Cacoday Radio program phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seventy four.
It is Thursday, so you know you're almost there. And since it's
Thursday, we'll get to chat with Steven Kent. We didn't talk to him
last week, did we? Right? Last week? Because last week he
had the conflicts. We haven't talked to him in a couple of weeks.
And if you don't know Steven Kent, he's well, he's our Thursday guy.
He's he's a guy who who spends his has spent his career sitting here
and focusing on the intersection of woke politics, entertainment, nerddom, you know,
all the stuff that tends to permeate this show. So he is.
He was tasked with a big lift this week by both Ross and I cause
we both had the same question. And for those who don't know, I
haven't done the story yet, but I have it. I have it in
my rollover stack of stuff. Let me tease it for you. So in
what how many days? Five left of the month, just under it,
So nine days from now, in nine days, one of the two uber
Nerd holidays is here. There's two of them. I guess you gonna know,
and they're very close to each other. Now, one in March,
one in May, you have March fourteenth, three fourteen, bye day,
get it? Haha, Matt choke. And then you have the fourth of
May or may the fourth get it? It's a Star Wars pun. So
with that in mind, uh of the what is it? Camps one of
the big milk companies, I guess I don't have it yet, but one
of the big milk companies is producing blue milk in honor of Star Wars.
And immediately I saw this and I went, oh, okay, like when
the old man's on the island throwing lightsabers in the ocean. Right. But
what confused me and Ross and I had the same question is they referenced the
blue milk is having emerged from a New Hope, which is one of the
original seventies era Star Wars movies. Right. That was the sticking point.
And I'm like, what the hell is that? And so poor Ross mate
Stephen figure it out so he can explain it to us. Yeah. I
was confused too, very confused, because we are not as into Star Wars
as mister Stephen Kent. Now, it's almost impossible to be so I did.
So we had like a we texted back and forth and we got to
the bottom of it. Okay, all right, because immediately I thought,
old old Luke on the Island, you did too. Yeah, No,
a completely different thing. Yeah, Nope, something else I didn't know they
didn't go. So uh that I I feel like that's gonna well that we
got to talk about the TikTok stuff. So Biden signed this thing. If
you don't know that the whole TikTok divestment or basically sell TikTok to an American
company or you're you're gone, was part of the Foreign aid I e uh,
you know, Ukraine, Israel. I think there's some Taiwan stuff and
those a few other things. But yeah, so in that tucked in there
was the this thing they've been threatening to do with TikTok, and so and
what's here's what's here's what's wild about this. It's but you've already had people
in the you know, in the the upper echelons of Byte Dance, which
is the Chinese pair and company of TikTok, who when when they initially said
hey, this is a thing we think they'll do, have made comments along
the lines of, well, then perhaps we won't sell, which that's a
huge red flag for me. Right, if you have this company, it's
worth I don't know. I don't know what TikTok's worth. Let's say it's
worth five billion, five billion dollars. It's probably worth a lot more,
but let's just say five billion. And it is a company, an entity
that was formulated for a specific market, meaning it's not TikTok in China.
In China, it is something else, although they interface, but that's not
what it is. It's a separate entity. So when I hear allegations from
lawmakers that they feel that TikTok is a Chinese spy tool for gathering information in
all of this, and then your rebuttal to that is that we might even
take this thing that holds all of this value and potentially just flush it away,
because that's what you'd be doing rather than reaping the the purchase price.
That's weird to me. It's already a significant transfer of wealth, likely from
a US entity to to a Chinese entity. Right, that's just that's just
here's your money. Would lead one to the conclusion that maybe they just don't
want they don't want a US entity or perhaps even the US government to be
able to poke around into the inner workings of TikTok like it it it it
on one on one hand, sounds like a bit of an admission, you
know what I'm saying. So that's we'll talk with Stephen about that, because
that's crazy. And let me just point this out because I saw people freak
it out. They're like, duh, you know it's I saw, well,
one, there's racism because it's a Chinese zoned app. I saw those
allegations, which, sure, whatever you want to put out there, I
guess because obviously that is what's driving most of the folks, but also about
the inherent value of it. And let me say this, I am an
honest, arbiter when it comes to social media platforms. I would remind you
that on this show, long before Elon Musk ever thought about buying Twitter,
when we were in the doldrums of shadow banning, voter manipulation, with the
Hunter Biden thing and everything else under the sun, I have always held the
same slice of positive about Twitter, even under the old regime. I said,
for all of its faults, what Twitter does do well if you know
how to drink from the fire hose is as somebody in the business of breaking
news occasionally, much more so when I wasn't doing mornings, because most of
you know, breaks later. But Twitter is incredibly valuable at getting you video
audio insight immediately on what's going on. You have to understand it may not
all be accurate, and even today now it may not even be a real
video, but there's inherent value there because of the way that the platform works.
So even now we're even though we're in the Twitter's farming phase, I
saw somebody refer to it as engagement farming phase, and people tell me where
to look on my keyboard, which is so annoying that I almost can uh
that inherent value still exists. I don't understand tiktoks okay, and I haven't
now maybe that's not fair. Maybe I'm not understanding the inherent value of TikTok
from a breaking news perspective. But I've dug around on there and people send,
you know, links to it, and then I'll dip into some other
stuff curious, you know, curious what's going on. That's why you have
a VPN, by the way, And yeah, I like where I guess
if I had to look at the inherent value of TikTok societally, it's confessions.
Do you know what I mean by that? Like TikTok has proven invaluable
in getting people that you may not have realized were in any way, shape
or form involved in the rearing of your child to tell on themselves. Right,
we wouldn't have libs of TikTok? Right, yes, yeah, so,
I like I wanted to. I'm trying to find an inherent value.
You would agree that that is, I guess if you had to be yeah,
right. Overall, I think if you were to eliminate TikTok, right,
mm hmm, I think the the intelligence and our political discourse would skyrocket
a bit. He would go up. I think it's not beneficial to the
discourse at all. No, that's a theory. This is ros. I
just got feeling from there. You know what, let me do. I
think it is dumbed down America. I think it's been a net positive,
a net negative. Let's the best way I think to vue. Let's go
see what's popular on TikTok right now, shall we. I don't know if
it's eating cinnamon or milk, in fact, you know TikTok. I have
heard the TikTok is the incubator what do they call it? Rolling stone?
The incubator for new undiscovered music, which arguably, you know, the YouTube
kind of did their thing and that's still a thing and there there there's others
out there, and that's fine. Let's uh, let's see what's trending on
over at the TikTok. Shall we don't want a bunch of society bug bull,
I don't mustle you one day. You can't have here. How is
it going to work? No? How was he going to worst? I'm
pretty dirt. I said that you consume me. I don't want to.
Okay, Okay, So strong messaging there now? Is is it ironic?
Non ironic in the way people? I don't know. But he's damn popular.
This is like one issue. This is like one issue that you know.
I mean, my buddy Michael, I'm going to bulldoze his house to
win the power ball. You'll be talking all the time. He's like a
big lib. He said, like if this happened, if if TikTok is
actually a band, he's gonna vote Maga because he's so against TikTok, it's
just brain rot. It is. It's just brain rot. Uh you say
I could see the benefits from Twitter and exit even Facebook, or I'm not
gonna lie. I've never been on Instagram. I have no idea. But
when it comes to TikTok, like I said, it's a net negative.
I think some people are sitting there forever just scrolling looking at these dumb videos
over there's no benefit to it. It makes you stupid. I think Instagram
into the quality of some of the video and photos I think people like,
and that's fine, But it comes down to Instagram is not It's Mark Zuckerberg.
And by the way, they just lost like four billion dollars in the
last quarter on all sorts of stuff, so we'll see how long that's around
for. But but like people taking pictures of everything they've ordered in a restaurant
ever and making us all way to eat is annoying, right, But it's
not China gathering information. Right. I feel like the same way I did
about with Instagram that I do are about Pinterest, where I feel like,
what do you or like the switch the Nintendo, so I feel like it's
for women and children. I feel like it's a women and children app that's
you know what, that is fair? And I've said that forever about the
Switch. I feel like the Switch is marketed towards women and children. Well
you I'm not gonna get into the details of it, but like we you
know, we just had a meeting where we're talking about all the social media's
and that's kind of what I was trying to say. Yeah, and once
again go back to my buddy Michael, the only person, the only dude
I know, the only guy in my wheelhouse here. Yeah, that I
know that ever sends me links to Instagram is my but my lib, my
super lib buddy Michael, and he's he's will send me links to Instagram and
I will immediately write him back. I go, I don't click on these
links because that is a website for women. I said, I'm too busy
lifting and eating twenty eggs. I cannot click the link of Sorry, but
why are you doing that? Ross? Why are you putting in the effort.
