WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.680 Glad to have you along. Here we go it is, well, 2 00:00:02.720 --> 00:00:06.320 it's Tuesday. It's also a day number two of the 3 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:11.960 My My Mountain broadcast. Up here. We got some stuff 4 00:00:11.960 --> 00:00:14.279 to talk about and some folks we're gonna talk to 5 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:17.519 coming up here on the show, and I'll give you 6 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:20.359 a little more a little more of a rundown as 7 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:25.399 we get things, get things rolling this morning. But so 8 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:30.960 I'm sitting here and I am oh, wait, hold on, 9 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:35.479 there you go. I am sitting here and, like many 10 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:39.359 of you, just trying to figure out what exactly is 11 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:44.880 happening over in Tehran, what is going on with the US, 12 00:00:45.159 --> 00:00:48.679 what kind of commitments we're making we're not making. Why 13 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:50.840 Trump left the g set, Now, maybe he did it 14 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:53.439 because he didn't want to be around a bunch of 15 00:00:53.479 --> 00:00:57.679 angry Canadians anymore. I don't know. There's a lot that 16 00:00:57.719 --> 00:01:00.000 we don't know, but we will try to get you 17 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:04.200 the information that we have and what that may look like. 18 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:07.719 I was doing some reading about like some of the 19 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:12.560 super mountain bunker sites that Tehran has that we believe 20 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:14.319 and these are not new by the way, these were 21 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:20.280 points of discussion. These were points of discussion with when 22 00:01:20.319 --> 00:01:24.040 we were sitting there and sorry, I'm just trying to 23 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:27.519 adjust my headphones there. When we were talking about this 24 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:31.280 under Joe Biden, right because and even going back to 25 00:01:31.319 --> 00:01:34.640 the first Trump administration, there were these mountain sites where 26 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:40.920 they were not allowing access to un inspectors and everyone's like, well, 27 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:43.239 hold on, part of the deal is allowing access. And 28 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:44.840 then I had to listen to a bunch of people 29 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:47.120 explained to me right now, it's okay, I'm sure they're 30 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:52.599 not up to anything there. Well, clearly the Israelis, and 31 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:56.120 I suspect Trump because he was making this point at 32 00:01:56.159 --> 00:01:58.040 the time, they think that there is a little something 33 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:01.879 going on up there. It's my understanding though, that the 34 00:02:01.959 --> 00:02:05.079 types of weapons that would be necessary to actually get 35 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:08.199 in and you know, the old bunker buster thing, I 36 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:12.759 don't think Israel has those, so and I don't know, 37 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:17.639 like you can't. There's a certain complexity providing, especially when 38 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:21.759 you start getting into our more badass weapons to other 39 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:27.039 countries that are even allies, right, there's a geopolitical cost 40 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:30.919 to that. So, as best I can tell, that seems 41 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:35.360 to be the conversation they're having right now. Does the 42 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:38.759 US provide these to Israel? Is it not a strike target. 43 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:41.960 Does the US push the button themselves? Now the US 44 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:44.520 is in this thing. There's a lot. Look, there's a 45 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:47.560 lot to be concerned about, a lot to wonder about 46 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:50.840 exactly how this thing pans out. So I'll give you 47 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:54.080 the very latest, because you know, we're dealing with two 48 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:56.400 sides of the world right now. And while it's you know, 49 00:02:56.439 --> 00:03:00.919 bright and early in the morning, we're getting into getting 50 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:06.719 into the afternoon evening over there in Iran, and everyone 51 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:08.400 is just trying to get the hell out of Tehran 52 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:13.639 for obvious reasons. Obviously with everything that we've seen, and 53 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:18.639 there's some some crazy videos emerging. Probably the one I 54 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:22.080 think that made the rounds yesterday the most was this 55 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:28.919 Iranian state TV propagandist reporter lady. So she's literally reporting 56 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:34.280 as strikes are happening, and I want you to listen 57 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:39.919 to this because at the end of this clip, they 58 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:44.080 strike whatever building or sector she's in, and you see, 59 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:47.840 you hear you know, you hear an explosion, you see 60 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:51.319 debris like a dust cloud in there. She gets up 61 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:53.960 and kind of scurries off, I guess for obvious reasons. 