So I don't have you ever played a golf game on a video and I'm
not counting Gold Day. I have never actually played. I've never actually played
golf. And the last golf game video game I played was probably on the
Super Nintendo or maybe the original nosso I think had Lee Trevino in the cover.
Yeah, I was. I was trying to remember what some of the
early games were. They weren't good. I remember that I had UM.
I had a Doss base game right that way back in the day, or
it was on my grandfather's computer, and basically, you know, you would
enter command lines and then it would tell you what you did, but there
was no graphics to it, so you'd be like, uh, you know,
you'd enter the club you want to hit based on the yardage, and
then you'd hit it and did tell you you hit it that many yards And
I remember thinking that was the most awesome thing back in the day. There
are a lot of games like that back in the day because before that I
had, you know, I didn't use We didn't have a computer in my
house. My grandfather had one, and that was the first computer game I
think I played. That's why the original organ Organ Trail was so amazing because
there was actually a wagon in a trail and uh and uh illness and death.
So right, I mean think think about that conceptually too, like that
was the first video game I ever played where you could die. I guess
I was thinking about the yesterday saw something on Twitter where it was like,
what is your favorite, you know, death screen from a video game as
a kid, And it was this the still screen of Oregon Trail, and
I said, you died of dysentery, right, the classic you died of
dysentery. And I was thinking back, like, yeah, it's a meme
now, but but I was thinking back like at the time it didn't seem
crazy. But you're in third grade and you're seeing that on like you're a
computer screen. Huh, it's pretty amazing, and you know, like two
members of your family are dead, right, tragic, right, But it
never really registered right now at all. I'm gonna go hunt and let's you
know, let's let's let's waste a bunch of meat. So yeah, Ross
was telling me he thinks you want to play He's thinking of playing a golf
game on his um. Well whatever, Yeah, it's PG two K twenty
three I was thinking about playing it and streaming it and just whispering the whole
time, you know, nonsense, because I don't nothing about golf. You
know, Oh, he's using the fourteen, he's in the fourteen world in
the twenty five, and he's playing oh right, right in the sandpiper in
the sand, look at it right in the sand. Dollar, Wow,
Jimmy, he's going for that green jacket percent off or iron And that's not
a casey. There's twenty five percent off at Olive Garden, it's twenty percent
off at Red Lobster, and fifteen to Chili's. Applebee's comes off at a
dis kind of ten percent with the green jacket, while look at that,
Oh wow. No, so you know nothing about the mechanics of a golf
game. Not a damn okay. So it could be entertaining, but but
it's still like it's an expensive game still, and it's a massive game from
what I was looking at, Like the install was like sixty or seventy gigabytes
maybe north of that. Like that's bigger than Far Cry five, that's bigger
than Fallout four, that's bigger than Hogwarts Legacy. And I'm watching people's stream
it right now, and it's like, yeah, I have it off in
the in the background here. It's not that complicated live a game. I
don't understand why it's taken up that much room. It doesn't even look that
great, be honest, I haven't. I hadn't looked at it yet.
What's it called PGA two K twenty three Tiger Woods in the front. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, Well, you know back in the day, that
was that was, that was the game. And then when the Tiger stuff
happened, EA Sports being EA Sports basically gave up on it. They killed
the billion a lot of times. It's big because you you can design courses
and then people can download your courses and they had a whole awesome place you
could go and do that, and then that got trashed. That got ruined.
A bunch of the old courses didn't function, and it's like, why
would you kill the thing people loved? And they killed it because people were
they weren't buying the next year's game because there were still hundreds of courses they
had never played. It was a mess, man. So I'm surprised they're
back at it with Tiger. I guess enough time has passed. Um,
is it EA doing it though, um HB studios. I don't know.
Maybe that's under the whole thing there, So all right, so um,
well, and then you could get people to uh, you know, golf
clap that are watching you stream it. They could golf clap. They could
yell get in the hole, which people annoyingly do at golf tournaments for some
reason. You could get drops from caddyshack. Yeah. I mean, there's
a lot of potential here. And I feel like I could pull off whispering
nonsense for two and a half three hours, absolutely but a like like you
know, what I would be saying would would probably mean absolutely nothing, but
it would be close enough to maybe fool someone that was really dumb. I
you know, I would encourage you to do it. I will, I
will tune in for that, I will lurk or whatever them that's the term
where I just okay, don't say anything. Uh and um, I feel
like it's going to be a tragedy for it until you get the swing mechanics
down, because that's always that's the learning curve of those games. My thing
would be, I'd be afraid that I'd be too good. I didn't get
bored too easily, right, So okay, Kim Jean with your eighteen all
right. So that's the thing. That's the thing. Before the show we
were chatting about just Ross randomly said I think could get and I've tried to
get him to get a golf game previously he did not seem interested. So
maybe maybe he's coming around. Um, I'm sorry, I'm having to restart
my words. So I was just dragging there we go. Okay, all
right, wonderful. Um. Yesterday on the show, we spent we talked
about two big stories and a bunch of little stuff. One was the sub
in Rocky Mount with the girl and the phone and the part where I didn't
think and a lot of you didn't think she did anything wrong the teacher in
that case. But the one that got the most feedback on obviously was this
what a minute and a half a minute and a half or so of bodycam
footage that was on the twitters and it showed what transpired prior to police going
to the first Reopen NC protest at the Capitol during the beginning parts of COVID
and the pregame, which included no mass, no gloves, some rather coarse
language by at least one of the officers who seems very excited to go arrest
somebody for wanting to not have to shut all the businesses, and a very
different way of going about it throughout the totality of this with what we saw
of with later protests by different groups who the governor chose to walk with,
and those escalated finally into some significant vandalism and violence, right, and it
was handled very differently. The media handled it very differently. The quote unquote
health experts right somehow found that if you're protesting, and you're protesting for social
justice, then your immune or something or the virus can't get you. I
saw people attempting to make arguments online like this saying since they were moving protests,
they were less likely to get COVID. It was all absurd and it
didn't look good. It doesn't look good for police, and specifically the individual
who was the officer in charge was giving the briefing who's now since retired,
the female officer referring to going and getting those m efforts, and just generally
the double standard which normally is a discussion we have about leadership and seem to
involve some of the rank and file and I thought we had a good discussion,
and I got a lot of email. I got an email from law
enforcement officers who who thought that the criticism was fair, others who didn't think
it was fair. And that's what that's intended to do. And if that's
where it had been left, we wouldn't have to lose our damn minds for
a second day. But we're going to because apparently apparently some folks whoard us
talking about it or saw it go viral, saw the Twitter stuff on it,
and that necessitated action. And so now we have the woman who was
arrested there, Monica Usury, who is apparently going to be back in court
on Thursday. I'll explain exactly how that went down, how we got there,
and I I have some thoughts. I don't know. I don't I
don't know why you'd get this ball rolling. But if that's what the police
want to do, specifically, this is there. Her title is the I'll
pull it up because I want to read it in its entirety. If you
want to go down this road, I don't understand it, and I'll explain
my reasons for not understanding it. And I don't know what you think the
end game is going to be because it's it's not going to be in that
positive but we'll get to that coming up six eighteen, hang on celebrating ten
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one FM Talk in the Triangle. Our good morning and welcome. It is
six twenty two here on the case O Day Radio program. All right,
I'm gonna get into because I'm gonna need I'm gonna need quite a bit of
time to set it up, but I'll save you having to read it and
track it down. So the reaction yesterday after I guess enough pub not by
any of the local TV stations I see, which is weird because this story
has everything they like, right It has police, uh you know some It
has some police officers who somebody in the community is criticizing. It has people
not wearing or social distancing, wearing masks and social distancing. I mean,
it has everything. It has right leaning thinking people being arrested. I mean,
I can't think of a story that that really ticks as many boxes as
what normally they would be all over but I you know, in this case,
it's they're very busy. I'm sure doing other stories, so I gotta
be honest, I thought the story'd be left there. We reached out to
the chief, the new chief who was not the chief at the time,
right, and wanted to get the chief of police on and talk about,
you know, hindsights twenty twenty and you have this reopen and then see arrest,
and then after this took place, of course, you had the uh
you know, the burn it down protests, and I just wondered being able
to look at all of that, how it informs how she is going to
manage her department's response to things like that, should should they happen in the
future, but ross she's she's busy or something right too. Wasn't able to
get her on the air today. Uh, they actually got back, which
was pretty impressive. No, I appreciate that. I think they've answered a
few times. I've asked them to come on. They've never come on,
but they've always responded. So yeah, I did. I emailed the chief
directly and I got a response from them like the public public affairs, public
affairs, whatever it is, and they said, nah, we can't do
it today, can't get interview today, And they got it's like around like
two or three in the afternoon, and I said, no, no,
no, no, like I we were helping for tomorrow morning. Maybe yeah.
