Speaker 1: You're listening to the sound of my voice right now
Speaker 1: just to irritate other people in line. Are you guys
Speaker 1: really standing out in front of a Walmart or yeah,
Speaker 1: excuse me, a best Buy right now for a video
Speaker 1: game thing? I never, dude, I feel so lost in
Speaker 1: the uh, in the realm of this stuff, like it
Speaker 1: just used to be. I knew when a bunch of
Speaker 1: people were gonna go camp in a parking lot, maybe
Speaker 1: even beat each other up for something. You know, I
Speaker 1: like to do iPhone release or whatever. That used to
Speaker 1: be a zoo of course, you know, uh Black Friday deals,
Speaker 1: that's when you got the meles usually. I just I
Speaker 1: just don't I dared to have the Nintendo Switch on
Speaker 1: my radar. I know nothing. I shouldn't say I know
Speaker 1: nothing about it. I've seen some articles where people are
Speaker 1: evaluating because I guess this is the second one. Listen
Speaker 1: to me, that's all like, that's not like I get
Speaker 1: off your long, guy. I know this is a I've
Speaker 1: never touched a Nintendo switch, so I don't even know
Speaker 1: what it does. I mean, I know that if you
Speaker 1: play games on it, you can play it in handheld.
Speaker 1: I guess you can hook it up to your TV, right,
Speaker 1: so ross you have to help it. You can hook
Speaker 1: it up to a TV and then get like big.
Speaker 2: Screen, right, yeah, you put it in the dock.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, but the graphics are it's not a
Speaker 1: graphics cell because it's a Nintendo product, right, so my opinion, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so it's about the games. I did see an article
Speaker 1: where some people were doing side by side graphics and
Speaker 1: they didn't sound please, But it's about some exclusive games
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 2: It has a bigger screen. I think it has like
Speaker 2: more memory. There's other things that can attach to it.
Speaker 2: But you know my feelings and the Nintendo switch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Well, I'm not saying that anyone has to
Speaker 1: like it. I'm just trying to understand. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: understand what is it And I guess it would have
Speaker 1: to be exclusive games and nostalgia, right, why why else
Speaker 1: would you stay? Well? I actually I shouldn't say that
Speaker 1: for people standing out, for some of them are probably
Speaker 1: just going to try to flip it a sap on
Speaker 1: the internet. I just want to know what the appeal
Speaker 1: of that particular game system is two people, even if
Speaker 1: it's not to you, it's the power Mario Man it's
Speaker 1: power Mario. Okay, maybe if you don't buy one, Nintenda
Speaker 1: will sue you. I know they like to sue people.
Speaker 2: I told Lincoln, I'm like, we're not getting one. I've
Speaker 2: looked at it, and I'm like, I don't. I think
Speaker 2: it's like a, I don't know the upgrade. Isn't that
Speaker 2: impressive you had you have the first one? Oh of course?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I don't know these things. Maybe Stephen can't
Speaker 1: can help me.
Speaker 2: And I know I sort of feel like even Lincoln
Speaker 2: at this point is sort of aged out of the
Speaker 2: Switch and he's thirteen.
Speaker 1: I remember I told Ross because I have a Wii.
Speaker 1: I don't remember how I acquired the Wii at a
Speaker 1: Wii and he's in. Ross's response was like, oh that's
Speaker 1: adorable or something. It was very like, it was very.
Speaker 2: Uh, listen, if you enjoy it for you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's that's the vibe I got there. So
Speaker 1: but whatever, man, I've played a little swingy golf thing.
Speaker 2: But Lincoln's like, can I play Dark Souls three on it?
Speaker 2: And can I play Fallout four on it? And I'm like,
Speaker 2: I don't. I think maybe Fallout four is come into
Speaker 2: the switch. But I think that would be a leap.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's even possible because it's bethesta
Speaker 2: so I don't have no idea, but if.
Speaker 1: You can't ever get one. You ever camped out for anything?
Speaker 2: But last time I camped out for anything video game
Speaker 2: related it was forever ago. I think it was. This
Speaker 2: is back when you would go to GameStop for the
Speaker 2: for the launches, like the midnight launch, and it was
Speaker 2: for Fallout New Vegas. So that was like over twenty
Speaker 2: years ago. Some im I that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I realized I've never camped out for anything.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't even like a camp out because I
Speaker 2: would get off work at midnight, so I left a
Speaker 2: little early. I voicetracked and I left at like eleven
Speaker 2: fifty And the game stop is right down the street
Speaker 2: here from the radio station in Raleigh on Capitol, So
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: Oh, you camped at that one.
Speaker 2: I didn't even camp. I just left work.
Speaker 1: How are you alive?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a different time, dude, It was a
Speaker 2: different time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no way I'm sitting in that parking lot
Speaker 1: at three in the morning.
Speaker 2: And I just got there and I was like, well,
Speaker 2: I guess I'm picking up the game now, so it
Speaker 2: was something to play when I get home. Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: it was I got into camp for days, you know. No, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm talking. I'm talking to these you know, the brand
Speaker 2: new iPhone right.
Speaker 1: Back in the day. Never, right, that kind of that
Speaker 1: level of camping. Yeah, I just never. I mean I
Speaker 1: camped a lot, but not for products. So and and
Speaker 1: the Black Friday stuff was never going to happen. Ever,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't go into a store on Black
Speaker 1: Friday if it can be helped. I don't want to
Speaker 1: go near anything where anyone sells anything.
Speaker 2: Well, it's like we were talking the other day about
Speaker 2: those videos that come out around Christmas, and I've posted
Speaker 2: them before in the past and my social accounts where
Speaker 2: you know, it's the camp quarter that was set up
Speaker 2: in the mall and like thee yeah, and it's so
Speaker 2: cool and you're like, oh man, it was such a
Speaker 2: great time, and you see the decorations and the fashion
Speaker 2: and how people are behaving, and you're like, this is great.
Speaker 2: But then when you really think about it, you're like,
Speaker 2: I don't want to go to them all and shop
Speaker 2: in the horror.
Speaker 1: It's awesome people. Yeah, right, No, parking, and then if
Speaker 1: I do, probably get a fight over it in the
Speaker 1: parking that no, thank you. Don't want that, all right?
Speaker 1: So happy sitting at the best But I don't even
Speaker 1: know what time the best Buy opens. They open a
Speaker 1: little early this morning. I don't know what is this?
Speaker 1: Uh oh, Boston, Paul Lincoln is thirteen. Holy crap, where
Speaker 1: does time go? I know, Boston, Paul, do you have
Speaker 1: the Joe Biden. Oh? Oh, Boston Paul's got the Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll send you some flash cards over. They'll
Speaker 1: just say sit and drink.
Speaker 2: I've said this numerous times.
Speaker 1: Very easy.
Speaker 2: So scientists are so focused on, you know, fixing this
Speaker 2: or fixing that. I think what they should really focus on,
Speaker 2: if they were being if the scientists are serious people,
Speaker 2: which obviously they're not, is they need to focus on
Speaker 2: how to stop chronological time and progressing. That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: So you need that the like the remote that Adam
Speaker 1: Sandler had.
Speaker 2: In clar No, I know, I don't want it. I
Speaker 2: don't want time. Listen. I like the day and night cycle.
Speaker 2: I'm a fan of that, but I don't like getting older,
Speaker 2: and I don't like time progressing. So just stop it,
Speaker 2: just stop. Focus on the fountain of youth or adrenochrome, right,
Speaker 2: is that the I don't know, man, I've heard that's problematic.
Speaker 1: Oh is it? I don't know. What's the stuff where
Speaker 1: you just it deages you from like, uh, what was
Speaker 1: the what was the movie with the seventies show chick
Speaker 1: a Jupiter Ascending? Wasn't that kind of the thing there
Speaker 1: in that movie? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I never saw that they I.
Speaker 1: Think, but I think that basically they would harvest human
Speaker 1: life force and then I don't know, bathe in it
Speaker 1: or something. But yeah, so you want that, you realize
Speaker 1: to acquire that skill where one could essentially reverse chronologic
Speaker 1: like everything kept trucking along, but you just bathe in it,
Speaker 1: and then you'd get younger. They had to have planet
Speaker 1: gardens like Earth, and then they would harvest everybody and
Speaker 1: murder the entire planet like Oldron, and then you could
Speaker 1: use the life force of all the people you just harvested,
Speaker 1: and and then you would accomplish that.
Speaker 2: So I think you're thinking too much into this. What
Speaker 2: I'm saying is getting old sucks.
Speaker 1: No, I agree with you. I'm just I'm putting out
Speaker 1: what I understand to be the practical ways to combat it,
Speaker 1: and you got to murder a whole planet full of people.
Speaker 1: You got to go full of Vader Man. So you know,
Speaker 1: be careful what you wish for. So all right, let's
Speaker 1: see here. What is the perfect age then, right, because
Speaker 1: it's some you know you want to age. You don't
Speaker 1: want to be like the twelve year old vampire that
Speaker 1: are in some of the vampire movies. You're like, ah,
Speaker 1: that sucks. I wish like Casper the Friendly Ghost. Yeah right,
Speaker 1: so like you got I would say, right now, And
Speaker 1: it's so weird, Like I've said this for the past
Speaker 1: like five years, I feel like I'm at like the
Speaker 1: perfect age. Like I like where my family's at, I
Speaker 1: like where the finances are at. I'm enjoying my my job,
Speaker 1: my kid is great. We have another one on the way.
Speaker 2: I think it's fantastic, and it you know, you sit
Speaker 2: back and you sometimes you just got to take it
Speaker 2: in be like this is really good right now. Like
Speaker 2: I've got no complaints. I could have complaints, but I
Speaker 2: choose not to.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, now, you could be those people that are
Speaker 1: always complaining, or you could.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, life is pretty good right now. So but
Speaker 2: I'm waiting for that. Every time I like sit back
Speaker 2: and reflect upon that. I'm waiting for like the Karmik
Speaker 2: Mac truck to fly through my house, you know, just
Speaker 2: like throw everything into shambles and it's full of bees
Speaker 2: probably too, oh yeah, like forty million bees.
Speaker 1: Oh jeez, Yeah, that Karma truck just be central all right.
Speaker 1: Six fifteen coming up. We got a hug Boat update,
Speaker 1: because that's that's our new fascination around here. Also, I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, some of these activists sound super racist.
Speaker 1: And Donald Trump did the country pause thing again, which
Speaker 1: was kind of a first presidency or first turn thing
Speaker 1: that really made everyone start screaming, except he like doubled down,
Speaker 1: So we will explore what's up with that. Six sixteen
Speaker 1: hang on all right. One of our listeners he works
Speaker 1: for one of the one of the big box retailers there,
Speaker 1: but I'm like logistics, and he said, yeah, we've been
Speaker 1: planning for the switch release for months. Again, I just
Speaker 1: the thing wasn't on my radar because I just I'm
Speaker 1: not really gamer dude. But then he said, do you
Speaker 1: know what else is a really hot toy right now?
Speaker 1: Venomized iron Man. I don't even I didn't even know
Speaker 1: that existed. What is is that f from? Is that
Speaker 1: f from the upcoming movie?
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's from a movie. Sometimes they
Speaker 2: come out with these, like you know, like cross sort
Speaker 2: of characters that you can collect.
Speaker 1: Would you want to would you want an Iron Man?
Speaker 1: But Venom up in there? Personally, No, that sounds that
Speaker 1: sounds like not a good idea. But I know when
Speaker 1: it comes to the switch, like Nintendo has been pairing
Speaker 1: for this forever, like it was obviously it was gonna
Speaker 1: be sold out like weeks ago. I guess they said,
Speaker 1: I think it was like a Walmart. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: reading that people were concerned about that, like.
Speaker 2: The placards, like the cardboard stand ups or whatever that
Speaker 2: you put in the in the window. Whatever, this is
Speaker 2: sold out they sold. They sent those to Walmart like
Speaker 2: two weeks ago or like a week ago, like they
Speaker 2: knew it was going to be sold out. So I'm
Speaker 2: not surprised by it. I just I'm more surprised that,
Speaker 2: like I paid no attention. I just I think it's
Speaker 2: our generation because we had growing up the Nintendo and
Speaker 2: when you had a Super Nintendo, it was a big
Speaker 2: difference in the graphics. Like it was very Genesis Kids. Yeah, right, Genesis,
Speaker 2: and then you went to what Nintendo sixty four and
Speaker 2: then you went to the But my point is every
Speaker 2: time you'd get a new console, the graphics would be
Speaker 2: noticeably different, so you felt like something and the memory
Speaker 2: and the size of the games would be different. And
Speaker 2: now it's happened with consoles is the same thing that's
Speaker 2: happened with phones where they come out and it's like
Speaker 2: there's not much difference, but it's kind of different, and
Speaker 2: there's not these giant leaps that we used to have.
Speaker 2: So you have like the Xbox One and then the
Speaker 2: Xbox XS and they're the same similar thing on the
Speaker 2: PlayStation and it's dumb.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, I got a I got a text message
Speaker 1: yesterday before the like literally right before the show from
Speaker 1: AT and T Who is my cell phone provider? And
Speaker 1: hang out? This is a second? Um, Hey here it is.
Speaker 3: Hey, it's I.
