Uh? No, we were We're
We're asleep by like nine point thirty. Oh wow, okay because you drove
Was it New Year's Eve? You got back home? No? The day
before before? Yeah? Yeah, okay, yeah yeah yeah yeah. I
did make it, but not much, not much after that. I was
I was friggin tired. Man. Did see a couple things include, oh
we have I'm glad she survived. Man, did you see the video that
the one I think she's from Clinton who won the million dollars? And Ryan
Seacressea, Hey, you just won a million dollars and she's just down down
for the count man. Just sheer, shock and surprise, Pamela Bradshaw her
name. In fact, here we go. We got audio of what happened.
Number one. Congratulations number one, you're a millionaire. I mean not
after text just breaking out. By the way, how much does she sound
like a certain WWE announcer, But she's screaming, Oh my god, I'm
just saying, you know exactly what I'm talking about, right, Oh my
god. Yeah, she was really really happy. Just b cut off because
you got to be so awkward if you're riding seacress man, North Carolina,
first time here in New York City and you're walking away in the new year,
a millionaire, the Powerball first millionaire of the year. Can any sentences?
I am so happy for you. Congratulations Bully, you would have those
at they're ready. Yeah, yeah, but hey Shavvy again not a millionaire
because taxes, but congrats to her. And yeah, I don't care.
Look I'll fall down on National TV whatever if I'm still walking away with a
check, I'm good. I go with that. So so we had that
going on, and again you're Ryan Seacrest. You're trying to keep things rolling
sometimes ross you and I've both been in situations where you're trying to host something,
going to live event or whatever, and you just have to keep things
rolling when things get crazy. So that being said, that wasn't the most
awkward moment of the New Year's coverage. No, no, no. They
then decided to go live to Saint Croix from a billionaire dem donor's house,
which the President had been loaned, which, by the way, I don't
have a problem with that. You got some super rich whatever president of the
United States, Hey, we're gonna loan it like they did over at Tahoe.
But as several people pointed out, that's basically what you're beefing with Clarence
Thomas over and arguably to a much greater extent. So just you know,
keep that hypocrisy in mind. But with that in mind, the President and
First Lady did a quick little cut in with Ryan. The First Lady adorned
in her nicest bejeweled dress or whatever that is. And let's just say,
I don't know that he got his rest before this. Do you look back
and reflect on twenty twenty three, what sort of of memories highlights stand out
for you? Well, one of the big highlights stands out for me is
my dad used to have an expression, you'd say, shoey, your job
is about a lot more than the paycheck. I got your dignity, it's
about respect. So many people through the Midwest and in the center of the
country, their factors are shipped overseas the last couple of times out and they're
losing hope and faith. So we brought a lot of jobs back to the
United States. People are the position to be able to make a living now
and they've created a lot of jobs. Over fourteen million, and I get
which by the way, he was asked what is your happiest memory, and
he had to go there. But also the fourteen million, which again is
the most easily debunked, stupid pointless number that they continue to pair it because
every time it's under there, there's community notes like remember this is right after
COVID and they're counting all those jobs. But he was asked for the happiest
moment. That's what. I just feel good that the American people got up.
They've been through a rough time with pandemic, but now we're coming back.
Yeah, okay, we're building back better. Some would say, oh
man and and that will that was the most coherent portion of it. So
a welcome that it is wells Tuesday. So there is that four day work
week, and then a five day and then another four day and then everyone
freaks out because it's like, oh, you're just on vacation and I'm like,
well, it's a company holiday. What do you want us to do?
That'll be what fifteenth fifteenth? Yeah, so that's how we're rolling.
Glad to have you along back. Everybody survived Ross didn't get murdered by crackheads
at gas stations in South Carolina. Dude, it sounds like probably the advice
of your wife because he's like, I don't want to have I don't want
to have to like, you know, rescue the kid and get out of
here. Yeah. Now it's like I'm gonna get a goofy picture and she's
like, no, you're not, No, you're not. Stay inside.
Man. We rolled up and I'm like, you know what, you're right?
Yeah? Yeah, you never know. And you wonder if some of
the crackheads like that. It's so like do they know that it's problem that
they have to listen. We can't be the only people that have driven past
that because of it being a non patrol live all the time. It's not
like it wasn't like a first thing for them. They're probably like, oh
God, here's another you know, idiot couple that we're gonna have to shoot
and murder and seal their car and chop it up at the chop shop.
