Speaker 1: Ac Oda Radio program phone number eight eight eight nine
Speaker 1: three four seven eight seven four. I think the term,
Speaker 1: and I didn't. I didn't craft the term. I saw
Speaker 1: somebody use it in relation to Gavin Newsom, but I
Speaker 1: think it's an invaluable term and that you're going to
Speaker 1: see a lot of it moving forward, a lot of it.
Speaker 1: Newsom is just one example. Let me tell you Newsom,
Speaker 1: if you watched any of that dude's interviews, he is
Speaker 1: he is. He's god tear politician man. Just his ability
Speaker 1: to effortlessly roll through even even interviews where people who
Speaker 1: are are pointing out things that should be should be
Speaker 1: handcuffs for future elections, like his incident at the French laundry,
Speaker 1: He's able to just smile through the whole thing and go, yeah,
Speaker 1: biggest boneheaded mistake in my life. You gotta lit, you
Speaker 1: gotta lot, You got to move forward. And he was
Speaker 1: being interviewed by or he was being interviewed or on
Speaker 1: the podcast with Charlie Oh, I don't know his name
Speaker 1: is Cage, but a legitimate, legitimate dude who knows how
Speaker 1: to do political debate, and he just completely disarms him.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that Josh Stein is at that.
Speaker 1: But Josh Stein is trying to do the same thing,
Speaker 1: and the term is you're ready right washing, right, this
Speaker 1: is right washing. What you're seeing is a bunch of
Speaker 1: individuals who have been hyper progressive political animals their entire careers.
Speaker 1: Josh Stein, if you look at his voting record, everyone
Speaker 1: is sending me this the Illinois I got it. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's okay. Look, if there's a big story out there,
Speaker 1: chances are that I have it. So sending it to
Speaker 1: me three times is just weird. Okay, you can send
Speaker 1: it to me once. It's fine. Sending it to me
Speaker 1: three times in the last twelve hours, and then some
Speaker 1: others have said it to me just once, so that's fine.
Speaker 1: So have you just said it once. I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about you, But if you send it to me three times,
Speaker 1: that you.
Speaker 2: Need a hobby.
Speaker 1: Okay, I got it. It's okay. Sorry. So so going
Speaker 1: back to this, Josh Stein, if you look at his
Speaker 1: voting record, going back to his time in the legislature,
Speaker 1: and then you look at his ag performance, where basically
Speaker 1: he felt his job was to go file lawsuits on
Speaker 1: behalf of the Democrat Party. His job was to during
Speaker 1: COVID sit there and fight your ability to, you know,
Speaker 1: to do everything attempt to manipulate the state's elections in
Speaker 1: a back room with Mark Elias to the point where
Speaker 1: a court had to slap his hand down. Don't believe
Speaker 1: anything this dude says unless he's willing to commit to
Speaker 1: real change. And I'll give you an example of that.
Speaker 1: But do not let Josh Stein sit here and pretend
Speaker 1: because the political wins have changed, that he is some
Speaker 1: sort of moderate dude. He does not have a moderate
Speaker 1: dude track record, especially not as of late. So you know,
Speaker 1: during the State of the State yesterday, he's got.
Speaker 2: His aw shucks things going.
Speaker 1: He's tweeting alongside or obviously he's not, his staff is,
Speaker 1: but and you know he's saying things like like this,
Speaker 1: And you have to remember that this guy and his
Speaker 1: party didn't even didn't even his predecessor, his buddy, his mentor,
Speaker 1: couldn't even be bothered to actually put a point person
Speaker 1: in charge of relief.
Speaker 2: It was so insane.
Speaker 1: The Washington posted an article about it about how Roy
Speaker 1: Cooper didn't even do this thing, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: should handcuff Roy Cooper if he actually tries.
Speaker 2: To run for Senate. It's insane.
Speaker 1: But josh Stein also didn't really do anything. He wasn't
Speaker 1: vocal about it. I remember, I was just wanting either
Speaker 1: of these guys to sit there and say anything about it, anything.
Speaker 2: It was baffling to me.
Speaker 1: And the reason that they wouldn't criticize and be as
Speaker 1: angry as people in North Carolina were is because they
Speaker 1: would have had to criticize the Biden administration. They chose
Speaker 1: the Biden administrations feels over the people of western North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Do not let Josh Stein pretend that he's a champion
Speaker 1: for western North Carolina. Unless they're a barbecue joint that
Speaker 1: makes a barbecue sandwich he can take a photo with.
Speaker 1: He has to earn it. The dude needs to earn it.
Speaker 1: The guy who walked into my radio station and told
Speaker 1: one of my fellow employees, boy Casey effing hates me.
Speaker 1: I don't hate you in that sense. I hate what
Speaker 1: you do, and I hate the disingenuous nature of things
Speaker 1: like this.
Speaker 3: A number of folks on he still need help, Folks
Speaker 3: who lost everything.
Speaker 4: Florence, Folks who just want their home.
Speaker 1: Back like this is a This is a massive failure
Speaker 1: of the Democratic party if we're still talking about down
Speaker 1: East relief.
Speaker 3: Okay, the bill that we're waiting on also includes funding
Speaker 3: to help them move forward as well.
Speaker 4: And no matter where you.
Speaker 3: Live, if disaster strikes, we will be there for you
Speaker 3: here in North Carolina.
Speaker 1: But you weren't. You weren't because the what was needed,
Speaker 1: what was needed. The only thing, the only time that
Speaker 1: I saw, and I gave credit for this, the only
Speaker 1: time I saw Josh Stein kick into action. And he's
Speaker 1: welcome to correct me if I'm wrong, But I have
Speaker 1: to assume that Ral and others would have touted these
Speaker 1: other things had he actually been doing them. The only
Speaker 1: thing that I know that Josh Stein's really leaned into
Speaker 1: was that they were trying to get those hotel vouchers
Speaker 1: extended to the extent that other politicians really were along
Speaker 1: for the ride. But at least he was there, and
Speaker 1: I think you just realized that the visuals. I don't
Speaker 1: think he did it because he cares. Again, this is
Speaker 1: my opinion. I think he did it because he didn't
Speaker 1: want video of people whose homes were gone standing out
Speaker 1: in front of a Super eight motel they just got
Speaker 1: thrown out of in a blizzard. Okay, he didn't want
Speaker 1: those photos out there. So talking about eastern North Carolina,
Speaker 1: talking about failures in western North Carolina requires you to
Speaker 1: call out the problems, and you wouldn't do it. And
Speaker 1: it was rage inducing that you wouldn't do it because
Speaker 1: you held the office or were you know, on your
Speaker 1: way to winning the office, but were one of the
Speaker 1: top two candidates for the office. So it was I
Speaker 1: understood it because you can't you chose party over people here,
Speaker 1: So until you demonstrate that that's not the case, which
Speaker 1: includes you being brutally honest about the failures of your
Speaker 1: own parties leadership and your failures. I should have worked harder,
Speaker 1: I should have done this. We shouldn't have been in
Speaker 1: this situation. FEMA shouldn't have been out here screwing around
Speaker 1: and not doing stuff.
Speaker 2: And you you, you didn't.
Speaker 1: You refuse to participate in any of those conversations. So frankly,
Speaker 1: other than you signing the bill, which as a human,
Speaker 1: you should stay out of the way. If you're not
Speaker 1: going to be part of the solution. To put your
Speaker 1: signature on there, it's a it's a formality, and then
Speaker 1: shut up and and you know, do it, Go go,
Speaker 1: go tour restaurants or something. Go back to Wilbur's. Okay,
Speaker 1: I know you like eating there. I mean a lot
Speaker 1: of people like eating there. I understand that, but I
Speaker 1: have no bandwidth for it. I was just losing my crap.
Speaker 1: Watch I don't I don't need this level of stress,
Speaker 1: but just the ease and the smoothness pretending like okay,
Speaker 1: or pretending that you want an actual Doze style review
Speaker 1: of North Carolina spending. I'll explain what's up with this?
Speaker 1: Will we play the album?
Speaker 3: Of course, we have to be fiscally prudent, to be
Speaker 3: smart about how we invest our taxpayers' dollars. So that's
Speaker 3: why I'm directing my budget office to set up the
Speaker 3: Impact Center to ensure that our government has run effectively
Speaker 3: and efficiently, because people should know that their taxpayer dollars
Speaker 3: are being well spent.
Speaker 4: But let's get it right. Let's use a scalpel, not
Speaker 4: a chainsaw, all right.
Speaker 1: So, and this is not about thinking for a minute
Speaker 1: that there's rampant ways in North Caroline. This is about
Speaker 1: controlling the process. And I'm sorry, Josh Stein, you don't
Speaker 1: get to control the process in the minds of a
Speaker 1: lot of people. If it's going to be accomplished, right
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, people don't leave, You're
Speaker 1: going to purge all of the wastefulness. There's too many
Speaker 1: pet there's too many Democrat pet projects right now, if
Speaker 1: between the two parties, and really when you get into
Speaker 1: the leadership of both parties, I don't know that I
Speaker 1: trust either of them.
Speaker 2: But like, you're not the man for the job.
Speaker 1: You owe too many favors you have, you know, you
Speaker 1: have too many allegiances to a lot of the things
Speaker 1: where you know, the DEI stuff, the stuff where people
Speaker 1: feel that there are actual wasteful things going on. So
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I like it's a joke. It's just establishing
Speaker 1: another office that itself will probably become a money suck
Speaker 1: on the state of North Carolina. So no, I don't
Speaker 1: believe you think that there's a bunch of ways you
Speaker 1: got to do it. I think that you want a
Speaker 1: little show thing. Oh look what we're doing. We found
Speaker 1: some stuff and you'll probably only use it to go
Speaker 1: over things like well, you know, one of the things
Speaker 1: that's very wasteful is a school of vouchers because you're
Speaker 1: so beholden to the Teachers' Union if you want to
Speaker 1: gain a modicum of trust from people, if you honestly
Speaker 1: want to say things like this.
Speaker 3: What we've been talking about tonight, they're not red issues
Speaker 3: or blue issues. They are North Carolina issues. Of of course,
Speaker 3: on some of them, we may differ about how best
Speaker 3: to get where we want to go. That's fine, that
Speaker 3: is the democratic process. But I am certain that if
Speaker 3: we come together across our differences, we can find common
Speaker 3: ground and make progress. If those of us who believe
Speaker 3: in the possibility of bipartisanship look to Washington, d C.
Speaker 4: We will surely become discouraged.
Speaker 3: But we do not need to be pulled into those
Speaker 3: political games. We can create something better, something forward looking,
Speaker 3: right here in North Carolina, and we can do it together.
Speaker 1: You you are are You have no track record of bipartisanship,
Speaker 1: not in not in your time as ag not what
Speaker 1: I've seen so far in your time as governor.
Speaker 2: You don't mean that.
Speaker 1: There's another part where he's talking about, well, we want
Speaker 1: to get the best education. Well, a lot of people
Speaker 1: think that the best education is achieved by having the
Speaker 1: most choice, which is logical in any other scenario, any
Speaker 1: other scenario, right, just think of like, think, if there's
Speaker 1: a think of a product, okay, any product, I don't
Speaker 1: care what it is, A razor okay, just like you know,
Speaker 1: shave and razor whatever, you buy, big razor whatever. What
Speaker 1: do you think the quality of that big razor would
Speaker 1: be if there was not Gillette and you know, uh, Harry's,
Speaker 1: and you know all.
Speaker 2: The other companies out there.
Speaker 1: It requires unique pricing strategies, unique models. It requires a
Speaker 1: some that are higher quality than others, are more affordable
Speaker 1: than others, all of these different choices that are provided
Speaker 1: for consumers.
Speaker 2: So when it comes to education.
Speaker 1: If you feel that this is the one area where
Speaker 1: more doesn't necessarily equal potentially better options or even options
Speaker 1: that just fit more into the lifestyle of a particular family,
Speaker 1: then you don't mean it more choice, more opportunity, more
Speaker 1: decisions for parents who find themselves in an educational hell
Speaker 1: accounting that's not getting it done, a school district where
Speaker 1: it's just not happening, or they have unique needs that
Speaker 1: aren't being met, but the dollars are being extracted from
Speaker 1: the parents, you know, via taxes, via property taxes, and
Speaker 1: they're not able to use it in the most effective way,
Speaker 1: even though it is money that is specifically earmarked for
Speaker 1: educating their kids. And it's this fundamental disconnect that it's
Speaker 1: government's money and not the people's money. Government's money comes
Speaker 1: from the people and then is given back to the people. Well,
Speaker 1: that's also a really inefficient way to do things. Middlemen
Speaker 1: always taken a little chunk there. Let people make those decisions.