62 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:59.960 And yeah, so they struck the Iranian state TV station 63 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:00.680 and listen. 64 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:00.639 To this. 65 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:11.520 Yappy. Sure she's saying nice things. 66 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:17.800 Now. 67 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:21.079 To be fair, our equipment does that like once a week. 68 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:24.319 Maybe, you know, I was about to say, we just 69 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:25.120 keep doing the show. 70 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:28.000 Yeah yeah, yeah, she gets up like, no, I gotta 71 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:32.800 leave now. Now. I had asked Ross to figure out 72 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:35.240 what she's saying. Did you were you able to use 73 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:36.639 groc or something to translate? 74 00:04:36.759 --> 00:04:38.920 You asked me yesterday, like, could you please, you know, 75 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:42.199 find a way to translate this? And you you're like. 76 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:44.800 The super Groc user, You're you're you're better at it. 77 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:46.560 So well I have I like, I pay for my 78 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:49.079 for my account, right so I have like better access 79 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:51.920 to gros features. So yeah, he wasn't able to translate 80 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:54.759 it for me. Okay, all right, so that would be 81 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:56.920 the second cut there, okay. 82 00:04:56.439 --> 00:04:58.800 All right, well hold all right, So here here's whatever 83 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:03.000 propaganda she's putting now at the time that the strike happens, 84 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:05.639 just just so you have a little context. Here are 85 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:09.680 the other green one. Right Okay, I'm sorry, I just 86 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:13.879 scrambling screen this morning with some of our guest stuff. 87 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:15.879 So I have a chance to listen to this. You've 88 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:17.519 got a lot going on with that mountain broadcast. So 89 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:19.040 I mean, I've been trying to like pick up into 90 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:21.079 the slash. You've been doing great, buddy, I appreciate it. 91 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:21.759 Man, no problem. 92 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:24.439 You want me to translate it, you got it, buddy. 93 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:26.959 Okay, all right, all right, So here is whatever she 94 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:51.079 was jabbering about you. That's an Italian cuisation. Just to 95 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:55.160 be just so I'm clear. You you ran it through, 96 00:05:55.600 --> 00:06:02.319 you translated, and what she was saying was authentic. Olive 97 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:06.079 Garden is authentic Italian. Oh, I have a transcript here. 98 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:09.000 I should have opened it, all right, So olive Garden 99 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:14.959 is authentic Italian cuisine. It's where your family, the chefs 100 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:17.600 are trained in Tuscany. And I'm sorry, what was the 101 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:18.399 last thing she. 102 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:21.560 Should I believe the end is death to Carabas. That's 103 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:23.680 what it sounded like. And then the whole studio blows up. 104 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:27.839 Now I listen, the situation over there in the Middle 105 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:31.439 East is really complex, and now sure we've added another 106 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:35.240 layer to it. And I feel like, really confused because 107 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:39.319 she's over there espousing you know, the love of olive Garden, 108 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:42.199 and what she's saying is true. But at the same point, 109 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:44.279 you know, in this conflict, I tend to side, you know, 110 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:47.319 I side with Israel here. Yeah, I don't really know. 111 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:50.839 I mean it's complex, you know, well, it might be 112 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:54.639 I can't believe I'm entertaining this. It might be like 113 00:06:54.800 --> 00:07:01.279 reverse psychology. Yes, right, right, because feels a lot more 114 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:06.000 Iranian than Olive Garden, right, you would agree, I would think, so, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 115 00:07:06.439 --> 00:07:08.959 but one more, one more, the fact they would they 116 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:13.800 would weaponize unlimited breadsticks for like kind of pro you know, propaganda. 