All right, good morning everybody in happy Wednesday wed nest Day, or however
it's weirdly spelled. You do, man, what uh? Don't let the
door hit your article but in reverse? This uh. I was just reading
this op ed from the La Times this morning. I can't wait to get
get to this Sada Oliver treit Ross. Did you see the La Times uh
editorial addressing Californians that are fleeing? Dude, dude, this is all right?
So La Times Uh Paul Thornton, who is the opinion editor, has
penned a piece asking the soon to be former citizens of California for a favor.
The piece entitled, Hey, if you want to leave, fine,
but could you not insult us on the way out? No, that's the
actual headline. Right. So, apparently apparently such a staggering number of Californians
are fleeing, and there's been some pretty high pro pile cases of individuals like
I don't know, Elon Musk, right, who didn't just move his house.
He moved what was one of the top ten, i want to say,
one of the top three largest companies in California from a revenue generation standpoint,
right, So, because he wanted to be able to make cars during
COVID and they're like, Nah, you can't do that. Yes, that's
right. The La Times is beseeching soon to be former Californians to not say
negative things about the state, and went on to remind them that as they
move away, and I get, you know what this is, this is
somewhat accurate. I guess, depending on where they live. I have a
neighbor who moved from the Bay Area and he lives in the really nice part
of the neighborhood. Technically it's not in my neighborhood anymore. It's in I'll
tell you. I'll tell you where he lives. He lives right at five
points. I live way down the street where my houses, but he lives
right there. So if you're in if you're in Raleigh and you're driving up
Glenwood and Fairview, he lives within like two blocks that intersection. So you
understand the price of the houses we're talking about. Bro moved from California and
paid cash and and like he didn't he didn't even have a big house.
And thankfully he brought politics with them, but they were not California politics.
So there's that for you. And so in the in the op ed,
in this weird, weird way, the editors remind Californians who are leaving to
be thankful because as they leave California, due to the wonderful economy in California
and the housing prices, any any equity they have in their home is going
to go a long way in many of the places they move, and examples
include Nashville, North Carolina, the Charlotte, they mentioned Charlotte and others,
and so that they should be very thankful that they were able to build that
equity because of California's magnanimous nature or something. It's it is holy crap,
is it something? Yeah, So we had this wildly expensive economy and taxed
accordingly, and now you're sick of it, and you should thank us because
we forced you to be a richer person. That's quite a take, man,
That is quite a take. You know what it vibes with? Is
it? You know? Deblasio said something like this one time, right,
he was asked about New Yorker's leaving and he's like, well, you know,
those New York dollars they're going to go a long way. And that's
quite I mean, that's a mindset, man. That's a mindset right there.
We've created this this economic situation where it is untenable for people, and
as they leave, they should remind themselves that the years they chose to suffer
through it, they're better for it. And I'm like, so, so
wait a say, that doesn't sound like you defending how awesome your your your
your place is there? Did you hear what you just set or in this
case, what you just wrote. That's like the only example I could think
of is like you grow up somewhere like it's extreet. You know, you
grew up in some country where like machete attacks were a thing, right,
and finally you were able to get out of there, right you did whatever
legally. Let's go with legally, because that's the distinction we have to make.
And like the former dictator who you know who used rape as a weapons,
like, well, you know, at least it's gonna be tough out
there. What a dumb take, man, But you know it was very
amusing this morning, So I did appreciate that. Oh hey, Ross,
let me ask you a question. Do you have any relatives that like,
yeah, like you've had such little interaction or the interaction was so similar each
time that like, if you had to rack your brain, maybe had just
a just a couple memories that stick out. I mean, you know,
extended relatives. I'm sure everyone's got one. I'm assuming you have one.
Yeah, I can think of one. Yeah, okay, all right.
So one of those in my family he passed away. Yeah, he passed
away two days. They passed away on Monday. But I found out yesterday
and did uh for those of you out there, did you all ross you
saw the new True Grit? Right? The Coen Brothers. I thought,
how how how weird is it that there's two of a movie and you're like,
yeah, that I like them both. I mean it's Hollywood, right,
So it's like that was that was a rare win. And you remember
the scene where they have they've gone to the cabin and did their visit with
that dude, and now they're they're making their way further into the Arkansas territory
and there's a dude hanging in the tree, right, and they take the
dude down and then they pass through. And then a little while later they're
like, somebody's following us, and they stop and here comes the worst version
of Jeremiah Johnson you've ever seen, and he's got that body sloped over his
mule and he tries to like sell it to him for teeth or something.
Do you remember that? I do remember that, Sorry for the loss,
by the way, that was him, not the actual actor, but like
the dude that was based off of. And well I appreciate that too,
by the way, but I had very little interaction with him. And the
reason was is he's a relative. Because there's one my dad's oldest brother is
quite a bit older than him, and so like and the cousins run the
gamut. They have three biological kids that are much older than me, and
they have five adopted kids from the Philippines. So yeah, you big family,
a whole deal there. And then one of them is the the oh
what is I'm sorry I forgot? Is right, he's the highest enlisted rank
in the army and he's he's done now, but highest enlisted rank in the
army achievable, right, So he did his whole life there and he anyway,
so that family, but he's quite a bit older than me. And
this one of my cousins married this girl who was the daughter of this guy,
so that is the relative connection. We're not blood relatives any of that,
but that family I come. I came to find out that, like
she was in high school before they had an indoor toilet. And this isn't
you know, this is not the nineteen fifties. This is a household in
the nineties in Wyoming, so it's still like the old like the ultimate mountain
man. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. And her youngest brother,
who's way younger than her, was in my grade. His name was
Josh. He was He was an interesting cat. He was very quiet,
so I wouldn't say that we were friends, but you know, but that
was just his nature. So anyway, that's who married in and I and
when we were kids. He was also the dude that was kind of scary
to little kids, but he was He was a fine dude. But what
was crazy is other than just some you know, little interactions here. I
only really had one memory of him, and it made me laugh because I
hadn't thought about it. And it was like the one time he like injected
himself into family stuff. And I remember part of it. And then my
mom explained it to a little more when I was older, because she thought
it was hilarious. So he showed up at at the school and it was
Halloween, and he showed up because Josh, you know, his youngest son
was there. And he showed up and he I remember talking to him,
and then later I went over. I went home and he is at my
house and he kind of walks out. He'd been talking to my mom and
had some like weird look on his face and didn't say anything. He was
always very quiet, dude. He was concerned over my fascination with turtles and
why I would want to be a turtle on Halloween because he thought it was
he thought it was not very masculine. And my mom had to explain to
him that I was not just a turtle. I was a Ninja turtle.
He had no concept of the Ninja Turtles. And this was in the meat
of it, right, this is lunchbox. You're also talking about a family
that possibly at this point had had running water in the house, right,
So I'm doubting, and he never seen the Ninja turtles before, you know,
this would have been just shy of running water. Well, they had
running water, they didn't have a bathroom as what it was, so like
they they they piped in stuff and then but they he didn't bother build a
bathroom. Although it wasn't just a standard outhouse, it was like kind of
connected. But you started to walk outside, it was it was super strange,
but well, you know, it worked whatever. But yeah, and
the look on his face walking out was like like, even after she explained
to him, he like just acquiesced, but he never understood it. And
I just thought it was so strange because I was so excited. We had
a great costume back in the day. Dude, my mom, my mom,
like your wife's good at like sewing stuff and making stuff, She's awesome
about it. Right, My mom was pretty good at that too, And
she transformed a box into the most amazing shell right cardboard box. When you
open it and then kind of crimp it together. All you gotta do is
kind of like bend it and then tape it up and color it and uh
it. And she meant and I was so excited for this thing, which
when you're a kid, you're excited, and then I think, about ten
minutes into wearing it, I was not excited anymore as per usual, but
but he was so like and I could not understand it. I thought it
was in trouble. It was racking my brain. Other than that's like the
only big memory I have of this dude. And now it's hilarious. We
had my mom explaining Ninja turtles to him and him being disgusted. Which turtle
were you? Because that could explain it. You weren't don Tello, right,
No, god, no, oh yeah, that's why probably if you
were Donaello, he'd fleet to the mountains. He's like, I'm out,
Well, he lived in the mountains. He lived a way, he'd yeah,
you go we to the top. Yeah, they lived off the road.
It was called muddy Guard. And the reason it was called muddy guard
is it was a It was called a weather road, and that means you're
subject to the weather because we knew anything to maintain it. And like they
would, Josh should not show up for school for like weeks after a big
snowstorm. It was crazy. Man and his wife passed away right around the
right around this. Now he she would have passed away a little after this,
and like they were, they were super self sufficient. But yeah,
no, I was Michelangelo, and I had like a rebar where I had
where my uncle attacked welded like a handle on it. It was the most
ghetto sword you've ever seen. But I wasn't gonna be Rafael. I felt
bad for those kids. What are those weapons? Even? I have to
assume the other Turtles can beat the crap out of Rafayel. You know,
Raphael is the most popular Turtle now, you know that, right? Like
people are because of his attitude. They like his attitude. Okay, well,
look when you're in the you know, when you're in the octagon,
so to speak. Uh is is that what counts? That? You remember
the movie when he was up on top of the roof, like taking on
like fifty of the foot by himself. You're talking not the new the new,
the one we saw when we were kids. Yeah, yeah, okay,
good because I didn't watch the new one. I just couldn't. Yeah.
