Speaker 1: US is down on surprises. This morning, we were just
Speaker 1: having a conversation here. Do you not like surprises? Some
Speaker 1: people don't like surprises.
Speaker 2: I mean, it really just depends on my mood. But yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I went to bed last night. You know, it's like,
Speaker 2: what's the big surprise gonna be in the morning, because
Speaker 2: I ran as like, oh, you got a big surprise,
Speaker 2: because we're gonna yeah surprise. It's gonna be a surprise
Speaker 2: that's gonna be remembered for the centuries. And they're like
Speaker 2: posting videos of like it looks like a mini nuke
Speaker 2: from Fallout, like a tiny bomb or like a radioactive
Speaker 2: sticker on it that's obviously like AI generated and they're like, ah,
Speaker 2: you just wait in the overnight and there's a surprise.
Speaker 2: And I woke up and there's no surprise? Was there?
Speaker 2: Did I miss something?
Speaker 1: I mean, did you want the surprise to be a
Speaker 1: nuke from Fallout, which is, by the way, a game.
Speaker 1: If I guess some of you don't know that.
Speaker 2: I wanted to be like like I figured they would
Speaker 2: do something.
Speaker 1: Yeah happened, Ah, not that I know of. No, maybe
Speaker 1: it's still Look, we're on different it's different time zones man, Right,
Speaker 1: So like you're on Ross, you're on Ross time zone,
Speaker 1: you're on Ross calendar, and Iran's not on your calendar.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're behind us, right, No, they're they're ahead
Speaker 2: of us there in front of us. So right, so
Speaker 2: it should have already happened. I should have woke up
Speaker 2: and been like, ah, there's the surprise.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Also, is it really a surprise when you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: there's a surprise coming, Like if you had Let's say
Speaker 1: you had a surprise for your son, right, you got
Speaker 1: him something or whatever he wanted. Do you tell him, hey, buddy,
Speaker 1: I got a surprise for you coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 2: We we actually do, because he doesn't, do you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we have to if we if he If you just
Speaker 2: surprise Lincoln with something like hey buddy, I got you
Speaker 2: this thing, it'll be bad.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, all right, that was not a good example.
Speaker 1: Let's say you want to get your sweet wife something, right,
Speaker 1: you wanted to be like uh, you know, you know
Speaker 1: Romeo or whatever. You get her a little you get
Speaker 1: her a little gift or whatever. Do you tell her like,
Speaker 1: I'm getting you a gift. It'll be a surprised Like
Speaker 1: two days out or do you just priz or.
Speaker 2: You do it two days out and then when it
Speaker 2: doesn't show up, you're like, I don't know the postal
Speaker 2: service lost it or somebody stole it, but I got
Speaker 2: you this amazing thing that didn't come ah.
Speaker 1: Chi ching, right, so you get the points and you
Speaker 1: don't spend any money, all right. That sounds like horrible advice,
Speaker 1: I some would some would say, so, I don't know
Speaker 1: what the surprise at this Iran is basically the Heraldo
Speaker 1: of the Middle East at this point, I don't know.
Speaker 2: They are, because they keep doing this. They're like you
Speaker 2: just wait, you wait, it's gonna it's gonna happen. And
Speaker 2: you have these like posts or these accounts on social
Speaker 2: media that are like, you know, I don't know they're
Speaker 2: actually like related to Iran. Some of them are, I'm
Speaker 2: sure fake, but some of them do have like the
Speaker 2: little emblem, like the little symbol, so you know they
Speaker 2: related to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Iran military a count and then the main
Speaker 1: one they've been tweeting like a son of a gun man.
Speaker 1: Those are their account those are their accounts, yeah.
Speaker 2: And very like ominous foreshadowing type posts like oh it's
Speaker 2: gonna happen. You just wait, you just wait. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like we're gonna hit you at Capone's vault.
Speaker 1: So I have a surprise.
Speaker 3: What is it?
Speaker 2: Well, I can't tell you. And it's not for you.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's for whoever walked into the studio that I'm
Speaker 1: broadcasting from in Ashville all week, which I love doing,
Speaker 1: and unplugged all of my stuff. And I don't mean
Speaker 1: from the wall. Yes, it was unplugged from the wall.
Speaker 1: Somebody came in overnight or I guess yesterday afternoon probably,
Speaker 1: and I have it's you know, I have these two
Speaker 1: devices that I use when i'm you know, remote broadcasting
Speaker 1: up here in Nashville, and they unplugged like all the
Speaker 1: microphones and mike cables, the plugs in the wall, the
Speaker 1: audio cable that sends from the one device to the
Speaker 1: other device so they could broadcast it back to my
Speaker 1: Raleigh studio. So ross can you know, put it up
Speaker 1: on the board. Somebody came in and unplugged all this stuff.
Speaker 1: So I walk in this morning and I'm like, who
Speaker 1: would do this? Why did this happens? So whoever did it?
Speaker 1: I want you to know I got a surprise coming
Speaker 1: for you. You're gonna love it, and I will make it
Speaker 1: my mission at nine oh one to day to figure
Speaker 1: out who you are so you could get your surprise.
Speaker 1: Do I sound as ominous as I ran? I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not as foreboding I should be. It should be
Speaker 1: need to you know.
Speaker 3: What I mean?
Speaker 2: Like, Oh, you're you're all gonna pay your son? I
Speaker 2: don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's probably there's probably a code of conducting violation.
Speaker 2: You think it was intentional, Like somebody came in and
Speaker 2: they're like scaredy somebody.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, right dude, because you know in the
Speaker 1: back of this thing, you have all the different mic
Speaker 1: position cables, right because like you know, I have the guests,
Speaker 1: they have the microphone over there, I have my microphone.
Speaker 1: There is the cable that runs it from the mixer
Speaker 1: to what's called a Comrex device, which is the actual
Speaker 1: call it a modem for all practical purposes, there is
Speaker 1: and then there's the power cable for both devices. And
Speaker 1: then there's a third power cable that goes to the
Speaker 1: laptop that I use to access the button bar and
Speaker 1: the callscreener. Every single thing was individually unplugged from everything
Speaker 1: else and then the wall. So what I'm assuming, because
Speaker 1: if we get conspiratory, I'm assuming some salesperson came into
Speaker 1: this room where I have set up my radio studio essentially,
Speaker 1: was having some phone call where they were talking about
Speaker 1: some really sketched stuff, looked over and went, I wonder
Speaker 1: if those microphones are recording and unplugged all this stuff.
Speaker 1: That's my theory, and I'm probably right, because if you
Speaker 1: don't understand the equipment, you might think that. So I
Speaker 1: have a surprise for whoever you are when I find you.
Speaker 1: So that's for me, and it's not chocolates either, or
Speaker 1: fly or anything nice like that. Surprise is I'm going
Speaker 1: to figure out who did it, and then tomorrow morning,
Speaker 1: when I'm broadcasting, I'm going to go into your office
Speaker 1: and I'm going to unplug everything, and that will require
Speaker 1: me to crawl under your desk so that when you
Speaker 1: come in and attempt to do your job none of
Speaker 1: your crap works. Surprise, which is far more which is
Speaker 1: which has far more bang for your buck than Heraldo
Speaker 1: opening Capone's vault. Okay, don't screw with the morning guy
Speaker 1: at o dark thirty in the morning, because we're vengeful
Speaker 1: and I think it'll be hilarious to do it to you.
Speaker 1: So other than or a ghost, that's the other ross.
Speaker 1: The other theory is a ghost. So what do you think? Oh,
Speaker 1: you know what, maybe it's the it's the curse of
Speaker 1: toot in Common. We talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you mocked me yesterday for bringing that up. By
Speaker 2: here we are, I didn't mock you.
Speaker 1: I explained that it was The tomb is a replica
Speaker 1: The actual sarcophagus is a replica of If you guys
Speaker 1: don't know, they have like a thousand of the thousand
Speaker 1: piece display of the items from Tuton Common's grave at
Speaker 1: the Biltmore this summer. And so we're talking about that,
Speaker 1: A ross immediately thought it must be cursed.
Speaker 2: But I didn't mock you, did I.
Speaker 1: I don't think that.
Speaker 2: I'm just looking after your safety. And you're like, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: And now look and now look how.
Speaker 1: Weak is the curse If it went from murdering everyone
Speaker 1: who walked in to unplugging my mic cables, like what
Speaker 1: kind of It's not even a curse at that point,
Speaker 1: is it?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 2: They're tired, man, they've been around for a long time.
Speaker 1: That's a minor annoyance.
Speaker 2: Sure you tried cursing for you know, three thousand years
Speaker 2: or whatever it is?
Speaker 1: Well, no, because they only found the thing in what
Speaker 1: the twenties or the thirties or something.
Speaker 2: Is that three thousand years. It's sort of like the
Speaker 2: genie just being in the bottle forever. It's waiting, like
Speaker 2: here we go, and I.
Speaker 1: How amazing would it be if it can If it
Speaker 1: was like Robin Williams, man, you know how stoked I'd be.
Speaker 1: I have some questions for that dude anyway. All right,
Speaker 1: So it's either the two, the curse of toot in
Speaker 1: common or a salesperson who wanted to have a raunchy conversation.
Speaker 1: I don't know which it is, but I will find
Speaker 1: out and we will be right back. It's twenty one
Speaker 1: here on the CaCO Day radio program, phone number eight
Speaker 1: eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Sorry,
Speaker 1: he'll pop up window. I'm like, what is happening now?
Speaker 1: But it's just telling me to update some stuff. By
Speaker 1: the way, Ross, did you see the email we got?
Speaker 1: That's probably them trying to catch us into doing somethinghere.
Speaker 1: They're like all of your laptops seed to be upgraded
Speaker 1: to the new Windows. Did you see that in your
Speaker 1: inbox yesterday?
Speaker 2: I think I saw something from the lady that sends
Speaker 2: out all the scams or something idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, By the way, just just to be clear, she
Speaker 1: doesn't actually send out scams. She sends out test emails
Speaker 1: so that she can then you know, if we click
Speaker 1: on something, she's like, dah, you feil for a scam.
Speaker 1: And I got to tell you some of it is
Speaker 1: downright diabolical. Yeah. Like they sent one out one time, Yeah, yea,
Speaker 1: you know the one I'm going to reference there.
Speaker 2: There's two of them. They sent it one one time
Speaker 2: where it was like, hey, your upcoming vacation has been
Speaker 2: canceled and yeah, and it looks like it's from the company,
Speaker 2: like the software in the program we use, and like
Speaker 2: a screenshot and you're like click here for whatever. And
Speaker 2: I looked at it. I was like hmm, And I
Speaker 2: remember I you know, I texted our boss at the
Speaker 2: time and I said, has my vacation been canceled? And
Speaker 2: He's like, no, everybody's emailing me or texting me. It's
Speaker 2: a it's a phishing thing to see if you're gonna
Speaker 2: fall for the scam. And the other one was like
Speaker 2: there was another one involving like.
Speaker 1: Your pay Yeah, like you get no money, no money,
Speaker 1: your money's yeah, like you're gonna be like paid for
Speaker 1: one hour in your upcoming check and you're like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: enjoy enjoy being poor and not on vacation. Well in
Speaker 1: a way, if you don't have any money, then you
Speaker 1: can't You probably shouldn't go on vacation, right, So I
Speaker 1: saw that yesterday, and I'm like, my laptop will never
Speaker 1: get upgraded because it's probably true. I believe that that
Speaker 1: that the email is probably true because it's not asking
Speaker 1: you to click for anything. It's just informing you that
Speaker 1: this is a thing's gonna happen. But I'm also like,
Speaker 1: I don't feel like I'm gonna take the chance. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'll just give me a Windows ninety five.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 1: So anyway, just happened, And so I just got to
Speaker 1: pop up window from my laptop telling me that now
Speaker 1: would be a really good time to do the upgrade,
Speaker 1: you know, right in the middle of the show. So, uh,
Speaker 1: there you go.
Speaker 3: What is this?
Speaker 1: People have surprise theories from Iran here, I would prefer
Speaker 1: no surprise how's that, well, that that would be a
Speaker 1: good thing? What is this is the new thing with Democrats?
Speaker 1: A politician trager arrested. I'm assuming you're referring to the
Speaker 1: New York City comptroller, which, by the way, does anyone
Speaker 1: know what a comptroller does? Don't lie, you don't. So
Speaker 1: this jackass goes to where he knows that there's going
Speaker 1: to be immigration arrests in New York, locks arms with
Speaker 1: those trying to get arrested or to keep them from
Speaker 1: getting arrested, gets detained and arrested himself, and now he's
Speaker 1: so it's all so tiring, and I like, does it
Speaker 1: move the needle? Can I ask somebody who is is
Speaker 1: is more likely to vote for I guess a Democrat?
