Phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four to have you
along. We got a couple big updates on I guess, yeah, one's
a big update, one's not as big update, and then I guess we
We didn't get into the swimming story yesterday, even though I had seen it,
I hadn't seen all of the video. And if you don't know what
I'm talking about, hang loose for that. We'll get to that here in
just a moment. But the details emerging out of Georgia with this this college
student just trying to go for a run Lake and Riley and doing so in
an area where students run and have run for years. Right. We have
a lot of similar areas like this across the listening area around any of our
major universities. Famously, Duke has that whole trail system. UNC's got their
thing, NC State's got its areas. And I point that out because you
probably know where they are, even if you're not a student, just because
you live in the area. And if you're a piece of garbage who wants
a well, you don't wants to do something as horrific as what is alleged
here. If you're there in the area. I suspect it real quickly you
would find out the spot, which is why they had so many problems on
the Durham Trail, right, people getting robbed on there on the Tobacco Trail
because you know, criminal no goods from the area figured out, you know,
here's here's a place provides a lot of cover, can allow us to
do stuff. Now. I don't know if that was the thought process or
is alleged to be the thought process of the Venezuelan illegal immigrant who is said
to have murdered this twenty two year old nursing student. However, it wasn't
a lot of mental gymnastics for me to get there to figure out that these
are locations and places which might be prioritized if somebody wants to commit a crime
like this. And with that being said, usually officials a university officials or
city council members or whomever it may be, they tend to put a premium
on providing security for places like that, right because the idea that you have
this infra structure in this area for people to go out and you know,
do physical fitness stuff or jog or walk or just get out and enjoy the
weather. Those are quality of life issues, and people tend to as weird
as it sounds, people tend to get much more emotional over those areas being
protected and making sure that they're not problematic. Then you know, even some
neighborhoods. That's why you remember all the tobacco trail stuff. And I harp
on this because there is this weird passing the buck on the security apparatus surrounding
it. Right. The governor of Georgia Camp has come out is demanding answers
from the Biden administration. The Biden administration is like, oh man, this
our hearts go out to you. Here we go. I know that folks
are worried about what they're seeing happening to women all across America. I am
too. I hear about it everywhere I go. My message, I'm fighting
for the freedom of women. That is something that Biden put out just a
few days ago. And the doctors who care for these women, obviously that
is not on the Lake and Riley. On the response from the White House
on what happened to Riley, the White House offered quote deepest condolences. We
would like to extend our deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of Lake
and Hope Riley. This is from a White House spokesperson. People should be
held accountable to the fullest extent of the law if they're found to be guilty.
Giving this as an active case would have you refer to the state law
enforcement and ICE. So whatever you think at camp and you know they're in
Georgia, and I know that there are even folks within the party, they're
not big fans of the dude. He's he recognized, is at the very
least that this thing's going to have a lot more teeth. Okay, this
this story and what I then saw on Twitter is people and and and the
safety concerns are are going to be a very pressing issue for him in Georgia.
Even though you know, from an immigration standpoint, he's he's he can,
he can come out, but he doesn't share a border. He can't
roll razor wire like Abbot's doing. I guess he could bust people if he
wanted, But ultimately he at least understands that the security apparatus here appears to
be broke, and it is it is escalated. Even though there are women
who are murdered in the state of Georgia regularly right, just the reality of
a population size. And the response is to that from people like who did
I see Sulu? George Takai to care whatever? He's out there and he's
just like he wrote something so stupid yesterday. What did he write? He
wrote that people who are are making a big deal out of this are the
very same people who ignored the internment of his people, which is a really
weird flex and also not remotely accurate. Ross, could you look up and
see what party FDR was? All right, Ross is going to look that
up real quick. What is what FDR? What about him? The parties?
Sure? Let me check. Let me do some click series a Democrat
president. I didn't even hear clicks Like did you play new keyboarding here?
Oh? Well it's nice, yeah silent. Yeah. So like I just
all of this stupid. But nobody wants to address what was provided following Camp's
inquiry. Let me give you a little timeline here. Let's see, all
right, here we go. This is confirmed from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
IBARRA, and that's as much of his name as I'll use. Did enter
the country illegally. He was arrested on September eighth of twenty twenty two,
after which and again unlawfully entered. He did not report to a port of
entry. Okay, he didn't go through some asylum claim in that way,
he illegally entered. He was then arrested after he was already in the country.
So once they did, they did what they normally do. They released
him for further processing. Shortly thereafter, let's see, he made his way
to New York City, and in New York City just about a month month
in a Hattan no three months. After three months, was arrested for acting
in a manner injurious or exploitive of a child less than seventeen years old.
I don't know what that means. If that is a sex charge, if
that is he he beat the crap out of a sixteen year old, It's
a little unclear based on that particular charge. But he was arrested for that,
and since New York City does not wait for detainers, they did what
they do and they released them, at which point he's like, hey,
you know what, I should probably get out of New York City. So
he then went to Athens Clark County in Georgia, and I had arrest there
for let's see shoplifting, loitering, several other things, even outstanding bench warrants
for failure to appear over the charges in New York. And at no point
in any of these instances did anybody just go, you know what, we
should buy a hold onto this dude. He's then released. That was October
twenty seventh of last year, and obviously now five months later, he's accused
of killing this student, and not just killing her. The accusations and the
descriptions of the crimes yesterday are rough, to say the least. I'm I'll
be careful, but I don't want to leave anything off. According to investigators,
they believe the victim was you know, grab from the trail, drugged
to drag the victim to a secluded area, and then using a some sort
of heavy object. They don't know what it is exactly, They haven't.
If they do, they haven't disclosed it, but it doesn't indicate that they
have the item. But whatever it is, reportedly the perpetrator in the accused
of perpetrator took the object and used it to after sexually assaulting this person,
then use the object to do that again, causing significant visible injuries and then
use the very same object to I'm sorry, I want to use the exact
language here to seriously disfigure the skull to read that as you know, how
to pipe or something whatever it is, did all of this horribleness, then
did the thing with the pipe and then murdered this individual with the pipe.
It's really really depraved, beyond depraved, and but you know that, and
then let's see, and then attempted to conceal obviously, the the body was
found and Ibari stands charged with felony and malice, murder, kidnapping, false
imprisonment, aggravated us all, aggravated battery, and concealing the death. I
guess he then drug the body further into away from the trail, is what
they're alleging. So yeah, yeah, everybody running around out here, and
you know, one trying to deflect from this, right, like that idiot
who was like, oh, women get murdered, the state senator. There's
like women get murdered all the time, okay, and right, that's like
they revert. It's almost kind of like the reverse COVID argument, right where
they're like where they wanted you to do these little little things that they said
were and they even recognized as little things. But if you didn't do them,
it was like under penalty of having your business taken away or your freedom
to travel or worship or whatever it is. And it's if it saves one
life, right, that attitude, and it's like, I feel like this
might save more than one. I mean, there there's only a certain percent
of people, percentage of people that will go and literally murder one of their
neighbors, right, so inevitably, just the totality of population size has to
drive that number up. So under the very same stupid COVID argument stuff that
I heard, why is that? And people were throwing it back and they
were just ignoring it. And even like I said, in the case of
like George Takai, like going, I can't believe we're talking about this.
It's the same people who did the internment World War two and one hundred and
twenty five thousand people suffered. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I'm
not good with that either. Also, I didn't do that, and I
can multitask, so okay, all right, So the New York charge,
Yeah, okay, all right, Yeah, I didn't understand exactly what the
charge was there, so the kid. It was a seven year old and
it was based on a the riding a mopa. Would you have the seven
year old on his shoulders or something? Okay, all right, let's see
and again arrested on that charge, rested on a warrant. New York decided
not to hold him or receive a detainer, which obviously that is that's a
whole landmine of discussions with that program that various municipalities have said they're not going
to participate in. We saw all of that, especially under Trump, right
where you saw the they pick a handful of sheriffs from like really woke areas
and they'd be like, see, this is what really law enforcement does.
