Welcome. It is Tuesday, and uh, the the the insanity that is
this week is it's not going anywhere. We're gonna, We're gonna, We're
gonna keep doing this just uh, I like I tweeted over the weekend,
it's just it's news via fire hose. Try to drink man, And yesterday
was no different. Obviously you had continued unfolding of what transpired Saturday in Pennsylvania.
Butler, Pa, you have a steady stream of stories where you know,
nowadays you just you gotta do your you gotta put in the work man,
You gotta do your due diligence. You gotta look at stuff. It
goes that true? Is that not true? There's you know, there's there's
like stories from random Twitter accounts. Oh, Donald Trump came by with his
ear bandaged and I made this perfectly time pun right. What's true? Finding
out more about the the shooter and the background and the motivation or the lack
of motivation, the lack of normal things that a twenty year old has,
and then you just try to verify it to the best of your ability.
The RNC is going on. Amber Rose spoke. If you don't know what
an amber Rose is you should check that out, but you should do it
with the safe search on. I'm reading that a fifty cent. Yes,
I've said it like that is like trying to get a concert permit for the
rn C. And here comes Trump with his bandage to your man, Lee
Greenwood blasted in the background, his own damn son tear it up, the
very same son who just obliterated an MSNBC reporter who thought, hey, you
know what, why don't I go up and ask his sons about caged kids.
That'll be fun. CNN panels sitting there and going but Trump, but
Trump, when their own standard for language is pointed out that it may have
been utilized by the current president. I gotta I gotta watch with their with
the exception of their one token Republican who will last like six months before he
figures out all his coworkers hate him and then they have to go get a
new one. Sitting there getting yelled at by Van Jones. So for you
know, for all the normal stuff, there's so much abnormal stuff, and
then we get a VP pick on top of it, and a bunch of
the really really really hardcore like isolationist Republicans are not happy so you have a
little bit of internal fighting there just wild just try and just try and keep
up with all of it, and then you know, we get that,
we get the boogeyman's in there. And I think sometimes people are are mentally
like they're they're like trained to reject some of that stuff because there is so
much conspiratorial stuff out there. And don't get me wrong, I love me
some conspiratorial stuff. But every now and then you just gotta you get to
kind of all right, there'll be time for that later. Let me try
to, uh, let me try to figure out what's going on through the
filter of what I can actually prove. And then it turns out the conspiratorial
stuff is true, not all of it, not the not the heart thing
and all that. I mean, maybe I don't know, but but like
the Blackrock stuff, how many of you heard the Blackrock stuff, which is,
you know, Blackrock is the Koch Brothers is, the Soros is the
you know, the the one word thing that's meant to strike fear because of
their manipulation of politics and life and everything else. They don't get me wrong,
They're absolutely one hundred percent doing it. When you're sitting on that kind
of money, and you have that kind of influence that you can, among
other things, force companies into this weird DEI score thing, so they that
they go out they do things they wouldn't normally do because if they don't have
a good enough score, they can't use they can't get access to like flex
capital, which is the lifeblood of a lot of businesses. If you're a
business that has big ups and downs in your revenue, and that's a lot
of businesses, and it doesn't make them unhealthy businesses or bad businesses, it
makes them seasonal. Well, they work, don't stop during the non season,
and you need access to floating capital. You'd be surprised which companies essentially
or cash poor all the time and avail themselves of funds to operate during the
down months and then when you know, when it's high cotton, then they're
paying off those and maybe doing some shareholder stuff and rids and repeat, will
do it in another year. So the idea that you know, big big,
these big equity firms have created a scenario that if you don't dance to
their tune, you wouldn't be eligible forces the hand of companies to go out
and do things like, how we see how many DEI points can we get
for this these training seminars telling everyone that they're bad inherently because of the color
of their skin, which is literally the thing that I thought we were working
against. Oh we get six points, sign me up. So yeah.
People then assign boogeyman motives to companies like that. So when I'm sitting there
and I'm hearing that the shooter was in an ad for Blackrock, that sounds
it. That sounds nuts, doesn't it, Like, come on, man,
make up something that's believable. Well, yeah, I wish it was
nuts. I wish the whole thing was crazy, because, uh you know
what, Yeah, thank you, crazy lady doing whatever that is in her
chair. We love playing the drop from him. Thank you. She understands,
she gets it. Earn her mom, crazy mom. If you don't
know what that drop is. That is still one of my favorite psychotic Moonbat
videos ever. And it's this mother and daughter sitting in like chairs in their
yard in Florida, doing like New age yoga, talking about how it'd just
be great if we greased everybody, but like maybe a billion people, just
like super hippie dippy mom daughter and the whole time they're doing like sitting yoga.
I don't even know how to describe it, but you know, it's
like, oh, it's so great. It's so peaceful. I feel so
zen out here. You know, it'd be great if six billion people were
eliminated, right My mom, Mom's like, yeah, you know, we
should do is this thing? And the daughter's like, yeah, yeah,
that is true. She works with horses, oldies. But good man,
it's just the nostalgia of some of this stuff. But no, if you
go back and you look at a Black Rock commercial which the company is now
pulled, that was actively running. Now, the ad wasn't about him,
who was a student at the time it was filmed. The ad featured a
teacher from Bethel High School. So they did one of those things like we're
Black Rocket, even though we're corporate monsters. Let's here's a bunch of feel
good things that we're investing in. Here's some teachers in the public school.
Look at that guy. Look at that he's writing stuff on the board.
Look at his students. They're paying attention. And one of the students in
the shot is front and center. Is the is the shooter? Man?
I mean, it's a happy coincidence there or unhappy I guess. I look
at it, but that's wild. And he's also the only twenty year old
apparently without social media of any sort. I loathe social media. I want
nothing to do with it. I don't have a choice. But I went
to my program director and said, hey, I'm not doing We're not doing
any more social media. I feel like they would be an issue because we
utilize it now. Granted that's in a business setting. It's but how are
you a twenty year old? Admittedly, I guess I don't understand John Alpha
whatever whatever that is, Like, how do you function without any social media?
That's wild to me, especially if you're somebody who's got some thoughts on
some stuff. Then you have the then you have like the Inauguration Day Act
blue Joe Biden donation coupled with a very recent Republican voting registration, And I
understand why people are like, I have some I have some theories. I
have some thoughts and some theories because what are you supposed to make of all
of that? Of course, of course people are going to go there.
Do you blame them? Because everything's that's everything, every bit of that sounds
so weird and so unusual and so not with you. What you would if
you just grab a random twenty year old right now and look for their their
their footprint online. I don't know, as you find one that clear,
and sometimes it's you have a footprint, and it isn't the big ones.
It isn't because you have a Twitter or an Instagram or something, but rather
because you have you know, you play online video games and you have an
account, or you have you have one through how many accounts do you think
you have floating around out there? Things you've signed up for, you've provided
some semblance of private information. It's I don't know that you could calculate that
for most people. And that's what's terrifying, because you get a breach and
something could be breached with your info that you don't even remember you have.
And I don't have any of it on this dude and he's in a black
Rock commercial. I understand why people are freaking out. And it would probably
it would probably pay big dividends not to hold all of the details of the
investigation so close to your chest would be my recommendation. You have questions about
secret Service, You have questions about the agents that were assigned to to UH
to Trump, which I don't know is necessarily fair if you look at it
in totality, it's fair. But you know, the people who are the
who are the body people for Trump. It sounds like the Trump family and
I've I've heard interviews and you know, the the sons were talking about this
yesterday. They seem to have great affection and affinity for them. But that
doesn't negate the pack what they're calling. And I think it's accurate. The
PAC band perimeter. I don't know if you've seen the graphic. It's a
circle, right, it's a it's a circle around the stage where Trump is
speaking, but there's a carve out and it looks like it looks like a
piece of pizza removed from a pizza, right, And in that carve out
sits this building. And so the result, and I know you could visualize
it, it looks like a PAC man that was outside the security perimeter.