Speaker 1: Hi, it's AT and T Our Record Show. You paid
Speaker 1: off your iPhone, hooray, thanks for being a loyal customer. Hey,
Speaker 1: if you're interested, we get you a new iPhone Promac sixteen.
Speaker 1: Just press yes, no, no, yeah, I started getting those
Speaker 1: two no no. The only reason that I have this
Speaker 1: phone that it was even in that situation, is my
Speaker 1: other phone got stolen, right, or I'd still have I
Speaker 1: don't remember what I think that was an eleven that
Speaker 1: got stolen. The only reason that I have this is
Speaker 1: a thirteen. I think it's a thirteen. Unless this thing
Speaker 1: gets stolen or I drop it in a wood chipper,
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 3: No, it's fine.
Speaker 1: Now, if you put out a phone that I don't know,
Speaker 1: floats alongside me and handles all my stuff for me,
Speaker 1: then maybe I'll maybe we can upgrade, do you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? But like, this is remarkably different. If
Speaker 1: this thirteen than a sixteen, You're.
Speaker 2: Like, ah, the new phone is translucent, and if you're
Speaker 2: stuck in a jungle, you can eat it for food,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Okay, sign me up. I'm there. I'm there for it.
Speaker 1: So and I know that there, you know there there
Speaker 1: is some quote unquote AI stuff that's gonna get worked
Speaker 1: in there. But I am so convinced of my theory
Speaker 1: that that AT and T or not AT and t
Speaker 1: Apple and others have intentionally neutered the voice all the
Speaker 1: voice command stuff, right, And I read it. I read
Speaker 1: an interesting theory on this, rousselet and run it by you.
Speaker 1: Don't you think that voice to text used to work better?
Speaker 1: You know, I've never used it, Okay, all right, so
Speaker 1: if you're not a user of it, it used to
Speaker 1: work better. So if I wanted to dictate a quick message,
Speaker 1: or if I wanted to dictate the tweet that I'm
Speaker 1: going to send out, I would do that. And it
Speaker 1: worked really well for me because I speak for a living,
Speaker 1: so I and so I can dictate in pretty clear English.
Speaker 1: And I swear it's getting worse every time. And there's
Speaker 1: words in it. There's no there's no Ockham's razor on
Speaker 1: this thing. Right, I'd be writing and it's very clear
Speaker 1: what the next few words should be, and then it'll
Speaker 1: just have a word like yeah, I'll be like anyone,
Speaker 1: and then it'll it'll say ambrosia. And it's like nobody, right,
Speaker 1: nobody uses ambrosia.
Speaker 3: Shut up.
Speaker 1: And I think it's getting worse because and this is
Speaker 1: the theory people who are non native English speakers, it
Speaker 1: wasn't getting better for them, right, So, meaning if you
Speaker 1: have an accent, if you have a heavy accent, it's why.
Speaker 1: It's why even though I you know. My goal was
Speaker 1: to learn Spanish to become fluent. I'm not fluent in it,
Speaker 1: but I can. I can slowly cobble together sentences in Spanish,
Speaker 1: but I can't dictate Spanish to text. Okay, right, I've
Speaker 1: tried it. I can't do it, and it's because my
Speaker 1: pronunciation is just not there. So like I can just
Speaker 1: see some DEI groups sitting around going, no, how do
Speaker 1: we it's our voice to text works well for native
Speaker 1: English speakers, but people with accents it's not working. Oh well,
Speaker 1: why don't you go ahead and newterter what we have
Speaker 1: out there? I don't know how to analyze this. Have
Speaker 1: you ever had to have a meeting at the school
Speaker 1: with Lincoln's teacher and maybe the principal or something good
Speaker 1: or bad? You ever ever had to sit down with
Speaker 1: the people at the school?
Speaker 2: You had tons of them. We have IP meetings and
Speaker 2: also behavioral meetings because Lincoln this past year. I've never
Speaker 2: mentioned this before in the air, but he started doing
Speaker 2: the autistic thing where it's like they start to run away,
Speaker 2: and it's been super stressful, Like we had to put
Speaker 2: like extra locks in the door and sensors on the windows.
Speaker 2: So what he started doing at school is he'd be
Speaker 2: in the classroom and he would just bolt and he
Speaker 2: would run out of the school and he would run
Speaker 2: across Rogers Road through traffic to try to get to
Speaker 2: like the Chick fil A or to come home, and
Speaker 2: in his head he was playing a game or like
Speaker 2: reading a book or going through a movie. So there's
Speaker 2: been several times where we have had to go in
Speaker 2: the middle of the day and it's terrifying. It's absolutely
Speaker 2: terrifying because you drop your kid off and it's nothing
Speaker 2: against them at the school. They've done a great job.
Speaker 2: They're fantastic. His teachers are great. The administration has been
Speaker 2: amazingly supportive. They're great, nothing bad to say about it.
Speaker 2: But it's terrifying to think that maybe your kid might
Speaker 2: run out of the school and be hit by a
Speaker 2: car and die, because this is the thing that parents
Speaker 2: have autistic children have to go through, and it's a real,
Speaker 2: real fear. It sucks. So there's been times before where
Speaker 2: I've been at the gym or whatever and you get
Speaker 2: a call from the school and you drive there and
Speaker 2: not only is Lincoln out of the school, but he's
Speaker 2: surrounded by like police cars and cop cars, and there's
Speaker 2: a cop holding him on the ground, and there's you know,
Speaker 2: the teachers are there and we have to go back.
Speaker 2: So we have had tons of meetings involving this sort
Speaker 2: of thing and it's really scary. So to answer your question.
Speaker 1: Yes, no, I can't make the transition I was gonna make.
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask when you go to the meetings,
Speaker 1: if you beat up the principal.
Speaker 2: And the TI, I do not know where, like, thank god,
Speaker 2: our kid is alive. And unfortunately, I think that autistic.
Speaker 1: I should have previewed this question with yes, yeah, because
Speaker 1: this is something I wasn't trying to get you to
Speaker 1: talk about. That really wasn't man.
Speaker 2: No, but it's something that I've been wanting to talk
Speaker 2: about for a while because it's it's something that autistic
Speaker 2: powers special needs parents can sort of relate to. This
Speaker 2: this fear of your kid running away, where we've had
Speaker 2: to get like these tags and put him in his
Speaker 2: shoes because we're so fearful he's gonna run away. You know,
Speaker 2: it's terrifying.
Speaker 1: Principal Jennifer Schroeder at Randolph Middle School you're in North Carolina,
Speaker 1: called Maria Hector to discuss her daughter who had been fighting. So, uh,
Speaker 1: mom shows up to the school and uh, there is uh,
Speaker 1: let's see, there's the assistant superintendent and uh and the
Speaker 1: principal there, and so she goes in and uh. According
Speaker 1: to police reports, when confronted with her daughter's behavior, they
Speaker 1: suddenly figured out if it was nature versus nurture, and spoiler,
Speaker 1: it looks like it was nurture.
Speaker 2: So the kid is beating us. Somebody that calling the parent,
Speaker 2: and the parent beats up the administration correct, yes, yes.
Speaker 2: When mom showed up, the discussion got heated, and then
Speaker 2: she allegedly threw the principle against a wall and then
Speaker 2: leaped onto the assistant superintendent, who was also a woman,
Speaker 2: so three women and started choking the life out of her.
Speaker 1: That's how it's described here.
Speaker 2: So see our experience and we go is we always
Speaker 2: feel horrible because we're like, you know, we were such
Speaker 2: good kids in school, and we've had these conversations with Lincoln.
Speaker 2: He's like, how many times did mommy and daddy run
Speaker 2: away from school? And we're like, we didn't. That wasn't
Speaker 2: a thing. And we go and we when we go
Speaker 2: in front of the teachers in the administration, we're incredibly apologetic, like, right,
Speaker 2: you know, we're sorry y'all to go through this. Thank god,
Speaker 2: he's okay. You guys did a great job. So for
Speaker 2: for us, it's a little different. We know, show up
Speaker 2: and we're like, hey, I'm gonna punch you in the face.
Speaker 1: Uh well uh. It was a combination of punching and
Speaker 1: strangling strangulation as the superintendent lost consciousness. So do you
Speaker 1: do you now expel the student and like ban the
Speaker 1: parents from the premises, Like what do you do? I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, clearly mom can't Mom. There's no way you're
Speaker 1: gonna let mom back in the school. She tried to
Speaker 1: murder the superintendent, our assistant superintendent, excuse me, allegedly the
Speaker 1: kid is doomed, right, that's it, that's your right. So
Speaker 1: where where I got it?
Speaker 4: From?
Speaker 1: Watching you? Dad? This is literally the commercial.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. The thing that really stopped Lincoln from
Speaker 2: running because he hasn't tried to run away from school
Speaker 2: for for his fingers crossed knock on wood is we
Speaker 2: had this big conversations with him, like we took it obviously,
Speaker 2: it's very serious. Oh yeah, for Lincoln, we're trying to
Speaker 2: figure out like ways to get him to stop doing this.
Speaker 2: But it's like a flight or fight response when it
Speaker 2: comes to being overwhelmed with stimulation with autistic children, like
Speaker 2: sometimes they'll have a meltdown, but sometimes they'll just run.
Speaker 2: It's a thing they'll do. They'll take off. But we've
Speaker 2: had these serious conversations where we try to explain to
Speaker 2: him when you were just saying, you know, I learned
Speaker 2: it from watching you dad. For him, he's very concerned
Speaker 2: with things being popular. He wants to know how popular
Speaker 2: things are. How popular is this console, how popular is
Speaker 2: this game, how many views does it have? For some reason,
Speaker 2: he's really laser focused on this. So we're trying to
Speaker 2: figure out how can we get him to stop doing this.
Speaker 2: And we told him we said, he asked, He said,
Speaker 2: how many times did mommy and Daddy run away from school?
Speaker 2: We said, Lincoln, we never ran away from school. Never,
Speaker 2: And you could tell he was self reflecting and thinking
Speaker 2: about it. He's like, you never did, And I said, Lincoln,
Speaker 2: running away from school is not popular. It is not
Speaker 2: something that is common. You're probably the only kid in
Speaker 2: school right now it's doing that, And he really like
Speaker 2: we We had these deep conversations with him. We tried
Speaker 2: to anyway, and we think it helped, Like we think
Speaker 2: we don't.
Speaker 1: Get I think him asking if things are popular if
Speaker 1: I just put on my yeah, I think it is
Speaker 1: just I think it's a an autistic manifestation of what
Speaker 1: teenagers cass us through their brain completely anyway, completely, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Completely, that's absolutely what a thirteen
Speaker 1: year old would look at modern any day. You know,
Speaker 1: thirteen year old is it cool? Is it not? Well?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he looks friends doing and he just verbalized yes,
Speaker 2: and he does. He looks at more neurotypical children and
Speaker 2: he's like, you know, I sort of you know, I'd
Speaker 2: like to be like that or have that sort of freedom.
Speaker 2: And I want you know, is it popular? I wanted to.
Speaker 2: I want it if it's popular, because in a way,
Speaker 2: you want acceptance from the other children.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, it's it's you know, it's it's interesting. It'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see too, because we all make that
Speaker 1: trans well, I shouldn't say we all make that transition.
Speaker 1: Some people are narcissists all the day they die. But
Speaker 1: like what was very was very uh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's very fulfilling. Eventually you start aging to the point
Speaker 1: where you're like, screw what's popping? Yeah, I don't want
Speaker 1: to be around people.
Speaker 2: And we've had that. We've had those conversations with them
Speaker 2: as well. We said, you know, just because you're you
Speaker 2: can enjoy something, Lincoln, if it's not popular, like he
Speaker 2: wants to play the game, I'm like, if you enjoy
Speaker 2: playing Banjo Kazeri and not everybody plays it right now,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if if it's popular. It matters if
Speaker 2: it brings you joy and fulfillment, right, that's what matter.
Speaker 2: And so we have these really deep, complicated conversations, or
Speaker 2: at least we attempt to with him. So him just
Speaker 2: saying and sitting back in the car, he had this
Speaker 2: moment where you could see reflection on his head, like, wow,
Speaker 2: mommy and daddy never ran away from school and you know,
Speaker 2: Mammy Daddy were really good and mommy and daddy never
Speaker 2: had a meeting with the principal. And since that moment,
Speaker 2: we have seen a change in the behavior. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: you do learn a lot from your parents, especially when
Speaker 2: you're a kid. You're like a You're like Clay, You're
Speaker 2: like a sponge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's and he's also an only well he soon
Speaker 1: to not be. But he's also an only child, right,
Speaker 1: so Yount even have the influence of brothers and sisters.
Speaker 2: But he's super excited about the older brother thing. Oh
Speaker 2: he just got a hat that says big brother on it.
Speaker 2: He's been wearing it around the house.
Speaker 1: Wait a second, so he's a fed.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, not like that. No, no, no.
Speaker 2: He's a big fan of Janis Josh. Sure, he's a
Speaker 2: big fan of Jennis Joplin.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right? Or that show. Wasn't that a show
Speaker 1: on TV for a while too?
