Speaker 1: It's a new year.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know we're officially a month into a
Speaker 2: new year, but a microphone in there instead of a pencil.
Speaker 2: That's the show logo I thought we were going to
Speaker 2: go with. Now I guess we can't use it right
Speaker 2: because old.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Boy's got something too similar and he'd probably sue us.
Speaker 1: All right, if you don't.
Speaker 2: Roz and I have just spat the last I don't know,
Speaker 2: like ten to fifteen minutes, laughing and mocking Jim Acosta,
Speaker 2: who remember Audios or Acosta La Vista, as everyone including
Speaker 2: myself enjoyed, saying he's off doing his own thing on
Speaker 2: substack and while some people, you know, you think of
Speaker 2: just writers, but obviously he's doing he's doing a video
Speaker 2: show and it looks like it's just him doing it.
Speaker 2: And it was his first one. It wasn't very smooth,
Speaker 2: and I'm not going to force it upon you. But
Speaker 2: you almost can't even get to the content because he
Speaker 2: had to get a logo for his show and he
Speaker 2: went in a really interesting direction.
Speaker 1: Now, maybe Ross and I are reading into this.
Speaker 2: Maybe we're just being jerks on a Friday, Okay, I
Speaker 2: will that is a possibility.
Speaker 1: Ross uh, would.
Speaker 2: You tweet his new logo please, we'll get that out there.
Speaker 2: You can go buy at Casey on the radio.
Speaker 1: See a little picture of that.
Speaker 2: Because some people, and yes, even cynical little meat, some
Speaker 2: people might look at his logo, which is a red
Speaker 2: clenched fist like China color red clenched fist, you know,
Speaker 2: the power fists thing holding a pencil, and some would
Speaker 2: look at that and think it looks a little comedy.
Speaker 2: Ee if he catched me. It's the it's the it's
Speaker 2: the worker's day. Workers you it's the commy fist. You
Speaker 2: you went with the commedy fist. Dude, you put a
Speaker 2: pencil in there. She's like, look, it's not a hammer
Speaker 2: or sickle. It's not a weapon. Well to John wickt
Speaker 2: is what are you telling me? You're John Wick or
Speaker 2: a commie. I'm gonna believe the second one. You are
Speaker 2: no John Wickser. What what do you if he was,
Speaker 2: if he was a half brain cell smarter, I might
Speaker 2: assume he's trolling, But he's not.
Speaker 1: You know what he is.
Speaker 2: He's living his authentic life and it's really rich because
Speaker 2: I I don't know if I'm gonna be able to
Speaker 2: go back and find it. So I'm gonna paraphrase. So
Speaker 2: do you remember the first when when Acosta first got
Speaker 2: called out? It was the press conference where Trump.
Speaker 1: Was delineating.
Speaker 2: How his businesses, the part where he basically was like,
Speaker 2: all right, I'm gonna be president. My boys are going
Speaker 2: to run the businesses, and of course everyone freaked out.
Speaker 2: But it was in that hearing when Jim Acosta got
Speaker 2: a nickname. He got fake news, and then the Yellow
Speaker 2: Room he got really fake news. But that was the
Speaker 2: fake news. And then when Trump fake newsed him, he
Speaker 2: went from just a reporter in there.
Speaker 1: With obnoxious questions to.
Speaker 2: The story and Jimmy, I remember everyone of everyone of
Speaker 2: the White House Press pool or the other networks was
Speaker 2: interviewing Jim Acosta and they would sit there as journalists
Speaker 2: and go, can.
Speaker 1: You believe what this man is doing?
Speaker 2: And it was all horrible, And I remember Acosta said
Speaker 2: something that made me laugh, and I don't remember exactly
Speaker 2: how he said it, but whoever was interviewing him asked
Speaker 2: about Trump's assertion that the White House Press pool is
Speaker 2: a bunch of Democrat right, and Acosta made this this
Speaker 2: kind of smug.
Speaker 1: Little he said, look are there people were people. Of
Speaker 1: course we're.
Speaker 2: Gonna lean a little one way or the other. And
Speaker 2: that's what made me laugh. And I'm like, I don't
Speaker 2: think he's implying that you're a purple voter, bro, And
Speaker 2: but for him to say that, you know, because he's
Speaker 2: intimating that, I'm not going to tell you if I'm
Speaker 2: a little conservative or a little liberal because I'm a reporter.
Speaker 2: And I'm responding, Dude, you're a minute away from your job,
Speaker 2: which only barely kept you from doing crap like this,
Speaker 2: and the first thing you do to brand yourself. I
Speaker 2: want to be clear here, he's Jim Acosta himself. He
Speaker 2: was clearly doing that show without a team of producers
Speaker 2: running around giving him study.
Speaker 1: It showed.
Speaker 2: I only watched like forty five seconds, but that's all
Speaker 2: I could take. I'm only human. So it's your first
Speaker 2: joint into it. You have to build a brand. What
Speaker 2: is the brand you go for? And you're not the
Speaker 2: first one. Piers Morgan is doing very well. Piers Morgan said,
Speaker 2: f it and in true British tabloidy style, which is
Speaker 2: initially where he came from, Piers Morgan decided he was
Speaker 2: going to create the Jerry Springer of politics thing on YouTube.
Speaker 2: He's got some decent graphics, but it's clear nobody's running
Speaker 2: them because whenever they go to his guests, unless you
Speaker 2: heard their names at the opening or could figure it
Speaker 2: out based on whatever their first name is, when when
Speaker 2: Piers calls on him, they're not even typing their names
Speaker 2: into his graphics package. So it looks like he's got
Speaker 2: some big studio, but it's probably him, and he probably
Speaker 2: has one other person who's doing nine other things. But
Speaker 2: Morgan gets clicks man because you'll bring on that Harry Sis,
Speaker 2: it's any idiot and and Daniel Hogg and then he'll
Speaker 2: put him up against you know, you know, pick the
Speaker 2: biggest bomb throwers on the right and then just let
Speaker 2: him destroy each other.
Speaker 1: That's his model.
Speaker 2: He's he's owned it, so he branded that he's doing
Speaker 2: something that you get a little on the networks. But
Speaker 2: he's letting it go on for forty five minutes. And
Speaker 2: for people like that stuff, they watch it. I gotta
Speaker 2: tell you guilty pleasures. I've clicked on an episode here
Speaker 2: or there because he's and he's very smart with the
Speaker 2: the the screenshot.
Speaker 1: It's not called the show, what's it called on YouTube.
Speaker 2: Ros the thing that you see on the still frame
Speaker 2: that you see there, there's a word for it.
Speaker 1: I can't remember the thumbnail. Yeah, the thumbnail. I'm so,
Speaker 1: this is how little I have to do with this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And everyone always says it's really hard to make
Speaker 2: a thumbnail. I'm like, isn't that just a screenshot you
Speaker 2: wrote some words over? I see creators whine about it.
Speaker 2: But Piers puts that and he finds the moment when
Speaker 2: all four it's usually four guests are in the middle
Speaker 2: of something really heated and one of them looks like
Speaker 2: they want to murder the other one, and he goes, yes,
Speaker 2: and he puts that theory. He's branded, he has created
Speaker 2: his brand. That's his brand. He knows what he's doing.
Speaker 2: I think people I saw people are like, oh, you know,
Speaker 2: these are getting out of control. That's by design, bro,
Speaker 2: He's saw ditch And it's actually really smart actually, because
Speaker 2: you don't need everybody.
Speaker 1: You need the people who.
Speaker 2: Joyously if they see Scott Jennings picture and and Ellie
Speaker 2: Mistelles or you know, one of the real crazy leftists,
Speaker 2: if they see them in a minute clip, they're on
Speaker 2: Twitter and they can't help themselves. They just click on
Speaker 2: the damn thing. That's who Peers Morgan's going after. And
Speaker 2: there's a bunch of that, and there's a little bit
Speaker 2: of it for everybody, right because you know, a peers
Speaker 2: all so makes them shut up long enough so that
Speaker 2: they can deliver their pre written insults to each other.
Speaker 2: For some of them, you're not hiding it. That's his brand.
Speaker 2: So what is what is Jim Acosta? Fake news? Very
Speaker 2: fake news? Acosta do?
Speaker 1: He brands himself with a commy fist blake immediately, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's brand when we have client.
Speaker 2: When people buy radio advertising, you buy it for various reasons.
Speaker 2: One of the reasons you if you're a new business,
Speaker 2: you brand. So that's why you'll hear radio commercials that
Speaker 2: are more talking about, hey, there's a brand new blah
Speaker 2: blah blah car wash over here. You're branding the car
Speaker 2: wash and the location of it. You're passing on information,
Speaker 2: but you're branding it for an existing business that may
Speaker 2: run specials. Maybe they're doing, you know, a call to action.
Speaker 1: Part where you know they there's a code like you know,
Speaker 1: Ross one hundred gets you ninety percent off at waffle house.
Speaker 1: That's not a thing that won't work.
Speaker 2: But there's all sorts of efforts, and anyone who's in
Speaker 2: media for a minute understands this.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm I'm long.
Speaker 2: I'm making this point and I'm making it long because
Speaker 2: there is zero possibility he doesn't know, is the point
Speaker 2: that I'm making, even if you believe him to be
Speaker 2: the dumbest man on TV.
Speaker 3: But it'll but it'll sort of make sense now, right
Speaker 3: seeing that because he's out on his own, he has
Speaker 3: his own product. Now, how am I gonna brand this?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: What am I gonna what? What represents me? He knows
Speaker 3: what he's doing, and his go to is a red
Speaker 3: power fist and.
Speaker 1: It is a China red. I'm gonna called China Red.
Speaker 3: I can't get I can't stop. But I haven't had
Speaker 3: this thing, and I don't even have that. I haven't
Speaker 3: even heard it. I have the volume down. It's just
Speaker 3: the thumbnail there and the you know, on the on
Speaker 3: the the news feed, on the Twitter account, it's muted
Speaker 3: so and he doesn't even look like himself anymore. He's
Speaker 3: morphed in because he doesn't have the makeup in the
Speaker 3: studio stuff joined the club, Yeah, he looks like Keith Oberman,
Speaker 3: Rachel ma how Chris Hayes. Yeah, he's got the glasses
Speaker 3: of the same haircut, all of it and then.
Speaker 2: On the side of one black turtleneck away from you know,
Speaker 2: all the way in.
Speaker 3: And I understand obviously there's a budget issue here, but
Speaker 3: it looks like an underground college campus communist sort of
Speaker 3: YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: How are you your?
Speaker 2: Your your Twitch stream, which we've never mentioned before, looks
Speaker 2: amazing compared to this.
Speaker 3: And going back to your branding thing. So when I
Speaker 3: was doing that, I'm like, Wow, this is gonna be fun.
Speaker 3: It's like my own thing. I'm just gonna play video games.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: So when we got right, how do I want to
Speaker 3: brand this? What represents me? I'm gonna go with the
Speaker 3: red wit and blue. I'm gonna put Hayes for sheriff
Speaker 3: at the top and.
Speaker 1: It's pretty obnoxious.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and the A is gonna look like the
Speaker 3: the red whit and blue karate pants from Napoleon Die. Anyway,
Speaker 3: the guy wears right, do you want.
Speaker 1: To I get there early? What do I hear through
Speaker 1: my years the Thomas Jefferson march right? Yes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So I mean and all that is intentional, right,
Speaker 3: like what represents me? How do I want to be seen?
Speaker 3: So this is his opportunity. I'm alone. I don't have
Speaker 3: seeing n anymore. I can say whatever I want to say.
Speaker 3: I can drop f bombs, I can call the president
Speaker 3: whatever I want. How am I going to brand myself
Speaker 3: as a straight up comedy?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And it explained everything is like, oh now everything makes sense.
Speaker 3: Are you surprised that that is this crazy kind of no?
Speaker 1: No, no, Are you surprised that he might have been
Speaker 1: a commy all along? I mean we all kind of
Speaker 1: sort of thought it, right. Yeah, It's like I knew it,
Speaker 1: I nailed it.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah I And and in that, in that sense,
Speaker 2: I almost appreciate dude's honesty.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Maybe he just completely feels like relieved.
Speaker 2: You know how people are making everybody you don't brand
Speaker 2: new car. It was a freaking example. Hush up, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm just pointing. I'm pointing out that anyone in media
Speaker 2: understands that there are different types of campaigns. There's different
Speaker 2: Do you know how many conversations Ross and I've had
Speaker 2: to sit through and participate in over the years doing
Speaker 2: radio where they're like, all right, what if instead of
Speaker 2: saying it this way.
Speaker 1: We say it now?
Speaker 2: Do you You know there's discussions about how you say now.
Speaker 2: I escape a little of it because for us it's
Speaker 2: Casey on the radio because it's in multiple markets. But
Speaker 2: we have like you know what the rally station's one
Speaker 2: oh six one or is it one o six point one?
Speaker 2: These are things you think about because you want a consistency.
Speaker 1: Of what you're doing.
