Speaker 1: Email. Why are you gonna do this this morning? You
Speaker 1: gonna do this? You can do this, You're not gonna
Speaker 1: do Okay, all right, thank you. I'll look at that.
Speaker 1: I got both program directors send me email this morning.
Speaker 1: You guys need to go to sleep till nine and
Speaker 1: you can get up. Don't worry about stuff, all right.
Speaker 1: Uh so well we'll do our normal Friday thing as
Speaker 1: you can imagine. Uh, there is about nine hours worth
Speaker 1: of radio in just little a collection of little things.
Speaker 1: Well there, I guess technically they wouldn't be little things
Speaker 1: in any other administration, but little things the Trump administration
Speaker 1: was up to yesterday. So we'll try to fit it
Speaker 1: all in there, and of course we'll get some help
Speaker 1: coming up. At eight oh five. Pete Callander will joined us.
Speaker 1: As we just look at the look at the week
Speaker 1: that was and and I cannot tell you the joy,
Speaker 1: the open laughter that took place as I was sitting
Speaker 1: here reading this New York Times piece about Tom Tillis yesterday.
Speaker 1: And you have to understand they wrote this as a
Speaker 1: hit piece, right. What they want to show is they
Speaker 1: want to show that Trump's a monster and if you
Speaker 1: cross him, then he will he will meddle in other elections,
Speaker 1: specifically for members of Congress. The irony, of course, is
Speaker 1: that's all of them, right, That's what they do. That is,
Speaker 1: you saw Nancy Pelosi, you didn't fealty to her, you
Speaker 1: didn't get a committee assignment. The same happened under Mitch McConnell.
Speaker 1: The same happens under Mike Johnson. So you already have
Speaker 1: that influence there, and the White House has a lot
Speaker 1: of influence. You can like it or not like it,
Speaker 1: but the White House is when it comes to the
Speaker 1: things that they send down, because they don't originate legislation.
Speaker 1: They may suggest it, but what they do originate is
Speaker 1: they originate cabinet you know, people to be confirmed or
Speaker 1: not confirmed under the advisement stuff. And the line has
Speaker 1: long been crossed that they will go out there and
Speaker 1: they will horse trade or they will threaten to basically
Speaker 1: say they don't like you, and if they're popular, it's
Speaker 1: not good for you and it could get you primaried.
Speaker 1: So that's what happened, and so New York Times wrote
Speaker 1: this big p oh, can you believe this is going on?
Speaker 1: It's basically it's Soviet you know, it's Russia. It's Hitler
Speaker 1: or whatever. I just laughed, you know why, because it's
Speaker 1: not any of those things. It's clearly the way that
Speaker 1: these things work, which isn't pretty. But the reason that
Speaker 1: we were there, and the reason that Tom Tillis has
Speaker 1: been running around posting a saga of like a street
Speaker 1: sign he found in Washington, DC. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you followed any of this. I didn't talk about it.
Speaker 1: And on the point Tillis is right, somebody something bought
Speaker 1: one of those little like you know, like we're at
Speaker 1: a bus stop and they have the little stand up
Speaker 1: billboard thing there which essentially said we need to stop Elon,
Speaker 1: but like the wording was like, well, what do you
Speaker 1: mean you need to stop him? What's going on there?
Speaker 1: And they had a little X through a cartoonish picture
Speaker 1: of Elon and so he posted He's like, can you
Speaker 1: believe this is happening? And then it is gone now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if somebody stole it, the advertiser removed it,
Speaker 1: some Rando Trump Elon fan removed I don't know, but
Speaker 1: it's just like I saw all these tweets all week
Speaker 1: and then I saw him, you know, glowingly voting for
Speaker 1: the various folks who have come before him this week,
Speaker 1: and then like putting, you know, like speaking to how
Speaker 1: excited he is to do it well. According to the
Speaker 1: New York Times, this is how we got here. You ready,
Speaker 1: before Senator Tom Tillis voted to confirm hag Seth as
Speaker 1: Defense Secretary, he worked with accused. This is the New
Speaker 1: York Times. He worked with accusers to make the so
Speaker 1: in reality, I guess it's New York Times, so all
Speaker 1: of it could be made up, But I tend to
Speaker 1: believe that a lot of this is true. He worked
Speaker 1: with accusers to make the case against him, right, remember
Speaker 1: the sister in law, and we already had the story,
Speaker 1: and then I believe I believe mister Tillis's response was
Speaker 1: he just wanted to explore it or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Four days after President Trump was sworn in for a
Speaker 1: second term, his nominee for Defense Secretary was teetering on
Speaker 1: the brink of defeat on the Senate floor, and the
Speaker 1: President was on Air Force One talking about political retribution.
Speaker 1: In this case Air Force one. Do you know where
Speaker 1: they were flying? North Carolina? This was the President's Friday visit.
Speaker 1: Remember when he came first first official visit after he
Speaker 1: was sworn in. What does he do? He comes to
Speaker 1: western North Carolina. But it's not just him. It's never
Speaker 1: when they do visits like that, it's never just them.
Speaker 1: And that's why members of Congress and senators, if you
Speaker 1: ask them, hey, have you had a chance to fly
Speaker 1: on Air Force one, a lot of them will have
Speaker 1: or the VP's plane or whatever. Because when they go
Speaker 1: to do these visits for something like this in Western
Speaker 1: North Carolina, they haul a contingion of other federal elected officials.
Speaker 1: He got in for the photos, but also so there's
Speaker 1: the responsiveness side that he hey, i'm your congressman. Look
Speaker 1: I brought the president, which which is good, good, right,
Speaker 1: that's as long as it's not right when the disaster happens, right,
Speaker 1: it's the normal course of things. But it's not normal
Speaker 1: because Trump's on there, and so he's got this whole delegation.
Speaker 1: I don't know who's all on the plane, but he's
Speaker 1: got a delegation and a lot, you know of Republican
Speaker 1: congress people, congressmen and women. I gotta think Virginia Fox
Speaker 1: was on there too, so and he's talking to him.
Speaker 1: A Ted Bud might have been on this flight because
Speaker 1: I think he was down for that visit. I know
Speaker 1: Tillis was not or not in the same on the
Speaker 1: same but whatever. All right, So, mister Trump had just
Speaker 1: gotten word that Senator Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, planned
Speaker 1: to oppose Pete Hegseth, the former Fox and Friends weekend host, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 1: If mister Tillis could not be brought to heal by that, uh,
Speaker 1: there would be enough Republican no votes to sink mister
Speaker 1: heccess confirmation, which would have been a humiliating defeat at
Speaker 1: the dawn of Trump's second term. So here's what Trump did. Okay.
Speaker 1: And when I say this is you, this is you? Right,
Speaker 1: because things get back to Trump. I had a phone
Speaker 1: call yesterday with somebody and it's really and and I
Speaker 1: can't really disclose everything that was going on. It's not
Speaker 1: super important. But what was interesting from it is how
Speaker 1: when information gets to Trump, what he does with it,
Speaker 1: and and and like he just because he's a business guy,
Speaker 1: He's saying, oh, you know, Bob, what are you coming
Speaker 1: to my office? Bob's got a problem, Boomy, handle it right,
Speaker 1: So and he'll do it. He'll do it in his
Speaker 1: own little way, and so now he's on his plane.
Speaker 1: He's got a bunch of other Republicans from North Carolina,
Speaker 1: you know, members of Congress, and he just simply turned
Speaker 1: to him, according to the article here, and said which
Speaker 1: of them wanted his endorsement to primary Tillis for the
Speaker 1: Senate seat next year. Hmm, yeah, there you go. And
Speaker 1: then he's been Tom Tail has been running around. He's
Speaker 1: just like the biggest cheerleader for all of Trump's people.
Speaker 1: Now New York Times says it's corruption. Some would argue
Speaker 1: that Trump won the state and he didn't really hide
Speaker 1: what he was going to do, and so is it
Speaker 1: the will of the people that's for you to decide.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of arguments there. There are
Speaker 1: states that Trump won by thirty points where you have
Speaker 1: local elect officials going, you know, doing the opposite. Why
Speaker 1: is our attorney general in North Carolina joining in every
Speaker 1: single lawsuit? Trump won this state, but also he won
Speaker 1: this state like these are there? These are the political headbutting,
Speaker 1: the disagreements that are going to happen. And uh, we
Speaker 1: may have mentioned on this show that the idea of
Speaker 1: Tom Tillis getting primary wasn't the worst. Although I have
Speaker 1: many of you that sent me emails basically telling me
Speaker 1: that the Democrats are going to win. It's going to
Speaker 1: be all my fault. President of the United States, Blame
Speaker 1: it on him if that happens. It's not his fault, arguably,
Speaker 1: because people are evaluating the like way say, I voted
Speaker 1: for this guy, but I also voted for this other
Speaker 1: guy for a higher office, and this guy is making
Speaker 1: the other guy not be able to do the thing
Speaker 1: I've voted for. So that was that? That is that
Speaker 1: I'm not saying. That is that, like, you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't have necessarily trust in Tillis, and
Speaker 1: I you know, it's not like, you know, after after
Speaker 1: the election, then he's just reading do whatever he wants
Speaker 1: and he can wait out Trump because we'll have another
Speaker 1: six years if he wins. So that's another aside issue.
Speaker 1: But if you're wondering why all of a sudden he's best,
Speaker 1: he's with all these folks, I think this New York
Speaker 1: Times article is a good theory as to why that
Speaker 1: may be. And apparently in this article they also say
Speaker 1: that Tillis was actively trying to persuade other Republican senators
Speaker 1: to oppose hag Seth. So there you go, and then
Speaker 1: they go, oh, it explains a broader dynamic at play
Speaker 1: with mister Trump back in the White House, as Republicans
Speaker 1: in Congress fearful of reprisal, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama
Speaker 1: back in his were they would gut you. They would
Speaker 1: gut you if you didn't fall in line. Right, this
Speaker 1: is not a new thing in Washington. And you could
Speaker 1: argue the independence there, the independent Joe Biden wanted to
Speaker 1: run right after Barack Obama, and they basically told him, no,
Speaker 1: it's Hillary's turn, and if you run, we'll crush you. Right,
Speaker 1: That's how these things go. So you can't pretend they
Speaker 1: you know, this is some new thing here. If it
Speaker 1: bothers you, then you need to be consistent with It
Speaker 1: is all that I'm saying. But I wanted to provide
Speaker 1: you an explanation as to why, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: not only is he voting for everybody, he's running around
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, we got to protect elon it all costs.
Speaker 1: Look at this sign I found I'm a warrior. Sounds
Speaker 1: like this may have been it. This may have been
Speaker 1: it right here, all right, coming up on the show.
Speaker 1: How the hell do you not see Nimets class aircraft carrier?
Speaker 1: I do not know, but somebody didn't, So we'll get
Speaker 1: into that. Oh where is this? Do you guys want
Speaker 1: to drive faster? Do you ross?
Speaker 2: You don't know?
Speaker 1: I've, like Grandma asked. I don't mean that as an insult.
Speaker 1: You're just very You want to drive faster, like five
Speaker 1: miles an hour faster legally? Are you cool? No, they're
Speaker 1: at least on your commute. Yeah, let's row five miles
Speaker 1: on there, and I don't know, maybe even more. That's
Speaker 1: what they're talking about here in North Carolina. So we'll
Speaker 1: get into it. And good news real quick. Remember how
Speaker 1: you got upset because your kid couldn't go to school
Speaker 1: several days because the ACU was broke. Apparently Wake County
Speaker 1: Schools thinks they should probably get around to fixing that.
Speaker 1: So they're gonna do that. They just need a bunch
Speaker 1: more of your money, which brings up some questions that
Speaker 1: I have and probably some of you have, So we'll
Speaker 1: get to that. And a surefireway to get pulture geys
Speaker 1: Poultergeist in your house. So all that and more coming up.
