Speaker 1: We are watching you. It was damn near an eighty song.
Speaker 1: We are watching you. We are onto you, secret Ross's
Speaker 1: computer program thief, We're onto you. We're seeing what's happening.
Speaker 1: Somebody is stealing applications and programs off Ross's three computers.
Speaker 2: Dude, it makes no sense none. I'm recording a commercial today,
Speaker 2: got up early to record these spots, right, and I'm
Speaker 2: in here recording them.
Speaker 1: They're fine, I said, I send them our spots in
Speaker 1: the morning's pretty good. Yeah, send them off to the rep. Good.
Speaker 2: And then I go back to, uh, you know, record
Speaker 2: some more commercials. The program is just gone close. No,
Speaker 2: it's close close, it's off the desktop. It's gone. I'm
Speaker 2: like restarting my computer. This is like like a thirty
Speaker 2: forty minute word deal this morning.
Speaker 1: It's not easy to have to reboot the whole system.
Speaker 1: The printers, printers aren't working. They're just not like you
Speaker 1: can't print anything. Now that's not gonna happen because we
Speaker 1: print the prep packet in the morning.
Speaker 2: That was another thirty forty minutes. Then I go over.
Speaker 2: I'm like, you know, I'm gonna go over on this
Speaker 2: computer here to my right.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, soh the call screener is yeah, yeah, call Skien,
Speaker 1: which but it only does that, that's its only thing.
Speaker 2: The call s Grinner's been on the desktop for what
Speaker 2: thirteen years? Gone, like it, like it, like it never existed. Okay,
Speaker 2: I think we have a contractor ghost.
Speaker 1: It's so weird because there's nothing to be gained from
Speaker 1: any of the things you just said.
Speaker 2: Because we're doing all the construction dow the hallway, like
Speaker 2: half the building is gone. I think we have a
Speaker 2: contractor ghost.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they're there. They're u or they're basically kind
Speaker 1: of revamp and all of our all of our stuff.
Speaker 2: If somebody would cut a wire they weren't supposed to
Speaker 2: cut or something, or maybe they.
Speaker 1: Like mcgruber, maybe they're just in there. I saw a
Speaker 1: timer going out. We had a lot of timers because
Speaker 1: you know, things are timed in radio. So yeah, if
Speaker 1: you've never worked in a radio station before, here you are.
Speaker 1: You got You ever open a a ceiling panel and
Speaker 1: a radio station. You've never seen so many wires in
Speaker 1: your life. It's crazy. In fact, we don't do it
Speaker 1: in the Raleigh of Greensboro stations, but in Minneapolis they
Speaker 1: had this real futuristic look where everything was open, so
Speaker 1: you like see the beams of the building and then
Speaker 1: they just had these huge like metal luges runways if
Speaker 1: you will, and it's just nothing but conduit and audio everything.
Speaker 2: That's why when I came in on Monday, and yeah,
Speaker 2: the signs are there, Hey, you know, please don't mind
Speaker 2: our we were doing all this construction mess.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's a big you know, the plastic give
Speaker 2: to walk through in the big sign here that says
Speaker 2: please you wear a hard hat or glasses that become
Speaker 2: in this area.
Speaker 1: It's like those of you at home. It's like if
Speaker 1: you ever saw a flight to the Navigator when they
Speaker 1: first walk into the hangar. It's like that, except there's
Speaker 1: no spaceship to ride around in on the other end.
Speaker 2: And I had to go in just because I wanted
Speaker 2: to see all the stuff that was open in the
Speaker 2: ceiling because it's so nuts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but now they're stealing programs. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on. It's just one of those kinds of mornings,
Speaker 1: one of those kinds of mornings. But we'll truck on.
Speaker 1: We'll do what we do because that is what we do.
Speaker 1: And on today's doing of the things that we do
Speaker 1: a few things. One eight oh five, we will talk
Speaker 1: to the new state auditor, not the old one she left, Nope,
Speaker 1: not the interim one that's gone, Nope. We will talk
Speaker 1: to mister Bullock and see how many cars he's been
Speaker 1: able to jump in gravedigger since assuming office. I'm assuming
Speaker 1: that's what they do over there, right, these monster truck cars.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what they did until last year, So
Speaker 1: I'll be curious to find out more. Or maybe he's
Speaker 1: doing some other stuff. We'll find out. That'll be an
Speaker 1: eight oh five coming up on the show. That was
Speaker 1: really weird because they reached out and they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: which is not uncommon when new people get in office.
Speaker 1: They reach out to the from media outlets and hey,
Speaker 1: I'd be available if you guys want to chat. And
Speaker 1: generally we got somebody new coming into office, well we'll
Speaker 1: do a little sit down on a state wide office
Speaker 1: like that, especially with so many concerns out there. And
Speaker 1: so they send an email and they're like, hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: we love to talk to you, and I'm like, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: we got time Wednesday and I sent it over to
Speaker 1: Ross and and then what do they ask? What do
Speaker 1: they ask?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Every time, they're like, hey, we'd like to do an interview.
Speaker 2: We're like, yeah, no problem, cool, so can you do
Speaker 2: like eight oh five on Wednesday, They're like, yeah, so
Speaker 2: what do you want to talk about?
Speaker 1: But you you email, you called me, You called me. Man,
Speaker 1: it's like somebody calling your house going hey, hey, and
Speaker 1: then just pausing, right life, figure out way you called.
Speaker 1: They're like no, no, no, no, what do you want to
Speaker 1: talk you want?
Speaker 2: And I'm like, still, I think you think we'll talk
Speaker 2: about like trying to figure out how to pen this
Speaker 2: to them, Like right, I'm like, uh, you want to
Speaker 2: talk about the activities.
Speaker 1: At the auditing office. I guess. But the problem is
Speaker 1: here's old me and I'm I'm battling it. Old me
Speaker 1: would have not responded, and then old be would have
Speaker 1: made an this is how petty I used to be
Speaker 1: and still sometimes am, And then I would have done
Speaker 1: a massive amount of research to figure out the things
Speaker 1: the individual least wants to talk about, not even from
Speaker 1: a like a scandal set. Yeah. No, I mean like
Speaker 1: if they have an irrational fear of squirrels or something.
Speaker 1: Right week, what do you think of the state the
Speaker 1: man will be in a squirrel tell me more.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of work though, yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: So they bring me back and I was before I
Speaker 2: even texted you back or I was like, you know what,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ignore this for like five hours and I'll
Speaker 2: get back to them in like five.
Speaker 1: You got to cure it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: so we'll see what I came up with. Okay, I'll
Speaker 1: be at eight oh five. Stick around for that. I
Speaker 1: need to go on the record here though, real quick.
Speaker 1: I could to kick things off. We are a week
Speaker 1: in a day. We are single digits to this new
Speaker 1: year of us of ours. Maybe we make it. Maybe
Speaker 1: even asteroid hits us later. I don't know the the
Speaker 1: amount of grande os. It's an alien invasion conspiracy theories
Speaker 1: that are currently blossoming online right now where they just
Speaker 1: pack everything, you know what it is. It's like the
Speaker 1: it's like the alien is everything theory. Do you guys
Speaker 1: know this?
Speaker 4: All?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: So there is there is a a stream of conspiracy theory.
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know a channel if you will,
Speaker 1: where all the all the weirdness like ghosts right, oh
Speaker 1: it's not ghost right, or demons, all of those things,
Speaker 1: the big foots, of the World, the the Exorcisms, the
Speaker 1: it's all aliens, man, and it's all like interdimensional is
Speaker 1: a serious it's all interdimensional, including aliens. I I screwed
Speaker 1: that up because there's two versions of it. But basically
Speaker 1: it's like it's like you versus colliding. So you see
Speaker 1: like specters from another universe and it all and so
Speaker 1: it all fits under one nice, neat little thing.
Speaker 2: So there's a theory that's been going around about like
Speaker 2: Bigfoot and like these supernatural creatures that you've heard for
Speaker 2: a while, right because and even UFOs you've been like, oh,
Speaker 2: they're they're from a different dimension and they're sort of
Speaker 2: blending into our our dimension. And then that's why you
Speaker 2: can't ever find Bigfoot, because he goes back to his dimension.
Speaker 2: But there's a there's a theory maybe you've heard this
Speaker 2: that the reason that happens typically at night is because
Speaker 2: it all has to do with the sort of like no,
Speaker 2: like the fear you're feeling, like when you when you
Speaker 2: don't feel exactly comfortable, you're like fearful. It takes you
Speaker 2: out of your zone and it makes you like it
Speaker 2: blends dimensions.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of movie tropes like that.
Speaker 2: Which is why it tends to happen at night, because
Speaker 2: at night, right it's dark, it's scary. You go back
Speaker 2: to like the primal thing. You don't know what's out there.
Speaker 2: You know to make fire to survive, So it's like
Speaker 2: you tend to be a little bit uneasy, more uneasy night.
Speaker 1: I will tell you the weirdest stuff I've seen in
Speaker 1: my life, the most unexplainable stuff. Pitch Blackout, Pitch black,
Speaker 1: you go, Looney Tunes. Sitting at the top of a
Speaker 1: mountain in early October. It's elk season. It's three thirty
Speaker 1: in the morning. You're at nine thousand feet. It's early
Speaker 1: in the season, so that snow hasn't pushed them down yet,
Speaker 1: and you have when you're at that altitude and you
Speaker 1: have a clear sky. You've never seen a clear sky
Speaker 1: until you've seen a clear sky at altitude and you
Speaker 1: see everything moving, shooting stars, everything. It's just crazy because
Speaker 1: you're just sitting there for two hours waiting for the
Speaker 1: light to come up to see if an elk was
Speaker 1: dumb enough to stand within a couple hundred yards you.
Speaker 1: That's all at night and scary during the day. So
Speaker 1: my point is this. Maybe it's all done, maybe this
Speaker 1: won't be a problem. But if it's not, and we're
Speaker 1: going to do this thing, all three hundred and well,
Speaker 1: I guess it's the normal year. This year, all three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five. I am at my peak capacity
Speaker 1: of comedians doing podcasts, going what happened? Well, I was
Speaker 1: just making Trump jokes. You all thought I was making
Speaker 1: fun of you, But I love you and I would
Speaker 1: never do that thing. I'm done with him. Yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: they're full of crap. I'm so done with this already.
Speaker 1: Jim Gaffigan is the one who's probably getting the most
Speaker 1: pub now, but Jack Black was doing this too, And.
Speaker 2: Jim Gaffigan's been dead to me for a while. It's
Speaker 2: because he never got political. It was one of those
Speaker 2: things where I remember Glenn Beck.
Speaker 1: Tow's pocket guy, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Glenn Beck talking about it, like Glenn Beck liked him
Speaker 2: because he had no idea what his politics was. And
Speaker 2: then it was like what two or three years ago,
Speaker 2: you log onto Twitter at the Times and he's like
Speaker 2: turning into Patton Oswald and he's having a complete meltdown
Speaker 2: and calling like half the country like special needs and
Speaker 2: like drop you know.
Speaker 1: Gaffigan called literally half the country a bunch of differences. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna repeat what he said, so to
Speaker 1: say it's just making Trump jokes. No, no, you weren't.
