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Glad to have you along, and
uh, we got we got oodles to

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get into. Uh, don't forget
Fridays obviously, as we get into our

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number three, that's when we chat
with Pete Callaner. That is one of

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my favorite segments of the week.
And uh, we actually, you know,

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we we we look this stuff up
in ratings, right when we have

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what are called here's a little behind
the scenes what are called benchmark features.

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Basically things we regularly do on the
show. And you all are a big

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fan as well, so that I
just literally something I was having a conversation

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with the boss about yesterday. So
that's happening eight oh five. And after

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what happened was Jean Pierre, Well
we told you was it? It was

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it Tuesday or Wednesday? We played
the audio, Yeah, because Biden and

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Harris were they were they were here
on Monday. They did the thing out

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at the Chavis Community Center and then
they had the fundraiser, which I would

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look one hundred thousand dollars a tickety
in North Carolina. That's crazy to me,

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right, the the the checks that
people are writing. However, that's

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like that's like a lemonade stand compared
to yesterday's fundraiser in New York I and

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maybe some of you who are excuse
me, it's in here, another sip

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ofima water. Everything was fine,
and then coach christ dry this morning.

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For those of you who involve yourselves
in political fundraising, I generally don't go

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to any because, among other things, I don't make I don't make contributions

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to individual candidates or parties for that
matter. One could claim it's an ethical

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thing, which it is, but
two, I'm just I'm really cheap.

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So that being said, the estimates
of what was raised at a single fundraiser

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yesterday by the Biden campaign is crazy
to me. And frankly, if that

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is a sign of where we're going
to be, Like we can look at

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the funds raised right with the with
the the financial reporting, the mandatory financial

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reporting, and funds raised and funds
on hand, right, those are the

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two numbers you see. Republicans,
I don't. Republicans got to get their

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They got to get their game up, man, cause if they're slinging and

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this is unless they adjusted it,
this is the estimate if they're hauling twenty

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five million dollars off a single fundraiser, albeit in the richest, wealthiest,

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most expensive city in America with multiple
presidents. Right, you had three presidents,

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And I'll tell you why that's important. Coming up right, you're throwing

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out all the stops. You got
Hollywood folks there. I mean, obviously

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this was a big production, But
twenty five mil on a single fundraiser,

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I'm Carrie, and uh, you
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least at the party level with a
guy that many in North Carolina are familiar

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with. Uh, and that's Michael
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can't wait to see what the answer
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a long we got a long way
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is actually newsworthy? We will uh, we'll get We'll get into that as

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well, because it wasn't just three
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former. It was for US presidents
all in New York doing stuff. Yesterday,

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I tweeted about this because Trump was
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doing a fundraiser, I guess,
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like the only reason he went was
to raise money or you know, do

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this or do that, And I
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at any time somebody who's running for
office literally does anything. But that's the

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case. But you know, for
like Seth Abramson who went on in like

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an Elon Musk and Donald Trump tangent
yesterday and other New York Times and or

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WAPO reporters, that is a that's
apparently a judgment that only goes one way.

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So I'll let you know what everyone
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doing, why why they were there, and you know, you can be

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the judge, because I feel like
I feel like it wasn't a good look,

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but also it wasn't arbitrary, right, because I do try to be

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fair here. So we'll give you
the President and former President New York Schedule

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Rundown. Coming up on the show
the Jean Pierre stuff that happened on WBT

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Radio, we played the audio where
Jean Pierre was asked two questions got very

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offended at both. Was asked about
the president's mental health. I can't believe

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this is not a question that they
have tactically come up with an answer to.

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That blows my mind. And then
the other question was about the you

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know, people go into the store
and you get like you get a handbasket

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instead of a rollie cart, and
it's still one hundred plus dollars, right,

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because that's lived experience that people are
dealing with, and she can argue

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the reasons why, she can argue
even that you're crazy and it always costs

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that much, which for some reason
is one of the arguments I see.

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But storming off a rays video show
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I have I've had it happen to
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you know, the bigger the personality, the more traction that's going to get,

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like anyone in this business, radio
or TV, right to a lesser

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extent newspaper, because you don't necessarily
you don't have that video audio there if

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you are not just a professional communications
person, but arguably the top in the

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country, right you're the spokesperson for
the White House, and you don't realize

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that that is equally crazy. And
if that's where the story got left,

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it probably you know, by next
week it wouldn't even be a thing.

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But there's an update. So I'll
give you those details and we'll talk to

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Pete. It wasn't Pete doing the
interview. It was one of the other

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hosts. But now now we have
a he said, she said on exactly

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how that went. So I have
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does this for a living. But
I can't wait to talk to Pete datoh

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five to get the behind the scenes. All Right, we got Easter right

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coming up a couple of days.
We got as we normally do. We

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got some crazy woke Easter stuff,
the crypto bro sentence scene, which frankly

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he's not going to do all that
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couple of stories this week where I
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hundred questions, and if one of
them was the lawsuit over the knockoff fantasy

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themed adult toys earlier this week where
they're like, oh no, the guy

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who copied us his toys are low
quality and don't accurately represent what it would

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actually feel like hooking up with a
dragon, which is part of the lawsuit.

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And I can't wait in court for
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know what a dragon's nether region feels
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equally with a crap ton of questions, So we'll get to we'll get to

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that Jon Stewart in the news and
just a bunch of stuff. So oh,

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and the students at UNC are unhappy, and not because of the way

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that that what was an amazing basketball
game yesterday, Not because of the way

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it ended. I'm sure they're upset
with that, but something else, and

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we'll fill you in. So let's
do this six seventeen. We'll hit our

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first break and then right into it
coming up. CaCO Day Radio Program,

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Eco Day Radio Program phone number eight
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four. That'll get you on the
show here on our wonderful Friday. But

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let me start here. Oh.
Also, and I understand that it's comedic

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in nature, but it's very well
done. And what makes it the video

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we're gonna play the audio of from
a city council meeting in Irvine, California,

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is watching half of the city council
seethe with rage while the other half

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is doing everything in their power not
to break out laughing when this dude's up

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there. And I understand the points
he's trying to make. And I also

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understand that people on Twitter are like, oh, that's a hate crime,

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but you know, those people are
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fine, and it's and it's also
one of those takes that's kind of like

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the well, if you honestly believe
women make seventy seven cents on the dollar,

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right, you're one of those folks
who plugs your ears when somebody points

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out that literally those numbers are not
waited for personal choice, traditional jobs that

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pre individuals seek out, and you
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their career decisions again that pre people
make. It's kind of one of those

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points which would be, well,
if that's true, and I'm a business

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owner, then why wouldn't I just
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quarter of my payroll, which I've
never heard an adequate answer to. I

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mean, I could come up with
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of women and then you ask your
workers how they feel about that, who,

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again, are all women? Like
they pull? Women who majority don't

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want to work in an office full
of women for a variety of reasons.

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And I'm not. I can only
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think that it's women are less likely
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is all women or majority women than
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you know, we're dudes, right, so you you're gonna have a chunk

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or are like, yeah, you
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the Christmas party that kind of stuff. But it's it's one of those points.

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So actually let me start there.
So this dudes and at the Irvine

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City Council meeting and he is,
they're they're discussing sports gambling, among other

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things, which you know obviously here
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You may have heard some commercials and
this guy is purportedly a proponent of it

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and a few other things. Let
let's get into this because I was dying

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urban city council. How you doing. My name is Tany and I'm a

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professional sports gambler, but unfortunately my
career is at a stantial because I got

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six baby mamas all in the DFW
metroplex. I'm sorry. Legal gambling in

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a sense, it would be march
madness. I'm coming up here to beg

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y'all to make sports gambling legal in
the city so I can stack my paper

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and pay for the illitimate, illegitimate
children's I know some people think sports batting

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is risky, but I got an
unbeaten system that can put money in all

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y'all pockets. Seriously, and by
the way, this is when some of

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the council members are just like they're
they're done, they can't function, they're

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laughing, and it's just gonna get
worse. Listen, my system is easy.

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I bet on the blackest and darkest
teams in college sports because black of

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the berry, sweeter the juice,
and better the jump shot. I also

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got a sports betting angle that's full
proof, since y'all want to let these

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all these transgenders up in the league. That is full proof, since y'all

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want to let all these transgenders up
in the league. I became almost a

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millionaire betting on Leah Thomas's big ass
winning all them swimming meets. And just

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like these transgender swimmers, my swimmers
were strong. That's why I got so

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many baby mamas. Yeah, the
first half of that was that is crazy

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entertaining to watch because both teams just
killing it. Unfortunately, in the second

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half U n C they just fell
off. Well, they score twenty last

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points in the second half, but
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you know, last minute, they
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go on to Elite eight. They're
going to take on Clemson, all right,

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remember, and we're right into it
today. So NC State they play

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Marquette's. That's gonna be tough.
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remaining. Marquette is a two seed. You got Duke playing number one seed

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Houston, Tennessee, Creighton, and
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Perennials. So lots of good college
basketball coming up. I just throw that

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out there. However, for a
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they were paying attention to. Now, up in New York, what is

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being simultaneously described as a mega money
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I want to read this because it's
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Okay, this is tell me everything. This is a grassroots fundraiser in New

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York yesterday. It was at Radio
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location, right, it was.
The most expensive tickets were five hundred thousand

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dollars, the cheapest were two hundred
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it was star studded in the traditional
Hollywood sense would be an understatement. In

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fact, who is the moderator?
Stephen Colbert was the moderator, and they

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had a moderator because Joe Biden,
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there, and Colbert did a panel
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was the Mindy Kayling from you know, from the Office, and I guess

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the Velma Show, if that's your
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panel. I was I was gonna
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I realized, screw these people,
specifically Colbert. So Colbert's like cracking jokes

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up there, and one of the
jokes and I just had to like tap

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out, was like, yeah,
here we go. And they had protesters

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interrupts six times. All right,
So here's the quote from Colbert. This

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is an extraordinary occasion because three presidents
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of them is here to appear in
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you know, a little self deprecating
humor is the norm, they're taking a

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shot at Trump, which I understand, but also, how are you so

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uninformed, mister late night hosts as
to why yesterday may not have been the

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day to make that joke? And
the reason was because well, these three,

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well, I guess two former and
one current president, though a lot

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of people think that the current president
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the Rumba in chief what to do. But I'll let you make that decision

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at a time when Trump is in
New York and you know, he is

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at the memorial service for the NYPD
officer who is murdered during a super routine.

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It's not even a traffic stop because
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want to know why these idiots were
parked in this bust lane and they probably

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probably would have told him to,
you know, move on. So that's

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why Trump's in New York and you're
cracking jokes about it because your guys can't

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be bothered to be over there.
Now. Obviously, what happened with the

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NYPD officer happened well after this fundraiser
was planned. You don't get three people

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like that all scheduled into a room
without some forward thinking and to some extent,

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I understand that because your total tickets
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that people have paid to go to
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you want to make that argument and
justified, I think your forgiveness will largely

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be based on whether you ask your
supporters or not. But that being said,

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like you don't want to go there
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want to be up there with this
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beyond the record that all three of
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to call the family or even address
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dude who is up there going,
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also accusing him of going just for
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you know, a president, former
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is kind of standard practice. And
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way around, right where the police
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like, oh why you parked your
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you know, a shot a guy
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of gum or you know whatever narrative
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all three of them probably would have
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look all around. If they want
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dollars, buye whatever you want to
get a bunch of super rich you know,

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business folk in that room, which
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also super woke, who were you
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garbage. You want to get him
in a room having a stroke. You

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you check whatever Republicans are going to
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combat that, because that was twenty
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know, even at a presidential level, that's astounding U and the uh it.

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Then it was not just Colbert and
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musical lineup. Queen Latifa, Lizo
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So you know, your choice yesterday
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you, even if it's just a
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grieving process of this this officer who's
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of basic policing jobs. Right,
He's not this is this guy's not he's

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not doing he's not the mob undercover
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to knock on the on this role
of policing, but he's the he's the

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guy that's going over and doing the
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you know that have to get done
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Like how how you whiff on that
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I don't understand that, Joe Biden, maybe because you got to prep

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the dude to go over there,
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talk about his uh you know,
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last thing I'm sure the family wants
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know, Bill Clinton used to be
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whatever, I don't think he's going
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component, But like, what are
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of the event? I don't understand
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folks on Twitter are like, ah, this is it was self The

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only reason that Trump was there was
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comes to New York now for for
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like your three just came there and
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which seems pretty self serving, right. So anyway, so yeah, those

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competing interests yesterday, and I'll let
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chosen, uhting, lotting, These
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presidents has a sign of civility,
insanity. I believe it's the quote that

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I read from Abramson, the New
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failed to actually review the situation,
even from a pr standpoint, like schedule

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five minutes, figure something out,
do some with the mayor for you know,

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the Meyrill drive to Midtown over to
Radio City Music Hall. He knows

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where it is and just a big
swing and a miss with zero accountability.