Speaker 1: Does it move the needle? When you see like, are
Speaker 1: you like, oh wow, that person was brave. They went
Speaker 1: down with a fotography crew, locked arms for about thirty
Speaker 1: seconds with this guy who's getting arrested themselves got arrested
Speaker 1: kind of but not really. And now I'm voting for them,
Speaker 1: Like how does that work? It just it it's so performative,
Speaker 1: and just to be clear, it's not a partisan thing.
Speaker 1: I hate it. I hate it all around. I mocked
Speaker 1: the crap out of Republicans or Democrats that do these
Speaker 1: little stunts. I'm just really bothered that it might work
Speaker 1: with some people. That's the part that kills me. Like
Speaker 1: when they had that Republican congressman and brought the snowball
Speaker 1: into the House chamber and he's like, see.
Speaker 2: There's snow outside. Here's some snow. I brought him from
Speaker 2: outside global warmings, not real.
Speaker 1: And it's like, what are you doing. It's December, bro
Speaker 1: of cour It's December and there's snow out.
Speaker 2: Nobody's that's not a thing. Or the guy who brought.
Speaker 1: In the uh KFC, right, remember remember the jackass you
Speaker 1: brought in the bucket of KFC to eat it because
Speaker 1: he was mad at Chick fil A? Who responds to
Speaker 1: things like this? Do you understand how simple you have
Speaker 1: to be? How you you a single digit IQ required
Speaker 1: to look at things like this and go, that person's
Speaker 1: fighting for me, that's my politician. So you know, when
Speaker 1: I see the comptroller getting himself arrested, the it's it's
Speaker 1: just it's it's stunts. It's all stunts, and I can't
Speaker 1: understand why they keep doing it. I can't understand why
Speaker 1: these Democrat politicians keep swearing too. I love swearing, don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong. The fact that I've not done it
Speaker 1: on the radio yet if you ever talked to me
Speaker 1: in person, especially if I'm relaxed, I probably I could.
Speaker 1: I could benefit from cleaning up my vocabulary, not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: And yet I saw Kathy Hokeel who who texted about
Speaker 1: or she tweeted about the arrest of the comptroller and went,
Speaker 1: this is.
Speaker 2: BS, but didn't say BS said.
Speaker 1: The whole thing or something like that. Some swear word
Speaker 1: in there. And the reason they're doing that is because
Speaker 1: of that poll we talked about where Democrat voters, when
Speaker 1: asked what do they think of their party, had a
Speaker 1: very low opinion. It was less but but you know,
Speaker 1: which is not unusual after you've lost a big election.
Speaker 1: But then they're like, well, what do you want? We
Speaker 1: want them to be tougher, we want them to be meaner.
Speaker 1: So swearing in tweets and stupid YouTube videos while they're
Speaker 1: eating tacos, that's not anything. That's not substantive, that's not
Speaker 1: a thing. You're not out accomplishing any there.
Speaker 2: Once again, they're trying to get that blue color vote
Speaker 2: again and there it's it's like a stair right, you know,
Speaker 2: like if I swear, the average guy is going to
Speaker 2: be like, hey, it is very insulting. Yes, that's what
Speaker 2: it is. Though, It's like, look, I'm a common man.
Speaker 2: I swear like you do.
Speaker 1: You know what it is. It's Hillary with the hot
Speaker 1: Sauce Cambria Hotel, which is owned by the same ownership
Speaker 1: group in Asheville and they own a bunch of other
Speaker 1: stuff too, but the the head of that company, the owner,
Speaker 1: Alex Fraga, is actually going to join us on the
Speaker 1: show today. That'll be coming up at eight o five
Speaker 1: so and that'll kind of that'll kind of complete the
Speaker 1: trifecta of what you know from a Buncombe County standpoint
Speaker 1: and the different various areas you know, builtmore village, downtown Ashville,
Speaker 1: like the River district there and the outlying areas of
Speaker 1: really the hardest hit under Helene uh with half of
Speaker 1: the casualties as you're probably aware, and so very look
Speaker 1: looking forward very much to speaking with him. And it
Speaker 1: was very awesome too that they came on board to
Speaker 1: sponsor this, so and we're gonna speak with them before that.
Speaker 1: I just want to be clear. So but you know,
Speaker 1: full disclosure and all that stuff. Uh oh what ross
Speaker 1: you got? You got something in your truck trap this morning?
Speaker 1: Look at.
Speaker 2: Truckload of blueberries? Like blueberries? Yeah, yeah, you make like
Speaker 2: smoothies smoothie action or now you put in some protein
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, look at that. Well you got a whole truckload, man,
Speaker 1: so you better get after it.
Speaker 2: You ever think that? So the surprise I ran, surprise
Speaker 2: Maybe they're the ones responsible for your cables. Maybe that
Speaker 2: was the surprise.
Speaker 1: You think that I ran in Their last gasp was
Speaker 1: to come to Ashville and unplug three cables.
Speaker 2: I can see them there.
Speaker 1: They sneak two power cables, two three mic cables and
Speaker 1: two power cables. They sneak in the unplug it and
Speaker 1: they're like free Palestine and they leave. What are they
Speaker 1: dressed as a camel So, I mean it's just two dudes.
Speaker 1: Would you rather be the front of the camel or
Speaker 1: the camel butt in the front? Well yeah, but think
Speaker 1: about it. If you're in a if you're in war,
Speaker 1: that's the part pointing at the enemy. So if you're
Speaker 1: the camel butt, you got a human shield in front
Speaker 1: of you. And you know how much they love human
Speaker 1: shields in the Middle East, Right, I feel like.
Speaker 2: This is like the South Park like human centipede thing. Now,
Speaker 2: you got to be smart man when you choose here.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you like Asian food, that was working
Speaker 1: out for you, right, wasn't it The dude from the
Speaker 1: the city Walk that was the front of the centipede
Speaker 1: and he kept eating like the craziest.
Speaker 2: He kept eating the craziest like pangle in. Right, He's like,
Speaker 2: do you want the vanilla paste or the right like
Speaker 2: the cuttle fish?
Speaker 5: Yeah, was like, yeah, what a great episode?
Speaker 1: Is that? The one? Is that the one that they.
Speaker 3: Did?
Speaker 1: You ever see the documentary that's like seven days to
Speaker 1: air or whatever it is that is It's only an
Speaker 1: hour long.
Speaker 2: It is a phenomenal documentary and it shows the process
Speaker 2: of putting an episode of South Park together because they
Speaker 2: do it in the span of like five or six days, right,
Speaker 2: most days seven days and and some some days they
Speaker 2: bring it to air like like they'll finish it and
Speaker 2: they'll bring it to air with twenty minutes to spare,
Speaker 2: whereas like shows like The Simpsons, at least back in
Speaker 2: the day when the documentary is made the Simpsons will
Speaker 2: take like, you know, one episode will take months, you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: a long time. And that's why South Park can be
Speaker 2: a lot more relevant to the news of the day
Speaker 2: because they're making it on the spot than in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I want to say the episode that they're making in
Speaker 1: that is the that one, because it's that and there's
Speaker 1: there's because there's two things going on in the episode.
Speaker 1: I think it's that one. It's hilarious whatever it is.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the whole process is very interesting if you
Speaker 1: ever get a chance to check that. Oh no, oh no,
Speaker 1: well that's uh, Ross, did you uh, I'm assuming oh
Speaker 1: wait it's cuddlefish and asparagus what our listeners knows exactly
Speaker 1: the episode? Yeah, go for the vanilla paste. Go for
Speaker 1: the vanilla paste.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: So Stanley Cup? Do you watch the the uh the
Speaker 1: finals for hockey yesterday? Huh that's unfortunate. Oh man, and
Speaker 1: that's that is that? That's too bad? Ross? Did you
Speaker 1: see this? Canada didn't win the Stanley Cup again this year?
Speaker 2: I mean, how how long has it been since since
Speaker 2: they've won? Hockey is supposed to be their thing, right,
Speaker 2: like it's oh yeah, they.
Speaker 1: Got all the snow and the ice and then the
Speaker 1: hot you know even there like they're pulling the campaign
Speaker 1: for prime minister, and then then the way the marketing
Speaker 1: that they did to fight back against Trump when they
Speaker 1: you know, when all that was going on was uh
Speaker 1: you know, uh it was hockey references. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know this, maybe people didn't if they're not
Speaker 1: into hockey. Literally they were hockey fighting references is how
Speaker 1: they would talk about their battle with Trump. So so
Speaker 1: it hasn't been that long, right, uh, Ross, do you
Speaker 1: remember President Clinton?
Speaker 2: I do, yes, way back in the nineteen hundreds, I
Speaker 2: believe that was president right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. So the last time that Canada has won
Speaker 1: a Stanley Cup was ninety three, so that's a minute.
Speaker 1: That's actually that's more years than there are hockey teams.
Speaker 1: And since Canada has what five teams, mathematically they should
Speaker 1: have won five of them if it's evenly distributed. But
Speaker 1: I understand it's not evenly distributed because hell, the Vikings
Speaker 1: haven't won a Super Bowl, so I know.
Speaker 3: How this goes.
Speaker 1: But you got five slots out of you know, thirty,
Speaker 1: and I think, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: I think we've talked about it before, right, A lot
Speaker 2: of it comes down to, like, do you want to
Speaker 2: play in Canada and pay a ridiculous amount of taxes right,
Speaker 2: or go to Florida and I have to pay those taxes.
Speaker 2: I mean we saw that, the Bills saw this in
Speaker 2: football with Tyreek Hill, right, Tyreek was going to maybe
Speaker 2: go to New York, but he's like, I don't want
Speaker 2: to pay those taxes. And he went down to Florida
Speaker 2: and people gave him a tough you know they were
Speaker 2: they were like giveing him a tough time about it
Speaker 2: at the time, but like, oh, you're putting your your
Speaker 2: paycheck in front of your possibility for a Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: And he's like, hell yeah, I am.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if you' and I mentioned this
Speaker 1: to you off the year. I don't know that we
Speaker 1: talked about it off the year. So one some politician
Speaker 1: who is I guess represents Edmonton, so that's where the oilers, right.
Speaker 1: He was bemoaning the fact that it's unfair because hockey
Speaker 1: players want to go play in like they want to
Speaker 1: go play for the Stars in Dallas, or they want
Speaker 1: to go play for the Panthers in Florida, right, And
Speaker 1: he's like, it's not fair because we can't compete. And
Speaker 1: his thing was not to have Canada not tax the
Speaker 1: crap out of people. His what he was demanding was
Speaker 1: that the NHL tax people or essentially have a have
Speaker 1: all the taxes paid into a big pool and then
Speaker 1: level all the players.
Speaker 2: So he didn't want like in equity tax or something.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Essentially, so if you if you played in Texas and
Speaker 1: you played in and let's say you played in Edmonton, right,
Speaker 1: and if you if you played and it was eight
Speaker 1: percent of was your local tax, then they would take
Speaker 1: eight percent from the Florida hockey players thing, put it
Speaker 1: in there, and then level it off so that the
Speaker 1: player in Canada would only end up with a four
Speaker 1: percent tax liability, and then the Florida player would pay
Speaker 1: four percent. They wanted to steal rather than just not
Speaker 1: taxing the crap out of their citizens.
Speaker 2: Now, hold on, they're not going to steal. They just
Speaker 2: want to move the money around a little bit, you know.
Speaker 1: Right, right, redistributing, Yeah, because that sounds better day Yeah, yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: look what happened to him, right? You know that there's
Speaker 1: a he was assassinated conspiracy theory, right, I've not heard that.
Speaker 1: Oh maybe I have, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: why would they not assassinate him till like ten years later.
Speaker 2: If you're doing it.
Speaker 1: If if you're worried that a guy is somehow, you know,
Speaker 1: the face of a political movement that you object to,
Speaker 1: do you not murder him for ten years?
Speaker 2: No, you murder him right away. Oh So they're saying,
Speaker 2: like Obama killed him because what the embarrassings.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's just Obama, you know, deep state,
Speaker 1: you know whatever, one of those generic things.
Speaker 2: But but I mean Obama won, so it really didn't
Speaker 2: matter at the time, right, Yeah, that's why you don't
Speaker 2: have to get around to killing him right away, because
Speaker 2: you already got what you wanted. So yeah, I tend
Speaker 2: not to believe that. That's my second That's the second
Speaker 2: craziest conspiracy theory I'm going to tell you about today.
Speaker 1: All right, So who did uh? Who did the the
Speaker 1: Canadians lose to yesterday?
Speaker 2: Well, another.
Speaker 1: Area of this world that is an absolute you know,
Speaker 1: really into hockey. You know, kids growing up skating around
Speaker 1: on that frozen lake Ross. Have you heard of the
Speaker 1: area called Florida? Have you the hockey mecca that is Florida.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have, yes, Yeah, so you know how much
Speaker 2: they love hockey.
