All right, good morning everybody, and welcome. It's well, normally it
would be to halfway point, but then we really didn't have a Monday,
so I don't know. One twenty five of this week's efforts getting underway to
day a c O Day radio program coming up. Hollywood, gonna Hollywood.
I don't know what's going on with this, so we one of the weirdest
movie premises I've seen. But Hollywood is a buzz, so we'll try to
make sense of what's going on there. We got six of the Georgia defendants,
including former North Carolina Congressman Mark Meadows, making their initial plea down in
Georgia, and Georgia is all about some Rico stuff. They just found sixty
with sixty one others. He has sixty one others to be charged under the
Ricos statue down there. Some might argue that it's cover for other stuffs that
they're doing. They're like doll so you don't think they should use it.
And then for this, I'll let you be the judge when I explain what
they're talking about. How do find it interesting? Because one could argue that
many other municipalities and states they wanted to go in this direction for kind of
this same stuff might have themselves a little bit of a roadmap, but probably
not. Oh and now I guess we're officially using the robot murdered dogs for
security, So I can't decide whether it'll be effective based on the terrifying videos
of them running around with oozies and stuff, or it'll get parted out like
hitchbot did. But we will share that story for you. It's like I
said last yesterday, Man, it's just just a crazy week news wise,
but we will we will do our bet. Oh and one of the one
of my favorite articles I've read in a while is piece. It was penned
by a family from California, a formally who decided they were going to move
to Texas, but they're gonna move to Austin, so kind of Texas and
it's not living up to their moon bad expectations. The irony, of course,
is they made the move right now. It was a job related move,
but they then wrote a whole article about how Texas sucks. And again,
you moved to Austin, so I don't know that you're getting the full
Texas experience. But also to act like there's zero difference and then complain about
all the stuff that you say you didn't move away from because of you just
had to or job stuff and you really love. I can't figure out what
the heck's going on with this thing, but we will. We'll touch on
that, and then, you know, whatever other news is breaking out there,
including race stagic, where we'll just have a kind of a moment of
silence and be like, what happened. Although I did see the new ap
pole and Clemson didn't leave the top twenty five. They are twenty five,
so they're not they haven't been excommunicated yet. I don't know. Man,
Colorado jumps in there pretty deep, and it's some other weirdness on that,
but that's what people argue about, and I don't I don't know whether that
thing is really accurate. For the first about four or five weeks, some
would claim it's never accurate. But what are you gonna do? Oh yeah,
yeah, yeah, I don't worry. I got a hamster ball guy.
He he's he's been on the show before and he's from Florida, So
we'll leave. Maybe we'll get the Florida man tune out, but it's it's
not his first rodeo. He's kind of an angry dude, all right.
So that's just a little snippet, a little teaser if you will, of
what's happening out there. I do want to start with this though, because
yesterday we did open the show with a little burning Man discussion. People had
a lot of fun over the weekend with the whole They send it to put
a tweet out and they'd be like, hey, my friend just sent me
this picture from burning Man, and then it's just movie pictures of any movie
where somebody is like engulfed in mud and misery. Right, that's the joke.
So it's like a tray you from never ending story like trying to tug
his horse out of the swamp of sorrows. And I don't know, I
got a pretty good chuckle out of it. Would you ever wonder whose fault
it is that seventy thousand people who decided to take a what we would refer
to out west as a weather road. They call them weather roads, and
they if something is referred to as a weather road, a lot of times
will be signage on it. And what they're pointing out is this is a
road that exists based on kind of what the weather's doing. Get a lot
of these in Wyoming, and it just says, you're on your own.
We don't grade this road. We don't really do anything. If it really
screws up, maybe somebody will come in. We had a weather road near
us, and basically we had like a community greater piece of heavy equipment that
was co owned by about ten different ranching outfits. We would use for our
own roads, but we might grade the weather road and it just you know,
it's just up to that. So to have a single point of egress
for seventy thousand people in an area that if it does rain it gets real
flash floody because it usually doesn't rain and can obliterate obliterate the road doesn't seem
like the best idea. Now I'm not knocking it. I found myself literally
up in an area in the mountains before where we had to kind of wade
out the snow because we couldn't get out of there otherwise just due to the
grade of the road and the steepness of it coming out. And eventually what
we had to do is literally back down part of the road with a winch
around a tree. And even then we were kind of sliding back and forth.
It was a mess, man, But it was of our own doing.
Now, that was just us. I think there was three three vehicles
at that time, and we just didn't realize how much snow we were going
to get, but what it was. So the question becomes whose fault is
it? Is it those who decided to use a single point of access in
an area where the road could disappear in a matter of moments or turn into
a mud pit? Is it organizers of burning man? Is it mother nature?
Well, luckily the clucking chickens over at the view they were able to
get to the bottom of it yesterday, and I was kind of surprised about
this. This is one of the many tragedies this this summer h due to
climate change. Of these is the this is the one number one existential problem.
And it rained three months worth over twenty four hours, So we're not
here, Republicans say, which, by the way, in an area that
gets very very very very very little rainfall, the number of rainy days a
year is very minimal for it to rain three months worth in twenty four hours,
which isn't exactly accurate. That was a seasonal thing, but it's it's
easy because it may only rain once every three months. You see what I'm
saying. Like, if you were to say Seattle got three months worth of
rain in twenty four hours, that'd be a big damn deal. Right,
doesn't it take place in like a dry river bed or something? Right,
that's a which would which dry lake or something? Yeah? Yeah, it
is a it is a dry lake. Yeah, pyramid lake. So it's
sometimes very rarely is it a lake, But sometimes it's a lake. Like
you know, when it rains once every sometimes a couple of months, or
once a month, or once every three months. So for it to rain
once every three If it only rains once every three months and then it rained
one day, then you could say that it rained three months worth of rain
in twenty four hours. But likely what will happen is that lake two or
three times a year will garner enough water to kind of appear as a lake.
There's a lot of there's a lot of sometimes lakes, not just in
Nevada. Most people don't realize that when you're on the front range of Colorado,
Wyoming and eastern Montana, you're on you're you're in the desert. It's
what is referred to from a topography standpoint is high desert and it's based on
the rainfall. And I remember driving through there being like it looks like a
palm went off here. Mmmmmmm. So those those those natural drainages, they
exist and you see them and they look empty, and sometimes they're not.
I could there's a there's a dozen places just around where I grew up,
and we get significantly more rain than they do. I'm moistured than they do
in northern Nevada there where there's just not water, and then when there is
a rainstorm, there's a water. See. There's a lot in Texas too,
especially West Texas. That's how that's why people get trapped in a lot
of the flooding and stuff, because they live around there, they move there,
or they go to an area very infrequently, and where there normally isn't
a stream, there's there is a cascade of water. But anyway, all
right, So but I need a name, Joy, I need a name
here that we can put for the for the villain poster. You got anything,
Oh, it's not man made. It's not about fossil fuels. You
know, when Trump was president, all of that went up. The fossil
fuels went up and the regulations down on it. Please don't vote for him.
I'm begging you, get him out of him. He's so dander But
I'm glad you mentioned because it's so dangerous. It's you know, it's important
to keep mentioning and trying to see how we help the Maui fires. How
you know, the Nia and Florida's a horrible, horrible lit Wait wait wait,
hold on. See so the first example you then go to after mentioning
literally what is a lake, albeit a dry one okay most of the time,
and cut into the cut into the the topography of riverbeds, which again
only acts only work. You know how, you know how a lot of
people end up getting in trouble out This happened in Utah a lot too.
Where they go up there in Utah they have these amazing canyons of of the
you know, with the deep red hues and everything. I mean, just
incredible stuff. And there's lots of videos you can look this up where people
are hiking up them and there may be a little trickle stream, but the
walls of the canyon going up literally like ten twenty feet are just this amazing
carved sandstone, and there's some I mean, there's some really cool stuff out
there. Arizona has one of the most famous. And when you're looking at
it, you're like, wow, that's amazing. But at no point in
your head does it go, I wonder how the sandstone got carved out there.
That's so weird, man. And then it could be raining, like
fifty miles away, and then people will be in these canyons and all of
a sudden they have this old crap moment because here comes a cascade of muddy
water. Because it's one of the few times where where the rains coming.
People have been killed in those scenarios and horrible. Oh in the Maui fires,
I thought that that was man made. I thought we at least agreed
on all that. It's like a nuclear bomb hit that poor place. Yeah,
and there are in grease. There were fires in Italy. Yeah,
the Phoenix had a hundred grease. They arrested what like sixty people for setting
the fires. Sixteen degree temperature. Palm Springs must have been over one hundred.
You ever been to Palm Springs, which is in the desert. Yeah,
yeah, it probably was over a hundred because that's it's really really hot.
There are drying up. If we don't have water, we can't exist.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, all right, because it's not
enough water in the conversation that started about flooding, what you say the conversation
seems to be all over the place and not based in reality. But yeah,
but Trump, if you mentioned that, you should be arrested to Trump,
let me look, come on, uh so I is ross pointed out?