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But it wasn't the only political discussion. Rob Reiner is crazy. I twenty

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sixteen proved that I really didn't have
a Rob Reiner opinion other than generally when

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I saw him and stuff like I
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of Wall Street with the with the
data, I thought that was a good

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character. But twenty sixteen did a
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Hollywood, who maybe's politics he didn't
know where they were at. And and

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and since then, when Rob Reiner
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and yesterday was that was no different, all right? So and and

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by the way, this is by
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realize was still in business. I
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even I honestly, I don't even
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that magazine is. I only know
of its existence because I think my mom

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used to get it, and I
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anything. However, they apparently they're
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So Marie Claire did a piece about
Taylor Swift. All right, well

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that's not uncommon. I you know, it's a magazine targeted at women,

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you know, Hollywood celebrity stuff in
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is. Instead, Marie Claire tweets
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explanation of Taylor's decision to remain apolitical
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the first time Marie Claire dove into
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read you the twenty seventeen tweet.
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that culminated in For some reason,
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Rob Reiner Reiner who tweeted, quote, I'm in the midst of shooting a

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sequel to This is Spinal Tap,
which I didn't realize we were going to

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ruin this movie too. But all
right, whatever quote. As much as

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I'd like Taylor Swift to do a
cameo in the film, I give anything

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for her to endorse Joe Biden.
She would virtually single handedly save American democracy.

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season, But let me ask this, do we honestly think that's true.

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Do we think that if Taylor Swift
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a thirty second political ad for Democrats, do you think that that would single

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handedly save democracy and guarantee the election? What is your perception of Taylor Swift's

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politics right now? Anyway? Best
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if you're a big star in Hollywood, Hollywood or the music industry, I

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just assume that you would tell people
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know how that moves the needle,
but I see I see a lot of

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people who consider themselves plugged in who
keep saying this? And if Taylor's Swift

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did come out full throated endorsement for
Joe Biden, here's a campaign commercial.

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I don't believe there's anyone in America
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that coming. But maybe I'm wrong. You know, it's just maybe I'm

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just super negative on anyone in that
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including Pearlman and a few others who
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if they're trying to draft Taylor Swift. I guess for at the very least

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to do campaign stuff. But when's
the last time a Hollywood person out on

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the campaign stump suades your vote?
But the flip side, and this is

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why I'm asking this. Also,
we got a lot of dumb people,

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really really just idiot And you know
if somebody, some celebrity who is actually

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that's the politics they follow, tells
them to do something, and they probably

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only hear that celebrities take on perhaps
a certain issue because normally they don't pay

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attention to any of this. I
maybe you encourage that person to actually vote,

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but if their life revolves around keeping
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I don't know that it does any
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on that. Eight eight eight nine
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of former Daily Show folks, and
I guess current, this John Stewart story

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is getting juicy, so we'll fill
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O Day Radio program. You know, we're kind of stuck here doing the

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show right now, or not stuck. Obviously, we enjoy it. It's

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Friday good stuff. Unfortunately that is
delaying me reclaiming what is mine. And

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I know we have listeners up in
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I guess for that matter, that's
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you know, if you could respect
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don't know if you all saw this
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the up of the track of the
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former NASCAR and I guess attempting to
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via a sinkhole underneath the grand stands, which, by the way, that

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in and of itself is a little
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many of you have memories of sitting
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the racetrack up in Wilkesboro, All
right? Right? Yeah? And did

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you know that all that time there
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it. Your Friday KCO Day radio
program coming up one hour from now.

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Pete Calender here will be joining us, and we got all sorts of fun

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stuff to get into. Obviously the
the ripcord pool by the White House spokeshole

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as she appeared on the Charlotte WBT
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co workers. And that story is
updated. And I told you as somebody

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who obviously does radio interviews, and
not just with Pete, but you know,

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with guests up to and including Donald
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on and talked about Sorry, now
I have the hiccups for no reason.

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But when you have somebody, especially
when you're interviewing people who do like media

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interview blitzes, right, they may
carve out a whole day, uh to

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you know, to go around and
you know, maybe do like twenty stations

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or five TV stations, five radio
stay. You know, it's pretty common

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stuff, and but they're usually scheduled
pretty tight, so you know when you're

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when you're doing it, you don't
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of the things that I'm going to
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starts, but I'm gonna ask when
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lot of times they'll tell you,
and they will hang up on you if

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you if you go past it,
and it's not out of malice, it's

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out of a scheduler who is literally
sitting there and will physically reach over and

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hang up on the UH on the
phone right and then call and scream at

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you. That's something that happened to
me when I was interviewing Rudy Giuliani a

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long time ago, because Giuliani got
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way back during bushes when Bush was
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was, you know, doing radio
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had him booked, and instead of
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his handler wanted, UH, I
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then all we talked about was baseball
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he's a big Yankees fan. And
the Yankees had just just had a they

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had just beat the Twins, and
there was some there was some stuff and

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it was great. And literally like
mid sentence, uh, Giuliani had just

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cut off, and I'm like,
I thought we had phone problems. I'm

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like, did Giuliani hang up?
What the hell happened? And then I

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get a really angry message from the
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camp He's not even Giuliani's guy.
He's just a the state he's with the

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state party in Minnesota, who was
handling this stuff. And he also is

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super OCD. Right, But I
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to be out at a certain time, and I just we got to baseball

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and I looked up and I'm like, oh, crap, I forgot the

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heart out. That's on me,
all right. Plus this guy was an

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a hole because we weren't talking about
what he wanted us to talk about,

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So screw him. But that's not
what's going on here. And as much

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as the White House would would tell
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host is going to be unaware of
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like the size of Raleigh or Greensboro
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largest media market in the state.
You're gonna know you're professional. It is

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what it is. So the White
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and uh, well unfathomably underprepared,
by the way, like the topics,

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we'll play the audio. I'm gonna
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now this it was just they had
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to go, and it just sounded
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it sounds like, uh, the
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it either. So we'll talk to
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first I got to recover my my
moonshine cave. All right. It's like

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I thought this was a cool story. And of course there's the lore right

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of NASCAR moonshining out running the cops, you know, I get that Duke's

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of hazard vibe, and uh,
you know it's it's it's it's as somebody

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likes history. I think it's definitely
one of the most unique and interesting historical

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parts of the lore of North Carolina. And and it's a thing that continues

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today. I'm telling you, if
drive past Elkin like you're headed up the

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hill to Sparta and Roaring Gap and
all and uh, you know, Glade

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Valley and all that. And I
don't know that we'll ever know the number,

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but that little that little area called
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town name there, that area,
that part of North Carolina. Uh,

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check out the Wikipedia on on that
and some of the historical stuff. The

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amount of moonshine that they were turning
out just in that little area between like

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Yadkinville, el Elkin State Road and
uh and right there, like there's they

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they were supplying like the East Coast
Man. The numbers are bonkers. So

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am I surprised at all that potentially
under the speedway in Wilkesboro that there might

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have been you know, like a
moonshine cave. No, not at all.

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And I think it's really cool.
Actually, the history is just fascinating.

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good, right, not all good,

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right, but it's fascinating. There
was a remember back on the History

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Channel. It's about like a like
underground ancient underground whatever, and like they'd

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be like a prohibition episode up in
New York and they were showing like,

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oh, different bars and different like
secret passages that would go down to like

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the harbor or like the port whatever, and oh god, it's so fascinating,

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like there right now, you go

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there. You know you have no
idea what's underneath, you, dude.

406
00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:46.960
The some of the under They have
an underground tour in Rome, which is

407
00:38:47.679 --> 00:38:53.199
was cool. I did the under
You can go if you're in Paris and

408
00:38:53.239 --> 00:38:57.280
they have you can go in like
Catacall. You can't go to the park

409
00:38:57.320 --> 00:39:00.639
where it's upside down and you go
to hell like in that movie. I

410
00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:02.800
guess you could, but they have
it like Barry. But that underground tour

411
00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:07.280
is fascinating. Did I tell you
what what I saw when I was there

412
00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:10.239
when I did the under When I
did the underground tour, I don't think

413
00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:15.519
so, dude. So I get
in there and it's his dark, dank

414
00:39:15.559 --> 00:39:20.400
and like creepy, right, because
they have the bones and stuff. You

415
00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:24.000
can go see that stuff. But
I went through this way. I was

416
00:39:24.119 --> 00:39:28.360
leaning right because the tour guy was
just, you know, yammering away and

417
00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:30.639
I'm leaning on the wall, and
all of a sudden the wall gives way.

418
00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:37.880
I go in there and there's a
templar Knight's grave in there, and

419
00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:44.599
and rats and lots of rats.
And his shield was a map. So

420
00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:47.599
yeah, like to your point,
there's a lot of cool stuff there.

421
00:39:47.639 --> 00:39:53.400
You will be fastly led. So
no. But on on a more local

422
00:39:54.199 --> 00:39:59.159
side of this, the city of
Seattle is built on the city of You

423
00:39:59.159 --> 00:40:00.280
think most of the city like,
you're like, oh, on ground level,

424
00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:04.639
you're like way above where the initiative
built the town. They like,

425
00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:09.039
there's a whole nother Seattle under Seattle, and they do. You can go

426
00:40:09.079 --> 00:40:14.800
down there, although sometimes it doesn't
go well. I was doing fill in

427
00:40:14.800 --> 00:40:21.960
in Richmond on our w r VA, which was the station that Jeff Katz,

428
00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:24.599
who you've probably heard fill in on
this show does the afternoon show on.

429
00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:30.000
So it was guys kind of repaying
the favor there, and I don't

430
00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:31.760
know all of the backgrounds. Sometimes
you can do a fill in in a

431
00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:36.360
local market, like you know,
you don't fully know what's going on.

432
00:40:36.920 --> 00:40:44.519
But they were in some sort of
big debate because they found much more extensive

433
00:40:45.119 --> 00:40:52.719
underground infrastructure in this cliff side.
What is it called foggy not foggy Bottoms

434
00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:57.199
that's in DC. It's got kind
of a weird, weird name that's stuck

435
00:40:57.199 --> 00:40:59.639
with me. I can't remember exactly. Hang out, let me look it

436
00:40:59.719 --> 00:41:04.760
up here a Shacko bottom Shocko bottom, which is essentially it's right, it's

437
00:41:04.800 --> 00:41:07.320
the part if you're in Richmond that
goes down to the James River there and

438
00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:13.519
it's quite a quite a drop.
And in the drop they found much more

439
00:41:13.519 --> 00:41:19.159
extensive like caves, but they look
to be man made. And you know

440
00:41:19.280 --> 00:41:22.840
there there was already a history in
that area of it being a you know,

441
00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:30.400
back during slavery where essentially it was
a main selling point. But then

442
00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:36.719
they had they found these other this
other area, and at first they didn't

443
00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:40.480
realize what it was, and then
they were I can't remember what the what

444
00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:46.559
they fully thought was going on,
and then somebody realized it was it was

445
00:41:46.840 --> 00:41:54.039
an extension of the slavery operation,
except it was basically where they'd stick sick

446
00:41:54.159 --> 00:41:59.960
or injured human product right for you
know, back back in the day,

447
00:42:00.239 --> 00:42:05.000
oh god, yeah, yeah,
to you know, essentially, like they

448
00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:07.559
couldn't sell them. So they're just
like, all right, that's all it's

449
00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:10.559
it's it's horrific. Yeah, it's
absolutely, but it's history. But at

450
00:42:10.599 --> 00:42:15.239
first they thought it was a different
thing. And and then and I think

451
00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:17.159
the city had allocated some money and
they were trying to you know, the

452
00:42:17.159 --> 00:42:22.719
debate was what do you do?
Right, because then you had some activists

453
00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:23.800
who were like, well, now
we need more funding than do this.

454
00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:27.760
And I think they did build that
out and and frankly they should, right,

455
00:42:29.079 --> 00:42:31.679
if you're going to do historical stuff, it is the history, right,

456
00:42:32.519 --> 00:42:35.679
so put it in there. But
I remember, like I had to

457
00:42:35.679 --> 00:42:38.199
fill in that week when that was
going on, and I'm like, I

458
00:42:38.199 --> 00:42:40.840
I was just looking at the local
news and I'm like, oh my god,

459
00:42:40.960 --> 00:42:45.159
how do I even approach this?
But with the North Wilkesboro thing,

460
00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:52.320
you know, being a moonshine storage
area in an area that was rampant with

461
00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:58.199
moonshining and under a NASCAR track,
that's amazing. And it's that's because that's

462
00:42:58.199 --> 00:43:01.400
why I built it there, and
and it's mine and I think I can

463
00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:08.800
say and you would all have to
agree, this is now the premiere alcohol

464
00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:16.480
related oversized tourist attraction in the state
of North Carolina. We can agree on

465
00:43:16.519 --> 00:43:21.920
that, right, this is this
is numero uno now because it's real.

466
00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:24.760
Oh I see this is a Boone
Big Beer hit piece. No, no,

467
00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:30.159
it sounds like Boone Big Beer triple
b. Now this spear me pointing

468
00:43:30.159 --> 00:43:34.519
out that one thing actually exists.
Right, there's the caves and then the

469
00:43:34.559 --> 00:43:37.559
other thing is underneath the Boone Big
Beer is another Boone Big Beer. Why

470
00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:44.960
would you why you do? It's
not why that's so wasteful? Why would

471
00:43:45.039 --> 00:43:47.320
you? Like the guys on Easter
Island, right, like the big heads

472
00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:51.119
and you actually see how deep down
it goes, and they're like, oh

473
00:43:51.159 --> 00:43:53.400
my, there's like bodies attached to
the heads on Easter Island. Like people

474
00:43:53.400 --> 00:43:55.840
don't realize that when you see like
how far down it goes. It's the

475
00:43:55.880 --> 00:44:00.079
same thing with the Boone Big Beer. Okay, well, but Easter Island

476
00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:07.599
and the city of Seattle the reason
that they were dealing with sea level concerns,

477
00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:10.760
right, I don't know if you
know this Boone is not at sea

478
00:44:10.840 --> 00:44:16.760
level, So like that doesn't that
don't track as to why you would build

479
00:44:16.800 --> 00:44:21.679
a Boone Big Beer. You ever
seen the episode with the Los Angeles Underground.

