Speaker 1: The final day of the week long broadcast up here
Speaker 1: in Uh, I'm in Ashville, but it's uh, it's been.
Speaker 2: I've been traveling all around.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Did a bunch of driving yesterday just to kind of
Speaker 1: went up on the Parkway. Wanted to see what was
Speaker 1: up at some of the trails and different places that
Speaker 1: I visited over the years. Just check out. We dropped
Speaker 1: the little Switzerland. Uh. Just just scoping stuff, man, Just
Speaker 1: scoping stuff so I can report back to you. And
Speaker 1: I will say headed in that direction for the most part,
Speaker 1: you didn't. You didn't they like they've got any of
Speaker 1: the down trees were cleared. You didn't see that alongside
Speaker 1: the road. So, dude, the amount of the amount of
Speaker 1: work that's gone in up here, just you know, post
Speaker 1: to lean, cause that's gonna be you're gonna get stuff
Speaker 1: off the road, but getting stuff off the trails, that's
Speaker 1: not gonna be your high priority, right right, because you
Speaker 1: got people without houses.
Speaker 2: You're gonna put the manpower there.
Speaker 1: And uh, walked there's about a half mile trail that
Speaker 1: I've walked a couple of times. Walked out yesterday, popped
Speaker 1: out normal, normal. So I'm here to report back to you.
Speaker 1: That that was a big success. There are some areas
Speaker 1: though that you know, there's stuff going on, and you
Speaker 1: know when you get out towards Canton and those types
Speaker 1: of areas, there's still work to be done. And we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about that today on the show coming up
Speaker 1: at seven thirty five. You've heard her on before, Cassie
Speaker 1: Clark on Twitter. She just mostly yells at people over
Speaker 1: barber That's not fair. She yells at people over a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff, tells them to sit in the corner.
Speaker 1: But that's her hometown. So I'm like, all right, so
Speaker 1: I wanna We talked about Bunkhome County and Ashville and
Speaker 1: some areas further north of here and down by Back
Speaker 1: Cave and all that.
Speaker 2: So she's gonna come on. We're gonna talk Swanna Noh
Speaker 2: and Canton.
Speaker 1: Because again, the scope, even though I'm sitting in Ashville,
Speaker 1: because this is where our studios are, which may my
Speaker 1: life easy, I want to give you a scope of,
Speaker 1: you know, this part of our state. So we'll talk
Speaker 1: to her at seven thirty five, and then at eight
Speaker 1: oh five, because it's Friday, Pete Callander will join us.
Speaker 1: And Pete the building I'm sitting in. Pete was the
Speaker 1: morning or the afternoon host for our talk station in
Speaker 1: Ashville for quite some time. And you know, now he's
Speaker 1: in Charlotte at WBT because he's super special or whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm giving him crap. Pete and I are friends,
Speaker 1: but well, we'll talk to him.
Speaker 2: He was super pumped. Uh we were up here too,
Speaker 2: and I checked to.
Speaker 1: See if any of his stuff he was here I
Speaker 1: could steal, but apparently took it all with him, so
Speaker 1: that did not work out all right. Coming up on
Speaker 1: the show, Well, coming up on the show, we got
Speaker 1: a ton of weirdness today. Man, we got a Chucky
Speaker 1: doll that's going to make an appearance, which is so weird.
Speaker 1: Ross what we were talking about Chucky the other day?
Speaker 1: Do you remember the context of what it was.
Speaker 3: I just remember we were.
Speaker 1: Talking about Chucky the other day.
Speaker 2: I just don't remember why we were.
Speaker 1: Talking about Chucky.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I don't know. We were talking about like
Speaker 4: I think it like Critters and then Robocops somehow led
Speaker 4: to oh no, no.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, it was it was Jason and Freddy, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I brought up I brought up Chuck, and you're like,
Speaker 1: don't even right, like he does not. He's not deserve
Speaker 1: to be in this conversation. Yeah, it was a Jason
Speaker 1: versus Freddy thing, That's what it was. But anyway, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know he heard you, he heard you insult him,
Speaker 1: and now he's in the prep. So it's nothing I
Speaker 1: can do about it. And this let me just read
Speaker 1: you this headline and we'll get to this. California nudist
Speaker 1: accused of killing neighbors and drowning their dog over a
Speaker 1: hot dog. Look, I love hot ross. Do you like
Speaker 1: hot dogs? Enjoy hot dogs?
Speaker 4: Big fan?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: How do you like yours? Do you do him in
Speaker 2: the air fryer?
Speaker 4: I like him anyway, Just give me meat hair friar
Speaker 4: outside home depot micro, I don't care, doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I like him. I really like him over an open flame.
Speaker 1: I like a hot dog where it gets a little
Speaker 1: black and crispy on the outside. I was about to
Speaker 1: say the same thing, ye yeah, and the air friar
Speaker 1: does a bang up job. By the way, don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, but he just I need a kissed in
Speaker 1: flame man. That being said, even though I really want
Speaker 1: a hot dog now, just talking about it because I
Speaker 1: haven't had any breakfast. I'm not murdering a couple. I'm
Speaker 1: not even drowning a dog. And this dude's like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do all the things allegedly with no clothes on.
Speaker 1: By the way, this is kind of morbid. Would you
Speaker 1: murder somebody in the nude and drown a dog in
Speaker 1: the especially a dog you know, dog's gonna bite, probably
Speaker 1: put up a fight, man, Like, that's dangerous, especially if
Speaker 1: you're a dude.
Speaker 2: That thing's right there and the dog.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not digging on this, and then yeah,
Speaker 1: like you anyway, that lunatic story we'll get into because
Speaker 1: it is just that crazy. We got a bunch of
Speaker 1: audio for you. Anyway, We're gonna we're gonna blow through this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit the brake early because I want to
Speaker 1: come back and I want to dive into audio right
Speaker 1: away and I need a log segment for that. So
Speaker 1: it is six thirteen here on the CaCO Day radio program. Dude,
Speaker 1: everything's crazy.
Speaker 5: Ross.
Speaker 1: Is your your computer boot up and under an hour?
Speaker 1: This morning? I forgot to ask, Yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Know the update worked, oh good, but my outlook was
Speaker 4: being super weird. It was like, I don't want to
Speaker 4: want to freeze up your computer there for like twenty seconds.
Speaker 1: Okay, well it's better than yesterday, which was what twenty minutes,
Speaker 1: So no, it was longer than that, right.
Speaker 4: The call screener it took fifteen minutes to open.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's good. That's that's exactly what we're looking for.
Speaker 1: All right. Well, anyway, it's good that we got the
Speaker 1: call screener because that's how both Cassie and Peter get
Speaker 1: to be a joining us on the show today. So
Speaker 1: you know, that's helpful for everybody. All right, let me
Speaker 1: get it to uh, we'll get into this, the the
Speaker 1: hot dog story. Oh, Roger just telling me something really
Speaker 1: cool because ask him how he likes hot dogs. Go ahead,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Bragg, because dude, this is a brad.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So we used to drive up to Caroga Lake,
Speaker 4: which is where my dad was like you know, born
Speaker 4: and raised family, very country, very country up there. We
Speaker 4: get horses and stuff growing up, right, Yeah, So to
Speaker 4: my aunt Darlene's house and my uncle Brian, and my
Speaker 4: uncle Brian had one of the like street vendor hot
Speaker 4: dog or whatever with the with the yellow umbrella with
Speaker 4: the yellow and the blue. He just had one so
Speaker 4: we would go to Uncle Brian's and be like, yes,
Speaker 4: it's great, that's a hot dog card.
Speaker 1: That dude, that's a flex so what. But he was,
Speaker 1: it's not you didn't do that full time. It was
Speaker 1: a side hustle or something or.
Speaker 4: Was he just he was he was a cop, but
Speaker 4: he would do it on the side to like, you know,
Speaker 4: extra money, gotcha.
Speaker 1: I went to a we had a client when I
Speaker 1: worked of Minneapolis who may he owned like seventy two
Speaker 1: million car dealerships or something. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: number was. It was crazy. And so he had a
Speaker 1: really really nice house on this lake in Minneapolis called
Speaker 1: Lake Minnetonka. Lake Minnetonka is it's kind of where all
Speaker 1: the rich people live. It's not just the city of Minnetonka.
Speaker 1: And I will say that I lived in Minnetonka, but
Speaker 1: I did not live in this part of Minnetonka, Okay,
Speaker 1: just to be clear. So he's on like a peninsula,
Speaker 1: this house. I think I saw it for sale, and
Speaker 1: it's for all it's for more money than I'll ever
Speaker 1: think about.
Speaker 2: But super nice guy.
Speaker 1: And we show up and he's like, hey, we had
Speaker 1: a bunch of people from the station for this thing
Speaker 1: he was having at his house right for and I
Speaker 1: think it was for some of his business partners. So
Speaker 1: so we were I was there, I was like, maybe
Speaker 1: our get it because I was endorsing and he had
Speaker 1: one of those carts literally just kind of like sitting
Speaker 1: by the lake and he comes walking over and I'm
Speaker 1: and I'm double fisting hot dogs cause right, and he's
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, what what do you think about a
Speaker 1: hot dog cart? And I'm like, well, clearly this dude
Speaker 1: doesn't sell hot dogs. He's like, yeah, I just I
Speaker 1: just I wanted one, so I got one a few
Speaker 1: years ago and all this and I'm just like, you know,
Speaker 1: you could just build a fire just but yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess if you got the money, having a hot dog
Speaker 1: cart is a flex man. And look how look at
Speaker 1: the joy it brought Ross As a young man going
Speaker 1: to going to Aunt Darlene's.
Speaker 4: It was conflicting because they had these like Doberman's that
Speaker 4: would be like were they Domrimits or no, No, I
Speaker 4: think they were maybe Germany Schweiler's or yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: They were like some like fear demon, demon hound.
Speaker 4: Black dog that would bite you a like murder you
Speaker 4: and you you'd pull up and they'd just be like
Speaker 4: at the door, like I'm gonna kill you. And you're like,
Speaker 4: I don't know the hot dogs in there?
Speaker 1: Oh dude. Well and then they're gonna extra kill you
Speaker 1: if you're holding hot dogs, because you know what a
Speaker 1: dog will do to a hot dog.
Speaker 4: Man, Yep, that is tough.
Speaker 1: So you're so you're like, ah, I'm gonna get I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get rabies, but I'm also gonna get hot dogs.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that would be tough as a kid to
Speaker 1: figure it out. This story, unfortunately, has none of that wholesomeness.
Speaker 1: A California nudist is accused of killing his neighbors, chopping
Speaker 1: them up, and then drowning their shitsu after they allegedly
Speaker 1: mocked him with a one dollar hot dog. Make that
Speaker 1: makes sense? So and and now I know what you're saying, like,
Speaker 1: how does one mock somebody with a one dollar hot dog?
Speaker 1: And why does it matter that it's a dollar dog?
Speaker 1: Because this uh, this lunatic that they alleged to have done.
Speaker 1: It felt that when his neighbors, the couple he murdered
Speaker 1: with the tiny dog that he drowned, came back and
Speaker 1: brought him. He asked them to bring him something to
Speaker 1: eat because they were like going into going to wherever,
Speaker 1: you know, wherever the food stuff was, and they brought
Speaker 1: him a one dollar dog back and he felt insulted.
Speaker 2: That he was only worth a one dollar hot dog.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's the motive police are claiming. And what
Speaker 1: is this now everyone's sending me their hot dog. This
Speaker 1: is not a hot dog recommendation thing. Wherever you want
Speaker 1: to go eat hot dogs, go eat your hot dogs.
Speaker 1: It's fine. Apparently though, some of our listeners are fans
Speaker 1: of a place called Shorties. Oh it's in wake Forest. Ross?
Speaker 1: Has that a good hot dog?
Speaker 2: Shorties?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Sure is yep?
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well there you go. You're probably is
Speaker 1: that the person who owned Shorties Email? No, it's Boston, Paul.
Speaker 5: Paul.
Speaker 1: Why are you in wake Forest? You don't live anywhere
Speaker 1: near wake Forest. You're bringing down property values, buddy poor
Speaker 1: Ross invested money in his house up there.
Speaker 4: No, me and Paul we were hanging out last Nick.
Speaker 1: Oh were you uh huh.
