M M. All right, good morning everybody. It is six h seven.
It is Thursday here on the Casey O Day Radio program, and um
m m. I I saw this link getting shared everywhere. Probably let's see
one, two, three, a minimum of three of you send it to
me. I think, actually more. I'm not going to scroll through all
of it. And I've mentioned on this show that I try to be intellectually
honest. It feels very Adam shifty shift from a process standpoint. That's not
a judgment call over the information itself. However, this is the crap in
Washington that we just sat through, that we sat through for four years,
actually more than that, arguably because it didn't stop once he wasn't in the
White House anymore. And I like to see results, all right, So
this is this is just one version of it. This is the New York
Post FBI tip that allegedly puts Biden at center of criminal scheme, sends sleuths
scrambling around the world. And when I say it's it's got that Adam Schiff
vibe, Here's what I mean by that. So, a whistleblower that has
apparently come forward and is in communication with a House oversight Committee Chairman James Comer
and Senator Chuck Grassley, both Republicans, has prompted a request of the FBI
basically that there are certain documents that they need to make available in just under
one week's time. May tenth is the deadline, according to Comer. Now
here's the vaguery of this, right, you're getting this vibe here. By
the way, we have an anonymous whistleblower who has come to us and it's
brought something groundbreaking. If true, the whistleblower tip would put President Biden during
his time as vice president, at the center of a bribery scheme that could
bring the entire family crashing down, and obviously his presidency. They don't know.
Now that's it. That's the extent of the information as the public knows.
So now you have these speculative articles, Well, what is it,
what country is it dealing with? What business deal is it? Ukraine?
Is it? China is it? And they went through a bunch of them
here, potentials, Mexico, Romania, just scrolling here. Basically, um,
you know all of the countries where you've heard that Hunter Biden has these
sweetheart deals. Ukraine seems to be the most likely going back to various dealings
having to do with um, you know, barisma and the investigating. I
remember the Donald Trump. One of the things that he was impeached for is
what they claim was him attempting to pressure Ukrainian Ukrainian authorities to investigate Biden.
I mean, that would be crazy if it turned out that there was something
like this. The problem is there's no there there yet, and I guess
I don't I'm I'm sick of this stuff. If you are a member of
Congress and you have information and obviously there look they should invest if some whistleblower
comes to him and I don't know who it is and what the background is,
obviously you want to comes down to a little bit who is this person.
Is this person a twenty year employee of the FBI who held an upper
echelon position and just can't take it anymore. Or is this some guy who
throws chicken bones as part of his religion to get mystic revelations that tell the
future and or uncover past secrets. I mean, you have to vet that
element of it, because remember we've had wholesale scandals that the media just decided
were true that uh, you know, in some cases rested on the information
but provided by somebody who provably had never met the former. And then insert
who it is, right, the Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Remember the
people crawling my Avanati's clients, Oh he was he was running rape congo lines,
right, or that that other woman said she was raped in a car.
And then they're like, yeah, we can prove you never were around
this individual when you say this happened, and she's like, yeah, you
know, just I feel like it happened. You're right, right. So
so when you're sitting there and you're saying a whistleblower is going to bring it
all crashing down and all that, you sound like Adam Schiff, Am I
wrong here? Because I know obviously if if you're out there and you're frustrated
with the way that they did Trump, it probably brings you great joy to
hear stuff like this. But bring me the meat, you know what I'm
saying, Bring me the bring me the details, bring me an actual document,
which that's the other side of this. So you're asking the FBI,
which obviously is has demonstrated that they are one hundred percent When you get into
the management side of things, bias, right, that's not speculation, that's
their own actions proving that. So if there is a mystical document out there
that's sitting in a file folder somewhere that Comber and grass Lely are wanting to
get a hold of, and it would one hundred percent prove that. What's
just one of the speculation here that after Biden assumed Obama administration's Ukraine policy during
his time as vice president, that he, along with his son and his
brother were taken bribes to basically push forward what's going on in Ukraine, which
if you remember at the time, it was it was not the current president,
it was russia buddy Victor Yanukovich, I believe it's his last name,
that's who was ousted. So if all this exists and it's in a file
folder somewhere, what do you think the likelihood is that the Justice Department's going
to hand it over to Coomer and Grassley. Let me throw that out to
you eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seventy four. I just if
you have something, get it out there. If you're working on something,
work on it, get a hold of it, and then get it out
there. But just the scenarios I just describe you as whistleblower, Comber and
Grassley. They're not gonna say what it is, but don't worry. We
demanded the FBI turn over this document to us, but they're already making the
allegations. What do you think the probability is that this thing that they get
ahold of whatever this this file is, and it's not lost or changed or
even exists in the first place, But you've already put it all out there.
This is this is what I don't understand or am I just? Am
I being a party pooper that we gotta get them? Well, just just
so you know you're at them shift right now. Doesn't mean they're wrong,
doesn't mean this doesn't exist. And who knows, maybe maybe what they're looking
for will will match up against a copy they already have, and if it's
different, it'll create its own scandal. I don't know, but I'm damn
sick of partisans in Washington, DC running around going, you know, we
got it, we got we got a smoking gun. Can't show it to
you yet, but trust us, it's pretty good. So anyway that that
so, thank you for sending that. Um, I'll wait till they have
something or or a identifiable something's missing. You know, I understand that component
of it, all right, eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven
four. We'll start the show there, just so I don't have to get
nine more copies of this. Don't worry. We got other stuff as well.
We'll talk to uh ah, we'll get the Washington perspective from the former
congressman as well, Mark Walker, he'll join us eight oh five. Coming
up on the show. I'll give you a rundown of some of the other
stuff as well. We got to get into the new emerging protected class.
It's a doozy and ross. Did you see the Nicholas Cage interview with Stephen
Colbert? You didn't, So it's quite the claim that Nicholas Nicholas Cage is
a strange dude. We can agree on that kind of a strange dude.
So he was talking about his first memory, which according to Cage, was
in utero. Yeah, I'll give you the details on that as well.
Six nineteen hang on ten years of news twice an hour and smart talk all
day WUPTI in the Try and one six one FM Talk in the Triangle.
All right, let me throw one email out only because the person wasn't impolite,
but does disagree with me. Basically, I let me paraphrase. I'm
not going to read the whole thing. Essentially, Trump got investigated, and
in many cases it went on and on and on with zero evidence being produced.
So the fact that Republicans are fighting back, why would you why would
you have a problem with I don't. I have a problem with if them
some idiot in Washington, and I don't care whether it's Adam Schiff or Grassley
or any of them, because I don't trust any of these cats coming out
and go, man, we got a smoking gun on our political opponent.
Don't worry. Well, we'll get it out there and then none of it
ever coming to fruition. I understand the political dirty you know, a dirty
tricks agle of it, and I also stand being stymied and gathering information when
your opponent is literally in office, and arguably it'll be harder with Biden because
we've seen that in the intelligence agencies. I have no problem leaning in one
political direction, but get something, Okay, I don't know what is it
you think that you're do you think that because you said it all of a
sudden, somebody at the FBI is going to be like, oh, well,
we better not cover it up if they were planning on covering it up,
if it existed in the first place. No, so don't come out
here and be like, I've seen the evidence. It's crazy because I don't
trust any of you. I don't care whether it's you know, Chuck Grassley
or Adam Schiff for Hell, Joe Biden, or Donald Trump themselves. I'll
tell you what will happen. You're ready. Between now and May tenth,
you're gonna get a bunch of fundraising emails on this garbage. Make them do
something if they if they if they want your help, if they want your
assistance, if they just need five dollars, which apparently Roy Cooper does every
day in my inbox because again I'm on all the mailing lists because I'm stupid.
Don't or it's not my real name, it's I'm it's Michael, and
then I'm the patriarch of the Hunt family, so Michael Hunt, although Michael's
very formal, so I just go by Mike anyway. Um, but yeah,
all I need every every day is asking me for five dollars. And
the cat can't even run for governor. Again, they're very concerned about abortion
stuff right now. So it's just fyi er um. Yeah, So that's
that's my beef. Okay, if it is what it is, if it
is what you say it is, why don't you have the stuff in hand
so you can be like, ah, here it is, because all you're
doing is telling me between now and May tenth, if there is anything,
the powers that be are gonna do everything in their power to make sure there
isn't anything. And then the next step, when they don't give you what
you want, you're gonna be like our whistleblowers said this and now they're hiding
it. God, send me five dollars. Shut your face. I just
can't. Okay, all right, let me let me do this. Let
me grab a quick phone call here, Yes, Ken, what's up?
