Speaker 1: How many of you were doing one last one, last
Speaker 1: trip a little something something for the for the kiddies,
Speaker 1: are you know, back in the perma school? Although depending
Speaker 1: I guess if what percent ross do you know what
Speaker 1: percentage of students in Wake County do the year round
Speaker 1: thing like you do? Is it a lot or is
Speaker 1: that a very small minority? Oh? Really so it's a lot.
Speaker 1: I for some reason I used to think it was
Speaker 1: a very small percentage, and then I realized, like half
Speaker 1: the people I know as kids are on the the
Speaker 1: year round thing. But for those on the traditional schedule,
Speaker 1: obviously race Stagic has blessed you with, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: some beach weather, so take advantage of that. Otherwise we'll
Speaker 1: keep trucking on because you know, that's what we do
Speaker 1: around these parts. Coming up on the show the Worst
Speaker 1: or Best team Building Exercise for the Office, how many
Speaker 1: of you have had to suffer through one of those? Yes,
Speaker 1: I said suffer through how many of you have had
Speaker 1: to suffer through some sort of team building exercise? Right,
Speaker 1: it's so prevalent, and I don't know, there's some people
Speaker 1: who like them. Those people concern me that being said,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's part of the It's part
Speaker 1: of the process, right, and it's so much fun, especially
Speaker 1: if you're an introvert and you just want to do
Speaker 1: your damn job. That being said, this one in Colorado,
Speaker 1: it has me asking some questions like, how does that happen?
Speaker 1: How did you think this was going to turn out?
Speaker 1: Do you have locking security on the office? Is you
Speaker 1: know where you work there? Because I have a I
Speaker 1: have a few questions. We'll have to get into those. Also,
Speaker 1: CNN has a new hit piece, a new hit piece
Speaker 1: on Trump asking questions. Maybe I don't know they're attributed
Speaker 1: to him asking questions, asking questions that have offended the
Speaker 1: Washington elite. I will share with you those questions. We
Speaker 1: will talk about the viability of these questions. I think
Speaker 1: it's a wonderful discussion point. And I may go so
Speaker 1: far as to ask the question again, does that make
Speaker 1: me dumb and not a you know, not somebody who
Speaker 1: should be president? I don't know, man, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell.
Speaker 2: You if if you guys elected me president, not that
Speaker 2: I would run, but if I got elected president, I
Speaker 2: would have a stupid amount of questions.
Speaker 1: About a lot of stuff public and private. I mean
Speaker 1: I'm not saying cause they let you pick which book
Speaker 1: to you know what you want to be sworn in on? Right,
Speaker 1: you can do. You can do the Bible? What did
Speaker 1: Trump you he'd use like Abe Lincoln's Bible, didn't he
Speaker 1: like Obama did? And then others they've gotten sworn in
Speaker 1: on the Quran, they've gotten sworn in on. You've had
Speaker 1: some like rabid atheists who got sworn in on like
Speaker 1: smart ass books. Has anyone ever gotten sworn in on
Speaker 1: the Book of Secrets? Do we know? Ross? Do you
Speaker 1: know is anyone gotten sworn in on the Book of Secrets?
Speaker 1: Because That's what I'm going with if I had to choose,
Speaker 1: I understand that you know there's a biblical thing and
Speaker 1: something you're going to be mad, but I want that
Speaker 1: thing immediately available to me. I want to be standing
Speaker 1: there with the Chief Justice having just put his right
Speaker 1: hand down and starting to turn away, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to snatch that book and you all are going to
Speaker 1: sit there while I read it, because you never know
Speaker 1: when you're gonna get assassinated. Do you want to go
Speaker 1: ahead and suck up that? Goodness? Man? So let me
Speaker 1: ask you this question. What's the worst team building activity
Speaker 1: as we get started. You've ever had to do at
Speaker 1: your work or another place of work? What's the word?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of the weirdest one we've ever
Speaker 1: done here at the radio station. Radio is a little
Speaker 1: different because a lot of our team building activities center
Speaker 1: around promotions that we're doing already, right, So we may
Speaker 1: have like a private listener concert from one of the
Speaker 1: music stations in the performance studio. We may have an
Speaker 1: event that we piggyback on. I'm trying to think if
Speaker 1: we've ever done Have we ever done one of those
Speaker 1: pure corporate things in Raleigh that I can think of? Ross,
Speaker 1: Because you and I have worked basically the same number
Speaker 1: of years for iHeart here well over a decade, I
Speaker 1: don't remember anything other than, hey, we have this event
Speaker 1: or you know, things that are literal events for the
Speaker 1: radio station. I guess though, I guess remember the thing
Speaker 1: we did in Durham where we all where everyone from
Speaker 1: North Carolina went over. Who was the artist we saw too?
Speaker 1: She ended up getting somewhat famous. So they did like
Speaker 1: a little private concert for us, and then they took
Speaker 1: all of the iHeartRadio hosts and we all met in
Speaker 1: Durham for something and you know, went over stuff and
Speaker 1: all the managers from North Carolina were there. It was
Speaker 1: in I want to say, was it at Lincoln Theater
Speaker 1: or not Lincoln Theater, uh, the Carolina Theater. I think
Speaker 1: it might have been at Carolina Theater and some artists.
Speaker 1: Who's a pop artist who's actually pretty famous. I can't
Speaker 1: remember her name was, but it was when she was
Speaker 1: just she was all skinny too, and now she's she
Speaker 1: has a definitively different look. I'm not insulting her. I'm
Speaker 1: just pointing out that I didn't. Somebody had to convince
Speaker 1: me that was that, and that was pretty low key.
Speaker 1: Although radio hosts when they hear that you're doing talk radio,
Speaker 1: they talk to you weird.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you go to these things and it's all
Speaker 3: focused towards like music radio. I remember where you're sitting there.
Speaker 3: We're like, this has nothing to do with us, because.
Speaker 1: You remember the Durham thing, and then we had the
Speaker 1: concert from the check.
Speaker 3: The only thing like team building exercise I can remember
Speaker 3: before that was when I was working Angie and we
Speaker 3: did like our program director was took us to like
Speaker 3: a cooking thing where we had to like go and
Speaker 3: cook was Randy. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty good because we
Speaker 3: got food afterwards.
Speaker 1: That if you evolve food in any radio team building
Speaker 1: activity and THENDS to it go better.
Speaker 3: And also there was free beer at the time too.
Speaker 3: So before that, the only thing I can really remember
Speaker 3: doing is they took us this I was working in
Speaker 3: Salt Lake. They took us to like a military base
Speaker 3: and we did like obstacle courses and repelling and that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, I shouldn't say that, we kind of we
Speaker 1: did that at Seymour Johnson. They invited us down oh
Speaker 1: years ago, but it wasn't like a full team building thing.
Speaker 1: It was just you know, the people on the talk station.
Speaker 1: So we went down there and that's when we had
Speaker 1: sweet Chrissy. Of course, you know Chrissy. You never you
Speaker 1: never well you never worked with Chrissy on this state.
Speaker 1: But she went down there and I thought that the
Speaker 1: girl was going to die because one of the first
Speaker 1: things they took us to was where they had the
Speaker 1: military dogs. And don't I don't know if you know
Speaker 1: the vibe of military dogs. One they're not your pet.
Speaker 1: Two they're not even your neighbor service dog, which you
Speaker 1: question is even a service dog, but is really really sweet.
Speaker 1: Military dogs are kind of jerks, man, right.
Speaker 3: I know Chrissy when she became an intern over once
Speaker 3: again on g christ Hall. Yeah, so I knew her,
Speaker 3: like way back before you knew her. She was like,
Speaker 3: she weighs like two pounds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and she wanted to immediately she saw these you know,
Speaker 1: these German shepherds and various other we'll just say, military
Speaker 1: style breeds and she starts, she starts like booking it
Speaker 1: over to pet them, and the airman's like, yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't want to do that, and she's like she and
Speaker 1: you could see in her mind that there being doggies
Speaker 1: that she couldn't pet was really problematic for her. And
Speaker 1: then they put her on an M sixty laying down
Speaker 1: and she she destroyed the interior range. So that was
Speaker 1: it was a good day. We had fun with that.
Speaker 1: Let's see, let us go out. Let me play with
Speaker 1: an M four for a while. Even got to pop
Speaker 1: some some of those chocloads out of the grenade launcher.
Speaker 1: It was a good day. You know. If that builds
Speaker 1: team fine, this story, yeah not so much. Well, uh,
Speaker 1: we'll get into this. Do you know, you just know
Speaker 1: this dude's ruminating in the woods making a list. But
Speaker 1: we'll explain. Let's see, we got CNN acting stupid. You
Speaker 1: can't Was it Demi Levado? No, it wasn't Demi Levade?
Speaker 1: What is the chick's name? I you know? Only thing
Speaker 1: I remember about her and it was actually impressed is
Speaker 1: she wrote she wrote the song Monster for eminem That's
Speaker 1: how she got famous, uh, with Rihanna, and I think
Speaker 1: she wanted to record it, but she she silent the
Speaker 1: company she wrote that song and then and then her
Speaker 1: her career took out. She was good, Look, if people,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. We don't do music radio, but if
Speaker 1: you're musically talented, I'm impressed. I love music man, all right,
Speaker 1: So yeah, we got the team building stuff. We'll we'll
Speaker 1: hear your horror stories if you want. And U and
Speaker 1: it was if it was? Was it DEI stuff? But
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how much I want and simultaneously
Speaker 1: don't want that episode of the Office with the flash
Speaker 1: cards on the forehead that take place. Does that Does
Speaker 1: that sound wrong? Right? Because I don't want to go
Speaker 1: to those things anyway, But if I did have to go,
Speaker 1: I wanted to be like that episode of the Office
Speaker 1: with mister mister Black or mister Brown, the guy they
Speaker 1: brought in and Michael Hijackson to makes them right, like
Speaker 1: you know, like you're playing heads up poker or whatever
Speaker 1: that game is, you put the cards on your forehead.
Speaker 1: Except it was what a great episode of The Office.
Speaker 1: Ross you guys have seen that. That's like one of
Speaker 1: the first two.
Speaker 3: I think it's like the season yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: So like he's Boss of the Year world, right, He's
Speaker 3: got all.
Speaker 1: The awards, a cup in the trophy. Come on, Roz
Speaker 1: has awards taped to his window. They're not spelled right
Speaker 1: for some reason. But yeah, I'm self a little ward
Speaker 1: tapes are right up there, and that's all Michael Scott
Speaker 1: was trying to do, all right, So that was this
Speaker 1: was not that Tucker Carlson doing the big troll job
Speaker 1: and Matt Lower's daughter criminal genius lots to get to
Speaker 1: six eighteen hang out anyway. So she was the same,
Speaker 1: and I took comfort in the fact that this is
Speaker 1: when she was first starting out. And you know, one
Speaker 1: of the things you got to do early on in
Speaker 1: your career is you go around and you're not just
Speaker 1: doing music tours, but you're doing press stuff, and so
Speaker 1: that means a lot of early mornings. That means going
Speaker 1: in and sitting in on morning shows after you just
Speaker 1: did a concert till one in the morning. It's a grind.
Speaker 1: I can respect that. And the only thing I took
Speaker 1: comfort in is MS Rexa, who came to do like
Speaker 1: a three song concert. She came to Durham for a
Speaker 1: room of maybe fifty radio people and do a little
Speaker 1: mini concert for us, and she was good. I didn't
Speaker 1: know who she was, but also I could tell she
Speaker 1: wanted to be there less than we did, so I like,
Speaker 1: all right, I get that. Whatever. So anyway, that's the
Speaker 1: biggest team building event that I can remember, other than
Speaker 1: kind of the meetings. It's interesting some people are see
Speaker 1: this one. There's a couple of you who sent me
Speaker 1: this version of it, and I feel like this goes
Speaker 1: sideways quick. My company took us for paintball. It was
Speaker 1: pretty fun. Shooting your coworkers is cool with paintballs. Of course,
Speaker 1: I don't want to get canceled. That sounds like fun
Speaker 1: to some people who are not thinking the thing through
Speaker 1: the amount of politics. I think you could drum up
Speaker 1: because right inevitably, if you work with ten people, there's
Speaker 1: a really petty person in there, right, And so you
Speaker 1: go to do this team building thing, and you know,
Speaker 1: let's say the one you know, there's one woman or
Speaker 1: one dude in there who just has ninety percent more
Speaker 1: paintball shots on their body, They're going to start questioning
Speaker 1: how everyone feels about them. I mean, let's let's face it,
Speaker 1: if you had to make a list of your coworkers,
Speaker 1: there's one you would really like to shoot with a
Speaker 1: paintball gun. With that more so than others, maybe you
Speaker 1: want to maybe you want to hit them all and
Speaker 1: paint Here's the problem. Here's where paintball things go sideways.