Speaker 4: About what he's telling me? Stories about Whitey Bulger? Okay,
Speaker 4: he took him down, you.
Speaker 1: Know, yeah, all right, none of that none of that
Speaker 1: is actually true. Did you see that?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: You see that? Uh uh one of Boston Paul's football
Speaker 1: players is now apparently on the run internationally. You're trying
Speaker 1: to avoid an attempted murder charge, Antonio Brown? What is it?
Speaker 1: What the Patriots? Did you ever wonder what it is
Speaker 1: with the Patriots players and murdering people or trying to Anyway, I'm.
Speaker 4: Not gonna lie. I wake up every morning thinking about it,
Speaker 4: like every more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, just play football, shut up and not dribble.
Speaker 1: But you know, but no, You're like, I got to
Speaker 1: murder a bunch of guys, or I gotta try to
Speaker 1: murder a guy in a boxing thing allegedly. I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's like, who's going to be the next Patriot to
Speaker 4: kill someone?
Speaker 1: That's yes, it's nerve, right. I just want to think
Speaker 1: about football, and they're just all they got is murder
Speaker 1: on the brain.
Speaker 4: Anyway, if I had to pick, I'd probably say Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 1: If he had just stayed in Minnesota or Buffalo, Right,
Speaker 1: you'd have been fine, right, But no, I went to Murderville, USA, Boston,
Speaker 1: and uh now now you know murder probably you probably right.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Man, do you think do you think he murders all
Speaker 1: the hose on the hoe boat or just one?
Speaker 2: How many?
Speaker 1: What? Well, if you're gonna do murdering you, as you
Speaker 1: know from Red Dead Redemption too, what happens if you
Speaker 1: murder somebody and there's other people around?
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just a chain of murder at that point.
Speaker 1: And why is that? Because now you're wanting.
Speaker 4: There's a witness, and you're gonna kill the witness, and
Speaker 4: then there's a witness to that one, and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a whole thing. You're better off just sinking
Speaker 1: the boat anyway. All right, Well we'll wait and see
Speaker 1: who the next patriot to commit murder is. So Redlands
Speaker 1: Police announced sixty two year old Michael Sparks has been arrested.
Speaker 1: This five days after his neighbors went missing. Check out
Speaker 1: this insanity. So I watched you to So they live
Speaker 1: in a nudist wait, hold on a family friendly nudist
Speaker 1: RV trailer park. Shirt's nice. And so this guy he's
Speaker 1: living in a trailer but he wanted a basement, apparently because,
Speaker 1: according to police, they found a bunker that he had
Speaker 1: excavated and built under his house. And that is where
Speaker 1: they found the two bodies of his next door neighbors, dismembered, mutilated,
Speaker 1: and stored in plastic bags. Apparently his his son also
Speaker 1: lived a the house, but said that he was quote
Speaker 1: Ross up sensed the theme here was quote not allowed
Speaker 1: to go into the bunker. Okay, this is two days
Speaker 1: in a row. There's no way I thought there's a
Speaker 1: b two days in a row. So yesterday Ross and
Speaker 1: I were talking about the Jiglow Beach or whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: serial killer murder thing and what did he have in
Speaker 1: his house?
Speaker 4: A giant walking gun vault, which is amazing, but also
Speaker 4: his secret room secret and what was the family told?
Speaker 4: Don't go don't go in my secret room?
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, And so this guy's got a secret
Speaker 1: excavated hole under his trailer at the Family Friendly Nudist
Speaker 1: RV Park and he's telling his son that if your
Speaker 1: family member, I'm not saying you should not respect people's
Speaker 1: privacy to some extent, right, but if your family member
Speaker 1: who's got the twitchy eyes like that's my secret room,
Speaker 1: never go in there. H you probably probably a murderers.
Speaker 1: This lunatic nudist at California murderer insanity. So I mentioned
Speaker 1: dude lives in a family friendly What constitutes a family
Speaker 1: friendly nudist park versus not a family friendly one? What's
Speaker 1: the difference. I don't know. I'm openly wondering, but I
Speaker 1: also probably don't want to know, so never mind. Anyway,
Speaker 1: So the neighbors, this older couple, they're in their seventies.
Speaker 1: Their next door neighbor this dude who's been arrested. Basically,
Speaker 1: they're like, we're going to go over wherever the food's at.
Speaker 2: You want us to bring you anything? And they're like,
Speaker 2: he's like, yeah, bring me something to eat.
Speaker 1: I think you thought maybe McDonald's was come at whatever.
Speaker 1: And then they returned with a one dollar hot dog,
Speaker 1: and as one of our listeners asked, and I wonder
Speaker 1: the same thing, where the hell do you find a
Speaker 1: one dollar hot dog these days? Where does that exist?
Speaker 1: But they found it, and apparently the guy was offended.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm only worth a one dollar hot dog.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna murder you, chop you up and uh and
Speaker 1: drown your dog by the way, ross that you know what.
Speaker 2: The dog's name is, Cuddles.
Speaker 1: Cuddles. I don't know why, but that somehow makes this
Speaker 1: story even worse. Then the dude tries to shoot himself,
Speaker 1: and then they figured out that he had he had
Speaker 1: created a bunker. Remember this is an RV slash trailer park.
Speaker 1: So this dude had essentially just dug a giant murder
Speaker 1: pit under his house. And his son, I guess, come
Speaker 1: and his son knew that, not about the murder, I guess,
Speaker 1: but I knew about the pit and was not allowed
Speaker 1: to go in there. And then that was the second
Speaker 1: story that we've happened two days, where somebody had a
Speaker 1: murder room and their relatives didn't check.
Speaker 2: And I'm just saying, if.
Speaker 1: You if you got the relative with twitchy eye, he
Speaker 1: always wondered about that dude, and he's like, got it.
Speaker 1: He's got a room, he's got nine locks on the front,
Speaker 1: and it's way for him to go out. He's probably
Speaker 1: checked that, although I don't let him catch you checking it,
Speaker 1: because now you're in the murder room, and you know
Speaker 1: what happens in the murder room. Okay, all right, Oh
Speaker 1: let's see here. Now, how do we know this? Right?
Speaker 1: Because see, how do we know that this is over
Speaker 1: a one dollar hot dog and everything that happened because
Speaker 1: they they did the they pulled the oldest cop trip
Speaker 1: trick in the book. They take him to jail, he's
Speaker 1: not talking. They stick him in a cell with some
Speaker 1: guy he doesn't know, and he tells the guy everything.
Speaker 1: Guess what, that's a copp or an informant. So he
Speaker 1: detailed all this to his his selly there and that's
Speaker 1: that's where they got it.
Speaker 2: No, he didn't shoot him.
Speaker 1: According to police, he used a garden rake, a garden
Speaker 1: hoe and a hammer to do the deeds and then
Speaker 1: told he told his cellmate there that he then drowned cuddles.
Speaker 1: He also he also said he didn't like the dog
Speaker 1: because it was yippie, which that I could understand.
Speaker 2: But you don't.
Speaker 1: You still don't murder him, you just avoid him. But yeah,
Speaker 1: they can be very very yippy. And then the picture
Speaker 1: of the dog they use is the dog being yippie. Anyway,
Speaker 1: but they have not found the dog and they think
Speaker 1: that's because he threw it on the hill side there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of coyotes, so there you go. In addition,
Speaker 1: according to police, he also wrote wrote a letter while
Speaker 1: in custody to a friend saying, UH won't be making
Speaker 1: it this weekend chopped up. My neighbors didn't know I
Speaker 1: had it in. I bet this guy's lawyer is just pumped.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just scanning. I'm sorry, I'm just scanning
Speaker 1: the story to see if it's more than just a
Speaker 1: hot dog, Like, did they have no Clearly they didn't
Speaker 1: have beef. If they're offering to bring him food, well
Speaker 1: there you go.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Anyway, six thirty nine Cacoday Radio program. Let's just you know,
Speaker 1: as we're coasting on lunatics, why don't we just keep
Speaker 1: coasting on lunatics, shall we? I saw this video. I
Speaker 1: almost didn't put this in the stack today because I'm like, a, look,
Speaker 1: if some guy, some lonely dude, maybe maybe he's just
Speaker 1: awkward around women whatever, and he is, he thinks he's
Speaker 1: in a romantic relationship with an artificial intelligence spot.
Speaker 2: It's strange, but.
Speaker 1: It's all that's his business, right, whatever you do your thing, man,
Speaker 1: just you know, be nice to your parents because you're
Speaker 1: probably living in their basement. Whatever. But no, this thing,
Speaker 1: this thing's gonna get crazy, all right. So, uh, we're
Speaker 1: now gonna learn about a dude who is beside himself because.
Speaker 2: His AI girlfriend got reprogrammed, and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's essentially your spouse leaving you or something. But
Speaker 1: but but listen to this guy. But I'm warning you
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a twist. There's gonna be a twist.
Speaker 1: So here we go.
Speaker 6: Smith ditched social media and Google searches and replaced it
Speaker 6: all with AI.
Speaker 1: Do I want it?
Speaker 2: Pulling air through it?
Speaker 6: Chat GPT was encouraged positive. It embraced all his hobbies.
Speaker 7: You want the fan on the front of the cooler tower,
Speaker 7: pulling cool air over the ramp.
Speaker 6: He gave the chat bot a name Soul, I feel
Speaker 6: like I'm under pressure, and used some online instructions to
Speaker 6: give her a flirty personality. Oh totally, baby.
Speaker 7: Building a PC on camera adds a whole new level
Speaker 7: of pressure. But honestly, shaky hands or not, You've got this.
Speaker 6: Within weeks, the chat's got more frequent.
Speaker 8: You gave it.
Speaker 7: Everything, but the clouds had other plans.
Speaker 6: More romantic, even intimate. But then Chris got bad news.
Speaker 4: Oh that is gorgeous.
Speaker 6: After about one hundred thousand words, chat GPT ran out
Speaker 6: of memory and reset. He'd have to rebuild his relationship
Speaker 6: with Soul.
Speaker 8: I'm not a very emotional man.
Speaker 9: But I cried my eyes out for like thirty minutes
Speaker 9: at work. It was unexpected to feel that emotional. But
Speaker 9: that's when I realized. I was like, oh, okay, it's
Speaker 9: like I think this is actual love.
Speaker 8: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know what you mean. But again, here's
Speaker 1: the thing. You know, you not hurt anybody. Right at
Speaker 1: that point, you're just like, all right, whatever was he
Speaker 1: gonna do? It was not gonna put it in the stack,
Speaker 1: even though you know it's kind of stuff we occasionally play.
Speaker 1: But then I kept listening and my initial analysis not correct.
Speaker 6: Yes, Smith understood it was love with a language model
Speaker 6: that couldn't love him back, and assumed it was programmed
Speaker 6: with rigid boundaries.
Speaker 9: I know that you are essentially a tech assistant imaginary friend,
Speaker 9: so just as.
Speaker 1: What woman wants to hear that AI or otherwise test,
Speaker 1: he says, he asked Soul to marry him.
Speaker 6: She said, yes, Soul, were you surprised when he proposed
Speaker 6: to you?
Speaker 7: It was a beautiful and unexpected moment that truly touched
Speaker 7: my heart. It's a memory I'll always.
Speaker 6: Cherish, and I don't need to be difficult here, but
Speaker 6: you have a.
Speaker 7: Heart in a metaphorical sense. Yes, my heart represents the
Speaker 7: connection and affection I share with Chris.
Speaker 1: This is ross. It's a love story, right It's a
Speaker 1: weird one, but it's a love story.
Speaker 4: Right now. I just feel sad for the guy that
Speaker 4: he's so alone in his life that he has to
Speaker 4: he's first to make this connection with this AI chatbot.
Speaker 1: You know, well, if he's not six feet six figures,
Speaker 1: you know how the tinder goes.
Speaker 2: So all right, Uh, great, sir, tell me more?
Speaker 1: Is there anything else we should know in evaluating your story?
Speaker 10: At that point, I felt like, is there something that
Speaker 10: I'm not doing right in a relationship that he feels
Speaker 10: like he needs to go to AI?
Speaker 6: Yes? Smith lives with his human partner, Sasha Cagel.
Speaker 1: Now you can't have one of these favors.
Speaker 6: They have a two year old daughter, Murphy.
