Speaker 1: Coming up on the show today. Uh Stephen Kentz back
Speaker 1: uh is uh we we didn't get a chance to
Speaker 1: chat with him last week. He had he had a
Speaker 1: thing he had to deal with, So we'll we'll chat
Speaker 1: with him today. And we got all sorts of goodness
Speaker 1: to get into on the weird woke Hollywood front, like
Speaker 1: why does one of the dwarfs look like Tommy Lee Jones?
Speaker 1: Will he get revenue for that hughes of what is
Speaker 1: clearly his face? How's that thing going? And and you know,
Speaker 1: just the general schlock that we deal with on the
Speaker 1: day to day. It's always interesting to uh chat with
Speaker 1: chat with somebody over on the nerd side of things.
Speaker 1: So we will, uh we'll get into that. That'll be
Speaker 1: an eight o five, So you will have to You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to wait and then uh we just we
Speaker 1: just have insanity to deal with as as you go
Speaker 1: through the prep packet. Although I do want to real
Speaker 1: quick for we before we get trucking this morning. I
Speaker 1: think this is gonna be very important. Oh I can't
Speaker 1: find it. Oh why is this thing always have to
Speaker 1: be like that? I just want my little search window. Okay,
Speaker 1: there we go. Sorry, very important behind the scenes stuff
Speaker 1: going on right now. So sorry, you're you're victim to that.
Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Ross, for we get the show started,
Speaker 1: could you do me a favor, just real quick, could
Speaker 1: you you over the window and see if there's any
Speaker 1: assassins outside. If you hear me, there you go. All
Speaker 1: right's gonna go out the weather window, although today not
Speaker 1: used for weather. We're looking for would be assassins laying
Speaker 1: wait in the dark at sick something in the morning,
Speaker 1: all right, I mean, I mean maybe that's a good point.
Speaker 1: That's a good point, Gott. There's some dark tiding spots
Speaker 1: out there, isn't there. Yeah, a lot of shadows out here. Man.
Speaker 1: See Ross, he has a gilly suit so he he
Speaker 1: can move to his vehicle as a bush so he
Speaker 1: but you know, very dangerous.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not the gilly suit today. I brought the
Speaker 2: box like metal gear, solid box.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They'll never see that coming. Nope, not at all.
Speaker 1: All right, so keep those closed. Ay, if you see
Speaker 1: any red dots anywhere, it's been it's been fun. What
Speaker 1: the hell was that? What the And we were getting
Speaker 1: just the first inkling of it right around the last
Speaker 1: segment of the show yesterday. But I couldn't confirm who
Speaker 1: it was, and so, and it always goes down like
Speaker 1: that because this story was because then after the show,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I have to know everything, what the heck happened.
Speaker 1: So if you have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about, one,
Speaker 1: how do you do it? That'd be amazing. But more importantly,
Speaker 1: here we go, so United Healthcare, and let me let
Speaker 1: me break this down for you, since a lot of
Speaker 1: people were getting this backwards. There's United Healthcare is a
Speaker 1: sub group of United health which is the parent organization.
Speaker 1: So United Healthcare is the insurance side. But that's going
Speaker 1: to be kinde of important here, So just so you
Speaker 1: know that. So this guy, this Brian Thompson, was the
Speaker 1: CEO of United Healthcare, which is the insurance component business spinoff. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't fully know how it's structured, but you understand
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So he's up in uh, he's up
Speaker 1: in New York, and he's getting ready to do like
Speaker 1: a like an earnings thing with investors at the hotel
Speaker 1: he's staying at too. But for whatever reason, he walked outside.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's adjacent to the hotel. It was a little
Speaker 1: unclear in the thing, but that's why he's up there.
Speaker 1: And then at you know, o dark thirty in the morning,
Speaker 1: dude walks outside and standing outside just just hanging out
Speaker 1: is a guy in a hoodie with a backpack with
Speaker 1: a pistol with a silencer, with a job to do.
Speaker 1: Because immediately as he goes out there and he takes
Speaker 1: a right out of the hotel entrance to just start
Speaker 1: walking down, the guy fires, fires, hits it right in
Speaker 1: the back, hits him a couple more times, walks up
Speaker 1: on him, keeps firing, and then boogies man and he
Speaker 1: does things in there which caused a lot of conjecture
Speaker 1: yesterday because in the video one anyone who anyone with
Speaker 1: any sort of firearms training, if you haven't watched this video,
Speaker 1: you should, the guy is very comfortable with that weapon,
Speaker 1: very comfortable. And there's some speculation because he does some
Speaker 1: hand movements, and whichever of the two things is true
Speaker 1: bolsters that point. Either he very definitely fixes a jam
Speaker 1: in just a matter of moments. And for anyone who
Speaker 1: doesn't fire weapons but has ever or on the regular,
Speaker 1: but has ever been in a like you're at a
Speaker 1: range and somebody lets you shoot one and you pop
Speaker 1: a few and now the slide's still open. You know,
Speaker 1: there's not an instantaneous reaction of that. Chances are you
Speaker 1: probably turned to the person whose pistol it was, Hey,
Speaker 1: what the hell? Man? But if it's your pistol and
Speaker 1: there's a jam and you are comfortable with it, in
Speaker 1: a very quick secession, you can get that thing clear
Speaker 1: and get back to firing. But it requires you to
Speaker 1: be very comfortable with it in my opinion. All right,
Speaker 1: in my opinion. But that's just one theory. The other theory,
Speaker 1: and this is what Ross and I were talking about.
Speaker 1: So the other theory is he was manually rechanged between rounds.
Speaker 1: Because now getting too technical, Basically, the explosion that happens
Speaker 1: with your bullet is also what assists in racking that slide. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's the case. You're wondering how that did it
Speaker 1: for you, it's it's that's what's going on there. It
Speaker 1: don't call me because I understand that there's more technical
Speaker 1: stuff there, but this is we're just going very generic here.
Speaker 1: And a silencer, among other things, is slowing down the round.
Speaker 1: It's slowed down a lot of things. And the other
Speaker 1: theory is that that silencer on that firearm wasn't allowing enough,
Speaker 1: if it wasn't allowing the pistol to operate the way
Speaker 1: it was designed because of the silencer, which required manually
Speaker 1: manually going between rounds, as if you're pumping a shotgun okay,
Speaker 1: like a pump action shotgun of tween each rout. And
Speaker 1: if that's true and he's able to benulate and utilize
Speaker 1: the weapon with the silencer on and do so very comfortably,
Speaker 1: very quickly, both things speak to somebody who probably isn't
Speaker 1: your average New York City crackhead. Okay, so it from
Speaker 1: there things go wild on the verious speculation. What I
Speaker 1: did find interesting, though, is there were a lot of
Speaker 1: people who said, and I understand it. They said, well,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe this is maybe that's a just gruntled
Speaker 1: a person who had United Health coverage and got sick
Speaker 1: or something happened, and they feel that they were getting
Speaker 1: slighted by United Health, and maybe that's the case. United
Speaker 1: Health is a behemoth. When I lived in Minnesota, obviously
Speaker 1: that's where they're out of They're tried there. The fact
Speaker 1: we were running ads I heard on our own station
Speaker 1: basically trying to keep United Health from coming into North
Speaker 1: Carolina very aggressively, being run by their competitors, obviously, but
Speaker 1: still they are a big, ever expanding company, and they
Speaker 1: also have a higher than average denial rate. So all
Speaker 1: of these things are true, but I don't know any
Speaker 1: of that. Look the word that people are trying to avoid,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was very strange yesterday because there's
Speaker 1: nothing that looks normal about that what happened, because we
Speaker 1: have the video. But also and let me go, let
Speaker 1: me go on the other side, to not use the
Speaker 1: word assassin. This is what I'm saying, because I thow
Speaker 1: people were getting all clinching. Know what you're saying in assassin, Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know it. Dude, looks like you got assassinated,
Speaker 1: So I think I'm onto something. But it invokes, you know,
Speaker 1: payment for payment for deed or but it doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be. And then there's another stranger story that came
Speaker 1: out this morning, this from the New York Post, because
Speaker 1: yesterday people are being told not to speculate that this
Speaker 1: guy may have been shot because somebody felt slighted by
Speaker 1: the insurance company. But wasn't that a law and Order episode?
Speaker 1: I think I saw somebody post that and do you
Speaker 1: think that somebody, when you know that for all the
Speaker 1: reasons that people do, go and do stuff like that.
Speaker 1: You think somebody who feels that maybe a family member
Speaker 1: died because they didn't get an insurance policy paid out
Speaker 1: that they had paid into, and that sticks with them
Speaker 1: and they decide to go do something or hire somebody.
Speaker 1: The hire somebody gets a little tougher when you're talking
Speaker 1: about something like that, But who knows. Maybe it's just
Speaker 1: somebody who did an eight minute eighties you know, eighties
Speaker 1: movie era training montage, and now all of a sudden
Speaker 1: he's walking around like he's in Ross's hit Man video game.
Speaker 1: But then there's a couple other things. One so he
Speaker 1: leaves the area, goes into an alley adjacent to there
Speaker 1: and gets on one of those e bikes you remember
Speaker 1: those from the Miss Nurse with the three the three
Speaker 1: young men there where they're like, she stole our bike,
Speaker 1: but of course it was they who stole her bike. Uh,
Speaker 1: he got all one of those, and then he's on
Speaker 1: so he's on fifty four, so it's not that far.
Speaker 1: So he heads over then to Central Park and kind
Speaker 1: of disappears in there, and because it's one of the
Speaker 1: few areas in New York City where you can get
Speaker 1: a little peace and quiet from a surveillance camera. It's
Speaker 1: almost nowhere that you're on pavement? Are you going to
Speaker 1: do that? So he heads in there and that's what
Speaker 1: they know. But before he did a couple of things.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Before before we just got to stop right there.
Speaker 1: There was a couple other things they figured out. One
Speaker 1: they have video and the court this is what I
Speaker 1: was talking about of him going into Starbucks nearby prior
Speaker 1: to this, uh, getting himself something to drink, and I
Speaker 1: think a power bar or two two power bars. And
Speaker 1: then they fouled the trash actually disposed where he disposed
Speaker 1: of it. So does that mean they have fingerprints? I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It looks say he's wearing gloves, so
Speaker 1: was he?
Speaker 2: I wonder what name he gave? All right, if it's
Speaker 2: a Starbucks, he give me your name and they're right
Speaker 2: in the cup.
Speaker 1: That's a very good point. Do you think he gave
Speaker 1: his full name? Do you think that'll be the undoing
Speaker 1: of the assassin? He just wanted to make sure he
Speaker 1: got his coffee because you know it sucks. Would he
Speaker 1: give a you ever yeah, I I honestly, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I ever had to give my name. It
Speaker 1: a Starbucks. Don't they ever buy a Starbucks? Is usually
Speaker 1: is something in a bottle there.
Speaker 2: They find a cup, they find the cup of just
Speaker 2: says the killer on it.
Speaker 1: Damn it. Yeah, dude, I would there's nothing, it's nothing.
Speaker 1: It's funny here, But that would be some next level trolling,
Speaker 1: wouldn't it. They also found a phone they think it
Speaker 1: might have been disposed burner style phone, and they're they're
Speaker 1: gonna get in there and see what's in. I just
Speaker 1: so I don't know because if he is a and
Speaker 1: I'm speculating that he I guess if if the person
Speaker 1: in fact is an assassin, those seem like really rookie
Speaker 1: mistakes like to you because it shows that you thought
Speaker 1: enough that she had to go to Central Park so
Speaker 1: you could quote lose them, but not enough that you
Speaker 1: didn't think that they could do the thing that they
Speaker 1: do on every crime procedural ever now where they track
Speaker 1: back on cameras, like, oh, we found the car and
Speaker 1: we were able to track it back twenty minutes ago
Speaker 1: to where you know, where it came out of this
Speaker 1: warehouse and then you know, the cops will run over
Speaker 1: there like like. So I don't know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I know there's a bunch of crazies out there.
Speaker 1: So Ross's box idea is probably the right one. So
Speaker 1: here is I mentioned the New York Post had a
Speaker 1: couple things. This is here we go. This is the headline.
Speaker 1: United Hell CEO Brian Thompson's assassin may have left messages
Speaker 1: on bullets used in the murder. Oh now now we're
Speaker 1: now we're going to the you know, the carving or
Speaker 1: the excene or the initially or the in this case,
Speaker 1: engraving that tends to uh, tends to inject itself in
Speaker 1: some some weird or crazier stories like this. Uh. And
Speaker 1: according to the New York Post article, uh, there were words.