Speaker 1: CaCO Day Radio program because they're mad at well, they're
Speaker 1: mad at everybody. Linda McMahon is just like, they don't
Speaker 1: really like, they don't even know why they're there. But
Speaker 1: you got to signed some moonbats with signs to go
Speaker 1: over there to scream at her. I appreciated the fact
Speaker 1: that they attempted to do a heckling and a disruption
Speaker 1: of government, but with W. W. E. Blair, just to
Speaker 1: make things a little different. So maybe that's just me,
Speaker 1: but yeah, So Linda McMahon, who obviously served, I think
Speaker 1: we interviewed we interviewed her right a couple of times.
Speaker 1: I think served the first Trump administration, right, and then
Speaker 1: obviously McMahon, you understand the name there and who she is,
Speaker 1: so they're bringing her back. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: you know, the Department of Education, or at least the
Speaker 1: version that exists now is probably on its way out.
Speaker 1: We don't know all the details yet, so I guess
Speaker 1: that really kind of pumped them up. But yeah, here
Speaker 1: she is, because you know, they got to do all
Speaker 1: the swearing inns and the various things, and they they
Speaker 1: they decided to heckle and disrupt with the toy.
Speaker 3: My daughter Stephanie McMahon, Paula Veck, her husband, and my
Speaker 3: son McMahon. I'm so happy to have them here, and
Speaker 3: many friends from I have come from far places, so
Speaker 3: I welcome having them here today and appreciate that they're here.
Speaker 3: So thank you Chairman Cassidy, ranking Member Sanders, and distinguished
Speaker 3: members of the committee. I'm honored to have your consideration
Speaker 3: to serve as the Secretary of the Department of Education.
Speaker 3: And I'd like to thank both Senators Scott and Britt
Speaker 3: for their introductions.
Speaker 1: I don't know why you had to, why you need
Speaker 1: an audience contain heckler's for this or whatever. So the
Speaker 1: sign that one of them is holding, what does it say?
Speaker 1: Can you hear what Linda McMahon is cooking? All right?
Speaker 1: So speaking of Linda McMahon and the Department of Education
Speaker 1: and all that stuff, again, they were hackling her, but
Speaker 1: they were doing it with wrestling themes, so at least
Speaker 1: it was different. They also, you know, they shouldn't do it.
Speaker 1: And and the fact that literally none of the McMahon
Speaker 1: kids went and you know he hit the protester with
Speaker 1: a fake folding chair. I probably took a lot. Plus
Speaker 1: you know, she had backup there. Do you think the
Speaker 1: do you think the moonbaths can take a bump? I
Speaker 1: don't know. Triple H's right there, dude, I'm sorry. I
Speaker 1: will never not be funny. These do even if you
Speaker 1: stick them in a suit, they look like absolute like
Speaker 1: monster gorillas. These guys. He's just sitting there. It's just
Speaker 1: who's the who is the Who's Cane? Cane's the mayor
Speaker 1: right in Tennessee? Is it Tennessee or Kentucky? Right? I
Speaker 1: have ever seen remember just how crazy it was watching
Speaker 1: that dude, Like when he got elected. He's just in
Speaker 1: his mayor suit, barely the suit's like what, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be able to hold out for this. So
Speaker 1: the Department of ed the narrative is, and the protester
Speaker 1: was alluding to it, is that they're gonna get rid
Speaker 1: of it and then anybody's kid who's not a traditional student,
Speaker 1: they're just gonna dump them in the woods or so
Speaker 1: I don't know, right, because you don't need you don't
Speaker 1: need it. Whatever you want that to be open to interpretations.
Speaker 1: So the parents panic, absolute panic. And we discussed this
Speaker 1: the other day, and I think the most compelling point
Speaker 1: if you come to somebody like that if in fact,
Speaker 1: the Department of Ed Responsibilities and moneies get transferred back
Speaker 1: to the states so that they facilitated. The strongest point.
Speaker 1: You don't have to get into any of the woods,
Speaker 1: you know, any of the details, the minutia, any of
Speaker 1: the rest. The strongest point is very simple and ross.
Speaker 1: This was your point. So if you want, I will
Speaker 1: let you explain it. But it is the most compelling
Speaker 1: way to get somebody to calm down. I think what
Speaker 1: happens if the State of North Carolina is now in
Speaker 1: charge of all of the kids, right, special ad children
Speaker 1: who need alternative learning for you know, because they're struggling,
Speaker 1: all of those kids, all those kids. What happens in
Speaker 1: the State of North Carolina gets the money and they
Speaker 1: just they don't have a class for them. All the
Speaker 1: lawmakers go away.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's a political suicide. And even if
Speaker 4: you don't have a kid in special education, because you're
Speaker 4: a good person, which most parents are, they're going to
Speaker 4: be down there to Capitol with pitchforks and torches. Yeah,
Speaker 4: because it ain't right and most people know that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even have kids, I mean, what the
Speaker 1: hell are you doing? So which is so you have
Speaker 1: to remember if you believe this narrative, which is promise
Speaker 1: is crafted in so I guess Mark Elias set up
Speaker 1: a whole new thing where all of these lawsuits and
Speaker 1: all this insanity is getting funneled through this guy. What
Speaker 1: the most one of the most injurious people in all
Speaker 1: of politics is somebody was never elected. His name is
Speaker 1: Mark Elias. I've watched this dude do his things since
Speaker 1: I first learned about him when he came to flip
Speaker 1: the Senate seat for Al Franken, right, and where they
Speaker 1: were literally finding ballots in trunks and that's not me,
Speaker 1: you know, just throwing out something. They literally had ballots
Speaker 1: that they found in trunks in a in a poll
Speaker 1: worker's trunk in Dinkytown, which is the University of Minnesota.
Speaker 1: So they were all it's They were overwhelmingly as you
Speaker 1: can imagine, for Al Franken, just as that district was.
Speaker 1: And whoop, see how they was getting my trunk and
Speaker 1: let's go get those counted, right and this, so this
Speaker 1: dude is ramping up. So all of these attacks are
Speaker 1: they're tested, right, they crack and test. This is super
Speaker 1: sophisticated man, and so they think the strongest narrative is
Speaker 1: if Trump does this, all the special led kids don't
Speaker 1: go to school anymore, right, And that's and that's terrifying
Speaker 1: to obviously parents. But to Ross's point too, that the
Speaker 1: idea of that is also something that most people would
Speaker 1: reject because they realized, well, that ain't right. If you're
Speaker 1: gonna have this, you're gonna have public education, you got
Speaker 1: you gotta handle your business. You can, but you can
Speaker 1: arguably do it in a much more efficient way, in
Speaker 1: a closer to home way, so there's more accountability for
Speaker 1: the people in charge. So, uh, this is this is
Speaker 1: what they're gonna go with. But other people have other theories.
Speaker 1: I don't know, like the uh, the cackling hyenas over
Speaker 1: at the view that okay.
Speaker 5: You know, getting rid of the Department of Education is
Speaker 5: actually the first goal listed in the location section of
Speaker 5: Project twenty twenty five. We were talking about Project twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five.
Speaker 1: Also the also literally the thing that a lot of
Speaker 1: Republicans have promised for a lot longer than twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five has been there. So but whatever you think, you
Speaker 1: got a theory, why is Trump doing it?
Speaker 5: Helped me understand, We warned everybody that that was the playbook,
Speaker 5: and it remains the playbook, and they are playing.
Speaker 6: By that book. It is also the smallest of all
Speaker 6: the government agencies, so if you get rid of the
Speaker 6: Department of Education, you really don't have this sort of
Speaker 6: financial boon that they're telling you that you're going to have.
Speaker 1: Nobody's really telling you that it's a financial boon. And
Speaker 1: also it may be the smallest, but it's the one
Speaker 1: I could least tell you what they do. And I
Speaker 1: sat in years when I was doing the reporting. I
Speaker 1: had to cover the school boards meetings, and so that's
Speaker 1: why I know things like what title one dollars are
Speaker 1: and all of these things. I still don't know what
Speaker 1: the hell they do. It couldn't literally just be done locally.
Speaker 1: So there's that. But this is the view. You ladies
Speaker 1: ain't just gonna be like it's twenty twenty five. I
Speaker 1: want to hear a much more insane theory. Do you
Speaker 1: have it? Insane theory? That's what we come to you
Speaker 1: for Give me an insane theory.
Speaker 5: It's not really about saving money, No, I think there's
Speaker 5: a much more nefarious reason for it. I think it's
Speaker 5: because they without education, you get cheaper labor. I think
Speaker 5: what they want to do is create in the United
Speaker 5: States a permanent underclass, a permanent cheap workforce because educated
Speaker 5: workers cost more. That is the bottom line, and that's
Speaker 5: what they're doing.
Speaker 1: So they want serfs. That's let's just they want serfs.
Speaker 1: Maybe they'll share crops some stuff, and then you can
Speaker 1: beat them. You used to be able to beat the serf.
Speaker 1: So that's that's what you think they want. You think
Speaker 1: that there is a conspiratorial plan to create eight A
Speaker 1: an endless supply. I just want to I just want
Speaker 1: you to understand what you just said, an endless supply
Speaker 1: of cheap, idiot, uneducated UH labor that that you can
Speaker 1: they can exploit, because that sounds that sounds a lot
Speaker 1: like everyone whining that nobody's gonna make their smoothies with
Speaker 1: the blueberries for the smoothie because nobody's there to pick them,
Speaker 1: or to clean your house or all of the jobs
Speaker 1: which clearly only fall into these menial labor descriptions that
Speaker 1: you use as examples UH in talking about why you
Speaker 1: don't like his immigration policies, because you see that as hey,
Speaker 1: who's gonna pay who's gonna I need blueberries for my smoothie.
Speaker 1: I need blueberries. Who's gonna pick them like that? That's
Speaker 1: you now, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: The one of the bigger problems with immigration before Joe
Speaker 1: Biden put it on steroids. But just going back to
Speaker 1: you know, really how it was working. Absolutely, both parties
Speaker 1: had people within them who were benefiting from you know this,
Speaker 1: this cheap labor often much cheaper too if it's being
Speaker 1: done off the books. That's why it was harder to kill,
Speaker 1: harder to get a handle on. And I was perfectly
Speaker 1: fine because they'd making it all or nothing. They'd be like, oh,
Speaker 1: if you're going to go after the people, go after
Speaker 1: the businesses, and like you won't do that. I'm like, yes,
Speaker 1: do that, do both those things. That's fine. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to who has been beating my brains in
Speaker 1: every time this issue comes up over creating a permanent
Speaker 1: underclass of cheap labor that you can exploit, it's you
Speaker 1: all with your veget who's gonna pick my vegetables? Crap?
Speaker 1: You know we're not gonna have let us at the store.
Speaker 1: What are you going to do? Well? One, I don't
Speaker 1: need lettuce? Ugh, the beef going to be oh, the
Speaker 1: steaks are still there. Good, But no, on a serious side,
Speaker 1: that's also not true. What you have is you're going
Speaker 1: to have in any of these industries, you're going to
Speaker 1: have a course correction because you are arbitrarily able to
Speaker 1: maintain a much lower operating costs versus other businesses. If
Speaker 1: you chose to hire people illegally to do stuff, and
Speaker 1: that was good for you. So the course correct means
Speaker 1: that whatever it is you do, the people you're going
Speaker 1: to hire are going to cost more. It'll be on
Speaker 1: par with other businesses who use lower unskilled labor. They
Speaker 1: are currently having to compete against you, and that may
Speaker 1: mean that the price of lettuce has been artificially low.
Speaker 1: If you want to go, you want to talk about
Speaker 1: vegetable stuff, but don't give me this garbage. Trump's not
Speaker 1: going to try to create a permanent underclass. How do
Speaker 1: I know it? Trump started his own university. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. But no, it's like, this is you,
Speaker 1: this is your thing, this is projecting. So but thank you.
Speaker 1: I did ask for insane theory and you got one
Speaker 1: for me. So I appreciate that. All right, Hey, you
Speaker 1: remember how it used to be? Remember how it used
Speaker 1: to be with the school shootings, right, The scenario was basically,
Speaker 1: if somebody shoots up a school, then we find out
Speaker 1: sometimes what their motives were. Sometimes we don't release the
Speaker 1: manifesto forever for no reason that I could ever understand
Speaker 1: except politics. And then what is the other thing that
Speaker 1: almost inevitably happens. What do we inevitably find out? Not always?