Yeah, good morning. I agree with you. I think you keep this
as like a ten footfold distance. And I think it's extremely hypocritical too,
that they are definitely the ones running around saying you weaponize the intelligence community a
givest us and now we want to use the intelligence community for us, and
you know we're gonna get more information from hunter Biden's love child, and that
discovery part of signing out how MUCHOS and child support by being able to look
into as silences than anything you're gonna hear out of this, uh, the
Senate committee or congressional committee. It's just oh, maybe incredible, you know.
I don't, Yeah, I don't. I don't even I don't even
trust a paternity court judge unless they do it. I do believe it's just
unless they do it. On More, I do believe it. Well,
I do believe you got to keep this at arms. This I mean,
this is it just smells weird. Yeah, just you know, do what
you're doing investigatively and then come out and and and at that point if you
have something be like boom, here you go, or do it on More.
I love this new decade on the calendar and celebrating ten years on the
air. This is one oh six one FM, Talk in the Triangle and
News Talk N four five w PTI and the Triad. All right, we
had all sorts of weirdness of the stack today. Did you see the Elon
Musk MPR fight. Obviously you're aware of the beef as his previously unfolded.
Basically, Musk labeled the Twitter account of NPR along with various other organizations.
He didn't. Now the lie that I see people running around is that he
labeled a government run media. And that's not what he wrote. Okay,
it's not what he Uh what did he say? Government affiliated? I think
was the first one so government affiliated, and they flipped their crap, right,
and then he changed it to initially he initially he changed it to read
what some about their funding, like seventy percent of their funding, and then
somebody said something and he knocked it down to sixty nine percent. And of
course the entire time NPR are losing their mind over this. Never mind that
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is the funny mechanism for public radio and
television and does provide not the totality of funding but a good chunk of it,
is in fact a line a budget line item from the federal government.
So it is an accurate description. It is not the same as saying that
NPR is controlled wholly controlled by politicians. Ie you know some of the stuff
that you see in the Middle East, Pravda back in the day, a
couple of Chinese outlets, RT, the Russian thing, and various others.
But to say that part of their funding is correct. So they decided they
weren't going to tweet anymore. All PBS also and what CBC, the Canadian
broadcas Hasting Corporation, they all ceased tweeting. This has been about a month,
so yesterday Elon Musk said that he might transfer the handle the at NPR
to another organization if they're not going to use it, and that of people
lost their minds over this. Here's the actual NPR article. Neilon Musk has
threatened to reassign NPR's Twitter account to quote another company. In a series of
emails sent to this reporter, must said he would transfer the network's main account
on Twitter under the at NPR handle to another organization or person. The idea
shocked even long time observers of Musk spur of the moment in a erratic leadership
style. Okay, I have a question. If they're not going to use
it, how is it that NPR believes that they're entitled to it even if
you use it? Even if NPR once a month put a tweet out that
said we're not tweeting because they're a bunch of meanings, you'd be you'd be
using it. But if you state unilaterally you're not going to use it,
and then you follow through by not using it, it's going to be considered
an inactive account. How many how many of you have had an inactive account
that ended up getting canceled on a social media or anything for that matter,
some website you signed up for, maybe you had like a burner Facebook account,
you forgot to use it, and now it's dormant. If you read
the terms of service there, there's usually parameters for this stuff. But MPR
feels even though they're not going to use it, that it should continue to
exist in perpetuity. No. Now, I did think it was kind of
funny because one well, hold on, let me read a little more of
this, because I'll give you the example that Elon used and I started busting
up. Handing over established accounts to third parties poses a serious risk of impersonation
and could imperil a company's reputation, said social media experts. I can't get
the I have a question, how I don't I can't get the at KC
O D E A handle somebody else hasn't. Back in the day when they're
like, you need to get a Twitter account, I went on there,
and I'm like, dah, that one's not available, so I have to
do KC underscore ODEA for my personal Luckily we're able to get Casey on the
radio for the show account. If so, it mirrors r U R L.
Ross's handle isn't Ross Hayes. I suspect Ross Hayes isn't available, so
he had to go with what is your handle because you changed it? Right?
Yeah? Yeah, right now it's at Hayes for Sheriff at Hayes for
sure. What did it used to? It used to be something else.
I am El Burrow. I am Elburrow. That's what it was, which
was my masked luchador persona on YouTube. It's a it's a you know,
it's a it's a detailed history. I don't want to get into. I
know, I understand. I'm just pointing out that there's not some entitlement to
it, and um, like you've had a you've had a Burnerd Twitter account,
right, I've had several. Yeah, would some of them be a
series of numbers and my name spelled backwards that created one of those, and
then there have been multiple issues of those variations of them, but they are
not me m m But I believe that an account go bye by Yeah you
never used it. Yeah, companies have to do that because they run on
it, right, Like, it's not like they have do the limited space
eventually, also to incentivize. It's also to incentive because here's what they're trying
to not in And I'm not claiming that NPR is doing this what I'm about
to lay out there, but one of the reasons they do that, and
they and they hook them to identifiable information is they don't want people squatting on
them, right, So you get these you get these folks whose bread and
butter is um. I remember when we launched kat w T KKUM. That
was not the call letters. When we first launched one oh six one,
the call letters were w r DU, which is a heritage set of call
letters because you know, it's the rock station back in the day and obviously
the but and then about five years in the company decided to relaunch wr DU,
the old rock and roll station, which was the rock and roll station
of the year for Rolling Stone back in the day, like it had history,
and it was at that point that the call letters flipped over to that,
and then we got w T KKs our call letters. And I'm telling
you this story because when you go back to how long has this station been
on the year ten years? Right, the sweepers say ten years, Yes,
ten years. But I remember because I was here for launch that we
were trying to figure out how to get that RL for the website, and
there was a dude who was squatting on it. He owned a bunch of
different website stuff and he wanted he wanted a certain amount of money, and
that's not uncommon. And so the social media account, they don't want that.
They don't want somebody who owns a thousand of these sitting there and then
turning around and trying to shake people down to get them. If you're not
using them, they're out there and somebody can pick them up. Now.
The example, the example that he gave, because they're like, well,
who else would use NPR. We're NPR. And I would point out out
that just because you're an organization with a well known uh you know, acronym,
doesn't mean you're safe talk to the WWF. I was just about to
say that, yep, yeah, okay, they got it. They got
it where they got bested by a panda okay um and and Elon said,
well, what you know, maybe I'll give it to National Pumpkin Radio,
which, by the way, that's where you interned, right. It's a
great organization and our Pumpkin chunkin Oh my god, the Things of Legend.
That's your big fundraiser. Yeah. Man, go out in the field with
a big catapult. There, I've met Halloween saying the best. Oh,
National Pumpkin Ray. I don't know. There's so many podcasts. There probably
is one. Under Twitter's term of service that accounts in activity is based on
logging in and not tweeting. The rule states that an account must be logged
in at least every thirty days, and that prolonged inactivity can result in it
being permanently removed. So this is NPR trying to lawyer this thing. Well,
then they'll change the cos he's not just gonna let you squat on the
handle there while you throw this big conniption fit that you and your buddies are.
Here's this again, this is NPR's own article. Any Over, if
this is a sign of things to come on Twitter, we might soon see
even more of a rapid retreat by media organizations and other brands that don't think
it's worth the risk. What is your risk sending a tweet with a link
to whatever your latest story is one hundred times a day. You have somebody
on staff whose job it is to do this. Last month, NPR effectively
quit Twitter after Muss applied a label to the news organization's account, falsely suggesting
it was state controlled. He did not say it was state controlled. He
said it was government affiliated and it is. Must has since removed the labels,
but the outlets are regionally targeted have not resumed public activity on Twitter.
In an unprompted Tuesday email, Must wrote, so is NPR going to start
posting on Twitter again? Or should we reassign at NPR to another company.
Must went on to say, quote our policies to recycle handles that are definitively
dormant, same policy applies to all accounts. No special treatment for NPR.
The threat of retaliation. This is victimhood one oh one. They feel like
they're the victim here and and but to be the victim, they have to
lie. He did not say you were stay controlled. He simply pointed out
that your fund a portion of it sixty nine. I guess originates from the
government, which, when knowing that person, may consider the whether you have
entanglements right, because it's all part of judging veracity of what you're saying.
And you're one, you're lying. You're provably lying to me in an article
right now, So I'm putting that in the kitty. But the other side
of it is that's knowledge that would allow me to determine whether I believe you
can fairly cover government, considering government keeps the lights on. Musk has long
attacked the media and attempted to undercut the credibility of journalists. I feel like
y'all are doing that all on your own Politico. Politico yesterday put out a
fact check claiming that Randy fine Garden, the head of the teachers union,
advocated for reopening schools during the pandemic, and then several media outlets jumped on
and said, see the teachers the teachers Union wasn't wanting to keep schools closed.
