Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 2: The the whole state is just the gift that keeps
Speaker 2: on given. So we got one of those coming up,
Speaker 2: and I will engage in a little bit of victim
Speaker 2: blaming little bit. I don't like to do it, but
Speaker 2: I feel it's going to be necessary here. I'll explain
Speaker 2: here in just a few moments. Also on the show,
Speaker 2: let's see here Trump was correct what he told Billy Bush. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that thing right where if you're famous, the women they
Speaker 2: just they fall all over you. How do I know?
Speaker 2: This is Oregon congress woman outside at a rally yesterday,
Speaker 2: trying to you know, get people pumped up for there.
Speaker 2: I just get to stroke their tds and oh boy,
Speaker 2: here we go.
Speaker 3: I just I've been told I have thirty seconds, So
Speaker 3: I am gonna tell you that we do have to.
Speaker 3: I don't swear in public very well, but we.
Speaker 2: Have to Trump what I'm sure you have to. You
Speaker 2: have to. I can't play obviously the word on the air,
Speaker 2: but it's it rhymes with luck again. First of all,
Speaker 2: you know, and uh probably probably him as well. But okay,
Speaker 2: all right, love that clip. That'll uh that'll just live
Speaker 2: an infamy down here one more time.
Speaker 3: I just I've been told I have thirty seconds, so
Speaker 3: I am gonna tell you that we do have to
Speaker 3: I don't swear in public very well.
Speaker 4: But we have to trump.
Speaker 2: What what kills me about? Its look? Obviously she doesn't
Speaker 2: mean that. Why are they cheering? Right? Because you hear
Speaker 2: it and she didn't put the word over. I don't
Speaker 2: even know what she was going for. And yeah, maybe
Speaker 2: that's what she was going for, but she meant it
Speaker 2: the other way. But obviously it sounds like the other thing.
Speaker 2: And then all those seals are clapping. Somebody needs to
Speaker 2: explain that to me. There's two things I need explain
Speaker 2: to me, and I'm gonna do the thing where I
Speaker 2: lean in on some of our military listeners or ex military,
Speaker 2: because there were two things that happened yesterday and I'm
Speaker 2: not quite clear how this happens. Okay, One, well, actually
Speaker 2: let me start. Let me start in Germany and this
Speaker 2: literally just happened overnight obviously with the time change there.
Speaker 2: All right, so you know that Pete Hegseth is over,
Speaker 2: he's doing the whole European swing and so he's in
Speaker 2: is it Stutgart? Stutgart? You know, we got big old
Speaker 2: military base there and uh, you know, and it's big
Speaker 2: enough that you have schools on it. You know, it's
Speaker 2: its own little city there. Pretty big city actually, So
Speaker 2: hegg says, shows up and one of the students at
Speaker 2: the middle school on base. I want to be abundantly
Speaker 2: clear that this is literally on base. So these kids,
Speaker 2: I mean, who could? I mean, kids of military members,
Speaker 2: civilian contractors. I guess I don't know who all gets
Speaker 2: to go. So I'm flying a little blind on this.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure many of you have probably spent time
Speaker 2: in Germany. Tim Walls did, and then Italy and then
Speaker 2: he didn't want to do the other thing. So how
Speaker 2: does that work? And here's why I'm asking this. And
Speaker 2: then you had a group of protesters yesterday, so the
Speaker 2: kids were walking out protesting Pete Hegseth extensively their parents' boss.
Speaker 2: If you think about that, think about if you came
Speaker 2: to where if you're at work today and one of
Speaker 2: your punk kids shows up with a bunch of their
Speaker 2: buddies and they literally go into your boss's office and
Speaker 2: start protesting them. How would that work out for you?
Speaker 2: And how does that work on a military base. And
Speaker 2: I'm asking this because I and you tell me if
Speaker 2: it's true or not. I have family members that did
Speaker 2: career military, and it was my understanding that if their
Speaker 2: kids jacked around on base, it literally could impact them.
Speaker 2: Is that true? Right? Is that? Is that a thing
Speaker 2: all right, like ends up in the record that their
Speaker 2: kids out there doing something. It doesn't necessarily have to
Speaker 2: be protesting, rightther go commit a crime on base or
Speaker 2: something steal something like? It was told That's what was
Speaker 2: told to me. So the few times I would go
Speaker 2: visit them there when I was much younger, uh, that
Speaker 2: is what i'd be to Maybe my mom was just
Speaker 2: wanting me not to be a little brat. I don't know,
Speaker 2: but help me out here. Is that if your kid
Speaker 2: jack's around and I know that this isn't criminal per se,
Speaker 2: but it's just like, you know, so much of the
Speaker 2: military is about good order, I guess, and this does
Speaker 2: doesn't seem like it. Also, they're middle school kids. What
Speaker 2: did the teacher put them up to? It? Military spouses?
Speaker 2: And then there were a bunch of adults protesting on
Speaker 2: uh here in the US on one of our military installations.
Speaker 2: Who the hell are they? It looked like mostly women,
Speaker 2: So I'm going to assume those are spouses. I've never
Speaker 2: seen a protest on a military base, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: it's probably happened. I don't know, but like, it just
Speaker 2: it boggles my mind. And the reason it does is like,
Speaker 2: how do you get in there to do it? How
Speaker 2: do you get in there to do it? Every time
Speaker 2: I've gone on a military base, it's like it's a
Speaker 2: whole process, and I'm obviously I'm not in the military.
Speaker 2: Uh and uh, let's see. When I went to Seymour
Speaker 2: Johnson for a retirement, it was a retirement for one
Speaker 2: of our one of our listeners actually who we'd gotten
Speaker 2: to know, and he also was in charge of the armory,
Speaker 2: so we got to go shoot some stuff, so thank
Speaker 2: you for that. But so we went to the event
Speaker 2: and I was staying on in the motel that's on
Speaker 2: the base, so it was literally in the base. And
Speaker 2: what I didn't realize and I should have, is the
Speaker 2: time because we then had the event was on base
Speaker 2: for the actual ceremony, here's your shadow box, here's the
Speaker 2: whole thing, Thanks for your service, And then we had
Speaker 2: a party off base and I stayed a little too long,
Speaker 2: and so by the time I got back to the gate, there.
Speaker 2: They were just gonna let me in there, Like it
Speaker 2: turned into a whole thing, and eventually like three airmen
Speaker 2: are there and then one of them literally I had
Speaker 2: literally have like a military I'd call it an escort,
Speaker 2: but like more of a babysitter to go the short
Speaker 2: distance from the gate over to the hotel and then
Speaker 2: you know, get in there and don't leave there. So like,
Speaker 2: how are they organizing protests on base? Man? All right,
Speaker 2: so here we go. No, I understand that it's essentially
Speaker 2: US soil, right, I don't disagree with that, even if
Speaker 2: it's over in Germany. And I don't think these kids
Speaker 2: don't have a First Amendment right. However, when you're in
Speaker 2: a military setting, like they restrict some of your rights.
Speaker 2: Like if you remember the military and you you're mad
Speaker 2: at your CEO, you just can't go up to them
Speaker 2: and be like and start screaming at you can It's
Speaker 2: not probably gonna go well for you. And it's disruptive
Speaker 2: the one in the there because now military security, well
Speaker 2: we got China literally sending people taking pictures of our bases.
Speaker 2: Right now, what are they doing now? They're they're dealing
Speaker 2: with a bunch of lunatics holding signs, screaming, you know,
Speaker 2: screaming at their spouse's boss. It's wild stuff, man. So
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to help me out here, because again
Speaker 2: I asked what my mom told me, but she also
Speaker 2: would design ways to keep us in order, and I
Speaker 2: can respect that. But it's just it was so weird
Speaker 2: watching this yesterday.
Speaker 5: Hey, yeah, I just want to let you know you're
Speaker 5: spot on with everything that you're saying. You can lose
Speaker 5: your privileges and everything. And as far as the kids,
Speaker 5: the teachers, the teachers for D O D they're especially overseas,
Speaker 5: are very the politics are not right, they're kind of left,
Speaker 5: and so for the kids to protest, I could definitely
Speaker 5: see that. Yeah, those guys so worried they're going to
Speaker 5: be canceled out by Trump and tech SA.
Speaker 2: Well, here's what somebody he's sending me an email, which
Speaker 2: makes sense. He said that he was literally stationed there,
Speaker 2: and he said that a bunch of the American soldiers
Speaker 2: are married to German women and their politics are pretty socialists,
Speaker 2: so it's not surprising that those might be their kids.
Speaker 2: Does that track for you?
Speaker 6: It does?
Speaker 5: It does, because that's the whole reason they're over in Europe,
Speaker 5: especially Germany. Germany is a very you know, kind of
Speaker 5: left leaning country and so the politics kind of a
Speaker 5: line with that mentality and that viewpoints. So definitely definitely
Speaker 5: agree with that. I witnessed some very you know, unique
Speaker 5: cultural celebration ceremonies over there that I couldn't believe how
Speaker 5: many senior leaders are involved in. So yeah, I definitely
Speaker 5: could see that, And definitely, you know, you are worried
Speaker 5: about your privileges when you're overseas because they're bestowed upon
Speaker 5: you and you're told when you process in that you
Speaker 5: can lose and your kids are no excuse, you know,
Speaker 5: the kids act up, you can lose them because of
Speaker 5: their actions on base.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Well, I just the whole thing was
Speaker 2: weird because I've just never seen anything like that, And
Speaker 2: there's something deeply ironic about even middle schoolers standing on
Speaker 2: what is essentially German soil, even though it's a US military,
Speaker 2: screaming fascist. It's pete hegseth.
Speaker 5: So it didn't surprise me the when you were saying that.
Speaker 5: It was like, oh, yeah, I can definitely see that.
Speaker 2: All right, sir, Well, thank you very much for the
Speaker 2: background there. All right, I have a good one. All right,
Speaker 2: let's see. Yeah, that's the other part they were calling
Speaker 2: hegseets a fascist while in Germany. Like maybe maybe the
Speaker 2: teachers didn't organize it, but they sure as hell didn't
Speaker 2: teach them stuff. Yes, David, what's up?
Speaker 1: I was just calling in.
Speaker 7: I agree with the last collar. Definitely, the dependents can
Speaker 7: definitely lose their privileges to base and it's completely up
Speaker 7: to the base commander. Also, he could ship them back
Speaker 7: to the continent of.
Speaker 2: The United States or what's the base we just gave
Speaker 2: the Taliban. Maybe send some of them there.
Speaker 7: Uh, yeah, that would be a good thing. Some of
Speaker 7: them need that gun training.
Speaker 2: But man, I'm just kidding twelve. At the end of
Speaker 2: the day, these kids are like twelve years old, so
Speaker 2: you know, I was twelve. We're not so smart.
Speaker 7: Sometimes, right, Well, they would ship they would ship the
Speaker 7: military member back to a guardian or the spout have
Speaker 7: to go back to. But then the military member would
Speaker 7: receive lower ratings on his angle report.
Speaker 2: And yeah, what I'm wondering, I'm wondering if the kids
Speaker 2: can impact the actual service member mom or dad or
Speaker 2: whoever it is. And I don't know. I thought the
Speaker 2: way you punish people is you send them to a
Speaker 2: weather a weather station in Alaska or something. That's what
Speaker 2: I was seeing in the movie.
Speaker 7: Always a bad timement.
Speaker 2: No, that's true. Plus you got Harp up there seeing
Speaker 2: screw with everyone's weather. All right, thanks David, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: All right. Isn't that what they do? You're gonna be
Speaker 2: manning a weather station and know them by the end
Speaker 2: of the day or whatever. So uh, I'll look at
Speaker 2: all right. So literally, I'm uh, that's all. Always do
Speaker 2: the military questions early because y'all are up so early,
Speaker 2: and and but you're not on base yet, so I
Speaker 2: can't speak to Germany. But I was stationed in Japan
Speaker 2: in the late eighties and dependent crime resulted in dependent
Speaker 2: children literally being barred from the bat How do you
Speaker 2: what do you even do? I guess now you have
Speaker 2: to rent a place off base. But if you live
Speaker 2: on base and your kids pent from the base, what
Speaker 2: do you do unless your kid's annoying? And then you're
Speaker 2: like a peace But probably not? He said, wait, hold on,
Speaker 2: it's more of this email, the unstated emphasis, well, this
Speaker 2: is late eighty oh, this is wild all right, Parents
Speaker 2: get to deal with that and what they do next.
