Casey O Day Radio program creeping creeping in towards the end of the week.
But first you got to put up with the is gonna be good napping weather
today? If it doesn't knock your power out, well I guess you can
still nap through that. But yeah, we got depending on where you are,
little spurts of not so great weather. Ray stage it will be here
coming up a little later on to guide us through that. All right,
So we got lots to get through the this morning. We have we have
vaccine waters insanity, we have she jack in sanity again. Oh hold on,
hold on, not trying to hit the button, trying to move the
audio cut? All right, that's my bad. All right's gonna have to
clean that up. Sorry, dude. So we'll get to that. Of
course, Stephen Kent, he'll join us in our number three get into it
is some nerd stuff. I guess there's I want to talk about the new
video game adaptions because I saw people that were I have not seen this.
I guess it's on Prime Video, so I don't know. But now there's
the Fallout series, what was the what's the other series that ross you've been
watching? I'm trying to remember what it is or am I am? I
mixing it up here hanging out. Well, well, look we're gonna get
into it with Steven Kent because there are look, Hollywood's pulling off a lot
of video games, and I don't I think that's a fascinating discussion and something
that has been both a curse usually a curse, but also a benefit in
my young life compared to me in my four early forties. But still,
you know, we were the era of video games, of the video game
generation, so since like day one, I know, people argue and they're
like, uh, yeah, well those are home consoles and you know,
going back and pack it, got it, got it, okay, whatever.
But the fact is it has been absolutely cringe worthy so many times in
my life where some some video game they've parlayed into a either a movie or
a TV show and it didn't go well. And there's some there's some there's
some classic examples out there. Trying to think of the first video game movie
that really captured my attention, I think I know which one. It is.
The first video game movie that captured my attention as a kid, right
because I'm a kid and I was really excited about. It was the the
very same movie that made everybody think they needed a Nintendo glove, which was
absolutely worthless. Have any of you ever tried to play a game with that
Nintendo glove? No? No, he didn't have one, but my rich
buddy did. And I remember thinking, wow, this thing's a piece of
crap. But was the the Wizard? I think was the was the name?
Right? The Wizard? And uh, basically some kid really good at
video games Nintendo? And well it's been so long, I don't remember the
plot. That's a good movie, right, No, no, no,
no, the glove was the glove? You know? The glove was trash
and garbage. Yeah, but man, when you saw that movie, you
wanted one, didn't you. Sure? Yeah yeah, and you put that
thing on your leg. This is like, yeah, yeah, all right,
So so the gloves sucked. But the movie, the movie When You're
a Kid is about a kid who's really good at doing something you really love
and he's having a battle through to go and prove that he's the best in
the world. And wasn't it reno where they held it? Looking back at
that movie? But first I was a giant commercial for Super Mario Brothers three
that was the first time a lot of us saw that game, and it
like, yeah, pumped us up to get that game, and then the
game ended up being like amazing, legendary. Yes, but the kid also
in that movie is clearly autistic, but we did not know that back in
the day. Really, you go back and watch that movie. The kid
is autistic. But they and they did the movie without ever saying a one
thousand percent. We watched that movie recently, we're like, that kid is
so it's a it's a movie about autistic child who's really good at video games.
Yeah, I mean that sounds like something they'd put on TV today.
It does, unapologize and then they'd make him a doctor or whatever that does
that show still on? What is the show I'm thinking of the Good Doctor,
Good Doctor? Yeah, I never really watched, which is weird because,
like they he presents autism as if he he he moves like he's and
he talks like he's C three po Right, you go, and now that
they've said that, go and watch the show just for a little bit and
watch the show, not the movie, right, the show. Watch the
way he moves, his mannerism is the way he is C three po That's
how he interprets autism, and it's very strange. I had, I had
no idea, okay, all right, and then now I'm gonna have to
rewatch that. I wonder where I could even watch that. It's called The
Wizard, right. Uh, let's see here, I'm gonna look at my
little thing here. You know. It's really defeating today is when you want
to watch a movie and then like you check the nine services that you actually
pay for and it's not on there. Okay, weren't something like weird movie
you seeing the long time and they want to charge you twenty dollars for it?
Like there were? Oh yeah, like you'll earnest me. Yeah yeah,
yeah, here it is, yeah, from nineteen eighty nine. Uh
is it streaming anywhere? No? No, it's not streaming. All right.
What do you think that movie costs to buy? Uh? Fifteen bucks?
You're exactly right, fifteen dollars. You know what. I don't want
to see it that bad? Sorry, exactly. The biggest video game movie
disappointment the first time I was ever sitting in a movie theater, I was
like clearly disappointed. It never happened before, but going to the movies is
like Magic was the original Super Mario Brothers movie. Sitting in the theater and
trying to watch that, Yeah, what is this piece of garbage? Yeah?
I knew. I agree it wasn't good, but I'm trying to think
of all of the super did you know you're sitting that was the first one
that I can remember. Yeah, oh okay, yeah, no, no,
no, that's fair because there's been a lot of Stemen piles over the
years. But you like the new Halo series and I but I guess the
new Fallout series. Everyone is like, this is amazing. I was,
yeah, it looks so good and looking forward to it, but then IGN
rated it a nine, so now I'm not so sure. Oh no,
gave me a little pause. Okay, all right, well, prap,
I didn't know that the best show ever. You're like, oh boo,
and it's on Prime, so if you know I do have that one.
I'm like, oh, I'm gonna be able to watch this now. I
wait until all the episodes come out, but like me happy, I'm like,
ah, you have to fall Out. And you have to understand.
I'm not a player of either game, nor you. I don't think you
played Fallout either. I mean, you know, I know, it's one
of my favorite series. Oh, if you like the Fallout, it's Halo.
You never played, right, Halo didn't play. So I went into
that clean like clean slate, and I enjoyed it because I know nothing about
the lore. But fans of the game series hate the show because there has
nothing to do with it. They can change the story. Good. That
doesn't bother me because I have no BA but Fallout, all right, So
that's a higher bar. That's gonna be a higher bar in your pit completely.
Yeah, okay, I stream Fallout all the time. I love it.
I don't know it. I'm assuming it's you know, apocalyp is it
A is it? I don't know what the Yeah, yeah, it's uh
okay. So it's like nineteen imagine like if the timeline of America instead of
imagine if we completely embraced nuclear technology and the the progress. Yeah, pretty
much, we become the Jetsons. But but in this timeline there's also a
big, huge nuclear war and a lot of civilization go into the vaults to
uh, you know, try to survive, and then later on they come
out of the vaults and then they you know, they try to prosper So
fall Out, you know, pretty standard thing there, and all of a
sudden everyone's super Warrior, right, there are super mutants. Yeah, yeah,
but there's also a Borderlands, uh movie coming out. They have enough
guns for that. I don't know, man, because you need like a
bajillion gazillion guns for that. Yeah, is that a dude? John Rambo
like a you know, a little cameo. I mean the trailer. We
saw the trail. We took a Lincoln for his birthday, his twelfth birthday,
We to him to go see a Kung Fu Panda four and that was
one of the previous and he knows Borderlands. He was like, oh,
this looks great. It looks good, but who knows. All right,
well, this is this is We'll get into this with Steven Kent coming up
a little later. But first we have we have of justice. We gotta
get some we gotta get we gotta get our justice on as what I don't
know, kind of feels like within the media feels a lot like we're trying
to do another George Floyd thing here again, and I don't know if this
story holds up to that. So you have a you have a a dude
in the car, he gets stop by police. According to the reports,
he is a He is not to be in possession of a weapon based on
some some you know, some other interactions with our legal system. We give
you the CNN version. This is in Tennessee. Tennessee State Senator uh State
Center London Lamar says, quote, she feels like a slave sometimes in the
state. Oh yes, all right, so that's quite the setup. Obviously,
this is their own very activist elected official in Tennessee. Also, she
referred to no, I'm sorry, her cohort, Senator Charlene Oliver, has
literally called for riots in the past, and in this instance is intimating that
again, all of these things would be the key focus of any story for
if it was Republicans saying this stuff. Referring to a bill known as the
Jim Crow Bill, which is what they referred to it, that was put
in by Senator Brett Taylor and quote all of his confederates. So again I'm
coming through the lens of his political opponents. Now what is the bill?
So the bill orders police to ignore basically what the Memphis City Council has been
doing. Memphis is an absolute shooting gallery, absolute shooting gallery. In Memphis,
the city council voted to order police to no longer pull over motorists for
routine traffic violations. Expired registration, you know how your lights aren't working,
you know all all of these things that for forever have been part of it,
and yes, don't get me wrong, have also been used by police,
arguably to you know, camel's nose under the tent in some situations,
but you know, like unintended. I'll give you an example. So they
go and they pull over a car that's speeding at three in the morning.