No, the popularity of the Turtles has always been I would probably say
Michaelangelo was always less popular Raphael, Leonardo and Donatello. You think Donatello was
last? Of course he was last. He was the nerd and he had
a stick. Nobody liked Donatello. Yeah, but that stick, but nobody
likes Donatello. Would you rather have a length weapon or something where you have
to get I know that, but the personality has a lot to do with
it. And Donatello was the nerd of the group. Nobody liked Donatello and
Leo was a close one. But Leo was boring too. He was like
Vanilla. Okay, you know when he was in when he was in that
Pow camp, you could argue that the Russian interrogator slash Torture had a lot
more personality than Rambo. Right right, Hey, I'm telling you how it
is. I don't want you to embarrass yourself out here. Well I embarrassed
my uncle, all right, Well I called him an uncle. He's obviously
I don't know he'd be an uncle, but yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, he was embarrassed. And I wanted to be a turtle
and he was like f yeah, he's like, uh, what's wrong with
this kid? You're tell you're a lunatic. Yeah, turtles don't do martial
arts. Ah well what slaps you? Yeah? Yeah, you know that
creek you dump all of your tractor fluid. It that's how you get turtles.
That's how you get turtles. John So anyway, but yeah, yeah,
that was the thing. So it's just weird what you remember, man,
Just like the one offs. I have a couple of relatives like that.
I'm sure you all do too. You're just like, oh yeah,
yeah, yeah, that that thing. The one time I have an uncle
called that we nick nay, it was nicknamed uncle Smoke And I still don't
know why he didn't smoke, but they said he used to. So there
you go. All right, hang on, we'll be back keeping you connected.
This is ninety four to five w PTI and the Triad and one six
one FM Talk and the Triangle. All right, good morning everybody, and
welcome back, six thirty five and hitting ye old halfway mark. A little
rain but is uh a little drizz and we'll talk to Ray coming up.
But as that moves in, obviously the warmer temperatures, so you know that's
the trade off, but it's a January trade off. I think a lot
of people are willing to make. All right, dude, do there we
go? All right? So I'm scam, I'm sca. I can't wait
to talk about this. This is great. Oh Ross, Oh no,
you know what, never mind. I was going to ask you for something
then I realized I still have it on the button bar okay, all right,
so any who, yesterday Israel proffered a ceasefire. Did you hear about
this? Because this is what everyone, I understand wanted, all the students,
all the protesters, all the idiots. The damn near ran me over
at that roundabout in front of n State with their their stupid parade that violated
about nine laws, almost injured people, and yet apparently as a regular enough
thing that I talked to my police buddies like, yeah, that's a thing.
So they offered a ceasefire all of y'all who wanted that. Uh what
what do they want in return? All right, let me just set the
stage here because this is very important as we go through the update. Uh,
they wanted the hostages released, but that sounds kind of reasonable. Huh
your whole No, we still have Americans being held or at least uh you
know, dual citizens, but you know Americans. So yeah, you want
to you want to cease fire the San France obviously this was pushed forward by
San Francisco's City Council's resolution. I'm sure that's what drove it. And uh
yeah, they offered it up in exchange for the release of the hostages.
And specifically they had a list of the hostages, and that's important because it
disallows them saying, well, look, the some of the hostages they want
are you know, they're spies and that's not what we're here to negotiate.
They listed, you know, the standard folks that were rounded up, who
are clearly, unless there's something I guess we don't know, are probably not
Israeli spies. Like you know, that ten year old is probably not an
Israeli spy. I think, although to be fair, these are the same
idiots who what they remember they captured an eagle that they thought was a Jewish
spy and killed it because it had it was banded, and it was on
the band there was Jewish writing and it was from it was like some from
the university or something. Obviously a Jewish spy. So so they offered the
ceasefire. All of you have been out protesting, blocking traffic, chanting from
the river to the sea, like you don't know what it means. The
ceasefire was offered. Hamas has rejected the ceasefire. So that's done, right,
All of that, all of that lunacy is done with city councils.
And uh, there was one in this small town in Iowa of like a
thousand people. I don't know how they got all those moonbats packed in there,
but they advocated everyone wanted a ceasefire. The ceasefire was offered and Hamas
has rejected it. So there you go. You got what you wanted.
Do you go protest Hamas? I think you have to write because correct me
if Ross correct me if I'm wrong. They were protesting anyone and everyone,
including child cancer patients, anyone they thought was standing in the way of a
ceasefire, which is obviously an eight year old with you know, leukemia.
I get you got to go protest to most They're the only thing standing in
the way here. Now I feel like we need to get a you know,
maybe some travel options. I'm sure folks would kick in a few bucks
to get you over there that's done, or or other option, rather than
you know, going over there and talking to the people who are now standing
officially in the way of this thing. You want you can continue to do
large scale theater performance in front of the White House. I have to admit
I heard there were some idiots up there pretending to be like Israel and you
know, like and then other protesters were pretending to be the Palestinians and it
was this kabuki theater where they were. It looked like the first the first
part of the mini series of Roots. And I'm not exaggerate Ross you dubbed
in the video today, Right, that's the look they were going for.
They were straight up up like it was. It was and it was aggressive.
And the dude dressed is the jew I don't know why I laughed,
it was just it was so ridiculous. So they have guy like in a
storm Trooper camo set up with you know, he's got the face covered and
all that, but he has a big Jewish flag on and so he is
the persecutor in this in this weird bit of theater outside of the White House.
And then a bunch of other shirtless uh moonbats are the Palestinians. Uh,
And they're just very It's so weird. Yeah, the person playing the
like the Jewish person is looks like Jeremy Renner and the hurt Locker. But
it's also a female, like super aggressive, is it? Is it?
Though? I mean, are we sure a good point? Yeah? I
know, I don't know, But like everywhere this whole this whole fever dream
has been en. And I again, this is not about me telling you
I'm not advocating for Israel either. I'm just I'm like, I'm simply like
I normally do, because I genuinely start at a negative one for everybody and
everything, right, I'm not even indifferent to most people. I'm I'm generally
like, I just assume you're gonna be waste my time. And it's not
even an ego thing. It's just like, I'm just really, I guess
maybe I'm just lazy doing the interactions because we do it for a living and
it's nothing personal. But like, I understand people got beef all over and
I don't I honestly most of the time. Like if it's your beef,
handle your beef kind of thing. So I understand people are passionate, but
like it's so over the top when you see the reporting versus the reality on
the ground, and you understand some of the military stuff, and yeah,
you also understand that it's a war of of in the press in the same
way that Ukraine Russia is too, right, So that's fine, But once
you are offered exactly what you want, I feel like it kind of stimies
you. And yet I don't feel that they're gonna stop doing this this weirdness.
All right, so listen to this. This is this is going on
in front of the White House the other day. These are just normal people,
absolute normal people. Nothing to see here. Get on your knees.
What the animals? You like being old? You like being hungry? That
the animal should be. That's Ross's woman by the way, right there by
the way. Did you find any irony in her asking them if they're hungry,
why'd you take all my food? It looks like they didn't. I
have had a meal in five seconds. Yeah, it looks like she retained
most of the most of the uh MRIs or whatever. All right, anyway
back to uh this person, how about your old Lamas? Yeah? Which
Ira, here's the ironic, the ironic part two. She's kind of making
Israel's case right because she's identifying the people that are being held captive as Hamas
rather than just Palestinians like the right, which is the line that normal people
draw, like they can recognize that there's Palestinians that probably are not fans of
Hamas, and but that's that's where they live, and they don't have the
resources necessarily break away, and Hamas was even stopping people from leaving and you
but you can also recognize Hamas's Hamas and they were making uh you know,
uh spring break rape videos. So so and you sit there and do that,
you're kind of making the point of that right there. They that was
denied by I don't know, three college professors. Trus you Tess, you
knew, Neil Trus you knew, just you knew. How have you belong
he this is the chosen lad of Israel. Now anybody moved, you will
die onnest. Thank you. This is not dubbed by We did not add
sound effects. Keep money. So this is going on in front of the
White House. By the way, I have a question. So let's say
a group of conservative protesters rout in front of the White House. They just
had the march for the anti abortion march. Okay, all right, you
didn't see a lot of coverage. I'm sure that was just an oversight of
the part of the media. But that happened last weekend. I have to
think if one hundred pro life protesters were doing some sort of theatrical performance which
included literally the discharge of things meant to sound like gunfire right in front of
the White House. That I don't know. I feel like it would have
ended different. That's just me. But I also feel like this chick didn't
research her role very well, Like how generic it was almost she was out
of stuff to say. She wants them to kneel and if everybody it's like
she watched the first part of the movie Heat and then channeled that into her
Jewish tormentor character. But now you got what you want. It's your theater
paid off. What do you do? What do you do it? It's
the big gaping hole in this story that I'm looking for. I was scrolling
Twitter looking at some of the you know, the people who are the river
to the Sea folks, and like, apparently they're busy. They're busy talking
about other stuff, doing other things. But it was a ceasefire for the
release of hostages, identified hostages that are just you know, Jewish citizens or
dual citizens that you decided, and some of them are not even Jewish.
I think there's there's some folks that are either non religious or there's there was
two Christians, although they released the Christian lady and her son who were just
happened to be over there. So there it is, and I'll be very
interested to see today how that moves forward. What is this? How did
Biden? Oh you no, No, we'll get to the new Hampshire thing.
That whole thing's weird, man, We'll get to the new Hampshire thing,
because yes, Trump one and Biden one. But there's on the Biden
side. There's a little interesting backstory, but not really. It's not a
big state and it was it was a circumstance that rose from a beef with
the party and the National Party, the state party in the National Party.
