We mentioned KFC running out of chicken or whatever. I think we're all out
of bleeps, so just under the wire, but God forbid we get something
else. Man. I'm uh, everybody's got a potty mouth. And all
of our audio cuts today, oh except one right hold on, yeah,
no, every single one but one. Somebody is swearing like a sailor a
sailor, so poor Ross had to dub and bleep that. So you know,
if it ain't what you call the show, just be nice, very
busy, very busy this morning, this after so many amazing videos emerged yesterday
that I didn't even know where to start, but I think I do because
I was just talking about with Ross and I'm glad because I had a lingering
question. And this is why we do. This is why we have discussions,
because people can provide perspectives that you don't think about. Did you all
see the mom? Was he ten or eleven? Of a ten year old
a boy? She's sitting in her car, you know, filming a rant
video, which is not unusual. That's what people do. They sit in
their car and they film content. And she is she's no pro filming content
because she's she only fans model, so you know, not new to her
now. She's obviously clothed in this, but she's really upset. And she's
upset because I remember that kid I mentioned. Apparently they can cut into your
only fans in time, and she decides to post this insane video and I
know everyone's screaming, dps all of that. Do I worry for the kid's
future? Yeah, I don't know that she's being abusive sitting there and ranting
in a video, because I don't know how much she's embellished, how much
it's not, but she clearly does. She clearly has an interesting way of
prioritizing things, Okay, And don't get me wrong, I understand, like,
if that's her only source of income, could be frustrated. You know,
when my mom worked, obviously, you know, because my parents were
split up, she worked, and and we if we cut into that and
she felt it was unnecessary, she would she'd let us know. I remember
when I when I flipped the little uh little dirt bike and I broke my
arm. I called her. I called her at work first, and she's
like, tell me, and I didn't. I didn't do a good job
of telling her about it. And then I saw one of our friends,
family friends, who looked at my arm and went, oh, my gosh,
is the bone supposed to be protruding? You didn't need to know that.
And then my mom felt horrible. But at first thing she told me
is put some tussin on it, suck it up. I'll be home later.
But I don't know. Let's listen to this. I am so,
by the way, why did you edit a wookie into this? What do
you it's it stands on its own. We don't need a wookie edited into
this this woman's video, I am so what if that's the thing, her
her thing that makes her stand out on the only fans? I know that's
niche, But I have to assume of the folks cruising that website, there's
got to be at least one. It's like, all right, I need
a naked girl who sounds like a wookie and then subscribe, you know,
subscribes immediately. That's my theory. All right. Anyway, back to this,
I am so pissy today, just just downright monson. Oh no,
today, yeah, wow. I had to come up here. I had
to come up here eleven o'clock in the afternoon. That's prime time. When
that's prime time. Okay, she's doing at Little Winky Winky. One.
Eleven is not in the afternoon that I'm that I'm pretty sure of. So
I'm gonna assume she means eleven AM in the morning. How is that prime
time for shitting around pantsils at a computer? What am I missing here?
What are you all doing during the day? Yeah? No, she's thinking
about it from a streamer's point of view. So I mean, you've got
to think about the entire globe. So actually eleven o'clock would be peak because
it's sort of like it's evening right in the UK or in Europe, and
you get half of the United States. It's actually the best time to stream
eleven in the afternoon somewhere around there. Yeah, run noon, Yeah,
eleven in the afternoon. Like pervs from the UK who are like lag On
and stuff like that, or like the naked Wookie with Bulgaria or Germany or
whatever. Yet, yes, that they're into. Imagine what the German people
are asking you to do. I don't want to I'm gonna pass on that
one, okay, all right, all right, So uh see, this
is like I said, this is why extra perspectives are good because I didn't
think of that initially. I just assumed, like, I don't want to,
I don't want to walk down to the sales department. Yeah no,
No, it's not like everybody wherever she's broadcasting from. It's the whole planet.
So all right, she's a PERV for the entire world. Oh good
for her, Yes, yes, but I mean I mean if you're a
fan that pays. Yeah, I was just gonna say, well, and
and the problem she ran into is that everyone's you know, like started dosing
all of her stuff, but or not dogs, they were just putting it
out there. I heard on Twitter that on several threads. Yeah, because
it's a Europe makes sense, right, You're not, She's not. She's
not doing it to time out in mirror, Mark Miramar, you know what
I'm saying? Or uh, former Burma right, so you gotta be core.
I would assume those are your pockets of money US obviously, and UK
and western Western Europe and uh the Japanese Chinese market has to be big too,
man, So yeah, no, that makes sense. I'm sorry.
Anyway, what were you saying, young lady? If you know what I
mean, we do know what the man is So that's partly why I'm cranky.
But I'm cranky because my child, My child is ten. I had
to come up to the school and I had to pick him up. Why
why did I have to pick this kid up? I had to pick this
kid up because he's a man. Okay, he's a little man, and
he's got a weak as stomach like most men do. Huh. So somebody
busted ass in the library. He threw up not one time, not two
times, but three. I ate Rocky Mountain oysters from I uh, all
my life, so don't even tell me about having oh stomach. Now,
to be fair, I'm probably you probably not who I should be going to
battle with over putting something like that in their mouth. But I just,
you know, don't give me that crap. So you got a kid,
I know, if you know, sometimes kids get sick. I don't have
kids. That's why I'm great at this. I know that inherent I just
inherently know that. So your kid got sick times in the library. Literally,
the nurse calls and she's like, you're gonna have to come pick up
here shown ray cop taters vahmadad three times and the library like that is that
concerning three? Is it like one after another where it's all kind of considered
part of the same. It was it three different incidents. We know what
the kickoff incident was, but is that concerning from a parent standpoint? Apparently
it was for the school because he's you know, covering everything up. But
yeah, so they called you and like, hey, your kids doing this,
even though the reason stated by the child was that his friend broke win.
I'm not going to play the rest of her insanity, but and that's
a prompt. So she goes on this tirade about having to go snatch her
kid up from there because it's prime time. And again, do I think
the family services people are overreacting? Probably a little. Now. I know
there's some people think, hey, if you have kids in the house and
you work in any of that, then anything having to do with that industry,
then you shouldn't have kids. And I think I recognize that that opinions
out there. I don't know if that necessarily works, however, I don't
like, I don't know if she calculated that it would go viral to the
point where she it would financially help. And you know what, it probably
has about a bunch of people sitting around their desk eleven am in the afternoon
googling this chick's name trying to figure it out. Oh, no, she's
going to profit from this, that's what. That's the part that really chaps
people's behind. Yeah. I think I'm guessing that her entire delivery in the
video is for that reason, even the wookie, I think the entire Yeah,
the the entire delivery. It's because she's thinking it's going to profit her
or you know, she's she's making a video for her audience who was used
to seeing her a certain way. So she's posting it right to be like,
hey, this is why I'm not being a whore on the internet today
for you guys. Oh that's fair. And that shirt doesn't look like a
shirt you would walk into your kids' school and am I Am I off here?
Although maybe I don't know. I don't know. So some of the
kids walk around school and so what do you do? All right? So
that's that's just that's just getting it started this morning. We got so much
more to get to and it will commence coming up here on the KCO Day
radio program as the mayor down in Athens Clark County, Georgia Mayor Kelly Gertz
is his name. He was updating folks on the the murder of the twenty
two year old nursing students, the apprehension of a twenty six year old illegal
immigrant from Venezuela, who, as we documented, had had multiple encounters a
variety of places, not the least of which was being arrested after entering the
country illegally and making his way to New York. Caught some charges there,
a bench created, a bench warrant, went down to Georgia, caught some
charges there, was literally arrested on warrants each and every time. The departments
didn't wait for the detainer request or honor it. So I don't even I
don't even know if they look at him anymore with some of these policies,
and he just kept doing what he was doing, and according to authorities,
that culminated when he when he saw this woman on the walking trail. I'm
sure there's more backstory we're going to learn here on what the allegations and the
you know, the timeline, but then reportedly drug her into the woods and
savagely assaulted her, not just with his own body, but with objects and
then smashed her skull in. It's really grewsome stuff. And so that's what
this mayor is having to do a press conference on. Although I did see
the New York Post they ran a headline they were getting just toasted for yesterday
or they were saying that he might have killed her because he she started struggling
and it might have spooked him. It really was a bad headline. And
when they were trying to get at I have no idea. I mean,
inherently I would have said, look, if your business is violent assaults,
I think you know going into it that the person your victim might put up
a fight. But that's another thing. So that you know, a lot
of people found that insensitive. Well, then the mayor held his press conference,
and I want you to I'm to listen to this room of his own
constituents. Right, this is this is these are the voters. As he
starts, Mayor e splaining, I guess is what we're gonna call it.