And you know, you see these stories where they do that and then all
of a sudden everything goes sideways because somebody's got a warrant or they're speeding inexplicably
with nine pounds of drugs in the car. You see these crazy stories.
Well, this went in a different direction, and from CNN, this is
how the story is set up. How did a traffic stop for not wearing
a seatbelt end with ninety six gunshots, an injured officer and a dead twenty
six year old some say, and by some he means the video of from
six different angles from the officers that you can watch some say it was because
Dexter Reid fired at officers first. Some believe the stop never should have happened,
all right, so we're turning into this the great civil rights thing.
And then they get mom out there for a press conference and she's losing her
mind. By the way, here she is it just bought his new car
three days before that. He was just riding them around in his car.
He's a mom, right, and I killed him? And then she literally
falls back like a Chappelle skin. And again, my thing is not I
tried to beef with the family members. Her kid could have absolutely been a
staying on the criminal justice system, but she's it's still her son. So
all right, So that that's where we are. However, if you're gonna
run that clip, and you are a news reporter and that's what you're attempting
to do to report news, you might provide some context, like what happened
during the traffic stop? Right because this is her narrative right here. In
fact, let me let's let's plug her narrative into the is that does that
sound like what happened? Okay? All right, see you heard mom's explanation,
because she obviously was not there. But uh knows everything that happened,
and according to her, the whole incident kind of went like this, running
along the autimally with the AI recreation machine is amazing in here, by the
way, that is really good. We got new AI text. So all
right. The problem is, that's not what happened according to the videos,
according to any of the reports. Even if you want to throw the reports
out because you're like, oh, it's all biased, that's not what happened,
not according to anything we can see or any of the witness statements.
What happened is a little different. So they pull him over and it turned
into a situation where dudes, he rolls the window down, becomes hostile with
police. He's not happy, but he's also he's within the realm of just
somebody who's just really po They got pulled over. The problem is that he
had a firearm allegedly, and by allegedly, I mean you can see it
throughout, and he's not allowed to possess a firearm, and you generally don't
want to brandish one when the police are pulling you. Well maybe I don't
know. I'm not the traffic stop expert. Ross if he get pulled over.
What would you say, should would be a best practice that you should
do. I would roll down your window, immediately, stare the cop in
the eyes, and say, am I being detained? All right? Well,
he didn't do any of those. In fact, while he did roll
down the window, he then started to roll it up, and he started
moving stuff around in there. And as soon as that's what you're doing,
officers got questions. So, following your scenario, he did do step one.
Then he started rolling it up. Next step to alleviate the situation,
so everyone goes home? Is what you draw a glock from your waistband?
Right? I always say that would be a bad idea, Probably shoot a
what if you're like Old West, quick with it? I would say,
babe, they'll be impressed. Not gonna end Well, I would say that
if I had like a top ten list of things not to do, it
would be a younger one on the list. Don't do that, don't immediately
grab a firearm in your waistband, and and and then all right, so
Ross is like so, and then you shoot at him eleven times? Right
too? Like help the officers trade because those are things that happened. Unlike
Mom's version here so uh, anyway, just expect that to turn into a
whole thing. And the thing we predicted is turning into a thing up in
Baltimore. I knew it was. I knew it would do it. You
knew it would. And we'll share that with you coming up case O Day
radio program. Yeah yeah, yeah at the old Planet Fitness. I know
I don't want to be doing another Planet Fitness story either, but here we
be. Although I will take issue with some quotes in this bad boy Okay,
so check this out. Christopher Miller, aged thirty eight, was arrested
after going into the women's locker room at the Gastonia Planet Fitness on South New
Hope. Bro. This happened last week. Now we're getting more. Now
we're getting the details and the initial appearance. So Planet Fitness, obviously you're
aware they have a policy you can use the no judgment based on what you
identify as and that's the locker room you can use. However, the evil,
horrible, bigoted women at this Planet Fitness they were not having this,
you know, in their evil bigotry. And also the part where, according
to police, the dude who's got he looks like a scuzzy homeless, dreadlock,
younger dude who probably went to too many music festivals his thirties slipped away,
he accomplished nothing. That's just the vibe I get. But according to
women at the Planet Fitness, the dude was in the women's locker room.
He was buck naked man, and he was not only naked, but he
was trying to coerce women into rubbing some lotion on him and maybe helping him
in the shower. When initially approached, the man said he identifies as a
woman and wouldn't leave, and then again started just walking around the locker room
everything out, trying to find somebody to rub lotion on him. Here's what
I think is rich. By the way, Clark Simon, the former president
of Charlotte Pride, said Planet Fitness's policy is a big fan. Clark's a
big fan. However, Clark added that there's no excuse for someone who's not
transgender to violate the space. All right, who the hell are you,
Clark? Who are you to sit there and tell this person that they're not
transgender? I'm serious. Every time somebody's tried to be like, all right,
so what actually constitutes that? And you have a whole swath argument of
people saying, you know, chromosome will make up is a pretty good place
to start. And then the activists will run out and they'll be like,
you know, but there's people who have contaminated chromosomes so they have this Kleinfelter
syndrome. And and you're like, okay, yeah, but not twenty five
percent of gen z and polling. What are you talking about. So for
this guy to go, oh no, this is not this is not a
trans he met the equivalent standard that you have asked for and you have advocated
for, which is simply telling you that he identifies as a woman. And
it is this disconnect And anytime I see these stories where they're like, oh,
well that person that wasn't a real transgender person, and it's like,
all right, well what is. Well, you're a bigot for asking because
it's in the you know, it's how a person feels, so you can't
put standards on it. It's like, well, you just use some imaginary
standards to try to make it look like this person is not what they say
they are. And I'm just asking what are those standards? Who knows,
maybe we agree with those standards Miller's in charge or in jail, among charges,
there was a miner in the locker room, so that's the toothy one.
They'll try to get them with. Let's see here. Oh. They
also put this line up and they say that there's no indication that Miller self
reported before the incident. Specifically, there's no indication that Miller contacted an employee
prior and said, hey, just so you know, I am a transwoman
and before entering the locker room, which is wildly disingenuous because under Planet Fitness's
policy, there is no requirement for that. Read the policy. They don't
have to go and explain themselves to somebody. And that's intentional, right,
because if they did, if they had to pass some sort of test,
this Clark Simon idiot and his crew would be out there. How dare you
force somebody to explain something like this to you? If they say it,
that's good enough. And now in retrospect they're like, well obviously he wasn't.
I mean, all this could be avoided if people just when they went
to the gym they were like, I am and I have like the discipline
and the dedication not to go to the bathroom like I don't understand these people
that go to the gym and they're like, I'm gonna I have to go
number one. I have to go number two. I have it, Listen,
I have the discipline and the focus where I have. I don't think
I've gone number two in like two years, just out of sheer determination and
grit. And you go to the gym. Yeah, these people go to
the gym and they're like, I have to the bathroom, man, come
on, come on, what Yeah, so that's the problem, that's the
problem. Yeah, you're not focusing on Yeah, that's a good point.
You know, if you just don't go in the locker room, right,
you know, when you're walking around naked by himself right, right, exactly
as we all know when you walk into Planet Fitness, right, you have
to you have the check in booth on your left, right right, where
you can you know, check in, use your black card or buy a
beverage or whatever or going or whatever it is. And then you have the
little cubby lockers you can use on your left which have like a little uh
locking mechanism on it. Don't even need to bring your own lock And that's
where I put my keys in my wallet and my maybe my jacket. You
put it up there. I don't even have time to focus on the bathroom.
You kidding me? People are lazy, You ross blazy people who I
eat twenty eggs every morning and I go straight to the gym and I hold
it like a man. Well, thank god. Can you imagine what twenty
eggs post worked out would do to a locker room? Dude? Even know
what that place looks like. You know, you'd be the guy in the
story, not for showing your jump to a kid, but for you know,
terrorism charge. That's just when to start the day. Twenty eggs then
did an hour of cardio, and then he used the bathroom, and oh
my god, we had to have these people complaining about the locker room or
the bathroom. You're weak, you need to get swollen, Just go outside.
Or are you ready for this? Get the wide mouth gatorade bottle when
you're on the machine. What right, right? Be right? You don't
have time. This is a great idea, dude. And if somebody's like,
oh, oh my gosh, the guy's got his junk out on the
elliptical, the question for that other gym goer would be like, why are
you staring at his junk. You purv Yeah, focus on your routine.
