Speaker 1: I am. I am broadcasting from the mountains of North Carolina.
Speaker 1: We're doing that this week, and we're going to be
Speaker 1: throughout the week. We're gonna be talking to a bunch
Speaker 1: of people from around western North Carolina. And the goal
Speaker 1: of this broadcast is to you know, really talk about
Speaker 1: what's going on in western North Carolina, what it's going
Speaker 1: to be, you know, for tourist season, which is the
Speaker 1: lifeblood of so many of the communities up here. And
Speaker 1: now I'm up at in Asheville. We have an Higheart
Speaker 1: facility up in Ashville, and so you know that facilitated
Speaker 1: a broadcast location. But I want to stress while we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about obviously Ashville, I want to talk
Speaker 1: about Swannanoa and Canton and Banner Elk and all of
Speaker 1: these areas that to some in some way, shape or form,
Speaker 1: were impacted by Helene. And this is the first time
Speaker 1: that I had gone to Back Cave, Chimney Rock, some
Speaker 1: of those areas. I didn't just buzz up the main
Speaker 1: highway here. I wanted to spend some time this weekend
Speaker 1: driving around and looking how to you you don't realize
Speaker 1: until you see it how bad it was in some
Speaker 1: of these areas. I mean, I know, we have photos
Speaker 1: and we have video, and it is the modern age.
Speaker 1: But being able especially on the highway that cuts up
Speaker 1: there through Chimney Rock or I should say areas that
Speaker 1: used to be Chimney Rock, and having been there on
Speaker 1: numerous occasions and stayed there, and you know, just over
Speaker 1: the years around Lake Lure and other places, and then
Speaker 1: being able to stand there and remember, you know, there
Speaker 1: was a there was a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: towns that run right up on the river. They have
Speaker 1: like stilted like restaurants and stuff. So if you go
Speaker 1: to like Sparta An areas, so those stuff like that's gone.
Speaker 1: It's just good because the river's different now. And so
Speaker 1: now these communities are having to figure out what they're doing.
Speaker 1: And so while on one side it fundamentally things that
Speaker 1: I remember, you know, cafes, going to eat at h
Speaker 1: where a cabin a roade up to a cabin that
Speaker 1: I had rented a couple of times, like that's it's
Speaker 1: not there, or if it is there, it's now. It's
Speaker 1: now very different. And while so much has been in
Speaker 1: some areas has been rebuilt or I should say refurbished
Speaker 1: and cleaned and they're getting back to business. It's not
Speaker 1: going to look the same in some instances, although they
Speaker 1: are doing a hell of a job trying to do
Speaker 1: what it is that they need to do. It's really
Speaker 1: it's kind of it's mind blowing, man, especially that area,
Speaker 1: because it's just a funnel, right. So if you understand
Speaker 1: the topography there, and I'm sure most of you do,
Speaker 1: that whole secondary road that comes down through Back Cave
Speaker 1: and Chimney Rock there, I mean, it's essentially just a
Speaker 1: canyon and so you know, well, it's going to funnel
Speaker 1: all that water through there and literally change the course
Speaker 1: of roads and rivers and things like that. Now, I
Speaker 1: did get some stats talking to people, I think right
Speaker 1: now from a tourism a Western North Carolina tourism perspective,
Speaker 1: in the southern part of western North Carolina, they estimate
Speaker 1: that about eighty five percent of hospitality and tourism businesses
Speaker 1: are reopening in some capacity in some way. So we're
Speaker 1: talking hotels, restaurants, breweries, you know, cabin cabin places, some
Speaker 1: of the music venues, the outfitters that are out here.
Speaker 1: If you like to do the tubing, maybe on the
Speaker 1: New River, things like that. But I was really struck
Speaker 1: because I had not been back to many of these
Speaker 1: areas following what happened with Helene, and it was it's
Speaker 1: it's really powerful to understand. But on the flip side,
Speaker 1: you talk to the people, you know, the restaurants that
Speaker 1: I stopped and ate at yesterday and some of the
Speaker 1: areas I was driving around, a couple of the stores
Speaker 1: that I popped into, right they're they're really excited to
Speaker 1: get back to this because obviously financially, this is the
Speaker 1: lifeblood of a good part of this. So that's that's
Speaker 1: what we're going to be talking about this week. We
Speaker 1: have a series of guests that'll come through and and
Speaker 1: that's the reason for the season. Okay, and then obviously
Speaker 1: we have you know, lots of news to get into
Speaker 1: this morning as well, But I just wanted to kind
Speaker 1: of scene set what's going on and what we're doing
Speaker 1: and very happy about that we do have. I want
Speaker 1: to thank to our sponsor for you know, making this
Speaker 1: happen and facilitating lodging and everything so that we can
Speaker 1: pull this off. With Heywood Park Hotel and Cambria and
Speaker 1: the ownership group there, they have been great to partner
Speaker 1: with and thank you very much to them for helping
Speaker 1: us with this broadcast. And I will let you know
Speaker 1: and we will do this at the end of the week.
Speaker 1: On Friday, we are going to be giving away a
Speaker 1: multi night package with food and all of that for
Speaker 1: a you know, like a weekend vacation opportunity with that
Speaker 1: hotel group. So we'll give you details as we go,
Speaker 1: but be listening for that. We'll do an on air
Speaker 1: giveaway on Friday. We'll let you know the details. So
Speaker 1: all right, so there's the scene set and like I said,
Speaker 1: we're going to cover a lot of ground throughout the week,
Speaker 1: but obviously we got some big news we got to
Speaker 1: get into this morning real quick. Ross. What'd you do
Speaker 1: this weekend? Buddy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's fantastic. Just enjoyed time with my family
Speaker 2: Father's Day. Do you get a tie or no? A
Speaker 2: me like a Bible come panion type thing. And it's like,
Speaker 2: oh I saw that, yeah, yeah, yeah, I saw you
Speaker 2: post that. So what's it called again.
Speaker 1: The Bible Companion?
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's got like maps and timelines and
Speaker 2: like pitching in the spirit of destiny. Right, it's pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: I don't have a spirit of destiny.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. Oh okay, but I eight
Speaker 2: way too much. Yesterday is for sure, Well that's what
Speaker 2: yesterday's for, right, Probably not gonna absolutely, I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: eat today at all.
Speaker 1: Dude. I saw some dads that were getting down, like
Speaker 1: because I ate it. An Italian restaurant called Strata yesterday
Speaker 1: in Ashville, and uh, it was all all the dads
Speaker 1: are up and they're just gorging themselves and like bowling
Speaker 1: AI's and stuff, just having a grand old time.
Speaker 2: I felt like super weird this weekend because it seemed
Speaker 2: like everybody was on like either like I'm on, like
Speaker 2: I'm team Parade or I'm team Protest and I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm tall, stay at home and relax and do nothing.
Speaker 1: That's me. Yeah, yeah, I was. Social media is something
Speaker 1: right now, that's the word I'll use something. It's something then.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think there was a lot of people
Speaker 1: were dude, the US Open finish yesterday, right, holy crap?
Speaker 1: Huh you know what I mean? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I saw posts that were very like confusing the hell
Speaker 2: out of me, that were like these funny meme posts
Speaker 2: about how Tiger went Woods won or something, and I'm
Speaker 2: like what do you mean Tiger Woods won? And I
Speaker 2: looked into it and I figured out what they were
Speaker 2: talking about. Like, I guess there was some sort of
Speaker 2: rain delay and they were showing like an old broad
Speaker 2: they were showing the two thousand and eight. Yeah, because
Speaker 2: I happened.
Speaker 1: I was watching they Yeah, they had a rain delay
Speaker 1: and then they put on the two thousand and you
Speaker 1: know what, It's so funny because I in my head
Speaker 1: when I saw that they were showing the third round
Speaker 1: of two thousand and eight, which was it was an
Speaker 1: amazing round like Tiger, because Tiger, it was one of
Speaker 1: the I can't remember it was one of the Spanish
Speaker 1: or Latin American golfers was winning, one of the older guy,
Speaker 1: I can't remember who it was, and like Tiger just
Speaker 1: did what Tiger does, right, He's just like I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make this shot that nobody can make, and they just
Speaker 1: made like three of those. But they were showing that.
Speaker 1: I'm like, somebody's gonna be really Confusedah.
Speaker 2: They were saying, like, you know, dad's are going to
Speaker 2: be waking up from their father's staying app looking at
Speaker 2: the TV, going wait what Tiger?
Speaker 1: Yeah what so but no the but the the end
Speaker 1: of the actual tournament. So you want to talk about
Speaker 1: the tale of two things. So this guy named JJ Spahn,
Speaker 1: who's you know, unless you really kind of watch it
Speaker 1: most people, he's not a household name, right, And so
Speaker 1: he shot a forty on the front nine. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: you're done at that point. Normally you're done you shoot
Speaker 1: a forty in the final round, especially when you're playing
Speaker 1: a US Open course where it's really hard to score,
Speaker 1: let alone a US open course that's one of the
Speaker 1: hardest in rotation set up in one of the hardest
Speaker 1: ways it's ever been set up, and it's raining. You
Speaker 1: should have forded year cooked. And he hit a shot
Speaker 1: into the green, which was a good shot. It just
Speaker 1: unfortunately hit the flag stick. And there's a meme of
Speaker 1: his face watching this ball, which should have been great,
Speaker 1: bounce back, catch the slope, catch another slope, catch a
Speaker 1: third slope, and just just anguish in his face. And
Speaker 1: it turned into a meme in the first half of yesterday,
Speaker 1: they're like that face, right, and everyone was posted it,
Speaker 1: And I kind of felt bad for the dude because
Speaker 1: he really didn't do anything wrong, like he just sometimes
Speaker 1: you hit the flagstick man, sometimes you hit it so
Speaker 1: close you get screwed on it, which is just fun
Speaker 1: in the game of golf. And at that point he
Speaker 1: should have been done. That should have been the end
Speaker 1: of it. And you know, for a lot of golfers
Speaker 1: yesterday they were like they were not dealing with One
Speaker 1: of the golfers went into the History clubhouse at Oakmont allegedly,
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is super confirmed, although it
Speaker 1: sounds like they've already banned him. Wyndham Clark went in
Speaker 1: and took his frustration out on these lockers and like
Speaker 1: destroyed some lockers, which you know you can't have. I
Speaker 1: accidentally dropped a seven iron in a lake before, never
Speaker 1: to be seen again. Maybe maybe, but that's my club
Speaker 1: into that lake. That's my constitutional right. You can't go
Speaker 1: in and destroy equipment, especially at a club like Oakmont. I
Speaker 1: don't care if you're a PJ golfer. So look, dudes
Speaker 1: were dudes were super super upset with the way it's going.
Speaker 1: And JJ spond had every right, Yeah, here we go.
Speaker 1: He shot a forty on the front, he had a
Speaker 1: he started bogie bogie bogie, par bogie bogie, right, So
Speaker 1: like he should be done and then he shot thirty
Speaker 1: two on the back and was able to pull it out.
Speaker 1: And then the craziest part is it's the eighteenth hole.
Speaker 1: He actually has a cushion, right, He's got a cushion.
Speaker 1: He could two putt and if he two putts, he wins.
Speaker 1: If he three putts, he would have gone to a
Speaker 1: playoff with the guy McDonald. And so they have the
Speaker 1: cut shot of the dude watching he hits it on
Speaker 1: the farthest position away on the green, like it's sixty
Speaker 1: five feet I think. So it is a challenge just
Speaker 1: to lag it close enough so that you ensure that
Speaker 1: that second shot will go in to win it. So
Speaker 1: he goes back there and he had to hit it
Speaker 1: so hard he hold the damn thing out. He made
Speaker 1: a sixty five put putt on one of the hardest
Speaker 1: greens in some of the worst conditions for it, after
Speaker 1: a guy had just blown it by previously because of
Speaker 1: the downslope there, and he hold that thing. It's it is.
Speaker 1: It will likely if they were if they put lists
Speaker 1: together of you know, famous major moments. JJ Spawn's on
Speaker 1: that list. Now, Tiger's obviously got a bunch on there,
Speaker 1: and and really the greatest golfers of all time have
Speaker 1: made these. There's a Sandy chip out by. There's a
Speaker 1: couple just in recent years. I'm trying to think of
Speaker 1: some of the big ones. There. It was, it was,
Speaker 1: it was crazy, and so yeah, and I will admit
Speaker 1: there was about three hundred dads just watching that thing
Speaker 1: through at the various different places I was going and
Speaker 1: checking out. So if you wanted to not pay attention
Speaker 1: to to really like horrific news and yeah, we got
Speaker 1: to get into Minnesota what happened up there and the
Speaker 1: mission impossible connection and we'll get into all that. But
Speaker 1: if you wanted to divorce yourself from that and just
Speaker 1: eat too much and watch sports, it was a great
Speaker 1: weekend to do that as well.
Speaker 2: Two funny things happen this weekend that I can recall.
Speaker 2: A really funny thing. So Marky's bringing Lincoln to the
Speaker 2: library to drop off some books, right, and she's coming
Speaker 2: back home and she sends me a text message and
Speaker 2: she's like, there's some sort of protest by the library.
Speaker 2: There's a bunch of people with signs and I don't
Speaker 2: know what it's about, but this is fantastic. Ready, she
Speaker 2: goes the signs says something about no kings, but they're
Speaker 2: holding like all American flags, So I think it's some
Speaker 2: sort of like pro Trump, pro deportation, pro ice protest.