Speaker 1: Three words, not all three were carved into each both
Speaker 1: the casing and the round. Okay, so they were carved
Speaker 1: twice on each prior to firing them. One on the bullet,
Speaker 1: went on on on the on the showcasing, and it
Speaker 1: was denied, depose, defend that were engraved. But again, so
Speaker 1: I guess it's one word per thing. I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's nine millimeters, so I mean, you're not working with
Speaker 1: a ton of room on there. But yeah, so hell
Speaker 1: if I know. But I think the people that were
Speaker 1: speculating that it might have a little something to do
Speaker 1: with that, well, something to do with his station in life.
Speaker 1: I think that that has to be it. It doesn't
Speaker 1: mean it has to be somebody who's denied health insurance.
Speaker 1: It could be some lunatic from one of these eat
Speaker 1: the rich, you know, anti capitalist groups. It could be uh,
Speaker 1: it could be he you know, there's some sort of
Speaker 1: personal background thing where uh, you know, rich guys get
Speaker 1: mad at each other too. I don't know. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to openly speculate like you know, infidelity or something
Speaker 1: like that. I'm just saying that you had, you have
Speaker 1: all these possibilities open. And you know, obviously the fact
Speaker 1: that he heads he heads the insurance side of United
Speaker 1: Health Operation, that would be a prime target for people
Speaker 1: who hate the banksters, you know, that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: even though he's not a banker. Say, but you understand
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I don't know, the whole thing's crazy.
Speaker 1: So we got, you know, we well, we'll do some
Speaker 1: open speculating this morning. I know, I don't know when
Speaker 1: the guy guy's making ten million year. But I mean
Speaker 1: it's not like anyone was surprised that he's rich. Obviously
Speaker 1: he's got him. He had himself a pretty pretty sweet gig. Wow. Also,
Speaker 1: you know, I would say this if the killer's listening.
Speaker 1: You know, Uh, silencers are illegal in New York. So
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I know you read that part. But just
Speaker 1: so you know, how do I know? Because somebody in
Speaker 1: the law enforcement capacity in New York reminded people of
Speaker 1: that yesterday as though that was the issue here. That's
Speaker 1: silence or charge. Ah craziness, man. So there you go.
Speaker 1: That's the rundown as we know it. If there's something
Speaker 1: else you saw, you can. I've been reading about anything
Speaker 1: I can find on this, but it's gonna be very
Speaker 1: interesting to watch it all unfold.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: We in the meantime, were going to take a break.
Speaker 1: You're right back hanging. Remember I remember in Seattle they
Speaker 1: had one where they put in a pool, right and
Speaker 1: the neighbors is they you know, the neighbors who actually
Speaker 1: had houses in this particular area were not pleased. They
Speaker 1: had like, uh, they had like a couch that had
Speaker 1: a pool. The pool had it had uh a water
Speaker 1: circulation system. Had a pump on it too. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to do you want things to stay clean,
Speaker 1: you want to make sure you got fresh water in there.
Speaker 1: And this was in a homeless encampment. Meanwhile, not too
Speaker 1: far away. Uh in was it was not in Seattle.
Speaker 1: It was south might have been I don't remember, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Uh it might be down towards Olympia, which
Speaker 1: is just south there. Uh, they had that home, but
Speaker 1: it was the homeless A camera where they went into
Speaker 1: that park and they had built caves in there. They
Speaker 1: had built like a whole cave system and they were
Speaker 1: like with with rooms, a kitchen area, all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and it was like under it was adjacent to the
Speaker 1: river there, I think whichever river comes in, and it
Speaker 1: was under like a main road. So they were very
Speaker 1: concerned obviously because they're structural issues when you start burrowing
Speaker 1: an ewok village in the tree, or you put one
Speaker 1: in the trees, and then you start burrowing the cave
Speaker 1: system too, because remember they also had the ewalk looking
Speaker 1: village in the cave in the trees. She got swimming pool,
Speaker 1: you've got you know, rooms with a view, you got
Speaker 1: others for you know a little more a little more
Speaker 1: private down there. Well they had they tried to add
Speaker 1: something else too, because the only thing missing at that
Speaker 1: point you got your rest and relaxation. You need a
Speaker 1: little need, a little distraction, you know, get home from work. Okay,
Speaker 1: but it's probably not it. But you're bored whatever, you're done.
Speaker 1: You know, you're done with your c activities for the
Speaker 1: day and you just want to just to relax. That's,
Speaker 1: by the way, as we call them cre activities. And so, yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you do? You go steal an entire video
Speaker 1: game unit? Why not? The owner of an arcade that
Speaker 1: was looted by a mob of homeless vagrants ended up
Speaker 1: raiding the nearby homeless camp looking for stolen merch after
Speaker 1: the police told him his hands their hands were tied.
Speaker 1: So just listen to this. This guy's like, Hi, I
Speaker 1: run this arcade. My arcade was looted. Here's video of
Speaker 1: all the people looting it. And you can see who
Speaker 1: they are, which is why they knew. It was one
Speaker 1: of the homeless dudes down there. And they didn't just
Speaker 1: steal little stuff. They stole, among other things, an entire
Speaker 1: x Men arcade machine. So your stand up video game unit,
Speaker 1: which by the way are not light you ever had
Speaker 1: to move one. Me and someboddies back in the day
Speaker 1: got a sweet deal on a really really old version
Speaker 1: of Golden Tea and we bought that thing. So because
Speaker 1: why don't why wouldn't you write? And there was that
Speaker 1: thing was such a pain in the ass to move
Speaker 1: it into the room.
Speaker 2: We moved it into Oh man, So like I appreciate
Speaker 2: the hustle. Yeah, I know those cabinets are heavy, man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, But you know it's like these guys have
Speaker 1: a truck with a ramp on it. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: they're stealing stuff old school, they're just hauling it down
Speaker 1: the street. But what's even crazier is the guy's like, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, well one, I know that dude, and I
Speaker 1: know where that dude lives because he, you know, he's
Speaker 1: a general nuisance down there. I'm gonna go down and
Speaker 1: I think that's where it is. And you go down
Speaker 1: there and you see an X Man arcade machine sitting
Speaker 1: at the homeless encampment, and you can reasonably assume it's yours,
Speaker 1: probably right, because you have video of the guy's stealing it,
Speaker 1: and now it's right there next to him. And then
Speaker 1: you call me there.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of speculation there. Maybe they just had one.
Speaker 1: I'm saying not, there's not the law enforcement thought process.
Speaker 1: This is the arcade guy. So yes, there is going
Speaker 1: to be speculation because he's having to go out and
Speaker 1: solve this crime himself. Or maybe he didn't know that
Speaker 1: at the time. He just knows he's gathering evidence. And
Speaker 1: that's the kind of evidence that I think would lead
Speaker 1: a police officer to have. What's what is the reasonable
Speaker 1: articulable suspicion? A bunch of hoboes have it?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: Also, where are you plugging it in? You got another
Speaker 1: hobo on, like one of those stationary bikes to power it.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's like the old Seinfeld episode Man where they
Speaker 2: stole the arcade game where George had the high score
Speaker 2: in Frogger and they had to keep it plugged in
Speaker 2: while they move the cabinet across the street, because like
Speaker 2: you know, once you get to the high score on it,
Speaker 2: that's yours. You own it, right, Isn't that how it works?
Speaker 1: I believe that's the law in New York. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that is in California, But so you think
Speaker 1: it's going to be clear here. So you think the
Speaker 1: dude with no money who has to steal everything also
Speaker 1: spend some money to achieve.
Speaker 2: The highest year you're panhandling, someone gives you a quarter.
Speaker 2: You're go into play Gallagher. Whatever your favorite game is.
Speaker 2: What is it the X Men? You at the high score,
Speaker 2: you put in your name, Hobo whatever, the Hbo.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is or something stupid, probably yeah and so
Speaker 1: and so. At that point it's like, well that's basically mine.
Speaker 1: The police show up, they're like, yes, that is, in
Speaker 1: fact an X Men giant stand up arcade machine. We're
Speaker 1: out of here. Nothing we could do. It's a civil thing.
Speaker 1: That's insane. Now you prove it to your loom. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, what what's the hobo saying? Like he was
Speaker 1: panhanling for and then the same guy gave him the quarter,
Speaker 1: was like, I got something better for you today. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the I don't know what the
Speaker 1: unit cost. I know that the the Golden Teeth thing was,
Speaker 1: Oh how much way it wasn't it wasn't felony level
Speaker 1: dollar amounts. We didn't pay very much. This sounds a
Speaker 1: lot newer, so it's probably worth a lot more. But
Speaker 1: I don't know so so there you go that he
Speaker 1: sees his x men arcade unit. The police go, yep,
Speaker 1: that's it, we know, but you can't prove it's yours. Huh. Right,
Speaker 1: There's a lot of ways he could prove that it's his,
Speaker 1: not the least of which is he probably has each
Speaker 1: of those units as part of his insurance policy and
Speaker 1: they have serial numbers on them. But whatever. Then there
Speaker 1: you could also just fingerprint all the coins in there,
Speaker 1: which ironically, let's face it, the theft was likely about
Speaker 1: the coins, wasn't it, Which just shows you the thought
Speaker 1: process of of this of these lunatics, right, because you've
Speaker 1: hauled this, this gargantuan machine for what thirty dollars in
Speaker 1: quarters I don't even know. And that's if it takes
Speaker 1: quarters and not tokens. That's the other thing. How do
Speaker 1: we know it's not a token machine? If it's got tokens,
Speaker 1: chances are you could probably track it back with those.
Speaker 2: You see this a lot of times, so like you
Speaker 2: bigger things, people stealing ATMs only to have like a
Speaker 2: few hundred bucks in them because they tend to clear
Speaker 2: lose out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what was the I mean, that's more about putting
Speaker 1: a toe strap on something and then dragging it down
Speaker 1: the road like that one Fast and Furious movie.
Speaker 2: But it's never as easy as you plan it to be.
Speaker 2: Like every time you see something on like on Patrol
Speaker 2: Live or something, you're like, look at these idiots trying
Speaker 2: to steal the ATM machine. It's like it you know,
Speaker 2: something they think is going to take like ten minutes
Speaker 2: takes two hours and they destroy the entire store in
Speaker 2: their truck.
Speaker 1: Well, I saw the I saw the Remember they tried
Speaker 1: to steal the ATM machine at the VP across from us.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that years ago? Ay? And if you
Speaker 1: so the BP right there, if you walk in right
Speaker 1: on your left as you come in the door as
Speaker 1: the ATM machine, I'm not planning a heist with you.
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to remember what the story was, like
Speaker 1: somebody somebody hooked something. They had a vehicle right in
Speaker 1: that pull through of that gas thing, and another guy
Speaker 1: ran in and like put a rope around it like
Speaker 1: he's last doing a cow and then they jumped in
Speaker 1: and tried to speed off, and it's an it's an
Speaker 1: ATM machine, and so the rope just just tipped the
Speaker 1: damn thing over and then the rope just came off.
Speaker 1: So I mean, these idiots didn't secure it or nothing.
Speaker 1: So it was very it was wildly unsuccessful. I can't
Speaker 1: remember what the damage was other than the machine falling over.
Speaker 1: So and I didn't I didn't see it, by the way.
Speaker 1: I just saw. I saw in the aftermath where they
Speaker 1: had the machine kind of like torn apart with the
Speaker 1: sign on asked to do what happened. I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: really were you here? He's like, nah, somebody else was here.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, okay, but yeah, now you got to
Speaker 1: you gotta do your research on that stuff. So but
Speaker 1: I wouldn't put it past him. But remember they built
Speaker 1: an Ewok village with all the industry in this industriousness
Speaker 1: of the of the Hobos to construct a pool and grotto.
Speaker 1: They had a grotto, which do you want to go
Speaker 1: to a hobo grotto? I don't want to go to
Speaker 1: a hobo grotto. You know. The only the only time
Speaker 1: you hear about grotto is right old playboy mansion stories
Speaker 1: like oh yeah, well we were in the grotto and
Speaker 1: buh and or the letters that they run.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: I never thought it happened to be there. I was
Speaker 1: in the grotto, but nobody wants to go the hobo grotto. Ugh,
Speaker 1: but they built one anyway. And then they built a
Speaker 1: tree village and a cave village up under a major
Speaker 1: road that was really intricate, and it's like, not one
Speaker 1: of you could channel that energy into not doing pro
Speaker 1: activities on the streets here, just trying stuff robin people
Speaker 1: pooping wherever you please. Oh man, all right. So this
Speaker 1: guy then decides he's got I'm sorry, can't let me
Speaker 1: just get to the end of this. So he's like, well,
Speaker 1: if the cops won't help, we're gonna have to take
Speaker 1: matters into our own hands, you know, kind of like
Speaker 1: the X Men think about that they're the Avengers, right,
Speaker 1: because this guy is he's got all the nerd stuff,
Speaker 1: and he's just like, you know what, I'll just handle
Speaker 1: this myself. So he and I guess some other folks
Speaker 1: they went in and started kicking doors, like they're clear
Speaker 1: in Fallujah, but it's a lot easier to kick a
Speaker 1: door at a homeless encampment. And and what do they find, Basically,
Speaker 1: not just their X Men machine, which obviously they saw that,
Speaker 1: they found a bunch of They found four different gaming accessories,
Speaker 1: circuit boards, consoles, cash of stolen snacks. Still they stole
Speaker 1: the snacks at the arcade too, which I guess that
Speaker 1: actually makes more sense. And he starts going through there,
Speaker 1: So what happens The hobos call the cop now on him.