Speaker 1: So if he's serious about anything that he said yesterday,
Speaker 1: there needs to be a mea culpa over what happened
Speaker 1: with hurricane relief, not just in Western North Carolina, but
Speaker 1: as he mentioned down east. I know that they did
Speaker 1: fire one person. That's probably not enough fundamentally, whatever delivery system.
Speaker 1: I saw a report yesterday that we haven't made application
Speaker 1: for bridges yet in Western North Carolina, we haven't applied
Speaker 1: for bridges. Essentially, you have to go through and you
Speaker 1: have to have a plan for each of the bridges
Speaker 1: and it's you know, there's a bureaucracy around it, but
Speaker 1: there's a process through FEMA. If that, if that holds true,
Speaker 1: because I will say that the article does have it
Speaker 1: does have one piece of anonymous sourcing in there, and
Speaker 1: you know how I feel about those. But if that's
Speaker 1: the case, holy hell, What are we doing is how
Speaker 1: are we not moving at one thousand miles an hour
Speaker 1: right now? Especially with the receptive nature of the administration
Speaker 1: in Washington. What is the first thing that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: did from a Trump a visit standpoint after he was inaugurated?
Speaker 2: What's the first thing he.
Speaker 1: Did his first official visit in the United States after
Speaker 1: he was he came to western North Carolina. He made
Speaker 1: it a focal piece of his election. Why would you
Speaker 1: not take advantage of this? What are we doing? And
Speaker 1: also fix the DMV? Holy hell, man, can we just
Speaker 1: fix I'm nervous because I got to get my license
Speaker 1: renewed and I have to do the one where I
Speaker 1: go in Oh, what sweet hell that's gonna be. Oh,
Speaker 1: I can't wait. And then I hear stories about parents,
Speaker 1: I'm not making this up. Parents who want to get
Speaker 1: their kids road tests and they happen to live in
Speaker 1: like Wake County or whatever, and they have to go
Speaker 1: if they want their kid to be able to drive
Speaker 1: before they're a legal adult. They're booking in like you know,
Speaker 1: you know, of some random small county they got to
Speaker 1: drive two hours or three hours to get to because
Speaker 1: it's the only appointment they can get that.
Speaker 2: Whole thing is fundamentally broke.
Speaker 1: So look, there are a lot of things you can
Speaker 1: do that would garner respect and I think would meet
Speaker 1: these bipartisan requirements. And I didn't hear any of it yesterday,
Speaker 1: but I've just given you three suggestions. Make Western North
Speaker 1: Carolina your passion, use the administration school vouchers, and fix
Speaker 1: the DMV, and they probably make you governor for life.
Speaker 1: But you won't do any of those.
Speaker 2: Not really.
Speaker 1: We'll be back getting things roar rolling. I got all
Speaker 1: the FAA audio. Trust me, we are on it, boys
Speaker 1: and girls. We're gonna get to that actually here right well,
Speaker 1: right now, I'm gonna do that here in just a
Speaker 1: little bit. Actually, but me let me get this rolling again.
Speaker 1: Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.
Speaker 1: Curious what you thought if you watched any of the
Speaker 1: Josh Stein speech yesterday. Now, before the thing kicked off,
Speaker 1: they had themselves a little rally down, you know, an
Speaker 1: anti Doge, anti Elon, anti Trump rally down in front
Speaker 1: of the Capitol, and it's the usual suspect. So though,
Speaker 1: I think that one of the things that everyone should
Speaker 1: be doing would be very helpful for you is when
Speaker 1: you are watching any protest coverage nowadays, always if there's
Speaker 1: never a wide shot, ask yourself why. But if there is,
Speaker 1: ask yourself if those look like the protest crowds from
Speaker 1: I don't know roughly well, going back to Trump's first term, right,
Speaker 1: arguably you would have. You have to assume because of
Speaker 1: everything that's going on, the people on the left hate
Speaker 1: Trump more this time around, because he's just bulling a
Speaker 1: china shop, right, and he's destroying their norms and he's
Speaker 1: basically defunding all their stuff, And so it would track
Speaker 1: that the protest crowds would be bigger, especially if you've
Speaker 1: got a bunch of a bunch of folks who you
Speaker 1: know are are sitting there and probably know somebody who
Speaker 1: was in one of these slush fun kind of jobs. Right,
Speaker 1: if you're even remotely politically connected, you think there'd be
Speaker 1: more people out there. And inevitably what I keep scene
Speaker 1: is less people out there, which is just really strange
Speaker 1: to me. And then yesterday I kid you not, and uh,
Speaker 1: if you get paywalled, it's fine. The photo I want
Speaker 1: you to see if you go to our Twitter account
Speaker 1: at Casey on the Radio, I've retweeted a news and
Speaker 1: Observer article. Now it won't show with the picture until
Speaker 1: you click to the actual News and Observer tweet. And
Speaker 1: this is the headline. Dose Critics plus a few puppets
Speaker 1: rally and Raleigh to protest craziness in DC. No, they
Speaker 1: rallied in Raleigh to protest on their standards schedule, the
Speaker 1: gutting of their you know, their freebies, and they're they're insane,
Speaker 1: you know, spending levels and and things that they were
Speaker 1: spending it on again never addressing the truly crazy crap. Instead,
Speaker 1: they have these big I don't even know how to
Speaker 1: describe these puppets. I guess I would describe them as,
Speaker 1: you know, they look like they look like the like
Speaker 1: the big paper machee puppets you see at Dia demoebto
Speaker 1: with the Day of the Dead. You know, you know,
Speaker 1: you see those those parades down in Mexico right where
Speaker 1: they've got the bone mass on and all that looks
Speaker 1: pretty the opening to that one of the last James
Speaker 1: Bond movies was there. And and then they have like
Speaker 1: the big puppets, so they made some of those of
Speaker 1: Trump and Elon. The irony is and this is why
Speaker 1: I love the headline. It says, and a few puppets.
Speaker 1: Clearly everyone there is a puppet, So thank you for
Speaker 1: setting me up for that little one liner there. I
Speaker 1: appreciate that the event, hosted by North Carolina Democrats, a
Speaker 1: protest kicked off around noon.
Speaker 5: Uh do.
Speaker 1: Anderson Clayton is the party chair. She spoke in support
Speaker 1: of federal workers and defendive programs like Medicaid and social Security.
Speaker 1: Anderson Clayton, please on the record the stuff that Dosee
Speaker 1: found in usaid, these insane like transgender Columbrian operas, all
Speaker 1: of these. Will you just go on the record and
Speaker 1: say that that's bad. That's all you have to do.
Speaker 1: Just go on the record and be like, no, this
Speaker 1: is because then then we can start to find common
Speaker 1: ground here. Then I will listen when you say, hey,
Speaker 1: this one thing, like yesterday's big thing was this subagency
Speaker 1: within the Department of Ed whose only job is to
Speaker 1: have federal testing data, turn federal testing data. And I
Speaker 1: think it was costing about one hundred and fifty million
Speaker 1: a year, I believe is the number that I saw.
Speaker 1: And their only job is to gather test scores from
Speaker 1: the states and then put them together in federal you know,
Speaker 1: average them together, which, by the way, anyone who has
Speaker 1: a basic mathematical understanding and I understand that it's slightly
Speaker 1: more complex than that. But in reality, if I want
Speaker 1: to know what the national average is for math, and
Speaker 1: it's a standardized math test across fifty states, and half
Speaker 1: of the state's average fifty, and let's just say and
Speaker 1: not that it would happen the other half of the
Speaker 1: state's average one hundred, what is the national average? I'm
Speaker 1: sorry to make you guys do math this early. So
Speaker 1: if if twenty five states average fifty and twenty five
Speaker 1: states average one hundred, what is the average? Ross? You
Speaker 1: hated math, and I think you can average fifty in
Speaker 1: one hundred, right, seventy five?
Speaker 2: Ross has said seventy five in my year, So.
Speaker 1: Yes, the answer is I don't want to do math
Speaker 1: this early either, But we don't need one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty million dollar agency and then they use anonymous sources
Speaker 1: for the whole thing. So no. But if that's your
Speaker 1: pet project and you want to at least have a
Speaker 1: conversation about it, then you have to be able to
Speaker 1: accept that there was piles of money being thrown away
Speaker 1: for nonsense. The problem is, and this is why I
Speaker 1: go back to crowd sizes. I feel like these crowd sizes,
Speaker 1: maybe not the one yesterday because I don't have a
Speaker 1: lot to compare it to here as of late, but
Speaker 1: definitely what we're seeing up in DC, they're very They're
Speaker 1: not very big. There's might be a lot of them,
Speaker 1: but it's it's a lot of repeat the same people.
Speaker 1: They're a lot smaller. Ross was telling me, because we're gonna
Speaker 1: have Stephen Kent on today, he actually went down to
Speaker 1: the protests in front of the Department of edd right, Yeah, just.
Speaker 5: For funies, just to see what it would be like.
Speaker 5: And it was, like he said, it was like a whimper.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And he lives in d C. Lives in the
Speaker 1: DC area, so like if you live around there, you
Speaker 1: see protests all the time.
Speaker 5: It is super weird how these protests always had like,
Speaker 5: you know, not just a lot of people, but like
Speaker 5: the same sort of sign and the same sort of.
Speaker 1: Remember all the tents, they were the same for all
Speaker 1: the college campus and not just like on one college,
Speaker 1: like Columbia's tents were the same as UCLA's tents.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we looked up that tent on Amazon or whatever
Speaker 5: it was like a five dollars tent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, hey man, I've overspent on a tent before,
Speaker 1: but that was me h.
Speaker 5: But it's super weird when they all have the same
Speaker 5: five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Tent and uh and really really nicely made signs and all.
Speaker 1: And so you know, the idea that monies that were
Speaker 1: part of this large gess that were just being handed
Speaker 1: out were then you know, either redonated or in some cases,
Speaker 1: you know, spun into incentive programs where you'd see these
Speaker 1: ads for, hey, you want to make forty dollars for
Speaker 1: three hours work, come on down to our protests there.
Speaker 1: Like I it tells me, It convinces me more and
Speaker 1: more that there is validity that essentially I was paying
Speaker 1: for protests against things that I have that I like,
Speaker 1: which is which is just insanity that you you were
Speaker 1: and I was, and anyone who pays taxes. Now only
Speaker 1: did they have the protest against things you want?
Speaker 5: Now only did we have these protests, But then they
Speaker 5: would show up on all the same signs and the
Speaker 5: same tents, and every now and again you would have
Speaker 5: like a big palette of bricks.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, a parking lot. Yeah, you've never bricked
Speaker 1: a parking lot. Come on, man, what are you talking about?
Speaker 5: The U hauls would pull up and just drop off
Speaker 5: the bricks and drive off.
Speaker 1: Well and just bricks, they drop off everything. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what you don't like masonry? Well, I don't know, what
Speaker 1: do you mean a beautiful, beautiful brick facade on a house.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's what those were for. And not to
Speaker 1: throw up police. The other thing was, and I've talked
Speaker 1: to police officers about this, the other thing that they
Speaker 1: do is they drop off pallets of bottled water.
Speaker 2: Well, you're thinking, what's wrong with that? Well, they'd be frozen.
Speaker 1: Because if you're walking down the street with a brick,
Speaker 1: police might be like, hey, why do you got a brick?
Speaker 1: What's going on here? Because they're in the middle of
Speaker 1: a protest. You're walking down with your bottle of water,
Speaker 1: and they go, it's just a bottle of water. Well,
Speaker 1: they're frozen, and then they with throw in the cops
Speaker 1: they were and you know it'd be a summer protest.
Speaker 1: There's no reason for him to be frozen.
Speaker 5: Like, yeah, they like turning their beverages into weapons. Remember
Speaker 5: what they did to Andy.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, with this cementing him with a quick Creek.
Speaker 1: They had quick creed and instaid well I can't remember
Speaker 1: what it was inside of, but it was like a
Speaker 1: milkshake thing, right, It was like a protein shake, right,
Speaker 1: and then but it had quick Creed in it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so spare me all this garbage. The fact is I
Speaker 1: probably paid for the quick crete, Ross paid for the bricks,
Speaker 1: You paid for the the frozen water bottles. And people
Speaker 1: are sick of this garbage. So no, they're not going
Speaker 1: to take your stupid little puppet show or whatever the
Speaker 1: hell was going on there very seriously because you can't.
Speaker 1: There's no intellectual honesty there. There's I'm not unsympathetic to
Speaker 1: the fact that a lot of people up in DC
Speaker 1: or are losing their gigs, right because I don't think
Speaker 1: every one of them went in there with the intent
Speaker 1: to necessarily spun the taxpayer, because a lot.
Speaker 2: Of them are in.