We did, they did a fact check. What do you think under
comes undercuts your credibility more writing an article and doing a victory lap about how
the head of the teachers union fought to reopen schools during COVID which every parent
person thing with a pulse AI for that matter, all knows is demonstrably false,
or a disclosure of the percentage of your budget that derives from the taxpayers.
I'll let you ruminate on that. Um. But yeah, they're they're
big mad man, and it all could be solved by and and and the
other thing is, I don't what leg do you think you have to stand
on. You all spent a very long time writing all these articles about how
Twitter is a private business, they can do whatever they want. And now
they're like, well, if you're not gonna use your your thing, we're
gonna we're gonna we'll put it back out into the ethos. And they're like,
no, no, we read dish and we did. That would be
extraordinary. Well, it would also be extraordinary for a big, big,
big brand that had a Twitter account, which is I would understand if it's
like, yeah, a MySpace page right where you walked away because nobody was
there. But but for a big brand just to cease utilizing the Twitter account,
that's what's extraordinary. One former Twitter executive was taken aback by the remark,
telling NPR that such a threat should be alarming to any business operating on
the site, since it indicates that acquiescing to Muss every whim may be necessary
in order to avoid being impersonated, what is the whim using it? Using
it? This is? I mean when when when you traffic and victimhood,
any opportunity you have to take that, you know that that I'm a victim
victory lap. It's amazing how much fun they have with it. And then
they go through and they get and they go through and they spend the time
here um attempting to under cut the service too, as like I understand your
man, why are you there? Then why is that idiot from MSNBC who's
so mad that he because he has over a million followers he now has a
blue check again, which wasn't across the board thing the must did? Why
are all of you still there? Then? Must whose statements to reporter?
Oh? They also pointed out what did he do with the what was it?
He changed the email like the complaint email or something. I can't remember
what it was. And essentially it was a poop joke. Do you remember
that? I can't remember what it was. But anyway, must whose statements
the reporters are regularly laced with jokes, insults, or trolling attempts, responded
sarcastically. When asked who would potentially take over the MPR Twitter account, National
Pumpkin Radio must wrote, adding a fire emoji and a laughing emoji uh to
describe the content of the fictional gourd themed broadcaster. He then added, NPR
hasn't tagged as government funded anymore, so what's the beef? In an email
sent at two twenty in the morning after the story was originally published, Mosque
wrote a message without any text in the body, but the subject line was
you suck ross if you put a fire emoji in it? Man, I
mean that's not That's how you know somebody serious? You got the straight fire.
You have to add the sirens and the fire in caps. That's what
I do anyway. Oh man, what a bunch of a bunch of stick
In the MUDs Man six fifty two, Hang on, all right, very
chatty caffy. In that last segment detelling the tears the tears people are sending
me suggestions National Patriot Radio. I can do that one, but it's just
us talking about how the patriots cheap is that? Is that what your idea?
Sir? Because if I'm down with that or do you mean, like,
you know, patriotism and stuff, because I think the other one would
be better. But yeah, use it or lose it not a tough concept.
Hang on, welcome everybody. It is thee I canc O Day radio
program. A video's gotta be out of here. I gonna send this to
Ross. I hadn't seen the actual video of this, but I did see
um a picture of the girl after du do do do? Do? They
just have it in a video? Well, hang on just a second.
All right, here's the story I'm gonna set Ross. I'm gonna send this
to you. I don't know why they don't have the uh the video here,
just so I can. It's on that. So this Heiss High School
volleyball. This happened in October of last year. I remember hearing about I
had not seen the video. I happen to see the video yesterday. This
is during a girls volleyball tournament last month at Highlands High Volleyball Highlands High School,
where one of the players is a biological male. This is in North
Carolina. We covered this story. I had not seen the video footage of
the girls volleyball match. Emerged in which the player suffered a serious injury after
the transgender player spiked a ball, striking her in the head. By the
way, the comments on this are crazy. They're like, all I see
is a talented volleyball player and another one whose defensive skills suck. It's estimated
the volleyball was spiked at seventy miles an hour, directly into the player's face.
The player who was spiked into continues to suffer from long term concussion symptoms,
including problems with their vision. And I this is in Cherokee Counties.
This is where out west. That's crazy, all right, So we'll link
to the story. Why do they not just have the video? That's very
annoying. I'm sure if I scrolled a whole bunch I could find it.
Make your life a little easier. She was knocked unconscious, by the way,
and again it is high school. High school. Sorry, got a
little got a little sidetrack there, So any who, All right eight eight
eight nine three four seven eight seventy four. Ross watched the video on that
link, and then let me know when you have, because I'm curious your
reaction because the first time I saw it went, oh my gosh, that
is crazy. I remember the story, but I've never seen the video.
Absolutely brutal. So um, how old were you when you started working?
Not at home, I mean away from home, got yourself a job.
Depending on which state you grew up in and what era you grew up in,
that number could be pretty low. In Wyoming, I don't know what
it is now, but you could get a job. There's certain things you
could do at twelve, but fourteen was the cutoff. Incredibly. You can
also get a driver's license at fourteen in Wyoming and having a job ticks one
of the boxes. It's called a hardship license, and it can be distance
that you live, jobs, a variety of things I can make you eligible
for that, but that's a terrifying thought of fourteen year old tooling around in
a a two ton truck. That being said, now there's some places where
if you're under the age eighteen, you're gonna have a hard time getting a
job, let alone if you're you know, under sixteen. But the moment
I was able to get a job, so I didn't have to do stuff
around the house or ranch or any of that, and potentially could stay in
town a little longer I was. I was all in. My first job
was a was bussing tables on the weekends at a restaurant in Buffalo at the
Howard Johnson at the hotel there with the restaurant, and then I worked a
little bit at our movie theater. But then I got the radio gig at
fifteen, and that's all I've ever done as far as underage stuff. When
I was eighteen, even though I was only doing part time radio at that
point, I did, you know, roofing and welding and stuff like that
during the summer, directional boring, you know, stuff to make money.
Though I was, I wanted to get out there and I wanted to do
stuff like that, and so I've always had something going on. But I
also don't begrudge necessarily somebody who is a teenager if they don't have a job.
I think I think it's a good thing. I think it builds character,
and if anything just gives you a little bit of experience, builds a
routine, it's probably helpful as you grow into an adult. However, this
is pushing the envelope just a little. A recent investigation into child labor violations
in Kentucky Indiana, Maryland, and Ohio has found three franchises out of sixtyes,
so this guy they owned sixty McDonald's and three franchises were spotlighted for the
purpose of this story. Basically, the majority of the violations were excess hour
violations or time violations for underage workers, so kids who are under the age
of eighteen and in their in their requisite states of Kentucky, Indiana, Maryland,
and Ohio, there is a limit on the hours they can work,
right, so I don't know exactly what it is, twenty twenty hours or
something, and the hours of the day they could work. In many states
that cut off is ten o'clock and it may fluctuate depending on the time of
the year, basically when schools in session and when it's not all right,
So they were that's what they were looking for. That's why they did these
investigations because with it being more and more difficult to hire people in these fast
food jobs, they have seen an increase in people violating the rules and working
kids too long according to state law or too late in the day. However,
it's what they found at three of the locations, and specifically one in
Louisville, which is the reason that we're doing this story. According to investigators
from the Department of Labor, at one Louisville McDonald's location, two ten year
old children were working and they would work a full forty hours up to and
including until two am. They had ten year olds working back of house and
McDonald's who shift ran till two in the morning. First, let me say,
those are some industrious kids right there. I'll give him that, But
this isn't Oh he's got twenty and a half hours labor, Violet, you
have ten year old how does that happen? Now? Specifically, as you
can imagine, the kids were related to a McDonald's employee, and in this
case it was the night manager who was having trouble staffing, right, so
they were not able to staff, and they got the bright idea that,
well, you know, I got some kids and put them on his employees
to work. Obviously, which is a violation not just of labor laws but
also the franchise agreement with McDonald's, as you can imagine, So they put
a statement out. The franchise in this case is facing a combined total of
penalties in excess of two hundred thousand dollars for the child labor violations. Too
often employers failed to follow child labor laws to protect young workers, said Karen
Garnett Sivils, the agency's Wage an Our Division District Director. This is DJ
or excuse me, d OL, Department of Labor. Under no circumstances should
there ever be a ten year old child working a deep friar. Well,
I don't know kids like French fries. By the way, why do I
assume that these ten year olds probably would be able to give me dark meat
chicken at KFC? And they're ten? If you didn't know that, I
told the story that X I went, I went to get chicken, ordered
dark meat. Dude set me up with a mix of white and dark and
then when I said no, no, no, I ordered dark meat.
Proceeded to take dark meat out and keep the white meat. And it was
like, how do you not know the parts of a chicken? You work
at KFC? I feel like these ten year olds probably should get it.
