Sounds normal to you, but to the trained year or the OCD year,
it's just a little something something. But Ross, everything's coming through your board,
correct, right, all right, rock on. I don't know.
Maybe maybe I'm crazy. Maybe it's because yesterday was just the worst. Ross
knows some of this, and he this is why I like Ross. I'll
tell him a lot of times we don't even answer each other because we're not
tweens. Girls. Okay, sorry, sorry twin girls. You like the
text? Do you want to do the tip? Whatever. However, when
he can tell there is a crisis, he's always there with encouragement to take
a day off. And I appreciate, appreciate that or three or you know,
however many and you know what, I gotta be honest with you.
With the way things eventual unfolded yesterday, that probably would have been smart,
but I was I thought I thought I had things figured out, worked out,
everything was gonna be fine. And it was because I didn't have the
requisite experience with this topic. And so I had tons of time too.
And it's you know, it's one of the things that we do in the
world of radio. Sometimes the story comes up. We don't I don't know
anything about it, and uh, you make the commitment that you're gonna go
and you're gonna get a lot of info. Now I have a selfish personal
interest obviously, in in the sense that you know, this was something that
was impacting my life outside of work. Yeah, you know, that's why
I didn't learn cricket stuff, right, we just did the story whatever.
But this I did, and I'm gonna I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna
I'll set the scene. But I sent a tweet out yesterday and it happened
after I had communicated with Ross kind of let him know what was going on.
What did you suggest, napalm? I can't remember what it was.
There was definitely something on fire, but oh my gosh, it got so
much worse. And the tweet I said this, And let me just be
abundantly clear here. If there's one thing on on Twitter, and it predates
Elon a little bit, but obviously it's once you get into monetization of engagement
farming. There's a lot of folks. How many times have you seen somebody
just send out a tweet. It's usually very short and it's just like your
world changes at three check back or Biden in handcuffs. By the end of
the day, you know whatever the hook is, and you know that you
know that there's nothing coming or it's gonna be just it's either gonna be an
unprovable thing scoop, which I don't know. It's fine if you want to
do it conspiratorially, but if you're gonna make the promise that somebody's going to
jail, even in this this messed up system, you should at least have
the goods that in a normal world they would be in jail. Like,
I don't even hold you to the standard of what DJ is gonna do.
And and there are there are some Twitter accounts that realize if you need to
pump those numbers up, that works, And I hate it and I hope
it stops working. And I literally block accounts for that crap. So when
I send a tweet out yesterday, I I didn't have enough room in the
tweet to explain what I wanted to explain and also let you know how much
I hate that crap. So I wrote, kids, I have first ballot
Hall of Fame nightmare fuel ross. That's a high standard, right, first
ballot Hall of Fame nightmare Fueld. Yeah it's pretty big. Yeah, yeah,
what would you say is up there? If you just I'm sorry,
I just hit you with this right there. Just something that that haunts your
dreams, maybe a story you saw or what about that little girl who founded
the bees in her wall? Okay, that's that's a very good example.
I did not find what was how many bees was? It was way too
many. It was like over fifty thousand bees. It was all the bees
they're looking for in the documentary. I've just put it together. They did
a whole documentary about had a cute name and a camera what it was.
But they're like, ah, all the bees are missing and then we're all
gonna die. So we found them. They were in this little girl's wall.
That is a good example. So here's what Ross knows. And I'm
gonna let you I'm gonna tell you. I don't like to do the trick
warning thing, but I'm gonna let you know when I get before I get
to the really stuff. Okay, So I'm bopping back and forth, you
know, travel we had the time off all of that. What is that
three weeks ago? Okay? And I have when you live on your own,
you do whatever you want within reason. Eventually kind of mature and you
don't do some of the stuff you did when you were twenty or you know,
your first apartment, you're like, I'm gonna have an indoor fire pit.
Right, You're past that, although now you can kind of maybe afford
to do that, but still no, not me. So I this sounds
weird. I don't sleep necessarily just in one bed, is I It's crazy?
Right? So like I have two different sleep possible my house. Don't
judge, it is what it is. I know some people I've told people
that in they can't fathom it. They're like, I have to sleep in
my bed on my side whatever, And I'm like, it's just me.
I'll sleep in the kitchen if I want to. Who's gonna stop me.
So so there's that, And it has to do with, you know,
where you want to be in the house. The airflow, if it's the
windows open, act that whatever it is, that's not important. What is
important, though, is it stays warmer in the one room just kind of
naturally, if without screwing with too much stuff, without having to really crank
stuff, So that can that can impact it. However, also when you're
running a lot of ac. On the other side, it stays cooler because
it's a lot more insulated. But I prefer the bed. So it's obviously
obviously it's summer, so but at night sometimes it's actually reasonable. And so
as I returned to the world from time off, I am I'm very bad
with unpacking luggage because I don't I always have a carry I only take carry
ons even internationally. And I got it. I don't have a lot of
variety to my clothing. It's a lot of you know, T shirts and
pants and shorts, pretty basic mix and match. Okay, So I took
the luggage and I when I got home and I literally put it on the
one bed and opened it up, took out like the travel you know,
my travel kit case thing for you know, toothpaste and all that, at
a couple other things, and I just kind of left it there, and
in sheer laziness, I slept in where I wanted to sleep so that other
one can be a guest bedroom whatever. And then I wanted to go sleep
up there because obviously crazy you know, crazy temperature extremes all that. But
when I'm doing that, I don't even let I don't like. It has
a comforter and sheets and looks like a normal bed, but I mean,
if I'm hot, so it's still a little warm. There's like a blanket
on the bottom end of it. I won't even I'll just sleep on top
of it with that blanket. I know that's weird, but it's necessary for
this story. So I moved the luggage, put in the over the closet,
a little stand thing in there. I'm like, I'll deal with that
later. And a few days go by. This is just And then on
Thursday obviously was a day off, and so Wednesday, I'm like, hey,
I know it's not sinco to my ole, but you can drink tequila
for this, right. So anyway, so I come back to the house
and a little late when I was some friends and uh we did that because
you know, Friday morning we had to do the show. And I woke
up and I'm like, that was stupid. Also what happened? And I
like, had I thought, like I thought I had left like a screen
door open or something, or a screen on a window, and like all
the mosquitoes were like, yeah, let's go in there. Like I didn't
know what was up at first, but I brushed it off because like it
wasn't bad bad and it looked like mosquito stuff. So I kind of walked
around the house and I did actually find a culprit, and he met his
demise with the electric whacker thing. So it happens again and it's bad.
And then I kind of looked around went to the other bed, and then
Saturday night, slept in that bed and got under the covers. This time,
because the blanket was a little I had thrown it into the wash.
I woke up and I am absolutely brutalized on my legs, and so I'm
like, all right, I gotta figure out what's going on. I start
walking around the house kind of you know. I was threw some dishes in,
was sweeping, sweeping the patio, and I'm like, all right,
well, I'm gonna go. Let me go grab those sheets or whatever,
because like, I don't know what's up, but I like it was gross.
So I pulled back the sheets ready, all the bed bugs, all
of I know this is a long road to get there, but you need
to understand because now I have to solve a mystery. Why in this one
part of my house and nowhere else because I point, I'm like, I'm
checking everything and and and that that part of that one bedroom and then the
bathroom that's adjacent to it that attaches to it, the en suite, which
also attaches out into the hall. So that's that's important. So I'm like,
how like I hear bedbugs and I've never actually had that happen, but
it sounds awful, like like you have to you have to burn your house
down, right? Is just that I was gonna say, So you burn
that mattress right like that. The mattress is done, it's out, and
not just that basically anything that I didn't So I take everything out of that
room and it's the hottest load with the hottest dry thing I was reading online.
They're like, that'll do it. But even stuff like there's a couple
like mats, bath mats and stuff that were like ten dollars at Walmart.
They're gone, they're out. But the mattress obviously is gone. And that's
what you right, because you're like, yeah, you should take the day
off, and I'm no, no, no. To be fair, he
said you should take two days off. Okay, that's you know what you
might be right the most awful thing. So so like immediately I'm like,
I gotta get a I actually know exterminator bedbug, like dude, and I'm
like, we got we gotta do this. So so I actually talked to
the guy. I texted him a little bit, but he couldn't get there
until after brown noon today. So yesterday I am simultaneously educating myself on these
things, and I'm also trying to figure out how they got in there.
