Phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four as we kick
things off. Oh boy, all right, So we'll get into the more
of the meat of it later in the show. Because it's Thursday Ian on
Thursdays when things are normal, we we have Stephen Kenton and it's you know,
it's like tech in Hollywood and a lot of Disney stuff, so kind
of the nerdy side with the intersection of politics that we do. And that's
right where this TikTok story lands. I gotta tell you, I've I have
watched multiple arguments from both sides. Because here's here's the deal. It passed
the House yesterday. The President says he'll sign this version. So and you
know, if there was there is quote bipartisan support, so will pass in
the Senate. I don't know, we'll find out. But there's two ways
of looking at it. You know. Obviously, broaching the topic of shutting
TikTok down, that was something that was Was it quite did they did it
go quite the level of hitler? I'm trying to The immediate reaction by the
media was the end is nigh, as you know it was with everything else,
But it really didn't address the issue that it's clear and not just in
this case with TikTok, although TikTok from a usefulness of the tool standpoint is
crazy significant. But like all these stories we see, I told you I
saw this story, well two weeks it was over the weekend. I didn't
put in the stack because was a longer interview. They had this tech guy
on really smart dude, and he's just he was just going through random electronics
that talk back to Chinese servers for no reason that anyone can understand. Well,
they do understand, right, And like guy had a vacuum and it's
one of those like wallhanger rechargeable operations. Why is that connecting? Now?
The reason it would connect on the Wi Fi network still kind of baffled me.
I can't remember what he said that like the the reason for it,
but you know, he was going through. He's like like anything that brushes
the Internet, any smart device, there is a possibility. We just had
a story last week where they figured out that the massive cranes they're used at
our nation's ports, there's a bunch of them that were built by a Chinese
company and those connect back to a Chinese server. Well, now you know,
now we're getting into some Look, there's a certain sensitivity of ports,
right, it's a it's unless you watch any Mob movie ever or the Nolan
Batman series, but you know, uh, the the ports right that that
is a national security that is a security issue because you saw what happens when
a port is crippled or ports, not just with COVID, but like all
of history, like there were two things screw up their water supply, Breetwell
there's the scrit the water supply breached the walls. And if there is a
port, you got to control that thing. And so that makes me super
duper extra nervous, but not surprised. So like it's a it's a problem,
I want people to address it. The problem is when I listen to
people all around, there's a lot of different camps. There are people who
think that this bill, because of the executive power that it imbues, right,
might give the president too much power and like everything else could be weaponized.
And ram Paul brought up a good point, he said, why are
there I don't even know what you'd call them, but like the criticism was
the things too broad And then others who wanted it to pass for say,
no, it's not too broad yet there is specific language that was added to
carve out non enforcement. So if this was supposed to be communications networks or
websites that our control in total or in part, I believe is the way
that it reads by what we consider a foreign adversary. It also has carve
outs for you know, what was a travel site or travel websites cooking stuff.
It's weird, man, it's really strange, Like I'd like to know
who was in their ear for that carve out. But it also is kind
of an admission that you feel that the overall language is a little too broad,
and in an era where every time I turn around, I'm seeing some
new abuse or expansion of what government people think they can do on a whim,
not through the process. I share those concerns. What was interesting is,
and I don't want to speak for him, so it's just my impression
of what I saw him tweeting. Looks like Steven, who I think is
a pretty sharp dude, he is significantly more comfortable with this. So that'll
be a fascinating conversation. Maybe we'll all learn stuff. That'll be an eighth
five. So throw that in the planner all right. Also, we got
we got aliens, because of course we do. Oh. I got a
great audio on the TikTok thing too, elon Musk Don Lemon that I watched
a little bit of that this morning. The backstories kind of crazy. Man.
It was clear Musk did not want to be doing that interview about thirteen
seconds into it. And but what you know what has become of Don Lemon's
show, Well, we'll give you the details there. So that's just a
few of the few of the items I saw. Actually quite a few stories
this morning too, like the did you see the standoff in La yesterday?
I'm telling you as much as as much as we criticize California, and it's
easy. And this is coming from somebody who spent uh you know, by
collegiate years living in California, although being you know, yeah, college student
brain. So you're like, you know, everything's great because you don't really
pay taxes, but but you do. You do when when you go to
register a car and it's like seven hundred dollars for an old truck, I
mean, stuff's just crazy. But it's beautiful and it has the greatest and
I will say this, it has the greatest outside of maybe, well it
has the greatest chases. I think the best police chases are in California Florida,
Like there's all. They don't do as many police chases or they don't
cover it with the same fervor I guess. But they got after Florida.
They they got the craziest man and and this wasn't a chase per se.
But we'll get into the details of what I guess it was supposed to be
a fire to tell you about and yeah, yeah, just all sorts of
insanity and we'll get into it coming up. It's six sixteen. Hang on,
I'll just say I'll say somebody who is purporting to be a lawmaker that
I or a former lawmaker I should say that I know uh with in the
NC House in the senitude notice the House. But I'm not going to give
his name because he sent it from a Gmail I'm not familiar with and I
don't know if it's him. But whatever, the point is this, I
almost don't need to set that up. You know, the struggle, as
you're seeing right now, with the multitude of lawsuits against literally everything Republicans pass,
requires you in crafting legislation to balance how specific something is, to ensure
that you get the correct outcome and don't potentially limit yourself through a lawsuit saying
well, if you look here, it doesn't imbue them with this power because
courts too often don't recognize intent. All right, I'll take that as a
genuine concern. But the flip side is you also got to make sure that
whoever the next person is doesn't go, well, I think it reads this
way, and you know, look how broad it is. That's how we
get literally one hundred things that I've complained about over the years. So I
get it. I look, I don't want to be the one to have
to sit there and pick all the language on stuff, knowing that a team
of lawyers, you know, the Mark Olias crew whoever it is, is
going to be looking for any missed whatever to attempt to invalidate it and on
the flip side, or attempt to expand it. I give you one of
the biggest examples, just so it's fresh on your brain, and that was
the attempt to expand the Civil Rights Act to include the transgender stuff, where
for the only time I think it was allowed. Loretta Lynch made the argument
that sex and gender were the same thing because they wanted to piggyback it on
the women's portion of civil rights legislation. So it literally was the way that
they wanted to go about. It was an opposition to one of the most
consistent pieces of dogma that you hear activists talk about. Didn't care. You
saw it with the nuclear option there, and then you saw Republicans turn around
and expand it with Supreme Court stuff. You know, me, the thing
that sticks in my craw is well, hypocrisies up there, but slippery slope
stuff kills me, especially when it's just so predictable. Plus you're seeing the
expansion and the reinterpretation, arguably of all these things having to do with Trump.
You know, I think Kevin O'Leary a couple of weeks ago did a
pretty good I can't remember if he was on CNBC or MSNBC, but dude's
being interviewed, and you know, the woman interviewing him is just taken for
granted. Well, Donald Trump's out committing crimes to secure loans, and O'Leary's
like, uh no, let me explain to you how it works. And
he does so, not even in the defense of Trump, but in a
warning that what you're doing up there, it has a cooling effect and flies
in the face of how banking's done. It's a negotiation between two people,
really, and obviously you know the rest where everybody got paid back and they
wanted to do business with them again, and so yeah, yeah, I
take those concerns seriously. Also, I wanted to play the Nancy Pelosi audio.
This is not an attempt to ban TikTok. It's an attempt to make
TikTok better, tick tech toe a winner, a winner. Oh oh man,
what do you think she did? Did she do the baiting thing where
you go in the corner and try to get your opponent to go in the
middle or listen, I understand what you're saying. But the most important thing
to understand what this TikTok bill is. At B twelve, I just sank
your battleship. What oh you did? Oh man? All right, we
else I got to do absolute fool Yeah. Well apparently you're supposed to have
a divider up here. But anyways, wait, just the transition that it's
like she had three more seconds to fill in her time. I don't think
she knows what TikTok is. It's probably some sort of online game apply a
global thermal ducular work. Yeah, yeah, no, that's that's a good
point. This is not an attempt to ban TikTok. It's an attempt to
make TikTok better. Tick tech toe a winner, A winner. I still
don't know what that means. It's a valid point. And listen, left
foot green, left foot green. Simon didn't say, oh wait, I'm
conflating two games. What am I doing? Oh that's what she did?