Speaker 1: And sometimes it looks a little different law enforcement. He
Speaker 1: was on our radar, she was on our radar. It
Speaker 1: looks like they're gonna try something different. Now I'll explain
Speaker 1: a story out of Indiana coming up next Cacoday Radio program,
Speaker 1: asking the same questions about the Wake County schools thing. Ah,
Speaker 1: don't worry, I'll get into it. We'll get into it all. Also,
Speaker 1: Pete Counter will join us. That's coming up at eight
Speaker 1: oh five and eight oh six. I guess technically, and
Speaker 1: we'll talk about speed limits. The none of you follow anyway,
Speaker 1: so what does it matter? But yeah, a little more
Speaker 1: breathing room would be okay, after just making that drive
Speaker 1: down to Beaufort here a couple of weeks ago for
Speaker 1: that urban event. Now, a lot of that highway, right,
Speaker 1: because you know it's a straight shot, one shot on
Speaker 1: that highway. There's a lot of it where you can
Speaker 1: go seventy, but there's these weird little they have these
Speaker 1: weird little fifty five mile an hour pockets that seem
Speaker 1: to be for no reason other than police posting up
Speaker 1: or so. I don't know how it impacts any of that,
Speaker 1: but we'll get into it. But first this, I thought
Speaker 1: this was a refreshing change. A police in Indiana say
Speaker 1: they were able to thwart a Valentine's Day massacre for
Speaker 1: all practical purposes school shooting that eighteen girl was allegedly
Speaker 1: plotting at her high school, eighteen year old Trinity Shockly, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I saw what. I understand that there
Speaker 1: has been school shooters who are trans and then the
Speaker 1: media pretended like they weren't. Do we have to immediately
Speaker 1: decide that everyone is trans? Who's doing that? I don't
Speaker 1: understand this exercise because I haven't seen anything there that
Speaker 1: other than people just writing things that they made up.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, but I don't know that it
Speaker 1: matters in this case. And here's why. Because she didn't
Speaker 1: shoot the school up. No, no, no, So he's here's
Speaker 1: what they here's what they decided to do once somebody
Speaker 1: ended up on their radar and they got a hint
Speaker 1: that this thing might be going down, they went and
Speaker 1: arrested her first, so we don't have to have the
Speaker 1: inevitable follow up store Well, yeah, she had thirty eight
Speaker 1: interactions with the Sheriff's department, like the Parkland shooter or
Speaker 1: the the the incident in Nashville where this was. She
Speaker 1: would this person was a known commodity because of some
Speaker 1: Internet postings and like, and it doesn't mean you can
Speaker 1: just sweep people up for Internet postings, but you probably should,
Speaker 1: I don't know, spend the time. And it was the
Speaker 1: FBI who gave local police the tip, so she was
Speaker 1: on their radar. And I like this way more if
Speaker 1: I had to pick between the old way of doing it,
Speaker 1: where the shooters like I'm gonna shoot up the school
Speaker 1: tells people sometimes post about it makes weird like Fetish's
Speaker 1: videos with you know, with all their you know, their
Speaker 1: tactical gear, and they're all gonna pay right and and
Speaker 1: and then they they kill a bunch of people, maybe themselves,
Speaker 1: maybe not. And then we're like, oh, yeah, oh, we
Speaker 1: were totally looking at that. We were looking at him.
Speaker 1: They went, hey, what if we arrest them first? And
Speaker 1: this worked. Yeah, she didn't murder anybody. Uh, the whole
Speaker 1: the whole story is kind of crazy too, because this
Speaker 1: girl was kind of it's a small you know, it's
Speaker 1: a small town or a small community, I should say,
Speaker 1: especially within the school. Because this girl was very much
Speaker 1: on the radar after her classmates following a rather nasty
Speaker 1: auto accident where she was she was pretty significantly injured.
Speaker 1: They held fundraisers, they did a go fund me, she
Speaker 1: was on the news, she was in the newspaper. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's tell Trinity. I think she was fifteen. She wasn't
Speaker 1: able to walk initially after it, and everybody kind of
Speaker 1: rallied around. So I don't I don't always know the beef.
Speaker 1: But her aunt says she's a loving and fun girl. Ah,
Speaker 1: clearly up for debate. But yeah, so I this is
Speaker 1: this is good. We should do this this way now,
Speaker 1: would be my opinion, my if if I I'm not
Speaker 1: in charge of anything, but if if you'll allow me
Speaker 1: to weigh in, I prefer this methodology here. So I
Speaker 1: just maybe we'll learn a little more as to what's
Speaker 1: going on there. What is it? I'm trying to see
Speaker 1: if what was the specific tip off threat. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm a little unclear. I well, something something, something at
Speaker 1: the FBI level. They went, oh, this girl's probably gonna
Speaker 1: murder a bunch of people, and and police did what
Speaker 1: police do. Because here's the thing. Most police want to
Speaker 1: arrest people before they murder everybody they got. It's like
Speaker 1: a thing for them. Yeah it's crazy, I know, but
Speaker 1: I'm not a cop, so I don't know. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: prefer not to have everyone get murdered first and then
Speaker 1: to stop that. So I've been told I kind of
Speaker 1: speak for all the officers, but I have had that
Speaker 1: mentioned to me. All right, coming up on the show,
Speaker 1: we got more judges doing whatever judges think they're supposed
Speaker 1: to do. And what what just happened at the US
Speaker 1: Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York is
Speaker 1: pretty pretty crazy. With the letters that went back and forth.
Speaker 1: I'll try to I'll lay that out for you. Bad
Speaker 1: glad we're talking about this. You know, North Carolina. Is
Speaker 1: it's you ever try to drive all the way across
Speaker 1: the It's it's your day, that's your whole day, you know,
Speaker 1: that whole Murphy demantio thing that the politicians love. It's
Speaker 1: quite the commitment held. When I had to drive down
Speaker 1: for the Bourbon thing, I had been at our Greensboro
Speaker 1: studio all week, so I didn't just drive from Raleigh.
Speaker 1: I drove from Greensboro down to down to Beaufort there
Speaker 1: and you know that's about four four hours twenty minutes,
Speaker 1: and you know that's not even half the state. Well,
Speaker 1: Ross you guys, you just when you drove last time,
Speaker 1: you drove all the way through the Tip right into Chattanooga.
Speaker 1: How many hours? Do you remember how many hours that was.
Speaker 1: I've driven that before, but it's been years. Yeah, it's roughly.
Speaker 1: It took about forever. Yeah, just like, oh it's still
Speaker 1: more North Carolina, which is great. You know that's awesome,
Speaker 1: but it's a long way. So the idea that you
Speaker 1: cap the speed limit at seventy in the state when
Speaker 1: there's giants, swasps and stretches of rough well, it doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense for to go faster than seventy on a
Speaker 1: lot of roads, or sixty even, but for the roads
Speaker 1: that are built for it. I can't tell you the
Speaker 1: number of times I've been chugging along. Once you get
Speaker 1: out of a metro area, and you don't say you
Speaker 1: have the road to yourself, but you're not going to
Speaker 1: hit anyone unless you're an idiot. And everyone's already doing
Speaker 1: like eighty or seventy nine. Oh yeah, under ten, it'll
Speaker 1: be fine. Oh good luck. So now lawmakers are saying, well,
Speaker 1: what if we increase the speed limits? What if we
Speaker 1: always made it a little a little faster. And it's
Speaker 1: just one of a few laws that they're talking about
Speaker 1: as part of a bipartisan bill filed wednesday. In the bill,
Speaker 1: it would raise the maximum possible. And I see people
Speaker 1: are like going, oh, they're just gonna raise them. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: They have parameters and car counts and all. There's all.
Speaker 1: There's a whole algorithm, if you will, that is supposed
Speaker 1: to dictate speeds. I still contend that there are some
Speaker 1: wildly unnecessary, especially on that on that drive to Beaufort
Speaker 1: the other week, where it's just all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they're like, now you're gonna go fifty five for like
Speaker 1: three hundred feet and then you can do seventy again,
Speaker 1: and and you're like, why, there's not even a you
Speaker 1: don't even have a big intersection up here where, And
Speaker 1: then I realized that's for speed traps. I'm convinced that's
Speaker 1: how they get you. But do you object to the
Speaker 1: maximum highway speed now be in seventy five in areas
Speaker 1: where it makes sense. I'm sure it would also increase
Speaker 1: the cutoff for more serious speeding charges, right, So if
Speaker 1: you increase that, we we you know, you get a
Speaker 1: I don't know they call it super speeder here, but
Speaker 1: a lot of states have that. If you're more than
Speaker 1: ten or in some cases fifteen miles over the speed limit,
Speaker 1: it's a whole different set of it's a whole different ticket, man,
Speaker 1: and you don't want that. So they would increase the
Speaker 1: cutoff from more serious speeding charges to eighty five. So
Speaker 1: you know, it's that ten mile an hour window there.
Speaker 1: And that's also why you know when people what do
Speaker 1: they call it per for judgment or whatever, where you
Speaker 1: can get the thing and they'll say it was nine
Speaker 1: or under ten or whatever. I believe it or not.
Speaker 1: I don't have a speeding ticket now I probably will
Speaker 1: because I said that I've never had one because I
Speaker 1: drive like an angel, or I don't get caught. It
Speaker 1: would be possible. Let's see here. You know, obviously I
Speaker 1: ninety five forty eighty seven in the US one lots
Speaker 1: of stretches. And then, like I said, several of the
Speaker 1: coastal roads, faster speeds could increase the risk of crashes. Again,
Speaker 1: I don't know that I've ever been. Let me ask
Speaker 1: you a question for those of you who commute into
Speaker 1: Raleigh from the south, from like Johnston County or whatever
Speaker 1: on forty where it drops the speed from seventy down
Speaker 1: to sixty or sixty five right just as you're kind
Speaker 1: of approaching, you know, the belt line there in Raleigh.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen anyone actually slow down? I contend
Speaker 1: that nobody does because that road feel, it's so big, Right,
Speaker 1: there's what nine thousand lanes per siton. Nobody's nobody's slowing down.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, hold on, what's Boston Paul Matt about. Oh no,
Speaker 1: he's happy because he can drive his big death trap
Speaker 1: of a Winnebago fast. Or is that what you want?
Speaker 1: Is your National Lampoon's Christmas vacation Winnebago looking thing? Could
Speaker 1: that even get that fast? I contend it can't. It's
Speaker 1: probably good. So no, we're talking about normal stuff. You
Speaker 1: can you can putts along, and yes, you'll still have
Speaker 1: idiots blocking the lane. Is this well the belt line
Speaker 1: feels like it's already one hundred. Yeah. Sometimes I'm just
Speaker 1: the thing that is injurious for The thing that causes
Speaker 1: crashes that is a bigger problem is speed differentials. Right
Speaker 1: where somebody's doing fifty five and then somebody's doing eighty
Speaker 1: five right, and that's or when somebody stops right, that's
Speaker 1: when you see these crashes. The traffic comes to a halt.
Speaker 1: The person is I don't know, digging through their glove
Speaker 1: box or whatever, and then boom, they got to lock
Speaker 1: up the brakes and then people get rear ended. Right.
Speaker 1: It is that differential of speed, So I don't know
Speaker 1: that it causes that much of a problem to at
Speaker 1: five miles an hour in some of these places will
Speaker 1: then also increase the speed and some that don't get
Speaker 1: the seventy mile an hour currently. I don't know, don't
Speaker 1: know what is this? You're old, You aren't old enough
Speaker 1: to remember when it was fifty five. No, and thank
Speaker 1: God for that. That sounds awful. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: I what I do have experience with that. Probably not
Speaker 1: a lot of people do. I grew up in Wyoming,
Speaker 1: and even though it was after I graduated high school,
Speaker 1: I still was able to avail myself of this. When
Speaker 1: Montana did what Montana did, which, if you remember, they
Speaker 1: decided that during the day they had a speed limit.