Speaker 1: Bless her heart, and I'm bless her heart.
Speaker 2: I'm laughing so hard, and I'm like, you know, your
Speaker 2: point when you have a protest is to make people
Speaker 2: who might not be aware of your causer protest to sort.
Speaker 1: Of immediately understand it. Yes, and you.
Speaker 2: Did this thing where you're like, we're going to use
Speaker 2: the American flag because the conservatives have co opted it
Speaker 2: and we're gonna make it our symbol now, so people,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna use this for our protest. But what
Speaker 2: you don't understand is you've so alienated and moved to
Speaker 2: the left and away from the American symbol that when
Speaker 2: people see it, they do think conservative and if they
Speaker 2: if they don't know what your protests are, people are
Speaker 2: gonna assume you're automatically like pro Trump people. I thought
Speaker 2: it was very funny, and.
Speaker 1: Plus it's all it was older white people, and let's
Speaker 1: face it, that's the when you say older white people,
Speaker 1: it used to being oh, you were probably talking about
Speaker 1: Mago stuff, right, right, So not that that's fair MAGA.
Speaker 1: Obviously is IS has expanded, as we saw with the
Speaker 1: last election results, But that would be the stereotype people
Speaker 1: would come up with, not these AARP protests. Yeah, did
Speaker 1: she see the severed heads that miss Ron hoffin Steinen's
Speaker 1: Jungs posted or.
Speaker 2: You know, we missed it. She missed it, Okay. The
Speaker 2: other thing was so she's like, you know, there's not
Speaker 2: a lot of cars out today. You know, it's so
Speaker 2: weird how there's not a lot of cars compared to
Speaker 2: Mother's Day. There's not a lot of people on the road.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, yeah, cause dads don't want to do
Speaker 2: anything right. We just want to be left alone, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Just I don't want to go to the mall all
Speaker 1: day and then we get a hot stone massage. No,
Speaker 1: I don't want to go to brunch. What no brunch?
Speaker 1: I'm he's talking about? Oh man, Yeah, yeah, that's straight out.
Speaker 1: They want to sit maybe not you, but a lot
Speaker 1: of them just want to sit there and watch the
Speaker 1: US open. Yeah, right, that's what they were. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: want to do today. Nothing. I'm doing it right now.
Speaker 2: I don't want to fix anything. I don't want to
Speaker 2: move anything that's exactly what they want to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and if the kids are going to be turds,
Speaker 1: maybe just if you could just handle it today and
Speaker 1: then I'll do it for you and yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. So all right, I did think of
Speaker 1: you though, because I told his tell Ross for the show.
Speaker 1: So I go and I check into my hotel. And
Speaker 1: you know how they got the buskers in Nashville, right,
Speaker 1: the various folks drum guitars doing that. Parked in front
Speaker 1: of my hotel. Is a dude who's super hipster. He
Speaker 1: has like a little folding card table and like a
Speaker 1: nineteen twenties typewriter and you can pay him like twenty
Speaker 1: bucks and give them your name and what you wanted
Speaker 1: to be a bound he'll write you a poem. So
Speaker 1: you want me to get you a poem? You want
Speaker 1: to poem about you and then you can make whatever
Speaker 1: you want. I'll get you a poem, buddy. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get a picture of that guy.
Speaker 2: How much are they?
Speaker 1: I think it was a ten or twenty, depending on
Speaker 1: what you wanted.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a good deal.
Speaker 1: It's a deal. There's something, or you get grocked to
Speaker 1: write it all right, anyway, we gotta take a break.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Yes, we're doing the live broadcast
Speaker 1: all week up here talking about even though I'm in Asheville,
Speaker 1: we're talking about western North Carolina at large and specifically
Speaker 1: areas of the state that obviously suffered the worst of
Speaker 1: what Helene had to offer, and we we wanted to
Speaker 1: get a sense of where we are. I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people that spend a lot of time up
Speaker 1: in the mountains of North Carolina during the summer, or
Speaker 1: maybe they you know, they carve out a week it's
Speaker 1: a family trip and they've done it each year. They
Speaker 1: find a cabin to rent, or they have a favorite
Speaker 1: hotel or lodge, maybe along the Blue Ridge Parkway, those
Speaker 1: types of areas, and we just wanted to get a
Speaker 1: sense of what's going on, because it's it's you get
Speaker 1: in a doom loop with some of this stuff, right,
Speaker 1: You wonder, are we gonna be able to go to
Speaker 1: Little Switzerland and go to the chocolate store that the
Speaker 1: kids love and do this other thing and go up
Speaker 1: to about Mitchell And the answer is yes, primarily primarily yes,
Speaker 1: but it may look different in some places, and some
Speaker 1: places are still, you know, rebuilding and trying to get
Speaker 1: back to where they are, and that's when it becomes
Speaker 1: more important. So as these places come back, it's important
Speaker 1: that the tourism comes back. And so that's uh, that's
Speaker 1: that's why we're up here, that's why we're doing this thing.
Speaker 1: So and I am curious over the course of the
Speaker 1: show if anyone has had an opportunity, because what struck
Speaker 1: me so much was the route, you know, the driving
Speaker 1: around this weekend and going to some of these places
Speaker 1: that I've enjoyed over the years on a on a
Speaker 1: pretty regular basis, and and just checking them out. And
Speaker 1: and some I walked in. There's a there's a place
Speaker 1: where I ate lunch on Saturday, excuse me, on yesterday
Speaker 1: on Sunday and or I normally lunch, but I did.
Speaker 1: I stopped in there, popped in, and they had been
Speaker 1: they had been just high enough without the flow of
Speaker 1: water there. And and yet you know, the two businesses
Speaker 1: adjacent to them, one of them's gone. It's just gone.
Speaker 1: They're rebuilding. It just kind of down the road a
Speaker 1: little ways there north out of bat Cave. And I
Speaker 1: until you see it, man, until you see and uh, well,
Speaker 1: we'll hear some of the stories. And I talked to
Speaker 1: some folks yess that are going to be talking to
Speaker 1: later in the week, just you know, what did it
Speaker 1: look like. What were you Yeah, imagine trying to keep
Speaker 1: your business open because you were fortunate enough and you
Speaker 1: have to spend a month and a half essentially running
Speaker 1: a generator because even when you get power back, it's
Speaker 1: just not consistent. And that's what some of these areas
Speaker 1: went through. And you know, so the rush to get
Speaker 1: back and get ready, so the people come up at
Speaker 1: the ash field was loaded yesterday, loaded when I got
Speaker 1: when I actually physically got into town and and kind
Speaker 1: of set up to meet with some of the some
Speaker 1: of the folks who are helping us coordinate here. You
Speaker 1: know that area down you know, right in the city
Speaker 1: center core there around everything. You had so many people
Speaker 1: walking around and yeah, you had the Father's Day thing
Speaker 1: and there was a lot of that, and you know,
Speaker 1: they were they were, they were a bustling. And and
Speaker 1: then I was talking to the tourism people and they're,
Speaker 1: you know, they're still down a certain percentage for you know,
Speaker 1: even a community like Asheville, which you know a lot
Speaker 1: of money came in a lot of help. The river side,
Speaker 1: the other side of the Amish you're building. I went
Speaker 1: over there. That's in. That is insanely impressive. What's going
Speaker 1: There's still still a bunch of amaged people up here
Speaker 1: building stuff still. So those, those are the stories we
Speaker 1: want to communicate in addition to the news, and we
Speaker 1: got to get into some of that. So even though
Speaker 1: Ross's wife did not know what was going on, which
Speaker 1: I'm very jealous of, we had the No King stuff
Speaker 1: over the weekend, and there's a bunch of insane vignettes
Speaker 1: about how that went. And of course MSNBC coupling the
Speaker 1: No Kings with this horrific story out of Minnesota with
Speaker 1: this guy who decided that he was going to go
Speaker 1: and he was going to shoot to Minnesota lawmakers and
Speaker 1: their spouses, killed two of them, and the whole story's insane,
Speaker 1: and I think the most insane. I mean, clearly the
Speaker 1: murder is the most vicious part of it, But when
Speaker 1: you get into the details of like how he was
Speaker 1: pretending to be a cop, he had like what looked
Speaker 1: like asks. You Now, some of this is speculative, but
Speaker 1: I think it's probably pretty accurate and some of it
Speaker 1: is like, we know what's up, there's video and and
Speaker 1: but we don't know why certain things were done. Like
Speaker 1: there's one where he smashes a car window and it
Speaker 1: kind of looks like he's breaking in, but maybe he's
Speaker 1: smashing it to look like stage or crime scene. I
Speaker 1: don't think we know one hundred percent exactly what all
Speaker 1: that looks like. But easily the weirdest thing is the mask.
Speaker 1: And you know, you have no idea how excited Ross was.
Speaker 2: I was trying to avoid social media so much this
Speaker 2: weekend because it's so negative and so toxic. Yes, and
Speaker 2: there's so many different issues to be toxic about. It's like, oh,
Speaker 2: pro Israel, or no, I hate the Jews, or it's
Speaker 2: oh Iran or I know I hate it, or it's
Speaker 2: the parade is dumb, or it's Trump's birthday and it's
Speaker 2: just like North Korea, or it's like, oh, you know,
Speaker 2: it's a no Kings and then the Minnesota thing, and
Speaker 2: everything's just so horrible, and I'm just gonna step away
Speaker 2: from social media and enjoyed the Father's Day weekend with
Speaker 2: my family and relax as you should, right, appreciate what
Speaker 2: I have and just taking the weekend and try to
Speaker 2: avoid social media. But when it did jump on, you
Speaker 2: see the photo of the guy like I guess, like
Speaker 2: dressed like a copp or whatever at the front door,
Speaker 2: this guy in Minnesota, right, Yeah, the first thing I thought,
Speaker 2: I'm like, that guy's got to be wearing a mask, right,
Speaker 2: Like there's that's got to be like a mission impossible
Speaker 2: mask or something like. That's not his face, that can't
Speaker 2: be it. But nobody is mentioning the mask, And I'm like,
Speaker 2: how come nobody else is correct?
Speaker 1: The first you were speculating on it because because there
Speaker 1: was a conspiracy that it was two different people. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: it's really not him, And I'm like, I think that's
Speaker 1: a mask too.
Speaker 2: Right, there's so many conspiracies around this this thing right now,
Speaker 2: like the guy and you know, was it really the
Speaker 2: guy or did he come and like he would he
Speaker 2: took the fall for somebody else, I spread somebody, But
Speaker 2: nobody was mentioning, Hey, this guy's wearing like a mask.
Speaker 2: And the first thing you said this morning was how
Speaker 2: about that guy's mask?
Speaker 1: Kind of like that? Yeah, I thought it was going insane.
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's a mask, that's a it's a LATEX
Speaker 1: mission impossible mask man or something something similar to that,
Speaker 1: which just shows you, like all of the it's just
Speaker 1: one of a hundred really weird things about this. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's so many wrong. Yeah, there's lots of You're fair
Speaker 1: to question this because there's not there's so many things
Speaker 1: that need answer.
Speaker 2: You see like the ring that photo of him wearing
Speaker 2: the mask, dressed like the cop and I guess he
Speaker 2: had a car that would also also look like a
Speaker 2: cop car or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, look like an suv like one of the
Speaker 1: without the lights on top, but you see the lights
Speaker 1: in the back window or something.
Speaker 2: You'd see like the ring cam, you know, the video
Speaker 2: of this guy, And I'm like, why would you open
Speaker 2: the door? Like if I if somebody rings my doorbell
Speaker 2: late at night and we check out the camera because
Speaker 2: we have like multiple cameras in our porch, including the door, right,
Speaker 2: and I see somebody and I'm like, that's not your face.
Speaker 2: I'm not opening that door, right, Like, I'm like, this
Speaker 2: dude is dressed like a cop, wearing like murder right. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you don't get you don't want to get sucked into
Speaker 2: the mother ship. Maybe they were like super groggy. I
Speaker 2: don't know what time it all had happened. I'm not
Speaker 2: I don't know the details. So maybe they were super
Speaker 2: groggy and you get up, you get the sleepies out
Speaker 2: of your eyes or whatever the Krusty's and you're like,
Speaker 2: who's this on my door? It's a cop and you
Speaker 2: don't notice that the guy has like a mask on.
Speaker 1: Well, you know a couple a couple of things too.
Speaker 1: If you're a lawmaker and she was a speaker, Like,
Speaker 1: if you're a lawmaker, you probably have some more additional
Speaker 1: interaction with law enforcement because people, you know, weirdos make
Speaker 1: threats and stuff. Do you know what I'm saying? Like,
Speaker 1: but usually, uh, you know, the protection detail in Minnesota
Speaker 1: is the same as is in North Carolina's having broadcasts
Speaker 1: there with the state Patrol or they're the Minnesota Highway Patrol.
Speaker 1: It is office the protection detail that the politicians get
Speaker 1: our officers from the state Patrol. So it wouldn't be
Speaker 1: Champlain or Brooklyn. Where's the Brooklyn Center? I think Brooklyn
Speaker 1: Park or Brooklyn Center. It can never there's two of
Speaker 1: them right next to each other. So in the color
Speaker 1: of the shirt there and this is important, is in
Speaker 1: that video is a is a Minneapolis police color?
Speaker 2: Just having you know, how.