But in reality, it was a whole series of people just not really giving
a crap. I'm surprised they're able to find the dude, but yeah,
yea's and the description of the crime, even in the Reader's Digest version that
was actually released, just somehow punctuates this like because people are going, oh,
well, look shoplifting charge or a loitering charge or whatever that is,
and they always one they always forget the part where they broke US code literally
illegally entering the country. But you know you you can't. You can't know
that something like this would happen. No, No, you know, you
know you couldn't necessarily because you don't really know anything about the guy. People
come here and legally Again. I watched a buddy of mine who married a
woman from Canada. She was a professor music teacher and she was in the
US teaching and they met and they dated for for years, and then they
went through the process to get married. And the only thing I'd say is
one, uh, well, two things. One, I'm glad my buddy
had money because I wasn't cheap. He did pretty he had he had a
successful business. And two, I'm glad that she never did a damn thing
in her life because the level of background checks that went on with that was
really really intrusive. So, oh, none of that happened here. That's
why you have the process. Quit playing dumb. We'll be back. I'm
going to tie these two stories together because fascinating. But coming up at seven
o five, we got to talk nc double A Sports and rules as it
pertains to two incidents. One a college baseball game, well I guess it'll
be college, but college a baseball game between Nebraska and Grand Canyon University,
which I'm assuming is in Arizona. I'm not super familiar with it, but
they're a D one school and they were playing Nebraska over the weekend and a
little closer to home. We got to talk about the ACC and swimming competitions
as it pertains to NC state swimmers. So seven o five, Well,
well we'll dive into that. I think it's one of those where, like
more so on the swimming, I don't know, like I can I understand
both sides in the pure form of the argument, but when you get into
the situations, you have to ask yourself, is that the way it was
handled previously? Because like people will say, the rules are the rules,
and sometimes it's very cut and dry, but sometimes it's about how it's enforced.
And this doesn't just go for the NCAA goes for A good example would
be the NFL. There are some who feel that the enforcement of certain penalties
tends to fall more in favor or less in favor of teams on a regular
basis certain teams ross had you heard of any of this where some teams seemingly
can do whatever they want unless it's against some certain teams and I have heard
that yes, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So it's as Elon Musk
would say, it's concerning, is that, Yes, it is. It
is a thing. So because I feel I feel bad for everyone around here,
but also I feel almost embarrassed because they both incidents kind of fall under
a thing, a certain thing that some folks have, some folks would say
is a problem that I don't think is a problem and you probably don't think
it's a problem. So well we'll set that up here and just a little
bit. But at seven oh five, Rother, I gotta do this before
we get into any of that. And that is the other update. So
Aaron Bush, no I'll use his name because he didn't kill anybody but himself.
This is the This is the airman who went to the Israeli embassy in
Washington, d C. In his uniform and lit himself on fire. He
initially was in the hospital and he has since passed. But the New York
Post has a story with an acquaintance of his, and we don't know who
it is. The Post says that they independently verified that the two were in
fact friends and talked and communicated and all sorts of stuff, but we don't
know the individual's name. And more importantly, and I think as I went
through this story, the language, the terminology that was utilized by this friend
was terminology that most people not in the military don't use. And forcibly,
you know, I've I find myself, having never served in the Air Force,
having to look this stuff up. And the friend uses words and talks
about how do I say, I'll read it to you, But it talks
about feelings that you know, kind of run along the lines of inside jokes,
if you will, not necessarily jokes, but like inside baseball kind of
stuff. So, and that's important because of what I'm going to tell you
that this person says that Bushnell told him and others because I have a question,
and so you military folks, especially Air Force folks, stay tuned because
there's a couple things I might not be understanding. But here we go.
So we knew that they were an airman, we knew they were based out
of Texas, and that was about all we knew. Well, now we
know Aaron Bushnell the was twenty five served in the Air Force's seventieth I SR
wing. I SR is intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance. Yeah, in that way,
trying to do the acronym. I know those are the words. I
just want to make sure I had him in the right order, and for
four years had clearance top secret clearance. So and they they it's funny because
his he has a job title, an official one, but also another one
that I hadn't heard that his friend used. And so I guess I'm wondering
if these are the little things that keep making me think this person that he
spoke with might also be in the military. But I don't know. But
but here's what the friend recounted. Let's see here do do do? All?
Right? So this is this is from his friend. He called him
Saturday night and uh. Then on Sunday, the the protest or whatever you
want to call it, took place at the Israeli embassy. Uh. His
friend said that he spoke with him on Saturday and Bushna was convinced that the
US had troops in the tunnels in Gaza murdering swaths of Palestinians. It's US
soldiers participating in the killing, said the friend. Let's see. So look,
his job is I understand it is processing intelligence datum. Okay, So
obviously. I you know that that is a role, that is a role
that many people within the military, that is, that is part of their
gig right. That's a military function. I don't know how compartmentalized it is,
though, because that's a pretty extraordinary claim. Now, not claiming that
there are advisory forces, which that is that is known. We know that
there are special forces and other advisory members of the military who have been working
with the Israeli government and in fact specifically on this on this Israeli God's a
conflict. That's a known commodity. But to say that, you know,
large swaths of boots on the ground, American soldiers are just cruising through the
tunnels murdering every Palestinian they see. I don't know how you'd cover that up,
do you know? Do you realize the number of journalists, you know,
and some not fake journalists with bomb vests, but actual journalists and more
specifically journalists and observers who would love nothing more than to cause Israel and the
United States embarrassment at the very least, and possibly even more like These are
the folks that are on the ground over there. These are the folks that
many times were pushing like the hospital narrative and stuff, and I don't know
how you would cover up teams of American soldiers murdering people in the thousands.
And then we get a little backstory, a little more on this dude's thinking.
Yes, he said that was one of the things that was coming across
his desk is that the US military was involved in the genocide. And I
want to be clear, that's the word he used, genocide in Palestine.
He told me we had troops on the ground. They're there, they're not
hiding it. They're killing large numbers of Palestinians. There are too many things
I don't know, but I can tell you that the tone of his voice
just had something that told me he was scared. Now, if you look
through Bushnell's activities when he's not at work, he was, he was online.
In fact, he spent an awful lot of time when he was not
doing his job as a quote innovation services technician. So this is where I
need your help, especially Air Force folk innovation services technician. Is that somebody
who because I see those words together, is that somebody who's combing through intelligence
or is that somebody who's handling the infrastructure? Do you know what I'm asking
and and and they you know, has to work on systems that have the
intelligence, but innovation services technician, what exactly is that I saw the description
and I'm still a little unclear because I want to know how this information becoming
his way and if we did after swearing that we don't, if we did
have giant groups of you know, US military members just you know, committing
genocide and the streets of Gaza and the tunnels below it is that something that's
just gonna make its way through. Guys with the minimum amount of security clearance,
there's gonna be privy to that information Like these are the critical questions I
ask. And don't get me wrong, if we do have soldiers over their
boots on the ground doing this, I'm not happy. But what he's describing,
I don't know how that how that would be something you would hide.
Bushnell also spend a lot of time in several online groups, including the Burning
River, anarchist collective, Mutual Aid, Street Solidarity, The Dude, a
bunch of anti police groups, and wrote long rants about his hatred of Israel
and the defense of what Hamas carried out on that day. All Right,
that's the that's the that's the short version of this. So and oh and
hold on, there's one other thing. And this is why I think the
friend is military or ex military. He started talking about here we go and
this all right over the years. Bush now, who his friend described as
honest and full of integrity, would do anything to help anybody anytime, but
found himself struggling to toe the military line. The buddy says, and I
quote anybody who goes into the military bride eyed in, bushy tailed like Aaron
did, and gets involved with signal intelligence RELATEDT related things. So signal Core
is going to end up in that mindset or they're going to leave. So
again he's he said, Aaron did not buy into the mindset of the signal
Core. Now, he could have told his buddy that. But dudes talking
somewhat intricately about what opinions might be expressed by somebody who went down that path
or was at least tangentially involved in some way, right Like I couldn't.
I couldn't. You know, it sounds a little inside baseball, right like
I couldn't speak that authoritatively on that if I having never served in the Air
Force, like I wouldn't truly know that. So I point this out because
here's my other question. We'll hit a break, and I'm curious what you
think we have this. We have these reports out, we have them combing
through the military. Right. We had Janet Napolitano back in the day saying
if your ex military, you're more likely to be a domestic terrorist. They
want to flush it from the ranks of the military. And they're, you
know, leaving no stone unturned and white, you know, white supremacy in
the military. But we hear all that every day and they're supposedly paying attention.