Why do you come to work, why do you get up early?
Why do you go out to it? I've been here now, I've been
here today since three thirty. I'm already tired. Can I can I share
some philosophy with you on your dead h Yeah, sure, sure, go
ahead. Wow, that's here the beat, Yeah, it's good beat.
No, how was he going to what I said that you consume me?
I don't want to. Yeah, see a lot of good points he's bringing
up right right, dude, so bad? Oh man, And before you
know it, you spend too much time on TikTok or something called crackhead Barney.
Who will I'm sure you guys know who that is. What a video
crackhead Barney's the performance artist. So is she like Andy Kaufman type? That's
where dude, it's why it's so dangerous. This is why you and I
don't I've never worked on radio with somebody where we didn't have a sit down
meeting in the minds to make sure kind of feel where we're at. We
don't have to. We don't have to, because that is straight where I
was going. Because if it's like an Andy Kaufman type thing, I respect
it. Right, Oh my gosh, yeah, so good, it's so
good. But but but but if it isn't like Anydy Kaufman thing, then
that Alic bald would shot the wrong person. Yeah, it's not that.
Unfortunately she has a history and I realized we talked about her on the show
before. She's a fixture. Then uh yeah we have yeah, yeah,
yeah, I'll uh I can't wait to learn. Yeah, we're gonna all
learn together. So that's a that's a person who's been around doing all sorts
of stuff. Uh. Let's see here. So we got that, Uh,
we got USC University of Texas insanity. Uh, the protester. We
got a lot of audio today. So uh yeah, all sorts of good
stuff. Oh, and we will address the absolutely insane annual ranking of the
best beaches in America by Travel and Leisure. Can I let me ask you,
let me ask you a quick question. North Carolina got so disrespected.
When you're doing a listing of the best beaches in America? Should the majority
of those beaches not be on an ocean? Does a beach on a lake
count the same as a beach on the ocean? Now, look, if
you're doing the best beaches in Wyoming, I think we have a beach.
I guess there's what they call a beach at a couple of the big reservoirs.
But but like, that's not a beach, it's not a I know
it's a beach in that it's not why it's not a beach. I saw
this list and I lost my damn mind. So all that and uh,
you know, whatever else happens coming to owe it another incentive to be homeless.
I'm telling you wait for it. It's on the way. Hang on
phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. I don't
know. Let's tell you what. Let's go ahead and start the show like
kind of like we did yesterday the President on the road yesterday. In fact,
let's just listen and see how the speech was going yesterday. Shall we
imagine what we can do next four more years? More years? I'm sorry,
did he just say pause? You know the irony is he paused and
then said pause. And I think people are missing this that he didn't read
it four more years pause, he paused, imagine what we can do next
four more years? Oh right, that's wilder than him just reading it verbatim
and saying four more years pause. His brain registered. And a reminder,
if you've never read a telepropter, commands that are nonverbal are in ellipses parentheses.
You know they're and they're and they're separate, so it would say four
more years space, line space, parentheses, pause, space, and then
whatever other garbage he was gonna spew after that. So his brain paused out
of just doing this for so damn long, And then he still couldn't stop
himself from reading it. And then everyone starts chanting, and I an awkward
room, man, see what we can do next four more years? And
in that inch interesting too, as somebody starts saying to is that person saying
four more years? Before the president says it, is that a staffer who's
meant to get the room chanting? Is it kind of sounds like that?
Imagine what we can do next four more years? That's a staffer, right,
I'm not wrong on this ross. Is that what it sounds like to
you? I'm dude, completely okay. It sounds like a staffer who knows
his job. One the pause hits is to begin the chant realizes the President's
he doesn't. He realizes look on Biden's face as he isn't gonna stop talking,
right, he realizes that Biden is bron Burgundy from Anchorman. Yes,
yes, just reading whatever's on the prompter. Does he have any thoughts on
Sandy? He sure does Are they positive? Is what he is? He
encouraging them to get out and vote or get out and do stuff, and
perhaps other stuff they should go do. I don't know. Yeah, what
a it's? Is it? Jeb Bush? Please clap awkward? I'll let
you be the judge of that. The ever energetic Jeb Right, the guy
who was so charismatic they had to put an exclama exclamation point after his name
on his official campaign signage. I felt like when Jeb Bush did that the
police clap, I felt it was more like despondent, like it was desperation
and sad. With this, it's just confused and lost. Yeah that's fair.
Yeah, Jeb obviously thought that someone was going to land and it didn't.
But still it's like, you know, the guy was governor of Florida
since what I was in high school? When did he come in? When
did he come in? We had the one governor die who was governor forever
down there, Lowton whatever, and then the lieutenant governor was governor for a
month and then it was Jeb so that would have been late nineties. Yeah,
so it's not like and the grand grand scheme of things. Dude,
it spent a lot of stage time, and so to not have something he
thought was clearly going to be a clapline not work. Yeah, de spawn
is probably the right word there. But this man every day. Can you
imagine every day waking up and having to be like his handler on the road,
right, because you got all this this stuff is so coordinated, and
even when things are going great, whoever, who are the whoever the person
on the ground is who ultimately is in charge of this for a campaign,
that person looks like they haven't slept in five days. It's just the nature
of politics, especially during campaign season. It's crazy. So you are you
couple that stress already knowing that also if you put a pause indicator in there,
a directive into the scripting in the way that it's always been done,
that there's only a fifty to fifty shot, he'll honor it. I can't
even imagine, dude. But yeah, so you know, things going well,
but that's not the It's not the only thing, not the only thing.
He was up to behind the scenes. He's got some big plans.
And then yesterday we found out that the Biden administration, who I don't know
if you saw him at one of the events he was with AOC and they
were kind of like holding hands walking down there, and you know, they've
had some differences. But I think it was correctly surmised by some analysts that
AOC's happy because there are elements of that absurd Green New Deal, which I
had so much fun mocking that insanity, all right, like nothing betrays and
then people are like Hawaii and like no more cows. And then remember that
video that weird like video about how all of people are going to transition the
world's work's going to transition into planting swamp plants or something. Right, it
was just crazy, like cartoon sizzle reel on all that insanity, and we
all, we all looked at it for the absurdity that it was. And
yet behind the scenes, here is what the Biden administration is now working towards,
the White House telling Fox Business it's now considering declaring a national climate emergency.
Okay, here we go. Are you sick of this yet? It's
an emergency? I told you we predicted it. That's how we roll down
here. Always right by the way, we nailed the story of the what
looks to be the actual motivation for this seventy four year old to open fire
on that white dude just walking his dog down by Shaw. There's a lunatic,
is self deputized lunatic who thinks he's protecting a prayer room. And this
guy's literally on he's on the sidewalk. But that doesn't matter. And I
don't know that sounds a little a little problematic there and some details that we
readily shared here on the show, and now only now the folks are catching
up in the rest of the media. So anyway back to this, So
this climate thing, we've been warning you about this, going back to COVID.
If all you have to do is go, oh and it's an emergency,
as our governor did, as other governors did, is local elected officials
did, President of the United States, and then you could just go and
basically violate the Constitution. And now all these rulings are coming back going,
no, you can't do this, you can't do this. When these judges
were too cowardly at the time to actually hold accountable these violations, you would
think you can do it. Remember our own governor, what three weeks ago
on the official website for the Governor of North Carolina, not Roy Cooper's campaign
website or any of the rest, but the official thing created at the top
of it, and I shared, I tweeted out a screenshot of this,
tweeted out that we are now in a education emergency, right, so they're
testing this stuff out. And when there's an emergency, then I then you
can do stuff you normally can't do because it's an emergency, and you run
the risk, obviously of just deciding everything's a damn emergency and using it to
justify your own arguably criminal behavior at the very least well outside the bounds of
what you swore an oath to and what is expected under our laws. And
so this stuff needs to be This stuff needs to be kai bosh immediately.