I said, that's also not possible. We apologize. So then I
wrote back a third time and I said, well, how about any time
this week? And I've yet to hear back. Okay, so we've extended
Thursday Friday. We'll we'll move some stuff around if necessary. I think it's
an important conversation. What do you what do you think if you have if
you were a betting man, you think you think they're going to be busy.
They're probably pretty busy. I think they're pretty busy. Yet okay,
all right, well they are busy because lo and behold this is going on.
We're talking about it, and all of a sudden, the woman in
question and you need to understand and we'll get into it. Um where this
was left legally, has now received a summons to show up in court.
Yep, yep um. The woman in question, Monica Usury, who was
the person who was arrested. One of the organizers for the protest, said
that the Wake County District Attorney's office is wanting to hold her in contempt because
Lo and behold even though I understood that this case was adjudicated, they were
done. They drug it out for a long time, but eventually it got
tossed out. They had a gag order because you know, they didn't want
you the public being able to see this for some odd reason. And they
think that she released it, even though that's not the Twitter account where it
came from. She says she didn't release it, but immediately after the bad
press they want to drag her in and have a judge hold her in contempt.
And I don't know that they're going to be able to prove it.
And frankly, now you're extending what already looks really bad for you. Why
why can't the public see this? We know why the public can't see it
because it doesn't look good. Why is there a decision being made to alienate
a section of the public who normally is pretty pro police, right like this,
This is the part that doesn't make any sense to me. Most of
the people are are you know that that we're upset? Are people who have
like the blue you know, back the blue stuff in the under twig and
and these are the folks. Now you're irritating so we'll dive into this.
What is that's come one oh six one f M Talk and WPTI, two
stations driving the best in talk. This is Casey O Day and Carolina's Morning
News. All right, good morning, six thirty five here on the case
O Day Radio program. All right, just reading an email, you are
not the only police officer who has mentioned that, and so when I get
to that part, I will include it, and I believe it. But
it doesn't change the fact too that there are similar elements in what people were
doing during the COVID lockdown and very different ways in which it was handled.
So we will talk about that, and frankly, I think the reason it
needs to be addressed is that the you know, the police officer on the
ground, you're you guys and gals are the ones who are going to take
the brunt of a changing opinion on the part of the portion of protests who
generally are pro police. I understand that there are some that are not,
and they can be quite nasty. I've actually seen it. You know.
I'm not going to get into is there a higher percentage with that type of
protest or a different one. That being said, I think there's a higher
probability that people are going to be more understanding of law enforcement and tell something
like this happens, likely more willing to work or at the very least not
be giant a holes to them. Compared to what I saw with other protests,
I don't think they were throwing frozen water bottles at the police, or
maybe they work. Correct me if I'm wrong. But maintaining that trust and
cooperative nature with law enforcement and the public is a huge issue right now.
It's one that politicians have run on recently, as you know, defund the
police and and lots of people make a lot of money fundraising every time the
police do something, whether they did something bad or not, so it it
feeds the beast. Okay, So with that in mind, we're going to
explore this, and I want to start with the post by the woman who
was arrested, Monica Usury, who, in response to receiving a claim that
she is in violation, motion for an order to show cause is technically what
she was issued. And what you have is you have prosecutors asking for contempt
charges because there was a gag order. Why there's a gag order on that
piece of video? After this thing is supposedly done. We talked about it.
It's it's one of the things that I find very irritating. And I
know in North Carolina we have when it comes to body camp footage, we
have kind of a unique law how it works. But on just making the
general assumption that she released it, I hope you have proof, and you
know, is it a good use of everyone's time, considering the willingness on
the part of prosecutors these days to basically ignore things that arguably are much more
provable. But she did. She did post a response. I suspect maybe
that I don't know if that's part of the gag order, and they'll want
to get her in trouble for that. But we'll concentrate on what she wrote,
which I find very interesting. She said, here's the court filing I
received a few hours ago. A lawyer for police suddenly doesn't like Twitter.
Well, they like Twitter when they were tweeting about arresting me. I can't
read one of those words. If I'd leak the footage myself, I would
have done so before Lauren Freeman was reelected, and I would have done so
before Captain Bond, who is the officer you hear giving the plan of action
in that video before he retired a fraction of the truth. I repeat a
fraction, not even the parts I personally would have chosen to leak myself,
because I personally prefer the footage that proves my court testimony was truthful. And
an officer in this case, it seems, a State Capitol police officer.
She claims committed perjury. So she's got beef, but she's got specific beef
that she says that that snippet of video really is not she would she's got
juice, is basically the claim there. I'm not going to read the entirety
of her statement, but I you know, maybe we got to see the
whole thing. Maybe we got to watch the whole thing, she says.
Here's one of the many things I never shared publicly. After I requested internal
affairs investigate and determine if any footage existed, I was told, yes,
it did. The officer called me to say footage was found and formed me
it wouldn't help my case because he quote saw me standing with hands on my
hips. Is that all it takes to get arrested at a protest? Let's
see here, I'm piecemealing some of this out, she says. She goes
on to say State Capitol police officer committed perjury, and I couldn't prove my
testimony because I was deprived of the bodycam footage that proved it wasn't me who
lied. So I don't know the whole like you're getting. You're getting a
little piece of the story there, and I don't know what transpired specifically.
She goes on to say, they first tried to shut us all up by
shutting down a peaceful protest, then by creating an MSM that wouldn't obviously mainstream
media. They tried to shut us up by shadow banning post withholding proof of
my innocence and dragging out the court case. And then after I finally get
the footage, they get a gag order for it. For the record,
I received permission to share these pictures. I'm sharing because it's public record.
The lawyer complaining about email addresses being shared publicly. I wish she could walk
a mile in my shoes, because every time an employer or a perspective employer
googles my name, the first thing they see is a picture of me and
handcuffs, and that's ever going away, because well, the internet's the internet.
Um get into some specific criticism about the Capitol Police chief Holly, Uh
you know, well, uh, well, I retweeted it yesterday. So
if you want to see a go to Twitter and at Casey on the radio.
You'll see the original post where it's at and then it's in picture forms.
You got to read it because it's obviously very long. But drag I
guess they're going to drag her in and claim contempt and I you know,
really, at this point, my question would be, how if this thing
is quote unquote done, are are we still going down this road? Is
she not allowed to ever talk about what happened? Is their limitations on the
speech as well as the bodycam footage. Why don't we address the bodycam footage?
Why don't we address what took so long to get the bodycam footage at
a time when she's having to go to court and put on a defense.
Here I got I got a gazillion questions, and I don't like the idea
of a judge and prosecutors colluding to make sure that nobody can actually see a
bunch of the evidence. You know, this is the same crap that happened
when we were just talking about the State auditor. You think that there's the
not city of Raleigh, cameras everywhere, go downtown sometime, go downtown basically
in any decent sized city, and chances are there's there's surveillance cameras down there.
And I would argue that on one of the busier blocks in the form
of Hargot Street down there, they're gonna have a few. And it's a
trick question. I know they do because I can see them because I went
and look, and they got a bank right there. I'm sure they have
some the point forward, there's an ATM across the street. But you know
they were not they were not gonna release any of that because quote, it's
you know, it's a pending case and things are happening. So when when
we're done and the state auditors pled, now and you've charged to other people,
but specifically the State auditors pled, how come we can't see those what's
the point of having this giant surveillance state in both fixed camera and bodycam footage?
If if you got to you gotta know somebody who knows somebody to get
a hold of this stuff, all right? Eight eight eight nine three four
seven eight seven four, Um, Steve, go right ahead, what's up,
sir? Hello Steve? Hey, yay m. Sorry, I'm listening.
And it's like a sweater man, it's just unraveling as you're talking.
I mean, the guys on the street I told us, you know,
they're kind of like the military man. They're just falling orders. Were they
a little bit over the top? Was it seemed being joble and all that.
Yes, I mean I can concur there, but they're just being told
what to do. The problem is, as you're talking now, as you
start to get up into the elected officials and inner workings of government, and
we'll just pick out Raleigh for today, they're all corrupt and they're they're playing
playing us and and keeping what what we can't see from us, so that
we can't make a decision when it comes to start voting these people out of
here. And that's that's the problem. They're they're criminals. This is criminal.
This woman was doing nothing well and obviously by the way they were acting,
they knew. They knew you, the inner workings knew that there was
no need to be massed up because they weren't with the point let me say
this. Let me say this, I don't disagree with you. I think
that the because this was based on the governor's executive order, which you know,
did get some court challenges and was upheld. But the I don't believe
that that was correctly decided. And I think we saw every time the governor
thought he was going to lose on something like bowling alleys or whatever, they
would acquiesce. So they didn't. There wasn't a trail of them losing.