Speaker 2: During my time, the unstated emphasis was to return the
Speaker 2: child to the States to be cared by for a relative. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I bet they that's not so much forty years later,
Speaker 2: because that's what we're talking now. If the child is
Speaker 2: then discovered on base after this a poop tsunami, I
Speaker 2: have to change this. I couldnt golf your military career.
Speaker 2: Yeah again, they're twelve. I don't know. The German spouses
Speaker 2: thing makes sense, the I guess. And what our other
Speaker 2: caller was saying there just really the politics. But you're
Speaker 2: in Germany screaming fascism at a dude, and you don't
Speaker 2: even understand any of the things, any of the pieces
Speaker 2: of that puzzle. So deeply ironic, all right, eight eight
Speaker 2: eight nine three four seven eight seven. For it's just
Speaker 2: I was I was texting ross with our old boss
Speaker 2: Brian the bad board up yesterday, and he's just we're
Speaker 2: just talking like this is the easiest money that talk
Speaker 2: radio is ever gonna make. When Trump's in office, right,
Speaker 2: it's just like his every single day, and then the
Speaker 2: cast of characters surrounding him, and the cast of characters
Speaker 2: also involves the media and horny congresswimming from Oregon.
Speaker 3: I just I've been told I have thirty seconds, so
Speaker 3: I am going to tell you that we do have.
Speaker 8: To I don't.
Speaker 3: Swear in public very well, but we.
Speaker 9: Have to Trump.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, your early menopause is showing, so let me
Speaker 2: shut that off there. Okay, all right, we'll get to
Speaker 2: our Florida Man story too. I'm very excited about that.
Speaker 2: We got Joy Reid losing her mind speaking a cast
Speaker 2: of characters, Joy Behart losing her mind. It's the amount
Speaker 2: of Joys that are ironically named is pretty staggering in
Speaker 2: all of this. Let's go ahead and do my Florida
Speaker 2: Man story, shall we?
Speaker 9: Okay, Florida Man. Florida Man is something in the water
Speaker 9: they error sand that they should.
Speaker 10: Do all that crazy crap. It's like the state is
Speaker 10: wanta be dumb ass trapped. Nowhere else has the Florida Man.
Speaker 9: It is almost like as the Weird Factor climbs and
Speaker 9: you find out it happened in Florida. Every time Florida Man,
Speaker 9: Florida Man. If anyone can jeer me, if you.
Speaker 10: Know, you can, just mind life be crazy. But of course,
Speaker 10: but it's not as pad crap, crazy as yours. Nowhere
Speaker 10: else are you gonna find him? They're so used to it,
Speaker 10: they don't find him.
Speaker 8: Hooray for Florida man.
Speaker 2: All right. So I don't like to engage in victim blaming,
Speaker 2: but sometimes sometimes it is worthwhile to analyze how we
Speaker 2: got to whatever we got to, write whatever happened. Like
Speaker 2: if you're in the if you're in a really bad
Speaker 2: part of town alone at night, walking down the street,
Speaker 2: counting out a stack of hundreds, and you get robbed.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want you to get robbed, but
Speaker 2: you're an idiot. What are you doing? All right, let's
Speaker 2: head to Florida, shall we. A Florida lawyer found himself
Speaker 2: on the wrong side of the justice system after he
Speaker 2: allegedly smashed a dinner plate over a man's head during
Speaker 2: a fight at a wedding reception. Mark roer Rower, I
Speaker 2: don't know how to pronounce that a lawyer. He's a
Speaker 2: bankruptcy lawyer. I guess which might actually come in handy
Speaker 2: depending on what kind of litigation follows. This was at
Speaker 2: a wedding reception when a man and his two daughters
Speaker 2: cut in front of him in the buffet line. Now
Speaker 2: real quick, because Ross hasn't seen this story. Ross checked
Speaker 2: your phone. Are you cutting that dude in a buffet line? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Texted or okay, they're just sent all right.
Speaker 8: I mean that guy is a pro. You're not cutting that.
Speaker 2: You're not cutting that guy in lied What are you
Speaker 2: doing that dude? That dude is You're right, that is
Speaker 2: he has he probably has a PhD. In buffet. And
Speaker 2: to make it more egregious, you know what part of
Speaker 2: the buffet he was literally standing there getting ready when
Speaker 2: they cut him. He was at the prime rib slicing station.
Speaker 8: I was gonna guess the chuckolate water found like, yeah, oh.
Speaker 2: I think you probably decimated that on the way to it.
Speaker 2: Sorry again, I don't I don't like the victim blame here.
Speaker 2: But what do you do it don't get between that
Speaker 2: man and his chocolate waterfall or his prime rib or
Speaker 2: everything on there. Uh so, uh he you know, he
Speaker 2: called foul and uh that started some they got heated
Speaker 2: with the father, I guess of the girls. And then
Speaker 2: uh he's hold because now he's holding his plate and
Speaker 2: he doesn't have food on it, so he just takes
Speaker 2: it and smashes it over the dude's head and he
Speaker 2: is arrested, So let me uh, I want to be
Speaker 2: able to share with the audience real quickly. Let me
Speaker 2: grab this dude, you do. I was gonna do this,
Speaker 2: then I forgot it. Here bear with me, it'll be
Speaker 2: worth it, all right. We're gonna tweet out the story
Speaker 2: here and you can make your own judgment. Uh the uh.
Speaker 2: The law firm founder was accused of smashing the plate
Speaker 2: over the head of say Ed Raza. I guess is
Speaker 2: the the the dad there pry to the Palm Beach
Speaker 2: County Sheriff's Office report, which says, without provocation, the large
Speaker 2: bald man struck dude. They wrote it into the report.
Speaker 2: Come on, the large bald man struck the slimmer man
Speaker 2: in the head with a dinner plate. Following that, a
Speaker 2: melee began with a large number of wedding guests who
Speaker 2: were all I guess fighting each other. Well, and if
Speaker 2: that was happening, I would then cut them all in
Speaker 2: line in the buffet. I'll be honest with you, because
Speaker 2: now they're over there having a big old fistfight. So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get me some prime riv out of that.
Speaker 2: But the fifty two year old, though insists he was
Speaker 2: the victim.
Speaker 8: Quote.
Speaker 2: I want to press charges against him because the numerous
Speaker 2: people that beat me up, Well, it probably took numerous people, sir. However,
Speaker 2: he's the one I can identify as kicking me. It
Speaker 2: sounds like this was after you smashed a plate on
Speaker 2: his head. And it's Florida, So you assaulted somebody and
Speaker 2: then they assaulted you. They're not going to charge them.
Speaker 3: Ummmm.
Speaker 2: He says. He also claimed that he sustained severe injury.
Speaker 2: He's probably gonna sue the dad. What a loser. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, he didn't make the buffet argument. That might
Speaker 2: be your stronger arguments there, because like you get some
Speaker 2: you get you get a few fat guys on the
Speaker 2: jury and they're like no, I was literally next to
Speaker 2: get the prime rib carving station and three people cut
Speaker 2: in front of me. I'd say, you get jury nullification.
Speaker 2: Go with that. I mean, I'm not a lawyer, and
Speaker 2: I'm advising a lawyer, but I think I'm right. Anyway,
Speaker 2: he's facing up to five years in prison. But more importantly,
Speaker 2: they will disbar you in Florida if he's convicted of that,
Speaker 2: so that again, being a bankruptcy attorney might come in Oh.
Speaker 2: Is it a country club too, and he's been banned
Speaker 2: from the country club for one year. They had good
Speaker 2: buffets at country clubs too. Man, all right, well, don't
Speaker 2: do that, but also, don't cut in front of a
Speaker 2: four hundred pound man in a buffet line, right, Stupid's
Speaker 2: gonna hurt. And that's a pretty dumb thing there. So
Speaker 2: all right eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
Speaker 2: seven four h let's go ahead and get in Wait,
Speaker 2: hold on, what did Ross just send me?
Speaker 3: Do?
Speaker 2: Do? Do?
Speaker 7: Do?
Speaker 2: I am shocked? All right, we'll get to that. I am.
Speaker 2: I am shocked if that headline holds up. But first,
Speaker 2: I got a waterboard you with loud angry women. Okay, okay, no,
Speaker 2: don't yet. No, you don't get to turn it off,
Speaker 2: don't you dare you do that? I will impeach you.
Speaker 2: I'll explain how that works coming up. So, uh, yesterday,
Speaker 2: yesterday Joy Bayhar and the ladies on the View decided
Speaker 2: they need to get a little something off their chest.
Speaker 2: And of all the things that were in the news yesterday,
Speaker 2: I'm actually I'm I'm actually surprised this is the one
Speaker 2: that they went with. But it it made Joy Bayhar
Speaker 2: not joyful what is it Trump wanting to do away
Speaker 2: with pennies? All right, so what possibly could be the
Speaker 2: conspiracy theory? Here we go.
Speaker 11: It's really and he's jealous of everyone.
Speaker 12: Now he's getting rid of the penny.
Speaker 1: He's even jealous of Lincoln.
Speaker 13: Yeah, he's so small, so puddled, he's small and petty.
Speaker 2: But what about the five? What are we doing? They
Speaker 2: still have fives? I think they still have fives. He's
Speaker 2: getting rid of the penny because he's jealous of Lincoln.
Speaker 2: Did you see during the interview where he literally I
Speaker 2: didn't see it because I didn't watch the interview. It
Speaker 2: was really loud where I was the interview that ran
Speaker 2: there in front of the super Bowl, like I was
Speaker 2: kind of watching that. They had the screen caption on.
Speaker 2: But I guess at some point in there he basically
Speaker 2: said that he's better than like a bunch of other presents.
Speaker 2: Typical Trump stuff, right, And so I don't know if
Speaker 2: that's what triggered that, lady, but he they Unfortunately, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be I'm gonna have to watch a little of
Speaker 2: the view today so that I can make sure that
Speaker 2: when they use Elon Musk's new screen name, that we
Speaker 2: can play that audio for you. So yesterday Elon Musk
Speaker 2: changed the It's so when you change, you can change
Speaker 2: the Twitter. What's the word I'm looking for. It's not
Speaker 2: the screen. It's not your username because your user name.
Speaker 2: If you changed that, you're penalized. Right, What was the
Speaker 2: ross you changed yours? What was it? It was you
Speaker 2: changed the at part on yours a while ago. They
Speaker 2: they don't do that right away, but you can change
Speaker 2: the thing that shows up. So like the show. Why
Speaker 2: change the show again?
Speaker 8: You've got to use your name and the screen name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I want to I want to be clear
Speaker 2: what he because I saw people were alleging that he
Speaker 2: changed it and normal people couldn't change There.
Speaker 8: Was no no, no, they can do it. I mean,
Speaker 8: if you have a blue check, you have to wait
Speaker 8: for a while.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's what it is. But he didn't change the
Speaker 2: thing where you have to wait. It still is at
Speaker 2: Elon Musk. He just changed the screen name. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Even if you change your green name with the blue check,
Speaker 8: you have to wait.
Speaker 2: Oh you do? Yeah? Okay, Well I changed the show
Speaker 2: accounts as a joke and it popped up and we
Speaker 2: don't have a blue check on there. So that's good
Speaker 2: to know. All right. So uh he changed it to
Speaker 2: Harry Bowls. But it's the oh with the dash on top,
Speaker 2: letting you know that you have to pronounce it. So
Speaker 2: he changed it to well, you know what, I don't
Speaker 2: have to say it. Why don't we let see it
Speaker 2: n say it? Shall we? Okay? All right, let's uh
Speaker 2: wait where do oh? Here it is? Yeah? All right?
Speaker 2: So here is here is CNN having to do it,
Speaker 2: which then Trump or Trump must then tweet it a
Speaker 2: video out which was clearly as intent and in fact
Speaker 2: right after the show, and he did it. I texted Ross,
Speaker 2: I'm like, dude, did you see this? And uh uh,
Speaker 2: you said, he's probably doing it just to see how
Speaker 2: many times the news anchors will say it, and you
Speaker 2: were spot on. Here we go.
Speaker 11: Now, the disruptor in Chief Elon Musk, who apparently has
Speaker 11: adopted the alias at least he changed his social media
Speaker 11: handle to Harry Balls, tweeted this morning, democracy in America
Speaker 11: is being destroyed by judicial coup. An activist judge is
Speaker 11: not a real judge.
Speaker 2: Dude needs to change it every day just so I
Speaker 2: have an amazing audio collection of these nitwits on CNN.
Speaker 2: And MSNBC having to say things like that, or Joy
Speaker 2: Read having to use this phrase while she suggests something
Speaker 2: that's just.
Speaker 13: In Let me ask you this, because the Democrats are
Speaker 13: in the minority, so you have only so much leverage.