Speaker 2: The logo, the graphics, right, you emb remember buying a
Speaker 2: bad boardop one to change the to the blue. Remember,
Speaker 2: like every we every day we'd go into his office,
Speaker 2: we'd have an update on this thing where we're just
Speaker 2: like all right, but they gave it a lot of thought,
Speaker 2: and I understand why.
Speaker 3: No, it's the you know, if anybody it's the pig
Speaker 3: vomit Howard Stern w n BC. Yeah, that's like a
Speaker 3: real thing that happens. But instead of it being a
Speaker 3: good guy just coming in and talking to you, you know,
Speaker 3: in between your breaks or whatever, you'll have like hour
Speaker 3: long meetings on the Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's and and it's it's part of the thing.
Speaker 2: And here's the deal. Even though you know, we'll joke
Speaker 2: and all that it having an identifiable logo, or the way.
Speaker 1: That you say the station.
Speaker 2: It used to be very important the way that you
Speaker 2: said the station, because the way the radio ratings used
Speaker 2: to work was people would write in diaries. Now they
Speaker 2: do it a different way, and I don't I'm not
Speaker 2: going to get into it. But you know, back in
Speaker 2: the day, so like it was really really top of mind. Well,
Speaker 2: now you get over under the digital side where a
Speaker 2: lot of people are streaming now. And I'm not spilling
Speaker 2: any secrets here. You give this a lot of thought
Speaker 2: because you want people subconsciously to turn you on so
Speaker 2: they get up in the morning. Maybe you listen to
Speaker 2: this show and you sometimes listen to another one. You
Speaker 2: shouldn't do that, but if you do, we want a
Speaker 2: brand so that when you're groggy, you're like flip bother
Speaker 2: of me. Hear the news first, and then hopefully I
Speaker 2: used to around because you like what we're talking about.
Speaker 3: Dude, it's so ridiculous. It has to be a joke.
Speaker 3: It has to be.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's smart enough for it. I don't
Speaker 1: think he is that guy.
Speaker 3: He might as well be wearing like a Fidel Castro
Speaker 3: type hat with the red star on it, you know.
Speaker 1: All right, here's the deal.
Speaker 2: If he if he on today's episode, when he does
Speaker 2: his next one, if he's wearing that hat, I'm all
Speaker 2: in on the joke. And you know what, I'll even
Speaker 2: give him credit for it, because that would be funny.
Speaker 2: I can separate the fact that I think he's a
Speaker 2: leech with all right. You know it's that, you know,
Speaker 2: it's that meme out there. It's from like an Onion
Speaker 2: or a Babylon b article, and it's like, the worst
Speaker 2: person you know just made a great point.
Speaker 1: You ever see that?
Speaker 2: And the guy's face is just like, ah, that's the headline.
Speaker 2: The worst person you know just made a great point.
Speaker 2: All right, We're not quite there. But if that is
Speaker 2: pure troll, I'll well, I give him a little golf
Speaker 2: clap and then we'll move on. Okay, But I don't
Speaker 2: think it is. I think he's all in. And by
Speaker 2: the way, he's not the only one out there today
Speaker 2: potentially trying to suicide. Not themselves, all right, I don't
Speaker 2: revel in that, but uh, suicide their position, their respect,
Speaker 2: their audience, their money.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, there's.
Speaker 2: Something else going on, and it may all culminate here
Speaker 2: in about a month.
Speaker 1: Ross, When when is the Oscars? What day? Uh?
Speaker 2: Because you watch you you watch it every year? What
Speaker 2: I look on your calendar there?
Speaker 1: What you know?
Speaker 3: I try to watch it every year, but something always
Speaker 3: comes up. So I'm yeah, exactly, I can get back.
Speaker 3: I can circle back to you on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, no, but you know the day obviously it's on
Speaker 2: your calendar, so it's not it's not though, So so
Speaker 2: how would you know something's come up? Because I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, life is hectic, man, So which day should
Speaker 2: I then cross off that you're not available because something
Speaker 2: came up? Just let me know because I got my
Speaker 2: paper calendar here which day I'm not doing it? But
Speaker 2: I think he said March or something. Anyway, wait till
Speaker 2: you hear about this is kind of rumery some off
Speaker 2: the record. I don't know it's Oh I hope they
Speaker 2: do it. I'll tell you what it is coming up next.
Speaker 2: Hang on, we will. We'll be chatting in the eight
Speaker 2: o'clock hour, as we do with Pete calender, and Lord knows,
Speaker 2: there is more than enough to talk about. So looking
Speaker 2: forward to that, we didn't have any of those politicians.
Speaker 1: Get back to us. Did we Russ, They're very busy.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yesterday we'd try to get some of the Transportation
Speaker 2: Committee members who are part of North Carolina delegation, one
Speaker 2: Senator and a couple different congressmen. And I still wanted
Speaker 2: to talk to him today, but if they didn't get back,
Speaker 2: so it is what it is.
Speaker 1: We got moren enough to get into. We got some
Speaker 1: stuff I had to roll over yesterday. So let's just
Speaker 1: get to business, shall we. Yesterday was interesting.
Speaker 2: One had to make a choice which confirmation hearing are
Speaker 2: you going to watch? And uh I I did the
Speaker 2: thing where I had the one ready to go on
Speaker 2: one app and one on the other. And I thought
Speaker 2: i'd slip back and forth between Tulsi and Patel, but
Speaker 2: I couldn't look away from the Kashpitel thing.
Speaker 1: And it became.
Speaker 2: Abundantly clear from the beginning he's pretty good at this
Speaker 2: getting interrogated thing. He's pretty good. Look watch it and
Speaker 2: I get you had the more Kennedy stuff, which we'll
Speaker 2: talk about, but he's pretty good at it.
Speaker 1: I I have.
Speaker 2: To think he's going he's he's gonna get it, because
Speaker 2: so basically they went after him in a couple really disgusting.
Speaker 1: Ways one that he is.
Speaker 2: He's just pure conspiracy theory all the time because he
Speaker 2: did interviews with people that they feel are conspiratorial. And
Speaker 2: don't get me wrong, he did some interviews with people
Speaker 2: who are definitely onto the conspiratorial side. I wouldn't say
Speaker 2: you're dealing with violent people, which is what they were intimating.
Speaker 2: You're just dealing with people who don't believe anything you
Speaker 2: guys say. And Patel went on there, and if you
Speaker 2: actually look at the interview, he's telling them why they're
Speaker 2: wrong on some stuff. And so yesterday they're talking to
Speaker 2: him like, oh, I can't believe you would talk to
Speaker 2: this person. He's like, yeah, I went on to explain
Speaker 2: to him why they're wrong, because I was there at
Speaker 2: the thing, and so I was explaining to him, Hey,
Speaker 2: this is because he spent some time embedded with the
Speaker 2: Seals and I don't.
Speaker 1: Remember what all the topics were.
Speaker 2: But you're willing to so nobody when you think that
Speaker 2: you're anyone who disagrees with you, silencing them rather than
Speaker 2: besting them with arguments.
Speaker 1: When you fully subscribe to that, of course you're going to.
Speaker 2: Look at him talking to people that you don't like
Speaker 2: and go, oh, oh, well, obviously he's a conspiratorial So
Speaker 2: when you go on if the one time you went
Speaker 2: on Fox, mister Democrat senator, are you a Republican now.
Speaker 1: Or did you push back.
Speaker 2: Maybe against other people on the network, perhaps Republican colleague
Speaker 2: or some panelists and give me that garbage? And then
Speaker 2: they tried to wind it up that he was one
Speaker 2: of the people responsible for January.
Speaker 1: Six Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And at first I'm like,
Speaker 1: they're not going to do now, they are going to
Speaker 1: do that. Are we really gonna we're gonna do that,
Speaker 1: We're going to do this?
Speaker 2: And they did. So let's go ahead and get through
Speaker 2: this thing, shall we? And let me start right here.
Speaker 2: This is right at the beginning of things, and Kashptel
Speaker 2: was asked if he'd ever experienced racism, and I'm I'm
Speaker 2: not sure fully why this was the opening volley there.
Speaker 2: I think maybe Republicans thought that they were going to
Speaker 2: go in this direction, but then they started accusing him
Speaker 2: of January sixth.
Speaker 1: By the way, do you know where he was January sixth,
Speaker 1: Because he was the chief of staff I believe for
Speaker 1: the Department of Defense, I believe, so he had some
Speaker 1: military a high ranking.
Speaker 2: Civilian military job. He was at the Department of Defense,
Speaker 2: sitting there, and they had cold started the Army National Guard.
Speaker 2: And I say cold started because and by the way,
Speaker 2: cold started them in the fastest time frame ever accomplished.
Speaker 2: The reason they cold started him they're the Army National
Speaker 2: Guard was because days before, as the letters show, they thought, hey,
Speaker 2: these crowds are going to be a lot bigger. Obviously
Speaker 2: you got people here angry. That's not even accounting for
Speaker 2: people who will infiltrate, you know, to stir chaos as
Speaker 2: Antifa has done.
Speaker 1: We should have this.
Speaker 2: And so they cold started and communicated to the Speaker
Speaker 2: of the House, Nancy Pelosi and the mayor Is Bowser
Speaker 2: that all they needed was one.
Speaker 1: Of those two to say yes. And they both sent
Speaker 1: denial letters. You've seen them. They post them online and
Speaker 1: people point out, Hey, that's where he was, and they're like,
Speaker 1: are you organized January sixth with your rhetoric?
Speaker 2: Burrah, All right, let's get back to the racism thing. Uh,
Speaker 2: we're gonna probably have to bleep this.
Speaker 1: I think you'll pick up on one.
Speaker 5: Because of my personal information being released by Congress, I
Speaker 5: was subjected to a direct and significant threat on my
Speaker 5: life and I put that information in the record.
Speaker 1: I had to move in that threat good. I was called.
Speaker 5: A detestable and pause, I don't get all right, but
Speaker 5: it's in the record, a detestable sen who had no
Speaker 5: right being in this country. What you should go back
Speaker 5: to where you came from.
Speaker 2: Wait, hold on, Rob, what was the word you believed
Speaker 2: I was? I wasn't able to was the what was
Speaker 2: the word? Ross's microphone has just been disconnected?
Speaker 5: Okay, you belong with your terrorist home friends. That's what
Speaker 5: was sent to me. That's just the piece of it.
Speaker 5: But that's nothing compared to what the men and women
Speaker 5: in law enforcement face every day. And that's why they
Speaker 5: have my support.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: So, and that was a friendly question about it. I
Speaker 2: just want to be clear, which is why from a
Speaker 2: strategicy standpoint, I was like, oh, are they what are
Speaker 2: they trying to head off? When you watch enough of
Speaker 2: these you're trying to figure out what the Republicans, if
Speaker 2: their chair trying to head off. And they really didn't
Speaker 2: go in that direction, but they went all in on
Speaker 2: the conspiracy and he started January sixth as much it
Speaker 2: and that's my be more ludicrous than the Lego Man.
Speaker 2: And if you don't know the story of the Lego Man,
Speaker 2: that's the dude who was not at January six but
Speaker 2: they feel help plan it because he owned a lego
Speaker 2: Us capital which he had not assembled, and they literally
Speaker 2: argue that he used the lego Us capital to plan
Speaker 2: January sixth. And even the judges, which clearly, as you saw,
Speaker 2: were in the bag for prosecutor. Even the judges like,
Speaker 2: what do you it's not even assembled, loser. So just
Speaker 2: one of the crazy stories out there.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, like, what if you got a Lego set
Speaker 2: of something and it gets robbed, he might be a suspect.
Speaker 2: Ross if Hogwarts gets robbed, you're screwed, buddy, right, some
Speaker 2: Star Wars stuff too, So anyway, yeah, it's it was
Speaker 2: just the peak of ridiculousness. And there's nobody who brings
Speaker 2: the re ridiculous quite like Mazie Herono, Hawaii senator, who
Speaker 2: you know, did her standard thing. Her first questions are
Speaker 2: always when did you stop beating your wife? Or if
Speaker 2: you ever sexually harassed somebody.
Speaker 1: She's got a two or three of them.
Speaker 2: And then we get into this exchange and to show
Speaker 2: you how unseerious this woman is and how on autopilots
Speaker 2: staring down at her pre written.
Speaker 1: Stuff she is. She asks him a question.
Speaker 2: He answers the question, and then she's like, why won't
Speaker 2: you answer the question? And I'm not meaning there's a
Speaker 2: difference of opinion whether he fully answered it. He answered it.
Speaker 2: She wanted a piece of information. He told her exactly
Speaker 2: where it was, and then she belittled him.
Speaker 6: Here your answer, yes or no? Did you make money?
Speaker 6: I don't have those I'm going to ask you that question.
Speaker 5: You have that information.
Speaker 2: So she's staring at the thing with the information. He says,
Speaker 2: I physically don't have it in front of me. You
Speaker 2: you have it right in front of you. And I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I feel like that counts as an answer. I feel
Speaker 2: like that counts as an answer. Just literally play the
Speaker 2: whole thing.
Speaker 6: Here, your answer yes or no? Did you make money?