Speaker 1: But we're in like, you know, very basic kind of
Speaker 1: corporate gigs, do you know what I mean? Like they
Speaker 1: weren't they weren't planning what the organization is doing. They're
Speaker 1: doing like the bookkeeping or something. Now, you can argue
Speaker 1: that when they were sitting around and had nothing to do,
Speaker 1: because they weren't really doing a lot of the stuff
Speaker 1: that the money was supposed to be for that maybe
Speaker 1: they should have noticed it. But people are a lot
Speaker 1: of people are in self preservation mode. But the whole thing,
Speaker 1: if you don't live in the DC area, the whole thing,
Speaker 1: to most people, looks completely out of control. When these
Speaker 1: when these stories started coming out, and you never had
Speaker 1: democrats denying this stuff. You had them ignoring the really
Speaker 1: insane stuff and going, why are you trying to starve
Speaker 1: the kittens? Do you know? It's just awful? The kid
Speaker 1: you know, this puppy is gonna die if you do
Speaker 1: this thing, the whole the dead puppy theory or whatever
Speaker 1: they call it online. Right, you got to you just
Speaker 1: got a.
Speaker 2: Whole bucket full of garbage.
Speaker 1: Right, But you have one puppy there and youay, hey,
Speaker 1: if you throw away this garbage, this puppy is gonna die.
Speaker 1: Which doesn't make any sense because adults can sit there
Speaker 1: and prioritize what what should we be spending money on,
Speaker 1: or what should be our priorities. It's all it's all
Speaker 1: emotional manipulation. It's just so filthy. So that but the
Speaker 1: idea that people unless financially incentivized. Couldn't He can't even
Speaker 1: be bothered to show up in support of your garbage.
Speaker 1: Should tell you it's garbage, because even people on the left,
Speaker 1: unless they didn't get the money, weren't going to show
Speaker 1: up to it. That's my theory. And every time I
Speaker 1: see one of these things, which should be three times
Speaker 1: as large, because Trump is doing three times as much
Speaker 1: the now, I question every protest that I ever saw
Speaker 1: other than just a very small group who's getting ready
Speaker 1: to lose their meal ticket. And it makes me want
Speaker 1: him to work harder. And that's where I'm at. But Steve,
Speaker 1: it'll give us a first person account since he was
Speaker 1: he was at the thing, all right, So we got
Speaker 1: we got a few things we got to get into. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got a bunch of audio today, so let's start
Speaker 1: plucking through that. So the Irish Prime Minister was visiting yesterday.
Speaker 1: They had a little Oval office meeting I think they did.
Speaker 1: I think it was at the VP's residence. They had
Speaker 1: a Saint Patrick's Day breakfast, which now I was in
Speaker 1: a full Irish breakfast.
Speaker 2: Because I go for that every now and then.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I could eat that every day though,
Speaker 1: ros you ever had a full Irish breakfast where it's
Speaker 1: got all the things like the tomato, the beans.
Speaker 5: The I don't I don't drink anymore.
Speaker 1: So well, you didn't say you had to have it
Speaker 1: this week. I just asked if you ever had a
Speaker 1: full Irish breakfast at any point in life.
Speaker 5: I don't think so what does it actually consist of, dude?
Speaker 1: I got to send you a picture of it the
Speaker 1: only way you're appreciate it. It consists of one of
Speaker 1: the largest eating commitments of any culture in it's Is.
Speaker 5: It like a lot of protein in the morning, because
Speaker 5: that's good?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, wait, hang on, hang on, full Irish breakfast. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna send you a photo, dude, I say,
Speaker 1: because like Hibernian Hibernians serves all right, So hold on,
Speaker 1: let me find the most obscene looking one.
Speaker 2: They're all obscene looking.
Speaker 5: You literally just sent me a picture of a liquor cabinet.
Speaker 1: It's not No, that's Boston Paul's full Irish breakfast. Who
Speaker 1: by the way, he just sent me an email asked
Speaker 1: for taking the holiday off on Monday. No, No, that's
Speaker 1: not that. One's not a company holiday. So it's always
Speaker 1: such a pain as give me the photo. All right,
Speaker 1: you know what, you might be down with this monstrosity,
Speaker 1: because yeah, you're you're protein.
Speaker 5: I'm just thinking it probably would be like if it's
Speaker 5: full of eggs and sausage and that kind of stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm definitely down.
Speaker 2: All right, check your phone, check your phone.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 2: That is a full Irish breakfast.
Speaker 5: I would take that without the beans, because beans are
Speaker 5: absolutely disgusting. What no, without the hash browns because I'm
Speaker 5: not eating the carbs.
Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough, I might eat some of it.
Speaker 5: Is that fruit?
Speaker 1: What are you looking at?
Speaker 5: The the the eggs and the sausage.
Speaker 1: All right, So you have eggs, sausage, you have the
Speaker 1: hash browns. The black pucks are blood pudding, which I
Speaker 1: think are amazing, but they're protein.
Speaker 2: It's an acquired thing.
Speaker 1: Then you have sausage, and then under that you have
Speaker 1: what's called rash or bacon, which is the thick you know,
Speaker 1: the it's not our kind of bacon, it's the bigger
Speaker 1: thick cuts. But it's protein.
Speaker 5: That does look like it kind of does look like
Speaker 5: my breakfast though, Well, I mean so something when I
Speaker 5: get up, I have like a good breakfast. I have
Speaker 5: like a bunch of eggs and then like a protein
Speaker 5: shake and some yogurt, some Greek yggar. And then sometimes
Speaker 5: when we get I want to get home. Markie will
Speaker 5: go to like Briggs or something and we'll have breakfast
Speaker 5: and I'll just order like I'll order like two three
Speaker 5: egg omelets and like two sides of bacon. And they're
Speaker 5: always trying to push there, like do you want the bread?
Speaker 5: Do you want the muffin? I don't want any No.
Speaker 1: What shouldn't be that uncommon considering the you know, the.
Speaker 2: The protein only diet.
Speaker 1: What is it, what's it called? What's the word? Like
Speaker 1: the carnivore carnivore diet, Like that's not a new thing.
Speaker 1: So if you're a restaurant, you gotta know that the
Speaker 1: then the yellow or the the red things are grilled tomatoes.
Speaker 5: That looks I love tomatoes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like grilled tomatoes.
Speaker 1: Some people don't.
Speaker 2: It is a dangerous pointing out, but here's what I'm
Speaker 2: pointing out.
Speaker 1: So if you're the Irish PM and you're always you know,
Speaker 1: you're always going to these different things, right, you know
Speaker 1: how whenever there's a whenever there's a political event in
Speaker 1: North Carolina and they have a gathering. What do they
Speaker 1: always serve It doesn't have to be a political event.
Speaker 1: Anytime you have a big outdoor event or gathering and
Speaker 1: they got a cater, what is what is the go
Speaker 1: to in North Carolina? Pulled pork? Right, they always have pulled.
Speaker 2: Pork barbecue y vinegar based yep, yeah, but but they
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: That's you get a big pan of the pull pork.
Speaker 1: Anytime you gotta go to where they're going to feed,
Speaker 1: like forty fifty people in North Carolina over the years,
Speaker 1: nine times out of ten you show up and it's
Speaker 1: pull pork because people like pull pork barbecue with all
Speaker 1: the triment's there. But can you imagine you're the top
Speaker 1: Irish official. You constantly got to go to these political
Speaker 1: breakfasts and then every morning they serve you that. But
Speaker 1: you should be five hundred pounds, bro. But yeah, that's
Speaker 1: more of a I drank for all weekend and I
Speaker 1: need to.
Speaker 5: I don't know, man, you could you could down that
Speaker 5: get like you know, at leads like seventy five eighty
Speaker 5: grams of protein and you're not going to be hungry
Speaker 5: for the rest of the day. So it matters like
Speaker 5: what you do with the rest of your day? Really you?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man, dude. When I lived when I lived
Speaker 1: on Glenwood, when I first moved to Raleigh, I lived
Speaker 1: basically across the street from Hibernian. I'd roll over there
Speaker 1: like every weekend or every other weekend and get me
Speaker 1: one of those and my Saturday was set. I didn't
Speaker 1: have to eat anything until, like I might snack later
Speaker 1: in the evening. So I don't know if that's what
Speaker 1: they ate, but if they did, good on them. But
Speaker 1: there's some really funny audio that emerged from that. So
Speaker 1: because Donald Trump decided to engage the Prime Minister in
Speaker 1: a Rosio Donald discussion. And I don't think that he
Speaker 1: knows who Rosi o'donnald Is, but it's it's just one
Speaker 1: of these really funny, weird moments that of course a
Speaker 1: bunch of people, Oh, how dare he? How well, what's
Speaker 1: weirder making a Rosio Donald joke or funding fifty three
Speaker 1: million dollars in you know, underwater trans basket, weaving scholarships
Speaker 1: to Burma or you know whatever some of this stupidity was.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'll take a Rosio Donald joke during
Speaker 1: not the serious part of the discussion, but the fun
Speaker 1: part they were talking about JD Vance's socks the moment before.
Speaker 1: They're clearly not down to business. But we'll play that
Speaker 1: audio for you in some other stuff coming up here
Speaker 1: on the CaCO Day radio program. Did you really label
Speaker 1: on my thing the Irish Prime Minister as Irish King?
Speaker 1: And actually it's Irish take house search. I guess it
Speaker 1: is the term they use.
Speaker 5: Yeah, his name was so like long and weird. I'm like,
Speaker 5: I'm not writing all that out. I'll just put Irish King.
Speaker 5: And I'm not sure what their system of government is
Speaker 5: because it's none of my business. I'm just gonna put them.
Speaker 2: Down Prime Minister.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, well it's not okay anyway. So you have
Speaker 1: the IRI, you have Irish leadership in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: Yesterday and they did a few things. The funniest though,
Speaker 1: was in the in the Oval office, they're having a
Speaker 1: meeting and is the part of the meeting where they're
Speaker 1: not really because they got down to some serious stuff.
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't realize that one of the things.
Speaker 1: And it's been this way forever. In fact, you know,
Speaker 1: last time I was in Ireland was two thousand and eight,
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, right around I'm trying to think.
Speaker 2: Last time I was in Ireland.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would have been eight or nine, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, seeing the videos and everything going on in
Speaker 1: Ireland with all of the mass immigration and just the
Speaker 1: craziness that's going on, that is not the Ireland I
Speaker 1: remember visiting, and I've visited all It's not the only
Speaker 1: time I've been to Ireland.
Speaker 2: It's just the last time.
Speaker 1: And I've been all over Ireland literally the entire loop
Speaker 1: of it, including the north part and then everything in between.
Speaker 1: I've spent a total of probably over three weeks, maybe
Speaker 1: close to a month in Ireland just over the years.
Speaker 1: And you know, I dig it. It's beautiful, it's great,
Speaker 1: and so I don't know that I recognize what's going
Speaker 1: on over there. That being said, where was I headed
Speaker 1: with this? Oh? One of the things that struck me,
Speaker 1: which I didn't know until I got over there, is
Speaker 1: like the biggest outside of tourism and some of the others,
Speaker 1: when you get into the biggest like manufacturing and production
Speaker 1: industry in Ireland, it's not it's not wool sweaters, okay,
Speaker 1: it's pharmaceuticals. They have a crap ton of pharmaceutical innovation
Speaker 1: production manufacturing over in Ireland.
Speaker 2: It's huge, especially get down around Cork. Uh they have
Speaker 2: tons and tons of it.
Speaker 1: So that is that's where Trump and uh, the Irish
Speaker 1: leader's real conversation uh, you know, the real business conversation was.
Speaker 1: But before that, it's the funny chummy.
Speaker 2: Getting to know you.
Speaker 1: They made fun of JD Vance's socks. They had some
Speaker 1: light moments there, and then there was this and of
Speaker 1: course some trash reporter who can't wait their turn kind
Speaker 1: of ruined the audio a little because their colleague had
Speaker 1: asked a question that Trump is trying to answer, or
Speaker 1: Trump is trying to make a statement. But you'll still
Speaker 1: get the gist of it.
Speaker 7: For very happy, fun loving people. Great at you getting
Speaker 7: in this room right now that I've met.
Speaker 4: Why in the world.
Speaker 7: Would you let Rosie o'donald move to our He's just
Speaker 7: going to lower your.
Speaker 1: Happiness love right, So, because again it's a little hard
Speaker 1: to hear, so the reporter asked, Ireland is known for
Speaker 1: a happy people, Why would you let Rosi o'donald move there?