Just just listen to this insanity. Liar, you a lawyer, your guilty
and all right. That is the public reacting to this, Uh, this
odd take. The mayor attempting to give the most recent updates in the case,
and you heard several protesters interrupt the event. But in the in the
comments, he's just like he said, am I gonna read all of it?
Here? He goes, He says, I want to say that we
center our work here in Athens Clark County on people's humanity, and part of
everybody's humanity is the expectation of human dignity. And that was a quote that
he that this mayor is referring to, and what he was referencing as a
resolution that he and his cohorts passed during Donald Trump's presidency but blamed Trump for
tensions between American citizens and illegal immigrants. So for him to lean into that
literally lean into, you know, a resolution. And this is why I
told you because you saw this stuff past during Trump and where you have these
these bodies, elected bodies at a local level, past these stupid resolutions that
had you know, there's there's no teeth to any of it. Well,
the difference is here he found the teeth, and the teeth was to literally
go back to this very political thing that they passed so that they could crap
on a president they don't like, and that irritated some of the constituents there
and then you and then you bring it up at a press conference where people
want to know, what the hell are you going to do so that if
this doesn't happen again? And I look, is that reactionary to the point
where a single mayor can't stop all crime? Yes? But what this guy
doesn't understand is your attitude has shown that you are You're fine with many of
the things that got us here today, right, mayorc Is and Biden going
in and immediately undoing ninety some immigration related things that the Trump administration had done.
And then everyone just goes, oh, well, the one thing was
going away because COVID, Well what about the other ninety seven? Right?
Or we're a welcoming city and then people show up. I'm like, oh,
we're not like that, right? Come on? Man? I figure
like W R. E. L and like the McClatchy folks that just ignored
this, which in and of itself would have been hypocritical, but actually leaned
in it. So I'm not going to give the specifics much energy. Uh,
But I do think it's interesting in the current political climate when a dude
went to jail for seven months for sharing a Hillary Clinton meme which was about
you know, voting which looked to be parody or when to vote look to
be parody, and mirrored to a bunch of other stuff. But I was
told that that was election interference. I don't know how this isn't if if
that's your definition. So some some moonbats leftists to say, hey, let's
create a viral comedic campaign attacking Mark Robinson. So that's you know, they
threw it up out there and got billboards, got a website, and they
have they have a play on his name, which instead of Robinson, it's
Rottenson, right, And that's Look, if you if they want to go
at whatever, you know, do your thing. But the the energy of
it would make if the casual observer perhaps think that there's another candidate. But
more so than that, some of the quotes they use are not quotes from
him. And look, there's a lot of Mark Robinson quotes, even if
you want to trim the context out that I've seen people go after him used.
But some of these are just straight up made up. And I guess
my question is for ahead. This headline from w r e O Mark Rottenson
website uses controversial techniques to lampoon GOP candidates. No, no, no,
no no. Is it controversial techniques or is it literally arguably worse than the
one off Hillary Clinton meme, because I feel like it is because you're ascribing
to him a bunch of stuff he didn't say, But also you might be
causing confusion in the mind of the voters, So hell if I do.
It's just getting so nasty out there, even in the primaries, man,
but just in general at that a time when I'm here and everyone go,
we have to save democracy, we have to save decency, and apparently the
only way to accomplish that is to be as undemocratic and as undecent as you
could possibly muster. And I guess at least that's across the political aisle.
Even some of the primary stuff's getting super nasty. You have, uh,
whether you have buck Out and Smith, the emails I get are just insane
on that stuff. Did you see the Mark Walker AI stuff? Yes?
Yes, the yes? I mean how immediate was that? Do you remember
when your fear like, oh, you know, in the future you have,
But I listened to the ice. It's such it's bad audio Like,
it doesn't to me anyway, because that we've talked to Mark so much.
Yeah, but I don't think it sounds like him, right, because we've
talked to Mark so much over the year, right, right, Perhaps I
guess the average person when you wouldn't know. Maybe, But like I listened
to that, I'm like, it sounds like a really bad Mark Walker impression,
right, But it doesn't. But it's not presented as one. I
think maybe that's what like it If it is that in the way that people
were putting it out, like you should, it should one hundred percent say
this. We think this is funny parody of him, right right. It
doesn't come across as it's trying to be a parody. It's coming across as
like this is real phone call audio or whatever. Right, Yeah. And
if you don't know, well I was going to get into that a little
later, and you could I was kind of teeing up for it. Well,
yeah, we'll get into the detail. I want to finish this,
but we'll get into the details of that here. But yeah, I mean
it's just like the standard that they use is a reasonable person and that's not
just a sanity judgment call, like we wouldn't be a reasonable person in whether
we recognize the voice of a longtime politician in North Carolina because we interact with
them on a much more frequent basis, except for a certain senator who haunts
your children's dreams. But but even that, I could pick out his voice.
And I know, maybe it's just inherent what we do. Somebody just
strolling on Twitter who's you know, doesn't really pay attention until maybe the week
of the election. I don't I don't know they beat that. I think
that there are people who would think, no, that's that's the thing that
happened. So that's where we get dicey on this, and and then to
see this thing which sounds far more injurious, potentially injurious, that these individuals
are doing, which again I don't have I don't have a problem with lampooing
politicians. Man, I'm here for it. I love it. But the
difference is here is the people who were like, oh, not a big
deal, screamed bloody murder and literally got a dude thrown in jail for seven
months for a meme because that was a bridge too far. And what I
won't suffer is hypocrisy on that front. Either it's okay or it's not.
Okay, and you need to have a set set of standards why and if
you are representing somebody to have said something thing and you know it to be
false, because today I am mocked up not very well, I might add,
as Ross pointed out, if if if that's the case, and uh,
you do with full knowledge too, or you were making up quotes right
wholesale it you know what it is. It's the Sarah Palin thing. Again,
I can see Russia. She never said that. Tina Face said that.
She was talking about the fact that if you are standing in part of
Alaska you can see Russia. Not in Wasilla, but uh, you get
out in the Ileutian Island chains uh big big Diami, little dimy boom,
you're staring at Russia. Check it out on a map. Check but work.
And she was just talking about how they, you know, we share
it. She shares it, shares a border with Russia. Think about it.
It's the only it's the only US state that shares a border with a
country outside of our own hemisphere or our own yeah, our own hemisphere.
Like that's what she was talking about. But the other quote was much funnier,
and it was snl and it was the one that people used. And
so if you're going to ascribe things too candidates as having said them, where
is that line? And I don't necessarily I don't know. I tend to
have a pretty wide view on this stuff. But as soon as you start
throwing people in jail for memes, or going up and trying to get a
black forklift driver fired for a video and then docks him and have Facebook help
you dox him, and everything that's going on with the attack of the political
enemies, you see how mad everyone is that the Supreme Court is actually going
to hear the the Trump issue on whether whether he has the protection of the
office or doesn't have it when it comes to what they say was election interference,
trying to steal the election. I just if those are your standards,
then I don't know how you just say this is controversial. You should be
screaming bloody murder. It's also dumb. All right, I'll figure out on
the Mark Walker thing too. Let's do this, Let's hit our break,
We'll be back. CaCO Day Radio program CaCO Day Radio programs. We got
into a whole discussion. There's lots of different examples, but it's coming at
us faster than I think a lot of people thought it would, and it
will only get better. I know that's cliche to say, but it's true.
It's just, you know, it's just inherently how technology works. AI
generated content from even a year ago is clearly distinguishable side by side stuff generated
now, and not just with the Gemini stuff we're making fun of, but
I mean the actual Hey, let's let's put this person, especially the the
whole issue with the AI pornography, right, it's so convincing that people might
think that that Hollywood starlet or I've seen it done to political pundits, you
know, that may be an actual video. So when you get when it
when it starts entering into whether it is through the use of AI or just
through the expenditure of a crap ton of money, and it is being put
out there in an effort to aid or harm a candidate, even if the
candidate themselves didn't. And I'm making the air quotes because you know, the
whole packs can't qu coordinate with candidates. Thing if if if you don't think
that that's being done with you know, just a little bit of disconnect,
then you don't know nothing there's a reason that candidates will literally they'll film a
bunch of b roll stuff, right, So it's then with their family,
they're they're helping an old lady across the street. Oh look, I rescued
a cat. Whatever, And then they'll send it over there and there's a
clear narrative with a lot of this stuff, and then the packs will use
it to package ads on issues on behalf of candidates. Did they coordinate?