That that isn't necessarily nefarious. These things are almost never a perfect circle.
But it dips in there, it almost dips in closer to the stage than
the Overwatch Secret Service stipers were. And then you have this you have reporting
that it may not have been three minutes or four minutes from the time that
law enforcement was made aware of this individual up on this rooftop. There's video
where you hear people talk about it, and you see him repositioning himself.
He stands up from a prone position, moves or shimmys or does something you
can't tell exactly what he's doing, and then lays back down ready to fire
off those shots. Local news is reporting that there may have been an indicator
of thirty minutes or a time span of thirty minutes where he may have been
noticed. Now, the timeline from when it was noticed to when law enforcement
was made aware, there's a lot hinging on that. Who was told,
how did they choose to deal with it. I saw some people speculating that
the sniper actually laid one of the secrets of snipers, may have laid eyes
on on this dude, and if it, I don't know what the thought
did they think? Maybe somebody just climbed up there to see Trump. Possibly,
But again, he's out in the open, he's on a roof,
so he's elevated, so if you're standing in the parking lot, you can't
see what is in his hands, but feasibly those overwatched snipers would have had
line of sight. They're actually they're actually at a slightly higher elevation. So
people are going to be conspiratorial because everything sounds insane. Everything sounds like something
where you go that doesn't comport with my understanding of how this works. This
is why I spend so much time on the distance yesterday. It's really hard
to wrap your head around that. With every every thought and every piece of
entertainment, which shouldn't instruct your entire worldview, but for everything Hollywood gets wrong,
there's a lot of stuff that's probably it's pretty close. We've all been
there where we've seen a movie that deals with subject matter that we know a
lot about. Being a radio guy, watching people being on the radio in
pop culture and movies or TV is maddening. Sometimes I can't tell you the
number of times I've seen a radio DJ in a booth and I can see
the board and it's clear that they do not have the pot open, right,
they don't have the bike pot on. Anyway, we got a lot
to get to tell you that, I just look at it. I'm just
I'm running my mouth because there's so much there's so much happening that we have
to try to figure out, and there's all of these oddities. So yes,
people are going to speculate, which is why you need to have a
group of adults in the room, right, and you need to have them
be consistent and trustworthy so that people have confidence that even when things feel word
feel weird, they're gonna get answers. All right, hang on, welcome
back. It is six thirty five here on your Tuesday morning. Glad to
have you along, Casey with you. Ross will be back tomorrow. This
was there's a trip. He had his death in his wife's family, so
they made the made the road trip to Tennessee over the weekend. So he'll
be returning tomorrow. But just you know what's up. We didn't fire him
and launch him into the sun or anything, so just you know, deal
with normal life stuff. But what a what a week to miss a few
days on cow. There was a brief moment too where when when I found
out he was gonna have to be gone for a couple of days, just
because I have extra vacation days floating around, like I consider taking Monday and
Tuesday off that obviously would have not come to pass, because how the hell
do you not talk about everything that's going on. You can't. But if
we are going to do it, and you know what this is, this
is this is my my oversight usually, you know, usually we're a team.
So if I miss something to Ross is like, hey, here's this
thing, or if he does, I'm like, hey, what about that
thing? And I think with everything going on, the attempted assassination of Trump,
the fact that the RNC is happening, we got legal stuff we got
to get into. A VP has been announced, which I'm curious your thoughts
on that. We'll get into that just a few minutes. You know,
frankly, the responsible thing to do is maybe probably should have got through show
going with the little show of patriotism, you know, just put everyone in
the spirit and the mood of what's going on. And it doesn't mean you
have to be a fan of what the Republicans are selling right now. But
I think there's a lot of people going, you know what, I don't
like the guy, but no, you don't get to shoot at somebody.
That's the right attitude to have. That's good. So with that in mind,
if I could for just a moment. Maybe. I know it irritates
some people and is probably triggering to college students at Columbia, but maybe we
just maybe we just opened this like we used to open school when I was
a kid. Shall we, oh say, can you see by the dos?
Like? All right? What's so proudly? Okay? Tyl? Like
last all right? Hoots broad shape, sound bad shot? That's the flag
to the pairs? Fire, oh the rest? But we watch We're so
gass what mcket reread those bombs burst? I wish there was some cover this
up to the night that a flag was said to scare the enemy working say
Dotto, Spain, bok bed Way. Oh the lame of the what?
And how can we keep doing this? Where are the normal singers? Where
are the I look, is any is anything where everything going to be Whitney
Houston again? No, and it doesn't have to be, but it can't
keep being Roseanne or Fergie or I could look, there's a list, and
there's so many lists floating around now, so I have to admit I'm not
And that's a country singer too. I'm just to point this out. That's
a country singer. If you're a country singer. I don't. Maybe it's
unfair. You need to. I have a higher expectation that you're gonna you're
gonna do a good job. And I and people are like, well,
look, you couldn't go out there and do it. Yes, you're right.
And if somebody asked me to sing the national anthem somewhere, I would
refuse, not because I have anything against the national anthem, especially ahead of
a baseball game. I guess the home run derby, it's baseball bad.
She couldn't she couldn't get more. It could get more American if she was
literally eating an apple pie, right, Maybe that's what happened in her throatcut
all sticky. I don't know. But that's an eight time Grammy nominee.
That's not the that's not the singer from the local high school who's gonna be
nervous as hell because it's never been in front of that many people. That's
egred Ingrid Andres, who I'm admittedly I'm not super familiar with. And then
they're doing the thing where they're going down the line or they have all the
participants standing there and like they're laughing the dude for the Phillies. What's his
name, Alex baum Bomb. He's like he's trying not to laugh. It's
it's clear. Look, I I'm not doing this to be mean or necessarily
pick on her. But when that becomes the story, you have to ask
yourself why it keeps becoming the story. And of all the weeks to butcher
that thing, this was the week to get that right. This was the
week for Major League Baseball to have an opportunity to provide a moment of respite
for a for a weary for a weary nation. I know that that making
it sound probably bigger than it is, but the opportunity should be there.
I want to go see him hit dingers, to quote that fat kid who's
now a skinny kid who still hits stingers. That's what you want. You
want, you want nostalgia. You want you want to get away from it.
You want to not the whole time you're watching it, realize you're watching
the last vestige of dudes who won't make it into the hall because so much
juicing. But you still watch because it's like like the coliseum, right nothing.
You know you're not watching good stuff, but you're watching things you can't
look away from and maybe get people, maybe get people fallen out of love
with baseball to try to, uh, you know, see what's what with
this event, and they're greeted with that she's wildly out of tune. Even
somebody who's not a singer, I can tell that. And I don't know
why this stuff happens and keeps happening, because you have when you go into
sing this thing, you have choices. Now she went she wanted to go
straight delivery good. I think that's the smart choice for most singers. Or
you could try to make it your own. And sometimes that works. And
when it works, it works, man, it works beautifully. And when
it doesn't, you get some jackass on the radio like me talking to you,
going what the hell was that? And you send me email about you're
already up? Why are you doing this to me? The whole thing,
dude, the whole the whole week is just this is this is what we're
in for. Now we get to get into a debate over an author slash
senator for about five minutes who might very well be and probably will be the
next Vice President of the United States, and a lot of internal debate within
Republican circles, and of course immediately here we go with the hit squad.
You always gotta run with the racist president who doesn't want immigration and his wife
is Indian. Well, no, his wife's not Indian. His wife's Indian
America. She's from San Diego. She's a doctor. I think too.
They got a bunch of kids. They look fine together, they look happy.