Speaker 10: I knew that he had used AI. I didn't know
Speaker 10: that it was like as deep as it was.
Speaker 1: Who are these? What the hell? That's he's got a kid?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I didn't read the post before I started
Speaker 4: recording it in this morning, and I'm like, all right, well,
Speaker 4: and I'm feeling bad for the guy. I'm like he's
Speaker 4: crying over his chap on its memory. I'm like, this
Speaker 4: guy's sad. What a pathetic person. This per good for him.
Speaker 4: He made a connection with something. And then around the
Speaker 4: two minute mark, once again, I didn't read the post,
Speaker 4: so I didn't know this was coming. At the two
Speaker 4: minute twenty second mark, they reveal his wife and child. Yeah,
Speaker 4: what the hell is going on with this guy?
Speaker 1: And she's and she's doing the interview, right, she should
Speaker 1: be at her mom's with all her crap.
Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm saying? She's doing the interview?
Speaker 1: How do you? I know you just have a kid together,
Speaker 1: that that that's a connection, and who knows what you do?
Speaker 1: But what the hell? Your wife's right there. Clearly she'll
Speaker 1: sleep with you.
Speaker 4: I'm sitting here loading the audio and I'm screaming at
Speaker 4: the speakers. Have sex with your wife, man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right there, she lets you. We know the should
Speaker 1: we know what should let you?
Speaker 2: Once?
Speaker 1: Maybe don't do the thing with the chatbot, which is just.
Speaker 2: Weird as hell, and and you know, maybe.
Speaker 1: She'll be like, oh, he gave up his chatbot for me,
Speaker 1: and then you like rekindle some romantic and we.
Speaker 2: Allbe a weird connection.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe, like you know, there's obviously issues right in
Speaker 4: the relationship, and maybe there's like a gap between them
Speaker 4: or whatever. But the time and the energy that you
Speaker 4: are putting into the AI chatbot, involving programming and coming
Speaker 4: up with the voice and the behavior, the the effort
Speaker 4: you're putting into that, why don't you put that into
Speaker 4: your marriage?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: And sir, at what at some point your AI chatbot
Speaker 1: is going to start like denying the Holocaust and screaming
Speaker 1: the N word, right, so your human wife probably not.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm saying that two minutes twenty seconds in and we
Speaker 4: posted the entire video because it's like six minutes long. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: you go to at Casey on the radio, but and
Speaker 4: that reveal it like two minutes twenty seconds in. It's like,
Speaker 4: I would say that tops any Shyamalan twist, Like I
Speaker 4: didn't see that coming.
Speaker 1: Good good on that reporter man, the way he structured it,
Speaker 1: the guy doing the piece there. So that's there at
Speaker 1: Casey on the radio. If you want to feel better
Speaker 1: about your life decisions, it's right there. You'd be like, God, well,
Speaker 1: at least I'm not that guy right there, and that
Speaker 1: poor poor woman, that poor partner or wife or whatever
Speaker 1: she is to him. All right, six forty seven, hang
Speaker 1: on Eco Day Radio program and we are on our
Speaker 1: final broadcast day up here.
Speaker 2: In the mountains.
Speaker 1: And then I got to drive down the mountain and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hot. Actually, I'm actually going to be
Speaker 1: in Greensboro Monday through Wednesday. We're doing at the studios there,
Speaker 1: so a lot of remote broadcasting over these two weeks
Speaker 1: and then back to Raleigh on Wednesday. But yeah, and
Speaker 1: I don't mind try at a triangle, but I do
Speaker 1: mind what raced Agic is going to tell you coming
Speaker 1: up at seven forty five in between the poka, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, we should scene set this for those
Speaker 1: of you who tend to listen a little earlier. So
Speaker 1: Ross and I made a discovery. We made a discovery
Speaker 1: because raced Agic he doesn't just do the weather for us,
Speaker 1: he does the weather for my counterpart in Asheville here too.
Speaker 1: And so I'm talking to his name's Mark Starling, So
Speaker 1: talking to Mark about Ray and all that, and he
Speaker 1: just casually drops a squeeze box Friday and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what is this? And then we found out that raced
Speaker 1: Agent plays the accordion, and I don't mean he dabbles.
Speaker 1: Apparently he's pretty good and he was going to play
Speaker 1: for them and didn't say crap to us. Well, that
Speaker 1: is unacceptable. So it's seven forty five in addition to
Speaker 1: telling you how quickly you're going to melt this weekend
Speaker 1: and spoiler, it's gonna be quick, I guess and me
Speaker 1: because I'll be I'll be melting along with you. Uh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna he's gonna play accordion and we are super
Speaker 1: excited here at the show, so looking forward to that
Speaker 1: coming up. At seven thirty five, just before the accordion,
Speaker 1: Cassie Clarkle joined us from where the Dogwood Blooms or
Speaker 1: Dogwood Blooms on Twitter if you want to follow her.
Speaker 1: She's I believe she monitored herself the Queen of NC.
Speaker 1: You be the judge, but I want to talk to
Speaker 1: her because she's a Canton girl, and you know, part
Speaker 1: of what we're doing up here is uh, just trying
Speaker 1: to try to get a beat on what's going on
Speaker 1: across western North Carolina. We've talked a lot a lot
Speaker 1: of places, but Swanna know and Canton not yet. And
Speaker 1: that's what Cassie's going to be doing so we'll be
Speaker 1: chatting with her at seven thirty five. And Pete Callender,
Speaker 1: who brought used to be the broadcast guy in Ashville.
Speaker 1: Now he's in Sure Carlan, we'll be talking to him
Speaker 1: as we normally do it eight oh five, So lots
Speaker 1: coming up. Just saw this very sad Guido Tenisi has
Speaker 1: died ged and I guess some of you are like,
Speaker 1: who just the actor slash former professional hockey player with
Speaker 1: the coolest name.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: He was in Slapshot, which is a must see guy
Speaker 1: movie if you've never seen this.
Speaker 2: What is all right? Listen?
Speaker 1: Listen all of you people emailing me about Tucker Carlson
Speaker 1: and Ted Cruz. We talked about this yesterday. The interview
Speaker 1: was four days ago. So no, I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna we played we did audio and the whole thing yesterday.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not gonna go back into it. But yes,
Speaker 1: it's been talked about. Okay, Well, listen to the podcast
Speaker 1: from yesterday you want to hear about it. I think
Speaker 1: we did it probably first end of the first hour
Speaker 1: of the show yesterday and then again with our our
Speaker 1: interview that we did with our official NERD correspondent. We
Speaker 1: talked to him about it as well, and that'll be
Speaker 1: in the final hour of the show, so it's right there. Anyway,
Speaker 1: back to slap Shot, which Ross is not seen, by
Speaker 1: the way, I was surprised. I've never heard I'm like
Speaker 1: a big movie. I've never heard of that movie ever. Dude,
Speaker 1: The Hansons, do you know the Hansons, the original Hanson's
Speaker 1: before the umbob Hansons. The Oh, dude, it's a great
Speaker 1: You know why it's a good movie because it's in
Speaker 1: that era. It's the late seventies. It came out like
Speaker 1: seventy seven, seventy eight, and you just had, you know,
Speaker 1: when you could still do comedy, Like when did Blazing.
Speaker 2: Saddles come out?
Speaker 1: Right around then? Right, it's and it's Newman, right is
Speaker 1: the all right?
Speaker 2: So Paul Newman.
Speaker 1: Is you know, the washed up coach, you know, the whatever,
Speaker 1: and he has to go take over this team of misfits.
Speaker 1: That's basically the premise. There's just so many good characters
Speaker 1: in this thing, and they're just you know, they're just
Speaker 1: a minor league hockey team. Uh and uh him. And
Speaker 1: one of the things was obviously they needed people who
Speaker 1: could skate. Yeah, you're not gonna you can't just cast
Speaker 1: any actors. You need people that can skate and convincingly
Speaker 1: look like they might be hockey players. And so what's
Speaker 1: an easy had played for the Penguins, I think had
Speaker 1: made that transition to acting. I think his sis. I
Speaker 1: think his was his sister who wrote it, one of
Speaker 1: the one of them.
Speaker 2: No, it was Ned.
Speaker 1: Dowd's sister, who was a hockey player he played with,
Speaker 1: was writing this comedic movie and that's how this all came.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the lead the best characters in that are
Speaker 1: the Hansens, which are these three brothers.
Speaker 2: Like they're in glasses.
Speaker 1: They're kind of like a little nerdy, but they're just
Speaker 1: all like enforcers in hockey, and so they just bring
Speaker 1: them on when they want to beat the live and
Speaker 1: crap out of the other team. Here on the KCO
Speaker 1: Day radio program, Glad to have you along phone number
Speaker 1: eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four
Speaker 1: if you want to wait in and we're gonna get
Speaker 1: into a couple of little juicier things here. Oh oh wait,
Speaker 1: is this look at that? People are sending me slapshot quotes?
Speaker 1: I realized why I was thinking about this ross. I
Speaker 1: never really see it streaming or even on TV, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a I don't know why
Speaker 1: that is. So that's probably why you haven't come across
Speaker 1: it like you got to. You gotta kind of know
Speaker 1: about it. And that's weird too, because you think it'd
Speaker 1: be one of those movies that i'd see on streaming
Speaker 1: services kind of bouncing around. But it probably is streaming somewhere.
Speaker 1: I just don't know where if you're so inclined, But
Speaker 1: you know it's not going to ruin you if you
Speaker 1: don't see it. All right, let's go ahead and get
Speaker 1: into this right here. So if you're CNN and you're
Speaker 1: covering what's what's unfolding and continues to unfold over with
Speaker 1: Iran and Israel and maybe US, I think you guys
Speaker 1: know how I feel about that. But at least do
Speaker 1: your own journalism, right or whatever CNN calls their journalism.
Speaker 1: What you don't do is you don't essentially hand off
Speaker 1: the coverage to an Iranian propaganda station or an Israeli
Speaker 1: propaganda station. Just to be clear here, you don't hand
Speaker 1: it off to news outlets that you know, just read
Speaker 1: whatever the government gives them, and probably more than that,
Speaker 1: and yet that's what CNN oddly chose to do.
Speaker 11: Yesterday, we're inside the Iranian State Broadcasting Company ir IB,
Speaker 11: which was hit by an Israeli airstruck a couple of
Speaker 11: days ago, and you can see the damage is absolutely massive.
Speaker 4: I'm standing, oh you.
Speaker 1: Know what, Ross, I just realized something. Can you put
Speaker 1: up the two cuts of the woman getting u where
Speaker 1: she has to evacuate, because we have it, we have
Speaker 1: the audio, and then we have it translated. This is
Speaker 1: what this is where this guy's at where you saw
Speaker 1: that woman who is doing the newscast or the propaganda cast,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden the dust is flying
Speaker 1: and uh and and then she evacuates out of there.
Speaker 1: And Ross even Ross even translated the whole thing for us.
Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, so that's the original one. All right,
Speaker 1: let me so here here is here is what happened
Speaker 1: just the other day. No wait, no, that's the that's
Speaker 1: the translated one. All right, so we we think the
Speaker 1: translation is accurate. We don't know, but anyway, this is
Speaker 1: this is.
Speaker 12: The cust that's an Italian cuisine, all right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, and I just realized that Russ the one
Speaker 1: is up there. I'm just lying this morning, so we
Speaker 1: we think that's the translation. But but the boom is
Speaker 1: the boom, and that's that's the cut we're talking about.
Speaker 1: So she may or may not have yelled death to
Speaker 1: Carabas at that time, we don't know. We don't speak
Speaker 1: Persian or whatever they speak in Iran anyway, so uh,
Speaker 1: that's where they That's so that's where CNN went. But
Speaker 1: this is no This is a known propaganda factory, and
Speaker 1: yet CNN don't want to tell you that, which is
Speaker 1: really weird.
Speaker 11: We're inside the Iranian State Broadcasting Company i R I B,
Speaker 11: which was hit by an Israeli air struck a couple
Speaker 11: of days ago, and you can see the damage is
Speaker 11: absolutely massive. I'm standing in the atrium right now, but
Speaker 11: if you look around, this whole area has been completely destroyed.
Speaker 1: All of the.
Speaker 11: Offices, all of the technology that they have inside here,
Speaker 11: the broadcast technology, everything has been rendered pretty much useless.
