Speaker 1: Glad to have you along. Here we go it is, well,
Speaker 1: it's Tuesday. It's also a day number two of the
Speaker 1: My My Mountain broadcast. Up here. We got some stuff
Speaker 1: to talk about and some folks we're gonna talk to
Speaker 1: coming up here on the show, and I'll give you
Speaker 1: a little more a little more of a rundown as
Speaker 1: we get things, get things rolling this morning. But so
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here and I am oh, wait, hold on,
Speaker 1: there you go. I am sitting here and, like many
Speaker 1: of you, just trying to figure out what exactly is
Speaker 1: happening over in Tehran, what is going on with the US,
Speaker 1: what kind of commitments we're making we're not making. Why
Speaker 1: Trump left the g set, Now, maybe he did it
Speaker 1: because he didn't want to be around a bunch of
Speaker 1: angry Canadians anymore. I don't know. There's a lot that
Speaker 1: we don't know, but we will try to get you
Speaker 1: the information that we have and what that may look like.
Speaker 1: I was doing some reading about like some of the
Speaker 1: super mountain bunker sites that Tehran has that we believe
Speaker 1: and these are not new by the way, these were
Speaker 1: points of discussion. These were points of discussion with when
Speaker 1: we were sitting there and sorry, I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: adjust my headphones there. When we were talking about this
Speaker 1: under Joe Biden, right because and even going back to
Speaker 1: the first Trump administration, there were these mountain sites where
Speaker 1: they were not allowing access to un inspectors and everyone's like, well,
Speaker 1: hold on, part of the deal is allowing access. And
Speaker 1: then I had to listen to a bunch of people
Speaker 1: explained to me right now, it's okay, I'm sure they're
Speaker 1: not up to anything there. Well, clearly the Israelis, and
Speaker 1: I suspect Trump because he was making this point at
Speaker 1: the time, they think that there is a little something
Speaker 1: going on up there. It's my understanding though, that the
Speaker 1: types of weapons that would be necessary to actually get
Speaker 1: in and you know, the old bunker buster thing, I
Speaker 1: don't think Israel has those, so and I don't know,
Speaker 1: like you can't. There's a certain complexity providing, especially when
Speaker 1: you start getting into our more badass weapons to other
Speaker 1: countries that are even allies, right, there's a geopolitical cost
Speaker 1: to that. So, as best I can tell, that seems
Speaker 1: to be the conversation they're having right now. Does the
Speaker 1: US provide these to Israel? Is it not a strike target.
Speaker 1: Does the US push the button themselves? Now the US
Speaker 1: is in this thing. There's a lot. Look, there's a
Speaker 1: lot to be concerned about, a lot to wonder about
Speaker 1: exactly how this thing pans out. So I'll give you
Speaker 1: the very latest, because you know, we're dealing with two
Speaker 1: sides of the world right now. And while it's you know,
Speaker 1: bright and early in the morning, we're getting into getting
Speaker 1: into the afternoon evening over there in Iran, and everyone
Speaker 1: is just trying to get the hell out of Tehran
Speaker 1: for obvious reasons. Obviously with everything that we've seen, and
Speaker 1: there's some some crazy videos emerging. Probably the one I
Speaker 1: think that made the rounds yesterday the most was this
Speaker 1: Iranian state TV propagandist reporter lady. So she's literally reporting
Speaker 1: as strikes are happening, and I want you to listen
Speaker 1: to this because at the end of this clip, they
Speaker 1: strike whatever building or sector she's in, and you see,
Speaker 1: you hear you know, you hear an explosion, you see
Speaker 1: debris like a dust cloud in there. She gets up
Speaker 1: and kind of scurries off, I guess for obvious reasons.
Speaker 1: And yeah, so they struck the Iranian state TV station
Speaker 1: and listen.
Speaker 2: To this.
Speaker 1: Yappy. Sure she's saying nice things.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: To be fair, our equipment does that like once a week.
Speaker 3: Maybe, you know, I was about to say, we just
Speaker 3: keep doing the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, she gets up like, no, I gotta
Speaker 1: leave now. Now. I had asked Ross to figure out
Speaker 1: what she's saying. Did you were you able to use
Speaker 1: groc or something to translate?
Speaker 3: You asked me yesterday, like, could you please, you know,
Speaker 3: find a way to translate this? And you you're like.
Speaker 1: The super Groc user, You're you're you're better at it.
Speaker 3: So well I have I like, I pay for my
Speaker 3: for my account, right so I have like better access
Speaker 3: to gros features. So yeah, he wasn't able to translate
Speaker 3: it for me. Okay, all right, so that would be
Speaker 3: the second cut there, okay.
Speaker 1: All right, well hold all right, So here here's whatever
Speaker 1: propaganda she's putting now at the time that the strike happens,
Speaker 1: just just so you have a little context. Here are
Speaker 1: the other green one. Right Okay, I'm sorry, I just
Speaker 1: scrambling screen this morning with some of our guest stuff.
Speaker 3: So I have a chance to listen to this. You've
Speaker 3: got a lot going on with that mountain broadcast. So
Speaker 3: I mean, I've been trying to like pick up into
Speaker 3: the slash. You've been doing great, buddy, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Man, no problem.
Speaker 3: You want me to translate it, you got it, buddy.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, all right, So here is whatever she
Speaker 1: was jabbering about you. That's an Italian cuisation. Just to
Speaker 1: be just so I'm clear. You you ran it through,
Speaker 1: you translated, and what she was saying was authentic. Olive
Speaker 1: Garden is authentic Italian. Oh, I have a transcript here.
Speaker 1: I should have opened it, all right, So olive Garden
Speaker 1: is authentic Italian cuisine. It's where your family, the chefs
Speaker 1: are trained in Tuscany. And I'm sorry, what was the
Speaker 1: last thing she.
Speaker 3: Should I believe the end is death to Carabas. That's
Speaker 3: what it sounded like. And then the whole studio blows up.
Speaker 3: Now I listen, the situation over there in the Middle
Speaker 3: East is really complex, and now sure we've added another
Speaker 3: layer to it. And I feel like, really confused because
Speaker 3: she's over there espousing you know, the love of olive Garden,
Speaker 3: and what she's saying is true. But at the same point,
Speaker 3: you know, in this conflict, I tend to side, you know,
Speaker 3: I side with Israel here. Yeah, I don't really know.
Speaker 1: I mean it's complex, you know, well, it might be
Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm entertaining this. It might be like
Speaker 1: reverse psychology. Yes, right, right, because feels a lot more
Speaker 1: Iranian than Olive Garden, right, you would agree, I would think, so, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but one more, one more, the fact they would they
Speaker 1: would weaponize unlimited breadsticks for like kind of pro you know, propaganda.
Speaker 1: It's just it's it's sad man that it's come to this.
Speaker 1: This right here, just for in case you all missed it.
Speaker 1: Here it is again according to Ross's work.
Speaker 4: That's an Italian cuisine.
Speaker 3: That's I mean, they're not going to be able to
Speaker 3: walk that back now the people at Carabas, you.
Speaker 1: Know, right, okay, all right, well what's done is done.
Speaker 1: It's it is at least for that that building there.
Speaker 1: Why is everything death to everything? Do you remember when
Speaker 1: they were chanting death to America and Iran and we
Speaker 1: and everyone was like airing that video. They were having
Speaker 1: some big like rally and something.
Speaker 3: And they were trying to be like, oh, well, they
Speaker 3: don't really mean death to America.
Speaker 1: They mean death to the American political ideals or something. Right,
Speaker 1: it was some they don't actually mean death to America.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know. I think they sort of
Speaker 3: want us all dead. That's what it sounds like to me.
Speaker 1: Well, it's are you Are you a linguist? Well, clearly
Speaker 1: you are right, you're able to translate the uh.
Speaker 3: No, full disclosure GROC isn't always accurate, and sometimes it
Speaker 3: does come back with wrong answers. It is possible, So
Speaker 3: I don't know that could.
Speaker 1: Have hold you to it? Yeah, yeah, okay, how do
Speaker 1: you do? Do we know how they feel about macaroni grill?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: No, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know if we can bring you, like a
Speaker 3: third person into this conflict. Can I think I should
Speaker 3: remain those two people, and I don't think another person
Speaker 3: should be involved in that. So let's do that.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right? Thanks, thanks for doing the heavy lift
Speaker 1: there getting that translated for us. I really appreciate that.
Speaker 1: All right. Coming up on the show, hopefully nobody else
Speaker 1: wishes death to fast casual restaurant chain, but I guess
Speaker 1: we'll find out as as things unfold. Also, we're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna chat with a couple different people. One is
Speaker 1: the head of the Tourism Association, which I'll get his
Speaker 1: actual title here in front of me because I'm just
Speaker 1: putting so putting something together here. But we're gonna chat
Speaker 1: with him about what it looks like when one of
Speaker 1: the North Carolina counties, because you know, each county in
Speaker 1: North Carolina has a legislatively, so the North Carolina Legislature,
Speaker 1: because the way that we do things here, they create
Speaker 1: essentially these entities. And so when you go stay anywhere,
Speaker 1: you go stay in Raleigh or Greensboro, or a cabin
Speaker 1: up in you know, Ash County, or you go to
Speaker 1: the Outer Banks or whatever it is, you know, you
Speaker 1: stay in lodging, they have lodging tax. And each of
Speaker 1: these counties has these individual organizations that is a collective
Speaker 1: of all of the different businesses that you know, the
Speaker 1: tax people that are coming through for tourism, and then
Speaker 1: they utilize that money for a variety of things. But
Speaker 1: also they're kind of the collective gathering point for all
Speaker 1: of the folks in these various counties that are that
Speaker 1: are in you know, that are that are trying to
Speaker 1: make a go of it within the tourism sector. And
Speaker 1: you know, obviously Bunkham County where Ashville sits, but the
Speaker 1: totality of it, so where all the cabins are and
Speaker 1: and everything else, is one of the largest in the
Speaker 1: state of North Carolina. And so leading an organization like
Speaker 1: that and having to collectively, you know, sit down and
Speaker 1: figure out how they're going to use because you know,
Speaker 1: one part of Buncombe County might be you know, it
Speaker 1: wasn't hit as bad whereas other areas. I was down
Speaker 1: in what's called the River Arts District yesterday and I'm
Speaker 1: going to post a photo where they have where the
Speaker 1: water line was. And I'm telling you every time I
Speaker 1: have now seen something out here, whether it was going
Speaker 1: over by Chimney Rock and back Cave or what I
Speaker 1: saw yesterday where the height of the water is like
Speaker 1: twenty some feet off the road and the road is
Speaker 1: elevated above the traa the railroad tracks, and that's all elevated,
Speaker 1: you know, off of the main river basin. So I
Speaker 1: it's if you ever been to New Orleans post Katrina
Speaker 1: and you've seen the water marks there, that's wild enough.
Speaker 1: In the French Quarter, this is twenty some feet in
Speaker 1: the air, and that's how high the water got there,
Speaker 1: and so you know, those parts were harder hit. Built
Speaker 1: More Village was harder hit as you get where our
Speaker 1: radio station is up on top of the hill, right,
Speaker 1: So if you go just west of downtown Ashville, iHeartMedia Ashville,
Speaker 1: you drive all the way up because the radio station
Speaker 1: is up top where the radio towers are. They're literally
Speaker 1: right outside the window of the station here. And the
Speaker 1: entire slope of the trees hundreds of feet higher than
Speaker 1: where even the river is, the French Broad River down there.
Speaker 1: Our whole slope of trees is laying there in piles. Obviously,
Speaker 1: they've had guys come in and cut it up and
Speaker 1: they're you know, they're still pulling it out of there,
Speaker 1: but it just took it out. You would never expect
Speaker 1: that in a flooding situation because you're you're up, you're
Speaker 1: up high, and that's what we're looking at here. So
Speaker 1: we'll have a conversation about that a little. What's going
Speaker 1: on from a Biltmore Village kind of area. That obviously
Speaker 1: is the you know, one of the big big draws
Speaker 1: when people come out to this part of the state.
Speaker 1: So that will that will be over the course of
Speaker 1: the show, and who knows. Maybe we'll get some my
Speaker 1: rainy and updates and can do a little translating. But
Speaker 1: a few other stories to get into as well. Let
Speaker 1: me do this. I'm going to hit a break come
Speaker 1: back at his six twenty Hang on, oh Boston, Paul
Speaker 1: doesn't believe your translation. What a negative Nancy. By the way,
Speaker 1: I like carry new ownership group is destroying your baseball team.