Speaker 13: Have you all essentially made it clear to Mike Johnson
Speaker 13: that until they allow you all to subpoena Big Balls
Speaker 13: and the normalized Indian hate guy, at least subpoena them
Speaker 13: and or subpoena Elon Musk, what do.
Speaker 2: You will it say Big Balls on the subpoena because
Speaker 2: I want it to happen if it will, because that'd
Speaker 2: be a public document and it would be amazing.
Speaker 8: His mind is so like crazy because on one side
Speaker 8: he's like this Tony Stark type character right doing all
Speaker 8: this stuff. But on the other side side he's eight.
Speaker 8: He's like an eight year old, and he's like, I'm
Speaker 8: going to change my name just so I can turn
Speaker 8: on the news and see them saying this name repeatedly.
Speaker 8: It makes them giggle, and that's why he does it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm here for it. I understand it's immature, but
Speaker 2: I don't care. You know why, because the people he's
Speaker 2: baiting are far more immature. Right, and and and maybe
Speaker 2: immature is not the right word, you know it is.
Speaker 2: It is because like you're lunatics. He's trolling lunatics people
Speaker 2: who are people are upset. I understand there's some are like,
Speaker 2: oh well, that's not very professional.
Speaker 8: It also shows how predictable they are.
Speaker 2: Yes, immediately, what did how long? Well hold on? So
Speaker 2: you and I we talked at well essentially nine p
Speaker 2: thirty where you predicted that, And it was three hours
Speaker 2: later the CNN clip was up. I don't know exactly
Speaker 2: when it aired, but within three hours he got what
Speaker 2: he wanted. He was sweeting a backcount. So yeah, bro,
Speaker 2: change you should change it every day. I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: to change the show account. I changed our show account
Speaker 2: name to Emerson Biggins because I too, am an eight
Speaker 2: year old sometimes, but I'll change that. Change that back.
Speaker 2: Many of you would have noticed if you went to
Speaker 2: see the fat Florida lawyer that you would never want
Speaker 2: to cut in line. Ever, that's a good point. That
Speaker 2: looks like a dude would smash a plate over someone's
Speaker 2: absolutely yeah, yeah, yeah, oh we can assume me. You
Speaker 2: might not be able to You might not be a
Speaker 2: lawyer much longer. Sir, all right, let's go ahead, And
Speaker 2: there was on MSNBC. It wasn't just the host, so
Speaker 2: they had Raskin on who's fast becoming up there on
Speaker 2: the list of lawmakers I loathe the most with Adam Schiff,
Speaker 2: So he's putting in the work. And I appreciate that
Speaker 2: he mentioned something during his interview yesterday I was not
Speaker 2: aware of, but I may take advantage of we'll play
Speaker 2: that for you coming up next here on the Cacoday
Speaker 2: radio program. So I thought I understood how impeachments work,
Speaker 2: even though they've basically been neutered and turned into just
Speaker 2: another political weapon rather than which should be a last resort,
Speaker 2: but a form of checks and balances like that's gone.
Speaker 2: People aren't going to take them seriously. You know, maybe
Speaker 2: in two years Democrats get control and they try to
Speaker 2: do an impeachment. Nobody will care, and that's on them.
Speaker 2: That being said, what Jamie Raskin was explaining on MSNBC yesterday,
Speaker 2: I did not know. I don't know if it's true,
Speaker 2: but if it is, game on.
Speaker 14: Look does not like the idea that a guy who
Speaker 14: would not even be constantial eligible to run for president
Speaker 14: is acting as president. A guy who, if he were president,
Speaker 14: would be impeached immediately because he's taking billions of dollars
Speaker 14: into government monuments from all over the world.
Speaker 2: By the way, the moluments, they remember that, remember when
Speaker 2: everyone had to learn what a monuments were when Trump
Speaker 2: first got in and they're like, yeah, he owns a
Speaker 2: hotel in DC and people stay there and sometimes people
Speaker 2: from other countries. Right, and we had this big everyone
Speaker 2: thought they were a genius and they figured out the
Speaker 2: loophole to get Trump, which didn't work. What he's talking
Speaker 2: about with Musk with monuments is he means he had
Speaker 2: he does business with other people outside of the US.
Speaker 2: Just so we're clear what he's talking about. They're not
Speaker 2: paying him tribute. They're buying. They're buying his Internet, they're
Speaker 2: buying other tech that he they're buying Tesla's, what do
Speaker 2: you And sometimes governments buy these things. So that's lunacy
Speaker 2: but here, but that gets usurped immediately because listen to
Speaker 2: the next part.
Speaker 14: And some people have actually been talking about impeaching President
Speaker 14: Elon Musk right now, you know on the theory that
Speaker 14: he's usurped the powers of the presidents.
Speaker 2: And by the way, this is so predictable. What have
Speaker 2: I always said with Republicans they're either evil geniuses in
Speaker 2: the way that they're portrayed in the media, and then
Speaker 2: by Democrats they're either simultaneous there simultaneously evil geniuses and
Speaker 2: the biggest idiots, and somebody else is really running things,
Speaker 2: which is a very rich accusation to imply that the
Speaker 2: elected president is in fact not the one running things,
Speaker 2: Jamie Raskin. But also, can you impeach somebody who's not
Speaker 2: a president or even an elected official, or even somebody
Speaker 2: who needs Senate confirmation? Is that a thing? Can I
Speaker 2: impeach people?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: I'll do it. In fact, let me get right after it.
Speaker 2: Are a boss? Trevor impeached? Setting up a standing meeting
Speaker 2: on Tuesdays? What are you doing? We're busy, although he
Speaker 2: did cancel it this week, which brought us some joy there. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I'm sorry you've been impeached, sir. I don't know
Speaker 2: what it means for you, but you're impeached. Is that
Speaker 2: how this works? And then what that follows you around?
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? We're impeach president? To Elon Musk,
Speaker 2: you realize how dumb you sound, unless that is how
Speaker 2: it works. Then you have armed me with the new weapons,
Speaker 2: so I do appreciate that. All right. So I got
Speaker 2: a chance to read this story that Ross sent me.
Speaker 2: Here's the headline. We'll get into this here right after
Speaker 2: the news. And I want to point out this is
Speaker 2: from Politico, which makes this even crazier. All right, So
Speaker 2: here's the headline. Voters were right about the economy, the
Speaker 2: data was wrong. So as a Ross sent this to
Speaker 2: me when I was making fun of that lawyer or something,
Speaker 2: and so I got a chance to digest this. I
Speaker 2: have a lot of thoughts. First, it's from Politico, and
Speaker 2: obviously Politico has been in the news lately. But also
Speaker 2: I think the article is a little disingenuous too, or
Speaker 2: at the very least it's naive. But this the guy
Speaker 2: who wrote this article is the former US Comptroller of
Speaker 2: the Currency, so I'd like to think he's not naive,
Speaker 2: he's lying. You be the judge, all right. So the
Speaker 2: headline is voters were right about the economy, the data
Speaker 2: was wrong. So this is all of the garbage, even
Speaker 2: like every week the Biden because Biden didn't tweet it,
Speaker 2: but the Biden's account would tweet. We created the most
Speaker 2: jobs of any president, right, and then they would get
Speaker 2: community noted because it's like you had all the jobs
Speaker 2: come back from COVID. And also it's worse than that.
Speaker 2: What was the number you just told me, right, of
Speaker 2: the percentage that were actually government jobs, it was an
Speaker 2: insane number, right, So.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that's yesterday. They're saying like ninety percent of
Speaker 8: the jobs that were added under Biden were government jobs.
Speaker 2: Right, and not not the COVID ones, but any that
Speaker 2: you could attribute added to Biden that were not COVID
Speaker 2: related were government jobs. Do the math, and by the way,
Speaker 2: I promise you that at the Washington Post they are
Speaker 2: laying in wait because when they do the job's numbers,
Speaker 2: they don't just do them for the nation. They do
Speaker 2: them in the big cities too, and they may even
Speaker 2: go further than that. But I know that. So in Washington, DC,
Speaker 2: you had all these employees, the employees take buyouts. I
Speaker 2: don't know if those count, and then you just have
Speaker 2: the jobs that are eliminated. Remember you said had what
Speaker 2: ten thousand employees and now there's three hundred and it's
Speaker 2: not even you said anymore. So like they want to
Speaker 2: write the big story that Trump drove up the unemployment numbers,
Speaker 2: which I guess technically he did, but they probably won't
Speaker 2: contextualize it for the little tweets. But so bien the
Speaker 2: Bide account would send this out. The Democrats when they
Speaker 2: do interviews, they're like, oh, the right wingers are lying
Speaker 2: to you. But people knew right, because I don't care
Speaker 2: how many reports jobs reports that Jeff Bellinger reads that
Speaker 2: the government provides on Fridays and Thursdays, who then don't
Speaker 2: immediately go, I don't know. I just had to put
Speaker 2: a bunch of groceries back because I couldn't afford it.
Speaker 2: A check out I one hundred dollars. It used to
Speaker 2: be a pretty good amount of money if we wanted
Speaker 2: to go out to dinner and do something. And now
Speaker 2: good luck, because it doesn't matter what the jobs report says,
Speaker 2: and this is it. I don't understand how they don't
Speaker 2: know this. It's what people perceive it to be. And
Speaker 2: so when people were perceiving that those numbers were bs,
Speaker 2: because they and everyone they know it has less spending
Speaker 2: power is pain and saying prices, how much were Cheetos?
Speaker 2: This is ross? This everybody got stuck on some for
Speaker 2: ross it was Cheetos or Dorito's. I can't know.
Speaker 8: The party bag was like eight bucks.
Speaker 2: Eight bucks for a party bag.
Speaker 8: It's Cheetos, man Is Air and cheese dust.
Speaker 2: It's so good though they are, yeah, but eight dollars yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean so like it's it's all of these things
Speaker 2: that people see in their life and and they went, no,
Speaker 2: that's not true. And then they doubled down. They're like, well,
Speaker 2: you're an idiot. It again. It's it's like the strategy
Speaker 2: is awful, and it was on so many things, but
Speaker 2: this was a big one. You know, we have a
Speaker 2: saying in radio that works in government as well, and
Speaker 2: it's heart strings and purse strings. That's it. That's how
Speaker 2: that's how you emotionally connect with people. That's how you
Speaker 2: engage with people. Heart strings and purse strings. This is
Speaker 2: something I emotionally care about because maybe it's impactful for
Speaker 2: my family or it's impactful for my wallet. Pretty good
Speaker 2: it and and that's not a new thing. That's uh.
Speaker 2: I've heard that every step of the way. Every single
Speaker 2: program director ever or a couple of consultants even, they
Speaker 2: drive that home. So for the politicians to not just
Speaker 2: ignore that, but to then tell people they're crazy. Who
Speaker 2: I mean, who's advising you guys. The problem with this article,
Speaker 2: and I'm just going to read a little of it,
Speaker 2: is I I it sounds like it's a win for
Speaker 2: for I guess the GOP or or the people voted
Speaker 2: for Trump, because it it proves that they were right.
Speaker 2: They were right and and and you were wrong, and
Speaker 2: then you demonize them. But also I think it try
Speaker 2: it's trying to let the Democrats lawmakers off the hook,
Speaker 2: and I'm sorry, I'm not going to allow that. All right,
Speaker 2: So here we go. Before the presidential election, many Democrats
Speaker 2: were puzzled by the seeming disconnect between economic reality, as
Speaker 2: reflected in various government statistics, and the public's perception of
Speaker 2: the economy. No, they weren't. No grown adult doesn't understand
Speaker 2: that those numbers were juiced, they were manipulated. And so
Speaker 2: the article goes on to one make it sound like
Speaker 2: the Democrats also didn't know. Yes, they did, Absolutely they did.
Speaker 2: Everyone knew. Every single person knew, just like we knew
Speaker 2: that there was insane waste up in DC. Everybody knew.
Speaker 2: They charged the right wing echo chambers were conning voters
Speaker 2: into believing entirely preposterous narratives. What were the narratives people
Speaker 2: being interviewed in the grocery store. Those are the narratives
Speaker 2: that I saw, right. They'd go down there and so
Speaker 2: you know the price, if something was up or during
Speaker 2: COVID you couldn't get stuff. They had a ton of people,
Speaker 2: and they almost universally said the same thing. They'd show
Speaker 2: their receipt right, and it would be insane and they'd
Speaker 2: be like, I buy the same thing for my family
Speaker 2: every month or every week or howe from they shop
Speaker 2: and it used to be this, and now it's this.
