Remember, uh, can we push the start off for like, I don't
know, like fifteen minutes. I hate Mondays. We look at that Pater
didn't go down the rain pipe. All right, Good morning six o eight,
a c O day radio program. What a bunch of insanity going on
today? It's gonna be I I say it's a Monday. But admittedly,
when I was putting the show prep together yesterday and look at some of the
stuff we're gonna get into, I'm like, I kind of like the stack
today. It feels a little Thursday ish. I don't know why Thursday gets
a good stack sometimes. So we'll get into that. Ross. Could you
give me a favor. I just realized this. Would you please go into
the music directory and I'm not gonna tell people why and see if we have
the queen greatest hit Fat Bottomed Girls, And if so, please apply that
to my button barrow. Will you all right? Ross, gonna get into
that. That's something I just saw. You're thinking that song right now,
it's in your head. You haven't even heard it yet. Well, if
it's bouncing around in your head, I just want you to know you're horrible
person. So there's a little a little snippet of why we might be getting
into that. Oh it's gonna be a day. Also, you know why.
One of the things that I find really fun is do you remember how
gleeful and fun it was around these parts when Shia Lebuff the actor the Transformer
dude slash very early on he will Not Divide Us Trump dude decided that because
people kept messing with his he will not Divide US flag on his little video
artwork in New York, he was going to move it to BFE America somewhere,
So we put it in a field on an up and had an upward
facing camera. When you just tell us in a field somewhere, could be
anywhere, could be anywhere in the world, actually, although I think he
indicated it was in the US, and it just kind of shot up.
You could see some some plants around there, a little bit of a tree,
but then you could just see the flag and then the sky and he's
like, ha ha, now this will it will wave proudly on the internet
forevers, right, And what happened? The internet happened. Yeah, a
lot of people with a lot of time on their hands, and I don't
know exactly how long it took them, but they to determine where that flag
was. A group of four chan or rehdators or whoever it was. They
matched the sky with star charts, then contrails and plane you know planes,
and then the contrails that they leave. They mapped the flight pass across America
to find because they got it narrowed down. Then they got it more narrowed
down with the flight pass and the time the planes crossed, they're, oh,
yeah, this craziness. And then anyone in the group that was in
the area then drove around this you know few square miles on roads where fields
would be, you know, rural roads, honking their horn because Shiah had
left the audio up. And then when they heard the horn, others who
were then watching the stream were like, hey, we hear you, bro.
And then they were able to visually locate it and it was somewhere I
think it was in Tennessee or something, Jessie or Kentucky or some rural park,
and they went and they captured the flag because you you essentially created capture
the flag that was the Internet being the Internet. And then if I remember
correctly, they then moved the Internet the flag over to the UK and put
it on top of a building that had like a bunch of communist journalists newspaper
thing in there, and then people zip lined from another building. Now,
obviously they didn't need the zip line because obviously they would have to have access
to complete the zip line, but they wanted to make it as dramatic as
possible, and they went and they did it there. I really enjoyed all
of that, and I didn't have to lift. That was entertainment for days
watching that crap playout. Because the Internet, while they get a lot wrong,
especially when it comes to uncovering stuff looking at you, Boston bombing,
they're also somewhat under feed it on stuff. If they want to find somebody,
they'll find somebody. And unfortunately that's somebody, and we're gonna get into
the story a little later. I just want to tease this big time.
That story was apparently a dude who couldn't just ride around on his bike and
mind his business. He had to go screw with people's property. And so
I was watching the story play out yesterday and I was wildly amused, especially
because it's going to include something that has happened in a couple of stories that
we've talked about on this show, and a little reminder for you about how
much of your life is out there on the internet. So we'll get into
that here on our lovely, lovely Monday. All right, well, let
me do this. I'll give you a bigger rundown. We'll get some stuff
and calls and audio, and I will do it because you know, we're
kind of have to. Six fourteen hang on this one oh six one FM
Talk in the Triangle and here's Talk five w PTI in the Triad. All
right, good morning, six nineteen here on the case O Day Radio program,
phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four Do do
you do? Do? So you and the fam go catch the Blue Beetle
over the weekend. Ross number one movie in the country or no video game
movie or not video game superhero movie. That's the poverty spider Man iron Man
movie from DC. Yeah, I see what it looks like. Anyway,
I don't know much about Blue Beetle except like two things. One, I
recognize some of the people involved, so obviously they put some money behind it,
so we got that. And I found it very interesting in talking about
so in the movie apparently, and I haven't seen the movie. Ross called
it poverty, so I'm assuming he hasn't the movie. The character, and
then of course the the bad guy right garnered a lot of discussion in the
case of Baine. All right, So Bain, if you remember, is
obviously a bad guy, has appeared in multiple DC outings. Probably the highest
profile was at the third. It was the third of the Nolan Batman's right.
Was Bain the third? Yeah, because Joker was second, Bain was
third, and then no Joker, I can't know it, right, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, ros Alt Google was
first and then I'm trying. Okay, So but the carry And it was
funny too because right around that time was when Mitt Romney was running for president
and they're like, oh, they created a character because Bain Capital and it's
Mitt Romney, And I'm like that that's been there a while. He's been
in the comics a while, and arguably I would say, if I had
to pick Superhero movie bad guys, Baine's one of my favorite, Right do
you ever rank him? Ross? Baine's gotta be one of the kids Dan
Baine, because he's pro mask d Why do you quote him all the time
on the show because it's funny. It is funny because you can say you
do anything in the dark. Ross is running the show in the dark right
now. I don't know if you know this. Well, that's because the
lights don't work. But yeah, it's correct. It's Monday, Monday,
find out what's broken. The generators powering down? So oh hey, bad
blide out to see it's gonna blow all right. So anyway, so Bain
obviously has a then in the Blue Beetle, and the director of Blue Beetle
was given all these interviews talking about talking about what Bain was, actually what
he's based on, what he represents. In fact, here let me play
a snippet for you from one of those interviews explaining the motivation for the bad
guy Baine, the character of Bain, the formation of this you villain.
I think, in his own right, he's also a hero in his story.
So whether whatever happens at the end that might have gotten distorted because of
what was done to him, I think that what he represents is a lot
of their own known or forgotten or brush under the rug history of interventionism in
Latin America and the Caribbean by the US. So basically Baine is a character
that was created to represent the meddling of the CIA in Central America and Latin
America. He's including Grenada and there, I guess. And what was interesting
is like he kept saying that. But after the first few times, literally
the dude who invented Bain, right, the comic book guy, he just
posted on response to one of those, he's like, that's horse right,
that's not true. So this guy just like, I just decided what this
guy is and what his motivation is. They just decided, asked my character,
and now now he was creative, and then the guy who created him
is like and then they kept running articles even though it was known the guy
who literally created Bain was on record is that's not right. They would just
run these glowing articles about the character of Bain, the formation of this you
know villain. I think in his own right, he's also a hero in
his story. So whether whatever happens at the end that might have gotten distorted
because of what was done to him. I think that what he represents is
a lot of their own known or forgotten or brush under the rug history of
interventionism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Right, Okay, well, agree
that the mask that Bain wears the symbolic of the mask of sis male heterosexuality.
Right, I mean that's been proven as it sends it on their if.
Yeah, yeah, that's and nobody cares like the guy he's like,
no, I created Bain, that's not it, not it, not it.
And then he just kept running that garbage. And I think, I
think what they're trying to do is is moonbat overload man from a movie perspective,
because they realize you can snipe them one by one and special projects.
I think snow White's going to be a special project. But keep going.
And let me tell you, if there's one comic book universe that doesn't need
any more struggles, it's DC. Okay, if you're the guy in charge
of the DC universe, looking at what Marvel was able to extol from the
first one two, probably two and a half of the series, I mean,
how much money do they make? All the money? Right, all
the money they made, all the money and DC came out there, and
don't get me wrong, they Wonder Woman did well. I thought, though
I thought Wonder Woman was a good movie. I have a problem with the
DC movies and maybe it's just my eyes, but I swear man, when
you combine like the when you compare the visual effects and the CGI of Marvel
versus DC, there's no comparison. Marvel is clear, it is vibrant,
and every single DC movie seems to have this weird, bluish like orange filter
to it, and it just doesn't look good. I know the Flash got
a lot of grief because it was exceptionally bad, but all of them,
when you look at even Aquaman, it's bad. The CGI is just not
good. I think if if I DC admitted that they wanted the CGI to
be better, that's why it's gonna be better in the second one. But
I don't that may have been just trying to sell ticket. If I'm on
DC, you've got to see that there's a Marvel just looks good, So
it just looks clear. Yeah, you're you're right. So with that,
coupled with the fact that some of them in real bombs, why as the
studio and I find I think it's very funny too in another movie story we
have later. I think some of that plays into this why why these studios
love these unknown directors, but why these studios want to add this to yet
another reason to irritate people, especially since Baine's a known commodity kind of because
most most people are into this genre probably saw the Nolan Batman Baine running around,
you know, with his run around with his mask and and kicking Batman,
breaking Batman's back and every spoiler everything that happened in there, and like,
so they have some they already have a little bit of backstory, although
I guess you haven't seen it. It's not as clear and concise a backstories
you think it is. You'll you'll figure that out. But but you have
this But why why do any why let this dude sit down and do any
of this? And then when the guy who calls it out instead of just
going quietly and being like, all right, I'm not going to bring that
up in interviews, you keep running that garbage. But they do, and
uh, we'll be here to cover it all. Right. Coming up on
the show, we figured out where the aliens on the Moon are. That's
like, that's not the first craft that that happened too. For whatever reason,
it's really hard to go to that place. It's a part of the
moon, so that's probably where the basis and it would make sense. So
they could see us first look at everything in a two D model. So
we'll get to that. An update on Oliver Anthony. We got Arson bicyclist
in sand. It's gonna be a busy morning, so buckle and get some
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radio app. Well, you know what we did. We can just dive
into there. That's fine. Cross and I were just talking off the year
about this, but let's get it because it was quite the buzz. And
then, for reasons I do not understand, Elon Musk decided to go after
James Woods. All right, So on Friday, Elon Musk said that the
block feature could be greatly limited on x formerly known as Twitter, stripping the
social media platform of a feature long scene as a protection against harassment. All
right, So let me just give you a little housekeeping on this and we'll
get into the article. So currently, if you're not on the Twitter,
I guess those you on the Twitter, you probably you already know this.