Speaker 1: For those who don't know, Rosie o'donald did, and I
Speaker 1: will say this, not a hypocrite. She did. She did
Speaker 1: self deport she she moved to Ireland. She got a
Speaker 1: twelve year old daughter. They moved to Ireland. So the
Speaker 1: question is, why, if you're such a happy place, would
Speaker 1: you let Rosie o'donnald move there and bring down your
Speaker 1: happiness quotas just funny, by the way, thank you, I
Speaker 1: like that question. Shut up. So it's just because it's
Speaker 1: this guy that's Hirish. Guy's just sitting there and Trump's like,
Speaker 1: you know who that is? And he's just he doesn't
Speaker 1: even say anything. He's just staring like I don't know
Speaker 1: what the hell's going. Trump's say, yeah, you're better off
Speaker 1: probably not knowing, dude. The the classic Rosi o' donald
Speaker 1: Trump beef is one of my favorites, always will.
Speaker 5: No it goes a bag. I have to give it
Speaker 5: up for to Rosi o' donald though, because at least
Speaker 5: she actually moved, you know, somebody else. Not a hypocrite, right,
Speaker 5: So many of these celebrities are like, oh, if so
Speaker 5: and so gets in the office, I'm out, and like
Speaker 5: you look like a few months later, years that they're
Speaker 5: still there in Hollywood or whatever.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I found out. I give it some thought,
Speaker 1: and I realized if I want to be part of
Speaker 1: the resistance, I need to be here.
Speaker 5: It's like when they leave. It's like when they leave
Speaker 5: twitter x in their back in like two weeks.
Speaker 1: Like Stephen King, Yeah Kee keeps dipping out. They literally
Speaker 1: then start running like betting Pools when Steven's coming back. Great,
Speaker 1: absolutely great. And and by the way, even this Irish dude,
Speaker 1: even the Irish people are making videos.
Speaker 8: Listen to this guy, Hi, top of the morning to you.
Speaker 8: We just got word over here the Rosio Donald moved
Speaker 8: to Ireland. That's not a very nice gift for Americans
Speaker 8: to give for the Irish.
Speaker 1: By the way, good music selections, sir. After everything we've done. Oh,
Speaker 1: I have to warn you though some of you are
Speaker 1: hearing the background music. You're going, hey, isn't that the
Speaker 1: music the Casey plays at the top of the hour, Yes,
Speaker 1: it is. But what you some of you realize, a
Speaker 1: lot of you realize, but occasionally some of you don't,
Speaker 1: is you've.
Speaker 2: Never heard the entirety of the song.
Speaker 1: Because when you're playing shipping up to Boston as we
Speaker 1: do in fact, Ross just you have it on your
Speaker 1: button bar. You just play the first few bars of it,
Speaker 1: and I usually you got it sitting on yours because
Speaker 1: I'm on, paused on my button bar? Here, all right,
Speaker 1: you hang on, well here, I'll come. I'll do it myself.
Speaker 1: Hang on, I thought it was sitting on your button bar.
Speaker 1: I apologize you.
Speaker 5: No, I got it.
Speaker 1: I got it, okay, all right, So you hear this
Speaker 1: you Oh, it's a nice little Irish pig.
Speaker 5: Right, all right?
Speaker 1: You can stop it there, so my and then I
Speaker 1: get people send me email, They're like, what's that song?
Speaker 1: And then it'll be like somebody's grandma, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: i'll tell you. But once they start singing, you might
Speaker 1: have a pretty different perspective on that song because it's
Speaker 1: not you know, it's not a wee Irish jig. It's
Speaker 1: shipping up to Boston by Dropkick, which is you know,
Speaker 1: it's an Irish punk band. So just so, just so
Speaker 1: we're clear, So you're gonna hear a part of that
Speaker 1: in the background here, So prepare if you've never heard
Speaker 1: the whole song, to be a little shocked when you
Speaker 1: hear the singing in the background. But I warned you, Hey,
Speaker 1: top of the morning, what's that at the very end
Speaker 1: of the cut, there is Oh you trimmed it off.
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't realize that. Oh well, I just did
Speaker 1: that whole. I'm sorry. I thought it was still on
Speaker 1: there at the back. They just start screaming. So just
Speaker 1: there you go. I'm sorry.
Speaker 8: I hey, top of the morning to you. We just
Speaker 8: got word over here that Rosio Donald moved to Ireland.
Speaker 8: That's not a very nice gift for Americans to give
Speaker 8: to the Irish after everything we've done for you. But
Speaker 8: those of us who live in Ireland right now are
Speaker 8: descendants of the ones who survived the potato famine. I
Speaker 8: don't know that we can do it twice. So Rosie
Speaker 8: O Donald, she's got to go. We don't want her here.
Speaker 8: We don't like her. If you got to call the president,
Speaker 8: haul him, tell him take her back, or or senators Canada,
Speaker 8: we don't care. Just not here on the m Royle, please, man,
Speaker 8: for the love of God, for begging you, take her back.
Speaker 8: Take her back right now, on behalf of all of Ireland.
Speaker 8: God bless you.
Speaker 1: So what if what if instead of just taking her
Speaker 1: back we propose a trade. What's the celebrity we can
Speaker 1: trade Ireland to take Rosie O'donnald back. He who we
Speaker 1: could give him that or we could give him a
Speaker 1: career Elam. I just thought about that, Ross, do you
Speaker 1: think maybe we can trade is pronouncing your Kyrie.
Speaker 5: You know he's Cowboy bound, he's Dallas bound, he's out. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's a shame. That is a shame.
Speaker 1: The first literally the first entertainment or news story Ross
Speaker 1: that I talked about this morning is him going. We
Speaker 1: just traded Kayer Elam to Dallas and Ross is ecstatic
Speaker 1: because apparently he wasn't working out.
Speaker 5: On No, he was a piece of absolute failed garbage
Speaker 5: sos O'donald. Every time he would be in, if there
Speaker 5: was like an injury, they'd put him in. I mean
Speaker 5: he was like a first round pick or whatever. He
Speaker 5: was supposed to be like a really like you know,
Speaker 5: amazing like cornerback, and it did not work out. And
Speaker 5: every time they put him in, the fan base would
Speaker 5: be like, oh no, not not again. This guy sucks.
Speaker 5: This guy's horrible. And he was awful in the game
Speaker 5: with Kansas City. So yeah, he went to Dallas and
Speaker 5: I immediately texted Ray and I'm like, you guys took
Speaker 5: Kyer Elam and He's like, is he good? Is he ending?
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, he's so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you're gonna love him.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The graphics going around you like, you see like the
Speaker 5: official graphic that the team sends out right where it's like,
Speaker 5: you know, it's like the red raid of blue and
Speaker 5: the trade alert that you see on social media and
Speaker 5: it says trade alert and the Bills receive ten percent
Speaker 5: off a car wash after buying a large soda and
Speaker 5: the Cowboys received Kayer Elim.
Speaker 1: So it's going over well, maybe maybe if the Irish
Speaker 1: want to do a trade, but we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: offload a lot of garbage to make that happen.
Speaker 5: We'll take Colin Farrell and Connor McGregor.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I mean McGregor can be a little bit
Speaker 1: of a nuisance from time to time.
Speaker 5: I think we're gonna pick him up just for being
Speaker 5: the nuisance factor.
Speaker 1: That's fair, all right, all right, So we get Colin
Speaker 1: Ferrell and uh well, but they want us to take
Speaker 1: Rosie o'donald's. We'd have to take all three of them.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know, man, I don't know about
Speaker 1: all that. But maybe we can structure something so I don't.
Speaker 1: I thought that that was really funny yesterday. But answer
Speaker 1: your your question, Boston, Paul, Monday is not a holiday
Speaker 1: for us, So yeah, I was thinking that too. They're going,
Speaker 1: they're saying, is that dude really Irish? His accent is questionable.
Speaker 1: It is not a traditional Irish accent.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I was just I was gonna.
Speaker 1: Say, they say, having traveled all over Ireland, there is
Speaker 1: definitive difference in accents all over Ireland.
Speaker 5: He's a conservative account. I was just scrolling his account
Speaker 5: for previous videos because I was like, is that a
Speaker 5: real Irish dude?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Or is he just like making like in a funny
Speaker 5: video pretending to be Irish.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well if that because but his accent doesn't sound
Speaker 1: what people think an Irish accent sounds like. And I
Speaker 1: will give that to you.
Speaker 5: It sounds like redneck Irish dude.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what I was going to say. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't realize that, especially when you
Speaker 1: when you talk about rednecks and people in the South,
Speaker 1: you know, Irish scotch man. That's the I mean most
Speaker 1: obviously people who have you know, who have family lineage here,
Speaker 1: I guess they understand that, but a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't realize that.
Speaker 2: A lot of you know, you get into.
Speaker 1: Appalachia, you're talking about Scotch Irish, who really settled up
Speaker 1: through here, So I'm not surprised there's a little bit
Speaker 1: of a crossover there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he does sound redneck the Irish.
Speaker 1: But think about that, right, because think about us accents, right,
Speaker 1: you have that, think about the differential and accents that
Speaker 1: we have. Now, Ireland's not as big, but you get
Speaker 1: into Northern Ireland where we're not Northern Ireland itself, but
Speaker 1: like adjacent to it, because there's a little sliver that
Speaker 1: literally goes all the way up if you go up
Speaker 1: where they do some of the Ovon manufacturing stuff up there,
Speaker 1: because they actually have one over in Northern Ireland too,
Speaker 1: but right on the border there, it's like hard to
Speaker 1: understand anything they're saying. It's really thick Gaelic kind of
Speaker 1: crossover things. So I think it's cool, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: have the same thoughts. So, all right, what the hell's
Speaker 1: going on in Texas Tech? Is Texas Tech Silent Hill?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 1: So I don't know if you guys saw any of
Speaker 1: the video yesterday. So they had to evacuate Texas Tech
Speaker 1: because out of all the like the manholes and the
Speaker 1: sewer stuff, green flames started shooting out. And I don't
Speaker 1: mean a little, I mean like, what the hell's going on?
Speaker 1: So our theories are it's silent Hill, which if we
Speaker 1: don't know what that is, that's a real you hope
Speaker 1: it's not that. That's not gonna go well, especially that
Speaker 1: big dude with the hammer. Oh you don't or the
Speaker 1: axe hammer thing.
Speaker 2: You don't that that.
Speaker 1: Would spell doom. You mean Pyramidhead, your pyramid head. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I couldn't remember what his name was. Yeah, if you
Speaker 1: if pyramid heead shows up in college station, you probably
Speaker 1: all should get out. It's not gonna go well. Or
Speaker 1: is it Ninja Turtles or Ghostbusters? So wait, what is this?
Speaker 1: Somebody says we'll take Saint Andrews. Isn't in Ireland, sir,
Speaker 1: it's in Scotland. What are you talking about? Then we
Speaker 1: got to negotiate with the scotch too.
Speaker 5: The King of Scotland's gonna be pissed.
Speaker 1: They don't have a king. Well, they do have a
Speaker 1: king in Scotland. It's he's the King of England.
Speaker 5: You realize that, right, And I saw the movie The
Speaker 5: Last King of Scotland.
Speaker 1: You mean with edia Mean you're referring to I mean
Speaker 1: you think edia Mean was the last King of Scotland.
Speaker 1: The guy hold on the African warlord dictator was the
Speaker 1: last King of Scotland.
Speaker 5: Okay, it was very progressive for them at the time.
Speaker 1: Like and he's got a lazy eye, what's going on? No,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what was bonkers is the uh because
Speaker 1: there is true that that white doctor who he befriended
Speaker 1: but also kind of held hostage, Who's like, I'm going
Speaker 1: to sleep with your wife, right?
Speaker 5: Like how crazy could you be? Dude?
Speaker 1: You're sitting there. You can and you can literally have
Speaker 1: any woman in that country, right, just because of how
Speaker 1: corrupt everything was and they probably forced to do.
Speaker 5: And you're like, I'm gonna go with crazy leader's wife.
Speaker 1: You know what it is? It's like Big Poppy. Remember
Speaker 1: when Big Poppy got shot? That backstory never really got
Speaker 1: in the news as much as it should. So here's
Speaker 1: one of the things you have to know if you
Speaker 1: ever go to the Dominican Republic, ask about Big Poppy. Okay,
Speaker 1: the baseball player, obviously I'm referring to he is god
Speaker 1: in Dominican Republic, the Minican do they love baseball? There?
Speaker 1: All of that, he can have literally any woman in
Speaker 1: the Dominican and what does he do. Reportedly, he's like,
Speaker 1: who's the biggest drug cartel leader here? Hey, his girlfriend
Speaker 1: looks hot, I'm gonna sleep with her. That is the narrative.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've never seen it fully refuted. I've never seen it
Speaker 1: fully proven. I think that people realize that might be
Speaker 1: what happened, so they just really didn't dig into it,
Speaker 1: because again, he's big poppy, the you know, the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame Twins player, play for the play for the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins. Good player. Yeah, I believe that's Ross. I
Speaker 1: believe that's the only TV he played for, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 5: I chicked Grok, and Grok said that was true.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 5: He did play for the Twins.