Speaker 6: I don't have Last time, I'm gonna ask you that question.
Speaker 5: You have that information.
Speaker 6: So you refuse to answer the question.
Speaker 5: I answered thirteen hundred pages.
Speaker 6: You are no answer, And yet you spread dangerous misinformation.
Speaker 1: And they're a little tagg at. Yet oh I love
Speaker 1: that so much.
Speaker 2: And and because you realize how she was. She would
Speaker 2: have said that even if he'd have started reciting.
Speaker 1: Horton hears a.
Speaker 2: Who right, she did just cut him off at some point,
Speaker 2: like you spread dangerous misinformation like that was coming out
Speaker 2: no matter what I I demonstrated to show you how
Speaker 2: serious it was.
Speaker 1: But again, what did we have.
Speaker 2: We had a bunch of women screaming at cash Battel.
Speaker 2: Not all of them, there was there was one Democrat
Speaker 2: and there was one Republican.
Speaker 1: Who were.
Speaker 2: Normal, uh women who were normal, like way too polite.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It really didn't even I don't mean that as a
Speaker 2: negative thing because I had to check to see is
Speaker 2: that a Democrat?
Speaker 1: It was crazy man.
Speaker 2: So and they extracted substantive information, like you know, on
Speaker 2: some issues and probably on some issues that cash Battel
Speaker 2: isn't going to prioritize. But that's what these things are
Speaker 2: supposed to be.
Speaker 5: Not this either, the rest of the interviews, This is
Speaker 5: all egnipets of information are often misleading and detrimental to
Speaker 5: this committee's advice and consent. If you consent, I would
Speaker 5: love to have five hours of questions and then I
Speaker 5: could read the whole transcripts. You've got two minutes.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Wow, he said that because she has two minutes, and
Speaker 2: in fact, she ended up going well over the two minutes,
Speaker 2: and in fact, she went so far over that Tom
Speaker 2: Tillis actually asked the chair that those two because he
Speaker 2: wanted them to count against her additional time because she
Speaker 2: went so far over and she was getting all whiny
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: Manh let's see here. Yeah, we'll get all these in.
Speaker 2: And then mister Whitehouse fan of the All White Beach Club.
Speaker 5: In the collective, all of those statements are taken out
Speaker 5: of grotesque context. And anyone that thinks my sixteen years
Speaker 5: of service is an exemplar on how I would proceed
Speaker 5: if confirmed as FBI is intentionally putting false information into
Speaker 5: the public ether and creating more public discourse. The only
Speaker 5: thing that will matter if I'm confirmed as a director
Speaker 5: of the FBI is a de weaponized, depoliticized them of
Speaker 5: law enforcement, completely devoted to rigorous obedience of the Constitution
Speaker 5: and a singular standard of justice.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what people voted for. The polling would
Speaker 2: tell you that it was one of the great move
Speaker 2: It was one of the things that moved a lot
Speaker 2: of people. When they actually started doing more extensive exit
Speaker 2: polling and focus groups. You know, out a couple weeks
Speaker 2: from the election, they wanted to talk to people and
Speaker 2: you can see there's clips floating around Twitter where some
Speaker 2: of these pollsters are sitting there and they're asking they're
Speaker 2: talking to people who voted Democrat, who switched a Republican.
Speaker 2: And one of the main answers given was when they
Speaker 2: started dragging them through court. People don't like a bully, well,
Speaker 2: normal people, only people who bully on the fringe obviously celebrate.
Speaker 2: Then most people, at some point they'll hit a breaking point.
Speaker 2: And he was ready to go with the answers. All right,
Speaker 2: one more since he's our guy, Tom Tillis, who he
Speaker 2: had himself a real interesting idea. Hey, Ross, has there
Speaker 2: ever been anyone else in North Carolina who has put
Speaker 2: together bingo cards for political events going on?
Speaker 1: Damn near over a decade? Now, is there anyone you
Speaker 1: can think of?
Speaker 3: I mean they can check the arcave on it. Yeah
Speaker 3: there has been, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Another senator or maybe a radio host.
Speaker 3: No radio host, yeah right here, Oh it's in front
Speaker 3: of me.
Speaker 1: Yes, says radio host, right there, Yeah, and until has
Speaker 1: had a bingo card I'm slightly kidding, or am.
Speaker 7: I, colleagues, I created a cash Bingo card that I
Speaker 7: have available to any of my colleagues who would like
Speaker 7: it on the other side of the aisle.
Speaker 2: Here's the problem with your Bingo card. You need five letters.
Speaker 2: That's why Obama worked great, Patel would work great.
Speaker 1: Cash is f columns, bro, colleagues.
Speaker 7: I created a cash Bingo card that I have available
Speaker 7: to any of my colleagues who would like it on
Speaker 7: the other side of the aisle. Some may view this
Speaker 7: as an un serious caricature and not appropriate for this committee. Sadly,
Speaker 7: I consider it a serious caricature of what I expect
Speaker 7: to be witnessed today. I think we'll have words like
Speaker 7: enemies list in deep State. I've already axed out four
Speaker 7: boxes and the opening statements alone.
Speaker 2: He and then later when he came back for his
Speaker 2: two minutes, he held up his Bengo card and he
Speaker 2: everything was X but like four spots.
Speaker 3: Friends, I've come up with his zany, over the top
Speaker 3: prompt to take away from the fact that I am,
Speaker 3: in fact slender Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Amen, every day is a struggle, so they don't notice.
Speaker 2: So I got the vibe that Tillis is obviously going
Speaker 2: to vote for Patel, so you know that's the serious
Speaker 2: side of it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's a that's a thing.
Speaker 2: Then then he threw a snowball and then a KFC,
Speaker 2: so he did a three for But when your skin
Speaker 2: suit starts slipping, man, you gotta you gotta distract, all right,
Speaker 2: six six fifty. He didn't do anything yesday that really
Speaker 2: irritated me. So now I just got to make fun
Speaker 2: of bingo jokes. But that's okay, it's how we roll,
Speaker 2: all right. I just realized I forgot to tell you
Speaker 2: the Oscar juicy thing.
Speaker 1: Are you ready for this? Let me I'll just throw
Speaker 1: it in here. Uh.
Speaker 2: Apparently a group of prominent actors are actively lobbying members
Speaker 2: of the Academy ahead of next marches or this coming
Speaker 2: March's Oscar.
Speaker 1: I checked, it's March second. Are you free that day
Speaker 1: or not? Ross?
Speaker 2: Or is that the day you have some on your
Speaker 2: calendar that you didn't even know what the day was?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: No, I just put something on the calendar there, so
Speaker 3: it's now unavailable.
Speaker 1: It's not doing it. Yeah, just filled the realized.
Speaker 2: The digital calendar. So everyone in the office, everyone's calendar.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's sure. Yeah, yeah, I'm busy the day
Speaker 3: not doing that.
Speaker 1: Now you've changed it to river dancing, do you river dance?
Speaker 1: Is that I am?
Speaker 3: It's a big passion of my Okay, all right, Michael Flatley.
Speaker 3: Really I mean back in the day, you remember that, Hey, yeah,
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, I want to do that, and
Speaker 3: I made the mistake.
Speaker 2: I made the mistake of going to Ireland when that
Speaker 2: thing was like at its peak, and so every tourist
Speaker 2: attraction everywhere had like a pack of those dancers. And
Speaker 2: it's cool the first like eight times, but when you're
Speaker 2: just trying to eat something at Dirty Nellies, which is
Speaker 2: this like thousand year old bar, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: people are clogging next to you. So anyway, uh, probably
Speaker 2: a prominent group of actors are lobbying Academy voters to
Speaker 2: send a message to the president by ensuring that this
Speaker 2: Remember the movie we told you about where a cartel
Speaker 2: boss wants to not be a cartel boss, so he
Speaker 2: has surgery to become a she. Yeah, and they didn't
Speaker 2: call it El Chopo, which is a tragedy. So that
Speaker 2: movie is nominated for thirteen categories and it's the tray,
Speaker 2: it's a trans lead actress, and it's a whole trans story,
Speaker 2: and so Hollywood wants them to win all thirteen. I
Speaker 2: would point out that three movies been Her, Lord of
Speaker 2: the Ring, Return of the King and Titanic have eleven
Speaker 2: tied for the most. So they want to throw away
Speaker 2: any objectivity and credibility they had to get it. Trump,
Speaker 2: do it, do it, so that statue means less than
Speaker 2: ever do it, do it. I'll be that clip of
Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert telling Trump to run do it, and John
Speaker 2: Oliver will be back first for women, no excuse me,
Speaker 2: a first for humankind, and it happens to be a woman,
Speaker 2: right because you know they'll be like, yeah, everybody loves
Speaker 2: to celebrate it, unless they're a Republican, but everybody loves
Speaker 2: celebrating Oh as the first first woman, first woman to
Speaker 2: hold this verse, woman vice president, very exciting. Well, you
Speaker 2: know we have the first woman chief of staff right now.
Speaker 2: Where's the where's the feminist groups with their power fists?
Speaker 2: That's so weird. I guess as Wiley doesn't count. But
Speaker 2: this one, there's no bones about it, no man before her.
Speaker 2: She is first, and for that I feel like we
Speaker 2: have to celebrate. What is she first in? Well, let's go.
Speaker 8: A woman from Wales is facing jail after bombarding her
Speaker 8: boyfriend's X with videos of herself farting. Rhiannon and Evans
Speaker 8: twenty five has appeared in court to day to plead
Speaker 8: guilty to her rasband in Britain's first ever cyber farting case.
Speaker 8: She's accused of coursing distress or anxiety to her boyfriend's
Speaker 8: X after sending videos of herself passing wind. The prosecution
Speaker 8: told the magistrates that in the first video she sent,
Speaker 8: she proceeds to pass gas by placing the camera on
Speaker 8: her bottom and passing the gas. Over the next few days,
Speaker 8: another four videos were sent of the same nature, showing
Speaker 8: Rihanna on passing wind and then showing her face smiling
Speaker 8: at the camera. Her tooting continued on Boxing Day and
Speaker 8: New Year's Day, despite police getting wind of what had happened.
Speaker 8: Rihanna was arrested at her home in Caernarvon will be
Speaker 8: sentenced this week.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, are so petty.
Speaker 2: In fact I the fact that nobody's ever you heard
Speaker 2: literally you heard the guys saying if you read the
Speaker 2: article here, it is the first ever cyber farting case
Speaker 2: in UK's history. So I don't know if worldwide. Maybe
Speaker 2: worldwide I said humankind, but British humankind. So what she
Speaker 2: was doing, she'd take her phone, the video would start
Speaker 2: are probably blurry and blacked out because it's on her bottom.
Speaker 2: She would do the thing and then she would pull
Speaker 2: to her face so that she can smile into it
Speaker 2: the phone.
Speaker 1: She just did her thing.
Speaker 2: On the fact that when they arrest her she didn't
Speaker 2: have all the pink eye is actually pretty impressive. And
Speaker 2: then she would send them to her boyfriend's new girlfriend.
Speaker 2: I'm not victim blaming here, but you felt unsafe in
Speaker 2: your own home just because there's got to be more
Speaker 2: to this, because I'm sorry, you get some random person
Speaker 2: that I used to date is sending the person I.
Speaker 1: Date now you know it.
Speaker 2: Just if I put my just put myself into that scenario,
Speaker 2: all right, and that person's like, I think she wants
Speaker 2: to kill me, I'd be like, now, she's a lunatic,
Speaker 2: but I think you might be overreacting.
Speaker 1: But good for her.
Speaker 2: And and even when she's they got the arrest photo here,
Speaker 2: she's smiling, man, pretty proud of herself.
Speaker 1: That chick.
Speaker 2: She probably that chick will be and I know she's
Speaker 2: facing jail time, but it's the UK, so she didn't do.
Speaker 1: A Facebook post, so she's probably okay.
Speaker 2: That chick will be on back on tender in very
Speaker 2: short order, and some dude will be like, it's okay,
Speaker 2: they push you to do it, give me some time.
Speaker 1: So there you go.
Speaker 2: Congratulations, ladies, you beat us to it, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: that seems like a very dude thing to do. That's
Speaker 2: what I'm even more surprised about fact that I guess
Speaker 2: it's because you're sending it to another dude.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Did the reporter just say they police got went, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: the report. There's a bunch of puns in there. Reporter
Speaker 2: thought he was very clever, but I was laughing too
Speaker 2: hard to really catch them all.
Speaker 1: See it's Friday. We got a look at that.
Speaker 2: I just talked about the confirmation hearing of the next
Speaker 2: director of the FBI, and I got like four or
Speaker 2: five emails on point and I've gotten six on the
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 1: Story of this last story. I love our audience. Man,
Speaker 1: we got range. We got range. Wait, hold on, yes, Anthony,
Speaker 1: what's up?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 1: JP?
Speaker 4: I don't win the digging part.
Speaker 1: Well maybe it's a I sir, I don't know. They
Speaker 1: arrested hers, so.
Speaker 4: Then you have to go rest people for anything nowadays.
