Well, good morning everybody in Happy Friday. It is the Casey Oda Radio
program. Unfortunately, I was greeted with the three worst words you can ever
see when you turn on your computer this morning. Kyle, what do you
think the three worst words are you could see when you turn on your computer
this morning. I'm gonna go with something involving updates that is correct, updates
were installed. Do we know do we know what that has screwed up?
Yet? No? No, everything looks as it's supposed to. It's not
asking me to shut it down and restart it. But once I passed the
signing screen, it's and I signed yet, and I didn't look like I
clack clack clack signing in. And then I got up and went to the
bathroom and went and got like a gatorade and all that, and then I
rolled back sit down in front of the computer. I'm like, oh,
no, no, So we're gonna find out on this adventure together on what's
going on with this. This is the call screen computers. Hey, you
know the call the next gen one's working fine, So the call screener here,
it does take about a half hour from the time I log on to
the time that I can launch the program. Oh wow, yep, I'm
sure that's a design right. Oh man, Hey, speaking of by design,
I don't know if it's by design, but I find it very interesting.
I was reading two stories this where neither of which are in the pack,
so you haven't seen these. But so I'm reading two stories this morning,
and I got I got some questions. So this is CNN, So
take it for what it's worth. Rome in crisis as Italian pasta prices sore.
So they're having a pasta shortage over in Italy and it's so bad at
such a staple that their version of like the FBI, is investigating as to
what's going on here, because obviously that's not a thing that can happen.
You can't have the pasta prices going wacky. So does anybody else find it
very interesting that after utilizing a week's worth of vacation, Ross has been able
to turn his attention to testing the never endedness of the never ending postable,
and simultaneously we find out at the end of the week that Italy's almost out
of pasta Or is that just am I just a conspiracy theorist trying to connect
two things? Because I feel like they may be related. I don't know.
I don't know the answer. I'm just saying I find it the timing
to be very interesting. And as you can imagine, if you're in Italy,
running out of pasta is a bit of a process. Although I just
assumed if you live in Italy you would never use premade pasta. That's a
joke, by the way. That's why there's all different brands over there.
But you would never, I tell anyone, So, like, could you
really complain about it? Wouldn't you just suck it up and make your own?
Don't know. I wonder when it hits America. I mean, sure,
Italy is Italy, but God help us if it hits here. Gotta
have the pasta. You guys eat a lot of pasta, Kyle Fair,
Do you eat real pasta? By real? Do you mean I make it
myself? No? No, no, no, no no. But it's
not some weird sweet thing, right, oh no, real pasta? Yeah?
Oh okay, all right, So you your your whole family could be
impacted. What's that? So some crap out there? I'm sure there is,
because pasta has animal products, right, there's bugs and everything. Right,
Well, I was I met the eggs, but you know whatever,
I don't know, but yeah, no, My theory is RASA has been
over it. It's like when they kicked Peter out of the Chinese buffet on
Family Guy, except they didn't do it because you know, he's wearing that
sheriff's hat and they're intimidated or something. I don't know, but I found
that very interesting. This morning, you were just at all of garden.
Did they have pasta? You know, they still did as of as of
last night. The family became part of that family. It was a good
time. Kyle was bragging this morning, just we did. And then he's
like, yeah, well I took the family to Olive Garden and then he
grabbed a wad of hundreds and used him to light a soy cigar. So
it was it was very disgusting. Now, so that's uh, that's it's
apparently a big national crisis over there. So running out of pasta van I
don't know what they're gonna do. All right, six thirteen case O Day
Radio program coming up on the show eight oh five Peak Calendar will join us.
He'll be um. We got all sorts of fun stuff to a chit
chat about uh, we gotta for some reason, I got a ton of
California stories, not just because of the Supreme Court kind of screwed pork producers
a little bit. But I guess I I battle with this, So I'll
lay it out. I'll lay it out for you and I'll see what you
think. Because they did take the less government approach, at least the less
federal government approach, which you know that that's generally I'm a big fan of
that. But the ripples of that court case could be very impactful, especially
here in North Carolina. We got what or two hogs laying around. Don't
know if you know that, maybe if you're new here. Yip yip yip
yip yeup. In fact, we have a whole political empire and town that's
basically built on rent in space for hogs. It's a really amazing story.
And the Chinese are involved too, all right, so we'll get to we'll
get to that. Plus you know, just the standard Friday fun and frivolity
and screaming about stuff. Okay, all right, everything you've come to expect
on the way hang on a new decade on the calendar and celebrating ten years
on the air. This is one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle
and News Talk n w PTI and the Triad. Do you know who the
dumbest person on the planet is? Now? I just I just thought of
this during the during the break. Remember how we finally figured out why somebody
dumped five hundred pounds of pasta along a creek in New Jersey. And it
wasn't some weird take over the planet thing. It was some guy whose mom
died and she had been hoarding five hundred pounds of pasta. That poor bastard.
If we're about to have a big pasta run, that guy was sitting
on a gold mine. That's a craig. I was like, I could
have retired. He was like, it was like a dude who bought bitcoin
back when you could pay for pizza with a hundred of them and then forgot
about it for fifteen years. And he just took all that pasta ahead of
the Great Pasta Shortage I've named it, and just dumped it there on the
side of the creek. What an idiot man. Pastaflation. We just do
pasta puns on the story too, if you won add one yesterday, but
I'll work it in again, right whoever whoever's responsible for pastaflation in the form
of sixteen and a half percent year over year should go to the Penna tentry.
Uh, preposterous, that's right, look at that. Kyle's all in
on this. What what obviously is causing them to wonder how the hell we
got here? Is wheat isn't up. In fact, the price of wheat's
fallen year over year, and obviously wheat is the main ingredient in pasta.
So what the heck here? People sending me weird pasta memes. We're doing
pasta puns right now, so, uh, you know, just so as
you know, all right, So, yeah, we got that story there
eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four You want to be on
the show, that's how you make that happen. So then I was reading
this story. It actually I was reading two different stories. But have you
read about um these? And of course it's Silicon Valley, which you know,
everything's going swimmingly there, and no worry, we'll get into the Twitter
new I know, so you're very amped for that this morning. But I
want to grab a little chunk of audio which we didn't do before the show
that I just saw, So hang, loose. Um. So basically they're
they're they're talking about these guys that they're talking about, these guys that micro
doose. Do you know what this is? So they take small doses of
narcotics throughout the day and like in some cases like acid, hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Um, there's one guy, there was one dude who was taking small doses
of ketamine and they swear that like it helps the performance frames. I don't
know how horse tranquilizer frames the mind. Um, I'm not clear. Although
if I had known you you get so much money for it. You know,
growing up we had horse tranquilizers. I never thought to put one in
my mouth. Um. But yeah, they're like they're they're sitting there like,
oh no, this is the secret to being efficient, being able to
get things done all day. And I'm like, it's not some new secret
you cracked. Have you ever heard of musicians or you know, people in
entertainment. Michael Jackson will be a good example. Right, they get up,
they got some doctor on standby, give him, give him a little
juice, and throughout the day you would, uh, you'd faint from just
hearing the list of substance to substances they're jamming in their bodies and then when
it's night, night time out they go. Marilyn Monroe talked about this.
It's it's not a new thing. But also, why are you so stupid
You're giving an interview about how you do ketamine at work? I mean,
granted, I know you're part of a startup, and you know, you're
you're you're the world, You're oyster, and you're setting your own parameters and
you're you're in charge. But what if that doesn't work and you got to
go get another job? I mean, by google your name and you're bragging
about how much ketamine you're snorting, who's hiring you? Unless I don't know,
it's like a ketamine study or something. I was unaway, but it
just what struck me about it is not that they were doing it, but
that they thought that them in you know, working high you know, high
amount of hours, high stress positions, think that doing drugs, a regiment
of drugs throughout the day to maximize your you're awake time is some sort of
new concept that they just discovered. I'm like, nah, I would I
would, I would look to Hollywood or I don't know a World War two
Germany. Right, Hitler was given his dudes meth he himself was on a
wide variety of things. So I just I love. I love when we
reinvented stuff and then we write articles about it, like, oh, the
housing prizes are crazy. So what New York Zelenials have figured out how to
do is there'll be two people. They'll run a two bedroom apartment together,
but they're not related, they're not in a relationship. They just lived there,
one in one bedroom, one in the other. It's crazy, this
co living oimy roommates. Yeah, yeah, I'd heard of that. So
we'll tack this one up there as you got another example of that. All
right, let's talk about California real quick being a Silicon valley. You obviously
heard the news last week the California's Reparations Committee has recommended that they give was
at one point two million dollars each to any qualified black California Californian. But
that's only half of the fun. Oh and did you see Gavin Newsom isn't
coming out and endorsing that. Let's show you how disingenuousness Galue is. Because
he loved the idea of reparations. But now he might you know, he's
looking to potentially running for president, and he's seeing the poll numbers, and
most of America thinks that's stupid, right, most of California does too,
believe it or not, But they also are demanding the state of California apologize.