Speaker 1: You know in your head what the copy uniforms look
Speaker 1: like in the towns you lived in. So I lived
Speaker 1: in Minnetonka, and they have a black motif on the
Speaker 1: Minnetonka Police, but in Minneapolis that's the color. So it
Speaker 1: looked like he was going for a Minneapolis police officer
Speaker 1: uniform color. But neither of these were in the city
Speaker 1: of Minneapolis. They're in suburbs. So that part was weird
Speaker 1: to me, just having that, you know, the local knowledge
Speaker 1: of what's going on there. But yeah, the mask, I mean,
Speaker 1: we're not there yet. It's not we're not We don't
Speaker 1: have the technology quite yet unless you have time to
Speaker 1: sit for four hours in a Hollywood special effects chair.
Speaker 1: So you're right, man, if you looked at he really
Speaker 1: got eyes on it, that should be like super red flag.
Speaker 2: Right, he wasn't. At the point. It wasn't like a
Speaker 2: Joe Biden clone quality type mask. But it was like,
Speaker 2: you know, like a like a high end spirit Halloween.
Speaker 1: What do you mean Joe Biden quality? We all know? Right, Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, leave it at that. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many posts I've seen where they like you could see
Speaker 1: the zipper his I ears it's obviously somebody pretending.
Speaker 2: To be and maybe it is.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know everything, but the thing, yeah, right, this
Speaker 2: is so that was like, that's not right, you said,
Speaker 2: it's like this the guy. The mask that guy was
Speaker 2: wearing was like a high end spirit Halloween type mask.
Speaker 1: And and then there's like video of him over given
Speaker 1: like weird. Did you watch any of his sermons from
Speaker 1: over in Africa? They don't make any sense.
Speaker 2: No, I and I saw there was some sort of like, uh,
Speaker 2: they're saying there might be some connection to us a
Speaker 2: I d or some because I don't know. I like,
Speaker 2: I saw them scrolling. I saw them, but I want
Speaker 2: I didn't want to press it and listen to it.
Speaker 2: And I just I's trying to enjoy my weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't blame you, man. Yeah, it's uh, it's
Speaker 1: trying to digest all this yesterday after have you know,
Speaker 1: traveling and then having to work out tech stuff, which
Speaker 1: can you know, it could be a little frustrating when
Speaker 1: you're when you you know, you pop up to do
Speaker 1: a remote broadcast until you get it all set up
Speaker 1: and you know obviously we're cooking with gas. Now we're fine.
Speaker 1: Think it sounds good, connections good, but you know, so
Speaker 1: I'm scrambling because I'm trying to do the tour and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to you know, check out these places on
Speaker 1: my way up to Ashville and really get a sense
Speaker 1: of it and make some notes and talk to people.
Speaker 1: Then I'm doing the tech stuff, and I'm also trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what the hell's going on with mask dude,
Speaker 1: because right he hadn't been caught. He's been caught. Now
Speaker 1: I just gave himself up, but you know, he was
Speaker 1: still on the run for most of yesterday. So I'm
Speaker 1: trying to follow along with that, put together the other
Speaker 1: you know, just the other news stories. MSNBC and all
Speaker 1: of them are like they're they're excited because they can
Speaker 1: like the no Kings thing, but then they can they
Speaker 1: can tie this guy because you know, we have to
Speaker 1: rush out and figure out who he voted for, right
Speaker 1: you have both sides and who appointed him to a
Speaker 1: governor's panel, and like none of it's congruent hit. His
Speaker 1: roommates were like he liked Trump, but then he had
Speaker 1: a bunch of No Kings flyers in his car, and
Speaker 1: people know what the hell is going on?
Speaker 2: Right, both sides are trying not to claim him. And
Speaker 2: then you have like people that are like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: you have the No Kings flyers in his car. But
Speaker 2: then you have the other people that are like, oh no,
Speaker 2: they were planted there, like the way that cops plant
Speaker 2: crack on. People's the same sort of sprinkle crack on. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a lot of crack sprinkling obviously, so uh look
Speaker 2: at that. So people are like, I also drove through
Speaker 2: the No King's protests and I was super.
Speaker 1: Confused by the flags, right yeah, yeah, And then he goes,
Speaker 1: why is everyone protesting Elvis? I don't know, man, It's good.
Speaker 1: That's a good question. That's a good question.
Speaker 2: I saw a sign from Chicago that said the only
Speaker 2: King in Chicago is Abe Froeman.
Speaker 1: That's a good sign, dude. I love the guys. You
Speaker 1: do funny sides.
Speaker 2: But then underneath it in the comment, somebody was like,
Speaker 2: why because he's a Jew? Sad like, I hate all
Speaker 2: you people. I hate you all.
Speaker 1: You know what's you know, what's what's what's horrible too
Speaker 1: is Iran. The Iran military has a Twitter account and
Speaker 1: they were posting like old school, hooked nosed jew photos
Speaker 1: and it was still the less offensive anti Jewish posting
Speaker 1: that was going on, if that you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's like the Iran military's posting exactly what you kind
Speaker 1: of expect there, and like people were like, you're not
Speaker 1: being aggressive enough.
Speaker 2: There's like I said, there was so much negativity on
Speaker 2: social media this weekend, I had to check out. At
Speaker 2: some point. I'm like, I can't keep doing this because it's.
Speaker 1: Well, look at least MSNBC wouldn't feed the beast, right right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's we can all. We can all agree
Speaker 1: with that.
Speaker 3: The overwhelming majority of Americans, regardless of political party and
Speaker 3: regardless of who the subject of the fascination is, that's
Speaker 3: a very red line that.
Speaker 4: Will be crossed.
Speaker 3: I wonder some of these protests around the country, including yours,
Speaker 3: whether that's a unifying force for people who are going
Speaker 3: to come out and say, we want our.
Speaker 4: Democracy a certain way.
Speaker 3: We have the right to protest, it's a First Amendment right.
Speaker 3: We don't cross lines into political violence.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would hope.
Speaker 5: So, I would hope that this is a unifying moment.
Speaker 5: But unfortunately, as we've seen time and time again, it
Speaker 5: usually isn't we have too many people and too many
Speaker 5: elected officials, including the current augumented White House, who escalates
Speaker 5: rhetoric and violent rhetoric against political opponents, and that the
Speaker 5: other guy who was shot of tragic events, the other
Speaker 5: guy was shot absolutely unacceptable in every single elected official
Speaker 5: should be condemning this, regardless of their political party. But
Speaker 5: I don't have the greatest hope for some people to
Speaker 5: actually come.
Speaker 1: Out and do that. Really one person, I think that's
Speaker 1: who who like you, dude, you were so close to
Speaker 1: having probably a good message in there, like maybe we
Speaker 1: should all take a step back and stop putting a
Speaker 1: quarter in the uh the insanity machine. But no, no,
Speaker 1: you're just like ah Trump and it's like, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: he was shot. So there, there's that. There's that there.
Speaker 1: We have a state lawmaker here in North Carolina decided
Speaker 1: to post it was actually a video and then uh
Speaker 1: and then the photo like the screenshots went not went viral. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's Jewel Julie von Hoffen. How do you pronounce it
Speaker 1: with her last name there haythen Hoffen. I don't, I
Speaker 1: don't know, and I really don't care. So she posted
Speaker 1: she posted this video and in it there's severed heads
Speaker 1: of Trump, and at no point, go that's probably not
Speaker 1: a good idea, and you know, the crazy thing is
Speaker 1: too ross. We have an example of somebody with a
Speaker 1: bloody severed head with uh Trump head and how that
Speaker 1: worked out for her, right, So like this isn't new.
Speaker 1: Talk to Kathy. Kathy'll let you know whether that's a
Speaker 1: good idea or not, although she then does kind of
Speaker 1: double down on it later Kathy Griffin, but like immediately,
Speaker 1: but you're a state lawmaker. You're a state lawmaker, and
Speaker 1: you post this stuff. And then you're like, you didn't
Speaker 1: even apologize, You just simply when you explained it. One
Speaker 1: you deleted your Twitter account, it looks like but two
Speaker 1: on Facebook, you're just like, I posted a video and
Speaker 1: it had this in it and here's the context, and
Speaker 1: it's like, maybe you shouldn't have posted that. You know me?
Speaker 1: Do you know how if you go on the draft folder,
Speaker 1: I should probably delete some of this stuff. There's been
Speaker 1: posts where I've written them, and I'm like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: save it as a draft and like I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: and do what I'm doing, and if later I still
Speaker 1: think it's a good idea. I'll post it because you
Speaker 1: got to be cognition.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you do have to sit on stuff because yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, being in this business, you think about how
Speaker 2: there are certain people that do want you fired. Like
Speaker 2: there that is their existence, that's there, that's why they're
Speaker 2: you know, that's their weather here and there they are,
Speaker 2: And like you've got to realize, like certain ways people
Speaker 2: are going to interpret what you could post even if
Speaker 2: that's not the case. Right, Yeah, smart about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh, and so we do it from if
Speaker 1: you're a lawmaker, I absolutely that should be your mindset.
Speaker 1: It should be for anyone who's in any sort of
Speaker 1: professional position. But but when you're in a position where
Speaker 1: half the people hate you, we do talk radio. That's
Speaker 1: how that goes. You do your politician, that's how that goes.
Speaker 2: We've known people fired for making innocent jokes.
Speaker 1: We both absolutely just in the timing, like there's years
Speaker 1: you can do it, and then a year later you can,
Speaker 1: then a year later you can. All Right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: take a break. We'll be right back. Hang on. I'm
Speaker 1: up in the mountains where it is slightly cooler but
Speaker 1: a lot more human. I will tell you, man Ross.
Speaker 1: So I was driving up it was that last little
Speaker 1: like twenty six, which is just the last little shootoff
Speaker 1: into Asheville there, and all of a sudden there's a
Speaker 1: traffic jam coming in. And you know I grew obviously,
Speaker 1: I grew up in ranch country, right, and you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, sure, there's a We got agriculture obviously all
Speaker 1: around the triad and the triangle and the periphery, but
Speaker 1: for the most part, unless you kind of live out
Speaker 1: a little ways, you don't really run into it. And
Speaker 1: they had a traffic jam, and I figured out a trailer,
Speaker 1: a truck trailer had jackknife that was hauling way too
Speaker 1: many round bails. The big it looked like the half
Speaker 1: ton round beils, which are now scattered all across the highway.
Speaker 1: And there's like fifty cops there, like what the hell
Speaker 1: are we gonna do with these things? Just standing around
Speaker 1: lights for miles. So I hadn't been in a good
Speaker 1: livestock or agricultural jackknife situation. And by the way, look
Speaker 1: the driver was standing there. The cab was turned over,
Speaker 1: but they seemed to be fine, so that was good.
Speaker 1: But yeah, just hay bales all across the road man.
Speaker 1: I adn't see one of those in a while, So
Speaker 1: there you go. Yeah, it's just a got I got
Speaker 1: a bunch of little little stories. We're gonna be talking
Speaker 1: to a bunch of people up here as part of
Speaker 1: this broadcast. But let me get back to some of
Speaker 1: the audio that we were playing here, and I also
Speaker 1: got a piece of audio in honor of Father's Day.
Speaker 1: You're just gonna love. But I gotta get through the
Speaker 1: MSNBC insanity. So when we last left our heroes, they
Speaker 1: were trying to pretend that they were against political violence
Speaker 1: but using it as a way to pistol rip Trump,
Speaker 1: which is not altogether unusual, but it was a soft
Speaker 1: version of it that didn't last very long because, of
Speaker 1: course MSNBC has got time to fill. They got through
Speaker 1: normal cast of characters that they need to get into,
Speaker 1: and of course they got a cover or I should
Speaker 1: say villains that they have to get into, and they
Speaker 1: got to cover these stories, and they got to cover
Speaker 1: what happened in Minnesota, the no King stuff, and then
Speaker 1: of course we'll get into the parade pearl clutching. But
Speaker 1: they were, they were, they were a feasting this weekend.
Speaker 1: They were super excited to get into all of this.
Speaker 1: I mean, just you want to hear giddiness. Let's do this.
Speaker 6: This is also not a normal question because I'm going
Speaker 6: to ask it about the Department of Justice, which you're
Speaker 6: two for. Prior to this administration, it's always been held
Speaker 6: that the Department of Justice is an a political.
Speaker 2: Body, right, yeah, Ross, would you say that prior to
Speaker 2: the Trump administration the Department of Justice is an a
Speaker 2: political body?
Speaker 1: The people prosecuted all the j sixers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if I would say that or
Speaker 2: go that far. Yeah, no, I would go no, probably no.
Speaker 1: Oh, you're gonna go no, all right, Oh look at that.
Speaker 1: They just threw Ross and jail for fifty years. Oh well,
Speaker 1: all right. And then, by the way, that's just there
Speaker 1: we wanted to do. We even have to go back
Speaker 1: to during the civil rights era where they were running
Speaker 1: like sting recording operations on MLK. Are you let's are
Speaker 1: we the FBI at large? Do you really you really
Speaker 1: believe that, which, by the way, is an insane position
Speaker 1: for somebody who would describe themselves as liberal in this
Speaker 1: country for most of the time, right right, That should
Speaker 1: that should be an incongruent position, but because Trump. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now it's the it's the other way. Everything's it's it's
Speaker 1: opposite stay every day. It's opposite stay, which when you
Speaker 1: when you have no values, you have no scruples. I
Speaker 1: guess that's how you have to operate. Consistency is not king.