There needs to be zero appetite for this. Unfortunately, very hyper political people
won't care. They will go ahead and do it, and there needs to
be repercussions. You need to have people that literally, when the voters go
to the polls go that's a totalitarian in the making. I don't care that
they agree with me on other stuff. Can we get somebody better on this?
Anyway? Back to this, but that's a climate crisis to you mark
the ap which sets the standards for newsrooms across the country. They're urgent Americans
to use the term climate crisis to address the current situation. This is all
troubling. But if the president declares a climate emergency, what impact does that
have? Well, I mean, this is this is this is the serious
story of the today. NBC News has reported that if Joe Biden declares a
national climate emergency, he would have COVID like powers under that emergency, and
they also compared the emergency powers to the nine to eleven emergency powers. All
right, so did you hear how wild that was that you just heard?
Did you hear what you do? Okay? Sorry, that wasn't worded as
well as it could, like Biden's teleprompter. Did you take in what they
just said? So? The Associated Press is talking about Biden's declaration of a
climate emergency as potentially providing him the same flexibility to do things the same powers
that existed under COVID post nine to eleven. That is chilling, man,
absolutely chilling. The Center for Biological Diversity has estimated Joe Biden would get about
one hundred and thirty wartime like powers by which to bypass democracy and impose the
green new deal on the America without a single vote of Congress. How and
before you say that, And I understand that we have different you know,
different constitutions, different governments, But it was in talking to some Canadians that
I know, some friends I've made over the years from living in Minnesota and
whatnot and going up there and fishing and hanging out the declar where when Trudeau
came out and was just like, I'm here's all of our new gun laws
for the entire country. It happened, and I think here in the US
a lot of people went, well, that's you know, they don't have
the same as US. They don't, but they kind of do. And
that was staggering. To Canadians. That was like how and I don't know
that they've received an adequate explanation other than Trudeau said it's an emergency. And
I think if you're all the rest of these cats who run around and want
nothing more than you know, unfettered power, you got the h the Australia.
Did you see the Australian PM. I didn't put it in the prep
pross. Did you see him yesterday holding a press conference? He's not just
mad about uh, you know, different, you know, a few different,
very specific pieces of disinformation he feels may may have been intentional or part
of another country. He cracked down and demanded the crackdown of websites and then
bragged about it that depicted his head placed on other bodies or yeah, he's
like doing like the president eleven Z whatever his name is in China, Winnie
the Pooh thing like yes, yeah, he went on winning the Pooh.
He's the lock up elon Musk. He was mad. He said that nobody
should be able to and by the way, never tell the Internet this cause
it's if you look at any threads under this, it's crazy. He said
that nobody on the Internet should be able to to photoshop his head on the
what was the one the why is my brain failing me? What? What's
the monster's name that lives in the upside down? The Demi Gorgan? The
demog So he put his head on a Demi Gorgan And it was one of
the it was what that was one of the exams. That was one of
the things he was talking. No, it was the it was the for
Yeah, it was the Demi Gorgan. So yes, because I guess maybe
he thought someone go on Twitter and think that under that suit, he was,
Oh I can't vote for that, yeah right lord, Oh my gosh,
she's a demic gorgan, when in reality he's just I don't know,
man, you know what's crazy toos? I was listening listening to him that
Why does the Australian PM sound like that time Michael blue Blaze tried to pretend
he was South Africa? You ever see that skit he did. There's a
video that Michael blue Blay did, who like he tended just to be a
regular dude from South Africa and then he would go and like work job.
You know, it's one of these weird undercover celebrity undercover things whatever. And
I just I remember happening to watch that because it was pretty amusing. But
he was so bad at doing this weird South African accent. And just to
be clear, Boublet is not Australian, so it's not like he was going
back to a native thing. It was. It was just as weird as
and I don't know why that accent is stuck of my brain and like that's
exactly how the Australian PM sounds. So I'm convinced he might be a Demi
Gorgan doing some sort of impression that he thinks is correct. But never tell
the Internet you can't photoshop your head on as an elected official onto a Demi
Gorgan, because you know what the Internet's going to spend the rest of the
day doing creating AI generated Demi Gorgon porn with your face on it. Broz,
do you want to link to the Demi Gorgan porn with the austrolier?
I have already got tons of it. I'm good, good, you got
a whole collection. Huh what's your favorite? You know it's my way of
fighting the man? Yeah, what's your favorite? I can't get into it
on the radio. I want to make sure you have this one. Is
it? Demi Horgan? Okay? All right? Because that's I think this
shows how popular it is. So apparently him saying don't do that has worked.
It's it's the streisand effect, that term and the Debbie. The thing
in the thing is the other thing is streisand did you not see this?
I'm dead. I'm not gonna send I'm not gonna send it to you.
I just thought we were making stuff up. What's the thing? Somebody created
a Debbie Gorgan porn, where one is the Australian PM and the other one
is streisand brilliant. Absolutely. I mean, I'm sure that Demi Gorgan's had
worse. Eh, I don't know. The chick in the pool was a
lot hotter, right the first season March or something? Every day? Yeah,
like do I want Demi Gorgan? I want Martin bar bar Bar Yeah,
yeah, I go with Barb. That's right, that's right. You
arise this morning, on this twenty fifth day of April. You're of our
Lord twenty twenty four, on a in a world where Demi Gorgan porn exists.
You're welcome. We'll be back Casey O Day Radio program. Thanks for
hanging out with us one hour from now. We'll get into the conversation with
Stephen Kent. We've got blue Milk TikTok. Is there something else I was
gonna talk? Well, anyway, we'll we'll get into that as well.
We'll make fun of the Australian PM as well. Oh and by the way,
I'm sorry a little bit of housekeeping here. People. I need you
to stop, okay, and need you to stop photoshopping my head onto Rambo's
body. Okay, Ross Ross the here, look at this, somebody photoshopped
your hate that's that's mister T in his prime. That might be a hate
crime. I don't even know what's going on there. People, stop it.
It's not okay, not acceptable. I demand that you not photoshop Ross
and I his heads onto peak physical condition Jean Claude Van dam and stallone.
What I'm getting tired? Yes, is the my my head photoshopped on thunderlips
from Rocky Yeah, from Rocky three. I mean, I will stop stop
monster what monsters? Okay? Are we done? Thank you? I would
not I would hate to have to have you arrested or execute it or whatever
the Australian PM wants. Put it, put it, do it, dud,
don't tell the internet. No, that's how you end up in a
Demi Gorgon adult video. You absolute lunatics. Oh man, all right,
let's go ahead and get into this. I have no idea. I have
no idea. If it's a competition in California to see who can outstoop at
each other with people's money and their ideas to sell quote solve homelessness. But
we may have a new leader. If you remember, do you remember the
story we did where they had come up with like a hobo tent city,
and then they found out what was the operating cost for the tents, like
five thousand dollars a month or something pertent pertent which slept I think two people.
So they put two hobos in a tent and and then they would provide
you know, food and some job services I suppose probably some clothes things like
that, and somehow they were able to figure that. Somehow they were able
to make it cost like five grand per tent. Actually, let me check
it for whatever. I think it might have been five grand per persons.
That would have been ten grand per tent. And you're like everyone has ever
been camping ever, even if you have really nice stuff and you're one of
those weird glampers that I see up on the Blue Rich Parkway from time to
time. Yeah, you know, you know, you know who you are.
Where you got like the multi room tent with the giant air mattress,
a blender somehow in the middle of the campground. That's fine, you do
what you want to do, But like, I don't they weren't even talking
about those kinds of tents. Well, now, the city of Santa Monica.
They decided they're going to go big. That's right. Santa Monica has
approved a new plan to create a one hundred and twenty two unit apartment building
for the homeless. The facility will include a mix of student, D one,
two and three bedroom apartments. Right, because you have families that are
experiencing homelessness as they as that's the terminology that the City of California uses.
You're experiencing homelessness. Okay, And here, by the way, and I'm
not necessarily opposed to efforts to aid homeless. You know, we can debate
public private how it should be done with recognizing because I think often when you
say somebody's homeless, you think about the singular individual. But in reality,
there's whole families that are homeless. It's very sad. Especially you ever see
the video of like the Disney workers down in Los Angeles where they're all like
they're living like ten to a room these cheap motels or in their cars,
or you know where it's whole families in there. So it exists, and
I understand it. Here's where this gets interesting though, the cost. So
arguably, if you're building a facility for people who are homeless. You don't
need any of the luxury items. You need to be spartan in this effort.