Speaker 2: And in fact, the only time the Democrats tried to
Speaker 2: get in front of it was when they would then
Speaker 2: get on a stage. It could be the president, it
Speaker 2: could be Kamala Harris, which he was running for president,
Speaker 2: and they would basically admit that that people were getting
Speaker 2: economically hammered, because then they tried to blame greed of CEOs.
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Warren was at the forefront of this. That's why
Speaker 2: it was so funny with the Consumer Protection Bureau getting greased,
Speaker 2: because that was a whole shakedown operation. And now they
Speaker 2: run around act like there's not going to be any
Speaker 2: well there's no regulators anymore. Oh no, you got tons
Speaker 2: of regulators. Everybody's regulated.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 2: The way that that worked, the Consumer Protection Bureau, And
Speaker 2: it's not like they didn't that there wasn't things where
Speaker 2: clearly people were attempting to circum circumnavigator, circumvent excuse me,
Speaker 2: you know, rules and laws. And some people did get charged,
Speaker 2: but the majority of businesses that ended up having to
Speaker 2: pay a fine pay that money. The money would then
Speaker 2: go right back into the agency so that they could
Speaker 2: get more people to go shake down more businesses. It's
Speaker 2: the Jesse Jackson model with the rainbow push. Folks they go,
Speaker 2: you know, they go to Pepsi and they'd be like, Pepsi,
Speaker 2: you need to do that. You need to make a
Speaker 2: donation here so you can fight racism. But if you don't,
Speaker 2: I'll organize a boycott of your product. That's the Consumer
Speaker 2: Protection Bureau of the fight consumer financial You know what
Speaker 2: I'm not going to learn, it's because it ain't here anymore.
Speaker 2: Is gone, and the public wasn't getting that money. No,
Speaker 2: it was going back to create more jobs and more
Speaker 2: salaries and more war funds to go out and do stuff.
Speaker 2: And there are many examples where it was preposterous these
Speaker 2: businesses that they were shaking down, including businesses that were
Speaker 2: being openly vocal and critical of Chicago politicians who somehow
Speaker 2: found themselves essentially getting a colonoscopy by these people. So no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: you don't get you. You can't simultaneously say it's happening
Speaker 2: and that rich people are doing it and that it's not.
Speaker 2: But going back to the numbers, the author goes on
Speaker 2: to say what is rarely considered as what might be
Speaker 2: responsible for the disconnect. So he's not saying it's dishonesty.
Speaker 2: Here's what his theory is. Government statistics are fundamentally flawed. Sure,
Speaker 2: just look at what goes into It's not any of
Speaker 2: this stuff you buy, not most of it, not the
Speaker 2: stuff you buy the most. It's not in there. Everyone
Speaker 2: knew that's flawed, right, And he goes, what if the
Speaker 2: numbers supporting the case for broad based prosperity were themselves
Speaker 2: misrepresentations due to a fundamentally flawed whatever if in fact,
Speaker 2: darker assessments of the economy were more authentically tethered to reality.
Speaker 2: What do you mean darker assessments? You mean that it's
Speaker 2: more negative than the government's purporting it is. Those are
Speaker 2: more honest assessments. And I don't need a study to
Speaker 2: do it. I can look at well, I can look
Speaker 2: at polling, independent polling to see what the economy was
Speaker 2: number one, almost exclusively across the board, even for some
Speaker 2: a lot of Democrats who probably didn't vote for Trump,
Speaker 2: but it was number one. No, the numbers are flawed,
Speaker 2: and they're flawed, and they're utilized to make political points
Speaker 2: and not to prove accurate information. And the other real
Speaker 2: damning thing, and I don't think he mentions it in
Speaker 2: this story, is what would happen every week when we'd
Speaker 2: get the job's numbers. The week after, what would happen
Speaker 2: the revising of them? And if you remember they had
Speaker 2: some revisements that remember the one where Biden came or
Speaker 2: Biden and his people were like, oh, look at this,
Speaker 2: like two hundred and thirty five thousand jobs or whatever,
Speaker 2: it's amazing, look what we've done. And then they revised
Speaker 2: it back like seventy percent. No, they were manipulating the numbers.
Speaker 2: It was the narrative. You can't convince me otherwise. And
Speaker 2: I'm glad you wrote an article talking about it, but
Speaker 2: it also is an article that's attempting to let a
Speaker 2: bunch of people who used knowingly used bad data to
Speaker 2: win elections or attempt to win elections off the hook. Yeah.
Speaker 8: I mean it's pretty simple, right, they lied to stay
Speaker 8: in Power's.
Speaker 2: One hundred bigs. So simple. This is a very long
Speaker 2: article and it could be one paragraph.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they threw a propaganda and the media went along
Speaker 8: with it. And now suddenly that you have a Republican
Speaker 8: or a conservative in office, suddenly they care about the
Speaker 8: cost of eggs, gasoline, and groceries.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: And then cause now they can focus on those numbers now,
Speaker 8: so this.
Speaker 2: Also that Yeah, but also think about the future. So
Speaker 2: if Trump puts up good numbers, they can go, well,
Speaker 2: the numbers are all bs, and they'll do it. They'll
Speaker 2: do it shamelessly, and it's like, okay, well, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe one I know Trump's doing a lot, He's got
Speaker 2: you got a lot on display right now, but maybe
Speaker 2: we need to look at how these numbers are actually
Speaker 2: produced to not have the fuel that you need the
Speaker 2: energy to heat your home and most of the food
Speaker 2: your family eats in inflation numbers to not include that
Speaker 2: the thing. That's the largest that probably you tally those
Speaker 2: together is more than half of people's budgets. So fix
Speaker 2: it if you think it's broke, fix it. But don't
Speaker 2: sit here and tell me people didn't know it was
Speaker 2: broke or they were duped as well. I'm not buying it.
Speaker 8: Was like Soviet Russia type reporting.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Oh yeah, absolutely, man.
Speaker 8: We're like, the news is awful, but they're gonna not
Speaker 8: only is the administration of those empower going to report
Speaker 8: that it's awesome, but then like the media is going
Speaker 8: to be like, yeah, no, it's great. No, you know,
Speaker 8: what you really needed to do is just cut out
Speaker 8: breakfast is what you need to do. Just don't don't
Speaker 8: eat breakfast.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right. They did say, have you tried
Speaker 2: not eating?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 2: Man, Yeah, it's paulup bureau stuff one hundred percent. Uh
Speaker 2: all right, that's I'm not going to go any deeper
Speaker 2: in this. You get it, you get it. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: it looked at first at first blush. It looks like
Speaker 2: Politico is admitting something, but they're not. They're not. They're
Speaker 2: they're covering their own butt too, because as we know,
Speaker 2: political went along with all this stuff and was handsomely rewarded.
Speaker 8: But just you're right though, because now they can report
Speaker 8: right now they can be like, oh, well, yes, the
Speaker 8: cost of groceries and gasoline, it's very expensive. But now
Speaker 8: that they admit that, they can report on it not
Speaker 8: going up if it because they've dug themselves in such
Speaker 8: a hole in the past four years. Correct, and it's
Speaker 8: not going to change it just a matter of weeks
Speaker 8: because of the damage that's been done. But now they
Speaker 8: can report on it make Trump look bad.
Speaker 2: And the biggest fallacy with it, let me just sum
Speaker 2: it up with this is what you recognize in the story,
Speaker 2: and that is the perception of the American people versus
Speaker 2: the numbers coming from the government. So if they think
Speaker 2: that they can pull this switch aaroo because now it's
Speaker 2: more advantageous to say these things. The American public is
Speaker 2: they understand what you're doing. They've already every step of
Speaker 2: the way, they've determined you were lying to them. You
Speaker 2: were lying to them. It's why why you know these
Speaker 2: media websites lost what did Washington Post lose in four years?
Speaker 2: Like eighty percent of their traffic? This is why people
Speaker 2: rejected this. They don't consume your media anymore. And if
Speaker 2: they do, they do it to laugh at you. So
Speaker 2: when you start telling them that all of these reports
Speaker 2: that you beat them over the head with and if
Speaker 2: they questioned, you know, literally, you know, would call them
Speaker 2: a fascist or demonize them in some way, the same
Speaker 2: people who rejected that are the same people you have
Speaker 2: to convince now that it's the other way around. And
Speaker 2: they've already seen you for what you are. They don't care.
Speaker 2: We'll tweet it out. You can read the whole thing
Speaker 2: if you want, but no, we're not going to allow that,
Speaker 2: not on this show, not on my watch. Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: speaking of a giant waste of money, we're getting into
Speaker 2: some of this femas stuff. Oh and did you see
Speaker 2: how fast they fired those people who sent the fifty
Speaker 2: nine million dollar payment. And by the way, they weren't
Speaker 2: just clerks. In fact, the one lady is I think
Speaker 2: she was like number three in charge up there. They're
Speaker 2: chief financial officer Mary Coleman's so, and that's crazy, as
Speaker 2: walked in and you're fired, get out of here. What
Speaker 2: did you do that for? The problem is this woman,
Speaker 2: And it will really prove a lot of the you
Speaker 2: said stuff and the soft landings that universities provide, but
Speaker 2: only if you're ideologically aligned. This woman will have a
Speaker 2: sweet gig that probably pays more at some woke company
Speaker 2: or some university, and it will be in very short order.
Speaker 2: So people are out there. She's brave, she took a stance,
Speaker 2: she did what was right. She knew that it would
Speaker 2: only be a speed bump, and likely one that propelled
Speaker 2: her to a much higher salary. So and if that
Speaker 2: doesn't happen, then I was wrong. But I'm not wrong here,
Speaker 2: so I will hopefully we'll get a little follow up
Speaker 2: there because I think that's coming all right eight eight
Speaker 2: eight nine three four seven eight seven four coming up
Speaker 2: on the show. We got a couple North Carolina school
Speaker 2: board stories. We got to get into one from the
Speaker 2: try and one down at the coast, and I got
Speaker 2: some audio that's kind of insane. And this person is
Speaker 2: in charge as a school board member of educating the
Speaker 2: kids of Wilmington. We'll play it for you next. Hang
Speaker 2: on Hanover County. If you're new to North Carolina, that's Wilmington.
Speaker 2: So there you go. And one of the school board members,
Speaker 2: his name is Tim Merrick. He is a Democrat member
Speaker 2: of the New Hanover County Board of Education. So CNN
Speaker 2: was doing a report yesterday about the Education Department, and
Speaker 2: it's the in fact, on the screen it says Trump
Speaker 2: says education department is doje's next target. R I guess
Speaker 2: technically this was two days ago, all right, Well whatever,
Speaker 2: I just saw it yesterday afternoon, and he said something
Speaker 2: that is so insane. I don't know if he should
Speaker 2: be anywhere near educating kids, even in this elected role.
Speaker 2: Like if you don't know this, and you're a school
Speaker 2: board member in I'm gonna say North Carolina, but in America,
Speaker 2: let alone the South. Listen to this lunatic and tell
Speaker 2: me if you agree or disagree.
Speaker 15: You know, we have private schools and religious schools that
Speaker 15: are not regulated by the federal government the same way
Speaker 15: that our public schools are, and they are not showing
Speaker 15: better performance here in New Henriver County. In fact, some
Speaker 15: of our private schools have poorer performance than many of
Speaker 15: our public schools.
Speaker 2: So I yes, but also some of your private schools
Speaker 2: far exceed your public schools. So I'll give you that point.
Speaker 2: And down in Wilmington they have a couple very very
Speaker 2: good private schools which are not the ones he's talking about.
Speaker 2: But whatever he's building up to a point and it's gone.
Speaker 15: I can't agree with that. What I can't agree with
Speaker 15: is that without our federal money, we will not be
Speaker 15: taking care of our most disadvantaged students.
Speaker 2: The federal money that is extracted from the states and
Speaker 2: then dold back out to you. You understand that with
Speaker 2: the elimination of the Department of Education, the burden then
Speaker 2: falls on the individual states to do it, and North
Speaker 2: Carolina already has an outsized role at the state level
Speaker 2: with all things schools related in North Carolina, so arguably
Speaker 2: be a little easier. But the money is not just disappearing,
Speaker 2: because it's not then being extracted, right, So, and he
Speaker 2: knows this, he knows this, but it's not even the
Speaker 2: most insane thing that's still coming here.
Speaker 15: And that is just a crisis that we cannot have.
Speaker 15: You know, we have fairly segregated schools here in North Carolina,
Speaker 15: more segregated than what they were in nineteen sixty eight.
Speaker 15: And our richest, wealthy white school have at the end
Speaker 15: of fifth grade they have a ninety one percent proficiency
Speaker 15: in reading, and our poorest black schools have a nine
Speaker 15: point five percent proficiency in reading in fifth grade.