How does nobody know what's going on with this dude. He's not hiding
it. He's writing all this stuff. And more importantly, if his friend
is in the military and his friend started talking to him and the friend acknowledges
that he was telling him stuff that was part of his security clearance, I
have to assume if you're a member of the military, you have an obligation
to tell somebody, right, say something to whomever your CEO. I don't
know what is the process for that. If you're a member of the military
and someone you serve alongside of has a security clearance that you don't and they
tell you something, and they tell you it's part of intelligence that they're having
access to as part of their security clearance. There has to be some sort
of instruction on what you the fellow airmen or soldier or marine is supposed to
do, right, all right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
seven four. That'll get you on the show. Very curious on those two
things, but just a crazy story. We'll be back. I understand why
some of our listeners, especially who are active duty, probably don't want to
go on the air. But we've gotten several calls off the air, and
I've gotten messages from everything under the sun from folks, and two things stand
out, and I thought I knew the answer, and I'm right as per
usual. One the description that I've received from people as to what this particular
airman's mos or job actually was. He's not pouring through data doing interpretations and
writing, you know, recommendations based on that the intelligen gathered, but rather
there's variations of commo nerd, which I is that nickname, but basically tech
support, which I want to be clear, I'm not being derogatory on it,
but it's even harder for me to fathom that somebody who is in a
tech support capacity. And I've had a couple of people send me at the
actual language. It's a lot of language about the totality of the Air Forces.
Well, what is the name alternative compensatory control measures? Basically the policies
that they use when compartmentalizing classified information. And it's a really hard slog to
get to a point where this guy's given information, especially something that would be
so it would be the biggest story in the world. Do you know what
I'm saying? If in fact US soldiers were running through committing a Palestinian genocide,
this dude say, it sounds like his bane, his his brain was
baked in these anarchist forums and his anti Semitic posts and and his his love
of you know, I guess killing people at a music festival. So I
didn't get to get all of the stuff in that I wanted to get in
with the uh, the Aaron Bushnell, the American or excuse me, the
Air Force active duty member who self immolated in front of the Israeli Israeli compound
embassy there. But it's just like it's there's a lot there. I would
encourage you We've tweeted a couple of things out go read it, including Hamas
issuing a condolence where they refer to him as American pilot because I guess they
just assume everyone in the Air Force is a pilot, but obviously have now
taken that in for propagandic purposes and they got beef going back with several other
incidents. I'm not going to I'm not going to read their garbage to you,
but if you're interested, we tweeted it out at Casey on the radio.
All right, let's talk about two incidents, two things, two things,
both having to do with collegiate sports and specifically celebrating kind of kind of
right. And look, everyone knows that there are rules surrounding certain conduct.
What was the what was the in the Super Bowl? Right? Remember one
of the penalties was they say he it was taunting because he leaned or he
squatted down near the head of his opponent, and that'll get you a flag.
In the NFL, and the NFL has had different rules over the years.
You could celebrate, then you couldn't. If you did a touchdown dance
it was funny. Then if you did it was a penalty. And then
Ocho Sinko did all his stuff and it became no props or you couldn't bring
props, so people would literally to get around it there like grab stuff from
people on this sideline, which and then argue, oh, I didn't bring
it, it was there. So I understand that, but at the collegiate
level, you want to have things easy to understand. And what I don't
understand is in the world of baseball, the batflip is that's a thing that
has been around since they whittled a stick. I have to assume and yes,
you flip a bat when you're celebrating if you hit a home run.
The batfleet and so what the bat flip? That's where you see the batter
and and you know, they'll teach kids in Little league never to be this
guy. But you know, once you get into upper level baseball, either
collegiate or professional level, like if some dude smokes it and knows it's gone,
he'll do that slow little thing where he's watching it and then kind of
whoop, you know, take the form the bottom of the bat and just
kind of flip it over towards his dugout. It is not the normal way
that you get rid of the bat. It is definitively a celebratory move right
ross, you would say that that's accurate. To flip a bat is to
celebrate what you have just done with the bat. Yes, correct, my
mom can't stand it. What's that my mom can't stand when they bat flip?
Why not? Well, lets she watches the Yankees back in New York.
Yeah, and then you know, say, like, who is it?
Like back in the day was Gary Sanchez would do it, He'd like,
like, gods, so disrespectful. It's I just, I just I
never got it. I never thought it was disrespectful or not respect Yeah,
she's just so old school that she's like, no, no, no,
no, no. That's good because obviously there's people with the you know,
very different looks on this, but it's not a new thing, and it's
it. I don't know how it is bad for the integrity of the game,
which is the argument you'd have to make to go, oh, no,
you can't do that. I point this out because this baseball game with
Grand Canyon University and the University of Nebraska over the weekend, it was more
than just a home run. In fact, as you as you watch what
unfolded. You had this this team which was down a gazillion runs to Nebraska.
Okay, not that many, but they were down a lot. They
needed five runs to tie the game at eight apiece, so five to three
or excuse me, eight to three going into this and a situation broke out
where another a run scored, and then the basses got loaded, and this
dude came up to bat and he hit a grand slam to tie the game.
Someone that's bad, flippable. You're not screaming at your opponent, You're
not flipping the picture off, you're not making your mama jokes to the people,
you know, the fielders as you're running the bases, you're flipping a
bat. Well, they threw him out while the runs did count. It
was the game tying grand slams bat flip that was ruled unsportsmanlike conduct, and
the batter in this case, Tyler Wilson, was ejected from the game.
Now grand cannon. They ended up losing the game ten to eight. Cornhuskers
scored a few winnings later. But you know a lot of people are looking
at that going this is insane. Man, Hey, why would you throw
a guy out for that? Yes, he is celebrating, but it's like,
aren't we supposed to celebrate in a respectful manner? But aren't we supposed
to celebrate when we achieve things in sports? As a fan, you do
it right, You celebrate your high five and your buddies because your team did
whatever. Right, not that you did anything, but you you were wearing
the right sweatshirt that day, the right jersey that day, so you get
to do the high five. Is that being disrespectful to your friends over there
rooting maybe for the other team. No, No, because we're adults,
and college kids are adults too. Sometimes they don't act like it, but
for the purpose of this, especially Division one athletes, most of them are
pretty buttoned down. Man, he flips a back because he hit a grand
slam to tie the game against a much stronger opponent. Grand Canyon's not a
they are for baseball. They're kind of a big deal, but you know,
they're not a big school. So what you know, what it feels
like, If it feels like if I could just you know, do the
old man thing here and then I'll get to the other story, which is
a little closer to home. It feels like it feels like that everyone gets
a trophy crowd their take on this issue. Right, they're just like,
Oh, we don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. Right. The people are
like, Oh, we're gonna do it. We're gonna have a game,
but we're not going to keep score, which is something that they'll do.
Now for some kids a little league, it's like, well then why,
And some of us see it as removing a very useful teaching tool. Right,
you work hard, you master your craft, and you can excel and
when you do, feel good about it. And it seems like we're trying
to remove that third part where you're allowed to feel good about it. Flip
over to the NC State swimmer story, and this is pretty crazy. So
a North Carolina State swimmer who won on Saturday his conference title in the sixteen
and fifty yard freestyle. This is at the ACC Swimming and Diving Championships.
He's all Americans, senior, finished first. His name is Owen Lloyd.
Looks like he's very good at what he does and so he you know,
he touches, touches the finish line there and you've seen it with the swimmers.
Then they pop around and kind of look up at a board to look
what else is going on. But what is unique obviously in this sense,
is you may have a teammate there right so there is another NC state swimmer.
Just like at the Olympics, the Americans may look to see what the
other Americans are doing. And seeing that his buddy, his friend, his
teammate Ross Dant finished just moments later, he got really excited because he got
first, his friend got second, and then he did something. And I'm
gonna let the guy who his teammate, Ross Dant, who finished the race
second but was after the elimination, told that he was the first place finisher.