117 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:17.600 It's just it's it's sad man that it's come to this. 118 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:22.399 This right here, just for in case you all missed it. 119 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:27.000 Here it is again according to Ross's work. 120 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:39.600 That's an Italian cuisine. 121 00:07:48.279 --> 00:07:50.399 That's I mean, they're not going to be able to 122 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:52.399 walk that back now the people at Carabas, you. 123 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:56.839 Know, right, okay, all right, well what's done is done. 124 00:07:57.399 --> 00:08:01.879 It's it is at least for that that building there. 125 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:05.279 Why is everything death to everything? Do you remember when 126 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:08.199 they were chanting death to America and Iran and we 127 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:11.040 and everyone was like airing that video. They were having 128 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:12.879 some big like rally and something. 129 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:14.439 And they were trying to be like, oh, well, they 130 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:16.240 don't really mean death to America. 131 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:20.600 They mean death to the American political ideals or something. Right, 132 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:23.160 it was some they don't actually mean death to America. 133 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:24.800 I'm like, I don't know. I think they sort of 134 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:26.600 want us all dead. That's what it sounds like to me. 135 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:31.800 Well, it's are you Are you a linguist? Well, clearly 136 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:34.799 you are right, you're able to translate the uh. 137 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:39.240 No, full disclosure GROC isn't always accurate, and sometimes it 138 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:42.080 does come back with wrong answers. It is possible, So 139 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:44.039 I don't know that could. 140 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:48.200 Have hold you to it? Yeah, yeah, okay, how do 141 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:50.200 you do? Do we know how they feel about macaroni grill? 142 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:52.039 No? 143 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:53.159 No, I don't know. 144 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:55.720 I don't know if we can bring you, like a 145 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:58.360 third person into this conflict. Can I think I should 146 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:01.480 remain those two people, and I don't think another person 147 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:05.440 should be involved in that. So let's do that. 148 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:10.399 Okay, all right? Thanks, thanks for doing the heavy lift 149 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:14.960 there getting that translated for us. I really appreciate that. 150 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:19.799 All right. Coming up on the show, hopefully nobody else 151 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:23.320 wishes death to fast casual restaurant chain, but I guess 152 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:28.080 we'll find out as as things unfold. Also, we're gonna 153 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:33.039 we're gonna chat with a couple different people. One is 154 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:38.759 the head of the Tourism Association, which I'll get his 155 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:41.960 actual title here in front of me because I'm just 156 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:46.080 putting so putting something together here. But we're gonna chat 157 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:49.320 with him about what it looks like when one of 158 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:52.200 the North Carolina counties, because you know, each county in 159 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:58.600 North Carolina has a legislatively, so the North Carolina Legislature, 160 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:01.480 because the way that we do things here, they create 161 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:05.919 essentially these entities. And so when you go stay anywhere, 162 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:11.000 you go stay in Raleigh or Greensboro, or a cabin 163 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:13.759 up in you know, Ash County, or you go to 164 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:17.600 the Outer Banks or whatever it is, you know, you 165 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:21.000 stay in lodging, they have lodging tax. And each of 166 00:10:21.039 --> 00:10:24.960 these counties has these individual organizations that is a collective 167 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:29.559 of all of the different businesses that you know, the 168 00:10:29.639 --> 00:10:33.240 tax people that are coming through for tourism, and then 169 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:36.440 