We'll let you be the judge on that. So I see this yesterday and
there's video, and yes, is does it look like it's well done?
No? That being said in it? Reportedly? Well, I got to
turn on there. Here we go. In it, you see the Mark
Walker in his video of something he did. He's sitting in his car right
because we're films videos now, and Frank, I remember what he was talking
about in the original video. But actually, hang on, I think he
was talking about Yeah, he was talking about the incident down in Georgia.
And so then what happens is this organization First Freedom's Foundation, So they're a
First Amendment pack I guess. And in it they run audio next to the
video and it makes it and it's made to sound like Walker's claiming to be
in over his head. He lies, ragging about lying to people, and
then he feels that one of his primary opponents will win because he is more
qualified. Now, look that was real audio you captured of a candidate going
ah, oh man, this is I don't know what I'm gonna do.
I you know, crazy is the guy I'm running against. He's much more
qualified. Like, if that was real, that's campaign ending stuff, right
that lets donors know you're not serious. That's and so I sit here and
I don't see it presented. I'm staring at the tweet from the organization where
the video was put out, and in it it's now deleted the tweet,
but I have a screenshot here. In the tweet, it says the truth
was revealed by a previous Walker supporter who got this voicemail that Walker is in
over his head and feels Christian Castelli will win because he is more qualified.
So the way that it's present and then hashtag truth matters. So the way
that it's presented is it's it's it's telling the person who who views it that
the audio isn't going to line up with that video, right, It's not
it's it's it's provides that dividing line. So any doubts you may have had
where you're sitting there and you're you're seeing the video go with the audio doesn't
line up. If you read the body of the post, it tells you
that this is a voicemail that a supporter got and then felt bad about I
guess, and then shared and and that's why they're running. So yeah,
an effort is being made to deflect from any visual problems. So I don't
know how you argue that that's parody or lampooning or quote controversial techniques. That's
from the w R a L headline and the Mark Robinson stuff, and I
don't I don't know that anyone want to be held accountable, but that's what
it. I'm not going to play it because again I gave you an accro
rendition of what it was, and it's out there. You want to go
hashtag and see poll, you'll find it. But I don't know. And
then I saw people accusing Mark of doing it to create controversy, so you
know, like forty chess stuff. So everyone's just out of their damn minds.
That's the only that's the only conclusion I can come to on this stuff.
But yeah, now that I now that I see the folks who are
most irritated about this and demanding jail time for me making all of a sudden
start referring to these things as controversial techniques? Is is re really rich to
me? All right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four
eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four Because you know, sometimes
people, I says, sometimes the stuff is clearly for entertainment. What was
the example we're talking about off the oh, the Alex Jones thing, right,
I don't think it's it injures or doesn't injure Alex Jones that somebody did
an AI of him reading Lord of the Rings right, Well, yeah,
especially when you sell it as, hey, this is AI of Elex Jones
doing Lord of the Rings right right. But even if you said it was
him, I don't know that it would change people's opinion on him, Do
you know what I'm saying? Because it's it's Alex Jones. Like the stuff
we have in the computer is amazing. Here is by the way, if
you haven't heard it, here is Alex Jones reading Lord of the Rings AI
style or an AI doing it Hi, Alex Jones. Here we find ourselves
in the Shires. A crossfaited Sam wise Gamgi has stumbled his way to bag
end. Sam takes a swan dive into a flower bed as a relax play,
but then discovers that the birthday boy Bilbo Baggins isn't alone. Gandalf,
the gray who hates globalists, is inside the Hobbit hole. Suddenly Gandalf notices
Sam in a huge way. When the Wizard accuses the young Hobbit of eavesdropping,
Sam, still sufficiently trashed from the party, replies, I ain't been
dropping no eves, sir, honest. Now let's just take a pause here.
Unrelated to the story, I can't stand these demon vampires running the country.
All right, good morning everybody. It is seven oh six here on
the Cacoday radio program. Yeah, test to see if it's AI. It's
like Mark Walker's calling the show right now. His ears were his ears were
buzzing or tingling or whatever that's saying is ross? Did do we know if
that's AI or is it Mark? Do we have ask it to create an
image of a white family and if he refuses, hang up on him.
Okay, because it's Google Gemini. All right, no, anyway, all
right, I'm just talking about this Mark, how you doing this morning?
If it is you, what's up? Well? I was going to tell
you'se a deep sake voice, but it kind of sounds a little bit like
me on anyway, So I don't know how that would translate on radio without
the video. We're doing great, hope you and Ross are doing wonderful.
Uh yeah, but you know, also people are making we're are I don't
know. We don't know if it's AI generated or somebody who's doing a bad
impersonation of you. But what is clear to me is that if you read
the body of the tweet, it is clearly one presented in a way that
it is you. But also it provides cover for anyone who would notice that
your lips don't jive with the voice, because you would say, oh,
well that's a voicemailer plane And they're just using a picture of Mark's video to
remind me what he looks like. How's that working out for you? The
hell's going on? Yeah? Well, you know this started a couple of
months ago. The first ones were a little bit more middle school, if
you will, they had pictures and videos of Jim and Tammy say Baker,
and they would have my wife and myself, you know, where it was
actually Jim and Tammy Fay talking about the infidelity, but would have our names
underneath it. And I did reach out to the opponent that said, look,
as an opponent, I'm fair game. Do what you got to do,
but it's usually taboo to bring the wife or family into these kinds of
things. So that kind of went away, and then it started building back
up, and then a couple of days ago was what kind of shocked us.
All. There's two of them. There's one that you're referencing, and
then there's another one where they put the caption over my lips where it looks
a little bit more authentic, I guess if you will. But it's a
different day. It's a different day that you're seeing now people doing these kinds
of things. Well, and you know, the web or the account to
put it up is identified as a first was the first Amendment pack. So
I mean candidates can't coordinate with packs, right, they cannot? That is
that is against yes, So I'm assuming your opponent said I had nothing to
do with this, and well, the question is if they didn't have anything
to do with it and it's not provable, I mean, the question becomes
is is how closely do you think candidates do coordinate? And I gave an
example earlier of like the b roll stuff. Because it's not your first rodeo.
You served in Congress for what three terms? Right, you said you've
been surrounded by the swamp? Does it happen? Does it not happen?
And if it is, how does it happen? Okay, well you give
us a little behind the scenes here. Okay, So you have for for
federal campaigns and campaigns that are on national level, sometimes maybe state, but
on the federal level, where you're talking about a great deal of money,
sometimes millions of dollars, sometimes tens of millions of dollars. There's what they
call a firewall between that's supposed to be built between the campaign and whatever pack
might be supporting. You could be multiple packs. There's not to be any
coordination for exactly. The candidate cannot call and say, look, I saw
this direct mail piece that you put out on me, could you say it
this way? Or how much are you spending on this? That's illegal?
Sometimes from what I understand, and guys have talked to I think there's a
little bit of layover there as far as helping the guide exactly how that money
might be spent, whether it's attacking opponent or whether it's a piece that's promoting
your campaign or your background or your record. It does happened a lot.
I think where the investigation is now, I think they're really looking into this
for the first time. Two names have surface that have contributed to this one
opponent's campaign that are actually connected with it. So it kind of makes you
wonder, is there more to the story here without having the full evidence yet,
we're kind of remaining its focused on where we need to be, which
is winning this seat and going in and fighting to secure the border, which
is the number one thing in the country right now. That's so so this
was designed to be a distraction. We're gonna We're gonna let the stories and
the legal and the people that explore the legal options that are necessary. We're
gonna try to stay focused on what we're doing here in central North Carolina.
The example that I gave earlier was let's say that you wanted ads, you
wanted packs to run ads about the border you mentioned the border, let's just
go with the border. And if your campaign went and shot a bunch of
b roll of you walking along the border, shaking hands with border patrol guards,
you know all of that, and then you send that out right,
here's stuff you can use or make available on your website, as candidates do,
and then the packs pick it up because you know, wink wink,
nod, nod, that's where I time to see this stuff, because I
see the b roll stuff that people post, and then all of a sudden,
it's a commercial for a pack friendly to a candidate, and that in
and of itself sounds like it's definitely not within the spirit of what was hoping
to be prevented, not within the spirit, but that's exactly what they do
to be able to. The campaign puts out something and then the pack simply
says, well, we didn't we didn't coordinate with him. This was in
the public domain, so we just grabbed it from there. But the average
person or maybe even the train die when you see that, it does not
register on you that this is coming from a pack. That's why it's very
small print. You actually think this is the campaign sending it out, which
is what the what the pack is trying to make it look like at the
end of the day. Okay, what if you say that they're investigating this.