And they have released the list of what they have to apologize for.
And I guess, I guess the apology is to anyone who's black and lives
in California. So, um, this is apparently what they will officially apologize
over. I was just looking at this list, all right. They will
apologize a for a former Confederates serving as the first acting president of the University
of California. They will apologize for California not passing antislavery laws despite being admitted
to the Union as a free state. So they didn't have slaveries, so
they didn't pass laws barring something. They didn't have Confederate monuments. I guess
that's just a blanket apology. Zoning ordinances targeting black people, suppressing the Black
Panther Party in the sixties and seventies. Well, I don't know if you
know this, but the Black Panther Party specifically in California in the sixties and
seventies, they did some stuff and I don't mean Marchham with signs developing oil
and gas projects a sorry, terminating affirmative action programs in public employment, racial
disparities in the child welfare system, law enforcement, prison, pop jury service,
healthcare physicians and licensed attorneys, and licensing requirements excluding black people from skilled
jobs. Is that a thing? I look, that's not a thing.
That's an opinion where they think that licensing in general. And if you want
to have a debate about that, fine, But it's one more item on
here that I've got to destroy because they're wrong, and it has to do
with Ronald Reagan. And I'll get into that story coming up right after the
news hang on ten years of news twice an hour and smart talk all day
four five WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the
Triangle. Well Well well, well, well six thirty four good morning,
case O Day radio program. You're going to be shocked to learn that the
reparations panel out in California that's decided that state of California should pay one point
two million dollars to each and every qualifying whatever that means. Black resident of
California also has included a list of apologies, official apologies. And I'm looking
at this thing this morning and I noticed something, right I read you.
Most of the list pretty standard stuff, real open ended stuff. There's some
stuff I don't fully understand, like are they are there business licenses that are
not available to people of all races? I couldn't find any, but that's
something they want. But one of the main apologies they've asked for is an
apology over Ronald Reagan coining the term welfare queen. The terminology this is from
the committee. The terminology conjures stereotypes of single black women as hypersexualized, aggressive,
and dependent on government income with frivolous spending habits, despite that the majority
of welfare recipients are white. This racist label blamed African American women for shortfalls
in the US's social safety net and suggested they were more responsible for their poverty
than others. We demand an apology by then from on behalf of then Governor
Reagan, who also had been reported to have made racist remarks elsewhere, including
in private regarding African delegates to the UN. I'm not super familiar with they're
referencing there, but I have seen this before. You know why the state
of California should not apologize for Ronald Reagan coining the term welfare queen? Can
anybody guess why? Because he didn't. This is why when I this is
why I pound on stuff like the Charlottesville stuff or the hands up, don't
shoot. It shows you how many of these things can get baked in or
Sarah Palin, I could see Russia from my front porch. It shows you
and then it makes you question how many things in history are just wrong.
That's why it's always fascinating when you find out more about stuff. Do you
do you know about the Boston Tea Party? Or do you know about the
Boston Tea Party and the intricacies behind it? Because there's two levels of knowing
what's up there. I'm not going to delve into all of that, but
if that piqued your interest, you know, google what was the Boston Tea
Party really about? Or are also about? Or I can't remember what the
name of the video was fascinating and they cited their sources in it. So
I love learned about a history. But let me explain to you why Reagan
didn't invent welfare queen and who did so? Ronald Reagan gave a speech,
and in the speech he was he was talking about different examples, but one
of the things that he talked about was a story that had been in the
news. This was in nineteen seventy six. It was in the news,
and this was, by the way, after he was governor, he was
not even governor anymore. But he gave a speech and he commented on an
article about a woman from Chicago named Linda Taylor, and Linda basically had cobbled
together a hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year in welfare payments from various social
safety net programs in nineteen seventy six. What's one hundred what's a hund fifty
thousand dollars worth today of one hundred and fifty thousand nineteen seventy six money,
Kyle? Can you can you uh convert that real quick? While I'm still
talking, I want to know what one hundred and fifty thousand a year because
Chicago was expensive, Yeah, that would be seven hundred ninety nine, seven
hundred twenty six dollars and seventy one Since in today's eight hundred thousand bucks.
Right, that's a lot of money eight hundred eight hundred you think you could
get by maybe maybe you guys go to all Garden twice a week. Whoo,
that's what I'm saying. Man, So she so, And he was
talking about these programs being broken, and he was citing a story that had
outraged a lot of people, including people who probably very much thought that they
needed this wide variety of social safety net programs. He was talking about accountability
of it, but he was also talking about this story that had shocked people.
She figured out how to manipulate the system, and some of it was
through fraud, I might add, but she was able to get eight hundred
thousand dollars a month. Was crazy. And that was it. That was
the extent to what she spoke. Do you know who actually used the term
welfare queen? Writers at the Chicago Tribune. That's how they headline this story
about Linda Taylor when the story broke, welfare queen because she's living like a
queen and she's on welfare. And so by Reagan talking about it, Chicago
Tribune including in further coverage. So you now have because you have the initial
stories. But now you have the story where Reagan's quoted as even the former
governor of California said something blah blah blah, and then they put it in
their subheadline. It gets attributed even though it's not in quotes in the article.
So this committee who who is trying to determine historically whether people who were
never slaves surrounded by people who never own slaves have some sort of historical right
to these big old pots of money and apparently a list of apologies, and
they can't even be bothered to do their research. Whole thing's bonkers, man,
But it's California, and so that's you know, it doesn't even shock
the senses when you read that it's going on. Oh, which is just
crazy. All right. So yesterday Elon must mentioned that there's going to be
a new CEO, and really all that we knew was that it's a woman
or identifies as a woman based on pronoun usage. All right, He said
that she would be starting here in six weeks, but they didn't say who
it was. However, it doesn't sound like it's a very well kept secret,
if if some of the reporting this morning is to be believed, because
they think they found out who it is, and UM, let's just say
there's uh, there's tape on all this, and um, if she is
in fact going to be the new CEO of of Twitter, I think a
lot of people are going to have some questions about this particular decision. The
woman's name is Linda Jacarino, and um, she's worked in a variety of
you know, corporate entities, work for Comcast, a bunch of others.
In fact, let me do let me do this because I want to give
you her bio, but I want to play some audio from her as well.
And again, this has not been confirmed by Elon, but I'm seeing
it with enough people reporting it that I think it's it's probably this is probably
who it is. So I will get into who this woman is and what
people are saying, and we'll play a little snippet of sound from her.
No, not her World Economic Forum speech. Yeah, yeah, yep,
she's she lots of pictures of her speaking over there. But instead we'll go
back to the summer of the summer of mostly peaceful protests and how her her
as a it's a big wig. I think a Comcast at the time decided
that they were going to respond, So all that more coming up six forty
three, Hang on ten years of news twice an hour and smart talk all
day, four five WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk
in the Triangle. All right, here we go everything you wanted to know
about the woman who's purported to be the new CEO of Twitter here in the
next few weeks. Because I see people online and I feel like they've done
half their research but not the other half. So I want to try to
be fair here because I think this is important. Now. Admittedly, one
of my favorite things really on the whole Twitter front is mostly watching people whine
about stuff like, oh, they put a blue chuck bark on me,
So that's where I get my entertainment. But I also understand that there are
a lot of folks sitting there and looking at Twitter as kind of the last
bastion of social media where you might just get an edge of allowability to uh,
you know, proper ideas that maybe aren't mainstream without getting your hand slapped,
although you know that stuff still happens. So when Wall Street Journal,
in New York Times and several others started saying this is most likely the new
CEO. Obviously people started to look into her and during her time she's been
she's been with NBC Universal Comcast for like twenty years. I think she was
a turner prior to that, so really just a couple of gigs. She's
she's head of advertising for him. She is, she's the the top dog
in NBC Universal when it comes to global advertising, so very very upper upper
echelon and UM. As a result, she also at a time when everything
was going on with UM, all of these corporations wanting to get on board
with BLM and everything, she was the one who on a on a team's
meeting or a zoom meeting, there's video of talking about how they're dealing with
it. Because she has board position, she is part of the World Economics
Forum's task force. I think she's chairwoman of the task Force on Future of
Work and sits on the board for Media, Entertainment and Culture. So anytime
people hear World Economic Forum, they rightfully raise an eyebrow. However, what
you may not know about her, well, actually, let me play the
audio here. She is talking about just a little bit of one of the
initiatives that the Comcast side of things within NBC Universal is deciding to undertake can
talk about, you know, things that my company is doing to accelerate,
right, to accelerate what we were doing already, but realizing that it wasn't
enough. So what immediately started happening was that, under the leadership of Brian
Roberts and Jeff Scholl, Comcast set up a fund to the value of a
hundred million dollars to fight social justice inequality. All right, so you know,
and that's what you saw all of these big sea level sweet muckety muck's
doing at that time, right, and so people see this, they see
the World Economic Forum stuff, and they're on Twitter and they're freaking out.
Well, it was fun while it lasted, is essentially the verbiage there.