Speaker 1: Legend. Yeah, good for him. So there we go. People
Speaker 1: are people are putting together some pretty good deals potential
Speaker 1: trade deals here, all right, but Ross gets to send
Speaker 1: his garbage player with them. So oh, the flames are
Speaker 1: from big trouble in Little China. All right, Well that's
Speaker 1: a fourth option. I forgot about that. Yeah, LoWPAN all right,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that movie in forever. All right, So
Speaker 1: here we go. I'll give you a little more on
Speaker 1: the Texas tech stuff and we got some FAA audio
Speaker 1: that's going to blow your mind. Hang on. Or we've
Speaker 1: covered very important things like ross offloading horrible players from
Speaker 1: the bills, traditional Irish breakfasts, and now fly in. That's
Speaker 1: a big, big topic of discussion there, you know. And
Speaker 1: also the idea that we have we've had and it's
Speaker 1: not something that just happened. I know, people are being disingenuous.
Speaker 1: We have had an issue with air traffic controllers and
Speaker 1: not having enough for years and years and this and
Speaker 1: I don't even it does like I'm not even making
Speaker 1: it a political thing. It's just the reality of it.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of reasons why. But one of
Speaker 1: the biggest is mandatory retirement, which is in their which
Speaker 1: is in their fifties. I'm not sure if it is fifty.
Speaker 1: I think it is fifty, right, So obviously that's going
Speaker 1: to limit some of the pool there. And there's a
Speaker 1: variety of other issues and it's not something that just
Speaker 1: it's not a doge thing that being said, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have Yeah, I mean, if you have to fill the
Speaker 1: need and people go, oh, this goes back to Reagan.
Speaker 2: It's not a Reagan thing either.
Speaker 1: There's if you read an actual honest piece of analysis,
Speaker 1: it's one of these deaths by a thousand cuts kind
Speaker 1: of things. And maybe we need to evaluate how we
Speaker 1: do training, right. I have no problem spending money for
Speaker 1: things we need, and functionally, the US needs air traffic controllers. Okay,
Speaker 1: not just not just enough of them from a safety perspective,
Speaker 1: but rather you need them from a commerce perspective as well.
Speaker 1: You have to be able. People have to be able
Speaker 1: to fly, either themselves or cargo or whatever. And the
Speaker 1: amount of money that air travel or air cargo or
Speaker 1: air freight involves itself with within the US economy is
Speaker 1: not a small amount. That being said, you can't do
Speaker 1: it like this. So a new report out of some
Speaker 1: leaked audio. This guy's name is Shelton Snow. Shelton Snow,
Speaker 1: who is a powerful figure in the National Black Coalition
Speaker 1: of Federal Aviation employees. I want to say he has
Speaker 1: he's got this really upper echelon title too, and why
Speaker 1: did him put it in the story here? They put
Speaker 1: that part of his thing. But like his actual title.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I thought it was in this Daily Mail story,
Speaker 1: but I realized I saw it when I looked him
Speaker 1: up yesterday. All right, yeah, air traffic operations supervisor. Okay,
Speaker 1: so this isn't just a dude who's an air traffic controller.
Speaker 1: He's a boss and he is air traffic operations supervisor
Speaker 1: for New York, which I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 1: As far as airspaces in the US go, that's it.
Speaker 1: That's that's the busiest man between you know, Kennedy and
Speaker 1: LaGuardia and the Newark and some other regional airports around there.
Speaker 1: It's absolute zoo. But they get it done. The problem is,
Speaker 1: he isn't just that according to what I just read you,
Speaker 1: he also is into the identity politics. So what is
Speaker 1: he doing? Well in the audio, he is clearly clearly
Speaker 1: telling individuals who want to become air traffic controllers but
Speaker 1: have to take an entry test. Right. It's the first
Speaker 1: thing you do before you can, you know, get into
Speaker 1: the other parts. You got to go through that initial interview,
Speaker 1: and it requires you to have knowledge of things having
Speaker 1: to do with controlling airplanes and air traffic. Okay, And
Speaker 1: so it's you know, they have some questions, they have
Speaker 1: some visual things. You have to be able to point
Speaker 1: out what the hell's going on there. And so I'm
Speaker 1: of the theory if we're trying to hire people to
Speaker 1: be air traffic controllers, they probably should know the stuff
Speaker 1: that is necessary to be an air traffic controller, or
Speaker 1: at the very least somebody who aspires to be.
Speaker 2: They have to have this basic knowledge.
Speaker 1: And in the audio, I want you to listen to
Speaker 1: what he's doing and explain to me how this isn't
Speaker 1: one of the most insanely potentially dangerous things you could
Speaker 1: possibly do.
Speaker 9: Watching the suburban associate members, brothers and sisters to listen.
Speaker 9: There's been a really busy time for me these past
Speaker 9: four days. I know that each of you are eager,
Speaker 9: very eager to again and again.
Speaker 1: You hear him say brothers and sisters there. It's because
Speaker 1: the group he's talking about are primarily, although not exclusively,
Speaker 1: but primarily minority applicants. And that's important here because this
Speaker 1: is the identity politics.
Speaker 9: Of this spot for this job vacancy announcement, and trust
Speaker 9: after tonight you will be able to do so. I
Speaker 9: am asking that you give me another fifteen or sixteen hours,
Speaker 9: allow me to go to work and come home provide
Speaker 9: you with an email that will be extremely crucial in
Speaker 9: the opening stages of this hiring process. There are some
Speaker 9: valuable pieces of information that I have taken a screenshot
Speaker 9: of and I'm going to send that to you via email.
Speaker 9: Trust and believe it will be something that you will
Speaker 9: appreciate to the utmost. Keep in mind, we are trying
Speaker 9: to maximize your opportunities and I'm doing the very best
Speaker 9: that I can with the time that I'm given.
Speaker 1: All Right, so you know, very cryptic there, kind of
Speaker 1: but you kind of read between the lines. Don't worry,
Speaker 1: it's gonna get much more specific. But when you hear
Speaker 1: that part of it, what do you mean You're going
Speaker 1: to send us screenshots? Trust and believe you're going to
Speaker 1: need these hold on to them, you know.
Speaker 2: Trust me.
Speaker 1: Why what are the screenshots? Or I need more specifics?
Speaker 1: What do you what do you mean You're going to
Speaker 1: send screenshots that it will be necessary for the application
Speaker 1: process for your quote brothers and sisters?
Speaker 2: What do you mean by that?
Speaker 7: Today?
Speaker 9: When I get off at eleven o'clock, the first thing
Speaker 9: that I'm going to do is I'm going to finish
Speaker 9: out that email. I'm going to find it to each
Speaker 9: of you, and as you progress through the stages, refer
Speaker 9: to those images so that you would know which icons
Speaker 9: you should select.
Speaker 1: Now I have a good well whoa okay, So you
Speaker 1: mean the icons being the test answers just to read it?
Speaker 1: So you what you mean is you're going to send
Speaker 1: pictures of the key to the test. You're going to
Speaker 1: send Hey, here's what you should select, like when you
Speaker 1: go to the DMV.
Speaker 2: Ross.
Speaker 1: Did you ever have to take the road or the
Speaker 1: written test in North Carolina.
Speaker 5: When I moved here in two thousand and six, Yeah,
Speaker 5: you had to, Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I.
Speaker 1: Had to too, which I always thought was dumb because
Speaker 1: I'm like, you think, I don't know what to bringing traffic,
Speaker 1: railroad cross he knows. Although, was it you told me
Speaker 1: the story where some were like somebody at the DMV
Speaker 1: was helping somebody take the test or was it a
Speaker 1: listener sent me? Then I'm trying to remember I had
Speaker 1: I just remember that story from years ago. Somebody was
Speaker 1: there and it was like the woman didn't speak English
Speaker 1: and the person was giving him answers and stuff.
Speaker 5: The whole thing was Yeah, I know that was me
Speaker 5: last time there was somebody sitting there and they were
Speaker 5: just obviously helping them with their test. It was infuriating, Yeah,
Speaker 5: a little bit, a little bit, all right, So I thought,
Speaker 5: I remember a story like that.
Speaker 2: So that's what this dude is doing.
Speaker 1: But he's not doing it for somebody who wants to
Speaker 1: go drive a Toyota camera around. He's doing it for
Speaker 1: somebody who wants to direct three hundred passenger planes that
Speaker 1: literally are going to be coming within some of the
Speaker 1: closest proximity that air travel does because of the busyness
Speaker 1: of in this case the New York you know, the
Speaker 1: New York airspace there, which is just crazy complex, how
Speaker 1: dangerous is that. I'm continue digging your own graves.
Speaker 9: Mine to send it to one of my HR representatives
Speaker 9: first and give them the opportunity to sign off on
Speaker 9: it before you actually click it. But in the sake
Speaker 9: of time, I'm going to send it directly to you
Speaker 9: because I'm about ninety nine point nine to nine percent
Speaker 9: sure that it's exactly how you need to answer each
Speaker 9: question in order to get through the first phase, all right,
Speaker 9: And so.
Speaker 1: It's not just test stuff too, it's questions that are
Speaker 1: you know questions you may answer when you're doing an
Speaker 1: application process. And don't get me wrong, I understand there's
Speaker 1: one thing to coach people because of the computer systems
Speaker 1: that they use to take in large scale applications, right,
Speaker 1: And like there's a lot of good advice when you're
Speaker 1: dealing with a corporation. This is why people will fill
Speaker 1: out all this stuff and they'll never even hear anything
Speaker 1: even though they consistently see these hiring things and they're
Speaker 1: more than qualified because a lot of hiring managers have
Speaker 1: gotten lazy or they're just overwhelmed with this's your volume
Speaker 1: that they allow computer systems to do keyword searches on
Speaker 1: your applications, right, And it's one thing to coach people
Speaker 1: on that. It's another thing entirely to be sending them
Speaker 1: screenshots explaining how they can go ahead and manipulate the
Speaker 1: hiring process to go ahead and get within this program.
Speaker 1: And I think it's going to be very very important
Speaker 1: to understand what it is he's attempting to communicate, and
Speaker 1: I think he's being very upfront with it.
Speaker 9: Now people have been getting rejection notices, and those rejection
Speaker 9: notices have been coming after about twenty four to thirty
Speaker 9: six hours after clicking submit, and I want to avoid that.
Speaker 9: So what we're going to do is we're going to
Speaker 9: take our time and we're going to make sure that
Speaker 9: everything that we click on and you're going to even
Speaker 9: have to go back to your resume and make some
Speaker 9: changes because one of our members and I have caught
Speaker 9: something and we want to go back and we want
Speaker 9: to fine tune those details. And I guarantee that will
Speaker 9: give us the very best feeling that we could ever
Speaker 9: get and applying for this job.
Speaker 1: So and again, the argument's going to be that all
Speaker 1: he's saying is you got to fix your resume. So
Speaker 1: keywords are there, but the process is not just a resume.
Speaker 1: It also includes a small app to to test as
Speaker 1: well as them wanting to demonstrate your understanding of various
Speaker 1: things that are part of being an air traffic controller.
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, you can't have somebody who's sitting here
Speaker 1: and attempting to manipulate the situation. So yeah, that is
Speaker 1: absolutely incredible. Now and again it was the Daily Mail
Speaker 1: who broke this, which is actually again you have this
Speaker 1: this British news outlet doing it, So that's that's crazy.
Speaker 1: All on its own, but yeah, yeah, we have we
Speaker 1: have a little bit of a problem there, and I
Speaker 1: hope even though again we need air traffic controllers and
Speaker 1: that's fine. And again I don't have a problem with
Speaker 1: somebody helping somebody with their resume. I don't think that
Speaker 1: that's inappropriate. But once you get into an aptitude, whether
Speaker 1: it's attempting to gauge your level of knowledge, you can't
Speaker 1: have somebody helping manipulate late that. You can have people,
Speaker 1: you can take a course, you can go get some
Speaker 1: additional education where they go over this, but taking screenshots
Speaker 1: of how you're supposed to answer and what you're supposed
Speaker 1: to answer crosses the line. This is this is not
Speaker 1: tutoring anymore. This is something else entirely all right, speaking
Speaker 1: of something different, we're gonna get raised stagic. But he's
Speaker 1: on the phone today, so yeah, sure that's a technical
Speaker 1: fun thing.
Speaker 7: Yeah right, is it?
Speaker 1: Because you're so excited with your new cornerback that Ross's
Speaker 1: team just gave you.