Right hand yellow and your dad, Yeah, dude, I can't even imagine
trying to play twister right now. But did that seem like a good idea?
You know what? It seemed like a good idea when you were a
high schooler and you had girls over, you know, for a training for
football season or whatever or something. That's that. That's it. Or you
know you're a kid, but like, well, I guess you're still technically
a kid. But you know what I mean, you're you're a six year
old. It's flexible. You're you're a six year old is so flexible you
could you can like do what a cat does where it constricts its body to
fit through stuff. Forty three year old me. I think I'm dead.
So I'm just like sitting in the center. I'm just sitting in the center,
like you know, moving like job of the hut, you know what
I mean. Doesn't say you have to move by your certain time. Right,
check the rule. There's no time limit. H you're three, it's
an hour. And that he doesn't he's spun it three times. Oh we
should play something else, all right, one more time now. This is
not an attempt to ban TikTok. It's an attempt to make TikTok better,
tick tech toe a winner, a winner. Can you imagine following the Nancy
Pelosi thing for the rest of the week, just to be as childish as
you know, occasionally we've been known to be around here. This is not
an attempt to ban TikTok. It's an attempt to make TikTok better, tick
tech toe a winner, a winner? Did you just like I would be
too tempted after every speech that I gave, right, I got five minutes
or whatever, and like, ah, and this is how I feel about
this. So that sums up my position, and I hope that my colleagues
across the aisle will agree. Duck duck goos. That's a dramatic pausey,
I kind of pull away from the lectern and then lean back in so I
understand what you're saying. What you really need to understand though when you're talking
about this bill, it's especially in a you know, geopolitical matters and terms,
is big stick out, stick out plunk. Oh man, we got
owned. That would make my day. But look, all right, that's
a joking matter, because how can you how can you not think it's funny.
But unfortunately, in between watching some video of that, getting into getting
into the segments surrounding the Musk Don Lemon thing, which we'll talk about,
unfortunately I laid eyes on the single greatest, most important civil rights battle of
our lifetime, and it's bruined right now up in New York City. This
is I am so glad that there are so many woke individuals around to spotlight
this de evolution of our modern society, thrusting us back into an almost lawless
nationalist or whatever words they're going to use, just stripping the rights away from
people. And I know that people all over the world will be concerned about
this. So this is this is great. A guy by the name of
Luis Carlos Alvarez Zaragazzo. He's a filmmaker and a food influencer. He went
to a there's a sushi restaurant up in New York that has two Michigan's Michigan
Stars. Yeah, you don't if they got Michigan Stars watch out, but
Michegan stars sushi nas. I don't know if they put some of that drink
in there or what, but they do charge seven hundred dollars per seeding.
I'm gonna repeat that. It's a seven hundred dollars per person meal. And
you know it's a fixed meal, it's multiple course and specific. It is
attempting to be very very traditional Japanese. And I'll explain why. So this
learned food influencer and I guess some friends they decide they're going to pay seven
hundred dollars for a sushi dinner. But it was then that they noticed what
was happening as the group or in the group, it was like three dudes
and one woman. The the sushi chefs are all from Japan, right,
so it's just sue everything super hoity toity at this thing. And as they
start serving the various courses and was omakase ama case. Is what you call
this the menu and the serving style. They literally you sit there, you
sit there on a table or on a rail like this one, and they
it's just small by stuff. There's like six or seven or maybe even more
than that. Little they'll do little scallion pancakes, they'll do various sushi rolls,
they'll do just some raw fish stuff. But there is what's known as
palm size. And I'm not even a real sushi dude, but I knew
this. So when they're making the roles and they're making the servings, they
are looking at literally looking at hand size. It's a traditional thing. Now
you can object to it, but if you're in a really traditional one,
they'll just do it by default. And what it is is smaller portions for
smaller hands, but not of the good stuff, right, And this is
what's so stupid about it. One this is a food influencer who apparently didn't
know this is a thing. And two what this smaller on the roll is
there's less rice. So the ring of the role is literally made to fit
the individual's hand. Well, the woman has she has you know, demure
hands, so she's getting the same amount of the protein, same amount of
that, but she's getting less rice. And everyone's lost their damn mind that
they about this, this attack on women as it's being referred to at the
seven hundred dollars sushi seating because she got less rice. They'll give you more
rice, by the way, just ask Oh yes. Food journalists and activists
took to social media following the review. It went viral, and then of
course TikTok videos all of that, offering to boycott the restaurant. You know
what, dude, if you're this, if you're the restaurant and you hear
that this moon bat and his buddies are going to boycott you because they're dumb,
like, that's got to be the best day of the week for you,
right, don't see him no more. That'll be fine. Uh,
let's see. Zaragoza argued that the that the restaurant, trust me, the
quote that's coming up, you're gonna understand because uh just wait for it.
Uh. Zaragaza stated that while he he afterwards, he said, oh no,
no, no, I understand that, but I think that the price
should be adjusted to account for the smaller portions. Well, what does what
is probably about a golf ball worth of rice? What does that cost?
What do you what do you want five cents off? Maybe off your seven
hundred dollars sushi? Uh Zaragozas said, it is it is bigger than New
York, bigger than this restaurant, but rather something that is ingrained in too
many cultures to treat women as lesser individuals. And the fact that they continue
the tradition in the US is Yeah. And there's some other he's like really
really into Hey, we gotta you know, we gotta make sure we feed
the world. Gotta do this. We evil food companies? Why are they
raising prices on this? And you elected to go to a seven hundred dollars
sushi seating and then literally make a civil rights case out of it, like
all of these people who who are who you you claim to be battling on
behalf of right? Like, let me give you an example. Who's more
food insecure your female companion because she got slightly less rice in her seven hundred
dollars dinner? Or warlords who sees un food supplies and don't give it to
their people. I'll I'll let you figure that out anyway. Six forty three.
But yeah, so I don't know where this thing's going, but that
poor poor woman. All Right. I mentioned there was this standoff in LA
and uh, I'm gonna blame the cops here kind of a little bit,
but just hear me out. But not in the way that like Jesse Jackson
blames cops when you have one of these standoff stories. Because the dude didn't
get killed. That was a white dude. So I'm sure they'll make hay
there, but I'm gonna blame cops because I don't understand how this went on
for three friggin' hours. So let me set the scene. Police are in
a parking lot in front of this is in Mission Hills, California. They're
in front of a parking lot of a subway, and there's a pickup truck,
kind of an old, busted looking pickup truck. It's got some tools
and stuff in the back. Looks like, you know, looks like a
guy who I don't know does construction or tree removal or something whatever. And
but for whatever reason, the police find out the police find out he's got
a warrant. I don't know if they're running plates or what, but this
is what it goes. This is where it goes, and he knows he
has a warrant, so when the police get there, he jumps in the
back of the pickup truck, grabs a chainsaw and a pink laundry hamper which
happened to be back there, puts the laundry hamper on his head like a
night's now he's a knight, I guess, I don't know helmet, and
fires up the chainsaw, actually doesn't even fire it up, And initially police
are like, hey, sir, get out of the truck, probably probably
trying not to laugh because he's got a what did he think He's standing in
a truck with plates? Do you think the laundry bat it was he thought
he could hide his identity. It's his truck. You were just keep doing
your laundry. It just doesn't seem to go away, and he drives you
insane. Yeah, you know, I don't know how you you guys do
it as a family, like I live alone and I have Like I was
just grumbling about laundry back up. Yeah, we do. We do it
in a weekend Friday and Saturday, but like it just never goes away,
so it's ongoing, never ending, and eventually you find yourself insane, and
you put the laundry basket in your head and you fire the chainsaw. It's
what happens. Oh, it's not because he has a warrant for a rest
for a violent domestic domestic violence case. Oh okay, all right, well
I can understand that I hate doing long What football team does he play for?