But maybe did I don't know if you knew this. Do you know who
Linda Yacarino is friends with Donald Trump? Let that set in again. Now
to what extent they're friends, I don't know, but enough that when Trump
was elected president, he tapped her to sit he appointed her to what specifically
was it. She was one of his political appointees I think was the sports
Yeah, sports fitness and nutrition. Yeah, you know, and that's that's
one of those you know, hey, thanks for being a friend, or
bundling or you know, thank you kind of things. Right where there's prestige
attached to it. You get to your opinion rises to the top when recommendations
are being made. But you know that's not something you generally just dole out
to know somebody don't know. And advertising is going to be Twitter's challenge,
especially advertising in an environment where you have the rest of the media coming after
you, and you're going to be fundamentally reinventing some of what Twitter does if
things like Tucker Carlson moving to show there and others emerges, because you're gonna
have you're gonna have to monetize all of that advertising and media is always your
challenge, right we work in media. Obviously, you know half half the
battle is us putting on a show and getting you all to listen to it,
and we appreciate that. But on the other side, even if everyone
in the entire state of North Carolina listened to the show, if the company
is not able to sell ads and monetize it, that from a business perspective,
it doesn't have value other than obviously all of the great information and laughs,
we provide who did you see everybody she follows on Twitter? I did
not see that list. You want me to share? Yeah, go,
go go. She follows cat turd okay, but also Rhonda Santis, Babylon
b Libs of TikTok, Sydney Powell. And again, I don't know everybody's
speculating right now, but I saw a lot of people that were talking about
the World Economic Forum stuff and yeah, I hear you and that where she's
talking about these equity initiatives. But also I bet there were a lot of
CEOs that during that summer of twenty twenty, when the companies were making these
ransom payments, um that you know, just realized that the best business decision
was to bear and grinned. Now, that may not be acceptable for some
people saying, no, you gotta take a stand. You gotta gotta be
willing to push back on that garbage right where you're getting where even after we
find out that the the BLM people are buying all these houses. Uh,
these companies that were on that had pledged all this money, they just they
just did it. They just kept giving the money. So I'm just saying
I don't know, but I feel like you should have you should know all
of that. Yeah, she served as on President Trump's counsel of Sports,
So I don't know, but I do know that somebody with an advertising background
is going to be immensely valuable to Elon. And you know what, maybe
she's all in on the equity inclusion and you know where it becomes to the
point like that Silicon Valley person who was supposed to be in charge of making
sure that the bank was, you know, not putting all its apples in
one basket. That individual, that vice president has spent most of her time
just organizing equity stuff and Pride Month celebrations and whatnot. So I don't know
where her head's at, but I do know that it's a more complex background
than some of what I'm seeing there. So hey, I don't know.
We'll see again. It's not even been confirmed, but feasibly it would make
sense considering what she's been at for twenty some years for NBC and Turner before
that, and where Twitter needs to focus its energies to spend forty four billion
dollars. You want to make sure that you're on the path to solvency,
all right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seventy four. That's
the phone number you want to weigh in on this? Uh, go right
ahead. Who did you think it was gonna be? Michelle Malkin? I
mean it makes sense. Actually, all right, news coming up a loose
case O Day radio program. All right, good morning everybody, and we're
welcome, and he is seven h seven here on the k c O Day
Radio program, our number two. There was one other thing I wanted to
add on our little like get to know your thing with the woman who is
it's not confirmed, but it's basically being reported. It's not very well kept
secret, the woman who's likely been tapped to be CEO of Twitter. See
people are already debating this on Twitter, which is good. And there's a
couple of things that make people nervous who liked the new direction of Twitter.
One is her involvement with the World Economic Forum, chairman of one of the
committees, SIT's on another and she's coming from NBC. And also there's a
you know, a hostage video of her talking about equity initiatives. At the
time, all of that was going on and companies were just writing blank checks
to BLM, who was then buying a bunch of houses with it, and
in many cases not taking that money and even turning it back to the communities
which it fundraised. Out of right. There's many, many, many of
the families of some of the cases that were highlighted by Black Lives Matter that
said them, all that money rolled in and they never saw any of it
within their local community. Craziness. Man, So people look at that.
But what I don't see a lot of discussion around is Jakarina was an appointee
of Trump. Down. That's not to say Trump hasn't brought in folks and
put confidence in folks who turned out to be snakes. Many many, many
examples of that, but it is a politically appointed position. Also, Jaquarino,
following must acquisition, this is prior to her I guess reportedly being tapped
to be CEO, was actually defending Twitter basically where when companies were who just
decided to recoil because activists were getting to them and you know, pause some
of their partnerships. She actually posted a statement in support of Twitter saying,
quote, let's see you. I'm not going to read all of this.
We heard very clearly this week the Twitter is committed to freedom of speech,
not freedom of reach, accountability and ultimate transparency. These are things we should
all be able to get behind as creators of culture and conversation on Twitter.
All of us in the media and marketing industry have a responsibility to do our
part. The doors open to give feedback and prove if you have concerns this
platform, which is beloved by hundreds of millions of people around the world.
So let's all jump in and keep proposing solutions and make sure that Twitter two
point zero can take flight pun intended. All right, So I mean that's
that sounds like she's defending Twitter. So I don't know, but I wanted
you to be armed with all of the info as people lose their flipping minds
on the social media's this morning. But you know, it's easy to not
have confidence as you're sitting there and you're looking at the modern offerings of entertainment
out there. Case in point, how many of you were into Transformers when
you were a kid? I know, I was, Kyle. Were you
on the Transformer bandwagon back in the day? Heck yeah, how cool was
that? And then obviously the you know, Transformers revitalized with the movies all
seventeen of them or whatever there is. Though it's ridiculous, but they were
big movies. People enjoyed many of them, I guess, And I think
they have another one coming up too. I think the summer right like,
they're releasing another Transformers. However, they also have a Transformer cartoon which I
did not know, called Transformers Earth Spark, which I guess that goes along
when you got a hot intellectual property and you wanting to promote your movies.
I mean, back in the day, this is how it was done.
Transformers learned when they were cutting teeth back in the day that you gotta have
the kids cartoon. Then he can have the movies, that he can have
the toys, that he can have all the you know, all the merch.
But rather rather than being a cartoon, I guess that you know,
just your standard practice kid's cartoon about Transformers and autobots and Decepticons and you know,
all of the all of the you know, the within that genre.
There. Uh No, they've decided that it's not some world ending thing where
optimist Prime has to save the day. Instead, they want to they want
to have a different conversation with your kids. So if you just put on
transformers because it looked like a cartoon and you're familiar with the product. I
just want you to understand what's going on on the cartoon. Can you switch
life stage announced I gave them he or she just doesn't fitch, who I
am my apologies? Please switch their piece. Yes, that's right, they're
in there. They're stopping the saving of the world or the universe or whatever
currently was imperiled. To make sure that they all understand nightshades umu pronouns.
It's a damn car. Can it just be like regular unleaded No, it's
they them, it's multiple cars. Stop being a bigot. Thanks, I'm
Sam, I'm she babe. You already know that. See you thought it
was just a car. It's not just a car. Just make it stop.
Sometimes it's a truck. That was my only line of thinking. If
they're going with they them, is it just a marketing ploy so they can
introduce something that doesn't just go from a murder bot to a Camaro, but
rather go from a Camaro to a murder bot to a four D F one
fifty. Because admittedly, what if you found out that the transformer you had
back in the day couldn't just transform to one vehicle, but two. That
would be the one you'd want, right, That's the one I would have
wanted as a kid. You don't even have to wrap it up in all
the pronouns stuff. You're telling me that I can and it'll break in five
seconds because mine did. But you're telling me I can go from you know,
robot superhero to two different kinds of vehicles. I'm in hook me up.
Hey, Okay, I don't know what I'm safe when I'm with my
friends or other non binary people, non binary people who are female or male.
Oh I'm sorry. Yeah, I shouldn't have assumed. I always knew
my pronouns felt right. But what a wonderful word or a wonderful experience.
You know the best part about robots talking about binary or being non binary?
Kyle, what do we call the code that's utilized to run robotics and electronics
and computers and stuff. Well, that that is binary. It's binary code
ones and zero. You can't you can't be an autobot it be non binary.
It doesn't Okay, now I know they're saying, Wow, Actually what
it is is it's the all spark by just don't just don't do it.
Oh, I know you want to pick up the but don't do it.
So now we got to have Transformers with with pronoun discussions for the kids,
you know, for the kids. Meanwhile, the asteroids getting closer to Earth,
and nobody's doing a damn thing because they're sitting around trying to figure out
who's you know, which pronou button they're gonna wear on a kid's cartoon.