Speaker 7: You know, I didn't even recognize the name, so I
Speaker 7: figured he had to come from the Bills.
Speaker 1: Oh really.
Speaker 5: Must be a warm weather player.
Speaker 7: Good, Yeah, I don't think so. I don't think the
Speaker 7: Cowboys have any luck in free agency, and they haven't
Speaker 7: had in What is.
Speaker 2: Is your deal?
Speaker 1: But what is Jerry does Jerry Jones just take the
Speaker 1: whole time off.
Speaker 5: I mean, like, I think Jared Jones is a great guy,
Speaker 5: and I'll pay for his medical bills. It's a great movie.
Speaker 7: Well, my big struggle is getting rid of uh DeMarcus Lawrence.
Speaker 7: I don't know, you may bee past his prime, but
Speaker 7: another like like, well, why don't you try to retain
Speaker 7: somebody that's probably at least equal to somebody else or
Speaker 7: even better than you. I don't know the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Just and I you should have signed Joey Bosa. That
Speaker 1: guy was really good. I hear.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, We're well, I'm gonna yeah, right, I'm gonna
Speaker 7: d I'm gonna put that in the you know, if
Speaker 7: you can keep him healthy and keep him on the field.
Speaker 5: I feel the same way. If dude can stay healthy,
Speaker 5: it'll be great.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But even if the dude is healthy, that ross
Speaker 1: just sents you. He's still gonna say so there's I mean.
Speaker 7: Yeah, probably yeah, and why not, Well, you're just listen,
Speaker 7: my expectations are low. Was having this conversation in the
Speaker 7: news room. This morning, I'm in the office and like
Speaker 7: everybody wants to talk to me, and I'm like, no,
Speaker 7: my expectations are low. Just I keep it where I've
Speaker 7: been for the last ten years, no expectations. So we'll see. Yeah, yeah, way.
Speaker 1: Place you can go is up, all right, that's right,
Speaker 1: that's where temperature should go to.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, they are got lots of sunshine coming back
Speaker 7: tomorrow after a partly sunny day today, still the mid
Speaker 7: upper seventies across the region. I think the showers are
Speaker 7: really going to stay west of us as this little
Speaker 7: disturbance spinning over Memphis right now kind of goes away.
Speaker 7: Most seventies tomorrow looking better, and then the weekends where
Speaker 7: we see the next change come in. Maybe some showers Saturday,
Speaker 7: but we're going to be even warmer, upper seventies to
Speaker 7: low eighties really depending on where you are. And then
Speaker 7: Saturday night it's early Sunday showers, maybe a thunderstorm or too.
Speaker 7: We kind of do get painted in the lower risk
Speaker 7: for severe storms, especially from the triad west. But again
Speaker 7: it's going to be a situation where I think the
Speaker 7: line's weakening as it approaches. But it's overnight Saturday night,
Speaker 7: probably early Sunday morning where we'll have that threat. So
Speaker 7: just in case, make sure you have your alert set
Speaker 7: on your phones if you are, you know, still sleeping
Speaker 7: five six of the morning or somewhere around there, so
Speaker 7: just be ready for something to come through Saturday night
Speaker 7: early Sunday, and then Sunday afternoon we should be a
Speaker 7: little bit better, maybe some lingering showers, but still in
Speaker 7: the seventies. Early next week we're a little cooler, but
Speaker 7: still mild sixties on Monday and probably closer to seventy
Speaker 7: degrees on Tuesday, so warm and dry. Weather Service still
Speaker 7: has or kind of statement out for the fire weather
Speaker 7: and the dangers there, but somewhat weather coming in second
Speaker 7: half of the weekend.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, thank you sir, and we'll talk in
Speaker 1: the next hour and hopefully we'll fix the thing, all right,
Speaker 1: figure that out, all right, all right, I have a
Speaker 1: good one there, all right, seven point fifty back in
Speaker 1: just a few eight eight eight nine three four seven
Speaker 1: eight seven four. You want to be on the show,
Speaker 1: hang on, because we're going to get into a bunch
Speaker 1: of topics with our next guest, and then we'll get
Speaker 1: your calls on all of them. Are official NERD co
Speaker 1: respondent Stephen Kent joining us. Steven, what's up man.
Speaker 6: Good morning.
Speaker 1: I hear your I hear you're in the beard club
Speaker 1: with us now, so good decision.
Speaker 6: It's true, it's true. I have been bearded now for
Speaker 6: two months. I'm feeling the strength running through my veins
Speaker 6: for the first time in my life.
Speaker 7: Really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nobody messes with you like those screw
Speaker 1: with that guy. You might be Special Forces or something. Yeah.
Speaker 6: So I feel respected by my colleagues, was by my family.
Speaker 2: It's you now, They're like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, looks like yeah, you guys got all the testosterones.
Speaker 2: So all right, Well, good to see Jadie Vance.
Speaker 6: You know he made it.
Speaker 1: Okay, dude, did you see I know this is a
Speaker 1: little sidetrack. You heard. We had an article earlier this
Speaker 1: week from what was it The Atlantic where they were like, uh,
Speaker 1: the right are making fun of jd Vance by making
Speaker 1: memes of him being fat on the internet, Like how
Speaker 1: can you be a political writer and be so clueless?
Speaker 1: Like do you want to prove the left camp meme
Speaker 1: every day or that you don't understand memes? Jd Vance
Speaker 1: was retweeting memes like he digs them clearly. It's like
Speaker 1: it's it's yeah, it's meming affection and like some of
Speaker 1: these writers don't understand this man.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's really interesting to see the Atlantic basically just
Speaker 6: not understand right wing humor. You know, largely what is
Speaker 6: fueled kind of the millennial and gen Z turned towards
Speaker 6: right wing causes has been just an affection for self
Speaker 6: deprecating humor and ironic humor. And sometimes you can't see
Speaker 6: straight through the irony. It's really hard to tell sometimes
Speaker 6: when online right wingers are joking or when they're not
Speaker 6: but absolutely meming the heck out of JD. Vance's face
Speaker 6: to make them look like an oopa lumpa is a
Speaker 6: side of affection with online fans of the vice president.
Speaker 6: And they used to understand this about the right, that
Speaker 6: there was sort of this deep irony to the movement,
Speaker 6: But uh, I think they've just forgotten.
Speaker 1: Well and much of their peril because I think understanding
Speaker 1: the how new media impacts especially younger voters is not
Speaker 1: under or should say not understanding. It is detrimental from
Speaker 1: a party perspective. Right, the Democrats have to understand, and
Speaker 1: I believe there are some people that do, but maybe
Speaker 1: it's not leadership who understands it's and they better fix it.
Speaker 1: If or I guess if you don't like them, then
Speaker 1: you don't want them to fix it. But if they
Speaker 1: want to be successful and they want to be able
Speaker 1: to draw on this younger generation, they better fix things
Speaker 1: quick and understand how this works.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 6: Yeah, can you imagine if anyone started doing the JD
Speaker 6: vance memes to someone like aoc and the.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the exactly go back to the last the last
Speaker 1: uh you know, uh president and Vice president, you'd be
Speaker 1: you'd be closest.
Speaker 6: They ever got to. This was was making fun of
Speaker 6: Kamala for the co cannot pill the thing where she
Speaker 6: made that remark about like, what do you think it
Speaker 6: came from? You fell out of a coconut tree or something.
Speaker 6: They Yeah, that was the closest they got.
Speaker 1: That's too bad, all right, So we were talking about
Speaker 1: something a little earlier. But you see it every day
Speaker 1: obviously being up in the DC area. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I've ever been in DC for more than twenty
Speaker 1: four hours where i haven't seen a protest of some sort.
Speaker 2: Right, it's a crazy thing.
Speaker 1: However, it's my theory and I'm gonna run. I'm curious
Speaker 1: what you think because you actually went to an anti
Speaker 1: Trump protest yesday, an anti doze or whatever it was
Speaker 1: for Department of ED. I feel like the crowd sizes
Speaker 1: are not what they were during the first Trump, you know,
Speaker 1: time in office, and arguably he if you hated Trump,
Speaker 1: then with everything he's doing now, you should hate him
Speaker 1: ten times more, right, because he's just bulling at China
Speaker 1: Shop because nothing is sacred, everything is up for grabs.
Speaker 1: And yet the protest crowd sizes seem to be a
Speaker 1: little bit smaller, and some theorized that maybe stripping the
Speaker 1: USAID money and some of these other kind of unaccountable
Speaker 1: streams of cash that would go to these NGOs which
Speaker 1: would also then participate in some of these protests, people
Speaker 1: get the impression that really that was the key, and
Speaker 1: that many of these protests, uh, we were paying for
Speaker 1: I was literally paying for people to protest against against
Speaker 1: things that I like. Do you think there's an ingredience
Speaker 1: to that?
Speaker 2: What is your experience?
Speaker 6: Yeah, So I've been thinking about this for the past
Speaker 6: two days as I've been watching a lot of these
Speaker 6: doge protests in DC, and like you know, yesterday I
Speaker 6: was at the Department of Education and just observing the
Speaker 6: incredible lack of blowback there. There was a protest like
Speaker 6: last week, but today as the staff has been cut
Speaker 6: in half. This was beginning yesterday and into today, there
Speaker 6: is literally nobody. There was six people throughout yesterday afternoon,
Speaker 6: mostly just old retired boomers. You know. Of course there's
Speaker 6: always the old male boomer wearing a bucket hat and
Speaker 6: the four ladies who all look like they drive broken
Speaker 6: down priuses. They showed up and I'm wondering where their
Speaker 6: reinforcements were. And a lot of conservatives have been saying
Speaker 6: this is because USAID funds are no longer being funneled
Speaker 6: through NGOs to fund domestic protests in the US. I
Speaker 6: don't know about any evidence for this, but it appeals
Speaker 6: to my sense of common sense, because we do know
Speaker 6: that money funneled out of USAID to NGOs and then
Speaker 6: out back into the nonprofit sector largely ruled by George
Speaker 6: Soros on the left, and he does fund domestic protests
Speaker 6: and riots.
Speaker 1: Makes sense to me, Yeah, I think, especially when you
Speaker 1: see the uniformity of a lot of the equipment, like
Speaker 1: those campus protests where they all had the same tent, right,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't a cheap tend either, as somebody who
Speaker 1: is a camping enthusiast like.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I think one of the important things to note, like,
Speaker 6: you know, if you're concerned about the influence of George
Speaker 6: Sorows and his dollars in left wing radical politics in
Speaker 6: the US, you sort of have to ask the question, well,
Speaker 6: why wouldn't he just continue to fund these things even
Speaker 6: without USAID to funnel that money through or to move
Speaker 6: money through. I think it's because of like culpability, you know,
Speaker 6: basically USAID was able to wash money, remove fingerprints, make
Speaker 6: everything just look like simple government grants and then never
Speaker 6: anything is never tied back to someone like Soros. So
Speaker 6: I think that we're going to see a slowdown in
Speaker 6: US domestic unrest, and I think that that's going to
Speaker 6: be legitimate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know the Act Blue, are you following
Speaker 1: any of this where where they were having like you'd
Speaker 1: have some like we had a dude in Raleigh who
Speaker 1: is a Democrat. They went and interviewed him. He lives
Speaker 1: in He lives in a like it's like an economy apartment.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to trash on the dude, but he's
Speaker 1: not rich, and like he apparently made like twelve hundred
Speaker 1: small donations over a few months through Act Blue, except
Speaker 1: when they asked him about it, he said he never
Speaker 1: remembered making any of these. A lot of people think
Speaker 1: that they might have been washing larger outside money, people
Speaker 1: had been capped out on donations and then just attaching
Speaker 1: them through to various small donors, like you know, people
Speaker 1: who donated ten dollars one time and then they would
Speaker 1: just recreate it, and they were washing money there. So
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's anything to it, but the
Speaker 1: whole thing sounds, like you said, it appeals to my
Speaker 1: common sense and probably requires some more explanation or export.
Speaker 6: You know, I think when I think when it comes
Speaker 6: to shenanigans, if you can imagine a way to do
Speaker 6: something with money and political influence, I think someone else
Speaker 6: has probably had the same idea and tried it. So, yeah,
Speaker 6: I saw this thing about Act Blue. I'm sure there's
Speaker 6: absolutely all sorts of money funneling through there from strange
Speaker 6: and disturbing groups. But you know, Congress will look into it,
Speaker 6: and if we actually find some sort of evidence that
Speaker 6: money from you know terrorist organizations are being funneled through
Speaker 6: organizations like this to harm Americans and American businesses. There
Speaker 6: will be hell to pay, and DJ will take care
Speaker 6: of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know that I'm on that train with
Speaker 2: the terroristing.
Speaker 1: What I think is you just had large donors, but
Speaker 1: donors like Soros who maybe.