480
00:44:21.719 --> 00:44:24.119
You ever see that one that's for
all the hoboes they found the Soldiers

481
00:44:24.119 --> 00:44:29.840
of Fortune? Okay in the La
Underground? Is that where they found them?

482
00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:31.559
And it's not it's not just hobos, because I did see a thing

483
00:44:31.559 --> 00:44:37.199
where it was just hobos. But
but this was back when in the eighties

484
00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:40.480
and nineties, right at latest seventies? Yeah, late seventies. Yeah,

485
00:44:40.519 --> 00:44:45.920
so did start in the late seventies, the eighteen late seventies. Wow,

486
00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:50.440
that's crazy. It could be early
eighties. I'm not sure, but sometimes

487
00:44:50.440 --> 00:44:52.760
that show it gives me the vibe
of like late seventies. Yeah, yeah,

488
00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:55.639
And then I just try to I
guess I track it with how old

489
00:44:55.639 --> 00:45:00.239
does mister T look? Right,
that kind of stuff, And I guess

490
00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:04.440
maybe it does assume, but I
you know, that dude probably look like

491
00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:09.079
a scary adult when he was eight. Like I've never seen an eight year

492
00:45:09.119 --> 00:45:13.519
old picture, you know, mister
T at eight, But at the very

493
00:45:13.639 --> 00:45:16.119
least, I'm sure you had a
full beard. So all right, So

494
00:45:16.599 --> 00:45:21.400
anyway, now it doesn't look like
there's any moonshine in there, but I

495
00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:24.679
am gonna need him a cave back. So anyone in the Wilkesboro area want

496
00:45:24.679 --> 00:45:29.480
two. I mean, you've been
talking about that thing for years. I

497
00:45:29.639 --> 00:45:36.360
have. I've been somewhat secret,
but I like to brag because like many

498
00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:38.920
of you poores out there, you've
probably built a man cave, right,

499
00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:43.760
Yeah, how exciting, right,
and then you're you know, anytime you

500
00:45:43.800 --> 00:45:45.920
go down there, and then your
wife just nags you, uh, if

501
00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:52.119
you're gonna. I did a moonshine
cave. So that's I feel like I

502
00:45:52.199 --> 00:45:55.119
win on this. Like I didn't
even have to. You don't even have

503
00:45:55.159 --> 00:46:00.400
to put man in the title.
It's a moonshine cave. People just people

504
00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:05.360
know what's up. So now my
question is what do you what do you

505
00:46:05.400 --> 00:46:07.639
do? Because they've known all the
reno there. They did. They did

506
00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:10.760
have the race last year there,
which was cool. Who won? That

507
00:46:10.840 --> 00:46:15.199
was at Kyle oh Bush? Who
won that I can't remember, but which

508
00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:20.280
was cool to have. You know, every time I drive by that track,

509
00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:25.559
you know, at one point,
I guess let me just give a

510
00:46:25.599 --> 00:46:29.320
history for people new here. You
know, the state of North Carolina had

511
00:46:29.360 --> 00:46:36.360
three NASCAR tracks and then in the
mid nineties NASCAR did what, in my

512
00:46:36.480 --> 00:46:43.519
opinion, was the dumbest thing and
basically looked at all of their fans,

513
00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:49.719
who in some cases had been there
since what when NASCAR started late forties,

514
00:46:49.760 --> 00:46:59.400
early fifties. They literally built NASCAR, loved it and would in many cases

515
00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:04.079
go to all the different races in
North Carolina every year. And NASCAR's ratings

516
00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:07.679
started going up, and they basically, in my opinion, they just said

517
00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:13.480
screw you and abandoned the true NASCAR
fans, thinking that they were going to

518
00:47:13.519 --> 00:47:15.400
mainstream this thing. And for a
little while they they did, and the

519
00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:19.119
money was rolling in. But I
thought it was just a big old screw

520
00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:22.800
you. And you know, it
was ninety six or whatever, it was

521
00:47:22.840 --> 00:47:25.880
the last and then they just say, all right, we're out and they

522
00:47:25.960 --> 00:47:31.239
left Rockingham and uh, Wolkesborough obviously
Charlotte is you know, I got two

523
00:47:31.280 --> 00:47:37.679
races there. But I thought I
thought it was the beginning of the disconnect

524
00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:42.480
and and and then it used to
be you could travel to a race and

525
00:47:42.519 --> 00:47:46.920
you didn't have to mortgage your house, and that was it was just it

526
00:47:46.960 --> 00:47:52.719
was it was greed masking as well, we're just trying to expand it to

527
00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:57.079
a new audience. Well, no, you weren't just expanding. I think

528
00:47:57.079 --> 00:48:05.920
a lot of people felt betrayed and
I never understood the decision. But this

529
00:48:06.079 --> 00:48:09.360
is cool, so but hey,
I don't know so. Moonshining cave are

530
00:48:09.440 --> 00:48:13.719
just two things that most guys are
going to be inherently fascinated by, and

531
00:48:13.719 --> 00:48:16.280
then fast cars on top. It's
amazing, all right. Anyway, seven

532
00:48:16.360 --> 00:48:20.320
twenty three will take a break.
Hang on. Not that I cared that

533
00:48:20.440 --> 00:48:24.039
much about P. Diddy or any
of this, but it's just the totality

534
00:48:24.079 --> 00:48:32.159
of what's going on with these court
documents and once again this scenario where everybody

535
00:48:32.239 --> 00:48:39.440
knew something but nobody really did anything
allegedly. I mean, obviously this you

536
00:48:39.440 --> 00:48:45.559
know, this is this is unfolding
right now. We're in the investigative phase.

537
00:48:45.239 --> 00:48:50.719
But it's just one crazy story after
another with you know, some high

538
00:48:50.719 --> 00:48:58.960
profile celebrity actor, hip hop artist, some pro athletes up in this and

539
00:48:59.360 --> 00:49:08.400
it's it's just there. There's a
couple I was just reading one the apparently

540
00:49:08.920 --> 00:49:13.239
the you know, you just assume
if you're like at a private JETNY yacht

541
00:49:13.800 --> 00:49:15.960
with some Hollywood party folks on there, yeah, you get what you got?

542
00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:23.320
You got, uh, the big
pile of cocaine like it's scarface and

543
00:49:23.519 --> 00:49:28.519
uh, you know, all the
all the party people. But they they

544
00:49:28.559 --> 00:49:31.239
had their own pink They call it
pink cocaine. In here, it's a

545
00:49:31.400 --> 00:49:37.559
drug that is called tousy, which
I don't know if I've ever seen tousy

546
00:49:39.920 --> 00:49:43.719
in in the US. But I
also, I, you know, I

547
00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:47.920
don't sit around doing hard drugs.
It's not really my thing, but I

548
00:49:47.920 --> 00:49:55.400
I do know what it is because
it's I was what was the show I

549
00:49:57.000 --> 00:50:01.679
watched sometimes, like the the the
show oh where they're doing the uh like

550
00:50:01.760 --> 00:50:06.800
the cartel raids and stuff like that, and it's not it wasn't cocaine,

551
00:50:06.800 --> 00:50:12.519
but I remember they was like it's
like ketamine and uh like uh the part

552
00:50:12.599 --> 00:50:16.800
you know, hallucinogenics and party drugs, which I'm like, why would you?

553
00:50:16.840 --> 00:50:21.280
Why would you? But apparently that
was their their big thing, and

554
00:50:21.360 --> 00:50:23.880
so they had like these big piles
of the stuff and it's pink, like

555
00:50:24.079 --> 00:50:30.280
bright pink, and apparently it makes
you like blow your nose and it looks

556
00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:32.639
like your your brain's bleeding. So
like the whole thing didn't sound good,

557
00:50:34.199 --> 00:50:37.960
uh when it was described to me, and apparently they were really into it.

558
00:50:37.320 --> 00:50:44.960
And then secondly, they identified a
woman by the name of Young Miami,

559
00:50:45.079 --> 00:50:50.480
which I suspect is not her name
who uh in an Instagram woman,

560
00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:55.920
both of which used to date fifty
Cent, but in the in the lawsuit

561
00:50:57.000 --> 00:51:01.599
were uh paid prostitutes, uh I
combs. He had them in like a

562
00:51:01.679 --> 00:51:06.880
monthly hooker retainer and then they would
just show up to all of his parties

563
00:51:06.920 --> 00:51:09.639
and just you know, well do
whatever they were asked to do. And

564
00:51:09.760 --> 00:51:14.960
like fifty Cent like dated one of
them for years, and his statement yesterday

565
00:51:15.159 --> 00:51:22.400
was I didn't know. I didn't
I didn't know she was a prostitute.

566
00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:30.119
I mean, I'm sure we all
know somebody who found out something pretty crazy

567
00:51:30.159 --> 00:51:35.360
about their significant other. Right,
you're dating something, you know, you're

568
00:51:35.360 --> 00:51:37.280
married to somebody for twenty years,
and then you find out that you know

569
00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:42.559
they run a BDSM dungeon on the
weekends, Like I maybe you get away.

570
00:51:43.159 --> 00:51:45.840
How do you not know your you're
you're if you're dating someone for how

571
00:51:45.880 --> 00:51:51.760
do you not know they're a hooker
for three years? So like, if

572
00:51:51.800 --> 00:51:54.719
that's the level of excuses that are
going to be out there, who knows

573
00:51:54.760 --> 00:52:00.079
where this thing's gonna go. Man, But it just gets easier and crazier.

574
00:52:00.119 --> 00:52:07.199
And speaking of crazier and crazier.
Yesterday we shared with you the the

575
00:52:07.199 --> 00:52:14.039
the student protest at Vanderbilt University,
which was billed obviously as a free Palestine

576
00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:19.920
protest, began with assault. This
is I think people are missing this part

577
00:52:19.960 --> 00:52:23.039
of it. It wasn't just students
who kind of all went into this administrative

578
00:52:23.039 --> 00:52:28.000
building and and then like you know, we're all pretending to do other stuff

579
00:52:28.039 --> 00:52:32.599
and then flash mobbed at the appointed
hour to sit in protest that they released

580
00:52:32.599 --> 00:52:37.079
the video. The students gathered outside
of the building were told in no uncertain

581
00:52:37.159 --> 00:52:43.599
terms that they could not come in
and gather in the in the president's office

582
00:52:43.639 --> 00:52:47.039
area there as as a group,
you know, make an appointment. And

583
00:52:47.440 --> 00:52:53.599
I know that they had whoever the
leaders are meeting with university officials, but

584
00:52:53.679 --> 00:52:57.920
that wasn't good enough. And so
if you see the video they released,

585
00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:04.119
you have campus police officers who were
at the door. There's a mob of

586
00:53:04.159 --> 00:53:10.639
students outside who had obviously organized,
and they physically assaulted the officer and it

587
00:53:10.760 --> 00:53:16.679
was clearly the plan. They stacked
a couple of the bigger male students at

588
00:53:16.719 --> 00:53:25.599
in front who rushed the security officer
at like it was an NFL line and

589
00:53:27.039 --> 00:53:31.760
literally incapacitated his ability to continue to
bar the doors, at which point all

590
00:53:31.800 --> 00:53:37.840
the other students rushed in there,
striking the security officer while doing so,

591
00:53:39.039 --> 00:53:43.199
you know, breaking one of the
doors, and then all at once ran

592
00:53:43.280 --> 00:53:46.559
in in. What was like,
that was clearly planned. That's exactly how

593
00:53:46.559 --> 00:53:51.639
you would you would do that.
And it's like, where is where's the

594
00:53:51.679 --> 00:53:59.599
outrage when you know, with the
people myself included by the way, who

595
00:54:00.159 --> 00:54:05.960
saw the videos of police officers who
were physically assaulted up at the US Capitol,

596
00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:07.239
and I, for one said,
look, if you're out there beating

597
00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:13.159
police with a flagpole like the one
video, bury those dudes under the prison.