What is your problem? Are we going we're gonna flip into the identity
politics right away? I guess we are. So I want to approach it,
perhaps, maybe just possibly from a more traditional manner. I know we
didn't get that with the national anthem there, and I'm sorry to do that
to you this early in the morning. But if I had to suffer,
so did you. But let's talk about JD. Vans, Trump's pick for
vice president, a few other names floating around out there. You had young
Kin who a lot of people start talking about over the last few days.
The North Dakota governor, Burgham Marco Rubio was in that mix, Tim Scott
perhaps, although it sounded like they had eliminated Tim Scott maybe a couple of
weeks ago. Do you like the pick or are you like a lot of
people where you go, yeah, what does it matter? I find it
rich the criticism about how his only experience at the national level is serving a
part of a Senate of a six year Senate term, because I love this
standard now that if you have only served at the federal level a part of
a six year Senate term, you're unqualified for the second highest job in the
land, but somehow you're qualified for the highest because if you remember, Barack
Obama didn't serve his full term. Would you wanted to see somebody else?
Do you think it matters? And if you have some thoughts, we'll hear
from you. Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four Should they
be able to seek in the national anthem? Whoever it is? These are
the important questions. Thank you, Thank you, sir. You forgot to
mention she's easy on the eyes. You know what, you just did it
for us. Thank you for your email this morning. Appreciate that. All
right, six forty six hang on radio program. So we've got a few
topics floating around out there. Obviously, of course we have all things assassination
attempts related, the amount of stuff that we keep finding finding out from let's
see here New York Post has a piece I'm gonna touch on. And also
WPXI is a local Pittsburgh outlet TV outlet there who's reporting yesterday now puts the
timeline from when a law enforcement individual of some sort was aware that this dude
was on the rope at twenty six minutes twenty six minutes from the time that
a police officer from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit took a photo of him.
They weren't just aware, they had visual confirmation there was somebody on the
roof. They didn't seem to necessarily be aware of the motive or that he
was necessarily armed, and very well could have been confused by the way he
was dressed. And the way he was dressed is not all that different from
a way that a law enforcement officer may dress to be casual out of uniform.
Right, you got this shirt and on the shirt, if you look
at the shoulder of this leave of the shirt, you see an American flag.
Obviously it's in the military position, which I guess if you don't know
this, if you ever look at a flag on a military uniform, it
looks like it's backwards. Do you know why that is? So? The
reason well, I know most of you do, but for those of you
who don't, the reason that the flag appears backwards is because that soldier is
running to the fight. So think of what a flag would look like you're
holding if you are holding the flag while running at something. So that's why
they appear in that direction. And so when you see that, you see
it on a T shirt and you can't really see the words or the T
shirt has some tactical logoing on it. It looks like the kind of stuff
that an officer might buy, or somebody in law enforcement or military might buy
or having their collection. It's just a casual shirt. The pants look like
what could have been tactical pants. There's a couple companies that I'm sure most
of you're familiar with, and you know, I don't know if you didn't
know, and you just knew that there's nine different agencies or whatever it was
around there, maybe for a moment you thought it was that, or maybe
you just thought it was somebody who wanted a better view. But it doesn't
matter. It's an outlier. It's the thing you're taught to look for.
I physically attended a safety briefing ahead of the when we covered all aspects of
the r n C. Now I'm not priving the totality of the information,
but they had a public section where the media was able to show up because
they had some They had some some Antifa before Antifa was cool. Uh,
anarchists, self proclaimed anarchists who had a bunch of big plans for the RNC
that year that McCain was nominated, and in fact it culminated a couple of
days prior when they got They got a U haul that was filled to the
brim with weapons, and not not all traditional weapons. A lot of them
were fecal bombs, as horrible as that sounds, you know, basically breakable
glass jars, uh, and other other things that were actually pretty clever in
the way that they were designed that these little anarchists had built so that they
could help police or delegates the Connectic I remember the bus for the Connecticut delegation
got attacked by these these kids, and it was it was still relatively warm.
They had the windows down on the bus and they're being you know,
they're going through the various layers of security to get fully inside the perimeter,
and they stopped at the outside one and they ran up and they started basically
breaking these these horribleness bombs through the through the open windows covering some of the
delegation. They literally had to after that, no vehicle approaching security perimeter carrying
anybody dare had any windows down. They had a collection of backpacks with things
that looked, you know, could look and smell like bad stuff, but
in reality weren't actually bombs, and they would just randomly leave them against the
security fence. And they've got a whole U haul full of this stuff that
they confiscated, and they had at least another one to go because it didn't
it didn't negate any of it. So the big roundabout point of saying this
is over the years, they have refined their methods. Good morning, everybody.
It is the Cacoday radio program, our number two, and it just
gets so much worse. So not only not only do we find out that
a law enforcement individual twenty six minutes prior to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump,
not that they just noticed this dude, right, but they noticed him
doing really really suspicious stuff. And not only was this building, this building
where he was able to shimmy up used as the perch as the nest as
the hide, although I'm loath to call it a hide because he didn't do
anything seemingly to conceal himself other than get low to the ground, which was
that was more about trying to get a good shot off. Not only was
his building used, this building was also a staging area for a local sniper
team. In what capacity they were working at that moment, I don't know.
I don't know if they had been relieved, if they were a non
call situation, I don't know. I don't know exactly that. But they
witnessed him doing some stuff. Now, they witnessed him on his phone.
Okay, all right, fair enough. But according to the reporting by the
local TV station at twenty six minutes prior, one of the officers felt concerned
enough to snap a photo after he witnessed him using a range finder. I
want to be I want to make sure that there is no ambiguity by people
going, well, maybe they thought he was using binoculars. No, they
wouldn't. And here's why it doesn't look the same. Now, you can
use I get you can use a rangefinder as a binocular, but why would
you if you're wanting binoculars it's not what a rangefinder is for rangefinders for finding
range. The way you hold a binocular. I want you to pretend you're
holding if you're driving, maybe don't do this, but or just do it
real quick binoculars. Pretend like you're holding monoculars. What are you doing?
You got both hands. Maybe you're touching the tips of your thumbs right now
while you curve both of your hands inwards. Now, I want you to
pretend you're holding a rangefinder. And if you don't know what that looks like,
get rid of one of your hands and then bring that same sea that
you're making with one of your hands up to your eye. That's how you
hold a rangefinder. It looks different. And unless he's trying to figure out
his approach on number four or that's literally his deer hunting spot, that should
that should be the reddest of red flagspan. Also, it shows that he
was irresponsible in not doing a grid. You want to get technical here.
I know people for some reason are very upset with me explaining stuff, but
I'm sick. I'm absolutely sick of watching coverage of stuff like this being done
by people who won't take a moment to attempt to understand how any of this
works. Do you know how many stories I talk about where I don't have
any real functional understanding of what's going on, and I go, I should
probably educate myself. And so part of my prep process is to figure this
out. And so I'll go and I'll source different things like I don't know
how the how, the the the person being chosen for the national anth I
don't know how that works. And frankly I should probably have some understanding,
because you know, we have this, you know this, this connection with
the music industry, working in the in the business that I do. But
I don't know. But if I ever wanted to know, I promised I
could find out so that I could educate you on it. Just I don't
care. I just care that they do it some other way because it's not
working man. Sorry. The national anthem at the Hall of the Home Run
Derby was was hot garbage yesterday. But the people who are doing this,
the the looking here, they know how this stuff works. They don't.