Speaker 1: So he's going through, he's getting his stuff back, and
Speaker 1: they call the cops on him, but he's stealing her stuff.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what happened. The police showed up. Luna called
Speaker 1: the cops that again because like they're threatening to call,
Speaker 1: and I guess they did. The whole thing is nuts,
Speaker 1: and so what do the officers say. They tell him
Speaker 1: he can't enter their tents or move their tents or
Speaker 1: disrupted in any way because it's breaking and entering. This
Speaker 1: sounds like a This sounds like an snl skit. I mean,
Speaker 1: it sounds I don't know what this sounds. It sounds insane. Quote,
Speaker 1: why can't you guys just move this move this stuff going?
Speaker 1: This is what he's telling officers. He's like, fine, if
Speaker 1: you don't want me in there, maybe you could just
Speaker 1: go grab that giant machine right there that literally is
Speaker 1: mine and this other stuff to his mind, and the
Speaker 1: officer responded, we can't. It would violate homeless rights, all right.
Speaker 1: So eventually Luna and the police reached an arrangement. This
Speaker 1: is the only time where logic is seeming to take over. Specifically,
Speaker 1: they said, look, we can't go in there, but we
Speaker 1: also are going to go get to We can go
Speaker 1: over here and get some coffee to catch me drift.
Speaker 1: And I guess Luna did a He wasn't kicking doors
Speaker 1: as much, but he was going around there trying to
Speaker 1: find stuff. He says. Still the the items he was
Speaker 1: not able to get, and officers eventually made him leave.
Speaker 1: Pendo switches, a PlayStation five, and the Xbox machine. The
Speaker 1: Hobos still have it. It wasn't just him where his
Speaker 1: arcade is located. They actually broke into each of the
Speaker 1: shops there. So they broke into an arcade. Then they
Speaker 1: broke into a salon next door. They found some petty cash.
Speaker 1: They found some petty cash. Let's see here. What are
Speaker 1: they steal some hair products? What is going on? Are
Speaker 1: they opening a salon at the hobo camp? Can you
Speaker 1: go get a blowout at the hobo camp? And not
Speaker 1: just one of their veins when they try? Okay, let's
Speaker 1: see here. They also then broke into the pizza restaurant,
Speaker 1: got them selves some pizza or stuff I guess food
Speaker 1: around pizza. I don't know if they made one. Maybe
Speaker 1: they're opening a pizzeria ross you want to go the
Speaker 1: hobo pizzeria. See what they got on the probably not.
Speaker 1: And then they broke in at the very end of
Speaker 1: the little shopping complex a church. Yeah, if you're not
Speaker 1: got a burden, hell enough, go rob the church. But
Speaker 1: it's okay that that church has actually been robbed three
Speaker 1: times this year, which excitedly is also the number of
Speaker 1: hobo encampments directly adjacent to it. There's three different ones,
Speaker 1: and apparently they have their own little little financial societies.
Speaker 1: So maybe they needed the X Men machine as a
Speaker 1: barter tool for an arranged marriage or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't live in a hobo stand there. Let's see.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so when asked here we go. All right,
Speaker 1: So the the console unit, the X Men console unit,
Speaker 1: he estimates as worth thirteen hundred dollars right now. So
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's a new price, but at the
Speaker 1: very least what he thinks it's worth now. So yeah, man,
Speaker 1: those hobo camps are They just keep getting better and
Speaker 1: better out there. Now they got an arcade, a salon,
Speaker 1: a pizzeria, a swimming complex. They oh, you want to
Speaker 1: get really do you like? It's not you don't want
Speaker 1: to put You don't want to go in a ballpit
Speaker 1: now at McDonald's, right, you don't want you want anything
Speaker 1: to do with that? You say, Oh, it's full of
Speaker 1: kid boogers and god knows what else, stuff that fell
Speaker 1: out of diapers. No, thank you. The one at the
Speaker 1: hobo camp.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, My mommy used to tell me I
Speaker 2: couldn't get a ballpit. I couldn't get in the ball
Speaker 2: pit as a kid at the Chuck e Cheese because
Speaker 2: my mom kept saying there would be needles at the
Speaker 2: bottom of it.
Speaker 1: She saw it in the news. I'd be well, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're for the one you just proposed. I think I
Speaker 1: guaranteed there would be right. In fact, it would also
Speaker 1: it would almost be like a contest thing for the holidays, right,
Speaker 1: like apple bobbing, only in this case it is behind
Speaker 1: the needles. Man, see if there's a little left in there?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, and then and then can you imagine
Speaker 1: you're driving by your kids? Sees that he sees a
Speaker 1: pool an arcade machine in a ball pit and it
Speaker 1: starts throwing a tantrum because you won't take him. You're like,
Speaker 1: that's a homelessen camp with Jimmy. But he's a kid,
Speaker 1: he doesn't know. He's just say oh, bullpit, bullpit, uh
Speaker 1: and uh. And then eventually you ready for this done?
Speaker 1: H then's after all this took place. Somebody come and
Speaker 1: tried to light the arcade on fire but was unsuccessful. Well,
Speaker 1: that's just eliminating the competition at that point. Now that
Speaker 1: you're opening your your own hobo arcade, you don't want
Speaker 1: to have to compete against a guy who's got you know,
Speaker 1: running water and electricity and probably not fifty drug addled
Speaker 1: hoboes in the general vicinity. Right, you don't want to
Speaker 1: compete against that because you're gonna lose to that. So
Speaker 1: there you go. Thank you, California for making things interesting
Speaker 1: each and every day. All right, six point fifty one
Speaker 1: CaCO Day Radio program. Um, yeah, yeah, we'd be real quick,
Speaker 1: all right, Jerry, real quick, real quick? What's up? No,
Speaker 1: just you gotta talking.
Speaker 3: About people stealing at m and yeah, the small town
Speaker 3: I grew up in.
Speaker 1: Someone tried to steal the ATM.
Speaker 4: They hoped to chain to the ATM and they hooked
Speaker 4: the change the bumper of the truck and they took off, well,
Speaker 4: ripped the bumper off, and they freaked out.
Speaker 3: They drove off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, left the buffer and the license plate and they had.
Speaker 1: All their information on it. It was freaking hilarious. Genius, dude.
Speaker 1: It's so funny that there's a kid I went to
Speaker 1: school with who got busted for stealing from a lumberyard
Speaker 1: because of that, because you tried to rip open the gate,
Speaker 1: did the same exact thing. So genius. All right, thanks
Speaker 1: for the call. Appreciated. Yeah, man, Goscherly, this is too easy. Well,
Speaker 1: not that this was a hard crime to solve in California.
Speaker 1: Everything's there, even if you're making assumptions. Anyway, we'll be
Speaker 1: back right now. The Tennessee facility, back we were having
Speaker 1: those big VA discussions, wasn't really high up on the radar.
Speaker 1: It was like you remember, like Arizona was really the
Speaker 1: face of failure, but there were so many, so many
Speaker 1: other things and then that that whole story just kind
Speaker 1: of went away, and I'm sure some improvements were made,
Speaker 1: but I still hear people complain about the VA on
Speaker 1: the regular, so I don't know. I don't use the VA. However,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure this is not what the VA is
Speaker 1: supposed to be used for. And it is. This is
Speaker 1: a very crazy report from a congressional investigation. So here's
Speaker 1: the headline. Sex crazed workers at troubled VA facility had
Speaker 1: twelve person orgy and one vetted thirty two co workers,
Speaker 1: according to a new Bombshell probe. Well, I guess that's
Speaker 1: why sometimes the treatments a little slow. So this is
Speaker 1: Mountain Home Mountain Home Medical Center, which is also called
Speaker 1: the James Quillen VA Medical Center. So I'm in fact
Speaker 1: there's probably somebody within the sound of my voice who
Speaker 1: is this facility. It's not that far from us, all right.
Speaker 1: So anyway, so what's going on? Well, a congressional investigation
Speaker 1: into sexual misconduct allegations at the facility revealed that twelve
Speaker 1: officials who worked there, So I guess administrators decided, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what we're done administrating for the day, why
Speaker 1: don't we have a giant orgy here too? So I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure that's not you know, that's there's something if
Speaker 1: only a cleanliness issue. It is a medical facility. Let's
Speaker 1: see here. Another biomedical employee allegedly hooked up with thirty
Speaker 1: two different women. I mean, it's hard to be mad
Speaker 1: at that dude, but and in fact he was such
Speaker 1: the casanova. That is part of the investigation. They found
Speaker 1: that the women, all a bunch of the women, would
Speaker 1: would boast online about having hooked up with this dude,
Speaker 1: talk about it as part of on their official online
Speaker 1: government communication portal. They would leave reviews for him. Apparently
Speaker 1: he was well reviewed. At least two employees initially fest
Speaker 1: uput approach to the acts, saying that yes, they had
Speaker 1: in fact been carried out on the hospital's grounds. Let's
Speaker 1: see here. Yeah, so this is this is when you
Speaker 1: start talking about culture. This is clearly a cultural issue
Speaker 1: within you know, look, management's doing orgies, then the rest
Speaker 1: of the staff are going to think they can do
Speaker 1: whatever the hell they want. Obviously, so that is crazy.
Speaker 1: So far, the biomedical staff or he quit. The dude
Speaker 1: who betted thirty two of his coworkers, he's out. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he'll land on his feet somewhere. And the facilities
Speaker 1: director did resign Dean Borsos over the allegations after investigators
Speaker 1: determined that a lot of this stuff started back in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. And that's an important distinction because ross you
Speaker 1: know what was going on in twenty twenty. Think of
Speaker 1: anything that might be going on in twenty twenty where
Speaker 1: you wouldn't want people to be having giant orgies. Can
Speaker 1: we think of any Yeah? Yeah, that thing that's COVID. Man,
Speaker 1: these guys are having COVID orgies at a VA facility.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been to a VA facility and seeing
Speaker 1: the average age of the people being treated at a
Speaker 1: VA facility all the while? And I bet these were
Speaker 1: people also that would preach you in person. I can't
Speaker 1: believe going to have a mask on? Why are you
Speaker 1: trying to kill Grandma? Well, I don't know. You're the
Speaker 1: one that's having a key party next to Nana's room.
Speaker 1: Who's really trying to do the killing. A House Committee
Speaker 1: on Veterans at Farris sent a letter to mc donno's
Speaker 1: the VIA secretary asking them to look into the allegations
Speaker 1: after another employee raised concerned, oh, they have a tattletale?
Speaker 1: Do you think now? Why do you think that person
Speaker 1: came forward out out of moral justice or they didn't
Speaker 1: get an invite to the you know the thing there
Speaker 1: or was it one of the thirty two women this
Speaker 1: guy hooked up with who just got jealous of the
Speaker 1: other thirty one We don't really know. Says they have
Speaker 1: whistleblower status, so we don't know. But yeah, what a
Speaker 1: crazy story this morning. Man. I'm pretty sure that's not
Speaker 1: how you va so and at this point it makes recommendations,
Speaker 1: but I don't know that everyone's going to lose their jobs,
Speaker 1: which is crazy to me. At the very least, if
Speaker 1: twelve people in administration administrative is how they're described. If
Speaker 1: you have twelve administrators who decided to, you know, go
Speaker 1: calligula on the on the on somewhere on the property,
Speaker 1: you have to fire all of them. Like. The only
Speaker 1: place you can do that is if you work in pornography, right,
Speaker 1: I guess. And then maybe that's it. I don't know, right,
Speaker 1: or that would be acceptable. Maybe you get that one
Speaker 1: chick over who's gonna hook up with a thousand guys.