Speaker 1: That's nice. Coming up on the show in thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: we're gonna chat with Matthew Layman, who is he's currently
Speaker 1: the vice chairman, but he is, he is the He's
Speaker 1: gonna be the next chairman when they roll over here
Speaker 1: in very short orderies the incoming chairman, I guess to
Speaker 1: be the term. So we're gonna chat with him at
Speaker 1: seven oh five. And again, this is not just Ashville,
Speaker 1: but but rather this is whenever you go stay any
Speaker 1: around Ashville, Buncombe County, on the Blue Ridge, there, any
Speaker 1: of the rest. This is the organization who who collects.
Speaker 1: They're they're a creation of the North Carolina legislature from
Speaker 1: like back in the eighties or something, and they figure
Speaker 1: out how to best utilize and really manage the tourism
Speaker 1: sector out here. In western North Carolina, and as you
Speaker 1: can imagine, for folks all across western North Carolina, this
Speaker 1: is this is very difficult. One, you got a lot
Speaker 1: of chiefs and these things. But two it's now you've
Speaker 1: got to figure out in a very non traditional way
Speaker 1: because so many of the folks and not just you know,
Speaker 1: big hotels and things like that. But if you have
Speaker 1: if you if you do a vr verbo or VRB,
Speaker 1: I would say vrbo, airbnb, anything like that, you know,
Speaker 1: this is where the money's from, the taxes come in.
Speaker 1: And as you can imagine, there was a lot of
Speaker 1: pivoting to get people back to where they are. And
Speaker 1: I threw that number out where they're about eighty five
Speaker 1: percent back, so which again looking at some of the
Speaker 1: different locations which I've scoped out here, is actually quite
Speaker 1: impressive how quickly they were able to get some of
Speaker 1: these rebuilding efforts underway. So we'll chat with him, and look,
Speaker 1: I'll we'll talk a little about that, but I want
Speaker 1: to hear the stories. Man good. I mean, the anyone
Speaker 1: who's ever lived anywhere where there's flooding, and I know
Speaker 1: that a lot of these places in western North Carolina.
Speaker 1: You just don't think of his flooding places. But I
Speaker 1: lived adjacent to the Mississippi River for quite a few
Speaker 1: of the years that I lived in Minnesota, and we
Speaker 1: had couple big flooding incidents. And people think they know
Speaker 1: what's going to happen, because you know, there's historical records
Speaker 1: of where flooding hit. It's it's very clear to me
Speaker 1: that however bad, however you know, down in the mouth
Speaker 1: negative people thought of what Helene was going to do.
Speaker 1: In no way, shape or form could anyone have speculated
Speaker 1: it would have been as bad as it was. So
Speaker 1: imagine you're sitting there. You're one of the tens of
Speaker 1: thousands of people who have a financial investment, the hundreds
Speaker 1: of thousands of people who have an employment obligation within
Speaker 1: the tourism industry in western North Carolina, and every minute
Speaker 1: it keeps raining, and every news story that you see,
Speaker 1: you just realized this is getting worse and worse for you.
Speaker 1: Whether it's an investment that you made in a business,
Speaker 1: a vacation rental property that you own or co owned
Speaker 1: that you ran out to people through one of these
Speaker 1: online services. Restaurants that sit adjacent to many of these
Speaker 1: areas where tourism flows. You're along the Blue Ridge Parkway
Speaker 1: somewhere and you see your future just slipping away, and
Speaker 1: that is a feeling I would not wish upon anybody.
Speaker 1: And literally half of our states that's what they were
Speaker 1: dealing with. So we'll get a little more insight on
Speaker 1: that coming up here in just a few minutes. There's
Speaker 1: a crazy story in New York. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you saw this. Some lunatics showed up at one of
Speaker 1: the New York City courthouses, Manhattan Criminal Courts. So the
Speaker 1: big boy and you know, they got metal detectors and
Speaker 1: all that. You're not getting in there generally with a weapon,
Speaker 1: but that wasn't what his goal was. So you have
Speaker 1: these court officers who are there at the security checkpoint,
Speaker 1: and according to the reporting, this dude takes out a
Speaker 1: a slashing weapon and just starts cutting people. Man ran
Speaker 1: into the lobby, this is pre security, pulls out this
Speaker 1: knife and then just starts swiping away on officers. He
Speaker 1: got three officers. Now here's why I'm telling you the story.
Speaker 1: He's an eighteen time loser, right, he is an eighteen
Speaker 1: time loser at the age by the way of thirty seven,
Speaker 1: so he's been a very productive guy in his thirty
Speaker 1: seven years on this planet. Eighteen time loser. There's not
Speaker 1: a single reason that this guy should be probably coming
Speaker 1: back through court. And I'm not talking little stuff. I'm
Speaker 1: talking this ain't the first time he's cut people, and
Speaker 1: now you have multiples. Uh. And he he was targeting them, right.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just one of those things where he's maybe
Speaker 1: I'll get a knife in here and whatever. It was
Speaker 1: clear from the video according to the reporting here, he
Speaker 1: went in there with the intent to do harm to Basically,
Speaker 1: the guy's running the uh, running the metal detectors in there. Uh.
Speaker 1: And uh, let's say he cut one of the officers
Speaker 1: twice on his face, slice the other on his neck,
Speaker 1: before shoving a third into a barrier in the main
Speaker 1: lobby and doing that you know that prison thing where
Speaker 1: he starts stabbing somebody at rapid speed. I think the
Speaker 1: guy had a vest on thankfully. Oh you know what, Ross,
Speaker 1: I just thought about this. If he's gonna go in
Speaker 1: there and cut up this dude's face, we need to
Speaker 1: get William money on this. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's what that's a that's what he does it's his
Speaker 1: special his specialty there from unforgived that was his character's
Speaker 1: name and unforgiven right, William Money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when he went into a big whiskey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I went into big whiskey because they cut up
Speaker 1: that chick's face. Yeah, because that might stop this, because
Speaker 1: who knows, this guy will probably get out again. Eighteen
Speaker 1: times eighteen time loser, eighteen time felony offender.
Speaker 3: Mistakes happen, right.
Speaker 1: You know they You're right, they do.
Speaker 3: Maybe the next time. The next time is the charm, Okay.
Speaker 1: So they if they get a handslap on this for
Speaker 1: slicing and dicing three police officers or court officers, you
Speaker 1: think he's learned his lesson.
Speaker 3: Maybe, I mean, you ever make them the same mistake
Speaker 3: over and over and over again, and you're like, man,
Speaker 3: I'm not doing that again.
Speaker 1: On a golf course, thinking that I can hit this
Speaker 1: green if I just swing harder, but that doesn't nobody
Speaker 1: gets cut with it. Well maybe if I if I
Speaker 1: shake it into somebody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't understand, like the you know, the court
Speaker 3: or the professor, you know, how do you let this
Speaker 3: guy go that many times? Like how does it even happen?
Speaker 3: You're like oh, maybe next time he'll be good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know he's trying, he's turning his life around.
Speaker 1: But you ever tried to turn your life around? But
Speaker 1: you turn you turned it twice, so you're basically back
Speaker 1: in the same direction.
Speaker 3: Because right, like I said, I've made you know in
Speaker 3: the past, I've made you know, several mistakes over and
Speaker 3: over again before I corrected them. Okay, And you're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm never gonna drink again. I'm never gonna drink again.
Speaker 3: And it's like two days later, you're drinking again. You're like,
Speaker 3: what just happened?
Speaker 1: And how many people got stabbed?
Speaker 3: Zero?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Okay, So some would argue that might be different a
Speaker 1: little little bit. I really I don't understand how this happens,
Speaker 1: Like how do they let the guy go? Like what's
Speaker 1: the point? I don't understand it. You know what's crazy
Speaker 1: is how many stories have we done where eighteen isn't
Speaker 1: even putting up real numbers, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: We had that one guy in Seattle right where he
Speaker 3: was like arrest h remember the guy that lived in
Speaker 3: a trash can I don't know that he lived I
Speaker 3: don't know that he.
Speaker 1: Lived in a trash can, but they knew where to
Speaker 1: find him, and it was often in a trash can.
Speaker 3: The police officers walked up to him and he was
Speaker 3: hanging out in his trash can and they were like,
Speaker 3: there he is again.
Speaker 1: Hey Bill whatever. Yeah, he had been.
Speaker 3: Rested like one hundred and forty times or something stupid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was on that Seattle what was it
Speaker 1: called Seattle is Dying or something. It's a really good
Speaker 1: for local journalism. Is probably in the bag for most
Speaker 1: of these leftist policies or permissive policies in a lot
Speaker 1: of these cities. I think it was a very stark
Speaker 1: or a very good look at what's going on in Seattle. Right.
Speaker 3: So by comparison the eighteen is that those are like
Speaker 3: rookie numbers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's that's a very good point there. So
Speaker 1: we will see. Oh, speaking of people not being did
Speaker 1: you see what they charge this dude in Minnesota with?
Speaker 1: All right, let me let me do this, because I
Speaker 1: don't Minnesota has a couple unique murder type charges, like
Speaker 1: they have third degree murder, they have they even have
Speaker 1: one under that before you get into manslaughter. It's kind
Speaker 1: of weird. They have a couple of weird rules, but
Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like this, and I'll explain come
Speaker 1: up next here on the CaCO Day radio program. I'm
Speaker 1: a little confused by this, and just you know, to
Speaker 1: be clear, we have federal and state charges, but specifically,
Speaker 1: why is everything a slog swear man? We have both
Speaker 1: federal and state charges, but I'm a little confused with
Speaker 1: the charges as they as you know, from what we
Speaker 1: know of the alleged crime and what you know people
Speaker 1: were saying was happening. Specifically, we find out that not
Speaker 1: only did this dude allegedly go to these two different
Speaker 1: residences and shoot these two different couples, but he actually
Speaker 1: with his with his weird mission impossible mask, went to
Speaker 1: two other lawmakers homes that night. Who and Ross? You
Speaker 1: were asking this yesterday, You're like that that looks like
Speaker 1: a mask. Why would you open the door if you
Speaker 1: saw this dude? Right? Apparently the other he was unsuccessful
Speaker 1: at the other homes. I don't know it's because they
Speaker 1: saw that's a dude in a mask, or they just
Speaker 1: I didn't answer, just not to answer or whatever. But
Speaker 1: so they've charged. Why would you change this story?
Speaker 5: All?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 3: To do do?
Speaker 1: Do? Do? Do?
Speaker 5: There?
Speaker 1: We go all right, and by the way, they've whittled
Speaker 1: the list down too. I had seen where it said
Speaker 1: there was seventy different elected officials on there. It sounds
Speaker 1: like there was forty five elected officials, but the list
Speaker 1: may have included seventy individuals, so I guess some who
Speaker 1: were not elected officials. But anyway, so when it comes
Speaker 1: to the charges, they are I am so sorry this.
Speaker 1: They have updated the story here, So now I'm questioning
Speaker 1: if what I was reading literally from CNN as well
Speaker 1: as w CCO, which is the local CBS affiliate up there,
Speaker 1: all right, I just can't. Yeah, here's the deal. We'll
Speaker 1: get back into it here in this few minutes because
Speaker 1: we have a guest guest coming up and the FED.
Speaker 1: It looks like the federal charges are going to be
Speaker 1: the really meaty ones. All right, here we go, Thank you.
Speaker 1: I wanted to go to the actual website, the prosecutor's website,
Speaker 1: all right, So he is charged with stalking both Hortman
Speaker 1: and Senator Hoffman. The the the internet right now or
Speaker 1: these stories right now. I have have gone to three
Speaker 1: different versions of this, and it keeps asking me for
Speaker 1: money to access this, even though I was reading these
Speaker 1: damn articles yesterday and send them to myself so that
Speaker 1: I would have them this morning. All right, So six
Speaker 1: charges in federal court, including stocking and murder. That's via
Speaker 1: an FBI press conference that they held. However, he is
Speaker 1: in Hennepin County, which is where Minneapolis is, and Brooklyn
Speaker 1: Center Brooklyn Park, Champlain, where the actual attacks took place.