So I, man, I do not envy you. Parents. Used to
be you could just kind of dip your toe in the water on a particular
series or something and be like, all right, that's fine. Kid wants
to watch that, that's fine. Yeah. We had a deal. If
there was a show that we wanted to watch, my mom wanted to know
what it was, and she'd watch an episode and she'd be like a yeah,
you're nay, and then, you know, passively, if we were
running around being jackasses quoting something and she didn't like it, she may dip
her toe back in to see what's going on. But for the most part
she was able to do that. You turn on Transformer cartoon, most people
are just gonna be like, Noah, it's you know, it's just transformers.
Well sometimes it ain't. Seven to sixteen Hang on one oh six one
FM Talk and nine four five w PTI, two stations driving the best in
talk. This is casey Oda and Carolina's Morning News all right, seven twenty
two casey Oda Radio program Bone number eight eight eight ninety three four seven eight
seven four. And that's not the only thing lurking in the kids um kids
programming. Um. Oh you know what I didn't pull up, Kyle.
Did you ever hear the song where they're talking about um equity and one of
the characters is Ross and it's the two Australian chicks singing it. No,
he thought it was the greatest piece of audio ever. Oh man, now
I gotta find I don't even know what that would be called in the system.
It's from like two months ago, but I'll find. I will attempt
to find it. But let me let me go on the path I was
going. So, yes, there you go in the Transformers. It's a
whole there's a whole segment of one of the shows where they're talking about being
binary and stuff. And then somebody corrected me. Apparently apparently there were a
couple transformers, one a decepticon named Astro could be both a spaceship and a
train, and an autobody could be a car and a helicopter. So so
there you go. We didn't even know it back in the day when we
were kids. Man, we had no Optimix Prime. We'll have to add
an X to that Optimix prime. See see how much better all the cartoons
are getting for your kids, and it's everywhere. They just had. Netflix
has that show with the Ridley Jones or whatever for preschoolers. And one of
the characters who's a bison, just came out as non binary or he doesn't
feel right to me. Sorry, let me tell you what bison are.
Bison are delicious, but they're not running around having he gets you know the
pronouns right. They're delicious and they're fun to watch. Tourists get too close
to other than that, don't care what's this other? See Kyle, you're
how old is your youngest? You're out of this hell? Oh and I
feel so lucky about this. My youngest just turned fourteen yesterday. Actually,
all right, so you're you're out of this hell? Done with it because
some of this stuff I don't know. I don't know how I wouldn't lose
my damn mind listening. What is this from Disney Junior. It's a song
for the kids about micro impressions. Come on, hey, Gabriel, I
didn't know that was your mom. Your skin is so much darker than hers.
Hold it. Did that comment make you feel unomfortable? That's a micro
aggression? What's a microaggression? A microaggression is when someone says it does something
that makes you feel bad, sometimes just because of your race. But you
know what, he's wrong. It should be proud of your skin. It's
what makes you you, I know, just how you feel lovely sad?
And he said that aful thing and you don't know what to do. That's
not okay to say it. That's a beautiful skin to then you're fussing a
problem with it. I can't, I can't. It's Friday. I'm not
gonna do this to myself and everyone else did she? Was she derogatory towards
the girl's skin color? By the way, in that clip, it was
just a little you know, a little kid talking to another little kid,
right, making an observation about, you know something that there's little graces probably
doesn't do what adult brain does. And go okay, or most of the
time just ignore the situation. But if we start to process it, one
of two things arises in our mind that if I've never met her father,
perhaps her father is black, right, because right, momskin was lighter than
her skin, right. Or there's the possibility that it's a step parents situation
or adopted. But mostly just don't care. But little kids care and ask
about stuff. They're not microaggressing you. They see something which doesn't compute with
their little kid brain because you know, they don't have the totality of experience
there. And yeah, I just believe I had a kid, I'd just
be like, no, you're outside all day with a stick and some mud.
Just have fun. Choose your own adventure. Here's mister Rogers on VHS
something Man Something that's craziness all right eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
seven four. The world is going on? Uh, coming up on the
show Pete Calendar. He'll be joining us at eight o five. Don't want
to miss that. We got all sorts of fun stuff to get into.
Also check this out. This guy California ends up in the in the stack
this much, but it did just to just give you more of a highlight
of how well things are going in in California. This guy works at Vaughns.
Vaughns is like the big grocery store chain there. Okay, it's gonna
be your standard, middle of the road grocery store. When I when I
was down there for school, we had a Vaughns right near me and that's
where I did him, a shopping standard grocery store. But it's in California,
so also it deals with a lot of theft. People coming in loading
up carts, just walking the hell out of there, people shoplifting other stuff
they had. You know, things are all up in cases. You know,
it's it's the dream. Well, this guy worked, worked, being
the operative word at one of those Vaughans. Wait till you hear his story.
He's fired now. Just doomed man, Just a doomed, doomed place.
And it's so beautiful too. It's such a tragedy. More on that
in a moment your day Smarter and celebrating ten years and keeping you better informed.
One oh six one FM Talk and News Talk n w PTI more with
Casey starts now all right, seven thirty six, Good morning, everybody,
Happy Friday, coming up in a half hour peek calendar, radio buddy who
Friday, chitchat thing and mobob we do that'll be happen in eight oh five.
We got lots to get into a few other things, a few other
things on here. We got to uh, we got to talk about first.
First, NYPD is literally being investigated by the They have like a watchdog
oversight thing up there. Why are they investigating the NYPD because the NYPD didn't
immediately arrest Daniel Penny and charge him. That's right, a spokeswoman for the
Civilian Complaint Review Board. Daniel Penny, by the way, is the marine
on the subway who restrained You know, the guy was just trying to be
a Michael Jackson impersonator and wasn't violently threatening people and has a giant history that
while Penny may not have known about, if you watched the whole video,
guy wasn't just moonwalking. So but a spokeswoman for the Civilian Complaint Board confirmed
Thursday that a complaint has been filed with the agency in a formal probe is
underway to see if there was any wrong doing in the decision to not charge
Penny after he was questioned by police following the death of Jordan Neely and then
obviously, you know, all the protesters came out. It's the it's the
current Michael Brown caused a jour and Alvin Bragg, of course, he had
to jump on the bandwagon. So now he's charged. Is so he's turned
himself intoday and is expected to be charged with second agree manslaughter and h I
don't know. I'd like to be surprised because it's New York and maybe New
Yorkers have had enough of this crow, but I'm not real hopeful for the
dude the second degree. They may be able to get it to a point
where he doesn't go to jail, which of course that in and of itself.
I'm sure we'll start some sort of protest that'll be mostly peaceful, but
Bragg. Not only is Bragg going to go forward with this because of course
he is, that's who he is, but also they're gonna go after the
NYPD because this is what the activists wants, so they will continue to erode
once again the ability of law enforcement to do their job. And my question
is, well, you're going to charge him, are you going to You're
gonna You're gonna charge the other people in that video who are participating and holding
the guy down because one of those is he's a black dude. I'm just
curious. I just I want to know what the activists want, because this
won't be enough. They want him charged with, you know, needle in
the arm murder or something. The maximum penalty for that charge would be up
to like fifteen years, so it's not like it's just a hand slap he's
charged with. Ironically, of course, that's this is where you're going to
expend your energy, and you probably wouldn't have crazy people costing folks on the
subway if you were actually committed to I don't know, locking criminals up.
I think the part where he tried to snatch a seven year old previously probably
should have landed him a little jail time. I'm pretty sure if I rolled
into a Harris Teeter and try to, you know, steal your seven year
old, that's probably something I should go to jail four. Right, We
used to call that kidnapping back in the day, So I don't know,
but yep, no, they're gonna move forward with that, and uh it's
New York and uh, dude's probably screwed. But I would love to be
surprised on this here, and you know what, I'd love to hear more
information and evidence too. It would excuse me. UM, I told you
I got a buddy who um worked worked well military, but then he worked
in the federal prison system and he was talking about how the you know,
the specifics around a chokehold and all that stuff. He didn't even learn that
in the military. He did learn it, um when he when he started
working for the federal prison system, and he immediately looked at that one.
Nope, that's not the right way to do that. But you have does
does this marine know that? I don't know. So these are the kinds
of things that they'll probably get into. But ultimately you could yeah, you
could see this coming, all right. Eight eight eight nine seven eight seven
four. Check this out. This guy is a Vaughn's worker in California,
all right. His name is Austin Cheryl. He's twenty three. He's worked
for Vaughns for three years. He um, and he also has m Is
it a cognitive impairment? I can't. I don't know exactly what it is.
I don't know if it's an autism spectrum or or what but but for
all practical purposes, he goes to work, does his job, and since
the new year, right, we're just going to start since the new year,
so five five months and twelve days in, well, four months and
twelve days in. This is what has happened to mister Cheryl. Back on
January nineteenth. He's taking track, goes into the alley behind the store.
Outside there's two people that are attempting to steal pallets and pallets with stuff on
him. I guess there's been a delivery. He tells him not to,
So what do they do? One of them punches him in the face,
the other one pepper sprays him, and then they give him a few kicks
before he's able to scramble back inside and shut the door. Well, he
tells his manager, they called the police. There you go, all right.