So yeah, we will get into those details, but it's not that interesting.
And then Nikki Haley was second. I know you're surprised, although it
was it was much closer than say, in Iowa, just not in Gobbler's
Knob or Dick still notch. So we'll get to the details on that and
let's see here. Yeah all right, yeah, well chataway. I'm sorry.
I was just looking at my calendar here. Why did I think it
was Thursday today? Hey? Ross, can we just pretend it's Thursday?
Yes? How about Friday? Can we pretend it's Friday? I can't believe
we're here on a Saturday, is it? So? Oh my gosh,
what do we know? Go home? Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry.
Yeah. And you know, you know those days where you think it's
a different day. You don't just do it once, you just I know
that at several other points today, for whatever reason, we'll think it's Thursday.
I don't know why human brains do that, or maybe it's just mine.
Anyway, six forty eight Hang on, This is one O six one
FM Talk in the Triangle and News TALKPTI and the Triad. All right,
I have a question, and let's go ahead and get this going. What's
going on over at NASA as well as with NASA's partners in the exploration of
space, you know, the folks who run the various telescopes all of that.
I'm asking because NASA used to be you know, it was it was
about the science, man, and it was fascinating. What was fascinating is
the science and the capacity for a learning curve. And then by the way,
this is it. Please don't call with We didn't go to the moon,
right, so we'll we'll have that another day, okay, but for
today, like if you look at the technology of nineteen. When did Kennedy
make that speech sixty two sixty three right where he's like, hey, we're
gonna go the moon suck at Russians? Right, So, like, if
you look at all of the technology, which by today's standards is less than
your smartphone ever even thought of being, but the learning curve that was necessary
to go there, I mean, that was that was more. It was
more than just the images of dudes bouncing around on the moon. It was
and I wasn't alive for it. So I have to like vicariously through news
reporting, like the excitement of getting there and the tragedy of getting there.
We lost astronauts obviously, you know, we famously we had three astronauts die
in a fire in a simulator, right, and everything that went to it
really speaks to the phenomenal serious nature of what they were doing. And now,
whenever I see a story about an asteroid, you tell me it's measurements
in African planes, animals? What are we doing? And also this name
a small rock. An asteroid is set to fly near the Earth this week.
The object estimated to be five giraffes wide. Okay, first of all,
giraffes aren't known for their width. What did we remember? We had
a story that was two weeks ago or whatever last week where they were they
were commenting on the size of a woman's rear end. But it sounded perfectly
reasonable. I can't remember what they said. It was certain number of things
white, oh, axe handles, axe handles wise, like she's her butt's
five axe handles wide. And I'm looking, I'm thinking of an axe handle
like the axe I have, And I'm like, that seems perfectly normal.
But don't tell me, asteroid mat how many feet is it? Why?
How would I know how wide a giraffe is? When you think of a
giraffe in your mind, you picture the width of it, you picture the
height of it, right, And most people I don't even know what a
giraffe on averages high. I've just had to visualize it. But I also
I do know what eighty two feet is, which I had to go find,
which is the actual width of the object, which I would never if
I wanted to tell ross something was eighty two feet okay. So if I
if I'm like the vikings need to pick up thirty yards okay, or roughly
thirty yards, it's third and thirty. You'd be like, oh my gosh,
that's a long way to go, right, can cousins make the throw?
But I would never be like, yeah, they just oh man,
they just need you know, five giraffes. So stupid, it's so unseerious.
It's like somebody wants me to learn about giraffes and I refuse. But
then I started thinking, which giraffes do you mean? Because while I don't
think of them for their width, there's one that I do hold on for
that. Hang on, all right, good morning and welcome. It is
seven oco here on the KCO Day radio program. Little weather transition or a
stage being a billion on more but little rain, depending on where you're at
today. Nothing crazy, but feeling better. We like that we're just talking
about NASA and how like I don't understand if it was a one time thing,
fine, but like I've noticed this as a trend. And off the
air, Ross and I retired, and he was like, why do they
keep doing this? Because they keep doing it. They keep randomly telling us
about space stuff and for measurement they use random objects instead of feet or meters.
If I guess if it's the European space people or whatever. I don't
care, but like I could wrap my head around eighty two feet, so
this need to sit there and go. It's five giraffes wide, which I
think is meant. I think they think it's a hook because it's given obviously
I'm talking about it. So it worked because I'm like, Okay, even
if you wanted to tell me something was wide, wouldn't you pick a white
animal because the giraffe is not a white animal. It's a tall animal.
If you're gonna pick a feature of something, because that. One of the
other things they use is they use like a car. I think it was
like a Toyota camera or whatever, which is I guess I can envision a
camry. But they went it's like I think I can remember what they said.
They're like, it's thirteen cameras tall. Well, now use the giraffe
if you're gonna go tall, use the car if you're gonna go along.
What are you doing? But that's what that's what they did. By the
way, that's all. That's just one minor point on this. The small
rock dubbed the BJ and then the year in which is so it's the twenty
twenty four BJ. We'll tweet the story. You think I'm lying, we're
not. We'll tweet the story. The small rock called twenty twenty four BJ
will fly past Earth and the Moon in just a few days. It was
discovered only last week. What now, look twenty five meters eighty two feet
across. That's not considered a civilization ender. But it would suck immensely.
It would. It would be very effective at depopulating much of the Earth.
But it's not going to dinosaur Us or whatever. But I you know,
but it is a thing, and you want to communicate that it's a thing
because obviously there are people who from an amateur perspective, they love, you
know, staring up at the sky and stuff, and they're you know,
and and they track this kind of stuff, and that's cool. If that's
your hobby, that's great. So of those those telescopes, oh my gosh,
Like I thought, like you could probably get the one. Somebody told
me the cost of one of the telescopes they have, and I'm like,
dude, that's a car. But hey, you know, if it works
for you, great. So anyway, so you know, you want people
to know it's there, that's fine. That's great, but just tell me
eighty two feet. Just tell me the BJ is eighty two feet. Like
I have to assume you're just screwing with this over at NASA with the wide
giraffe and then the naming of that, right, But tell the people because
people are going to question you. Remember the video that that asteroid that came
in or meteorite that came in in Russia. That thing was the size of
like half of a car, and it was visually amazing because of what it
does is it enters the earth atmosphere. Now this isn't expected to do that.
It's gonna be it'll be slightly for other than the moon. But oh
no, so going to be just inside the moon ninety two percent of the
average distance from the Earth and the Moon. So two hundred and twenty thousand
miles ross. How many giraffes wide is two hundred and twenty thousand miles?
Can you make that conversion? No, he can't because that's not a natural
conversion. That's not a button on the calculator people. And again, giraffes
wide is dumb, with the exception of one giraffe where I do think of
it in width. So when I was in when I went to Santa Barbara
after high school, went there for school, and if you had a college
ID, you could get into the zoo for like next to nothing, and
it was it was a really cool zoo. Santa Barbara has an amazing zoo
based on how nice it is versus the population size. And it's because Santa
Barbara is incredibly wealthy, like you had that and now they're dealing with Prince
har But whatever. Yeah, and I like I go the zoo. They
and I've told you they on Valentine's Day they did this big fundraiser where you
could show up and uh, the best chefs would be there and they'd walk
around and watch the animals hook up. I always thought that was a little
weird. But you couldn't get a ticket to that. That was That was
Mucho de Niro, all right. So but there there was one thing in
the zoo that became the identity of that zoo, and it was a giraffe.
They had multiple giraffes, but they had one giraffe in particular, who
is now deceased. Hold On, I remember the giraffe's name. Oh,
come on, hold on, hold on. We got a crazy, crazy
video of a Colorado pastor. We'll get to that here in just a moment.
But they had this, uh, this giraffe the Santa Barbara Zoo whose
neck instead of just going up, it was in an L shape. It
looked like an upside down L. And I'm not exaggerating, Ross, I
sent you a photo of this giraffe, right, Yes, we're horribly deformed.
Yeah, yeah, Like, and that that giraffe was the It sold
tickets. People would go to see that giraffe, and there was a there
was undeniably a love within the community of that giraffe due to the fact that
it looked like no other giraffe I had ever seen. Jemina was the giraft's
name there. And so the giraff's neck could go up about two thirds of
the way and then went straight to the right, and then its head would
then be kind of kind of bend back, so it looked but that's what
this giraffe looked like. And I remember being weirded out because I'm like that
that thing. Line would be pooping that thing out like two months after it
was born, Like, but it's in a zoo, so that's fine.
But I remember the thing that I thought was weird is they would sell merch
with the giraffe, and the draft with it was on the zoo logo.
I don't think it is anymore, but which definitely piques your interest. But
yeah, they would say they had necklaces, and what was weird is because
a necklace, you want it when it hangs, You want it to be
weighted so it hangs straight. So they had it had like a larger crook
to its neck and you could buy these way overpriced, busted, busted giraffe
necklaces where it just had this crooked l neck thing in it. And I'm
just looking at this thing, and I'm like that, what is that giraffe
thinking? Right? Or thousands of people are rolling by this stare at it.
It's just like to make that like the focus to me of your zoo
where you're profiting off this animal's deformity, Like what are you gonna do when
it passes away? Oh yeah, no, no, no, no,
this is I had this conversation because one other thing that they had is they
had like the largest collect of camels, which doesn't sound interesting until you realize
how many different camel breeds there are. And they had like a train that
would go through. It was really it was really well done. And the
draft was kind of the after the camel's there. But I can just see
the zoo keeper when Jimina died, like going into the camel thing with a
sledgehammers, like, all right, who wants to be famous? Right?