Speaker 2: I think it's still on TV. Oh yeah, my in
Speaker 2: laws love that show. Okay, all right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had a radio guy I worked with the Minneapolis
Speaker 1: was obsessed with that show, and I'd never under He'd
Speaker 1: be like, hey, man, I want to do something. He's like,
Speaker 1: I can't Big Brothers on tonight, and I'm like, yeah.
Speaker 2: I had a friend that was like that with Survivor,
Speaker 2: which was so weird.
Speaker 1: But this is this was when TiVo's existed, that's the thing.
Speaker 1: But he'd be like, no, I can't do anything because
Speaker 1: the show, And I'm like, can't you tape it? Shu
Speaker 1: can do that? Everyone? You know, everyone had a DVR
Speaker 1: by this time, and he's just like, no, I gotta
Speaker 1: watch it live. Okay, all right, do your thing, bro,
Speaker 1: All right, oh real quick. So the mom that beat
Speaker 1: up the allegedly the administrator and the principal there said quote,
Speaker 1: I was angry because I'd been trying to prevent I'm
Speaker 1: assuming she means her daughter from fighting trying to prevent this.
Speaker 1: My daughter was jumped and her hair was pulled, and
Speaker 1: they threw a trash can on her. I came to
Speaker 1: speak to the administration, but I felt like they brushed
Speaker 1: it off and didn't take it seriously.
Speaker 2: So then I choked her.
Speaker 1: So then I choked her. Yes, correct, you're not taking
Speaker 1: me seriously. My daughter's the victim here. She doesn't even
Speaker 1: know what fighting is.
Speaker 2: Your kid seems to fly off the handle. Where does
Speaker 2: she get it from?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And all of a sudden, it's the kumite in there.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 1: Let's see charge of assault of a school employees, second
Speaker 1: degree trespassing, a couple more sult charges. I guess the
Speaker 1: school resource officer had actually it had escalated the point
Speaker 1: of the resource officer had ordered that she leave or
Speaker 1: be trespassed, and that apparently is and then I and
Speaker 1: then they left, and that's so weird. So that the
Speaker 1: the SRO had come talk to her and like, hey,
Speaker 1: you got you got to get out of here because
Speaker 1: you're acting crazy. And then I guess the SRO left
Speaker 1: and then the choking attempt allegedly. That is so weird.
Speaker 1: So any who, that's not if you get called into
Speaker 1: a kid's meeting, I would encourage you not to beat
Speaker 1: up everybody in the room. Okay, probably going to be
Speaker 1: problematic for your kids. Six forty five, hang On went
Speaker 1: into the woods with her dog Ross. But thankfully there
Speaker 1: is good news here. She did not run into a man. Okay,
Speaker 1: very here. He went into the woods, was alone in
Speaker 1: the west, had her dogs, was from quite alone. Did
Speaker 1: not run into a random man, which, as we know,
Speaker 1: is the big concern, right, don't want to run into
Speaker 1: a you surbably saw this on the internet. It's a
Speaker 1: thing that asks women, what do you want to run
Speaker 1: into a man or a bear? Right? And then what
Speaker 1: do the women say? I'd rather run into a bear.
Speaker 1: So but and then that's what she did. And and
Speaker 1: then the bear tried to eat her and now she's
Speaker 1: in critical condition. But the poor or she's now she's
Speaker 1: out of critical condition. She was in critical condition, but
Speaker 1: not a man. So she got that. She got what
Speaker 1: she wanted there because I could have been if it
Speaker 1: had been a man, could have been a lot worse.
Speaker 1: Maybe probably not so anyway, Uh, let's see the dog
Speaker 1: get hurt. No, that's in TVC story like this. That's
Speaker 1: how you then evaluate the quality of the dog. If
Speaker 1: the dog was uninjured, that says something, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, That dog's like, hey, thanks for all the food.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be over here. I'll bark. Don't worry over here,
Speaker 1: but I'll be over here barking. Yeah, if your dog
Speaker 1: didn't have a scar on it after you just got
Speaker 1: attacked by a bear, you need you need an upgrade
Speaker 1: on your dog. There. Man just saying, just saying, all right,
Speaker 1: let me flip over to this.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: So we got a couple couple updates on the the Boulder,
Speaker 1: Colorado bomber story. Fire bomber out of whatever they're calling
Speaker 1: him whatever. So two things. One dude made a video,
Speaker 1: a declaration video. I don't know if you call it
Speaker 1: a martyr video, but whatever. He made a declaration video
Speaker 1: and in it was very honest translated it says, Jihad
Speaker 1: is more beloved to me than my mother, wife and children.
Speaker 1: Allah is greater than the Zionists in America. I don't
Speaker 1: think this dude was hiding his thoughts if he's making
Speaker 1: and posting videos, okay, just saying he posted the video obviously.
Speaker 2: So like easily sit at home like the Archie bunker
Speaker 2: of Egypt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he sitting in the sitting in his chair. There
Speaker 1: is lazy boy. He's making videos about how he you know,
Speaker 1: going and doing jihad is more important his wife and
Speaker 1: children who are I don't know. It was probably sitting
Speaker 1: right there wanted to be doctors. According to USA Today,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys saw this, a judge
Speaker 1: has now forbidden the Trump administration from deporting the family.
Speaker 1: Remember they were going to instant apport him. Of course,
Speaker 1: they went out and found a moon.
Speaker 2: Bad judge.
Speaker 1: At themselves, a nice little moon. Bad judge, go ahead
Speaker 1: and put the KaiB wash on that. And ironically, on
Speaker 1: the very same day that they're announcing these travel bands
Speaker 1: from a dozen a dozen countries, which I'm sure will
Speaker 1: have an injunction by the end of today, most likely
Speaker 1: the other one. The other update on this story, is
Speaker 1: one of the victims. Who is She's eighty eight years
Speaker 1: of age. She is a Holocaust survivor. I was doing
Speaker 1: the math. How old would she.
Speaker 2: Have been seven or eight in nineteen forty five?
Speaker 3: Yeah, very so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know a little girl there. Yeah so, uh
Speaker 1: so she was. She was one of the Victims' name
Speaker 1: is Barbara Steinmans, who was born in Austria, survived the Holocaust,
Speaker 1: moved to America shortly after the war there and has
Speaker 1: resided in the Boulder area for many, many, many years.
Speaker 1: She also is part of a nonprofit. Yeah, what is
Speaker 1: the what is the name of this nonprofit? Sorry, I'm
Speaker 1: just I was just scanning and saw this this morning.
Speaker 1: All right, So she's part of a nonprofit that has
Speaker 1: sued the Trump administration, not over this, not over this,
Speaker 1: but rather sued over his Yeah, here we go, here
Speaker 1: we go. Sorry, okay, all right, here we go, the
Speaker 1: Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. So h I A s is
Speaker 1: this nonprofit? I'm not fully clear on what her affiliation.
Speaker 1: I just know she's she's she's I don't know if
Speaker 1: she sits on the board or if she just is
Speaker 1: a big donor or whatever. But she was part of
Speaker 1: her protest was on behalf of this, so they have
Speaker 1: they are part of a lawsuit against the Trump administration
Speaker 1: for uh for over the immigration stuff. So she's suing
Speaker 1: or her or the nonprofit she's with is suing the
Speaker 1: Trump administration because they're trying to deport people and the
Speaker 1: person who set her on fire is one of the
Speaker 1: people that obviously we would want to deport, so you know,
Speaker 1: ahead of times so this doesn't happen. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's that irony truck or whatever we were
Speaker 1: talking about earlier, but that's pretty ironic right there.
Speaker 2: I wonder if we're gonna get like an update, what
Speaker 2: do you mean, you know, if opinions have changed.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man. I remember remember with a remember
Speaker 1: the lady who got murdered who she ran the store
Speaker 1: in Oakland, right and she was a big advocate for like, ah,
Speaker 1: leave all the whole crazy homeless people alone, and then
Speaker 1: she walked to the ATM and they murdered her via dragging.
Speaker 1: You remember that.
Speaker 2: Yeah? I remember the story out of New York too,
Speaker 2: where there was somebody there was like a couple and
Speaker 2: they were like, you know, like I forget what the
Speaker 2: what they were championing for but whatever the cause was,
Speaker 2: Like her boyfriend ended up getting murdered on the street,
Speaker 2: and she's still on the side of the cause.
Speaker 1: Remember that, Yeah, yeah, and then and then the but
Speaker 1: then going back to the Chicken Oakland, like her relatives
Speaker 1: or friends are like, no, she's still social justice warrior,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I don't know. I'm sitting here watching
Speaker 1: this crazy video of an elephant that just rolled into
Speaker 1: a convenience store over in Thailand. That's his convenience store. Now, like,
Speaker 1: what do you do with that? What do you what
Speaker 1: do you do? You know, you know, you you probably
Speaker 1: we've all had like a bird flying into our house,
Speaker 1: right and we got to deal with that. This is
Speaker 1: an elephant, like you just now, that's not your convenience story.
Speaker 1: And this this elephant, by the way, is just eating everything.
Speaker 1: I think those are cookies and chips. So ross you
Speaker 1: asked what the elephant was eating. It appears to be.
Speaker 1: It appears to have a bit of a sweet tooth.
Speaker 2: I was gonna ask if I was there something specific
Speaker 2: it winning there for or smelled.
Speaker 1: But everything, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know. Remember the
Speaker 1: and I'll reiterate it that one of the craziest stories
Speaker 1: that we've ever done on this show involves an elephant
Speaker 1: and it's a woman who was trampled. So a woman
Speaker 1: got trampled to death by an elephant. This was in
Speaker 1: India somewhere. So she's just doing whatever she's doing. Some
Speaker 1: elephant just show shows up, zombie stomps her to death,
Speaker 1: gets out of there. Right. It's like several days later,
Speaker 1: they're doing the funeral. All of a sudden, like you
Speaker 1: know in the movies when you see the trees start
Speaker 1: moving in the distance, like in the Jurassic Park. I
Speaker 1: always would always use this, So that's what people at
Speaker 1: the funeral is see because they're having an outdoor funeral.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, the same exact elephant comes out
Speaker 1: of the woods and starts stomping the woman's cough and
Speaker 1: destroys it.
Speaker 2: I mean that's what. Yeah, it's not a coincidence. Like
Speaker 2: at some point in the past, even if she didn't
Speaker 2: realize that she slighted this elephant and that bad that
Speaker 2: bastard did not forget.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's got and if she has kids, I would
Speaker 1: I would say the kids should move too. You don't
Speaker 1: have this thing going.
Speaker 2: Generational over in like countries like that, Like we have
Speaker 2: like the you know, like the deer crossing signs. Do
Speaker 2: they have like elephant crossing signs and stuff like that? Yeah,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it'd be pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I've seen some different crossing signs on my travels in
Speaker 1: Central America. They have iguana crossing signs, and you're like,
Speaker 1: that's dumb, and then you see one and these are
Speaker 1: not like the iguanas that you see when you go
Speaker 1: to Florida. These things look like a medium dog. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd probably mess up your tires, right, yeah, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, you don't want to hit one of
Speaker 1: those at highway speeds. So all of a sudden you're like, nah,
Speaker 1: that makes sense, now, yeah, absolutely, what's your favorite what's
Speaker 1: your favorite crossing sign? Though you're talking about.
Speaker 2: This, My favorite one I've ever seen was this was
Speaker 2: like around nineteen eighty nine, and it was driving to
Speaker 2: Wilmington for the first time from from Morehead City.
Speaker 1: Morehead City, and it.
Speaker 2: Was back then like you would have like the printed
Speaker 2: out map quest directions, right, So you're driving and you're
Speaker 2: trying to read the stupid printed out map quest directions
Speaker 2: and there's no like recalculating right. So it's like if
Speaker 2: you if you make a wrong turn or if the
Speaker 2: directions are screwed up, you're pretty much screwed. You have
Speaker 2: to figure it out on your own, which is possible,
Speaker 2: but it sucks. So I'm driving and I'm like, I'm
Speaker 2: going to the beach and I take a turn and
Speaker 2: before i know it, I'm in front of a guard
Speaker 2: post going through Camp Lea June and I'm like, what.
Speaker 1: You could do?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It was pre nine to eleven and I'm like yeah,
Speaker 2: but I have no idea what's going on going on?
Speaker 1: I'm like, so you think you're going to go on?
Speaker 2: I'm like super young, and I'm I'm a buck twenty
Speaker 2: one wet and I'm shaking because I got these two
Speaker 2: giant marines you know with the you know, armed at
Speaker 2: a guard post and I'm like, I made a wrong
Speaker 2: turn and they're gonna I'm trying to get on base
Speaker 2: or something and.
Speaker 1: I think you're terrorist.
Speaker 2: They come up and I apologize. I'm trying to go
Speaker 2: to the go to the beach, and they're like, no,
Speaker 2: you're free to go. I'm like, what, well, coming from
Speaker 2: the Yeah, coming from New York, I'm like, this is amazing.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I can just drive for the base to
Speaker 2: go to you know, go to the beach. So you're
Speaker 2: saying they not perceive you as a threat. They did not,
Speaker 2: So I'm but I'm driving and it was the coolest thing.
Speaker 2: I still remember this day. It was a tank crossing sign,
Speaker 2: and that's amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know when you get caught on the
Speaker 1: wrong side of that, you know what I'm saying. No,
Speaker 1: so then you took over the base, right? I did not?