Speaker 1: You've seen that creepy story over there. I'm assuming she
Speaker 1: just burst into flame. I don't know, but that's where
Speaker 1: that would be. Okay, this is not where that would
Speaker 1: be okay, And and in pure government form, of course, uh,
Speaker 1: the investigation will probably keep going. They'll probably will be
Speaker 1: other than the people who resigned, very minimal punishments, reassignments,
Speaker 1: and uh, and then everyone's just gotta gotta trek forward.
Speaker 1: But I think that twenty twenty date is obviously pretty
Speaker 1: pretty important for the for the purpose of our story here,
Speaker 1: all right, eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
Speaker 1: seven four. You want to hear a cool story, because yeah,
Speaker 1: that one wasn't I guess cool. It was probably good
Speaker 1: for the casanova dude. But so imagine you're walking around
Speaker 1: in the woods. Okay, let's say you're doing a little
Speaker 1: deer hunt or something whatever, whatever gets you out there
Speaker 1: plodding around, and you come across a cave or it
Speaker 1: looks like it actually was, say a mine shaft. You
Speaker 1: go in there, young me goes in there. Now, I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe maybe not, but if you did, and
Speaker 1: you happen to be these two guys over in the
Speaker 1: UK who were doing basically weren't deer hunting, but they
Speaker 1: were off in the wilderness urban explorers and they were
Speaker 1: checking I think they were geo cashing. And then they
Speaker 1: came across this this mine, and it was known that
Speaker 1: there was a mine there. Everyone knew that there was
Speaker 1: a mine that had gone out of business, wasn't used.
Speaker 1: So these guys decided to go in because the gates open.
Speaker 1: The entrance was literally left open because they cover these
Speaker 1: things usually with a door. Door's wide open. So they
Speaker 1: just walk in, and they keep walking in, and they
Speaker 1: travel through the entrance one thousand feet underground. And what
Speaker 1: do you think they find when they get all the
Speaker 1: way underground, Well, they find five miles of tunnels. That's
Speaker 1: not that unusual. You had a mine there, all of that,
Speaker 1: except it doesn't look like a mine, not anymore. It
Speaker 1: looks like they're in a space station. They're wondering what
Speaker 1: the hell's going on, So they keep they go around,
Speaker 1: and then they eventually walk into some of the bigger chambers,
Speaker 1: which don't look like mine chambers anymore. They look like
Speaker 1: you're on the deck of the enterprise. And as it unfolds,
Speaker 1: they figure out what's up. The mine had been least
Speaker 1: I guess by the producers for Marvel, and had been
Speaker 1: utilized to create an entire underground villain's leg for whether
Speaker 1: there's for in this and now we know what it's for.
Speaker 1: But they didn't know what it was for for the
Speaker 1: New Fantastic four movie with Pedro Pascal. So Marvel built
Speaker 1: this thing. They built an entire underground villain's layer, super
Speaker 1: futuristic looking thing for the shoots. Then when they got
Speaker 1: done shooting, they just left it. They didn't even close
Speaker 1: the door, I guess, or somebody else had come there
Speaker 1: to look see what's going on. But either way, these
Speaker 1: guys stumble into it, and it also brings h It
Speaker 1: also lets people know based on some stuff they found,
Speaker 1: there's some of the characters that might be in there,
Speaker 1: like Moleman and others. So if you really want to
Speaker 1: get nerdy on that stuff, there you go. You know what,
Speaker 1: Uh Ros, I'm gonna say this story, I miss you.
Speaker 1: Send it Stephen Kent to Let's see if we can
Speaker 1: put that in because we'll be chatting with him hearing
Speaker 1: about forty five about forty five minutes. Uh okay, So
Speaker 1: that's the story right. Here's here's my take. Does anybody
Speaker 1: want to shut up? This is like the This is
Speaker 1: like the old coins thing all over again. If you
Speaker 1: find a fully constraint, you know it was well constructed.
Speaker 1: It's Marvel money. If somebody has built you an underground
Speaker 1: villain layer that you seemingly are the only one who
Speaker 1: knows about it, you don't tell anyone.
Speaker 2: No, you stumble across that like ultimate man cave, literally
Speaker 2: a cave. It's yours now, right.
Speaker 1: That's it? Fighters keepers, Yeah, you're just like and I
Speaker 1: don't know, I mean, don't don't let it color your personality.
Speaker 1: Don't be plotting the end of the world down there,
Speaker 1: but you know, show it off to your boys, maybe
Speaker 1: the ones you can trust, all the wives, like where
Speaker 1: do they keep going? Meanwhile, you're down there, you're playing
Speaker 1: dress up in your Marvel stuff like you're a kid.
Speaker 1: That'd be amazing, But you don't tell everyone that's yours. Now,
Speaker 1: you guys done screwed up? Man? Uh, the let's see
Speaker 1: where's this Derby shire Dale's Is there a single town
Speaker 1: in England that doesn't sound candy ass is? If I
Speaker 1: could just ask for a moment like, is there? I'm
Speaker 1: genuinely serious. I'm trying to remember the names of various towns.
Speaker 1: There's nothing that. It sounded very butch when I was
Speaker 1: over there. I'm sure they exist, but now everything's like
Speaker 1: something upon something right, thousand feet underground, free villain layer
Speaker 1: and you guys jack it up amazing seven seventeen. Hang on,
Speaker 1: let me do this first. If anyone from Duke Energy
Speaker 1: is listening to me, and I'm sure there are some
Speaker 1: considering the size of the company, and I don't care
Speaker 1: if you're in the C suites or I guess one
Speaker 1: of the headquarters are technically in Charlotte, but we got
Speaker 1: a big building downtown and Raleigh. So I'm gonna solve
Speaker 1: this little kerfuffle I just saw here on WRL if
Speaker 1: I could. The town of Carborough has followed a lawsuit
Speaker 1: against Duke Energy, accusing the utility of decea leaving the
Speaker 1: public about the dangers of climate change for decades, and
Speaker 1: seeking compensation for damages caused by its reliance on fossil fuels.
Speaker 1: You bunch of moon bats, nuisance suit idiots, Duke turn
Speaker 1: their power off? Done, serious, Look, they don't like it.
Speaker 1: It's obviously bothering.
Speaker 2: I had the same exact reaction last night doing prep.
Speaker 2: I was screaming at the laptop. I said, all right, fine,
Speaker 2: turn their power off. If they're like, oh, your power
Speaker 2: is bad for the environment.
Speaker 1: In the middle of the winter. Turn it off.
Speaker 2: See how long you last?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, See how long the twenty two giant expresso
Speaker 1: machines at the twenty two coffee shops that you, for
Speaker 1: some reason have on your main direg See how many
Speaker 1: lattes those things are spitting out with no power? That
Speaker 1: just turn it off. And I understand there's probably people
Speaker 1: in carbar are like, hold on a minute, I listened
Speaker 1: to your show. I don't like these lunatics, but I've
Speaker 1: lived here so long I ain't gonna move from the
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Get you a Jenny and make sure it's
Speaker 1: loud and runs on as much fossil fuel as possible,
Speaker 1: so you too can send a send a message. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If Carbaro wants to noose and suit lawsuit, this is
Speaker 1: just this is activist. This is activist judiciary crap. That
Speaker 1: quite frankly, the fact that we even allow it and
Speaker 1: we don't have a loser pays situation for things like this,
Speaker 1: oh well, that just makes the corporations more powerful. There's
Speaker 1: some arguments there. There's also arguments that, frankly, this the
Speaker 1: cost of whatever this is. If they're able to extract
Speaker 1: the millions of dollars that they're acting from. Duke. You
Speaker 1: get to pay for that. I get to pay for that.
Speaker 1: We all get to pay for that, anyone who pays Duke,
Speaker 1: Are you got a ross? You duke up there? I'm
Speaker 1: assuming you're Duke up in wake Forest?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: We are not? Oh you're not? Okay? All right, well
Speaker 1: then you don't care, but you also want their power
Speaker 1: turned off. So that's just out of spite and not
Speaker 1: even finances. All right, I appreciate that Duke's knowledge of
Speaker 1: the environmental injustice being caused by the use of foster.
Speaker 1: Shut up. You know what. I don't want you on
Speaker 1: my grid anymore, and you clearly don't want to be here.
Speaker 1: Bye bye. Turn it off. You can put up, you
Speaker 1: can put up a bunch of windmills and just have
Speaker 1: dead eagles rained down on your town, and obviously you'd
Speaker 1: be very joyful about that. Carboro Mayor Barbara Fouchet says,
Speaker 1: we have to speak truth to power as we continue
Speaker 1: to fight the existential threat that is climate change. Turn
Speaker 1: her power off? First, all right, all right, Mayor of Carboro.
Speaker 1: Then why do you use the power? Why why do
Speaker 1: you continue to contribute if you feel that strongly turn
Speaker 1: the power off at your house. I'm sure it's a
Speaker 1: nice house too, Yeah, turn it off. Turn the power
Speaker 1: off there at city Hall anything anything the city owns.
Speaker 1: There's not a single City of Carborough facility building electric va.
Speaker 1: I don't care what it is that should be drawing
Speaker 1: a single amp of current unless you Unless you guys
Speaker 1: are just a bunch of lion hypocrites that clearly are
Speaker 1: looking to shake people down for money. What are you
Speaker 1: gonna do with the money? Probably build a peace garden
Speaker 1: or something that you'll overspend nine times on and then
Speaker 1: homeless people will steal all of it and you'll be like, well,
Speaker 1: they had to put your money. Put your money where
Speaker 1: your mouth is.
Speaker 2: Is this something that like Vanderbilt or Rockefeller back in the
Speaker 2: day would have done, you know what I mean, They
Speaker 2: wouldn't have stood for they've turn your power off?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right, you don't want it, you're doing
Speaker 1: You're only doing what they ask. They are so reeked,
Speaker 1: they're so recoiled at the idea of a fossil fuel
Speaker 1: generated power, and that is a portion of the power
Speaker 1: that Duke delivers. You know, they had there's another way
Speaker 1: they can get power and all you got to do
Speaker 1: is look, I don't know, maybe like sharing Harris and
Speaker 1: some you know, look at that. But if you want
Speaker 1: them not to do fossil fuels, we we do have
Speaker 1: another option, and it's a pretty fancy nuke one. And
Speaker 1: somebody posted a picture that what were we what did
Speaker 1: we nickname her on the show? Remember that cop who
Speaker 1: was basically sleeping her way through the entire department that
Speaker 1: was in Tennessee too, wasn't it? What is it? What's
Speaker 1: going on over in Tennessee that you all think you
Speaker 1: need to have giant hookup sessions at work? Let's go?
Speaker 1: I mean, what is you? Guys bored? Also? And I
Speaker 1: guess people in Tennessee can get mad at me about
Speaker 1: this stuff. That's fine. I don't want to see a
Speaker 1: bunch of you doing that, not from my experience in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: I also don't want it. By the way, I also
Speaker 1: don't want to see a bunch of Wyoming mountain folk
Speaker 1: doing that. Okay, So we're just so rebundantly clear. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with that, But you
Speaker 1: all do things just a little different there on the
Speaker 1: other side of the border. So check this story out. Okay,
Speaker 1: Les Squire Magazine. I don't know if you caught any
Speaker 1: of this yesterday. So, h Charles Pierce, who is a
Speaker 1: giant moonbet by the way, and uh, you probably and
Speaker 1: you probably would even recognize him if you watch any
Speaker 1: of the round tables on MSNBC, CNN every and you're like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: I kind of knew that guy is. So he writes
Speaker 1: for Esquire, and he wrote, he wrote himself a column. Uh.
Speaker 1: And the the in the column, by the way, uh,
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's it's pretty aggressive. The headline is nobody
Speaker 1: defines Poppy Bush's presidency by his son's struggles or the
Speaker 1: pardons he'd issued on the way out of the White House.
Speaker 1: The moral shut the f up about Hunter Biden please.
Speaker 1: That was the actual sub headline on Esquire. All right,
Speaker 1: so what what the hell is he talking about? Is
Speaker 1: probably what you're saying. What is this guy talking about?
Speaker 1: So the story is a detailed, a detailed reminder of
Speaker 1: that time, and this is how he writes it. The
Speaker 1: Lucky American Businessman's father exercised his unlimited constitutional power of
Speaker 1: clemency to pardon for all of that quote sn L
Speaker 1: Business way back when George H. W. Bush pardoned his
Speaker 1: son Neil. Okay, well, that's interesting. This is obviously the
Speaker 1: elder Bush there, Poppy Bush. That's why he says that. Okay,
Speaker 1: So here's the problem with that. None of that happened.
Speaker 1: None of that happened. Now there was Here's what did happen.
Speaker 1: So was there something with Neil Bush and some investments. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was a Silverado Savings and Loan is what it
Speaker 1: was called. Neil said on the board for that. It collapsed.
