Something on my calendar today. Just can't remember what that might be. Oh
look, here's CNN explaining how they're new microphone systems going to work during the
debate. If we go behind the podiums, you can see two green lights.
When they're on, they signal to the candidate his microphone is on.
When the green lights are off, they signal to the candidate his microphone is
off. Now, I want to give you a sense of what it will
look like for viewers at home if a candidate whose microphone is off interrupts a
candidate whose microphone is on. So I'm standing at one podium and I'll ask
Phil to come in and take the other podium. And so let's say I'm
answering a question. My light is green and I'm speaking. Phil's microphone is
off and his green lights are not illuminated. He's going to interrupt me as
I'm speaking, And this is what it will sound like. My volume remains
constant, while Phil's interruption can be difficult to understand. Let's try the opposite.
My microphone is now on, Victor's microphone is off, and he's going
to interrupt me. By the way, why would you need to show me
the opposite. Well do you are? Are there such low IQ? Well,
actually, at CNN, you know what I'm wrong here? You probably
do have to demonstrate it, either for conspiracy theory reasons or whatever. I'm
sorry, go ahead. My volume remains constant while Victor's interruption can be difficult
to understand. The Senes production team has shared this demonstration with the campaigns earlier
today, and we're sharing it with you, our viewers, so everyone fully
understands how tomorrow night will work. Now we should know by agreeing to participate
in this debate. Both campaigns and candidates have also agreed to bide by these
rules. The CNN Presidential Debate airs a lot tomorrow night at nine PMES.
Okay, all right, so they are going to go with the full mic
cutoff. I would point out there's options here. We do something like,
let me give you a hypothetical. Ross. You're going to be the caller
for this, Okay, So let's say you call into the show and you
told the producer, which is you obviously, but I want to talk about
this, and then you get on the air and you don't, and then
you start staying really stupid stuff. Okay, When I start speaking, or
Ross starts speaking on our microphone positions, it does something called ducking. That's
the word for it. It ducks. And basically it is a elect It
is a setting where electronically the volume of you on the phone saying stupid stuff
because you're dumb, not you, but you know, the hypothetical person here,
their audio level would would would dump. So if you know, if
Ross is talking and he's the caller, I literally my mic will duck his
mic as well if he is not at his position. So if he gets
on one of the other mics, like if he was to walk in the
other studio and be on mics two through four or any of the other ones
like that, I'm pointing out that the technology exists where you have heard it
over the years in a radio setting, right, things like that. And
then obviously sometimes people call and I don't know if they take the phone and
spin it upside down so that they can't hear me, and you would be
you would be shocked the number of times I'm talking to a caller and it's
a caller that's just rambling, and all of a sudden, I start saying
something because we're coming up to a break or whatever it is, and then
all of a sudden, even though that caller had been talking, you kind
of hear them disappear. The other option is Ross literally on occasion, has
to pot it all the way down because even ducking doesn't handle it and he'll
literally in my ear you can't hear it and be like he's still talking.
And it's most of the times it's not arsenal. I just got to break
the hit and no, it happened last week I think where we had a
guy who just would not stop talking when you were trying to have a conversation
with him, and I don't Sometimes it's a it's an age issue. Sometimes
you just don't hear the phone. And yeah, I potted this guy down
so you can have a conversation, and you you, you gave him probably
a sixty you know, a good response, and the entire time you were
giving your sixty second response or whatever, he kept talking. He talked the
entire duration of what he had no idea he was off the air. So
I'm just the point that I'm making is people are like, oh, this
is unprecedented. It is, but it isn't and and CNN there are better
ways to handle it. Now, why do you think CNN's going with this
direction? By the way, do you think that that's all it does,
or do you think like so, my conspiracy is if Joe Biden's talking and
he starts wandering and Donald Trump starts interrupting it, it hits Biden with I
don't know, maybe like a shot of the adderall or something. I don't
know. I don't know, like because I enjoy reading weird stuff on the
internet, you know. So I'm little the audio them explaining how this works,
and my first thought was this is going to confuse Biden, is it?
Though? I I mean, I know it's sad to say because it's
so simple, but I mean it's a minute, what one minute fifteen second
audio clip about how the microphones work, and I think it's it might be
too I could see him like, okay, here's the thing. I can
see him talking and thinking his microphone is on and it not being on.
Sure, oh, absolutely, one hundred percent. But is that more injurious
than some I didn't pull all the exchanges, but there's there's lots of exchanges
where not in the first not the first debate between those two that was that
was its own thing. But in the second debate, Biden be talking and
Trump would be more concise. You know a lot of times he just says
little stuff like you know, when there's that famous Hillary Clinton one where you
know, she said something and he said, because you'd be in jail.
That clip floats around a lot. There's a there was a montage of when
Trump would start saying stuff even if you'd say just a little thing where Biden
would either stop, freeze or it would take him off the point that he
was wanting to make. Yeah, it's a good point because even if they
mute Trump's microphone over the broadcast, Biden can obviously still hear him, right,
I mean they're not like separated by like a plexiglass or a partition or
anything. Right, I don't know, there's not remember, there's not a
lot of you. I don't know who the hell knows. I mean,
that's how it looks in the video. So if it is that distance,
I guess maybe if Biden's got an ear piece in, But you know,
that's the that's the that's the whole conspiracy. All the time I would point
this out, Joe Biden having an earpiece with people saying stuff in his head.
He wouldn't be able to handle it. Would you agree with that as
somebody who's had to literally keep talking on the air, well A thousand,
Yeah, there's no There is no way that Joe Biden could handle it.
Or but I'm the actor under the Joe Biden face mask the lizard person who
are? Oh you went? Are you already there? Damn it? I
had a better one go ahead? And yeah, you know what I'm saying.
So you have the lizard person who is or the Biden clone with the
mask over the ears so you already can't hear. Good, then you put
an earpiece in there, and then you put in all the mind. It's
gonna be so confusing for whoever's playing Biden or that lizard person. Yeah,
but I mean the lizard person brain. Maybe their brain can comprehend it.
I don't know how. Yeah, well don't they telepathically connection? Anyway?
I think those are the grays. I don't know, you're telling me a
graye never gotten with the lizard person? Oh good dude. You know they
have you know, brown Figger Brown. Yeah right, I don't know,
because they're really into the probing. You know, some of the lizard people
are into that as well. Maybe you know persons into you know, flokas
or whatever, you know, the little little spinners or whatever they say,
you know, or or and and and and it like has destroyed the lizard
person's family right because they, you know, brought the gray home for I
don't know, what's a lizard person holiday right to meet the fam and lizard
dads like I and lizard moms like don't say anything, honey, And it's
this whole uncomfortable like and that had to have happened in the grand scheme of
things, just saying that being said, Can I let me let me give
you an absurdity, not that lizard people in gray is an absurdity obviously,
let me let me give you an absurdity that I could literally see an argument
being made for considering the amount of manipulation that is willing to be done on
it. Look, the North Carolina Board of Elections just decided RFK and Cornell
West can't be on the ballot even though they're they're you know, they're literally
out there they're known U RFK Junior is I don't he like he ends up
on polls in North Carolina and they just decided. The Democrats said we can't
have them. They'll lose just like they did with the Greens last time,
and the Supreme Court will probably be the one who does it here in North
Carolina. But if you're willing to manipulate, uh, tell me if you
think that a that you could get a politician or a journalist who is clearly
on the left to make this argument. We tried to do the mic muting.
It didn't work. And because of the proximity on the stage, like
you just pointed out, Ross Biden, who's just trying to answer the question
just be a man of the people, he still is unable to do so
because this monster won't shut up. All right, Well, we also have
AI. So if Joe Biden is explaining his student loan whatever, right,
and Donald Trump is making it impossible to do that, why shouldn't an AI
be able to just utilize the previous statements that Joe Biden has made on this
and then that's what comes through the microphone. I mean, technologically, that's
that that could happen, right, I don't I don't see anything that would
stop that. So you know, Joe Biden's talking he's trying to explain this
thing. Evil Trump won't shut up. Boom Ai starts. The audio you
start hearing is from the time Joe Biden explained it at the rally in Memphis
or whatever. It's It's only fair. Does that sound so far fetched in
today's modern age? You know, it sounds weird at first, blush,
but roll it over a couple times in your mind, because you'd have people
going, Look, the point of this is to inform individuals where they stand,
and if one candidate's not going to allow that, then we, you
know, we have to do something. We tried to do the mic muting,
it didn't work, and then we'll do the grey thing and with the
lizard. I mean, those are great points, but I'm not gonna lie.