Speaker 6: Do you see it as such now? And if you don't,
Speaker 6: the fact that these are two Democratic lawmakers that have
Speaker 6: been attacked, one killed and one right now fighting for
Speaker 6: his life, you.
Speaker 1: Know, including Democrats who specifically specifically went away from their
Speaker 1: party over some pretty high profile votes in Minnesota, including
Speaker 1: the woman who crossed over who was killed, her and
Speaker 1: her husband who sided with the with the decision to
Speaker 1: not provide free healthcare to illegal immigrants. They were up
Speaker 1: in arms. I mean I have a special connection because
Speaker 1: I have a lot of followers on social media for
Speaker 1: my time doing radio in Minnesota, so I get fed
Speaker 1: a lot more news from up there. They were like
Speaker 1: burn it down, the moonbat protesters like burn it down
Speaker 1: when they wanted to get rid of free healthcare for illegals.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I saw a video for after the vote and she
Speaker 1: seemed terrified. Yeah, because people within her own party were
Speaker 1: threatening her and not I mean kind of like trying
Speaker 1: to pretend that they weren't really but they kind of were. Man,
Speaker 1: it was not good. So with that in mind, this
Speaker 1: is why everyone was just trying to interpret, Well, what happened?
Speaker 1: Did this guy go after her with his weird mission
Speaker 1: impossible mass because she parted ways, or as his roommates said,
Speaker 1: he loved Trump. But then other people were like, well
Speaker 1: then why would Tim Walls put him on a governor's committee?
Speaker 1: The whole thing is insane, and rather than trying to
Speaker 1: pick through those individual points, we just get this all.
Speaker 6: After being shot multiple times. Do you have any doubt,
Speaker 6: any concern that because of political differences biases, this will
Speaker 6: not be.
Speaker 1: Addressed the way it should be.
Speaker 4: It should be a political right.
Speaker 7: That's what we have seen from Republican and democratic administrations
Speaker 7: up until this one. Right now, Donald Trump has in
Speaker 7: place people who are.
Speaker 1: More loyal, imagine believing.
Speaker 7: That to him than they are to the constitution and
Speaker 7: the rule of law. And what really, if I can
Speaker 7: bring just rewind the tape, if I can. Just four
Speaker 7: months ago, we saw this president pardon violent January sixth
Speaker 7: offenders people who were convicted, fifteen hundred of them, fifteen
Speaker 7: he just.
Speaker 1: All right, So I just want to and here's the point.
Speaker 1: He's correct in this sense that some of the people
Speaker 1: that he pardoned were the people because you know my position,
Speaker 1: right I. My position was, it's very different if you
Speaker 1: walk through a door next to a Capitol police officer
Speaker 1: who's playing but jeweled on his phone, who has a conversation.
Speaker 1: If you watch the video, there's instances or they're just
Speaker 1: say hey, you know, blah blah blah, and then they
Speaker 1: get in there and you're like, nah, you're go to
Speaker 1: jail for ten years, versus the people with the flagpole
Speaker 1: who absolutely assaulted police officers in some instances, who I'm like,
Speaker 1: bury them under the prison, don't care because I don't
Speaker 1: have patience for that in any context, whether it's what's
Speaker 1: going on in La what happened there and no, A
Speaker 1: thousand times no, But we're talking of actual physical assault charges.
Speaker 1: Is a very small percentage. And the argument, whether you
Speaker 1: agree with it or not, was because the whole thing
Speaker 1: was so politicized, because they were willing to essentially goulag
Speaker 1: some people who did nothing more. We had a guy
Speaker 1: locally who was up there trying to do journalism who
Speaker 1: was among those right, who is a known journalist, who
Speaker 1: is a guy we've had on the show before. So
Speaker 1: he's like he's got credits if you will, and they
Speaker 1: were just like, nah, you gotta throw the book at you,
Speaker 1: like these are.
Speaker 2: The amount of time there, like the span of that
Speaker 2: audio cut where they go from saying that the DOJ
Speaker 2: is you know, a political and then his point, you know,
Speaker 2: is well, you know, as an example, here's how we
Speaker 2: treated the Jay sixers is insane.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, look is everything ugly surrounding that, Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent, Like I don't, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Trump, I don't know, if I
Speaker 1: I I one hundred percent like what they decided to do.
Speaker 1: But something had to give, something had to give. Throwing people,
Speaker 1: They threw somebody. They were gonna give somebody ten years
Speaker 1: who wasn't there, who was not there, So don't give
Speaker 1: me this garbage.
Speaker 2: Man that you know, you had grandparents that were in
Speaker 2: these you see these, you remember.
Speaker 1: The video looked like the old Lady Tour group. That's
Speaker 1: look at the tapestries, like.
Speaker 2: Like elderly people like Grandma's and Grandpa's going using their.
Speaker 1: Cricket phone to take pictures and the big buttons.
Speaker 2: Yes, there's videos of them unlocking the doors for them
Speaker 2: and being escorted in and they're looking around at the
Speaker 2: paintings like, well, look at this, this is very nice.
Speaker 1: This is so I was there for? That? Is that?
Speaker 1: The revolution? And they're in prison for twenty thirty years?
Speaker 2: So you insane?
Speaker 1: Yeah, people, people have like three years to live right there.
Speaker 2: They were pardoned because the dj was political and they
Speaker 2: were political opponents and they were arrested for it. It's insane.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But they didn't arrest like politicians, did they.
Speaker 2: Of their opposite political because that definitely wouldn't happen. Can
Speaker 2: you imagine if that did happen.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Lincoln Projects said if it ever happened,
Speaker 1: it would be the end of democracy. So I hope
Speaker 1: it's never happened. What kind of a country would do that?
Speaker 1: That's I don't know, man, Well one, that's the end
Speaker 1: stage democracy, even though tachically we're not a democracy. And
Speaker 1: it's really funny, extra funny because Lincoln also jailed political opponents,
Speaker 1: so you're called the Lincoln Project. You absolute dull.
Speaker 7: Normalized political violence. These are people, Alex that he summoned
Speaker 7: to Washington. He told them come to DC, will be wild,
Speaker 7: he says in a tweet. And they come to Washington
Speaker 7: at his past, they come with their zip ties, they
Speaker 7: come with their weapons, they come with their bear spray,
Speaker 7: and he tells them to march down to the Capitol
Speaker 7: and to fight like hell, and they do exactly that.
Speaker 7: He tells them to stop. And so now he gets
Speaker 7: back in office and he pardons that. That to me
Speaker 7: is the normalization of political violence.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, except you left out the other part of
Speaker 1: what he said about peaceful protests very explicitly said it
Speaker 1: and then tweeted it.
Speaker 2: Ran No, he did tweet it. He did say it
Speaker 2: like specific.
Speaker 1: He both said it and tweeted it. That's the thing.
Speaker 2: He said it with his closed the remarks and then
Speaker 2: he tweeted it. But the problem is once he tweeted it,
Speaker 2: they took the post down. Yeah, like they censored the president.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but that was the twitter. I can't believe
Speaker 2: Elon would do that. Monster, absolute monster. All right, this
Speaker 2: is speaking of pepper spray. There is kind of a
Speaker 2: crazy video with one of the No Kings protests. Well,
Speaker 2: we had some pepper spray and then Charlotte going on
Speaker 2: and some other stuff.
Speaker 1: Dude, I got I got a Charlotte store. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you.
Speaker 2: I just gotta figure out ho I'm gonna tell this,
Speaker 2: so we'll get it, because I don't want to insult anyone.
Speaker 1: But it was just it was kind of funny. So
Speaker 1: that'll be coming a little later in the show. But
Speaker 1: I missed the protest. It's not even good to go
Speaker 1: see it. So I had to watch video of the
Speaker 1: Charlotte protest, which is a okay because I don't want
Speaker 1: to go near this thing. And yeah, I got a
Speaker 1: little elevated, a little crazy, but you know, not as
Speaker 1: bad as some places where they actually had some quite
Speaker 1: a few arrests. And I think for the most part,
Speaker 1: because I'm like MSNBC, I would be honest, for the
Speaker 1: most part, the No King's protests were people waving signs,
Speaker 1: yelling stuff. But you know, there wasn't nobody, there wasn't assaults,
Speaker 1: there wasn't even there was some counter protests, and the
Speaker 1: vast majority of them just just went off with people protesting. Good.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that one hundred percent. So the norm
Speaker 1: was not I'm not going to give the impression that
Speaker 1: they were all out of control. I think they're wrong.
Speaker 1: I think that they're useful idiots in some instances, and
Speaker 1: I think the whole concept of the no Kings thing
Speaker 1: is just it's tanter me. Okay. That being said, there
Speaker 1: were a couple of things that happened. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I would have protester try to eat a
Speaker 1: whole thing of pepper spray from the cops. Man, that's
Speaker 1: not good. So yeah, yeah, we'll tweek that out so
Speaker 1: you can so you can watch that. But again, for
Speaker 1: the most part, MSNBC is just what do you There's
Speaker 1: there's no coming back from that. They're just cooked. Man.
Speaker 1: And by the way, do you hear their parade analysis? Dude?
Speaker 1: This is so all right? So this is them analyzing
Speaker 1: the military parade, which ross did you watch any of that?
Speaker 1: Did you watch it live at all?
Speaker 8: Or?
Speaker 1: I know?
Speaker 2: Once again, I tried to enjoy my weekend and just
Speaker 2: do nothing political because Father's Day weekend. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: did definitely did see some of the posts about the parade.
Speaker 2: You know, I have the videos of some of the
Speaker 2: marching and the tanks going down.
Speaker 1: It was so normal, it was so normal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it was super normal and it's what it
Speaker 2: was supposed to be.
Speaker 1: Were cool too.
Speaker 2: What really bugged me, and we've been talking about this,
Speaker 2: you know, way before the event even happened, were these
Speaker 2: people that were like, oh, Trump doing the parade like
Speaker 2: he's North Korea because it's his birthday.
Speaker 1: It's not. I like how they kept saying. They're like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just so convenient his birthday happens to
Speaker 1: coincide with the Army's two, Like do his mom tied
Speaker 1: it out right? She's sitting there that hold it in,
Speaker 1: Like oh no, we gotta gotta hold on, you know.
Speaker 2: Or it's just people just like not even bringing up
Speaker 2: the fact that it's the birthday of the army, like
Speaker 2: they just.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no. The conspiracy on CNN was isn't
Speaker 1: it convenient that it's the two? You know, like his
Speaker 1: mom planned it right. I'm like that, what are you
Speaker 1: talking about? You absolute lunatics? All right, we'll give you
Speaker 1: that analysis and I got some audio it's just speaking
Speaker 1: of Father's Day. Just wait for it. And we got
Speaker 1: a couple crazy the craziest sports interview over the weekend
Speaker 1: I'll share with you as well. But anyway, we're alive
Speaker 1: from Western North Carolina. As we spend the week up here,
Speaker 1: we got a whole slate of I guess we'll be
Speaker 1: talking to this week. Fact, I'll get that list out
Speaker 1: here and give you a little preview.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 1: And the the goal is to inform and encourage, and
Speaker 1: I will tell you it's you should come to western
Speaker 1: North Carolina and see it for yourself. And if you
Speaker 1: and your family have been coming out here for years,
Speaker 1: I think you owe it to yourself come check it
Speaker 1: out and uh and really get a scent. It did
Speaker 1: not set in with me how aggressively Helene hit some
Speaker 1: of these areas until I was muddling around Chimney Rock
Speaker 1: and Back Cave and all of that yesterday. And if
Speaker 1: you are, if you're a fan of this part of
Speaker 1: the state, just from the educational standpoint, I think you
Speaker 1: owe it to yourself to you know, make make plans
Speaker 1: to take it in. And I do know that the
Speaker 1: various local economies here in western North Carolina could could
Speaker 1: really use it. And we will highlight that throughout the week,
Speaker 1: But for now we're going to take a break. Be
Speaker 1: right back on the CaCO Day radio program. Parade Analysis
Speaker 1: from MSNBC. Get a load of this one thing.
Speaker 9: I will say, I want to go back to you
Speaker 9: Ali that that again, when we talk about this sort
Speaker 9: of tension in the country, and sometimes, you know, you
Speaker 9: and I have both been at Trump rallies, those can
Speaker 9: be you know, very tense, a kind of I would say,
Speaker 9: it's kind of a darktolent energy sometimes in them, not always,
Speaker 9: but it doesn't seem like that's the energy on the
Speaker 9: on the mall today, which I think is a good sign, right.
Speaker 3: Correct, that you're you're you're really correct about that, Chris,
Speaker 3: And it's something we you know, we we were watching for.
Speaker 3: I'm just sort of surprised by the number of people
Speaker 3: who were at the front.
Speaker 9: Of the parade watching, cheering, and then would come.
Speaker 4: And ask to take a selfie.
Speaker 10: This is a very different it's a very different mood here.
Speaker 3: It's people seem to be going out of their way
Speaker 3: to say that they're here to celebrate the army's two
Speaker 3: hundred and fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 4: Now there are people walking around side.
Speaker 3: A moment ago, while you were talking to gen guy
Speaker 3: just came around and said Trump twenty twenty eight, and
Speaker 3: I said, how does that work exactly? And he's like
Speaker 3: laughing and had a bit flag on him. So there's
Speaker 3: some politicization here, but it is not it's not dark,
Speaker 3: it's not tense, it's not amptup.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's different.