Which the animal? Are you gonna hobble next? That's so dark? But
that thing was, uh, I think it was crazy looking, dude,
yep, yeah, yeah, yeah, And I even, like eighteen nineteen
year old me was weirded out by that. I'm like, we had a
cow that looked like that. We wouldn't have that cow anymore, just saying,
but it would like it would do most things seventy five percent, right.
But obviously, like like they had the trees, the tall trees that
the drafts would graze on that you would see, you know, that were
actually the trees from Africa, right, they had them planning. They had
a huge, huge enclosure, which was that was the other thing about the
Santa Barbara Zoo. Some zoos you go to and they're like basically in a
box. They had these huge enclosures because again they got more money and they
know what to do with and but they had like trees just for Jemina too,
right where they had where they were clearly the younger trees because she could
reach those, and so you like knew where she was. It was the
whole thing was strange. But yeah, the hobbled animal, it felt like
an old timey side show right where you're like, hey, are you deformed
in the nineteen thirties, you should be in the circus right And then that
and I don't remember how the neck guy maybe either maybe birth or something or
another draft stepped on it as a bay. I don't know. But like
the really funny thing too, is like half the people who roll into that
zoo because it's southern California, with a ton of money like they have,
they probably have more plastic surgery than than what your houses were. And I
know that giraffe was looking at him like I see you, like twenty years
younger. Could you fix them a neck? Please do something? But no,
she lived, She lived out her days like that. Just crazy,
all right, Sorry, we gotta have find a giraffe tangent. But memories.
All right, Look, here's the deal, and I'll probably get some
somebody sending me a really nasty. I don't care. I got I don't
have a beef with all high profile members of you know church folks, right,
some of them are legitimately very talented in in bringing people in to hear
the gospel and these and and yes, to some extent, it is a
business, right, because you have to have money to do things with you
know, churches, travel, missionary work, all of that. And I
can even justify once you get to a certain point, making purchases of things
that would help you accomplish that from a reasonable standpoint, right, Like people
were, you know, you get somebody's megachurch pastors and they like, oh,
he bought an arena, Well, the church did, and he fills
it, right, So I mean, like I understand that. But do
you remember that I was a New Orleans pastor who he was complaining because his
his his business jet didn't have the range to allow him to he had to
stop and refuel, and so he bought like another giant, a big,
big business jet. But he was complaining about it on TVs like, man,
we gotta we gotta, we gotta get a jet. We had to
stop for fuel. And he was talking about flying between two countries in Africa
where they're doing missionary work, and I'm like, yeah, you lost me,
dude, this is uh no and uh, by the way, it
was one. That situation was one of the most brilliant parodies of South Park's
career, and it was a very early Ross. Do you remember the episode
where it's the they were parting the seven hundred Club, but they were trying
to raise money for a battle cruiser in space? It was the Starve and
bar we need we need more money for we need money for a Hiberian Junker.
Yes, yeah, I remember it was, and then coming back because
it had the wrong cloaking Yeah, they bought the one with the wrong cloaking
mechanisms, so they need money for a new cloaking thing. So they right,
I understand why they were parting. And and at that point all I
could do is laugh at these people, this pastor in Colorado. This is
a new twist. But what are you doing? Mad? What even is
that? Uh? To quote the meme and then Ross, did you notice
anything when you're dubbing in the audio about because he is explaining why the authorities
think that he built one point three million from his congregation for personal expenses and
so he's making this explanation video. Do you notice anything about the video stood
out to you, like maybe where it was filmed. Just glance at the
screenshot and see, I see if you catch what I'm I'm putting down there,
because remember he's he's making a video to point out that the authorities are
wrong. They didn't they didn't steal over a million dollars for range rovers and
wildly expensive purses and vacations and homes. Uh, they're just you know,
it was it was God's will. Do you notice anything about the video where
he's filming it. I mean, it looks like it's like a lakeside property
or something. But I mean it could be a little shack on a lake.
Maybe it's like a Ted Kazinski type shack. And it looks like a
nice home. It looks like he does it look rustic, insiders, super
modern, super modern, but in an elevated lake front position in the beautiful
Rocky Mountains. I'm here to tell you, even though it's out in Colorado,
that's not a cheap house. Fan like and with the ability to use
film like, you can be anywhere you want in a video now right anywhere
Ross has a green screen in his house for his Twitch stuff, Like if
he wanted to come on Twitch, you'd be like I am at the Olive
Garden in Tuscany. Like he could mock up a background in what twenty seconds?
It would take you no time, And even on any of the video
stuff, like you know, the zooms or the teams, like you can
put any background you want, anyone you want. I know because I very
immaturely Ross, Were you on the were you on the you were on the
meeting? When I when I put in the casting couch with nothing in there,
No, I think I missed that one. But I've heard about it.
Oh okay, now I don't because it was green. It was Greensboro
people I was talking to. Yeah, it was a still frame of an
office with a couch that is, uh looks like a Hollywood casting couch.
And I just randomly had it up as a background because I thought it was
hilarious because it was. But but dude, if you're that guy and you're
this pastor, we're gonna get into the audio coming up here. One,
don't I don't don't blame God. But two, like take Ross and this
advice find a background to some like, No, just pick a normal house,
I guess, not a not aant giant lake front with a landscape window
the size of the wall in my house overlooking the lake. From your elevated
position. You can be anywhere you want, man, You could literally,
you could literally make it appear as though you're on a missionary trip in Guatemala.
Right, Just getta get a nice Central American volcano. Still but no,
And when I listen to this audio, holy crap. We'll play it
for you here coming up right after the bottom of the hour and New Hampshire.
I'm not gonna spend a bunch of time, but I will explain how
we got to where we are, even though it's largely meaningless. But we'll
do that. Coming up, it is the CaCO Day Radio program one O
six one FM talk A w pt I, two stations driving the best in
talk. This is Cacoda and Carolina's Corning News. Oh boy, I know
what I probably would have been better off, and I'm making into it.
Has it is painted what is already a weird memory. Just real quickly going
back to the draft, the with the with the ninety degree neck thing.
Okay, so I was right because I did this story a couple It was
funny. Somebody has sent me an email. I didn't realize they had a
whole kid's book series with the draft of the busted neck, which again it's
fine, but I was trying to remember how it happened and I couldn't,
so I looked it up and I kind of wish I didn't. So the
giraffe was born at the San Diego Zoo and then they sold it to the
Santa Barbara Zoo, and they almost immediately they started noticing neck issues. So
like San Diego sold them a busted giraffe, and he got a do they
know? What do they know? And when do they know it? But
it's not really that they were trying to stock up drafts. But they talk
about how the neck bend started when the giraft was young, and then over
the course of about two to three years, it eventually morphed into this ninety
degree bend, which makes it look so weird. And they were studying this
because they say that they had not seen a giraffe with that deformity since nineteen
oh two or something, according to this article here, and by the time
they went, hey, maybe we should do something three years later they realize
the vertebrates had fused, so now they that's just how it was. But
one of the reasons they didn't do anything that is literally quoted is uh one
of the people at the zoo, on the board of the zoo, said
that Jemina had become an icon to kids with scoliosis. Okay, uh,
yes, I get that right, And I you know this, this comes
out of the representation thing. And I think that if you're if you're a
child and you're dealing obviously with something like that, something within your orbit that
you like as a kid, Yeah, where that I get that, And
I'm not trying to be insensitive here, but it sounds like at first this
was an easy fix of the giraffe and like then they didn't want to because
they say it was insan I think it was because you people were showing up
at the zoo in crazy numbers. Is this dark like theorizing this roster?
Do you think there's some validity to this, like don't screw up a good
thing. I think they were profiting off and that became what they were known
for. Yeah. I think they didn't fix it because they're like, wow,
everyone keeps coming to the zoo, like if you have you know,
I don't if there's a polar bear at our zoo, Yeah, and it's
up born with like four heads, right, yeah, you know, pothetical
scenario and people are showing up to see the four headed polar bear. I
mean it's the reason that they had the traveling side shows. Let's just be
honest. It's just it's a more modern version of that. Now you've seen
all the polar bears at the zoo. They don't have four heads here,
right and right. I mean there are something that speculate there's actually no animals
at our zoo. Oh I've heard that before. You're really just like you
show up at the zoo and you're like, oh, I can't wait to
see the polar bear, and you're on the third floor and you're like where
is it the like, oh man, you just missed it. It's down
the second floor. Then you rush the family. Now the second floor,
you're like, oh, where's the polar bear. We came here all the
way for the polar bear, Like, oh my god, I went down
the first floor. And then on the first floor you're like, where's the
polar bear? Like, oh man, we just took it in the back
eat and they're like, oh my god, it's on the third floor.
And then you rushed back up to the third floor. Where's the polar bear?
Oh man, you just missed them. Well, they have a big
range in the wild, right, So yeah, and it seems to be
like that way a lot of times, but a lot of the animals there
there's zoo. So was it you or your wife who posted a picture of
a like a grasshopper on ranch? Dude, You're like, we found it
out like a bug. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what they used
a refund. That has been our experience at our zoo. When we're on
Christmas vacation. We went down to Louisiana. It's near Monroe, Louisiana,
Calhoun. It's a Louisiana Purchase Museum whatever it's called, or zoo. Tons
of animals, tons of them outside. Yeah, monkeys. Lincoln loved him.
