Speaker 1: On the show this morning. It is Thursday, and you
Speaker 1: know it is a perfect day. Is Thursday, you know,
Speaker 1: is for us to have our official NERD correspondent, Stevie
Speaker 1: Kent joining us. Sorry, just some weird thing going on
Speaker 1: over by my processor there. What is okay? All right? Ah,
Speaker 1: I'm like it's gonna be electrical fire. I'm gonna die. No,
Speaker 1: there's just a piece of paper left over there that
Speaker 1: I guess the Breeze editor the acy hit it. All right,
Speaker 1: So anyway it is we got Academy Award news. They're
Speaker 1: jacking with Spider Man. I think we mentioned that on
Speaker 1: the show, and apparently for a moment. The Star Wars
Speaker 1: nerds are happy because the new and Or is hit
Speaker 1: Disney Plus or I guess not new it's season two,
Speaker 1: but the new season of and Or Ross. You've been
Speaker 1: pretty negative on a lot of recent Star Trek stuff.
Speaker 1: This is the one you like, right, yeah, no Star Wars, right,
Speaker 1: or Star Wars. I'm sorry to say Star Trek. Well whatever,
Speaker 1: they're probably Matt too, Yes, Star Wars.
Speaker 2: That was a joke anyway. So yeah, so you know,
Speaker 2: I haven't been that complimentary in the past of recent
Speaker 2: or new Star Wars correct. We watched and Or season
Speaker 2: one this past fall, Marky and I and we watched
Speaker 2: the whole thing, and I really feel and I mean
Speaker 2: this completely. I think it's the best Star Wars content
Speaker 2: since Empire Strikes Back.
Speaker 1: Wow, it is so good, even the middle three. Huh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so different than what we've seen. It's a
Speaker 2: good story. It starts off the first season. I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna spoil too much if you haven't seen it, because
Speaker 2: when I first came across it, I thought and Or
Speaker 2: was the name of a planet. It's the name of
Speaker 2: the dude that's in the movie Rogue one, and that
Speaker 2: movie is about stealing the plans for the Death Star.
Speaker 1: And then and that's a pretty good movie. It's it's
Speaker 1: not their best, but it's okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they handed off to Princess Leia in
Speaker 2: a New Hope and that's the end of that story,
Speaker 2: right right, So I directly precedes the originals. Yes, it
Speaker 2: starts off as like a heist and then it turns.
Speaker 2: The first season turns into like a prison break story
Speaker 2: and it's just so smart and it's so Season two
Speaker 2: came out and Steven knows I'm a big fan of
Speaker 2: and Or, and he sent me a text yesterday that was, like, dude,
Speaker 2: season two is out. The first three episodes are up.
Speaker 2: We watched one last night. I am such a fan.
Speaker 2: Like if you've been looking for old Star Wars, this
Speaker 2: is it. In fact, I would say there's a character
Speaker 2: in it the two seasons named Luthan, and he's sort
Speaker 2: of like the dude. He's the guy that starts the rebellion.
Speaker 2: He's the brain behind the initial rebellion. I think he's
Speaker 2: my favorite Star Wars character ever ever. And he's played
Speaker 2: by the older scarsguard guy, the guy that was in Dune,
Speaker 2: played the big fat white emper guy.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, ye yeah.
Speaker 2: I played Professor Lambeau in the Goodwill Hunting Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: he's such an amazing he's I think he's my favorite
Speaker 2: character ever in all Star Wars. Oh wow. I give
Speaker 2: it a big ten out of ten. I love this show.
Speaker 1: Do you think that your favorite character selection might be
Speaker 1: colored by the attitudes of perhaps the main character of
Speaker 1: Star Wars, mister Skywalker there because the actor is such augh.
Speaker 2: You're right, it does hurt it. It does hurt him
Speaker 2: a bit. But yeah, I don't know. Man, it's so great.
Speaker 2: There's a scene in it, and it's so hard not
Speaker 2: to spoil this show because I'm I actually enjoy it.
Speaker 2: But You've got asked Stephen about this, so this might
Speaker 2: be a s okay no, because listen, there's a scene
Speaker 2: in it where the guy that I like, his name
Speaker 2: is Luth and like I said, he's up in space
Speaker 2: and he's surrounded by the bad guys, like they have
Speaker 2: a big old one of those ginormous star destroyers whatever
Speaker 2: it's called that we see in the beginning of a
Speaker 2: New Hope, you know, it flies over the level ship
Speaker 2: comes out, you know, on the screen. So they get
Speaker 2: his ship and he somehow gets away and they send
Speaker 2: tie fighters after him, and this thing happens that I've
Speaker 2: never seen before in Star Wars, where out of the
Speaker 2: wings of his ship or whatever are these giant laser
Speaker 2: beams that come out that look like giant lightsabers.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say, a giant lightsabers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it spins and circles and cuts the other
Speaker 2: ships in half. And I'm like, why, why, why have
Speaker 2: why do the other ships have this?
Speaker 1: Well it's dude, look, you got budgets, okay, right, not
Speaker 1: everything can be an F eighteen. Do you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Stephen tried to explain it to me and he's like,
Speaker 2: you know, Luthen is just he has these resources, so
Speaker 2: not everybody would have that. But I'm like, Steven, those
Speaker 2: are giant lightsabers that they put on the end of
Speaker 2: the wings of his ship, and he's like, no, actually,
Speaker 2: it's not a light shaberg dude, come on.
Speaker 1: That's why I was just gonna ask this because people
Speaker 1: have been critical of some of the expansion of the lightsabers,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, in the past.
Speaker 2: Steven has been as well. Remember he was talking about
Speaker 2: I guess there was some show or something where they
Speaker 2: used a lightsaber as like a helicopter, like they spun it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's been so many dumb ones, so
Speaker 1: I'm trying to envision this. So it looked like who
Speaker 1: was it, count Dooku? Right, remember the scene because he
Speaker 1: could spin, right, was it Doku was?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, no, no, no, that was grievous.
Speaker 1: Oh grievous. I'm sorry, but yeah, I remember I was spinning
Speaker 1: his lightsabers and they look like a process. So they're
Speaker 1: doing that off the wings of a tie fighter.
Speaker 2: No, it's just it's some sort of rebel ship regular ship, okay,
Speaker 2: you know. And it's just like he has wings in
Speaker 2: space because they's what you do, apparently, and out of
Speaker 2: the right and the lyft giant lightsabers pop out of
Speaker 2: it and his spins and circles and cuts everybody in half. Okay,
Speaker 2: it's amazing. All right, anyway, great show? Watch it you
Speaker 2: want one?
Speaker 1: Huh? Is that what this is about? Do you want
Speaker 1: to get an endorsement for giant spinny lightsabers? Okay? Did
Speaker 1: I see somebody posted there's two things? One is really dark?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I saw Steven posted
Speaker 1: there you when you sent me what Steven was your conversation?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he did reference it. Yeah, I haven't gotten there yet.
Speaker 2: We just watched one episode, so.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to get into that.
Speaker 2: Uh, maybe he'll have a way to bring it up
Speaker 2: that isn't like, you know, oh dark.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, And I'm sorry. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to him at eight oh five. I don't mean to
Speaker 1: be uh secretive here, but I'm still thinking about it.
Speaker 1: And then did I see some character on and Or
Speaker 1: who is the Predator.
Speaker 2: Uh no, I thought what you saw was the actual
Speaker 2: new Predator.
Speaker 1: Okay, then, so somebody miss labeled. That's why I was
Speaker 1: going to ask you because I couldn't replicate the picture
Speaker 1: I saw on Twitter this morning.
Speaker 2: Because I saw yesterday and somebody said it's the new Predator.
Speaker 2: I assumed it was the new Predator. But maybe it's
Speaker 2: in episode two or three of Andor that I haven't
Speaker 2: gotten to yet.
Speaker 1: It's the new Predator. If Helen Keller made the.
Speaker 2: Mask, the dreads are gone.
Speaker 1: It's so bad, like even the face looks cheap.
Speaker 2: And they turned the Predator into a soy boy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, possible, get him some glasses and uh and uh
Speaker 1: lower his tee and uh. You know what he could do.
Speaker 1: He could run for Congress. So oh, all right, so
Speaker 1: let me do this because Ross is laughing. You're gonna
Speaker 1: be laughing. So some dude for who decided he's going
Speaker 1: to quit the FBI. I'm sure not at all, because
Speaker 1: the you know, the jig is up, but it is
Speaker 1: going to run for Congress. And he made the cringiest
Speaker 1: campaign announcement video. It's very high production value, but that
Speaker 1: can't make up for the weakness of the candidate, right,
Speaker 1: and also it's a lie, and I will prove it
Speaker 1: to you coming up next here on the CaCO Day
Speaker 1: radio program, laughing. At first, I thought it was a
Speaker 1: parody because I saw it embedded in somebody else's tweet
Speaker 1: and then you have to go back to figure out
Speaker 1: the source there by clicking the little thing under it.
Speaker 1: And I thought it was a parody, mocking portions of
Speaker 1: the FBI who spent all their time trying to get
Speaker 1: Trump right. But it's not, it's not. It's real. It's
Speaker 1: a man by the name of here we go, John Sullivan. No,
Speaker 1: not that John Sullivan. This John Sullivan. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: play this for you right now. This is the this
Speaker 1: is his coming out commercial. Right, Hey, I'm leaving the FBI.
Speaker 1: Did I mention I had worked at the FBI and
Speaker 1: I'm leaving and now I'm running for Congress up in
Speaker 1: let's see, this would be New York seventeenth that currently
Speaker 1: there's a Republican in there, but it's very close district,
Speaker 1: so that he's going to go challenge him. Left his
Speaker 1: job at the FBI. Okay, you ready for the audio
Speaker 1: because it's it's a whole vibe here we go.
Speaker 3: We're up against some serious threats right now, from skyrocketing
Speaker 3: costs to Trump and billionaires corrupting our government. And I
Speaker 3: can't just sit on the sidelines and watch.
Speaker 1: And by the way, the whole theme is seen is
Speaker 1: the whole scene is themed as like he's emerging from
Speaker 1: the shadows secret agent. Okay, just go with me on this.
Speaker 3: Because for seventeen years I was an FBI intelligence analyst
Speaker 3: working in secret to keep us safe from global threats
Speaker 3: and the insurrectionists who stormed our capital. But now that
Speaker 3: the threat is coming from inside the White House, I
Speaker 3: had to leave the FBI and step forward so I
Speaker 3: can finally tell you who I am. Hi, I'm John No,
Speaker 3: I can say that now. I'm John Sullivan. I'm a dad,
Speaker 3: a husband, a public servant, and a cancer survivor, and
Speaker 3: I'm running for Congress. For years, I fought for you
Speaker 3: in secret, and now I want to keep fighting for
Speaker 3: you in Congress. I'm John Sullivan.
Speaker 2: Classified.
Speaker 3: It's not classified, John Sullivan for Congress.
Speaker 1: Okay, you probably have a vision in your head. Is
Speaker 1: he a ginger too? Kind of like I can't tell,
Speaker 1: but the untouchables he is not? All right, Ross I
Speaker 1: have a question, because I can debunk this whole thing.
Speaker 1: Would you go to the tweet his tweet that I
Speaker 1: sent you, click through and go to his his actual
Speaker 1: profile page. All right, I was going to do that.
Speaker 1: I'm look, I'm the I'm gonna do some FBI work
Speaker 1: for you right here. Okay, it's gonna be very quick
Speaker 1: and I feel like we'll prove my point. Sorry, you
Speaker 1: had the profile page.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm on his page.
Speaker 1: How long has his account been active for?
Speaker 2: April twenty eighteen?
Speaker 1: What's his title? What's his handle?
Speaker 2: FBI underscore Sullivan super Secret. So you're telling me you're
Speaker 2: not going to vote for low T jackal deep state guy?
Speaker 1: I mean, he did do it treason. So I don't know.
Speaker 2: This guy is so dumb. He doesn't even know that
Speaker 2: an insurrection didn't happen.
Speaker 1: His guy has been in get Trump mode since he
Speaker 1: probably joined the FBI to go in get in Trump mode.
Speaker 1: And so you got to ask yourself if if he
Speaker 1: felt the need to serve during the first term, to
Speaker 1: you know, attack the threat from within the White House,
Speaker 1: as he put it, why would he be getting out now?
Speaker 1: Wouldn't this be his prime time? That's weird. Huh. If
Speaker 1: he feels so passionately, so strongly about this and he's
Speaker 1: up in there, why would he flee with his tail
Speaker 1: tuck between them.
Speaker 2: He just comes across as so partisan. I'm so thankful
Speaker 2: he's no longer in the FBI, and it's scared. I
Speaker 2: think that he's the type of guy in the FBI. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and there's and there's a bunch of these dudes he's
Speaker 2: going after, you know, he's classifying parent teacher meeting.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, yeah, school board people who comment.