And I always just assumed it's like you go to a you go to the
swap meet, and you're like, hey, look at that couch, and
then you just like, don't check anything, and it's it's it's just the
the trojan horse. But I don't think so, and so you have to
understand that. In the in the span of that vacation, uh and and
back and forth to work, I am in Raleigh, Greensboro, Miami,
and Costa Rica, Okay, And the Miami thing was not just at the
airport. Remember they had the two feet of rain. I got stuck in
that. So I had to go in the middle of Miami now being a
swimming pool, and and go get a hotel. It was very cheap though,
why because nobody's dumb enough to be in Miami, just me. So
it's so I got like I had points, and I got a I got
a suite at the Kempton, which is very nither win in Winston Salem is
amazing. By the way, if you haven't been to the bar restaurant,
highly recommend it. But that's another thing for another time. So South Beach,
Miami, Anglers, Kempton there. So now I have to figure out
one of these places. I had sent dude a picture of the bugs that
I corralled in the murder Zone. And what was interesting is he's like he's
explaining it to me, like I know what the heck it is. There
are two kinds of these bugs. There are the North American version, or
I guess the northern version, and then there what are known as tropical,
and the body style is different. Not that I could pick it out,
but once he pointed it out, I guess it made sense. And he
thought it was interesting because it looked like there was both and the only place
where there's both of those places is Miami. So I don't know, this
is not me knocking. I kept in especially you brought him back from Florida.
Well no, So here's the thing. Yes, they went Florida.
They yes, and remember that's on the down leg. That's so, it's
just everything is Florida. Man, this is this is my punishment for doing
all the Florida jokes. I think I haven't got to the worst part yet
and for that, I'm gonna take a break. I'm leading up to this
and I'm sorry I'm dragging you along, but holy crap, here's the thing.
For like several hours on Sunday, I'm doing the thing. I'm doing
the thing where I know because I can visually see that there is not anything
on me, and it feels like bugs are on you, just randomly,
and it's it's so awful. And that's where Ross and I's conversation ended.
And I after a little while, I'm like, I kind of got it
together, and I'm just like, oh, that's a horrible feeling. But
we're gonna get We're gonna get through this. I learned way too much.
They there's they love to hook up, totally irresponsible with you know, children,
and boy, they make a lot. It's when you start doing the
math, it becomes like Frank Duke's explaining the number of rounds of the Kuma
te all right, the horrible part though, yeah, that's not even the
horrible part. The horrible part comes your way in just a few minutes.
Hang on, I like, I hear you, and I read all this
stuff, and look, it makes sense. Some of it makes I'm it's
either napalm or professional dude coming in so and I and they do all sorts
of explained it. I'm like, you do just whatever, man, just
whatever, Just do it twice or extra whatever. And that's where we left
it. And I communicated Ross what was going on. He say, I
take the day off. And then I'm like, now, or take two
days off? Ha ha. I did threaten our PD And he's like that's
awful man. I'm like, yeah, I'll still be there. I'm feeling
better. So the creepy krawleys that stuff kind of like dazed, and then
I did and this is the here's the cautionary tale, and then we'll get
to the meat. I did something incredibly dumb. In hindsight, I recognized
that after my fervent search, that a very small footprint of my house was
impacted by this. Because now I know what to look for from eggs and
all that, and basically that room a little bit in the bathroom in the
shower, but I'll never use that shower. But I looked in there and
the tile is kind of the color of the egg, so it And there's
another thing. I had a cleaning I have a cleaning lady, and uh
yep, that's right, Flexen. And the last time she had came and
done anything with that bathroom and that bedroom was prior to vacation. So but
it was the day before four. So I have a timeline now because obviously
she's she's good. And it's like when she changed out the sheets and she'd
have noticed and she'd have said something. And I did text her and she's
like, no, no, nothing like I would tell you. I'm like,
no, I know you would. I just literally I'm just trying to
figure this out. So I decided I'm going to contain and start the murdering.
Don't start the murdering until you're ready to do all the murdering. Here's
the spiral and wait for the punchline. So I'm like, all right,
I don't have I already know where this is going. Well, really,
what's your prediction, sir? I believe that when you killed one of them,
Uh, they all sort of ran to where the one was, so
they all it drew them all out, right, they all came out.
You're half right. You have to understand I'm opening volley was Nagasaki? Okay,
yeah, I understand. That's I know how that's that's how ants work
because when you kill an ant, you ever notice, like you step on
an ant, Yeah, a lot of like where's your friend? It releases
like some sort of oh yeah saying that the ants get like a pheromone or
something that the ants can sense, so they go there so they can sort
of like get rid of their dead. I was on a website that,
based on that tried to give you like it has like a calculators you can
try to figure out how many based on eggs stuff and what you see,
and it's total. It's probably wildly inaccurate, as I came to find out.
And so I decided, all right, I'm going to the center of
the problem. Is this bed right hands down? That's it just horror story.
When I pulled back, there's actually like a comforter pad two, so
it's two layers. That's right. You get the fitted sheet off and you're
like, oh my gosh. And then you pull the pad off, You're
like, there's a whole other town here. So then immediately I'm like this
mattress. I didn't take it out of the room, but I did strip
everything down and h and lean it up against the wall there, right,
because I wanted to assess what's going on. So and I'm like, you
know what, I could probably kill like a bunch of these because I have
some I have some stuff, right, and for ticks and mites and all
that, and that stuff, Jenner and Flees will work, but bed bugs
were a little different, right. You got to you gotta hit them right
on and on the ones that got hit right on absolute, absolute scoreboard.
Uh Nagasaki. Right. Problem is Japan's not just Nagasaki or Hiroshima. And
that's where the comparisons will stop, because yes, you're kind of right in
that all of the bed bugs at that point, the ones I could see
and couldn't see, recognized that I had I had started the war. And
you have to understand the only thing that they eat is blood from warm blooded
cret creatures, mammals. Right, I'm the only mammal. I'm it.
I'm the buffet. I didn't take this into account. So two things happened.
One bloom, You're all dead. I feel good. I'm like,
this war is gonna be over to I'm George Bush with the mission accomplished banner.
Okay, I'm like, this is gonna show up Tomorrow's be like,
oh no, thanks, he did my work for me. They then scattered,
which is far worse than the ants from like the crystal skulls. Okay,
I'd rather have them all as weird as that sound. They scattered,
and to scatter, they went places they had never been, and I recognize
pretty quick what's going on. Like no, so I try to like spray
perimeter in there, like we're you said you should have done the perimeter first.
I did. I actually did do the perimeter. First. I did
the door. I'm two doors into that room, and then the bathroom.
I did the perimeter hard. I'm having didn't care. I'm sorry, I'm
having a hard time focusing here. Yeah, sort of looks like the skin
this like your skin is hanging off your bones. Yeah, like iak sugar
water every morning. So is that where you're gonna go as a host for
a giant space cockroach? I'm just gonna put it out there that are you
a giant space cockroach? You guys killed all my people. So I knew
it all right now, all right, So I did perimeter first. Remember
how you said you gotta hit them, You gotta hit them on right,
they'll die a quick death on So now I am. I am in a
sinking feeling because every time I said another perimeter, I look behind me and
I'm like, you can see them. They're they're like all they're like six
different sizes. I learned so much, little ones or big ones. They
don't fly, but they are determined. They're a little engine that could.
I almost respected the hustle. And so what happened is now I'm like I've
lost I've lost the the the They're through the wall. They're in the city,
okay. And so then my afternoon turned into trying to find a place
where they wouldn't go so that I could could I to put prep together.
I got to sleep. Turns out I don't very much, and I would
go into another room and within twenty it's like, you know, it's like
Jason Voorhee's tracking you through the woods. Right. He's not fast, but
he's always there, and I would see them. I'm like, I'm a
bedbugs spotty machine. Now yeah, and then you get super paranoid about them
being everywhere, like you can't say it gets and now the creepy crawley feelings.
And so every about thirty minutes, I would get up with a broom
and murder spray and just go out and try to put another bullet in their
head. And it quickly was growing out of control. And and then I'm
like, all right, it looks like the area they want is this.
I got squatters in my house. There's nothing I could do to oll tomorrow
when the police show up. I need to I gotta do prep. And
now I feel horrible. I should I should Rouse was right, we should.
I should not be here because I don't think you could pay me to
sleep in this house. But I got to set up away from anywhere that
they were, where it's wood stairs connected. They kinda they need you have
fabric is more advantageous to them. And I'm like, I gotta I got
a pretty good setup. I got some blankets that had never been near him,
but also I had just washed hot at setting okay, and I set
this thing up and I kind of on a couch, but it's a it's
one of those couches that's it folds. It's in it's in my office and
it folds and flips down. And then it's a bed. So this is
an extra bed, and it's leather, or it's probably not real. It's
not real leather, but yeah, it's not really their jam. And so
I'm up in there, and I'm sitting there and I'm looking around because now
I'm paranoid, and I see the first one and and and then it dawns
on me. I'm the only food source in the house. You know,
I don't got critters running around, not married off kids. I'm it.