According to investigators, the ten year olds worked not just the deep friar,
but also we're working the grill. Uh jeez, man, Lincoln's how old?
Eleven? Right? See eleven? Now? I can't remember how old.
He just turned you get eleven, and he doesn't have a full time
job yet. What the heck, man, that's why you have all those
you know, back in the day, that's why you would have all the
kids mostly for in an agricultural setting, so you essentially have ranch hands you
can force to work. So I don't know, man, but I remember,
you know, they always try to tweak these laws in some of the
proposals over the years have been very impactful in threatening the ability to essentially turn
your children into a slave labor around the old family homestead. So but yeah,
deep prior McDonald's, dad's gonna be a problem, all right? Eight
eight eight nine seven eight seven four. Did you watched the video? By
the way, we're able to watch it, all right, so some of
you have, let's grab some call it's crazy. We retweeted the story.
You can go check it out. I had not seen it again. I
remember the story. I remember it happened in North Carolina. But what blew
me away is a picture I saw this of the girl post getting whacked in
the face and it was brutal. Man. I had to track it down.
The Daily Mail article for some reason, didn't have the video. But
I found it on Twitter. Okay, yeah, it's brutal. It's and
leading up to the to the spike or whatever, there's no doubt in your
mind who the other who the correct transplay? Yeah, no, it's it's
one of these people doesn't belong. That thing's whipping. Man. I was
reading all this up to the ways this girl's impacted. It's it's Kenny.
You know, she probably loved to play volleyball. And that was it,
man, that was That was the totality of her volleyball career done. You
know, one spike and these people are like, oh wow, maybe she
should learn how to play defense. Are you serious right now? Tom?
What's up? Yeah? So Megan Kelly interviews this girl on her podcast It's
a really good podcast. She also interviews an amazing young woman on the same
podcast from Ireland on a you know, same topic. But anyway, this
girl gets this ball spike in her face and she's out for you know,
a few seconds, and she comes to and the first thing she sees is
the other team standing at her, laughing at her. You know, if
getting the ball spike in your faces and enough, wake up to the other
team laughing at you and now this person is taunting her on social media after
she went to the speed legislature. You know, oh, I guess I'm
all up in your head now, yeah, yeah, no, that would
be the lingering concussion symptoms that they're all up all up in the head.
There it was. It was again. I hadn't seen the video. I've
ember seen the story, and I happen to see the video. Yes,
and I'm like, good lord, my podcast is really good. It's definitely
worth listening to. All right, appreciate the call there, Tom, Thank
you very much. Jamal, real quick, what's up? You know what,
Casey, I saw the video when it first came out. You when
that boy went up in the area, you could tell that's a boy when
he jumped, he hit that ball and he hit that girl. Those of
us who have been opposed to these people for a while saying, hey,
they're not girls, these are boys. These people keep telling us, oh,
oh, the trans community aren't hurting people. They're hurting a lot of
people. Every time they have physical contact with their female counterpaulish a competition with,
they get hurt. These girls get hurt. And as a fat of
the daddy, if that was my daughter. I would have made the news
because I went out there on that floor, me and him, and been
fighting hand to hand combat because there's no way I'm gonna allow a boy to
do that to my daughter. And we said this, We told people,
hey, this community want more than marriage, just more than a sevens.
No, y'all just going at slippery slope life. This ain't been a slippery
slope, casey. This is going down to him a layers on a snowboard.
It's um, it's going to happen. We saw some We saw some
schools that have now decided that they're just simply not They're not They're gonna forfeit
their masters masses or masses matches and not play teams. Um where this is
the thing. And I think you're going to see more in more of that,
and of course inevitably it will result in lawsuits and Title nine investigations,
which is ironic considering what Title nine was intended to do. But um,
yeah, this thing's gonna pick up steam. Jamal. I appreciate the call
this morning, no doubt in my mind. But yeah, yeah, you
saw people didn't want their kids playing football. This is volleyball, man,
and that that girl's probably never going to be the same, judging by what
I was reading there. All right, anyway, it's a seven twenty two
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Now, well, that's just corporate greed right there. If you got ten
year olds work in the fry the fry machine at mcdone. And then I
remember the Chicago Cubs hired a twelve year old to pitch, so you know,
we're a Rookie of the Year. I had to look up what the
movie was, and then we bross and we were talking about the basketball version
with a little bow. Wow. I thought, I think one of the
Home Improvement kids did a football version too, but apparently those weren't real.
So hang loos celebrating ten years of keeping you connected. This is ninety four
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All right, thirty five Welcome back, Casey. Okay radio program coming
up, Mark Walker, he'll join us. That's about thirty minutes from now
Ever you ever checked into a hotel room and just noped right out of there
and back and like, no, I'm in another room. Where was?
I was at the Renaissance in Asheville Hotel down there in Nashville, and I
go to my room and I walk in and it looked like one of the
eighties hair bands. I had had a party in there. And I go
downstairs and I'm like and I realized, okay, well, obviously there was
a miscommunication with housekeeping in the front desk and she gave me the wrong room.
So I go back downstairs and I remember that I was talking to the
chick at the desk and I'm like, yeah, they that room's not clean,
and in fact, it's incredibly not clean, and so she gets on
a little walkie talk here whatever, but she kind of walks in the back
room. I can't hear her, and she's like, well, sir,
that's the room you've been assigned, so you're gonna have to wait for you
don't have to wait for housekeeping going and take care out. I'm like,
what are you talking about. It's like, because it's like five thirty at
six o'clock at night, right, it's not one minute after when you're allowed
to check in and I'm like, you don't have any other room that there's
like nobody in the parking lot. Can I just have another room? She's
like, wow, you've already been a sign. I remember. It was
just the most in one of the more frustrating conversations customer service conversations. But
I already had my money. I think I had. I think I'd booked
and paid for it on one of the travel sites. I didn't even book
it through Marriott, which is the they run the Renaissance hotels, and nah,
she went out there, and so I'm like, well whatever, put
my bags back behind the desk, and I walked over to there's like a
cocktail bar restaurant kind of near where that's at, and I go over there
and I'm over there for like two hours. I come back. It still
hadn't done anything with the room, and I'm like, well, this is
dumb. So I've said I'm gonna try to find another room, and they're
like, well, we have a twenty four hour cancelation. It was just
the weirdest thing. So eventually they do clean the room and I go up
in there and it smells horrible, just horrible, and I can't figure out
what the heck's going on. I'm telling you the story because wait till you
hear what happened to this dude. And I'm trying to figure out what it's
like. Um, what was that Ocean's thirteen where they were they put all
that horribleness into that dude's room, who's the reviewer for the five Diamonds award.
It smelled roughly like that, and so I'm trying to seek it out.
They had cleaned the room, so I couldn't comprehend how the maid had
cleaned the room and didn't figure out what the smell was. And I go
over and I opened the closet and they have one of those little fold things
that you put your luggage, and it's got extra blankets and pillows on it,
and the smell's coming from there. I lifted up and somebody had vomited
all over in there, and they failed to clean it. And I'm telling
you that because in this case, this dude checked into a hotel. He
was in there for several hours, but said that eventually the smell became so
overwhelming he started to look around and lo and behold, he looked under the
bed and there was a dead body in there. Yep, he said.
At first when he checked in, even with the overwhelming smell, he assumed
initially that maybe his shoes stunk, so he actually took a three hour nap.
So he took a nap over this dead body which was under the bed.
Eventually, the man who says he doesn't like confrontation did notify the hotel
and of the smell, and it was at that point they discovered that there
was a dead body. What kills me is they don't actually say how the
dead body ended up there. So I guess I'll just be happy with.