It looks like he might be retired. He's got kind of that that
kind of that walrit that gray walrus mustache thing going on. Also, I
like the part where he's wearing a dirty button down denim shirt. Right,
it looks like a guy who works, except he only had as the top
button buttoned, you know, like that old like you'd see it like in
the nineties on like any hispanic dude on TV. He was was playing a
gangster right where they have the long sleep shot. I can picture the one
guy that always plays that guy. But he's in every movie. Yes,
yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, except uh, those dudes
have shirts under the the button down. This guy does not. And you
said he's a white dude, Yeah, of course, of course, big
walrus mustache and beer belly sticking out of a busted denim shirt with a laundry
basket on his head holding a chains right, But you talk about like stereotypes
and like, you know, you just just describe this crime or whatever,
this incident, and immediately you know he's a white dude. No, that's
where my mind goes, Why are you saying that? What I've just watched
enough on Patrol Live to you know, non white people can't put own laundry
baskets. I mean, well, I mean, I don't know, what's
your slursir, I don't know what what do you get? Dad? So
and he's he's in the back of his pickup truck. Great, he's it.
Look I'm busted ass pickup truck, gray Walrus mustad. Yeah, you
getna know that's the white dude. But uh so, anyway, so this
is what police are presented with. Then police decided that they were going to
they were going to reason with him, attempt to de escalate the situation for
three hours, That's right, for three hours, police attempted to de escalate
the situation until uh he once again picked up a chainsaw, fired it up,
and now he's you know, now he's the dude from Evil Dead And
they're like, all right, whatever, and so and I'm not making this
up. At one point and what caused him to get more agitated is the
SWAT armored truck arrived. He's at the back of a pickup truck. He's
got a chase, he doesn't have a distance weapon, and he's got he's
got literally just the top button of his shirt. I was telling you that
not just for the belly thing, but also that's gonna give you a lot
more visibility in his waistline. As he's he's literally he's kind of frantically spinning
around. So they roll, they roll the entire SWAT team truck up,
and then they hit him with a couple of those with the forty forty millimeters
the bean bags. The ate him with the bean bags. And you're gonna
be shocked to learn with a little pepper spray or bean bags, you you
can win the chainsaw contest. Usually, so they did, and then three
hours later they took him into custody, hit him in the chest and arms
and all that. So here's my thing, why do why are you guys
doing this for three hours? I have to assume the police don't want to
be screwing with this for three hours. They like what is it a guy
in the pickup truck with a laundry basket on his head and the chains that
bring out the police tank we need. I think the guy with the police
tank's just bored because they don't really enforce anything else. He's just sitting there
pretend driving in the garage every day. He's like, come on, man,
I don't want to go to something. But no. Look right when
you showed up and this guy wouldn't comply, and he did. He was,
you know, holding a weapon, obviously a chainsaws a weapon. Pop
them with the bean bags. Be done with this. That's it. It's
a over. Everybody goes home. The swat guys are you know, they're
sad But I don't know, man, But yeah, just crazy town anyway.
Six forty nine, hang on, Yeah, there's a lot to go
over with. Dude with laundry hamper and chain He had multiple chainsaws too.
He did not dual wield them though, just one at a time and then
fired one up and then uh, bean bag city. So but three hours
and the standoffs in the back of a truck. Now I was baiting a
little on the laundry hamper, right, Uh, is one of our emailers
with law enforcement experience. The guy put the bask on his head to avoid
be and taste or spray. This is super common, although I do like
I didn't read the second line yet. This is super common when red Rover
red rovers send crazy over. So if you're if that's you playing along and
infiltrating now kids games. In the end of everything, you say, uh,
it's you're welcome people around you. You're going to think you're crazy today,
and that's good. Here's the problem with that, though, because I
thought that too for a moment, and maybe it was what went through his
head. I want everyone to think about a laundry basket or it. Let's
maybe you're listening at home right a glance at your laundry basket. Is there
anything that stands out to you in the design or construction of it as to
whether it would provide full protection from like, uh, you know, a
chemical spray. CaCO Day radio program, Glad to have you along. Let's
get you updated on a few stories. Uh get a how does a cemetery
catch on fire? Well, it's myrtle beach. So if somebody was gonna
do it, I kid, I kid, it's you know, what's funny
is there's a there's a radio host down there who I've met him a few
times, and he used to he used to be on the radio in Wilmington,
and him and I follow, you know, we follow each other on
Twitter or whatever, and sometimes he'll like some stuff that we post, and
he posts some interesting stuff sometimes. And I remember I made a myrtle it
was some dumb little myrtle joke on Twitter one time over a story, and
it was arguably a dumb story, and I think I ticked that dude off.
Man he like DM ME and bunch of stuff, so he's listening.
It's a joke. I still don't know how you get a cemetery on fire.
Let's see two in the morning, especially overnight, what is going on?
The candles of the seance fall over? Oh my god, Oh I'm
sorry. I should not have been making jokes about this at all. This
is Oh no, you sitting down? No, I'm actually standing up.
Oh all right, well, just sitting down sitting there, okay, all
right, all right, all right. Seven thousand people are dead on the
scene at the yeah cemetery, I mean were they were they already dead?
You know what? I don't know. Why do you hate journalism? I
mean, I'm saying this is like you know, once again, this is
a they're dead. Isn't that all that matters? You do not care that
they're dead? Seven thousand dead when firefighters and police arrived. I mean,
how quick is that's more than January sixth Yeah? By trying to think of
the number, what sixty nine ninety nine seven thousand? Wow? Wow,
I'm sorry, I was sorry. I'm sorry. Seven thousand, seven thousand
dead spread over twenty acres. What a mess? Wow? Look at that?
This partly this guy he was born in eighteen twelve, living his best
life, probably retired down to Myrtle, and unfortunately it had gone too soon.
All right, So Ross has a theory that they were already dead.
I don't know. It's the by the way, for those of you who
kind of know Myrtle, it's the one right on the south end of down
well, it's not quite where Ocean Boulevard kicks back out, but by the
the what a can coon lagoon or whatever that big golf thing is. So
anyway, just tragedy, all right, that's right. I'm just showing you
how easy it is to juice a news story for no reason whatsoever. And
this, you know, we could have got a little heads up or a
little pressure release, It's all I'm saying, But so be it. So
the congressional runoff in the triad is no more in the sixth district, which,
let's face it, the congressional race itself is over to now, right
because the runoff for all practical purposes, because there's not even the Democrats didn't
field. Somebody was too close by that thirty percent margin we require. And
the top vote getters were Mark Walker and Addison McDowell. Obviously, we've spoken
to both of these gentlemen through the course of the campaign. If you remember,
Addison came on the show with Trump Junior, so and so they were.
It was announced the right, here's the numbers. I think Mark had
to request it. I think that's the way it works, right, And
instead we find out that Walker has instead accepted a position within the Trump Trump
campaign, So he has he's bowed out. He's congratulated Addison McDowell. McDowell's
going to be in Congress. You better start getting all his congress stuff together
because unless I guess something really crazy, Addison don't do barbecues, or say
you're doing barbecue and then stand there with a folded an apron with a fold
in it in front of a gas grill with hamburger buttons that are unopened and
nothing's dirty. Don't do that. Look at that. I should be a
campaign consultant. Walker has accepted a position within the campaign as the director of
Outreach for Faith and Minority Communities. This announcement follows yesterday where officially both Biden
and Trial well Tuesday, but yesterday kind of with some of the numbers they
were still waiting for both of them receive the number of delis. They're the
nominees now, you know, barring some weirdness. So after that, Mark
says he's out, He's going to go do this. Let's see here.
That is interesting, and you know what is that parlay to potentially right,
because a lot of times people within the campaign find themselves serving in some capacity
within the administration if the administration is Victoria. So you know, I don't
know what the endgame is, but we'll ask him next time, next time,
because he calls in from time to time, so he's not a candid
anymore. So I don't even have to worry about any of that, all
right, eight eight, eight, nine, three four seven, eight seventy
four. Just wanted to a couple a couple other little stories out there,
make sure you were aware of this morning. All right, let me get
into this. I was under the impression that the only thing in the world
that Hunter Biden his lawyers wanted was a public hearing in front of the House
Oversight Committee. I know this because I was inundated with statements from his attorney's
statements from some Democratic lawmakers, and I saw this at the press conference where
Hunter Biden, who was flanked by Eric Swalwell, who's on the committee.
My dad remember when he was out and they were out in front of the
Capitol demanding a public hearing and pretending like it didn't go the same way that
all of these things generally go, including the January sixth committee, which Swallwell
sat on, and that is, you have a private hearing, you have
a public hearing when you're dealing with things that might include sensitive or classified topics.