Speaker 1: At night, but during the day they had this it
Speaker 1: was weird because the signs said reasonable and prudent. They
Speaker 1: literally had the signs, the speed limit signs that said
Speaker 1: that said it's during the day, and then at night
Speaker 1: they just maintained the same thing. So, yeah, anybody who
Speaker 1: had a fun car went up to Montana, man just
Speaker 1: blowing through there. Oh man, it was great, didn't hit anything,
Speaker 1: So you know, you're not going to do that in
Speaker 1: North Carolina. And then obviously Montana kind of undid part
Speaker 1: of that. But still people are gonna go that fast,
Speaker 1: and you know why because modern cars feel a lot
Speaker 1: more comfortable at that speed, they handle better, they got
Speaker 1: safety stuff in there. Hell, you probably a lot of cars.
Speaker 1: I've had a car where I can't rearend somebody. The
Speaker 1: car literally breaks itself, which I don't know that I like,
Speaker 1: but but it also would make all these noises and
Speaker 1: all the lights would flash, so it got your attention.
Speaker 1: If you thought you were coming up on somebody, but
Speaker 1: it literally would break itself. So if people feel comfortable,
Speaker 1: that's how fast they'll drive. Anyone who puts these things together,
Speaker 1: and I've sat in the meetings where they've explained this stuff.
Speaker 1: They like, depending on how the road looks, the level
Speaker 1: of traffic, and the comfort that people feel, they'll kind
Speaker 1: of self dictate a speed. So it doesn't make any
Speaker 1: sense if you have this like that, you know, this big,
Speaker 1: nice road, not like the Smithfield Bypass, which has literal
Speaker 1: like pits in it for some reason which I didn't
Speaker 1: realize until I drove it the other day. What's going
Speaker 1: on with that? Like you can't even drive in the
Speaker 1: right lane if you're in the if you're in the
Speaker 1: westbound going towards Raleigh, I'd like get over in the
Speaker 1: passing lane to avoid having the station vehicle get showed
Speaker 1: up by whatever the hell's happening there. And that bypass
Speaker 1: isn't that old. But once you get off, you know,
Speaker 1: past that, you get in that big wide spot, it
Speaker 1: already starts slowing you down. People don't slow down, so yeah,
Speaker 1: let them do their thing. What else is in this bill?
Speaker 1: I think that's the big one right there. Here's some numbers.
Speaker 1: So if you drive from Wilmington to Ashville three hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy miles a, you could say you could save
Speaker 1: forty minutes if they were to increase to seventy five
Speaker 1: and if not that they would tell you to do
Speaker 1: this if you decide to do eighty. Because you decide
Speaker 1: to do eighty, that's an hour and twenty minutes. So
Speaker 1: that's like, that's real deal time man. Let's see here.
Speaker 1: In an interview Thursday, official siteed a study, a recent
Speaker 1: study that found an eight and a half percent increase
Speaker 1: in traffic fatalities for every five mile an hour increase
Speaker 1: to a road speed limit. Look, you're never going to
Speaker 1: cure it. You're not going to cure distracted driving. But
Speaker 1: because some people can't responsibly drive, should I not get
Speaker 1: an hour and twenty minutes of my day back or
Speaker 1: forty minutes or whatever it is because I want to
Speaker 1: go between two faraway points in North Carolina. No, another
Speaker 1: bill would change the rules for driving while intoxicated. Well,
Speaker 1: if this passes that, I don't think this will pass.
Speaker 1: It is by partisan though it would lower the threshold
Speaker 1: for DW I to point zero five again, point zero
Speaker 1: five versus point or point yeah, point o eight to
Speaker 1: point oh five, the size of the per there's there's
Speaker 1: so many variables there. But again this is this is
Speaker 1: some people's pet project. I don't see that one passing,
Speaker 1: all right. So apparently they were doing some immigration raids
Speaker 1: around the Old Triangle yesterday and some some of the
Speaker 1: I guess some of the citizens are very upset by
Speaker 1: something that the the immigration people were doing. Not upset,
Speaker 1: I guess that they were literally arresting like I don't know,
Speaker 1: here's a trendy or ragua gangster. Probably should arrest him. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it was how they were dressed apparently. Yeah, I'll read
Speaker 1: you this insane quote. We'll do it next here on
Speaker 1: the CaCO Day radio program, Cacoda program. So let me
Speaker 1: try to bring you up to speed here real quick
Speaker 1: on what's going on in New York with the the
Speaker 1: now I guess former assistant US attorney there and these
Speaker 1: letters that went back and forth. So this goes back
Speaker 1: to the area. By the way, how do you guys
Speaker 1: feel about the whole Trump Eric Adams thing? Like it
Speaker 1: is that still weird to you? With Eric Adams? And
Speaker 1: also We'll put Blogoyevitch to the side, because I've actually
Speaker 1: I've heard Blagoyevitch's position and what he says was going
Speaker 1: on at the time, and it if if he's correct,
Speaker 1: he he was being a bad boy, but not to
Speaker 1: the extent that he was then charged with. And it's
Speaker 1: it feeled, it fells, it feels retaliatory because Obama was
Speaker 1: mad he couldn't sell his former seat. That's essentially the allegations.
Speaker 1: It wasn't it was Blagoyevitch wasn't allowing Obama's people or
Speaker 1: Obama to do with the seat what they wanted. But
Speaker 1: we have him on tape saying he's going to do
Speaker 1: this other thing. But he says that was a response
Speaker 1: to that, and then he was prosecuted because he wouldn't
Speaker 1: fall in line. If you believe that, fine, let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Mayor Adams thing in New York.
Speaker 1: Adams is a Democrat, right, and on most things he
Speaker 1: had spoken out against Trump. However, there was the one issue,
Speaker 1: and the issue was that Adams correctly recognized whether he
Speaker 1: did it because it was the right thing or he
Speaker 1: felt it was a politically expedient. I don't care he
Speaker 1: recognized that this the migrant thing is a really bad
Speaker 1: deal for New York. And you're seeing what's happening right now.
Speaker 1: They're screaming bloody murder because they didn't get their fifty
Speaker 1: nine million so that they can put everybody up in
Speaker 1: that luxury hotel and give them free flights anywhere. Did
Speaker 1: you know that I saw this? They have somebody got
Speaker 1: in there and filmed some of these posters that are
Speaker 1: in there. So if you're staying at that Roosevelt Hotel
Speaker 1: in New York and you want to go for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: and it literally says that go see family. You want
Speaker 1: to be in a warmer climate. I'm quoting here, held
Speaker 1: the front desk, and they will arrange an airline ticket
Speaker 1: for you for free. That's a nice that's a nice
Speaker 1: little perk right there, man. But now the money's not there,
Speaker 1: And so what do you do in this instance? And
Speaker 1: so when Adams spoke out, all of a sudden you
Speaker 1: had and it was only after he spoke out you
Speaker 1: had this. We're gonna get Adams investigation. I don't disagree
Speaker 1: that likely the reasoning behind going after Adams was because
Speaker 1: he didn't fall in line with hold on somebody's do
Speaker 1: do do all right? Somebody's it's not my Just to
Speaker 1: be clear, sir, that's the math from the story. People
Speaker 1: are now it's too early for uh maths sir. Somebody's yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the math in the story about the time saving.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Talk to the story. You see put
Speaker 1: a bunch of numbers in an email. I zone out.
Speaker 1: So anyway back to Adams. So with Adams, I don't
Speaker 1: I believe that this hit them. Going after him was
Speaker 1: absolutely because he didn't fall in line with what the
Speaker 1: White House wanted, which was no, this is great, everything's fine,
Speaker 1: one percent.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And And I know and I believe it because the
Speaker 1: very same office that went after him is the same
Speaker 1: office where they were openly like, we're gonna go get Trump,
Speaker 1: We're going to get people. And then they were actively
Speaker 1: not just Trump, but people around them, other conservatives and
Speaker 1: in this case Adams. I believe it was basically Ross
Speaker 1: and I have the identical looking programs, and then he
Speaker 1: when he screens your call, he puts it on there
Speaker 1: and then I can see it on my screener, and
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, my screener was like like froze or something.
Speaker 1: So I didn't know folks were holding. So I apologize.
Speaker 1: Let's get to a calls. We'll get more into the
Speaker 1: atoms stuff because I want to talk to Pete Calendar
Speaker 1: a little about it. So we'll get into the bulk
Speaker 1: of that and what happened here in just a bit.
Speaker 1: But to the phones, Janet, you're up first, Go right ahead.
Speaker 8: Okay, see, I'll tell him about the Board of Education comments. Okay,
Speaker 8: so I know what the Board of Education does and the.
Speaker 1: Department, the Department of Education right at the federal Department
Speaker 1: of Education. Just so people are.
Speaker 8: Right, yeah, yeah, right, And I know what they do,
Speaker 8: and none of it's good. Okay, they get in a way,
Speaker 8: they stop education, They put all kinds of nonsense in
Speaker 8: our schools. That Lady's absolutely right. There is a conspiracy
Speaker 8: to produce a less educated workforce. But the Democrats are
Speaker 8: behind it. It started with COVID. Okay. The schools have
Speaker 8: done nothing but look for any and every excuse to
Speaker 8: shut down ever since they're out for two days right now,
Speaker 8: tell me why is it for Valentine's Day?
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's for President's Day on Monday. Maybe
Speaker 1: because we're not Monday.
Speaker 8: And they need two days for that they need Friday
Speaker 8: in Monday Forday, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Here's here's what I know about it. I know that
Speaker 1: some mornings h Ross was like, bro, Lincoln's not in
Speaker 1: school today, and and then I go why, And then
Speaker 1: we don't always know? So I hear, I hear you there,
Speaker 1: I don't know, so right.
Speaker 8: Any and every excuse. Now, if it rains too hard,
Speaker 8: if the wind's blowing too hard, no school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the Department of Education is stating that they're
Speaker 1: not having school in Wake County or Guildford County or wherever,
Speaker 1: whatever county you're talking about.
Speaker 8: But the Department of Education is putting a lot of
Speaker 8: other nonsense, and the schools, like the following line, whether they.
Speaker 1: Are that's the nail on the head right there. It's
Speaker 1: just like the highway funds, where they literally would go, well,
Speaker 1: we can't really tell the states what to do. We'll
Speaker 1: just tell them we won't give them any of the
Speaker 1: money if they don't do the thing we want or
Speaker 1: the point o eight and these federal bohemos, one of
Speaker 1: their main jobs is allowing Washington under the penalty of
Speaker 1: your not getting the money that we already took from
Speaker 1: you back if you don't do this thing, so that
Speaker 1: they could social engineer. And it's why the Department of
Speaker 1: Ed would would would unelected bureaucrats would make rules saying
Speaker 1: if schools don't have proper bathrooms, or they don't have
Speaker 1: this book, or they don't teach this thing, and if
Speaker 1: you don't don't do it, you don't do exactly money.
Speaker 1: That's what it was about. That's what it's always been about.
Speaker 2: A bunch of nonsense.
Speaker 8: It doesn't matter, that doesn't but ask our kids the
Speaker 8: president's you know, my granddaughter, she's twelve years old. She
Speaker 8: wasn't for sure who the first president was at that age.
Speaker 1: They said, no, yeah, that probably I would.
Speaker 8: Think I have to make sure she knows things like that.
Speaker 1: It's pretty wild what they don't even get to with
Speaker 1: like right, which even even you know was like basic
Speaker 1: fodder for us. And they're like, somebody was telling me
Speaker 1: what they don't teach in history anymore, and it was
Speaker 1: blowing me away at their kids'.
Speaker 8: School, right, And then they mix up the things that
Speaker 8: they do teach, like, you know, my granddaughter didn't know
Speaker 8: that we lived in peace with the Indians for a
Speaker 8: couple hundred years until then Indians break the peace treaty.
Speaker 8: Maybody says anything about that anymore?