That's that's number one. Number two happened March seventeenth. Again, he's
taking trash out, goes out to the dumpster. There is literally a dude
in the alley waiting for him, or waiting for anybody I suppose, who
pulls out a knife and stabs him. Except and this was lucky he stabbed
him. But mister Shery had a rolled up like a roll of trash bags,
right, and he had it in his pocket of his apron, and
that's what the knife went into. How lucky is that because if not I
had gone right in his gut, and who knows what would have happened.
So I ended up stabbing the trash bags. So that's incident number two.
All the while, he's telling his manager and he's telling him like he's got
like PTSD from this. He almost died, he can't sleep, he's terrified,
and they're just like, God, yeah, you're fine, You're fine.
So just two weeks later, he's back at work and there is a
man who is going bonkers in the store. He's inebriated or he's dealing with
mental health issues they don't know at the time, and he was harassing female
shoppers. He's run around screaming at him. Cheryl is kind of a big
dude. Happened to be in one of the aisles where this guy came into
and was screaming at a woman, and he went over to see what was
wrong, and he said, at that point, you could see it on
the video. The guy gets right in his face. He's cussing him out.
He's threatening to kill him, and Cheryl's just standing there and he backs.
Cheryl backs away. The guy follows, gets in his face again,
screaming at him, spitting in his face. Cheryl backs away again. The
third time he gets up to him, he makes physical contact with Cheryl,
and Cheryl instinctively pushes him off. Eventually, the guy retreated. Police came.
They apprehend him in the parking lot. Sure enough, inebriated. All
right, So what do you think happened after that? Well, Cheryl said
he actually filed acclaim for workman's comp following all three of the assaults and almost
being stabbed to death because he was having nightmares and panic at tax and nobody
at the store seemed to care. So he takes the time off the worker's
top time off, goes and avails himself of some mental health services. Returns
to work nine days later and finds out he's suspended pending an investigation, and
then another nine days after that they terminate him because, quote, he touched
a customer. That's the California you get, that's the experience you get.
And Van should be ashamed of themselves. Man, this is exactly the guy
you want is a guy who wanted to work for you. He enjoyed his
job, he almost got stabbed at death taking the trash out, and you
fire him. Good job, everybody. Seven forty five Race Stagic from the
weather channels. You're ray, we got a problem. Yeah, we got
a problem. So the FBI of Italy, whatever that organization is, is
investigating because while the price of wheat hasn't gone up, pasta is. Uh,
they're having a ration pasta. They're running out of pasta and pasta the
cost of it's up like almost twenty percent. What the hell? How would
you like to be that poor bastard to throw all that pasta out along the
creek the other day. Yeah, we're gonna get a lust to shortage.
I'm thinking World War three is nigh. So have you had a week in
your career? We've had two pasta stories in the same week. But that's
strange, I'm sure because Ross likes to talk about olive garden all the time.
So I got you, I got you. Well, they should be
making it from scratch anyway, so maybe there's a shortage. Ah here,
we did I tell you? Or did I tell you? I was saying
that's what Italians are gonna say. But they all buy the premade anyway.
If you ever go to Italy, there's so much premade pasta for sales,
not even funny. Yeah, it's I think I posted on Twitter about it.
I'm like, I just thought Grandma made at all and it's just it's
like two frigging aisles in this one story. Yeah it's two. H it's
once a week. You know, we pasta like maybe twice a year.
We actually make it. So it's great when you make it, don't get
me wrong, Man, it is. Oh, it's it's a different experience,
especially nice nice stick noodles. I like them that one. There's Italian,
the Italian restaurant that I really like. Um, they make their own
pasta, but only three of the pastas they make, so you got to
know which ones you're ordering. But man, what a difference. If it's
fresh pasta. I love it all right anyway, Well so they're gonna write
in Italy or something, Okay, but meanwhile we're here. All's good.
Huh, Yeah, all's good. This afternoon. I still, like I
was thinking the last couple of days, think there'll be some pop up shower
thunder showers, probably from the triad at west end of the mountains, a
guidance suggesting that, you know, as they try to come east, it'll
be after peak heating, and they'll diminish a bit as you get toward the
triangle. So there'll be a difference if you're going west to east with that
chance of showers. Better west today, warm and humid. Otherwise load amid
eighties tonight the low sixties, and we'll have everybody get under the gun tomorrow
in the afternoon especially, got kind of like this week, low trying to
come over the top of us, and in the afternoon some widely scattered showers
thunderstorms. Now it does rain for hours and hours, you know what the
drill. It rains, you get mad, and then it stops and the
sun may come out and it dries out and you're like, oh, okay,
it's not going to rain all day. So that's kind of what we're
doing Saturday and even on Sunday. But there's less of a chance for Mother's
Day Sunday, which is good news. It's still near eighty and I think
early next week it's going to a pretty nice week. The first three days
at least look pretty pleasant with some comfortable temperatures. Might not get out of
the low seventies on Monday, maybe a few showers. Then Tuesday, Wednesday
look pretty good. Let mom know you love her, take her out for
ghost on Sunday and a giant could. Probably I could. I'll have to
take the mother in law. But oh, I'm not going to make the
Yeah, I'm not making the eleven hundred mile trip. So all right,
Well, you do what you gotta do. And if you said I will
talk to you, then we'll talk to you one more time today. So
sounds good man, all right, we'll come back. Hang on celebrating ten
years of keeping you connected. This is ninety four five WPTI in the Triad
and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle. Interesting ruling up in
Virginia on Wednesday might be flying under the radar for a lot of folks.
A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that federal laws requiring individuals to be at least
twenty one years of age to purchase handguns are unconstitutional because the statutes and regulations
in question are not consistent with our nation's history and tradition. They therefore cannot
stand, wrote US Distory Judge Robert Payne. He's a H. W.
Bush appointee. Payne's ruling came in a lawsuit filed by John Frasier against the
Bureau of ATF. Essentially, Fraser is rejected when he attempted to purchase a
handgun last May because he was twenty and not twenty one. Basically made the
argument that if you're protecting a firearm, a firearms, a firearm, and
if an eighteen year old who's an adult can which is already even of itself
an age restriction, this is where I wonder if this is gonna get a
little slippery. And I don't know, I don't know, but it's,
you know, it's it's the kind of it's it's one of those kinds of
cases that could find itself a test case moving up. And it's not the
only ruling that maybe a test case. This is why w RL is so
clinchy on this. So I'm gonna I was gonna get into this with Pete
just a little too uh. This more versus Harper, which is basically a
jerrymandering lawsuit. Right, even though the State Supreme Court in North Carolina has
revisit did decision and on another case, this one continues to be on a
pathway to the US Supreme Court, and basically everybody but but more wants to
wants to pull it off the docket. And I'll tell you why. Let
me explain to you why activists don't want this thing going to the Supreme Court.
They don't want the Supreme Court ruling in a way where they can't file
gobs of lawsuits. Right. They don't need a definitive ruling on jerrymandering,
basically saying that and more specifically about legislative power, because that's a worst case
scenario for them, And the way that they write this article too, it's
just garbage man. Without getting into too many of the technicalities, the case
began it as an appeal of a jerrymandering lawsuit in North Carolina. They appealed
arguing state courts shouldn't be allowed to rule the legislature's actions on constitutional it's a
separation of powers issue. And then this line right here quote the argument based
on an obscure political theory called the independence day legislature doctrine. That is not
an obscure theory. You may disagree with it. But that's not some fringe
theory. That's the position of quite a few lawmakers, specifically GOP lawmakers.
Is it self serving? You bet it is. Ironically, it's a theory
that's been argued from the other side based on the makeup of certain legislatures.
But it would require the US Supreme Court to quote undue generations of legal precedents
surrounding the idea of checks and balances, not necessarily it. Actually, this
is answering a gray area, and the problem is is you're an activist group.
The gray areas where you thrive. If you're looking to manipulate things right
around voting time. This is a gray area where you thrive. So if
you get a definitive answer on this and it prevails in favor of GOP lawmakers
in North Carolina, then filing all of these lawsuits all across the nation becomes
much more difficult because there's recent precedent from the US Supreme Court on this.
And I'm dumbing it down quite a bit, but that's the gist here in
my opinion. Maybe I'm totally wrong. Maybe some lawyer wants to call and
correct me, and that's fine, but that's where I'm at on that real
quick, Jamal. I just got about a minute, go ahead. I
didn't even have that. I got thirty seconds. Hey, kay see,
I just wanted to say this, this wall for them to convict, to
try to charge mist opinion. But this have been going on for years.
They have been trying to condition people and a lot of black folks. We
don't like this igner state in the community, our community display. But what
people trying to do is normalize. It's ignors like you the last past,
Jamal, Jamal, I, I just I'm sorry, man, I gotta
go to break. I got a hard break. Okay, all right,
good morning everybody, and uh happy Friday eight seven now case O Day radio
program Mother's Day Weekend staring at you just out just one more day, just
one more day and you can go do all the Mother's Day stuff and to
talk about that and much sports are radio Buddy to the South Peak calendar from
mid days on WBT and via the iHeart Radio app, Like take your mom
to an abortion rally. Yeah there's options, right, I'm look, yeah,
it's what a way to celebrate Mother's Day, Mother's Day weekend, you
know, just it just take her to an abortion rally celebrate the quote reproductive
healthcare, which spoiler alert, abortion is not reproduction. I don't know who
needs to hear that, but apparently they do. You do it more than
once you're reproducing the abortion, you know the Oh that's a fair point.