Man, Oh that's why you're fat. He is day twenty eggs. You
keep this up, He's gonna go over to your house and use your bathroom.
Oh man, all right, look at that. Well we solve that
problem right away, all right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
seven before everything's so dumb. But my question stands, right, if your
lifetime has spent advocating for a policy where nobody ever has to prove or explain
anything on this on this topic, and anyone who questions it is a bigot,
you can't then decide that they didn't meet the cut when asking what the
cut is could get you essentially canceled. So Ross, take Ross's advice,
hold it cowards, all right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
seven four. Hypothetically, I have a question. What if one of you,
or me, for that matter, showed up at the local city council
meeting and during public input session held aloft a weapon or an object that was
to be weaponized, and threatened the mayor with striking her with it if she
doesn't acquiesce to a demand. How do you think that that would fly,
or walking into congressional hearing, or walking into a county commissioner's meeting or school
board meeting. Right if you rolled up in there and made a threatening statement
with the object you were threatening this elected official with. I feel like,
can you imagine the news story, especially if it's some like woke mayor and
some guy in a maga hat like there would be the only story see the
fascist or doing what the fascists are doing? Do you know that happened yesterday?
Kind of? And it happened in North Carolina, that's the thing in
and it involved a mayor, the mayor of Raleigh in this case, Mary
Anne Baldwin, vape enthusiast and a parade hater. Right, So let's take
that scenario, with all of the insanity over the Christmas preate. Let's say
that one of the organizers from the Christmas preade showed up and threatened the mayor
with an object, threatening to quote strike her with it based on not doing
this thing that they wanted them to. You know, basically, hey,
if you don't do this, this is something that could happen to you.
I'll explain how she worded it. The angry Leprechaun in question, but the
reaction on the part of law enforcement city, I didn't the f is going
on. I can't think of a scenario where anyone listening to this show could
pull that stunt. But it happened, and we'll give you the details next
here on the CaCO Day Radio program. As you know, there's been a
bunch of Gaza activists who've been showing up and taking over anything and everything because
we've created this permissive environment where whatever your cause is, you can ruin everybody
else's day if you don't feel that they're acquiescing to you. So that's great.
So anyway, this nutjob angry Leprechaun or something, I don't know.
She's wearing like the Palestinian pullover with the bright red hair, so I'm just
very confused. But anyway, the individual whose name we don't have, I'm
sure somebody knows who she is, obviously, But during the public input session,
the speaker who identified herself as Catherine, held up a shoe. Now,
for those of you who are old enough to remember the George Bush incident,
right where George Bush was? Where was he was he in Dubai or
Cutter somewhere in the Middle East, I don't remember. And he's holding that
press conference and a dude, who, by the way, was on a
press pass. The dude showed up about you know, middle second or third
question stood up and you can see Bush immediately realize he's about to get a
shoe thrown at him, and he does the duck and cover and everyone's seen
the video, and at the time people were celebrating, but they also talked
about how there is that is an insult. That is an insult within certain
segments of the Middle East. Right, Showing somebody the bottom of your shoe
and throwing it at him is just the worst. So this activist gets up,
identifies or identifies herself as Catherine and holds the shoe up. That's not
a good start. And frankly, I again, I feel like if it
was somebody who politically was not you know, mostly all there with the mayor
and they held up a shoe in a threatening manner. And why do I
say it's a threatening manner because she then uttered the words quote Mary Anne Baldwin.
If I can keep from throwing the shoe at you, you can keep
off your phone while listening to your constituents talk. People are trying to get
you to hear them, and they have heard you for months and months.
They even voted on a resolution. They even voted on a resolution to not
go forward with the Gaza piece thing that you're asking for, which, well,
I don't understand how that would work. Again, the City of Raleigh
doesn't have anything with it. This is about demanding allegiance and fealty to whatever
their position is. But that and here is, by the way, here
is the audio you ready, Mary and Baldwin. If I can keep from
throwing the shoe at you, you can keep from off your phone while listening
to your constituents talk. Please, Your people are trying to get you to
hear them. Now, let me say this. I share this woman's frustration,
even if I think she's a lunatic, who, by the way,
has gotten more attention and even a vote from somebody who has no There's nothing
they can do about this, right. This is about forcing people to tell
you that you're awesome and you have good ideas. That being said, I
share her frustration and have been in many council, county board school board meetings
having covered that for years. Back in the day, where during public input
session you'll see council members sitting there, jacket around in their fact clearly not
paying attention. And I always found that. I always found that very frustrating
and rude. So I'm with you on that. However, I can't think
of a scenario where somebody who might be ideologically opposed to the direction of the
city council rolls in makes that statement holding the item. They're saying that it's
so glad I'm not throwing this, because if I was throwing this, this
is what suck for you. And it walks out of the meeting and nothing
happen. Weapons that's insane. They you know, they arrested a dad who
showed up at a school board meeting because his kid was raped and the superintendent
wanted to lie and say he wasn't and that turned into such a big case
they had to literally purge the prosecutor. Do I think she was gonna throw
the shoot? Probably not. But I also, you know, I've been
watching the uh you know, the lunatics driving up and down, having many
gaza parades with their vehicles covered in flags, doing sixty. And I got
killed at the roundabout at NC State driving back from a delicious steak dinner,
kind of sneaking back through there, and thank god the uber stopped at the
roundabout because they want flying through the damn thing. I haven't called somebody I
know on the police force. He's like, yeah, that's the thing that
keeps happening. How do you go in and do this and not catch a
charge or something. It's mind boggling to me. But you know what,
these are the pigeons you want to keep throwing grain at Mare. This is
welcome, This is you get everything that you signed up for. So you
might want to hit that vight pen a few times and you know, sink
into oblivion. I guess too. I get over it. Baldwin did release
the statement saying last night's gesture, oh we're calling it a gesture, violated
the rules of decorum and was inappropriate. This is why we have police inside
the chambers to manage these situations and minimize disruptions. Again, somebody threatened to
throw a shoe at you if you didn't do exactly what they wanted. Inspired
by Ross's policy of thee at the gym of You're only a psychopath would use
the bathroom there, so hold an end coward. I feel like that's a
good policy. Now, this is probably gonna irritate some of you, but
I don't care because I'm right. Two of the golfers at the Master,
Scottie Scheffler, who is I believe mathematically one of the favorites, if not
the favorite to win it. I don't know what the numbers sit at today.
Let's see Scotti Scheffler, and and by the way, Scheffler's won the
Masters before too. By the way, so he is a past champion,
Scheffler. And what is the other guy's name, Burns? Yeah, all
right, So why am I announcing what's up with these two? So both
of them have wives that are pregnant, are not only pregnant, but are
expecting and feasibly are due within the next week to two weeks, so end
of the week, maybe next week. So look, the probability that their
wives go into labor during the Masters probably on the lower side. But you'd
ever know, especially out there and you know, watching watching your husband's play.
And I told you, man, it's one of the one of the
craziest kept secrets that the this was at the PGA Championship is when you had
the press credential and you could move everywhere. What I found was fascinating was
they have a rooftop like at the clubhouse for the club I was at,
which is in Minnesota, or they held a PGA championship. The roof of
the clubhouse is a big outdoor bar restaurant, and that wasn't open to the
general public. It was for for media people to get food, but also
for all the wags as they call them, the wives and girlfriends. And
I remember going up there and hitting the media catering thing and I look over
and look, these guys do okay, right, so you got you know,
you got nothing but smoke. Show wives sitting right, mostly not the
girlfriends, because the girlfriends will still follow their men around on the course.