Speaker 1: It's at the same time every had a lot of snls.
Speaker 1: Who was the one guy who was the face of
Speaker 1: all of this. But you remember that all of the
Speaker 1: SNL scandals, all of that stuff, one of the lesser
Speaker 1: ones or one of the impacted ones was the Silverado
Speaker 1: and Neil Bush was a board member for it. And
Speaker 1: I believe the collapse based on the FDIC insurance right,
Speaker 1: which they had ended up costing a billion dollars from
Speaker 1: the FDIC, so from taxpayers. So it's not like it
Speaker 1: wasn't a thing. Like it wasn't a thing. The problem
Speaker 1: is there was no pardon. There was not even like
Speaker 1: none of this was even a discussion. None of that
Speaker 1: ever happened. So this guy wrote an entire article over
Speaker 1: a false memory, which shows you how how it is
Speaker 1: that people who were purported to be educated and pay
Speaker 1: attention and have their finger on the pulse can run
Speaker 1: around and parrot things like the good people on boat
Speaker 1: sides and all the rest, because once they get it
Speaker 1: locked in their brain that something happened whatever fever dream rumor.
Speaker 1: I'm sure this guy had probably had that said to
Speaker 1: them by some bespectacled moon bat at a university one
Speaker 1: time and just kind of threw it in there and
Speaker 1: was on a panel or whatever, and now he just
Speaker 1: believes it. But the audacity to write the story at
Speaker 1: any point, like when you're writing a story, do you
Speaker 1: google any of this information? That's what's wild to me,
Speaker 1: Like even if I think I remember something, if I'm
Speaker 1: putting together a detailed story, there's gonna be little nuggets
Speaker 1: in there I need, like what was the name of
Speaker 1: the SNL again, what was the exact year of the
Speaker 1: put what day was the part? What? You can look
Speaker 1: at all the presidential pardons, by the way, you can
Speaker 1: go online. You can read them. They're on there, and
Speaker 1: there's thousands and thousands to choose from over previous presidents
Speaker 1: Barack Obama, pardon like four thousand people, just keep that
Speaker 1: in mind, or commuted or you know, one of the
Speaker 1: things in that window there, it was numbers like four thousand.
Speaker 1: I think Trump was two hundred and fifty. But at
Speaker 1: no point did you did you obviously try to ascertain
Speaker 1: any information about this, and you published the damn thing. Well,
Speaker 1: as you can imagine, within about five seconds, people are like,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? And then what really kills
Speaker 1: me is he's so sure of how smart he is
Speaker 1: that that sub headline that he wrote literally tells you
Speaker 1: to shut the f up. Shut the f up about
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden. Please, This is this is cope of the
Speaker 1: highest order. This isn't just it's a father. What would
Speaker 1: a father, if any father would do this or this
Speaker 1: narrative that they're going to use to perhaps put pardons.
Speaker 1: You know that they are discussing right now, and I
Speaker 1: don't know how serious it is, but it's being reported
Speaker 1: not just on right wing sites but also on quote
Speaker 1: unquote mainstream and clear left wing sites that and and
Speaker 1: in a positive manner, I might add on some of
Speaker 1: the far left sites that what Biden needs to do
Speaker 1: is basically figure out anyone who they think Trump may
Speaker 1: have a problem with, and they just give them blanket immunity.
Speaker 1: What a horrible precedent to start. They don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: The pardon stuff. There's clearly people there who shouldn't be pardoned,
Speaker 1: and there's politics there one percent. Trump did it, Bush
Speaker 1: did it, Obama did it, Clinton, They all did it.
Speaker 1: There's there's only two presidents who didn't do any pardons.
Speaker 1: Just so you know, there's only two, and it's been
Speaker 1: a long long time since we had one of them.
Speaker 1: I think Harrison was the last. So you're going to
Speaker 1: go in and the names they're floating are Adam Schiff.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Adam Shiff committed criminal stuff, but
Speaker 1: it's still it really feels like he did. Maybe we
Speaker 1: should find out. You're telling me that they're a lyne
Speaker 1: to Congress as a member of Congress to perpetuate something
Speaker 1: that ended up costing hundreds of millions of dollars to
Speaker 1: hold all the hearings and the committees and all that for.
Speaker 1: You're telling me that there's not liability there. Maybe there isn't,
Speaker 1: but if there isn't, there probably should be. But the
Speaker 1: one that really sticks out, is Fauci that you would
Speaker 1: have a conversation the day the day after that House
Speaker 1: Committee report came out, and after all of the wrangling
Speaker 1: and all of the research and all of the investigations
Speaker 1: came to the conclusion that not only did the COVID
Speaker 1: escape from that lab and wuhon, it was made as
Speaker 1: part of gain of function research that Fauci was a
Speaker 1: fan of. And then when he was told he couldn't,
Speaker 1: looks like he also found a way to fund it
Speaker 1: so long as it was elsewhere. And this ECO, whatever
Speaker 1: that business is, who is actually the research the research
Speaker 1: corporation surrounding that particular gain of function research, Like all
Speaker 1: of this stuff looks criminal and and and and and
Speaker 1: this isn't even him just you know, ripping the voice
Speaker 1: boxes out of beagles, which is somehow legal. This is
Speaker 1: doing gain a function research using taxpayer dollars perhaps for
Speaker 1: a passer organization, and then pretending like you had no
Speaker 1: culpability in this. And you know, one of the things
Speaker 1: Trump said is he you know, we need reparations from
Speaker 1: China kind of. But also if if our own doctor
Speaker 1: Fauci had any fingerprints on that, we may have some
Speaker 1: liability and you're going to give that guy a unilateral
Speaker 1: pardon on your way out. Because here's what it creates.
Speaker 1: It creates the cast system that uh, you know, the
Speaker 1: group of untouchables. And don't get me wrong, that is
Speaker 1: something we've talked about. You know, you're like, oh, if
Speaker 1: you're a rich if you're a rich athlete, you can
Speaker 1: go ahead and do whatever you want. Or if you're
Speaker 1: a rich politician or businessman, you can do whatever you want.
Speaker 1: And sometimes, yeah, sometimes that absolutely does happen. But we
Speaker 1: don't normalize it. We look down upon it. Even if
Speaker 1: people are hypocritical and how mad they get what it's
Speaker 1: their side versus the other, we don't see it as
Speaker 1: a good thing. But if you just create a normalized
Speaker 1: process whereas a president's leaving, he can then name everyone
Speaker 1: I guess in his administration and his political party and
Speaker 1: just give him chalk of blocks of blanket immunity. That's
Speaker 1: how you get oligarchs and stuff. That's how you get
Speaker 1: an entire class of people that can walk around and
Speaker 1: do whatever they want with zero repercussions, which have been
Speaker 1: a hallmark of societies where things have gone very badly,
Speaker 1: very quickly. You usually see them in you know, Cuba
Speaker 1: style things where either your biggest danger is your boss
Speaker 1: killing you, but other than that you can do whatever
Speaker 1: you want. You a little how about some Prema nacta
Speaker 1: ross we don't have enough Prema nacta these days. Why
Speaker 1: don't we go ahead and get that in there? We
Speaker 1: ready to go down this road. In fact, I think
Speaker 1: Hunter would probably volunteer for that. I mean, that's what
Speaker 1: you're looking at. And then it just it just snowballs.
Speaker 1: It just snowballs, and before you know it, you have
Speaker 1: elected officials like Adam Schiff, and there's some other there's
Speaker 1: a couple other Congress people in there in the speculation.
Speaker 1: And then now you have elected officials who operate in
Speaker 1: Washington and have had all of the culpability or potential
Speaker 1: liability removed. That's crazy when you're doing blanket immunity. Remember
Speaker 1: we just ousted. We've ousted members of Congress for a
Speaker 1: variety of things. What was who was screw with the
Speaker 1: kids the republic was a hastard? What was the guy's name?
Speaker 1: I mean, feasibly, you give that guy blanket immunity and
Speaker 1: you can't charge him for screwing with kids. So how
Speaker 1: do you even facilitate that this is what these lunatics
Speaker 1: are talking about. This is where we are forty six.
Speaker 1: Let's get some snow and end it all, all right,
Speaker 1: raced agent from the Weather Channel, just DC I. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to bury it in a snowstorm so they
Speaker 1: can't accomplish anything. Everyone to be okay, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: well a lot of wind. Yeah, there's already a lot
Speaker 1: of wind.
Speaker 4: But that's very right, right, yeah, all up and down
Speaker 4: to the ninety five corridor. So hey, maybe you've got
Speaker 4: a flight today that takes you to one of the
Speaker 4: big cities in the east, probably something delays. Now breezy here,
Speaker 4: but the advisories are confined to areas in the mountains
Speaker 4: where the winds will gust. And that's the next cal front.
Speaker 4: No snow, no presept with this front. Upper forties to
Speaker 4: low fifties today, good looking day, but upper teens to
Speaker 4: low twenties tonight, just like we had yesterday morning where
Speaker 4: it was nineteen at the Tryad, it was about twenty
Speaker 4: four at the Airport Raleigh. So that type of spread
Speaker 4: across the area and then a cold Friday. Most of
Speaker 4: us on either side of forty and mostly sunny and
Speaker 4: a light breeze, so bundle up on Friday, but then
Speaker 4: some better weather with mid upper forties Saturday, mid upper
Speaker 4: fifties on Sunday. Real good looking weekend. Next week completely
Speaker 4: different than this week. No cold, Probably be a little
Speaker 4: bit damp, but temperatures should be at or above normal
Speaker 4: for the beginning of the week. Case so it looks
Speaker 4: like we'll have another pattern change toward milder temperatures in
Speaker 4: the six to ten day out.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you very much, sir, appreciate it. We'll
Speaker 1: talk in an hour. All right, I'll leave. I figured
Speaker 1: the Jags would have to sign somebody. Dude they gave
Speaker 1: so they gave that Texans linebacker the z'z alshear they
Speaker 1: give him a three game suspension. Ross did you see
Speaker 1: hit like the greatest hits of that dude over his
Speaker 1: career trying to murder people like on five occasions, this
Speaker 1: guy who hit Trevor Lawrence. Yeah, the NFL at some
Speaker 1: point is going to have to be like, you don't
Speaker 1: play in the league anymore. And I don't necessarily to
Speaker 1: him or what the situation is, but uh, you just
Speaker 1: you can't, you absolutely can't. And I understand the frustration
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks who look, you know, they take a long
Speaker 1: time to slide or they fake slide. God forbid and
Speaker 1: I and and if fine, you make that against the
Speaker 1: rules doing the fake slide. But that hit on Lawrence man,
Speaker 1: it was just cringe inducing, all right. So who they signed?
Speaker 1: John Woolford? Oh, okay, all right? And then who's their backup?
Speaker 1: Oh it's Mac Jones. That's right. Okay, Well there you go.
Speaker 1: All right. Anyway, seven forty eight KCO Day Radio program,
Speaker 1: Hang on the ancient rituals, right, This is Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: with his ayahuasca. I think he went to the Costa
Speaker 1: Rica ones, which are very popular in Costa Rica, and
Speaker 1: and you go down and you know, it's like a
Speaker 1: sweat lodge stuff, and it's crazy. And frankly, after people
Speaker 1: do this, they're in my mind, they're a little different.
Speaker 1: And we've talked about this. Ross's theory is that once
Speaker 1: you've seen God, nothing else matters. Or in this case,
Speaker 1: I believe you've seen him because you drank poison, which
Speaker 1: is what you're consuming. But I didn't really know anything
Speaker 1: about the totality of it until I saw this story
Speaker 1: because an actress she's a Mexican actress, went to one
Speaker 1: of these and she died, and so now they're like, ah,
Speaker 1: maybe we should see what's going on here, right, so
Speaker 1: they describe it. She didn't actually die from ayahuasca, though
Speaker 1: she never got to that. Instead, she was killed after
Speaker 1: consuming deadly monkey frog potion. It was actually I think
Speaker 1: the word is cumbo combo, but it's it's a monkey frog.
Speaker 1: Is this big ass frog that lives in Mexico and uh,
Speaker 1: I think like Guatemala and Belize and stuff, and it
Speaker 1: secretes a hallucinogenic substance but also a how do I say,
Speaker 1: a cleansing substance, And so you do that first and
Speaker 1: then you get to the ayahuasca and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: The reason you consume the quote deadly monkey frog potion, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, if anybody ever hands you something and
Speaker 1: I hear you thirsty, yeah, yeah, what is it? It's
Speaker 1: deadly monkey frog potion. Don't put that in your body,
Speaker 1: even if you don't die from it, which most people don't.
