Remember all right, good morning everybody. It is six o seven. It
is Friday, yay, let mean actually be more yea if it was Saturday,
it's gonna be honest about this stuff. But you know whatever, gac
O day radio program. Hold on, got British Open email? Do do
do? Do? Uh? Mitch emailed, yes, Mitch, that is
correct. British Open is on, been on since four actually been on since
uh closer to like three to thirty this morning. Little little pre coverage there.
Uh With that in mind, I mean, why do we even do
radio on this day? Ross? You want to go home, call it
a day because everyone should watch British Open. Oh okay, Ross, I'm
kind. I can't even right now that I'm missing it. You can't.
I can't even right now, can't even what I I just I don't even
know, can't function. Kid to the show? Who U? Who are
you rooting for? Lee Trevino? That was so fast? Why why would
you say Lee Trevino? But because he's the goat? No? No,
no, no, no no no no. Was it like did you read
something this morning? Dude? So? Really, the one of the only
golf players I know besides Tiger Woods is Yeah, Trevino and Lee Trevina is
because I played a golf game on the Nest when I was a kid,
Like Lee Trevino had a game the Nests. Yeah, okay, like he's
on the cover. It was like Lee Trevino something golf or whatever. Yeah,
so that's literally the only name I know. So how was Lee Trevino
doing? I don't I'm asking you. No, no, no, I'm
asking you because you're just like a leading the pack. Right what if I
told you no? What if I told you don't do it? You don't
even know what I'm gonna tell you. He is, in fact not leading
the pack. Oh yeah, Harmon's leading the pack. You know that was
gonna be my next guest. Really and then Harmon. What is Harmon's first
name? You know? Peter m No starts with a B. I'll give
you that, Brian. Okay, all right, look at that. You
almost sound like you know what you're talking about. Yeah, it's six under,
I think hold on, Sorry, the TV's at a very weird angle,
so I have to like literally turn all the way around. I need
to fix that. Ah, but yeah, that's going on. So all
right, well look, no, I'm sorry I said six hundred, he
said eight under it's uh, it's quite the butt whooping that's going on,
all right, So Ross wants to go home and see if Lee Trevino wins
it. I'm kind of of the same opinion British Open's on Women's World Cups,
going on, what are we even doing? But alas it's Friday and
we got to do a show. By the way, I've read three reviews
this morning of the new Barbie movie and honestly, yeah, I just excuse
me, so they're coughing because I'm laughing. I just assumed it was gonna
be dull drums and stupidity, and but like in a good way, just
you know, just Hollywood weirdness, because like the whole thing kind of creeps
me out a little. But like I saw a couple of people going,
oh, no, the movie's good. So I'm like, well, you
know what, maybe I should uh, maybe I should read a review that
actually covers what happens in the movie. Have you read any of this?
Ross? Have you read an actual rundown of the Barbie movie? Like you
have just seen some Twitter posts? Okay, and I don't I don't actually
have any way to confirm what I'm reading is true, you know what I
mean? Alright, alright, alright, but what was the um what was
the vibe you got from the Twitter post super feminist movie? Ah? Yes,
yes, yes, Ken is like they're saying, like borderline autistic or
something like he's listen an embarrassment and it's just, you know, a fight
against the patriarchy. The entire movie is that, just like a background fight
against it. It like literally is a plot point. So like the so
there's two worlds. There's the world of Barbie and then there's reality, right,
and like they are able to travel in between would be the best way
that I've seen it described. And like, Ken, who is would you
say borderline autistic? Judging by the little clip I saw, that's probably pretty
accurate. Basically, he like hears about the patriarchy and he's like that sounds
awesome. I would love to run things, even though he comes across as
a little bit of an idiot, and so he liked he like calls on
his fellow bros To like implement that in Barbie World or Barbie Land. I
guess as it's described. And then Barbie and her strong, strong female characters
have to like battle against that. This sounds absolutely horrible, it sounds awful.
It's just you know what it sounds. It sounds wildly unnecessary, I
guess would be the best way to describe that. Like it's it's one thing
to have that kind of like humming in the background, because I just assumed
there was gonna be that element right where Barbie is Captain Marvel. Yeah,
but you expected it sort of to be in the background, right exactly.
I assume there's the Captain Marvel, Barbie's Captain Marvel element, but not for
it to actually be the plot of the movie. It's just like, I'm
so sad. Everyone sounds strike, I guess would be the best way I
would describe that. So Margo Robbie suddenly finds herself victims to the feeling of
the other realm, the other realm being the patriarchy which Ken hear us about
and then tries to implement in the Barbie land And excuse me, um,
that's where they run from there, and there's there's there's like multiple Kens.
It's almost like a Chad situation. All right, you know, let me
do this, geez, excuse me, um, let me do this.
I'm literally allergic to the plot. Here, let me give you a rundown
of what this movie is supposed to be, what the actual storyline is,
as I understand, I have not seen it. I know you're gonna be
shocked. There's a there's a strong chance I don't, but I am happy
to share the h the cliff notes with you, and we'll do it next
here on the case O Day radio program, Your Day Smarter one oh six
one FM Talk and news Talk WPTI More with Casey starts now, no,
no, no, no. That's what's so interesting about it, because it
used to be if that was even like a single element of the plot,
that would have been the marketing. Whereas now um as, And again I
haven't seen the movie, but when I saw people commenting on it yesterday,
I spent I don't know, probably twenty minutes or so going out and seeking
IMDb's rundown of it and the couple reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and whatnot, because
look, Twitter's Twitter, right, and you never know whether it's exaggerated or
not. As best I can tell, the entire plot of the Barbie movie
is Ken Ken here, excuse me, Ken, Here's about this awesome thing
called the patriarchy and decides they need to implement that in Barbie Land because apparently
Barbie and her friends and Skipper running everything and and like that's the plot of
the movie. And I have seen a crap ton of marketing on this and
I haven't seeing that communicated. I guess is the point that I'm making?
What is uh right? What were you saying? You're uh, we were
watching. I can't remember what you were watching, but you know it went
it went to commercial, and I think it was a flow and progressive and
you know, it's a big Barbie house and everything was Barbie and Mark you
mentioned it while we were watching it. She said, I've never seen a
movie with this amount of marketing. Everything right now is Barbie themed, right,
Like it's pure. It looks like Barbie. You're seeing all over products,
it's everywhere. The marketing for this movie is is is It's ridiculous?
Well, and yeah, and you know what, I don't even begrudge them
that because there I don't either. I mean, it's super easy to market
it, that's exactly it. And them the secondary profiting right because you literally
have all of the merch right there is the ultimate product placement, right,
the merch already exists. So I got look, I got no beef there.
It doesn't A Barbie movie doesn't doesn't appeal to me, right right,
Well, like Marky said, well we saw the commercial. We started having
this conversation. Was, Yeah, I'm seeing the marketing for it everywhere,
but I have no idea what this movie is about. So so when I
see people summarizing in you know, the length that a standard tweet is,
and they make it sound like that, it sounds so incredibly over the top,
to the point where, look, a lot of people obviously want to
be first to the party when it comes to their hot take on a particular
movie. And you know, we try to extract that information, little nuggets
of info, and Ross and I have spent in an order amount of time
over the years talking about it, right, little nuggets from the Star Wars,
the latest three Star Wars two. Um, well, I mean you
name it. But so in your face and over the top is still somewhat
unusual. Right. There's there's elements to movies where you're just like, are
you serious? That's part of it. And and and we can talk about
Hollywood and like their complete lack of giving a crap about appealing to the whitest
audience. So when I saw people claiming that was the plot point, even
in this crazy world that we live in, or or the plot, I
should say, I'm like, there's no way it's that, do you know
what I mean? Even with the even with the injection of all of the
woke crap that we've seen, I like, and I brought up Captain Captain
Marvel is the biggest example, but the plot of the movie is not.
Captain Marvel is just inherently from the get go Awesome needs no training, men
suck any of the rest. It's like, it's like smaller elements in the
movie. What people are describing with the Barbie movie is the movie, and
that's what's incredible to me. But I have not read anything in the last
twenty four hours that deviates from that. That's what That's what blows me away.
So there's two worlds. There's the Barbie world and then there's the regular
world. And Ken here's about the patriarchy, and it is like, we
got to bring that to the Barbie world, which begs the question, is
there some sort of aggressive matriarchy in the Barbie World, And if so,
how is that not equally as problematic as people describe the patriarchy? If I
could just analyze a Barbie movie for a moment, I mean, it's already
a tough place to exist. Everyone's a smoke show and nobody's got genitals right,
which has to be frustrating, I guess would be my take there.
But to make that the literal narrative of the movie just seems so incredibly out
of touch and over the top. But that's just me. Look, has
anyone when does that? Did the movie? The movie's open? Right?
