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All right, good morning everybody,
and welcome. It is six o eight

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and uh, you know what,
go back to bed? Okay. Now,

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look, if your boss, or
your school, or your spouse,

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if they have a problem with it, just tell him I told you so,

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Frost, do you want to go
go back to bed? Do you

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want to go home and go back
to bed. That's the thing you would

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like to do. I mean,
that's a great option. Is a great

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opt I cannot communicate the sea change
of it doesn't happen very often in this

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And for those of you listening,
I'm doing this right off the bat because

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I'm talking to you the people who
don't work a nine to five, right,

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You work a you work early,
even if it's just a little earlier,

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like me mentally, if it's just
a little earlier, and you get

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up a little earlier. But in
you know, in the world of radio,

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you you get up quite a bit
earlier. And in the world of

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a lot of different jobs out there, from driving truck to a lot of

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warehouse gigs. I did a warehouse
uh one around Christmas, me and my

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buddy did a temp work thing for
Kabela's because we were you were you know,

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we're traveling around and we're you know, college college age kids, and

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we just wanted some money, and
uh boyd damn near killed me. I

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h hated those hours. And then
I'm like, hey, let me get

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into the morning radio. So whatever. But there, you you know,

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out of I don't know exactly many
work days are, but let's you know,

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two hundred ish or whatever of the
two hundred or so workdays where you

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get up at that stupid hour,
how many are days where the moment your

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alarm goes off, you're up and
you're just like, I feel amazing,

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I feel I'm in a good mood. Everything's you know. The struggle with

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a lot of that is everything needs
to be right where it should be because

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like I don't know why, but
if if you work early mornings and your

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phone's not where you thought it was, or your keys or not where you

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thought it somehow can add a dramatic
amount of time and stress. And everything

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was just clicking this morning, you
know what I mean, right, Ross,

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You know what I mean? Right? Oh, completely, And you

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savor those days. It's and sometimes
it's there's no discernible reason, like I

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didn't go to Betterly last night.
I stayed out, watched the World Series.

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I was reading some stuff, and
then I watched cool Space documentary,

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and I felt I went to sleep
probably later, no easily later than normal,

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or I guess preferable. I had
a few adult beverages watching the baseball

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game with my buddies. But I
sprang out of bed this morning and I

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went through my morning routine. And
my morning routine is because we do prep

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in the evening. It's got to
be that way. And I mean the

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evening Ross is not putting that stuff
together until minimum, like seven o'clock at

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his house once, you know,
once I sent all over my stuff.

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And what I do is I have
a few other then I want to see

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what happened overnight or what story's populated. And I go through and the routine

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is that I have a couple like
shared email lists with some other radio hosts.

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I look, we kind of share
stuff, look at what they're doing.

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And then there's one other little thing
I do. I throw on the

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bike, Hey, Twitter, what's
up? Click that open, and you

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know, normally there's a few notifications
from you, you guys out there who

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have commented on or shared or whatever. Glance at those and then I go

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over to trending, and I gotta
tell you, it's that can be a

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gold mine, and it can be
a gold mine. And this is my

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theory for this reason, because there's
some story, especially the stupid stories that

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we like to do, or I
like to do. I don't know if

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Russ always likes it, but I
do. They tend to percolate overnight because

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my theory is that drunk people are
giving them engagement and they boosts it.

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I don't know there's any truth to
that, but it's crazy. But also

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it's a bit of like deciphering,
because you'll see something trending and you'll click

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it and then it won't be what
you think it is. And a lot

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of times that's by people doing that
kind of intentionally, or they're engagement farming

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or whatever. So this morning,
I'm pop that up and I look at

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I even change the trending settings because
you can change them for triangle tryad any

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city in the US, any country, or just worldwide or country wide or

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whatever. And so I got about
five that I look through. There are

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five different ways that I look through
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It's just bang bang bang bang bang, done, and I had all my

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other stuff, was just doing the
Twitter stuff, and I see the Will

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Smith thing and I know in my
head what it is, but somehow,

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and I can't remember which of the
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the trending settings they had Will Smith, which is trending on most of them,

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but one of them because they put
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It was trending with RIP and so
in that, you know, it's

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still early, and even though I
was having a good morning, I'm like,

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oh my gosh, cause you know, Bobby Knight passed away yesterday.

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I was a big story. We're
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gonna get into that. Yes,
Indiana basketball coach, so I guess Texas

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Red Raiders and all of that.
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obviously is there's a lot going on
with him and the wife and the

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situation and the books and the whole
thing. And frankly, the guy,

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the Will Smith of my childhood ain't
Will Smith. Now. The guy looks

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beaten and brough, and I don't
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he went up and slapped somebody,
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was driving home yesterday and Will Smith's
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and I was thinking the same thing. I'm like, this dude doesn't exist

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anymore. I don't remember how big
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into the little gossipy magazines or whatever. But it's not because it's out there

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because she did the interview. He
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uh what And and I mentioned that
I met Will Smith and and and for

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uh you know, interview, but
also an extended little conversational time when he

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was promoting movies, and I and
to be incredibly engaging. And because actors

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or anyone who's a celebrity, when
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the air, those are two different
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No, I've interviewed him twice.
Yes, he's the nicest guy on

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the planet. Or he's the AfOR
and give him all the risks. Yeah,

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all right, there's there's a reason. Back in the day, right

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when he was casting as Muhammad Ali. You're like, yeah, it makes

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sense, yes, And he did
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movie. I'm like, are seriously, Will Smith's gonna go okay, but

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I knew in my head because I
watched the World Series yesterday what it was,

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what I thought the Will Smith was
gonna be. So I click,

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and sure enough somebody thought it was
clever to instead of rest in peace it

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means raise it player, which is
who the hell knows. But then enough

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drunk people joined in and they're talking
about was the World's trophy because the Texas

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Rangers yesterday in what could have been
a more interesting game to watch if the

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Diamondbacks would like to. But that's
your team. I'm sorry you lost.

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I got no I got no love
one way or the other. I just

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I the first game of the series
was so great. And then Will Smith

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is a player for the Texas Rangers. But Will Smith has not always been

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a player for the Texas Rangers.
And when I say not always, what

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I mean is Will Smith was a
player. He has been with three teams

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in the last three seasons. He
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now with Texas, so Houston,
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if you know anything about those three
teams, those are the last three teams

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to win the World Series. So
this guy goes to a a club for

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a year they win the World Series
somehow either get you know, it gets

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cut or traded or whatever, and
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and then it just happened a third
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one of those funny, quirky,
amazing little sports nuggets right that it will

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probably be a trivia trivia thing on
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that those won't exist because it will
be AI robots but maybe, okay,

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I don't know. So that that
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then there are you know, we
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so I saw, I don't I
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I will. I'll ma give this
as a generic as possible. It

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is ROSI. You would say it's
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things that might not have might not
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under old ownership. But that was
more due to like it's it's a part.

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You got to take the good with
the bad, is what I'm saying.

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If you if you want Twitter what
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because it is it is simultaneously much
more open and honest and people are

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not intimidated. They will say what
they think, which is important. It's

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important for discussions, for debating issues, but also for you being able to

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go all right, scroller guys or
somebody's timeline and go that tells me all

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I need to know for the restraining
order, right, And somebody's like,

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don't look at the and then insert
whatever. The videos and this one just

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had to do with the horse,
and it's a very popular way, you

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know, very generically to get a
lot of engagement. And that's the bad

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that goes with it. But what
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hashtag and I saw accounts that I
recognized referencing it, and now I'm like,

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oh, dear God. And I
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I scrolled down in the first account
and there it was. So I'm going

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to recommend you avoid all equine search
stuff today. Okay, go ahead and

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do that. And I was thinking, no, no, no, it's

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not the one that did this a
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Although this guy didn't die from perfectation. And now here we are and

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that's my morning. Oh there was
one other I can't remember what it was.

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I just so irritated. How did
Will Smith get there? The actor

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Will Smith? You know what?
It makes me angry too, because we've

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all known somebody and this isn't just
guy, you know, this isn't uh,

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this can be a man, you
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whatever. We everybody knows somebody who
has been damn near destroyed or destroyed by

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a toxic partner. Right, everybody's
got a story. Everybody's got a story.

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I like, my buddy dates this
girl. She's insane. She and

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and yet you know, as humans
were, you know, we're imperfect,

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and we make horrible decisions when you
know different, you know, different emotions

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are attached to things. And we've
watched it and and and likely at some

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point we've allowed ourselves to to some
level. I have to interact with a

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toxic person and and you know,
some people are able to deal with it

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and some people you can just let
it destroy you man. And so to

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have somebody who was so likable and
for all pracical purposes should be like,

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he's not a big political dude,
any of that. I watched that,

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and it's still one of the most
depressing, you know, not important,

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but still important stories that you know, regularly comes up in the feed.

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So I saw a meme yesterday that
was like that said, Carlton won in

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the end. Have you seen this
meme? I have? Yeah. So

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on the left you see carl you
know, Fonsa Rivera and he's got his

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arm around his beautiful wife and he's
got his you know, four to five

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picturesque kids. It looks like an
all American guy, very happy, a

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big smile from ear to ear.
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Smith crying meme. It's it's it's
just so brutal what happened? Will Smith

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sitting at home, you know,
probably dwelling on like how did I get

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here? And like a team can't
even win the World Series without him probably

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getting notifications right because people want to
clown on and don't. Don't. Just

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don't with the others. Just don't
with the other thing. Okay, So

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there you go. That's your setup. Now a break be back. Caso

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CaCO Day, slightly middled mood radio
program, Hang on two stations driving the

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best in talk. This is cac
O Day and Carolina is Morning News.

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Ahlrighty six Koda radio program. You
do oh last and I were the weird

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chatting away there during the break,
and my little next Gen thing is updating

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now all of a sudden. It
used to never do that, I think,

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now it does it once. I
finally it knows I'm using the program,

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which seems to be about the worst
thing ever from a programming perspective.

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Why would you do that if the
computer's left on? Because I'm using words

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here. Next Gen is basically like
the log, right, but it's our

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version of it digitally, so it's
through all the spots and the brakes and

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Ross has to do things to it
all through. But the program is called

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next Gen, and it used to
just do it's updates real quick or overnight,

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and then I don't know, for
some reasons like that. All right,

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so we're done. Good, I
stoled enough. Thank you. Let's

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talk o gz man, Bobby Knight, And I don't care whether you are

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college basketball or you're not a college
basketball fan. That's fine. I know

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that I'm obviously talking because I have
the privilege of broadcasting in North Carolina and

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you know Triad Triangle. There's a
better chance than not that we're talking to

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a bigger percentage of college basketball fans. And that's awesome, and even though

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Bobby Knight wasn't you know, that
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I guess to some extent Texas Tech
but that whole debacle, but he was

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a he was known. It was
Bobby Knight, obviously. See I mean

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the big the coach, the personality
of the coaches for the last few decades.

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And I would argue really almost all
of modern college basketball going back to

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you know, UCLA back in the
fifties and sixties, and you know what

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you saw in Connecticut on the women's
side, and Duke Krzyzewski and you know

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two iterations of it over at UNC
and Valvano, at State Wake Forest.

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I mean, the coaches become these
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Bobby Knight was no exception. And
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was younger, and I've talked about
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a fan of growing up in Wyoming
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don't begrudge the University of Wyoming,
but because of the powers that be the

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University of Wyoming, when they actually
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so to the point where they were
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and then not get a bowl game
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people to travel, which is kind
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Wyoming had a half million people at
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So moving on up. It decimated
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go there because they weren't going to
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get the coverage. The Whack Division
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and that you can look it up. And so there wasn't that really wasn't

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the thing if you if you root
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Bobby Knight, I liked anything I
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Bobby Knight. And I realized now
contextually why before there was Trump, before

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there was Dysantis, before there was
Chris Christie, and what of those guys

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have in common even though they're all
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was the way that they handled the
media. And I know it's crazy to

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say because I'm in the media,
and by the way, I have interviewed

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Bobby Knight before. Yes, it
was it was not an a It was

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obviously it's in sports capacity to talking
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a thing years and years and years
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that he was involved in. And
when I was in Minnesota, he was

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still attached from a Big ten perspective
and it was and so in Minneapolis we

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were doing stuff, crossover stuff with
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nibble around the edges on this because
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that Bobby Knight was famous for was
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one liners. Because he the last
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a press conference. Ironically, you
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to do because of the reaction he
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you know, other coaches have modeled
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good example on the pro football side, right, they got no time for

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it. Players have been those guys. But to have a coach do it,

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and because of the longevity the lot
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But then I realized something when I
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audio tapings for the Vikings, I
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because I hated the media he hated. And those are the people in

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a post game sports setting who wanted
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want to talk about the game,
they want to talk about any of that.