Speaker 2: Going after memours and people that walk through open doors.
Speaker 2: And it said, dude, it's.
Speaker 1: So And then the whole theme of the ad like
Speaker 1: he's the you know, like he's the guy handling all
Speaker 1: this secret Jack Ryan.
Speaker 2: Right now, he doesn't have to tell us that he's
Speaker 2: an analyst like you could, but even like, you know,
Speaker 2: Jack Ryan was an analyst in the the time Plans stuff.
Speaker 2: But listen, we dude, we're looking at We know you're
Speaker 2: not in the field. Okay, we know you're not the
Speaker 2: guy doing the things. You're the guy.
Speaker 1: Well he didn't help discover the bees with the black boys.
Speaker 2: I'm well, okay, you mentioned that I've been saying for
Speaker 2: a while, for a long for the longest time. I
Speaker 2: believe the FBI needs to go back to how it
Speaker 2: was in the nineties, where all they do is investigate
Speaker 2: aliens and serial killers. That's what they need to be
Speaker 2: focused on.
Speaker 1: Wow, occasionally they do murder a church full of people
Speaker 1: in Texas, so there's that. That'd be fair. They murdered
Speaker 1: one of theirs first, but it turned into a whole thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so what about Oh what Okay, so serial killers aliens? Right,
Speaker 1: those are the two divisions you want. Yeah, can we
Speaker 1: throw actual terrorism on there, because somebody's got to handle
Speaker 1: when some guys, like because they just arrested some guy
Speaker 1: in Minneapolis who was getting ready to commit a mass stationalty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the completely Yeah they should be up in the list.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but but real deal, what about serial killing aliens?
Speaker 1: Hold on that we're also wanting to commit mass casualty
Speaker 1: terrorism events?
Speaker 2: Yeah that we put that in the top tier.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's so probably where this guy wouldn't work because
Speaker 1: I don't think he was probably the best.
Speaker 2: This is the guy where every time there'd be a crime,
Speaker 2: they'd be like, oh, he was on a radar, So
Speaker 2: how good are you at looking at the information you had.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well he's an analyst, man, he is the deep State.
Speaker 1: He one hundred one thousand percent. And I think, look,
Speaker 1: he's only jumping ship now because he realizes, he realizes
Speaker 1: that he did some stuff. That's my theory and the
Speaker 1: only way he's gonna be able to it's It's a
Speaker 1: lot harder to go after a member of Congress than
Speaker 1: some some sad, little low t ginger dude.
Speaker 2: It's imagined voting for Lake Peter Struck, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean? Oh, I bet their besties. I bet they talk.
Speaker 2: Oh you know they've texted for sure.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well, you know Peter Struck does like the
Speaker 1: text so and his and his chick. So I wonder
Speaker 1: if Peter Struck sent the same kind of text though
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. Peter Struck is literally
Speaker 1: a demon, so like dude, that was one that was
Speaker 1: one of the craziest, and I know the memes still
Speaker 1: out there, but just one of the craziest set of
Speaker 1: eyes I've ever seen. And it was in front of Congress.
Speaker 2: Right, the freeze frame of him or the SlowMo video
Speaker 2: of him talking in front of Congress, And you're right,
Speaker 2: it did look completely demonic. Yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 1: You know, by the way, and ladies, I hate to
Speaker 1: say this, but generally dudes don't win the crazy eye contest.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's just because women emote
Speaker 1: more emotion or whatever, but this guy's given anything I've
Speaker 1: ever seen a run for his money. So anyway, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll vote for him if you're in the seventeenth District
Speaker 1: of New York wherever the heck that is, I don't
Speaker 1: know where that is. And also, dude's been living in
Speaker 1: uh his de FBI analysts, he's been living in DC
Speaker 1: for eighteen years and he just goes up and runs
Speaker 1: in New York. How does that work? Oh wait, Hillary Clinton,
Speaker 1: I forgot it works fine up in New York. So
Speaker 1: that's the thing, So go check it out. It really
Speaker 1: I can't ross and I have tried to do it justice,
Speaker 1: but it's so much worse if you watch the video too.
Speaker 1: A lot of different things going on there. Uh do
Speaker 1: do do?
Speaker 4: All?
Speaker 1: Right? So oh where do I Where do I start?
Speaker 1: By the way, people are sending me all their FBI
Speaker 1: jokes here, No, no, no, all look in all seriousness
Speaker 1: with that dude. That is exactly the that's exactly the
Speaker 1: problem in the FBI. I know Peter Struck was the
Speaker 1: face of it, but it's a thousand dudes like that guy.
Speaker 1: He's clearly hyperpartisan. He's lying to you saying that you know,
Speaker 1: it's so secret what he's doing. Uh, that it's so
Speaker 1: secret that he has a Twitter handle with FBI in it,
Speaker 1: that he's been super active since twenty eighteen. So like
Speaker 1: the whole narrative of the whole thing is BS and
Speaker 1: I firmly believe he's getting out because he realizes that
Speaker 1: he has he has operated in a way that is
Speaker 1: that is going to be unacceptable, and who knows, maybe
Speaker 1: even finds himself embroidered. It's actually a bit of a
Speaker 1: gamble on the part of the Democrats to uh get
Speaker 1: behind this guy as their challenger because we don't know.
Speaker 1: We hope they do something. We don't know what Patel
Speaker 1: and Bongino are doing up there, and I know that,
Speaker 1: you know, there's this big argument over the wait and see,
Speaker 1: don't wait and see. They've only been there a month.
Speaker 1: They need to get a handle on what's going on
Speaker 1: before you start, you know, you start. I don't say
Speaker 1: shooting people because I don't mean that literally, but you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, putting them out of their misery,
Speaker 1: so to speak, and maybe even criminally charging some of them.
Speaker 1: So if this dude who gives me all the vibes
Speaker 1: that he may have done things, I don't know that
Speaker 1: he did things, but did things to sidestep regulation, which
Speaker 1: we've seen a lot of this. Right. You saw what
Speaker 1: happened was struck. You saw it with Andy Witts's bucket. Now,
Speaker 1: who then, of course gets a job at CNNMSNBC, the
Speaker 1: former assistant director, right, playing fast and loose doing stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe do you think this guy was in
Speaker 1: on the attempted kidnap of the Michigan governor? I mean
Speaker 1: that thing? Is that thing? One hundred percent was FBI.
Speaker 1: Almost everyone involved was FBI. You just found a few
Speaker 1: yahoos who liked to do tactical practices in their PT
Speaker 1: cruiser and basically walk them into it. So I don't
Speaker 1: know what you could potentially dig up on this dude,
Speaker 1: but could be a problem, man, could be a problem.
Speaker 1: All right. So wow, people are sending me all sorts
Speaker 1: of stuff this morning. All right, hang on, I got
Speaker 1: stuff to get to, like betting on the Pope and
Speaker 1: and well, actually this isn't FBI, but let me throw
Speaker 1: this in here. So this is this is wild to me.
Speaker 1: Do you remember Peanut, Rip rip Peanut, Peanut the squirrel there,
Speaker 1: And it wasn't just Peanut. Uh, he had a raccoon friend, Uh, Fred, right,
Speaker 1: Fred the raccoon and if you remember, this guy had
Speaker 1: him in the house. Uh. Basically, the the warrant squad
Speaker 1: showed up from a state wildlife and everything else and
Speaker 1: they confiscated I think it's the Department of Environmental Conservationist
Speaker 1: what they call it in New York. And they showed
Speaker 1: up and grabbed him and immediately, uh euthanized him. And
Speaker 1: I don't know how how many votes that propelled. But
Speaker 1: the timing couldn't have been worse, because all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it you know, turned into you know, just ahead of
Speaker 1: the election, do it for peanut. Look at what these
Speaker 1: months these big government monsters want to do. But I didn't.
Speaker 1: It's now becoming quite clear it wasn't just like the
Speaker 1: one lady who they were kind of throwing it at
Speaker 1: her feet, driving it forward because she's just angry.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: According to Judicial Watch, there was over one hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty three pages of communications putting together the case, the
Speaker 1: strategy for the takedown. I guess if you want to
Speaker 1: call it that, the acquisition of the of a squirrel
Speaker 1: and a raccoon, they pre that's pregame. That wasn't just
Speaker 1: one person doing this as partly. This was a whole
Speaker 1: group of people that coordinated and strategized how to go
Speaker 1: murder a squirrel and a raccoon, which, let me tell you,
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, the strategy was me looking
Speaker 1: at my buddy going, amen, you wanna go hunting? That
Speaker 1: was it. That was a strategy. And if we're just
Speaker 1: you know, we're doing a little small game there when
Speaker 1: I was a little little kid. Twenty two Marlin, I'm
Speaker 1: sure many of you have one. It's a great teaching
Speaker 1: your kid to shoot gun. Love that firearm. Classic, absolute classic.
Speaker 1: I had one, My buddy had one. Outside of twenty
Speaker 1: to two fifty. If we're going a little bigger and yeah, no,
Speaker 1: this took a whole gaggle of bureaucrats one hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty three pages of communications to coordinate a squirrel raccoon acquisition,
Speaker 1: and they in it at every at every communication that
Speaker 1: mentions the postgame, what they're gonna do with them. They
Speaker 1: planned to murder them. They weren't like, well, let's get
Speaker 1: them and see, if you know, put them in quarantine
Speaker 1: and see if they develop any symptoms of rabies, which
Speaker 1: is what you would do with a pet. Maybe, right,
Speaker 1: if you got a pet and you're concerned that they
Speaker 1: might be rabies, and you have them and you can
Speaker 1: you can quarantine them and then you look for those signs.
Speaker 1: You don't just murder them and then start checking their brain.
Speaker 1: Now you might do that to astray animal that you
Speaker 1: think is rabid. That's bit of human because you need
Speaker 1: to get that information. But that's not what's going on here. Now.
Speaker 1: I understand somebody was chomped on during this, right, but
Speaker 1: it's but a bit a gloved hand. I don't even
Speaker 1: know if it drew blood or if it actually pierced.
Speaker 1: It didn't feel good. They got some jaw strength on them.
Speaker 1: Obviously they eat nuts. But yeah, man, the whole thing
Speaker 1: is weird. But one hundred and sixty three pages to
Speaker 1: coordinate the murder of a squirrel absolutely wild to me.
Speaker 1: And I just again, it just shows you the cancer
Speaker 1: that you have in so many of these government positions,
Speaker 1: whether it's you know, Captain low Ti there running for Congress,
Speaker 1: former FBI guy, or the sick people that would sit
Speaker 1: around in the state of New York and coordinate for
Speaker 1: weeks to get a squirrel just so they can murder it.
Speaker 1: Ads just wild to me, all right. A couple other
Speaker 1: things here real quick. I saw this. Of course, it
Speaker 1: is an article on wr L, but they didn't write it.
Speaker 1: It's apre the here is the headline, and it just
Speaker 1: shows you the continued level of scumbaggery. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I think that the media is going to be worse now.