The whole thing was corrupt in the way that it was handled, especially now
knowing the information. But at the time they were making this arrest based on
the Lauren Freeman advice. You can hear the police talk about it based on
the governor's executive orders, so that's what they were basing it on. But
I you know, there was one officer pushing back in the video too.
I guess I you know, I don't know how much. And again they
have, you know, down town to the street level. Those guys,
you know, just like everybody in their job, how hard you push back
on something you don't agree with that to lose your job? I mean they're
being told what to do that it's you know, the governor wouldn't even take
a press conference the whole thing. The businesses were shut down, people lost
their jobs, and you're seeing the behind the scenes the government, because let's
through these guys represent they weren't massed up. They didn't they didn't have six
foot barriers around them. But yet we the citizens and business owners were told
to shut out doors and lock ourselves up and not talk to anybody. Wear
mass if you even wanted to go outside. I mean, you talked about
it yesterday. Guy running down the beach chase by cup. This video is
a thread on a sweat that starts to show the government knew it was all
bullcraft. It is so frustrating. People lost businesses over this tyrannical government move.
And I don't want to sound like a tin hat, but good god
man, this woman is like the tip of the spear with this video.
This shows that they knew it was all theater. Oh. They mash the
media, and the media is culpable. They're a bunch of freaking Oh.
I can't even they're not covering they're not covering any of this. They they
gleefully covered it the first time around because they got to see the you know,
the the old, the old arrest and now it will but it does.
But ironically they love trashing on the police, and arguably this would be
another opportunity, but they can't because they would have to It's it's man.
So I'm not anti police, but man, this does not look good.
No, And I've heard from I've heard from probably six officers all no,
of all but one of them is Raleigh PD or Capitol Police, and um,
you know, they have thoughts and they don't feel that their thoughts necessarily
are being reflected in the decisions that are being made. And there it's a
rock and a hard place. What do you do because if we voted one,
if you don't play ball, get well. The thing is, they
said, you know, one guy said it like, if you don't play
ball, you're you're you're destined to go nowhere within the department. And I
mean that's that's the way government works, period. I mean, if you
don't tow the line any promotion, any move up, you're not even considered.
I mean, I have friends of working government, I have a family
member as a police office. If you don't toe the line of whoever's up
up channel from you, you don't get any of the extra perks. You
don't get the good assignments, you don't get the cushy You just you just
become, you know, dirt on the heel. I appreciate the call this
morning, sir. I gotta I gotta just check in my ex But yeah,
no, ever self a good one there. Yeah, well we'll do
lots of calls today because my voice is still well you can hear so,
but I did. I don't sound like I have a clothes pin on my
nose, which is what Boston Paul thought. He was real cute to send
me an email about the other day. So all right, six fitty we
got, Well we can talk about this for sure. I don't understand why
they want to go, you know, go to the net with this thing,
but that looks like what they're going to do. We got a lieutenant
governor coming up, you know, Frankly I this would be a good little
project for him, I think, because he's holding his event this weekend at
a speedway. He's he's he's down with this, and I don't know exactly
what he can do local police, but state Capitol police lieutenant governor likely going
to run for governor. We'll talk to him. That'll be at to five,
So stick around back in just a few minutes the show. After the
show is on the iHeartRadio app. Search Casey O Day for the podcast on
the iHeartRadio app. All right, quickcall, quickcall before we get into news
and all that. Joey, it got about a minute. Go ahead,
Hey, Casey, how you doing? Man, I'm good, sir.
Ed AI to this mix now? And then what are we really going to
be seeing? You know? Because it's here now, it's the radio.
They got videos out of people saying what they want them to say, they
got pictures of things that they want you to see. It it's out now.
I mean, it's here. And don't think that these entity can manipulate
things now to see what you need to see instead of what really happened.
That's what scares me more than anything about all of this stuff. Now,
it's hard to believe exactly what you see anymore because is it real? Well
yeah, yeah, I mean we're you know, they're they're having conversations about
how to unplug AI and I admittedly I guess that is any when it comes
to any video, whether it's body cam or otherwise that's that's a conversation that
we're going to be having. I don't know that anyone's alleging that the video
was not what happened though, and context matters, right. I'll, in
fact, i'll read an email on that point coming up here in the next
hour, because I've gotten several iterations of it, and I think it's a
fair point on the part of the police. So we'll get into that and
much more coming up after the news. All right, good morning and welcome.
It is seven oh six Wednesday, thirty minutes away from halfway through the
week, so we like that. Um, oh, what is this?
I don't I don't do the no, I'm just sorry. I'm just reading
this email here. Uh, I'm I'll set that up here in just a
moment, all right, you know what, Yeah, it's this is like
one of those can't win situations in in the sense that everyone thinks I'm hating
on him from all sides. So maybe that's just me doing my job.
Here's here's the thing that bothers me. It is the larger issue. And
uh, and then we're gonna we're gonna chat with somebody in law enforcement.
But the larger issue is I think it is incredibly apparent that we have a
a I'm not even gonna use the word crisis. We have problems right now
with many cities, many jurisdictions that are seeing upticks in crime, significant things
that you just wouldn't have seen, like a hundred two hundred use destroying downtown
Chicago and nobody doing anything about it. I watched a woman yesterday go into
a Walmart in Chicago, or Chicago or just adjacent and but the point was,
she went into the Walmart, and she went there to get food for
her kids, and she's crying, and she is a she is a woman
of color, and she is beside her self because she can't understand why there
is this pervasive attitude within her community that they would go and destroy literally like
one of the few options for her to get food in a convenient manner for
her family at a price that fits within her budget. And she's crying while
doing this. Now, that's one example of it, and there is there
is a whole lot of problems. Many of them are politically motivated. And
if if you're a police officer and you're watching this and you do go out
and you do try to do things the right way, and you do attempt
to just you know, do the job you were hired to do, do
so in a professional manner. There are whole swaths of society who don't feel
that you're useful anymore. Never mind what then happens with these stories? And
I I don't know, I don't know how we just sit there and decide,
all right, Um, you know everyone, everyone who you know who
doesn't want to follow the law doesn't have to follow the law. And then
prosecutors won't do anything about it. The police feel that what's the what's the
point of arresting this guy because he's just going to be back on the street
in like two hours on a signature bond. And um, if something,
if something happens where they're put in a position where they have to escalate force,
how is that going to be perceived when one of the media outlets decides
to make a a very partisan story out of it. Right, But the
fact is is you you have you you have to control crime. You have
to do something, and putting people on the honor system ain't working. So
all of this this is buy a thousand cuts with this. That's the issue
that I have, So you know, for those of you who are who
are you know besides yourself and you're in law enforcement and you think I'm attacking
you. No, we're doing this story. We're doing this story because it
is. It is just another example of where the relationship is being harmed.
And we talked about this with teachers too, and I think COVID dredged a
lot of that up because people saw enforcement surrounding you know, government orders,
executive orders from the governor more specifically, but some of the things that they
did at city levels, and they didn't they didn't feel that those were decisions
and rules and laws that were arrived at in a in a legal manner.
So they have questions and then this is what you see. So and then
those of you who think I'm old protesters want to go out there, they
can say whatever they want that you sure you can, but you're still you
know, I don't know if you know this. Just because you can do
something doesn't mean you should. So, you know, maybe we're maybe we're
onto some everyone's mad at me. One of the guys we talked to from
a law enforcement standpoint is now it's a different kind of accountability for him because
he's actually an elected official that he is Sam Paige, Sheriff of Rockingham County,
and he joins us, Sam, how are you doing this morning,
sir? Doing good? Come to you laugh from McAllen, Texas. What's
what's going on in McAllen, Texas? Well, I'm on the National Chriff's
Association Border Security Committee and the Southwest Riff and the Texas Border Chefs Coalition are
meeting for a few days this past week. Are gonna Today's gonna be last
day and as an opportunity to interface with a head of Border Patrol U the
EA or down here. Uh. Several speakers, but basically just the state
of the situation with the I was concerned about the eventnel issues and how to
impact us back in the Piedmont area, North Carolina and across the country because
you know, we're seeing the impact of it and we know where it's coming
from. Did you Um, We're talking about something a little different, but
I'm going to tie it into what you just meant you. Yeah, did
you see this video this body camp footage this minute and a half prior to
the arrest that was made over at the Reopen NC protest As what protest.
Now it was the reopened NDC protest. This is the the folks who when
the governor's first orders came down and we waited the fifteen days to slow the
curve or whatever, and it was it was apparent that they were just gonna
they were gonna keep it up, and businesses were closing and people were restricted.