Speaker 1: And Jack Black, I don't believe because here's what I
Speaker 1: battle with. Do people do we need to be able
Speaker 1: to I've been wrong? Right? Uh? Police body cameras is
Speaker 1: the big example I use. I was stopped because you
Speaker 1: know what I thought. I thought it was unfairly burdening,
Speaker 1: unfairly burdening law enforcement officers in kind of opposition to
Speaker 1: the innocent, util proven guilty side of things, right, or
Speaker 1: you're just making that assumption. And then I talked to
Speaker 1: a lot of law enforcement officers like, no, man, we
Speaker 1: want them. This is the best thing that happens. A
Speaker 1: lot of the officers were buying them before. We need
Speaker 1: to make sure the legal process is there so people
Speaker 1: can't just scoop out five seconds. We have no recourse.
Speaker 1: And I was willing to. I was willing to say,
Speaker 1: you know what, you know what, you guys are making
Speaker 1: a lot of sense and change my position. Not because
Speaker 1: it made my tour come back, okay, but because I
Speaker 1: honestly and I think there needs to be room out there,
Speaker 1: So I battle with it. When I look at Jim Gaffigan, who,
Speaker 1: much like Ross, was pointing out like I didn't know
Speaker 1: anything about his politics until Trump came around. He was
Speaker 1: the hot pocket guy. Just he was on the goofy
Speaker 1: your end of comedians. He was a comedian too. You
Speaker 1: could probably play in front of your kids, which you know,
Speaker 1: some comedians you can, some you can't. Gaff again, you
Speaker 1: can do that whole bit in front of your kids
Speaker 1: probably laugh their butts off. So I don't. The problem
Speaker 1: is I don't believe you. I don't believe that Jack Ross.
Speaker 1: Do you believe Jack back Black's motivation is because he
Speaker 1: had to come to Jesus moment and thought that maybe
Speaker 1: some of his fans were set.
Speaker 2: No, it's again, it wasn't Jack Black that said the
Speaker 2: thing on stage ready, it was the other guy.
Speaker 1: Was Kyle Gash, his partner. But Jack Black responded without
Speaker 1: saying anything negative.
Speaker 2: You know what happened to as you were on stage,
Speaker 2: one of you said something really still right, and then
Speaker 2: you're which.
Speaker 1: By the way, you know he's probably said a lot
Speaker 1: worse in the green room.
Speaker 2: Right, if you're saying that on stage with your bandmate
Speaker 2: or whatever, or your co host or whatever you're doing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you've had those conversations before, so you slipped it out. However,
Speaker 2: when you did that, you weren't you know, it's a
Speaker 2: different environment than it was even two years ago. Like
Speaker 2: that pendulum from the left of the right has swung right.
Speaker 2: We're sort of like going in an anti woke direction
Speaker 2: out thank god. So you make this like assassination joke.
Speaker 2: What do you say, like, hopefully the guy won't miss
Speaker 2: next time?
Speaker 1: Yeah, immediately time they won't miss.
Speaker 2: Instead of people laughing and patting you in the back,
Speaker 2: they cancel your entire tour. Now you're feeling it in
Speaker 2: your wallet and you're like, oh well, now I'm feeling remorseful.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think Black just had a movie come out,
Speaker 1: didn't He wasn't he one of the big Christmas movies
Speaker 1: that one of the story that was awful. It's horrible.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: We talked about it about the boy who writes the Santa,
Speaker 2: but he accidentally writes the Satan and he plays he
Speaker 2: plays Satan. We watched it for like an hour or.
Speaker 1: Like we keep by the way, it could be a
Speaker 1: hilarious premise if it was done in the night.
Speaker 2: To be fair, he was good in the movie. It
Speaker 2: was everybody else was awful. Uh well, but yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2: I don't believe you were talking about Mark Zuckerberg yesterday
Speaker 2: and like his his apparent transition, and I believe Mark
Speaker 2: Zuckerberg because you can see those pivot points along the way,
Speaker 2: right he said after Trump was shot at and survived
Speaker 2: the assassination.
Speaker 1: He's the photo. Yeah, he said that was the.
Speaker 2: Most one of the most badass things you ever seen.
Speaker 2: And you know you can you can find these pivot
Speaker 2: points along the way when it comes to these like
Speaker 2: John Cryer or Jim Gaffigan.
Speaker 1: Don't believe John cry There's no hope for that dude.
Speaker 1: If you saw any of his little Bill Mark clips
Speaker 1: from the interview the other day, Bill mars like treating
Speaker 1: him like a toddler who got hit in the head
Speaker 1: with a rock at birth.
Speaker 2: And it's not the differing in opinions. I can handle
Speaker 2: a differing opinion. It's a matter of the incredible arrogance
Speaker 2: they they're so confident, but they're so wrong simultaneously that
Speaker 2: it's off putting.
Speaker 1: And you're wrong about stuff. You want to be wrong
Speaker 1: about the moon landing, I'll find you amusing, right, Hey,
Speaker 1: I want to hear what you have to say, and
Speaker 1: there will be no hostility if if you don't want
Speaker 1: to make it hostile, I won't make it hostile with
Speaker 1: John Cryer, you're sitting there with with Bill Maher, who
Speaker 1: is again, there isn't a conservative bone in Bill Maher's
Speaker 1: body in anything that I've ever heard him expouse, with
Speaker 1: maybe the exception of being a lot more forward thinking
Speaker 1: on what you know, all this Caliphate stuff does, right,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, these people are trying to murder us
Speaker 1: and it's not cool, right, And you're like, hey, what
Speaker 1: if what if y'all come live with us, will you
Speaker 1: not want to murder us? Then? Whoopsie, you still want
Speaker 1: to murder us some of you. Yeah. Yeah. So when
Speaker 1: when mar Like gave up trying to convince Crier of
Speaker 1: just really basic things, that was all the clips I
Speaker 1: could watch. But dude, man, the Jim Gaffigan stuff I got,
Speaker 1: I just I have no energy for it. I don't
Speaker 1: and I hate it.
Speaker 2: It's sad because he showed up on Netflix or whatever
Speaker 2: it was, and you know mine, he check out the
Speaker 2: New Jim Gaffigan Special, and if it was like two
Speaker 2: three years ago, been like, yeah, well check that out,
Speaker 2: watching it around my kid, it'll be fine, And I'm like, nope,
Speaker 2: no interest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I mean, they're not gonna
Speaker 1: go away, but yeah, how do you determine that somebody
Speaker 1: really has figured it out? See? I got people email
Speaker 1: me Zucherberg's nothing but a weasel slithering out it. Maybe
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm convinced one way or the other,
Speaker 1: and I don't know how to deal with it. But
Speaker 1: again I don't. I if people i'd make fun of
Speaker 1: Roy Cooper, who, by the way, he sent me like
Speaker 1: ten emails asking for money yesterday, because again I sign
Speaker 1: up for all this stuff, or Josh Stein pretending like
Speaker 1: he just figured out something happened to Western North Carolina's
Speaker 1: gonna take credit for doing something about it. Wait, I can.
Speaker 1: I can criticize Cooper and short round there. But if
Speaker 1: at any point during all that FEMA stuff, if they
Speaker 1: had come out and be like, what the hell's going
Speaker 1: on with these houses? Why are they sitting at the airport?
Speaker 1: What are we doing here? I wouldn't I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been critical of them because I'd be like, thank you
Speaker 1: for paying attention to this. Of course it didn't happen,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know what, we'll take a break, be
Speaker 1: right back. Rosse you still eat the cookies. I don't
Speaker 1: know with your current diet stuff, is it dangerous? Girl
Speaker 1: Scout cookies? And I pretty much eat whatever I want? Okay,
Speaker 1: what's your favorite cookie, by the way, Girl Scout cookie? Yes?
Speaker 1: Or just like cookie in general? No, Girl Scout cookie.
Speaker 2: I like that thin mints, but I also like the samos.
Speaker 2: I don't think we can call them simoens anymore, but
Speaker 2: they're samoans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, something else. Then they had s'mores, the peanut butter. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know all of them. They're not really a
Speaker 1: sweet skuy per se I did. The other thing I
Speaker 1: love most about Girl Scout Cookies is one avoiding coworkers
Speaker 1: on that uh and two uh and the dude uh.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the owner or whatever, but
Speaker 1: the guy who works I'm pretty sure. I think he
Speaker 1: lives in the VP by the station here, him and
Speaker 1: his brother and just sleep in the back. And they're
Speaker 1: from Ghana and they're very cool actually, but his name's
Speaker 1: Moustafa anyway, where that dude buys girls scout cookies now
Speaker 1: and then he waits for you all to eat him,
Speaker 1: and then he sells them on the counter for like
Speaker 1: double price and then people flip out. I love that.
Speaker 1: I love I love capitalism of play, Like, well, maybe
Speaker 1: you should have bought more cookies, fatso wouldn't have to
Speaker 1: pay Mustafa seven dollars for that bag. But I that's
Speaker 1: that's where. That's where that's at, and watching people lose
Speaker 1: their minds when cookies come and go, and apparently two
Speaker 1: of them are going. So h stay tuned to find
Speaker 1: out if it's your flavor. All right, okay, so uh
Speaker 1: let me go here, shall we. It's not going well
Speaker 1: out in California. The the fires, now, there's three of them.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're all hobo fires, but I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised. There was a wild video out there.
Speaker 1: Ross hadn't even seen this. Actually, there's a video of
Speaker 1: this homeless woman who's literally on she's on the backside
Speaker 1: of one of the big like bluffs there on the ocean,
Speaker 1: which they don't have a lot in LA but but
Speaker 1: you know, it looks very similar like what you see
Speaker 1: in North Carolina where you have to walk over the
Speaker 1: mound where they've packed the sand over the berm there
Speaker 1: and then but it's got all the dry stuff on there.
Speaker 1: This lunatic, she's that. You can see the fire in
Speaker 1: the background from Pacific Palisades, so I guess she's Santa
Speaker 1: Monica ish. The geography has failing me right now. But
Speaker 1: and this homeowner screaming at her because she's stacking like pallettes,
Speaker 1: busted palletts she stole from like the back of a
Speaker 1: wal Mart or something, lighting them on fire, going we
Speaker 1: need more fire. This guy's like, what are you screaming
Speaker 1: at her? But politely, there's some lunatic setting the berm
Speaker 1: on fire next to my house. Please is not a
Speaker 1: word that's gonna be in my vocabulary. This guy's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like those people punish their kid who's
Speaker 1: arsening a store. They're like, Johnny, we don't arsen stores.
Speaker 1: And let's just say, how did we get here? And
Speaker 1: there's so much craziness to it. Some people are upset
Speaker 1: because there have been some very critical, very critical Uh oh,
Speaker 1: that's great, all right, Hey, Ross, I'm getting a bunch
Speaker 1: of messages they're saying that our stream is not streaming
Speaker 1: the show. So I am not surprised. Okay, what is
Speaker 1: the first thing I told you this morning? Right? Like,
Speaker 1: I know everything's broken. Everything's broken, all right, So know
Speaker 1: that we know, and we'll tell people that are smarter
Speaker 1: than us, and maybe that'll maybe well, or maybe shut
Speaker 1: your app and reopen it if I could just be
Speaker 1: the call center guy for a moment. Okay, back to this.