Speaker 1: You know, those kids growing up on the frozen ponds
Speaker 1: and whatnot, just skating around pretending to be Gretzky.
Speaker 2: I mean when you learn that's who you lost to
Speaker 2: when you when you learn to play in a frozen swamp.
Speaker 2: I mean, they just gives them an advantage from the beginning.
Speaker 1: And think about this too. Not only are you having
Speaker 1: to skate on the floor on the swamp, but at
Speaker 1: any moment, an ice skater could pop out, right, so
Speaker 1: you don't have to just look for defenders, right, whoever's
Speaker 1: on the other shift from you. At any moment, ice
Speaker 1: skaters pop right through the ice hoole.
Speaker 2: Right, would you rather, like, you know, personally, would you
Speaker 2: rather fight a moose or an ice skater?
Speaker 1: No, well, you know, or or both?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: A lot of moose down in Florida too, I think,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm not checking that, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: just kids have gone through.
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about I'm not talking about the ice moose.
Speaker 2: I'm just talking about a moose. Oh regular moose. Oh,
Speaker 2: well that's different.
Speaker 7: Ah.
Speaker 2: How many ice skaters just one?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know, so anyway, Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: way to lose the tea, way to lose the sport
Speaker 1: that requires everything to freeze. Two people who live where
Speaker 1: it doesn't freeze. But there's always next year, So you know, maybe.
Speaker 2: What was the last who is it?
Speaker 1: Who is it the Canadians? Who was in ninety three? Yeah,
Speaker 1: just looking that up, just like I just want you
Speaker 1: to have all the information. It's been that long. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: You're talking about first term Bill cleon.
Speaker 2: Ninety three. It's crazy, that's embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And people go because I have know, you know,
Speaker 1: not just first term. I'm talking first World Center, World
Speaker 1: Trade Center bombing, if you know, if we're trying to
Speaker 1: put this in, we're talking at Reno, Greece and people
Speaker 1: at Waco and about you know a few months later.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm taught.
Speaker 1: And that's how long it's been since Canada. Who's got
Speaker 1: five Bites at the Apples has been Pablo Escobar was
Speaker 1: still doing Pablo Escobar stuff in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 2: Here's one that will blow your mind.
Speaker 4: Ross.
Speaker 2: Do you know what else happened?
Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety three, NFL Free agency was created.
Speaker 2: Wow, it's been that long.
Speaker 1: The first penniem chip was created. The modern computer, so
Speaker 1: they had the ability to run things like Windows. Windows
Speaker 1: ninety five wasn't a thing yet, which I referenced earlier
Speaker 1: in the show. It's been that long since Canada has
Speaker 1: won a Stanley Cup. You guys should quit. It doesn't
Speaker 1: look like it's gonna happen. Go back to you know,
Speaker 1: concentrate on the curl and lean in man. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: want to dwell on the misery that is being a
Speaker 1: hockey fan in the entire country of Canada, because that
Speaker 1: would be rude. But I did think that this would
Speaker 1: be a fun game. Ross, I want to play a game.
Speaker 1: I want you to tell me if the movie I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you is newer or older than the last
Speaker 1: Canadian Hockey championship, right, this will be a fun game.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay?
Speaker 1: I think so? All right, let's see here, do Unforgiven?
Speaker 1: Is that newer? Did that happen more recently or less recently?
Speaker 1: The release of Unforgiven? Oh?
Speaker 2: I think that was ninety two? Maybe maybe you are correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you nailed it there, two. So they have since
Speaker 1: the release of Unforgiven, the Canadians have won a Stanley Cup. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, so uh let's see here do I got
Speaker 1: my little list here?
Speaker 2: All right? Batman returns, Batman returns. That would be let's see,
Speaker 2: that would be maybe like ninety four, ninety three, ninety four.
Speaker 1: Nope, that's also ninety two ninety okay, all right, Forrest Gump,
Speaker 1: the inspiration the inspiration for the haircut of that weirdo
Speaker 1: in Minneapolis, by.
Speaker 2: The way, that yeah, that's like ninety four.
Speaker 1: Correct, Yes, so Forrest Gump. The entire time Forrest Gump
Speaker 1: has existed, the Canadians have not won the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 2: Because that was a ridiculous year at the Oscars, because
Speaker 2: you had Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump and I think pulp
Speaker 2: Fiction up for Best Picture or something stupid and The
Speaker 2: Lion King.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you have Forrest Gump, Shawshank, pulp Fiction, the
Speaker 1: Lion King. I think Clerks came out that year too,
Speaker 1: not that that was the Best Picture nominee, but yeah.
Speaker 1: So just to put that in perspective, Lion King, Forrest Gump,
Speaker 1: pulp Fiction, and Shawshank Redemption are newer since their release,
Speaker 1: the Canadians have not won a Stanley Cup. Read into that,
Speaker 1: what you will all right. Now, some people are like, what,
Speaker 1: don't come on, man, look at that. Yeah, but most
Speaker 1: of the people who play hockey or Canadian one. That's
Speaker 1: not true. Not to say there's not a lot of
Speaker 1: Canadian hockey players, but it's actually more embarrassing because the
Speaker 1: really good Canadian hockey players choose to not play for
Speaker 1: They could play for Canadian teams. Connor Bedard could play
Speaker 1: for a Canadian team. Every player from Canada the plays
Speaker 1: for the Carolina Hurricanes could play for a Canadian team.
Speaker 1: But they choose to And I don't begrudge them at all.
Speaker 1: They choose to play for other teams, whether it's financially
Speaker 1: motivated or more likely they want to win a championship.
Speaker 1: But if you got about five solid, top tier Canadian
Speaker 1: players that you could spread over a couple shifts, I'm
Speaker 1: talking like the Krem de la Creme, and they all
Speaker 1: made a conscious decision to dream team stuff because you know,
Speaker 1: Canadian patriotism, they could do that. So AnyWho, All right,
Speaker 1: I'll stop for now, but I'm sure I'll bring it
Speaker 1: up at some point in the future, very very soon.
Speaker 1: We're doing it live, doing it live to quote Bill O'Reilly, Oh,
Speaker 1: that would have been a fun drop for this. All right,
Speaker 1: that's on me. And when I say live, I mean
Speaker 1: live from the mountains, oh North Carolina. As we continue
Speaker 1: our broadcast, I'm up at iHeart Ashville, and we're up here.
Speaker 1: We've talked to a lot of great folks. We've got
Speaker 1: more that will be joining us coming up both today
Speaker 1: and through the rest of the week, and just really
Speaker 1: trying to put a spotlight on what's going on up
Speaker 1: here post Helene, because I know there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people such as myself who maybe haven't been up to
Speaker 1: the mountains since Helene, haven't taken the trip obviously going
Speaker 1: back last year, a lot of people for obvious reasons,
Speaker 1: we were so close to the storm.
Speaker 2: But now you know, things are open.
Speaker 1: And I got to tell you a lot more is
Speaker 1: open than even I thought was going to be the
Speaker 1: case up here.
Speaker 2: And it is a testament to not giving up obviously.
Speaker 1: And you know, we've talked about all of the political
Speaker 1: side of this too, having to really really fight for recognition,
Speaker 1: help and then watching what people were willing to do
Speaker 1: to step up. I think there's a lot of people.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you how much because that's
Speaker 1: not the point of this, but I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people were willing to financially step up and give
Speaker 1: I made a couple donations. I'm sure many of you
Speaker 1: did as well. Some of you did drive up and
Speaker 1: you put sweat equity into helping fellow North Carolinians. And
Speaker 1: it shows and it has paid big dividends for a
Speaker 1: lot of these areas. Now there are areas that still
Speaker 1: continue to struggle and are working their way back because
Speaker 1: they were victims of more than just the storm. They
Speaker 1: were victims of a changing topography, which is an amazing thing.
Speaker 1: I talked about the area over by Back Cave and
Speaker 1: Chimney over there, where you know, one of the things
Speaker 1: that we see in North Carolina.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of towns.
Speaker 1: Have these where you have like little stores and cafes
Speaker 1: and restaurants that are kind of built on stilts to
Speaker 1: kind of overhang some of the rivers and creeks. And
Speaker 1: a lot of the roads up in the mountains run
Speaker 1: adjacent to the water because it's a natural place to
Speaker 1: put a road because it carves out the bottom of
Speaker 1: a passageway. Those are gone in some instances and will not.
Speaker 1: They're not going to be able to build them back
Speaker 1: roads are going to be in different places. So being
Speaker 1: able to come out and see it and truly get
Speaker 1: a deeper understanding of what happened in our state has been.
Speaker 1: It's it's been emotional, man, because I look at places
Speaker 1: that I have been on a dozen different you know,
Speaker 1: a dozen different trips, and I realized that little cafe
Speaker 1: where I would go get breakfast whenever I would be
Speaker 1: in the particular area. You know, we all kind of
Speaker 1: get our favorite is not there, and now it's going
Speaker 1: to be over here, and maybe it doesn't come back.
Speaker 1: But for all of the all of the stuff that
Speaker 1: we did, even though we may not have lived up
Speaker 1: here in the mountains, the donations we made, the driving
Speaker 1: truckloads of you know, bottled water, maybe your church did something.
Speaker 1: The way that you can help now is, dare I
Speaker 1: say the fun way come up and do the vacation
Speaker 1: thing and if you you know, go to where you
Speaker 1: used to go, spend the money up here, because for
Speaker 1: so many of these communities, it is the lifeblood of
Speaker 1: how they exist and how they will continue to exist.
Speaker 1: And not just the city of Asheville, which is obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, really the biggest example, but all the little
Speaker 1: towns too, all those little places along the parkway that
Speaker 1: you go to that fudg shop at Little Switzerland, which
Speaker 1: is you're pulling there. You want to see the happiest
Speaker 1: kids you've ever seen. Pull into the Little Switzerland fudge
Speaker 1: shop there and watch them barreling out of the car.
Speaker 1: Man parents look at all haggard. They're just like, oh man,
Speaker 1: they're already out of control. Now we're going to stick
Speaker 1: fudging them. But you do it, and you do it
Speaker 1: because that's what you like to do. So this is
Speaker 1: this is this is how you give back. Now, this
Speaker 1: is how you help. Now. If you're on the fence,
Speaker 1: I would encourage I would encourage you to come up
Speaker 1: and I don't care where it is. Go where you
Speaker 1: used to go, do what you used to do, and
Speaker 1: maybe do some new stuff. Expand what it means to vacation.
Speaker 1: And would we have weather in the Triangle and the
Speaker 1: Triad like we got going on this week. I shouldn't
Speaker 1: have to twist your arm to want to come up
Speaker 1: in the mountains. It was it was downright pleasant. Ross
Speaker 1: Was it pleasant in Raleigh yesterday? Would you say it
Speaker 1: was pleasant outside? And yeah, if anything about it, say no, no, okay,
Speaker 1: not pleasant.
Speaker 2: It's getting stupid hot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just gonna stay up here. I live here now. Actually,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go higher up. I'm gonna go to the
Speaker 1: top of Mount Mitchell and build a cabin. Do you
Speaker 1: think they'll have a problem with that since it is
Speaker 1: a state park thing? Maybe I'm not looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: We'll make fun of raced Agic later in the hour
Speaker 1: when he comes on to torture us. All right, what
Speaker 1: would you say your hobbies are? Ross? What are your hobbies?
Speaker 1: What would you say your hobbies are? I like gaming,
Speaker 1: I like lifting. I'm really big into like theology and
Speaker 1: the Bible at the moment. Yeah, well is that a hobby?
Speaker 1: What did you call it a hobby?
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's taking up a considerable amount of time.
Speaker 2: So all right, I'm really enjoying it.
Speaker 1: Good, good, good good.
Speaker 2: Have you thought of recreational terrorism?
Speaker 1: Have not?
Speaker 2: What you know? I just I'm very busy.
Speaker 1: Okay, well maybe you don't. Maybe don't lift anymore? No,
Speaker 1: replace it with recreational terrorism. Have you thought of that?
Speaker 1: I haven't be easier on your muscles. Maybe I don't know,
Speaker 1: depending on how you're terrorism goes. Maybe get rid of
Speaker 1: the gaming. Have you thought it's not gaming and touching
Speaker 1: grass outside while you're committing recreational terrorism.
Speaker 2: I think they'd be a waste though, because I've invested
Speaker 2: so much money into that hobby that I you know,
Speaker 2: it'd be a waste of money, and that would be
Speaker 2: financially irresponsible in my part. Okay, I have to keep playing,
Speaker 2: all right, I'm so frustrated with golf this year. Maybe
Speaker 2: how quick that and start recreational terrorism? And I know
Speaker 2: what you're thinking, You're going, Casey, what the heck are
Speaker 2: you talking about? I'm talking about this thing I learned
Speaker 2: about yesterday from this absolute lunatic who decided to post
Speaker 2: a video that I'm sure has been forwarded to the
Speaker 2: FBI three thousand times.