Yes, the which is it on the water? Which one do you
want? And also it's like this whole area where again like you're having to
put you're having to like create pretend you're gonna have to like you can't build
a reservoir. We remember we did this story. So they're like, ah,
beavers, remember how we used to like chase them off. Now we're
gonna let them build it because as if the government, we can't actually build
a reservoir because moonbats lose their mind. But if the beavers do it,
then it's not us doing it because they all know, hey, you know
it'd be a good idea, but we have this many people reservoirs. Think
about it. We'll be back the show after the show is on the iHeart
Radio app search case O Day or the podcast on the iHeart Radio app.
What no, why would no? No? No? People are you know,
people are up and they're trying to get no. Oh dear god.
No oh no, no, no, no no. Why would you retweet
that? Oh? Oh dear god. You notice it's in coach too,
so I don't fly with the pores. Man Ross just retweeted a video the
inside of the Are we just calling it the booplane now or the diarrhea plane?
Uh? That is awful. All right, we'll be back hang on.
Thank you. Casey is on ninety four five w PTI and the Triad
and one uh six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right, good
morning, six thirty four here on the case O Day radio program. I
I didn't need to see that video, but if you want to see the
video of the Delta flight from Atlanta to Barcelona. They were not exaggerating in
the written descriptions that it ran the length of the plane. I have a
question. So they turned around, they turned around. They were at least
two hours out over international waters. The total what is the total flight to
Barcelona? Probably what eight hours? I'm not sure what it is from Atlanta,
so you know they're not a halfway or anything, but there is significant
distance and everyone wants to get to Barcelona. And it's not like a fuel
issue. And you have to understand two that they're gonna have at least another
two hours of flying, right, because they're going back to Atlanta and they're
two hours away, so then it would be at least half of it.
How do you not just go to Barcelona? Man? At some point if
you're on there, I mean, it sucks. Obviously. What you don't
see in that is they're going down the aisle and it's just devastation. Is
every one of those seats adjacent's the aisle likely had somebody sitting there who likely
had a bag under the seat in front of him, because there's you know,
there's never enough overhead space, especially in a wide body like that.
So when I say wide body, you know you got the got seats on
either side, but you also have seats in the middles. You end up
with two aisles, never enough overhead space. So of course, right there's
gonna be some friendly fire on those bags too, right, And if you're
the whoever that was, can you imagine getting off the plane and they're like,
oh, we lost your luggage, Jez, and then they find it
it's just covered in poop. Why wouldn't Why wouldn't be that it would have
to make an effort. Man, Oh, it's just awful. And that
person was just running down the aisle well, and it looks like they were
running from economy forward And I'm not sure exactly the eight three fifty on the
wide body what the laboratories look like. But if they're running forward, were
they running to the first class business class labatory because those are not for coach.
They clearly state that no pores allowed. It's why they have that little
curtain. So they were trying to break the rules. Man. I'm like,
whenever I go in playing, I'm super conscious about like what I'm gonna
eat and stuff because I don't want like the bubble gut and I don't want
to you know. I'm just you know, I'm you know, I can't
want to be the person us having to use lavatory and yeah, like aggressive
manner, and I care about my fellow passengers, right, I'm trying to
be you know, I'm trying to think of them and I don't want like,
you know that stench, Like I don't want any gastinal intestinal problems because
you see that picture, like, oh my man, that's gross, but
just imagine the stench. Oh yeah, and close space. You know.
I told you, like when last times it was on a plane, there's
some dude who the moment, like you hear the ding at ten thousand and
you are already this dude is racing for the bathroom and then he's in there
for a while and you just when he comes out, you just know what's
up. And it was confirmed when I saw another woman then walk into it
and uh come out looking like she just stumbled upon like you know, under
the floorboards of Dahmer's house, right, and they're like, you know what,
i'ma I'll be I'm gonna be fine for a while. I still had
like hours of flight time left. But at least that dude made it,
you know what I'm saying. So I don't know what's up gives new meaning
to explosive, No, it, I don't think it gives new meaning.
I think it literally is the definition of it. But you're right though,
that makeup plane like the next day or whatever, Like you can't get on
that plane if you're that prob if you're that person, yeah, because everybody
knows you. Now now you have to get on another flight. You're like
charting a boat to go and wherever. You're like a bus or whatever.
I'm not getting on a plane now. You use the Remember the boat Gretta
took over, right, She's like, Oh, I'm gonna go Green,
I'm gonna take a boat over when you came over to like where was it
South America or whatever? Yeah, except it was a boat crewed by like
six people who then had to lie home. You're like, at this point,
I'll even I'll rent a bouncy house and go across. I'm not getting
on a plane. What do you think they ate? Probably Carrabas, But
it's what did Carrabas ever due to you? I mean, listen, it's
just my opinion. I prefer olive garden, Okay, authentic Italian cuisine.
The chefs are trained in Tuscany. Man. I know you've mentioned when you're
there your family. Yes, you know. What's funny is now all I'm
getting on social media? We're watching what are we watching? We were watching
that Robert Pattinson Batman movie and we're getting like targeted ads and stuff or whatever
before and like everything, Now all my targeted ads are for olive Garden.
What a waste? Like they got you. It's hilarious, Like what what
do they need to spend? Alive Garden didn't have to spend a red scent
on marketing to you. That's just like y'all should be paying me. This
was wasted dollars. Man. That's like going to like NC State's tail game,
being like, who's I love to tell you about the wolf pack?
But we're sitting, you know, we're watching the show and the ad starts
and we Marky and I just look at each other. We just started laughing.
Well, like this guy loves olive Garden. Well maybe it's because you
were like posting pictures of olive garden. You did your whole thing with olive
Garden. So Carrabas is your leading suspect there. Do they have a Carrabas
in the in the Atlanta Airport? Maybe I don't, Maybe they do.
I don't know the big old airport that or there's a place in Have you
ever been a runsa runs? It would make more sense considering the name is
runs a yeah, no, no, no, No, it's an Italian
restaurant. It's it's it's an Italian drive through restaurant Omaha, Nebraska. Okay,
I don't think I'm near in the Midwest. Is it is? It?
Is? It not of Olive Garden quality? It is not. But
if you're looking for like a good drive through, like a taco like the
Taco Bell of Ohod like that. Yeah, okay, so they're gonna say
you can go to Olive Garden. You don't have to get out of your
car. They bring the food to you. You got parking spots and everything.
Drive through you like, you go up to the window and you're like,
give me a basket of spaghetti or whatever. That's just that sounds really
messy to eat in your car, especially if it's one of those baskets that
has all the little events on it. But I'm not in the drive through
Italian business. So what are you gonna do? All right? Well,
whatever they ate, man, it didn't. It didn't agree with him,
not at all. That is that is horrific right there. Yeah, you're
not on the next plane. You're not on any plane. I I mean,
they're probably not gonna kick you off because it's not like you're meant to
do that. But still, and that's the other thing too, Even if
you're not gonna get on the next plane, you had to then spend two
hours on that plane with everybody knowing who you are, straight up knowing who
you are. This is also why even and I almost never never check luggage.
I don't care where I'm going. I can perfect I can perfectly easily
travel. How long was I in Columbia, Ecuador? A week and a
half plus, I'm out on an island and I'm doing all that stuff I
had. I had the big way carry on, the biggest one carry on
you can get. Don't check luggage, however, I do that, and
then I have my backpack is what I travel with, and in the backpack,
away from the rest of the luggage, I will have one change of
clothes on the off off, off chance I get gate checked or I just
can't access it, and I just like you got it. You gotta pull
one pair of pants and one T shirt and some underwear and just stick it
in, stick it in your backpack there. Yeah, No checking baggage is
the absolute worst. And then you've got to worry about them losing your stuff,
which is happening to be for New York. Like you're at your destination,
you have to wait like four or five days from then the send your
stuff or like even just getting off the plane. At that point, I
want to go. I don't want to stand at the stupid carousel and wait
for my bag. Right, No, I'm with you, man, Like
last time I went home to New York, like two pair of jeans,
four T shirts, and like pajamas and that was it. And you didn't
even wear all of it. I didn't. I'm always kicking myself because I'll
pack and then I'll be like, h I didn't even wear all this stuff.
Could have totally left more space. But yeah, you never know.
You could eat at a Carrabos or Runza then, you know, dear God.
Yeah, but I think once you're a certain distance, you just gotta
suck it up get to because like the hassle over it, because I mean,
I understand the smell, but eventually you just you want to get to
where you're going. And it sounds like we weren't able to get on a
plane for another eight hours after they landed, so you know, you got
half a day and if you got something going on. That sucks, man.
I remember one of the times I went over to Ireland, we were
supposed to meet a group for it weren't traveling and one of those big group
things with all the buses. I mean, God help me. But part
of what I was doing in Dublin was it was a tour of the Guinness
thing and the Jamison Distillery and a few others, and so we bought this
whole thing and it took place over two days and then you did some stuff
and then the rest of it kind of on your own. And I wanted
to kick it off there and it was it was much easier just to do
it as part of this. And got totally hosed trying to go through Newark
and we got there and it was just it was a whole thing. It
was a whole nightmare, man, just to try to meet up with the
group, and then hadn't properly slept, and and then you're at the Guinness
thing and you're in this big have you ever been in the Guinness brewery?