That's it. And they said, no, we just want the public
hearing. Well, they did the non public hearing right now, and not
to the extent obviously that they want. Now the Biden camp is refusing to
do a public hearing. Yeah, Hunter Biden declined an invitation to testify before
the House Oversight Committee next week as part of the impeachment inquiry into Obviously this
is into Joe Biden, but you know, Hunter Biden is an integral part.
Abby Lowell, lawyer for Hunter Biden, wrote a letter to Oversite chairman
Comer, saying neither he nor his client would make the hearing, but it
was because of a court hearing in California the next day, and if they'd
have left it there, I think maybe that's how you argue it. But
instead, she went on to say, the scheduling conflict is the least of
the issues. You're blatant planned for media event is not a proper proceeding but
an obvious attempt to throw a hail Mary pass. Yeah. No, Look,
is she accurate that a congressional hearing is not a court of law?
Absolutely, but don't pretend like it's a new thing. And also, this
is literally the thing you wanted. And remember, not only did the demand
it, Remembory showed up to other parts of the hearing and then ran out
of the room when somebody tried to talk to him. He did agree to
participate in the deposition two weeks ago, but that was under threat of contempt.
Now it's the public hearing the thing you wanted, and they don't want
anything to do with it. So make of that what you will, all
right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. I mentioned
there's some UFO stuff. I guess we're done with everything else. We will
give you the details on that coming up here on the CaCO Day radio program.
Oh man, all right, we got they're both kind of football related,
but not the football itself, but rather the side stories with the little
little politics. Hang on a second, I want to call up the updated
version of this story because I'm gonna pair him together, which I wasn't gonna
do. All right, So we mentioned yesterday on the show that RFK Junior
and his was asked if you, because he's running as an independent, who
would be your who would be your VP nominee? And he mentioned a few
things, but he said he had a short list, and if you remember,
the short list was a New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers and former Minnesota
governor and wrestler actor Jesse Ventura, so we had like, who would you
choose? Well, this somehow got so much funnier when I realized that when
the statement was made Aaron Rodgers, he wasn't hanging around in New York.
He wasn't back in Wisconsin. I don't even know if you still got a
place up there. No, Aaron Rodgers at the time time the news report
came out, was on a one of his ahuasca, you know, the
hallucinogen which opened his mind as his darkness retreats and all that. He is
at a retreat in Costa Rica. Actually, and I can tell you as
somebody a little Costa Rica knowledge, these jungle hallucinogen experiences or these beach side
ones like over by Tamarindo and whatnot, or if you get it where all
the surf camps are. They're flipping everywhere. So if your kids on a
gap year and they're going to come down to learn to surf in Costa Rica,
just know that there's also these hot box and then E EDM festivals,
which is, you know whatever, if grown adults want to go do that,
I really don't care. That being said, the media is trying to
get a hold of this dude, right, because now they want to ask
him. And it's not the reporters that are normal calling him, right,
It's not Aaron whatever from ESPN or the guy from Fox Sports or whatever,
right you have the you have political reporters who are trying they can't figure out
what They couldn't get a hold of Aaron Rodgers because they wanted to know,
and then this came to light. Can you imagine? Can you? Can
you imagine you're now you're now sourced into this political story, right, and
you get a call from I don't know, Martha Rattits or something, and
you also are so high you think dragons are chasing you. I must hear
how that goes. And then that's your first statement, Like we were able
to reach Rogers and he said, watch out for the red one. It
breathes fire. It's obviously a and then they'll you know, it's whatever spin
they put on it. So I guess my question is, if Rogers promises
to always be hallucinating high, does that change your opinion? Because what does
the VP really do other than that they might as well entertain us. I
mean, I might evoe for that, just for the show content. That's
what I'm saying Rogers, he's I don't know, he's gotta go cut a
ribbon into school or whatever the VP right, and then he blows out his
achilles and he starts screaming about the shadow people. Yes, amazing, Yeah,
those kids. You know, if fast those kids are gonna grow up
at that elementary school, that's gonna be with them forever. But it's not
the good with them forever. It's the other side. So yeah, Aaron
Rodgers man. So he's literally on a psychedelic week long trip, which is
not just by the way, it's not just the ayhuasca or whatever. It
also includes various mushrooms some other style. I don't know, bufo. I
don't even know what that is. I'm assuming another hallucinogenic and and his phone's
blowing up. I guess he's now back in the US, But at the
time the news broke, he wasn't all right. So that's number one,
number two. And I was telling Ross this when I saw Nick Saban doing
the Remember I don't know if you saw the presser with him, you know,
saying I'm done in Alabama. He was, you know, he was
talking about how his players acted following the Michigan game. But also you could
tell he's bothered by the bigger what's going on within the NC double A.
And he didn't come right out and say that it's the you know, kids
can go get sponsors and money, name image likeness, but it's getting crazy.
Dude, I said, I was thinking of Georgia. I said,
Georgia. It's old missus. Quarterback Jackson Dart has a private jet. Now,
yeah, that's great. It's gonna end up. Well, we're just
gonna say, we're gonna skip right to the beginning of Rocky three with all
these athletes. Now, I only am excited about this because I want to
see what its version looks like compared to what we saw with the Google picture
renderer right where it's like, here's some black Nazis. Okay, here's only
black Nazis. No, I can't draw a white family. Let me do
this. Here's a Viking from the thirteen hundred, right. You remember all
the stupidity and other than rendering comically large buckets of chicken where we'll put white
dudes in there, mound down. The whole thing was a disaster, and
it wasn't just the images. Also, if you asked her to return the
list of all of the presidents of the United States it had it just left
Trump off. Yeah. So I say this because I was reading yesterday that
Google's Deep Mind has introduced a new video game focused AI. Right, so
this is still part of the deep Mind stuff. And what is it called?
Seema? So Seema is an AI agent but for use in video games.
And here's how you use it. Let's say you want to play Let's
say let's say you want to play a video game where normally the game would
allow you to play in online or I guess online is the wrong word.
What am I ross? What am I looking for? Where you can play
people around the world? Just multiplayer multiplayer, but also there's the multiplayer if
it's you and your buddies sitting in a room with multiple remotes, controls,
excuse me. And then there's just you doing your own thing within it and
not nobody else is involved. So this is where the AI comes in.
So in both the multiplayer, but if you don't want to be in the
general pool right out there and just get whoever, like you're in a private
party with your friends, private party, you can play against the AI,
all right, So I could be your competition. I guess if you have
no friends, and this is where I think it's more interesting. Or you
can use the AI as an AI as a video game helper, an assistant,
and the AI will take on tasks that you would normally have to do
as part of playing whatever the game is. So I can't speak to tall
games about giving an example. One of the only more modern games that I
really play, I guess is Diablo. You know there's you know, there's
certain tasks and stuff that you got to be doing. You got to be
watching your mana. You gotta be you know, you might have to hit
a health potion or spell or something. You can literally have the AI do
this for you. I don't know. That sounds like cheating a little,
doesn't it. And that's just in the purest use of it. I guess.
If you're just playing by your self, fine, But like if you
have an AI that's doing all this stuff for you, and you can intricately
ask it to do stuff that normally the player would have to, you know,
smash the buttons to accomplish, or you know, have keep one eye
point one way, one the other, you know, whatever it is,
whatever that difficulty is it will, It'll handle it for you. So like
it. It's like the it like nerves video games for you. Yeah.
It'd be pretty cool though, if you're playing like one of these RPG games
and you want to like step away and you're going to bed at night because
you need to get some sleep because you want to be a functioning human being,
but you need to remain right for farming, and then it would just
farm in the overnight. You'd wake up and you'd have all your resources.
That'd be pretty good. Oh I'm getting to that. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah. But also that's like that's the practical stuff you got.
It'll farm for you, it will, it will in in while you're actually
playing, it will do things for you. I don't know how necessarily it
adapts to every game, but you know, some games are much more complex.