Speaker 1: So anyway, people are getting upset because they were, among
Speaker 1: other things, they were mocking the fire chief out there
Speaker 1: and what's her name? Kristin Crowley? And they're like, wait, Ross,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send something. Have you seen a picture of
Speaker 1: Kristin Crowley just carried for this? What is your problem? Oh?
Speaker 1: There we go. Are you watch your show account or no?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send it to both of them. Roz has
Speaker 1: a secret account. You have to know him to know
Speaker 1: what it is. All right, I'm gonna send that to you.
Speaker 1: When you get a moment, open it and tell me
Speaker 1: that's not Val Kilmer. Okay, anyway, so let's let me
Speaker 1: just give me one example. Lives of TikTok tweeted meet
Speaker 1: Los Angeles fire chief Kristin Crowley, who boast about being
Speaker 1: the first female and first LGBTQ fire chief in the
Speaker 1: LA Fire Department, promoting a what what looks like?
Speaker 2: It's Val Kilmer from the latest of the latest Top
Speaker 2: Gun movie where they just show his photos on the
Speaker 2: wall because you know, he has the issue where you
Speaker 2: can't really speak anymore, so they put they put him
Speaker 2: in the movie. It was great how they put him
Speaker 2: in the movie. But anyway, you know, yeah, Maverick goes
Speaker 2: there and the photo of Val Kilmer Iceman's admiral character
Speaker 2: is up on the wall and this person looks just
Speaker 2: like Val Kilmer in that movie.
Speaker 1: So Iceman, which is a weird uh moniker for somebody
Speaker 1: who's the fire chief would point out, but a sorry, sorry,
Speaker 1: she looks like Val Kilmer. There's no hate there. She
Speaker 1: just looks like Val Kilmer the way. It's badass, Like
Speaker 1: I wish I looked like Val Kilmer, right, I know,
Speaker 1: but old Val Kilmer. I want to look my first
Speaker 1: Top Gun Val Kilma. It doesn't matter to me. Anything
Speaker 1: will be an improvement. H you get to be an admiral.
Speaker 1: So there's that. So anyway, they're very upset, like why
Speaker 1: are they tweeting that out not at this time, and
Speaker 1: I and part of me is like, I understand what
Speaker 1: you're saying, but also yes, at this time. And here's
Speaker 1: why some of the other stories we're seeing right now
Speaker 1: is they're showing up and they're trying to put out
Speaker 1: fires and there's been zero oversight and maintenance on the
Speaker 1: hydrants and the water pressure. So they're showing up to
Speaker 1: these places. And California is tricky anyway with water pressure
Speaker 1: and water access, but you have to the sustainability of
Speaker 1: the network is part of what the fire Department works
Speaker 1: with the City of Los Angeles Water department and other
Speaker 1: the other communities around the communities. This is what they
Speaker 1: work with them, not so that when there is a fire,
Speaker 1: especially in a place where fires are a thing, they
Speaker 1: have infrastructure there. And keeping in mind too that the
Speaker 1: properties that they're protecting and they're drawing taxes from are
Speaker 1: some of the most expensive in the world. And and
Speaker 1: and yet it seems like the priority of this particular
Speaker 1: fire chief in a lot of the media and stuff
Speaker 1: that I've seen passed around is is we're gonna We're
Speaker 1: gonna make sure that the LA Fire Department is the
Speaker 1: most diverse out there. It's not just LGBT, it's you know,
Speaker 1: socioeconomic and which is weird kind of how do you
Speaker 1: gauge that? And then you know your background black or
Speaker 1: brown or white or whatever like And I'm just like,
Speaker 1: I don't think the person who's houses on fire cares.
Speaker 1: I don't think they care. And if you in a
Speaker 1: very challenging environment, are not even able to maintain your
Speaker 1: own infrastructure, and yet you got time to make, you know,
Speaker 1: dancing COVID nurse style videos every week and talking about
Speaker 1: how you want to forcibly stack the diversity within your department. Man,
Speaker 1: I don't people don't feel like your eyes on the ball.
Speaker 1: This is what's so much of this that is getting
Speaker 1: ready to happen and is currently happening. This this transition
Speaker 1: is weirdness that you feel right now where companies are
Speaker 1: going like McDonald's just days, it's like, why are we
Speaker 1: doing this DEI stuff? McDonald's might be the least it
Speaker 1: might be the company with the least necessity to do it.
Speaker 1: Is there is there is there any racial or social
Speaker 1: stigma LGBT or men versus women or any of the
Speaker 1: divisive stuff. Is there is there any even stereotype of
Speaker 1: McDonald's being a place where white people go, or black
Speaker 1: people go, or brown people go, or gay people go.
Speaker 2: I mean the latest McDonald's. The latest stereotype would be
Speaker 2: that they never get your order right now.
Speaker 1: That would be it. So if they could fix that,
Speaker 1: that'd be amazing. No no, no no, but I mean
Speaker 1: like the makeup of the staff there or the customers
Speaker 1: who go. Nobody cares. Everybody's slumming it, okay, And I
Speaker 1: don't want to say that. I got no disrespect for
Speaker 1: McDonald's on that. Give me, give me a double quarter
Speaker 1: pounder every now and then. I'm down. I even ate
Speaker 1: it when they said the onions would kill you, I'm like,
Speaker 1: you're not stopping me. I want what I'm gonna have.
Speaker 1: I just ordered the onions, frosted a whole thing onions.
Speaker 1: I ate it. Maybe I just did it. Not a coward, yeah, crazy, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Nobody cares about this. And when their homes are on fire,
Speaker 1: they don't care. They want two things. They want to
Speaker 1: know that whoever's in there, whether it's this Val Kilmer
Speaker 1: look alike or a man or somebody doesn't want to
Speaker 1: give you their pronouns or a green marshal that what
Speaker 1: they care about when your house is on fire, The
Speaker 1: only thing you care about is putting your house out, right.
Speaker 1: I know that we could do some like hollywooded nineteen
Speaker 1: forties movie where you know it's like deep set out
Speaker 1: like Mississippi outside Oxford, Mississippi, homes on fire and for
Speaker 1: firefighters show up, one of them is black, and then
Speaker 1: some redneck in overall is going you get down of
Speaker 1: here with your black firefighter right right. And you could,
Speaker 1: but even in that situation like can you put my
Speaker 1: house out please, nobody cares about all of this stuff
Speaker 1: when their house is on fire. And you have challenges
Speaker 1: that are unique to your department, specifically because of how
Speaker 1: water works in California, it's crazy, and wildfires in California
Speaker 1: are I grew up with fires, Okay, fires out When
Speaker 1: you live essentially in a national force and you live
Speaker 1: in a really lett it burned permissive environment, we have
Speaker 1: fires all the time. I was just talking. We had
Speaker 1: a fire, a fire that just they just got all
Speaker 1: of it here. Like two weeks ago, we had a
Speaker 1: fire up there outside of Wyoming, up by where my
Speaker 1: brother and his wife live. And it's and and so
Speaker 1: you like you're constantly trying to figure out what the
Speaker 1: wind's doing where you're at. What should you evacuate? You
Speaker 1: go stay with your aunt and uncle, should you get
Speaker 1: some stuff out of your house? What should you do?
Speaker 1: Like that was part in California. It's like that, but
Speaker 1: in an urban environment it's really weird. And during my
Speaker 1: time in California, when I was a little kid, my
Speaker 1: grandparents who had already moved there, they almost lost their
Speaker 1: house during a fire called the Painted Cave Fire, which was,
Speaker 1: I want to say, in the eighties, late eighties, early nineties.
Speaker 1: But we had fires when I was at school in California,
Speaker 1: and they're like they're just a thing, but they're a
Speaker 1: thing where the fire because so we had a fire
Speaker 1: where if you go south of Santa Barbara, you go
Speaker 1: through what's called Carpenterrhea and then you eventually get to
Speaker 1: Ventura and now you're kind of in the La Metro
Speaker 1: one thousand Oaks and Chatsworth and all that there, and
Speaker 1: they we had a fire that started up in like
Speaker 1: a Yaviota burn all the way up the top of
Speaker 1: the of the mountains there, the coastal mountains there, and
Speaker 1: decided one day the winds were just right. It was
Speaker 1: basically going to start from the top of the mountain
Speaker 1: and the winds were flowing straight west, and in a
Speaker 1: course of an hour, it moved five miles inland, jumped
Speaker 1: the freeway, jump the one on one and the one
Speaker 1: on ones right at the coast, jumped it just so
Speaker 1: it could burn everything on the small, little other side
Speaker 1: of the hill there before you hit the ocean. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the thing, I was ready. Yesterday.
Speaker 2: They were saying it was crazy, nine o'clock at night
Speaker 2: less thing. They were saying it was traveling so fat,
Speaker 2: it was like three football fields of really twenty seconds.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I had never seen anything like it. Fires
Speaker 1: move fast up in uh you know where I grew up.
Speaker 1: But this is something different because it doesn't have to
Speaker 1: stick around and burn for that long, because it's not
Speaker 1: like a forest full of Douglas firs. Right.
Speaker 2: I was watching an interview at I think it was
Speaker 2: with Josh Brolin, and he was talking to because I
Speaker 2: guess he moved out of California whatever, And he said
Speaker 2: one of the reasons why he was talking to his buddy,
Speaker 2: who was like a big a big big shot like
Speaker 2: fire firefighter guy whatever, like knew what he's talking about.
Speaker 2: He said, all you need to do in this certain
Speaker 2: area of the world is have the breeze come in
Speaker 2: a certain way and have the right sort of and
Speaker 2: the whole it'll just take out the entire the entire everything's.
Speaker 1: Dry all the time. It's it's it's dry. And even
Speaker 1: though you have all these houses around, there's so many wis.
Speaker 1: They have water restrictions that I thought were draconian in
Speaker 1: the nineties when I went there for school, Like I remember,
Speaker 1: they're like because we had a little bit of grass
Speaker 1: and my landlord was like, do not water this at
Speaker 1: during the daytime and he can only do it like
Speaker 1: this day of the week. And he's like, please don't
Speaker 1: cause a fine was so massive. You don't want to
Speaker 1: get fine because of his tenants. And I understood it.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, as soon as this stuff hits, it
Speaker 1: goes and I remember what So to my point with
Speaker 1: it jumping the freeway, they were reporting on the news
Speaker 1: like they would report a traffic jam, like, ah, if
Speaker 1: you're headed south on the what one out of Montecito,
Speaker 1: before you get to Summerland and Carpenteria, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a giant fireball crossed the freeway at some point this afternoon,
Speaker 1: so you probably shouldn't go there. That's how this stuff works.
Speaker 1: So it takes eye on the ball. It takes the
Speaker 1: best in the world if you're in a very fire
Speaker 1: prone area dealing with a lot of unique circumstances. So
Speaker 1: that's why people are upset. Job number two. If you're
Speaker 1: gonna be a reporter and you want to make your
Speaker 1: bones in the number two media market in the country,
Speaker 1: which is Los Angeles, New York's number one. Los Angeles
Speaker 1: is number two, good for you. You have climbed the
Speaker 1: pinnacle of your career. You should probably know who the
Speaker 1: actors are because if not, you're just gonna make me
Speaker 1: feel old and stupid. Okay, you should know who the
Speaker 1: actors are, and I know you're not gonna have all
Speaker 1: of them, But if you don't know, like I know
Speaker 1: actors from before I was born Horn and arguably the
Speaker 1: actor I'm going to bring up here, really I was
Speaker 1: a really little kid when he was in his prime.
