Speaker 1: You get a double stack of stuff today because we
Speaker 1: had a bunch of stuff I really wanted to get
Speaker 1: to yesterday, and then some stuff I saw yesterday to
Speaker 1: get to today, and they're all gonna PB and J
Speaker 1: up for a nice new sandwich. I want to start
Speaker 1: with something I was just reading, which is it's really
Speaker 1: it's just crazy if you think about it. So Barry
Speaker 1: Weiss wrote, wrote an article yesterday, and I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna I'm gonna read you one paragraph. It's the
Speaker 1: only paragraph that matters. You can go look it up.
Speaker 1: And you're probably aware of this, even if it's passively,
Speaker 1: but maybe you're not all right. So here here is
Speaker 1: the paragraph. So tumultuous was the first week of Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's second term, by the way I see. Then people
Speaker 1: are getting mad at Weiss because they think she's insulting
Speaker 1: Trump using the word. You should look up what tumultuous means.
Speaker 1: It was tumultuous, arguably by design, by Trump design. And
Speaker 1: then of course you have the media, you know, hissing
Speaker 1: and spitting venoms, so it adds to the tumultuous nature
Speaker 1: of it. So he had just used the word twice. Yes,
Speaker 1: you get a grammar lesson at six oh eight. So
Speaker 1: tumultuous was the first week of Donald Trump's second term
Speaker 1: that people have barely noticed A week one that last Tuesday,
Speaker 1: so one week ago from today. He repealed affirmative action
Speaker 1: via executive order. Now, I want you to I want
Speaker 1: you to flip your brain to twenty sixteen. Okay, twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: Trump came in. It was clear that he had a
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff he wanted to do that Obviously, the
Speaker 1: left was losing their crap over Yeah, so they they
Speaker 1: slow rolled it kind of won. But yeah, he had
Speaker 1: some executive orders, but he really wasn't on par with
Speaker 1: what he just did obviously and what Biden then did.
Speaker 1: And they started going issue by issue, and it became
Speaker 1: very clear that if you feed you know in the
Speaker 1: movies where it's like there's the guy, there's the hero
Speaker 1: or whatever, and for whatever reason, there'll be like twenty
Speaker 1: ninjas around him, how do the ninjas attack or how
Speaker 1: do the bad guy, you know, the good guy he's
Speaker 1: in the bar and he's surrounded by twenty people, how
Speaker 1: do they choose to fight that guy? Every time without fail,
Speaker 1: they won by one of them. That looks great in
Speaker 1: the movies, Jackie Chan can do his stuff and you know,
Speaker 1: your good guy stays the winner. But in reality, if
Speaker 1: there's ten of you and you want to kill a guy,
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta be a little careful for crossfire
Speaker 1: or whatever. But you're all going at him, okay. And
Speaker 1: that's what Trump was doing. He decided or what they
Speaker 1: decided to do with his administration. And in this series,
Speaker 1: they're the group attacking these things and they decided to
Speaker 1: go one by one. And if you can, if you
Speaker 1: can and sit there and think about had one of
Speaker 1: like an issue week one repeal affirmative action, what do
Speaker 1: you think that would have looked like between the Democrats,
Speaker 1: between the never Trumpers, between the left, between the activist groups,
Speaker 1: the universities. Obviously, because a lot of this has to
Speaker 1: do with that, they would have lost their minds. This
Speaker 1: would be the only story. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: he'd be successful because he also had people around who
Speaker 1: would kind of undermine some of these things. Well it's
Speaker 1: only kind of repealed, but not really. No, he really
Speaker 1: did it, and you really didn't see it come up
Speaker 1: in the news cycle. Did you maybe if he read
Speaker 1: a list, you know, there was a couple sites that
Speaker 1: had lists of all the things, all the eos, so
Speaker 1: you could go any click and learn about him. But
Speaker 1: when it came time to select which story we're going
Speaker 1: to be at the forefront of the news, this isn't
Speaker 1: what they were screaming about. You didn't turn on CNN
Speaker 1: and they had affirmative action panels. I'm sure it got
Speaker 1: mentioned because you have a bunch of race baters over there,
Speaker 1: as I'll prove to you. That being said, you also
Speaker 1: didn't hear about it from the Democrats. See, this is
Speaker 1: the this is the deeper news analysis here. That's even
Speaker 1: stranger because this was such this was a golden calf
Speaker 1: for them. Man was this was a way they thought
Speaker 1: to go ahead and essentially buy votes within a community,
Speaker 1: regardless of the efficacy of it, and regardless of the
Speaker 1: fact that it also made people feel who did earn
Speaker 1: their spot, who happened to be a minority, that people
Speaker 1: would look at them and not assume they earned it.
Speaker 1: So why would Democrats not go into full hysteria mode
Speaker 1: over this? Because they realized this is a losing issue
Speaker 1: for them. It's part of the larger losing issue. All
Speaker 1: the DEI stuff affirmative action is clearly a plank of DEI,
Speaker 1: and so they saw an opportunity. This is my opinion,
Speaker 1: but I would venture to I would listen to any
Speaker 1: of you explaining to me why I'm wrong, because there's
Speaker 1: no other scenario I can think of. The reason Democrats
Speaker 1: didn't go into full meltdown moad over this. They're one
Speaker 1: of their golden you know, top tier priorities, is because
Speaker 1: somebody's calculating the numbers, and they realized that the DEI
Speaker 1: component an affirmative action largely is now a net negative
Speaker 1: to them, which proves they didn't care about it in
Speaker 1: the first place. In the same way California, who, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you could find a group of lawmakers
Speaker 1: who are more all in on the climate change yet
Speaker 1: did nothing to mitigate it. If you honestly believe that,
Speaker 1: then you should be mitigating all day every day. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of truths that emerge, and the truth is
Speaker 1: is the Democrats realized now is a time where they
Speaker 1: can let stuff like this that will eventually end up
Speaker 1: in the news and rekindle some of the DEI stuff,
Speaker 1: but is hurting them in elections to go away. And
Speaker 1: if anybody ever goes I can't believe it went away.
Speaker 1: They can point over the like, yeah, evil Republicans did it.
Speaker 1: We couldn't do anything, And you know, you're not really
Speaker 1: at that point going to be able to go back
Speaker 1: and figure out if they even attempted to do anything.
Speaker 1: You can Google for it, you know how they google
Speaker 1: memory hold stories. It happens all the time where I'm like,
Speaker 1: didn't we have a story about four years ago? If
Speaker 1: it was a story that made the Left look bad,
Speaker 1: I would go on Google and I'd have a hell
Speaker 1: of a time finding it. But if I go to
Speaker 1: other you know, other search engines, I could find it,
Speaker 1: and most people use Google and even subconsciously, I guess
Speaker 1: you know how it works. So yeah, yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: really good point. But it's an even better point when
Speaker 1: you think it out. Why didn't they say anything because
Speaker 1: it's a loser for them, which shows you it was
Speaker 1: all politics it always is. They never believe this, and
Speaker 1: also they didn't care the damage that was getting done
Speaker 1: by it. It's evil, it's not as evil as what
Speaker 1: they did with poor immigrants. That's the most evil. It's
Speaker 1: the most evil thing that Democrats have done since slavery, okay,
Speaker 1: And if you don't know my full it goes like this.
Speaker 1: And admittedly I had to travel. I had to go
Speaker 1: to places like Columbia, which I don't know that I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be able to go back. I wanted to go
Speaker 1: back to glat to pay or so I don't know
Speaker 1: that I could right now. They're a little uh ruh
Speaker 1: down there, which we'll we'll touch on, but you know,
Speaker 1: I went down there, and I've been to I've been
Speaker 1: to probably half of Central America and most of North
Speaker 1: South America. And they they literally run ads. I've mentioned this.
Speaker 1: They run ads and like you know those free newspapers,
Speaker 1: the shopper papers, those are popular down there, Lamoticia, which
Speaker 1: is just the new or the news basically.
Speaker 2: Is.
Speaker 1: And they run ads for transit services, escort services, not
Speaker 1: those kinds of escorts, but escorting people. Unfortunately, though sometimes
Speaker 1: it turns into the other kind, I guess, but and
Speaker 1: the like some of them had Joe Biden's face on them,
Speaker 1: and had you had criminal organizations that were praying on
Speaker 1: people who are uneducated, really really poor. But regardless of
Speaker 1: your educational or financial status, the unifying thing in most
Speaker 1: people is they want opportunity for them and their family,
Speaker 1: and they don't even need a lot of it, but
Speaker 1: they need enough to survive. And that's before you get
Speaker 1: into the political stuff going on in some of these
Speaker 1: countries where you basically had nik Rodwood basically as a dictator. Okay,
Speaker 1: Honduras ain't much better. You go to Roatan if you're
Speaker 1: a tourist, you don't go to the mainland, or you
Speaker 1: end up like the owners of that bar and Raleigh
Speaker 1: sitting in a prison in Honduras because the guards cut
Speaker 1: apart at one of those fake Arizona I is tea
Speaker 1: safe cans, you know that looks like a drink, but
Speaker 1: it's where you hide your money, And because it had
Speaker 1: insulation in it, they assumed it must be cocaine and
Speaker 1: they kept her in a prison down there for a
Speaker 1: couple weeks. That was a big story back in the day.
Speaker 1: So you run ads and you tell people you're like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: this is your window right now. Yeah, no, if you
Speaker 1: go up there, and then they see video of this stuff,
Speaker 1: because it became the policy of the party, and even
Speaker 1: though they would under explain the complexities of it, they
Speaker 1: saw enough evidence that they took everything that they owned,
Speaker 1: they beg borrow and stole, and if that wasn't enough,
Speaker 1: they also agreed to things which are horrendous and if
Speaker 1: not paid, could be deadly to criminal organizations, things like
Speaker 1: when I get there, I will prostitute myself. That's how
Speaker 1: you end up with what you saw on the Southern
Speaker 1: border with that chick they just busted. It was running
Speaker 1: a sex prison thing, and they said, here you go,
Speaker 1: mister cartel or criminal organization or just all around bad guy,
Speaker 1: here's everything that I have. Because you were convinced by
Speaker 1: what you were seeing on the news of people who
Speaker 1: look like you and sound like you sitting in midtown Manhattan,
Speaker 1: hanging out in a hotel, hanging out on the streets
Speaker 1: getting all the groceries man, and you looked at your
Speaker 1: lean to your living in with no heating, no air conditioning,
Speaker 1: no floor in some cases, and you went, it has
Speaker 1: to be better than this. You gave them all your money,
Speaker 1: and then you got to know Gallas and you found
Speaker 1: out you weren't going to get in. That's why I
Speaker 1: said it's okay to be sympathetic with some of this stuff,
Speaker 1: because now you're there, you have no money, and you
Speaker 1: may even owe because they've quote unquote rendered their service
Speaker 1: and their criminals. You may owe whatever you agreed to.
Speaker 1: That's the most evil thing they've done since slavery, because
Speaker 1: it's clear when it's deincentivized to do that. Did you
Speaker 1: see the guys from Columbia who were going to walk
Speaker 1: back into Mexico and the dudes like, don't go over there, migra, migra.
Speaker 1: It's talking about immigration, don't go and just's and that
Speaker 1: video gets back as well. So if you think that
Speaker 1: policy and politics here in the US didn't contribute to that,
Speaker 1: and now you have people that went through everything that
Speaker 1: I just told you who were standing, you know, a
Speaker 1: half mile outside of our borders, destitute and they don't
Speaker 1: know what to do. That's where we are. And it
Speaker 1: also explains why countries like Honduras, whose president is now
Speaker 1: decided is the latest leader who wants to get into
Speaker 1: a tiff with Trump. It also is why they don't
Speaker 1: want those folks back because they are not a net
Speaker 1: positive from a financial standpoint, even with the slim quote
Speaker 1: unquote safety nets they have, the you know, their universal
Speaker 1: health programs, they're caa hostile programs which you're better off
Speaker 1: going into the woods finding a leaf to rub on
Speaker 1: you man, and now this with the affirmative action. Believe
Speaker 1: in something, man or nothing at all, I believe is
Speaker 1: the phrase, because this, this would have been your pet
Speaker 1: project eight years ago and now you couldn't care less
Speaker 1: six twenty hang on why like because this is one
Speaker 1: of the one you're in the marble side and two
Speaker 1: I don't know, there's been a lot of hatred for
Speaker 1: any of the Captain America movies. I told you I
Speaker 1: thought the one was too busy, but that was it.