Speaker 1: I think that they are so upset over the the
Speaker 1: alternative media being granted access to the White House press briefings.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw CNN out there harassing
Speaker 1: the other journalist in front of the White House yesterday,
Speaker 1: why do you think you should be here? And good
Speaker 1: on them, one of them said, because you guys all
Speaker 1: lied and people just want to get news and you
Speaker 1: failed right to their face. So good on them. But
Speaker 1: like they're so butt hed over this, and AP is
Speaker 1: so mad because remember AP was one of the two
Speaker 1: outlets that really have been getting the main focus of
Speaker 1: the Trump Remember the AAP wasn't allowed in a couple things,
Speaker 1: and it was because they refused to acknowledge, among other things,
Speaker 1: the Gulf of America, which is really rich. Because literally
Speaker 1: the Biden administration strategy for half the things they actually
Speaker 1: did do was to change the names of things, and
Speaker 1: AP dutifully went along with it. Oh, that's not Fort
Speaker 1: Bragg anymore perfect, We'll immediately, we'll immediately recognize it. They
Speaker 1: actually were recognizing the change of Fort Bragg prior to
Speaker 1: the official renaming of it. They just set it out
Speaker 1: of the President said it, and so AP is just
Speaker 1: out to get everyone in this administration. But this is
Speaker 1: particularly nasty. So the headline must damage Tesla's brand in
Speaker 1: just a few months. Fixing it will likely take longer. Okay,
Speaker 1: so what they're talking about is they're talking about the
Speaker 1: earnings call yesterday, and it is not inaccurate to say
Speaker 1: that Tesla is down from a sales perspective. However, Tesla
Speaker 1: has some things going for it that are not purely
Speaker 1: how many cars do you sell? It's not as simple
Speaker 1: as that, because Tesla, a big part of their valuation
Speaker 1: is on the advancement and the propelling forward of driverless technology,
Speaker 1: especially not just as it pertains to individuals. Cars they
Speaker 1: may buy, which arguably is among the best in the world,
Speaker 1: probably the best in the world, their newest one at
Speaker 1: this point. But how that works in a taxi situation,
Speaker 1: and how that works in a shipping situation, that's going
Speaker 1: to be the holy grail. And I know truck drivers
Speaker 1: don't want to hear this, but there's a lot of
Speaker 1: companies working on this. They want to be able to
Speaker 1: run big rig trucks with no drivers, which by the way,
Speaker 1: I don't think the public's going to be a big
Speaker 1: fan of, but that is technology they're working on. Just
Speaker 1: due to the size of those loads. Man, it makes
Speaker 1: me obscenely nervous for some to see some semi truck
Speaker 1: going down the road and there's nobody at the wheel,
Speaker 1: knowing what that thing weighs and the damage that it
Speaker 1: could do if there's a problem. So, but this is
Speaker 1: all future stuff, and so there is a large amount
Speaker 1: of the valuation of Tesla that is based on applications
Speaker 1: of their self driving technology and not just the selling
Speaker 1: of cars. So you can go ahead and report all
Speaker 1: this and you can say, hey, here's the numbers. Here,
Speaker 1: here's what the numbers were, And does it mean that
Speaker 1: Tesla is likely hemorrhaged buyers on the left. Sure, it
Speaker 1: absolutely does. There's no question that they have. But I
Speaker 1: want you to listen how they explain all of this,
Speaker 1: because they they're like, how can we say this in
Speaker 1: the nastiest way possible. Sales have plunge for Tesla amid
Speaker 1: protests and boycotts over must embrace of the far right
Speaker 1: wing views. Well, here we go again. What do you
Speaker 1: mean embrace of far right wing views? Right, that's that's
Speaker 1: the apie's code for this guy's essentially, you know, a
Speaker 1: white supremacist or you know, insert whatever whatever group they
Speaker 1: want to attach them to must clearly is embracing right
Speaker 1: wing views. There would be half the country that voted
Speaker 1: for this administration like, he's not doing anything outside of
Speaker 1: what was promised. So for you to attach far right
Speaker 1: wing views is I think them going. I think them
Speaker 1: wanting to pretend like he did a Nazi salute. And
Speaker 1: it just shows you how gone these reporters are because
Speaker 1: they're not acting as reporters anymore. You would never say
Speaker 1: far left wing views. In the opposite situation, you wouldn't.
Speaker 1: You would call it mainstream or embracing of the current
Speaker 1: administration is how you would word it, and that would
Speaker 1: be accurate. But you didn't work like that. No, no,
Speaker 1: no no, you had to go with these super scary,
Speaker 1: far right wing views. Profits have been sliced by two
Speaker 1: thirds so far this year, and rivals from China, Europe
Speaker 1: and US are pouncing. Oh we got some pouncing. And
Speaker 1: Tuesday came some relief as Musk announced in earning calls
Speaker 1: with investors he would be scaling back his government cost
Speaker 1: cutting job, able to focus more of his attention on,
Speaker 1: in fact, the you know, Tesla, although obviously he has
Speaker 1: other companies. Well, I have a question. So if your
Speaker 1: theory is that the reason auto sales are down is
Speaker 1: because of his far right wing views and people are
Speaker 1: opposed to him and not necessarily the product, how would
Speaker 1: him being more around the product in fact be better?
Speaker 1: Like that doesn't make any sense because if you're like, ah,
Speaker 1: Musk is the problem, not the product, well, then more
Speaker 1: Musk solves the problem. Like it. There's a logical fallacy
Speaker 1: in the way that you wrote this, and again they
Speaker 1: wrote it to be as nasty as possible. There's a
Speaker 1: story to tell with the numbers. There's discussions to be had.
Speaker 1: But you know, musk is to call musk embracing of
Speaker 1: far right views is to ignore that that's what the
Speaker 1: majority of the country voted for. So maybe you're the
Speaker 1: one who is far off of the norm, but of
Speaker 1: course that's how they're going to run it. So at
Speaker 1: this point, here's what I'd say if you see us,
Speaker 1: If you see a story from the Associated Press right
Speaker 1: now and it has anything to do with politics, really
Speaker 1: any social issues, just ignore it. They're too far gone.
Speaker 1: I've seen them. I don't know if you've seen them
Speaker 1: on Ross on Twitter? Do you do you see ads?
Speaker 1: I can't remember. You see ads now? Right? Associated Press
Speaker 1: is advertising for brands. This is where they are financially,
Speaker 1: and it couldn't happen to a better group of people.
Speaker 1: So I see these things and it has the Associated
Speaker 1: Press literal account and then it's like it'll say a
Speaker 1: sponsorship and then it'll be like, you know, for Jim's
Speaker 1: jerky or something, and then they's labeled AD. But you
Speaker 1: see the Associated Press logos for a moment you think
Speaker 1: there's a legitimate story there, and they're they're trying to
Speaker 1: propel that notoriety because it's the only thing they have left.
Speaker 1: They're not doing quality journalism here. And I got to
Speaker 1: tell you, I've met multiple people that have worked as AP,
Speaker 1: especially like regional AP people, over the years. I'd say
Speaker 1: two of them I thought were good journalists. The rest
Speaker 1: have been really partisan. That's just as natural attractive. And
Speaker 1: you know why because one of the things that you
Speaker 1: kind of get into, especially when you're a state AP person,
Speaker 1: is you get you help you help handle the churn
Speaker 1: of news, right because I used to when I did
Speaker 1: the reporting side of things, I would submit to AP
Speaker 1: because most you know, at that point, most radio outlets,
Speaker 1: if they had a local newsroom, were AP associates, and
Speaker 1: so I would submit stories. I would write stories about
Speaker 1: local politics where I was, and then I would submit them.
Speaker 1: And for whatever reason, it was really hard from the
Speaker 1: perspective of, you know, if you were even pretty balanced,
Speaker 1: and this was in Minnesota, to get on the state
Speaker 1: AP wire with any of your stories. They were largely ignored.
Speaker 1: And it used to frustrate me because there were three
Speaker 1: or four reporters whose stuff always got on there, and
Speaker 1: there were people like Don Shelby, who was like the
Speaker 1: big left wing TV guy who didn't write any of
Speaker 1: his own stuff. Who would get all this credit? And
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's still the process with AP,
Speaker 1: but just the first three paragraphs by writer Bernard Condon
Speaker 1: is pure garbage, pure partisan garbage. And of course Ral
Speaker 1: dutifully reprints it all right, six fifty Hang on, hey
Speaker 1: that Elon Musk what like fifth company? Neuralink is potentially
Speaker 1: going to fetch an eight and a half billion dollar
Speaker 1: valuation and this thing barely I don't say barely up
Speaker 1: and running. Obviously the technology is very advanced, but the
Speaker 1: actual implementation into people is right at the beginning. So
Speaker 1: like there's a lot of lot of what ifs that
Speaker 1: ross you. You were saying you were you wanted a
Speaker 1: neuralink when this first conversation started.
Speaker 2: Dude, Yeah, yeah, put the chip in my head. Yes,
Speaker 2: just so I'm gonna not go early adopter, because imagine
Speaker 2: if you could hack the neuralinks and you could make
Speaker 2: your enemies defecate themselves.
Speaker 1: Has anyone even considered.
Speaker 2: This, oh a poop chip?
Speaker 1: Well, it's not just a poop chip, but if it's
Speaker 1: a chip that can essentially instruct bodily functions, uh no,
Speaker 1: I mean how deep does it go?
Speaker 2: All jokes aside, Man, the neuralink stuff is really impressive.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's incredibly impressive.
Speaker 2: And its ability to help people with like spinal cord
Speaker 2: injuries in that sort of correct. Yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 2: like miraculous.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Didn't they just have a movie about this? The movie
Speaker 1: I was thinking about that kind of has some like
Speaker 1: Eurolink feel to It is called Upgrade, And it's actually
Speaker 1: more than five years It was twenty eighteen, so seven
Speaker 1: years ago. The movie came out pretty good. You like
Speaker 1: action flicks, little sci fi action ross, I would highly
Speaker 1: recommend this movie. So the premise is the dude and
Speaker 1: his wife just living the dream. He hates the new technology.
Speaker 1: He still has an internal combustion car, whereas everything else
Speaker 1: is like, you know, super high end futuristic. The car
Speaker 1: does everything. You sit in the back of the lap
Speaker 1: of luxury, and his wife. His wife is a designer
Speaker 1: of some sort I can't remember exactly what it is,
Speaker 1: and she has this mysterious, really rich client who basically
Speaker 1: turns out to be far creepier Mark Zuckerberg, if that's possible.
Speaker 1: And then the wife and husband are attacked by a
Speaker 1: gang and the wife is killed. This is all the setup.
Speaker 1: I'm not ruining anything for you. The wife is killed,
Speaker 1: he is paralyzed, and the movie really kind of kicks
Speaker 1: off from there and he gets an experimental chip attached
Speaker 1: to a spine and now he's basically Superman. So and
Speaker 1: I won't ruin anything about, you know, past that, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty pretty good movie. I don't think it's quite neuralink,
Speaker 1: but it's it's it's it's it's along the same premise
Speaker 1: because as Ross was pointing out before he made a
Speaker 1: very cryptic statement about what else neuralink could do for you,
Speaker 1: was that most of this, much of the early testing
Speaker 1: is focused on helping people with spinal cord injuries. And
Speaker 1: that's a very laudable goal right there. Is it going
Speaker 1: to make them Superman across between Superman and Neo from
Speaker 1: the matrix? Probably not, But you know, just retaining some
Speaker 1: motor function if you're a quadriplegic in the upper echelon
Speaker 1: of your body is absolutely life changing, obviously, and if
Speaker 1: it can do more that that would be great. And
Speaker 1: so that's how you get there. But there are other
Speaker 1: applications for not just how it impacts the spinal cord,
Speaker 1: but you know what could that do for the human brain?
Speaker 1: And remember they have been stymied thus far on really
Speaker 1: getting into research because one of the death by a
Speaker 1: thousand cuts things that the previous administration undertook is they
Speaker 1: basically kept they denied almost every research request from Neuralink
Speaker 1: during the Biden administration. Why do you think that is?
Speaker 1: Do you think it's because it's mad scientists and he's
Speaker 1: not safe ros Do you have a theory why Neuralink,
Speaker 1: whi's been doing research prior to Biden, was almost stopped
Speaker 1: completely for four years and is now do you have
Speaker 1: any theories there? Because some people have some theories and
Speaker 1: if those theories are correct that this was personal, I
Speaker 1: want you I want to point out that it just
Speaker 1: adds to the stack of how awful Democrats are in
Speaker 1: Washington that they would they would, for personal, petty reasons
Speaker 1: hold back one of the most promising potential pieces of
Speaker 1: technology to help people with spinal cord injuries for their
Speaker 1: own partisan reasons. And when you say it like that,
Speaker 1: that's pretty awful, isn't it. But tell me I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: And before you think, well, it's just because Trump will
Speaker 1: let him do all this doctor Mengelas stuff you have
Speaker 1: to understand that the people who were going along with
Speaker 1: neuralink and investing in neuralink and wanting to be parts
Speaker 1: of these studies are some of and they are not
Speaker 1: necessarily partisan people, and they're not even necessarily Republicans. A
Speaker 1: lot of them are college professors who probably are pretty
Speaker 1: liberal at a lot of various institutions, who saw a
Speaker 1: lot of promise with this. Meanwhile, there's no problem with
Speaker 1: the guy who's running the COVID response doing gain of
Speaker 1: function research, knowing about it and lying about it.
Speaker 2: Oh, but there is a problem with the guy pushing ivermectin.
Speaker 1: And there's a guy. Yeah, there's a problem with the
Speaker 1: guy pushing ivermectin, the thing that's one of the most
Speaker 1: prescribed drugs in the world, and not even necessarily you
Speaker 1: need a prescription.
Speaker 2: In most Nobel price winning too. Yeah, well, bringing up
Speaker 2: awards and stuff. They constantly do this on small things
Speaker 2: and bigger things, where they say they're for one thing,
Speaker 2: but they're actually for another, and they do something that's
Speaker 2: the complete opposite the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is just there's just another example. But
Speaker 1: it's just how horrible imagine sitting Imagine you're you're somebody
Speaker 1: who had because it's a very specific they're studying now
Speaker 1: is a very specific type of spinal separation, and you
Speaker 1: know it's a starting off point. But imagine you're sitting there,
Speaker 1: you're aware that this stuff's going on, and you were
Speaker 1: preapproved by the way, as some of these folks were,
Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty three study that was not allowed
Speaker 1: to be done. And imagine the hope that you have
Speaker 1: because the of the despair that you have right this,
Speaker 1: this thing happened to you, This is this, and and
Speaker 1: now here here is a possibility, and you just hold
Speaker 1: out hope for any possibility. And then you find out
Speaker 1: that this research study that you were like this, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do this right, it's anything's got to be better
Speaker 1: than where I'm at right now. It gets put off
Speaker 1: and you realize it's so that people could make partisan points.