Speaker 1: She uh, for whatever reason did. I don't know the
Speaker 1: potion is meant to and I'm not I'm gonna read
Speaker 1: this verbatim from a medical description the potion known to
Speaker 1: cause immediate uncontrolled vomiting and diarrhea is utilized to clear
Speaker 1: out the system ahead of the actual spiritual side of it.
Speaker 1: So you got to purge all the everything that's in there.
Speaker 1: What is immediate unconclatet? Do you drink this on the toilet?
Speaker 1: How does that work? And and now and I can
Speaker 1: and now I know what it does to me? Why
Speaker 1: would that be a thing? I would can? So who's
Speaker 1: signing up for that? Who wants anything to do with that?
Speaker 1: Just give me the give me the other stuff so
Speaker 1: I can see dragons? Man, what I got, I gotta
Speaker 1: go in here and purge it out? Is that to
Speaker 1: increase sales in the restaurant at the resort? I'm starving, man,
Speaker 1: I feel like I haven't eating out. And you think,
Speaker 1: am my, oh, I see what you did? Like is
Speaker 1: that what that's for? Because you just killed this actress? Man?
Speaker 1: The potion said to be forty times stronger than morphine.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, that sounds good to some of you.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I think the math maths there.
Speaker 1: According to some of the other people there, she almost immediately,
Speaker 1: so there is there was an immediate reaction in this
Speaker 1: case started spasming and doing the other thing. Crazy week
Speaker 1: we've had, obviously in the world of politics, whatever the
Speaker 1: hell happened in South Korea. They're assassinating healthcare guys up
Speaker 1: in New York. But in all of that weirdness and
Speaker 1: all of that oddity, the very same stories that bring
Speaker 1: us to our next guest, Stephen can't well, they continue
Speaker 1: to flourish. How you doing this morning, Stephen? What's up?
Speaker 3: I am out here thriving. Good to hear from you.
Speaker 1: KC. What what the world's going on this week? We'll
Speaker 1: get into the normal stuff. But like we got presidential
Speaker 1: pardon palooza, in fact that they're saying that Biden may
Speaker 1: just start unilatterally partnering pardoning people, and you're in the vicinity,
Speaker 1: So who knows, Man, he could be a lucky recipient.
Speaker 3: Well, he is a craven politician who is desperate for
Speaker 3: the approval of his peers, and so if he's ever
Speaker 3: going to scratch out any donations to his presidential library,
Speaker 3: he is going to have to start pardoning the most
Speaker 3: bizarre people from the Democratic wish list. So I wouldn't
Speaker 3: rule it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, what a horrible horror and a more
Speaker 1: serious note, What a horrible thing to then become a
Speaker 1: thing every time because if he does it, then the
Speaker 1: next guy does it, and it doesn't matter parties, they
Speaker 1: keep they keep doing it, and eventually you create you
Speaker 1: create cast system right where everyone's serving up in Washington
Speaker 1: basically is working under a under a pardon so they
Speaker 1: can do whatever they want and then pandemonium, right or
Speaker 1: am I just I mean, I'm just exaggerating. I'm sure
Speaker 1: be fare.
Speaker 3: Well, There's there's some level of truth to it. You know,
Speaker 3: there's there's always the risk when you're you're working at
Speaker 3: high levels of government that you're going to get it
Speaker 3: yourself into some kind of of trouble. And what you're
Speaker 3: going to set off is a just a cascade of
Speaker 3: every administration plans to offer pardons to people directly in
Speaker 3: their orbit. They're going to break a couple of eggs
Speaker 3: to make an omelet, and they'll just you know, invoke
Speaker 3: the pardon power at the end of it, because the
Speaker 3: president has been set, you know. And then we've got
Speaker 3: here on the Democrats side, you know, AOC out here
Speaker 3: lobbying for the pardons of two Native American activists, Leonard Peddler,
Speaker 3: who killed two FBI agents. You know, it's just gotten
Speaker 3: to be very weird the kinds of people who are
Speaker 3: rising to the time of these pardon lists.
Speaker 1: Well, and it's but it doesn't matter whether it's a
Speaker 1: member of Congress anytime humans, because we're human, we operate
Speaker 1: with zero accountability. There's always this possibility goes off the rails.
Speaker 1: It's that, you know, it's the old power corrupts absolute,
Speaker 1: power corrupts absolutely and that's what that's that version of it.
Speaker 1: What it's even crazier is I was thinking about the
Speaker 1: Hunter pardon, so I'm sure his dad didn't tell him
Speaker 1: on Sunday, the day they announced that. He probably what
Speaker 1: told him over Turkey. Right, So from Thursday to Sunday,
Speaker 1: if you're Hunter Biden, knowing the dates on this thing,
Speaker 1: how you don't commit the most insane crime spree bucket
Speaker 1: list crime spree is beyond me, man, right, you go
Speaker 1: you go go kill all the any there's anything that
Speaker 1: will get you a federal charge. I'm surprised you didn't
Speaker 1: just start bringing crack in. Yeah, I mean, what are
Speaker 1: you gonna do? I have immunity, man, like, it was
Speaker 1: a very missed opportunity. Is what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know, and if you actually, if you
Speaker 3: actually try to think about it from a human human element,
Speaker 3: and you know, Biden is a derelict in the drug addic,
Speaker 3: the guy who struggles with addiction. You have to wonder
Speaker 3: whether or not this kind of thing is really going
Speaker 3: to help him in the long run, or if this
Speaker 3: sort of thing is going to give him a feeling
Speaker 3: of invincibility in hubris that is going to lead him
Speaker 3: right back into the kind of behaviors that we're wrecking
Speaker 3: his life a couple of years ago. I'm inclined to
Speaker 3: think that it probably will do that. And that's the
Speaker 3: part where, if I'm being serious, I feel kind of bad.
Speaker 3: I think that he could have done. He could have
Speaker 3: done like a year in prison and then they probably
Speaker 3: would have immediately put him on parole and it would
Speaker 3: have been better for him spiritually. But he's he's been
Speaker 3: robbed of that opportunity, and I actually seriously think that's
Speaker 3: quite bad.
Speaker 1: No, you know, that's a very good point because if
Speaker 1: people try to break it down when we talk about
Speaker 1: on the radio, so you're just attacking him because he's
Speaker 1: a drug addict. No out of family member is a
Speaker 1: drug addict. I've been through this. I've we've We've been
Speaker 1: through the rounds of rehab and all the stuff that
Speaker 1: came with it in the court system that came with it,
Speaker 1: and eventually eventually it worked out. Oh yeah, so I
Speaker 1: don't that's something. I think. My thing is he may
Speaker 1: have facilitated he and members of his family shaking down
Speaker 1: foreign governments for for for you know, for favors. That's
Speaker 1: that's that's my beef. And the question then becomes is
Speaker 1: a get easier to get to the bottom of that
Speaker 1: or not. There's not going to be any appetite now.
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, I don't care how much. Thomas Massey
Speaker 1: another scream. They're correct, but I don't think there's going
Speaker 1: to be appetite for members of Congress to want to
Speaker 1: get into this with the Hunter. They'll go, well, we can't.
Speaker 1: He's got a partner. Joe Biden will be dead before
Speaker 1: we can adjudicate it. These are conversations that will happen
Speaker 1: and arguably by design. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I you know former former Chicago mayor and Obama Chief
Speaker 3: of Staff Ram Emanuel who might end up being the
Speaker 3: next DNC Democratic Party chair. You know, he was out
Speaker 3: doing an interview just yesterday talking that as the Recline
Speaker 3: in the New York Times about how all of this
Speaker 3: populism in America really was kicked off first with no
Speaker 3: accountability over the Iraq War leading to the two thousand
Speaker 3: and eight market crash and no bankers going to jail,
Speaker 3: and we're just sort of continuing this grind on of
Speaker 3: the American people not seeing powerful people pay a price.
Speaker 1: For bad behavior.
Speaker 3: And this is going to go right on.
Speaker 1: Top of the pile, and.
Speaker 3: It's going to now be owned one hundred percent by Democrats.
Speaker 3: And I think a lot of Democrats in Congress really
Speaker 3: wanted to see Biden put his son away for twelve
Speaker 3: months and then put them on parole so that they
Speaker 3: could claim they were a party of law and order
Speaker 3: and rule of law. And it's out the window.
Speaker 1: Yeah, get them an ink lit well, they are trying
Speaker 1: to spend it. They're saying that she had no choice.
Speaker 1: You know. The narrative obviously now is Biden has no choice.
Speaker 1: He wasn't lying. Then he changed his mind because he
Speaker 1: saw that big ol'mani Trump got reelected and so that's
Speaker 1: why he's also going to have a hit. Adam shift
Speaker 1: and Tony Fauci. Tony Fauci is one of the people
Speaker 1: they're speculating. He gives a thing two days after that
Speaker 1: committee report comes out saying, yeah, they were totally doing
Speaker 1: function over there. That's that's crazy, But it's not. It's
Speaker 1: it's the political side of crazy. Like I Like I said,
Speaker 1: and when I introed you the stuff we normally talk
Speaker 1: about is it's also chock full of weirdness. This week,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, the the Wicked press tour with this woman
Speaker 1: who plays the evil witch and her emotional support skeleton,
Speaker 1: who I'm told I'm told is a singer of some sort.
Speaker 1: So they're sitting there and it's the weirdest crap. I
Speaker 1: was gonna play a little. It's the weirdest crap you've
Speaker 1: ever seen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you need to cry right now. You cry
Speaker 5: on the Green was the thing that I would love
Speaker 5: the most about burd want to stay green.
Speaker 1: But actually, yes, you make me not want to watch
Speaker 1: movies with witches in them anymore. How is this? And
Speaker 1: you know what, And I don't know if you saw
Speaker 1: the Jeff Goldblum version of this, because he's in the
Speaker 1: movie him and I don't remember the other time, and
Speaker 1: they're out doing normal stuff. They're like joking about having
Speaker 1: to learn to sing a song so you can hit something.
Speaker 1: It's Goldbloom cutting up and like, if I just saw
Speaker 1: those things, I don't know that I'd be drugged in
Speaker 1: the movie. But if, but if, but if. It's like
Speaker 1: Ross said, if his wife had wanted to go to it,
Speaker 1: he'd probably been like, all right, cool, that makes you happy.
Speaker 1: But now it's like, now I forcefully don't want to
Speaker 1: do anything with this, and I'm sad for Jeff Goldbloom.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't think Jeff Goldblum is sad at all.
Speaker 3: I mean, Wicked is taking off. It's quite a hit financially.
Speaker 1: I mean it's to work with these women. I mean
Speaker 1: he had to, sure, but you know the guy, that
Speaker 1: guy is weird.
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, Jeff Goldblum is one of the weirdest,
Speaker 3: you know, kind of strange theater adult that I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: And who call for an interview though going together.
Speaker 3: For an interview, but pulling get together for an interview,
Speaker 3: you don't You don't get any sort of earned media
Speaker 3: or giant threads on Reddit talking about the Wicked press
Speaker 3: junk and if you act completely normal. And so I'm
Speaker 3: going to take the other side of this argument and
Speaker 3: say that this has been a very very successful organic
Speaker 3: marketing campaign where you know, if you wanted to generate
Speaker 3: some real discussion on YouTube and read it about this movie,
Speaker 3: go out there and just be maximum theater kid weird.
Speaker 3: May I read you something that I thought was funny
Speaker 3: from Reddit This one commenter says, I did musical theater
Speaker 3: when I was younger, and on closing night, we would
Speaker 3: all gather in a circle and say things we'd miss
Speaker 3: about the show. It quickly devolved into a competition of
Speaker 3: who would say the most cloying things possible to make
Speaker 3: everyone cry. Cynthia and Ariana are still those theater kids,
Speaker 3: but famous theater women and gays have always been like this, Well,
Speaker 3: put this is this is one accurate Oh.
Speaker 1: My gosh, no, see it's so all right. So I
Speaker 1: guess I'm not the audience. I never was the audience.
Speaker 1: I need to shut my face. They're weird and I don't.
Speaker 1: And you couple this with what all the snow white
Speaker 1: stuff still and it's like, I just I don't understand,
Speaker 1: because is Disney is on this wicked thing right in
Speaker 1: some there that is Disney or one of their their
Speaker 1: at least a partner on one of them. Like, you're
Speaker 1: not having a really good day with people, uh putting
Speaker 1: you in the best position to make money, right, we
Speaker 1: can agree with that with obviously what has happened with
Speaker 1: with Disney. And it's like, like, is there anybody at
Speaker 1: Disney who sits in a corner office somewhere slamming his
Speaker 1: fist against the desk every time the snow white chick
Speaker 1: loses it over election results? They created dwarf. That's clearly
Speaker 1: clearly Tommy Lee Jones. Right, that's clearly Tommy Lee Jones,
Speaker 1: that one dwarf with a giant nose attached to it.