A rangefinder works. If you're ever if you're ever setting up something where you're
gonna shoot for hunting, Okay, do you ever, Let's say you got
you find yourself a nice field. You're real excited. You found what looks
like egress for for critters, right, you found a deer trail. Maybe
you found a some raisinets. That's code for feces. If you don't know
what deer feces looks like. And it's still steaming, man, you're like,
this is a good it's gonna be a good spot. Now you want
to figure out where you're gonna set up, so you know, people uh
uh, most folks in that scenario, I think would probably would they would
want a tree. If you're gonna, you know, if you're gonna go
stand up in a stand, you want a tree that gives you as much
of a visual field on the field itself, because that likely will be where
your shot is taken. But also you want one that allows you to monitor
these trails. So if you have multiple trails, we'll see if two trails
coming in where the deer are obviously using, maybe you don't even know which
one's more popular. Because you have limited time to set up, maybe put
your butt in the middle there, giving you a line of side on both
still providing you enough cover, maybe even carve out a shooting lane if you
want, because it's not all that unusual, especially if you're if you're after
a big buck, for them not to enter the field or to enter and
exit the field. While it's not legal, shooting light the big boys,
the big boys going nocturnal is a thing. So that's going to be that
scenario. But the other scenario is this, I'm going to go and I'm
going to mark a grid. So if the field, let's say the field
has I don't know, it's got a corral in the middle of it,
whatever, I'm going to well in advance, before I ever get up in
that stand, I'm going to figure out the distance to that corral, and
I'll just have a little sheet of paper I could put it on, and
it's just to be a rudimentary little here's the square, here's the trail,
and the numbers written next to certain things. So I know that the from
me to that corral is eighty yards. I know me to that trail head
is fifty yards. That shooting lane I just carved out, I know that
that's thirty yards. I've made these indications so that when the moment comes in
the same way that you see caddies walking around with golfers ahead of a PGA
event. I don't have to I don't have to risk making the noise to
bring my range finder up if I'm in a scenario where I think I might
get winded or noticed. And that's the same way it works for people who
were in that building who understand this. So they witness him using a range
finder, one of the most suspicious possible acts I could think of, short
of assembling his rifle in front of him, and they go, yeah,
you know, maybe we should look into that. He then leaves reportedly and
goes and gets a backpack. So now they've got an opportunity to intercept him
and go, hey, what's up, dude, And if he wants to
go hey, what do you doing? Am I being detained right whatever,
You're still in a position to likely prevent him from gaining access to that roof
again, because with the simple thought that I don't think you're the owner,
do you have permission to be up there? Who gave you permission? Let's
go ahead and check your story. And if it turns out that he's he's
a kid who knew the owner of the building, and he didn't get a
ticket into the rally, but he thought, hey, I know, this
could be a cool spot to watch it. And he's just up there doing
his thing, and he's using it as a as a as a device to
amplify his view. It all sounds crazy, but at least you checked it
out. This is why people have the conspiracies. This is why people look
at this and go, this is none of this is right. And then
they start questioning, how, well, how did that all that Secret Service
person get their job? How did the head of the Secret Service get in
there? Do you know who? Do you know who pushed for the hiring
of this particular Secret Service director? Joe Biden? Let the conspiracy run it
over? Does that necessarily mean anything? Now, not necessarily. You got
a position to fill, and especially the higher profile ones. There's gonna be
a lot of trading and friends of friends stuff. That's you know, that's
Washington man. You bundle, oh, you bundled a million dollars for the
president's campaign. What do you want to you want to be the ambassador of
uh Germany? Here you go, by the way, that's the actual origin
story for that ambassador or the ambassador my favor is the ambassador of Uruguay.
That lady's absolutely backcraped, crazy looney tunes man. She went down and tried
to start a whole incident as a US ambassador, and they still kept her
in there because she's you know, she's besties with the Bidens. If you
don't know that story. She basically went she wanted. She tried to roll
into a really nice restaurant down there in Montevideo or one of the big big
cities there, and and she is dressed like a tourist and it's a fine
dining establishment. She doesn't have a reservation, and they're like, no,
no, that's not how any of this works. No, And she's like,
ah, they profiled me and it's racist, But you risk an international
incident. Now, what's our trade footprint with a small South American country that
most people couldn't find on a map. I don't know. Probably not substantial,
but it shows you that these gigs are not necessarily ones who are the
most qualified for it. The difference is the ambassador to a small South American
country that most people couldn't find on a map and the director of the Secret
Service have vastly different responsibilities. Does it mean she's unqualified? Not necessarily,
but It definitely calls into question with everything that we've seen transpire. So they're
out of excuses. Man, twenty six minutes, no communication or they did
communicate and nobody cared. Photos taken the most suspicious of acts possible witnessed.
And now we're having this conversation eight eight, eight, nine, three four,
seven, eight seventy four. Is that person even qualified for the job?
Man, what do you think of the advance selection? Let me ask
you, that is it? Man? You don't care? At least they're
breathing. Did you want to see a DeSantis in there? Because you know,
an argument, you know has to be made for the fact that if
Trump is elected, this is it, right, he only gets one more.
So whoever is in that position almost certainly will be or will likely be,
the Republican nominee for the next election. So here you got a guy
who's what he's gonna be thirty or something for he is thirty. I understand
that, I yes, I understand that there are binoculars that are range finding
as well. It is clear from the description they're using the one hand ones
the golfers use and shooters use. Gotcha, I'm trying to Sometimes you have
to pick whether you're gonna overload people with information. So if you know a
piece of information based on the description that's given this report, I'm gonna go
for the the one that's gonna be easiest to explain on the radio, Sir.
I get gun guys and hunting guys because I am one. We get
real clenchy, because there's a lot of nuance to it. So I have
to battle with how I'm explaining stuff because I can't. I can't watch Maxine
Waters talk about AR fifteen's the way what a small car does. People who
will never understand semi automatic versus automatic. It's clear I have to I have
to balance against that stupidity, which which holds an outside influence, right,
because those are generally the ones that are on the you know, the more
mainstream outlets, talking about things that they haven't even attempted to understand. But
yeah, so do you think, like, could you see vance That would
be wild too, by the way, that you'd have so many in their
late thirties that potentially could ascend to the office of president. But the expectation
is whoever this, whoever it is, in this case, it's probably gonna
be advanced. And I'm gonna probably say Pence way too many times. You'll
just forgive me in advance. These are the things that you have to think
about. Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Let's get
your calls coming up. Everyone's pretty So my point stands I said thirty instead
of forty. My point is that he's very young compared to well, I
mean it's hard not to be very young compared to I don't know everything that
we're seeing right now, but yeah, so dvance is going to be forty.
Sorry, my brain's doing like nine different things at a time. So
by the time you know, he'd be running for office, the dudes in
his early forties, which I don't think is like he's you know, that's
how old I am. So I think that's a perfect age because I know
everything and I would be a great leader. I just I don't like to
deal with people. I know. I'm in a weird business for that.
So there's that. It's mostly the having to meet people and pretend that I
don't wish that I was anywhere but there casey OTEI radio program just because there
has I can't help even in times when we have big stories to run across
the really stupid stuff. And I don't know why I thought this was so
funny. You know what it is, It's a good economics lesson. So
I'm just gonna I'm gonna throw this up in the middle. Apparently they are
having a big there's a financial crisis brewing in Colombia, and it's of a
rather unique variety. So let me hit you with this. According to Yahoo
News and The New York Times, Colombian villagers are facing on certain economic times
due to the overproduction of cocaine. The market is flooded with cocaine and has
now driven the price so low money. I guess maybe one of you crackheads
love to call in and tell me how low that is. But that whole
villages are now wondering should they come up with another economically viable solution, because
this ain't it, folks, And I kid you not. In New York
Times as a whole piece where they go to these little villages, in these
remote Columbian villages where this coca production takes place and it's getting so bad that
they're shrinking. In fact, one of the villages they profiled, which had
two hundred residents as recent as two years ago is now down to forty as
the market is so flooded with product that folks are having to go elsewhere to
find other economic opportunities now. And it's interesting even though you're obviously you're dealing
with that. I want, by the way, did you know did you
not? I didn't know this until I went there and it was blown away.