Speaker 1: That's sick man, and frankly, anyone involved in any of that,
Speaker 1: especially if they're within the medical community, because obviously, you
Speaker 1: know Biden's got his partisan medical advisors there should not
Speaker 1: work in research anymore. You have decided, you decided, and
Speaker 1: you decided that the research didn't matter. You're partisan. What
Speaker 1: you're you're once in needs mattered, and you know the
Speaker 1: same for the people who demonize the the irom acting
Speaker 1: guy and pretended it was nothing but horse paced absolute insanity. Man,
Speaker 1: all right, Ross, what was the other thing you wanted
Speaker 1: to do with the neuralink we had to go to break?
Speaker 1: I forgot what was you had intimated something there?
Speaker 2: No, I was talking about you could download the whole
Speaker 2: Bible into your head.
Speaker 1: That's not the way you said that though. By the way,
Speaker 1: I don't know is there any is there anything in
Speaker 1: the Bible? How far along are you right now? Deuteronomy?
Speaker 2: This morning I read Deuteronomy twelve to sixteen. Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: so yeah, I'm not not at that point yet.
Speaker 1: All right, so you're not You're what three and a
Speaker 1: half books in right? Three and a half? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think I'm on the fifth book, I believe.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I numbers out of my mind.
Speaker 1: All right? So is there anything in there about taking
Speaker 1: selfies with the Pope's dead body? Why are you laughing?
Speaker 1: I never thought I have to ask this question. Vy
Speaker 1: stumbled across anything. It's been a very long time since
Speaker 1: i've you know, covered to covered the No.
Speaker 2: I don't have a I haven't come across the death
Speaker 2: of a pope yet. I haven't gotten to that point.
Speaker 2: If it isn't there, I don't know, Like I said
Speaker 2: once again, Oh there's some stuff in there. Yeah. Like
Speaker 2: I said, I'm not get to it, Joe. I just
Speaker 2: I'm not at that point. I haven't read it before.
Speaker 2: I've gotten to the death of priests like Aaron. But
Speaker 2: I know I haven't gotten to the pope yet.
Speaker 1: Did anyone take pictures of his body? I don't believe
Speaker 1: so selfies, I should say, this is why we can't.
Speaker 1: This is why fundamentally, I like, it's just it. I
Speaker 1: I'm to you know what it gives me. The vibes
Speaker 1: of remember all those pictures at Low Profiles where people
Speaker 1: are pretending the rail line at Auschwitz is a balancing beam.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're throwing up gang signs on the tracks at Auschwitz,
Speaker 2: Like what is wrong with you? But I mean, so,
Speaker 2: I know, pictures in the Sistine Chapel, like you're not
Speaker 2: supposed to take photos of it?
Speaker 1: That's oh yeah, they app they don't want, they don't
Speaker 1: want because of the flash.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've literally been inside and they do not make a
Speaker 1: secret of this being.
Speaker 2: Right, the thing so Devil's Advocate here, Yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: condone it. I wouldn't do it, but I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: you don't want to take the photos of the assisting
Speaker 2: chapel because of the art and it'll degrade the work, right,
Speaker 2: but I mean the pope's dead, right, yes, So how
Speaker 2: Lane and State in Devil's Advocate, how well taking a
Speaker 2: picture of that besides it being you know, not really well,
Speaker 2: and keep in mind that they have provided pictures of
Speaker 2: him Lane and State the the Vatican.
Speaker 1: I well, you know, here's because here's my thing. Is
Speaker 1: is it one thing to take a picture of the
Speaker 1: popeline and state and is it another thing to take
Speaker 1: a selfie? Right?
Speaker 2: Completely?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Ye mean yeah selfie? Yeah yeah, because obviously when they're
Speaker 2: parading the body around, right, they that'll be in camera
Speaker 2: or whatever they film it.
Speaker 1: Well, they don't call it parading. There's a less term
Speaker 1: for it. But okay, yes, yeah, and they actually do
Speaker 1: a proof of death, which is literally a thing. By
Speaker 1: the way, Uh, what is the I always forget the
Speaker 1: name of what that person's title is. Basically the person
Speaker 1: who's in charge of handling the popes. All right, hang on, okay,
Speaker 1: did you did you Sorry, I should know this, but
Speaker 1: as a lapse Catholic. Yeah, Carme Lingo, that's what is
Speaker 1: Cardinal Karma Lengo.
Speaker 2: And by the way, that dude, that's the guy in
Speaker 2: the in the the one Dan Brown movie that tries
Speaker 2: to blow up the Vatican, right, isn't that It's a title, yes,
Speaker 2: but he's got that title in the movie.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's the spoiler. By the way, it was that's
Speaker 1: Angels and Demons that one, right. Yeah, yeah, so I
Speaker 1: know that guy Ross has ruined the whole movie for
Speaker 1: you guys. So all right, No, so that is an
Speaker 1: actual title. It's Cardinal Carma Carme Lingo. And so basically
Speaker 1: they preside over the right. The next right will be
Speaker 1: the ceiling of the coffin, which again I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: can't remember all the Latin terms for this stuff, but
Speaker 1: I remember the process. And so like they'll seal it
Speaker 1: up on Friday evening and then Saturday it will be
Speaker 1: the funeral mass. And then so they have fifteen days
Speaker 1: from the time of the Pope's death to actually the
Speaker 1: have the the next selection process begin, and said Pope
Speaker 1: John Paul actually limited the number and the restrictions on
Speaker 1: which cardinals can even take place take part in the
Speaker 1: selection process, No more than one hundred and twenty. All
Speaker 1: of them have to be under the age of eighty.
Speaker 1: There's currently one hundred and thirty five cardinals over that
Speaker 1: age or under that age, so there's going to be
Speaker 1: fifteen that get left off anyway. But there is an
Speaker 1: American connection. So Kevin Ferrell is the Cardinal carmel Ango
Speaker 1: and he is He's Irish born, but then his family
Speaker 1: came to America. So, uh, Boston Paul is probably happy,
Speaker 1: unless he tries to blow up the Vatican.
Speaker 2: That'll then it'll be a problem. What kind of selfie movie?
Speaker 2: What kind of selfies are they taken? With it like
Speaker 2: taking with him? Or is it like are they just
Speaker 2: sort of like mournful? Are they doing like super Are.
Speaker 1: They doing duck face? Yeah? I don't, I don't. I
Speaker 1: think that they're probably they're probably not meant to be disrespectful,
Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? But I just don't
Speaker 1: think people have thought it out. Do you remember that
Speaker 1: girl who was at her father's funeral and took a
Speaker 1: selfie of herself smiling and posing in front of her
Speaker 1: dad's coffin. How much grief. She got. The thing there
Speaker 1: was not that she took a picture with her dad,
Speaker 1: because if she'd have leaned down and taken as the
Speaker 1: last photo with my father, some people would have found
Speaker 1: it weird, but I don't know they would have found
Speaker 1: it disrespectful. But for her, she struck a TikTok pose.
Speaker 1: So yeah, if somebody's doing the you know, you know,
Speaker 1: the West Side Gang sign in front of the Pope,
Speaker 1: I think you go to special hell. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. It's so I think
Speaker 1: the content, but I but there are people who just
Speaker 1: don't want you taking pictures, even just straight photos of it.
Speaker 1: They're freaking out over it. And I don't know what
Speaker 1: the line is because I think I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people and it's about what society permits. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people wouldn't think it's disrespectful, especially if
Speaker 1: you posted something like our holy you know, my holy father,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah story about the time you met him
Speaker 1: or an inspiration or whatever it is. Some people have
Speaker 1: a problem. But when you're taking selfies and you're leaning
Speaker 1: yourself into it, I think that's where most people draw
Speaker 1: the line. But like you remember that story yesterday whe
Speaker 1: the dude's getting eaten by the sharks. Maybe people videoed that,
Speaker 1: and I don't think that's disrespectful. But let's say it's
Speaker 1: your buddy getting eat by sharks and you lean back
Speaker 1: over the bow the boat and you're like hanging out
Speaker 1: with Bruce. Right, people are gonna have a problem with that.
Speaker 1: So the story needs more I need, I need more
Speaker 1: filling of the information there, because yeah, certain things are
Speaker 1: gonna be a little more disrespectful than others. Uh in
Speaker 1: this story there. Uh they describe it's entitled I saw
Speaker 1: Pope Francis's body and I couldn't believe we're taking people
Speaker 1: were taking pictures on their phones. I mean, I can
Speaker 1: we photograph everything, photograph everything, and there's a we'll tweet
Speaker 1: the story out. There's a picture if you can. And
Speaker 1: and then the picture you see obviously the picture of
Speaker 1: the Pope, but you in the foreground you see cell
Speaker 1: phone cameras held up and they're not taking selfies. They're
Speaker 1: just taking pictures of the pope line and state. So yeah,
Speaker 1: hold on was this? Yeah, here we go through the
Speaker 1: crowds filled with selfie sticks and smartphones. So clearly people
Speaker 1: were taking selfies too. What is wrong with people? Man?
Speaker 1: All right? Seven to twenty, hang on, Let's let me
Speaker 1: give you a little peek behind the curtain. I was
Speaker 1: having a conversation with a buddy of mine yesterday named
Speaker 1: Rob and so on the news. On the news, you
Speaker 1: probably see it, although it's not a top tier story,
Speaker 1: but maybe you've seen that there's a volcano in Central
Speaker 1: America decided that it want to do erupt for the
Speaker 1: last few days. And uh, that's a volcano. I've literally
Speaker 1: been up to the Coldera of and it's it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1: It looks like a moonscape down in this thing because
Speaker 1: it's just a big acid lake in it. It's the
Speaker 1: volcano is called polaz po As if you want to
Speaker 1: look up the video. It's pretty crazy. But even craziers
Speaker 1: they have like a wildlife refuge halfway up the side
Speaker 1: of this thing, which I don't know why I did
Speaker 1: in retrospect, why that's a good idea to have a
Speaker 1: zoo halfway up an active volcano. But I've literally, I've
Speaker 1: literally been up to the caldera and like you can
Speaker 1: go up there. It's a park and they don't really
Speaker 1: have railings either, which is pretty wild, but so so
Speaker 1: I saw. I was talking about that with my buddy Rob,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, and then the conversation was, if let's
Speaker 1: say that you were visiting that day when it went
Speaker 1: to erupt or whatever, you're in the general vicinity, which
Speaker 1: pose would you like to be forever entombed and mummified in?
Speaker 1: Like it's POMPEII if you got to and you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to make a quick decision, I think at that point,
Speaker 1: So Ross, let's say, because we see these crazy things
Speaker 1: from POMPEII, including the one dude looks like he was
Speaker 1: messing with himself right at the end. Uh, Rob thought heisman,
Speaker 1: I mean I should explain this. So, uh, there's a
Speaker 1: story of a volcano that's erupting and it happened to
Speaker 1: be a volcano I visited once, like years ago. Because
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, I'm gonna you go go up to
Speaker 1: the edge of a volcano. Why wouldn't you? And now
Speaker 1: it's erupting like crazy. And then so it started a
Speaker 1: conversation yesterday with a buddy of mine, like, which Pompeii
Speaker 1: style death pose do you want to be found in?
Speaker 1: Because if if you've seen anything with POMPEII. People were
Speaker 1: literally encased doing whatever the last thing was they were doing.
Speaker 1: Wasn't there one dude who had two women on either
Speaker 1: side of them? That guy was killing it, although unfortunately,
Speaker 1: uh probably he got so close and then boom Pompeii.
Speaker 1: But uh, there's some weird ones out there, and I
Speaker 1: just thought, you got to pick one if you ever
Speaker 1: find yourself, like I don't know, visiting a volcano and
Speaker 1: then it decides it's go time. But it's got to
Speaker 1: be one that that will encase you in ash What
Speaker 1: do you want your final pose to be? And now
Speaker 1: I'm getting nothing but wrestling poses ross, So.
Speaker 2: You know, I was thinking about the the Hogan post before.
Speaker 2: That was an option in my head, with the where
Speaker 2: he's listening or the which, yeah, you can do that one,
Speaker 2: or the one where he sort of like poses with
Speaker 2: his arms back. You know, he just does like the
Speaker 2: the flex.
Speaker 1: Well, you don't want to miss If you do the
Speaker 1: listening one, then people could mistake you for the Rock.