Speaker 1: He's charged with two counts of second degree murder without intent.
Speaker 1: How does that work? And then two counts of second
Speaker 1: degree attempted murder also without intent? And I don't know,
Speaker 1: and I'm not a lawyer. I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: because there's elements of the crime at this point that
Speaker 1: they had to charge him, and maybe they'll adjust the
Speaker 1: charges later, which I guess is possible. But if Ross,
Speaker 1: if you create a mission impossible mess, you get a
Speaker 1: police knockoff cruiser, you get a police looking uniform with
Speaker 1: kit so that you look official, and you create a
Speaker 1: list of people who you think need murdering. Does that
Speaker 1: sound like you might have intent? Again? Ross is not a.
Speaker 3: Lawyer either, right, We are not I checked? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: I used Ross. We are not lawyers. No, this dude,
Speaker 3: there's so many things about this case or this this
Speaker 3: it's all sus it's so weird.
Speaker 1: This is how you get super conspiracies out here, exactly. Oh,
Speaker 1: he didn't mean to pretend to be a cop, create
Speaker 1: a murder list and you know, go up and do
Speaker 1: the murdering.
Speaker 3: Right, and then it just it was an accident and
Speaker 3: them decided not to release the manifesto. It's like adding
Speaker 3: to the conspiracies as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be one thing. Look, it would be
Speaker 1: one thing if they were wholly consistent on manifestos, right,
Speaker 1: if if the policy you know how some news outlets
Speaker 1: won't say the name anymore of people who do it,
Speaker 1: and they're consistent on it, right, they're like, we're not
Speaker 1: going to put the name. Well not, we're not going
Speaker 1: to put the name because we want to d incentivize
Speaker 1: people who may do things like this, whether it's for
Speaker 1: political reasons or just because you know, they want to
Speaker 1: be Internet famous. We're not going to feed that beast.
Speaker 1: I understand that. So when it comes then to law
Speaker 1: enforcement in the way that they handle stuff, and you
Speaker 1: want to d incentivize people wanting to do it, right,
Speaker 1: that should be the goal of law enforcement. That should
Speaker 1: be the goal then you got to be consistent. And yes,
Speaker 1: I understand that you're talking about things that happen in
Speaker 1: different states and all of that, but ultimately these manifestos
Speaker 1: get out there. Remember, as hard as they tried with
Speaker 1: the the Nashville right, the shooter who went into her
Speaker 1: old school or his old school or whatever who went
Speaker 1: in there, there's still was it was it o'keef. Now
Speaker 1: one of them got remember like eight pages. Some guy
Speaker 1: got fired over that. And then we finally got the
Speaker 1: meat of this thing, and you realize that it was
Speaker 1: politics at play why they didn't want to put this
Speaker 1: thing out there. But the guy who shot up the
Speaker 1: mosque in New Zealand that had like Tucker Carlson's name
Speaker 1: among the thousand pages because he watched something from him
Speaker 1: and a couple others. They they bound and they were
Speaker 1: gonna they printed that thing in a minute.
Speaker 3: Right, We do see a track record with that where
Speaker 3: if you're on a certain side of the political aisle
Speaker 3: and you read a manifesto and they read it, they're like, oh,
Speaker 3: we have to release this. But if you're on the
Speaker 3: other side, they're like, no, it's too dangerous.
Speaker 1: Now I think that they should release manifestos. I think
Speaker 1: so too, because like I want to understand or attempt
Speaker 1: to understand what's going on.
Speaker 3: You've got a guy, like you said, mission impossible, mask,
Speaker 3: fake cop car, dressed up like a cop. He's got
Speaker 3: a big house in wife and kids, but he's living
Speaker 3: with some Papa John's guy weirdly who calls the president
Speaker 3: Jim Biden. But then he writes a manifesto and we
Speaker 3: could read it and be like, Okay, well now I
Speaker 3: understand what's going on because you know, I read the
Speaker 3: manifesto and I understand why he did what he did.
Speaker 1: But they saw it's all crazy, yeah right, and you're
Speaker 1: just like, wow, what a lunatic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a crazy loon. But we can't read it now.
Speaker 3: And they say, well, you can't read it's too dangerous,
Speaker 3: and that's how conspiracies grow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's part of a larger concept. Get a way.
Speaker 1: It's just like the we live in an era right
Speaker 1: now where information is too dangerous and you know what,
Speaker 1: that's the dark ages, continued storms. We'll chat with Ray's
Speaker 1: stagic that of course coming up seven forty five from
Speaker 1: the Weather Channel. To get a sense of what you
Speaker 1: can expect but we're chatting with a lot of folks
Speaker 1: this morning, and as previously identified, I am spending the
Speaker 1: week up in western North Carolina. The goal to you know,
Speaker 1: talk about there's a little bit of it. I wanted
Speaker 1: to see this for myself. We saw the pictures and
Speaker 1: the videos, but also I you know, I have a
Speaker 1: lot of folks that over the years that I've developed
Speaker 1: relationships with because I've rented cabins from them. It's a
Speaker 1: restaurant that I like to stop at, a hotel, I
Speaker 1: like to stay at, whatever it is. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: for so many of you in the try it and
Speaker 1: triangle you got your spot it maybe in the mountains
Speaker 1: and maybe at the beach. And with what we saw
Speaker 1: in Western North Carolina and understanding how important tourism is
Speaker 1: and the vacation homes and the Gulf and what you
Speaker 1: do with the kids, to really be able to give you, you know,
Speaker 1: the straight dope on what you can expect and why
Speaker 1: you should not put off the opportunity if you want
Speaker 1: to do that mountain trip this year to come up here.
Speaker 1: Because while I'm seeing things that are crazy, I mean
Speaker 1: just watching what seeing what back Cave and that area
Speaker 1: look like watching the slope near our radio station on
Speaker 1: the top of the hill have the trees peeled off
Speaker 1: of It helps you to really understand what our friends
Speaker 1: in western North Carolina we're putting up with with Helene
Speaker 1: post Aleene and now, and I want you to have
Speaker 1: an accurate picture so that you don't do what I
Speaker 1: heard a couple of people talking about this here and go, well,
Speaker 1: maybe we'll take a year off from the mountain trip.
Speaker 1: They need it, they need you up here and to
Speaker 1: help me talk about it. We're going to chat now
Speaker 1: with Matthew Layman. He is the incoming chairman of the
Speaker 1: Bunkhobe County Tourism which of course is Asheville, but the
Speaker 1: surrounding area Tourism Development Authorities. So when you pay your
Speaker 1: lodging taxes, this is an organization and group that is
Speaker 1: set up in these counties by the North Carolina legislature.
Speaker 1: They got to figure out, Okay, how are we going
Speaker 1: to spend the money, how are we going to invest
Speaker 1: and and build this up? And the curveball that they've
Speaker 1: been thrown is a complex one. Matthew, thank you very
Speaker 1: much for coming on the show today. How you doing.
Speaker 5: I'm doing great. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 5: I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: I now hearing me talk about that. How many people
Speaker 1: have you had that first person conversation with where they
Speaker 1: hadn't come and seen what Buncom County or any of
Speaker 1: the western state looks like since Helene, and what they
Speaker 1: thought they'd see versus what you actually see. How do
Speaker 1: those conversations go for you as somebody who's really in
Speaker 1: charge of, you know, making sure that everybody in this
Speaker 1: tourism sector in Buncom County is attempting to get back
Speaker 1: on their feet.
Speaker 5: Well, there's two kinds of conversations with that regard is
Speaker 5: So one is people that lived in the area locally
Speaker 5: that solved the devastation for themselves. They are truly impressed
Speaker 5: with how much Asheville and Bunkett County and the surrounding
Speaker 5: areas have recovered. So it's nice to see that these
Speaker 5: conversations had shifted from that earlier conversation of the conversation
Speaker 5: you're having about being here the first time and seeing
Speaker 5: the hills that has all the down trees, seeing some
Speaker 5: of the degrees still being cleared from some of the
Speaker 5: lesser streams and rivers. But for those who were more
Speaker 5: local to the area. That conversation has turned much more positive.
Speaker 5: As of Layton, we're really excited about that.
Speaker 1: Walk me through this is this is the mindset if
Speaker 1: I grew I didn't grow up next to a big river,
Speaker 1: but I lived in the Twin Cities right on the
Speaker 1: Mississippi River for years, and I remember a couple of
Speaker 1: significant flooding events, and they had a pretty good beat
Speaker 1: on what they thought was going to happen. But when
Speaker 1: I was down in the River Arts District yesterday, there's
Speaker 1: a building where they have a water line mark there
Speaker 1: on one of the studios that blew me away because
Speaker 1: that's twenty feet over my head or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: When you saw, as you're sitting here and you're watching
Speaker 1: what's happening, how much worse was it then you thought
Speaker 1: it was going to be with the predictions you were
Speaker 1: hearing as the storm was raging, how much worse was
Speaker 1: it for you? And over what period of time did
Speaker 1: you just have to watch basically your industry take this beating.
Speaker 5: You know, the period of time was surprisingly short. I
Speaker 5: managed our hotel here locally, and we were here throughout
Speaker 5: the storm thinking we could just put up some sandbags
Speaker 5: if it gets to be the worst storm ever, like
Speaker 5: everyone's claiming, and we'll be fine. And within an hour
Speaker 5: and a half we went from let's get the sand
Speaker 5: bags ready to let's abandon the floor and go upstairs.
Speaker 5: And then it was about twelve hours of watching the devastation,
Speaker 5: but the waters were seated quickly, and I'm you know,
Speaker 5: what instantly happened was our community come together and look
Speaker 5: at each other for support and recovery. And that continues
Speaker 5: to this day. You know, we are much more excited
Speaker 5: to talk about what's open and talk about how we're
Speaker 5: back than to talk about what happened, because you know,
Speaker 5: the more we talk about that storm, the more we
Speaker 5: give people the idea that it's not ready yet, or
Speaker 5: it's not trying to visit, or we'll give the mountains
Speaker 5: another year. And I'm here to tell you that the
Speaker 5: mountains are open, and more importantly, the people of this
Speaker 5: region are are once again ready to welcome visitors.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and and I promise I'm not going to dwell,
Speaker 1: but because I want to turn this corner, because I
Speaker 1: think that this is this is what it was so
Speaker 1: impressive to me. So after you you make that decision Hey,
Speaker 1: we got to get out of here and then you
Speaker 1: watch what transpires. Then you have to scope out what happened,
Speaker 1: and then you got to get back to it. You
Speaker 1: got to get back to work right away. And that's
Speaker 1: what's so impressive because we saw the videos out there
Speaker 1: of homes with eight feet of mud in them and
Speaker 1: what happened in the Biltmore Village area and the River
Speaker 1: Arts District in Ashville and up towards Banner Elk and
Speaker 1: to me, I look at it and I go, how
Speaker 1: do you even attempt to recover? And what I have
Speaker 1: seen over the last few days is miraculous. I just
Speaker 1: I want to commend you guys, and that makes everyone
Speaker 1: pulling together. So what was the first step there? Obviously
Speaker 1: you've got to deal with the government stuff. But as
Speaker 1: a community, how are you guys able to kick it
Speaker 1: into such high years so quickly?
Speaker 5: Well? Community is really the word. I mean, what makes
Speaker 5: this area special? Yes, it's beautiful, and yet there's so
Speaker 5: many diverse offerings for people a little enjoyable they're here,
Speaker 5: But what makes it truly special is the people. It's
Speaker 5: a it's a resilient people, it's a caring people, and
Speaker 5: it's it's one step at a time, you know. The
Speaker 5: first the first effort is how do we get a
Speaker 5: hold of everyone and make sure everyone's okay and find
Speaker 5: as many people as we can. And then it's how
Speaker 5: do we get people the immediate resources they need to survive?
Speaker 5: And then it becomes well, how do we start digging
Speaker 5: out from this and how do we do it together
Speaker 5: so that we can all come out of this better
Speaker 5: at the end. And that's that's something we're really excited about,
Speaker 5: is because so many people didn't just say, how do
Speaker 5: I put it back the way it was? But now
Speaker 5: the time to invest because we know it's a place
Speaker 5: worth staying in, a place worth rebuilding, and let's rebuild
Speaker 5: to a degree that those people that like yourself that
Speaker 5: do come back will be impressed with what they find
Speaker 5: because it's better than it's ever been.