Speaker 7: The only way anything's going to change in this country
Speaker 7: is if more people embrace recreational terrorism. There's been a
Speaker 7: lot of recent videos of ice raids, and I can't
Speaker 7: help but feel like there's all these empty rooftops here
Speaker 7: where citizens could go and show their appreciation for these
Speaker 7: literal Nazis terrorizing their commute. It is, they could go
Speaker 7: up there.
Speaker 2: And show their support.
Speaker 1: Okay, first, what makes terrorism recreational versus regular terrorism. I
Speaker 1: guess that'd be my I mean, I got a lot
Speaker 1: of questions.
Speaker 2: That's the first one. Well, first, he's a psychotic, maniac, lunatic.
Speaker 2: They should be locked up in prison for a long time.
Speaker 2: But anyway, rightly saying like, you know, if you have
Speaker 2: like a full time job and you can't commit, you know,
Speaker 2: all the way to the terrorism, it'd be like a
Speaker 2: part time gig.
Speaker 1: So part well, that would be part time terrorism.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's like right, maybe if there's like a tier system,
Speaker 2: like full time, part time recreational more like volunteer terrorism.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm still trying to figure out what makes it
Speaker 1: recreational though, because I understand part time terrorism. You're busy,
Speaker 1: it's a side. You know, there'd be a terrorism side hustle.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Recreational you do when you
Speaker 1: when I used to think of the word recreational, you're
Speaker 1: doing it because you love it for the love of
Speaker 1: the game, so to speak. So I don't know, Also,
Speaker 1: you're culturally appropriating, sir, since clearly, uh clearly you're you're
Speaker 1: all aboard on this stuff. You realize that your culture
Speaker 1: ross you realize it's cultural appropriation what he's promoting too, Right,
Speaker 1: how's that? Who are the rooftop people? Who are the
Speaker 1: rooftop people as we learned during the Rodney King and
Speaker 1: LA riots. Oh okay, so the rooftop Koreans? Right, So
Speaker 1: this guy's taking jobs from Korean rooftop people.
Speaker 2: Do you follow that one guy on social on X
Speaker 2: there's the one rooftop Korean his name is something Moon,
Speaker 2: his last name is Moon. But he's crazy like he is.
Speaker 2: He's based as all hell, believe it or not, and
Speaker 2: he flies off the handle.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: He's he's entertaining.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think I've seen his stuff.
Speaker 2: I don't know that this should be follow with the show.
Speaker 2: He's a good he's a good follow Okay, Yeah, this
Speaker 2: guy's This guy's taking you know, trying to take jobs
Speaker 2: from a Korean liquor store into convenience store owners.
Speaker 1: Because I think the dudes in LA this lunatic. Let's
Speaker 1: play Lunatic's audio one more time, shall we?
Speaker 7: Honestly, the only way anything's going to change in this
Speaker 7: country is if more people embrace recreational terrorism. There's been
Speaker 7: a lot of recent videos of ice raids, and I
Speaker 7: can't help but feel like there's all these empty rooftops
Speaker 7: here where citizens could go and show their appreciation for
Speaker 7: these literal Nazis terrorizing their communities. They could go up
Speaker 7: there and show their support.
Speaker 1: Okay, And here's the thing. I just want to be clear.
Speaker 1: I don't want anyone recreationally or otherwise going, hey, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm gonna embrace some terrorism. But more I
Speaker 1: just want to point this out. I find it really
Speaker 1: amusing whenever I see the tough guy leftist protesters who
Speaker 1: think they will want to get into essentially a civil
Speaker 1: war with the Maga folk. Do you think that's gonna
Speaker 1: work out for you? Do you want? Do you you
Speaker 1: you wanna? You wanna go at like all the Hillbillies
Speaker 1: that live in Joco or Rockingham or one of the
Speaker 1: You don't want that, I say Hillbillies affectionately. You don't
Speaker 1: want to get into it in mass with those people.
Speaker 2: You want to mess with the with the mountain the
Speaker 2: mountain folk. I don't think so, Yeah, yeah, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah you want. When I was over in Waynesvill, you
Speaker 1: don't want you don't want that. You don't want the
Speaker 1: guys at that gas station that I stopped at yesterday
Speaker 1: when I was driving over there, which are all good
Speaker 1: old boys for lunch eating, you know what, they had
Speaker 1: like some sandwiches over in the gas station. They're all
Speaker 1: sitting there eating in their work trucks. Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: you know, they're they're got pipeline, their construction guys, all
Speaker 1: of that. You don't those guys. You don't have many
Speaker 1: guns they have. They have all the guns and they
Speaker 1: like shooting them, So don't do it. You ever noticed
Speaker 1: those videos where they have do you remember, like the
Speaker 1: Antifa where they were like training in the mountains, but
Speaker 1: they're all like a buck five, dripping wet, and they're
Speaker 1: doing like this weird Steven segall knockoff bad Ninja stuff
Speaker 1: and it's and they're serious. They're like, oh, we're getting
Speaker 1: ready for you. It's just you don't want this, sir.
Speaker 1: So as much as this fever dream enticed you enough
Speaker 1: to make this video, that probably got you on the
Speaker 1: radar of some government agencies, so good luck with that.
Speaker 1: I don't feel that it works out for you. Also,
Speaker 1: I kind of think that the other side's gonna have
Speaker 1: Arnold Schwarzenegger on their team. You don't want that either.
Speaker 1: I don't care how old the dude's getting, he's still
Speaker 1: he'll squish you. And also he will make the ladies
Speaker 1: the View said, I'll explain next here on the CaCO
Speaker 1: Day radio program, Arnold Arnold Schwartzeneger was on The View yesterday.
Speaker 1: Of course, you know, Arnold is the former governor, obviously
Speaker 1: Republican governor, but a California Republican governor. And it's you know,
Speaker 1: as far as a fealty to always being on one
Speaker 1: side of the issue or the other. You know, I've
Speaker 1: seen Schwarzenegger over the years really come down. You don't
Speaker 1: know where he's going to come down on stuff. But
Speaker 1: the ladies of the View, they must have thought he
Speaker 1: was going to be all about because you know, the
Speaker 1: California connection. He was going to be all about whatever
Speaker 1: they were pushing yesterday. And it was was kind of
Speaker 1: funny to watch the interview because it's clear while they
Speaker 1: thought that, it started going in a decidedly different direction
Speaker 1: when they started discussing the ice raids, the protests and
Speaker 1: all the rest. And you're gonna hear it. But also
Speaker 1: you got to understand, and this is a weird thing
Speaker 1: they do with the View where they start hands on you.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean like in a positive way, like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's praying, everybody put a hand on was pray for? No,
Speaker 1: They're like, it's the international view sign for shut up,
Speaker 1: and Arnold's not having any of it. I don't know
Speaker 1: how you thought that that was going to work.
Speaker 6: Listen to this now, if you are an immigrant, you're
Speaker 6: an immigrants country, did you have a visceral reaction to
Speaker 6: what they're doing, what is is doing when you see
Speaker 6: the videos of it? Well, I tell you you said
Speaker 6: that the immigrant I'm so proud and happy that I
Speaker 6: was impraised by the American people like that. I mean,
Speaker 6: imagine they came over here at the age of twenty one,
Speaker 6: but absolutely nothing. And then to create a Korea like that,
Speaker 6: I mean, in no other country in the world could
Speaker 6: you do that. Every single thing, if it's a bodybuild
Speaker 6: in Korea, if it's my acting Korea becoming governor, the
Speaker 6: beautiful family that have created.
Speaker 4: All of this is because of America.
Speaker 6: And so this is why I'm so so happy to
Speaker 6: see firsthand that this is the greatest country in the world,
Speaker 6: and this is the land of opportunity.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, And again this requires this this
Speaker 1: this thing that we do where we can't tell the
Speaker 1: difference between legal and illegal. So now they think, all right,
Speaker 1: Arnold's on our side, right, Well, not smart.
Speaker 6: But the key thing also is at the same time
Speaker 6: that you got to do things legal. That is the
Speaker 6: important thing, you know.
Speaker 4: So you've got to do things legal.
Speaker 6: And those people that are doing illegal things in America
Speaker 6: and they're there foreigners, they are not smart. Because when
Speaker 6: you come to America, your guest, and you have to
Speaker 6: behave like a guest, Like when I go to someone's
Speaker 6: house and I'm a guest, then that will do everything
Speaker 6: I can, keep things clean and to make my paid
Speaker 6: and to do everything that is the right thing to do,
Speaker 6: rather than committing a crime of being abusive with something
Speaker 6: like that. So that doesn't really work in this country.
Speaker 1: So I hang out. I just I'm gonna posit here
Speaker 1: just because I need a little more time for the
Speaker 1: rest of this clip. Seven thirty five and we are
Speaker 1: we're talking through some audio. I'm gonna grab a quick
Speaker 1: phone call too, because one of that kicked off all
Speaker 1: of the audio this morning was this guy who was
Speaker 1: promoting something called recreational terrorism, which again here.
Speaker 7: Here we go the only way anything's going to change
Speaker 7: in this country is if more people embrace recreational terrorism.
Speaker 7: There's been a lot of recent videos of ice raids,
Speaker 7: and I can't help but feel like there's all these
Speaker 7: empty rooftops here where citizens could go and show their appreciation.
Speaker 1: All right, so you get the gist of why this
Speaker 1: guy's on a list now, Probably first, don't do that,
Speaker 1: regardless of how you feel politically. Also, uh, as far
Speaker 1: as the rooftop goes the Korean, that's the Koreans. They
Speaker 1: got that, that's theirs. Okay, So in in in California
Speaker 1: based riotous or protest situations, the Koreans have it. So
Speaker 1: now you're culturally appropriating stuff too, so FYI are there.
Speaker 1: But also you don't want to I don't think you
Speaker 1: want to get into it with I do a bunch
Speaker 1: of dudes who do roofing all day, crawing roofs because
Speaker 1: uh uh they're probably better armed than you, probably a
Speaker 1: better shot than you too, So you don't think about
Speaker 1: think about what it is you're promoting, sir. All right,
Speaker 1: hold on, we have a recreation ross. We have a
Speaker 1: recreational terrorist on the Oh look at this. Okay, hold on, Anthony,
Speaker 1: what's up?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I do commercial rights stacy, and I'm on a
Speaker 8: roof seventy five percent of I'm gonna.
Speaker 4: Be in there up on the roof all week.
Speaker 2: Oh, I ain't doing nothing of their recreationally, right.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a fair point too. Well, you got
Speaker 1: to embrace it, sir. What a great side hustle for you.
Speaker 1: Since you're already on the roof, right, clock it out
Speaker 1: and then you know, terrorize or whatever.
Speaker 6: So I clock out him getting off the roof. I
Speaker 6: ain't staying up there.
Speaker 1: Oh god, all right, Well, look you're if you ever,
Speaker 1: if you ever change your feelings, just know that this
Speaker 1: is the thing my friend. Okay, Yeah, that ain't gonna happen. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll look at that. And he but ross
Speaker 1: he has to say that, you know, right, He can't
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, that's what I'm doing. So I get
Speaker 1: what's up. It's okay, Anthony, we won't help you. So
Speaker 1: anyway back to this, Arnold Schwarzenegger's on the view. They
Speaker 1: hit him with the you're an immigrant, don't you hate
Speaker 1: Donald Trump? Uh? And what he's doing a line of questioning,
Speaker 1: which is kind of what you expect from the view,
Speaker 1: and again it is this thing where we are we
Speaker 1: have an inability to recognize that there's legal and illegal immigration.
Speaker 1: And regardless of whether you want all the immigrants or
Speaker 1: you want no immigrants, the discussion as to a legal
Speaker 1: means is a healthy discussion, right, all right, So what
Speaker 1: should the laws be? And normal people would say, and
Speaker 1: the polling backs this up that if we have laws,
Speaker 1: that we should follow laws. Pretty common sense, and it
Speaker 1: is the majority position that being said, when they think
Speaker 1: they got Arnold, they don't realize they don't have Arnold
Speaker 1: because after he says, look, I'm an immigrant, it was
Speaker 1: thank you guys for embracing me. What a career I
Speaker 1: built here. The fact remains that Arnold immigrated to the
Speaker 1: US legally, eventually became a citizen, became a governor. Bill Burr, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, that guy's just off the deep end now.
Speaker 1: But he has a great bit that he did as
Speaker 1: part of one of his comedy specials where he's talking
Speaker 1: about Arnold and that story where he hooked up with
Speaker 1: his housekeeper, Right, you remember that when he was okay,
Speaker 1: and they're like, why would you hook up with the
Speaker 1: housekeeper your Arnold and Basically the crux of the bit is,
Speaker 1: if you're Arnold Swartzenegger, you think you can do whatever
Speaker 1: you want because you've been in the zone your entire life, right, Like.
