Speaker 1: Oh, oh, come on, email, don't do this. I don't
Speaker 1: want to play this game. All right, We're gonna go
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Speaker 1: literally hates me, so all right, hang on, do do
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Speaker 1: I am just like captively waiting this morning. I was
Speaker 1: trying to find it as as everything got rolling, What
Speaker 1: in the hell is going on with the third person?
Speaker 1: And of course the Amber alert and I can't you
Speaker 1: know the story we've literally been covering for the last
Speaker 1: two days, just trying to figure out why people would
Speaker 1: roll into this house. And oh that's another update there. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, hang on, emailers, I'm getting all of it.
Speaker 1: Just it's been a whole morning with my email. I
Speaker 1: couldn't even get it to load earlier. So, oh, poor
Speaker 1: Boston Paul's not going to be able to send me
Speaker 1: seventy two emails this morning. That is very sad for him.
Speaker 1: Ros Do you have an email issues with the company email,
Speaker 1: or is everything working with the company with the iHeart
Speaker 1: email you haven't issues this morning, or no, your email's
Speaker 1: coming in this morning, just fine? Okay, all right, I
Speaker 1: don't know what's up with mine. So maybe I'm fired. Dude.
Speaker 1: If this is my I'm fired show, well I'm going
Speaker 1: to change everything, like I have to decide. Do I
Speaker 1: want to go out with the temper tantrum or just okay?
Speaker 1: They were just loaded, all right, Well you don't get
Speaker 1: the temper tantrum? Yeah, that is so weird. All right,
Speaker 1: So then it updated on my phone too.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the heck's going on. I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's some weird security thing, probably trying to trick me
Speaker 1: into responding. AnyWho. All right, so coming up on the
Speaker 1: show today, more lunatics, because you know that's how we
Speaker 1: do things around here, and in this case it's Starbucks
Speaker 1: lunatics and there we go. Yeah, that is so weird
Speaker 1: and the most evil hold on, maybe not, I shouldn't exaggerate.
Speaker 1: It's pretty close one of the most evil family videos
Speaker 1: I think I've ever seen. Like Ross, when you were
Speaker 1: dubbing this woman in who is torturing her grandfather, would
Speaker 1: you say, that's one of the most evil family videos
Speaker 1: that you have ever dubbed in just in the way
Speaker 1: that she's treating this day yet like nonviolent video share Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just mean emotionally, I it's it's and I don't
Speaker 1: know why it hit me so hard. Maybe it's because
Speaker 1: my grandfather, he was the only one. He lived till
Speaker 1: he was ninety nine, and he just passed away a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. And I can't even imagine treating
Speaker 1: that man, or anybody's grandfather short of there being some
Speaker 1: like criminal issues.
Speaker 3: That way.
Speaker 1: And and and it's clear that's not what the issue is.
Speaker 1: I watched I I we're only gonna we're only gonna
Speaker 1: play a little of it, but we're tweet it. It's
Speaker 1: ten minutes, and I would encourage you to watch all
Speaker 1: of it. And I didn't realize so TikTok has a
Speaker 1: ten minute option. Now, I mean, I almost hate TikTok
Speaker 1: for it to have to watch all ten minutes of
Speaker 1: this absolutely soulless granddaughter create content around torturing her grandfather.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean physically torturing, but he she might
Speaker 1: as well emotionally torturing her grandfather, who, by her own
Speaker 1: words in there, wants nothing more, regardless of her stupid haircut,
Speaker 1: her purple hair, her nose ring, whatever it is, wants
Speaker 1: nothing more than to have some sort of relationship with
Speaker 1: his granddaughter. And the only time she feels that she
Speaker 1: is willing to do that is so that she can
Speaker 1: make a video for TikTok to out him or to
Speaker 1: out the fact that she's virtuous in rejecting his love.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's you, hear me, I'm speechless, like
Speaker 1: I at first, I'm like, this has to be a bit.
Speaker 1: But the more I watch this thing, and I want
Speaker 1: you to watch all ten minutes. Like I said, we're
Speaker 1: not gonna play the whole thing for you, mostly because
Speaker 1: I feel like it would make you too angry. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you enough to understand what's going on
Speaker 1: and of all of the soulless, uh clout chasing awfulness
Speaker 1: that the Internet has in store for you every time
Speaker 1: you log in, it's one of the most painful, horrendous things.
Speaker 1: From an emotional standpoint, I think I've seen and you know,
Speaker 1: I've been doing this job for a little while, Ross
Speaker 1: and I have been doing this job for ten years
Speaker 1: or more. If you believe the promos and what we're
Speaker 1: gonna get to, I'm gonna play it for you here
Speaker 1: in the next sec.
Speaker 3: The thing is like she completely believes that she's more
Speaker 3: really superior and doing the right thing and right, they say, yes,
Speaker 3: in order to do evil right, you have to be
Speaker 3: thinking that you're doing the right thing.
Speaker 1: Are you saying there's a historical record there is.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know why it hit me so hard. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's because like the last like, my parents died when
Speaker 1: I was in my mid twenties, right, and they died
Speaker 1: very close to each other, which is crazy because in
Speaker 1: my family, everybody lives way too long. It's the joke, right,
Speaker 1: Like we have we have we have several hundred plus
Speaker 1: year olds. My grandfather made it to ninety nine. We
Speaker 1: have several hundred plus year olds. But my parents both
Speaker 1: died in their mid fifties, and you know, not from
Speaker 1: natural causes. Obviously, my mom had cancer and my dad
Speaker 1: had a he had literally like a birth defect. So
Speaker 1: when they did surgery for a condition he had, he
Speaker 1: didn't make it right. And I was within literally months
Speaker 1: of each other. And keep in mind they had been
Speaker 1: like separated since I was twelve, so you know, just
Speaker 1: boom boom, mid twenties. But for the most part, my
Speaker 1: family lives a very long time. And I just remember
Speaker 1: my grandfather World War two VET college professor Yellowstone Ranger,
Speaker 1: Grumpa as we called him instead of Grandpa, great, great individual.
Speaker 1: And I can't imagine me or my soleans or one
Speaker 1: of my cousins treating him like that over whatever. To
Speaker 1: this day, I don't know how he voted. I think
Speaker 1: I know, I don't know. It never entered the chat,
Speaker 1: so to speak. And this woman didn't just tape an
Speaker 1: argument with her grandfather. She created content based on her
Speaker 1: own virtuousness. It's it's it's one of the most awful videos.
Speaker 1: And that's saying something for the Internet, where there's two girls,
Speaker 1: one cup okay and goatsy. If you don't know what
Speaker 1: that is, I would encourage you not to google ras.
Speaker 1: Should people google goatsy, I would not. Okay, this is
Speaker 1: up there, this is this is the Goatsy of family relations.
Speaker 1: And that's saying something. I mean, just without the.
Speaker 3: Visual and her wearing a mask throughout the entire thing,
Speaker 3: it makes you think that it's a skit at first, right.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely absolutely and I totally did. But as you
Speaker 1: watched it, you realize that's not a skit.
Speaker 3: No, she's a complete lunatic who is going to be
Speaker 3: regretting what she did in the future guaranteed, well, I
Speaker 3: guarantee it.
Speaker 1: Maybe.
Speaker 3: I mean it might not be like you know, next
Speaker 3: year or ten, but somewhere down the line, she's gonna
Speaker 3: regret it. It's because you're gonna miss that grandparent. Wish
Speaker 3: you could have used the time differently.
Speaker 1: Well, like I said, I'm gonna play it for you
Speaker 1: here in the next I'm gonna play it a couple
Speaker 1: of times today because like it, it's so shocked me
Speaker 1: and considering this is what we do, right, this is
Speaker 1: what Ross and I swim in every day. Just lunatics.
Speaker 1: Some are fun, there's fun lunatics. They're usually in orda
Speaker 1: and they do things like, hey, what can I do
Speaker 1: with a gator? Well, I'm naked, and then and then
Speaker 1: they figure something new out right, That's that's one thing
Speaker 1: this And I think what hits me too is I
Speaker 1: don't know what her politics were in school, like high school,
Speaker 1: but you know, there's a very good chance that this
Speaker 1: grandfather or you know, his kids, I e. Her parents
Speaker 1: literally paid an obscene amount of money to make her
Speaker 1: like that, because that has total because she's reading from
Speaker 1: a script. Do you realize I mean you probably picked
Speaker 1: up on that where she's like, this is some sort
Speaker 1: of thing that she didn't come up with, where she's
Speaker 1: got the series of questions, the whole process, the whole thing.
Speaker 1: It's just it's awful. And uh, I'm sorry I'm teasing it,
Speaker 1: but I'm not even teasing it just because I want
Speaker 1: you to listen to my show. I just like I
Speaker 1: emotionally want to share this with you because it's one
Speaker 1: of the most awful things I've ever seen. So we'll
Speaker 1: get into that.
Speaker 3: Did you think I thought she sounded like one of
Speaker 3: these people like from say North Korea, who's been brought
Speaker 3: up in propaganda her entire life, and she's just yeah, script, yes, yes, that's.
Speaker 1: And I don't know why that made it worse, but
Speaker 1: it was clearly not her idea initially, but she's all
Speaker 1: in on it. And then what she wrote on the
Speaker 1: you know in the video right is you know, it's
Speaker 1: like most TikTok videos where they have like a you know,
Speaker 1: they got words on the screen. And I don't know why,
Speaker 1: but that just made it a thousand times worse because
Speaker 1: what she says is, and i'll paraphrase, he has been
Speaker 1: constantly trying to establish a relationship with her, keeps showing
Speaker 1: up at her house, keeps coming over, and she's the
Speaker 1: way she worded it, she's annoyed. And all this guy
Speaker 1: clearly wants is a relationship with his grandar. Doesn't care
Speaker 1: that she's got purple hair, or that weird bangs cut
Speaker 1: or horrible ideas. He doesn't care. That's his granddaughter. All
Speaker 1: he wants is to have a relationship with her. And
Speaker 1: so he's willing to sit there for ten minutes and
Speaker 1: be excoriated by her just to spend time with her.
Speaker 1: That's just that. I mean, that just takes it to
Speaker 1: a ten.
Speaker 3: It's even worse because a lot of me Listen, you
Speaker 3: get to that age and a lot of the times,
Speaker 3: the people that you've known your entire life are dead.
Speaker 3: A lot of the times the yeah you talked about
Speaker 3: this with your mom, Yeah, a lot of times the
Speaker 3: only people you have left our family. And for you
Speaker 3: to be, you know, distancing yourself from this person who
Speaker 3: desperately wants contact is super evil. I just I can't even.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then to decide the one time you're going
Speaker 1: to give him contact so you can make a video
Speaker 1: showing him out as you know, an agent of fascism.
Speaker 1: I'm not exaggerating, by the way. This is basically her words,
Speaker 1: so that you can get content for TikTok, so that
Speaker 1: your friends, also with purple hair, can go, oh, you
Speaker 1: did the right thing. Good for you. It just makes
Speaker 1: it a thousand times worse. And I know that some
Speaker 1: of our listeners are probably dealing with this, and it's
Speaker 1: just it's crazy to me. This is not a standard
Speaker 1: family tiff, right, this is something else entirely. So that's
Speaker 1: where we're gonna start this morning. So let me do this.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break. Well, come back, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: play about ninety seconds of the audio, and then I'm
Speaker 1: gonna encourage you to watch the whole thing because it
Speaker 1: made me that angry. Okay, all right, six point twenty
Speaker 1: hang on, I'm actually gonna have to play it here
Speaker 1: in the next segment. But you know what, it is
Speaker 1: totally worth it. So I was not attempting to trick you,
Speaker 1: but you got to go ahead and hear this thing
Speaker 1: because I got a lot to say about it. We
Speaker 1: will get to that here in just a moment, right
Speaker 1: after we get the news. Let me just give you
Speaker 1: a couple other things we're gonna be talking about. One
Speaker 1: we I guess know what the weird Hope Hulk Hogan
Speaker 1: video was about? Ross without me disclosing what this is,
Speaker 1: because I'll get into it. Do you have any interest
Speaker 1: in this now that you know what it is? Oh?
Speaker 3: Absolutely none. Yeah, And I was super confused by it,
Speaker 3: like what exactly is it? Like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3: Who's this dude? That's not Kevin Ash, that's not Vince McMahon.
Speaker 3: What is happening here?
Speaker 1: Well, we know what's happening, So you know, we got
Speaker 1: that going for us. And I'll if he I guess
Speaker 1: if you missed that portion of the show, I'll play
Speaker 1: the weird non specific audio. Two.