And I here we go again. But I'm like, no, not us.
Another day you're slow rolling through the red light. Well, I mean
the photo's good. Ross tweet that you and retweeted on the show account,
so you can pump that up if people want to see as that's your wife's
secret photo she took. Well she's not taking a photo. By the way,
anytime somebody's doing that, you can totally tell, right, Oh,
completely right. So I don't And if I like, how do you then
think you're getting away with it because they're crackheads, I don't know. They
seem like they seem like they've they've staked out a pretty good spot, right,
they got it. They got sustenance around there, They got a steady,
steady stream of idiot tourists. Are you what more do you need?
Man? So way that going on, we had all the insanity from the
college football games. Where do I even start? Let's start with NC State,
shall we? The pop Tart Bowl, which got real dark, real
quick as you had this. You know, a giant pop Tart mascot,
right, who had a giant toaster which he at the beginning of the game,
rose out of as strawberry pop tart. Pretty crazy stuff. Here we
got audio of this. Hang on, here we go. So here is
the pop Tart coming on to the scene at the NC State Bowl game?
Oh why am I not hearing audio? Hold on, all right, let
me try it again. Here we go. Right, A lot of pomp,
a lot of circumstances they didn't get the w still was it was.
It was a lot more exciting than a lot of games. I'll give it
that. But the undercard the whole time is you got this pop Tart mascot
and he wants to be consumed. So there's that weirdness factor. Just saw
the edible mascot. He came out of a toaster, a giant toaster minutes
before kickoff? Can you really put the frosted ones in a toaster? Though?
Well, here's the sad part of the story. After the game,
he will be devoured. He will die and he will be his own last
meal. All right, what the hell is going on? Dude? It's
the greatest thing ever. It wasn't just a one thing because like it just
and it all emanated for Orlando, right, which is perfect because Florida,
right, it all emanated. But I'm sitting there, I'm not gonna lie.
I'm in bull mode. I might have it was in a school night,
the whole thing, and if buzzed me is like, I'm sorry,
what the hell did you just say? There's one thing to say? The
edible mascot, But then he painted the whole scenario about how he's gonna die,
man, and they weren't making it up because as the game rolled to
a close and unfortunately Kansas Kansas State is now the victors, now comes the
almost oddly like as techian, I don't even know how to human sacrifice,
like temple of Doom stuff. As he now sinks back into the toaster ahead
of consumption, Welcome back to the Pop Darts Bowl. And then this capital
I ball mania. That edible mascot nowhere in sight right now got everybody involved.
He will be devoured by the winning team, and then I guess next
year we're going to have to find another flavor to be the mascot. Okay,
So then what happens is they cut to the locker room, where the
winning team is now presented with a roughly similar sized pop tart with removable frosting
under which is a strawberry filling, which of course looks like flesh and blood,
and they're just going to town on this thing. And I'm like,
this is the weirdest crap ever. Will fast forward because the very same stadium
in Orlando, which literally is you know, it's not an NFL state,
it's built for holding Bowl games. It was Campy World stadium. I can
even I don't even know what it is now, but they host multiple games.
I went to a game there a few years ago, and so four
days later, now you got the Citrus Bowl. And in this case,
it's a damn cheese it and this cheese It's thing is it doesn't want to
be eaten alive is the whole scenario. And it's running, but it's also
running around annoying everyone. So it's like, I would understand why you would.
It's like, got a sign I'm not edible, don't eat me.
The whole thing was just really dark. I don't know, I do.
We watched it live. We're watching the Game of Louisiana my in law's living
room, and as soon as they showed that pop tart, We're all like,
oh my god, look at that thing. I love the pop tart.
We big fans of the pop tart. Yeah. I missed the end
though, where it went the toaster and they ate it. But on the
drive back home was like two days later, I realized that the pop tart
had become a meme on x oh, like social media, Like people are
photoshopping the pop tart into the motorcade at the JFK like in Dallas, and
put it in different scenarios. And then the cheese It, the poverty Jennabee
pop Tart, cheese Z please get out of here, chad Z, the
cheese It. Who would you rather go into battle with the pop tart or
the cheese It? No, don't get me wrong, I'm a I'm a
fan of both. Don't get me wrong. I love cheese It, but
come on, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah no. I
popped art for days, right, But it's it was just the visual because
you just have this team of you know, dude, just tearing this thing
apart, and the color is because it's strawberry cheese. It. It was
just, ah, it was such a creepy visual, man. But then
the fact that they basically kind of pulled a very similar game with the cheese
it yesterday or two day yeah, yesterday. It was just it was just
weird, man, but they were. But the I think it was the
because the announcers were so into it. Now here, Look, you want
to do this, actually do this, but do it with team mascots.
