All right, good morning everybody, and welcome. It is six o eight
and uh, you know what, go back to bed? Okay. Now,
look, if your boss, or your school, or your spouse,
if they have a problem with it, just tell him I told you so,
Frost, do you want to go go back to bed? Do you
want to go home and go back to bed. That's the thing you would
like to do. I mean, that's a great option. Is a great
opt I cannot communicate the sea change of it doesn't happen very often in this
And for those of you listening, I'm doing this right off the bat because
I'm talking to you the people who don't work a nine to five, right,
You work a you work early, even if it's just a little earlier,
like me mentally, if it's just a little earlier, and you get
up a little earlier. But in you know, in the world of radio,
you you get up quite a bit earlier. And in the world of
a lot of different jobs out there, from driving truck to a lot of
warehouse gigs. I did a warehouse uh one around Christmas, me and my
buddy did a temp work thing for Kabela's because we were you were you know,
we're traveling around and we're you know, college college age kids, and
we just wanted some money, and uh boyd damn near killed me. I
h hated those hours. And then I'm like, hey, let me get
into the morning radio. So whatever. But there, you you know,
out of I don't know exactly many work days are, but let's you know,
two hundred ish or whatever of the two hundred or so workdays where you
get up at that stupid hour, how many are days where the moment your
alarm goes off, you're up and you're just like, I feel amazing,
I feel I'm in a good mood. Everything's you know. The struggle with
a lot of that is everything needs to be right where it should be because
like I don't know why, but if if you work early mornings and your
phone's not where you thought it was, or your keys or not where you
thought it somehow can add a dramatic amount of time and stress. And everything
was just clicking this morning, you know what I mean, right, Ross,
You know what I mean? Right? Oh, completely, And you
savor those days. It's and sometimes it's there's no discernible reason, like I
didn't go to Betterly last night. I stayed out, watched the World Series.
I was reading some stuff, and then I watched cool Space documentary,
and I felt I went to sleep probably later, no easily later than normal,
or I guess preferable. I had a few adult beverages watching the baseball
game with my buddies. But I sprang out of bed this morning and I
went through my morning routine. And my morning routine is because we do prep
in the evening. It's got to be that way. And I mean the
evening Ross is not putting that stuff together until minimum, like seven o'clock at
his house once, you know, once I sent all over my stuff.
And what I do is I have a few other then I want to see
what happened overnight or what story's populated. And I go through and the routine
is that I have a couple like shared email lists with some other radio hosts.
I look, we kind of share stuff, look at what they're doing.
And then there's one other little thing I do. I throw on the
bike, Hey, Twitter, what's up? Click that open, and you
know, normally there's a few notifications from you, you guys out there who
have commented on or shared or whatever. Glance at those and then I go
over to trending, and I gotta tell you, it's that can be a
gold mine, and it can be a gold mine. And this is my
theory for this reason, because there's some story, especially the stupid stories that
we like to do, or I like to do. I don't know if
Russ always likes it, but I do. They tend to percolate overnight because
my theory is that drunk people are giving them engagement and they boosts it.
I don't know there's any truth to that, but it's crazy. But also
it's a bit of like deciphering, because you'll see something trending and you'll click
it and then it won't be what you think it is. And a lot
of times that's by people doing that kind of intentionally, or they're engagement farming
or whatever. So this morning, I'm pop that up and I look at
I even change the trending settings because you can change them for triangle tryad any
city in the US, any country, or just worldwide or country wide or
whatever. And so I got about five that I look through. There are
five different ways that I look through it, and it's so muscle memory.
It's just bang bang bang bang bang, done, and I had all my
other stuff, was just doing the Twitter stuff, and I see the Will
Smith thing and I know in my head what it is, but somehow,
and I can't remember which of the tabs it was on with the based on
the trending settings they had Will Smith, which is trending on most of them,
but one of them because they put words it's trending with or other hashtags.
It was trending with RIP and so in that, you know, it's
still early, and even though I was having a good morning, I'm like,
oh my gosh, cause you know, Bobby Knight passed away yesterday.
I was a big story. We're going to get into that, because we're
gonna get into that. Yes, Indiana basketball coach, so I guess Texas
Red Raiders and all of that. We'll get into that. But Will Smith,
obviously is there's a lot going on with him and the wife and the
situation and the books and the whole thing. And frankly, the guy,
the Will Smith of my childhood ain't Will Smith. Now. The guy looks
beaten and brough, and I don't have a beef with dude. Even though
he went up and slapped somebody, I feel horrible for the guy. I
was driving home yesterday and Will Smith's Men in Black came on, okay,
and I was thinking the same thing. I'm like, this dude doesn't exist
anymore. I don't remember how big that he let that. And now we're
into the little gossipy magazines or whatever. But it's not because it's out there
because she did the interview. He let this woman destroy him. She is
uh what And and I mentioned that I met Will Smith and and and for
uh you know, interview, but also an extended little conversational time when he
was promoting movies, and I and to be incredibly engaging. And because actors
or anyone who's a celebrity, when you interview him on the air, off
the air, those are two different stories most of the time. Sometimes good,
No, I've interviewed him twice. Yes, he's the nicest guy on
the planet. Or he's the AfOR and give him all the risks. Yeah,
all right, there's there's a reason. Back in the day, right
when he was casting as Muhammad Ali. You're like, yeah, it makes
sense, yes, And he did a good job. That was a good
movie. I'm like, are seriously, Will Smith's gonna go okay, but
I knew in my head because I watched the World Series yesterday what it was,
what I thought the Will Smith was gonna be. So I click,
and sure enough somebody thought it was clever to instead of rest in peace it
means raise it player, which is who the hell knows. But then enough
drunk people joined in and they're talking about was the World's trophy because the Texas
Rangers yesterday in what could have been a more interesting game to watch if the
Diamondbacks would like to. But that's your team. I'm sorry you lost.
I got no I got no love one way or the other. I just
I the first game of the series was so great. And then Will Smith
is a player for the Texas Rangers. But Will Smith has not always been
a player for the Texas Rangers. And when I say not always, what
I mean is Will Smith was a player. He has been with three teams
in the last three seasons. He has been with Houston obviously, he is
now with Texas, so Houston, Dallas of course, and Atlanta. And
if you know anything about those three teams, those are the last three teams
to win the World Series. So this guy goes to a a club for
a year they win the World Series somehow either get you know, it gets
cut or traded or whatever, and then the next year that team wins it,
and then it just happened a third time. So you know, it's
one of those funny, quirky, amazing little sports nuggets right that it will
probably be a trivia trivia thing on sports some sports talk station in fifteen years
that those won't exist because it will be AI robots but maybe, okay,
I don't know. So that that already started to alter my mood. And
then there are you know, we talked about the engagement farmers on Twitter,
so I saw, I don't I really don't want to give this any energy.
I will. I'll ma give this as a generic as possible. It
is ROSI. You would say it's easier on Twitter now to come across some
things that might not have might not have populated or stuck around as long as
under old ownership. But that was more due to like it's it's a part.
You got to take the good with the bad, is what I'm saying.
If you if you want Twitter what it is now, and I do,
because it is it is simultaneously much more open and honest and people are
not intimidated. They will say what they think, which is important. It's
important for discussions, for debating issues, but also for you being able to
go all right, scroller guys or somebody's timeline and go that tells me all
I need to know for the restraining order, right, And somebody's like,
don't look at the and then insert whatever. The videos and this one just
had to do with the horse, and it's a very popular way, you
know, very generically to get a lot of engagement. And that's the bad
that goes with it. But what was weird is I clicked it by the
hashtag and I saw accounts that I recognized referencing it, and now I'm like,
oh, dear God. And I didn't even really search for it.
I scrolled down in the first account and there it was. So I'm going
to recommend you avoid all equine search stuff today. Okay, go ahead and
do that. And I was thinking, no, no, no, it's
not the one that did this a little while ago. It's a different one.
Although this guy didn't die from perfectation. And now here we are and
that's my morning. Oh there was one other I can't remember what it was.
I just so irritated. How did Will Smith get there? The actor
Will Smith? You know what? It makes me angry too, because we've
all known somebody and this isn't just guy, you know, this isn't uh,
this can be a man, you know, a woman, you know
whatever. We everybody knows somebody who has been damn near destroyed or destroyed by
a toxic partner. Right, everybody's got a story. Everybody's got a story.
I like, my buddy dates this girl. She's insane. She and
and yet you know, as humans were, you know, we're imperfect,
and we make horrible decisions when you know different, you know, different emotions
are attached to things. And we've watched it and and and likely at some
point we've allowed ourselves to to some level. I have to interact with a
toxic person and and you know, some people are able to deal with it
and some people you can just let it destroy you man. And so to
have somebody who was so likable and for all pracical purposes should be like,
he's not a big political dude, any of that. I watched that,
and it's still one of the most depressing, you know, not important,
but still important stories that you know, regularly comes up in the feed.