But also, let's look at it from a Google perspective. You remember
how woke that last demon pile of garbage was? What does that look like
here? What if it's your virtual assistant, so to speak, and you're
playing Red Dead Redemption too. You think the Google AI is gonna let you
eat a horse? No, not a chance. Also, what if you
ask the Google AI to to kill enemies that appear to be from non white
po who is about to say, Like, you're playing like some sort of
role playing you know, the D and D game or whatever. It is,
Like you're like in the Character Creator, you create a big in a
white barbarian, you know what I mean, and like you need to take
something to heal yourself, and it's like, no, you need to share
your help poaching with the orcs or whatever. You know, you know that's
a white privilege, the white you know what means exactly. You've seen all
exactly, you bigot. Yeah. But also it's funny you mentioned the character
creator. I think it'd be a whot just to tell it, Hey,
create me a character and see what that monstrosity looks like. Right, That's
kind of something that goes around the character creators. I've seen that in boulders
Gate three, where like you can you can do you know, you can
hit a button and it'll make you a character on its own, or you
could do it right, but a lot of times it takes so much time.
So it's like I'm just gonna push this butt until I find a character
that I want, and you can push that button I did on stream on
the Twitch channel. You push that button for like twenty minutes and you're not
gonna see any white characters pop up. But they'll be purple and they'll be
blue and they'll be real. Yeah, it's weird, And I'm like,
all I want is like a it was like a Viking, That's all I
want. Yeah, yeah, yeah, well that's the you know I want.
I want a classic Arnold Schwartz nigger, D and D barbarian. That's
what I want. I mean, are you I'm just I'm trying to think
of the way that the classes. I remember Diablo changed something where because you
can pick the gender on this on the load screen, right, So if
your care the character, great, you'd not even going in and just doing
individual things. That's not what it's really about. But you can pick the
classes, right, and then you can pick man or woman and you can
make some changes. And it used to be it had the man standing see
here the male barbarian. You had to flip to the right to see the
female one and then you know, if you wanted to go play that,
and then they switched it. So yeah, there's already little stuff in there.
I didn't realize it was that that they're already doing that. What's the
what's the one where they were all excited because you can assign different genitals.
The opposite gent was that cyber was a cyber cyberpunk. Yeah, cyberpunk,
that's right, son. You imagine just turning it loose, just telling it,
hey, create whatever you want. Is like, yeah, I understand
you want to be a dude, but do you want to be a dude
with female parts? Yeah? Wait, well so I'm look, I'm looking
forward to that, man. But also I would point this out because that's
all seems We're like, well, people will use it to cheat. I
don't know if you know this. And I'm not even an avid gamer by
any means. I've heard that there are on PC games. Uh, that's
the thing that are on what No, it's not. It's not a thing
that I think your little b a little Alex jonesy here am I conspiracy theory?
Yeah? So that one E sports chick who had literally minimized the game
on her screen and it had all these control panels and she freaked out and
now she can't compete. That was what that's Alex Jones her Because I remember
actually watching the little video on that. So well, there you go,
so now, dude. But also it's like, this is the last point,
we're now so lazy. We made something to play video games for us?
Oh ross, I did get by the way, I did get you
a game as a gift, and I hope you play it on the screen.
Would you get laying on the couch simulator? It's great? Yeah?
Yeah, So what you do is you get you pick your couch, and
then you you lay on it all day. I'm not gonna lie and watch
I don't know all the Rocky movies yet to sit down and play the game
or install it. Yeah, but I feel like I could go pro game
of the Year right to get some words. It's gonna be amazing. And
and by the way, there are you think there's no uh you know,
who's the who's the baddie in this? Uh? Well, in the game,
while you're laying there doing nothing, your spouse at some point will come
up with some like little job that really doesn't have to be done right now.
But obviously this is about exerting some sort of control because you have a
stationary personality and they're up all around and so they think everyone should always be
up all around, and so you got to fend that boss off and then
your kids like a pay attention to me, and you know, so the
look, there's gonna be things built in. I don't want to spoil all
of it, but it's gonna be amazing, just like the weather from Race
aging. Got an easy job. What's going on? My man? Man,
not much, I'd i'd call it amazing yesterday? Yeah, like it,
man, get sticks out yet, I'm just I'm being I'm being Oh
yeah, dude, I golf, So I didn't golf. Well look for
you because you know, because it's winter rules right now, how it's always
winter rules? Oh free free drive right yeah? You know. I'm probably
going to be forced to get back out there after twenty plus years because my
youngest daughter's boyfriend is an extremely good golfer, actually going to going to school
in a scholarship for golf. And I'm like, now I have to go
out and golf. But the good news is at the local golf course,
somebody knows me from TV, so I get free free first round, first
free golf. So first time that's ever happened. Yeah, admitting too,
why are you admitting to a violation of broadcast rules. Well it's you know
free by the way, I'm teasing. Technically, he's not doing anything wrong,
but I you know, we just had our training, so I feel
all smart. So yeah, yeah, I've had that training a long time
ago, but now we do it every Yeah it's fun. Yeah, it's
well, yeah, it's complicated. Here's go with him, because if you
really want to go play golf, I don't care. Nobody knows what you
say, right, you know what I'm saying. If they want to get
out, get out of their house because they're done, you know, they'll
be like, exactly beautiful. So yeah it is. And do we get
records eighty six for Raleigh? Today's the record in nineteen ninety probably not eighty
two. Then the tryad seventy five. Today's today will be in the upper
seventies. Excuse me, the records eighty two, So we get close.
But a beautiful day tomorrow. The clouds will increasing. Another dry day in
the upper seventies to low eighties with the gusty breeze and then the round of
showers. Of the other showers actually may come in during the nighttime hours Friday
may clip you before midnight if you are heading out Friday night, but maybe
gone by the weekend, and lots of sunshine at pleasant over the weekend,
and the morning lows will be in the fifties, afternoon highs a lot to
mid seventies, so you know, those mornings would come on out and just
take that deep breath of air and be like, wow, this is nice,
this is real nice. Little chill your next week, we may spend
a couple of mornings down close to freezing in some spots, maybe colder in
the mountains in the twenties as this coal front comes on in and then sunshine
I think though, with the cooler temperatures more seasonable, as the average highs
this time of year are in the low sixties. Okay, all right,
thank you sir, appreciate it. We'll tell us in an hour. Yep,
there you go. Ray Stagic from the Weather Channel. Dude, there's
one ross, there's one boss in laying on the couch stimulator. Your cat
comes in and it starts doing that cough where you you know, it's like
are you gonna throw up? Is that a hairball? You know? That
horrible noise that they make and you have to resist getting off the couch to
deal with that, because your inclination is to throw the damn thing outside.
But that's a trick, so pro tip walk through. There you go.
As Nancy Pelosi would say, win a winter winter wait is not an attempt
to ban TikTok. It's an attempt to make TikTok better. T tech toe
a winner, winner, a winner. Okay, excuse me, I got
it wrong, So anyway, enjoy seven forty eight. Hang on this dude
emails all the time, always laughing, funny all this, but I have
but I have irritated one of our own miss fans. You need to correct
the racker. Jackson Dart does not quote have a plane. Jackson Dart has
an endorsement agreement with Nicholas Ayre, a private jet provider who also provides him
a planet. Said, let me just explain something to you, not that
I've opted not to have a private jet. I believe Ross has made the
same decision. That being said, some people and some companies do, and
a lot of times they don't own the plane. If you know this,
there are you can do it through lease, or you can own a plane.
You can do it through leases, or you can do it through one
of the subscription services or you know the various charters that are out there.
In fact, I went on a vacation one time where one of the dudes
he had through his company, I think they had net jets or whatever it
is, well one of them and like his flight had gotten his stuff had
gotten all screwed up. He was flying across the country where a bunch of
us were vacationing, and he just was like, everything's screwed up. He
literally was just like, I need a private jet for this last leg and
boom. But he didn't own it, but he still said, I have
a plane. Right. So yes, if Ross or I were doing an
endorsement for one of the one of the private jet companies and we had we
had our own jet to use, I feel like I would say I have
a plane. My buddy is like, oh man, I we should go
to New York this week take Amtrak. No I gotta I got a plane.