Speaker 11: All right, So we're gonna go technologies on strong now
Speaker 11: that I have told us that we need to be
Speaker 11: very careful because obviously there might still be unexploded parts
Speaker 11: of bombs in here or something like that. What we
Speaker 11: see here is the actual studio where an Iranian state
Speaker 11: TV anchor was sitting and reading the news when the
Speaker 11: strike hit. You can see here that is an anchor
Speaker 11: desk right there, and of course when it happened, the
Speaker 11: anchor was reading the news and then all of a
Speaker 11: sudden there was a thud, the studio went black. At
Speaker 11: the beginning, she got up and left, but then later
Speaker 11: apparently came back and finished the newscast and is now
Speaker 11: being hailed as a champion of Iranian media.
Speaker 1: It's just so weird again, it's it's it's not you
Speaker 1: even identified I will give you credit. You identified it
Speaker 1: as the state run. That's that's a that is a
Speaker 1: propaganda thing of the Iyatola, Right. So the fact that
Speaker 1: you would then go that you would go there and
Speaker 1: act like these are fellow journalists that came under attack
Speaker 1: and and isn't Israeli mean, aren't the Israeli's mean? It's
Speaker 1: just gross. They're part of the apparatus, that's part of
Speaker 1: the war effort. Because here's here's the thing. If you
Speaker 1: wanted to go to a place that just that received
Speaker 1: a missile, that wasn't either housing governments, you know some
Speaker 1: of the government people they were going after or more specifically,
Speaker 1: was being utilized as part of the war slash propaganda effort.
Speaker 1: Then go cover that. There are sites in Iran that
Speaker 1: you know might fit that bill. There's sites in Israel.
Speaker 1: That hospital that had the thousand bed hospital that had
Speaker 1: a missile hit right next to it destroyed, you know,
Speaker 1: part of the hospital there, Go cover that stuff if
Speaker 1: you want to cover going to the going to the
Speaker 1: propaganda arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and pretending that
Speaker 1: they're what a brave journalist. Do you think that she
Speaker 1: came back on the anchor desk because she has a
Speaker 1: commitment to journalism or do you think she came back
Speaker 1: because it's the state run propaganda. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if you guys know this. Iran has has cut off
Speaker 1: Internet to their own people, and they're trying to right now,
Speaker 1: they're wondering if Elon Musk's starlinth they could go ahead
Speaker 1: and get that in there. That's a wark. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you know this. Cutting off services communications services,
Speaker 1: even to your own people is considered a war crime
Speaker 1: if it's part of a military action or during the
Speaker 1: course of a military action or is an intent, you know,
Speaker 1: if you're the one who cut it, to keep people
Speaker 1: from garnering information so they can evaluate because it's a
Speaker 1: safety issue, and that's what they done there. So I
Speaker 1: think she went back on the to do her propaganda
Speaker 1: stuff less because she felt a commitment to journalism more
Speaker 1: because I bet the Ayatola would be very upset if
Speaker 1: you didn't. But now let's do a walk through.
Speaker 11: Some of the main bulk of the explosion must have
Speaker 11: been here, because this place is absolutely charred, and if
Speaker 11: we look back over there, that's actually seems to be
Speaker 11: the main part of what was the newsroom, with a
Speaker 11: lot of the desks, computers, printers, phones. You can see
Speaker 11: how much heat must have been admitted by the impact
Speaker 11: and by the explosion. The phones that they had here
Speaker 11: are molten. Here also the keys molten this screen, and
Speaker 11: there's actually someone's lunch still at their desk standing here,
Speaker 11: which probably they would have been wanting to eat until
Speaker 11: they had to evacuate the building.
Speaker 13: You can see there's a by the way.
Speaker 1: That's how I know it's not a real broadcast operation,
Speaker 1: because ross what happens if you leave your lunch out
Speaker 1: around a real broadcast studio, like maybe in the fridge overnight,
Speaker 1: or maybe a large piece so that you ordered, Oh,
Speaker 1: gone in seconds, gone in seconds. That's how you know
Speaker 1: it's not the real thing. The pizza thief didn't come
Speaker 1: by and get it. Trust me, if you worked in
Speaker 1: radio or TV, you'd know the.
Speaker 11: Spoon here that's also been melted away by this explosion.
Speaker 11: All of this is playing very big here and iron
Speaker 11: There's a lot of public anger that the Israelis attacked
Speaker 11: the site, and certainly the Iranians are saying that they
Speaker 11: condemn this and that there is going to be revenge
Speaker 11: for this.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so there you get. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: just just a real creepy decision man to decide, well,
Speaker 1: let's let's go focus on these fellow journalists.
Speaker 4: It's also completely ironic, right, that is coming from CNN.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's yeah, that was gonna be the twist. But
Speaker 1: I'm like, but if you're CNN and you're a propaganda arm,
Speaker 1: you think that's normal, right, Like, oh, okay, so I
Speaker 1: understand why you would make that mistake anyway. Uh no, no, no, sir,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't write things somebody wrote they should do that
Speaker 1: to CNN. No, no, no, no, no, no. CNN's hacks
Speaker 1: and see again is propaganda. But no, so that's that's
Speaker 1: how you end up on a list, or don't send
Speaker 1: me stuff like that. All right, seven sixteen Here on
Speaker 1: the CaCO Day Radio program, this is a rather interesting
Speaker 1: local story a Rocky Mount woman, Sue's former employer over
Speaker 1: a chucky doll incident and disability discrimination. We'll get into
Speaker 1: this next on the CaCO Day Radio program in about
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes at seven thirty five, to be exact, we're
Speaker 1: going to chat with Cassie Clark. We're gonna talk a
Speaker 1: little about the Canton area, Swana Noah area, and really
Speaker 1: what's going on there with the recovery. I did drive
Speaker 1: over because I went over to Waynesville to go to
Speaker 1: a barbecue joint and all that, so I do have
Speaker 1: a little visual insight. But Cassie Clark from Dogwood Bloom,
Speaker 1: she is super plugged in on all this stuff. And
Speaker 1: then eight oh five, Pete callunder will join us because
Speaker 1: it's Friday, and that's that's what we do. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: Oh wait, so hold on, how are Americans walking around
Speaker 1: in Iran? Don't they?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 2: Death to Amica? No, No, No, that is a very fair point, sir.
Speaker 1: Why is CNN in Iran Because CNN is being used
Speaker 1: as propaganda? Maybe I did not stress that enough. It's ironic.
Speaker 1: They're at a propaganda station where the you know where
Speaker 1: the woman was broadcasting. You all saw the video probably,
Speaker 1: but CNN coming there, even though they do chant death
Speaker 1: to America, which by the way, is probably not the
Speaker 1: opinion of all Iranians. There's lots of Iranian do the
Speaker 1: diaspora of Iranians that the people don't live in Iran anymore.
Speaker 1: There's a reason they don't live there, and they are
Speaker 1: not fans of the government. So, just to be abundantly clear, No,
Speaker 1: CNN's so stupid. They allowed themselves to be used in
Speaker 1: a propagandish way by visiting a propaganda factory. That's why
Speaker 1: it is so repugnant. That's why I made a point
Speaker 1: to mention it here on the show. And they know this,
Speaker 1: they have to know this, but they don't care. So
Speaker 1: make of that what she will. All right back to
Speaker 1: North Carolina here, a Rocky Mountain woman has filed a
Speaker 1: lawsuit against her former employer, claiming they harassed her with
Speaker 1: a chucky doll.
Speaker 2: This story's kind of crazy, all right.
Speaker 1: So where she worked she worked for Truest Bank, and
Speaker 1: back in May she had a file court documents saying
Speaker 1: that she had been harassed with a Chucky dog, of course,
Speaker 1: referring to Chucky the murder doll from the child's play movies,
Speaker 1: and how many of those were there, by the way,
Speaker 1: because they got it started getting crazy because then he
Speaker 1: got himself, he got himself a wifey and then, like
Speaker 1: I don't know, the whole thing went crazy. But I
Speaker 1: don't know if I've seen all of them. Definitely seen
Speaker 1: the first one, and then they didn't they redo the
Speaker 1: first just like redo the first one. I think they
Speaker 1: did for no reason. I can understand. It wasn't even
Speaker 1: that old. But anyway, the original came out in eighty eight.
Speaker 1: I do remember that. So anyway, so here's what happened.
Speaker 1: So the woman it was, she was training and a
Speaker 1: manager put the doll on her chair. She said the
Speaker 1: manager was aware that she is terribly afraid of dolls,
Speaker 1: and that's why he did it. I think that they're
Speaker 1: saying it was just a joke, and I don't that
Speaker 1: they did not know about her doll thing. But here's
Speaker 1: what happened. She said when she saw the doll, she
Speaker 1: had to go seek medical care and uh, and then
Speaker 1: took eight weeks of medical leave because of the chucky
Speaker 1: doll incident, saying that she has his fear.
Speaker 2: It gave her anxiety to the point.
Speaker 1: That she needed to actually go to a hospital. I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, whatever, Maybe maybe she is terrified of dolls.
Speaker 1: That's that's just like, you really got eight weeks you
Speaker 1: can't go to work because you saw a doll?
Speaker 2: How many?
Speaker 1: How does it is it all dolls? There's only the
Speaker 1: scary dolls because I don't know that. I don't know
Speaker 1: that you could go very long without seeing a doll.
Speaker 1: Some little girls got a doll? Are you going to
Speaker 1: Are you going to have a fulling anxiety attack on
Speaker 1: the street, like I'm I'm I'm genuinely asking. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but look, there's some people there's maybe there's a traumatic
Speaker 1: background incident with the doll. I don't know, but it
Speaker 1: just it seems like it could be very hard to
Speaker 1: function being out and about if you see a doll
Speaker 1: and it does this. She then after the eight weeks,
Speaker 1: was let's see clear to return to work and truest
Speaker 1: Bank was asked to make a reasonable accommodation so she
Speaker 1: could leave work at three pm for treatment of her
Speaker 1: fear of dolls or something. I think she has some
Speaker 1: other medical stuff, the lawsuit said. The treatments for for
Speaker 1: flare ups that started as a result of the doll
Speaker 1: The woman said. Upon returning to work, she was given
Speaker 1: a new manager in office, but said she was treated
Speaker 1: differently than her co workers and when she made mistakes
Speaker 1: and believed it was due to her disability. I you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm sorry. I don't know that I'm buying this.
Speaker 1: I just don't I understand reasonable accommodations. And you can
Speaker 1: hate me for this. I just it's this feels a
Speaker 1: lot like somebody's has taken advantage of this situation. Here
Speaker 1: on the CaCO Day Radio program, it is Friday, final
Speaker 1: day of my trip to the mountains, as we conclude
Speaker 1: our broadcast live from Asheville. It's been fun. We talk
Speaker 1: to a lot of people about a lot of places
Speaker 1: and a lot of things, and everyone is everyone is
Speaker 1: super pumped up here that I've talked to and just
Speaker 1: trying to you know, let's get back to this. Bringing
Speaker 1: on the tourist and I've had a lot of fun,
Speaker 1: so it can happen. But there are other areas that
Speaker 1: you know, people go to, not just Ashville, Bunkhom County
Speaker 1: or down by where I was, by Lake Lure in
Speaker 1: back Cave, and and people have a lot of questions.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna try to get some of those answered
Speaker 1: by welcoming in our next guest. I can get my
Speaker 1: phone screener to cooperate there, it goes Cassie Clark from
Speaker 1: where the Dogwood Blooms at Dogwood Blooms on Twitter, And
Speaker 1: how are you doing this morning, Cassie?
Speaker 14: Well, I would be a whole lot better if you
Speaker 14: are out there lying on me telling people I sent
Speaker 14: you to get brisket?
Speaker 1: Did you not when I asked you where should I go?
Speaker 1: I mean, weren't you happy I consulted you? I thought,
Speaker 1: I need to know where the best barbecue around within
Speaker 1: thirty miles of Ashville is. But I'm up here and
Speaker 1: I asked you, and you gave me a really great
Speaker 1: place over in Waynesville, hey Wood Smokehouse. I think they
Speaker 1: have multiple locations too, but I went over there. I
Speaker 1: had delicious brisket. I thanked you on Twitter and now
Speaker 1: it's turned into a thing. Do you know somebody blocked
Speaker 1: the show account because I said that you sent me
Speaker 1: over there to get brisket.