Speaker 3: It's it's different from from covering a truck rally.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, all right, all right, So Ros and
Speaker 1: I were just talking off the well we'll bug Ray
Speaker 1: on this coming up here in just a moment. Ah, sorry,
Speaker 1: just track. We're on location broadcasts and so it's not
Speaker 1: my normal setup, and I was just trying to coordinate
Speaker 1: something here with because we have we have iHeart in
Speaker 1: Asheville and the morning Guy here, Mark Starling, good friend
Speaker 1: of mine, that's who you hear Ray reference on the regular.
Speaker 1: And because I'm physically in an adjacent studio to him.
Speaker 1: Ahead of our on site broadcast this week, we thought
Speaker 1: it would be really funny if I went and came
Speaker 1: back from break on his show. But it's my voice
Speaker 1: and then just so Ray would be super confused. But
Speaker 1: we didn't have it coordinated correctly, but that would have
Speaker 1: been hilarious too. So anyway, he slipped the noose on that.
Speaker 1: All right, couple things yesterday I got to tell you
Speaker 1: this story, Ross, do you ever pay cash for anything
Speaker 1: still or am I just a dinosaur like when you
Speaker 1: go like for little purchases.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's like super rare. I can't remember really
Speaker 2: last time.
Speaker 1: I always I always try to have you know, like
Speaker 1: you know, some twenties on me and for little stuff.
Speaker 1: I still like to pay cash. But I think the
Speaker 1: more reason I pay cash is when I play golf.
Speaker 1: I played Nassa on you gotta have cash. I mean
Speaker 1: I don't because I'm good and then I win all
Speaker 1: the money. But then you have cash, but it's getting
Speaker 1: much more frustrating trying to use it. So yesterday I
Speaker 1: stopped at Bojengles for breakfast. Right, We've all been there.
Speaker 1: And I stopped at a Bojengles in Shelby, North Carolina,
Speaker 1: So just out of Charlotte, as you're heading up, you
Speaker 1: know this direction, and I go in there. It's one
Speaker 1: that it's like attached to a gas station, so I
Speaker 1: was able to get fuel and do all that. I
Speaker 1: go in and I'm like, I need a sausage, egg
Speaker 1: and cheese biscuit. And there's a she looks to be
Speaker 1: like senior in high school gal working the register. It's
Speaker 1: very nice. She's like all right, will that be it?
Speaker 11: Sir?
Speaker 1: You want you know, you want the meal or do
Speaker 1: you want this the sandwich something? I just want the sandwich.
Speaker 1: And I in my hand now while I'm talking to her,
Speaker 1: because I can do the math. She goes, well, that'll
Speaker 1: be four to twenty six. So I pull out of
Speaker 1: my pocket a five dollar bill and a penny. Now, Ross,
Speaker 1: you're an adult of my generation. Oh wait, hold on,
Speaker 1: Ross is loading something. So but you guys listening. So
Speaker 1: I've got the I've got a five dollars bill and
Speaker 1: I've got a penny, and my bill is for twenty six.
Speaker 1: Everyone within the sound of my voice understands that I
Speaker 1: am hoping to acquire three quarters from this young lady.
Speaker 1: That's why the penny's thrown in there. And this is
Speaker 1: one of the easy ones. It gets more complex when
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's like four twenty nine, and now
Speaker 1: I got to bring four pennies up or multiple pennies
Speaker 1: up into this, or I got to figure out if
Speaker 1: I want to round it up to a dime or
Speaker 1: how I'm gonna whatever it may be. But it's not.
Speaker 1: It's just the one penny. It's the easiest thing. And
Speaker 1: she looked me square in the face, and she goes, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't do that. I already entered it as five,
Speaker 1: because by now she's got the till open, right, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, but it won't make any difference. I'm
Speaker 1: still trying to hand her the penny. She she it's
Speaker 1: like I'm trying to hand her plutonium, right. She's not
Speaker 1: touching that penny. She didn't want anything to do with it.
Speaker 1: And then you know when somebody looks at you and
Speaker 1: it's like that the the the hour glass in like
Speaker 1: Microsoft spinning, but in like perpetuity, and you're trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what's going on. I'm assuming that's what was
Speaker 1: happening in her brain as she's looking at me when
Speaker 1: I said, but it won't matter, and I'm trying to
Speaker 1: hand her and then she for like ten seconds, doesn't
Speaker 1: say anything and just stares at me. But also she's
Speaker 1: not counting the change that she went into, count these
Speaker 1: seventy four cents that she's trying to, you know, hook
Speaker 1: me up with, and she goes, but I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I entered it as five, and it was in
Speaker 1: that moment I'm just like, we're done. I could I
Speaker 1: could take a moment to try to go over this,
Speaker 1: to try to explain it, and all I could think is,
Speaker 1: I took my seventy four cents, so now I have
Speaker 1: four pennies on top of the penny already had in
Speaker 1: my pocket. Is we are so screwed men, They're so
Speaker 1: like little life skills. I don't say this is to
Speaker 1: be just super negative generationally, but you just you realize
Speaker 1: that the act of having to count change and actually
Speaker 1: deal with physics money is it's like a math tutorial
Speaker 1: in addition, right, it's just it's it's it's something that
Speaker 1: helped hone your skills to do very simple mathematics there,
Speaker 1: but also to conceptualize and understand more complex things. One
Speaker 1: of those things is the concept that no matter how
Speaker 1: you render the change to me, if I offset it
Speaker 1: to get a certain denomination and I give you the
Speaker 1: proper amount of money, when you balance that till out later,
Speaker 1: it's going to be correct. Whether I give you five
Speaker 1: dollars and you give me seventy seventy four cents back
Speaker 1: on a four to twenty six bill, or I give
Speaker 1: you a five and a one you give me three
Speaker 1: quarters back. Nothing moves, and so that's that next level
Speaker 1: of not just counting the money, but understanding conceptually how
Speaker 1: it will impact the overall total. I don't mean to
Speaker 1: get in the weeds on this stuff, but like that's
Speaker 1: that's stuff we need. Don't even get me writed on
Speaker 1: the inability of people to write, and I go, I
Speaker 1: don't have great handwriting, but like pros is is done,
Speaker 1: and AI is just gonna make it worse. Being able
Speaker 1: to structure a sentence, being able to figure out how
Speaker 1: you structure it for maximum efficiency. Like these are all
Speaker 1: skill sets that kind of break away the more we
Speaker 1: get into this, Like idiocracy was ahead of its time,
Speaker 1: and it's almost it's not her fault because they're probably
Speaker 1: I don't know the policy at Bojangles, but very likely
Speaker 1: they may have told her not to do once you
Speaker 1: enter it, match it, if only to make sure that
Speaker 1: the till balances where they've decided that no longer will
Speaker 1: that be an expectation of their employee. And it's not
Speaker 1: a knock on people work at boj Angles or any
Speaker 1: of the rest. It's just I don't know, it's just
Speaker 1: those little things man, where you're just like, come on,
Speaker 1: come on, we can do this. But those are also
Speaker 1: people that are easier to influence. How do I know?
Speaker 1: I watched this insane lunatic of a woman who decided
Speaker 1: she was gonna do a video. And here's the other thing.
Speaker 1: If you have to talk with your hands and and
Speaker 1: go like comically over overinflated gestures and screaming. Now, there's
Speaker 1: a certain entertainment value on the radio, right, little emphasis there,
Speaker 1: But when you got to do it with everything, chances
Speaker 1: are what you're saying ain't good enough because you should
Speaker 1: be able to convince people or communicate your message just
Speaker 1: with your words. Inflection is important. Think it has its place.
Speaker 2: You probably don't want to look like a demon either
Speaker 2: when you do it. Well, that's yeah.
Speaker 1: I've tried to trying to soft sell like overall concept
Speaker 1: before I got to lunatic here. But the more that
Speaker 1: you do that, it's one thing to emphasize. But then
Speaker 1: when it becomes the crutch to communicate rather than your words,
Speaker 1: that's not good. That's not a good thing. And I
Speaker 1: got to tell you this video coupled with what she
Speaker 1: believes to be true so emphatically that she will create
Speaker 1: a video, as Ross pointed out, where she looks insane
Speaker 1: or possessed or whatever you want.
Speaker 2: To call it.
Speaker 1: That's just I'm not trying to tie the two things
Speaker 1: together directly. But it's a lot easier when you don't
Speaker 1: ask somebody to critically think for the purpose of making change,
Speaker 1: you don't trust them to do that to then convince
Speaker 1: them of what you're going to hear this woman talk about.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that here in the next segment, but first,
Speaker 1: can we jump in the way back machine? Is Ray
Speaker 1: ready to go? Let's jump in the Yeah, jumping the
Speaker 1: way back machine. So Ross was reminiscing about the good
Speaker 1: old days of the Weather Channel and how you guys
Speaker 1: basically used to be elevator music, yeah, and then just
Speaker 1: rotating stuff.
Speaker 2: No. So I saw a video online on Twitter, and
Speaker 2: it was just an eight second video of the old
Speaker 2: Weather Channel from nineteen ninety two with like the old graphic.
Speaker 4: And the clearly old star. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It looked like it came off like an old like
Speaker 2: you know, Apple to E computer or whatever. And I
Speaker 2: watched this thing for like eight seconds, and then I
Speaker 2: watched another video of an eight hour Weather Channel compilation
Speaker 2: of this of this music and the graphics, and it
Speaker 2: took me back to my mother's house in nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm back in my mom's house watching
Speaker 2: the Weather Channel and it was such a cool laugh
Speaker 2: and you got to bring it back, you gotta bring
Speaker 2: it back.
Speaker 4: Well, I'll see what I could do. Actually, one of.
Speaker 1: The yeah, yeah, go ahead, I was.
Speaker 10: Gonna say, one of the gentlemen that actually works in
Speaker 10: that department, the local stuff with those stars that are
Speaker 10: they're called stars that are put in each of the
Speaker 10: head ends in the local mark the local cable.
Speaker 4: Things, he's actually retiring. Yeah, yeah, you reach Eligia local.
Speaker 10: Yeah, he's actually retiring after I think he's been here
Speaker 10: since the almost since the beginning, and so he was
Speaker 10: responsible one of the groups that I had actually put
Speaker 10: all that together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember.
Speaker 1: Let me just put too how the discriminatory it was
Speaker 1: because while Ross is in New York, which obviously has
Speaker 1: a decent population, rather than localizing it for us in Wyoming,
Speaker 1: we got thrown into Wyoming, Montana.
Speaker 4: The decritas right to.
Speaker 1: Wait and then you had to wait for the loop
Speaker 1: to get to you. So you'd be sitting in my
Speaker 1: house in Wyoming, Weather Channel's playing and you're you're waiting,
Speaker 1: and you're waiting like fifteen minutes later and then you
Speaker 1: blink or somebody distracts you and you're like, ah, yes,
Speaker 1: I sit here for another.
Speaker 4: Fifteen good strategy, right.
Speaker 1: Imagine and it's like and then my mom would be like,
Speaker 1: look outside, we have wind or stuff outside. You'll have
Speaker 1: a pretty good idea. Yeah, but this is official, it's
Speaker 1: on TV.
Speaker 2: But the imagine the person putting together the eight hour
Speaker 2: old Weather Channel video and YouTube from nineteen ninety two,
Speaker 2: that's insane. Well at the same point.
Speaker 10: That is, But well good, I'm glad that whoever did
Speaker 10: that was able to consume eight hours of your day.
Speaker 1: So how are we? How are we look at it?
Speaker 1: So I'm up here in Ashville. I was gonna come
Speaker 1: in and sneak in when you were just doing the
Speaker 1: hit with Mark over there, and then I was gonna
Speaker 1: come back from break just to see if we could
Speaker 1: throw you off. But it didn't. We couldn't time it out.
Speaker 4: Again, I forgot that you're gonna be there.
Speaker 1: But maybe do you know? Do you know? So the
Speaker 1: Asheville studios are like up on a hill outside of town.
Speaker 1: There's a deer, six turkeys, and like rabbits just in
Speaker 1: the parking lot right now. I saw, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: now I know how they made it through Helena. Up here.
Speaker 1: They ate everything, just food walking around everywhere.
Speaker 10: It's a it's a nice little spot there, a little
Speaker 10: porch you look out in the big field and all that.
Speaker 10: It's pretty cool. Oh yeah, there there was a wedding
Speaker 10: on that back porch. I was we were at a wedding.
Speaker 10: The old old timer. John's out there.
Speaker 4: Anymore, but he used to be the the op board
Speaker 4: up there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was pretty neat.
Speaker 1: Anyway, we're up here. Yesterday was on again, off again
Speaker 1: rain and then it got really humid and uh, let's
Speaker 1: let's not do that again.
Speaker 4: Across well, I think we are Triad Triangle East.
Speaker 1: Wait, hold on, ros we need the music behind him?
Speaker 1: I think. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, yeah, there we go.
Speaker 10: So the Triad Triangle East flood watched through tonight. There's
Speaker 10: been some real heavy rainfall out near Rocky Mount, especially
Speaker 10: in the twenty four hours past, almost four inches, some
Speaker 10: areas over four inches near Greenville and five inch totals.
Speaker 10: There's been flash flooding. So any rainfall on top of
Speaker 10: that's just gonna make this worse. So I think we'll
Speaker 10: get more storms today. May sneak a shower in this morning,
Speaker 10: but it's mid to late afternoon into tonight that showers
Speaker 10: and thutterstorms again will become likely, with heavy rainfall, potentially
Speaker 10: more flooding. And really, I think we're going to stay
Speaker 10: in the soup the next few day, shower storms near
Speaker 10: ninety tomorrow, probably close to ninety or hotter on Wednesday.