Speaker 2: So well, it is the UK. The UK is crazy,
Speaker 2: Like there's another story from them. Let's see here, flip back,
Speaker 2: it's one of my rollover stories. Yeah, here we go U.
Speaker 2: So over in the UK, do you know they have
Speaker 2: like they have a TV licensed thing over there.
Speaker 1: They have a few. They got taxes.
Speaker 2: Okay, they got taxes and fees and they utilize those
Speaker 2: taxes and fees to fund the BBC, which is of
Speaker 2: course just an outlet for left leaning politics. Change my mind,
Speaker 2: go ahead. The BBC is awful. But BBC also makes
Speaker 2: shows that people like what was the one that all
Speaker 2: the women were going gy guy over about ten years ago?
Speaker 2: The Abbey one down in Abbey. That's what I'm thinking of. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I remember I got tricked. I got tricked. The girl
Speaker 2: I was dating at the time, she's like, let's go
Speaker 2: to Ashville. You know you do that to go to Ashville.
Speaker 2: And she's like, I want to go to Biltmore And I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, okay, but we're gonna spend a lot of time
Speaker 1: at the winery part. And don't get me wrong, it built.
Speaker 2: Moore's historical all that stuff, but I just didn't want
Speaker 2: to slog through there with the gazillion other people.
Speaker 1: We get there, and I realized, because.
Speaker 2: I had made comments about that Downton Abbey when I
Speaker 2: started watching it, I'm like, what do you I would
Speaker 2: add storylines that were wildly inappropriate. Anyway, So we go
Speaker 2: in there and she goes, look, oh my gosh, it's
Speaker 2: the dresses of Dowton Abbey. So every room at Biltmore
Speaker 2: you walked into had a dress that we and I
Speaker 2: say we politely had to stare at for like.
Speaker 1: Ten minutes while she talked to like other women.
Speaker 2: Who had tricked whoever they're with, and then they would
Speaker 2: be it was like it was like name that tune.
Speaker 2: They're like, which episode and which scene and then they
Speaker 2: talk about the scene. Meanwhile I'm like, does this tour
Speaker 2: go higher?
Speaker 1: So I can fling myself off the billboard?
Speaker 2: But luckily went over the wine thing and was able
Speaker 2: to soothe the soul.
Speaker 1: So that's the kind of stuff they produce.
Speaker 2: So because BBC exists and made that show, I had
Speaker 2: to burn an entire day in Ashville at the biltmore
Speaker 2: staring at dresses instead of I don't know, doing a
Speaker 2: brewery crawl. I'm still holding on to that anyway, Netflix,
Speaker 2: Amazon and Disney as well as you know, the other
Speaker 2: streaming services are cutting into that because, like many Americans,
Speaker 2: so a lot of people in the UK said, I
Speaker 2: don't need cable. Well that's how that's how they extracted
Speaker 2: money for the BBC. So what do you think the
Speaker 2: UK governments decided to do. You've said, hey, here's a
Speaker 2: product we think is necessary. And for a long time
Speaker 2: it probably was. It was really expensive to produce content.
Speaker 2: There was done of gazillion choices. You know, it mirrored
Speaker 2: us having you know, three networks kind of stuff, and
Speaker 2: in the UK they made the decision that that's that's
Speaker 2: how they do it. Well, that ain't it anymore. So
Speaker 2: people have not just expressly rejected your methodology for delivering
Speaker 2: the BBC, they've rejected it outright. They don't in their
Speaker 2: daily lives need the content that you're providing. So at
Speaker 2: that point you might look at it and go, I
Speaker 2: guess we have to, you know, size down the BBC.
Speaker 2: There's all these other producers out there, you know, get smart,
Speaker 2: get nimble. No, so they are going to attach the
Speaker 2: fee if you buy a streaming service over there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's right. The government is deciding to overhaul the license
Speaker 2: fee and just attach it to streaming services. So if so,
Speaker 2: if you have any any streaming service, apparently, and how
Speaker 2: do you track that, you forced you're going to Netflix.
Speaker 2: Amazon and Disney are going to have to tattle on
Speaker 2: their customers back to the government. They want to do
Speaker 2: business over there, and if somebody can set up like
Speaker 2: I don't know, I have a VPN in my house.
Speaker 2: I've used it to abuse various streaming options before by
Speaker 2: changing countries.
Speaker 1: I don't know how that works. All the while, the
Speaker 1: you know, people.
Speaker 2: Are running around fart sending fart videos to each other.
Speaker 2: It's just pandemonium over in the UK. Man, they're probably
Speaker 2: going to collapse. You hate to see it. Seven sixteen
Speaker 2: Hang on as you have low standards because you went
Speaker 2: to the biltmore. I'm sorry, didn't your wife not let
Speaker 2: you go to my bourbon tasting last weekend?
Speaker 4: Hm?
Speaker 1: That's weird, mister King of the Castle, All right, I
Speaker 1: remember stuff. We flip back to this.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, this is one of those I hate to be right,
Speaker 2: but don't you remember yesterday we were talking about the
Speaker 2: crash up in DC. I one of the first things
Speaker 2: that occurred to me, And it's just because I've done
Speaker 2: most of.
Speaker 1: My air travel on American.
Speaker 2: And I have been on a a.
Speaker 1: That's final. You want to start a fight, we'll go,
Speaker 1: We'll go. It's Friday. I don't care.
Speaker 2: So I mentioned I fly American a lot, and that
Speaker 2: that regional jet, the seven hundreds, as well as the
Speaker 2: subsidiary that was running them, I have been on their
Speaker 2: flights a ton. There's a ton out of Raleigh. There's
Speaker 2: out of Greensboro that that that run. I was on
Speaker 2: one going to d C when I flew to Dallas
Speaker 2: a few months ago.
Speaker 1: Miami.
Speaker 2: If you, if you fly anyone who flies Miami to
Speaker 2: Raleigh regularly, if when you want to fly back to
Speaker 2: Raleigh from Miami in the afternoon, there's two.
Speaker 1: Flights like at one thirty and three thirty or something.
Speaker 1: One of them is A seven hundred.
Speaker 2: One of them is that plane, because I always try
Speaker 2: to get the bigger plane, the three seven eight hundred
Speaker 2: and and so the thing that occurred to me is
Speaker 2: almost every time I've been on one of these because
Speaker 2: I listened to this stuff.
Speaker 1: They say Charlotte based crew.
Speaker 2: And when we were listening to the American CEO the
Speaker 2: press conference, he never mentioned it.
Speaker 1: But sadly that is the case.
Speaker 2: And more so, we do know that one of the passengers,
Speaker 2: a woman by the name of Wendy Schaeffer, was a
Speaker 2: mother from Charlotte as well. But pilot Jonathan Campos, flight
Speaker 2: attendant Dynasia Danacia Elder, I don't know how to pronounce
Speaker 2: the name properly, I apologize. Let's see here, there was
Speaker 2: four crew. Sam Lilly I believe is the first officer
Speaker 2: first officer, and Ian Epstein was the other flight attendant. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and they're based out of Charlotte, so you know a
Speaker 2: North Carolina connection there, and that is with I think
Speaker 2: thirty bodies recovered, not all of them identified, so we
Speaker 2: still got a long way to go on this, but
Speaker 2: I just wanted to get you that follow up. Geez, sorry,
Speaker 2: just attacking me when I'm trying to get people's names correct.
Speaker 2: Out of respect. All right, let me flip back over
Speaker 2: to this. Wait, well, hold on, casey, the UK forces
Speaker 2: their subjects to buy personal I just said that. That's
Speaker 2: maybe you didn't catch the first, but I mentioned that
Speaker 2: was one of the first things I mentioned when I
Speaker 2: was talking about the UK thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the TV license. I said that.
Speaker 2: They also make people who want to buy knives online
Speaker 2: call in.
Speaker 1: To do an interview to be able to buy a knife,
Speaker 1: or they're proposing to do that. So they're interesting over there.
Speaker 1: Glad we got rid of them, all right. Let me
Speaker 1: move on to the other folks who were getting drilled
Speaker 1: and or getting patted on the back, depending on which
Speaker 1: senator was asking questions yesterday. Let's start with Tulsi Gabbard
Speaker 1: uh and uh. Here we go.
Speaker 9: You may hear lies and smears in this hearing that
Speaker 9: will challenge my loyalty to and my love for our country.
Speaker 9: Those who oppose my nomination imply that I am loyal
Speaker 9: to something or someone other than God, my own conscience,
Speaker 9: and the Constitution of the United States, accusing me of
Speaker 9: being Trump's puppet, Putin's puppet, Assad's puppet, a Guru's puppet,
Speaker 9: Mody's puppet, not recognizing the absurdity of simultaneously being the
Speaker 9: puppet of five different puppet masters. The same tactic was
Speaker 9: used against President Trump and failed. The American people elected
Speaker 9: President Trump with a decisive victory and mandate for change.
Speaker 9: The fact is what truly unsettles my political opponents is
Speaker 9: I refuse to be their puppet.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so that's part of our opening statement.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing with Tulsi I. And there's some meetings
Speaker 2: and all that stuff, and if you watch it you
Speaker 2: probably but the biggest thing with Gab that I never
Speaker 2: understood is all right, so they were mad at her
Speaker 2: because she flopped switch parties and then you remember she
Speaker 2: ended up on the no fly list, which we'll get
Speaker 2: into that here, and the domestic tech you know, the
Speaker 2: domestic terrorst no fly list, and when it was pointed
Speaker 2: out and because that's so weird, how did that happen?
Speaker 2: You know, the Democrats are like, wow, obviously it's an error,
Speaker 2: but see how easy it is to fix the air.
Speaker 2: And then fast forward to recently, even before the hearing,
Speaker 2: they're like, we I don't know that I could vote
Speaker 2: for somebody who was ever on the watch list. And
Speaker 2: it's like, wait, you said it was an air even
Speaker 2: though a lot of us don't think it was an air.
Speaker 2: We think it was intentional, not earned, but intentional, And
Speaker 2: now you're gonna use it to attack or that's one
Speaker 2: of the slimiest things I've ever heard.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: We got a little more audio, but I want to
Speaker 2: play the whole thing, and it's a minute and a half,
Speaker 2: so you'll have to wait.
Speaker 1: You will have to wait. We will get to that,
Speaker 1: plus a little from the RFK thing. Busy day.
Speaker 2: Had to make decisions yesterday. And reminder, Pete Callander will
Speaker 2: be with us coming up at eight oh five to
Speaker 2: digest as much of this as we can. We'll chat
Speaker 2: with him. Always enjoy that this but a newcomer just
Speaker 2: I don't know what twenty four hours ago to Twitter
Speaker 2: and already boasting twenty seven point six thousand followers. Tanya Harding,
Speaker 2: who posted a video. Hi everyone, I finally figured out
Speaker 2: how to make an account. I'm very excited to reconnect
Speaker 2: with you all. If anyone remembers me, well, they remembered
Speaker 2: her Ross. Did you notice they remembered her? Because I
Speaker 2: know you read the comments as well.
Speaker 3: I did, and there was several knee puns, a.
Speaker 2: Lot of n puns, a lot of that time you
Speaker 2: did porn on your wedding night and then put it
Speaker 2: on the internet.
Speaker 1: Some folks pointed that out. You said you didn't know
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 3: I did not know until I read about it in
Speaker 3: the comments. Okay, I know she didn't age well either.
Speaker 3: She has an age well and I think it.
Speaker 1: Was she had she had some addiction.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it had to do with the porn
Speaker 3: and the and the drugs and the alcohol.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, are you a doctor, I'm not. Okay, Well,
Speaker 2: don't ruin somebody's weekend unless you have a peer reviewed study.
Speaker 2: So yeah, now, did you verify that she done that video?
Speaker 2: Or did you just take for granted what some randos
Speaker 2: said in a Twitter thread.
Speaker 3: I just always take the advice of rando's on Twitter.
Speaker 3: It's like, all right, it has to be factual. So
Speaker 3: you checked on Kyle's computer, okay? Or Kyle h so
Speaker 3: cold right now? I don't want to get fired.
Speaker 1: So she so she posts that.
Speaker 2: She's only posted three tweets, and then her latest post,
Speaker 2: which happened seventeen hours ago, said I'm absolutely blown away
Speaker 2: by the amount of love and support of received since
Speaker 2: I've joined ex Love.
Speaker 1: You say, it's clearly sarcastic.
Speaker 2: But in the middle of those two tweets, and this
Speaker 2: is what I don't understand. So yeah, you got absolutely
Speaker 2: bodied how did you think that wasn't gonna happen?
Speaker 1: Everyone remembers you remember Nancy Carrigan crying. I'll never forget
Speaker 1: the name Jeff Galiley. Dude.
Speaker 2: If you're like, hey, we need a guy to whack
Speaker 2: somebody with a pipe and his last name is Galuley,
Speaker 2: I'm like, hire that man.
Speaker 1: And I know that's unfair, no, but it's true though.