They had like this big ufo tower above the brewery where after you go through
it, they give you like a rock or a stone and then that's your
currency in this bar so you can go drink a delicious guinness and stare out
over at all the construction cranes of Dublin. And a time we showed up
to the Guinness thing, they had done the whole tour of the Guinness Brewery
and it was just that part. So I'm like there and I'm like trying
to talk to it. I'm like, no, I gotta meet the group
because we were going right from there over the Jamison thing, and I'm like,
I gotta meet the group and they're up over there. I need by
stone because I had actually been on a tour once before, so I kind
of knew what was up. And that's no fun. Didn't get a chance
to even go to the hotel and unpack and do anything. It was just
you're going to Barcelona, man, which is a which is a beautiful city,
but obviously you're going there for fun and frivolity, the big party city.
They do a similar thing too when you go to the top of the
boone big Beer. Okay, but instead of a coin to give you like
the tag you know, and it can snap, it's a stone, right,
yeah, like a pebble. I'm sorry to give you a what you
know, you know the tab when you open up a cand of beer and
just rip it off. Yeah, it's like one of those instead of a
coin at the top of the boom Big Beer. Yeah, this top of
the boom Big Beer. Does it spin like the holiday in downtown Raleigh used
to with the restaurant before COVID. It did okay, but they stopped it.
They said for some reason, like the spinning of the top of it
would spread COVID more it was stupid. Well, our people get sick and
they have asive, you know, the top of the boom Big Beer.
I mean, I can make these jokes because it's not a real place,
but holy cow, that would be horrible if it was sor right, six
forty seven coming up? Uh So, yesterday the White House honored a Vietnam
War vet. This guy's story is pretty incredible. This Larry Taylor, like
the whole I remember watching even before he got this. I remember watching one
of the YouTubers that kind of does these history stories talking about this whole thing
with a retired captain Larry Taylor, and he's from Tennessee and basically he went
full rambo man trying to rescue four soldiers who were basically the command had been
like, Nah, those guys are done for. There's nothing we can do.
And He's like, I don't know. I got a helicopter and a
death wish. I'm gonna do this thing. It's a pretty incredible story,
although some are saying there was a little there were some protocol issues on the
part of the White House, specifically, you know, the president, I'll
let you be the judge. We'll get that story coming up. Case O
Day Radio program, Thank you, CAPTI in the Triad and one oh six
one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right, now, am I the
end all the all arbiter on presidential decorum? I am not, don't I
don't know all the rules. And I also understand too that sometimes you're gonna
have an event that's going on, and some it could be the president,
could be, the governor, could be whoever. They may dip into part
of the event and leave due to scheduling or security or whatever it is.
However, there's a few things I feel like you got to have your head
in the game for the totality of it. Like remember when they were offloading
the coffins of the thirteen US service members killed during the withdrawal of Afghanistan,
and Biden looks over at his watch, which is somewhat is somewhat kind of
reaction to people might do if they're uncomfortable. And I guess I would feel
a little uncomfortable if I botched that and thirteen people were dead. But still
it's not good optics. And when you're at that level, you kind of
have to know. So when you're doing the Medal of Honor ceremony, which
you know you may do a couple of times during your presidency, I feel
like you gotta stay for the whole thing, especially when you consider and it's
not a posthumous thing where you've got the guy in the room like this guy.
Larry Taylor, retired captain served in Vietnam from nineteen sixty seven to nineteen
sixty eight, ran two thousand combat missions. He was the leader of a
helicopter lightfire support team during the two thousand combat missions. Is documented to have
come under fire three hundred and forty times. So he's there eighteen months and
he shot at every other day, and then when he actually see the mental
honor of honor for and I'll give you the short story on it, but
it's it's it's insane. Basically, in June of sixty eight, during a
battle of up Goo Kung, Taylor was leader of the light fire support team
and they were tasked with helping four soldiers who had been surrounded by the enemy
during the reconnaissance mission and we're taking heavy fire and Taylor and another helicopter provided
air support for the soldiers. Eventually they started to run out of AMMO and
they were left to scout out an escape route for the team. So now
they're just doing you know, from the air of visuals, and so he
does that. He literally is coming back to base and he finds out because
it was sending another a huey end to pull these guys out. He found
out that the command scrapped the huey. They said, look, there's just
there's too much fire coming in. They're all probably dead. We're not going
to send other personnel in there. And he just went effort. He's gotten
almost no AMMO, he's got almost no fuel, and he's just like,
yeah, we're gonna go get him. And he did. They reached the
site, he landed, and just even though he's getting fired at and just
took off, running control, trying climbs aboard. The whole thing is it's
a Rambo movie, like he was just sent in to take pictures and the
president, after doing it, just abruptly left the ceremony. Yesterday. It
was so weird. All right, I've been wanting everybody happy Wednesday, seven
out six year on the PCO Day radio program. Oh that's right, No,
uh no, Mark Robinson a day right. Ross normally would chat with
him in the third hour. What was did he give a reason you gotta
give? You got a thing he's doing? Or Ross is trying to eat
stuff so we're bugging him. Did you think it's a debate. I'm kidding.
It's a joke. I'm kidding. I'm kid it's a joke. Some
of Robinson's opponents are unhappy because he won't debate. He's basically he's he's adopted
the Ted bud bottle, where he's like, I'm so far ahead? Why
should I which worked for for Ted? So any who? But are we
gonna get him next week? Or is he just like I can't do this
week and we'll catch him in two weeks. We might be able to move
it. Yeah, Okay, I didn't see. I don't know the extent
of your conversation. You just said he's not on Yeah, this guy,
pat Riley contacted me yesterday some about all the fame coach pat right, No,
no, who By the way, I went to my high school in
our gymnasium is named after but no, oh, that's right, different guy.
Yeah, okay, something to do with the Board of Education. This
boy, yeah, he does sit on that as a lieutenant governor. So
all right, we'll catch up to that. I wanted to ask him about
a few things. There's some uh and and uh. They had they had
a little pressure yesterday and some folks gathered. It's really interesting to watch the
folks up in Rockingham County. Over all this U casino stuff there is there
is a significant contingent of folks who are not pleased with the idea of casino
finding its way up to Rockingham County. And you know that is technically our
w PTI station of License Tower area is you know, that's Rockingham County.
So I'm just I'm curious. Obviously, you got you got lawmakers that are
happy they're sitting there looking at the cash infusion, and let's face it,
they've had a tough goal of it, from the from the beer plant closing
down to some other stuff. And the sheriff there we talked to kind of
on the regular. So I'm a lot of mixed emotions up there, and
I don't know. Look, I don't I don't live in Rockingham County.
Obviously, we broadcast there. We tell you we have a lot of fine
folks who listen from the area. Is it. Where are people's heads at
on that? I mean, I understand there's people who hold press conferences,
and there's other people who are like, yeah, let's go ahead and do
this thing. It seems like Burger is a big fan of it, But
what is what is the average Joe? Maybe just maybe you're just like,
oh, it'd be nice to advocacino over there, or I don't want all
the stuff that comes with it. However, you know, one of the
things they talk about coming with it outside of just the traditional gambling addiction and
things like that, or you know, drug use being a problem, but
mess already kind of a problem. So maybe some of that financial revenue provides
more resources. I don't know. I admittedly I don't have I don't have
an opinion, really hard opinion either way. I can kind of see both
sides. But if you're Rockingham County, you don't even have to travel that
far if you want to go to a casino to go up to the new
one up in Virginia. So we can take calls on that. What the
hey eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. We'll throw that
into the hopper today, but we'll we'll maybe pick his brain on that coming
up next time we have him on, because it tis curious. Let's see,
I know, let's see. I thought, well, Mark Walker was
part of that presser, so I don't think he's a fan of it.
So I know where he's at. I don't know where our state treasurer and
all those folks are, but I suspect it might become a bit of a
campaign issue too, although we really have Mark on not for campaign issues just
due to equal time stuff, but more lieutenant governor stuff. But like I
said, we can throw that in the hopper. People went awigh in on
that eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four, especially folks who
live up in Rockingham County. You're down with it. I mean, it's
not gonna be a plethora of high paying jobs, but there's some good ones
in there. Plus to get to work with Robert de Niro, that's a
big deal, right, even if he has like his titles always changing head
of catering, all the different stuff, you know, to thwart the licensing
board. Don't get in a car with him, by the way, I
don't know if you know that, dude. It's a nice car. It
was a really nice cause you see his parking spot, like right there at
the entry. Yeah, yeah, at his top batch man. But you
know, if you don't sink the charges, what are you even doing?
Rook Hey, just to be clear, Casey, we're not happy about it
in Nash County. Yeah, I know I should point that out to It
was kind of talking about rocking him because they had the the citizens gathering yesterday.