Speaker 1: So Anthony Mackie is the actor's name. I believe he is.
Speaker 1: You know, if you saw if you've seen the trailer,
Speaker 1: obviously they were running it during the during the football
Speaker 1: and everything. If you look at it, he is now
Speaker 1: Captain America but with wings and all of that stuff.
Speaker 1: All right, And we've talked about this on the air.
Speaker 1: Ross is in the camp that Steve Rogers is Captain America. Okay,
Speaker 1: So there there will be people who are in that
Speaker 1: camp are not going to be excited because it is
Speaker 1: a transition to the character. It's not a swap per
Speaker 1: se right, where they just pretend that that's Steve Rogers.
Speaker 3: Now right, it's understand this cannon, I just don't like it,
Speaker 3: so yeah, I'm going to pass on it.
Speaker 1: That's fine, yeah all right. So uh so at that
Speaker 1: point you have that, you also have the death to
Speaker 1: Jews crowd, who's mad because one of the characters is
Speaker 1: an IDF soldier and is not immediately murdered or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that should be the only stuff
Speaker 1: working against you, because for the most part, Captain America
Speaker 1: movies have have been at least popcorn entertainment kind of
Speaker 1: you know, they've done really well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So why so he's at a comic con and he said, what.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna get the audio for Steven on Thursday.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we'll talk about it then. So no, rush,
Speaker 1: let's just let's just yeah.
Speaker 3: So he's got like some sort of press junk it
Speaker 3: and he said, you know, in his in his opinion,
Speaker 3: Captain America doesn't really represent America.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what's the name of the character Captain America? Oh,
Speaker 1: I see, I see, I am part of a veteran,
Speaker 1: do we know in the movie, Yes, I mean just
Speaker 1: Captain America, the character he is. Oh well, okayd he
Speaker 1: was he just was he a peacetime veteran not to
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to draw divisions here. Or did he
Speaker 1: get did he gets shot at a few times? Okay?
Speaker 1: Was it like a big enemy or do we know?
Speaker 3: I'm not seeing this piece of crap movie. There's no way.
Speaker 1: What do you talk? Why? Why? Why the unforced air there?
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm an old fogie here like this crowd
Speaker 3: is captain at sake to Miles Morales is Miles Morales crowd,
Speaker 3: and it's I just can't, I can't do it.
Speaker 1: Got it? Those are the fun nerd fights on this, Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: nobody's They're just like, this isn't for me.
Speaker 3: And if you disagree, it's fine. Yes, I'm just not
Speaker 3: going to see it because I'm old. Get off.
Speaker 1: I was on the here's where I was. I would
Speaker 1: have seen it. I don't know. I wouldn't go to
Speaker 1: a theater to see it, but as soon as it
Speaker 1: popped up it probably would have got me to do
Speaker 1: like the month of Disney plus or whatever or where
Speaker 1: maybe it went somewhere else first. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I probably would have seen it just because every other
Speaker 1: not every other movie, Like I remember I mentioned I
Speaker 1: want to go to the movies last week, and at
Speaker 1: this theater, it's got like nine million screens. I couldn't
Speaker 1: find a single movie I wanted to see that, A
Speaker 1: single one I would have. I would rather sit in
Speaker 1: my hotel room when I was because I was over
Speaker 1: in Greensboro broadcasting. Probably sit in my hotel room, then
Speaker 1: go because I had that afternoon free, then go pay.
Speaker 1: You know, I wasn't gonna break me just for that
Speaker 1: entertainment because it was so bad, so I would I
Speaker 1: would have probably seen this in some capacity. And now
Speaker 1: if the only way I'll see it now is if
Speaker 1: it's on in a room I walk in, and it
Speaker 1: would be rude to turn it off. I don't understand
Speaker 1: these cats, man. That's why you got to make your
Speaker 1: own fun. That's why you gotta go to like bourbon
Speaker 1: tastings and stuff. See that won't let you down. And
Speaker 1: it didn't. Like I said, we had, we had two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty people ticket to show up there. I
Speaker 1: want to share just a couple of things. I met
Speaker 1: some listeners, obviously a couple couple, a couple of you.
Speaker 1: I knew you've come to other events, but a lot
Speaker 1: of new faces there love that I ended up. I
Speaker 1: really wasn't supposed to MC, but it kind of worked
Speaker 1: out with the way that it was going on, and
Speaker 1: I just I want to There was one person, all right,
Speaker 1: it's gonna get dusty in this room. Okay, I'm just
Speaker 1: warning you. It's gonna get dusty. But there's a couple
Speaker 1: things that happen when you do this job. One, the
Speaker 1: amount of people who sing the iHeartRadio theme to me
Speaker 1: at gas stations if I'm wearing any logos or I'm
Speaker 1: driving on the station vehicles is wild. In the Triad.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. In the Tryad they do it
Speaker 1: so much. Pop into his sheets, ladies checking me out,
Speaker 1: and I had to we have a pullover jacket because
Speaker 1: you know, it's a billion degrees blow zero last week,
Speaker 1: and she's just like, I Heart Radio. Like that's one thing.
Speaker 1: But the other thing is people share stuff with you,
Speaker 1: sometimes to the point of uncomfortability. You all need some filters,
Speaker 1: but sometimes they share stuff with you, and you kind
Speaker 1: of you realize that you're going to be part of that,
Speaker 1: and so you have a responsibility. Like I joke about everything,
Speaker 1: but you can't joke about everything. And this very nice
Speaker 1: woman was at the event, and the manager of the
Speaker 1: hotel said, hey, she she'd He gave me a little
Speaker 1: rundown of what they had been talking about because she's
Speaker 1: seated next to one of the managers there. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a standard ballroom set up with the you know,
Speaker 1: the tables. Everybody grab a seat, a couple reserved at
Speaker 1: the front for the people speaking. And I didn't ask
Speaker 1: her if i'd use her name, so I won't. And
Speaker 1: here's what had happened. So her husband loved these things,
Speaker 1: love the bourbon tastings, the you know, those kinds of events,
Speaker 1: and so when he heard the tickets were available, he's like, honey,
Speaker 1: we're going, and so he bought tickets and then he died.
Speaker 1: And she made the decision because this was one of,
Speaker 1: you know, one of their favorite things to do, to
Speaker 1: go to things, not necessarily the bourbon tasting component, but
Speaker 1: just you know, do fun little stuff. They were getting
Speaker 1: to that age, you know, the kids are out of
Speaker 1: the house, you're doing the thing, go out and have
Speaker 1: some fun. And he unexpectedly passed away. And he loved
Speaker 1: cars and motorcycles, and so did she, and we talked
Speaker 1: about it for you know, four or five minutes, just
Speaker 1: because I kept having to go up and host and
Speaker 1: and so we got to toast her husband at this thing.
Speaker 1: And it was really dusty in that room too. Just
Speaker 1: a lot of amazing people down there. And again the
Speaker 1: the folks who hosted us the hotel is I mean,
Speaker 1: that is really impressive. And you know, and I will
Speaker 1: say this, they gave me. They did give me a
Speaker 1: little room upgrade. But they but the pictures and I
Speaker 1: posted them on the Twitter. If you scroll back through Friday,
Speaker 1: that's the shot from the balcony of the room looking
Speaker 1: out over the water there looking out over the tiki bar.
Speaker 1: They have like a floating tiki bar which was covered
Speaker 1: in snow, which was kind of kind of funny actually
Speaker 1: because it's a tiki bar, it should be covered in snow.
Speaker 1: And just big wrap round patio. They have the guy
Speaker 1: who owns the hotel, which, by the way, I found
Speaker 1: out he's from Wyoming. He's the only like like five
Speaker 1: of us, five of us that I've ever met in
Speaker 1: North Carolina. For Wyoming. He has he bought one of
Speaker 1: those old wood in like let's say it's a fairy
Speaker 1: it's a tax like a water taxi but it's all
Speaker 1: the polished wood and it sits in front. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just what a great place. And thank you to
Speaker 1: everyone who came out for them, because if you, I know,
Speaker 1: I had a great time, and yes, spirits were consumed,
Speaker 1: and they had really good spirits. I think I posted
Speaker 1: a picture of one of them there. It's this. It's
Speaker 1: a new brand. It's like a a mom and pop
Speaker 1: startup called Wilderness and it's a heavy Rye and I
Speaker 1: like ryeber. I like Rye whiskeys too, especially if I'm
Speaker 1: gonna mix something, you know, bourbons rye whiskies, but to
Speaker 1: get more of a bourbony taste with more Rye in it.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that. So that's also what that stuff's about.
Speaker 1: So you know, find a new stuff, getting with folks,
Speaker 1: trying to get sure if you ever do the whiskey
Speaker 1: booklets or you got to taste all of them, get
Speaker 1: a stamped. They're really into that. And they had some
Speaker 1: dudes who had completed like the big book there, which
Speaker 1: is not easy. So they're getting their challenge coins and
Speaker 1: some stuff with that. It's just it's a good it's
Speaker 1: its own little culture too, and so I really appreciate,
Speaker 1: because I've got to tell you, with all that snow
Speaker 1: that came through, I was really nervous that we were
Speaker 1: going to be able to fill that room. And I
Speaker 1: think they said they probably could do. They can expand
Speaker 1: one side of it, and they think they can maybe
Speaker 1: get twenty five more in there. But this thing's already
Speaker 1: brimming at peak, and they think if there wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been snow, it probably would have. So again, thank you
Speaker 1: didn't see Boston Paul down there though, missed out on
Speaker 1: a good time or Boston Paul did? Yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 1: Boston Paul. Yeah, you're on the air.
Speaker 4: Brother, Well it took you two days to recover from
Speaker 4: one night of drinking. No, are you kidding me? Getting
Speaker 4: old man?
Speaker 1: Dude. Yeah, there was a litany of both technical and
Speaker 1: travel and also dude, it.
Speaker 4: Was Hey, I can't believe how many people are so
Speaker 4: infatuated over the snow on the beach. I mean, I
Speaker 4: grew up with it. There's nothing, there's not what's the
Speaker 4: big deal?
Speaker 1: Oh really, you're going to pull the New Yorker Wow
Speaker 1: back where I was. Do you want to do that?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna refer you to the
Speaker 1: new committee chair who gets to vet everyone who moves
Speaker 1: into North Carolina. I found a dude.
Speaker 4: One other thing, did you see Milania out there in California?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: This does she not look like the professional Secret Service
Speaker 4: agent protecting the president?
Speaker 2: All what?
Speaker 1: She got an edge time around. Look, she had an
Speaker 1: edge on the inaguration with that hat. She's got an
Speaker 1: edge around. I wouldn't mess with it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, did you see do you think she had double
Speaker 4: RUSI's under there on a swing?
Speaker 1: Is that would that be allowed? I suppose it would
Speaker 1: be allowed, right, of course it would be.
Speaker 4: She's the first lady. She can do whatever she wants.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but she's not the president.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, so he you know, he needs protection,
Speaker 4: so she took over. She's top dog.
Speaker 1: Well again she she I don't want to stay scary
Speaker 1: because people will misconstrue that. But she's got an edge
Speaker 1: to her this time around. And you know what, that's
Speaker 1: because the moonbats radicalized this woman. She Remember, she was
Speaker 1: content to do nothing, and then the first time she
Speaker 1: did something, she decorated the White House and it looked amazing, right,
Speaker 1: it was, you know, it looked amazing. And they're just
Speaker 1: like oh my gosh, she's destroyed it. And then you
Speaker 1: remember that weird Broadway dance number the Bidens did the
Speaker 1: first year and everybody's like, this is amazing and it
Speaker 1: looked like garbage, like that's where it started. And then
Speaker 1: they're digging through a panty drawer and and it's all
Speaker 1: in man, so, oh yeah, it is on. I'm here
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 4: So I can't wait for the Vogue and all of
Speaker 4: them asks to be for her to be on their cover,
Speaker 4: and she says no.