Speaker 2: The bit was, how could he do that, you know,
Speaker 2: in his own bedroom with the maid? Obviously you'd get
Speaker 2: caught and they're like, well, no, because he's been in
Speaker 2: the zone for decades, Like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna go to America and nobody can understand
Speaker 1: what I'm saying and become an actor. Right, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: marry a Kennedy. Right, It's just there's a whole list there.
Speaker 1: It's really funny, right, like on.
Speaker 2: The amazing things that Arnold has pulled off in his life, right,
Speaker 2: you would think, like, you know, cheating on his wife
Speaker 2: with the maid in his own and you know, in
Speaker 2: his bed, right is, yeah, would be at the bottom
Speaker 2: of the list there, because he's pulled off so many
Speaker 2: incredible feats.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it so I would encourage you to listen
Speaker 1: to it if you ever come across it on Twitter there.
Speaker 1: But but that being said, it's what Arnold then starts
Speaker 1: to explain to the ladies, and you can hear, especially
Speaker 1: at the beginning of this cut you hear them kind of.
Speaker 1: I can't remember exactly what they say. We'll play it
Speaker 1: again here, but you can hear where they they immediately
Speaker 1: realize that they're not getting the answer they thought they were.
Speaker 2: There's like ah, and they try to touch them and
Speaker 2: try to interrupt him and change the conversation. You're trying
Speaker 2: to alt alpha, Arnold?
Speaker 1: Are you had good luck with that? What was What
Speaker 1: were you telling me about the video you saw of
Speaker 1: him recently of back or the picture when he was
Speaker 1: still doing the fitness competitions.
Speaker 2: So I saw this video yesterday, so you know, X
Speaker 2: does what it does, and that becomes my entire timeline. Right,
Speaker 2: you look at something for too long and that becomes here,
Speaker 2: or you like something once and that becomes your entire
Speaker 2: timeline for a while. So I like this post about
Speaker 2: him on the view, and then I saw one that
Speaker 2: populated where it was Arnold standing on the podium doing
Speaker 2: like you know, pose from the back in like nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy seven. I believe it like mister Olympian or something.
Speaker 2: People don't understand how his muscles had muscles on top
Speaker 2: of muscles, like I don't how do you even work
Speaker 2: out the fourth muscle coming out of your shoulder. I
Speaker 2: don't even know what.
Speaker 1: Ex Well, if you don't understand how to do that,
Speaker 1: you should give up lifting and take up recreational terrorism.
Speaker 2: I like at that.
Speaker 1: You just made the argument for it. All right, Let's
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and play the entire response because it's
Speaker 1: just great.
Speaker 6: But the key thing also is at the same time
Speaker 6: that you got to do things legal. That is the
Speaker 6: important thing. You know, you got to do things lead
Speaker 6: those people that are doing illegal things in America, and
Speaker 6: they're the foreigners, they are not smart because when you
Speaker 6: come to America, you're guest and you have to behave
Speaker 6: like a guest. Like when I go to someone's house
Speaker 6: and I'm a guest, then that will do everything I can,
Speaker 6: keep things clean and to make my path and to
Speaker 6: do everything that is the right thing to do, rather
Speaker 6: than committing a crime or being abusive or something like that.
Speaker 6: So that doesn't really work in this country. So I
Speaker 6: think the important thing is when you become an immigrant
Speaker 6: to think about, Okay, I go to America because I'm
Speaker 6: going to use America for the great opportunity just that
Speaker 6: America has in education, in jobs, creating a family, all
Speaker 6: of this kind of things, then you have to think about, Okay,
Speaker 6: if I get all of those things from America, then
Speaker 6: I have to give something back. You have a responsibility
Speaker 6: as an immigrant to give back to America and to
Speaker 6: pay back to America, and to go and do something
Speaker 6: for your community for no money whatsoever. Give something back
Speaker 6: to after school program especially what's like whatever it is
Speaker 6: may just prod be.
Speaker 2: A blob, all right, So so they're not digging on
Speaker 2: that answer, not at all.
Speaker 1: And there's and again there's something hilarious about if you,
Speaker 1: like Arnold was a guest at your house and you
Speaker 1: wake up, you're like, is that bacon cooking? Right? You
Speaker 1: come out, he's dusting stuff, making an omelet right. I
Speaker 1: just for some reason that visual is funny to me
Speaker 1: that Beings said he's not wrong. And what's even crazier too,
Speaker 1: is like the view the audience is clearly divided because
Speaker 1: it's about half of them clapping, and normally they're clapping
Speaker 1: it like seals at whatever those ladies say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the crazy thing that's not a radical in view.
Speaker 1: No, that's where if you believe polling, that's where most
Speaker 1: people are at. Man, it's not crazy. Also, I got
Speaker 1: this this discussion on an argument with somebody. Uh the
Speaker 1: actually literally the other day we were talking about accents.
Speaker 1: Another radio guy was talking to and because they were
Speaker 1: asking me like this, why don't we have an accent?
Speaker 2: And I said, yeah, it's kind of a little Texas
Speaker 2: with soft southern. It's but it's not a it's not
Speaker 2: a big thing. I don't know how to describe it.
Speaker 1: But we were talking about where this guy was from.
Speaker 1: You know, he had he had a New York accent,
Speaker 1: and when you do radio, especially when you do radio
Speaker 1: different places, your accent softens if you're outside of kind
Speaker 1: of where your normal thing is. And also you may
Speaker 1: pick up a little of the local accent. I arguably
Speaker 1: picked up a little a bit of a Minnesota accent
Speaker 1: when I was up there for like ten years. And
Speaker 1: then the example he goes, but he goes, he goes.
Speaker 1: It's weird though, because there's somewhere like their accent never
Speaker 1: goes away, and some do. And the example was Arnold,
Speaker 1: And I said, Arnold probably could have flattened his accent,
Speaker 1: but he wouldn't because he wouldn't be Arnold anymore. Do
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying? Can you imagine Arnold Schwarzenegger
Speaker 1: without an accent.
Speaker 2: You ever see like the you know, the original Conan
Speaker 2: movie that he was in where they over dubbed his
Speaker 2: voice right with like yeah, super americ, like no accent
Speaker 2: at all, and it's so d it's it's like, it's
Speaker 2: not Arnold. It's bad, and like, why don't just you
Speaker 2: go back and watch it, And you understand why at
Speaker 2: the time, because he was so new and people didn't
Speaker 2: know it was Arnold, right, But you go back and
Speaker 2: watch it and you're like it makes you uncomfortable because
Speaker 2: you're like, that's not the dude.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 1: I can't I can't get to If he couldn't say
Speaker 1: get to the Choppa the way that he says it,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be Arnold talking. So in all seriousness, I
Speaker 1: think that he made a conscious decision not to improve
Speaker 1: his accent. As weird as that sounds, Look, I know people.
Speaker 1: I know people from I'll give you an example yesterday,
Speaker 1: literally yesterday at the hotel where I'm staying at actually
Speaker 1: it's the hotel next their own by the same In fact,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to the guy who owns the
Speaker 1: hotel coming up here in about twenty minutes. His manager
Speaker 1: is this really nice woman. We were putting together some
Speaker 1: plans for some broadcast stuff that we were doing, and
Speaker 1: she has a hint of an Australian accent, just a hint,
Speaker 1: And I asked her, even though I guess you're not
Speaker 1: supposed to, I'm like, am I picking up Australian? And
Speaker 1: she was telling me the story and all that.
Speaker 2: Again, such a nice lady.
Speaker 1: Clearly she's lost most of it though, unless you kind
Speaker 1: of hear it in the background. And that happens to
Speaker 1: some people. But for Arnold you couldn't do it because
Speaker 1: you wouldn't be Arnold anymore.
Speaker 2: You could make the same argument even for someone you
Speaker 2: like American like Sylvester Stallone. Right, you could send him
Speaker 2: to like a speech class. But correct, you're going to
Speaker 2: ruin what makesly slide? Yeah, everybody can do it. You
Speaker 2: immediately know how to impress it, impersonate him. Yeah, raced
Speaker 2: agic actually French. I don't know if you guys know this.
Speaker 2: So we got rid of we we yeah, got rid
Speaker 2: of the accent.
Speaker 1: Actually he's not French, he's whatever whatever country where they
Speaker 1: like it. When it's one hundred and fifty degrees.
Speaker 4: Right that, yeah, deal on the headline again.
Speaker 1: Goodness, what people weren't going to know it's hot out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's all over the inner webs, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I'm just talking to somebody yesterday that I was talking
Speaker 8: about a Bermuda high and the innerwebs, and they're kind
Speaker 8: of like, what are you talking about Bermuda? I mean,
Speaker 8: haven't you heard the term Bermuda high.
Speaker 2: I've heard of people going into Bermuda and getting high.
Speaker 4: Right, But yeah, show sorry, sorry.
Speaker 2: I'm just waiting for you to mess up heat index again.
Speaker 4: Or in disease. He didn't decease.
Speaker 8: If there's more than whether it's just one heat it depends,
Speaker 8: it's because I'm talking about multiple places, so it would
Speaker 8: be he didn't decease. Maybe at one hundred today the
Speaker 8: heat index at or over one hundred, a few clouds otherwise,
Speaker 8: sunny and hot today, little bit nineties. Tomorrow we may
Speaker 8: throw a couple of showers thunder showers around, but the
Speaker 8: same in terms of temperatures. I mean for the triangle,
Speaker 8: we could have a ninety five ninety six today tomorrow,
Speaker 8: try it maybe low nineties. The way you slice it,
Speaker 8: that's hot. Then we will get this front to come through.
Speaker 8: We have a swee weather, weather, a severe.
Speaker 1: French second language, second language.
Speaker 8: I'm trying. I'm trying tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening. So
Speaker 8: we'll have to run into that, and that may actually
Speaker 8: give us a little break. Friday, mid upper eighties sunshine
Speaker 8: may be a little less humidity. We're gonna crank it
Speaker 8: up Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, mid upper nineties. Heat in
Speaker 8: dexat er over one hundred. Summer comes in ten forty
Speaker 8: two Friday night, first full two days of summer. Saturday
Speaker 8: Sunday's gonna be hot, dangerously hot for some too. So
Speaker 8: let's not just say hey hot. We can go out
Speaker 8: of the pool. We got in the lake, we can
Speaker 8: go do stuff. Just be careful out there. It's gonna
Speaker 8: get into that day interestly hot category.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, it's all ac all day. If you're smart,
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir, appreciate it. Okay, you go raced agic
Speaker 1: from the weather channel. Yeah, not a good day for
Speaker 1: rooftop recreational terrorism. I'll tell you that. Seven forty eight.
Speaker 1: Hang on, coming up here at eight oh five, we're
Speaker 1: going to I've been talking about the hotel. I was
Speaker 1: staying at there's two of them Cambria. Hey, we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk to the guy who owns the place and just
Speaker 1: really get a sense of because we talked about Biltmore Village,
Speaker 1: that area what they call the rad District and downtown
Speaker 1: and really the impact and what happened with Helene and
Speaker 1: where everybody's at downtown Ashville was banging. Would I showed
Speaker 1: up on Sunday, which of course was Father's Day. It
Speaker 1: looked like it looked like when I've got been to
Speaker 1: Asheville in the past. So we'll get the perspective of downtown.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to the owner there, coming up here at
Speaker 1: eight oh five, but real quick, this all right? So Ross,
Speaker 1: do you know what the runestones are up in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: Michigan and up into Canada. Have you heard of these things?
Speaker 2: I have none?
Speaker 1: You I heard of the runstone all right? So I
Speaker 1: think most of them are bs right where they're just
Speaker 1: like because they think there's this yeah where they think
Speaker 1: the Vikings like went all the way into Minnesota and
Speaker 1: the did runestones. I never bought into it.
Speaker 2: And they're like tablets and stuff with these with this
Speaker 2: writing on it.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in the farmers Field. So they found in like
Speaker 1: a Canadian force just north of the up up there
Speaker 1: in Michigan, they found this this what they thought was
Speaker 1: a runestone. It's not a runestone. They tried. They finally
Speaker 1: excavated and translated it, and they thought they thought they
Speaker 1: had found like the Vikings made it all the way
Speaker 1: to just north of Michigan. There they translated you know what,
Speaker 1: it was the Lord's prayer. The Lord's prayer and not
Speaker 1: Viking hieroglyphics. What they think it was is Swedish workers
Speaker 1: who were hired by the Hudson Bay Company, but I
Speaker 1: guess got bored and decided to carve the Lord's Prayer.
Speaker 2: Into this giant stone. So it's kind of based what
Speaker 2: they found up there.