They're gonna go wherever I go. And and they will always know somehow because
I would look through the door into the hallway where I've got every light on,
because I've convinced myself that if it's super light, maybe they won't move
like a cockroach. They don't care. You're the only buffeith, and you
realize real quick that you are losing this campaign, and even with reinforcements tomorrow,
I don't know, maybe the burn it down napalm thing was right.
You know, you're like the Australians with yes, yes, how could I
not beat an EMU pull get on? They're so dumb, and I'm like,
I gotta get it together. I gotta I gotta do work. So
I'm like, all right, I get this prior to get it set.
I got it set up. I see what's going on. But I'm like,
I still got a truck forward. I'll take a quick shower, come
out, we'll do another round of murdering. I don't know that I'm gonna
sleep very much, but we'll make it work. I do a show tomorrow.
So this is the part where I'm gonna let you know this. This
is not some of you are gonna get pretty creep down. I want you
to stick through it, okay. And I asked Roza if you want to
know before the show? He said no, he would take the plunge with
you. So ross, you're signing the digital permission slip. Okay. I
gotta I feel like I need legal protection here for what I for what happened
next, And unfortunately there's not a way I can just get to it without
telegraphing a little of what's gonna happen. Do you're probably picking up on it.
Remember I said, I woke up and I am just like, I'm
like, what happened to me? Why am I? Why don't look like
I got attacked by all the animals? So I have done this all day.
I'm sweaty, I'm nasty because I'm running around moving stuff, sweeping,
planning, arson and I go to the shower, not obviously that one,
but the one that I use where which thankfully I had not seen anything in
there yet yet. Get in the shower, I'm scrubbing the heck out of
myself, cause not in paranoid, I'm like, are they on my back?
It's like ticks? Right? Where are they? And I'm like,
can I go to the the neighbor look at my back? But I don't
show them there, Like I'm these are all the things going through my mind.
And I do all that scrub the hair, brush, the teeth.
Basically all the clothes I had, I had put them in one of the
rooms where they have they've already seized that land, right, I want no
set And I got clothes that were nowhere near and I visually checked them all
and brought them in there. And there's a little cubby thing and he closed
the boot, put them in there. And here's the telegraphing. We wear
ross and I wear headphones a lot, and it doesn't afflict everybody like this,
but I it does happen to me. Where if you wear headphones a
lot for work and you know, not just radio, but guys weren't construction
sites, you know, work in an airfield, whatever, sometimes like your
ears will get all backed up, and so I literally have like a flush
kit thing in that shower. So if I'm like, ah, and then
I could just do it. I know it's kind of gross. You didn't
want to hear that, but did exist. So I'm like, you know
what, I clean everything. Let's hit this bad boy. You know where
this is going, don't you? In the sleep While the rest are like,
look at this buffet, this is amazing. One of the bed bugs
was not interested. He's like, you know what, I'm going splunking.
And so I flush the right ear and like, I really didn't get the
results, but it felt better. I'm like, Okay, I do the
left ear, and uh, it expels out and then I feel something on
the left side and then it drops on my shoulder. It's the it's the
cave dude. But that's not the worst part because as I am looking at
my shoulder, going I guess I gotta burn the shoulder and get John Wick
to stick his pencil in that ear, I feel movement in the right ear
and he's not coming out. Oh my god, you've got a bug in
your head. Not anymore. We'll talk, but I staying and you'd stay
over there, dude, exact count Am I delivering on my promise? Yeah,
so that was why are you here? Because now I'm having to go.
Yeah, you started the show and you're like, oh, my mic
sounds weird on the way. Everything sounds weird today because you got bugs in
your ears. Man, No, hold on, I didn't realize that.
The one dude's like, I'm going spelunkin. The other dude, much larger
dude, was like, hey, that sounds like a good idea, but
I'm gonna go check this other kve out. But also it's all you can
eat, right because they got a little thing to in there, which that
crosses my mind. I'm like, yo, no, and I learned many
years ago, you you gotta be careful because I was in my twenties and
uh, we were road tripping up in New England and we we found this
like Vermont, Yeah it was in Vermont or New Hampshire, I can't remember
which one. Like roadside hotel, the only amenities. It's got a bar
and a driving range and was like cheap and we're like we're in And in
the middle of the night, I woke up. I'm like, what is
that feeling? And it was a spider in the moment I woke up,
boom in the year and I ran in the shower and I ended up drowning
him. And now he's in there, and I did the rest of the
trip, like a week with him in there. He didn't the whole thing
didn't come out because I didn't want to. I was poor, didn't want
to go to the doctor any of that, and so I just waited it
out and then boom, one day, boom, there's the whole thing.
And so I learned my lesson, so I didn't drown him. I negotiated
with him for four hours with a combination of vegetable oil and water and just
something together, and then eventually he gave up the ghost. And it was
at that point as I go into the night and I know that I'm not
sleeping. Two hours before my alarm went off, I surrendered the battlefield and
I slept in a folding chair on my patio for two hours. And now
I'm doing a show because that's our commitment. And I'm sorry if I creeped
you out. I'm still thinking napalm maybe the way to go. But we'll
see it eleven thirty when the dude gets there. Okay, all right,
we'll be back. Hang on. I know that I just chewed up the
first hour of the show, and I here's the deal. The story had
to be told once in its entirety because there are cautionary tales in there.
There is These are stories like old Time. Somebody mentioned Twilight Zone, the
email where you were able to convey from an audio and the imagination of the
listener's perspective something that will stick with them. And I know this because multiple
people are. I don't know that they're. One lady's very upset with me.
But I gave you a trigger warnings, So what do you want me
to do? And I didn't go crazy on it. I literally told it
straight up because they're driving like I had not covered in bugs. Yes,
yeah, absolutely, you know what my buddy Robert, who so I he
and I share that cleaning lady. And I know one of Robert's things is
bugs. I don't know why he's dude. He's a dude's dude, but
like bugs creep him out, man, and he's not and I hold him
and she cleans my house then goes to his house. He was like,
she can't clean your house this week. After they're done, and then my
house on the same day. I'm like, I will work it out with
her. Man. It's just wild. So like I'm sitting there and I'm
I'm like telling him this because I just like I have to share the pain
with somebody else, and like he viscerally got it. So I apologize if
I did that to you, but in a way, but like there was
so much going on. From now on, we'll do calls right now and
then I'll probably retell a very shortened version of it. So if you're hearing
this now, he just joined us or that, go back to the podcast
if if you want to, you want an hour that will fly by and
horrify you, And to Corey, you send me the email. Those were
the bugs in your ears? How many you think you're in your nose and
mouth. Thank you for that. Appreciate that. Thank you very much.
Glad you sent multiple emails on that thing that I thought I did think about
for a moment, but I had to like erase it from my brain.
Don't worry. We'll get Joe Biden, who every time the more black churches
he goes to, the more awkward he looks and wait to hear the quote
from the bishop. And we got audio. We we got all sorts of
stuff we will get to over the course of the show. But it's my
show, and I had to share that with you, cause damn Okay.
All right, Seth, you're up first, go right ahead. Hey,
good morning, we're usome morning. Casey. Yeah, I was driving on
forty this morning listening to this on the way into work, and I'm like
viscerally also reacting to the story. I'm like making these jerk emotions, like
freaking out, and I'm watching the people around me. Before You're like,
dude, are you okay? Are you like going into medical medical issue?
I'm like, no, I'm fine, I'm all right, but I'm getting
ready to go over to the window. The widow. The widow got a
chair to watch me. I don't blame her. I look like it looks
like the dude on the other side of the park with the bees. But
she thinks I'm an OCD meth producer or something. I don't know. She
knows what I do. But come on, man, and I'm getting ready
to go overseas myself here in about two weeks, and I was like,
oh god, I'm gonna be like hyper paranoid. I'm gonna I don't want
to come home like Casey. So you are in the costun airte so thank
you very much. So also, if you think you're getting them with the
h bomb but you're not, okay, justor call in. He's like,
yeah, Casey's dumb, and you know what, He's right, Yeah,
Like thank you that. Like I learned my tail. The spider thing was
very instructive and horrifying, but instructive. And I rather than you know,
shoot first, ask questions later. I'm telling you if forget water boarding,
all you you military folks listening, okay, all right, forget you know,
the the Hanoi hilton or pungy sticks or fingernails, bamboo, you know
what put somebody in a house with all the bed bugs and tell them they
can't go outside of the house have fun sleeping, and you'll start hallucinating bed
bugs. You're like, is that now it's a fuzzy because they're about size
of a little fuzzy and some of them are the same color. It's that
was awful and I and I yielded the field. I let squatters take over
my my house just for so I could get like two and a half hours
sleep. Awful, all right, Uh Joe, what's up? Hey?