Speaker 1: Yeah, pieces, but yeah, we have to straighten out the
Speaker 1: left the plant on your child's education. Now, I just
Speaker 1: want them taught all the stuff. Look, did did the
Speaker 1: US government make agreements with Native Americans that they had
Speaker 1: no intention of honoring and then at the first opportunity
Speaker 1: basically ignore them. Yeah, teach the kids that we teach also,
Speaker 1: but also teach the kids that, you know, the Native
Speaker 1: Americans were all their own little countries in a way,
Speaker 1: and they would run around, they would literally enslave each other. Right,
Speaker 1: teach the kids this right.
Speaker 8: And yeah, by the same token, we and our own
Speaker 8: government overthrew the southern half of you know, the southern
Speaker 8: half government. We literally manufactured and distributed poison alcohol to
Speaker 8: our own citizens.
Speaker 1: Kill government, thousands of people doing that. Yeah, teach these things.
Speaker 8: Yea, our government, but are doing that to everyone?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm with you, and I think that, and thank
Speaker 1: you very much for the call their Janet. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: when I say that I don't know what they do.
Speaker 1: I kind of know what they do, But the thing
Speaker 1: that they do that is the most nefarious is what
Speaker 1: you know, Janet was kind of hinting at there, or
Speaker 1: not hinting really, but it was. Part of her point
Speaker 1: is they use it as a mechanism of control. That's
Speaker 1: what's so much of this federal stuff about. They may
Speaker 1: do other stuff, but the control is really the nice thing,
Speaker 1: so that Washington can tell you, hey, hey, this state
Speaker 1: who doesn't want to fall in line, you better do
Speaker 1: it or you're not. You never see your money again.
Speaker 1: It's it's literally, it's like criminal gangster ish. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm cool. And if Triple H wants to run around
Speaker 1: and pedigree people or whatever to make the point, I'm fine.
Speaker 1: I saw somebody tweeted that they should distribute uh it
Speaker 1: was it beat funding via ladder matches. I mean that
Speaker 1: would be amusing, But okay, all right, I'm on board. Jake, whoa, jeez, hey, Jake,
Speaker 1: what's up?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 9: How's going talking about the sea limit being adjusted at Tucker?
Speaker 7: Obviously, you know what happens to a car when it
Speaker 7: gets hit by deer.
Speaker 2: I just hit one in November, and actually it hit
Speaker 2: me more than it. We hit it and damage, so
Speaker 2: I could see why.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've hit I've hit five or sixth gear two
Speaker 1: antelope in wronment. You just hit animals, it's just what
Speaker 1: you do. And I had a big ass drill guard.
Speaker 1: The one that irritated me is I had this this
Speaker 1: this high end grill guard that it was welded. It
Speaker 1: was really really sturdy. And the last year I hit
Speaker 1: with that truck and I love that truck. The deer,
Speaker 1: which was a buck with with horns on our antlers,
Speaker 1: literally ran into the side of it and then just
Speaker 1: left us scratch all the way down the side. So yeah,
Speaker 1: but in Wyoming, these were the speed limits. And I'm
Speaker 1: still here.
Speaker 7: So what Jane was talking about. What Jenn was talking
Speaker 7: about was the Department of d when they.
Speaker 1: Were controlling schools.
Speaker 2: The only schools the Department of the ever shut down
Speaker 2: for snow with Zick about Crane.
Speaker 1: No it didn't. Yeah, but that was a conspiracy just
Speaker 1: to get raw. So yeah, that's that's fair our thanks
Speaker 1: to the caller.
Speaker 4: That's a great point by Jake.
Speaker 1: Is just crazy what people retain. Man, all right, so Jake,
Speaker 1: Jake's spitting truth. Jen, what's up?
Speaker 10: Please please please? Can we have an auto bond. I
Speaker 10: was stationed in Germany for five years.
Speaker 11: And I've also lived in West Texas for about.
Speaker 10: Fifteen and nothing would make my heart more happy than
Speaker 10: having that ability.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree with you, although we have some
Speaker 1: really bad drivers here in North Carolina really and to many.
Speaker 10: What they do is they really drilled down on the
Speaker 10: people who are doing distracted driving, and they really drill
Speaker 10: down on the people who are camping out in the
Speaker 10: fast line. So when you're coming down the Autobahn and
Speaker 10: there's a car in your way, you flash your high
Speaker 10: beings at.
Speaker 11: Them and they must move over.
Speaker 10: If they don't and they get caught, they get hammered
Speaker 10: with fines. So they are ensuring that the safety is
Speaker 10: being upheld with the fines. And they also make sure
Speaker 10: that when you get.
Speaker 11: Your driver's license. Now this was a while back, but it.
Speaker 10: Was like two thousand dollars.
Speaker 11: For a German citizen just to get their driver's license.
Speaker 1: So they don't want that extensively.
Speaker 11: This is for the kids for kids, right, So they
Speaker 11: don't taught extensively how to drive. It's not like, you know,
Speaker 11: we're just they're just thrown out on the road.
Speaker 10: But there are places where you're going down at say
Speaker 10: seventy miles an hour, you hit a small village, you
Speaker 10: run up to a small village and they're gonna bring
Speaker 10: you down to like twenty miles an hour.
Speaker 1: So no, no, I understand that. And again they're not
Speaker 1: and thank you for the college, and they're not gonna
Speaker 1: they're not talking about getting rid of any of that.
Speaker 1: I was just more making a speed trap joke. But okay,
Speaker 1: all right, autobon, see, let's let's do this. We'll get
Speaker 1: more calls coming up. Pete Callender will join us, and
Speaker 1: we got a lot to get into. But Ray Stagic
Speaker 1: joins us first. All right, my man, three day weekend
Speaker 1: for Matalie Ross and I and probably several others. Right,
Speaker 1: so let's get some golf weather, shall we. No, okay, well, it.
Speaker 12: Got a lot colder this morning. Boy kind of slapped
Speaker 12: us in the face. We are twelve to eighteen degrees
Speaker 12: colder in around the triangle, in some spots at the
Speaker 12: airport at eighteen degrees colder. A lot of the low
Speaker 12: and mid thirties, or some twenties and low twenties the
Speaker 12: far west you go. So it is a colder star.
Speaker 12: But today is probably gonna be the best of the
Speaker 12: next couple of days because the weekend, at least most
Speaker 12: of it looks like it's gonna be a little damp
Speaker 12: and then turning colder. Although we do we got a
Speaker 12: pretty decent President's Day on Monday, it's going to be
Speaker 12: pretty chilly, so sunshine, maybe some high cloud today near
Speaker 12: fifty tonight as we head toward morning, so it's more
Speaker 12: like overnight we're down in the low thirties.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna have some rain come in.
Speaker 12: It may be give briefly as some mixed precipitation. So
Speaker 12: driving around early Saturday, take a look at your carth thermometer.
Speaker 12: If you're thirty two ish, you might want to be
Speaker 12: a little bit careful. There might be a little sleet
Speaker 12: or freezing rain with some wet snowflakes. But quickly I
Speaker 12: think to rain and right around fifty you're on either
Speaker 12: side of fifty, depending on where you are. Tomorrow Tomorrow
Speaker 12: just looks like it is going to be a damp
Speaker 12: and kind of raw day once again, will rain Tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: We could end up with close to an ech in.
Speaker 12: Some spots, maybe more west and then some showers tapering
Speaker 12: off Sunday as a cold front comes through, but at
Speaker 12: ahead of the front, gusty wins and still in the
Speaker 12: mid upper fifties on Sunday. That is, we get get
Speaker 12: to the Sunday night and the colder air coming in can
Speaker 12: have some rain and snow showers mixed before ending. And
Speaker 12: then Monday, Washington's Birthday, President's Day, people call different things,
Speaker 12: you know what I mean. Lots of sunshine and cold,
Speaker 12: low forties for high So it looks like we are
Speaker 12: going to see some cold rare come in that could
Speaker 12: set us up for maybe another winter event midweek next week,
Speaker 12: so winter back casey. You know, it looks like I
Speaker 12: think more cold than we are gonna have mild. And
Speaker 12: when it is mild Sunday, it's probably gonna be raining.
Speaker 12: So I don't think it rains all day Sunday, but
Speaker 12: Saturday looks like the worst day. And although cold, on
Speaker 12: Monday that looks like the best day of the next today, tomorrow,
Speaker 12: next four days, Today today, Monday look good.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I guess we got to deal with it.
Speaker 1: So thank you. We'll talking an hour. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Like I said, we'll come back, grab whatever remaining calls
Speaker 1: there are, and Pete Calender he'll join us eight oh
Speaker 1: five coming up. CaCO Day Radio program. You know Valentine's Day, right,
Speaker 1: So that's the thing. Unfortunately, it's gonna suck, and it's
Speaker 1: Trump and the Republicans fault. So I'm very sorry. NBC
Speaker 1: News has just alerted me climate change turning Valentine's Day
Speaker 1: bitter for chocolate lovers. So the crux of it is
Speaker 1: climate emergency crisis or its actually weird? Did we just
Speaker 1: do away with climate crisis and emergency? Remember remember they're
Speaker 1: trying to get those going and now we're just going
Speaker 1: to do climate change again? Okay, all right? So basically,
Speaker 1: the cocoa prices are way up is climate change and
Speaker 1: Trump and the GOP don't want to do anything about it.
Speaker 1: So now all of our chocolate's more expensive. Now you're
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day's ruined. So sorry about that. Although some of
Speaker 1: the stuff in the story. Here's a line from the story, Uh,
Speaker 1: where is this.
Speaker 6: Do?
Speaker 1: I kind of laughed when I read this. Oh man,
Speaker 1: I just told it to Ross too. I'll paraphrass I
Speaker 1: remember what it said. Basically, they said to adapt. Some
Speaker 1: of the chocolate manufacturers are now here we go. Chocolates
Speaker 1: are being stuffed with almonds, peanut butter, and caramel to
Speaker 1: offset the cocoa cost the what what do you mean
Speaker 1: to that? That's not a new thing. That's all the
Speaker 1: best candy bars. What are you what are you talking about? Oh,
Speaker 1: they put peanut butter in my chocolate. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: they called it a reesis and it's delicious. And also,
Speaker 1: how the hell is this Trump's fault? Because the climate
Speaker 1: change thing? Do you know where most cocoa comes from
Speaker 1: West Africa and a lot of the countries that grow
Speaker 1: it ain't real stable, which is why there's price fluctuations.
Speaker 1: But sure, absolutely so, Uh, there you go. If you
Speaker 1: don't if if you don't, uh, you don't get lucky.
Speaker 1: It's Trump's fault because the chocolate was you didn't get
Speaker 1: the chocolate because it was too much or something. Just insanity.
Speaker 1: All right, Jamal, what's up?
Speaker 9: Happy megatime day? I just want to say this, Casey,
Speaker 9: you will one hundred say it right when you will
Speaker 9: talk into janics early about the Department of Education being
Speaker 9: used as an indoctrination to push in liberal policies.
Speaker 2: And they've been doing that since the inception. Back when
Speaker 2: the inception of the Department of Education, if you looked
Speaker 2: at the time frame, a lot of people still was
Speaker 2: not okay with integration, including blacks. A lot of people
Speaker 2: try to throw this fake story of black people with
Speaker 2: marg because we wanted integration. It was a certain sect
Speaker 2: wanted integration, but it was sex that did not want integration,
Speaker 2: that wanted to have segregated schools, that said, hey, we
Speaker 2: just want the money, right we were supposed to be promised.
Speaker 2: And what the Department of Education has done is push
Speaker 2: this narrative to where students in the South, it's like
Speaker 2: Johnston County in places every like that, they have to
Speaker 2: go by a Washington, DC ideology model. That's why all
Speaker 2: the students now are the pride and you don't see
Speaker 2: too much Christian stuf. Well, you don't see too much
Speaker 2: stuff about loving America, wow, because that's what they pushed
Speaker 2: and the the problem of education does need to go away,
Speaker 2: push it back to the States, because one of the
Speaker 2: things if they was to push it back to the States,
Speaker 2: you would think a lot of this acceptance stuff will
Speaker 2: go away. And Obama, you was talking about how the
Speaker 2: Department of Education have been used Barack Obama back in
Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, right after Republicans took the Senate or spoons
Speaker 2: to allow boys in girls' bathroom or they will lose funding.