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sports where it can't be that mental
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be, because you have to ask
you, you have to ask a player

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based on their immutable characteristic right uh, and and their and their race or

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their gender or whatever it may be
the latest gotcha question if you're going after

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them, or reaction question. How
many times did we have audio of people

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talking asking sports individuals questions about Trump
stuff? Crazy? Right, you visited

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Florida once, mister player, what
do you think of that? It's just

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pure absurdity. And that's what Bobby
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and he and he made his career
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And then when they saw an opportunity
because he bumped a chair okay, he

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threw the chair well and some other
stuff, they descended as a pack of

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wolves on this dude. So it
took many, many years of doing what

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I do in different capacities for it
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So when I already died yesterday,
and admittedly I hadn't thought about Bobby Knight

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in a while, I just was, I just rushed. I just went

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right to the YouTube, and I
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You know, they had like people
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cuts of of his insanity. Man
uh, in these press comedies and genius

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insanity. I don't mean it in
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that attitude in those settings has been
a big part of not of non sports

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related stuff. Do you remember back
in the day watching Chris Christy when he

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was governor of New Jersey do an
interview with New Jersey Media and how weird

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that felt? And none of these
guys were the first ones, but he

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was chanting. He's channeling Bobby Knight
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think I'm wrong, by the way, call the show and tell me I'm

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not. But you can call and
and and then you know that Donald Trump,

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remember the Gold Room, The Gold
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Hey, whatever questions you got.
Thing I want to call it a press

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conference. I don't know what it
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where he raised he raised fake news
to very fake news, right, he

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got his moniker upgraded. He went
after the NPR Chick, I can't April

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whatever April Ryan it was. I
remember I was still in the studio and

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it was like two hours after the
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when that presser was going on.
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cut all the audio and and everything, But you know the one I'm talking

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about where he's like hour and a
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and he just it was a battle
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the Bobby. That was Bobby Knight's
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Pershall his former comms check for that, although she moved over to the campaign

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now she would channel that too,
and watching her on Twitter. And it

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feels good when you are among those
who are very frustrated with what you see

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as the dereliction of duty, the
indoctrination, and the ruining of what is

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a necessary component to our our political
system, the fourth estate right, our

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safety, are well being and our
general mood man, because you know,

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part of the American ideal is accountability, or it used to be accountability,

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and if you weren't doing that,
you were going to get a big time

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beat down. And I don't mean
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sometimes it's happened, you know,
with a king by another senator, but

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but you were going to get exposed
for them, and now it happens sometimes,

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but more you're more likely to encounter
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people think now either the utter disinterest
in doing that for one side versus the

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other, or wholesale made up stuff, and that frustration. It's subconsciously when

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you hear Chris Christi or Donald Trump
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or even Belichick to the extent although
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it feels good, a little right, feel a little good because you're

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so frustrated with what that has become. I say this obviously I'll talk about

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it here on the radio, but
it's like, because one of the little

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stories that man just got me thinking
yesterday, just got me thinking, because

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I mean, how could you not
let me answer that? You know that

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is an absolute crocking. You know, you and people in the news media,

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all of you dwell on some negative
piece of like that. And I

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don't know how Steve feels about it, but it just and you don't have

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to bleep one single word of this. How could you not want to have

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a beer with that dude? And
I found him to be jovial by the

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way. I found him be jovial
in the You ever know somebody who at

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first glance, you think this guy's
a jerk, but then you realize it's

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he's a happy agel. There's no
way I could possibly describe this, And

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like, once you just have a
little bit of a conversational flow with them,

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you realize that that's just kind of
the demeanor. You don't make judgment

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on it, but if it works
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And it's kind of funny to watch
others step into that weird zone that you

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yourself just went through playing that Now
you realized that he was a pioneer.

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Yes, og, he's og.
Back in the day, as a kid,

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I'm like, wow, that guy's
crazy. He's saying you unhinged.

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But that wasn't really a thing back
then. People didn't say, unhinged right

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now and now it's like being older, You're like that guy was smart you.

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It requires citicism, Bobby Knight requires
cynicism in your heart because that's the

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only way you understand it. He's
an og, he's a pieteer. You're

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absolutely right. Every single day I
had to whittle I had to whittle the

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list the list down. Man.
I had a friend one time that that

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said, why had why had he
become so popular after he became eighty five?

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And he said, because I've lived
although some but it didn't like me.

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He's talking to the media over this, and there's some stuff that doesn't

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translate to radio that are our absolutely
legendary moments, Like he had a he

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went into a press conference with a
whip that had like what looked to be

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blood on the end of it,
and it's a that's the whole thing.

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Uh. He also because you know
they they they ran him up there,

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uh at Indiana and he never forgave
him. And then when he went to

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Texas Tech, which are the Red
Riders, both are red and he put

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on the Red Riders stuff at the
press conference. Uh. He said something

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along the lines of this is the
the greatest red piece of clothing I've ever

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had or whatever I mean it was, and and people lost their crap man.

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So it wasn't just the media,
but it was Hey, I'm not

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screw all y'all if if I have
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you're with me and you want to
win, because he was a driven guy,

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then we're gonna bust our butts and
we're gonna do it. I got

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more of this coming up and asked
even some other stories, but it's uh,

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it'll be a bounce around morning.
So buckle in six forty nine,

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hang on, keeping you connected.
This is ninety four to five WPTI in

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the Triad and one six one FM
Talk in the Triangle. All right,

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six fifty five, welcome back Haco
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this because I told you I started
me doing a lot of thinking and how

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it really attached to just a bunch
of different things we talked about, like

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here's here was a thought started that
popped into my head if Bobby Knight started

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coaching. Let's say that right after
Shrzyzewsky left, Bobby Knight was brought in,

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you know, as the fill in. He had a little bit of

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profile, but not a lot.
And that was the time frame. Do

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you think Bobby Knight could operate in
modern day, even though he just died

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yesterday, operate in his prime in
today's college environment. I mean they had

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they the university president would be writing
an apologetic letter that day talking about how

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he's suspended, we made a horrible
decision. The media would be like,

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he embodies a toxic masculinity, and
then he would own it. And I

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don't know that it would work,
but people look people like that, and

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they like that because it's an extension
of their frustrations. And it's not just

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on that side of the examples I've
given you extensions of frustrations, whether you

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think they're correct or misguided, include
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people fundamentally misunderstand. That's my opinion. But I understand why people look at

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that. I understand why these idiots
wearing nikes, drinking on their while on

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their iPhone, drinking the Starbucks can
on ironically say that capitalism is a disease

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as where their heads at. So
they Buford Buford Puss Ross. You know

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Buford Puster is or was, I
should say, he's dead I don't know,

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but that name sounds amazing. Beauford. Are you ever see the movie

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Walking Tall? Yeah, yep,
that's that movie was based kind of on

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Buford Puss. So this dude was
a in Tennessee. Well, look,

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I'm looking at the clock here.
It's an amazing story. I'll give you

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like I'll give you like the the
just the minute and a half two minute

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rundown. I just don't have enough
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I'm making all these connections because like
his it's the origin story, the absolute

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legends right of stuff. And it
could be that guy. It's uh,

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it could be corporal Benovdidez. If
you don't know who that is, google

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Benovdidez. It's kind of hard to
google, but type Vietnam War hero and

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then start typing b e n.
It's amazing and people gravitate towards that.

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and some people are actually not great
people on the underside, but they

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personify frustrations. More on this in
a moment. All right, good morning,

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everybody, and welcome. It is
seven o six here on the casey

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O day radio. I am so
glad that somebody called in to ask that

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question, Oh is it and it's
mister maybe Okay, I was, I've

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got I was kind of holding back
on that one. The Bobby Knight thing

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tight made you listen all the rest
of my incoherent ramblings. I will we'll

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touch on that here in just a
moment. So that's it. It's one

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story, but I think it's indicative
of so much more, especially as I

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looked at the reporting because of the
relationship that Bobby Knight had with the media

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and that you knew it was going
to influence how they were going to write

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about them. And this is the
same disconnects you see where you end up

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with like Washington Post articles talking about
UH terrorist leaders as scholars, right,

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and it just and it grinds your
gears, so to speak. But that

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feeling of well, a great example, that feeling of I'm mad as hell

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and I'm not going to take it
anymore. Before that was a movie line

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and made iconic with what it represented. It was the tale of you know,

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legends or tall tales of individuals,
and you'd know that even the story

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as it sits now is probably not
one hundred percent accurate. But people find

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motivation in that, and they find
motivation from all different perspectives depending on who

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the person is battling against. So
in the case of Bobby nightey's battling against

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the media, and Uh, in
those who would lionize individuals like I gave

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the example Chaegovira, Maybe that's not
super fair, but individuals for you know,

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seizing the means of production because in
your mind, that's what you agree

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with. So when people are out
doing what you always wish you could do,

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you gravitate towards that. Even the
New York Post, who I thought

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would be a pretty even hand to
the very first line or the headline,

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and fludes Uh describing Bobby Knight as
a tempestus. So tempestous means strong,

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00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:14.920
characterized by strong and turbulent or conflicting
emotion. Well, I wouldn't say it

407
00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:19.639
was conflicting. Dude was pretty spot
on. Man, dude was pretty spot

408
00:36:19.760 --> 00:36:23.599
on when when he'd sit there and
and and talk to the media. I

409
00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:28.480
remember when you're at a game and
you see grass, it's the opposite side

410
00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:30.800
of the ball. But if you
see hardwood out there, it's the other

411
00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:35.599
end of the floor, try to
help you young guys in this profession you've

412
00:36:35.719 --> 00:36:42.519
chosen. It's one or two steps
above prostitution. So does he sound conflicted

413
00:36:42.639 --> 00:36:45.239
to you? You doesn't sound conflicted, so kind of. But but I

414
00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:50.039
like, I get that. And
I mentioned another example, uh, because

415
00:36:50.079 --> 00:36:52.519
it's one of those names and when
you hear it, you'll never forget it.

416
00:36:52.599 --> 00:36:55.880
Buford Pusser. And I know,
I know there's probably quite a few

417
00:36:55.920 --> 00:37:01.039
of you who do know who that
is, because especially if you're older and

418
00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:07.320
you are a long time North Carolinian
or a native North Carolinian, Because while

419
00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:10.599
it wasn't North Carolina, it was
Tennessee that he operated, and it was

420
00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:15.480
kind of over If you draw a
triangle from Memphis to Nashville to Huntsville,

421
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:20.000
Alabama, and right in the center
of that, in the middle of Nowheresville,

422
00:37:21.239 --> 00:37:28.480
is where Buford Pusser was the sheriff
and Ki was a constable too for

423
00:37:28.599 --> 00:37:37.119
some time McNairy County and during the
sixties or during the seventies, so late

424
00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:40.880
sixties and in the early seventies.
He was a guy who he grew up

425
00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:45.440
there when he was basically right out
of high school. Well, here's what

426
00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:50.000
you got to know at that time
when we think of the mob, what

427
00:37:50.079 --> 00:37:52.719
do you think of when I say
the word mob or mafia? What do

428
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:53.920
you think of ross? What do
you think of when I say mob?

429
00:37:55.239 --> 00:38:00.840
What would what's the thought that the
visual of Vito Corleon? Had you ever

430
00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:04.880
heard of the state line mob or
state line mob? I don't think so.

431
00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:14.320
So it's that, but it's people
in the middle of Nowheresville in Southern

432
00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:16.960
States, and it was. But
it was all the stuff too. It

433
00:38:17.239 --> 00:38:27.039
was alcohol production, it was evading
cigarettes, taxation, it was gambling establishments,

434
00:38:27.239 --> 00:38:30.760
it was murder, it was all
of it. And it was the

435
00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:40.079
absolute infiltration and corruption of almost entire
law enforcement forces, from the chief of

436
00:38:40.159 --> 00:38:45.559
the sheriff on down. They were
all bought off right, all the free

437
00:38:45.639 --> 00:38:49.880
hookers and money they could have just
look the other way and facilitate. And

438
00:38:50.559 --> 00:38:53.559
you know, over time, those
stories have permeated a lot of things in

439
00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:57.880
the South, especially in North Carolina. If you look into NASCAR, and

440
00:38:58.320 --> 00:39:04.159
you know, and and and the
historical perspective there in moonshining, which somebody

441
00:39:04.239 --> 00:39:07.960
listening right now is still moonshining.
I know this because every time I talk

442
00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:10.280
about moonshining, somebody sends me an
email going, hey, man, you

443
00:39:10.320 --> 00:39:15.719
want some You know you do?
You There's a little town called state Line.

444
00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:20.559
If you're headed before you make the
jump up towards roring gap right there,

445
00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:23.599
do the history of how many stills
used to be running back in the

446
00:39:23.639 --> 00:39:28.480
day near state Line, North Carolina, and then drive through it sometime and

447
00:39:28.599 --> 00:39:32.199
you realize it's like ten stills per
person. I think under current population.

448
00:39:32.280 --> 00:39:37.679
It's crazy. So Pusser goes into
one of these gables gambling establishments as a

449
00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:43.239
young man. He's not law enforcer
or anything, and he wins a bunch

450
00:39:43.320 --> 00:39:47.519
of money and for his troubles,
the mob gets mad. They beat him

451
00:39:47.719 --> 00:39:52.719
so viciously that he had he I
think he needed like two hundred and fifty

452
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:55.920
stitches. They damn near killed him. They took all his money, all

453
00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:01.400
of that, and he went straight
revenge story. But his revenge story was

454
00:40:01.480 --> 00:40:06.039
not coming back and shooting the place
up that day. He left. He

455
00:40:06.119 --> 00:40:08.280
went and got married and had a
kid, I think, and then he

456
00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:14.000
came back to where he was from, and he got into law enforcement in

457
00:40:14.079 --> 00:40:21.880
an adjacent county, and then the
county where everyone was bought off, especially

458
00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:25.239
the sheriff. He says, screw
this, I'm gonna be sheriff, and

459
00:40:25.400 --> 00:40:30.840
he ran for sheriff, and ironically
he was the polls. He was expected

460
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:35.039
to win so handily over this guy
because people believed in him that they would

461
00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:42.559
vote for him. And the current
sheriff died in a mysterious way, and

462
00:40:42.760 --> 00:40:46.519
a lot of people think that the
the State Line mob murdered the old sheriff

463
00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:51.000
because he was gonna be on his
way out no use to and he knew

464
00:40:51.079 --> 00:40:55.199
stuff. So Puster gets in there
and this dude goes one man wrecking crew.

465
00:40:55.400 --> 00:41:00.679
And if you've ever seen the movie
Walking Tall, that is a movie

466
00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:06.119
that was based around this guy's story
but was hollywoodized. You know, walk

467
00:41:06.119 --> 00:41:08.559
around with that stick. But that's
because he used to walk around with the

468
00:41:08.679 --> 00:41:14.639
stick, and he used to go
around. In a short time after all

469
00:41:14.719 --> 00:41:17.000
of this emerge and his book came
out and the movie came out, he

470
00:41:17.119 --> 00:41:23.719
do autograph signings. People bring sticks
in. That was a thing, and

471
00:41:23.880 --> 00:41:28.519
so that was the iconic moment.
In reality, it wasn't that he was

472
00:41:28.599 --> 00:41:32.199
going in their wag. He used
a gun and he just he didn't care.