Okay, it needs to be functional. You're going to build this obviously,
you know, you want to make sure that you're spending. You want
to make sure that as it's built, the build is good. And you
know, the really expensive fixture kind of you know, the water and the
sewage systems and the bathrooms and all of that. Right, you can't straight
bottom barrel, but you can reasonably go in there and try to get the
most bang for their But so anyway, each apartment's a million dollars. I
repeat that again. The one hundred and twenty two unit building is expected to
cost one hundred and twenty three million in one million dollars per apartment, and
I guess maybe another million for the lobby whatever. A million dollars. It's
a million dollars in apartment for a studio, hope, a place where you're
going to put a homeless person. They can't help themselves. And I understand
it's Santa Monica, and you know things are expensive, But the government's there,
so the government doesn't have tax liability. They're not going to be running
into the permitting. Insanity may get some lawsuits, but right this should be
a no. And you're spending a million dollars per apartment. Can you imagine
I lived in southern California and I didn't live in a million dollar unit.
I didn't live in a three hundred thousand dollars unit. Costs her up but
not that much since late nineties, early two thousand and you spend a million
dollars per unit, which, by the way, if that's the standard ross,
how much of those units that blought out your son not even close to
that? What if is that filled with hobos? Did you even check?
Maybe this is a new trend looking down on your hinge. The California Interagency
Council on Homelessness, listen, this thing is such a grift too. By
the way, if you're not familiar with this organization, this is a whole
agency whose job, as best I understand it, is to take giant piles
of money and then remember what you remember what the Joker did in the Nolan
series with the bank robbery, what he actually did with the money that that's
basically the California Interagency Council on Homelessness just light it on fire. These folks
have how much did they burned through last year? Twenty four billion? They
had twenty four billion dollars ross. I want to do some quick math.
Would you look, would you quickly wait on on? Yeah? Would you
look and see what the estimated number of homeless in California is. Just give
me a ballpark to work with. And I want to remind people the last
year that spent twenty four billion dollars to eradicate deal with homelessness. Twenty four
billion dollars California. What is the estimated homeless population of California. I just
want to highlight the absurdity of about what I'm about to show you more than
one hundred eighty one thousand, one hundred and eighty one thousand. All right,
hold on, I'm gonna try to I'm not gonna try to trigger your
phones. One hundred and thirty three thousand dollars was spent last year per homeless
person in the state of California to fix homelessness. One hundred and thirty three
thousand dollars average salary California. Do you do the average salary in the state
of California. Well, it's not the media, I guess the media and
be more accurate, but the average is one hundred and eleven thousand, So
literally more money was expended per homeless person in the state of California than what
the average California worker makes, and the number has not gone gone down.
It's almost as if simply being homeless and then being provided a place to live
does not cure everything that goes along with being homeless, whether it's lifestyle choices,
addictions, mental health issues. You have people who have suffered injuries in
service of this country, I might add that limits their ability to work.
And then you throw in the PTSD angle, the addiction angle, the mental
health angle, not just on homeless veterans, but you know people in general.
And understandably there's there's gonna be some folks where non traditional processes are needed.
But you guys have tried everything except just going, hey, your new
job is being homeless but with a house. Here's a salary, Just to
show you how incredibly credibly never no incentive to fix a problem, how incredibly
corrupt this whole thing is. Because if you're one of these folks, who's
you know, suckling at the public keet in the Interagency Homeless Coalition. And
you can't simply one of you can't just do a simple division and go,
hey, you know what we're spending. We're spending way more than what even
the average salary is it. We could save we could literally save twenty percent
if we just gave them the money. And now they're building one million dollars
studio apartments for hoboes. I just how do you sit in California and put
up with this? How is everyone not fled? Mind boggling to me,
but not as mind boggling as what we're gonna we're gonna talk about next.
If you didn't see what happened on Piers Morgan, well, one, you
probably don't have bleach in your eyes, because that might be the necessary remedy.
But it was crazy and it involved crackhead Barney, the individual who got
up in Alec Baldwin's face. The audio just wait for it coming your way
here on the CaCO Day radio program. The deputy Defense Minister of Russia was
taken into custody yesterday. Why is this? Why is this important? Well,
for a couple of reasons. One, do you know do you know
how people on the outside looking in so people who likely are more honest arbiters
than you know, Pravda. You know how much money Putin has. I
mean, nobody really knows, but they have some estimates. And if you
ever see even a sab like Google Earth of that house he built down down
south by Ukraine, it's bonkers. Forever they had the Winter Olympics where they
built the fake hospital with secret secret tunnels. Sochi, He's got a mansion
down there that might well be the most expensive mansion in the world. And
that's just the tippitty Iceberg. The way in which they feel many many feel
that the money funnels through is basically through the various branches of government. The
people in charge know to take the money and then get a percentage of it
goes back to Putin, and then there's some laundering concerns as well. And
this guy was like notorious him and his boss for doing that because there's so
much money that goes through the you know, the military side, and so
some are seeing this as arresting. The deputy minister was about sending a message
to the minister Minister, who I don't know, maybe told Putin. They're
like, hey, we got a lot of military costs. Maybe you should
stop stealing all of it. But we don't know. But I will say
this ross. Uh, you know, next month when this guy testifies,
I mean, who knows, who knows what we'll learn? Right, I
can't wait next month when he testifies. I heard his initial consultation with his
legal staff. It's right next to that window over there. Well that's nice
to calm me down. Yeah. Yeah, And it's a nice legal firm
because they're at the top floor. That's skyscraper. So you know that's how
you know they're the best, right, they're the top yep, the penthouse.
If you don't want to, you don' want a lawyer in a basement.
Yeah, well I would hire to. Would you trust that, because
you'd be like, now that guy's I'm gonna go to jail for that guy.
So all right, we'll uh, we'll see how that all pans out.
Meanwhile, we got this in D. C. Andrews Air Force Base
Vice President Harris's detail a wild scene as one of the agents. According to
reports, they'd be came aggressive with other agents when the special agent in charge
and the detail shift supervisor attempted to calm the agent. So these are his
two direct superiors. He's like, now I'm gonna fight you both. Now,
that's the report. A physical altercation ensued. The agent was handcuffed before
being withdrawn from service for medical assessment. It happened at like nine in the
morning. And when I say they had a scrum, what he did is
there was some disagreement with this agent and another agent. The two bosses went
over andlay, hey, what the hell is going on? What do we
do? Were the detail for the Vice president? Could you not be screaming
at each other? And according to the report, the agent at that point
tackled the chief agent and began pummeling him on the ground like it was an
MMA fight. What obviously drew a lot of concern for the other agents around
there is dudes armed. So he's beaten on this dude and he has a
firearm, at which point the other agents intervening, They secure him, secure
the firearm. That's the story you probably heard already. But Real Clear Politics
they have a little bit of a follow up. They got a little bit
of a follow up here that I think is kind of interesting this morning.