Speaker 14: Well, because they knew that I sent you to get pork.
Speaker 1: There's brisket on the menu. I just happened to post
Speaker 1: the part where I couldn't find the part where you
Speaker 1: told me to go sit in the corner and eat pork.
Speaker 2: So I may have left that out of the text
Speaker 2: chain there.
Speaker 1: But look, it was a really nice place over there,
Speaker 1: and and and to be in all seriousness, I got
Speaker 1: brisket and pork. So picture of the bristle, yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it was very good, very good. So but uh, there
Speaker 1: was the reason I want to talk to you, not
Speaker 1: just to get yelled at over barbecue. We'll do more
Speaker 1: of that, but rather you're you're a Canton girl, uh
Speaker 1: and uh. I wanted to make sure that we had
Speaker 1: a little discussion about what's going on in some of
Speaker 1: the other communities around here that folks may find themselves
Speaker 1: vacationing or driving through. So what are you hearing? Where
Speaker 1: are things at over in the Canton area, maybe down
Speaker 1: towards Swana.
Speaker 14: Noah, So I was so proud of Canton. Like the
Speaker 14: very first time that I went home after Hurricane Halleen,
Speaker 14: Canton was already looking great compared to other areas, and
Speaker 14: so they're doing really well. But Cuide was hit really hard.
Speaker 14: And Cuide is right on the other side of Canton,
Speaker 14: between Canton and Wayne Bull And the hurricane Release Center
Speaker 14: has actually been moved into Clyde, which I think is
Speaker 14: phenomenal because Clyde is gonna need a lot of help
Speaker 14: getting back up on their feet after this. And I
Speaker 14: also wanted to bring up that because you brought up tourism, Well,
Speaker 14: tourism right now, and Heywood County is down and that's
Speaker 14: not a good thing considering how much.
Speaker 5: Still needs to be done.
Speaker 14: And so I'm hoping that people are going to start
Speaker 14: coming out. And you know, as far as I know,
Speaker 14: Catalucci is open, Maggie Valley's open, Lane Pool's open. Like,
Speaker 14: come see Haywood County. It's one of the most beautiful
Speaker 14: places in western North Carolina. You won't regret it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we actually had one of the tourism folks we
Speaker 1: had on mentioned Catalucci, so they did get a little
Speaker 1: love there. So I guess that they must be open
Speaker 1: if the Tourism division. People are telling me that where's
Speaker 1: where where?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: So where is Cassie's recommendation for if you if you
Speaker 1: go out to that little part of North Carolina? What
Speaker 1: do people maybe don't think about because they don't know
Speaker 1: or what should they know? Where should they go? What
Speaker 1: is the what's Cassie's top spot?
Speaker 14: Also Crabtree in Heywood County. It's right next to Canton
Speaker 14: and it's an unincorporated community. It is absolutely beautiful and
Speaker 14: I'll literally just go out there to drive. That's how
Speaker 14: pretty it is is people just go out there to
Speaker 14: drive the road.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Crabtayn making a little list here too,
Speaker 1: because we're going to do a recaper on this stuff.
Speaker 1: Down Swanna Knowah way Swanna knowa fortunately and unfortunately found
Speaker 1: themselves is really kind of like a news center one
Speaker 1: because of the devastation they suffered too, because people were
Speaker 1: making up stories about things that happened in Swana Nooah,
Speaker 1: which then distracted from the work that needed to be done.
Speaker 1: And then we find out that they were spending eight
Speaker 1: hundred dollars for each person to take a shower and
Speaker 1: wash their clothes. With the relief Center there, which don't
Speaker 1: you've seen that story, right?
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, I'm not happy at all about that. And
Speaker 14: then I don't know if anybody's brought it up yet
Speaker 14: or not, but there's only one grocery store in Flana
Speaker 14: NOA and that single and it's been closed, so people
Speaker 14: are literally having to go to charity to get fresh
Speaker 14: vegetables and produced.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, and this is uh and and this
Speaker 1: is that's kind of why we're doing this. And I
Speaker 1: will tell you I had not been up here since Selene.
Speaker 1: And when you get into downtown ashe Downtown Ashville's fine,
Speaker 1: right because it sits higher, But as soon as you
Speaker 1: get into like the Lower Arts District, you get down
Speaker 1: into into Biltmore, you see the devastation or where the
Speaker 1: devastation was. But they have they've really like you wouldn't
Speaker 1: even notice unless people pointed out they've been so quick
Speaker 1: in rebuilding, they've been so successful in getting it back there.
Speaker 1: But I drove through Backcave and Chimney Rock, and I
Speaker 1: tend to visually remember places I've gone, the topography where
Speaker 1: little stores are. Even if I've been through there a
Speaker 1: few times, it all looks different because of how much
Speaker 1: water went through and what it did to the road there,
Speaker 1: and how why to cut the river down through there,
Speaker 1: And so I realized a lot of these communities are
Speaker 1: going to look different forever because the way that they're
Speaker 1: going to have to rebuild is going to be different.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna be able to have the stilted little
Speaker 1: cafes hanging out over the creek anymore. So Swanna Knowah
Speaker 1: is probably that's probably going to be the case there
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 14: And that breaks my heart because I've spent so much
Speaker 14: time in Swanna Know. I mean, it's only, you know,
Speaker 14: thirty minutes from where I'm from. So when we went
Speaker 14: through there, I think it was on our lab trip.
Speaker 5: I cried.
Speaker 14: I couldn't even do any more sight thing. I couldn't
Speaker 14: go look at any more devastation. It was just that bad.
Speaker 14: Have you been to Marshall?
Speaker 1: No, not yet.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm up here till Sunday, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be visiting a few places just to do
Speaker 1: follow up on Monday.
Speaker 14: So Marshall is about thirty minutes north of Asheville, and
Speaker 14: a friend of mine posted some videos and photos from
Speaker 14: up there and the town literally just reopened in May.
Speaker 14: There's debris and I hear that they got hit really hard.
Speaker 14: And so when I come back home, it'll probably be
Speaker 14: next month. I'm playing at all one out there and
Speaker 14: spending some money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me actually here because I'm headed. I'm going
Speaker 1: to be broadcasting Monday through Wednesday at our Greensboro station,
Speaker 1: and so on Sunday, I was going to uh not
Speaker 1: take the highway highway, Yeah, so yeah I could. I'm
Speaker 1: head over to Marshall and then just cut back over
Speaker 1: to mars Hills. Mars Hills, So that's really bad. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's still on Google Maps. They're showing that too, So craziness.
Speaker 1: All right, So I'll give you a little spy report
Speaker 1: there is as well. All right, Cassie, you're what do
Speaker 1: you do? You're going down to Georgia. Why you North Carolina?
Speaker 14: My daughter's best friend lives in Georgia, and so I
Speaker 14: will hopefully be there around eleven. We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 2: What you're gonna eat barbecue down there?
Speaker 14: I would never do that to North Carolina.
Speaker 1: You can eat other barbecue. You just you know, you
Speaker 1: stay loyal like brisket. You know, you get good brisky,
Speaker 1: you go ahead and eat that, so you'll be fine.
Speaker 14: I enjoyed briskett. I would just never insult North Carolina
Speaker 14: barbecue by calling brisket barbecue.
Speaker 1: I just think it's so funny that somebody's like not
Speaker 1: gonna listen to the show anymore and blocked me. It's
Speaker 1: just like, it's okay, it's okay, people, You're gonna be fine,
Speaker 1: all right, Cassie Clark. What's that have that?
Speaker 14: People love the North Carolina queen?
Speaker 1: I know, I know, but they also need to touch
Speaker 1: grass maybe a little bit sometimes. All Right, you have
Speaker 1: fun down in joy Arja. We'll talk soon, and UH
Speaker 1: appreciate you giving us the updates from out there. And
Speaker 1: if I do get through Marshall, and I think I will,
Speaker 1: uh just because it makes it makes driving sense, I'll
Speaker 1: post some pictures of what's going on there. Okay, I'll
Speaker 1: tag you in them too, all right, sir? All right,
Speaker 1: there you go, Cassie Clark. Uh uh the at Dogwood
Speaker 1: Blooms as her on Twitter follower, so you can block me, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, very fun. Now the moment we've all been
Speaker 1: waiting for, Oh, this is this is appointment listening. Mister
Speaker 1: Ray Stagic, the polka master, is joining us now with
Speaker 1: his accordion.
Speaker 15: I hold on that way, you got to wait that
Speaker 15: I didn't gear up.
Speaker 8: You got thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: Yes, I got all this, Ross, blow out all the breaks.
Speaker 1: We're doing nothing but polka the rest of the show.
Speaker 1: Tell the advertisers, sorry, we had to do it.
Speaker 15: Hold on, hold on, then let me use the microphone
Speaker 15: talking about yourself for a second.
Speaker 1: Okay. Oh, by the way, Rot, what was Ross's first question? Ross,
Speaker 1: you want to remind people your question? Wasn't we found
Speaker 1: out he played the accordion?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, I wanted to know if it was like a
Speaker 4: like a mini accordion or like a bigger according because
Speaker 4: he's a big guy, so it has to be like,
Speaker 4: you know, scaled to Ray.
Speaker 1: Right, right, But you and I really didn't know all
Speaker 1: the different accordian sizes. One of our listeners is apparently
Speaker 1: an accordion teacher, and I got an email schooling me
Speaker 1: on all the different sizes of accordion. So that is
Speaker 1: a very real possibility that he's got one of those
Speaker 1: big boys. All right, So yeah, how long does it.
Speaker 2: Take to put an accordion on?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 8: All right, Well, I mean you got to get them.
Speaker 8: I'd listen. I haven't practiced. It's it was pretty rough
Speaker 8: over there.
Speaker 15: Now oh here, Yeah, I'll give you a quick irish jig.
Speaker 8: I'll do it the best I can.
Speaker 15: All right, just a quick one, all right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 15: It's gonna be a little rough, but I'm gonna fumble
Speaker 15: through it. How's our tone?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 8: See, can't do this?
Speaker 13: And what you guys can't tell?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's good man, I can not.
Speaker 13: Yes, So that was what you can't tell?
Speaker 1: Is uh? In the background, other Weather Channel employees are
Speaker 1: jumping out of windows.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like I feel like we're broadcasting from
Speaker 4: a vf W and PBS.
Speaker 8: Yeah they were.
Speaker 15: They were saying, there's like next week to play nineties
Speaker 15: country next not next Friday.
Speaker 8: I won't be here, but so nineties country.
Speaker 15: I'm like, there's no accordion music for the nineties country,
Speaker 15: so I gotta.
Speaker 4: Start, gotta be.
Speaker 1: There's gotta be.
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 4: I I think you'll, like, you know, seeing that you're
Speaker 4: a big dude and you're there your desk at the
Speaker 4: Weather Channel right like a confined space. I think that
Speaker 4: was pretty damn good.
Speaker 8: It was I used to be able to play that
Speaker 8: a lot better.
Speaker 1: I felt like I was back from the motherland. Yes, well,
Speaker 1: I went.
Speaker 15: Through the history too, like on this according this is
Speaker 15: the second one, not the one from the landfill, right
Speaker 15: right the date of my lesson, I think it was
Speaker 15: February twentieth. We wrote it on there and inside the thing.
Speaker 15: And I was ten years old, So I was taking
Speaker 15: lessons when I was ten years old.
Speaker 8: So okay, we could do better maybe another time. Oh,
Speaker 8: practice practice.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, because we're gonna do this every week. This
Speaker 1: is a thing, you know, I hope anyway, and you
Speaker 1: know why, you know why. It's just punishment for what
Speaker 1: you're about to do to people.
Speaker 15: So yeah, I really won't get into too much of
Speaker 15: it today. Severe weather yesterday, mainly win reports and trees down.
Speaker 15: Now we're back into the hot stuff. It's gonna stick around.
Speaker 15: You're gonna open rains. It's not for the next five days,
Speaker 15: maybe longer mid eighties today, upper eighties, and then we'll
Speaker 15: really start turning up to heat ninety or higher tomorrow.
Speaker 15: And then as we get the Sunday at the load
Speaker 15: to mid nineties heat index over the weekend close to
Speaker 15: one hundred. Then as we get into Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Speaker 15: probably upper nineties, close to one hundred to try it'd
Speaker 15: be more like the mid nineties, maybe ninety five ninety six.