What's up? Gentlemen? How's everything horrible? Obviously? Sir? Okay,
I feel free a man. I had a buddy that went through this.
First thing you gotta do is get your housekeeping a bomb in her entire set
of equipment to go. That stuff can never come back in the house.
Second of all, yes, I want the equipment. The equipment is at
my house actually, and Roberts got his own, which is why I told
him that he's whiny and just asked her to change in between. But he's
he bugs creep him out, man. So yeah. But the second thing
you gotta do, the you gotta bay these sobs. You got to get
yourself a bloody piece of room tench temperature steak laid on a plate. What,
No, it's a steak, sir, it's my steak. You want
to get. You know what I'm gonna get, sir, I'm gonna get
a hobbled cat. One of this got the wheel the back. Now you're
talking, Now you're talking bread. No, Yeah, they come out get
whatever you got to need. It's got to be room, temperture, it's
got to be bloody, and they'll come out to it and they're gonna swarm
it. And then you grab those son of the guns and you spray them
and you'll kill hundreds of thousands at a time. Well then that probably shouldn't
do the cats. So all right, all right, man, good luck,
y have a good way. Do you think I probably can't go over
to the shelter today and be like, you know what, I just found
out. I love cats. You should give me five of them. Do
you have slow ones anything injured? Probably not. You just make so many
realizations as you're you're you're figuring out that you're it. You're the only game
in town. They're gonna follow you with they are. It's like slow zombies.
Man, It's just awful. All right. I feel like we need
some oh, one of the last thing. I'm gonna say. There are
two moments this over the weekend too, where I felt bad for a moment.
Then I'm just like, nah, this is what I do. One
I felt bad for a moment about the promo I cut Friday, where I
just said, hey, uh, it's uh fourth of July. Park two,
how many fingers well folks have left? And what happens? You know,
a little crazy fireworks story join us Monday. And I don't know if
you're aware of what happened down in South Carolina. I texted Ross. I
said, I felt bad for a little moment for for a little bit,
and we'll get into that story. But then, while I am on a
arrest period in between my you know, my murder raids all around the all
around the house, I started to remember Spiderweb Dad. Do you remember that
story Ross? Where he went up? Was it? It was the rafters
of the garage, right, he had like the garage had wood rafters.
We had the panels overseeing store stuff, but it was wide open up to
the sky. And and there's two different versions. There's this one and then
there was another dude, but the story went the same way and he was.
I think it was his basement or something, and I don't know how
it got as bad as it did, but the whole thing spy Webs and
they both arrived at the conclusion blow torch is the way to go. And
you remember that story because they burned all their stuff down right, it's like
turkey frying in your garage, and you don't know how displacement works. I
felt bad for Spiderweb Dad because I read the heat thing right, and there's
only so much you can stick into the dryer of the washer. And I
thought for a moment, because I have a blow torch, what man doesn't.
I don't have a flame thrower, but I have a blow torch,
so we get by. What if I have that in one hand, and
I have a little fire extinguisher that's in the in my office, and then
I have a big one in the kitchen, but or a bigger not like
a huge one, but you know what I mean. What if I got
the little palm one in one the blow torch in the other, because just
trying to hit them individually with the uh And that thought crossed my mind yesterday.
I'm like, it's not that they were dumb, it's that they didn't
do it right. It's like, you know what it was. It was
communism for a moment, Ross, it was communism. Those two guys burn
their house down. They just didn't do it right. I'm gonna do it
right. Yeah, we're gonna learn from their mistakes. Yes, yeah,
you just These aren't spiderwebs. These are bed bugs whatever. I mean,
if it's bed bugs or carbon or termites or whatever. Yeah said in the
way kill right, Yeah, you're right, yeah, And I was.
I had convinced myself that if I went onto the three season porch patio thing
where they did, that's what they did. Make out. That floor is
not it is not like the other floors. Right, You're not going to
catch that thing on fire directly because it's the fire resistant composite. There's reasons
for it. But I'm like, that could be my test area. And
I'm like, dude, you are going to burn your house down. Stop
it. You already tried to fix this yourself. Stop stop your Clark Griswold,
just stop, man, And uh, thankfully I did. And then
horribleness. So all right, let's do this because I gotta have a buffer
zone. I do we got news, you ever got actual news and audio
and all sorts of craziness because you know the weekend THEO was and we will
get to that after my selfish hijacking of airtime coming up here on the CaCO
Day Radio program. It's wrong though, it says, uh infested CaCO Day
Radio program infested with bugs slash bugs in ear survivor, you got the bugs
part right. I'm a two time survivor. I will fix that right now.
And I think when I was a kid, I got I had like
the silver fish or the roly pie had something in my ear. I remember
my mom was just like, she was not pleased. But so but adult,
we'll just for adults. So anyway, thanks for putting that out there.
Everyone appreciates it. Speaking of adults, it's adulting at church with uh
Joe Biden. I'm telling you, man, the more black churches he goes
to, the more uncomfortable he looks, and the orange is gone, that
little hand to temporary tattoo thing he had rocking. I mean it was kind
of there for this Stephan Stephanopolis interview. Yeah, but now does this make
him a Christian nationalist because he's campaigning at a church, A big fan of
the church. Mark Robinson's remember he's big. He's in big trouble for saying
some stuff at a church again and they think he's a Christian ationalist. So
yeah, I mean right, because we equality yours. No, no,
it doesn't, of course it doesn't because, as you'll come to find out,
it's a moonbat church. Yeah, yeah, it's uh it's super moonbatty
man. And uh there is an amazing quote. Well there's two things.
One Joe Biden says Dark Brandon's coming back. Do you think Joe knows he's
Dark Brandon or do you think there's an act? Does he think it's somebody
else? I was just thinking of that, like he's like, that's that's
a good looking man there. Oh he's scary too, he probably does.
But anyway, the the amount of like what's he gonna do for him?
Like he was, he was all in on those statements he was making.
He's like, I'm not going anywhere, And there was, you know,
speculation was that they're literally negotiating surrender at this moment. And he came out
full throated and he's like I'm I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do if you
can be convinced that you can knock defeed Donald Trump while you stand down.
This is from the interview. Depends if if the Lord Almighty comes out and
tells me that I might do that. Well, I mean at a more
practical level. Washington Puss just reported in the last hour that Senator Mark Warner
is assembling a group of senators together to try and convince you to stand down
because they don't think you can win. Well, Mark is a good many
We've never had that. He also tried to get the nomination too. By
the way, he didn't do different Mark a lot of marks. Whatever.
Mark's not Mark, can I have a different perspective. I respect him.
And if Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi come down and say we're
worried that if you stay in the race, we're going to lose the house
in the Senate, how will you respond. I've go into detail with them.
I've just picked all of them in detail, including Jim Cleiber. Every
one of them. They all said, race, stay in the race.
No one said what does that mean? He also Jim Clyber, because Akeem
Jeffries is black, so is not that I saw the video of him not
hugging that woman or whatever, although he had talked to her earlier, that
is on video. But you couldn't convince me he remembered something he did before
the Ralley right now. So I don't know. But on this what do
you mean? Also, Jim Clyburn, what does that mean? Maybe he
holds him to more of a standard or something because didn't he have something to
do with them, or maybe I'm thinking of a different guy like the primary
back in twenty twenty. It all turned around in South Carolina because of his
help, right, yes, so maybe that's why, Yeah, I get
Yeah, maybe I Again, I don't have to because you know, the
easy thing if you're like Associated Press and that the parties are flipped, you
just go look racist. So I don't know, it's just a weird wording.
I should leave. But if they do, oh I'm not going to
do that. Yeah. Yeah. And and by the way, this goes
on, and remember they had this was like this is a short interview and
it was pretty recorded. It's use if the Lornal Mighty come out and said,
Joe get out of the race, I got out the race, and
Lord of Mightey's not coming down. I mean these hypothetic what sends somebody in
as the Lord Almighty. I'm sorry, I understand this is a blast,
but you'll have to tell him that you support abortion. Note so he'll be
like, oh, that's the church. I know, Nichol George if I
mean default, but it's it's not that hypothetical anymore. I grant that they
have not requested the meeting, but it's been real. I met with them.