So I don't know what you're equivalent over, sir. I think people
understand how that works. Okay, all right, wonderful, all right,
coming up, Steven Kent, He's gonna join us or we'll get into the
TikTok stuff. You know what. I'm also I'm probably gonna start it off
with the the Google, because I know he'll think that's as amusing as I
do. Turning the woke Google loose on the video game industry. I can't
even I can't even imagine. You know what. I wonder, Oh,
I wonder, dude, you could moderate your Twitch channel for you. I
wonder if that's going to be part of this. Twitch already has that.
Oh they have their own, Ye don't, but don't you have moderators on
your channel? People do choose to have both. I have both. Well,
I turn off the automode for Twitch because it's like super strict. Yeah.
Like it's like if if something happens in the game and you're like,
ah, the game is a jerk, it'll it'll oh no, it'll bleep,
it'll you know, it'll it'll take out the word jerk in the chat
because that could have been offensive to somebody. Okay, it's really bad.
All right, Well, okay, so it's I assume the Google would be
that, but also about every five minutes in the chat stream, it would
it would be like here's some transgender facts, right, or some like it
feel an obligation eventually to educate you. I I don't. I don't even
know how sideways this goes, but I'm definitely curious to have the conversation.
And there was what was the There was one uh oh, the oscar,
A couple of oscar follow ups. So we'll get into all that coming up
here right after the top oh the hour Stephen Kent, who joins us this
morning for all things at the intersection of nerd stuff and politics. That's how
we do this thing. How you doing, Steven Casey? I'm hanging in
there? How about yourself hanging in You're not sick or anything? Are you?
The pollen is trying to kill me. Spring has sprung, and as
such I'm suffering, but I'll make it. Well, you didn't want a
yellow car? Huh, Well, that's how that goes. So now,
although in this case a lot of times we talk about kind of ancillary stories,
but I want to start with a couple couple things. Well, we'll
get to the TikTok thing here in a moment. Ross and I were just
talking about the Google Seema are you are you following this? So this is
the video game AI that Google's and of course we know that what Google did
a couple of weeks ago with their wonderful image generator, which we talked about.
But are you familiar with the AI Google video game product? Now,
tell me about it. Oh, it's oh so basically the Google AI.
Uh, this is one of their deep mind products known as SEMA. Is
an AI agent that can be used by gamers in a variety of ways.
Let's say you want to play against somebody, but you don't want you know,
you don't want some loudmouth twelve year old from a public forum screaming at
you, so you got to you could play the AI, right, So
if you want to play, you can play against them. However, where
it starts to get even weirder is it can also be your assistant. So
you know, if if you're playing a game and let's say, like a
lot of modern games, you got to have you gotta have reflexes of an
eight year old to excel, you can have it do stuff. So if
it's a game that requires you to watch your health and manna and maybe make
you know, hit some buttons occasionally, but you always die because you're paying
attention to that, well, the AI will do that for you kind of
feels like cheating. Man, you know what I'm saying, that's cheating.
I have no kind words to say about that. Now. I do recall
now that this is the deep Mind AI tool that was covered as learning how
to play the Goat Simulator game, right, which, by the way,
if you've never played Goat Simulator, it's a truly religious experience and I recommend
it for everyone. The game is literally just being a goat and running around
running around the city. But no, I mean, that's that's cheating.
That's not how you play video games. I guess, like I can remember
sometimes playing video games with my brother where he'd be, you know, sitting
over my shoulder and telling me like, all right, now jump over this
chasm and then now you've got to jump up this wall. But that's a
little bit different than having AI. That's a walk through guide that doesn't Yeah,
but that, But here's some other example, and then I'll get into
the scary stuff. Ross pointed this out. And the example I used when
I was talking about a game with Man in Power that was Yablo, right,
because it's really the only one I'm actually familiar with. And and but
in that game, like many games, you gotta you gotta, you gotta
put in the time, right you got if you want decent stuff, you
gotta you gotta farm is the term that they use. And you know that
thing's farming for you overnight. I can understand why people might want it.
I mean, also, we're now so lazy that we're we've created technology to
play video games for us Steven, Yeah, we've reached a new level of
despair as a country. You know, video games were supposed to be the
thing that give us the total permission just to do nothing and kick back and
relax and you know, exit from society. And now we're just gonna have
robots do that for us too. Well. And but here's the here's the
one caveat, I'll say. And I realized this almost immediately when I was
just a young in and we got our we got the Nintendo, right,
big deal. Finally got an intend though we were lagging a little behind some
other households. And I the first thing I learned about video games is they
cheat. So six year old me thought that. Forty three year old me
thinks that. So maybe that's how people will justify it. But I want
you to look at it through the woke filter. Remember everything that just happened
with Google's image generator, right. Can you imagine asking the AI Google Video
Game Assistant on a game like Cyberpunk, which has a very woke character creator,
just saying, hey, make make me a character what that monstrosity would
look like? No, I can. I can only begin to imagine they're
going to take take all the options off the board for building your own character
that you might want to have. It's it's just appointing, and you know,
like on the on the AI front though, I mean just thinking about
you know that you're going to have this AI tool that I don't know,
it diminishes like any sort of effort that you put into it. Like it
really is all sort of the same nexus of woke ideology, whether it's the
racial stuff or whether it's just the you know, you don't have to try
and reach certain standards and achieve lowering the bar for everybody. I don't like
it. You've brought despair to me this morning, Casey. Well, here's
some further despair before we get over the TikTok thing. We also had a
story yesterday about this thing. Now, the school districts are adopting, including
in US and Canada. And I think the Ottawa which is like a huge
district of in Canada, just signed on and it's called inclusive commencements, right.
I guess this is in opposition to those schools that wanted to do black
and white separate ones, which sounded a little nineteen the Jim crowey to me,
in this case, everyone walks, and now I mean everyone, including
the kids who didn't graduate, because they're you know, they want to they
want to walk, they want to walk. I don't know what you hand
them, but I think it's time just to abolish school all together. They're
route that they're route that we are going down. They just need to cut
to the chase these leftists, and in Ottawa and in Seattle and you know
Portland, they just need to abolish school and say that school itself is oppressive
and just let everybody around the streets during the day. I think that that's
what we're added towards. So why don't we just get to it. Well,
I'm with you, man, and this is not an attack on teachers,
but rather a business decision. If it doesn't matter whether you learn or
not. The single greatest cost for districts is personnel. Now, you don't
need personnel. You need like basically, you need like herders, like you
know, like sheep herders, basically to keep the kids corralled. But otherwise
you're saying it's just a license to print money. All right, This is
this is where I really wanted to go with you. I am somebody who
is very sensitive to the idea that government and languages of the laws that they
pass will be intentional and for political purposes, misutilized in many, if not
most ways. Now, sometimes it's stopped right and sometimes it's rectified. But
I'm a slippery slope guy, so I'm all yours. When people are talking
about this TikTok bill, which some people say is a trojan horse, right,
and the language of it was so broad that they had to put these
qualifiers into the bill, which is true, which basically kind of was like
these carve outs, But it was a tacit admission that maybe the initial language
is too broad. But not everyone feels that way because TikTok is a different
animal from what we've seen of from social media. So I read your tweets,
it sounds like you're more comfortable with what they passed. I don't want
to put words in your mouth, but what do you think? Yeah,
yeah, I am casey. So first of all, I also identify regularly
as a slippery slope guy as well. Anytime this kind of legislation passes to
control a scary thing under the guise of national security, my hair stands on
end. It makes me uncomfortable. I grew up during the days of the
Patriot Act, and you know, fool me once, you know, I
don't want to be fooled again by this kind of alarmist power grabs by the
federal government. But like you said, TikTok is a very different kind of
animal. And the language that went into this new TikTok Divestiture Bill was initially
very broad. And what you just mentioned was that it was marked up and
there were specifications put in there to you know, really tailor and narrow this
thing, to make sure that it was targeted towards you know, foreign adversary
owned companies operating outside of the bounds of American law and sometimes in conflict with
the rules of the EU as well. So it was it went through the
process that's kind of what Congress is supposed to do is they're supposed to have
an idea process a bill. Then people like Rand Paul and Thomas Massey object
and they ask for changes to be made, and changes got made. But
yet then they still double down on wanting TikTok to operate under byte nance in
the United States, And I really don't understand why. Well, again,
there are as you know, watching Congress deal with anything with technology, Like
you remember the hearings where the one guy didn't know that Facebook was free because
ads, right, and he's just like, oh my gosh. These are
the people making the laws technologically illiterate, right, right, So I get
nervous anytime. My problem is this, I want to build that very specifically
speaks to things, but also has language in there that I feel needs to
be needs to tell you the reason for the bill and not the non reasons,
which is actually what the markups were so went like basically, yes,
it's under the president's purview. It has to meet these parameters talking about control
either in part or total control of a foreign entity that's among our enemies,
so to speak. But rather than going and by the way, this only
counts for these sites, apps, whatever that are in this particular you know,
under this particular country, and this is the list of countries. That's
how it's going to be arrived at. But what the markup did, the
main one is basically said, this really doesn't apply to food and travel stuff.