But no, we're talking about several casinos different places. See again,
I don't I don't know. So if you're not happy about it down there,
why not Nash County. Obviously there's there's more people, but that means
there's also other alternative industry, and I don't know, I do find it
interesting. The media is very unhappy about it because of like five thousand dollars
campaign donations by several interests. Here here's my thing, though, it's like
anything else they're talking about maybe legalizing, it's I see this this path,
whether it's like the sports book stuff, right, sports gambling stuff. They're
like, all right, but we're only gonna let you know, a handful
of people do it. And then you just kind of know the fixes in
Like you know, Ross and I couldn't start at casino, right because we
don't have the lobbying efforts, the infrastructure, any of that. But we
couldn't. We couldn't know and you know our own Biff Tannen style up,
you know, pleasure Palace, right, We're not We're not We're not tight
in enough. And you see that anytime you see governments kind of deciding that
they're going to expand this stuff, like in Colorado when they first launched,
they're like, all right, just gonna be a handful of you, and
it just happens to be all of our friends who are actually gonna be able
to do it. And then they quickly realized there that when you do that
and you limit it and then you tax it, that all of the people
who are still doing it illegally. They're just going to continue to operate because
they're offering a cheaper product. They're not in your little tax structure, and
they got edged out and they're just like, screw it, I'm gonna do
this anyway. So yeah, just uh, there's a lot going on there,
just saying all right. So anyway, I was mentioning that yesterday you
had the Medal of Honor ceremony this Vietnam. That helicopter pilot some soldiers pinned
down. They think all is lost. He actually thinks they're coming back to
rescue these dudes. He finds out they're not. Turns out helicopter around and
with limited AMMO and almost no fuel, goes right in there. He was
told just to take pictures. He didn't give a crap man, and he
spent most of his days in Vietnam taking fire, and he didn't care.
He said, I'm not leaving these guys behind, just the stones, you
know what I'm saying. So this guy went through this eighteen months of hell,
three hundred forty days under fire over the course of eighteen months, put
himself in in almost u sure life ending danger, and somehow I was able
to prevail you stay for the whole ceremony, is what I'm saying, if
you're the president of the United States. But unfortunately he did not, and
some people are wondering, what's what was up with that? Why would you
walk out? So he did the obviously the photo op part of it,
where he is uh, you know he's uh was a pinning the medal,
but he's providing the metal, uh, poking it around the captain's neck.
Larry Taylor, by the way, from where is he from? He's from
West or from eastern Tennessee, right. And I don't know if you've known
this, there's there's been some rough optics surrounding this, uh, this president
and the military lately. But you had the stories of the gold Star families
who were just like, you need to stop talking to us. This is
crazy. Like the conversations he was having. You had that one dude who
who was lying and he you know, he's lying in recovery at Walter Read
his arm is gone. The President is trying to shake that hand and then
like gets down. It's just like, what do you want? You had
all this stuff going on, you stay for the Medal of Honors ceremony.
Biden abruptly left the ceremony after fastening the nation's highest military decoration around the neck
of retired Army Captain Larry Taylor, military veterans, slamming by and afterward arguing
the commander in chief showed a startling lack of respect part in my French.
But what a I can't read that I'd have to go back. Did the
presidents always stay for the totality of it because there's a closing there's a closing
prayer, so they do it. Then there's some more comments, there's some
photos, and then there's a couple other things. It's a it's not a
ton of time after And what also was interesting is the White House provides an
official feed of the event, and when the president leaves, they cut the
feed, so anyone who was pulling the video of the event, they didn't
even see the rest of the chaplain's benediction. Because the president leaves the room,
they cut the feed, so anyone who was watching it via the White
House stream they didn't even get to see the whole event, So it became
incredibly noticeable. All told, the captain took in forty five minutes of intense
ground fire as he had went back in to extract the US Patrol group the
rescue, something that had never been accomplished or even attempted over the course of
war. Showed a complete disregard for his personal safety. This is part of
the actual proclamation. Just craziness, man, but like in a good way.
Like you have to ask yourself in that situation, because you're in a
helicopter. You you've left the area, you're not getting shot at anymore,
you're being told really not to go back in there. You've got basically no
ammo, you don't really have enough fuel, and yet you still make that
decision to dive right back into it. And you'd like to hope that that's
the decision others would make in that situation, but a lot of folks wouldn't.
And actually, the larger telling of the story, we're trying to have
all of that in front of me of this video I watched is pretty crazy
because you you realize just how doomed this whole thing was. But he didn't
care, all right, eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.
So we get into that casinos stuff, you name it, coming up
a little Hollywood and sanity. We got to get to and Florida Man.
Well not just Florida Man. We got Florida man and Florida wildlife which is
very Florida man esque. We'll have those stories in your calls coming up here
on the case O Day Radio program. This is one oh six one FM
Talk in the Triangle and nearest Talk ninety four five w PTI in the Triad.
All right, good morning and welcome back. It is six twenty six
here on the case O Day Radio program. Alrighty we got some Florida We
got some Florida stories. In fact, let me let me do this and
we'll get one maybe two, and then if now, we'll get the other
one after the break. Yep, Florida Man, Florida mans. Something in
the water, the air or scent that makes you do all that crazy crap.
It's like the state is one week done ass trap. Nowhere else has
the Florida Man. It is almost like as the Weird Factor climbs, you'll
find out it happened in Florida every time. Florida Man, Florida Man.
If anyone can cheer me, if you know you can, does mind life
get crazy? But of course, but it's not as bad crap crazy as
yours. Nowhere else are you go find him? They're so used to it,
they don't mind him. Ready for Florida now all right? Actually we
have three of them, and just realized we have three. Let me start
with the Florida not man. But you know how sometimes they say pets look
along like their owners. This is straight up Florida bear here man. So
Officials in Lake Mary, Florida, say a homeowner contacted them after a three
legged bear broke through their screen door under their into their lannai. All right,
so one of those pools and closed pools there and rated the drink fridge.
Apparently they have an outdoor drink fridge. According to the family, just
their thirteen year old was home when it happened, and even though there was
a wide variety of delicious refreshing beverages in there, the bear just drank the
white claws. So bears A little ghetto man, a little trashy bear there,
got three legs. Got a story. Yeah, you can't even fight
off a three legged bear. Everyone is so soft. You should just be
happy you didn't get into the four locos. Man, get your your bear
stool and white claws that's a bear you should be able to take. I
don't care if you're thirteen year old. You're thirteen year old. Was the
only one at home. Many smart talk all day, four five PTI in
the Triad and one six one FM talk in the Triangle. So I'm just
reading a little more of this bear article that I mentioned. We just had
a very short time there. So down in Florida, a bear got three
legs. Man broke into a house, went for the old drink fridge and
started consuming apparently just the white claws, so kind of doing the homeowner a
favor. And I was just like, man, if you can't, you
can't take a three legged bear protect your property. Although some of the comments
are pretty interesting because residents in the area say that it's a friendly bear who
is is known within the community as Tripod. You know, Rossa. Did
you know that my nickname in high school? Tripod? Did you know that?
Fun fact? I didn't have a food related one like all the other
ones. I'll let you figure that out. No, the okay here,
let me just say this. It's if it's a wild bear, it's not
a friendly bear in the purest sense. This is how people end up you
know under a bison. Okay, hey, I know it looks pretty chill.
I just wanted to get in the lenai have some white claws, had
to make a fun TikTok video all that. But why don't you I don't
know, why don't you go put yourself between the white claws and the bear?
I mean, chances are right may just run away. It is a
black bear. They can be somewhat timid. But if it really wants those
white claws, or if you really want to pet it's babies, this is
how you end up on the news. Well, parts of you, the
part they found under the one tree, and then they're looking for the other
parts and now you're on the news. But I'm glad you got a nickname
for it. Is it a female? Yeah, it is female. Yeah,
you probably don't want to go to share a drink with it, all
right? Other Florida stories real quick, here we go, Clearwater, Florida.
A Lakeland man arrested and accused of assaulting a person in Walgreens was snickers
bars. Described as highly intoxicated, twenty three year old apparently became agitated when
employees at the Walgreens in Clearwater refused to sell him a box of cigarettes,
says sighting store pup. Maybe he didn't have an ID. I mean he's
legal, but he didn't have one. I don't know, but whatever,
he's hammered. He wants the SIGs and when refused, according to security footage,
the man started then grabbing Snickers bars out of the box that was sitting
there. But you know they have him up the counter there for all the
different candies and pelting the store manager with the Snickers bars in the face.
Dude, you're doing the angry meme all wrong. Bro. Another employee rushed
over to help ordered him to leave the store. Initially, he said that
he was not trying to hit the employees, he just was throwing them,
but in the footage it's clear that he's aiming right at the dude. Do
you feel assaulted though, when somebody's throwing delicious snickers at you? Though?
If you like snickers, like hypothetic ross, Let's say, stormed into your
studio, I rate drunk, I don't know whatever, and I started like
pelting you with olive garden breadsticks. Do you want me brought up on charges?
