Glad to have you along, and uh, we got we got oodles to
get into. Uh, don't forget Fridays obviously, as we get into our
number three, that's when we chat with Pete Callaner. That is one of
my favorite segments of the week. And uh, we actually, you know,
we we we look this stuff up in ratings, right when we have
what are called here's a little behind the scenes what are called benchmark features.
Basically things we regularly do on the show. And you all are a big
fan as well, so that I just literally something I was having a conversation
with the boss about yesterday. So that's happening eight oh five. And after
what happened was Jean Pierre, Well we told you was it? It was
it Tuesday or Wednesday? We played the audio, Yeah, because Biden and
Harris were they were they were here on Monday. They did the thing out
at the Chavis Community Center and then they had the fundraiser, which I would
look one hundred thousand dollars a tickety in North Carolina. That's crazy to me,
right, the the the checks that people are writing. However, that's
like that's like a lemonade stand compared to yesterday's fundraiser in New York I and
maybe some of you who are excuse me, it's in here, another sip
ofima water. Everything was fine, and then coach christ dry this morning.
For those of you who involve yourselves in political fundraising, I generally don't go
to any because, among other things, I don't make I don't make contributions
to individual candidates or parties for that matter. One could claim it's an ethical
thing, which it is, but two, I'm just I'm really cheap.
So that being said, the estimates of what was raised at a single fundraiser
yesterday by the Biden campaign is crazy to me. And frankly, if that
is a sign of where we're going to be, Like we can look at
the funds raised right with the with the the financial reporting, the mandatory financial
reporting, and funds raised and funds on hand, right, those are the
two numbers you see. Republicans, I don't. Republicans got to get their
They got to get their game up, man, cause if they're slinging and
this is unless they adjusted it, this is the estimate if they're hauling twenty
five million dollars off a single fundraiser, albeit in the richest, wealthiest,
most expensive city in America with multiple presidents. Right, you had three presidents,
And I'll tell you why that's important. Coming up right, you're throwing
out all the stops. You got Hollywood folks there. I mean, obviously
this was a big production, But twenty five mil on a single fundraiser,
I'm Carrie, and uh, you know, the buck's gonna stop, at
least at the party level with a guy that many in North Carolina are familiar
with. Uh, and that's Michael Wattley. And uh, I'm I'm I
can't wait to see what the answer is. Excuse me. And we got
a long we got a long way to go. Uh. Why that fundraiser
is actually newsworthy? We will uh, we'll get We'll get into that as
well, because it wasn't just three presidents, uh, one current and two
former. It was for US presidents all in New York doing stuff. Yesterday,
I tweeted about this because Trump was up there. Now, he wasn't
doing a fundraiser, I guess, uh, although I see people accused them
like the only reason he went was to raise money or you know, do
this or do that, And I you know, you can make an argument
at any time somebody who's running for office literally does anything. But that's the
case. But you know, for like Seth Abramson who went on in like
an Elon Musk and Donald Trump tangent yesterday and other New York Times and or
WAPO reporters, that is a that's apparently a judgment that only goes one way.
So I'll let you know what everyone was up to, what they were
doing, why why they were there, and you know, you can be
the judge, because I feel like I feel like it wasn't a good look,
but also it wasn't arbitrary, right, because I do try to be
fair here. So we'll give you the President and former President New York Schedule
Rundown. Coming up on the show the Jean Pierre stuff that happened on WBT
Radio, we played the audio where Jean Pierre was asked two questions got very
offended at both. Was asked about the president's mental health. I can't believe
this is not a question that they have tactically come up with an answer to.
That blows my mind. And then the other question was about the you
know, people go into the store and you get like you get a handbasket
instead of a rollie cart, and it's still one hundred plus dollars, right,
because that's lived experience that people are dealing with, and she can argue
the reasons why, she can argue even that you're crazy and it always costs
that much, which for some reason is one of the arguments I see.
But storming off a rays video show is always going to go badly for you.
I have I've had it happen to me. I've witnessed it. And
you know, the bigger the personality, the more traction that's going to get,
like anyone in this business, radio or TV, right to a lesser
extent newspaper, because you don't necessarily you don't have that video audio there if
you are not just a professional communications person, but arguably the top in the
country, right you're the spokesperson for the White House, and you don't realize
that that is equally crazy. And if that's where the story got left,
it probably you know, by next week it wouldn't even be a thing.
But there's an update. So I'll give you those details and we'll talk to
Pete. It wasn't Pete doing the interview. It was one of the other
hosts. But now now we have a he said, she said on exactly
how that went. So I have my own theory, just as somebody who
does this for a living. But I can't wait to talk to Pete datoh
five to get the behind the scenes. All Right, we got Easter right
coming up a couple of days. We got as we normally do. We
got some crazy woke Easter stuff, the crypto bro sentence scene, which frankly
he's not going to do all that time. And uh, there's been a
couple of stories this week where I have, like, I have like a
hundred questions, and if one of them was the lawsuit over the knockoff fantasy
themed adult toys earlier this week where they're like, oh no, the guy
who copied us his toys are low quality and don't accurately represent what it would
actually feel like hooking up with a dragon, which is part of the lawsuit.
And I can't wait in court for some expert witness to explain why they
know what a dragon's nether region feels like versus their competitor. But this one
equally with a crap ton of questions, So we'll get to we'll get to
that Jon Stewart in the news and just a bunch of stuff. So oh,
and the students at UNC are unhappy, and not because of the way
that that what was an amazing basketball game yesterday, Not because of the way
it ended. I'm sure they're upset with that, but something else, and
we'll fill you in. So let's do this six seventeen. We'll hit our
first break and then right into it coming up. CaCO Day Radio Program,
Eco Day Radio Program phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seventy
four. That'll get you on the show here on our wonderful Friday. But
let me start here. Oh. Also, and I understand that it's comedic
in nature, but it's very well done. And what makes it the video
we're gonna play the audio of from a city council meeting in Irvine, California,
is watching half of the city council seethe with rage while the other half
is doing everything in their power not to break out laughing when this dude's up
there. And I understand the points he's trying to make. And I also
understand that people on Twitter are like, oh, that's a hate crime,
but you know, those people are stupid. It's just funny, it's just
fine, and it's and it's also one of those takes that's kind of like
the well, if you honestly believe women make seventy seven cents on the dollar,
right, you're one of those folks who plugs your ears when somebody points
out that literally those numbers are not waited for personal choice, traditional jobs that
pre individuals seek out, and you know, things like why people may stall
their career decisions again that pre people make. It's kind of one of those
points which would be, well, if that's true, and I'm a business
owner, then why wouldn't I just hire women and save you know, a
quarter of my payroll, which I've never heard an adequate answer to. I
mean, I could come up with one. When you have an office full
of women and then you ask your workers how they feel about that, who,
again, are all women? Like they pull? Women who majority don't
want to work in an office full of women for a variety of reasons.
And I'm not. I can only speak to what I've read, and I
think that it's women are less likely to want to work in an office that
is all women or majority women than men. And well, and that's because
you know, we're dudes, right, so you you're gonna have a chunk
or are like, yeah, you don't have a bunch of coworkers around for
the Christmas party that kind of stuff. But it's it's one of those points.
So actually let me start there. So this dudes and at the Irvine
City Council meeting and he is, they're they're discussing sports gambling, among other
things, which you know obviously here in North Carolina we're doing this thing.
You may have heard some commercials and this guy is purportedly a proponent of it
and a few other things. Let let's get into this because I was dying
urban city council. How you doing. My name is Tany and I'm a
professional sports gambler, but unfortunately my career is at a stantial because I got
six baby mamas all in the DFW metroplex. I'm sorry. Legal gambling in
a sense, it would be march madness. I'm coming up here to beg
y'all to make sports gambling legal in the city so I can stack my paper
and pay for the illitimate, illegitimate children's I know some people think sports batting
is risky, but I got an unbeaten system that can put money in all
y'all pockets. Seriously, and by the way, this is when some of
the council members are just like they're they're done, they can't function, they're
laughing, and it's just gonna get worse. Listen, my system is easy.