Speaker 3: If he shows up for the addition, you're like, what's
Speaker 3: your name is? Like, Jeff GALILEI like, yeah, you got
Speaker 3: the gig.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you just tell everyone else that we're good.
Speaker 2: So in the middle, she posts about the plane crash
Speaker 2: and as as we mentioned yesterday, and it's been since
Speaker 2: confirmed that you have at least fourteen skaters themselves, and
Speaker 2: then you have a collection of family and coaches that
Speaker 2: were on that flight. I mean, and these are top level,
Speaker 2: Olympic hopeful level. In some cases, some of them are
Speaker 2: very young. Two of the skaters I think we're fourteen
Speaker 2: and eleven. They were sisters, both parents were on there.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's really crazy, sad stuff, but it is
Speaker 2: going to have an outsized impact, not just on you
Speaker 2: know what I talked about with the North Charlotte based
Speaker 2: flight crew there, so you got the North Carolina tie in,
Speaker 2: even though the flight was from you know, Kansas to DC.
Speaker 2: Within the figure skating community. And so when she posted that,
Speaker 2: people just engage with her mostly normally one because it's
Speaker 2: a serious topic, but two she was Look, she went
Speaker 2: to the Olympics twice, so anyway, maybe lean into that
Speaker 2: and not and you know, try to do fun stuff.
Speaker 2: Do that, and then I think the trolls will go
Speaker 2: away if I could give you some advice, because uh,
Speaker 2: I was. I always forgot how country she is too.
Speaker 2: It was just really weird because every you know, every
Speaker 2: microphone you stek it from a figure skater, they sound
Speaker 2: like they went to Wellesley or are Russian. So we
Speaker 2: we got that there, all right. Let me let me
Speaker 2: flip back over to.
Speaker 1: This a little more Tulsi audio.
Speaker 2: All right, So I mentioned the thing that, like the
Speaker 2: really crazy but not altogether unpredictable inn DC thing is Tulsi.
Speaker 2: We hate you. You're excommunicated, you switched. Now you're on
Speaker 2: the terror list. Whoopsie, oh no, that's a mistake.
Speaker 1: But don't worry. We're really good at fixing those. It's nothing.
Speaker 2: And then months later, well, I can't vote for somebody
Speaker 2: was on the terror list. These are the clowns you're
Speaker 2: dealing with, Okay, And this was this was even before
Speaker 2: the hearing, with this annoyance. So let's see if they
Speaker 2: were able to avoid bringing this.
Speaker 9: American people elected Donald Trump as their president not once,
Speaker 9: but twice, and yet the FBI and intelligence agencies were
Speaker 9: politicized by his opponents to undermine his presidency and falsely
Speaker 9: portray him as a puppet of Putin.
Speaker 2: Now she's going to get in front of it. This
Speaker 2: is what I was talking about with Patel. Okay, I
Speaker 2: couldn't understand why Republicans are dragging him over the racism thing.
Speaker 2: Not dragging him, but extracting that. It's all about the
Speaker 2: setup in these opening statements, and so she knows what
Speaker 2: I just communicated to you is something that's probably going
Speaker 2: to come up, and she's not gonna let it lie.
Speaker 9: Title Ie Offiza was used illegally to obtain a warrant
Speaker 9: to spy on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page, using a
Speaker 9: Clinton campaign funded false dossier as their so called evidence.
Speaker 9: Biden campaign advisor Tony Blinken was the impetus for the
Speaker 9: fifty one former senior intelligence officials letter dismissing Hunter Biden's
Speaker 9: laptop as disinformation, specifically to help Biden win the election.
Speaker 9: Former d and I James Clapper lied to this committee
Speaker 9: in twenty thirteen denying the existence of programs that facilitated
Speaker 9: the mass collection of millions of Americans phone and Internet records,
Speaker 9: yet was never held accountable. Under John Brennan's leadership, the
Speaker 9: CIA abused its power to spy on Congress to dodge oversight,
Speaker 9: lied about doing it until he was caught, and yet
Speaker 9: has never been held responsible.
Speaker 1: Under Biden, the FBI.
Speaker 9: Abused its power for political reasons to try to surveil
Speaker 9: Catholics who attend traditional Latin mass labeling them as quote
Speaker 9: unquote radical traditionalist Catholics. Personally, just twenty four hours after
Speaker 9: I criticize Kamala Harris and her nomination, I was placed
Speaker 9: on a secret domestic terror watch list called Quiet Skies. Sadly,
Speaker 9: there are more examples. The bottom line is this, this
Speaker 9: must end.
Speaker 1: And that's how you do it.
Speaker 2: You go in there, and because they're going to try
Speaker 2: to make it a personal thing with her, they made
Speaker 2: that statement, she got in front of it. I didn't
Speaker 2: hear anyone make that same argument. Admittedly I didn't watch
Speaker 2: it in its entirety, but I saw most of it
Speaker 2: because I just kind of speed read through her. Most
Speaker 2: of the Democrats, I should say a lot of the Republicans.
Speaker 2: I'm not watching because I want to see how they're
Speaker 2: attacking her. So good opening statement, seems very concise. And
Speaker 2: other's people that still have problems with her. And I
Speaker 2: saw John it was a Hally or Cotton, one of
Speaker 2: the two was being interviewed yesterday, and they said that
Speaker 2: not all the Republicans are necessarily in line yet, So
Speaker 2: I don't know where we're going to be. I think
Speaker 2: Cornin indicated he'd vote for and he was one of
Speaker 2: the three they were concerned about three or four. So
Speaker 2: we'll see RFK Junior day two. Absolutely ready for Maggie
Speaker 2: Hassan or whatever her first name is. Let's hear this senator,
Speaker 2: I don't know, set herself up.
Speaker 1: Sometimes science is wrong.
Speaker 10: We make progress, we build on the work, and we've
Speaker 10: become more successful.
Speaker 1: And when you continue to so.
Speaker 10: Doubt about settled science, it makes it impossible for us
Speaker 10: to move forward.
Speaker 1: The settled science.
Speaker 2: By the way he as he pointed out to her
Speaker 2: is a peer reviewed study. What she did not realize,
Speaker 2: So what RFK was commenting on is he was commenting
Speaker 2: on a study that was peer reviewed published in all
Speaker 2: the same journals which she would use to inform herself.
Speaker 2: That just so happens to conflict with her understanding on
Speaker 2: this particular issue, which I suspect she has no understanding.
Speaker 2: The other really good moment, now that I just remember
Speaker 2: this is Bernie Sanders. At one point, RFK says, every
Speaker 2: person on this panel, on this committee has taken money
Speaker 2: from pharmaceutical companies.
Speaker 1: You've taken millions.
Speaker 2: In this exchange with Sanders, who is apps, he goes
Speaker 2: like stuttery, he's sputtering around.
Speaker 1: He's like, wow, that's not true. See I ran for
Speaker 1: presidency and I would and and and and RFK goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: and he gave you one point five million, Well but
Speaker 1: but yeah, and then he just moves on. Man. I honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm surprised Sanders walked into that, because clearly, if he's
Speaker 1: accuseding everyone, you have to assume that RFK had a
Speaker 1: little piece of paper that.
Speaker 2: He saw showing the amounts I've seen it. They publish
Speaker 2: it on Twitter, and then just said what was on
Speaker 2: the piece of paper, and for Sanders to not predict
Speaker 2: that that's how that was going to go. He's been
Speaker 2: there so long.
Speaker 1: I was actually surprised. So all right, let's do this.
Speaker 1: Let's get race stage again into the mix on this morning,
Speaker 1: Friday morning. What's going on, sir? Oh not much? How
Speaker 1: about you?
Speaker 2: It's Friday, Yeah, it's Friday. We got some piece of weather,
Speaker 2: so there's no easing to be complaining. But I just
Speaker 2: feel like it's been a long week, even though it's
Speaker 2: been a short week for Russel.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, you had that thing happen, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's like it's so we had stuff.
Speaker 11: Well, you know, sometimes I put my foot in my
Speaker 11: mouth because I never really know.
Speaker 1: It's like computers are ticking time bombs. Man.
Speaker 11: Yeah, there's also Ross. We never we never did talk
Speaker 11: about the Bills things that we did. Sorry, but what
Speaker 11: we're good?
Speaker 1: You guys hire a coach yet? Yeah we got this yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: lateral move at best? Who did you? Lateral movement? Best?
Speaker 11: Shottheimer so off the OC and then we get the
Speaker 11: Bears defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: Thanks. I really appreciate that. Now they did really good
Speaker 1: this year.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so I'm looking at I'm going seven and ten.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 11: That's my way too early cut of prediction.
Speaker 1: Now, look, here's the deal.
Speaker 2: You're trying to You know, you will never understand as
Speaker 2: Cowboys fan, what ross an ideal was. As Bills and
Speaker 2: Vikings fans. Okay, you you had your moment. You got
Speaker 2: it's not been in this millennium, but had your moment.
Speaker 2: You got to hoist it. You get to run around
Speaker 2: and beat your chat. That's all we want.
Speaker 1: But you want you You can't, You can't understand what
Speaker 1: we're going through.
Speaker 3: Bro, the Bills this season, it was supposed to be
Speaker 3: a rebuilding year.
Speaker 1: Oh here we go, you see, here they go. It was.
Speaker 1: He's correct.
Speaker 3: They were projected to come in last in the AFC East.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you could project last. What you've
Speaker 1: got Vikings. They're the Vikings third in the NFC North. Yeah.
Speaker 11: I think the Vikings were the biggest surprise for me
Speaker 11: that they were the biggest surprise of the NFL this year.
Speaker 1: The Vikings. Yeah, well, we're gonna have to play those
Speaker 1: last two. It would have been fine. So yeah, anyway, you.
Speaker 2: And your Super Bowl ring just give me my weather ring.
Speaker 2: See what I'm talking about. You see how exactly here
Speaker 2: you hear how he undercut himself and then immediately kicked
Speaker 2: it into a knock.
Speaker 1: It's just cowboys fan like that. I want to be
Speaker 1: able to do that. I want to be able to
Speaker 1: do that, all right.
Speaker 11: Anyway, Well someday, not Sunday, but some someday, someday maybe anyway,
Speaker 11: let's see, well you like this. The warmth that continues,
Speaker 11: a little bit of a cool downcoming for the weekend.
Speaker 11: It's still above average, might be a record territory today
Speaker 11: little bit seventies as it's warm.
Speaker 1: Front pushes north, a lot.
Speaker 11: Of clouds, but I think the showers are going to
Speaker 11: hold off until maybe tonight, as we've got rained north
Speaker 11: of us right now around Roanoke and Virginia Beach, but
Speaker 11: that's moving away and some to our west too, so
Speaker 11: I still think we've got a little bit to go,
Speaker 11: maybe later today in the triad further west, but I
Speaker 11: think after sunset for most of us, but it movester quick,
Speaker 11: we're done and by tomorrow when in the upper fifties,
Speaker 11: low sixties, mid upper fifties on Sunday Sunday to partly
Speaker 11: Sunday to begive February, and then next week's going to
Speaker 11: be stunning seventy or higher most days, the warmest being Thursday.
Speaker 11: Lots of sunshine. Now you may stay in the sixties,
Speaker 11: but it's mid upper sixties. Some of the try it
Speaker 11: into the mountains, but even there you could see some
Speaker 11: seventy degree temperatures.
Speaker 2: See, the goal is to have weather nice enough so
Speaker 2: if you host like a Super Bowl party, you can
Speaker 2: utilize the interior and exterior of your home so that
Speaker 2: it can be larger and more rambunctious.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, you have the only way people can get
Speaker 1: drunk and fall in.
Speaker 11: Yeah, the only way I could do that, right, The
Speaker 11: only way I could do that if it was a
Speaker 11: pool season.
Speaker 1: But I can't. But I'm hosting anyway, So come on down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: gonna be on the air Monday, No super Bowl Monday.
Speaker 1: No this Monday. Yes, well yes, obviously I'm talking about.
Speaker 11: Well, I take Monday off after the super Bowl because
Speaker 11: I have this Someday We're going to be back, not Sunday,
Speaker 11: but someday. But I was like, you know what, I'll
Speaker 11: just take the Monday off anyway. I host the party every.
Speaker 1: Year he's waving his rings.
Speaker 11: Us you just can't right again, Okay, two and three
Speaker 11: years remember that, I mean three and four years something
Speaker 11: like that.
Speaker 1: Okay, three in the early ninetiess so, okay.
Speaker 3: I think super Bowls before Nafta don't count.
Speaker 2: That's a good points. That's a good point there. The
Speaker 2: naft it's the NAFTA line. You know the Nasca lines.
Speaker 1: This is the NAFTA line. Yeah, all right, later both
Speaker 1: both built by the anion Aku by the way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so saying you're ross with a good point, all right,
Speaker 1: seven forty eight hang on.
Speaker 2: So you know one of the things, uh so many
Speaker 2: of you came out to that Bourbon event really really
Speaker 2: thank you making the drive down to Beaufort hanging out.