So I saw a meme yesterday that was like that said, Carlton won in
the end. Have you seen this meme? I have? Yeah. So
on the left you see carl you know, Fonsa Rivera and he's got his
arm around his beautiful wife and he's got his you know, four to five
picturesque kids. It looks like an all American guy, very happy, a
big smile from ear to ear. And on the right side is the Will
Smith crying meme. It's it's it's just so brutal what happened? Will Smith
sitting at home, you know, probably dwelling on like how did I get
here? And like a team can't even win the World Series without him probably
getting notifications right because people want to clown on and don't. Don't. Just
don't with the others. Just don't with the other thing. Okay, So
there you go. That's your setup. Now a break be back. Caso
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Ahlrighty six Koda radio program. You do oh last and I were the weird
chatting away there during the break, and my little next Gen thing is updating
now all of a sudden. It used to never do that, I think,
now it does it once. I finally it knows I'm using the program,
which seems to be about the worst thing ever from a programming perspective.
Why would you do that if the computer's left on? Because I'm using words
here. Next Gen is basically like the log, right, but it's our
version of it digitally, so it's through all the spots and the brakes and
Ross has to do things to it all through. But the program is called
next Gen, and it used to just do it's updates real quick or overnight,
and then I don't know, for some reasons like that. All right,
so we're done. Good, I stoled enough. Thank you. Let's
talk o gz man, Bobby Knight, And I don't care whether you are
college basketball or you're not a college basketball fan. That's fine. I know
that I'm obviously talking because I have the privilege of broadcasting in North Carolina and
you know Triad Triangle. There's a better chance than not that we're talking to
a bigger percentage of college basketball fans. And that's awesome, and even though
Bobby Knight wasn't you know, that was a big ten thing really and then
I guess to some extent Texas Tech but that whole debacle, but he was
a he was known. It was Bobby Knight, obviously. See I mean
the big the coach, the personality of the coaches for the last few decades.
And I would argue really almost all of modern college basketball going back to
you know, UCLA back in the fifties and sixties, and you know what
you saw in Connecticut on the women's side, and Duke Krzyzewski and you know
two iterations of it over at UNC and Valvano, at State Wake Forest.
I mean, the coaches become these larger than life individuals as well. And
Bobby Knight was no exception. And I was never into college basketball when I
was younger, and I've talked about this. University sports are hard to become
a fan of growing up in Wyoming because we have one school. And I
don't begrudge the University of Wyoming, but because of the powers that be the
University of Wyoming, when they actually would field really good teams and football more
so to the point where they were top ten in the nation an entire season
and then not get a bowl game because the Bowl people said there's not enough
people to travel, which is kind of right, because there's you know,
Wyoming had a half million people at the time. Now it's like five sixty.
So moving on up. It decimated the programs because kids didn't want to
go there because they weren't going to get the Bowl. They weren't going to
get the coverage. The Whack Division was whack. Now it's Mountain West Whack
and that you can look it up. And so there wasn't that really wasn't
the thing if you if you root it for sports and smoke pro However,
Bobby Knight, I liked anything I saw with that. I liked me some
Bobby Knight. And I realized now contextually why before there was Trump, before
there was Dysantis, before there was Chris Christie, and what of those guys
have in common even though they're all screaming at each other right now. It
was the way that they handled the media. And I know it's crazy to
say because I'm in the media, and by the way, I have interviewed
Bobby Knight before. Yes, it was it was not an a It was
obviously it's in sports capacity to talking to him, but it was part of
a thing years and years and years ago having to do with some charity stuff
that he was involved in. And when I was in Minnesota, he was
still attached from a Big ten perspective and it was and so in Minneapolis we
were doing stuff, crossover stuff with other marks and I kind of I did
nibble around the edges on this because I was conflicted because one of the things
that Bobby Knight was famous for was this stoic, screw you attitude and great
one liners. Because he the last thing he wanted to do is sit at
a press conference. Ironically, you could argue maybe the thing he most wanted
to do because of the reaction he would get, was do that. And
you know, other coaches have modeled themselves that. Bill Belichick would be a
good example on the pro football side, right, they got no time for
it. Players have been those guys. But to have a coach do it,
and because of the longevity the lot of these coaches has it was crazy.
But then I realized something when I started having to go and do postgame
audio tapings for the Vikings, I realized that I'm not the media he hated,
because I hated the media he hated. And those are the people in
a post game sports setting who wanted to ask cultural issue questions. They don't
want to talk about the game, they want to talk about any of that.
And it was that driving force that was all part of the bastardization of
sports where it can't be that mental vacation that we that we so wanted to
be, because you have to ask you, you have to ask a player
based on their immutable characteristic right uh, and and their and their race or
their gender or whatever it may be the latest gotcha question if you're going after
them, or reaction question. How many times did we have audio of people
talking asking sports individuals questions about Trump stuff? Crazy? Right, you visited
Florida once, mister player, what do you think of that? It's just
pure absurdity. And that's what Bobby Knight hated and he didn't put up with
and he and he made his career out of roasting him, roasting them.
And then when they saw an opportunity because he bumped a chair okay, he
threw the chair well and some other stuff, they descended as a pack of
wolves on this dude. So it took many, many years of doing what
I do in different capacities for it all to come together in my brain.
So when I already died yesterday, and admittedly I hadn't thought about Bobby Knight
in a while, I just was, I just rushed. I just went
right to the YouTube, and I was immediately dopamined because there it is right.
You know, they had like people there was now trending these these super
cuts of of his insanity. Man uh, in these press comedies and genius
insanity. I don't mean it in a negative way. And I realized that
that attitude in those settings has been a big part of not of non sports
related stuff. Do you remember back in the day watching Chris Christy when he
was governor of New Jersey do an interview with New Jersey Media and how weird
that felt? And none of these guys were the first ones, but he
was chanting. He's channeling Bobby Knight kind of in that way. If you
think I'm wrong, by the way, call the show and tell me I'm
not. But you can call and and and then you know that Donald Trump,
remember the Gold Room, The Gold Room, Hour and a half Open
Hey, whatever questions you got. Thing I want to call it a press
conference. I don't know what it was, but that thing that Trump did
where he raised he raised fake news to very fake news, right, he
got his moniker upgraded. He went after the NPR Chick, I can't April
whatever April Ryan it was. I remember I was still in the studio and
it was like two hours after the show. Ross, were you still there
when that presser was going on. Obviously you watched him because you had to
cut all the audio and and everything, But you know the one I'm talking
about where he's like hour and a half, asked me whatever you want,
and he just it was a battle Royale. That was all. That was
the Bobby. That was Bobby Knight's stuff. Ron DeSantis and Pershall, Christine
Pershall his former comms check for that, although she moved over to the campaign
now she would channel that too, and watching her on Twitter. And it
feels good when you are among those who are very frustrated with what you see
as the dereliction of duty, the indoctrination, and the ruining of what is
a necessary component to our our political system, the fourth estate right, our
safety, are well being and our general mood man, because you know,
part of the American ideal is accountability, or it used to be accountability,
and if you weren't doing that, you were going to get a big time
beat down. And I don't mean necessary, I don't mean physically, although
sometimes it's happened, you know, with a king by another senator, but
but you were going to get exposed for them, and now it happens sometimes,
but more you're more likely to encounter in a mainstream setting. I think
people think now either the utter disinterest in doing that for one side versus the
other, or wholesale made up stuff, and that frustration. It's subconsciously when
you hear Chris Christi or Donald Trump or DeSantis or Bobby Knight in the day,
or even Belichick to the extent although he was angry even about football questions,
it feels good, a little right, feel a little good because you're
so frustrated with what that has become. I say this obviously I'll talk about
it here on the radio, but it's like, because one of the little
stories that man just got me thinking yesterday, just got me thinking, because
I mean, how could you not let me answer that? You know that
is an absolute crocking. You know, you and people in the news media,
all of you dwell on some negative piece of like that. And I
don't know how Steve feels about it, but it just and you don't have
to bleep one single word of this. How could you not want to have
a beer with that dude? And I found him to be jovial by the
way. I found him be jovial in the You ever know somebody who at
first glance, you think this guy's a jerk, but then you realize it's
he's a happy agel. There's no way I could possibly describe this, And
like, once you just have a little bit of a conversational flow with them,
you realize that that's just kind of the demeanor. You don't make judgment
on it, but if it works for him, it works for him.
And it's kind of funny to watch others step into that weird zone that you
yourself just went through playing that Now you realized that he was a pioneer.
Yes, og, he's og. Back in the day, as a kid,
I'm like, wow, that guy's crazy. He's saying you unhinged.
But that wasn't really a thing back then. People didn't say, unhinged right
now and now it's like being older, You're like that guy was smart you.
It requires citicism, Bobby Knight requires cynicism in your heart because that's the
only way you understand it. He's an og, he's a pieteer. You're
absolutely right. Every single day I had to whittle I had to whittle the
list the list down. Man. I had a friend one time that that
said, why had why had he become so popular after he became eighty five?