Speaker 3: As to.
Speaker 1: Was it yes Stair the day before? It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: I think it was like two days ago. And I mean,
Speaker 3: even if it was, it wasn't exactly waste of time
Speaker 3: because at least we got this clip.
Speaker 1: Out of it, and I wanted to scene set this
Speaker 1: thing for you It made me a combination of so
Speaker 1: incredibly sad and it literally struck emotions with me, just
Speaker 1: because my grandfather he passed away literally just a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago. Excuse me, just a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: He was at home the whole time. It was a
Speaker 1: great dude. World War two vet I've told the story,
Speaker 1: literally injured, well, shot and he was an officer, he
Speaker 1: was a pilot, he was a college instructor. He was
Speaker 1: a Yellowstone ranger during World War Two. In the days
Speaker 1: following D Day, he was not a D Day guy,
Speaker 1: but in the weeks following he did support and he
Speaker 1: was shot. I laughed because he laughs. He was shot
Speaker 1: in the leg smoking a cigarette in France by essentially
Speaker 1: some hold out Germans. Right, goes back to the US
Speaker 1: recovers and they put him in an administrative role at
Speaker 1: one of the internment camps, in this case heart Butte,
Speaker 1: which was near Cody. And even though he grew up
Speaker 1: as the crow flies like fifty miles from my grandmother,
Speaker 1: they never would have met. She had been at the
Speaker 1: University of Wyoming literally studying Latin, and to this day,
Speaker 1: I don't understand that decision. She never fully explained it.
Speaker 1: She's gone now. And she took as a lot of
Speaker 1: women did. She aided the war effort, and she took
Speaker 1: a secretarial role, and she actually spoke a few different languages,
Speaker 1: not Japan though, So dude, she was totally that's how
Speaker 1: they met. I wouldn't be here if we didn't turn
Speaker 1: the Japanese.
Speaker 3: No, she was totally like a spy or something like
Speaker 3: working at a think tank or something like multiple languages
Speaker 3: and probably like working in archaeology. Yeah, guaranteed.
Speaker 1: Well she did the Latin thing because her one sister
Speaker 1: was a nun and they were super Catholic. But I
Speaker 1: don't know where she thought she was going to go
Speaker 1: with that, but she never finished her degree there. And
Speaker 1: what's funny is my grandfather was a college professor. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I've ever told this story. So he
Speaker 1: was a college professor. So he gets done with the war,
Speaker 1: he uses essentially the GI bill to go to Stanford,
Speaker 1: and my grandfather played basketball for Stanford as a six
Speaker 1: foot Irish. Dude, that's a college basketball has changed since
Speaker 1: the forties. Just throw that out there. And then he
Speaker 1: worked as a college professor for the University of California system,
Speaker 1: which is why that's where I went out to go
Speaker 1: to school because cheap, right, and you know, from Wyoming,
Speaker 1: just want to get out there. And so I am
Speaker 1: literally in my freshman year of college and I'm in
Speaker 1: the history class that I'm taking and the professor looks
Speaker 1: like he's one hundred years old. And my grandfather didn't
Speaker 1: say anything. So I'm sitting there in the class and
Speaker 1: he goes, you know, he's he's going through everyone's name
Speaker 1: and he goes, oh, Day, oh Day, are you John's
Speaker 1: Are you John's son? I'm no, I'm his grandson. And
Speaker 1: he goes, your Marjorie is my grandmother's name, Marjorie, Your
Speaker 1: Marjorie's grandson.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 1: I had her in my class, and I'm just like
Speaker 1: and all I could say is how long have you
Speaker 1: been here? And the whole class laughed and uh yeah.
Speaker 1: So my grandmother then went back to college there and
Speaker 1: did get her degree, not in Latin's, got a more
Speaker 1: general degree. But yeah, my first history professor in college
Speaker 1: was my grandmother's. Uh and uh, they definitely track so
Speaker 1: and and so I'm watching this video of this granddaughter
Speaker 1: with her purple hair and all, and and again, if
Speaker 1: you want to color. I don't mind, but there's some indicators,
Speaker 1: the bowl cut on the front, the purple hair, she's
Speaker 1: wearing a she's wearing a COVID mask because of course
Speaker 1: you do. And she has this grandfather sitting there in
Speaker 1: the room and she is at a computer like she's
Speaker 1: entering information, and she's decided that she's going to do
Speaker 1: a TikTok video interviewing this guy. And on the screen
Speaker 1: it writes, I can't essentially, I can't get him to
Speaker 1: leave me alone. He keeps coming over literally stoping by
Speaker 1: my house. I'm assuming she's probably at her parents' house, right,
Speaker 1: she doesn't. There's failure to launch written all over this chick,
Speaker 1: and and she's negative about it, and so the way
Speaker 1: she's positioning it, she's like, well, if I have him here,
Speaker 1: I might as well shame him. And it just made
Speaker 1: me so angry from the get Go let me play
Speaker 1: the first ninety seconds of this, and then we got
Speaker 1: the video out there. Go to Casey at Casey on
Speaker 1: the radio if you feel like punishing yourself for ten minutes,
Speaker 1: because it's it's it's equally one of the saddest and
Speaker 1: most infuriating things you're going to see in a while.
Speaker 1: All right, you ready, here we go.
Speaker 2: Just take off.
Speaker 4: I don't want you to think that this is a
Speaker 4: debate in any type of way, Like I just want
Speaker 4: to ask your questions, and I want you to named friend, yes, age,
Speaker 4: what part have you historically got to work?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: So real quick, she says, say your name? How old
Speaker 1: are you? Eighty two? So he's eighty two and he's
Speaker 1: getting he's getting some time with his granddaughter, which clearly
Speaker 1: is the only thing he wants. So he's willing to
Speaker 1: sit through this.
Speaker 4: Do you know what I would label myself politically well,
Speaker 4: because neither did you vote this year twenty twenty four? Yeah,
Speaker 4: who did you vote for? So now going back to that,
Speaker 4: because I had a feeling that I was going to don't answer,
Speaker 4: why do you think you can vote away in my
Speaker 4: basic human rights and expect a relationship with me?
Speaker 1: And she's reading, I just I have to acsent you.
Speaker 1: She's reading so like, where did she get whatever this
Speaker 1: thing is? And the answer probably is whatever university they
Speaker 1: paid for, some websites, some group whatever. She's she's reading
Speaker 1: the questions and she's very militant in the way that
Speaker 1: she's going about it. And this guy's willing to sit
Speaker 1: through it because he's getting time with his granddaughter, which
Speaker 1: which just makes this so much worse.
Speaker 3: Well, I would think the Democrats have the answers.
Speaker 5: I don't either, Okay.
Speaker 1: The biggest problem that I.
Speaker 4: Seek with the Democrats they throw money that thinks the
Speaker 4: sound the problem, and they don't.
Speaker 1: They really don't want it to sound the problem, the
Speaker 1: black problem.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 4: So I'm trying not to interact, but can I maybe
Speaker 4: just simplify it to that the way you vote is
Speaker 4: because you just don't agree with the Democratic Party, so
Speaker 4: you're voting against the number part or you can simplify
Speaker 4: it to that. Okay.
Speaker 6: Can you see, after all of these questions and having
Speaker 6: this talk with me, if I continue to have a
Speaker 6: relationship with you without absolutely any change in your behavior,
Speaker 6: how I would be enable in fascism?
Speaker 1: Can you imagine telling? And I'm going to stop it
Speaker 1: there because again I I'm not going to play the
Speaker 1: whole ten minutes. You should watch it, though, can you
Speaker 1: understand that Boie, continuing to have a relationship with you,
Speaker 1: I'm enabling fascism? Just matter of fact, here you go,
Speaker 1: and I'm almost happy that she doesn't have a camera
Speaker 1: on him, because I can you, Matt Ross, can you
Speaker 1: imagine the look on his face when she's saying this
Speaker 1: to him, This eighty two year old man who quote
Speaker 1: won't leave her alone, stops by, probably buys her stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, Hey, hey, honey, I got you this, and
Speaker 1: he's having to sit there and take that from his
Speaker 1: what twenty something year old granddaughter, and he's willing to.
Speaker 1: I don't know what this guy's life so he's eighty two,
Speaker 1: I don't know everything he's been through in his life,
Speaker 1: but clearly this is one of the most challenging things,
Speaker 1: and he's not backing down from it. He's willing to
Speaker 1: go over and talk to her and sit through this
Speaker 1: struggle session that she's going to put him through. He's
Speaker 1: willing to be on TikTok like she tells him, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put you on TikTok, and and it gets far
Speaker 1: worse from there.
Speaker 3: He probably just thinks she's young and dumb, as most
Speaker 3: young people are. And I wouldn't even be surprised if
Speaker 3: eventually he just starts playing along just so he can
Speaker 3: have a relationship with her. Oh one hundred, Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm totally for Kamala Now I love her.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I know. I honestly, I'll give the guy
Speaker 1: more credit than that because he didn't he didn't beat
Speaker 1: around the bush. I mean, he was very clear who
Speaker 1: he voted for. Then he gave us reason why. I
Speaker 1: don't even know that it was a hedging. He's just like, look,
Speaker 1: democrats just they never solved anything. They just throw more
Speaker 1: money out.
Speaker 3: You know, a lot of us, you know, we look
Speaker 3: back into how we were like twenty thirty years ago,
Speaker 3: and we're like, you know, I can't believe I was
Speaker 3: that person and I've changed so much. So he probably
Speaker 3: thinks she will eventually change. And quote see the.
Speaker 1: Like, did you ever treat your grandparents life? Ever?
Speaker 3: Never? Never?
Speaker 1: Never? I would have never. And remember we had the
Speaker 1: affectionate name for my grandfather is Grumpa instead of Grandpa.
Speaker 1: We call Lincoln's one grandfather grumpy. Yeah, well go with Grumpa.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good. You can borrow that. So and he
Speaker 1: he pretended like he didn't like it, but he liked it.
Speaker 3: I never had any conversations about politics with any of
Speaker 3: my grandparents.
Speaker 1: I try. I once I once made a comment to
Speaker 1: my grand to that grandfather as a college professor. And
Speaker 1: the comment was it was after I started doing talk radio.
Speaker 1: I said some along the lines of you must be
Speaker 1: surrounded by moonbats. And he actually he got very serious
Speaker 1: and he said, look, we're not getting into voting. We're
Speaker 1: not getting into my colleagues voting. That's none of your business.
Speaker 1: He was. And this was it was when he turned
Speaker 1: the grumpa on and I and and he understood it.
Speaker 1: I understood it. He's basically like, you're the grandkid. We're
Speaker 1: not gonna I don't care that you're literally doing a
Speaker 1: talk radio show with politics. We're not getting into it.
Speaker 1: That's not our relationship. Though, I you know, I had
Speaker 1: it figured out that he must have been in just
Speaker 1: absolute hell surrounded by some of his colleagues. But he
Speaker 1: was an accounting professor, right, which supposedly should be a
Speaker 1: very nonpartisan thing. My favorite moment ever when I was
Speaker 1: a kid is I went my grandmother took us to
Speaker 1: the university. I was like eleven, twelve whatever. I guess
Speaker 1: it was right after my dad left, so I would
Speaker 1: have been twelve, and I went there and we're sitting
Speaker 1: in my grandmother. We walk into the lecture hall and
Speaker 1: it's not a. It's not several hundred students, but it's
Speaker 1: it's it's a big class. And there was a girl
Speaker 1: like chance, you know, chomping gum in the front, and
Speaker 1: he walked over, grabbed the gum, put his hand out.