So if somebody is annoying or harassing or threatening or whatever. You have a
few, you have a couple of different ways you can deal with it.
One of them and i've this is what you do for annoying people. One
of the things you can do with is mute. And if you mute somebody,
they don't know that they're muted, so they'll still they'll see your stuff,
they'll still have whatever they want to say comment on there, and when
they do it, it posts and then they go about their day and wonder
why nobody, you know, really thought they were awesome. Because I think
it has some limiting factor on how it will appear on the suggested side as
So and so commented that you follow. But if they go and they read
under you, they may see it, but you're not going to see it
kind of. So that's one thing. So that user doesn't know that you
took action, that they're screaming into the void. And I think we've talked
about this on the air in some way that brings me satisfaction. Ross you
run the same page, right, oh yeah, completely, yeah, yeah
yeah. Let them let them still do their busy work while never getting their
satisfaction. However, and this is what we were just talking about. I
said, it only kind of doesn't show it to you as you know,
as you if you read the responses to a tweet you send out, you'll
see the responses, but then you'll also see where a response should be a
little thing that says, this was posted by somebody you muted, and if
you want to see it, then there's a button you can click right,
And it's sort of like, you know, don't push that button, sort
of vibe to it where like I can now I've got to see what it
is and then like what's the point. You don't have to know, but
I'm saying the tendencies and be like, oh, it's wearing a short skirt
button right, Yeah, okay. I only tend to block people that ruin
the vibe that like that. Yeah, I don't. I don't want to
put them on the level with people who are harassing doc seen or trying to
commit crimes threatening murder. Comes. I even like mute people that just ruin
the vibe, meaning I see I see Twitter like me as you on your
Twitter stream the first time. Yes, so I see it as sort of
like the way I see it, like people like, oh, it's the
public four. It's a town square. I see my page and my posts
as like a party I'm having at my house. And if everybody is in
the comments and having a good time and joking, great, and then some
d bag comes in and starts to ruin the vibe completely, isn't reading the
room or doing it on purpose, Then I'm gonna mute you. And if
it is repeatedly, then I'm gonna block you. That's how you see it,
and the way the way I also see block is you do have the
right to say what you want to say, but you don't have the right
to have me have to listen to it. Right, So having that same
partying analogy. Right, So we're having a party in my house, everybody's
having a good time. I kicked the one person out and he's in.
Now he's on the side of the street and he's screaming and he's yelling at
my house. I have the right to close my window and pay you no
mind. That, in my opinion, is how it should be. Right.
You don't have the right to be like, no, you can't close
your window. You have to listen to me. No, I don't.
So when is the party? Uh? What what party. What's that now?
You said we're having a party at your house, did I? Yeah?
Yeah, yeah, I'm a secret. You got a whole freaking dance
room with furries and a disco ball. Yeah. I mean you got the
space Bide sentient invitation. It's coming in the mail, buddy, yes,
okay, So I just just keep looking at the mail. Huh why would
you send snail mail? People do evites? Now? Yeah? Have you
seen these? Or or since you got some weird calligraphy a little invitation it's
a stone tablet because he needs so much to me. Yeah, okay,
keep waiting for it. Yeah, it's gonna be a very heavy box,
heavy parcel. Those are Glenn Beck books. We already opened the box.
Remember, all right, I'll wait from my invitation. Yes, so with
block obviously then but then the person knows, hey, I've been blocked,
and so Must said, there's so many layers this, so Must said,
they want to under it. Here's the reason that I feel, and I
think most people who use Twitter probably think Elon Must wants this. And that
is because when you see ads that you're scrolling your timeline, they're associated their
ads, but associated with a Twitter account. Now they've done a couple of
things to them. It used to say promotion at the bottom, and now
it doesn't say that, but next to where the little three circles are where
you clicked to do to interact with the tweet, it now says ad ad
ad And in a way that's kind of interesting because now you've scrolled down and
if you want to go back to actually block that ad, which people do,
I've done that or I've just gotten sick of the same ad over and
over, or it's obviously pretty scummy where I've I've literally blocked blocked those stuff,
And that's not good news for you know, for revenue for Twitter,
limiting impressions and if enough people do it, Like I get why Elon must
doesn't want that, but isn't the easier solution unless I'm missing the motivation here,
just to not allow people to block those we just ross and I figured
out last week when we, uh, what do we do? We quote
tweeted or retweeted? We just retweeted something, right, Dad? No,
the the Ukrainian Yes, the Ukrainian spokesperson who the transwoman American woman who's now
the English communications person for the Ukrainian military yes, yeah, you quote.
You just retweeted that because we're talking about it on the air, and then,
for whatever reason, we're not able to unretweeted. I have never seen
that before on Twitter, and I can't. I if you repost a post
on X right, what happens is you can undo it if you're like,
oh, that was an accident. So I was on my show's account,
as I am every every morning, trying to post stuff on the SHO account.
I was on the wrong account. So I reposted that tweet or that
X whatever it's called on my account, and then I said, what's your
personal I went, whoop, see I made a mistake. So I went
to unrepost it, and it's impossible. Now I went back to every other
post that I retweeted over the weekend. Not an issue. To this date,
I still can't unpost that post. That's super weird. Yeah, a
little bit, But you could do that to the advertisers tweets things. You
know what I'm saying. Don't let people block them. That's the solution here.
There has to be some way for him to do it. Now,
there's a couple of things. Let me Devil's advocate this argument because I had
people literally going, hey, you don't this is how I this is what
people use to stop people who are harassing them. And in a much more
wild West setting, which Elon Musk has promised and I think to some extent
delivered. Right, there's a lot we had a lot. I'm seeing a
lot more of the accounts that I actually follow, which was this weird thing
with Twitter where I follow all these accounts and then never show up in my
news. For you, now you can just see the stuff you followed,
but also you get a nice smattering. There's accounts that we followed for years
where I swear I've never seen any of their tweets in my timeline until Muss
took over, and now I am seeing them. And I to the point
where I would see something that somebody else would send me, I would go
to their account because I'm like, maybe we got unfollowed or something and I
didn't. I was just never getting served their product, and so I like
that. But if you're going to have the more Community Square or the Ross
ross Fest, we're calling that ross Fest the party. I'm waiting for my
invitation for her. No, that's trademark. That's gonna be the olive garden.
See you can't call it that. Oh okay, well I'll wait for
the invitation and well whatever, Ross is a big party analogy if you use
that, yes, it's it's understandable why you'd want to have that, but
it would. This is why I'm gonna use the town square instead of your
party, because your party is by invitation, which I'm waiting for. I'm
sure it's gonna show. You know, the town square. If you're truly
making it a place where everyone can be heard, you do want to equip
people with those tools, because yes, people do go on there and they
do docs, and they do harass, and they do threaten. Right,
ask ask a female conservative pundent on Twitter how many rape threats that they get
on the regular? Now? How many of those are series? I don't
know most of her people for shock value, But why should you have to
put up with that? And if you mute them, yeah, they're screaming
into the void. See, the thing is if you block them. All
right, So let's say that I wanted to harass somebody wanted to harass me,
Okay, right, Hypothetically they wanted to harass me, and they either
one did it from an account that they now know I blocked, right,
because I do this because we had the show account blocked, not for harassment,
but for like some moonbat in North Carolina. One of these activists will
post something and I'll ask a question like politely, and then I'll get blocked.
But if I want to go see how the thread worked out, I
just flip over to my personal account and go. Look. So if you
block somebody, they know that you block them, so you know, if
they wanted to then I don't know, create another account. It come like
it would give them the most matter to me, Like if if they want
to do a burner account or a second account and look fine, but once
they start acting a fool again, I'm gonna block that one. And you
get some people that are like super excited when people block them. It's weird.
Yeah yeah, right the log who'll block me? I'm like, I
don't know if this like yeah a line of forward is this? Uh?