And he said, because I've lived although some but it didn't like me.
He's talking to the media over this, and there's some stuff that doesn't
translate to radio that are our absolutely legendary moments, Like he had a he
went into a press conference with a whip that had like what looked to be
blood on the end of it, and it's a that's the whole thing.
Uh. He also because you know they they they ran him up there,
uh at Indiana and he never forgave him. And then when he went to
Texas Tech, which are the Red Riders, both are red and he put
on the Red Riders stuff at the press conference. Uh. He said something
along the lines of this is the the greatest red piece of clothing I've ever
had or whatever I mean it was, and and people lost their crap man.
So it wasn't just the media, but it was Hey, I'm not
screw all y'all if if I have to, but but you know, if
you're with me and you want to win, because he was a driven guy,
then we're gonna bust our butts and we're gonna do it. I got
more of this coming up and asked even some other stories, but it's uh,
it'll be a bounce around morning. So buckle in six forty nine,
hang on, keeping you connected. This is ninety four to five WPTI in
the Triad and one six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right,
six fifty five, welcome back Haco Day Radio program. Just real quickly on
this because I told you I started me doing a lot of thinking and how
it really attached to just a bunch of different things we talked about, like
here's here was a thought started that popped into my head if Bobby Knight started
coaching. Let's say that right after Shrzyzewsky left, Bobby Knight was brought in,
you know, as the fill in. He had a little bit of
profile, but not a lot. And that was the time frame. Do
you think Bobby Knight could operate in modern day, even though he just died
yesterday, operate in his prime in today's college environment. I mean they had
they the university president would be writing an apologetic letter that day talking about how
he's suspended, we made a horrible decision. The media would be like,
he embodies a toxic masculinity, and then he would own it. And I
don't know that it would work, but people look people like that, and
they like that because it's an extension of their frustrations. And it's not just
on that side of the examples I've given you extensions of frustrations, whether you
think they're correct or misguided, include people like Jay Gavara, who I think
people fundamentally misunderstand. That's my opinion. But I understand why people look at
that. I understand why these idiots wearing nikes, drinking on their while on
their iPhone, drinking the Starbucks can on ironically say that capitalism is a disease
as where their heads at. So they Buford Buford Puss Ross. You know
Buford Puster is or was, I should say, he's dead I don't know,
but that name sounds amazing. Beauford. Are you ever see the movie
Walking Tall? Yeah, yep, that's that movie was based kind of on
Buford Puss. So this dude was a in Tennessee. Well, look,
I'm looking at the clock here. It's an amazing story. I'll give you
like I'll give you like the the just the minute and a half two minute
rundown. I just don't have enough time to do it right now. But
I'm making all these connections because like his it's the origin story, the absolute
legends right of stuff. And it could be that guy. It's uh,
it could be corporal Benovdidez. If you don't know who that is, google
Benovdidez. It's kind of hard to google, but type Vietnam War hero and
then start typing b e n. It's amazing and people gravitate towards that.
And it's not the same for everybody, and not everybody's on the same level,
and some people are actually not great people on the underside, but they
personify frustrations. More on this in a moment. All right, good morning,
everybody, and welcome. It is seven o six here on the casey
O day radio. I am so glad that somebody called in to ask that
question, Oh is it and it's mister maybe Okay, I was, I've
got I was kind of holding back on that one. The Bobby Knight thing
tight made you listen all the rest of my incoherent ramblings. I will we'll
touch on that here in just a moment. So that's it. It's one
story, but I think it's indicative of so much more, especially as I
looked at the reporting because of the relationship that Bobby Knight had with the media
and that you knew it was going to influence how they were going to write
about them. And this is the same disconnects you see where you end up
with like Washington Post articles talking about UH terrorist leaders as scholars, right,
and it just and it grinds your gears, so to speak. But that
feeling of well, a great example, that feeling of I'm mad as hell
and I'm not going to take it anymore. Before that was a movie line
and made iconic with what it represented. It was the tale of you know,
legends or tall tales of individuals, and you'd know that even the story
as it sits now is probably not one hundred percent accurate. But people find
motivation in that, and they find motivation from all different perspectives depending on who
the person is battling against. So in the case of Bobby nightey's battling against
the media, and Uh, in those who would lionize individuals like I gave
the example Chaegovira, Maybe that's not super fair, but individuals for you know,
seizing the means of production because in your mind, that's what you agree
with. So when people are out doing what you always wish you could do,
you gravitate towards that. Even the New York Post, who I thought
would be a pretty even hand to the very first line or the headline,
and fludes Uh describing Bobby Knight as a tempestus. So tempestous means strong,
characterized by strong and turbulent or conflicting emotion. Well, I wouldn't say it
was conflicting. Dude was pretty spot on. Man, dude was pretty spot
on when when he'd sit there and and and talk to the media. I
remember when you're at a game and you see grass, it's the opposite side
of the ball. But if you see hardwood out there, it's the other
end of the floor, try to help you young guys in this profession you've
chosen. It's one or two steps above prostitution. So does he sound conflicted
to you? You doesn't sound conflicted, so kind of. But but I
like, I get that. And I mentioned another example, uh, because
it's one of those names and when you hear it, you'll never forget it.
Buford Pusser. And I know, I know there's probably quite a few
of you who do know who that is, because especially if you're older and
you are a long time North Carolinian or a native North Carolinian, Because while
it wasn't North Carolina, it was Tennessee that he operated, and it was
kind of over If you draw a triangle from Memphis to Nashville to Huntsville,
Alabama, and right in the center of that, in the middle of Nowheresville,
is where Buford Pusser was the sheriff and Ki was a constable too for
some time McNairy County and during the sixties or during the seventies, so late
sixties and in the early seventies. He was a guy who he grew up
there when he was basically right out of high school. Well, here's what
you got to know at that time when we think of the mob, what
do you think of when I say the word mob or mafia? What do
you think of ross? What do you think of when I say mob?
What would what's the thought that the visual of Vito Corleon? Had you ever
heard of the state line mob or state line mob? I don't think so.
So it's that, but it's people in the middle of Nowheresville in Southern
States, and it was. But it was all the stuff too. It
was alcohol production, it was evading cigarettes, taxation, it was gambling establishments,
it was murder, it was all of it. And it was the
absolute infiltration and corruption of almost entire law enforcement forces, from the chief of
the sheriff on down. They were all bought off right, all the free
hookers and money they could have just look the other way and facilitate. And
you know, over time, those stories have permeated a lot of things in
the South, especially in North Carolina. If you look into NASCAR, and
you know, and and and the historical perspective there in moonshining, which somebody
listening right now is still moonshining. I know this because every time I talk
about moonshining, somebody sends me an email going, hey, man, you
want some You know you do? You There's a little town called state Line.
If you're headed before you make the jump up towards roring gap right there,
do the history of how many stills used to be running back in the
day near state Line, North Carolina, and then drive through it sometime and
you realize it's like ten stills per person. I think under current population.
It's crazy. So Pusser goes into one of these gables gambling establishments as a
young man. He's not law enforcer or anything, and he wins a bunch
of money and for his troubles, the mob gets mad. They beat him
so viciously that he had he I think he needed like two hundred and fifty
stitches. They damn near killed him. They took all his money, all
of that, and he went straight revenge story. But his revenge story was
not coming back and shooting the place up that day. He left. He
went and got married and had a kid, I think, and then he
came back to where he was from, and he got into law enforcement in
an adjacent county, and then the county where everyone was bought off, especially
the sheriff. He says, screw this, I'm gonna be sheriff, and
he ran for sheriff, and ironically he was the polls. He was expected
to win so handily over this guy because people believed in him that they would
vote for him. And the current sheriff died in a mysterious way, and
a lot of people think that the the State Line mob murdered the old sheriff
because he was gonna be on his way out no use to and he knew
stuff. So Puster gets in there and this dude goes one man wrecking crew.
And if you've ever seen the movie Walking Tall, that is a movie
that was based around this guy's story but was hollywoodized. You know, walk
around with that stick. But that's because he used to walk around with the
stick, and he used to go around. In a short time after all
of this emerge and his book came out and the movie came out, he
do autograph signings. People bring sticks in. That was a thing, and
so that was the iconic moment. In reality, it wasn't that he was
going in their wag. He used a gun and he just he didn't care.