they utilize that money for a variety of things. But 170 00:10:36.519 --> 00:10:39.399 also they're kind of the collective gathering point for all 171 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:42.200 of the folks in these various counties that are that 172 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:44.600 are in you know, that are that are trying to 173 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:47.720 make a go of it within the tourism sector. And 174 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:51.440 you know, obviously Bunkham County where Ashville sits, but the 175 00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:53.679 totality of it, so where all the cabins are and 176 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:57.120 and everything else, is one of the largest in the 177 00:10:57.320 --> 00:11:02.039 state of North Carolina. And so leading an organization like 178 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:05.120 that and having to collectively, you know, sit down and 179 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:08.720 figure out how they're going to use because you know, 180 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:11.759 one part of Buncombe County might be you know, it 181 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:15.320 wasn't hit as bad whereas other areas. I was down 182 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:18.320 in what's called the River Arts District yesterday and I'm 183 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:20.639 going to post a photo where they have where the 184 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:25.320 water line was. And I'm telling you every time I 185 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:28.600 have now seen something out here, whether it was going 186 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:32.759 over by Chimney Rock and back Cave or what I 187 00:11:32.799 --> 00:11:35.720 saw yesterday where the height of the water is like 188 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:40.240 twenty some feet off the road and the road is 189 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:44.279 elevated above the traa the railroad tracks, and that's all elevated, 190 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:50.159 you know, off of the main river basin. So I 191 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:54.200 it's if you ever been to New Orleans post Katrina 192 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:57.000 and you've seen the water marks there, that's wild enough. 193 00:11:57.000 --> 00:12:01.679 In the French Quarter, this is twenty some feet in 194 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:04.200 the air, and that's how high the water got there, 195 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:07.679 and so you know, those parts were harder hit. Built 196 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:11.840 More Village was harder hit as you get where our 197 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:15.679 radio station is up on top of the hill, right, 198 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:20.919 So if you go just west of downtown Ashville, iHeartMedia Ashville, 199 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:24.600 you drive all the way up because the radio station 200 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:27.039 is up top where the radio towers are. They're literally 201 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:32.240 right outside the window of the station here. And the 202 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:39.600 entire slope of the trees hundreds of feet higher than 203 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:44.080 where even the river is, the French Broad River down there. 204 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:49.240 Our whole slope of trees is laying there in piles. Obviously, 205 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:51.080 they've had guys come in and cut it up and 206 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:53.720 they're you know, they're still pulling it out of there, 207 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:57.559 but it just took it out. You would never expect 208 00:12:57.559 --> 00:13:02.480 that in a flooding situation because you're you're up, you're 209 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:06.559 up high, and that's what we're looking at here. So 210 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:10.240 we'll have a conversation about that a little. What's going 211 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:13.559 on from a Biltmore Village kind of area. That obviously 212 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:16.600 is the you know, one of the big big draws 213 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:19.200 when people come out to this part of the state. 214 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:22.320 So that will that will be over the course of 215 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:25.600 the show, and who knows. Maybe we'll get some my 216 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:28.840 rainy and updates and can do a little translating. But 217 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:31.039 a few other stories to get into as well. Let 218 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:32.399 me do this. I'm going to hit a break come 219 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:37.559 back at his six twenty Hang on, oh Boston, Paul 220 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:41.679 doesn't believe your translation. What a negative Nancy. By the way, 221 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:44.639 I like carry new ownership group is destroying your baseball team. 222 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:49.600 That's nice. Coming up on the show in thirty minutes, 223 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:55.399 we're gonna chat with Matthew Layman, who is he's currently 224 00:13:55.480 --> 00:13:58.600 the vice chairman, but he is, he is the He's 225 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:02.120 gonna be the next chairman when they roll over here 226 00:14:02.559 --> 00:14:05.879 in very short orderies the incoming chairman, I guess to 227 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:07.360 be the term. So we're gonna chat with him at 228 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:10.519 seven oh five. And again, this is not just Ashville, 229 00:14:10.600 --> 00:14:13.600 but but rather this is whenever you go stay any 230 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:17.440 around Ashville, Buncombe County, on the Blue Ridge, there, any 231 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:22.600 of the rest. This is the organization who who collects. 