Unfortunately, what I had to deal with, all right, us the name
of the hotel. Well, anyway, all right, I wanted to get
these two articles in, so let me get into this other one. The
the scores for eighth graders for math history things along those lines obviously took a
hit post COVID. However, one of the most disturbing trends, which actually
was something that initially was a problem back in the nineties and school districts around
the country had attempted to remedy and the numbers were moving in a more positive
direction, continues continue to be a problem, even though math scores are starting
to recover as a national average, and the Department of Education apparently as clueless
as to why this may be. So I thought maybe we could solve the
mystery because I have some thoughts. So eighth graders have the lowest US History
score ever for the twenty twenty two school year and the lowest Civics score ever,
according to a new report by the Department of Education, Yes, the
federal History and Civics testing data, the first that has given been released after
COVID, shows that over the last few years, all progress that have been
gained since the mid eighties, when an emphasis was put on increasing eighth graders
knowledge of history and civics has been washed away. In fact, only thirteen
percent of eighth graders currently meet proficiency standards for history and Civics, and basically
proficient means that students can explain major themes, periods, events, people,
ideas, and turning points in the nation's history, and currently only one percent
of students are rated as what is considered advanced. All right, so how
do we get here? How do we get here? And the remedy that
I saw in this article from some of these folks over the Department of Education
is that the testing that is utilized to determine proficiency needs to be updated to
better reflect the current trends in history and civics education. So let's parse that
statement real quick. What the hell does that mean? And I think what
it means and you're probably onto this as well. What they mean is kids
are going in and they're getting sixteen nineteen and then when they go test this
stuff, they're testing for traditional history and civics. So instead of hey,
George Washington, one of the examples they gave where the only fact about George
Washington that was part of the test that the majority of students did know is
that he owned slaves. The vast majority of students did not know that George
Washington was a military general. They didn't know he was a president of the
United States. However, less than half the kids were able to correctly identify
him as the first president. These are eighth graders, and I liked history
from a little kid up to now I'm a history nerd. I cannot fathom
being what how old is eighth great was that twelve thirteen? I can't fathom
being a thirteen year old and not knowing that George Washington was the first president.
My son knew that George Washington was the first president before kindergarten. Your
boy has he? Lincoln can tell you what day of the week, a
date in history that is correct, right, But when it comes to the
when it comes to presidents, that's like one of his, that's like one
of his his things. He used to be, Yes, the flash cards.
I mean it moves on from different things. So, I mean,
I don't know if he would still be as proficient as he was, but
there was a time where he could give you the order of the presidents.
Can you how far up the order can you get Washington? Pretty damn far?
Yeah. And more importantly, the questions that they're asking these kids are
not like, you know, give me the inauguration date of George Washington,
which I frankly I don't know what that day is, But it's just like
which president was he? Can you imagine being thirteen and not knowing he was
the first president, but knowing that he owned slaves. Yeah, the issue
is here. You don't this so you don't need to update the tests,
You need to update the teaching. Right, So we have an expectation that
people are going to know these things. They're not being taught them. Obviously
they're being taught. They're being absolute bullcrap. Yes, And then when they
don't actually passed the history test, which involves actual real history, they're like,
what happened? I don't know, well, because I see this BS
argument where they're like, well, you know, they don't want to teach.
There's part of it. They don't want to teach the good stuff.
You know, there's room to teach all this stuff. And I don't necessarily
disagree in many instances, if you're not changing it and you want to be
more comprehensive, teach the good and the bad, I mean, but that's
what they always did. This whole argument that that slavery in the history of
reconstruction and all of this wasn't taught as complete bowl right. So yeah,
we grew up in you know, post MLK junior nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties.
It was all part of the curriculum. It always has been, and
we always learned about the Civil War, We learned about reconstruction, we learned
about Jim Crow, we learned all about this stuff. We this civil rights
movement, it's always been part of it, and they try to make this
argument as if it wasn't. It's always been what are you talking about?
Yeah, it's but it sounds like now you want you're jettison all the basic
stuff. I mean, now, again, we did learn about that.
We spent an obviously a lot of time talking about the western expansion, just
being out west, right, and um, we've very much learned about the
good and the bad. Right. We learned about the displacement of Native American
tribes, treaties that we ever decided we were going to follow through with wholesale
slaughters of individuals, I mean really, you know, the dark stuff.
And we learned about also manifest destiny and the expansion westward of the railroads,
cattle barons, all this, and it was very comprehensive. So you know,
this garbage while they're duly teaching the goods stuff. No ide Washington own
slaves. Here's a fun fact too. He was legally obligated that he couldn't
free his slaves against the law in Virginia. There's a fun history thing if
you want to include it, and he wanted to. It's in his diary.
But I had somebody argue with me on Twitter that they're like always different
when like I'm super I mean I'm old, but they're like I'm super old.
It was different when you when you were in high school there was an
African American history. I'm like, yes, there was. I took it
in nineteen ninety four. I was the only white kid in the class took
that. That was a thing. We took the year long course. So
don't give me that ball. It's always been taught. What we were not
taught is this critical race theory. Once again, I want to say we're
other than bullcrap bs right, that whites are completely responsible for all the tragedies
and all the horrible things in the world, like and that you're bore.
You're boy, it's like you're born in sin, you know. I just
I can't even Yeah, that's what we weren't taught. We weren't taught critical
race theory. We were taught the actual history of the country in regards to
slavery. I'm looking at some of these other This whole thing's embarrassing. I'll
get to more of it in a moment. Race age IX just patiently right,
Yeah, no worries. Kids are just getting dumber. I feel like
the guy. I feel bad for the kids, man. Yeah, and
I mean only you and I know that Millard Fillmore was the thirteenth President of
the United States, Right, Why would you were saying that, I don't
know. I figured i'd give you an interesting fact, so then you were
bringing up president. So anyway, Well, the majority of kids in eighth
grade don't know that George Washington was the first president. How does that happen?
I know that's said. Yeah. The truth is, I knew a
lot of president history, but just for some reason, thirteen stuck out in
my mind. Race Aging's passion. I've got a room that cosplays cosplays.
Yeah. Well, you know, the weather's gonna be good next few days.
We'll see a little more cloud by tomorrow. A low seventies today for
most. Um, a little cool to us this morning, though there is
some frost a west of the try it and those numbers will come up at
night too. And then a weekend we'll have some showers thundershowers around. Next
week's gonna have a look and feel of springtime temperatures in the eighties, and
maybe even each day we'll have a threat for showers thunderstorms during the afternoon.
Hours. Okay, all right, we'll try to hit you on time next
time thirteen, No problem, all right, you get us some more Millard
film or fun factions and we'll talk to you. Sounds a good. All
right, hang on show. After the show's on the iHeart Radio act.
Search case O Day for the podcast on the iHeartRadio app. All right,
seven fifty four case O Day Radio program. Yeah. So we had we
had, um j junior sophomore year of high school. American history is one
of the required I also took a Western history class and it was Here's what
was interesting, um, it was the part where they talked about the establishment
of the frontier forts, including Fort phil Kearney, which was the closest one
to where where I lived, which was also the base that Custer was based
out of. And we did the whole thing where they talked about essentially them
clearing that route, this connectivity on the Bozeman Trail of Native American tribes there,
including essentially running the Crow Indians from the foothills there are the big Horns
up to where currently the reservation is up by Harden and where Custer's last stand
and all that took place, and what was awkward is like five of the
kids in my class, or Crow. So I was talking about that African
American history class right nineteen ninety three, nineteen ninety four freshman year was the
first ever African American history class, asking to the high school. I was
the only white kid in the class in the first day. Mister Yetwin rolls
out of the TV and we start watching Roots, and I can tell you
I was uncomfortable. I was there, man, I know, I think
that's a fine name I with what you know. Jeez. It was interesting
because I told one of my one of my very good friends, Travis Crow.
It's still still a good buddy of mine. And uh he's funny too
because him and I would have this whole rapport because my family it goes back
to like one of the you know, first wagon train families to settle out
there. So I wasn't there, but I do have the name of somebody
who was there kind of stuff. And it was interesting because they're showing us
actually how they were clearing the area, and uh, they signed two treaties
I can't remember what they were, and then they basically just wiped their butt
with them. And then we get to the part where Custer decides he's going
to go out to Harden to deal with some issues and they got massacred up
there, and uh like Travis and his buddies were looking pretty smug. It
was funny. Uh. And I remember after the class too, he's like,
yeah, yeah, we got that one. But but that's also when
you could literally have those conversations with people, right, you could, and
and you know, I just love to lap it up. Meanwhile, you're
sitting there watching LeVar Burton going, oh, it was a fascinating course though.
Man, it was. I get straight Ason, I got. I
enjoyed the course. It was. It was because I'm a big fan of
history and I want to know every part of this country. I want I
want to know the good, I want to know the bad. And but
this argument that it hasn't been taught in the past, and you're seeing it
down in Florida now today, right, is it gets garbage. It's not
true. Well, they I don't know what they're teaching. They're not teaching
the stuff on the test questions. I'll tell you that I was, actually
I was. There's an article here where they have some of the questions.
Why were European explorers trying to sail rivers like Henry Hudson did in the sixteen
hundreds. They were trying to find a water. Essentially, they spent years
trying to find a water passage through this land. So which is the following?
Is a right guaranteed by the Bill of Rights? Public education? Healthcare?
Trial by jury? Or vote? Trial by jury? Those people think
voting's in there, it's not. I mean, these questions, these are
the harder ones in this little article. They're fair. But man, if
you don't know George washing was the first president, you're not getting the rest
of this stuff. I feel bad for the kids. Man. All right,
Mark Walker, we'll join us next hang on here on your Thursday Haco
Kay Radio program. We wait. We got a lot to get into and
to help us get into it. Former Congressman Mark Walker joins us this morning.