The entire time you were describing that, my mind was elsewhere thinking about
the lizard person and the Grays bonding over their hatred of Giorgio Suklos. They
could find something to bond over. You know, this guy knows nothing,
like this guy thinks he knows everything. He knows nothing, idiot, right,
but he's still a hype man for him, right, I mean,
think about think about what he's what he's pushing, he's he's he's like,
he's bragging on your tech, you know what I mean? Like that feels
pretty good. What if they had none to do it and there's like a
third branch of aliens and they're like, those are the guys that really did
This guy's an idiot. Okay, we would never did what came up with.
You know, wormhole technology took over entire planets without you doing This is
more on with his hair. Ross. If I got on the air and
I'm like Ross, so over the weekend, Ross took over and now is
the head of the Illuminati and rules the planet bow right, even though you
didn't do that over the weekend, then I'm a man of the people.
I'd be like, those were the erechnids. You would no, no,
no, you feel a little good. I'd be like, oh, they
believe in me and my you know, my quest to dominate the world.
So who's the the lizard, Like, who's who's the mom? Who's the
dad? In that, I would assume the gray imagine it would be the
female. I think, dude, I have to ask the question that we
always ask in this situation. Do you know what that question is? Is
that a category of adult film, not the actual aliens. But like,
I mean, you know how this and every single time time this comes up,
my answer is yes, probably because everything we searched it is all right.
Well, maybe I'm not searching the hell I'm not doing it. Wait,
did Trevor stay logged in in the studio? He did? Dude,
you are presented with an opportunity. I signed him out. I signed him
out. Oh wow, you know how much power you held. No.
I came in, I saw you signed in, and I said that's none
of my business, and I signed him out because I'm amazing he did.
This is not he was at about five point fifteen. He was a very
He was a very nervous individual, which understandably so in the sense that the
first time you're gonna go run, don care how long you've been in radio.
You're running the board for a new show. First time I do a
fill in for a host, even if they have a similar you know,
if they have a very similar clock to me, I still am a little
nervous. First time I did Miami because they have a newswheel like, I
apologize the program director He's like, no, it's fine, and I'm like,
dude, it's just so different from what I do. And so we
go on the air and I'm like, hey, you know, this is
Trevor Ross is out fighting comedies or whatever. Trevor's RPD on one O six
and it's his first day. So say hi to Trevor, everybody, but
if you call in, that's what you're going to be hearing. And then
I'm like, by the way, Trevor previous program director his first day when
we were done, he forever was called Brian the bad boardop. So no
pressure and we rocked out and uh, you know, on the air,
I think it sounded fine. Little couple things there, so but that's good,
Like we need more people know how to run the show, give us
more flexibility. So and the audience was suggesting that we refer to him as
Deputy Trevor, but I'll leave that up to you because the sheriff thing,
So your choice, that's all I'm saying. Anyway, it is six twenty
two, have to go review the tape. Yeah, so we got this
debate thing tonight. Yeah, we're gonna have to get into that. But
in addition, we got a burger controversy. I don't know why this made
me so angry, but it did. If you if you're not following the
what a Burger lawsuits, Yeah, we'll get into that. There's because there's
a lot more info that's out also swatting out. There's a there's a new
thing you can do in the world of video games, and Steven kent our
nerd correspondent will make his triumphant return to defend the acolyte or something. And
I'm I'm gonna be very interested to hear it because lightsaber haircuts are a thing
now and I got questions. So hang on, welcome, It is the
Cacoday Radio program. We know what is the oh you will know? All
right? Let me I want to make sure I understand that I did see
that this morning, but what you're telling me in your email is difference or
so let me do a little more research because I share your concern. It's
it's about CNN and Elon Musk. So all right, hang loose on that.
Let's grab a couple or I guess we just got one caller still holding.
Let me grab a quick call Kevin. What's going on this morning?
Hey, you just reported on the news that Biden is in a hangar in
a movie theater with sixteen people. He's filming what's going to be put on
tonight. He picked the side of the stage he wants to be on.
He doesn't want an audience. It's gonna be ai if he starts to mess
up. Well, look, I'm not spinning conspiracy, sir. But literally
everything you just said except for the you know, I don't. I don't
know that they'll just cut to the film there. But I like that addition
to my conspiracy. The absurdity of no audience and them literally constructing Bollaggio safe
is wild, right, It's crazy, man. Yeah, I like that
going. What about the Gray hold on? Sir? Let me ask you
the important question. I let you go the Grays and the lizard people.
Who's wearing the pants in that family? Nancy Pelosi is all right, fair
enough, appreciate it? Yeah, all right. So I like Kevin's edition
Ross, That's a good one. Huh No, it makes sense, right,
They have a full scale replica of the set that he's been practicing on
in front of, like you know, pretty suits and staffers and stuff.
So I mean if but no audience, just clear, no audience. But
the AI stuff aside. You know, even if they're recreating the set there,
I'm sure they wouldn't just give him the answers ahead of time, right,
I mean, at that point it'd be Trump's word. I don't know
how much of his staff is going to be in there, but they wouldn't
get any traction because none of the outlets would run any of his stuff.
No, I just want to be abundantly clear. I I No, I
don't think that's going to happen. But right, where's the same suit and
we're left arguing over whether the part in his hair was in exactly the same
spot as the last shot, because you know, a lot of times to
detract from something, all you gotta do is just cause confusion. But it's
I don't go. You know, there's theaters around. That's just so you
know they're they're so green that they built a theater for two weeks or they
built obviously they didn't build a new building, but well, how many how
long did that take? What did that cost? What is the carbon footprint?
You're telling me? I didn't even what is the venue for this?
By the way, you know what I just realized, I don't know the
name of the theater that they're actually in. But you know, Ross,
you've been in a lot of theaters doing what we do right go, you
know, for concerts or for some of the larger scale events things along those
lines. I have, they have their uniqueness. But at the end of
the day, does Red Hat and Walnut Creek really look that much different from
a from a stage perspective. I mean, either way, you're on the
stage and you're looking out into lights, you know what I mean, Yes,
that's what and that's where I was going. And when you're on you
almost see nothing, depending on how it's set up. It's it's pretty crazy.
That's why if you ever go to concert and an artist is interacting,
when they did it, put their hand on their forehead right there, and
depending on how the lights are set. I remember I when I was still
doing the thing on our all rock station, I would have to go go
down and do it or Dutch. I hated doing that because I just felt
so old. I felt I felt so old standing on the stage at Red
Hat looking down and and my old brain kicks in and I'm like, dude,
I'm sorry. Do do teen girls wear clothes anymore? I I really
I realized how old I was. I was the same way when I was
still doing them sing the clubs on like a Friday and Saturday night for the
time right before I came over here in twenty eleven. I remember I was
up there in the VP the DJ boot looking down. I'm like, I'm
so old I was. I was kind of relieve though, like because I'm
like, that's the right response, you know, uh, when you when
you're getting on that. At no point, I'm like, hey, I
wonder if I could text these girls and meet them backstage, only if I
know it's true. I was relieved. I don't. Yeah, you get
older and like, like like kids even in like college, they look like
they're twelve. Yes, you know what I mean. They're like you're so
young, and You're like, you're how old you're in college? You're like,
you're're in sixth grade. You're a liar. I'm sitting there and I
was introducing who was it. I don't even it doesn't matter who it was,
but it was, you know, it was obviously one of the newer
acts, and I'm just like, and I remember thinking while I'm talking,
I'm like, can your parents let you go out? Like that that wasn't
all of it. It wasn't everybody, but yeah, it was a few
in the front row who I was like, oh my gosh, but yeah,
you really have a hard time seeing a lot of it. It's just
the whole thing with like to reconstruct it when the I could probably find a
theater all right, all right, right location, it's in Atlanta, I
know that, But is it a theater or is it CNN, like because
CNN has a performance studio. I know you're shocked. Ah, why would
you make this piece of information so hard to locate? What is wrong with
look at it? Even on CNN's It's like, give me a break.
It's going to NBC Chicago for this information. Yeah, apparently there's gonna be
a bunch of protests, so prepare one's oneself to this. But remember this
is an administration that likes building sets. Yeah, but like, I still
don't understand why they have that set of the Oval Office. It's super weird.