He he went one man war zone on moonshining prostitution, gambling, corruption,
you name it, and they, the criminals, so hated him for
it. They tried to kill him all the time, and in fact,
they tried to ambush him one time and his wife in the middle of the
night, he goes out. It's one of his own people who gets him
to go out on this call. Who's still in on it obviously, and
his wife had been scared about some threats, so she went to ride along
on what was supposed to be an accident response and when they got there,
they opened fire. Bonnie and Clyde on the car that killed his wife instantly
shot her in the head. He had to make a getaway, and he
did for a while. They caught him and then they shot him a bunch
of times thought he was dead. He wasn't. His jaw was blown off,
but by now he was so legendary, and he was so legendary at
that point that Elvis Presley paid for all of his medical bills because the King
went this guy's a badass, which then further elevated everything. And then the
people killed his wife. There's a whole story. Some went to jail,
others died in these weird ways. This madam who was running the biggest of
the brothels. When she knew it was all over because the leader of the
guy who killed his wife had been shot and killed. Pusser went to arrest
her, he pulled a gun on him, he killed her. And so
all of this permeates over the course of a you know, a little less
than a decade, and by the early seventies he is he is this folk
tale man. You forgot the most important part. He was a professional wrestler.
Yes, that is what he went to Chicago to do. Yes,
I'm sorry, Wait a said, why did you just know that? I
see The Rock played him in a movie. Oh, that's right, that's
right, I forgot. They did a remake it. Well, the original
Walking Tall was came out in the seventies, right, he was still remaking
like two thousand and four. And if you're wondering, does he look like
the Rock, he is not. He doesn't well he doesn't look Samoan,
but he's a big, big, big dude. But so this comes out.
He does leave law enforcement in short like two year span, and he's
got money coming in, right, because he's got a book, he's got
movie rights, all that stuff. And he gets barely some time to bask
in all of it. He buys himself a bad ask corvette and decides on
the very same roads of the county in which he was he made his bones,
uh with sadly his daughter in a vehicle following his corvette to see what
that bad boy could do. And he took that thing off an embankment and
just fireballed himself. And that that's the story of Buford Pusser Man Crazy.
It's there's so much more to it. So yeah, yeah, I'm making
that tie in with Bobby Knight because it is the emotions that pop out for
different reasons that draw people to individuals like Bufford Pusser, or to Bobby Knight,
or to God help you build Belichick if that's your thing. But because
people can be amplified and organized and mobilized in what they love but also in
what they don't. And that's okay, right, that was the driver of
the civil rights somebody's get so mad. I can't believe Bobby knighton you're talking
civil rights and stuff. I'm talking about the way that people react to things.
People knew that what was going on the media stunk. Look what has
become and this guy, he he didn't care and he personified the frustration that
people were feeling. If you can personify frustration to some extent, it's what
we benefit off of here on the radio because we have a platform, and
now more and more people have platforms with social media and streaming and all of
that, but we have a platform to hopefully vocalize the frustrations that you're sharing.
Yesterday, how many of you shared this this anger over the Veterans Day
parade, right, this frustration that's just shared emotion, and Bobby Knight harnessed
that. And so you've sent emails about Arabach and Bear Bryant and all that,
and that just I'm not saying that they didn't they weren't versions of this
in their time. I'm just saying that I have to speak to it from
my life perspective and how it emotionally affected me. And I'm just not old
enough. Although I've heard some Bear Bryan stories, because I told you I
knew a guy passed away here a few years ago that played for Briant back
in the day. So the stories are insane, man, all right,
But there is a very legendary Bobby Night story that ties into his death,
and I'm gonna grab a call to set that up. Mister Mayfield. Good
morning to you, sir, Good morning Casey. Do you think Bobby Knight
will be Barry's upside down so the critics can do you can kiss his dairy
air? Is that? It was one of the first questions that popped into
my head, sir, when I saw it, when I saw the news,
And I'll play the audio here in a moment. I don't know,
but I hope so. I hope so too. And what they're doing about
the Veterans' parade and Raleigh is disgraceful. I'll be in Goldsboro, North Carolina,
with my dressed blues on. Well, I you know what good for
you, sir, And there's gonna be communities all over North Carolina that are
not gonna pull this same crap, and veterans will be recognized for their service
people. Communities will be closer because we have a better understanding of the individuals
that we live with. And maybe some you know, some young punks will
learn some stuff too from folks who've seen some stuff. And I welcome all
of it, and I'm glad of all the communities that will continue to participate,
and I'm embarrassed that one that I the one that I live in,
has chosen not to. So thank you for the call, sir, have
yourself a good Veterans Day if we don't speak before them. Okay, and
you too, Bye bye? Yeah all right there. So, and what
he's talking about is this amazing piece of audience on earth is gone, and
my activities here are past. I want they bury me upside down and my
critics can kiss my dude. Man, you know what, ross we need
to start a coffin company. But it's in like an L shape so your
loved one can be placed, or it's in a V right so you can
take the loved one's body and then you know, fold them over that so
they look like a taco shell upside down. For that exact thing, I
think it'd be a hit because, uh, you know, to some extent,
I share his sentiment called V coffins or whatever'll be amazing. We're gonna
make We're gonna make so much money. Uh. But that that was that
was Bobby night man, And that's the thing that got me going into the
old looking at all the old clips yesterday and thinking about all this other stuff,
and it's just crazy how that I don't know. Maybe maybe that's just
my brain too, which is a little scattered when I get into some stories
than others. But I think a lot of us share that, and so
that's why I wanted to kind of go over that whole art there and play
some of the hits. It's diff it amazes. Then you don't know anything
about basketball. You're illuminating your relative lack of knowledge of the game with a
statement like that. Let's just start all this again. Now, I'm not
here to argue the thing with you. I'm not going to debate things with
you and people from television. No, you want to an answer for me,
you get the answer, you don't like an answer, then don't use
the program. Okay, how could you got like? How could you not
want to have, as I said it before, I have a beer with
that guy? Oh man? It but there is a there was slight difference.
Well, hold on, we got to take a break. We'll be
right back. Thank you. Wadem Talk in the Triangle thirty five. Welcome
back k c O Day Radio program Stream of Consciousness. I got an email
from and I know he doesn't mean any in a nasty way. He's just
like, dude, the entire first hour show is in coherent rambling. I
don't think it was. But also I'm me, like I know what I
want to say. So maybe it was, and maybe it was to some
and not to others. But we use the term stream of consciousness because it
sounds more professional. But I'm not wrong in that there are characteristics of individual
personalities of people that draw them draw people to them, right, That's that's
a known thing. Probably have celebrities and politicians who think they're celebrities but kind
of are and kind of aren't. And and people like the that story I
told you about the sheriff they're in Tennessee, or the Roy ben Attinita Benanitez
story from Vietnam. If you don't know what that dude did, that might
be the hardest dude to ever have a go with the Mekong Delta, all
right, Like Colonel Kurtz would shiver at this dude. This this guy is
from Texas, Arizona or whatever. So he goes over to Nam and like
there's some The short story is some you know, some some US Army troops
are pinned down every time they try to get a helicopter in there to rescue
him, the helicopter is getting shot to the point where they they have they
have to go land, emergency land. It's horrible and there's one last go
of it. And and there the choppers got ready to take off. This
dude comes running up with a medkit and no uh, no rifle and the
chop prize. What are you doing? He's good, I'm I gotta go
do this. These are my guys. And so he went in there with
he had a knife and he goes in there and he ended up he was
shot. I I don't remember how many times he was shot and stabbed,
he got bayoneted and uh, all all these things. But he ended up
killing all the bad guys and rescuing most of his guys and rescuing also some
uh, some of the He also took the body, that's right. He
also grabbed the bodies of the bad guys he had killed, and over the
course of an act drug it all back to chopper points and was able to
get out of there. And they got back and they started unloading bodies,
and they unloaded him as a dead body and as and as they were making
the rounds to figure out how to toe tag these guys. He spit.
He ended up coughing blood in the face of a physician and went, oh
my gosh, he's still alive. And and before all of that he had
been wounded previously. And they say they were gonna discharge and he's like,
no, I want to go back. It's crazy town. And people people
look at that stuff, man, and in all eras, in all groups,
and it's not always the same for everybody. And I think the connections
there, but yeah, it's mostly in coherent rambling. But that's stock radio,
man, what are you gonna do? We do have other stuff though,
And also I didn't hear it. Is is is our fine crack?
Mister Kyle Wilson? Is he sitting in the I didn't hear the news story
because I went to go to uh uh good Little Boys room. Did he
refer to beth Wood as car parking enthusiast and his news that's great car parking
enthusiast. I busted up laugh and read that email. But I didn't hear
it. But I wouldn't put it past him. So and the reason beth
Wood is in the news is obviously all of the uh, the Beth well
what was the nickname we gave her, We had something to do with.
But you know, state auditor, downtown Christmas party and all of a sudden
her state owned car is monster trucked on another one and nobody knows nothing.
And then like an uber driver has a little snippet video and you realize that
the state auditor is at a big Christmas party for a bunch of you know,
Democrat lawyers and politicians and whatnot, which you know, find do that,
and that had looked like she had made the decision to try to leave,
but was hammered, and and then it became a whole thing because she
just then left the vehicle and you could literally see her being whisked away and
nothing happened to her initially, and we on this show talked about it,
man, this scenario that that would have the way that would have played out
for you or me if if your vehicle registered to you. Now, hers
was a state but as you know, all the state vehicles, whether for
legislators or for Council of State members, their license plate is unique to their
individual office. They knew who it was, they knew where she lived.