Mark, How are you doing thing, sir Okathy, I'm doing good,
of thinks back in North Caroline. Don't think that's the first time in
a few weeks since we've talked. I've been back home. But we're doing
well. How are you doing well? It's too bad. I'm good.
It's too bad because I was gonna get a little echo return on your phone
there. Okay, there we go. Um, Mark, I'm gonna put
you on hold because I'm getting a echo on this phone line. So um,
okay, let me try something here real quick, we pick up the
line. Maybe I'm the only one hearing it, all right? Uh are
you there? Okay? Well, no, we're good now. So whatever
it was, Uh, somebody sabotaging your interview. They don't want you to
They don't want people to know the truth. Mark. Um, that's exactly
right. All right, So boy, where do I even start? Yeah,
I'm gonna start with the story I started on this morning, and people
are they're not happy with me, but I really don't care. I don't
need to watch the Republicans turn into Adam Schiff. Here's what I mean by
that. And one of these guys I think is your buddy. So,
um, maybe you can help me. Uh. Story FBI tip that allegedly
puts Biden at center of criminal schemes sends sluice uh scattering around the world,
right, And basically it's this whistleblower tip about a quote document that allegedly puts
President Biden at the center of a bribery scheme. This was being discussed by
James Coomer and Chuck Grassley. Comber chairs the House Oversight Committee, by the
way, and they don't say what what country even they don't say what it
is. They simply said that the FBI they requested a document from him.
They have tell May tenth to turn it over. But don't worry. They
have this anonymous whistleblower and it's really really bad and we should just believe them,
and they may be one hundred percent right, but you still have to
get the FBI to turn this thing over. I don't I don't buy this
whole theory of a smoking gun. Just sitting there. I think things are
way too complex when you get up to the upper echelands of politics. But
I get these vibes of all the stuff that I hated to see during the
Trump administration, with people like Adam Schiff going, oh, no, man,
no, we got we got collusion evidence. He's in manaturing candidate.
I've seen it. It's really bad. And I'm just to the point where
I don't care what side of the aisle you are on. Put up or
shut up, and don't bug me until you do. Because all this is
going to be is a week long fundraising thing for Republicans. So am I
am I just so jaded? I need to I need to take a break,
or is I was? What do you think of this? So?
I don't completely disagree with you, but I do think there's a touch of
cynicism or jaded that you're using, because it's it's the adage a fool me
want shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. And I
and I get where you're coming from, and probably many of the American people.
Look, we've heard this story. You've told us that there's this.
You know, this has been going on since Lois Learner and geta recutting everybody
else. So if you're going to try to engage me to get excited about
it or our sending campaign dollars, you know, uh, what's the old
movie Show Me the Money? So that that that part of it I do
get. However, there aren't different moments when there just seems to be a
little bit of different energy around this, and specifically when when when you're getting
the senators involved as well not saitting the house, it gets a little eager,
but you know that there is a lot more fervor on the House side.
So when Chuck Grassley's involved, and I think it's what they call an
FD ten twenty three, which gives the FBI director I think, approximately one
week to turn over the specific documents and all. It all comes down to
the credibility of this whistleblower who is legally protected. But for I do agree
with you, is like, look, just don't don't come out and be
in the a block of all the media chet until you've get something you've not
even seen, specifically the document that the FBI allegedly has. So when you
do that, then you come and tell me, hey, this is the
smoking gun. Joe Briden was vice president, he was involved in this illegal
scheme operation. Otherwise it's just continue to be smoking mirrors a little bit.
But Evan said that they're different from the guy to talk with. There seems
a little bit more energy around this particular situation. Grassly said, and I'm
going to quote here this is the description we have. The tip involves quote
an alleged criminal scheme involving then Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to
a change of money for policy decisions, which I you know, as with
all of the Bizma stuff and the big guy and the ten part. You
know, all of these little things. If there is going to be a
scandal, this is what I would think it would look like. But we
don't even know the country. And frankly, do you trust the FBI to
comply wholehearted or withness? No? No, And that's and that's the part
where I said, I look, I respect your cynicism and are your Jada
point of view on this because you've get you've get these factors involved, these
weak leaks in the chain that first of all, they already had something like
this. You know that they would either come clean with it or there's some
intentionalities they didn't want to come share it. So just because you're throwing over
to the FBI's okay, you gotta wait to give us this information. It's
not as simple that. There's lots of complexities and complications with this because you're
dealing sometimes with the various factors who are in these agencies trying to protect this
administration. We have seen this in multiple instances with Hunter Biden, etc.
Now or I do like this investigations. As despicable as Hunter Biden is,
he was not elected Joe Biden was the vice president of the United States.
So if there is a pay for play in this aspect, which is highly
illegal, which is treason us, then I think this is something that at
least you've got to chase this trail specifically with all the other different things.
There are five bidens that documented that have taken millions of dollars from different things.
I'm hearing close to eight to twelve. Five have been documented. But
we want to make sure because what happens, it becomes a credibility issue.
Not with our wonderful hard right fur it Republican base and God bless the folks
that are out in the front lines, but but like it North Carolina,
for example, of the registered voters or Republicans, how do you get the
rest of the world to pay attention to this or the rest of the attention
to pay attention to it? You do it when you come with credibility.
Here's the facts, here's what happened, here's the country, et cetera,
et cetera. Let's say that they did have something. Let's and I'm just
gonna plug in play because again we don't know, we don't know what it
may be. But Let's say that it is Ukraine, which is I guess
probably the most likely. So let's say it's Ukraine and it's during that transition
time with the former president of Ukraine who was basically a Putin puppet who was
then outs didn't we get the current current president and it had to do with
access for the purpose of energy policy or whatever. But basically, well,
we'll push a policy decision and this will enrich a bunch of people over there,
and then we'll get these these dollars for consulting. Right, let's say
it's everything that they promised to be. One of the things Trump was impeached
over was asking Ukraine to literally pursue this investigation. So what even happens if
that does prove true? Are they even like, do you think that it's
too partisan to actually out to president if every single piece of that was proven
true? No, I don't think it's We're living in new day and age.
I mean, we've never had a president peached twice over partisan lines.
And if this is true, the take of this zoom out a little bit.
Seventy percent of the country do not believe Joe Biden needs to run again.
Many if not right on the line of majority of Democrats are having problems
with his reelection. So sometimes even if there's a little bit of gray area,
and this could be the smoking gun, I don't want to discount that,
But there's different motivating factors for going after people. All sometimes you need
is a little bit of evidence and the Kirsten Cinemas and the Joe Mansion,
who I think's got his own plans coming up soon. Uh, it wouldn't
take a whole lot to move the needle to get the majority in both the
houses there and that you know it happened with the majority of the House,
isn't the problem. You know that it's not about the House, correct They
can get that. It's the Senate and they need they need more than just
Mansion and Cinema to come over. They're going to need at least ten others.
So correctly, yes, no, So no, you're you're right,
But there's there's a lot of a lot of those folks and not saying it's
all politically driven, but I know Washington well enough to know that it's all
about benefiting yourself and whatever that might be. If there's a push to you
know, we don't need an eighty two year old Joe Biden running again.
Uh that there's enough evidence here. Let's sitting in packing and Uh, I
mean that this is not out to bounce. I guess to your question,
Yeah, I this is more cynical me. I just I don't know that
you get enough Democrats to come over even if even if that was shown.
I mean, I could already hear the excuse, Well, he was vice
president, he was looking after his kid, who misrepresented what it was.
Blah blah blah, you know, all of that garbage. They'll never apologize
to Trump if it turned out to be exactly that, obviously. But yeah,
I guess I can see a little of what you're saying. Basically,
it gives him an excuse to kick the guide to the curb, but it
does irreparable damage to the party apparatus too, And then we have to deal
with Kamala Harris's president your god. So but but yeah, no, but
but and you're going into a presidential season, so there are no rules as
far as pushing somebody overboard. So yes, you need additional Democrat senators.
But if Joe Biden continues to tank, its approval ratings at thirty seven percent
if you average across the board. If this is more baggage, it begins
to pull him down. Gavin Newsom's waiting end the weeks and chumping at the
bits. So I'm just saying this is not outside too far fetched, thinking
that if this thing goes south on them, they would do what they had
to do to get this guy. If if Jill Biden couldn't talk him out
of it or wouldn't want it, they'll still have to be an ability to
be able to do that. You mentioned Joe Mansion and you kind of alluded
to it. This is a this is an interesting scenario going on in West
Virginia. Obviously he's a Democrat, but he's very popular in previous elections.
The problem he runs into now is what's the guy's name, Jim Justice?