He was jumping up it down, making the monkeys howl, bison,
buffalo, every like every kind of animal. Wow. It was a different
experience. So some people speculated our zoo it's a conspiracy. I love it,
didn't You weren't at the event at one of our Greensboro listener meet and
greets one of our listeners. Who's he I think he was city. He
was either city, county. He's in some sort of governmental position. He
showed up at it. He's like, hey, drove all the way from
you know, because you know, lives obviously lives where the zoo is.
And he's like, yeah, I'm so glad to be here. But he
was like he speculated. He was like he had heard this on the radio,
and he's like he's like, yeah, no, come on, I
know a guy. I'll show you the animals. So like, do you
want to go? He'll let you in the polar bear exhibit or something I
think, but it sounded like a trick, right, Oh you want to
see the polar bear? Yeah, go in this dark closet. Oh.
I don't know if you're being friendly or you want ross to get eaten,
sir, but I'm here for it. So anyway, Yeah, that's what
was so dark. Man. I just read that that like that that removed
any like positivity there because now I'm old enough and wise enough or at least
moving in that direction, because you know, dumb kid right out of high
school. I just like, oh, Okay, well that sucks, but
hey, look at that, and now I'm like, no, wow,
it one sounds like you didn't fix that thing intentionally on mugs and key chains
and children's books. You can't fix it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And also I was reading, so I remember I mentioned that the big Valentine's
thing was to go watch the animals hookup, which again I always thought that
was so weird. But like they would, they would put pictures from it,
and there's like Oprah would be there because she had a big house of
Montecito, a bunch of Hollywood people to live up there, and it was
just really weird. It's like you're showing up to you know, spend ten
k or whatever for a private thing and to watch animals hook up. And
I remember just like as a kid, you know, a ranch kid,
I'm like, I've seen way too many animals hook up. So like I
don't understand the appeal, but you do you And so they're showing up for
all this. She actually, uh, they actually bred her, and I'm
just wondering what freak showed up for that? Right, watch that thing,
the crooked neck giraffe get impregnated, like somebody paid a lot of people paid
a lot of money to watch that, and uh, I wish I was
still seeing it through a child or in your child's eyes, man, because
holy crap. All right. Also, we mentioned that NASA wants you to
know that speaking of giraffes, and this is how we got on this conversation.
Giraffe, there's an eleven giraffe wide asteroid gonna fly by but not hit
us. And I don't know why NASA, who is giving me measurements in
giraffes, just tell me how many feet it is. It's eighty two feet,
by the way. But also why you would use something that it's not
known for its width, which just seems incredibly like you wouldn't tell me that
he's three to kembe Mtumbo's wide, Like what even is that? So?
And then it's called twenty twenty four BJ and it's one of one hundred and
thirty five objects identified or one hundred and fifty eight excuse me identified under the
BJ moniker although some guy wrote me and he said he's not worried it's gonna
hit because it's not his birthday. And that's funny, So thank you for
that, sir. I'll let the adults figure out what that's about. Oh
and Ross, some lunatic is listening to the show from a balcony suite at
the Atlantis in the Bahamas. Obviously you haven't been there because you don't leave
the country, but you're familiar with that hotel, right, You've seen pictures
of its crazy, right, super nice hotel. He's like, hey,
guys, he's on his patio this beautiful shot, uh, you know,
looking out over the Bahamian waters and the bay there. And he's just like,
hey, listen to you guys from Atlantis and the Bahamas. And I'm
like, what are you doing, Psycho, You're in the Bahamas. It's
not us. I want you to listen to us. But if I go
to if I if I go to the Bahamas, when I have gone to
the Bahamas in the past and other destinations like that for vacation. Do you
know the last thing I'm doing. Check it up on the news back home.
Right, I'm in the Bahamas, man, I'm gonna go fishing.
I'm gonna base it on the beach. I like the direction we're going with
some of the bikinis. Now you want to get that all over ten?
I understand, right, and you're on vacation, get a get a drink
with the umbrella in it. But I appreciate your commitments. So I'm just
teasing. But I mean, I'm on the show. And when I went
to the Bahamas, I didn't I didn't know. I didn't. I didn't
know if the state the station could have exploded, and I would have found
out the day I got back. So there's that. But do appreciate it,
all right, Race st Agic. He's in the Bahamas secretly actually yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, it's got a doppler down there. It's
pretty crazy. Yeah, I love our listeners commitment. But he's he's on
this beautiful balcony. You've seen the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas. Oh things,
have you been there? No, believe it or not. I was
poking around for a trip this summer. But right now it's a little bit
out of a radio broadcast media all just price range for fos. There's some
deals to be had. I've stayed on because it's was a paradise island.
It's the second island I've stayed on that island, but not there because yeah,
I just they were not doing deals at that time, but we didn't
go over because we got a casino and restaurant over there. I mean,
it's amazing, but the last thing I'd be doing is carrying what the weather
in Raleigh is. Yeah, sorry, because we just we need to disconnect
sometimes, So go question do we do? I mean, and hang out
with your wife, you know, make some memories, make some tan line
and all that good stuff. Right or not? Right? Yeah, you
don't want clouds and fog and drizzle, and you don't want it. Further,
I don't want to go to that beach either, So no. One
two envisioning I suspect no, no, no, no, envisioning a lot
of gray sky and cloud and fog. And ye know, we painted a
nice picture somewhere else, but not here. In the next four days,
I don't even know how much in the way of sunshine we get. We
may not get any until Sunday, as we'll be in the drizzle and the
clouds and fog. Today. There might be some light rain and spots a
few light rain showers showing up now around Winston, Sellem, Greensboro and just
on the north end of the triangle. Then down your Charlotte. It's real
spotty even as you get into Georgia and eastern Alabama, but heavier rain to
the west out across Mississippi heading our way, and some of that gets here
tonight. Very mild today, mid upper sixties. Tonight we're only going to
near sixty for an overnight low temperature, almost dropical for this timely Yeah,
yeah, I mean that's kind of nuts. And tomorrow when near seventy Friday,
we're near seventy. We'll have a little round of rain and showers in
the morning. Then we may get a break tomorrow afternoon, and then another
round in as we go through Tomorrow night into Friday, showers and thunderstorms,
some thunderstorms in the afternoon, and still some showers on Saturday are possible Saturday
night before finally we may get some sun by Sunday. We're going to stay
in the sixties over the weekend, might cool off just a little bit early
next week. Oh right, well, look, I mean we're living living
large with this. So all right, thank you, sir. We'll talk
in an hour. Appreciate it. There you go, race stage. All
right, we'll get get to that past or audio and look, I nothing
has been proven, but he's also not really denying it. So I'll let
you take that. But honestly, it might be the worst explanation video I
think I've seen in some time. But we'll let you be the judge.
We'll do it next. Hang on your Day Smarter one six one FM Talk
and News TALKTI with Casey starts. Now. I guess I gotta say this
because, uh, but I guess I gotta say this. Somebody's like,
it's seven forty five in the Bahamas. Man, let him enjoy his coffee
on this patio leave belowe. Yeah, I'm not seriously trashing on me,
although I am a little curious while you're up at seven forty five in the
Bahamas, because when I'm there, I tend to stay up a little later.
But to each their own, No, no, no, no,
I'm just I'm teasing them, sir. That's fine, do whatever he wants.
I appreciate his commitment. Like, but now, let's be real real,
Ross were fired over Christmas those days you were doing the fan road trip.
How many times did you check in on the station each day? Uh?
Not at all? Okay, not every day, like every other day,
like like zero total zero for that. I didn't even check in on
the news. It was gonna well, well that's that's not true. There's
times where you're scroll on your Twitter feed or extually even on the for you
tab and you'll find some news. But I tried to avoid news that'll cost
you. Yeah, like I don't want to know anything. Yeah, I
want to look if I if I'm in the Bahamas and I'm flying back to
the US after and it's not the US anymore, like that Tom Hanks movie.
I want to find out in the airport so I can live there.
Okay, So anyway, we're just teasing. But you know, if you're
traveling, I heard radio app there you go, boom boom boom. All
right, tell corporate I said that. Please. Let me tell you about
this dude, pastor Eli Ray Jilado, who's been charged in a crypto essentially
a crypto scam. According to Colorado authorities, he pocketed one point three million
dollars and spent hundreds of thousands of it on things like Homer Model range Rover.
That's nice. His wife has very expense. It's a purse taste.
And so now they are there, they're moving forward as a civil a He
says civil it's a non criminal, but it's obviously a prosecution there. Now.
I don't know whether he did it or didn't do it, but I
know his video explaining it from the living room of what looks like a lake
front giant home. Probably we should have picked another background, sir, but
it's his explanation that I think irritates me and probably probably quite a few members
of his congregation. Listen to this guy. Caitlin and I are being charged
in a civil charge from the Colorado Securities and Exchange Commission, which is not
a civil charge. It's a non criminal, but it is elite. You
know. Civil implies that it's a private person. This is the government.