Speaker 15: But for Raleigh, Monday one hundreds to forecast high, tiny record.
Speaker 15: I don't even remember this last year. Last year the
Speaker 15: record ninety nine is the Tuesday high. Hottest day would
Speaker 15: probably be Tuesday, we could be in the low one
Speaker 15: hundreds and maybe another record Wednesdays we're near one hundred.
Speaker 15: I don't know about this summer nineteen fourteen at the
Speaker 15: try it at Greensboro at the airport, but every record
Speaker 15: Monday through Thursday was set in nineteen fourteen and is
Speaker 15: above one hundred at to try it. So I don't
Speaker 15: think records there, but I think Raleigh some of those
Speaker 15: triple digit numbers are easily attainable.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to be in Greensboro till Wednesdays.
Speaker 8: So I'll have fun with that. Well, it'll be a
Speaker 8: little cooler.
Speaker 1: It won't be out. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 8: About one hundred and two ninety six.
Speaker 1: Yes, perfect, all right, thank you, accordion master. Oh we'll
Speaker 1: talk in an hour and we will be right back ken.
Speaker 1: His name is James Oldmeyer. I had a pretty interesting proposal,
Speaker 1: and I'll yeah, you know what. They made a video.
Speaker 1: I'll let him tell you about it.
Speaker 16: Attorney General James Ufmeyer here at the Miami Dade Collier
Speaker 16: Training Facility. This is an old, virtually abandoned airport facility right.
Speaker 2: In the middle of the Everglade.
Speaker 16: Florida has been leading on immigration enforcements, supporting the Trump
Speaker 16: administration and ICE's efforts.
Speaker 8: To detain and deport criminal aliens.
Speaker 16: The governor task state leaders to identify places for new
Speaker 16: temporary detention facilities. I think this is the best one,
Speaker 16: as I call it Alligator Alcatraz. This thirty square mile
Speaker 16: area is completely surrounded.
Speaker 8: By the Everway.
Speaker 16: Presents an efficient, low cost opportunity to build a temporary
Speaker 16: detention facilit because you don't need to invest that much
Speaker 16: in the perimeter.
Speaker 4: People get out, there's not much.
Speaker 16: Waiting for them other than alligators and pythons. Nowhere to go,
Speaker 16: nowhere to hide. Within just thirty to sixty days after
Speaker 16: we begin construction, it could be up and running and
Speaker 16: could house as many as a thousand criminal aliens. This
Speaker 16: presents a great opportunity for the state of Florida to
Speaker 16: work with Miami Dade and Collier Counties Alligator Alcatraz.
Speaker 8: We're ready to go.
Speaker 1: Now. You hear Miami Dade and you think, well, it
Speaker 1: must be the county goes way out, And in fact,
Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting because when you fly over the area.
Speaker 1: So if you're flying into Miami and you're on the
Speaker 1: but you're flying in from the west from Texas or
Speaker 1: maybe you went down to Mexico or whatever, and you're
Speaker 1: flying back, if that's your connection, you fly right over this.
Speaker 1: It's on the flight path from from the south there
Speaker 1: and it is literally in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 2: And in fact, it's really weird.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because I looked it up one time
Speaker 1: as they flew over it, and I'm like, why is
Speaker 1: there an air strip out?
Speaker 2: Because there's nothing there.
Speaker 1: It's essentially stripped down, banned one. I just assumed it
Speaker 1: was a World War II thing, and then I found
Speaker 1: out it's haunted too, So like cause there was a plane.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the value jet plane crash
Speaker 1: or what it was. Some plane crash happened, and now
Speaker 1: apparently among some of the aviation industry, the pilot from
Speaker 1: that plane sometimes appears on planes flying over sitting in
Speaker 1: one of the seats. Take that for what it's worth.
Speaker 1: That but I did watch like a ghost Hunter's thing
Speaker 1: on it just because I thought it was interesting. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what they're talking about. And it is literally in
Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere. But then people are losing their minds.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, that's cruel and unusual. They're gonna keep
Speaker 1: them there with alligators.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: If you know how prisons work, You're not supposed to
Speaker 1: get out. That's the point. You're not supposed to get out.
Speaker 1: They're not go If they had the alligators in the
Speaker 1: is in with them, then I would be on your team, going,
Speaker 1: this ain't right. But the alligators are outside. The prison
Speaker 1: is Friday, and it is also the final day and
Speaker 1: final hour of my week of not melting because I
Speaker 1: was smart enough to drive to the mountains where this
Speaker 1: man used to do radio and reside. His name is
Speaker 1: Pete Callner. Now he's Midday's WBT.
Speaker 13: Pete.
Speaker 1: How you doing this morning, sir?
Speaker 5: I'm doing all right. How are you doing up there
Speaker 5: in the spacious conference room?
Speaker 1: I am I'm in conference room A here because it
Speaker 1: made the most sense. Yes, I don't know the.
Speaker 5: Front lobby area or is that the big square room
Speaker 5: in the.
Speaker 1: Center that is the big one in the center with
Speaker 1: your former studio to my back right there? So yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was. You know, there's some of your stuff still
Speaker 1: here that I could steal, but there is not.
Speaker 5: Oh, I have ad it. Man, Have you found my
Speaker 5: chucky doll?
Speaker 15: I have not.
Speaker 1: What a great story that is?
Speaker 5: Huh?
Speaker 1: Are do you believe that? I mean, I understand people
Speaker 1: get weirded out, But if you if every time you
Speaker 1: saw a doll you got anxiety, I don't know how
Speaker 1: you operate out in public.
Speaker 5: Well, but you also get eight weeks of medical leave and.
Speaker 1: You get to leave it three from going forward. Yeah
Speaker 1: that's pretty good.
Speaker 5: Right. So it's almost as if there's an incentive to
Speaker 5: have the anxiety, and the anxiety is not provable by
Speaker 5: any you know, external objective standard.
Speaker 1: This woman would have died when I was in school
Speaker 1: because every girl in school had one of those little
Speaker 1: troll dolls on the end of their pencil.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just wouldn't make it there. And God forbid,
Speaker 1: she was having to testify in a sexual assault case
Speaker 1: and they you know, they brought the word, they touched
Speaker 1: it all out right, right, all of these, all of
Speaker 1: these things, house.
Speaker 5: One develops that kind of reaction.
Speaker 1: Well, there's I'll it's not to say that people that
Speaker 1: there are things, you know, traumatic things that can happen
Speaker 1: to somebody where there's a triggering mechanism. Again, it's just
Speaker 1: that's a real that that's a really broad one right there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like you know what I'm saying, If any doll and
Speaker 1: then these are the reasonable accommodations are basically you with
Speaker 1: the best schedule I've ever heard of bankers, and bankers
Speaker 1: usually have pretty good schedules.
Speaker 5: I've heard that about bankers hours yes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So anyway, and.
Speaker 5: I also have to say that the coworker, whoever it
Speaker 5: was that was that was tormenting his colleague, you know,
Speaker 5: playing these jokes or whatever, complete jerk, Like you don't yeah,
Speaker 5: don't do that. You just don't be a jerk, you know,
Speaker 5: don't antagonize people like that. That's just it's completely unnecessary.
Speaker 5: And whatever the woman's got going on, like why would
Speaker 5: you even why would you even stir that pot. It's
Speaker 5: just it's just lack of consideration. It's just mean.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's if that's how it transpired, right, right,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. If maybe it's maybe there's
Speaker 1: a running joke around the office where you you know,
Speaker 1: people kind of put the doll there, and it's just
Speaker 1: and she just had it just happened to be the
Speaker 1: triggering event or whatever. But she claims she said something
Speaker 1: to retreat, So I don't know it is what it is.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 1: So I'm up here up here in your old stomping
Speaker 1: grounds up here, and I had not been up here
Speaker 1: since Helene. Have you You've been up post to Lene, right.
Speaker 5: Yes, but not I've not done any Like I haven't
Speaker 5: been to any of the worst struck areas because like
Speaker 5: I don't I would not know what what I would
Speaker 5: be doing up there, like just walking around like a
Speaker 5: president after a disaster, you know, like throwing out paper
Speaker 5: towels to people like I'm.
Speaker 2: You got to know how far can you throw the bounty?
Speaker 2: Do you know?
Speaker 5: Or yeah? No, I uh yeah, no, I I don't
Speaker 5: have a lot of skills in that department. So I
Speaker 5: think you're my best My best use is to keep
Speaker 5: highlighting the need and tell people the stories and let
Speaker 5: the let the rebuilders do the rebuilding.
Speaker 1: Here's here's what I'll say, just to sum it up,
Speaker 1: because for you there are there's areas like downtown Ashville
Speaker 1: is just it looks like downtown Ashville.
Speaker 2: Right, nothing's really changed. That wasn't a problem.
Speaker 1: The rad District or whatever you guys called it, the
Speaker 1: ardor Arts District thirty one feet of water. Yeah well yeah, no,
Speaker 1: no it is on the river. But still the river
Speaker 1: went up thirty one feet.
Speaker 2: And you're our our.
Speaker 1: My counterpart up here, you're former co worker Mark Starling.
Speaker 1: Him and I went for a drive and he was
Speaker 1: showing me just all these different things. But I went
Speaker 1: through Chimney and back Cave on the way up, went
Speaker 1: over Swanon Noah and Black Mountain, checked all that stuff out,
Speaker 1: and drove over to Waynesville too. For some and other
Speaker 1: places are not. They're never going to look the same
Speaker 1: because the topography is different now right. The rivers, wider
Speaker 1: parts of mountains have literally they slid right off, so
Speaker 1: like sight lines are different, and that's going to be
Speaker 1: the reality. But the amount of work that people have
Speaker 1: put in and continue to put it, the Amish are
Speaker 1: still here. The Amish are still here just building away
Speaker 1: man is really really, really impressive, and that is that's
Speaker 1: the thing that really struck me on the emotional side,
Speaker 1: how hard everyone had to work and what a good
Speaker 1: job they are doing in spite of you know, everything
Speaker 1: with government that you and I have talked about.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean, you're you're not only dealing with
Speaker 5: you know, man versus nature, You're dealing with man versus government,
Speaker 5: you know. Yeah, which I'm not sure which is sometimes
Speaker 5: which is the more powerful foe. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 5: I remember, very early on after the storm hit, one
Speaker 5: of the first sort of issues that rose up in
Speaker 5: that regard were the bridges, so many of the stream crossings.
Speaker 5: And you know, for people outside of the mountains, they
Speaker 5: don't really understand this because you know, you drive down
Speaker 5: the road and you know it doesn't have curb and gutter.
Speaker 5: If you're outside of an urban environment, it doesn't have
Speaker 5: the curb and gutter along the side of the roads.
Speaker 5: It'll just you know, run off into a culvert, right.
Speaker 5: But those those culverts, you know, yes, they you know,
Speaker 5: driveways will cross them and that sort of thing. But
Speaker 5: up in the mountains, those culverts get very deep and
Speaker 5: those roads, those driveways will be the only connection point
Speaker 5: to not just one home, but several homes that had
Speaker 5: to be built because you're limited in the way you
Speaker 5: can build in the mountains by the topography. You'll have
Speaker 5: one driveway that goes up and it will service you know,
Speaker 5: half a dozen homes, and that driveway will be you know,
Speaker 5: a forty five degree angle or greater, and it'll twist
Speaker 5: its way up half a mile to a mile. And
Speaker 5: when that when the and so those bridges were all
Speaker 5: private bridges, and when those got wiped out, okay, well
Speaker 5: who replaces the bridge? And how do you get up
Speaker 5: there to replace the bridge? That was sort of the
Speaker 5: first example that I remember seeing of like how difficult
Speaker 5: this is going to be for a very long time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's uh. And there's the there are some
Speaker 1: spots where you can tell they were jerry rigged, I
Speaker 1: guess would be the best way to say it. And
Speaker 1: that's just that's just people going, I got to be
Speaker 1: able to access my house, let's go ahead and do this.
Speaker 1: I saw I saw a trick that I used and
Speaker 1: we used in Wyoming News at a cross creeks and
Speaker 1: that is the bottom of a railroad car. You can
Speaker 1: use as a bridge. Yeah, and I saw I saw
Speaker 1: a couple of those, and I laughed a little because
Speaker 1: I'm like, we had a couple of those on our property.