Speaker 1: I have some stats here that we shared with me
Speaker 1: by your tourism organization. Eighty five percent of Ashville's hospitality
Speaker 1: and tours businesses were open downtown Ashville on Sunday when
Speaker 1: I arrived with Father's Day and everything else. Every restaurant
Speaker 1: was full.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: Really amazing in the downtown area. Is that an abnor
Speaker 1: malady because it was Father's Day or have you guys
Speaker 1: really been blistering back this season in certain segments And
Speaker 1: what are the segments that could use more people visiting.
Speaker 5: Well, I think people don't realize Ashville as the city
Speaker 5: is actually built on a hotel and so the effect
Speaker 5: of the storm was the interruption of the quotable water
Speaker 5: supply to downtown. But in terms of storm damage there
Speaker 5: was almost none and so downtown town Onst. Water was
Speaker 5: restored as recovered very quickly. I know a lot of
Speaker 5: us locals have been joking we've been eating out more
Speaker 5: than we ever had because we want to support all
Speaker 5: our friends and neighbors restaurants. But yeah, no, that that's
Speaker 5: not atypical. Downtown is very busy. Downtown is rebounding, and
Speaker 5: we could certainly enjoy more people visiting. The area is
Speaker 5: still recovering. Our areas you talked about that are you know,
Speaker 5: the smaller populations. They may have just a singular attraction
Speaker 5: that brings people here, be it tubing on the river
Speaker 5: or be it ziplining or hiking in certain areas, and
Speaker 5: those areas could certainly use a little more attention. But
Speaker 5: we have found that those visitors that come to Asheville,
Speaker 5: even if they're staying downtown, Uh, they spread out, they
Speaker 5: explore the area, they explore the region. Uh. And and
Speaker 5: when you get a a greater influx of people, all
Speaker 5: those minor areas get the benefit of the visitors and
Speaker 5: their dollars as well.
Speaker 1: Have you had to pivot what your organization that you're
Speaker 1: soon to be chair of, You guys have to pivot
Speaker 1: how you use those funds because I don't think a
Speaker 1: lot of people understand one. North Carolina is weird where
Speaker 1: the legislature kind of has to like set things up locally.
Speaker 1: It's just it's the way our government works. How have
Speaker 1: you had to pivot the way that the dollars collected
Speaker 1: from lodging taxes are used? And was that an easy
Speaker 1: process with the legislature?
Speaker 5: Well, with all due respect to our legislature, I've never
Speaker 5: been involved in a legislative process that's easy.
Speaker 1: So that's fair, that's fair.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's a it's a great point that in
Speaker 5: our state, the way these tax revenues are to be
Speaker 5: dispersed and spent, it's very strictly controlled at the state level.
Speaker 5: And so yeah, there are challenges when you would like
Speaker 5: to use funds for other things that don't comply and
Speaker 5: you can't. And so what we've done is less pivot
Speaker 5: how we how we allocate those resources, but pivot how
Speaker 5: we send messages out to people. You know, there's we
Speaker 5: have a great set of core values and a great
Speaker 5: set of guiding strategic pillars in terms of how we
Speaker 5: want to market Ashville and what we want people to
Speaker 5: know about our region and the kind of visitors we
Speaker 5: want to bring here and what we want those visitors
Speaker 5: to know when they get here. And so what's changed
Speaker 5: and where that pivot comes from is in the messaging.
Speaker 5: You know, at first to say, you know, we could
Speaker 5: use some help, and now we could say you know,
Speaker 5: we're back and we're we're excited to welcome you. Southern
Speaker 5: hospitality is a thing, and people really do feel rewarded
Speaker 5: when we get to be part of creating an experience
Speaker 5: that becomes a memory someone has forever. And so that's
Speaker 5: the message we want to get out now, is that
Speaker 5: we're here and we're ready. And if you want to
Speaker 5: be a part of that recovery, the best way to
Speaker 5: do it is to just beat us like you always
Speaker 5: have and just.
Speaker 1: Yeah, be back and be normal and get fat eating
Speaker 1: all the good food which has been my problem the
Speaker 1: last few days, and make it happen. And oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, it's slightly cooler and less humid up here,
Speaker 1: which is a very good thing considering what Raleigh and
Speaker 1: Greensboro are going to be today. Matt Layman or Matthew
Speaker 1: Layman from the Buncom County Tourism Development Authority, I appreciate
Speaker 1: you joining with us this morning.
Speaker 5: Okay, thanks, thanks again for havings. Appreciate your visit me.
Speaker 1: All right, and it is seven eighteen. Hang on, So
Speaker 1: it looks like the NCGOP decided to officially call for
Speaker 1: the resignation of the assembly woman who decided to post
Speaker 1: a video and then an actual still photo. In it,
Speaker 1: you see severed heads. One of them clearly looks like
Speaker 1: it's Donald Trump's. This was photos and video from one
Speaker 1: of the No King's rally And obviously it is dicey
Speaker 1: times out there right now. As it pertains to politics,
Speaker 1: political violence, the double standard that people think exists. Ironically,
Speaker 1: they think it exists in reverse or right, depending on
Speaker 1: which side of the aisle you're on. But everyone seems
Speaker 1: to agree that there's no place for this, but nobody
Speaker 1: seems to agree if in fact that she was calling
Speaker 1: for any Now do I think she was calling for
Speaker 1: the execution of Donald Trump? No? Do I think she
Speaker 1: was sticking a quarter in the partisan machine? Yes? But
Speaker 1: once you post something we talked about this yesterday, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you actually want somebody guillotined. It's what
Speaker 1: will people do with that information? Then that's where your
Speaker 1: responsibility lies.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Lunatics abound, man. I gotta tell you, I've been able
Speaker 1: to do this show for fifteen issue, well more than
Speaker 1: that if you count both markets years without calling for
Speaker 1: the execution of a political person that I disagree with.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. I've wanted some child molesters fed into wood chippers.
Speaker 1: I'm only half joking with some of the really horrendous
Speaker 1: stories out there. You saw this story. There was this
Speaker 1: story of the two the couple who adopted. They just
Speaker 1: got one hundred years in prison without the possibility of paroles.
Speaker 1: So they're going away for life. Zachary and William Zulok,
Speaker 1: who pleaded guilty in August to six counts of aggravated
Speaker 1: sodomy three counts. Just all the horribleness you can think of. Basically,
Speaker 1: they got a tip that they had adopted these boys.
Speaker 1: There's two boys, and then a significant pattern of child
Speaker 1: abuse submerged, and then they found out that they were
Speaker 1: making videos with them. They had seven terabytes of they
Speaker 1: literally had adopted the actors for their own horrific home
Speaker 1: videos that they were sharing with people. It's just awful.
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna read all of it. All right,
Speaker 1: at that point, bring in the wood Sheppard. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like I, I would hope as a
Speaker 1: society we have no patience for this. And then I
Speaker 1: saw I saw somebody write this line in one of
Speaker 1: the stories about it, and it set me off. It said,
Speaker 1: the worst part is that this is going to make
Speaker 1: it even harder for queer people to adopt. Is that
Speaker 1: the worst part of that.
Speaker 3: It's the Norm McDonald meme.
Speaker 1: It's the meaning to Norm mcdonaldyb Yes with the Bill
Speaker 1: Cotty's talking about Bill cosby the World's most visited museum. Ross.
Speaker 1: When I say the world's most visited, most famous museum,
Speaker 1: what do you what do you immediately think.
Speaker 3: Of the museum in this story? Yes, Yeah, that's the Louver.
Speaker 1: The Louver that's it. Now we can look. If people
Speaker 1: want to argue, is it the most famous museum? Oh,
Speaker 1: have your argument, I think if it's not, If you
Speaker 1: don't think it's the most famous, it's top three, and
Speaker 1: it's not even close.
Speaker 3: Like the Louver Smithsonian, and like that one from from
Speaker 3: not at the museum, that one where where all these
Speaker 3: animals along.
Speaker 1: It's not real really where Robin Williams comes to me.
Speaker 3: I saw it.
Speaker 1: How many did you see though? Just one?
Speaker 3: Three of them?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's so it's triples sourced, all right, Well
Speaker 1: that must be correct. So anyway, the look. But it's
Speaker 1: the Louver, all right. And so what happens when you
Speaker 1: go to the Louver? It's busy, it is. If you
Speaker 1: guys ever been to pay it's busy, man. But you know,
Speaker 1: versive is busy, the Loves busy, the various events that
Speaker 1: are on the banks of the same they're busy. Champsalise,
Speaker 1: which I know I'm butchering, but I don't care, the
Speaker 1: big shopping thing, the art, the Triumph, the you know,
Speaker 1: these are all busy areas. You know what you're getting,
Speaker 1: but apparently if you work there, you don't like what
Speaker 1: you're getting. So check this out, the world's most visited museum,
Speaker 1: the global symbol of art, beauty, endurance, and and the
Speaker 1: Holy Grail. Right, we learned that was brought to a
Speaker 1: halt Monday by the staff who went on strike because
Speaker 1: there's too much tourism.
Speaker 3: I saw this headline yesterday and it made me so angry.
Speaker 1: Why you don't want to leave the country. Why would
Speaker 1: you care?
Speaker 3: But in a humorous way, because I get the love. Dude,
Speaker 3: you should be like, look at all these people coming
Speaker 3: to the world famous museum, Like that's what what do
Speaker 3: you want? You you want to limit it with only
Speaker 3: like ten people at a time. I can come through
Speaker 3: the museum.
Speaker 1: This is a growing thing. I remember we did the
Speaker 1: story in Barcelona where like they squirt tourists with squirt guns,
Speaker 1: and here's the thing, And let me just if I
Speaker 1: could for a moment, because we've covered this on the show.
Speaker 1: This is what most of Europe refuses to accept. You
Speaker 1: guys are Epcot.
Speaker 3: That the only thing that Europe has going is its
Speaker 3: history and that's what brings into tourism. Right, there's nothing
Speaker 3: new really going on there. It's all old castles and museums,
Speaker 3: and it's all old.
Speaker 1: And it's great for it. It's and it's great for it.
Speaker 1: I love traveling. I love traveling. I even with all
Speaker 1: this stuff that can get really annoying, like Rome is
Speaker 1: just they're constantly, constantly like bilking you. And that's before
Speaker 1: the pickpockets hit you. But it's amazing. And then to
Speaker 1: go over the Vatican, I don't you don't have to
Speaker 1: be Catholic. It's amazing to see the ceiling of the chapel.
Speaker 1: It's amazing and and and it is what it is.
Speaker 1: What drives people there are their industries and businesses and
Speaker 1: big companies. Some some you know, you get big companies
Speaker 1: like Nokia and whatnot up but you know in the
Speaker 1: Norwegian areas and and like those exist in London is
Speaker 1: a financial center. But when people go to London, do
Speaker 1: they go to see the the you know, the financial
Speaker 1: center of London in mass No. They go because they
Speaker 1: want to see Big ben and they want to see
Speaker 1: if they can make one of the beef eaters laugh
Speaker 1: and and you know, maybe they can go on the
Speaker 1: more modern that big ferris wheel there.
Speaker 3: That's why they're going, Buckingham Palace, diagonal, that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they want to go see they want to do
Speaker 1: the Jack the Ripper tour, Like that's why people are
Speaker 1: going there for the history. And it's not to say
Speaker 1: that people don't do history vacation stuff in the US.
Speaker 1: Smith So it is about history. There's so much history,
Speaker 1: revolutionary war history, civil war history. Of course, North Carolina
Speaker 1: is chock full of this stuff, just amazing areas to go.
Speaker 1: But it's still it's a it's it's a a pittance
Speaker 1: in time compared to what you're going over to see
Speaker 1: when you go to Europe and other parts of the world. Man.
Speaker 1: And so when you go in there and you go
Speaker 1: into the louver, you want to go see the Mona Lisa.
Speaker 1: You want to go see that they have. You know,
Speaker 1: they have entire wings of artwork there, the pre dates
Speaker 1: the United States existing now.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 3: Sometimes the tourists obviously can be annoying.
Speaker 1: You saw what happened with the Picasso chair the other.