It's just interesting. But man, they're just sitting there talking about which color
maserati they're getting, showing off their jewelry and stuff like, which is fine
whatever. I don't care if everybody's happy. Everybody's happy. But the last
thing they're talking about is golf, which I found interesting. And now these
two women, the wives of these two golfers, they stand in a position
where both of their husbands have said that if they go into labor. They're
withdrawing from the tournament, and they're gonna go be by their side, which
Scotti Scheffler is one of the favorites to win, and he's won before,
and I can't imagine that scenario. Now, there was a golfer who was
winning the Canadian Open and I can't remember his name. I remember it was
a big story because his wife did go into labor and he left and possibly
was foregoing like two million dollars doing it, which is I was gonna be
ironic down the road when she's like once you know, maybe money gets a
little tight or whatever, and she's like, ah, I want to buy
this thing, It's like, well, remember that time we said no to
two million dollars? Yeah? That So here's the unpopular opinion. Why should
they leave? Like the Masters is a known other than the the reschedule they
did during the peak of COVID. If you remember they moved the Masters,
it was at a very weird time. The Masters is always now or within
a week of now. This is not a new thing. Why don't you
hold it or better yet, why don't you time it out? Can't you
math this thing out? Don't people do I don't, you know, I
don't know if everyone does this, but I know a family member who they
were very intentional about when they want wanted to have the baby, but that
was more for some weird family tradition thing. But they almost hit it on
the head, So I don't know. Also, I think they both already
have kids, so like, you know, not at first rodeo, it's
going to be wild. Let's see, I think it's going to be pretty
wild, said Shuffler. I don't think it's a hit either of us quite
yet, but it's an exciting time for us as a family. What do
you do if you're leading the masters? What if you're Scheffler and you're going
into the weekend, you're leading the Masters and then I don't know, you
tea off on Saturday and you're feeling good, maybe even you know, capture
a couple of strokes in the first few holes, and then you get the
call. Do you just walk out of there? You have the opportunity to
be recognized as the greatest of the thing that you do for a period after
this. And also if you do walk away, I know Scheffler's got a
jacket already, But if you're Burns, you walk away, you never get
the jacket. Now you're gonna be paying full price for olive Garden for the
rest of your life. Is that fair to you, the wife or the
baby. I don't think so. What do you think would happen though,
this is the thought exercise. What do you think would happen even if everyone
in the family was fine with it? Right, Scheffler's wife or Burns's wife's
like, Now I got my family around me. I want you to win
this tournament. Bear down, I mean mentally it may not be easy.
And the golfer doesn't withdraw. I think people are probably gonna say some not
nice things to say the very least. Let's see. Yeah, here we
go and they get they get into other incident. Oh, they start talking
about the Phill incident. Well that was interesting because that happened here so back
in the day in the final round of the Masters in nineteen ninety nine,
it was Phil Mickelson's who was seeing carrying. This was at pine This wasn't
the Masters at Pinehurst? Why did they write this story in correct? What
was it in ninety nine? Was at the Open? The champion? I
can't remember anyway, Michelson ended up getting second place behind Payne Stewart, and
then his wife went in the next day. But he was carrying a beeper
around and everyone's like, why are you carrying a beeper? Are you a
drug dealer? What are you doing? This is like my wife might go
into labor. So yeah, I say, stick it out. What is
the what is the purse for the Masters? It's not a little bit of
money? What is this? Maybe she didn't map it out. Well,
she already got him locked down. I understand that, you know, you
want to get a baby in the mix. There little insurance policy. But
anyway, all right, so that's the thing. Just thought i'd bring up
to speed on it. All right, coming up on the show at the
time, well, at the time the Masters was supposed to start. Now
it's going to be delayed at least an hour. Steven kentill join us.
We've got a few things to get in with him. Also, oh man,
where do I start today? Maxine Waters or Sheila Jackson Lee. But
we talked about she jack quite a bit yesterday, obviously with her very very
intelligent recitation of the moon provide unique light and energy so that you have the
energy of the moon at night. And sometimes you've heard the word full moon.
Sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a
full moon? Is that complete rounded circle which is made up mostly of gases?
All Right, so this idiot, well she has responded, we'll have
the latest from her and her buddy, Maxine Waters. The lunacy and hypocrisy
of these people people get up into Washington, and it's not just too democratic
Congress women, but just like the gas lighting and stuff that elected officials up
there will say. The difference is one side tends to get pushedback and fact
checked, whereas the other one is just gonna sit there say whatever they want
and largely not be challenged on it. Well, you see why when you're
used to that. Both of these women have an absolute meltdown over people challenging
what they said, or calling them out on it, or even politely suggesting
that they disagree with them. We'll give you the she Jack update and delve
into the Maxine Waters hypocrisy. Will do it next. Hang On, I
had some questions about the whole moon was made of mostly gas thing, describing
people criticizing her as quote and specifically Republicans and their quote lust for stupidity for
pointing out no, that's not true. During the event, Jackson Lee,
as you heard, told students I was talking about the sun and the moon.
And you know we played the audio obviously there before the break she's talking
about the moon being although she did come down on the side that the moon
would be easier to build homesteads on than the sun, which is probably true,
so good on her. But yeah, Jackson Lee claimed that she had
been referring to the sun at the time and not the moon. Obviously I
misspoke and meant to say the sun. No, no, you didn't.
And I was willing to say, okay, well this is what she said
she means and then go back and listen to the audio. This isn't where
it's one conflated word or not. She's drawing distinctions again. Here's the audio.
Bad unique light and energy, so that you have the energy of the
moon at night, and sometimes the word full moon sometimes you need to take
the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon. Is that complete
rounded circle which is made up mostly of gases. And that's why the question,
the question is why how could we as humans live on the moon are
the Does that sell that she's confused? She's talking about the moon on one
side, moon on the other side, and using a continued description in the
middle, which is where she's receiving the criticism. Nobody believes you. Right,
No, she didn't like flub a word. Her whole whole premise is
wrong. Then the whole forty two seconds is based on rognet. Right.
If she's saying that she is she saying we could live on the sun,
then it was that her point. No, shelbed the word if she meant
the sun, but her whole premises we can live there. What is she
talking about at night and in the winter. Yes, we covered, didn't
we. I think we explained this yesterday right with the alig audio. No,
she screwed up. She's an idiot. She thought. You know,
she's dumb. You're not a smart woman, but neither is Maxine Waters.
Let's go back to right after Trump was elected, where we first learned that
Maxine Waters has probably never put fuel in her vehicle and this famous comment,
Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up, and if
you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant in a department store at a
gasold station. You get out and you call it a guy, and you
just back on them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore anywhere. And
obviously this was during that period of time where everyone within the you know,
you had all these incidents where restaurants, including what was the famous one in
Roanoke or Richmond or near there who threw the now governor of Arkansas out right,
and you had all this lunacy, and people were warning, they're like,
you know, you're ramp this up to the point where rather than recognizing
debating and you know, potentially overcoming if your idea is better your political opponents,
you want them purge from society and physically so in some instance. So
she's calling for mobs to get in their face, and she wasn't the only
one. The problem is that occasionally people are going to take your advice,
ma'am, and if they have a problem with something you're proposing, they may
come up and tell you. Arguably they did so in a much more respectful
manner than she was advocating. But she absolutely can't deal with it. Here
is Waters crying the blues yesterday as a member of Congress with people you know
who evidently had a racist attitude, and recently one even confronted me in a
restaurant. And they don't say racist things, but what they say is they
don't like something I say it. They don't lack a position that I took.
But you know that you know if you were not black, you would
not be approached that they probably would not right. They don't think twice about
doing it. They think that they can get away with doing it with you
and that you're all right. And that's on I don't know, some stupid
podcast with a bunch of other many smungers there. I've called in a couple
of times. We don't agree on a lot, but I think we can
both agree that whether it be mixing Waters, Joe Biden, Donald Trump,
Mitch McConnell, we have got to get these people that are seventy plus years
old out of Congress and out of our government. We mean, I mean,
forget lunatics out even if they're not seventy sir, so can we I'll
make you know yours and then also you know a little bit of mine,
so well, I'll go so further. Even if you're saying, oh that
they just regardless, someone who is seventy plus years old in a government is
not voting for the interests of someone who is twenty years old. And I
don't care how you spin it, there's no way that they have what's in
mind for those people in the next fifty years of their life at horrors think
watching them do tech hearings is some of the most embarrassing stuff see. But
let me let me push back on one thing. I don't know that Congress's
obligation needs to primarily lie in what is best for twenty year olds. I
don't think so either. But I don't think a seventy year old has the
conditioning to be prepared for what's in the next fifty to seventy years of our
country. They're working on, whether it be their retirement, their pensions,
those things are what's in the form of their mind, and their experiences in
life are going to change how they see things, where as a twenty thirty
forty year old coming through the world right now had a totally different experience than
them. All I'm saying is you have maximums making the comments she does.
Joe Biden, Donald Trump, they all are saying crazy things. Mitch McConnell
is freezing on camera, and it's just degrading how people see our Congress in
general. Well, it is. It is easy. It is easy to
do an SNL thing if you wanted to, with the cast of characters there.
But I also don't necessarily I understand that people's experience is going to be
different. I don't know how old are you, Casey, If you don't
mind me, I'm old all right. Even though we are seven years apart.