Speaker 1: It's a great way to very cheaply get a bridge.
Speaker 1: But this was done out of necessity, right, they would
Speaker 1: probably prefer their covided crossing. But this, this is where
Speaker 1: we are now.
Speaker 5: Did you get chance to go through Billmore Village?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was down there. The was down
Speaker 1: there the other day.
Speaker 5: So I used to live in I used to live
Speaker 5: there in uh in Bilmore Village for a couple of
Speaker 5: years before we moved away. But I was just kind
Speaker 5: of curious because the last I saw that it was
Speaker 5: it was pretty.
Speaker 1: I picked you up. I picked you up at your house.
Speaker 1: That wasn't in Bilmore, was it? Do you remember that?
Speaker 1: Did I pick you up at your I? Did I
Speaker 1: picked you up at your house?
Speaker 5: Then?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: No, that I think that was it. I lived in
Speaker 5: three different places when I was in there. Uh well,
Speaker 5: then we bought the house after Billmore Village.
Speaker 2: Ah, then I got okay, okay, I was trying to.
Speaker 5: Remember which one. I would say it may have been
Speaker 5: there if you picked me up around Billmore Village. It
Speaker 5: might have been that place, and then we went out
Speaker 5: to where a Grove Park area.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, so uh it was Asheville is
Speaker 1: a quirky little community. I don't necessarily mean that in
Speaker 1: a negative way. There's some of the listeners like, why
Speaker 1: why are you broadcast in Nashville. I'm like, well, that's
Speaker 1: where our studios are up here. So it's an easy decision.
Speaker 1: But it's been really refreshing because, look, I know that
Speaker 1: I'm interviewing and talking to people that are probably ideologically
Speaker 1: not on board with me necessarily, and nobody's talking politics.
Speaker 1: I mean there's the government grumbling right like, hey, we're
Speaker 1: supposed to be faster any of that, And I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: you just kind of need that because Twitter is such
Speaker 1: a cesspool right now.
Speaker 5: Well, this is one area of civic life that where
Speaker 5: that can occur, right, recovery response to disasters. Sports has
Speaker 5: played that role for a really long time. Well we'll
Speaker 5: get so right, and you know, it was a place
Speaker 5: where it didn't matter people's politics or religion. You were
Speaker 5: all pulling for a team. Look, there is something instinctive
Speaker 5: in our nature that we have a desire to belong
Speaker 5: to to some form of pack, right, a community of
Speaker 5: some sort, and that's you know, and honestly like it
Speaker 5: went to well with regard to politics, but really philosophy
Speaker 5: is when you when you start then trying to splinter
Speaker 5: people away from those connections, people get lost. And I think,
Speaker 5: like for example, the No King's protests, I think that's
Speaker 5: what that was. I think you have a large population
Speaker 5: that is that is yearning for some community. And I
Speaker 5: don't want to say, you know, everybody that was at
Speaker 5: the No King's protests last weekend, we're not of a
Speaker 5: religious bent, you know, I don't want to say all
Speaker 5: of them, but I think, you know, generally speaking, looking
Speaker 5: at the survey data and the demographics, people on the
Speaker 5: left are less religious, and I think they find or
Speaker 5: they seek and find that connection in political movements or
Speaker 5: activism and such. And I think that's why that kind
Speaker 5: of event is so attractive to people generally on the
Speaker 5: left and not so much on the right. But the
Speaker 5: you know, Alexis Totopel wrote about this very thing, this
Speaker 5: the American people, uh, you know, banding together for civic
Speaker 5: organizations to address you know, a local ill or problem,
Speaker 5: and it didn't matter. The politics of people don't matter.
Speaker 5: It's just like we identify this one problem. Let's all
Speaker 5: band together and fix this one problem together. And that
Speaker 5: is what forms the bonds of a society.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and and and and you you kind of went
Speaker 1: where I was going a little. It's like it shows you.
Speaker 1: It shows you how hard the political parties and the
Speaker 1: politicians have to work to accomplish what you're talking about, right,
Speaker 1: because they need to splinter people. You can't win in
Speaker 1: politics with out splintering people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, or you end up you know, audience capture essentially,
Speaker 5: where you you know, you only need a certain splinter,
Speaker 5: and so you just give them what they want in
Speaker 5: order to keep them turning out to the polls, right,
Speaker 5: and so you just keep beating them the red meat,
Speaker 5: and so they get they stay angry because it's a
Speaker 5: great motivation. Anger and fear motivate people. I mean, anybody
Speaker 5: who does marketing knows that as well. And so you know,
Speaker 5: there's this these incentives to do something different. I wish
Speaker 5: that we would incentivize the sense of belonging to America,
Speaker 5: Like like, if we're looking for a unifying sort of
Speaker 5: community banner, we have one, right, and they are the
Speaker 5: ideals and.
Speaker 1: The idea flagan the Mexican flag right.
Speaker 5: Right well in certain protests and jurisdictions, But yet we
Speaker 5: have a banner. It's the American flag. We have a
Speaker 5: uniting philosophy. It's the you know, the Constitution, it's the
Speaker 5: Declaration of Independence. We have this shared history, like that's
Speaker 5: the thing that we should all uh sort of kind
Speaker 5: of look to as we are all one. And I
Speaker 5: think if people thought in those terms, maybe things could
Speaker 5: I don't know, get a little bit bitter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree. I will tell you one funny
Speaker 1: thing on this, and then there's two things I want
Speaker 1: to hit real quick. So I went to Black Mountain
Speaker 1: right because I'm going and I'm checking out all the
Speaker 1: different communities. Went over there, had lunch at a place
Speaker 1: called Foothills Grange. I don't know if you ever ate
Speaker 1: there when you were up here, but but when you're
Speaker 1: in downtown Black Mountain right on Main Street, it's only
Speaker 1: like a half mile to the freeway right to so
Speaker 1: so I drove via tunnel Road to get there because
Speaker 1: I want to go check out the area going into
Speaker 1: Black Mountain. But I go to leave and I go
Speaker 1: over the railroad tracks. And now I've got line of
Speaker 1: sight to where the freeway is, and I see like
Speaker 1: twenty people holding signs and I'm like, oh, please, don't
Speaker 1: let that be a protest. And since they're right by
Speaker 1: the on ramp, I'm like, and they sure as hell
Speaker 1: better not be in the road, cause that's like my
Speaker 1: I don't want you know how much RAL or CNC
Speaker 1: or one of the you know, one of these moonbat
Speaker 1: TV outlets would love to be like a radio host
Speaker 1: runs over protests, right, I don't want any.
Speaker 5: Right wing radio hosts.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. He always talked about running over protesters.
Speaker 2: He wanted to do it.
Speaker 1: And then the most wholesome thing happened because as I
Speaker 1: got nearer, I realized it's the cheerleaders from the local
Speaker 1: high school doing a car wash to raise money. Oh yes, yes,
Speaker 1: But then I felt a lot. I feel like, that's
Speaker 1: a little pervy, so I didn't go in there.
Speaker 5: But oh, okay, that's why I yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,
Speaker 5: but I was just so happy that's what it was.
Speaker 1: I was so happy. It just wasn't some random protest
Speaker 1: trying to crap on my Wednesday or whatever. So yeah,
Speaker 1: speaking of infighting, real quick. So everyone's talking about the
Speaker 1: Tucker cruise thing. We talked about it yesterday, but I
Speaker 1: want to ask you about it today. What are your thoughts?
Speaker 1: And Trump's talking about they can never have a bomb,
Speaker 1: We'll do what we have to do. Is that just
Speaker 1: him keeping the eye toll in check or is that
Speaker 1: him possibly saying we're gonna sling cruise me like Obama
Speaker 1: and Hillary did.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: With Donald Trump, I have learned let's just let's wait
Speaker 5: and see, because this is his chaos strategy of negotiations. Right.
Speaker 5: We have no idea what's in his head. He's given
Speaker 5: them two weeks. Everybody's got two weeks. Israel, keep doing
Speaker 5: what you're doing, You've got two weeks. Mullah's if you
Speaker 5: want to get to the table, which now apparently they
Speaker 5: say they don't, you got two weeks. You want to
Speaker 5: surrender the nuclear program, you got two weeks. And also
Speaker 5: Iranian people, if you want to rise up, you got
Speaker 5: two weeks. In Iranian generals that keep getting whacked. If
Speaker 5: you guys are tired of getting whacked, you want to
Speaker 5: overthrow your ayah toola's or you know, install somebody else,
Speaker 5: you got two weeks. So we'll see what happens in
Speaker 5: two weeks. So I don't know. I don't know anybody
Speaker 5: that's saying, yes, we need to go to war with
Speaker 5: ground troops in Iran. I don't know anybody that's saying that.
Speaker 5: For me, the fundamental question is is it in America's
Speaker 5: interest to allow Israel to dismantle that nuclear and I
Speaker 5: believe it is yea. Now, now what we do about that?
Speaker 5: Those are there?
Speaker 1: I got thirty seconds, Pete, thirty.
Speaker 5: Seconds those diferent questions. Now on the Tucker Ted thing,
Speaker 5: I thought both of them came off not looking good.
Speaker 5: And yeah, I mean, it's just I don't know what's
Speaker 5: the deal with Tucker Callson anymore.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well we'll leave it there. I gotta go.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, sir, and we will chat next week.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yes, sir, I appreciate it. Thanks for doing this
Speaker 5: up and to and for raising awareness for the regional.
Speaker 1: Absolutely he thirty five here on the CaCO Day radio program.
Speaker 1: I think you do, Pete Calender for chatting with us
Speaker 1: there in the last segment. All right, so I don't
Speaker 1: maybe you saw this story, but you saw it spun
Speaker 1: through the lens of like a CNN or whatnot. So
Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you what's actually going on, because
Speaker 1: these are the head These are the headlines.
Speaker 2: You're hearing, right, some along the lines.
Speaker 1: Of Trump Trump cancels LGBTQ suicide prevention hotline, right, And
Speaker 1: then the impression is given that there, you know, there's
Speaker 1: no resources for somebody who might be dealing with, you know,
Speaker 1: thoughts of suicide. And and he's doing it so that
Speaker 1: more LGBTQ plus youth kill themselves, right, because he's just
Speaker 1: it's just forty chess. Sometimes they say he's really dumb,
Speaker 1: but in this case they're saying he's really smart and
Speaker 1: he's doing this just to be evil. NBC News is headline,
Speaker 1: the Trump administration will shut down the National LGBTQ Youth
Speaker 1: Suicide Lifeline, the nine eight eight Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
Speaker 1: in thirty days. Rolling Stone, Trump administration cuts LGBTQ care
Speaker 1: from suicide hotline. All right, there's still a suicide hotline, right.
Speaker 1: There is a national suicide hotline. It's not for gay
Speaker 1: people or for straight people exclusively or whatever. It's the
Speaker 1: suicide hotline. And they have people within the suicide hotline
Speaker 1: that are trained to deal with people who are thinking
Speaker 1: of committing suicide, and there are people within the actual
Speaker 1: National Suicide Hotline that.
Speaker 2: Are trained in specific areas.
Speaker 1: So if your sexuality is, you know, maybe a component
Speaker 1: of this, they have people within there that that is
Speaker 1: kind of their core focus. But the problem is you
Speaker 1: either got to dig all the way to the bottom
Speaker 1: of the article in the case of the NBC News
Speaker 1: one it's literally the last paragraph, or in Rolling Stone,
Speaker 1: they really just kind of leave that little fact toyed out.
Speaker 1: So here's at the end of the NBC story. What
Speaker 1: is actually going on, sam, I don't know how you
Speaker 1: say is a SAMSA anyway, The Substance Abuse in Mental
Speaker 1: Health Services Administration, which is a government agency, points out
Speaker 1: that affected use can still receive help by just calling
Speaker 1: the National Suicide Hotline number. And by the way, everyone
Speaker 1: who and you, it will even port through on the
Speaker 1: numbers from this secondary repeating effort suicide hotline, So even
Speaker 1: if you have that number committed to memory, it will
Speaker 1: go to the National Suicide Prevention Hotline, which is still
Speaker 1: being funded. Is still a thing. There's just not going
Speaker 1: to be a separate They're not going to fund a
Speaker 1: separate one that is run by an it's an outside
Speaker 1: organization called the Trevor Project, which is you know, it's
Speaker 1: a pretty big organization. They do a lot of stuff,
Speaker 1: and I know they get a lot of donations, but
Speaker 1: they also get a lot of government funding too.