Speaker 4: Heat and the season maybe close to one hundred.
Speaker 10: Haven't said that word in a bit, So about to
Speaker 10: get shoved quickly into a real summertime humid field to
Speaker 10: the air mass and some very warm temperatures coming in,
Speaker 10: especially if you're going to be out and about.
Speaker 4: Unless he did desease.
Speaker 10: And the rain and we get it could get it good,
Speaker 10: especially to get it where you already see multiple inches
Speaker 10: of rain the last day or so, you'll be first
Speaker 10: to flood if we do get more heavy rain.
Speaker 1: By the way, for those who know, that is Ray
Speaker 1: on the Alto sacks behind Ray now so told them
Speaker 1: the secret talented?
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you?
Speaker 1: Have you given away your secrets? Man?
Speaker 4: I'm sorry?
Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk in an hour, Okay, Okay, yep,
Speaker 1: I have a good one there, raced Agic from the
Speaker 1: weather Chat. All right, we come back. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: into that audio. I got a sports interview to tell
Speaker 1: you about as well. It's uh, the NBA player gave
Speaker 1: he's got he's got a very interesting theory on things.
Speaker 1: Don't trust me, it will be relevant and it's all
Speaker 1: coming up as we continue our live broadcast from the
Speaker 1: mountains of North Carolina. Here in just a few minutes
Speaker 1: on a CaCO Day radio program, Ross has two old
Speaker 1: school Weather Channel beds. He's dubbing in le do that.
Speaker 1: All right, We're gonna be ready to go for ray
Speaker 1: in the next hour. We're very excited. So here's how
Speaker 1: when I talk about the slow deterioration and look MSNBC
Speaker 1: like was I don't want to say they're onto something,
Speaker 1: but like the ability to analyze things and arrive at
Speaker 1: a simultaneous conclusion as to regardless of somebody's party politics,
Speaker 1: where like we have a problem where we are, where
Speaker 1: we've allowed ourselves to be trained. I blame I look,
Speaker 1: I blame the raw U. You know some of the
Speaker 1: people within the political parties. I really do. I hate
Speaker 1: the level of influence that the political parties have. You
Speaker 1: know how I feel. I don't get trust, I don't
Speaker 1: get invited the Republican stuff or the Democrat stuff. Really,
Speaker 1: when you get into the main party stuff, I got
Speaker 1: blood feuds with our Republican senator. He started it. That
Speaker 1: being said to be able to gin somebody up to
Speaker 1: this level of insanity is not a positive thing for
Speaker 1: the country. And then, and by the way, Raggedy Ann
Speaker 1: is an a hole. I had no idea because that's
Speaker 1: the best description I can give of this woman. She
Speaker 1: is so convinced that what she's about to tell you
Speaker 1: is the gospel just and it's all about the Founding Fathers.
Speaker 1: Are you ready to get educated? Here we go.
Speaker 11: When the Founding Fathers made this great country. I'm going
Speaker 11: to stop you right there.
Speaker 12: The Founding Father's own slaves, The Founding Fathers had less
Speaker 12: access to education than a modern day twelve year old.
Speaker 11: They don't know anything. I don't care what they wanted,
Speaker 11: I don't care what they think.
Speaker 2: It's uncovered.
Speaker 1: What you know Thomas Jefferson's personal library was that. That's
Speaker 1: how the Library of Congress started. Madison went to Princeton.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen a Civil War veteran's letter to
Speaker 1: his betrothed. You couldn't write something that well right now,
Speaker 1: I should hope.
Speaker 12: So the Constitution was written by people who didn't think
Speaker 12: women should vote. The Constitution was written by people who
Speaker 12: had fifteen year old wives dying in childbirth frequently.
Speaker 11: The Constitution was written by people.
Speaker 12: Who had little cartoon Elmer Fudd shotguns, not automatic war
Speaker 12: machines capable of ripping down one hundred children.
Speaker 11: In a minute and half and will again.
Speaker 12: The whole point is to change, the whole point is
Speaker 12: to progressively make better decisions so we do not repeat
Speaker 12: the atrocities of our ancestors. If I was born at
Speaker 12: anither time in American history, I would have been burned
Speaker 12: at the steak or lobotomized. And we think the people
Speaker 12: doing that are the.
Speaker 11: Ones who know what should be going on today.
Speaker 12: We don't want to listen to people who cured tuberculosis
Speaker 12: or decided, hey, maybe we shouldn't.
Speaker 11: Put lead in house paint.
Speaker 12: You are actively repeating the atrocities of your ancestors.
Speaker 1: You're doing it on parbas we're live from We're in Nashville,
Speaker 1: but I have I've been checking out. Yesterday was checking
Speaker 1: out areas around Chimney Rock and or Backcave and just
Speaker 1: some of the other areas. And this is my first
Speaker 1: time post Helene of really you know, going out and
Speaker 1: seeing some of this stuff, and it is it's amazing,
Speaker 1: not in a good way necessary. What is amazing in
Speaker 1: a good way is what people have been able to
Speaker 1: do and band together. I went down where the Amish
Speaker 1: were building houses. That's incredibly impressive, incredibly impressive what's going
Speaker 1: on there, and just you know, the stick to do
Speaker 1: you ross you ever see the videos of people's houses
Speaker 1: that had like six feet of mud in there, Like
Speaker 1: I'm looking at that, I'm like, how do you ever?
Speaker 1: How do you ever? How do you ever use that
Speaker 1: house again? And then the process that people have had
Speaker 1: to go through, and yes, the political fights that have happened,
Speaker 1: and who's doing this and who's doing that? And is
Speaker 1: money coming through? Are we gonna send tweets out that
Speaker 1: misconstrue what's going on with Josh Stein? Shame on him
Speaker 1: for you know, oh, Donald Trump is rejected aid for that.
Speaker 1: We don't have to do this. You can be honest
Speaker 1: and say we had a there was a specific line
Speaker 1: of aid that actually normally lasts for three months. That
Speaker 1: we extended for nine months and we only backed off
Speaker 1: ten percent. But no, we have to sit here, and
Speaker 1: we got to get in these political fights over everything.
Speaker 1: And I understand look several of you for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: and I would encourage you to really rethink this position.
Speaker 1: Sent me emails going, I can't believe you're broadcasting in
Speaker 1: what is you know, which is a blue area of
Speaker 1: the state. And first of all, I'm broadcasting here from
Speaker 1: a technological standpoint, Asheville is a city center. Asheville also
Speaker 1: suffered the worst of it from a fatality standpoint. Okay,
Speaker 1: because it's the size of the population here, but it's
Speaker 1: but all these places were affected. And regardless of what
Speaker 1: you think that you know that one community deserves it
Speaker 1: more than the other. I hate that, and I rejected.
Speaker 1: I want everyone here, even people that you or I
Speaker 1: may politically disagree with, because I don't want that to
Speaker 1: cross my mind because the people I'm meeting, I don't
Speaker 1: I'm not caring. I'm not worried about their politics. I'm
Speaker 1: where are they decent people? Do they do they want
Speaker 1: to help? And and and and what has happened? And
Speaker 1: hearing those stories that's why I'm here. And we can
Speaker 1: fight about stuff on the periphery some other time, but
Speaker 1: obviously we're still doing the news and we're talking about
Speaker 1: all of those things. And because there are certain times
Speaker 1: where you got to reject that. And yeah, sometimes it
Speaker 1: may not make sense why somebody who who had to
Speaker 1: sit here and and and deal with a tragedy like this,
Speaker 1: and and and and see that the response that they
Speaker 1: had from some politicians where they really didn't want to
Speaker 1: get into it, They really didn't want to talk whether
Speaker 1: FEMA was operating in a way that was they should
Speaker 1: whether the amount of money we spent on that Swanna
Speaker 1: Noah station for showers and laundry that ended up just
Speaker 1: having seemed it seemed very wasteful, not because we shouldn't
Speaker 1: have done it, but because we should have done it
Speaker 1: in a more efficient manner, so that more people could
Speaker 1: have been aided by what they were able to provide
Speaker 1: the ability to just have a hot shower and do laundry.
Speaker 1: And like, those are the those are the ways that
Speaker 1: we can we can analyze, we can figure out how
Speaker 1: to do it better. And the next time, if God
Speaker 1: forbids something like that were to happen again. We could
Speaker 1: be more efficient in the delivery of relief, aid and
Speaker 1: and and the way that we take care of each other,
Speaker 1: and whether that's through government or whether it's through the
Speaker 1: numerous charities that that exist out there. And there's so
Speaker 1: many good ones. There's there's one out of Swan and Noah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna speak with later this later this week, Samaritan's Purse.
Speaker 1: Who you want to talk about, Johnny on the spot.
Speaker 1: For darn near anything that happens bad in the world,
Speaker 1: they're there. I told you one of the one of
Speaker 1: the things that blew me away when I took my
Speaker 1: trip to Gualapagos and Ecuador and then to Guatapey in
Speaker 1: Colombia was because of the Venezuelans that are coming over
Speaker 1: the border into Colombia. They have a huge swaths of them.
Speaker 1: If you go to Metazine and you go to like
Speaker 1: Loreles Las Sntento, which is like the big shops and
Speaker 1: things is it's a restaurant district and all of that,
Speaker 1: there are Native Colombians and or excuse me, native Venezuelans, right,
Speaker 1: so you think of it as like Native Americans within
Speaker 1: the US, who are a slightly different version of Venezuelans
Speaker 1: that are much less modern. They have the very colorful clothes,
Speaker 1: you know, made without paka stuff, and they were so
Speaker 1: displaced by what was going on in Venezuela with that
Speaker 1: the absolute lunatic running things there, that they come over
Speaker 1: to Colombia, which is not a rich country, and they're everywhere.
Speaker 1: You see them sitting on the streets with their kids
Speaker 1: all day, just hoping that you know, there's some there.
Speaker 1: And yet what do I see. I see several instances
Speaker 1: where Samaritan's Purse from North Carolina has set up these
Speaker 1: aid stations down there, just trying to do a little
Speaker 1: good in the world. And I think that those organizations
Speaker 1: are full of people who didn't sit here and go
Speaker 1: I don't like this county, but I like this. No,
Speaker 1: they stepped up and they help. And you know what,
Speaker 1: whether you want to approach that from a humanity standpoint
Speaker 1: or you want to approach that because it's part of
Speaker 1: your faith, however you get there, it's a net positive
Speaker 1: in the world. And especially if you think that government
Speaker 1: does too much, and the way that it used to
Speaker 1: be is churches would be the charities and whatnot. I
Speaker 1: don't disagree with you. I don't disagree with you at all,
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to have that fight. Okay, there's
Speaker 1: other stuff we can talk about. We can talk about
Speaker 1: the insanity of what, you know, what went on with that.
Speaker 1: I'm going to replay the audio from that young woman
Speaker 1: there who a ross said something when he got off
Speaker 1: the ear. It's like everything's wrong. Literally, everything she said
Speaker 1: is wrong, and we'll slice that up. Let me grab
Speaker 1: a call real quick here, Hey, Tony, what's going on.
Speaker 8: Well, I just got a little better story than You're
Speaker 8: at a penny and get three quarters back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's you didn't do it.
Speaker 4: Here's ago traveling, Yes.
Speaker 8: Years ago traveling. We stopped at this big change store
Speaker 8: and I won't mention the name, and I like bought
Speaker 8: suit and some clothes, so I'll just make up a number.
Speaker 8: Let's say it was two hundred and forty two dollars.
Speaker 8: I don't know. I gave the lady three hundred. She
Speaker 8: rung it up. As my wife walked up. I said,
Speaker 8: wait a minute, I can give you the exact change.
Speaker 8: She said, I can't do that. I said, sure about everything.
Speaker 8: I'll be fine. I'll just give you the exact change
Speaker 8: and you won't have to give you any change back. Right,
Speaker 8: In order to do it, she had to avoid whole
Speaker 8: order and start all over.
Speaker 1: Do you think, you know, here's the only thing I
Speaker 1: throw out. Do you think that maybe it's because the
Speaker 1: way she entered it they were expid so when they counted,
Speaker 1: they were expecting to be three one hundred dollars bills?
Speaker 1: Or it wasn't about that.
Speaker 8: Right, I can't answer that. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hold I hold out hope that that's what
Speaker 1: it is, you know what I mean, I hold out
Speaker 1: hope that it's that, And then I would totally understand it,
Speaker 1: and I don't expect them to explain it to me.
Speaker 1: But the problem is it probably wasn't that they just
Speaker 1: it and and so to sit here and hear this
Speaker 1: woman rant about how what a bunch of idiots the
Speaker 1: founding fathers are. You're a math teacher, right, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 1: So I sit there and I look at these like,
Speaker 1: could you pass a nineteen ten Prairie middle school math test?
Speaker 1: And the answer is for a lot of people, not
Speaker 1: a chance. Not a chance.
Speaker 8: I agree with you. I just story with you.
Speaker 1: Hey, No, that's I appreciate it. My man, thank you
Speaker 1: very much for the call here this morning. Ross. You've
Speaker 1: seeing those tests like well, this is the from the
Speaker 1: Great Depression, here's the here's the English test, like yeah,
Speaker 1: in a coal mine, I would not I'm done.