Speaker 1: Well, and then he did that was.
Speaker 2: Too off the education.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was twofold. So it was that and the
Speaker 1: Attorney General at the time, and they had previously argued
Speaker 1: they tried to reinterpret one of the pieces of civil
Speaker 1: rights legislation to conflate sex and gender, which we were
Speaker 1: always told you're not allowed to do that, and they
Speaker 1: just pretended that the word meant something else. Now they
Speaker 1: got slapped down that wasn't allowed to go forward. But
Speaker 1: you're right, Uh, they did use that at the time
Speaker 1: to dictate to the schools what they were going to
Speaker 1: do on this issue.
Speaker 13: So that is correct, and and yes and so and
Speaker 13: like I say, happy Magaton Day because President Trump is
Speaker 13: recognized that.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I tell people, President Trump and those have
Speaker 2: done more and three weeks than the first President Trump's term.
Speaker 1: Three day weekend for a lot of folks. But the
Speaker 1: news will truck on and it will do so at
Speaker 1: a breakneck speed that I and many others are unable
Speaker 1: to keep up with because there there's just too much happening.
Speaker 1: But Pete Calender or Radio Buddy down south there and
Speaker 1: Charlotte Midday's WBT joins us. Now, Uh, do the pace
Speaker 1: of this is not slowing down, Pete. Every if I
Speaker 1: go to sleep too early, I wake up and I
Speaker 1: have to redo my whole show prep stack.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Same, that's why I just don't sleep anymore.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good that's good advice. That's like remember
Speaker 1: when they were like food prices are too much, you
Speaker 1: should stop eating breakfast under the last administration, so lots
Speaker 1: of right, But now.
Speaker 7: The the egg prices are so high that even Democrats
Speaker 7: have taken notice of it. I guess maybe it's just
Speaker 7: because Trump is in office.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, NBC News. Trump also is ruining
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day, so right, and yeah because chocolate prices, because
Speaker 1: inactivity on climate change.
Speaker 9: So yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it is amazing how much you can blame him
Speaker 7: for after three weeks on the job. Like the uh
Speaker 7: they were blaming him. I saw for inflation during the
Speaker 7: the House. Yeah, the Congressional House Oversight Subcommittee on DOGE
Speaker 7: and they were looking at some of the USA I
Speaker 7: D funding and stuff. And uh, the the the majority
Speaker 7: or the ranking minority member Democrat Stansbury I think was
Speaker 7: her name, Melanie Stansbury. And she's ranting and raving. You know, well,
Speaker 7: how come you guys haven't focused on inflation. I mean,
Speaker 7: I'm sitting here and now there's a headline out today
Speaker 7: from the New York Times talking about how inflation is,
Speaker 7: you know, is picking up or whatever it was. And
Speaker 7: it's like, lady, that's from the last quarter. That's your guy.
Speaker 7: Oh my god. These people are economic illiterates.
Speaker 1: I saw that Harry Sisson, idiot who was blamed. I
Speaker 1: can't remember what he was blaming Trump for, but he
Speaker 1: did the thing you know that you know on the
Speaker 1: tiktoks where you can have stuff appear behind you like
Speaker 1: it's a green screen. So he shows the document, and
Speaker 1: so the document he shows to prove his point shows
Speaker 1: that it was something that was implemented, and you know
Speaker 1: what it was. It was the Elon mut It was
Speaker 1: the Tesla contract, the contract which was awarded in December
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four. Pete, I don't have it in
Speaker 1: front of me. Do you remember who the president was
Speaker 1: in December of twenty twenty four? Could you remember?
Speaker 7: Yes? I actually I do know who the president was.
Speaker 7: It was Hunter Biden.
Speaker 1: That is a fair assessment and an allegation in a
Speaker 1: story I read today.
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's true because it kind of probably
Speaker 1: would have been amazing if you're really into like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, like eyes wide shut kind of party, if
Speaker 1: he was in charge side.
Speaker 7: What do you what do you think the cocaine in
Speaker 7: the locker was from?
Speaker 1: No, Well, but like you saw it, and you if
Speaker 1: you didn't see it, you heard like how this guy
Speaker 1: liked to party, like if he was really in charge,
Speaker 1: crack everywhere. Nobody's got any clothes on, it's just it's
Speaker 1: sodom and gomorah.
Speaker 7: So well, but he he got clean. Remember, he got clean.
Speaker 7: That's why nobody could prosecute him for any of his crimes.
Speaker 7: That end the pardon that his dad gave him. But like,
Speaker 7: he got clean, and so we we applaud that. I
Speaker 7: applaud that. Good for him for doing that. And okay,
Speaker 7: so look, if you don't want to give it to
Speaker 7: Hunter Biden, then it goes to doctor Jilson.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, that's that's fair because the sures heck
Speaker 1: wasn't Joe Biden who was a running things right all right? Man,
Speaker 1: I saw and I saw that you interacted when I
Speaker 1: tweeted this yesterday. This is the thing. I can't you
Speaker 1: reference the Doge hearing, which was insane, right when we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's stuff in marbles and cats butts and then shocking
Speaker 1: them and for the low low price of ten million
Speaker 1: dollars and then everything else.
Speaker 7: And I know a bunch of people that would do
Speaker 7: it for way cheaper.
Speaker 1: Well. Yeah, it's like if you've been if you're a
Speaker 1: serial killer, but you're not there yet. You just need
Speaker 1: to get your pedigree up, you know, like at National
Speaker 1: Institute of Health, was your jam man. You go in
Speaker 1: there and be like, no, no, no, I'm doing this
Speaker 1: for science. It's fine, and and yeah.
Speaker 7: It's like Dexter. It's like a Dexter play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because if you looked, if you go home today, uh,
Speaker 1: and you see your neighbor in the yard stuffing things
Speaker 1: in a cat's butt while it freaks out, and then
Speaker 1: shocking them like he's Michael, you're calling the cops. Here,
Speaker 1: we're gonna give you ten mili. But here's what I
Speaker 1: don't here's what I need help with. And I kind
Speaker 1: of know, but I'm amazed that we're here. I was
Speaker 1: ross and around this conversation off the air. I have
Speaker 1: not and maybe you have. I have not seen a
Speaker 1: single interview moment, little snippet where a reporter holding a
Speaker 1: piece of paper that lists one of these seventy two
Speaker 1: thousand insane expenditures. It could be the Colombian drag opera,
Speaker 1: or the trans opera or the comic book, can prove
Speaker 1: any of it and just just hold it there with
Speaker 1: it and then put the microphone in front of a
Speaker 1: Democrat lawmaker, a party officials face and go, hey, are
Speaker 1: you cool with this? Is this a good nothing?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 1: None, No, it's the easiest thing to do. And I
Speaker 1: haven't seen any.
Speaker 7: Right, and one of the things, and you've seen some
Speaker 7: of the some examples of the and you know, like
Speaker 7: this is a standard operating procedure for local newsrooms is
Speaker 7: to localize a national story. Right, you see some story
Speaker 7: it's it's blowing up nationally, so you try to find
Speaker 7: some local connection. And the News and Observer, the McClatchy papers,
Speaker 7: they got Josh Stein, the governor, for a sit down
Speaker 7: to ask him some questions and it was all about,
Speaker 7: oh my gosh, we're gonna lose NIH funding in UNC
Speaker 7: Chapel Hill and Duke University and we rely on these
Speaker 7: grants and that's it's sort of the poster child syndrome.
Speaker 7: Ed Morrissey at howdair dot com calls it that the
Speaker 7: poster child argument. I call it mont and Bailey. It's
Speaker 7: the it's the same thing. It's to highlight this good
Speaker 7: thing that we're doing over here and and ignore all
Speaker 7: of the transgender comic books in Peru, you know, like
Speaker 7: and the chopping off of genitals in Guatemala. Like, let's
Speaker 7: not focus on any of that. And so they have
Speaker 7: this entire sit down and they don't ask him a
Speaker 7: single question to defend or disavow. I call a D
Speaker 7: and D the game of D and D, but they
Speaker 7: only play it with Republicans. Could you imagine if this
Speaker 7: was a Republican led grant making process? And no, because
Speaker 7: the point here is to protect the shadow government. That's
Speaker 7: what this is. These are people that are in these
Speaker 7: agencies dolling out money to their friends, and they create
Speaker 7: a permanent infrastructure for leftism. That's why they're not asked
Speaker 7: about it because the media understands that. Media people understand
Speaker 7: that this is a no win issue for Democrats, so
Speaker 7: they just don't ask them to defend or disavow it.
Speaker 1: And more so more than just that, I'm going to
Speaker 1: go even more nefarious and maybe you're applying it. It's
Speaker 1: not just to protect the workers, it's to protect the
Speaker 1: ability of the Democrats to then stand out in front
Speaker 1: singing really bad songs. I'm sure you Torch. Audience was
Speaker 1: very mad at me for torturing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the same. I've played it too. They got very angry.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and they can stand there and go, hey,
Speaker 1: all the all the people are going to die in
Speaker 1: this country in Africa, six million people are going to
Speaker 1: get AIDS because you have to maintain the narrative that
Speaker 1: all of this money was for food and wells and aids,
Speaker 1: medicine and uh. And that's the moral high ground they
Speaker 1: think that they have. The problem is everyone who sees
Speaker 1: this and then doesn't see them even can see the
Speaker 1: fact that maybe we shouldn't have basically paid a due
Speaker 1: to start color revolutions almost a million dollars. Like they
Speaker 1: they can't yield that because then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: people see this and it's and I think it's a
Speaker 1: horrible strategy. Do you think it works for the Democrats
Speaker 1: pretend like none of this was happening.
Speaker 7: No, No, No, I don't think so. And I think
Speaker 7: people see right through the two things that people that
Speaker 7: Americans hate, foreign aid and corruption, right, and this has
Speaker 7: got both of them, and Democrats have managed to fake out. Yeah,
Speaker 7: the losing position on this, but it makes sense. And
Speaker 7: I would submit it's not even you said about the workers.
Speaker 7: It's not about the workers. This is about the people
Speaker 7: that manage the programs or lead up the agencies.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 7: This is where these people they move out of government posts,
Speaker 7: they get jobs lined up for them. We talked about this,
Speaker 7: I think a couple of weeks ago where Governor Roy Cooper,
Speaker 7: former governor.
Speaker 1: Get them simple Harvard.
Speaker 7: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So like they get these these plumb jobs lined up
Speaker 7: for them, usually a taxpayer expense. Uh, and then they
Speaker 7: are allowed to continue their political efforts which are aligned
Speaker 7: with whatever the institution that hired them. And so then
Speaker 7: they are able to you know, pay the bills, make
Speaker 7: a bunch of money, and then transition right back in.
Speaker 7: That's why this is a shadow government infrastructure that's in place.
Speaker 7: The people that move around Samantha Power right, perfect example
Speaker 7: of it. Bounces back and forth between government agency and
Speaker 7: the quote unquote non government organization back into the government,
Speaker 7: back out of the government. And this is how you
Speaker 7: have a team that's ready to go on day one.
Speaker 7: They're all just scooped up from these sinecures and just
Speaker 7: dropped into the administration. Whatever good these programs were doing
Speaker 7: has been I would jeopardized, if not completely destroyed, at
Speaker 7: this point by the corruption and graft that has occurred.
Speaker 7: And you would think that the people who are the
Speaker 7: most vocal proponents and defenders of these humanitarian projects would
Speaker 7: be the most outraged at the waste of the money
Speaker 7: that was supposed to go to the thing they claimed
Speaker 7: to care about.
Speaker 1: Right, But it's also like when they're reading off all
Speaker 1: the horrible things they're doing to the animals in that meeting,
Speaker 1: it reminded me I haven't seen a single one of
Speaker 1: these normally very vocal animal rights groups you know that. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: they'll threaten to send a naked supermodel the front of
Speaker 1: your building, which by the way, I have asked for
Speaker 1: one every year on the radio, and they will not
Speaker 1: send a naked supermodel to the radio station in a cage.