It's like early birthday present, my dude, you're like a week early.
Uh, I mean that would be like that, that would be that
would be great. It would be an amazing day, like it's your wedding
and instead of rice, just boom breadsticks'll follow you around like a Roman emperor
with rose petals and stuff. But instead they arrested him and he's charged with
battery. Does he get to keep the snickers? Because I'm sure they're gonna
get him for the property too. We still have something for his commissary.
And finally, in our Florida Man section slash Florida Bear section, the idiot
in the giant hamster ball who wants to run across the Atlantic is back at
it. This guy has tried and failed on numerous occasions. This time he
got seventy miles offshore. I think last time he barely got offshore, and
all of a sudden, it's like AH should have checked to see if there
was waves and stuff, and of course has to be rescued. In this
case, the forty four year old it was attempting to run to London did
not farewell with Coast Guard officials when additionally located in his bizarre hamster wheel contraption.
Coast Guard officials say they attempted to ask him standard questions based on the
condition of the vessel, which had actually tangled. So he's trying to and
then he runs through wiring and Booey's and gets caught. The coast guard determined
that he was conducting a w They describe his manifestly unsafe voyage the vessel,
which is it doesn't look like one of those softballs, you know, like
people put themselves in and then roll down the hills. It's it's like a
metal drum cage. And then on the edges it's got giant inflatable boois,
so there's a lot of space in there, and on the buoy part there's
there's like paddles to propel oneself. Howeveryone asks questions. Blucci was unable to
provide officials with any registration for his well, oh, they got him on
registration for the water vehicle. Come on, man, you know licensing that.
I'm all fortately if some dude wants to do this, you know my
opinion, right, If you're like I wanna I read the Kenticki book and
I'm gonna I'm gonna chop this tree down, build my own thing and I'm
gonna float to Fiji. You want to do that, go ahead, But
my caveat is we're not rescuing you. So you're making it rain breadsticks on
Ross? Is there a stripper pole involved? Now? Why do you have
to make this dirty? Sir? That's why I use the wedding thing.
This is a happy moment. Ross doesn't have to be twirling to make it
rain breadsticks. How do you think a stripper would feel about that? Even
though you're doing her a favor, right, you go in, there probably
be a work hazard for her, right Why? Because they got a little
like a little greasy. They're a little greasy. You're putting on some weight.
Not good. Oh so it's a combination of your fingers or slippery And
yeah, you don't want to up being one of those you know the memes
where you see the video or the person jumps on the pole and the pole
falls down. Yeah, those are I see those a lot. I think
you should balanced the bread stick. Look, there's a lot of cardio that's
being done there, right, Plus sure, yeah, I mean if she's
doing enough exercise to burn off the calories she's consuming. Plus there's the possibility
this is not you know, and it's not one size fits all. But
there's also the possibility that maybe there's some other stuff being ingested that tends to
keep the weight off. Do you catch them adrift? Other than not talking
about the delicious of meatballs U no, no, equally is addicting, though,
but something else that somebody might take, parmesan cheese or something. I
mean in the sense that you too could cut it into a line, right,
you know, and maybe if the low light, if if like the
police busted in for a moment, they mean like they may think it's something
else. This is confusing me because you're at the Olive garden. When you're
there, your family, So I mean, this is not a this is
a family program, I believe. I don't. Yes, no, it
is. That's why I used the wedding thing, because what you know,
it's family oriented. Right. It's one of our PERV listeners who happens to
be a Patriots fan who immediately like this is where his mind goes and you
understandably, so like when the head of your organization is, uh, you
know, going to a rub joint for fifty dollars a pop. Right,
there's a there's a whole just a whole culture of you know, I'm not
sure who the emailer is, but from what I've heard, his opinion,
they need to apologize and resign. Okay, well that's that's a fair point
right there. I mean, speaking of the Patriots, did you see that
their cornerback who was facing thirty years in prison? Somehow yesterday we found himself
a deal where they dropped the charges and he just got like probation and now
he can play week one. That's lucky, huh, lucky stuff, especially
when you're facing federal charge. What was the reason for that? There had
to be an actually reasoning behind it. What do you mean besides being you're
a very important player that we can't lose and not guilty? What was like?
What was the reasoning? Uh? He he you know, he was
a whoopsie that he had. What was he he was arrested for? He
had multiple handguns and pieces of luggage when he went to the airport. He
didn't just forget one gun. He had at least two, and then I
think he had parts of another one, like he grabbed the he grabbed the
range bag. I guess, I don't know. So he just got up
in court and said shall not be infringe, and they were like, good
point, Well, whatever was the point at the court there, which you
know, is a court that happens to be here a bunch of Patriots fans.
The thirty year potential is now forty five hours community service and one year
of unsupervised probation, so and then he can play week one. So that's
good anyway. So Coastguards dealing with this dude, we got sidetracked and h
let's just say he's he's not one to answer any of these questions. He's
basically taking the m I being detained, which ironically he was because he had
put his hamster wheel through cables and buoys that were you know, U measuring
booty booi's used by the Coastguard as well as the National Weather Service and stuff
for and he just kind of a trove through all that and wasn't going anywhere
anyway. So but yeah, so he's facing charges man right there, all
right, seven forty six race staging from the Weather Channel. Morning. Bro,
I'm good, I'm good. It's all good. Panic yet, bro,
bro, what were you a couple of fumbles and that's you were?
Dam were? Oh my daughter was oh yeah, I think I wouldn't without
uh. I haven't really talked much yesterday. She was very trite. Hey
listen, it's oh man, the smallest chances. Now you basically got to
win out and it's it's not gonna be. But they listened. Props the
duke. They came in and you could tell from the first couple of plays
they were ready to play. Uh huh, they were ready to play.
And you know, and they still a couple of fumbles, which you listen,
coaching doesn't fumble footballs. I'm sorry, you know, and that's probably
a different ball game, but couple. But the Duke was making mistakes.
They made a lot of mistakes, and they did the first half. I
think they won all the penalties, right, Yeah, they did. Up
then Clemson, I've won the whole game, one penalty the whole game,
which is amazing to me. But a lot of work to be done,
and I wasn't so it looked like the same old, same old On the
offensive. I never in my life I've seen so many screens and bubble screens
and just these little swing passes in the last couple of years. And I'm
saying, like, in all of football, what that play usually gains nothing.
Whatever happened up throwing a ball down the field anyway, I digress.
You're still in the top twenty five, barely barely twenty five is part of
the top twenty five, it is, it is last I checked that.
Well, it's the part of the top twenty five. But let's see hot
there. And I know a lot of people complaining about the heat at the
game, even Monday night. And now the heat continues. Yesterday record in
Raleigh at ninety eight. Not at the try it was still in the mid
nineties. More heat today. The records are a little hotter today they were
yesterday. So although it's going to be ninety eight again in the triangle,
it's not going to be a record probably like ninety four ninety five at the
tryad lots of sunshine, load of mid nineties tomorrow. Then we'll start backing
it off by Friday with a few showers thundershowers scattered around upper eighties to load
nineties at the weekend, a few showers and thundershowers by Saturday afternoon, and
Sunday load of mid eighties for daytime high. So I think we'll break this
heat here as we look ahead toward the weekend, more seasonable temperatures after a
couple more hot days, today being the hottest. Okay, all right,
it's all good, it's fine, all right, I'll be okay, all
right, we'll check in on the internetur okay, okay, all right,
there you go. Race Dag recovering seven forty nine. Hang on the show
after the show's on the iHeart Radio app. Search case O day for the
podcast on the iHeart Radio app is seven fifty four. Let me get to
some phone call, kint a little sidetrack by stickers and other stuff. One
of the things we were mentioning was the casinos and whatnot right, Rockingham County,
Nash County. Various others had a little had a little thing. What
is going on here? Hold on? Yes, hot line is as Ray.
What's up, mister stagec A good morning? What I do? No,
no, nothing nothing. I didn't know he's putting me on now.
I just wanted to make sure we were off ended up dumping my coffee cup
on me, so I didn't hope that nobody heard me scream out in a
loud kind of jubil Asian right when the hot coffee just spilled up. Just
make I did it myself. Oh wow, you're just having a it's not
a good week for you. It wasn't Duke's quarterback or no, no,
it wasn't knocked the mic stand over and everything. So I'm just cleaned it
up here. Just wanted to, you know what, I'll be it look
does it look like that delta flight? Now? It doesn't look like that.
That's that's so Luckily the cup wasn't full and it was only moderately hot
because it's been sitting here since five thirty when I usually bore that first cup.
But yeah, so I'll be there next hour. Just let everybody know
if they heard a loud noise and a thump, that's what it was.
But I'll be back. Okay, all right, We're glad you're okay.