Some moonbat Twitter account here and they just block people for breathing. I'm assuming
they look at timelines and then they just block, so it must be what
they do all day. But like it's like a badge of honor, right,
to a lot of people, it is right to get I saw a
whole thread of people were like, oh we got block, we got block,
we got blocked. They were very excited. But but back to my
scenario, but at least there's some time there. If somebody's harassing you and
you block them, they immediately know. If they think if they're muted,
there may be this this respite where they don't know that they're muted. You
know what I'm saying, Most people don't know still piling their garbage on so
they don't have to create accounts like KCO d R H one two, you
know what I'm saying, like where it's obvious somebody's trying to get around it,
so they don't have to use their personal account to say what they really
think. That would be a scenario, an allegory. You keep pointing to
that account, and I keep telling you that it is not anything to do
with me. Literally has our initials M. It's annoying the account. Yeah,
the account is funny. And now I figured out who it is though,
which makes it even better. Oh good, Okay. The best thing
to do on Twitter is the soft block. Are you familiar with the soft
block? Tell me tell me more. This is the greatest thing ever.
So if you block somebody and immediately unblock that person, it removes them from
following you, but they don't know you did it. Oh, so that
is my new go to. It is the greatest thing ever. And I
discovered it by accident because I blocked somebody and then I felt bad about it,
and then I unblocked him, and I was there. It was not
everything's done about you. So I went back to their account. I realized,
oh my god, they're not following me anymore. And that's how it
works. So that person is harassing you and they're being a jerk, right,
And to keep posting in your kind of resets the relationship. Not that,
but you're not going to show up in their feet anymore. No,
no, no, that's what I mean. It resets the relationship with that
person, like you never saw that. It's gonna be like your account no
longer exists to their accounts, so when they're scrolling their feet, they're no
longer going to see it. Now. If they happen to think, hey,
I haven't seen Ross's post in a while, and they go into my
page and see that, they're un following me or that they in followed me.
Most of the time they assume that Twitter made a mistake and they'll send
you a message like Twitter keeps on following me from your page. And it's
hilarious. It's absolutely and you're like, yeah, I don't know anything about
that, buddy. It's weird, but it's so great because you're just not
going to show up in the couch laughing it is, so it's hilarious.
Yeah, without the mask, it's so great. I was unaware. It
is a game changer. It is called the soft block, and it's great.
So look, if the you would agree that the problem, if you
were to think it out, is probably people block blocking advertisers, right,
I know I do all the time. But every single must thinking probably is
that right, yeah, because he's losing out probably on views and clicks and
revenue, so right. And of course then they wanted to make it where
they get because the thing now that everyone loves to do when must does something,
as they run to EU regulators, these unelected bureaucrats over there and they're
like, oh, there's Walt stand and Apple, Oh you can't put this
on the Apple store. And that's literally there's articles out this morning where you
have to have this block feature, and one of the designers, one of
the engineers, Tracy Chow, who builds software, says it modifications could ruin
the mute function. However, one of must designers said that they as a
product developer, they are looking at making the mute features stronger by adding several
of the functions of the block feature, such as preventing people to reply to
tweets or quote them, and by transferring block lists to mute lists. That's
the other thing. These big lists. We're on one of the lists.
Did you know that ross, We're on one of the moon batt lists.
I'm not surprised. Somebody's somebody sent me a while ago they I'd see if
I can find I thought I sent it to you. Maybe I didn't.
But basically you can get these You can get these lists just like follow lists
that are designed blocklists. And so if you're if you want to operate and
you never want to have some jackass radio host on there, you can get
a list of all these jackass radio hosts such as myself, and then when
you on your Twitter account, you just and then it goes through and blocks
him. And these lists are extensive, and there's some political lists going on
out there that are crazy with a ton of people. So they share those
around and some people are like, oh, must is trying to combat that.
I don't know that he cares. So the real financial impact is you
get the EU people to say they'll screw with him. Apple to say that,
ah, if they don't do anything, or if they do that,
then we'll take him out of the app store, and you know that's how
they're going to go around for this. But here's where it gets crazy.
So people have a lot of thoughts on this. I understand that you can
weigh in if you want. However, this is what I don't understand.
So James Wood, so you all know, the actor who was very very
present on Twitter and then got eighty six under the old Twitter and brought back,
said, if Elon Musk removes the ability to block concerted harassment by trolls
or organized political entities, how will X be any different than Jack Dorsey's Twitter.
Musk, whom I once championed, is only doing this to protect his
advertisers. Anyway, users of X are mere pawns to turn the site into
an electronic shopping mall. The man I thought was a defender of free speech
is not just is now another greedy capitalist. Disappointing but not surprising. So
look, James Wood, some people are couching. As James Wood just criticized
it, he obviously went all in. When we come back, I'll tell
you what Elon must retweet or posted back to him that has people scratching their
heads because somebody it's like a one of those hungry Snickers commercials. It really
wasn't a good look. Would be my two cents on it, but we'll
let you decide at six fifty two k c O Day Radio program. Hang
on, all right, so we get you Elon his response to James Wood
and your phone calls coming up right after the news k c O Day Radio
program. All right, good morning everybody, and welcome back at his seven
zero seven here on the k c O Day Radio program. We're gonna talking
a little about the Twitter x whatever and uh Elon on Friday saying that,
you know, we might do away with the block feature, Like I understand
why he didn't lock the block like the block feature because people block advertisers.
I'm guilty. I'm sure others are guilty as well. But what it just
seems like it's something you could have fixed and not uh turned it into this.
Although maybe he thinks it's good public pub I don't know, because an
got activists running and saying, Wow, we're gonna get Apple to take it
out of the store. The EU's gonna ban it wahahaha, neither of which
will likely happen. Then, dude, I did a Google Chrome update,
and when it updates, even though I've never allowed to send notifications, now
it's sending me stupid entertainment stories every five minutes in a little annoying thing.
I'll fix that during the break. Thank you for that, Google. So
yeah, there's changes you couldn't made, like don't let people block in And
I saw somebody push back and go, well, if you don't let people
block the advertisers, then they'll get irritated and leave because they're not used to
that. I'm like, have you been on YouTube without being I guess premium
YouTube. That's how it works, right, If you don't have premium YouTube
and you want to go watch something one oh six one FM Talk and ninety
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Day and Carolina's Morning News. Well that's what I get for teasing the Monday
gods on equipment stuff or or maybe e laund in it, I don't know,
or Google because I was complaining about Chrome sending me all these stupid notifications
after an update. But whatever, I'd hate to have to accidentally have the
studio burned down. Actually should make our jokes because we've got an Arson story
coming up. I'm gonna get to that here in just a moment. But
what I was saying with Twitter, like this was all avoidable and all he
had to do was just be like, we're gonna not let you block advertisers
anymore, or we're going to create a combination block mute and here's the features,
and then see what people think. So James Woods posts this thing on
there, and for no reason I can understand he Elon responds to James woods
criticism, which is more than just the block. I mean, he's like,
you're a greedy capitalist, You're not the defender of free speech. I
thought you were disappointing, not surprising. So obviously something stuck in Woods is
Crows as well, and then Elon wrote, then delete your account. And
so even people who I think are probably pretty staunch Elon supporters didn't really like
him laying into James Woods of all people. It's just super weird. I
read. I'm like, I think Elon might need like a nap or like
a vacation or something is breaking. I don't know, but I you know,
let's let's be honest. We've all, like quick response tweeted something in
which we kind of had and it's a little different when you're Elon Musk,
right, it's different when you own the site, right, So, and
then his excuse to us he was why he was blocking people was super weird,
Yeah, because it was read it. Everything's a meme, man,
it was just weird. He was like, I guess people who block people
don't like to be blocked. How is it like to taste your own medicine?
And I felt like the Anchorman meme where it's like that makes no sense,
Like I read it over and over again, like I don't understand what
he's saying here makes no don't know, don't it just seems it just appears
this could have been easily avoided. I guess was my point? All right,
let me grab a couple of calls, and we get into the arts
and he start, did you want to add some No? Okay, all
right, let me have a couple of calls. Jamal, you're up first,
go ahead? What casey? Like I said, I'm one of the
people who Elon Musk allowed my other account to come back, and I will.
And now I'm able to follow you guys, able to get notification from
you all, which is good because, like let's say, like if I'm
up under a building, or let's say like if you guys are really talking
about something that's really really good, what you want, joy you all the
time you always are. I'm able to but share it, retweet it,
speak about it as well, so I'll be honest. The new Twitter he
you know, because I guess he let me back. That's why I'm I
like it. But the thing about you can't block somebody, I'm gonna tell
you like this because I'm someone who get the old guy you sell out even
tell I'm those type of emails or those type of tweets, I'm gona this.
I mute you because as long as you keep coming back and speaking on
my page, guess what you bling traffic? You bring track but do you
bring views. I do the same fingale Instagram, and then I restrict the
comments. So then if I'm able to if I'm able to like it,
then I share it, then I let people see it. If I don't,
oh well let's just stay muted. So yeah, that's a good point.
Look you I recognize, and I'm sure you do that. There are
situations where people are using Twitter and access to somebody as a way to do
something that rises to the level of criminal harassment. I'll give you an example
that was used there and I understand it where you had people who like,
let's say there was an abusive relationship in one of the partners literally had a
restraining order against the other one, and then that individual decides to harass them
on Twitter. Yes, there's a criminal element to that, but shouldn't that
person be able to block so they don't have to deal with that? And
I think so, yeah, I would agree. But if you if,
if you, just if you want to make it so the advertisers can't get
blocked, fine, and then do that. And then if you say strengthen
the mute, say you're combining it, but have the features where you can
actually purge that person and and this was all unnecessary. That's all I'm saying.