Right? Yeah, yes, gather yeah, and his bulldog, which everybody
apparently loves there in West Virginia. But you know the idea that a Jim
Justice could come in there and run against him and likely beat him. Do
you think Mansion may have his hand forced to flip parties? No? No,
that ship is sailed. So here's what I think. Course A got
a friend Alex Mooney we're anning of that races as well, but who take
crews? I believe it's endorsed. But this is going to This is Jim
Justice as a race. Mansion knows that he can't win again. Justice has
already announced, so he can't beat him. As a Republican. There's really
only one avenue that I see, and it kind of reludes back to what
I said not to be too kind of strategical this morning. You don't see
Joe Biden doing Sean Hannity because he's he's he doesn't have plans in the future,
I think. I don't think it's been solidified. There's there's a group
called No Labels that's beginning to grow that has some high end names on it,
former Republicans, former Democrats that I think Joe mansions connected with. So
I don't want to get ever ridden by skis here, but don't be surprised
if Joe mentioned at some point doesn't announce bigger plans as a Democrat or as
an independent independent. Yeah, do you think an independent president could get in
there? Every time I ask this, I remember, you know, we
independent senators, independent governors. Jesse Ventura ran as an independent take of that
what you will. Arguably, even though Trump ran as a Republican UM,
he he didn't sell He didn't smack of standard GOP that may have been the
label. But he drew across voters that definitely probably hadn't voted for a Republican
presidential candidate in a while. So I don't know. Maybe there's a lot
of type for it. Yeah, I don't. I don't know. It's
yes, you run on Trump. He drew a lot of union support,
blue collar Democrats, at least the first time. Uh. But but here's
here's the problem. It's it's about the money. Are there enough? You
know, these major donors, both in the Republicans and Democrats, with these
with the fible one force, which is the dark money side of things.
You know, is there enough? Is there enough that he can make an
effort and make a run and come across this centterest and communicated that way.
Um, that's that's the challenge there. Um. But but yeah, it
would be interesting to see who would hurt more more, either Joe Biden or
whoever the Republican nominee might be. All right, a few minutes and I
want to flip over to a bill and I'm not this if you haven't heard
this yet, not you Mark, I know you know, but there is
there is legislation that is being co sponsored by AOC, and Matt Gates just
let that settle in. And specifically it has to do with stock trading by
members of Congress. And there the story that they're grabbing onto right now is
several lawmakers who sold off First Republic Bank shares a few weeks ago. When
all of that stuff came to light, Obviously that bank was seized and sold
JP Morgan like over the weekend, just boomed on and they're saying, well,
this is just another example of them with the inside information. And I
think back to Richard Burr too, and Burr going and selling travel stock and
they wanted to make big thing over it. And in both these cases,
when you saw that the COVID and pandemic can travel, I mean you knew
what was up. A lot of people sold travel I sold travel stuff,
right, So how do we delineate when it's Nancy Pelosi's husband guessing correctly that
Navidio was going to have not have be able to get a contract because of
their dealings with China, and they short sold those how do you couple that
with the idea that you don't want people to come to Congress like yourself?
Who I think was what you were the poorest member of the House or something.
I'm not picking on market. Yeah, I yes, I had to
title the least wealthy member of one hundred fourteenth class. I work proudly.
Yes, But so like if people are not using inside info and they're using
basic stuff, it turns in one of these gitshea things. They're proposing that
no individual stock could be bought or sold by members of Congress or immediate family
members. One do you think that will pass? Two? Is that fair
to people who really do not They want to play by the rules, but
they also want to go to Washington to make a difference. I mean you
tell me, yeah, Look, this is a tough one because you want
to say you should be restricted just because you want to serve, or it's
the state house or that in the federal level of Congress, Senate, whatever
house or Senate, whatever it might be. But if if there's so much
fraud, it's kind of like ear marks. Ear Marks are actually legal by
the Constitution, however there was so much abuse with them because Congress had the
first strings that that there were some house rules making those illegal. That's kind
of where I think this is because of the abuse. My side of how
I would follow this would be like, you know what, if you're going
to accept that position, you got to shut it down, turn all your
portfolio stock management to an outside company or someone else as opposed to you or
your immediate family member selling and buying these things. I just think that's a
small sacrifice that you need to do that weight removes any kind of potential cloud
of mischievous behavior. Yeah, I mean, it's it's hard to argue with
looking at folks who go to Washington and make ten million dollars on what was
what's house salary? Well, there's two thousand, nine hundred seventy four thousand,
one hundred and seventy four thousand, and you parlayed it to ten million
in ten years. I mean, incredible. It's hard to argue with that.
All right, we'll have to leave it there for now. Mark,
I appreciate the time as always, sir, and we'll be back at it
next Thursday. Okay, sounds good. Take care Casey. All right,
there you go. Former Congress of Mark Walker here on the case O Day
Radio program allots to get to in our final half hour, hang on,
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This is one oh six one FM, Talk in the Triangle and News Talk
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everybody. It is the Cacoday Radio Front. This story is crazy, this
and this will go right along with um the whole kids don't know anything about
history thing. This is from NBC News. A new study conducted by the
nonprofit Asian American Foundation found that forty four percent of Americans can't name a famous
living Asian American, which is deeply ironic when you really think about it.
All right, so let me let me go to it, because they asked
a few questions. They asked that. They also asked them to name a
famous living Native Hawaiian or Pacific islander, which they don't have a problem there.
But let's just let's get in on this, all right. So what
do you think was the number one answer given? Well, the number one
I'll tell you the number one answer. The number one answer was, I
don't know. I was gonna go Bruce Lee, Hold on, hold your
horses. This is famous living Asian American. The number one answer given when
other than I don't know Jackie Chan, who is not American. He is
Chinese. Yes, he is. Number two Bruce Lee. So who's who's
been dead for what fifty years? No? Man, I saw him in
that commercial where he's hitting up ping pongs with the nunchucks. Oh that's yeah,
it's definitely really he was very good at that. Yeah, that's that's
the one hundred percent true. Right do people think that's they do? Like,
the video is constantly showing up on social media, but like, could
you believe how amazing he was? Like yes, So, like it's a
c G. I add for like Apple from like ten some years ago.
A number three, well technically number four, but where they actually did give
a name. So the first two. No, Jackie Chan is Chinese.
Jackie Chan, by the way, I did see this has the most positive
score of any major film actor. Did you know that of likability score?
Yeah, it's very hard to hate Jackie Chan. All right, so Bruce
Lee obviously doesn't count either. Not living. Number three and one in the
highest ranking correct answer is the Vice President of the United States some of these
other ones are crazy? All right, Um, all right, who else
do you think is on this list? Who else did at least? I
mean, I'm sure they didn't put all the answers, but some of these
are pretty interesting. What about loudmouth George Decay? So he is, He's
very far down though, But yeah, I figured a lot of people would
go Sulu. I figured that that actually would have been towards a little further
to the top. But all right, other that's the other ants. Like
the amount of dead people that are on this list is that is crazy to
me. Margaret cho is on the list. Yeah, I'm assuming she's still
alive. I guess I haven't checked in on Margaret Chow in a which James
James Hong has got to be in the list. James Hong is on the
list, and he is American, and he's been in like ninety five percent
of every movie ever made. Yeah him, and um, yeah, I
can't. I saw it was like six hundred. He's got six hundred credits
on IMDb or something. Yeah, if you go back and watch any Acts
movie from like the eighties and nineties and like that, it takes place in
like Southeast Asia, he's gonna be in movie. John Cho you know John
Cho is right? Yeah? What about Bobby Lee? I don't see I
don't see Bobby Lee on here? Oh this is Ri. I just noticed
this. Oh, Asa Akira is on the list. You know who that
is. First name is spelled Asa. Last name is spelled A K,
I R A Ross. Google that will you do? I want to?
Yeah, I just on my phone or on a company like I have a
feeling some bad's gonna pop up. I would do it on your I don't
trust you. I would do it on your Is this a porn Is she
a porn actress? Yes? She is? Oh good lord, I'm deleting
that from my history. What a hell you're at? Like, even if
you could think of that, wouldn't you be a little embarrassed being like,
oh I got one the famous porn actress? Oh my goodness. Let's see
here, all right? So, when asked to name a famous living Native
Hawaiian or Pacific Island or American, who do you think the number one choice?
It's got to be the Rock. It's the rock for days. Yeah,
everyone went with the Rock. In fact, the next bit, the
next vote getter a top vote getter was Don Ho, who's dead and died
like twenty years ago. The fact they named Bruce Lee. I swear to
guy man, everyone under thirty is an idiot. Number three on the Pacific
Islander A Jason Momoa. Oh there you go. But yeah, now the
rock was pretty all right. This is interesting. They study also found that
only eighteen percent of Americans um knew what career I guess, um, what
role is the most has the most Asian representation for men and women. So
when when there is an Asian actor actress on screen, what career, respectively
is the most represented? What do you think it is for Asian men?