Speaker 3: Day, Like it's this Picasso chair made out of like
Speaker 3: a bagillion it's the official number, like a bajillion sort
Speaker 3: of cow crystal whatever they are. And this this Fatrisco
Speaker 3: it's made of crisco. Guy whom I'm only assuming is
Speaker 3: probably an American I saw and I was like, please,
Speaker 3: don't please.
Speaker 1: No, dude, that same reaction. I'm just like, don't be American,
Speaker 1: don't be American. And then you hear like and I'm like,
Speaker 1: if you hear an Australian accent, you cheer.
Speaker 3: It's this big, fat ass, right who looks like he's
Speaker 3: from like a well off obviously, you know, Western country,
Speaker 3: and he's like got his socks pulled up to his
Speaker 3: knees and he's wearing like George or something, and he's
Speaker 3: got the fanny pack and he's holding the camera with
Speaker 3: the the handle down and he's like sits down on
Speaker 3: him Babbo's backwards. That broke this work Upso.
Speaker 1: Chair Yeah, yeah, that was a bad look. Man, it
Speaker 1: was a bad look. But that being said, you're the
Speaker 1: you're the loop, You're the louver dude. You want to
Speaker 1: you want to get annoyed. Listen to a French person
Speaker 1: pronounced croissant after getting irritated at you for saying croissant.
Speaker 3: I can only it's like.
Speaker 1: Carlonlissant or something. I think that's pretty accurate, maybe a
Speaker 1: little over, but you're see video of the French girl
Speaker 1: trying to say burger yeah, yeah, yeah, with the with
Speaker 1: the duelingo thing or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they can't say because.
Speaker 1: Of she's at least adorable about it. The loup people
Speaker 1: are like, what is your problem? It was an almost
Speaker 1: unthinkable site, the home to works by Leonardo da Vinci,
Speaker 1: the Millennia of Civilization's greatest treasures, paralyzed by the very
Speaker 1: people tasked by the way speaking of the treasures, so
Speaker 1: do you know do you? I I did not realize this.
Speaker 1: Uh so do you know that they have tout in
Speaker 1: common stuff at Biltmore right now or I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's right now, was coming up that stuff is cursed?
Speaker 1: So really, what do you I don't think it's actually him.
Speaker 1: I think it's uh hold on, I'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: So you think it's cursed and I shouldn't go over there.
Speaker 3: I mean when they opened up, when they originally opened
Speaker 3: up King Tut's tomb, there's like a well, sure, yeah,
Speaker 3: there's a track record of the people involved had like
Speaker 3: really bad endings.
Speaker 1: Well, but they were also people who went to really
Speaker 1: hostile places and places you know, pre being able to
Speaker 1: get a yellow fever shot. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: They were like travelers to really remote places.
Speaker 3: So and they've got the one tablet. Now once again
Speaker 3: that museum we mentioned in Chicago where at night the
Speaker 3: pharaohs come alive.
Speaker 1: With the tablet, right, okay, well, I don't think they
Speaker 1: have that over at the Yeah. Here it is a
Speaker 1: king tootin comment at Biltmore. So that is, let's see
Speaker 1: if it's actually him or what's all in there? I
Speaker 1: think it is as sarcophagus though, right, no I should
Speaker 1: I wait, hold on, okay, all right, thank goodness, No
Speaker 1: it's not so yeah, no, you'll be fine. You'll be fine.
Speaker 1: They get over a thousand pieces, though I think a
Speaker 1: lot of these are replicas. But still, oh, this is
Speaker 1: a very cool picture. Okay, so the actually they have
Speaker 1: a replica of the tomb, not the cursed tomb.
Speaker 3: Okay, it is that's a relief because this this state
Speaker 3: has had enough problems. We don't need to have that
Speaker 3: course there.
Speaker 1: Right, but everyone going up and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: they break out in boils, right, yeah, we don't need
Speaker 1: any of that. All right, Remember I told you the
Speaker 1: last time I went over there, they had the dresses
Speaker 1: of Dalton Abbey, which I'm like, uh, how did I
Speaker 1: not read? See this was here, This would be much cooler.
Speaker 3: Did you not, and maybe I'm I'm remembering incorrectly. Didn't
Speaker 3: you have like a girlfriend that wanted to bring you, like,
Speaker 3: wanted you to go and see the dresses of correct?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the girl was dating at the time. I know,
Speaker 1: I didn't know about the dresses. She wanted to go
Speaker 1: to Biltmore, So you did go. I went. I went
Speaker 1: to Biltmore. I was When I arrived, they hand you
Speaker 1: the thing when you go through the gate and whatnot,
Speaker 1: and then we get up there because you could do
Speaker 1: the parking is it's a whole process, but it's not bad.
Speaker 1: So we get up over there and then she's like,
Speaker 1: oh and they have all the dresses from Dalton Abbey
Speaker 1: and I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, what is she dope? Yes, yes, diabola.
Speaker 1: It don't get me wrong. It's really cool to look
Speaker 1: at all the stuff that's hand from the house. But
Speaker 1: I don't care about Downtown Abbey or whatever that show is.
Speaker 3: That's like Hannibal Elector type like manipulation.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Actually I was impressed.
Speaker 3: I mean that's it.
Speaker 1: I got got man, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 1: Uh anyway, yeah, they got the toot in comments. So anyway,
Speaker 1: back to the Louver real quick. Uh, they're they're very
Speaker 1: upset and they're like they want tourists to go away.
Speaker 1: How do you think that works out? What do you
Speaker 1: what do you think happens? It's your job at the
Speaker 1: Louver if you dip tourism. By the way, anti tourism
Speaker 1: protests have swept across Europe, including Mellorca. Mellorca, I can
Speaker 1: ever pronounce that, Venice, Lisbon, I've talked about in uh
Speaker 1: in Spain. There in Barcelona, like they run around they
Speaker 1: squirt tourists with squirt guns and tell them to go away.
Speaker 1: Not not everybody, and to be clear, probably not everybody
Speaker 1: in France either or even connected with the Louver, but
Speaker 1: enough that they were able to shut it down. You
Speaker 1: take and already you're standing in line everywhere you go.
Speaker 3: I mean, it'd be catistrophic to take tourism away from
Speaker 3: some of these European countries. It would like destroy their GDP. Now,
Speaker 3: I like Germany might be able to survive because obviously
Speaker 3: they have a lot of like you know, so they
Speaker 3: do have a lot of industry for you, Yeah, but
Speaker 3: like the rest of them, like, why else are you
Speaker 3: going to France. But for the tourism, it's it.
Speaker 1: But also like people fly, cause you might have to
Speaker 1: pick a day where you get a ticket a day
Speaker 1: because that's how they manage it. So like imagine you
Speaker 1: flew from Los Angeles or whatever, flew from North Carolina,
Speaker 1: go over there, this is your day at the Louver. Right,
Speaker 1: you've been looking forward to this. Maybe you're a bit
Speaker 1: of an arc guy or gal, and you're super excited.
Speaker 1: You want to see just how small the Mona Lisa
Speaker 1: actually is. By the way, it's a lot smaller than
Speaker 1: you think. But that's fine, that's cool. And then no,
Speaker 1: you just nope, don't get to do it. And you know,
Speaker 1: you got your ticket, you got your travelers, nothing you
Speaker 1: can do about it. You think you're ever going to
Speaker 1: go back to France again? Feeling that burned? Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: it's not that's not a good idea. All right, Well
Speaker 1: here's a good idea. Let's get raced agic from the
Speaker 1: weather channel to uh make things warmer or something, because
Speaker 1: that's what I need. Yeah, how about it. Apparently that's
Speaker 1: what we asked for because that's what you did, so
Speaker 1: I did it. Thanks. Yeah, you're welcome, you're welcome.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and some of the same areas that got hit
Speaker 6: Sunday Sunday night got hit again yesterday and overnight with
Speaker 6: a heavy rainfall.
Speaker 1: So still that apartment building in West Virginia.
Speaker 6: Not I did not, but that was with the flesh
Speaker 6: flooding there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, google that.
Speaker 6: Holy yeah, I know there's been some floodings. Really, I
Speaker 6: mean it's it's been a catastrophe. I mean that might
Speaker 6: be a strong word to use, but we've had multiple
Speaker 6: deaths on West Virginia. I think I think Ohio, San
Speaker 6: Antonio last week, I think we were up to ten
Speaker 6: or eleven. Unfortunately, this is one of the things flash
Speaker 6: flooding can be a kill or it's just crazy how
Speaker 6: much rain you can get in a short period of time.
Speaker 6: And that's what we've had over the last twenty four hours. Again,
Speaker 6: two inches around carry point four to nine at Walnut
Speaker 6: Creek and point seven two Walnut Creek South, even up
Speaker 6: towards the north northern side of town and Raleigh point
Speaker 6: sixty six inches. Have a little bit less out in
Speaker 6: the triad, but still they had some showers thunder showers yesterday,
Speaker 6: amounting to some decent totals almost two inches is Ryan Creek.
Speaker 6: That was one area that got hit in North Buffalo
Speaker 6: Creek at Westover Terrace in Greensborough one point one seven
Speaker 6: and the showers luckily this morning, continuing to push on
Speaker 6: off toward the east and diminishing heading out near Greenville.
Speaker 6: But more maybe coming. Not a great chance today, just
Speaker 6: had mid stuff this afternoon. But the heat and humidities
Speaker 6: with us as we get to the low nineties, upper
Speaker 6: eighties for the Triad, feeling like the mid upper nineties,
Speaker 6: maybe as hot as one hundred, and then tomorrow sunshine,
Speaker 6: little bit nineties, heat into seas that are above one hundred.
Speaker 6: Then we'll get back to some showers and thunder showers.
Speaker 6: On Thursday, I temperatures load to mid nineties again the
Speaker 6: heat and close to one hundred or over. Then we're
Speaker 6: really gonna crank it up Friday, maybe only near ninety,
Speaker 6: and then Saturday, Sunday, Monday hot humid, mid nineties, maybe
Speaker 6: some upper nineties. I think it's Friday night that summer
Speaker 6: officially arrives at right on time. At this big Remuda
Speaker 6: high coming in. Some of us will see you heat
Speaker 6: into see's dangerous heat getting well over one hundred.
Speaker 1: Oh oh summer is not here yet. Is that the
Speaker 1: game you're running? Okay, well, officially it's not. It's meteorological summer.
Speaker 6: I think it's Friday night. I gotta look that up
Speaker 6: for next time.
Speaker 1: OHO update us, Update us in an hour? Okay, well right,
Speaker 1: very good. All right, there you go, raced AJ from
Speaker 1: the Weather Channel. All right, seven forty eight. Hang on,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be uh, we're gonna be chatting a little
Speaker 1: more specific. I was just mentioning, uh, the toot and
Speaker 1: common thing. Ross wants some curse swags, so I'll see
Speaker 1: what I can do about that. You want curse scepter
Speaker 1: or a cursed crown? Do you have a do you
Speaker 1: have a cursed preference? I can only pick one because
Speaker 1: I need the set. I would think, right, what do
Speaker 1: you need the double scepters like on his tomb or?
Speaker 3: I mean I would, I mean I could compromise and
Speaker 3: just go with one scepter, but if you could give
Speaker 3: me like a sceptor for each hand, they'd be better.
Speaker 3: I would.
Speaker 1: Okay, but you also want the crown, because now we're
Speaker 1: getting a little greedy. I do, but they're cursed.
Speaker 3: What does that mean?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: Am I like? Do I wield the curse or would
Speaker 3: I be cursed all.
Speaker 1: Like in the Mummy? Yeah? Or is it the Mummy?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: What's the one with the rock Scorpion King? You want
Speaker 1: to be Scorpion King? Was that the rock in Scorpion?
Speaker 1: I think that was okay because that was a little
Speaker 1: there's a little cursing going on there, and then there's
Speaker 1: the Mummy, but there's the like what Brendan Fraser mummy
Speaker 1: or Tom Cruise mummy and I don't think you want that?
Speaker 1: Or like in Suicide Squad, that was a problem too, right,
Speaker 1: some cursing going on there. Brother and sister, If you've.