This is from reporter Susan Crabtree. Sources tell Real Clear Politics that the agent
within the secret service community that the agent assigned to Harris was armed. During
the fight, the gun secured in the agent's holster, other agents had to
physically restrain him. And are you ready for this? That there are dei
concerns among the secret service community as it pertains this particular agent. Why because
the vetting and hiring process for this agent was not how they'd do it,
is what the report is, right, there's a pretty on all the detailed
I never ever did watch a documentary on that. You know, how you
get to be a Secret Service agent, and you know that's the part that
they'll show you. But that was non existent here, according to the sources
for Real Clear Politics, basically that there were elements of the agent's background that
were ignored, as well as mental health concerns that were widespread concerns that nobody
followed up on, and that he did not go through the traditional hiring process
and vetting process that all other agents do and instead was fast tracked. And
by the way, here's the other thing. The secrets. When you think
of secret service, what do you think of You think of agents sitting there
and you know, jumping in front of a bullet for the president and vice
president whatever. But in reality, those are the those are the the really
really high quality, top you know, top tier agents. That's a that's
an assignment. That's a prestigious assignment to be on detail for the president,
even the vice president, and heck yes, even the families to some extent,
though there's a pecking order within that. The vast majority of Secret Service
folks do not provide presidential or vice presidential protection detail, right because remember this
is a Treasury department thing. Secret Service does a is is involved in so
much on the financial side and non presidential protective detail side. So to get
one of those positions is that's a that's a big deal to get one of
those positions. And everyone around you recognizes that none of the norms we were
here, and even when concerns were expressed, nobody would do anything that's going
to raise eyebrows and for everyone going wow, you know, it's just that's
how racism works. Uh. I don't know if you know this. They
have black Secret Service agents, they have female agents, they have Asian Secret
Services, they have folks from all over. But it's not your normal job
because you have what I would consider military style or police style concerns. So
if I, you know, if Ross doesn't record a promo that he's supposed
to, or I don't one of us the other one likely that will not
bear potential unreversible consequences for those around us. If you have a secret service
agent that can't operate in a particular fashion, and God forbid, there is
something that happens and they're just not able to deal with it because they never,
you know, never bother to properly learn how to do things or had
the skill set necessary that could render either the protect e dead or other agents
around there. So that's a remarkably higher level of concern that those individuals are
going to have. Other details. Crabtrees went on to report this again Real
Clear Politics sources say the agent in question it was acting erradically upon showing up
for a travel shift. The agent, following the warning by the senior agent
in charge to calm down, reportedly took a run and tackled the senior agent,
got on top of him and started punching him in the face, at
which point, you know, others jumped in there, and now they're they're
going through and figuring out what's up. So so that's just awful, one
hundred percent awful. So there you go, all right, seven forty four.
Let's get mister Ray stage. I can hear you excited the big draft
tonight. Yeah I am. I am curious to see. Guess which quarterback
goes second. You think it'll be May, You think it'll be mayor you
know what? Oh boy, better not say this. I was never impressed
by Drake. I just I don't know. You look, you can say
it. There's been no no, no, here's here's what. This is
not a judgment on Drake May, U n C U n C does very
well in getting their quarterbacks to the NFL, right, you know that's for
for the for the level of you know, for the number of championships the
schools had here as of late. They still churn a lot of folks in
there, but the last two preceding May really feels all out man. So
and yeah, you know, there's something to be said for the style of
school, the style of offense at the school runs, and how that translates.
So that's a fair I think it's fair for people to wonder. I
think Drake May is a good quarterback watching them, but it's you know,
how does it translate and people, But you guys still haven't even got your
your your dack thing figured out, So I don't know know, well,
you know, now we approach the draft and you know, you're starting to
hear little bits and pieces that between him and Ceedee Lamb, they're going to
get them both signed and so you know, it's just yeah, we'll see
and I'll probably miss most of the first part of it. I'll be watching
my daughter's performance up at the university at the Clemson and so I'll probably catch
it somehow. Try not to be cheating on my phone while we're trying to
be quiet, not using our phone phone. Yeah, I mean this is
not hard I do it is it is. But anyway, typically this time
of year, weatherwise, we should be load of mid seventies, and we're
going there, finally starting to come back now after a couple of cool days
yesterday most of us into the upper sixties, had some low sixties earlier in
the week. Either way, low mid seventies, a little cloud of the
white sunshine dead tim earlier fog still may be some areas of that. Other
than that in good shape. A little about cloud tomorrow, but no rain.
There could be a sprinkle try at western in the mountains, but I
think that's it. Near seventy degrees. The weekend is going to be great,
more clouds Saturday and then mostly sunny Sunday and will warm up a little
mid seventies Saturday, near eighty on Sunday, and even warmer as we get
into next week, middle and maybe upper eighties. Going to see a big
ridge park off the coast in the western Atlantic, and that looks more typical
late spring and summertime when that ridge park there. So the temperatures are going
to warm up and going on an extended period of dry weather here case,
probably the next seven days dry and starting Sunday is the next six to ten
day outlook is going to be for a normal or even above normal temperature,
So dry and getting warmer to even hot for this time of the year as
we go through next week. I like the first word you use there,
though, dry dry Yeah, dry dry hot good human hot, not good?
Yeah? Exactly? All right, man, we'll talk in an hour.
I appreciate it. Okay, there you go, raced Agic from the
Weather Channel. All right, coming up on the show, how many of
you how many of you have taken your kids or how many of you regularly
take your kids to Drag Queen Story Hour? Is that ross you got?
You guys go to Drag Queen Story Hour? Is that a big big thing
there? You know? I can't say we have Oh wow? Do I
think you just haven't found the right Drag Queen Story Hours? So for those
of you who yet to make the track, I there's a twist. We'll
have that for you. Plus Stephen kenill join us at eight oh five.
So hang on. Maybe you're busy, right, got a lot of family
commitments. Uh so, haven't had a chance to take the kids down to
Drag Queen's Story Hour. But if you if you've been waiting for an opportunity,
and you've always thought to yourself, you know what they didn't have enough
of? And Drag Queen Story Hour? Divisive Middle East politics? How many
times have you said that to yourself? Right? Well, uh, fear
not because it exists. Now absolutely hear that and you know itself. If
you're a drag, you know it and you really want to show it and
you know it. So that what is going on? Your kids? So
the kids are chanting? If you're a drag queen and you know it,
say free Palestine just chanting away? How is up? Even if you think
that, right, even what business does your does your three year old have
with Middle East politics? This is the thing that kills me. Right,
you got, you got, three, four, whatever your kid is.
They're in there, they'll by the way, they'll they're like a they're like
a parrot. Well yeah, that's what makes it so scary though, right,
because kids are like, they're like clay, right, They're very impressionable.
So what's crazy about this is to me, the free Palestine part having
the kids chant it is more cringe than them actually being there, which is
already cringe. I know, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh,
it's just like if you if because if I if you were there and
you said you could literally kids will chant anything. My question then, because
I agree with you on the clay, how much does that stick? And
the answer is kind of a lot, right, because kids are at the
end of the day, they're also people pleasers. I mean most of them.
Some of them are just hurts, but there are people. So for
the adult they're they're they're looking a function, right, They're there with their
parents and adults and they're there with the other kids, and the other kids
are saying it, so then you're gonna say it, so you think it's
okay, and the person that you're being presented as saying it, No,
it goes a long way. It's it's it was. It might be one
of the cringier ones that I've seen. And I watched a video yesterday of
drag queen prom themed prom themes. Did you know that this is the things
you have said? There's the Albuquerque School District I think was the video.
As part of prom they're having drag queen performances. Letich I you know,
I guess, at least in that instance, you're dealing with kids on the
cusp of adulthood and into I guess technically into adulthood, but good lord man,
and then inevitably, as they get older, they become useful idiots.
Case in point, there was an interview with some protesters who had were and
they went to NYU or they don't go to YU, that they came down
to n YU from Columbia Bernard College because they were having protests down there,
and they stick a microphone in front of these two girls's face and I you're
you will weep for our future, but here we go. I think the
goal is just showing our support for Palestine and demanding that NYU saw. I
honestly don't know all what NYU is doing. Is there something that NYU is
doing? I really don't know. I'm pretty sure there. Do you know
what ny is doing all about Israel protesting here? You're sound more educated.
I'm not either. I was there and we came down and side and I
used to support, so I came down. I've heard there's lots of tops
and some people were saying it was getting dangerous, like they could the protest,
they show up the protests could They don't have no idea. It could
be about repealing the Nineteenth Right. They have these idiots that have no idea.
Now I will nuance the part where she says we don't know what NYU
specifically NYU did. I guess I think you should writing show and protests that
you should, but I don't know if I could speak to I could definitively
speak to the demands of Columbia students and NYEU students on their administrators, but
I could find it out about twenty seconds, So it just it just encapsulates
this whole What the hell are you doing? Phone number eight eight eight nine
three four seven eight seven four Keep that handy as we're going to dive through
a bunch of stuff with our guests. Steven Kent will welcome him in when
you get chat. Last week is busy, busy, busy, and there
is there are many things to talk about, Steven. How you doing this
morning? I'm hanging in there, Casey, how about yourself? I'm pretty
good. We're gonna get in. We're going to get into milk stuff and
TikTok stuff. And let me start with the the TikTok stuff. Milk okay,
yeah, yeah, yeah, we got we actually got two milk stories
in the news. But now there's only one I want to talk about with
you. But I think the big one, obviously is the TikTok stuff.