I'm going to let his interview speak for itself and tell me if this
is in keeping with the spirit of competition and or if it's a rule and
you know it's a rule, and it doesn't matter the reason you should never
break the rule. Here is what Dan told reporters after the strange one.
I know for you, congratulations on one hand, do you have any idea
what happened and your emotions right now? I think that's the dumbestru on swimming.
I wouldn't beat me fan square. He used to be on that toe
of the podium. He was excited. That's a huge trend for him.
Right. He earned that, He earned that, and that's his emotion.
Right, that's what we get in this foot of simming when we do well.
If we train all year for a moment like that and to have him
disqualified, I think it is the dumbest thing ever. Do you mind if
he works so hard every day, he is gonna be on that number one
trophy. I am not going to stand up there, Ross, Do you
mind if I if I ask you what rule did he break? We haven't
even heard up here. Whenever you win, you're not allowed well the other
team, excuse me, the other someone's are still swimming. You're allowed.
You have to stay in your own lane. You're not allowed to jump or
cross over the lane line into someone's lane. And in this celebration which he
earned, he came open to my lane. Oh my god. No,
he earned that fair and square. He will be getting that metal. Ross,
well done. Thank your perspective of the time with us giving us the
insight there on that technical ruling. And you can hear you hear the crowd,
and you can do this. Yeah, And and the reason is is
be you heard the reporters ask, they don't. By the time they're talking
to the second place finisher, uh Ross Dant here, the crowd was need
They didn't really all know what was going on because they saw the first place
finisher having an emotional, very emotional, negative emotional moment there at the side
of the pool, and you're seeing the guy who, if you're a spectator,
you thought just won the race now looking absolutely destroyed, and they're interviewing
the guy who's in second. So he even had to explain to the reporters
because the officials apparently had walked over and just told Owens or Owen Lloyd that
you're disqualified. So he's immediately reacting to that. His teammate hears it,
so he and his teammate are really the only people in the officials with that
knowledge. And then you hear it as he's doing the interview and the crowd's
figuring out nobody's happy and you know, talking about crossing over into lanes.
Yeah, there's not a physical barrier there, right, it's a pool.
The lanes are in the ool, and they can be delineated through painted lines
or the you know, the rope booy looking I'm sure there's a name for
those I don't know, but he was. He was high five of his
teammate who had finished. Right, he didn't interfere with his teammate in any
way, shape or form, and he was he was ecstatic and reacted in
that moment to winning. That's what he was disqualified for. Yes, the
rules say this, and the NCAA makes the call. So my question is,
hey, the rules are the rules and you have to abide by them.
Or because people are posting example after example of other situations where it was
clear that nobody was trying to interfere, help or harm another individual in a
competitive thing. They were literally just celebrating with teammates and they didn't invoke it.
I'm on the fence there because the rule is the rule. But is
the rule right? I'll let you make that decision those two instances, and
is it if I want to put the paranoid hat on kind of a lot
more indicative of this attitude that we can't make anyone else feel bad because that's
how it feels to me. Let the guys celebrate. Just finish first D
one swimming crush. The competition is Buddy finished second. That's amazing, that's
great, and yet here we find ourselves, all right eight eight eight nine
three four seven eight seven four. Let me know what you think, because
you could also make an argument. Hey man, you know this rule is
this, and in life there are rules, and I think I feel like
it connects to the bigger issue where to get away from sports where there are
examples, but also in into the world of like politics and stuff like.
We have a hard time right now societally thinking that rules are equally enforced or
rules are just in the way that they're enforced when they may not have That's
not how they were intended, right. That rule wasn't written to keep you
know, because they want to crack down on people high five in each other.
The rule was written because, yeah, if another swimmer crosses into another
sort of swimmer crosses into another swimmer's lane while the race is still going and
that person is you know, it hurts them or helps them, if that's
possible, then that is not fair. And I agree with that. But
again, high five in between two guys in lanes next to each other because
they are teammates and they both just one, it seems incredibly excessive. All
right, let me grab a quick call, Hey, Casey, what's up.
Hey? Yeah, I was listening to what you were saying, and
I agree. The rule is the rule, and until the role changes,
you have to go by that role. And things like this are why rules
change. I don't think it has anything to do with hurt anybody's feelings.
But it's a similar situation as weed of possession. If it's illegal, it's
illegal, and until it's not, it's still going to be illegal. Yeah,
that's the way. That's why. That's why i'm a little halfway.
I'm I think the bad thing is far worse, actually, if that makes
sense, because the bad thing is is an innocuous thing that happens a lot.
And and to say that it's enforced based on things like he looked too
gleeful or he threw it too high. Right now, you're getting into this
nuanced way where it's well, it's all intrenchment at that point. It's not
as black and white. It's a judgment called but this is a situation where
he crosses a lane and he knows the rule that he goes the role and
it is it's not a judgment react correct. Yeah, Now I'm with you.
I think one percent. All right, I got a roll. Thank
you very much for that. Yeah, but I'm curious what you think,
right, because I hate what happened to this dude and his teammate having his
back is awesome. We'll be back some of your emails on the and the
acc swimming incident. The NC State swimmer disqualified for uh celebrating I guess,
or I guess getting emotional more accurately with his teammate after he finished first his
teammate finished second, and because of the fact that they he moved over partially
into his teammate's lane even though that teammate was swimming. He was disqualified because
the rule says you can't you can't go in somebody else's lane, and the
rule intended obviously and necessary. I do agree to keep folks from interfering with
another person's ability to compete, either in a negative way or in a positive
way of somehow they could do something to aid a teammate or whatever it is,
right, Like, I understand that, and in this case it wasn't.
It was meant while someone is swimming, and the way in which they
say that that means is everybody. So even if you're both done. It's
with everybody, which is what is the differential in a race that long?
It's not we're not talking about a half second or something. So you,
I guess you just got to sit there stone faced, waiting for whoever's going
to be last in that race. I guess I could look, I could
call up the times there. But sixteen hundred and fifty yards that's a long
swim man, That is a that's like long distance running stuff. They're in
a pool, So that's one. And then the bat flip in the baseball
game, and I just throw them out because like one is a more definitive
law. I think our caller was correct, like the language, even if
you don't agree with it, is easier to understand. But I don't know
that it was intended. If they're done swimming. I again, but with
the bat flip, yeah, that seems that's one of those. It's like
holding in the NFL kind of comes down to when they want to call that
and or not call it. So yeah, we got that out there,
and most people are I think, are probably drawing that distinction. But I
also understand why people look at it and go, I don't know, man,
this all sounds like funsuckers. And we've seen a lot of fun suckers.
You know, laws, rule or rules, I should say, and
laws for that matter, but rules in sports. Right, going back to
talking about NFL celebrating stuff, the irony is you can literally you can literally,
as you're sitting there getting set to go, one lineman from one team
can tell another lineman just the most horrific crap ever. In fact, I
saw a report it was it's the guy's no Domican sued. You know who
that is? He played Actually he played for Nebraska Football Detroit, and I
don't know all the places he's been. Dudes. Notorious for trash talk,
and I mean wicked stuff. Like also, he's notorious for some pretty pretty
brutal hits that may not be strictly legal, but like he is Larry Bird,
Larry. I watched a thing with Larry Bird on one of his team,
I can't remember which teammates it was. They were talking about Larry Bird
and the the trash talk that he used to bring to the court. So
but that's that's fine, you can go ahead and do that. I also
and the one story was it was his teammate came in was inbounding the ball
in the at the last second, and they got like three guys on Bird.
He inbounds it to one of the other players and Larry Bird went off
on him and it was Walton, I think it's who it was. Yeah,
it was Bill Walton and went off on him and said, rookie,
if you ever inbound in a situation like this to anybody else, you're done
here. And I guess Larry also trashed his locker or something, right,
But you can do all that, but you can't hang on the rim very
long. Yeah, I can't uh celebrate in the end zone for too long.
But you can call somebody's mom a whore. So it's like, that's
the stuff in my behinder. I'm like, what are we trying to accomplish
here, my mom, I'm telling you it's such a stick as like stickler
for for oh yeahs. And like we had a conversation about this, going
back to the bat flip thing. I was it was the last year.