It? What? It came out yesterday? I don't even know. I
saw an email from one of our salespeople. There's some like Barbie premiere party
that one of our other stations is doing. Did you want tickets to that?
By the way, apparently there's extra tickets. Ross you want me to
put you on the list? You want to go? Are you really?
It's said that tomorrow is tomorrow's my seventeenth wedding anniversary. Oh congrats seventeen seventeen.
Ow I mean this seriously, congratulations. I can't think of a better
way to celebrate, right, smart talk all DAYPTI in the Triad and one
oh six one FM talk in the Triangle. All right, good morning,
it is six thirty five. You're on the Case of Day radio program.
People send him met Friday emails. There's no way, there's no other way
to describe it. I'm obviously I'm aware of it because I posted it on
the social media yesterday. Ross did you see the Do you see the video
on the social media of the person rubbing like banana cream pile over their naked
body in the Delhi section of the groceries? You know what? I missed
that one. Oh, we'll go to the Twitter account. Oh, good
lord, seriously, you didn't see that. No, I did not see
this yesterday. I kind of stayed off Twitter for the most part yesterday.
Well, you know what, that's a good decision most any day. Yeah,
look at your banana pudding? Is this all over his bare ass?
Is that a here or she? I believe it's a she? Oh my
god? Watch the video. Go ahead, So you're just seeing the screen
cap right now. I'm watching the video. Oh yeah, but I was
just seeing it from behind and then they turned around. Yeah, and I'm
still not sure. I'll tell you them the greatest. Yeah, you don't
even like you don't even like the deli over at Walmart, right, it's
like a beef for you with the pizza and all that. I don't really
have an issue with the deli or not the deli, but like what we
had this discussion one day. Oh well yeah, that was the one time
I went there. The guy was wearing he was vaping in front of the
deli counter, wearing socks, crocs, a wife beater and a BMW hat
but wearing clothes. Yes, so arguably that is that is mildly better this
video is. It's uncomfortable. There is one saving grace though, like later
in the video it's like five minutes long. Yeah, they really like cake,
do they? Though, I mean they're rubbing the cake all over their
body. They're probably you know, they're probably dieting and they just fell off
the wagon. Does that really Does that look like a diet person or well
it looks like somebody that they should be dieting. Yes, okay, yes,
And they were like, oh, I need all the sugar. I'm
pretty sure that's not how you get the sugar in the system. I'm not
even as you know, I'm not even somebody who likes sweets, and I
know that that is not the proper way to good Lord, they're behind the
counter. Yeah, towards the end of the video they go like in more
into like the display items and like the act of God is there's like this
temporary cardboard display they're selling like Hawaiian buns or something out of and thankfully they
position themselves from the cameras slightly behind that while they're rubbing the cake into the
most sensitive of regions. I guess it would be the best way to describe
that. So, you know, thank you to whoever at the grocery store
is like, we need to set up this temporary display because it does block
some of the action, and you're gonna want the action blocked, is the
point that I'm making. But yeah, that thing goes on for like five
minutes. All right, Well that's going in the back. Ross was telling
me something off. They are so and I mean this. I mean this
sincerely because I got tons of friends people I know that are married, long
term relationships anything. And I mean this when I say, because you just
mentioned you and the wife are having the what seventeenth anniversary? Yeah, we've
been together eighteen years but married seventeen. This is this is not radio fluff.
I have other than you know, humorous joking stuff. Right, I've
never heard Ross ever say anything derogatory about his relationship. And I mean that
a thousand percent to the point where I'm just like, it's so far in
away from anybody else I know, and so I mean sincere congratulations, But
also I'm like, how is that even possible? We have? We have
a really good relationship. You know how I am about I'm very unconfident about
most things in my life, like even the work in the radio show.
And I'm constantly just as every day is the last dat, yeah, and
like every other Like I've always been an unconfident person. I am so secure
in my relationship. We have such a good relationship and it's an absolute blessing.
And my wife is a saint. It's it's it's literally it's it's amazing
and and and I mean that sincerely. The one thing that really keeps me
up, well, there's two things that keep me up at night when I
tossed in turn, I can't sleep. One, I wonder who's gonna watch?
And Mark he's the same way we are. We're worried about who's going
to take care of our child Lincoln when we're gone, right, because he's
always going to need somebody to watch him, And that really, honestly keeps
me up at night. It's it's scary. The other thing that really makes
me nervous at night is the thought of and I have these thoughts is what
am I going to do when she's gone? Or what is she going to
do when I'm going? Like it scares me because I really want to.
I want to appreciate every second I have with her because I realize that time
is fleeting, and it makes me sad thinking about one day I'm not going
to have her or she's not gonna have me. Do you guys? Um?
But do you are? You are? Are you guys a couple that
takes anniversaries like very seriously? We don't. We also don't take Valentine's Day
seriously right right? And this is what I'm asking too, But birthday birthdays
too, it's the same. What we like birthday birthdays are different. But
what we don't like the holidays where you're supposed to celebrate each other. We
what we like doing is random gifts throughout the year. I think random gifts,
unexpected gifts are the best kind because you know, like you know,
you're not doing it because there's a date on the calendar right right, So
if you get a present in the mail, like, oh my god,
I got you this jewelry for no reason, you're like, wow, I
think you appreciate that more a thousand percent. Absolutely, but it doesn't feel
it doesn't feel demanded upon. You can celebrate the seventeenth year wedding anniversary tomorrow
on the Hayes for Sheriff twitch channel. It's Hayes for Sheriff one word mark.
He's going to be playing Red Dead Redemption to Red Dead for the first
time with her character. She's made up Harry Cherry, so it's Dick Bickham's
and Harry Cherry tomorrow on the Hayes for Sheriff twitch channel, celebrating seventeen years
married. It's gonna be an event. Waity, wait, hold on,
you just said you don't like calendar dates and for celebration, and then you
just well, I'm not doing this for us. We're doing it for the
people. Oh, we're doing it for the for the community. Are you
guys gonna pretend to eat emojis. I did it last week with the olive
Garden Brenton really, and I'm thinking about making yeah, because he could do
like one hundred bus and like they pop up on the screen and I was
like, oh, brand sticks, yam, nom nom nom. And I
was thinking about doing it with other food too. Probably it's a lot of
busy work and you have to program it. But I was saying, like
chicken wings, I don't know, like protein powder, I've I have no
idea, but it's probably that probably wouldn't look like protein powder on screen,
so I would have to do like a tub of muscle milk or so I
don't know powder like oh powder, yam, wait a whole lot. Harry
Cherry because that's your character. She came up with this morning where I was
driving to work where were texting. She's like, what should have my character
every name? I'm like, I don't know. She's like, what about
Harry Cherry? And I'm like, that's great because that sounds like it's a
dude's name, but obviously she's not a dude, but she's a dude in
the game, right, because that's your character. So it's very twenty twenty
three so it's sort of all works. So it's Dick Bickham's and Harry Cherry
to sorrow on the Hayes for Sheriff of Twitch Hill can't wait to see it
seventeen years strong? Right, No, no, no, you got you
gotta that's the hook. You gotta get the hook in there, man,
So you like guilt people into watching that? Well, I told her too
this morning, because you know she works in marketing and social media. I
said, well, I'm gonna need you to make a graphic for the stream
and then a slide show for the stream, and they need you to make
a pre and post video for the stream, and then can you do a
promotional event before the stream? And She's just like, what the hell is
happening? But you know, teamwork makes the dream work. So I'm very
excited tomorrow. It does sound like a dude's name. However, I'm also
of a child from time to time. I don't know. I don't know
if people have picked up on that. Occasionally, Ross and I act a
little immature here on the show. And also the first vibe I got from
that name and now I feel bad is there's also like a vulgar that's well
that's the point. Okay, So it's dig Bickham's Yeah, no, I
know. Yeah dude. The first time I played Red Dead and I'm in
that scene where you're like in the opening spoiler alert. Well here's the thing.
So, because the tutorial of that game is like three hours long and
you can't get out of the mountains, I'm going to play that today and
tomorrow so she doesn't have to do it. So when we start playing tomorrow,
it'll just be free room, open world. Otherwise it would be a
because those wolves at me up, yeah, do you know what I'm saying?
Just like because you're learning to you're you're learning to aim and shoot.
At that point, well, I had to fight them off one stream without
a weapon because somebody of a viewer clicked the no no, you know,
no gun button and then I had to fight them off with my fists.
I got devoured for like an hour straight. I mean, I had a
gun and it didn't go well for a while. So so what so you
guys are doing that tomorrow? What time is that? It would be an
eight thirty pm Eastern Standard time on the channel. Oh wow, Okay,
after the boy goes to bed, n no, I'm numb. It's breadsticks.