During the very first protest, Raleigh police, Capitol Police they showed up
and they arrested one of the organizers because she wouldn't disperse. And in the
video you see the officers, you know, pregaming, getting ready to go
and break this thing up. And they're not wearing masks, they're not you
know, they're not social distancing, and they literally say, hey, we
better do it because it won't look good if we're arresting people for not you
know, we would look hypocritical. And there's some there's some discussion by one
of the officers where he's like, well, like he was pushing back.
He doesn't feel comfortable, and other officers she's ready to go to go arrest
the mffers. And it's what I'm hearing from a lot of police officers,
and I want it from a from your perspective. Is the way in which
officers deal with chat with each other is it's it's a sense of humor all
on its own. It's a discussion. It's in many cases it's about relieving
stress. And to some extent, I get that. But um, you
know, with everybody running around with a body cam, now, how has
that changed how you guys have to do stuff? And what do you think
of when if some of your deputies were on video doing that? What would
you think? Well, you know, you know, I have policies and
procedures that that that we can operate and operate it, you know, efficiently.
Uh, you know, we're gonna We're gonna make sure that we do
follow our policies and procedures. Uh, you do have state law, when
you do have several law. But I mean I see some of the some
of the conflicts that you that you're talking about. I mean, it was
an unusual time, not only for law enforcement, but for us in America.
I mean, you know when the lockdowns, when the lockdowns came in,
the restrictions came so like this, it was just a lot of stuff
coming at us that we'd never seen or you know, I've been involved in
before. So you know, we had to work through it. Now that
now you mentioned the governor, and the governor did uh come out with some
policies that that uh that was put. There was pushback, and I tell
you one of them was h was church and freedom of religion. Now,
UH, we did push back on that, sheriff from across North Carolina.
UH. You know, it was a constitutional issue, a consisitutional guarantee freedom
of religion and UH, and we supported that freedom. And then episode there
was also some pastors that also UH brought a lawsuit uh and in junction uh
with the governor UH on that particular issue, and were prevailed. UM.
But there were there were some things that you know, the governor was saying
that you know, we we we abided by. But it was let me
just say it was an unusual time. Body cameras and something like this.
I've been in law enforce before over forty years and after before you know,
before we had body cameras and and and as you start seeing more and more
agencies coming home, I think the body cameras actually have turned out. We've
realized that you know, it protects the public. UH, it also protects
the order. UH. And you see what your your your personality doing is
a good representation what you're doing, so you can evaluate and something it shouldn't
be going on, you can you can go to stop it? Do you?
How do you? I'm sorry, Sam, I just want to because
I kind of want to stick to this one point that you just mentioned,
how do you? Because the beef that people really have is that protest which
was very early on in COVID. They were like, we're going to go
bust this thing up, and nobody was violent. I guess some people might
have been saying stuff to the police, but unfortunately that's something that you guys
got to deal with in your careers. Um. But they they treated later
protests, which were, you know, the social justice protests, very differently,
where the governor's walking around with his mask hanging on his ear, police
are being warned not to say things and on body him footage that's insulting about
the protesters, and a couple of police officers actually ended up getting in trouble.
So it is that huge double standard. I think what really is getting
folks so is the guy who sets you set the mood and the attitude for
your department because you're the boss, you're the sheriff, right, How important
is that to make sure that that doesn't happen. It's very important that the
policies and procedures that are set set forth for operations that are here too.
That's very important. Uh. That's why you have supervision. That's why that's
why you have you have policive procedures. It gives you a guideline to follow.
But as far as double standards, now that's that I agree with you.
You know, you know, if you've got if you've got a process
you've got to follow, then you need to follow it. And you also
need to hold yourself accountable. Um in your first nail. And you know,
and again when we've worked with a public for many years and again like
double standards, you know that doesn't fly with me. Well, what do
you say to people who see that and go, you know what, screw
them? Um, I'm you know, I'm I may have dealt with law
enforcement in the past and been polite, but now my attitude is going to
be one that's similar to the fund the police people. How detrimental is this
to law and order in North Carolina Rockingham County? Uh, the US for
that matter, how bad is it getting when you're talking to all the other
sheriffs you're with right now. Well, I think you I think during the
COVID period, a lot of attitudes did come out of a lot of people
didn't agree with a lot of stuff they were seeing. A lot of the
tuffic didn't agree with the scene. I saw a lot of businesses go out.
I mean, it was a tough time case. It was a tough
time for us in North Carolina and across the country. Uh. And then
you attacked, you attack owned the fear of COVID and the and the and
the medical side of that, and people were dying and stuff and not knowing
really all the information I am. Plus then if you look at what you're
seen on TV, some things you're seen on TV, it didn't it didn't
make sense. And uh, you know, I mean, you know,
the governor was on the on the TV every day, given a briefing stuff
like this. But um, there's there's some of the I think some of
the different policies that we had not been subjected to before I did create a
lot of concerns amongst sous you know, and questions and questions. Um.
But but you know, I think we I think we we came out of
it and we learned a lot also, we learned a lot also. But
you know, I'm going back to a filling policy procedure. You've got you've
got to do, You've got to find you've got to do your job.
You took an oath and you've got to you've got to uh do your job
as you swarmed to swim, do to carry out and do your duties.
But I hear you there. But um, you know, if people feel
that you guys are going along and I'm not picking just on your department,
but law enforcement are going along with Um. You know something that didn't go
through the way in which laws are made. Just somebody thought it up one
day and now it's the law because the governor said so, and some of
his stuff was struck down. If if people see you as quote, just
doing your job, and they disagree with it, it's strange trust you would
agree, right I do? And I mean and they're they're laws. Look,
they're laws out there on the books right now that you know we enforce
that. Not everybody, not everybody agrees with or or or they want to
change and and and you know I always say this, if there's if there's
a law out there that that's currently in effect in North Carolina and you don't
agree with it, do something about it. I change it. Uh.
But uh, but you know, you're going to have some people that don't
agree with with the laws. I mean anyway, pre COVID, You're gonna
have some people that they're they're supported to some people that don't agree with the
laws. And uh, and you're going to have that, Well, I
don't disagree with you there. And then you have people up the food chain
out you know, like prosecutors and whatnot, picking and choose. If everybody's
picking and choosing from the public on up, we're doomed. Sam Page,
Rockingham County Sheriff, appreciate the time. I got a roll, sir,
Thank you, appreciate you. Yeah, all right, so that's all I'm
saying. We'll get more coming up. Hanging on celebrating ten years and still
going strong. Thank you. Casey is on ninety four five w PTI in
the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right,
thanks again to shareff. Sam Paige, Rockingham County chat with us for
a few minutes. The Lieutenant Governor will join us. That's eight o five
and in between now and then we have some insane audio. We've got a
couple of things I didn't get to yesterday. We're gonna we're gonna fire into
these stories again. I have no idea what's up at school where we have
another assignment where everyone involved should have been like, that's a horrible idea,
and yet they did it anyway. So that and much more coming your way
eight eight, eight, nine three four seven eight seven four back in just
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This is one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle and there's Talk
ninety four five UTTI in the Tryad. Oh no, well, I thought
we're gonna get a whole show and without having to go to the well on
the state of Florida. But you guys never disappoint down there. Here will
go Florida, then Florida. Then something in the water, the air or
sand that makes you do all that crazy crap. It's like the state is
one being done ass trap. Nowhere else has the Florida man. It is
almost life as the weird Factor climbs, and you'll find out it hapn't in
Florida every time. Florida man, Florida man. If anyone can cheer me,
if you know, you can, just mind life be crazy. But
of course, but it's not as bad craft crazy as yours. Nowhere else
are you gonna find him. They're so used to it, they don't find
him. Hooray for Florida on that Uh yes, very beach, Florida.
Yip yip yep uh. And this is uh, this is one of the
more interesting excuses for the behavior I'm about to share with you. Um Jason
Roach is dude's name. Now. Officers received a nine one one call.
They received several nine one one calls actually throughout the overnight on Sunday into Monday,
UM, advising that there was a naked man on the side of the
road screaming at a woman. So he's naked, so they show up.
Well, now he's inside of a speedway gas station convenience store and they witness
him not just you know, jut not just being naked, but actually apparently
the woman is not involved. Now that he has no woman, he has
to handle business on his own. I believe that that is you'll understand.
You understand what I'm referencing, and please According to the report here actually had
received two other calls prior to this, and this is at six am,
So this is you know, bright and early folks on their way to church
and stuff or no, you have a Saturday into Sunday, so getting some
breakfast to doing whatever they're doing on Sunday morning, and he's doing all that
with no clothes on. However, overnight they figured out that he was the
same guy they were looking for because apparently he had done it at an Arby's
several hours before, and what was the other one at a wah wah.
He's a busy dude, so apparently overnight he first went to an Arby's,
got naked and started doing that in front of everybody. The reason that they
didn't get him is basically, when they called police, he fled. Then
he went to a wahwah shortly thereafter and they did not enjoy his performance either.