Speaker 1: She put the gum out, and he took it and
Speaker 1: he literally just smashed it down on her. And I'm like, wow, okay,
Speaker 1: glad I'm not in his class. Man. He didn't like
Speaker 1: physically hit her, but he took the gum and then
Speaker 1: smashed it down on her desk in front of her
Speaker 1: table or whatever it was row of tables. But yeah,
Speaker 1: and I just I just remember that he was super
Speaker 1: no nonsense. He's like, look, you're here to study this
Speaker 1: where we're not doing this Like he was ironfistude. And
Speaker 1: then I thought, well, I actually, for a moment, even
Speaker 1: at a young age, was like, well he's much nicer
Speaker 1: at home, holy cattle man. But yeah, he would never
Speaker 1: get into the politics, and he the one time he
Speaker 1: corrected me, I never brought it up again because I
Speaker 1: realized that's not my relationship with him. That's Grandpa or
Speaker 1: grumpa or whatever. Right, this isn't this isn't an opportunity
Speaker 1: to sit here and go, hey, remember that time where
Speaker 1: you literally fought against fascism and took a bullet for it.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what I think. Of course, I
Speaker 1: never really had that liberal phase, but yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Think that's a good point too. It's because our grandparents
Speaker 3: were part of that World War two generation, right, So
Speaker 3: there's like a gap there in the age then of
Speaker 3: what she's dealing with. But a little bit both of
Speaker 3: my grand like my yeah, her grandparents probably at eighty
Speaker 3: two probably obviously probably wasn't a World war. Yeah, both
Speaker 3: of my grandparents fought in World War Two, one in
Speaker 3: Europe and one in the Pacific, So I can sort
Speaker 3: of imagine where they're coming from. But you know, I
Speaker 3: never met my one grandfather. He died of alcoholism before
Speaker 3: I was born, and the other one died of a
Speaker 3: heart attack while I was on his knee when I
Speaker 3: was in like third grade. So I mean I never
Speaker 3: got to that point to have conversation literally on his knee. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I was on his knee. We were watching that show
Speaker 3: Life Goes On, remember with Quirky Oh, Yeah, and he
Speaker 3: was doing the thing where like you know, you go
Speaker 3: down your grandpa's knee on like a slide, like you
Speaker 3: put your legs down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, two legs, then there you go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he stopped pushing me and I turned around and
Speaker 3: his tongue was sticking out of his face. I was white,
Speaker 3: and they immediately rushed me up to my bedroom and
Speaker 3: I remember the paramedics and the ambulance coming, and that
Speaker 3: was the last time I saw my grandfather. And it
Speaker 3: scarred me for a long time. Dude, for a long time, Like,
Speaker 3: was it my fault? Did I do anything?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: I carried a picture around in my back pocket. My
Speaker 3: parents like considered, like sending me to therapy. It was
Speaker 3: a big deal. Yeah, and like I really got it
Speaker 3: to this day. Right, You're always going to miss your grandparents.
Speaker 3: But I never had those conversations about politics because I wasn't.
Speaker 1: Thirty when you were a little kid.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And my my my mom's father, he died of a
Speaker 1: heart attack when I was about the same age, so
Speaker 1: you know, I never I never thought to broach it
Speaker 1: with him. But yeah, that's dude, I had no idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my grand my grandmother's like my one lived to
Speaker 3: be like eighty three, eighty four, the other was like
Speaker 3: seventy six. The same thing. It was never politics. It
Speaker 3: was I'm visiting grandma and a grandkid, you know, grandma stuff, which.
Speaker 1: Was amazing grandmothers now looking grandmother. Ya, holy cow, dude.
Speaker 3: But like looking back now, like I wish I could
Speaker 3: have had those Here's my point is, like I wish
Speaker 3: they were still alive so I could have these important
Speaker 3: conversations that I wish I could have had because now
Speaker 3: I'm older and I'm more experienced, and I would like
Speaker 3: to know what was it like growing up? What was
Speaker 3: it like to live through World War two? What was
Speaker 3: the country?
Speaker 1: The depression? Yeah, I hated that. When I was a kid,
Speaker 1: my grandmother tell me about the depression and what they
Speaker 1: you know, and she'd showed me the photos of literally
Speaker 1: her and her sisters having to do a wagon team. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The thing is, you get older and you go through
Speaker 3: more experiences in your own life changes, and you a
Speaker 3: lot of times you want advice from people that have
Speaker 3: lived through the same thing or you know, gone through
Speaker 3: maybe similar things, because you go through similar things as
Speaker 3: being human beings. And I know there's tons of times
Speaker 3: where I wish I could call my father and ask
Speaker 3: for advice. And I just talked my mother about this
Speaker 3: that she's like, you know, there's a lot of things
Speaker 3: that you might have questions about that I can't answer
Speaker 3: because I'm not a guy. You know. It's like physical
Speaker 3: stuff that happens to your body as you get older.
Speaker 3: And it's just this girl is going to regret wasting
Speaker 3: this time and she's gonna have the same sort of
Speaker 3: thoughts that we all have about our grandparents that have
Speaker 3: passed away, and it's gonna haunt her eventually, really is.
Speaker 1: And the the uh, how do I say? Is the
Speaker 1: non christian esque part of me kind of wants that
Speaker 1: for her, which I understand is not a good look, right,
Speaker 1: that I want her to emotionally haunt her the rest
Speaker 1: of it. But it made me so angry watching this
Speaker 1: and again it goes on for like ten minutes because
Speaker 1: I guess that's the cap on TikTok videos, and it's
Speaker 1: because it's because it's really the only thing, it's the
Speaker 1: only penalty she's gonna pay. And I'm just assuming she's
Speaker 1: back living with her parents, i e. The you know,
Speaker 1: the the grand or the son or daughter of this grandfather.
Speaker 1: And that's the first thought that popped in my head too,
Speaker 1: like ten years from now. I hope she's miserable, and
Speaker 1: I shouldn't. I shouldn't hope somebody's miserable, but you hope
Speaker 1: they come to terms with it. But the willingness, the
Speaker 1: willingness to do it, the willingness to grant him this
Speaker 1: thing that is the only thing he clearly wants in
Speaker 1: relation to her, and he's willing to sit there and
Speaker 1: be made fun of, told he's a fascist, all of
Speaker 1: these things, and it's I can't even fathom it. So anyway,
Speaker 1: at Casey on the radio is the Twitter account? We
Speaker 1: got the video? Go watch it. I watch it after
Speaker 1: the show because you don't want to miss any of
Speaker 1: the show. But it is out there all right, coming
Speaker 1: up Tim Walls and Starbucks insanity, that's next. Hang on,
Speaker 1: I can't decide if I want the Superman rumor to
Speaker 1: be true or not. Ross what do you think? Do
Speaker 1: you want it to be true or not to be true?
Speaker 1: And it's just so weird. It's literally leaking the same
Speaker 1: time we're figuring out whether we should fight gorillas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought about that connection as well, And I'm like,
Speaker 3: I wonder if the whole thing's been like some weird
Speaker 3: marketing thing for Superman, like with the.
Speaker 1: Crazy clowns around when it came out.
Speaker 3: I don't know if the rumors are true, but I
Speaker 3: mean I'm gonna see the movie no matter what. I
Speaker 3: think it looks good. I don't care.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, I'm with you. I'll definitely go
Speaker 1: see I don't know that i'll go see this thing,
Speaker 1: but I'll see it when it's available in my house
Speaker 1: because people at a theater are you Are you thinking
Speaker 1: to go into the theater?
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely gonna go.
Speaker 1: Say yes, do you do IMAX or not?
Speaker 3: No, we do not. We do whatever we have in
Speaker 3: wake Forest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know you don't have IMAX up there a Warres.
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: No, Oh, I did not know that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, you're gonna get me in a theater. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be an IMAX opportunity because I don't want to
Speaker 1: go to a theater.
Speaker 3: But we're gonna work. Maybe gonna go to whatever's close
Speaker 3: and whatever is in the window of when Lincoln is.
Speaker 1: In whatever has comfortable chairs. Right.
Speaker 3: But I'm a fan of the James gun vibe, like
Speaker 3: his themes like Guardians of the Galaxy is fantastic. I
Speaker 3: like a lot of people have been like, Boo, we
Speaker 3: need to go back to the Snyder sort of Superman
Speaker 3: where it's dark and you have that really weird color
Speaker 3: palette where everything looks washed out, and I like, this
Speaker 3: is that dark? I think I wasn't a fan of
Speaker 3: the Snyder Superman's. I really wasn't that whole vibe. It's
Speaker 3: like DC for the longest time for me, And I
Speaker 3: know it sounds stupid, but it comes down to the
Speaker 3: color palette. Like you look at you look at Marvel,
Speaker 3: Marvel is like vibrant and bright, and then you'd go
Speaker 3: to a DC movie and it would be like it
Speaker 3: completely washed out and on the dark scenes, I can't
Speaker 3: even tell what's going on in the screen. And it's
Speaker 3: did you like the Man?
Speaker 1: Because I totally know what you're talking about. Color was
Speaker 1: washed Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, not a fan of the DC. Even Aquaman sucks.
Speaker 3: They all suck.
Speaker 1: The first Aquaman.
Speaker 3: I hate it. This is the color palette, Like the
Speaker 3: screen looks gross.
Speaker 1: Well he's underwater, so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's already hard enough. But I like the
Speaker 3: James Gun vibe, so I'm definitely gonna check it out.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you like the First Wonder woman. I thought
Speaker 1: that was okay, I'm telling you, I hate all of
Speaker 1: them all the I had no idea. So well, we'll talk.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about this too, coming up literally like
Speaker 1: one hour from now because it is Thursday. So Nerd corresponded, right,
Speaker 1: that's uh, that's eight oh five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's confirmed. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh, text me if he's got anything else, because obviously
Speaker 1: we're gonna get into this and the Star Wars.
Speaker 3: I know he's really big in the and or season two.
Speaker 3: So oh, we'll.
Speaker 1: Talk about that for sure. So did you watch any
Speaker 1: more episodes? You just watched one last week.
Speaker 3: They just released the the second batch of three, and
Speaker 3: I think we're like two.
Speaker 1: In okay, all right, Well we won't spoil that. And
Speaker 1: for the Superman thing, I'll just give you a teaser.
Speaker 1: Here's here's the thing that resonated with me on it.
Speaker 1: Superman Batman and the twist, which we've talked about here
Speaker 1: on the show. And if you haven't seen it, that's fine.
Speaker 1: So this is Affleck Batman Superman right going at it
Speaker 1: and then not going at it because their moms have
Speaker 1: the same name. I'm not making that up. If he
Speaker 1: didn't he didn't watch it, I'm not making that up.
Speaker 1: That literally was like, oh, oh okay, well we don't
Speaker 1: need to fight. Our moms have the same name. And uh,
Speaker 1: that stuck with me. I lost a little trust in
Speaker 1: DC there, not that they had a lot going into
Speaker 1: it that.
Speaker 3: Should have been such like a big build up for
Speaker 3: Superman to fight back.
Speaker 1: That movie, You're right, that should have been banger dude.
Speaker 3: Just to give an example, I think Marvel would have,
Speaker 3: you know, playing this out or made it go along
Speaker 3: a bit longer. That was the second installation of the
Speaker 3: DC series, was Batman versus Superman. The second one like
Speaker 3: that should have been like, yeah, they should have been
Speaker 3: down right. It's surprising, isn't it. That should have been
Speaker 3: down the line. You should have worked your.
Speaker 1: That was before what were the two? What was the
Speaker 1: one before it?
Speaker 3: I doubt you rig I think the Superman won.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but didn't they have? Was it a wonder Woman before it?
Speaker 3: I don't know if I count her?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, wow, look at listen to Ross. I thought
Speaker 1: the first wonder Woman was fine. The nineteen eighty four
Speaker 1: one just lost me. But anyway, all right, we'll get
Speaker 1: into more of it with Stephen Kent. That'll be at
Speaker 1: eight o five and the twist here just to tease
Speaker 1: you monkeys monkeys is why not? Not that I'm against monkeys,
Speaker 1: but you know, the rumor's so ridiculous, it is. That's
Speaker 1: why I'm just curious if Steven is like, yeah, but
Speaker 1: I pulled the bounding into comics where Steve, I guess
Speaker 1: Stephen used to work there. He doesn't write for them anymore, right,
Speaker 1: he does not, He does not, But I saw it
Speaker 1: like multiple places. I mean, if anyone could pull it off,
Speaker 1: it'd be Lex Luthor. Right, Well, it comes down to
Speaker 1: which Lex Luthor? Do you have a favorite? Lex Luthor? Spacey?
Speaker 3: Spacey was great?
Speaker 1: Yeah, not not Facebook dude, but definitely not. I always
Speaker 1: got the rip that he probably was a horrible person
Speaker 1: in person.
Speaker 3: That's what I've heard, like from every interview ever at first.
Speaker 1: Jesse Eisenberg, Yeah, Eisenberg, Yeah, like even like every character
Speaker 1: he plays, even when they're supposed to be likable, is
Speaker 1: immensely unlikable. What was the Magician movies that he did
Speaker 1: Now You See Me or something like that, which was.
Speaker 3: Overall Yeah, Yeah, they're coming out with like the third
Speaker 3: or fourth one. They're there, they've they filmed there or
Speaker 3: they're producing it. I saw something about it. I take
Speaker 3: back my Lex Luthor. I'm going Hackman got yeah, I gotta.
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask, so like Eisenberg's out, but Gene
Speaker 1: Hackman back in the day. Yeah, but yeah, Spacey was
Speaker 1: good and then obviously there, you know, there was an issue.