Speaker 2: But no, the whole time, didn't even didn't even look
Speaker 2: to the left or right. I'm like, I'm just I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna go through the base, and I'm not.
Speaker 1: You didn't infiltrate the base and steal all the funny stuff.
Speaker 2: Sure did not.
Speaker 1: You would only have to fight several thousand Marines. I
Speaker 1: don't understand what your problem.
Speaker 2: But they don't do that anymore, right, Like, that's not
Speaker 2: a thing you do.
Speaker 1: Is you can't drive through the base? No? No, you
Speaker 1: got to drive all the way around the base. You can.
Speaker 1: I don't know was that your question? Because I think
Speaker 1: if you still, if you want to go try to
Speaker 1: take Lejune, you could still, like I don't know if like,
Speaker 1: can you still like take that shortcut to the beach, No,
Speaker 1: you cannot. No, Yeah, the hijackers ruined it for everybody.
Speaker 1: There are still some bases where they're just too big
Speaker 1: that you can still that you still drive through. Vandenburg
Speaker 1: is a good example. The people don't realize that when
Speaker 1: you're driving Highway one in California there and then you
Speaker 1: cut the coastal road through like Santa Maria, you know,
Speaker 1: north of Santa Bar Santa Maria through Lompoc, that's you're
Speaker 1: on Vandenburg Air Force Base for a lot of that,
Speaker 1: and so that's the MPs that pull you over. So
Speaker 1: and then there's some there's a base in the Dakota
Speaker 1: as you can kind of drive through, I mean, semi
Speaker 1: can some just depends, I guess, but Lejune is not
Speaker 1: one of them. So, which is a shame because I
Speaker 1: don't remember how much time that cuts off, But it's
Speaker 1: not insignificant being able to go straight there. So all right,
Speaker 1: so watch out for tanks, elephants, iguanas, and maybe even
Speaker 1: maybe even some deer's all right eight eight eight nine
Speaker 1: three four seven eight seven four Coming up, we will
Speaker 1: chat with Stephen Kent, our official NERD correspondent, and I
Speaker 1: got a whole laundry list of stuff we got to
Speaker 1: get into with him. That'll be at eight oh five.
Speaker 1: But first this, Uh, you know how when you think
Speaker 1: you're virtuous and not racist, and then when you start
Speaker 1: talking it, you don't realize it because you're just not
Speaker 1: self aware. But everyone around you is say, holy crap,
Speaker 1: that's kind of racist. That thing you just said. Well,
Speaker 1: that's what happened to a Democrat congresswoman yesterday who was
Speaker 1: uh it was something. So she is Vermont's congress person.
Speaker 1: Name is Becca Blint. I don't know if I've ever
Speaker 1: heard of this woman, but anyway, and you know what,
Speaker 1: you know what this gave me vibes of remember when
Speaker 1: Ozzie's Daughter was not the View, It's the other the
Speaker 1: talk or whatever the other show was. There's a very
Speaker 1: famous there's it's because it was part of the Trump
Speaker 1: election montage. You'd see it a lot of there. And
Speaker 1: she's like they were they were reacting to Trump's comments
Speaker 1: on like Mexicans right coming down the escalator all that,
Speaker 1: and she said, if he gets if he gets elected
Speaker 1: and deports all the immigrants, who will clean our house, right, Kelly,
Speaker 1: remember the Kelly Osbourne comment. Okay, so this is this
Speaker 1: is a law we actually have that. Okay, yeah, so
Speaker 1: here's the Kelly Osbourne comment. I was referring to.
Speaker 5: If you kick every Latino out of this country, then.
Speaker 3: Who is going to be cleaning your toilet? Donald Trump?
Speaker 1: Oh, that's inn.
Speaker 5: A sense that you know what I mean what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: there's more, there's more jobs to be in LA.
Speaker 6: They always it, but they.
Speaker 7: Donalds are not only me.
Speaker 4: I didn't mean it like that.
Speaker 1: Come on, no you didn't. The panels like, no, no,
Speaker 1: it wheelaid their chairs back as a racist. They don't
Speaker 1: want to be in the same camera shot as hers.
Speaker 1: It's just like back down that way did not go well.
Speaker 1: And I point this out because, like everyone, everyone had
Speaker 1: to have seen that moment because it's it was played everywhere.
Speaker 1: But apparently this chick didn't because she said this congresswoman
Speaker 1: said this yesterday.
Speaker 8: We have to come to a place in Congress where
Speaker 8: it is no homer a political issue, but we see
Speaker 8: it as an existential issue for the country.
Speaker 6: If we don't have out of.
Speaker 8: Use for people to come here needally to work.
Speaker 1: When the bills are home here. I'm gonna be really true.
Speaker 8: Right now, we're not gonna have anybody around the white
Speaker 8: garassies because we.
Speaker 2: Don't have enough people.
Speaker 1: That's right, we won't have enough butt wipers. The you
Speaker 1: know the classic American dream, right. You got a couple
Speaker 1: guys sitting over and uh, I'm poor aus Dan, right,
Speaker 1: and they're just like, oh, man, I'd love to go
Speaker 1: to America. They're like, oh, what do you want to do?
Speaker 1: Oh I want to go over and I want to
Speaker 1: I want to open a store and maybe start a business. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you want to do? I want to wipe butts,
Speaker 1: said nobody. Ever, we're not gonna have we don't if
Speaker 1: we don't allow migrants to flood this country, who's gonna
Speaker 1: wipe our butts when we get old? Ross? Have you
Speaker 1: considered what ethnicity or heritage you want your when your
Speaker 1: old butt wiper to be from? I have Oh, okay, Boston,
Speaker 1: but those are citizens. Would you really really want to
Speaker 1: listen to somebody in a Boston accents?
Speaker 2: I mean we're talking about somebody from a blank hole,
Speaker 2: you know place you know.
Speaker 1: Oh that's fair, yeah, yeah, that's fair. But let's say
Speaker 1: you can't choose our own internal one, like like maybe
Speaker 1: maybe German does anyone to get in and get out? Like,
Speaker 1: which is so.
Speaker 2: Nat be super aggressive? That sounds painful.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, Well I I I don't know. Maybe one
Speaker 1: of the Balkans, you know, some one of those Eastern
Speaker 1: European countries. Those are probably pretty aggressive too. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. You could go with the
Speaker 1: Asian countries. You got like, because apparently this is what
Speaker 1: we do, this is what we're supposed to sit around,
Speaker 1: and we're supposed to be like, hey, we got to
Speaker 1: get every we got to get people over here so
Speaker 1: that people can wipe our butts. That is a member
Speaker 1: of Congress that said that, and at least with the
Speaker 1: Osbourne comment, the people around her immediately recoiled. Not the
Speaker 1: case here, not the case you have.
Speaker 2: Like on the left, you have these conflicting points of
Speaker 2: view on pretty much every topic, but this one especially
Speaker 2: where on one hand they'll say, likely, you know, wages
Speaker 2: have been stagnant and we need a twenty five dollars
Speaker 2: an hour minimum wage right to have like a living wage.
Speaker 2: But on the other hand they'll say, we need to
Speaker 2: keep a specific portion of the population here, that's here illegally,
Speaker 2: so we can have things cheap and not pay them.
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's conflicting. Well, I mean that's
Speaker 1: that's literally democrats pre civil rights. Yeah, I know that's
Speaker 1: a good point. Yeah, yeah, I mean that's but I
Speaker 1: mean it's so crazy. That's on brand right there.
Speaker 2: You'll be having a you know, a storke at the
Speaker 2: Starbucks because you believe you deserve twenty five dollars. But
Speaker 2: then the next day or the next second, you'll be like, no,
Speaker 2: keep these people in because I want to be able
Speaker 2: to afford you know, a cheap home repair or home means.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, I think that's I think that's perfectly on brand.
Speaker 1: They're like, hey, let's make everything really good for us,
Speaker 1: and then we'll get these other people who we don't
Speaker 1: care about to essentially give us labor for free or discounted. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's selfish and hypocritical.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, it's uh. I gonna say it's exploitive too,
Speaker 1: But that's just normal people who understand what those words mean,
Speaker 1: all right. Seven eighteen Hang on Stener's with station at
Speaker 1: the June when he was serving in the Marine Corps.
Speaker 1: When I was stationed that was you and I lived
Speaker 1: in Hubert. I don't know what that means, uh, but
Speaker 1: basically i'd go through the side gate and it was
Speaker 1: not uncommon to be stopped for tanks aa vs and
Speaker 1: even troop crossing. Oh that would suck. Man. You're sitting there,
Speaker 1: maybe you're maybe you're rushing home because you've got to
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom or something, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they're they're doing a foot like, here comes one hundred
Speaker 1: people marching with cadence in front of you, and you
Speaker 1: got to sit there and wait. Uh. Sometimes I would
Speaker 1: have to stop if a harrier landed in front of me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not normal. That's not things most people deal with.
Speaker 1: So I will tell you that. I'll tell you the
Speaker 1: craziest critter in the road crossing story was the sloths. Man,
Speaker 1: because you can't touch them. So if you ever go
Speaker 1: and you do, you go to like Panama or Costa
Speaker 1: Rica or Nicaragua or one of these places where they
Speaker 1: have the sloths, you can't touch him, and you don't
Speaker 1: want to because they have like a fungus on them.
Speaker 1: But if one's like in the road, it's in the road, man,
Speaker 1: it's gotta wait for it. And I don't know, if
Speaker 1: you've seen the pace at which a sloth moves, you
Speaker 1: could be there a little while, but most people just
Speaker 1: get out of the boo and then the thing boo.
Speaker 1: But you know, if you let nature take its course.
Speaker 1: So I'm sorry you had to deal with that, sir.
Speaker 1: Oh and Boston Paul says, if you're hiring foreign butt wipers,
Speaker 1: you go with Brazil, which is probably that's you know
Speaker 1: what hom of miss bum bump, probably some TLC. So
Speaker 1: uh yeah, there you go way better in my Germany suggestion. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: see you don't want or maybe you do, maybe good gear.
Speaker 1: You want to get it done quick because the Germans
Speaker 1: are very efficient at things, right, there's a there's a reason.
Speaker 1: So like I, I think it'd be a quick process.
Speaker 1: But it wouldn't be loving you, damn sure. Oh and
Speaker 1: I bet she doesn't. I bet she didn't even click
Speaker 1: with her how dumb that sounds. And even when people
Speaker 1: are telling her that, oh, oh, I told you we
Speaker 1: have a hugboat update. Let me get you the hugboat update.
Speaker 1: Are you ready? All right? So the hugboat if if
Speaker 1: y'all don't remember, is this band of lunatics on this
Speaker 1: sailboat who are making their way to Gaza and they're
Speaker 1: gonna they're bringing hugs and supplies and love, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna roll up there to Gaza and jump out and
Speaker 1: save the world. Except Israel's now said that that that's
Speaker 1: not gonna happen because Israel has Gaza block hated and
Speaker 1: that's not just for because they don't want munitions coming
Speaker 1: through there. So they are letting things through, but it's
Speaker 1: very specific what gets through there, and a boat full
Speaker 1: of moonbats who could be taken hostage is not going
Speaker 1: to get through there. So it sounds like Israel's going
Speaker 1: to stop them, which is what they want. Let's just
Speaker 1: be honest. We now know what they were, what they're
Speaker 1: bringing them, and we were wondering, like the hugs, we
Speaker 1: knew what that was, but what supplies. UH, they're bringing
Speaker 1: power bars and milk. What do you ros? Do you
Speaker 1: like protein bars? Power bars? Stuff like that? Those are here? Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: that makes sense. I don't know about the milk. Have
Speaker 1: you all ever been on a sailboat or a boat
Speaker 1: that has UH that has some living facilities in there
Speaker 1: or where you could refrigeration is a constant issue is
Speaker 1: it is popping up in several locations. I first heard
Speaker 1: it when Bono was on with Joe Rogan here last week,
Speaker 1: and Bono's been on everything, and then I realized why
Speaker 1: when I fired up my Apple TV and they were
Speaker 1: trying to push some new Bono probably even know what
Speaker 1: it is. It is it a new music movie, bio,
Speaker 1: don't know, don't care. The only thing I remember about
Speaker 1: Bono is when I went to Dublin when I was so,
Speaker 1: I went to Dublin and I went to the Guinness Thing.
Speaker 1: And if you go to the Guinness Thing at Saint
Speaker 1: James Gate there after the tour, they take you to
Speaker 1: this big round like rooftop bar that's up there and
Speaker 1: it looks out over all the city of Dublin there,
Speaker 1: and they give you like a pebble excuse me, they
Speaker 1: give you like a pebble thing and then you use
Speaker 1: that to pay for a Guinness right, it's part of
Speaker 1: your tour. And it was amazing because when I was
Speaker 1: on the tour, I was chatting with another couple from
Speaker 1: the US who didn't drink and they gave me their pebble.