All right, Okay, thanks dude. What a what an absolute what an
absolute hell week that dude's happen. All right, let me grab a call
in casino stuff, all right, Chris, thanks for hanging on. What's
going on either? Oh my call? Before we get to the topic,
I called in amount. I just want to say a huge fan and I
appreciate you know what you're doing in your radio station all the members of it
are doing. But as a Christian Conservative myself and a former slash current resident
of Rockingham County, I grew up in Rockingham County from there for twenty nine
years of my life, I see both sides of the field. So you
know, I guess I'm not too strong Christian values because I have gambled in
the past, not severely or anything, but just for fun in the in
the mountain casinos of North Carolina and Cherokee. Yeah, but you know,
being on the ground, I see both sides. So you're right in your
comment about drugs bringing drugs, you know, more adamant, more fluent,
I guess, to the streets, but they're already there if anyone has ever
been in Rockingham County. I'm from Reedsville myself, but the neighboring town of
Eden, they're just drug written already. So I don't see that argument at
all. But Rockingham County, being a conservative county, I just think that
would raise a lot of red flags. I'm it's conservatives, you would admit,
though, especially Eden, there's been a lot of financial blows, manure
plants, and various other things. So and you know that's that is a
cash infusion to the extent that it is. It just comes to and Chris,
I appreciate the call. I just looked up at the clock. Thank
you for calling in and listening this morning. So appreciate it. Thank you.
Yeah, you gotta you know, you gotta figure out what is inherently
this is gonna end up posthumous more and I don't know the answer to that.
That's why you gotta, you know, try to take an honest approach
looking at these things. We can get. Like I said, we get
some more calls on that. We get calls on apparently mister ts coming up.
Also, we got to talk about playlists by cabinet members and some concerns
that people may have had. More on that in a bit hang out.
All right, good morning, and welcome. It is eight oh six.
You're on the k c O Day radio program. Normally, since it is
the first Wednesday, we do first and third Wednesday, so we'd be chatting
the Lieutenant governor. But he had a thing, so I'm not gonna chat
with anything, so we're tuning in for that. It's not happening, okay,
all right, but we got lots of stuff to fill the time.
So if you're not just a quick reminder for everyone listening this morning on the
Triad side of things, or if you're anywhere else and you're headed to the
Triad the Forsyth County Public Safety Building. So for sythe County shrifs, it's
not a drive through, not a drive through. Lots of things are drive
throughs, right, biscuitvills, a drive through, hardis is a drive through.
Cookouts a drive through. For sythe County Sheriff's office, not a drive
through. I understand it could be tough to keep this stuff straight. So
apparently, yesterday, according to authorities, a man decided that it was a
drive through. Lee Anthony Marcel Slyde Junior, according to authorities, drove through
the front doors of the Forsyth County Public Safety Building. So you got administrative
offices, community corrections, so like parole and probation officer and yeah, just
drove right through. So the public lobby, by the way is closed for
obvious reasons. If you thought you're gonna go over the lobby today, that's
not a happening because the dude drove his car through there, allegedly, I
guess. Thankfully no one was hurt. The Winston Salem Police investigated the crash,
which Sheriff's office says has made the front entrance unsafe for the public.
Dude's charged with misdemeanor vandalism, breaking and entering while I guess damaging the government
building to facing a public building, damage to real property, trespassing. He
didn't have a valid license. They got him for that, impaired driving,
and he had a couple of warrants. Now why did he do it?
Allegedly he told investigators he did it because he was mad at his probation officer.
I'll feel like that's gonna work out for you, dude. I don't,
Yeah, I don't. I don't. You could be mad at your
your your probation officer might even be justified, right, But how did you
think driving through the lobby was gonna do anything? That's something his his desk
isn't there. I'm assuming did you think it's every action movie ever where you
can just keep driving through the totality of the building. Because that doesn't generally
work, especially a big building like that, or they're gonna have support beams
and stuff. You're not gonna win. So yeah, again, just a
reminder not a drive through. Yeah. I don't know why we have to
have these these little reminders, man, but we do. All right,
quick call little man, what's going on? Casey interrupt us to the Florida
Man and throwing the candy bars. If folks will remember, back in the
I guess the mid eighties, during the heyday of the A Team and Mister
T's popularity, Snickers made a commercial with mister T where he goes to the
A Team deal and builds the big Gatlin gun inside the barn and he explodes
out. He starts shooting. This thing is as big as a nose gun
on the A ten warth hog. Shooty Snickers at this fellow who's running down
the sidewalk, kind of like a Dylan mulvaney, tell him run like a
man. I know he was in there. He did one of the hand
commercions recently. I haven't seen that, but you can find up on the
online. It's still out there and it is hilarious. Okay, all right,
I'll check her out. Ross. Did you notice anything in the background
of that call? Are you listening to the background of the last call?
Did it? It sounded like we weren't on delay. I hope he's streaming
stuff because like I could hear normally when when I'm okay, well yeah,
but it was he listening on PTI. I'm not terrified. Ah, I
was hearing my voicecoat. But by the way, when he called the show
and understanding, gonna keep listen, I'm gonna come to you. So it'll
be a little moment that you gotta turn down your radio. Okay, Oh
thank god. I just got incredibly nervous, especially because we're gonna get into
the rap lyrics thing and we'll we'll dicey that topic. I'll look at this.
Oh okay, all right, Well, one Mark not here. Another
Mark is here, and he was actually a part Mark Walker was talking about
the casino thing. What's going on this sporting sir? Okay, see,
I hope you're doing well, pretty good. We just we're just chatting with
a resident of Rockingham County. Seems a little we're on this. I know
you were, you were up with some of the citizens groups up there had
some objections. I got to admit, I'm kind of tore on this thing
because Eden's taken a bunch of gut punches, right, you know this over
the last few years from the beer plan to many of the financial struggles,
not just in Eden but other parts of Rockingham County. And there's issues and
I understand people think that there's going to be additional issues with a casino,
but there is also the financial impact. So talk about what folks were doing
up there yesterday. Yeah, I mean it all started a few months ago
when a small group reached out to some of their elected officials, Thunderberger,
the commissioners, including within a governor Mark Robinson, and they simply couldn't get
a call back. And we've we were privileged to represent these folks for six
years in the US House. And frankly, I live less than five miles
from the proposed site. But there's two points to be made here. One
if you're arguing it against it from a faith or a moral standpoint, If
you look at if you look at what they call problem gambling. According to
the National Association of Addiction Professionals, problem gambling is the highest suicide attempt at
rate of any addictions. And plus, if you're looking at federal funding,
unlike drug and alcohol treatment and all that, if there is no funding to
deal with people and approximately four million people struggle with this. So there's one
aspect from the faith and moral, but the bigger issue for these people,
and this is where I agree with wherever you're all casinos, with the lack
of transparency, just to come in and plow through these rural counties and use
them as to help with the budget shortfall, giving no voice, giving no
referendum, not even a vote really in the state House. This was just
planning to be packed away or tucked away, i should say, in the
overall budget. That was the big issue. And then when you write the
legislation that's designed for just one gaming organization, that's chronyism, and that whether
it's at the state level or the federal level, that's the problem that I
had with it. Look, if you want to do it straight up,
go ahead. From the libertarian side of me, that's your decision. If
you want to go spend your money, stupid probably, but that's your decision.
But that was the problem these folks had. That's where I was willing
to help them get organized. We had the largest ever turnout close to eight
hundred people at the Commissioner's meeting just a couple of weeks ago, and had
a good crowd yesterday as they met with their legislators. Well, I hear
you on the chronism thing, because like I, you know, if that
passes, it's not like I can just go up and give me a little
plot of land and open up Casey's gamble and pleasure palace, right, you
know, like bift handon from back. I can't just go do that.
It's going to be a handful of folks. And you see this with expansion
of like marijuana laws in different states and various others. So I share that
frustration. I think on the addiction side, the only thing I'd say is,
if I'm sitting up in Eden and I want to go gamble on,
something is really easy. I can drive to the new casino up there.
I can go online. I can go to some of these sweepstakes parlors that
still continue to exist. I can just place bets with my buddies calling d
don't watching golf. Do you know what I'm saying? And I think that
people are going to find that. And you can argue that it makes it
easier for them to find, but really it makes one aspect of it easier
to find. Not to mention the state lotteries and like all those things exist
out there, and the libertarian part of me is with like, I get
really uncomfortable when I see people whose pure objection is one that is just a
faith based objection. I know that irritates some of my listeners because I share
the I share the discomfort in the targeting of the disrespect of Christian beliefs in
so many issues, with things like people wanted to take a moral state ants
on using their artistry for baking cakes and things like that. But in reality,
if it simply exists and somebody has a moral objection, they can simply
not go to it. I understand what I'm saying, Mark, I try
and even as a former pastor, identify what you're saying. There is a
difference is for as what we believe as Christians versus what the rights that people
have, whatever your background, whatever your sexual orientation, as the Constitution protects
the individual rights, and when you're in public office, your job is to
defend that without discrimination. The point being this, of course you did mention
even in the closing of the Corselets, certain breweries and things, this is
about twenty miles away from that part of the county. But the point was
being is that the people simply wanted to have a vote or have their voices
heard. And that's what I what drove these folks. There's something about principled
rural country folks. They just don't get bought off and they dug their heels
in. And this is a very rare if they're able to win this,
it's very rare that once checks have been cashed, that you can actually overcome
the powerful politicians. But it looks like there is a chance to do this.