Speaker 2: Well, then I have a question. If that's the case,
Speaker 2: then why don't you take your best teachers and stick
Speaker 2: them in the poor performing schools? Wouldn't that be the
Speaker 2: logical thing to do there? Why don't you do that?
Speaker 15: This is a sort of segregation that will be even
Speaker 15: worse without the federal guidelines that require us to take
Speaker 15: care of our most disadvantaged students.
Speaker 2: All right, So you're telling me that schools in North
Speaker 2: Carolina are more segregated than they were during segregation, because
Speaker 2: I don't know. I've seen some foot ross you ever
Speaker 2: see photos of some schools some stuff happened to schools
Speaker 2: maybe in the fifties and sixties in the South. Ever
Speaker 2: see any of those? Because I've seen some seen quite
Speaker 2: a few of those. What are you talking about?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: What is this?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, it's funny. So he just texted me this.
Speaker 2: So is that Josie Barnhardt who's on the new Hanover?
Speaker 2: Oh wow, look at this. Okay, let's get into this,
Speaker 2: all right, Josie, good morning.
Speaker 7: Good morning.
Speaker 4: How are you done?
Speaker 12: Sir?
Speaker 2: Well? I was better till I heard your colleague there.
Speaker 2: I don't know that I agree with that because I've
Speaker 2: seen some stuff from the sixties.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and I am on the school board here in
Speaker 1: New Hanover County and I'm speaking for myself. I just
Speaker 1: need to say that as we talk about this, but
Speaker 1: I was very shocked to see the interview as well
Speaker 1: from CNN, and I just want to share some information,
Speaker 1: some accurate information with your listeners today in New Niver County.
Speaker 1: Back in twenty fourteen, we've received one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: seven million dollars for education and now in per AIGHTM
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four we're actually receiving
Speaker 1: one eighty three so we're receiving more money than what
Speaker 1: we're receiving before and what we've seen. I was elected
Speaker 1: in twenty two and in twenty one we had thirteen
Speaker 1: sailing schools. We are now down to six sailing schools
Speaker 1: here in New Hundoor County.
Speaker 4: We're closing the achievement gap and targeting the focus of
Speaker 4: supports in the classroom. So I just want to give
Speaker 4: a shout out to our staff that are doing their
Speaker 4: job and we're seeing outpacing growth from the state and
Speaker 4: basically every single category that we can.
Speaker 2: Do that here's the disconnect, and I'm so glad you called.
Speaker 2: Does anyone who's on a school board or an administrator
Speaker 2: to school really believe that if they shut the Department
Speaker 2: of ED all that money just disappears or like what
Speaker 2: is yours?
Speaker 4: That's what the fear mongering is. I think that's what
Speaker 4: the fear mongering is. And this is a question that
Speaker 4: I asked, is if the department closes, where does that
Speaker 4: money just go away? My understanding is if the department closes,
Speaker 4: it would go back to the state. So then for
Speaker 4: me and my role, it would just change where my
Speaker 4: advocacy lies. So rather than having a local, state and
Speaker 4: federal advocacy unit, we would just be targeting our local
Speaker 4: and our state level. And for me, that makes our
Speaker 4: job easier as local elected officials because you're dealing with
Speaker 4: a smaller group of individuals'.
Speaker 2: Right, You're dealing with the people who when they're not
Speaker 2: up bacon laws and rawl, you're shopping in the grocery
Speaker 2: store next to the parents of these kids. That's where
Speaker 2: the accountability lies, right, So absolutely so you well, again
Speaker 2: you're speaking just for yourself. You like that model more
Speaker 2: than having to advocate as far up in Washington, d C.
Speaker 4: I think it makes the job easier if you think
Speaker 4: about you know, I serve on a seven person board,
Speaker 4: and so you think about trying to come to consensus
Speaker 4: with seven people, Well, then our county commissioners there's five
Speaker 4: of them, so kind of building consensus with they're and
Speaker 4: then and the state level hundreds of people. So the
Speaker 4: federal level more hundreds of people. So trying to build
Speaker 4: that consensus with hundreds and hundreds of people is very difficult,
Speaker 4: especially when you're talking about what that target folks just
Speaker 4: looks like to move forward. And so I think closing
Speaker 4: the gap to a smaller group of people allows us
Speaker 4: to have better conversations and consistent conversations, because when we
Speaker 4: are as a local leaders are spread thin to try
Speaker 4: to go through all of these different sources to plete
Speaker 4: our case, if you will, it makes it time consuming
Speaker 4: and very hard to get the ear of these people
Speaker 4: who are decision makers. And so I think having those
Speaker 4: consistent relationships are important is something that I've been very
Speaker 4: responsive to in my tenure on the board here of
Speaker 4: building those relationships because it matters to share with them
Speaker 4: how we are doing, to understand where we are accurate information.
Speaker 12: Just like I said, we see.
Speaker 4: The increased funding from the state level to see that
Speaker 4: and closing the gap of the achievement levels. We had
Speaker 4: an elementary school back in twenty twenty one that was
Speaker 4: in the bottom fide of the state. They're no longer there.
Speaker 4: That's the kind of targeted growth we want to see
Speaker 4: in all of our education realms. And that's the kind
Speaker 4: of growth that I support.
Speaker 2: And it's so important too, because I understand that parents
Speaker 2: are going to have a lot of questions, and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna I'm going to hit you with one last question
Speaker 2: here in a moment. So when parents understandably are wondering,
Speaker 2: how is this going to impact my kids? My kids school,
Speaker 2: accurate information is so important. This guy going at your
Speaker 2: colleague going on there and saying that schools are more
Speaker 2: segregated in North Carolina than they were during the Civil
Speaker 2: Rights era is lunacy and the But I want to
Speaker 2: ask you one thing, which I think is a legitimate question.
Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of parents ask how does this
Speaker 2: impact like Title one dollars and special education funding and
Speaker 2: you know the things that are very expensive right on
Speaker 2: an individual student basis. Parents are wondering, am I going
Speaker 2: to see as my kid who's on one of these
Speaker 2: special programs going to be impacted? What I'm assuming this
Speaker 2: thought has crossed your mind? What is your understanding?
Speaker 4: My thought is I'm going to continue to advocate for
Speaker 4: those things. It's just going to be this on local state,
Speaker 4: on a state level, local and state. We have passed
Speaker 4: a resolution of support of IDA and funding of the
Speaker 4: forty percent for our special education population that we sent
Speaker 4: to the federal government, and so if it changes and
Speaker 4: it's no longer the federal government, that will be a
Speaker 4: redirect to the state. I know there has been conversation
Speaker 4: at our state level in North Carolina about changing the
Speaker 4: funding process for our special education students and based on
Speaker 4: different tiers of special education needs, they would get more
Speaker 4: funding for their students. Because there is this question and
Speaker 4: conversation that I was actually further invited to a student
Speaker 4: funding formula conversation that there's a lot of different lawmakers
Speaker 4: and lobbyists and nonprofits in the room to talk about
Speaker 4: what potentially a student weight and model would look like
Speaker 4: in North Carolina. And one of the weights or the
Speaker 4: heavier funding sources that we discussed was to make sure
Speaker 4: that poverty and high poverty had more funding so that
Speaker 4: schools could be more responsive to the needs of their students.
Speaker 4: So I think that that kind of realm of advocacy
Speaker 4: of talking about what are those different targeted needs? Special
Speaker 4: education is one of those, high poverty would be one
Speaker 4: of those. I would say a multi lingual population as
Speaker 4: well as are gifted and talented. When you talk about
Speaker 4: different scaffolding supports for students and getting that conversation going
Speaker 4: of if we have different funding levels for these students
Speaker 4: so we could be responsive to their needs, I think
Speaker 4: there is a really great conversation to be had with that,
Speaker 4: and I'm going to continue to support advocating for those.
Speaker 4: So I don't know what that exactly looks like. To
Speaker 4: answer your question, I don't mean to skirt the question,
Speaker 4: but the reality is people want to change my advocacy.
Speaker 2: I'm glad absolutely conversation you just relate like there is
Speaker 2: there is not just people talking about it, but they're
Speaker 2: actively trying to figure out what it's going to look like. Well, Josie,
Speaker 2: thank you for calling in. I wouldn't wait by the phone.
Speaker 2: I suspect CNN is probably not going to call you
Speaker 2: for an interview, So.
Speaker 4: If I did that, I would want to make sure
Speaker 4: I go along with active information.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I hope that's the case. Thank you very
Speaker 2: much for calling in this morning.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't look at that. Everybody listens look at that.
Speaker 2: So uh yeah, the segregation thing. Good lord man, all right,
Speaker 2: seven forty six race stagic from the Weather Channel. How
Speaker 2: you doing? Not doing it?
Speaker 12: All right?
Speaker 2: So my favorite story of the day. Are you ready
Speaker 2: for this? Ray? Some guy in Florida was in a
Speaker 2: buffet line and this dude and his two daughters cut
Speaker 2: in front of him, right at the prim red carving station.
Speaker 2: So he smacked the dude over the head with the plate.
Speaker 2: The guys like, the guys like three hundred and fifty pounds?
Speaker 2: Would you cut a three hundred and fifty pounds man
Speaker 2: in a buffet line? Even you a big dude?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: Right, what not?
Speaker 6: Not even no?
Speaker 2: No, no, yeah, I don't mean the victim blame. But
Speaker 2: what was it that was gonna happen?
Speaker 16: Yeah, paper plastic plate glass.
Speaker 2: They were at a country club at a wedding reception,
Speaker 2: so it was n you know.
Speaker 6: It's fine, fine China.
Speaker 2: Maybe, yeah, I don't know good I didn't front of
Speaker 2: the prime rib thing. I don't know how i'd react.
Speaker 2: You know, there was exactly a little bit of prime
Speaker 2: rib left. I might flip out. So I was having
Speaker 2: There's a map here this morning, and most most of
Speaker 2: the insanities in Virginia, I see them a little bit
Speaker 2: dip down, like north of Durham there, but it doesn't
Speaker 2: seem to be having big impacts. So how much more
Speaker 2: of this?
Speaker 6: Yeah, probably through today though the advisories.
Speaker 16: As you get up into Caswell points west, those counties
Speaker 16: right right up on the Virginia border, temperatures is what's
Speaker 16: the concern, and that's where it is thirty two or lower.
Speaker 16: So some of this priests have coming down, especially in
Speaker 16: the northern parts of Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes County, Surrey County
Speaker 16: and into Virginia. That could be a little freezing rain
Speaker 16: or sleep. Elsewhere it's rain. It looks like a cold
Speaker 16: rain on to get off again throughout today. If we
Speaker 16: get to forty, I think we're lucky. Most of us
Speaker 16: are going to be stuck in the kind of chili thirties.
Speaker 16: More rain and showers tonight, with fog tomorrow, more showers
Speaker 16: tapering off sometime in the afternoon, and I think by
Speaker 16: Friday we're doing better. Tomorrow afternoon with a little sun,
Speaker 16: we could get above sixty. The Triangle stay in the fifties,
Speaker 16: and the try it in points West, but Friday would
Speaker 16: cool off as the storm passes. We do get some
Speaker 16: chillier air in the twenties in the morning and then
Speaker 16: probably won't get out of the mid upper forties during
Speaker 16: the day and more rate over the weekend, except for
Speaker 16: if you've got the extended holiday weekend Monday being President's Day,
Speaker 16: sun shines back. So next couple of days on setth
Speaker 16: here best. Well yeah, well, believe it or not, I will.
Speaker 16: So that's good to know.
Speaker 2: Well, you took this Monday off, so I.
Speaker 6: Know, I know, And yeah, it's just switch.
Speaker 16: But the best days I think, Yeah, I think the
Speaker 16: best day is Friday and again Monday, with us.
Speaker 6: Some wet weather in between.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Sarah, we're talking an hour. Do
Speaker 2: appreciate it. So I said, we have two school board stories.
Speaker 2: Now I'm not as angry about the other one, or
Speaker 2: not angry, but like, but I kind of want this
Speaker 2: thing to happen, and I hope the wake County school
Speaker 2: Board will allow it to happen because it seems to
Speaker 2: be what parents it. You know it actually happened.
Speaker 12: Let me get youse. I was trying to do some
Speaker 12: housework real quick. So I've had kids in the Gelfert
Speaker 12: County school system for over forty years. I've got grandkids
Speaker 12: who are in there now, three boys, ones autistic, one black.