I bet on the blackest and darkest teams in college sports because black of
the berry, sweeter the juice, and better the jump shot. I also
got a sports betting angle that's full proof, since y'all want to let these
all these transgenders up in the league. That is full proof, since y'all
want to let all these transgenders up in the league. I became almost a
millionaire betting on Leah Thomas's big ass winning all them swimming meets. And just
like these transgender swimmers, my swimmers were strong. That's why I got so
many baby mamas. Yeah, the first half of that was that is crazy
entertaining to watch because both teams just killing it. Unfortunately, in the second
half U n C they just fell off. Well, they score twenty last
points in the second half, but in the end, you know it was
you know, last minute, they lost by two points to Alabama. Those
go on to Elite eight. They're going to take on Clemson, all right,
remember, and we're right into it today. So NC State they play
Marquette's. That's gonna be tough. They are the highest, the highest number
remaining. Marquette is a two seed. You got Duke playing number one seed
Houston, Tennessee, Creighton, and then Purdue and why my Gonzaga right the
Perennials. So lots of good college basketball coming up. I just throw that
out there. However, for a lot of folks that was that's not what
they were paying attention to. Now, up in New York, what is
being simultaneously described as a mega money fundraiser event and by the Biden campaign.
I want to read this because it's so dumb as a kickoff grassroots fundraiser.
Okay, this is tell me everything. This is a grassroots fundraiser in New
York yesterday. It was at Radio City Music Hall. It's a pretty good
location, right, it was. The most expensive tickets were five hundred thousand
dollars, the cheapest were two hundred and fifty. And it was to say
it was star studded in the traditional Hollywood sense would be an understatement. In
fact, who is the moderator? Stephen Colbert was the moderator, and they
had a moderator because Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton were all
there, and Colbert did a panel thing. The actual host of the thing
was the Mindy Kayling from you know, from the Office, and I guess
the Velma Show, if that's your thing, and they had like a whole
panel. I was I was gonna have Ross pulls some audio, but then
I realized, screw these people, specifically Colbert. So Colbert's like cracking jokes
up there, and one of the jokes and I just had to like tap
out, was like, yeah, here we go. And they had protesters
interrupts six times. All right, So here's the quote from Colbert. This
is an extraordinary occasion because three presidents have come to New York and not one
of them is here to appear in court. So even in this situation where
you know, a little self deprecating humor is the norm, they're taking a
shot at Trump, which I understand, but also, how are you so
uninformed, mister late night hosts as to why yesterday may not have been the
day to make that joke? And the reason was because well, these three,
well, I guess two former and one current president, though a lot
of people think that the current president is actually one of the former presidents telling
the Rumba in chief what to do. But I'll let you make that decision
at a time when Trump is in New York and you know, he is
at the memorial service for the NYPD officer who is murdered during a super routine.
It's not even a traffic stop because the car was stopped. They just
want to know why these idiots were parked in this bust lane and they probably
probably would have told him to, you know, move on. So that's
why Trump's in New York and you're cracking jokes about it because your guys can't
be bothered to be over there. Now. Obviously, what happened with the
NYPD officer happened well after this fundraiser was planned. You don't get three people
like that all scheduled into a room without some forward thinking and to some extent,
I understand that because your total tickets are reportedly around twenty five million dollars
that people have paid to go to this event. And you know, if
you want to make that argument and justified, I think your forgiveness will largely
be based on whether you ask your supporters or not. But that being said,
like you don't want to go there yesterday, you don't want you don't
want to be up there with this super high profile thing that happened. And
beyond the record that all three of you, not one of you has bothered
to call the family or even address this, and then you're knocking on the
dude who is up there going, and not just knocking on him, but
also accusing him of going just for the high profile nature, when in reality,
you know, a president, former president showing up at something like this
is kind of standard practice. And you can bet if it was the other
way around, right where the police officer walked up to the car and it's
like, oh why you parked your boom boom boom, boom boom and just
you know, a shot a guy who was trying to give him a stick
of gum or you know whatever narrative that we'd be hearing that, I think
all three of them probably would have checked in. So it wasn't a good
look all around. If they want to go out and raise twenty five million
dollars, buye whatever you want to get a bunch of super rich you know,
business folk in that room, which is what it was, who are
also super woke, who were you know, running all of your diversity training
garbage. You want to get him in a room having a stroke. You
you check whatever Republicans are going to have to figure out how they're going to
combat that, because that was twenty five million dollars in one fundraiser and you
know, even at a presidential level, that's astounding U and the uh it.
Then it was not just Colbert and Kaylene. There was also quite the
musical lineup. Queen Latifa, Lizo did her thing, handful of others.
So you know, your choice yesterday as a president her former president was do
you, even if it's just a phone call, do you participate in the
grieving process of this this officer who's is just out there doing the most basic
of basic policing jobs. Right, He's not this is this guy's not he's
not doing he's not the mob undercover guy. Right. And this is not
to knock on the on this role of policing, but he's the he's the
guy that's going over and doing the little things. But the little things that
you know that have to get done and he gets murdered for his troubles.
Like how how you whiff on that when your physics in the state, Like,
I don't understand that, Joe Biden, maybe because you got to prep
the dude to go over there, and god knows what he'd say, probably
talk about his uh you know, his his deceased son, which is the
last thing I'm sure the family wants to hear about right now. But you
know, Bill Clinton used to be pretty good at this stuff. Barack Obama
whatever, I don't think he's going to go over there because of the racial
component, But like, what are you doing? Call call for the lobby
of the event? I don't understand it. Meanwhile, uh, you know,
folks on Twitter are like, ah, this is it was self The
only reason that Trump was there was self serving. That's the only reason he
comes to New York now for for selfish reasons. All right, Well,
like your three just came there and did a twenty five million dollar fundraiser,
which seems pretty self serving, right. So anyway, so yeah, those
competing interests yesterday, and I'll let you guess the side that the media has
chosen, uhting, lotting, These presidents as the president and the two former
presidents has a sign of civility, insanity. I believe it's the quote that
I read from Abramson, the New York Times guy, when they have obviously
failed to actually review the situation, even from a pr standpoint, like schedule
five minutes, figure something out, do some with the mayor for you know,
the Meyrill drive to Midtown over to Radio City Music Hall. He knows
where it is and just a big swing and a miss with zero accountability.
But it wasn't the only political discussion. Rob Reiner is crazy. I twenty
sixteen proved that I really didn't have a Rob Reiner opinion other than generally when
I saw him and stuff like I didn't hate his character like him and Wolf
of Wall Street with the with the data, I thought that was a good
character. But twenty sixteen did a lot to really show you where some of
Hollywood, who maybe's politics he didn't know where they were at. And and
and since then, when Rob Reiner tweets there's just buckets are crazy in there,
and yesterday was that was no different, all right? So and and
by the way, this is by design. So Marie Claire Wi I didn't
realize was still in business. I hadn't thought about Marie Claire. I don't
even I honestly, I don't even know what the what the main focus of
that magazine is. I only know of its existence because I think my mom
used to get it, and I at no point did I did I read
anything. However, they apparently they're still strong enough to start a big discussion.
So Marie Claire did a piece about Taylor Swift. All right, well
that's not uncommon. I you know, it's a magazine targeted at women,
you know, Hollywood celebrity stuff in there. That's that's pretty pretty standard.
But it wasn't about who she's dating, who she's canoodling, which normally it
is. Instead, Marie Claire tweets this quote, We're still waiting for an
explanation of Taylor's decision to remain apolitical during the twenty sixteen election. Now,
the first time Marie Claire dove into this was in twenty seventeen, So I
read you the twenty seventeen tweet. And then there's been some follow up stuff
and Politico did a piece as well, why is Taylor Swift neutral? And
that culminated in For some reason, a bunch of moonbats discussing this, including
Rob Reiner Reiner who tweeted, quote, I'm in the midst of shooting a
sequel to This is Spinal Tap, which I didn't realize we were going to
ruin this movie too. But all right, whatever quote. As much as
I'd like Taylor Swift to do a cameo in the film, I give anything
for her to endorse Joe Biden. She would virtually single handedly save American democracy.
All right. A lot of people made this argument when during the NFL
season, But let me ask this, do we honestly think that's true.
Do we think that if Taylor Swift came out, did you know, like
a thirty second political ad for Democrats, do you think that that would single
handedly save democracy and guarantee the election? What is your perception of Taylor Swift's
politics right now? Anyway? Best case, maybe a political But frankly,
if you're a big star in Hollywood, Hollywood or the music industry, I
just assume that you would tell people to vote for Democrats. So I don't
know how that moves the needle, but I see I see a lot of
people who consider themselves plugged in who keep saying this? And if Taylor's Swift
did come out full throated endorsement for Joe Biden, here's a campaign commercial.