Speaker 1: I hope she does or she doesn't. And then she
Speaker 1: wears a dress with some hidden meaning that they only
Speaker 1: explained after they printed, where she's making fun of whin
Speaker 1: tour or whoever the publisher is. So we'll see.
Speaker 2: I was not.
Speaker 4: She looked like the top ducks. He could serve agents
Speaker 4: this week, all.
Speaker 1: Right, boss to Paul, have a good one. Stand back
Speaker 1: between the lanes. All right, thank you, there you go.
Speaker 1: Good advice for everybody. All right, So I mentioned the ambassador.
Speaker 1: This dude, this is This video is hilarious for a
Speaker 1: couple of reasons. One, obviously, the dude's delivery, but that's
Speaker 1: how he talks, that's his delivery. And then somebody in
Speaker 1: the comments wrote, the auto captions have to be absolutely
Speaker 1: and so I turned them on because i't usually have
Speaker 1: them on Twitter, and they're not wrong. Trying to figure out,
Speaker 1: you know, automatically what this dude's saying, but he very
Speaker 1: succinctly puts into words what many people have sent an
Speaker 1: email or commented on over the years. When you know,
Speaker 1: people like Boston Paul are like Dah beachnow Man, except
Speaker 1: Boston Paul's joking. Most people aren't. So we'll share that
Speaker 1: with you coming up here on the cacoday radio program
Speaker 1: Body positive influencer, fat influencer. I've heard them refer to
Speaker 1: like that chick who harasses the airlines decided to go
Speaker 1: ahead and order herself a lift, a standard lift. So
Speaker 1: you know how it works. You got all these different
Speaker 1: choices depending on where you are. There's even more choices,
Speaker 1: like if you're in a big, big city, like if
Speaker 1: you go to DC or New York, it's like fifty
Speaker 1: different variations of this stuff. But the standard ones, if
Speaker 1: you go to a Lyft or Uber, they're basically the same.
Speaker 1: Right you have economy or the regular you have. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you can get like upgrade a slight like a premium car,
Speaker 1: but not a black because blacks where you get into
Speaker 1: the real you know, limo feel to it or big
Speaker 1: suv feel to it. And then you have Uber XL. Right,
Speaker 1: so if you're going to the airport it's a family
Speaker 1: of four with luggage, you want to order an XCEL
Speaker 1: or if you're like me and they have the more
Speaker 1: leg room, I can't reme with the cly. I suppose
Speaker 1: you just open Uber on my phone. Here, what that
Speaker 1: class is, I'll tend to lean into that. Yeah, here
Speaker 1: we go. Yeah, they have Uber x is the regular.
Speaker 1: They have Uber XL. I'm just looking at the different
Speaker 1: choices here, Uber XL. They don't have oh that comfort. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what they call it here. It is comfort, and
Speaker 1: actually it's my default because the last one I use
Speaker 1: was comfort, and I like it because you get more
Speaker 1: leg room. And you know, if you're like me and
Speaker 1: you're six foot are over, I'll pay the extra dollar
Speaker 1: and a half or whatever it is if it's if
Speaker 1: it's the amount of right there, and then you got black.
Speaker 1: They have Uber pets is a category I don't know.
Speaker 1: Is that that must be? I hadn't seen that. So
Speaker 1: those are people like you and your dog got to
Speaker 1: go to the vet. You don't have a car, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna do the uber thing. Great, all right, you
Speaker 1: got decisions, and you use those decisions responsibly. So this
Speaker 1: woman orders the standard small car and then she shows
Speaker 1: up two or the guy shows up. She's filming, right,
Speaker 1: she's got the phone. It looks like she's holding the
Speaker 1: phone in her hand at waste level. And ironically you
Speaker 1: never see her. You just see this kind of upward
Speaker 1: angle through the window and partially you see the face
Speaker 1: of the of the woman and she is she's mad
Speaker 1: because the driver says, no, I'm sorry, I can't ma'am.
Speaker 1: And again what he should have said is there's I
Speaker 1: don't know how you're gonna get a seatbelt, and at
Speaker 1: that point he's got it out. All right, there do
Speaker 1: this just so yeah, just so you know here, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send this woman's photo to Ross. He has
Speaker 1: not seen it on its way to your phone. Might
Speaker 1: take a little extra time. It's a big I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's digitally big. They fired him, he he he, and
Speaker 1: they I think they got mad him for suggesting that
Speaker 1: she should have called an excel. She's like and he's
Speaker 1: driving one of the small he's only one of the
Speaker 1: very smallest older Mercedes, you know, like entry level Mercedes.
Speaker 1: The back seats on those things are really tiny.
Speaker 3: Like, so this guy drives up and she's standing there.
Speaker 3: What is he supposed to do because.
Speaker 1: You're seeing a photo and I'm gonna retweet the tweet
Speaker 1: with her photo in it, So like if you.
Speaker 3: Can't fit in the car, what is he supposed to do?
Speaker 1: Well? Yeah, well, she claims in the thing, I didn't
Speaker 1: send it to you because we got enough audio. But
Speaker 1: she claims in the thing, I just reposted the photo
Speaker 1: there at Casey on the radio. She claims that her
Speaker 1: friend has a Mercedes and she's able to fit in it.
Speaker 1: I I don't know about that.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The the Trump administration handled that North Carolina visit on Friday.
Speaker 1: In fact, Pete Kellner and I don't really text a
Speaker 1: lot because he has he has an Android, right, and
Speaker 1: so like as soon as I want to send him
Speaker 1: a picture or something halftime, it screws up. But him
Speaker 1: and I were actually chatting about it, and like there
Speaker 1: there were there there were a few of these things.
Speaker 1: But here's what I wrote him. I said, letting the
Speaker 1: people actually affected speak during the press conferences is masterclass.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing. I don't just that for Trump,
Speaker 1: but you have to do it right. So if if
Speaker 1: you're gonna bring up regular people, but those regular people
Speaker 1: are campaign workers, NGO folks or you know, activists, right, activists,
Speaker 1: If they're activists, they're not regular people. Democrats do this
Speaker 1: all the time. Republicans do it sometimes, and Democrats used
Speaker 1: to be better at not doing it all the time.
Speaker 1: And now it's like, let's bring up this woman and
Speaker 1: then you find you know, talk on immigration, right, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's very hard. And then you find out that she's
Speaker 1: worked for Larraza for ten years and and people see
Speaker 1: that stuff and they go, oh, well whatever. But so
Speaker 1: they go up there and they were smart enough to
Speaker 1: not just have Trump talk. Obviously, the fact that he's
Speaker 1: showing up and he's saying things like, well, I guess
Speaker 1: we're gonna bypass FEMA and directly give you guys the money.
Speaker 1: When all of a sudden, the Army of engineers is
Speaker 1: everywhere every I kept. I have so many posts on
Speaker 1: social media this weekend with pictures of army corps in
Speaker 1: there hoping to clean up. Remember, people are being told
Speaker 1: not to clean up their own waterways that may run
Speaker 1: through their property. So when they're told that and yet
Speaker 1: it doesn't nothing's happening, people are mad. So now you
Speaker 1: got the Army Corps in there, they're doing this stuff.
Speaker 1: Obviously they're going to do they have the equipment and
Speaker 1: access to you know, be able to do that rather quickly.
Speaker 1: But like people start feeling hopeful again. And then you
Speaker 1: put them on stage, the people who are not campaign workers,
Speaker 1: people who are not activists themselves, people who are just people.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you it's very very effective.
Speaker 6: I've been fighting with femas since day one. Our community
Speaker 6: there's like thirty two homes. We don't have a ride
Speaker 6: in a bridge or drive them our neighbor's property. You know.
Speaker 6: I went to EMS and I said, look, my concern
Speaker 6: is if we have a fire or we have an
Speaker 6: emergency out here, you'ren't going to get to us. You
Speaker 6: can't get those big trucks up here. And I've called
Speaker 6: and called and called FEMA, and you know, I said,
Speaker 6: it's this happened on September twenty seventh, that's four months ago.
Speaker 6: Well for us, today is still September twenty seventh. You know,
Speaker 6: we haven't had help. And so when I talked to FEMA,
Speaker 6: I'll explaining the road and the bridge, and they send
Speaker 6: me a letter that tells me to basically fix it
Speaker 6: and send in my receipts and they'll refund me some money.
Speaker 6: I'm only going to have a road and bridge that honestly,
Speaker 6: the bridge itself is probably going to be three hundred
Speaker 6: thousand dollars in the road could be close to that also,
Speaker 6: because we have to have the community has to have
Speaker 6: big boulders brought in. We're not a rich community. We
Speaker 6: can't fix it ourselves.
Speaker 5: You know. It's just.
Speaker 6: And as far as like house repairs, I'm still pending.
Speaker 6: I can't get money from FEMA until I fix the
Speaker 6: road and bridge and send in my proof that it's
Speaker 6: fixed and everything. It's just it's been a nightmare and
Speaker 6: I totally feel like that we have been forgotten. If
Speaker 6: it had not been for our fellow American citizens who
Speaker 6: stepped up to help us, I don't know what we
Speaker 6: would have done.
Speaker 1: I know that's a long cut, that's a minute, minute
Speaker 1: and a half of audio, but you hear all of
Speaker 1: the compounding problems, and it's these these weird catch twenty
Speaker 1: two's like where she said, I can't get there's no
Speaker 1: way we could get ems services or fire services back here.
Speaker 1: So I call FEMA, and FEMA says, we got to
Speaker 1: fix you. Gotta fix the road first and then we'll
Speaker 1: certify something something will reimburse you for it. But she
Speaker 1: can't get trucks in to fix the road, let alone
Speaker 1: carry the cost of something like that, and so she's
Speaker 1: just she's in a doom loop at that point? What
Speaker 1: do you do? And people, I'm sure some did, but
Speaker 1: a lot of people are the verge of given up.
Speaker 1: They would have forcibly moved, sold their land for whatever
Speaker 1: they could get, which would probably be a pittance, and
Speaker 1: and just I'm not going to deal with this. I'm out.
Speaker 1: And I know some people go, oh, well, that's the plan,
Speaker 1: so they could buy the lithium. That's not what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. I'm talking about is just humans reaching their
Speaker 1: breaking point and this stuff and Trump can talk about it,
Speaker 1: but it's far more powerful for this woman to stand
Speaker 1: up there and do it. And the sad thing is
Speaker 1: I saw very few uses of those people's testimonies, Like
Speaker 1: it's like a church, they're testifying a church there. It's
Speaker 1: I saw very few uses of that with some of
Speaker 1: the more mainstream media, which is very unfortunate. Some of
Speaker 1: them did, and that's good and they should because people
Speaker 1: can relate to that something is broken. So if you
Speaker 1: are I don't know, let's say, hypothetically you're Josh Stein. Okay,
Speaker 1: not hypothetically, and they're going to stick a camera in
Speaker 1: your face on this issue when this when the president's
Speaker 1: here saying this stuff and people, the citizens out there
Speaker 1: are on the stage on video saying this stuff. Shut
Speaker 1: up or go hey, I'm just I'm so glad that
Speaker 1: we're here again. I gave Stein credit because his office
Speaker 1: did aid in the hotel thing, which never should have happened.
Speaker 1: But what are you doing here? Is Josh Stein doing
Speaker 1: a little quick interview literally while this is going on.
Speaker 7: Well, the President came here a couple of times, the
Speaker 7: FEMA director Factory who lived here.
Speaker 1: I know that those folks worked hard.
Speaker 7: That doesn't mean we can't be frustrated with some things
Speaker 7: that happened, because it never goes as quickly or as
Speaker 7: well as we wanted to. But it's all about what
Speaker 7: can we do today going forward. I've been governor for
Speaker 7: about three weeks now. This is my fifth trip to
Speaker 7: Western North Carolina. This is a top priority of mine.
Speaker 7: I want the western people Western Carolina Carolina to know
Speaker 7: they will not be forgotten.
Speaker 8: Do you have a message for you?