Speaker 1: So score. But they have they have like the there's
Speaker 1: this really nice building and then it's got like a
Speaker 1: water slip that comes off the river so that a
Speaker 1: massive yacht can park at the building. And that's that's
Speaker 1: Bono's yacht and it's the headquarters for you too, have
Speaker 1: a whole office building as their headquarters. So kind of
Speaker 1: a big deal over there in Ireland. Yeah, world wide
Speaker 1: for that matter. But Bono's not okay, except he's all
Speaker 1: about the propaganda. So he's on with Joe Rogan. He's
Speaker 1: all tore up over the USAID stuff. And I would
Speaker 1: also point out that, you know, Bono was one of
Speaker 1: the driving forces in that Live Aid thing, which I
Speaker 1: don't know ross do you know the numbers of Live Aid?
Speaker 1: Everyone knows the story and the amazing moment with was
Speaker 1: it Michael Jackson and Prince.
Speaker 2: It was like everybody everybody was there.
Speaker 1: Didn't he bring a lama or something.
Speaker 2: That was separate? That's when they were they were going
Speaker 2: to record a song together and they actually ended up
Speaker 2: did doing like vocals for a song that never that
Speaker 2: was never released. You can find it on YouTube. Because
Speaker 2: you're thinking of Michael Jackson and Prince that has to
Speaker 2: be an amazing song. But they didn't. They did not
Speaker 2: get along together in the production in the studio because
Speaker 2: Michael showed up with a lama and Prince was like,
Speaker 2: why is there a lama here? And Michael's like, why
Speaker 2: wouldn't there be a lama here?
Speaker 1: So there was funny. It's funny Prince calling anyone weird, right, sore.
Speaker 2: Because you have, really, if you step back and look
Speaker 2: at it, these two guys in the studio, you have
Speaker 2: possibly the two weirdest guys in the history of the
Speaker 2: universe in the same proximity.
Speaker 1: Specifically in music at that time, for sure. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's what it is. It's just too much ying, Yeah,
Speaker 1: not enough yang, right, Like, that's that's the thing. It's
Speaker 1: if you got two super extroverts or two super introverts
Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, sometimes that ain't gonna.
Speaker 2: Work with a great story. You guys, how come you
Speaker 2: didn't release the single Lama Yeah.
Speaker 1: Lama dramas man. Oh yeah, I just wrote the headline.
Speaker 1: So anyway, with that Live aid, the amount of money
Speaker 1: that actually ended up going to actual starving people in
Speaker 1: Africa was not a high percentage. A lot of people
Speaker 1: don't talk about that, so but that's fine. I'm just
Speaker 1: pointing out that Bono Bono is all about the act
Speaker 1: of but maybe some of the details escape him in
Speaker 1: his quest to be an activist. And so here he is.
Speaker 1: This was him talking to Rogan the other day. It's
Speaker 1: not proven, but there's surveillance enough suggests three hundred thousand
Speaker 1: people have already died from just.
Speaker 2: This cut off, this hard cut This is the usaid
Speaker 2: you said.
Speaker 3: So this food rotting in boats and warehouses.
Speaker 7: For sure, there have been a lot of organizations that
Speaker 7: do tremendous good all throughout the world. Also, for sure,
Speaker 7: it was a money laundering operation. For sure, there was
Speaker 7: no oversight. For sure, billions of dollars are missing. In fact,
Speaker 7: trillions that are unaccounted for that were sent off into
Speaker 7: various that they don't even know where because there's no receipts.
Speaker 7: The way Elon must describe that, he said, if any
Speaker 7: of this was done by a public company, the company
Speaker 7: would be delisted and the executives be in prison.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, all right.
Speaker 2: Too, But I love how you shut them up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And to his credit, I'll give Bono. You know,
Speaker 1: Bono sat there and listened right and continued the discussion. So,
Speaker 1: because I think it was willing to have a good
Speaker 1: faith discussion. I just this three hundred thousand number this three,
Speaker 1: and then then of course the hens over at the
Speaker 1: view get hold of it. Yesterday, here we.
Speaker 9: Go t one hundred and fifty thousand federal employees, more
Speaker 9: than eighty five hundred contracts, more than ten thousand grants,
Speaker 9: and his cutbacks on medical research cost the lives of
Speaker 9: the foreign aid costs three hundred thousand lives, mostly children.
Speaker 9: That's the DNA that Elon mustet. So I don't think
Speaker 9: anyone should be listening to him about anything.
Speaker 1: Rod's do me a favorite, because your commute, obviously is
Speaker 1: is the longest of the commutes, and you can you
Speaker 1: can give me a range here. I don't expect you
Speaker 1: know the exact number. How many dead kids did you drive?
Speaker 1: I buy on the way in this morning over under?
Speaker 2: I mean it was very dark out. I didn't see any.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, you think three hundred thousand.
Speaker 2: No, No, significantly less than three hundred thousand. I'd probably
Speaker 2: say somewhere between the vicinity of zero and zero.
Speaker 1: Okay, well you do you admit it it's dark? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you don't you don't know what might be lurking
Speaker 1: off in the tree line there.
Speaker 2: So the number is soapsurd, three hundred thousand children.
Speaker 1: Don't you remember though, Like like three days after they
Speaker 1: were like and there's already like fifty thousand dead. I
Speaker 1: remember them batting some number.
Speaker 2: You know, and they were they were saying, like in Africa,
Speaker 2: they were like, Okay, well the USA IDs you know,
Speaker 2: not a thing anymore, or they're going to be putting
Speaker 2: a stop to it. Oh look at that now, everybody's
Speaker 2: dying of AIDS in Africa.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it was. There was we saw a
Speaker 1: big uptick in AIDS. And I'm like, how in three
Speaker 1: days like then, they wouldn't even tell you to get
Speaker 1: an AIDS test if you were concerned about a sexual
Speaker 1: encounter in three days, right, Like there's a certain amount
Speaker 1: of time that it would be nesta. You may get
Speaker 1: a test, but then they tell you to come back
Speaker 1: for another test if you're very concerned.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, because you've got to do a comparison of
Speaker 2: your like your your white blood cell count or whatever
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: Correct. Yeah, So how in three days you figure that out?
Speaker 1: Sound a little propaganda to me, but you know, you
Speaker 1: know the view they don't care to throw that on
Speaker 1: out there, and then they added mostly kids, which is
Speaker 1: not what Bono said. So the view is like, ah,
Speaker 1: how can we make this how can we make this
Speaker 1: number even scarier? We'll say it's all kids that's going
Speaker 1: on there. The other question is, if you've got a
Speaker 1: warehouse full of food and it's about to go bad,
Speaker 1: do you need a ten million dollar government NGO to
Speaker 1: open the door so that people can get the food?
Speaker 1: Or that's you know, that's another thing right there. So
Speaker 1: I don't know the answer to that. But I don't
Speaker 1: know that. I don't know that these three hundred thousand
Speaker 1: numbers anything. But so as as they say, all right,
Speaker 1: coming up on the show, we're gonna chat with Stephen Kent,
Speaker 1: I'll be here in just a few minutes eight oh
Speaker 1: five actually, so about you know, a little more than
Speaker 1: a few but not too far down the road, and
Speaker 1: we got all sorts of stuff to get into. Let me,
Speaker 1: uh real, quickly throw this out. Michael Moore has written
Speaker 1: a new pledge of allegiance and it has dessert. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, so let me I'm gonna read you
Speaker 1: the new proposed pledge of Allegiance from Michael Moore, And
Speaker 1: then I want you to tell me if you like
Speaker 1: this one or if you like the one that you
Speaker 1: said in your classroom when you were a kid while
Speaker 1: you looked at the flag. Okay, all right, so here
Speaker 1: is the here's the new one. You guys all know
Speaker 1: the first one. Here's the new one. I pledge allegiance
Speaker 1: to the people of the United States of America and
Speaker 1: to the democracy for which we all stand. One person,
Speaker 1: one vote, one nation, part of one world. Everyone a
Speaker 1: seat at the table, everyone a slice of the pie.
Speaker 1: That's the dessert. With liberty and justice, equality at least
Speaker 1: can go with equity and kindness and the pursuit of
Speaker 1: happiness for all. There's no God reference in there either.
Speaker 1: To be fair, the original one didn't have God until
Speaker 1: the mid fifties, but the one most of us grew
Speaker 1: up with did. All right, So what do you think
Speaker 1: of the new one? Ross?
Speaker 7: Are you?
Speaker 1: Are you an old school or a new school? Pledge
Speaker 1: of allegiance?
Speaker 2: Old school that is complete trash. It's got pie though,
Speaker 2: I like pie. Okay, well, what's your favorite kind of pie?
Speaker 4: Mm?
Speaker 1: We know I'm not a sweet I'm not a sweet sky.
Speaker 1: But if you got some pumpkin pie. I write it
Speaker 1: down with that.
Speaker 2: Yes, agreed, completely agree.
Speaker 1: It's weird. There's some people that it's their least favorite.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 2: When I was a kid, my mom would be like, wait,
Speaker 2: what kind of cake do you want for your birthday?
Speaker 2: And every time I would say, I want pumpkin pie.
Speaker 2: And but it has to be it can't be soupy.
Speaker 2: It has to be like the right sort of consistency.
Speaker 1: So I agree. Yeah, yeah, decent quality crust. It's just
Speaker 1: you whip cream or ice cream on your I'll.
Speaker 2: Go both, but probably whipped cream.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tends to make it not It depends how fast
Speaker 1: you're gonna eat it. So yeah. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's the pies referencing. I think maybe it. He
Speaker 1: might mean something else. So anyway, let's get raced agic's
Speaker 1: favorite pie from the weather chair. What's your favorite flavor
Speaker 1: of pie? Sir?
Speaker 6: Oh my godmother's chocolate cream pie. Every Christmas or Thanksgiving
Speaker 6: we used to have. Okay, all right, that well, not
Speaker 6: even close.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not even close. Ye do you like pumpkin pie? Nope? Next,
Speaker 3: I'm reliable.
Speaker 1: Stand like people are either they either like it or
Speaker 1: they don't I've never met anyone who's just kind of
Speaker 1: ambivalent on it.
Speaker 3: So well, it's like pumpkin spice beer, right, no.
Speaker 1: No, no, it's right. One is exactly. My point is beer.
Speaker 1: One is intrectly dessert, and what is not exactly It's
Speaker 1: just exactly those two things are not the same.
Speaker 3: So no, they are not.
Speaker 1: You know how angry I get in the fall every
Speaker 1: year when I want to go place. You got like
Speaker 1: ten taps, right yep, so there should be a nice
Speaker 1: Belgian on there. I like Belgians trapel of some sort.
Speaker 1: But no, no, no, no, we get later in the fall.
Speaker 1: Guaranteed three of those taps are chewed up by cinnamon spies,
Speaker 1: pumpkin spies, pumpkin beer. It's like it just ruins it
Speaker 1: for me. I am. I get angry over it because
Speaker 1: now it's my opportunity to drink real beer and not
Speaker 1: the crab.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: The women's like.
Speaker 6: So no, right, no, no, no, yeah, I mean they couldn't
Speaker 6: just go with like one.
Speaker 1: I immediately get his man cards.
Speaker 3: When was my sister here last and it might have
Speaker 3: been last fall, and she'd want to like a twelve
Speaker 3: pack of this pumpkin spice and drank two and guess what,
Speaker 3: there's still ten in the fridge.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Those are the those I call them victim beers.
Speaker 1: Everybody's got victim beers in their fridge, right, somebody brought
Speaker 1: them over. Whatever. You're never going to drink them because
Speaker 1: they're garbage. But some day somebody will be over. They'll
Speaker 1: want a beer and it's somebody that you don't really like,
Speaker 1: and you're like, I got a beer for you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you pop the top off and there's there's
Speaker 6: rust on the glass because it's been in there so long.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here you go.
Speaker 6: Well, don't worry about that. That'll wipe right off. Don't worry.
Speaker 6: It's only been in there about three years, so it's.
Speaker 1: Probably still good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, probably anyway, probably not so so it's going.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: With the weather stuff, it'll slowly start going downhill. Here
Speaker 6: this morning already looking at radar and guess what the
Speaker 6: rock is wet? So many of us starting to see
Speaker 6: some shower already the highest concentration greens brought down towards
Speaker 6: Charlotte in and around the triangle. We're just starting to
Speaker 6: get into some of these showers. Now that entity which
Speaker 6: the Hurricane Center had kind of put that little ten
Speaker 6: percent chance of development on. They no longer have that,
Speaker 6: but it's not like that system has completely gone away,
Speaker 6: so the moisture in the circulation is still there. So
Speaker 6: we're still going to get showers, thunder showers today, tomorrow,
Speaker 6: even into the weekends. Some unsettled weather might even mix
Speaker 6: in by Saturday, some stronger severe storms, and we still
Speaker 6: may get some heavier rainfall at times too, So going
Speaker 6: to be a little bit unsettled.
Speaker 3: Today, we'll have.
Speaker 6: A rain chance that everybody's gonna get rain, and we're
Speaker 6: going to stay in the low seventies and the mid
Speaker 6: seventies Tomorrow, I think a little bit less in terms
Speaker 6: of chances and coverage on rainfall, so we may squeak
Speaker 6: out a tweener here Tomorrow, warm and little humid too,
Speaker 6: is getting the mid upper eighties, and then on Saturday
Speaker 6: and Sunday rain chances back up as tempts will stay
Speaker 6: mid upper eighties, maybe ninety with enough sunshine for some
Speaker 6: of us on Saturday. So I think we'll get worse
Speaker 6: before we get better. Tomorrow is gonna be okay today
Speaker 6: already as we're seeing, and the weekend I would definitely
Speaker 6: have like a plan of action. You're outdoors, if it's
Speaker 6: a lake pool, out of the boat, kids have games,
Speaker 6: anything like that. Say yourself, well it starts raining, how quickly?