Maybe it was Aaron Hicks, I can't remember who if he was still on
the team then, but somebody hit a home run and riditorious for the bat
flip, and my mom was like she lost it on the couch. She
say, that's not proud of what you're doing. You hit a home run?
Is you take the bet? Do you slowly gently place it next to
home plate? And you're trying to have the bases with your head down and
you don't stare at anybody? You do? Right? You put in the
cozy the like in Major League I guess golf clubheads. She's she's all about
like, you know, you used to play the game, to play the
game, and there's no show boating. And I think she got that from
my grandfather who he could not stand Muhammad Ali because of the show boating.
Well, I could not stand him, dude, you're mind reading because I
was just gonna say, some of the greatest sports moments and individuals are show
boating, and Muhammad Ali was yeah, yeah, My mom is not having
any of it. Same thing with scores in the end in the end zone
touchdowns, like yeah, uh not having that? Who do you think you
want to do with that? It's just a sport. What about the other
players? Like she she loses s right, what if? All right?
Hypothetic. Let's say a member of the New York Yankees were to go to
the plate and then point to left field. Then would be awful, don't
don't do it? Hit it there? And well it's not clear he might
have been pointing to somebody, but maybe, but you know, like she
would be opposed to Babe Ruth. I mean, come on, man,
that's one of the greatest moments in sports history. That the Larry I told
that Larry birds story. There's there's tons of others. Michael Jordan, Right,
Michael Jordan. But what when when they were playing who were they playing?
It was they were playing one of the other nations, right, I
it wasn't, but it wasn't the Olympics. I can't remember what it was.
And they're playing I hell, I don't even know where the other country
was. But like one of the other dudes was trash talking. Jordan heard
this and then before the before the game, went and played like two rounds
of golf. This is not the flu golf thing or the flu game.
But he went and then he like reformed who they were covering, just so
he could destroy the dude and talk the whole time that he's doing it.
Larry Bird. Another Bird stories. He went over to the bench one time
and said, I'm gonna go here, which was all the way down,
you know. Uh, And and at long three point from the corner,
and I'm gonna shoot it, and I'm gonna shoot over your head. He
went to the opposing team's bench and said that. And then do you know
what he did that thing he said, he did it in the corner.
He faded away into their bench, like into this, to their bench and
turned them and said something. Yeah, one of the greatest, one of
the greatest basketball moments. That just sheer audacity, and uh, you know,
these these are part of the lore and the legend of sports man.
So it's like you can't. If you eliminate all that, you lose a
what I feel is an important part of sports. And it goes the same
it goes the same way. Remember Matt Hasselback in overtime, let's bring race
stage akin on this. Remember Matt Hasselback in overtime in the Super Bowl,
he said, we want the ball, We're gonna take it down and we're
gonna win. And he didn't. He wrote a check his butt couldn't cover
and that. But and that's the other way that that can go. And
you know, the greats will do what they say they're going to do and
I got no beef with hassleback. But that moment was a proud moment for
It was the Packers, right, it was against the Packers. Yeah,
it was a proud moment for them because they were able to achieve what they
were going to achieve. If that wasn't in sports, I'd be upset.
I think that's different though. Really you have to show confidence. Well you
think Larry going to the going to in and in the dude's face and going
I'm going to do this to you and you suck and screw you, and
then after fading into the bench, I mean is that shooting. Well,
you don't know until afterwards, right, because it's confidence as for you succeed.
But like if it's not, I think Larry guys like Larry Bird,
Jordan, you know the list is. I think they operate where it is
guaranteed in their mind, right, Like Larry Bird could absolutely not making it.
So yeah, yeah, but do you have any I do have a
high school story like that? Yeah, Well we have the NC State swimmer
got he was celebrating with his teammate and he hid part of his body,
went into his teammates lane, even though they were both done, they'd decute
him and won the won the big race, and they decute them. So
we're talking about that. But did her story? Well, we're senior year,
We're down thirteen nothing in a football game, and I stepped in the
huddle and I said, uh no, twelve nothing and I said four minutes
left. I said, we're going to win this game. And I saw
I told my teammates that, and we actually won the game. It's a
longer story, but I mean, how many how many touchdowns did you throw
in one game? Yeah? I caught one of them, one of them
ran. Yeah, I did catch one of them. But that's that's kind
of my claimmate, call me when you get four in one game. I
hear that. Well, I mean it's I didn't say. I was just
trying to go along with a story that said, did you say something and
then we're able to back it up? Did you say you're going to have
told that to your teammates? Right? You told that to your team?
Rights? Okright? You didn't go to the other bench and go, you
guys are so screwed, We're gonna come back and win this. Watch them.
Maybe if somebody was listening if they could hear me in the huddle,
you know that on the other side of the te you know. Well,
that's as close as I tried. I tried list no, no, no,
no. What I'm saying is all this stuff is so situational, and
I just hate to see something that they're clearly not trying to cheat. No.
So, and then the bat flip incident, uh with Grand Canyon State
and Nebraska over the weekend. Guy hits a grand Slam to tie it up
and does a thing that I've seen in baseball every time I've ever seen baseball.
So it was that crazy. He flipped if he hit a Grand Slam
time he flips the bat flips rather than just kind of discarding it on the
side, that thing players will do when they know they've hit a home run.
They kind of slow walk in and watch it and flip the bat and
then run the bases. They decued the dude for it like a Grand Slam
to tie ye, I mean, let him enjoy at least briefly anyway.
Anyway, Nah, it's kind of cruddy. It's mild, but little damp,
A lot of clouds of the morning. Very mild, though most seventies
this after do but change is coming, so you know, there's a lot
of little buckets who we check off. Mild been a rain shower action mainly
later today, although there may be a few light rain showers this morning,
maybe even a thundershower, especially to the west as the front comes in and
then we've got some wind. There are some wind advisories in the area.
Some of them are east, some of them are southwest. Basically, it's
gonna be windy thirty maybe thirty five plus mile part winds later today into early
tonight. We're gonna get some dryer air back in and tomorrow morning you're gonna
wake up and you're gonna be like, holy, you know what, load
to mid thirties tomorrow morning with a gusty breeze. It is going to feel
completely different tomorrow and you gonna be like, well, that's a change,
and ab normally chilly for this time of year. Load of mid fifties,
not cold, but just chillier, and especially compared to today when we're near
seventy. And then we'll be back in the upper fifties Friday as we begin
meteorological spring. Can you believe where they are already? With maybe a few
showers but milder over the weekend mit upper sixth these. I think it's Yeah,
is that real March? Here? Is that that other thing you guys
do? Well, everybody's talking about this like fall spring or fallse spring or
whatever it is, but I don't know. I'm looking ahead. No,
I think it's spring, and I'm like, is that real spring or yeah?
You know, we put it in a buckets and groups of three,
you know, four quarters in a year, so we put it in groups
of three meteorologically official spring March nineteenth, and you know, I'm looking into
the longer range. I think it's done. I don't. I think I
think winters. Yeah, it was pretty pretty much a lame winter anyway.
Although this front's gonna come through. It's another little brief shot at Chili Air.
I think it's over, but hey, you never know. March superstorm
in ninety three was a March mid March storm. Yeah, it's a perfect
winner. Yeah, this is great, big fan for you, oh man,
enjoy all right, thank you, sir, seven forty nine. We'll
come back in just a few hang on. Uh you know, initially Ross
has sent me something. We'll go retweet this when I heard it described before
I saw it, I had I had the like the dinosaur. I don't
know exactly what that thing's called, but remember the dinosaurs that they did at
the State Fairgrounds. It's a traveling dinosaur thing where they have recreations of dinosaurs.