Speaker 2: Didn't want fingerprints on money.
Speaker 1: Or you had others who had hit donation caps in
Speaker 1: certain instances in this yeah way that they could overpay.
Speaker 2: If I see the.
Speaker 1: Terrorists, well, i'd actually I'd like to respond to that
Speaker 1: about terrorism now, Yeah, no, no, no, no, I absolutely agree.
Speaker 1: Cynical me though, says that the reason we'll never really
Speaker 1: know is because when red may do some of the
Speaker 1: same stuff. So like everyone's protecting each other because nobody
Speaker 1: nobody wants to get in trouble.
Speaker 2: So I'm too cynical.
Speaker 1: But we got, we got. Let me transition to a
Speaker 1: few things. We had a bunch of entertainment stuff. I
Speaker 1: sent you a all right, ross, sent it to you.
Speaker 2: I saw this thing.
Speaker 1: Literally this morning, and it was a trailer for a
Speaker 1: documentary documentary that's being done by the former personal assistant
Speaker 1: to stan Lee, And I guess if I have to
Speaker 1: explain it for one person out there, stan Lee in
Speaker 1: the world of comic books. God, right, you would agree
Speaker 1: that's God. Yeah, he's He's as big as it got,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately he passed away here a little while ago.
Speaker 1: But it documents the final I guess, about a year
Speaker 1: and a half two years of his life. And there
Speaker 1: were some shenanigans we know about. There was a business
Speaker 1: partner ended up getting charged, there was some financial stuff there.
Speaker 1: But what the documentary is supposed to show is this
Speaker 1: team around stan who don't look like they're operating in
Speaker 1: his best interest. It looks like elder abuse. It looks
Speaker 1: like taking advantage of somebody who was in the twilight
Speaker 1: years of their life but is a cash cow and
Speaker 1: you know, and can essentially, you know, enrich you and
Speaker 1: people taking advantage of the situation, which then made me
Speaker 1: angry at his personal assistant for simply filming it so
Speaker 1: to make a documentary which seems like a bit of
Speaker 1: a cash drab, But it doesn't negate the fact that
Speaker 1: those clips that we saw don't look very good. What
Speaker 1: was your thought, what's your understanding of this?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I mean, so this is coming from stan Lee's previous
Speaker 6: personal assistant. His name is John Bowler Jack. He is,
Speaker 6: you know, an aspiring comic book artist and he does
Speaker 6: dabble in filmmaking, and he was, you know, just kind
Speaker 6: of being the PA for stan Lee in the final
Speaker 6: years of his life. And as stan Lee was being
Speaker 6: carded from comic Con to comic Con in a wheelchair,
Speaker 6: bowler Jack is alleging that he witnessed, you know, everybody
Speaker 6: around stan Lee basically treating him like cattle, using him
Speaker 6: to generate revenues and cash transactions at comic Con, giving
Speaker 6: people access to stan Lee, you know, with cash exchanging
Speaker 6: hands at these big events, and people were pocketing money
Speaker 6: off of just being around him. And you can see
Speaker 6: stan Lee is often very confused, very tired, and he
Speaker 6: just is sort.
Speaker 7: Of of there.
Speaker 6: He's just existing and barely hanging on as people are
Speaker 6: carding him and then telling him no, like we have
Speaker 6: to go to this event, you have to be here,
Speaker 6: leaving me to wonder where the heck were his children.
Speaker 6: And that's the part that kind of actually gets gets
Speaker 6: me mad. Is I just looking for his family here
Speaker 6: and they're nowhere to be seen?
Speaker 1: Well, is there? What's the relationship with his family? Where
Speaker 1: you know, because sometimes the families are the people doing
Speaker 1: it too, you know, the elderly folks, right, we see
Speaker 1: those those whole stories.
Speaker 2: So I'm not making any accusations, I don't know.
Speaker 1: The whole thing is just incredibly sad that one part too,
Speaker 1: where they have him in that hotel room with all
Speaker 1: the fake forehammers and all the ur They're literally like
Speaker 1: forcing this dude to sign it.
Speaker 2: And I kind of.
Speaker 1: Feel like, just to get a little political, you know
Speaker 1: what it feels like. It feels like what it must
Speaker 1: have felt like in the Oval Office for Joe Biden
Speaker 1: at the end with oh.
Speaker 6: I mean yeah, I think that's legitimate. And you know,
Speaker 6: Stanley does have a good relationship with his daughters, you know,
Speaker 6: j C and Jane. They have been known to to
Speaker 6: spend a lot of time together in the past, but
Speaker 6: to change not change topics entirely. But just last week,
Speaker 6: Tucker Carlson on his podcast did an interview with the
Speaker 6: premiere of Cutter, and they went on this sort of
Speaker 6: side path when they were discussing Middle Eastern relations about
Speaker 6: how the US uses elder care and retirement homes and
Speaker 6: Cutter kind of can't fathom the idea of putting your
Speaker 6: elderly off, like they believe culturally that you know, when
Speaker 6: people get old, that it's the duty of the children
Speaker 6: to take.
Speaker 1: Care of them.
Speaker 6: This is this is something that I agree with, and
Speaker 6: I couldn't help shake that when I was watching this
Speaker 6: stan Lee trailer, and I just I just want to
Speaker 6: know where the kids were and why they weren't taken
Speaker 6: care of and protecting their dad here, because he was
Speaker 6: clearly being exploited, and even the young man who was
Speaker 6: filming at the personal assistant, I'm a little wary. I
Speaker 6: don't trust his intentions here to the full. I think
Speaker 6: he justified his actions by saying he was going to
Speaker 6: hold people accountable and be there to protect stan Lee
Speaker 6: when he could, but he was just always running a
Speaker 6: camera and working on a working.
Speaker 7: On a movie here.
Speaker 6: And I don't know, I'm not I'm not too eager
Speaker 6: to say that the kid may making this movie as
Speaker 6: a saint either.
Speaker 2: No, I'm I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't like the vibes I got from him. And
Speaker 1: maybe the full documentary will change that, but at least
Speaker 1: not in the trailer.
Speaker 6: It's his air, it's the shoulder length hair. I don't
Speaker 6: trust him.
Speaker 1: No, it's the shirt he's wearing in the car in
Speaker 1: that one shot, Like, that's a wonder what are you doing?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Anyway? That's not fair, So believe
Speaker 1: it or not, it's you know what, one of the
Speaker 1: craziest things on the radio. We're gonna we got it
Speaker 1: just a couple of minutes. We're not gonna get to
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff, but we're gonna get to this.
Speaker 1: So one of the things that's crazy about doing this
Speaker 1: is misremembering, because like all the news blends together. I
Speaker 1: forgot that it was twenty twenty three when Rachel Zegler
Speaker 1: made those comments about Snow White, and it's twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five now, and they tried to put this movie off
Speaker 1: as much as they could. It looks like it's collapsing
Speaker 1: in a minute or less. How bad is this going
Speaker 1: to be for Disney or do you think maybe just
Speaker 1: maybe the press is wrong and people will go see it.
Speaker 6: Well, somebody is going to go see it, but it
Speaker 6: does it does look clear that Disney is preparing for
Speaker 6: some embarrassment at the box office with the Snow White movie.
Speaker 6: It is due out here. This weekend, and I'm not
Speaker 6: expecting things.
Speaker 7: To go well.
Speaker 6: At the least it will be very much like what
Speaker 6: you saw with the New Captain America movie, which is
Speaker 6: a perfectly respectable opening weekend, and the Hollywood press and
Speaker 6: supporters of this kind of woke approach to doing snow White.
Speaker 6: We'll say that everybody was wrong and the movie was
Speaker 6: a box office smash. But then you got to watch
Speaker 6: what happens with successive weekends. Do the second wave of
Speaker 6: people go see this movie? And that's unlikely?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say sharp drop off. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: like we didn't even get over to the Marvel stuff.
Speaker 1: We'll save that for next week because I got a
Speaker 1: whole pile of it. But Steven appreciate it. This morning,
Speaker 1: have fun going to the moonbat protests and watching sometimes
Speaker 1: that's the best entertainment out there. And we'll get some
Speaker 1: more reports.
Speaker 6: Thanks dude, Excelsey or see you later.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go, Steven kent nerd correspondents, you
Speaker 1: Tube and everything geeky stoics. We will be right back. Hangan,
Speaker 1: I want to point out that Maxine Water, here's a
Speaker 1: couple of things you need to about. I need to
Speaker 1: know about Maxine Waters. Maxine Waters Well is a lunatic.
Speaker 1: So three things one uh and two. Maxine Waters and
Speaker 1: her husband got into some like bank shenanigans, which frankly
Speaker 1: seemed illegal, but somehow she kind of like weaseled out
Speaker 1: of it. And she used to chair the Banking Committee,
Speaker 1: the you know, commerce, banking and commerce, so like she
Speaker 1: should have one of the best understandings in all of
Speaker 1: Congress about financial instruments, banking, any of the rest. But
Speaker 1: you can't when you're as dumb as she is. So
Speaker 1: case in point here she is.
Speaker 10: Yesterday I court show that a far larger number of
Speaker 10: investors lost more than two billion dollars after the meming
Speaker 10: coin crash. Meanwhile, a Republican led SEC has conveniently stated
Speaker 10: that meming coins are not to their regulator oversight, and
Speaker 10: a new SEC head by someone who does not believe
Speaker 10: in guardrails would continue to go.
Speaker 4: Down this road.
Speaker 10: We're not just talking about what you have advised us about.
Speaker 10: We're talking about the way that these mimi coins are
Speaker 10: put together.
Speaker 1: This is a meb coin. Now, let me just say this,
Speaker 1: Remember when the first when the word meme first started
Speaker 1: kind of entering the lexicon on the regular I allowed
Speaker 1: for a learning curve right ross. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, And we saw this specifically with our very
Speaker 5: own Jamal who calls the show, where the first time
Speaker 5: he called up he called it a mime coin. He
Speaker 5: said the same thing, like a decade ago or something.
Speaker 1: Yet, yeah, and so for there was a window where
Speaker 1: if you said mimi instead of meme, it was fine.
Speaker 1: But you also weren't the former chair of the Banking Committee,
Speaker 1: a city member of Congress, and somebody is trying to
Speaker 1: enact screaming memi coin. So unless the coin is from
Speaker 1: the I just actually I just realized how she could
Speaker 1: pull herself out of this. I just uh, unless the
Speaker 1: coin is a money grab by the woman from the
Speaker 1: Drew Carey show, You're an idiot, that's what you got. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's she up to?
Speaker 2: I don't even know?
Speaker 1: Right, So, but what you're talking about are meme coins, ma'am,
Speaker 1: And holy hell, you should probably.
Speaker 2: Do you not have anyone on.
Speaker 1: Your staff, but like, oh you know what, wait a second,
Speaker 1: hold on, do we have her gasoline thing? She couldn't
Speaker 1: pronounce gasoline. You remember that one time when she was
Speaker 1: telling if you see if you see that going back
Speaker 1: to Trump's first time when she was telling people to
Speaker 1: harass Trump supporters like you see him in a gasoline station?
Speaker 2: So why would I assume she it's Mimi.
Speaker 10: Reports show that a far larger number of investors lost
Speaker 10: more than two billion dollars after the meme coined crash.
Speaker 1: All right, well, you know what, then, maybe you need
Speaker 1: to bring in a hawk to a girl in for
Speaker 1: your committee hearing and question her. Dude, I'd pay to
Speaker 1: watch that, wouldn't you, Maxine Waters grilling hawk to a girl?
Speaker 1: Does that battle of that battle of intellects? Oh man,
Speaker 1: that would be amazing. But otherwise, ma'am, you're just selling
Speaker 1: an idiot. So thank you. I would have been I
Speaker 1: would have been kicking myself for the rest of the day,
Speaker 1: and I forgot to go ahead and play that.
Speaker 2: All right, you're ready for one of the most.
Speaker 1: Insane law proposals I've seen in a minute. Of course,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to Illinois. That's right, That's how I
Speaker 1: pronounce it. Deal with it. We're gonna go to Illinois
Speaker 1: where a lawmaker there has Why am I getting gatekeep
Speaker 1: when I saw this damn article earlier? Oh, I just
Speaker 1: hate this stuff.
Speaker 2: Hang on, hang on.
Speaker 1: I OpEd ross, I opened a link. I opened a link,
Speaker 1: and then after I opened the link and had the
Speaker 1: story up there, I didn't go to it for a while,
Speaker 1: and then I go back and then it has like
Speaker 1: a paywall on it. But initially it was showing all
Speaker 1: the things. Is that a new thing we're doing now
Speaker 1: on websites to make them even more obnoxious and annoying
Speaker 1: for people? That's great, Thank you so much for that.