If you remember, I took a trip to to uh Guatipe, which
is in Colombia, and then to Ecuador and then to Galopagos last year and
it was it was crazy interesting. Man. But if you go to GUAATEAPEI
you have to go through you have to fly into Metazine, which I had
never obviously i'd never been there, and I'm like, that's weird. That's
a weird feeling, because like everything you know has has basically been informed because
you watched Narcos. You should watch Narcos, it's really good, or you've
seen you know, Cocaine Cowboys, or you've seen any any of the anything
having to do with the insanity that was the Colombian cartels in the eighties,
and of course the very enigmatic leadership there and and horrible, right, horrible.
One of the things that you will see and once you know what it
is, it's impossible to unsee it. When you're in megazine is you will
see little plaques where outlining people who were killed as part of the Pablo esque
of our reign of terror there and it doesn't matter where you go. You
could be You could be in Peblato, you could be in Loreles, which
is where I stayed, a place called Lorells, which is you know,
it's there's a standards over by the stadium. They got bars and restaurants,
tourist hotels. It's considered I guess, a pretty safe area there and stay
there for a couple of nights, both in it, coming in and going
out. And then Guatapay is it's basically the inside of a volcano that's a
lake now and it's got this huge spire of the dome and it's got like
eight hundred stairs to get to the top, which sound like a good idea
good tell about stair two hundred. You're like, am I almost there?
And you realize no, you're not. You are not almost there. And
then they have like a they have like a little dip out point for cowards
and you're like, I'm not a coward, I'm gonna do this thing.
And then you get to the top and you're pretty sure you should be dead.
And uh, there's people who literally walk up that every day to work
because there's like a bar restaurant up there. It's wild Man, and it's
just it's gorgeous and it's beautiful. But among all of that, you're seeing
these little plaques and and you realize that forty thousand people were killed by this
guy. Forty thousand people were killed by this guy, and it's just so
it's hard to fathom. Even in a big city. Megazine is a big
city. It's it's it's a bigger city than any city we have in North
Carolina. And everywhere you go there's a high likelihood you're gonna run across one
of those people who fell victim to this this empire. And it puts a
lot in perspective, you know how I'm with history and stuff. But a
couple things emerge from that. One if you go there as a tourist and
you and you go and there are people basically forty or older, they are
very resentful of the fact that you would be you would have any sort of
interest in One of these Escobar tours and they don't like. They don't like
they don't like the name, they don't like the they don't like the way
that people have this weird fascination almost from a like in any way, shape
or form where they like Escobar or they think that there's a cool factor there,
which I literally watched American tourists exude out. They're like, oh,
I can't wait to go to his grave and all this stuff, and you
could tell that the locals really hate that. Why because they probably have a
family member who was killed. I don't blame them, man, it's it's
really dark stuff. Or they want to go see the hippos, which you
can do. You can go see the hippos. But what struck me and
I dug into because I found it fascinating, was cocaine's legal there. I'm
not telling you so you can go down and see if you can stop your
heart. I would suggest that you avoid that, especially going into a foreign
country and doing something like that. You just you're you're asking for it.
I would have no sympathy for you, but you realize why the laws are
the way that the laws are down there, right, They needed to economically
make it so that no one could rise from those ashes. So if you
don't have a product where some guys with guns can strictly control the flow of
it makes it a lot harder for another Pablo Escobar to rise. So it
creates a very interesting and from the impression I got is is most of the
locals don't use it. In fact, the statistics would back that up,
which is pretty crazy because I feel like if you legalized a bunch of stuff
in the US, everybody turns into Denver during that first flight. But it
did, but it doesn't mean that it didn't stop it flowing outward. You
know. The other thing is when you go to the airport to arrive in
medicine, you'll it's a very lengthy process. They have one line, stupid
long plan for you know, a couple hours just for that. But they're
very controlling of what comes in. When you go to leave, you don't
even have to put that stuff in your rear end if you don't want to.
They're just like, hey, are you leaving? Oh fine, yeah,
we don't even need to look in there. And so you have these
rural areas that that you know it it is barely economic viable for them.
Well, now with the with bentanyl being a thing, and because it's a
lot easier to smuggle that than it is to smuggle that much cocaine, And
so you have this, you have a rapidly changing economic thing. I find
it interesting. I know that it doesn't necessarily connect with what we're talking about.
New York Times piece was just who knows, maybe they wrote it so
they didn't have to write about the Trump stuff. I don't care. But
it's like, you know, all these rules of economics, and this is
where I'm going to tie it back that people want to go ahead and reject,
you know, so the law of supply and demand, And it doesn't
mean people don't manipulate the system, and it doesn't mean that the system's perfect.
In fact, no system is. So you have to ask yourself what
is the best process for this. But no matter how much you try to
deny the existence of these things, they have real imp packs and consequences that
play out regardless of how humans how much humans think they can control it.
And we have some big, big, big issues for this presidential election where
there's a sharp divide on how you do this. You know, the power
of the dollar worldwide is at one of the lowest points I've ever seen,
causing exchange rates to be twenty five thirty percent less in some instances. I
can tell you the exchange rate in Colombia and Ecuador was far less than what
I had read on forums. Instead of four thousand or forty five hundred to
one that had dipped significantly, I think that was the number, which is
a crazy number when you think about it, right, one of our dollars
is equal to over four thousand of their pesos what they use down there.
And now you have this changing You have this changing look to this age old
industry, right, and the economic fallout of it is significant and as crazy
as it sounds. You can sit there and you can learn and draw lessons
from this. As you watch the continued rollout of AI automated automated systems within
fast food production, which the state of California, due to their own incompetence
and lawmaking, is going to push forward at a speed that was not previously
estimated. You will talk to robots to order at McDonald's. You already are
in some instances. Did you know that there are some McDonald's As we found
out that we're utilizing and testing out a system using AI voice prompted ordering some
systems. So, whether it's cocaine or Big Max or your job, these
are things that people need to pay attention to. And these are things that
need to be part of any discussion with this presidential election and pretty much any
high office right now, it will be breakneck speed. Look at how good
AI is just creating memes. How many of you have seen live memes?
Now? Right? What's one of the more famous ones? You know,
the guy who's walking with his girlfriend and he's doing that look back at another
girl and she's got that horrified look on her face. Somebody just told an
AII They're like, make that a real life thing. And now there's a
video. There's a video like you're in a movie watching that happen. So
for every bit of discussion that we're going to be having about what happened in
Baker Pa and the fallout and who's the head of the secret service and was
it political? And where they're diversity higher? Why does black Rock have a
commercial with this you this dude in it? Just know that there's a lot
of really really really big level, high level stuff they can't get lost in
the mix. All right, seven forty seven, Casey, I'm sorry.
I feel like I'm scolding, but I'm not. I just BILLI. We've
got to keep our eye on the ball, all right. I was gonna
say our eye on the target, but you can't say that. Man seven
forty seven raced agic from the weather Channel. He's here with your your weather
forecast, which will get better, but it will suck in the meantime.