So for those of you who don't know, you have the Oval Office
and in the Executive the Executive build or whatever the building is right next to
they constructed a half Oval office complete with windows with not real stuff behind it,
because obviously you have to mirror the view that people know is the Oval
office. So they have a fake half oval office set. Now. They
said it's so that they can hold events in the Oval office, which has
limited space. So if you just have the part that you're firing a camera
into and then you mock up the windows, it allows for more people to
be in there. But in most of the instances, right I see him
use it, it's pool reporters, which you know, it's not the entirety
of the White House press staff, it's pool reporters. It makes you have
to have him now leave the Oval office go over the other thing if he's
involved instead of leading probably about fifteen people in which can which can easily fit
in the Oval office. I will attest that to you as somebody who has
literally gotten to look into it. Okay, So in the background of the
windows never make sense because it'll be like the middle of winter and behind them
they'll be like big trees, like it's like it's summer or spring. Well,
you know, I don't know if you know this, you've been on
the White House grounds. Uh No, it's like one of those magical things
surrounding it, so it's always perfect always. Oh so it's like, yeah,
it's like, is it like a dome or is it like forest field
technology? It's force field tech. Oh wow, yeah, it's the grat
It makes me feel better knowing we have that to defend our president. And
as a peasant, all you see is just you know, I'll look at
snowe over there too. But once you get inside, now it's perfect.
So that's crazy technology. I was going to say, like, is there
something Harry Potter that that would kind of go with. I didn't. I
didn't know, so, but you get what I'm driving out. That's see
it isn't okay. It is in CNN's Atlanta studios. You know what is
this is such bs man. I mean obviously you can't roll in there,
but they the performance studio that they have for CNN. So when you see
they've done CNN town Hall stuff in there, so you're probably familiar with.
It is not notably different than one hundred venues that they would have access to
and they and they could rent. In fact, you know, he's got
a very similar performance studio like that is uh public radio and uh people you
can rent it uh in in DC because they had a thing. I'm like,
why are we going to the public radio thing? But they had rented
the facility, so oh man, all right, who the hell knows what's
gonna happen. But as we cruise through the show, because we got to
canceling, we got to do uh here in just a moment, I most
what what do you think actually happens? I I everyone is. I've seen
everyone going, this is what should happen. Right, Trump should be shown
for who he is, Joe Biden, Joe Biden should the world should see
that he's infirm. But in reality, do you think that's what's going to
happen or is that just people kind of projecting their political wants and needs,
because look, the the ingredients are there for this thing to go sideways,
and it could. It's just it's it's depressing to me that it never has
because every State of the Union, every debate, we're like, okay,
this could be the one where it goes completely off the rails and the clone
or the or the robot malfunctions and then you know it's the world. Yeah,
and it never happens. He always rolls out there and he's you know,
hopped up on a million different drugs, or they just had an IV
with him backstage, or it's whatever. It's it's the newest version of the
clone or whatever. I'm kidding. I don't actually think there's a clone.
There's somebody out there right now going, oh, there's a clone more on.
But No, it's never that train wreck that you think is going to
happen. No, And it's never that. He was talking on the news
this week about when you're in the White House, the medicine cabinet's amazing,
and they were talking about their time from in the Trump thing, and not
just for whoever's the president, but like, if you're anybody who's in the
higher up, they're just writing scripts and I'm sure something you'd get arrested.
Yeah, And I'm sure it's some sort of medication you've never heard of.
What if they what if they accidentally get some laced with fentanyl, because doesn't
that happen to literally every drug now at some point, like ah, there's
ventanyl in the and then I feel like we do a story a week on
that. So to your point, no, it's something you've never heard of,
but also so it's something they're not just yeah, and it's heading heading
to uptown to buy. And it's super weird because like we see consistently in
the news, like the Joe Biden that was at Normandy or the Joe Biden
that was some factory giving a speech and he can't follow along. You never
see that Biden at these events. It just never seems to happen. And
and they have not really they have. They did not return to the White
House after the weekend, and they announced that they wouldn't be so uh they
you know, they've been doing this thing they're doing all right, so that
you know, we'll make that part of the show. Also, we got
uh, let's see here, is that what they call it? The cat?
Oh no, I see what you're doing there, sir? All right,
I you almost got me. That was pretty good. But instead I'm
gonna go to break and we come back. We'll do a canceling. Hang
on cac O Day Radio program phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven
eight seven four. We got us a canceling and I'm not gonna scold you
guys, but we're gonna we're gonna have a discussion about taking a taking a
little step back, a little pause, a little respite sometimes where you when
you're like, oh, what is going on and just giving it a good
think, because I think too often nowadays we don't give stuff a good think
and it's and it's easy, like we've been trained not to do it right
by social media. This thing just happened. I have to have a I
got to put something out immediately. Where do you stand? I gotta be
up in like three seconds because the other guy's going to be up in five
and if it takes are too similar, I think we just rosstin't We just
talked about this where people are like, why why haven't you wait in on
this thing that happened three minutes ago? And it's like, I don't know,
Maybe I want to wait for some more information or think about it.
And uh, I did see the very same thing that a bunch of you
have sent me emails on and I knew it already, but I'll get into
it. So first the canceling and I got to tell you the stones this
takes in North Carolina is absolutely wild to me. I can I almost respect
and you and you'll see it in the way that they worded some of this,
like I respect you putting it out there because it's so insane and it's
going to it it will irritate so many people. And you said, I
don't care. I'm an unhinged moon bat and I'll do what I want to
do. So what am I talking about the latest problematic statue? Yeah,
we got one. The difference is this statue is about forty days old,
or at least the installation of it is about forty days old. I'm,
of course, referring to the extremely problematic Billy Graham's statue that was put into
the Capitol. I guess, just real quick, every state can provide two
statues. It has been they and they change. They can change, and
there's Look, there's been controversy before where especially among Southern states, protesters go
out and they're like, Ah, this person, who's the statue in there?
They were alive during I don't know, slavery, or they did own
slaves right with some of the founding fathers, or Utah has Brigham Young,
which if you ask me what statues they'd probably stick in the hall from Utah,
you wouldn't. You wouldn't finish saying the two syllable name of the state.
And I would have said Brighamy, you like, it's super predictable.
So for those of you who don't know here, about a month and a
half ago we swapped out a statue one of our two and implemented the late
Reverend Billy Graham. Now notice the R right there with the reverend. So
I guess you can imagine what the problem is. Ah, I'm gonna start
reading this. We're gonna and then I'm gonna need more time and we'll get
calls. So if you want to hang on and you're on the phone,
but I have to get this story out to you. On May sixteenth,
the statue of the late Reverend Billy Graham was unveiled in the US Capitol.
It's North Carolina's official entry in the crypt of the US Capital for the people
of Graham's home state. And by the way, the author knows that they're
gonna get shredded for this, it's in the wording. But I don't know.
Maybe they feel that they're morally justified when in reality they're giant hypocrites.
And I can test it in one theory. For some the statue immortalizes a
man who was a staple on television for close to sixty years and helped spread
the importance of religion and morality throughout the United States for others. By erecting
the statue in the US Capital, it immortalizes the word and teachings of Christianity.
We got us a controversy in an op ed that appeared in the McClatchy
newspapers. We have a new problematic statue. And I got to tell you,
you know, by the way, the author of the article, Robert
Wiener, is a Clinton and he was spokesman for Clinton and Bush white House.
Although I don't know that that's fair to say mostly Clinton. I guess
they're trying to say that he is bipartisan here, but he's clearly not unfamiliar
with him. But the idea that we'd run this op ed and all the
McClatchy stuff complaining about the one month and like what almost like almost forty five
day old Billy Graham statue that North Carolina just put in their one of two
spots at the US Capitol is wild to me. And look, this is
not about this is not about Congress establishing a law like this is like so
many other things where you are of the opinion that the Constitution is a living,
breathing document versus strict you know, strict constructionists. Right, those two
lines of thoughts, you have expanded it so massively so that you know they
were able to take privacy laws and use it to create a right to abortion,
which, by the way, anyone says, anyone who says abortion is
a right now you need to remind them that no, it is not not
anymore. It's a separate issue that is for the states. So that is
inaccurate language. I know everyone gets very tied up, and that's just being
accurate. Right. It doesn't matter how you feel about something, you need
to be accurate. So is Congress doing a law here or is it just
the reality that some Americans or some people who you may interact with, are
guided by religion. Some people are guided by crystals or guided by just an
innate sense of their parents raised them not to be a dirt bag? Do
you care why a person that you enjoy being around or interacting not without getting
into the personal side of it, right, because you know, once you
get into a friendship or any of that, then you know those deeper conversations
may happen. But when I meet somebody for the first time, I'm like,
oh, it's a nice guy. That nice guy. I'll give an
example. Ross, uh uh Nick, Nick down the hall? What'd you
think first time you met him? Good dude, funny dude, Yeah,
funny dude, nice dude. It's funny. What church does he go to?