And I and people went to and I can't remember the ticket price wasn't
cheap, but like I saw people and like I think people called when we
talked about it, but there were reports out that folks were really upset and
they kept saying things like they don't look real or they look fake. This
on the dinosaur thing, Yeah, yeah, they're not what and and so
like I understood why pumped some people be upset. But if your beef is
the dinosaurs don't appear real, that's because they're not. And it's literally it's
disclosed they were they're not working a loophole here, and so you know,
buyer beware on stuff like that. I don't actually see him. I remember
seeing pictures and okay, whatever, this is far worse. This was a
Willy Wonka themed event called the Willy Wonka Experience, and it was forty five
dollars for a ticket, and what you know what they sold it as is,
you come to this indoor exhibit area and we'll have it decked out like
that scene in Willy Wonka where they're walking, you know, will he's doing
he's singing, showing the kids the river and the umpahs, and there are
umpas there, but they do not look happy. And you know that sounds
like a pretty cool thing, especially you know, if you got kids that
are right around the right age, that's something that they would love, even
adults. Man, But then people showed up to this event and that's where
the photos be a thousand words. I feel like you and I and we
hate putting promotionals. I think you or I Ross could assemble a more convincing
Willow Willy Wanta experience. Yeah, dude, it's so bad that people started
calling the cops because it's straight up fraud. Because the AI pictures they used
to promote it it looks amazing, and then you get there and it's just
like cardboard cutout rainbows and it's just like an empty factory with like a bounce
house and they might need to put jump nets behind that umpah. Right,
it looks like a meth out umplumpa like that person is cooking meth and like
they're like, oh, well, we're just gonna cast her as the oop
Olympic because she walked in the room with green hair like that. That's the
way her hair, her own meth cooking apparatus, right, apparently, whatever
the hell's going on there? Yeah, yeah, calling the cops all.
But to Ross's point, Yeah, the photos that they used to promote this
were really were They're not They were AI generated photos. But I've seen real
photos like that at really high end couseplay stuff, right or medieval Renaissance festival.
Yeah. No, you can pull off with the with the photos they're
trying to show you, but it's going to cost a lot of money,
a lot more than apparently they had. Yeah, well, in this case
a forty five dollars a tick. Now they have more money because I don't
think they spend forty five dollars printing stuff. This is bonkers. I know
we tweeted the story out earlier, but let me just so it's on the
Twitter at Casey on the radio. There is a I guess he's internationally known.
He's a writer and a poet. His works have appeared in well,
you name it, New York Times, Washington Post, various other places.
And he is a Palestinian writer, that is his heritage. So a lot
of his writings and poetry have to do obviously with Indians and Israel. So
you kind of know what you're gonna get there, right. He definitively is
not a fan of Israel, and you can read one thing by him and
get there real quick. However, he's also down in the dumps right because
he feels like you just can't protest anymore, like they're not even allowing to
send and he's talking about Israel. But I feel like we have some of
these same rules over here, or at the very least we have them,
are not always in forced for some of the things I'm going to tell you.
But I want you to listen to his beef. Okay, he writes,
you can't protest peacefully, you can't boycott, Sure, you can't.
What are you talking about? And what he's talking about are universities and haven't
allowed the students to run the divestment scam on them? Can't hunger strike?
I think you can, by the way, those students, those students who
were going to hunger strike until the peace res or the ceasefire resolution. I'm
assuming they're dead by now, right, because it didn't happen, and they
said they were going to do it till then, and it's been like two
weeks. But so he can. But I guess if you do it too
long, nature will intervene. He then writes, you can't hijack planes.
What, yeah, I mean as a form of protest or for any reason,
because I feel like it's for any reason. We're not but the nostalgic
way in which you're lamenting this has me very concerned. And we've had some
plane hijackings anti Israel plane hijackings before. That's the thing. Look it up.
But no, no, you can't do that. You're right, you
can't do that. You can't block traffic. I mean, depending on where
you are, you can. But also that is illegal, though not enforced
in some places. You can't throw molotovs. Yeah yeah, that's uh.
That's like a crime and could and has killed people. So people tend to
see that a little different than boycotting a beer company molotov cocktailing the headquarters,
for example. So no, you can't do that. You can't self imolate.
I feel like you can. I feel like you can't. Ross.
Can you think of any examples or somebody successfully self imolated in recent history?
Yeah? Look at that. How quickly were they successful in self imolating?
What do you mean? Yeah? I mean, is it the timeline where
you're going to ah because he accomplished what he wanted to accomplish. You can't
heckle politicians. Sure you can, depending on where you are. I feel
like if I had to pick a group of politicians that if you started getting
up in their face and heckling them hubbas, leadership would probably not be high
on my list of good ideas. You can't march, Yes you can.
Sometimes the governor will even march with you with a mask king and off his
forehead. You can't riot, No, you can't, right, and he
just you can't dissent, You just can't be. And this writing exercise I
is meant to conflate all of those things together as legitimate forms of protest.
Like if if half of the things in that article you feel the legitimate forms
of protest, you're a political tear. Okay, That's just that's the long
and short of it. Because half the stuff you can do and nobody cares,
at least not in the United States and most other places. But the
other stuff, Yeah, they tend to have a sour view on hijackings and
murdering people with molotovs, So you know, that's a thing be aware of,
and just the absolute lunacy of that, and the irony, of course
is remember the self immolation guy the airmen, Yeah, he's on this dude's
side. Essentially, both had a very similar view of what was going on.
Albeit the Airmen claim that he knew that American troops were overcommitting a genocide.
But you know, there was a lot of anti Israel screeds that he
produced. So you even know the dude who successfully did the thing you said
that he couldn't do. That's what makes it weirder for me. All right,
eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four we have I want
to call it a cancelation. I think it's a cancelation of logic. But
for certain segments of the audience, I guess it is talking about the little
eatie bitty kids. So let's do this, all right, So what are
we canceling today? Kind of Mary Poppins, Yeah, that's right, Mary
Poppins, has had the had its rating changed by the and this is in
the UK the British Board of Film Classifications and their ratings look a little different,
but essentially it upgraded from a G would be a G rating, like
you know most Disney movies, especially of that era, to PG. Now
I understand that there are Disney rodicts that literally are almost lost media at this
point, Song of the South, you know where I'm going here, They're
not showing that's not on the Disney plus app. I get that. So
what's the beef with Mary Poppins. It is the use of a term that
I have never heard before in Mary Poppins. I don't can I say that?
Ross? Do you think I can say that term? I don't know
that anybody knows what the hell it means. I'm not sure the term is
to be honest. Oh the one in the story, it's h O T
T E N T O T S. It's like combination of the word hot,
the number ten and then tots. Right, So I'm gonna repeat what
I said. I have no idea what that is, yes, and most
people don't. However, according to the British Board of Film Classification, the
terminology is was utilized to refer to an indigenous group of people in South Africa
and was not positive. I don't know that was particularly derogatory as much as
like distancing, but that was a term, and then it's used within the
lexicon. Is within the movie Is, the character Admiral Boom sees the soot
covered face of the chimney sweeps and uses the term to describe them. So
obviously, if they're covered in soot, that's, you know, kind of
blackface, and that's what predicated this. And I remember them beefing over this
being blackface and some stupid article years ago. But this is, this is
now the realization of it, and I I the way that I read this,
and then I re even Google's own description of what the term is is
in that same situation would be to say you look like you are from Nigeria
or something, right, reference a country which has a predominant population of people
with darker skin. I don't need the kids know what the hell it is
because it sounds like it sounds like one of those weird words that it permeates
Mary Poppins, right, the most famous of which you've just probably repeated in
your head. It starts with super and we'll leave it there. But yeah,
so now they're going to go back and say that this is parental guidance
and may not be appropriate for the younger kids. I don't even remember the
scene. I probably watched that movie a hundred times when I was a kid,
because we have the whole Disney video collection thing. But okay, David's
a really good movie. I that I enjoyed is the story of Disney and
the author of Mary Poppins, and the backstory is you know how that was
based on her life in Australia and now she lives in London. And I
think it's a really a good movie. I thought that's just me. But
yeah, I had no idea. So yep, that's that's now for the
kids. If they want to watch it, you probably shouldn't talk to them
or or or not let them watch it or reference at guidance, right,
so whatever whatever you take that to mean. All right, I love this
right here. I love when people do such stupid unforced airs. Right,
do you remember let me give you an example before I do this story.
Do you remember the post office employee who went on wheel of fortune, who
had was on disability after she said that her work within I don't know if
she was a male carrier or she worked inside, but anyway, she said
she couldn't do her work at the post office anymore because, among other things,
she couldn't raise her arms above her shoulders. And that would make sense.