473
00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:38.599
He he went one man war zone
on moonshining prostitution, gambling, corruption,

474
00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:44.280
you name it, and they,
the criminals, so hated him for

475
00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:46.400
it. They tried to kill him
all the time, and in fact,

476
00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:52.039
they tried to ambush him one time
and his wife in the middle of the

477
00:41:52.159 --> 00:41:54.400
night, he goes out. It's
one of his own people who gets him

478
00:41:54.400 --> 00:41:59.519
to go out on this call.
Who's still in on it obviously, and

479
00:41:59.719 --> 00:42:02.519
his wife had been scared about some
threats, so she went to ride along

480
00:42:02.599 --> 00:42:07.000
on what was supposed to be an
accident response and when they got there,

481
00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:09.400
they opened fire. Bonnie and Clyde
on the car that killed his wife instantly

482
00:42:09.519 --> 00:42:13.559
shot her in the head. He
had to make a getaway, and he

483
00:42:13.679 --> 00:42:15.280
did for a while. They caught
him and then they shot him a bunch

484
00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:20.159
of times thought he was dead.
He wasn't. His jaw was blown off,

485
00:42:20.239 --> 00:42:24.960
but by now he was so legendary, and he was so legendary at

486
00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:32.719
that point that Elvis Presley paid for
all of his medical bills because the King

487
00:42:32.880 --> 00:42:38.239
went this guy's a badass, which
then further elevated everything. And then the

488
00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:43.239
people killed his wife. There's a
whole story. Some went to jail,

489
00:42:43.639 --> 00:42:47.119
others died in these weird ways.
This madam who was running the biggest of

490
00:42:47.199 --> 00:42:52.360
the brothels. When she knew it
was all over because the leader of the

491
00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:59.199
guy who killed his wife had been
shot and killed. Pusser went to arrest

492
00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:04.199
her, he pulled a gun on
him, he killed her. And so

493
00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:07.320
all of this permeates over the course
of a you know, a little less

494
00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:12.920
than a decade, and by the
early seventies he is he is this folk

495
00:43:13.079 --> 00:43:16.840
tale man. You forgot the most
important part. He was a professional wrestler.

496
00:43:19.559 --> 00:43:22.320
Yes, that is what he went
to Chicago to do. Yes,

497
00:43:22.519 --> 00:43:25.079
I'm sorry, Wait a said,
why did you just know that? I

498
00:43:25.159 --> 00:43:29.400
see The Rock played him in a
movie. Oh, that's right, that's

499
00:43:29.480 --> 00:43:30.320
right, I forgot. They did
a remake it. Well, the original

500
00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:34.920
Walking Tall was came out in the
seventies, right, he was still remaking

501
00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:37.239
like two thousand and four. And
if you're wondering, does he look like

502
00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:42.039
the Rock, he is not.
He doesn't well he doesn't look Samoan,

503
00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:45.639
but he's a big, big,
big dude. But so this comes out.

504
00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:49.639
He does leave law enforcement in short
like two year span, and he's

505
00:43:49.679 --> 00:43:51.920
got money coming in, right,
because he's got a book, he's got

506
00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:57.079
movie rights, all that stuff.
And he gets barely some time to bask

507
00:43:57.159 --> 00:44:02.280
in all of it. He buys
himself a bad ask corvette and decides on

508
00:44:02.519 --> 00:44:07.400
the very same roads of the county
in which he was he made his bones,

509
00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:13.599
uh with sadly his daughter in a
vehicle following his corvette to see what

510
00:44:13.719 --> 00:44:16.519
that bad boy could do. And
he took that thing off an embankment and

511
00:44:16.840 --> 00:44:23.679
just fireballed himself. And that that's
the story of Buford Pusser Man Crazy.

512
00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:29.800
It's there's so much more to it. So yeah, yeah, I'm making

513
00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:35.079
that tie in with Bobby Knight because
it is the emotions that pop out for

514
00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:40.719
different reasons that draw people to individuals
like Bufford Pusser, or to Bobby Knight,

515
00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:46.119
or to God help you build Belichick
if that's your thing. But because

516
00:44:46.280 --> 00:44:54.440
people can be amplified and organized and
mobilized in what they love but also in

517
00:44:54.599 --> 00:45:00.639
what they don't. And that's okay, right, that was the driver of

518
00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:07.159
the civil rights somebody's get so mad. I can't believe Bobby knighton you're talking

519
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:09.519
civil rights and stuff. I'm talking
about the way that people react to things.

520
00:45:10.320 --> 00:45:15.880
People knew that what was going on
the media stunk. Look what has

521
00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:25.679
become and this guy, he he
didn't care and he personified the frustration that

522
00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:30.320
people were feeling. If you can
personify frustration to some extent, it's what

523
00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:35.199
we benefit off of here on the
radio because we have a platform, and

524
00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:37.880
now more and more people have platforms
with social media and streaming and all of

525
00:45:37.960 --> 00:45:44.519
that, but we have a platform
to hopefully vocalize the frustrations that you're sharing.

526
00:45:44.679 --> 00:45:51.639
Yesterday, how many of you shared
this this anger over the Veterans Day

527
00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:59.760
parade, right, this frustration that's
just shared emotion, and Bobby Knight harnessed

528
00:45:59.800 --> 00:46:04.719
that. And so you've sent emails
about Arabach and Bear Bryant and all that,

529
00:46:05.480 --> 00:46:09.159
and that just I'm not saying that
they didn't they weren't versions of this

530
00:46:09.280 --> 00:46:12.760
in their time. I'm just saying
that I have to speak to it from

531
00:46:12.840 --> 00:46:15.079
my life perspective and how it emotionally
affected me. And I'm just not old

532
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:19.360
enough. Although I've heard some Bear
Bryan stories, because I told you I

533
00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:22.320
knew a guy passed away here a
few years ago that played for Briant back

534
00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:27.480
in the day. So the stories
are insane, man, all right,

535
00:46:27.679 --> 00:46:30.920
But there is a very legendary Bobby
Night story that ties into his death,

536
00:46:30.960 --> 00:46:34.920
and I'm gonna grab a call to
set that up. Mister Mayfield. Good

537
00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:39.000
morning to you, sir, Good
morning Casey. Do you think Bobby Knight

538
00:46:39.320 --> 00:46:46.679
will be Barry's upside down so the
critics can do you can kiss his dairy

539
00:46:46.719 --> 00:46:52.360
air? Is that? It was
one of the first questions that popped into

540
00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:53.639
my head, sir, when I
saw it, when I saw the news,

541
00:46:53.960 --> 00:46:57.440
And I'll play the audio here in
a moment. I don't know,

542
00:46:58.239 --> 00:47:02.559
but I hope so. I hope
so too. And what they're doing about

543
00:47:02.679 --> 00:47:12.480
the Veterans' parade and Raleigh is disgraceful. I'll be in Goldsboro, North Carolina,

544
00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:16.760
with my dressed blues on. Well, I you know what good for

545
00:47:16.920 --> 00:47:21.800
you, sir, And there's gonna
be communities all over North Carolina that are

546
00:47:21.840 --> 00:47:25.599
not gonna pull this same crap,
and veterans will be recognized for their service

547
00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:30.880
people. Communities will be closer because
we have a better understanding of the individuals

548
00:47:30.920 --> 00:47:35.519
that we live with. And maybe
some you know, some young punks will

549
00:47:35.559 --> 00:47:39.639
learn some stuff too from folks who've
seen some stuff. And I welcome all

550
00:47:39.679 --> 00:47:44.719
of it, and I'm glad of
all the communities that will continue to participate,

551
00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:46.840
and I'm embarrassed that one that I
the one that I live in,

552
00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:51.119
has chosen not to. So thank
you for the call, sir, have

553
00:47:51.239 --> 00:47:54.039
yourself a good Veterans Day if we
don't speak before them. Okay, and

554
00:47:54.199 --> 00:48:00.400
you too, Bye bye? Yeah
all right there. So, and what

555
00:48:00.480 --> 00:48:10.039
he's talking about is this amazing piece
of audience on earth is gone, and

556
00:48:10.239 --> 00:48:15.760
my activities here are past. I
want they bury me upside down and my

557
00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:24.800
critics can kiss my dude. Man, you know what, ross we need

558
00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:29.320
to start a coffin company. But
it's in like an L shape so your

559
00:48:29.360 --> 00:48:32.039
loved one can be placed, or
it's in a V right so you can

560
00:48:32.119 --> 00:48:37.840
take the loved one's body and then
you know, fold them over that so

561
00:48:37.960 --> 00:48:44.719
they look like a taco shell upside
down. For that exact thing, I

562
00:48:44.760 --> 00:48:46.840
think it'd be a hit because,
uh, you know, to some extent,

563
00:48:46.920 --> 00:48:52.760
I share his sentiment called V coffins
or whatever'll be amazing. We're gonna

564
00:48:52.760 --> 00:48:58.639
make We're gonna make so much money. Uh. But that that was that

565
00:48:58.880 --> 00:49:01.599
was Bobby night man, And that's
the thing that got me going into the

566
00:49:01.679 --> 00:49:06.559
old looking at all the old clips
yesterday and thinking about all this other stuff,

567
00:49:06.559 --> 00:49:10.880
and it's just crazy how that I
don't know. Maybe maybe that's just

568
00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:15.559
my brain too, which is a
little scattered when I get into some stories

569
00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:19.760
than others. But I think a
lot of us share that, and so

570
00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:23.840
that's why I wanted to kind of
go over that whole art there and play

571
00:49:23.960 --> 00:49:27.280
some of the hits. It's diff
it amazes. Then you don't know anything

572
00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:34.360
about basketball. You're illuminating your relative
lack of knowledge of the game with a

573
00:49:34.440 --> 00:49:37.559
statement like that. Let's just start
all this again. Now, I'm not

574
00:49:37.679 --> 00:49:40.440
here to argue the thing with you. I'm not going to debate things with

575
00:49:40.599 --> 00:49:45.159
you and people from television. No, you want to an answer for me,

576
00:49:45.719 --> 00:49:49.360
you get the answer, you don't
like an answer, then don't use

577
00:49:49.639 --> 00:49:53.800
the program. Okay, how could
you got like? How could you not

578
00:49:54.039 --> 00:49:57.199
want to have, as I said
it before, I have a beer with

579
00:49:57.320 --> 00:50:05.280
that guy? Oh man? It
but there is a there was slight difference.

580
00:50:05.400 --> 00:50:06.920
Well, hold on, we got
to take a break. We'll be

581
00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:21.000
right back. Thank you. Wadem
Talk in the Triangle thirty five. Welcome

582
00:50:21.079 --> 00:50:25.079
back k c O Day Radio program
Stream of Consciousness. I got an email

583
00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:29.440
from and I know he doesn't mean
any in a nasty way. He's just

584
00:50:29.599 --> 00:50:34.400
like, dude, the entire first
hour show is in coherent rambling. I

585
00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:37.480
don't think it was. But also
I'm me, like I know what I

586
00:50:37.519 --> 00:50:39.440
want to say. So maybe it
was, and maybe it was to some

587
00:50:39.639 --> 00:50:43.760
and not to others. But we
use the term stream of consciousness because it

588
00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:51.239
sounds more professional. But I'm not
wrong in that there are characteristics of individual

589
00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:57.199
personalities of people that draw them draw
people to them, right, That's that's

590
00:50:57.280 --> 00:51:02.639
a known thing. Probably have celebrities
and politicians who think they're celebrities but kind

591
00:51:02.719 --> 00:51:07.400
of are and kind of aren't.
And and people like the that story I

592
00:51:07.480 --> 00:51:15.159
told you about the sheriff they're in
Tennessee, or the Roy ben Attinita Benanitez

593
00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:20.920
story from Vietnam. If you don't
know what that dude did, that might

594
00:51:21.039 --> 00:51:24.199
be the hardest dude to ever have
a go with the Mekong Delta, all

595
00:51:24.280 --> 00:51:30.280
right, Like Colonel Kurtz would shiver
at this dude. This this guy is

596
00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:37.199
from Texas, Arizona or whatever.
So he goes over to Nam and like

597
00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:43.880
there's some The short story is some
you know, some some US Army troops

598
00:51:43.920 --> 00:51:46.719
are pinned down every time they try
to get a helicopter in there to rescue

599
00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:51.400
him, the helicopter is getting shot
to the point where they they have they

600
00:51:51.519 --> 00:51:57.480
have to go land, emergency land. It's horrible and there's one last go

601
00:51:57.800 --> 00:52:02.079
of it. And and there the
choppers got ready to take off. This

602
00:52:02.280 --> 00:52:08.360
dude comes running up with a medkit
and no uh, no rifle and the

603
00:52:08.440 --> 00:52:10.920
chop prize. What are you doing? He's good, I'm I gotta go

604
00:52:12.039 --> 00:52:15.320
do this. These are my guys. And so he went in there with

605
00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:20.760
he had a knife and he goes
in there and he ended up he was

606
00:52:20.840 --> 00:52:23.599
shot. I I don't remember how
many times he was shot and stabbed,

607
00:52:23.679 --> 00:52:29.079
he got bayoneted and uh, all
all these things. But he ended up

608
00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:36.599
killing all the bad guys and rescuing
most of his guys and rescuing also some

609
00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:39.800
uh, some of the He also
took the body, that's right. He

610
00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:45.800
also grabbed the bodies of the bad
guys he had killed, and over the

611
00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:50.639
course of an act drug it all
back to chopper points and was able to

612
00:52:50.800 --> 00:52:52.760
get out of there. And they
got back and they started unloading bodies,

613
00:52:52.800 --> 00:52:58.639
and they unloaded him as a dead
body and as and as they were making

614
00:52:58.719 --> 00:53:01.440
the rounds to figure out how to
toe tag these guys. He spit.