Speaker 1: But like, you gotta know, and you have to assume
Speaker 1: when you're standing in a Pacific Palisades neighborhood with ten
Speaker 1: million dollar homes that you might run into some actors
Speaker 1: because this dude had no idea who he was talking to.
Speaker 1: And it's clear even though you can't hear, it's clear
Speaker 1: to me. And if you think about it, that there's
Speaker 1: some producer back at you know, in the van or
Speaker 1: back at the station screaming in this dude's year at
Speaker 1: some point. Listen to this insane interview.
Speaker 5: You're Palisades Drive. If anybody has a car and they
Speaker 5: leave the car, leave the keys in the car so
Speaker 5: that we can move your car so that these fire
Speaker 5: trucks can get up Palistrades Drive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, are you picking up on this? This
Speaker 1: is why I didn't want to set it out. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna play that part again. So that's the voice of
Speaker 1: the person being interviewed.
Speaker 2: Anybody our age knows exactly who that is by the voice.
Speaker 1: You don't need to see, just by the voice. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty quie. All right, So if I know it's a release,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna play that part again. We'll play the
Speaker 1: whole clip though, but before before the guy because you'll
Speaker 1: hear him give his name because he's asked for it.
Speaker 1: See if you can figure it out here In the
Speaker 1: next about it's about fifteen twenty seconds in here we go.
Speaker 1: Listen closely.
Speaker 5: You're on Palisades Drive. If anybody has a car and
Speaker 5: they leave their car, leave the keys in the car
Speaker 5: so that we can move your car so that these
Speaker 5: fire trucks can get up Palisades Drive. What's happening is
Speaker 5: people take their keys with them as if they're in
Speaker 5: a parking lot. This is not a parking lot. We
Speaker 5: really need people to move their car. So if you
Speaker 5: leave your car in Palastaid Drive, leave the key in
Speaker 5: there so a guy like me can move your car,
Speaker 5: can get him up there, so that so that these
Speaker 5: fire trucks can get up there. It's really really important.
Speaker 1: Are you ready? You're ready for the big reveal? Here
Speaker 1: we go. Thank you, thank you for talking to us live. Sir,
Speaker 1: what's her names? My name is Steve Gutenberg. Steve, you
Speaker 1: live in this area. I live in the area.
Speaker 5: I live right up the hill, and thank goodness, but
Speaker 5: I have friends up there right now and they can't
Speaker 5: evacuate because it's stuck on Plisay's Drive.
Speaker 3: You're you're an actor?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm an actor.
Speaker 3: Okay, now you look familar.
Speaker 1: You look familiar to me now No, No he doesn't. No,
Speaker 1: he does. There's a producer going, dude, that's Steve Guttenberg. Moron. No,
Speaker 1: he's not even saying that politely. He's screaming in the
Speaker 1: dude's ears. Well, Steve Guttenberg should be like, oh, you
Speaker 1: know who I am named one of my movies? Yeah,
Speaker 1: name one. Can you imagine the eighties without Steve Guttenberg.
Speaker 2: No, first movie I saw in the theater that I
Speaker 2: remember anyway is Short Circuit. That was the first one
Speaker 2: I saw my sister. It's a great movie.
Speaker 1: But I mean, just think think of the run this
Speaker 1: dude had from like eighty three eighty when the first
Speaker 1: Police Academy come out. Well, whatever, Short Circuit, Police Academy,
Speaker 1: cocoon all the sequels of all of them. There's what
Speaker 1: twenty seven Police Academies, three men and a baby, Like,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine the eighties without Steve Gutenberg. Man, Steve
Speaker 1: Gutenberg is like, I'll move your car, ex hold on,
Speaker 1: we'll be right back. Hang on. I don't know ruin
Speaker 1: your weekend. I guess how it depended on how I
Speaker 1: look at it. Here in about forty five minutes, we'll
Speaker 1: do that. Also, we will be chatting with the new
Speaker 1: state Auditor of North Carolina coming up at eight five.
Speaker 1: Mister bullocal join us, and yeah, I will talk about
Speaker 1: some stuff monster trucking cars, What the hell the auditor
Speaker 1: does those kinds of things. So we'll do a little
Speaker 1: get to know your thing there, maybe have him way
Speaker 1: in on whether he knows who Steve Gutenberg is. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I can't get over this. And I remember yesterday because
Speaker 1: somebody just reminded me, like, didn't you yesterday do a
Speaker 1: whole show about how you refuse to learn who all
Speaker 1: the influences are. Yes, because it's not paramount to my business,
Speaker 1: and arguably it's more funny when Ross and I don't
Speaker 1: know who it is. But yes, but if I'm going
Speaker 1: to do a if I am a person who is
Speaker 1: a out on the street, man on the street reporter,
Speaker 1: right going doing the interviews, telling the hard stories, and
Speaker 1: I'm working in that media market where Hollywood is, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do my homework because the chances of you interviewing
Speaker 1: a celebrity or never not zero, but a lot of
Speaker 1: there's a U see clips on YouTube where reporters ran,
Speaker 1: what do they just did this with? Who's the Euphoria chick,
Speaker 1: Zendaya or whatever, who's dating the Spider Man guy. They
Speaker 1: just had some in New York. They were just they
Speaker 1: were just clowning on a reporter up there because they
Speaker 1: was like her and her mother just walking down the street.
Speaker 1: It's clearly her. I don't know who her mother is,
Speaker 1: but uh, they're clearly walking. They're like, look at this
Speaker 1: young woman and her mom. How for a walk like that?
Speaker 1: Is Zendaya? Do you not know who that is? I
Speaker 1: don't even watch her and I know who that is. Honest,
Speaker 1: you're in the movie or whatever. But yeah, if you
Speaker 1: know't who Steve Gutenberg is. Now I feel old and
Speaker 1: now I'm mad at you, not in a real mad way,
Speaker 1: but ah, police academy. Do you think you could do
Speaker 1: a police academy? Now? It had never happened, And you
Speaker 1: know what I think there is I think what Goudenberg's
Speaker 1: got to do, and and God bless them, he's out
Speaker 1: there and he's, you know, doing what he's doing. I
Speaker 1: don't know Steve Gutenberg's politics. I'm excited about that. I
Speaker 1: don't care. He's like, leave your keys. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you saw they're literally running bulldozers down some of
Speaker 1: the roads like a like a snowplow blade on the front,
Speaker 1: just pitching cars off to the side those roads, especially
Speaker 1: when you get into those windy roads in around southern California.
Speaker 1: I've driven them for years. When I was down there,
Speaker 1: there's there's there's not big shoulders. It's like it's they're
Speaker 1: pretty tight. So if you got cars jammed out and
Speaker 1: they don't have keys and them, they're gonna get bulldozed.
Speaker 1: So he's out there doing his thing. I think he
Speaker 1: got to bring in some of his fellow actors just randomly,
Speaker 1: and so today I want to see that guy randomly, uh,
Speaker 1: interviewing a six foot seven, giant black dude.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's you know, generational for us. But yeah,
Speaker 2: Steve Guttenberger, like I said before, his voice is so familiar, right, I.
Speaker 1: Looked it up. He's been working since he had like
Speaker 1: five years he didn't which is kind of interesting. But
Speaker 1: he's doing a ton of stuff still.
Speaker 2: And he's not like you know, his co his co
Speaker 2: workers that are co stars in that movie, like Bobcat
Speaker 2: gold With right, Like I'm sure like if Bob Kat
Speaker 2: was on the side of the road not doing his
Speaker 2: typical voice that he does, right, like you know that
Speaker 2: would be like, oh my god, I just but the
Speaker 2: problem is, like you said, this kid is so super
Speaker 2: young or whatever, the guy in the street probably no
Speaker 2: idea who he was, and the producers like that, you know,
Speaker 2: that's Steve Guttenberg, and he's like, oh, like I said,
Speaker 2: that's the way she'd been, Like you just name one
Speaker 2: of my movies.
Speaker 1: Just name one, anyone you know who you know who
Speaker 1: got to get his uh when didn't Michael Winslow die though?
Speaker 1: God dude, oh great, Greg, Now I'm starting this rumors?
Speaker 1: Would you look it up? Which I think? We who
Speaker 1: do we kill one time? Tom Green or somebody? I
Speaker 1: can't remember who it was, but oh dude, we've killed
Speaker 1: so many people. Yeah, yeah, it's very sad. All right,
Speaker 1: he's gonna see it. My Winslow is the guy did
Speaker 1: the voices? Was he Jones? Right? Was his character in there? Right?
Speaker 1: So not only could could Winslow be doing an interview
Speaker 1: if he has like a he had a COVID mask on,
Speaker 1: he could make the reporter think the fire is coming
Speaker 1: at him. He is alive. He is sixty six. Oh
Speaker 1: thank goodness, I didn't I don't. There was no animosity there,
Speaker 1: no animosity. Good get him out here. You know how
Speaker 1: much fun Michael Winslow could have with that, dude. You
Speaker 1: think like the aliens are landing. He's like, oh, I
Speaker 1: was just over my manch and the aliens are here.
Speaker 1: People were making the sound. I can't make this sound.
Speaker 1: They could bring on hooks like man man, please speak up,
Speaker 1: trying to shoot him in his uh boys there or
Speaker 1: whatever her line was for the movie? Was she the
Speaker 1: one that thread where said that was finally screamed? Oh?
Speaker 1: So many options, dude.
Speaker 2: Those movies were so dirty when I was a kid,
Speaker 2: like I couldn't watch them. I could watch them maybe
Speaker 2: if they showed up on Remember like Fox would play
Speaker 2: movies on the weekends, right, but it was super TV
Speaker 2: edited like an hour and ten minutes longer, Like isn't
Speaker 2: this movie longer?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah? Well, I mean think about the way in
Speaker 1: the Police Academy movies they vanquished their enemies was to
Speaker 1: trick them into going into a gay bar to get
Speaker 1: raped by bikers. When it worked these days, you get promoted,
Speaker 1: Oh you would, Yeah, you've got to be the fire chief.
Speaker 1: Looked like Val Kilmer there, Yeah, commitment to diversity here.
Speaker 1: Remember that was the whole, That was the that was
Speaker 1: like the premise of the threat.
Speaker 2: There, there's a lot of diversity. Like Gutenberg was in
Speaker 2: Short Circuit, which had one of the greatest uh Indian
Speaker 2: American actors of the generation. Right, you played the professor,
Speaker 2: the scientist guy. Remember that I cooked?
Speaker 1: How cooked do you think he was when all the
Speaker 1: me too come into Jesus?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: So, if you're not aware that guy back in the
Speaker 2: day was isn't actually an Indian America. He was a
Speaker 2: white dude. They just put paint on his face. And
Speaker 2: I remember learning this maybe it was probably a decade
Speaker 2: ago now being like, oh my cause as a kid,
Speaker 2: I thought that was like an actual Indian dude, like
Speaker 2: with the accent and doing like the the up poo
Speaker 2: type accent. And I was like, oh, it's definitely like
Speaker 2: a real Indian dude. They're like, no, it's not. It
Speaker 2: was like learning about Razor Ramone like Scott Hall, like
Speaker 2: that's not really a Cuban dude.