Yeah, dude, I think I watched like five different, five different
versions of that of various individuals seriously doing that NPC thing, which I you
know, if if I had to make a list of things that I wish,
I didn't know that's one of them. Immediately, however, I fell
into this rabbit hole. But then I saw like follow up posts by like
the two of the women, one the one we talked about, and one
this black woman whose name is Cherry something Cherry I can't remember. She made
like three grand. The other chick made like six grand in an hour in
an hour doing it, And you know what, at that point, I'm
just like, maybe we're doing it wrong, sitting here grinding a way doing
a three hour show five days a week, where we sure as hell dont
makes six grand an hour. But then it also like communicated to me that
there's all these people who find that cash worthy and it's not even from like
a cynical standpoint. The problem is is the two women who made like three
and six grand respectively are also only fans porn actresses, So unfortunately, I
think you have to have that background. But sixth grand got transferred for sitting
there pretending to eat emojis for an hour. You see some of these videos
and compared to the first one we showed with the elf girl, who was
also made more than six grands. Yeah, but like you watch some of
these other videos where they're trying to do that and it's it's just not as
good. Like you you could tell, like not to say like there's an
abundant amount of talent needed to do that, right to act like an NPC,
but like there is a vast difference between the video we played of her
that we posted at a Casey on the Radio Twitter and like some of these
other ones, like this one girl yesterday there was two of them. The
one on the left looked like she was having a seizure. Yeah, okay,
that was just gonna mention that. So those two the one who because
I think she's being shocked or something. I have no idea, but I
guess if that's your thing, more power to you. But I don't enjoy
it unless it's like you're being taste, you know what I mean? Like
whatever, well, maybe that's what you get. Maybe you should have your
wife taste you tomorrow. Do you want to borrow a taser because I could
get ahold, we have one. I got her one for a birthday.
Really, I'm just saying, man, if you know, it's for the
it's for the budget, it's for the fam. What is the how many
bits does it take to have you taste one hundred thousand bits? So that
would be roughly a thousand dollars wait for a thousand you'll get taste on straight
for those. Well, I'm not saying I'm gonna do it. I'm saying
if I did do, it's probably what I would do. It would be
a ridiculous amount of money. Yeah, you should go higher than that because
somebody literally would pay that. I'm not saying that I would organize a group
of fundraiser on online to make that happen. I'm just saying you should probably
set your sides higher. Wait. Wait, is that the same amount it
takes you to wear like a lebron hat or something that's completely different. That's
time spent. Those are redemptions. Oh okay, so you watch for an
x amount of time and then you can have me do certain things. See,
okay, it's very complicated, all right, So that's a thing tomorrow
you know if you want on your on your Saturday, all right eight eight
eight nine three four seven eight seven four h thirty huh eight thirty Eastern.
Just for people wondering, all right, coming up on the show, we
had more hearings up in DC, and everything's insane. Everybody's in denial.
Nobody cares from a network standpoint, I noticed, but we will give you
the details on that. Also an update on the US soldiers, like I'm
running to North Korea because a little more is coming out with that right now.
Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. We'll be back
here in just a few keeping you connected this WPTI in the Triad and one
six one FM talk in the Triangle. All right, good morning, it
is uh six fifty six here on the CaCO Day Radio program. So the
um the fallout, I guess of the visor plant. They're in Rocky Mount
taking the direct hit of the tornado. Again look at it the pictures of
this, and there was some videos some dude took outside their yard or you
know, pointing out in their yard show and they literally their roof being ripped
away. I mean the fact that nobody was killed, uh in this uh
in this tornado down around Rocky Mount is amazing, But when you look at
this, uh, this visor plant down there, it turned into this dumb
debate over what all was inside. And I probably got fifteen emails yesterday from
folks who in two cases people who worked there. And what that means for
the medical I guess the drugs supply here in the US is pretty crazy.
That the the negative thought when you sit here and look at this, and
I'll give you the details to kick off the next hour, is you know,
you got it's not just COVID vaccine or any of the rest. And
I understand that that took over the social media, but I didn't realize what
percentage of Fiser's supply of intravenous medicines and various other stuff that that particular Facility
Act really provided, and it's pretty substantial. But also there was the idea
that there was opioid stuff and ketamine and others. And obviously, and I
understand why Feiser is not being one hundred percent on what they're saying, but
you know, the idea that these drugs which addicts crave may have been literally
dispersed into the woods. The security issue that comes along with that, so
I'll give you the follow up on that coming up here in our number two.
Also, Pete Callender joins us our number three eight oh five. Lots
to get into with him, so hang on, all right, good morning
man, Welcome. It is our number two here on the case O Day
Radio program. So during the break, I went to the old refrigerator.
Whoever works at Gatorade in the variety packs the plastic ones from Walmart? Could
you just stop putting the orange ones in there. I've got red, I've
got lemon lime, I've got the blue, I even uh, there's one
other in there. We don't need the orange. However, it's too good
of a deal when you look at buying them individually. So sorry, just
using my platform for the betterment of society because unfortunately that's all that's left in
there. All right, m dude, So you thought Cocaine Bear was good,
We got Cocaine Sharks coming up on the show. Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah. That's a Friday thing that's happening here in just a
little bit. But let me get back to um as I mentioned, you
know, actual news. Although cocaine Sharks, if you're headed to the beach,
might actually be actual news to you probably don't want to tussle with them.
So as you you you look the impact of this e F three tornado
that, among other things, severely damage the Fiser plant. They're in Rocky
Mount, and it's fascinating because I've had multiple people too who worked there,
and quite a few who used to work there when it was I guess it
used to be Abbott. Again, I don't know, so understand that my
sourcing here is although these are listeners that I know and recognize. So I'll
take it for what it's worth. And I didn't really get into it yesterday
because I don't want to be the guy on the radio starting a thing.
But I mean that's a real concern. Forget the you know, the COVID
vaccine narrative and all of that that permeated on social media. But you know,
you go through there, there's a lot of among other things, there
are um but what damn it, what is the term I'm looking for?
Basically there there are regulated narcotics in there, and you know, the idea
that this tornado went through and literally, in addition to damaging the facility,
literally spread this stuff around the last thing you needed was like opioid addicts crawling
around the woods nearby. Obviously, officials have enough to deal with. But
now that we're we're we're past that to some extent, we can get into
it. Um but you know the list of things that people told me literally
were in this warehouse. UM. You know, it sounded obviously problematic.
However, when you look at the impact that that could have, UM this,
you know, this facility has over three thousand employees. I had no
idea, and what is this? Oh? Now I got a Walmart employee
mad at me. Stop acting. If we're the one who put the package
together, we just sell it, all right. I don't know if you
know this. Walmart has an incredible amount of control over what companies do and
what they package for sale. And I only know this because one of the
things I used to do on the radio is I used to do a hunting
and fishing show in Minnesota and me and a co host by name of Tim
Lesmeister's is great outdoor rider. Tim's great, great dude, one of the
one of the nicest best people I've ever known, and it comes across on
the radio. So we were doing this hunting and fishing show and it literally
was syndicated, like thirty six stations. Was great. It was one of
the hardest things to give up when I moved to North Carolina because it actually
was pretty profitable. But we had to deal with sponsors, and most of
the sponsors were in the hunting and fishing industry, and you know, the
holy grail for them was to get into Walmart. Obviously, and like Walmart
would dictate what your packaging looked like, and you would do it because you
wanted you wanted to be in the stores so you can get rid of the
orange. Is the point that I'm making. But back to this, Okay,
like including like Berkeley for those of you who fish, obviously you're familiar
with the name Berkeley Light. The way stuff was packaged by Berkeley that you
could buy in Walmart was dictated by Walmart. And I can't remember the reasoning
behind it, but that's the power that they have and understandably, so obviously,
if you're selling stuff, that's a good place to sell stuff, so
you can get rid of the orange. I don't want to hear your lazy
emails any who. Back to this, So, Nash County Sheriff keyth Stone
tells WRL News again, don't talk to WRL, that fifty thousand palettes of
medicine were destroyed. The facility produces nearly twenty five percent of Fiser's sterile injectables.