615
00:53:01.599 --> 00:53:05.960
He ended up coughing blood in the
face of a physician and went, oh

616
00:53:06.039 --> 00:53:14.639
my gosh, he's still alive.
And and before all of that he had

617
00:53:14.719 --> 00:53:17.079
been wounded previously. And they say
they were gonna discharge and he's like,

618
00:53:17.159 --> 00:53:22.840
no, I want to go back. It's crazy town. And people people

619
00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:28.480
look at that stuff, man,
and in all eras, in all groups,

620
00:53:28.519 --> 00:53:30.440
and it's not always the same for
everybody. And I think the connections

621
00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:35.920
there, but yeah, it's mostly
in coherent rambling. But that's stock radio,

622
00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:38.599
man, what are you gonna do? We do have other stuff though,

623
00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:45.480
And also I didn't hear it.
Is is is our fine crack?

624
00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:51.480
Mister Kyle Wilson? Is he sitting
in the I didn't hear the news story

625
00:53:51.519 --> 00:53:57.559
because I went to go to uh
uh good Little Boys room. Did he

626
00:53:57.760 --> 00:54:02.239
refer to beth Wood as car parking
enthusiast and his news that's great car parking

627
00:54:02.360 --> 00:54:06.679
enthusiast. I busted up laugh and
read that email. But I didn't hear

628
00:54:06.719 --> 00:54:09.480
it. But I wouldn't put it
past him. So and the reason beth

629
00:54:09.519 --> 00:54:15.360
Wood is in the news is obviously
all of the uh, the Beth well

630
00:54:15.400 --> 00:54:21.159
what was the nickname we gave her, We had something to do with.

631
00:54:21.360 --> 00:54:28.039
But you know, state auditor,
downtown Christmas party and all of a sudden

632
00:54:28.159 --> 00:54:31.239
her state owned car is monster trucked
on another one and nobody knows nothing.

633
00:54:31.719 --> 00:54:37.880
And then like an uber driver has
a little snippet video and you realize that

634
00:54:38.039 --> 00:54:45.440
the state auditor is at a big
Christmas party for a bunch of you know,

635
00:54:45.599 --> 00:54:51.280
Democrat lawyers and politicians and whatnot,
which you know, find do that,

636
00:54:52.280 --> 00:54:54.599
and that had looked like she had
made the decision to try to leave,

637
00:54:54.840 --> 00:55:00.079
but was hammered, and and then
it became a whole thing because she

638
00:55:00.280 --> 00:55:06.079
just then left the vehicle and you
could literally see her being whisked away and

639
00:55:07.559 --> 00:55:12.559
nothing happened to her initially, and
we on this show talked about it,

640
00:55:12.639 --> 00:55:19.119
man, this scenario that that would
have the way that would have played out

641
00:55:19.199 --> 00:55:23.320
for you or me if if your
vehicle registered to you. Now, hers

642
00:55:23.440 --> 00:55:27.320
was a state but as you know, all the state vehicles, whether for

643
00:55:27.480 --> 00:55:30.559
legislators or for Council of State members, their license plate is unique to their

644
00:55:30.639 --> 00:55:37.320
individual office. They knew who it
was, they knew where she lived.

645
00:55:37.519 --> 00:55:40.079
I know where she lives because I
know two of her neighbors. And boy,

646
00:55:40.119 --> 00:55:45.119
oh boy, the stories, Oh
my gosh, because apparently at the

647
00:55:45.159 --> 00:55:49.239
same time, her personal vehicle had
been in an accident, which raises questions,

648
00:55:49.800 --> 00:55:53.199
but the police didn't pursue it that
way. Any other instance, the

649
00:55:53.280 --> 00:55:58.840
police, you know, in the
drinking window there, they come across your

650
00:55:58.920 --> 00:56:01.880
car, monster truck done another and
you fled the scene. They go book

651
00:56:01.920 --> 00:56:05.800
put it up, boom in the
compute, I think it makes that noise,

652
00:56:06.280 --> 00:56:13.039
and they go to your house.
They go look for you, because

653
00:56:13.599 --> 00:56:16.239
even if it's their first day out
of the academy, they know that the

654
00:56:16.480 --> 00:56:22.400
likelihood is the reason you left ain't
a good one. It might be it

655
00:56:22.519 --> 00:56:28.280
might be you left because injury and
you're at the hospital and it just was

656
00:56:28.360 --> 00:56:30.000
so serious you had to do it, And that's fine. They just want

657
00:56:30.079 --> 00:56:35.000
to figure out what's going on.
But they didn't do it. And it

658
00:56:35.159 --> 00:56:39.199
was abundantly clear why they didn't and
why and and and also with some of

659
00:56:39.280 --> 00:56:45.440
the behind the scenes conversations that I've
had about it and some of the individuals

660
00:56:45.519 --> 00:56:51.159
within the law enforcement of political community, the strings that that that they pulled

661
00:56:51.519 --> 00:56:59.079
shows you again, this constant double
standard and good old boys, good old

662
00:56:59.159 --> 00:57:05.199
girls network, whatever you want to
call it, that is entrenched in the

663
00:57:05.320 --> 00:57:08.599
ruling class, which, by the
way, it is these types of things

664
00:57:08.719 --> 00:57:13.800
that get us back to people like
Buford Pusher or Bob Dyed or any of

665
00:57:13.840 --> 00:57:17.119
the rest. It's the frustrations that
we have that are personified through individuals.

666
00:57:19.239 --> 00:57:24.559
And thankfully, though I understand one
of the individuals on the law enforcement of

667
00:57:24.639 --> 00:57:34.519
the Bethwood is retiring, so good
riddance. But that story was amplified when

668
00:57:34.599 --> 00:57:38.360
they finally figured out they had to
do something. They did a little subtle

669
00:57:38.440 --> 00:57:43.280
handslap. But she still said she
was running for reelection. Well now she

670
00:57:43.400 --> 00:57:50.559
says she's not. Yeah, telling
legislators yesterday she's changed her mind and will

671
00:57:50.679 --> 00:57:58.480
not be running for reelection. So
why she made the announcement initially right at

672
00:57:58.519 --> 00:58:00.519
the time was beyond me. I
gues I meant, maybe you had to,

673
00:58:00.719 --> 00:58:06.079
maybe you didn't. The conviction here
we go. The whole thing follows

674
00:58:06.119 --> 00:58:10.960
her conviction seven months ago of a
misdemeanor hit and run related to a wreckon

675
00:58:12.039 --> 00:58:15.639
downtown Raleigh on December eighth. Look
how long ago it's been. It's almost

676
00:58:15.639 --> 00:58:21.519
been a year. Wood told the
House Oversight Committee, which was meeting as

677
00:58:21.559 --> 00:58:24.719
part of an inquiry into an issue
at the State Unemployment Office, that's a

678
00:58:24.840 --> 00:58:31.360
whole nother that's a whole nother debacle
there man, this dumpster fire. She

679
00:58:31.760 --> 00:58:35.639
just casually meant, Hey, by
the way, I'm not running for reelection.

680
00:58:37.079 --> 00:58:39.760
There are circumstances that are in my
life. And I recognize four years

681
00:58:39.800 --> 00:58:44.840
from now I will be seventy four. So if there are some things I

682
00:58:44.960 --> 00:58:47.519
want to do, I need to
get them done now. I don't know

683
00:58:47.559 --> 00:58:52.039
what those things are. Look and
I say this, and I mean this

684
00:58:52.119 --> 00:58:57.320
one hundred percent because I never had
beef with Beth Wood, not from political

685
00:58:57.639 --> 00:59:02.119
I never did. And I didn't
really even hear people complain on the right

686
00:59:02.320 --> 00:59:05.519
that they didn't like the way that
she did the job. It was like

687
00:59:05.639 --> 00:59:09.280
Scherie Berry with the Labor Department,
right, even though Barry was a Republican.

688
00:59:12.719 --> 00:59:15.679
I don't think people necessarily saw it
that way. But people were so

689
00:59:15.960 --> 00:59:21.159
angry with this because they saw out
in the open in front of them everything

690
00:59:21.239 --> 00:59:22.800
that went on and everything that was
different. And so I say this,

691
00:59:23.039 --> 00:59:30.320
if one of the things that Beth
Wood is retiring for is because she wants

692
00:59:30.400 --> 00:59:35.119
to go tackle something that might be
an issue that might have been a contributing

693
00:59:35.199 --> 00:59:37.599
issue here. God bless her,
Go out, go do it. Okay,

694
00:59:40.159 --> 00:59:45.119
but it doesn't. It doesn't erase
all of the insanity that ensued as

695
00:59:45.239 --> 00:59:52.880
part of that story, and it
doesn't erase the bigger issue of the double

696
00:59:52.960 --> 00:59:58.760
standard that continues. No matter how
many politicians promise it won't be a thing,

697
00:59:59.280 --> 01:00:04.119
how many law enforcement leaders say that
they will never participate in things like

698
01:00:04.239 --> 01:00:07.239
that with the very same crap that
we've been dealing with. It's the you

699
01:00:07.320 --> 01:00:13.239
know, the dawn of day,
and that is these these networks of entrenched

700
01:00:13.800 --> 01:00:19.360
ruling class, high profile individuals who
things are different. And I know,

701
01:00:19.920 --> 01:00:22.960
you know the thing that Pete Allender, who we talk on Friday, is

702
01:00:22.280 --> 01:00:28.000
he always says that it's different,
and they puts the D in ellipses.

703
01:00:29.840 --> 01:00:34.440
It's not just always the D,
but it's that feeling and that thing and

704
01:00:34.519 --> 01:00:39.880
that well, those stories that are
so enraging to me, and I think

705
01:00:39.960 --> 01:00:45.719
so many of you as well.
How about defensive driving enthusiasms. Now,

706
01:00:45.800 --> 01:00:50.480
I think Kyle nailed it. I'm
good with that. Again, I didn't

707
01:00:50.519 --> 01:00:52.519
hear it, but I did spit
out part of my drink when I read

708
01:00:52.559 --> 01:00:57.480
the email during the last break.
So uh, let's uh, we're gonna

709
01:00:57.480 --> 01:01:00.239
meander into a couple other things.
We got a bunch of you know,

710
01:01:00.280 --> 01:01:05.360
we've played some Bobby Night. We'll
get back to that. A mind boggling

711
01:01:05.760 --> 01:01:12.480
question posed yesterday by a member of
the media who has a Palestinian background.

712
01:01:12.800 --> 01:01:15.559
Well we'll throw that out there for
you. Oh, we get to solve

713
01:01:15.639 --> 01:01:20.480
a mystery or not a mystery.
We get to solve a problem that I

714
01:01:20.679 --> 01:01:24.599
don't think is they say they're trying
to solve, but I have some questions.

715
01:01:24.679 --> 01:01:29.480
But first race Sedagic Weather Channel,
who I'm hitting very late again.

716
01:01:29.599 --> 01:01:34.679
Sorry, we were talking about we
were talking about Bobby Knight passing away,

717
01:01:35.039 --> 01:01:37.440
and like, you know, one
of the things that is in the news,

718
01:01:37.519 --> 01:01:39.960
I'll do the very quick. One
of the things that you know is

719
01:01:40.360 --> 01:01:46.920
a hallmark of some people that get
lionized, like Trump, DeSantis to some

720
01:01:47.119 --> 01:01:52.760
extent, Bill Belichick on the sports
side is an absolutely this this this hate

721
01:01:52.840 --> 01:01:59.320
relationship with the media and the results
it provides. Bobby Knight was a trailblazer

722
01:01:59.440 --> 01:02:06.639
on this stuff. Man was he
was a trailblazer And uh yeah, I

723
01:02:06.800 --> 01:02:09.639
was I was sad to see that
yesterday. Yeah, but I was too.

724
01:02:10.519 --> 01:02:15.679
You remember growing up and did that
guy just throw a chair? Oh

725
01:02:15.760 --> 01:02:20.280
that's what ros I talked about at
first, when you don't have life experience

726
01:02:20.320 --> 01:02:23.679
when you're young, like that guy's
insane, and then when you get jaded,

727
01:02:23.760 --> 01:02:28.760
you're like, I understand him,
I feel where he's coming from.

728
01:02:29.000 --> 01:02:32.880
But yeah, every day, right, every day, But that that's the

729
01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:37.039
memory, and try getting away with
that today. Every day. If Ross

730
01:02:37.039 --> 01:02:39.280
and I actually go in the break
room at one time, one of us

731
01:02:39.280 --> 01:02:43.320
will throw a chair at the other
one. It's just it's a constant,

732
01:02:43.440 --> 01:02:46.400
looming threat. It's a stress thing. We just nobody would be angry.

733
01:02:47.320 --> 01:02:55.280
Okay, that's business man. Business
is yeah, cold, especially from the

734
01:02:55.320 --> 01:03:00.719
triad West where we're seeing some load
mid twenties freeze warning for everybody. It's

735
01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:06.280
upper twenties to low thirties from Durham
and even out near places like Fayette.

736
01:03:06.280 --> 01:03:09.880
Bilbert's currently thirty one degrees. Fort
Bragd currently coming in at twenty nine down

737
01:03:09.920 --> 01:03:14.519
to our south, a military reservation
down that way near Little River. So

738
01:03:14.599 --> 01:03:16.880
it's coold, but we'll recover.
This little cold snap won't last too long.