598
00:54:13.159 --> 00:54:16.400
I got no time for that.
But I was able to recognize the

599
00:54:16.440 --> 00:54:20.760
difference because we're adults and that's how
we converse on the show. In this

600
00:54:20.920 --> 00:54:25.280
case, the students and including student
leadership, physically assaulted law enforcement are at

601
00:54:25.280 --> 00:54:29.679
the very least security. I don't
know if it's all sworn officers, but

602
00:54:29.760 --> 00:54:35.159
whatever, And that it just made
me so angry watching that because then this

603
00:54:35.440 --> 00:54:40.159
we have the tampon incident, right, and the backstory is the girl or

604
00:54:40.159 --> 00:54:45.519
the girls who are clearly idiots.
The reason the girl said that she was

605
00:54:45.639 --> 00:54:52.119
unable to go to the bathroom to
change out her feminine product. Is the

606
00:54:52.840 --> 00:55:00.400
university didn't They decided tack from a
tactic standpoint, they were not arresting students

607
00:55:00.400 --> 00:55:04.440
who were just sitting there on their
little stupid sitting with their signs, but

608
00:55:04.880 --> 00:55:09.639
any student who got up and attempted
to leave at that point or attempted to

609
00:55:09.760 --> 00:55:15.760
I guess leave the group, so
that there wasn't the video of officers essentially

610
00:55:15.800 --> 00:55:22.239
physically extracting students who had previously assaulted
them. They were placed under arrest if

611
00:55:22.280 --> 00:55:28.400
they were deemed to have been among
the students who were part of the assault

612
00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:34.519
of the officer. Right, is
this tracking? Okay? And so she

613
00:55:34.679 --> 00:55:38.840
had watched seven of her cohorts who
had gotten up to go to the bathroom

614
00:55:38.920 --> 00:55:45.039
to run and get something, who
had been taken into custody, although they

615
00:55:45.039 --> 00:55:49.480
were charged and then immediately released.
But that's why she didn't want to do

616
00:55:49.519 --> 00:55:53.920
it. There was nothing physically stopping
or that's what that was about. And

617
00:55:54.679 --> 00:56:01.760
it culminates that story in a nine
to one one call, which is how

618
00:56:01.760 --> 00:56:05.880
these how these are going to be
functional adults later in life? I don't

619
00:56:05.920 --> 00:56:09.519
know. Here's that nine one.
Yeah, there is currently a female student

620
00:56:09.559 --> 00:56:15.239
who's being denied the right to change
her tampon that's been in for multiple hours,

621
00:56:15.239 --> 00:56:19.440
which leads to an increased risk of
toxic shock syndrome. And the best

622
00:56:19.440 --> 00:56:22.519
part is she's I I can't tell
she's reading a Wikipedia on her phone,

623
00:56:23.159 --> 00:56:28.519
but it's like like she's She's like, let me explain the science to you.

624
00:56:28.559 --> 00:56:30.760
And I love that it's a female
nine one one caller who's having none

625
00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:37.760
of this. So why you're saying
right, so then you should understand.

626
00:56:37.079 --> 00:56:40.679
Okay, what you are not hearing. What you're not hearing is that if

627
00:56:40.679 --> 00:56:45.039
she stands up to use the restroom
to change her tampon, they are threatening

628
00:56:45.119 --> 00:56:49.559
arrest. So it is not an
option for her. You have an emergency,

629
00:56:49.639 --> 00:56:54.199
yes, ma'am, I dad is
an emergency. That's not by the

630
00:56:54.199 --> 00:56:59.039
way, they'll uh. I you
know, I haven't. I haven't spent

631
00:56:59.079 --> 00:57:02.760
a lot of time in prison,
but I did see the documentary Caged Heat,

632
00:57:04.360 --> 00:57:07.719
and I'm pretty sure that they'll let
you change feminine products in even in

633
00:57:07.840 --> 00:57:14.840
jail. So anyway, if you
thought that was peaked stupid, and it

634
00:57:14.880 --> 00:57:22.320
may still well be. There's another
thing that went down and it's it's risen

635
00:57:22.400 --> 00:57:27.880
to the level of the International Criminal
Court and the Hague. Oh yeah,

636
00:57:27.960 --> 00:57:30.239
yeah, yeah, yeah, wait
for that. We'll get to it first.

637
00:57:30.320 --> 00:57:34.320
Raced agent for the Weather Channel,
he's here. I'm just you know,

638
00:57:34.360 --> 00:57:36.920
I'm so glad. There's so many
stupid people. It just takes my

639
00:57:37.039 --> 00:57:39.760
job so easy. Man. Well, it just makes us look smarter.

640
00:57:40.639 --> 00:57:45.599
Yeah, And the irony here in
this case is these stupid people are literally

641
00:57:45.159 --> 00:57:50.199
pay ninety thousand dollars a year to
I guess, purportedly not be stupid to

642
00:57:50.199 --> 00:57:54.199
get a degree from Vanderbilt. But
it's it's not sticking. So I don't

643
00:57:54.239 --> 00:58:01.119
know. You got to do something, all right, So yes, almost

644
00:58:01.719 --> 00:58:10.079
almost crazy game, uh you know, possibly possible, but UNC just couldn't

645
00:58:10.119 --> 00:58:14.039
do it. You watch that game, and now you guys going to play

646
00:58:14.039 --> 00:58:16.800
Alabama, you Clemson people, So
yeah, And I was one of the

647
00:58:16.800 --> 00:58:22.159
five point eight percent that actually picked
Clemson in the ESPN bracket, So there's

648
00:58:22.239 --> 00:58:25.360
that. But I did have them
losing to the tar Heels. And I

649
00:58:25.440 --> 00:58:30.480
just say this because everything I got
to listen to somebody like you, right,

650
00:58:30.679 --> 00:58:34.760
I go, just because you're a
homer doesn't make them a bracket genius.

651
00:58:34.840 --> 00:58:37.559
All right, No, no,
I'm not claiming at all. Okay,

652
00:58:37.760 --> 00:58:39.559
all right, can I get these
guys and they're like, I picked

653
00:58:39.599 --> 00:58:43.280
Belmont to go all the way and
it's like, where'd you go to Scott

654
00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:45.039
Belmont? It's like, of course
you did? You pick it every year?

655
00:58:45.519 --> 00:58:49.239
Well you know what I did.
Originally, don't you had them winning

656
00:58:49.239 --> 00:58:52.039
at all? But then I said, no, that's probably not going to

657
00:58:52.119 --> 00:58:57.480
happen because and I had them against
the tar Heels in the Elite eight,

658
00:58:57.679 --> 00:59:00.719
and I picked them only because they
there were one on one against each other

659
00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:02.639
I think during the season, and
I was like, well, maybe they

660
00:59:02.679 --> 00:59:06.159
could win. And then I was
like nah, And then it doesn't matter

661
00:59:06.199 --> 00:59:09.280
because I didn't watch Obama game tar
Heels because I couldn't stay up. I

662
00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:13.960
was. I was exhausted after the
Clemson game. But yeah, now they

663
00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:16.639
go with a nine o'clockish tip off
Saturday night. I'm like, come on,

664
00:59:17.079 --> 00:59:21.559
looking at the times. They get
ten o'clock tip off tonight for the

665
00:59:21.639 --> 00:59:24.280
last game. I know. I
just hate this. Make it more and

666
00:59:24.320 --> 00:59:28.840
more inaccessible to kids, that's great, that's yeah, yeah they do,

667
00:59:28.960 --> 00:59:34.159
they do. Let's see, but
the weather will be great the next few

668
00:59:34.239 --> 00:59:38.159
days if you want to stay inside
and watch, but go out to that

669
00:59:38.239 --> 00:59:42.960
deck somewhere, and if you want
to watch any of the ball games,

670
00:59:43.039 --> 00:59:45.760
or even if you don't do something
productive before you do nothing, because I'm

671
00:59:45.760 --> 00:59:47.400
going to do a lot of nothing
this weekend. The weather will be great,

672
00:59:47.480 --> 00:59:51.440
worked out perfect. Yesterday, a
couple of hundreds of an inch of

673
00:59:51.519 --> 00:59:54.480
rain to the west high Point Winston, Salem, Salisbury and west of that,

674
00:59:54.559 --> 00:59:58.280
and then the heavier rain in and
around they try it, and the

675
00:59:58.320 --> 01:00:00.679
triangle up to an inch inch and
a half, a little bit more went

676
01:00:00.760 --> 01:00:04.239
just to the east. And now
we're settling in for some cooler weather,

677
01:00:04.360 --> 01:00:09.039
early beautiful weather this afternoon, a
little breeze though, near seventy forties tonight,

678
01:00:09.119 --> 01:00:14.079
mid seventies Tomorrow with sunshine and the
gusty breeze. Beautiful day. We're

679
01:00:14.119 --> 01:00:17.800
gonna wrap that into Saturday or Sunday. Beautiful weather again for Easter Sunday,

680
01:00:17.840 --> 01:00:22.559
close to eighty in the morning if
you're heading to a sunrise service, not

681
01:00:22.719 --> 01:00:24.679
bad, low to mid fifties,
and then may get into the middle eighties

682
01:00:24.719 --> 01:00:30.320
and some spots. Monday showers thunder
shower is probably about Tuesday afternoon Tuesday night

683
01:00:30.320 --> 01:00:31.800
and Wednesday, and another cold front
coming through late week. We could cool

684
01:00:31.800 --> 01:00:36.400
off quite a bit once again.
But today, Tomorrow, Sunday, Monday

685
01:00:36.559 --> 01:00:39.480
absolutely beautiful. I really think Easter
Sunday and Monday the two best days of

686
01:00:39.559 --> 01:00:44.800
the next four days. Showers back
by Tuesday. All right, Well,

687
01:00:44.880 --> 01:00:47.079
I know a lot of people.
Who's your final four? Who's your final

688
01:00:47.119 --> 01:00:52.519
four? I only know there's two. There's two of them left, so

689
01:00:52.960 --> 01:00:58.199
yeah, I've got to Tennessee and
Connecticut. Yeah, I think Tennessee and

690
01:00:58.280 --> 01:01:01.039
Yukon. Yeah. I actually I
had Alabama on the final four, so

691
01:01:01.519 --> 01:01:08.039
I just hate that Malabama has a
good basketball team too. That's another conversation

692
01:01:08.119 --> 01:01:13.480
for another day. Women, next
hour, all right, yeah, let

693
01:01:13.559 --> 01:01:15.880
me let me do my research.
Get your bracket out, all right,

694
01:01:15.039 --> 01:01:17.039
to it. I hope you don't
run out of time and can't do it.

695
01:01:17.079 --> 01:01:20.320
We'll see. All right, thanks
man, talk to you in an

696
01:01:20.320 --> 01:01:25.039
hour, and well we come back. What happened following the tampon nine one

697
01:01:25.159 --> 01:01:32.480
one related call? Apparently the the
university officials committed a war crime or something.

698
01:01:32.639 --> 01:01:36.599
All right, just just wait for
it. It's next hang on,

699
01:01:36.840 --> 01:01:38.880
Pete Calender. He'll be joining us
here in the next segment. So let

700
01:01:38.880 --> 01:01:46.119
me fit a few things in.
So yesterday we had the the the Vanderbilt

701
01:01:46.920 --> 01:01:51.000
Tampa on nine one one call,
and look, if you thought that was

702
01:01:51.039 --> 01:01:55.519
peak stupid, and it's still maybe
in this story, I understand. But

703
01:01:55.679 --> 01:02:01.639
also it wasn't the only thing.
And this is mind blowing. There's there's

704
01:02:01.679 --> 01:02:08.559
a thing you have to know.
The protesters are on a self stated hunger

705
01:02:08.599 --> 01:02:15.039
strike. They're mirroring what they would
Harvard did like two days before it,

706
01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:22.280
where they committed to a twelve hour
hunger strike. No, no, that's

707
01:02:22.320 --> 01:02:27.920
not the stupid part. It's just
one of the stupid parts. Wait,

708
01:02:28.599 --> 01:02:31.920
I did a twelve hour hunger strike
yesterday because I just didn't eat. I

709
01:02:32.119 --> 01:02:37.840
ate some like toast in the morning. I just didn't have an appetite.

710
01:02:37.960 --> 01:02:40.800
I don't know why I can say
it. And so I eate it like

711
01:02:40.920 --> 01:02:45.280
seven o'clock last night. So what
is like I did a twelve hour strike.

712
01:02:45.880 --> 01:02:50.159
It's inter minute fasting. Right,
Yeah, you're not Gandhi, right,

713
01:02:50.280 --> 01:02:53.920
Okay you're not, but whatever,
But it's important to know that they

714
01:02:54.000 --> 01:02:57.880
were. They were on a self
stated hunger strike. And by the way,

715
01:02:59.119 --> 01:03:06.320
they also blue Harvard's record away because
some of the students once they reached

716
01:03:06.320 --> 01:03:08.599
the twelve hour mark, once they
you know, because they had to keep

717
01:03:08.639 --> 01:03:14.159
sitting there, they want to get
arrested. Eventually stayed for did not eat

718
01:03:14.159 --> 01:03:17.800
for twenty one and a half hours, So they went almost a whole day

719
01:03:17.840 --> 01:03:27.000
without eating. But here's the war
crime. You're ready, and remember they

720
01:03:27.079 --> 01:03:34.599
had there is video of this gaggle
physically assaulting campus security and law enforcement.

721
01:03:34.840 --> 01:03:37.880
Right, there's video, you can
go watch it. But while they're doing

722
01:03:37.920 --> 01:03:45.239
their occupation, the very same officers
and security folk, they got to sit

723
01:03:45.280 --> 01:03:49.840
there, right, they can't go
home. There's people were being called in.

724
01:03:50.039 --> 01:03:54.079
Obviously they were, they were staffed
much more than they would be,

725
01:03:55.320 --> 01:03:59.920
and they too are having to sit
there for this lengthy period of time.