I have I have no clue. Okay, no idea. I don't
care. What was What kind of crystals does he have at his house?
Next to incense? I do not know how If I guess, I would
go with the purple kind. Yeah, well, amethyst is of a cop
out because you can pretend you're not a crystal person. Now you got to
go full spinny crystals and chants and stuff. What was his childhood? Like?
Uh ah did it? It was rough? It's to man, Okay,
so you don't know. He was abandoned by kickboxing nuns. Did you
know that? Dude? You're gonna I need you just yeah, I have
no idea. I have no clue. All right, Really, kickboxing nuns
are a thing I'm interested. Did you see that they had some like slutty
nuns that were in Chicago, Like, like, there's some real weird bastards
that believe it or not, they're not in the Catholic Church anymore. I've
seen some videos like before in the past. Okay, no, this was
not that all right, anyway, this thing has came up. The point
is I think Nick's a nice guy. Ross thinks Nick's a nice guy.
I don't care why he's a nice guy, do you know what I mean?
So with Billy Graham, with Billy Green, now you still have to
tell the story of the person, because that's what you're capturing here. So
do you think that the only people influenced by Billy Graham over the course of
his life were people who have the same exact belief as as Billy Graham did.
No, And it's famously documented, especially you know when you get into
when you get into the partisan politics. You know, you have Graham's interaction
with the Carter family. You have people that are of other faiths, people
who are atheists. Because what ever inspired Billy Graham to do what he did
and to create what we you know what we still to this day see when
we're driving to Asheville, which uh, well, you want to talk about
Heaven and Hell being next to each other, Holy cow. But like you
know, in in Lntreat, there and Black Mountain in that area. And
then when you go when you go to the worst places in the world,
you know who's there. Samaritan's purse. When I I told you, when
I was in Colombia and Ecuador in the bad parts where you've got you know,
you're having to drive through there, Samaritan's purse is there. They're you
know, they're out there doing stuff. And and I didn't see I saw
Samaritan's purse. There's some there're obviously some religious imagery, and you're in Latin
America, so it's uh, you know, very Catholic Christian ee. But
but you know, they're just out there doing stuff. When COVID hit,
you remember Samaritan's purse. Literally he was like, well, how about we
build you a hospital in Central Park and they did, and if you remember,
a bunch of people got angry over it, and they were literally they
were blocking entrances. At one point they were telling people not to use it.
Your lawmakers telling people not to use it. Those good works and acts,
while they may be inspired from a uh you know, from Christ,
are not exclusive to people who put their hand on the Bible and go yep,
save the soul, right So when when good things are being done and
there is not some ulterior motive, and I don't think by the way,
one, you know, sharing their faith with somebody who may ask, is
an ulterior motive. That's dumb. Ulterior motive would be like you have to
sign this and now you're part of the church, because they don't and I
don't see you down there setting these things up right, and I'm not.
These are not pastors who go on by g five's not getting it done anymore.
So for all of those positive works, can we just be like,
yeah, that was a good thing. But when you're then having to tell
the story of what inspired that individual, it is not inappropriate to explain who
they are. And Billy Graham was a believer, and he and and it
inspired him to want to share that message and to put together and and and
do things that benefit people. So what is the author upset about? Well,
the author is upset because that part of the story is included in there
as it should be. Just uh, let me reread this. For some
the statue immortalizes a man who is a staple on television for close to sixty
years and spread the importance of religion for others, it immortalizes the word and
teachings of Christianity and is indirect competition. No, it's not. And what
it immortalizes in this case is he's holding a Bible. And yes, there
is a Bible verse on there. And then there are two smaller inscriptions on
this because if you if you read Graham's biography and and by the way,
you didn't have to probably guess that John three point sixteen was a popular popular
verse, right, that is that he is who he was, So I
you know, the expectation is that the people that are in this the statue
hall, there are people that were you know, did good things or move
things forward, or were inspiration or whatever. But now you're telling the story
of who they are. And Billy Graham without a Bible is not Billy.
But also there's nothing there that says, if you want to go look at
the statue that you have to accept Christ as your savior. The statue with
the Bible part of the statue is open to two Corinthians. No, I'm
kidding, Galatians six fourteen. And then there are two lines inscribed very small
at debate of the statue, John fourteen six and John three sixteen. Let's
see, and then Mike Johnson mentioned them, so they're like, oh see
he mentioned them. He literally was said, hey, you know people are
walking by and then they can see that. Well, it is a great
accomplishment. Oh and then this is the line that they write, just to
let you know that the like, the author knows this is dumb. The
author knows that this is dumb. To be clear, this is little what
they wrote. To be clear, we believe that Graham's statue deserves to stay.
It's the religious iconography and inscriptions that cross the dividing line between church and
state, and they need to be removed. You know what, let me
know what day you're going to be hitting that with a grinding wheel, and
I bet you that you won't be able to get into the statue hall with
a number of North Carolinians that will go up there to stop you. You
absolute moon bets. Telling the story of Billy Graham and not including what may
have motivated him is dumb. And let me give you an example of why
I know this, and I want to see these cowards do next. I
have another suggestion of a statue that is equally as problem arguably more problematic,
that you need to get on right away. And I would love for you
to go ahead and handle this and I will watch. Have you seen have
you been to the granite MLK statue? Right? I know it's the one
where it's like it's it's like his profile is protruding from the solid block of
granite. It's not some people think it's just that. It's not. It's
part of the whole thing is pretty big. In fact, it's so big
that you have the statue of MLK, who was a religious man, and
the statue then opens to this flourishing wall that is it's like five hundred it's
like five hundred feet. It's you know, it's it's it's a couple it's
a couple foot or a football field in three quarters a wall that extends from
it and then comes out and on it is sermons, Mlk's sermons and there's
a lot of God mentions in there. I'm just gonna let you know.
And the expectation is part of that statue in the wall is that you you
read about the transitionary nature, and it's sermons and it's obviously speeches, and
it culminates with that statue, which is a relief of him in his hand
holding his I have a dream speech as he mounted the stage in DC.
There's so much religious stuff on there, it's it's overwhelming for some people.
I suspect you're doing that? Is that next? We're doing that next?
Because that sits on public property. That's six stood on the park there.
As you get go down towards where the Jefferson Memorial is directly adjacent to the
mall there so that they had enough length to run, then when are we
canceling the MLK statue and sermon wall. You're not You're too much of a
coward to write that. Come on McClatchy Publishing. I want to see the
op ed calling for the dismantling of the MLK memorial there or at least grinding
down the five hundred foot walls so nobody, nobody has to be offended for
something that sits on public property and was obviously you know, placed there and
had to go through the government allowing it and overseeing it, right because they
those are that's federal property. It sets up. Where is your MLK op
at? I want to see it? Or is this just about you being
butt heard over the fact that Billy Graham was in there, and Mike Johnson
mentioned that there's Bible versus because that's what I feel like we're dealing with.
And while people are aware that MLK was, you know, a reverend and
a doctor and all of that stuff, the majority of people who look to
MLK and and what it is is that he was advocating for, don't I
I would argue, don't necessarily look at it through a lens of religion.
Yet that was, among other things, the inspiration that was there. And
it's important to tell the story about what inspired people like Billy Graham or inspired
you know, MLK Jr. Or inspired anyone who we feel is important enough
to go ahead and find themselves adorned in our in our capital. And I
know you're going to be shocked to learn many of those folks were deeply religious
and were driven by that. But at the end of the day, were
they good people? And did they do good things? But no, we
gotta we gotta cancel Billy Graham. You absolute lunatics. All right, quick
call here, she's been hanging on Donna. What's up, Good morning,
casey morning. I'm wondering about a minute and a half. But that was
the story I had to get into zone. It's just a quick question.
Should should Biden do well tonight? Should he still be seen as a sympathetic,
well meaning elderly man with a poor memory, or should he be prosecuted
for willfully retaining classified documents? I mean they want it both ways, right,
I think that uh, I think that he should If he does well,
it doesn't matter, do you know what I'm saying, Like all of
it. Yeah, we're gonna we'll sit here and we're gonna spitball. But
maybe out there it doesn't matter. The media is gonna you know what the
spin is gonna be. Oh yeah, yeah. So well personally, and
I'm sure many others believe that if his memory is not that bad, then
he should be prosecuted for the same thing that they're prosecuting Trump for, you
know, I mean having classified documentary. I understand that the debate doesn't the
debate doesn't matter, Like that's not even material here. That's a that's a
that's a double standard that exists before we ever get into this thing. Yeah
yeah, yeah, true. All right, I've done. I gotta I
gotta roll, But thank you very much. Oh oh, you're gonna say
something else, probably about cats. So I did the world a favor.