I don't believe there's anyone in America who goes, wow, I didn't see
that coming. But maybe I'm wrong. You know, it's just maybe I'm
just super negative on anyone in that Hollywood sphere. But I don't get it.
But that Ryaner tweet got pretty popular. They had a couple other nitwits,
including Pearlman and a few others who jumped on this. I don't know
if they're trying to draft Taylor Swift. I guess for at the very least
to do campaign stuff. But when's the last time a Hollywood person out on
the campaign stump suades your vote? But the flip side, and this is
why I'm asking this. Also, we got a lot of dumb people,
really really just idiot And you know if somebody, some celebrity who is actually
that's the politics they follow, tells them to do something, and they probably
only hear that celebrities take on perhaps a certain issue because normally they don't pay
attention to any of this. I maybe you encourage that person to actually vote,
but if their life revolves around keeping up with the Kardashians in that mindset,
I don't know that it does any good. So you can weigh in
on that. Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four And speaking
of former Daily Show folks, and I guess current, this John Stewart story
is getting juicy, so we'll fill you in on that coming up next case
O Day Radio program. You know, we're kind of stuck here doing the
show right now, or not stuck. Obviously, we enjoy it. It's
Friday good stuff. Unfortunately that is delaying me reclaiming what is mine. And
I know we have listeners up in the North Wilkesboro area and well Wilkesboro,
I guess for that matter, that's my moonshine cave you guys found, So
you know, if you could respect my privacy, that'd be great. I
don't know if you all saw this story, but uh so, up at
the up of the track of the you know, the speedway up there for
former NASCAR and I guess attempting to be more current NASCAR, apparently they found
via a sinkhole underneath the grand stands, which, by the way, that
in and of itself is a little disconcerting, right, how many? How
many of you have memories of sitting in the grand stands up at the the
the racetrack up in Wilkesboro, All right? Right? Yeah? And did
you know that all that time there was this pencil sinkhole under under part of
it. Your Friday KCO Day radio program coming up one hour from now.
Pete Calender here will be joining us, and we got all sorts of fun
stuff to get into. Obviously the the ripcord pool by the White House spokeshole
as she appeared on the Charlotte WBT talk station down there with one of Pete's
co workers. And that story is updated. And I told you as somebody
who obviously does radio interviews, and not just with Pete, but you know,
with guests up to and including Donald Trump, right, we had him
on and talked about Sorry, now I have the hiccups for no reason.
But when you have somebody, especially when you're interviewing people who do like media
interview blitzes, right, they may carve out a whole day, uh to
you know, to go around and you know, maybe do like twenty stations
or five TV stations, five radio stay. You know, it's pretty common
stuff, and but they're usually scheduled pretty tight, so you know when you're
when you're doing it, you don't hear it behind the scenes. But one
of the things that I'm going to make sure is not just when an interview
starts, but I'm gonna ask when they need it to end. And a
lot of times they'll tell you, and they will hang up on you if
you if you go past it, and it's not out of malice, it's
out of a scheduler who is literally sitting there and will physically reach over and
hang up on the UH on the phone right and then call and scream at
you. That's something that happened to me when I was interviewing Rudy Giuliani a
long time ago, because Giuliani got off on it. This was this was
way back during bushes when Bush was running for a second term. We Giuliani
was, you know, doing radio stations all around the country, and I
had him booked, and instead of just talking about the Bush stuff, which
his handler wanted, UH, I started I asked a baseball starter question and
then all we talked about was baseball and Giuliani's a he loves baseball. Obviously
he's a big Yankees fan. And the Yankees had just just had a they
had just beat the Twins, and there was some there was some stuff and
it was great. And literally like mid sentence, uh, Giuliani had just
cut off, and I'm like, I thought we had phone problems. I'm
like, did Giuliani hang up? What the hell happened? And then I
get a really angry message from the scheduler. Who is He's just he's a
camp He's not even Giuliani's guy. He's just a the state he's with the
state party in Minnesota, who was handling this stuff. And he also is
super OCD. Right, But I knew I had been informed that Giuliani had
to be out at a certain time, and I just we got to baseball
and I looked up and I'm like, oh, crap, I forgot the
heart out. That's on me, all right. Plus this guy was an
a hole because we weren't talking about what he wanted us to talk about,
So screw him. But that's not what's going on here. And as much
as the White House would would tell you that that's not something, a radio
host is going to be unaware of that works in a market, a market
like the size of Raleigh or Greensboro or Charlotte, obviously, which is the
largest media market in the state. You're gonna know you're professional. It is
what it is. So the White House playing this off not like she's underprepared,
and uh, well unfathomably underprepared, by the way, like the topics,
we'll play the audio. I'm gonna do it closer when we get Pete.
Just to remind you, the White House tried to play it off like
now this it was just they had they had done the interview and they had
to go, and it just sounded bad. I don't believe that, and
it sounds like, uh, the the host down at the WBT don't believe
it either. So we'll talk to one and shoot that insanity down. But
first I got to recover my my moonshine cave. All right. It's like
I thought this was a cool story. And of course there's the lore right
of NASCAR moonshining out running the cops, you know, I get that Duke's
of hazard vibe, and uh, you know it's it's it's it's as somebody
likes history. I think it's definitely one of the most unique and interesting historical
parts of the lore of North Carolina. And and it's a thing that continues
today. I'm telling you, if drive past Elkin like you're headed up the
hill to Sparta and Roaring Gap and all and uh, you know, Glade
Valley and all that. And I don't know that we'll ever know the number,
but that little that little area called State Road, which is actually the
town name there, that area, that part of North Carolina. Uh,
check out the Wikipedia on on that and some of the historical stuff. The
amount of moonshine that they were turning out just in that little area between like
Yadkinville, el Elkin State Road and uh and right there, like there's they
they were supplying like the East Coast Man. The numbers are bonkers. So
am I surprised at all that potentially under the speedway in Wilkesboro that there might
have been you know, like a moonshine cave. No, not at all.
And I think it's really cool. Actually, the history is just fascinating.
Right right there there was not all good, right, not all good,
right, but it's fascinating. There was a remember back on the History
Channel. It's about like a like underground ancient underground whatever, and like they'd
be like a prohibition episode up in New York and they were showing like,
oh, different bars and different like secret passages that would go down to like
the harbor or like the port whatever, and oh god, it's so fascinating,
Like yeah, bars that are available like there right now, you go
there. You know you have no idea what's underneath, you, dude.
The some of the under They have an underground tour in Rome, which is
was cool. I did the under You can go if you're in Paris and
they have you can go in like Catacall. You can't go to the park
where it's upside down and you go to hell like in that movie. I
guess you could, but they have it like Barry. But that underground tour
is fascinating. Did I tell you what what I saw when I was there
when I did the under When I did the underground tour, I don't think
so, dude. So I get in there and it's his dark, dank
and like creepy, right, because they have the bones and stuff. You
can go see that stuff. But I went through this way. I was
leaning right because the tour guy was just, you know, yammering away and
I'm leaning on the wall, and all of a sudden the wall gives way.
I go in there and there's a templar Knight's grave in there, and
and rats and lots of rats. And his shield was a map. So
yeah, like to your point, there's a lot of cool stuff there.
You will be fastly led. So no. But on on a more local
side of this, the city of Seattle is built on the city of You
think most of the city like, you're like, oh, on ground level,
you're like way above where the initiative built the town. They like,
there's a whole nother Seattle under Seattle, and they do. You can go
down there, although sometimes it doesn't go well. I was doing fill in
in Richmond on our w r VA, which was the station that Jeff Katz,
who you've probably heard fill in on this show does the afternoon show on.
So it was guys kind of repaying the favor there, and I don't
know all of the backgrounds. Sometimes you can do a fill in in a
local market, like you know, you don't fully know what's going on.
But they were in some sort of big debate because they found much more extensive
underground infrastructure in this cliff side. What is it called foggy not foggy Bottoms
that's in DC. It's got kind of a weird, weird name that's stuck
with me. I can't remember exactly. Hang out, let me look it
up here a Shacko bottom Shocko bottom, which is essentially it's right, it's
the part if you're in Richmond that goes down to the James River there and
it's quite a quite a drop. And in the drop they found much more
extensive like caves, but they look to be man made. And you know
there there was already a history in that area of it being a you know,
back during slavery where essentially it was a main selling point. But then
they had they found these other this other area, and at first they didn't
realize what it was, and then they were I can't remember what the what
they fully thought was going on, and then somebody realized it was it was
an extension of the slavery operation, except it was basically where they'd stick sick
or injured human product right for you know, back back in the day,
oh god, yeah, yeah, to you know, essentially, like they
couldn't sell them. So they're just like, all right, that's all it's
it's it's horrific. Yeah, it's absolutely, but it's history. But at
first they thought it was a different thing. And and then and I think
the city had allocated some money and they were trying to you know, the
debate was what do you do? Right, because then you had some activists
who were like, well, now we need more funding than do this.