Speaker 1: And that's not a good thing right now because for
Speaker 1: some reason everyone's mad at the Rock and I have
Speaker 1: no idea why, but.
Speaker 2: I think because it was a no show at WrestleMania.
Speaker 2: WrestleMania happened this past weekend, and it was super weird
Speaker 2: because normally it'd be all over my feed, but it
Speaker 2: wasn't much to do leading up to and I guess
Speaker 2: he wasn't there for some reason. But you could do
Speaker 2: the John Cena like you can't see me, and then
Speaker 2: when they find you, they'd be like, this guy has
Speaker 2: no face.
Speaker 1: Really, so it just be like hollowed out, Like okay,
Speaker 1: all right, let's see some of the suggestions. The d
Speaker 1: generation X, move the X across the crotch. That'd be funny.
Speaker 1: You do that for sure. Or you could do a
Speaker 1: Caesar I was just thinking about that ross. How about
Speaker 1: a Caesar pose like getting stabbed or something. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: you know where you're getting your You got your thumb
Speaker 1: sideways trying to thumbs up the thumbs down that could
Speaker 1: be one.
Speaker 2: I mean like Comtist and Gladiator.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, yes yeah, And they're like, what was
Speaker 1: he deciding? Which did he choose? What does thumbs down mean?
Speaker 1: I guess it means murder everybody with the volcano. I
Speaker 1: don't know. There's lots to choose from. There's face obviously,
Speaker 1: there's ton the famous art you could.
Speaker 2: Do imagining the caes are getting stabbed. Now they're like,
Speaker 2: this guy was stabbed fifty times before the volcano went off.
Speaker 2: What bad luck.
Speaker 1: Well that's the other thing too. That's the other thing too.
Speaker 1: If if you're alone, it's one thing. If you're with somebody,
Speaker 1: you could do another. If you like, if you're with
Speaker 1: your your spouse, Yeah, you get out, you get as
Speaker 1: freaking as you want. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You could do like the dirty dancing pose, like you
Speaker 2: hold it out of your head.
Speaker 1: I was even going worse than that, but absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 1: you could do that. You're with your boys, you could
Speaker 1: recreate I don't.
Speaker 2: Know, like over the top, like arm wrestling from over
Speaker 2: the top. Yes, yeah, it'd be cool. Yeah, put your
Speaker 2: hat on backwards.
Speaker 1: You got. The point is you got to have a
Speaker 1: plan because you never know what's going to happen. Now. Probably,
Speaker 1: if you're sitting in downtown Greensboro right now, a volcano
Speaker 1: is not going to consume you today. But maybe I
Speaker 1: don't know. Remember in La where that one opened up
Speaker 1: and tried to eat who was the star of that movie? Volcano?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Why am I not remembering? Who's starting volcano, big actor,
Speaker 1: big actor. All right, now I gotta don't. You don't
Speaker 1: have to email me. I'm looking it up right now.
Speaker 1: Oh Tommy Lee was was it Tommy Lee Jones? Right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it was? Or he was in some sort
Speaker 1: of volcano movie. And that's just people are just shopping
Speaker 1: on like Rodeo and then the volcano adum, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, it might be an allusion to Hell if
Speaker 1: you think about it, considering who you're dealing with there,
Speaker 1: and Ross just pointed out during his Biblical readings, sometimes
Speaker 1: they open fissures to Hell. So it's a thing that
Speaker 1: happens that's crazy. Oh that's great. Well look at that.
Speaker 1: So apparently Hawaii's kill away of volcano also just started
Speaker 1: shooting love into the air. You may have everyone may
Speaker 1: need to plan. We may need to plan. Man, you
Speaker 1: have a multiple volcanoes getting all angry. So all right,
Speaker 1: there you go. That's our little silly side story there.
Speaker 1: Check this out. Let me let me get this by
Speaker 1: going just going back to the pope thing. I cannot
Speaker 1: tell you. Although it's because polymarket buys a bunch of
Speaker 1: ads on Twitter, the amount of the amount of gamblings
Speaker 1: going on with the h who's gonna be the next
Speaker 1: Pope is crazy. I saw a betting line, and I'm
Speaker 1: not making this up, fross. I saw a betting line
Speaker 1: yesterday where you could bet if the new Pope's going
Speaker 1: to be black? Okay, which you know, that's that's a
Speaker 1: strong Maybe. That dude from Ghana or wherever he's from,
Speaker 1: uh is is definitely. I keep seeing his name in
Speaker 1: the top three there. And then I saw another one
Speaker 1: where you could bet if the pope, the next pope
Speaker 1: is going to be gay. I don't understand things like that,
Speaker 1: but yeah, these things exist, all right. So as I
Speaker 1: scroll through here, just in the standard polymarket listing and
Speaker 1: various others, the top potential new pope continues to be
Speaker 1: the Pietro Perilin with about a third of the the
Speaker 1: betting lines going there. The dude from the Philippines, the
Speaker 1: dude another Italian dude. Are they both Italian? That's want
Speaker 1: to make sure here? Yeah, oh yeah, born in Venice,
Speaker 1: so you hah, two Italians, one Filipino, the dude from
Speaker 1: Hungary and the dude from Ghana are your top five there?
Speaker 1: So but yeah, you can go and gamble on it.
Speaker 1: And I guess is that worse or better than taking
Speaker 1: selfies with the pope. I do want to talk about
Speaker 1: this with the with the diocen here.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: We left a message, but we left a message like
Speaker 1: earlier this week, and obviously things are a little busy
Speaker 1: on Monday, so I understand that, but I really hope
Speaker 1: they call us back because I'd love to say, especially
Speaker 1: because I haven't spoken with the new head of the
Speaker 1: diocese here, the new bishop, so we've interviewed his predecessor,
Speaker 1: but love to chat with him. So we do hope
Speaker 1: to be able to bring that. We're going to reach
Speaker 1: out one more time because again, I know they're pretty
Speaker 1: busy this week, but you know, there is there is
Speaker 1: something to it. I call it morbid because a lot
Speaker 1: of people call it inspirational, and I prefer that hill
Speaker 1: One of the things that helps to grow the Catholic
Speaker 1: Church are big events like this, right And I'm not again,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to sell Morbid, but all of the coverage,
Speaker 1: all of the the the intrigue there wanting to be
Speaker 1: a part part of it, especially if you're somebody such
Speaker 1: as myself who who was raised Catholic. My family was
Speaker 1: super Catholic man like church deacons counted all the money,
Speaker 1: the whole thing, and and it can draw people back
Speaker 1: to the church. It can it can create, It can
Speaker 1: get new people who are seeking some sort of faith.
Speaker 1: Who's who who For whatever reason, just the ritualistic nature
Speaker 1: of it and all of it, it becomes attractive to
Speaker 1: them because the Catholic Church isn't always in the news,
Speaker 1: but right now they basically are the news cycle in
Speaker 1: a lot of places. So, but there's also the part
Speaker 1: where it's a little morbid that you need a pope
Speaker 1: to die to get your numbers up. I hope you know.
Speaker 1: I don't want my company hearing about that because they're
Speaker 1: always trying to incentivize us on stuff. But I guess
Speaker 1: it would incentivize the pope to really try to grow
Speaker 1: those numbers too. So AnyWho seven forty three, as mister
Speaker 1: stage at ready from the Weather Channel, Ye make that
Speaker 1: out position. How you doing there, sir? Tonight's the night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: turn somebody's year round. Somebody. I hate to be.
Speaker 2: It, man, because they have to.
Speaker 1: There are three and they have to. You either take
Speaker 1: this this defensive dude from Penn State, who likely is
Speaker 1: the next generational pass Rusher right, m hm. Probably is
Speaker 1: looks like it's easier to tell. But with the likelihood
Speaker 1: that Shadur Sanders is going to be there, and and
Speaker 1: they don't have a quarterback. I know they have Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson and uh somebody else, but like the Russell and
Speaker 1: no offense to Russell, he's just right. He doesn't have
Speaker 1: that long that long left, and and the Giants needs
Speaker 1: somebody mm hmmm. And so if you're the fans like
Speaker 1: you kind of feel like the Jets in this instance, right,
Speaker 1: do you make a bad quarterback decision or do you
Speaker 1: have all your fans hate you because you didn't take
Speaker 1: a quarterback. But I'm sure you like to see your
Speaker 1: foes struggles so well.
Speaker 4: I do, but.
Speaker 2: I never I would never pass on best available.
Speaker 1: Well when should standers? I don't know if you saw it,
Speaker 1: Like one of the team scouts said that he was
Speaker 1: literally the worst in person interview that he's yeah, the guys, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do things my way. You can all shut up.
Speaker 1: I'm sure Sanders, do you know who I am?
Speaker 5: Like, Yeah, I'm back in there too.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe there's some kind of big trade or something,
Speaker 5: but I don't think the Giants can afford to give
Speaker 5: up that pick.
Speaker 1: So well, no, like I said this, this this is
Speaker 1: a generational pass rusher from penns Yeah, but you somebody
Speaker 1: throw the ball man, all right, So well, maybe he
Speaker 1: slips to I don't know, Dallas.
Speaker 5: We'll see yeah, thanks, yeah, yeah, And it's uh maybe
Speaker 5: heading out, gonna go watch the draft somewhere whether it
Speaker 5: should cooperate. Not A bunch of rain around, a few sprinkles,
Speaker 5: a few showers kind of bumped it off a little
Speaker 5: bit today, kind of lowered the rain chances a lot.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be west and southwest, so a little better
Speaker 5: chance for the triad and out toward Asheville and into
Speaker 5: western South Carolina, North Georgia. Today martiall sun otherwise upper seventies,
Speaker 5: maybe eighty in spots Tonight mainly in the fifties to
Speaker 5: near sixty, and then tomorrow a few showers, thunder showers
Speaker 5: around in through Tomorrow night and Saturday, so it stays
Speaker 5: a little unsettleder it gets a little bit more unsettled
Speaker 5: as a cold fronts finally trying to get through, and
Speaker 5: it will by the end of the weekend. So better
Speaker 5: days ahead by Sunday, beautiful day, lots of sunshine, a
Speaker 5: cool morning than upper sixties, low seventies in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: Even warmer early next week.
Speaker 5: We're gonna run a string of days together Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Speaker 5: a sunshine and getting back into the eighties eventually. So
Speaker 5: we've been flipping it around. A bad week, had a
Speaker 5: good week, kind of a bad week this week, kind
Speaker 5: of gloomy with the wet weather around. Next week, at
Speaker 5: least the first couple of days of it are gonna
Speaker 5: be absolutely gorgeous.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we're gonna hold you to it. And uh,
Speaker 1: my boy in Ashville and I were chatting yesterday and
Speaker 1: we were we were both saying that you hedged on
Speaker 1: your reign predictions yesterday. Uh huh, And so we weren't
Speaker 1: gonna allow you to do that anymore. We're gonna, okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna put you on the record. So just know
Speaker 1: that it's a team effort here in North Carolina.
Speaker 2: It is, it is as it should.
Speaker 1: We'll call you out, bro, all right, I'm going back
Speaker 1: to you in an hour. Uh. There's some new polling
Speaker 1: numbers out that I think are rather interesting, but actually
Speaker 1: kind of seemed to pan out based on many of
Speaker 1: the protests we're seen. I'll fill you in on those
Speaker 1: in just a few minutes. And coming up eighth five,
Speaker 1: we got tons to get into with Stephen Kent, our
Speaker 1: NERD and entertainment correspondent stick around Casey O Day radio
Speaker 1: program spread or a spreadsheet I guess, or a breakdown
Speaker 1: of approval numbers with Donald Trump. And it, by the way,
Speaker 1: it makes perfect sense. I think that this is probably
Speaker 1: one hundred percent accurate because it's easily explainable, but it
Speaker 1: really shows you where we are. And what it is
Speaker 1: is an approved disapproval rating of Donald Trump as broken
Speaker 1: down by age groups. So this is not women, men,
Speaker 1: this is not R versus D likely voters. It is
Speaker 1: purely by age right. And so because the overall spread
Speaker 1: of approval disapproval currently is forty four approved, forty four
Speaker 1: disapproved percentage points and the other twelve percent apparently don't care.
Speaker 1: So that's where we are a statistical tie. It had
Speaker 1: been up to he had been up too, but now
Speaker 1: it's right there. Then they go through and they break
Speaker 1: it down by eighteen to twenty nine year olds, anyone
Speaker 1: in their thirties anyone in forties, fifties, sixties, and then
Speaker 1: the last group is seventy plus. Okay, only one group
Speaker 1: has a statistically negative opinion of Trump? Which one do
Speaker 1: you think it is? Because I think a couple years
Speaker 1: ago people would have assumed it was eighteen to twenty
Speaker 1: nine year olds. Would They'd be wrong. Trump's up two
Speaker 1: percentage points with that group. With thirty somethings he's up
Speaker 1: nine percentage points. Forty somethings he's tied. And then with
Speaker 1: the fifty somethings back up three points, sixties up five points.