So I hear you, Jamal appreciate the PULPM. All right, thanks
Casey, Yeah yeah, yeah, all right. So Jamal is just happy
to be back. Didn't he used to? Like doesn't he lead the league?
And strikes over on Facebook or something. I don't know if he's even
back on there, dude, I have no idea. You got a gazillion
followers. It's like, because he said an email, he's like, I've
struck again. See. I know a lot of people like that sort of
negative engagement because it could brings some traffic, but personally, I don't care.
Right well, but if you're somebody who's and I point this out he
had he had a lot of people on Facebook and now Twitter, it's a
big it's a big hurdle to get up to. It's what impressions based,
but you can actually monetize it. Is it like fifteen million impressions or something
or I'm not sure the number of it. But if you're somebody who's striving
for that, yeah, you're gonna want all the engagement you want. And
even if it's somebody calling you whatever. I don't know, Bill, what's
up if they're gross? Is right? Some time ago they the movie Compty,
decided to go digital, so instead of making films, they started making
cassettes with like hard drives. They ship them out to the theaters and they
were okay, but you know they didn't you didn't have the quality you had
with film. So now all the manufacturers are going back to film, like
Barbie and Oppenheimer, and you can actually see the difference in the films.
And the other drawback was after about ten years, all the people who knew
how to run the theaters of the projectors have retired or gone away. So
now there's a big push and try and find people who can actually run run
theaters, going to run the movies through the through the pecs. So how
does this play sixteen hour days? Right? So how does us tie into
the DC versus Marvel thing we were having earlier? Well, it's it's the
quality. It's the systems that they use that they use for projecting the cassette
versus the film. Right. But but but Ross's complaint, Yeah, but
Ross's complaint that when you look at the CGI it has either a hue or
looks different is not simply because in the theater it looks that way. If
you would you watch it on DVD or streaming or whatever. He's not wrong.
So that's not a film issue. That's not a projector issue. That's
the whatever CGI level of CGI they want to use, unless it's the delivery
system is the problem what they're using to do the filming, because you can
even see it in certain films are are going to be darker than others.
Yeah, I just I don't know how that would All of the DC ones
would transfer over that way and have a very similar look. But maybe Bill
Sorry, I just cut Bill off. He's gonna mute me or block me,
but I can't block me if Ellen does this thing. But whatever.
Yeah, yeah, I don't. I think it's just it's a and I'm
sure that there's this. There's also a look that they're going for. I
give you an example. We got a story in the stack. Let me
just hit this real quick, and we're gonna get into the bicycle insanity because
it just made me laugh. Do you know they're making another Twister? Yes?
Yes, a movie that couldn't scream more one off if you tried,
and was based on a story by Michael Crichton, right of Jurassic Park fame,
and quite a few others. Joy Michael Crichton. So the So the
the original Twisters from nineteen ninety six. By the way, I'm sure most
of you saw that movie. It was very, very popular. It had
it Girl of the Moment, Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton, and they were
running around chasing tornadoes. That's what you need to know. If you haven't
seen it, go watching. And it was a pretty good movie. And
I remember too talking about special effects. It was one or like it's amazing,
And it was amazing because as you read the article, you realize that
when they did the movie, they didn't have the technology they have right now.
So right back in the day, they used a real cow, well
not a real cow, no, it's a real living cow. Man.
They propelled it through the sky. Okay, it's a stunt cow. Yeah,
you just go hire a stunt right. But to Ross's kind of point,
they really were throwing all that crap around. So when you saw a
car and a bunch of ice come fly, now that a tornado. That's
because they created a machine to launch a car and all of that. You
know, hail and other store debris. They were launched. That was all
real stuff, and it was ungodly expensive and complicated to shoot, as you
can imagine, because you gotta get you gotta get that ac or I gotta
go find another car to launch. So they were doing all that the real
they went through forty cows. Well there's a lot of cows. AOC was
pleased the good. Yeah. So so now they're making Twisters another movie,
and the original the director of the original movie is he's not a big fan.
He said, they're gonna screw it up because while he said Twister helped
advance the use of visual effects, visual effects are when they say visual effects.
In this case, they're talking about actually utilizing real stuff, actually launching
a cow or more likely a car, and and having to do it that
way. And the CGI today just doesn't look like that, and bad CGI,
he's right, doesn't. He also says something interesting. He also points
out that the guy that got to direct it, he is a fan of
Lee Isaac Chung, but he says it's interesting nowadays as a retired director.
He said he's eighty now or something seventy nine. He said that the reason
studios are moving into inexperienced directors. It's kind of what they did to the
Hollywood Star. We've had this conversation on the air. Is because they're more
controllable, he said, quote, don't forget the main reason they keep finding
younger, inexperienced directors is they want to be able to fully control them.
They want to have really good ads, writers, producers, cinematographers, so
they have all the help they can get. But ultimately, the director is
the studio is going to tell them what's in the movie. I know this
firsthand. He's not wrong. And like I said, we had the discussion
about the Hollywood Star, who's the last Hollywood star arguably out there? I
mean there's arguably there's probably a handful Tom Cruise, but Tom Cruise is is
top of the And when I say Hollywood stars, I mean like you hear
that person's doing a movie, you go see it because that's person's there.
Whereas and the Marvel movies were a good example, you weren't going because of
the person playing the characters, even though they're quote big stars. Now,
ultimately just because so and so is in a movie. It's not like when
Clint Eastwood had a new movie coming out right, and you go see it
because you're like, that's Clint Eastwood. Let's go see what he's doing.
And it could be it could be anything. It could be uh, you
know, him living in Detroit surrounded by among neighbors. It could be him
muling drugs. It could be you know what was the last one. It
was a crime macho or whatever. Like it ran the gamut, But people
go see it because it was Clint Eastwood and now and there. That's kind
of how it is. Look, if you're a studio and this, by
the way, this is I'm probably get in trouble for this. This is
not just something in the in the in the TV or film industry. It
runs the gamut of entertainment. One of the most expensive element or one of
the most expensive elements that's controllable, are staffing costs. And when you get
when you get somebody who is legacy to the point that Clint Eastwood is,
it removes your ability to control things and sometimes gets more expensive. When you
got to hire a Tom Cruise, it gets very expensive. So and and
we've seen it in all sorts of entertainment mediums where it's more about the product
rather than the person that is the face of the product. And plus it
also insulates you from the cancel stuff too. This is I mean so in
a way, I guess I kind of get that little part of it.
So if you have, you know the conundrum that they were in with the
Flash movie, Well, the problem is they had started shooting that they could
easily swapped out the Flash. If they had not begun principal filming, it
would be a new Flash guy. Nobody would think of it. They would
not be like, oh no, Ezra Miller has to be the Flash because
he was the Flash and some of the other DC proms, well, that's
what you're doing here, And I think he makes a pretty good point.
So anyway, all right, that's enough on that, because we got to
get into the story of a well an alleged arsonist. I'll let you be
the judge, and how technology and the Internet and us always being watched may
have played into this story, which made me chuckle. That's next Your day
Smarter one oh six one FM Talk and News Talk nine four five w PTI
more with Casey Starts. Now, all right, good morning, welcome back
in his seven thirty five and I want to tell you two story. He's
one from right here in North Carolina and another one h well all over the
world in secret places we probably shouldn't have known about, and how they interconnect.
So I was watching this insanity play out over the weekend and it was
one of the it was it's one of those stories where it's just made to
go viral. Right. So it's a homeowner. He's got a nest or
ring camera or whatever out as many do, and on his property he has
a banner that says try I think it's a Trump won, Trump won all
right or Trump twenty twenty four sign notes says Trump one. I'm looking at
it right now, okay. And he's got that prominently displayed in his yard.
Like so many homes around North Carolina, this case in Raleigh have signs
in new yard and they could be Trump won, they could be what was
the what was the sign that person had forever just up the road from the
station for what was it? For pocahonas right? It was Elizabeth Warren sign
or something in their yard. Uh. And then they had an AOC sign
right up by the oh where a New Hope Church road is in Atlantic Avenue
Ross it was Elizabeth Warren right that he had a sign forever or she.
I don't know who there it was Elizabeth Warren sign. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, all right, so Ross is eating an egg. I'm disturbing him.
You gotta get the protein, manu. So anyway, so they had
Liz so whatever. And we've done many, many, many stories about people
with signs in their yard. They had a person getting mad at a dude
who had a sign in a tree up in wake Forest, and then there
was the guy who made videos of him electrifying the sign, which made for
some hilarious content, and then the police like, yeah, you shouldn't do
that. So anyway, this guy doesn't have any of that. He just
got a sign out there telling you what he thinks. And as you can
imagine, that irritates some people, especially. This is a neighborhood that's inside
the belt line. This is near five Points. This is not too far.