I was given some other examples with the Mark Rottenson thing. Are you
familiar with the Mark Robinson parody? I have not seen that, Okay,
but it's got billboards and a really nice website, and in it they're attributing
quotes of Marx, generally out of conduct or out of context, but quotes.
And then there's other quotes that attributed to him that are not quotes of
his and it's under their saying, it's under the spirit of lampooning. And
I'm reminded of the Sarah Pale and Tina Fey thing with I can see Russia,
Yes, and it's a powerful tool. And I see the very same
media that applauded when a dude got seven months in prison for sending a meme
out, referring to it as controversial techniques. So like, even in the
evaluation of this, and so my question to you as a candidate, should
people be able to lampoon you? And where is the line on that the
truth? The truth is yes, yes, they should be able to lampoon
candidates, members of Congress, elected officials. I know that made the brides
people. I think that's part of your first the first Amendment, because your
your freedom is spach. It's always been look at some of the lampooning,
if you will, in the early cartoons or or founding Fathers and some of
the things back then, that was just part of it. I think it
crosses the line with a technology where you think you're watching a candidate actually say
these words. I think it's in the law in this AI is early on,
but they've already addressed it some that's where you have some legal issues and
it crosses the line. And I think that's the difference. But as far
as being fair game, man, when you sign up for this, you
better put your big pants on because this is part of it and it should
be. That's one of the ways that people can hold their elected officials accountable.
Yeah, but it's only going to get worse, right, So even
if that was somebody who it wasn't a computer generated voice. It was just
somebody doing an impression right of you or any candidate for that matter. Eventually,
and we're actually here now, I mean, we're to the point where
if I wanted to, if I wanted to make you say something, and
and I had access to AI to do it, it wouldn't be that hard.
You don't have to be a graphic designer, so you could, I
guess you could argue that the laws they're currently in place, it's about enforcement,
right, That's really like, that's that's how it breaks down on so
many issues in society. You don't think there needs to be more laws,
is what I'm asking. No, no, no, no, I don't
think so. I enforce what we have. There's some very clear, strong
language I think it came out in twenty twenty dealing with these kinds of things
that if you do this then then that's it's a federal violation of the law.
Yeah, I don't I'm not advocating for any additional law. I'm not
whining about it. It is what it is. We're going to share,
as we have on our social media, exactly what some of these packs are
trying to do. In fact, they spent over one point one I think
one now closing in a one point one and a half million dollars just attacking
that's right here in the triad, which you know that's a design that you're
that you're not wanted by these DC superpacks that should be part of the process.
And so we're we're we're holding her on and but yeah, as far
as additional lulls, no, let's let's let's fight this thing out. Let's
keep moving, Okay, and thank you for calling this morning, because now
Ross can cut up all your voice stuff. And wait till you hear what
you're gonna say later, Mark, it'll be crazy. Well we're still saying
it. We're still checking to see if his name surfaces, because I know
where he is on this AI step and I think he's pretty in depth on
it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, Oh
thanks thanks for calling in on this, Mark, appreciate him. All right,
kaye bye bye? All right, there you go. Uh so,
yeah, everything's just h we got day, we got, you know,
a week to go primary and then the whole general. Yeah, buckle in
kids seven sixteen to hang on. And in the few short minutes there of
our break, I think I solved these you know, I try to be
a problem solver. It's what we do here on the show. I think
rather than campaigns, uh naked me fights for office, but not both of
them. One skin's one shirts. They can flip a coin or something,
and then we just solve all our problems, because holy crap, did you
see this? Where's the police? You defunded him? Still, this is
what you do with our hero Vernus boor Walls, right. Yeah, Although
admittedly that's a little different than some of the videos I've seen from what Venice
Beach has turned into. In the video, you see what do you think
naked shit goes one hundred pounds? Maybe I can't. She's she's much shorter
than her opponent, very very skinny. I'd like to know what her diet
is, although I can guess, and it's you know, methy. So
anyway, she is stark naked and another woman who is easily twice her size.
The video shows them in where the battle has begun, and what's crazy
is the woman with clothes on. It appears that she has like an old
mace in her hand, which is I don't Maybe that's preferred because of how
California is falcon sealk carry. Maybe people have to get maces. I don't
know. But what's even crazier, like a moment later then they both have
maces and even though you think there's no way crazy naked chick is winning this
thing. All of a sudden, the tables get turned and now she's dual
wielding the maces. Because it looks like the other one, I just throws
the thing at her, and again, I don't know if they're maces or
a stick with barbed wire on the end. It's hard to tell. But
didn't see that coming. And a reminder at discount the the super almost superhuman
power of crazy, because boy, the tables turned real quick on that one.
But you know that'd be far more entertaining than all all this campaign stuff
that that we that we talk about. Well, the videos blurred so and
some of you might, I guess maybe that makes you disappointed, but you
gotta watch it. And so tweet that out at Casey on on the radio,
on the on the Twitter there, Ross, are you like me?
You thought there's no way the naked chicks winning when he first started that because
she looked down. She looked down for the count. Man. Yeah,
I didn't have her winning that dual wheel twenty pounds? Man, what's that?
She's like twenty pounds? Yeah, that's what I'm saying, Like she's
one hundred pounds. I'd be surp. I did not see that outcome.
But it's California, man, and they, you know, the Florida of
the West, for stuff like this arguably their own fault. So there it
was yesterday at the lake. I was just relax and I know, I
was trying to, you know, relax a little bit and decompress. And
you will not believe what came out of the lake. A medieval mace.
Oh my gosh. Yeah. I posted the comment on your uh yeah,
yeah, on your tweet yesterday on the Twitter. So there it is in
the grass. Yeah, that's weird because that's like you found, like you
had three when you get three swords already and now a mace. Right,
And some people are saying is because I'm the chosen one and I listened it
was windy, so you never know what's going to come out of the lake.
Yeah, that's not really how that works. But I mean sometimes it
is dangerous. Got ice on lake, so that can get thrown on the
shore. And then there's this I can't remember that the term is, but
when the water temperature literally turns over in lakes. You see it more up
in the north when they where they freeze. But I've never seen metallic objects
rise. It's usually just you know, weeds and stuff. So good for
you, man. I did see one comment on it where they were trying
to like, is that the Germanic mace? Or it's too small? So
uh do you know? Uh? Y, I looked at a lake mace.
Oh it's an enchanted lake mace. All right, Well, what are
you gonna do? Is h what's it imbued with? Is it fire?
Supreme supreme executive power? Oh that's okay. That's not a class in the
Diablo game, but apparently it is in real life. But yeah, I
go see all that insanity. We have it for you at Casey on the
Radio Aco DA radio program. Remember the Wendy's story, we talked about where
the CEO of Wendy's, he's on a call with investors, and he was
talking about new digital boards that would allow essentially price adjustments during peak times,
right surge pricing as most people refer to it. And I'm mincing words a
little because wait to hear their update. And we talked about it, and
all of the internet did and everybody, even Jeff gave us some flavor from
other radio stations he does business reports on, and it was not being well
received there either. Even though a lot of industries use surge pricing ride sharing
services, hotels, airlines, tickets, well, that's not what they meant,
according to Wendy's No. In fact, they said, first off,
they didn't say surge pricing, and that's I guess technically true. They referred
to it as dynamic pricing, but then went on to use an example that
is surge pricing. Whether you call it dynamic pricing, it doesn't matter,
it's what happens. Then the example that was used by the CEO to this,
here we go to highlight how the experiment would work. Tanner that's his
last name, suggested the price of an item could go up by as much
as a dollar during peak lunch and dinner hours and have the increase reflected in
the digital menus the company will use to constantly update the exact cost. That
is literally what was explained to investors. So whether they call it serge or
dynamic is fine. But then they're like, nah, we didn't mean that.