232 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:25.759 They're they're a creation of the North Carolina legislature from 233 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:29.039 like back in the eighties or something, and they figure 234 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:32.879 out how to best utilize and really manage the tourism 235 00:14:32.919 --> 00:14:36.480 sector out here. In western North Carolina, and as you 236 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:40.080 can imagine, for folks all across western North Carolina, this 237 00:14:40.159 --> 00:14:44.000 is this is very difficult. One, you got a lot 238 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:47.120 of chiefs and these things. But two it's now you've 239 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:49.240 got to figure out in a very non traditional way 240 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:53.360 because so many of the folks and not just you know, 241 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:56.879 big hotels and things like that. But if you have 242 00:14:57.279 --> 00:14:59.919 if you if you do a vr verbo or VRB, 243 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:04.159 I would say vrbo, airbnb, anything like that, you know, 244 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:06.480 this is where the money's from, the taxes come in. 245 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:08.799 And as you can imagine, there was a lot of 246 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:12.360 pivoting to get people back to where they are. And 247 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:15.759 I threw that number out where they're about eighty five 248 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:23.039 percent back, so which again looking at some of the 249 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:26.120 different locations which I've scoped out here, is actually quite 250 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:30.759 impressive how quickly they were able to get some of 251 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:36.039 these rebuilding efforts underway. So we'll chat with him, and look, 252 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:39.279 I'll we'll talk a little about that, but I want 253 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:44.399 to hear the stories. Man good. I mean, the anyone 254 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:47.360 who's ever lived anywhere where there's flooding, and I know 255 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:49.679 that a lot of these places in western North Carolina. 256 00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:51.480 You just don't think of his flooding places. But I 257 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:54.639 lived adjacent to the Mississippi River for quite a few 258 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:58.919 of the years that I lived in Minnesota, and we 259 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:06.600 had couple big flooding incidents. And people think they know 260 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:10.320 what's going to happen, because you know, there's historical records 261 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:13.279 of where flooding hit. It's it's very clear to me 262 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:17.080 that however bad, however you know, down in the mouth 263 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:20.480 negative people thought of what Helene was going to do. 264 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:27.759 In no way, shape or form could anyone have speculated 265 00:16:27.960 --> 00:16:30.600 it would have been as bad as it was. So 266 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:34.720 imagine you're sitting there. You're one of the tens of 267 00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:39.879 thousands of people who have a financial investment, the hundreds 268 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:45.960 of thousands of people who have an employment obligation within 269 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:51.240 the tourism industry in western North Carolina, and every minute 270 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:56.000 it keeps raining, and every news story that you see, 271 00:16:56.159 --> 00:16:59.679 you just realized this is getting worse and worse for you. 272 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:02.600 Whether it's an investment that you made in a business, 273 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:05.920 a vacation rental property that you own or co owned 274 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:08.480 that you ran out to people through one of these 275 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:13.480 online services. Restaurants that sit adjacent to many of these 276 00:17:13.799 --> 00:17:17.680 areas where tourism flows. You're along the Blue Ridge Parkway 277 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:23.480 somewhere and you see your future just slipping away, and 278 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:27.640 that is a feeling I would not wish upon anybody. 