Speaker 1: But I was kind of following this because I had
Speaker 1: like an unhealthy interest in the runestones when I was
Speaker 1: working in Minnesota. But no, according to the Ontario Center
Speaker 1: for Archaeological Education who handled the translation, just Swedish shipping workers.
Speaker 1: Guys were working off the gun flint in Minnesota, logging, trapping,
Speaker 1: doing all sorts of stuff, just carve with the Lord's prayer.
Speaker 1: And there's apparently like four other stones they found. So
Speaker 1: we will see what's going on there? Let's see here
Speaker 1: therees it four other No, I'm sorry, it's three other
Speaker 1: stones for total, so but yeah, not Nordic ruins.
Speaker 2: Where do you tend to lie in that? Do you
Speaker 2: tend to lie like the one the farmer found? Do
Speaker 2: you think it's like a hoax, like he did it
Speaker 2: or do you think?
Speaker 3: I don't know that.
Speaker 1: I don't think necessarily that farmer did it, because it's
Speaker 1: like this guy and his wife, if you know the story.
Speaker 1: I don't think he did it. I think somebody did
Speaker 1: it and they weren't wearing pelts, and they didn't just
Speaker 1: you know, ravage and rape and pillage a trading post
Speaker 1: in Greenland before they did it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's quite that old, but it's cool.
Speaker 1: I've actually seen some of the stones. And then after
Speaker 1: that happened, after that stone was unearthed like eighty years
Speaker 1: ago or whenever they found it, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: all these other farmers and like central Minnesota's like I
Speaker 1: found a stone too, and they're clearly fakes, they're not real.
Speaker 1: But because I think there was like one hundred and
Speaker 1: ten stones or something, some crazy number but yeah, that's
Speaker 1: just people. I don't know if they thought they'd get
Speaker 1: more money or just get their face in the paper
Speaker 1: or what. But once again, not a ruined stone. Over
Speaker 1: a week long broadcast out here in western North Carolina,
Speaker 1: and I'm very happy to introduce someone who's helping to
Speaker 1: make this a possibility. Oh that's good.
Speaker 2: Huh sorry, it literally just kicked my callscreener. There, ah,
Speaker 2: there we go. All right, we're back.
Speaker 1: So Alex Fraga is the owner of quite a few
Speaker 1: establishments in Ashville, but is come aboard to help post.
Speaker 1: He is the owner of the Haywood Park Hotel, which
Speaker 1: I'm staying at, the Caverria Hotel, which I will be
Speaker 1: staying at there directly next to each other, right in
Speaker 1: the heart of Asheville. It's a couple of blocks from
Speaker 1: the Basilica if you kind of know where the area
Speaker 1: is there and several restaurants, and we were just have
Speaker 1: this great off the air conversation that I want to
Speaker 1: kind of continue into.
Speaker 2: Alex, Good morning, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3: Good morning.
Speaker 1: Hey, give me give me a favorite. Just pull that
Speaker 1: mike just a little closer to you there, all right, good, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's perfect right there, so we were just we were
Speaker 1: talking about what you guys had to do, as you know,
Speaker 1: center city business owners following Helene. And that's where I
Speaker 1: want to start this conversation because I have I've been
Speaker 1: to Biltmore Village area, the rad area, saw the water
Speaker 1: line on the building down there, and depending on where
Speaker 1: you were in Ashville, it was a very different experience
Speaker 1: the day of and then you had to kick into
Speaker 1: the community experience post. So let's let's start with did
Speaker 1: you And I've asked everybody this. You knew it was coming, right,
Speaker 1: you're tracking, they get the weather, the spaghetti models with
Speaker 1: the hurricane, and they're predicting. They were predicting a lot
Speaker 1: of rain. When did it start to exceed what even
Speaker 1: you thought that you guys were going to see up here.
Speaker 9: Well, first again, thank you for having me and that
Speaker 9: education earlier. For the roomstones, hey man, rootstones are cool.
Speaker 1: I love history.
Speaker 3: So I'm originally from South Florida.
Speaker 9: I moved here twelve years ago, but coming back and
Speaker 9: forth since two thousand and two. I first was surprised, generally,
Speaker 9: I mean completely surprised because I never thought hurricane and
Speaker 9: ashe actual would be in the same sentence, It didn't hit.
Speaker 3: Me, Casey until the next day. The day after during
Speaker 3: the storm, I was up all night.
Speaker 9: I'm married, and I have four kids, and they're older
Speaker 9: my kids as far as you know, one already finished school,
Speaker 9: so he actually lives in South Florida working down there
Speaker 9: and after in school. And my wife happened to go
Speaker 9: down there for I forgot something that she had to
Speaker 9: go down there for. And I was here stuck with
Speaker 9: my daughter, and so it's just her and I in
Speaker 9: the house, and I was just looking at my backyard
Speaker 9: going crazy.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 9: I think we lost something like twenty five trees, but
Speaker 9: I really didn't actually get the just.
Speaker 2: So exactly what's stroing.
Speaker 9: Yeah, So I grab her, my daughter because of the
Speaker 9: businesses that you mentioned and everything else, and I and
Speaker 9: we were able to get on twenty six, which was
Speaker 9: eerie because we were the only ones on twenty six.
Speaker 1: And that would be a first. Actually, every time I've
Speaker 1: been on twenty six, I'd never been the only one.
Speaker 9: I had a flashback of COVID times, but yes, and
Speaker 9: I ended up going to drive up to the river,
Speaker 9: and that's that's when it hit me hardest. And when
Speaker 9: you you know, everybody that was here at that time
Speaker 9: or near that time can inhale what happened. I don't
Speaker 9: think you can totally get it until you know. I
Speaker 9: was there with my daughter and you know, she was
Speaker 9: a senior in high school, you just finished graduating, and
Speaker 9: you know, uh, it totally changed her perspective and the
Speaker 9: next thing you do I did.
Speaker 3: Anyways, I I got to downtown and I walked in.
Speaker 3: We had guests.
Speaker 9: That were staying there right and guests you know throughout uh,
Speaker 9: you know with we have the Heywood Park Hotel and
Speaker 9: the Country in the Sweeten their Westgate, and I walked
Speaker 9: into every lobby. Of course, we had no power in
Speaker 9: no water, and even then I thought maybe in a
Speaker 9: couple of days everything of the lights would turn back
Speaker 9: one uh, and of course they didn't, and so I
Speaker 9: went into so I immediately called the you know, my
Speaker 9: vice president, the managers and everybody put got into the huddle.
Speaker 9: We can spoke to anybody we can and said listen, uh,
Speaker 9: luckily we still have power in downtown.
Speaker 3: And so at that time we had as bistro MH
Speaker 3: and we have him and Waste Cuba. So I'd walk
Speaker 3: in coolers. We need to feed these people. We need
Speaker 3: to you know, you know, forget about trying.
Speaker 1: To not just your people.
Speaker 2: I want to be how many employees do you do
Speaker 2: you have between all of your stuff.
Speaker 9: At this moment? I mean, I peak, I guess you
Speaker 9: could say two hundred and twenty five. So I mean
Speaker 9: at this point, at this particular time, I was two
Speaker 9: hundred and ten.
Speaker 1: Okay, because it's not just your family you're thinking about it,
Speaker 1: think about everybody, hundreds of people, and then everyone, you know, right, you.
Speaker 9: Know where I remember my daughter speaking to family saying,
Speaker 9: you know, I don't know where we're going to go,
Speaker 9: how we're going to get there. I don't know if
Speaker 9: I have a home, I don't know, you know, if
Speaker 9: we can even drive there. All they have is what's
Speaker 9: on on their backs. And we continue to grab the
Speaker 9: food and start cooking. But but we didn't have water.
Speaker 1: Yeah okay, so well you did just not the water
Speaker 1: you wanted.
Speaker 3: Well, at that time, we had zero water.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, I just mean in the community, yeah right right, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then uh I didn't, so how do we
Speaker 3: do this?
Speaker 9: So we had water they had in house, So we
Speaker 9: cooked everything because the gas worked, and then I took
Speaker 9: everything home and I would do shifts.
Speaker 3: And then the other thing is how do you flush toilets? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Uh so uh and I and I'm not talking.
Speaker 9: Just look, this is the community all came in together,
Speaker 9: and we all helped everybody, and whoever was in my position,
Speaker 9: pretty much everybody I spoke to one hundred percent did
Speaker 9: the same thing. So we happened to have the country
Speaker 9: in sweets, which as an indoor pool.
Speaker 3: So what did we do.
Speaker 9: We got five gallon tanks pulled up to pickup trucks
Speaker 9: and floor to floor flushing toilets. I'll give them garbage bags,
Speaker 9: construction bags. Do your business. I'll come back later and
Speaker 9: pick it up.
Speaker 3: And you know, I it was. It was tough.
Speaker 9: It was really really tough. But we got through it.
Speaker 9: And you know, instead of saying why, you know, you
Speaker 9: roll up your sleeves and you go forward.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: And it was an incredible experience. And I went through
Speaker 9: a hurricane. The worst hurricane that i've at that time
Speaker 9: before was Hurricane Andrew ninety two.
Speaker 2: Because you're from South Florida, because they're.
Speaker 9: From South Florida. And I remember telling once we were
Speaker 9: back on the grid, a you know, a week or
Speaker 9: two weeks later, telling everybody from South Florida and my
Speaker 9: family there. They're still there.
Speaker 3: This is worse. You know, this is much.
Speaker 1: It's got to blow their mind.
Speaker 9: They were you know, you know, they blew their mind. Ye,
Speaker 9: I can't believe you're telling me this. And it was
Speaker 9: because water will received.
Speaker 3: In inland and then leave right it didn't leave.
Speaker 9: And if you recall, we had a storm for three
Speaker 9: days prior to this, two days prior, three days prior.
Speaker 1: For three days, you saw the trees all down. When
Speaker 1: you're coming into the studio, we're on top of a hill.
Speaker 1: I just want people that we're on top of a
Speaker 1: hill because our radio towers are up here and I'd
Speaker 1: never seen anything like that. And I look, there's there's
Speaker 1: there's people that I've spoke with here who really they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't talk so much about the damage. Just talking
Speaker 1: about but you need to understand how bad it was,
Speaker 1: so you understand how amazing it is that I show
Speaker 1: up Sunday in downtown Ashville and it's like every other
Speaker 1: time up into Ashville. I go up to your restaurant
Speaker 1: and there's a twenty minute wait to go sit on
Speaker 1: the patio because you guys had so many people in
Speaker 1: there eating. So to go from that to where we
Speaker 1: are with so many of these communities and not all
Speaker 1: the communities are there yet, not even all parts of
Speaker 1: Ashville is there yet. It is really a testament to
Speaker 1: what you guys were able to pull off.
Speaker 9: So yeah, in the beginning, we had to somehow, we
Speaker 9: had to shake the tree and make everybody aware, from local, regional, state, federal, and.
Speaker 3: Well I'm not going to get.
Speaker 9: Into politics, but really nothing's happened, right, And so that's
Speaker 9: another thing that roll up sleeves. And you know I
Speaker 9: used to tell my kids that when they played soccer.
Speaker 9: You know, if you have your hands up looking for
Speaker 9: a call while you missed the play, you can't recover.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 3: So I can't leave put your palms up.
Speaker 9: You gotta roll up your sleeves and like I said earlier,
Speaker 9: move forward and figure out another way to get through this.
Speaker 9: That's one message. Now that message got a little bit
Speaker 9: more out of control. But just by the common knowledge
Speaker 9: of the world. I mean, you go to Charlotte, people
Speaker 9: are like, are you sure we should go to Ashell?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 1: This is why we're here.
Speaker 3: By the way, I appreciate that This is why I've
Speaker 3: had so.
Speaker 1: Many people tell me that they went every year to
Speaker 1: the mountains, they should they go this year, maybe not
Speaker 1: this year, And I'm like, no, they need it now
Speaker 1: more than ever.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and so many mark my dad used to say,
Speaker 9: there's two kinds of marketing. A shotgun and a sniper approach.
Speaker 9: You know where about twelve hours away from fifty percent
Speaker 9: of our country? Okay, yeah, all right, that's you. That's
Speaker 9: your shotgun. Well, coming in a little closer, let's go
Speaker 9: half a day, all right, I mean six hours. Yeah,
Speaker 9: and that should be our snipper because either spoken about
Speaker 9: coming to Asheville or they've been to Asheville. Well come
Speaker 9: make that memory that you've always wanted to or make
Speaker 9: another one.
Speaker 1: What's the What's the when people call your hotel and
Speaker 1: talk to your employees? What are they What are they asking?
Speaker 3: What they asked the same questions that you've been asked?
Speaker 3: What's open? What can we see? Are the trails open?
Speaker 1: The parkway open?