Speaker 3: Been listening to this show for a while, you're pretty
Speaker 3: much much like an Egyptologists at this point. Like the
Speaker 3: wisdom and the knowledge we pass out involving these sort
Speaker 3: of topics like the black sarcophagus that they found were
Speaker 3: once again, if you find a bone juice, open it
Speaker 3: and you drink the bone juice. We've gone over this
Speaker 3: numerous times, so we really do offer a big service
Speaker 3: to the audience when it comes to knowledge like this.
Speaker 1: Do you know why, because someday somebody in our audience
Speaker 1: will find themselves presented with one of these choices, right all. Look,
Speaker 1: and it's not just us people. Ross. Let's say you
Speaker 1: found yourself in an ancient tomb with an immortal knights templar. Okay,
Speaker 1: and there's fifty there's fifty chalices, and you have to
Speaker 1: pick one as the cup of Christ. Do you feel
Speaker 1: like you now have enough information to make the correct selection?
Speaker 2: You do?
Speaker 3: And I don't like people putting limits on me. So
Speaker 3: what I would do is I would grab two of them.
Speaker 3: I would double fist the goblets there and I would yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I would just pour them down my gullet. I would
Speaker 3: drink immediately, probably like the nicest, most bejeweled one I
Speaker 3: could find to go to go with my double scepter
Speaker 3: and my crown.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and go with that one. How about this? How
Speaker 1: about this box? Should you stare into it? This very
Speaker 1: ornate box with the angels on it?
Speaker 3: And is it good for the skin? Is it?
Speaker 1: It is? It is? You will if you have acne,
Speaker 1: it'll clear it right up, so you'd get like a
Speaker 1: good tan from it, Get us something? Yeah? Absolutely. Now
Speaker 1: we're here to help you all make better choices, that's all.
Speaker 1: And you know we'll continue. Let's say you're thinking of
Speaker 1: taking a little vac to Tehran or something. Right, maybe
Speaker 1: that's on your list. I'm here to tell you probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't do that, especially if you planned with the fam
Speaker 1: after you check into your hotel, of going and eating
Speaker 1: it like Carabas or something. Don't worry if you have
Speaker 1: no idea what the heck I'm just talking about, we
Speaker 1: will fill you in the hour number three. It is
Speaker 1: day two of our week long broadcast up in western
Speaker 1: North Carolina. And a conversation and continue and not even
Speaker 1: just about cursed gold and artifacts from the Tuton Common Exhibit.
Speaker 1: Over at Builtmore Asheville, in the city of Asheville. There's
Speaker 1: there's really and I'm gonna get corrected probably here in
Speaker 1: a moment, but there's there's several key areas where things happen.
Speaker 1: There's you know, you got downtown. Of course, you've got
Speaker 1: as soon as the rad they like to call, but
Speaker 1: that's the arts district there, both upper and lower. And
Speaker 1: you have Builtmore village because of course Builtmore. That's the
Speaker 1: reason for the season for so many people who come
Speaker 1: to visit this part of the world. And the village
Speaker 1: area Builtmore Village area was among the hardest hit with
Speaker 1: the with the flooding from Helene. So we're gonna chat
Speaker 1: now with Kara Roni, who's the PR director for the association.
Speaker 1: They're good morning to you. How are you doing?
Speaker 2: Good morning, I'm doing all right.
Speaker 1: How are you so well? I'm good because I went
Speaker 1: over and I got to go eat over at Hillman's
Speaker 1: Brewery there, one of like seventy two thousand breweries in
Speaker 1: that in that part there, So that makes me happy absolutely.
Speaker 1: How happy are the tourists they're coming back over there
Speaker 1: and what can they expect now versus let's say the
Speaker 1: last time they were here was two years ago.
Speaker 2: Sure, I think that people's experience coming back to visit
Speaker 2: Asheville right now is very positive, but there's some mixed
Speaker 2: things that they're experiencing. So they're coming back into the
Speaker 2: city while we're still in multi phase recovery. And as
Speaker 2: you mentioned, Biltmore Village was one of the areas that
Speaker 2: was heavily hit by the storm. But I think that
Speaker 2: the big thing that people are recognizing when they get
Speaker 2: back to Ashville is that Ashville is totally open. You know,
Speaker 2: downtown is great. Most places still look like what they
Speaker 2: did before the storm, and people are very happy to
Speaker 2: have them back. And so there's a very warm embrace
Speaker 2: of visitors to our area that I think is very
Speaker 2: special for everyone that lives here because we love to
Speaker 2: share what this special place is here in the mountains
Speaker 2: and what it has to offer. And it's just nice
Speaker 2: to have people coming and enjoying that again.
Speaker 1: And I don't I don't want to dwell on the
Speaker 1: bad because there's so much good to talk about. But
Speaker 1: the thing I got to tell you, it was very
Speaker 1: emotional coming up and not just here, but coming up
Speaker 1: through the Back Cave, Chimney Rock area and an area
Speaker 1: down by Lake Leure where I've spent a lot of time,
Speaker 1: which it doesn't look like it.
Speaker 3: Used to it does not.
Speaker 2: That was definitely hit very hard and they're working hard
Speaker 2: to rebuild that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So when when you see that it because I
Speaker 1: saw pictures and videos and we talked to numerous guests,
Speaker 1: but you got to lay eyes on it. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: really have to see how things have changed. But then
Speaker 1: you also have to see how when when when you
Speaker 1: see these areas, how hard people are working to get
Speaker 1: them back to where they need to be. And well
Speaker 1: they may not look exactly the same when you get here. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of businesses that are just
Speaker 1: going to be in a different spot. So as you're
Speaker 1: watching this, as you know, the PR director there and
Speaker 1: you're watching this storm. And I asked this question earlier
Speaker 1: of our other guests, how bad did you think it
Speaker 1: would be versus how bad it really was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we Builtmore village has experienced rain events in the
Speaker 2: past that have definitely you know, caused flooding and things
Speaker 2: like that. Very common for historic areas. They're normally built
Speaker 2: along waterways traditionally, and you know, people were sandbagging their
Speaker 2: front doors, moving things up onto countertops. We've had this
Speaker 2: experience before, especially twenty years ago we had two hurricanes
Speaker 2: that came through and put about four and a half
Speaker 2: feet of water throughout the village. I don't think that
Speaker 2: anyone really was prepared for the scale and the scope
Speaker 2: of what happened with Helene, and everybody was pretty staggered,
Speaker 2: you know, I have to say, but with the people
Speaker 2: who operate in the Biltmore Village District especially, there is
Speaker 2: a very clear determination and dedication to maintaining, preserving There's
Speaker 2: a lot of responsibility that goes into being part of
Speaker 2: the historic Builtmore Village area, and you know, people were
Speaker 2: right out there. As soon as the rain cleared and
Speaker 2: the water levels went down, people were out there in
Speaker 2: muck boots get mad at already. So it was staggering
Speaker 2: and it didn't change in people's response. It just probably
Speaker 2: motivated people more.
Speaker 1: Honestly, the number I've been provided is eighty five percent back.
Speaker 1: Does that go for Biltmore Village or is that the
Speaker 1: city of Ashville? And what's the best way. What would
Speaker 1: you tell somebody who's on the fence about coming back
Speaker 1: because they go, well, let's give them some more time
Speaker 1: to get fixed. How should they scope it out to
Speaker 1: make sure? Because people a lot of people have repetitive
Speaker 1: experiences as families that they love, right sure, every year
Speaker 1: we do this, The kids love this. I mean, just
Speaker 1: just call the people you used to talk to them
Speaker 1: or call you guys.
Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, I think that most people are very happy
Speaker 2: to talk about what the situation is right now. I
Speaker 2: would say, don't has to take There's so much to
Speaker 2: experience in this area all across western North Carolina, not
Speaker 2: just Ashville. And the next phase of recovery that everyone
Speaker 2: is in right now is the economic recovery phase. And
Speaker 2: so keeping people working, keeping bills paid is so important
Speaker 2: to maintaining the special nature of our community here. And
Speaker 2: I would say that if you have special things that
Speaker 2: you've done every single year, you know, wonderful family traditions,
Speaker 2: call somebody up. Make sure that your hiking path is open, right,
Speaker 2: make sure trails are accessible, you know, make sure that
Speaker 2: you can access things in a safe way. And if not,
Speaker 2: everyone has a recommendation of what to do instead.
Speaker 1: So for you to do something that you hadn't done before.
Speaker 2: And then you all of a sudden have a new
Speaker 2: family tradition, you know, that becomes the next level of
Speaker 2: experience when you come visit the mountains.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's funny you mentioned I So one of
Speaker 1: my favorite things to do every year was to go
Speaker 1: camping at Price outside of Blowing Rock there and one
Speaker 1: year they had like they had to close the section
Speaker 1: of it on the lake side. Yeah, and it forced
Speaker 1: me to go camp at Mount Mitchell, which I never
Speaker 1: would have thought to do. By the way, it's kind
Speaker 1: of cold up there at night, but it was a
Speaker 1: really awesome experience. So the in the taking lemons and
Speaker 1: making lemonade phase, which is kind of what this is now,
Speaker 1: has it allowed you to do something different because you're
Speaker 1: you know, you were in that rebuilding phase that maybe
Speaker 1: you guys had wanted to do with the village. That's
Speaker 1: going to be a long term improvement.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think that with the village, especially
Speaker 2: when you talk about the historic section of Biltmore Village,
Speaker 2: the cottage district there, really it's about sustainability and maintaining
Speaker 2: and preserving what's already there. And the big difference between
Speaker 2: how Builtmore Village was affected versus how say, the River
Speaker 2: Arts District was affected, is that the historic buildings are
Speaker 2: naturally very resilient.
Speaker 1: They're built with solid.
Speaker 2: Timber frames, materials that were sourced one hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: years ago that are still very solid, and so they
Speaker 2: didn't get wiped out the way that modern buildings actually
Speaker 2: did in some of the path of the water that
Speaker 2: came through. And so I think that we are focused
Speaker 2: mostly on getting those buildings back up and running, getting
Speaker 2: the electrical, the dry wall, all of that stuff that
Speaker 2: was impacted, getting that fixed and ready to go so
Speaker 2: that people can open their doors again as soon as possible,
Speaker 2: and looking down, you know, a year, two years down
Speaker 2: the road to how can we you know, work with
Speaker 2: public partners, nonprofits, foundations to actually build resiliency and look
Speaker 2: forward to how do we mitigate things like this in
Speaker 2: the future.
Speaker 1: So, if people like to make Ashville or specifically your
Speaker 1: district kind of their base of operations, and of course,
Speaker 1: you know right across the street there's a really big
Speaker 1: house with a really nice garden and all of those things,
Speaker 1: what would you tell people that you should be on
Speaker 1: their radar? That's maybe kind of I don't know, within
Speaker 1: a thirty mile radius of Asheville that most tourists don't
Speaker 1: think about, but probably should this year. Do you have
Speaker 1: any recommendations?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, that's a really interesting question. There are
Speaker 2: so many things to explore in our area, and you
Speaker 2: can go, you know, in any direction outside of Ashville
Speaker 2: and find really unique things. Black Mountain is an incredible
Speaker 2: place that's only you know, fifteen to twenty minutes outside
Speaker 2: of Asheville, Weaverville, Waynesville, everywhere.
Speaker 1: Has a barbecue joint in Waynesville, Yeah, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Heywood over there, Yeah amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hit that up so and I think that,
Speaker 2: you know, it just depends on what you're looking for.
Speaker 2: There's art galleries, everywhere there's live music. The music scene
Speaker 2: here is incredible. You know, the food, all of the nature,
Speaker 2: the natural things are still very much accessible and open.
Speaker 2: So I think that one thing that I've noticed that
Speaker 2: when people come back to visit Ashville is they're actually
Speaker 2: surprised at how much it hasn't changed changed in certain areas.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I know, sometimes when we have an event like this,
Speaker 2: it's really easy for all of the images that you
Speaker 2: see coming out of it to be just the most
Speaker 2: catastrophic parts of that piece, which is very natural, totally
Speaker 2: human nature to want to see what that is. But
Speaker 2: not everywhere looks like that, and so I think that
Speaker 2: people are often surprised at how normal it looks. You know,
Speaker 2: we're still have leaves and plants growing in builtmore village
Speaker 2: and even though you know, some areas were under fifteen
Speaker 2: eighteen feet of water, everything still looks pretty good, other
Speaker 2: than you know, supplywood in some of the windows of
Speaker 2: people building back right now.