So a little both, I mean better than worse. I mean a lot
of people don't want rain. If you've got weekend plans. Rain chances going
up. Not much coverage today, just isolated stuff here and there. Hot,
and Huban once again, he'd advisory for most of us. Let's just
put it that way. There are parts of the triad that aren'tated, but
everybody will be in the mid upper nineties, he did. He's close to
one oh five isolated showers thunderstorms this afternoon of this evening. Now the coverage
and chances do go up tomorrow afternoon tomorrow evening was on thunderstorms more likely to
be scattered around, but still hot, mid nineties and humid, so it
feels like one o five. Probably have another heat advisory, and then for
Thursday and Friday, scattered showers and storms. Hi's only between eighty five and
ninety with most of us on Friday staying in the eighties. And I think
that trend of eighty degree high temperatures eighty plus will continue into the weekend,
but decent chances of showers thunderstorm. So that's the payoff. You get the
front, you get the cooler or not it's extremely hot weather, you get
the rain chances with it. So a couple of more real hot, humid
days today, KC tomorrow, and then it looks like we'll start seeing temperatures
come down just a bit. Get the old winter coats out right, yeah,
man, almost there. Yeah, well, you know, if we
think it into existence, maybe it happened we could all right, thanks man,
appreciate it. YEP seven forty nine, Hang on back in just a
few. It is the KCO Day radio program phone number eight eight eight nine
three four seven eight seven four as we cruise into the third hour. Two
days. So, Joe Biden sat down with Lester Holt yesterday combative. Yeah,
Holt utilizing the very same standards that date back probably to Palin, I
think was the highest profile example, right, Remember Sarah Palin was why Gabby
Gifford's got shot. I know because I read that in the New York Times,
who got later sued by it, and everyone knew that they were one
hundred percent in the wrong. But of course you get the right court in
New York, nobody gets held responsible. She just simply had what is a
very innocuous map, right, and it had a map of a handful of
congressional districts. One of them happened to be Gifford's district in Phoenix, and
those are districts that they were targeting to flip. It was super clear what
it was, and that became the national conversation. Well, Joe Biden,
in that speech was presented with hey, didn't you know you said, you
know, you put a bullseye on Trump? And his response was, I
didn't say crosshairs, which is dumb and if you're and by the way,
the correct response is I should have said spotlight. And for whatever reason,
Lester Hold, even though he was injecting other possibilities, like, nobody thought
of that. Now do I think that Joe Biden' say't put a bull's eye
on Trump? Caused this, no, but I am forced to play and
uh and analyze stuff through the standards of the individuals making the standards. And
these are the individuals making the standards. And if you go back and you
look at Joe Biden comments about Trump, about Bush, about Republicans in general
within the last decade, there are so many shining examples of it. You
know, was his time not serving during his time as vice president, and
even going back to his time in the Senate. He then, when presented
with this, said, but what about Trump? Which is fine as a
partial answer, but it's usually a better It's a better answer when you say,
you know what, absolutely, I don't know that I think that this
caused it. But since I think this is the standard we have to play
by, I'll take my responsibility and I won't use that language anymore. And
I hope my opponent would do the same. And if you say it like
that, you say the exact thing that Biden kind of said. Well,
the second half you say basically what Biden said, but you say it in
a way that doesn't make you sound like you're refusing to acquiesce on this thing.
KCODA Radio program our number three here on your Tuesday phone number eight eight
eight nine three four seven eight seven four. So you know, yesterday I
really stuck to the technical because I thought that that was important having to do
with the Trump rally and the attempted assassination. But the human side of it
and just the the disgusting side of it was very much on display, and
it was on display early. I know a lot of people probably became aware
of what happened with the Tenacious D, which I don't do people still do
people even still know what that is. There was there was definitely a window
in there, the school of rock window, I guess i'll call it,
or Jack Black and a guy whose name you probably don't know or didn't know
his name, but you knew him from being the other guy, which Black,
they formulate what is a parody rock band called Tenacious D. His name
is Kyle Gas, by the way, and they were doing a concert down
in Australia. Where was it Sydney, it doesn't matter, somewhere in Australia.
And there's a video that emerged because it was Gas's birthday, and so
during the middle of the concert they have this whole stunt where like costume robot
looking thing comes out with a cake and happy birthday and make a wish,
and Gas did make a wish, he said, by wish, don't miss
Trump next time, and then Jack Black goes thank you, and video kind
of cuts out there as they wrap up the birthday celebration and then you know,
back to the concert stuff. Admittedly, I've never been to a Tenacious
D concert, but there was a win you probably many of you are most
you're old enough to remember it where Jack Black was everywhere. Man, they
said, I mentioned the school of rock that was that was a big movie,
but Black was everywhere, and as a result, Gas was everywhere,
and it had a real pen and teller vibe where Gas would be I guess
teller or you just kind of sit there and he didn't always say a lot.
But the dude is both of them are very political. Jack Black was
one of the folks at the Clooney fundraiser, the very same one that was
used in the piece that Clooney wrote saying, you know, he just wasn't
the Joe I remember. And don't get it messed up because people are going,
well, you know they This obviously was on the fourteenth and the incident
happened on thirteenth, And to that, I would say, you don't understand
how time zones work, because yes, while the dates are technically different,
this was this was within a couple hours because Australia sits so far ahead of
US, so from eastern you know, from eastern USA, and you know
late afternoon, early evening it is it's the next day. So that's what
we're talking about here. And he wasn't alone. You had jokes by the
I guess now former field director for Benny Thompson, and then Benny Thompson,
the representative got to come out and go, well, we've parted ways with
this individual who also made it don't miss joke or do better next time joke
and acted as though he was outraged. Well, you have to understand that
Benny Thompson is the one that introduced legislation that would have stripped Trump of Secret
Service protection. Yeah, he was. He was. He was one of
these cats that were out there with the death by a thousand cut strategy,
and the way that he was going to go after Trump is uh. He
he crafted a law that was written quite specifically that would have addressed Trump,
that would have removed any of that protection. His standard, I believe under
the law was the conviction of certain crimes that carried enough penalty time. Well,
Alvin Bragger, Uh, excuse me, Alvin Bragg, and what's her
bucket up? In New York, they delivered, Letitia James, they delivered.
Now, of course would in the long run it had been it had
been that way. No, I think most people still believe that as soon
as this thing works its way up the court system, this this, these
convictions in New York, we'll get tossed. Meanwhile, an absolute conniption fits
started yesterday after the judge in Florida who was assigned the you know, the
oh he's got top secret documents laying everywhere. Well, how do you know
there could look at the cover sheets that we added ahead of time for the
photo. On the grounds that Jack Smith wasn't appointed for a league in illegal
manner by Merrick Garland, she threw the case out and everyone feigned outrage.
I'll tell you this, though, I think secretly there was a lot of
Democrats who went, oh, thank god, because they realized the optics of
this. They realized the inherent double standard, the insane double standard from home
brewed servers with Hillary to Joe Biden with the very same types of documents,
albeit not a person who had ever held presidential office at that point, with
boxes of these documents that set in a garage next to his prize corvette.
So yeah, yeah, in a way, I think that a favor was
done really so that that didn't have to move forward in the dumpster fire manner
that it was looking to move forward. Now, of course they're going to
appeal, and that's the right. They go ahead and do that, but
they're gonna have a hard time getting that jump started because I don't think anyone's
got appetite for this right now. Meanwhile, I'm having to read about the
retaliatory riots, where are those at a lot of breathless reporting this morning from
various outlets about the Alphabet agencies they're on high alert. The irony, of
course being it is the fundamental lack of being under or on high alert that
looks like it may have contributed to this, as we find out now that
it was to almost thirty minutes by the twenty six minutes from the time that
the shooter was spotted by a member of law enforcement on My Dad two when
he was eventually, essentially when he was greased following getting to lobs some shots.