Speaker 2: Much appreciate it. Obviously we've reacent a lot of bourbon
Speaker 2: themed events. That's fine. I like Bourbon, both the Try
Speaker 2: It and the Triangle. And you know, so beginning of
Speaker 2: the year, everyone we're having meetings. We're like, hey, what
Speaker 2: what can we get on the calendar for later in
Speaker 2: the year. We got some ideas and as those things
Speaker 2: come up, we'll let you know. And but we're sitting
Speaker 2: in a room with basically everybody and you know how,
Speaker 2: there's no bad ideas. One of this, one of the
Speaker 2: people that was in one of the meetings said, what
Speaker 2: about early May and we do a Sinco de Mayo party.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't, I don't know, I don't, I
Speaker 2: don't know that, and and we kind of moved from there.
Speaker 2: But I'm just like, I feel like that would not
Speaker 2: be well received. Here's the thing we as a as
Speaker 2: an audience, I'd like to think that we're able to
Speaker 2: delineate people here legally or illegally. And when I lived
Speaker 2: when I lived in Colorado for a little while after school,
Speaker 2: my next door neighbors were a huge Mexican family and
Speaker 2: legally there, I might add, and they used to they
Speaker 2: would invite me to all their parties and like if
Speaker 2: a three year old had a birthday, there was as
Speaker 2: much booze as there is at a sinko demo. And
Speaker 2: they're not a party man, So like able to delineate's fine.
Speaker 2: I just think that would send the moonbats into a tizzy.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: That's why I almost now want to do it, just
Speaker 2: to make Blue Sky mad. Still having gone over there,
Speaker 2: maybe some of you have, Hey, check this out. It's
Speaker 2: about damn time on this. You know how we see
Speaker 2: these stories where a woman accuses a man of rape
Speaker 2: and then it gets all up in the news. Sid
Speaker 2: remember the mattress chick up a Columbia. Oh, there's a
Speaker 2: lot of crazy as a Colombia well up. In Pennsylvania,
Speaker 2: a twenty year old woman accused a man of kidnap
Speaker 2: and rape. Police obviously took him into cussy arrest of
Speaker 2: a forty one year old man. She said he attacked
Speaker 2: her from behind outside a supermarket, pulled her pants down,
Speaker 2: smacked her, tried to force her, you take her against
Speaker 2: her will, just really really awful stuff. She had a
Speaker 2: bruise on her face. She claimed he did it. He
Speaker 2: didn't do it. He did none of those things, which
Speaker 2: begs the question did she punch herself? Angela Uumova is
Speaker 2: now facing significant jail time up to I believe seventeen years.
Speaker 2: And the reason she accused him he was giving her
Speaker 2: the IX by looking at her.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: As I've said, I think for about six weeks and
Speaker 2: a basically since election Day. What a week man to
Speaker 2: help us digest? Pete Calender, a radio buddy to the
Speaker 2: South Middays w b T Pete, how are you doing
Speaker 2: this morning?
Speaker 4: I'm doing okay. How are you today? Uh?
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know how you feel about the
Speaker 2: week you got the confirmation hearings.
Speaker 1: Those are insane.
Speaker 2: You've got you know, Trump week two right where he's like,
Speaker 2: what about Guantanamo?
Speaker 1: How many people fit there? And then of course you
Speaker 1: have this tragedy up in DC, and I fly.
Speaker 2: I fly American a lot, and I've been on a
Speaker 2: lot of those seven hundreds, those little jets, little regionals there,
Speaker 2: and my first thought, honestly was almost every time I'm on,
Speaker 2: that's that subcontractor from American. It's a Charlotte based crew.
Speaker 2: And sadly it looks like I was correct. So you
Speaker 2: have the crew. One of the passengers identified is a
Speaker 2: mother from Charlotte. And obviously we don't even know half
Speaker 2: the you know, more than half of the folks there.
Speaker 2: So I have seen everything from you know, the standard
Speaker 2: political Trump did it with his cuts because apparently air
Speaker 2: traffic controllers work from home, right, or the previous administration
Speaker 2: did it because they hired a little person, and.
Speaker 1: I'm just like, can we stop?
Speaker 2: And then and then online of course, all the conspiracies
Speaker 2: and I understand you got a military craft.
Speaker 1: It's in the nation's capital.
Speaker 2: I saw people yesterday saying Putin did it because it
Speaker 2: was filled with figure skaters to improve Russia's odds at
Speaker 2: the Winter Olympics. So I know we're all the media now,
Speaker 2: but some of us need to take a deep breath.
Speaker 2: So go ahead, give me the PEAT calendar. Take well
Speaker 2: your thoughts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, there's yeah, a lot of well, there
Speaker 4: are a lot of different angles to this story. I mean,
Speaker 4: obviously it's just heartbreaking and it's incredibly sad, and you know,
Speaker 4: you have to kind of balance that against them when
Speaker 4: talking about the method of travel. It is the safest
Speaker 4: means of transportation, right, people are more likely to die
Speaker 4: in the car accidents.
Speaker 2: And million flights in the US since two thousand and nine,
Speaker 2: which was our last major air disaster.
Speaker 4: Two So yeah, and if you ever see a map
Speaker 4: of the amount of aircraft aloft at any given moment,
Speaker 4: it is mind boggling. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, and so
Speaker 4: but it's but it's one of these things where these
Speaker 4: types of disasters capture so much attention because they are
Speaker 4: so massive and horrific and so many people are killed
Speaker 4: all at once and so it obviously it you know,
Speaker 4: it focuses people attention. And I think your point about
Speaker 4: you know, we're all journalists, now, I agree, And the
Speaker 4: problem there is that and I know people who like
Speaker 4: to make fun of the journalism field. And look, I
Speaker 4: have made a pretty good career doing it myself and
Speaker 4: then making fun of it myself, right, So.
Speaker 1: I've been on both sides.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's Arlene. But but there are actually some uh,
Speaker 4: some guidelines. You know, there are some I don't want
Speaker 4: to say rules, because you know, you break the rules
Speaker 4: and it's not like there's any real punishment for it
Speaker 4: all the time, especially the higher up and the ranks
Speaker 4: and the markets you move. Seems like the more egregious
Speaker 4: errors get rewarded. But there were things that we were taught.
Speaker 4: You know, you don't say people somebody is dead when
Speaker 4: they're not dead. That was like a really big one.
Speaker 4: Don't say somebody died if they haven't died. And so
Speaker 4: you're supposed to be, you know, sort of thinking about
Speaker 4: the impacts of your reporting after the fact, as you
Speaker 4: are doing the writing of the report before it ever
Speaker 4: sees the light of day. And there's a reason for that,
Speaker 4: and that is lost on people who just they are
Speaker 4: into the drama porn, and there are a lot of
Speaker 4: people that are in media that are susceptible and engage
Speaker 4: in this too. Don't get me wrong, right, They race
Speaker 4: to tell you something and they don't really care if
Speaker 4: it's accurate as long as they're first to tell you,
Speaker 4: and they feel like that's the win, and it's not
Speaker 4: the win if it's wrong, it's a major loss. And
Speaker 4: so yeah, these conspiracy theories or these the wild speculation
Speaker 4: are trying to tie to all different things. And my
Speaker 4: view on all of this stuff always in the wake
Speaker 4: of a disaster is give it twenty four hours, give
Speaker 4: it forty eight hours, wait for more information to come
Speaker 4: out because the initial information is usually not correct and
Speaker 4: they are finding out more and more stuff, and then
Speaker 4: we will be able to make informed opinions about what
Speaker 4: actually occurred. But you have to get people time to
Speaker 4: you know, respond to the scene, try to find survivors,
Speaker 4: try to pull the uh, you know, the bodies out
Speaker 4: of the water, and you know, give them some time
Speaker 4: and there'll be time in you know, a couple of
Speaker 4: days for all of the theories. But I don't I've
Speaker 4: never understood the the need to rush in and quote
Speaker 4: explain what happened when you don't know what happened, Like
Speaker 4: it's that's always.
Speaker 2: Been guess sure, I'm with you, and I'm glad we're
Speaker 2: having this conversation because I I wrote a tweet the
Speaker 2: other day like, right, if this happened.
Speaker 1: I love Twitter as a breaking news tool.
Speaker 2: You gotta know how, you gotta know how to you
Speaker 2: gotta That's why you stack your follows properly. And there's
Speaker 2: a there's a bunch of different ways you can really
Speaker 2: tweak it with lists and things. But the problem was,
Speaker 2: and I don't know, maybe it's the monetization of Twitter.
Speaker 2: If you write if all of your Twitter posts are
Speaker 2: about uh, pokemon, muck bang, right, you know whatever, laid
Speaker 2: beauty tips. Everyone who's trying to monetize decided to just
Speaker 2: steal content or video.
Speaker 1: I don't say steal is the wrong word.
Speaker 2: They're probably legally sharing it, but a lot of them
Speaker 2: just cut and pay stuff that other counts diant because
Speaker 2: they felt they needed to be in the reporting business.
Speaker 2: And it was I was getting so irritated because I'm
Speaker 2: trying to filter through all of that, and now all
Speaker 2: these accounts who previously had not been monetized and would
Speaker 2: just post beauty stuff are aircraft air crash.
Speaker 1: Analysis and it's just wild.
Speaker 2: And but I also understand I'm not going to tell
Speaker 2: you no, but you're clowning yourself.
Speaker 4: And so I think the real buried headline on that
Speaker 4: is that you're following a bunch of beauty tip.
Speaker 1: No I'm not, I'm not.
Speaker 2: But what happened is is I'm going over to the
Speaker 2: for you because I've posted.
Speaker 1: And I've tags. Now, how's the deal.
Speaker 2: I've used hashtags and they've used hashtags, and that's enough
Speaker 2: to get the algorithm.
Speaker 1: To let me know what a twitch a girl who plays.
Speaker 2: Video games online thinks about the air thing who lives
Speaker 2: in normal, I don't care.
Speaker 4: No, I think I think the you put your finger
Speaker 4: on it, which is the monetization model that Twitter has
Speaker 4: adopted within what I guess it was in with the
Speaker 4: last year or two. And so you know, when once
Speaker 4: people get hooked on a revenue stream, they become very
Speaker 4: cognizant and sensitive to anything that jeopardizes that revenue stream.
Speaker 4: And so if you're look I looked at this when
Speaker 4: it first started, and I looked at the monetization program
Speaker 4: and I don't qualify. I don't I don't have enough
Speaker 4: engagement to get into their program, and which is fine.
Speaker 4: I was curious, like, oh, this is an additional revenue stream,
Speaker 4: that's fine. But if that's your primary means and you
Speaker 4: have to be a big time and you have a
Speaker 4: lot of engagement, uh, in order to get that any
Speaker 4: kind of money.
Speaker 2: Just want to be clear, most of those counts are
Speaker 2: not authoratized, but they're clearly chasing it.
Speaker 4: Right, correct, correct, Right, It's you know, look at where
Speaker 4: the incentives are aligned. And this is one of the
Speaker 4: things I talk about this in all sorts of contexts,
Speaker 4: all sorts of stories, right is where are your you know,
Speaker 4: what is the incentive structure? What are your incentives for
Speaker 4: behaving the way you're behaving? And if you can identify
Speaker 4: incentives that are at play in a particular story or
Speaker 4: incident or person or a policy, then you then you
Speaker 4: have a better understanding of why people are behaving the
Speaker 4: way they're behaving. And I think that the monetization thing
Speaker 4: is a very big part of it. I think there's uh,
Speaker 4: there is this uh this I call it drama junkie
Speaker 4: where people just feel the need to swoop in and
Speaker 4: be like, oh, I can't believe, like Eric Swallwell, that moron,
Speaker 4: and he's like, oh, I was just on you know,
Speaker 4: I was just on a plane in DC. Like dude,
Speaker 4: I don't care, that doesn't matter to me. Like you
Speaker 4: were on a plane. Guess what. I took a plane
Speaker 4: too at one point. Oh my gosh, I was in
Speaker 4: Washington at some point. This is not about you. They
Speaker 4: call it was a main character syndrome, where you view
Speaker 4: everything around the world, but you view it as if
Speaker 4: you're the main character in that story and you're not. So,
Speaker 4: you know, it's one thing to say how could this happen,
Speaker 4: listen to people with expertise in the matter, and then
Speaker 4: say this could be this could be the explanation. But
Speaker 4: people don't need to rush in and say this is why,
Speaker 4: this is why, which then, of course brings us to
Speaker 4: the Donald Trump press conference, where people like I can't
Speaker 4: believe he did that, and I'm like, well, that's Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: You guys knew what he was for the last eight years.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure why this is a surprise. But that
Speaker 4: being said, he's responding to the accusations that the left
Speaker 4: and the media. But I repeat myself, immediately launched before
Speaker 4: they had even pulled the bodies out of the Potomac.
Speaker 4: And they are attacking Trump for some hiring freeze, or
Speaker 4: they're saying he had something to do with what he
Speaker 4: did at home.
Speaker 2: From home was the ABC news in which he was
Speaker 2: asking about And I'm sorry, Pete, have you ever heard
Speaker 2: of an air traffic controller who works from home?