I will tell you I don't think it's been released it, but in
the House caucus yesterday, the deal was trying to find fifty percent of a
House caucus for what I'm understanding, that failed miserably. That's a huge step
in a win for these rural counties who simply don't want their entire community,
the culture of their community completely changed overnight. That was their biggest sue.
Put a referentum on it. If they voted, that's fine, but don't
just force feed this to us. What if county step up and say we
do want this. So maybe it's not Rockingham County, but maybe it's I
don't know, Pender County down on the coat story. You know what I'm
saying. Yes, that's there. That's they're right from A from a it's
different to your point, it's different how I morally feel about it. What
should be legally allowed in f a county or state vote something in this republic.
This is the way that we do things in America. And that was
the point these folks make, because the legislation wasn't for every county. You
had to have less than a hundred thousand. You had it all these different
cypifications there. This is what they had to follow through with. And they're
like, wait a second, do we not have any voice? You're going
to put something here that's borders one hundred and fifty feet of a camp with
children that they are ministered to with disabilities. That was a bad pr move,
I think on their part. But this is something that is a reminder
that people can still rally together, they can get organized, and they can
make a difference and push back even sometimes when the big government is coming from
the Republican side. All right, Mark appreciate it. Uh uh yeah,
Well we'll obviously we're gonna keep following this and we'll see. It's interesting they
weren't able to get fifty percent there, but I don't suspect they're going to
stop trying. So all right, alright, all right, there you go.
Yeah. I mean, if you're you know, pick a k,
if you're Ashe County up and you know, way up in the mountains there,
I don't know see my big, my big deviation. And I know
what you're to take people in saying that is, I feel like there's a
difference between government telling you you have to do something or force you need to
do something, versus when you're not forced to do something, but maybe them
doing something that you feel is not morally within your religious structure, which is
what the actual separation really is supposed to be. But that that obviously is
lost on a lot of folks. All right, let me grat one more
call on this since we're already in it. Jeff, go right ahead.
Hey, Casey, Yeah, I had spoke with mak Walker about this,
and I agree with him one hundred percent. We don't want it. It's
a poison pill. Uh. You know, they're going to put this cancer
cell right at the front door coming into Madison on two twenty and in five
years that cancer cell is going to be stage four cancer throughout all the towns
around here, and you can't stop it. And that's not just hyperbole.
That is coming from Sheriff Page, who got up and talked about all manner
of crime that come along with a casino and we just don't want it.
The early caller, I think his name was Chris, was saying, well,
I see both sides of it, and he lives in Reidsville and they
got crime. Yeah, they do have crime in Reidsville and Eden, and
we don't want it here. What is disappointing is I called Mark Robinson's office
about this, and I did get a call back from his coordinator, and
she wanted a manner all detailed information on meetings that we're going to be taking
place, and I said, look, I'm going to put you in touch
with this other lady that has a lot more information about it than I do.
And she also spoke with her, and then suddenly there was radio silence.
Nothing. Mark Robinson just he could have got a hold of Phil Burger
because Phil Burger's wangling some things up there in Raleigh too, which Phil Burger
and all these commissioners are going to be in big trouble because they are nobody's
going to vote for these guys, which is another bad thing for Robinham County
because it's going to be a big snowball effect. Nobody's going to vote for
these commissioners. They're all Republicans, nobody's going to vote for him, which
means it's a very good chance that Democrats will take over, and then we
can expect a transformational change in our county up here with primary and then,
Sir, I have a hard time believing the well, that's what we yeah,
hold on. Let me just say is I don't think that I think
the chances of Rockingham flipping blue, even though I can understand where people would
would say, like this is not the small dividing line that you saw when
people turned on McCary over toll roads, Rockingham is gonna be read. And
I think that if there is a place where you have an easier chance of
flipping it, if that is the appetite of the public, Rockingham would be
a good example, because I think people do rally. You're passionate about this,
Mark said, eight hundred people showed up to the meeting the other day.
I saw Mark's been at all of them. Yeah, as far as
what Robinson's doing. I plan on ask him about it today, but he
had the school, but it's on the list. I hope you press him
hard on it because he has just gone radio silent on us. Yeah.
Well, and I don't know. Maybe he's doing something the bad. I
don't know, and I will I'm happy to ask him about it. But
I will tell you this, I don't think Phil Burger scared at Mark Robinson
in any way, shape or form. I think that well. I think
I think people fail to realize the real levels levers of power that both more
in Burger. I mean those are the most powerful people, especially with the
ability to override the governor. I mean they're basically untouchable. So all right,
well, Jeff fight. Look, I appreciate the call this morning.
I got a role, Thank you very much. All Right, anyway,
it was went long in that segment, but that's okay. Did you all
see the big whoopsie in the Turkish president air degons meeting with the Vladimir Putin
yesterday? Oh wait for this, it's next rising Sundery one h six one
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All right, good morning, eight thirty six, happy when everybody it
is the case O Day radio program. I'm not sure the protocol on this.
I don't know if somebody falls out of a window or where we go
from here, but oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
So the head of Turkey, President ed Gun was having himself a little
a little sit down with the Vladimir Putin, right, So it's that standard
thing you see anytime you got these two world leaders the chairs and get the
flags behind them and they're having themselves a little conversation and then a little Q
and a maybe after there was translators in this instance because I guess, you
know, like they don't speak both Turkish or both Russian. You want to
make sure. And there was a little bit of an issue. A good
reminder too at this point the Turkey is a NATO state because we thought that
was a good idea. So we get some missiles put in there, but
whatever, But it does come with certain obligations on the part of US and
other NATO members. So even though it was a bit of a blunder between
those two countries, obviously there's some US interest here. So at one point
and it's not abundantly clear exactly what air Degne was getting at. And they
don't think it was his screw up. They think it was the interpreter.
We try to read this the well here Basically, the interpreter, when interpreting
from Turkish to Russian, inadvertently said that air air Degne declared war on Russia.
That's not what he said. But how does it? Are there take
backs at that point? Can you do TakeBack? SI's does that even?
Like? Did he just say he wanted to nuke the Kremlin? What he
s like? I said, have you seen Kremlin's? Oh? Oh no,
I have it in a while? Doesn't hold up. It's been a
like, dude, you gotta get that right. You know what I'm saying.
Here's one thing if they're like comparing jets or something and there's a little
whoopsie, like uh, got the wrong Gulf Stream number or something right,
but not ah, we declare war. Now. The reaction on the part
of Putin does he seemed to be not But I think he even I think
he probably realized it was a whoopsie even at the time. I think he
does have a little bit of Turkish language skills or something. But still still
maybe it's one of those things where have you ever told yourself over and over
again not to do something because you're nervous you're gonna do it, and didn't
do it anyway, Maybe it was like that, like the interpreter goes in,
like, whatever you do, don't say that we're declaring war. Do
not say we're declaring war. And as soon as they start really declaring war,
I think it's important. I think it's important from an interpreter standpoint.
You gotta want, you gotta be accurate, obviously, but you know on
occasion there's going to be things that because sometimes things just don't translate exactly.
Like I have very minimal second language skills, but as as I've gotten better
with it, like there's times where I gotta sit there and go, well,
I don't even know exactly how that would translate. So when somebody says,
well, what does this mean, and you're like, it kind of
means, you find yourself saying that what it kind of means is because it's
not. It's not. But when you're an interpreter, you're beyond all that
because you're, especially at this level, you gotta have the skills, not
just for conversational interpretation, but for very specific nuances. Yeah, I mean
certain languages don't even have words for other things. You mean, yeah,
I heard Vietnam. It's really hard to translate Vietamese. Reason I don't speak
any of that, but that probably you know. So like when they tell
you that they're not holding an entire group of POWs at this camp, they
you know, which they did, and then we found out that's not the
case when they went into take like you think that was an interpretation, Okay,
all right, but when you're at this level, even though there's a
certain muscle memory to it on the on the part of the interpreter, yeah,
you're obligated to interpret exactly. And they say, it's why in a
lot of these instances they have an interpreter who's working, because again there's a
trust issue. They have interpreters that are working, but one that's working for
both sides, and then generally another interpreter's kind of like on the side doing
stuff making sure the other ones are because you can't you can't inject your own
interpretation if it doesn't mean exactly that. I was thinking of an example and
then I just it went away from my head on something something that somebody said
in Spanish that I thought meant one thing, but in reality it has a
very different meaning. I remember being very confused by it until somebody who was
much much better at it I was able to adequately explain to me. But
I realized, like that could be a huge whoops. And it's one of
the problems that you have with like translation apps when you go to translate things,
because you know, when you think you're translating something and what was gosh,
what was it? It doesn't translate exactly, especially when you get into
like slang, it's just you're just dead in the water. So you know
things that if you were just too directly interpret it wouldn't mean the slang that
you think it does. But when it's something as important as and you're then
interpreter and you think, you know, this is gonna be a pretty everyone's
a good spirited conversation, there's not. There's not huge huge Turkish Russia issues.