726
01:04:00.679 --> 01:04:08.840
So what happened Some of the student
protesters expressed outrage after they realized the university

727
01:04:08.880 --> 01:04:17.119
administrators had called in a catering order
to feed the staff, not the students,

728
01:04:17.119 --> 01:04:20.880
because remember they're like, we're not
eating genocide, Joe's gotta gardment,

729
01:04:20.960 --> 01:04:27.039
whatever stupid stuff they're chanting. But
the police officers who have now been stuck

730
01:04:27.079 --> 01:04:30.159
there for in some cases, were
stuck there at twenty one and a half

731
01:04:30.239 --> 01:04:34.079
hours they're hungry, and I know
the university probably has like a mess hall,

732
01:04:34.159 --> 01:04:40.599
but they called in an order and
when it showed up, the students

733
01:04:40.800 --> 01:04:46.840
lost their damn minds because they said
that the police, in some cases black

734
01:04:46.960 --> 01:04:56.599
officers, who moments before the food
arrived students were denigrating and calling puppets and

735
01:04:57.320 --> 01:05:01.639
race traders. And these are white
students telling black police officers that they're race

736
01:05:01.760 --> 01:05:09.679
traders because they're I guess policing.
So what happened? A large order from

737
01:05:09.840 --> 01:05:15.559
Panera showed up, at which point
the students say some of the officers began

738
01:05:15.719 --> 01:05:20.880
to eat in front of them.
Friday Edition, and it's been it's been

739
01:05:20.920 --> 01:05:27.239
a couple of weeks with our vacation
last week, so glad to get back

740
01:05:27.280 --> 01:05:31.360
into our little check in with our
radio colleague to the South Middays WBT.

741
01:05:31.480 --> 01:05:34.880
It's a Pete calendar. I just
want to put you on notice, Pete,

742
01:05:34.960 --> 01:05:41.719
if at any moment you pull the
ripcord and hang up prior to our

743
01:05:41.719 --> 01:05:45.000
hard timed E twenty fourth break,
I will forget your name, will be

744
01:05:45.119 --> 01:05:49.159
coward calendar on the show. So
don't do it. Oh that's fair,

745
01:05:49.639 --> 01:05:55.519
But I do have I do have
a SoundBite standing by of a dial tone

746
01:05:55.679 --> 01:05:58.639
just stinkcase. Oh we got one
of the Yeah, we got one of

747
01:05:58.639 --> 01:06:02.639
those two we use called the UH
like we did a We did an entire

748
01:06:02.719 --> 01:06:10.159
show where we UH. We weaponized
the audience to help find uh Senator Chuck

749
01:06:10.239 --> 01:06:16.039
mcgrady's balls or Senator whatever, because
he was cowarding out on the Yeah,

750
01:06:16.039 --> 01:06:19.239
he was a state rep. I
remember he was out from Yeah, he

751
01:06:19.320 --> 01:06:24.000
was out from Henderson County out in
the western North Carolina. Yes. And

752
01:06:24.000 --> 01:06:27.960
then and then we would go to
the hotline for Chuck McCrady to call in

753
01:06:28.039 --> 01:06:30.880
and tell us if he knew where
his stones were. And it was just

754
01:06:30.920 --> 01:06:33.840
a mild tone. It was we
had fun that day. So I'm in

755
01:06:33.920 --> 01:06:38.480
on that. Here's what I'm also
in on on a more serious note,

756
01:06:38.800 --> 01:06:45.119
and uh, the way that a
radio interview works when it's a high profile

757
01:06:45.199 --> 01:06:47.639
interview, even if it's not high
profile, but if it's somebody who clearly

758
01:06:47.800 --> 01:06:55.159
is probably doing back to back interviews. The conversation that you the audience don't

759
01:06:55.280 --> 01:07:00.039
hear that I have or and Pete
has, our producers have with whoever the

760
01:07:00.039 --> 01:07:06.280
individual the scheduler is is what time
do you need to be out right,

761
01:07:06.320 --> 01:07:11.400
that's like, that's one of the
top Like it starts with what time do

762
01:07:11.440 --> 01:07:13.800
you want to call in? And
then what time do you need to be

763
01:07:13.880 --> 01:07:17.079
out? And it's so that you
don't have these situations and I've had.

764
01:07:17.159 --> 01:07:21.760
I had really Rudy Giuliani's handler hang
up on me years ago with when he

765
01:07:21.800 --> 01:07:26.920
was stumping for Bush. And that's
because him and I started talking baseball and

766
01:07:27.039 --> 01:07:30.360
like, I didn't even look at
the clock. That's on me. But

767
01:07:30.000 --> 01:07:34.760
when you know what that out is, you don't have what happened with your

768
01:07:34.800 --> 01:07:41.800
colleague and Jean Pierre, who became
uncomfortable with questions that frankly, I have

769
01:07:41.880 --> 01:07:45.599
to think have been game planned,
and if they haven't, fire everyone on

770
01:07:45.639 --> 01:07:53.159
the comm staff because they're so basic. And the reaction by Mark was that

771
01:07:53.480 --> 01:07:58.480
it was unexpected. The White House
then attempted to make it sound like it

772
01:07:58.719 --> 01:08:03.159
wasn't unexpected. And I see,
now your boy's position is the White House

773
01:08:03.320 --> 01:08:06.880
is lyne. So give me the
inside dirt, my man, what's going

774
01:08:06.920 --> 01:08:13.880
on? So? Mark Garrison is
our news director at WBT and Charlotte.

775
01:08:14.159 --> 01:08:16.880
Guy's been in media for thirty years. He's done television. He would do

776
01:08:17.199 --> 01:08:20.479
like the he was sort of like
a Charles Carrault kind of a reporter guy.

777
01:08:20.520 --> 01:08:27.159
He would go all over the state
doing you know, human interest stories,

778
01:08:27.439 --> 01:08:30.560
oddball story stuff like that. But
all he's one in the hard time.

779
01:08:30.640 --> 01:08:33.479
He's one of the good old time
guys that sadly just have. There's

780
01:08:33.560 --> 01:08:39.279
not many of the guys like that
left and radio right, which is unfortunate.

781
01:08:39.319 --> 01:08:43.000
But yeah, he is doesn't care
stall wart yes, absolutely, yeah,

782
01:08:43.000 --> 01:08:48.960
and does not care about your political
philosophy. He has equal disparagement for

783
01:08:49.079 --> 01:08:55.000
everybody in politics. Like this is
important. He's a host. This is

784
01:08:55.039 --> 01:08:59.439
another important component because I've been there
where a politician didn't want a host,

785
01:08:59.479 --> 01:09:01.840
but they were. They submitted to
a news director, even if they thought

786
01:09:01.840 --> 01:09:05.920
it wasn't a friendly outlet. So
sorry to interrupt. People need to notice

787
01:09:05.960 --> 01:09:11.520
behind the scenes stuff because it's important, right and so and same for me.

788
01:09:11.560 --> 01:09:14.800
When I was a reporter, I
would get interviews with people that would

789
01:09:14.880 --> 01:09:17.119
never want to go on the air
with hosts because yes, I was,

790
01:09:17.319 --> 01:09:20.880
you know, I was a reporter, and so in their minds like that's

791
01:09:20.920 --> 01:09:24.840
I'm going to be objective, I'm
going to be fair for them versus a

792
01:09:24.880 --> 01:09:28.960
host where they are even if the
host is objective and fair, just the

793
01:09:28.960 --> 01:09:33.079
perception going in would limit that.
Now I have a theory on this as

794
01:09:33.079 --> 01:09:38.119
to why they reached out to us
for that interview, going to be my

795
01:09:38.319 --> 01:09:42.880
question because said the question I was
gonna asked, did your guy requested or

796
01:09:42.920 --> 01:09:45.880
did they reach out? Which by
people need to know, this is is

797
01:09:46.000 --> 01:09:50.560
somewhat common from the White House,
like we got pitched. I've had I

798
01:09:50.600 --> 01:09:56.119
remember they pitched us Fauci. We
did Fauci, the White House called us,

799
01:09:56.439 --> 01:10:00.399
right, and a few others.
So this is this is the other

800
01:10:00.439 --> 01:10:03.159
side of it that's interesting. So
they asked for this, uh yeah,

801
01:10:03.680 --> 01:10:06.159
okay, all right, right,
And they did not as far as I

802
01:10:06.159 --> 01:10:10.199
know, they did not reach out
to y'all. They did not reach out

803
01:10:10.239 --> 01:10:14.960
to any other news talk stations,
AM radio stations, FM radio stations all

804
01:10:15.000 --> 01:10:17.960
around the state. As far as
I know, Boo booked in a minute.

805
01:10:18.239 --> 01:10:23.560
Anybody would have. Absolutely anybody would
have. And they reached out to

806
01:10:23.640 --> 01:10:28.880
the WBT news director. And I
think I don't have any proof of this,

807
01:10:29.199 --> 01:10:34.720
but I suspect it is because of
our parent company of who owns US,

808
01:10:35.359 --> 01:10:40.479
which is Urban One, right,
right, right, I get what

809
01:10:40.479 --> 01:10:47.119
you're driving at uh, yeah,
what Pete's putting down. They were they

810
01:10:47.159 --> 01:10:53.239
made right, they were ye yes, yeah, okay, yeah, absolutely,

811
01:10:53.279 --> 01:10:56.479
And this happens all the time,
much like you got pitched with Fauci.

812
01:10:56.880 --> 01:11:00.199
Right, I'm not so sure that
they would run around pitching, you

813
01:11:00.239 --> 01:11:05.039
know, NPR stations with the same
kinds of media pitches from a Republican administration

814
01:11:05.520 --> 01:11:10.520
as they would conservative talk stations,
you know, Right, So there's just

815
01:11:10.560 --> 01:11:13.920
a different view of who's friendly and
who's not. And that may not always

816
01:11:13.920 --> 01:11:17.159
be the case, as the White
House found out with the interview with Mark

817
01:11:17.199 --> 01:11:24.640
Garrison. And honestly, he didn't
ask anything that is not relevant to the

818
01:11:24.680 --> 01:11:27.920
campaign and to what people are asking
are talking about. And you know,

819
01:11:27.960 --> 01:11:30.439
he first asks about, you know, the polling and how he's going to

820
01:11:30.479 --> 01:11:35.079
be able to kind of overcome the
low polling numbers in the state, which

821
01:11:35.119 --> 01:11:40.880
is the whole point of the visit
right to Raleigh anyway, So he starts

822
01:11:40.880 --> 01:11:44.000
there, and then he follows up
with the question about like I keep getting

823
01:11:44.159 --> 01:11:47.119
like everybody asked me to ask you, you know, does he have dementia?

824
01:11:47.159 --> 01:11:50.560
And the answer to that question is
no, of course not. Let's

825
01:11:50.560 --> 01:11:54.760
talk about all of the reasons why
and the proof you know, look at

826
01:11:54.760 --> 01:11:57.000
his record, look all the stuff
he's got done, and all this other

827
01:11:57.039 --> 01:12:00.039
stuff. But the answer is no, and caringe John Pierre was not able

828
01:12:00.159 --> 01:12:04.520
to just say no and then to
double down on the dumb assery. She

829
01:12:04.640 --> 01:12:11.000
turns around and well, actually wasn't
her. It was mister Andrew Bates from

830
01:12:11.239 --> 01:12:16.720
what NC state alum and Brad Congressman
Brad Miller alum. And he is now,

831
01:12:17.279 --> 01:12:23.840
uh yeah, man behind the scenes, and so he accuses Mark Garrison

832
01:12:23.960 --> 01:12:28.720
of inserting this sound bite of a
dial tone because you know, our phones

833
01:12:28.760 --> 01:12:31.399
didn't make that sound. Hey,
dumbass, your phone doesn't make that sound

834
01:12:31.439 --> 01:12:35.439
because you hung up, like you
cut the line. You're not going to

835
01:12:35.479 --> 01:12:42.600
hear any sound, you moron like, and Garrison did not insert the the

836
01:12:42.640 --> 01:12:45.840
dial tone audio at the end of
the phone call. And look, she

837
01:12:45.960 --> 01:12:50.159
got up to like almost seven minutes
on this call, and maybe there was

838
01:12:50.199 --> 01:12:54.119
you know, a little bit of
time before they he started rolling tape,

839
01:12:54.159 --> 01:12:59.000
so it lasted seven minutes. Now
he says that they gave him a window

840
01:12:59.119 --> 01:13:03.600
of between ten minutes, and they
then are now now they're saying, oh,

841
01:13:03.640 --> 01:13:08.199
we gave everybody seven minutes and maybe
that was the case in their mind,

842
01:13:08.239 --> 01:13:11.039
but they didn't tell him that.
They told him between five. I

843
01:13:11.039 --> 01:13:16.239
don't believe a guy. Look,
I'm I'm the least organized radio host you'll

844
01:13:16.279 --> 01:13:20.479
ever get. But the news director
like that dude is gonna be buttoned down.