I hadn't considered that. So yeah, so multiple abortions is reproductive healthcare.
I guess. Yeah. It's the way the left uses language like this that
you know, if you control the language, you control the debate. And
they're constantly trying these different words, different um you know, branding efforts,
euphemisms, right, they in order to mask what is what is occurring,
right, I think that's um, it occurs in I mean illegal immigration debate,
the same thing, right, You can't call them illegal aliens any longer
that it became undocumented now migrants and such and like, I like unauthorized immigrants.
I think that's a fair that's a fair description. It's you know,
putting commuication. You gotta go California's undocumented traveler, Oh my goodness, yeah,
right, because they're they're traveling CE So well, yeah, I guess
that's yeah. Well, and it like homeless, you can't say homeless right
now, if you know people who are experiencing houselessness or something like that.
It's right, yeah, the constant manipulation of the language, um, and
it's done in order to you know, put people on their you know,
uh, on their heels, so they are constantly worried about saying the wrong
thing or offending uh and thereby being on the quote, you know, wrong
side of the issue or history as it were. And uh. They Once
you can get people into that kind of position, then you know, you
control the course of the discussion and you can lead them where you would like
to lead them. And that's precisely what the left does, particularly on the
abortion topic, where you see these kinds of word games played all the time,
and of course, you know, their allies in the media amplify and
regurgitate the very uh, you know, presumed euphemisms as truth. Right.
They just they they they part the same lines that are fed to them by
the Democrats and it's it's it's super frustrating, but it's part for the course,
but that's sort of the nature of the game. Right now. What
what does Cooper hope to gain from this? I mean, I would understand
if there was some strategies. It just pure fundraise and pub he's I mean,
he's not changing anyone's minds. No, No, I think there's um.
I think there's probably some bit of a flex occurring, like, hey,
I'm not a lane duck. You know. Uh see, if we
can you know, mobilize the truths, maybe intimidate and bully some people,
because remember, it's not stochastic terrorism when the left does it, it's totally
different. So when you whip up a mob angry about something and you catastrophize
everything, you know, this is actually a ban of all abortions, when
it's actually not, and it's actually a very moderate position. It's a compromised
position that the Republicans have offered up and passed, and none of that matters.
And I think it is fundraising, you know. I think that's the
primary benefit, is that they can fundraise off of it. But I think
they also believe that this is the issue that prevented them from getting completely wiped
out in the mid terms nationally. And I think and it falls under this
larger heading of healthcare, which I think is why they keep saying abortion healthcare
or reproductive healthcare. They keep throwing the word healthcare in there, and I
think it's because they believe that that is a winning issue for them, going
back to you know, Medicaid expansion, which is now going to be off
the table for them. So they have to try to connect healthcare to their
electoral prospects and this is I think a way that they do it. Plus
it's a way that they can try to drive a wedge between female voters in
Republican U elected officials and candidates. I think that's one of the one of
the benefits they see. Well, I do love the word game man,
like, you know, gender affirming healthcare is one of the other ways they
like to twist that or Michael Jackson themed hungry busker right right, So,
um, is anyone surprised that that brag charged that dude facing up to fifteen
years he's expected to turn himself in today? This uh, this marine this
penny. Yeah, And I'd like to be surprised and have the jury,
which is made up of New Yorkers who obviously are mostly Democrats. However,
all so we're people who probably have been spat on on the subway. I'd
love them to maybe just nullify this. Am I dreaming or for what do
you think. I think you're dreaming, But man, it would be a
really that would be a really cool dream, right to have the jury just
be like, no, we've been on the subway. We know exactly what
happened, and now he didn't do anything wrong here now and I don't know.
I don't know what the letter of the law is going to be and
what they're going to prosecute. I don't don't know all the details. And
I never predict jury outcomes because I'm terrible at it, So who knows what
they will do. But yeah, I mean the cards are going to be
stacked against him, it being a you know, a New York jury,
and if Bragg tries to make this a racialized kind of crime, the uh
no, no, I mean it is possible. It's possible. I mean
I do know. Did he charge any of the other people that helped?
But you know, it's weird, it's weird. I earlier I was wondering
the same thing allowed because remember correctly on the video, Yeah, it wasn't
a bunch of white dudes, uh it was. It was it was this
racial melting pot that we so often hear about that really was down there on
the ground helping to restrain this guy. Yeah, like a united colors of
Benetton. Uh kind of real you know imagery there, really you know,
unified in their attempt to you know, keep somebody who was saying that he
didn't care if he went to jail, He didn't care if he went to
jail for life. He was yelling and screaming at people and accosting them on
the subway. And that's the thing, like you said, like, if
you're if you are in a big city and you take mass transit, this
is a regular recurrence for you. And I heard, um there was a
woman who was like, look, I got an assaulted on the on the
train. Some crazy person you know, elbowed me in the face and stuff.
And that's just sort of the price you pay for for living in Brooklyn.
And yeah, and I'm just kind of thinking, so that's that's the
tradeoff, Like that's yeah, yeah, right, Is that going to go
on the posters? Is that go on the brochure? You know, come
live in Brooklyn and you know, you get the vibrant street life and simply
for the price of you know, being assaulted on a regular basis. And
I don't know, if that's the cell that the lefties think it is,
I'm not sure. A lot of people. I know a lot of people
are not interested in it. There was a story what Today about the assistant
prosecutor fleeing Chicago. She's like, I'm not raising my kids in this city.
So I think people are starting to kind of wake up to this,
this bargain that they have been offered, and I don't think they are interested
so much in it anymore. Well, so, okay, so you have
to have urine thrown on you once a year, maybe by a homeless person,
but you do have access to like artists and picklers, right, So
I know that's that's the tradeoff. It's riots or the the insanity there.
I don't know. I would like to think that a factors in to people's
thought process, but as we've seen up in New York with the Trump Ejean
Carroll stuff, and I don't know what the answer is to this pete because
if if people could sit there and just go which you already kind of can,
you can claim that you can't get a fair trial somewhere, and they've
moved trials previously, but to the extent that if you're a Republican charged in
Washington, DC, or you're seeing on the conservative side of an issue charged
in New York, you don't stand a chance. But I also don't know
that you want to make it super easy to move stuff, because any criminal
defendant would then ask to go see one of those woke sorrows das. Do
you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, So how do you deal
with that? Well, maybe we could come up with I don't know,
like some sort of like a neutral standard. I'm just spitballing here, but
maybe like we could write them down and everybody could see them in a list,
and we'd like codify it, and then everybody wouldn't would they see them?
Though? What if they can? I don't know, what if they're
blindfolded or something. That's a good point. Yeah, yeah, I just
I feel like if we had a set of neutral rules that everybody agreed to
follow, and then if you broke the neutral rules, then then you would
get whatever the punishment would be it's attached to that rule, and it wouldn't
matter any of those things, like your politics wouldn't matter, your race wouldn't
matter, and gender like all of that stuff. We would all just kind
of be equal under these codes. I think that would be a way to
equity. Mean, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a great
way to Yeah, if we frame it as equity, maybe we get buy
it. Oh wow, yeah yeah, I think yeah. Together and spend
several months jotting this down. Yeah yeah, it seems like, um,
it seems like this could be like civilizationally relevant. Like we I think we
may have I think we may have just solved like the world's problems with that
if we all just have a set of rules and we all follow the neutral
rules, can in a couple hundred years down the road, can we be
demonized while largely ignored for accomplishing this and then demonized for everything else having to
do with society at large? Yeah? Yeah, that probably is our fate,
no doubt. Good. Do you ever have those weeks on radio Pete
where you just like constantly You're like, am I awake? Is this going
on? I mean, I've got we've got headlines with everything, all the
stories down in Texas right with Carlo. I'm calling him Carlos bigs beat because
I don't like using dirtbags minds. Thank you? Where you have this this
guy with the freshest of fresh tattoos. Who's on this Russian thing? And
don't worry. This media outlet, which is basically a funnel for government stuff,
including the CIA actions in the past, is pulling together all of this
information to rate this picture of a Hispanic whose parents don't even speak English,
white supremacist who went and shot up a place but didn't kill a single black
or Jewish person, And like the whole time, I'm just I have I
have scars all over my skin from pinching myself. What the hell is going
on? Well, I think we have identified the second I think this is
the second white Hispanic. The second white is the other one being George Zimmerman,
remember from the ray Von Mark right, yes, yeah, yeah,
so this may be the second white Hispanic, which I mean the right,
that would make sense. It is. It is kind of comical, and
I do wonder at the same thought, like, okay, so the guy,
the guy's name comes out and it's and I don't say the names either,
and he has a Hispanic sounding name. I'm sorry if that triggers some
people, but it is a Hispanic name, and I say, oh,
okay, well this is interesting. And of course everybody rushes to write there
narrative in the immediate aftermath of these tragedies, because you know, their narratives
have to be the ones that take hold and then harden and calcifying, become
quote the truth, like hands up, don't shoot, and then everybody will
just you know, sort of run with that forever, even if it's a
legend, right, you print the legend, so the the initial aftermath you
can see the narrative being crafted. And then, like you said, like
this, this social media stuff starts coming out and it's like, okay,
I've never heard of. This platform in and of itself doesn't mean anything.