Right, So what is what is Kansas State's sing? So you know,
feasibly they should have been feasting on wolf, right, you know what I
mean. If you want to do this, let's do it. Let's let's
you know what I'm saying. I mean, some teams will have to figure
out what the hell it is. I'm pretty obvious. Texas Longhorns, you
get a big steak if you beat them. I mean, when you think
about it, all mascots are edible. That's yes, that's the point that
I'm making, even the weird ones where I'm like, explain to me what
Alabama's in is? Again? Right? It like some like stupid like am
I I'm in a pioneer, am I. I'm a cowboy that sucks for
you? Better win? How's that that's gonna you know, you should win.
I don't know what you do with Duke for wake Forest is gonna be
a tragedy for the religious community, you know, I don't know. Are
you gonna do it? You know? Don't do stuff half asked? Is
by point? You know? But I'll tell you what though, yes,
there were a lot of pop tart beams, but nothing compared to what has
already started to permeate the internet because yesterday, for the first time, Disney
no longer has licensing over Steamboat Willie and the earliest iterations. Now, it
doesn't hold true for later iterations of Mickey, but if you want to go
back to the very beginning there, that's now in public domain. So people
want to remember what happened with the Winnie the Pooh like slasher flick that was
a result of those characters going into public domain, and immediately people were photoshopping.
I have to assume that they're currently shooting Steamboat Willie theme porn right now,
right because Disney can't sue him, and God help us if that hits
the internet. What did you see people were photoshopping like Steamboat Willie in like
nine to eleven memes. It was. The Internet is so weird, man,
especially when people have like time off and have to figure out ways to
fill it. But yeah, that's that's the nightmare. As we kick off
the new year, you got to be on the lookout for the Epstein list,
which could drop at any time, and people taking advantage of the now
public domain status of Steamboat Willie, which, by the way, what is
the poor name for that movie? I have some thoughts, none of which
I could probably repeat on the radio, but you know, somebody's working on
it. So there you go. Got that to creep you out first thing
this morning. All right, Oh wait, hold on, is somebody down
with Oh okay, now everyone else was confused with pop tart as well.
Yeah no, that's I yeah, absolutely, that's what we're People are like,
Oh, you know what they should do is actually eat Baska. Yeah
no, that's uh. I think we just mentioned that. So but maybe
you were typing it was on delay, sir, So I'll give you the
benefit of the doubt. All right, coming up, He's I. He
has to win the Florida man, even if it's not Florida, although it
was technically in Florida, but he's from Alabama and is right the panhandle,
right there where they where they meet up. And I think he's gonna take
the award. So we'll get to that coming up here. And we got
oh, we got Candle News and the main Secretary of State just deciding she
knew whatever she wants. All that more coming your way, k C O
Day Radio program one O six one FM, Talk in the Triangle and News
Talk n w PTI and the Triad. I forgot to mention too. They
actually somebody put a trailer already out for a Mickey Mouse horror movie, so
like people have been waiting, although they didn't call it screamboat Willie, which
I feel like is a big oversight. But you know, hire me as
a consultant. We'll help you with these things, all right, So check
this out. Let's send down to Alibama. And if we're gonna do this,
since technically it did creep into the Florida Panhandle, we might as well.
Florida Man. Florida Man. Is something in the water they error sand
that makes you do all that crazy crap. It's like the state is one
be dumb ass trapped. Nowhere else has the Florida Man. It is almost
like as the weird factor climbs that you find out it haven't in Florida every
time. Florida Man, Florida Man. If anyone can jeer me if you
know you can, just mind life be crazy. But of course, but
it's not as bad crap crazy as yours. Nowhere else are you gonna find
him? They're so used to it, they don't find him. Hooray for
Florida Man. And let's say to the tip of the Panhandle, where authorities
say they received some rather strange Specifically, it started with a call about a
man pounding on the front door of a home and a vehicle that was sitting
nearby, trying to get into the vehicle, but then some other stuff.