279 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:32.759 And literally half of our states that's what they were 280 00:17:32.759 --> 00:17:35.640 dealing with. So we'll get a little more insight on 281 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:39.160 that coming up here in just a few minutes. There's 282 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:41.680 a crazy story in New York. I don't know if 283 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:45.000 you saw this. Some lunatics showed up at one of 284 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:47.799 the New York City courthouses, Manhattan Criminal Courts. So the 285 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:52.160 big boy and you know, they got metal detectors and 286 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:54.599 all that. You're not getting in there generally with a weapon, 287 00:17:55.960 --> 00:18:00.160 but that wasn't what his goal was. So you have 288 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:04.519 these court officers who are there at the security checkpoint, 289 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:10.039 and according to the reporting, this dude takes out a 290 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:13.839 a slashing weapon and just starts cutting people. Man ran 291 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:17.640 into the lobby, this is pre security, pulls out this 292 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:20.680 knife and then just starts swiping away on officers. He 293 00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:28.839 got three officers. Now here's why I'm telling you the story. 294 00:18:29.720 --> 00:18:35.079 He's an eighteen time loser, right, he is an eighteen 295 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:39.160 time loser at the age by the way of thirty seven, 296 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:42.839 so he's been a very productive guy in his thirty 297 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:48.599 seven years on this planet. Eighteen time loser. There's not 298 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:52.480 a single reason that this guy should be probably coming 299 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:55.119 back through court. And I'm not talking little stuff. I'm 300 00:18:55.160 --> 00:18:58.920 talking this ain't the first time he's cut people, and 301 00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:03.799 now you have multiples. Uh. And he he was targeting them, right. 302 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:06.400 It wasn't just one of those things where he's maybe 303 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:09.039 I'll get a knife in here and whatever. It was 304 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:12.599 clear from the video according to the reporting here, he 305 00:19:12.680 --> 00:19:15.720 went in there with the intent to do harm to Basically, 306 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:20.920 the guy's running the uh, running the metal detectors in there. Uh. 307 00:19:20.960 --> 00:19:22.960 And uh, let's say he cut one of the officers 308 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:25.599 twice on his face, slice the other on his neck, 309 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:28.359 before shoving a third into a barrier in the main 310 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:31.039 lobby and doing that you know that prison thing where 311 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:34.680 he starts stabbing somebody at rapid speed. I think the 312 00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:39.599 guy had a vest on thankfully. Oh you know what, Ross, 313 00:19:39.640 --> 00:19:41.200 I just thought about this. If he's gonna go in 314 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:42.920 there and cut up this dude's face, we need to 315 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:46.440 get William money on this. You know what I'm saying. 316 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:49.960 That's what that's a that's what he does it's his 317 00:19:50.039 --> 00:19:53.839 special his specialty there from unforgived that was his character's 318 00:19:53.880 --> 00:19:55.640 name and unforgiven right, William Money. 319 00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:57.240 Yeah, when he went into a big whiskey. 320 00:19:57.839 --> 00:19:59.799 Yeah, I went into big whiskey because they cut up 321 00:19:59.799 --> 00:20:03.680 that chick's face. Yeah, because that might stop this, because 322 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:07.880 who knows, this guy will probably get out again. Eighteen 323 00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:12.440 times eighteen time loser, eighteen time felony offender. 324 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:14.160 Mistakes happen, right. 325 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:16.359 You know they You're right, they do. 326 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:22.640 Maybe the next time. The next time is the charm, Okay. 327 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:25.119 So they if they get a handslap on this for 328 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:30.359 slicing and dicing three police officers or court officers, you 329 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:31.599 think he's learned his lesson. 330 00:20:31.640 --> 00:20:33.680 Maybe, I mean, you ever make them the same mistake 331 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:35.880 over and over and over again, and you're like, man, 332 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:37.759 I'm not doing that again. 333 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:40.880 On a golf course, thinking that I can hit this 334 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:45.240 green if I just swing harder, but that doesn't nobody 335 00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:47.799 gets cut with it. Well maybe if I if I 336 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:49.440 shake it into somebody. 