Speaker 1: Then there's a major drop off, like how do you
Speaker 1: go from those two to They tried to play it
Speaker 1: like the Joker, like it was super weird. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: not Luther Luthor. You got to play him pretty straight
Speaker 1: and then have the evil side of him, right, because
Speaker 1: that's you know, it's the two faces of Lex Luthor,
Speaker 1: because he you know, he's the he's the big corporate
Speaker 1: business guy. He's basically bezos. They should have bezos play him.
Speaker 1: What do you think of that?
Speaker 3: He should?
Speaker 1: Yes, he's all bald and stuff anyway in space? Okay,
Speaker 1: all right with with Katie Perry or no, no, oh, no, okay.
Speaker 1: I did you see by the way people are literally
Speaker 1: showing up to her tour protesting her for CO two
Speaker 1: emissions or something. Good.
Speaker 3: I'm tired of that hypocrisy.
Speaker 1: Good, I'm you know what, here's the what she's She's
Speaker 1: not an astronaut, right, we talked about this, but also
Speaker 1: shut up. I I'll literally defend her going to space
Speaker 1: just for the just for the fact that I am
Speaker 1: all in on them doing things where really wealthy people
Speaker 1: pay to do it, and then it becomes so common
Speaker 1: the rest of us can.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I have no problem with that. Like you said,
Speaker 3: she went on the glorified theme park ride. It was
Speaker 3: a space ride, that's what it is. William Shatner also
Speaker 3: did it. He's not an astronaut. He went on a
Speaker 3: space ride and it's very cool and it's awesome. You
Speaker 3: could do that, but you're not an astronaut. You're not
Speaker 3: in Space Force or NASA or whatever. But I like
Speaker 3: the fact that they're being called out for the hypocrisy
Speaker 3: because at one hand, she's like save the planet. I'm
Speaker 3: you know, holding up a daisy or whatever it is
Speaker 3: in the space ride to the camera, and then the
Speaker 3: other hand, you're, you know, there's hypocrisy there. I think
Speaker 3: they should do I would love if the same thing
Speaker 3: happened to Taylor Swift. Shut up about the climate. If
Speaker 3: you're constantly going back and forth in the country and
Speaker 3: your private jet, it's ridiculous, and they say the same
Speaker 3: thing about John Kerry and all the other politicians that
Speaker 3: complain about the climate and then fly to the G
Speaker 3: twenty and their private jets.
Speaker 1: Shut up right, I'm with you there, Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: because honestly you're probably not in on it. There's a
Speaker 1: point where it's gonna get safe enough. Would have some
Speaker 1: interest in it, but obviously I can't afford it. So
Speaker 1: but like, I don't know, maybe.
Speaker 3: Maybe you could get like an endorsement.
Speaker 1: Dude. I should have put that in our sales thing.
Speaker 1: We just had to like pitch endorsements to the sales.
Speaker 3: Pay im casey for space rights, dude.
Speaker 1: Next time they ask, I'm putting that in there, and
Speaker 1: I'm putting a lot of stuff like it too.
Speaker 3: Do you want web clicks or not?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I want to go to space. Uh. I'll even
Speaker 1: do the uh, the the plane where they go way
Speaker 1: way up and then they descend really quickly so you
Speaker 1: can float around like they did with the Kate Upton. Shoot,
Speaker 1: i'll do that too. I'll do that right now. The
Speaker 1: space thing I'm gonna wait on. But anyway, so, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's got monkeys, so we'll uh, we'll talk more about
Speaker 1: that and not just any monkeys. Uh speaking of science,
Speaker 1: hold on, let me grab this story real quick. Do
Speaker 1: do do do, and then we'll get to the walls stuff.
Speaker 1: All right? Uh yeah, so this is crazy.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Here's the headline. Scientists want to grow human bodies without
Speaker 1: brains to harvest their organs. This was a movie, right,
Speaker 1: wasn't Wasn't there? I mean it's not that they didn't
Speaker 1: have brains, but wasn't there a movie where the plot
Speaker 1: was that you were a replacement essentially, so they can
Speaker 1: harvest your organs. I can't remember what movie it was,
Speaker 1: but that was the thing. So you would you would?
Speaker 1: Essentially you have somebody in like cryostasis. I guess that's you,
Speaker 1: and then you just I need a liver, I need
Speaker 1: a heart. Whatever is that? Does that fundamentally bother people?
Speaker 1: It's so creepy, man, Ross, would you like a clone
Speaker 1: of you sitting in cryostasis in case you needed something?
Speaker 1: I mean? Or would you have a moral objection? I
Speaker 1: think i'd have a moral objective.
Speaker 3: I don't know. A part of me feels like it's
Speaker 3: demonic or something.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have a brain, like, it doesn't function. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna learned the Democrats now that they're importing voters,
Speaker 1: thing has been upsided that this would be their next thing.
Speaker 3: You know, they can tax it and they can get
Speaker 3: the votes from it.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, no, no, So what I'm saying like, oh,
Speaker 1: well about how about we grow voters with no brain,
Speaker 1: which is, by the way, who they're looking for, right,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm sure Nancy Pelosi looked at this and went perfect, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is great, absolutely, and then probably figured out how
Speaker 1: to invest in it. Yeah. So an article in the
Speaker 1: MIT Tech Review, which obviously I read on the regular,
Speaker 1: explore growing human bodies without brains or consciousness in order
Speaker 1: to harvest organs for transplant. So what happens if you
Speaker 1: die and don't need the organs? And also what happens
Speaker 1: if you need one organ? But it's an endgame organ, right,
Speaker 1: Like let's say you need a heart, you get the heart,
Speaker 1: and then later you need a liver. And now obviously
Speaker 1: the you know your your cryo you is not alive.
Speaker 1: Do they have to grow another one?
Speaker 3: See? The one thing that might sway me is the
Speaker 3: no brain thing. But can the body function and do
Speaker 3: all of its things without a brain?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, and you know, I think you got
Speaker 1: to like lean heavily into what Elon's doing right with
Speaker 1: like neuralink stuff like can you recreate the human brain?
Speaker 1: And remember, we can keep bodies alive which essentially are
Speaker 1: brain dead. Right, this is this is the whole Terry
Speaker 1: Shivo discussion. Again, by the way, don't call and argue
Speaker 1: whether Terry Schivo was brain dead or not. Okay, My
Speaker 1: point is we're most of the way there, and this
Speaker 1: is clearly speculative. And do you have multiple spare bodies?
Speaker 1: That's the other thing I don't know. And what if,
Speaker 1: just hypothetically, what if if this becomes a thing, but
Speaker 1: you tweak your extra bodies to you know, they figure
Speaker 1: out how to I'm gonna say this in the least
Speaker 1: scientific way possible, not a scientist, full disclosure. But let's say,
Speaker 1: let's say you're able to tweak the genes, so to speak,
Speaker 1: to be a much healthier version of you, or perhaps
Speaker 1: parts of the body are more pronounced. Do you get
Speaker 1: what I'm driving at just saying like I don't.
Speaker 3: Know, man, Yeah, it's like it's like Batman or Superman
Speaker 3: when they open the closet and there's like tons of
Speaker 3: like you know, their outfits or the right, they're tights
Speaker 3: and stuff. Yeah, but the open is like a closet
Speaker 3: full of you in various sizes.
Speaker 1: Oh, it'd be weird if you kept it at home,
Speaker 1: wouldn't it just kind of hanging out? You'd have to
Speaker 1: go visit, just be like, oh, this is the creed.
Speaker 1: But I guess maybe they think it would be normalized. Uh.
Speaker 1: The author of the paper admits that many may find
Speaker 1: this disturbing. You think, absolutely, yeah, but the potential benefits
Speaker 1: outweigh the risk. I mean, think about it. I remember
Speaker 1: the founder of Apple, Steve Jobs. Remember he literally died
Speaker 1: needing a transplant, and I liked how every news outlet
Speaker 1: just assumed he was going to go harvest organs and
Speaker 1: like belize or something. That whole lead up. They're like,
Speaker 1: why didn't he would have been a horrible person. Why
Speaker 1: didn't he do that? Yeah, yeah, I don't. This is
Speaker 1: it is a lot playing god. But let me tell
Speaker 1: you what, if you need a heart to keep ticking,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are not going to
Speaker 1: have a problem with this. Oh, here we go. It's
Speaker 1: actually in the article. So yes. The island was the
Speaker 1: name of the movie Michael bay Ross's favorite director, by
Speaker 1: the way, that's where we're talking about James Gunn earlier.
Speaker 1: Are you the one who hates Michael Bay And maybe
Speaker 1: I'm putting that on you unfairly. It might have been
Speaker 1: Cordal who hates Oh Ross's screen and a call. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to remember. Yeah, that whole thing is creepy. But
Speaker 1: you know, if there's no there's no consciousness, there's no brain.
Speaker 1: Because here's the discussion I've had with somebody who is
Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you what faith they are,
Speaker 1: but they're really really against They're more like God will
Speaker 1: sort it out kind of thing when it comes to
Speaker 1: a lot of medical procedures, which, hey, that's that's the
Speaker 1: direction you're going to go. That's on you, whatever, do
Speaker 1: your thing. I tend to have the belief that if
Speaker 1: we're creating in God's image, and we're imparted with the
Speaker 1: ability to develop a lot of things, we then have
Speaker 1: to gauge it upon a moral compass. But that in
Speaker 1: and of itself is you know, from God. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like, That's why when people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: you can't make jokes, I'm like, well, if we're creating
Speaker 1: God's image, then he's got a sense of humor, right,
Speaker 1: clearly he does. He made Florida. That's the thing. So
Speaker 1: technological advances I don't necessarily have an objection to, but
Speaker 1: I think you have to have a moral compass along
Speaker 1: the way. Obviously, I just I feel like this probably
Speaker 1: falls on the other side of it. But if they
Speaker 1: can create just organs and grow them, remember they were
Speaker 1: growing organs like attached to a mouse, which by the way,
Speaker 1: sucks to be that mouse. They like they made an
Speaker 1: ear on a mouse and then transplanted on the dude.
Speaker 1: Functional organs are not here yet but maybe one day.
Speaker 1: And they've already used pig organs before. So if it's
Speaker 1: not attached to a full human replicant of you with
Speaker 1: no brain, then all of a sudden it becomes a
Speaker 1: little murkier for people. So I don't know, it's an
Speaker 1: interesting discussion. Point. In fact, let's get some calls on
Speaker 1: if you want eight eight eight nine three four seven
Speaker 1: eight seven four Are you down with a spare you
Speaker 1: in case you need them, We'll be back hang on.
Speaker 1: Very excited about that. Let's head to Fayetteville. Though, Hey, member, member,
Speaker 1: little member, barry for you. Member, When I said Hey,
Speaker 1: this COVID stuff where they just think that they can
Speaker 1: go and you know, suspend basically constitutional rights and do
Speaker 1: whatever they want under the guise of it's an emergency.
Speaker 1: They're not going to stop here. And I'd say that
Speaker 1: and people are like, no, well not you, not the listeners,
Speaker 1: but like will either be pushback on the talk shows,
Speaker 1: like no, it's just this is a this is a
Speaker 1: very specific example, and we gotta you know, we gotta
Speaker 1: do it. But it'll be fine other than that. Well,
Speaker 1: I was right, So here we go. Fayetteville Mayor Mitch
Speaker 1: Colvin plans to propose sweeping new laws to eradicate a
Speaker 1: recent spike in gun violence.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 1: Yes, I don't know why they keep reelecting this, dude.
Speaker 1: Colvin said it's possible he could declare a public safety
Speaker 1: state of emergency, and again, I do not understand why
Speaker 1: during these state of emergencies there is not more defined laws.
Speaker 1: You know, keep in mind that if the governor of
Speaker 1: North Carolina declares a state of emergency, it literally can
Speaker 1: impact your Second Amendment rights, and there are different things.
Speaker 1: Colvin wants to do it because he's got a public
Speaker 1: safety issue. Now, I don't disagree that Fadeville has some issues.
Speaker 1: There's you know, there is weekly a story that clearly,
Speaker 1: clearly is a problem, and I want Colvin to address it.
Speaker 1: He's obviously the mayor there. But have we tried, I
Speaker 1: don't know, throwing the book at criminals. Have we made
Speaker 1: it so problematic if you wish to participate in stuff
Speaker 1: like this that you wouldn't think it. Do we have
Speaker 1: a deterrence or do we continue to soft you know,
Speaker 1: deal with criminals in a soft way. And the answer
Speaker 1: is yeah, that's kind of how Fayetteville goes. They got
Speaker 1: a problem. I want them to address it for all
Speaker 1: of our listeners in Fayetteville. You know, I want you
Speaker 1: guys to be safe down there. Appreciate you listening. Sorry,
Speaker 1: occasionally the signal gets if you're on South Fayetteville gets
Speaker 1: turned over by a Spanish station. Nothing I can do.