845
01:13:20.920 --> 01:13:27.960
And I am never not aware of
what my time is that I've discussed

846
01:13:28.159 --> 01:13:30.239
ever, ever, Ever, I
literally write it on the little sheet that

847
01:13:30.359 --> 01:13:34.399
also includes the person's name and the
scene set right. It's the tool that

848
01:13:34.439 --> 01:13:39.880
I've used all this time, so
it's always in front of me. And

849
01:13:40.680 --> 01:13:44.079
no, I don't believe that for
a minute. Inserting the dial tone is

850
01:13:44.119 --> 01:13:47.880
stupid. His reaction is very authentic. And to your point, she doesn't

851
01:13:47.920 --> 01:13:51.479
just wander around and then kind of
get to the word. She never says

852
01:13:51.640 --> 01:13:58.319
no. We we like dissected that
and but what killed me is she never

853
01:13:58.359 --> 01:14:05.520
says no. And then the pivot
is too the most milk toast boring but

854
01:14:05.640 --> 01:14:11.720
not boring in the way that it
affects people's lives, but like boring from

855
01:14:12.600 --> 01:14:17.039
This is a question that's been asked
of politicians in some variety since we started

856
01:14:17.119 --> 01:14:20.920
politicking, right, and that is, what do you do about this issue?

857
01:14:20.960 --> 01:14:26.199
That the public perceives negatively because you're
the person in charge. How do

858
01:14:26.239 --> 01:14:30.600
you overcome that? And you know, in the White house's plan has been

859
01:14:30.680 --> 01:14:35.760
to blame Trump and bitch at snack
food companies, right, but she,

860
01:14:39.680 --> 01:14:44.760
I don't know. Have they never
gain planned either of those questions? Could

861
01:14:44.800 --> 01:14:47.720
they not perceive that it might come
up at some point? Like the woman,

862
01:14:47.840 --> 01:14:54.479
it strikes me as woefully unqualified,
but like almost like it's almost criminally

863
01:14:54.680 --> 01:14:58.960
so, because there have been dumb
White House spokespeople over the years, but

864
01:14:59.279 --> 01:15:01.199
this is this is a new thing, and for her not to be able

865
01:15:01.279 --> 01:15:08.319
to handle one of the most predictable
questions, arguably two of them. I

866
01:15:08.399 --> 01:15:12.199
don't know what they're What is the
game plan over there, because even though

867
01:15:12.239 --> 01:15:15.600
I disagree with them, I can't
believe they all are. I have an

868
01:15:15.600 --> 01:15:18.159
IQ of a five year old.
Well, I think it's a couple of

869
01:15:18.199 --> 01:15:25.079
things. Number One, I think
cringe as I call her cringe. Jean

870
01:15:25.119 --> 01:15:31.359
Pierre is is uniquely and cartoonishly terrible
at her job. So that's the first

871
01:15:31.359 --> 01:15:34.640
thing that we always have to kind
of keep in mind here that you know,

872
01:15:34.680 --> 01:15:39.800
this is a woman that literally reads
from copy points in front of you,

873
01:15:40.000 --> 01:15:45.000
while you are recording her on video, and delivers the copy points not

874
01:15:45.039 --> 01:15:47.960
only poorly, but also in a
manner that is meant to convey that she

875
01:15:48.079 --> 01:15:53.760
knows what she's talking about and she's
being authoritative, she thinks, as she's

876
01:15:53.760 --> 01:15:58.359
delivering these copy points, again,
delivering them poorly with stumbling and stuttering and

877
01:15:58.479 --> 01:16:02.159
netting them up though, because when
she doesn't have copy points, you get

878
01:16:02.239 --> 01:16:05.840
like a few weeks You remember a
few weeks ago when she was talking about

879
01:16:06.560 --> 01:16:12.039
you know, dead soldiers, right, yeah, and like she had the

880
01:16:12.159 --> 01:16:18.680
inability to even fake an emotion an
emotional response to that, And that was

881
01:16:18.760 --> 01:16:25.479
staggering to me because I'm a kind
of a stonefaced person and I was that

882
01:16:25.560 --> 01:16:30.520
was uncomfortable. Well, it's just
another example that she is uniquely and cartoonishly

883
01:16:30.560 --> 01:16:33.000
bad at her job, right,
whether she has the copy points or not,

884
01:16:33.199 --> 01:16:35.640
Like, I agree, it's better
to give her the copy points so

885
01:16:35.680 --> 01:16:41.359
at least you avoid that scenario,
which is also bad. But even when

886
01:16:41.359 --> 01:16:45.279
she has them, she's bad.
And I think this goes back to sort

887
01:16:45.279 --> 01:16:46.640
of the very first thing we were
talking about. As dude, they called

888
01:16:47.079 --> 01:16:51.439
us, they called WBT, and
I suspect it's because they thought it was

889
01:16:51.479 --> 01:16:55.760
going to be a friendly interview based
on who owns us, based on our

890
01:16:55.800 --> 01:17:00.640
parent company. And so I think
she probably did not have the copy points,

891
01:17:00.680 --> 01:17:03.600
the big you know, the binder
not of women, but of talking

892
01:17:03.640 --> 01:17:08.560
points, the binder with all of
the notes in there. And so I

893
01:17:08.640 --> 01:17:13.520
suspect when she got asked these questions, she wasn't She literally was not expecting

894
01:17:13.520 --> 01:17:15.279
it because she probably thought this was
going to be a friendly interview. And

895
01:17:15.319 --> 01:17:17.880
all she could, all she had
to do was, you know, just

896
01:17:17.960 --> 01:17:23.840
do the unicorns and rainbows kind of
of of talking points, which she tries

897
01:17:23.880 --> 01:17:27.720
to get to, you know,
at the end when she's talking about how

898
01:17:27.960 --> 01:17:30.960
much he's accomplished and everything. So
she does eventually kind of I don't want

899
01:17:30.960 --> 01:17:34.000
to say pivot, because it was
more like a slow turn, you know,

900
01:17:34.079 --> 01:17:39.000
towards the towards those copy points.
But yeah, I think that's why

901
01:17:39.000 --> 01:17:42.279
I think that she did. I
don't think she was prepared because she thought

902
01:17:42.279 --> 01:17:45.079
it was going to be a friendly
interview. I don't even But but like

903
01:17:45.720 --> 01:17:50.239
that goes above and beyond that and
everything I everything I know is from what

904
01:17:50.279 --> 01:17:54.760
I've seen on West Wing is a
joke that I've made. You don't you

905
01:17:54.800 --> 01:17:58.680
don't. You don't have to see
Hollywood's portrayal to understand that. In a

906
01:17:58.720 --> 01:18:02.800
comms department, one of the things
that you have you have discussions about,

907
01:18:03.199 --> 01:18:06.079
right, because I've done. I
used to sit on a board for a

908
01:18:06.199 --> 01:18:12.800
charity, and my assignment was kind
of to work with our communications because you

909
01:18:12.840 --> 01:18:14.960
know, basically they just say,
hey, he's a radio guy, we'll

910
01:18:15.000 --> 01:18:17.399
get some free stuff, which is
fun. I was happy to help out

911
01:18:17.399 --> 01:18:24.399
there. But this was a Big
Brothers Big Sisters, which is not a

912
01:18:24.560 --> 01:18:30.560
controversial thing. And yet they had
a comms meeting that I would once a

913
01:18:30.640 --> 01:18:34.880
month I would go to and they
literally would sit there and figure out possible

914
01:18:35.560 --> 01:18:41.479
questions, concerns, issues, things
that they needed to go Like it was

915
01:18:41.560 --> 01:18:46.159
so super basic, and it was
about predictability, right right, predicting based

916
01:18:46.199 --> 01:18:49.600
on these events that we're doing,
what media needs, will have, what

917
01:18:49.800 --> 01:18:53.720
questions, all of that. If
you're the White House, you got to

918
01:18:53.760 --> 01:18:59.880
be doing this on steroids and for
nobody to who's the boss. I guess

919
01:19:00.319 --> 01:19:05.640
to fathom that food prices might be
a topic, right, Uh, And

920
01:19:05.760 --> 01:19:12.880
like that I can't understand because I
think this conversation starts the moment they're in

921
01:19:13.079 --> 01:19:15.760
office, right, and they're just
figuring things out and looking at the numbers,

922
01:19:16.079 --> 01:19:19.279
and I maybe they don't do that
up there. It's it's it's so

923
01:19:19.479 --> 01:19:23.720
it goes right. Well, it
goes to another thing I say I've been

924
01:19:23.720 --> 01:19:27.319
saying for years, which is unchallenged
ideas are easy to hold, right.

925
01:19:27.560 --> 01:19:31.399
And so if you are never getting
any kind of pushback from from the media

926
01:19:31.439 --> 01:19:35.239
that you do talk to regularly,
then yeah, you're gonna get flabby.

927
01:19:35.359 --> 01:19:41.039
You know, you're not getting worked
out, and then somebody asks you a

928
01:19:41.119 --> 01:19:45.079
very basic question. The classic example
I always point to is Todd Aiken,

929
01:19:45.159 --> 01:19:48.760
thatmember the guy who talked about you
know, legitimate rape, uh and in

930
01:19:48.800 --> 01:19:53.119
the US Senate race in Missouri,
and he lost the player McCaskill. That's

931
01:19:53.159 --> 01:19:56.479
not an idea that he just came
up with on the fly during that interview.

932
01:19:56.600 --> 01:19:59.359
That's obviously something that he had been
saying for a long time around a

933
01:19:59.359 --> 01:20:00.600
whole bunch of people. Well that
probably all agreed with him, and they

934
01:20:00.600 --> 01:20:02.880
were like, oh, yeah,
that's such a great point, and it's

935
01:20:02.920 --> 01:20:05.920
not a great point. It was
terrible. And then when you finally got

936
01:20:06.000 --> 01:20:09.680
challenged on it, the whole thing
fell apart. So That's what I mean.

937
01:20:09.720 --> 01:20:12.880
You know, if you're if you're
never being challenged, you're never getting

938
01:20:12.920 --> 01:20:16.640
stronger. You know who else said
that idea? Whoopee Goldberg? Remember remember

939
01:20:16.920 --> 01:20:20.920
she said, well it wasn't rape
rape and what was that was that?

940
01:20:20.960 --> 01:20:25.560
The was the Kobe Bryant. I
can't remember what it was. I don't

941
01:20:25.600 --> 01:20:29.439
remember. It was just so you
know he wasn't the only one. All

942
01:20:29.520 --> 01:20:31.159
right, A couple just a couple
of minutes left. Did you see what

943
01:20:31.279 --> 01:20:38.279
happened? They found my moonshine cave. I'm very I was going to ask

944
01:20:38.960 --> 01:20:41.960
if if that was yours? Yeah, well, you know, like the

945
01:20:42.359 --> 01:20:45.439
pores, right, they have man
caves they call him, but half the

946
01:20:45.479 --> 01:20:48.119
time wives won't let them sit in
there. I went full moonshine cave under

947
01:20:48.159 --> 01:20:54.520
a NASCAR track, So yeah,
you know it's a flat that's too man.

948
01:20:54.720 --> 01:20:59.039
Yeah it is. And if they
don't do their own run of moonshine,

949
01:20:59.119 --> 01:21:01.920
calling it like or something like what
is this even for? You know,

950
01:21:02.359 --> 01:21:05.439
like they own moonshine, run out
of this hole in the ground.

951
01:21:05.479 --> 01:21:10.000
Now do you know how many people
are listening to us talk right now that

952
01:21:10.119 --> 01:21:15.079
literally are still still of stills?
Do that area around Yeah, yad can,

953
01:21:15.159 --> 01:21:17.960
Yeah, I can do you get
around Yadkin Valley there, And if

954
01:21:17.960 --> 01:21:21.279
you ever read the history of the
amount of production that was going on at

955
01:21:21.279 --> 01:21:27.399
one time there, they were basically
that little slice of North Carolina was basically

956
01:21:27.439 --> 01:21:31.119
getting half the southern seaboard drunk with
what they were churning out. It's true.

957
01:21:31.159 --> 01:21:34.439
It's truly impressive. Man. Well, I know what I was up

958
01:21:34.479 --> 01:21:42.760
in western North Carolina after Popcorn Sutton
died and so every every jar of moonshine

959
01:21:42.760 --> 01:21:45.840
that came along was you know,
this is Popcorn's last run. You know,

960
01:21:45.920 --> 01:21:49.920
he had rune lasted like five years. You know, it was our

961
01:21:50.000 --> 01:21:55.560
own Pappy van Winkle thing. But
yeah, no, no, this is

962
01:21:55.920 --> 01:22:00.640
that is very cool and uh,
you know, just seven hundred square feet,

963
01:22:00.680 --> 01:22:02.520
that's a lot of moonshine. But
yeah, let's uh, let's go

964
01:22:02.520 --> 01:22:05.439
ahead and make some money off of
this. But absolutely right, I got

965
01:22:05.479 --> 01:22:10.439
a roll man again, the John
Pierre thing. I don't know, do

966
01:22:10.479 --> 01:22:13.640
you want to just hang up on
me violently right now so that we can

967
01:22:14.000 --> 01:22:16.439
we can have that audio feel free
right after you say goodbye? Go ahead?

968
01:22:16.920 --> 01:22:19.640
Well well no, no, I
mean I just know that I committed

969
01:22:19.680 --> 01:22:21.720
to be out by. All right, Nope, I gotta go. I

970
01:22:21.760 --> 01:22:25.960
gotta go all that. Oh why
do you do it? All right,

971
01:22:26.000 --> 01:22:29.720
we'll be back there you go.
Thank you to Pete Caller for joining us.