They called police. He fled. However, because he was witnessed getting
into the argument with the woman being naked on the side of the road,
police were able to intercept him. When asked why he was at six in
the morning, standing in a speedway with no clothes on doing that. He
told the officers he was it was a medical emergency because he had severe pain
in his wrectum and thought that by doing the other thing it would distract from
the pain and help relieve whatever the issue was. He doesn't he does not
specify in the report what the issue was. I'm not a doctor, are
you very clear here? Not a ross. You're not a doctor either,
right, not a doctor? Let me check? No, no, no,
you're not an okay, so ross, not a doctor. I don't
know that. That is that one of those home cures doctors don't want you
to know about. On the infomercial. Remember that book that guy used to
hawk. I remember that guy too, that guy he had a history.
Yeah, yeah he did. I went to prison a few times. Oh
you know, hey, man, that's to say that's a mega memory guy,
right, that's a mega memory guy. So um, yeah, yeah,
I don't. I don't know that severe rectal pain or and then you
can just I mean, I understand the idea of distracting, Like if your
kid is in pain, not necessarily there, but if they're you know,
they bang their knee or something. They're crying, you may try to distract
them. I understand that. I don't understand. The other thing that he
surmised was and why would you have to go to an Arby's first and then
ahah wah and then a speedway? Are you just is did you think,
well, you know what, maybe it requires a certain ambiance and environment or
were you just hammered in that or on drugs and those were what was open.
I I don't know the answer to that, but any who dudes under
arrest, So please, if you do go to Florida, don't get take
all your clothes off and go to the Arby's and then the gas stations,
especially on a Sunday morning. People are just trying to live their lives and
you're you're insane, sir. All right, speaking of insane, I got
to share this with you. We had a story, what was it a
few weeks ago where a California was I think there was middle school as well.
Basically, the assignment was and it was part of sex d The assignment
was to tell the students to write a fantasy and include the initials of somebody
they would like to do the fantasy with. And I mean, you are
you talking like other classmates and stuff. It was so it was super creepy.
And why they thought that was a good idea, I don't know.
But it's not a one off people. So what do we have there?
Now we have another middle school and in this case, they came up with
a little little thing to do, all right, So, um, the
principle of the school didn't think it was a bad idea. What I'm about
to tell you the licking game, all right. So basically, they set
up plexiglass in the gym for students and staff so they could lick each other.
It is like a little like like the tables the bills, the drunk
bills. Fans would jump on those folding tables, a plexiglass square like you
would see at a gas station during COVID and then students and teachers on either
side making out, but the plexiglasses between it. It's about the weirdest crap
I've ever seen. And this is what the principal thought would be a good
I don't know, icebreaker, getting to know you thing. Whatever. I
mean, they're having a good time how and I don't even I don't understand
how you get there. I don't understand how you sit there and say it
out loud, because the amount of prep that was necessary required you to get
tables to construct these plexiglass little things because it looks like they were made in
wood shop or something. And then to organize a licking a sexualized game between
students and staff because they're they're licking off from the plexiglass right there on different
sides, a teacher and a student and on east side they're licking off marshmallow
cream. Yes, so it has an actual an extra component of visual right,
something I think the dude from Arby's probably would have liked. He probably
would have liked this game. He's a he's a busy dude. So yeah.
So Desert Hills Middle School, this is in Kennewick, Washington. Assembly
and fundraiser featured a competition between students and staff two plexiglass panes stationed in the
middle of the gym, marshmallow cream rubbed on its. Students and staff then
lick it off the plexiglass. But they're they're you know, they're licking right
at each other. I can't do a pie eating contest, right, yeah.
I understand that this is a head of spring break, you know,
you're gonna have a little it has some fun and you got a fundraiser component
there. But I don't know, man, that whole thing is just super
creepy. And for those of you are going, you know what, you
just because you got a dirty mind. No, no, no, no,
everyone that I was looking at this video on Twitter, It's like,
holy crap, what are they doing? Man? So there you go ahead
check it out. Would Joe bo Joe Biden had loved this thing absolutely,
sir? I think I think he'd probably win two? All right, seven
forty five Rastagic Weather Channel were standing by. Yeah, yeah, I'm good.
What what what how you doing? Yeah? Great? Thanks for that.
I try to find the best. Did you? Did you hear the
Arby's story before that? No, down Florida who went to an Arby's and
then he went to a wah wah and then he went to a speedway and
at each place he went in naked and was having some alone time while not
alone and said that he was doing it to relieve pain in his rectum.
So oh, okay, yeah, gotcha. Which is old? It's an
old old uh uh he you know natural healing, right forgetting the word for
it. But yeah. Yeah, that's you know, because they big Med
doesn't want you to know about that. No, if you got pain there,
just go to an Arby's, take your clothes off and put on a
show and you feel better. Yeah, so I guess that's how it goes.
Well, you know what, sometimes they say, Casey, that sunshine
makes you feel good. So yeah, well it was it was nighttime.
So yeah, well, oh I got you a little Walter White huh.
Anyway, he's uh he he's in jail, so he may have some bigger
issues with his uh pre you know, pre existing condition, you know,
stockin Yeah, yeah, let's make that trans what's up. Yeah, I
mean it's great. Rest of the week beautiful. And if I said while
I'm going to say six out of the next seven days are sunny, I
think most people will be like, you know what, that's not too bad
of a forecast. Good chance. One of the days of the weekend will
be a little wet. It looks like Saturday, and then some cooler weather
coming in after a nice warm up. So Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Today, Tomorrow, Friday, plenty of sunshine around during the daytime hours will
be in the low to mid eighties. Triangle may try to push the upper
eighties tomorrow, but you get the message. Plenty of sun, plenty of
dry weather. Overnight lows of be in the fifties, maybe bump up to
near sixty by Friday night, and then the front comes in on Saturday with
a few showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon, so there might be a window.
Early highs will be in the mid to upper seventies, and then sunshine
returns behind the front. On Sunday, we'll be back into the upper sixties,
a little below average, and then mid sixties. Monday lows maybe into
the upper thirties and low forties for Monday morning. Into the west into the
mountains, there may be some near freezing temperatures, maybe a little bit of
frostbacks, so still not quite out of that time of year or where we
can get frost. I think the end of the month or early May is
the latest last frost or at least the average date, so especially in the
mountains, make it a little chillier towards the early part of next week.
We're really good over the next six out of seven days, Okay, And
I was just thinking too, like when you're when you're trying to hunt up
a post bar fast food joint to put on the naked show. Is Army's
really going to have the best crowd? I feel like Taco Bell, you
know what I'm saying. Wafful House. I mean, not that that's a
house. Yeah, probably maybe not even get arrested a waffle house and just
be like waffle House. These things happen, so yeah, anything, all
right, all right, all right, well we'll keep working on it.
Talk to in an hour, Thank you, sir. Okay, all right,
there you go. Race Agic from the Weather Channel coming up. Lieutenant
Governor joins US eight oh five. Also, what the hell? Why is
there four or six hundred shopping carts in a homeless encampment. We're just now
figuring this out that, um, where were they? Because I would assume
you'd be able to see him driving by where this story takes place. But
we'll let you be the judge. We'll do it next. Hang on ten
years of news twice an hour and smart talk all day, four five WPTI
in the Triad and one oh six one FM talk in the Triangle. All
right, so somebody's going to help me out. I don't know how this
goes unnoticed to the point where it eventually got to got as bad as it
got. So, um, there's a story from earlier in the week,
but I have to talk about it even though I've failed to get to it.
On Monday, m basically, the North Carolina Department of Transportation said that
they started a process to clean up a homeless encampment right of some four hundred
or more. There's there's varying numbers depending on what you look at. Four
hundred shopping carts. And this is right at five forty and Capitol Boulevard,
which is obviously there's like what a billion people on that road every day.
It's just horrible to have to drive at rush hour. And I'm just like,
so, you're telling me in the bushes over there there was four hundred
shopping carts. I mean, I understand where they're getting them from. You
got you know, you got all the shopping centers right there. But four
I've driven pat I've never noticed a shopping cart. I have noticed panhandlers,
but I have not noticed a shopping cart. And you're saying there's four hundred.
You can see four hundred from space, right, How how is there
for where they where do they get them from? I mean the total amount.
I understand the location where they may steal them, But you're telling me
one of those stores, or the BJ's over there, or is it a
tart whatever, there's a grocery store over there, but there's about a target
or something. You're telling me that at no point did somebody go we're missing
four hundred shopping carts and then they have to do a major clean up ross.
I know you don't always drive that way. You tend to go around.
Have you ever noticed four hundred shopping carts on your way to avoid Capital
Boulevard like the Black Death. I haven't driven down it probably in years.