I have even before Elon Musk got Twitter, right back in the day when
many people on the right thought that Twitter was the land of shadow band and
why wouldn't they the manipulation of our elections with the Hunter Biden insanity and just
yeah everything else where you just you're sitting there, You're doing very innocuous conversation
in the in the same things that would happen to people in many other techt
settings were happening. But I always defended the ability that Twitter, as somebody
who's kind of in the breaking news business, was a really valuable tool for
that for instantaneous Now, it's a fire hose, and you got to you
gotta know how to drink from one of those if you're going to use it
to inform yourself and obviously inform others. But Twitter, for all of its
flaws and problems and bad management decisions, it had that redeeming quality that if
you know, if something's on fire, right a volcano emerges through the you
know, through downtown Durham, I I'm getting a flood of information in a
much more rapid fashion and any more unique fashion that I did previously, and
that I find inherent value there. Would you would you agree with me,
as somebody who's also in this business, that Twitter provides that Twitter certainly does.
And I've seen one of those downtown Durham volcanoes by the way, Oh
wow, okay, all right, well that's that happened once. Put it
on the gram man. But I can't figure I try. I try and
find the redeeming qualities of the Twitter I really do, and the best thing
I come up with is like one of the current trending songs on there because
people are like, well, Twitter's provided an outlet for musical artists to get
out there and bypass the standards to TikTok. Excuse me, yes, has
provided this this outlet, and I'm like, well, to be fair,
a lot of social media has but let me let me review that. And
then I go see the top trending custom songs on TikTok and I'm presented with
this. I don't want a bunch of society. I struggle, adn't hustle
you one that you get out there so read how is it going to work?
No, how is it going to work? I'm supert. I said
that you consume me don't And then a twelve year old try to give me
you need enough cinnamon and light myself on fire to die? Please help me?
Is does TikTok have redeeming qualities? Not for the Chinese intelligence apparatus.
Well, I was not in favor of banning TikTok on the grounds of speech
on the app, but after listening to that song, I think I changed
my opinion. No, I mean, and just even listening to lyrics of
that, where the lyrics of it, I wasn't born to work, and
I'm too pretty to get dirty and all this kind of stuff. You just
kind of wonder why these things take off on TikTok. It's well known and
it has been established that TikTok in the country of China is mostly focused on
scientific content encouraging people towards patriotism and military service. You know, it's a
national kind of propaganda tool in in China and in the United States, it
sort of goes for the gutter. It's completely the worst of a lot of
our culture, and we should all wonder why that is. But you asked
about redeeming qualities. You know, it's incredibly viral like that. The algorithm
is very, very, very smart, and it has been a benefit to
a lot of small business owners and entrepreneurs. But I've just I remained unconvinced
about this argument. There are a lot of social media tools out there,
and somebody is going to fill this void very quickly, and I will get
into that. And the funny thing was is I was listening to this dude
and Immediately in my head, I thought this dude ripped off, right,
said Fred. So do I have room to judge right growing up when writ's
right right? Said Fred? I'm too sexy was right in my wheelhouse for
the very same ages who embrace TikTok Right now that I don't think he said
he didn't want to work. I think he just he just couldn't help it
because he was too sexy for it. So is it? You know,
yeah, I'm open to the possibility that I'm being a hypocrite. Here is
the point that I'm making, you know, It's it's something that I as
like a libertarian approaching the crackdown on a social media app. I I feel
very icky about it. It just it reeks of hypocrisy. But not all
social media apps are created equal. I mean, this is quite literally a
foreign operated syop where we should be questioning every single day why certain kinds of
content rise to the top. And that is just not the case when you're
dealing with domestically owned and operated social media companies that are responsive to congress,
responsive to feedback, and can be rained in if they are seen to be
stepping out of line. I will say one other redeeming quality of TikTok.
The best recipes that my wife has made have come from TikTok. It's really
good for foreign and ethnic foods that are like made to be simple for people.
And I've enjoyed some very good meals that came from TikTok. But why
can't that come from Instagram? You know? Or what's what's the one that
most is mostly pinterest thing? All right, isn't it exactly? And look,
if you know what, that's actually very convincing. I cook from time
to time. And the thing that annoys me the most about recipes on the
internet, not on social media, is you ever go to a recipe page
because they can't just give you the recipe because they have to you know,
they got a waterboard you with ads and a story, like a story about
this was my recipe I learned during my first first year of being a woman
back at my aunt's house on the shores of right, And it's this whole
like shut up, how many onions do I need? Kind of thing?
So I would appreciate that brevity. But the tradeoff is, and I think
that has to be the forefront, that this is not simply about whether we
think that it's people with you know, sub fifty IQs that are filming these
videos. It's it's the idea of real security concerns. And when I hear
when they talk about possible suitors that there are still folks within Byte Dance who
have commented that that's an option, but they may well not sell it to
somebody, my alarm bells go off that that might be an admission. It's
exactly what we think it is. And they don't want people poking around in
that, because why would you forego the billions of dollars which you could immediately
shove into the Chinese you know, government's coffers probably for you thing, if
not, because you don't want people looking at how the sausage is made.
That that seems a little red flaggy to me. Think about the Joker in
the dark night when he's lighting the pile of money on fire and he reminds
them, Op says, all you people care about is money. And when
you think about the CCP, the Chinese government, this is not about money.
And Bite Bands is not a profit driven good faith company. They are
a Chinese intelligence operation and so they are not going to sell their plaything to
an American buyer or company. I just find that very unlikely. So we
will probably see them take their ball and go home, and that should be
an admission of guilt to everybody watching this. But of course it will probably
be a much more polarized conversation that we have around it. Who owns Vine?
Who bought Vine? Vine? Vine exists? Yeah, but who bought
it? It was one of the other texts that bought viney Twitter Twitter.
But yeah, if you're Elon Musk and if they're gone, if they do
take their ball and go home, how do you not immediately because you're not
dealing with limitations probably from a copyright standpoint at that point, right because they're
gone, they're out there, they're done though they're not even allowed to legally
operate in the United States. So why does he not just take the carcass
of this company the Twitter bought that. I'm assuming he's still you know,
has and even if it's shuttered, and do this because Vine was the closest
thing and you could implement the elements that people like there. So certainly it
happens on Instagram. On Instagram, they've they've largely tried to clone the functionality
of TikTok for their stories and real section. And you see this also in
Snapchat. Snapchat is not completely dead. There's still somewhat relevant. Uh.
And Vine is a possibility, but you're going to see I think a reluctance
by American tech and social media companies to fill this boyd because it will immediately
set off antitrust concerns the FTC and the Biden administration if any established social media
companies are trying to expand their share of the pie anymore than they already have,
which is why the most likely outcome is that a buyer is a new
entrant to the social media space who doesn't have any footprint like Microsoft Oracle.
And there's some weird talk about Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank and Steve Manuchin,
the former Treasury secretary and movie producer. I don't realize you produced Wolf of
Wall Street SO and Suicide Squad. What a work of art. Yeah,
he had some It's been some ups and downs. Man. Let's talk about
movies though. We just over chat with Stephen Ken here. I I on
multiple occasions now I have been sitting in front of my TV screen with my
hand on my Apple TV remote getting ready to press play on Three Body Problem
on Netflix, because it has like it has all the elements of stuff that
I normally like. But every time I just I read a little about it
or I start, you know, I watched the trailer, which is is
rather interesting. It looks like I'm I'm I have to buckle in for a
mental thrashing. And I don't know why that is, because inherently that's just
stuff i'd watch, and I feel like, unless I'm one hundred percent focused
on it, I'm going to miss everything. Though, So talk to me
about this series, which is kind of is going viral at the moment.
Yeah, so you are right. You are completely correct about the Three Body
Problem, which stars Marlow, Kelly, Jess Jong and Benedict Wong. And
this show is about gosh, how do you even describe it. It's about
time travel aliens coming from another dimension changing reality on Earth and like affecting what
we see so that they can wage a sigh up on planet Earth. And
the movie is upside the movie, the show, The show is incredibly complicated.
My wife is really interested in science, weather and relativity, and she
is obsessed with this show. And I find myself falling asleep on some of
the more science driven episodes. But when you get down to the like the
aliens are waging a syop on planet Earth and there's a lot of politics.
I have enjoyed that a great deal. But I do I do get tranquilized
by the science episodes. Is it an allegory? Am I supposed to be?