And I think they did build that out and and frankly they should, right,
if you're going to do historical stuff, it is the history, right,
so put it in there. But I remember, like I had to
fill in that week when that was going on, and I'm like, I
I was just looking at the local news and I'm like, oh my god,
how do I even approach this? But with the North Wilkesboro thing,
you know, being a moonshine storage area in an area that was rampant with
moonshining and under a NASCAR track, that's amazing. And it's that's because that's
why I built it there, and and it's mine and I think I can
say and you would all have to agree, this is now the premiere alcohol
related oversized tourist attraction in the state of North Carolina. We can agree on
that, right, this is this is numero uno now because it's real.
Oh I see this is a Boone Big Beer hit piece. No, no,
it sounds like Boone Big Beer triple b. Now this spear me pointing
out that one thing actually exists. Right, there's the caves and then the
other thing is underneath the Boone Big Beer is another Boone Big Beer. Why
would you why you do? It's not why that's so wasteful? Why would
you? Like the guys on Easter Island, right, like the big heads
and you actually see how deep down it goes, and they're like, oh
my, there's like bodies attached to the heads on Easter Island. Like people
don't realize that when you see like how far down it goes. It's the
same thing with the Boone Big Beer. Okay, well, but Easter Island
and the city of Seattle the reason that they were dealing with sea level concerns,
right, I don't know if you know this Boone is not at sea
level, So like that doesn't that don't track as to why you would build
a Boone Big Beer. You ever seen the episode with the Los Angeles Underground.
You ever see that one that's for all the hoboes they found the Soldiers
of Fortune? Okay in the La Underground? Is that where they found them?
And it's not it's not just hobos, because I did see a thing
where it was just hobos. But but this was back when in the eighties
and nineties, right at latest seventies? Yeah, late seventies. Yeah,
so did start in the late seventies, the eighteen late seventies. Wow,
that's crazy. It could be early eighties. I'm not sure, but sometimes
that show it gives me the vibe of like late seventies. Yeah, yeah,
And then I just try to I guess I track it with how old
does mister T look? Right, that kind of stuff, And I guess
maybe it does assume, but I you know, that dude probably look like
a scary adult when he was eight. Like I've never seen an eight year
old picture, you know, mister T at eight, But at the very
least, I'm sure you had a full beard. So all right, So
anyway, now it doesn't look like there's any moonshine in there, but I
am gonna need him a cave back. So anyone in the Wilkesboro area want
two. I mean, you've been talking about that thing for years. I
have. I've been somewhat secret, but I like to brag because like many
of you poores out there, you've probably built a man cave, right,
Yeah, how exciting, right, and then you're you know, anytime you
go down there, and then your wife just nags you, uh, if
you're gonna. I did a moonshine cave. So that's I feel like I
win on this. Like I didn't even have to. You don't even have
to put man in the title. It's a moonshine cave. People just people
know what's up. So now my question is what do you what do you
do? Because they've known all the reno there. They did. They did
have the race last year there, which was cool. Who won? That
was at Kyle oh Bush? Who won that I can't remember, but which
was cool to have. You know, every time I drive by that track,
you know, at one point, I guess let me just give a
history for people new here. You know, the state of North Carolina had
three NASCAR tracks and then in the mid nineties NASCAR did what, in my
opinion, was the dumbest thing and basically looked at all of their fans,
who in some cases had been there since what when NASCAR started late forties,
early fifties. They literally built NASCAR, loved it and would in many cases
go to all the different races in North Carolina every year. And NASCAR's ratings
started going up, and they basically, in my opinion, they just said
screw you and abandoned the true NASCAR fans, thinking that they were going to
mainstream this thing. And for a little while they they did, and the
money was rolling in. But I thought it was just a big old screw
you. And you know, it was ninety six or whatever, it was
the last and then they just say, all right, we're out and they
left Rockingham and uh, Wolkesborough obviously Charlotte is you know, I got two
races there. But I thought I thought it was the beginning of the disconnect
and and and then it used to be you could travel to a race and
you didn't have to mortgage your house, and that was it was just it
was it was greed masking as well, we're just trying to expand it to
a new audience. Well, no, you weren't just expanding. I think
a lot of people felt betrayed and I never understood the decision. But this
is cool, so but hey, I don't know so. Moonshining cave are
just two things that most guys are going to be inherently fascinated by, and
then fast cars on top. It's amazing, all right. Anyway, seven
twenty three will take a break. Hang on. Not that I cared that
much about P. Diddy or any of this, but it's just the totality
of what's going on with these court documents and once again this scenario where everybody
knew something but nobody really did anything allegedly. I mean, obviously this you
know, this is this is unfolding right now. We're in the investigative phase.
But it's just one crazy story after another with you know, some high
profile celebrity actor, hip hop artist, some pro athletes up in this and
it's it's just there. There's a couple I was just reading one the apparently
the you know, you just assume if you're like at a private JETNY yacht
with some Hollywood party folks on there, yeah, you get what you got?
You got, uh, the big pile of cocaine like it's scarface and
uh, you know, all the all the party people. But they they
had their own pink They call it pink cocaine. In here, it's a
drug that is called tousy, which I don't know if I've ever seen tousy
in in the US. But I also, I, you know, I
don't sit around doing hard drugs. It's not really my thing, but I
I do know what it is because it's I was what was the show I
watched sometimes, like the the the show oh where they're doing the uh like
the cartel raids and stuff like that, and it's not it wasn't cocaine,
but I remember they was like it's like ketamine and uh like uh the part
you know, hallucinogenics and party drugs, which I'm like, why would you?
Why would you? But apparently that was their their big thing, and
so they had like these big piles of the stuff and it's pink, like
bright pink, and apparently it makes you like blow your nose and it looks
like your your brain's bleeding. So like the whole thing didn't sound good,
uh when it was described to me, and apparently they were really into it.
And then secondly, they identified a woman by the name of Young Miami,
which I suspect is not her name who uh in an Instagram woman,
both of which used to date fifty Cent, but in the in the lawsuit
were uh paid prostitutes, uh I combs. He had them in like a
monthly hooker retainer and then they would just show up to all of his parties
and just you know, well do whatever they were asked to do. And
like fifty Cent like dated one of them for years, and his statement yesterday
was I didn't know. I didn't I didn't know she was a prostitute.
I mean, I'm sure we all know somebody who found out something pretty crazy
about their significant other. Right, you're dating something, you know, you're
married to somebody for twenty years, and then you find out that you know
they run a BDSM dungeon on the weekends, Like I maybe you get away.
How do you not know your you're you're if you're dating someone for how
do you not know they're a hooker for three years? So like, if
that's the level of excuses that are going to be out there, who knows
where this thing's gonna go. Man, But it just gets easier and crazier.
And speaking of crazier and crazier. Yesterday we shared with you the the
the student protest at Vanderbilt University, which was billed obviously as a free Palestine
protest, began with assault. This is I think people are missing this part
of it. It wasn't just students who kind of all went into this administrative
building and and then like you know, we're all pretending to do other stuff
and then flash mobbed at the appointed hour to sit in protest that they released
the video. The students gathered outside of the building were told in no uncertain
terms that they could not come in and gather in the in the president's office
area there as as a group, you know, make an appointment. And
I know that they had whoever the leaders are meeting with university officials, but
that wasn't good enough. And so if you see the video they released,
you have campus police officers who were at the door. There's a mob of
students outside who had obviously organized, and they physically assaulted the officer and it
was clearly the plan. They stacked a couple of the bigger male students at
in front who rushed the security officer at like it was an NFL line and
literally incapacitated his ability to continue to bar the doors, at which point all
the other students rushed in there, striking the security officer while doing so,
you know, breaking one of the doors, and then all at once ran
in in. What was like, that was clearly planned. That's exactly how
you would you would do that. And it's like, where is where's the
outrage when you know, with the people myself included by the way, who
saw the videos of police officers who were physically assaulted up at the US Capitol,
and I, for one said, look, if you're out there beating
police with a flagpole like the one video, bury those dudes under the prison.