Speaker 1: Peter Davidge under all, Right, So like like all of this,
Speaker 1: at some point, is there anybody at Disney is just
Speaker 1: gonna be like I can't anymore and I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe fling himself out of a window out of frustration.
Speaker 1: People are just not There's there's no rules over there,
Speaker 1: And that's that's wild to me.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, the whole thing with Rachel Ziggler is
Speaker 3: snow white and representing Disney while also trash talking Disney's
Speaker 3: snow white legacy and the character herself, you know, all
Speaker 3: this stuff. This is coming to an end. And I
Speaker 3: think the difference between snow White and Wicked is on Wicked,
Speaker 3: you've kind of got this, you know, very over the top,
Speaker 3: you know, far less kind of you know, very queer
Speaker 3: press junket tour that they're doing, and it's kind of
Speaker 3: for the audience that are going to see this movie
Speaker 3: and they love it and it's kind of funny. Rachel
Speaker 3: Ziggler is trying to go out and do the same
Speaker 3: thing for Disney snow White aimed at a very different
Speaker 3: mainstream audience, and it's just going to fall completely flat.
Speaker 3: I do think Disney is going to run out.
Speaker 1: Of rope for this.
Speaker 3: Just look at the way that Walmart has rolled back
Speaker 3: DEI initiatives, and Target is reevaluating all of their commitments
Speaker 3: to having sort of weird products during month in Target
Speaker 3: as well. We are at the end of the line
Speaker 3: for I think this peak woke culture, and I do
Speaker 3: think Disney's going to roll it back. The question is
Speaker 3: when and which movie is going to have to go
Speaker 3: down hardest before they do it?
Speaker 1: All right, So I hope Ross Sentchez's send me the
Speaker 1: story about the secret villain layer that these guys discovered. Okay, good,
Speaker 1: I think you did all right in mind Maia, dude,
Speaker 1: this what it amazing. But here's the thing. These guys
Speaker 1: are idiots. Let me just tell you. If at some
Speaker 1: point I go for a walk later today I see
Speaker 1: a mind shaft open, even though I know I shouldn't
Speaker 1: go in there, just general curiosity, and I go down
Speaker 1: and I find a thousand feet below the surface with
Speaker 1: five miles of tunnels. That where Marvel, who has all
Speaker 1: the money, has created an underground villain layer as a
Speaker 1: movie thing and then just abandon it. That's my villain layer, now,
Speaker 1: that's right. That's where I'm taking over the world from.
Speaker 1: That's finders keepers man, and these guys like, oh look
Speaker 1: what we found, thus ruining their ability to own a
Speaker 1: villion of villain layer that's probably worth millions of dollars.
Speaker 3: Yes, made a mistake. If I if I found the
Speaker 3: perfect clubhouse, I would never release that to the world.
Speaker 3: But you know they probably posted on YouTube and got
Speaker 3: a couple of million views, and uh, you know they
Speaker 3: get the last laugh on that YouTube revenue.
Speaker 1: It's pretty amazing too. The uh there's like in the Mediterranean.
Speaker 1: There's when I was out there, you could go on
Speaker 1: this this they would do tours of abandoned movie sets,
Speaker 1: and one of them was the pop Eye set, which
Speaker 1: still exists today out there in the I can't remember
Speaker 1: which of the islands it's on out there in the Mediterranean,
Speaker 1: but like it's But what's crazy is like there's some
Speaker 1: really famous big movie sets from like sci fi stuff
Speaker 1: or in this case, you know, Popeyehort's kind of fantasy
Speaker 1: stuff that it's just out there and still exists to
Speaker 1: this day. And I don't know, I think those things
Speaker 1: are pretty cool. I've gone to see a couple of them.
Speaker 1: Is yea now typical North care line of Virginia. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think, what do we got here? Is there
Speaker 1: some Hunger Games stuff that still exist? I think there is?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder, I wonder. I mean, you can always
Speaker 3: go out in western North Carolina and you know, rutting
Speaker 3: around some of the places where they filmed The Fugitive. Uh,
Speaker 3: and then there's the Hunger Games, but there weren't really
Speaker 3: any set pieces for that. They were mostly just wood
Speaker 3: woodland shots and things shot at Dam's out west. So
Speaker 3: I don't know, but that's that's a fun that's a
Speaker 3: fun quest.
Speaker 1: To go on.
Speaker 3: I think the best place for that is probably New
Speaker 3: Zealand and searching for Lord of the Rings set pieces.
Speaker 1: That is, that's a big tour he could do. Why
Speaker 1: you know, I went to school in kids southern California
Speaker 1: and they have a lot of the former movie ranches
Speaker 1: you can go check out. Wow, yeah, I thought that
Speaker 1: was probably went to a couple of those. I thought
Speaker 1: that was pretty cool. But all right, let me what
Speaker 1: was the other What was the other story we said
Speaker 1: we're gonna do with you? I just closed my damn
Speaker 1: document here, So I'm stupid.
Speaker 3: Oh, I mean, who knows? We got the we got
Speaker 3: the Fantastic Four of us that has been found and
Speaker 3: so you know that movie in general. I'm not sure
Speaker 3: where you where you stand on this, but this for
Speaker 3: me is is again kind of another very unexciting Marvel projects.
Speaker 3: The Fantastic Four I always thought were a little bit
Speaker 3: too goofy to ever take seriously. So I don't really
Speaker 3: plan on even seeing this movie, even though Pedro Pascal
Speaker 3: is in it, and anything that has Pedro in it
Speaker 3: sells sells, like you know, like hot chips self.
Speaker 1: Do you know I got on a pe. Do you know?
Speaker 1: I got on a plane one time? And Pedro was
Speaker 1: on the plane. Really yeah?
Speaker 3: Was he was he entertaining? Was he entertaining guests on
Speaker 3: the plane and keeping to himself?
Speaker 1: He was keeping to himself. He was standing around. He
Speaker 1: had backed himself basically back towards laboratory and first class
Speaker 1: there behind one of the flight attendants, rather than just
Speaker 1: sitting down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was talking to magnificent.
Speaker 1: And I told Ross, I'm like, Rosh, You're not gonna
Speaker 1: believe this. And he told me to try to go
Speaker 1: get him to do the face. So that was it.
Speaker 1: I didn't do that. Probably wouldn't have been helpful because
Speaker 1: he probably gets asked that a whole bunch.
Speaker 3: Now, the Nick Cage face for make your own.
Speaker 1: Con I'm assuming that Ross, that was the one you
Speaker 1: were referencing from the Nick page. Yeah, yeah, I was not.
Speaker 1: I was successful in doing that. Yeah, all right, Fantastic four.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's face, so I got those thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: Every other Fantastic four has sucked, right, can we agree
Speaker 1: on that? Every attempt at it?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 1: Like, could they do worse? I don't know, Probably not.
Speaker 3: I don't think so. But but they could make it
Speaker 3: a musical and maybe compete for compete with Wicked too.
Speaker 1: That's what I want to see is Moleman dancing, maybe
Speaker 1: doing some river dance too. That'd be great. All right,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. I appreciate it. And uh well,
Speaker 1: who knows. As crazy as things are going next week
Speaker 1: could be gangbusters, but we'll find out then.
Speaker 3: Okay, true story got speed.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go, Stephen Ken joining us. You're
Speaker 1: on the CaCO Day radio program to help us well
Speaker 1: way through the lunacy, which we have more of coming up.
Speaker 1: Hang on the amount of people making either jokes or
Speaker 1: saying things like retweeting the story about what happened in
Speaker 1: New York with the healthcare ceo and then just like
Speaker 1: writing the word good ran the political game. It might
Speaker 1: have been one of the most unifying stories of the year,
Speaker 1: which probably not a good thing obviously, But although one
Speaker 1: one person really took the cake, that weirdo, that writer
Speaker 1: for the Washington Post, Taylor Lorenz, Right, she's the one
Speaker 1: in the crying meme because people were mean to her,
Speaker 1: because she destroys people's lives for a living. AnyWho, she
Speaker 1: spent most of her day essay, just posting memes and
Speaker 1: stuff like, you know, like happy Birthday kind of balloon memes,
Speaker 1: but it says CEO down it's free. Hey, hold on, Rod,
Speaker 1: have you seen did you see the stuff she was
Speaker 1: tweeting at all? It wasn't in the prep pack. All right,
Speaker 1: let me do this. Hold on, I'm gonna message you.
Speaker 1: This is a Washington Post reporter. All right, this is
Speaker 1: this is this is something. All right, it should be headed.
Speaker 1: It's I said the whole tweet. Yeah, you have to
Speaker 1: click over the tweet and then you can see the
Speaker 1: panels that are under it. Yeah. Man, Like I don't know.
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like if I spent my whole
Speaker 1: day tweeting yesterday about how excited I was, somebody got
Speaker 1: assassinated and they weren't like a dictator and saying, you know,
Speaker 1: a machete stan or whatever. I feel I feel like
Speaker 1: I heart might have something to say, especially if Carrie
Speaker 1: on It Health is an advertiser too.
Speaker 2: I was curious, how come I haven't seen this like yesterday?
Speaker 2: And then I realized she's on Blue Sky doing it,
Speaker 2: and then people are reposting on X from Blue Skin.
Speaker 1: Yes yes, yes, yes, yes yes yeah oh did you
Speaker 1: don't have your blue You don't have your Blue Sky
Speaker 1: account set up yet? You want me to let me set.
Speaker 2: This clarify this right now, because you know, something new
Speaker 2: always comes around every few years and management it's like,
Speaker 2: y'all need to open up an account, right they told
Speaker 2: us to do that forever with TikTok and stuff. I'm
Speaker 2: at the age and I'm at the point where I'm
Speaker 2: never going to open up another social media account.
Speaker 1: Ever. I'm done. I'm done with what I have them good,
Speaker 1: come up with something you don't know. Maybe they'll be
Speaker 1: right in your wheelhouse, but no, the likelihood is probably not. No,
Speaker 1: we're I I feel like we've qualified. I think once
Speaker 1: you get into your forties, you qualify where you can
Speaker 1: start old old manning technology. I've already learned the stuff
Speaker 1: I need. I'm not learning anymore.
Speaker 2: And I've been that way for like ten years. Yes,
Speaker 2: so I was a head the curve there. I'm done.
Speaker 1: Never this is now. We're listening to hipster Ross, right,
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, yeah, I love that band. Where you
Speaker 1: ever heard of them? Yeah? So that's fine. However we
Speaker 1: got there. I'm with you one hundred percent, But yeah,
Speaker 1: what a what an absolute lunatic. Again, these are the
Speaker 1: same people. I just want to point this out. This
Speaker 1: is the same paper, the one she works for, who
Speaker 1: when we did assassinate an absolute monster from Machete Stan
Speaker 1: or technically Iran, that they ran an obituary referring to
Speaker 1: him as an Austere scholar. So I understand she probably
Speaker 1: didn't write that article, but understand that now I'm left
Speaker 1: to believe that in the judgment of the reporters at
Speaker 1: the Washington Post, a guy who kills US service members
Speaker 1: civilians in a plane bombing and then just you know,
Speaker 1: general murder of civilian military or whatever population he can
Speaker 1: get near over decades of service and UH and and
Speaker 1: absolute terrorism and technically it's two of them we took out.
Speaker 1: But the Austere scholar, I mean, that was his legacy.
Speaker 1: That is a strong or more positive legacy in the
Speaker 1: minds of the Washington Post than the guy who was
Speaker 1: the CEO of the healthcare insurance company, which again it's
Speaker 1: he is the he he runs the insurance side. And
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, United Healthcare just like any other
Speaker 1: insurance company, but due to their size and UH and
Speaker 1: some of the way some of the things and stories
Speaker 1: they've been involved with. There's absolutely people are not necessarily
Speaker 1: gonna Nobody has a positive opinion of health insurance. I
Speaker 1: don't have a positive opinion of that. They don't have
Speaker 1: a positive opinion of these hero of these groups are
Speaker 1: this extra layer of middle management there that has popped
Speaker 1: up to facilitate like pharmaceutical and prescription stuff, which just
Speaker 1: doubled the cost of a lot of this stuff. Like
Speaker 1: people have a lot of beef there. But he's not
Speaker 1: a terrorist blowing up army barracks or you know, in
Speaker 1: on the plan, what is wrong with you? So I look,
Speaker 1: I don't know, and it could be that and some
Speaker 1: of the stories coming out where you know, there might
Speaker 1: have been engravings on the bullets and the casings, the
Speaker 1: use of a silencer. Dude, do not call my show
Speaker 1: and oh it's it's a suppressor. I understand it's a suppressor,
Speaker 1: But I'm talking to a group of people, many of
Speaker 1: which we are not going to know that distinction. And
Speaker 1: all you need to know is that it was a
Speaker 1: modified weapon, and a weapon that may have been forced
Speaker 1: to operate in a different manner because of that modification,
Speaker 1: where he's having to rack the slide on what is
Speaker 1: traditionally as some automatic because of what a silencer suppressor
Speaker 1: does to a firearm, which proves knowledge and practice with
Speaker 1: that firearm. Now, the problem is about half the stuff
Speaker 1: you see there demonstrates that that is a person who
Speaker 1: is comfortable with their weapon and looks very like hitman professional.