I know where she lives because I know two of her neighbors. And boy,
oh boy, the stories, Oh my gosh, because apparently at the
same time, her personal vehicle had been in an accident, which raises questions,
but the police didn't pursue it that way. Any other instance, the
police, you know, in the drinking window there, they come across your
car, monster truck done another and you fled the scene. They go book
put it up, boom in the compute, I think it makes that noise,
and they go to your house. They go look for you, because
even if it's their first day out of the academy, they know that the
likelihood is the reason you left ain't a good one. It might be it
might be you left because injury and you're at the hospital and it just was
so serious you had to do it, And that's fine. They just want
to figure out what's going on. But they didn't do it. And it
was abundantly clear why they didn't and why and and and also with some of
the behind the scenes conversations that I've had about it and some of the individuals
within the law enforcement of political community, the strings that that that they pulled
shows you again, this constant double standard and good old boys, good old
girls network, whatever you want to call it, that is entrenched in the
ruling class, which, by the way, it is these types of things
that get us back to people like Buford Pusher or Bob Dyed or any of
the rest. It's the frustrations that we have that are personified through individuals.
And thankfully, though I understand one of the individuals on the law enforcement of
the Bethwood is retiring, so good riddance. But that story was amplified when
they finally figured out they had to do something. They did a little subtle
handslap. But she still said she was running for reelection. Well now she
says she's not. Yeah, telling legislators yesterday she's changed her mind and will
not be running for reelection. So why she made the announcement initially right at
the time was beyond me. I gues I meant, maybe you had to,
maybe you didn't. The conviction here we go. The whole thing follows
her conviction seven months ago of a misdemeanor hit and run related to a wreckon
downtown Raleigh on December eighth. Look how long ago it's been. It's almost
been a year. Wood told the House Oversight Committee, which was meeting as
part of an inquiry into an issue at the State Unemployment Office, that's a
whole nother that's a whole nother debacle there man, this dumpster fire. She
just casually meant, Hey, by the way, I'm not running for reelection.
There are circumstances that are in my life. And I recognize four years
from now I will be seventy four. So if there are some things I
want to do, I need to get them done now. I don't know
what those things are. Look and I say this, and I mean this
one hundred percent because I never had beef with Beth Wood, not from political
I never did. And I didn't really even hear people complain on the right
that they didn't like the way that she did the job. It was like
Scherie Berry with the Labor Department, right, even though Barry was a Republican.
I don't think people necessarily saw it that way. But people were so
angry with this because they saw out in the open in front of them everything
that went on and everything that was different. And so I say this,
if one of the things that Beth Wood is retiring for is because she wants
to go tackle something that might be an issue that might have been a contributing
issue here. God bless her, Go out, go do it. Okay,
but it doesn't. It doesn't erase all of the insanity that ensued as
part of that story, and it doesn't erase the bigger issue of the double
standard that continues. No matter how many politicians promise it won't be a thing,
how many law enforcement leaders say that they will never participate in things like
that with the very same crap that we've been dealing with. It's the you
know, the dawn of day, and that is these these networks of entrenched
ruling class, high profile individuals who things are different. And I know,
you know the thing that Pete Allender, who we talk on Friday, is
he always says that it's different, and they puts the D in ellipses.
It's not just always the D, but it's that feeling and that thing and
that well, those stories that are so enraging to me, and I think
so many of you as well. How about defensive driving enthusiasms. Now,
I think Kyle nailed it. I'm good with that. Again, I didn't
hear it, but I did spit out part of my drink when I read
the email during the last break. So uh, let's uh, we're gonna
meander into a couple other things. We got a bunch of you know,
we've played some Bobby Night. We'll get back to that. A mind boggling
question posed yesterday by a member of the media who has a Palestinian background.
Well we'll throw that out there for you. Oh, we get to solve
a mystery or not a mystery. We get to solve a problem that I
don't think is they say they're trying to solve, but I have some questions.
But first race Sedagic Weather Channel, who I'm hitting very late again.
Sorry, we were talking about we were talking about Bobby Knight passing away,
and like, you know, one of the things that is in the news,
I'll do the very quick. One of the things that you know is
a hallmark of some people that get lionized, like Trump, DeSantis to some
extent, Bill Belichick on the sports side is an absolutely this this this hate
relationship with the media and the results it provides. Bobby Knight was a trailblazer
on this stuff. Man was he was a trailblazer And uh yeah, I
was I was sad to see that yesterday. Yeah, but I was too.
You remember growing up and did that guy just throw a chair? Oh
that's what ros I talked about at first, when you don't have life experience
when you're young, like that guy's insane, and then when you get jaded,
you're like, I understand him, I feel where he's coming from.
But yeah, every day, right, every day, But that that's the
memory, and try getting away with that today. Every day. If Ross
and I actually go in the break room at one time, one of us
will throw a chair at the other one. It's just it's a constant,
looming threat. It's a stress thing. We just nobody would be angry.
Okay, that's business man. Business is yeah, cold, especially from the
triad West where we're seeing some load mid twenties freeze warning for everybody. It's
upper twenties to low thirties from Durham and even out near places like Fayette.
Bilbert's currently thirty one degrees. Fort Bragd currently coming in at twenty nine down
to our south, a military reservation down that way near Little River. So
it's coold, but we'll recover. This little cold snap won't last too long.
We'll go through the day still unseasonably chilly, with light breeze, a
little bit fifties tonight near freezing again again upper twenties. Try it as you
go further west, a little colder, and then sunny, low sixties tomorrow,
near seventy over the upcoming weekend. If anything, we're just under that,
and lots of sunshine will be lower to maybe middle seventies into early into
the middle part of next week. Sunny, sunny, sunny, sunny,
lot of sunshine over the next seven days. I don't think we get measurable
rainfall here of any significance, potentially until the following week. Case so dry
and a warming trend. Might get a little cooler towards the end of next
week, but this will be the chilliest air mess will have probably for the
next two weeks. Alrighty, thank you sir. We'll talk talking an hour.
Okay. So there you go, raced agic, so DC insanity and
how they're trying to solve it. And yesterday I saw this going around everywhere,
and it went from me thinking, oh, well that's true, to
that's that's fake, to there's context and it has to do with the Marines.
And scent coom and specifically then what people are reading into it, and
I feel like maybe we should talk about it, and I'd love some perspective
from perhaps military folk here, because it was like, you know, five
alarm fire in some people's minds, and it has to do with the Marine
Corps, not the big, big one, but the Marine Corps sent comm
annual ball and those Marine balls are a big deal and cancelation. So we'll
get to all that more coming up. KCO Day Radio program. This is
one O six one FM Talk in the Triangle Man. He was talking ninety
four five PTI and the Triad What I needed that so much today because I'm
rambling, which I a little bit. But also I'd like if you didn't
hear the open of the show, it was sometimes just dredging through the news
can change your whole day. So I don't recommend you do it. If
you're like, you're in a really really good mood, don't scroll twist right.
So Ross, let me just send me an email because you you just
tweeted out the Beth Woods story when we did it right, So somebody just
sent me an email and said, why does Beth Woods haircut in the ral
article look like Ziggy Stardust Bowie mate it with Mougattu, which if you don't,
you know, you get the Magatu reference. If you don't. That
was Will Ferrell's character in Dude. He invented the pianot necktie. Yes,
I mean, what have you done? I laughed so hard because I can.
I bye immediately, of course, right, I can see. Uh
we got to there. We'll hold his little dog, right and uh,
Ziggy Stardust era David Bowie and okay, all right, thanks man ah,
it's crazy town, all right, couple things and then we're gonna get into
calls. So for those who lined up, hang on, well, actually,
let me do this. Let me do this. I'm gonna take the
Bobby Night call Joel, hang on, because I gotta do I gotta set
up the US Marine ball story, so real quick, Tony, let's dispense
with this. Go ahead, sir, Hey, good morning, Good morning.
Gets a kind of a funny little story. Years ago, I was
a Carolina fan, and my wife she's still a diehard Carolina fan. We
were watching there when Dean Smith retired, they hired a famous Carolina basketball player.
I think it was Matt Doughty. I can't remember, but the coach
and I'll never forget. I was watching they had lost the game, a
pretty important game, and he cried on TV during the dress conference. Oh
no, and it just went all over me. I was like, I
was mad. I jumped up. I said, what is he doing.