So and then obviously Fiser is the I believe they're the largest US seller
of some of these products. So when you lose a fourth of the current
supply, especially here on the East Coast, as you can imagine, that's
going to be impactful, even though they it's not clear totally what the impact
is going to be from a distribution standpoint. I don't know the totality of
Fiser's warehouses, but pretty crazy. More than one hundred vehicles and storage trucks
were damaged as well, and the facility, as you can imagine, is
closed till further notice. Totally figure out what they're gonna do. But yeah,
I mean thirty two hundred people. Even though technically Rocky Mount is a
separate radio market, which I always thought was dumb, Rocky Mount Greenville is
its own radio market, and you know, technically it's not one we're in,
although we show up in the ratings there, so you know, in
case you're wondering, um, so we got a lot of folks to listen
down there. I had no idea the facility was that big. Let's see,
um stay rep Alan Chesser, so he represents nash County. You know
what, I should have had him on now that I realized the totality of
this. If anyone's listening and oh really no, no, no, say
it on the air. So you guys, so you follow each other on
Twitter, I was gonna say, I recognize the name there. Yeah,
so I'll contact him and see if he's available. Yeah, I'd like to
talk to him because I had Again, I had no idea that we're talking
over three thousand people that worked there until I read it literally right before the
show this morning. So yeah, reach out to reach out to him,
see if you can get him to call in. It's because he visited the
plan on Thursday. Chester said it's going to take some time to clean up.
There's obviously economic impact obviously. Quote it looks like a bomb went off,
and Chester mentioned how authorities need to make sure everything's account of it.
Yeah, obviously. Again, this is why I didn't deep dive into this
yesterday because the thought was in my brain, like tornado comes through and then
there was a story where literally two people were transported one hundred feet. Those
are people, So think about an individual versus you know, a box of
a controlled whatever. And I didn't want to get into it yesterday because you
know, that's the kind of crap that people would show up tom to look
for stuff. But now we're we're little ways away. So the plant produces
injectables, IV, infusions, wide variety of stuff. But there's also,
as Chester points out here, there are controlled substances. Let's see here.
Fiser bought the plan back in twenty fifteen. It encompasses more than one point
for a million square feet of manufacturing space, so twenty four football fields.
I guess they have twenty two packaging lines. So I don't know if that's
the totality of what they produced, but yeah, I just wanted to follow
up on that because you know, that sounds that sounds like obviously something that
could have an impact if you're going to the hospital this weekend or whatever.
It is, all right now, so here we go. Yeah, so
this is again I'm I'm basing a lot of this off of off of emails.
So I used to work emailer rights. I used to work at an
AVID distribution center. Opioids are stored in a vault. Um, there may
have been some desirable drug. Again, I don't know. I didn't dive
into this yesterday because I don't want to be the the you know, the
jackass on the radio that may inspire somebody. That means said, I don't
know, man, I'm looking at those pictures. Even if it's in a
vault, I don't even know. Oh sweet, Okay, all right,
so I guess we're gonna chat with the representative here. Well that's good,
that's good, all right, So let me do this. We'll take a
break, come back and um, maybe get a little more on what exactly
this impact may look like and the timeline. I mean, this day.
This thing ain't getting fixed tomorrow. So we'll get into that coming up here
on the case O Day radio program show. After the show on the radio
app, search case O Day for the podcast on the iHeart radio app.
All right, seven twenty three, let me jump into this representative Alan Chesser,
who represents those you listening in a good portion of the Rocky Mount area.
Um, we're talking about the Fiser plant down there. He's joining us
this morning. How are you doing, sir? I'm doing all right,
Tacy, how are you? Uh, well, I'm good. I had
no idea until I started really diving into this. Over three thousand people work
at that Fiser plant. The photos are obviously crazy yesterday. UM, you
know, people are trying to ascertain what happened. Uh. It doesn't look
like anything is going to be back in business anytime soon. So you went
down there, you and Tim Moore, I guess what was the what was
your your your thoughts when you were down there. Oh? Yeah, I
mean it's heavily impacted. It's heavily damaged. Um. Some people they upgraded
the tornado to an F three, So originally we were told it was enough
to set a little bit over one hundred and fifty mile hour straight line wins
um. The only thing I can equate it too, is the back end
of that building was like a bomb went off. And given the nature of
you know what what Fiser produces, you're you're completely right. They're one of
our largest employers in the county UM and an integral part of our community here.
So given the nature of what they produce, there's controlled substances in that
building. So accounting for all those substances, accounting for every file that's been
lost in the storm is of paramount concern and it's going to take time to
clean it up. What at the state level, what is it you guys
want to do? I'm assuming your brain is churning. UM. Obviously this
is you know, um, a natural disaster, if you will. But
what is the State of North Carolina do and what is their representative in you
hoping to do? Well? That was the goal of yesterday was just getting
um, I hate to use this term, with the power brokers that be
at the state level, representations from the executive branch in the state, UM,
the legislature out there to see the damage for themselves. Because ultimately what
we have to do is try to streamline this siling process to either get FEMA
funds in there or get some state emergency relief in there, which is you
know, a benefactor of hopefully Nash count who will be a benefactor of some
of the good fiscal policy that the states followed over the years. And the
surplus is putting money away for the rainy day fund and the emergency funds for
a time such as this, right, and let's let's just be clear.
FEMA and the FEMA funds is essentially an insurance program that the states pay into.
So yeah, but there there are certain levels that you have to hit
to qualify that, right. I've taught. I haven't talked to the governor
himself, but I taught the representative from his office, um, somewhere on
site yesterday. Both. I believe the governor is suffering with about of COVID
right now. So well, yeah, I mean he's tweeting, so you
know, he's awake and alert, and this is you know, this is
going back to where he's from. Um. You know, this seems like
one of those things where you guys could all get along, you know what
I'm saying. So, and there's not many examples of that. Yeah,
I think I think we are. I think we're coming together. We had
Secretary Buffalo out here yesterday. UM and uh, you know the local city
councilman that's from the particular ward that was most heavily damaged, Ward seven.
He's a registered Democrat as well. But none of that comes up when we're
driving around and checking on our constituents, checking our people and trying to help
people. UM. It is a very bi bipartisan effort going on right now.
Yeah, No, I mean this is this is when you all need
to divorce that and you know, just get down to doing it. So.
Um, so I saw estimates two to three years. I got about
thirty seconds left, so I hate to pinch you here, but two to
three years over three thousand people working there? Is that your understanding of how
long it might take to get this back up? I have not heard any
estimates. We're going back out there today to meet with the CEO of FISER
and we're expected to get some updated information today. All right, let me
do this, Um gotta, I gotta go to break. Let's let's make
a plan to talk on Monday. Maybe you'll have more info. But I
appreciate you reaching out to us today. Ross set up, Thank you,
JCS on ninety four five WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM
talk in the Triangle. All right, so we got stuff organized. Ross.
What time we do in that Monday with the eight oh five all right?
So that'll give the representative more time to ascertain a little more. But
yeah, when you talk about Rocky Mount and over three thousand jobs, which
again I'm seeing estimates. Now take it for what it's worth. These r
estimates from people who are commenting in news stories, um as to you know,
how long it may take to get that facility up. Somebody send me
an email and they're probably right, probably just gonna have to raise the whole
thing and rebuild. So but that's just me speculating. So we'll on Monday
dive into that, and uh, what what is Rocky Mount? Like?
Fifty thousand people? Actually, hold on, make sure I'm accurate here,
do you do? You do? You? Do? You do? Do
you? Fifty four thousand according to the UH numbers from twenty twenty one,
So obviously that is a it's a big slice of the population around the Rocky
Mountain area. That's the city of Rocky Mount. Obviously, I'm sure people
come in from nearby communities, but you get the gist of it. So
we'll talk to Rep. Chester on Monday and uh see what's going on over
there. Let me grab a quick phone call on this, Uh Scott,
what's up, hey, Casey? How you doing this morning? I'm pretty
you know, it's Friday, sirs, so it's hard to hate, but
great, Well, I haven't heard anybody say anything about how this is going
to affect the wildlife in in in what sense all the medication that's spread out
all over the area there. You know, somebody send me an email about
how we could get a Shark Nado spin off or a cocaine bear. But
with the giant hogs, which um obvious obviously they got in a bus down
there. Um. I'm still to this day, I still think about hog
Zilla, which I think it was like Southerly Joco. But yeah, man,
uh yeah, I don't want him get ahold of any any drugs.
So I'm with you. But you know, also, okay, all right,
look look at you, an animal lover, sir. You're concerned about
them, the critters. I understand that. But yeah, I mean here
in North Carolina, we got us some giant ferrel hogs, man, and
uh yeah, I don't want him getting some you know, I don't want
him getting a hold of any pharmaceuticals for that matter. Holy cow, dude,
I gotta tell you. Uh and obviously some of you, obviously,
uh, you probably hunt farrel hogs a lot more than I do. I
think twice, I literally twice. Hovelina in Texas, which is from a
size standpoint is nowhere compared to what we have in North Carolina. But I
did go on a hog hunt here in North Carolina and that thing was aggressive.
The dude missed the double lung boiler shot and we got down there and
yeah, like you don't recognize the size of some of these things. So
yeah, I don't want to gonna get in a hold of pharmaceuticals. I'm
with you, sir, but you know, make a movie out of it.