Actually, I won't tell you where I live, but I'll tell you
where my house is, and it's not too far from this. And there
are a lot of people, especially people who moved into that area. See,
the trick was to move like ten years ago when it was still affordable
to move over there. But as a result, there's a lot of people
that moved in, came from California, had so much equity they were paying
cash for those houses. It's crazy. So there is a definitive moon vat
vibe in that area. So some guy with a sign that says Trump,
one's gonna draw attention. But that's his prerogative. Whatever. It's a sign.
You move on. Even if you go, oh, look at this
idiot, you still move on. That's it. That's how you deal with
that, if you if you just agree with him. But in these two
videos that were posted, you see a guy on a bicycle. One is
August twelfth, and these are important. I bet him telling you the dates
because I think some people are trying to push back on this, but they
don't understand what's happening. So one is August twelfth, and it's daytime,
it's seven fourteen in the morning, and you see his bicyclists kind of pull
onto the grass where this sign is. There's an American flag next to it,
and he starts kicking it with his little bicycle shoe, and you know
it doesn't really do anything. It's obviously got some it's durable, and he
moves on. However, if you keep watching, there's a second clip and
I'm gonna retweet. I'm gonna retweet this right now, just so it's right.
No, I don't want to quote, tweet, stop it, just
retweet. Ah, why are you doing this? Repost? Excuse me?
All right? So in the video, then you see another from August fifteenth,
this one at four nineteen in the morning, and in this instance a
bicyclist appearing to be in pretty much the same outfit, though now it's dark
so it's harder to make out the detail of it, but it's definitely the
bicycle shorts with the helmet and all the stuff comes back, and in the
video they have one of those barbecue lighters and they light it up the sign.
They do push the American flag kind of out of the way at first,
so there's that. But they arson somebody's property, is what it appears
to show in this video, and that got posted. Journalist Stephen Horne did
a piece on this. He interviewed and talked to a cats who took two
our cats. Excuse me, we make sure here real quick, because I
want to clarify, because there's two people, one more prominent than the other
with this name, and I don't think they're the same person, So I
think it's important too. Hold on, what is going on, dude,
do not update your chrome. I'm just telling you, do not update your
chrome. All right, So John Kane, the owner of the sign,
I don't believe it's the same. Judgment by the picture, I don't think
it's the John Kine, the developer, the North Hills guy, But I
don't know. Maybe he just looks really young, or he used a younger
pig. I've actually seen him, so that would have to be like a
much younger picture I'm not aware of. But anyway, he posted these videos
online and it drew interest, and it drew interest from like Tim Pool,
Benny Johnson and others, because you know, this is one of this is
a very chewable viral thing. And so the journalist here, Stephen Horne,
who he's the one who also did the stories on the arrest of the the
quote anti mask protesters and all of that insanity and all of that legal behind
the scenes maneuvering, which by the way, sounds incredibly troubling that we covered
on the show here. Also, I believe I saw a piece he did
where he was interviewing Democrats who donated but who showed to have donated like fifteen
thousand to Act Blue. And they're interviewing this guy who is obviously a guy
who donates a Democrat causes, but he's like a senior dude on a fixed
income, so he's given twenty here, fifty there, and he's like,
there's no way I made a fifteen thousand dollar donation. So it's you know,
it's very in line with some of that new age kind of investigative journalism.
It's good stuff. So in this case, the story is then goes
viral through the article and then hitting some of the big Twitter folks and before
you know, there's an eleven thousand dollar reward for the identity of whoever the
cyclist is. All right, So this is where this is where technology comes
in, and this is where my second story comes in. A while ago,
we did a show, or did a story on this show about Strava
and it was the military was not pleased with this. And Strava is a
is an account that you can get to map your workouts. So if you're
on a bicycle, if you kayak or canoe, if you run, you
have it on a smart watch or whatever, you do your thing, and
it literally will draw a map of what you're doing, and it gives you
a bunch of feedback, distance, weather condition, you name it, right.
And it's shareable too, right, because you know you got online,
you gotta be able to share stuff and show everybody what you're doing so they
can see, ah, look, so and so did go out for a
run. The problem arose is that members of our Special Forces, who obviously
are gonna you know, they're gonna be big on the PT they were using
the Strata app to map their runs that they were doing, and in some
cases these runs were taking place in places where it wasn't the world wasn't aware
that the US had Special Forces soldiers stationed there. They either didn't know it
was a base or it's a CIA side or whatever. So you can understand
that that's a problem. And so they had to eighty six that. And
you know, nobody's doing anything that they think is wrong. But people were
able to make that connection and go, why is I know this person is
a military operator and this guy is too, and they're all jogging in the
morning in this place. Why are they in this place? And then you
know the mass starts. Well, now there's eleven thousand dollars reward. Whether
they were driven out of money or idology. People went to work, and
when the internet goes to work, look, they'll get a lot wrong.
We've seen cases where they identified suspects who clearly weren't and it was it was
really really bad. But a lot of times we're able to find stuff.
And that's why I told the shy lab buff story early in the show.
So somebody figured out what was up with a guy? A guy here in
Raleigh. Should I put his name? I guess it's in the article.
It's in the article, and understand that this is their suspicion, and I
want you to read the evidence we read. We've retweeted the article that basically
shows a registered Democrat guy he I think he works in mortgages or whatever,
uploaded his bicycle rides to his Strava account, and those account on the dates
literally show him not just going by the house, but the Strava app also
shows when you stop and so on the app you can see at the exact
time matching the video from the homeowner. This individual who looks because they had
pictures of them and you match the pictures up in specifically some very unique tattoos
on his forearms which match you can see on the app. He posted evidence
of him literally stopping in front of this guy's house. It appears on the
HAP. So I talked about idiots making the police's job easy, like you
know, people holding fat stacks of cash, bragging about bank robberies on Facebook,
or a guy who googles how to dispose of a body that weighs exactly
what is now missing wife weighs? Now you got this? So I look,
I hope Rallig police are up in on this. Get busy man.
And it's all because you had to have the latest, greatest and bragged to
people about your bicycle route and for those going well to be believed he's always
they were accusing the homeowner of doing it. I saw some people saying,
well, he likes uh, you know, he's active, and why would
this guy always be in a bicycle outfit? Well, ones at seven in
the morning and on at four fifteen in the morning. The one at seven
fifteen in the morning is a Saturday and the one at four fifteen is a
Tuesday, And that makes sense. So if you're somebody who bicycles in the
morning as part of your health routine on work days, you got to do
it a hell of a lot earlier than you can on a Saturday if you're
a five day a week er. Right, So you get up, you
do the bikecride, you come home, eat whatever, shower that I'm at
the gym or at a two thirty three o'clock on the weekdays and on the
weekend, and yesterday when at seven thirty, right, So that actually matches
with how people would generally continue to do their workout on a weekend versus a
weekday. And I just love the technical aspect of people snitching on himself is
so great, so great. So yeah, this is crazy town, man.
This story just made me laugh. So dig into it and Raley PD
I. I hope we're going to do something here if because it sounds like
there's a lot of evidence in your lap. And I think the homeowner actually
paid the dude who figured it out thousand dollars, which was his end of
the reward. We'll see if the other two who offered five k keep up,
but eleven thousand for day's work sleuthing on the internet can't beat that seven
forty oh crap race stage, Like, sorry, buddy, we had just
a fun story here, so sorry to leave you hanging there this morning problem
sunny and hot, try to okay, Well, it was a little Santiago
wish. I mean, let's just I was looking at the forecast yesterday,
right five day on my phone. I'm like, ah, yeah, and
we could be mid upper nineties. We make it a little dip Thursday to
closer to ninety oper eighties, low nineties, but for this week it basically
low mid nineties. Today, Tomorrow lots of sunshine, might see some cloud
at times. Even Wednesday, with that little dip coming in, may stay
in the eighties, but by Friday we're back in the mid upper nineties.
On the warmer championships will be the triangle towards the Try at a few degrees
cooler and in the mountain's core than that. Probably not till the end of
the weekend we get a break. Hillary made headlines over the weekend heavy rainfall.
The center did not come ashore in southern California was the Baja Mexico where
it came on shore, so there was not a landfall, so to say,
in the US, but still life threatening flooding continuing as that moisture continues
to go north. Yeah, and I look, I don't I don't wish
anybody ill will, but some of the some of the stories after knowing that,
mate, I'm like, I don't think they would survive a hurricane coming
to shore in North Carolina. You know what I'm saying. Good people people
are like odd's the end times, It's all gone, And I'm like,
yeah, well, a part of it too is that, you know,
usually you get weakening of these systems, and it's all about the climate too.
I mean all seriousness. If you get three inches of rain, it's
a disaster there, and it's almost the entire rainfall for some of these cities
that they get in an entire year, like pop Springs. Now, imagine
if they've gotten what we get on the East Coast or the Southeast or the
Gulf Coast where you're talking twenty twenty five inches of rain and some of our
landfalling tropical systems in the more common areas they got that, forget it.
I mean all bets would be off. So they still had their fair share
of damage and clean up continuing. Some of that moisture starting to get into,
believe it or not, parts of the Pacific, Northwest, Montana and
even Wyoming, which may sound familiar to you. It's okay, we'll shoot
at it. So yeah, we'll probably all right, all right, have
a god one b feel later. Oh yeah, we love shooting it stuff.