Speaker 1: Will here?
Speaker 7: They will not be forgotten. The people West North Carolina,
Speaker 7: you won't be forgotten. I've been here now five times
Speaker 7: since I was sworn in. This is the first destination
Speaker 7: of the president since he was sworn in. I think
Speaker 7: folks here should know they are a priority for both
Speaker 7: the federal and state government.
Speaker 1: So the FEMA director practically lived there, taught. Why didn't
Speaker 1: you talk about what was successful? Because I don't know
Speaker 1: what it is? And this isn't me ragging on all
Speaker 1: FEMA employees, it's not. Most of these issues are issues
Speaker 1: with the structure of the organization, the fact that it's
Speaker 1: a governmental organization. Yes, people, except that there's going to
Speaker 1: be certain things that are frustrating because it's a frustrating
Speaker 1: it's a disaster, right, nothing smooth.
Speaker 5: But what.
Speaker 1: Are you talking about, Governor? What did FEMA do well?
Speaker 1: And the fact that you couldn't point a single thing
Speaker 1: out other than the occupancy of a really nice hotel room,
Speaker 1: over in Cherokee by the FEMA director. Some of those
Speaker 1: rooms are very nice, you know, I know, pound sand
Speaker 1: on this stuff. What was the win? What was the
Speaker 1: wind where everybody got together as a community to stand
Speaker 1: in line for propane? Oh, they were bonding. That's good, okay.
Speaker 1: Or when they built that tiny home community was zero
Speaker 1: percent crime rate? That was carbon neutral at the Hickory
Speaker 1: Airport because nobody could live in them. Is that what
Speaker 1: you mean? Because I know you like the green stuff.
Speaker 1: How about remember the guys in the helicopter went and
Speaker 1: rescued half of a family, and then when they tried
Speaker 1: to go rescue the other half, they're like, nah, you
Speaker 1: can't do that. Well, you know what, you know, what's
Speaker 1: a loud to annoy and ross? You ever had a
Speaker 1: helicopter fly over you? That's noise and stuff. Not the
Speaker 1: black ones that follow us around, but like you know,
Speaker 1: the old school ones. Hurts your ears. Man, who wants
Speaker 1: that flying over where their house used to be and
Speaker 1: their tent is now nobody? And the fact that you
Speaker 1: had FEMA management out there who was trying to speed
Speaker 1: the process up, but the way they went about it
Speaker 1: is to skip homes with Trump signs according to that
Speaker 1: woman who was fired for it, So you must believe
Speaker 1: there's some veracity to it. And we saw the we
Speaker 1: saw the receipts helped me out here, but I want
Speaker 1: to be fair. So here's what we're going to do.
Speaker 1: A woman we've had on the show several times, obviously,
Speaker 1: this is her, this is her thing. She has been
Speaker 1: at the forefront of what's going on out there in
Speaker 1: western North Carolina, Cassie Clark. I wanted her to come
Speaker 1: on to talk about the FEMA wins and the Trump
Speaker 1: visit and Governor Governor Stein, Governor Barbecue as I called him.
Speaker 1: I think in the one tweet I can't side. I
Speaker 1: keep going back and forth with Governor short round short Stack.
Speaker 1: Somebody suggested or Barbecue because he loves taking pictures of
Speaker 1: him meeting barbecue. And it was funny as I was
Speaker 1: driving to and from Beaufort for that event. You go by,
Speaker 1: you go by Wilbur's there, right, you go by where
Speaker 1: you go and uh, you had the big sign there
Speaker 1: and it's you know, if you're if you're if there's
Speaker 1: a barbecue trail, which there is, Wilburs is upon it
Speaker 1: and Josh Stein love posting photos of him meeting at Wilbur's. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm not knocking on Wilbur's at all. I just want
Speaker 1: to be very clear. And then I wanted Wilburs. So
Speaker 1: what I was gonna say is I almost stopped, but
Speaker 1: I was on a little bit of a time crunch.
Speaker 1: So Wilburs should pay just Stein Marketing or advertise with us.
Speaker 1: You can send Ross and I free barbecue too. We
Speaker 1: will be okay. So yeah, well we'll chat with Cassie
Speaker 1: that's coming up at eight oh five. But let me
Speaker 1: move on to this I mentioned I saw this video
Speaker 1: of this guy who, honestly, I think I think he
Speaker 1: needs to be the North Carolina borders are. Man, do
Speaker 1: you want to come to North Carolina? You gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta sit on the porch and drink some shine with
Speaker 1: this dude for an hour and then he'll render a decision.
Speaker 1: Because I'm laughing my butt off the whole time.
Speaker 9: I've seen a video today about this, Uh the New
Speaker 9: York try to explain why uh they be complaining when
Speaker 9: they moved outside, didn't want specify by North Carolina.
Speaker 1: By the way, listening to him, what do you which
Speaker 1: county do you think he's from, because I don't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't say in the video. What are we picking up?
Speaker 1: We think of down east? Probably huh uh? How down
Speaker 1: east like South Carolina, border down or like Dupelin. That's
Speaker 1: a that'll be a fun thought exercise.
Speaker 9: And I found the explanation for the complaints, uh, quite
Speaker 9: intriguing because they bull who me, y'all let me tell
Speaker 9: you about it. So you know some of the complaint well,
Speaker 9: you know, talking about why thank you close up so early?
Speaker 9: And wyat things so far away?
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 9: I can't speak for them city folk in Greensboro, Rider, Charlotte, whatnot.
Speaker 9: But around here where I'm from, the Rue, North Carolina,
Speaker 9: that's where it's always been, where it's always been. Know that, man,
Speaker 9: I'm good with it. No we having to go to
Speaker 9: twenty mile to go to the store, especially when I
Speaker 9: was younger, Grandma sold were going to town.
Speaker 1: That was the turn.
Speaker 9: We're going to town.
Speaker 1: Oh shoot, I gotta thrown some shoes. Now we're going
Speaker 1: to go on to town.
Speaker 9: That's where it was talking about why we ain't got
Speaker 9: no bow daggers Boa daggers. I mean, the name is selspy.
Speaker 9: You just ask your own question. We need Bowdagga's for
Speaker 9: a crime, and then it we got some of the
Speaker 9: best hole in the wall restaurants in these gas stations,
Speaker 9: some of the best bidders in the county. Every We
Speaker 9: don't need none of that.
Speaker 1: We got our own version of bow Daggers. Enjoy that
Speaker 1: find you want, you gonna enjoy it. I love this
Speaker 1: guy man because you know what, here's the thing. Obviously,
Speaker 1: his delivery with the accent, you know, that's gonna catch
Speaker 1: a lot of people. He's drinking moonshine, he's gotta you know,
Speaker 1: he's got a mason jar in his hand with some
Speaker 1: sort of liquid in it, and he's just wrapping on
Speaker 1: his porch. You know, just hey, and he and but
Speaker 1: he very succinctly identifies a lot of the frustrations people
Speaker 1: feel like. Don't get me wrong, if you live in
Speaker 1: any state and people from another place come in and
Speaker 1: they try to challenge what you consider a norm people,
Speaker 1: you know, that irritates folks, maybe not to the extent
Speaker 1: to oversay something, but they're like, well, you got to
Speaker 1: mess with a good thing. That's why we live here.
Speaker 1: That's even outside of the political stuff. So I think
Speaker 1: he does a very good job and I love the
Speaker 1: way he pronounces bodega, oh deega? What is that? But
Speaker 1: he ain't done how.
Speaker 9: They talk about the agrissy. You know how we speak
Speaker 9: egg by that we nod the cap, say what's up?
Speaker 7: Head?
Speaker 1: And how they do?
Speaker 9: But it's saying like when they like something, they aggressive
Speaker 9: with it. They're gonna talk jump about it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 9: About all that right here while I'm from you got
Speaker 9: some an on your chest, he better bring it to
Speaker 9: the door. Yeah, you know, time out, God. We say
Speaker 9: we like something, we like it, we say what we mean,
Speaker 9: mean what we say. That's the cold down here, shoot,
Speaker 9: and what really burned my butter beans?
Speaker 1: Once you time out?
Speaker 3: We behind?
Speaker 9: Now we ain't behind, just a slow pace, I reckon.
Speaker 9: That's why you moved down here for that slower pace.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9: Why we still speak deadboy, we still sit down, sit
Speaker 9: on the poach rapper taste. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9: I spend more time outside.
Speaker 1: On my post I do in my own house. It's
Speaker 1: just that's how it is speaking to people. That's how
Speaker 1: we roll. While we ain't got a good pizza.
Speaker 3: Now pizzas pizza? No, you know to me piece.
Speaker 9: Of something that you eat. We ain't gotten now, Like
Speaker 9: I said before, we interested in some bills on time,
Speaker 9: I get a fish fried pig, pig.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9: There's some good eating right there.
Speaker 1: So his response to New Yorker is, pizza is what
Speaker 1: you eat when you ain't got nothing, which has got
Speaker 1: to be a daggered through the heart. But then he
Speaker 1: talks about some really delicious stuff. All right, one more
Speaker 1: real quick clip here.
Speaker 9: You know I ain't got no pride with no Yankee,
Speaker 9: nobody had moved, no care line, no prime in town.
Speaker 9: Long the understand, don't try to tying no caroline in
Speaker 9: New York en finna had it and enjoin, no CareLine
Speaker 9: for all this natural beauty and glory, love my state
Speaker 9: and laws.
Speaker 1: You're good with that.
Speaker 9: I'm good with you.
Speaker 1: Now you have a good day.
Speaker 9: I'm finishing out here. Oh cram, they're good all right,
Speaker 9: now that we're good.
Speaker 1: I'm serious. Just that's the interview process. And as one
Speaker 1: of the commenters on Twitter pointed out, uh, if if
Speaker 1: you haven't turned on the auto captions, I don't have
Speaker 1: them on ever. But if they're not on, turning on
Speaker 1: for this video and then listen to them and watch
Speaker 1: the poor algorithm or the computer try to put words
Speaker 1: on the screen. It's really funny. But he's not wrong.
Speaker 1: He not wrong, So kudos to that. Yeah, let's let's
Speaker 1: get that video around, right. I got Duplin Guesses, two,
Speaker 1: Joco Guesses, a lot of Johnson County Edge comunt. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: hold on, well, hang on, Ed, I'm gonna grab your
Speaker 1: call if you want to hold through the break, but
Speaker 1: we got to take one. We'll be back CaCO Day
Speaker 1: Radio program. Problem with the influencer is like influencers who
Speaker 1: just like you know, whose whole thing is just getting
Speaker 1: makeup on and talking tea or whatever. They I'm so
Speaker 1: not into it, so I don't know all the words.
Speaker 1: But but no, she is promoting all things North Carolina
Speaker 1: and obviously was one of the folks who gained a
Speaker 1: lot of attention because she was doing a very good
Speaker 1: job during everything that was unfolding in western North Carolina
Speaker 1: presenting perspectives and I'm not talking about you know where
Speaker 1: people were posting videos clearly for clicks and all of that.
Speaker 1: I thought she was more measured than a lot, which
Speaker 1: is why I invited her on the show in the
Speaker 1: first place, because if there was an allegation, she was willing,
Speaker 1: You're literally gonna drive there and figure it out, which
Speaker 1: used to be reporters who do that, but now you're
Speaker 1: the You are the media, as Elon says, So I'm
Speaker 1: really curious to hear the reaction from all the folks
Speaker 1: up there, which she no doubt talks to on the
Speaker 1: regular and you know, her family's up there, and and
Speaker 1: really really how everyone's feeling after Trump's visit. So we'll
Speaker 1: get into that, and yeah, we'll talk a little of
Speaker 1: the Josh Stein stuff. Plus I think she should she
Speaker 1: should talk to this guy's audio. We're just playing who
Speaker 1: I think very succinctly and in a pure country North
Speaker 1: Carolina accent. Really pointed out the frustrations as he was interacting,
Speaker 1: I guess with somebody from New York who was complaining
Speaker 1: about a bunch of stuff. No bodega's, the pizza sucks,
Speaker 1: you name it. Then we're trying to figure out where
Speaker 1: he's from. All right, Ed's got a guess ed, what's up.