Speaker 2: No, that's super hard and referred to like you know,
Speaker 2: letters from the Civil War before and you see like
Speaker 2: the penmanship and the words he used, they.
Speaker 1: Till the blah blah blah. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: the penmansh. That's the other part of it too, this
Speaker 1: big sweeping you know, almost like feather quillie kind of
Speaker 1: thing right now, Yeah, they're crazy, insane. If you watch
Speaker 1: the ken Burn Civil War documentary, they intersplice him in
Speaker 1: like throughout that whole thing, and you're like, nobody writes
Speaker 1: like that anymore.
Speaker 2: Right, she's talking twelve years How twelve year olds have
Speaker 2: a better education than the founding fathers did and it's
Speaker 2: like those twelve year olds couldn't even read that cursive now.
Speaker 1: No, and that's not their fault, that's that part's not
Speaker 1: their fault.
Speaker 2: You see this all the time. People like to say
Speaker 2: people are dumb or they're they're less smart than we
Speaker 2: are today because they don't have the technology we have today,
Speaker 2: which is such a bad argument. It's not true at all.
Speaker 1: It's arguably the technology today is increasing some of the
Speaker 1: level of not understanding these things.
Speaker 2: Correct, Correct, you know the people like they came before,
Speaker 2: they were super smart me they built the world that
Speaker 2: we have now. Right, But just imagine it's the same thing,
Speaker 2: like she's looking back and saying, oh, well, they were
Speaker 2: dumb because they didn't know about electricity or they didn't
Speaker 2: have this. Imagine if like years five hundred years from now,
Speaker 2: they've invented teleportation and they looked back at us today
Speaker 2: and they say, look at those blithering idiots. They had
Speaker 2: to drive around in cars and they had to you know,
Speaker 2: loot the earth. And just because we don't have the
Speaker 2: technology today doesn't mean we're dumb. I mean some of
Speaker 2: us are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, a thousand case in point by the way.
Speaker 1: But also there were some really dumb people back when
Speaker 1: they were burning witches.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: But also I bet this chick thinks they burned witches
Speaker 1: at Salem. I promise she does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, she definitely does, because you see that media
Speaker 2: they did not. Because that was one of the things
Speaker 2: I focused on when I was loading the audio this morning.
Speaker 2: They didn't burn witches in Salem. They hung them, or
Speaker 2: they did what was called press them.
Speaker 1: But they did that to a guy really famously. That
Speaker 1: explain what this is, because pressing is I didn't even
Speaker 1: know about this until I actually went to Salem. They
Speaker 1: just played basically, they crushed you to death slowly with
Speaker 1: a bunch of rocks. Yeah, and wait on your body
Speaker 1: and that guy live for days now.
Speaker 2: The burning and the burning of which is if she
Speaker 2: really wants to get into it, like we said, because
Speaker 2: she's wrong about everything everything. The last time it was known,
Speaker 2: it was like it's sixteen forty in Europe and you're
Speaker 2: talking about the Founding father So the Founding Fathers burned witches.
Speaker 2: You mentioned Joan of arc and some Joan of Arcs
Speaker 2: you mentioned a few days ago James Madison was.
Speaker 1: What eighteen years old, eighteen or twenty. Yeah, I can't
Speaker 1: remember the two.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that math doesn't math if you're talking sixteen forty,
Speaker 2: and I mean there's a reason they came from Europe
Speaker 2: to get away from certain things, right like kings and
Speaker 2: ross and is fact facts so frustrating?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is all right? One more time with his
Speaker 1: audio because it's it's a whole vibe when.
Speaker 11: The Founding Fathers made this great country. I'm going to
Speaker 11: stop you right there. The Founding father's own slaves.
Speaker 12: The Founding Fathers had less access to education than a
Speaker 12: modern day twelve year old. They don't know anything. I
Speaker 12: don't care what they wanted. I don't care what they think.
Speaker 12: It's unconstitutional I should vote. So the Constitution was written
Speaker 12: by people who didn't think women should vote. The Constitution
Speaker 12: was written by people who had fifteen.
Speaker 11: Year old wives.
Speaker 1: I love how she's proving them wrong on that too, Sei.
Speaker 1: Can you believe these people didn't think I should be
Speaker 1: able to vote? Do you believe it? Maybe they had
Speaker 1: a point, you know, Yeah, anyway, I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 12: Dying in childbirth frequently the Constitution was written by people
Speaker 12: who had little cartoon Elmer Fudd shotguns, not automatic war
Speaker 12: machines capable of did.
Speaker 1: By the way, I love the part why she doesn't
Speaker 1: realize that automatic weapons were already invented by the time
Speaker 1: of the revolution. Look it up. You don't believe me,
Speaker 1: go ahead, I mean she won't. But and also the
Speaker 1: Elmer Fudd's the Shaka shatka technology is not that much different.
Speaker 1: I don't understand why that's a knockdown. I guess because
Speaker 1: she wanted to do the weapons of war gun of
Speaker 1: Rambo thing, but then she's gonna do the uh yeah.
Speaker 1: The part where everyone's ar fifteen is literally the you know,
Speaker 1: the fifty cow mounted in the back of the jeep,
Speaker 1: the Rambo's cutting everyone down in the uh the uh
Speaker 1: the Burma version of his movie, what are you talking about?
Speaker 11: Send down one hundred children in a minute? And how
Speaker 11: and will again. The whole point is to change.
Speaker 2: The whole point is to.
Speaker 12: Progressively make better decisions so we do not repeat the
Speaker 12: atrocities of our ancestors. If I was born at anither
Speaker 12: time in American history, I would have been burned at
Speaker 12: the steak or lobottomized.
Speaker 1: And we think, the first of all, you can't lobottomize
Speaker 1: you twice, ma'am. You came prelebottomized. They just they get
Speaker 1: that mice pick in there, and they'd be like, why
Speaker 1: is there a cavity in here already? If I had to.
Speaker 12: Get people doing that are the ones who know what
Speaker 12: should be going on today. We don't want to listen
Speaker 12: to people who cured tuberculosis or decided, hey, maybe we
Speaker 12: shouldn't put lead.
Speaker 11: In house paint.
Speaker 12: You are actively repeating the atrocities of your ancestors.
Speaker 11: You're doing it on pardon.
Speaker 1: Anything else.
Speaker 11: I don't care about the founding fathers.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, it's clear you don't. But also it's
Speaker 1: clear you have you know nothing about it. You don't understand.
Speaker 1: And as Ross pointed out, the age there the libraries
Speaker 1: and collections of not because that's how you had to
Speaker 1: do it. Now you just you can ask groc you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, and then that is what. But
Speaker 1: when they wanted to put together collections of knowledge during
Speaker 1: that era, that's the way that they did it. It's
Speaker 1: why when they started the Library of Congress, they were
Speaker 1: able to literally transfer Jefferson's library his personal library. And
Speaker 1: if you go to Monticello, you go to George Washington's house,
Speaker 1: you go there, you can go in their libraries and
Speaker 1: you can see these ornate rooms with books, and some
Speaker 1: of them are recreations. I think Monticello they just have
Speaker 1: it represented. But like if you tour these you recognize
Speaker 1: that they had an immense thirst for knowledge. They wanted it,
Speaker 1: and I don't care, whether it's to show off at
Speaker 1: parties or just to sound smarter than everybody. They wanted it,
Speaker 1: they collected it, they read it, and they know things.
Speaker 1: And we're able to recall things that nowadays we don't
Speaker 1: commit to. And part of it is the technology. I remember,
Speaker 1: and we've said this on there. I remember my best
Speaker 1: friend's phone number. Ross. Do you remember your best friend's
Speaker 1: phone number from high school?
Speaker 2: I remember three of them? Yep, yep.
Speaker 1: Do you remember a person that you've met with in
Speaker 1: the last ten years?
Speaker 8: Is?
Speaker 1: What's my phone number? Do you know my phone number?
Speaker 2: Absolute?
Speaker 1: But you know mine?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Begins with a six or something?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes it does, because I still have from I
Speaker 1: look at that Ross is cooking with guess this morning man.
Speaker 1: Good for you, buddy. And then we get to this. So,
Speaker 1: do you guys know who Tyler Hero is? Harrow Hero?
Speaker 1: I don't know how to pronounce it. So this dude
Speaker 1: who plays for the Miami Heat, pretty good player, was
Speaker 1: given an interview over the weekend, and look, if you
Speaker 1: want to be I have questions about the moon landing
Speaker 1: or flat earth or whatever. I think there's another NBA
Speaker 1: guy who's all in on the flat Earth. I sure,
Speaker 1: I've seen it all, but let me just tell you,
Speaker 1: this isn't some guy wondering if the Kennedy. You know,
Speaker 1: if we know the truth about Kennedy, his conspiracy goes
Speaker 1: a lot deeper. And I'm gonna explain it to you
Speaker 1: coming up, and I don't know who knows. Maybe you
Speaker 1: can just get in on this action because I had
Speaker 1: never heard this, and this dude's just doing it. He's
Speaker 1: on a podcast talking about it for like two hours.
Speaker 1: We'll get into it next hang on a week long
Speaker 1: broadcast up here in western North Carolina, and as the
Speaker 1: week unfolds, we're going to be diving into a cast
Speaker 1: of characters and guests and various folks just from western
Speaker 1: North Carolina talking about what's going on, what recovery has
Speaker 1: been like. Because like we've seen the pictures, we've sliced
Speaker 1: and diced the politics, we probably know somebody who was
Speaker 1: personally impacted. If we've spent more than five minutes living
Speaker 1: in the state of North Carolina and made friends over
Speaker 1: the years, how many of you have where you go,
Speaker 1: even if it's not the mountains, maybe it's on the coast.
Speaker 1: You have a whole separate set of people who are
Speaker 1: local business owners, people who maybe live full time in
Speaker 1: these areas that you've gotten to know over the years
Speaker 1: because your family tradition is going to Serf City, or
Speaker 1: to Banner Elk or to Ash County, which I love
Speaker 1: going back up in Ash County because you can get
Speaker 1: away from some people, drive past Lancing and then watch
Speaker 1: your cell signal go away and get excited about that.
Speaker 1: But wherever that is, you developed these relationships and then
Speaker 1: knowing what happened, whether it is one of the hurricanes
Speaker 1: that hit the coast. Uh ros, you remember what happened
Speaker 1: to doctor Campbell's excuse me you and doctor Campbell's time
Speaker 1: share boom right? You saw what happened up there with
Speaker 1: where the crown cap of his beach house came out
Speaker 1: and then just mold city man.
Speaker 2: We had to do so many repairs. Yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 2: was crazy. It was like his wall turned green. It
Speaker 2: was our wall did turn green. I'm sorry, you're thank
Speaker 2: thank you whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't believe I messed that up. And uh, but
Speaker 1: so when it when it comes to what happened to
Speaker 1: West North Carolina, that's what we know. But to see
Speaker 1: it and to understand it, that's uh that's why we're
Speaker 1: here doing what we're doing, okay, and uh, we'll we'll
Speaker 1: we'll bring you those stories. And I like the positive
Speaker 1: side of it, dude. The upbeat nature of people who
Speaker 1: basically had to take a year off, who's whose livelihoods
Speaker 1: we were threatened, and their willingness and and and wanting
Speaker 1: to get back to it and really the job that
Speaker 1: they're doing. It's really inspiring, man, because it's very easy
Speaker 1: to destroy your hands and be like I'm done, and
Speaker 1: some people did have to do that, But to go
Speaker 1: through the slog and come out the other side, I
Speaker 1: don't care whether it's it's uh, that story is an
Speaker 1: inspirational story within within human nature, whether it's a hurricane,
Speaker 1: it's personal troubles within your life. And that's that's what
Speaker 1: we're here for, okay, and also to get educated on
Speaker 1: how the fauniding fathers were dumb. She's also I'm just
Speaker 1: thinking about this ross. That woman is probably one of
Speaker 1: these people who reads that Anne Frank article and goes
Speaker 1: that makes a lot of sense for those who don't know,
Speaker 1: because I didn't know. Apparently an Frank super gay or bisexual. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know that's offensive to say out loud like it
Speaker 1: makes me uncomfortable to say it, but to read the
Speaker 1: article laying this out over the weekend, stop it. This
Speaker 1: is this is the same long connected chain of everyone
Speaker 1: in history has either has autism or was trans right.
Speaker 1: We keep seeing the stories like that we had one
Speaker 1: not long ago. But to take a remember she was
Speaker 1: thirteen as she's writing that eventually found eventually taken to uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Burke and Belsen where she dies at the
Speaker 1: age of fifteen. But basically, her life as she knew
Speaker 1: it stopped when she was about twelve, right when the
Speaker 1: family went into hiding. And then she you know, she
Speaker 1: chronicles what's going on, and it creates this very unique
Speaker 1: and interesting and sad but also in kind of in
Speaker 1: firing book of her thoughts and her observations, and yes,
Speaker 1: some of her thoughts and observations that they glom onto
Speaker 1: are the fact that here she is maturing into a woman,
Speaker 1: or on the cusp of doing that, right, making that transition.
Speaker 1: And like any thirteen year old, you you don't know
Speaker 1: what you don't know, and you start, you ask questions,
Speaker 1: you wonder about things. You so for her to openly
Speaker 1: muse what it must be like to kiss somebody, whether
Speaker 1: it's a girl or a guy or any of the rest.