Speaker 1: Uh. The actor's name is Fisher Stevens. I can never
Speaker 1: heard of his name was. And if you're still strugg
Speaker 1: you're like, dah, who is that so obviously short circuit.
Speaker 1: He was in Hackers, he was in Super Mario Brothers,
Speaker 1: I think too. Trying to think of one of the
Speaker 1: bigger things he's been in here as well.
Speaker 2: Well, he's definitely not Indian, He's not, and he's still working.
Speaker 2: He was on Blacklist forever. As soon as you see
Speaker 2: this dude's face not in.
Speaker 1: Shoe polish, You're like, oh, I know that guy. He's
Speaker 1: always kind of a bad dude.
Speaker 2: I'm a greasy listened and it was a different time, yeah,
Speaker 2: and they're just like, hey, we're gonna we're gonna have
Speaker 2: you throw a bunch of shoe polo Sean and your
Speaker 2: name is Javeri or whatever they went with, or Ben
Speaker 2: his first name was Ben.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember watching an interview with that guy after
Speaker 1: like when all this stuff was going on, and it
Speaker 1: was basically his his apology video, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's probably not gonna work again. And then like immediately
Speaker 1: everyone's like, all right, you're okay. He got the Jimmy
Speaker 1: Kimmel treatment. And I don't think it was political necessarily,
Speaker 1: you just got to remember Jimmy Kimmel. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, yeah, he did do blackface for six
Speaker 1: seasons pretending to be Karl Malone and woop be not
Speaker 1: will be oprah Uh. But we're fine with that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: to Ross's point, a lot of people don't know that
Speaker 1: that the Indian dude in there not Indian, which is
Speaker 1: ironic considering all the H one B stuff here recently.
Speaker 1: I'm over to work in the movie and where it
Speaker 1: was visas, right, That's right. That's why they had to
Speaker 1: implement the program in the late nineties too, because like, wow,
Speaker 1: we don't even have enough actors to play the Indian
Speaker 1: dude in short circuit back in nineteen eighty five or whatever.
Speaker 1: That was different times, man, different times. All right, let's
Speaker 1: see what did I mentioned?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Did you guys know tomorrow's a holiday?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I did not know this. I was unaware of this.
Speaker 1: But I will say I am exhausted. Ever since we
Speaker 1: got back from vacation, it has been one thing after another.
Speaker 1: Ross's equipment isn't working. Everyone hates everybody else. I you know,
Speaker 1: lawsuit wars are going on. The incredible pantomime Theater of
Speaker 1: January sixth commemorations had to sit through all that. It's
Speaker 1: been so much I'm so glad that tomorrow's a holiday.
Speaker 1: Oh you don't think it's a holiday, Well, let me
Speaker 1: run this by you. The US Postal Services announced they
Speaker 1: will close all locations and suspend regular mail delivery tomorrow.
Speaker 1: This is part of the Jimmy Carter National Day of
Speaker 1: Mourning bano. So if they're closed, can fifty people drive
Speaker 1: to the post office and sit in an endless line
Speaker 1: in their cars that goes all the way down about
Speaker 1: six blocks, waiting for nothing to commemorate. No, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Financial markets, including the New York Stock
Speaker 1: Exchange and the Nasdaq, will also be closed tomorrow, So
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. If the mail's not getting delivered and Jeff
Speaker 1: Bellinger doesn't have to do a report, we're going to
Speaker 1: talk to him figure out how that's gonna work. That
Speaker 1: tells me that that's a holiday. So that's a federal holiday.
Speaker 1: We have the day off. We should have the day off.
Speaker 1: I was just your streating a call there, and I
Speaker 1: was telling him, like the Ross, you have no idea. Ross,
Speaker 1: and I are just so exhausted. It's been so dude,
Speaker 1: everything's been breaking. Nothing works, and and as and and
Speaker 1: by the way, a lot of it's by design. Our
Speaker 1: entire Raleigh studios, half of them are ripped up and gone. Literally.
Speaker 1: I had a conversation yesterday about some stuff that was
Speaker 1: stored in another room that I didn't realize that it's
Speaker 1: just gone. Now, it's just gone.
Speaker 2: We're in the that we had like our after show
Speaker 2: meeting with Trevor. Yeah, and you know it's talking about
Speaker 2: how he keep.
Speaker 1: So I have. We have like quasi offices, and so
Speaker 1: I just use it for storage of old like rollover equipment.
Speaker 1: I didn't actually use it. I didn't realize that they
Speaker 1: tore the inside wall of that thing out.
Speaker 2: Did you know I sent you that video the other day?
Speaker 2: Did you did you know it was a video or
Speaker 2: did you think it was a photo? I thought it
Speaker 2: was a photo case you mentioned on the air. You
Speaker 2: were like that photo and I just I was like, whatever, No,
Speaker 2: that's a video. It's like a minute. Oh yeah, everything
Speaker 2: is gone.
Speaker 1: I got reason. I got no reason to go back
Speaker 1: in there because I assume everything stored. It's mostly company.
Speaker 2: My gold balloons were in there, dude, what's that My
Speaker 2: gold The ballooms were in there, that's where I store them.
Speaker 1: Gone. This is this is a concern you raised yesterday,
Speaker 1: although I didn't feel that management took your concerns seriously.
Speaker 1: If I could just say, I think I don't think
Speaker 1: they believed you. But what that would be where I
Speaker 1: would store gold to ballooons. I did an endorsement Eye
Speaker 1: Morning Show office that none of us use.
Speaker 2: I did the Gold endorsement a while back. They gave
Speaker 2: me a treasure chest full of golden blooms. Yeah they did,
Speaker 2: and they're gone now and I deserve them back.
Speaker 1: I'll tell this story to the day I die. Saw
Speaker 1: another radio guy I worked with at a gold endorsement.
Speaker 1: This is when radio guys started first doing them. And
Speaker 1: the endorsement was he got actual gold right for his
Speaker 1: uh for his fee for doing it. And so they
Speaker 1: were going to do the because it was part of
Speaker 1: the service. I can't remember which the company as it was.
Speaker 1: And so it's like the end of the endorsement. So
Speaker 1: they're paying him his loot right and they're like, all right,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna have a car. We're gonna have literally
Speaker 1: an armored car come to your house. So he had
Speaker 1: he had a big safe there. He's like, all right,
Speaker 1: delivered to my house and it's gonna be at this time,
Speaker 1: but only his wife's home right ahead of it. So
Speaker 1: he gets done with the show and he is driving
Speaker 1: like a mad man to get home and to get
Speaker 1: there before the you know, the gold delivery comes. And
Speaker 1: he gets to his house, his wife has moved all
Speaker 1: the furniture in the house to the walls, so the
Speaker 1: living room is basically this big open and he's like,
Speaker 1: what what are you doing? Who is happening here? He's like,
Speaker 1: for the gold, And he's like, do you think you're
Speaker 1: just coming in with a fork lifted a pallet? What
Speaker 1: do he It wasn't an insignificant amount of money because
Speaker 1: it was a big market he worked in. But also
Speaker 1: when you're getting into thousands of dollars worth of gold,
Speaker 1: they're not bringing a forklift. It comes in a little
Speaker 1: thing because gold's heavy, expensive and small. And she had
Speaker 1: she had moved furniture thinking that they were gonna come
Speaker 1: in and fill it up like Scrooge McDuck's vault or something.
Speaker 1: It's like, I just started laughing, So yeah, I don't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's what Ross, I guess is dealing with right now.
Speaker 1: I don't know, all right, seven twenty oh, I mentioned
Speaker 1: the Girl Scout cookie story. Let me tell you this,
Speaker 1: this sounds like a marketing scam more than anything. But
Speaker 1: oh you know what, if I'm going to do this,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. You know, we got all these these
Speaker 1: wonderful parody songs in our in our wonderful library her here,
Speaker 1: So if I'm gonna do the girl Scout story, then
Speaker 1: might as well get our theme song for it.
Speaker 4: They sell dozy dose and tag alongs, thin mint and
Speaker 4: like camped out at the entrances a supermarkets day in night.
Speaker 4: Avoiding them is hard.
Speaker 6: I can never seemed gared away, especially when David Accounting
Speaker 6: hits me up ten times a day. Hey, girl Scouts
Speaker 6: of Americans.
Speaker 4: I asked that you don't bother me.
Speaker 6: Half the cookies you sell I no longer like you
Speaker 6: must have changed the resup and mints taste like chapstick.
Speaker 1: Why I just grew with cookies that were one so great.
Speaker 4: And mango creams with nutrifusion.
Speaker 1: What the hell is that? I'm that's so funny? Ross
Speaker 1: Field greeted about Buddy, who I was just talking about.
Speaker 1: The radio is listening to the show right now. He
Speaker 1: just just text it his wife furniture I just want
Speaker 1: you guys to know that that's true. You gotta make
Speaker 1: this stuff up. That's finny. If you do his wife too, you,
Speaker 1: that's that's super funny. She's so nice. But seriously, man,
Speaker 1: all right, So the Girl Scouts have announced that two
Speaker 1: of their cookie orders will be retired. It's your last chance. Uh,
Speaker 1: two of the toast yay. I don't even know what
Speaker 1: that is. What is toast ye? Toast that's like a
Speaker 1: cocaine cookie. Hey, now that'd be toast ye Oh okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: toast yay. I don't know that one, but you're gonna
Speaker 1: know this one. You're ready. Here's the other cookie that's
Speaker 1: going bye bye. S'mores? What that's a popular flavor, isn't it? S'mores?
Speaker 1: That's one of the old That's one of the ogs,
Speaker 1: isn't it. They're doing away with spores. We routinely reevaluate
Speaker 1: our cookie lineup, so we'll be discontinuing s'mores and Toastier's.
Speaker 1: And something new and delicious is on the horizon. I
Speaker 1: don't know, not if it's not neutral fruit crap. We'll
Speaker 1: be back thirty minutes from now. The new state auditor who,
Speaker 1: as far as I know has not monster trucked vehicles
Speaker 1: in a state vehicle yet. Dave Bolock will join us
Speaker 1: and we'll figure out what the auditor does. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: there'd in alls. Well we will do that because I
Speaker 1: don't think a lot of people probably really know. I mean,
Speaker 1: you hear the word there and you're like, oh, that
Speaker 1: should be a watchdog individual, and it kind of is.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk to Dave see what's up. But there
Speaker 1: is there's there's some hurricane discussion that needs to happen there.
Speaker 1: So I'm glad we're going to be chatting with him.
Speaker 1: So we got that the Oh, let me put on
Speaker 1: notice some of our listeners. So at ten am and
Speaker 1: between ten am and eleven am this morning, if you
Speaker 1: happen to be I guess south of the triangle, the
Speaker 1: Sharon Harris nuclear plan is not melting down. You are
Speaker 1: not about to get free superpowers. They're gonna be testing
Speaker 1: these sirens. They will be tested for five to thirty
Speaker 1: seconds between ten am and eleven am. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it'll just be once, twice, it'll be the whole time, whatever.