Your high school experience was different from mine. The shows that you watch
were probably different from mine. There was a lot that was probably different than
you know, for somebody who graduated in the mid two thousands versus the end
of the nineties like I did. But our experience is also one where we're
able to if you told me how things worked at your school and we sat
there over a few beers and just the shot the bull, there's going to
be a lot of crossover with stuff. And I think even when somebody is
seventy years old and they're looking back to establishing themselves when they were in the
twenties, the intelligent among them are willing to admit what I'm willing to admit
these kids that are out there, you know, filming tiktoks about how they'll
never afford a house, they have legitimate beef. Right, Yeah, it's
like they do. And I know a lot of people who are older who
also recognize that. So, yeah, it's easy to get shoehorned into well
this is the way we did it, So that's the only acceptable way,
and that's the only acceptable answer. But I think good people who genuinely want
to help, even if they're sometimes being very self serving, if they're willing
to admit that they don't know it all and and listen to those other experiences,
that's I'm that's usually good enough for me. Even if you get away
from the age stuff. Now you're getting into some of the physical stuff,
but that's a whole other thing, you know, freezing up or wandering around
like a room or staring at the sun thing. Yeah, one thing,
just on the on the on the housing court, for instance. I agree
with you that there are people that recognize, and they may be sixty seventy
eighty years old, that recognize that there is a major problem. The problem
is that even though they recognize that, they still don't understand the hardship because
they they didn't actually go through that unless they're unless they're dealing with it right
now, because they lost their job, they lost their income, they had
to start back from zero, which a lot of these people in Congress don't
do that, right, they didn't. But maybe they didn't go through that,
but maybe they went through a bunch of other stuff, you know,
depending on how old they are. We could talk depression, but you don't
have to be that old to remember what things were like in the seventies,
which you and I were not alive for right exactly, and you're younger than
he, but you know, hearing about interest rates in the seventies, the
gas lines, all of the economic hardships, and really the politics surrounding it.
That is a lived experience that's going to have some of the hallmarks of
what people are concerned about now. So if that person is able to go,
hey, this is how it was, and here's what we did to
make it not that, then you know, maybe that's experience it can be
used to try to fix some of the problem out there. The problem is
Maxine Waters can and it sounds like you agree, she can't tell people to
go do something, and then when people do it to her in a respectful
manner, you know, claim a hate crime. That's we're outside of this.
If you ever want people to try to understand where you're coming from,
and you shut it down that quickly with statements from her and then the Shila
Jackson Lee statement, then you know, what's what's the point in Neither of
those women are in their seventies, so they just kind of looked like it.
So that's where I'm at all right, man, thanks for the call.
Appreciating great. Yeah. One of the sharpest minds that I've ever that
I've ever known was somebody who I saw I was at his eightieth birthday party.
He was I'm going to give you his name. It's pretty well known
dude in and around the Triangle and spent a lot of years as head of
a tech company, the one that you've heard of for US and international head.
And I only met him in retirement. And this dude's in his seventies
at the time. Playing golf with him, getting to know him just around
a group of people, and he became my sounding board for any questions that
I had, especially questions when it came to you know, workplace stuff because
he set such a positive example and implemented so many policies that people really liked
working for him. And I don't think that management like him exists. And
I'm being complimentary because even though he didn't know what it was like to grow
up in Wyoming, I guess in the nineties, eighties, nineties, whatever,
there was a lot of invaluable things there. And I think that you
know, imbued and all of that was compassion, understanding, and a willingness
to listen to people outside of your preconceived notions. I think that's something we
all can strive for. So do I want to do a hard age thing?
No? Do you want to get into cognitive testing? Maybe? But
I also so think that, like everything else, people will find a way
to manipulate that. I mean, think about it. If you decide that
there's cognitive testing and you realize you can eighty six some of your political opponents,
if you just get the right doctor in there, how would that appear
any different than some of the craft that we deal with every day. It
wouldn't. And speaking of craft that we're dealing with every day, I would
like to introduce the man most responsible for ruining my morning raised agent from the
Weather Channel. Oh sorry, dude, I write in fifteen minutes, I
should be turning on a TV in here and then phoning in the last hour
of the show. But now it's going to be about what an hour,
yeah, at least at least, and it looks like it's going to be
crappy until like two in the afternoon, So who the hell knows? Well,
not as crappy. It looked like it was going to be worse yesterday
morning, honestly, but right now any case, anybody's missed the show,
I mean, who could have missed it? Right? This stuff exactly,
the showers and the heavy This train is pulled away. But they had over
an inch and a half near Augusta yesterday, so a chance to dry out.
With a couple hour delay this morning. They're probably still gonna get some
showers, maybe even a thunder shower today, but I don't think any widespread
rainfall. All that's off to the east and southeast. As you go on
a line from about let's say Columbia, South Carolina, draw that through Fayetteville
and North Carolina, and south of that, that's where the heavier rain is
This morning. Start to see some showers get into Chatham in southern parts of
Wake County, so that a little area rain may clip you. But I
think increasing as we get into the afternoon the scattered showers, even thunderstorms upper
sixties to low seventies. It's gonna become quite breezy too today and more showers
than thunder showers tonight, tapering off sometime tomorrow. Midday early afternoon might get
some afternoon sun for some of us, especially from the Triad west Augusty wins.
Tomorrow highs will be in the low seventies, so we're gonna shut off
the rain around midday early afternoon from west to east as we go through tomorrow,
and the weekend is going to be great with a warming trend. Early
next week is going to beautiful Sunnay near seventy on Saturday with a gusty breeze,
and then Sunday, Monday and Tuesday going to make a run into the
eighties. Maybe it's warm, especially for the Triangle into the middle eighties with
sunshine by Monday and Tuesday two. So I think the playoffs is going to
be great, and even in Augusta after today or even this morning, early
afternoon. The weather, it's going to be great there too. Well fine,
but also this is you know, whenever you have rain incident, there
is a huge differential, especially if there's wind associated. Like it's all about
when your tea time is right, you guys go out and it's sloppy and
still windy, and they'll shoot it even or whatever, and some guy will
do three under this afternoon and so deal man. Then they say, right,
weather is the great equalizer. So I'm wondering what the odds of Tiger
making the cut are. You have to check that out. It could be
my chance. Yeah, gamble incessantly. You got an hour and get your
bed in. All right, thanks sir, appreciated. All right, there
you go, race stage crapping my fun Coming up, we'll chat with Steven
Kent are our NERD correspondent. Lots of we got video game movies, TV
stuff to get into. We got all sorts of stuff. So that'll be
coming up at eight o five. But before we get there, we're gonna
have to our caller mentioned Trump. Uh, We're gonna have to get into
a little Chick fil A visit. I thought that was funny yesterday and Joe
Biden, Joe Biden, Well he got he had a microphone again yesterday?
Where was the Arizona And yeah, well we'll get that for you, but
right now we'll take a break. Seven forty eight. Hang on, hey,
Casey, I ot to have a rebuttal of what that last caller said.
He bumped in Trump with McConnell, Biden, and Waters, who have
been in Congress for years, and Trump, a businessman, came into the
office had more experience than all of them put together. Now, me being
a former businessman business owner, if I knew then what I knew now,
I would have did a lot of things differently. So you can't rump Trump
in with McConnell and always be Yeah. I think that's why a lot of
people lean more cognitive tests if they feel this, rather than just age.
But yeah, I mean that's the best McConnell, uh, Waterers and Biden
never ran anything, don't plan a business. So the best people for a
presidency to be a governor or a business then because they actually had their you
know, wife on the line basically to succeed. Okay, well, yeah,
again it comes down to our I don't know if you have to have
something official. I think a lot of them. Thanks for the call there,
sir. I think a lot of these discussions need to permeate within the
individual right. So formulate a set of standards. And if your set of
standards is you won't vote for somebody over the age of seventy, then so
be it. Let them call you in agies, just say, look,
you're trying. You don't feel that once you're in that age group that you
have enough understanding of the younger generations below you, then fine, people can
go ahead and make that decision. I'm not going to begrudge you, but
yeah, I don't know that I'm comfortable just with an age thing. I
think you got to go individual. Now. Yesterday Joe Biden was in Arizona
and they described this as a quote brutal gaff. I'll let you add it,
then weigh it against things. But here he is talking about who the
hell knows elect me? I'm in the twenty twentieth century, twenty first century,
okay, all right, So he strewed up the twentieth twenty first century.
And I know some people get confused because, like if you say the
twentieth century, but you say the nineteenth nineteen hundreds. You're talking about the
you know the same thing, and you know, I can a little weird,
but he, you know, he corrects himself there and moves on.
Here's the thing if all of the Biden gaffs are like that, because I
saw people trying to the problem is when you over demonize that, that will
now be the example that people use when you're unfairly criticizing. Somebody was saying,
oh, look at that, he immediately corrected himself, and then they
could find tape. You could probably find tape of me saying something and then
immediately corrected myself ten times this morning, because that's how people talk. It
doesn't wash away the other stuff. But when you act like this is akin
to him, you know, sniffing little girls while talking about his time as
a flankerback and then once again reminding us of a train trek that he used
to take with a conductor who was dead well before he was on it.