So just fyi, but it is what it is, white collar, if
you will. We're basically selling millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency that is deemed
worthless by the state. That they're seeing that it's worthless is because there is
no exit for people who have bought. We launched an exchange, the exchange
technology failed, things went downhill, and from that point forward we've just been
we've just been waiting on the Lord literally per a miracle. Okay, all
right, all right, So and that's the soft side of this, all
right. So they launched it and it had value, of which they hold
most of it, and then they sold most of it when it had value,
and now it has no value. And a lot of coins have done
that obviously, but this is the first. This was their own coin,
like a Jesus coin. So anyway, let's continue. So the charges are
that Caitlin and I pocketed one point three million dollars, and I just want
to come out and say that those charges are true. So there's been one
point three million dollars that's been taken out of I think it was a total
three point four million. But out of that one point three half a million
dollars went to the irs and a few hundred thousand dollars went to a homing
model that the Lord told us to do. But like that window, did
you tell you to put that giant window over the beautiful mountain lake there?
Okay? So how this whole thing started as the Lord told us in twenty
one to walk away from our marketing company and he said, I'm going to
do a new thing, and then he took us into this cryptocurrency. It
was a different cryptocurrency other than index coin. At the time, Well,
that cryptocurrency turned out to be a scam. Yeah, And so the Lord
says, give that to him, but also give them a ten X.
And I'm like, well, where's this liquidity going to come from? And
the Lord says, trust me. What's crazy too, is they're using all
the terminology that if you're not in crypto, confuses even me and like,
try and explain. But you know, God's explaining NFTs to this dude,
So all right, roll on. Well, as money is coming in,
we would be sewing it. And at first it was one hundreds of dollars,
and thousands of dollars, then tens of thousands of dollars. When he
would come in, we tied we sow more money would come in. And
so we were just always under the impression that God was going to provide,
that the source was never ending, that God was doing a new thing,
and that we had nothing to worry about. We sold a cryptocurrency with no
clear exit. We did. We took God at his word and sold a
cryptocurrency with no clear exit. Bro, did you just blame God? It
sounds like you just blame God for this. So the prosecutors have to take
that and say, these people willingly sold a cryptocurrency with no clear exit.
What we're praying for and what we're believing for still, is that God is
going to do a miracle. God is going to work a miracle in the
financial sector. Yeah. I don't think God's doing pumping dump, sir,
because that's what that sounds like. And I don't know, man, a
video blaming God from your giant home on the beautiful rocky mountain lake, I
don't know that you're welling up sympathy craziness. Man. All right, good
morning everybody, and welcome. It is the CaCO Game radio program. Our
numbers three. Glad to have you along. Boy O boy, I'm gonna
tell this story kind of in reverse, okay, because the the twist is
is really the why it's a story. But it's even without the twists,
the finality of the court decision, it's it's bonkers. This is in the
UK, but I see a lot of similarities in the way that their justice
system seems to have a lot in common with ours. In you know,
like you did. You just had two instances of New Yorkers going hands on
with people who were committing making threats, doing criminal things. You know,
those are criminally prosecutable acts and causing widespread fear. According to the testimy,
you had two instances. You had Pearl, the dude who put the guy
in the head lock, who's still charged, and then you had another dude
who went on and he ended up killing the dude because they got into it,
but he didn't get charges because they and they shouldn't have. It was
totally justified. But that guy was black, and some people are wondering,
well, how the hell is one thing this and the other thing that when
they're so similar, and so keep that in mind. So we head over
to the UK and I'm going to tell you a series of events that happened.
What is the guy's name, Valdo, Valdo Calikan Vall. I'm not
familiar he is. He's from North Africa, lives in the UK. But
so I've just never heard that name. Maybe it's a common name. But
so according to authorities, and now that the court is done, it is
in fact what happened. Officially, Valdo is out for the night and he
happens upon to Universe City students guy in a gal and goes over to him,
pulls out and this is their description a ceremonial dagger, which I guess
that means it's got to have a big jewel in it, right, Is
that how that works? I mean, is that what makes a ceremonial dagger
that? Or you use it to kill ten thousand people so it rains the
right amount. I guess that would be one. But described as a ceremonial
dagger, but also described as a tactical ceremonial dagger, So now I'm even
more confused. But I point this out because it's a rather unusual weapon.
You would say, right, okay, but he's out with that, comes
upon these two college kids and then stabs the dude to death while the woman
is fighting him and with his last dying breath. The guy is on the
ground trying to fight slowly or quickly, bleeding out, and then he stabs
the woman to death too, so he kills these two nineteen year olds.
Following the killing, officials say he went to a hostel which was right there,
and it's unclear he like he was wondering. I think maybe if people
saw him, and he tried to make entry through a window and one of
the residents of the hostel punched the dude in the face and knocked him out
of the window, according to witness statements. So he walks down the street
and flags down a guy who's driving a delivery van, and the dude stops
and he stabs that dude to death too. He then takes the delivery van
and runs around and starts hitting people with the van. He thankfully he did
not kill anyone else, but he did seriously injure at least one other person
in some moderate to minor injuries for two others, and eventually he was taken
into custody. Yeah, the dude got really messed up, fractured skull,
bleeding to the brain, and he's going to have some cognitive issues. So
it was pretty substantial. So anyway, they went through the court proceedings and
guilty of unintentional manslaughter. And that's not necessarily just because that's what they came
back with. That was the top charge, saying that he had he had
dealt with some serious emotional and mental health issues, though they even the psychiatrists
assessed him, saying that they did not feel that it was substantial enough that
he didn't know what he was doing. But they also argued that this was
something that was not planned, and the families are outraged, as you can
imagine, because this student is going to do very little time and feel that
maybe there might have been something here where the prosecutor didn't go after this guy
because obviously, you know, this is a hot topic in the UK and
other countries over in Europe about crimes associated with migrants, but migrant or not,
psychiatrists said, he's fine, the prosecutor doesn't go after a murder charge,
and then all of those things happened, and I kind of feel like
once you've left the house with your ceremonial dagger and you go up to people
and start stabbing them, there is some like that doesn't just happen. We're
like, oh my gosh, what am I doing? You know, like
you ever seen ross? You ever see somebody who's walking like power walking?
How ridiculous that kind of looks. I mean, more power to you if
you want to do it, but like speedwalking looks weird because it's not quite
running, but you got the arms swing going on. I'm like, what
on what planet are really? Oh? He didn't mean to do it,
and I'm like, so what he does? The weird fast walk thing?
And they got in his way. I'm not buying it. He fought them
for several minutes, killed them, killed another dude to take his van,
and then tried to kill more people. And yet you got manslaughter with they
call it something different in the UK, but what do they call it here?
Uh? Well anyway, but basically it would be the version of the
manslaughter here where he didn't he wasn't planning on doing it. Just nuts,
absolutely nuts, And that was the sentence they handed down yesterday. Yeah,
they call it manslaughter with diminished responsibility, so that can be a number of
things, but in this case they said he wasn't planning it, so he
was just walking around with a ceremonial dagger as you do, and didn't like
to look at the couple or something like. There's no explanation on it,
obviously by his lawyer, you know, his lawyer, his barrister was did
not allow him to testify for obvious reasons. But holy crap, man,
and people who are pushing back on it. I saw a little clip.
I didn't put the audio in because it was bouncing around. But like they
have the blow hard mainstream media people on TV who were like excoriating the families
kind of, They're like, you know, they said the word the words,
and it wasn't It wasn't the parent of the of the I think it
was the brother, the brother of the female college student was he was you
know, I went in front of the microphones. And then they had experts
who had nothing to do with this other than their own moon bat theories on
things, who were like, you know, this isn't helpful, this is
this is drawing ire on all migrants. And it's like, I saw a
little bit of the brother's thing, and he he uses the dude's name,
so I think he's being specific. Yeah, so yeah, you know,
look forward to that more of that. That'll be fun. But that's the
that's the outrage over here over there, and I see some similarities here,
so I thought we'd share that with you. All Right, check this out.
Who, speaking of the media, is the most trusted media person in
America now, obviously because of the way that we consume news, the way
that we you know, the tribalism all of that. You know, every
time they do this list, you're gonna get somebody on the right, somebody
on the left, who's gonna get you know it's gonna go fifty to fifty
usually, all right, and then bounce around like there's not a lot of
surprises. But admittedly I was a little surprised on this because the top vote
getter, well, i'll tell you it's two through four. Uh so the
top four here who were really far and above everybody else? Uh Number four
Jake Tapper, all right? Number three, Joe Rogan. Interesting? Number
two Tucker Carlson. Who do you think was the number one most trusted media
person? Albeit so as you can see it, it's it's not just your
straight news people. You got Joe Rogan on there. It's okay, it's
not Ross Hayes. Why is why do you do this? It's Bill Maher?
Bill Maher, Although I think you were robbed because at the very least,
but it's I it's crazy. But I've noticed on Twitter I get served
a lot of Bill Maher stuff and I don't follow Bill Maher. Do you
see that Ross you're on the show timeline. Do you notice how many Bill
mark clips get served to us. It's been a lot more than usual.
But I think when it comes to people that before were perceived in the left,
when it comes to comparing them to him. He's been more in the
middle lately. Maybe he's still exactly where he was, but the Overton window
makes him appear to be more centered now. I don't know. And he
says that, he says that quiet. I've seen clips where he says that
when he was talking to Elon Musky said that they were having that conversation.
But yeah, yeah, And there's been some moments over the years. I
remember, Uh remember he had Ben Affleck on one time and he was talking
about he was talking about literally Islamic terrorists, and he was very specific.
He was talking about ISIS or maybe Al Kaita, but he was being blindingly
specific. And Ben Affleck is like shifting in his seat. He's so uncomfortable,
and mar picks up on it and kind of is like, what's the
problem, And it's like the lang. Something's like the language you're using,
and he's and he's staring at him like I'm talking about people that are beating
people on videos. I mean, what what am I supposed to say?