What we meant is it will allow us to let's see here, here
we go. The clarification issue from Wendy said One, they never used the
term surge pricing. Two they say the new menu boards will make price changes
on the fly possible, and that they only ever plan to use this feature
for deals or discounts. So if on you know, tomorrow's the first day
of March, right, so if they have a if Wendy's going to do
a special where they're you know, their number one is a dollar off for
the month of March or whatever, you know, whatever the special is,
rather than an employee having to go and I guess make the changes. We're
using the little letters or what you know, the little slide things they have
for their menu boards. Uh, it could just float. Somebody just push
a button at each Q and all the Wendy's menus will update. And he
says that because he thinks we're stupid. The fact is you put it out
there man. In the same way, remember BMW floated the subscription model for
things like heated seats, and with the you know, the way that was
going to work was BMW was they rather than not. You know, if
you go to buy a new BMW and you opt for the trim package that
has the heated seats, then your car would be built out with it,
and if you didn't, then they wouldn't put it on there and you wouldn't
have to pay for whatever that cost is. BMW said what they wanted to
do is they basically wanted to include these features, these premium options features,
so heated or cooled seats, they have a cruise control, proprietary cruise control
on BMW's a couple other things. And if at any point the consumer who
owned the car, or perhaps the person who bought the car next time,
wanted to turn them on, they could pay a monthly subscription price and that
went over like a lead balloon. So you know, don't act like you
didn't put it out there, dude, because the example that you used was
not a deal. It was you saying, if we wanted an item to
be as much as one dollar up during peak lunch or dinner hours, then
we could constantly update the exact cost. You're just reacting to the fact that
people went this sucks, and look who didn't tell you it sucks. This
is a room full of investors because they're probably thinking this will make us more
money, right, so that's I understand their motivation, but own it.
That's all you know, that's all I want, just own it. But
again now they're saying, now, no, no, it wasn't that,
it was this other thing, and it just allows us to implement deals faster.
So if you're buying that, fine, But that is the official clarification
from Wendy's on on that story that we did. All right, eight eight
eight nine three four seven eight seven four. We'll be chatting with Steven Kent
coming up here at eight oh five. We got a lot of stuff to
get into with him. But I do want to touch on the Miami Heralds
who did no research. And when I say no research, I don't mean
they didn't check in with like other parts of the country. I mean like
they obviously they they don't even have a clear view on what happens within their
own state. They just let the wope take over man and so they wrote
that possibly the dumbest op ed you could, you could muster out of Miami,
because of course, they wanted to make it a big racial issue rather
than recognizing how spring break is handled not just in South Beach, not just
whatever has them butt hurt, but literally the other communities, including those in
Florida. Redneck Riviera looking at you, which already do the things that the
city of Miami, Miami Beach, I should say, is plan on doing.
But if you, you know, if you can turn it into a
really divisive issue, then by by all means, go with that absolutely.
And speaking of the woke stuff, interesting little something from Duke's medical school and
some videos that I previously it looks like they were quite proud of, which
have now been memory hold. And this was part of a larger thread and
and a series of stories that was done by Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro,
and it it went, they went out and they didn't have to look very
hard because again this stuff was literally posted on their websites. In many instances,
are decisions medical decisions being made based on what is best for the patient
or are they being made for other reasons? And if they are being made
for other reasons, what are they and what impact will that have on patient
care? Those are legitimate? Those are I think those are legitimate questions,
especially when you have people on the record, and we'll play some audio coming
up here in the next segment. You have people on the record explaining why
they're making certain choices. And it was Duke Duke. And then Wake Forest.
You had the student at wake Forest who joked, they said they were
joking about missing a vein intentionally or accidentally air quotes because they became irritated with
the politics of a particular patient. So you're talking about, you know,
jabbing a needle into somebody and doing it. And I look, I notoriously
when I've had to get ivs or things, I've they've had to in some
cases if they couldn't find the vein and I and if the deep veins or
whatever you want to call it, I've literally had to have them go in
on the top of the hand with something called like a butterfly or whatever.
I do not recommend them at all, ever, ever, ever, So
I don't necessarily I'm not necessarily bothered by needles, but it sucks. And
so that was a That was just one example. That's the wake Forest one.
Wait till you hear the Duke one. But first we're gonna hear from
raced Agent with the Weather Channel. He tries to dig himself out of whatever
this is this morning. Yeah, well it's big changes. Looking at a
couple of things in terms of numbers. Temperature drops in twenty four hours,
like twenty five to thirty degrees and twenty four hours ago, so we all
knew what was coming. We're just kind of like shocked when it finally gets
here. Low mid thirties for most of us this morning. There are some
forty degree tempts in around the triangle right now at the airport's thirty seven forty
down and done down near Hartnett County Airport, mid corn of the west.
And the bottom line is it's not gonna stick around. This has been really
what's been happening all winter. We get these little cold shots, they stick
around briefly, then they go away. So as we go through today,
some clouds. I'm a little disappointed in the sunshine fourcass. I thought there'd
be more sun. There will be, but it won't be as much as
I was thinking yesterday. Well a loa to mid fifties should do it.
Yeah, I know, So it won't be bright and sunny. The good
news is there's not much wind left. We've got a little rain tomorrow,
but I think it's going to be later in the day, mid to late
afternoon from west to east and an east breeze. It's going to keep us
in the low fifties, and then that rain should end by about midday Saturday,
better afternoon, milder. We're quickly back to the low to mid sixties
and near seventy by Sunday and some low seventies early next week. So not
back casey though again a lot of times when you get these strong cold fronts
coming in, you know this winter, basically what's happening is happening again,
sticks around a couple of days, and it goes away. And that's basically
what's happening. And we'll be back to some better weather but little rain to
end our week later tomorrow. But I think seventy five percent of tomorrow is
probably dry and most of the weekend is dry and much milder. All Right,
Can I and I switch gears just real quick? Something much more impactful
in our lives? Yep? Did you see the crazy mace fight with the
two ladies, one of them naked out in California? I did not see
that. It's on the Twitter. You should see it. Oh yeah,
I don't want to spoil it for you, but there's a big there's a
Shamalan and twist in that thing. Man, you think it's going one way,
and then it goes the other and the one on our Twitter's blurred,
so they all right, let us know what you think. So all right,
thanks man. Okay, there you go very stage at Cough to brighten
his day, and I would encourage you all to do the same because it
is hi hilarious and thankfully happening all the way over there. So you got
that, Okay, all right? So these videos would these videos, what
did they hold? Why are they gone? And do you feel what we're
about to hear is in the best interest of the patients. We'll let you
be the judge. Coming up next. Hang on, Haitlyn Clark's stuff,
just because the way that I see her being analyzed by people that clearly looks
to be racial. Racial, okay, lot racial. And so I was
I was here for it yesterday. So Clark sheep, she set another record
yesterday, had some like disgustingly gigantic victory. How much they dominate one eight
to sixty, kick the crap out of Minnesota. She had a triple double?
What was the what was the actual record? She sent? So I'll
be interested to watch the ESPN analysis today. Okay, So that was enough
to put her the all time, all time leading scorer in the history of
major women's college basketball, and that includes both iterations of it. So yeah,
how many points thirty six hundred and fifty, which is just stupid when
you consider it has to be accomplished over a certain number of years, right,
because it's not like the pros. You got eligibility, as much eligibility
as you got, that's when you got to do it. So yeah,
I did find that amusing. Speaking of colleges and stuff, in this case,
I don't find amusing. Let me flip back to this. Souke Medical
School had some videos that literally they posted in it. In the videos which
have now disappeared somehow following the Ben Shapiro reporting. You see one of the
doctors raman, I'm pronouncing that correctly talking about DEEI, you know, diversity,
equity and inclusion, not equality, and how that comports with the decisions
that they're making over at Duke. And some would say it wasn't a good
look. Let's get into it. You know. The thing is we are
in the south, right, and unlike a lot of the like hospitals in
the northeast and the west, we serve a very southern population. This is
not a VIP hospital. People are not like flying in from Qatar to get
treated here. We treat patients who are just from the community in the South.
And yes, my heart sings every time I go into a room and
I watch them watching Fox News, or they have a manga hat on,
or they're wearing a Confederate belt. Right, these are the patients that we
treat. But Geraldine, I will say that the one very good thing about
the South that I enjoy is exactly what I alluded to earlier, is that
we don't treat VIPs. We treat people from our community. And our community,
as all we explained, is majority non white, and it is wonderful
to treat such a diverse group of people in every regard. And that's not
an experience that I had in my sabbis and other places. All that my
friends have training in other programs. Okay, and I'm just softening up for
the other cut. But so that gives you, I guess, a little
flavor of kind of the mindset of this physician. It sounds some people think
that it makes it sounds as though it's a little derogatory about folks in North
Carolina or folks in the South, as he keeps saying, I'll let you
be the judge of that. But is this mindset perhaps impacting in how medicine
is delivered? That's really I think we're most of the concern lies. Let's
continue with this Ushian video twenty twenty and George Floyd and those events happened and
sort of collectively galvanize the consciousness of Duke University and suddenly our department to try
to do something and recognizing this like centuries long history of racism and slavery in
which Duke University essentially was founded on which it was founded, and that's when
we sort of had to confront the history of institution, the history of our
department, the walls of white men that are draped across our hallways. And
that's when we started to start to think that maybe something should change something.