There's lots of stuff I've never heard of. But then I see it's dot
RU and I'm like, really, this is a Russian thing, and it's
always the Russians, right, I'm like, oh, man, I mean,
which is kind of cool. Well, it's kind of cool because like
remember when we were growing up, the Russians are always the bad guys,
the Soviets, right, they were always the new guys. And then yeah,
and then and then the wall comes down and it's like okay, where
some of you guys are okay and all this and then we needed, you
know, somebody else to be the bad guys in all the movies and stuff,
and we realize like, oh, we can't make anybody else the bad
guys biggause then we're accused of racism or ethnicism or something, and so you
can't do it, like you can't make like, uh, you know,
Muslim terrorists. But it was a little while. I mean there was a
moment, yeah, just a brief moment, but then that gun right right,
and then and then it was like, oh, backlash, We can't
have these people being the bad guys anymore. So it's like, oh,
then it became the breakaway Soviet Republic, right then those became like so they're
terrorists but they're still white, So like that was okay. So now with
the rise of the Russians again, um, we can have bad guys in
movies and not have to worry about the race card being played again. So
that's pretty neat. So I welcome that aspect of it. But yes,
I'm I'm I'm kind of perplexed at this guy's use of that social media and
the posting of this stuff and then the fact that there was like zero engagement
with any of his stuff, like nobody, not alike, not a comment,
nothing, It's just it's almost as if he was screaming into the abyss
or somebody constructed the profile. I'm not saying that that's what happened. I'm
just saying, well, TikTok post, I don't know if you know this.
So, I mean, that's all just one like by So the Jewish
woman that runs the account is a Nazi, I believe. I think that's
how that works, yepp. And then what was the uh he watched a
Timpool video or something? Oh? Man, that's too bad. I liked
him Pool. So I guess he's canceled. I guess we can everybody's canceled.
Man, can you I can't watch him? Can you imagine how?
And then real quickly just I'm sorry, I gotta do one story that's not
just the most depressing crap ever. Man, Uh, well, not for
us. Did you see Italy? Did you see what they're melting out in
Italy? And they have like their their version of the FBI investigating no pasta
shortage and the prices are up twenty percent, but the price of flower isn't
up, and so there's like a big pasta conspiracy and people are hoarding pasta.
It's the most Italian story ever. Well, no, it would have
to include something about like young men living with their mothers well into like their
forties. I think that's who do you think it's hoarding the pasta? Why
do you think MoMA have the pasta? Remember you saw the speaking of pasta.
You saw that that there's the resolution of the pasta dumper up in New
Jersey, right, you saw what happened. They figured I did not.
I I I completely I've been I completely ignored the pasta h story at a
Jersey doing man, I'm sorry, I was looking. I was I was
getting ready for the big the marathon down at the Texas border. I was
waiting for the starter pistol to go off, and we were doing all the
prep that went off. It went off. I don't know if you've seen,
they're moving, Holy crap. Um No, So the pasta dumper I
just got about a minute. The pasta dumper turned out of a sun dude.
His mom died. He went into her house and she had like five
hundred pounds of pasta. She was ordin pasta, and so he just thought,
yeah, it's food. So he dumped it out on the creekside and
then just the moisture around there and it rained. That's what cooked did,
so to speak. But now this poor dumb bastard was sitting on five hundred
pounds of pasta, and now over in Italy there's a pasta shortage and they
got their version of the FBI investigating. What an opportunity lost for that guy
in Jersey. He could have sent him that over black market pasta and he
could have made a killing. And I'm telling you it's just one of those
things where he just got a just a week What a difference. So it's
like that guy who bought pizza for like one hundred bitcoins that one time.
So screwed. All right, Pete calendar, we got a roll man.
Thank you very much. Having a good weekend, sir. Okay, thank
you, Yeah you too, Casey. All right, we'll be right back
to live. I'm your day Smarter and celebrating ten years of keeping you better
informed one oh six one FM Talk and News Talk nine four five WPTI More
with Casey starts now. So I thought we weren't supposed to culturally appropriate stuff.
I just try to go by the rules or at the very least maliciously
comply. I only ask because there's been a lot of discussion following the unveiling
of Netflix's new portrayal of Cleopatra and among the most angry egypt So I guess
in that sense that would be their culture, right, maybe possibly just a
little bit. Okay, Cleopatra, who was um Macedonian Greek, mostly there's
a little bit of some other stuff in there, obviously was not a dark
skinned woman. That's the reality of it, based on her heritage. Okay,
However, Egypt is on the African continent. This is the portrayal then
that they wanted to go through, and they're already doing stuff where they're making
one of the other quin which queen was it? Like they're they're they're recasting
racially, recasting members of the British royal family. Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and
Antiquities released a statement condemning the Jada Pinkett Smith produced docuseries, claiming it doesn't
reflect history, Cleopatra light skin and Greek features. The origin statement says insisting
the project should be based on historically and scientific facts. Historical and scientific facts
to ensure that history and civilizations are not falsified. So as a result,
the state TV for Egypt is going to do their own docuseries, except they're
going to change this so that it meets the you know, the facts of
history there. And I'm just curious. This sounds like I can't think of
another scenario where you could just go in and be like, nah, we're
just going to do this. I don't care what your culture is. I
don't care what she says, I don't care about the historical facts and go
in a different direction. Right, And people have put those posters up on
Twitter. I've seen I know you've seen some of the memes right where it's
like twelve Years of Slave starring Ryan Gosling or roots and then you know it's
basically the brat pack in there. But you know, when Egypt's telling you
it ain't right and you're going ahead in your Netflix, I don't know.
I feel like this is cultural appropriation, but maybe I don't understand how it
works. Maybe I'm just a big dummy. So those of you who hate
me who seem to listen on Fridays, I appreciate that. I don't know
what you guys are doing. The rest of the week if you're hating on
somebody else. But I appreciate you listening in on Fridays. Glad to have
you sending me you're angry angry, I love it. And if you send
me something that's just actually sounds like you're trying to have a discussion, I
might even answer it. I know, crazy, right, So check this
out, because of course you knew this was happening. AI getting reagant up.
I don't think it's any big secret that the current AI that is most
is most off quoted chat GPT is clearly demonstrating a liberal bias. Kyle,
do you play on the AI at all? You get on there and screw
around with some of the stuff, doing searchers and whatnot all the time.
Okay, I thought so. I thought Ross had mentioned that you're really into
it. Would you say that there is a bias in your opinion with the
chat GPT or you just not really delved into that side of it. I
don't know that I've played around too much with that in terms of looking for
a bias. I've seen a lot of the stuff on Twitter where folks have
asked it, you know, is it okay to be white? Is it
okay to be black? And I'm familiar with the answers they've gotten there.
There's just so much of how you frame these questions and the prior prompts that
you give the tool. Sure, I really haven't played around looking for a
bias. Well you're not using it for like anime or something, aren't you?
No? Okay, good, So creepy man, are you talking about
when they they make it work with mid journey to generate the images. I'm
just saying yes, but people then would and then you know what they were
immediately trying to do as they were trying to do that and then make it
like anime porns. So oh yeah, dude, you gotta there's some Twitter
threads that I wish I would have never seen. We'll just leave it right
there. So anyway, so you're aware obviously of that perceived bias, asking
like, write me a poem admiring Donald Trump, Write me a poem admiring
Joe Biden. One it will one, it won't. Tons and tons of
examples. Well, now they've unveiled a new AI tool that's right created Tusk
browser. That's the browser tusk like an elephant tusk, and it includes an
AI tool known as Gipper. The tool nicknamed in honor of Ronald Reagan.
The bot uses chat GPT technology but has been modified in programmed to act conservative.
The look at this rather than just striving for something that is a perfection
of non bias, where it treats everything it gets in in the same way
when it puts it out. Now, I understand you're talking about AI,
so you want it to evolve on stuff. But I told you, if
if the one that gets adopted and is utilized the most has that liberal bias,
then it just it's gets so much harder to undo. But I don't
know if maybe you'll have more fun with the Gipper answering questions for you.
I'll tell you what's gonna happen is moonbats are gonna go in. They're gonna
ask it questions to try to try to get it to say something that they
can claim as racist, Oh yeah, just wait for it, or or
transphobic. I think that's probably the one they'll go, you know, because
lastly, Gipper, how many genders are there? And as soon as it
spits two out, they'll lose They're flipping minds, and then you'll see the
same stuff that you saw thrown on Twitter, but kind of from the reverse.