He's crying because he lost the game. I told my wife, I said,
I'm never pulling for again. I said, he needs to be like
Bobby Knight. He needs to sling a chair across the room and he needs
to jump up and cut that reporter out and tell him how stupid he is
by asking it question and how stupid the players acted during that game. And
I was like, you know, she would laugh and I said, it's
so crazy. What what draws us into emotional responses? Man? And people
would say, Tony's unhinged. Nah, Tony's just a guy reacting like everybody
does from the comfort of their own home. It's the people out on the
street doing it like the Bobby Knights or some politician he like, or some
organizer or whoever it is that people vicariously live through. When the guy you're
vicariously living through is sobbing, people are going to have an emotional reaction on
both sides. Well, thanks, hey, Tony, appreciate that. Man,
stop crying. There's no crime in college basketball. Throw a chair,
man, I mean you probably shouldn't throw a chair if he had somebody but
near, you know, in a controlled environment. Mate. All right,
So what's up with the Marine Corps ball and every bit of speculation? We'll
have it coming up. All right, good morning, one and all.
It is eight oh seven. Glad to have you excuse me here on Thursday,
do do do? And we got a bunch to try to cram in
this hour because I went I went on a Bobby Knight audio orgy earlier,
so just bear with me. Although just one last fight. Not on the
Bobby Knight thing. We met somebody made the Zoolander Magatu reference, and I've
got an email ross from one of our listeners and says, he said,
love the show. You guys made a Zoolander reference last week too, which
I vaguely think we may have. He says that, but I never watched
it. I never liked the mockumentaries and fashion documentary didn't sound good. And
you know what, sir, whoever in your life told you when you likely
asked what's the movie about, and they said it's a like Best in Show
was a mocumentary of the Dog Dog Shows. To describe this as that version
within the fashion industry is that was not fair to you. You should probably
cut that person. That is not correct. I remember walking it's a political
assassination. It is due. They tried to kill the clamation. Dude,
yeah, Malaysia, right, Prime Minister of Malaysia. I remember walking out
of the theater when I saw Zoolander back in the day, thinking it was
one of the funniest movies I've ever seen because it was so different to this
day. I remember people behind me. There was a few couples behind me
that were like, I don't get it. It wasn't funny. I just
still understand what that what happened. I don't get it. And I was
thinking it changed like it was Will Ferrell before Will Ferrell. It was Tropic
Thunder before Tropic Thunder. Yes, it changed comedy, it really did.
It was dude, to change. It changed even your I'm sorry, finish
what you're saying, because I know where you change the trajectory of modern comedies
at the time, and it is an example of when comedy still was right
now, Yeah, And I think with the couple you mentioned there couples.
You told me off there the people. But when you say couples, I
would I would say that if you were a couple, that was in the
first getting to know your part of being a couple, where you've not let
your your weirdness, uh, you know, wave in the wind to each
other. I don't know how you could be in the right mental mindset to
watch that movie and truly appreciate it. Whereas if you know your two people
been together from a couple perspective forever, or you're just somebody who's really quirky
or eccentric when it comes to your comedic taste, that movie hits so hard,
right. I mean I was silly and weird, and it was silly
and weird, and I loved it. I could quote That's one of the
movies I could quote all day. And it's a funny movie. And what
what what is in on the analysis side? You know, when I talk
about what comedy was, some of the people within that movie they joined in.
I remember being shocked out of my brain when I was tailgating in an
NC State game and Will Ferrell walked up to our tailgate tent. I'm like,
what is Will Ferrell standing in our tailgate tent? And what he was
there? Stumping for Cooper? He had come to and was walking around the
NC state tailgate for Cooper. Basically he was stumping for the Democrats there.
And it didn't make me at that moment, you know, because I can
still separate that as long as you're not a jerk about it. And this
was this was his off time doing that. But he and many others evolved
into this more this less permissive comedic environment we live in, and it was
exam The example would be, uh, maybe you remember, maybe you don't.
In Tropic Thunder, Donald Trump made a cameo and do you remember when
they we had that run a tremor Tropic Thunder or Zoolander. I'm sorry,
said Tropic Thunder. In Zuelander, he made a cameo. And obviously there's
some very specific legendary cameos that Trump has done. Home alone is the one
that probably gets the most discussion, but Zulander was another, and it's just
a quick little hitter and the Moonbats were demand that Ben Stiller, who was
the exec producer and obviously Derek Zulander in the movie re edit and cut him
out and he told him to pound sand and that they're stupid, And it
gave me a lot of respect, by the way, for Ben Stiller,
who I've enjoyed watching when he's just like, no, I'm not touching a
thing, and it was sad to see others go in a different direction.
But all right, So I'm just saying, you have somebody led you astray.
Give it, give it a watch. Maybe you don't like it so,
but maybe you're just like, oh my gosh, what how has this
been missing in my life? And I hope that's the case. I think
it's good to watch movies like that, like on like a first date,
to like test someone. But maybe it's different, like if you know what
the movie is. Like the first time Markey and I hung out at my
apartment in Atlanta, I busted out Aquitine Hunger for Us and Monty Python and
The Holy Grail, which she had never seen before. Oh, and I
was like, this is gonna determine all everything. Yeah, Like the reaction
is very important because because this is sort of like, you know, I'm
goofy and weird, like that, and it's if we don't get along,
if we don't have the same sense of humor, what's the point, right,
Like, it's not going to work out. When she was leaving that
night, did you hey, you passed it just like you? It went
very well, okay, good, okay, all right? Awkuity. Oh
yeah, dude, I gotta I gotta get over to this though. So
yesterday there was I was on Twitter and I kept seeing this this letter,
this uh you know, jpeg of this letter about who was it? Chris
Major General, Chris Phillips, US Marine Corps Major General. And in the
letter it talked about how the two and forty eighth Marine Corps Ball had been
canceled by US or had been canceled. The problem was is people people didn't
have an understanding of exactly what they were talking about. People were analyzing the
hell out of it, and it canceled because of quote unforeseen operational commitments.
Now I need to be very specific. There is not just a single marine
ball. There is the main but there's others that. In fact, if
you remember the Marine Corps ball that happened here in North Carolina quite a number
of years ago, remember one of the Marines wrote, you made a video
on YouTube asking who's the chick from that seventies show, Counta Reeves is with
I can't remember her name, asking her to come, and she came to
the ball and it was a big deal and I thought that was a great
story. So this is but this is specifically the one at SCENT com which
is a you know, that's a big ee Tampa, Florida. If you
go down on the peninsula there, you got the base down there, but
you have sent us Central Command and it's one of the various comms that we
have all over the world, but it's a big one, and so they're
busy bees. When we're dealing with a lot of military stuff, you know,
things like wars and stuff. They got stuff to do. So people
interpreted that as the cancelation must mean we're going to war and the draft starts
tomorrow, would be the far end right because Twitter is Twitter. And then
the other side is this is fake news and the reality is it's somewhere in
the middle and we don't really know all of it. McPhillips announced the update
to the annual events scheduled for November sixteenth, and that's I think also what
people were calling and saying, well, this isn't true because the Veterans Day
is the eleventh, but the day before is when the Marines all get drunk
because it's their birthday, so that they can be hungover for Veterans Day.
Yeah, the tenth. So they said, well, it's not the tenth
or the eleventh, so it must be fake. But no, it's not
fake. Philip said the letter dude to unforeseen operational commitments and the nature of
our current mission, it is with great regret I must cancel. The decision
to cancel resulted from, they say, the core's primary responsibility to guarantee the
defense and security of the United States. So he got rising tensions in the
Middle East. We know that we have deployed troops in various capacities, including
moving naval vessels. When you have to understand when you're moving naval vessels and
you know, whole battleships and everything out, there's a bunch of Marines involved
in that because they're an offshoot of the Navy, and whether it's from an
advisory role or just hanging out off the coast rate, you know, waiting
to tomahawks. Some dudes that is that's what they're doing. It doesn't necessarily
mean boots on the ground. But the Internet's gonna internet. So it took
me, but it took me a little while to figure out the context of
it because I went from that is fake too, that's real and uh am
I too old for the draft. Who the reality is? I don't know,
However, I'm also and I want to uh grab this call here a
big poor Joel hold. I also saw a lot of people saying what Joel
wants to say, and it gives you food for thought. Joel, thanks
for hanging on. What's up? Uh Well, let me give a little
bit of perspective here on the Marine Corps ball and so forth. Casey,
Yes, most large units on every Marine Corps base of being a marine at
the Marine Corp veteran that I am, they have their own individual balls and
they range anywhere from the middle end of October till the middle of November.
And uh I remember back nearing desert shield to build up the desert storm,
which is when I was in uh. We knew we were deploying, and
we were deploying, and I was the second Marine Division at Campa June.
We still had our Marine in Courbal. I went to it. Yeah,
we were, we knew we were deployed, and right before I was going
over there right of the week for thankskipping, but we still had the ball.