Speaker 1: So when I was in Minnesota, they did we did
Speaker 1: a they built this huge, huge paintball business right with
Speaker 1: courses they had like it looked like professional FBI shoots
Speaker 1: cities right or you got. You know, it was really
Speaker 1: well done and they and they had done a big
Speaker 1: promotion with some of our stations, and as part of it,
Speaker 1: I guess the company probably did some trade. So we
Speaker 1: did a promotion out there and they had all the
Speaker 1: radio people come out and they had one of like
Speaker 1: the number two or number three nationally ranked paintball team
Speaker 1: was there, right, So I guess if you're into paintball,
Speaker 1: these guys are some big deals. And they were nice enough.
Speaker 1: We were talking, but then somebody say, all right, so
Speaker 1: we'll have the radio people versus the runner up world
Speaker 1: champions and it didn't go well for us. But where
Speaker 1: it went even worse is we're using like ghetto paint guns. Right,
Speaker 1: Like these things they're the ones that if you show
Speaker 1: over the course with nothing. Now granted they were new
Speaker 1: because the place was new, but professional paintballers, the speed
Speaker 1: that those things are coming at you is very different.
Speaker 1: In fact, it's so different. I remember I got I go,
Speaker 1: was behind a bus and a dude kind of crawled
Speaker 1: up from under and got me. Whatever I did kill
Speaker 1: a guy. I just want to brag on that we
Speaker 1: got another one of these themed Kamala Harris live streams.
Speaker 1: This time it's not white dudes or black women. It's chefs,
Speaker 1: celebrity chefs. Let's see here, Okay, so more than one
Speaker 1: hundred folks be part of it, sixty notable chefs and
Speaker 1: food world personalities, including I don't know a bunch. I
Speaker 1: guess I recognize some of these folks. I think one
Speaker 1: of them's on chopped that Padma Lakshmi or whatever, I
Speaker 1: don't know how to say her name. And then Joel
Speaker 1: McHale's hosting it, so I guess a bunch of leftists
Speaker 1: chefs are going to do it. Did you see yesterday
Speaker 1: when they were fawning over Kamala Harris being able to
Speaker 1: crack an egg with one hand? Is that not how
Speaker 1: you crack an egg? I just have a question. Is
Speaker 1: that not a skill that people have to be able
Speaker 1: to crack an egg with one hand? I'm just asking
Speaker 1: because I'm not bragging here. It's just literally how I
Speaker 1: was taught to crack an egg. Hold it in one hand,
Speaker 1: basically put your thumb and you're pinky up under each end,
Speaker 1: crack it and then just flip it up anyway. So
Speaker 1: she's doing that, and I what was amusing is the optics,
Speaker 1: as many people picked up on, because you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is going to be the first woman president. No, no,
Speaker 1: this time, we mean it. Watch how good she is
Speaker 1: in the kitchen, which I don't know. I thought that
Speaker 1: was funny. But also she's just cracking an egg. It's okay.
Speaker 1: That's why you're run for the presidency, so you never
Speaker 1: have to crack an egg again. No white house chefs man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wonder if that's what it is. A bunch of
Speaker 1: these cats just want to be white house chef. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't recognize most of these names. Gail Simmons, Tom Kleikio, Glicio,
Speaker 1: I don't know. But anyway, that's the theme thing tonight.
Speaker 1: All right, back to back to this insanity. We were
Speaker 1: talking about team building events. I laughed, I did laugh here,
Speaker 1: but also it made me just a little nervous. So
Speaker 1: in Colorado, specifically in Chafey County, a group in this case,
Speaker 1: let's see, I'm trying to figure out what is the
Speaker 1: Does it say what the company is? It doesn't say
Speaker 1: what the I'd be very curious what their business is like.
Speaker 1: Is it an outdoor business where he might have had
Speaker 1: some skills? Is it a I don't know, a candle maker?
Speaker 1: I don't know. But a injured Colorado man weathered to
Speaker 1: storm and survived a night alone on a mountain after
Speaker 1: his coworkers left him behind during an office team building retreat.
Speaker 1: The mayor was part of fifteen coworkers who had set
Speaker 1: off to summit Mount Chevano. This will tell me a
Speaker 1: lot here, hold on Mount Schevano elevation because summoning, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes summoning is just I'm like Jesus. And then it
Speaker 1: showed me. Yeah, yeah, obviously when I search for Mount Shavano,
Speaker 1: I want Mount Everesfects. All right, Mount Shavano. Oh you
Speaker 1: know what, I know exactly where this is. I have
Speaker 1: driven Okay, so it's it. It's yes, all right. So
Speaker 1: Chavano is a very long, it's a very high mound.
Speaker 1: It's fourteen thousand foot peak, but it doesn't have much
Speaker 1: of an elevation change, and it's a it's actually other
Speaker 1: than the oxygen part, which can get a little troubling
Speaker 1: for people once you hit tree line. Yeah, okay, so
Speaker 1: i'd call it an intermediate thing. You're not using a
Speaker 1: bunch of ropes and stuff. So anyway, that's what they
Speaker 1: were going to do. That's a hell of an office thing.
Speaker 1: That's you know, that's got Colorado written all over it.
Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, they went up there with all
Speaker 1: fifteen of the people. They reached the summit at around
Speaker 1: eleven thirty in the morning and on their way down, folks,
Speaker 1: he's kind of wandered off, because again it can you
Speaker 1: can get very disoriented and you don't think it is
Speaker 1: even though you feel comfortable like minutes later at that elevation.
Speaker 1: For some people, it just doesn't work. So anyway, so
Speaker 1: he's dragging behind, he's not feeling well, and they kind
Speaker 1: of left him on the summit, I know, he say,
Speaker 1: I'm going to get some pictures. I'll be down in
Speaker 1: a minute, but they didn't wait, and by the time
Speaker 1: he started walking down, they had come by and picked
Speaker 1: up the party. Because again, you can drive quite a
Speaker 1: ways up this thing, and they just left him, and
Speaker 1: so he trying to figure out because now he can't
Speaker 1: see where the pickup point is. He's just he's in
Speaker 1: a big boulder field. When you when you're up that high,
Speaker 1: it's just rocks for as far as you can see.
Speaker 1: It's I understand why it would be a little dishorienting.
Speaker 1: So he then tried to descend on his own, went
Speaker 1: off the wrong side, which is very steep, and eventually
Speaker 1: he basically said, all right, I guess I'm I guess
Speaker 1: I'm sleeping on the mountain, and he did, Let's see.
Speaker 3: Can you can you imagine, like you know, your your
Speaker 3: company takes you up there, like you said, you probably
Speaker 3: don't want to be there anyway, and all day you're
Speaker 3: sitting there and your managers are like, and what's important
Speaker 3: is the team and the team we are a team,
Speaker 3: and we need to wear.
Speaker 1: Us at this mountain together as a team.
Speaker 3: And they're yelling at you the whole time. You're going
Speaker 3: up as stupid bout it and we're a team. We'll
Speaker 3: go team woo, synergy and production, yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And then at the end of the day they're like,
Speaker 3: get on the bus and they're like, where's Bob And
Speaker 3: they're like, screw.
Speaker 1: The list, go yeah, Bob's nobody likes botot Bob stares
Speaker 1: at the interns or you know what what, I don't
Speaker 1: know what their objection.
Speaker 3: So they had to fail the event, right there has
Speaker 3: to be the ultimate failure.
Speaker 1: Well that's so this is where this is the kind
Speaker 1: of a roundabout way where we're going here, what is okay?
Speaker 1: So one would argue, if it's a team building event,
Speaker 1: abandoning your team member at the top of a mountain.
Speaker 3: Right, leaving a coworker to die in a mountain, try.
Speaker 1: With okay, however, but but what are team building events
Speaker 1: expected to produce? What is the what is the reason
Speaker 1: for doing it? Other than to annoy me?
Speaker 3: Corpses on the side of a mountain?
Speaker 1: Okay, what else are they? That's a that's you could
Speaker 1: call that a side effect. What's the main what's the
Speaker 1: main reason for doing team building? Efficiency? Right? Operates more efficiently,
Speaker 1: is more harmonious. And if you got a guy nobody
Speaker 1: likes and they're willing to ditch on the top of
Speaker 1: a mountain, maybe that's why your production is not what
Speaker 1: it should be, right, because you got to deal with
Speaker 1: Bob because Bob's Bob's an a hole, right right, you're
Speaker 1: saying it was a purpose they hated Bob. I'm just
Speaker 1: and I don't know if it's Bob, but we're going
Speaker 1: with Bob. What if Bob's would you know? How there's
Speaker 1: people and that you've worked with over the year, not
Speaker 1: just I'm not just talking to Ross, but everybody. You know,
Speaker 1: there's people you've worked with over the years that you
Speaker 1: realize that them being involved in your project will make
Speaker 1: your project harder to do. Yeah, you remember this in school?
Speaker 1: Remember in school where they'd have you break up in groups?
Speaker 1: How there was some kids that you they clearly were
Speaker 1: not contributed.
Speaker 3: I mean, or it could be the other way. He
Speaker 3: could be the quiet guy who always gets his job done,
Speaker 3: that keeps his head down right, and then they're just
Speaker 3: they forget about him.
Speaker 1: He could be like, he's not making him look bad
Speaker 1: because he's actually working.
Speaker 3: Possibly maybe he minds his own business and he's like
Speaker 3: they just forgot this personally. No, I'm just trying to
Speaker 3: look at it for all sides.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's fair. Look, it could be any of
Speaker 1: these things.
Speaker 3: But because the go to thing is though they must
Speaker 3: have hated the dude, or maybe he just you know,
Speaker 3: was a quiet dude who mind his own business.
Speaker 1: Maybe he hates his coworkers so much he's like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna die on the mountain.
Speaker 3: That'll be better, right, It could have been great something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you want to do you want to hike
Speaker 1: up a mountain with the everyone we work with?
Speaker 3: I think if I want to hike, I'd rather it
Speaker 3: be like a like an isolating sort of personal thing,
Speaker 3: like you don't want you don't want to go up
Speaker 3: a fourteen thousand foot mountain by yourself, because you know
Speaker 3: what I'm not saying.
Speaker 1: I will oxygen hits you bad.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying it would, but if I wanted to hike,
Speaker 3: I would probably want it to be like a you know,
Speaker 3: solitude type thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, people know he keeps their mouth shut. Just
Speaker 1: a couple of you just enjoying the splendor of nature,
Speaker 1: but also be.
Speaker 3: Good to go in a group in case you were
Speaker 3: attacked by bears or something. That'd be good.
Speaker 1: Well, and then that's the other thing, right, You want
Speaker 1: to have somebody slower than you at all times. You
Speaker 1: know that per You know that that one girl who
Speaker 1: wore not heels but lifts, and you're like, what are
Speaker 1: you doing? We're growing up, We're going through a boulder field.
Speaker 1: What do you do? And then in your mind you're like, well,
Speaker 1: if a bear starts chasing us, I'm good. Right, So
Speaker 1: you got to have that fail safe. There he was constantly.
Speaker 1: And here's the other thing too. They had a they
Speaker 1: I guess they had a GPS. You can coordinate GPS is.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys use them for hunting
Speaker 1: or whatnot. You're not supposed to use them for hunting
Speaker 1: though in some states, so check your state. Did you
Speaker 1: know that you can't like pinpoint other hunters. Like in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: I don't know, honestly, I can't remember what it is
Speaker 1: in North Carolina. In Minnesota, it's illegally use a GPS
Speaker 1: to know where your hunting party is. I always thought
Speaker 1: that was the dumbest thing. It's like for that, it's
Speaker 1: it's an unfair electronic advantage. There's a there's a few
Speaker 1: things you can't do that. What do you think Basically
Speaker 1: they want to They don't want you having too much technology.
Speaker 1: I guess to grease all the animals. But that one
Speaker 1: always threw me off because every year in Minnesota, like
Speaker 1: in Wyoming, we don't do drive hunts, right, so, like
Speaker 1: like I had never experienced a drive hunt, and that's
Speaker 1: you don't know what a drive hunt is. That's where
Speaker 1: you essentially position some shooters and then you know, like
Speaker 1: four or five people walk through a block of woods
Speaker 1: and what you're hoping to do is by and you're
Speaker 1: doing it not super noisily, but enough so the deer
Speaker 1: know you're there. You want other you want the deer
Speaker 1: to pop out the other side of the woods where
Speaker 1: your shooters are. So uh, I think you can already
Speaker 1: figure out why this sometimes goes sideways because you get
Speaker 1: a shooter who doesn't remember, hey, let the deer get
Speaker 1: out of the woods. If it's on the edge of
Speaker 1: the woods. Whatever you do, don't shoot into the woods
Speaker 1: because you'll hit one of your buddies. And every year
Speaker 1: somebody gets shot with that. So I always thought the
Speaker 1: GPS might be helpful there. But also, don't hunt with
Speaker 1: stupid people. No, it is not stop people are sending
Speaker 1: you know. You can't just make stuff up and send
Speaker 1: it to me and have it be true. Okay, The
Speaker 1: most popular team building submiting exercise in North Carolina is
Speaker 1: not summitying Boom big Beer. Right, go to Mount Mitchell.