739
01:03:17.199 --> 01:03:21.519
We'll go through the day still unseasonably
chilly, with light breeze, a

740
01:03:21.599 --> 01:03:24.960
little bit fifties tonight near freezing again
again upper twenties. Try it as you

741
01:03:25.039 --> 01:03:29.639
go further west, a little colder, and then sunny, low sixties tomorrow,

742
01:03:29.719 --> 01:03:31.639
near seventy over the upcoming weekend.
If anything, we're just under that,

743
01:03:32.119 --> 01:03:36.599
and lots of sunshine will be lower
to maybe middle seventies into early into

744
01:03:36.639 --> 01:03:38.719
the middle part of next week.
Sunny, sunny, sunny, sunny,

745
01:03:38.880 --> 01:03:43.360
lot of sunshine over the next seven
days. I don't think we get measurable

746
01:03:43.519 --> 01:03:49.039
rainfall here of any significance, potentially
until the following week. Case so dry

747
01:03:49.639 --> 01:03:52.800
and a warming trend. Might get
a little cooler towards the end of next

748
01:03:52.840 --> 01:03:55.039
week, but this will be the
chilliest air mess will have probably for the

749
01:03:55.119 --> 01:04:00.559
next two weeks. Alrighty, thank
you sir. We'll talk talking an hour.

750
01:04:00.679 --> 01:04:05.760
Okay. So there you go,
raced agic, so DC insanity and

751
01:04:05.800 --> 01:04:11.519
how they're trying to solve it.
And yesterday I saw this going around everywhere,

752
01:04:11.760 --> 01:04:15.119
and it went from me thinking,
oh, well that's true, to

753
01:04:15.719 --> 01:04:21.119
that's that's fake, to there's context
and it has to do with the Marines.

754
01:04:21.320 --> 01:04:28.840
And scent coom and specifically then what
people are reading into it, and

755
01:04:28.920 --> 01:04:31.719
I feel like maybe we should talk
about it, and I'd love some perspective

756
01:04:31.880 --> 01:04:40.480
from perhaps military folk here, because
it was like, you know, five

757
01:04:40.519 --> 01:04:46.079
alarm fire in some people's minds,
and it has to do with the Marine

758
01:04:46.119 --> 01:04:49.559
Corps, not the big, big
one, but the Marine Corps sent comm

759
01:04:49.719 --> 01:04:56.400
annual ball and those Marine balls are
a big deal and cancelation. So we'll

760
01:04:56.400 --> 01:05:00.880
get to all that more coming up. KCO Day Radio program. This is

761
01:05:00.960 --> 01:05:04.559
one O six one FM Talk in
the Triangle Man. He was talking ninety

762
01:05:04.559 --> 01:05:15.199
four five PTI and the Triad What
I needed that so much today because I'm

763
01:05:15.320 --> 01:05:19.599
rambling, which I a little bit. But also I'd like if you didn't

764
01:05:19.599 --> 01:05:24.679
hear the open of the show,
it was sometimes just dredging through the news

765
01:05:24.800 --> 01:05:27.840
can change your whole day. So
I don't recommend you do it. If

766
01:05:27.880 --> 01:05:31.159
you're like, you're in a really
really good mood, don't scroll twist right.

767
01:05:33.239 --> 01:05:35.599
So Ross, let me just send
me an email because you you just

768
01:05:35.599 --> 01:05:40.159
tweeted out the Beth Woods story when
we did it right, So somebody just

769
01:05:40.199 --> 01:05:44.480
sent me an email and said,
why does Beth Woods haircut in the ral

770
01:05:44.719 --> 01:05:50.679
article look like Ziggy Stardust Bowie mate
it with Mougattu, which if you don't,

771
01:05:51.239 --> 01:05:54.800
you know, you get the Magatu
reference. If you don't. That

772
01:05:55.039 --> 01:05:58.920
was Will Ferrell's character in Dude.
He invented the pianot necktie. Yes,

773
01:05:59.079 --> 01:06:05.480
I mean, what have you done? I laughed so hard because I can.

774
01:06:05.519 --> 01:06:12.280
I bye immediately, of course,
right, I can see. Uh

775
01:06:12.559 --> 01:06:15.480
we got to there. We'll hold
his little dog, right and uh,

776
01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:25.440
Ziggy Stardust era David Bowie and okay, all right, thanks man ah,

777
01:06:27.039 --> 01:06:30.159
it's crazy town, all right,
couple things and then we're gonna get into

778
01:06:30.239 --> 01:06:33.119
calls. So for those who lined
up, hang on, well, actually,

779
01:06:33.199 --> 01:06:34.920
let me do this. Let me
do this. I'm gonna take the

780
01:06:34.960 --> 01:06:39.480
Bobby Night call Joel, hang on, because I gotta do I gotta set

781
01:06:39.599 --> 01:06:43.639
up the US Marine ball story,
so real quick, Tony, let's dispense

782
01:06:43.719 --> 01:06:47.400
with this. Go ahead, sir, Hey, good morning, Good morning.

783
01:06:49.639 --> 01:06:54.800
Gets a kind of a funny little
story. Years ago, I was

784
01:06:54.840 --> 01:06:58.599
a Carolina fan, and my wife
she's still a diehard Carolina fan. We

785
01:06:58.679 --> 01:07:04.320
were watching there when Dean Smith retired, they hired a famous Carolina basketball player.

786
01:07:04.360 --> 01:07:08.719
I think it was Matt Doughty.
I can't remember, but the coach

787
01:07:09.239 --> 01:07:12.280
and I'll never forget. I was
watching they had lost the game, a

788
01:07:12.360 --> 01:07:17.440
pretty important game, and he cried
on TV during the dress conference. Oh

789
01:07:17.559 --> 01:07:20.519
no, and it just went all
over me. I was like, I

790
01:07:20.679 --> 01:07:23.840
was mad. I jumped up.
I said, what is he doing.

791
01:07:24.320 --> 01:07:27.880
He's crying because he lost the game. I told my wife, I said,

792
01:07:28.159 --> 01:07:30.559
I'm never pulling for again. I
said, he needs to be like

793
01:07:30.679 --> 01:07:33.280
Bobby Knight. He needs to sling
a chair across the room and he needs

794
01:07:33.360 --> 01:07:38.000
to jump up and cut that reporter
out and tell him how stupid he is

795
01:07:38.079 --> 01:07:42.400
by asking it question and how stupid
the players acted during that game. And

796
01:07:42.519 --> 01:07:44.719
I was like, you know,
she would laugh and I said, it's

797
01:07:44.760 --> 01:07:48.400
so crazy. What what draws us
into emotional responses? Man? And people

798
01:07:48.400 --> 01:07:55.039
would say, Tony's unhinged. Nah, Tony's just a guy reacting like everybody

799
01:07:55.159 --> 01:07:58.679
does from the comfort of their own
home. It's the people out on the

800
01:07:58.719 --> 01:08:02.000
street doing it like the Bobby Knights
or some politician he like, or some

801
01:08:02.320 --> 01:08:08.239
organizer or whoever it is that people
vicariously live through. When the guy you're

802
01:08:08.280 --> 01:08:12.960
vicariously living through is sobbing, people
are going to have an emotional reaction on

803
01:08:13.039 --> 01:08:15.599
both sides. Well, thanks,
hey, Tony, appreciate that. Man,

804
01:08:16.800 --> 01:08:20.600
stop crying. There's no crime in
college basketball. Throw a chair,

805
01:08:20.720 --> 01:08:27.319
man, I mean you probably shouldn't
throw a chair if he had somebody but

806
01:08:27.600 --> 01:08:30.279
near, you know, in a
controlled environment. Mate. All right,

807
01:08:30.319 --> 01:08:35.640
So what's up with the Marine Corps
ball and every bit of speculation? We'll

808
01:08:35.720 --> 01:08:57.079
have it coming up. All right, good morning, one and all.

809
01:08:57.359 --> 01:09:02.000
It is eight oh seven. Glad
to have you excuse me here on Thursday,

810
01:09:03.840 --> 01:09:08.039
do do do? And we got
a bunch to try to cram in

811
01:09:08.119 --> 01:09:13.479
this hour because I went I went
on a Bobby Knight audio orgy earlier,

812
01:09:13.640 --> 01:09:17.039
so just bear with me. Although
just one last fight. Not on the

813
01:09:17.079 --> 01:09:23.479
Bobby Knight thing. We met somebody
made the Zoolander Magatu reference, and I've

814
01:09:23.479 --> 01:09:27.079
got an email ross from one of
our listeners and says, he said,

815
01:09:27.159 --> 01:09:30.640
love the show. You guys made
a Zoolander reference last week too, which

816
01:09:30.640 --> 01:09:34.079
I vaguely think we may have.
He says that, but I never watched

817
01:09:34.119 --> 01:09:39.960
it. I never liked the mockumentaries
and fashion documentary didn't sound good. And

818
01:09:40.279 --> 01:09:45.239
you know what, sir, whoever
in your life told you when you likely

819
01:09:45.319 --> 01:09:48.399
asked what's the movie about, and
they said it's a like Best in Show

820
01:09:48.720 --> 01:09:55.279
was a mocumentary of the Dog Dog
Shows. To describe this as that version

821
01:09:55.439 --> 01:09:59.680
within the fashion industry is that was
not fair to you. You should probably

822
01:09:59.720 --> 01:10:02.880
cut that person. That is not
correct. I remember walking it's a political

823
01:10:02.960 --> 01:10:06.000
assassination. It is due. They
tried to kill the clamation. Dude,

824
01:10:06.720 --> 01:10:11.720
yeah, Malaysia, right, Prime
Minister of Malaysia. I remember walking out

825
01:10:11.800 --> 01:10:15.560
of the theater when I saw Zoolander
back in the day, thinking it was

826
01:10:15.640 --> 01:10:17.920
one of the funniest movies I've ever
seen because it was so different to this

827
01:10:18.119 --> 01:10:23.079
day. I remember people behind me. There was a few couples behind me

828
01:10:23.720 --> 01:10:26.319
that were like, I don't get
it. It wasn't funny. I just

829
01:10:26.399 --> 01:10:29.079
still understand what that what happened.
I don't get it. And I was

830
01:10:29.119 --> 01:10:32.399
thinking it changed like it was Will
Ferrell before Will Ferrell. It was Tropic

831
01:10:32.520 --> 01:10:38.159
Thunder before Tropic Thunder. Yes,
it changed comedy, it really did.

832
01:10:38.680 --> 01:10:44.279
It was dude, to change.
It changed even your I'm sorry, finish

833
01:10:44.359 --> 01:10:47.920
what you're saying, because I know
where you change the trajectory of modern comedies

834
01:10:47.960 --> 01:10:55.680
at the time, and it is
an example of when comedy still was right

835
01:10:55.720 --> 01:11:00.520
now, Yeah, And I think
with the couple you mentioned there couples.

836
01:11:00.560 --> 01:11:02.560
You told me off there the people. But when you say couples, I

837
01:11:02.680 --> 01:11:05.239
would I would say that if you
were a couple, that was in the

838
01:11:05.399 --> 01:11:09.920
first getting to know your part of
being a couple, where you've not let

839
01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:14.000
your your weirdness, uh, you
know, wave in the wind to each

840
01:11:14.039 --> 01:11:16.720
other. I don't know how you
could be in the right mental mindset to

841
01:11:16.840 --> 01:11:20.439
watch that movie and truly appreciate it. Whereas if you know your two people

842
01:11:20.520 --> 01:11:25.600
been together from a couple perspective forever, or you're just somebody who's really quirky

843
01:11:25.720 --> 01:11:29.720
or eccentric when it comes to your
comedic taste, that movie hits so hard,

844
01:11:29.800 --> 01:11:30.560
right. I mean I was silly
and weird, and it was silly

845
01:11:30.600 --> 01:11:32.640
and weird, and I loved it. I could quote That's one of the

846
01:11:32.680 --> 01:11:36.159
movies I could quote all day.
And it's a funny movie. And what

847
01:11:36.319 --> 01:11:40.560
what what is in on the analysis
side? You know, when I talk

848
01:11:40.600 --> 01:11:45.600
about what comedy was, some of
the people within that movie they joined in.

849
01:11:45.039 --> 01:11:49.199
I remember being shocked out of my
brain when I was tailgating in an

850
01:11:49.319 --> 01:11:56.840
NC State game and Will Ferrell walked
up to our tailgate tent. I'm like,

851
01:11:56.960 --> 01:12:00.359
what is Will Ferrell standing in our
tailgate tent? And what he was

852
01:12:00.479 --> 01:12:05.600
there? Stumping for Cooper? He
had come to and was walking around the

853
01:12:05.680 --> 01:12:10.239
NC state tailgate for Cooper. Basically
he was stumping for the Democrats there.

854
01:12:10.840 --> 01:12:13.479
And it didn't make me at that
moment, you know, because I can

855
01:12:13.560 --> 01:12:16.000
still separate that as long as you're
not a jerk about it. And this

856
01:12:16.239 --> 01:12:23.159
was this was his off time doing
that. But he and many others evolved

857
01:12:23.319 --> 01:12:28.880
into this more this less permissive comedic
environment we live in, and it was

858
01:12:29.039 --> 01:12:32.239
exam The example would be, uh, maybe you remember, maybe you don't.

859
01:12:32.800 --> 01:12:38.239
In Tropic Thunder, Donald Trump made
a cameo and do you remember when

860
01:12:38.960 --> 01:12:43.720
they we had that run a tremor
Tropic Thunder or Zoolander. I'm sorry,

861
01:12:43.760 --> 01:12:47.279
said Tropic Thunder. In Zuelander,
he made a cameo. And obviously there's

862
01:12:47.359 --> 01:12:51.920
some very specific legendary cameos that Trump
has done. Home alone is the one

863
01:12:51.920 --> 01:12:56.399
that probably gets the most discussion,
but Zulander was another, and it's just

864
01:12:56.479 --> 01:13:00.920
a quick little hitter and the Moonbats
were demand that Ben Stiller, who was

865
01:13:01.000 --> 01:13:06.199
the exec producer and obviously Derek Zulander
in the movie re edit and cut him

866
01:13:06.199 --> 01:13:10.560
out and he told him to pound
sand and that they're stupid, And it

867
01:13:10.680 --> 01:13:13.720
gave me a lot of respect,
by the way, for Ben Stiller,

868
01:13:13.760 --> 01:13:18.119
who I've enjoyed watching when he's just
like, no, I'm not touching a

869
01:13:18.239 --> 01:13:23.479
thing, and it was sad to
see others go in a different direction.