This is weird, man, because that sounds like somebody who has concerned
that it might be too broadly interpreted. So well, I don't really know
why you would need to have it be applied towards sports, food and travel
and stuff. I mean, what they're trying to address specifically is a data
harvesting operation being run by the CCP on America food and travel websites and content.
Not actually right, right, Okay, okay, just to be clear,
I mean, yeah, that's and that's all fine and good. I
just I really kind of just reject I guess the idea that because this is
a piece of legislation that could in theory be used, you know, inappropriately
in the future, which is the case with almost every law that the federal
government ever moves through. Ever, that you just don't do good things such
as kick byte dance out of the United States and exchange for a company that
actually protects the cybersecurity and national security interests of the United States. I think
we do actually have to do things to inoculate and defend ourselves, and we
can't just screen liberty at the clouds and go like, all right, liberty
means that byte dance has to run TikTok. No, it doesn't. That
is not what liberty means at all. And so I'm just a little bit.
I don't believe that I agree with you, by the way, on
that point, I don't. I don't, And that's not where my objection
lies. It's not a liberty issue because when you're dealing with China, you're
dealing with China. Game game on, okay, Like you saw the story
of the the the cranes at our port. They figured out was talking to
China. The other day, I was watching one of the tech guys on
YouTube who's based Yeah, he's got the root of the vacuum. It's got
a vacuum that's sending data to China. Like, yes, that's that's a
national security that's outside the parameters of what is acceptable. Right. We have
all sorts of stuff, But if you look at the limitations the the old
ones, back in the day, the Founding fathers, they were really around
uh eight, you know, aiding our enemies. So to speak, right,
you need to be all in on the US. So I'm able to
separate that. But I also don't trust these guys to go well, you
know, because what have they complained about with Twitter? They've complained that,
you know, there are outside entities within Russia that utilize Twitter. Of course
they use all of them, but they always pointed to Yeah, and the
FBI and the CIA has been using Twitter as their own means of censoring and
trying to control the US population. And I don't. I don't trust the
government as far as I can throw it. It's you know, I don't
at all. But that is just the job of our champions of free speech
and again the l word liberty in Congress. I I love Rand Paul and
Thomas Massey and you know, Dan Bishop and all these guys who are are
standing tall, you know, in what they believe on this issue. Because
slippery slopes exist. However, I just think like, like, in this
case, we have to do something to inoculate ourselves. This is a reasonable
solution, which is divestiture, not a total band. And then we've got
to fight those fights when they come down the road. Did you hear that
Nancy Pelosi audio? By the way, you know, what the what the
hell is not does this woman when she sees a tween staring at their phone
for nine hours on the plane and never eyes, never deviated, does she
think they're plane tic tac toe. Here's the This is not an attempt to
ban TikTok. It's an attempt to make TikTok better. Tic tac toe A
winner, A winner, A winner, a winner. Oh my god.
And this is how immature we are around these parts. If I was this
is why I couldn't be a member of Congress. It would be hilarious.
But I would at any point, for like the next two weeks that I
had, you know, five minutes, my five minutes or whatever, I
would make whatever my passionate argument is, and I would do that thing at
the end where they're just like, oh, And what I would hope is
my you know, my friends across the aisle would join me in this historic
vote. And to that, I say, duck, duck, goose.
And then just and then I would just incorporate kids, kids, games,
reference and everything, because I'm that immature. That means this is why they
pay you the big money, Casey. But but I'm a bit of a
watch It Burn guy. So it's the point I was going to make is
it's ironic that I'm also a slippery slope guy because you were watch It Burn
guy. You wanted to go sideways, and I'm just that's right instead of
just assuming it will so. And then last yet, we haven't spoke to
you since then. I got about a minute and a half. Anything stand
out at the old Oscars for you other the ratings were up actually a significant
amounts. Yeah, you know, it's not a coincidence. I think that
the ratings were both up, and I thought it was actually a pretty good
Oscars. Like all things considered, it was funny. It did not take
itself too seriously from end to end. I kind of get this feeling like
the fever of total wokeness and lack of humor in Hollywood and in culture is
starting to break just a little bit, Like I think that the temperature is
starting to come down, and watching the Oscars, I did get that feeling.
There's lots of stuff to laugh at. It seems like we're going back
towards being a country that can like have funny Conversations again, and the Oscars
did that. We've been watching now, I think two or three times.
I'm just ken performance by Ryan Gosling and it's worth it. It's funny.
And the mulvaney thing too, with the Field of Dreams, that was a
hoot. Field of Dreams. After he is his monologue in one of his
stand up specials where he did the entire plot of The Fugitive. The first
thing that we did was go and watch The Fugitive. So now we want
to watch Field of Dreams again. That he's doing that for the movie industry.
All right, I got to roll out like five seconds, but Stephen
Kent appreciate it. Well, we got a whole bunch of cancelations this morning,
so fetch me the taker bill. Thank you. All right, let's
go ahead and do this thing. Roz. You want to start in US,
you're Canada. You want to work north to south or south to north
in Canada. We're going team Canada, all right, story numero, Well
it wouldn't be numero, you know it's Canada. So story one. Ah,
here we go. So the Supreme Court of Canada has labeled some words
confusing and unfortunate. Those are the those are the words. Not those Tho's
not the words they labeled. But that's how they described the word I'm about
to tell you, and it's it's very problematic. There's three words that,
according to a ruling this week by the Supreme Court of Canada, that unfortunately
create a very confusing environment, a very unfortunate environment, and frankly don't have
any place in They get into some more plex kind of legal ease here.
But you know, one of the things you got to know about. I'm
not a lawyer, by the way, Ross, I just had Ross check
to heard the break. But there are phrases, words, labels, things
like that that are there's a certain uniformity in in the law, especially especially
when you if you ever read the bill, right, if you ever read
one of the congress holes psychopathic handcrafted pork delivery products, when part of the
bill is spent saying when you see this word, this is what it means,
and that's you know, that's that's there, and it's in law and
all of that. So the definition of words is not an atypical discussion in
law. Now, I know what you're wondering, what are the words,
Well, it's individual words and or the combination of the following words that can
be confused using. According to the Supreme Court, those words are hold on
Well. The main word is woman, which is ironic because I remember a
bunch of people asking what is a woman? I saw that on Twitter somewhere
well up in Canada. According to the Supreme Court, the decision says that
the word woman is confusing and unfortunate, and it also talks about variations of
it, utilizing different identifiers and different descriptions and or definitions that have been used
to describe what the word woman means. The popular one is adult human female
seems pretty adequate, right, A good way? Well, no, yes,
According to Canadian Supreme Court Justice Sheila Martin, who wrote the uh,
I guess the majority of opinion. This was involving a sexual assault case that
had been going on for about seven years. The case involves a sexual assault
allegation made by a woman against Charles Kruck, whoever that is. I don't
know. Kruck is basically and the thing is says Kruck took an intoxicated woman
home, ostensibly to call her family, but when she passed out, she
woke up to find that he was he had taken her pants off, you
know, just it's just general horribleness. That's the summary of the case.
But the context you can understand what happened is the defense by Kruck was on
the grounds, you know, I can't even get into too much of it.
They were arguing over whether he had actually gone further and initiated intercourse by
via entry. All right, So that's what this was about. So it
is in this case that is dealing with a serious allegation of a serious crime,
this situation, this experience that this woman had, whether in fact when
she woke up as she described, if in fact that's what Kruck was doing,
and whether he's guilty. And then it just got weird. I don't
know how to read the quote. Oh okay, well, here's here's how
I can say it. She described the experience, and she did so not
just with what she saw, but what she felt. And that's what the
lawyer's challenging because the statement she made was this is I felt this happening.