I go around it every single chance I can get, even when we go
downtown to the museum, I'm going to avoid it. So I'm probably not
the best to talk about it. But I would think if four hundred shopping
carts and you know that they're not neatly, you know, inserted into each
other in an orderly manner like they would be at a store right right,
I'm just you know, they're probably loaded with crap. It looks like six
hundred cubic yards of debris, biohazard risks, including drug devices, needles,
and waste. I'll let you guess what that is and thus far, let's
see the cleanup cost about ninety thousand dollars. Alan Cantera is quoting this article.
Manager in a nearby business said they and other businesses have had shopping carts
taken and they're not cheap. I imagine not. I just you know,
if you lose one, I think you'd be on it. There's four hundred
carts they retrieved, and you don't want them back if they're having a white
biohazard off of them. Let's see here. Yeah, they don't get into
more specifics, but I'll let your imagination do the work of guess. And
what may have been in there? Is there that big of I guess if
you go off to the right as you're headed north, there's a bigger wooded
area, but they chopped a bunch of that down. So yeah, I
don't know. I do know that they have an issue in South Raleigh too,
and it's interesting they have. They have an issue over off went Over
two on the Triad side of things, those those that little area there.
I think police were doing something about it last fall, but they're doing all
the crackdown, man. But yeah, if you're bissing a shopping cart,
chances are Samhobo on five forty in Capitol had it and you probably don't want
it back. All right, So coming up we have the Lieutenant Governor.
We got lots to get to. I want to talk about the the body
camp footage for sure, but a couple of bills being entered and voted on
right now that are right up his alley will get the very latest coming up
Acoda Radio program. Hanging all right, good morning, everybody, hand happy
Wednesday. Welcome to it. It is the Casey O Day Radio Program now
with thirty percent less volume on my voice, so bear with me. But
to help me fill the time, it is our opportunity to chat with Lieutenant
Governor Mark Robinson, who joins us. Mark, how are you doing today,
sir? Hello, Kayseye, how are you doing? I'm good man.
I got a whole bucket list of stuff I want to chat with you
about. So we're gonna we're gonna fire right into it, and I'm gonna
start with um, you uh you got you got a little thing coming up
this weekend over it. Ace Speedway made famous well obviously by people who went
there. But for folks who didn't know about a speedway early in the COVID
insanity is they just wanted to race cars and the governor just wanted to make
an example out of them. So talk about what you got going on this
weekend. Well, we've got a rally and a major announcement coming up,
and we want everybody to come out. It's gonna be about four o'clock.
It's gonna be held rainall shine, and we want everybody there, and it's
gonna be a gonna be old like they say, it's gonna be a rip
roaring good time. Okay, all right, And the ACE Speedway, like
I said, one of the examples. We got a story going on right
now where a group of protesters called Reopen Reopen NC decided they wanted to have
their voices heard about the time we got to the end of those two weeks
to slow the spread, and it didn't look like the governor or anyone else
was gonna take restrictions away. So they went and they decided to stage the
first of several protests at the state capitol as people do, and Raleigh PD
and Capitol Police they went in and busted it up. They ended up arresting
one of the organizers. Her name is Monica Usery, and she literally languished
in court over the arrest for a couple of years. Wasn't cheap, and
eventually they dismissed it. Well, now it's back in the news because some
body camp footage of Raleigh PD basically standing around explaining to officers, you know,
like a pregame meeting was out. And in the video the police are
not social distance, not wearing masks, and they literally say, well,
we got to put this stuff on so it looks okay when we get there.
And some folks are noticing a bit of a double standard with the way
that they handled stuff when you consider later protests when they burned my cvs,
I like to go to down, so obviously this is you go into a
speedway. I'm assuming is that's not a coincidence. So when you see stuff
like this, you see the double standard, and now you see things that
might further a road the public's trust in law enforcement at the very least those
making the big decisions, you know, to go bust this thing up.
What I'm curious your thoughts and what could you do as lieutenant governor with your
platform to maybe mend some of these fences. Well, the first thing we
need to do is we need to expose it, and we need too the
why, and we need to expose it in every venue. Now, I
have not seen that video yet. I'm sure that I'll probably see that here
in short order. It's gonna be long before I said. But I've been
very busy this past week, a number of things that I've had to do.
But I can't tell you about another case right here in the town that
I live in. Cases where during COVID, of course, the liquor store
was opened and quite crowded, and Walmart was opened and quite crowded, and
Lows and all those big box stores, and the abortion clinic was open.
Now the churches had been shut down and people were not allowed to go into
the churches, and the schools had been shut down, and small businesses have
been shut down. Well, there was a group of young men and women
who decided that they were going to continue with their every Britpore day ritual to
go and pray it from the abortion clinic. They masked, they were six
feet apart. They were simply in front of the abortion clinic. Social distancing
outside in masks, and they were prayed and they were arrested. They were
arrested. It was the ultimate example of hypocrisy during that era to me,
because they violated absolutely, they didn't. They weren't violating any of the so
called edicts that had been set down by the all powerful and almighty government Casey.
All of these examples. We need to continue to expose all these examples.
We need to show them to the public. We need to explain to
those who don't understand why they are so dangerous to our republic. And then
we need to set ourselves on the course in North Carolina so that we come
up with a comprehensive plan to ensure that this does not happen again. Because
what's happening in Casey is, as we see at the federal level, we
are weaponizing now law enforcement again political enemies and weaponize in law enforcement base not
on law, but on agenda. And we can't let that happen. That
is absolutely dangerous. We see on every level we've got stopped that. We've
got to make sure in North Carolina's free of that kind of garbage. And
when you say every level, you're you're spot on because there was a gag
order which I which I apparently stayed in effect. They they think she released
this video. She says she didn't. And so for the folks at the
DA's office have already filed to have her answer for contempt of court on Thursday.
They're not done punishing this woman, you know, and these are the
powers that be. But how you get a judge to agree to a gag
order for something like that and they charge her and make her pay for two
years before eventually dropping it. It pales. It is the complete reversal to
what we saw with William Barber and his crew that would go and get arrested
at the Capitol a few times, get all their charges thrown out. How
do we how do we actually root it out? Because it is incredibly disturbing
to watch play out now multiple times again. We have to make sure that
we're calling out and we're calling out on masks. I'm gonna say this,
Casey, and I mean this. They're far too many on our side that
are afraid of the press, afraid of the backlash, and they're they're afraid
to push back and they won't speak up. We've got to start putting people
in office who are gonna fight for freedom. And if you're gonna fight for
freedom and for the republic, you're gonna have to make some people uncomfortable,
and you're gonna have to take on the press, which right now we all
know that the vast majority of the press leans left, if it's not all
the way left, and it's very unfair and it does not does not play
fair, and it does not report fair. And we're playing with folks on
the left hand side and politics who again are literally casing they may not be
breaking the law, but they're certainly the spirit of the law. Leaning it
on those who would go out and write and burn down on the CBS because
that fits their agenda, but hard on those who've pushed back against those things
that they that they hold dear h, That's not the way it's supposed to
be. That's not the way it can be in order for us to have
a society, a republic that actually works. If we continue down this past
casey, we're not going to have a constitutional republic. We're gonna have a
Banetta republic. Um. There is some oversight in some of these situations that
the General Assembly does is empowered to address, or at the very least look
at due to the home rule way in which we do things in North Carolina.
UM, I know they're busy doing all sorts of stuff over there,
but UM, I think somebody needs to put a bug in their ear because
an example needs to be made. In one of these instances, it probably
should have been surrounding the state auditor. And I just I don't I see
people throwing their hands up, going, well, we're doing other stuff.
But I think this is a really important issue. Mark it is. It's
a very it's a very important issue, and I think that you're you're right.
It does start with the with the folks at the highest levels. But
we have to do it right, and we have to do it in order.
That's why I continue to say, at some point a food, we
need to sit down at the states and examine all of the things that happened
during the COVID debacle. We need to whether it be having hearings, whether
it be forming task force, whatever it is. Then after we gather all
that information and find out where the breakdowns worth, where the absolute violations of
our constitution occurred, then we need to make sure that we move moving forward.
It does not happen again, and if necessary, punishing those who did
break the law. If you, I know you haven't announced whether you're running
for governor, but let's just say hypothetically you decide too, and then you
get elected, would you commit to putting that task for us together? Oh?
Absolutely absolutely. You best believe that that's going to be one of the
things where we're going to encourage of the General Assembly to do. It's going
to be one of the things we're going to do on our own. We
want to ensure that in North Carolina again, the violations of our constitution that
happened, the quasi weaponizing of law enforcement, those things cannot happen in this
state. And like I said, we need to have people in place that
can, like Barney Fife used to say, that can nip it in the
bud from the very beginning to ensure that those types of things don't happen in
North Carolina. We want folks in North Carolina to be free. Sure,
we want you to be able to go out and protest peacefully, but at
the same time, those who don't protest peacefully need to have their feet held
to the fire, no matter what side their own and those who are protesting
peacefully need to be treated fairly, no matter what side their own. That's
what we need to sure and I think the way we do that is by
having the white people in place at the top to demand did that happen?