I got no time for that. But I was able to recognize the
difference because we're adults and that's how we converse on the show. In this
case, the students and including student leadership, physically assaulted law enforcement are at
the very least security. I don't know if it's all sworn officers, but
whatever, And that it just made me so angry watching that because then this
we have the tampon incident, right, and the backstory is the girl or
the girls who are clearly idiots. The reason the girl said that she was
unable to go to the bathroom to change out her feminine product. Is the
university didn't They decided tack from a tactic standpoint, they were not arresting students
who were just sitting there on their little stupid sitting with their signs, but
any student who got up and attempted to leave at that point or attempted to
I guess leave the group, so that there wasn't the video of officers essentially
physically extracting students who had previously assaulted them. They were placed under arrest if
they were deemed to have been among the students who were part of the assault
of the officer. Right, is this tracking? Okay? And so she
had watched seven of her cohorts who had gotten up to go to the bathroom
to run and get something, who had been taken into custody, although they
were charged and then immediately released. But that's why she didn't want to do
it. There was nothing physically stopping or that's what that was about. And
it culminates that story in a nine to one one call, which is how
these how these are going to be functional adults later in life? I don't
know. Here's that nine one. Yeah, there is currently a female student
who's being denied the right to change her tampon that's been in for multiple hours,
which leads to an increased risk of toxic shock syndrome. And the best
part is she's I I can't tell she's reading a Wikipedia on her phone,
but it's like like she's She's like, let me explain the science to you.
And I love that it's a female nine one one caller who's having none
of this. So why you're saying right, so then you should understand.
Okay, what you are not hearing. What you're not hearing is that if
she stands up to use the restroom to change her tampon, they are threatening
arrest. So it is not an option for her. You have an emergency,
yes, ma'am, I dad is an emergency. That's not by the
way, they'll uh. I you know, I haven't. I haven't spent
a lot of time in prison, but I did see the documentary Caged Heat,
and I'm pretty sure that they'll let you change feminine products in even in
jail. So anyway, if you thought that was peaked stupid, and it
may still well be. There's another thing that went down and it's it's risen
to the level of the International Criminal Court and the Hague. Oh yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, wait for that. We'll get to it first.
Raced agent for the Weather Channel, he's here. I'm just you know,
I'm so glad. There's so many stupid people. It just takes my
job so easy. Man. Well, it just makes us look smarter.
Yeah, And the irony here in this case is these stupid people are literally
pay ninety thousand dollars a year to I guess, purportedly not be stupid to
get a degree from Vanderbilt. But it's it's not sticking. So I don't
know. You got to do something, all right, So yes, almost
almost crazy game, uh you know, possibly possible, but UNC just couldn't
do it. You watch that game, and now you guys going to play
Alabama, you Clemson people, So yeah, And I was one of the
five point eight percent that actually picked Clemson in the ESPN bracket, So there's
that. But I did have them losing to the tar Heels. And I
just say this because everything I got to listen to somebody like you, right,
I go, just because you're a homer doesn't make them a bracket genius.
All right, No, no, I'm not claiming at all. Okay,
all right, can I get these guys and they're like, I picked
Belmont to go all the way and it's like, where'd you go to Scott
Belmont? It's like, of course you did? You pick it every year?
Well you know what I did. Originally, don't you had them winning
at all? But then I said, no, that's probably not going to
happen because and I had them against the tar Heels in the Elite eight,
and I picked them only because they there were one on one against each other
I think during the season, and I was like, well, maybe they
could win. And then I was like nah, And then it doesn't matter
because I didn't watch Obama game tar Heels because I couldn't stay up. I
was. I was exhausted after the Clemson game. But yeah, now they
go with a nine o'clockish tip off Saturday night. I'm like, come on,
looking at the times. They get ten o'clock tip off tonight for the
last game. I know. I just hate this. Make it more and
more inaccessible to kids, that's great, that's yeah, yeah they do,
they do. Let's see, but the weather will be great the next few
days if you want to stay inside and watch, but go out to that
deck somewhere, and if you want to watch any of the ball games,
or even if you don't do something productive before you do nothing, because I'm
going to do a lot of nothing this weekend. The weather will be great,
worked out perfect. Yesterday, a couple of hundreds of an inch of
rain to the west high Point Winston, Salem, Salisbury and west of that,
and then the heavier rain in and around they try it, and the
triangle up to an inch inch and a half, a little bit more went
just to the east. And now we're settling in for some cooler weather,
early beautiful weather this afternoon, a little breeze though, near seventy forties tonight,
mid seventies Tomorrow with sunshine and the gusty breeze. Beautiful day. We're
gonna wrap that into Saturday or Sunday. Beautiful weather again for Easter Sunday,
close to eighty in the morning if you're heading to a sunrise service, not
bad, low to mid fifties, and then may get into the middle eighties
and some spots. Monday showers thunder shower is probably about Tuesday afternoon Tuesday night
and Wednesday, and another cold front coming through late week. We could cool
off quite a bit once again. But today, Tomorrow, Sunday, Monday
absolutely beautiful. I really think Easter Sunday and Monday the two best days of
the next four days. Showers back by Tuesday. All right, Well,
I know a lot of people. Who's your final four? Who's your final
four? I only know there's two. There's two of them left, so
yeah, I've got to Tennessee and Connecticut. Yeah, I think Tennessee and
Yukon. Yeah. I actually I had Alabama on the final four, so
I just hate that Malabama has a good basketball team too. That's another conversation
for another day. Women, next hour, all right, yeah, let
me let me do my research. Get your bracket out, all right,
to it. I hope you don't run out of time and can't do it.
We'll see. All right, thanks man, talk to you in an
hour, and well we come back. What happened following the tampon nine one
one related call? Apparently the the university officials committed a war crime or something.
All right, just just wait for it. It's next hang on,
Pete Calender. He'll be joining us here in the next segment. So let
me fit a few things in. So yesterday we had the the the Vanderbilt
Tampa on nine one one call, and look, if you thought that was
peak stupid, and it's still maybe in this story, I understand. But
also it wasn't the only thing. And this is mind blowing. There's there's
a thing you have to know. The protesters are on a self stated hunger
strike. They're mirroring what they would Harvard did like two days before it,
where they committed to a twelve hour hunger strike. No, no, that's
not the stupid part. It's just one of the stupid parts. Wait,
I did a twelve hour hunger strike yesterday because I just didn't eat. I
ate some like toast in the morning. I just didn't have an appetite.
I don't know why I can say it. And so I eate it like
seven o'clock last night. So what is like I did a twelve hour strike.
It's inter minute fasting. Right, Yeah, you're not Gandhi, right,
Okay you're not, but whatever, But it's important to know that they
were. They were on a self stated hunger strike. And by the way,
they also blue Harvard's record away because some of the students once they reached
the twelve hour mark, once they you know, because they had to keep
sitting there, they want to get arrested. Eventually stayed for did not eat
for twenty one and a half hours, So they went almost a whole day
without eating. But here's the war crime. You're ready, and remember they
had there is video of this gaggle physically assaulting campus security and law enforcement.
Right, there's video, you can go watch it. But while they're doing
their occupation, the very same officers and security folk, they got to sit
there, right, they can't go home. There's people were being called in.
Obviously they were, they were staffed much more than they would be,
and they too are having to sit there for this lengthy period of time.
So what happened Some of the student protesters expressed outrage after they realized the university
administrators had called in a catering order to feed the staff, not the students,
because remember they're like, we're not eating genocide, Joe's gotta gardment,
whatever stupid stuff they're chanting. But the police officers who have now been stuck
there for in some cases, were stuck there at twenty one and a half
hours they're hungry, and I know the university probably has like a mess hall,
but they called in an order and when it showed up, the students
lost their damn minds because they said that the police, in some cases black
officers, who moments before the food arrived students were denigrating and calling puppets and
race traders. And these are white students telling black police officers that they're race
traders because they're I guess policing. So what happened? A large order from
Panera showed up, at which point the students say some of the officers began
to eat in front of them. Friday Edition, and it's been it's been
a couple of weeks with our vacation last week, so glad to get back
into our little check in with our radio colleague to the South Middays WBT.