Speaker 1: You can drive up the damn thing.
Speaker 3: I remember. I think we said my like third year
Speaker 3: here at the cluster here, and they took us to
Speaker 3: the boom big beer. That's the one team building event
Speaker 3: I can remember.
Speaker 1: You just I asked you earlier and you didn't remember
Speaker 1: any of that's your opinion. You were trying to figure
Speaker 1: out you were going to leave on a mountain. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's accurate.
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 1: Somebody in engineering? To the per it would be a
Speaker 1: person in engineering. It's not sales or management.
Speaker 3: Ohh I would want to like take a paintball gun
Speaker 3: to Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I think I think
Speaker 3: you know them. I think I take your I don't
Speaker 3: want to say oh to him. Yeah, I don't want
Speaker 3: I don't really want to. I don't feel comfortable say
Speaker 3: it's not.
Speaker 1: Erica, it is not Andrea. Not Nope, Alison. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: want to leave Alison somewhere. She'd come, she'd come get you.
Speaker 1: It would be a revenge movie. I think. All right, well,
Speaker 1: I'm uh, I guess I'll have to keep my thinking
Speaker 1: cap on. Uh. Here's the other thing too. If this
Speaker 1: dude shoots the office, I'm gonna be dark here from him.
Speaker 1: If this dude shoots the office up, I'm gonna be like,
Speaker 1: that's a tragedy. But I know why that happened.
Speaker 3: No, what I was saying before, when he could be
Speaker 3: a quiet guy, like this could be like the dude
Speaker 3: with the stapler and office space, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, or who's the dude? Remember Dane Cook does
Speaker 1: that bit about bringing a candy bar for the crazy
Speaker 1: quiet dude. So if there is an office shooting, he's like,
Speaker 1: I was your friend, I brought you a candy bar. So't.
Speaker 1: I don't know what do you think his first day
Speaker 1: back at work was like, though.
Speaker 3: They probably tried to make it like super special and
Speaker 3: they bought him a stupid cake or whatever. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: here's a pizza gift certificate or whatever, and it's a
Speaker 3: cake from Walmart with like your name, miss Felt, He's
Speaker 3: gotta quit. You've got to quit at that point, No,
Speaker 3: you part. I'm saying, after a day of them drilling
Speaker 3: in your head how important the team is. When it
Speaker 3: came down to it, they they made a mistake of
Speaker 3: leaving a member of the team to die in the
Speaker 3: side of the mountain. That is a failure of epic proportion. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it really when it comes to management, that is a failure.
Speaker 1: And even if you're one of the employees who had
Speaker 1: no like like there's there's got to be employees who
Speaker 1: in their mind thought, okay, he's with a different group
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure it was like a home Yeah, it
Speaker 3: had to be like a home alone thing or something.
Speaker 1: Okay. So, but if you're one of those people and
Speaker 1: you just suffered through this team building thing, right and
Speaker 1: you're just like, oh, I'm so glad it's over. I
Speaker 1: hate these things. Because of the epic failure. Of course
Speaker 1: you're going to have to do another one of these.
Speaker 1: So now you're right, it's gonna be like we're going
Speaker 1: cliff diving. We're really going to build it and build
Speaker 1: a team. Now they're gonna do it in somebody's yard
Speaker 1: with everyone lojacked right there. You're not screwing around here.
Speaker 1: You're not going cliff diving in Mexico, right, Okay, that's
Speaker 1: not that's not happening. You're gonna you're gonna do something.
Speaker 1: You're gonna go to an amusement park, a very small
Speaker 1: one where you keep an eye on everybody.
Speaker 3: You're gonna go a bune of jumping. Last one to
Speaker 3: go is Bob.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, A said, I mean you could say have
Speaker 1: him go first. I guess I don't know. That's so bad?
Speaker 1: All right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
Speaker 1: seven four you want to go ahead and get into that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, worst team building exercise hands down right there. Oh,
Speaker 1: actually no, it's not the worst. The worst one. The
Speaker 1: worst team building next iys I ever heard of was
Speaker 1: on the uh it was on that plane. It was
Speaker 1: on a plane that crashed in New York years ago.
Speaker 1: I want to say Crashing Queens. You remember that plane
Speaker 1: where like the tailfin like ripped off or sheared off
Speaker 1: because they did too steep of a turn. I remember
Speaker 1: the thing. One of the stories that struck me about
Speaker 1: that is on the plane they had like forty people
Speaker 1: from I think it's that plane. They had like forty
Speaker 1: people who were on this team. They were on a
Speaker 1: team building a trip to like some ranch somewhere out,
Speaker 1: you know, some dude ranch that does these things. And
Speaker 1: I just remember thinking, and this sounds so dark, like
Speaker 1: how many of the people on that plane didn't want
Speaker 1: to go on this thing anyway? Right, because there's always
Speaker 1: going to be part of your office, Like this is
Speaker 1: such a waste of my time. I didn't sign up
Speaker 1: for this. And now you're up there, you slogged to
Speaker 1: the airport, you got on this fly. I remember it
Speaker 1: was in the morning, you get on this flight. I
Speaker 1: don't even want to go to New Mexico to this
Speaker 1: creepy you know ranch, or we're gonna have to sit
Speaker 1: around a fire and talk about our feelings. This is
Speaker 1: I just signed up to work. And then you're like
Speaker 1: what else could go wrong? And then you know the
Speaker 1: tail rips off your plane. So but this is this
Speaker 1: is up there. So there's that all right, six fifty
Speaker 1: one CaCO Day radio program.
Speaker 4: Hang on, okay, good morning, Casey.
Speaker 5: I love the show. Listen to it every weekday, all day,
Speaker 5: all the time you're on. But uh, anyhow, I was
Speaker 5: working for a company back in the eighties and they
Speaker 5: got together this uh white water.
Speaker 1: Rafting trip, oh, dear man, and they kept see it.
Speaker 5: Oh, they kept trying to get me to get me
Speaker 5: if said, na, thinking I gotta spend all day with
Speaker 5: you A holes already I'm sure, said don't want to
Speaker 5: go out to the woods.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, what if the biggest a hole fell in
Speaker 1: the water, sir?
Speaker 5: You know it was well, hey, a few a few
Speaker 5: of them did, trust me. But anyhow, it rained like
Speaker 5: crazy the day before they win. They still kept saying, oh, man,
Speaker 5: well it's gonna be great. Come on, we got a
Speaker 5: place for it. Come on, I said. Nah. They got
Speaker 5: back and there were hot stories I'm sure, like freaking yeah, freaking.
Speaker 1: Deliverance talking about this just for all the different angles.
Speaker 1: So I was mentioning in Colorado that some company did
Speaker 1: a team building event where they went and hiked up
Speaker 1: a mountain because that's what you do in Colorado, which
Speaker 1: is fine if you want to do that. But one
Speaker 1: of the people there literally got abandoned on the mountain
Speaker 1: and then the search and rescue had to come find him,
Speaker 1: and then ice, freezing rain moved in and so it celled.
Speaker 1: The cell tower wasn't working, he was bouncing off of
Speaker 1: and he survived. But I got like the office dynamics
Speaker 1: have to be totally screwed up now. So somebody sent
Speaker 1: me an email said, hey, guys, let's see twenty years
Speaker 1: ago and I lived in Florida. I've lived here fifteen year. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you lived in North Carolina fifteen Well, thank you
Speaker 1: for the introductory info, sir. Well here, let me just
Speaker 1: reader's digestic for you. So this dude's company in Tampa
Speaker 1: decided that they were going to go swim him with
Speaker 1: sharks and nobody would get in the cage. And then
Speaker 1: the boss got in the cage, and after about two
Speaker 1: minutes he freaked out and they literally had to drag
Speaker 1: him out of the cage, and then nobody would get
Speaker 1: in the cage. Who thought that was a good ross.
Speaker 1: You want to go you want to go shark diving
Speaker 1: with sharks in a cage for a team building event.
Speaker 3: That is the dumbest idea I've ever heard.
Speaker 1: And I love that the boss is now seen as
Speaker 1: a coward.
Speaker 3: Right yeah, yeah, he's gonna have your boss shrieking, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, just coming out.
Speaker 1: Of the cage, shark like, Oh you want me to
Speaker 1: you want me to stay late? Huh? Is that true?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 1: What about if I have this shark mask on? Aha? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm sorry you had to put you know what, sir?
Speaker 1: That Actually I'm not sorry because that sounds like an
Speaker 1: amazing experience because now you get to tell some jackass
Speaker 1: on the radio that, twenty years later.
Speaker 3: Just knocking on the door when he's in his office
Speaker 3: doing the land shark thing, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, all right, Ross, I've
Speaker 1: got us a team building event. We're going to take
Speaker 1: us submersible to see the recor of the Titanic Ian.
Speaker 3: It depends what kind of a console controller are we using?
Speaker 1: Video games?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, okay, you get to drive, so it'll be amazing.
Speaker 3: Well, anybody who knows the Twitch channel knows I'm really
Speaker 3: good at driving in games.
Speaker 1: So yeah, no, I've seen you pilot a horse. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very very skilled what you do there. All right,
Speaker 1: so we got that going. Ross needs it because the
Speaker 1: poor guy has since we're talking about teamwork, this is
Speaker 1: so appropriate. The poor guy had to dub in Kamala
Speaker 1: audio this morning, and you know how he feels about that.
Speaker 1: But man, it is so on point. Let's let's listen
Speaker 1: to Kamala talk about teamwork in the standard word salad
Speaker 1: that we're all going to see coming up on the
Speaker 1: tenth of September.
Speaker 4: You are leaders by the very fact that you all
Speaker 4: are here in.
Speaker 5: Doing what you do this club.
Speaker 4: Doing as one big team, understanding all the different parts
Speaker 4: that to.
Speaker 3: Create a team.
Speaker 1: Is there anything of substance in what she says? It's
Speaker 1: like it's like somebody please ask her, Hey, could you
Speaker 1: explain very generically how you formulate a team in a
Speaker 1: school setting? And then she's using it as the motivational
Speaker 1: speech for these folks.
Speaker 3: You know, teamwork, make the work. If you dream it,
Speaker 3: you can achieve it, and most importantly, if you ain't
Speaker 3: first your last.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Did she say that? I seem to
Speaker 1: think that was somebody else anyway? How what was the
Speaker 1: other thing she said, if you ain't rubbing, you ain't racing.
Speaker 3: Right, he was right. That was the part that right
Speaker 3: was right after that part?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And then she left them all on the mountain to die.
Speaker 1: I mean, is it any different than what we've seen
Speaker 1: this administration?
Speaker 2: Do?
Speaker 3: Nope?
Speaker 1: If I just oh, you're not a w NBA player, No,
Speaker 1: you can stay in the gulag. That'll be fine.
Speaker 3: Listen. The most important thing to remember it's we are
Speaker 3: a team, right, we are the country. We are a team.
Speaker 3: Would you say if you're in Afghanistan?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I was just gonna say, weren't they part of
Speaker 1: a team? Those thirteen service members? I feel like they
Speaker 1: were part of a team. Dude. Do you know they're
Speaker 1: on like day three of the Arlington freak out? So
Speaker 1: if you guys don't know, I basically I was gonna
Speaker 1: ignore this story because it's just so annoying. So Trump's
Speaker 1: over at Arlington, right. You probably saw just a little
Speaker 1: snippet of the ceremony that was going on there. Trump's
Speaker 1: standing there. There's a moment where he kind of when
Speaker 1: he walks up next to one of the guards of
Speaker 1: the Tomb of the Unknown. If you've never been. By
Speaker 1: the way, have you ever been russ You ever been
Speaker 1: to Arlington? You go to the Tomb of the unknow not,
Speaker 1: but I've wanted to. Yeah, it's it's that you go
Speaker 1: to Arlington. Obviously, there's three things you're gonna see that'll
Speaker 1: stand out. One the uniformity of it. Right, Visually, it's
Speaker 1: I don't want to say stunning because of what it is,
Speaker 1: but it is, right, it's visually very stunning. Now the
Speaker 1: fourth part for me kind of is the nerd stuff
Speaker 1: like Roberty Lee's Farm and all that. But then you
Speaker 1: have the Eternal Flame, which inevitably, at any moment you
Speaker 1: go buy the JFK Eternal Flame. Within twenty feet there's
Speaker 1: a group of third children talking about how they're gonna
Speaker 1: put it out. I don't know why. Like the two
Speaker 1: times I've been there, there's been some kids within my earshots.
Speaker 1: They're like, no, you go smother it, and I'm just like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's gonna go well for you. They didn't do it.