Speaker 1: It's not technically our market. But that being said, when
Speaker 1: he starts talking about things he wants to do, this
Speaker 1: is the route he's going because the city councils basically said,
Speaker 1: eh h, we're not down with all of this, so
Speaker 1: he wants to go at it alone. All right, here's
Speaker 1: here's what he said. He said me and other city
Speaker 1: council members are tired of this. There are tools available
Speaker 1: to the mayor and states of emergency and public safety
Speaker 1: is one. I used it as a tool during COVID.
Speaker 1: It's not something I take lightly. Well, again, it is
Speaker 1: only retrospectively that we're finding out a lot of this
Speaker 1: COVID stuff where courts are actually adjudicating it. And frankly,
Speaker 1: this was one of the big things with the courts
Speaker 1: that was that really has got us where we are today,
Speaker 1: because you remember, like Governor Cooper with a speedway and
Speaker 1: all this stuff. People showing up for religious service, sitting
Speaker 1: in their car in the parking lot, not even getting
Speaker 1: out of the car. You had judges who just basically
Speaker 1: either didn't take the case, which was wild, or said
Speaker 1: it's well, it's a state of emergency. This is how
Speaker 1: you chip away at the ability to do stuff because
Speaker 1: most of this will fall on people who aren't a problem.
Speaker 1: All right, So the mayor calling for a citywide nine
Speaker 1: pm curfew for unattended miners, I don't know that that's
Speaker 1: a constitutional violation. Other cities have done that. In fact,
Speaker 1: a lot of cities have a standing minor curfew. I
Speaker 1: want to say that we had a curfew in the
Speaker 1: literally in Wyoming of ten o'clock. No, no, no, it
Speaker 1: was for that's what it was. It was for if
Speaker 1: you had a driver's license that was known as a
Speaker 1: hardship license, you couldn't drive after ten, and I had one.
Speaker 1: You get those when you're fourteen and fifteen, but you
Speaker 1: know those were it was very specific there he's talking
Speaker 1: about a straight out curfew. Well seven do seventeen year
Speaker 1: olds not work late on Friday or Saturday? I don't
Speaker 1: know exactly what that would look like. But here's where
Speaker 1: we start getting problematic. He also wants to restrict large gatherings.
Speaker 1: Now we're getting into the COVID stuff, and yes, do
Speaker 1: you have these gatherings where people are out of control
Speaker 1: some of these street race things I can't remember with
Speaker 1: a all of them where you see the videos of
Speaker 1: these things, and Fayetteville deals with it. But who the
Speaker 1: hell are you to restrict large gatherings? This is this
Speaker 1: isn't just for kids. If you live in Fayetteville and
Speaker 1: you want to have a large gathering at your house
Speaker 1: that goes after you know, in this case, I don't
Speaker 1: even know if there's a time on it. Who the
Speaker 1: hell is the mayor to tell you can't do it?
Speaker 1: If you're not breaking the law right now, If you're
Speaker 1: if you guys are breaking the law, then I am
Speaker 1: all for police to go and crack down on you.
Speaker 1: You know, you're you're there and there's a bunch of
Speaker 1: miners drinking or you know, people are shooting guns, which
Speaker 1: is literally a thing that happened the other day. Fine,
Speaker 1: the police should go in there, and that's who you
Speaker 1: should deal with. But if you're you know, if you're
Speaker 1: some guy who lives off base and you want to
Speaker 1: have a party and you're not disturbing anybody, who the
Speaker 1: hell is the mayor to tell you can't? This is
Speaker 1: this is COVID stuff also, and this is interesting a
Speaker 1: verse of the mass thing, he wants to ban on mass,
Speaker 1: which is a thing in a lot of cities, or
Speaker 1: at least used to be a thing. Used to be
Speaker 1: a thing in North Carolina. They suspended it during COVID
Speaker 1: open carry weapons. Now we're getting into the second Amendment.
Speaker 1: I don't know that he can just ban that because
Speaker 1: he quote declares an emergency. It is legal to open
Speaker 1: carry a weapon backpacks at city owned property or city
Speaker 1: sponsored events. No, if it's under the guise of safety
Speaker 1: and you're in and inside an actual thing, how did
Speaker 1: a bird just slam into the window again? Ross, Why
Speaker 1: are the birds all trying to suicide themselves this week?
Speaker 1: Geez man, Sorry, that is so distracting. Maybe the birds
Speaker 1: are supporters of the mayor of Fayetteville. I don't know,
Speaker 1: all right, So ban on mass open carry weapons backpacks
Speaker 1: at city owned property or city sponsored events. I understand
Speaker 1: when you're going into an arena and you want to
Speaker 1: have those see through backpacks. I got it, because you're
Speaker 1: checking for contraband liquor firearms in certain places where you're
Speaker 1: not allowed to carry them, which we can slice and
Speaker 1: dice whether you agree or disagree. But that's at least
Speaker 1: pretty standard. But what do you mean city owned property?
Speaker 1: I can't have a backpack if I go to a
Speaker 1: park in Fayetteville. Can I have a picnic basket? That's
Speaker 1: essentially the same thing, Like this is lunacy. Man, let's
Speaker 1: see medical exemptions allowed. I guess that's on the mass thing.
Speaker 1: Once put more cameras, license plate readers, facial recognition, street takeover,
Speaker 1: thank you. I couldn't remember what it's called. Like how
Speaker 1: that stuff happens is beyond me, although I do like
Speaker 1: it where one car's spinning cookies in the middle and
Speaker 1: then some idiot goes out there and just gets Do
Speaker 1: you see the chick ross You see the video of
Speaker 1: the chick who went out in the middle of one
Speaker 1: of those street things and she got hit by the
Speaker 1: carner wig went flying. Oh dude, that video is I
Speaker 1: watched it like twenty times. M yeah, Like so some
Speaker 1: of this stuff makes sense, but all of this is
Speaker 1: for not if when you capture somebody clearly violating the law,
Speaker 1: especially when they're violating the law with a gun, right
Speaker 1: they go out there, they're brandishing, they're menacing, they're firing
Speaker 1: it off in the air, you can't do that stuff.
Speaker 1: Or or if they're just carrying it during the commission
Speaker 1: of a crime, or if they're an intoxicated state, you know,
Speaker 1: any of the things that responsible gun owners understand, you
Speaker 1: can't do. Because they you know, literally took a concealed
Speaker 1: carry class and they get this, you got to prosecute them.
Speaker 1: You can't sit there and go, oh, he's seventeen, it's
Speaker 1: only his third offense. He didn't know. No, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: there has to be consequences. You have to make people
Speaker 1: who commit criminal acts within your city think about You
Speaker 1: have to make them think about, you know, it's probably
Speaker 1: not worth my time to do this. And I understand
Speaker 1: it's not as cut and dry in that as that
Speaker 1: you have people, you know, there's gang issues all of that.
Speaker 1: People live in rough neighborhoods, and I get that, but
Speaker 1: that's not who we're talking about. We're talking about people
Speaker 1: who do it for the purpose of either committing criminal acts,
Speaker 1: showing out doing illegal things in possession of a firearm.
Speaker 1: And you have to delineate what is not going to
Speaker 1: be acceptable, and when people cross it, you have to
Speaker 1: not give them deals or prayer for judgment or whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call it. But instead he wants to
Speaker 1: make it so you can't take a backpack to a
Speaker 1: park in Fayetteville with your family. Typical overreaction. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: here we go. This comes after two shootings near Festival
Speaker 1: Park for the Dogwood Festival. They had to shut that
Speaker 1: thing down early. That's problematic. They had a month ago
Speaker 1: the carnival. I don't know what the carnival was called,
Speaker 1: but they had a shooting there like everyone there, and
Speaker 1: I think a kid was injured in that, like an
Speaker 1: eleven or twelve year old. Like, this is simple. If
Speaker 1: you once you know who did that, you make it
Speaker 1: so they are not on the street. If you're going
Speaker 1: to go to a carnival and you're going to fire
Speaker 1: indiscriminately and hit a twelve year old, you have no
Speaker 1: place in polite society. Not now, maybe five to ten
Speaker 1: years from now, probably more since you actually hit somebody.
Speaker 1: But the utilization of COVID like powers under a declaration
Speaker 1: of emergency. This is the slippery slope I warned about.
Speaker 1: And here we be. All right, let's get into some
Speaker 1: slippery slope weather where the humidity is going up and
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 3: Like it, so yeah, a little bit, just sorry.
Speaker 1: Turn that knob down. I don't want to tell you
Speaker 1: how to do your job. Just on the humidity. And yeah, no, man,
Speaker 1: because like low eighties low humidity is fantastic.
Speaker 5: Yeah, low in mid eighties with higher humidity not so nice.
Speaker 5: It certainly feels different, right Nope.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, uh no.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately not going away today, sun some clouds and again
Speaker 5: as we had yesterday, the better chance for showers, thunder showers,
Speaker 5: try it and west some spots yesterday did get over
Speaker 5: an inch of rainfall, some not so much to none,
Speaker 5: sun and clouds otherwise. So another warm, kind of humid
Speaker 5: day today, and then tomorrow we'll have a better chance
Speaker 5: for everybody again at least a shower thunder shower threat
Speaker 5: in the afternoon, mid upper eighties again and still don't
Speaker 5: dropping the humidity. Same thing for Saturday, middle eighties, a
Speaker 5: few showers thunder showers scattered around, best chance in the afternoon.
Speaker 5: Sunday also a little wet weather, so we're into better
Speaker 5: chance the rain for the upcoming weekend. Unfortunately, probably there
Speaker 5: will be hours of dry weather, but it's not gonna
Speaker 5: be bright and sunny for multiple hours. And now, if
Speaker 5: you are a Kentucky Derby fan, it looked earlier in
Speaker 5: the weekend maybe it was gonna be okay. Now it
Speaker 5: looks like there's gonna be some wet weather for the
Speaker 5: Derby on Saturday afternoon evening. Also, so everybody kind of
Speaker 5: getting in the act in the southeastern US of the
Speaker 5: showers thunder showers. Early next week looks a little damp too,
Speaker 5: with temperatures back into the seventies, So by Sunday we're
Speaker 5: low to mid seventy. Same thing for Monday and Tuesday
Speaker 5: with a threat for showers. So casey, certainly more chances
Speaker 5: of rain here the next several days. Better chances coming
Speaker 5: as we get into tomorrow and especially the weekend.
Speaker 1: A little bit lower chances early next week. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: so do you bet on the derby? I do not.
Speaker 2: I do not.
Speaker 5: I I'm gonna take Toby Keith's horse just because it's
Speaker 5: Toby Keith. I think it was thirty to one. Yeah right,
Speaker 5: see one of his horses in the race. Yeah, so
Speaker 5: I'm gonna take that as a family pet.
Speaker 1: It might it could be called beer for my horses.
Speaker 1: So yeah, man, that's what I was asking. So look
Speaker 1: exactly in the reference. All right. I don't miss many
Speaker 1: country music references. No, no, no, I got you. So
Speaker 1: it'd be great if you're stand there by Willie Man
Speaker 1: just rooting it on. So all right, thank you much?
Speaker 1: Do I appreciate? All right? All right, there you go,
Speaker 1: raced agent country music enthusiast, all right, seven forty eight,
Speaker 1: Hang on for one the full visual, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: want it for this because I don't know what the
Speaker 1: hell's going on. So picture a bunch of Starbucks employees,
Speaker 1: but at the wokest Starbucks you could find, all right,
Speaker 1: that's very important. Go with the wokest Starbucks you can find.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's a union shop or
Speaker 1: what the hell's going on, but they're all standing around
Speaker 1: and they're very upset, and they're of course recording this,
Speaker 1: and they're also wearing and I don't I'm assuming its
Speaker 1: some fu to the dress code of some sort, because
Speaker 1: that's what their big gripe is, dress code, but also
Speaker 1: staffing issues, which we'll we'll talk about. And so they're
Speaker 1: wearing those little party hats and they look like a unicorn,
Speaker 1: including the one dude. Is it a woman or a
Speaker 1: dude ros I'm I'm unclear. The guy who's talking at
Speaker 1: the beginning. Is it a guy or a gal? I
Speaker 1: don't know what that is?
Speaker 3: A woman with a beard, It is the bearded lady.