I've met with a lot of these people. I've talked them right money.
For those of you, by the way, maybe tuning in to that
Sweetest Cent and you're like, ah, what happened? I did? I
did a literally the whole first hour on the Nightmare Fuel thing that I tweeted,
So I'm gonna I'll talk about it again for one segment at eight oh
five. Okay, I will not do the full but if you want the
full version, that'll be our one of the podcast, okay, or won't
be an hour, be the first what thirty five minutes or whatever of the
podcast today, so you can get that. You can get the whole thing.
The only thing I left out of that is how I was dressed,
which I'll at the eight o'clock hour. I'll mention that because it is.
It's an amazing little nugg of the story. But I was running out of
time. Yeah, all right, let's go to Joe Biden, shall we.
Dude, is you know he's campaign in Pennsylvania. He's doing a few
stops, says dark Brandon's coming back whatever, and then heads over to the
black church. Okay, all right. Remember this man was raised in a
black church, he told us, and every time he goes to a black
church, he somehow looks more awkward. You remember the video of him where
everybody's moving, they're feeling the spirit, they're dancing, they're clapping, you
know, the stereotypical southern black church, which you know it's a stereotype for
a reason. And he's like armstiff to his side, doing the slow rock
okay, and I can't dance, so I like, I get that,
But you're like, nah, this is my this is my background. Mm
hmm. It is clearly not, sir, But he keeps going. And
you know, when you're for the same reason that Mark Robinson goes to church.
There is value there in connecting with people. If you know how to
connect with them and uh. And then also it gives video for the Moonbats
journalists locally to say that Mark Robinson wants to kill everybody because they've never seen
about nine different movies I can tell you about because they're boring from the pulpit
of the church. Oh, here is the damn. Here is the audio.
It was not attached to the other story. I'm gonna read it to
you. The bishop of the church who now has to tell his congregation a
little something because they knew that Biden was probably they probably knew Biden was coming
pre debate or had some well maybe not. I don't know. I don't
know how long this thing was scheduled out. But obviously, even if you
love the guy, you recognize that that Joe Biden shows up may not be
the one in your mind, Okay. And the bishop recognizes that. So
he's got to go lob some defense some you know, he's got to preload
this thing. And I'm going to read this for batim the bishop j Lewis
Felton. That dude sounds like a middle of the day injury lawyer, doesn't
he. Jay Lewis Felton call the law offices up Mi's o'theliomer something I don't
know, but he went, he's a bishop, all right. Anyway,
he said, and I quote, I don't know why it is, And
Biden's sitting on stage next to him, he's kind of he's talking to him,
but he's talking to congregation. I don't know why it is that you
want to make an issue the president and his condition and this is being directed
at the media, people online all of that. I don't know why it
is that you want to make an issue of the president and his condition was
stammering and not being able at certain times to bring forth words. And then
he's like, you know, look at the other guy trump word salads.
We agree, wanders rambles. I'm guilty of it too. But if when
you're at that level of politics, tind to try to rein it in because
you know, time is money, Money's time. You're doing a bunch of
different things. Get to the point. Here's the test and stuff. It's
all the stuff you hate about upper level politicians that at the end of the
day kind of works like attack ads. Who likes these? I don't know
people sadly, this is what it is. The it's not because of the
stammering though, because you could argue that Donald Trump is not a smooth start
to finish, clear, concise storyteller. Sometimes he is, but a lot
of times it's it's nine things going on at once. The just randomly says
that, by the way, that's what people like because it is that differential.
So a lot of people try and explain this on the air or online,
they're just like, no, what you don't understand is he's not that
guy. We talked about this last week right ross when Pete was on with
the European elections, right or just elections everywhere. It's like, you're just
not the guy who I hate because the COVID or whatever. I just need
to have the other guy. And maybe we're perpetually in that voting pattern or
maybe not. If you do what McCrone did in France and you literally bring
over all of the people that you brought over the squad, you have to
understand in France, look, I'm rambling in France to maintain power, so
that the penn and there's there's far right, there's right, there's left,
and then there's far left and obviously you got some middlers there and it's just
like in the US where they're just like, that's a far right. Everyone's
far right. Who's on the right if you listen to the left tell you
that? And for some politicians the same back and forth. But the uber
moon bats in France, basically the left could ignore them and then the right
ignores the uber right. So but McCrone couldn't do that anymore. So he
had to go and he had to get a coalition, which means one of
two things happened. There were demands, there are policies, there are things
and priorities that had to be agreed to be included, maybe some higher up
leadership positions. We'll see you either don't do it and then you get a
blitter rate in the next election, or you do it and you have now
successfully moved France leftward. And in fact you were so quick to do it
one of the biggest fails in French policy. Uh posts nineteen forty six was
about a decade or something, maybe even more than that. Do you remember
when France is like the top marginal tax rate's going to be ninety percent.
I promise I'll get back to the Trump thing and the and the Biden thing
where they said, the top tax rate for the for the you over rich
in France is going to be ninety percent, which is French society is born
upon income, inequality or whatever. Right the haves that have nods being members
of court. Let them eat cake. Oh that's a guillotine. What's going
on? And so they have a they have a long and storied tradition.
But ninety percent was too much for basically all the people who would be tax
ninety percent because it's not like people say the US, we had a top
marginal tax rate of whatever, it was eighty some percent. It's like,
yeah, but that's not the the effective tax rate. If you look through
history, the effective tax rate in the US, if you group everybody doesn't
move much. Is it like eighteen percent or something on average? But it
does, you know, around the edge of it ebbs and flows. And
I remember literally that day, what is Depp Pardue's first name is Gerard right,
the actor, the ugly actor, but they call him but whatever,
he's a good actor. He's like, ah bye, yeah, I'm out.
And they're like, oh my gosh, wait where are the rich people
going? And and Franz you have to understand France was like overrepresented in the
Panama papers, because that's all I told you about when I was in When
I was Panama City and I'm in the I'm in the Hotel Nice Hotel in
the financial district. I look at this quizite condo building across the street which
had a doorman and the park, and I realized, there's no there's really
nobody in there. And then I realized when I'm at the restaurant, which
is like the thirty eighth floor of the hotel, looking into the thirty eighth
floor of the condos, they're not even built out. Most of them.
They're all tax shelters. And so those Panama papers came forward. There's a
lot of big names craziness in there, but a lot of French because they
went Nope, if I'm going to stay, nope, and even if I'm
leaving, I'll probably nope. And they ended up having to undo that because
they were just driving anyone with a big money out of the out of the
country. That is a priority for the new government in France. This thing
that they saw, they just didn't try it right the first time. Ross
what you need or fences or walls to keep people in man I'm seeing this
stuff from France yesterday. Yeah, and I'm looking at the map that came
in. You see the map that's all the social media where like it's all
of France and it's all blue where La Penn won. Right, the only
place she did not win was Paris. And the first thing I thought,
Well, first, I thought, the parliamentary system is ridiculous in garbage and
you talk about these backroom shady deals. It's the definition of it. Right,
I got to build a coalition with the communists just some quote far right
can't win. But also the second thing I thought was thank God for the
electoral College because this is the sort of thing because you hear this all the
time, right when we have an election and I talk to people over in
Europe and UK thanks to the Twitch channel, right, like I talked to
it, and you constantly hear or you read it on social media, like,
oh, the American system doesn't make sense because why you know, the
popular vote should count and what is this? You know, the electoral college
makes no sense. This is the sort of thing it defends against. Yeah,
and so this is why the founders were genius in creating it. Minnesota
when I lived there, and then it was it was swaying. Minnesota had
that to some extent. Obviously they don't have parliamentary so to speak. It's
it's very standard, but it is immediately clear that if you live in Minnesota,
the twin cities are one, they're Minnesota left and outstate is Minnesota right.
And they're almost they at the time were almost equal in voting. That's
why you'd have these crazy Senate races. Were one trunk full of ballots.
Get al Franken in there, thanks Mark Elias, and and and then that
was quickly going the other direction because if you were a kid who wanted to
live in the big city, had lofty ideals, maybe a little little leftist,
not just from Minnesota, but Wisconsin, the Dakota's, Iowa, wherever
you go to Minneapolis. And so the numbers just kept blowing up. Yeah,
no, it's crazy. And this this, this bishop's got to think
of something not even remotely the same thing. Sir, all right, who
do we got raced agic or do you get swept away by stupid the name
hurricane out Hey? Good morning, all right, go ahead with your barrel
update, and then yeah, maybe talk about us for a few Yeah,
Baryl came on shore just before four am Central time, Category one eighty mile
per hour storm impacts now being felt across coastal Texas. Houston being hit hard,
heavy rain, storm surge along the coast, and even severe weather threats.