972
01:22:29.960 --> 01:22:32.159
All right, here's the I want
to be very careful. I don't

973
01:22:32.159 --> 01:22:35.399
want to be careful because uh,
there's no ill will here, but I

974
01:22:35.840 --> 01:22:41.439
want to be very clear on what
I'm saying. You know how it works.

975
01:22:41.439 --> 01:22:45.600
Somebody will send an email out and
you know it's gonna be one of

976
01:22:45.640 --> 01:22:50.600
those all staff emails where everyone's gonna
reply. All right. Usually it's raw

977
01:22:50.720 --> 01:22:53.920
rass stuff. You get right,
Somebody will be like, hey, we

978
01:22:54.000 --> 01:22:58.399
had a big win, and then
there'll be like twenty emails response that end

979
01:22:58.479 --> 01:23:01.720
up in my inbox and everybody else's
saying congrats. And that's fine. Although

980
01:23:01.880 --> 01:23:06.520
you know, I I'm OCD about
my invite, not as much as rot

981
01:23:06.640 --> 01:23:12.359
Ross literally deletes everything all the time. If I send him something from last

982
01:23:12.359 --> 01:23:15.920
week, I always I probably have
to resend it, like so he's super

983
01:23:15.960 --> 01:23:18.119
cleaning his No, it's a complete
OCD thing. Yeah, like I need

984
01:23:18.159 --> 01:23:20.560
to clear it out. Yeah,
I mean, hey, you got that

985
01:23:20.720 --> 01:23:23.960
tweet I sent you on Friday and
you're like, and then I'm like,

986
01:23:24.039 --> 01:23:26.439
now he doesn't. I mean,
I'll, you know, if it's show

987
01:23:26.439 --> 01:23:29.000
related, I'll read it and I'll
i'll assess it and be like, I'll

988
01:23:29.039 --> 01:23:31.600
save that. But most of it
is just boom, immediately deleted. So

989
01:23:31.680 --> 01:23:34.199
when I see these emails, I
can kind of predict their coming in.

990
01:23:34.279 --> 01:23:38.039
All right, So one of the
one of the women we work with,

991
01:23:38.159 --> 01:23:41.479
who I and let me just say
this, I like Erica very much.

992
01:23:43.560 --> 01:23:45.720
They really know her when I started
because she was on the morning show down

993
01:23:45.760 --> 01:23:49.439
the Hall, and there's always internal
rivalry, but mostly I can't listen to

994
01:23:49.479 --> 01:23:55.079
other people's show while I'm doing mine. So but over the years she's worked

995
01:23:55.079 --> 01:24:00.359
here, I think you and me
and her are the longest running employees in

996
01:24:00.840 --> 01:24:04.920
programming, right. I think it's
you, then me, then year since

997
01:24:04.920 --> 01:24:09.119
two thousand and six. Yeah,
I was two and I came. I

998
01:24:09.319 --> 01:24:13.359
was two thousand and nine, end
of nine, ten was it? So?

999
01:24:13.520 --> 01:24:15.319
Yeah? And then Eric a couple
of years after that, and so

1000
01:24:15.479 --> 01:24:21.560
she wanted she won a big national
award, which is that's awesome. Uh

1001
01:24:21.600 --> 01:24:27.000
and uh again this is this is, this is this has nothing to do

1002
01:24:27.039 --> 01:24:30.880
with that. I don't want any
any of my coworkers misconstru it congratulations to

1003
01:24:30.920 --> 01:24:34.760
her because it's not about her.
It's the award she won. Is a

1004
01:24:34.880 --> 01:24:41.840
national award that's given to women in
media. Right, it's called it was

1005
01:24:41.960 --> 01:24:45.680
the Gracie Award, And I but
I want I can't write this out in

1006
01:24:45.760 --> 01:24:48.920
an email, so I'm gonna I'll
tell you my audience and anyone who's listening.

1007
01:24:49.359 --> 01:24:54.159
This is how low the bar is
right now, not for her winning

1008
01:24:54.239 --> 01:25:00.319
it, but for me seeing what
she won and under by bread going thank

1009
01:25:00.359 --> 01:25:04.319
god they gave it to an actual
woman. Right. That's how jaded we

1010
01:25:04.359 --> 01:25:10.760
are around here, is that my
brain's broken thinking that stuff. Isn't it

1011
01:25:11.319 --> 01:25:13.680
right where I'm like, oh,
it's an award for women, And then

1012
01:25:13.720 --> 01:25:15.439
I'm like, oh, and they
gave it to an actual woman. That's

1013
01:25:15.479 --> 01:25:20.840
amazing, because that's where we are
right now, and it's just it's such

1014
01:25:20.880 --> 01:25:26.079
a weird thought to have to like
permeate in your brain where you're just like,

1015
01:25:27.720 --> 01:25:30.760
you're just You're just happy that a
woman want it, And I'm happy

1016
01:25:30.800 --> 01:25:38.399
that one of my coworkers want it, who I enjoy chatting with, talking

1017
01:25:38.439 --> 01:25:42.800
about radio with I did we did
the Walmart toys for tot's thing for three

1018
01:25:42.880 --> 01:25:45.560
days out in front of a Walmart. You better like the people you're working

1019
01:25:45.600 --> 01:25:50.960
with. But yeah, that's how
low the bar is for for me to

1020
01:25:51.000 --> 01:25:56.880
be happy about something when it has
to do with a woman's award. Yea

1021
01:25:57.000 --> 01:26:00.399
Gracie award. That's what she wants. So oh, I hope that that's

1022
01:26:00.439 --> 01:26:03.720
not embargoed. Anyway, Well they
sent an all staff email, so there

1023
01:26:03.800 --> 01:26:09.840
you go. But yeah, that
response was Sometimes I wonder why my brain

1024
01:26:09.920 --> 01:26:12.520
goes there, but then I remember
all the stories that we do. So

1025
01:26:14.000 --> 01:26:18.039
anyway, so somebody will twist that, and then somebody will say I said

1026
01:26:18.079 --> 01:26:20.920
something, But I think you understand
what I'm saying. Now, let me

1027
01:26:20.920 --> 01:26:27.000
pivot over to this ross. One
of the things that you claim expertise in

1028
01:26:27.840 --> 01:26:31.479
is you're over the years, you've
given a lot of advice on how to

1029
01:26:31.520 --> 01:26:36.880
speak to police officers to immediately,
I guess, get out of crime.

1030
01:26:38.279 --> 01:26:41.399
I'm sure I'm in the show is
a legal expert, especially because I have

1031
01:26:41.439 --> 01:26:44.760
to you know, I'm gonna have
to call in for jury duty on Monday,

1032
01:26:45.079 --> 01:26:47.079
right. Yeah, I have the
most experience here. Yeah you want

1033
01:26:47.079 --> 01:26:51.680
to You're all, you're all stoked
to justice on next week, although he

1034
01:26:51.800 --> 01:26:58.279
Ross does have a high number,
so fingers crossed. But so let me

1035
01:26:58.279 --> 01:27:02.319
ask you. I posted a video
of an officer involved shooting, which I

1036
01:27:02.359 --> 01:27:08.279
will tell you there is not a
moment in this that I go that's not

1037
01:27:08.560 --> 01:27:11.800
justified when you watch it. I'm
not I'm not gonna play all the audio.

1038
01:27:11.880 --> 01:27:14.640
There's a lot of swear words and
it's kind of hard to hear.

1039
01:27:14.760 --> 01:27:17.199
But let me tell you what happened. And Ross, you haven't watched this

1040
01:27:17.359 --> 01:27:24.680
video because I posted it. So
Ross Is just wrote me an email.

1041
01:27:24.720 --> 01:27:28.399
He's also an employment legal expert.
He has tenures, so you can't fire

1042
01:27:28.439 --> 01:27:30.439
him. I don't know if that's
true. But let me go to this

1043
01:27:31.000 --> 01:27:33.960
all right, So Ross, Let's
say you get pulled over by a police

1044
01:27:33.960 --> 01:27:38.479
officer, right and in the video, are they pulling me over for like

1045
01:27:38.520 --> 01:27:41.840
an autograph or something because they listen
to the show or I'm not knowing the

1046
01:27:41.880 --> 01:27:45.319
media stop was I just know that
there's a dude. There's an officer who

1047
01:27:45.399 --> 01:27:49.960
is standing outside of a black Mustang. The door of the mustang is open.

1048
01:27:50.079 --> 01:27:54.840
I don't know if the officer opened
it or you know, because sometimes

1049
01:27:54.880 --> 01:27:59.119
people open the door, which cops
they don't like that. So unless they

1050
01:27:59.159 --> 01:28:01.520
tell you. And by the way, if an officer tells you that you

1051
01:28:01.640 --> 01:28:05.520
have to get out of your vehicle
and it's in the course of a traffic

1052
01:28:05.520 --> 01:28:11.479
stuff, there is settled Supreme Court
casel on this. You have to get

1053
01:28:11.520 --> 01:28:15.319
out, You don't have to speak
to the officer. All your rights there,

1054
01:28:15.319 --> 01:28:16.920
but it is it has been ruled
an officer safety thing. And I

1055
01:28:16.920 --> 01:28:23.680
can't remember what the patrol live,
right, And so now all these people

1056
01:28:23.840 --> 01:28:27.000
go, why you know I'm not
getting out? I didn't. That's not

1057
01:28:27.600 --> 01:28:31.039
legally You're not going to win that. Uh, it's been adjudicated unless things

1058
01:28:31.119 --> 01:28:35.239
change. So with that in mind, the officer, the door is open.

1059
01:28:35.279 --> 01:28:42.199
The officer is standing just back enough
so and and then the driver is

1060
01:28:42.239 --> 01:28:47.039
sitting facing forward with his hands in
his lap, and the officer knows he

1061
01:28:47.119 --> 01:28:49.920
sees that he has something in his
hand, but he's asked him to get

1062
01:28:49.920 --> 01:28:54.000
out, and politely he says,
hey, get out of the vehicle,

1063
01:28:54.279 --> 01:28:58.920
and the guy won't. Now if
an officer then says, I get out,

1064
01:28:59.039 --> 01:29:01.359
and what's in your hand? And
what should you say to the officer

1065
01:29:02.560 --> 01:29:06.399
in that interaction? ROSSI was me, I'd be like this is my gold

1066
01:29:06.479 --> 01:29:10.880
katana. Okay that the listener sent
me it was a gift. Okay,

1067
01:29:10.960 --> 01:29:15.119
the dude who is being super argumentative
says, it's a gun. Okay.

1068
01:29:15.239 --> 01:29:20.319
So and by the way, I
have told two officers. I've twice informed

1069
01:29:20.359 --> 01:29:24.720
an officer at a traffic stop that
I have a gun, which is an

1070
01:29:24.720 --> 01:29:28.800
obligation. If you're so that you
have, you don't have to do it.

1071
01:29:28.880 --> 01:29:30.960
There's ways you can inform, and
different states have different things, but

1072
01:29:31.159 --> 01:29:35.880
it's not altogether a response. An
officer is never heard, but the situation

1073
01:29:36.079 --> 01:29:40.119
is already tempted. No, I've
I've told an officer before I had a

1074
01:29:40.159 --> 01:29:45.239
prop gun in my glove box because
we were like filming like a comedy skit

1075
01:29:45.279 --> 01:29:47.399
and it was like an old colonial
gun. But I got pulled over for

1076
01:29:47.439 --> 01:29:48.920
a ticket and I'm like, hey, I just want you to know when

1077
01:29:48.960 --> 01:29:53.399
to get my right. Yeah,
yeah, that's over there. I I've

1078
01:29:53.800 --> 01:29:58.079
twice as duty as part of the
consal carry. I have informed officers in

1079
01:29:58.119 --> 01:30:00.760
neither instance that they want to see
it. And I didn't have it in

1080
01:30:00.800 --> 01:30:03.279
my hand, obviously, but I
told him where it was. And then

1081
01:30:03.359 --> 01:30:06.720
once when I was in high school. This is how loose things were in

1082
01:30:06.720 --> 01:30:10.800
Wyoming, I got pulled over by
Fred Happ, who was an officer that

1083
01:30:10.880 --> 01:30:13.800
my family was friends with. What
now He pulled me over for being stupid.

1084
01:30:14.359 --> 01:30:18.880
I was, you know, I
was doing like a squealing tire turn

1085
01:30:19.039 --> 01:30:23.399
on the street because it was right
when I got my new truck, and

1086
01:30:23.479 --> 01:30:28.239
I was dumb anyway, And I
told him to get the paperwork that there

1087
01:30:28.520 --> 01:30:31.840
is a there's a pistol in my
globbox that literally is sitting on it.

1088
01:30:32.079 --> 01:30:35.880
And he was just like, okay, well whatever, just grab the paper.