Oh my gosh, do you think that cat nips ever got laced with fentanyl?
That'd be everything else has? How many stories have we done? So,
uh, we'll get your calls on the MLK, So, oh good,
stop sending me. MLK was a communist stuff. Call the show and
say that. Don't be the McClatchy cowards. We'll be back. Was teasing
Stagic Ray Stagic about being an apologist for The Acolyte, which, if you're
paying even a modicum of attention, is, in the opinion of a lot
of Star Wars fans, the dumpster fire of old dumpster fires, which is
saying something because you know the last movie and then the one before that.
But I digress. Uh what was it? What was it? He he
jumped to the defense. Oh it was lesbian space switches. Right, He's
like, well, yeah, but it's the Force is Given Birth to all
right, Fine, fine, fine, fine, you want to be an
apologist, we'll do The Acolyte. He hadn't watched it yet, and uh,
we're gonna talk about this stuff with Stephen Kennedaedo five. So I'm not
gonna deep dive it. But I told Ray, I'm like, all right,
all right, man, we'll go ahead and watch it and then you
can explain to me about you know, uh, the tree cutting part,
the scene of it. They how you can just you can lightly head butt
a lightsaber and break it rost. Did you know you could just head butt
a lightsaber? And yeah, I saw that. Did you see the haircut
thing? I do? That's it. That was the thing that I hit
him with yesterday. And he's like, all right, I gotta watch it.
So I am so happy I broke up with Star Wars, or it
broke up with me somewhere after season one of The Mandalorian. I haven't seen
anything after season one of The Mandaloria, and I'm so happy to avoid all
this yeah drama. Yeah. So let's say hypothetically that there was think of
a who's a who's a really really bad person you can think of in history
this, or think of two like two really bad people that universally nobody likes.
All right, Angel Hernandez, Right, what no, he is the
worst? All right, Angel Hernandez and Lebron James. Okay, right,
And let's say there you see Lebron's all but hurt his kid getting didn't get
drafted first round anyway. So anyway, those two are there and they're you
know, they're awful, and uh, Lebron James or Angel Hernandez says,
hey, if you don't surrender, I'm going to do something to Lebron James,
who also is is a horrible person in this scenario, do you surrender
all of your weaponry? And because the bad guy threatened to kill the other
bad guy, so you're just like, nah, it's fine. There's so
many things and Stagic is going to have to defend all that, so look
kind of looking forward to that. All right, here's the deal this is.
Remember when I said, hey, sometimes you just gotta pause and contemplate
stuff. I too noticed. I noticed it when I was driving back from
Greensboro and after I was broadcasting there was that two weeks ago we had the
vacation week, and I did see it. But I was aware of what's
going on because there was a there was a whole insane thing that happened in
Colorado, and that is the BUCkies billboard. Right. If those of you
who drive to and fro, or maybe you live out and you know,
Memon or further out and you commute into the triangle or vice versa. But
you've seen the upside down BUCkies billboard. That's the thing, BUCkies. Does
you know why, because I'm talking about it on the radio right now and
you all are emailing me. Yeah, it's like it's like a Pedro thing.
Yeah. Why does your mic sound so different right now? Oh?
Okay, all right, Oh okay, I'm sorry. I didn't really I
touch around the air. Yes, yeah, pages Pedro have upside down billboards,
I guess, and they have wacky billboards. There's some companies that embrace
billboards. Pedro's would be a good example. Waldrug. How many of you
have driven across South Dakota. Holy crap, Holy crap, man, so
many billboards to the point where it was fun. I was talking to one
guy, He's we really want to go to Waldrow Waldr. I got so
annoyed after the two hundred billboard, I might screw you. So you go
to the mitell Corn Palace. Then you watch the birds eat the bill That
is sort of like the natural progression when you have one of those like campaigns,
like a payroll south of the Border, where at first you're like,
oh, that's interesting, I might stop and check that out. And then
like after the five thousand billboard, you're like, screw this place. Yeah,
you form animosity for no reason, right, because they're just they're out
there just doing business, trying to do business. Not rational, but anyway.
Yeah, So they do upside down billboards. And the reason I know
this is well, one, I've seen them in other instances and I put
it together. But there so, they opened a BUCkies in Colorado, and
as you can imagine, a bunch of the same, just like we have
environmental moon bats over the one in Meban who basically got that project shut down
for years and other places, all right, because initially it was going to
be closer to the Triangle and the Chapel Hill contingent assembled. But in Colorado
they somehow basically the moonbats got a narrative going that it was upside down because
whoever hung the billboard was on their side, and it was like when you
hang an American flag upside down? I kid you dot, And they started
that narrative like even the person hanging the billboard is so concerned that this gas
station is going to destroy our beautiful Colorado. Uh, you know, nature
don't Texas or Colorado. You know what, let me say this, Colorado
needs some texasing and and actually Texas needs a little colorado ing. But but
yeah, and and like people just thought that was the narrative. I laughed
my butt off reading that. It's like you did no research to determine that
that was. In fact, that's how they do it. And you know
what mission accomplished. Look at all that they just got. And Ross has
talked glowingly about their bathrooms. Just you know, there's things you can do
out there, all right, real quick before we get into the staging stuff.
Uh, I am the hot two he meme is done. In fact,
I'm I'm canceling it. After I had to watch Whoopy Goldbird on the
View. When discussing Donald Trump, it would be remiss of us to not
say till Biden knows how to do this. Yes, he knows how to
do this. He's he's quite good at this. And you know, you
can't refute anything with him because he just when I say him, I mean
Trump, he tends to just But can I mention one thing that was the
sound of Whoopy Goldberg doing doing a spitting she spit or did the uh you
know, as like the hok towy girl. So now in my mind,
hot tooy will be Goldberg. Associated how's your breakfast going? Everyone? Is
that good? You know? The memes made it to Facebook too, which
is super scary because now you have to explain it to like your mom and
your grandma. Yes, and by the way, can you imagine you're whoever's
dating will be Goldberg? She pulls that move and now half your body's covered
and partially chewed cake, So like, you don't want this, you don't
see that's with my mind. I'm like daw and now it's done, so
we'll retire that all right. Here He has raced agic from the Weather Channel
to defend haircuts with lightsabers, which break when you head butt them. And
uh, why a good guy would surrender because a bad guy threatened to kill
another bad guy? Well, have you seen the light yet? I I
thought you were gonna see a lot, a lot more of a haircut.
I mean that was just oh my, what do you want? Bart?
You want the movie barber Shop, but with lightsabers? I mean, what
is this? Uh? And I will say too, I was disappointed of
the unmasking of who that was. I was thinking Sidious or some other dark
Lord or somebody from the some more familiar type of lineage. And there was
a lot of lightsaber fighting in it, so that really kind of was there.
I couldn't see it. It was all the way in the woods.
It's all the way over there. Yeah, it was so there there.
There there was a lot going on there. There was a lot going on
there. But yeah, you are, you are, thank you, sir.
May I have another just yeah from Animal House? So that's fine,
that's fine. Yeah, I mean it was it was I thought, you
know, I thought you were talking like you know, like completely like shaved
off of the lightsaber. I mean you kind of kind of stretched the imagination
there. What I did I did In no way did I stretched the imagination.
I said that somebody gave them sells a haircut with a lightsaber. It
was like accurate. No, you were not, you were not. I
was. I was expecting more though, that That's all I'm saying. And
my expectations are usually like like a floaby saber or something like yeah oh yeah,
yeah, like almost like they were like completely gonna go bald and like
ship just kind of do it that way, not like one with that whip
saber. Huh yeah, that'd be fun. Huh yeah, that was pretty
deep and everything. All right, go ahead and cook everybody before you get
out of mister staging. Sneaking off early today, Yeah but uh yeah,
sneaking off and getting out just in time for the rain to come back.
Right. A few showers a couple around town this morning. Uh, here
and there. Most of them have been north of the triangle, to the
west, some of the mountains. Try doing okay, clouds and some sun
storms will be back the nineties or near ninety. You'll feel a little more
sticky with the heated next the next few days and may get back to the
mid nineties for someone so over the weekend and the scattered storms will be around.