I don't know that it's useful. It's not even the most infuriating audio or
a little video clip I saw yesterday. When it comes to people talking about
generational stuff, you want something that'll make you lose your mind. I gotta
find I to find this thing again because I was flipping I was flipping through
on the YouTube shorts, which I hate, and I hate how much of
my YouTube like selection things that they cover up and take space away from me.
You can't turn them off, and the whole thing is dumb and it
doesn't sound like the people who produce it, or you don't want it.
But you know, YouTube's got to have their TikTok, which is which is
crazy enough. And I watched some high school she's like, looks like late
high school. This girl's who's filming a TikTok and she's talking about music.
Okay, all right, whatever, Except in the video she holds up a
cassette tape and says it says something along the lines of and for our ancestors,
this was how they consumed music in the nineteen hundreds or late nineteen hundreds,
and she, you know, just held up so this would be a
representative example of how our forefathers or how our ancestors concerned. And she's like
sixteen or seventeen, so I'm not gonna I think she said, but she
obviously is, you know, was not born anywhere near the y two k
But man, that's a gut punch right there. There's been a bunch of
times where I have to explain to Lincoln that, like, you know,
when I was a kid, we didn't have the Internet, and I feel
so old when I do that. Right right, she's holding up that cassette,
that bell BIV DeVos cassette tape you have, and she's like like she
just opened or sarcophagus in Egypt or something. Then let's get into the all
things with the intersection of entertainment, politics, and insanity. Steven Kent joins
us this morning. Steven, how you doing today, sir? I'm doing
great, Casey, did hear from you? I'm gonna kind of I'm going
to a couple of three different stories together. Oh that sounds down there?
All right, all right, sorry your phone was breaking up there. I'm
gonna kind of I want a couple, like three different stories together. I
I need everyone to shut up. How we're doing things around here, all
of you other countries and European Union people. We can start in the EU
and make our way to Brazil with some of the Elon mustuff coming. But
I don't need dirt bag EU tech people coming over here to the US to
tell us that we need to fundamentally change things, punish Apple and and basically
clamp down on our own citizenry. I find it repulsive and any any politician
who would let these nitwits come in. What is this dirt bag's name?
It was in DC yesterday. Yeah, Well, I want to make sure
I get hurt. Yeah, I want to make sure I pronounce her her
name correctly. So it is MARKA. Investiger, the Executive President of the
UN European Commission on the on Digital Technology associates like the competition cop over there,
which makes sure in many ways the STC chair, like Lena Khan in
the United States. Okay, and so there's three things I want to cover,
but let's start with this one. And we've talked about it. They
are if they're big mad at Apple, right, that's fair. They're big
mad at Apple. They feel that Apple, apple bad, all bad.
And for those of you, I guess if you don't use Apple, you're
not familiar with Apple. Apple famously was closed. They have a closed system,
and it was a point of contention. If you read any of the
Steve Jobs biographies or some of the books that came out. If you watch
the movie, you'll see that a constant point of contention between Jobs's vision for
Apple and what you know, everyone including the former PEPSI CEO, were doing.
They battled over this about essentially only Apple's only going to work with other
Apple stuff. Because as soon as you put a USB plug into you know,
into an iPhone or a pad or you create a system which just readily
connects and works with others, you are also now inviting the vulnerabilities of whatever
that secondary system is. So the policy at Apple to do this has it's
not an unknown. Now does Apple do things where they change out charging cables
every year? Seemingly unnecessary and it looks like a big cash grab absolutely,
as they all do. I have I don't know about you. I have
three different charging of the you know, the Mini USB, the S Square
one, and then the Apple two different versions of the Apple ones. And
that's the reality. And I just kind of have those cables because I'm a
computer nerd guy of friends who come over maybe need a phone charger. Why
why is Apple a special project and why should we listen to this woman?
Well, Vestigger was in the United States really to tout the European approach to
regulating big tech. They have this these two laws, the Digital Services Act
and the Digital Markets Act, which are essentially going to try and swoop in
and break up these big tech companies like Amazon, Meta and Apple from offering
the kinds of services that they very much do now. So her main issue
with Apple is that she claims you are locked into Apple, and that consumer
choice is harmed by Apple being a closed system, and that if you get
an iPhone, that you are then sort of like, you know, like
you've taken your first shot of a heroin and you're going to be on this
wild rye that you can't get off of even if you wanted to. It's
a very strange argument because it's essentially saying that you are locked in from day
one because you're not going to be able to go back out into the PC
Android system, completely ignoring the fact that if you just don't really like the
Apple experience and the Apple worm which I very much enjoy, that you just
can't leave. And it's it's a very strange, paternalistic argument. Yeah.
I don't disagree in fact, but the upside is and nobody's perfect, and
I would argue that Apple posts jobs. The same level of my confidence that
something was just gonna going to work has dipped. They've had a few misses.
That being said, the fact that I can walk around my house and
my iPhone, my iPad, and my two Apple TVs. Literally anything I
want anywhere is a button away instead of going to Why remember back in the
day, we'd have to wire stuff and I was a big nerd. I
had all the equipment. Remember remember back in the days when like you had
PCs riddled with viruses that were completely crippled by malware. But then when you
switch to Apple, you just don't really have that problem unless you're trying to
kill your computer. The closed ecosystem approach for consumers like me who are a
little bit of lead if I actually don't love tech, I like tech to
be simple, clean and safe so that I can actually navigate it. I
mean, when I get on a PC, I don't know what the heck
I'm doing, Casey, and so this computer, this system is for people
like me who like a clean and easy experience. But they want to break
that up, and I think the reasons go beyond consumer choice. I actually
think the reasons have a lot to do with the national security state, both
in the US and in the EU, where they want to have access and
back doors to all consumers and all their citizens. And if you remember,
and I remember the exact case, but there was an individual who was arrested.
It was a terrorism case and Apple famously told me they wouldn't open the
phone. And that turned into a that turned into a whole thing. And
Van Bernardino, he had a San Bernardino shooters and the over in the EU,
they can't fathom something like that. They should be able to get in
and meddle whenever they want. These are the same people who like, maybe
we need to regulate influencers, right, So yeah, I mean the European
Union. Yeah, they've got some pretty bizarre policies across the EU. So
in December, the Italian Competition Authority, because they've got some of their own
rules, they tightened down their rules on influencers and stay in Belgium. Within
the EU are also looking at regulatory approaches to being an online influencer, where
you're quite literally going to have to go through sort of like a licensure program
like you would if you're a plumber or a hairdresser. In the United States,
which, by the way, I also think those are kind of ridiculous.
But the idea is that influencers have social capital and they control the minds
and opinions of a wide variety of people, and therefore the government needs to
come in and protect people from these dangerous influencers. And they always frame it
in terms of false advertising, snake oil salesmen stuff. But again, what
I think that they're actually after is wrong. Thinks they're after people who are
perpetuating and spreading wrong opinions that the European Union and their members statement. I
mean, these are the folks that you know they send a dude to jail
because his pug did a Hitler trick, right, So you know their standards,
their standards, their standards there are are different, which is fine,
they can have those different standards. I wonder what would happen if the cul
not that it would happen because you're dealing with too many moon bets in Silicon
heyhood. I think if the major US tech companies just told these other countries,
look, there are things that are reasonable, but we're not changing everything
we're doing and if you don't like it, we're not going to do business.
I have to feel, based on the the way in which other countries
crave Western products, tech and uh entertainment for that matter, I have to
think that that might be effective in getting these people to shut their face.
Do you think so or not? No, I do think so. I
mean basically the European Union again, these are these are kind of our allies,
right. We are aligned with Europe these days, and we're very much
aligned as sort of a Western block against some rising threats in the East.
And these are our friends. However, they are free riders, very much
in the technology and the innovation that the United States exports throughout the world.