This moved by Sentcom to cancel the ball. I don't rightly understand it
because they couldn't have worked it out to where they could have moved it up,
or they could have had a smaller let each unit have a smaller version
of the ball or whatever. I don't understand why they canceled it. I
think it's a uh. And Sitcom is not deployed, Okay, they're not
the one to deployed. And they have units over it. You're talking about
marines on ships. They have the twenty six Marine Expeditionary Unit I know is
over there, which is one of my old units when I was in and
uh, they're twenty four hundred Marines that are forward deployed to the Mediterranean from
Campa June and Pacific Camp Uptil the hands of Pacific. But anyway, they
are already there. They just relocated them from a train area to being in
the proper simmy to be able to respond to whatever form of fashion they may
be asked to the symcome could have handled better, and they actually could have
either rescheduled it or had smart have broken up and had the commands with in
syncom have their own ball, and except it went on, I think a
support decision, and I think I think a lot of this is mility And
this is not, by the way, this is not me necessarily hacking on
the military. I want the military leadership to concentrate on kicking ass and taking
names if they need to. And that's why all of the you know,
the inclusivity, diversity, equity crap and all of that I feel as a
distraction. So for them to exactly when you read a document that is that
is penned by a military individual and is meant to be read by their subordinates,
a lot of times it doesn't always make sense to people who are not
in the military. And I recognize that and I had to learn that as
I did not serve in the Marines, right and but in this day and
age, you also kind of have to know that people are going to put
their own story together. And I'm sure that whatever the story is down there
is not as exciting as some of the ones I saw on Twitter yesterday that
is World War three tomorrow? Yeah, I mean yeah, so well,
and let me say this too now that they will still celebrate the Marine Corps
birthday November tenth. I mean when we were deployed and stuff, we had
the cake out in the field in combat. We had the cake and stuff
well out in the Rine Corps during the Rine Corps birth to combat. But
in Fallujah two thousand and four, in the Rine Corps Birthday, in the
midst of the hell of that battle, they had a Marine Corps birthday cake
and the cutting and stuff. So that will go on with the Rine Crps
ball again. They start in mid October. They in in mid November,
but it celebrates two this year, two and forty eighth birthday for all Marines
and that comes up Friday next Friday for us, FYI, for everybody.
So again, I was just gonna say, now, I was gonna tell
people next Friday, you want to see a show, go to one of
the bars in North Topsil Beach or you know, any anything within spitting distance
of La June over there. And uh, I did it inadvertently one time
when I went down for like a late fishing beach weekend. Man, And
uh, the Marines tend directly they remember their birthday. That's what I remember
noticing. Y we did, sir, And I'll hang up now, Sipifi,
Happy birthday Marines. All right, look at that. He's a little
uh week in, a day week and a day ahead. But yeah,
they don't forget. That's why they call and they scream uh sent for fire,
oh rah, and on the air. We've had that before, so
so we always make a point to mention it. But yeah, it's again
it's just it's communication that's probably more innocuous. I maybe it's not, but
I I found that there is a there is a lack of giving a crap
when uh military communications as to how the public may interpret it. And some
of it's you know, some of it's kind of baked into the machismo cake
with that stuff. Because of course, when I was talking earlier about like
Buford Pusser and all of that, and uh uh roy ben bena venitez Us
Army Vietnam guy, you asked him marine when you get into legends and lore
and all that, uh ask ask him about chess chesty Puller, which,
by the way, that's another if Buford Pusser is an amazing name. That's
an amazing name. And he is He's he is the iconic, uh you
know, gruff, badass marine guy. He's the He's he's what you strive
to be. He is dripping testosterone. He is the guy you wish good
night in boot camp. As one of my listeners pointed out, so look
at that I have wound. I have tied all of this together, from
military heroes to Mugatu, and it's just been one of those days. And
it will truck on here in just a few minutes because the Daily Beast did
an investigation and the Washington DC mayor is she's gotta she's gotta make the streets
safer, and they're both the dumbest crap you've ever heard. So of course
we'll bring it to you coming up next smart Talk all Day ninety four to
five WPTI in the Triad and one six one FM talked in the Triangle.
Let me tell you one of my favorite subsets of stories. You know,
if you just try to build a little classification system, one of my favorites
out there, hands down, one of my favorites is when a reporter,
here's the generic scenario. This is manna for the soul. Okay, a
reporter writes a story going, can you believe this guy? He's she's crazy?
And the behavior the reporter reports is them coming across as much more normal
to average people than they probably did, and in a way as a benefit
for the person they're trying to tear down, and it only shines the light
on the disconnected bubble that the reporter themselves lives in. How do I know?
The Daily Beast they decide they're going to do a hip piece on the
new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. Ready for this, I'm gonna
read the way from the article a little in some of the summary, but
it basically is this, Mike Johnson doesn't have any retirement savings, owns.
He doesn't or own a single stock or have any assets, and has less
than five thousand in his bank account. His mortgages in the two fifty to
five hundred K range, a loan and a person alone. He had no
retirement plan. He'll have to lobby. You want this ice Speaker of the
House. How do you relate to him? Oh? So he's most people?
You absolute dupes? Man one six one FM Talk and n w PTI
two stations driving the best d talk. This is Casey Oda and Carolina's Morning
News. All right, good morning, it is eight thirty six ACODA Radio
program. All right, let's get into a couple of things I mentioned here.
So Mike Johnson, new speaker of the House, the Daily Beast,
I gave you this, a little synopsis of this, was so horrified of
his taking control that they went and they sent their their waste of oxygen reporters
scrambling, how do we take this guy down? And they made the classic
blunder having nothing to do with a land war in Asia, but rather when
these reporters, these mainstream reporters who live in New York and d C,
write a story, a takedown story, only to realize later that instead of
taking them down because it makes them more relatable to people, it shows instead
shows how disconnected reporters are. Or maybe I'm wrong, Maybe Ross I didn't
send you a trigger warning when I sent you the story yesterday? Did it
send you rushing to buy an emotional support animal when you saw that Mike Johnson
doesn't have retirement savings, own stocks, his you know, has a few
thousand in his account, has a mortgage of you know, two fifty to
five K five hundred K range. He's got a loan out. Were you
triggered? Are? It was more reminded of the Predator meme where the two
guys you know, like are giving each other high five. You know what
I mean? Yeah, I'm like, dude, same and no. In
fact, for many of you listening, especially if you live Triangle and try
it proper, but more so in the Triangle. Now, uh, that'd
be a poor person's house. Did you see the new home price numbers?
Oh my gosh, that's a starter home. This reporter wrote it and instead
of triggering people, most most folks looked at it and went, I feel
your brother, I got you. What an unforced stupid airman. Then you
have the other side of the spectrum, where it's like you have Nancy Pelosi
eating like a five thousand dollars gallon of ice cream or one dollars fridge.
Yeah, yeah, did you exaggerate any of that or is it all No?
We checked all that, so I'm sure it's really good ice cream,
right, it's got to be for that. I mean, you have some,
don't you? The different I shared some with the claymation. Dude,
oh oh, I'm in the media. So yeah, very very important stuff
process a hinge. I mean, so of course he's got the edge.
Yes, no, absolutely, yeah, you'r bumblebee tuna money or whatever they
with. Nancy Pelosi's wealth, a lot of it is attached to her lineage,
like you may not remember, but she is nepotism personified, right.
Her father was a member of Congress, and so she grew up in all
of that. I don't begrudge her for that, but that's lifestyle she chose,
and it was made much easier by also marrying very very rich families and
the wealth that her family was able to accumulate on you know, a normal
smaller salary strangely enough, but you know, you can track that. But
it has a scent of what people see nowadays, where people go to Congress
and they make money that is easy to process for people, even if they
don't make that much. They can estimate the level of lifestyle that person should
be leaving, leading only to see that person in ten years of spending time
in Congress with personal wealth in the millions, assets that far outpace us being
unapologetic for it. So it's an extra screw up when you write stories like
this. It's also why you were unsuccessful in demonizing Donald Trump for his wealth,
because, unlike Nancy Pelosi, who would would prefer that you think she's
poor or not poor, but you know, very normal, Donald Trump went,
I'm rich. Y'all right, He's like, can I put gold on
that? I make money? Because that's what I think people crave, is
right, because the opposite is like the dude hanging out during election season and
like the local barbers joint. You know yet the Josh Stein picture? What
you mean? Joined us some comfort food mccollin greens, And I'm just I'm
not all the son of an extremely wealthy and successful and famous civil rights lawyer
who essentially created this path that I just followed along because everyone can help me
along the way. I'm just a guy likes collar greens. Why isn't anybody
around me right now? Do you think he spit it out right after the
photo or do you think he never ate any dude right in their face?
Oh no, oh, the poor people down there at the queue joint.
I didn't think it was funny because I tweeted that. I retweeted that out
and then like it was that and then it was some of our Lexington listeners
like, it's not real barbecue anyway down in Goldsborough, wilbursh because I love
that fight. I love that fight, to which I responded, well,
unless you guys caught a cow, it ain't real barbecue, just because I
had to be a jerk, and that's how that's how real people communicate.