Speaker 1: But you are not about to get super paid unless
Speaker 1: you are, which would be very unfortunate timing, right, They're like, ah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have this, which you know is kind of
Speaker 1: a gamble, kind of a gamble because if it at
Speaker 1: ten oh one, it's like now I'm gonna melt down
Speaker 1: now and you're hitting the sirens. Everyone's like, no, I
Speaker 1: heard the guy on the radio saying this, and the
Speaker 1: TV said it, and everything's fine and before now you
Speaker 1: can fly or you know, you get horrible fast approaching
Speaker 1: cancer very quickly, but you know, hope for the first one.
Speaker 1: But no, that's what the sirens are probably gonna be.
Speaker 1: And I will still expect we'll get flooded with emails,
Speaker 1: but that's what they're saying. All right, So now you're onnoticed.
Speaker 1: But that's okay. It's sit at home with your new
Speaker 1: superpowers and uh, listen to Ross and I talk about
Speaker 1: interdimensional bigfoots and stuff, which is how we started the show. Today.
Speaker 1: We flip over to something real quick. Oh wait, hold on,
Speaker 1: I got to mention something got a little housekeeping here?
Speaker 1: Where did I put this from yesterday? Do do do
Speaker 1: do do?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Okay, here we go, all right, because we don't get
Speaker 1: a lot of love over on the talk side of things,
Speaker 1: it's always honever you know this behind this. They're obsessed
Speaker 1: with music at this company, probably because the majority of
Speaker 1: their stations are music. But yeah, in the world of talk,
Speaker 1: you got us, you got the podcast stuff. You got
Speaker 1: our podcast, which is pretty amazing. So even if you
Speaker 1: listen to the morning show, you should listen to the
Speaker 1: podcast in case you missed something. But also we do
Speaker 1: the voting, like the end of the year stuff with
Speaker 1: all that. So they put together podcast awards, which is
Speaker 1: something that this company does, and so I would encourage
Speaker 1: you if you're down with the podcast, you're down with
Speaker 1: what we do and spoken word and all of that,
Speaker 1: that you go online and vote. It's Iheartpodcast Awards dot
Speaker 1: com and you can vote for podcasts or and other
Speaker 1: stuff and you can write us in on stuff where
Speaker 1: you can. But for the main ones, you probably picked
Speaker 1: from the list there. It's not like when Ross was
Speaker 1: almost soil and water supervisor in Guildford County and instead
Speaker 1: they elected somebody who was a sex offender or something.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what was going on over there.
Speaker 1: That's what happens when you don't vote, So check that
Speaker 1: out there you go. Housekeeping done, But anything that keeps
Speaker 1: spoken word top of mind. I am I'm happy about
Speaker 1: you know why, because not all music is good. Like,
Speaker 1: let me give you an example. Let's say you're a
Speaker 1: twenty year CIA top level analyst, one of these people
Speaker 1: who likely was you know, sitting around going yeah, we
Speaker 1: should all sign this thing saying that the laptop's not
Speaker 1: real because we're partisan hacks. So imagine you're one of
Speaker 1: those people and somebody tells you you can sing, and
Speaker 1: now you're this lunatic woman, this former CIA analyst who's
Speaker 1: putting out anti Trump music videos that are comically best.
Speaker 6: See you're driving roundtown and motorcade and I'm like, fuck.
Speaker 1: You, forky okay, democracy is just a game to play,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, fuck you and your woldown crew. If
Speaker 1: there were any justice could not be a monster. By
Speaker 1: the way, it's like it's like ms paint and the
Speaker 1: very first editing software that Apple had on their iOS
Speaker 1: is what she used to make this. It's bad green screens,
Speaker 1: so it wrots. You have a green screen. How does
Speaker 1: her green screen look so bad and yours looks fine?
Speaker 1: With you with minimal effort, I'm sure this isn't hard
Speaker 1: to give me.
Speaker 2: Mean, you would expect better, right from the people that
Speaker 2: apparently are supposed to be. Like in that room with
Speaker 2: all the computers looking for Jason Bourne.
Speaker 1: The people are like, Oh, we're gonna film the moon landing,
Speaker 1: right what. I don't believe you're really dancing in front
Speaker 1: of Trump there with a fork. I don't believe it.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's true. You know what I shouldn't say.
Speaker 1: Do you have any range? Ma'am? Do you got any
Speaker 1: range on that voice?
Speaker 4: I'm beat in jail and though there's pain in my chest,
Speaker 4: don't give it a rest.
Speaker 1: We can forget. You're not talking trash. If I call
Speaker 1: you fascist, come on and unlike you know.
Speaker 6: What that means.
Speaker 1: You go up here in a moment, you went to
Speaker 1: the dumpstera to give you a cabinet. Also is spineless
Speaker 1: clouds and freaks ross dah. I don't know that I
Speaker 1: could go on. Oh, just overloaded my headphones with whoever
Speaker 1: that was. I think I dowb my I bleed, My
Speaker 1: eyes are bleeding. How did that happen?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm glad you're not in there literally in
Speaker 1: charge of I don't know our security and stuff anymore.
Speaker 1: You absolute lunatic. Remember what did Hillary get what ninety
Speaker 1: Even Kamala didn't even get as much, but Hillary got
Speaker 1: like what ninety six and a half percent in the district.
Speaker 1: It's not that Trump got all the rest of it.
Speaker 1: I went to green and other stuff. You're an absolute lunatic, man.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're free to go ahead and put out
Speaker 1: whatever you want, but I'm gonna judge you on it.
Speaker 1: And our parody songs are elite compared to you know
Speaker 1: what you got going the girls Scout thing we just did.
Speaker 1: Are you freaking kidding me? It's amazing. I can play
Speaker 1: the whole thing again. But listen to the quality of
Speaker 1: this voice.
Speaker 4: They still dozing thin men sent light.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go back to you. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: just stop, Arah, that's why the equipment's broke. Oh, that's
Speaker 1: that's what it is. Was this the first cut you
Speaker 1: dubbed in this morning? That's what broke all the equipment?
Speaker 1: Because that would make sense. I mean, yeah, it's possible.
Speaker 1: Or the audio equipment is actively rejecting the sound of
Speaker 1: this woman's voice.
Speaker 2: Could this be like the sound torture that we've heard
Speaker 2: they use at Guano.
Speaker 1: It could be Oh, I see where you're going. With this,
Speaker 1: Ross is very excited about something. You want to hear
Speaker 1: what it is? You want hear? What you hear what
Speaker 1: he's so excited? Let me let me ask you maybe
Speaker 1: we can get raised agic First, Ross is very excited
Speaker 1: about something because a thing that we talked about here
Speaker 1: on the show for a lot longer than I would
Speaker 1: expect that we talked about on the show, and then
Speaker 1: it became a recurring thing that came to come up
Speaker 1: on every show might be reality, and might have, according
Speaker 1: to a report here from The Blaze, might have been,
Speaker 1: although it sounds like it was really an admission for
Speaker 1: Mark Milly, who is a lunatic, probably loved that last
Speaker 1: song I just played you specifically, Milly told people might
Speaker 1: have been utilized in twenty twenty not for January sixth stuff,
Speaker 1: but rather for or twenty twenty three. I should say,
Speaker 1: not for January sixth stuff, per se, but June twenty
Speaker 1: twenty the rioters at Lafayette Park in DC. And it's
Speaker 1: a bit of a doozy man. So we'll get to
Speaker 1: we'll get to that, or it should say I said
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. It was used in twenty twenty and the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one is the other thing I was referring to.
Speaker 1: But we have speculated and it looks like it may
Speaker 1: be the case. So we'll get into that here in
Speaker 1: a moment. All right, we got our boy. We could
Speaker 1: to go mister stagic for the one. No oh no,
Speaker 1: Ray wait wait? Do you think her voice killed the
Speaker 1: comrades that we connect to Ray with? That might be
Speaker 1: a possibility. Directed energy weapons people directed energy weapons, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, and specifically, well I'll just say
Speaker 1: this before I tell you what they do that may
Speaker 1: have been utilized according to Millie. According to Ah who
Speaker 1: is he talking to this in twenty October of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, he said, we use directed energy weapons of
Speaker 1: Lafayette Park, if you remember, that's what Trump holding the
Speaker 1: Bible St. John Saint John's the church there in Lafayette. Well,
Speaker 1: the church or they tried to arsenate and all that insanity,
Speaker 1: and eventually they had to get contractors out there to
Speaker 1: construct another fence. And they tried to make that a
Speaker 1: Trump scandal where he's he like sick his dogs and
Speaker 1: they realize that he didn't. Well, now they're coming back
Speaker 1: for another bite at the apple. So we'll get into
Speaker 1: that here in a moment, but first race age it
Speaker 1: from the weather channel standing by, alrighty Rue, what's going on, sir?
Speaker 7: I don't know did we create a ruckus yet?
Speaker 1: I pre sold your ruckus this morning, and right at
Speaker 1: the top of the hour at seven oh five, I'm like, uh,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to Ray from now and he will ruckus
Speaker 1: the heck out of you.
Speaker 7: So yeah, And it does look like light accumulations of
Speaker 7: snow and ice, especially east of the Triad. As you
Speaker 7: get into the mountains where there are already winter storm watches,
Speaker 7: a better opportunity for maybe a three to six in snowfall,
Speaker 7: So I think tryad maybe about one to three of
Speaker 7: snow and ice. You get near the triangle, it's or
Speaker 7: less of snow and ice accumulating. And the good news
Speaker 7: is too it most of it comes at night Friday,
Speaker 7: unless you're an overnight worker. The bigger problems are going
Speaker 7: to be Friday night's Saturday morning with the snow and
Speaker 7: ice and even some rain mixing in, so lead ups
Speaker 7: kind of now, right, you've got a couple of days
Speaker 7: here to prep teens and low twenties this morning, so
Speaker 7: sitting the kind of stage for our winter weather. As
Speaker 7: a cold there is in place upper thirties near forty today,
Speaker 7: same thing tomorrow. A little gusty breez will add a
Speaker 7: little bite to the air. The lows are still going
Speaker 7: to be in the upper teens to near twenty. But
Speaker 7: I think clouds will thick it up Friday and from
Speaker 7: west southwest to north northeast, coming through the mountains and
Speaker 7: the Triad late Friday, probably more like Friday night, will
Speaker 7: start to see some snow and sleep, freezing rain come
Speaker 7: in more mixing towards the Triangle, and then rain snow
Speaker 7: mixed depending on where you are, does end Saturday. So
Speaker 7: that's the window Friday night Saturday morning with anywhere from
Speaker 7: a little bit of a trace of snow and ice
Speaker 7: the further east you go to maybe one of three
Speaker 7: inches of snow and ice, and the higher totals three
Speaker 7: to six inches of snow possible we could say, from
Speaker 7: about Ashville and into the higher peaks into some of
Speaker 7: the mountains. So I still think an impactful event for some,
Speaker 7: maybe some not so much, but looks right now it
Speaker 7: does look like we will have at least some impacts
Speaker 7: on the Stone ice case.
Speaker 1: Uh blockbuster storm.