Speaker 1: To stress your point too, I was when I was
Speaker 1: in the rad district yesterday. There's two there's really there's two,
Speaker 1: there's upper and lower. And I was chatting with some
Speaker 1: people there and they were mentioning that you know, the
Speaker 1: word was getting out. Hey, the rad district is just devastated.
Speaker 1: People in the upper district like, no, we're open, We're open.
Speaker 1: It is lower and then they're all banding together. I
Speaker 1: saw the signs and everything they were doing yesterday, which
Speaker 1: was really great. So it's really important that if you
Speaker 1: have a question, you ask and don't just assume because
Speaker 1: you saw a picture of what happened. You know, going
Speaker 1: back to back Cavin Chimney Rock, that there's not opportunity
Speaker 1: over there or Lake Lure. I mean Lake Loure is
Speaker 1: one of the most famous destinations in North Carolina. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's got a movie connection, but it's iconic in the
Speaker 1: same way that my favorite thing about Biltmore was when
Speaker 1: it was used as the evil Lair in Annible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was the Hannibal or Red Dragon, whatever one of
Speaker 1: the follow ups was. And I love seeing that. I've
Speaker 1: only lived in North Carolina about fifteen years, but now
Speaker 1: I see that and it's fun to be proud of them.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, So what a task you have over there too,
Speaker 1: just considering the historic nature of everything going on, give
Speaker 1: me a timeline. When do you think you're going to
Speaker 1: be where you want to be one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so right now, we do have businesses that have
Speaker 2: been open for the last couple of months, which is
Speaker 2: pretty amazing. We had two openings just in the last week.
Speaker 2: We are seeing businesses really getting going now with being
Speaker 2: able to start rebuilding projects and insurance money is coming
Speaker 2: in and things like that are kind of coming together
Speaker 2: to help out.
Speaker 1: So we are looking at the end of the.
Speaker 2: Year to probably have seventy five to eighty five percent
Speaker 2: of the village back at least.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, all right, last question anyone in tourism of promotions,
Speaker 1: I always ask this, not your own stuff, where's your
Speaker 1: favorite place in western North Carolina if you've got to
Speaker 1: sneak away.
Speaker 2: I am a big fan of Brevard. I love Brevard,
Speaker 2: North Carolina, Oscar Blues Brewing. It's fantastic, the food there.
Speaker 2: It's a gorgeous area. That and Silva are two of
Speaker 2: my favorite spots to visit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, Well, hey, Cara, I really appreciate this.
Speaker 1: Cara Ronnie with the Biltmore Village Association, thank you for
Speaker 1: coming up to the station.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, and we will be right back hang on.
Speaker 1: Thank you. To Carr there for Kara Joan. I knew
Speaker 1: I was going to do that. Sorry about that, but
Speaker 1: from the Biltmore Village there really giving us a scope.
Speaker 1: She told me something off the air, and I wish
Speaker 1: she would have said it on the air, so I'm
Speaker 1: going to repeat it. I kind of asked her. I'm like,
Speaker 1: so I was asking her about some of the different
Speaker 1: restaurants in the area. And if you guys ever been
Speaker 1: over by Biltmore Village, they have a McDonald's that it
Speaker 1: looks like the Biltmore the way just the facade of
Speaker 1: the building is very you know, because it's got to
Speaker 1: blend into what's going on there. And she said, she said,
Speaker 1: like one of the calls she gets the most is
Speaker 1: people wanting to know if the fancy McDonald's is going
Speaker 1: to reopen. And that's what I'm talking about. Like, you
Speaker 1: get and we've had this conversation on the show. You
Speaker 1: get these these these stop off points, these places you
Speaker 1: got to hit, you know, the place the kids get
Speaker 1: really excited about before you take the trip. And you know,
Speaker 1: it could be the fancy McDonald's, it could be pagros
Speaker 1: in Ross's family, it's now BUCkies. If they see a Bucky's.
Speaker 1: I think they're legally obligated to stop at the Bucks.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine if you had a BUCkies that looked
Speaker 3: like the Biltmore That'd be incredible.
Speaker 1: Oh, that would be amazing, wouldn't it. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: the bathrooms there? We have like a butler in there
Speaker 1: and nicer than our house man. Yeah, that's a good
Speaker 1: point right there. You know what, maybe I'll text her
Speaker 1: and be like, hey, got an idea for you.
Speaker 3: And with the mountains, it could be a multi layered
Speaker 3: BUCkies see.
Speaker 1: Uh huh yeah, yeah absolutely. And he's stick of fancy
Speaker 1: McDonald's right next to it. Oh man, everybody everybody love
Speaker 1: that thing so or if it's the place you get
Speaker 1: taffy or whatever it is. And it's just interesting because
Speaker 1: like I don't care about a fancy McDonald's. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've don't have anything against McDonald's. You want to go
Speaker 1: to McDonald's, go to McDonald's. I'll go there occasionally, but
Speaker 1: like you know, people are like, ah, the fancy McDonald's,
Speaker 1: Whereas you know, I'm like, hey, is that brewery gonna
Speaker 1: how's that brewery doing? That's why I went down there
Speaker 1: to check, and they were doing just fine yesterday one
Speaker 1: of the ones I like. So that's why, that's why
Speaker 1: we do this stuff, and and and that's why again.
Speaker 1: I also asked her that question, like where do you go?
Speaker 1: Where do you like to go? And it's very interesting
Speaker 1: to hear hear people's answers on all that stuff. All right, so, oh,
Speaker 1: you know what, I would have to push this into
Speaker 1: the next segment so I have enough time. There's a
Speaker 1: couple of videos that went viral. Let me just give
Speaker 1: you a little setup that we're going to talk about.
Speaker 1: One is an interaction in Los Angeles with a driver
Speaker 1: who they may have already been arrested. They're probably gonna
Speaker 1: get charged. And it's interesting to see how Florida versus
Speaker 1: California deals with when you have these protesters surrounding all
Speaker 1: these cars. And so they had an incident and this
Speaker 1: chick got her foot or her leg run over, although
Speaker 1: I don't think it's broken because then she got up
Speaker 1: on it or her friends are just idiots and probably
Speaker 1: injured her more. But that's one of those things where
Speaker 1: it makes that's one of the things that makes me
Speaker 1: so nervous about where we're at with all this protesting
Speaker 1: stuff because believe it or not. I don't want people
Speaker 1: to get run over, whether I agree or disagree with
Speaker 1: them or not. But also I understand why drivers after
Speaker 1: watching Reginald Denny videos what happened to that old man
Speaker 1: in the white car up in Minneapolis, ahead of the
Speaker 1: Floyd stuff and some of these other incidents, the shooting
Speaker 1: on the freeway in Denver when they were having protests, like,
Speaker 1: I understand why people are freaking out and going you
Speaker 1: know what, I got my kids in the car. There's
Speaker 1: no way in hell I'm allowing myself to get surrounded.
Speaker 1: A couple viralish videos one you've seen various iterations of this.
Speaker 1: You have a group of protesters, they surrounded a vehicles,
Speaker 1: they had they had an incident in Burnsville where clearly
Speaker 1: there was an argument between two people politically and then
Speaker 1: one got in a vehicle. That's not what this is.
Speaker 1: This is somebody who's just trying to go to just
Speaker 1: trying to go wherever they're trying to go. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they're trying to go to work like that
Speaker 1: lady in New York was where mister Manbun was dressing
Speaker 1: her down, or remember the lady who unfortunately is now
Speaker 1: out of her car screaming my babies are in the car.
Speaker 1: My babies are in the car, and it leads it
Speaker 1: leads to these incidents where sometimes people go, they go
Speaker 1: you saw you probably saw that big ranch truck with
Speaker 1: the ten horse trailer behind it where they decided to
Speaker 1: move and the person standing in front of and by
Speaker 1: the way, one of the first things you learn growing
Speaker 1: up in Wyoming is don't stand in front of giant
Speaker 1: one ton duly pickup trucks haul and ten horse trailers.
Speaker 1: It's not a good idea, and in fact, it shouldn't
Speaker 1: just be a Wyoming thing. Ross When you were growing
Speaker 1: up in New York, did you think it was a
Speaker 1: good idea or a bad idea to stand in front
Speaker 1: of a giant pickup truck hauling a giant trailer full
Speaker 1: of livestock?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I probably wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's a no from the Schenectady area. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't do that. And here's the other thing too,
Speaker 1: what you One of the things you don't realize if
Speaker 1: you don't know anything about agriculture is it's not even
Speaker 1: just whoever's driving the truck. It's that if if you
Speaker 1: torment animals in a in a trailer, sometimes they'll they'll
Speaker 1: wig out on their own man, and it's very dangerous.
Speaker 1: We we we have not had one that had to
Speaker 1: be put down, but a friend of mine had a
Speaker 1: horse that jumped over a gate. Because there's like partition gates.
Speaker 1: You can as you put the horses in these gates
Speaker 1: swing out like shutters, how to describe it to you.
Speaker 1: And this horse got freaked out about out something when
Speaker 1: they were toning it on the highway, and you could
Speaker 1: feel it freaking out, and it literally got itself over
Speaker 1: and it hung itself. So animals don't if you ever
Speaker 1: stood next to a cattle truck and they get a
Speaker 1: little weird, well, now, so you're surrounded by people screaming
Speaker 1: at it. And so I don't know what he was hauling.
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell in that video. But if he's got
Speaker 1: cattle back there, he's got horse, he's got whatever. There's
Speaker 1: also there's a probability that you could freak those animals
Speaker 1: out to the point where they injure themselves, kill themselves,
Speaker 1: destroy the trailer and get out. And if they're hauling
Speaker 1: a bull of good luck with you man.
Speaker 3: That was like you said, I was born you know,
Speaker 3: and raised city as you can be, and it's like,
Speaker 3: you don't want to spook the animals. So it's like
Speaker 3: common sense, right.
Speaker 1: No, And if you're if you claim to be a
Speaker 1: compassionate person, you should you should recognize that they don't
Speaker 1: do well. You want to you want to irritate a
Speaker 1: beef rancher, do anything to cause his cows to want
Speaker 1: to move faster. What you want are you want your
Speaker 1: cows to be the laziest pieces of garbage on the planet. Okay,
Speaker 1: because you don't want them taking weight off because weight
Speaker 1: is all that matters. That's all that matters in the
Speaker 1: grand scheme of things. What's the weight of that cow
Speaker 1: when you turn it back and sell it to the
Speaker 1: slaughterhouses so that they can feeder it for eighteen months?
Speaker 1: You know, I learned a lot about this process, strangely enough,
Speaker 1: by learning about Temple Grand and you know, severely autistic,
Speaker 1: and she she did a lot in the cattle industry.
Speaker 1: She specifically to calm the cattle.
Speaker 3: She invented a way so they wouldn't get spooked when
Speaker 3: they were like moving around, like like a way to
Speaker 3: corral them. So, yeah, you don't want to. And we've
Speaker 3: told the story before about how easily you know, horses
Speaker 3: can be like spooked, like with Clint Eastwood when he's
Speaker 3: on set. We tell the story before that A lot
Speaker 3: of actors when they first meet Clint Eastwood or work
Speaker 3: with him, they're surprised because when he says action, he
Speaker 3: doesn't yell action. He whispers it, and he whispers a lot.
Speaker 3: And that's because the first show he was on, right,
Speaker 3: it was the first show. Is that western show he
Speaker 3: was on, uh.
Speaker 1: Or not Bonanza?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I can't remember what the exact but but on the
Speaker 3: show they worked with the horses and he's rifleman, right,
Speaker 3: but he wouldn't. He learned quickly. You know, you don't
Speaker 3: do that because if he yelled, was gonna spook them,
Speaker 3: So he'd be quiet around him. So when he says
Speaker 3: action action like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you got to. And it's also why people
Speaker 1: would come out west and get injured. I think it's
Speaker 1: a wagon train. It was a wagon train. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I think you are right. Well here look it up
Speaker 1: right here. People are gonna start calling, oh no, raw Hide. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was on raw Hide. It was rowdy, yates. But
Speaker 1: you should check out all three of those shows. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: hey man, look I love I love old Western shows.