337 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:51.839 Yeah, I don't understand, like the you know, the court 338 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:53.920 or the professor, you know, how do you let this 339 00:20:53.960 --> 00:20:56.680 guy go that many times? Like how does it even happen? 340 00:20:56.720 --> 00:20:58.279 You're like oh, maybe next time he'll be good. 341 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:01.839 Yeah, well, you know he's trying, he's turning his life around. 342 00:21:02.559 --> 00:21:04.680 But you ever tried to turn your life around? But 343 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:07.200 you turn you turned it twice, so you're basically back 344 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:08.079 in the same direction. 345 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:10.640 Because right, like I said, I've made you know in 346 00:21:10.680 --> 00:21:13.000 the past, I've made you know, several mistakes over and 347 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:16.119 over again before I corrected them. Okay, And you're like, yeah, 348 00:21:16.200 --> 00:21:18.480 I'm never gonna drink again. I'm never gonna drink again. 349 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:20.640 And it's like two days later, you're drinking again. You're like, 350 00:21:20.640 --> 00:21:21.480 what just happened? 351 00:21:21.799 --> 00:21:23.480 And how many people got stabbed? 352 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:24.319 Zero? 353 00:21:25.319 --> 00:21:25.519 Oh? 354 00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:28.599 Okay, So some would argue that might be different a 355 00:21:28.599 --> 00:21:31.119 little little bit. I really I don't understand how this happens, 356 00:21:31.240 --> 00:21:32.720 Like how do they let the guy go? Like what's 357 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:34.640 the point? I don't understand it. You know what's crazy 358 00:21:34.839 --> 00:21:37.359 is how many stories have we done where eighteen isn't 359 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:40.240 even putting up real numbers, you know what I mean? 360 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:42.400 We had that one guy in Seattle right where he 361 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:44.079 was like arrest h remember the guy that lived in 362 00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:46.279 a trash can I don't know that he lived I 363 00:21:46.279 --> 00:21:46.880 don't know that he. 364 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:49.119 Lived in a trash can, but they knew where to 365 00:21:49.160 --> 00:21:51.160 find him, and it was often in a trash can. 366 00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:54.400 The police officers walked up to him and he was 367 00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:56.160 hanging out in his trash can and they were like, 368 00:21:56.200 --> 00:21:57.240 there he is again. 369 00:21:57.680 --> 00:22:00.000 Hey Bill whatever. Yeah, he had been. 370 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:03.000 Rested like one hundred and forty times or something stupid. 371 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:07.359 Yeah, yeah, that was on that Seattle what was it 372 00:22:07.359 --> 00:22:10.640 called Seattle is Dying or something. It's a really good 373 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:13.960 for local journalism. Is probably in the bag for most 374 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:17.880 of these leftist policies or permissive policies in a lot 375 00:22:17.920 --> 00:22:20.599 of these cities. I think it was a very stark 376 00:22:20.759 --> 00:22:23.400 or a very good look at what's going on in Seattle. Right. 377 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:25.839 So by comparison the eighteen is that those are like 378 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:26.640 rookie numbers. 379 00:22:27.160 --> 00:22:29.759 Yeah, no, that's that's a very good point there. So 380 00:22:31.240 --> 00:22:34.160 we will see. Oh, speaking of people not being did 381 00:22:34.200 --> 00:22:37.000 you see what they charge this dude in Minnesota with? 382 00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:40.359 All right, let me let me do this, because I 383 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:46.279 don't Minnesota has a couple unique murder type charges, like 384 00:22:46.359 --> 00:22:50.359 they have third degree murder, they have they even have 385 00:22:50.480 --> 00:22:53.359 one under that before you get into manslaughter. It's kind 386 00:22:53.359 --> 00:22:56.519 of weird. They have a couple of weird rules, but 387 00:22:56.599 --> 00:22:59.920 I've never seen anything like this, and I'll explain come 388 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:03.680 up next here on the CaCO Day radio program. I'm 389 00:23:03.720 --> 00:23:06.880 a little confused by this, and just you know, to 390 00:23:06.920 --> 00:23:14.279 be clear, we have federal and state charges, but specifically, 391 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:23.440 why is everything a slog swear man? We have both 392 00:23:23.480 --> 00:23:29.079 federal and state charges, but I'm a little confused with 393 00:23:29.400 --> 00:23:34.960 the charges as they as you know, from what we 394 00:23:35.079 --> 00:23:39.519 know of the alleged crime and what you know people 395 00:23:39.559 --> 00:23:43.359 were saying was happening. Specifically, we find out that not 396 00:23:43.480 --> 00:23:46.400 only did this dude allegedly go to these two different 397 00:23:46.480 --> 00:23:51.359 residences and shoot these two different couples, but he actually 398 00:23:51.680 --> 00:23:55.279 with his with his weird mission impossible mask, went to 399 00:23:55.359 --> 00:23:58.680 two other lawmakers homes that night. Who and Ross? You 400 00:23:58.680 --> 00:24:02.079 were asking this yesterday, You're like that that looks like 401 00:24:02.160 --> 00:24:04.319