Speaker 7: It doesn't look like it right now, but there'll be
Speaker 7: changes there probably will.
Speaker 3: But.
Speaker 1: We already did it. Yeah, we did. Hold on a.
Speaker 7: Second, let me Cora winter storm Cora r A.
Speaker 1: I didn't do it. I didn't do it. Well you did,
Speaker 1: because the those just show everyone the weather naming of
Speaker 1: winter storms is a weather channel thing. It is it is,
Speaker 1: and I mean, love it or hate it, it is
Speaker 1: what it is.
Speaker 7: And I think they really did it more for a
Speaker 7: social thing, so you have something to grasp bout there.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I know I still have to make fun
Speaker 1: of it though it's my absolutely well me too, and
Speaker 1: I work here. Yeah sometimes yeah, Hey, quick question, what
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on girls scott cookies?
Speaker 7: As long as they didn't get rid of the tagalongs,
Speaker 7: I'm fine.
Speaker 1: Okay, you saw they get rid of s'mores, right, yep,
Speaker 1: I did, And don't tag along. I don't even know
Speaker 1: what those are, so I don't either.
Speaker 7: Don't change a good thing, don't add it to it,
Speaker 7: no new flavor, I mean, just just keep it the
Speaker 7: way it is.
Speaker 1: You don't have the nutra to crab something with nutra
Speaker 1: fruit or whatever. Not interested? Oh man, that is very
Speaker 1: very angry. So peanut butter patties, tag alongs, Yep.
Speaker 7: Yep, Carl Delicious Mint or the mints too. Yeah, give
Speaker 7: me like the half a dozen boxes or so of
Speaker 7: those and about ten minutes in a glass of milk
Speaker 7: and we're fine.
Speaker 1: All right, Well good, okay, Well I think it's a
Speaker 1: marketing stunt. It's like one of those stories, like going
Speaker 1: out of business forever kind of thing. So we'll see,
Speaker 1: Oh you didn't you didn't want to get rid of smores.
Speaker 1: We'll bring them back after we just force you to
Speaker 1: buy three times as much, right, genius? All right, thank you, sir,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Seven forty eight. Will we come back? Uh?
Speaker 1: Those directed energy weapons? That's interesting. What's up with that?
Speaker 1: We'll find out next. Maybe you don't remember why it's
Speaker 1: I remember this. I remember this story for a long time.
Speaker 1: You know why, because it was one of those moments
Speaker 1: when I really appreciated that I had management who got it.
Speaker 1: It's nice. It's nice, right if you ever worked in
Speaker 1: a job or the management is not somebody who you
Speaker 1: feel you can go talk to, or they're just unyielding
Speaker 1: on stuff. And I don't mean the little stuff, but
Speaker 1: I mean stuff. It's kind of principled. You know, I
Speaker 1: left a radio job one time. I left a radio
Speaker 1: job prior to working for the company I work for now.
Speaker 1: I chose to make the transition, doing large part to
Speaker 1: the fact that I didn't feel management had our back
Speaker 1: on anything. It was a private ownership group. As a
Speaker 1: husband and a wife, and I just didn't give a crap,
Speaker 1: and so I appreciated. There was a circumstance where if
Speaker 1: you don't know Peter Yarrow is I'm gonna fill it
Speaker 1: in Peter Yarrow, Peter, Paul and Mary right where Yeah,
Speaker 1: Yarrow continued to tour and we were we were working
Speaker 1: with one of the theaters that hosted Yarrow, and I
Speaker 1: would do I sometimes I do interviews with the different
Speaker 1: people came through if they were of decent size. And
Speaker 1: there was a request that I interviewed Yarrow, and I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: it's not a chance I'm gona interview that guy. And
Speaker 1: if you don't remember, and I noticed they left it
Speaker 1: out of almost every story I've seen. So Peter Yarrow,
Speaker 1: who died at eighty six the other day, and it's
Speaker 1: interesting that he died adjacent to Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Yarrow
Speaker 1: or Peter Yarrow, excuse me, was convicted of in decent
Speaker 1: liberties with a fourteen year old. Basically, he had a
Speaker 1: fourteen year old and his seventeen year old come over
Speaker 1: his hotel room, answered the door naked, insanity ensued. It's
Speaker 1: unclear how much. And he caught that charge, but he
Speaker 1: was pardoned by Jimmy Carter by his last day in office.
Speaker 1: So Jimmy Carter pardoned the child molesting charge or the
Speaker 1: indecent liberties with the minor charge of Peter Yarrow. So
Speaker 1: forgive me. I don't want to interview and the management,
Speaker 1: I guess and remember and I just mentioned it to
Speaker 1: our manager at the time. He's like, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: interview him, thank you. So yeah, it's a little context
Speaker 1: to that, all right, real quick on this. So Milly
Speaker 1: indicated that a directed energy weapon was used. This is
Speaker 1: more of that sound stuff, that weird stuff, but in
Speaker 1: this case, they were using it on protesters who were
Speaker 1: trying to burn the church while they were constructing an
Speaker 1: additional fence outside of the White House. When they took
Speaker 1: over Lafayette Park. It was BLM and Antifa and all
Speaker 1: of that. And Millie says they may have used that
Speaker 1: the energy weapons described as something that would cause pain
Speaker 1: in hearing, as well as the potential how do I
Speaker 1: say this, the potential for it to cause you to
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom on yourself. Right, they invented my
Speaker 1: poop lazer? Okay, kind of, but I don't know if
Speaker 1: I believe that it's real. And here's why. If there
Speaker 1: is a functioning poop lazer, the government has Biden have
Speaker 1: been using this thing, right, because there's not a zero
Speaker 1: percent chance that he poops himself when he's talking to
Speaker 1: the Pope or whatever. So you got to kind of
Speaker 1: maybe have somebody stand around with this thing so you
Speaker 1: can pre poop the room. Glad to have you a
Speaker 1: long new year, new you, new laws, new lawmakers, a
Speaker 1: lot of old lawmakers, some very old using walkers around capitol.
Speaker 1: But it's important you understand everybody who, frankly as in
Speaker 1: a position to ruin or make your life better. So
Speaker 1: with that in mind, we're gonna chat with the one
Speaker 1: of the newest politicians in your life. It's Stave Bullock,
Speaker 1: who is the new state auditor here in North Carolina.
Speaker 1: How you doing this morning, sir, Hey.
Speaker 3: Casey, I'm doing great. I hope you're doing well.
Speaker 1: I am a couple of years. All right, One, I
Speaker 1: want to know that you're sober, and two not behind
Speaker 1: the wheel of a state vehicle? Can you can you give.
Speaker 3: Us stick behind the wheel of a state vehicle? And
Speaker 3: I'm totally suck okay, chat no poople though in the
Speaker 3: in the auditor's office.
Speaker 1: Tell us you couldn't tell us if you did have that?
Speaker 1: So good point. Yeah, all right, So what what the
Speaker 1: hell do you do? That's a good question you personally
Speaker 1: with the office. So let's let's go ahead, get into that.
Speaker 1: What do you do? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Look, you know, for years, I would say even decades,
Speaker 3: the State Auditor's Office has been sort of an office
Speaker 3: agency over in state government, and people just haven't no
Speaker 3: clue what they do. Every now and then, one of
Speaker 3: the former elected state auditor, Beth Wood, would shoot out
Speaker 3: an audit of a municipality where a city council was
Speaker 3: misappropriating money, something along those lines, and you would hear
Speaker 3: about the State Auditor's office Other than that, I don't
Speaker 3: know if there was a lot heard about it. Of course,
Speaker 3: I'm looking to change that. Well.
Speaker 1: I kind of liked in the sense that I don't
Speaker 1: think that it was as politicized as most offices. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be size because you are who you are, sir,
Speaker 1: and you're you're not of the approved vintage there. And
Speaker 1: obviously we've had some changes with election laws, which we'll
Speaker 1: get to. So but I like when I don't hear
Speaker 1: no offense to the work you guys put in. But
Speaker 1: I like when I don't hear a lot from you folks.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean that's a good thing. I mean
Speaker 3: to an extent. Look, I'm when you go into the office,
Speaker 3: I mean clearly, as the state order you've got to
Speaker 3: you gotta take it. And I've had the opportunity now
Speaker 3: been on the job for less than a week. But
Speaker 3: we don't talk politics in the in the office. What
Speaker 3: we talk about is accountability of government and putting together
Speaker 3: all the plans to make sure that tax dollars are
Speaker 3: spent the way the legislature appropriates those dollars and that
Speaker 3: there's a little traub or no fraud hopefully, and certainly
Speaker 3: we want to cut waste. I really think though case
Speaker 3: he just to be a little bit contrarian with you.
Speaker 3: I think it's important for the public to hear about
Speaker 3: the audits that the auditor's office does, because I really
Speaker 3: think we've got an opportunity here. I think President Trumps
Speaker 3: also served out up to me on the state level
Speaker 3: with his efforts on government efficiency, for us to sort
Speaker 3: of take that baton and work in that arena in
Speaker 3: the state of North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Well, no, no, please don't misunderstand me. I think we agree.
Speaker 1: The reason I don't want to hear a lot from
Speaker 1: you is because I would love it if every municipality
Speaker 1: out there, from state down to the you know, the
Speaker 1: dog catcher's office in which city you live in, is
Speaker 1: doing things correctly. Then we don't hit to do here,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like, I want that to
Speaker 1: be efficient. What's the biggest, biggest red flag that you
Speaker 1: saw when you walked in You want to name names.
Speaker 1: Is there a municipality or a portion of localized government
Speaker 1: in North Carolina that you're really concerned about?
Speaker 3: Well, a couple of things. One, I do agree with
Speaker 3: you one hundred percent. You and I have the same
Speaker 3: thought process on that. But I do think there's an
Speaker 3: opportunity to to highlight when municipalities and when state government
Speaker 3: is doing things right and so I hope to be
Speaker 3: able to do that as well. We've just now gotten
Speaker 3: an opportunity and get a look under the hood. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, first thing we did day one, the governor
Speaker 3: put out emergency order emergency executive orders to reform his
Speaker 3: hurricane relief efforts out west form a new agency. And
Speaker 3: so I put him on notice, and I don't think
Speaker 3: it's inappropriate to do so that we're going to watch
Speaker 3: every dollar.
Speaker 1: And so as you wanted after what happened with the
Speaker 1: ousting of the woman who was running the hurricane relief
Speaker 1: from the coastal stuff the years down the road, it
Speaker 1: wasn't doing what they're doing. This doesn't have to be political.
Speaker 1: This has to be people doing the job they're supposed
Speaker 1: to do right.
Speaker 3: And to his credit, he's he's, you know, working toge other.
Speaker 3: We're collaborating on it. I put a team together. It's
Speaker 3: a sign now to do that. The legislature really has
Speaker 3: not only asked, but it's sort of tasked the Auditor's
Speaker 3: office with not only auditing these funds but tracking them.