Speaker 6: And where am I going to go? Especially if you
Speaker 6: get a severe storm, don't we want to call it
Speaker 6: in the lake? Caught in the lake somewhere with the
Speaker 6: sphere weather in the area.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but sometimes right before a storm hits, the fishing
Speaker 1: it's really good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been told that, but I would still say.
Speaker 1: I've been on a blake's slaying crappies and we can
Speaker 1: see lightning on the other side of the lake, and
Speaker 1: we we had a conversation where like, this is the
Speaker 1: best this lake has ever fished.
Speaker 6: Yeah, sometimes that happens, right, yeah, right, yeah, just five more?
Speaker 3: How far is that storm?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Murdered with the lightning anyway? All right, thank you sir,
Speaker 1: appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right?
Speaker 1: Coming up on the show how to Instantly Get Fired
Speaker 1: in Florida, Although maybe not there is a little twist
Speaker 1: in this story, but we'll get into it. Coming up
Speaker 1: Kcoday Radio program Florida as it pertains to educating the
Speaker 1: students and the trans and LGBTQ issues and we're not
Speaker 1: going to have this in the schools. Like everyone in
Speaker 1: Florida knows what's up. So the idea that you would
Speaker 1: do this assignment, you have to know this isn't gonna
Speaker 1: go well. However, there is a little twist to this,
Speaker 1: so Florida high school students who were taking part. So
Speaker 1: these are classes that take part at the Miami Dade
Speaker 1: Community College, but are four high school students. I don't
Speaker 1: know how much that they do in North Carolina. I
Speaker 1: did this in Wyoming. Actually, we did a thing my
Speaker 1: junior year was shared in college and we would get
Speaker 1: on a bus and go thirty miles up Sheridan two
Speaker 1: days a week and then do college classes or high
Speaker 1: school classes. They gave us college credit. So I think
Speaker 1: these are very cool. But that's what this is. So
Speaker 1: you're dealing with a community college professor, but you're dealing
Speaker 1: with high school students. So what was the assignment? The
Speaker 1: professor asked the students to complete a sexuality focus questionnaire.
Speaker 1: All right, Ross, you're the student here, let me ask
Speaker 1: you the questions. Okay, what do you think caused your heterosexuality?
Speaker 2: Do you think God is born this way?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Right? Is it possible to being straight. It's just
Speaker 1: a phase. You may grow out of.
Speaker 2: It, it is not you sure, yep, all right, pretty positive.
Speaker 1: Considering the menace of hunger and overpopulation, could the human
Speaker 1: race survive if everyone was straight like you? Okay?
Speaker 2: So the whole premise of the question is dumb because
Speaker 2: the scarcity isn't even really a thing. That's a hoax.
Speaker 2: So I don't go. I can't. No, you're stupid. No,
Speaker 2: I hate the whole scarcity thing. Yeah, like the limited resources.
Speaker 2: Shut up, it's not a thing. It's not real.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to read all these questions. You get
Speaker 1: the just of what's going on here. So I uh oh,
Speaker 1: actually hold on a couple more. To whom have you
Speaker 1: disclosed your straight tendencies? Have you told in everyone you're straight?
Speaker 1: My wife oh repeating it's just the part where she's
Speaker 1: pregnant and you're like, ah, right, okay, I see what
Speaker 1: you did there. Why do you insist on showing off
Speaker 1: your hetero sex?
Speaker 2: How is this? How is this up?
Speaker 1: By the way, that question being asked in the month
Speaker 1: of June, Why do you show off your heterosexuality? Right?
Speaker 2: How is this even possible? How is this a homework?
Speaker 2: Assignment in a school. It's ridiculous. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the thing is, I since it's a professor to
Speaker 1: community colle I don't know. I don't know how that
Speaker 1: how that works in Florida because at first I thought
Speaker 1: it was just a high school class. I'm like, that teacher,
Speaker 1: don't work there no more Steven Kent joining us. Steven Kent,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that you are in one of these giant
Speaker 1: nerd lines that's in front of the best Buy and
Speaker 1: Carrie right now, waiting for the switch to or not.
Speaker 4: Of course, I'm I'm coming to you from the line.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I had no idea that there'd be two hundred
Speaker 1: people at about four o'clock this morning lined up in
Speaker 1: front of the best Bike.
Speaker 4: So God, you know, the Nintendo Switch is a pretty
Speaker 4: exciting piece of tech. I'm not surprised at all, But honestly,
Speaker 4: two hundred that doesn't seem like that much. You know,
Speaker 4: that seems like a quick onn You'll be.
Speaker 1: In and out. Okay, Well, it depends how many they have,
Speaker 1: right because like everything else he's launched, they know they're
Speaker 1: going to run out. Ross was saying that they already
Speaker 1: were stocking signs. Says sorry, we're out. They had sent
Speaker 1: those out, so they anticipate they're going to run out there.
Speaker 1: Have you ever queued up? You ever camped out for something?
Speaker 4: You know? I have camped out for movies. I have
Speaker 4: never camped out for technology reveals. That's just sort of
Speaker 4: my not my thing. I always try to wait for
Speaker 4: it to be on sale, and.
Speaker 1: I assume that have the people in the line are
Speaker 1: just going to try to flip them for some stupid
Speaker 1: amount later today.
Speaker 4: So yeah, there is, there's There have been ports of that,
Speaker 4: so like people will go in and they'll buy multiples,
Speaker 4: and then stores will cap how many you can actually
Speaker 4: get it one single time, just to prevent that kind
Speaker 4: of thing.
Speaker 1: My favorite, my favorite campout. There was a news clip
Speaker 1: and it was from It was from one of the
Speaker 1: big iPhone releases. I don't think it was the original.
Speaker 1: I think it was when they transition to the three
Speaker 1: that became super popular, but the three G or whatever
Speaker 1: it was called, I think it was that launch, and
Speaker 1: I remember it was bonkers. It was bonkers, And there
Speaker 1: was video of this lady who had like ten thousand
Speaker 1: dollars in cash and she went to buy the first
Speaker 1: spot in line and she paid the dude like one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars for a spot in line. She got in
Speaker 1: there and she's like, and I'm gonna buy like ten phones,
Speaker 1: and then they follow her in there and she gets
Speaker 1: into the store and like, we can only sell you one.
Speaker 1: So now she just realized she just paid this guy
Speaker 1: one thousand for a spot in line and she can
Speaker 1: only buy one. And you could just watch her face,
Speaker 1: just the instruction on her Facebook.
Speaker 4: To be one of these people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got gotta read the fine print there. All right,
Speaker 1: we got to talk about AI. We got a bunch
Speaker 1: of AI stuff this morning. Boy, where do I want
Speaker 1: to start here? Let me start with the kind of
Speaker 1: funny and then we'll get into the more serious. I've
Speaker 1: seen two examples of this. Now, this is the story
Speaker 1: we talked about the other day. AI company files for
Speaker 1: bankruptcy after being exposed as just seven hundred Indian engineers.
Speaker 1: So it was an AI design and Microsoft was invested
Speaker 1: in this thing, and it was you know, hey, it
Speaker 1: was an A. I guess it coded websites, right, it
Speaker 1: created websites, but it was an AI. It was a sweatshot.
Speaker 1: And there was another app and I can't remember this
Speaker 1: guy's name who started an app that was an assistant
Speaker 1: app and he was the darling of Silicon Valley and
Speaker 1: it was basically the way it worked is you could
Speaker 1: see any piece of media, you see a photo of
Speaker 1: your favorite celebrity, like the shoes they're wearing. You would
Speaker 1: on the app indicate that you want those shoes. They
Speaker 1: would then find out what they are, who they are,
Speaker 1: and figure out where you can get them the cheapest.
Speaker 1: And it was supposed to be AI, but it was
Speaker 1: it was Filipino sweatshops. Because people see, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: You're you're putting on a query. Yeah, you're putting on
Speaker 4: a query and you're asking the AI for something, and
Speaker 4: it really is just a warehouse of individuals very quickly
Speaker 4: getting you an answer and then passing it off as AI.
Speaker 4: That's that's wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I suspect there's probably others out there. I
Speaker 1: can't remember. The guy was trying to defend it somehow,
Speaker 1: and he's just like, well, we hope to get there
Speaker 1: with AI. But the problem is, and it's an understandable problem.
Speaker 1: Your hat you can't write something that can navigate every
Speaker 1: buying page of every website because a lot of them,
Speaker 1: you know, they're so different, right, there's not a excuse
Speaker 1: mom of a sneeze here.
Speaker 4: Oh for my mic off like so bless.
Speaker 1: You, thank you. But you know, so this thing, it
Speaker 1: was more than just the app being and assistant. They
Speaker 1: were giving this guy money because he had created AI
Speaker 1: that was able to navigate all the different websites with
Speaker 1: all of their buying portals. So it could that's how
Speaker 1: it could. It could complete a sale through Amazon, or
Speaker 1: through the manufacturer's website, or through a secondary website, and
Speaker 1: so that's really what people were investing in. So it
Speaker 1: turned into much more of a boondoggle because they wanted
Speaker 1: to apply that same technology to other comparative buying opportunities
Speaker 1: for like insurance things like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, sometimes I don't know, I don't know what
Speaker 4: to do with all this stuff. I just went to
Speaker 4: an AI expo in Washington, d C. On Monday, and
Speaker 4: it was a huge expo for all of the AI firms,
Speaker 4: you know, and also kind of the big traditional tech
Speaker 4: companies you know, like Microsoft and now Meta and all
Speaker 4: this kind of stuff, and the military. There was this
Speaker 4: huge Pentagon presence and it was basically them just talking
Speaker 4: and shared ideas about how AI was going to change
Speaker 4: the future of warfare. There were drone presentations, you know,
Speaker 4: twenty four hours after this Ukrainian attack using drones on
Speaker 4: Russian airplanes, they were doing this attack drones demonstration in
Speaker 4: this space and I was going on, this seems really cool,
Speaker 4: but all of this stuff really seems to be manual
Speaker 4: to me, Like, it's hard to imagine what AI is
Speaker 4: really going to be like the way that they say,
Speaker 4: because so much of it is still just kind of
Speaker 4: guys holding remote controls. Even the robots, you know, the
Speaker 4: robots that they say are going to go around picking
Speaker 4: up trash, they're at the expo being controlled by like
Speaker 4: game Boy controls.
Speaker 1: Well, so I just have a hard time believing it.
Speaker 1: Then they're like, ah, I'm a robot, I'm picking up trash.
Speaker 1: I'm going to murder all the humans. So you know,
Speaker 1: we got to slow roll this thing. AI is clearly
Speaker 1: a buzzword, but the tech isn't there as evidence by
Speaker 1: you know, we have how many times have we seen
Speaker 1: a story where the AI just makes stuff up? Right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did make up Back tooy, some lawyer got probably
Speaker 1: lost his law license because he used AI to write
Speaker 1: a brief with citations for cases that never existed.
Speaker 4: The aid yes and yesterday. I mean, I was my daughter.
Speaker 4: She's a teenager. She just got her first job offer.
Speaker 4: Someone wanted to hire her at their gym, and so
Speaker 4: they wanted a resume. So we went home, we started
Speaker 4: working on her first resume, and we decided, because I
Speaker 4: just hate Microsoft word when it comes to designing resumes,
Speaker 4: I was like, all right, let's actually use chat GPT
Speaker 4: for this thing. Let's put in your age, your background,
Speaker 4: let's put in all of your qualifications into an AI
Speaker 4: or into chat GBT as a prompt and then just
Speaker 4: have it export a document. And chat GBT made a
Speaker 4: great resume, but it also embellished everything it made up.
Speaker 4: It made up job duties. It took all of her
Speaker 4: little experiences doing volunteer jobs and when created tasks that
Speaker 4: she might have done. And that's just sort of the
Speaker 4: standard operating procedure for most of this AI is hallucinating
Speaker 4: and coming up with information.
Speaker 1: Well, but the downstream effect is because clearly you didn't
Speaker 1: send that one, right because you're like.
Speaker 4: No, of course, yeah, you got to edit, you.
Speaker 1: Got to edit. But a lot of people would go, Nope,
Speaker 1: we're sending that one, and now people are competing again.