870
01:13:23.640 --> 01:13:27.800
But all right, So I'm just
saying, you have somebody led you astray.

871
01:13:28.600 --> 01:13:30.720
Give it, give it a watch. Maybe you don't like it so,

872
01:13:31.000 --> 01:13:33.880
but maybe you're just like, oh
my gosh, what how has this

873
01:13:34.000 --> 01:13:36.800
been missing in my life? And
I hope that's the case. I think

874
01:13:36.800 --> 01:13:40.640
it's good to watch movies like that, like on like a first date,

875
01:13:40.840 --> 01:13:43.479
to like test someone. But maybe
it's different, like if you know what

876
01:13:43.560 --> 01:13:45.399
the movie is. Like the first
time Markey and I hung out at my

877
01:13:45.479 --> 01:13:50.239
apartment in Atlanta, I busted out
Aquitine Hunger for Us and Monty Python and

878
01:13:50.279 --> 01:13:53.479
The Holy Grail, which she had
never seen before. Oh, and I

879
01:13:53.640 --> 01:13:58.399
was like, this is gonna determine
all everything. Yeah, Like the reaction

880
01:13:58.680 --> 01:14:00.680
is very important because because this is
sort of like, you know, I'm

881
01:14:00.720 --> 01:14:03.479
goofy and weird, like that,
and it's if we don't get along,

882
01:14:04.159 --> 01:14:06.439
if we don't have the same sense
of humor, what's the point, right,

883
01:14:06.560 --> 01:14:10.239
Like, it's not going to work
out. When she was leaving that

884
01:14:10.439 --> 01:14:16.479
night, did you hey, you
passed it just like you? It went

885
01:14:16.680 --> 01:14:20.920
very well, okay, good,
okay, all right? Awkuity. Oh

886
01:14:21.000 --> 01:14:25.279
yeah, dude, I gotta I
gotta get over to this though. So

887
01:14:25.479 --> 01:14:30.239
yesterday there was I was on Twitter
and I kept seeing this this letter,

888
01:14:30.359 --> 01:14:35.079
this uh you know, jpeg of
this letter about who was it? Chris

889
01:14:35.439 --> 01:14:40.800
Major General, Chris Phillips, US
Marine Corps Major General. And in the

890
01:14:40.920 --> 01:14:45.359
letter it talked about how the two
and forty eighth Marine Corps Ball had been

891
01:14:45.439 --> 01:14:53.319
canceled by US or had been canceled. The problem was is people people didn't

892
01:14:53.319 --> 01:15:01.000
have an understanding of exactly what they
were talking about. People were analyzing the

893
01:15:01.079 --> 01:15:08.079
hell out of it, and it
canceled because of quote unforeseen operational commitments.

894
01:15:08.920 --> 01:15:13.920
Now I need to be very specific. There is not just a single marine

895
01:15:14.079 --> 01:15:19.479
ball. There is the main but
there's others that. In fact, if

896
01:15:19.560 --> 01:15:26.359
you remember the Marine Corps ball that
happened here in North Carolina quite a number

897
01:15:26.359 --> 01:15:30.560
of years ago, remember one of
the Marines wrote, you made a video

898
01:15:30.640 --> 01:15:35.399
on YouTube asking who's the chick from
that seventies show, Counta Reeves is with

899
01:15:36.079 --> 01:15:39.720
I can't remember her name, asking
her to come, and she came to

900
01:15:39.840 --> 01:15:43.720
the ball and it was a big
deal and I thought that was a great

901
01:15:43.760 --> 01:15:46.520
story. So this is but this
is specifically the one at SCENT com which

902
01:15:46.600 --> 01:15:49.920
is a you know, that's a
big ee Tampa, Florida. If you

903
01:15:49.960 --> 01:15:54.479
go down on the peninsula there,
you got the base down there, but

904
01:15:54.600 --> 01:15:59.560
you have sent us Central Command and
it's one of the various comms that we

905
01:15:59.720 --> 01:16:03.319
have all over the world, but
it's a big one, and so they're

906
01:16:03.560 --> 01:16:08.439
busy bees. When we're dealing with
a lot of military stuff, you know,

907
01:16:08.640 --> 01:16:12.640
things like wars and stuff. They
got stuff to do. So people

908
01:16:12.960 --> 01:16:17.319
interpreted that as the cancelation must mean
we're going to war and the draft starts

909
01:16:17.359 --> 01:16:21.680
tomorrow, would be the far end
right because Twitter is Twitter. And then

910
01:16:21.720 --> 01:16:26.199
the other side is this is fake
news and the reality is it's somewhere in

911
01:16:26.239 --> 01:16:30.039
the middle and we don't really know
all of it. McPhillips announced the update

912
01:16:30.079 --> 01:16:34.039
to the annual events scheduled for November
sixteenth, and that's I think also what

913
01:16:34.119 --> 01:16:40.760
people were calling and saying, well, this isn't true because the Veterans Day

914
01:16:40.840 --> 01:16:44.560
is the eleventh, but the day
before is when the Marines all get drunk

915
01:16:44.600 --> 01:16:47.159
because it's their birthday, so that
they can be hungover for Veterans Day.

916
01:16:49.000 --> 01:16:51.920
Yeah, the tenth. So they
said, well, it's not the tenth

917
01:16:53.000 --> 01:16:57.079
or the eleventh, so it must
be fake. But no, it's not

918
01:16:57.199 --> 01:17:00.279
fake. Philip said the letter dude
to unforeseen operational commitments and the nature of

919
01:17:00.359 --> 01:17:06.880
our current mission, it is with
great regret I must cancel. The decision

920
01:17:06.920 --> 01:17:12.720
to cancel resulted from, they say, the core's primary responsibility to guarantee the

921
01:17:12.800 --> 01:17:17.880
defense and security of the United States. So he got rising tensions in the

922
01:17:17.920 --> 01:17:25.479
Middle East. We know that we
have deployed troops in various capacities, including

923
01:17:25.600 --> 01:17:31.039
moving naval vessels. When you have
to understand when you're moving naval vessels and

924
01:17:31.359 --> 01:17:36.239
you know, whole battleships and everything
out, there's a bunch of Marines involved

925
01:17:36.279 --> 01:17:42.760
in that because they're an offshoot of
the Navy, and whether it's from an

926
01:17:42.800 --> 01:17:46.520
advisory role or just hanging out off
the coast rate, you know, waiting

927
01:17:46.560 --> 01:17:51.680
to tomahawks. Some dudes that is
that's what they're doing. It doesn't necessarily

928
01:17:51.800 --> 01:17:57.720
mean boots on the ground. But
the Internet's gonna internet. So it took

929
01:17:57.760 --> 01:18:00.960
me, but it took me a
little while to figure out the context of

930
01:18:00.079 --> 01:18:05.399
it because I went from that is
fake too, that's real and uh am

931
01:18:05.479 --> 01:18:10.880
I too old for the draft.
Who the reality is? I don't know,

932
01:18:11.680 --> 01:18:15.720
However, I'm also and I want
to uh grab this call here a

933
01:18:15.800 --> 01:18:19.760
big poor Joel hold. I also
saw a lot of people saying what Joel

934
01:18:19.840 --> 01:18:24.479
wants to say, and it gives
you food for thought. Joel, thanks

935
01:18:24.560 --> 01:18:29.479
for hanging on. What's up?
Uh Well, let me give a little

936
01:18:29.479 --> 01:18:32.680
bit of perspective here on the Marine
Corps ball and so forth. Casey,

937
01:18:33.159 --> 01:18:39.640
Yes, most large units on every
Marine Corps base of being a marine at

938
01:18:39.680 --> 01:18:43.239
the Marine Corp veteran that I am, they have their own individual balls and

939
01:18:43.319 --> 01:18:45.960
they range anywhere from the middle end
of October till the middle of November.

940
01:18:46.720 --> 01:18:51.760
And uh I remember back nearing desert
shield to build up the desert storm,

941
01:18:51.800 --> 01:18:56.359
which is when I was in uh. We knew we were deploying, and

942
01:18:56.479 --> 01:18:59.079
we were deploying, and I was
the second Marine Division at Campa June.

943
01:18:59.159 --> 01:19:01.039
We still had our Marine in Courbal. I went to it. Yeah,

944
01:19:01.079 --> 01:19:03.520
we were, we knew we were
deployed, and right before I was going

945
01:19:03.560 --> 01:19:08.439
over there right of the week for
thankskipping, but we still had the ball.

946
01:19:08.800 --> 01:19:14.640
This moved by Sentcom to cancel the
ball. I don't rightly understand it

947
01:19:15.359 --> 01:19:21.239
because they couldn't have worked it out
to where they could have moved it up,

948
01:19:23.079 --> 01:19:26.119
or they could have had a smaller
let each unit have a smaller version

949
01:19:26.159 --> 01:19:29.279
of the ball or whatever. I
don't understand why they canceled it. I

950
01:19:29.359 --> 01:19:33.079
think it's a uh. And Sitcom
is not deployed, Okay, they're not

951
01:19:33.119 --> 01:19:35.319
the one to deployed. And they
have units over it. You're talking about

952
01:19:35.319 --> 01:19:40.479
marines on ships. They have the
twenty six Marine Expeditionary Unit I know is

953
01:19:40.520 --> 01:19:43.439
over there, which is one of
my old units when I was in and

954
01:19:43.680 --> 01:19:48.640
uh, they're twenty four hundred Marines
that are forward deployed to the Mediterranean from

955
01:19:48.720 --> 01:19:54.960
Campa June and Pacific Camp Uptil the
hands of Pacific. But anyway, they

956
01:19:55.079 --> 01:19:59.520
are already there. They just relocated
them from a train area to being in

957
01:19:59.600 --> 01:20:02.560
the proper simmy to be able to
respond to whatever form of fashion they may

958
01:20:02.640 --> 01:20:08.159
be asked to the symcome could have
handled better, and they actually could have

959
01:20:08.279 --> 01:20:12.600
either rescheduled it or had smart have
broken up and had the commands with in

960
01:20:12.720 --> 01:20:15.840
syncom have their own ball, and
except it went on, I think a

961
01:20:15.880 --> 01:20:18.840
support decision, and I think I
think a lot of this is mility And

962
01:20:18.920 --> 01:20:21.439
this is not, by the way, this is not me necessarily hacking on

963
01:20:21.479 --> 01:20:27.840
the military. I want the military
leadership to concentrate on kicking ass and taking

964
01:20:27.960 --> 01:20:31.640
names if they need to. And
that's why all of the you know,

965
01:20:31.760 --> 01:20:35.399
the inclusivity, diversity, equity crap
and all of that I feel as a

966
01:20:35.479 --> 01:20:42.239
distraction. So for them to exactly
when you read a document that is that

967
01:20:42.399 --> 01:20:47.319
is penned by a military individual and
is meant to be read by their subordinates,

968
01:20:48.159 --> 01:20:51.479
a lot of times it doesn't always
make sense to people who are not

969
01:20:51.600 --> 01:20:55.800
in the military. And I recognize
that and I had to learn that as

970
01:20:56.000 --> 01:21:00.159
I did not serve in the Marines, right and but in this day and

971
01:21:00.279 --> 01:21:03.199
age, you also kind of have
to know that people are going to put

972
01:21:03.239 --> 01:21:08.079
their own story together. And I'm
sure that whatever the story is down there

973
01:21:08.199 --> 01:21:11.760
is not as exciting as some of
the ones I saw on Twitter yesterday that

974
01:21:12.640 --> 01:21:15.039
is World War three tomorrow? Yeah, I mean yeah, so well,

975
01:21:15.720 --> 01:21:19.760
and let me say this too now
that they will still celebrate the Marine Corps

976
01:21:19.800 --> 01:21:25.479
birthday November tenth. I mean when
we were deployed and stuff, we had

977
01:21:25.520 --> 01:21:28.279
the cake out in the field in
combat. We had the cake and stuff

978
01:21:28.319 --> 01:21:30.119
well out in the Rine Corps during
the Rine Corps birth to combat. But

979
01:21:30.199 --> 01:21:33.520
in Fallujah two thousand and four,
in the Rine Corps Birthday, in the

980
01:21:33.600 --> 01:21:38.000
midst of the hell of that battle, they had a Marine Corps birthday cake

981
01:21:38.039 --> 01:21:40.800
and the cutting and stuff. So
that will go on with the Rine Crps

982
01:21:40.840 --> 01:21:45.880
ball again. They start in mid
October. They in in mid November,

983
01:21:45.159 --> 01:21:48.920
but it celebrates two this year,
two and forty eighth birthday for all Marines

984
01:21:48.960 --> 01:21:53.319
and that comes up Friday next Friday
for us, FYI, for everybody.