So you got that. Speaking of meat, I'm not at all surprised
by this a new study and that it was part of the FDA's June twenty
first follow up. So back in June, the FDA approved the sale of
lab grown meat. But as they were doing it, the company is called
good Meat. I believe that made application. As they were doing it,
they also announced that there was some research being done, right, and they
would take that into account as they were because this is, you know,
this is new ground, and I have no desire to eat lab grown meat,
just so we're abundantly clear, but if you want to, you can
now. However, as part of that, they were wanting more research as
they figure out the regulations that are going to surround this and I find this
very interesting. So apparently apparently lab grown artificial meat actually has a larger carbon
footprint currently then regular old you know, animals just in the tree additional sense.
So only chicken has passed the official government approval process, so that's what
they're looking at. However, researchers at the University of California Davis found that
the environmental impacts of lab grown or what is actually referred to. They don't
call it lab grown, they call it cultivated meat, is likely to be
orders of magnitude their language higher than their natural counterpart, based on production methods,
which remember the lab grown meat was all about this narrative. Than when
it comes to you know, our current agricultural environment and the meat that we
produce, it's horrible, which is why you see these stupid like Green New
Deal inclusions where they want to get rid of cows and build a train to
Hawaii and you know, all the stupid AOC crab But in reality, it
is actually more energy intensive. Now supporters say that's just a result of it
being new and the research that's gone with it, but once it becomes more
mainstream, that number will drop and they're probably not inaccurate on that. You
know, anytime you get more into a mass production kind of thing, it
becomes easier and easier. That being said, I saw several articles when this
went through where people were of the opinion that if you're all about the environment,
you're a climate crusader. This is the direction to go. And the
reality is it's not just a little more. It's like four and a half
times more. According to UC Davis researcher Derek Risner these studies lead author is
so UC Davis actually has a cultivated meat consortium, which couldn't sound more like
a funnel for public dollars for various connected education people. The artificial meat industry
plans on creating lab grown meat using primarily food grade ingredients and cultures, which
is part of the purity process that they're claiming that in and of itself obviously
has a much larger carbon footprint, described as pharma to food, which I
think is a horrible description if you want to get people to try it.
The lab based meat had been promoted as a more climate friendly alternative. However,
it just doesn't live up to it. Let's see here once now again,
this is this is if everybody gets on board. Ross. Do you
have any interest in eating lab grown meat? Ever? Uh? No,
I tried it the one time, and they sat in my stomach forever.
Well, that's not lab grown. That was you're talking about the uh anything
to do with it? I don't anything to do with it. That was
the impossible bird. So this is actually protein, this is actually meat,
but it's lab cultivated. So this is actually something different. But you're right,
that was the impossible whopper, right, you ate the impossible whopper there.
My stomach was like, what is this? And they sat there forever.
Yeah. Now, to be fair, I probably have a bias literally
growing up in the meat production industry, right with cows and stuff, But
I got zero interest. However, if the totality of the US population were
to get on board the artificial lab grown cultivated meat train, they estimate eventually
it would have ninety two fewer carbon emissions, which I don't believe because anytime
I see these estimates that I never actually live up to it. But right
now it's uh, it's not even close, and in a very negative way.
All right, seven forty five k c O day radio program Race A
check from the Weather Channel, YO yo yo, Hey, do you hear
yourself? I do No, no, not yet. No echo, It's
fixed. Okay, Yeah, Ross was Yeah, I dude, the dude
was putting in some time after the show. It's just crazy. Yeah.
It was like this big, long like expo. I was like, all
I needed to know Ross was it was fixed. I did. Now.
I feel bad though, because people are like, your board is messed up.
I'm like, how dare you, sir? Yeah, how dare you
mess with salt? Salt Ross's board? With the last thing I want to
do. He's got a toy. He's got it. Literally, it's decorated
with toy. But oh yeah, with the skeletor. Yeah, I got
an I got an R two D two Here, Darth Vader here in front
of me. Dude. Have you never seen a picture of us as studios?
No? I may have, but I don't remember. Dude. It
looks like it looks like you ever see like the nerd Collectible room or they
have all this stuff. Yeah, he's got a little bit of everything.
Man. Oh wow. Oh yeah, okay, I'm glad we got it
taking care of We were just we were just chatting with um uh. The
state representative from Nash County, where the Fiser plan is right, and um,
you know over three thousand people worked there. I didn't get into it
yesterday. I'm talking about it today because the thought occurred. Obviously, they
have controlled substances which you never knew where the tornado may have tossed him.
And I didn't want to be the guy that encouraged like opioid addicts to go
farm the woods nearby. But um, right, well we were a day
in now, so they got security. But my point is, um,
when you see the aerial footage of this and you see did you see the
video of the guy who's filming outside of his double wide and the roof's getting
ripped off? I mean I didn't see that. I did see the aerial
footage of the of the building. I've been near a tornado. I couldn't
actually see it. I could see the I could see it start to circulate
and then it moved. It was several minutes later that it turned just terrifying.
Man, just shows you we're so we're such peons in the grand scheme
again, the grand scheme of things. You're right, And you know the
one thing I always like to say, and probably well, I don't.
I'd like to say it more is understand a few things. Showers, thunderstorms
when they're in the forecast. Understand this. All thunderstorms do rotate to some
degree. So it's just sometimes the dynamics are just the right place the wrong
time, are just perfect for you know, something to rotate and a thunderstorm
to rotate a little better for the worst and produce tornadoes. So you know,
that messaging is it should always be there. And there's thunderstorms and you
may not even mentioned severe. You know, we weren't in a watch or
anything, but there were stronger storms that come on in my messages. Anytime
there's thunderstorms, you should get inside anyway and then check out what's going on
and see, you know, what you need to do to keep your you
know, try to keep your property safe, but certainly your family. That's
one of the biggest things. But none of that is we go through the
next few days. Sunny today. Got a front coming in this afternoon.
I'm limited moisture with it. I think out near the outer banks of the
beaches there may be some showers, thundershowers upper eighties to low nineties tonight in
the sixties tomorrow, maybe a shower around otherwise part at least sunny. You'll
feel a little difference in the air mass, a little less humid, upper
eighties and a chance of a shower thundershower on Sunday afternoon. Mit upper eighties
once again, but we're going back to the nineties next week. Next week
looks like again another high and potentially dry week. So hot and dry with
sunshine starting about Tuesday at least through Thursday. All right, thank you sir,
and we'll chat in an hour. Appreciate all right, Coming up,
we'll chat with Pete Calendar much sooner. That'll be an eight OZHO five And
researchers say there's a bit of a problem off the coast of Florida, and
um, this sounds horrible. I'll give you the details coming up on the
case O Day Radio program. This is one oh six one FM Talk in
the Triangle and News Talk PTI in the Triad. So for those of you
who are plans of that open place every day, fans of Shark Week,
there is going to be a rather interesting special as part of the programming offering.
And it did. It didn't set out to be that, So check
this out here we go. What is this guy's name? Anyway, he
does. Tom Hurd, who is a marine biologist actually has a pretty popular
YouTube channel, was shooting a documentary off the coast of Florida and with the
intention that it would be part of Discovery Shark Week. However, it turned
into something he didn't expect. So one of the things that down in Florida
can be an issue is drugs literally floating in the water or washing up on
the beach. We see stories on the regular about this, and it just
so happened. They were shore where were they should, down in the Keys,
I think, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Along with a University
of Florida environmental scientists, they were down the Florida Keys and they were just
they were shooting videos of hammerhead sharks and sandbar sharks. However, they then
noticed that there was packaging floating in the water and they contacted authorities once they
realized what was right. Obviously it was cocaine. However, in that time
they noticed something interesting. Literally, shark after shark after shark coming up to
the cocaine and eating it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The sharks were
all about the cocaine, and in fact, they got so much footage of
these sharks, and then and then they documented how the sharks were acting and
you're not going to believe this. Apparently they acted like they were on cocaine,
so case you needs something to worry about. In fact, it was
so interesting to them that they changed what they were doing as part of the
documentary and they conducted an experiment so they got they essentially recreated the packaging it
didn't actually have cocaine in it, and then they dropped it into the same
water and sure enough, as it's out there, all of a sudden,
they observed sharks swimming straight to the packages and trying to eat it. So
that spawned what is going to be a one hour documentary called Cocaine Sharks.
Dude. If you need a reason not to go to the beach, here
it is. But apparently they say that there is enough, There is enough
regularity of drugs in the water, which is baffling to me because I only
see these stories sometimes that it literally has trained the sharks to seek out these
cocaine, which I don't know, maybe they're just biting whatever is in the
water. But also I don't want to get in the water if cocaine sharks
are around, so I don't know, maybe that is along with the the
fentnol board. Maybe that's going to be the latest iteration of weird animals specials.