So if you're going to be out in a bat eighes and ears to
the sky, humidity is really what the bigger change is, thus leading to
the uncomfortable heat and decease Triangle again, Heat advisory today. I'm gonna keep
rising the tropics. Do you have a wave comeing across the Atlantic? Seventy
percent chance of that developing in the next seven days, and by this weekend
may become a depression or tropical storm, but still a long ways away.
And when I get back next week on Tuesday, we'll still be talking about
it being probably in the Atlantic, So it looks like that's going to hold
together. I saw your colleagues excitedly posting spaghetti this morning. Not as excited
though as the Padawan girl boss who was able to defeat a Sith who was
able to take five trained Jedi knights, because that tracks you're just a hater,
all right, get out of here, Get out of here for you
to take care of guys. Yeah, yeah, right, that's the math.
Right. Remember that game Ross you talked about that we had where you
could like, what would win one hundred jesus Is or ten thousand Roman soldiers?
Right, actually we know that one. But in this case it's five
trained Jedi knights, one Sith, and then in round two, one Sith
versus a Rando girl balls. This is why we make fun of it,
and to help us do it or to defend it. We'll see where he's
at. We're gonna chat with our NERD correspondent Steven Kent coming up here at
eight oh five. So you don't want to miss that. We got an
airport incident that we got to get into and the what a burger insanity.
I'm gonna lay that out for you coming up next. Hang on phone number
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Stephen Kent. I refer to him quite affectionately as our nerd correspondent and
space switch justifier. How you doing this morning, Stephen? What's up man?
The space the space which justifier is doing well? Good? Good,
Good to hear from you, if it makes you feel okay. Our weather
guy like came a full throated defense of acolytes, so he gets it on
a weekly basis. You should give him a wedgie weggie and shove him in
a locker. No. I was not that guy, but I do play
one on the radio. I like the nerd stuff. I just like the
stuff that has continuity. I don't feel like I'm being preached to. I
don't feel like they're bastardizing a product that I've loved. I arguably you could.
It does create a certain amount of toxicity, but nerd culture has always
had a certain amount of toxicity. You would agree with that, right,
Yeah, I would agree with that. And it's gotten particularly virulent since you
know the rise of YouTube commentary, and you know, if you want to
like basically get online and watch reviews of given shows, particularly Star Wars,
you're watching performers who are modeling political talk. You've got YouTube reviewers who are
just basically trying to be the best Sean Hannity, you know, or Tucker
Carlson but for nerd stuff. And then you've got people, particularly on Twitter
and other parts of YouTube, who are trying to give their best joy read
and Rachel Maddow reviews of Star Wars. It's liberal and conservative and it's all
just people pretending to be political commentators and dragging Star Wars into it. Is
that on fans or is that on the a I now, I'm not approaching
this as a scientist, but you would have a hard time convincing me that
there are less political hot button issues in today's we'll call it sci fi,
superhero genre, whatever you want to call it, but that's not to say
that it didn't exist. You know, Star Trek is a good example,
right, the racial kiss and you had you had a lot of stuff that
you know was was definitely political or at least top button for its day,
but you'd have a hard time convincing me that it was. It's not more
now, you know what I'm saying, because I think there are some people
who do, Like the people who were doing Star Trek back in the day,
are Star Wars back in the day, we're doing it, and even
though there may have been politics in there, their primary thing was I want
to tell this great story. I want people to love this thing that we've
created. Where I feel like when I watched these interviews like with the with
the the Acolyte lady, I was watching some of her clips, I feel
like she's in it, or that Disney executive is like, we're gonna shoehorn
in, you know, any gay storylines we can. I feel like that's
what they're in it for before the product. Is that unfair? No,
I don't think that that's unfair at all. I mean a lot of the
people who are rising to the top of the Disney chain, and we've heard
a lot of controversies out of Disney just in the past couple of day,
you know, is that these are people who prioritize activism over artistic expression,
or they try to roll the two things together. This is all true,
but it just also happens to be true that the media environment is one where
I think fans are going to creators and reviewers online and outsourcing their thinking on
shows to reviewers. It used to be the case that people would watch a
show, they would discuss it around the dinner table, maybe argue about it
at the water cooler when they went to work. But they were having to
form and articulate their own opinions on what they saw on television. And when
I talked to Star Wars fans, particularly conservative Star Wars fans, they are
all repeating well known YouTubers who I watch their reviews as well, nerd ryme,
critical, drinker geeks and gamers. Yeah, and they are saying the
same things they said. And I go, okay, I know what's YouTube
channels you watch? Because you're just repeating someone else's review think for yourself.
Yeah, well, and we look we run into it here. In fact,
Ross and I were just having an all fair discussion about this where people
call in, and I asked myself, is I saw the same tweet?
Do you know what I'm saying because I you know, I didn't scroll that,
and it's like, but also I balance it with that is how they
feel, because it's who they are and it is their politics. But they're
not as good as Critical Drinker in putting together a way to express it.
And so it it validates a feeling that they may have arrived at but weren't
able to verbalize as well as somebody who does it professionally, like me or
you, right, we professionally, well, we like to think we do.
Sometimes I wonder how we're employed, but but you know, this is
what we do. And if people need the words, are words or Critical
Drinker and it is how they feel? Is that really dishonest? That's a
wonderful point, and I'm gonna I'm gonna echo that. I think that that's
true. That is the role that commentary plays. It helps bring voice to
how people are feeling and put it in a coherent package. And that is
part of what we do for a living. So you know, I'm not
gonna not gonna dunk on that at all. But jobs come out, Yeah,
I'll come out. I'll come out and show my cards. Though,
casey, I I don't like the Accolyte, the Accolade I have found to
be like really really low tier Star Wars television. You know if The Mandalorian
is like an AMC level television show, and the Ahsoka Show and and or
like HBO or Showtime level. You know, this feels to me like ABC
team television free Form. I don't know if you've ever watched anything on there
had teenagers who watch the kind of garbage that's on Freeform TV, but this
show feels bottom tier. With the exception episode five, which premiered just a
couple of days ago this week, I have never seen a more insane light
shaber battle than the one that they yeah for episode five, Well you didn't
see it. You saw it like through the trees, like for a little
while. Yeah, for a little while like that. And and look,
people are going to fixate on the haircut, and I like to make fun
of that. But you know what, the thing that will kill something for
me, and I'm a horror fan, so I run into this all the
time is I don't understand your decision, not you, but but the character
in there. Like if if two bad guys and one starting to kill the
other one and you're the good guy. Do you surrender? Right? You
have to convince me that that's the right thing to do. And I want
to say, I want to say one other thing. I agree with you
that I think people should also give things a critical thinking. And I'll give
you an example. Did you see the photo of the new Clark Kent that
was No, I'm not Oh, I'm sorry, uh, Ross it's on
our Twitter. Will you? Will you send that to Steven want to talking
to him to scroll down? And posted it last night? Oh, I'm
sorry, Uh, there was. They have a photo of the new Clark
Kent from who is it Zack Snyder's doing? Who's doing that? Who's directing
the new Superman movie? Where they didn't need Henry Cavill anymore? Is that's
I think it's James gun Yeah, it's right, James Gunner was Snyder and
that's going to gun all right. So so and so here's the thing you
look at. My initial reaction was he's got like the he's got like the
it doesn't look like Clark Kent. That that you know that in my mind,
Henry Cavell did. And of course, uh, you know back in
the day, christ uh I who by the way, who's your favorite Superman?
Oh? I think I would have to go with Henry Cavell. Yeah,
okay, all right? And and I saw this and my initial reaction
is, what's up with broccolihead here? What are we doing? Yeah?
Ross just texted it to you. That was my initial reaction. But then
I gave it a think. I thought about it a little, and I
said, you know what, that's Clark Kent. I have to see what
Superman looks like because for all of these years it was Clark Kent's glasses,
did all the right, did all the disguising, to the point that it
was a trope and ready player one and and and so if he is trying
to be Clark Kent on one side and Superman on the other, and Superman
looks like Superman, maybe my initial reaction isn't fair. What do you think
when you look at that picture? Does that scream? Does that like Clark
Kent to you? I've never seen Clark Kent with curly hair? This is
this is this is a strange one. I'm almost I'm almost not even convinced
that we're supposed to take it seriously, like it's it's just a shot from
a movie. We haven't seen yet, like maybe he's maybe he's wearing a
wig. TI. Yeah, I was about to say, see where wig?