Speaker 5: Hey, Casey, good morning.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna touch on this.
Speaker 5: Guy with with the you know, talking about New Yorker's
Speaker 5: coming down. I'm gonna I'm gonna place my wage on
Speaker 5: Edgecombe County. The reason being is just because I deliver
Speaker 5: a lot. Well, I used to deliver a lot anyway,
Speaker 5: all over eastern North Carolina, and I probably my first
Speaker 5: bet would be Edgecombe.
Speaker 1: And he's probably found out where he's from during the
Speaker 1: break somebody sent me, but I still thought it was Wood.
Speaker 1: So do you want to hear you want the big reveal?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Man, yeah, all right, you ready. Uh, he's near Newburgh,
Speaker 1: so I guess Craven would be Craven County, all right,
Speaker 1: Well on the track of all the way, Yeah, absolutely, no,
Speaker 1: that tracks. There's a big survey north Raleigh all the
Speaker 1: way down to just maybe a few miles from the
Speaker 1: coast that he could have been in, then down to
Speaker 1: the South Carolina border. But yeah, that tracks man, Craven County.
Speaker 5: Yeah, eastern North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh yeah, so all right, appreciate Ye're appreciate that
Speaker 1: as well. That's cool, man, It's just again turn on
Speaker 1: the auto captions. I don't know why I find that
Speaker 1: so funny, but I do. I do, all right. Few
Speaker 1: other things, A couple of things we can't get to yesterday,
Speaker 1: but I feel still need to come your way. Uh well,
Speaker 1: let's start here. By now, you've probably seen the Advance interview.
Speaker 1: He is so good in interviews, even if you don't
Speaker 1: agree with him, He's very good. But it's harder for
Speaker 1: a Republican to be good in an interview with most
Speaker 1: of the mainstream outlets because not all interviews are created equal.
Speaker 1: Usually you got to run in there on the defense.
Speaker 1: And what I think Vance is very good at doing.
Speaker 1: Trump just lobs grenades. That's his thing. Vance strategically lobs grenades,
Speaker 1: and he kind of gets you to play the pin
Speaker 1: before he throws it at you, which is not easy
Speaker 1: to do. Setting up somebody like if I can somebody
Speaker 1: calls and screaming at me, and I can figure out
Speaker 1: in the middle of the conversation how to set them
Speaker 1: up with their own logical fallacy. That makes my day.
Speaker 1: It's not easy to do. Van's as cool as a
Speaker 1: cucumber doing it, man is.
Speaker 2: Then there was record oil and gas production.
Speaker 8: Many terrible things to lead to an increase in prices.
Speaker 3: I agree, markret no, but all.
Speaker 6: The things you experience at the grocery store are what
Speaker 6: people touch and field. This week you were talking about
Speaker 6: bacon on the campaign trail.
Speaker 3: Of course, of course those.
Speaker 6: Things, when do consumers actually get to touch and feel
Speaker 6: a difference in their lives?
Speaker 8: Well, Margaret, how does bacon get to the grocery store.
Speaker 8: It comes on trucks that are fueled by diesel fuel.
Speaker 8: If the diesel is way too expensive, the bacon's going
Speaker 8: to become more expensive. How do we grow the bacon?
Speaker 8: Our farmers need energy to produce it. So if we
Speaker 8: lower energy prices, we are going to see lower prices
Speaker 8: for consumers.
Speaker 1: And that is what we're trying to fight for. Because
Speaker 1: there was this whole narrative over the weekend like why
Speaker 1: are eggs cheap? Yeah, why aren't they? Elie Crystal or
Speaker 1: whatever his name is over on MSNBC this garbage tried
Speaker 1: to tell y'all.
Speaker 11: I mean, Ali I wrote specifically about this issue what
Speaker 11: he was going to do to the Department of Justice
Speaker 11: multiple times during the election cycle, because, as you pointed
Speaker 11: out in your open, this was all written down. So
Speaker 11: I don't like the shock and awe version of this
Speaker 11: because if you've been paying attention, they wrote it down,
Speaker 11: They told you exactly what they were going to do,
Speaker 11: and exactly how you were going to do it, and
Speaker 11: a majority of white people voted for this. This is
Speaker 11: the disgusting version of America that people want. And oh,
Speaker 11: by the way, eggs are still more expensive, so you
Speaker 11: even get that great job white.
Speaker 1: Folks, it's just yeah, great job, white folks. I can't yes.
Speaker 1: And by the way, you don't have to call let
Speaker 1: me say it for you. I can't imagine that said opposite.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine some white analysts? Yeah, and Crystal likes
Speaker 1: I know he does like some white things because his
Speaker 1: hair is crazy. He's got he's the dude with the
Speaker 1: big white beakman looking thing. I don't know what was
Speaker 1: the what was the muppet? The science Muppet. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: that dude. He's got that hairdo. But I can't imagine.
Speaker 1: So I can't imagine Scott Jennings going thank you, black
Speaker 1: folks and surrounded all negative a negative, negatively, and him
Speaker 1: still having a job at CNN. But let's talk about
Speaker 1: some of those folks that Trump's gotten in there. You
Speaker 1: see Pete Hegseth. All right, So yesterday he is he's
Speaker 1: getting ready to get on a plane or whatever. So
Speaker 1: it's one of those tarmac interviews, and it's you don't
Speaker 1: even have to direct it. You just normalize it, which
Speaker 1: is what what has been the the strategy for for
Speaker 1: so many Democrat things over over the years, where you normalize,
Speaker 1: like you you don't say illegal immigrant anymore, it's undocumented traveler,
Speaker 1: undocumented immigrant. And then you normalize it by just doing it.
Speaker 1: That's what Heckseeth is doing.
Speaker 12: But then I'm here, I'm thinking about the guys.
Speaker 1: See if he can figure out what I'm talking about, but.
Speaker 12: That I'm here, I'm thinking about the guys and gals
Speaker 12: in Guam, in Germany and Fort Benning and Fort Bragg
Speaker 12: on missile defense sites and aircraft carriers.
Speaker 1: And there's two things. Because obviously your ear is going
Speaker 1: to pick up on the brag thing. Betting's the thing too,
Speaker 1: But also he said guys and gals, and the last
Speaker 1: Secretary of Defense would have simply said soldiers. Even though soldiers,
Speaker 1: then you get marines and airmen and if you want
Speaker 1: to start breaking it down but probably not could use airman.
Speaker 1: So he's just like, now we're going back to this
Speaker 1: because this is normal and it just flows there. And
Speaker 1: and after we did, I'm not going to plan all
Speaker 1: the rest there, but there was another cut and they
Speaker 1: went on to the next thing. The media just fell
Speaker 1: in line, whereas I expected want of them to scream
Speaker 1: at them, and they just didn't. And that's because our
Speaker 1: military is awesome, you know why. Because our military's not
Speaker 1: out chasing Wales. There's crazy story here. Are you ready
Speaker 1: for this? Real quick? Raced Aga will like this too
Speaker 1: if he's there. So the UK's Royal nay, hey, ray
Speaker 1: are you there? Yeah, we're here, all right? You love
Speaker 1: this all right, UK's Royal Navy went code read launched
Speaker 1: a frantic search for two phantom Russian subs off the
Speaker 1: coast who they thought were out there attempting to Basically,
Speaker 1: they thought the Russian subs were trying to record them
Speaker 1: so that they could have a better understanding of what
Speaker 1: British submarines sound like, right, because they have a huge
Speaker 1: sub base up in Scotland there, so they're hanging out
Speaker 1: off of that. So they think that there's phantom Russian subs.
Speaker 1: They're freaking out because they're not pinging him on radar. Uh,
Speaker 1: they're pinging them on sonar, but not some of their
Speaker 1: other detection devices. And so they went full to the
Speaker 1: wall what do you think it turned out to be.
Speaker 1: Take a guess out, not a Russian sub farting whale,
Speaker 1: you're oh, okay, yeah, that was my first guess. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the hunt for red fart Tober, which by the way,
Speaker 1: is good, but I think dos Boof is better. So
Speaker 1: maybe I should have been consultant and others who fell
Speaker 1: on that side. But uh yeah, yeah, they went full
Speaker 1: uh they went full uh uh hunt for red October
Speaker 1: and it was a it was a bailing whale with
Speaker 1: indigestion or something. Okay, yeah, so yes, that was my
Speaker 1: second guess. Unless the Russians have remember they trained that
Speaker 1: Beluga whales, so maybe that is an operative right with
Speaker 1: the gas, So we don't know.
Speaker 13: It's different, certainly not the answer I would have been
Speaker 13: looking for.
Speaker 1: Uh. I gotta tell you, my man. I got to
Speaker 1: go down to Newbern and Beaufort specifically, but that area
Speaker 1: down there at the coast, and I had I actually
Speaker 1: left from Greensboro, so I started, well, I technically I
Speaker 1: left from a high point, So I started in a
Speaker 1: high point, drove down there about four hours, and the
Speaker 1: whole time I'm like, ah, this is fine, this is wait,
Speaker 1: what is that? What is that, And I'm like, am
Speaker 1: I getting near a ski area? What the hell is
Speaker 1: going on?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I did not realize how much snow they got down there.
Speaker 1: They did and it's you know, it's still The roads
Speaker 1: were fine. I just want to say that there was
Speaker 1: not a problem on any of the roads, but any
Speaker 1: of the side of the roads, on the south side
Speaker 1: of the road where they have the big trees, that's
Speaker 1: probably all still there because it's not getting in the
Speaker 1: direct sun. Man. All right, yeah, let's fix this. Let's
Speaker 1: let's clean it up where we are for everybody.
Speaker 13: Okay, Yeah, I mean beautiful week You take out Friday
Speaker 13: and right into the upcoming weekend, it's gonna be great
Speaker 13: daytime highs and the low mid fifties today, the sixties tomorrow,
Speaker 13: maybe back to the mid upper fifties on Thursday. Then
Speaker 13: showers Friday, and then Saturday and Sunday. Look a pretty
Speaker 13: good lot of sunshine around every day except except Friday
Speaker 13: when those showers will come in, and then the overnight
Speaker 13: lowsly you can be decent too, staying above freezing. After
Speaker 13: this morning load of mid thirties lo to mid thirties,
Speaker 13: then the forties by the weekend. And we even got
Speaker 13: a shot, especially as we get around the triangle and
Speaker 13: points south at east where some of that snow may
Speaker 13: still be lurking of maybe a sixty eight tomorrow afternoon,
Speaker 13: same thing Friday. Yeah, so you know, maybe break out
Speaker 13: the sticks, you know, you can get out there. And
Speaker 13: even over the weekend we got a shot at sixty
Speaker 13: degrees both days, probably back into the fifties, and then
Speaker 13: Monday warm too. As the patterns changed, so we've gone
Speaker 13: from more of a continental polar flow to more of
Speaker 13: a maritime influence on the Pacific, so more of a
Speaker 13: flatter west east kind of thing, and that's going to
Speaker 13: bring the mild their temperatures in or not later in
Speaker 13: the Weekstorm Prediction Center has severe weather not here the
Speaker 13: frontal week before it gets here, but severe weather potentially
Speaker 13: for parts of Louisiana, Texas that got six plus inches
Speaker 13: of snow last week. So we went from winter the spring,
Speaker 13: all within the course of seven days.
Speaker 1: So pretty amazing. That's what we do. That's what happens. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, talk to you soon, sir, Thank you, I
Speaker 1: appreciate it, and we'll be right back. Hang on, So
Speaker 1: Trump putangling with I mean, what a busy weekend for
Speaker 1: this guy. Obviously, he reiterated the Panama stuff. And then
Speaker 1: I hope you saw the reporting of the conversation with
Speaker 1: Denmark's president or do they call it president prime minister?
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. And of course the media is doing
Speaker 1: what the media is doing, and also the Europeans are
Speaker 1: doing what the Europeans are doing, because they're like, the
Speaker 1: phone call was shocking, it was terrified. Terrifying is the
Speaker 1: word they use, shocking, terrifying in just because Denmark is
Speaker 1: Greenland is a protectorate of it anyway, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: one of their playthings. But to describe it as and
Speaker 1: to you know, to further ramp this up, really, was
Speaker 1: it terrifying? Can we hear it? The I don't. I'm
Speaker 1: assuming the conversation was had in English. She speaks English.