So Caine Sharks, by the way, premieres on the twenty sixth at
this five days on scubby. If you want to work, all right,
good morning and everybody. It is eight oh seven, it is Friday,
and we got an hour to go and then the sweet sweet smell at least
for us, you all got to go to work. But uh, of
the weekend is upon us. But before we get there, we had a
crazy week, all sorts of insanity. To help digest just a little bit
of that, our radio buddy to the South Peak Calendar Midday's WBT. He's
still got to work today. So um, but you can catch that on
the iHeart radio app. Sucker, you got to go to work. What's
up? I never stopped working? Uh huh do you have? And I'm
serious about this. So for for Ross and I we're kind of on the
same page. On the weekdays, there's like this middle window during the day,
right because you know, the show happens, You've got production, you
know, all this all the stuff that nobody because everyone one just thinks we
work three hours a day, right, Yeah, and then you have this
middle part of the day and then once I get into the latter part of
the afternoon, I plug back in and you know, put together the prep
for the next day. Do you have like this period of time which is
like a sanity restorer where you just kind of unplug or are you one of
these guys who's always on. Well, I am a believer, and he
who stops to sharpen the axe cuts more wood, right, I do believe
that, and I always advise you got to unplug. I used to do
it on weekends, and to some extent I do sort of Friday afternoon after
I get done, you know, from like dinner time until probably Sunday morning,
and then I kind of plug back in. But just the nature of
this of the shift that I do noon to three, it's I mean I
get up at five am, I start you know, compiling the day's headlines,
the show prep, and then you know, you do the show and
a lot of stuff acts really happens on air live while I'm live, and
so I'm kind of you know, yeah, treading what's what's a I said,
I'm so jealous, You're dude. The ability to jip something, Yeah,
it would be amazing. And you just unless like Joe Biden's overseas wandering
around, you know, some stage he's unfamiliar with. I just I don't
have that noon to three, right he man, right, And so like
over the last two days, I was able to dip into the or jip
joined in progress. I was able to join in progress the some of the
hearings that we're up on Capitol Hill, which we're which we're good to do.
Um. You know. The downside is that you you got a prep
for the entire show, right, So you're and my rule is two hours
of prep for each hour on air. So a three hour shift means six
hours of prep generally speaking. And so you prep for Yeah, so you
prep for all that stuff. I mean, I don't have a guy like
Ross, you know, doing all of the producer in that Ross does for
you. And so you know, I just so I wake up, I
start compiling it. I have a Google document, I put all of my
links into it, and then I pull from there. I create the show
out of that. And then after I get done, I use them the
document, I filter out the ones that I didn't use, and that gets
bumped to the next day. And so right now my Google document is about
thirty four pages and it's just headlines, it's just links to still. No,
I'm looking at it right now and it has last week's date on it.
So or the one I send to you, Yeah, the one I
give to you. I have a special one here. I can I can,
I see I can change that one for you. No, no,
no, no, you can hold on, hold on, hold on that
speak of no. Yeah, look at that. You just did that on
the fly Hue twenty one. By the way, I'm sorry, I'm a
ross. What did you just ask me? I'm just wanting if Pete is
hiring Really we've been together twenty years? Have you heard the promos? Ten
years? And just like it feels more leaked ten, it feels more than
ten. It's weird. It's probably accurate, so so weird. Um I
have in control of hiring decisions, unfortunately. Yeah. No, people think
I can put in a good word for him. How many times you've got
an email about some other thing on the station and somebody's like you need to
do something and I'm just like, you think we control anything outside of our
day part. Yeah, yeah, it's And then there's the other side of
that, which is that you're being told what to say by filling the blank,
you know, management powers that be politicians or something. But yeah,
no, I don't. I don't ever get any direction. I never have
it when I when I worked for I Heeart as well, I was never
told anything to say. I build the show based on what I think people
are interested in, what people need to know about, and what interests me
so and it just so happens that those interests usually align well. And that's
that's the key to it. That's what makes U you know, makes people
on the radio successful. Obviously they share a lot of characteristics hopefully with the
maximum amount of people out there, and you know, the ratings come in.
You've never had to fight that battle. There's been a couple of times
over the years where I've had some like did I ever tell you? Did
I tell you about the Amber alert conversation? I had one time with a
salesperson, No, so this sales and he meant, well, right,
he doesn't work with us anymore, but he meant well, he comes into
the studio, as sometimes salespeople will do after the show with an idea,
and I appreciate them coming to me because I don't want them assuming that you
know, something that's outside of the norm will just fit and then selling it
because then it's a fad thing. But he comes in and he goes,
oh, I've got this company, and I'm not gonna say which company it
is, but basically it's a company where their products help parents keep tabs on
their kids. Okay, all right, great and good company by the way,
good products they produce. But he comes in, he goes, yeah,
so what if we have a sponsor for amber alerts? Right? And
and I'm like, I'm looking at him, I'm like, what do you
mean by that? And what he meant? So amber alerts, for those
of you who don't know, are part of the EAS system, which we
do not control. You'll hear the test. But also like when the storms
were going through the other day, and and and for amber alerts, they
literally just play I'll get Ross can because it happens in Ross's studio, and
so he'll be like, EAS is going off and I just have to keep
talking even though uh, you know, some depending on which market. It's
in half my audience can hear me. Um, And he goes, so
I'm like, let me let me run this by you. So you want
you want some lead in right where it's like coming up a kid's missing,
but first and then conserment. And like when I when I like played it
out on the air forms, he just kind of looked at me. He's
like, yeah, that's probably not gonna work, and then he was right,
well, and the other thing is the lack of consistency. I mean,
you're it's almost like you're gonna have to go out and start kidnapping kids
in order to make sure that the client gets enough play to warrant the thought.
I don't know the amount of kids I was. I went to Walmart
did like the big shopping the other day, and I'm just like the amount
of untethered children just running around like it wouldn't be hard, all right,
Well yeah, okay, yeah. I mean I think though, in order
to get you know, to risk selling and kidnapping charges, I mean I
would expect to spend to be a lot of money. The talency I would
suspect would be in the probably millions of dollars. No, No, I'm
not doing the kidnap. That's on the company and the sales guy. Oh
oh yeah, so you went to Walmart. So you're like, you're like
Casey de Santis. Then yeah, let me ask you a question on that.
Yes, no, to some extent, but actually that I was going
to go in a different direction. Let me ask you this because you know,
Twitter's, as says Pool, and you know, anytime I see one
of the bigger Twitter accounts, you can tell which camp they're in, and
you know, and most of it's disingenuous, Like I don't even read him
anymore. That being said, you and I obviously spending an ordinate amount of
time not just on Twitter but reading stories and whatnot. Do you are you
surprised with the momentum that the Santist has versus what you thought it would be.
I just want to point this is not me picking sides. I just
I'm I'm I'm slightly awestruck. And maybe it's a product of media coverage with
I thought the Santists would be. Do you remember the governor of Wisconsin during
the twenty sixteen election. You know, I got wrong, Scott, but
he was everywhere right. He was the show in he was the guy and
about the time to Santis was shipping kids to Martha's or excuse me, maybe
there were some kids, but shipping illegal immigrants to Martha's vineyard. Everyone was
just assuming that you couldn't get away from Scott Walker in the news, and
I just don't feel like that's out there. And the conspiracy, of course,
is the media secretly wants Trump in there because Joe Biden will beat him,
blah blah blah, any you know, all that stupidity. But you
know, some people are feeling that frankly, his people around him are not
doing a good job. What's your take on that? So, first,
the thing is that it's summer, and so it's generally you know, slow
news cycles in summertime. You've got a media that is, uh, you
know, constantly focused on the horse race, and so they're not I mean,
the best polling is the internal polling that we never see, right,
Right, So you got all these polls that come out, and I tend
to look at trend lines and particularly not even in the matchups. I'm not
I'm not so interested in the matchups at this point because most Americans are not
tuning in yet, right, they're not paying attention to all of this stuff.
So the people that follow it, obviously, are the trends that I
look at are the favorability numbers. And when you've got president, you've got
President Biden, and you've got former President Trump, and they have they've got
some serious problems with their favorability numbers. Now does that mean they don't win
the primaries? No, of course not. You know, Trump has a
solid floor. The question is the ceiling for him in a general election.
You had a lot of people that voted against him, and you had a
lot of people that really, really, really really don't like him. And
I do believe that because they tell you they Democrats, particularly in North Carolina,
their dream ticket for the Republicans is a Trump Mark Robinson ticket because they
think that that's going to give them the best chance to win, because they
believe these two candidates would be toxic to a lot of moderate independent voters.
I don't know if they're right about that. I mean, they wanted Trump
in twenty sixteen, and how did that work out for them? You know?