Speaker 4: No, because people who work from home have far better
Speaker 4: computers than what the FAA air Traffic Control System air.
Speaker 1: That's fair. Yeah, Now look, New York Post.
Speaker 2: New York Post is saying that there might have been
Speaker 2: somebody who was essentially handling traffic both for incoming flights
Speaker 2: and helicopters. Right, but that is that is based on
Speaker 2: And I want to be clear because I can already
Speaker 2: see people.
Speaker 1: Pete and I are not doing well. Maybe Pete is.
Speaker 1: I can't speak for him.
Speaker 2: But I'll let you answer. Hang on, buddy, we're not
Speaker 2: doing the media leade thing. Hey, we got a gig already.
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you that if you want to be
Speaker 2: more credible and I and yes, I would never deny
Speaker 2: that people who dig into what seemed like conspiracy theories
Speaker 2: haven't really really been hitting some nails on the head
Speaker 2: with your COVID and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: But don't clown yourself. I'll give you an example.
Speaker 2: I saw somebody who thought that they were removing bodies
Speaker 2: because they had been it was a hit job, okay.
Speaker 2: And he always said that was because of the press conference.
Speaker 2: They said twenty seven bodies were recovered, but another guy
Speaker 2: said that thirty. And immediately they're like, those are the
Speaker 2: three people that was the hit, you know, And we
Speaker 2: had to get them out of there, just insanity. And
Speaker 2: the reason was and it took me just a moment
Speaker 2: to figure out that the a non rescue person was
Speaker 2: in a meeting and said thirty. In the case the
Speaker 2: American Airlines Sky however, twenty seven is the official number
Speaker 2: because there are standards that require the body to be
Speaker 2: in the possession of the medical examiner and not just
Speaker 2: on the riverbank to be counted as recovered.
Speaker 1: Okay. And that little thing spawned that whole thing.
Speaker 2: And what I'm telling you is, if you want to
Speaker 2: dig into this, understand that the way that government works
Speaker 2: a lot of times seems conspiratorial, even when it's not,
Speaker 2: just because it's bureaucracy and right.
Speaker 4: Well, and also in the aftermath of a disaster, everybody
Speaker 4: is shocked and they're like, oh, well, you know, go
Speaker 4: get the bodies and count the bodies. And one of
Speaker 4: the things I learned, in fact, the first commercial aircraft
Speaker 4: disaster after nine to eleven was here in Charlotte. A
Speaker 4: commuter jet took off and was loaded with you know,
Speaker 4: baggage on you know, too heavy on one side, if
Speaker 4: I recalling it, it veered off into the pilot over
Speaker 4: corrected and it crashed and I went I was I
Speaker 4: was a pool reporter, and I went to that scene.
Speaker 4: I was among the wreckage and I asked the NTSB, well,
Speaker 4: where's all the rest of it? And they're like, this
Speaker 4: is this is all of it? And I said, there's
Speaker 4: like nothing here though, and he says it all burns.
Speaker 4: And people don't understand that, like they may not be
Speaker 4: able to recover all the bodies because jet fuel burns everything.
Speaker 2: And and somebodies are I think, and it's not confirmed.
Speaker 2: I think they found one literally miles downstream.
Speaker 1: That would not surprise me either. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they landed in water. That water has currents. Bodies
Speaker 4: get taken away. It's not deep water, but the bodies
Speaker 4: can be taken away, and like, these are the things.
Speaker 4: And so when people rush out to be able to
Speaker 4: like you know, virtue signal or you know, violent signal
Speaker 4: or like oh oh my gosh, I'm so you know,
Speaker 4: broken up over this and here's a theory. I know
Speaker 4: what really happened, this could be it and all that.
Speaker 4: You know, I always try to think, what if your
Speaker 4: family member died in this wreck. You don't know what happened,
Speaker 4: and this is what you're reading about your family member,
Speaker 4: that they were somehow killed because of some hit job.
Speaker 4: You know, like, just stop and think for a moment.
Speaker 4: Try to do no harm, you know, try to minimize harm.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying don't take an interest. I'm not saying
Speaker 4: don't explore, don't read. But like, I guess what I
Speaker 4: bristle at is people racing in and pretending to know
Speaker 4: things when they don't actually know. They're making guesses just
Speaker 4: like everybody else.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know this is yeah, I don't know, no, no,
Speaker 2: And again, because I don't want to come off as smug,
Speaker 2: what what What I'm literally arguing is if people want
Speaker 2: to do this stuff, they should adopt the good practices
Speaker 2: of journalism that the mainstream has has excommunicated themselves in
Speaker 2: some cases from Jim Acosta said, Jim, I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 2: get it in.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get it in a couple minutes.
Speaker 2: So Jim Acosta, who if you you remember right after
Speaker 2: that meeting where Trump was talking about how his boys
Speaker 2: are going to run his company, when he first labeled
Speaker 2: a Costa fake news, before he was really fake news
Speaker 2: in the Yellow Room, he was just fake news. And
Speaker 2: of course he became the story that day. And I
Speaker 2: remember him doing interviews with everybody because his other journalist,
Speaker 2: Pearl clutching, can you believe he's doing this to us?
Speaker 2: And Acosta said, look, we're human. We're going to be
Speaker 2: a little partisan one way or the other. And I
Speaker 2: remember laughing out loud. Only little the dude started his
Speaker 2: own network and his logo is the China Book of Mao,
Speaker 2: red power fist holding a pencil. So he's either John
Speaker 2: Wick or a straight commie. That's May day teachers down
Speaker 2: at the Capitol protesting on COMMI high, holy visuals, what
Speaker 2: are we doing?
Speaker 4: Yeah? This is like this was when remember the NCAE,
Speaker 4: the North Carolina Association of educator when they did their
Speaker 4: little they did some sort.
Speaker 2: Of it was a May Day protest at the capitol.
Speaker 2: I mocked, and I had so many teachers who hated
Speaker 2: this because they didn't they don't agree with it, and
Speaker 2: they're just like, we're all getting painted.
Speaker 4: With this right and they use the they when you
Speaker 4: use the imagery of Marxists, do not be surprised when
Speaker 4: people think you are Marxist. There is no way that
Speaker 4: that the meaning of that fist somehow escaped Jim Acosta,
Speaker 4: who oh, by the way, used black and red. Uh,
Speaker 4: sort of like hearkening back to Joe Biden's speech at Philadelphia,
Speaker 4: Like it has all of that, all of that imagery.
Speaker 1: So don't tell me that in the media. He understands imagery,
Speaker 1: he understands branding. Now, if he.
Speaker 2: Shows up to episode two today with a chae Gavera hat,
Speaker 2: I will give him credit for an patrol.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's it. We'll find out, Pete.
Speaker 2: We'll talk next week, okay, sir, Right, all right, there
Speaker 2: you go. So we're on chaga Era hat. Watch here
Speaker 2: on the CaCO Day radio program. We'll see how that
Speaker 2: pans out with the new Jim Acosta show.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll be back.
Speaker 2: Hang on, Because on one hand, I love it and
Speaker 2: I'll explain the reason why I love it.
Speaker 1: But on the other hand, it's still a salty So
Speaker 1: there's that, all right.
Speaker 2: How many of you play video games and have played
Speaker 2: in a online setting, so you're interacting with people could
Speaker 2: be your friends, but you know, I'm talking when you
Speaker 2: don't know who's on the other end.
Speaker 1: It's just a voice.
Speaker 2: Usually they have some stuff they want to mention about
Speaker 2: your mother and trash is talking. I don't get into
Speaker 2: video games as much as probably a lot of you,
Speaker 2: but the ones that I do, I don't know that
Speaker 2: I've ever played in an online setting.
Speaker 1: I don't, and the Oblo is the one I would
Speaker 1: have played more.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I've ever been online with the Oblo.
Speaker 2: Not online, but you know, connected to the servers. They're
Speaker 2: playing against people that's just not.
Speaker 1: My Jay Ross, You're not a you don't do that either.
Speaker 3: No, I can't stand it.
Speaker 1: I hate it.
Speaker 3: I've had people asking me, They're like, hey, let's play multiplayer,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, yeah, pass, Nope, not gonna do it,
Speaker 3: and like you could be like an amazing person. I
Speaker 3: don't want to do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then if you if you go into the
Speaker 2: wasteland of strangers, it's well you better have a strong stuff.
Speaker 3: It used to be like really bad, like the old
Speaker 3: Call of Duty lobbies back in the day, because I
Speaker 3: used to try that a little bit, and there was
Speaker 3: recently I saw a video it was like a side
Speaker 3: by side of it, like a new lobby and an
Speaker 3: older lobby like Modern Warfare two and you had like
Speaker 3: these younger players gen Z listening to like what used
Speaker 3: to happen in these old Call of Duty lobbies where
Speaker 3: it was like it was the wild West, right.
Speaker 1: You got a fifteen year old Chinese kid is lobb
Speaker 1: and f bombs at.
Speaker 3: You, dropping like every version like the first F word
Speaker 3: and the second F word and the R world everything
Speaker 3: at each other. And nowadays if you do that, you're
Speaker 3: gonna get banned. They police this stuff pretty pretty well
Speaker 3: these days.
Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean that you won't get irritated by
Speaker 2: somebody or somebody's gonna talk some trash and and uh,
Speaker 2: off you go. Do you know who you're trash talking?
Speaker 2: That is the anonymity of the Internet, except it's not
Speaker 2: as anonymous, not if you've mentioned stuff, and you know,
Speaker 2: people can start to piece it together. And there's a
Speaker 2: Bill ber bit and he talks about the what was
Speaker 2: it the malice at the Palace. I believe it's what
Speaker 2: they called it, that Indiana Pacers game where.
Speaker 1: It right, yeah, what was it called? Yeah?
Speaker 3: At the Palace?
Speaker 1: Run I pa that right? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So where you had you know, you had
Speaker 2: a beer thrown and then you got on our tests
Speaker 2: and others that have got into the stands and then
Speaker 2: they attacked the dude that didn't throw the beer, and
Speaker 2: the whole thing was a mess. But Bill bird as
Speaker 2: this whole bit. He goes, you know this is you know,
Speaker 2: these are fans that will sit in the stands and
Speaker 2: they'll scream down at the player, you suck.
Speaker 1: You know, some three hundred pound.
Speaker 2: Guys done nothing in his life except train how to
Speaker 2: murder people on a football field, and you're screaming, you suck,
Speaker 2: You're a wuss, You're horrible, and uh, knowing that they'll
Speaker 2: never come up, and then Bill's line as well, they
Speaker 2: came up, right, So here we go North Carolina connection.
Speaker 2: California based UFC fighter Brian or Taga traveled to North
Speaker 2: Carolina to cash in on a bed against an online
Speaker 2: Fortnite player who wouldn't stop talking trash to him at
Speaker 2: you like her, this is going already, I do, according
Speaker 2: to our tegau. So so here's how it go. It
Speaker 2: wasn't just straight. He had to figure out who.
Speaker 1: Was it was he played.
Speaker 2: The guy got annoying, but he kind of knew who
Speaker 2: he was, so he made a bet with him. And
Speaker 2: I don't know that he disclosed who he was. He
Speaker 2: I think he said he was into UFC or something,
Speaker 2: and he made a bet and then they played and
Speaker 2: Ortega won and or for Tega one he got to
Speaker 2: come put the dude to sleep, and he looks exactly
Speaker 2: like a guy who would talk trash to somebody through uh,
Speaker 2: through a cable and not in person.
Speaker 1: By the way, the saying here.
Speaker 3: So was this planned or did it? Was this sort
Speaker 3: of it?
Speaker 2: So it's this is what I'm picking up because at
Speaker 2: first I'm like, just got to be a stunt, but
Speaker 2: it doesn't look like a stunt.
Speaker 1: Here's here's what it is.
Speaker 2: Or Tega's playing and he's playing, and I don't know
Speaker 2: how they break it up on Fortnite, if how teams
Speaker 2: or regions or I know nothing about Fortnite other than
Speaker 2: it's local. And I think he was playing in this
Speaker 2: group and the guy was the guy was talking trash
Speaker 2: to him, and he's talking trash and he's like, I
Speaker 2: want you put your money where your mouth is. Bro,
Speaker 2: Watch you put your money where your mouth is. I
Speaker 2: can't some of these quotes. A lot of only problem
Speaker 2: is you guys are talking mad trash. Now you know
Speaker 2: what I had it on?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2: So he's talking smack and then so Ortega's like, well,
Speaker 2: why don't we play? I don't know what Ortega offered him,
Speaker 2: but he says, look, if you want to talk trash
Speaker 2: and you lose, I will fly there and choke you out.
Speaker 2: And the guy's like, all right, let's go, and then
Speaker 2: he beat him.
Speaker 1: So so Ortega got.