If you can't do that, you probably are gonna have a hard time
sorting mail or delivering it for that matter. The problem was she went on
Wheel of Fortune for everyone to see while she's claiming disability for this. Do
you know something you have to do on Wheel of Fortune? It's inherent in
the name. You gotta grab that big old wheel, and everyone who's watched
even one episode knows you put your hands above your shoulders. Do you want
to grab the wheel high up and spin it because you don't want to be
that coward that doesn't get it all the way around. And you'll see people
literally like hopping up like they're, you know, testing how high they can
jump, grab that wheel and rip it down. Man always entertaining, but
always in the same fashion, hands over the head, do it. So
she was busted immediately. This woman arguably is going to have it much worse.
Camilla Grabska Grabska. She's thirty six, and the woman five years ago
or no more than that, twenty seventeen, got into a car crash and
claimed that she had ongoing dehabilitating neck and back pain that prevented her from holding
down a job for now going on five years. And she has received more
than eight hundred thousand dollars in an injury lawsuit stemming from the car crash,
and also assistance. Right so, because you know, took her a while
to get the money, so of course she's getting assistance. She can't work,
she's disabled. Well, that has all come crashing down. She claimed
that the engine left her unable to care for her young children, complete basic
household chores, she had to quit her job. And the total disability payments
between disability and public assistance programs, as well as some public medical stuff which
I don't know why that doesn't fall under the insurance thing, but whatever,
they asked me that she has also received five hundred thousand dollars in government assistance
for her and her kids. Right, she's got the kids, and now
the government's looking at that, and the insurance company's looking at that because she
has a rather unique cobby ross. You ever see people who throw the big
trees. All right, I have yes, Yeah, she does that,
and she just won a competition doing it, which was televised. It's a
Christmas miracle. This woman is so stupid? Do you have to be?
If I win eight hundred thousand dollars or whatever in disability, eight hundred thousand
from the insurance, five hundred thousand from the government, You're never seeing my
ass again. I am staying in my house like a bull Radley. I'm
getting like the thickest blackout curtains ever. I'm lining my house with whatever whatever
will like. You know, you get that like predator heat vision to look
inside the house. Yeah, yeah, you're not gonna see me inside.
And when I do leave the house, I'm gonna go like full Walker and
you wanna go full Joe bike neck brace Andy Kaufman, you know what I
mean. I'm gonna love super Slow so dumb? How dumb could you be?
I mean she did win, so that's good, right, Well,
surprise, Uh wasn't very wasn't very much? Was it less than eight hundred
thousand dollars? Well no, it would be one point three million in total.
So when it rests on that it was, Yes, it was far
less. What a what an idiot? I just you have one job.
Just don't go out and throw a tree, all right, that's it.
That's all you gotta do. And sure as hell don't do it well.
Right, But she's like brock Lessner's daughter with the shot put, you know
what I mean? Like stop? Yeah? Well yeah, so already a
judge has concluded, he said, he said, quote, uh, it's
a very large tree. It's being thrown in a very agile movement. I'm
afraid I cannot but conclude. The claims are entirely exaggerated. And of course
the insurance company smells blood, and it's so audacious that people are like demanding
the government do something. This chick is screwed, man, but like for
no no fault but her own. Uh now, now you're probably wondering,
okay, well what was her excuse? Right? Gravska denied that she has
faked or exaggerated any injury, saying that this was her trying to live a
normal life. But you won. You're really good at it, which means
you practice. Probably right, you had to practice. I know, you
just don't show up to that and wing it. And I'm just trying to
live a normal life. I'm just catching my chicks and going down to the
strong man competition and tossing boulders across the football fields right towing that that they
remember the old one on ESPN back in the day, like everyone's bags something
or other, and they're just like, I'm gonna pull this semi truck.
All right, Well, this check throws trees, but you know, don't
do that after you have clearly, over five years, received one point three
million dollars. I wonder if I want to return to any Do you think
it was one of the other tree throwers. It was like, p well,
I was this was supposed to be by it? Yeah, it's probably
somebody has an actual job, if to work, and she's home all the
time, and she has all the time of the world to go in her
backyard and toss trees around. Yeah yeah, which, by the way,
dangerous. Probably if you got kids around, I don't I don't know,
or maybe they're going to be tree throwers, but insurance scammers, you probably
don't want them to end up there. And that looks like the road she's
going down. All right, we'll be back. Hang you are correct,
I was. I said wheel of fortune when it meant prices, right,
but I meant the big wheel on prices right. So everyone's very mad at
me for my screwing that up. Uh, that's just how my brain is,
because I honestly, I just I was wanting to do the tree throw
story, but then I was reminded in the moment before about the postal worker
in faid because she was from Fayetteville, I Believeville in North Carolina here,
and then went on the price is right, but yeah, the big wheel
where you clearly have to do the thing that you said you couldn't do.
And same with the tree throwing. Arguably she was claiming a lot more injuries
too, based on the amount of payouts she got. So yeah, crazy
crazy stuff. Speaking of crazy, all right, here we go with this.
Most people probably don't know. I didn't know who this was. Her
name is Laura Alam, and if you're Australian, you knew who this was.
Alam was a very high profile activist, very active on social media,
very politically active. In fact, there are tons and tons of pictures of
her standing on stages with high level albeit woke politicians in Australia Upper upper echelon,
you know, like their version of senators and even some of the big
party chairs, because it's more of a partamentary thing there. But she was
kind of like William Barber, right, just kind of pop up here they
are and and and she also did a lot of media hits and then all
of a sudden she went dark on social and a story started to emerge,
and now she has been arrested. I will tell you that she is a
member of the this is the description here, a prominent member of the Lebanese
community. She doesn't like Jews very much, as as evidenced by things that
she's written, and it's kind of part of the charges. But basically,
she got mad at somebody because he was working for a Jewish employer. There's
some sort of beef and it's a little unclear because the judicial orders on this
thing are crazy, and I'll tell you about those in a moment. But
but her the problem was there was somebody who was working for a Jewish employer.
She didn't like it, and authority say she orchestrated the man's kidnapping and
torture after he refused to stop working for a Jewish employer. And part of
the strategy that you've seen with her and her groups is they have they're the
ones who are like protesting a Jewish owned businesses. They are doxing employees whether
they're Jewish or not for simply doing it, and customers taking photos of customers
if they go into this place and do business threatening retaliation. I mean,
it's really it's really horrible, horrible stuff that they feel is some sort of
protest. But to go all right, well, this guy's not going to
listen, pick him up, take him around, and torture him, which
is what is alleged to have happened. That's definitely an escalation. Thorty say.
It was Friday, February sixteenth when a thirty one year old man was
abducted in a raised on the sidewalk in a residential you know, like in
a neighborhood. I don't know if he lives there. Again, they're really
weird on what they release, but they just plucked him right off of the
sidewalk. It's alleged the man was pulled, pulled as he was nearing a
car, so I guess, so he's walking out, I guess to his
car, but they snatch him before he gets there, they drag him into
the car and then they beat the crap out of him, drive him around,
put him in another car, torture him, rob him, and then
they take him and he is he's very badly injured. They take him back
to near where they pulled him, and without even stud they just did the
classics, shove him, shove him out of the car. The man,
according to the report here, needed extensive treatment in the hospital for injuries sustained
both as part of the depositing of him, which he was injured during that,
but also what they did to him, which included using torture to literally
break bones. I don't know whether they smashed his fingers or something, but
it sounds really gory. Now here's the kicker. So she and her accomplice
were arrested. The judicial order though at arraignment is like nothing I've ever seen,
in fact in Australia. Even if you are reporting and you have access
to information that this judge says you shouldn't, and you report it like it's
readily available. Her many photos and appearances, she's very very high profile.
However, according to the judge at the arrangment, no image will be legally
published of the accused, no reference to her activism, no reference to the
community in which or no, you cannot reference protests, and no reference to
various organizations. And you also can't mention the word Palestine, which has been
her big cause right now in one of her organizations. It's literally in the
name. So the judge all of these things, which, if this is
true, were clearly motivating factors, right the judge said, you can't mention
any of it. So if you read an article in Australia about this,
whether an Australia publisher, they don't have her picture, they don't talk about
her background. They gave her name, but they didn't and they've interviewed That's
what's crazy. You have publications that have interviewed this woman as an expert.