985
01:21:53.840 --> 01:21:57.760
So again, I was just gonna
say, now, I was gonna tell

986
01:21:57.760 --> 01:22:00.640
people next Friday, you want to
see a show, go to one of

987
01:22:00.680 --> 01:22:05.079
the bars in North Topsil Beach or
you know, any anything within spitting distance

988
01:22:05.159 --> 01:22:10.640
of La June over there. And
uh, I did it inadvertently one time

989
01:22:10.680 --> 01:22:15.359
when I went down for like a
late fishing beach weekend. Man, And

990
01:22:15.720 --> 01:22:19.479
uh, the Marines tend directly they
remember their birthday. That's what I remember

991
01:22:19.600 --> 01:22:24.640
noticing. Y we did, sir, And I'll hang up now, Sipifi,

992
01:22:25.000 --> 01:22:28.640
Happy birthday Marines. All right,
look at that. He's a little

993
01:22:29.159 --> 01:22:32.279
uh week in, a day week
and a day ahead. But yeah,

994
01:22:32.520 --> 01:22:35.920
they don't forget. That's why they
call and they scream uh sent for fire,

995
01:22:36.520 --> 01:22:40.640
oh rah, and on the air. We've had that before, so

996
01:22:41.479 --> 01:22:44.479
so we always make a point to
mention it. But yeah, it's again

997
01:22:44.640 --> 01:22:49.560
it's just it's communication that's probably more
innocuous. I maybe it's not, but

998
01:22:50.359 --> 01:22:56.880
I I found that there is a
there is a lack of giving a crap

999
01:22:57.039 --> 01:23:01.680
when uh military communications as to how
the public may interpret it. And some

1000
01:23:01.840 --> 01:23:05.479
of it's you know, some of
it's kind of baked into the machismo cake

1001
01:23:05.600 --> 01:23:10.720
with that stuff. Because of course, when I was talking earlier about like

1002
01:23:10.840 --> 01:23:16.199
Buford Pusser and all of that,
and uh uh roy ben bena venitez Us

1003
01:23:16.359 --> 01:23:20.720
Army Vietnam guy, you asked him
marine when you get into legends and lore

1004
01:23:20.800 --> 01:23:28.399
and all that, uh ask ask
him about chess chesty Puller, which,

1005
01:23:28.479 --> 01:23:31.560
by the way, that's another if
Buford Pusser is an amazing name. That's

1006
01:23:31.600 --> 01:23:38.560
an amazing name. And he is
He's he is the iconic, uh you

1007
01:23:38.640 --> 01:23:44.880
know, gruff, badass marine guy. He's the He's he's what you strive

1008
01:23:45.039 --> 01:23:48.880
to be. He is dripping testosterone. He is the guy you wish good

1009
01:23:49.000 --> 01:23:55.039
night in boot camp. As one
of my listeners pointed out, so look

1010
01:23:55.079 --> 01:23:58.960
at that I have wound. I
have tied all of this together, from

1011
01:23:59.760 --> 01:24:03.920
military heroes to Mugatu, and it's
just been one of those days. And

1012
01:24:04.399 --> 01:24:12.000
it will truck on here in just
a few minutes because the Daily Beast did

1013
01:24:12.079 --> 01:24:18.079
an investigation and the Washington DC mayor
is she's gotta she's gotta make the streets

1014
01:24:18.199 --> 01:24:23.720
safer, and they're both the dumbest
crap you've ever heard. So of course

1015
01:24:23.800 --> 01:24:28.319
we'll bring it to you coming up
next smart Talk all Day ninety four to

1016
01:24:28.399 --> 01:24:32.880
five WPTI in the Triad and one
six one FM talked in the Triangle.

1017
01:24:34.640 --> 01:24:39.840
Let me tell you one of my
favorite subsets of stories. You know,

1018
01:24:39.920 --> 01:24:44.720
if you just try to build a
little classification system, one of my favorites

1019
01:24:45.720 --> 01:24:48.680
out there, hands down, one
of my favorites is when a reporter,

1020
01:24:48.880 --> 01:24:54.079
here's the generic scenario. This is
manna for the soul. Okay, a

1021
01:24:54.239 --> 01:25:00.439
reporter writes a story going, can
you believe this guy? He's she's crazy?

1022
01:25:00.760 --> 01:25:09.520
And the behavior the reporter reports is
them coming across as much more normal

1023
01:25:10.600 --> 01:25:14.880
to average people than they probably did, and in a way as a benefit

1024
01:25:14.960 --> 01:25:17.159
for the person they're trying to tear
down, and it only shines the light

1025
01:25:17.359 --> 01:25:24.079
on the disconnected bubble that the reporter
themselves lives in. How do I know?

1026
01:25:24.359 --> 01:25:27.560
The Daily Beast they decide they're going
to do a hip piece on the

1027
01:25:27.600 --> 01:25:32.399
new Speaker of the House, Mike
Johnson. Ready for this, I'm gonna

1028
01:25:32.439 --> 01:25:38.079
read the way from the article a
little in some of the summary, but

1029
01:25:38.800 --> 01:25:44.399
it basically is this, Mike Johnson
doesn't have any retirement savings, owns.

1030
01:25:44.720 --> 01:25:47.800
He doesn't or own a single stock
or have any assets, and has less

1031
01:25:47.800 --> 01:25:51.359
than five thousand in his bank account. His mortgages in the two fifty to

1032
01:25:51.439 --> 01:25:56.560
five hundred K range, a loan
and a person alone. He had no

1033
01:25:56.720 --> 01:26:00.800
retirement plan. He'll have to lobby. You want this ice Speaker of the

1034
01:26:00.840 --> 01:26:08.239
House. How do you relate to
him? Oh? So he's most people?

1035
01:26:10.000 --> 01:26:16.560
You absolute dupes? Man one six
one FM Talk and n w PTI

1036
01:26:17.000 --> 01:26:23.880
two stations driving the best d talk. This is Casey Oda and Carolina's Morning

1037
01:26:23.960 --> 01:26:31.720
News. All right, good morning, it is eight thirty six ACODA Radio

1038
01:26:31.840 --> 01:26:38.600
program. All right, let's get
into a couple of things I mentioned here.

1039
01:26:38.840 --> 01:26:41.520
So Mike Johnson, new speaker of
the House, the Daily Beast,

1040
01:26:41.640 --> 01:26:45.079
I gave you this, a little
synopsis of this, was so horrified of

1041
01:26:45.359 --> 01:26:53.359
his taking control that they went and
they sent their their waste of oxygen reporters

1042
01:26:53.399 --> 01:26:57.920
scrambling, how do we take this
guy down? And they made the classic

1043
01:26:58.079 --> 01:27:02.279
blunder having nothing to do with a
land war in Asia, but rather when

1044
01:27:02.920 --> 01:27:09.279
these reporters, these mainstream reporters who
live in New York and d C,

1045
01:27:11.760 --> 01:27:16.079
write a story, a takedown story, only to realize later that instead of

1046
01:27:16.319 --> 01:27:23.760
taking them down because it makes them
more relatable to people, it shows instead

1047
01:27:23.840 --> 01:27:28.720
shows how disconnected reporters are. Or
maybe I'm wrong, Maybe Ross I didn't

1048
01:27:28.720 --> 01:27:31.199
send you a trigger warning when I
sent you the story yesterday? Did it

1049
01:27:31.319 --> 01:27:35.960
send you rushing to buy an emotional
support animal when you saw that Mike Johnson

1050
01:27:36.079 --> 01:27:41.640
doesn't have retirement savings, own stocks, his you know, has a few

1051
01:27:41.720 --> 01:27:45.520
thousand in his account, has a
mortgage of you know, two fifty to

1052
01:27:45.640 --> 01:27:49.319
five K five hundred K range.
He's got a loan out. Were you

1053
01:27:49.600 --> 01:27:55.880
triggered? Are? It was more
reminded of the Predator meme where the two

1054
01:27:55.960 --> 01:27:59.479
guys you know, like are giving
each other high five. You know what

1055
01:27:59.520 --> 01:28:03.720
I mean? Yeah, I'm like, dude, same and no. In

1056
01:28:03.840 --> 01:28:09.319
fact, for many of you listening, especially if you live Triangle and try

1057
01:28:09.399 --> 01:28:13.880
it proper, but more so in
the Triangle. Now, uh, that'd

1058
01:28:13.960 --> 01:28:17.319
be a poor person's house. Did
you see the new home price numbers?

1059
01:28:17.439 --> 01:28:23.560
Oh my gosh, that's a starter
home. This reporter wrote it and instead

1060
01:28:23.560 --> 01:28:28.880
of triggering people, most most folks
looked at it and went, I feel

1061
01:28:28.920 --> 01:28:32.800
your brother, I got you.
What an unforced stupid airman. Then you

1062
01:28:32.840 --> 01:28:36.680
have the other side of the spectrum, where it's like you have Nancy Pelosi

1063
01:28:36.760 --> 01:28:42.319
eating like a five thousand dollars gallon
of ice cream or one dollars fridge.

1064
01:28:42.840 --> 01:28:45.960
Yeah, yeah, did you exaggerate
any of that or is it all No?

1065
01:28:46.159 --> 01:28:49.239
We checked all that, so I'm
sure it's really good ice cream,

1066
01:28:49.319 --> 01:28:53.439
right, it's got to be for
that. I mean, you have some,

1067
01:28:53.640 --> 01:28:57.079
don't you? The different I shared
some with the claymation. Dude,

1068
01:28:57.399 --> 01:29:01.039
oh oh, I'm in the media. So yeah, very very important stuff

1069
01:29:02.000 --> 01:29:04.560
process a hinge. I mean,
so of course he's got the edge.

1070
01:29:04.720 --> 01:29:11.920
Yes, no, absolutely, yeah, you'r bumblebee tuna money or whatever they

1071
01:29:12.079 --> 01:29:16.760
with. Nancy Pelosi's wealth, a
lot of it is attached to her lineage,

1072
01:29:17.000 --> 01:29:23.800
like you may not remember, but
she is nepotism personified, right.

1073
01:29:24.079 --> 01:29:28.279
Her father was a member of Congress, and so she grew up in all

1074
01:29:28.319 --> 01:29:30.479
of that. I don't begrudge her
for that, but that's lifestyle she chose,

1075
01:29:30.560 --> 01:29:36.119
and it was made much easier by
also marrying very very rich families and

1076
01:29:36.359 --> 01:29:42.079
the wealth that her family was able
to accumulate on you know, a normal

1077
01:29:42.239 --> 01:29:46.039
smaller salary strangely enough, but you
know, you can track that. But

1078
01:29:46.239 --> 01:29:53.239
it has a scent of what people
see nowadays, where people go to Congress

1079
01:29:53.920 --> 01:29:58.920
and they make money that is easy
to process for people, even if they

1080
01:29:58.960 --> 01:30:02.880
don't make that much. They can
estimate the level of lifestyle that person should

1081
01:30:02.880 --> 01:30:09.239
be leaving, leading only to see
that person in ten years of spending time

1082
01:30:09.279 --> 01:30:15.479
in Congress with personal wealth in the
millions, assets that far outpace us being

1083
01:30:15.560 --> 01:30:19.680
unapologetic for it. So it's an
extra screw up when you write stories like

1084
01:30:19.800 --> 01:30:27.199
this. It's also why you were
unsuccessful in demonizing Donald Trump for his wealth,

1085
01:30:27.319 --> 01:30:30.760
because, unlike Nancy Pelosi, who
would would prefer that you think she's

1086
01:30:30.880 --> 01:30:36.159
poor or not poor, but you
know, very normal, Donald Trump went,

1087
01:30:36.399 --> 01:30:41.439
I'm rich. Y'all right, He's
like, can I put gold on

1088
01:30:41.600 --> 01:30:45.359
that? I make money? Because
that's what I think people crave, is

1089
01:30:45.439 --> 01:30:49.159
right, because the opposite is like
the dude hanging out during election season and

1090
01:30:49.319 --> 01:30:53.760
like the local barbers joint. You
know yet the Josh Stein picture? What

1091
01:30:53.880 --> 01:30:58.079
you mean? Joined us some comfort
food mccollin greens, And I'm just I'm

1092
01:30:58.119 --> 01:31:03.079
not all the son of an extremely
wealthy and successful and famous civil rights lawyer

1093
01:31:03.199 --> 01:31:08.680
who essentially created this path that I
just followed along because everyone can help me

1094
01:31:08.680 --> 01:31:13.800
along the way. I'm just a
guy likes collar greens. Why isn't anybody

1095
01:31:13.840 --> 01:31:16.239
around me right now? Do you
think he spit it out right after the

1096
01:31:16.279 --> 01:31:19.279
photo or do you think he never
ate any dude right in their face?

1097
01:31:19.760 --> 01:31:23.840
Oh no, oh, the poor
people down there at the queue joint.

1098
01:31:25.119 --> 01:31:28.640
I didn't think it was funny because
I tweeted that. I retweeted that out

1099
01:31:28.800 --> 01:31:31.159
and then like it was that and
then it was some of our Lexington listeners

1100
01:31:31.199 --> 01:31:35.960
like, it's not real barbecue anyway
down in Goldsborough, wilbursh because I love

1101
01:31:36.039 --> 01:31:41.279
that fight. I love that fight, to which I responded, well,

1102
01:31:41.399 --> 01:31:44.840
unless you guys caught a cow,
it ain't real barbecue, just because I

1103
01:31:44.920 --> 01:31:48.199
had to be a jerk, and
that's how that's how real people communicate.

1104
01:31:51.000 --> 01:31:56.720
But I digress. So that story
number one. Story number two. Washington,

1105
01:31:56.800 --> 01:32:00.079
DC's got a little bit of an
issue. I have heard little little

1106
01:32:00.119 --> 01:32:08.000
crime issue things going on there.
And one of the stories that you couldn't

1107
01:32:08.119 --> 01:32:11.439
if for the media, you could
not cover was a member of Congress got

1108
01:32:11.600 --> 01:32:18.119
carjacked there what like two weeks ago, And so the mayor of Washington,

1109
01:32:18.199 --> 01:32:23.159
d C. Said enough is enough. We're going to solve this problem.