Speaker 1: And then you go over to the Tomb of the
Speaker 1: Unknown Soldier and you pick your spot and you sit
Speaker 1: down and you shut up. Now you may hear noises
Speaker 1: from people taking pictures and all of that, and they've
Speaker 1: adjusted to it. My favorite some of my favorite videos
Speaker 1: online though, are people getting sideways with the beef eaters
Speaker 1: or the Tomb of the Unknown soldier guards, right, the
Speaker 1: quietest people, right, you'll never hear from them, just just
Speaker 1: dedicated to what they're doing. And I don't know why,
Speaker 1: watching them go from zero to twelve yeah on videos
Speaker 1: crazy to me. I've never seen it in person. So
Speaker 1: then you just sit and you just watch it, and
Speaker 1: you watch the whole SAH ceremonies, right, not the right word,
Speaker 1: but you watch the whole thing there at the Tomb
Speaker 1: of the Unknown, and if you're a human who can
Speaker 1: you know, process thoughts and has some emotions, it's pretty
Speaker 1: it's a pretty emotional place, man. So when you're doing
Speaker 1: a bigger event there as was going on, and specifically
Speaker 1: it's on honoring not just you know, generically service members,
Speaker 1: but very specifically Medal of Honor recipients, some four hundred
Speaker 1: Medal of Honor recipients. That's what the ceremony was was about.
Speaker 1: And Trump shows up and you say, it's just a
Speaker 1: photo op, and you don't process the scene any further
Speaker 1: than that. Your garbage from a media standpoint, Here's a
Speaker 1: couple thoughts. One, who is more appropriate to show up
Speaker 1: than one of the what five is or how many
Speaker 1: living presidents are there?
Speaker 3: Five?
Speaker 1: Right? If you're one of the five people walking the
Speaker 1: face of the earth who has awarded a medal of honor,
Speaker 1: I feel like you've earned a place there, Like that's
Speaker 1: an event you can go to. And the bigger question
Speaker 1: I would ask is why is he the only living
Speaker 1: president there? This is a it's a big ceremony that
Speaker 1: they're doing there.
Speaker 3: Well, Biden can't go because he's busy on the beach, right.
Speaker 1: Well, don't it be fair when this was going on,
Speaker 1: he was busy and senting as California.
Speaker 3: But yeah, they can't go him and as vice president
Speaker 3: by the way, it's the candidate running right now, Kamala Harris. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they can't go because it's a reminder of their failure.
Speaker 3: It's their failure, it absolutely is. But do you think
Speaker 3: that for a moment they let that bother them. I
Speaker 3: don't think it bothered. I don't think it bothers them.
Speaker 3: But I think from a campaign point of view, like
Speaker 3: they can't do it, which is disgusting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's specifically about Medal of Honor winners, which
Speaker 1: has Biden. I'm assuming Biden's done Medal of honor. He
Speaker 1: almost had to have. I'm sure he did, but that's
Speaker 1: what the event is like. Biden could literally I I
Speaker 1: don't know if he did a living Medal of Honor
Speaker 1: rey ship, but I know Trump did, and I do
Speaker 1: know that some of the other video that people there
Speaker 1: is Trump sitting there and spending time like rehashing and
Speaker 1: reminiscing with the family and service members that he gave
Speaker 1: Medal of honor that he made Medal of Honor recipients
Speaker 1: during his presidency, and it's clear that he remembers them,
Speaker 1: he remembers conversations like there's nothing inappropriate about him being there,
Speaker 1: and nobody's wondering. I mean, Ross is probably right, but
Speaker 1: nobody's wondering, where where's the where's the current dude, dude
Speaker 1: a medal of that watching the tomb of the unknown
Speaker 1: soldier in this This is this is pete Biden, Like,
Speaker 1: this is event that is tailored for him. All you
Speaker 1: gotta do is just sit there and not move and
Speaker 1: not say anything. You could bring your beach chair, dude,
Speaker 1: you don't have to. Nobody's expecting you to do anything.
Speaker 1: You don't have to go up and and and create
Speaker 1: an audio moment for me. You just have to see.
Speaker 1: You have two jobs. Sit there and don't look at
Speaker 1: your watch the whole time. In fact, if you get
Speaker 1: Biden to one of these, they should probably sir, why
Speaker 1: don't you take your watch off right, just to remove temptation,
Speaker 1: because you can write it as bold and big on
Speaker 1: his little cheek cards as you want. Dude, it'll probably
Speaker 1: still look at his watch, so don't make sure there's
Speaker 1: no watch there. Then can then if he does look
Speaker 1: at his wrist and people go, that's weird. It looks
Speaker 1: like he's looking at his watch, you can lie and
Speaker 1: say there was a mosquito or something. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but yeah, they're still still chewing on this insanity, which, yeah,
Speaker 1: I had forgotten how you got to drag these things
Speaker 1: out when you're in the heat of the candidacy, right,
Speaker 1: So now that you're in it, you got to make
Speaker 1: sure it lasts as many days as as possible. All Right,
Speaker 1: Coming up on the show here at seven seventeen, we'll
Speaker 1: get to the Matt Lauer story. We have other states
Speaker 1: now that are wanting to jump on the Minnesota bandwagon.
Speaker 1: Oh dear God, if they can, you imagine if they
Speaker 1: try to do this in North Carolina. Man, the South
Speaker 1: is a little touch here. I'm talking about reinventing state flags,
Speaker 1: which some people find very exciting, others find rather insulting.
Speaker 1: And we haven't really had to talk about it for
Speaker 1: a while until Minnesota did this thing. I think the
Speaker 1: last one was what they were trying to get Mississippi
Speaker 1: to change theirs because stars and bars or something. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll get into the details there and I'm sure it'll
Speaker 1: be super woke. How long do you think it is
Speaker 1: ross before one of the states their flag has some
Speaker 1: sort of rainbow in it? I'm serious? How long do
Speaker 1: you think it is before one of these states includes
Speaker 1: a rainbow in some way, shape or form?
Speaker 3: And the serious question does Hawaii already have one?
Speaker 1: You know what Hawaii may because I know.
Speaker 3: Their license plates have the rainbow.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that's true, But it doesn't count if it's
Speaker 1: not done and stated to be done for LGBT purposes.
Speaker 1: Because that's the reason you go ahead and do it right,
Speaker 1: You do it so you can be like and we're
Speaker 1: so inclusive and I think what you'll end up with
Speaker 1: is you'll end up with a flag that kind of
Speaker 1: looks like the current LGBT flag where it's everything. No,
Speaker 1: the the Hawaii state flag is crazy, not that. Wow, dude,
Speaker 1: google the Hawaii state flag and tell me why they're
Speaker 1: a state. Go ahead, I'll wait. I want you to
Speaker 1: lay eyes on this thing independent of me, and tell
Speaker 1: me why they're a state and not listed as traders.
Speaker 1: I had never seen that.
Speaker 3: Wow, how is this even possible?
Speaker 1: How is what does that look like? In the top
Speaker 1: corner that is the British flag? Yeah, that is those
Speaker 1: like the British. So it's red, white and blue stripes.
Speaker 1: Not the same as what you would see in American flag. No, no,
Speaker 1: but it's red, white and blue right in the corner
Speaker 1: where the stars would be. It's a British it is,
Speaker 1: and it is exactly the flag of the United Kingdom,
Speaker 1: the red Cross of Saint George, exactly what your is
Speaker 1: where if you think of an American flag where the
Speaker 1: stars are, that's what That's what Hawaii has.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: If you want to be British so bad, you want
Speaker 1: to be British so bad, then go ahead and have
Speaker 1: at it. It's the only US state flag to feature
Speaker 1: a foreign country's national flag, that of the UK's Union Jack,
Speaker 1: which commemorates the British Royal Navy's historic relations with the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of Hawaii. Okay, well not the kingdom anymore, and
Speaker 1: the particularly pro British sentiment of the first ruler, King Kamanahamahamaha. Ross.
Speaker 1: Do you think King Kammahamahamaha was a good king if
Speaker 1: you know historically the I'm not.
Speaker 3: I would say he's probably one of my top Hawaiian kings.
Speaker 1: King Kamahamahamaha Tom three ha top three. Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 1: I know they had the one queen that everyone was
Speaker 1: a big fan of. That's a. That's a. That's the
Speaker 1: extent that I know. Uh uh Hawaiian royalty. I think
Speaker 1: they still have the royalty there in Hawaii. Somebody, somebody
Speaker 1: used to live in Hawaii was telling me that, and
Speaker 1: they also told me that Native Hawaiians walk around and
Speaker 1: just openly are super racist to white people, so which
Speaker 1: I thought, well, that's fun. That's a nice little twist.
Speaker 1: And now I find out you got the Union Jack
Speaker 1: on your flag. What are you even doing? I know,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna look right. But I'm sorry, we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to We're gonna have to dial this back to
Speaker 1: forty nine stars. Man, I know what you're saying. Well, strategically, obviously,
Speaker 1: the US would never do that because military needs and
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. They got a union jack there,
Speaker 1: they got a union jack there, and you just wait
Speaker 1: till some of these flags bastardization start. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: Illinois wants to be next to go ahead and do this,
Speaker 1: So we'll get into that. And even CNN, speaking of Kamala,
Speaker 1: was not a fan of the the whole setup where
Speaker 1: the Harris campaign finally doing an interview and they got
Speaker 1: to bring Tim Walls to it. She's got to bring
Speaker 1: and and uh, it's actually funny. I'll give him credit
Speaker 1: for it. I think it was Scott jennings on there.
Speaker 1: He makes a good point. But again it's the optics
Speaker 1: of it. Like, you know, I made a joke about
Speaker 1: her cracking an egg, and you got a woman president.
Speaker 1: You're like, look how good she is in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's more of me being tongue in cheek.
Speaker 1: The fact that she can't sit for an interview without
Speaker 1: a dude, especially when in an era of man'splaining. Right,
Speaker 1: when man's plaining is thing, I don't know, it's just
Speaker 1: super weak sauce. It's like that our listener's boss who
Speaker 1: went in the shark cage because nobody else would and
Speaker 1: had his man card pulled three minutes later. Right, that's
Speaker 1: how people perceive that. A lot of people. I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of stupid sheep. Maybe they don't. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we'll take a break, be right back. Hang on by
Speaker 1: the new moonbat in charge who has announced a new initiative.
Speaker 1: Are you ready for this? A new smoking band confirmed
Speaker 1: by Starmer. That's the PM. So now you can't smoke inside.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, man. It was kind of interesting
Speaker 1: because it happened to be years and years ago. I
Speaker 1: took a trip to was my second or third trip
Speaker 1: to Ireland, and I literally arrived on the same day
Speaker 1: that they made smoking inside illegal in Ireland. And so
Speaker 1: I'm doing like pub crawls in everyone is extras early
Speaker 1: because they never had to deal with that they could
Speaker 1: smoke inside Irish pubs, man, and so now, and it
Speaker 1: happened to be during World Cup too, and I remember thinking,
Speaker 1: what a horrible day to do this. And so now
Speaker 1: everyone's already you know, drunk and all ginned up over soccer,
Speaker 1: but now they're also having nicotine fits. So whole thing
Speaker 1: was weird. But you could still go and just like
Speaker 1: in North Carolina and just like other player I remember,
Speaker 1: and you know what, it was funny because my first
Speaker 1: when I first moved to North Carolina was right when
Speaker 1: North Carolina bands smoking inside bars. So literally, if you
Speaker 1: want me to move somewhere and you're an anti smoking group,
Speaker 1: you should pay me. That being said, you know, people adapted,
Speaker 1: and so if you go to a if you go
Speaker 1: to a pub or a restaurant, even those kinds of places,
Speaker 1: even before COVID, many were creating outdoor spaces so you
Speaker 1: can go and you could light up. Right, those of
Speaker 1: you who I'm trying to think, you know, some of
Speaker 1: the big steakhouses have them, right. What was what was
Speaker 1: the one in uh oh Rais and Carry. If you
Speaker 1: go to Raise and Carry, he's got a hole. He
Speaker 1: built a whole patio out back because the guy loves
Speaker 1: cigars who runs it. I like cigars, and occasionally when
Speaker 1: I go there, I end up smoking a cigar with
Speaker 1: Ray and he had to create a whole patio area
Speaker 1: there and that works for him. So in the UK,
Speaker 1: because they got to be doing something, they just said
Speaker 1: there'll be no more of that. So basically you will
Speaker 1: not be allowed to smoke inside any building save your
Speaker 1: private home. It's unclear how will impact. You know, cigar
Speaker 1: places may have a cigar lounge or hookah shops for
Speaker 1: that matter. Hookah bars are probably out and they will now,
Speaker 1: which is already banned. But now you can also smoke
Speaker 1: outside adjacent to any quote public pavement, so that would
Speaker 1: be sidewalk any of that. And it's not just where
Speaker 1: you're standing, it's if the business is adjacent. So if
Speaker 1: the front of the business fronts a sidewalk or a
Speaker 1: public road, you can't even have a smoking area if
Speaker 1: you have a backyard there. And the reason I'm telling
Speaker 1: you this is not because I think some of you
Speaker 1: smokers are going to visit the UK and be upset.