It's a Pete calendar. I just want to put you on notice, Pete,
if at any moment you pull the ripcord and hang up prior to our
hard timed E twenty fourth break, I will forget your name, will be
coward calendar on the show. So don't do it. Oh that's fair,
But I do have I do have a SoundBite standing by of a dial tone
just stinkcase. Oh we got one of the Yeah, we got one of
those two we use called the UH like we did a We did an entire
show where we UH. We weaponized the audience to help find uh Senator Chuck
mcgrady's balls or Senator whatever, because he was cowarding out on the Yeah,
he was a state rep. I remember he was out from Yeah, he
was out from Henderson County out in the western North Carolina. Yes. And
then and then we would go to the hotline for Chuck McCrady to call in
and tell us if he knew where his stones were. And it was just
a mild tone. It was we had fun that day. So I'm in
on that. Here's what I'm also in on on a more serious note,
and uh, the way that a radio interview works when it's a high profile
interview, even if it's not high profile, but if it's somebody who clearly
is probably doing back to back interviews. The conversation that you the audience don't
hear that I have or and Pete has, our producers have with whoever the
individual the scheduler is is what time do you need to be out right,
that's like, that's one of the top Like it starts with what time do
you want to call in? And then what time do you need to be
out? And it's so that you don't have these situations and I've had.
I had really Rudy Giuliani's handler hang up on me years ago with when he
was stumping for Bush. And that's because him and I started talking baseball and
like, I didn't even look at the clock. That's on me. But
when you know what that out is, you don't have what happened with your
colleague and Jean Pierre, who became uncomfortable with questions that frankly, I have
to think have been game planned, and if they haven't, fire everyone on
the comm staff because they're so basic. And the reaction by Mark was that
it was unexpected. The White House then attempted to make it sound like it
wasn't unexpected. And I see, now your boy's position is the White House
is lyne. So give me the inside dirt, my man, what's going
on? So? Mark Garrison is our news director at WBT and Charlotte.
Guy's been in media for thirty years. He's done television. He would do
like the he was sort of like a Charles Carrault kind of a reporter guy.
He would go all over the state doing you know, human interest stories,
oddball story stuff like that. But all he's one in the hard time.
He's one of the good old time guys that sadly just have. There's
not many of the guys like that left and radio right, which is unfortunate.
But yeah, he is doesn't care stall wart yes, absolutely, yeah,
and does not care about your political philosophy. He has equal disparagement for
everybody in politics. Like this is important. He's a host. This is
another important component because I've been there where a politician didn't want a host,
but they were. They submitted to a news director, even if they thought
it wasn't a friendly outlet. So sorry to interrupt. People need to notice
behind the scenes stuff because it's important, right and so and same for me.
When I was a reporter, I would get interviews with people that would
never want to go on the air with hosts because yes, I was,
you know, I was a reporter, and so in their minds like that's
I'm going to be objective, I'm going to be fair for them versus a
host where they are even if the host is objective and fair, just the
perception going in would limit that. Now I have a theory on this as
to why they reached out to us for that interview, going to be my
question because said the question I was gonna asked, did your guy requested or
did they reach out? Which by people need to know, this is is
somewhat common from the White House, like we got pitched. I've had I
remember they pitched us Fauci. We did Fauci, the White House called us,
right, and a few others. So this is this is the other
side of it that's interesting. So they asked for this, uh yeah,
okay, all right, right, And they did not as far as I
know, they did not reach out to y'all. They did not reach out
to any other news talk stations, AM radio stations, FM radio stations all
around the state. As far as I know, Boo booked in a minute.
Anybody would have. Absolutely anybody would have. And they reached out to
the WBT news director. And I think I don't have any proof of this,
but I suspect it is because of our parent company of who owns US,
which is Urban One, right, right, right, I get what
you're driving at uh, yeah, what Pete's putting down. They were they
made right, they were ye yes, yeah, okay, yeah, absolutely,
And this happens all the time, much like you got pitched with Fauci.
Right, I'm not so sure that they would run around pitching, you
know, NPR stations with the same kinds of media pitches from a Republican administration
as they would conservative talk stations, you know, Right, So there's just
a different view of who's friendly and who's not. And that may not always
be the case, as the White House found out with the interview with Mark
Garrison. And honestly, he didn't ask anything that is not relevant to the
campaign and to what people are asking are talking about. And you know,
he first asks about, you know, the polling and how he's going to
be able to kind of overcome the low polling numbers in the state, which
is the whole point of the visit right to Raleigh anyway, So he starts
there, and then he follows up with the question about like I keep getting
like everybody asked me to ask you, you know, does he have dementia?
And the answer to that question is no, of course not. Let's
talk about all of the reasons why and the proof you know, look at
his record, look all the stuff he's got done, and all this other
stuff. But the answer is no, and caringe John Pierre was not able
to just say no and then to double down on the dumb assery. She
turns around and well, actually wasn't her. It was mister Andrew Bates from
what NC state alum and Brad Congressman Brad Miller alum. And he is now,
uh yeah, man behind the scenes, and so he accuses Mark Garrison
of inserting this sound bite of a dial tone because you know, our phones
didn't make that sound. Hey, dumbass, your phone doesn't make that sound
because you hung up, like you cut the line. You're not going to
hear any sound, you moron like, and Garrison did not insert the the
dial tone audio at the end of the phone call. And look, she
got up to like almost seven minutes on this call, and maybe there was
you know, a little bit of time before they he started rolling tape,
so it lasted seven minutes. Now he says that they gave him a window
of between ten minutes, and they then are now now they're saying, oh,
we gave everybody seven minutes and maybe that was the case in their mind,
but they didn't tell him that. They told him between five. I
don't believe a guy. Look, I'm I'm the least organized radio host you'll
ever get. But the news director like that dude is gonna be buttoned down.
And I am never not aware of what my time is that I've discussed
ever, ever, Ever, I literally write it on the little sheet that
also includes the person's name and the scene set right. It's the tool that
I've used all this time, so it's always in front of me. And
no, I don't believe that for a minute. Inserting the dial tone is
stupid. His reaction is very authentic. And to your point, she doesn't
just wander around and then kind of get to the word. She never says
no. We we like dissected that and but what killed me is she never
says no. And then the pivot is too the most milk toast boring but
not boring in the way that it affects people's lives, but like boring from
This is a question that's been asked of politicians in some variety since we started
politicking, right, and that is, what do you do about this issue?
That the public perceives negatively because you're the person in charge. How do
you overcome that? And you know, in the White house's plan has been
to blame Trump and bitch at snack food companies, right, but she,
I don't know. Have they never gain planned either of those questions? Could
they not perceive that it might come up at some point? Like the woman,
it strikes me as woefully unqualified, but like almost like it's almost criminally
so, because there have been dumb White House spokespeople over the years, but
this is this is a new thing, and for her not to be able
to handle one of the most predictable questions, arguably two of them. I
don't know what they're What is the game plan over there, because even though
I disagree with them, I can't believe they all are. I have an
IQ of a five year old. Well, I think it's a couple of
things. Number One, I think cringe as I call her cringe. Jean
Pierre is is uniquely and cartoonishly terrible at her job. So that's the first
thing that we always have to kind of keep in mind here that you know,
this is a woman that literally reads from copy points in front of you,
while you are recording her on video, and delivers the copy points not
only poorly, but also in a manner that is meant to convey that she
knows what she's talking about and she's being authoritative, she thinks, as she's
delivering these copy points, again, delivering them poorly with stumbling and stuttering and
netting them up though, because when she doesn't have copy points, you get
like a few weeks You remember a few weeks ago when she was talking about
you know, dead soldiers, right, yeah, and like she had the
inability to even fake an emotion an emotional response to that, And that was
staggering to me because I'm a kind of a stonefaced person and I was that
was uncomfortable. Well, it's just another example that she is uniquely and cartoonishly
bad at her job, right, whether she has the copy points or not,
Like, I agree, it's better to give her the copy points so
at least you avoid that scenario, which is also bad. But even when
she has them, she's bad. And I think this goes back to sort
of the very first thing we were talking about. As dude, they called
us, they called WBT, and I suspect it's because they thought it was
going to be a friendly interview based on who owns us, based on our
parent company. And so I think she probably did not have the copy points,
the big you know, the binder not of women, but of talking
points, the binder with all of the notes in there. And so I
suspect when she got asked these questions, she wasn't She literally was not expecting
it because she probably thought this was going to be a friendly interview. And
all she could, all she had to do was, you know, just
do the unicorns and rainbows kind of of of talking points, which she tries
to get to, you know, at the end when she's talking about how
much he's accomplished and everything. So she does eventually kind of I don't want
to say pivot, because it was more like a slow turn, you know,
towards the towards those copy points. But yeah, I think that's why
I think that she did. I don't think she was prepared because she thought
it was going to be a friendly interview. I don't even But but like
that goes above and beyond that and everything I everything I know is from what
I've seen on West Wing is a joke that I've made. You don't you
don't. You don't have to see Hollywood's portrayal to understand that. In a
comms department, one of the things that you have you have discussions about,
right, because I've done. I used to sit on a board for a
charity, and my assignment was kind of to work with our communications because you
know, basically they just say, hey, he's a radio guy, we'll
get some free stuff, which is fun. I was happy to help out
there. But this was a Big Brothers Big Sisters, which is not a
controversial thing. And yet they had a comms meeting that I would once a
month I would go to and they literally would sit there and figure out possible
questions, concerns, issues, things that they needed to go Like it was
so super basic, and it was about predictability, right right, predicting based
on these events that we're doing, what media needs, will have, what
questions, all of that. If you're the White House, you got to
be doing this on steroids and for nobody to who's the boss. I guess
to fathom that food prices might be a topic, right, Uh, And
like that I can't understand because I think this conversation starts the moment they're in
office, right, and they're just figuring things out and looking at the numbers,
and I maybe they don't do that up there. It's it's it's so
it goes right. Well, it goes to another thing I say I've been
saying for years, which is unchallenged ideas are easy to hold, right.