I don't look, Russia has concerns about US military sites within Turkey and
launch capabilities, but that's not what this this little, this little gatherings for.
So when you hear and if you think you here the president of Turkey
declaring war on Russia. You're I guess you're obligated to exactly translate that,
but in your head you gotta be like, am I sure that's what I
heard? Because I don't I didn't see that coming. And then once you
declare war, is it like it's like when you've declared a thumb war.
It's just on there's nothing you can do. I don't know the rules of
declaring war. So maybe it's like in the movies when you have to like
turn the keys to arm the nukes, like you need like three keys simultaneously.
Like maybe you would have to declare war like three times. Yeah,
But the problem is just I don't know, if you know this. Russia
seems a little unhinged on some of this stuff, right, Like let's say
you were to hypothetically almost stage a cub but then go, nah, I'm
just kidding, Like, it's pretty obvious that he didn't he took that personally
right at this point, I mean, I don't. I don't see any
evidence pointing to that. I think he gave him a promotion or whatever,
and the guy unfortunately died in a plane crash. Yeah, that's this guy.
Well, technically I think there was a bomb on board. They somebody
dis misplaced their bomb. These things happen, so yeah, you gotta be
you gotta be really careful on that. So so I don't know, it
doesn't sound like we're going to World War three though. Everything's good. But
again, everything was good with that dude, right because Putin's like, nah,
I don't worry about it, almost stage into coup and stuff. Totally
didn't mean that. And then yeah, everyone was fine, and then somebody
actually left the bomb over there, this insanity. Man. The World Health
Organization is warning that super gonna rhea cases are on the rise, So that's
good news, I guess. For that's obviously not good news. Yeah,
what had been limited to certain regions of the world. Ironically, they seem
to be the regions like where like it was in like Thailand, and then
in the UK because a lot of British tourists go there for like sex tourism
and stuff, and then like but apparently now there's many many other hot spots
of this. So in case you needed one other thing to worry about,
uh, super gonarrhea, which obviously has a more technical name, is obviously
big concern because part of what makes it super is not that it makes you
invisible or you learn to fly, but rather it basically doesn't give a crap
about most antibiotics. They call it ness saria. You shouldn't you should not
call it necessaria. You shouldn't have anything that sounds like the word necessary,
and then followed by Ganerio. Uh. Yeah. As part of the World's
Sexual Health Day, which was apparently Monday, okay, uh, the organization
listed several different concerns going forward, and this was one of them. So
if you don't want to get it, baby, don't go to a opium
den slash pleasure palace in Thailand or now twenty six other countries. So there
you go, all right. Eight forty six race Agic for the weather Channel.
He's here, got no pants because there's other one's were ruined by coffee.
But weather Man, goodness gracious, we're doing well in terms of precipitation.
But the heat boy all the way up there in the upper nineties,
and the Triangle yesterday, low nineties at the try, and I think about
the same today. Ninety eight officially for Raleigh, in about ninety four for
Green four for Winston, Sam Greensboro might get the record at Raleigh. The
record is ninety eight degrees lower than yesterday's record. At the bottom line is
it's hot and it's a little bit humid too, so it'll feel over one
hundred still, sun MOADI bid nineties for tomorrow. Then we'll start to see
some change come in for Friday with a few showers Thutterer showers. Highs will
be a likely near ninety degrees with the upper eighties. And then over the
weekend more seasonable temperature is closer to normal with some scattered showers, even a
few thunderstorms for Saturday and Sunday. Sunday afternoon looks like the better chance or
Saturday afternoon actually, so what temperature is coming down, the rain chances might
go up a little, but another couple of hot ones case he was hot
out there the last few days. Certainly still hanging out this midsummertime heat here
late in summer. Yeah, we can quit that. So, yeah,
we will do something about that. That'd be great, all right, thank
you, sir, appreciate it, Okay, and Jeff Bellinger, plus we'll
grab a call. We've got at least one hanging out. We'll do it
next? Hang on smart Talk all Day ninety four five w PTI in the
Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right,
eight fifty two Bloomberg Update Now with Jeff Bellinger. Jeff, What's going on
morning? Casey stocks pulled back yesterday, and it looks like investors aren't finished
with the selling. The now futures are down eighty two points at the moment.
Home loan demand declined last week. Mortgage bankers report total application volume was
down nearly three percent from the prior week, and the banker's gay page of
applications for home purchases fell to a twenty eight year low. It is expected
Amazon dot Com will face a new Federal Trade Commission lawsuit, sources tell Bloomberg.
The agency will likely file suit later this month. The FTEC legal action
this time around will reportedly target Amazon's marketplace, where a third party merchant sell
products and pay commissions to Amazon. Pandemic ere a federal aid to support daycare
centers set to expire at the end of this month, and the Century Foundation
is sending out a warning. It says childcare providers are already struggling with high
costs. And labor shortages. The Foundation estimates as many as seventy thousand childcare
programs could be in danger of closing, possibly displacing more than three million children.
How Motivated Are You? New survey indicates American workers motivation is slipping this
year. The ADP Research Institute's Employee Motivation and Commitment Index is at the lowest
level since June of last year. A piece as productivity is reduced when workers
are less engaged, and some of the car rental agencies a Casey or pushing
electric vehicles now. For now, most customers who prefer a traditional car or
suv can get one, but The Wall Street Journal says some travelers have been
stuck with evs that they didn't really want. The vehicles may not be properly
charged, they don't always come with operating instructions, and finding charging stations along
roads or at hotels can be a big challenge. Casey, Yeah, I
had when I runted a car here not that long ago. They wanted to
sub me one. It wasn't the one I thought I was going to get,
And I was like, right, God, no, how about no?
Yeah? Because you just don't. It'd be one thing if you're like
in your you know, you're in your element, right, you know where
the stations are. Maybe you got one at your house or whatever, like
you plan for it, but you're in a weird city. I don't know
about that. But anyway, all right, thank you, sir, appreciate
it. All right, have a good day, take care. Yeah,
there you go. Jeff Bellinger, Bomberg News. All right, quick phone
call. Doug's been hanging on on the casino issue. Let's grab that dog.
What's going on. Hey, good morning, Casey. How are you
today? I'm good, sir. I just wanted to call in. Had
some folks alert me that you were discussing the kid casinos. We went to
Raleigh yesterday and we've started a group here in Rockingham County Citizens for Good Growth
in Rockingham County. I'm conservative, but these Republicans, man, what they're
doing in the back rooms and the halls of the Legislative building is ridiculous,
not letting the be into it from the public on casinos and the fact that
Senator Burger has got money coming in left and right from Cordish Group out of
Maryland. Three of the top people, the CEO of his wife and gentleman
named zeb Smith, giving him thirty four thousand, five hundred dollars in November
and March was this year maxing out the nation that they can give to him
for individual donations. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would encourage people to
look at I'm sorry, I'm just kind of pushing along because We've just got
a couple of minutes. So what was I have? But you know,
that's not new in the sense that you know, different business interests are gonna
lobby and I guess the question becomes, is it just because of the type
of business, Like if somebody wanted to open a laser tag facility in Eden,
should the citizens even if that person wants to go buy a piece of
property, should the citizens be like, nah, you can't use that piece
of property. I mean, don't you kind of get out of that level
of democratic micromanagement that some people object to. I don't know. The folks
that i'm I'm working with and the friends that have come together, it's not
we're not against the gross This particular kind of growth is not good. It's
not beneficial for the state. I mean, it's going to be quick cash
for a casino, it's going to be quick cash for the politicians that's got
investments. His friend David Cauchoo's buying property nearby. It's not the kind of
growth that we need. Everybody understanding growth that they never going to not make
money. I'm sorry, I'm just trying to double's advocate you because it sounds
like you've got a lot of these numbers in front of you. And I
appreciate that you're you know, you're you're digging into this issue, and I
would encourage people to do that. But the reality is there is a financial
benefit to the county. There are jobs that are out there. The question
is going to be a total tally of you know what those costs are associated
with it? And yeah, well the jobs, the jobs that are going
to come to Rockingham Canny from this Caseine Tho like he's stating five thousand across
the state with the three locations, seventeen hundred and ninety in Rockingham Canny.
But the folks that come into manage are not going to be from Rockingham Canny.
They're going to be people that they bring in from their establishment that knows
the operation. The people here are going to get the low hanging fruit.
You're not going to give them a forty hour week jobs. Some of them,
I mean, they want to open a Walmart. That's that's inherently another
issue that you that you have with big box retailers. I'm just I'm just
saying, sir, I I really want to see an entire balance sheet,
and I think the numbers that you and your folks are pulling together, coupled
with whatever the argument's going to be on the part of politicians who may support
this, it's going to be important. And thanks for your call for everyone
to, you know, look at this stuff.