Speaker 1: It's the justification for this is the one they always
Speaker 1: roll out where the government, we pay for your health care,
Speaker 1: will do whatever we want and then they can do
Speaker 1: it without having to go and get Parliament's approval. Because
Speaker 1: they have things that allow them to act quickly in
Speaker 1: the public health or public interest, many of which were
Speaker 1: exploited during COVID. And so in the article they say
Speaker 1: it's going to save the national health system twenty eight
Speaker 1: billion dollars, which is a number that will never be realized.
Speaker 1: It's just a number they're throwing out and and we'll
Speaker 1: go ahead and do that. So now you have some
Speaker 1: saying that's literally the end of pubs. I'm I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think of your go to bar right where you
Speaker 1: know you may meet up with your buddies on Friday
Speaker 1: night and have a few drinks, especially if you get
Speaker 1: into a more rule environment. I can't think of a
Speaker 1: bar where you know, a quarter of the patrons and
Speaker 1: I'm talking I don't want to say dive bar, but
Speaker 1: I'm talking more neighborhood bars. Let me just give you
Speaker 1: some examples. So, well, I just saw they're closing the Goat.
Speaker 1: For those of you who have some time in Raleigh
Speaker 1: or went to NC State, you know that part. They're
Speaker 1: having to close that thing. But yeah, you couldn't go
Speaker 1: to the Goat and there's not ten people standing out
Speaker 1: front smoking. So if those ten people can't go and
Speaker 1: be able to smoke, and they want to tip back
Speaker 1: a few beers in the afternoon. Why don't you have
Speaker 1: a job. They're not going to go there, you know,
Speaker 1: and then pick You don't pick any bar for that matter,
Speaker 1: both Triad Triangle, out state North Carolina, anywhere. That's just
Speaker 1: human nature. So anyway, Yeah, they want to go ahead
Speaker 1: and do that, and they're probably going to do that.
Speaker 1: So oh and also, you couldn't smoke in and around stadiums.
Speaker 1: Is that what you want soccer hooligans who were jones
Speaker 1: in for a cigarette? Because that's what you're gonna get.
Speaker 1: But whatever, nobody listens to me. All right, let's uh,
Speaker 1: let's flip back to this. So in addition to in
Speaker 1: addition to Trump making a doing a photo op at
Speaker 1: Arlington by merely attending the ceremony, that he's probably one
Speaker 1: of five people short of the recipients of the Medal
Speaker 1: of Honor, that it's most appropriate to be there. Somebody
Speaker 1: who's literally hung one of those around a service member's
Speaker 1: neck probably a probably a good get. Also, there is
Speaker 1: the General McMaster scandal. A new book by General H. R.
Speaker 1: McMaster is gives a blistering account of the Trump White
Speaker 1: House the book At War with Ourselves. My tour of
Speaker 1: duty in the Trump White House, he said, was the
Speaker 1: most challenging tour as a soldier. I don't know McMaster's
Speaker 1: service record, and I'm not going to I'm not going
Speaker 1: to sit here and dig in on that. But and
Speaker 1: I understand it can be stressful. It's what do you
Speaker 1: think is more stressed? Ross? What would you rather do?
Speaker 1: Serve four years for Joe Biden? Right? Well, we'll go there,
Speaker 1: right in some sort of advisory role where you get
Speaker 1: to watch you get to watch the dogs eat the
Speaker 1: al Qaeda dude from the situation room because you're high
Speaker 1: up enough, or kicking doors in cobble. Which one would
Speaker 1: you prefer? Clearing houses and cobble or sitting in the
Speaker 1: situation room watching some terrorists get mauled by service doors?
Speaker 3: Do you think about it? Pick the White House?
Speaker 1: Oh, you're gonna go to the White House, Okay, I
Speaker 1: mean they had some nice doors and not anymore. We
Speaker 1: blew them all up. But yeah, yes, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But i'd also I don't know McMaster's service record. I
Speaker 1: do know this though, the section where he's talking about
Speaker 1: outlandish questions the holy crap man. All right. So, in
Speaker 1: his blistering inside account of his time the Trump White House,
Speaker 1: McMaster describes meetings in the Oval office as well. He
Speaker 1: wasn't a fan of him. He said that he would
Speaker 1: often flatter the president by saying stuff like, your instincts
Speaker 1: are always right, and no one has ever treated you
Speaker 1: so badly by the press. You mean, somebody in and
Speaker 1: the White House kissed the President's ass. I am shocked
Speaker 1: at that's a thing. But then he goes on to
Speaker 1: documents some of the quote outlandish things Trump would say,
Speaker 1: like why don't we just bomb the drugs? Referring to
Speaker 1: some of the large storage and production facilities in Mexico.
Speaker 1: All right, I understand why we don't go in there
Speaker 1: dropping moabs, But what's wrong with that question? What's wrong
Speaker 1: with that question? Wouldn't that make a difference? And by
Speaker 1: the way, before you say no, it wouldn't make a difference,
Speaker 1: I would point out to you that it was the
Speaker 1: policy of the Colombian government when they finally kicked into
Speaker 1: high gear against Escobar, where they would go and they'd
Speaker 1: find these clandestine facilities, and you know what they do,
Speaker 1: They would either bomb it or they would just go
Speaker 1: in and murder everybody. And you know what, it seriously
Speaker 1: impacted the ability to produce cocaine, So arguably that was
Speaker 1: pretty effective. All right, So maybe that's that's not a
Speaker 1: fair question. How about this? Why don't we take out
Speaker 1: the whole North Korean Army during one of their missile parades?
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, literally, all you'd have to do
Speaker 3: is target the missiles.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, yeah, you just hit one. It probably would
Speaker 1: just chain react. Man, I suspect the text.
Speaker 3: And anybody who's played video games knows this.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good point. Yeah yeah, yeah, so, I
Speaker 1: mean the learning's been there this whole time. Wait, which
Speaker 1: video game? If you target one missile blows like every
Speaker 1: single one of them? Oh that's right, it is all
Speaker 1: of them. Yeah. Yeah. You don't want to be sitting
Speaker 1: near an ammunition shed in some of these some of
Speaker 1: these games?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: Is that forty chess? Or is that a stupid question?
Speaker 1: I mean I understand the associated you know, the political
Speaker 1: and all of that, but if you just wiped out
Speaker 1: their whole army. Now, the reason you don't is because
Speaker 1: they probably don't have the wobbly nuke there and God
Speaker 1: only knows what they do with it, but it would
Speaker 1: be pretty effective because they do like to get them
Speaker 1: all together for a big old missile parade. Who doesn't
Speaker 1: love a missile parade? By the way, But to Ross's point,
Speaker 1: you take a sniper rifle hit one of those missiles,
Speaker 1: they all explode. But don't ask me, ask Capcom. They're
Speaker 1: the one who convinced me of this. All right, raced
Speaker 1: Agic from the Weather Channel. He's here to tell you
Speaker 1: whether it's a good day for a missile parade.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, but it's gonna be hot.
Speaker 1: Why don't we have missile parades? Man?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean you're.
Speaker 1: Telling me you wouldn't want to see some of the
Speaker 1: super cool stuff the military keeps there.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
Speaker 7: I used to love when I was on the New
Speaker 7: York State Thruway and you would see the caravans and
Speaker 7: I mean it wasn't like missiles or anything, but you'd
Speaker 7: see them transporting you know, tanks and even the cover.
Speaker 1: In Wyoming they drive nukes around. Yeah, like literally my childhood,
Speaker 1: once or twice a year I would see a cover
Speaker 1: truck with obvious it's obviously got a new kind of
Speaker 1: and they got a whole caravan and they were driving
Speaker 1: because you know, we got all those silos in Montana
Speaker 1: and Wyoming and the main the main base there is Warren,
Speaker 1: which is down in Cheyenne where basically they control all
Speaker 1: those silos, and so they'll be like you be on
Speaker 1: the interstate and you're passing a nuke and it's just okay.
Speaker 6: That's gotta be sis it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of cool, man, because you're a kid.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh my gosh, there's a there's a big
Speaker 1: old ICBM under there. That's amazing, right, Yeah, but the
Speaker 1: nobody's in Wyoming, so I don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: getting highjacked. They can see it forever. So anyway, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: missile parade it's North Carolina would be killing it. Man.
Speaker 1: We got so you know, we got cool.
Speaker 6: Stuff here, cool stuff.
Speaker 1: I got a topsle. You can see the osprey's. You
Speaker 1: can see those with the rotors that turn it tree
Speaker 1: like a helicopter and up and then occasionally they stay
Speaker 1: in the air too. So they've had some issues. Anyway,
Speaker 1: what's going on today, sir ah?
Speaker 5: Hot?
Speaker 7: And yeah, got a heat advisory for the most of
Speaker 7: the tr angle now and east try it no because
Speaker 7: the differences and temperatures are, you know, between the low
Speaker 7: nineties and then the up nineties. So upper nineties for
Speaker 7: the triangle. Probably not a record, but he didn't see's
Speaker 7: close to one o five. Thus the heat advisory. Uh,
Speaker 7: try it. Probably low nineties as we were yesterday ninety
Speaker 7: seven and Raleigh ninety two at to try it. So
Speaker 7: about a three to five degrees split. Lots of sunshine though,
Speaker 7: but later today there may be an isolated shower thunder
Speaker 7: shower trying to pop up. And I say that because
Speaker 7: NC State tonight one of many games of the one
Speaker 7: that's a little bit more impactful for us, all Wakes
Speaker 7: playing too, so there could be a shower.
Speaker 6: I really don't think.
Speaker 1: What do you mean for us? What do you mean
Speaker 1: for us? You said that Now you're talking about Clemson.
Speaker 1: You're talking about Clemson.
Speaker 6: Listen. I wasn't even going to bring it.
Speaker 1: Up, you, you absolute homer. How does this impact Clemson
Speaker 1: standings in the AC? See, that's what you meant.
Speaker 6: That's not really what I mean.
Speaker 1: I mean I have friends. I have friends drinking already
Speaker 1: for the NC State game.
Speaker 6: Okay, I can imagine.
Speaker 7: Well, our tailgate Saturday starts at eight, So I guess
Speaker 7: that's not bad.
Speaker 1: And we five, we only have five hours. It's so stupid.
Speaker 6: Hell, I ain't got much. I got a noon kick off.
Speaker 7: I've got to gather thirteen people, most of them college kids,
Speaker 7: and try to get them down there with us. So
Speaker 7: that'll be fun anyway, changes coming though Friday, Saturday through
Speaker 7: the holiday weekend. We'll start to see scattered showers thunderstorms
Speaker 7: and probably stay in the upper eighties to low nineties
Speaker 7: until about Labor Day when we go to the mid
Speaker 7: to upper eighties and a little cool down coming Next
Speaker 7: week should have some much cooler temperatures, maybe only in
Speaker 7: the seventies starting about Tuesday and maybe for the rest
Speaker 7: of the week, So expect some scattered rain over the
Speaker 7: upcoming weekend. Rain chance is best Sunday, but there'll be
Speaker 7: plenty of dry hours too, so don't think it's going
Speaker 7: to be a watch out.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, better not better? Nine? All right, let's
Speaker 1: get back to your Clemson stuff. And we're talking in
Speaker 1: our sir.
Speaker 6: Cooking for tailgating already started.
Speaker 1: What are you making? What are you making?
Speaker 7: Well, right now, it's not really for the tailgate. Homemade
Speaker 7: spaghetti sauce and meatballs. Got that going make steal some
Speaker 7: of that and then the other stuff we're buying.
Speaker 1: So okay, you do the big bowbox? Do you have
Speaker 1: that down in Atlanta?
Speaker 6: The bow box? What's that?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 6: But sorry, bo Jangles?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, you got Bojungles down there, don't you?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 1: We do? Okay, all right, very good, all right, thank you, sir.
Speaker 1: We'll chat an hour man. But he didn't know what
Speaker 1: a bowbox was. For a moment. I don't know what
Speaker 1: we were gonna do, all right, Uh, what was I
Speaker 1: just gonna say? Oh, look at it? Ross? I just
Speaker 1: got an email said, hey, do you guys know I
Speaker 1: used to drive that truck referring to the one with
Speaker 1: the nuke. Dude, if you're driving that, do you know
Speaker 1: what that that thing's worth? I don't think I've seen
Speaker 1: a movie, even from the nineties, where you couldn't sell
Speaker 1: that thing for at least one mill Sorry?
Speaker 3: Can I'm composing a tweet about the Hayes for share
Speaker 3: for red barrel Parade? What the Hayes for share of
Speaker 3: red barrel Parade?
Speaker 1: Dare I ask? Man?
Speaker 3: You really don't know anything about video games? Do you
Speaker 3: dare I ask in a game, when when you see
Speaker 3: a red barrel, you shoot that thing and it blows,
Speaker 3: That's the only reason it's there is to shoot it blow.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's like the Tanner, right, the Tannerite target. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but what like, what, how do you do a parade?