As deputies began to search for a car that matched the description of the one
that was in the area, they also received a call of a dude with
a parrot on his shoulder buzzing down the road, driving erradically. Eventually they
were able to locate a now parked thirty eight year old Timothy Bowers. Do
they say when officers arrived was sitting inside of the vehicle with a blank look
on his face, with the parrots still on his shoulder. Well, he
started talking to him, they saw weapons. The dude was non compliant.
He's not really in it mentally. They you know, obviously they think he's
drunk or something. And he did the logical thing as you do when you're
cause playing a pirate. He just, hey, I'm just gonna fight all
you guys. But he you know, he brought fist to a taser party.
We know how this ends out. And they tased him and put him
in cussing. Now, I got a question. Do they tase him with
the parrot on his shoulder and thus tase the parrot? I have? I
have questions on this. But turned out he wasn't drunk, by the way.
He was just tripping, you know what, on mushrooms with a parrot
on his shoulder, cruising down the road. And I gotta wonder, like,
if you're on mushrooms, does he think the parrot is like you know,
the thing with the devil and the angel on the shoulder they used to
be like comedically portrayed in cartoons, Like, does he think that's a parrot
or does he think it's like, you know, son of sam My neighbor's
dog told me some stuff like I have a multitude of questions. And by
the way, nothing in the police report was the parrot saying anything like when
there wasn't there a there was a murder case right where a parrot was literally
like saying what happened during it? Repeating the whole scenario. Yeah, I
think we did that story back in the day, right, and it was
was repeating the scenario of the the victim pleading not to kill him and then
the person killing them was a whole thing. So what is this parrot saying
what? Anyway, probably saying roll tide, it's good. Well he probably
thought it lay Oh my god, Nick Saban or you know bear Bryan on
my shoulder. Yeah, why why do you used to assume maybe it was
uh, you know war eagle. Yeah it's possible. Yeah, yeah,
I mean I don't even know. Could have been an Auburn parrot. Alabama.
I've been Alabama parent double bummer this morning. Not only is his his
guy gone because he's in jail, but also, uh Alabama couldn't get it
done. That was that was a crazy end of that game. Man.
I don't understand some of the decisions made there, but oh whatever, So
yeah, and so he's in custody. He doesn't say again whether the parent
the parrot suffered during the tasing. The parrot, who they did say,
was not injured. It was eventually put in a pet carrier and taking to
animal control. Let's see dude's charge with battery of law enforcement, possession of
controlled substance, a bunch of other stuff. I love this line. Washington
County Sheriff Kevin Cruz said, we cannot stress the importance of reporting suspicious activity
during the holiday season. And I would counter with, is a man driving
a radically with a parrot on his shoulder? Eyes bloodshot? Even? Is
that vicious in the Florida Panhandle? Like does that stand out? And I
don't. I don't know the answer to that. But any who, he
is, he is in custody. Now, all right? Coming up Main
Secretary of State? Uh and what happened in Tennessee at a crazy and another
animal story for you, plus your calls. Cac O Day Radio Prograde ninety
four five PTI in the Triad and one six one FM talked in the Triangle.