But I digress. So that story number one. Story number two. Washington,
DC's got a little bit of an issue. I have heard little little
crime issue things going on there. And one of the stories that you couldn't
if for the media, you could not cover was a member of Congress got
carjacked there what like two weeks ago, And so the mayor of Washington,
d C. Said enough is enough. We're going to solve this problem.
So you would think, maybe let's see ways to solve the problem. I
don't know. People do crimes, are found guilty of doing doing crimes,
they should be punished according to the laws that we currently have. That might
help, even if it doesn't cure pure recidivism. Like the moment they're out,
they do it again. There's all those moments they're not out. But
instead of that, what does the Mayor of DC DO announces a new program,
a new program that will provide free, but government version of free,
meaning you paid for it geo tags essentially, or tracking tags, you know,
like the little Apple air tags, but for residents of the District of
Washington, d C. Because there's so many car jackings and I mean literally
it's one hundred percent increase. You're over your twenty two to twenty three last
month carjackings and car thefts. That Muriel Bowser went out and bought a bunch
of these little tracking things to give to residence so that they can stick them
to their car, which will not stop your car from getting stolen, but
will allow you to track it for a period of time. Have you ever
had has anybody ever had anything stolen that has that is trackable, like of
like I had my phone and iPad stolen, which are both Apple products,
and then I could track it on an old iPad that I had. And
it is maddening to watch your stuff move around but never really be able to
do anything about it because you just can't get the law enforcement coordinator and then
it disappears and people know what they're doing. Who now know about this program
because it was announced that is something they're going to look for. So you
may scrape bottom some idiots, and if you don't actually you know, put
them in jail, they'll be back doing idiot stuff again. But you also
just spend all this money and announce this program and it doesn't stop the actual
car theft. It only changes the way they deal with it the moment later,
and provides me the added frustration of sitting at home on a device watching
you know, my you know, tens of thousands of dollars investment drive away
and annoying. Maybe I'll see it again, maybe I won't. And then
that moment will occur in many cases once they figure out how to look for
these things, because they'll be you know, they'll be where people are.
If you have those, there's places they tell you to put them, and
a lot of people just do it. It's like people have passwords that are
one, two, three, four five, right. Criminals know this stuff,
and then all of a sudden, the little blinky thing on the map,
You're like, there's my car. I'm calling the police. It's just
poof, it's gone gone, man, And that's your solution, not hey,
if people keep stealing cars, and you have you have literal gangs of
people. This is what they do, right, They go out, they
scout and they and they do this in groups and this is their profession.
You never thought to you. Okay, when we do inevitably make some arrest
here, why don't we make it so they're in jail, because it's really
hard to steal a car in jail, as I understand it, all right,
eight forty five race Agic Weather Channel. He's here. He's here because
he's not out stealing cars, and for that he's a good gun. So
but maybe he does that when he's not here. So I don't know how
you doing, man, I'm doing all right. How are you? It's
just a weird day, so Cartha, Yeah, well you're gonna have that
sometimes, right, Yeah, No, not to be well that to me,
but no, definitely not. Well, there's nothing weird about what I
need to do the next week or so, going to kick back and relax.
A little chilly this morning. Freeze warning stays in place, but most
areas are getting now above freezing Still to the west from a about Greensboro,
Winston Salem and west into the mountains, it's cold. Did see some upper
teens in parts of the Blue Ridge earlier today, and now everybody will have
a pretty good supply of sunshine. Load to mid fifties today, a few
degrees up from where you were earlier today, low thirties, and then sunny
tomorrow will start the warming trend in the low sixties and then upper sixties,
maybe even seventy degrees over the weekend, and load to mid seventies next week,
really starting about Saturday. Although the nights will be cool, we'll come
up to the forties to near fifty. The afternoons are going to be real
nice, upper sixties to low seventies probably through Wednesday of next week. Really
going to be a real nice run for the weekend coming up for early November.
Sure, jackets on in the morning and maybe a lighter jacket in the
afternoon, but that sunshine's still gonna feel pretty good, even at or just
above seventy degrees or just below if you get into the mountains end points just
west of the triangle. So not bad casey, not at at all.
Okay, Thanks sir, Good one chat tomorrow, okay, And we will
get Jeff Bellinger Bloomberg News and a couple other stories even a Marvel story.
I'm gonna try to jam in here, so hang on for that your day
Smarter one O six one FM Talk and News Talk ninety four w PTI more
with Casey. It starts now all right, six fifty two, and it
is Bloomberg Update time. Jeff Bellinger's standing by what's going on? Sir,
No, Casey. There was no one welcome surprise from the Federal Reserve yes
yesterday, so stocks moved higher in midweek trading. The Fed left interest rates
unchanged, and while chaired your own, Powell indicated further rate hikes can't be
taken off the table. He did hint there's a good chance central bankers are
through raising rates. Investors very anxious to see Apple's quarterly results. The report
will offer some clues about early demand for the latest iPhone. Apple releases its
report after the market's closed today. Did hear from some big companies this morning?
Starbucks and Wendy's both posted stronger than expected quarterly results. Papa John's adjusted
profit was up from a year ago, but it still fell short Wall Street
estimates. Two of the nation's big theme park operators are merging. Six Flags
and Cedar Fair announced this morning. They have a definitive agreement for an all
stock merger. It's worth about eight billion dollars. The combined company will operate
under the six Flags name and it's going to be based in Charlotte. The
number of workers signing up for unemployment benefits ticked hire last week that they department
counted two hundred and seventeen thousand first time claims. That's five thousand more than
the prior week. Claims at that level still point to a solid job market.
And Casey and other Labor Department report shows worker productivity rose more than expected
in the third quarter. That's good news and the fight against inflation and the
futures improved after it was released. Right now, the futures are higher across
the board, with the Dow futures up two hundred and thirty two points.
Casey, okay, all right, we were reflecting on the death of Bobby
Night. I'm sure you saw that story. I did see it. Yes,
has there been He has to be among the greatest audio producers, like
quotes of anybody who ever did that. It was just amazing when you go
back and look at it retrospectively. Yeah, I heard of one of my
stations. Was I only tuned into the very end of the quote, but
they were playing it saying he was telling calling somebody a Mickey Mouse, but
he said that would be in insulting to Mickey. No. Right, yeah,
I couldn't even get to all of it. It was crazy. So
anyway, all right, hey Jeff, thank you much, appreciate it.
So all right, tomorrow, all right, you'll talk to actually you'll talk
to Joan Donnager tomorrow. I'm not a long weekend and I'll be how nice
for you, Okay, all right, enjoy that. We'll see you next
week. There you go, Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg News, off to do
some stuff or something. Uh uh. You know, I'm not surprised by
this in any way, shape or form, but it is a it's a
it's a move of desperation, and there's no other way to interpret it in
my opinion, from the same way that they move the snow White to twenty
twenty five, that's a move of desperation. So as you probably are aware,
if you're not in a coma marvel when they started, you know,
pushing all the movies through from Iron Man onto up to the culmination of I
would argue the Avengers where every other movie studio was just they were so jealous.
The amount of money they were making was crazy, the numbers, the
records that were said, it was everything. It was the best of days,
and that did not continue as they moved forward. They wanted every they
wanted black Panther, but for everything where they could get woke messaging in there.
The difference they failed to recognize is black Panther. That was black Panther.
I saw. Maybe it was Critical Drinker or somebody pointing this out too.
It's like the Miles Morales Spider Man. That's not a race swap,
like this whole pandaverse thing, that's its own thing. And the studios never
understood this, so they would constantly maybe not race swap, some they did,
but they they changed the characteristics of the individuals to create this strong female
lead, this Mary Sue. This is why this became a term, and
it's all started to go downhill. And the projective numbers for what is it,
the Atney, the Eternals or no, the Marvels, Yeah, the
Marvels. It did the they're they're gonna lose their behind on this and probably
a few other projects. So with that in mind, what do you do
when you have this this I P You've screwed You've screwed it up so much.
You undead people, right because you know why, multiverse, that's why
you stupid idiot who thought Iron Man died or others and stuff. Yeah,
so apparently, uh, last month, the Marvel creative staff had their annual
retreat, and now information has started to seep out, which could include going
back to the Avenger. Well and Marvel reconsidering their plans in the next phase
to go back and explore more of the Avenger characters and timeline, since they
were the ones that made the money. The problem they run into, of
course, is some of them are dead or some of them have fundamentally altered
their character arc to the point where you really can't present them in the same
way. So how do you make up for that? Well, you do
what they do in these movies where ross I'm you and I probably this conversation.
Nobody ever really dies anymore, right in the superhero movies, and so
it removes all the emotion from it. So I feel like all you're doing
is highlighting the problem people are complaining about. Look that ran out of time,
so dumb, so dumb, but I even have dumber stories that I
can get to. So we'll dumb you up more tomorrow because it's Friday,
and that's what we do, and occasionally we inform occasionally, but for now
we're gonna take a break. Wish you a good Thursday, and we'll see
you back here tomorrow