I don't know, but there's no I mean, there's a few of
them out there, so yeah, for sure. And and just for clarity,
this is a series right now. I think it's about ten episodes for
season one, so you got to buckle in for many, many, many
hours of storytelling here. But it does have a really interesting connection to the
Cultural Revolution in Mao's communist China. The story begins there and your characters,
Jarneys, began after surviving the cultural Revolution, and it's one of the first
instances that we have seen on screen and American media of the cultural revolution in
China and how brutal and evil it was. And so that's of course why
this show is not welcome in continental China. Yeah. Yeah, Well,
you call the guy poober or you show a teman joke, and we've had
others others gonna go a foul, there's something else, and Ross has tried
everything in his power to get us to not work tomorrow because of the Fallout.
Who up? Yeah? So, but here's what I find fascinating about
Fallout Now I have I have still yet to watch it. I am going
to I'm gonna find a binge window. I love everything that everyone's telling me
about it, everyone's opinion. That being said, it's fascinating to me what's
happening as a result of this series where it is literally driving it's it's driving
people to go and into the game, and it shows you how successful if
Hollywood just buckles down, tells a good story, and yes, there's always
going to be people going ah, the game doesn't match the series or any
of the rest, but for you know, even people in that camp,
they're not being as mean as usual, so it must get closer. And
it's like, does Hollywood look at the success they're having with this reverse profit
making where people ball Out's been out forever and now people never knew about it
are going out buying the games because of the series and go, this is
the this is the way to use a Star Wars quote which probably make you
happy? This is the way? Do they look at this and go this
is the way? And am I over selling the impact that Fallouts had in
maybe showing a proper way to do this? Oh? I think that it's
definitely shown studio executives how you can create a feedback loop, a positive feedback
loop with consumers who are really interested in original stories. Not everyone in the
world are video gamers. I myself have not actually played Fallout, but I'm
very excited about this show. I'm going to watch it. I think it
looks incredibly interesting. That does not mean that I'm going to pick up a
video game that's not necessarily part of my habits. But they are looking at
video game IP and I think they're starting to salivate over how many good stories
there are that would be wonderful for screen adaptations. So I'm counting the days
for my Red Dead Redemption TV show or movie. Why would you want to
watch a show of a man murdering horses for two hours? I mean,
I thought on Redpend Redemption he was mostly just kidnapping hookers. No, no,
no, no, it's a horse eating That's all I know. But
I'll watch ross play all right. Last two minutes we were a speaking of
Ross and I we saw the blue milk thing that Kemp's is doing for May
the Yeah, and I immediately thought they were talking about old the old man
on the island toss and lightsabers into the ocean and his bitter ass. But
instead it referenced the milk from New Hope, and I couldn't find I don't
know what the hell means. So my case made you figure this out,
so free. I got ninety seconds educata, sir, okay Well. Blue
milk on Tattooine is first seen in Star Wars Episode four a New Hope,
the original Star Wars film, when Luke is finishing his day of work at
the beginning of the movie and he's having breakfast or lunch with Aunt Brew and
Uncle Owen, and he's discussing his desire to go to the Imperial Academy and
leave the farming life, and they are drinking stiff cold glasses of blue milk,
and it's become sort of a Star Wars iconic, you know, joke
about the blue milk because they never talk about it, we never actually see
it again, but yet they serve it at Star Wars Galaxy's Edge at Disney.
Blue milk is just one of the go to references for Star Wars fans.
Now that nasty green stuff. Oh, I don't want to talk about
that. But the blue milk comes from the Banta on the planet of Tattoo.
And these are the creatures, the big furry creatures that are the horses
for the Tuscan Raiders, the sand people, you know, those big furry
stuff animal Who thought that comes from the female bantha. I mean, you
wouldn't want to know. I don't want any of it. And I think
the idea of blue milk sounds gross. That's just me, but I was.
I'm glad we had you for reference, Steven. I appreciate it.
And uh, we'll see what I'm explain next week. Okay, green milk
next week? All right? Yeah, maybe well you had quite the negative
reaction to the green milk, so maybe there's a story there. So there
you go. Let's get into thank you to Stephen Kent for joining us.
We'll take a break to have you and uh. The insanity continued to ensue
yesterday, though seemingly was met with different pushback on the University of Texas campus
and Austin. It's the old homie. Don't play that from in living color,
because that wouldn't happen. They were having none of that in Texas,
and USC was pretty aggressive too. Man. That was kind of crazy to
see the full for. You know why, because these universities are terrified.
I don't care how moon batted up they are, which really lets you know
how bad this looks to everybody what you're seeing at Columbia, Yale and a
bunch of others. In fact, there's a list right now, I'm sure
it's growing of fifty major universities that are all currently being investigated for anti semitism.
You know, dealing with complaints are at the federal level. Now well
they do anything, probably not. But yeah, and for those you're wondering,
Duke and UNC are both on that list that it just runs the gamut
nationwide. There was a weird incident with one of the local Fox affiliate reporter
or a camera guy. He got taken down and hooked up and hauled out
of there. Camera hits the ground and it's you know, he's like,
I say, it works for the local Fox affiliate. But he claimed he
was pushed by officers, but everybody's videoing, and it almost looks like he
charged officers. The whole thing is weird. Camera Look, camera guys,
good camera guys. And I know if you I count amongst my friends a
couple TV camera guys here locally, and you really got to know what you're
doing. There's a fine line between being able to get in there and also
not interfering with what the police are doing. And I've run into situations where
police officers were in the wrong saying that members of the press were were perhaps
running a foul of it. And it's usually a tense situation. If they
had a moment to think about, they probably wouldn't have thrown that out.
But that's fine. That's this was not that. This was something totally different.
Man, Listen to this for you in Foo seven last year, Carlos,
Carlos, what do you think of this? I think it's uh,
it pushed me and I they say that I had an officer. I think
the officer were pushing Onunny. Has this ever happened to me? Well,
I mean I was just covering things. You were the press. Yeah,
I told him that was the press. And also, look, I don't
see any Carlos is not wearing like a Hamas scarf for anything like the Again,
the whole thing's just weird because it doesn't he doesn't appear that anybody pushes
him, and it doesn't appear he makes contact with some officers who obviously are
dealing with urchins, uh, you know, who were doing everything in their
power to remember they de arrested a dude yesterday. You have to understan,
Yeah, what was going on? So they arrested like one of the main
instigators who was doing violent stuff, and then they crowd surrounded the police and
then de arrested, which is this fun turn they made up where they literally
vandalize a police car to get their comrade out of it, who then takes
off running. And they did that yesterday, So like everything's on edge.
I just I don't understand what this was, but it was. It was
an anomaly amongst the a crowd there. Meanwhile, others on the Prohamas side
were taking to the TV interview booth a person known affectionately it says here in
the article, I don't know about that as crackhead Barney, who began her
career as a subway performer with a poverty level Barney outfit. It was a
Barney suit, but like the eye was missing, it was all messed up.
It looked like five Nights at Freddy's kind of stuff, and is now
crackhead Barney is the very same individual who was screaming at Alec Baldwin in that
coffee shop, trying to get him to say free Palestine, and eventually we'll
also saying he's a murderer and all that. And while that may tugget your
heartstrings because of how you feel about Alec Baldwin, that person's a lunatic.
And they're a lunatic who I remembered from back during the George Floyd stuff because
there is an interview with this psychopath talking about how Maga has sex with their
machine guns and stuff, and it was the whole thing was just crazy.
But you realize real quick this person is a lunatic. So following in the
video you see Baldwin reach his hand out and smack the fuck. She's backed
some papers that are in the same hand as her phone. So what does
she do. She gets invited onto the Piers Morgan show and oh my gosh,
you have to understand that she is wearing a she is wearing the neck
brace bandages, she's got crutches. All of these things are pure performative.
She looks like Saul Goodman client. Oh look at that. I just made
a reference to a show that only watched like a season of Nailed It.