Speaker 1: I've because when she was responding she and it and
Speaker 1: it was very good English. So I I like, can
Speaker 1: we hear it and judge for ourselves if it was terrifying?
Speaker 1: And then from there and then Panama got mad again,
Speaker 1: then Colombia I'm trying to remember order of operation here,
Speaker 1: and then Colombia, and the Columbia thing is crazy, I
Speaker 1: will tell you this as somebody who got to travel
Speaker 1: to Colombia, was that last year I went to go
Speaker 1: what to Pay and then I went to Glopago. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed myself down there, and I thought the look,
Speaker 1: if you're stupid, don't go to Columbia. If you got
Speaker 1: a brain on your head and you understand that there
Speaker 1: are things and places that you should go, there are
Speaker 1: probably places you should not go, and also the things
Speaker 1: you should not say.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 1: I found it really fascinating talking to people my age
Speaker 1: or above in metazine because there are the thing that
Speaker 1: they hate more than anything in Metazine is Pablo Escobar.
Speaker 1: And you really quickly learn why because as you walk
Speaker 1: around the city and you go it doesn't matter where
Speaker 1: you go. You can go to Publato where they have
Speaker 1: a lot of good restaurants. Don't go near there. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of bad stuff right near there where a
Speaker 1: lot of like and as a result, you have a
Speaker 1: lot of tourists, a lot of money. You also have
Speaker 1: a lot of crime, prostitution, things like that, and Columbia
Speaker 1: deals with that to the extent that they can. So
Speaker 1: areas like Publato, where my hotel was is kind of
Speaker 1: on the other side of town in a place called
Speaker 1: lorelis On and that's a great bar restaurant district, great hotels,
Speaker 1: and I enjoyed it. And I was only there for
Speaker 1: a couple of days. And then want to pay, which
Speaker 1: is this volcano lake thing, which is amazing, and they
Speaker 1: have these stairs you walk to the top of the
Speaker 1: caldera and it's really cool and and everyone was very chill.
Speaker 1: Well everyone's not real chill right now. But also there
Speaker 1: is a reckoning that Americans voted for, and that reckoning
Speaker 1: is this this illegal immigration stuff. I know, I know,
Speaker 1: I just ran out of people, like I'll explain what
Speaker 1: like ten people have emailed me here in a moment,
Speaker 1: I knew it was gonna happen, and I'm sorry. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to move on to this. But so like
Speaker 1: Columbia basically refused a military it's it's a little there's
Speaker 1: a little complexity to it because refused is a strong word.
Speaker 1: But acted normal is not what they did either. Basically,
Speaker 1: they they tried to get the rule book out and
Speaker 1: do stuff and then they flat refused. Honduras was kind
Speaker 1: of the same. I'll get to that in a moment,
Speaker 1: and so he said, fine, we're just gonna tear if
Speaker 1: your stuff. And for five minutes, the president of Pietro
Speaker 1: I think is his name, He's like, fine, we're gonna
Speaker 1: tear if your stuff. And then I guess somebody must
Speaker 1: have run the numbers and realized, what do you think
Speaker 1: we buy from Columbia? And don't say cocaine, I mean,
Speaker 1: what do we buy legally from Colombia that we decimated
Speaker 1: our own industry through a trade agreement that Bush W
Speaker 1: Bush put in flowers? Columbia produces amazing, which is why
Speaker 1: when you fly into Colombia and you look down in
Speaker 1: the field, it's amazing. If it's the right time of
Speaker 1: the year, and it was for me. She doesn't really
Speaker 1: do politics. It's gonna be unavoidable in this discussion because
Speaker 1: it is the reason we're having it. The Trump visit
Speaker 1: to North Carolina's first official visit in the United States
Speaker 1: to anywhere was us and it was incredible to watch
Speaker 1: not just Trump, not just what he said about FEMA
Speaker 1: and how money's gonna work, but also watching people who
Speaker 1: are not activists, who are not people who ever saw
Speaker 1: themselves standing on the stage with the President testifying to
Speaker 1: get up there and really talk about the difference there scene,
Speaker 1: So I wanted to dig further into that. You've seen
Speaker 1: her on Twitter at Dogwood Blooms. Is her handle. It's
Speaker 1: Cassie Clark, who joins us this morning, who has instructed
Speaker 1: my producer that she is to be referred to as
Speaker 1: the Queen or her majesty. You know, we had a
Speaker 1: problem about two hundred and fifty years ago with people
Speaker 1: demanding that. But I'll give you the pass. How are
Speaker 1: you doing this morning, Cassie?
Speaker 5: I'm good.
Speaker 2: How are you, Kasey?
Speaker 1: Oh, you know, just doing my thing. But I'm watching
Speaker 1: the video from Trump up there and this woman, there's
Speaker 1: this woman on the stage, one of several to be
Speaker 1: able to talk with Trump. And again, I know, I
Speaker 1: know you try to avoid politics. It's unavoidable when the
Speaker 1: president visits. But let's talk about the impact it has
Speaker 1: on North Carolina. What do you think the impact will
Speaker 1: be on the effort to rebuild western North Carolina? Based
Speaker 1: on what you heard?
Speaker 2: I feel like Western North Carolina was ignored, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: from the time the storm hit all the way up
Speaker 2: until Trump made it into office. I feel like the
Speaker 2: major news networks ignored us I feel like most of
Speaker 2: the news that was coming out was being released by
Speaker 2: people like me, Matt van Swall, Sean Hendrix. And how
Speaker 2: sad is that that you have to go to x
Speaker 2: to find out what's going on on the ground. And
Speaker 2: Trump got into office and all of a sudden that changed.
Speaker 2: All of a sudden were in the spotlight, and you know,
Speaker 2: I can't remember who said it, but there was one
Speaker 2: hundred percent right. Trump didn't just come and give a speech.
Speaker 2: He handed his microphone to western North Carolinians. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think that that was just one of the most
Speaker 2: beautiful things I've ever seen. It was perfect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I saw people because people are cynical, and
Speaker 1: they said, well he did it, you know, because you
Speaker 1: know for politics, Well here's the thing. Who cares if
Speaker 1: you even if you think that, what is the impact
Speaker 1: going to be? And the impact is that woman that
Speaker 1: we played audio from, I'm just going to play a
Speaker 1: little snippets. You know which one I'm referring to.
Speaker 6: I've been fatten with femas since day one. Our community
Speaker 6: there's like thirty two homes.
Speaker 1: So she describes a she describes a situation where these
Speaker 1: homes are rule as many homes are in western North
Speaker 1: Carolina and specifically their road, which is a I would
Speaker 1: describe it as a weather road. I don't know if
Speaker 1: we use the term as much, but you know a
Speaker 1: road that requires maintenance. A lot of the maintenance is
Speaker 1: done by the locals. We did it as a kid
Speaker 1: growing up for ranch roads, and it's gone or it's
Speaker 1: impassable where ems or fire couldn't get up there, as
Speaker 1: well as a lot of heavy equipment and FEMA she called,
Speaker 1: and this is the doom loop. These people find them
Speaker 1: in said, hey, we need to fix this. There's thirty
Speaker 1: two of us back here, and if something happened somebody
Speaker 1: has a heart attack there, they're not going to make it.
Speaker 1: And they're like, well, rebuild the road. We'll pay you what.
Speaker 1: And also you can't get the trucks in there to
Speaker 1: rebuild the road. And so the average citizen who's never
Speaker 1: had to deal with this, I wouldn't know how to
Speaker 1: deal with this, is sitting there and the answer for
Speaker 1: some is to throw their hands up and move. And
Speaker 1: so how many of these stories have you heard?
Speaker 2: Countless? I mean literally countless. So when the storm hit,
Speaker 2: immediately started sharing places that people could donate highlighting organizations
Speaker 2: that were going to be on the ground, and from
Speaker 2: there it just kind of grew and so it was
Speaker 2: like every day there would be anywhere from ten to
Speaker 2: fifty dms coming straight to me with people who needed help.
Speaker 2: And how heartbreaking is it to hear the same story
Speaker 2: over and over again. Our roads washed out, our bridge
Speaker 2: is gone, our home is gone. We can't get a
Speaker 2: hold of FEMA. I don't know what to do. Can
Speaker 2: you tell me who to contact? Like, I've heard it
Speaker 2: so many times that it made my head spin, and
Speaker 2: so to see things actually moving now is amazing. And
Speaker 2: I'm not an overly political person. I mean, anybody who
Speaker 2: followed me prior to Hurricane Helen obviously knows that. And
Speaker 2: I've seen people flip sides because of Hurricane Heleen. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is a big deal here in North Carolina, and
Speaker 2: I've also seen a lot of people downplay it. I
Speaker 2: actually saw video this morning of someone driving through Swana
Speaker 2: Noah and saying that nothing was being done, and they
Speaker 2: drove through the best areas in Swana Noah. They didn't
Speaker 2: even show the worst road. So I mean, this just
Speaker 2: goes to show how one person can make it seem
Speaker 2: like things are so much better than what they actually are.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. One of our emailers, Josh, it looks
Speaker 1: like they're a construction group, he said, we have been
Speaker 1: helping rebuild, donating time and equipment, struggling to get it done.
Speaker 1: These things are very expensive to repair. If it wasn't
Speaker 1: for private donations, he estimates that half of what's been
Speaker 1: done wouldn't have been done. Would you say that's a
Speaker 1: fair assessment?
Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely, absolutely. Whenever the hotel voucher started expiring, Mercy
Speaker 2: Ory once stood up and spent thousands of dollars to
Speaker 2: pay for hotel rooms for people who were about to
Speaker 2: get kicked out from FEMA.
Speaker 1: In the middle of a snowstorm on my dad. Yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So let's talk Army Corps of engineers. I saw a
Speaker 1: lot of posts yesterday or over the weekend that has
Speaker 1: there been a big influx of actual government I mean
Speaker 1: that's Army Corps. US Army Corps has that or what
Speaker 1: should I believe?
Speaker 2: So I have Now I'm not on the ground in
Speaker 2: western North Carolina right now, but from the news that
Speaker 2: I am getting in from people that I am trusting,
Speaker 2: they're telling me that all of a sudden, they're seeing
Speaker 2: them everywhere. And I think that's incredible because I've visited twice.
Speaker 2: Both times I didn't see much going on. And to
Speaker 2: hear that now you're spotting them in the roads and
Speaker 2: that work is getting done, that's a godsend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I did some research. Apparently prior to inauguration day,
Speaker 1: the president would have still had that ability. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you knew.
Speaker 2: This, So that's something that I heard, that all of
Speaker 2: these things could have been done beforehand. And how sad
Speaker 2: is that? How sad is it that they knew they
Speaker 2: could do things that they failed to do.
Speaker 1: Do you like the idea of the abolition of FEMA
Speaker 1: we get into political because it would then there still
Speaker 1: has to be somebody to administrate this, right, so even
Speaker 1: if you do it at the state level, then you're beholden.
Speaker 1: But arguably the closer the politics are to home, the
Speaker 1: easier the influences. Why do you think do you think
Speaker 1: that that's a good idea? Because I saw Josh Stein
Speaker 1: sitting there talking about well here, let me play the audio,
Speaker 1: and then I'm curious your response.
Speaker 7: Well, the president came here a couple of times. The
Speaker 7: FEMA director factory who lived here. I know that those
Speaker 7: folks worked hard. That doesn't mean we can't be frustrated
Speaker 7: with some things that happened, because it never goes as
Speaker 7: quickly or as well as we wanted to.
Speaker 1: Now, some people interpret that is Stein not having any
Speaker 1: firm understanding of what FEMA did and how people feel
Speaker 1: about it. I don't care if the FEMA director spent
Speaker 1: a bunch of time at the casino and Cherokee. I
Speaker 1: want results. So what do you think all that?