And then the lawyer pushed back and go, well, how did you know
if you said you just felt but you didn't see the actual And this is
how dice this lawyer was getting and she said, I'm a woman, and
I wouldn't be mistaken about that feeling. I felt it so many times.
Essentially, that's that they're challenging. The Supreme Court agreed, simply saying that
you're a woman, so that you would understand that feeling, which I'll never
understand, right, but women women understand women obviously who uh, who have
engaged in activity, right, they're gonna have They're gonna have some base there.
But according to the Court, simply saying I'm a woman, therefore I
have this. Therefore I've experienced this, so therefore I know what that feeling
is. Is like if if I went if I walked up behind Ross and
flicked him in the back of the year, he didn't see it, but
he just felt it. Ross, would you know that I flicked you in
the back of the year? Of course you would? And why because you
have ears and you probably somebody flicked you in the back of the year before
school, sibling whatever, like like we do we do that because we can
feel when you're touching parts of our bodies. So like, again, there's
there's a lot of really really sick lawyering. But then to get the Supreme
court to go. Well, you know, woman, that's a very confusing
phrase. That's just that's pete Canadian insanity, at least for this week.
Meanwhile, down south, let's head to west Point, shall we? West
Point Military Academy. This would of course be the Army. They have a
motto, and they have a mission statement, and in the mission statement is
the motto. And if you don't know, the motto, though not always
as they point out it, but the current motto, and the one that's
been there for most of my lifetime is duty on our country. Okay,
and that was in the mission statement, which is longer than that, but
that is a part of it. And unfortunately they feel like that may not
be the best thing to include in the mission statement. So they're making a
change. Yep, that's right. Here we go. The US Military Academy
at West Point has made the decision to remove duty, honor Country from their
mission statement. Now the motto for the school is that. And according to
this superintendent was Steve Gilly, who's the superintendent, Lieutenant General gilland he said,
don't worry, it will still be the motto. We're just changing.
We're just changing the mission statement and removing it. Well, excuse me if
I don't believe you, because what they changed it to rather than duty,
honor country, And let me read this to you so you hear it in
context. Let's see. Sorry, working off two different stories here, Okay,
yeah, loyalty Okay, here we go. Despite removing the phrase from
the mission statement, Gillan said honor duty country still reflects the various actions of
the cadets and soldiers, such as loyalty, bearing true faith, and allegiance
to the US Constitution, but he says that those are inherent army values.
So rather than in their mission statements saying honor duty or duty honor country,
they replaced it with army values, saying, well, obviously everyone knows that
army values are duty, honor country, so we don't have to say it.
Well, no I would. I'm gonna push back just a little,
and you guys call it. Correct me if if I'm wrong here in the
last segment, or you can email or whatever. When you say values of
an institution, there are historical values, but also there are today's values.
Okay, do you think the values of the US Army are the same,
not from a historical perspective, but from a right now under Joe Biden as
they are under Donald Trump. I don't think so. I think the core
foundational stuff like duty on your honor country should be but saying that it's not
inclusive enough and the argument meaning that it should specify army and there are a
lot more values. Okay, well, then add more values. But it
is literally the motto and you're changing it. I feel like the values,
especially in a political environment, which unfortunately the military becomes, it reflects the
values of whoever's running it. Like almost any organization. It could be the
value that you could work for a great parent company, but if you're at
a local office or franchise and management sucks, well, their values are kind
of ruling the roost there. So that's what I'm driving at. And then
the funniest thing too, is, uh, there's some he's marine because he
wrote semper five at the end, and I just love how they never stopped.
Nobody ever stops clowning on anybody, he said. He said, Now,
the real reason they removed it is because the words were had more than
one syllable, and nobody from the army to what they meant. And then
he wrote semper five. Oh, you guys just don't take a day off.
So yeah, that's the skinny on that. Let's get rased agic for
the skinny on the weather. Yeah yeah, let's do that. What do
you got? Yeah, real good stuff. Next few days above average temperatures.
The perspective for everybody is typically this time of year, the highs are
in the upper fifties and low sixties. So now we're upper seventies, low
eighties, so that's about twenty degrees above normal. Enjoyed. It will come
to an end, but not today. Lots of sunshine, not increasing clouds,
gusty southwest breeze. That'll be tomorrow night where we'll get a front through
with some shower stutter showers, and I think it could be seven or eight
o'clock a little bit earlier in the Triad and areas to the west of that,
so they'll come in from the west, and the shower stuttererstorms will be
with us. Nothing wisememb We're not expecting severe like we're seeing now just south
of Chicago. Then we cool off only a little load to mid seventies for
Saturday Sunday, maybe pushing back to the upper seventies and mostly Sunnay both days,
including Sunday Saint Patrick's Day. The next frontay command will cool off maybe
more seasonable temperatures. Next week could have a couple of nights down or even
below freezing, so some chillier air casey on the way for at least the
early part of next week. Okay, thank you sir, having go on
talk to you tomorrow and Jeff Ellinger's next hang on. Well morning, k
you see, this is the biggest day of the week for economic data.
The latest numbers in from Washington show there was a bigger than expected increase and
wholesale level inflation last month. The government says the producer price index rows six
tenths percent in February. Retail sales were also up six tens percent last month,
but that number is a little lighter than expected. When it comes to
sales, the number of workers signing up for unemployment benefits fell by one thousand
to two hundred nine thousand. Economists say the data are not likely to suggest
to the Fed that it's safe to start cutting interest rates. And one other
development with the future of TikTok being decided on Capitol Hill, former Treasury Secretary
Stephen Minouchin told CNBC this morning he is putting together a group to try to
buy TikTok, so stay tuned for that. In casey, this report was
sponsored in part by Total Wine. Okay, all right. By the way,
do you see one of the other people he named is the activision guy
Codis, So they'll put TikTok in six months with that lunatic in there.
All right. I don't want to drag you into that, all right,
enjoy your Total Wine is are you drinking reports this week? No, that's
not allowed. All right, thank you appreciate, Okay, take care.
That'd be amazing, ross, wouldn't it if like the entire Bloomberg business reporters
are all doing the Total Wine endorsement and they also have to drink all morning?
Oh? I couldn't wait for that report. All right. Let's uh
let's grab a call here on the West Point. Okay, uh, well,
let's talk to gentlemen from Liberty. Uh will how are you doing this
morning? Hey morning, Casey. I actually saw the news story that you
reported on with regard to West Point yesterday and at first kind of kind of
the same way. Also, want to be very careful that I don't violate
any Department Offense instructions with regard to politically. Oh yeah, I should tell
people you are when I say at liberty you are. Actually I didn't put
your rank because I don't know if you want it out there, but your
active duty just so folks know. So, yeah, so I appreciate that.
And again what I'm I'm looking here is to add a little contact.
So when they said, hey, we've we've pulled duty on our cunt out
of a mission statement and we replaced it with the Army values that they embody,
the Army values. So there are seven Army values that the same seven
Army values for the entire time that I've been on active duty, and they
are loyalty, duty, the respect, selfless service, honor, integrity,
and personal courage. So when you say, hey, we removed duty honor
country from the mission statement and we replaced it with the Army values. Uh,
those seven Army values, I would say very much encompass duty, honor
country, and obviously West Points motto still remains on their their crest and their
shields country. I thought it was important point that out because yeah, yeah,
so context, I think I think there's always what's that. Do you
think it works? Do you think it works? Do you think values works
versus well, I think Army values have existed. And when you start looking
at those seven Army values and you look to embody them, I think that
that's that's very it's very doable, it's very it's something that's trained throughout the
force. UH. It's emblematic of who we are. At the same time,
I understand when anyone sees like a mission statement change or things of that
nature, that, especially in our political climate, it can engender, it
can start to cause worry on both sides of the political aisle. UH.
So it's not something that shouldn't that should be overlooked. But also, having
been in the Army for for a hot minute, I will tell you that
that mission statements and focuses UH change quite often with regard not only to the
politics UH and and what is being driven from the top, but also just
the understanding that that, hey, we need to we need to reemphasize certain
areas, we need to take a different approach because this is working, this
is not working. And that that's true for almost every single major command in
the United States Army