Speaker 3: Parkway open?
Speaker 2: Email that it is open, by the way, Yes it's open,
Speaker 2: and so.
Speaker 3: Are the trails. So it's downtown.
Speaker 9: So so are so many places that in restaurants you know,
Speaker 9: the the the breweries, everything can Some are yes, of course,
Speaker 9: some have been hit and it's gonna take some time
Speaker 9: to recover. But the businesses that are open today so
Speaker 9: many marketing words without selling desperate. Is that they that
Speaker 9: this is the time they need you the most. And
Speaker 9: we're look at the weather that were happening. It's still
Speaker 9: beautiful out here. I mean, we have nine months of
Speaker 9: beautiful weather. All the trails where you come here for
Speaker 9: the summer, if you've been in the past, it's it's exactly.
Speaker 3: What you want.
Speaker 1: It's it's and it's everyone's melting down in where we
Speaker 1: broadcast down a triangle triad. So I was I was
Speaker 1: joking with you. I'm like, I'm not gonna leave you guys,
Speaker 1: are gonna have to force me out of town man
Speaker 1: until this weather subsides, because I don't want to drive
Speaker 1: down the mountain. And it was really funny too. I
Speaker 1: was talking to a woman from the Biltmore Village area
Speaker 1: yesterday and she said that one of the questions she gets,
Speaker 1: but this speaks to how people make memories and have traditions,
Speaker 1: is the fancy McDonald's is that open right right?
Speaker 2: It's with the the baby yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And it's but but it's it's a testament to the
Speaker 1: memories and the annual traditions that people have.
Speaker 2: I've got my spots, right, I got my spots that
Speaker 2: I like to go on the regular.
Speaker 1: And you know, there's a couple of places I like
Speaker 1: to camp, and there's uh, there's some places I love
Speaker 1: to eat, and and you know little cafes that are
Speaker 1: off the way if you do the Parkway thing or
Speaker 1: the fud shop at Little Switzerland. I was using an
Speaker 1: example earlier. So anyone who is part of those businesses,
Speaker 1: once you who call them and ask if they're open
Speaker 1: and what's going on, you're not going to bother them.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you and I kind of ask
Speaker 1: other people this. Clearly, you're in a competitive business, right,
Speaker 1: so you have hotels, your competitors have hotels, You have
Speaker 1: restaurants the other ones that all disappears, that all disappears.
Speaker 3: It's collaboration.
Speaker 1: So what what is what is something that that when
Speaker 1: when you guys were saying, did you guys have meetings
Speaker 1: as business owners? Immediately like, how how are we going
Speaker 1: to do this heavy lift all at once? Not just
Speaker 1: cleaning mud out and figuring out plumbing issues, but really
Speaker 1: how how can we do this better? And are there
Speaker 1: ways that you're doing things? But from a business perspective now,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say taking lemons and making lemonade,
Speaker 1: but that that allowed you to really adapt and and
Speaker 1: and maybe best practices going forward to make things either
Speaker 1: more efficient or more appealing to people.
Speaker 9: It's a great question. I mean the first thing that
Speaker 9: we did as a company is get together with other
Speaker 9: small businesses, not just hoteliers, not just restaurants, but small
Speaker 9: business owners. You know, like the e bike tour guy
Speaker 9: who lost everything in the river. You know, what's that
Speaker 9: guy going to do? How can we get him back
Speaker 9: in business? How can we raise money for him? Or
Speaker 9: the ice cream shop or you know, what are we
Speaker 9: going to do? It was also it was survival mode,
Speaker 9: but at the same time, like I said before, we
Speaker 9: got to be proactive and what we do so we
Speaker 9: do a collaboration together and what we can bring the
Speaker 9: message out well yelling and screaming, but bring the message
Speaker 9: to how these businesses.
Speaker 3: So we do partnerships with everybody. And yes, so it
Speaker 3: was a task force that we put.
Speaker 9: Together with you know, and from meeting commissioners, to the mayor,
Speaker 9: to you know, you know, the small guy to the
Speaker 9: biggest guy in town. Yeah, you know, and I have
Speaker 9: to mention names, but everybody, you know, we we did it.
Speaker 9: We met once a week four months and what we
Speaker 9: did is try to figure out what do we have
Speaker 9: to do next. I spoke a little bit based on
Speaker 9: my experiences with hurricane. I mean I was only ninety two,
Speaker 9: I was only twenty years old, but you know, I
Speaker 9: remember the experience my father, who was you know, developer
Speaker 9: at the time, what he did, how he did. I
Speaker 9: even called Homestead, Florida, which is south of Miami right
Speaker 9: got devastated. I mean they got plowed during Hurricane Andrew.
Speaker 9: I called that mayor of that time and who is now.
Speaker 9: He's in Minnesota, I believe, and he called me back
Speaker 9: and you know, gave me some advice and I mean
Speaker 9: not to go on about what had hit and how
Speaker 9: hurt everybody is. But we need help on that end.
Speaker 9: As far as we don't need other we need additional loans,
Speaker 9: we need grants and especially you know the small business owner.
Speaker 9: And that's why they need you here more than anything
Speaker 9: is you know, it's it's so different goal to describe
Speaker 9: what everybody is going through, although it's all the same,
Speaker 9: you know what I mean the same is you know,
Speaker 9: the the immediate impact that I had on you. Family First, Okay,
Speaker 9: are they safe this and that? I mean I know
Speaker 9: families that are not here anymore, right, Uh, you know
Speaker 9: that's that's devastating. Hell I I lost twenty two trees
Speaker 9: in the back of my house, so what.
Speaker 1: And that's that's what's crazy. I mean, that's everybody has
Speaker 1: their own experience and you feel guilty saying that, correct
Speaker 1: because of what they hit. I got about a minute
Speaker 1: and a half. And there's just two things I want
Speaker 1: to touch with you real quick. One that room that
Speaker 1: I'm saying in over it, Hey what that should be
Speaker 1: two rooms? You're you're losing money, dude. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that just to be nice because you're a spot. That
Speaker 1: thing's that thing's insane.
Speaker 3: So you don't rent hotel rooms per foot though.
Speaker 1: I get lost in that bathroom back there. But just lastly,
Speaker 1: just real quick, when the Amie started showing up and
Speaker 1: building stuff like that blows my mind, man. And they're
Speaker 1: still here. They're still here doing that. So the ways
Speaker 1: in which and many of my listeners helped. They drive
Speaker 1: trucks of water up there. They came up and cut
Speaker 1: trees and all that. This is the fun way to help.
Speaker 3: And I mean one thing I will add is what
Speaker 3: we did. Also, we teamed up with.
Speaker 9: Beyond the Borders and Western North Carolina Rescue Mission at Westgate.
Speaker 9: We had a big empty space. We collected all food goods, cans,
Speaker 9: clothes that probably gave away about three million dollars worth
Speaker 9: of you know, trucks coming from even South Florida, my
Speaker 9: family and this.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to cut you off here. I got a
Speaker 1: heart break, I got a hit.
Speaker 2: Alex rago with us.
Speaker 1: The fun way to help is what you have done
Speaker 1: in the past, and that is to take that vacation
Speaker 1: and enjoy the food, stay in the hotels, hike the trails,
Speaker 1: drive the parkway, and if you got questions, as you
Speaker 1: heard Alex say, call and ask. They love to answer. Alex,
Speaker 1: I really appreciate you joining us this morning. Okay, Well
Speaker 1: that they can add one with thing real you got
Speaker 1: five second.
Speaker 3: It's fun. That's the word. It's it's a small, little
Speaker 3: three letter word, but it's a huge word.
Speaker 1: I was going to ask it during the interview with
Speaker 1: Alex there and then I forgot, Uh that's on me. Uh,
Speaker 1: but this was actually a question. So it's one of
Speaker 1: our listeners was wondering, what's the state with Mount Mitchell
Speaker 1: right now? It's my understanding, so I asked, I did
Speaker 1: ask Alex off the here. So it's closed, but Mount
Speaker 1: Mitchell didn't close. Isn't closed because of Helene actually, which
Speaker 1: I didn't realize. I knew it had been closed, and
Speaker 1: I just assumed it was closed because of Helene, but
Speaker 1: actually it was because of some they had ice and
Speaker 1: snow that damaged it over this last winter, so I
Speaker 1: I did not know. So there there that is that
Speaker 1: is still the case. So to answer your question, there
Speaker 1: but the parkway itself and uh most of the those
Speaker 1: are open. But again just you know, reach out and
Speaker 1: reach out and ask. It's it's really that simple that
Speaker 1: he said. If you guys want to call it and
Speaker 1: ask his people anything you want, they're happy to answer. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, a couple things as we roll through the
Speaker 1: final half hour of the of the show. Here out
Speaker 1: in California, they decided to introduce a new what's this
Speaker 1: called No Secret Police Act. This is this is super.
Speaker 2: Performative and I don't frankly, I don't even.
Speaker 1: Know if this is enforceable in California when as it
Speaker 1: pertains to federal agents, because there there are certain in
Speaker 1: the course of the federal government carrying out their duties,
Speaker 1: and I can't remember the term for this, there is
Speaker 1: a legal concept where the states can't. They have to
Speaker 1: be very careful in what the state can require of
Speaker 1: the federal government if it's supposed to be part of
Speaker 1: their core duties. Right, this is a new rated power stuff.
Speaker 1: So in the state of California, some local lawmakers have
Speaker 1: introduced a bill that would make it illegal for law
Speaker 1: enforcement to wear masks.
Speaker 2: Through in the course of their duties. But this isn't
Speaker 2: There's a lot.
Speaker 1: Of reasons law enforcement might wear a mask that have
Speaker 1: nothing to do with even the current ice stuff that's
Speaker 1: going on there. Right, they could wear a mask because
Speaker 1: they're in it's a hazardous situation. They've shown up and
Speaker 1: the police are needing to be there. But they also
Speaker 1: need some sort of protection for their lungs. Like what
Speaker 1: they introduced is is really basic, but it's California, so
Speaker 1: as crazy as it sounds in any other state, you know,
Speaker 1: like in Minnesota when I was working there in the
Speaker 1: North Carolina during my you know, decade and a half here,
Speaker 1: I have seen where the party that is out of power,
Speaker 1: will you know, they'll introduce some crazy bill. And it's
Speaker 1: not that they think the bill is going to pass.
Speaker 1: It's to get the news cycle and show that they're
Speaker 1: doing something right. And by the way, it works both ways, right.
Speaker 1: So up in Minnesota, where the Dems were running everything
Speaker 1: for a lot of years, the Republicans would put these
Speaker 1: performative things knowing that they're not even going to get
Speaker 1: a hearing. California, this is the kind of stuff that
Speaker 1: they pass on a Tuesday. So I don't know what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen, but I have to assume that frankly, this
Speaker 1: thing would be almost unenforceable and likely wouldn't survive an
Speaker 1: honest court hearing. I guess if you judge shop enough,
Speaker 1: by the way, the guy doing it is that Scott
Speaker 1: Wiener dude up in San Francisco, And this is kind
Speaker 1: of hism o. He's the guy. He's the guy who
Speaker 1: successfully killed a bill that would have made what was
Speaker 1: it would have made it a felony to have sex
Speaker 1: with children in older children over the age of sixteen,
Speaker 1: rather than like a gross miss demeanor, which I think
Speaker 1: is way. The law still works, and it's only in
Speaker 1: certain circumstances, but it seemed like a no brainer. He
Speaker 1: successfully fought that off. So the guy's a little out
Speaker 1: there with the stuff that he makes his pet projects,
Speaker 1: but he's got some pretty good name recognition, so I
Speaker 1: guess we'll go ahead and see how that goes, all right,
Speaker 1: I wanted to update you on that as well. R Kelly. R.
Speaker 1: Kelly apparently had to be rushed to Duke University Hospital because,
Speaker 1: according to the reporting here, he odeed in prison and
Speaker 1: now he think, he says that prison officials are trying
Speaker 1: to kill him. Let's see, so cause you see the
Speaker 1: od and I guess and you think he got a
Speaker 1: hold of some like heroin or something up in there.
Speaker 1: But according to Kelly, let's see, in his lawyers, prison
Speaker 1: staff gave Kelly an amount of medicine that could have
Speaker 1: killed him. I don't know that that's confirmed, right, I
Speaker 1: don't know that that's that that is actually confirmed, that
Speaker 1: is from his lawyer, But either way, he spent a
Speaker 1: couple of days over there, and I why would they
Speaker 1: be trying to kill you. And and by the way, R.
Speaker 1: Kelly's not even the highest profile dude up in Butner Man, right,
Speaker 1: We've had some we've had some big boys through there.