The building literally had a sniper team in it, and they watched him
use a range finder. All of these things you want to talk about high
alert should have been giant tip offs or as the guy in Cleveland would say,
dead giveaway, right, dead giveaway. So don't let Benny Thompson sit
there and crocodile tears. You don't let this professor at Belmore University who also
was like, hey, can we get somebody who knows what they're doing in
there? Don't let them spind you, and sure as hell, don't let
them talk you into going out and doing something stupid and violent. I don't
think that they will do m I get a U haul full of Patriot Front
folks that show up there, that'd be interesting. But it wasn't the right
running to protest, it wasn't the it wasn't Trump supporters. Now, there
was a report of vandalism at the state party headquarters for Democrats, and if
somebody went and did that, it was retaliatory. Don't do that, trust
me, let them, don't give them an inch. If you feel that
they were at at fault in any way, shape or form, and a
lot of people do. Let them just exist and stew in their own muck
show people the receipts. But I if you're part of making this bed,
you're gonna get left to lie in it. And it doesn't matter how much
reporting the outlets like Politico do a few of you have sent this story this
morning? Yeah, FBI, DHS weren't a possible retaliation for attack on Trump?
Wouldn't that happen right away? Is not how these things work when people
are mad as hell and they're not gonna take it anymore. Is there a
waiting period that I'm unaware of, because that's not what I've seen, and
we've done how many stories over the last few years of cities that immediately turn
to turmoil following an officer involved shooting. Do they wait a few No,
because part of it is not waiting for the information so that by the time
it hits you, you're so committed to it you don't care. Here we
go from a Politico. US authorities are concerned about possible attacks and retaliation of
the attempted assassination of Donald Trump that, according to the FBI and Department of
Homeland Security, who issued what is a very rare occurrence which are called joint
jibs joint intelligence politans. So I think it's a funny word anyway for something
that's kind of serious, but is what it is, violent extremists or others?
What does it or others mean may attempt to follow on ortal or may
attempt follow on retaliatory acts of violence. So what are you saying? You
think they're going to go out and Greece the Democrat? Maybe, but I
sure as hell, and I don't know that anyone listening to the show it
thinks that's a good idea, because you know we're on it. We're not
here to play political games. We honestly don't want to see this stuff.
We don't want people thinking that if they go to a rally to support somebody
or just to listen to somebody. Do you know one of the people wounded
as a Democrat, the grandfather is a registered Democrat. Now he seems to
have found an affinity for Trump if you look at some of the memes he's
posted on the Facebook. But there's a guy just showing up to hear what
this guy has to say, and he gets shot for his troubles is expected
to make a recovery. But the dude's mid seventies. So if you know,
if there is any lasting lingering health issues, that's going to be far
more impactful on somebody in their mid seventies than say, somebody who's in their
twenties and is in good shape in spite of themselves. But the FBI running
out with bulletins like this, where's your evidence? What are your I mean,
what is prompting you to say this? No specific targets were mentioned in
the bulletins, but the four page bulletin does note that extremists have conducted or
plotted attacks against perceived political or ideological opponents in the past. Yeah, and
I remember that time. You also talked all those dudes into doing actual like
the cringiest tactical training. You know, rocky montage videos you've ever seen in
your life where they're dumping a team of you know, fake swat dudes out
of a PT cruiser so that they can move on some sort of target of
interest. You ever seen those videos? They're crazy, But I guess that's
a good way to sneak in and do stuff because nobody's expecting a PT cruiser
to be filled with a band of mercenaries like it's a clown car. They
say, they just keep coming out of there. What's going on? But
to that, I say, show me, show me where it's happening,
show me where it's unfolding right now. Show me in Pittsburgh why it's not
unfolding right now, or in Milwaukee where the where the Republicans are. And
the answer is because it isn't. So now we're into the world of projection,
man. But if you see something, you see some riots or something,
please let me know. We will absolutely, will, absolutely deal with
it on the air, no problem. They're happy to do it. And
the trust level with the FBI is sad as at about zero for a lot
of people. So you're also when you when you go chicken little on this
stuff and it doesn't pan out and you're all ready hemorrhaging people that believe your
garbage, that's not a good look for you, especially when it's it's pretty
clear that all of the details that you're looking for are not details that are
possessed by the author or have been verbalized by these individual groups or or I
guess lone wolves or whomever's looking at it, but you write it down like
it's a thing. You're sure it's going to happen. Give me a damn
break. Six twenty one, hang on, excuse me, eight twenty one,
hang on. Oh, this is not what the This is not what
the country needs right now. The country needs to heal. I know the
FBI is like, oh, it's gonna be retaliatory stuff. All right,
call me when it happens, right, we need to we need to knock
it down a notch or but you know, whatever, garbage the thing you
want to say, and so we can't. You know, we tried to
turn to baseball yesterday for the home run derby and then they bring out ingrid
Angris Andrews. Excuse me, a country singer who then proceeds to butcher sick
the national anthem. It gets so much worse. My point is like,
we got to get something right here. Man. Why a country artist.
If you tell me a country artist is doing the national anthem, I almost
have zero concern. You tell me Fergie's doing it. I got that was
not good kc O Day Radio program. The dvance reaction has been, well,
you know, for tone down the rhetoric. I don't know Van Jones
during the CNN analysis which I can't find. I can't help myself, but
watch because one minute it's it's very contrite, like we need to do better,
and then the next moment they make the announcement and Van Jones on CNN
referred to jd Vance as quote, a dangerous virus and a horror on the
world stage. Again, by your own standards, dehumanizing an individual or group
of people, I keep getting told is a bad thing. People don't necessarily
respond well to it. Deplorables right, Oh, you got a bucket of
deplorables. Man. Arguably that was something that might have definitely contributed to her
losing the election. So when you get out there like a dangerous virus,
there is historical context where the very same language has been utilized to dehumanize groups
of people so that you could eventually stick them in ghettos and then move them
to your new camps complete with you know, shower rooms, so that they
could carry out a killings. That was a multi year, multi pronged approach
at making it seem that the person who you are going to do horrible things
to or look the other way while horrible things are done, aren't on,
They're not you, they're not human even it's it's the only way that in
many cases you can you can shift large scale public opinion. You have to
see them as less than so for for drawing one breath in and complaining about
the vitriol to your very next one being yeah, but yeah, he's a
virus of cancer. Well what do you do with viruses and cancers? Do
you embrace them? Now? You do everything in your power. You're bet
you hate them so much that you're willing to poison yourself because you know you're
also poisoning that, you know, the virus or excuse me, the cancer.
That's what's so crazy here. Others are just mad because we're not checking
enough diversity boxes. Trump didn't pick a person of color, Trump didn't pick
a woman, Trump didn't pick a minority. He picked another white man.
Rad I gotta read crap like that from some of these high profile Democrat accounts.
Maybe he picked the person he thought was the best, and you know,
and that best isn't always warm and fuzzy. Sometimes it's you know,
it is self serving, but you know you're still making the decision that you
think is gonna work out best for you. Oh no, he's not all
the diversity stuff, you know, the literally. I think the only acceptable
candidate would be that protester who got whisked away by police the other day that
that her friends were all upset. You don't remember that. Let's remember how
many diversity checkboxes. This is from one of these college campus takeovers, so
they can fly their harmas flag and scream at people where one of their comrades
other listening to how she has comrade it's adorable with the accent, was taken
by police. It is also unfair because you don't know that the number of
diversity boxes that this individual checks. And I'm here to tell you it's a
crap ton. Just so you're aware of Police Forces hospital lies. One of
our comrades mail officers touched. I can't take it seriously with that accent,
that cockney. What is going on here? Anyway? I'm sorry. Back
to this, remember, get your diversity checklist book out and try to follow
along as best you can. Police Forces hospital lies. One of our comrades
mail officers touched a disabled Muslim trans person of color without consent and refuse to
give them medical tree. It's you know, what it reminds me of is
the the what's the new, what's the latest eminem? So Houdini, you
don't have to be in in into eminem, that's fine, right, And
I love that there's a middle generation who's going who and where you have simultaneously
younger kids that are into it, and then people my age are like,
yeah, this is what we called music back in the day, recognizing that,
you know, the eminem of my childhood couldn't exist on the current plane.