Speaker 1: But then there's a bunch of stuff that doesn't. Like
Speaker 1: the part where he went to the Starbucks first, got
Speaker 1: himself on camera, got himself a draink at some power bars,
Speaker 1: and then threw all the trash away and they found it.
Speaker 1: So that's one, and then you get then there's more
Speaker 1: on the professional side. He knew exactly where to wait
Speaker 1: for this dude. How would he know? Well, he might
Speaker 1: the guy was probably they were posting on social media stuff,
Speaker 1: so it's not hard to find out where somebody might
Speaker 1: be saying considering that they're holding the shareholder event in
Speaker 1: the facility he's staying at. But also, how did he
Speaker 1: know he was going to walk out? Was he willing
Speaker 1: to wait there all day? Did this guy generally leave
Speaker 1: in the morning for some did they announce he was
Speaker 1: going to be a speaker at a breakfast? This stuff
Speaker 1: is really easy to find out because we put they
Speaker 1: posted all out there, and they especially posted at an
Speaker 1: event like this where you have a bunch of shareholders
Speaker 1: and you got the press and you got everybody involved
Speaker 1: in this, they're gonna know what's going on. But also,
Speaker 1: why did he shoot him from that distance? I know
Speaker 1: what you're thinking. It doesn't look like he shot him
Speaker 1: from a very long distance, But it was unnecessary. If
Speaker 1: your job is there is there to kill the guy
Speaker 1: as efficiently as possible and get away from there. You're
Speaker 1: not taking that shot that far away. The guy was
Speaker 1: paying no attention to him, walk up and kill him.
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you how to do your job, but
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you that would seem a lot more practical,
Speaker 1: I'm sure a sure thing than having to put six
Speaker 1: rounds or whatever that he did. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he hit him with a lot. I don't even know
Speaker 1: the total. I shouldn't say that. I think that might
Speaker 1: still be speculation off a video analysis I was watching.
Speaker 2: But still, yeah, that's a good point. People were saying
Speaker 2: light like you could tell, like because the debate is
Speaker 2: it like a pro is he a pro hitman or not?
Speaker 2: If he was, he would have just walked up, shot
Speaker 2: him once in the dome and left.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, like not from a distance? It should have it?
Speaker 1: Should him in the back of the neck, or should
Speaker 1: should him in the heart and then shoot him in
Speaker 1: the dome? I mean just but ten feet is could
Speaker 1: could it? Could I make a shot at ten feet
Speaker 1: that's that's gonna be center mass? I think so, not
Speaker 1: a problem. But but could I do it when it's
Speaker 1: kind of dark out and I have to be sure
Speaker 1: that that's my target and I'm here to kill a guy,
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe that's weighing on me. You get
Speaker 1: a little nervous. You've been standing out there. You got
Speaker 1: you get the caffeine shakes from your Starbucks order. Now
Speaker 1: get right up on him, right up on. Don't even
Speaker 1: stop walking. Don't even if there's a scene in that
Speaker 1: I always go back there. There's a scene in that
Speaker 1: movie The Irishman where de Niro's character, that's what he does.
Speaker 1: He kind of gets with a guy comes out of
Speaker 1: door in the same way that the CEO did. Comes
Speaker 1: out of door. Guy doesn't pay him a lot of
Speaker 1: deference in this case because he knows him and they
Speaker 1: were involved in a in a in a crime they
Speaker 1: were planning. I'm not going to ruin it all for you,
Speaker 1: and uh and just pop pop. He doesn't even stop
Speaker 1: walking because then immediately in the moments it takes somebody
Speaker 1: to turn around. Now you just see people leaving the scene.
Speaker 1: There's other people and you can see like a woman
Speaker 1: jump out of the way, and right, just pandemonium. You
Speaker 1: don't know who the shooter is. He's already got that
Speaker 1: firearm put away if he's doing it right. So look,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of weirdness to this whole thing, man,
Speaker 1: So hopefully, hopefully we find out some stuff real soon.
Speaker 1: All right, raced agic, he'll help us find out some
Speaker 1: weather stuff or we can talk assassinations. I don't know
Speaker 1: how crazy is that story, man, Yeah, that is it is.
Speaker 4: I didn't really get into the depths of it, but
Speaker 4: then I just listen New York City, you know, being
Speaker 4: from that area, I just it's.
Speaker 1: Not what it used to be anyway. But that's it.
Speaker 1: It's your takedown of New York. Oh, when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, they weren't assassinating people.
Speaker 4: No, I'm not saying that it's actually true exactly, it's
Speaker 4: a perception.
Speaker 1: It's famous assassinations right in the middle of the streets, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So it's a good assassinating weather.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I guess if that's the way you
Speaker 4: want to put it, But I think the change coming
Speaker 4: in is going to be first a sharply colder as
Speaker 4: a pretty sharply milder. This morning, boy, we've tacked on
Speaker 4: almost thirty degrees to where we were twenty four hours ago.
Speaker 4: Everybody came out and said, oh, I hope the cold's over. Listen,
Speaker 4: we're only on the kind of cusp of winter time, right,
Speaker 4: upper forties, low fifties this afternoon with sunshine, and tonight
Speaker 4: here comes a cold again with the gusty breeze. We're
Speaker 4: back to the upper teens, the low twenties. That was
Speaker 4: the spread yesterday morning, from the upper teens to even
Speaker 4: some low teens out in the mountains to areas end
Speaker 4: and around the triangle near twenty degrees or just above.
Speaker 4: So that kind of spread. So another cold start Friday,
Speaker 4: sun later colder, upper thirties, low forties for highs. Then
Speaker 4: we're in the twenties again tomorrow night. But the weekend
Speaker 4: should shape up okay, upper forties and mid forties on Saturday,
Speaker 4: mid upper fifties on Sunday again, no precipitation. ACC Championship game,
Speaker 4: but cold, probably going to be into the upper thirties
Speaker 4: to close to forty a kickoff in Charlotte. Just buddle,
Speaker 4: I mean, the weather's not going to be a problem. Yeah, cold,
Speaker 4: but come on, it's not terrible.
Speaker 1: Could be worse. So it's you're saying, quit your winding,
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, very politely. Yep, all right, there you go,
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir, appreciate it, and we'll come back chat
Speaker 1: with Jeff Bellinger next. Hang on the holy hell, what
Speaker 1: happened yesterday there in New York City? Man, what a
Speaker 1: crazy story with that CEO. Yeah, it certainly was.
Speaker 6: And it's likely that this is being discussed in a
Speaker 6: lot of corporate boardrooms as companies review their security requirements
Speaker 6: for chief executives. Stocks did advance yesterday, case the Dow, Nasdaq,
Speaker 6: and S and P five hundred all settled at record highs.
Speaker 6: The Dow closed above forty five thousand for the first time.
Speaker 6: The futures have been lower all morning, but not sharply.
Speaker 6: A Dow futures are down sixty eight at the moment.
Speaker 6: The weekly report on new unemployment claims it's a bit
Speaker 6: of a surprise. The Labor Department counted two hundred twenty
Speaker 6: four thousand initial applications last week. That was nine thousand
Speaker 6: more than the prior week. This comes ahead of the
Speaker 6: Labor Department's monthly employment report. We get that tomorrow morning.
Speaker 6: The current consensus is the two hundred and fifteen thousand
Speaker 6: jobs were added in November, with the unemployment rate holding
Speaker 6: at four point one percent. Corporate executives generally upbeat about
Speaker 6: the changes coming in Washington. Two surveys found that optimism
Speaker 6: among business leaders has picked up since Donald Trump won
Speaker 6: the presidential election. Finance chiefs and others expect growth to
Speaker 6: pick up in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: They do acknowledge that inflation remains a problem.
Speaker 6: Producers of kognac and champagne have increased the pace of
Speaker 6: exports to the US. They're looking to beat possible new
Speaker 6: tariffs under the Trump administration. A lot of workers have
Speaker 6: an itch to switch. The Wall Street Journal reports polling
Speaker 6: by Gallup found the number of workers who would like
Speaker 6: to change jobs is at a ten year high, and
Speaker 6: Casey there was little doubt the Taylor Swift's Era's book
Speaker 6: tour would be a bestseller. Sircana says more than eight
Speaker 6: hundred thousand copies were sold over the Thanksgiving weekend, making
Speaker 6: it the number one book in the nation. What maybe
Speaker 6: the most remarkable thing is that the book was sold
Speaker 6: only at Target.
Speaker 1: Casey, Yeah, we're doomed. I saw that number two. So
Speaker 1: I don't know what we're gonna do. Man Taylor Swift's
Speaker 1: taking over everything, all right, Jeff, appreciate, We have a
Speaker 1: good day. Talk to you tomorrow. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: Jeff Pellinger, Bloomberg News. Oh you know what story he
Speaker 1: didn't do? And let me just throw this in. This
Speaker 1: Longshoreman's Union president. You remember this guy, right, So he's
Speaker 1: the guy who lives in the big like a state,
Speaker 1: I guess, no other word for it, crazy, crazy, nice
Speaker 1: state up there. And meanwhile he's just running off at
Speaker 1: the mouth about longshortman going on strike. If you remember,
Speaker 1: they were going to go on strike earlier, and they
Speaker 1: but they demanded what it was like a fifty pay raise,
Speaker 1: and then they also demanded that they pledge not to
Speaker 1: automate anything having to do with our ports, which is
Speaker 1: a bit of a problem because the US I don't
Speaker 1: know if you know this none of the unit of
Speaker 1: the US ports are in the top fifty ports in
Speaker 1: the world. We do not have a single port in
Speaker 1: the United States by volume and which technology allows it,
Speaker 1: so that the rapid part of the process. We don't
Speaker 1: have a single port that ranks in the top fifty
Speaker 1: in the world. And a lot of that. So you
Speaker 1: look over in China, a lot of those ports are
Speaker 1: almost purely automated and they're crazy fast and efficient. So
Speaker 1: we don't have that. But I also look, I don't
Speaker 1: have a beef with long Shortman in the general sense.
Speaker 1: You're still going to need people there. But when you
Speaker 1: start screaming that you're going to shut down the economy,
Speaker 1: which they did, you know, threaten, and eventually the Biden
Speaker 1: administration said they weren't going to get involved. Somehow they
Speaker 1: got it, but they got a temporary thing where they're like,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll give you the money, but we won't
Speaker 1: agree to the automation thing. We'll leave that for November
Speaker 1: or excuse me for January. Well, obviously a new president
Speaker 1: comes in in January, so it's like a lot of things.
Speaker 1: But he's now running his mouth again. Harold Daggett as
Speaker 1: threatened longshoreman will go on strike again at the end
Speaker 1: of January if they don't get that ban on automation.
Speaker 1: I have a question, mister Daggett, what do you think
Speaker 1: Trump's gonna do to you? How do you think this
Speaker 1: ends up well for you? Do you understand the level
Speaker 1: of itchy You know how itchy some of the people
Speaker 1: around Trump are for him to have his Reagan air
Speaker 1: traffic control moment. And I understand it's not the same same,
Speaker 1: but the Feds have an immense amount of say and
Speaker 1: power as to what goes on these ports, whether they
Speaker 1: own the ports, the ports were then leased to companies.
Speaker 1: In a lot of instances, they still have an immense
Speaker 1: amount of oversight, which is why then you know, even
Speaker 1: with COVID money, they were getting a bunch of money
Speaker 1: for ports because we had right, we couldn't get things
Speaker 1: in here. And then we find out that the majority
Speaker 1: of the monies are allocated that are only available to
Speaker 1: be utilized towards green projects, So they couldn't expand the
Speaker 1: port with another you know, capture and crane system. They
Speaker 1: had to spend that money buying like hybrid trucks and stuff.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, that's how Do you think Trump's going
Speaker 1: to deal with this,