Speaker 1: That is a woman, yes, with a tiny dunce cap on,
Speaker 1: which is perfect. It's a dunicorn, like a duo unicorn
Speaker 1: or a dunce unicorn. I call it a dunicorn. There's
Speaker 1: your new word for the day, all right. So the
Speaker 1: dunicorn is starting this meeting and they're upset because Starbucks
Speaker 1: apparently has a dress code. Who to thunk it? Right? Craziness?
Speaker 7: All right, So check this outs loves to do is
Speaker 7: allow hardner to beat themselves or whatever. Not are that
Speaker 7: they want to push.
Speaker 1: And that's not a sad beard. That's like a full beard.
Speaker 1: Like if that would I'd be like, Wow, that person
Speaker 1: can grow a beard. Not everyone can.
Speaker 7: I don't understand how that can good state of.
Speaker 5: Letting us express ourselves.
Speaker 7: I don't understand how that's supposed to and buy each craft.
Speaker 1: And you're a woman with a beard. Some would say
Speaker 1: that's expressing yourself.
Speaker 7: Some would sure and bring us back to that happy
Speaker 7: house kind of vibe. That's for because for some reason,
Speaker 7: you all can't understand how to schedule more people in
Speaker 7: his own You can't understand.
Speaker 1: Wait to say, I thought we didn't applaud we snapped, right.
Speaker 1: Wasn't that a thing a few years ago?
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's a thing anymore.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, because that was the thing for
Speaker 1: about five minutes.
Speaker 7: I understand that it's misappropriate to tell someone that they
Speaker 7: are okay, that they should be doing the work of
Speaker 7: four people. That's just respectful.
Speaker 1: Wow, it's crazy. Only happened to start.
Speaker 2: I need you.
Speaker 1: I can't, I can't, right, Okay, so you're inting asked, Well,
Speaker 1: that doesn't happen anywhere else.
Speaker 3: Personally, I would like to point out that you know this,
Speaker 3: like every other industry. You know this, this job that
Speaker 3: I do was the job of four people at one point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when we launched the show, we had two producers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you had, you had, you had three other people.
Speaker 1: We had three other people. We had two, we had
Speaker 1: two specifically, you're correct, two people doing that. Yeah, so uh,
Speaker 1: you should get a dunce cap and then make it.
Speaker 3: But I mean the argument of you know, I can't
Speaker 3: be myself because I have to do a dress code
Speaker 3: to wear a vest or a pair of pants or whatever.
Speaker 3: We're like, they're obviously okay with you being you because
Speaker 3: they hired you.
Speaker 1: Of course, Ray Stagic with Weather, Jeff Bellinger with Business News.
Speaker 1: But before we chat with them, we chat with Stephen
Speaker 1: Kent to talk all things entertainment and even some weird,
Speaker 1: creepy science stuff. Good morning, sir, how you doing.
Speaker 2: We're doing well. I've got my coffee here. I'm also
Speaker 2: sniffing some ridonium jet fuel just to wake up a
Speaker 2: little bit. This morning. Star Wars taught me how I don't.
Speaker 1: Okay, Ross has been sniffing glue this week, so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he has been sniffing glue since he was four.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They're doing some construction around the studio and it's
Speaker 1: apparently much stronger over in his studio than other places.
Speaker 1: So good for him. I think if you're gonna, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna huff something, you want to go for the
Speaker 1: gold spray paint so you can have the epic mug
Speaker 1: shot like that one. Dude, I'm sure you.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna have to look that up.
Speaker 1: You've never seen gold sparkle, gold spray paint, huffer. Dude
Speaker 1: where his mug shot, his whole face is just no,
Speaker 1: this is you is.
Speaker 2: New to me, but I've I have seen it. Now
Speaker 2: I'm looking at it. This is this is fantastic. This
Speaker 2: person is an American hero.
Speaker 1: Well he's not. He's a little bit of an addict.
Speaker 1: But what are you gonna do? All right? So, boy,
Speaker 1: where do we even start? Well, you want to start
Speaker 1: in the Star Wars. Let's start there. So the the
Speaker 1: re release, well, let's talk. Let's talk about Star Wars fatigue, right,
Speaker 1: because that's something that really was the explanation, and it
Speaker 1: pivoted really the way that they were producing Star Wars content. Right.
Speaker 1: They claimed that the audience and the numbers weren't there
Speaker 1: because they were just creating too many things. People got
Speaker 1: burned out on it and as a result they had
Speaker 1: to dial it back. I always thought that was a
Speaker 1: little bit of an excuse, because maybe the quality counts.
Speaker 1: But was that laid to rest here last weekend when
Speaker 1: a re release of The Phantom Menace did twenty five
Speaker 1: million box office?
Speaker 2: Yeah it is. It is certainly getting close to being
Speaker 2: being debunked. And just for clarity for the audience, Revenge
Speaker 2: of the Sith episode three has been back in theaters
Speaker 2: here this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, and.
Speaker 2: It's just it's smashed a couple of barriers. It is
Speaker 2: the most watched and most successful re release of a
Speaker 2: film into theaters of all time. It is scratching, you know,
Speaker 2: the surface here of what's possible for Star Wars. And
Speaker 2: it is a reminder. I was in the theater just
Speaker 2: yesterday watching it and it's a full theater. People are laughing,
Speaker 2: having a good time, they're cheering at the beginning and
Speaker 2: the end of the movie. People love Star Wars. They've
Speaker 2: got their Star Wars shirt folded nicely in their dresser
Speaker 2: drawer at home. They've just been waiting to take it out.
Speaker 2: And Disney should feel quite embarrassed. If you work at
Speaker 2: Lucasfilm right now and you are struggling to keep Star
Speaker 2: Wars relevant, but all you have to do is put
Speaker 2: out the old stuff, it should make you feel a
Speaker 2: little ashamed.
Speaker 1: Did their mom put in the dresser folded for him
Speaker 1: after she did their lawn? Darn? Sorry, I had to
Speaker 1: take the cart. But here's here's why I think that's
Speaker 1: it's interesting because it is informative on the Star Wars
Speaker 1: fatigue excuse. The problem is is I know Hollywood, and
Speaker 1: now I'm wondering if rather than you know, doing new
Speaker 1: content and trying to actually do quality content like and
Speaker 1: or with You and Ross seem to be big fans
Speaker 1: of I always wait for the whole season to come out,
Speaker 1: then I'll watch it. But does it then just tell them, hey,
Speaker 1: what you need to do. They probably don't know the
Speaker 1: rights to any of this stuff, but like, why create
Speaker 1: new stuff when you can just reissue and not even
Speaker 1: have to reboot it, right, just show the old stuff
Speaker 1: in theaters. They love a lazy out that's profitable. Do
Speaker 1: you think that it unfortunately drives them to do more
Speaker 1: of it and then we get less original content rather
Speaker 1: than improving the original content.
Speaker 2: Oh that's a tough question. You know. I think it
Speaker 2: definitely does encourage them to consider as many rereleases as possible.
Speaker 2: You know, we are sort of in an era of
Speaker 2: incredible nostalgia, particularly for younger consumers who just want to
Speaker 2: go back and see early two thousands and nineties movies.
Speaker 2: So we are going to see plenty of that. But
Speaker 2: I just I kind of think here that the ultimate
Speaker 2: lesson is going to be that re releases are just
Speaker 2: sort of a safe weekend blockbuster. One thing that I
Speaker 2: wish that they would do is I wish that they
Speaker 2: would re release these movies with the deleted scenes cut
Speaker 2: back into the film. Like one of the things that
Speaker 2: they could have done that was fresh was include scenes
Speaker 2: that were deleted from episode three that feature Mom Mathma
Speaker 2: who now has an entire show on Disney Plus called
Speaker 2: and Or, and you would have been able to see
Speaker 2: sort of a fresh experience of that same old movie.
Speaker 2: You love that would be cool. I would recommend doing that.
Speaker 2: If Disney is listening.
Speaker 1: Okay, can I slippery slope that for you? Please do?
Speaker 1: All right? AI ability to create entirely new stuff, what's
Speaker 1: to stop them from just creating a scene and jamming
Speaker 1: it in there, Not one that was original, but one
Speaker 1: that basically looks like it was just to tweak or
Speaker 1: to twist. God help us if it's a PC thing,
Speaker 1: but like to mess or monkey with, which will be
Speaker 1: a nice transition here in a moment with the old movies.
Speaker 1: That's where I get a little nervous.
Speaker 2: You certainly could do that, but that seems like a
Speaker 2: stretch to me. You'd have to be criminally insane to
Speaker 2: try to do that and get away with it. With
Speaker 2: Star Wars fans.
Speaker 1: No, I'm sorry, I mean AI into a Star Wars movie.
Speaker 1: Do I have to bring up Lea at the end?
Speaker 2: No? No, no, no, no, no, that's different. We're talking about
Speaker 2: creating scenes whole cloth and putting them into a movie.
Speaker 2: I was raised on the Revenge of the Fifth DVD case.
Speaker 2: I know every deleted scene in that movie like the
Speaker 2: back of my hand. You can't create a new.
Speaker 8: One, all right.
Speaker 1: The fact that you said DVD, We're not We're not okay,
Speaker 1: and Ross had Ross did you have beta or laser disc?
Speaker 1: I can't remember what you said. You guys went beta
Speaker 1: right back in the day. Yeah, Ross had beta, like
Speaker 1: we're beta VHS kids, right, So this is this is
Speaker 1: a whole cloth different man. But no, you know, you
Speaker 1: understand what I'm saying, Like the way that they love to,
Speaker 1: you know, tweak movies cut stuff out where I got
Speaker 1: to watch a five minute explanation by college professor before
Speaker 1: I get to watch, you know, some old movie because
Speaker 1: it has problematic themes in it, like what's to stop
Speaker 1: him from doing that? I guess is is really my thought?
Speaker 1: And then just crapping all over because you know you
Speaker 1: will be the first to admit that when when they
Speaker 1: went back and added the Beast and tweaked the Star Wars,
Speaker 1: it created a divide among the fandom, right.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean this has been happening ever since
Speaker 2: George Lucas changed who shot first on Conor Grido. You know,
Speaker 2: Star Wars is constantly being revised based on the whims
Speaker 2: of its previous owner. Uh, and it and it's and
Speaker 2: it's can be pretty horrific. I mean, my favorite movie
Speaker 2: is Return of the Jedi, and I love the ending
Speaker 2: U and Darth Vader, you know, being redeemed and saving
Speaker 2: Luke and all that. And then George Lucas releases this
Speaker 2: thing back out onto Blu Ray or something in the
Speaker 2: two thousands and has Darth Vader scream no when he's
Speaker 2: saving Luke from the Emperor. It's, by the way, it's
Speaker 2: the most horrific thing I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2: And it actually ruins the movie for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got it at Costco and I was and
Speaker 1: then what was what was up there?
Speaker 3: So uh?
Speaker 1: And Or everything's still cooking along, okay for you guys
Speaker 1: over there, just real quick. And then I want to
Speaker 1: get over the Superman thing.
Speaker 2: So yeah, this is this is this is this is
Speaker 2: quality television here. So highly recommend people give and Or
Speaker 2: a spin. It's again, it's not gonna be when you
Speaker 2: sit down and and watch with your young children. It's
Speaker 2: definitely teens and up. But and Ors fantastic television.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: So there is a rumor, and much like the rumor
Speaker 1: with the Narnia stuff, I go and I try to
Speaker 1: look at other places to either find a denial or
Speaker 1: other people reporting it. Your former I have the story
Speaker 1: here from an outlet you used to write for, but
Speaker 1: I've seen it multiple places now and I'm curious what
Speaker 1: you think. Here's the headline New Superman plot link leak
Speaker 1: alleges Lex Luthor uses monkeys to troll the hero online
Speaker 1: and sway public opinion against him. What the hell's going on?
Speaker 1: What are we doing here? So to describe this a
Speaker 1: little better, Luther secret weapon in the endeavor is an
Speaker 1: army of mutant monkeys. All right, tell me this isn't real.
Speaker 1: Please tell me this isn't real. But after the Batman Superman,
Speaker 1: my moms have the same name. I'll believe any rumor
Speaker 1: with what DC is doing.
Speaker 2: I think this sounds hilarious and I completely support it.
Speaker 2: You know, there are different ways to do Superman, and
Speaker 2: I am not the biggest Superman uh uh store of
Speaker 2: knowledge in the world, so you probably know a lot
Speaker 2: more than I do. But there are different ways to
Speaker 2: do this. There's the gritty way, there's the realism way,
Speaker 2: and then there's whatever gun James Gunn is doing with
Speaker 2: this movie where he's actually bringing back you know, the
Speaker 2: super Dog, you know, his his.