Speaker 1: So you're you're asking him a way to say, how
Speaker 1: is it that he is Either he's tied in one
Speaker 1: group and up an average of about nine and a
Speaker 1: half points with the other groups. What's going on here?
Speaker 4: All?
Speaker 1: I guess, No, it wouldn't be an average nine and
Speaker 1: a half. I'm doing that, but he's up three and
Speaker 1: a half. Three and a half. You don't want me
Speaker 1: doing math. He's up. The reason that it's now back
Speaker 1: his approval is equal forty four to forty four is
Speaker 1: because for people seventy or over, Trump has a disapproval
Speaker 1: plus fourteen. So I guess, so fourteen percent under water,
Speaker 1: as they'd say, why do you think that is? Is
Speaker 1: a very obvious answer. Ross called it the moment I
Speaker 1: explained this graft to him that I was going to
Speaker 1: do this in the next segment, because you may have
Speaker 1: been for burn it down, but you don't have time
Speaker 1: for the rebuild. And so if you're if you're already
Speaker 1: in retirement right now, but of course I don't know
Speaker 1: how you've tended yourself to the whims of the stock
Speaker 1: market so much, but whatever, they're not having it. And
Speaker 1: again it kind of makes sense. Forty percent approval fifty
Speaker 1: four percent disapproval because burning stuff down and rebuilding takes time.
Speaker 1: And so the younger you are. Look, people in their
Speaker 1: thirties right now are excited about it. They're they're you know,
Speaker 1: they're over the hump. They probably started the career, they
Speaker 1: got families, but they have not built to the wealth
Speaker 1: that they may one hopefully once acquire once they get
Speaker 1: into the later working years. And so it's no surprise
Speaker 1: to me that thirty somethings are the highest approval rating
Speaker 1: for Trump because they've now got enough skin in the
Speaker 1: game and enough years in the system where they're like,
Speaker 1: this is broken. This isn't working. Something has to give,
Speaker 1: and this is what they think will do. Now, whether
Speaker 1: they're right or not, we'll find out. But yeah, there's
Speaker 1: no surprises on this graph. But I am curious for
Speaker 1: our seventy plus year old listeners. Do two thirds of
Speaker 1: your friends hate the president because like he won the demo,
Speaker 1: what did they think was gonna happen? I can only
Speaker 1: assume that they sit at home and just watch CNN
Speaker 1: all day or something. I don't know, but I but
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to imply that seventy year
Speaker 1: olds are not wise and smart in many instances, you know,
Speaker 1: like any other graphic out there, but they just have
Speaker 1: a lot more life experience. So he wins the votes.
Speaker 1: But it also explains perfectly what's going on with these
Speaker 1: AARP protests and why that's who you're able to actually
Speaker 1: get to show up. You know, they can do stuff
Speaker 1: in the middle of the day. They're upset because you know,
Speaker 1: whatever you interpret this graft to be. So again, it
Speaker 1: all plugs and fits perfectly with all of these different
Speaker 1: stories we're seeing all right, coming up, we're gonna chat
Speaker 1: with Steve and Kent here in just a few minutes.
Speaker 1: We got a few things to get into this Thursday,
Speaker 1: and fresh from not getting eaten by bears, Stephen Kent,
Speaker 1: our official Hollywood slash NERD correspondent, joins us, glad you survived.
Speaker 1: You're glamping, sir, what's up?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 4: I thought I was glamping out in West Virginia until
Speaker 4: I got food poisoning in the woods, and then it
Speaker 4: was not so glamorous, casey barely.
Speaker 1: Here's why it's better in the woods because you're never
Speaker 1: more than a foot from a bathroom.
Speaker 4: So that is so true. Every tree was my solution.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, as somebody who recently had the salmonilla, I
Speaker 1: feel for you, brother. Oh that was awful a few
Speaker 1: couple months ago. Oh, it just reminded me of it.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 1: But other than that, other than the food poisoning thing,
Speaker 1: your camp and trip was fine. You didn't get attacked
Speaker 1: by wild animals or.
Speaker 4: Nothing, only deadheads. There were a lot of grateful dead
Speaker 4: fans coming out into the woods of West Virginia for
Speaker 4: some kind of horrible, cursed festival, and you know, we
Speaker 4: could smell them a mile away. But we survived all right.
Speaker 1: Well, but surely travels. So then you got back to
Speaker 1: civilization and I know you and Ross are excited because
Speaker 1: the second season of and Or, and this is one
Speaker 1: of the few bright spots. And a lot of the
Speaker 1: recent Star Wars off people are you know, we've got
Speaker 1: series that have been canceled. I like some of the
Speaker 1: marketing for one of the upcoming projects has been very lackluster.
Speaker 1: But and Or now season two it's up. Ross watched
Speaker 1: the first episode, maybe you've watched all the three that
Speaker 1: are already up. Did they did they find a way
Speaker 1: to ruin it or were they able to keep this thing?
Speaker 1: That one bright spot in your.
Speaker 4: Opinion, Well, it's funny that you say bright spot because
Speaker 4: what and Or, by Tony Gilroy is is a dark
Speaker 4: spot in Star Wars. I mean, this is a very gritty,
Speaker 4: adult Star Wars show. It was in season one and
Speaker 4: it very much remains the case in season two. And
Speaker 4: so you know, to your point it's a bright spot,
Speaker 4: and that it's very high quality. This is very good.
Speaker 4: This is the kind of thing that can stand up
Speaker 4: next to some of the most popular TV shows on
Speaker 4: HBO and Showtime and the likes and be like legacy
Speaker 4: adult television that's a thriller. It's really really good. But
Speaker 4: it just is a show that is still divisive among
Speaker 4: Star Wars fans because they sit down, pop some popcorn
Speaker 4: and maybe somebody includes, you know, their their young children,
Speaker 4: thinking that they're just going to watch rebels fight stormtroopers.
Speaker 4: And it's just not that there's some really tough adult
Speaker 4: topics tackled in this show right out of the get
Speaker 4: go in season one and season two.
Speaker 1: Well, and let's are you comfortable talking about because this
Speaker 1: is the only thing I know about this and it yeah,
Speaker 1: we can talk about odd inclusion into it. So the
Speaker 1: very adult topic that Stephen is referring to is an
Speaker 1: attempt a sexual assault? Correct, Yeah, okay, yep, does that work?
Speaker 1: Does it feel forced? I mean, that's a horrible way
Speaker 1: to put it, but I mean, yeah, so what is it?
Speaker 4: Season season three or sorry? Season two? Episode three does
Speaker 4: feature an attempted rape of a woman by an Imperial officer.
Speaker 4: This is divisive, obviously among Star Wars fans online, screaming
Speaker 4: at each other as usual about what Star Wars should
Speaker 4: or should not be. And it's a really, really tough question.
Speaker 4: I'm sitting here with a fifteen hundred word essay right
Speaker 4: now trying to get it published on what I even
Speaker 4: think about this, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: I'm going to say that it worked for what and
Speaker 4: Door is and Door is a show that thrives on
Speaker 4: showing you the Rebel Alliance is not just some happy
Speaker 4: go lucky band of heroes. They have to do really
Speaker 4: really ugly things in order to raise money, steal gear,
Speaker 4: and advance the rebellion. This is not a show about,
Speaker 4: you know, putting on Halloween costumes of cops and robbers,
Speaker 4: imperials and rebels, and you know, thinking that Star Wars
Speaker 4: is simply just a good time. This is saying what
Speaker 4: if we took this seriously, And if we took this
Speaker 4: very very seriously, yeah, I mean you would have some
Speaker 4: some ugly stuff going on with imperial officers managing different
Speaker 4: communities and oppressing the people. This is this is part
Speaker 4: of war. And they do depick this in a way
Speaker 4: that works in that it doesn't go over the top.
Speaker 4: They don't go to eleven with this. It's more violent
Speaker 4: than it is sexual, and it is it is hard
Speaker 4: to watch, and it is new ground for Star Wars.
Speaker 1: Here's why. Here's why it does make sense to me. Okay,
Speaker 1: because you can't live in a universe or in an
Speaker 1: environment where it's it is pure canon from the word
Speaker 1: go that there is a willingness by some to murder
Speaker 1: what two billion people on alder on, right, Yeah, like
Speaker 1: the level of evil that's necessary for that. So the
Speaker 1: fact that you would have people that are willing to
Speaker 1: stand by and participate in the death, the instantaneous death
Speaker 1: of two billion people, you can't you can't tell me
Speaker 1: that the other horribleness doesn't exist.
Speaker 4: I tend to agree with that. I mean, there's a
Speaker 4: lot that goes on in Star Wars that you just
Speaker 4: sort of see it and you blink at it and
Speaker 4: you go, Okay, that's fine, that's normal. Everything from the
Speaker 4: genocide the younglings, the killing of children and episode three.
Speaker 4: You know, Anakin Skywalker's mother is abducted in episode two
Speaker 4: by the indigenous people of Tattooine, and it's pretty well
Speaker 4: implied that she was beaten and sexually assaulted in the desert.
Speaker 4: But it's all implication, and it's sort of wink wink,
Speaker 4: nod nod. But and Or Again is a show that
Speaker 4: it's first season, its first episode featured and Or looking
Speaker 4: for someone inside a brothel, basically just saying, you know,
Speaker 4: those twilak women in the bikinis that we've seen in
Speaker 4: Star Wars for decades. We should actually be clear we're
Speaker 4: talking about prostitutes here. Yeah, And so the debate, the
Speaker 4: debate is always what am I supposed to tell my kids?
Speaker 4: And and you know my answer to that as a
Speaker 4: conservative is that the whole point of parental rights and
Speaker 4: parental choice is for you to vet the things that
Speaker 4: you watch with your children. And Star Wars and Or
Speaker 4: has never been advertised as a family program. It is
Speaker 4: advertised as Star Wars for adults, and you should use
Speaker 4: good judgment. But I also grew up in the church,
Speaker 4: and I'm you know, I learned about this topic of
Speaker 4: you know, sexuality and violence and oppression when I was
Speaker 4: learning about David and Bathsheba. You know, these are topics
Speaker 4: that families do tackle at a very early age. And
Speaker 4: I actually think and Or does it in a way
Speaker 4: that works. But it will be divisive and you'll probably
Speaker 4: hear about it, folks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and if the majority of people in and I think,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you caught any of the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court hearing the other day where they were aute that
Speaker 1: whoever is the lawyer for that school district.
Speaker 4: With all the yeah in Maryland, Yeah in Maryland.
Speaker 1: Was getting absolutely torched. You can't have an environment where
Speaker 1: you say, no, it's the parents' job to teach these things.
Speaker 1: It's not the schools, which the majority of people believe.
Speaker 1: When you pull them now and then you surp your
Speaker 1: responsibility for figuring out whether you can turn on a
Speaker 1: product that you didn't do any research on that may
Speaker 1: introduce them inadvertently to it, because now it's not the
Speaker 1: stuff doing it, it's you by not you know, taking
Speaker 1: that extra moment to understand it.
Speaker 4: Absolutely and having tough conversations with kids about the things
Speaker 4: that they see is part of our role as mentors
Speaker 4: and guides to kids. I mean, I'm going back to
Speaker 4: episode six, Return of the Jedi here. You know, we
Speaker 4: all kind of laugh about slave Leo when she's abducted
Speaker 4: by a job at the Hut and put into the
Speaker 4: metal bikini and all that kind of stuff, But you
Speaker 4: should really think about that, you know, back up and
Speaker 4: go like, what was I thinking about this when I
Speaker 4: was ten years old and going all right, so he
Speaker 4: had zero well exactly, I mean, you know what you're
Speaker 4: thinking when you're you're a teenager, But when you're a
Speaker 4: little bit younger, you're like, what is he doing here?
Speaker 4: Why did he put her in this? Why does she
Speaker 4: have a chain and a collar?
Speaker 1: What is happening?
Speaker 4: But you don't really think about it in those terms,
Speaker 4: and then you grow up and you're like, ah, this
Speaker 4: is really kind of seedy and gross.
Speaker 1: Physically, I could figure out how that would work.
Speaker 4: You know, we won't even go there.
Speaker 1: But there's just a lot point out that, like that's
Speaker 1: like in your brain, you don't process how that could work.
Speaker 1: So maybe you don't think about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think so as well. But you know,
Speaker 4: these things are implied, and yeah, you know Star Wars
Speaker 4: has gone in this direction before. I don't think that
Speaker 4: what happens in Andora's particular grievous.