Speaker 12: They live with me, and I can tell you, and
Speaker 12: I have experience with private schools. Private school kids test
Speaker 12: one time a year versus the three times a year
Speaker 12: I think we have to do in our public schools
Speaker 12: in Gilhart County, and they always excel at at the
Speaker 12: standardized testing. So that's a fair of right there. And
Speaker 12: a lot of them are poor and minorities, and they
Speaker 12: receive scholarships from whether it's a church private school or
Speaker 12: a private private school, they get the vouchers or the
Speaker 12: scholarships so they can be there. Okay, And my kids
Speaker 12: in the Guildford County public schools. From my kids to now,
Speaker 12: I can tell you that the county needs to They
Speaker 12: have neighborhoods that are minorities period that they pull from. Right,
Speaker 12: they don't pay enough attention to those schools. They do
Speaker 12: not pay enough attention to those schools. They don't do
Speaker 12: things to foster parent involvement. They don't do the things
Speaker 12: that the children need. These kids needs not only a
Speaker 12: good education, but they need a lot of love and care. Okay,
Speaker 12: my children, my grandchildren have all gone through the same
Speaker 12: magnet school, which is General Green Elementary here in greens
Speaker 12: of bar and not my kids, my grandkids, all my grandkids,
Speaker 12: and I've got twenty one, so a bunch of them.
Speaker 17: Have that school.
Speaker 12: My black child is it selling. My autistic child is
Speaker 12: a on a roll. My other child, my other child
Speaker 12: is amazing, and they're getting a good education. I have
Speaker 12: friends with kids in other schools. We have to start
Speaker 12: demanding that this whole thing it needs to be at
Speaker 12: the state level, because every time it's at the federal level,
Speaker 12: it gets watered down. Well, and the kids, our kids
Speaker 12: are what we name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Joan, I'm sorry, just because I'm running out of
Speaker 2: time here. Here's the important thing. That's why it's important
Speaker 2: if that transition is going to happen, and it looks
Speaker 2: like it is, that we are working with accurate information.
Speaker 2: There is an involvement from parents in grandparents such as yourself,
Speaker 2: so that we can literally get this right instead of
Speaker 2: fear mongering. So thank you very much for the call there, Joanne,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, just up against it. I agree with you
Speaker 2: one thousand percent. So you can't have people running out
Speaker 2: and saying things like the schools are more segregated than
Speaker 2: they were in the sixties. That's insane. Oh the Woolworths
Speaker 2: more are segregated now than in Greensboro than it was
Speaker 2: in the sixties. You want to test that theory. I
Speaker 2: have photos and I know one of those dudes he's
Speaker 2: called into the show before, who literally was sitting there
Speaker 2: at that counter in Greensboro right around the time this
Speaker 2: lunatics claiming things were honky dory. Spoiler, they were not.
Speaker 2: Grab one phone call a gentleman's been holding. Also, the
Speaker 2: I guess what is going to be the quote kill
Speaker 2: shot the Democrats are going to use to attempt to
Speaker 2: negate cash Betel's confirmation. We now know what it is.
Speaker 2: Dick Durban took to the floor of the Senate yesterday
Speaker 2: to lay it out. It's it's what they're gonna get
Speaker 2: him with. I will explain to you what it is.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's gonna work okay. In fact,
Speaker 2: it'll probably make you excited, so real quick, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: play this audio again and then we're gonna grab the
Speaker 2: phone call here because it's about what the guy said.
Speaker 2: So this is Tim Merrick, who's a school board member
Speaker 2: down in Wilmington, and he was on CNN and I
Speaker 2: fear mongering a bunch, clearly, but a couple of things
Speaker 2: he said are just so like it doesn't track in
Speaker 2: anybody's brain. Man, listen to.
Speaker 15: We have private schools and religious schools that are not
Speaker 15: regulated by by the by the federal government the same
Speaker 15: way that our public schools are, and they are not
Speaker 15: showing better performance here in New henri County. In fact,
Speaker 15: some of our private schools have poorer performance than many
Speaker 15: of our public schools. So I can't agree with that.
Speaker 15: What I can agree with is that without our federal money,
Speaker 15: we will not be taking care of our most disadvantaged students,
Speaker 15: and that is just a crisis that we cannot have.
Speaker 15: You know, we have fairly segregated schools here in North Carolina,
Speaker 15: more segregated than what they were in nineteen sixty eight,
Speaker 15: and our richest, wealthy white schools have at the end
Speaker 15: of fifth grade, they have a ninety one percent proficiency
Speaker 15: in reading, and our poorest black schools have a nine
Speaker 15: point five percent proficiency in reading in fifth grade. This
Speaker 15: is a sort of segregation that will be even worse
Speaker 15: without the federal guidelines that require us to take care
Speaker 15: of our most.
Speaker 2: Is that in students. Okay, well, and the fear mindering,
Speaker 2: the main point is is that if the state, if
Speaker 2: the FED, the Department of Education goes away, that any
Speaker 2: student who receives specialty learning programs, special ed or schools
Speaker 2: where they've had to come, you know, the state can
Speaker 2: take over a damn school man like if it's going
Speaker 2: so poorly. Thankfully, one of the other board members, Josie Barnhardt,
Speaker 2: called in and appears to be one of the adults
Speaker 2: in the room. And I'm glad that they're having those conversations,
Speaker 2: and I understand why parents are asking this guy isn't helping,
Speaker 2: This guy isn't helping telling people essentially that if your
Speaker 2: kids in a special ED program, your kids in a
Speaker 2: school that is trying to turn around test scores, that
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, all of that stops. Does that
Speaker 2: track to you, dude?
Speaker 8: The fear mongering is real too. I could tell you
Speaker 8: for firsthand. I've heard from you know, fellow special needs
Speaker 8: parents on social media and in person, and they're like,
Speaker 8: you know, if the Department Education goes, our kids are
Speaker 8: going to be you know, kicked to the curb and
Speaker 8: there won't be funding for them. Like, no, well, the
Speaker 8: states will now have that money. It'll be right, the
Speaker 8: money will be said of the states. And then the
Speaker 8: argument that I've heard repeatedly, and it's not an argument,
Speaker 8: it's just it's more of like a like a comeback. Yeah,
Speaker 8: Like they say, well, the problem with that is North
Speaker 8: Carolina is one of the worst states and allocating that money,
Speaker 8: and well that money so yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: And you know why people believe that because every year
Speaker 2: these the teachers Union, oh or not a union, your
Speaker 2: a union, shut up. The teachers Union puts out that
Speaker 2: little report where they go, look at North Carolina bottom
Speaker 2: ranking for spending for teachers' salaries and individual students spending
Speaker 2: at the state level. And the reason they put that
Speaker 2: out is because North Carolina has a very unique system
Speaker 2: how monies are allocated. They are allocated obviously the federal level.
Speaker 2: Currently they are allocated at the state level, and we
Speaker 2: have the local funding, and so districts, especially the more
Speaker 2: populated districts, they then add to that funding. And then
Speaker 2: what happens is when they put that report out, they
Speaker 2: only put the state funding in there. They don't put it,
Speaker 2: so the per people spending looks very low, when in reality,
Speaker 2: if you include the local funding, we're kind of middle
Speaker 2: of the road, nothing crazy. So they're using one bs
Speaker 2: manipulative argument that was pure propaganda to answer to another
Speaker 2: argument that you're trying to dispel that is clearly propaganda.
Speaker 2: It's and the people doing it know what they're doing, right.
Speaker 2: And if the schools are so abysmal down there in
Speaker 2: New Handover, sir, and you're on the board, whose fault
Speaker 2: is that? It sounds like you're not being truthful about
Speaker 2: the numbers, though I tend to believe the woman who
Speaker 2: called in. All right, Chris, thanks for hanging on. What's up?
Speaker 17: Hey, Good morning, Casey, Thanks for treating my call. I'm
Speaker 17: really glad that lady called in because I was listening
Speaker 17: to that CNN guy or that guy on CNN, and
Speaker 17: what I got from it was all my black students
Speaker 17: are dumb and all my white students are fine. I
Speaker 17: need more money for some reason. I don't know how
Speaker 17: money is going to fix that.
Speaker 2: And I think that's why that mindset, you just need
Speaker 2: more of it.
Speaker 17: I think that's why Jesus. Yeah, I'm sorry for cutting
Speaker 17: you off. I think that's why Jesus said I need
Speaker 17: I make you fishers of men. It takes people. It
Speaker 17: takes iron to sharpen iron. It doesn't take a dollar bill.
Speaker 17: And I think that this guy shouldn't be teaching these
Speaker 17: kids if he's saying that is I mean, I just
Speaker 17: got it. Just seems so he was just so one
Speaker 17: sided and racist there to me that it didn't make
Speaker 17: any sense. And I'm really grateful for that lady.
Speaker 2: To call in. He's not teaching, he's one of seven
Speaker 2: people in charge of the whole thing. So I think
Speaker 2: it's actually worse.
Speaker 17: Wow, that's even worse. Yeah, yeah, well thanks for taking
Speaker 17: my call, man, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Thanks for hanging on.
Speaker 8: Let's go worst case scenario too, right, because the state
Speaker 8: gets the money for education, and then the state decides, hey,
Speaker 8: the special needs department is completely closed down. That would
Speaker 8: be political suicide and it's over for you. So that'll
Speaker 8: never happen. It'll never happen.
Speaker 2: You want pitchforks at the capitol. That's how you get
Speaker 2: pitchforks at the capitol, man, one hundred percent, they would
Speaker 2: have they would have downtown Rawleigh surround it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, because people rightfully, so right exactly, people are good.
Speaker 8: Most people are good when it right. And you don't
Speaker 8: even need to be a special needs parent. The average
Speaker 8: person of a quote neurotypical child, right, regular program, you're
Speaker 8: on the road to getting a regular diploma. If you
Speaker 8: heard they were shutting down the special education department at
Speaker 8: your school, you would be down at the capitol, like
Speaker 8: you said, with pitchforks, right because it's wrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it requires you to divorce yourself of critical thinking
Speaker 2: these arguments, because that's absolutely one hundred percent. And that's
Speaker 2: and I think most people probably realize that, right they're like,
Speaker 2: all right, no, all the special need we're gonna stick
Speaker 2: them all on Okrah Cooke and ignore it. But you'd
Speaker 2: all be gone and just just be over. In the
Speaker 2: same way that telling people, especially people in North Carolina,
Speaker 2: that schools are more segregated now than they were during
Speaker 2: the Civil rights era, when we're still dumping ketchup on
Speaker 2: black college students and white parents were standing in front
Speaker 2: of schools in southern municipalities and the National Guard had
Speaker 2: to come in. Shut up. Nobody wants to hear that
Speaker 2: because they know that you're not being truthful with them.
Speaker 2: So now, any valid points you may attempt to make,
Speaker 2: I you're not even going to listen to it. And
Speaker 2: you need to listen to people, and you need to
Speaker 2: listen to the parents. I'm talking to you. Wake County
Speaker 2: School Board. Let's do this. Wake County School's Facilities Committee
Speaker 2: has recommended some new names for schools. Right, a new
Speaker 2: name opening up. This will be in Zebulon in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty nine. They're recommending Little Creek Elementary. However, for one
Speaker 2: of the other schools that's getting ready to open, they're
Speaker 2: a little hesitant about the name and they I guess
Speaker 2: they actually ask parents to weigh in on this, and
Speaker 2: the it seemed to be the three choices that got
Speaker 2: the most votes, or I guess it's it's not a
Speaker 2: formal vote, but it's just parents weighing in. Where Marshburn
Speaker 2: Road Fall Branch Elementary or the one that is First
Speaker 2: Lizard Lick Elementary, that'd be amazing. Why what's wrong here?
Speaker 2: I'd love. Can you imagine you go to Lizard Lick School.
Speaker 2: Let's gold, you go to Lizard Lick. Kids would love it.
Speaker 2: It's an elementary school that's funny, but unfortunately not so
Speaker 2: funny to some of the school board members. All Right,
Speaker 2: Chryl Cawfield, one of the board members, says she's hesitant. Sure,
Speaker 2: it sounds like a fun like a fun name. And
Speaker 2: I guess that's the area she represents. I don't know
Speaker 2: her little district area map, but Kawfield said she thought
Speaker 2: the district tried to avoid naming a school for a
Speaker 2: community because people may move to a community and expect
Speaker 2: their children to be assigned to the school, and they're
Speaker 2: nervous selecting the name that is associated with a reality
Speaker 2: TV show. It's not a it's associated with a reality
Speaker 2: TV show because it's a business in a town called
Speaker 2: lizard Lick. Right, this is chicken egg stuff here. The
Speaker 2: Lizard Lick towing folks who we've had on the show
Speaker 2: aren't the ones who named the area. They name their
Speaker 2: business after the area in which they do business. No,
Speaker 2: it needs to be lizard Lick. I'm sorry, or you
Speaker 2: know what, if you don't want lizard Lick you can
Speaker 2: call it Trump Elementary. I'll let you choose, just because
Speaker 2: I can't imagine the meltdown that would take place there.