No I was just playing some of the ross. So you don't even
know what happened, but you in your mind because I told you the scenario,
now you think you know what happened at immediately think so yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. So one thing real quick on the on the college football
games. If you watch the Texas Texas Michigan Washington excuse me, Texas Washington
game, it was the later game. So now you're in you know,
now you're into the night. And you've seen it one hundred times when you've
watched a sports broadcast when they're you know, filling in between innings or plays,
or they're coming back from commercial or whatever, it is a lot of
times they'll have some ambiance shots, right, So like think of this scenario,
like they're they're playing are there it's a game in Charlotte, right,
Panthers game or whatever. They're coming back and instead of just coming back to
the stadium, they may have some some guy with a camera in uptown,
right, or somebody by the Whitewater Rafting Center, you know, some unique
thing around there up by Lake Norman, and they use that as kind of
the ambiance background. Well, the Bowl game was in New Orleans or Narlans
or however you're supposed to pronounce it, but whatever, And so the natural
ambiance shot is to go to the French Quarter. The problem is, you're
now if you choose to run that as a live shot rather than taping and
making sure you're gonna get whatever is happening on Bourbon Street after dark at that
moment during a bowl game, which is already a hit. I've been to
I've been to New Orleans during bowl games, and you know, it's not
just near the game, it's frigging everywhere. It's just crazy, man,
And so inevitably they're just they're trying to do this ambiance shot on Bourbon Street
and some woman pulls a hootout right there there? It is. How did
you not think that might be a thing? How did you not for a
moment, go, man, if we do this live shot, that's like
doing live radio in a bar setting in an uncontrolled environment, because all takes
is one drunk guy to go, you know, so and sow her in
the P word, which is a thing that people screamed because it you know,
turned into a meme. And somebody's having to hit the delay dump and
they didn't catch it. It aired man some woman just I had to make
the beat exchange, and there you go. So NBC says they're very sorry
over that. But also, you know, I wonder how many people even
caught it, but it was the thing that happened. So yes, your
prediction, Ross was correct. If that was your prediction, somebody decided to
make a business transaction, and that's where we find ourselves, all right,
eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Ross. Let me
ask you another question, if if if a group of people were bullying your
wife, and would you intervene if need bees made me ask you to I
have in the past. Yes, yeah, you would step up. And
you know, who knows what that may what may happen there, but you
would, you know, and maybe it turns physical, that wouldn't intimidate you.
You would do because this is your wife. You wouldn't want people doing
that, right, so you would, you know, come to her defense.
I was at a station event. There was a there was a guy
who poured a beer over his girlfriend's head and like then threw like took another
cup and like threw it at Marky's head. Oh no, And I backed
that dude into the corner so fast, and I scared a living hell out
of him. Right, I'm like, one thing, you don't you don't
do that. I can let a lot of stuff slide, but you are
not going to disrespect her, like you know, absolutely my wife. And
then he stuck his head in a deep fryer. Right, I'm sorry.
What when you put him in the corner, you push him in the corner
because that's where the deep frier was. You could stick his head in,
the right. I did not. It was at a mudcat's game. I
don't know if do you not love your wife? I love her to death.
Yeah. The mudcats they got deep fried stuff over there. Hole,
Oh yeah they do. Yeah, so you want to see that? I
only asked was a high point? Pastor? Was? What? What?
Wait? You saw what God did to Sodom and Gomora? Right? Right?
So right? He did? You know, hot hot stuffs. It's
in the Bible. Look it up. A North Carolina high point. North
Carolina pastor was arrested after allegedly assaulting and attempting to push his wife's coworker's head
into a McDonald's French fry deep friar went like watchman Rorschach in the prison like
yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're not I'm not
in here with you, You're in here with me. I don't know if
he said that. It's out of the report. Here. According to police,
a woman was training to be a manager at the McDonald's on South Mains.
I know it was South Main Street in I think I've been to this
once, not far where the new station location is h So anyway, she's
trained to be a manager. When her employees started disrespecting her, so she
called her husband, fifty seven year old Dwayne Wadon, who was one letter
off in a slight spelling deviation from basketball immortality, so she called him to
help with the situation. Witnesses say waden arrived, walked into the McDonald's,
then around the counter and quote put hands on one of the victim's necks,
and after grabbing the neck, allegedly attempted to push the victim's head towards one
of the restaurant deep friars. Wayden also accused of punching the victim several times.
Police alleged he did not stop striking the victim until multiple employees had to
pull him off, and the sea injuries contusion, scratches, variety of things.
Thankfully did not get the guy's head or if it was guy or gal
the quote victim's head into the deep friar. The victim did have to go
to the hospital. And there's surveillance footage of all of it because it's McDonald's
and was posted a thousand dollars. Bond Waden says he is a semi truck
drivers slash pastor at the Elevated Life International Ministry. It's not familiar with that.
So anyway, like I get it, but you know, there's moderation
and also I don't what do they mean by bullying just not listening to her.