1089
01:30:36.720 --> 01:30:41.640
That's that's not usually how it works. But he said I have a

1090
01:30:41.640 --> 01:30:46.119
gun to the officer, and then
he started saying a bunch of other stuff

1091
01:30:47.600 --> 01:30:54.800
to the officer after saying I have
a gun, and those things included,

1092
01:30:55.279 --> 01:30:59.560
but were not limited to, do
you want to go home tonight? You

1093
01:30:59.640 --> 01:31:03.359
need to go go back to your
squad card And he kept saying that over

1094
01:31:03.439 --> 01:31:09.960
and over. So I don't that's
a threat, right, you're telling this

1095
01:31:10.079 --> 01:31:13.560
officer, no, you're not gonna
put the gun. I have a gun.

1096
01:31:14.000 --> 01:31:16.439
I'm not putting it down. I
don't know if the officer is visually

1097
01:31:17.560 --> 01:31:20.960
cleared that he also thinks it's a
gun, but you're gonna believe that,

1098
01:31:21.079 --> 01:31:25.720
dude. And then he starts making
these threats and this goes on a minute

1099
01:31:25.760 --> 01:31:30.880
and a half. This officer has
his service weapon out, he is drawn

1100
01:31:32.079 --> 01:31:35.520
just kind of a little to the
side of the guy, a little down,

1101
01:31:35.600 --> 01:31:40.319
but he's ready. And this guy
keeps repeating, no, I won't

1102
01:31:40.359 --> 01:31:43.399
get out, go back to your
squad. Do you want to go home

1103
01:31:43.439 --> 01:31:48.279
tonight? Do you want to go
home tonight? And remember the body of

1104
01:31:48.359 --> 01:31:54.119
the driver is still facing forward,
his head is turned, but it's full

1105
01:31:54.199 --> 01:31:59.560
facing forward. And in the video, while making these threats over and over,

1106
01:32:00.479 --> 01:32:05.479
you see the shoulders start turning,
which means the right hand, which

1107
01:32:05.520 --> 01:32:11.039
is where the gun is, because
you can see the left hand is turning

1108
01:32:11.039 --> 01:32:15.000
towards the officer, at which point
the officer opens fire. I don't know

1109
01:32:15.079 --> 01:32:18.840
how that's not justified. He's telling
you how to. And the weird thing

1110
01:32:18.920 --> 01:32:24.000
was it didn't look like suicide by
cop right where he's just going shoot me,

1111
01:32:24.000 --> 01:32:25.960
shoot me, shoot me. And
you can kind of see in those

1112
01:32:25.960 --> 01:32:30.600
situations where they finally get up the
they get up the gumption to make the

1113
01:32:30.720 --> 01:32:35.039
move that is going to get the
officers to open fire. Right I've seen

1114
01:32:35.119 --> 01:32:39.359
enough of those videos. This guy
just I think he thinks he's that the

1115
01:32:39.399 --> 01:32:43.680
officer is going to get scared and
go back, and so the officer shoots

1116
01:32:43.760 --> 01:32:46.439
him. And frankly, I don't
know if we're going to have a dumber

1117
01:32:46.520 --> 01:32:50.680
Darwin Award winner this year like that
is that's set in the bar early here

1118
01:32:50.720 --> 01:32:56.000
in Q one man, that's crazy. But now people are bitching that it

1119
01:32:56.039 --> 01:32:58.279
wasn't justified. What do you think
is gonna happen when you're acting like that

1120
01:32:58.319 --> 01:33:00.880
front of a cop with a gun
in your lap, not just in your

1121
01:33:00.960 --> 01:33:03.920
lap and in your hand, in
the hand, and that part of the

1122
01:33:03.960 --> 01:33:09.079
body is now turning towards the office, they're going to open fire. They're

1123
01:33:09.119 --> 01:33:12.239
good and and I would want them
to. I think maybe there would be

1124
01:33:12.319 --> 01:33:15.039
some officers might be hesitant and that
might be the wrong move. And remember

1125
01:33:15.520 --> 01:33:20.119
we just had We just had an
officer who was doing a traffic stop and

1126
01:33:20.159 --> 01:33:24.439
it wasn't even that tense before because
he never had a conversation. Who walked

1127
01:33:24.479 --> 01:33:29.359
up and they opened fire and killed
him. So watch the video, you

1128
01:33:29.399 --> 01:33:31.079
tell me what you think. At
Casey on the radio, All right,

1129
01:33:31.159 --> 01:33:34.760
race stagic, real quick, let's
get a quick weather forecast headed into the

1130
01:33:34.840 --> 01:33:41.520
basketball Easter weekend. Yeah, it's
gonna be great. We've already cleared,

1131
01:33:41.560 --> 01:33:45.199
the rain's done, and now we're
into sunshine. A little chilly the next

1132
01:33:45.199 --> 01:33:47.640
couple of mornings, but even there, the temperatures are gonna come up.

1133
01:33:47.720 --> 01:33:51.880
So looks good, feels great.
Mid upper sixties, yeah, that's where

1134
01:33:51.920 --> 01:33:55.479
we'll be this afternoon into the forties
tonight. So if you look at the

1135
01:33:55.520 --> 01:33:58.680
car thermometer, there will be the
little bit forties that's compared with yourr this

1136
01:33:58.760 --> 01:34:01.439
morning. It should be a lower
number today. Sunshine in the seventies for

1137
01:34:01.520 --> 01:34:05.199
Saturday, maybe eighty for some,
especially in the Triangle in south and east.

1138
01:34:05.560 --> 01:34:09.840
With sunshine on Easter. Sunday will
stay dry into early next week and

1139
01:34:09.840 --> 01:34:12.399
then get some wet weather with another
coal front coming in. So it looks

1140
01:34:12.439 --> 01:34:15.880
good. Stormy on the west coast, though that storm is gonna roll east

1141
01:34:15.880 --> 01:34:18.880
and that'll be our next coal front
coming in. Imagine girls back and only

1142
01:34:18.920 --> 01:34:24.079
because case I took Iowa all the
way, only because of not only my

1143
01:34:24.159 --> 01:34:27.359
Caitlin Clark fan, because my dad
also played there. So that's that's the

1144
01:34:27.399 --> 01:34:30.279
only reason why I brought it up. I'm not biased as good as anything.

1145
01:34:30.319 --> 01:34:33.560
Man. Yeah, play football,
not basketball. But yeah, we're

1146
01:34:33.560 --> 01:34:36.359
pulling football guys. All right,
well I hope you win and then cut

1147
01:34:36.439 --> 01:34:40.159
us in. All right, we'll
have a good week. Yeah, all

1148
01:34:40.239 --> 01:34:45.279
right, and Jeff Bellinger joins us
next. Hang on, Oh, I'm

1149
01:34:45.319 --> 01:34:49.840
so stupid. Yeah, that's bad
for somebody who was raised Catholic to not

1150
01:34:49.920 --> 01:34:54.920
remember that. Oh I'm dumb.
Do you want to pretend to be Jeff

1151
01:34:56.039 --> 01:35:00.960
Ross and just say? I mean
I could probably pull this off if it's

1152
01:35:00.000 --> 01:35:02.840
some other bye, full disclosure.
I have no idea what money is,

1153
01:35:03.520 --> 01:35:06.199
so I probably wouldn't be good.
Yeah. I don't know. It's like

1154
01:35:06.279 --> 01:35:09.720
made by elves in a tree or
something. I don't know they have a

1155
01:35:09.760 --> 01:35:13.800
money machine. Yeah, well it
goes burn to tell you what you want

1156
01:35:13.840 --> 01:35:16.239
to listen for. So all right, well that's one now worthy. You

1157
01:35:16.239 --> 01:35:21.199
know what. I don't want to
talk to him anyway today. So yeah,

1158
01:35:21.239 --> 01:35:25.119
that's that's my bad. I'm just
in an autopilot here into the last

1159
01:35:25.159 --> 01:35:27.880
segment. All right, Well,
I better find something to talk about.

1160
01:35:28.159 --> 01:35:33.680
Speaking of money. Apparently some people
are another sign of the times, are

1161
01:35:33.800 --> 01:35:41.119
concerned after Dollar Tree has announced that
they will increase the maximum price of items

1162
01:35:41.119 --> 01:35:46.319
in the store that seven dollars.
Look, I get it, everything's more

1163
01:35:46.319 --> 01:35:49.119
expensive, and it's like, you
know, it's death by a thousand cuts,

1164
01:35:49.119 --> 01:35:55.319
and it's the totality of it.
But is this is is this really

1165
01:35:55.319 --> 01:35:59.680
a problem? I can't even keep
all the dollar stores square right because some

1166
01:35:59.720 --> 01:36:03.079
of them, like some of them
don't have items for more than a dollar

1167
01:36:03.199 --> 01:36:08.119
or I like I So I don't
even know when I'm walking into one of

1168
01:36:08.199 --> 01:36:12.640
the three different dollar operations, like
what it's going to be in there,

1169
01:36:13.000 --> 01:36:17.479
And chances are there's I'm running in
there to get like one thing anyway,

1170
01:36:17.560 --> 01:36:20.159
and I just happened to see it
out in the middle of nowhere. So

1171
01:36:21.319 --> 01:36:27.199
but the maximum price of the items
will increase to seven dollars, according to

1172
01:36:27.640 --> 01:36:36.640
CEO Rick Dryling, not everything's going
to be seven dollars. This is pretty

1173
01:36:36.640 --> 01:36:42.840
crazy. Do you know what the
I read this too. According to the

1174
01:36:42.880 --> 01:36:46.640
CEO and the press release that was
put out on his behalf a, dry

1175
01:36:46.720 --> 01:36:55.920
Ling also pointed out that the company
has the fastest growing customer demographic of people

1176
01:36:56.000 --> 01:37:00.840
who earn a minimum of households that
earn a minimum of a hunter and twenty

1177
01:37:00.920 --> 01:37:06.000
five thousand dollars a year, and
while he's bragging about it, that's not

1178
01:37:06.159 --> 01:37:09.920
a good thing. I mean,
it's a good thing for them, but

1179
01:37:10.199 --> 01:37:15.039
rather it is an indicator that even
people who ten years ago, if they

1180
01:37:15.079 --> 01:37:19.159
were at least somewhat responsible with their
money, likely weren't having many of the

1181
01:37:19.199 --> 01:37:25.479
budget concerns that people earning a lot
less run into who are now finding themselves

1182
01:37:26.640 --> 01:37:32.520
having to change where they buy things, how they shop because one hundred and

1183
01:37:32.520 --> 01:37:36.680
twenty five thousand just doesn't do what
it did even five years ago. So

1184
01:37:36.840 --> 01:37:41.560
I mean, that's what that number
indicates to me, and by all means,

1185
01:37:41.560 --> 01:37:45.119
I mean shop wherever you want.
One of the wealthiest people that I

1186
01:37:45.319 --> 01:37:51.079
ever knew personally right, I was
friends with his son, and I still

1187
01:37:51.079 --> 01:37:54.960
am to this day. In fact, I just went on a vacation with

1188
01:37:55.079 --> 01:38:00.119
him last year and a group of
friends. I also knew his dad had

1189
01:38:00.239 --> 01:38:08.239
sold his company for one hundred and
sixty million dollars and then made up a

1190
01:38:08.239 --> 01:38:13.680
buttload more money even after he retired, and I'll never forget he was.

1191
01:38:13.960 --> 01:38:19.279
He We went over to Chris's dad's
house for dinner, and the first time

1192
01:38:19.279 --> 01:38:24.720
I ever been over his house,
and we go there, and Chris is

1193
01:38:24.840 --> 01:38:28.720
very successful. It was a very
nice house. His dad is like Warren

1194
01:38:28.720 --> 01:38:32.319
Buffett, like he lives in this
like little three bedroom house, and I

1195
01:38:32.399 --> 01:38:35.840
love his dad. He's he was
a super nice guy. He since passed

1196
01:38:35.840 --> 01:38:40.920
away, and every time I go
over for dinner, the thing that brought

1197
01:38:41.039 --> 01:38:47.079
him the most joy was he he
was the cheapest wine guy I've ever known,

1198
01:38:47.640 --> 01:38:50.800
and so he'd be like, look
at this bottle I got for six

1199
01:38:50.920 --> 01:38:55.640
dollars and it would be a decent
wine. And that was like his hobby

1200
01:38:56.079 --> 01:38:59.640
and I and I remember thinking,
and maybe I didn't respect it that at

1201
01:38:59.640 --> 01:39:01.479
that point because I was I was
very young in my career, and I'm

1202
01:39:01.520 --> 01:39:04.560
like, you get one hundred and
sixty, like two hundred million in the

1203
01:39:04.600 --> 01:39:10.079
bank and you're serving six dollars wine. Like I didn't appreciate the uniqueness of

1204
01:39:10.159 --> 01:39:14.199
that, But it's it is a
fond memory that I have there. And

1205
01:39:14.279 --> 01:39:19.960
so you know, the idea that
people who can afford much more expensive stores,

1206
01:39:20.960 --> 01:39:25.520
who maybe didn't shop at Dollar Tree
and now that is a fast,

1207
01:39:25.560 --> 01:39:30.560
fast growing demographic, is not a
positive sign of the times. I guess

1208
01:39:30.640 --> 01:39:33.720
the point that I'm making, but
mostly the people whining, are like seven

1209
01:39:33.840 --> 01:39:38.279
dollars for stuff at a dollar tree, how dare you? And I'm like,

1210
01:39:39.000 --> 01:39:41.640
okay, all right, well then
don't buy the seven dollars stuff