Well, um, you know, maybe now that the the the makeup of
the veto proof majority has changed, they could at the very least change the
emergency powers, which obviously were abused. But let me let me hunt a
couple other things. Uh So, the Senate Education Committee advanced the Fairness in
Women's Sports Act. As you can imagine, many in the media are not
pleased about that. North Carolina would be among twenty other states that are cobbling
something like this together. How pressing is this issue? And what do you
say to the organizations who will push back, like the bodies the you know,
the the state high school and then the national accreditation bodies who are telling
these, uh, the states, if you do this, we won't we
won't give you accreditation and trying to let their power. Are you talking about
on the state level, I'm talking about I'm talking about that there are there
are multiple organizations when these discussions that have come up and said if you guys
do this, it doesn't abide by what we think should be done. So
we're not going to accredit some of the stuff that you're doing. These are
the threats that they make, and generally Republicans have folded on this stuff in
the past, including the South Dakota governor. So talk to me about what's
going on here. I can. I can go ahead and tell you like
this Casey. For me, it's not a matter of folder. You know.
I can't believe we're even having this conversation. I can't believe it now.
I have fealthy have to tell you. I've predicted this a number of
years ago, but I can't even believe my own prediction that in the United
States of America, we're squandering our freedom arguing about whether or not there's more
than two genders, or about whether or not boys should be able to play
on the girls team. It's ridiculous. It is a ridiculous notion, and
it's pound for some adults to get some gut and some brains and stand up
and fight back. Period. You don't want to give us our credit dations
because of that, then we're gonna have to find either wait through you or
over you. That's the bottom line. This is not a fight that we
should be willing to give up because I guarantee Casey ninety nine to send the
people in the state agree with us, they agree with us. I have
not met one same person who goes along with this agenda, not one same
person that goes along with this agenda. It is ridiculous again that we're even
having the conversation. And it's not something that I am willing to relent on,
and I'm certainly I certainly hope it's something my colleagues are not willing to
relent on. Because in all this foolishness, Casey, that's what people are
waiting on. People are waiting on someone to stand up, that one person,
like the little kid in the Story of the Emperors New Clothes, to
stand up and say, hey, wait a minute, that's not how this
is. This is not the truth, this is not right. People have
gotten to start standing on what's right. And if there was every issue we
will right off, it's this one. If we fold on this one,
we might as well pack it up and go home. The bills of the
bills, because there's a House version and a Senate version would require athletes to
play on teams matching their sex as marked on their birth certificate. There is
there, I mean, and there's no enforcement mechanism in it. And I
remember with the Statue of Removal law that the Republicans passed, it really didn't
have an enforcement mechanism or penalties for violating it, so people just abused it.
Some states where a student may move from allows them to change their official
birth certificate. Do you think that the language as you understand it will will
have the desired result? Well, you know, say, when it comes
to language, and when it comes to bill statue, the wording of bill
st at you. There's all types of fancy footwork that folks can do when
they get into the courtroom to get around it. So that's gonna be one
of the tough things that's gonna we're gonna have to do in crafting the legislation
or deal with after crafting the legislation. But you know, beyond that,
whatever we need to do in North Carolina, whether it needs to whether it
be the wording of the bill, whether it be a continued fight, whether
it be standing up to those agencies as you said, like we said that
are talking about not giving us accreditation, and whether it be appealing directly to
parents and giving parents alternatives so that they don't have to be part of this
delusion. We have got to do it, because again, if we fold
on this one issue, which is just plain old, ordinary common sense and
it never never, at any other point in history as any other country ever
done anything like this, And for the freest, most developed nation on earth
now to be question seeing the absolute size of gender and making moves to damage
children the way we're doing and mutilate children the way that we're doing it is
just it's insane. And somebody's got to stand up and stop the insaturday.
And I believe that we can do it if we stand together and we're not
afraid. I got one minute left. One other bill I want to hear
your thoughts on is a restriction on drag performances. Basically, they'd be barred
from public property or private property public that is open to the public where anyone
under the age of eighteen is there. Essentially, it's treated as though their
exotic dancers. Are you good with this? I am tasting. If you
look at the many of the drag performances that are being displayed in front of
children. They're highly sexual in nature. They're not something that should be presiian
to minor children, and I'm very confused as to why these drag queens feel
like they need to perform it for our small children. I'm very confused about
that. I've never said it any format that folks shouldn't be able to go
to a draft show. They shouldn't be able to go to a strip show
of any general or any sexual persuasion. That is an adult proposition that needs
to be kept in an adult place. And if we can form a law
to ensure that that happens, I'm all for our crovitson Lieutenant Governor joining us.
And you know, next time we talked should be interesting. With the
event this weekend, we'll be watching. Thank you, sir, appreciate it,
you got it so thank you so much. Seeing a few weeks you
bet, and we will be right back your day smarter and celebrating ten years
of keeping you better informed. One oh six one FM Talk and News Talk
nine four five w PTI more with Casey starts now. Man, that has
got to be embarrassing. You know when they had when that whack job dude
or he didn't try to jump the gate. What did you try to ram
the gate? When Trump was in office? That dude at least was ex
military. Apparently somebody sent a baby to get the president yesterday or two days
ago. Did you have you seen this story? Uh, this was yesterday.
A toddler apparently squeezed through the bars of the fence surrounding the White House
and started booking it for the Executive Mansion. And they immediately tried to give
it puberty blockers, which is like, what is going on here? Well,
they tipped the spikes with them kids crawling over, but this this little
this little guy squeezed between them, so yeah, they had they had to
hit him with a trank gun filled with puberty blockers, and then they tried
to abort it, which is very strange. I mean, they hate babies
there, apparently trimester man. I would say to that baby, like,
you need to be aware of like the handsling great old Candy house and like
the White House, they don't go near them because they can't stand you.
Well, the one does have candy. I mean, I don't want to
completely dissuade the kid, but candy is so good. I'm now hopefully now
we sent this, we sent the baby to Guantanamo or something, right,
so like crazy man, the US Secret Service uniformed uh yeah, uniform division
officers obviously noticed the top booking it across the lawn and we're able to capture
him. Boy, I bet, I bet if the I bet the Chinese
government right now is looking for people who you know, like people who have
Dwarfism or whatever. Right, this gives him an idea or like the grease
Man and Oceans eleven? Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, that dude,
I'm trying to remember. I mean, that's what's the gap. They
don't even they probably don't put it in the story here. It was the
first successful intrusion in the complex since the White House fence was doubled its height
to roughly thirteen feet. Well, I mean, okay, yeah, I
believe it or not, and they actually put it in the story here.
But when I got to visit the White House for the little Trump thing we
just did when Trump was in there, when they had some of the radio
hosts go over and like they were talking about how kids have tried to squeeze
and really thin idiots have tried to squeeze through there and gotten stuck in the
fence before, so but nah, this kid pulled it off. Man,
he was able. He almost made it. Who remember the guy who ran
and got into the White House? Remember that dude? What did he?
That's the reason we doubled it. He jumped? Would he jumped over it?
He got into the physical White House. He got into like the reception
room or something, and everyone run into the kitchen or something. What's that?
Didn't he get into the kitchen or something? He's crazy? Got in
three different rooms. I can't remember what they were, but it was like
he got in Like you assume, I assume, and I would assume that
you believe this to be the case. I would think that once somebody got
over a fence, there's no way they'd make it to the White House because
it's quite a bit of distance when you're going across one of the lawns like
that dude did no. I mean, I would assume, like if you're
like, hey, you need to like go past the fence and bolt for
the White House. In my mind, I would assume it'd be like no
man's land and like World War One, like there's no way you're gonna that
far right right yeah. Plus, you know they're not gonna they're not gonna
disclose everything they have, and obviously you're not gonna hit him with an anti
aircraft missile, which they you know they have on the roof. But you
would think that you'd have a security perimeter. Just get a cowboy on a
horse with a with a lasso, man like solve this problem. Uh yeah,
But the kid was reunited with his parents um on Pennsylvania Avenue, and
they did, they did actually lock down that part of it. I don't
know why. You just if you can grab the intruder with one hand kind
of carry him back to his parents, I don't know that. Here we
go, all right, So this is what I was looking for. So
the space between the bars is five inches. So if you can, if
you can, you know, like a cat, get yourself through there,
then you're you're or halfway there apparently, But that was that was the extent
of it. I have a good laugh. And they didn't even throw the
kid in jail. So what are you gonna do? Well, maybe nothing.