So Cat one coming on shore near Matagorda, Texas, eighty mile per
hour winds and now heading inland, likely having impacts as far north as maybe
Chicago and Detroit later in the week as a depression, but limited if any
here. I mean, I mean, I guess you can make a case
that the remnant low might be hooked up to a front and eventually and become
extratropical and draw some moisture in here, But that's kind of stretching it a
bit. But we will get some showers. Thunder showers might be a few
trying to sneak in this morning to our south, but most of it this
afternoon's still warm and humid, near ninety. Tomorrow ninety five or the lot
to mid nineties will feel over one hundred again, and Wednesday we'll be back
into the lotta mid nineties again with afternoon storre worms each day. And what
was that I saw while I was away. What o six? All time
record high for Raleigh. You're talking about station with our ratings? Yeah,
well yeah that too. Did we have that too? Again? Boy,
we're good, aren't we. Well it's you know what, you gotta thank
the president and and debates. Yeah they can do that too, right,
Yeah? But what was it? Six? Wasn't it? Gosh? I
was like, wow, good thing. I'm not there to take the heat
for that, but yeah, hot, humid, not quite as hot,
but hot enough. Next couple of days. Okay, well, what's the
next name? Storm? By the way, so you guys, Debbie the
sea storm, Chris Cutting, remember we changed we? Uh we did?
We tell you we changed all the names to we're doing thematically and this year's
storms are all named after eighties wrestlers Roy who was the D Do you remember
who do we go with with D B? Remember who was the D?
Yeah? B was Brutus Beefcake, wasn't it now? I think we saw
the Bam bam Bigeloway then see and then D is we have to come up
with the D storm. So anyway, just consult with us as you go
through talking and out. We'll do it. Yep, there you go,
Ah, are you staging from it'd be like Diamond Dallas Page. Maybe I
don't know. Yeah, I thought we had something, but I don't remember
because my whole life turned into a walking nightmare on Sunday. So I will
get into that story eight oh five, but the shortened version. So there's
that I yesterday took to Twitter with almost no sleep, already in covered in
injuries. I'll explain kind of. I said, I have first level,
first ballot, Hall of Fame, nightmare fuel, and unlike those guys on
Twitter just looking for engagement, Ross, I delivered right our one of the
show, one hundred. Okay, this is not even a question the emails
that I have. I so I wouldn't be surprised if somebody calls your boss
like I can't come in today. But also I can't go into a structure.
I don't know. I didn't mean to do that to you, but
is wild the whole setup how we got there. I'm gonna eliminate that.
But if you want to hear the whole thing our just listen to podcast.
Well I have it for you shortly after the show. Unless Ros gets creeped
out, He's like, nope, I'm out. So just look for it.
I'm going to give you a small version, and if you have a
visceral reaction, I will warn you at the part where I think it might
happen. But soul, my Sunday sucked. Long story short, I went
on vacation. You remember all that, And I know that within the time
that I went on vacation to the weekend, it was actually the end of
last week, but into the weekend, signs were showing. But I didn't
figure out untill Sunday. A the theory. My theory is a piece of
luggage from my travels, either Miami Coastreak or Raleigh. I don't know.
Miami's looking like the spot because I had I went in and was pulling sheets
off this bed that I had not slept under into the sheets, uh until
the last couple of days. Sometimes I sleep in one bed, sometimes I
sleep in the other. Don't try to understand it. And I got I
woke up and I thought, like mosquito. I had left like a screen
open or something. Some mosquitos got in. But it was it was weird,
man, because it looked like a kind of but it had happened before,
and I had to go around like murder, mosquitos, whatever. I
but I felt so bad waking up Sunday morning, I'm like, what is
going on? And I go out. I'm doing some things, make I'm
making some food, and I'm like, I gotta like, I gotta clean
up and then figure out what's going on. So I throw pasta in the
water and then I walk into this bedroom and I'm I'm stripping it down the
throat in the wash right, and that's when I see it. There is
a layer of bedbugs. I had never seen bedbugs in person, and under
I have a pad on there too, so I think the pad off,
there's another layer. It's it's it's like a fifteen minute city or something.
And I'm horrified. But one because now every moment it feels like there's bugs
on my skin, even though I can visually see there's not. I'm having
PTSD on this, and I tell I, tell Ross what's going on.
He's like, you should burn your house down. I'm like, that's probably
where I'm gonna go. But so I doing triage. I'm educating myself because
I don't know a lot about it, and I convince myself that it hasn't
spread out of this nexus very much and due to the short time. And
I get a guy he's coming today. I'm assuming he'll nap palm the house
for me or whatever he does. And we're talking and he actually puts me
a little at ease. He's like, no, this is good, this
is better. And so he told me a couple of horror stories from the
anyway, and he goes, if you caught it early, this is what
we just we're gonna do these things. And I'm like, you should do
all those things multiple times, and then if you want to use fire,
go ahead. But I feel a little better and I kind of the creepy
crawlies go away. I communicate this to Ross, who's instantly like, we
should take time off. So we didn't do that, and I did something
really stupid. I'm like, you know what, Yeah, I gott I'll
come tomorrow. I wonder if I go Nagasaki on him? Right? I
got him, I got him surrounded. I know where they are. They're
in this They're in this one bedroom and then like a little bit in this
bathroom that's the en suite. I got this. Do not do that because
what happened is I hit him. But unlikes the ticks and the fleas and
stuff that the spray also says that it does. It's just the home stuff.
It's not the good stuff. It'll it'll, it'll kill the bedbug.
But you got to hit them straight on. They're not coming by munching on
it later and dying. And instead of swarming me, they immediately broke into
one hundred different tribes and moved throughout started expanding in the house, and I
start freaking out. So now I'm having to do this thing where every like
thirty minutes, I go on like kill team missions, like seal team all
around the house, just trying to to and I had like tried to put
a perimeter and it kept expanding. I'm losing this battle. I'm losing the
war. And it got so bad. I'm like, I have made a
grave mistake that I'm I am walking around this out. I'm walking around my
house. But I want you to visualize this I am wearing because I don't
want them anywhere near my skin, because you have to understand, the only
warm blooded mammals, that's what they feed on. And I'm the only game
in town. I got no pets, I'm not married, no kids,
i'm it, and any room I went into, after a certain amount of
time I would see some, I'd see a couple of them just kind of
like slowly Jason Voory's style, making their way in. They are diabolical.
I respect the hustle, but i'm it. And I have now got on
a pair of real tree that I don't use them for hunting anymore. But
you know, the pants got all the velcrow around them, so you can
literally lock down your your sock situation. If you're like early early hunting,
like early fall beer hunting, you got it the whole thing, or you
just could get eaten alive. Yeah. So I've got those on, which
because these have now made their way to around the house pants and I needed
the longer socks, but the warm weather the wool socks, I want to
wear those. I have the short socks for shoes. So I have on
a pair of dress socks and those pants they velcrow and then they flip the
socks because you need length on the socks, and it tucks it in there
all tight. I then have a long sleeve shirt that tucks and then hooks,
but it's it hooks off the pants and I kind of you know,
rigged it, which is just like it's like an American flag long sleeve shirt,
but it has the velcrow wrists and I've got those on lockdown, but
I need my hands. I have the collar thing up and I had like
a pullover hat. I am basically a middle Eastern, more moderate woman.
It's not the full uh you know, the full beaded thing. Most people
are mistake it and think that's the whole outphit. There's an abaya the job,
and then there's the veil. But anyway, so it's open. That's
what I look like, except nothing matches. And my neighbor's like what is
he doing? And I'm running around frantic. That's not the bad part.
That's the setup. So now I have I'm like, I don't know what
to Ross was right. I should not I should take the day off because
you couldn't pay me to sleep. And it's like, do I go to
the hotel? And if I go to a hotel, this thing they're gonna
they'll have all the houses right, and then there'll be a bed bug paradise
and I'm not gonna let the squatters win. So I continue this and I
prep and I do all these things, and I'm running around doing all this
stuff and I'm sweaty, I'm gross, I feel defeated, and I'm like,
I have to like clean up a little. I gotta get my I
gotta get prepped done, and I gotta figure out what I'm gonna do to
get a little bit of sleep, because everywhere I go, even if they
weren't there, they're coming because that's what Vorhees does. And here is here's
the part. Here's the part where I'm just gonna let you know you should
right here. But it's part of the cautionary tail. So I think I
got a pretty good handle on I'll be able to sleep on this one couch
because it's you know, it's leather feel and they're more fabricy and it's got
metal legs. I don't know if they fully get up that they can,
by the way, and then I'll kind of cord it off and that'll work.