Speaker 1: So that's a big letdown. But like it shows it,
Speaker 1: but it shows you how disingenuous the messaging is they
Speaker 1: should be losing their minds over this, and that I
Speaker 1: can at least, even though I'm annoyed that they want
Speaker 1: to get between me and my Chick fil A sandwich
Speaker 1: like they at one time in downtown Rawleigh when they
Speaker 1: were protesting. I at least I understand this is your thing,
Speaker 1: this is your passion, right and I'm going to eat
Speaker 1: my sandwich. But you do you But now it just
Speaker 1: shows you that they don't really care, not when it's
Speaker 1: the very same people who are their friends. I had
Speaker 1: ted Budd on this week and I asked him to
Speaker 1: point Blake. I said, Bro, you've been up there in
Speaker 1: Senate or house capacity since the day Trump was inaugurated, right,
Speaker 1: that's when he went into the House. So he's been
Speaker 1: there that whole time, and for the first term. Did
Speaker 1: you not see any of this? And what Bud said
Speaker 1: is this, Well, you're talking about it moneies that are
Speaker 1: allocated as far as their budget line. That then are
Speaker 1: the insane stuff happens once the money's in the account
Speaker 1: of which branch it is? Okay? Right, then why won't
Speaker 1: some Democrat come out and say that? And the reason
Speaker 1: is is because you can't use that argument because it's
Speaker 1: all Democrat party stuff that the money was going for.
Speaker 1: So it undermines your whole ideology. It's a rock and
Speaker 1: a hard place. But you've taken the worst way to
Speaker 1: deal with this, to pretend it's not happening.
Speaker 7: Right, So here's here's a fun thought experiment. See if
Speaker 7: you can identify a single one of these agencies or
Speaker 7: programs that have you know, that have come out now
Speaker 7: with this ridiculous funding, any of them aligned or associated
Speaker 7: with conservative think tanks, conservative organizations. I mean, just imagine
Speaker 7: the level of outrage if a billion dollars we're getting
Speaker 7: funneled to the Heritage Foundation, for example, to develop Project
Speaker 7: twenty twenty five. Right, Just imagine the kind of average
Speaker 7: would see if this kind of a network was set
Speaker 7: up for right wing NGOs and charities and nonprofits and such.
Speaker 7: But it's it's all one direction. This is what I
Speaker 7: mean it, Like, that's to your point. That's why they
Speaker 7: can't come out and scream about it. They have to
Speaker 7: talk about starving kids because the purpose is to is
Speaker 7: to protect all of the funding inside these agencies. And
Speaker 7: you know, not for nothing. I'm kind of ticked to
Speaker 7: Congress because, like they're up there all the doge guys
Speaker 7: found this found that, like, guys, that's your freaking job.
Speaker 7: You're the ones that were supposed to be finding all
Speaker 7: of this stuff and riding herd on it, and you're
Speaker 7: too busy out there cutting TikTok videos and getting flour
Speaker 7: speeches with nobody in attendance so you can post it
Speaker 7: up on social media for fundraising efforts, Like you're supposed
Speaker 7: to be there doing this kind of work and you
Speaker 7: obviously have not been.
Speaker 1: Literally, committees are over site committees literally literally of the
Speaker 1: individual departments. I mean, it's in the name. It's in
Speaker 1: the name.
Speaker 7: Why do we have inspectors general?
Speaker 1: Now, well we potwer we have fewer. So there's that.
Speaker 1: I'm with you one hundred percent. But you don't even
Speaker 1: just have to look up at the Feds though the
Speaker 1: Feds were part of this. You know how angry some
Speaker 1: of my listeners are. The Wake County Schools is like, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: oh man, remember that time, those several times your kids
Speaker 1: couldn't come to school because apparently it gets hot in
Speaker 1: North Carolina sometimes and we didn't have ac We need
Speaker 1: money to fix that. And I seem to remember a
Speaker 1: big pile of money was allocated for this that literally
Speaker 1: was a gift, right, yeah, we have to pay for it,
Speaker 1: but the COVID money, and it's not a small amount.
Speaker 1: And so the audacity to sit here and go, hey,
Speaker 1: if we can't start a new special tax on all
Speaker 1: of you, we're not going to be able to make
Speaker 1: sure a little Johnny doesn't freeze or burst into flames
Speaker 1: or whatever.
Speaker 7: So yeah, it's yeah, yeah, well yeah the COVID money. Well,
Speaker 7: hopefully voters are onto this and they will reject that referendum.
Speaker 7: It's insanity. Here's the thing. The politicians, especially at the
Speaker 7: local level like this, they run on promises of doing more, right,
Speaker 7: you don't, that's where you get the votes. You're like,
Speaker 7: I'm going to do this new thing, and everybody's like,
Speaker 7: ooh new thing. I like that, Oh yes, we should
Speaker 7: do something different. People rarely run on messaging that is
Speaker 7: something like hey, I'm going to manage this agency better
Speaker 7: because nobody is actually doing it in real time, right,
Speaker 7: Like that is not That's not a message you hear
Speaker 7: from people running for these offices because it's a lot
Speaker 7: of work. I mean, how big is the Wake County
Speaker 7: budget Somewhere around what's one to two billion dollars or something, right,
Speaker 7: and they don't large.
Speaker 1: Here, it's the largest in the state. It's yangs. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So they're like they don't care to go line
Speaker 7: by line through all of this stuff and justify all
Speaker 7: of the spending. It's just continuation budget after continuation budget,
Speaker 7: keep adding the increases, keep raising the property taxes, and
Speaker 7: then keep promoting, Oh, we have this new thing that's
Speaker 7: going to work. Meanwhile, your test scores keep dropping, right,
Speaker 7: the violence isn't being addressed. Your dropout rate sucks like
Speaker 7: all of these things. And yet yeah, nobody is raining
Speaker 7: that in. So, yeah, there should be a doge. Look
Speaker 7: at the Wait County HVAC systems.
Speaker 1: It'll pass, by the way every bond referendum I've ever
Speaker 1: seen on any of my ballots in Wake County, even
Speaker 1: if I vote no fifty times a thing will pass.
Speaker 7: But ballots for the children, casey, for the children, kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the kids. You can't come to school because it's hot,
Speaker 1: all right, I got a roll talk to you next
Speaker 1: to fa Thank you sir, and we will be right back.
Speaker 1: Hang on. Half hour to go, But a few things
Speaker 1: we got to get in here. So yesterday the US
Speaker 1: Navy announced that one of their Nimits class aircraft carriers.
Speaker 1: So just so we're clear on the size of this thing.
Speaker 1: They aren't the largest ships ever built. There's some cargo
Speaker 1: ships that are about five hundred feet longer, but they're
Speaker 1: the largest military ships that have ever been built. These
Speaker 1: Nimitz class aircraft carriers, they're in excess of one thousand feet, right,
Speaker 1: So I'm just saying that you notice them. Okay, you
Speaker 1: ever been ross, You ever go to an aircraft carrier,
Speaker 1: You've better be a battleship. I'm sure in North Carolina
Speaker 1: you ever been near an aircraft carrier? Up in Norfolk
Speaker 1: or in San Diego they have one you can go visit,
Speaker 1: But have you ever been next to one to see
Speaker 1: really how big these things are? It's it's crazy. And
Speaker 1: in fact, I actually was up in up near Norfolk
Speaker 1: and we were out, we were going out doing some
Speaker 1: fishing when some of the ships were leaving there and
Speaker 1: I remember thinking, and they were way in the distance.
Speaker 1: I'm like, we should not be anywhere near those because
Speaker 1: it's there. They're just that big. Well, yesterday the USS
Speaker 1: Truman ran into or collided with a merchant vessel I
Speaker 1: believe it's an Egyptian flagged merchant vessel. Yes, yeah, that's right,
Speaker 1: because Egypt's mad. Because in the story they say, don't worry,
Speaker 1: the aircraft carrier was fine. There were no reports of
Speaker 1: flooding or injuries. That's a quote from the statement. Actually,
Speaker 1: so that's good, but how do you not see that? Look,
Speaker 1: it's tough when you got big ships moving, it's tough.
Speaker 1: It's why those videos of like cruise ships hitting each other.
Speaker 1: But usually there's a mechanical thing. I don't know what
Speaker 1: was going on here, but they're not claiming it was
Speaker 1: any of that. So and and by the way, you're
Speaker 1: not going to do well against one of our naval vessels.
Speaker 1: They're pretty they're pretty beefy, and they'll kind of cut
Speaker 1: right through you. But yeah, and it happened. I guess.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, the the the carrier, which had just
Speaker 1: completed a port in Greece, was attempting. Okay, so they're
Speaker 1: at port, said, uh so the Red Seas, So they're
Speaker 1: trying to go into the Red Sea there. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Maybe let me just sleep. And usually
Speaker 1: they you know, when you when you're in those areas,
Speaker 1: not so much for the US military craft, but for
Speaker 1: any of the other vessels. A lot of times they
Speaker 1: have what's the word. I'm thinking that they have guys
Speaker 1: who literally come on and literally like pilot, help you
Speaker 1: pilot the ship through there. They just kind of pull
Speaker 1: up in a boat, guy gets out and then they'll
Speaker 1: work you through some of these ports, just you know,
Speaker 1: so you know where to go or not to go
Speaker 1: and what what to do. Pretty common practice. So I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe somebody screwed up on that department, but
Speaker 1: the thought to me was like, how do you not
Speaker 1: see that thing because they're they're crazy to be alongside of,
Speaker 1: and you're like, that thing's gonna float.
Speaker 8: Oh.
Speaker 1: I remember they had the aircraft carry I can't remember
Speaker 1: which one. It was, one of our new ones. There
Speaker 1: was video of them like Tokyo drifting it out of
Speaker 1: the ocean, like doing these these crazy turns in these
Speaker 1: things that I wouldn't do in a small boat. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: these things can they can definitely take a beating, all right.
Speaker 1: So we got a couple more activist judges who have
Speaker 1: let's see here, A federal judge on Thursday block Trump's
Speaker 1: executive order banning funding for child transgender drugs and surgeries.
Speaker 1: Now I want to be clear here, they didn't ban
Speaker 1: them in this order that they're challenging. The order that
Speaker 1: they're challenging is the government paying for it or having
Speaker 1: a part in it. And that's what the judge blocked.
Speaker 1: Judge Brenda Hearson granted a temporary restraining order against a
Speaker 1: pair of Trump orders, and then another judge who's from
Speaker 1: Canada originally, and then clerked for the congresswoman who represents
Speaker 1: d C but doesn't have a vote, and she never
Speaker 1: shuts up about it, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: was shoved into a judge ship by Biden. Towards the end,
Speaker 1: he said that all of the foreign aid expenditures need
Speaker 1: to be turned back on. So now we got what
Speaker 1: five judges, five judges who are want to find out?
Speaker 1: I guess. So again you have the Supreme Court order.
Speaker 1: I don't know that that goes far enough because of
Speaker 1: what you're seeing in places like the the the former
Speaker 1: assistant US Attorney for the Southern District who just got
Speaker 1: you're gone, So that's over the that's over it. I
Speaker 1: didn't get into this with Pete, and I wanted to,
Speaker 1: but we talked about some other stuff for too long.
Speaker 1: People are sending me all their aircraft carriers. I don't
Speaker 1: have time to read all that, but I'll look at
Speaker 1: it after. So the prosecution of Mayor Adam, there all
Speaker 1: of these things can be true. At the same time
Speaker 1: Adams did do this stuff or some of this stuff,
Speaker 1: but also the prosecution clearly was a response to him
Speaker 1: being critical of the way the Biden administration was handling
Speaker 1: the migrants. So the assistant US attorney who's heading that
Speaker 1: thing up was told by the acting age before Bondie
Speaker 1: was confirmed, but the one who was acting from the
Speaker 1: moment Trump took office, no, we're going to review all
Speaker 1: this stuff. They reviewed it, and they said, no, we're
Speaker 1: not going to go ahead and do this. So she
Speaker 1: wrote a letter, a response letter to Bondie and to
Speaker 1: Ertz is the guy's name, and the letter clearly was
Speaker 1: not for them, it was for the media. And so
Speaker 1: she wrote, you won this big diatribe trying to pretend
Speaker 1: like all of this is strictly about the rule of law.