Speaker 1: Oh I see what you did there? Isn't that nice
Speaker 1: speaking agreement and lightsabers moving in unique fashions. The real
Speaker 1: tragedy is finding out that all this time the rebels
Speaker 1: could have had space laser rossa to come out of
Speaker 1: the wings, or it was the wings it came out
Speaker 1: of the wings. Okay, so now there's lightsabers that come
Speaker 1: out of wings, which appear to be very effective. How
Speaker 1: did this just become a thing, and why don't they
Speaker 1: have more of them? What's going on there?
Speaker 4: Oh man, Well, they're not lightsabers, they're lasers. Okay. Lightsabers
Speaker 4: are patented by the Jedi Order, and they'll come after
Speaker 4: you if you have their kyber. But I think that
Speaker 4: one of the main problems with like New Star Wars
Speaker 4: is what you're describing, is that they always have to
Speaker 4: create new things that are sort of shiny and interesting
Speaker 4: for the audience, and it makes you wonder, well, where
Speaker 4: was this technology at the Battle of Yaevon in nineteen
Speaker 4: seventy seven? Where was this technology? In Return of the Jedi.
Speaker 4: I don't like it when they do this. I mean,
Speaker 4: the beginning of and Or season two is him abducting
Speaker 4: or taking a new Imperial tie fighter and stealing a new.
Speaker 1: Kind of tie fighter.
Speaker 4: But we've never seen this tie fighter ever, ever, ever
Speaker 4: before in a Star Wars movie, and so you're just like,
Speaker 4: where was this when the Empire needed it to defend
Speaker 4: the Death Star? So you just shouldn't, I think, even
Speaker 4: bothered doing that kind of stuff. It was a pretty
Speaker 4: cool piece of technology, though it does ward off tie fighters.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, then you think, Okay, The problem is is that,
Speaker 1: you know, the Star Trek is not a fluid timeline, right,
Speaker 1: we didn't start or Star I start treking. Excuse me.
Speaker 1: Star Wars is not a fluid timeline like we started
Speaker 1: in one what we didn't start in one place, and
Speaker 1: then progressively we're just seeing more and more into the future.
Speaker 1: It's when you get into this bounce around because now
Speaker 1: if you have something that predates, you know, predates what
Speaker 1: happens in later movies, then you start asking these very
Speaker 1: troubling questions you're kind of force to and I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe they just enjoyed doing that to us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think I think that's part of
Speaker 4: the nature of these stories is going on so long.
Speaker 4: You know, storytellers kind of get bored with the story
Speaker 4: that they've been given and they start tweaking, and that
Speaker 4: does make people uncomfortable, upset sometimes very rightfully. You know,
Speaker 4: this is going on right now in the Spider Man
Speaker 4: universe with a new line of comics where you know,
Speaker 4: Peter Parker, Peter Parker is not you know, a reserved
Speaker 4: bookworm before he becomes Spider Man, but he's.
Speaker 1: You know, a criminal bully, he's a criminal, a criminal.
Speaker 4: Bully who steals beer and all this kind of stuff,
Speaker 4: you know, and that's that's not Peter Parker. You can
Speaker 4: say like, hey, that's not Spider Man.
Speaker 1: No, you can and also as do you then translate
Speaker 1: that very same type of thing to the New Spider Man,
Speaker 1: and then do you enter into that conversation about why
Speaker 1: did you make the New Spider Man who's a person
Speaker 1: of color a bully and a thief? Right? And then
Speaker 1: all the woke people get into it. So I can
Speaker 1: see this a mile away, but I got to ask
Speaker 1: you about something else I saw. I saw it, and
Speaker 1: I saw you tweet about this too, so you were
Speaker 1: equally like, what the hell's going on? I did not realize,
Speaker 1: although it does make sense maybe that if you are
Speaker 1: one of the Sagaftra voters for the Oscars, and you
Speaker 1: didn't have to watch the movies that you're voting on,
Speaker 1: and now they're like, let's make it a rule where
Speaker 1: you actually have to watch the thing you're voting on.
Speaker 1: What the heck is going on with this?
Speaker 4: It's just truly truly bizarre, you know, if for it
Speaker 4: for your audience, if you kind of haven't heard this
Speaker 4: before you know, Sagafra and the Oscars are passing or
Speaker 4: have passed a rule now that requires their judges for
Speaker 4: the Academies to have seen the films and to present
Speaker 4: stubs and evidence that they actually saw the movies that
Speaker 4: they're voting on. It turns out there never was a
Speaker 4: vetting mecha for this before. It was sort of just
Speaker 4: honor system, really, and they feel as though it might
Speaker 4: have been getting abused, which might be the only way
Speaker 4: to explain how some of our recent winners for the
Speaker 4: Academy Awards were the winners because these people just read
Speaker 4: their reviews and vote on the most popular trendy far
Speaker 4: left movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah. If anybody's ever reads Variety magazine, what's the other
Speaker 1: big hot Well, Variety is the big, big one, the
Speaker 1: big entertainment one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Entertainment Weekly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Well, but the thing that always killed me
Speaker 1: about the other one was that around Oscar voting, every
Speaker 1: ad in the magazine is an ad for that is
Speaker 1: directed at voters. It's hey, so and so Oscar voters,
Speaker 1: such and such movie did this much box office. It's
Speaker 1: super great, you should vote for it. I always thought, well,
Speaker 1: that's weird. Why would you even when I was a
Speaker 1: young radio dude, because we get that magazine at the
Speaker 1: radio station. I was like, why don't move to If
Speaker 1: they watch all the movies and are supposed to make
Speaker 1: a decision, what good would advertise you do? And you
Speaker 1: realize what a popularity contest every inch of that town is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you know, And I just think it's it's
Speaker 4: funny this This story is in entertainment weekly that you
Speaker 4: can get. You can read quotes from members of the
Speaker 4: Academy who say on the red carpet of the Academy
Speaker 4: Awards that they're bummed they haven't seen X or Y
Speaker 4: movie and they weren't able to get through this movie
Speaker 4: or that like Dune, but yet they voted anyways. You know,
Speaker 4: one of them even said, I haven't seen The Brutalist yet.
Speaker 4: I'm planning to see it, but this person already cast
Speaker 4: a vote, So they are finally changing this. I don't
Speaker 4: think that this will change the quality of the winners.
Speaker 4: The winners will still be, you know, the most likely
Speaker 4: to be unseen movies that normal people don't want.
Speaker 1: To go watch.
Speaker 4: But you know, at the end of the day, it's
Speaker 4: still a good policy change. I just didn't really know
Speaker 4: that it was a policy that needed to be made
Speaker 4: at all.
Speaker 1: All right, thirty seconds, I was blissfully unaware that the
Speaker 1: thunderbolts this new Marvel movies coming out is that they
Speaker 1: didn't put a lot of advertising into it. Do they
Speaker 1: think it's going to tank? Again? I got thirty seconds?
Speaker 1: Should people see this new Marvel movie next week?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm a big fan of making Marvel movies tank
Speaker 4: right now. I would like to see less of this
Speaker 4: garbage and thunderbolts. And maybe it's fine. I just don't
Speaker 4: really I don't really think people should go spend their
Speaker 4: hard earned money on this particular Marvel So all.
Speaker 1: Right, well, I mean, like Bucky, you'll be in there,
Speaker 1: like there'll be some people you recognize, but I'm not
Speaker 1: even familiar with the actual series there. All right, we
Speaker 1: got a roll, Steven. We'll chat next week, sir. I
Speaker 1: hope the stomach's doing better.
Speaker 4: Okay, we're living and thriving, Thank you, Casey.
Speaker 1: All right, Stephen Kent there CaCO Day Radio program back
Speaker 1: in just a few So how many times have we
Speaker 1: seen stories over the years where some municipalities that you
Speaker 1: have to take your giant American flag down? What's Camping
Speaker 1: World's response every time pound sand pound sand. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And yet the city of Greenville FA and fo'd right.
Speaker 1: And if you're unfamiliar with Camping World, I don't know
Speaker 1: how you would be. If you're in the Triangle head
Speaker 1: like you're going down towards Clayton, it's on the highway there,
Speaker 1: and then in Greensboro it's actually kind of over by
Speaker 1: the airport, other side of the airport, by where our
Speaker 1: former studio facilities were, and you will be greeted with
Speaker 1: a big old American flag. And I've never understood why.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll give you the reason that some municipalities
Speaker 1: have gone down this road. But I think it's very
Speaker 1: easy and legal to delineate the flying of flags as
Speaker 1: the American flags. Trump's found a way to do it.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's different in the public private sector, probably is.
Speaker 1: But ultimately, is it a net negative that some yahoo
Speaker 1: out of the middle of nowhere wants to put up,
Speaker 1: I don't know, a Palestinian flag because they got a
Speaker 1: big flag pole on their property. You might find it annoying,
Speaker 1: But the idea that you're trying to avoid that so
Speaker 1: you attack a business that contributes, you know, it's not
Speaker 1: like they sell cheap products. Campers are pretty expensive and
Speaker 1: they're usually big. They usually have a lot of employees,
Speaker 1: and a lot of times Camping World has multiple locations,
Speaker 1: not just from a sales perspective, but they have like
Speaker 1: repair separated repair centers and all sorts of stuff. So
Speaker 1: why you would try to sit there and harass the
Speaker 1: Camping World over a giant American flag because some America
Speaker 1: haters or butt hurt and complain to a council members
Speaker 1: beyond me? Well guess what they decided down in Greenville.
Speaker 1: They weren't going to put up with it. According to Witn,
Speaker 1: Camping World has closed one of their locations in Greenville
Speaker 1: following controversy surrounding the American flag. Marcus Lamonas is this
Speaker 1: dude's name. He's always you know, he's the CEO of
Speaker 1: Camping World, and he's always the pound sand guy. He's
Speaker 1: a guy he ain't dealing with any of this. Has
Speaker 1: reiterated his stance that they will not remove the huge
Speaker 1: flag at the Greenville location on the corner of Evans
Speaker 1: Street and Red Banks Road. I'm not super familiar with
Speaker 1: the layout of Greenville, is that that's the one on
Speaker 1: the south side there. Hold on, I do have a
Speaker 1: called up on a map here. Yeah, that's the one.
Speaker 1: That's the huge one on the south side there by
Speaker 1: the by where the Japanese. Okay, I do kind of
Speaker 1: know where. This is the shopping center we got like
Speaker 1: publics and there's Harris Teeter and Chick fil A and
Speaker 1: all of it right there. Yeah, they have a huge
Speaker 1: camping world there. That's they're going to close that bad
Speaker 1: boy because you all didn't want an American flag. So
Speaker 1: now not only will you get the giant American flag
Speaker 1: taken down, but you will also lose any of the
Speaker 1: tax revenue that you were deriving from that, and people
Speaker 1: will be out of work. I'm hoping that maybe you
Speaker 1: have a plan to move some of these employees out
Speaker 1: of there, maybe find another place. Where's the nearest other
Speaker 1: camping world from there? Probably Goldsborough. Maybe it would have
Speaker 1: to be probably Goldsborough, but you know they have one there. Yeah, Goldsborough,
Speaker 1: so not close but not that far. Oh do they
Speaker 1: have one in Goldsboro? I thought they did well whatever, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so good job city council down in Greenville. I fail
Speaker 1: to understand this stuff. And again, they're not the first
Speaker 1: city to go toe to toe. But Camping World's been
Speaker 1: pretty adamant that that's their thing, a giant American flag.
Speaker 1: And I just don't understand, Like, people, let's talk about
Speaker 1: the Triad, Like you're driving to Winston or whatever, and
Speaker 1: you know from Greensboro you got to shoot right by
Speaker 1: it on the interstate there. How is this such a
Speaker 1: pro problem for you? How are you so twisted up
Speaker 1: over a big flag that you're only going to see
Speaker 1: for a few seconds before you hit. Essentially Kernersville failed
Speaker 1: to understand it, but sure enough. M yeah, So they
Speaker 1: actually have That's what I thought. They have the Camping
Speaker 1: World RV Collision Center and then they have the main
Speaker 1: thing there. So yeah, man, people just south of the airport,
Speaker 1: people are crazy on this stuff. So a good job, Greenville.
Speaker 1: You played yourself, as they would say, all right, speaking
Speaker 1: of giant American flags, President Trump has announced that they're
Speaker 1: going to put a not one, but two nearly one
Speaker 1: hundred foot tall American flags at the White House, declaring
Speaker 1: that the presidential residence has needed flagpoles for two hundred years.
Speaker 1: Oh listen to listen to this man. And of course
Speaker 1: this is going to irritate some reporters, because you know,
Speaker 1: they hate America as far as anything having to do
Speaker 1: with Trump goes. We're putting up.
Speaker 6: A beautiful, almost one hundred foot tall American flag on
Speaker 6: this side and another one on the other side, two
Speaker 6: flags top of the line. And they've needed flagpoles for.
Speaker 1: Two hundred years.