All right, And okay, all right, so you're talking about you're talking
about an era that obviously predates probably this doctor being alive and certainly me.
But that's not the experience. Ross. Do you ever go to Duke Medical
for anything near used to do? I've been to Duke on a couple of
different Asians for things. Uh, my primary was there for a while.
It wasn't all just white dudes in there. So like this guy is sitting
there that obviously currently wasn't the state just before George Floyd, and he's kind
of applying that it was and it wasn't. Uh, there are there are
lots. There are a lot of doctors who this guy appears that his heritage
appears to be an Indian. I would place it. And uh there what
one of the the doctor, the the dermatologist doctor is he's from India that
I go to. So but and I like him because he has he doesn't
want to mince words, joke nothing. He says, boom, let's get
to it. And I like that because I don't want to be there and
right doesn't want to be staring at you know, me with a shirt off.
The weather going to be turning around. A little race stagic coming up
later in the hour. He'll fill you in on that, but first we
got we got to talk about all the Hollywood and adjacent insanity. And to
do that we welcome in Steven kent Are. I don't want to call you
NERD correspondent, but it's kind of stuck, sir, so you just know
what NERD correspondent is. Just fine. My dad's been calling me that since
I was five. Okay, all right, cool, cool, they're on
the same page as the Nerd Correspondent tell me about the unknown. I'm very
curious about this new Willy Wonka character because I didn't see that. Kevin Dude,
how great is Twitter right now? On that story. I spent most
of last night trying to explain this Willy Wonka Glasgow story to both my wife
and my daughter and explained just why it was so funny, and I basically
just landed on, you know, let's make candy like a Mets lab and
in the middle of Scotland and try to get it to the kids enjoyed.
Well, there's so many elements. So like, that's a reference to that
beaker set in front of the umpa the umpah, the one who looks like
she wants to like they should put a jump net behind that woman's station because
she looks miserable to be there. But the backstory is like she thought the
way Ross was explaining it to me because I didn't see I didn't see that
other post. But he's like she was told basically she was going to have
like a Scrooge McDuck vault full of candy, right, they kind of get
swim around in and and just be able to give it to kids, which
if you like kids, that's a pretty good gig, right, And it
was clearly that clearly wasn't happening. And then you find out it's because the
kids are over being absolutely terrified by a combination of I guess the Willy Wonka
actor. In fact, here we got some audio of this. So the
first red flight for me was when I was cast as Willy Wonka. Anyone
who looks at me and thinks Willy Wonka and not umpa Lumpa is out of
their mind. I give off major rump a lumper energy. I got cast
as the part on the Thursday, was told that I needed to lend the
script for the Friday, all right, and they posit here. And this
is where this goes downhill, because way do you hear how this script emerge
that involved this character playing Willy Wonka, who is a character that people are
familiar with, and then the killer from Scream shows up from behind a mirror
or something. How did we get here? This is the answer to that
that problems, send it over. The script was fifteen pages monologue, pretty
much of AI generated gibberish. One of my favorite lines was there is a
man who lives here. His name is not known, so we call him
the Unknown. The Unknown is an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls.
All right, it's I haven't been I you know what? You gave
me flashbacks too. Do you remember the the update to OZ what was it
back to OZ or whatever? Yeah, with the roller skate dudes, I
remember that was that was nightmare fuel for for kids, my era of kids.
I mean, this is this is still just like the Unknown, this
blacked blacked out creatures like a lost member of the band slip knot trying to
be in an Oopa Lupa territory. Pretty frightening. I watched that video.
I would not go to that show. No No, No, and the
kid You can hear the kids literally start to cry when when the character because
they're kids and they just now, all of a sudden there's a demon appearing
Baba Duke, and and they were what were they charge of their charge for
forty five bucks to get in there? I mean, what doll like fire
festival all over again. No, Like, at least Fire Festival was in
a funday destination, right, you know you're in the Caribbean, you got
that. I mean, yeah, there's packs of wild dogs and people are
tweeting how do I make a spear? And that sucks, but you know,
at least at least it's sunny and nice. You're just in this gloomy
gym and you don't want to take your kids for a day out inside a
dank warehouse. No, no, I I well, actually it's actually it
is a concert venue. I looked up the actual venue because it does it
just looks like it looks like an airplane hangar or something. But it's like
it's where the hold concerts and stuff in Glasgow there. So it's just dude,
it's It's provided some of the funniest entertainment that I've seen on Twitter,
and quite sometimes we need to laugh, we need to laugh. Well,
I think Ross Ross was on Twitter coming out. He was he's realized you
can make a bunch of cash. You don't have to do anything with a
star trek wrestling, combo things. So we'll see how that pans out here
on us soil. But I do have to will buy the first ticket.
Well yeah, and then you'll also be the first person to testify at the
fraud trials. Have that going for you? All right? Let me slip
over to just a couple other things here. I see this as moonbat on
moonbat violence. We use the term moon bat around here, but leftists on
leftist violence. So I'm fine with it. But Disney Plus is Star Wars
spinoff called The Bad I haven't watched The Bad Batch, right, so I
don't know if I don't know if it's good or not. I guess maybe
you can fill me in there. However, one of the composers who contributed
to the show in the credits was dead named right using the old pre transition
name, and people lost their crap over this, and x account highlighted it.
It goes viral. Now the social justice guys are screaming at Disney,
and it's like, you know what, this is the audience Disney clearly wants,
or at the very least many other content creators clearly want. Right,
So this is what you get? Am I is that too cynical? You
do get what you deserve. Now, I'll give you a little bit of
backstory. A The Bad Batch animated series that takes place right after Star Wars
episode three, so it's the very beginning of the Rise of the Empire.
It's a fine show. It's completely forgettable, but it is not bad.
And the score is done by the Kiner family. So these are three composers,
Kevin Kiner, Sean Kiner and the son Dean Kiner. All three of
them do Star Wars scores together. They did the Ahsoka show, They've done
parts of Star Wars, the Clone Wars, and now they did the Bad
Batch together. Now Dean Kiner is now Deanna Kiner as you transgender and is
now identifying as a woman, and so the credits here. Still it's really
remarkable that they did this because it had to have been a clerical error marked
Deanna Kiner down as Dean Kiner, and so Daughters of Ferrix and some lefties
on Twitter have completely lost their minds and taken upon themselves to be aggrieved by
this, which you know, I just kind of find kind of bizarre because
you would think that Deanna Kiner and the Kiner family would pretty much just handle
this themselves, and they probably were going to without the daughter Sepherics or whatever
they are basically claiming the scalp of Jennifer Corbett, who heads the show,
as a victory. But yeah, but is it okay that I go good?
Right? And because it makes me feel a little bad? And you're
right, this doesn't seem to be elevated by Kiner. It's obviously people on
the periphery. That being said, details, especially when talking about Star Wars
stuff, you know, people will fight over minute details for well they still
do you know the who shot first? Thing? Right? This is it's
not going to escape scrutiny, even if it is a clerical error. So
I'm not a prize that it got as beloved. Now, that's right.
You build the audience that you deserve, and Disney has gotten themselves an audience
that just completely hounds them and drags their production crews over the coals anytime they
make any kind of error as far as leftists are concerned on Twitter, and
the biggest mistake that they make is they continue to talk back to them.
What they need to understand at some point is that you don't work for these
people, the activists on Twitter. So you know, Jennifer Corbett, who
heads up the Bad Batch, did respond as well as the Disney Help Disney
Plus helpline, which is just kind of bizarre. But Jennifer Corba mentioned that
it was a clerical error and they're going to fix it. And I'm guessing
now she's going to start asking for forgiveness before they call for her ousting from
Disney altogether. Do you think Disney would No, I don't think so.
I think somebody just made a mistake somewhere in the production lines. But you
know, the thing about the far left fans of Star Wars who live on
Twitter and harass the staff and crew all day is that at some point they
always tend to listen to these people just so that they can make them go
away. But I've got a tip for Disney, which is the mute button.