And so if you are never getting any kind of pushback from from the media
that you do talk to regularly, then yeah, you're gonna get flabby.
You know, you're not getting worked out, and then somebody asks you a
very basic question. The classic example I always point to is Todd Aiken,
thatmember the guy who talked about you know, legitimate rape, uh and in
the US Senate race in Missouri, and he lost the player McCaskill. That's
not an idea that he just came up with on the fly during that interview.
That's obviously something that he had been saying for a long time around a
whole bunch of people. Well that probably all agreed with him, and they
were like, oh, yeah, that's such a great point, and it's
not a great point. It was terrible. And then when you finally got
challenged on it, the whole thing fell apart. So That's what I mean.
You know, if you're if you're never being challenged, you're never getting
stronger. You know who else said that idea? Whoopee Goldberg? Remember remember
she said, well it wasn't rape rape and what was that was that?
The was the Kobe Bryant. I can't remember what it was. I don't
remember. It was just so you know he wasn't the only one. All
right, A couple just a couple of minutes left. Did you see what
happened? They found my moonshine cave. I'm very I was going to ask
if if that was yours? Yeah, well, you know, like the
pores, right, they have man caves they call him, but half the
time wives won't let them sit in there. I went full moonshine cave under
a NASCAR track, So yeah, you know it's a flat that's too man.
Yeah it is. And if they don't do their own run of moonshine,
calling it like or something like what is this even for? You know,
like they own moonshine, run out of this hole in the ground.
Now do you know how many people are listening to us talk right now that
literally are still still of stills? Do that area around Yeah, yad can,
Yeah, I can do you get around Yadkin Valley there, And if
you ever read the history of the amount of production that was going on at
one time there, they were basically that little slice of North Carolina was basically
getting half the southern seaboard drunk with what they were churning out. It's true.
It's truly impressive. Man. Well, I know what I was up
in western North Carolina after Popcorn Sutton died and so every every jar of moonshine
that came along was you know, this is Popcorn's last run. You know,
he had rune lasted like five years. You know, it was our
own Pappy van Winkle thing. But yeah, no, no, this is
that is very cool and uh, you know, just seven hundred square feet,
that's a lot of moonshine. But yeah, let's uh, let's go
ahead and make some money off of this. But absolutely right, I got
a roll man again, the John Pierre thing. I don't know, do
you want to just hang up on me violently right now so that we can
we can have that audio feel free right after you say goodbye? Go ahead?
Well well no, no, I mean I just know that I committed
to be out by. All right, Nope, I gotta go. I
gotta go all that. Oh why do you do it? All right,
we'll be back there you go. Thank you to Pete Caller for joining us.
All right, here's the I want to be very careful. I don't
want to be careful because uh, there's no ill will here, but I
want to be very clear on what I'm saying. You know how it works.
Somebody will send an email out and you know it's gonna be one of
those all staff emails where everyone's gonna reply. All right. Usually it's raw
rass stuff. You get right, Somebody will be like, hey, we
had a big win, and then there'll be like twenty emails response that end
up in my inbox and everybody else's saying congrats. And that's fine. Although
you know, I I'm OCD about my invite, not as much as rot
Ross literally deletes everything all the time. If I send him something from last
week, I always I probably have to resend it, like so he's super
cleaning his No, it's a complete OCD thing. Yeah, like I need
to clear it out. Yeah, I mean, hey, you got that
tweet I sent you on Friday and you're like, and then I'm like,
now he doesn't. I mean, I'll, you know, if it's show
related, I'll read it and I'll i'll assess it and be like, I'll
save that. But most of it is just boom, immediately deleted. So
when I see these emails, I can kind of predict their coming in.
All right, So one of the one of the women we work with,
who I and let me just say this, I like Erica very much.
They really know her when I started because she was on the morning show down
the Hall, and there's always internal rivalry, but mostly I can't listen to
other people's show while I'm doing mine. So but over the years she's worked
here, I think you and me and her are the longest running employees in
programming, right. I think it's you, then me, then year since
two thousand and six. Yeah, I was two and I came. I
was two thousand and nine, end of nine, ten was it? So?
Yeah? And then Eric a couple of years after that, and so
she wanted she won a big national award, which is that's awesome. Uh
and uh again this is this is, this is this has nothing to do
with that. I don't want any any of my coworkers misconstru it congratulations to
her because it's not about her. It's the award she won. Is a
national award that's given to women in media. Right, it's called it was
the Gracie Award, And I but I want I can't write this out in
an email, so I'm gonna I'll tell you my audience and anyone who's listening.
This is how low the bar is right now, not for her winning
it, but for me seeing what she won and under by bread going thank
god they gave it to an actual woman. Right. That's how jaded we
are around here, is that my brain's broken thinking that stuff. Isn't it
right where I'm like, oh, it's an award for women, And then
I'm like, oh, and they gave it to an actual woman. That's
amazing, because that's where we are right now, and it's just it's such
a weird thought to have to like permeate in your brain where you're just like,
you're just You're just happy that a woman want it, And I'm happy
that one of my coworkers want it, who I enjoy chatting with, talking
about radio with I did we did the Walmart toys for tot's thing for three
days out in front of a Walmart. You better like the people you're working
with. But yeah, that's how low the bar is for for me to
be happy about something when it has to do with a woman's award. Yea
Gracie award. That's what she wants. So oh, I hope that that's
not embargoed. Anyway, Well they sent an all staff email, so there
you go. But yeah, that response was Sometimes I wonder why my brain
goes there, but then I remember all the stories that we do. So
anyway, so somebody will twist that, and then somebody will say I said
something, But I think you understand what I'm saying. Now, let me
pivot over to this ross. One of the things that you claim expertise in
is you're over the years, you've given a lot of advice on how to
speak to police officers to immediately, I guess, get out of crime.
I'm sure I'm in the show is a legal expert, especially because I have
to you know, I'm gonna have to call in for jury duty on Monday,
right. Yeah, I have the most experience here. Yeah you want
to You're all, you're all stoked to justice on next week, although he
Ross does have a high number, so fingers crossed. But so let me
ask you. I posted a video of an officer involved shooting, which I
will tell you there is not a moment in this that I go that's not
justified when you watch it. I'm not I'm not gonna play all the audio.
There's a lot of swear words and it's kind of hard to hear.
But let me tell you what happened. And Ross, you haven't watched this
video because I posted it. So Ross Is just wrote me an email.
He's also an employment legal expert. He has tenures, so you can't fire
him. I don't know if that's true. But let me go to this
all right, So Ross, Let's say you get pulled over by a police
officer, right and in the video, are they pulling me over for like
an autograph or something because they listen to the show or I'm not knowing the
media stop was I just know that there's a dude. There's an officer who
is standing outside of a black Mustang. The door of the mustang is open.
I don't know if the officer opened it or you know, because sometimes
people open the door, which cops they don't like that. So unless they
tell you. And by the way, if an officer tells you that you
have to get out of your vehicle and it's in the course of a traffic
stuff, there is settled Supreme Court casel on this. You have to get
out, You don't have to speak to the officer. All your rights there,
but it is it has been ruled an officer safety thing. And I
can't remember what the patrol live, right, And so now all these people
go, why you know I'm not getting out? I didn't. That's not
legally You're not going to win that. Uh, it's been adjudicated unless things
change. So with that in mind, the officer, the door is open.