And they don't agree with our culture, our commitment to free speech expression,
and our business climate. They like tightly controlled populations and business environments, and
they want the technology, but they want it packaged for Europeans and sort of
the control freaks that run the European Union, the tech overlords, you know,
the tech giants, they kind of have to figure out how much do
they really want Europe's money? Do they really want to be strong and driving
in Europe or do they want to have products that they believe in and are
excited about. The Steve Jobs of the world were pretty pragmatic and tried to
have it both ways. But I really believe that, like again, Steve
Jobs, would have wanted to protect the integrity of his device because he was
something of an artist. The iPhone and Apple these are pieces of art as
far as these people are concerned, and the European Union doesn't much appreciate our
version of art. Yeah, and I think in an effort to protect it,
but also to be able to provide to these markets because I understand the
financial impact of deciding you're not going to do business in the EU. It's
the second largest, second or third largest. I'm not sure if China's second,
But it's a decision that companies make with China too when they ask them
to do things, Like you know, it's funny because the EU is asking
them to do things and kind of demanding all of the requirements that China has
if you want to do business, and I think in the long run,
if you say no enough of that, I think that consumers may look to
their government as you're screwing us over here. Want access to these products and
these services, and maybe it changes, so it's like a long term play.
Meanwhile, that in Brazil. You have Elon Muskley tweeted this out last
night. I guess around. Oh, let's see here, that dude never
sleeps anyway, says X just received an inquiry from the US House of Representatives
regarding actions taken in Brazil that are in violation of Brazil law. So this
whiny dictator down there in Brazil, and when you look at a number of
political prisoners, I think that's a fair assessment of who this is. They're
so mad, they're so mad at Elon Musk right now, they implemented a
twenty thousand dollars per day fine and basically it's because he won't bend the knee
and block all their political opponents for him. And now members of Congress are
going to get up in this business because, as you know, this administration
has taken, in my opinion, some very significant steps to get Elon Musk
across all the the businesses. This is pure politics, and now we may
have our own elected officials going to bat on behalf of Brazil. This is
a nightmare, man, Yeah, it is a nightmare. But what's really
a nightmare for the powerful and the governments around the world, And this is
what kind of connects all of these stories together, which is that technology and
innovation supersedes a lot of the ways in which governments have always run the world.
The idea that the European Union can't enforce their version of speech laws because
American technology is setting people free online to speak their minds in ways they don't
approve of, that can't be allowed to stand down in Brazil. You know,
Lula doesn't like that an American tech company, an American entrepreneur is going
to be able to allow people to speak in ways that he doesn't like.
So we kind of have this tension between how can countries figure out how to
have the societies that they want to have at the very top level versus what
is now possible thanks to technology. And I think that's like a valid question
because if you do, you know, you live in Brazil, maybe you
don't want American tech and you don't want the twitters of the world in there
kind of changing their culture. But it tends to be that the people do
the people do, They want to speak, they want to be heard.
It's the politicians and the political entrenched class who don't want that disruption because their
control freaks and fund belief. What is What do you think the most utilized
app outside of the US is from a US based tech pook? I think
I guess it's not an app I was gonna say, like Fortnite. You
know, I tend to think that it's it's games, and I tend to
think that it's Nope, it's not what. I'll tell you exactly what it
is. And it's an app that I think most Americans have never used and
probably would never But as soon as you get into traveling internationally, which I
enjoyed doing obviously, WhatsApp. I think if Facebook, if Facebook shut off
WhatsApp worldwide, it would be pandemonium. It is the almost exclusively the preferred
methodology of communication in almost every country outside of the US because it just works.
Why yeah, and that's a Facebook thing, right, They own that
in Instagram. And if Zuckerberg had the stones to say, look, you
want to keep meddling in our business, we'll turn off the WhatsApp, I
think people would revolt. The problem is it would be in a way handing
things to thug dictators in horrible parts of the world because it is the main
methodology for communication, So in a way, it's kind of doing what they
want, but it shows you just how how much leverage that that, you
know, we feasibly have here. And the last time the EU got something
accomplished, they ruined the browser experience because now every side I go to,
I got to we're going to have a splash window about cookies and if you
wondered why that is, that's an EU requirement and now it just buries everybody
else and we all have to deal with it. So yeah, it kind
of reminds me of when Lena Conn of the FTC was on John Stewart's The
Daily Show last week and she was basically but moaning that Facebook was ever allowed
to acquire Instagram and basically merged the two things as well as acquire WhatsApp.
But you know, like this is sort of an American regulator rooting against the
success of American technology companies. Facebook was on the road to irrelevance until they
acquired Instagram and their expertise in mobile social media on a vertical screen. That
was not what Facebook was good at. And so they acquired that expertise and
then they did the same thing with WhatsApp, and now they have a suite
of really great tools that makes the meta you know, uh, corporation work
that makes it actually relevant and powerful. And they don't like that. They
don't like success in American technology. They want to see these companies fail.
I understand that there are instances in which you can acquire companies and then you
become anti competitive. But Facebook did not acquire necessarily their direct competitors. They
acquired companies that built out their tools that they could do mobile, and then
they could do messaging and do it better for consumers. And boy, howdy,
consumers enjoy it quite a bit. Unless it's called threads. Then they
don't. But you know, yeah, well that's the big wolves there,
that's crystal PEPSI. Man, we got we got a story that caused some
moon bats to go uh right, okay, all right, very this is
very sad. Let me get some sad. Perfect again. Explain to me
how these folks are adults and are able to function in societ members of a
regional women's country line dance team. This is so important that you remember the
kind of I'm sorry, hold on, Violet, you have to remember the
kind of music we're talking about. All right, so dance crew, but
in this case, it's competitive line dancers, which if that's your thing,
more power to you. I understand that it's it's like repopularized or something with
the kids. Can I sound older? Okay? I saw that there's people
are making line dance videos now on social media, so whatever that's about.
But if that's what you want to do, go do it. I will
tell you I never understood it. And as you can imagine, growing up
in Wyholming, you know, anytime you went to something where there was going
to be dancing. In fact, they had a huge line dance competition as
part of the county Fair every year. But I was never into it.
I'm not really into dance anyway. I can't dance, But like, if
that's what people want to do, more power to them. But in every
instance of every line dance I went to, I'd say that the room probably
had more potential Trump voters than Biden voters. But that may have been the
region I was in, all right, and it clearly wasn't in Seattle.
But over the weekend a big country line dance event called the Emerald City Hodown
took place, and teams from all over the region flocked to Seattle to take
part and show off their dance and skills. Unfortunately, one of those teams
ran afoul of organizers known as the Borderline Dance Team. They were getting right
to take the stage to demo their dance when an organizer for the Rain County
Dance Association, which was the ones who were putting this thing on. And
by the way, that is an association that is also has a wing of
LGBTQ plus dance competitions, so they do line dance, they do even line
dance for LGBTQ, but also different styles of dance. They met the team
backstage and said that they were not going to be able to go on.
Several witnesses who saw the team walk into the area before they headed backstage to
get ready, immediately ran to organizers complaining about the outfits the team was wearing.
Is it because it was too stereotypical Western? No? No, wasn't
that. Was it because somebody had I don't know, offensive words against one
of the other dance team and that's not sportsmanship? No, wasn't that.
Unfortunately, the team was told that they could not participate because the outfits,
which are coordinated outfits right between all the team members included red, white,
and blue reminiscent of the American flag. I wouldn't say it's reminiscence. Clearly
looks like the flag, and it's across their shirts, so you know,
the women are wearing one, the men are wearing the button down, but
they all look like, you know, they look like American flag shirts.
Mostly. That apparently triggered so many of the other dancers that the team was
told that they could not participate because, quote, the audience feels triggered and
unsafe based on your outfit choice. Uh CO captain Lindsey Stamp, who spoke
with Jason Rantz, who's a he's a radio host in Seattle there on our
station, explaining that the costume sparked a complaint or spark complaints who brought up
Israel's war against Hamas and transgender issues, those old catch alls. At first,
organizers told them, hey, we'll let you go on stage, but
just know you're going to be booed and yelled at and perhaps people will walk
out. But eventually organizers just said, now we're not going to let you
go up there unless you would agree to change into street clothes, which several
of the dance team members didn't have because you know, this was drivable from
where they lived, and they showed up in their country western outfit and planning
on going home in it. But no, eventually, eventually, And I'm
looking at the picture here, so on the left you have the women's outfits
and they're you know, they got the red, white and blue with the
on the one side and then the stars and the stars and and the blue
on the other I guess the red and white stripes on one the blue on
the other. And you told this bunch of women, it's primarily women here,
that they couldn't go out with that shirt on. That is crazy.
So there you go country line dancing, triggering the line dancing enthusiast LGBTQ community.
By the way, I think some of the members of the dance care
are gay too, is what I saw in one of her other statements.
So there you go, triggered and eventually shut down. That's where we are.
Now let's go on to this. Yesterday we announced and then we speculated
that it might be the Kumate that the presence of the Prime Minister of Japan
in North Carolina. A little later today he's up in DC right now,
had an event there we'll be making his way to North Carolina. They're expected
to make a big announcement about a business and expansion of business in part with
the Japanese government here in North Carolina. We didn't know what it was.