All right, we'll be back. Hang on, keeping you connected w
PTI Triad and one o six one FM Talk Dan the Triangle. All right,
here we go. It is seven fifty five our phone number eight eight
eight nine three four seven eight seven four. And you know when we get
signs burning and people taking out there, Now it's more fun when it's a
candidate doing it to his opposition signs. But you know, we're not that
far from the election cycle where all that insanity will unfold. But the part
where people tattle on themselves digitally and they don't realize it for some reason.
Man, it really I love those stories because it's just crazy town. It
is also a good reminder like how much is tracking you each every day,
how screwge you are, and a lot of it, but also how dumb
people can be. Like the guy I mentioned, the guy who was searching
how to dispose of a woman's body, the ways one hundred and thirty six
pounds are like, you're one hundred thirty six pound. Life is missing?
What could have happened? Like? Police gotta love this stuff. Oh,
it's got to make your life easy. So hopefully they drilled down on it.
I only have a couple all right, Oh good, Okay, So
the guy wrote the story is on the phone. All right, Well,
we'll talk to him after the bottom of the hour, because I don't want
to just talk to him for two minutes, and I want to ask him
solve. I want to ask him too about the the donors too. Those
videos were bonkers from a few weeks ago if you don't remember those. Basically,
there's some big old, big old contributions on Act Blue, like big
contributions and an individual's names who either don't appear to be somebody who could afford
those levels of contributions, or people who when journalists went and talked to him
outright said no, I didn't donate that. But also we're very adamant that
they do donate to the you know, the Act Blue kind of causes,
just in much smaller amounts. So that leads you to wonder We'll wait a
second. Are they is it bad accounting or are they intentionally trying to hide
large infusions of money by claiming they come from these individual donors, or as
some would call it, a crime, some would even call it a large
scale group commission of a crime. Almost recoish. But we don't use that
for anything nowadays. That was just for the mob back in the day,
so probably I don't have to worry about that. But yeah, so we
got you know, we're getting ready to step into stupid and nowadays with all
the cameras and people having their own, it's so easy to have a nest
or a ring camera, and you know, all the shenanigans that were almost
anecdotal at Sunday are now there for our eyeballs. Go see about social media
and internet sluice can do their thing. Oh it's amazing. All right,
so we'll talk a little more about that. We've got some cancelations and a
new twist on what your kids should be learning in school from some of these
really creepy teachers. Hang on, all right, good morning, everybody,
welcome, It is our number street. I knew this was gonna be a
fun show. It has blown by which I Welcome on a Monday. Welcome
on a Monday. Stuff coming from all. I got a bunch of stuff
and I got to get to in this last hour. I was mentioning you
go watch the video. I just I like watching this stuff. You know
why, because it's in a way, it's kind of like an episode of
a show where the Internet gets a hole to some like a dog with a
chew toy man and they just start delving in. And for anyone who occasionally
likes to go down a rabbit hole, it's like having people go down a
rabbit hole for you. And that emerged when a homeowner posted a video of
a guy who's dressed his you know, a guy who's bicycling right with the
tight shirt, the logos and the shorts and the shoes and the helmet and
everything daytime, coming through kicking his Trump one sign on his yard. This
is ib inside the belt Line Raleigh area. And then days later, at
like four something in the morning, coming through and literally arsoning the sign.
So there, you know, there's there's shot from the homeowner's camera. You
can kind of see the dude. He's got some really distinct tattoos, like
really distinct and the search was on and people are like, I'll put some
money towards that, and before you knew it, there was eleven thousand dollars
reward and Sluice took to it, and I was just kind of watching this
this go and they eventually some guy figured out that somebody was uploading their bicycle
routes on the very same app that got some of our military guys in a
little bit of hot water because their fitness trackers, which map out where you
run or bike or canoe or whatever, kayak, whatever your thing is,
and it just so happened to show corresponding with those cameras, an individual who
in his photos has tattoos that looked to be the same. Not just going
by there, but you can see when they stopped there because it logs that
too. So in a way, you're narking on yourself on the inner net.
And so I was watching these stories unfold a few articles locally here by
Stephen Horne is the author of those articles, and it's just one of those
viral things. He's actually on the phone, so we're gonna talk to him.
So I was given that big build up. Steven, how you doing
this morning? Good? I'm good sir, all right, So I had
I don't know, I take Do you remember do you remember the shy La
buff flag thing where the Internet figured out where he was flying that flag in
Rule Tennessee or whatever. Yeah, yeah, I'm a little bit aware of
that, not too much though, but but it is the it is the
digital tattletale, the and the lengths that the Internet's willing to go through.
So how did you get a hold of this story from the homeowner? Or
did you just see it on Twitter and you went out and decided this is
something you wanted to cover. Yeah? Yeah, So I came across's video
on Twitter. I would have had about like a thousands and I was like,
hey, you know, I'm I'm always looking for stuff happening in the
local area. And so I was like, hey, you know John Kane,
the you know, the name stuck out to me a little bit because
you know, I did a little bit of coverage when he was running for
the chair of the North Carolina jop Convention this year. It's not the same
John Kane though, the developer, right, it's a different John Kane.
I think it might be his son. I'm not don't care about that now,
all right, I just want to because people are like because the picture
didn't comport with the age of the individual. And I've actually met Yeah,
it's not like seven year or eighty. I can tell you that. All
right, all right, cool, cool, So so you see this,
yeah, and a little profile because you're right in Greensboro. He was wanted
to be party chair. And so you get this thing and you put it
forward and then a couple like Benny Johnson and a few others, Tim Pool
uh and others. They they they proffer some money, right, and it
was eleven thousand dollars, and the internet went to work. Yeah, yeah,
so I think I was Saturday morning when it started to go viral with
some yeah, some larger account chang the video. I think, yeah,
like Citizen Free Press was one of the first. And you know, yeah,
Tim Coole, Benny Johnson offered you know, additional reward on top of
the thousand dollars that Kane had offered himself. What now, And so the
the the smoking guns, so to speak, because you did an updated article
which we retweeted one. Those tattoos look the same. Those are very distinctive
tattoos, you would agree yeah. Yeah, so it's like a pig tattoo
on his enter armor, like a ligne with some crosses, you know,
not not exactly sure, that signifies that pretty distinctive. Yeah, police love
this stuff. And then we get into this strack of stuff and we did
the story on the show and you mentioned it in your article where they were
figuring out where like clandestine uh CIA bases were based on. Some of our
soldiers just wanted to stay in shape and it was a little bit of a
problem. But it shows you just how much stuff is out there on the
internet. Now, you're an investigative reporter. Would that be a fair assessment
of what your job title is. Yeah. I like doing that. You
know, I do some other journalism stuff as well, but that's why my
favorite stuff that I do is the investigative stuff. How much fun is it
in the digital age to dig into that stuff considering that a lot of people
don't realize how much they're leaving out there. Yeah, I mean it can
be be kind of fun, you know, and you're you're poking around and
stuff that most people don't realize it out there, you know. Job,
I think it's sort of interesting because it's not like there, it's not like
this data out there and people don't realize that they're they're actively posting, you
know, the route of their run and they're out to go on. Now,
maybe they don't realize how it could be used negatively against them, but
like they're they're explicitly getting this out there because you know, they want to
their pends be like, oh wow, you know he rode however many miles
today, I'm gonna write that many miles tomorrow. Yeah, Which, by
the way, I like that aspect of it because you know, with especially
with people are trying to keep a fitness routine, it's good to you know,
some people have workout buddies or you got friends and you want to you
want to keep people motivated, and like, I like the competitive nature of
that. But the downside is that this stuff exists and it's out there,
and people don't realize how quickly your data can also be used to determine you
might have done something in the case of like the Google searches that we see
in some of these stories where people are googling some really specific stuff when their
wife goes missing, and what are police supposed to think? So let me
ask you this just because I have you on the phone here quick. Was
that you doing the interview with those Act Blue donors in those videos that I
saw? All right? I love me? All right. So there's a
video you did and you're talking to this guy. He's elderly, gentleman,
he's on a fixed income. These are his words, and you're you're talking
about donations he made and the little ones. He's like, yeah, I
might have made that fifty dollars for this pack, fifty dollars for that pack.
And at one point you bring up a fifteen thousand dollars donation. I
believe it was to Act Blue. That was the total of donations. Oh
Act Blue during that two year period, the one singular donation. But in
your mind, and judging from what I saw, this guy is unabashedly a
Democratic donor, right he is, for sure. And and but when you
hit him with that number, he was like, yeah, there's no way
I donated fifteen thousand dollars. And some people are saying, well, you
know, it's like you ever gone out and you spent too much money when
you were with your friends, you know, partying or whatever. This is
not that. This is way in excess of what this guy probably felt that
he spent whatever happened with that, because he wasn't the only one. You
talked to a few different people, because it really looks like either there's some
bad accounting going on or perhaps shenanigans, as they say, yeah, I
mean, I haven't really heard of anything happening. You know. This was
that inspired by investations that O'Keefe media group with James o'keefer was doing across the
country. So, as I note in my story at the time, I
believe it was Marco Rubio and Matt Gates who had filed legislation and Congress sort
of relating to trying to resolve some of us requiring sort of an actual air
of security when credit cards are being used for online donations to ensure that you
know, the name being given for that VC record match the name on the
card or whatnot. I haven't really heard any update or any other investigations by
the actual authorities into that. Okay, And we're not we're not talking about
campaign donations and individual candidates, which have federal limits. We're talking about larger
donations. So I guess the act. Yeah, the pack, So the
accusation is there are people and we don't know, but there are people who
are either trying to disguise large scale donations either by people who I guess in
America who don't want that out there. But the other thing is obviously groups
from outside the US who may want to donate who may not be able to
make other types of contributions, but also the candidate or the party doesn't want
that associated. It's just about confusing where it's coming from. And unfortunately you
got to lay it off on somebody, and these donors acted like they had
no idea what you were talking about. So yeah, that's a million dollar
question, is if the money isn't coming from this donor, where is the
money coming from? And why are they trying to hide that? Yeah?