Speaker 2: On a plane in California flew to North Carolina and
Speaker 2: there is video and that it legitimately he's legitimately choking
Speaker 2: him out, or at least the timings write everything. This
Speaker 2: dude in a Grandma sweater with some acne and it's
Speaker 2: just just marvelous.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine if you're like, let's say, all right,
Speaker 2: so this is here's an NFL listen to me. Here's
Speaker 2: here's an event for you. All right, You throughout the
Speaker 2: course of the game, first half of the game, you
Speaker 2: find the drunkest, most obnoxious, screamy fans, right, get a
Speaker 2: little pool, and then you select one you bring down
Speaker 2: the field and I don't know, they got to take
Speaker 2: a block from a player or something. Because this is
Speaker 2: the great reckoning that the internet has lost us, the
Speaker 2: stuff that people will say to people on the internet
Speaker 2: versus you know, everybody's made this point because it's true.
Speaker 2: There's very few people that would say what they'll say
Speaker 2: on the internet to your face, which is why you
Speaker 2: have so many accounts that yeah, you don't know who
Speaker 2: that person is, uh, fake picture, fake whatever.
Speaker 1: And then they just they just revel in it. So hey,
Speaker 1: I'll give credit to the dude. He let himself get
Speaker 1: choked out.
Speaker 3: It would have been better though, if it was just
Speaker 3: sort of like spontaneous and not played, if it was oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was hoping for that when I
Speaker 1: clicked the headline.
Speaker 2: Initially like the guy he's like, uh, candy gram right.
Speaker 3: Because you hear about people swatting, which is awful because
Speaker 3: it's a waste of government resources. And terrifying.
Speaker 1: You're not doing it yourself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not doing it yourself. You're having somebody else
Speaker 3: do the work for you. But I say, you're playing
Speaker 3: like you know, you're playing Madden or something, and the
Speaker 3: kid from Germany is talking smack to you lose or whatever,
Speaker 3: and you suck, and then all of a sudden you
Speaker 3: get to knock on the door and the josh, it's
Speaker 3: like Von Miller standing at the other side of the door.
Speaker 3: You're like, oh my god, injured Von Miller or healthy
Speaker 3: von doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: No, it wouldn't would Nope, you don't want to see
Speaker 1: von Miller unless you want to see Von Miller.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, dude, that's a whole great reality show. We'll
Speaker 2: probably get sued. We'll only go for obnoxious fans in
Speaker 2: non extradition countries where we can bribe the judges.
Speaker 3: Right, listen, I don't want anyone to get hurt. Like
Speaker 3: I said, I don't want there to be a crime.
Speaker 1: You don't go to people's houses, by the way, right,
Speaker 1: let's not.
Speaker 3: But but I'm saying I would respect it the hustle to,
Speaker 3: you know, and you would probably stop talking smack to people.
Speaker 3: You might shut up a little bit and respect other people.
Speaker 1: You learn a valuable lesson.
Speaker 2: It's the redemption arc man, right, And all it required
Speaker 2: is a UFC fighter to hit you in the face
Speaker 2: once or in this case, choke you out until you
Speaker 2: pass out, and the dude literally he kind of like
Speaker 2: re emerges from him. I watched the video and then
Speaker 2: he makes a peace sign at the camera, so I
Speaker 2: don't know if that's him many.
Speaker 1: And he's wrong, but I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe, Hey, and if the people do start doing that
Speaker 2: and you really want to meet your favorite fighter and
Speaker 2: you're willing to get the crap kicked out of either's that.
Speaker 2: Do it for your kid's birthday? Talk trash. Get him
Speaker 2: to come over right before the guy is about to
Speaker 2: lay you up. Hey, it's my kid's birthday. He might
Speaker 2: still punch you, but maybe you'll, you know, sign autographs
Speaker 2: for the kids. Then you're the winner because you tricked
Speaker 2: him into being there. All right, raced agic is he
Speaker 2: there yet? He's probably on board for a new plan,
Speaker 2: so a you what's that fighter? A UFC fighter is online,
Speaker 2: is playing Fortnite, and some dudes run in his mouth,
Speaker 2: as they do in the online gaming community, which can
Speaker 2: get really nasty, and Ortega's finally like, listen, bro, you
Speaker 2: want to talk trash, Let's play around.
Speaker 1: If I win.
Speaker 2: I can't remember what he promised the dude, but he said,
Speaker 2: if I win, I will fly to your house and
Speaker 2: choke you out. I'm a UFC fighter. And the guy's like,
Speaker 2: all right, whatever, let's do it. He lost, and the
Speaker 2: dude flew from California or Tega to North Carolina. And
Speaker 2: the dude stood there while to Ortega choked him's unconscious
Speaker 2: and I'm just like, you know what, you know how
Speaker 2: people are on the internet or not like they are
Speaker 2: in person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love the ID.
Speaker 2: I'd love an NFL game where once a game they
Speaker 2: picked the obnoxious drunk guys screaming at the three hundred
Speaker 2: pound guy telling him.
Speaker 1: He sucks to have to fight him. I would, I mean,
Speaker 1: do you want ratings? Listen to the NFL?
Speaker 11: Yeah, what did blood pits is what we used to
Speaker 11: call him in Like, if you want to challenge somebody,
Speaker 11: you do blood pits with him, go head to head
Speaker 11: and then on the whistle you you turn around and
Speaker 11: you run into each other. That's what they should probably do.
Speaker 1: Blood pits full of drunk five two.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, short king out of the out of
Speaker 2: the stands and won't shut up, and and you know,
Speaker 2: let them have the car seat standing there, and then
Speaker 2: that dude, and you know what, I'll root for a
Speaker 2: cowboy at that point by one exception.
Speaker 1: All right, what's going out? Yeah, before we get ourselves.
Speaker 11: In, Well, we already hit it out all week on
Speaker 11: the warmth was here this week, had a couple of
Speaker 11: days in the seventies today, probably back to the low
Speaker 11: to mid seventies with a gusty wind, maybe thirty.
Speaker 1: Plus miles prior.
Speaker 11: The Weather Service actually did put a statement out about it,
Speaker 11: so they said wins could us thirty plus, maybe to
Speaker 11: forty in some spot. So kind of a windy day
Speaker 11: before the showers come in, and believe or not, maybe
Speaker 11: be a rumble of thunder tonight, but it moves through
Speaker 11: pretty quickly with the front and back behind that front.
Speaker 11: Will be in the upper fifties, low sixties tomorrow, in
Speaker 11: the fifties on Sunday, but beautiful first couple of days
Speaker 11: of February, so it should be a pretty good shape.
Speaker 11: But next week I just got to kind of pause
Speaker 11: and sit back and say, absolutely beautiful. Most of us
Speaker 11: on either side of seventy Monday and Tuesday with sunshine sixties. Wednesday,
Speaker 11: Thursday could be the warmest day of this run, low
Speaker 11: to mid seventies. We'll see about records. I mean, some
Speaker 11: of the records are closer to eighty degrees for next week.
Speaker 11: But either way, it's going to be a gorgeous week.
Speaker 11: Much in the nation enjoying warmer weather this week and
Speaker 11: next week, as February is going to come in with
Speaker 11: some pretty warm temperatures. A six to ten day oulook
Speaker 11: case is above average. We're going to be in that.
Speaker 11: Just a little rain probably tonight for a few hours.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 11: Enjoy it for February early February standards, it's actually real dark.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll get you taking credit for that, all right.
Speaker 2: Thank you, appreciate it. Every good weekend and we'll come
Speaker 2: back with you, Jeff Fellinger next.
Speaker 12: Well, good morning, and happy Friday, KC. We earned and
Speaker 12: spent more money last month. The government just reported to
Speaker 12: American's personal incomes and released four tenths percent in December,
Speaker 12: but we didn't bank the money. Consumer spending was up
Speaker 12: seven tenths percent. Couple of other indicators are part of
Speaker 12: the Income and Spending Report. Last year's increase in labor
Speaker 12: costs was the smallest since twenty twenty one, and the
Speaker 12: inflation gauge favored by the Federal Reserve rose two point
Speaker 12: eight percent in twenty twenty four, right in line with forecasts.
Speaker 12: Apple's iPhone sales declined in the most recent quarter, but
Speaker 12: the company issued an upbeat forecast for the current quarter,
Speaker 12: and its shares moved higher, and after hours trading they're
Speaker 12: up about four percent in pre market trading this morning.
Speaker 12: In fact, that the futures are higher right across the
Speaker 12: board this morning, as Wall Street prepares for the last
Speaker 12: session of the week and the month. The a now
Speaker 12: futures are up one hundred and fifteen points. The guacamole
Speaker 12: at your Super Bowl party could be more expensive this year.
Speaker 12: President Trump plans to impose twenty five percent tariffs on
Speaker 12: Mexican imports starting tomorrow. Avocados are just one of the
Speaker 12: things we'll have to pay more for if the tear
Speaker 12: raffs go into effect. Avocado prices are already fourteen percent.
Speaker 1: Higher than they were last year.
Speaker 12: The latest financial security monitor from Primerica found the lingering
Speaker 12: impact of inflation is still shaping how middle income Americans
Speaker 12: manage their finances. Some of the people who were surveyed
Speaker 12: indicated they were cautiously optimistic things will get better, but
Speaker 12: many said their incomes not keeping pace with rising prices.
Speaker 12: For the first time in more than twenty years, the
Speaker 12: Food and Drug Administration has approved a new type of
Speaker 12: non opioid painkiller. It's from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, a Boston company.
Speaker 12: It's called Jornovacs. The FAFTYA says it's indicated to treat
Speaker 12: moderate to severe acute pain in adults. And subscribers to
Speaker 12: Amazon dot COM's unlimited streaming music plans will be coughing
Speaker 12: up an extra dollar a month, and that starts in March.
Speaker 2: Casey, okay, thank you much. Have a good weekend and
Speaker 2: we'll chat with you Monday.
Speaker 12: Sir, you have a good weekend as well.
Speaker 1: Talk to you then. All right, there you go.
Speaker 2: Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg News. All right, so I've irritated somebody.
Speaker 1: You have this.
Speaker 2: I know sometimes you think I just say things and
Speaker 2: I'm embellishing or making up what somebody said. And if
Speaker 2: I'm trying to be funny, I might do that. But
Speaker 2: so I referenced that I didn't think it was helpful
Speaker 2: for either political party to I know, I know, but
Speaker 2: I don't think it's helpful for the Democrats to say, well,
Speaker 2: Trump's president, he dis murdered all those people. And I
Speaker 2: also don't think it's helpful for people to run around
Speaker 2: and say it absolutely is a DEI issue. You know
Speaker 2: nothing about the controller there, and I mentioned the little persons.
Speaker 2: I didn't make that up. I'm gonna play you a
Speaker 2: piece of audio and that I'm gonna read you a transcript.
Speaker 2: This is you had the president obviously who mentioned this yesterday. Wait,
Speaker 2: hold on, let me write, I said, I was going
Speaker 2: to read the email.
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 2: Nobody said a little person was hired as an air
Speaker 2: traffic controller.
Speaker 1: I said, FAA.
Speaker 2: But anyway, it's simple that a It's simply that a
Speaker 2: person undeserving of a position. You don't have to lecture me,
Speaker 2: sir on what DEI is. I know full well, I've
Speaker 2: spent years talking about it.
Speaker 1: Here. The fact remains that and you.
Speaker 2: Can't just accuse the air traffic controller of being a
Speaker 2: DEI higher. But you can still recognize that the FAA,
Speaker 2: and there's tons of documentation made a dramatic and conservative
Speaker 2: effort that actually goes back.
Speaker 1: To like twenty thirteen, and they would hold hiring fairs,
Speaker 1: so they're wrapped up in all of this.
Speaker 2: But you don't know anything about that. Controller That's the
Speaker 2: point that I'm making, so talk about it broader. Here
Speaker 2: is what Trump said, and again you don't even know
Speaker 2: if DEI contributed to it. But don't accuse me of
Speaker 2: caring about the DEI issues. Why would you trivialize I'm not.
Speaker 2: This goes back to you know, especially if if you
Speaker 2: if your goal is to take down DEI, then having
Speaker 2: a bulletproof example of it is helpful. You get out
Speaker 2: over your skis, and then the people who oppose you,
Speaker 2: rather than agguing arguing the facts are in the media
Speaker 2: will help them, are just going to roll with you
Speaker 2: the time they accuse them of this and that. Please,
Speaker 2: here's what Trump had to say on the on a
Speaker 2: You trying.
Speaker 4: To figure out how you can come to the conclusion
Speaker 4: right now that diversity has something to do.
Speaker 12: With this crash because they have common sense, okay, and
Speaker 12: unfortunately a lot of people don't.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't.
Speaker 2: Here's the deal with Trump, I'm telling him the same
Speaker 2: thing and to some extent. I don't know that he
Speaker 2: believes it. It's more the wording from the reporter. Uh,
Speaker 2: he said, you believe that this the DEI.
Speaker 1: Had something to do with the crash.
Speaker 2: He shouldn't say that, but if he wants to talk about, well,
Speaker 2: we don't know. We know that the FAA fundamentally changed
Speaker 2: the way that they were recruiting and qualifying staff, so
Speaker 2: we're going to look into if it contributed.
Speaker 1: That's what you say,