Let's see here, AI designers created Tusk. The AI tool attached to
Tusk, which is an Internet browser, is Gipper. We believe the conservatives
are subject to oppressive cancel culture that now includes AI, and are expected to
exist in a society that tells them what to think and act by the progressive
left, said Tusk founder and CEO Jeff Bermant. It's time for a truthful
AI chatbot to take to the market by store, take the market by storm,
and remove the barriers the radical left to big tech have put in place.
So that's a thing that's an option. So a Gipper, by the
way, is kind of abbreviated, and the spell is gippr. There's no
other vowel there, just gippr. If you want to google that, and
I think you need the Tusk browser. I have not played with this thing,
but I did find it kind of interesting because now all of a sudden
everyone's got their AI working. Isn't that weird too? Like everyone's were,
well, we're working on AI for years, and then like in like a
few months, everyone's got there's market ready, totally alien technology anyway, eight
forty three Race Stagic from the Weather Channel. He's here using alien technology,
pictures from space, uses pictures from space. I enough pictures are a fair
word. Oh is he not there yet? Roh row? I hit him
too. All right, Well, we're gonna sit here and we're gonna wait
on him like you're waiting for your you know, your kid's supposed to come
out because you're picking him up from school. You're just sitting there waiting,
waiting, staring off into the abyss, waiting for Race Stagic. But I'm
here, Oh hey there, y'all. Yeah, Well, you know,
sometimes they getting hung up. I do an old colleague of mine belie even
or not call me, and I used to work with like twenty yeah,
about twenty years ago. So it's like I gotta go. I gotta go.
But yet people that's hard to get off the phone. So I'm sorry,
I mean, like ruin your rep They saved? Did I fall for
hitting me on time today? So did I? Did I mentione? You
saved me? Oh? Yes, yes, you were all good man.
The weather is pretty good too, as it's uh gonna stay dry for most
of us. M last couple of days been mentioning west and probably from the
Tryad west into the mountains. Isolated late day showers, thunder showers this afternoon
early tonight. That's probably going to happen, but most of us probably don't
get much rain load. A mid eighties even take us through the weekend,
little community around two. But I think everybody is going to get a few
showers thunderstorms as we go through Saturday and Sunday, with a better chance being
Saturday, which is good since its Mother's Day, and then some dryer air
getting in here. Next week we are heading into the Atlantic hurricanes. He's
and I can't believe it already. And I don't know if you caught the
conundrum yesterday, Casey. I mean, I know you're always glued to the
weather channel, cable network, um when you get off the air, But
did you I have yah to sit at home with that apparatus attached to my
face with that weather channel. I know that's exactly what you do. But
quickly, a couple of things. The most strange thing, in my opinion,
that happened yesterday is that they went back and analyzed the storm in January
that we were talking about, and they actually slapped a label on it yesterday
of subtropical storm. They didn't give it a name, which would be the
A Storm or lean um, but it did get t TD status and it's
it's confusing. But the message that I'm going to relay is that you may
see that we have had a subtropical storm, and sometimes they give them names,
but they didn't for this one. So long story st the nerdiest a
controversy exactly heard exactly there's about it. Then there's not a single person that's
ever talked to a woman involved in this discussion, is there No? I
mean, you're relaying information, you're not at the meat of this. But
whoever's debating ad back in the back rooms. Right. So here's what happens
when we get the next disturbance, at least the way I understand it,
and I could be wrong. So let's say we get a tropical depression,
right, it would be t D two, but if it does get a
name, it would be the A Storm. So that's kind of the whole
systems. Throw it away. We're done, and they're gonna start issuing tropical
outlooks here in a couple of days May fifteenth, that's earlier than they have
in the past. Usually they start them with the beginning of the hurricane season
the Atlantic, So visionist history on y tropical storm. This is where we
are. So now, if you're not confused up, we'll be sure to
confuse you even more as we get into great perfect can't. You're welcome bring
out a good week right now, we meet that, all right, Thank
you for having a good weekend, and we'll come back chat with Jeff Belinger
next, a new decade on the calendar and celebrating ten years on the air.
This is one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle and near's talk
nine four five WPTI in the Triad. All right, eight fifty two Bloomberg
Update, now, Jeff Belinger, what's happened well the morning case The stocks
were mixed yesterday. Futures are pointing higher this morning. The Dow futures are
up one hundred eleven points. Optimists in Washington say the postponement of a high
level meeting on the debt ceiling maybe a positive development. At President Biden and
how Speaker Kevin McCarthy were scheduled to meet again today. That's been put off
until sometime next week. The whole is that this is an indication staff level
talks in making headway and aids to the two leaders will continue their discussions.
Southwest Airlines pilots authorized to strike. There's frustration over the pace of contract negotiations,
and pilots were virtually unanimous in giving their union leaders their backing should they
decide to call for a walk out. The vote does not mean a strike
will begin soon. Airline labor negotiations or subject to the Railway Labor Act,
and a strike would not be legal until several conditions are met. A Twitter
posting by Elon Musk said he's chosen a CEO to run the short messaging service
and that she will start in about six weeks. Musk did not identify his
choice, but The Wall Street Journal has reported that Linda Jakarino, currently an
executive at NBCUniversal, has been in talks to become the Twitter boss. Tesla's
tweaked the US prices of its electric vehicles again, this time making them more
expensive. In the third change in less than a month, Tesla raised the
price of its Model X modelsque Base and Plaid evs by one thousand dollars.
It added two hundred fifty dollars to the price of the model. Y Lift
is still making tweaks to its business model, looking to be more competitive with
Uber. The latest change is to discontinued share rides. A Lift CEO David
Risher says, the problem with shared trips is that they take people out of
their way, and a Casey, it's good to fly first class if you
can afford it, and the airlines are making it even better. Some carriers
first class cabins resemble many hotel rooms now. They have sofas, double beds,
televisions, desks, wardrobes, and mini bars. Some even have showers.
The airlines just betting Casey that more well to do customers will be willing
to splurge on travel after being grounded so long during the pandemic. Casey,
Okay, well, they've definitely got the prices to match the words splurge,
because yes, they do nuts right now. So all right, thank you
much, appreciate it. Having good weekend, sir, You do the same.
Talk to you Monday. All right, there you go, Jeff Bellinger,
Bloomberg News joining us. I'm not sure how you think this is gonna
go, sir, but that's okay. Police say a man held two women
hostage? And where's this? Lincoln, Nebraska? A man held two women
hostage Thursday? During an armed standoff? What's he armed? With a stick
of dynamite? Dispatchers were notified by passers by that a man was holding two
women hostage in a car. The caller told authorities the man was threatening to
detonate a stick of dynamite if anyone got too close. Then the vehicle started
driving around. I don't know if he's driving or the one of the woman's
driving, but whatever. The eventually deputy stopped the vehicle and they were able
to talk the dude down from it. How do you think that's gonna go?
I mean, they're probably not gonna shoot at you. So there's that.
What was the they portrayed it in a movie or there was a story.
I remember reading a story about somebody who shot a guy who was wearing
a suicide vest over in a rack Afghanistan. He was Afghanistan and you ended
up detonating something on there. Try and remember where I read that. There
was video, That's why people were all freaked out. But yeah, so
stick of dynamite. I'm glad it came to a fine conclusion. But I
mean, what is he like if if you're gonna then use it, Let's
say that you're gonna use it on the officer. I'm not encouraging you to
do that. You gotta get the lighter out of your pocket, you gotta
light the thing, you gotta throw the thing. I'm huming that that was
the detonation, uh methodology being a standard stick of dynamite. So I don't
know, or do you get one of those long fuses right and it's burning,
burning, burning, but you got your fingers wet and you're just kind
of waiting. I don't know how to properly do that. But however he
did it, he ended up getting taken into custody. So there's there's that
also apparently. Uh oh geez, yeah, I'm not gonna be able to
fit that in. I was gonna try to jam this one other story in
here. We'll save that for Monday. You know the Jeremy's chocolates. Do
you know what those are? So that's Jeremy uh what's his name? Boring
or whatever? From Daily Wire. When Hershey's was doing all their shenanigans,
they put out some chocolate bars and they had he hymns and she hers and
ones had nuts and ones didn't. I remember that, all right, So
some college professor, well I'll just real quick, I'll do this. I'm
already into it. A college professor at a community college in California and Fresno
has been put on leave and is under investigation because done did it done?
Among an offering of candy that he had in his classroom, he had some
of these little chocolate bars, which apparently were very popular. However, one
of the students noticed on the chocolate bar that they were described as a he
hymn bar which had nuts and she hers that didn't, and conniption fit ensued,
reported and now they're investigating. So ironically, everyone kind of seemed to
like the chocolate. So there's that, all right, Have a good weekend,
everybody, see you back here bright and early Monday.