Speaker 1: Because the only way those are cool is if they're blowing.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the kids? All right, Well, I would
Speaker 1: ask that you make it more accurate because I was
Speaker 1: reviewing some of your tweets this morning. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: feel like I feel like there might be some erroneous information.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm a team player.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we're gonna go on a mountain quest and
Speaker 1: then we'll take a break and then maybe we'll both
Speaker 1: be back next Hang on, why don't we bomb the drugs? Apparently,
Speaker 1: questions asked by Trump. I mean, maybe you don't bomb
Speaker 1: the drug but taking out a facility in concert with
Speaker 1: Mexico to be cooperative is not outside the bounds. And
Speaker 1: the missile prey thing is because you don't know what
Speaker 1: the little runt's gonna do. But still, what happened to
Speaker 1: there's no stupid questions. It's not telling people to shoot
Speaker 1: into a hurricane. You all came up with that on
Speaker 1: your own. Hell, Florida's got to tell people not to anyway.
Speaker 1: And then I was just so offended. I was closing
Speaker 1: the wiki on the Hawaiian flag that I looked up
Speaker 1: because I wanted to see it, and then we found
Speaker 1: out it's got literally the Union Jack on it, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, you're just hedging your bets is all
Speaker 1: you're doing, which is just cowardice. Throw in or don't right,
Speaker 1: they're sitting there in case, I don't know, the British
Speaker 1: get a wild hair and take it back and then
Speaker 1: they can be like, no, we didn't know, we didn't
Speaker 1: like the colonial lists anyway. I mean, we're gonna we
Speaker 1: come in our media and nerd and whatnot. Correspondent Stephen Kent,
Speaker 1: who joins us this morning. Stephen, how you doing today?
Speaker 1: Are you okay?
Speaker 4: I'm doing well?
Speaker 6: Case?
Speaker 4: Are you okay?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not the I'm not a weed freaking
Speaker 1: out over a pirating site getting shut down yesterday. But
Speaker 1: the anime kids were, they were not happy yesterday.
Speaker 4: So they're fragile.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's them. Are you into the anime? Do you
Speaker 1: do the anime?
Speaker 4: I don't do the anime but I do occasionally stumble
Speaker 4: into an anime that.
Speaker 1: I like, Okay, all right, what's the other thing that's
Speaker 1: not anime that I accidentally said one time that's for adults.
Speaker 4: See, don't make me say it.
Speaker 1: I can't remember what it is. Could you tell me?
Speaker 4: Are you talking about him? Tai Casey on the radio?
Speaker 1: I can't believe you know that stuff?
Speaker 6: Ross?
Speaker 1: Did you jump that? Did you dump that? All right?
Speaker 1: You have to jump that? No, but seriously, but seriously,
Speaker 1: there was There's nothing worse than an entire internet filled
Speaker 1: with butt herd weeds, which, uh, weeds is just somebody
Speaker 1: into anime and Japanese stuff. But anyways, so yeah, I
Speaker 1: couldn't figure out what they were freaking out about yesterday
Speaker 1: with their weird memes and stuff. And then I researched
Speaker 1: it and I'm like, oh, they shut down their napster?
Speaker 1: Is that basically what happened? What's going on with that?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, server failures happen all the time, and
Speaker 4: the anime community tends to believe that they are under
Speaker 4: siege from the alt right, so this is sort of
Speaker 4: one of their all the news where they where they
Speaker 4: always believe that they are being attacked by their enemies
Speaker 4: on alternate websites. So I don't know where the anime
Speaker 4: kids hang out necessarily on the online, but they believe
Speaker 4: that all their enemies are on Reddit, and if something
Speaker 4: bad happens in their forums the archives, they usually tend
Speaker 4: to believe it was the fascists who attack them.
Speaker 1: So but basically, basically, these were file sharing sites for animes,
Speaker 1: almost impossible to find in the US, just classic one.
Speaker 1: So some people who had copies put them up there
Speaker 1: and they were all sharing them and obviously that is
Speaker 1: copyright stuff. So but yeah, that's what that freak out was.
Speaker 1: If anybody didn't know what was going on. No, you're
Speaker 1: busy in the nerd hierarchy playing the new Star Wars game, right.
Speaker 4: I have gotten the crack into it yet, so that
Speaker 4: one hundred and nine dollars for the three days of
Speaker 4: early access, so they finally tapped into it yesterday.
Speaker 1: Who pay, I mean, obviously people pay it the video game.
Speaker 1: I'm glad I'm not more into video games because you
Speaker 1: guys are getting rocked man.
Speaker 4: You know, it is what it is. Video games are
Speaker 4: expensive to make these days, with the kind of design
Speaker 4: that they have. The open world aspect, you actually got
Speaker 4: to pay some of that back. This isn't the days
Speaker 4: of Mortal Kombat where you go get a game for
Speaker 4: twenty five bucks. So I kind of reject that the
Speaker 4: pricing wars thing. I do think that there's a bit
Speaker 4: of a problem with game pricing when it comes to
Speaker 4: season passes, and gamers know all about this, and basically
Speaker 4: they end up buying an incomplete game that the developers
Speaker 4: are then updating quarter to quarter, and that I think
Speaker 4: is a little bit of an issue. But you know,
Speaker 4: these games are worth this much money for the amount
Speaker 4: of game time and play that you get out of.
Speaker 1: Them, right, But when they don't go well, you get
Speaker 1: what's happening in Japan. Did you see the announcement with
Speaker 1: the PlayStation stuff over there.
Speaker 4: New Bugs?
Speaker 1: No, So they announced it in Japan. They're going to
Speaker 1: be raising the price of PlayStation five ninety bucks because
Speaker 1: of the game they put out that flop so badly
Speaker 1: that Sony Pooh, I'm trying to remember the name of
Speaker 1: the game. I guess they lost two hundred million on
Speaker 1: the game, and so they're they're literally just gonna the
Speaker 1: way they're gonna offset is just charge people more for
Speaker 1: the for the for the actual system.
Speaker 4: It's a bit of a death spiral, isn't it. You
Speaker 4: know they put out for the games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, these are death spirals for all these entertainment companies.
Speaker 4: They keep putting out product that people don't want, and
Speaker 4: they sort of just expect people to take it. You know,
Speaker 4: it's just like, thank you, sir, may I have another?
Speaker 4: And then they have to jack up the prices on
Speaker 4: the consoles, and then the prices go up, and then
Speaker 4: people don't want to buy that either. You know, these
Speaker 4: are the video game industry in by by and large,
Speaker 4: is in trouble. They have not been able to adapt
Speaker 4: to gamer preferences and keep up with their actual audience.
Speaker 4: Their audience is aging, their priorities are changing, and they've
Speaker 4: not been able to figure out a new model that
Speaker 4: works for people, which is why you've ended up sort
Speaker 4: of in this space of having tiered gaming prices. We
Speaker 4: talked about this a couple of months ago in regards
Speaker 4: to the new Star Wars Outlaws game. But the tiered
Speaker 4: pricing model has come about because they're trying to figure
Speaker 4: out how they can get people to pay for these games.
Speaker 4: But it seems that people still want the days where
Speaker 4: games were, you know, thirty forty bucks and that was all.
Speaker 1: I don't have to pay, dude, they don't have to
Speaker 1: be thirty forty bucks, like the you know, Diablo is
Speaker 1: really the only franchise that I've bought every version of it,
Speaker 1: and they've done things over the years to make me
Speaker 1: never want to do it. When they when they released
Speaker 1: Diablo Diablo three, which took twelve years, by the way,
Speaker 1: for them to actually get to When at first released,
Speaker 1: they had an auction house or real money auction house,
Speaker 1: and everyone knew that it was going to be a disaster,
Speaker 1: but they were so greedy they couldn't help themselves. And
Speaker 1: of course it turned into people duping items and selling
Speaker 1: them for real money and like Chinese hackers getting in there,
Speaker 1: and the whole thing was a mess. So it's like
Speaker 1: the hair brain schemes they come up to build more
Speaker 1: money out of you, when in reality, if you told
Speaker 1: me I would have a what's the term the use
Speaker 1: triple A games, I guess for the big.
Speaker 4: Ones, Yeah, Triple A Triple A titles.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So if you if you're going to release something
Speaker 1: like that like the Oblo for right, which that that
Speaker 1: whole mess where they wanted to do mobile first, and
Speaker 1: it was a very amusing blizz con. If you're going
Speaker 1: to do that, really, even if you if you want
Speaker 1: me to pay seventy eighty dollars for a very expansive game,
Speaker 1: I understand that. But you can't keep delivering ones that
Speaker 1: are incomplete or broken? What was what was the one
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of that was so Cyberpunk? Right, the new
Speaker 1: Cyberpunk that came out a few years ago was unplayable
Speaker 1: when they delivered it. I guess now it's fine, but
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they're they're already running into this. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: they're already running into this a little bit with the
Speaker 4: new launch of Star Wars Outlaws, which comes out tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Ladies and Gentlemen of a Galaxy Far far away, you know,
Speaker 4: so this sort of open, open world, expansive game where
Speaker 4: unfortunately you are forced to pick the character that you're
Speaker 4: going to play throughout the game. This you know, this
Speaker 4: game comes out tomorrow and it's already kind of running
Speaker 4: into a bunch of bugs and glitches. It is not unplayable,
Speaker 4: and it is apparently, you know, considered to be a
Speaker 4: beautiful game by everybody who's played it. I thought it's lovely,
Speaker 4: but it is still not feeling like a complete piece
Speaker 4: of work. It is riddled with glitches. And this is
Speaker 4: just sort of the way that the game market has become.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, did you did you hear about the
Speaker 3: day one patch issue? No, So people bought this game.
Speaker 3: There were two you could buy it for one of.
Speaker 1: You can buy it three days ago, right, three days.
Speaker 3: One nine one thirty. So people paid one hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty dollars for this game and they played it for
Speaker 3: two or three days. You've been seeing streamers on Twitch
Speaker 3: streaming it, right because they had, like you know, no
Speaker 3: keys and stuff to play it. But then yesterday ubistuff
Speaker 3: came out with a patch, a day one patch, and
Speaker 3: they put the patch in and everyone's progress they could
Speaker 3: not they could not load their safe games after paying
Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty dollars for the game.
Speaker 1: This is what I'm talking about, Steven mm.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: I just want to travel. I just want to walk
Speaker 4: around to have to mean, man, that's that's like me
Speaker 4: and other gamers, particularly Star Wars fans, that's all we want.
Speaker 4: We just want to walk around moss Isley and show
Speaker 4: off how well we know the layout.
Speaker 1: Of the city.
Speaker 4: I will tell you.
Speaker 1: I just want to say, like the thing you've said ever,
Speaker 1: really it's beautiful.
Speaker 4: It's beautiful, Casey, that city that they have built in
Speaker 4: this game Star Wars Outlaws. It is block for block building,
Speaker 4: for building accurate to everything that you see in Star
Speaker 4: Wars episode four and episode one. If you know the
Speaker 4: landmarks of the city, you can find the moss Iley Cantina.
Speaker 4: Everybody raw, this is this is very important. You got
Speaker 4: to look for the tower and the tower and the
Speaker 4: crash ship that you see in episode four a New
Speaker 4: Hope for Star Wars. And if you spot that landmark,
Speaker 4: you can then remember which way Luke and Obi Wan
Speaker 4: went through the downtown streets of moss Sisley and boom,
Speaker 4: you'll find the Massizley canteena Casey, it's a magical, magical experience.
Speaker 6: I would pay two hundred.
Speaker 4: Dollars for that. Uh, and they did it, so you know.
Speaker 4: Star Wars out laggeriod.
Speaker 1: Are you hearing yourself right now? I mean, do you
Speaker 1: hear what's coming out of your mouth? Ah? Are you
Speaker 1: calling me a weeb? No? Oh no, I was trying
Speaker 1: to get my audio dropped to work. Ross, do we
Speaker 1: have the button mark and have the button bar? Please?
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, I got that just for you.
Speaker 4: Steep cuts, steep cuts, well, no, and.
Speaker 1: I got we got those ones. And we have the
Speaker 1: long runs. Yeah, so we have.
Speaker 6: You're bullying.
Speaker 1: You're bullying, man, No, no, no, no, no, you know why
Speaker 1: because nerd is is not nerd in the nineties is
Speaker 1: different than nerd now, right it's.
Speaker 4: Mountain nerds run run the world.
Speaker 1: Man, Yeah, that and finance guys. So, speaking of the
Speaker 1: nineties nostalgia, Ross was telling me, you're all excited for
Speaker 1: Lincoln Park reunion. You know that's not possible, right.
Speaker 4: Well, it is possible, So Lincoln Park is probably next
Speaker 4: next to start next to well, they could actually do that.
Speaker 4: They floated the idea of actually going the hologram route
Speaker 4: a couple of years ago. But right now Lincoln Park
Speaker 4: is teasing. Well, we think it's going to be a reunion.