Speaker 8: Poodle or something that helps him fight crime, which you
Speaker 8: know has a backing in the comic books, but it
Speaker 8: was kind of cut out of a lot of Superman
Speaker 8: movies because it's a little goofy, and so they're not
Speaker 8: only doing that in this movie.
Speaker 2: He's also kind of engineer mutant monkeys to uh to
Speaker 2: I guess, send mean tweets at Superman.
Speaker 8: I think it sounds fun I'm for this.
Speaker 1: So but you you think it's a part, But the
Speaker 1: way they're playing is is probably a small part, right,
Speaker 1: It's just.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, this has to be just like
Speaker 2: a scene, a single scene in the very beginning of
Speaker 2: the movie where instead of Lex Luthor like owning a
Speaker 2: newspaper company where he's running you know, mean articles against
Speaker 2: Superman or something. You know, he's just got monkeys working
Speaker 2: for him, sending mean tweets to make him feel hated.
Speaker 2: I think that sounds funny, sounds relevant, and it's obviously
Speaker 2: a commentary on the social media era. When you dare
Speaker 2: to speak up and do the right thing or be
Speaker 2: an agent of truth, there's always going to be just
Speaker 2: a couple of complete morons online who are sending you
Speaker 2: mean tweets, and you just got to get over it.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, one hundred percent. I assume that
Speaker 1: it's mutant monkeys some of the people I interact with
Speaker 1: on Twitter, because they're absolutely.
Speaker 2: They're called moon bats, right, yeah.
Speaker 1: Well moonbats what we use here on the show. But
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that to the monkeys because
Speaker 1: they're overperforming at that point. But your favorite Lex Luthor,
Speaker 1: and don't say Eisenberg or the interview that is done
Speaker 1: right now? So Hackman or Spacey.
Speaker 2: Spacey?
Speaker 1: You like space all right? All right, I mean it's
Speaker 1: a fact I could take either one. I think Ross
Speaker 1: went Hackman. I think I'm on Spacey camp there, so,
Speaker 1: but definitely Eisenberg is not it. By the way, did
Speaker 1: that dude just go away? He just seen? He comes
Speaker 1: across as so unlikable, both in movies but also in person.
Speaker 1: So has he been in anything lately? I can't even
Speaker 1: think of what Eisenberg's.
Speaker 3: Been in.
Speaker 2: Kevin Spacey.
Speaker 1: So no, no, no, no, se Eisenberg.
Speaker 2: No, oh, Jesse Eisenberg. Yeah, Jesse Eisenberg. No, I have
Speaker 2: not seen now. Actually he was just in an award
Speaker 2: winning movie that just picked up picked up an Academy
Speaker 2: Award that was a comedy about a dark comedy called
Speaker 2: A Real Pain about him going to Poland to visit
Speaker 2: his family history related to the Holocaust. It's actually really funny.
Speaker 2: My wife and I watched it. It's well, it's a
Speaker 2: dark comedy, you know, it's a it's a dark situation
Speaker 2: and a somber a somber visit to Holocaust sites in Poland.
Speaker 2: But the two main actors are comedians. It's Jesse Eisenberg
Speaker 2: uh and the Kulcan kid Kieran Culkin. Very funny. I'd
Speaker 2: recommend people check it out. But it's a good movie.
Speaker 1: I think I saw some of the press around Culkin,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize Eisenberg was in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he. I think he wrote it as well.
Speaker 2: That's it's his screenplay, So.
Speaker 1: I got you, I guess there. The last thing I
Speaker 1: remember him in Well One he played well actually Zuckerberg.
Speaker 1: He was perfect for that, right because oh yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: but couldn't have done an investment that the magician there,
Speaker 1: which Ross told me they're making a third one of
Speaker 1: so we'll see how that goes. Did he send you?
Speaker 1: Did he send you this creepy sci fi science story?
Speaker 1: I hope he did, because I want to I want
Speaker 1: to he sure did.
Speaker 2: I been looking at it in horror for the past
Speaker 2: thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: Let me let me remind the audience we just have
Speaker 1: about three minutes left. So scientists want to grow human
Speaker 1: bodies without brains to harvest their organs. So one, there's
Speaker 1: Michael Crichton Coma is a book slash movie. There's also
Speaker 1: The Island, which is a movie that came out that
Speaker 1: literally played with this theme. Other than the Democrats trying
Speaker 1: to get a bunch of new voters, is with which
Speaker 1: they'd be perfect for in this case, are you well,
Speaker 1: you got to get somebody to stand in front of
Speaker 1: the Department of Ed with signs. It is like it
Speaker 1: sounds like your morality thing is given a hard no
Speaker 1: here right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely giving a very hard no. This is
Speaker 2: a really disturbing story. You said, you already described it
Speaker 2: to your audience.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well yeah, I'll give a quick recap. It's
Speaker 1: an MIT technology review piece. And basically they would grow
Speaker 1: bodies without brains or consciousness, so essentially they just be
Speaker 1: in I guess priostasis or so. I don't know, But
Speaker 1: you the owner of the body. If you ever need
Speaker 1: a heart or liver or whatever. Yeah, you just go
Speaker 1: grab it. And I guess they can make multiple ones,
Speaker 1: because if you take a heart, I'm assuming it's gonna
Speaker 1: go bye by. Yeah, but I need a heart. I
Speaker 1: wonder if all of a sudden you find this pretty moral, well.
Speaker 2: I find it pretty immoral. And I think just from
Speaker 2: a basic Judeo Christian perspective, you know, if you think
Speaker 2: about the human body as being made in the image
Speaker 2: of God, you know, your earliest objection to human practices
Speaker 2: around the human body would have been cremation. You know,
Speaker 2: that's the belief that you know, you shouldn't actually cremate
Speaker 2: bodies because this is something that is meant to be beautiful,
Speaker 2: meant to be buried and treated in a very delicate way.
Speaker 2: We threw out that out many many many years ago,
Speaker 2: and you know, you just kind of keep going down
Speaker 2: the line, and humanity keeps getting more and more disconnected
Speaker 2: from their own nature. And so now we are thinking
Speaker 2: about building entire human bodies in test tubes just to
Speaker 2: harvest them for parts and promising that they won't have consciousness.
Speaker 2: And I recommend people read one particular book by C. S. Lewis,
Speaker 2: who did the Chronicles of Narnia. He also did a
Speaker 2: series called the Ransom Trilogy and the final book is
Speaker 2: called That Hideous Strength. It is the most relevant book
Speaker 2: you could possibly read for stories like this, transhumanism, the
Speaker 2: basically just the giving up of human bodies to demonic forces.
Speaker 2: I think that that's exactly what this is most relevant.
Speaker 1: Story of the day, and I'm glad it's at this
Speaker 1: point speculative, but you know there's people champion at the
Speaker 1: bit to do it. All right, Steven, appreciate the time
Speaker 1: this morning. We got a role. We're on vacation next week,
Speaker 1: so we'll talk to you a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, stay safe out.
Speaker 1: There, all right, Well there's not a chance we're on vacation.
Speaker 1: All right, Steven Kent, thank you, and we will be
Speaker 1: right back.
Speaker 2: Slee.
Speaker 1: I was never a cruise guy, I said, I mentioned,
Speaker 1: I went on, I went out. Well, I shouldn't say this.
Speaker 1: It's not that I'm not a cruise guy. It's it's
Speaker 1: got to be specific, like if you want to go
Speaker 1: on one of the higher end cruises or one of
Speaker 1: the ones where like Holland America. I had a really
Speaker 1: good experience with Holland America, and except for one lady
Speaker 1: who decided that the one place on the entire ship
Speaker 1: where we could smoke a cigar was where she'd set
Speaker 1: all her kids crap and then yell at us. But
Speaker 1: they actually handled her. But yeah, I see all these videos. Man.
Speaker 1: As far as a budget cruise, I don't know. You
Speaker 1: could get me on one, but I already don't like
Speaker 1: being around a bunch of people. You're not gonna get
Speaker 1: rass on one. You'd have to kidnap him. He ain't
Speaker 1: going on one. So yeah, and then I see videos
Speaker 1: like that where there's just a giant melee when they're
Speaker 1: disembarking because I think it started over a piece of
Speaker 1: luggage or something. I don't know. But we also had
Speaker 1: that story what about two months ago, where the little
Speaker 1: Filipino dude was hiding under the bed film and women.
Speaker 1: So that'd be less of a problem for me because
Speaker 1: that dude would fall off my balcony. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I don't know everyone sent me this video. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you the cruise story that really got under my
Speaker 1: skin is this elderly gentleman, him and his wife runt
Speaker 1: an elevator and there's a bunch of you know punks there,
Speaker 1: young dudes running around and they start like they're just
Speaker 1: being a holes in the elevator to this guy and
Speaker 1: then they kind of block it when they get to
Speaker 1: where the floor is for this dude, and he kind
Speaker 1: of kind of push pushes is the wrong word. He
Speaker 1: has to like go kind of throw him turned sideways,
Speaker 1: and the moment he made contact, they literally beat him
Speaker 1: and to the point of like they were hitting him
Speaker 1: in the head, knocked him out. I think one of
Speaker 1: them kicked him in the head. And his wife's just
Speaker 1: got to sit there and watch this thing, and I
Speaker 1: think they they I think the cruise ship came back
Speaker 1: to Miami or Everglades or wherever it was, and then
Speaker 1: they gave the dude five thousand dollars bond and I'm
Speaker 1: just like, Nope, not dealing with that. So yes, thank
Speaker 1: you to everyone who sent me the video. Boston Paul
Speaker 1: just sent it to me. Boston Paul, you should go
Speaker 1: on the cruise, lay down the law man, bring your
Speaker 1: old nightstick. It'll be like back in the day where
Speaker 1: you used to you know, willy nilly with that thing.
Speaker 1: It'll be fun. And then film it for us. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, very good. A few other things. We got
Speaker 1: to get to Tim Walls. Tim Walls, governor O Minnesota
Speaker 1: and a former VP candidate. He was he was doing
Speaker 1: a little little stage work doing some interviews at some
Speaker 1: I don't even know what the hell it was, and
Speaker 1: he was explaining his function within the campaign, and I'm well,
Speaker 1: i'll run it by you. You tell me what you think.
Speaker 9: I knew I was on the ticket. I would argue
Speaker 9: because we did a lot of amazing progressive things in
Speaker 9: Minnesota improvement.
Speaker 1: And you're not Jewish too, by the way, That probably
Speaker 1: is another reason.
Speaker 9: I knew I was on the ticket. I would argue
Speaker 9: because we did a lot of amazing progressive things in Minnesota,
Speaker 9: improved people's lives. But I also was on the ticket
Speaker 9: quite honestly, you know, because I could code talk to
Speaker 9: white guys watching football fixing their truck during that that
Speaker 9: I could put them at ease. I was the permission
Speaker 9: structure to say, look, you can do this and vote
Speaker 9: for this.
Speaker 1: All right, that's enough. I hate this narrative because they
Speaker 1: kind of played it up during the election, like Tim
Speaker 1: Walls given permission to vote for the black woman. What
Speaker 1: the hell are you talking about? If you have to
Speaker 1: approach it that inherently voters out there either object or
Speaker 1: like her because she's a black woman. And so at
Speaker 1: that point, your whole marketing strategy is flawed because one
Speaker 1: you think that that's something you have to do, even
Speaker 1: to people who quote unquote like you or like your politics.
Speaker 1: But two, you're telling everyone that has a question about
Speaker 1: voting for Kamala that their objection, especially among men, is
Speaker 1: clearly that she's a woman, or that she's a black woman,
Speaker 1: or she's black, you know, pick whichever one or combination.
Speaker 3: They're a rightly, we have to reach out to this
Speaker 3: group because they're racist.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so are you changing hearts and minds at that
Speaker 1: point where you're like, I know you're racist, but listen
Speaker 1: to me. And also, also, nobody Tim Walls shows up
Speaker 1: to your fantasy draft. Nobody thinks that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: Let me just be straight up with you. They're like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I had to avite him. He's my you know, relatives
Speaker 1: whatever spouse h showed up like you are, you are
Speaker 1: the meme, you are the hate hate fellow kids.
Speaker 3: Right, nothing about it was authentic. Right, he's up there,
Speaker 3: he's general Jazz hands on the stage, and then when
Speaker 3: he's playing Madden with AOC he said he's gonna run
Speaker 3: the pick six or something, and then they.
Speaker 1: Have one of the hood Killer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, none of it looked real.