Speaker 1: She doesn't have much of a social life. You realize that, right,
Speaker 1: and yet for you to then propagandize it and write
Speaker 1: this article, it's gross. It's gross. No one should be
Speaker 1: concerning themselves with Anne Frank's sexuality.
Speaker 2: It's so weird. I saw this a few years ago.
Speaker 2: It was a few years but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not the first bite at this.
Speaker 2: I think it was. I don't remember what the publisher
Speaker 2: was or where it came from, but it was an
Speaker 2: argument they were trying to make. I think it was
Speaker 2: during Pride month and they were like, oh, well, you
Speaker 2: know she was super gay, and uh, yeah, there. I guess.
Speaker 2: There's two versions of Anne Frank's diary that her father
Speaker 2: otto edited, and I think in the version that we
Speaker 2: read that you and I read back in the nineties,
Speaker 2: right when we were in school, that read that was
Speaker 2: her picture on the front. Yeah, that was that was
Speaker 2: the edited version, I believe. And they try to point
Speaker 2: this out correct. Yeah, so there's two versions and they're
Speaker 2: saying the one the unedited. They're like, oh, she wrote
Speaker 2: all this sexual stuff.
Speaker 1: Well, no, she didn't, she did not. She wrote like,
Speaker 1: there's two things that they always one of it was
Speaker 1: what it's like to kiss a girl. And she's she's
Speaker 1: writing this stuff and she can't conceptualize it because there's
Speaker 1: no other girl to kiss, and because.
Speaker 2: She she's hiding in an attic from people that a dead.
Speaker 1: So imagine them thoughts that go through you and I
Speaker 1: had when we were, you know, becoming the men and
Speaker 1: women that we are, right and you're discovering you're like,
Speaker 1: you get feelings because you're not eight anymore, and you're
Speaker 1: just trying to make sense of that in a normal environment. Right,
Speaker 1: in a normal environment as a kid, you don't know
Speaker 1: what the heck's going on. Man, Now couple it with
Speaker 1: what you're in hiding with your family and if you
Speaker 1: make any noise, the Nazis will find you. And trying
Speaker 1: to process all of that. Now, I take you to
Speaker 1: this tyler hero. I know there's a bit of a
Speaker 1: running theme this morning. Well it's all just coming together, Okay.
Speaker 1: So I saw a little snippet of this interview. So
Speaker 1: this guy is an NBA player. He plays for plays
Speaker 1: for the Miami Heat and pretty good player. Pretty good player.
Speaker 1: I can't remember all of what his college stats where
Speaker 1: he played for Kentucky. Yeah, so he averaged fourteen points,
Speaker 1: four and a half rebounds at a very good basketball school.
Speaker 1: So that's great. Maybe, if you're the NBA, maybe you
Speaker 1: tell him not to do the podcast anymore. I don't know.
Speaker 1: So Tyler Hero claims he doesn't believe in history. Let
Speaker 1: me say that again. Tyler Hero says he doesn't believe
Speaker 1: in history. Hero said he doesn't believe in history before
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty, including some events after such as the moon
Speaker 1: landing or Wilt Chamberlain's hundred point game. Which that's the
Speaker 1: thing to say if you play in the NBA, right,
Speaker 1: isn't that? How do we know?
Speaker 4: Right? So?
Speaker 1: Heroes twenty five was live streaming with Aiden Ross and
Speaker 1: Aiden aid Ross is an interesting cat. I'll let you
Speaker 1: can have judgment not but it's it's not a deep
Speaker 1: dive philosophical show. Okay, regardless, I'm not. This is not Ross.
Speaker 1: Ross asked the question and seemed equally as amazed at
Speaker 1: the answer he was getting. Ross asked Harro if he
Speaker 1: thought when he said I didn't believe in history, and this
Speaker 1: is a good response. He goes, well, do you believe
Speaker 1: Chamberlain when playing for the I guess it was Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Warriors at the time in nineteen sixty two, scored one
Speaker 1: hundred points. He said, yeah, but do you think history
Speaker 1: is a real thing? And Ross replied yeah, and he goes, well,
Speaker 1: I don't believe in history, and then he says no,
Speaker 1: I'm dead a which is I guess the way that
Speaker 1: you say no, cap now anyway, and he went on
Speaker 1: to it and again, you should you have a healthy
Speaker 1: skepticism for historical events. Absolutely, And it's not to say, look,
Speaker 1: there's lots of things that we find out where either
Speaker 1: and a lot of it's through you know, people manipulating
Speaker 1: things for whatever reason. But like to just flat out
Speaker 1: say you don't believe in history?
Speaker 2: Does he mean it? Like in regards the simulation theory,
Speaker 2: because that's like part of it. Sometimes I read I
Speaker 2: didn't see that, And just to explain that, like imagine
Speaker 2: like Neo in the matrix, right, so he's in the matrix.
Speaker 2: It's all a simulation. He's living in the nineties. The
Speaker 2: computers making the simulation could just write up everything that
Speaker 2: happened before the nineties, and you'd have no idea because
Speaker 2: you're in the simulation.
Speaker 1: No, So they kept drilling down him. He's like, like,
Speaker 1: he goes, let me give you an example. How do
Speaker 1: we know Christopher Columbus discovered the Americans? Now he's not
Speaker 1: doesn't mean a nuance of Well, technically he didn't lay
Speaker 1: you know, he didn't step on to the North American
Speaker 1: contiguous US continent right where Columbus ended up documenting during
Speaker 1: that initial you know is the Caribbean. Okay, but that's
Speaker 1: not what he means. He's not slicing and nice in
Speaker 1: whether the isle of Hispaniola counts is North America, which
Speaker 1: technically does. But he's gone, like, how do we know
Speaker 1: Christopher Columbus came over? How do we know he was real?
Speaker 1: How do you know anything was real? Ross? What year
Speaker 1: was your mom born?
Speaker 2: Nineteen forty eight?
Speaker 1: Is your mom real? She is? Have you asked her?
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure she's real.
Speaker 1: I don't, tyler, hero don't think so. And that grandma
Speaker 1: and grandpa you had grandparents?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Or did you? Or did I did? I don't know
Speaker 1: that card with five dollars in it? Do you really
Speaker 1: know where it came from? So that's a that's a
Speaker 1: heck of a conspiracy theory. Man.
Speaker 2: I still have those bonds man.
Speaker 1: Oh really yep, I mean you think you do? Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good point all right. Anyway, let's get rased
Speaker 1: agic in here with this special new super cool music,
Speaker 1: which is actually music from the nineties, so from the nineties.
Speaker 1: We take me BA Tyler Hero does believe in that.
Speaker 1: So some NBA players said, he doesn't believe in history,
Speaker 1: Oh anything before nineteen fifty, doesn't.
Speaker 4: Believe it happened, World War two?
Speaker 1: Whatever. Yeah, interesting, that's that's the whole thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sometimes we want to forget history, right.
Speaker 1: That's different. That's different. That is different to question history.
Speaker 1: And the narrative that we have is that's great. You
Speaker 1: should do that, you know, because you know what did
Speaker 1: happen though?
Speaker 2: What did the Weather channel in nineteen ninety two? In
Speaker 2: the music?
Speaker 1: Yeah, post nineteen fifty he believes in that, so right,
Speaker 1: that didn't make history.
Speaker 4: What did I get here? It's ninety six. I've been
Speaker 4: here since ninety six, twenty nine years.
Speaker 1: Then you're real time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I am real.
Speaker 1: It's totally Unfortunately, Ross's mom born before nineteen fifty.
Speaker 4: Not real, so not real, not really, It's too bad. Sorry, Ross, Yeah, sorry.
Speaker 1: Many what's going on is rain rather than way too
Speaker 1: much rain.
Speaker 10: Stop it, yeah, way too much two to five plus
Speaker 10: inches basically the line from Rocky Mount toward Greenville and
Speaker 10: even closer in and west of Goldsborough three point four
Speaker 10: five at four olks. These are twenty four hours totals
Speaker 10: either side of an inch from the Triad to the Triangle.
Speaker 10: But a flood watch staying place in tonight. There could
Speaker 10: be in spots an additional two to five inches of rain,
Speaker 10: So be prepared, especially if it comes overnight tonight, and
Speaker 10: have a plan. Just be ready a little bit different
Speaker 10: than severe thunderstorm warnings. During flooding, obviously you want to
Speaker 10: seek higher ground. It's going to be warm and humid today,
Speaker 10: mid upper eighties, close to ninety degrees in some areas,
Speaker 10: and then tomorrow we'll have rain chances, but they'll still
Speaker 10: be up there in the afternoon hours, low nineties. Will
Speaker 10: feel close to one hundred for the Triangle. Try it
Speaker 10: maybe in the upper eighties and then Wednesdays still a
Speaker 10: fair rain chance, but it's going to be hot, humid
Speaker 10: for the rest of the week. In the Triangle maybe
Speaker 10: ninety to ninety five with eat in Dissy's close to
Speaker 10: one hundred. Quite that hot for the triad, but pretty
Speaker 10: close to ninety degrees so hot humid. Big downpours, Yeah,
Speaker 10: big downpours probably this afternoon, tonight, maybe tomorrow. So additional
Speaker 10: flooding possible if not likely.
Speaker 1: Okay, glad I went to the mountains for the week.
Speaker 4: Holy, yeah it is.
Speaker 1: We'll talk tomorrow, sir, Have a good one. Jeff Bellinger's
Speaker 1: next hanging on, Jeff, what's happening man? Well case.
Speaker 13: Worries over the escalating conflict between Israel and Dran send
Speaker 13: stock prices lower on Friday, but the future suggests the
Speaker 13: market's going to start out higher. This morning, The Dow
Speaker 13: futures are up two hundred and sixty nine points. This
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Speaker 13: jumped Friday, they remain higher on concerns that conflict in
Speaker 13: the Middle East could disrupt supplies. Music lovers will get
Speaker 13: a bit of a break this summer. Prices for concert
Speaker 13: tickets have declined by the most and more than a decade.
Speaker 13: Poll Star data indicate the average price to attend one
Speaker 13: of the world's top one hundred tours is down about
Speaker 13: six percent from last year to one hundred twenty dollars.
Speaker 13: That is still about seventy percent higher than in twenty ten.
Speaker 13: Another retailer is struggling. At Home Groups filed for Chapter
Speaker 13: eleven bankruptcy. The company's lenders will take over the business.
Speaker 13: At Home has more than two hundred and fifty stores
Speaker 13: across the country. They sell everything from patio furniture to
Speaker 13: picture frames and rugs. Tariff a lot of people worried.
Speaker 13: Bank Creag reports nearly two thirds of American Americans fear
Speaker 13: of the levies on foreign made goods will have a
Speaker 13: negative impact on their personal finances. But some of President
Speaker 13: Trump's economic proposals, such as eliminating the tax on Social
Speaker 13: Security benefits and capping credit card interest rates, are viewed
Speaker 13: more favorably. And Casey, it was a big opening weekend
Speaker 13: for How to Train Your Dragon. The DreamWorks film debuted
Speaker 13: in first place in movie theater box offices, with studio
Speaker 13: estimates putting ticket sales at nearly eighty four million dollars.
Speaker 1: Casey, oh, I missed it. Oh well, all right, thank
Speaker 1: you much, Jeff appreciate it. Okay, all right, yeah, I
Speaker 1: haven't been really my type of movie there, so all right,
Speaker 1: let's see, all right, just a couple of quick little
Speaker 1: things for make sure I have any one of the phones.
Speaker 1: I do not? Um, Yeah, here we go Ross. Did
Speaker 1: you see I know you try to avoid. Did you
Speaker 1: see the Western moonbats from like Europe in the US
Speaker 1: who went on the march to Gaza and how that ended? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what'd you think of that? So for those who don't know,
Speaker 1: they had like their band of like, oh, we're gonna
Speaker 1: march to Gaza, it's gonna be great. But they tried
Speaker 1: to march through Egypt and I don't know if you
Speaker 1: know this, there's a giant security wall between Egypt and
Speaker 1: the West Bank or excuse me, the Gaza.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, there's a reason why the the you know,
Speaker 2: those in Gaza can't go to Egypt because Egypt doesn't
Speaker 2: let them in.
Speaker 1: Well, now, to be fair, no Muslim country lets them in,
Speaker 1: with the exception of some that did resettle in Syria
Speaker 1: at one time. Now none of them are allowed, but
Speaker 1: Egypt really doesn't let him. So these Egyptians are watching
Speaker 1: these the White Savior complex, you know Greta because a
Speaker 1: couple of them were people were on the boat with Greta.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, and they're marching
Speaker 1: and then they were gonna tear down the gate and
Speaker 1: march into Gaza, and the Egyptians beat the crap out
Speaker 1: of them. I'm not and I'm not exaggerating. I know
Speaker 1: you saw the video of the woman who said she
Speaker 1: was being blackmailed, but she obviously doesn't know what that
Speaker 1: word means and her face is all puffy because they
Speaker 1: beat the crap and then deported them right.
Speaker 2: They were beating and they were suffering from heatstroke.
Speaker 1: Uh huh. And then they'd like, and you're getting deported,
Speaker 1: and they deported them out of Egypt because uh, Egypt,
Speaker 1: don't play that. They were not having any of that.
Speaker 1: It was actually it was more I just assumed that
Speaker 1: they wouldn't let him near the fence and then that
Speaker 1: would be it, and they'd do some chanting. But no,
Speaker 1: the Egyptians had a very negative reaction to that.