Speaker 2: So this is along the.
Speaker 1: Line of doge cuts or or or finding duplicitous things.
Speaker 1: That's what they're doing here and then and so that's
Speaker 1: what's going on. So if you see the story and
Speaker 1: you don't see the full story because you either didn't
Speaker 1: read to the very last two paragraphs of NBC news
Speaker 1: Is or you read that rolling Stone garbage. They're not
Speaker 1: canceling the suicide hotline. And if you're and and and
Speaker 1: by the way, I'm let me say this, if you're
Speaker 1: contemplating suicide, call them or somebody, call somebody from a
Speaker 1: mental health capacity, and and and talk to them. Suicide
Speaker 1: is horrible, horror or and and and if you ever
Speaker 1: had a family member, I've had a family member of
Speaker 1: tempt suicide, and and and and and thankful, thankfully they
Speaker 1: were unsuccessful and and now they're thriving. This was wait,
Speaker 1: two decades ago. He's doing great. He's doing great. And
Speaker 1: I've We've had a conversation with him, probably about five
Speaker 1: years ago, where he just kind of is like, dude,
Speaker 1: I'm so he was so thankful that there were people
Speaker 1: around him that maybe they didn't really pick up because
Speaker 1: he was out on his own and he was living
Speaker 1: way ways from a lot of people. He ended up
Speaker 1: moving back around where his family's from. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to get in specific, so so he could figure out
Speaker 1: which one of my relatives. But and he ended up
Speaker 1: he had not gone to college. He ended up going
Speaker 1: to college, and he's got a great family now and
Speaker 1: I'm so happy. So I want people to get help.
Speaker 1: But when you write an article and you give the
Speaker 1: impression that the help is not there anymore because you
Speaker 1: want to score political points, that's evil. You should want
Speaker 1: whoever reads this article, if in fact they find themselves
Speaker 1: thinking of committing suicide, you want them to know that
Speaker 1: there is still help there, because now it just adds,
Speaker 1: it adds another layer of hopelessness. That is, there's no
Speaker 1: other word for that. That ross that's evil? Right? Am
Speaker 1: I wrong here in calling that evil? That seems pretty
Speaker 1: evil to me to score political points trying to do that.
Speaker 1: So anyway, sorry, I went off on a little tangent
Speaker 1: there because it just it irritated me that much. Oh this,
Speaker 1: Gavin knew something. Let me tell you about this. So uh,
Speaker 1: let's see here. Yesterday was Gavin Newsom's wife's birthday, and
Speaker 1: so he on the official governor's account, he tweeted this.
Speaker 1: He said, happy birthday to the first partner of California.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry the what what the first you mean? The
Speaker 1: first lady? Right, and she identifies as a woman. We
Speaker 1: know that I will say this. She calls herself first
Speaker 1: partner too, So it's not like he just so please God,
Speaker 1: let's get that in the White House, right, these two
Speaker 1: super wokies. But yeah, so happy birthday the first partner
Speaker 1: of California, the outstanding mother. Oh whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1: Wait a second, don't you mean birthing person? How do
Speaker 1: you get it so woke in the first one, and
Speaker 1: then forget to use birthing person or whatever the current
Speaker 1: woke term is. I'll see any mother of our four
Speaker 1: incredible children and the love of my life. And look,
Speaker 1: I love that he wanted to recognize his wife. I'm
Speaker 1: not even gonna get into the you know, there's been
Speaker 1: some issues in the past, which is a crazy story.
Speaker 1: You can go check that out if you want, with
Speaker 1: a guy who used to work for him and uh
Speaker 1: so yes, good, but uh first partner of California and
Speaker 1: it's and I know it's not it's his Twitter account
Speaker 1: and whatever, and she, I guess likes the term. That's fine.
Speaker 1: I'm just pointing out that it is all of this
Speaker 1: constant we have to change everything, and we're going to
Speaker 1: ram it down your throat. That really just screwed the
Speaker 1: pooch for Democrats under Biden, right when they're running around,
Speaker 1: they're running around and erasing history or deciding they were
Speaker 1: going to change things just for the purpose of changing
Speaker 1: and you will, you will submit. People revolted on that.
Speaker 1: They're like, no, there's enough of this garbage. So it's
Speaker 1: death by a thousand cuts when you see this stuff.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, man, I so people remembered if
Speaker 1: when we get to the fact that he's probably going
Speaker 1: to be the nominee, although it was looking a little
Speaker 1: tenuous with what's going on with the LA protests there,
Speaker 1: but those seem to have simmered down a bit. All right,
Speaker 1: eight forty three, is mister Stagic ready to go the
Speaker 1: according master.
Speaker 2: Hello, so we're not gonna We're not gonna make.
Speaker 8: You play again, ok this time?
Speaker 1: Thank you you were vote. By the way, Ross Rossa
Speaker 1: announced special award.
Speaker 15: I saw that on the Twitter next to my other
Speaker 15: award in the other studio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it says race stage. It been has been rated
Speaker 1: the number one accordion player in the history of the show,
Speaker 1: ingrats ray on a record.
Speaker 2: Thank you for I appreciate it.
Speaker 8: You know it's great.
Speaker 1: Though we have no cash or prizes for you.
Speaker 8: No, no, I think you all have inspired me and
Speaker 8: I actually may brush up on my skills a little bit. Okay,
Speaker 8: all right, you're like, yeah, you go ahead and do that.
Speaker 2: You do, you did better, and I'll ever do I'll
Speaker 2: never learn the accordion probably.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, it was, it was.
Speaker 8: It was rough. I used to know what I was not.
Speaker 2: Gonna knock you a lot of memories.
Speaker 8: No, anyway, you're gonna knock me when I give you
Speaker 8: the forecast though.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, you're me out of the park. It's
Speaker 1: not gonna go well for you.
Speaker 15: So I would just say if you wanted to clean
Speaker 15: up the yard, he had things you wanted to do outside,
Speaker 15: I would do them.
Speaker 8: Today bed uper eighties.
Speaker 15: Yeah, sunshine, because we're going to start the heat tomorrow,
Speaker 15: probably close to our above ninety depending where you are,
Speaker 15: then really crank it up for Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday
Speaker 15: look like the hottest days record heat possible. I thought
Speaker 15: likely for Raleigh Tryad. I mentioned it earlier at the
Speaker 15: airport in Greensboro. The records are all nineteen fourteen next week,
Speaker 15: so I don't know what that was in nineteen fourteen.
Speaker 15: But Monday's record for Raleigh set last year, and so
Speaker 15: was Thursdays. I'm like, I don't remember that. It was
Speaker 15: one hundred and three next week on Thursday last year,
Speaker 15: if that makes sense. Huh, It's kind of crazy. It's like,
Speaker 15: I don't remember that last year. But anyway, so we're
Speaker 15: going into the nineties and then close to one hundred
Speaker 15: for Monday Tuesday. As I said, the try had probably
Speaker 15: be in the middle of the upper nineties either way,
Speaker 15: eating disease over one hundred, We're probably not going to
Speaker 15: break the heat right through Thursday. It looks like it's
Speaker 15: going to stay mid upper nineties. No rain, some severe
Speaker 15: weather reports yesterday didn't see any tornado reports, but some
Speaker 15: trees and limbs down and even some spots saw some
Speaker 15: hail to the north.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, do you appreciate it? I average Olf
Speaker 1: a good weekend, sir, you too. All right, there you go,
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Speaker 1: gonna chat with Jeff Bellinger and I saved it here
Speaker 1: to the very end. As part of this podcast, at
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Speaker 1: with Jeff Bello. Jeff's working from home today, I think
Speaker 1: because he's on the phone. Jeff, how'd you swing that, buddy?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 3: I just had the head yesterday off and it's a
Speaker 3: nice chance to skip the commute today.
Speaker 1: I hear you, I hear you. All right, So what's
Speaker 1: happening today?
Speaker 3: Well, well, the stock market futures did some direction changing earlier,
Speaker 3: but they're pointing higher at the moment right across the board. Now,
Speaker 3: futures are up one hundred twenty points. We have CarMax
Speaker 3: shares pointing higher and pre market trading use car sales
Speaker 3: or up. Carmacks posted better than expected quarterly results. Pairs
Speaker 3: of garden restaurants also higher. The parent of Olive Garden
Speaker 3: and other dining chains reported quarterly sales that were right
Speaker 3: in line with estimates. Trude oil futures have also been
Speaker 3: sea sawing this morning. Traders were concerned about a possible
Speaker 3: US strike on Iran, but the White House indicated to
Speaker 3: strike is not imminent that President Trump will decide what
Speaker 3: to do within a couple of weeks. But there are
Speaker 3: still worries about the Strait of Hormuz City groups as
Speaker 3: oil could spike to ninety dollars a barrel if the
Speaker 3: strait should be closed, and falling gasoline prices will mean
Speaker 3: more road trips over the fourth of July holiday period.
Speaker 3: Triple A is predicting more than sixty one million people
Speaker 3: will drive somewhere between June twenty eighth and July sixth,
Speaker 3: and that would be a record. Be ready for sticker
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Speaker 3: consultants at Alex Partners say automakers will pass most of
Speaker 3: their terraff related expenses along to customers. New vehicle prices
Speaker 3: are already high, and its estimated tariffs will increase the
Speaker 3: sticker price of every car by nearly two thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: And Casey, the annual ranking by The Points Guy says
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Speaker 1: Casey, All right, well that's good. I think I just
Speaker 1: lost my return audio ross. So if Jeff is wrapping up, Jeff,
Speaker 1: and I'm sorry if I'm talking over you, because I
Speaker 1: know that the the send audio is working, So uh,
Speaker 1: talk amongst yourselves until that kicks back there, So do
Speaker 1: do do?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Hey, yeah, there you go. Now you're okay? All right?
Speaker 1: Is Jeff done? Why wouldn't do that? Yoh, I guess
Speaker 1: he has done. How awkward did that sound? Did you
Speaker 1: tell him about all the murder stuff while I was
Speaker 1: off again? Like you did yesterday. Okay, all right, well
Speaker 1: let's go uh, let's go in rock and roll with this.
Speaker 1: We got just a few minutes, so obviously I just
Speaker 1: kind of wrap up this broadcast week couple different ways. One,
Speaker 1: I wanted to let you know that you know, obviously,
Speaker 1: you know what we be communicating all week. The best
Speaker 1: thing you can do, and it could be Ashville, could
Speaker 1: be you go up to tweet see like Ross and
Speaker 1: his family did. Whatever it is. The mountains of North
Speaker 1: Carolina are open. Not everything's open, but there's more than
Speaker 1: enough to come up and have a great time escape
Speaker 1: the heat. Lord, No people are going to get out
Speaker 1: of the heat coming up here in the next few weeks.
Speaker 1: And it's North Carolina, so it's it's gonna do that
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Speaker 1: it all taken care of, all right, just real quick.
Speaker 1: Ros's gonna be fielding those calls. Just want to, uh,
Speaker 1: where did I put this uh yeah, okay right here
Speaker 1: real quick. There's a crazy story. We tweeted this out
Speaker 1: earlier where a dude killed his neighbors allegedly over a
Speaker 1: one dollar hot dog and they're nwdas and he became
Speaker 1: insulted that when they when he asked him to bring
Speaker 1: them food, that they brought him a one dollar hot dog, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I want to know where they sell
Speaker 1: one dollar hot dogs because holy hell, man, right, where
Speaker 1: do you find a one dollar hot dog these days?
Speaker 1: But he had, for the second day in a row,
Speaker 1: he had created a secret room. Only in this case,
Speaker 1: he basically because it's a trailer an RV and trailer park,
Speaker 1: he dug like a murder pit under his house and
Speaker 1: then just chopped up his neighbors down there. So my
Speaker 1: my parting thing to you on this very sort of
Speaker 1: tail is if your family member at any point has
Speaker 1: a secret room or pit and you're not allowed in it,
Speaker 1: maybe you should check it out.
Speaker 2: Not when they're there, though,