What do you think number one would be? Ninja, kung fu or martial
arts people. I'm just being stupid. I'm trying to be funny. These
people are being serious. What do you think it is for women? Geisha?
I know, yes, shut up, Gotti, Geisha, sex worker,
stripper. I couldn't been more ridiculous of my answer. They can't be
serious. They're dead serious, man, They're dead serious because this is this
is obviously an organization that's promoting the interest of Asian Americans, and they're pointing.
They're doing this to point out that people are stupid and are well and
they obviously they've achieved that goal and they really don't understand this. You know,
he's not on this list, and you mentioned at off there Tiger Woods,
he would qualify. He's got one Asian parent. Former Governor Nicky Haley
not on the list either. Lucy lew is on the list. Okay,
well that seems like a good gimme. That's crazy man. You know,
Oh you know who else not on the list? Pime, don't see it
here? Ah, I idiocracy, we're all in man. Tip springs up
a good point on Twitter. What about Biden? He grew up in an
all Asian neighborhood at one point, right, was it an all Asian neighborhood?
I think he I just think he's like the entire gamut. You just
he did make some other claim the other day. It was like, come
on, man, you know that's not true. Oh uh, let's see
here. Oh you know it's not on the list. Mitchell McConnell's wife.
See look at that. All right, so everyone's dumb. I guess that's
the takeaway there. All right, let's stay race agent with Millard Fillmore cos
player dude, we're yeah, so did you hear this? This is what
I was just talking about so late. So they did a study and they
asked him, I'm gonna hit you with the questions real quick. So we
got time. What name one famous living Asian American? Asian American? Yes,
Um, I'd have to ask me that one for because it's the question
they asked people. It's the point of the story. Um, off the
top of my I'd have to think I could think of one, though,
go on to the next Connie Chump who All right, I'm assuming, I
mean that's well, no, here's what's crazy that. The number one answer
was I don't know. The number two answer was Jackie Chan, who's Chinese.
The number three answer was Bruce Leeve's been dead for fifty years, right
right. And the first, well that's for the number one answer that was
actually correct with six percent of respondents was the Vice president, who's who is
half Asian? Right? Um? And I didn't know that, And she
only got several percentages higher than Asa Kira, who's a famous Asian porn actress.
So I don't know what kind of pers they're interviewing. And then they
also asked the name of the name of famous living Pacific islander and that one
people got is the Rock, right, everyone knew the Rock, so oh,
I wouldn't have got that either, So you see, you kind of
you kind of went into like at least nationalities of I'm not good at that.
But then the ned the number two hands. You got me don Ho,
who's been dead too for a while. So I mean, well you
got to be on the first one. I just so I fail. I'm
sorry. I'm sorry. I guess I should. You should google that,
just check check my work, so do it on your com it'll be fine.
Yeah. Wait, so let me just send me a screenshot of the
a one of the ABC stations. Here. They got stormtroopers and stuff doing
like weather. Would you trust a weather forecast from Darth Vader Um, No,
that's certainly not. Nope, Ross, I mean he couldn't get anything.
That man's doing on a on a on a doppler so hot in this
planet though, what is him? He says, We're gonna be fine.
Yeah, it got really hot real quick to trate that. So yeah,
yeah, so no, I could never trust anything that, you know,
the theater does. Everyone's gonna have their Star Wars nerd holidays. So what
are you gonna they do? They do what they do. What I'm gonna
do is podcast, not from me. Yeah, I mean, I'm not
gonna force anything on you here. We'll just play the way it looks,
and it looks great. It's a little cool this morning, upper sixties,
low seventies today, forties tonight, load of mid seventies, a little more
cloud coming in tomorrow, and that as we get into Saturday and Sunday,
a few showers around at this point certainly doesn't look like a washout, be
a cloud sun mix in between upper sixties to low seventies. And we get
into the eighties next week and we start talking about a more typical springtime pattern
with some showers and utter showers around. A lot of those will be during
the afternoon hour. So I had a little bit of a cool down this
week now, modifying temperatures next week probably more like the season spring and feeling
more like the first ten days of May than it did this week. All
right, thank you, sir, do appreciate. Okay, I'll let you
get back to your fillmore stuff and we'll talk all right, cool cool,
and Jeff Bellinger joins us next, hang On ten years of News twice an
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fifty two Koda Radio programs, Bloomberg Update Now, Jeff Bellinger, What's happened
Well, Good Morning, Ksey. Stocks ended the midweek session in negative.
Territory futures are pointing a little bit lower this morning. The Dow futures are
down fifty six points at the moment. There was an increase last week in
the number of workers signing up for unemployment benefits. It was a little bigger
than expected. The Labor Department counted two hundred forty two thousand first time claims,
thirteen thousand more than the prior week, and we get the agency's monthly
employment report tomorrow. Companies announced plans to cut near sixty seven thousand jobs last
month. That was down from nearly ninety thousand in March, but still up
sharply from April of last year. Challenger, Gray and Christmas As. The
biggest layoff counts were in the retail and technology sectors. All of the turmoil
in the banking sector is not going unnoticed. Almost half of the American adults
who responded to a new Gallopole say they're worried now about the safety of their
bank deposits. The level of concern matches or exceeds the two thousand and eight
financial crisis. It is the end of the line for a Jenny Craig.
It was learned earlier this week that the weight Loss brand was seeking a buyer.
Now, a source tells Bloomberg News the company is going out of business.
Company owned stores are already closed. Inflation has a lot of workers hoping
for hefty raises this year, but employers are focused on holding the line so
employees could come away disappointed. A survey by Mercer found that raises will still
be substantial, just not as big as they projected last fall. Now Jones
says the bosses are all worried about high inflation or high end interest rates and
the possibility of a recession, and a lot of people are living very close
to the edge financially. A new survey says most Americans don't have the resources
to cover a surprise expense of four hundred dollars without taking on debt. Morning
consult conducted the survey for Bloomberg News. Just over a third of respondents said
they would have cash on hand to cover an expense and Casey. When you
include people who say they would use a credit card and pay it off before
incurring interest charges, the figure increases to forty eight percent, But the other
fifty two percent would have to pay interest in some fashion. The country is
we're going downhill. Forty four percent of Americans can't name a single famous living
Asian American? Can you nable one? Can? I got to think about
it myself. For Michelle woo Is, the mayor of Boston, I'll go
with that. There you go, look at Okay, she didn't make the
list. The number one answer is Jackie Chan, who's not American, and
number two was Bruce Lee, who's been dead for fifty years, so God
help us. Third was Kamala Harris, which is a correct answer. So
alright, alright, take care of Casey. There you go. Jeff Bellinger,
Bloomberg News, passing the test. I didn't tell him about Assa Kia.
I'll send him some links. Hey, you want to hear a headline
that's gonna make you lose your damn mind. Okay, it's a long one.
There's a lot going on here, so I'll read it twice, try
to unpack as we go. You ready. Trans pedophile who sexually abused her
own daughter, age seven, for warped porn videos is now inmate of New
Jersey woman's prison despite still having male parts, and wants to marry trans accomplice
so they can share us cell, which is apparently a thing that might be
able to happen. Trans Pedophile who sexually abused her own daughter seven for warped
porn video is inmate of New Jersey women's prison despite still having male appendages,
and wants to marry trans accomplice so they can share a cell. And I
guess play house or whatever. What the hell, man, I'm not even
gonna get into the just I read a description of what this individual filmed their
own daughter doing, and I'm kind of understanding why Florida is like, you
know what, maybe we should have the death penalty for people who sexually abused
children. Because I gotta be honest, I saw that story. He probably
did see it, and I was reminded of a guy interviewed back in the
day. You remember when repressed memories were a thing, and this guy his
case was pretty famous. His name escapes me right now, but basically his
ex life, her mother, his ex mother in law, and counselor basically
concocted this story that his own daughter accused him of doing. He went to
prison, he almost died because they stabbed him in prison. And then as
the daughter basically got older, she realized all of this stuff never really happened,
and there were a few things that were obviously if the guy's lawyer would
have been worth the crap, I would have known that it was bs.
But this guy went to prison, almost died because his ex wife wanted to
get custody, and this count said that I don't think the wife faced any
charges either, So that's it gives me some pause. But then I read
stories like this and I just just makes me glad it shows over for to
day because I just go off on the chanson. I counted. By the
way, there's ten actors that are all Chinese actors at all, So we're
in the top fifty answer on that other story. So yeah, we're dumb,
not all of us, but forty four percent of us. All Right,
we gotta go see you tomorrow. Everybody