Speaker 1: And I also I appreciate that some of you listen
Speaker 1: up at Butner because I've gotten the emails where they
Speaker 1: say a prisoner wants to send you something, which I
Speaker 1: didn't realize was the thing from from Buttoner. And I
Speaker 1: know that we got some the guards up there that
Speaker 1: listen because they've they've I had some questions, and a
Speaker 1: couple have been very nice to fill me in on
Speaker 1: like how the dorms work up there, because I don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys know this. The dorms that are
Speaker 1: kind of segmented by crime are based on ACC schools,
Speaker 1: which means like one ACC school and I ca'tmeraer which
Speaker 1: one it is is where all the sex offenders are.
Speaker 2: So so they're like tables at Alehouse.
Speaker 1: What yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah, except instead
Speaker 1: of you and your family getting onion rings, it's for
Speaker 1: sex offenders or for drugs or financial or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they got the different dorms or the different ACC schools.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just wondering how you picked which poor
Speaker 1: acc school had to be the sex offender wing. I
Speaker 1: feel bad. I can't remember which one it is, which
Speaker 1: is probably for the for the better. Let's see here,
Speaker 1: how do you heal R Kelly if you get a
Speaker 1: jellyfish sting?
Speaker 2: No, I actually looked into this. He'd probably like that. Oh,
Speaker 2: they're running it like experimental therapy there but at Duke.
Speaker 2: I don't know if if it's at Duke or a button,
Speaker 2: but I know, like this is what I was reading about,
Speaker 2: Like this is how they're trying it. It's some sort
Speaker 2: of weird like you know, like for physical therapy they
Speaker 2: put people in like pools and stuff like water, Yeah,
Speaker 2: saltwater tanks and similar thing. But it involves dolphins.
Speaker 1: Oh jeez, stop it, stop it.
Speaker 2: I'm telling me, no.
Speaker 1: Love this audio cut, but my body, my body telling.
Speaker 2: Me, I can't believe the use we've gotten out of
Speaker 2: that cut after like twelve years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hold on, I was just gonna load the wait,
Speaker 1: where's the info? Hold on? What was the dumblin you're
Speaker 1: bringing up?
Speaker 2: Bar Kelly? We're gonna use the dolphin R Kelly audio.
Speaker 2: So even if we'll find a way to fit it in.
Speaker 1: Twenty fifteen, ten years man February of twenty fifteen. For
Speaker 1: those of you who don't know, For those who don't know,
Speaker 1: the story that started all of that, that that audio
Speaker 1: cut is a dude who's a dolphin trainer who they
Speaker 1: did a thing on him and he mentioned hooking up
Speaker 1: with a dolphin.
Speaker 2: And I don't know how R.
Speaker 1: Kelly got attached to it. I think it's just because
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's one of those making love songs there.
Speaker 1: But that's how that happened. That's and and we have
Speaker 1: been able to use it probably twice a year for
Speaker 1: ten years. Yeah, and there's a good chance listen if
Speaker 1: there's a chance that R. Kelly could hear that, right,
Speaker 1: maybe he's a kaff fan. Maybe I just want him
Speaker 1: to hear what his works. Yeah, yet suit getting sued
Speaker 1: so bad all of that, we got licensee Oh you
Speaker 1: do all right? So uh anyway, yeah, so uh, but
Speaker 1: but I wanted to I want to point it out
Speaker 1: because I think a lot of people saw that story
Speaker 1: and they assumed he was like he got a hold
Speaker 1: of some drugs in prison, blah blah blah. But they're
Speaker 1: claiming that they gave him a bad dose of medicine
Speaker 1: or too much medicine, uh for the ode. But again
Speaker 1: that's also what his lawyer's saying, So take it for
Speaker 1: what it's worth, not like somebody at the like, not
Speaker 1: like a group of people in the prison, but the
Speaker 1: actual prison. Yeah, whoever administers medications at butner. So that's
Speaker 1: a big charge. And and and who knows. Maybe somebody
Speaker 1: made a mistake and uh, but also maybe not, maybe
Speaker 1: somebody just doesn't want to say that they were doing
Speaker 1: drugs in prison, you know, which is another possibility. So
Speaker 1: whatever it is, Uh, I guess maybe we'll find out.
Speaker 1: Maybe not all right, eight forty four, Speaking of find
Speaker 1: it out, apparently apparently too many people have been f
Speaker 1: a and around and now we're f oing from a weather.
Speaker 1: We'll chat with Ray here momentarily on that. But ah,
Speaker 1: it is getting it is getting melty out there, and
Speaker 1: that's uh, that's going to continue, all right.
Speaker 2: What is it's going on?
Speaker 4: Somebody's somebody's talking we wee huh uh huh uh huh.
Speaker 4: Oh I had thought somebody also say Chris spilled the tea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, say Chrissan.
Speaker 4: Crossan Croissan.
Speaker 1: No, it's Cora man go home.
Speaker 4: Man. Yeah, you know you sowhere on that. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: am yeah. I thought somebody was was spiling the tea.
Speaker 1: So what's the tea?
Speaker 8: Oh well, we'll talk to Mark. I thought he was
Speaker 8: tell him that Ross. We had a bump in with
Speaker 8: the accordion. And see what Mark says about spilling.
Speaker 1: The Mark who's literally in the studio next to.
Speaker 4: Me, Yes, right in the studio, maybe yelled down the hall.
Speaker 1: We're still gonna screw with you. At some point this week,
Speaker 1: we'll time you out.
Speaker 4: It'll happen, probably, but and it could be Friday, that
Speaker 4: could be the day.
Speaker 1: So okay, all right, Yeah, that's how these things go.
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, yeah, bear bad news. Bear some bad news,
Speaker 1: and then tell us how it's not summer. Go ahead
Speaker 1: and do it, do it, do it.
Speaker 4: No, it's not summer yet.
Speaker 8: And then we'll get into the you know everybody talking about, well,
Speaker 8: the first full day of summer is really Saturday officially,
Speaker 8: though it is Friday night at I wrote it down
Speaker 8: here ten forty two pm. Until then, I think it's
Speaker 8: gonna still be warmth. The hot load of mid nineties,
Speaker 8: I think closer to ninety try it closer to ninety five.
Speaker 8: Triangle with the heat indecks close to one hundred. No
Speaker 8: rain today, but a few showers thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon into
Speaker 8: tomorrow night, and we are painted in yellow most of
Speaker 8: us anyway chance for severe storms, so be on the
Speaker 8: lookout for that. And that front to goes through Friday
Speaker 8: may not feel terrible. We may see a little bit
Speaker 8: of a drop in humidity and just a hit or
Speaker 8: miss storm. We may stay in the eighties, and then
Speaker 8: we'll slowly start working it up for Saturday near above ninety,
Speaker 8: mid ninety, Sunday mid and upper nineties on Monday and Tuesday,
Speaker 8: maybe even longer. Sunny, hot, humid, and the heat indecks
Speaker 8: close to or above one hundred degrees. So you know,
Speaker 8: people are already starting to panic about the heat, but
Speaker 8: we don't need to panic. We don't need to panic,
Speaker 8: just you know, it's been hot before. But certainly probably
Speaker 8: start seeing some advisories for he already a couple up
Speaker 8: in Jersey and eastern PA for some of the hot
Speaker 8: weather coming so dangerously hot. It's kids in the elderly
Speaker 8: and the pets. We keep our eyes on first, right,
Speaker 8: and if you're working outdoors, plenty of fluids perfectly water.
Speaker 8: That's the kind of heat that's coming, especially end of
Speaker 8: the weekend and into next week.
Speaker 1: I got two lunatic friends who wanted to see if
Speaker 1: I wanted to join their tea time today.
Speaker 4: Yeah. No, I take the zero on that.
Speaker 2: Hey, Ray, I'm trying to put a puzzle together. So
Speaker 2: do you play the accordion?
Speaker 3: I do?
Speaker 2: Really, you got to play for it sometime, Man, brought tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Coworkers will love it.
Speaker 8: Okay, you should go back through my Instagram somewhere on there.
Speaker 8: During COVID, I was doing a little I did some performances.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're not teen girls. We don't have Instagram. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I got a roll, so we'll pick you up tomorrow. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, see you tell you that that's such a
Speaker 1: French thing. We'll be right back.
Speaker 2: Jeff Bellinger, Jeff, what's happening today? Man?
Speaker 1: Good well, good morning, Casey.
Speaker 10: A couple of economic indicators just released in Washington this morning.
Speaker 10: The Labor Department counted two hundred and forty five thousand
Speaker 10: first time applications for unemployment benefits last week. That was
Speaker 10: down from an upwardly revised two hundred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 10: The prior week and right in line with forecasts. There
Speaker 10: was a bigger than expected decline in housing starts last month.
Speaker 10: The e Commerce Department says groundbreakings for houses and departments
Speaker 10: fell nearly ten percent. The Federal Reserve wraps up two
Speaker 10: days of policy talks today. Economists have no doubts interest
Speaker 10: rates will be left unchanged, but they will be parsing
Speaker 10: the statement released by Central bankers and listening intently to
Speaker 10: chairg Jerown Powells use conference. They're hoping for clues to
Speaker 10: when rates might be lowered. Stock market futures a little
Speaker 10: bit higher as we get ready for the midweek session.
Speaker 10: Now futures or up twenty one points. The Trump administration
Speaker 10: is considering a possible crackdown on pharmaceutical advertising. Sources say
Speaker 10: the White House is discussing new legal and financial requirements
Speaker 10: for drug ads not in outright Man. New Zealand is
Speaker 10: the only other place in the world where pharmaceutical companies
Speaker 10: are allowed to market directly to patients. New restrictions would
Speaker 10: be a win for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
Speaker 10: Kennedy Junior. He believes Americans consume more drugs because of
Speaker 10: the ads and trade tensions pushing up prices at the
Speaker 10: women's fast fashion retailer Dynamite. The company's chief executive says
Speaker 10: prices have jumped nine percent over the past year. He
Speaker 10: expects to be raising prices at twice the rate of
Speaker 10: inflation for the foreseeable future. And Casey must mention that
Speaker 10: I'm reporting today from the Fidelity Bloomberg business desk. Casey,
Speaker 10: you're not with us tomorrow right right off, for the holiday.
Speaker 10: It's the juneteenth, the holiday, and I'll be back with
Speaker 10: you on Friday.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Jeff, do appreciate it. Thank you much, sir.
Speaker 2: Okay, have a good day, yep.
Speaker 1: And just for all of you listening, we will be
Speaker 1: here tomorrow because we're doing this broadcast week so I
Speaker 1: didn't want to sit a day out, so will there
Speaker 1: will be a morning show tomorrow. I know some of
Speaker 1: you don't have to work, some of you do, so
Speaker 1: we'll be here either way. Okay, very good. Ross and
Speaker 1: I are trying to figure out the size of race age.
Speaker 1: It's accordion. And the reason is we're now fascinated by this.
Speaker 1: The reason is, and if you've never heard, Ray is
Speaker 1: a giant if and sometimes if there's really bad weather
Speaker 1: that he'll do TV stuff too. And it's really funny
Speaker 1: because the first time I saw him on TV, he
Speaker 1: was doing like Overnight's. It was we had the weather
Speaker 1: channel on in the studio before the show started, and
Speaker 1: Ray was really doing that. It looks like he's in
Speaker 1: your kid's first grade classroom, right, would he go in
Speaker 1: for parent teacher?
Speaker 2: And all the desks are like little miniature.
Speaker 1: He's that big, So there's no way he plays the
Speaker 1: standard size accordion right Ross.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, you'd have to scale it right otherwise. He's
Speaker 2: seen that photo of under the Giant with like a
Speaker 2: beer can in his hand, and it looks like a
Speaker 2: sim Right, he's quite that big. But yeah, do you
Speaker 2: think you could body slam him their Hulk? I definitely not. Nope, Okay,
Speaker 2: you know what it is though? I think it's because
Speaker 2: Ray and I are from like the same area sort
Speaker 2: of kind of up in New York and there's like
Speaker 2: a really big Polish population. And are you saying Stagic
Speaker 2: might be Polish? No, but I'm saying, like he's playing
Speaker 2: the accordion, and I know that's like a big thing.
Speaker 2: Like with that population there, we would have like Polish
Speaker 2: food festivals and music festivals, and they would have on
Speaker 2: the public access station. They would have these live from
Speaker 2: the VFW, like the Polish dancing and stuff. It was
Speaker 2: a big deal up there, So I bet you that's
Speaker 2: how he got into it.
Speaker 1: Dude, the crazy. I don't say it's crazy because I'm
Speaker 1: glad it works. The radio state, one of our radio
Speaker 1: stations up in Minnesota has a weekend program called Arcadia
Speaker 1: on the air and it's been going since I think
Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties on It's been on several different radio stations.
Speaker 1: It's like it's it puts up big numbers on the
Speaker 1: weekend and it's just this. It's just a woman playing
Speaker 1: polka music.