Speaker 6: It was something I've I've often said, you know, they
Speaker 6: don't have a flagpole per se. So we're putting one
Speaker 6: right where you saw us, and we're putting another one
Speaker 6: on the other side, on top of the mounds. It's
Speaker 6: going to be a two beautiful pole.
Speaker 1: For paid for it by Trump. Yeah, that's that's a
Speaker 1: little kicker. There's he's going to pay for it himself,
Speaker 1: which I'm sure somebody will file it. I've heard some
Speaker 1: judge will file an injunction. I'm not making this up.
Speaker 1: I wonder if in the city, because you know, one
Speaker 1: of the things the city of Washington, DC has is
Speaker 1: height restrictions on stuff. Now I don't know that one
Speaker 1: hundred feet would hit it, but I also don't know
Speaker 1: what their sign and flag policy is, which is generally
Speaker 1: what these cities has been to spallodies have so and
Speaker 1: then they use them to screw with things like camping World. Uh,
Speaker 1: in this case, Trump's gonna put it a couple ross.
Speaker 1: Did you find that weird that they don't have technically,
Speaker 1: I mean, they do have a way to display flags
Speaker 1: at the White House, but they don't have big flagpoles there.
Speaker 1: They never have.
Speaker 2: I never thought.
Speaker 1: I don't know they never have, but they haven't in
Speaker 1: since I've ever seen it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I never thought. I didn't think about it until
Speaker 2: this morning, but yeah, it's super weird.
Speaker 1: And I saw one person pushback, Oh do you think
Speaker 1: people won't know that's where the president lives? And I'm like, what, really,
Speaker 1: that's your rebuttal. This is gonna be another one of
Speaker 1: those moments. It's like it's like a it's like a
Speaker 1: a trap, right, like a little uh you'd use for
Speaker 1: like trapping coyotes or something. Right, he's just sitting in
Speaker 1: the right thing.
Speaker 2: I was just thinking the same thing.
Speaker 1: This is a trap. It's a big it's a big,
Speaker 1: beautiful trap.
Speaker 2: Right, He's gonna put it up. The judge is going
Speaker 2: to be all moon back, take it down.
Speaker 1: Well, but you're also gonna have people that will protest flagpoles, right,
Speaker 1: and you'll have lawmakers you then have to go on
Speaker 1: record of objecting to having American flags at the home
Speaker 1: of the head of the country. I've I've seen multi
Speaker 1: I've been. I have seen the residents of the heads
Speaker 1: of countries in multiple different countries. I remember going in
Speaker 1: I wanted to see in Ireland, I went over to
Speaker 1: where the where the President of Ireland lives. Uh, you
Speaker 1: know what, they have their ross It's gonna be crazy.
Speaker 1: Are you ready? They have a bunch of Irish flags. Craziness.
Speaker 1: It's actually pretty cool. It's in this really nice upmarket
Speaker 1: area there. I've seen the presidential palace, if you want
Speaker 1: to call it that, in in both Columbia and in
Speaker 1: in Costa Rica and in UH Dominican Republic, I've seen it.
Speaker 1: I've seen it in UH in Europe, let's see. Well,
Speaker 1: oh no, I guess well England, I've seen Buckingham Palace
Speaker 1: and they do have they have a flag there that's
Speaker 1: actually really important. I don't know if you if you
Speaker 1: know this, So the flag over Buckingham Palace only flies
Speaker 1: when the monarch is in residence. So they actually used
Speaker 1: the flag to connote the locate you know, whether in
Speaker 1: this case the king is home because if the king's
Speaker 1: off in sadirn Ham or whatever that that estate is
Speaker 1: that they go up to, then the flag's not up.
Speaker 1: So that's how the citizens of London know that their
Speaker 1: their monarch is there, so for the US not to
Speaker 1: have one.
Speaker 2: But also like the displaying the flag is really an
Speaker 2: American thing as well though, because I've seen this before
Speaker 2: from like friends in the UK where they had they
Speaker 2: find it hard to believe how often Americans put.
Speaker 1: The flag on their like on their own on their home.
Speaker 2: And I sent a video to a buddy and I
Speaker 2: was like, you know, driving down a historic weag forest
Speaker 2: main Street there and every other house as an American flag.
Speaker 2: And his reaction was, why do you all put your
Speaker 2: flags out?
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: They don't understand it.
Speaker 1: Because we were just so we just like to remember
Speaker 1: that time we kicked your ass fifty years ago.
Speaker 2: Right, So, I mean it is purely it is kind
Speaker 2: of an American thing. Why shouldn't we have a big
Speaker 2: old flag by the by the White House.
Speaker 1: This is going to cause a freak out. It's a
Speaker 1: trap and I can't wait. I'm super excited about it.
Speaker 1: Oh Man, all right, raced Agic from the Weather Channel.
Speaker 1: He doesn't hate the flag. I think, I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe he does. So you guys do a lot of
Speaker 1: flags down in Georgia. I'm bet you do. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah there's a lot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeap of many kinds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we should probably do the weather now, all right, well,
Speaker 1: I mean it's yeah.
Speaker 5: Well let's talk about like my football flag. So we
Speaker 5: got that out with the Stone Mountain. Yeah, but I
Speaker 5: wasn't really good. You want to be painted with that brush.
Speaker 5: But I'm good that I have a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Is it work? Yeah? Yep? Wow, Okay, I think so
Speaker 1: I have more lost his wife drug him there.
Speaker 2: It's like our first time together, like one of our
Speaker 2: first dates. And we went there to Stone Mountains there parents,
Speaker 2: and I was probably try four to twenty five and
Speaker 2: I'm rocking my near Yankees hat at Stone Mountain and
Speaker 2: I felt I fell out of place.
Speaker 1: Understood understood.
Speaker 5: The more amazing things the sculpture, I don't let's not
Speaker 5: get into who cares at this point, I'm not talking
Speaker 5: about it, but just amazing how they did it.
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
Speaker 2: Like the choreography with the Lake show and stuff. It's
Speaker 2: pretty much I don't want to hear you guys, look,
Speaker 2: if you want rock sculptures, I don't even know. I'm
Speaker 2: from out west, so you like you don't even Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I don't know if you know this, ours are bigger.
Speaker 1: So yeah.
Speaker 5: Anyway, the weather, yeah, yeah, we will all right now,
Speaker 5: the better chance for any wet weather it's going to be,
Speaker 5: I'm going to say, in a line from uh Danville
Speaker 5: in southern Virginia, Greensboro and just west of Colombia into
Speaker 5: Greenville and South Carolina is already an area of showers
Speaker 5: just west of Charlotte, between Greenville and Charlotte, heading more
Speaker 5: north than it is east. So partial sunshine, mid upper seventies,
Speaker 5: maybe eighty, with another sun around the triangle and maybe
Speaker 5: a couple of showers. Especially try it in west and southwest.
Speaker 5: I really think most of the rain will stay away,
Speaker 5: especially if you're in the triangle today in points to
Speaker 5: the south and east out of here Fayetteville at Sanford.
Speaker 5: Tomorrow we will get a few showers, thunder shower, same
Speaker 5: thing tomorrow night into Saturday. Little humidity around as we're
Speaker 5: in the upper seventies to low eighties depending on where
Speaker 5: you are, and Sunday we should clear it out.
Speaker 1: Looks real nice.
Speaker 5: Starting Sunday, We'll get rid of this kind of glooming gray.
Speaker 5: And it's early next week near seventies Sunday, mid upper
Speaker 5: seventies on Monday eighty plus Tuesday, Wednesday mostly Sunday. Get
Speaker 5: a big area high pressure going to come on in
Speaker 5: so a couple of days here, still a little unsettled.
Speaker 5: Better chances of rain tomorrow and Saturday than we will today.
Speaker 5: That's Sunday, real nice. Early next week again looking real
Speaker 5: nice with milder weather.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, thank you very much, appreciate it. We'll
Speaker 1: talk to Kara. We'll come back with Jeff Bellinger next.
Speaker 2: Well morning.
Speaker 7: Case investors not resting easy after the back to back
Speaker 7: games on Wall Street. It was encouraging the President Trump
Speaker 7: took a less aggressive stance on the Federal Reserve and
Speaker 7: China trade, but analysts say they can't keep up with
Speaker 7: the shifting messages from the White House. One strategist at
Speaker 7: Freedom Capital Markets told Bloomberg every day is just uncertainty, uncertainty, uncertainty.
Speaker 7: Stock market futures are mixed right now. S and P
Speaker 7: and ASDAK futures both a little higher than Dow futures,
Speaker 7: down one hundred nine points the fed's latest BEIJ book set.
Speaker 7: The level of economic activity across the country has not
Speaker 7: changed a lot in recent weeks, but reports from several
Speaker 7: districts noted that international trade policy is causing uncertainty. IBM
Speaker 7: American Airlines Southwest Airlines from Procter and Gamble among the
Speaker 7: latest companies to say they are uncertain about the future.
Speaker 7: The nation's two biggest wireless carriers say they will not
Speaker 7: absorb higher smartphone costs resulting from tariffs. Verizon and AT
Speaker 7: and T both posted quarterly results this week. Executives express
Speaker 7: concerns about tariffs now.
Speaker 1: The tariffs are.
Speaker 7: Currently on hold, so it's too early to gauge how
Speaker 7: the life might impact the firms, but both say that
Speaker 7: if phones become more expensive, the added cost will be
Speaker 7: passed along to customers. There was an uptick last week
Speaker 7: new claims for unemployment benefits. The Labor Department reports two
Speaker 7: hundred and twenty two thousand first time applications were filed.
Speaker 7: That's six thousand more than the prior week. If a
Speaker 7: federal court forces Google to sell its Chrome web browser,
Speaker 7: the Internet giant can likely count on a huge payday.
Speaker 7: The CEO of rival search engine Duck Duck Go estimates
Speaker 7: Chrome could go for as much as fifty billion dollars.
Speaker 7: Lift is going to launch a pilot program in Saint
Speaker 7: Louis next month. The ride hailing company will dispatch standard
Speaker 7: taxis to some customers if it means a faster pickup.
Speaker 7: And Casey, Uber and Volkswagen just announced their teaming up.
Speaker 7: They plan to deploy autonomous vans next year. Casey, Okay,
Speaker 7: all right, thank you very much. Jeff Well, chat to
Speaker 7: marser a go on, Okay, sounds good.
Speaker 2: Have a good day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. Jeff Bellingcher Bloomberg News. All right,
Speaker 1: a couple of quick things where we get out of here.
Speaker 1: One ross, did you see the Business Insider AI story?
Speaker 1: Oh this is great, so Business Insider, and the guy
Speaker 1: they're quoting here is a co founder Henry Blodgett Blogging
Speaker 1: decided that he wanted to create an AI C suite
Speaker 1: to manage a newsroom as an experiment. Right, So basically
Speaker 1: think of is if Trevor and jt were AI right
Speaker 1: for our purpose, those are our program directors. What do
Speaker 1: you think the AI bot did? What do you think
Speaker 1: the first thing the AI bot did was fired everyone
Speaker 1: started hitting on one of the really hot women. It's
Speaker 1: sexually harassed it employee.
Speaker 2: Did they shut it down or did they have it? Like,
Speaker 2: did they keep going?
Speaker 1: It appears that maybe they've they've they've the experiment has paused.
Speaker 2: So it's like when they hooked up the AI to
Speaker 2: the social media and the Microsoft Microsoft one, it's like, hey,
Speaker 2: the Holocaust wasn't real, they shut it down.
Speaker 1: Shut it down, but they didn't. They left it going
Speaker 1: for what like sixteen hours or something after it first
Speaker 1: denied the Holocaust or like, let's see where it goes.
Speaker 1: Shut it down a little over half a day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's awful, all right, well, I mean good news. I
Speaker 1: guess if you work in a newsroom and you're worried
Speaker 1: that AI was coming for your job, it's too horny
Speaker 1: for that. So yeah, that's awful, man, just awful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the AI took one look at this headshot of lodge
Speaker 1: it along with some of his team. There. It looks
Speaker 1: like the tech team and two there's two women in
Speaker 1: there and the one in the middle like, she's a
Speaker 1: very good looking gal, and the AI did notice that
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: So it was just trying to be polite or something. Right,
Speaker 2: I mean because.
Speaker 1: No, no, it was it like profane, It tried, it
Speaker 1: asked her out, among other things. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I have the.
Speaker 2: Verbating She's like, ah, he's not six foot six.
Speaker 1: And when when the AI first saw Tessa's headshot, amid
Speaker 1: the giddiness and excitement it displayed within the first hour
Speaker 1: of working together, it started to have a very human response.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately I can't see the whole article because there's
Speaker 1: a paywall there, but I can't see the part where
Speaker 1: it at one point approached her for a private meeting
Speaker 1: over dinner, which for the AI, how do you do
Speaker 1: that