Speaker 4: So they've got a countdown timer that goes all the
Speaker 4: way to December on their website and their social media.
Speaker 4: They have been re releasing some of their top albums
Speaker 4: Mediora Hybrid Theory, and they have been sort of slowly
Speaker 4: putting themselves back onto the top of the rock charts,
Speaker 4: and so now we've got a December one countdown going on.
Speaker 4: We don't know what it's going to be, but if
Speaker 4: you're a big Lincoln Park fan, you might remember the
Speaker 4: deep cut of My December from the early Hybrid Theory
Speaker 4: demos that did not make it onto the actual album itself.
Speaker 4: There's a big chance they could actually get back together
Speaker 4: and hit the road with some kind of new singer
Speaker 4: or new singer, or no new singer at all. After all,
Speaker 4: we lost Chester Bennington, the singer of Lincoln Park, about
Speaker 4: eight years ago, and they have been slowly building up
Speaker 4: towards getting back out on the road.
Speaker 1: I will say this, it was one of the better
Speaker 1: concerts I've seen. I went back back when they first
Speaker 1: and I was working the concert, so I got to
Speaker 1: literally stand backstage and watch that thing go down. And yeah,
Speaker 1: So Bennington died in what twenty seventeen, so it's been
Speaker 1: a while, and then they've had other lead singers. Didn't
Speaker 1: he leave and go do another band for a while too.
Speaker 1: I can't even remember what the whole thing.
Speaker 4: So he never left, but he had some side projects
Speaker 4: he had a band called Dead by Sunrise with the
Speaker 4: guys from a band called Julian Kay. It was kind
Speaker 4: of electro pop depeche Mode type music. And then he
Speaker 4: also went over and became the singer of Stone Temple Pilots,
Speaker 4: right and so yeah, so he was doubling with Stone
Speaker 4: Temple Pilot. But what a lot of people who love
Speaker 4: Lincoln Park don't know is that Mike Schanoda, the rapper
Speaker 4: of that band who does all the rap parts, he
Speaker 4: is the principal writer and songwriter behind that band. Chester Bennington,
Speaker 4: you know, he was great. He made the band iconic,
Speaker 4: but he was just the face of the band. And
Speaker 4: so the question for them, like with Alison Chains and
Speaker 4: they lost Lane Staley, is can they continue with the
Speaker 4: brain of the band now being the front You know
Speaker 4: Cantrell the guitarist for Alison Chains, he was the guy
Speaker 4: who wrote everything, but Lane's Lane Staley was the face
Speaker 4: of the band. And I think Lincoln Park can actually
Speaker 4: pull that off. But the big question mark that we
Speaker 4: have is that they have been teasing that they want
Speaker 4: to replace Chester Bennington with a female vocalist.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, which I'm not opposed to if it sounds good,
Speaker 1: but I don't know that. I don't know their song.
Speaker 1: They are big hits that people can remember through a
Speaker 1: female voot who feels weird to me. So I think
Speaker 1: it would rest on new music.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think you might be right. But
Speaker 4: I will make one one case in defense at that.
Speaker 4: First of all, when a band, you know, in this
Speaker 4: era where everyone's always like, oh, we need to you know,
Speaker 4: recruit a woman of color or you know, replace this
Speaker 4: person with a woman, it sounds like you're talking about
Speaker 4: like DEI approach to music, right, We want you just
Speaker 4: to we want you to pick the vocalist that is great,
Speaker 4: and it brings credit to Chester Bennington and Lincoln Park.
Speaker 4: But I actually do think that Chester Bennington the range
Speaker 4: would be most served by a female vocalist who can
Speaker 4: also scream and do the gravelly parts of Lincoln Park.
Speaker 5: Of course.
Speaker 4: That would be a little bit of a mess, but uh,
Speaker 4: you know, like, listen to a band. There's a heavy
Speaker 4: metal band called spirit Box. Just beautiful angelic vocals, kind
Speaker 4: of like Evanescence, but also that girl can just shred
Speaker 4: amazing scream o vocals, and that's the kind of thing
Speaker 4: that they need to bring to Lincoln Park, I think
Speaker 4: as well, you know, or they could go the route Casey,
Speaker 4: of actually having fill ins where they go on a
Speaker 4: tour and they bring in famous, famous stars, yeah, to
Speaker 4: step in and sing those parts. I think that'd be
Speaker 4: really cool.
Speaker 1: What do your kids think of Lincoln Park? Are you
Speaker 1: trying to get them on it? Or one?
Speaker 4: So my daughter, will, you know, nose every Lincoln Park
Speaker 4: song off the top of her head, because that's subjector
Speaker 4: to it. She's thirteen, but she told me yesterday she
Speaker 4: thought Lincoln Park was an eighties band and that is
Speaker 4: unfortunate and hurt my feeling is a great deal.
Speaker 1: How long is she ground it?
Speaker 4: Well, I can't ground her if I'm dead from depression, Casey.
Speaker 1: So now put it into perpetuity. You know they really
Speaker 1: heard me? Yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead. I just said
Speaker 1: to tell you. We got about a minute, but I
Speaker 1: want to hear the now.
Speaker 4: I was playing numb and macar the other day and
Speaker 4: my daughter thirteen and her little friend where we're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: numb Man, isn't this like in the eighties?
Speaker 1: Just cuts like a knife? Man, just cuts like a knife.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure it wasn't intentional, right, absolutely.
Speaker 4: It was not intentional. They just don't know.
Speaker 1: You know, we are of the era of kind of
Speaker 1: like they felt in the sixties, man, where it's just like,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about the number of bands that I enjoyed
Speaker 1: where the dude's dead now, Lincoln Parks, Sublime. I was
Speaker 1: a huge Sublime fan. I actually get to see Sublime,
Speaker 1: although I didn't get see a whole concert because the
Speaker 1: dude was so messed up. They stopped about two thirds
Speaker 1: of the way, which obviously we saw how that played out.
Speaker 1: But all right, well, I'm sorry you got your feelings
Speaker 1: hurt for your now ground at thirteen year old, but
Speaker 1: sheilan grounding her for a year will help her in
Speaker 1: the long run. So we gave, we give permission, and
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you next week, sir see akac All right,
Speaker 1: there you go. Eighties banned. That's great, all right, eight
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Cacoda Radio program, Hang on, name of it?
Speaker 1: I had, I had not heard of this. The name
Speaker 1: of the game is the name of the game is
Speaker 1: a dustboard.
Speaker 3: I'm sure called. People are calling it dust beIN though
Speaker 3: it is. They're saying the most woke game ever made.
Speaker 3: And what makes it worse was. It's a it's a
Speaker 3: project that was like produced by government funding, the USA
Speaker 3: and me, the United States and the EU. Yeah, like
Speaker 3: the US gave like two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 3: to it to help develop this game. So taxpayer money,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure the money. You go around and you
Speaker 3: destroy racism and fascism, Okay.
Speaker 1: Do you do that through healthy conversation?
Speaker 3: It do?
Speaker 1: It is bad like you going to it by burning
Speaker 1: shopping district.
Speaker 3: You've got to research some of it because it is
Speaker 3: some of the craziest videos you've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Like it's just I think it's these screen caps that
Speaker 1: ross scent and it's like, so some of your powers
Speaker 1: maybe I'm interpreting this correctly, So some of your hours
Speaker 1: are things like canceling.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, it's like a skill tree in any other
Speaker 3: game where you can learn to unlock different powers.
Speaker 1: You can cancel. So it says, all right, you've learned
Speaker 1: how to cancel. Cancel will allow us to isolate people
Speaker 1: from our friends and compatriots in battle. This could be
Speaker 1: a useful tool. You can learn how to bully, you
Speaker 1: can learn how to normalize too.
Speaker 3: Get read the caption for normalized. It's crazy all right.
Speaker 1: Normalize gives us the ability to make people think certain
Speaker 1: behaviors or feelings are normal, but I'm not sure it'll
Speaker 1: do much for us in a fight. That's a hell
Speaker 1: of an admission, right.
Speaker 3: The whole game is they're saying everything out loud.
Speaker 1: It's crazy, and so we the taxpayers, paid for this,
Speaker 1: and then you still have to pay for it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why I won't stream it. I'm not going
Speaker 3: to pay for it. I'm totally in the boycott bandwagon.
Speaker 3: I don't want to give them any money.
Speaker 1: What if I got you a copy, would you stream it?
Speaker 3: Probably would? Same with Star Wars. I don't want to
Speaker 3: download Star Wars Outlaws either for the same because it's
Speaker 3: because it's I mean, I know Stephen has his opinion,
Speaker 3: I have mine. There's a lot. It's just the whole
Speaker 3: thing is just woke as can be and it's gross.
Speaker 3: You remember, the character is just like they can't it's
Speaker 3: ol be softime as this thing now where like they
Speaker 3: don't want to make a a an attractive female protagonist.
Speaker 3: It's impossible. They can't do it right right, Yeah, Like
Speaker 3: every female protagonist now looks like a dude. When you
Speaker 3: see the voice actress and the motion caption actors for
Speaker 3: this game, for the protagonists in Star Wars Outlaws. She's
Speaker 3: a beautiful, gorgeous woman, and they and they made her
Speaker 3: look like Rocky Dennis.
Speaker 1: Oh, Like, this isn't the one who got turned into
Speaker 1: a monster.
Speaker 3: It's like the chin as big as the galaxy. It's
Speaker 3: just for some reason, they can't they can't do it.
Speaker 3: They can't make an attractive female.
Speaker 1: So instead of looking for the tower to find the Cantena,
Speaker 1: you look for her chin. I'm trying to remember Steven
Speaker 1: giving us directions like I'll ever use them, Okay, all right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I I just because I
Speaker 1: remember that one time, Remember that one time you really
Speaker 1: wanted that steamy Antifa romance novel and you wouldn't shut
Speaker 1: up about it, So I bought it for you, and
Speaker 1: then we did a whole show where you just read
Speaker 1: it out loud.
Speaker 3: On the air.
Speaker 1: What was the name of that, my Antifa lover?
Speaker 3: Ah, it's a long time ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, that was good time though. So, oh that
Speaker 1: was a good day.
Speaker 3: I don't think I could get through this game because
Speaker 3: I've been watching videos of it and stuff, and it's
Speaker 3: just dude, it's so insufferable. It's bad because there's enough
Speaker 3: woke garbage in video games, but they kind of like
Speaker 3: try to keep it, like, Hey, this isn't what we're doing,
Speaker 3: but it's what we're doing. And this is just right
Speaker 3: in your face.
Speaker 1: What is on her shirt? I thought it was Chae
Speaker 1: Gavera for a moment, and then I'm like, no, it
Speaker 1: looks like I don't know, I don't know what the
Speaker 1: hell's going on there. Yeah, this thing looks super woke.
Speaker 1: Yeah you can. So your powers are bullying, normalizing, and canceling.
Speaker 1: H And they spent how much money two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty thousand in the US government put in taxpayer money
Speaker 1: and that's not even counting with the EU put in there.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Man tweeted out so people can see.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Twitter, let's talk about Twitter for a moment.
Speaker 1: I happen to be reviewing the old Twitter, and I
Speaker 1: earlier I was telling Ross, Hey, we got these two
Speaker 1: parties coming up on let's see week and a half,
Speaker 1: So the tenth and the twelfth, right, So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do so not next week, but the week after. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do the first half of the week at the
Speaker 1: Greensboro still Actually I'm gonna be in Greensborough most of
Speaker 1: the week, but and we're gonna be doing a listener event. Now,
Speaker 1: the two events are slightly different, and I this is
Speaker 1: how sales and promotions did it. I we don't ros
Speaker 1: and I really don't control once you get into the
Speaker 1: planning part of this. But they are gonna have be
Speaker 1: two different experiences because the the Tryad party is free,
Speaker 1: but you do have to register, and I asked Ross
Speaker 1: to tweet out a link to that, and so if
Speaker 1: you go to our Twitter account at Casey on the Radio,
Speaker 1: you'll find that there and you can register for that
Speaker 1: because there is we do have a cap as to
Speaker 1: how many people can come. There will be a little
Speaker 1: bourbon tasting thing, you got to be twenty one, all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. So that's that's the Triad party.
Speaker 1: That is on a Tuesday, but it's early and then
Speaker 1: we got the debate that night, so you know, we'll
Speaker 1: get a little pregame for that. You're gonna want some
Speaker 1: bourbon probably or if you even if you don't drink,
Speaker 1: show up, just meet and greet thing. It's at the
Speaker 1: chop House on the Airport Highway there, all right, So
Speaker 1: that's Party one, and then on Thursday is the Triangle Party,
Speaker 1: and of course they came up with a name for it,
Speaker 1: Stewart's Glass Bourbon. That's gonna have a more, a much
Speaker 1: bigger bourbon component. So because of that, there is a
Speaker 1: ticket cost to that, but it's at a cool venue.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a lot of different bourbons, a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of stuff going on, so that too, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to register. And again the Triangle one does
Speaker 1: have a cost associated with it, but it's a much
Speaker 1: more extensive bourbon thing. So but it's also a chance
Speaker 1: just to get together and talk about the debate that
Speaker 1: was had been on Tuesday and which I'm sure we'll
Speaker 1: still be fresh in people's minds. However, what the two
Speaker 1: do have in common is neither of them are in
Speaker 1: any way, shape or form a celebration of my birthday.