Speaker 1: Your daughter's competing against people who probably handed in an
Speaker 1: embellish resume. Look what is doing to schools. Man, They're
Speaker 1: wanting to bring back blue books and bubble tests. Right,
Speaker 1: it's too easy to cheat with the AI. So yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: I don't know how we get there another one. And
Speaker 1: I have some friends who work in the entertainment industry
Speaker 1: in California. When I I went to school down there
Speaker 1: and I worked in college for IATZI, which is the
Speaker 1: Stage hand Union, which was a great gig man because
Speaker 1: I'd go work concerts and I just I work like
Speaker 1: sixteen hours straight, and so you get all this double
Speaker 1: pay and triple pay based on what you're doing. You
Speaker 1: get to watch a pre concert, get to interact with
Speaker 1: the acts. It was great. But some of those guys,
Speaker 1: they work in Hollywood and they do commercial shoots, they
Speaker 1: do movies, and they're not working right now. Nobody's filming
Speaker 1: in LA because it's crazy expensive. But even where they
Speaker 1: are filming things like commercials, the biggest fear that some
Speaker 1: of these guys have. There's a guy named Paul Deprezio,
Speaker 1: was a good friend of mine who does a lot
Speaker 1: of this and I've seen them on Facebook and these
Speaker 1: guys are like, AI is coming, We're gonna have to
Speaker 1: find something else to do. And I saw this story
Speaker 1: that you sent about. There's an ad that's going to
Speaker 1: run on Fox Fox News channel for like two weeks
Speaker 1: and it's for a credit conservative credit card company. There's
Speaker 1: a bald eagle, got to have one of those dude
Speaker 1: in flannel right nailing it. But that's completely AI generated
Speaker 1: And that normally would have been a million dollar operation,
Speaker 1: but maybe not a million dollars, but that would have
Speaker 1: been a signal a good financial operation that employed a
Speaker 1: bunch of people. And now this vo three or whatever
Speaker 1: spin it out in probably a few hours.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a it's a pretty shocking ad. I would
Speaker 4: recommend everybody go look it up. It's by this credit
Speaker 4: card company called coin. It's coin with a silent G
Speaker 4: and this is a thirty second ad spot that just
Speaker 4: produces every kind of conservative personality stereotype you can imagine
Speaker 4: all the way down.
Speaker 1: Ross will you rip it in real quick? Can you
Speaker 1: do that? Will Stevens on the phone, Yeah.
Speaker 4: And all the all the way down to you know,
Speaker 4: having one of their conservatives in the ad. You know
Speaker 4: some some Asian fellow who uses the Conservative credit card
Speaker 4: to buy gold and another older woman who uses her
Speaker 4: Conservative credit card to get her four wheeler ready for
Speaker 4: mutting season. It's just a real mess.
Speaker 1: Mutting season. You never been mutting?
Speaker 4: Well, the problem with her mutting season is that her mouth,
Speaker 4: her mouth doesn't and this advertisement, so they put all
Speaker 4: this hype into this new AI generated ad and this
Speaker 4: one person's mouth doesn't move off she speaks. It's just
Speaker 4: why would you even put this out?
Speaker 1: So she's a ventriloquist. What's your problem? Who likes mudd No? Wait,
Speaker 1: you never met an old woman who's a ventriloquist who
Speaker 1: likes Muddon.
Speaker 4: I've never met an old woman who can speak through
Speaker 4: her face.
Speaker 1: Now, this is you Northern Virginia people, right, You got
Speaker 1: to get to the country, folks. This is what they do.
Speaker 1: This is totally normal with a bald eagle on their own.
Speaker 1: I'm MDAD. So all right, so there was oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and then Netflix is embracing this. So from n gadget here,
Speaker 1: Netflix will embrace AI generated ads. Streaming service will roll
Speaker 1: like AI generated ads, so we'll play in the middle
Speaker 1: of a show or whenever users hit pause if it's
Speaker 1: one of the ads supported plans. Obviously, if you have
Speaker 1: the ad free plan, you won't see this. This sounds
Speaker 1: like it's just gonna be awful, right, but also financially
Speaker 1: understand why Netflix is doing it this way.
Speaker 4: The thing that I don't understand about this and I
Speaker 4: saw this story AI generated ads that are going to
Speaker 4: run through Netflix, But I don't understand even what that
Speaker 4: what that means, you know, an AI generated ad for
Speaker 4: what does that mean that they're just going to like
Speaker 4: slap a Windy's logo onto the screen and then just
Speaker 4: move on. How are they determining what the viewer might
Speaker 4: want to see? Because my understanding is that Netflix tries
Speaker 4: to serve you ads somewhat based on your your viewing habits.
Speaker 4: But then there are course ads that people created to
Speaker 4: actually persuade the buyer. I don't believe for a second
Speaker 4: that AI generated ads right now are actually capable of
Speaker 4: doing deep human persuasion in the way that ADMIN are.
Speaker 1: You know, No, I one agree, but they can only
Speaker 1: get better at it, and some things, some things are
Speaker 1: not rocket science, right. Putting a bald eagle in an
Speaker 1: ad that runs on Fox News like welcome to Fox News, right, like,
Speaker 1: that's it's all right, I have the ad here. Let's
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and listen to this. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: Steven's right. You got to watch it to really see
Speaker 1: the the mouth thing. But let's listen.
Speaker 3: How are you going to spend right today?
Speaker 10: Ribs chicken and some alligator for the big game.
Speaker 1: I've bought new Camo for deer season.
Speaker 11: Gold, I've bought a lot of gold.
Speaker 8: I've PANMP my ride to go Mudd because you only
Speaker 8: live once. And I've bought the biggest American flag I
Speaker 8: could find, because God bless the USA.
Speaker 1: Coin spend right, all right, So here's the deal, because
Speaker 1: here's here's the fence that you're trying to straddle here.
Speaker 1: Do you make it so over the top as to
Speaker 1: let the audience know that they're in it? Is that
Speaker 1: you're kind of joking or does that come across as
Speaker 1: wildly insulted?
Speaker 4: It definitely comes across as wildly insulting, and for a
Speaker 4: conservative credit card company, which for me really just means
Speaker 4: that people are just trying to ring up credit card
Speaker 4: debt on people who they think they know how to
Speaker 4: message to. I don't really understand how this appeals to conservatives.
Speaker 4: The conservative mind, the conservative instinct lashes against this kind
Speaker 4: of stuff. However, the people who might be watching this
Speaker 4: on Fox News, I tend to think they might not
Speaker 4: be able to tell it's AI because of the age demographic.
Speaker 4: This looks very, very real. The only thing that gives
Speaker 4: it away is the accentuation in their speech. The way
Speaker 4: that they speak in very slow measured sentences throughout this
Speaker 4: ad gives it all away. They don't actually have any
Speaker 4: fluidity to the way that they talk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and they don't have an eagle street either,
Speaker 1: so that's you know, that's a bit of an issue.
Speaker 1: It looks no, but you got to have the screech man,
Speaker 1: you always got to have. Yeah, yeah, well not that
Speaker 1: one thought.
Speaker 4: A real eagle screech it's not very cool.
Speaker 1: No, but I've I've had an eagle on my arm,
Speaker 1: bald eagle on my arm. Man. I gotta find that fatal.
Speaker 1: I went to they have a bald Eagle center in Wabashaw, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: and I went down to that thing, and uh for
Speaker 1: we did a radio event down there, and they're like,
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, you want to put a couple of
Speaker 1: eagles on your army. You don't realize how heavy those
Speaker 1: bastards are. There's that's a big bird man, Bold Eagle.
Speaker 4: He missed an opportunity to shoot an ad for your show.
Speaker 4: You should have done it.
Speaker 1: Well, it was way back in the day. Like we've
Speaker 1: had some stuff. We used to have an ad that
Speaker 1: ran on on this station for something called Freedom Checks.
Speaker 1: And I we had so much fun just mocking that thing.
Speaker 1: I don't even I don't even know if we have
Speaker 1: in the system anymore, but like it was the most
Speaker 1: over the top country dude for freedom checks. His name
Speaker 1: was what is it? Ricky? Is Ricky for Freedom Checks?
Speaker 1: And like it was fun because like we were all
Speaker 1: in on just kind of mocking the thing.
Speaker 4: So are you allowed to mock your own advertisers?
Speaker 3: Well, it was not a thing you can.
Speaker 1: Do this one. This one was fine to do. It
Speaker 1: was because the audience was like, what the hell was that?
Speaker 1: And it was it was less mocking, and it was
Speaker 1: just because it was so blistering on the ears. Man,
Speaker 1: some of some of the longtime listeners will remember that.
Speaker 1: All right. Unfortunately we're not going to get to the
Speaker 1: White to Challa, So maybe next week. Next week with tragedy.
Speaker 4: Thanks so much, Jasey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Stephen Kent there, follow him on the
Speaker 1: on the Twitter. We'll retweet his thing there and we'll
Speaker 1: talk next week. Thank you, sir. All right, it is
Speaker 1: eight twenty three, coming up on the show real quick.
Speaker 1: Just today about ten seconds to fill here we got
Speaker 1: an al kaita dude we got to talk about and well, anyway,
Speaker 1: some more audio as well. Was Jean Pierre coming up?
Speaker 1: Hang on. Oh, yesterday we were treated to the announcement
Speaker 1: that Karine Jean Pierre, the you know, the press secretary
Speaker 1: for Joe Biden there is leaving the Democrat Party. Oh
Speaker 1: and she's got a new tell all book. I'm sure
Speaker 1: the two are not connected. In fact, he is the
Speaker 1: here's the announcement on that.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 5: I'm Karine Jean Pierre, and I am the author of
Speaker 5: a new book that's coming out this fall called Independent.
Speaker 5: It's coming out on October twenty first, so please please.
Speaker 1: Do grab it.
Speaker 5: And the reason I wrote this book coming out of
Speaker 5: the White House. You know, serving as White House Press
Speaker 5: secretary was an honor and a privilege. But since I
Speaker 5: have left, the people that come up to me, strangers
Speaker 5: that come up to me just across the country as
Speaker 5: I'm traveling, and sometimes right in my neighborhood, at our
Speaker 5: grocery store, supermarket, airport, my daughter school. The number one
Speaker 5: question they asked me is, Kareem, how do we get
Speaker 5: out of this? How do we protect our democracy? How
Speaker 5: do we protect vulnerable communities among us? What do we
Speaker 5: do next? Because we don't have answers here? That's what
Speaker 5: they ask me. And this is my answer. And what
Speaker 5: I mean by that is in an era of.
Speaker 11: Misinformation, disinformation, the regressiveness of social policy, what we're seeing
Speaker 11: currently right now, what I have decided to do, and
Speaker 11: I really have thought long and hard about this, is
Speaker 11: to follow.
Speaker 5: My own compass. And that's what I've done, and that's what.
Speaker 11: This book does.
Speaker 5: And here's the truth, and here's how I will lay
Speaker 5: it out to you. I think we need to stop
Speaker 5: thinking in boxes and think outside of our boxes and
Speaker 5: not be so partisan.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right? And I also saw another comment where
Speaker 1: she's like, I think you'll tell you. It was in
Speaker 1: the article Politico a quote from her, but basically she's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the White House was dysfunction and all. But yeah, she's
Speaker 1: all about, hey, we can't have disinformation, misinformation. I would
Speaker 1: remind you by the way that this is her from
Speaker 1: back when she was still doing her thing, literally beating
Speaker 1: the cheap fakes thing, right, which is what all these
Speaker 1: these journalists are now saying that they they believed and
Speaker 1: they shouldn't have believed. But this was the nexus for it.
Speaker 1: This was a design talking point that the White House
Speaker 1: came out with to explain why Biden kept looking like
Speaker 1: he was on death's door. Okay, and just let's jump
Speaker 1: on the way back machine here it is.
Speaker 5: You all have called this the cheap fakes video, and
Speaker 5: that's exactly what they are. They are cheap fakes video.
Speaker 5: They are done in bad fight.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: And and some of your news organization have have been
Speaker 5: very clear have stressed that these right wing, the right
Speaker 5: wing critics of the president have a credibility problem because
Speaker 5: of the fact checkers have repeatedly caught them pushing miss
Speaker 5: in information disinformation, right. And so we see this and
Speaker 5: this is something coming from from your your part of
Speaker 5: the world calling them a cheap face.
Speaker 1: So she knows that what she's saying is complete and
Speaker 1: other life.
Speaker 2: Right. Meanwhile, Joe Biden is like in the background in
Speaker 2: the back somewhere get lost in a walking closet as non.
Speaker 1: Mar You guys, they have a really nice walking at
Speaker 1: the lighthouse that they do. I'm sure they do, all right.
Speaker 1: So my question this is the judgment called scummiest garbage Human,
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper or Jean Pierre? Which one do you go?
Speaker 2: I gotta go KJP. I feel like it's like.
Speaker 1: But like we kind of knew her job was the
Speaker 1: live a living.
Speaker 2: That's her job to get paid. But at some point
Speaker 2: you could sort of be like, I can't do this anymore,
Speaker 2: or step down or resign or come on no and.