The officer is standing just back enough so and and then the driver is
sitting facing forward with his hands in his lap, and the officer knows he
sees that he has something in his hand, but he's asked him to get
out, and politely he says, hey, get out of the vehicle,
and the guy won't. Now if an officer then says, I get out,
and what's in your hand? And what should you say to the officer
in that interaction? ROSSI was me, I'd be like this is my gold
katana. Okay that the listener sent me it was a gift. Okay,
the dude who is being super argumentative says, it's a gun. Okay.
So and by the way, I have told two officers. I've twice informed
an officer at a traffic stop that I have a gun, which is an
obligation. If you're so that you have, you don't have to do it.
There's ways you can inform, and different states have different things, but
it's not altogether a response. An officer is never heard, but the situation
is already tempted. No, I've I've told an officer before I had a
prop gun in my glove box because we were like filming like a comedy skit
and it was like an old colonial gun. But I got pulled over for
a ticket and I'm like, hey, I just want you to know when
to get my right. Yeah, yeah, that's over there. I I've
twice as duty as part of the consal carry. I have informed officers in
neither instance that they want to see it. And I didn't have it in
my hand, obviously, but I told him where it was. And then
once when I was in high school. This is how loose things were in
Wyoming, I got pulled over by Fred Happ, who was an officer that
my family was friends with. What now He pulled me over for being stupid.
I was, you know, I was doing like a squealing tire turn
on the street because it was right when I got my new truck, and
I was dumb anyway, And I told him to get the paperwork that there
is a there's a pistol in my globbox that literally is sitting on it.
And he was just like, okay, well whatever, just grab the paper.
That's that's not usually how it works. But he said I have a
gun to the officer, and then he started saying a bunch of other stuff
to the officer after saying I have a gun, and those things included,
but were not limited to, do you want to go home tonight? You
need to go go back to your squad card And he kept saying that over
and over. So I don't that's a threat, right, you're telling this
officer, no, you're not gonna put the gun. I have a gun.
I'm not putting it down. I don't know if the officer is visually
cleared that he also thinks it's a gun, but you're gonna believe that,
dude. And then he starts making these threats and this goes on a minute
and a half. This officer has his service weapon out, he is drawn
just kind of a little to the side of the guy, a little down,
but he's ready. And this guy keeps repeating, no, I won't
get out, go back to your squad. Do you want to go home
tonight? Do you want to go home tonight? And remember the body of
the driver is still facing forward, his head is turned, but it's full
facing forward. And in the video, while making these threats over and over,
you see the shoulders start turning, which means the right hand, which
is where the gun is, because you can see the left hand is turning
towards the officer, at which point the officer opens fire. I don't know
how that's not justified. He's telling you how to. And the weird thing
was it didn't look like suicide by cop right where he's just going shoot me,
shoot me, shoot me. And you can kind of see in those
situations where they finally get up the they get up the gumption to make the
move that is going to get the officers to open fire. Right I've seen
enough of those videos. This guy just I think he thinks he's that the
officer is going to get scared and go back, and so the officer shoots
him. And frankly, I don't know if we're going to have a dumber
Darwin Award winner this year like that is that's set in the bar early here
in Q one man, that's crazy. But now people are bitching that it
wasn't justified. What do you think is gonna happen when you're acting like that
front of a cop with a gun in your lap, not just in your
lap and in your hand, in the hand, and that part of the
body is now turning towards the office, they're going to open fire. They're
good and and I would want them to. I think maybe there would be
some officers might be hesitant and that might be the wrong move. And remember
we just had We just had an officer who was doing a traffic stop and
it wasn't even that tense before because he never had a conversation. Who walked
up and they opened fire and killed him. So watch the video, you
tell me what you think. At Casey on the radio, All right,
race stagic, real quick, let's get a quick weather forecast headed into the
basketball Easter weekend. Yeah, it's gonna be great. We've already cleared,
the rain's done, and now we're into sunshine. A little chilly the next
couple of mornings, but even there, the temperatures are gonna come up.
So looks good, feels great. Mid upper sixties, yeah, that's where
we'll be this afternoon into the forties tonight. So if you look at the
car thermometer, there will be the little bit forties that's compared with yourr this
morning. It should be a lower number today. Sunshine in the seventies for
Saturday, maybe eighty for some, especially in the Triangle in south and east.
With sunshine on Easter. Sunday will stay dry into early next week and
then get some wet weather with another coal front coming in. So it looks
good. Stormy on the west coast, though that storm is gonna roll east
and that'll be our next coal front coming in. Imagine girls back and only
because case I took Iowa all the way, only because of not only my
Caitlin Clark fan, because my dad also played there. So that's that's the
only reason why I brought it up. I'm not biased as good as anything.
Man. Yeah, play football, not basketball. But yeah, we're
pulling football guys. All right, well I hope you win and then cut
us in. All right, we'll have a good week. Yeah, all
right, and Jeff Bellinger joins us next. Hang on, Oh, I'm
so stupid. Yeah, that's bad for somebody who was raised Catholic to not
remember that. Oh I'm dumb. Do you want to pretend to be Jeff
Ross and just say? I mean I could probably pull this off if it's
some other bye, full disclosure. I have no idea what money is,
so I probably wouldn't be good. Yeah. I don't know. It's like
made by elves in a tree or something. I don't know they have a
money machine. Yeah, well it goes burn to tell you what you want
to listen for. So all right, well that's one now worthy. You
know what. I don't want to talk to him anyway today. So yeah,
that's that's my bad. I'm just in an autopilot here into the last
segment. All right, Well, I better find something to talk about.
Speaking of money. Apparently some people are another sign of the times, are
concerned after Dollar Tree has announced that they will increase the maximum price of items
in the store that seven dollars. Look, I get it, everything's more
expensive, and it's like, you know, it's death by a thousand cuts,
and it's the totality of it. But is this is is this really
a problem? I can't even keep all the dollar stores square right because some
of them, like some of them don't have items for more than a dollar
or I like I So I don't even know when I'm walking into one of
the three different dollar operations, like what it's going to be in there,
And chances are there's I'm running in there to get like one thing anyway,
and I just happened to see it out in the middle of nowhere. So
but the maximum price of the items will increase to seven dollars, according to
CEO Rick Dryling, not everything's going to be seven dollars. This is pretty
crazy. Do you know what the I read this too. According to the
CEO and the press release that was put out on his behalf a, dry
Ling also pointed out that the company has the fastest growing customer demographic of people
who earn a minimum of households that earn a minimum of a hunter and twenty
five thousand dollars a year, and while he's bragging about it, that's not
a good thing. I mean, it's a good thing for them, but
rather it is an indicator that even people who ten years ago, if they
were at least somewhat responsible with their money, likely weren't having many of the
budget concerns that people earning a lot less run into who are now finding themselves
having to change where they buy things, how they shop because one hundred and
twenty five thousand just doesn't do what it did even five years ago. So
I mean, that's what that number indicates to me, and by all means,
I mean shop wherever you want. One of the wealthiest people that I
ever knew personally right, I was friends with his son, and I still
am to this day. In fact, I just went on a vacation with
him last year and a group of friends. I also knew his dad had
sold his company for one hundred and sixty million dollars and then made up a
buttload more money even after he retired, and I'll never forget he was.
He We went over to Chris's dad's house for dinner, and the first time
I ever been over his house, and we go there, and Chris is
very successful. It was a very nice house. His dad is like Warren
Buffett, like he lives in this like little three bedroom house, and I
love his dad. He's he was a super nice guy. He since passed
away, and every time I go over for dinner, the thing that brought
him the most joy was he he was the cheapest wine guy I've ever known,
and so he'd be like, look at this bottle I got for six
dollars and it would be a decent wine. And that was like his hobby
and I and I remember thinking, and maybe I didn't respect it that at
that point because I was I was very young in my career, and I'm
like, you get one hundred and sixty, like two hundred million in the
bank and you're serving six dollars wine. Like I didn't appreciate the uniqueness of
that, But it's it is a fond memory that I have there. And
so you know, the idea that people who can afford much more expensive stores,
who maybe didn't shop at Dollar Tree and now that is a fast,
fast growing demographic, is not a positive sign of the times. I guess
the point that I'm making, but mostly the people whining, are like seven
dollars for stuff at a dollar tree, how dare you? And I'm like,
okay, all right, well then don't buy the seven dollars stuff