Not so well. So you know, the people are making all sorts
of guesses. I am I am one who wants to see the campaign unfold.
I'm a patient guy, so I like the people who get paid.
It really is a phenomenal job. I guess you just get paid to make
all sorts of predictions about who wins, and then if you're wrong, nobody
ever really you still get work after that. So I don't understand, like
why people believe these predictions, because if people could accurately predict all of this
stuff, I would like some lottery numbers that would win. That would be
very helpful to me. No, no, no, I'm with you,
and and you're you're you're diving deeper than I guess. My question is I'm
just my apologies. No no, no, no, no no that I
feel like I'm being censored. I feel like I'm being censored. Well,
look you should I had a ten minute opening statement when you're only supposed to
have five. We're gonna get into that ur in the moment. No,
no, no, I just mean, like, like, you know,
the things that garner the media coverage, like shipping a bunch of you know,
a flight to Martha's vineyard. Obviously that was all over the place,
Like the Santist, the stuff he was doing when he was governor. I
just I don't see that earned media right now. And I don't know if
that's because the media doesn't want to cover it or the santist Is people are
just not coming up with, you know, bright ideas to get it.
I'm a little surprised by that, but I agree with you, it's very
early. So I was I think that taking your Ted on this, right,
I think the initial strategy was very much like a Ted Cruise strategy right
in twenty sixteen. Ted Cruise did not directly attack Donald Trump because he was
thinking, and the campaign was thinking, that Trump will burn out and then
Cruise will pick up all of those voters. I think Vivic Remiswamy's camp is
thinking sort of the same thing, is that he's sort of the fallback guy.
Right then, That's why he never attacks Trump. Remeswami never goes directly
at Trump. Same thing for De Santis. You're walking a line where you
cannot alienate the Trump voters because you're going to need them. If not,
you know, peeling some away in the primary, you're going to need him
in the general. And there are a lot of people that are only Trumpers,
right, You've got a lot of never Trumpers, but there are only
Trumps too, and so they won't come over especially, I mean you see
some of the more outlandish claims and stuff that are going on. So,
now what De Santis is doing, and I think this is actually his strong
suit, is going head on with the media. He's going into these uh
into these interviews with quote mainstream or legacy media outlets, and I think he
does well there. He did well with the Jake Kapper interview. Didn't get
a lot of coverage because he did well, and Donald Trump got indicted,
and so like there's another you know component here is that, yeah, Trump,
you know, gobbles up a lot of the oxygen because he gets indicted
and he's he's winning every single news cycle because he gets indicted all the time
apparently, and so there are all these stories about the indictments and they're easy
to do. People have inside sources and stuff, and in those liberal outlets,
that's what people want to read. It's it's Trump porn. You know.
I'm sorry, I don't need to don't need to create a visual there,
but like that's it's this focus on Trump because that's what moves the meter
for a lot of these legacy outlets, and so they can keep covering that
and get the clicks and get the traffic, and hey, you know what
if it elevates Trump and his poll numbers go up and he wins the primary,
get him into the general even better because they think they can beat him
in the general. Well, it's uh, you know, speaking of the
the coverage there, Um, you're obviously you you said you were jipping some
of the whistleblower hearings. Um, Jamie Raskin is all in right, He's
willing to defend whatever there was. And I only watched probably about thirty minutes
live yesterday. There was there was a vibe among the Democrats on the committee
there, with the exception of the ranking member who wants to make this all
about racism, but there was a vibe among Democrats where they looked beat down,
do you like, to the point where they didn't want to end up
in any news story about this because it's not going well for Biden. And
I understand everyone's like the Kraken's coming all the rest, but ultimately you could
tell the enthusiasm for many of the Democratic members just wasn't there yesterday well or
the day before. So he had yesterday was the sense of the weaponization of
government right the censorship right hearing the day before was the I R S whistleblower,
and it's I agree they are not addressing Democrats on those panels were not
addressing the issue at hand. They talked about everything, but they were talking
about racism. They were talking about you know, censor an RFK getting them
off, talking about anti semitism yesterday, anything except to talk about the actual
material of the hearing. The focus of the hearing was whether or not government
is pressuring or has pressured social media companies to censor views that the government believes
is double plus un good and it has it has done that. This is
the lawsuit what at a Missouri and Arkansas and so they're not They don't address
the core issue at play. They didn't do it two days ago during the
IRS whistleblower There wasn't there wasn't a single counter argument made. And I watched
all of that one, all five and a half. Yeah. Yeah,
they presented no counter narrative except the closest they came to a legitimate, plausible
counter explanation was this was the prosecutor's discretion. But they had no answer for
all of the blocking that the assistant US Attorney did Leslie Wolf up in Delaware
at every stage, and they wanted to interview Hunter Biden, they wanted access
to Pepa. Do you want to hang out for another segment? Yeah,
because otherwise I would feel like I'm being censored. All right, so hang
on, We'll be right back with Pete Calendar America one six one FM Talk
and ninety four five w PTI, two stations driving the best in talk.
This is Casey O Day and Carolina's Morning News. All right, welcome back,
eight thirty six. Good Friday morning to you. Um, you got
Pete Calendars is still hanging out with us. I'm appreciate it, sir.
I know, I'm sure you got better things to do. But ABP,
what's that? ABP? Always be prepping? Really? Is that a Glenn
Arry Glenn Ross been off there, don't I don't know. ABC always been
closing? Yeah. I watched that movie the other day and I have never
seen it, and I've been ridiculed for Nazi having seen it. So it
is one of the movies I have to see. I mean, you should
see it. I'm not going to ridicule you. Um, it's a little
niche, but you know us working around salespeople, so you know there's a
there's a certain element to that. Um I was just reading something during the
bread I was going to go in a different direction, but let me run
this by you because it's amazing. Apparently the studio that produced the Oppenheimer movie,
which opens today, they they're a little surprised. As part of their
worldwide release strategy, apparently they got lukewarm reception from theaters in Japan, so
they've now decided that they're not going to they haven't announced a date to release
it. Did they think that, like that was gonna go well in Japan?
I mean, fran why which why why Japan? Why would they have
a problem with the moving I can't imagine. Ross made the point off the
area. He's like, look, Japan wouldn't be what Japan is if it
literally wasn't for those bombs, which you know, it's a little new once.
But that's that's a fair argument. Yeah, at the risk of at
the risk of going down a path that people can misconstrue and take out of
context. There is right, there is this entire um line of thinking,
like alternative historical fiction, right, where like, what what would have happened
had uh, you know, the Battle of Gettysburg gone differently? Right,
would if they had gotten up on top of a little round top earlier with
the Confederative one would have changed the direction? Right, So all of that
kind of stuff. Um, there's then this part is true, which is
like China, Um, their development was actually stinied by their invention of paper
because used it for everything, which was great for them at the time,
but then they weren't able to advance and discover glassmaking, which held them back
in many other ways. Right. So along those same lines, there is
there's called I think it's called like the leap frog technological leap frog effect where
for example, a lot of countries in Africa they don't have cable TV,
but they are more saturated on a per capita basis with Wi Fi because that
was the technology of the day when they could afford to start putting that stuff
in. And there is an argument about Japan that because it was so devastated
much like Europe after World War Two, that they got to rebuild with new
stuff instead of being locked in like old cities around the world that you like
New York city. That's like a great saturation of satellite dishes and antenna because
running cable into all those old buildings was virtually impossible. You know what that
is A that is a as somebody who is a huge fan of history,
that makes abundance. I remember reading a story about South Korea and they were
talking about, um, how forward they were able to push technology because part
of it was other countries wanting to basically give a big f you to China
and North Korea so that they you know, they essentially we were willing to
make investments within the South Korean community, which allowed obviously that to grow into
what it is. So, yeah, I think you're one hundred percent right
man. Yeah, But of course if you try to have nuanced discussions like
that, people start saying, oh, so, what you know, nuking
Japan and we're dropping an atomic bomb, you know, on two cities and
killing all those people, like that was a good thing. Like, like,
I'm not saying that's a good thing obviously, although it did I think,
uh it did change. It changed the outcome of the war obviously,
and it was really the only way to end it and to protect as many
lives as possible. That would have been lost in uh, you know,
uh street to hand to hand combat fighting for years and years and years.
So I mean war is the breakdown of law. So there there's no there's
no more constraints, right, so people rightfully want to avoid it. And
this actually ties back to sort of that censorship argument, which is that if
we cannot have these political disagreements, even about sensitive, nuanced topics, then
then all you're saying is Okay, I can't comment on this thing, but
you can. And that's just a mite makes right argument. And so the
only thing left, the only recourse left is violence, is revolution, and
that's what is that that's what we want to avoid, even because it's not.