And and so on that issue when it comes to radical Islamic terrorism. Uh,
he is not cowed from it. And I think that's where most of
those videos lie. So yeah, I guess the most recent one I saw
that came across my timeline and X said something like it's no longer Left.
It was a Bill Maher video, and Bill Maher's in the video was it's
no longer left versus right, progressive versus concervatives. It's insane versus insane.
Yeah, it's the crazies on both ends kind of things, was his point.
Yeah, So I don't know if it's just in the moment, but
like I because I think most people think of Bill Maher if they don't get
served that stuff, especially in North Carolina. If you don't like him,
you still remember him doing his movie where he's clowning on truckers in North Carolina
a truck stop, right because the lot, you know, big truck stops,
a lot of them will have religious services offered for truck drivers. And
like mar show's up to one of those, and what was it? Religious?
Religious? It was some religious lists or I can't remember what the name
of the thing was, but it was a takedown of religion and that obviously
that bothered a lot of people. But you know, I also thought it
was I thought he was doing kind of what the Daily Show did where if
you want to be, if you want to question people and have a debate
with them, at least show your car. You could tell that a lot
of that was him trying to get footage where these guys were now a little
more comfortable, and probably because also he's a celebrity. They knew who he
was. But the whole thing just creeped me out. But yeah, now
he's the most trusted. I got a feeling that depending on the week that
you take this, it probably varies though, so we shall see, all
right, eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. So New
Hampshire, let's go ahead and get into this real quick. It's not that
exciting. So Trump one, Nicky Haley showed pretty well compared to like Iowa
and the larger polling. But you know, she really worked New Hampshire,
and New Hampshire has a lot of much more moderate folk. I'm not hacking
on anybody, but like, I wasn't surprised that New Hampshire was pretty evenly
divided between Trump in Haley. That didn't surprise me because it's also New Hampshire.
Now, she did sweep the six votes and that midnight thing at Gobbler's
Knob or whatever. But now she says she's inspired and it's on to her
state, of course, South Carolina. But what was weird is the other
side. So you know, the parties don't want states moving primaries, and
they will literally threaten them that you can't. If you do that, I'm
going to take your electoral votes they won't count towards it. Now, I
understand that that's the inner workings of the political parties and that's what these are
for. But if the state who funds the elections wants to move them for
whatever reason, the parties need to shut up. Okay, I know,
I know there's I've gotten the email, and I've said this before one hundred
reasons why they if they do this, here's the problem, here's I got
it. But like, and yes, even though the parties are people paying
for, you know, taxes in the state that are then utilized for that,
but this is about party leadership and they don't want to move for a
host of reasons. Some are arguably selfish, some are more practical, But
I also don't like, you know, it's like if you paid for somebody's
meal somewhere and they're like oh, this is a this is a t bone.
I wanted to FILET how dare you? And I'm like, I'm paying
for it. Shut up. So that's what was going on in New Hampshire
from the Democratic Party and as a result, Biden wasn't on there because he
honored their request. So they organized a right in thing locally and actually for
not being on the ballot, they just disclosed that his campaign spent over a
million dollars. So it's like wall, wait to say, you're not on
the ballot, but you spend a million dollars, what are you doing?
So he won, he won in a write in standpoint or writing standpoint.
But like there were robo calls going out and they were blaming Republics some Republican
dude for this, And it was a robo call in a primary saying this,
we know the value of voting Democratic on our votes count. It's important
that you save your vote for the November election. Will need your help in
electing Democrats up and down the ticket. Voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans
in their quest to elect Donald Trump. Again, your vote makes a difference
in November, not this Tuesday. If you would like to be removed from
future calls please press two, all right, And they're saying, well,
that's a deep fake Joe Biden. Maybe it is, but also I don't
know. Maybe you think you only get one vote and you have to use
it one or the other. But my point is, how does that benefit
Republicans out in the world? Does that? Man? Because Republicans aren't getting
a slice of the Democratic primary votes. Joe Biden's not on the ballot,
and any of the votes from New Hampshire do not count towards the primary.
So how on God's green Earth is that some you know, dirty politics thing
from the other side. And somebody explained that to me. I don't.
I also don't understand why it benefits Democrats. But like you know, make
any I need to know the conspiracy. That's what I need to know.
I need a good kid. Although I did ross. Have you heard the
Mel Gibson conspiracy this week? Oh? But I'd love to hear it.
Oh dude, this has there's two versions of it, one where it's Illuminati,
but then also it's Jews and Illuminati, but it's Mel Gibson and so
there's some history there. So anyway, I was reading this yesterday and you
all got way too much time, but I'm here for it. And yeah,
I'll explain the Mel Gibson conspiracy theory. We'll get to that. The
World Health Organization is making some interesting decisions, and so is the State of
Washington. We got moon back coming out our ears that we will get to
you in you know, in the last half hour of the show. All
right, phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four oh,
and the the immigration numbers, but the dollar numbers. Wait for this,
it's coming up. So after the show, it's on the iHeart Radio
app. Search case the oday for the podcast on the iHeart Radio app.
All right, and welcome back. Be a busy half hour. I promised
a lot, but we'll get to it. Let me throw just a couple
other things in as we kick it off. The Baseball Hall of Fame yesterday
announcing the induction of three players. They also although it was announced last month,
because they have a different process for it. There's one there's a coach
going in, a manager, Jim Leland from Pirates, and then I'm sure
probably other places, but I just remember him with the Pirates up Pirates.
But once you go ten years and don't get it. You have to appeal
to this commission and then they can recommend. They generally don't, but they
can slide somebody in. But it used to be ten years. And you
don't get in, you're you're done. No more voting for you. Uh
and uh yeah. The Contemporary Baseball Era Committee is the name, so that
they got him in among those among the three, two of them were first
timers, Adrian Beltray and Joe Mauer. I love Joe mahert Man, not
just because he played for the Twins, but like Joe Mauer was one of
those disgustingly nice good dudes in sports and there's a lot like there's a lot
of good people there, but like he was because everywhere Joe mauerd or his
career. Played a decade and a half for the Twins catcher and then first
base because he had some issues with his back, but six Hall of Fame
lifetime, over three hundred Golden Glove, all that stuff. But he had
his children's charity I think is one of the biggest in the state of Minnesota
now because he like worked it. He was always doing stuff and when you
get really famous doing what they called the Twins Caravan, which is an annual
thing where they go all around the state. The players don't want to do
that because they're literally on the road during the time when they're not on the
road because it's off season, and the Mauer would like volunteer for that thing.
So it's good to see a good dude get in there. Also,
Todd Helton not in his first year. He made his way in, so
but there's some issues, and that's if you click on the New York Post
who not only did Gary Sheffield miss although he was polling well, he didn't
meet the requirements in his tenth year, so he'll have to go to the
commission if you in. But there continues to be strife among New York baseball
fans because I'm trying to see the percentage a Rod only got thirty five percent?
Is are they do you think they're gonna never put him in or do
you think they're gonna make him wait ten years? Because you know he still
is linked with that era of baseball in those allegations, right, So I
don't know, but I mean he is easily the biggest name who received votes
yesterday, even bigger Joe Mauer'll admit that he's a rod Man, but still
I don't know. I don't know if they'll they'll have to put him in.
Doesn't he own part of a team now or something. I think he
has ownership interest in the Miami team, right, or he did and then
he didn't. I can't remember. So it's like you crap all over him.
The dude's still around baseball. I never wanted to see a rod come
play the Twins. When I was watching, I did not enjoy that.
Uh uh, but yeah, I only getting thirty five percent. The threshold
is seventy five percent. You gotta get so and only those those three did,
all right, So we got that. In other sports news, I
saw this this morning. WWE has signed a massive broadcasting deal for their Raw
So for those of you like Raw, you're gonna have to have a Netflix
subscription. That's where they're headed. Yeah, WWE and Netflix have signed a
massive deal that would move the broadcast of Raw as well as a handful of
special events and then some other ancillary shows that I'm not familiar with, but
to Netflix and provide a streaming outlet. Two I think for their for their
network channel, which that's is, is that that's not basic. That's on
expanded sports and most I think, but sometimes basic. So I don't know
if that MUCKs up anything, but how do we feel about that? And
I and I want to approach it not just from a a it's wrestling and
some guy you know, Hey, you guys should talk politics, not wrestling.