What's your you gotta what's your sub stack? You are ill? You can
go to this week in the Triangle dot com, all right, and you
got stuff on there. We got a bunch of listeners in the Triad too,
so maybe you have to go over and super sluice some stuff there too.
So but I appreciate you calling in man because I thank you. I
got a good laugh out of the story yesterday. All right, that's uh,
we'll put him on holder. What did I do? There? We
go? All right, Stephen Horne here on the CaCO Day radio program.
All right, it is eight seventeen. Oh wait hold oh somebody wants to
comment. All right, hold on, Steve, we'll get to your call
coming up. I this is different, Steve, not Stephen. Steve.
We'll talk about that. We got a cancelation to do, and so much
more coming your way. Casey O Day Radio program show. After the show
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on the iHeart radio app. Alrighty twenty two here on the KCO Day Radio
program phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seventy four. So
let me grab a quick call on all of his bicycle insanity and specifically this
app that internet sluse are using to try to identify this guy who may have
arsoned somebody's property. Steve, what's up? All good morning, good show
fellas, nice way to start my Monday. Yeah, thanks Draba, So
we appreciate it so definitely. By my buddy. We cycle a lot.
He's a he's pretty wealth. He's a lawyer. Got some nice rides at
fifteen grand plus and they followed his Strava to his address and nails him one
night. And you now can hide your start and endpoint on Strava. Before
you couldn't and you had to think about it. You know, I better
start my Strava about a block away. So, yeah, your refo's out
there and you don't even think about it. Yeah, especially the part where
you can see you can where you stop right, it literally tells you how
long you stop too. I mean it's more than just a map, it's
it's a lot of deep Yeah, we put out there. So it stopped
at my last crash too. Yeah, so why did you Why did your
lawyer now explain this to me? You say they got him? Why did
he hide it? Was? It was he didn't That was before the app
had that feature on it. And uh, you know, you don't even
think about it. You leave out of your house to go to a ride
and there's your start point. Yeah yeah, but but but what happened?
What happened your buddy though you mentioned the bike, does somebody steal his bike?
Oh? Oh, a bunch of bikes? Well yeah, he is
a Quiver and uh they're all very nice custom bottom custom, and yeah they
nailed him for a few bikes. Oh no, that makes so they were
so people would look at the app, they look at the pictures of these
bikes. I saw somebody looked up the bike in this story we were doing.
It was like seven grand I can't imagine. But hey, if you're
into it, you're into it. What I spend money on stupid stuff?
I'm into but ups that boy. Yeah, I probably past that woos boy
every day. But yeah, exactly, It's like, but so, spend
your money how you want. But I could see if you're a thief,
you're look, you're sitting there and you're looking at some of these bikes at
you know, ten thousand dollars or seven thousand or fifteen or whatever it is,
and now guys telling you where it's stored. Ye know, criminals are
crafty. Man. Yeah, I could see that would be a problem.
So I understand why people would want to make that adjustment and the app would
have to adjust. Apparently this dude didn't get the memo on, you know,
on the Crime Commission part of it, potentially allegedly, so I probably
listened belt that's why that's from my house is. Oh I'm sorry, I'm
sorry, are you except for something? I just don't tell anyone what I
do, all right, So I have a good one, all right.
It's very moonbatty in there. Uh a little bit, a little bit,
all right, I gotta hit this. I simultaneously feel bad for this guy
because his son is the one who put him on on on, but it
send and put him on to blast him, but it's turned into a whole
thing. The other thing over the weekend was that I was watching this actually
dates back to last week, but I didn't see it till this weekend.
Is there's a guy who posted a series of family chats. So there's you
know, like iPhone chats, they have one where the whole family's on there.
I'm sure a lot of you have a family thread as well. And
it was his dad, who's fifty nine, had went and seen the Barbie
movie and did a review. He wrote like a whole review and it was
just supposed to be for the family, but his kid decided, hey,
I'm gonna put this online and it went viral like that because dad really liked
the Barbie movie. But he made a couple of pretty bold statements in there.
Now, this guy's from New York. It does read as though there's
probably some blue politics there. But I just want to read part of this
to you because I look, his kid posted there. He didn't post it
on the internet. I think people should probably not be trying to hunt this
dude down. But it's funny, he said. Quote. Barbie takes on
the patriarchy with surgical precision. She even takes down the greatest movie of all
time, The Godfather, as a movie men feel compelled to man explain to
women. Here Barbie is saying, step aside Godfather, there is now something
newer, bigger, and much more profound and important to talk about. Yeah,
what what I mean? One of my favorite bosses ever? It was
a female and that's one of her favorite movies. So Barbie, no The
Godfather? Oh but has she heard of Barbie? I believe she has.
Yes, is the one I'm thinking of? It probably is, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, I bet she's heard of Barbie because she,
you know, works in this industry. So so, Roster, you're gonna
adjust your list because you're what Godfather won two? And then Joe Dirt right
corruptly right, not necessarily in that order, but yes, So now what
Joe Dirt. Make it kicks, right, because if it's better than Godfather,
there's no way the Barbie movie is better than Joe Dirt. Come on,
Joe Dirt's dropping the four. No more medals, no medals for Joe.
Gotta see it anyway, We'll be back. Thank you. Is f
w PTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM talk in the Triangle,
all right, eight thirty six casey O day radio program Man. What
a day? What a day? What a day? What a day is
gonna be when they get ahold of your kids too? By the way,
man, so I was reading this, this is bonkers. Ross gets your
search engine ready. I'm gonna have to have you research some stuff because I
didn't want to look it up logging under Kyle or something. Probably what you
should do, all right. So a teacher, an instructor, however you
want to describe it, who was initially at a very high profile school in
New York called the Dalton School, which is yeah, big deal, was
holding some really creepy like sex head stuff in there and handing out stuff to
kids and irritated even enough really rich moonbats to finally get eighty six has emerged
now with a group that is putting together porn literacy curriculum for schools and getting
a lot of a lot of volunteers where schools were like yeah no, as
part of our sex head training, what we need is we need adults to
come into children and explain pornography to them. That don't get me wrong with
the advent of the internet, as a parent is looking to what kind of
information and discussion they're going to have with the child, it is a separate
deal. No longer are the days of if kids want to get ahold of
that stuff, they got to find dad's magazines hidden somewhere, or you know,
sneak a peek in the secret room of the video store. Now it's
out there, man, it's out there. And so I understand from an
educational component, it just falls in line with a lot of other stuff where
people are like, well, you know, maybe this is a conversation better
for parents, But when you start getting into the intricacies of adult material like
that, there are there are understandable nuances. And I think one of the
big things that people would say that should be communicated when it is appropriate time
to communicate it is that that's not necessarily real life. Okay, that's not
that's not what you should be striving for. And I understand that. However,
putting together these giant curriculums, which is now this woman's grift and charging
forty forty some thousand for it, uh, and schools signing up, she
got fired into a much better life. And it's really creepy. Some audio
emerged of her and some of her folks talking about the and this is the
softer version, talking about exactly what they're wanting to communicate to kids and why
they think it should and uh, judgment by that video, I don't if
I had a kid, I wouldn't want any of these people near my dude.
I agree, right, Like when you watch the video, like they's
especially the one person in the video, the dude is a creeper. They're
doing the Southwest. Yeah, uh uh huh. Yeah. I don't want
to I don't want to talk to if I had a kid, I don't
want to talk to about anything. And I'm watching it because you know,
I loaded the audio there and I'm watching the video. I'm like, you're
telling me that one person in this video was like, hey, this is
kind of weird. They're all leaned in forward, like, yeah, let's
do this. That dude is really leaned in forward. Do you think he's
there just a hook up with the other three? Un me? I don't
think. I'm sorry put you in this position. Yeah, I don't.
I knew what I was doing. I don't think you'd be interested. Oh
right, that's so weird. All right, all right, all right,
well hold on, let's play the audio. Here we go. Oh wait,
hold on not hearing it? All right, let me try again.
Here we go. But I I agree. I think porn literacy works in
a very similar way as media literacy. And I do have to give a
shout out to doctor Bianco Laudana because she also taught me a lot about what
I do know about porn literacy. I think it's a great tool. They,
you know, Corey and Justin touched on the five core concepts and the
five key questions that. By the way, whatever that audio is, the
slushy sound on it just it makes it extra creepy. It's just people really
a tubid thing going on or what's happening here? I don't know that was
that was something I'm thinking of. But remember she got fired literally for doing
a course on tubiting. That's what you got fired and that was the course.