In fact, like three weeks just three weeks ago, she was she was
up doing some big media thing. Now on social media she did post or
somebody posted on her behalf and referred to it as quote an unfortunate and disheartening
incident. That makes it makes it that she cannot publicly disclose things. Yeah,
I pulled a guy off the street and tortured him, is what they're
alleging and you did it because of he worked for a Jewish employer. I
mean that's and now all these politicians are like, who who is that?
I don't know who that is? And then you can't even show a photo
of her. You can literally you literally can't. They can't show photos they
previously published at you know, where they were, where they were was they
were building her up. They're like, look how brave this twenty eight year
old mother and activist is, and that they had, they had glowing pieces
on. They literally can't published things they previously published, according to this judge.
So all sorts of crazy there, all right. Eight forty four raced
agic from the Weather Channel and uh we got some up some downs. But
spring is you can use the word if you want, very quickly. So
which word is that? Spring is? Sprung? Yeah? No, spring,
yeah yeah, spring. I you know, and you know I've been
fighting it. I've got to be honest. Everybody knows, or if you
don't know, by now, I am cold weather guy. True and true.
I've got a trip that I have already postponed up north. It's going
to be next week. I'm going anyway. Looks like they'll be snow,
but then it's going to go away. No, we're also never talking.
After we chatted with you last. We think it's really awful that you want
us to die in a blizzard. Well, I said, we could have
a blizzard, but we don't have to die in it. But right or
or we don't have to have a blizzard. Ross, Are you on team
we don't have to have a blizzard. I feel like I feel like most
people are. I just think, you guys, that's like that's your super
Bowl. So I get it. It's fine. Yeah, yeah, and
for me it certainly is. I always refer back to the superstorm in ninety
three. Remember that was like a was it like the March thirteenth to the
seventeenth type of event in the east. So let's just say there's still winter
to go, although meteorological winter ends tomorrow, and just in time, there'll
be this strong front coming in. I mean there were tornadoes yesterday around Chicago,
some reports of severe weather through parts of Michigan and into the Ohio Valley.
That's all coming east. Now. The good news is that it does
weaken as it approaches us. But still this afternoon unseasonably mild. Hey,
I can even say a touch of humidity in the air. Most out are
just above seventy with gusty winds and a wind advisory for some of us.
Most of that is east of the triangle. Then tonight the showers will end.
And need emphasize this. You will dress differently tomorrow. If you don't,
you're gonna be cold load of tomorrow morning, sir. Well, yeah,
I mean you can, but if you don't want to be cold,
right, you don't want to be cold, And it's gonna be the loadle
mid thirties, they'll be some twenties, and the mountains there might be some
low and mid twenties, and tomorrow will be in the fifties. By Friday
we're back close to sixty, and over the weekend we're in the sixties.
So another brief cool step and maybe some wet weather scattered around for the weekend.
All right, So again you have the option you want to put your
coward pants on, you can, but right you know, I'll be out
by shorts. I love the cold, love it absolutely man. All right,
Well, cool, cool, thank you, sir, appreciate it.
Yeah, and we'll come back with Jeff Bellinger and that's next. Hang on,
Jeff Bellinger, Jeff, what's going on? Well, Good morning,
Casey. Stock market futures have been lower all morning. The now futures are
down ninety seven points at the moment. The government just reported the fourth quarter
economic growth was slightly weaker than previously estimated. The gross domestic product expanded at
a three point two percent annual rate from October through December. Economists expected no
change in the original three point three percent estimate. Mortgage bankers report home loan
demand fell a little more than five and a half percent last week. Total
application volume has fallen now for three weeks in a row. Applications for purchase
loans have dropped for five straight weeks. The banker's say mortgage demand is close
to the lowest level since nineteen ninety five, as mortgage rates remain above seven
percent. After a decade a decade of development, Apple decides it will not
make an electric car. Sources say the iPhone maker made the announcement internally yesterday,
blindsiding nearly two thousand employees who had been working on the project. Apple
reportedly told the workers many of them will be able to move to the company's
artificial intelligence division, NETFLIX ending an arrangement with Apple that lets subscribers pay for
their streaming subscription using an Apple account. A Netflix representative told USA Today subscribers
who pay through Apple must revise their payment methods right away they could lose service
in the next billing cycle. Another technology company announced layoffs. Bumble is cutting
three hundred fifty words. That's about a third of its workforce. If you
have a five million dollar fortune, congratulations, you're in great financial shape.
Safe to say, you're not hurting. But you're also not among the richest
one percent of Americans. Researchers at Night Frank say it now takes at least
five point eight million dollars to join the wealthiest one percent. That's nearly fifteen
percent more than a year ago. And A Casey, Starbucks and the union
that's been working to unionize the coffee company have agreed on a framework for contract
talks. Starbucks says union workers will get some of the benefits that until now
only went to employees at non union cafes, and one of those benefits is
credit card tipping. Casey, all right, I'm trying to Jeff. You
saw the Kellogg CEO. People upset with him. Ahwa talking about having a
cereal for dinner. Yes, yeah, I just I finally dug into this
thing. What is wrong with people? Like they're like, oh, how
dairy? I'm like that dude's job is to sell corn flakes, right,
that's right. I was thinking. My mother must work for Kellocks. I
remember growing up she'd say, if you don't like what I made, you
can have cereal for dinner. Yeah. Yeah, all right, And for
those who don't know the story, I'll Pillian in a moment. Thank you,
Jeff, appreciate it. Okay, all right, there you go,
Jeff Fellinger, Yeah, this is I saw the other day. I just
kind of ignored it because I really didn't care. But then I saw people
reacting to it, and I'm like, all right, fine. So Kellogg's
CEO, his name is Gary Pilnick, was on CNBC, so you're gonna
get generally you go on CNBC. This was what's your program? Squawk on
the Street? All right, So it's it's one of those places where they,
even though it's got NBC in there, the interviews tend to be more
business friendly. However, the woman interviewing him is clearly leaning in or I
or so the the eye is leaning in Carl Quintella and then what is the
woman's name? Yeah, whatever, But the CNBC folks are like, hey,
let's talk about what the President decided he needed to talk about around the
Super Bowl, right, how these evil companies are making the packaging smaller and
the price is the same. And he's sitting there and he's I think doing
an adequate job of just saying, look, things cost more that we use
to make these things, and if we raised the price, we found that
that is more injurious to our market share than simply shrinking the products. And
that's fine, Like, have a normal discussion with that. And then he
added that Americans, who are spending more money on food than they have in
thirty years might just decide if they want his suggestion, baby eat cereal for
dinner, and like people got all mad at him. He's the CEO of
Kellogg's, Like, did you think he's not going to want you to eat
corn flakes for every meal if he had his brothers. That's his gig.
He sells corn flakes, So of course he's going to tell you you should
do in the same way that I'm going to tell you you should listen to
this radio station and in fact, you should listen to it more. In
fact, you should use stimulants to be able to not sleep so you can
listen twenty four. Okay, well don't do that, but like that's my
gig. I want you to listen, and he wants you to eat corn
flakes. And then people are like, oh, could you believe what he
did? That is bonkers? Man, dude, ross this video? What
is going on in this video? You just sent me? So this is
from the Willy Wonka event. Yeah, the AI event that we talked about
earlier. Yeah, so this is Williams. It looked fantastic from the pictures
and they showed up and it said Jim with some posters forty five dollars.
It's sort of like the movie, right, because he might actually die in
this factory if you show up, like there's a possibility there by looking at
it. Yeah, and the oompa And when I say the upa, they
only had one. It's not Opa loomp buzz. They had one that was
terrifying. But this is what So this is what was making the kids cry.
Well, no, it's one of the things that made him cry because
more videos of this thing keeps coming out and it keeps getting better and better.
So there's some guy dressed up like looks like Kid Rock Willy Wonka possibly
right like yeah, yeah, seas in the back and then he's like what
is this over here? And out of the out of the shadows comes like
the dude from Scream. Yeah, that was that in the movie. I
recall that I've seen both