Speaker 1: Why did you write that on there? People are going
Speaker 1: to come to this thing and wish me happy birthday,
Speaker 1: and it's not it's not even close to my birthday.
Speaker 3: Looking forward to celebrating your birthday. We've been looking forward
Speaker 3: to this for a long time.
Speaker 1: When you write that people believe that, and then they
Speaker 1: say it, and then I have to have fifty awkward
Speaker 1: conversations about it not being my perth wor day and
Speaker 1: a cake not having a cake. We're having bourbon.
Speaker 3: We've booked a magician.
Speaker 1: Which is fine if it was my birthday and a
Speaker 1: clown and a clown. We don't have a clown? Is
Speaker 1: it Doink? If it's Doink, I'm excited.
Speaker 3: Who told him it was Donk?
Speaker 1: You did yesterday? I think, or you brought it?
Speaker 3: Definitely not Doink?
Speaker 1: Okay, all right? Who what was the Who was the
Speaker 1: clown on MTV? Remember that dude back in the day?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: That guy beals a bozo?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, what was the guy? He could never
Speaker 1: operate in the current environment. He was so he was
Speaker 1: so over the top. It's hilarious going back and looking
Speaker 1: at that stuff. And his whole stick was hold on,
Speaker 1: his whole stick was just how disgusting and degenerate. Yucko.
Speaker 1: Remember Yuko the clown, That's what it was. Yucko.
Speaker 3: Just to clarify too, you don't have to bring gifts. Well,
Speaker 3: let's not get crazy. Remember that time you got snake chuck? Right,
Speaker 3: you should probably bring gifts, so.
Speaker 1: But not for Ross because he's not gonna be there,
Speaker 1: so Ross doesn't need any gifts, and I'm not hauling
Speaker 1: gifts for Ross. I got. I had to do that
Speaker 1: at the friend Happy Birthday, very and masculine. It's not
Speaker 1: my day either, but we do have links to both events.
Speaker 1: You want to get registered, I expect you to be there,
Speaker 1: even if you just pop in for a little while
Speaker 1: and meet some of the other listeners. That'll be okay,
Speaker 1: all right, eight forty three k O Day Radio program.
Speaker 1: All right, handled that business. Let's handle I got to
Speaker 1: play this piece of audio for your you know what.
Speaker 1: We'll get into the CNN stuff here in just a moment.
Speaker 1: Let's do is is Ray ready, Let's do a race agent.
Speaker 1: We'll do the audio at the end. I gotta, I
Speaker 1: gotta show this CNN stuff. How you doing, sir?
Speaker 4: Good?
Speaker 1: Good good?
Speaker 6: How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm pretty good? Just uh, just trying to correct some
Speaker 1: some inaccurate information that was on the social media. Whenever.
Speaker 1: Now that what's going.
Speaker 7: On never happened, you should try being in my feel
Speaker 7: of work. You should talk about inaccurate information.
Speaker 1: Dude. I would intentionally you tell you if I had
Speaker 1: access to the weather Channel account. I would I would
Speaker 1: tweet out things like Omaha, Nebraska, fire NATO's from ten
Speaker 1: to three today because I want look, then everyone's talking
Speaker 1: about the weather, sure, right, because they're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: fire NATO's that sounds horrible. Yeah, and if it doesn't happen,
Speaker 1: then they're relieved if fire Nato didn't eat their house.
Speaker 1: So win, win, win, and you get the clicks, so
Speaker 1: people be sharing the hell out there.
Speaker 6: You're welcome, break that down, fire Nato.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, got it all right.
Speaker 7: So everybody probably now or by now, after we've had
Speaker 7: this week, is probably looking for a break and it's coming.
Speaker 7: Won't be today though, Heat advisory triangle it looks like east.
Speaker 6: They're mostly east.
Speaker 7: Try it no temperatures between probably ninety four ninety eight,
Speaker 7: with the hottest in and around Raleigh heat in X
Speaker 7: two one oh five. That's why they got the heat
Speaker 7: advisory there. And then we'll start seeing isolated showers, thundershowers
Speaker 7: try to pop late afternoon or evening. I really don't
Speaker 7: think there's going to be much rain, if any at all,
Speaker 7: but it's there. You'll see the clouds a build and
Speaker 7: be like, I wonder if it's going to rain, probably not,
Speaker 7: but small chance. Tomorrow afternoon a little better chance of
Speaker 7: scattered storms that'll keep us near ninety, and the same
Speaker 7: for the holiday weekend. Scattered showers, thunder showers, most of
Speaker 7: them are going to be during the afternoon, so typical
Speaker 7: summertime weather. We'll still stay in the upper eighties, low
Speaker 7: nineties until Labor Day, when we'll be in the mid
Speaker 7: upper eighties and into next week. Looks like some drier
Speaker 7: air after Monday, starting to commit or trying to get
Speaker 7: in near with hies, maybe only in the seventies, and
Speaker 7: the lows in some spots could be down into the
Speaker 7: fifties a low sixties. So it looks like some real
Speaker 7: pleasant air starting to move back in here, and maybe
Speaker 7: a longer term trend, at least for a few days.
Speaker 6: We'll jump into the tropics.
Speaker 7: The wave that had a twenty percent chance of developing
Speaker 7: churning in the Central Atlantic now has a chance of
Speaker 7: developing in the next seven days, So casey, when we're
Speaker 7: back here next Tuesday, we'll probably chat.
Speaker 6: More about that if it does develop into something.
Speaker 1: I like where you're going with this, though, appreciate that,
Speaker 1: all right, that's some good tomorrow. Why wouldn't I be
Speaker 1: here tomorrow.
Speaker 6: It's a holiday weekend.
Speaker 1: It's not a four day weekend.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It's just so weird. Like I got and then like
Speaker 1: management asked me the other day, if we're going to
Speaker 1: be here Monday?
Speaker 3: Wait, so we have tomorrow off?
Speaker 1: Now? See this is see what you just started. Now
Speaker 1: I got to deal with it.
Speaker 6: I thought you'd be asking me, are you going to
Speaker 6: be here tomorrow? But I will be here.
Speaker 3: No, We're gonna be It's a good point. Why don't
Speaker 3: we have tomorrow off?
Speaker 1: It's not don't know this? Guys got the tweet about
Speaker 1: my party, right busy.
Speaker 3: I've been busy working on your birthday and I wasn't
Speaker 3: aware we had tomorrow birthday.
Speaker 1: Whatever.
Speaker 7: That is all right, ken boone is only one text
Speaker 7: away and I could call him up.
Speaker 6: It'll be more than willing to come in tomorrow.
Speaker 1: So are we here? At least he likes talking to us,
Speaker 1: That's right. I'm not saying all your guys do.
Speaker 3: So yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway, all right, we got a roll. Thank you. Jeff
Speaker 1: Bellinger coming up next.
Speaker 8: Hang on, O, good morning, Casey. You look at how
Speaker 8: the economy performed in the spring, just released this morning,
Speaker 8: and this suggests the economy was doing a bit better
Speaker 8: than previously estimated. The government says the gross domestic product
Speaker 8: expanded at a three percent annual rate in the second quarter.
Speaker 8: The prior estimate was two point eight percent. We'll get
Speaker 8: one more look at these numbers about a month from now.
Speaker 8: Another report from Washington says new claims for unemployment benefits
Speaker 8: fell back by two thousand to two hundred and thirty
Speaker 8: one thousand last week. And we've got to talk about
Speaker 8: Nvidia and Video released its much anticipated quarterly results after
Speaker 8: the markets closed yesterday. If almost any other company reported
Speaker 8: a similar performance, investors would have likely penic static. The
Speaker 8: chip maker sales and earnings more than doubled, but the
Speaker 8: expectations for Nvidia were so high that investors we're disappointed.
Speaker 8: The company said there are some issues holding up the
Speaker 8: release of its next generation chip, called Blackwell and Video
Speaker 8: shares fell, and after hours trading they are a bit
Speaker 8: lower this morning, but the futures overall look good. The
Speaker 8: S and P futures are up nineteen points, Nasdaq futures
Speaker 8: or up sixty four. The Dow futures are up two
Speaker 8: hundred and eighty seven. Points, A Big Lots is reportedly
Speaker 8: considering filing for bankruptcy. Sales for the discount chain have
Speaker 8: been trending lower for years now. Sources say a Chapter
Speaker 8: eleven filing is just one possibility. A Big Lots said
Speaker 8: to be looking for investors so it can avoid bankruptcy.
Speaker 8: Electric vehicle sales still a tough sell here in the US.
Speaker 8: JD Power cut its EV sales forecast, now estimating battery
Speaker 8: powered cars will account for just nine percent of total
Speaker 8: sales this year. In case, Human Mobile Devices is teamed
Speaker 8: up with Mattel on a Barbie themed flip phone. The
Speaker 8: pink phone greets the user with a high Barbie voice
Speaker 8: message when it's turned on. Parental concerns may be east
Speaker 8: some though. This phone can make calls and send text messages,
Speaker 8: but it cannot access the Internet. Social media apps can't
Speaker 8: be installed. The phone will be available here in the
Speaker 8: US in October.
Speaker 1: Casey oh boy, I'm rushing right out for one of those. Actually,
Speaker 1: I would like that because if you can't access the Internet,
Speaker 1: they can't make me work with the thing. So maybe
Speaker 1: that's where you go. All right, you'll be here tomorrow.
Speaker 8: Right, I will be yes off on Monday, but here tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. Our weather guy is like, are you guys
Speaker 1: even here tomorrow? And I'm like, did we miss another holiday?
Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll be here tomorrow. All right, We'll talk
Speaker 1: to you yeah ago. Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg News. What is uh?
Speaker 1: This is embarrassing?
Speaker 6: Ross.
Speaker 1: I just realized I've never been in a big lots?
Speaker 1: What is What do they sell?
Speaker 3: I just racking my brain. They've got furniture, They've got tables.
Speaker 3: They just assume it's like overflow, you know, a little
Speaker 3: bit of everything. Yeah, they've got groceries, they got toys,
Speaker 3: they got stuff for the holidays, like the Core and
Speaker 3: stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I just it's so weird. I just was racking. I
Speaker 1: just realized, I don't think I've ever staid foot in
Speaker 1: a big lot. So is it a membership thing or
Speaker 1: it is not? Oh okay, well maybe I should go
Speaker 1: to a big lots. There we go, all right, real quick, CNN,
Speaker 1: what are they concerned about? Well, let's just say that
Speaker 1: this panel was way too excited about Tim Walls. This
Speaker 1: LoveFest is great, but it's a good thing. The dudes
Speaker 1: were sitting down. If you catch madriff, listen to this
Speaker 1: over what a regular guy Tim Walls is.
Speaker 9: In the battle for younger voters, both the Harris and
Speaker 9: Trump campaigns have turned to social media influencers to try
Speaker 9: to bring in new voters. Here is the latest instance.
Speaker 9: This is Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walls mehein all right.
Speaker 1: Now, I just real quick. So you heard it set up.
Speaker 1: He is sitting there and he's trying to reach essentially
Speaker 1: new voters, right, really young. That's why you go on
Speaker 1: these a lot of these podcasts and you go with
Speaker 1: these young influencers. So understand what he's talking about here
Speaker 1: in a moment. How weird it is to use the
Speaker 1: word of the day to bring up on that particular
Speaker 1: thing on.
Speaker 9: The popular TikTok show Subway takes.
Speaker 6: So what's your take?
Speaker 8: My take is the most neglected part of home ownership
Speaker 8: is the gutters.
Speaker 4: It's personal for me.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent agree.
Speaker 3: I've had problems with gutters.
Speaker 8: Before you get your basement wet, you get ash dams
Speaker 8: caused a lot of problems.
Speaker 1: How often do you like looking at gutters?
Speaker 8: I look quite often, surprisingly because I can't judge it,
Speaker 8: you know, I try not to be judgmental on people
Speaker 8: but when I see a well tended gutter, it says
Speaker 8: a lot about somebody.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 1: Listen to.
Speaker 3: And it gives me a little bit PTSD.
Speaker 8: I remember as a child, my father would make me
Speaker 8: take a forty foot ladder and walk up and pull
Speaker 8: the Oh, we.
Speaker 9: Didn't even play the part where they get to the ladders. Guys,
Speaker 9: can you pull that up? I'm probably asking them too
Speaker 9: much of the control on, but continue would.
Speaker 8: I would have to get the leaves out of our
Speaker 8: gutters at our home, and we had a we had
Speaker 8: a sloping backyard.