And then I got some clothes were nowhere near it. I gave him
a visual inspection everything, and they'd been freshly washed. Do We're fine,
And I got everything where they can't get to it. So I go and
I shower and I'm in the shower, and one of the things that happens
if you wear a headful lot of headphones for work, like we do pilots.
I guess to some others, your ears can get a little clogged up.
So I actually have like a flush kit in in that shower, and
the thing works like gang bas fans great, and so all right, I'm
gonna hit these bad boys. It never dawned on me, is it been
a while? And I flushed the right ear? All right? Worked?
That was much like, We're good. I know it's a little gross,
and I'm like, all right, cool, I hit the left here.
I'm starting to feel better. I'm like, plans working. I don't see
him just great. And the moment that rinsed out while everyone was running around
trying to eat me, this guy is like, I'm going cave diving,
and that's what he did. No, that's not even the worst part.
You feeling it, aren't you the little tingly sensation. The worst part is
this. So I look over and he's on my shoulder, and let's just
I didn't have the most manly reaction. But I'm like, you're going down
the drain right now. I can't. And the moment he's off and I
think I'm clear. I feel wiggling in my right ear. And I told
you the story of when I was early twenties, me and a buddy are
like, let's go to all the baseball stadiums. We have no money,
and so we we did. We did. We did Baltimore and went to
the Mets. We didn't get Yankees, I know, we suck, and
went to Boston and went to Then We're gonna loop around through New England and
then come back through Cooperstown and then drive backs as I was obviously not living
in North Carolina and somewhere we we have no money, and so imagine our
surprise on the roads of New Hampshire, whichever one doesn't allow billboards. There
is this roadside motel that has a sports bar attached to the motel and a
driving range with like five bays, and it says you stay here, you
play here. And we did have clubs with us because we're going to play
the course in Cooperstown. And in the middle of the night, I wake
up, I'm like, what is going on in Oh it's a spider and
it crawled in my ear and I made rookie mistake and I went to the
shower and d and it stayed with me like the next week we were still
out and then when I got back home event it came out and I'm like,
don't make that mistake. So I know I got to negotiate with this
monster, which you know, don't just jam him in there. The trick
that I found that does that did work is a little whale in the ear.
But you actually it's weird because you actually want up that you're facing up.
I'm pulling away from the bike and you want it up so like they
can float out because if not, you'll just drown it. I can't.
Yeah, so grust If I wake up and I'm doing my morning routine and
bugs start falling out of my ears, I am I'm done for the day.
And you you were saying early in the show, very early before we
went on the air, like you know, like five fifty whatever, you're
you're testing your microphone out and this is before you told me about the bugs
in your ears. Yeah, you're like, oh man, the microphone doesn't
sound right. It does sound right to you. How come I and how
come this doesn't stutter? Because you got bugs in your ears? Man?
I think well, actually, I think the microphones sounded different because I the
I literally bumped this thing, and I have different headphones. I just switch
out headphones, so not for that reason. Just because I got some newer
ones, you may have to buy new headphones like mat oh the match that
they's gone. Yeah, I know there's a bunch of stuff like anything in
that bathroom that's not a gazillion dollars. It's gone. Owls, bath mats,
they're gone. And I want to apologize too, because I made the
joke previously about before I knew about all this, like I just knew.
I knew it the bed bugs, but you know about like the ears.
I was on the upswing with you, right right, and I just said,
being funny, I said, you know, hey, your skin is
hanging up your bones. Have you become the host of a space cockroach?
Right? Are you drinking sugar water? I'm drinking tea iced tea, so
unsweet? I know that's so. When's the bug guy come? Uh?
Eleven thirty? Yeah, yep, eleven thirty. I I mean I gotta
go. Triage free gets there, right. You mean if I were you,
dude, I would move I would well do it. So Nate Palmer
Arson. I don't know if you decided, but dude, it's just horribleness,
just horribleness. I promise you though, if you want like the full
horror movie experience, since in you know, the growing sense of dread.
You think it's going one way, it's going another. Dumb decisions by the
protagonist, right, Ah, I'm gonna run in the woods with heels,
or I'm gonna I'm gonna murder them before the guy can get here tomorrow.
Like all of those elements, all the good horror elements, or at least
uh stereotypical one, they're all in there. I could say this is terrifying,
and this is an experience that I think more people had living in North
Carolina was like once this happened. I want to say, this was like
ten years ago where we were watching a movie in bed and all of a
sudden was movement and it was one of those good old fashioned, big old
North Carolina palmetto bugs and the shrieking that we went a dude, terrifying.
I can't even imagine having a whole colony of bedbugs. Did you win the
shriek off with the wife or that it was super I'm sure I did.
Yeah, I always win. I dominate. Yes, yeah, yeah,
yeah, I'm not gonna lose. H you had to win it, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean dude. And then I'm just like,
I gotta tell this story. It's yeah, I have to. And
then there was a moment too where I'm not kidding. I thought I felt
bad for making fun of the dude who burned his house. There's two different
ones because they were trying to get spiderwebs out one of like garage rafters,
the other one in the basement or something, and spider webs burned like a
son of a gun. I don't know if you guys know this. And
so he's got a whole house. Well what did you think was gonna happen?
He burnt his house down. But I was doing all the reading getting
to know the bedbugs and uh, it's like they hate heat. And I'm
like, I got a blow torch in one hand and a fire extinguished in
the other. That's safe, right, And I thought about it because I
was running. I was I ran out of murder Spray had like a big
tall the raid you know, tick flee whatever. It's got the bed bugs
on there but I used the whole damn can, and there was like three
quarters when I started probably poisoned myself. So that was that was. That
was my Sunday. And now I have the creepy Crawley's again to every time
I tell it, so I'm not gonna tell it again. You want to
hear the full version, go to the podcast. It's there for your first
hour. Oh all right, we will be back. Hang on, have
we I'm trying to think we've known. It's never even been like talked about
with management. I remember I just wanted a window for ten years because they
were gonna put us in the h the old morning show studio for the organisation.
Yeah, people are always surprised to learn that we're we're like nowhere like
in this his studio. Yeah yeah yeah different. Ross is his studio,
It is mine is described as spartan. Ross is Mine is very cozy.
Cozy that's a good word. Yeah, very uh unique. And then he'll
put like signage to block his window but also confuse people, and then he'll
get a misspelled award and then he hung that for like a year. So
you never know what you're gonna see anyway. So there you go. Yeah,
that's no. Would you rather, hey, would you rather help me
tree eye or clean up after the dude hits the house today? Or help
a dude move out of an eight bedroom house. I'd probably go with the
movie. I don't know. Yeah, I don't want to risk bringing the
bugs back to the my house and with Lincoln and stuff, so well,
no, just go. You just go in, walk into like a giant
industrial uh, like smelting nothing, right, So all I need to do
after I help you with the b uggs if that were the case, We're
to jump in like a giant like a chemical plant, like the Joker in
the Michael Keaton Batman movie. I really feel heats the answer here, so
I think you gotta Yeah, but yeah, you could do that whatever,
man, whatever makes you feel better, that's fine, Like crazy crazy day.
There's even other parts. I just I'm not gonna go back into it.
But I just keep remembering different stuff, all right, I'll tell you
this one. There was a moment while I was negotiating with the holdout in
the right ear right, Squatters writes whatever, and I'd done the oil thing
once, I've done the water once. Then I did them both again and
I'm like every time you do it, like he gives you this indication like
all right, all right, I get it. I get it, and
then nothing. And now I've got a little water in the ear too.
So I'm like doing the thing where you're trying to jerk your head so it
comes out, because maybe he'll just surf on out. And again my brain's
not with me. So I'm I do this and I stand, I walk
out on my patio because water, you know, water might come out.
And again my neighbors have to think I am insane because now like I'm trying
to bite my ear or something, and I'm dressed in like, uh poor
man poor man's bow hunting attire and dress socks. There's all reason is gone.
And and by the way, if you don't and so I had this
thought, well those didn't work. I the goal is not to kill him.
I learned my lesson with the spider. But you got to be a
firm negotiator. So I'm gonna arder the deal. This thing. I'm not
gonna spray the entire can of rate in my ear, but maybe just a
little to know I mean business, and it sprays the wrong word, like
yeah, I get a little get the the essence of it, it's probably
Q tip or something. It's probably bad because it's a nerve agent. So
I would it crossed my mind for as long as it took me to explain
it. I'm like, that is a horrible ideal. So I would be
better off, as I said, just having John Wicks stick his insul in
my ear, because then at least I don't have to think about this anymore.