Yes, so it's funny you should reference that. All right, let's
continue That are a part of media literacy and understanding who created this message,
why was it created, what are the messages that are being set, and
what it allows young people to do and adults alike, to be honest,
is it helps us kind of critically examine and makes sense that the sexualized images
that we are seeing are coming across. So it's the basic understanding that whether
or not you're seeking out pornography on purpose or completely by accident, understanding that
it does have a message, and this message can affect the way that you
feel about yourselves or your others, or your relationship with sex and sexuality.
And so the main goal of porn literacy is really for people to critique what
they are consuming and to construct their own meanings from the content, rather than
just being affected by it. Right, So it's kind of like creating a
toolbox before you are affected by any sort of media. Poor literacy, of
course, is more focused on sexualized right. Okay, all right, slashy
sound look creepy. There's a there's a hint of I understand. I understand
the perspective of maybe parents out there want to know how exactly do I talk
to my kid about things that they may see on the internet. Right,
And everyone's gonna have to come to that formulation. But I want to be
clear when you get into the slide show and the curriculum that this woman's pushing.
This is not stuff you happened onto these kids. And I'll get into
what I can. There's gonna be a lot of stuff. There's stuff here
I've never heard of. Get what I'm saying. So now this is it
feels almost promotion e And that's where parents lose their mind. And some school
districts there in New York have already hired this woman to come in and do
this class, and parents are like, what the hell's going on? Because
it's more than just the tube and stuff where he thought his camera was off.
Some of his colleagues are kind of hot. He's watching Tentacle whatever because
that other guys sent it to I don't know, but this is more than
that. And sometimes and she's talking about, well, what's the message being
conveyed here? Sometimes it's just porn, you know what I mean? There's
not some deeper understanding. This is a slide show. We need to let
you know a class. This isn't really how a pawn shop works. No,
so like just goes slide to slide in the most popular light. What
are you doing stopped? What if? What if I hire a realist?
Or if I want to go view a house? How does that work?
And I show up and there's a smoke female agent? Right? I I
have to think like people are aware, ay, and look, kids aren't
dumb. Don't get me wrong. There's still some stuff in there that obviously
is corruptible. And really the bigger I think corruptible side of it is the
idea that people feel that that is, you know, in the from a
generational standpoint where being online and every you know, I want to be an
influencer, I want to be a YouTuber, I want to be whatever that
one of the past out there. That's a road to easy money for people.
Maybe Hey, you turned eighteen and now you're the catch me outside girl
and you just made a million dollars And that's that's a very hard allure that's
out there. And that's and that's why it's important that parents discuss. It's
the problem is, I don't think they're discussing this from a perspective of trying
to explain the part where who is the actress the porn actress who quit and
I can't remember her name, but she was She did a very very in
depth interview and she talked about Miya Khalifa. Nah wasn't her? I was
thinking that, But was Riley something or Riley She did an interview. She
was very Riley Reid. She was really popular, and then she didn't interview
and she's just like, none of my family talks to me. Oh yeah,
but she's still an only fans, right, yeah, well yes,
but she'll say one thing in the interview and she'll cry and sob and then
she'll leave the link for her only fans. Well, I think she I
think the deal was she quit and then she was like, oh, oh,
money's not coming in, and then went back to it. But by
then she was already all in it. But I think she was being pretty
honest. And there she's like, none of my family talks to me,
and relationships like there's no there's no venue or there's no boundaries what that should
look like? And and I'm sure they're not in this I'll give you a
little more of what they are wanting to teach the kids. But understand this
is the stuff being pushed off real quick though. Racet Agac, let's chat
with him for a moment, and well, we're doing okay. California is
doing their thing. They're getting a lot of rain here. You're gonna wish
it was raining because it'll stop your skin from bursting into flat Yeah, lots
of sudden screen for heading out. Mid upper nineties. Next couple of days
may stay in the low nineties, try a west end of the mountains,
but a couple of hot ones. We'll get a little dip in temperatures.
Wednesday, we'll back down into the mid eighties, but starting that slow climb
again by Thursday, back up close to ninety. Then maybe the mid nupper
nineties. Returning for Friday and Saturday. It's not until later in the weekend
we may see a cool off which may continue longer term into next week.
So hot week for the most part, most days above ninety degrees except Wednesday,
and then I think again by Sunday those numbers will start coming down.
And speaking of Hillary, now, a post tropical cyclone, the tropical Atlantics
on fire right now. There are one two renamed tropical storms. None of
them are forecast to come in and get close to the US mainland. There's
an invest area in the Gulf of Mexico heading towards Texas. It actually has
an eighty percent chance of developing. And with the three storms I think Gert,
Franklin and Emily out in the Atlantic, we would be on the h
storm and that could be Harold trying to form in the Gulf of Mexico and
to be good news for South Texas because it stays weak. But believe it
or not, with all those names storms in the Atlantic case right now,
it looks like none of those three are going to head close enough to the
US mainland to make any significant impacts, if any at all. So quite
amazing. Okay, all right, thank you, sir. Chat tomorrow with
you. Yeah, sounds good. All right, we'll come back. Jeff
Bellinger's next hang on, This is one FM talk in the Triangle and AI
can the Triad alright, A fifty three Bloomberg update now, Jeff Ballinger,
what's going on? Well, good morning, Case. It's been a rough
stretch for Wall Street three, losing weeks in a row. This is the
worst streak since February. Futures all pointing a little bit higher this morning.
We'll see if we can rebound some the Dow futures or up sixty points.
At the moment, investors are anxious to hear what Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell
will say when he speaks at a FED symposium in Jackson, holl on Friday.
Reports on home sales and durable goods orders, and the release of quarterly
results from Nvidia, Lowe's, Macy's, Gap, and Peloton will get attention
in the days leading up to that speech. Business economists are feeling more confident.
Nearly seventy percent of the experts survey by the National Association for Business Economics
are at least somewhat optimistic that the FED can get inflation down to two percent
without causing a recession. American Airlines taking the travel website skip lag to court.
The carrier says skip lagged is not authorized to sell tickets for its flights,
and it is deceiving customers with claims that it uses loopholes and ticket pricing
so it can offer lower fares. Meta Platforms reportedly is set to turn up
the competitive heat on Elon Musk's ex messaging platform. The Wall Street Journal says
Meta will launch a web version of its Threads microblogging app. New service being
introduced by career Builder with pay per resume. Companies looking to fill openings will
be charged only for the resumes they use. Career Builder doesn't say how much
it will charge for each resume. And Casey, the newest thing from Dominoes
is pepperoni stuffed cheesy breads, available nationwide starting today. Casey, So it's
pizza, I can assume because I remember, like the stuff crust, they
had a trademark on and somebody tried to do it and they follow a lawsuit.
So now that it's cheesy bread, it doesn't counter or what, well,
the chie it's not the cheesy bread is not part of a pizza,
so it probably doesn't count. Yeah, like they found a loophole. All
right, Well, I'll probably still sue each other because that's what they do.
So the pizza wars have begun, thank you? Okay, A yeah,
I have a good one, all right, pizza wars. ROSSI ready
for pizza wars. I'm good with pizza wars. Let them sue each other.
What's the best delivery pizza of the chains in the Hayes household? Probably
Marcos. Like Marcos, it's pretty good. M I mean, I'd get
down with some stuff crust. Don't get me wrong. I do think when
Dominoes did their thing where like we're gonna get better, they did get a
little better. But you know, the garlic sauce with the Papa John's is
pretty good. I don't know, it's it comes down to do they cook
it right and what's on there? Jets I like Jet pizza, that's pretty
good. Some people think it's weird because the way they do the toppings.
I don't know. We got choices, but I'm talking about the chains.
There's some smaller ones that I would I am more inclined to go to personally,
But if you've got to do the chains, some good choices, all
right. Anyway, back to these pervs you want to get into your kids
classroom just to show, you know, they just want to send a message
that you know, you may see some stuff on the Internet and that's not
how real life is, which is true. But also this isn't necessarily debate
about that. It's a debate about who should be doing that. The problem
is when you get into the slide show, it's about a lot more than
that, and there's like there's a whole aspect on social justice in there.
Especially. I'm going to try to be as delicate as possible, but basically
when it comes to adult kind of stuff on the internet, there is it
seems to be more around the mail experience and that he's having a good time
if you know what I mean, and that, and so they have a
whole thing there about how it's you know, the patriarchy is embedded with it.
It never mind that literally that's their customer for the most part. But
also they start getting into all of these terms. Let's see, can't say
that one that one step mom can say that, but they mean in a
different way, Nope, can't say that. And they also start teaching in
a positive fashion the virtues of different things because they want to They want kids
to understand that, you know, even if you're into something that your friends
aren't, that it's okay. And it includes sections on incest, barely legal
vanilla, I guess, which is you know, regular regular waterboard electro what
rob I'm not familiar ross would you Google, Waterboard Internet froze up right now.
I told we were we teach the story. You have the story down,
so I need to know what water board like. Throat. He can't
believe it. It's all it's all froze up. Huh damn of ice can't
get on there. Do you think it will unfreeze right after the show and
you'll be able to post, Oh wow, the sun spots man, it's
the sun. That's the sun. It's the space lasers. That's what it
is. All right, Well, unfortunately we're not