Speaker 2: No call it lizard Lick. This doesn't have to be contentious,
Speaker 2: have a sense of humor, but don't pretend like that's
Speaker 2: not geographically what we're talking about. I'd love love to
Speaker 2: go to lizard Lick Elementary. Well, you know, when I
Speaker 2: was a kid, Probably not now, And then they go
Speaker 2: on to say outsiders may also be unfamiliar with the
Speaker 2: community and might react poorly to the name lizard Lick.
Speaker 2: What what what are you talking about? Also, why are
Speaker 2: you making Why are you basing decisions on people who
Speaker 2: don't live here? That's it's just wild to me. So no,
Speaker 2: I'll die on this hill.
Speaker 8: I've seen the Towing show. I know everything I need
Speaker 8: to know, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, what are you talking about? It's called lizard Lick.
Speaker 2: Do lizard Lick parents, if this is your if this
Speaker 2: is your area, call your school board members, because I
Speaker 2: want this to happen so I can be amused and
Speaker 2: and your kids can get a good education. But also
Speaker 2: amuse me. Okay, all right? Eight seventeen, Hang on any
Speaker 2: of these confirmations, you get one or two talking points,
Speaker 2: and everybody's coordinated, and you bring it up incessantly over
Speaker 2: an other over even when people answer questions. If you're
Speaker 2: mazy herono, you accuse them of not answering it even
Speaker 2: though they just did, because you're just on autopilot, right,
Speaker 2: And it's always fascinating to me to see what they're
Speaker 2: gonna go with with heg Seth. He's a drunk, right,
Speaker 2: So he's a drunk and in an abuser of women.
Speaker 2: And then they rode that pony and it didn't go anywhere,
Speaker 2: you know, with a recently obviously the Supreme Court Kavanaugh hearing,
Speaker 2: he was running rape conga lines and boofing whatever that is,
Speaker 2: and that didn't go anywhere. So I'm always interested to
Speaker 2: see what they come up with. And now that they're
Speaker 2: getting ahead of the cash Betel vote, this is it.
Speaker 2: So Dick Durban took to the Senate floor yesterday and
Speaker 2: he's and this is the tweety sent he said, I'm
Speaker 2: on the Senate floor revealing highly credible. Again, remember how
Speaker 2: that entered the lexicon with the Kavanaugh. That was with
Speaker 2: the Kavanaugh where they're just like, oh, these aren't allegations.
Speaker 2: They're credible allegations, and it's like, oh, so they're true
Speaker 2: and you have proof, but they're credible whatever that means.
Speaker 2: All right, So he says, I'm on the center floor
Speaker 2: revealing highly credible information from multiple whistleblowers indicating the Cash Patel.
Speaker 2: And then here's the accusation. You ready has been personally
Speaker 2: directing the ongoing purge of senior law enforcement officials at
Speaker 2: the FBI. How dare he? What Durwin's referring to is
Speaker 2: Cash Patel, who's worked in all of these circles. Remember
Speaker 2: this guy was a Pentagon dude. He was He was
Speaker 2: not FBI one of the other three letters. But he's
Speaker 2: been all over and yes, he has openly identified members
Speaker 2: of the FBI who he feels are not are doing
Speaker 2: what they're doing for all the wrong political reasons, and
Speaker 2: he's been very open about it. And he's been so
Speaker 2: open that he and Trump and Musk have talked about
Speaker 2: this as a thing on the campaign trail that they
Speaker 2: were going to do. So what you're telling me is
Speaker 2: Cash Betel's already doing it for free. You're not even
Speaker 2: paying the guy yet, and he's already like, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: get to work, and he's not doing it. He's just
Speaker 2: literally what he says, here's who we believe because that's
Speaker 2: his thing. This is what he's passionate about. So if
Speaker 2: that's going to be your best argument not to put
Speaker 2: him in there is that he's already knows what needs
Speaker 2: to be done and has been open about it and
Speaker 2: maybe advising on it already. I just see it as
Speaker 2: a dude who wants to get to work and is
Speaker 2: willing to do it for free. He wants to do
Speaker 2: it so much, so you have to come up with
Speaker 2: something better there, Dick Durbin, and not just put scary
Speaker 2: words in your tweets. All right, Steve, what's up?
Speaker 12: Hey?
Speaker 18: Just to go back to the genius down south that
Speaker 18: then interview, It seems to me, just from listening to
Speaker 18: what he had to say, that he's an advocate for
Speaker 18: removing the federal government cause from the funding of the
Speaker 18: school districts. It seems like under their tutelids for the
Speaker 18: last couple of decades, they've really screwed up this school district.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everything's on fire. Well, that's the problem with taking
Speaker 2: no responsibility for anything. You start making arguments that literally
Speaker 2: are arguing opposite of what you're trying to do. And yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean just he didn't stop to think about it,
Speaker 2: and nobody at CNN called him out, like, well, wait,
Speaker 2: what are you moron? Yeah, well, moron, they got the
Speaker 2: elected to the school board.
Speaker 18: What are you going to do?
Speaker 2: All right, thanks, Steve, appreciate it. Yeah. Wait, So so
Speaker 2: the system sucks so much you're mad they're changing the
Speaker 2: system because it's the only way you can make the
Speaker 2: argument that if you just throw more money at it.
Speaker 2: There's two arguments that you hear that to believe it,
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know that even you believe it,
Speaker 2: but you always it's always one, Oh, we just need
Speaker 2: more money for it. Okay, Well, I can go to
Speaker 2: the school districts that have the highest per pupil funding
Speaker 2: and they have some of the worst test scores New
Speaker 2: York looking at you. It's a bismal up there, and
Speaker 2: they're I think they're the highest per pupil It might
Speaker 2: it's them or San Francisco, I can't remember, but but
Speaker 2: I mean, basically that's what you get. They're basically if
Speaker 2: you want to be embedded with one of these door
Speaker 2: kick teams, which is kind of it's FBI atf ice
Speaker 2: all of that. But when they're going after the like
Speaker 2: the the baddies, the Trendea, Rodwood, the murder dudes, it's it's,
Speaker 2: you know, the tactical FBI team, and and then the reporters.
Speaker 2: They're just filming all this and the look on these
Speaker 2: guys's faces. They're hiding in some scumbag apartment and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden there's eight dudes, a swat looking team there.
Speaker 2: That's amazing. And I read that right now. The US
Speaker 2: is averaging because they run deportation flights to Venezuela. They've
Speaker 2: averaged each week to roughly two planes, two hundred of
Speaker 2: these these gang these gang members, and they're just they're
Speaker 2: flying them back down to Caracas and then just dumping
Speaker 2: them off. The problem. The problem, in my opinion, is
Speaker 2: they're landing the plane to do it better, probably a
Speaker 2: thirty five thousand, although I don't want them to land
Speaker 2: on some innocent Venezuelan person, so maybe you know, outside
Speaker 2: of Caracas. But otherwise, a good job. That is awesome.
Speaker 2: Love to see that, all right. I told you I'm
Speaker 2: going to give you some investment advice, but it's not
Speaker 2: really because you're we That's why all of our adds.
Speaker 2: It's not investment advice because I'm not a financial advisor.
Speaker 2: But if you know, if you you're one of those
Speaker 2: people just loves the next thing and you don't care
Speaker 2: if your money burns because you spend a million dollars
Speaker 2: buying meme coins from the hawk to a girl, then uh,
Speaker 2: maybe a tutal capital has filed a to create a
Speaker 2: new ETF. Right, so you know, an investment a collection
Speaker 2: of investable things. And I'm not going to purport to
Speaker 2: be the expert here how all mutual funds and ETFs
Speaker 2: are put together. However, it is what this ETF is
Speaker 2: filled with. Right. You can get green energy ETFs, you
Speaker 2: can get oil and gas ETFs, you can get consumer goods,
Speaker 2: you can get anything under the sun or mutual funds
Speaker 2: that cover these things. Or you can get ones that
Speaker 2: have no Jews in them, like the college campus kids
Speaker 2: all want where they divest boycott stuff. Those exist. I
Speaker 2: don't know how they exist. That seems like it might
Speaker 2: be discriminatory, but whatever. So total capitals is different. They
Speaker 2: filed to invest in reverse engineered alien technology. This is
Speaker 2: and this is not some like no name things. It's
Speaker 2: legitimately a company that creates these files with the Securities
Speaker 2: and Exchange Commission to create these things and then people
Speaker 2: can invest. What does that mean? So my investment, my
Speaker 2: ETF investment is a portfolio of reverse engineered alien tech.
Speaker 2: Do you get some of it or you just get
Speaker 2: to invest in it? And like, how does that even work?
Speaker 2: The ticker if you would have looked this up, it's
Speaker 2: not live, it's not active. But the ticker is UFO
Speaker 2: D and it's technically called the UFO Disclosure AI powered
Speaker 2: ETF Matthew Tuttle, Chief executive Tuttle Capital say he's been
Speaker 2: interested in UFOs for years. Well, they are by definition
Speaker 2: an unknown quantity. Tuttle said he believed investing in UFOs
Speaker 2: and the technology they may use could take off once
Speaker 2: his product hits smart again. I don't even understand this, sir,
Speaker 2: but I'm sure this. I'm sure George Suklos just moved
Speaker 2: all his money into it. I don't know. I'm a trader.
Speaker 2: I look at UFOs and they're using pet what do
Speaker 2: you This whole thing is just weird, all right? So
Speaker 2: my advice, I don't know, good luck, But if you
Speaker 2: do get some alien reverse engineer technology because you're an
Speaker 2: initial investor, then maybe, but it has to be cool stuff.
Speaker 2: It can't you know, like you know, it can't be lame, right,
Speaker 2: I want I want badass laser guns or something right
Speaker 2: for deer honting, not for anything else. But uh maybe
Speaker 2: maybe that's the way, all right. Uh speaking of weird things. Uh,
Speaker 2: So they just had the dog the Big Dog Show
Speaker 2: the Westminster Kennel Club shot. I didn't. I didn't watch it,
Speaker 2: but if you like dogs, a lot of people watch it.
Speaker 2: It's fine. But I did happen to see a couple
Speaker 2: of people talking about it, and they weren't taking They
Speaker 2: were talking about the dogs, the purity of the breeds,
Speaker 2: the different breeds. But then they started having a conversation
Speaker 2: about some some uh some combo breeds. Right, so you
Speaker 2: got two peer breads being bred together to create different dogs,
Speaker 2: and there was two of them. They mentioned that I
Speaker 2: need some answers on the first one. The somebody bred
Speaker 2: a German shepherd with a Chihuahua. How I'm going to
Speaker 2: assume that chihuahua has to be the male, because if
Speaker 2: it was the female, the thing it probably explode when
Speaker 2: it got, you know, the litter, or maybe they're not
Speaker 2: meant to Who the hell knows, I don't know how
Speaker 2: does that work? And then the second one is the
Speaker 2: most terrifying dog breed I've ever heard of. It's a
Speaker 2: pit bull bread with a Chihuahua. What did the chihuahuas
Speaker 2: do to you? Can you imagine the temperament of a
Speaker 2: Chihuahua that barks at the wind for ten hours and
Speaker 2: thinks it's eight hundred pounds in bulletproof? Like that attitude
Speaker 2: that chihuahuas exude all known for. And then you you're like,
Speaker 2: what if we mixed it with a pit bull? What
Speaker 2: are we doing? You want one of those in your house?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: It's not again, I understand Ross was telling me your
Speaker 2: your chuahwas had been they were what pincer the miniature pinch.
Speaker 8: We had two regular chuaoists, but the one that was
Speaker 8: absolutely that crap crazy was a mini pincher Chiuaha mix.
Speaker 8: And the problem with a lot of these Chiuahua mixed
Speaker 8: breeds with the bigger dogs or even like the pincher,
Speaker 8: is the back legs the body of the chiuaha, right,
Speaker 8: It's the way it walks like it can't support the
Speaker 8: back legs. So what happened with our chiua, and it's
Speaker 8: very common, is the back legs just gave out. And
Speaker 8: you'll see some of these, like these videos on social
Speaker 8: media wh people are like, oh, look at this cute dog.