Speaker 1: And the only reason that Trump wants this not to
Speaker 1: be a thing is he's quid pro quoting with Adam.
Speaker 1: So that Adams will not put up a fight for
Speaker 1: the immigration enforcement efforts, right, so he'll help and that
Speaker 1: may be part of it, but also it leaves out
Speaker 1: the part where the whole beef is predicated on Trump
Speaker 1: not being a fan of these get them investigations that
Speaker 1: are politically motivated, himself obviously being the victim of them.
Speaker 1: So that's why I think he's willing to do this
Speaker 1: with Adams. But since she wrote that letter saying, no,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do whatever I want to do, and the
Speaker 1: only reason you're doing this is because quid pro quote,
Speaker 1: she used that term in the letter, which of course
Speaker 1: the media is lapped up and it's now their narrative.
Speaker 1: They just they're like, all right, well you don't work
Speaker 1: here anymore. We turned it literally center letters said you're
Speaker 1: logging doesn't work, but that's meant that. We mean that,
Speaker 1: so oh and your keys, your fob or whatever. It
Speaker 1: won't get you in the building anymore. And then they
Speaker 1: told her underlings that they're unpaid administrative and will be
Speaker 1: fired or if they felt that they were just following orders,
Speaker 1: and she made them that they need to tell the
Speaker 1: Bondi's office that and maybe they'll be retained. So and
Speaker 1: then you have the civil stuff that BONDI filed with
Speaker 1: the governor and the Attorney General up in New York.
Speaker 1: So that seems to be where they're starting. Obviously, there's
Speaker 1: a lot more of this to go. I guess my
Speaker 1: question is, so like Adams, it seems like Adams was
Speaker 1: willing to accept these things that clearly he should have
Speaker 1: been like, nah, I can't on the mayor right, these
Speaker 1: really sweet upgraded tickets things like that. But because it
Speaker 1: was political and we're trying to make the point, you
Speaker 1: don't do that. Does it kind of is it kind
Speaker 1: of like a defendant who did the thing, but there
Speaker 1: was a procedural air and in the interest of justice,
Speaker 1: they have to let him go. That's what this kind
Speaker 1: of feels like. And I don't know how comfortable people
Speaker 1: are with it, so I throw it out, but you
Speaker 1: should understand what's going on, uh, and then real quickly
Speaker 1: or actually, let's go, let's get Ray here. I'll put
Speaker 1: this story into the other thing. If he's ready to go.
Speaker 1: Are you there, Yes, sir, are here? It's going on?
Speaker 1: All right? All right? One more before I go, Uh
Speaker 1: not get up at o dark thirty for three straight
Speaker 1: days once you got good for you.
Speaker 12: Oh, just some cold, much colder this morning, a bit
Speaker 12: of rain, and then some more cold next week. And
Speaker 12: everybody's kind of teasing at a little winter weather possible
Speaker 12: here and there, especially mid to late week next week,
Speaker 12: so we'll see. We'll work on that a little more
Speaker 12: over the weekend and Tuesday. But this morning we're much
Speaker 12: colder than we were a lot of upper twenties and
Speaker 12: low thirties around. Good looking day today, but I'd say
Speaker 12: chilly is the word, as we're gonna, I think struggle
Speaker 12: to get back close to fifty degrees, so we'll stay
Speaker 12: on the cold side, and looks like even through tonight
Speaker 12: again we'll be pretty chilly, as we'll drop down mostly
Speaker 12: probably to a round but there'll be some twenties around.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow.
Speaker 12: We'll start to see the rain come in mainly second
Speaker 12: part of the day, a little bit earlier, try it
Speaker 12: in points west and a chili rain. As we're only
Speaker 12: close to fifties, some will stay many of us will
Speaker 12: probably stay in the forties where showers around on Sunday,
Speaker 12: so it probably rains through Saturday night and get a
Speaker 12: breezy and milder. We could get into the low mid
Speaker 12: sixties on Sunday before the cold front comes through, and
Speaker 12: then we're much colder by Monday, in the forties, mid
Speaker 12: to upper forties. Same thing for Tuesday, but dry. And
Speaker 12: I think by Wednesday, Wednesday night and Thursday that's gonna
Speaker 12: be that next time frame casey for potentially seeing maybe
Speaker 12: some winter weather. So weekend, Yeah, if we're going to
Speaker 12: count the three days, I think Sunday's the best. Today's
Speaker 12: pretty good too. It'll stay chilly, though, so I forget
Speaker 12: about I warned we had about a week and a
Speaker 12: half ago.
Speaker 1: It's over.
Speaker 12: It looks like it's over for at least the next
Speaker 12: seven to ten days, maybe longer.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well you have a good you have
Speaker 1: a happy Monday working, and we'll see you tuesdays. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, sounds good. Have a good weekend, right, thank you,
Speaker 1: and then we'll come back chat with Jeff Bellinger and
Speaker 1: I got two stories we'll try to fit in. We'll
Speaker 1: do it next CaCO Day Radio program, Pree Day Weekend. Jeff,
Speaker 1: what's going on?
Speaker 14: Well, good morning and happy Friday. Case retail sales were
Speaker 14: what was that?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry?
Speaker 14: Retail sales were short?
Speaker 1: Go ahead and I'm sorry, I didn't hear you, okay.
Speaker 14: Retail sales were significantly weaker than expected last month, the
Speaker 14: government reporting this morning that overall sales fell nine tenths
Speaker 14: percent in January, and with auto's excluded, sales were still lower,
Speaker 14: down three tenths percent. Economists thought that metric would show
Speaker 14: a modest gain. Stock market futures have been lower all morning.
Speaker 14: Your traders just reluctant to take on a lot of
Speaker 14: risk ahead of a long weekend. Now futures down sixty
Speaker 14: five points. If you want the TikTok app on your smartphone,
Speaker 14: you can get it. The social network is back in
Speaker 14: the Apple and Google app stores. Attorney General Pam Bondy
Speaker 14: has a short Apple and Google that a TikTok ban
Speaker 14: will not be enforced right away. Apple has scheduled a
Speaker 14: product launch for next Wednesday. CEO Tim Cook says the
Speaker 14: company will introduce the newest member of the family. Sources
Speaker 14: told Bloomberg last week a new entry level iPhone was
Speaker 14: set for release this month. President Trump's effort to trim
Speaker 14: the federal workforce will likely put thousands of probationary employees
Speaker 14: on the street federal agencies or under orders from the
Speaker 14: Office of Personnel Management to lay off their probationary workers,
Speaker 14: with some exceptions. Leaders of Federal Labor Union say big
Speaker 14: layoffs are coming at the Department of Housing, at Urban
Speaker 14: Urban Development, the Forest Service, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,
Speaker 14: and sources say an advisor to Elon Musk's Department of
Speaker 14: Government Efficiency has paid a visit to the Internal Revenue Service.
Speaker 14: The housing market may get a little help from falling
Speaker 14: mortgage interest rates. Freddie max as the average rate on
Speaker 14: a thirty year fixed rate home loan is six point
Speaker 14: eight seven percent. That's the lowest so far this year,
Speaker 14: but of course the year is young and Casey. Speaking
Speaker 14: of housing, a Beverly Hills mansion built for the late
Speaker 14: comedian Groucho Marx is on the market. The Wall Street
Speaker 14: Journal says it's listed for nineteen and a half million dollars.
Speaker 1: Casey, I can't afford that either, So all right, all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: Jeff's not here at all. Next week. Yeah, but Monday, Monday,
Speaker 1: Monday at none of us are here. So yeah, we
Speaker 1: got that going for us, all right. A couple of
Speaker 1: things real quick. I just saw this. I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 1: actually replace one of the stories I was gonna do.
Speaker 1: North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners is warning of
Speaker 1: a new trend people posing as dentists but performing shoddy work,
Speaker 1: in many cases doing the work inside of a shed,
Speaker 1: a garage, or inside their own home. I have a question.
Speaker 1: If you go and get your dentist in or your
Speaker 1: dental procedures done, and you show up and it's in
Speaker 1: a dude's shed and you're flanked by garden tools or
Speaker 1: whatever it is, you know that it's not a dentist, right, right?
Speaker 1: This is to be a monetary thing. Or are people like,
Speaker 1: oh no, my denis Oh yeah no, he'd saved the overhead.
Speaker 1: We're in a she shed. It's fine. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: you know, this is is people getting the butt injections
Speaker 1: at the motel six. Right, You're just you're you're flirting
Speaker 1: with it. Probably not gonna work out, but it just
Speaker 1: struck me as kind of weird. Man. But okay, that's
Speaker 1: what people are gonna do. I can't stop them. Here's
Speaker 1: another thing you shouldn't do. Uh, police in Missouri, you're
Speaker 1: looking for the thief or thieves responsible for stealing mausoleum doors. Right,
Speaker 1: so these big ornate doors you see on mausoleums at
Speaker 1: you know, a cemetery. Uh, people jacked. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's a scrap metal thing or something, because they
Speaker 1: look cool, especially if you go to one that has
Speaker 1: like the really ornate mausoleums, or if you've ever been
Speaker 1: to in New Orleans any of some of the New
Speaker 1: Orleans ones which they do tours with. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: pretty crazy stuff. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you're stealing part of somebody's grave and then you're putting
Speaker 1: that in your house. What do you think now? You
Speaker 1: do you think that you're not going to have angry
Speaker 1: Poulter guy? I mean what what would prompt you to go, Hey,
Speaker 1: that's like you might as well steal their headstone. I
Speaker 1: understand some mausoleum, but it's that's the that's their grave,
Speaker 1: and you're stealing part of it, Like I can't you
Speaker 1: want bad juju? That's how you get it right there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, people come over and they be like, oh,
Speaker 1: my Bill, where did you get those lovely metal ornate doors.
Speaker 1: Oh you know, it's uh, just came across them and
Speaker 1: then you know, all of his plates starts spinning in
Speaker 1: the air. No, no, don't do that. Uh, please say
Speaker 1: the doors are believed to weigh between two and five
Speaker 1: hundred pounds. Some of the doors weighed five hundred pounds. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of effort went into this.
Speaker 1: I was looking at the picture that thing. Actually it's
Speaker 1: like weighs more than a thousand pounds, just solid piece
Speaker 1: of metal as those doors are. But it does look
Speaker 1: very nice. But yeah, you probably shouldn't decorate your home
Speaker 1: with parts of people's graves. And there's lots of lots
Speaker 1: of research on this. And then lastly, it looks like
Speaker 1: and we'll find out, the fourth installment of Captain America
Speaker 1: probably is gonna make Marvel a bunch of money or
Speaker 1: Disney or whatever. The reviews are awful, and I don't
Speaker 1: mean just like you know, the oh the angry fans
Speaker 1: who didn't get what they want and they don't like that.
Speaker 1: It's they switch a rude who captain know, Like even
Speaker 1: the woke people are saying this movie sucks, which might
Speaker 1: mean it's good. Actually, now that I think about, Washington
Speaker 1: Post gave it one and a half stars out of five.
Speaker 1: What was the rating you told me, Ross, was that
Speaker 1: ign ign was a five? Was a five out of ten,
Speaker 1: so it does not appear to be. It has a
Speaker 1: currently fifty two percent critics score on the old Rotten
Speaker 1: Tomatoes there Comparatively, uh, that score puts it around Eternals
Speaker 1: and ant Man and Wasp, Quantum mat Quantum Mania Bomb.
Speaker 1: I remember watching that movie. I didn't think it was bad.
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was good. Okay, this is average
Speaker 1: poor thing. Yeah, I don't know