And you know, he's probably dead. So what today? What a
day? Now? Arguably worst day South Carolina. Sorry to make that transition,
but we're short on time. And again another thing I feel bad.
I did the standard fourth of July promom. Who's not gonna be able to
count to ten? What's gonna happen in the world of fireworks? And then
the first to emerge. You see the video of the dude in the in
the electric wheelchair and the kid lights well, you know like a stack of
where there's like twelve of the box that go off right next to him.
He's trying to have the dude light it, and then the guy helps him
and then they're lit and he goes to light he goes to the I'm gonna
get to the Sharon harristing here in just a moment. I'm waiting. I'm
waiting for one other thing so to chill out. So he he like,
I don't know if he turn earned it off or what. But he's now
directly next to us, and like his thing isn't moving, his little joystate
it ain't working, and these things are about to who the hell knows right,
And thankfully didn't get injured. But after a few of them whatever,
it started moving. But the other guy ran so far he couldn't even push
him. I know that's as bad as it was. No, how do
we not know it's the m eighty thing. Think about this, we're dealing
fibers. If you have an am eighty go off in your hand, it's
gonna your hand's gonna get messed up. Surely you still have a hand,
probably mostly functional when you're done, because it's not under pressure, so it
has even though it's gonna. You know, it's harder for it to expand
against the hand. It has a lot of and we can get into the
physics of it, but that's you know, it's a it's a much better
option. If you close your hand has gone bye bye. Hand, you're
you're uh. I guess maybe creeping people out who just instinctively shake with one
hand because your other one's gone and they're gonna feel bad. So anyway,
this guy won a different route, and the fact that it's coupled with this
like TikTok video thing is wild to me. So this guy in South Carolina,
life of the party joker, you know, get families there, he's
got friends there. He's always cutting up what do they refer to him as
the show mooting but funny dad. He has on a he has a super
Fourth of July, and to top it off, he has a comically oversized
think turd ferguson SNL Jeopardy, the cowboy hat like Uncle Sam top hat,
patriotic as a as a you know what. And for some reason he decides
he's smoking a cigarette. He's doing like a funny jig. He's in the
red, white and blue. Everything's fine, and there's you can see like
smoke behind him, and then he sla he's like doing finger guns, kicks
his feet and then it all goes horribly wrong because that was a full on
mortar. And the mortar in question, when I say behind him was not
behind him, but rather on him. And this is a big boy,
it's on him. And it's further problematic because he's got this the crazy hat
man, which even though it's big for some of that size is it's a
horrible idea and he did not make it. Uh what is he? He's
HVAC worker. So now now with the jig, it's fine. I just
want to I wanna be a bundlely clear. So he's doing this this silly
video for those he's using something smaller, but then he had to keep up
being the ante and later on the forty one year old according to family,
this is his wife. I thought he was just showboating before he set it
on the ground as I watched him pick up a large mortar lit and do
what he did with the other little ones, put it on his head and
you're done. You're done. And uh yeah, here's the And I don't
know why this is one of the first things that cross my mind. Family's
there. Do you remember the awful moon back college moonbats and just other distasteful
people who right as Trump got into office, if anybody had an American flag,
they were triggered and they would like lose their crap. So they just
couldn't fathom that somebody has an American flag. And it wasn't just the trucks
with like four flying. But as soon as you let them know that bother
you, then you know it was just an up the antithing. But they
would like flip out on people who had a bumper sticker that you know probably
been there for five years or something. Uh it is, we're having it
because it was so triggering. Well, you all are stupid. I don't
believe you this family. I will say, if you're triggered by the American
flag, I going for it. I would understand. And like I can't
even imagine because you're in South Carolina, and South Carolina they did. They
loved them some flags. They love any representation products you can't. South Carolina
is one of those states, not the only one where the chances of you
coming across multiple flag representations on a day where you just run a few errands
are very high. It's like it's like if you're ever in a if you're
ever somewhere and there's a group of guys in the store and they get a
little accent and trying to place it, you will know if they're from Texas,
because somebody will have something referencing Texas as as a garment. They can
have a Texas belt buckle, lone star hat, whatever. Man. I
picked some dudes out in a grocery store in another country one time, like
those are Texans, And I just seen him across because the dude had the
he had the quintessential Texas hat and belt buckle match, And of course they
all were so like if that's I again, I mean, I don't even
know how to pick it apart other than to say that's awful. I just
like, and then Fourth of July, which is one of the fun holidays,
right, but I mean that sympathetically because and then you're there and it's
just oh, it's the whole thing is just horrible, man, but also
dumb as hell. Don't do that, right, just I don't build the
oil to the top to deep friar Turkey raced agic from the Weather Channel.
I don't know if you actually did that, but maybe you did. Got
close ones. I remember when that first trend started. I'm like, does
nobody understand how displacement works? And it was clear they did not clearly,
or they don't try to get you throw it in there. Yeah that too,
but you know what, and now you don't have a garage, so
good on you, so the Lord you wouldn't. Yeah, it does,
it does, So any garage record is coming our way. What's up?
I don't know. It stays hot and humid the next few days upper eighties
to low nineties today, load to mid nineties tomorrow and Wednesday. Storm chances
will be best during the afternoon, how whurs otherwise hazy and warm. There
might even be some fog in spots next few mornings, but the rain,
if you do get a thunderstorm, we have the potential to produce some downpours
too, so hopefully that'll cool you off just a bit. Boy, it
was a hot week and hot weekend. I don't see really temperatures going too
much below ninety degrees until maybe later in the week, when, especially the
Tria, you may end up in the upper eighties rather than ninety or just
above ninety degrees. With the shower thunderstorm chances with us each day here this
week, so another look like we're gonna see widespread all day rain. I
think the better chances will come later in the week. Hopefully everybody getting some
barrow did come on shores, a Category one storm with eighty mile per hour
winds and now bringing wind and rain and even some hurricane force wind gusts in
and around Houston and Galveston, water rise and now power out to over a
million customers in the state of Texas. Obviously there's no flights in and out
at Hobby or Intercontinental and other regional airports, so certainly call ahead and figure
out what your travel plans are if you did have some travel plan to the
Great State of Texas, because even Dallas could be impacted with some heavy rain
too. As we go through the morning and into the afternoon, then all
that moisture get drawn up into the Ohio Valley, the northeast New England as
either depression and or eventually a remnant low, so rain will be in the
forecast, maybe Chicago, Detroit, but especially to the south southeast of them,
and then some of that moisture gets into the northeast, Dani Winga.
So we escape this one, but I'm sure there'll be more. Do you
do a Texas station or not? U daily? Yes? Actually do San
Antonio, Okay, yep, good, try to get him to shoot at
it. It's Florida and Texas, I feel are convincible states sometimes. So
all right, let me know how that goes. Okay, Yanks, Yep,
dude, I'm the start and stuff. Anyway, we'll be back.
Hang on. Well, good morning, Casey. Stock's advanced in slow trading
on Friday, Investors hoping a gradual cooling of the job market will help convince
Federal Reserve Board policymakers to start cutting interest rates later this year. Futures are
pointing higher this morning, and now futures are up seventy six. Well here
from Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Tomorrow. He'll spend Tomorrow and Wednesday on Capitol
Hill discussing monetary policy with lawmakers. That long drama over the future of Paramount
Global is over. Paramount has agreed to merge with Skydance Media in a complex
deal. Boeing agreed to plead guilty to criminal conspiracy charges stemming from the twenty
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hundred forty six people. Federal prosecutors accused the airplane maker of violating an agreement
with the government. A couple of the discount chains are launching sales ahead of
Amazon's Prime Day events scheduled for next Tuesday and Wednesday. This is Circle Week
at Target. The retailer has started emailing offers to members of its loyalty program.
Walmart deals will be in effect today through Thursday. And kids just starting
their summer vacations. Casey won't want to hear this, but Target sent out
a news release this morning about back to school deals. Oh you think that's
bad, Rosching? He's watching his Christmas movies already. Yeah. Yeah,
I have a neighborhood website and one of the people complained that Halloween was already
up the stores they visited. Well, and I probably bought candy. So
what are you gonna do? All right, thank you, sir, appreciate
it. Okay, have a good day. Yeah, all right, there
you go. What is it expanded to the one hundred and Yeah, let's
say it's a Hayes family. One hundred and seventy one days of Christmas kicked
off yesterday with Ernest saved Christmas. Oh okay, all right, you can
do worse for that.