And that self realization is in the video and in the song. And
there's a part where the part where Eminem and the song is talking about how
his transgender cat identifies as black but acts Chinese, right, which is obviously
a sarcastic cut on on this incessant need to throw everything else out the window
from and the valueuation standpoint, just so that they can go, look what
we did here, Well, I am looking at what you did. In
fact, arguably the biggest stumbling block to being able to as a party react
to what happened is the vice president, who was not, in my opinion,
selected because she was she and she was a person of color. But
the words of Joe Biden, right, he said, I'm going to you
know, I'm going to pick a black woman. Well, now you've eliminated
the vast majority of your options because that black women, they're not fifty one
percent of this country. And so you created this scenario where she is just
detestable when you ask voters, and you have this war chest, this war
chest that you wouldn't be able to utilize if you just cut bait on this
person and the second person and donors who want that money back so they can
spend it in down ballot situations like the whole thing's wild man, So losing
your crap because Vance happens to be a white dude, he's married to a
woman who is a person of color. Does that count or is that too
on the nose with I have many black friends because you know, you get
that feeling, that vibe obviously, But no, I think for the most
part, the selection has been well received. Even if there's people disappointed because
they thought the young Kin or Burgham or one of them should be in there,
the fact is that's not the way it's going to be. And also
I think that the favorability rating has nowhere to go but up should should he
make it? Into office, and the number of celebrities showing up, showing
out on these things. Amber Rose, who I'm pretty sure was a stripper
for a while, and then then transition to music, who was a fervent,
fervent hater of Trump and Republicans. That's not my words, that's that's
her explaining it. Who sat there and watched all of these things play out,
all of these different double standards, went no, I'm not going to
be a part of this. In fact, I'm going to go out on
a limb and try to is best. I can not be a part of
any of it. So they did, and that's where we find ourselves this
morning. All right, it is eight forty three CaCO Day Radio program.
Is mister Stagic available from the Weather Channel? See what he's lucky? Certain,
Yeah, what's going on? But man, yeah, you know,
just to trying to find the silver lining here. You know, if it's
not one thing, it's another. You know, the Hooters burned down?
Oh gosh, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know it's nothing but enough
news this morning. We'll give details of that coming up, but burst details
of weather. What you got more warm humid weather? Oh, actually hot
and humid weather coming up next few days, so you know, hang in
there. The better hair days are coming. Better hair days will be there,
and as we get into the latter part of the week, highlighted changes
include better raining chances, but we will continue to see lower temperatures and by
Friday maybe low to mid eighties. Parts of the mountains may not get out
of the seventies, and then I think we're in a scattered shower thunderstorm thing
for multiple days in a row. The temperature is gonna held down with that
with added cloud cover. So today's still heat advisory for most of us.
The mid upper nineties will feel close to one O five with the heat decks
and just hit miss storms this safternoon through this evening. Likely storm tomorrow afternoon.
Mid nineties, though it's not until Thursday and Friday we're talking about eighties.
Might hit ninety in the Triangle on Thursday, but the rain chances will
be a little better. They'll be scattered around the storms, and I think
the same trend into the weekend. Not complete wash out on any day,
but just better chances which will help. Thursday's new drought model comes out and
at the least most of the state was under some level of drought, whether
it was D zero one or two. I believe at least most of the
state that have some reports of drought, so we could use a little rainfall,
and I think we'll get some. Okay, all right, I appreciate
it, my man. We'll Jeff tomorrow, all right, okay, And
Jeff Bellinger from Bloomberg News joins us. Next. It is eight fifty one.
Your Bloomberg Update with Jeff Bellinger is happening now, Jeff, what's going
on? I was morning Casey. The news on retail sales this morning not
as bad as feared. The government says sales were flat last month. Consumers
continued to feel financial pressure, but economists thought we'd be hearing about a three
eight tens percent decline, and with auto sales excluded, sales were up for
tens percent. That was the biggest gain in that category in three months.
Amazon dot COM's Prime Day events underway now. Southwest Airlines has partnered with the
online retailer for the first time. The carrier is offering fair discounts, and
customers who use their Southwest Rapid Rewards credit cards for Amazon purchases today or tomorrow
will learn points toward companion passes related to a prime day. The Better Business
Bureau is warning Amazon customers to be cautious today. Anytime there is a significant
sales event, the cyber criminals go to work, be aware you could receive
phony emails purporting to be from onlines. The online superstore. General Motors the
latest legacy automaker to acknowledge that demand for electric vehicles is fading. GMCEO Mary
Baris as the company will not have the capacity to build one million evs by
the end of the year. She told CNBC. Customer demand will determine and
how quickly the company gets to one million EV sales per year, but at
this point GM is seeing a slowdown in deliveries. Elon Musk indors Donald Trump's
bid for the presidency over the weekend. Now the billionaire entrepreneur is putting his
wealth behind Trump's candidacy. Sources say Musk is pledging forty five million dollars a
month to a pro Trump super pack. Verizon said to be looking to sell
thousands of its cell towers across the country. Sources say the telecom giant has
hired advisors to gauge interest from potential buyers. If there is a deal,
it could involve as many as six thousand towers with a value of more than
three billion dollars and KC. AT and T is facing a lawsuit over that
hacking attack that exposed the phone and text records of just about all of its
wireless customers. The legal action was filed in a federal court in Texas.
It alleges that AT and T is guilty of negligence in allowing the hack to
happen, and the company has not been transparent about security lapses. Bloomberg reported
that AT and T has paid the hackers to erase the stolen data. Casey
okay, and I'm sure they'll not make a backup, So we got that
going for us. Thank you very much, sir, appreciate it. Jeff
Bellinger there, Bloomberg News. All right, Oh, I mentioned this just
because I got a I got a shoehorn in stories that aren't related. Although
since this took place in Dallas, I guess there's like a small connection since
you know, it's presidential assassination week here on the show. But apparently the
big old Hooters in downtown Dallas. Yeah, that thing burst into flames,
man, Now it appears the customers and staff are able to get out of
there. Let's see, there was one firefighter who I think suffered some minor
injuries trying to put the fire out on if it's it looks like some sort
of physical thing along with smoke in elation. So I don't know, have
some that collapsed or whatever. But yeah, So if you're headed to Dallas
and you were all pumped to go get some chicken wings downtown, not gonna
be possible, not for a little while. Oh what are they now?
What about the displacement of the staff there? You know, we we went
we opened up our hearts a few weeks ago here on this show when we
learned that forty different Hooters locations were gonna be shut down, offering up excess
space for any displaced waitresses. Unfortunately, I don't have room for a kitchen
staff, but you know, a place to crash anything like that. We
started this charitable endeavor, and I feel like this charitable endeavor can also perhaps
aid in this situation. So we're here for you. Just wanted every I
just wanted you to know that that's a that's the kind of show we run
around here, very giving a right a few things I want to leave you
with. I am going to be very interested to see if we get any
sort of explanation on why the MSNBC's morning program just was randomly off the air
yesterday. No explanation given. Some would say that there are shining examples on
the Morning Joe Roster there in history of some you know, some language that
I'm that were now being told is extremely troubling. So could that have factored
in. Perhaps maybe I don't know, but it's just strange, or maybe
they had technical issues. I don't Are they broadcasting live from the RNC,
And if they are, then maybe it was just due to the fact that
they're there, but nothing was really going on in the morning yesterday. Either
way, they're back at it today, so hell if I know, And
if they've given an explanation, I don't know what it is is because I'm
busy doing this thing. I know, I'd love to be able to sit
back and watch Morning Joe not really rather stick to the john Wick have john
wickstick pencils in my ears. But I am curious why they weren't there and
whether the msnbcs and CNNs of the world really mean what it is that they're
saying, and the answer is I don't know.