Speaker 1: He can't go wrong there. But you know, it's also
Speaker 1: where people get it wrong, they get it twisted, where
Speaker 1: they think you can shoot off horses. I explained this
Speaker 1: on the radio, like the conversation that I used to
Speaker 1: have with anyone. It was coming out west to you know,
Speaker 1: hunt on our property or other property where we may
Speaker 1: have you know, done some guide services there is if
Speaker 1: you're using horses, which by the way, are your largest
Speaker 1: insurance costs in an outfitting operation. It's not the firearms,
Speaker 1: it's the horses. Man, that's where the injuries happen. And
Speaker 1: you tell people, I don't want you shooting off the
Speaker 1: horse while you're sitting on it. I don't want you
Speaker 1: laying your rifle across the horse's saddle as a rest.
Speaker 1: I don't want you obviously shooting in the direction of
Speaker 1: the horses. And if you are going to fire your weapon,
Speaker 1: try to move as far away as possible. And it's
Speaker 1: not just because you might spook the horse and the
Speaker 1: horse you get injured, but also if you take a
Speaker 1: shot or you're let's say you're trying to get in
Speaker 1: a prone position near the horse, and the horse doesn't
Speaker 1: know what you're doing. The horse may make a bunch
Speaker 1: of noise, and inevitably, every year some jackass will think
Speaker 1: he's in a Western and you know, he'll get flung
Speaker 1: off the thing, or he'll get kicked, or something else
Speaker 1: will happen where the horse will take off, and then
Speaker 1: I got to spend the afternoon try to find the
Speaker 1: damn horse. So not understanding that is, you know, these
Speaker 1: are the things that I'm talking about with that with
Speaker 1: that trailer, Well, there's no horses going on with this video,
Speaker 1: unless I guess you want to be insulting to some
Speaker 1: of the people involved. There's just an idiot stand in
Speaker 1: front of this car and now it's getting surrounded by
Speaker 1: lunatics and this driver's like, I'm not having them. They
Speaker 1: said some stuff. And what's even crazier is this is
Speaker 1: going on and like it's if the one element of
Speaker 1: modern day protesting that seems to become a thing where
Speaker 1: you don't obstruct traffic were removed, I think that I
Speaker 1: think this would be such a smooth process because I
Speaker 1: feel like that's ninety percent of where people and I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about the people who are the counter protesters,
Speaker 1: yelling across at each other. You know, do what you're
Speaker 1: gonna do it. And if you guys are all just verbal whatever,
Speaker 1: nobody cares do your thing. But once you start obstructing people,
Speaker 1: you corner people or they feel like they're trapped. Now
Speaker 1: you got a problem, man, Now you got a problem.
Speaker 1: All right. So that's one of two videos. The second video,
Speaker 1: and maybe you've seen this, is this amazing little piece
Speaker 1: of footage where one of the Iranian state TV propagandist
Speaker 1: newscasters whatever you want to call this woman. She's sitting
Speaker 1: there and she's rambling on about whatever she's rambling on about,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you hear this giant boom.
Speaker 1: There's debris and like dust flying everywhere. You see her
Speaker 1: get up from her desk and scurry out of there.
Speaker 1: They just they just got hit with an Israeli strike. Man.
Speaker 1: Listen to this, which, by the way, I would point out,
Speaker 1: this is basically what Arc Whitman does on a near
Speaker 1: weekly basis. So it's like it wouldn't even Ross doesn't
Speaker 1: even get up even.
Speaker 3: Lying it actually happened, well, not to this extent this morning,
Speaker 3: and it's been happening every morning when I'm recording commercials,
Speaker 3: at like four in the morning, the alarms in the
Speaker 3: building have just started going off and like like like clockwork,
Speaker 3: four o'clock and flashes like you're in an apocalypse now,
Speaker 3: and it's loud and you can't record it. At this point,
Speaker 3: I'm just like, I don't even care. I don't even
Speaker 3: care if it's burning down. This is my extinction event.
Speaker 3: I don't care.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I hear you there, man, all right, So
Speaker 1: here's here's by the way, what what that event sounded like?
Speaker 4: Yeah, happys oni.
Speaker 1: Fas it sounds by the way, that explosion sounds almost comical,
Speaker 1: does it. It sounds like somebody overdubbed a sound effect.
Speaker 1: They didn't. Now, we were trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: she's saying, right, I'd be very interested to see what
Speaker 1: she's saying. So I did task Ross with using because
Speaker 1: he's got that he pays for the Twitter and so
Speaker 1: he's got the groc tools. Were you able to come
Speaker 1: up with the translations?
Speaker 3: And you've been doing so much there in western North Carolina,
Speaker 3: and I'll pick up this slack and do the translation
Speaker 3: for you. So I put it through groc So, yeah,
Speaker 3: we have translated it. Okay, all right, So here's what
Speaker 3: here's what she was talking about just before the.
Speaker 1: Explosion. They're in the building. Listen to this.
Speaker 4: That's Italian cuisine.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. So she said at Olive Garden, we treat
Speaker 1: you like family. The breadsticks are unlimited, the chefs are
Speaker 1: chained in tusky. I'm looking at the transcript here, which
Speaker 1: I now have questions about. And what was the last
Speaker 1: thing she said.
Speaker 3: I think she said death to Carabas. Now listen, I've
Speaker 3: heard this before numerous times. I've heard that. But listen, listen, man,
Speaker 3: the situation over there is very complex.
Speaker 1: It's completing. It is it's a tribal part of the world,
Speaker 1: and it has been since, you know, forever.
Speaker 3: And now we're seeing breadsticks used as propaganda, which you
Speaker 3: hate to see, but I mean, it just adds another
Speaker 3: layer to this. Like I'm confused now, I don't know
Speaker 3: which restaurant to eat on because I'm like, I'm more you,
Speaker 3: I'm pro Israel.
Speaker 1: So I have no idea what she said death to Carabas.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Like I'm now, I'm conflicted, But I
Speaker 3: think both these countries need to sit down for a
Speaker 3: delicious meal together.
Speaker 1: That's what I think Carabas or Olive Garden at Olive Gard.
Speaker 1: But they can't even agree on that. What if it's
Speaker 1: reverse psychology, A big part could be okay, all right,
Speaker 1: but that's an interesting translation there. Groc isn't always accurate,
Speaker 1: so it could be wrong. So but you didn't the
Speaker 1: question it. You just put it right up there. You went, yep,
Speaker 1: must be right. Yeah, okay, all right, raced agic who's
Speaker 1: mostly right all the time, he's here, Go ahead, right sir, okay,
Speaker 1: right away, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think some people have started complaining about the heat
Speaker 6: and humidity, and I'm just gonna give them all nichols
Speaker 6: worth of free advice. Don't complain about this, complain about
Speaker 6: what is on the way. First time I've said Bermuda high,
Speaker 6: and that's going to be big time heat toward the weekend,
Speaker 6: first couple of days of summer, with summertime officially coming
Speaker 6: in at ten forty two Friday night temperatures in and
Speaker 6: around the Triangle over the weekend early next week, mid
Speaker 6: upper nineties going to push the heat in next well
Speaker 6: over one hundred gonna be that air you can wear
Speaker 6: very uncomfortable, air masks, very hot, very dangerous, especially for
Speaker 6: the elderly and the young kids and the pets. So
Speaker 6: get ready for the ac isn't tuned up yet. I
Speaker 6: do it no real treat though. The next couple of
Speaker 6: days it stays humid, upper eighties. Try it load nineties
Speaker 6: triangle today with a few shower storms. Tomorrow we actually
Speaker 6: escape with very little wet weather. A few showers thunderstorms
Speaker 6: are possible up eighties to the little bit nineties, and
Speaker 6: even tomorrow we could see the heat and next close
Speaker 6: to one hundred. A Thursday, maybe a shower thunder shower
Speaker 6: near or above ninety. The heat in next close to
Speaker 6: one hundred. I think Friday, the airmiss may be a
Speaker 6: little less humid, but still warm, as we're on either
Speaker 6: side of ninety. But then the weekend it's going to
Speaker 6: start to build. The heat's coming. It looks like it's
Speaker 6: going to stick around for quite a few days.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you, sir. We'll talk tomorrow. Okay, all right, man,
Speaker 1: and we'll be right back with Jeff Bellinger. Hang on
Speaker 1: to what's going on. Good morning.
Speaker 4: Case had some games on the stock market yesterday, but
Speaker 4: investors are unsettled again after a warning from Israel's military
Speaker 4: to residents of Tehran. Stock market futures are lower, oil
Speaker 4: prices are rising. Israel advised more than three hundred thousand
Speaker 4: Iranians to evacuate the capital city. Overall retail sales came
Speaker 4: in weaker than last month. The government reports sales fell
Speaker 4: nine tenths percent in May. Autos and gasoline accounted for
Speaker 4: much of the decline, and with those categories excluded, sales
Speaker 4: were up three tenths percent. Sales for a closely watched
Speaker 4: control group of sales were also up three tenths percent.
Speaker 4: A big promise today from craft Hinds. The food maker
Speaker 4: announced all of the products it sells and the US
Speaker 4: will be free of synthetic dies by the end of
Speaker 4: twenty twenty seven. Craft Heines is the largest American packaged
Speaker 4: food company to make such a commitment so far. It's
Speaker 4: become common for the workday to encroach on workers downtime.
Speaker 4: Microsoft analyzed the use of its business applications for its
Speaker 4: annual work Trend study. It found increases in the number
Speaker 4: of meetings that start after eight pm and in the
Speaker 4: number of users who monitor their work in boxes until
Speaker 4: ten PM or later. About a fifth of users are
Speaker 4: actively working on weekends, and don't be surprised if you're called.
Speaker 3: Into a meeting today.
Speaker 4: Tuesday is the most common day for meetings. President Trump's
Speaker 4: family is launching a new business venture. It's a mobile
Speaker 4: phone operation that will offer handsets made in America and Casey,
Speaker 4: Artificial intelligence will be used to create advertisements for Facebook
Speaker 4: and Instagram. The parent company Meta Platforms is testing an
Speaker 4: AI powered image to video tool that can turn still
Speaker 4: pictures into multi scene video ads.
Speaker 1: Casey, I don't know that stuff. Some of that stuff
Speaker 1: seems a little nightmares to me with some of these
Speaker 1: ads they're coming up with. So yeah, hopefully they get
Speaker 1: the kinks worked out.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: All right, Jeff, have yourself a good one, sir. Appreciate
Speaker 1: you too, Talk to you tomorrow. Yeah, there you go,
Speaker 1: Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg News.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: I think they're rushing this whole. Let's have AI create
Speaker 1: all our ads. I don't know about you, guys. Some
Speaker 1: of the examples are not good, not good at all.
Speaker 1: All right, real quick, I want to leave you with
Speaker 1: this story today. Ross, what is the explanation whenever they
Speaker 1: talk about immigration and for surrounding agricultural production. What do
Speaker 1: you always hear people say?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they'll say, you know, well, Americans want to take
Speaker 3: those jobs, right, yeah, yeah, Oh.
Speaker 1: You don't want lettuce. You don't like lettuce for under
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars ahead. So NBC News had to be
Speaker 1: beside themselves putting this story together. Omaha, Nebraska was home
Speaker 1: to one of the largest work site immigration raids thus far,
Speaker 1: a company called Glen Valley Foods. So they came in
Speaker 1: and let's see how many do they actually take out
Speaker 1: of their sixty five I think during a single rate,
Speaker 1: sixty three there it is, all right, so sixty three,
Speaker 1: Oh no, it's actually I'm sorry, seventy five. A dozen
Speaker 1: had already been deported to transferred out of state. Sixty
Speaker 1: three others take it. So seventy five workers at this place,
Speaker 1: they should just devastate it right now. They're not going
Speaker 1: to be able to do anything. Here's the first line
Speaker 1: of the story NBC News. Every seat in the waiting
Speaker 1: area of Glen Valley Foods was occupied with people filling
Speaker 1: out job applications. Two days after the meat packing plant
Speaker 1: became the center of the largest work site immigration rate
Speaker 1: in the state, of Nebraska thus far.
Speaker 3: Well, that's weird. So they got rid of those jobs
Speaker 3: and then Americans came for those jobs. That's what happened, correct, Yes,
Speaker 3: and they're acting like it's a bad thing.
Speaker 1: No, it's a good thing, absolutely, But it's like, I
Speaker 1: bet they hated writing it right there.