I don't know that you you jump in at that point, but you
know there's also this inherent thing where you're like, you can't do that to
my wife, but you gotta balance it out, like you can't Kaiser,
so's everything? Do you know what? I mean? Hey gotta go all
right? So what And frankly, again, if it's just if it's disputes
between employees, I jumping in there. I don't know that that's going to
be a positive thing. Although it is now a crazy news story and we
got that so I don't see a statement for McDonald's or anything. You probably
won't weigh into it, all right, eight eight eight nine three four seven
eight seven four. So yes, you know, if if, if,
if it happens time come and you need to jump to the defense of a
family member. I think people will understand that as long as it's somewhat in
the realm of whatever the offense was. And I like your story, Ross,
I think that that was wholly appropriate. Right, go over and let
this dude know that this is not that's not going to happen again now when
I'm around. But uh, you know the deep that man of will,
what real will was and they burned down all the houses a very family member
and kicked a jog and oh yeah, man had to do it. I
mean, they're not going to take closely otherwise. So babe, didn't kill
your wife first though? Did you? Spoilers? By the way on the
Kaiser so reference. But that's a thing, all right. Let's jump to
Ken Moon from the Weather Channel, who's probably also never tried to stick a
person's head and a deep prior at McDonald's. How you doing, I'm doing
well? No, I have not. Oh wow, this guy did allegedly.
So yeah, crazy times, man, so crazy weather or smooth you
know sailing. What's what's going? Pretty quiet pattern through the week itself.
We have a chance for some rain as we look towards Wednesday night, but
just a slight chance. A better chance of rain as we get towards the
weekend, but I think we'll make it through Friday without a whole lot of
change in our weather, just varying amounts of clouds. Temperatures today, we're
going to be up around fifty, upper twenties tonight, in and out of
the clouds. Tomorrow temperatures in the low part of the fifties again. If
we're gonna see rain during the week, it'd be Wednesday night with the form
of just a few showers passing through, and then it's back to sunshine Thursday
and Friday to finish out the week. Fifty Thursday, middle to upper forties
on Friday, and then rain in the forecast for Saturday. But the second
half of the weekend looks pretty good with sunshine. Okay, I appreciate it,
sir. And you know he returns tomorrow. Huh, yes, he'll
be back tomorrow. That's weird. He's gone right after that interesting call that
was made during a certain football games. That's true. Well, I'll write
it down. We'll get to it tomorrow. I appreciate it. MA man,
all right, okay, we go coming up Jeff Bellinger. Also,
oh, this emailer makes a good point ross the guy through uh a drink
on Marquee? Was it the Panthers owner or I don't think so? Okay,
all right, so you did? You did shove David Tepper to a
corner? Uh no, that's a That's why I can't go to the stadium
anymore. Oh well, well I thought it was funny. Can I tell
people what you wrote when I sent that to you yesterday? Oh? Yeah,
here would you say? It's like, you're like, it's his stadium,
you do what he wants. I mean, it's one of the positives
of owning the stadium in the tim right, you can pour drinks and whoever
you want, you can kick me out. Also, I don't again,
they don't know the stadium. I mean, in all fairness, dude,
that's your opinion. Well it's I mean, it's it's the law. But
you know, he is the renter, and I guess renter rights. So
but also different stadiums. So all right, eight forty six, hang on
one O six one FM Talk w pt I, two stations driving the best
in talk. This is Casey Oda and Carolina's Morning News. Well we're here.
That's all I'll save for that. I welcome back, and you say,
eight fifty two, your Bloomberg got a Jeff Bellinger getting back into the
swing of things. How you doing, sir? I'm very okay, Casey.
How is your time off? How are your holiday not long enough?
We need more. We need to probably go through the MLK holiday and then
that would be okay. But here we are, so all right well.
Stocks pulled back a bit at the last session of twenty twenty three. Major
averages on Wall Street all posted solid gains for the year. That I was
up fourteen percent for twenty twenty three, the Nasdaq up forty three percent,
the S and P five hundred game twenty four percent, and ended the year
just shy of all time high airline stocks among the winners in twenty twenty three,
the S and P super Composite Airlines Industry Index it was nearly six and
a half percent. It was the first annual game since before the pandemic.