And then he takes it off to become Superman, does he? Well,
he's in the phone booth. He puts the hair gel and slicks it.
Ba is it with the lights? Oh my god? Yeah, to
mock the haircut. When I think about Superman though, actually, actually I
should probably say that I actually really like Brandon Ruth as Superman when he did
Superman Returns in two thousand and six, because my favorite Superman movie of all
time is with Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor Superman Returns. That was that was
for me, the peak of Superman movies. And you know, I don't
know. I've just found always Superman to be such a bland character. Like
as a hero, I think anybody can play him relatively well. Would you?
Would you disagree? It depends what you're trying to get out of it.
Look, Batman and Superman have been around so long in pop culture that
people can equally like the Bam poo Blam Batman and the Nolan Batman, right
and you and which are nothing to like? Right, So people are willing
to evolve and see different versions of it, as long as you're putting out
a product that is considered a quality product at the time. So you know,
there's big names attached, and the idea that maybe he does go into
the booth and his uh, you know, his alien hair pops straight.
What Who the hell knows? But I will tell you this, If he's
buff, if he's buzzing around in a cape and with laser eyes and he's
got that do on, I'm out because it just doesn't work for me.
I think he needs a Jerry Curl. I don't even want to. Are
you like coming to America soul glow kind of stuff for me? What are
you looking? Yeah, yeah, Superman, Superman new age, Jerry Curl,
you know, round glasses. It could be it could be a real
hit. What do he needs? Are those glasses that really really really smart
feminists wear and all the interview shows, you know, the blocky, chunky
things. So Leslie head Lindy can go on TV and say, well Superman's
always been really gay. Well and that's the other thing too, uh And
you see you saw it not just in who was it was? What was
what's her name? From the Cosby show the young who was saying that who
is a lesbian by the way, Yeah, Raven Simone was. I saw
her being interviewed, and she is a lesbian. But it was interesting because
she said that producers wanted to make her character gay, and she pushed back,
uh, you know, why did she do that? She just she
she said, this is the character and and that just because it's part of
my identity doesn't necessarily mean it needs to work here. And I think she
kind of felt like they thought that she would just snap into line because she
is a lesbian, when in reality she's like, no, I want I
want this to be a character that people like. And that's interesting. Yeah,
no, I found that very interesting. But and then I just got
sidetracked as to where I was going. But you know, the fact is
that the retroactive reassigning of things that are you know, a little hot buttony,
a little political like even you know, I know she is the the
is is now hated among the very progressives out there. But she did not
serve she did not do any service to herself when the author of the Harry
Potter books is out there retroactively assigning sexual preference to characters only to find herself
now cut off because she has opinions about women in sports. Right, That's
the stuff that I think draws people and drives people to go. You know
what, that Scottish dude who's probably got a drinking problem, he's also got
figured out, or it's a Gundam or Nerdrotic or any of the rest people
I think are going to seek Look, it's like anything else you seek out
on and it's not a good thing to only do it, but we seek
out in many cases and gravitate towards people who tend to agree with us because
they verbalize what it is we think, Yeah, I think it's true.
And I think the one thing I would caution to anybody listening to this who
loves, you know, watching Star Wars and sci fi and fantasy stories,
is when you're going out and seeking out a review, you need to consider
the words of the author Upton Sinclair, who has this really great quote,
and it says it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his
salary depends upon not understanding it. You could apply this to a lobbyist.
You can't convince a lobbyist for industry to argue against the industry that they represent.
That is not their job. And if you have an audience on YouTube
and your entire audience is based around not liking things, being angry about Disney,
or criticizing things, there's no financial incentive for you to gush or enjoy
anything that you ever watch. You can't get someone to understand something when their
salary depends on not understanding it. I you know, a lot of people
will say that they're done, they'll cut off all Disney products, or they'll
cut off all, you know, insert whatever the company is. And the
reality is, I think that you can go out and you can find stuff
that works, especially with a legacy company like that. There's so much good,
high quality entertainment over the years that Disney arguably the most. Would you
agree that Disney has been the most influential entertainment company in in you know,
modern history, in the world, perhaps, but at least in the United
States. I would yeah, easily. Yeah, because you're getting to miss
kids, you know, you're getting to them as kids, and you're creating
lifelong consumers. So I think consumers can go and you know, and pick
and choose, like a smorcasboard over there, But you know, I don't
know that I would criticize people who are upset with the current crop, because
that's like the natural that's the national or the natural evolution for most consumers.
Right, you grow older and you're like kids these days you like what you
used to like. So I just got about thirty seconds. I was going
to go in a different direction, but unfortunately we're out of time. Well,
good conversation, man, You're gonna keep watching it so we can keep
doing this. I will. I will keep watching any Star Wars they put
out and try to be fair minded about it. Yeah, all right,
very good, Steven Kent. Thank you very much, sir, do appreciate
it. We'll chat next week, okay with you. I see what you
did there, all right? Well, oh and then I just hung up
about him. I didn't mean to. Actually was gonna put them on hold.
But that's okay. We'll chat with Steven again next week. All right.
We got a lot to get to in the final final moments of the
show, so hang on. All right. So you guys know the chain?
What a burger right, Texas based out of Texas. You ever eating
at a Whateburger or else? You ever eat at a Whataburger. Uh,
nope, no, okay, we don't have any in North Carolina kind of
yet, but the chain is they have plans. They're expanding now into the
state of North Carolina. But they're all over the place. But North Carolina
has something that's kind of unique. North Carolina has What a Burgers, but
not those Whataburgers. They have What a Burger thirteen, which there is a
there's a bunch of what used to be part of one local or regional chain,
this Whataburger thirteen, although now some of those locations over the years have
gone to different owners. But you know, the Whataburger moniker persists. Well.
As the Texas Whataburger moves into North Carolina, they have decided to sue
the What a Burger Thirteen's basically saying that there'll be consumer confusion. You can't
do that, And we saw that story initially. That wasn't too surprising to
me, although I would point out that let's see here, I want to
make sure I have the dates right when you go back, and you have
to go back to the nineteen fifties. These are both very old restaurants,
and actually it was let's see here, nineteen fifty seven, when the Texas
based Whataburger applied for and receive federal trademark rights, So that's what you're going
to base on this part of your lawsuit off of They then open their first
out of state location, which is an important thing when you're trying to figure
this out because it's if you're in just one state and then you cross over
into another state, it kind of changes the game. So with that in
mind, the first what a Burger in North Carolina actually predates that federal trademark,
and in fact, there was actually one in Virginia two that predated it,
though not owned by the same So technically you're dealing with three entities there.
Let's see here the first Whataburger again trademark nineteen fifty seven. The first
what a Burger North Carolina traces its roots to Kannapolis in nineteen fifty six,
so a year before, and then they had multiple I think they had fifteen
locations at one point. Now, the moniker what a Burger thirteen didn't go
into use until sixty nine, where they added the but was still a derivative
of so there's a little complexity to it. But the point is that both
started around the same time both were expanding, but it was the Texas one
that went and got the federal trademark and they never did business in North Carolina.
And we found out that they actually had a confidential agreement basically, and
we don't know the totality of what's in it, but what a Burger Texas
and what a Burger North Carolina previously sat down a number of years ago and
put together, you know, an agreement that they were both satisfied with.
And I don't know the details, but I'm sure it had to do with
where you can advertise, what you can call products, things like that,
and that's not unusual because it's not really it's not necessarily a good pub for
the big company. So if you're not even doing business in a state going
over and so do you remember when the Monster was it the cable they made
like the stereo cables, and they went around and just decided to sue anything
with the word monster in it. Everybody thought that they It literally crushed any
positive vibes for that company. And I say, you can't just sue somebody
because they have the word monster somewhere in their name and arguably have been in
business longer than you. So the North Carolina What a Burger claims that actually
the Texas one violated the terms of the agreement in twenty twenty two, but
they took no action, which if you take no action, that in and
of itself is kind of a legal quagmire too, because you're putting up with
something you know to be wrong, and there are timelines that judges are going
to look at. However, it was at the end of last year when
Whataburger, Texas, who had announced plans to move into North Carolina, all
of us sudden said, well, What a Burger North Carolina violated the terms
of our agreement, and now we're suing. And at What a Burger thirteen
said, well, you guys violated it two years ago, and we just
let by guns be byguns. So now they're coming in and I don't know,
it's just not a good look, man, when you're trying to break
into a state and your opening volley is to sue mom and pops because they're
not all owned by the same people they Oh, and by the way,
that the agreement with What a Burger dates back to nineteen seventy, this agreement,
so they were living in peace for you know, fifty some years and
now as you're coming into the state, you want to sue mom and pop
businesses because again some of these are owned like where they own one or two,
especially around Charlotte. I think that Vigil only owns two. You're going
to irritate people because we're protectionist. It feels like you're a big company coming
into a very, very filled market. And North Carolina was always a very
interesting burger market. There's a reason burger companies didn't come to North Carolina.