Speaker 2: So I'm not sure how I feel about getting rid
Speaker 2: of FEMA entirely. And here is why. Because the state
Speaker 2: was in charge of nc r R, which was in
Speaker 2: charge of eastern North Carolina following Lawrence and Matthew. And
Speaker 2: we still have families in eastern North Carolina who may
Speaker 2: never receive the help that they were promised. So is
Speaker 2: it going to be any better for the state of
Speaker 2: North Carolina with the State of North Carolina in charge
Speaker 2: of disaster relief? I'm not sure so. And see, this
Speaker 2: is why I hate politics, because it's almost like, no
Speaker 2: matter which way you go, this is the.
Speaker 1: Issue people's life. You know, it is politics, And I'm
Speaker 1: with you. I understand and Honestly, that's why I asked
Speaker 1: you on the show because I thought that you did
Speaker 1: a very good job of you know, there was a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff that was coming out that wasn't true,
Speaker 1: whether it was intentional or just people dealing with stuff,
Speaker 1: and I thought that you did a good job of
Speaker 1: filtering through that because you know, all it takes is
Speaker 1: one story that's clearly hyped and wrong for people to
Speaker 1: dismiss what's going on. And oh yeah, believe you understand that.
Speaker 1: So this it is. It is the intersection of life
Speaker 1: and politics. It's not just politics to do politics. It's
Speaker 1: politics to not freeze to death or to retain your
Speaker 1: business or your way of life. And so I think
Speaker 1: it really transcends.
Speaker 2: And there was a lot of issues. I mean, there
Speaker 2: was the baby story, and I'm sure most people have
Speaker 2: seen this on social media because it keeps reviving itself,
Speaker 2: stories of a small toddler freezing and not making it
Speaker 2: and that I find that soul of senses because I'm
Speaker 2: from western North Carolina and I know my people very well,
Speaker 2: and I know that they are working so hard to
Speaker 2: take care of each other, and the idea that that's
Speaker 2: not something that would be in the news that that's
Speaker 2: not something that every Western North Carolinian wouldn't be screaming
Speaker 2: about is offensive.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 2: It's not going to be someone sitting on their couchs
Speaker 2: in you know, California or Massachusetts or Maine making a
Speaker 2: video revealing that kind of information. It's going to be
Speaker 2: groups of hillbilly's raging if something like that were to happen,
Speaker 2: and trying to put down these types of lies takes
Speaker 2: away from the real things that are happening. And so
Speaker 2: I've done my best to step up and say, hey,
Speaker 2: that's not true. But yeah, I mean that's become a
Speaker 2: major concern in western North Carolina, is all the grifting
Speaker 2: and lying and people trying to get popular, get clicks
Speaker 2: off of the misery of others.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you forgot Florida grifters on your list there?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah he was.
Speaker 1: I don't want to give that guy any outs in
Speaker 1: the air with his name, but the amount that dude
Speaker 1: has nine lives, I keep seeing him try to revive stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah see, all right, we'll leave it there. I'm just saying, look,
Speaker 1: if if people do and they should, right, don't think
Speaker 1: it's over. They were out saw an estimate, And you
Speaker 1: tell me if you've heard this that the Lake Loure
Speaker 1: area that they were being told by the state that it'll
Speaker 1: probably be like two years before they're back to normal.
Speaker 1: Does that track with what you're hearing? Can you imagine
Speaker 1: two years of people not people from North Carolina even necessarily,
Speaker 1: but people who want to come experience North Carolina and
Speaker 1: pretend they're in footloose and put baby in the corner,
Speaker 1: like two years. Is that you're understanding how long this
Speaker 1: is going to take?
Speaker 2: I think that that's a hopeful estimate. I think it's
Speaker 2: going to be longer than that before Western North Carolina
Speaker 2: is fully on its feet. Some of the things that
Speaker 2: I saw when I was back home blew my mind.
Speaker 2: It literally looked like bombs went off in creaks. You know.
Speaker 2: There were mobile homes that were literally look like they
Speaker 2: were crushed like tin cans. And if it's cleaned up
Speaker 2: in two years, I will be on money praising Jesus
Speaker 2: because it's going to take a lot and a whole
Speaker 2: lot more than what we have seen so far.
Speaker 1: Is is there truth to I heard some people complaining
Speaker 1: that they're you know, they're trying to get ahead and
Speaker 1: clean waterways that may run through their property, so you
Speaker 1: know cricks, creeks, and even rivers, and they're being told
Speaker 1: not to. And we heard a story in California where
Speaker 1: they were not letting people go into the palisades and
Speaker 1: try to start clearing their property. Is there a legitimate
Speaker 1: reason for that? Is that happening? Because you know those creeks,
Speaker 1: especially in an agricultural setting, you still need them in
Speaker 1: many instances. So what do you know about that?
Speaker 2: So I actually heard about that yesterday. To my knowledge,
Speaker 2: it is true. I actually need to do some research
Speaker 2: on that, and I'm planning on reaching out to some
Speaker 2: of our representatives to find out what's going on with it,
Speaker 2: because I can see no other reason that the waterways
Speaker 2: still look like they do.
Speaker 1: I see, yeah, yeah, you see. I saw a picture
Speaker 1: there's a washer dryer set sit in this one creek
Speaker 1: and the lady was saying they were told she can't
Speaker 1: move it, and that they were if there's some scientific
Speaker 1: reason where they got a test And I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe if you pull it out it'll
Speaker 1: test cleaner. I'm not a scientist, but that just seems
Speaker 1: logical to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know how that works. What I do
Speaker 2: know is is that on my last trip home, I
Speaker 2: saw numerous vehicles in the river, and so of course
Speaker 2: there's oil and gas in those, there's ana freeze in those.
Speaker 2: You cannot tell me that it is safe to leave
Speaker 2: overturned vehicles in the middle.
Speaker 5: Of a river.
Speaker 1: No, No, A thousand, thousand percent right there, for all
Speaker 1: the reasons. And this is literally something that we dealt
Speaker 1: with one time when I was a kid, where they
Speaker 1: had we had a really really bad windstorm and a
Speaker 1: five hundred doallon fuel tank, not on our property, but
Speaker 1: a property that was thankfully downstream. I went and it
Speaker 1: was it was absolutely and you know what, Literally the
Speaker 1: day after. The only reason I knew about is because
Speaker 1: I went over and brought one of our tractors too,
Speaker 1: and we tugged all of this stuff out and it's
Speaker 1: just running out the whole time. So it's it's very bad.
Speaker 1: Give me a We talked about a lot of depressing stuff.
Speaker 1: What's what Give me a happy story? Where you know,
Speaker 1: people cannot feel down in the mouth leaving this interview today,
Speaker 1: because through the work of locals, through the work of
Speaker 1: even outside charities like Mercury one that you mentioned, which
Speaker 1: is what that's Glenn Beck's right, what what what have
Speaker 1: you seen that is ahead of schedule where people are
Speaker 1: really making because a lot of local local government's going
Speaker 1: to impact this as well. So tell me something positive
Speaker 1: you've seen, Cassie.
Speaker 2: So, on my first trip home, I came up and
Speaker 2: I was expecting complete devastation. And my hometown sits I'm
Speaker 2: from Canton and it sits in a valley on the
Speaker 2: Pigeon River, and so I thought I was going to
Speaker 2: go home and find that it was just gone. And
Speaker 2: on my very first trip, so this is what a
Speaker 2: week after the storm.
Speaker 1: About thirty seconds. I'm just warning you.
Speaker 2: So, Okay, I come in and my hometown looked great.
Speaker 2: It looked great. I'm so proud of Heywood County. And
Speaker 2: there are other areas that pulled through that great too,
Speaker 2: And so I think that there's a lot of resilience
Speaker 2: and I think that we're going to make it through
Speaker 2: this better than ever.
Speaker 1: And I think if if we all have our favorite
Speaker 1: places in North Carolina, and I think if where we
Speaker 1: travel to maybe we don't live, and if there's a
Speaker 1: favorite place up in the mountains, you have and you
Speaker 1: have a little time or money and you want to
Speaker 1: turn your attention to that. I think it's a good
Speaker 1: thing we all could do at Dogwood Blooms. Yeah, at
Speaker 1: Dogwood Blooms. On Twitter, that is Cassie Clark, who thinks
Speaker 1: she's royalty. Thank you, Cassie, thank you. All right, we'll
Speaker 1: be right back hanging the dudes over at Ben and
Speaker 1: Jerry's ice cream kill me. And I don't know why
Speaker 1: they keep putting a core in the crotch punching machine,
Speaker 1: but let's do this. So Ben and Jerry's is very
Speaker 1: upset because the company that owns Ben and Jerry's, who
Speaker 1: are not the guys who started Ben and Jerry's, but
Speaker 1: rather a big conglomerate known as Unilever. I'm sure you're
Speaker 1: familiar with them. They are upset because they feel that
Speaker 1: Unilever has barred Ben and Jerry's from issuing what was
Speaker 1: going to be like a really woke anti Trump message.
Speaker 1: So while there's still is involvement there because of this
Speaker 1: sales agreement, because here's the deal. When the company buys
Speaker 1: something and you sell your thing, but your thing has
Speaker 1: your name on it, maybe you're still the spokesman for it.
Speaker 1: Any of the rest the company is buying it is
Speaker 1: going to have conditions. I have conditions, right. My name
Speaker 1: is Casey O.
Speaker 5: Day.
Speaker 1: The show is called that my company owns the show.
Speaker 1: Oh that's how that works. And that's just that's just
Speaker 1: how that's how entertainment, not just entertainment, that's how things
Speaker 1: like this work. And so in I can't go out
Speaker 1: and openly disparage my company. I can't do things. We
Speaker 1: have morality clauses. We have all of these things which
Speaker 1: are standard. So it's not like Ben and my point
Speaker 1: is Ben and Jerry didn't get tricked into this. Do
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? What they availed themselves of
Speaker 1: was capitalism. They started a company and it's a I
Speaker 1: understand their woke and green and all that. Their ice
Speaker 1: cream isn't bad, it's it's it's high quality ice cream.
Speaker 1: And and so the other thing is too to make
Speaker 1: ice cream like that, uh Russ never talking off the air,
Speaker 1: it's it's one of the it's gotta be one of
Speaker 1: the least green products available. You got a macadamia try
Speaker 1: in your yard? No you don't. You know why because
Speaker 1: they come from the Indian Ocean where they import a
Speaker 1: lot of Macadamians from not not purely, but Matta Gascar
Speaker 1: grows a crap ton Indonesia as well. That's the other
Speaker 1: side of the world, bro. And how many of their
Speaker 1: flavors have Macadamian They're probably a bunch. And that's just
Speaker 1: getting started. Vanilla also comes from the other side of
Speaker 1: the world. Real vanilla if you want, you know the
Speaker 1: mass growing of it. So you're in the ice cream biz.
Speaker 1: And then there's the part where you have a product
Speaker 1: from the moment you start making it has to be
Speaker 1: refrigerated or in some state of transformation that is utilizing
Speaker 1: big machines that require a lot of energy all the rest.
Speaker 1: And then when the when the time was ripe and
Speaker 1: you could get the maxim amount of money, you turn
Speaker 1: to a company. I'm not knocking on Unilever, but do
Speaker 1: you turn to a worldwide conglomerate which makes products all
Speaker 1: over the world and then ship some of all the
Speaker 1: other parts of the world. And also as a chemical component.
Speaker 1: You want to get into that so that they would
Speaker 1: pay you an ungodly sum of money. And now you're
Speaker 1: mad that you can't do something the company thinks would
Speaker 1: harm their brand. Go take your money, go buy your
Speaker 1: six houses and be a hypocrite. You know, I'll lave
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders and shut up man to ice cream.
Speaker 3: Not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: We get this one a lot.
Speaker 14: Yeah, we're in the ice cream business, but we've always
Speaker 14: been about much more than just ice cream. We use
Speaker 14: our power, our privilege, our platform, on our relationship with
Speaker 14: our fans to advocate for progressive social change. So now
Speaker 14: we're not just going to stick to ice cream.
Speaker 15: And we're never going to stop trying to dismantle white
Speaker 15: supremacy and the climate crisis or fight for our democracy.