Speaker 1: No, no, nobody, nobody's taking you seriously. I even defended
Speaker 1: the fact that you were getting razzed on the Twins
Speaker 1: photo h only because you're you're you shouldn't talk about
Speaker 1: sports at all. But nobody who really liked sports found
Speaker 1: you genuine And I understand that that's a weird hill,
Speaker 1: a hill to die on when you're talking about a
Speaker 1: presidential election, but it says something about you. We'll put
Speaker 1: up with a little of it with our politicians, right,
Speaker 1: Like Trump doesn't really he's he he doesn't really drive
Speaker 1: a garbage truck, but he didn't pretend like he did.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean, Ross, I think you
Speaker 1: actually brought this point up.
Speaker 3: I mean it was hilarious.
Speaker 1: I mean that he wasn't doing it because he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just a garbage truck driver, right, which
Speaker 1: is Tim Wallas like, I'm just a sports fan. It
Speaker 1: works on my truck.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: Also, I mean, it was like a brilliant campaign strategy
Speaker 3: from the Trump campaign, because on the other hand, you
Speaker 3: had Kamala Harris dressed up with that brown suit looking
Speaker 3: like Hitler, screaming at the podium about how Trump was Hitler.
Speaker 3: And then the next frame, the next story is Trump
Speaker 3: driving the garbage truck being funny like that doesn't look
Speaker 3: like yes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not. He wasn't doing it because he's like,
Speaker 1: this is me. He everyone knows who he is, Like
Speaker 1: he's a guy who's never gonna have to dip fries. Right,
Speaker 1: But they're fine with it because it's it's it's authentic
Speaker 1: in the sense that you're doing it for a lark
Speaker 1: like JD.
Speaker 3: Vance. He comes across as authentic, right, yeah, and then
Speaker 3: he's on THEO vonn or did he do Rogan? I
Speaker 3: can't remember. I think he did, but yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: not ov. He came across as super authentic or he
Speaker 3: seems sitting down with the troops. He seems authentic. And
Speaker 3: it has nothing to do with race. You have a
Speaker 3: lot of people that would vote for h what's your
Speaker 3: name up in Virginia win wins seers. Yeah, yeah, she's great.
Speaker 3: People like her. Has nothing to do with race man,
Speaker 3: And that's like a thing they really have to start
Speaker 3: to understand it has People didn't vote against Kamala because
Speaker 3: she was black or whatever. They didn't vote for her
Speaker 3: because they like her policies.
Speaker 1: And once you inject it, the accusation is out there.
Speaker 1: So you you create an almost impossible situation flipping people
Speaker 1: because the first thing you've said about him is I
Speaker 1: know you're racist, but and people at that point people
Speaker 1: dig in ross. How many times have you dug into
Speaker 1: a point just to spite somebody?
Speaker 3: Oh, just for fun?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well yeah, so like you really could be either way,
Speaker 1: but then somebody said something to annoy you, so you're
Speaker 1: just what do they call it? Malicious compliance?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: A lot of time back in the day, especially, I
Speaker 3: would just do something out of spite.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, oh even I still do it. Man, how
Speaker 1: many times I talk about this? How many times are
Speaker 1: you out of sales person you were more than willing
Speaker 1: to do a bunch for and then they just they
Speaker 1: made it such a circus that you had to invoke,
Speaker 1: you know, basically the process.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I've ever done that, because I'm
Speaker 3: an extreme team player and my work ethic is impeccable
Speaker 3: and I'm really yeah, anyway, I'll endorse anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that was probably not the best example, but
Speaker 1: you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: No, yeah, no, I do. I do.
Speaker 1: Where it's just like, all right, you made this such
Speaker 1: a circus and it's such a waste of my time.
Speaker 1: I'm invoking the you got to have it to me
Speaker 1: twenty four hours in advance thing, you know, or whatever
Speaker 1: your job is where you're you're more than willing to
Speaker 1: be flexible. You're willing to acqui as if it makes sense,
Speaker 1: You're willing to listen to the other person, and then
Speaker 1: they kind of insult you and they can't understand why
Speaker 1: you're not coming around to their point or doing what
Speaker 1: they want. So you know, there's a little joys in
Speaker 1: life right there, but not here because work ethic and
Speaker 1: all that stuff.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, that's us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, raced agic super work ethic.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they'll even be here tomorrow and Monday. How's that
Speaker 5: for work?
Speaker 1: I don't believe you, But okay, we won't be here Monday.
Speaker 1: We're all well next week by the way. Oh see
Speaker 1: talk about work ethic. Geesh, Oh really you want to
Speaker 1: get into this, you want to touch on this.
Speaker 5: Well, that's good because I've got graduation next week, so
Speaker 5: I'll be out a few days too, so that works out.
Speaker 1: Well. Wait, so you were like, oh, it'll be here Monday,
Speaker 1: No I won't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well i'll be here Monday, but I won't be
Speaker 5: here Friday. Yeah, it's overrated anyway, work ethic.
Speaker 3: See where that got us?
Speaker 1: Hear you? Yeah, I see where.
Speaker 3: That got us?
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, all right, well, yeah, work ethic your way
Speaker 1: through a forecast, and then we'll go and yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're in good shape so far. Today showers, thunder
Speaker 5: showers just entering the southwest corner of the state, so
Speaker 5: they got a ways to go. I think the best
Speaker 5: chance is going to be try it west as we
Speaker 5: had yesterday, although some are around the triangle did get
Speaker 5: some showers, a lot of sunshine otherwise with some clouds.
Speaker 5: Mid upper eighties today, Tomorrow mid upper eighties with a
Speaker 5: little better chance of showers the thunder showers in the afternoon.
Speaker 5: Saturday and Sunday do look a little unsettled. Got this
Speaker 5: front approaching, It's gonna kind of hang around, gonna bring
Speaker 5: scattered showers thunderstorms each day, better coverage, better chances than
Speaker 5: today and tomorrow. It still doesn't mean, it's going to
Speaker 5: rain all day.
Speaker 1: But be prepared. If you say, well, if you get
Speaker 1: one round of.
Speaker 5: Rain to go outside, and you say, let me see
Speaker 5: if I get back out there, you know, eyes and
Speaker 5: ears to the sky.
Speaker 3: You may get rain again.
Speaker 5: You may not, but there is going to be at
Speaker 5: least a little bit more rain, and we may see
Speaker 5: some of those showers carry into next week with some
Speaker 5: cooler temperatures by Sunday. We're only in the seventy. Same
Speaker 5: thing for Monday and to get on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, thank you sir. We'll talk to you
Speaker 1: to see you tomorrow. Yeah, all right, raced agic there. Jeff
Speaker 1: Bellinger coming up next. Hang on from Jeff. What's going on?
Speaker 3: Well, morning, casey.
Speaker 10: Well for Wall Street, April was volatile right to the
Speaker 10: very end. The stocks were deep in the red at
Speaker 10: the start of yesterday's trading, but the major averages ended mixed.
Speaker 10: The Dow and the S and P five hundred closed
Speaker 10: modestly higher than ASDAK declined, but by less than a
Speaker 10: tenth of a percent. Better than expected quarterly results from
Speaker 10: Microsoft and Meta Platforms may have set the stage for
Speaker 10: some early gains when the markets open this morning. Futures
Speaker 10: are higher right across the board. Now, the OW futures
Speaker 10: are up two hundred seven points. Apple and Amazon are
Speaker 10: scheduled to report after the market's closed today. There was
Speaker 10: a significant increase last week in the number of workers
Speaker 10: signing up for unemployment benefits. The Labor Department counted two
Speaker 10: hundred forty one thousand new applications. That was eighteen thousand
Speaker 10: more than the week before. General Motors said this morning
Speaker 10: that exposure to tariffs will cost the company as much
Speaker 10: as five billion dollars. The automaker slashed its profit outlook
Speaker 10: for the year. The potential hit to a GM among
Speaker 10: the biggest revealed so far by any company since the
Speaker 10: start of the train War. The nation's toy makers may
Speaker 10: come to regret decisions they made years ago. The companies
Speaker 10: fired a lot of American workers and outsourced manufacturing to China.
Speaker 10: Now nearly eighty percent of the toys sold in the
Speaker 10: US are made in China, and the companies are worried
Speaker 10: about President Trump's tariffs. The Toy Association says members that
Speaker 10: can't afford to absorb the levies will have to raise
Speaker 10: their retail prices or discontinue some products.
Speaker 1: That may mean shortages for the holidays.
Speaker 10: And Casey, Starbucks been upgrading its doors, but the cost
Speaker 10: is taking a big toll. CEO Brian Nicol told staffers
Speaker 10: the company has been spending as much as one million
Speaker 10: dollars on each remodel. Nichol says future coffeehouse facelifts may
Speaker 10: be much less drastic. If a store is in good shape,
Speaker 10: he says, it may just need some fresh paint and
Speaker 10: new furniture.
Speaker 1: Casey, a million dollars per location, is that what you said?
Speaker 10: Yeah, eight hundred thousand, two million dollars each.
Speaker 1: Weektish model called North Hills, just down the road from
Speaker 1: the station. I think, what is there three Starbucks over
Speaker 1: there that you could literally see from each other, So
Speaker 1: that maybe that's more of the issue. So one on target,
Speaker 1: one up on the square, and one over on the
Speaker 1: other side. Okay, all right, well there you go. All right, thanks, Jeff,
Speaker 1: appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Okay, have a good day.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep, there you go. Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg News. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think there's three over there in North Hills, one
Speaker 1: over by the Total Wine, one in the little square thing,
Speaker 1: and one in that target. I've never I'm not a
Speaker 1: Starbucks person. But but people are that's that's probably your
Speaker 1: your heaven over there, all right? Check this out, New
Speaker 1: York Times. This headline You're ready a hot accessory at
Speaker 1: the intersection of faith and culture. Oh, New York Times
Speaker 1: writing about faith? Whatever? Could it? Be? Seen on influencers?
Speaker 1: Is the subheadline seen on influencers, pop stars and White
Speaker 1: House staff cross necklaces are popping up everywhere? What have you, guys?
Speaker 1: As the New York Times, do you guys know any Christians?
Speaker 1: Do you know? I'm like, this is not a new thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know. Like the the affinity
Speaker 1: for writing stories that demonstrate your complete ignorance of anything
Speaker 1: outside of your bubble is staggering to me. Like this
Speaker 1: is along the lines of that article where they're like
Speaker 1: gen z figuring out cool new way to save money
Speaker 1: on living living together with non relatives. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's called roommates, all right. So they wrote a whole
Speaker 1: story about how you ready for this? People who are
Speaker 1: of the Christian faith sometimes wear crosses. Blew their mind? Yeah, apparently,
Speaker 1: and I understandably so. With the current White House Press secretary,
Speaker 1: she has that thing front and center. That's her faith.
Speaker 1: But also how weird is that that you don't know
Speaker 1: that the people some not everyone, but people wear crosses
Speaker 1: who are a Christian. Sometimes they were really nice ones.
Speaker 1: And you can even get them iced or whatever they
Speaker 1: or they stick all the diamonds on it. You get
Speaker 1: anything you want. But people wear crosses and I don't
Speaker 1: always have them out basically she does. And then the
Speaker 1: pillow guy right and the commercial he had his out there.
Speaker 1: I remember people making fun of him, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't understand. If you see some dude in Yamica,
Speaker 1: you're gonna make fun of him. Like sometimes people wear
Speaker 1: a little you know, their faith literally on their well
Speaker 1: not on their sleeve, but on their neck or on
Speaker 1: their head or whatever it is. But no, they wrote
Speaker 1: a whole damn article about this thing on red carpet
Speaker 1: social media and protests by high ranking Democrats necklaces with
Speaker 1: cross pendants. Well maybe that's the story. The Democrat protests
Speaker 1: they're gonna wear cross necklaces. You may ask them if
Speaker 1: they know what it means, but holy literally holy cow man.
Speaker 1: Uh so uh there you go. They you guys should
Speaker 1: get one Christian and one person from Flyover Country. In
Speaker 1: your newsroom because you all just look stupid. Okay, and
Speaker 1: then real quickly, the whole Cogan thing we couldn't figure out,
Speaker 1: Now we figured it out. You remember the weird audio
Speaker 1: from earlier this week where it's just Hogan and you
Speaker 1: know we told you yeah, so uh it is not
Speaker 1: a podcast, but rather it's called Real American Freestyle Wrestling.
Speaker 1: They're they're creating a new sports venture Ross you pumped,
Speaker 1: super excited.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, I've thought it over and I'm not.
Speaker 1: Oh no, oh no