That's what the moral thing to do. If you can, if you
can avoid violence and solve your differences with words, then that's the pre rible
route to take. Yeah, I think there. And they do this every
year on the anniversary of essentially that week when we did drop the two bombs.
So and it's generally some moonbat professor writes this thing where they're like,
we didn't need to do that, and and and they are disingenuous about the
calculations that went into it, like they painted as uh, you know,
a bunch of dudes in uniform wanted to try out their new toy rather than
you know, the evaluation that by doing this and putting to stop, um,
they had what they estimated to be the body count, and it was
far more significant should that war have drug out. So but I want to
real quickly go into different This is why I held you over. Um.
Did you see the op ed piece in the letter from the Harvard law professor
Mark Tushnitt Tushant Tushnit. Yeah, I've seen his name coming across the trensom,
but I have not. I have not explored that topic yet. All
right, real quick, I'll just give you the readers digest because this is
what he's advocating, President Biden. Do Tushnet who is he said some really
in saying crap over the years, But if you want to talk about something
that would literally push us to the brink of us not existing as a country
anymore, here it is. He is urging President Biden to quote disobey gravely
mistaken Supreme Court rulings and instead adopt the official policy position that the White House
will do what they're going to do based on their own interpretation of the Constitution.
Um, he's got like six bullet points or something. I told the
story and I just kind of glanced at it. I did not go in
depth because I think you know, people are yeah, people are pointing out
like what you're doing, I mean, which is kind of like ironic here
with what was Joe Biden positioned as a restore to the norms? Right,
how dare Donald Trump blow up all the norms? And of course this kind
of gets to that iron woke law of projection, which is they are guilty
of that which they accuse you, And this is another example of it.
They were also worried about Donald Trump's mean tweets and look at this, He's
violating all of the norms and this is not how we do things. And
now you've lost control of the Supreme Court and all of a sudden, norms
right out the window. And we're going to not basically just ignore the Supreme
Court. And yeah, sure, what could go wrong? I mean,
you're overturning what one hundred hundred fifty years of norms? Well yes, and
you know it reminds me of the Harry Reid decision right where, but that
thing would pale in comparison to this. But yeah, every president then would
come in and go because that would be the new standard, right, because
Republicans would do it if they got the White House. Let's just be abundantly
honest. If that was the new standard, they go all right, well
we're going to do this thing, and pandemonium ensues. Well yeah, I
mean, and for the people who were such the big defenders of democracy,
and you know, I'm high alert for any kind of sign of um of
fascism. Well you know, and this is what I is what I argued
to my liberal friends back when Trump was in office, when they would start
talking about gun control. So why would you want to give Donald Trump bull
of your guns? If he's a fascist? Why wouldn't you want to have
some weaponry to protect yourself when he takes everything over? And you know,
always be thinking in those terms that there's that there's going to come a day
when someone you don't like is in charge and pulling the levers of government,
and whatever power you give your guy, he's not going to be there forever
and someone else is going to be pulling those levers, and you, you
know, you better make darn sure that that you've not over empowered them to
ruin the country and your lives. And this would be a really good example
of it. What if Trump wins next year, you're going to so he
gets to ignore all Supreme Court rules. Well, they're arguing that he literally
is outlining a plan to seize quote sees control of the government, and basically
everything that he proposed falls under the veil of that branch of government, you
know, the executive branch. They may not like it, where they're essentially
able to change out some bureaucrats, but this is this is essentially deciding that
one of the branches doesn't exist anymore, and well for now, if we
can exist, if they control it, that's the key because and it really
lays bare the lie that they were always like, oh judicial independence. No,
they were fine making those arguments when they had control of the courts and
were able to divine new meanings behind you know, one hundred year old texts.
That was fine. Now that they don't control it anymore, it has
to be undermined. All right, Pete, I appreciate you hanging on.
Got a couple of the gens and there I got a roll man. We'll
talk next week. Okay, have a great weekend, thanks guys. Yeah,
yeah, and let's go ahead and chat weather with racet agent real quick.
What's going on, sir. Now, it's pretty nice out there this
morning, and the changes will be a little drop in humidity and temperatures over
the weekend. Probably he's still going to climb up eighties, low nineties today,
a little cloud at times, otherwise sunshine, more clouds to the west
out into the mountains. I wouldn't be shocked if there's a shower east as
you get out near the outer banks, with the front coming through around early
afternoon through the try in the triangle, then heading east later during peak heating.
Saturday, partial sunshine, there might be a sprinkle of rain, upper
eighties, and then on Sunday it's upper eighties around maybe a shower thuder shower
in the afternoon. Humidity is probably coming down a little bit over the weekend,
with the temperatures coming down just a bit. Next week, they'll look
sunny and hot starting about Tuesday, and that he could last potentially for the
rest of the week. All right, appreciate it. Have a good weekend,
sir. Yeah, and we'll come back and chat with Jeff Bellinger next,
Hang on Your Day, Smarter one oh six one FM Talk and News
Talk nine four five WPTI more with Casey starts now all right, Good morning.
It is eight fifty three and Jeff Bellinger joins us from Bloomberg News.
What's up, Jeff, Well, Good morning, Casey. Happy Friday.
Stock sended mixed yesterday. The Dow extended its winning streak to a ninth session.
About the NASDAC and SNP both finished lower. Futures are higher now this
morning. Right across the board, SNP, NAZDAC and now futures all pointing
up. American workers feeling a little more upbeat about the job market. A
survey by LinkedIn found that members confidence and their ability to find or hold a
job is at its highest level in four months, thanks to a slow down
in the number of layoffs and a lowered risk of recession. AMC Entertainment tested
a policy of charging more for the best seats in its movie theaters. Didn't
go over well with customers, so AMC is abandoning that idea. AMC's next
test will involve a new type of spacious front row seat that reclines, giving
the theater go or a better view of the screen. Two federal agencies racing
concerns over medical tracking software, the Department of Health and Human Services and the
Federal Trade Commission, have sent letters to hospital systems and telehealth providers. The
agencies warned that online tracking programs integrated into medical websites could lead to patients data
being disclosed to third parties. Officials still assessing the extent of damage to the
Fiser plant in Rocky Mount that was hit by a tornado this week. Hospital
drug buyers need to know whether a shortage of medications could become worse. That
Fiser facility produces a large share of the injectable drugs used by hospitals in the
US and overseas. And there's a chance now that Microsoft and Activision blue It
could be able to settle the government's anti trust concerns about their proposed merger.
Casey, The Federal Trade Commission has paused its in house trial against the sixty
nine billion dollar deal, and that opens the door to settlement talks. Casey.
Alrighty, Jeff, have yourself a good weekend, sir, and we'll
talk Monday. Okay, you have a good weekend as well. Take care
of all right there you go, Jeff Flinger from Bloomberg News. Before we
head into the weekend. Unfortunately, we got to do some canceling, and
frankly this is going to impact quite a few of you. It's two taker
bills canceling. According to this piece in The Guardian yesterday, traditional wives.
Yep, traditional wives canceled. So I'm not gonna have enough time to read
all the goodness from this article, but basically the gist is the traditional wife
subculture shares aesthetics and values, including long floral dresses let's see here so long,
basically modest dresses that are problematic. Also, the desire by some women
to stay at home and quote serve their spouse domestically and sexually, all problematic.
So the gist is, according to the feminist author here, any you
know, women who dress modestly, women who choose to stay in the home,
and we're you know, uh caregiving because they get into kids too,
you know, women who feel that they have to have more than one kid
are tru referred to as trad wives and our victims. Basically the aligned with
traditional Christian values of marriage and family that previously shaped our civilization and subjugated women.
So, any of you listening who are going to wear an outfit today,
Any of the ladies listening, you're going to wear an outfit today where
you can't literally see your womb? You are a victim of the patriarchy.
So and God forbid you stay home. But by the way, it's not
just stay at home wives. It's also women who feel that they have an
obligation to either be the primary caregiver or do the majority of chores around the
home. So even if you have a job, you're on the list here.
But yeah, everything just so dumb. And then at the very end,
she also points out that the majority of those who would fall into this
are quote unquote white, and she writes, and of course they're white.
So, um, if I guess if you're a white woman wearing a modest
dress or a long floral dress of any sort today and you enjoy taking care
of your kids and or your spouse, um, you're you're the problem.
So don't do that. Ah, I don't know anything about the author here.
Ross, what do you think the over under is on? This person
is happy in their personal life? Oh dude, they're miserable. She even
looks miserable. In her head shot here, and even their cats are miserable.
How all the cats? That's like fifteen cats. Yeah, you gonna
mentioned cats in here. I didn't see anything about cats, So that's crazy.
Man. All the things you could write about problematic and modern culture,
and your beef is with people who are happy and don't flood it up around
town, God forbid. All right, on that note, little Chap Monday