Speaker 14: I know we're not going to stop fighting laws that
Speaker 14: restrict trans writes, ban books.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna pause this real quick. If you folded
Speaker 1: your company up, if you folded your company and you
Speaker 1: were not producing ice cream anym, not shipping, not refrigerating,
Speaker 1: not the trucks that deliver it, if you were not
Speaker 1: doing any of that, you could have the impact from
Speaker 1: a client. You could have the maximum impact on the
Speaker 1: climate stuff because you would just cease to exist all
Speaker 1: And I understand there's other companies that may come in
Speaker 1: and because people want ice cream, right, and it may
Speaker 1: expand the market share for Hoggin DAWs or one of
Speaker 1: the other premium brands. Fine, but if you morally feel
Speaker 1: that you have to do that, quit, just stop and
Speaker 1: again you sold out to one of the largest consumer
Speaker 1: products companies in the world. Man well back abortion.
Speaker 10: Protections, caring about that stuff, doing something about it, as
Speaker 10: supporting communities who've been directly impacted by it as part
Speaker 10: of our DNA, and it has been since we opened
Speaker 10: up our first scoop shop in Burlington, Vermont, back in
Speaker 10: nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 14: Ben and Jerry were two best friends who love making
Speaker 14: ice cream, but for them, the only reason to be
Speaker 14: in business. To do business different whether.
Speaker 15: We're working with activists in Saint Louis to close a
Speaker 15: racist and inhumane jail, or working to restore the right
Speaker 15: to vote for people who are formally incarcerated in Florida,
Speaker 15: or turning up a delicious new flavor and support of
Speaker 15: refugee rights in the UK. Being an activist company is
Speaker 15: who we are.
Speaker 14: And we know our fans wouldn't want it any other
Speaker 14: way because while we love making the best possible ice
Speaker 14: cream in the best possible way, the world needs more
Speaker 14: than just great ice cream.
Speaker 15: We don't pretend to always know the answers, but we
Speaker 15: partner with and take the lead from activists and allies
Speaker 15: who do, and we hope you'll join us in taking action.
Speaker 14: To support them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, you sound like you think you know all
Speaker 1: the answers. And again I'm telling you, if these are
Speaker 1: things you're concerned about, I have just given you a
Speaker 1: concrete way to have the maximum impact on the climb.
Speaker 1: Now here's what they'll tell you. And then this is
Speaker 1: always the rub, right, but if we shut down, we
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to influence or fund all this other stuff.
Speaker 1: And it's like, well, but the thing that you think
Speaker 1: is going to kill us every ten years, in the
Speaker 1: next ten years, you could have the most immediate impact
Speaker 1: on And if we're all dead and you think we're
Speaker 1: all gonna be dead here in ten years, then none
Speaker 1: of the other stuff matters. Doesn't matter. If a jail's racist,
Speaker 1: there's nobody in it because we're all dead, And then
Speaker 1: the cockroaches can live there. You know, whatever survives done refugees,
Speaker 1: You can't be a refugee if you're dead. I looked
Speaker 1: it up. I did some research. Doesn't count. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just like why they keep deciding to go ahead
Speaker 1: and get in this. Why anyone is we talked about
Speaker 1: earlier the Captain America thing. We'll get into more of
Speaker 1: that on Thursday. But the actor playing the new Captain America.
Speaker 1: So there's Captain America, but you know the thing he
Speaker 1: doesn't represent is America. Why why are you doing that?
Speaker 1: I have a problem with actor Anthony Mackie. I tend
Speaker 1: to enjoy whenever I see him in something. I'm just
Speaker 1: like the why Selena Gomez who posted this and then
Speaker 1: immediately deleted it because even her fans were lighting her up.
Speaker 7: Only people are getting attacked.
Speaker 13: The children don't understand.
Speaker 1: I understand that one of the people on day one
Speaker 1: that was arrested, that lunatic in Boston, who's uh hold
Speaker 1: on Ross, I got it. You don't even have to
Speaker 1: do it right here, that lunatic in Boston. We played
Speaker 1: the audio of where he's uh, you know, screw Trump,
Speaker 1: and uh, I thought I had it anyway, you know,
Speaker 1: the you know the guy, he's just lunatic. Hees thanking
Speaker 1: Obama and thanking Biden like it wasn't him. But on
Speaker 1: the same day they rep you're you're worried about children?
Speaker 1: One of the dudes raped a baby. What are you
Speaker 1: crying about. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 7: I wish I could do something that it can't.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. I'll try every there. Well,
Speaker 1: there are things you could do. You could financially assist
Speaker 1: people who wanted to come here so that they could
Speaker 1: avail themselves of the finance. You know, the financial opportunities here.
Speaker 1: You could do that. And by the way, I'm not
Speaker 1: I would never criticize you for that. If you want
Speaker 1: to do that with your money, and that's you, and
Speaker 1: that's something you want to do or you want to
Speaker 1: you want to flex. But what you're arguing for right
Speaker 1: now is what people don't want. I text I. I
Speaker 1: tweeted this on on Friday. It was after the show,
Speaker 1: but on Friday, I want to go get some food.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I want to go get some Mexican food.
Speaker 1: And there's in high Point on the south end of
Speaker 1: the city. There's a little restaurant called Meet Takaria and
Speaker 1: I've eaten there a couple of times for lunch because's
Speaker 1: right now of the station. But I wanted Mexican food
Speaker 1: and they make Honduran food primarily, and so I asked
Speaker 1: the girl who's always there. I'm like, he's a good
Speaker 1: Mexican restaurant. And she recommended a place called a Kias
Speaker 1: Mexico a Kias Mexico and which just means here is Mexico.
Speaker 1: And I went over there. That place was amazing. The
Speaker 1: food was so this is not a paid anything. I've
Speaker 1: changed full price. And they also tricked me into doing
Speaker 1: a tequila shop. But what are you gonna do? So
Speaker 1: I go over there. It's loaded. It's loaded with white
Speaker 1: people and black people and brown people, and the staff
Speaker 1: there is primarily Hispanic. The bartender I believe it is
Speaker 1: from Venezuela legally here, I might point out, and really
Speaker 1: good English for only being here about I think four
Speaker 1: or five years, she said, she so she and and
Speaker 1: so I'm talking to her. There's a male bartender. There's
Speaker 1: like four or five people. There's you know a couple
Speaker 1: of guys who I think we're from Mexico initially. Anyway,
Speaker 1: you know what, they were all sitting there. I did
Speaker 1: not broach. I didn't bring any of this up. They
Speaker 1: got TVs there and they're showing Trump and he's doing
Speaker 1: because he's doing the North Carolinavism. They're showing him on
Speaker 1: there they're having a conversation about the dirt bags who
Speaker 1: were part of the initial raids. Do you know why?
Speaker 1: Because and I can't speak for everyone in the restaurant,
Speaker 1: nobody was running around looking nervous. They seem to be
Speaker 1: fully staffed. And I'm listening now to patrons, and they're
Speaker 1: speaking in Spanish, which I'm a much better at understanding
Speaker 1: than speaking. If you hear me the way I just
Speaker 1: pronounced the name of the restaurant, but they're also speaking
Speaker 1: in English too, because there's a woman who's there with
Speaker 1: him who looked to be a white lady and not Latina.
Speaker 1: And then we all just started talking about it, and
Speaker 1: they're just like, because you know why, Because just like
Speaker 1: I talked about earlier, with people who are a minority,
Speaker 1: who make their way, who get into a college camp
Speaker 1: is not with affirmative action. Always wondering if people are
Speaker 1: thinking they got there from affirmative action. People come to
Speaker 1: this country legally and not even just from Latin America,
Speaker 1: but that's the forefront of it. They don't you think
Speaker 1: they want to walk around with people assuming that they
Speaker 1: might be here illegally, because it's so top of mind,
Speaker 1: because they're seeing these stories like what happened to Lake
Speaker 1: and Riley and others because they're doing roundups in certain places,
Speaker 1: in certain cities that the Trump administration has targeted. Many
Speaker 1: of those cities were sanctuary cities, so it's easy pickings
Speaker 1: and they're grabbing the worst of the worst. And those
Speaker 1: are the very same people who have a higher likelihood
Speaker 1: of living in communities because we tend to group together.
Speaker 1: So that's why there's Chinatown, or there's the part of
Speaker 1: town where whatever town you live in, if it's of
Speaker 1: decent size, you know where the Latin grocery store is,
Speaker 1: and people tend to live around that. So the likelihood
Speaker 1: that some of these dirtbags live in their own community
Speaker 1: could be harming their families and their kids. They're aware
Speaker 1: of that. So don't give me this garbage. Eight forty seven.
Speaker 1: Let's get weather. Oh look at that, I short shrifted him,
Speaker 1: all right, sir? Can you give me an anpid firey?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Fifties today, sixties tomorrow, fifties Thursday. Some of us may
Speaker 13: get into the mid sixties tomorrow. Lots of sunshine around
Speaker 13: even the overnight lows will be in the low to
Speaker 13: mid thirties. So not a terrible run here before the
Speaker 13: showers get here probably Friday afternoon, but still well into
Speaker 13: the sixties, and we're back to the mid upper fifties
Speaker 13: with sunshine over the weekend. So the book ends good Saturday,
Speaker 13: Sunday and also Thursday, Wednesday and today. The middle there
Speaker 13: kind of the heart of the stories where the showers
Speaker 13: are going to be. Most of them actually come while
Speaker 13: you're sleeping Friday night. But one to eighty from last week,
Speaker 13: case looks pretty good most of this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't sleep. I'm like a robot man. So yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you, appreciate it. All right, we'll come back with
Speaker 1: Jeff Bellinger. Hang on, well, good morning, Casey.
Speaker 16: The emergence of an artificial intelligence startup called deep Seek
Speaker 16: triggered a tech sell off on Wall Street investors fear
Speaker 16: of the Chinese company could become a threat to the
Speaker 16: AI boom. Here in the US, The Nasdaq fell three
Speaker 16: percent yesterday, the S and P five hundred fell one
Speaker 16: and a half percent, while the blue chips posted games.
Speaker 16: The Dow closed two thirds of a percent higher. Now
Speaker 16: we turn that around today, S and P futures are
Speaker 16: up six points and the Nasdaq futures are up thirty five,
Speaker 16: while the Dow futures.
Speaker 1: Are down fifty nine.
Speaker 16: Today is day one of the Federal Reserve's Today policy
Speaker 16: meeting that just got under way in Washington about a
Speaker 16: half hour ago. Scott Beissent can get to work as
Speaker 16: Treasury Secretary today. He was confirmed by the Senate late yesterday.
Speaker 16: Pete Hegseth shocked the defense industry and his first day
Speaker 16: is Defense Secretary. Sources say he ordered a halt to
Speaker 16: new army contracts and solicitations for new programs. Hag Seth
Speaker 16: wants to do a review checking the programs for, among
Speaker 16: other things, any clauses pertaining to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Speaker 16: Attorneys general from nineteen states urging Costco ho Sale to
Speaker 16: rethink its diversity policies. Costco is among just a few
Speaker 16: companies to defend the practices. The ags A diversity equity
Speaker 16: and inclusion efforts go against the twenty twenty three Supreme
Speaker 16: Court ruling against affirmative action. Microsoft is reportedly among the
Speaker 16: companies interested in buying TikTok from its Chinese parent company.
Speaker 16: That is, according to President Trump. The restaurant Business newsletter
Speaker 16: is advising restaurant tours to be prepared for the possibility
Speaker 16: of visits from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement known as ICE.
Speaker 16: Officials and owners are being told to make sure they
Speaker 16: are compliant with all documentation requirements and to have up
Speaker 16: to date files for all of their workers and Casey.
Speaker 16: Honda has an ambitious goal by twenty thirty. It wants
Speaker 16: every other two wheeler sold around the world to.
Speaker 3: Be a Honda.
Speaker 16: This includes motorcycles and electric bikes.
Speaker 1: Casey, Okay, all right, Jeff, thank you, appreciate it, sir,
Speaker 1: go on, all right, have a good day.
Speaker 16: I'll talk to you tomorrow.