Price of oil is rising this morning. There are increasing tensions in the Red
Sea after Iran sent a warship to the region. Labor Department's December Employment report
will be out Friday morning. It highlights the economic calendar this week. Economists
think about one hundred seventy thousand jobs were created last month. New rules took
effect at the start of the year, reducing the number of electric vehicles eligible
for a seventy five hundred dollars federal tax credit. Fuel Economy dot gov says
the criteria for qualifying have been narrowed. Now just thirteen models are eligible for
the tax break. About two dozen models qualified last year. If you ran
up a lot of credit card charges over the holidays, will you be able
to pay off the bill when it arrives. Lending Tree says only about half
of the nation's credit card customers are confident they can pay their December balance in
full. It's expensive now to carry a balance. The average credit card interest
rate is twenty one percent. That's the highest since the Federal Reserve started keeping
track thirty years ago. The rates on some retail credit cards, those issued
by store close to thirty percent. Bank create predicting the Federal Reserve will cut
interest rates this year, but the pace of the rate cuts made and disappoint
some investors bank rates. Greg McBride thinks we'll see just two rate cuts in
twenty twenty four because inflation will not slow as rapidly as policymakers currently expect.
And Casey Wanka was the nation's number one movie over the New Year's weekend.
Exhibitor Relations estimates ticket sales for the four days Friday through Monday total nearly thirty
two million dollars Casey. Okay, what'd you do? Do you travel?
Did you stay at home? No? It was a quiet week no quiet,
quiet weekend and Christmas and New Year's but just spent the time with lady
friend, had a good time. You didn't watch them to dismantle the pop
tart at the Bowl game? No, didn't. Didn't see that that's good
and didn't make it for the ball drop you know, as party troop were
all the way around to stay away from that. Okay, Oh well,
chap tomorrow, sir, Thank you. Okay, sounds good, Cassy,
take care there you go. Jeff Ellinger, Bloomberg News, Sorry, a
couple other things real quick. So we got critter news. Did you see
at the tennis tournament in Australia like they had to stop it because poisonous snakes
on the court. If that isn't the most Australia story, man, I
don't know where's it? Brisbane? Yeah, deadly snake interrupts dominic teams Brisbane
International match. I just how does that happen that you just have I mean,
I understand everything wants to murder you over there, but you can't corral
off a tennis court for a few minutes. And closer to home, a
Tennessee police department says they had a crazy Christmas Day incident and we've already got
the bodycam footage. Bartlett Police Department got a call from the hospital that there
was a beaver loose in the hospital. Yes, yes, a a large
toothy road and decided, Hey, I'm going to go visit the hospital and
uh, insanity ensued. I didn't know who to call, so I thought
maybe you might could help me. She she wanted me to call animal control
because there's a beaver in the hobby of the hospital. A beaver, yeah,
beaver wow, the hospital in the lobby. So weird. This is
the tying. They can wrangle it and get it outside. I don't know,
but I'll be I need to get help. I love the term wrangle
too. She's like, let me call the let me call the wayward beaver
wrangler, right, a guy in the department, which is that the rookie
who's in charge of that. And they showed up and it took him a
little while. They eventually got the beaver into like a little cart, like
a janitorial cart or whatever, and took it to a stream and you know,
dumped it in there. But yeah, so that police department's got a
wayward beaver ranking, which, by the way, is I think they almost
called only fans. Hey, it's all the thank Grantiss called there is a
beaver loose in the d R Bobby and they not open the you know,
just open the door and just kind of shush him out the door. I
don't know. It was the the operator that called and said that. One
of the nurses called and told him to call us. Okay, I'll get
some of my bills, take a little bit, what do you and then
then the whole thing to try to catch it. Whose job is that?
Man? I like the whole I just opened the door. Shush about the
door. I don't know. Sounds like he was. He was happy,
man, I didn't tell he wasn't. But yeah, they were able to
get him out unharmed and send him on his way, and immediately the department
posted the video. We got that. We'll tweet it out before you at
Casey on the radio. Check that out. And finally I laughed. They
were doing an in memoriam thing on Fox News and they included White Sox former
White Sox player Frank Thomas, the big hurt, right, and so they
had him on the I had him on the list there and it's like,
you know, rip Frank Thomas. The problem is he's not dead. A
guy who played for Pittsburgh who was born in nineteen twenty nine, also named
Frank Thomas, is dead. And at first I'm like, how do you
make that mistake? How do you look at that photo that they used of
him at a press conference in the like the two thousands, knowing that he's
born in nineteen twenty nine, and goes, that's the dude. But it
looks like they screwed the europe too. They just heard the name and assumed
nobody doubled up on the name, and he used to. He worked for
Fox Sports as an analyst. Who so, I don't know, man,
but yes, that Frank Thomas still alive right there. Might have some health
issues from some stuff. Don't know for sure, but a little whoopsie on
Foxes part all right, have a go on.