Now I guess we do know, and then I think after that event,
the Prime Minister will dine at the Governor's mansion and I believe Ashley Christiansen is
cooking form, which if you're familiar with any of the restaurants seen in Wake
County, that's a good get. I always enjoyed her food, so yeah,
But unfortunately not the Kumata, which was one suggest ross you what was
what was your thinking it was? It wasn't Kumata. I can't remember what
it was, but or maybe you're on team Kumata too. Well, the
fact is it's none of those. Reporting now says that the announcement is expected
to be an expansion of Fujifilms. Dio Synth Biotech Labs is a vaccine lab.
They do a bunch of other stuff too, but but this is core
focused on vaccine production and it should when they announce it, if the reporting
is correct, should prove to produce six hundred jobs. It's part of a
billion dollar expansion and the facility, which is not a new facility in people's
minds, but is one that you know, Fujifilm had already announced expansion,
but this is more. We'll be in Holly Springs. They're building a giant
manufacturing facility there, so this will be part of that. That's what's expected.
So in case you were wondering, there you go, and those of
you in the Holly Springs area. I guess good news, so you can,
I don't know, get some vaccine jobs or something. All right,
eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four we'll chat with Jeff Bellamser
coming up here in just a few minutes, also before the end of the
show. Good news for spam Man, Good news for spam and Vienna sausages.
This is one of the weirder, weirder reports on what people are buying,
apparently raised age like Vienna sausages, the little cocktail sausages, and spam.
Yeah, big business right now, mostly because people can't afford the other
proteins. But yeah, I saw people hating on Vienna sausages. What is
wrong with people? Those are awesome? I know they are that's the best
wrong with spam. I used to dude, I would always bring when I
go, when we go camping or something, I would always go and I
would buy my own little collective of Vienna sausages, the little cans of Beanie
Weenie and sardines. Oh and you could be in mustard sauce, tomato sauce,
or just olive oil. And then I eat those in front of people.
Oh so good, so making so many people so jealous right now,
right well, I'm just saying for all of you. People are like,
I can't afford other proteins. So now I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna
buy the sloppy Joe and the and the the Hormel stuff and the Vienna side.
No stay away from my stuff because I'll I'll tell you what if I
show up the grocery store and there's no Vienna sausages. I mean, I'm
not saying arson, but you never know because people can't stand in their damn
lanes. I know. Yeah, come on, stay here. LARTI chef
BOYARTI up significantly. I'm a big fan of cold beef ferroni out of a
cans, huge spaghettios with meat polls, Libby's corned beef all you can have.
That's not very good. But everything else, yeah, everything else is
great. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, not the document stuff.
But anyway, all right, you're all on notice. So with that mind,
have you screwed me over on the Gulf? Further? I haven't even
checked, so I know as of now, ten thirty off the number one
t that's the latest, and ten showers yep, ten third. Hell am
I gonna do for an hour and a half after the show? I don't
know. I've got like three pieces of production, but that's not gonna Yeah.
Well, there's still some showers around Augusta right now, even a little
thunder, but the heaviest rain there was over an inch and a half last
night has moved away and just spotty showers. Think for the rest of today.
It's gonna beautiful for the rest of the week after today, so things
will good. There will be beautiful here too after today and tonight. The
rain should get out of here tomorrow Today. Occasional showers this morning, may
pick up a little this afternoon, may get some thunder in here also,
but no severe weather expected on either side of seventy with some gusty winds,
especially later that could guss thirty five to forty miles an hour. A few
showers, thunder showers tonight, and a chance of showers of utter storms continuing
isolated Tomorrow's the upper level low spins to the west of us, and they'll
kind of be passing through the be quick movers, and by early afternoon we're
probably done with a triangle. Probably hang on a little bit longer two three
o'clock probably over with, and then to the west of the triad end a
little bit earlier, might get some sun later tomorrow for the commute home,
breezy seventy. Then we kind of reset, and it's kind of easy for
Saturday and Sunday. Low seventy Saturday, low eighties on Sunday, lots of
sunshine and maybe push in the middle eighties Monday Tuesday, and again we're gonna
have high pressure come in and we are going to be mostly sunny those two
days also, so past tomorrow, we'll get some late sun Tomorrow, Saturday,
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday absolutely beautiful with a warming trend. Oh okay,
all right, thank you sir, appreciate it. Yep, there you
go. Race stagic. All right, coming up, Jeff Bellinger, and
once again we will put on display for the world to see the sheer psychic
power of this show by you know, basically, Ross and I are like
like Uri Geller, but we can bend spoons. Okay, you don't want
to screw with us, and I'll explain why. Yet another prediction is coming
true. We'll do it next. Hang on, Good morning, Casey.
Just got another inflation report this morning, and it appears to be easing investors'
concerns. The Producer Price Index, which tracks wholesale level price pressures, rose
two tens percent last month, not as much as expected. The core PPI,
which strips out food and energy costs, was also up two tens percent.
That was in line with forecasts. Futures were lower until that report came
out. Right now, the S and P futures are up four points,
NASDAC futures are up forty five, and the now futures are moving back and
forth across the change level. Right now, they're down two. Number of
workers signing up for unemployment benefits fell by eleven thousand to two hundred eleven thousand
last week. Instagram announcing today it's deploying technology to crack down on sexting and
to fight sexual extortion. The social media platform says new tools will automatically blurn
nudity and direct messages. It is part of a larger effort to offer more
protection for young people think twice before making a purchase using a buy now,
pay later plan. Deferred payments have quickly become popular. They have also quickly
led to financial trouble for a lot of consumers. Bankred dot com reports more
than half of the people who have used the plans have experienced some kind of
problem. Overspending in missed payments common, and a lot of people have fallen
behind on credit card payments. At least it happened to the end of last
year. A report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphias as credit card delinquencies
hit a record high in the fourth quarter, nearly three and a half percent
the card balances or at least thirty days past new and casey. Some top
executives from the technology and finance industry were among those invited to last night's State
dinner at the White House. The guest list included Amazon dot Com founder Jeff
Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Microsoft President Brad Smith. The event was
held to honor Japanese Prime Minister Kishita. I guess it goes to prove Casey
it's not just radio people that show up when there's free food. No,
No, he's He's going to be here later hanging out with the gov because
Fujifilms is going to announce something and then they're having a big dinner at the
governor's mansion. So yeah, I think they're expanding of vacccene plans in Holiday
Springs, so that but head of state visit. That's interesting. Hey,
Real Quick, con Agra and other food manufacturers are saying that canned meats are
on fire, and I'm just looking at the numbers as consumers basically are using
canned meats to fulfill their protess he needs because of the expense of others.
I'm concerned because I love canned meats. I want to know your favorite?
Is it Vienna Sausages, Chef Boyardi, the Sloppy Joe mix, or Libby's
corn beef or spam? What's Jeff's favorite? I guess I'd have to go
with Libby's corn beef, although I haven't had it for a very long time.
Okay, yeah, little sausages are good too, but yeah, all
right, so that's interesting news, but probably not good stuff. All right,
Jeff, thank you very much. Okay, Casey take care. All
right, there you go, Jeff Ellinger who decided to go with the canned
corn beef. So anyway, although look and then when I say with the
governor, so like, we don't know exactly what they're going to announce,
but basically it's not really that secret. But not a Koumite or ross,
what was doing? Panda Express? Not a Panda Express, although we have
a Panda Express literally over on Falls of News, so you could head over
there if you need your Panda Express fix. But I was a little a
little taken aback by that. Oh I forgot sardines if Jeff likes sardines.
But that is the that's the conventional wisdom among the various media reports I'm reading
this morning. And finally, once again, a prediction we've made. What
you're saying that sounding the Miss Cleo music sounds like girls gone wild into that
I would say, shut up and listen, right, you don't know the
lore of the show, but just saying they don't know the lore of the
show. Also, you don't look if we have psychic abilities, do you
want to screw with us? I mean, come on, sir, we
might come over to your house and bend all your spoons or maybe make your
goats explode. Would you rather be able to bend spoons or explode? God?
So, when I worked at the Magic Shop as a teenager, yes,
we sold the gimmick that allowed us to bend the spoons. Yeah,
I know how that works. So I'm going to go with the go explosion.
I feel like you probably wouldn't get a lot of press bookings if you
just ran around kept exploding, especially if they were the little baby pass out
goats that are and thinks are adorable. I think you'd pretty quickly be a
monster. But no, this prediction rather was over the Francis Scott key Bridge.
Yeah, and I told you, man, the first thing you want
to do is rename this bastard. And I was a little underestimating it.