Today someone on Earth could be threatened by a six hundred pounds satellite plummeting
to Earth. Now, the risk of actually hitting anyone when you factor in
how I know that moonbats would have you believe that we're stacked like cordwood on
top of each other. But the vast majority of Earth's surface is water,
and on top of that, even the land, there's not generally a person
standing there. It's so between that and re entry burn, it's a one
in twenty five hundred chants that somebody or somebody's house gets hit by a satellite.
It is a low earth satellite and uh, let's see here who who
satellite is it? Is it one of ours? I think it is.
It's one of ours and some other country cooperative thing. So AnyWho, that's
the thing that should be on the lookout for, but probably not here on
the east coast of the US. So you got that, You got that
going for you, all right? Eight forty two k C O D radio
program. Um one other. I got to go back to the audio for
this these did you ross? Did you ever see the picture where they had
like Brooklyn Dad and Joe Joe from Jurors and all these all these uh Paige
Hill Twitter people they like, they gathered for an event at the White House.
They brought him to the White House. Yeah, right, so you
know, but part of the thing is, now these are just regular people
that are not all fed the same talking points, and all you have to
do when there's a big issue is go look because they all write the same
thing. So one of the younger folks in that group is this guy named
Harry Sisson is what. He's twenty. He's twenty, and he claims to
have been on Twitter since two thousand and eight or something. I'm not even
gonna do the math, but anyway, I saw his video he posted he
would like you to know that he gave it a real sporting try when it
came to guns, and he in his twenty years on this earth and his
Twitter account, which just almost instantly had what like one hundred thousand followers,
he's got some advice for all of you out there. And here it is.
So I shot a gun for the first time today. And I've always
been told by Republicans that after the first time, I'll be in favor of
guns and I'll want more guns. But for me, it was the exact
opposite. I realized how powerful these guns are, and at a moment's notice,
they can be used to take someone's life. And the fact that in
many states in this country you can walk into one of these stores and ten
minutes later walk out with an Air fifteen is absurd. This experience made me
want more gun control, not less. All Right, I don't know.
I don't know if that if that's a good flex that you're terrified of a
two two three and a rifle that is a little heavier so obviously has less
recoil that you're going to feel. But you know, a for effort with
the propaganda there, bro and I have to extract and assume he shot an
AAR because he references in AAR and I'm going to assume it was the one
of these smaller caliber versions of one. But yeah, as any Republican ever
said, I mean, I know that we're straw manning here that you're going
to fall in love with guns, although it is interesting when people do.
Man, I've on more than one occasion seeing somebody shooting for the first time
and the look on their face was one of holy cow, this is kind
of cool or this is awesome. But he shot it and it terrified him
and he just wanted everyone to know. So, um, whatever talking points
will be coming out today, I would look to his account to probably have
those as well. All right, eight forty five, where you staging from
the weather channel? Oh man, oh man. You see the baby that
tried to rush the White House yesterday? Oh the one that just got through
the bars, got through the bars. Yeah, yeah, probably a Chinese
spy man put that can in Guantanamo. Uh, well, it'll be too
careful. No, you can't. You can't. Um, boy, if
you if you had a chance to get outside yet. Um. You're experiencing
some great weather. And you know, you don't get a lot of promises
in my business. Casey, I think you know that. But when you
get in situations like this, or you see high pressure and really not much
can mess it up, you can make some promises. And I'm gonna promise
the rest of the week there's not gonna be any rain. There's gonna be
a lot of sunshine. I mean, if there's a few clouds, they
won't be rain clouds, averaging load of mid eighties across the region from the
try It to the Triangle. Um, the warmest days probably tomorrow, so
you may see some upper eighties from the Triangle, and that a front will
come in and it's gonna kind of mess it all up Saturday in the afternoon,
so make your tea time for Saturday morning. You can get probably nine
in and I don't know how slowly you play, but if you're still out
there by about one or two in the afternoon, that's when the wet weather
will start coming in. But the front going through it will be out of
referring two, is the person who always plays in front of me? Yes,
that would probably that would be they were still out there at one front
of me, so yep, yeah, that'd be me. So um yeah.
The afternoon will be wet, some rain and thunderstorms coming in. The
good news is, though the front goes through and we do cool off though
for Sunday mid upper sixties and the load of miid forties for Monday morning mid
sixties month afternoon, and maybe a more significant rain system in here midweek next
week. We'll keep an eye on that, but centered earlier in case anybody
missed it. Six out of the next seven days, so that's Today through
Tuesday should be sunny too, mostly sunny. You only wrinkle in there Saturday,
so Saturday's your wet weather chance, and that might not even be all
day, might even be the second half of the day. All right,
Well, the nice thing is if you're golfing and it starts to rain,
there's generally a nineteenth pole where they serve beer inside, so there iss options.
All right, thank you, sir, appreciate it, and we'll come
back chat with Jeff Balinger next. Hang on celebrating ten years of keeping you
connected, WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the
Triangle. A fifty three Bloomberg Update. Now, Jeff Balinger, what's happening
in today, sir, Good morning, Casey. Stock market futures pointing a
little lower this morning. The market barely budged yesterday the indexes and did pretty
close to where they started. Netflix shares fell after hours. Investors were disappointed
by the video streaming company second quarter revenue projections, but Netflix thinks the numbers
will look better in the third and fourth quarters once it starts cracking down on
customers who share their passwords. Besides streaming network, Netflix still rents DVDs by
mail. That service is going to wind down over the next six months.
The company will exit the twenty five year old mail operation at the end of
September. Affordability issues keeping nearly three out of four would be homebuyers on the
sidelines. Banquet dot com says home prices have begun to fall in some parts
of the country, but seventy three percent of aspiring homeowners say they are still
priced out of the market. Zillo, in fact, released a survey this
morning finding that more than half of gen Zers and millennials think they would have
to win the lottery to ever own a home, and this isn't helping affordability
at all. Mortgage infestrates made a big move higher last week. According to
the Mortgage Bankers Association, the average rate on a thirty year fixed rate home
loan jump to six point forty three percent. A growing number of current homeowners
are in danger of losing their homes. First quarter data from ADAM show the
number of properties with foreclosure filings was up six percent from the fourth quarter and
up twenty two percent from the first quarter. North Carolina has the seventeenth highest
foreclosure rate in the nation. One out of every one thousand, five hundred
twenty five homes is subject to some type of filing, and a casey United
Airlines is upbeat. The carrier says international travel is picking up that, combined
with lower operating costs, will boost at second quarter profit the new projections from
United top Wall Street Forecast. Casey, all right, thank you, Jeff,
appreciate it. We'll chat tomorrow, sir, Okay, I'll be here
talk to you then, have a good day. All right, there you
go, Jeff Bellinger from Bloomberg News. And I just I how are we
back at this trough once again? Once again? The organization that runs Auschwitz,
yes, the historical site of of the notorious concentration camp, which is
such a somber place for most people. And I gotta I gotta tell you
I didn't go to Auschwitz, but I have been one of the other camps
and uh and like thankfully I didn't see this crap. Once again they have
had to warn folks not to take comical or sexy photos while standing on the
rail line that brought all these people to their death. They had several exactly
what was it last year two years ago when they first had to do the
yeah no here It is March of twenty nineteen, and that was people who
were kind of walking on the rail This photo of this girl that got posted
that prompted this she is sitting on the rail. She's got a very plunging
neckline shirt on and is showing off her assets while leaning back in a you
know, like a thirst trap sexy slutty pose and sitting on one side of
the rails, one of the rails. You know, we just I asked
earlier, how did we know not to have a game, a licking game
with marshmallow cream with teachers and students, And how do you not know that
when you go to Auschwitz that doing an only fans pose is going to get
you not just warned, but the title of most hated person on the Internet
that day, because of course you posted. It can't be like accidental,
like you took a shuttle there. You're like, you know where you're going,
right, It's not like you're walking around Amsterdam and you're taking a phone.
You're like, oh my god, I was Anne Frank's house. I
know you're right, Leah, No, I right, you know where you
are? What are you doing doing a thirst trap on the tracks? It's
it's I kick him out of Poland at that point, really kick him out
of the country. I know I don't want I don't want him to because
you're dealing with obviously the delicacy of of why why this is such a historical
and somber memorial and educational opportunity to all of it. But you put just
enough a current on there that if somebody's doing something stupid, you can get
him to least off the tracks. I wouldn't be opposed to that right correction
caller or something. I just I don't know. I honestly, i'd like
to talk to that woman. I would like to hear the justification. And
by the way, there's no way that you're walking into Auschwitz or dot Cow
or any of these other places without knowing what's up in there. And I
don't know if you know this Auschwitz has a pretty famous sign, but they
have then they have to sit there and warn people, and it's just,
oh, it's so discouraging. Anyway, that's the show for today. See
you tomorrow.