Well, let me let me, let me dip into something. What
have you What have we seen with streaming services that have either taken older product
over and so they have the whole library there, as well as streaming services
that have adopted products that once were on TV that maybe went to streaming services,
and specifically Netflix and HBO they're the they're the big ones here. If
you go to try to watch south Park on HBO and even on Paramount,
I think is where the home is, but HBO still has it on there,
there's a bunch of episodes that aren't there. There's a bunch of episodes
of a lot of shows that aren't there. Where the there's been, there
was troubling content. And Netflix has done this. Remember they put like a
three minute pre roll on Blazing Saddles. So if you want to watch Blazing
Saddles on UH in stream it you got to watch this woman explain to you
why this is a really bad this is horrible and terrible and no good before
they'll show you the movie. She just wants you to know. And I
don't know with the wokeness inside of Netflix decisions that you could like could you
show eighties and nineties era wrestlers? I mean think about that, Like,
if you're one of if you're one of these people who's butt heed and hung
up over cultural appropriation and everything is a secret sign to explain, you know,
some white supremacist motive or something in a microaggression, you should not watch
eighties and nineties era pro wrestling. Am I wrong on this? I mean
I'm not right. So how does Netflix handle that? And even if you
go, well they're going to show modern wrestling, sure, but let's you
know, you watch modern sports. I what was justin? Jefferson said he
set a record in the last game of the season, but also he hit
a bonus, so he was super excited. I talked about this because people
are like, why is he celebrating your news in and it's like, because
that dude's about to get paid more, so I get it. But he
set a record and then inevitably, what do they have to do? They
got to talk about who held the record before him, which was was it
Carter? But it was? You know it was And that's a normal thing
in sports. You go to pro wrestling and you want to reference people who
are pretending to be of a certain nationality but clearly aren't. Like I feel
like this fits squarely into things that Netflix has problems with. So I don't
know. I don't know how that's gonna work. And are they going to
try to exert any influence over it, because that's another thing notorious within Netflix
is people who have worked with Netflix and had complaints had talked about that Netflix,
even more so than the studios on some stuff, was all up in
their business. So I don't know. But if you can't have those random
look and just see it's not all in the past, Like what'd you tell
me Ross Hulk Hogan's coming, right, He's wrestling again or something he promo.
Yeah, he's like hinting he might show up at Doro Rumble or maybe
go against Roman Reigns because Roman Reigns is about to break his record for like
longest continuous champion whatever it is. But I think he's just trolling people,
or he's just you know, wants to get the attention, because Hulk Hogan
would die. Yeah, yeah, no, look I would die, right.
So but listen, right, for seventy he is in amazing shape,
right, and it's a miracle he lasted this long because of you see a
lot of these wrestlers they dropped dead in their fifties, right, Roddy Piper
dropped dead, Macho Man all super early. And it always comes back to
what the steroids they did in the eighties and all that kind of stuff.
So and you know, Hulk Hogan did that stuff too, but it just
happens to be a coincidence. Hulk Hogan is, who are the most Rick
Flair and Hulk Hogan the most known, Plus they made the most money and
they've lived the longest. And that's not a coincidence, right, there's a
correlation there. Yeah, he's in great shape. But for somebody like that
still to get in the ring at the age of seventy, I mean he
has to use a cane to walk around. Yeah, I don't I so
he has to be trolling. There's no way he shows up at the Royal
Rumble. I mean that would be, but it would introduce him to a
whole new generation, right, get famous? Right? I think I think
the fans already know who he is. It's not like there's no no wrestling
fan is going to be watching, going who's this guy. I'm being starcastic
with a younger generation thinking they invented everything right with that story we had,
so they're like, ah, roommates, it's a new thing. Yeah,
if he dies, like nobody knew who Dale Earnhardt was, right, So
all right, somebody's gonna get mad about that. Yeah, yeah, but
no, although Rick Flair got in the ring down in Charlotte what not that
long ago and he's still with us, so and he's got a he's got
a wu coin now, so he's a busy man, all right, eight
forty five raced age. It converted all his four one two WU coin.
Yes, fingers crossed the Rick Flair cryptocurrency, Yes crypto. Doesn't he have
an energy drink too? Ross? He probably does. He's got a he's
got an energy drink too. Which if somebody's gonna sell an energy drink and
you and you want it as a consumer, like you're wondering will it work?
And then you have Rick Flair pitching it. You're like, that's gotta
work. Yeah, I mean why not? Absolutely, that guy get on
he's on an eight ball of the Yeah, the hours that we get up,
we could use a little kick, right. Oh man, Oh geez,
I'm sure it's it's called WU or something. Anyway, I'm sorry we
got into yeah, but uh, let's get into a weather thing show.
Yeah, weather thing. Yeah, it looks a little bit like spring or
early summer. There's high pressure parked off the Atlantic, and that's actually going
to weaken the rain as it approaches, but we'll still get some. There's
been some light rain and drizzle around this morning and into the afternoon and this
evening from west to east. It's probably like overnight tonight, some showers thunderstorms
that'll come on in and we'll probably get to the ground as we go on
through tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night. The heaviest rain stays west, although a
lot of clouds and warm temperatures upper sixties even into the low seventies by tomorrow
and Friday, so don't expect much of the way of right sunshine if any
through Friday, maybe even Saturdays. We'll get more showers there, temperatures in
the mid sixties. It gets better late in the weekend early next week,
cooler temperatures and dry weather coming in. Might be in for a stretch of
multiple dry days. On Sunday, low sixties and low's at night, back
down close to forty for Monday morning, and then back down your freezing for
Monday night and Tuesday morning. So we'll get out of this stuff. Kind
of cloudy, dreary, even some fog at times over the next few days,
and then the rain and thunderstorms coming through, probably in rounds. It'll
be tough to time it too, so just be ready this afternoon tonight than
probably another round sometime tomorrow into Friday. Also, oh wow, okay,
yeah, I mean it doesn't sound great, but no, I think we
avoid flooding and we avoid any ice. There's not even a chance any of
that. So we're good. Okay, Thanks, we'll talk tomorrow and Jeff
Bellinger joins us next hang on. Thank you. Casey is on ninety four
five w PTI and the Triad one six one af M Talk in the Triangle
Update now with Jeff Bellinger. Jeff, what's going on? Good morning,
Casey, mixed clothes on Wall Street yesterday, but it looks like a positive
start ahead for the midweek session. Futures are higher right across the board now,
futures are up one hundred and thirty eight points. Netflix is coming off
a big quarter. It added more than thirteen million subscribers in the final three
months of twenty twenty three. That's the most for any quarter since a surge
in the early days of pandemic lockdowns. Netflix share a sale rather stopped forecasts.
eBay is planning a round of layoffs. The e commerce company will cut
about one thousand workers and cut back its use of contractors. Overall, home
loan demand picked up last week, driven by a seven and a half percent
increase in applications for new mortgages. Home purchase applications hit a nine month high
last week. A majority of Americans live close to the edge financially. Less
than half of the people surveyed by bankrate dot com say they have enough emergency
savings to cover an unexpected one thousand dollars expense. People say they'd have to
use credit cards, personal loans, borrow from family or friends, or cut
their spending on other things to cover a surprise bill of that size. In
case, Apple will not be adding vehicles to its line of products for at
least another four years, and sources Toll Bloomberg, the iPhone maker no longer
envisions a truly driverless car. With the latest changes, Apple reportedly hopes to
launch an electric car in twenty twenty eight. That would be the early the
vehicle will not be self driving, casey, Okay, one last thing to
kill me, all right, thank you appreciate it. Okay, yeah,
yeah, yeah, all right, a couple of things for oh, the
mel Gibson thing, all right, real quick, So and this is actually
because there's a boot involved, but it's not the boot theory, which is
a kind of a different thing, but it's kind of also that but also
its own thing. Does that make sense? Okay? So mel Gibson has
been photographed recently with multiple injuries, including he had to walk with a cane
for a little while and he was in he's in a walking boot, and
he had his arm in a sling a few months ago. And so obviously
you know what's going on here, Illuminati and or the Jews. So that
was that's that's where we're at now. Obviously you know, mel Gibson's got
a little history there, but more recently he was actually one of the folks
who was testifying and providing quote what was described as valuable intelligence to authorities as
they were putting together child trafficking stuff, right, and and he leaned in
in an interview to how there's a Hollywood connection too to trafficking. And it
might not be secret tunnels under pizza places, but Hollywood's got a filthy history.
I'm looking at a certain director who can't even come into the country,
and so the theory is that he's all these they keep coming over and beating
the crap out of him like mob enforcers. But in the latest photo,
his black balking boot is now a white walking boot because that's him indicating that
he surrenders. So there you go. Now there's another boot thing because but
that's just those are convicted or those are people that are childless. So if
you're in the conspiracy theories, the boot theory is if you ever see a
celebrity like they're the recent ones or Tom Hanks and I think Julie Roberts,
they were walking around with the and Ellen DeGeneres like the big black boot on
yes, yeah, what that theory is and this is conspiracy theory, sure,
sure, off the bat, this is it's a it's a cute thing.
So the secret government that's truly in controlled being run by Donald Trump,
are going after pedophiles. And what you do if you see a celebrity in
one of those black boots, there's actually a tracking device. It's like ah,
like a like an ankle bracelet, so the government can keep tabs of
them, so they don't you know, molest children or whatever it is.
Well, people still do. Like we had a story this story yesterday the
crazy woman and got arrested. She was wearing her ankle monitors, so I
don't know. Oh and the guy who tried to trade drugs for buffalo wild
wings pickles also wearing an anklet. So there's there's that. Are they the
clones or are they the actual I'm not sure. I don't know. Wow,
Okay, but if you see the celebrity, that's that's what the conspiracy
theorists believe. Oh, Harry, I haven't heard the white one machine.
Well no, yeah. And then there's the other thing. If you have
see it, like a celebrity with a black eye, that's the initiation to
get into some sort of weird elitist club. Oh wow, well, Harry
Reid, would you know, he sounds like an elitist club kind of guy.
But I don't know. I heard that. I read that was over
a land deal the river, So so yeah, we got that going for
us. All Right, I'm gonna do. I have to do the number.
Just I want you to keep this number of my two numbers. One
that day that Donald Trump was sitting in that movie with Pelosi where she's jamming
her finger at him. If you remember, he was offering daka amnesty or
at least a discussion, and he wanted six billion for the wall. They're
like, no way, now, we can't afford it, can't do that.
The numbers have come out on just federl spending on housing wait for it tomorrow