I've been using it generously this morning on this very subject. Yeah.
No, it's a big fan of that. In fact, I've been doing
a lot of it because I'm i am I'm at my wits end on people
dumping content into the threads of another unrelated post just because it's high profile,
right, So it's like it'll be some here's a news story and then there's
you know, it's it's engagement farming and it's annoyed and I just I've I've
turned into the old man on Twitter where I just start I just block it
or mute these accounts. Now I'm just done with it. You saw,
let's do this. I want to hit a break. Did you? Did
you see the thread last week? We didn't get into it on what Musk
and other like these changes, these bigger changes they want to make on Twitter
too. No, I haven't. Okay, well, you know I'm gonna
have to find that. I'll give you an example of a couple of them.
But you know what, maybe actually let me do this because it's pretty
lengthy and I don't know that I could get you up to speed on this,
and I want to have that conversation. We might do that next week
because that's when they're going to start rolling some of them out, they said,
as we get into the next month. But I do have something else
I want to chat with you about. So we are with Stephen Kent.
Will take a break, be right back, hang on continuing our conversation with
Stephen Kent for all things entertainment, the intersection of entertainment and politics. That
seems to be where we lie. Although I was laughing during the break as
something you tweeted out about a half hour ago. Steven, you're exactly right
on the Mitch McConnell's sub headline. They've been sitting on that thing forever.
Get out of the way. Yeah. Yeah, I'm disappointed to to learn
that he's actually not stepping down till November. I got too excited about the
headlines of Mitch mcconnald's departure, and now I saw the fine print of November
and kind of like Joe Biden, I'm like, wait, this guy is
gonna make it that long. I don't think so, you know, and
there is going there is a significant amount of upheaval and change coming the way
of Republicans, both elected as well as the party apparatus, obviously with McDaniel
and I guess you have what two or three resignations coming up within the RNC
and Mitch McConnell, and I guess we will see what emerges there and whether
we find it more palatable. You know, we saw it with the Speaker
of the House, the McCarthy thing, and I guess I would ask many
of the people who really wanted him out, do you feel like it's going
better? With the new guy. And I don't know the answer to that,
especially when it comes to things like that whole funding debacle that had border
stuff and they didn't have border stuff, So I don't that's what do you
what do you think? Do you think you think there's a little buyer beware
on on these force changes? Do you think it's a good thing? Well,
what I am certain of is that whoever places Mitch McConnell will probably be
named John John something will be the news speaker of the House. That's a
pretty good bet. John Cornyn SENA yeah, yeah, Senate Minority or majority
leader. Thank you. That's the only thing we can be sure of.
Okay, all right, well I guess I'm not in that lottery, so
I'll move on. I saw this yesterday. I like both the both the
actors so and it's always interesting to think this out Alan rich And and if
you guys out there don't know, he is the new Jack Reacher and arguably
the much better Jack Reacher. I have enjoyed the series there. However,
he was doing an interview with Men's Health and and at one time he was
up to play four in the MCU, which he said he didn't take it
seriously. He was told it was his to lose, but he didn't.
He just and I guess maybe if you think about the time frame in which
you're trying to evaluate, hey, is this going to be a big deal,
you really only have iron Man to go on and him not getting it.
Eventually the park goes to Chris Hemsworth, and I again, I like
both actors, but I don't know that Thor could be Thor with Alan or
Richan and any better than Helmsworth was. Yeah, No, I don't think
so. I was actually watching these audition tapes from the early MCU the other
day when I saw this article go up, and it's just always interesting with
actors who they think that they are cut out to play when they go into
an audition, and then who they actually up being cast as. Because Tom
Hitdleston, who ended up playing Loki, he was trying out for four and
it's it's impossible to imagine a guy is kind of wiry and snake looking as
Tom Hiddleston, who's perfect for a deceptive villain like Loki being in the armor
of Thor. And Chris Hemsworth, I mean, I don't know. I
guess his audition, like, he didn't take it seriously either. It was
a goofball audition, but goofball, tall, dashing, strong, That is
kind of what Thor is all about. But you know, then you've got
people like Chris Pratt, who ended up playing star Lord in Guardians of the
Galaxy, and he's coming off of, you know, being type cast as
the guy in the office, and for him to try to break out of
that rut and get his career restarted as an action hero, that must have
been the most intimidating audition you could possibly imagine, because nobody took Chris Pratt
seriously. He was still working on parts or Parks and Records, but he
was still working on that, and he said, I'm the chubby, funny
guy, and he was talking about how he had to literally transition from a
health standpoint to do it. So obviously he did take that very seriously.
And again, these are characters you can't imagine other people playing. As much
as I like Richen and Jack Reacher, I don't think he could have pulled
off Dad Bod Thor and you know, that whole series of events because that's
all about really comedy at that point. Yeah, I think that's where the
fat suit comes in handy for the people who are not going to be like
lifestyle career actors. And I do like Richen, but I just don't see
him in that kind of way. That guy takes fitness way too seriously.
But you know, it does remind me of like how you know, when
you get a role, it completely changes your life. And I think about
Star Wars often and all the people who auditioned in the early aughts of Star
Wars, like Kurt Russell, who was going, you know, in the
to be Han solo, as well as Burt Reynolds, like these are people
whose lives would have been completely upended and changed. Their legacy is completely different
if they had gotten those roles. Phone number eight eight eight ninety three four
seven eight seven four. All right, we're gonna get a little rapid fire
here. You probably have seen in Illinois a judge, a Cook County,
so Chicago judge who yesterday just decided that Trump can't be on the ballot.
And in Illinois they actually this actually had been a challenge previously, right,
they were one of the states take this up, and the Illinois State Board
of Elections actually rendered a ruling on it already saying that no, you can't
keep them off the ballot. So activists went out and they found this judge
who ruled that you can. And what is this idiot's name, Tracy Porter.
Now what becomes fascinating is when you figure out what kind of judge she
is. Porter who presides over minor traffic violations and class A misdemeanor matters.
So she is an at large judge who handles traffic violations and class A misdemeanor
matters. So you know you're talking about like, actually, I don't know
in Illinois specifically what falls in there, but it's low level stuff like disturbing
the peace, things like that. That is who apparently has decided that she
is in a position to rule whether a federal candidate can be on the ballot
there. And of course this is what judge shopping looks like. I don't
know that I've had to see them go this deep on the bench before,
but hey, they found one, and so quickly you'll quickly get overturned,
obviously, but and there will be no penalty for it when it couldn't appear
more political if you tried. So, yeah, I just wanted you to
know that little nugget of background, because it gave me both a horrible feeling
inside but also did chuckle just a little. All right, we got lots
of stuff up on the Twitter. I mean, I encourage you to see.
We got the crazy California mace fight. That's a thing. We got
an only fans. She's also a mom. She's his only fans, but
also as a mom to a ten year old. She's really upset because she
had to stop only fans ying is what we'll call that, and had to
go pick her kid up from school because he's projectile vomiting all over the place
multiple times, and she's losing her mind over that. So you can watch
that insanity and feel better about your parenting. And this. So yesterday there
this clip which is about a thirty second clip of somebody who is who's obviously
a cyber expert, who is detailing as part of a criminal proceeding, you
know, is what he found, right, So he's he's he's the computer
nerd that they have dig through. And then they take the stand to say,
yes, we were able to pull this ip or see these things,
or that here's the digital footprint, and and and so it's it's really it's
usually not the most exciting part of the case, but it got really interesting.
And I saw people saying that it was from the continuation of the Fanny
Willis hearing, but it's not. It actually is part of the hearing going
on with the armor, the the the the Hollywood woman who provides firearms for
movie sets, and specifically rust the alet where Alec Baldwin shot and killed the
uh one of the workers there, and so it's part of that trial.
However, it's not something I've ever heard in court. Listen to this.
What's the owner name of this film? The name that would appear, say
a Bluetooth device is found online, which is gorilla grip. Well, okay,
Hentelly kind of doesn't want to say it, but he's got to,
and we had to bleep it. But it's gorilla grip. And then we
had to bleep a word. And it's a word that you could use in
more colloquial manner to describe a certain part of a woman. And I heard
that yesterday and I got I gotta be honest. As I get older,
I feel more and more immature that the if you so, I got an
iPhone and I have an iPad, and obviously there's interconnectivity. I can hotspot
all of that, but the devices have individual names, and so if you're
in public and let's say you were trying to connect a Bluetooth of device,
you can see a lot of the other Bluetooth stuff around you, right,
Or if you're looking for Wi Fi networks, if I haven't hot spotted,
you could see the name of the network. And I've always found it very
amusing on my phone, and it's been this way since I think I got
my first iPhone that could do this. It's always been Uncle Touchy's puzzle basement.