And if you haven't been here for more than fifteen years, how many of
you remember the burger hamburger laws in North Carolina more than ten years ago?
Ross do you remember? Do you remember that from I think it's faded into
into the past for people. North Carolina used to have a law that prohibited
and I'm probably not going to get one hundred percent accurate, but prohibited being
able to name the temperature of how you want your burger cooked. So there
was it was very There were a couple other things. And so if you're
running a burger joint where even if you're using high quality beef and you didn't
you couldn't serve a medium rare burger. Well that is, that's heresy to
some people who are really into burgers, and it kept different companies from entering
the market here. Well, that hasn't existed for over a decade. They
got rid of that, and so it has expanded greatly. You got five
guys, came in a variety of others. So, if you want to
enter this busy, busy product sector and your first act is to financially go
after a company that has been established as long as you or at least predates
your trademark, you just look like a big bully sewing momded pop companies and
I for the life, And you don't understand this. Now, I checked
out. I checked out both their menus and look, are there burgers and
are there different derivatives of burgers that you expect to see at a burger joint,
like a bacon cheeseburger. Yes, you can get a bacon cheeseburger at
both of them. Does that mean one's copying the other? Hell no,
you get a bacon cheese a bacon cheeseburger. Damn near any place that sells
bacon cheese and burgers. So I don't feel that this is going to be
overly positive. However, we got a lot of transplants who maybe lived where
Whataburger was, and people like Whataburger, like Whataburger, So we'll see.
All right. It is eight forty four Acoda radio program and Race stag It
from the Weather Channel is standing by. Do your things or a couple pop
up showers, Casey. This morning, most of the steadier light rain is
out into the mountains off to our northeast, up near Virginia Beach. But
that's even starting to move off shore if it hasn't already. But do you
have a hit advisory? Once again? It's the humidity low nineties. Will
feel close to or over one hundred today, so take it easy if you
are going to be outdoors, and the rain chances will continue to be scattered
around here for Friday at even the upcoming weekend. I think at one point
or another everybody gets at least a little bit of rayfall. We did need
it, as we did see some low levels of drought developing with the latest
drought monitor. Gonna be hot, sticky though over the weekend a little bit
nineties I'll probably failing close to or maybe even over one hundred at times,
especially Casey around the triangle. All right, thank you, sir, and
we'll be back. We're gonna chat with Jeff Bellinger. Also, you've heard
of swatting, right, that's where somebody's you know, usually it's like video
game associate doesn't have to be but where for what you know, somebody will
call in because they get the location of somebody that they're playing against, or
somebody who's doing a I guess a stream from their house and they'll say,
hey, I'm calling from inside the house. They've taken his hostage three or
dead, and then you know, here comes the swat team. Right,
It's wildly dangerous. There have been people killed, I believe in it was
it Oklahoma City or Kansas City or Oklahoma City where you actually had somebody killed
and the irony was wasn't even the house they were trying to swat because they
got the address mixed up. So it's really dangerous. But it's also very
impersonal. And let's just say this dude went in a different direction. So
all that more coming up and Jeff Bellinger next, Hang on, Good morning,
Casey. Stocks moved a little bit higher yesterday, but the futures are
all lower, right, across the board. At this hour. S and
P futures are down two, Nasdaq futures down ten, the Dow futures are
down eighty seven points. Just got a couple of reports from Washington. Demand
for expensive manufactured goods ticked higher last month. The government says orders for durable
goods rose a tenth of a percent. Another report says new applications for unemployment
benefits fell last week by six thousand to two hundred and thirty three thousand.
The latest quarter was a rough one for Walgreens, the drug store chains.
Profit fell short to forecasts. Walgreens cut its earnings guidance for the year and
said it will be closing more underperforming stores and making some organizational changes. Shares
of Levi Strauss moved lower after hours yesterday. The Dunam clothing maker posted a
quarterly profit the top forecasts, but Levi sales fell short. A lot of
American families feel they're falling behind the cost of living. A quarterly survey by
Primerica finds that two thirds of middle income families are not feeling the effects of
economic improvement in their pocketbooks. That perception is impacting household habits. Four out
of five respondents say they are eating at home more often because of a combination
of budget concerns and higher restaurant prices. The LGBTQ dating app Grinders making some
changes. The app will widen its focus to serve a growing number of users
looking for long term relationships, not just casual dates. And Amazon dot COM's
launching a discount web store. Case the company outlined its plans and slides posted
to websites for third party Chinese sellers. Low priced apparel and home products will
be shipped directly to customers from China. Casey, well they have slaves doing
that too, or just make it nothing like that? Included in the news
room. Okay, all right, but question consumers should wonder about. Thank
you very much, Jeff, take care there you go. I feel like
Jeff wanted to be dragging him into that, but it is the logical response.
Hey, let me ask you guys a question. Ross. If Buffalo
Bill's ownership started trying to murder the fans, would that have you question your
relationship as a Bills fan? I would frown upon that. Yes, yeah,
you know, you'd want to know more about it, obviously, but
it wouldn't be a good look, you would agree, right, correct.
Yeah, so the Boston Red Sox tried to drown their fans. What I
mean, honestly, I'm not surprised. No first heard of it, but
not surprised. Yeah. So you know, there was a big, big,
old rainstorm went through actually put quite a few games on display or on
old Wednesday Night, including Mets Yankees. Do they got what do you guys
call that subway series or whatever? So that's its own thing because the Mets
are like all about Grimace for some reason. The McDonald's character, I guess
it's kind of become not that McDonald's probably cared, but unofficial mascot, which
is arguably is that better or worse than the Big Baseball I don't know,
But what was a funny moment emerged from that where the Grimace throughout the first
pitch and they had the rain delay, and then there's video of you know,
the person in the Grimace costume chugging a beer like not on the field
or anything, but kind of off to the side of the concourse and people
are like, oh my gosh, you're gonna hurt McDonald's brand. And I'm
like, his friend is a career criminal, right, all he does is
steals stuff and the other one haunts children's It's gonna be fine. Meanwhile,
up in Boston, though I don't know if you know this, the stadium
up there has some clearly has some some maintenance issues. And so what transpired
as people attempted to get out of the rain by moving into the concourse,
so down lower if you're been to Fenway, it's it's constructed like a lot
of the stadiums where you're not you're not fully enclosed, and and so as
people were moving down, they're thinking they're getting out of the elements. It
became incredibly clear that the drainage system at Fenway Park is absolutely broken. And
so folks who were getting to lower ground think it would be fine that then
found themselves having to contend with waterfalls of now stacking water at Fenway, and
there's you know, there's videos of them trying to flee from that. So
I'm not I don't own a major league sports team, but you probably shouldn't
try to murder your fans. That's my that's my pro tip for the more
and check this out. You've heard of swatting video game or a live stream,
you want to interrupt, maybe because they're saying something you don't agree with,
except you're too stupid to argue a counterpoints. So you call and you
make a fake hostage call or whatever, and people show up. Politicians get
swatted. We've had members of Congress. It happens too. Oh, now
I got Boston. They weren't trying to drown them, all right. Well,
look, imagine if a child would just stumble down there. Yeah,
I think she's on a water slide right now. All of a sudden,
he's bouncing off the concrete stairs three levels down in Yeah, but you know,
apologize for that. So anyway, swatting, But swatting's very impersonal,
right because half the time they can't figure out who's done it, and really
the only people in danger obviously were the people in the house. To this
day, I'm assuming the police have conversations about this, but I understand it's
rock and a hard place, but something's got to happen. Well, twenty
year old Edward Kang, he decided he was he wasn't going to be lazy
and just swatched somebody. So the individual who had had a rival playing video
games got so upset that he boarded a plane from New Jersey, landed in
Florida, where in Nassau County, where he knew this guy lived, drove
to his house with a hammer at two in the morning to attack him.
That's personal, that right, That is I don't know the work ethic there.
Obviously the dude's insane, but the work ethic, I don't say you
have to admire, but you at least have to note the difference, right,
So you probably shouldn't do that. By the way,