Speaker 8: It's sort of walking towards the camera and its back
Speaker 8: legs are sort of swaying back and forth doing this
Speaker 8: funny walk. Isn't that cute? Like that's like a dog
Speaker 8: with a disability.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're making fun of somebody who's like a paraplegia.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that dog's legs eventually are going to give out.
Speaker 8: So that's the problem with those dogs.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 8: Yeah, two of our chuaus, the ones that were choa chuas,
Speaker 8: they were some of the nicest dogs you've ever met.
Speaker 8: They would never bark anything, super quiet. There were more
Speaker 8: like cats. The other one, the pincumis absolutely crazy, just insane.
Speaker 2: Is that the one that would only let you touch it? Yeah?
Speaker 8: It literally bit every member of my family. Like like
Speaker 8: at a pet store, we got something marking never dating,
Speaker 8: and we went to a pet store and there was
Speaker 8: a chuao in the you know, in the in the
Speaker 8: in the case, and it was like, first sale fifty
Speaker 8: bucks and.
Speaker 2: We're like, oh my god, what's wrong with it?
Speaker 8: Why is it dog? Fifty dollars? And the guy that
Speaker 8: was working there looked like Dolph Lundron, like like a
Speaker 8: really big bodied, older type guy. And he looked at
Speaker 8: me with dread and he's like, you don't want you
Speaker 8: don't want that dog. And I'm like why, I look
Speaker 8: at a little tiny look and the guy pulls his
Speaker 8: sleeves back and there's all these bite and scratch marks
Speaker 8: and he's like, that dog is crazy, and I'm like,
Speaker 8: I want it. And I went over and I picked
Speaker 8: it up, just picked it up. I'm like, you're my
Speaker 8: dog now and the dog and the guy was like, no,
Speaker 8: one's been able to pick that dog up. No, but
Speaker 8: I don't know how you're doing that right now, Like, well,
Speaker 8: it's meant to be okay. And if we had not
Speaker 8: adopted that dog, that dog would have been put down
Speaker 8: with no question.
Speaker 2: That's crazy, that's crazy that he's got it in the case.
Speaker 2: He's like, you don't want that Yeah, fifty bucks? How
Speaker 2: long did how long did that dog live with you?
Speaker 8: Like twenty years?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so apparently worked out and again like miniature pincer
Speaker 2: mixed with the Chiuaha, like a small dog, small or
Speaker 2: smaller dog and then very small dog. I understand that.
Speaker 2: I just I can't see. I just can't see a
Speaker 2: German Shepherd pulling up behind a Chihuahua or vice versa.
Speaker 2: Do you have to hold the chihuahua? How does that work?
Speaker 2: Get it a little table?
Speaker 13: Look?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I don't under Maybe you have some dog
Speaker 2: breed people are like, no, a pit bull mixed with
Speaker 2: the Chihuahua. They're amazing. Kids love them. It's the Gandhi
Speaker 2: of chihuahuas and the Gandhi of pit bulls and everything's fine.
Speaker 2: Or that's that's more terrifying to me than the Boston
Speaker 2: Dynamics flamethrower dog. I don't know. Let's get raised Stagic
Speaker 2: in here. See what he thinks about this. So they
Speaker 2: had that big dog show and they were talking about
Speaker 2: some of the mixed breeds and I don't have him
Speaker 2: in the show because some of the more interesting ones.
Speaker 2: And they were taking somebody bred a German Shepherd with
Speaker 2: a Chihuahua. Oh, I'm not sure how that you know what?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 2: They remind me of you ever see a picture of
Speaker 2: Shaquille O'Neil with the women he dates because he has
Speaker 2: a thing for like under five foot little women. And
Speaker 2: then you see him out in public, and that's what
Speaker 2: I saw with the German show. And then they have
Speaker 2: a pit bull Chihuahuah, which sounds like the most terrifying
Speaker 2: thing I've ever heard of as dogs are concerned.
Speaker 6: Sounds like a movie.
Speaker 2: You'd probably breed a wolf with that breed next and
Speaker 2: then have a triple.
Speaker 6: Car like Kujo or something. Right, geez man, sounds nasty.
Speaker 2: You got the you got the pit bull power with
Speaker 2: the chihuahua attitude? Oh no, thank you?
Speaker 6: Interested? Yeah, sure they are.
Speaker 2: Should we let the dogs outside or keep them inside?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 2: Going on?
Speaker 16: Nah, they're probably going to be a brief visit outside
Speaker 16: like my dog did today, in and out it was
Speaker 16: all over with cold uh cocker spaniel. Okay, all right,
Speaker 16: yeah little so if you thought of breeding it, really wow, No,
Speaker 16: probably not going to do that, all right anyway.
Speaker 6: Anyway, it's really my wife and kids dog.
Speaker 16: But anyway, cold morning, low in mid thirties and where
Speaker 16: we're seeing the temperatures near freezing is to our north, Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes, Surrey, counties,
Speaker 16: Yatkin County, Wilkes County.
Speaker 6: All winter weather advisories.
Speaker 16: There's some spotty freezing drizzle and coming out of some
Speaker 16: of the mountain counties out near Bunkham and Yancy, Knavery
Speaker 16: Counties getting some reports of some ice in just a
Speaker 16: little bit of damage. But we're going to be a
Speaker 16: cold rain for most of us, most west end north
Speaker 16: in terms of the ice and any leftover snow. It's
Speaker 16: occasional rain and showers today, probably gonna hold in the thirties,
Speaker 16: but rising temperatures overnight tonight to the forties, the low
Speaker 16: and mid forties with occasional rain and showers and areas
Speaker 16: of fog. The ugly weather continues tomorrow with more scattered
Speaker 16: showers around, but we will get into the upper fifties,
Speaker 16: maybe the low sixties in the afternoon, especially for the Triangle. Finally,
Speaker 16: get the wet weather out from Friday, sunshine, mid to
Speaker 16: upper forties, twenties at night, so we'll be a little
Speaker 16: bit colder than a little more rain coming in for
Speaker 16: at least the first part of the weekend. Second part
Speaker 16: of the long weekend, meaning by later Sunday and on
Speaker 16: until Monday, should have some clearing sky, but it looks
Speaker 16: like some chilly weather early next week too, Casey. So
Speaker 16: wet weather today, probably tapering off sometime early to mid
Speaker 16: afternoon tomorrow. We get a break Friday, but more rain
Speaker 16: coming as we look ahead towards the beginning of the weekend,
Speaker 16: so that's Saturday and then possibly lasting into a part
Speaker 16: of Sunday before we get some dryer air back in
Speaker 16: early next week.
Speaker 6: Does look a little bit better, but chillier.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you very much, appreciate it, sir. Okay,
Speaker 2: I don't send me pictures of their small dogs. It's
Speaker 2: not you can have small dogs in Boston. But what
Speaker 2: is that, Boston, Paul? Is that at Wow? I don't
Speaker 2: even know what that is. I'm just saying that if
Speaker 2: a German shepherd tries to get on that thing, maybe
Speaker 2: you should stop it. Okay, I'm looking out for your dog.
Speaker 2: All right. We'll come back with Jeff bell internext via
Speaker 2: poem This morning with Jeff Bellingder. Jeff, how are you
Speaker 2: doing today?
Speaker 19: I'm doing well, Casey?
Speaker 7: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm pretty good so that you didn't have to go
Speaker 2: to the office, So good on you, man.
Speaker 19: Yeah, yeah, we had just enough palable snow to make
Speaker 19: things a little dangerous overnight. But the government's latest reading
Speaker 19: on inflation came out just a short time ago, came
Speaker 19: in hot, the numbers going to keep the Federal Reserve
Speaker 19: on hold for some time. The Consumer Price Index rose
Speaker 19: five tenths percent in January, the core CPI, which omits
Speaker 19: food and energy costs, rose four tenths percent, and the
Speaker 19: CPI was up three percent year over year. All of
Speaker 19: those readings are higher than expected. It is pointed out
Speaker 19: there are seasonal adjustment issues every January because so many
Speaker 19: businesses tend to hike prices at the start of the year.
Speaker 19: So we'll see whether the numbers improve this month. But
Speaker 19: right now investors are not happy. The S and P
Speaker 19: futures are down fifty nine points, Nasdaq futures are down
Speaker 19: two hundred and twenty five, and the Dow futures are
Speaker 19: down three hundred and ninety nine. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome
Speaker 19: Powell told a Senate panel yesterday the Central Bank can
Speaker 19: be patient and wait for inflation to ease further before
Speaker 19: lowering borrowing costs again. Powell will be back on Capitol
Speaker 19: Hill today he appears before a House committee refine Demand
Speaker 19: continued to keep mortgage bankers busy. Last week, applications from
Speaker 19: homeowners looking to refinance their loans jumped more than nine
Speaker 19: percent after increasing more than twelve percent the prior week.
Speaker 19: There was a more than two percent drop in requests
Speaker 19: for new mortgages, and the average interest rate on a
Speaker 19: thirty year fixed strate home loan ticked down to six
Speaker 19: point ninety five percent. And case Apple is changing its
Speaker 19: maps app, renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of
Speaker 19: America in response to the executive order from President Trump.
Speaker 19: The government's official map and Google Map app already reflects
Speaker 19: that change.
Speaker 2: Casey, Hey, we just found out that Paul's Maddie is
Speaker 2: going to be playing Art bell in an upcoming movie,
Speaker 2: and so now we're wondering, when they eventually get around
Speaker 2: to making the Jeff Bellinger biopic, which actor do you
Speaker 2: want to play?
Speaker 4: You boy?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 19: I mean, I can't think of any actor that I resemble,
Speaker 19: but you know, I think Tom Hanks can play just
Speaker 19: about anybody, whether comedic or serious. So I'll nominate Tom Hanks.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, very good, Thank you very much, appreciate.
Speaker 19: Okay, have a good day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So Ross, I gotta hold on. He's on the
Speaker 2: phone button. All right.
Speaker 8: See, I was thinking, like Samuel Jackson.
Speaker 2: I was gonna go with Kat Williams for me, but kidding,
Speaker 2: I don't know. So Ross has told me is literally
Speaker 2: right before I went to Jeff So I haven't seen
Speaker 2: this story. So they're doing one. They're doing an Art
Speaker 2: Bell movie and then Paul Giamati is going to play him.
Speaker 2: I like the sound of that. Man, I'd go see
Speaker 2: that for sure. I love Paul Jamadi there. So does
Speaker 2: it say when that movie is gonna come out?
Speaker 8: No, it does not. Just saw on Nerdrotics posted about it.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, all right, I'll probably look a little more
Speaker 2: into that. That'll be interesting. There's like because there's a
Speaker 2: let me tell you, guys want to hear in Art
Speaker 2: Bell's story. This is and I actually I had heard
Speaker 2: this story, and then when I had a chance to
Speaker 2: uh hang out with George Norri when we did the
Speaker 2: Greensboro event, I literally asked him about it. He said
Speaker 2: it's true. So, uh, Art Bell obviously did that show
Speaker 2: for years and years and years, and eventually premiere who
Speaker 2: is the syndicator of the show. They syndicate most of
Speaker 2: the shows you hear on the station. Actually they ended
Speaker 2: up buying it. I'm not sure exactly what it was
Speaker 2: structured like, but the story I heard was I think
Speaker 2: they paid him like sixty million dollars or something for
Speaker 2: the show. But art Bell is so legendarily frugal, a
Speaker 2: frugal only then did he buy his first new car ever,
Speaker 2: and he was. It's not like he wasn't getting paid.
Speaker 2: The guy was making a lot of money, but he
Speaker 2: got that big chunk. So we went out and bought
Speaker 2: a new car for the first time ever. It was
Speaker 2: a Saturn. It was a base model Saturn, which I
Speaker 2: guess this space reference there. But also so he was
Speaker 2: legendarily frugal, which is not a knock. It's just these
Speaker 2: are the little things that you wonder if they're going
Speaker 2: to be able to capture when they do a movie. Ross,
Speaker 2: who do you want to play you? I think I
Speaker 2: know the answer to this.
Speaker 8: I would probably say David Spade, Joe Dirt.
Speaker 2: Here we go, really Joe Dirt, and go Joe Dirt. Okay,
Speaker 2: I think did he have the Joe Dirt hat while
Speaker 2: he's her hair while he's playing you? Yeah?
Speaker 8: No, I want him to do I want him to
Speaker 8: play me as Joe Dirt, i'd so yeah. It's David
Speaker 8: Spade as Joe Dirt as me.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, very good. I'm gonna go with the
Speaker 2: Brad Pitt I think probably They probably do a stunt
Speaker 2: double for it too. Looks so much like so