And every now and then, if I'm in a public setting and I'm
hot spotting over the laptop or something, and you can see somebody connecting and
kind of giving a quizzical look, and I have to wonder if they see
that. That being said, I feel a lot better now because this also
is supposed to be a grown adult. Oh and my iPad is Hunter Biden's
laptop. So if you're ever in public, can you see those around I
may be nearby, is what I'm saying. But uh, yeah, I
saw most people I think who came across that yes, they were told it
was part of the Fanny Willis thing, and I just want to, you
know, put the accurate information out there, but it doesn't become less funny,
because that's like, that's the fear, right, If I could for
just a moment like that, one day you'll be sitting in court and your
Google search history will be in there. Right, that's the that's the stuff
you don't think about until it's time to do that. Before then, he
just look at this, I had this funny network name. Look at this,
and now when there's some guy reading it into the record in court,
the fun vanishes. So perhaps a cautionary tale there. All right, just
saw this and we're coming off the mace thing. So I thought, well,
let's let's go ahead and chat about this, cause I don't remember this
when I was in school. I do remember that we did do archery in
Pe and it kind of didn't go well because instead of just we're out on
the football field is where we'd shoot. You have to know my high school,
the football field was lower than the school. It's the very top of
the hill and you walk down to it and then directly across from it is
a huge slope there's a park and it's also where everyone goes to sled in
the winter if they lived in town of Buffalo, Wyoming. And it goes
down into the central park there. But it's a huge, huge open area.
And like some of the idiots I went to school with, we're trying
to see how far they could shoot aerrows. So that wasn't good. That
being said, this is just this is far crazier. A teacher in New
Mexico is in a little bit of trouble. A lawsuit now pending. This
after the high school, the New Mexico High School teacher organized sword fights in
class and there and there's video, by the way, and what you see
is you see two students with swords going at each other and there is some
protective gear and it's not it is not fencing with the ball tips and the
full protective gear. It's clearly not that. And in fact, I know
it's not that because one of the students who said that she was she was
only doing this at the behest of the teacher who demanded her to do it.
She was injured pretty good. Let's see here the civil action filed by
the guardians of the students are the grandparents. But according to the lawsuit,
during the duel, which I'm guessing she lost, right, well, I
mean, how these things work, she sustains severed nerves and tendons. It's
a huge gash there. The former let's see, former chemistry teacher and assistant
principle are named in the lawsuit. The swords was a katana and a and
I guess a more traditional style fencing sword, but not one with a blunted
tip, one that clearly could draw blood, because that's what she got hacked
with. So you have Ninjas sword versus you know, like French style sword.
And this is going on in the middle of class, and it's chemistry,
and I'm trying to figure out how the hell that connects to chemistry like
metal shop maybe or pe maybe, even though it's a horrible idea, but
every day I see one of these stories and I'm like, how did you
think that was a good idea? How did you now? As a high
school student, I'd be crazy entertained, like, oh my gosh, look
what they're letting us do. But in this case, again a significant injury,
big old lawsuit, and the reason the assistant principle is in there is
Following the injury and the chemistry teacher laning to the assistant principle how it happened.
The assistant principal, rather than immediately calling nine to one one, uh,
basically, I decided, well we'll call it. We'll call her grandparents
to come and pick her up first, and then waited for twenty minutes and
didn't tell the family exactly what the problem was. And then, as you
can imagine, they finally about thirty minutes later, Grandpa arrived and off to
the hospital they went. So there you go. Don't let your students fight
with swords bribably, I can end, well, all right, raced Agic
from the Weather Channel has never been in a duel this year. How do
you how that's in New Mexico? How do in an American high school?
You go, all right, kids, we're gonna have unprotected, real deal
sword fights. Go and think you're not gonna lose your job. Maybe you
wanted to lose real live swords that are not even like fake. No,
no one of the girls got she got slashed, significant injury. It's terrible,
it's terrible. She should get better swords. So maybe think of a
different teacher that's rude. All right, So what do you got real quick
inter Nutshell, Yeah, a little overcast, not rain making clouds. It's
been a high level of overcast, low fifties today, so temper just have
to come down and come down quite a bit, especially this morning. I
know everybody felt the change. Rain probably later tomorrow afternoon, mid to late
afternoon, still cool, little mid fifties, but that should taper off about
midday Saturday, and then we'll kind of reset. We'll get back to the
milder weather for Saturday afternoon, cloudy load to mid sixties, and then on
Sunday partial sun and Monday partial sun with clouds will be right around seventy degrees.
So this is nice, little cool snap and then a little wet weather
for your Friday evening plans as we get into March, and then the first
weekend of March. Actually not too bad. Temperature slightly above average. Okay,
all right, I appreciate it. Several chat tomorrow, have it going
yep, And Jeff Bellinger joins us in a few hangout. I didn't see
it in your list, Jeff Bellinger, but we were laughing earlier. Apparently
Wendy's is rethinking. Did you see you see update on that insanity They backed
away from it. Yeah, this, I did have it in the list.
I've said this may help to turn around what's been a bad week for
Wendy's restaurants that serve breakfast, giving away cinnabon pull aparts to celebrate Leap Day
and reiterated that earlier this week Wendy's had to back off on that plan to
attest surge pricing of some menu items. I stand corrected right now, All
right, yep, the idea just went over like a lead a balloon with
consumers stocks. Casey staged a modest retreat yesterday, but it looks like we'll
have a turnaround today. The Federal Reserve's favored inflation gauge came in as expected.
It's called the PCE Cordy Flator. Last month, it was up two
point eight percent from January of last year, but because that was sort of
baked into the markets, it was expected. The futures staging a sort of
relief rally. They were lower until that came out. Right now, the
Dow futures are up sixty points. The Labor Department to two hundred and fifteen
thousand new claims for unemployment benefits last week that was thirteen thousand more than the
prior week, and report out this morning. Casey says it's become a lot
harder for would be car buyers to get auto loans. Cox Automotive says lenders
have tightened their standards. They're worried now about the risks of defaults. With
soaring interest rates and high car prices squeezing budgets, a lot of Americans,
even with good credit scores, are having more trouble than usual getting loan approvals.
In Casey, all right, well that's not a bubble. That's probably
going to be horrible at some point. Thank you much, Jeff, appreciate
it. Okay, all right, have a good day. All those defaults,
that's why they're concerned, all right, I Q Jeff and not having
it and is right there, And I swear I scanned his stack by the
way. Over the break, I did read a little more on the New
Mexico stude could I wanted to figure out how a chemistry teacher incorporates sword battles
in there? And it says here in this other article, the it was
they were teaching about metal and bonding and metal melding, which yeah, I
guess, but then I saw it's in Albuquerque, and I realized this is
not remotely the worst thing that a high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque has ever
done. So, I mean, that's a really really high bar. That's
where That's where Breaking Bad was right Albuquerque. Am I correct on that.
I never watched the show, but Ross did so. But yeah, so
you know, by that standard, this is nothing, man, This is
fine. And finally, the Miami Herald is upset. If you didn't know
the city of Miami Beach right South Beach, that area they are. They're
doing a lot of tweaks for spring break this year after what was absolutely insane
spring breaks the last two years you had. You had restaurants that literally had
to get people to fight people who trying to leave and not pay for their
meals because it was so frequent. There were shootings. The guy with the
Joker tattoo on his face that was wanting to sue rock Star for inclusion and
grand theft, that's where his video emerged. There was it was absolutely out
of control. So they started making some changes, including closing parking garages and
a few other things to limit the ability of people to get in and out
of there and perhaps keep the crowds down. Well, now the paper says
they're doing it to be racist. This headline, how far can a city
go to keep black spring break crowds out? Miami Beach tests the limits and
so you know, they throw that, they roll that hand grenade in there,
and at no point did the reporter go, I wonder what other cities
do. I wonder how they handle it. And they didn't even have to
leave the state. If you go to the Panama City, all of these
things that the city that Miami is wanting to do or Miami Beach, they
they already do. And the spring break crowd in the you know, the
redneck riviera there is, I would say, from what I've seen during the
bill O'Reilly investigative reports and whatnot, that's predominantly a white crowd there. And
so the paper's thrown all this around and they didn't even bother to see that
this is exactly how other cities have tried to handle this