Speaker 3: We don't need another train wreck like we had at
Speaker 3: the Joint Oversight Committee, where you have the head of
Speaker 3: the North Carolina Organization of Relief and Recovery come in
Speaker 3: and say, through thirty five million, we don't know where
Speaker 3: it is. And wow, we need another two hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty million from the state to finish what the what
Speaker 3: what we've got going on because we misspent the money
Speaker 3: that we were initially given. We don't need another train
Speaker 3: wreck like that. And so you know, I've taken on
Speaker 3: the responsibility of tracking those dollars and I think it's
Speaker 3: not inappropriate. I think it's going to be a good
Speaker 3: thing for the state.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or what was you know with the dotfi ASKO
Speaker 1: from a couple of years ago, like oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're out of money somehow, and you know what that's
Speaker 1: doning from? This is this is where I really wanted
Speaker 1: to talk to you. It's sure like people will hear.
Speaker 1: We'en give you an example. This isn't a state example,
Speaker 1: but you'll you'll get it and people will get it.
Speaker 1: One of the things I talked about on the air
Speaker 1: is when they when they put that giant thing that
Speaker 1: tanked our economy together, the that Biden wanted with the
Speaker 1: spending and that project for everythingture Bill. Yeah, well, and
Speaker 1: and you know, ports were a big issue. We were coming
Speaker 1: out of COVID stuff. The supply chain was crazy. I
Speaker 1: remember traveling at that time, flying over the Panama Canal
Speaker 1: and seeing as far as the eye could see ships
Speaker 1: who were just waiting to traverse the Panama Canal. And
Speaker 1: then Los Angeles was having it. I landed in Miami
Speaker 1: one time, and you fly out over the ocean there,
Speaker 1: and there were ships waiting to go in the port there,
Speaker 1: and and they would say we put six hundred million
Speaker 1: in here for port improvements. But when you read it,
Speaker 1: you realized that like five hundred million of it could
Speaker 1: only go to green project. So buying electric vehicles, you
Speaker 1: couldn't build new unloading facility, You couldn't do any of
Speaker 1: that stuff. So or when dot dollars that people think
Speaker 1: their tax dollars are going for roads that end up
Speaker 1: making you know, three different bike lanes or something. They
Speaker 1: don't feel that people are shooting straight with them, even
Speaker 1: though it may not be a technical misappropriation of dollars.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm saying? Because legally you know
Speaker 1: what you're saying, So like, how is your It sounds
Speaker 1: like you may I don't want to put words in
Speaker 1: your mouth. I don't have a taste for that. Most
Speaker 1: people don't. How can the state auditor look at things
Speaker 1: where people are playing fast and loose with the definition
Speaker 1: of directed spending?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's a good question. That's where it comes
Speaker 3: down to performance and efficiency audits one of the things.
Speaker 3: And we'll go into DOT, but I'll circle back as
Speaker 3: part of DOT D and B. For example, we're gonna
Speaker 3: we're going to start a Florida ceiling audit of D
Speaker 3: and B. So D and D. You know, there is
Speaker 3: an area where, uh, it's not just about appropriations. What
Speaker 3: it's about is about the lack of of customer service
Speaker 3: and the lack of a working state agency. I mean
Speaker 3: there is an agency. You've got people these days to
Speaker 3: go online and they're trying to get an appointment to
Speaker 3: get a driver's license from their sixteen year old and
Speaker 3: it's three months, six months for an apployment. So they've
Speaker 3: played these games. Where can I go in the state
Speaker 3: of North Carolina six hours away to hopefully get a
Speaker 3: walk in appointment. Look, that should fay see, that shouldn't
Speaker 3: be the way the DMV operates. And so for now,
Speaker 3: years and years and years, that agency just seems to
Speaker 3: not be able to get it right. So there's an
Speaker 3: area where I think an audit can come in, you know,
Speaker 3: and give some solid, common sense recommendations and benchmark some
Speaker 3: of these other states. Benchmark Florida, Benchmark Texas, Benchmark California
Speaker 3: where they don't have these long lines and whether they
Speaker 3: don't have three month rates to get your driver's license.
Speaker 3: And let's take some things that work across the country.
Speaker 3: Give those as recommendations, hand them to the governor's office
Speaker 3: and the legislature and say here you go, here's your solution.
Speaker 3: Now that's up to you to do it. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's what the auditor can do.
Speaker 1: All right. Well, well, let's talk about what the auditor
Speaker 1: does and an expansion of what they do. As part
Speaker 1: of the relief bill, which also included some reformation of
Speaker 1: where powers are located, you were tasked with some new duties.
Speaker 1: And let me I'm going to read the headline here
Speaker 1: from News and Observer incoming n see Auditor Dave Bullock
Speaker 1: says he doesn't see he didn't seek new powers over
Speaker 1: state Elections Board. All right, why is the state auditor
Speaker 1: at powers over elections board? Where are you at on this?
Speaker 1: And what do you understand your duty.
Speaker 3: Is so my understanding of the duty under the statute
Speaker 3: is the State Auditor now and as it's a law,
Speaker 3: it's not just a bill anymore, it's a lall my
Speaker 3: office and I will be We're responsible for appointing State
Speaker 3: Board of Elections and county board chairs all across North
Speaker 3: Carolina to administer the elections. Will also be in charge
Speaker 3: of the budget of the Board of Elections. The Board
Speaker 3: of Elections itself will operate much like it did under
Speaker 3: the Governor's office. It will operate in a sort of
Speaker 3: as a quasi independent agency subject to direction of the
Speaker 3: Board of Elections, but the Auditor's Office will handle the
Speaker 3: budget of that agency.
Speaker 1: Okay, And I just because the way that it's the
Speaker 1: way that it's portrayed, and I know you know this
Speaker 1: is that you are in a cigar field room and
Speaker 1: with your buddies, and you know Burger's in there and
Speaker 1: Moors in there, and they're only, ah, how can we
Speaker 1: screw Josh Stein and and you rub your hands together,
Speaker 1: like give me, give me some stuff. I'll carry this
Speaker 1: out on behalf of my gop masters. What I almost
Speaker 1: that's almost verbat him. Some of the stuff I've seen
Speaker 1: around this it's getting pretty insane, but when you explain it,
Speaker 1: it sounds pretty boring, respectfully. So there's a we know
Speaker 1: there's been political politicalization, especially when you get into board
Speaker 1: of election stuff right at the state level. That transition
Speaker 1: to Cooper made, So how do how do you go
Speaker 1: about doing that and ensuring that you're doing so in
Speaker 1: an oversight way that is fair to everybody. I know
Speaker 1: they're still going to say this, but what is your
Speaker 1: plan for that? Because you know they're going to attack
Speaker 1: you if you do something they don't like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, we're to be just transparent with you.
Speaker 3: It's something that I didn't ask for, didn't expect, and
Speaker 3: we're we're simulating a plan of how we're going to
Speaker 3: handle it. Let me say one thing. You know when
Speaker 3: I took the oath of office, I actually took the
Speaker 3: oath on January first, and we'll do the ceremonial thing
Speaker 3: Saturday in the snow. I guess, yeah, there is there
Speaker 3: is a special oath that the auditor takes to be
Speaker 3: nonpartisan and to look after the people of North Carolina
Speaker 3: in an accountable way. It's actually in the statue where
Speaker 3: the Auditor has a Most Council of State have two oaths.
Speaker 3: They have a constitutional oath and then a statutory oath,
Speaker 3: and then the Auditor has a special third oh which
Speaker 3: talks about being nonpartisan and administering the office in a
Speaker 3: non partisan way. On behalf of politas, payers and citizens
Speaker 3: in North Carolina. So we'll start there, right, and then look,
Speaker 3: don't I don't see the big I really don't understand
Speaker 3: the controversy as much. I guess if you're the governor
Speaker 3: and you have part of your duties taken away, I
Speaker 3: don't know. I might be happy that that's one least
Speaker 3: thing I have to do, but it's no different when
Speaker 3: they talk about politicalization. I mean differences. I'm a Republican
Speaker 3: and Josh Stein's a Democrat. So the media is upset
Speaker 3: that a Republican is going to be administering the Board
Speaker 3: of Elections, not a Democrat. That's the only difference.
Speaker 1: I said, all right, hey, Dave, real quick, how does
Speaker 1: the auditor fix the concerns people have with the hurricane
Speaker 1: stuff or is there something to fix there?
Speaker 3: Well, now, I think there is a way the auditor
Speaker 3: can help with the concerns on that. As a matter
Speaker 3: of fact, tomorrow, I'll be in Ashville. The Auditor's Office
Speaker 3: has an office in an Ashville. I'm stopping by in Hickory
Speaker 3: and Cataba County. We're going to take a look at
Speaker 3: some stuff there, talk to a business roundtable from business
Speaker 3: leaders around western North Carolina to get their input so
Speaker 3: I can put some context around auditing and a context
Speaker 3: around recommendations on response. And then we're going to go
Speaker 3: to Ashville. I need to meet with the team members
Speaker 3: that work for the State Auditors Office, make sure that
Speaker 3: their families are doing okay. And then we're going to
Speaker 3: talk to folks there in ash Bill again to bring
Speaker 3: context to these auths. And we're going to take a
Speaker 3: look and give the public not only just a kind
Speaker 3: of a dbreak after the fact, but some tracking along
Speaker 3: the way. And I think that's uni shot a light.
Speaker 3: People tend to respond.
Speaker 1: Do you think, and again, I'll leave this up to
Speaker 1: you because you're in a position now where you got
Speaker 1: to work with these folks. Do you think that leadership
Speaker 1: in North Carolina through the hurricane, and I mean at
Speaker 1: the legislative level, the AG's office, Governor's office, do you
Speaker 1: think that everyone there was doing their level best to
Speaker 1: work in the best interest of North Carolinians who were
Speaker 1: affected by this, because a lot of people don't, A
Speaker 1: lot of my listeners don't. I don't. I thought it
Speaker 1: was a tragedy, especially with the FEMA stuff and the
Speaker 1: Trump signs, that we didn't hear a peep from the
Speaker 1: governor in the ag at the time. Who's now the governor.
Speaker 1: And that's where you get into the partisan side of this.
Speaker 1: So how do you how do you walk that line?
Speaker 1: I got about ninety seconds and do you Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, in my sense is is that most people in
Speaker 3: state government really want to do the right thing. Whether
Speaker 3: that happened or not. I don't know. You know, I've
Speaker 3: gone back and forth on this, and I've talked to
Speaker 3: a lot of people about it. I really think that
Speaker 3: the governor's office and the response from the state in
Speaker 3: Raleigh kind of were caught off guard and just didn't
Speaker 3: didn't have the wherewithal to respond to Western North Carolina.
Speaker 3: In eastern North carolin it's a little different. Your local
Speaker 3: emergency management teams have been through these disasters. They can
Speaker 3: flip the switch and move forward, totally different situation in
Speaker 3: Western North Carolina. I went out to Western North Carolina
Speaker 3: ninety six hours after the storm, and I do think
Speaker 3: they were probably a couple of days late. But the
Speaker 3: individual actors, yeah, they really were about ninety six hours
Speaker 3: I think late. But the individual actors, the individual National
Speaker 3: Guard workman and folks that were on the ground, they're
Speaker 3: doing everything they can do.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to cut you. I got about ten seconds.
Speaker 1: I just want to thank you for your time. It
Speaker 1: has been an interesting conversation.
Speaker 3: So uh hey, thanks for thanks for having me on.
Speaker 3: Enjoy being with you before, have me on again. I'm
Speaker 3: glad to give you a lit