Speaker 1: So anyway, an Illinois lawmaker has put forward a proposal.
Speaker 1: Here we go. All right, I'll get that to work now,
Speaker 1: a proposal that would provide a carve out. Here we go.
Speaker 1: Illinois lawmaker has introduced a bill that would make it
Speaker 1: legal for anyone experiencing a mental health episode to assault
Speaker 1: police officers.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, it is as crazy as it sounds. The terms
Speaker 1: of the legislation. The bill would provide that it is
Speaker 1: a defense to aggravated battery when an when an individual
Speaker 1: batters a police officer, and it's not just police, it's
Speaker 1: actually fire, police correctional institution employee, so a prison guard,
Speaker 1: private security officer, a Department of Health and Human Services employee,
Speaker 1: or a community policing volunteers, so a whole bunch of them.
Speaker 1: But basically, if you claim that you're having a mental
Speaker 1: health episode with how many times do we see this
Speaker 1: with like officer involved shootings or just you know, really
Speaker 1: heated interactions between police and suspects right where they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: my baby was having a mental health episode. And sometimes
Speaker 1: they are. Sometimes it's a suicide by cops situation. It's
Speaker 1: incredibly sad. But about half the time when they're like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: he's having a mental health issue. No, their mental health issue?
Speaker 1: Is there a dirt bag who don't have any respect
Speaker 1: for law enforcement. I saw a video yesterday of some
Speaker 1: police who are trying to subdue a guy and three
Speaker 1: other dudes are jumping on the police and then just
Speaker 1: running off. Right, this is the thing we do now.
Speaker 1: They're not all having mental health episodes. You're looking for
Speaker 1: a carve out there so that people can justify striking
Speaker 1: police officers. And I just want to point out this
Speaker 1: isn't even elevating peace officers over the general public. This
Speaker 1: is the same charge that if you walked up and
Speaker 1: punched somebody on the street, you would be charged with
Speaker 1: aggravated assault. In the right circumstances, and if you punch
Speaker 1: police in the same fashion you in Illinois are currently
Speaker 1: charged with aggravated assault. It's not even an elevated secondary
Speaker 1: charge like a assault of a law enforcement officer, which
Speaker 1: some states have. In Illinois, it doesn't matter if you're police,
Speaker 1: not police, the guy that works at the gas station,
Speaker 1: your neighbor, whatever, if you assault them, you'll be charged
Speaker 1: with assault. This lunatic and two others three Democrat state
Speaker 1: reps want to make it legal if you go in
Speaker 1: and claim that you're having a mental health episode, which
Speaker 1: the parameters, by the way in the build don't even
Speaker 1: require you to have that signed off on. You just
Speaker 1: have to make the argument and then you can bring
Speaker 1: your expert in. Like there's no way to really determine
Speaker 1: that if somebody is having just because somebody's out of
Speaker 1: control doesn't mean they're having a mental health episode. Sometimes
Speaker 1: they're just a criminal who doesn't want to get apprehended
Speaker 1: by police. I don't know if you've ever seen this.
Speaker 1: Sometimes that's the thing, and they want to make it
Speaker 1: legal to go ahead or not an offense, to go
Speaker 1: ahead and beat the crap out of a police officer
Speaker 1: who may be trying to take them into custody.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's probably the most insane thing I've heard in a while.
Speaker 1: I hope it doesn't go anywhere, but I don't know that.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of trust up there in the
Speaker 1: state of Illinois. And imagine what that would mean for Chicago.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine in the most crime infested areas of Chicago,
Speaker 1: where you wouldn't catch a charge for assaulting a police officer?
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you try to get away? Seriously, why wouldn't
Speaker 1: you if you thought, especially if you had like a warrant,
Speaker 1: or you had a bunch of previous convictions and you
Speaker 1: thought they might actually do something this time, or your
Speaker 1: whole or you got something in your pocket you shouldn't have,
Speaker 1: like you know, like a hard drug or a gun
Speaker 1: that you're not supposed to have. Why wouldn't you assault
Speaker 1: a police officer if you can just claim you were
Speaker 1: out of your head at the time. And and this
Speaker 1: is the this is the lunacy that we're dealing with
Speaker 1: up there, by the way, Ross, I just saw this.
Speaker 1: Did you see who just bought Pokemon Go?
Speaker 2: I just saw this story.
Speaker 1: So apparently the Ninantic Games, which is the maker of
Speaker 1: Pokemon Go and its whole catalog of games, but primarily
Speaker 1: that's their money maker. Just got sold to the Saudi government.
Speaker 1: Well that what's that gonna look like? It is like
Speaker 1: pika Oh I found a Pikachu and he's a suicide barber.
Speaker 1: How does that work? This game could get dangerous?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 1: All right, So the Saudi's now on Pokemon Go. And
Speaker 1: if in case you need a less of a reason
Speaker 1: to play this, that is crazy. Oh, I have to
Speaker 1: tell Kevin Campbell, let him know. That's very sad. All right?
Speaker 1: Are we good to go with Noe? We're on the
Speaker 1: phone again. Why raced agic from the Weather Channel joining us?
Speaker 1: Why'd you break your toy? Man?
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I tell you I texted the comrax right after and
Speaker 1: it worked for me.
Speaker 7: And I'm trying to figure out. You would think that
Speaker 7: when you came into the actual building and went into
Speaker 7: a studio rather than your homemade studio with you know,
Speaker 7: a twenty dollars microphone, you would think that these things
Speaker 7: would work, wouldn't you? Look?
Speaker 2: Do you have I have a brick unit or do
Speaker 2: you have a fit of conrec unit in your little
Speaker 2: You're den there full comers.
Speaker 7: But I'm using like on sip. It's a different that's
Speaker 7: what I use for all old.
Speaker 1: Never mind, never mind, use it. We're gonna get two
Speaker 1: inside baseball. That's your own fault.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, no, but but it's it's funny because that
Speaker 7: oh it's fine anyway. But let's see, let's see see
Speaker 7: see see. Okay, yesterday, let's do this first Yesterday, eighty
Speaker 7: try at eighty three triangles, so we'll have that kind
Speaker 7: of spread over the next few days. Two to three
Speaker 7: degree two to three degrees, depending on where you are. Today,
Speaker 7: it's probably mid upper seventies a partial sunshine. Tomorrow seventy
Speaker 7: are just above depends on where you are, lots of sunshine.
Speaker 7: So two real great days here today and tomorrow. Overnight
Speaker 7: lows are we gonna be mild for this time of year,
Speaker 7: in the mid upper forties. Now the normal highs are
Speaker 7: closer to sixty or just above sixty degrees, so we're
Speaker 7: well above normal. And then Saturday, the warmest day of
Speaker 7: this run upper seventies to low eighties. I don't think
Speaker 7: Saturday we have a train at all to do anything
Speaker 7: to cancel any out to a plan, So just plan
Speaker 7: on maybe an afternoon shower passing through a little breezy
Speaker 7: that it's Saturday, the Sunday early that we have to
Speaker 7: watch out for showers, even some thunderstorms. Especially try it
Speaker 7: in west out towards Ashville and Boone and Hickory are
Speaker 7: a better chance and maybe some stronger storms. So potentially
Speaker 7: some severe weather here. We'll see how far east they go.
Speaker 7: So right now it's say at least early Sunday morning,
Speaker 7: after midnight Saturday into Sunday morning, there is that chance.
Speaker 7: And then a few showers are possible Sunday with highs
Speaker 7: and the little mid seventies. And then it looks good
Speaker 7: as we get into Monday next week, so dryer weather
Speaker 7: will come in after a little wet weather, and we
Speaker 7: need the wet weather. With the Weather Service continue and
Speaker 7: emphasize these dangerous fire conditions. Increased fire danger again today.
Speaker 7: Low relative humidity, a little bit of a breeze, and
Speaker 7: warm temperatures certainly not good for fires. That's a new
Speaker 7: occur or you know, if they do get started, and
Speaker 7: unfortunately that does happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, real quick too, if you paid twenty much for
Speaker 1: that mic, you got ripped off.
Speaker 2: Brot Business bureauers.
Speaker 7: Okay, it worked there of the pandemic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, all right, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, we'll come back with Jeff Bellinger next.
Speaker 11: Hang on morning, case there is better than expected economic
Speaker 11: news from Washington this morning. The Producer Price Index, the
Speaker 11: government's way of tracking inflation at the wholesale level, was
Speaker 11: unchanged last month. The core PPI, which excludes volatile food
Speaker 11: and energy costs, fell a tenth of a percent. Another
Speaker 11: report shows there was a small decline last week and
Speaker 11: the number of workers filing new claims for unemployment benefits.
Speaker 11: A small uptick was predicted, but worries about tariffs and
Speaker 11: the threat of a government shut down are likely to
Speaker 11: weigh on Wall Street today. Futures are lower right across
Speaker 11: the board this morning now futures down seventy and today
Speaker 11: is the day federal agencies have to submit their plans
Speaker 11: for layoffs and budget cuts. So far, the government layoffs
Speaker 11: have been measured in the tens of thousands, but that
Speaker 11: number is expected to reach into the hundreds of thousands.
Speaker 2: Good news.
Speaker 11: You may notice soon that egg prices are starting to ease.
Speaker 11: The cost of eggs surge nearly sixty percent over the
Speaker 11: last year because of a shortage caused by bird flu,
Speaker 11: but prices have fallen in recent weeks, and the Department
Speaker 11: of Agriculture says we were responsible for that. Consumers cut
Speaker 11: back on egg purchases because of high prices. Reduced demand
Speaker 11: is given supplies a chance to catch up. Minor International
Speaker 11: of Thailand will open an n Entera hotel somewhere in
Speaker 11: the US early next year. Some of the company's properties
Speaker 11: are featured in the HBO series White Lotus and the Case.
Speaker 11: Deadheads have a couple of months to say for a
Speaker 11: new Grateful Dead box set commemorating the band's sixtieth anniversary.
Speaker 11: This box will include sixty CDs if live shows. It
Speaker 11: will be sold through the band's web store, and the
Speaker 11: price six one hundred dollars casey.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well, you know a lot of people
Speaker 1: follow them around back in the day, so they'll probably
Speaker 1: pay it now that they're older in rich. All right,
Speaker 1: thank you, sir, appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Okay, a good day, there you go.
Speaker 1: Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg News Roz had saw some amazing So
Speaker 1: you remember we talked earlier this week about Dylan Mulvaney's
Speaker 1: new book, Right that Insanity and then he was on
Speaker 1: the View.
Speaker 2: So the first numbers are out on sales. How do
Speaker 2: you think it?
Speaker 1: Did? You had to you had to guesstimate. Oh, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: he's doing something. So let me let me just lay
Speaker 1: this out for you. So, Dylan Mulvaney's new book, we
Speaker 1: have the very first And remember there's not that many
Speaker 1: new books that are high profile books that get the
Speaker 1: level of pub that Dylan Mulvaney's did. I mean Dylan
Speaker 1: mlvany was on the View, was on the everywhere? Right, Well,
Speaker 1: you'll be happy to learn that Mulvaney's new book has
Speaker 1: landed inside the top five hundred and forty. Just made
Speaker 1: it just made in the top five hundred and forty
Speaker 1: books over on Amazon there, sitting at five thirty nine.
Speaker 1: So I'm not a book pub publisher, but that's probably
Speaker 1: not good if if I had to guess, so.
Speaker 2: Probably, But snow White will probably.
Speaker 1: Do better than that. I guess if you had to
Speaker 1: had to ask. And this is a strange story. A
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania man was attempting to go through airport security at
Speaker 1: Newark Liberty International Airport. This happened Friday. I'm only just
Speaker 1: seeing this and I don't understand how you think you're
Speaker 1: gonna get through the TSA with this, especially when you
Speaker 1: go in the machine where you got to put your
Speaker 1: arms up above your head and a little triangle right
Speaker 1: so it can do the little hey you gotta and
Speaker 1: if you're if you're a remotely overweight, they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: looks like there might be something there. This guy had
Speaker 1: a live turtle in his pants. Security said that alarm
Speaker 1: was triggered by the machine when they noticed an area
Speaker 1: of the man's groin not only looked like it had
Speaker 1: something there, but was moving, which I guess you're growing
Speaker 1: could move, you understand what I'm saying, but not in
Speaker 1: the size of a turtle. That's it's roughly the size
Speaker 1: of a volleyball.
Speaker 2: When asked.
Speaker 1: When asked if there was something hidden in his pants,
Speaker 1: the man reached down the front of his pants, pulled
Speaker 1: out the live turtle that was wrapped in like a
Speaker 1: blue towel, and then and then told TSA he didn't
Speaker 1: know it was there.