1110
01:32:23.399 --> 01:32:28.359
So you would think, maybe let's
see ways to solve the problem. I

1111
01:32:28.399 --> 01:32:34.720
don't know. People do crimes,
are found guilty of doing doing crimes,

1112
01:32:35.079 --> 01:32:44.039
they should be punished according to the
laws that we currently have. That might

1113
01:32:44.640 --> 01:32:48.159
help, even if it doesn't cure
pure recidivism. Like the moment they're out,

1114
01:32:48.239 --> 01:32:53.199
they do it again. There's all
those moments they're not out. But

1115
01:32:53.319 --> 01:32:59.560
instead of that, what does the
Mayor of DC DO announces a new program,

1116
01:33:00.840 --> 01:33:04.880
a new program that will provide free, but government version of free,

1117
01:33:04.960 --> 01:33:11.760
meaning you paid for it geo tags
essentially, or tracking tags, you know,

1118
01:33:11.840 --> 01:33:15.399
like the little Apple air tags,
but for residents of the District of

1119
01:33:15.560 --> 01:33:19.159
Washington, d C. Because there's
so many car jackings and I mean literally

1120
01:33:19.239 --> 01:33:23.720
it's one hundred percent increase. You're
over your twenty two to twenty three last

1121
01:33:23.760 --> 01:33:30.079
month carjackings and car thefts. That
Muriel Bowser went out and bought a bunch

1122
01:33:30.199 --> 01:33:33.640
of these little tracking things to give
to residence so that they can stick them

1123
01:33:33.680 --> 01:33:39.560
to their car, which will not
stop your car from getting stolen, but

1124
01:33:39.840 --> 01:33:44.760
will allow you to track it for
a period of time. Have you ever

1125
01:33:44.800 --> 01:33:48.319
had has anybody ever had anything stolen
that has that is trackable, like of

1126
01:33:48.840 --> 01:33:55.000
like I had my phone and iPad
stolen, which are both Apple products,

1127
01:33:55.039 --> 01:33:57.880
and then I could track it on
an old iPad that I had. And

1128
01:33:58.039 --> 01:34:01.800
it is maddening to watch your stuff
move around but never really be able to

1129
01:34:01.840 --> 01:34:05.039
do anything about it because you just
can't get the law enforcement coordinator and then

1130
01:34:05.079 --> 01:34:09.960
it disappears and people know what they're
doing. Who now know about this program

1131
01:34:10.039 --> 01:34:15.399
because it was announced that is something
they're going to look for. So you

1132
01:34:15.479 --> 01:34:19.600
may scrape bottom some idiots, and
if you don't actually you know, put

1133
01:34:19.640 --> 01:34:25.399
them in jail, they'll be back
doing idiot stuff again. But you also

1134
01:34:25.520 --> 01:34:29.359
just spend all this money and announce
this program and it doesn't stop the actual

1135
01:34:29.600 --> 01:34:34.920
car theft. It only changes the
way they deal with it the moment later,

1136
01:34:35.239 --> 01:34:42.199
and provides me the added frustration of
sitting at home on a device watching

1137
01:34:43.279 --> 01:34:48.039
you know, my you know,
tens of thousands of dollars investment drive away

1138
01:34:48.840 --> 01:34:51.960
and annoying. Maybe I'll see it
again, maybe I won't. And then

1139
01:34:53.079 --> 01:34:57.880
that moment will occur in many cases
once they figure out how to look for

1140
01:34:58.000 --> 01:35:00.159
these things, because they'll be you
know, they'll be where people are.

1141
01:35:00.680 --> 01:35:03.800
If you have those, there's places
they tell you to put them, and

1142
01:35:03.880 --> 01:35:06.399
a lot of people just do it. It's like people have passwords that are

1143
01:35:06.439 --> 01:35:10.760
one, two, three, four
five, right. Criminals know this stuff,

1144
01:35:11.520 --> 01:35:13.880
and then all of a sudden,
the little blinky thing on the map,

1145
01:35:14.000 --> 01:35:15.920
You're like, there's my car.
I'm calling the police. It's just

1146
01:35:16.199 --> 01:35:23.640
poof, it's gone gone, man, And that's your solution, not hey,

1147
01:35:23.960 --> 01:35:28.279
if people keep stealing cars, and
you have you have literal gangs of

1148
01:35:28.359 --> 01:35:31.279
people. This is what they do, right, They go out, they

1149
01:35:31.399 --> 01:35:35.960
scout and they and they do this
in groups and this is their profession.

1150
01:35:38.319 --> 01:35:41.680
You never thought to you. Okay, when we do inevitably make some arrest

1151
01:35:41.720 --> 01:35:44.520
here, why don't we make it
so they're in jail, because it's really

1152
01:35:44.560 --> 01:35:47.560
hard to steal a car in jail, as I understand it, all right,

1153
01:35:47.640 --> 01:35:53.600
eight forty five race Agic Weather Channel. He's here. He's here because

1154
01:35:53.760 --> 01:35:56.359
he's not out stealing cars, and
for that he's a good gun. So

1155
01:35:56.680 --> 01:35:59.199
but maybe he does that when he's
not here. So I don't know how

1156
01:35:59.279 --> 01:36:01.600
you doing, man, I'm doing
all right. How are you? It's

1157
01:36:01.640 --> 01:36:06.039
just a weird day, so Cartha, Yeah, well you're gonna have that

1158
01:36:06.199 --> 01:36:09.920
sometimes, right, Yeah, No, not to be well that to me,

1159
01:36:10.000 --> 01:36:14.520
but no, definitely not. Well, there's nothing weird about what I

1160
01:36:14.600 --> 01:36:17.760
need to do the next week or
so, going to kick back and relax.

1161
01:36:18.239 --> 01:36:21.640
A little chilly this morning. Freeze
warning stays in place, but most

1162
01:36:21.800 --> 01:36:28.600
areas are getting now above freezing Still
to the west from a about Greensboro,

1163
01:36:28.680 --> 01:36:30.680
Winston Salem and west into the mountains, it's cold. Did see some upper

1164
01:36:30.800 --> 01:36:35.000
teens in parts of the Blue Ridge
earlier today, and now everybody will have

1165
01:36:35.399 --> 01:36:39.920
a pretty good supply of sunshine.
Load to mid fifties today, a few

1166
01:36:40.000 --> 01:36:44.319
degrees up from where you were earlier
today, low thirties, and then sunny

1167
01:36:44.319 --> 01:36:47.600
tomorrow will start the warming trend in
the low sixties and then upper sixties,

1168
01:36:47.680 --> 01:36:51.159
maybe even seventy degrees over the weekend, and load to mid seventies next week,

1169
01:36:51.319 --> 01:36:56.079
really starting about Saturday. Although the
nights will be cool, we'll come

1170
01:36:56.119 --> 01:36:59.000
up to the forties to near fifty. The afternoons are going to be real

1171
01:36:59.119 --> 01:37:01.760
nice, upper sixties to low seventies
probably through Wednesday of next week. Really

1172
01:37:01.840 --> 01:37:06.199
going to be a real nice run
for the weekend coming up for early November.

1173
01:37:06.319 --> 01:37:10.640
Sure, jackets on in the morning
and maybe a lighter jacket in the

1174
01:37:10.680 --> 01:37:14.399
afternoon, but that sunshine's still gonna
feel pretty good, even at or just

1175
01:37:14.479 --> 01:37:17.800
above seventy degrees or just below if
you get into the mountains end points just

1176
01:37:17.880 --> 01:37:21.319
west of the triangle. So not
bad casey, not at at all.

1177
01:37:21.760 --> 01:37:27.319
Okay, Thanks sir, Good one
chat tomorrow, okay, And we will

1178
01:37:27.960 --> 01:37:31.319
get Jeff Bellinger Bloomberg News and a
couple other stories even a Marvel story.

1179
01:37:31.319 --> 01:37:36.920
I'm gonna try to jam in here, so hang on for that your day

1180
01:37:38.520 --> 01:37:45.039
Smarter one O six one FM Talk
and News Talk ninety four w PTI more

1181
01:37:45.399 --> 01:37:49.840
with Casey. It starts now all
right, six fifty two, and it

1182
01:37:50.199 --> 01:37:55.680
is Bloomberg Update time. Jeff Bellinger's
standing by what's going on? Sir,

1183
01:37:56.159 --> 01:37:59.880
No, Casey. There was no
one welcome surprise from the Federal Reserve yes

1184
01:38:00.039 --> 01:38:03.199
yesterday, so stocks moved higher in
midweek trading. The Fed left interest rates

1185
01:38:03.279 --> 01:38:08.840
unchanged, and while chaired your own, Powell indicated further rate hikes can't be

1186
01:38:08.960 --> 01:38:12.840
taken off the table. He did
hint there's a good chance central bankers are

1187
01:38:12.920 --> 01:38:17.039
through raising rates. Investors very anxious
to see Apple's quarterly results. The report

1188
01:38:17.119 --> 01:38:21.920
will offer some clues about early demand
for the latest iPhone. Apple releases its

1189
01:38:23.000 --> 01:38:27.399
report after the market's closed today.
Did hear from some big companies this morning?

1190
01:38:27.560 --> 01:38:32.560
Starbucks and Wendy's both posted stronger than
expected quarterly results. Papa John's adjusted

1191
01:38:32.600 --> 01:38:36.319
profit was up from a year ago, but it still fell short Wall Street

1192
01:38:36.439 --> 01:38:42.239
estimates. Two of the nation's big
theme park operators are merging. Six Flags

1193
01:38:42.319 --> 01:38:45.560
and Cedar Fair announced this morning.
They have a definitive agreement for an all

1194
01:38:45.640 --> 01:38:50.720
stock merger. It's worth about eight
billion dollars. The combined company will operate

1195
01:38:50.840 --> 01:38:55.680
under the six Flags name and it's
going to be based in Charlotte. The

1196
01:38:55.920 --> 01:39:00.479
number of workers signing up for unemployment
benefits ticked hire last week that they department

1197
01:39:00.600 --> 01:39:04.359
counted two hundred and seventeen thousand first
time claims. That's five thousand more than

1198
01:39:04.439 --> 01:39:09.800
the prior week. Claims at that
level still point to a solid job market.

1199
01:39:10.159 --> 01:39:15.840
And Casey and other Labor Department report
shows worker productivity rose more than expected

1200
01:39:15.000 --> 01:39:18.960
in the third quarter. That's good
news and the fight against inflation and the

1201
01:39:19.039 --> 01:39:24.680
futures improved after it was released.
Right now, the futures are higher across

1202
01:39:24.760 --> 01:39:28.239
the board, with the Dow futures
up two hundred and thirty two points.

1203
01:39:28.479 --> 01:39:31.840
Casey, okay, all right,
we were reflecting on the death of Bobby

1204
01:39:31.920 --> 01:39:34.760
Night. I'm sure you saw that
story. I did see it. Yes,

1205
01:39:35.039 --> 01:39:40.840
has there been He has to be
among the greatest audio producers, like

1206
01:39:40.960 --> 01:39:45.359
quotes of anybody who ever did that. It was just amazing when you go

1207
01:39:45.479 --> 01:39:49.279
back and look at it retrospectively.
Yeah, I heard of one of my

1208
01:39:49.399 --> 01:39:54.039
stations. Was I only tuned into
the very end of the quote, but

1209
01:39:54.159 --> 01:39:59.079
they were playing it saying he was
telling calling somebody a Mickey Mouse, but

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he said that would be in insulting
to Mickey. No. Right, yeah,

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I couldn't even get to all of
it. It was crazy. So

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anyway, all right, hey Jeff, thank you much, appreciate it.

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So all right, tomorrow, all
right, you'll talk to actually you'll talk

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to Joan Donnager tomorrow. I'm not
a long weekend and I'll be how nice

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for you, Okay, all right, enjoy that. We'll see you next

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week. There you go, Jeff
Bellinger, Bloomberg News, off to do

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some stuff or something. Uh uh. You know, I'm not surprised by

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this in any way, shape or
form, but it is a it's a

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it's a move of desperation, and
there's no other way to interpret it in

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my opinion, from the same way
that they move the snow White to twenty

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twenty five, that's a move of
desperation. So as you probably are aware,

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if you're not in a coma marvel
when they started, you know,

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pushing all the movies through from Iron
Man onto up to the culmination of I

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would argue the Avengers where every other
movie studio was just they were so jealous.

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The amount of money they were making
was crazy, the numbers, the

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records that were said, it was
everything. It was the best of days,

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and that did not continue as they
moved forward. They wanted every they

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wanted black Panther, but for everything
where they could get woke messaging in there.

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The difference they failed to recognize is
black Panther. That was black Panther.

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I saw. Maybe it was Critical
Drinker or somebody pointing this out too.

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It's like the Miles Morales Spider Man. That's not a race swap,

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like this whole pandaverse thing, that's
its own thing. And the studios never

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understood this, so they would constantly
maybe not race swap, some they did,

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but they they changed the characteristics of
the individuals to create this strong female

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lead, this Mary Sue. This
is why this became a term, and

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it's all started to go downhill.
And the projective numbers for what is it,

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the Atney, the Eternals or no, the Marvels, Yeah, the

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Marvels. It did the they're they're
gonna lose their behind on this and probably

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a few other projects. So with
that in mind, what do you do

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when you have this this I P
You've screwed You've screwed it up so much.

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You undead people, right because you
know why, multiverse, that's why

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01:42:27.760 --> 01:42:32.960
you stupid idiot who thought Iron Man
died or others and stuff. Yeah,

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01:42:33.039 --> 01:42:39.600
so apparently, uh, last month, the Marvel creative staff had their annual

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01:42:39.720 --> 01:42:45.920
retreat, and now information has started
to seep out, which could include going

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back to the Avenger. Well and
Marvel reconsidering their plans in the next phase

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to go back and explore more of
the Avenger characters and timeline, since they

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were the ones that made the money. The problem they run into, of

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course, is some of them are
dead or some of them have fundamentally altered

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01:43:06.399 --> 01:43:12.359
their character arc to the point where
you really can't present them in the same

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way. So how do you make
up for that? Well, you do

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what they do in these movies where
ross I'm you and I probably this conversation.

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Nobody ever really dies anymore, right
in the superhero movies, and so

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it removes all the emotion from it. So I feel like all you're doing

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is highlighting the problem people are complaining
about. Look that ran out of time,

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so dumb, so dumb, but
I even have dumber stories that I

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01:43:42.239 --> 01:43:44.920
can get to. So we'll dumb
you up more tomorrow because it's Friday,

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and that's what we do, and
occasionally we inform occasionally, but for now

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we're gonna take a break. Wish
you a good Thursday, and we'll see

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you back here tomorrow