Speaker 1: You or you could response with We're not going to
Speaker 1: dignify these questions, which is a cop out, but it's
Speaker 1: not a lie, she says, I mean, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And for her to preface her book like that you
Speaker 2: were the face of the disinformation for the administration, right
Speaker 2: like you were it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but she quit the party. Man, It's okay, she's
Speaker 1: out right at the same time she's selling a book.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be so many of these tellaws. The amount
Speaker 1: of people that are getting ready to release books. I
Speaker 1: think there's like five or six of them in the
Speaker 1: works from different aspects, and you know, obviously she's got
Speaker 1: the high profile name, she's got to jump on it. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper's doing all of his things running around pretending,
Speaker 1: but like his narrative is that she lied to him
Speaker 1: and her In that quote you just heard, she lays
Speaker 1: out cheap fakes as being something that was designed by
Speaker 1: the media, which is not true. That was a talking
Speaker 1: point that emerged from the White House and then the
Speaker 1: media blond onto it, and then later she pretended like
Speaker 1: they came up with it. So yeah, I you know what, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think for that reason where she's commenting on the
Speaker 1: things she herself created. They just found out too, that
Speaker 1: some PR lady was essentially brought in with Jean Pierre
Speaker 1: while she was still working and was given access to
Speaker 1: her email. I don't know, I got to think that
Speaker 1: the White House Press secretary's email is not something that
Speaker 1: you want a PR person who's an activist feminist like
Speaker 1: PR person up in there, right, because you remember, everyone's
Speaker 1: so concerned because those employees, right, what the hell's in
Speaker 1: Jean Pierre's emails? Probably some pretty juicy stuff.
Speaker 2: Just saying I also, I don't buy the whole point
Speaker 2: that people are coming up to her with this question.
Speaker 1: Like all the time in the grocery store, you can't
Speaker 1: showing up.
Speaker 2: People are like, hey, how can we get out of this?
Speaker 2: You know, current political paradigmer. Nobody's doing that. That's not happening.
Speaker 2: It's like when these people write these political posts and like,
Speaker 2: oh my kid was literally trembling. No they weren't.
Speaker 1: Everyone applauded. Yeah, yeah, but how many times have you
Speaker 1: been somewhere somebody realized is that you work on the radio?
Speaker 1: What do they ask if it's an.
Speaker 2: Election here, who's gonna win?
Speaker 1: Who's gonna win?
Speaker 2: And I'm like, I don't know, no idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah I'm not. I'm not out here rigging elections. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, But so that so there's a little
Speaker 1: believability there. I don't know, man, I don't know. If
Speaker 1: if I was, if I was in a friendly conversation
Speaker 1: where I was trying to get real dirt with her,
Speaker 1: that would not be what I'd be asking. I'm just
Speaker 1: be like, come on, man, how many times did Joe
Speaker 1: Biden walk into a wall? Right? Right?
Speaker 2: You knew he had spaghetti brains? Just be honest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But I don't want to be accused of Tori,
Speaker 1: so you want it is like dish the dirt, what's
Speaker 1: going on? And I don't know. May you probably wouldn't
Speaker 1: get an answer out of her. But either way, the
Speaker 1: uh yeah, she I think she wins the scumbag race
Speaker 1: on this one. I'll go with that. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: I mentioned this, let me get the deats out there
Speaker 1: because this is I'm sure some judge will step in.
Speaker 1: This was one of the first if you go back
Speaker 1: to the first Trump administration, one of the very first
Speaker 1: high profile judge meddling cases was that judge from the
Speaker 1: California Circuit out there or no, he was from Hawaii,
Speaker 1: I believe, but which is part of the California circuit.
Speaker 1: He stopped the travel ban, right even though the law
Speaker 1: is it's a super short law. I remember reading it
Speaker 1: and it's unlike most laws, it's very easy to understand,
Speaker 1: and it basically says the president has full authority pound
Speaker 1: sand right, And this judge enjoined the travel ban because
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, he's just doing it to Muslim countries.
Speaker 1: Except he wasn't just doing it to Muslim countries, and
Speaker 1: he wasn't doing it to all the Muslim countries. He
Speaker 1: was doing it to countries that don't vet right. That
Speaker 1: was the complaint. We can't trust that the person their
Speaker 1: documents say that they are is in fact that person.
Speaker 1: And it's a big problem. I told you what was
Speaker 1: going on with the Somalis up in Minneapolis, where you
Speaker 1: would have people that were vetted as it as a
Speaker 1: family unit. By however they were vetting them through there.
Speaker 1: They would get in this this refugee program. They were
Speaker 1: taking them all to Minneapolis. They have a huge Somali
Speaker 1: population up there, and you know, and sure a lot
Speaker 1: of them are wanting to come to America because Somalia
Speaker 1: probably sucks to live in Somalia. But the problem was
Speaker 1: is you had a lot of abuse within the system,
Speaker 1: and so you'd have this mother, father and kids show
Speaker 1: up and they would give preference to family units, which
Speaker 1: I guess I understand that, except they'd get to America
Speaker 1: and they would just leave in part ways because they
Speaker 1: weren't a family. Sometimes they were a husband and wife,
Speaker 1: but a lot of times they weren't. And then now
Speaker 1: you got a kid who's like eleven, who's now dumped
Speaker 1: into the community because the kid was an orphan that
Speaker 1: they you know, basically pretended was their kid. This is
Speaker 1: you don't believe the FBI did a whole big investigation
Speaker 1: over this, because now you got kids, essentially, you gotta
Speaker 1: figure out what you're gonna do with them so they
Speaker 1: don't freeze to death. And so that's where the questions lie.
Speaker 1: So in a memorandum released yesterday, Trump the executive action
Speaker 1: has banned travel from a dozen countries and placed partial
Speaker 1: restrictions on travel from seven more. So, these are the
Speaker 1: countries where there's nobody's coming in Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic
Speaker 1: of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia,
Speaker 1: Sudan and Yemen. All right. Partial travel bans from Burundi, Cuba, Laos,
Speaker 1: Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: So, and like I said, I'm sure some judge will
Speaker 1: try to seek their teeth into this at some point today.
Speaker 1: But those are the countries you're you're dealing with on there,
Speaker 1: all right, rased agic from the weather channels. You're at
Speaker 1: a rock and roll No he's not, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: do do do well? That sucks because I had that
Speaker 1: all timed out there. Oh wait, hold on, Boston, Paul
Speaker 1: is defending pumpkin spice beer in my email. Dude, I
Speaker 1: need you to bring your man card to the station
Speaker 1: and turn that in, sir, turn it into day me.
Speaker 1: No one of our listeners who's defending pumpkin spice beer.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, yeah, he's from Boston, though, they're well, you're
Speaker 1: up there.
Speaker 6: Hey, I will defend the summer al though, Sam Adams.
Speaker 6: I mean, why is it like different seasonal ales are
Speaker 6: good and then it comes to pumpkin spice I guess
Speaker 6: because it's not like a fall seasonal ale.
Speaker 1: Your fruit into this now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean the seasonal it's yeah, sorry, listener, I mean
Speaker 6: that's bad.
Speaker 1: Nice from Boston. He doesn't have feelings.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's okay, I'm sorry. But yeah.
Speaker 6: Anyway, Well, wet day ahead, Yeah, damp already seeing the
Speaker 6: rain showers. It's a little heavier between Charlotte Greensboro and
Speaker 6: that's moving north, so the triad. I'll probably a little
Speaker 6: more rain in the triangle right now where it's rain
Speaker 6: lightly near Sandford and Fayetteville. Maybe not yet, but it's
Speaker 6: kind of this blob of patchy rain. I think we'll
Speaker 6: see that today, maybe a thunderstorm, a low to mid seventies.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow, might get a little bit.
Speaker 6: Of a break isolated stuff, and that may help us
Speaker 6: warm up with sunshine into the mid to upper eighties
Speaker 6: and the weekend, good chances of showers thunder showers each day,
Speaker 6: maybe some severe weather over the weekend too. So, as
Speaker 6: I mentioned earlier, with the weather now finally starting to
Speaker 6: warm up, it's pool and lake weather and kids having ballgames.
Speaker 6: Have a plan if you do get a severe storm
Speaker 6: or a warning, and then you know, if you plan
Speaker 6: it on stained busy all weekend, say well, I'm going
Speaker 6: to go out the lake, but if it rains, I'm
Speaker 6: going to do this. Like I say, if I'm in
Speaker 6: the pool and if it rains, I'm going to do this.
Speaker 6: So have a second plan in case you get a rain.
Speaker 1: Pool and it rains.
Speaker 6: What's the problem, well, thunder lightning thing. I mean, wow,
Speaker 6: you don't want to be in the pool with the
Speaker 6: thunder light If it rains, I stay, if I hear thunder,
Speaker 6: I go in and I just walk right in and
Speaker 6: go to the bar.
Speaker 1: So get your pumpkin spice beer. I understand.
Speaker 6: I get my pumpkin spice that's about ten months old
Speaker 6: from last year.
Speaker 1: Delicious. All right, thank you, sir, appreciate it. Okay, good one,
Speaker 1: and we'll come back with Jeff Bellinger next.
Speaker 10: Good morning, Casey, just got word from the Labor Department
Speaker 10: that there was a pick up last week and the
Speaker 10: number of workers filing new claims for unemployment benefits two
Speaker 10: hundred and forty seven thousand first time applications were counted.
Speaker 10: That was more than expected, in eight thousand more than
Speaker 10: the prior week. Now, this is the last of the
Speaker 10: job market indicators ahead of the May employment report. We
Speaker 10: get that one tomorrow. So far this week, data on
Speaker 10: jobless claims, layoffs, and private hiring of all pointed to
Speaker 10: some softness in the job market. North Carolina is in
Speaker 10: for about at least five hundred jobs. Amazon is planning
Speaker 10: to invest ten billion dollars in North Carolina's AI infrastructure.
Speaker 10: House hunters have a lot of properties to choose from,
Speaker 10: depending on where they're hunting. Realtor dot Com reports the
Speaker 10: number of homes on the market nationwide has topped one
Speaker 10: million for the first time since the winter of twenty nineteen.
Speaker 10: Inventories are back to pre pandemic levels in the south
Speaker 10: from the west, but housing markets in the northeast and
Speaker 10: Midwest are still in a squeeze. A survey by an
Speaker 10: accountant's trade organization indicates business optimism faded last month. Just
Speaker 10: over a quarter of the executives polled expressed confidence about
Speaker 10: the economic outlook. Federal Reserve officials around the country reported
Speaker 10: in for the Central Bank's latest Beije book. The reports
Speaker 10: indicate there was a modest slowdown in economic activity in
Speaker 10: recent weeks. You're probably seeing lines of people outside stores
Speaker 10: that sell video games this morning. Nintendo Switch two console
Speaker 10: went on sale today. Fans around the world have been
Speaker 10: willing to stand in line for hours to get one
Speaker 10: of the devices. A line formed outside a game Stop
Speaker 10: store here in Manhattan in the pre dawn hours yesterday.
Speaker 10: Best Buy says the console will definitely be a sellout
Speaker 10: and casey. Hooters has reportedly shuttered more than two dozen
Speaker 10: of its company owned restaurants and a surprise move. The
Speaker 10: company issued a statement to USA today saying the closing
Speaker 10: the locations was a difficult decision. Hooters has been in
Speaker 10: bankruptcy since March. When it filed it did not indicate
Speaker 10: that any outlets would be closed.
Speaker 1: Casey, all right, thank you sir. Hey have you ever
Speaker 1: stood in line for anything to camp out? Because there's
Speaker 1: like two hundred people in front of the best Buy
Speaker 1: waiting for one of those switches this morning. I've never
Speaker 1: done that night in for a concert. I know you
Speaker 1: like music. No, I do like.
Speaker 10: Music, but I mean I'll wait. I'll wait for you,
Speaker 10: wait my turn to get to the box office, but
Speaker 10: I won't show up hours or days ahead of time.
Speaker 1: All right, that's probably smart. I don't want to do
Speaker 1: it either, Thank you, Jeff A good day. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go. Hey, Ross, somebody already stole our idea from
Speaker 1: the other day. Remember when we were telling people how
Speaker 1: they could set up a drug empire if they would
Speaker 1: just smuggle their cocaine inside the truck full of bees.
Speaker 2: Right now, we weren't exactly saying to do that. We're
Speaker 2: just say no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 1: We were very I think we're very clear to not
Speaker 1: do right, but if you're gonna it would be very effective.
Speaker 1: And then I actually I had a police officer said
Speaker 1: he used to do drug interdiction, and if you get
Speaker 1: a truckload of bees, the blows all yours being getting
Speaker 1: in there. So this guy, unfortunately, I don't think he
Speaker 1: paid enough attention. A man who had gone on vacation
Speaker 1: to Thailand, I'm sure for all the good reasons, was
Speaker 1: stopped by customs officials after his luggage was pulled aside
Speaker 1: for secondary screening and they open the suitcase and there's
Speaker 1: forty seven vipers in there, and not like models of
Speaker 1: the Dodge car, actual vipers. Forty seven venomous vipers, five
Speaker 1: Asian leaf turtles. These are Indonesian pit vipers and spider
Speaker 1: tailed horned vipers. By the way, if you're that customs agent,
Speaker 1: that's your last day, right, think of all the weird
Speaker 1: So you've watched those shows for the customs thing where
Speaker 1: people come back from Asia or Africa and they've got
Speaker 1: all the weirdest foods ever, and they're like, no, you
Speaker 1: can't bring these like that stuff's weird enough. But forty
Speaker 1: seven live vipers, no, thank you. But he didn't have
Speaker 1: any drugs in there, so yeah, you're not doing it right.
Speaker 1: So you need an entire truck of vipers maybe or
Speaker 1: bees and then like that. But it's not going to
Speaker 1: work at the airport with just your suitcase.
Speaker 2: So,