Anyway, so you know it's that stereotypical ambulance chaser. How they would dress
up their client and then proceeds to give one of the strangest interviews. You
have to understand that her her her hoots are hanging out her chesticles and but
with little like gauze over the front part, with her shirt pulled up,
and she's in this whole thing and she's she's bopping around like a bucking bull
man all the time screaming because she has no conversation skills at Piers Morgan,
and it is something to watch many yes, just for the rector. My
name is actually just Piers Morgan. That's funny, by the way, Piers
Fie Morgan. Actually my name is just Piers Morgan. And then can we
start on the We need to start on the premise that Piers Morgan is a
liberal that's not in dispute. Remember famously, young Ben Shapiro Peers Morgan over
gun control. That being said, Piers Morgan is one of those I would
call traditional liberals and not a progressive. Would you say, Ross, would
you say that's a fair assertion as to who Piers Morgan is because he doesn't
embrace any of this woke stuff, especially after like the Overton window. How
far it's gone? Yeah right, yeah, yeah, yeah. He he
had to come to it. He he kind of had like the Bill Maher
moment kind of thing. So take you know, take what it's worth,
but understand what this You know, this guy's history, so this shouldn't be
a hostile at all. Can you say free Palestine for me? Can you
say free Palestine for I'm shouting? Yeah, I want you to say it.
Yes, I'm happy to say. Okay, I'm not gonna shout if
you If you just keep quiet, I can answer your question. Yes,
I'm very happy to say quiet, Pierce. Sorry you're still talking. I'm
never quiet. Okay, but try you asked me to do something. If
you don't shut up, I can't give you the answer. Oh, okay,
I absolutely believe that Palestine should be free. Yes, you gotta understand.
By the way, at this point, she's like bopping out of her
chair. She's turning around, putting her button back to the camera because she's
on like one of those satellite you know, sitting in a room Lenks and
oh my gosh, oh okay, and how are we going to do that?
Pierce, give us the give us the free yea. If it was
as simple, I'm gonna do it. If it was as simple as me
just giving a simple answer, now, it would have been done by now.
It's a very complicated, is she. But let me ask you again,
why did you Why let me ask you again, seriously, why did
you do what you did to Alec Baldwin? And what did you hope to
achieve? Alec Baldwin? Look at me, honestly, look at I'm sorry,
I almost forgot. She's in a white face too. I'm sorry.
I just realized I didn't say that part because everything else is so she's in
white face. She's a black woman who's in white face. All right,
at this, look at that. We're a white man. Listen. I
understand. I understand your performative artist. I understand you're trying to make everybody
laugh. You've made You've made your joke about your terrible maiden, right,
okay, to beat me this week? Third white man yesterday. By the
way, I can't tell if she's into that. She's such a lunatic.
By the way, do you know if she's single? I mean, what
do you think, Ross, Can we fix her? You'd probably be fixed,
right, Sure, wouldn't be a problem. I don't know why I
should be laughing. This person is probably going to murder somebody at some point.
She seems so unhindy. White boyfriend beat the This is the third white
man, my daw is Alex. The second day was another white man.
Third day, Pierce Morgan is beating me up on international, And of course
it's international because she's via satellite to London from New York. So anyway,
I'm gonna look. That video exists. Ross had to go through and bleep
it this morning. He is, he's already gouged one of his eyes out,
so you know, go watch it if you want. But holy crap,
maybe it's something in the I don't know, in the weather. A
little last ray stagic about that. We got a side it crazy in today's
forecast. Actually, you know what, Casey, it's gonna be great the
next few days. There's this one little patch of cloud left over. Other
than that, most of us are clear. This morning going to be a
beautiful afternoon, covering around seventy degrees. Tonight we're up a few upper forties.
Tomorrow we'll cloud over. We should stay dry, reach about seventy degrees
once again. Then we're going to start this warming tread which is going to
continue well into next week. And so we'll with dry weather Saturday, mostly
cloudy, low to mid seventies, Sunday twenty of sunshine near eighty degrees,
and then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday next week, Big Rich is gonna park
off the coast, and that's going to mean a southwest flow. Temperatures could
get well into the eighties, maybe middle eighties to the upper eighties as we
go through Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of next week. And I don't really
see much in the way of a measurable rainfall the forecast, so dry and
near seasonable temperatures the next few days and getting real warm and staying dry isok
ahead toward at least the first few days of next week. All right,
Well, have a good one, Enjoy your draft watching secret at your daughter's
thing today and all right, we'll talk about the decisions bad decisions all of
our teams made tomorrow. Okay, O, good man, all right,
go, we stated from the Weather Channel, Johnny and us maybe can hang
it up there we go, all right, Jeff Bellinger's next hang on,
Well, good morning, Casey. Looks like we're in for a rough day
on Wall Street. Later dated from Washington suggests the economy slowed more than expected
at the beginning of the year. The government estimates the gross domestic product expanded
at a one point six percent annual rate in the first quarter. But within
that report, a report on core inflation was hotter than expected. So we're
seeing sharply lower futures right across the board. S and P futures are down
more than one percent, down sixty three points. That has back futures are
down two hundred and eighty eight and the Dow futures down four hundred and thirty
nine points. And disappointing quarterly results from Meta platforms may had already set the
stage for a rough start to today's session on Wall Street. Investors' concerns over
Meta's big investments and artificial intelligence outweighed the fact that the social media company posted
record revenue for the quarter. Now the parade of big tech earnings will continue
today. Alphabet, Microsoft, and Intel report after the market's closed. Today.
Ford posted better than expected first quarter results. The automaker said demand for
work trucks was especially strong at the start of the year. Its recently redesigned
super duty pickup was a big seller. Worldpools planning layoffs the appliance maker,
cutting about one thousand salaried positions. Worldpool says slow home sales here in the
US or limiting demand for its products. Aldis being sued. A proposed class
action accuses the discount Grosser of selling mislabeled peach cup products. Labels say the
cups contain one hundred percent fruit juice. Plaintiffs say they also contain water juice,
concentrates, flavorings, and other ingredients. The Tropical Smoothie chains changing hands
a Blackstone will add the chain to its portfolio of brands and Casey. This
may be among the most extreme examples of holiday creep we've seen home depots pushing
out its twenty twenty four Halloween merchandise. The chain told Yes. The chain
told Axios a new and improved twelve foot skeleton, a seven foot Frankenstein monster,
and other decrps will be on sale online starting today. Home Depot says
it is the first ever halfway to Halloween sale. I've seen weird like Christmas
in July sales. Yeah, right, as to do that. But what
the hell, man? You know what it is. It's because, for
whatever reason, a few years ago, everyone decided they needed a giant Halloween
or Christmas decorational. You know, there's a inflatable snoopy near where my house
is the size of a two story house. That that, and then when
one gets it, everyone else has to get it. So I kind of
get what a home Depot is doing. We've lost our minds on this stuff.
So yep, I think you're right. All right, thank you,
Jeff. Okay, take care. Talk to you Monday. Yeah, yeah,
all right, have it. Have a good Wait wait, wait,
talk to me monday. Is he not here tomorrow or no, Joely will
be covering tomorrow. I'm taking an extended weekend. Oh oh okay, all
right, have fun with your draft party. I'm assuming with that you sorry
thinks? Oh yeah, take care of so okay, dude for ross for
a half second of my brain. I'm like, is it friday? Is
this it? We're done? It's still like that the entire week, though,
hasn't it? Yeah? You just say no, no, hold on,
I'm asking Ross just wants to not be yours. We can play Fallout
tomorrow. You can't even play until now? That is that at noon today?
Oh? Is it today at noon? Oh? It's noon today?
Oh? Wow? I had no idea. You had no idea. You're
saying the phone for next Gin update is today. Wow. I'm saying that
because you wrote it to me three times over the two days. Yes,
must have blacked out. Like remember yesterday when we determined that piece of equipment
it's been jacking with my mic sound is actually cooked and they have to fix
it. And I said, hey, they finally found it. And you're
like, well, I tested that means you don't want you shouldn't work tomorrow.
I actually, Matt, you know the engineer. Yeah, great,
dude, I said to him. I said hey, because he's like,
hey, he sent me the information on the comrax and he's going to write
an email and tell everybody about said in the email, could you write that
you recommend Casey not do the show until you get the replacement because the Fallout
four update comes up tomorrow and he did not send me anything like that,
so apparently he did not follow your thing there. But so, are you
gonna jump on it get right away? Are you gonna wait and see if
it's like buggy or yeah? No, it's at noon, so I'll be
on that. Okay, all right, I'm gonna say, what's gonna affect
all the mods and stuff? Very important stuff here, man, A lot
of research you have to draft later. I'm gonna be exhausted tomorrow. Yeah.
I probably shouldn't even send you prepper duction. Yeah, alright, well
I'll take that into consideration.