Speaker 1: Is six oh six, and it is four days till
Speaker 1: vacation ross marked the advent calendar. Okay, all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be gone all next week, and I'm making
Speaker 1: a point to say it every day, so inevitably, when
Speaker 1: you write me going you never said anything, you will
Speaker 1: be wrong and I will be right. Okay, good, good, good.
Speaker 1: Now a thought exercise, shall we? I want you to
Speaker 1: pretend it's May nineteen forty. Okay, nineteenth May nineteen forty.
Speaker 1: May nineteen forty was a very interesting time because it
Speaker 1: completely dispelled us of the idea the Neville Chamberlain outlook. Okay,
Speaker 1: and that was if Hitler just gets sued, Dayton gets
Speaker 1: the Rhineland, there's a couple of other things. He'll be fine,
Speaker 1: everything's fine, nothing to see here. But by May of
Speaker 1: nineteen forty, Hitler took France and marched into Paris, right,
Speaker 1: and at that point they're just like all right. And
Speaker 1: then the Polish stuff was already happening, and it was
Speaker 1: wildly out of control by then. But you knew what
Speaker 1: was up. You called it early, You pounded the table
Speaker 1: with your rightness, and just how smart you were during
Speaker 1: the Night of Long Knives, during the aggression into Poland
Speaker 1: into ordering the essentially the forest areas of France blockaded
Speaker 1: and partially occupied. Everyone knew what was coming up eventually,
Speaker 1: and you're right, You're just you say you're right, and
Speaker 1: you would say that you're absolutely correct. Everything's panning out
Speaker 1: how you thought you knew who he was, and you
Speaker 1: shout to the world and you tell everyone, and then
Speaker 1: he captures France in this little scenario. What do you do?
Speaker 1: What do you do if you've been right all this
Speaker 1: time and everyone should just believe you, and look at
Speaker 1: look at these actions that prove this thing exactly as
Speaker 1: I say they are. Well, you do what Morning Joe did,
Speaker 1: and you go to the eagles and s by the
Speaker 1: sea as his own television show has labeled it that
Speaker 1: it would be mar A Lago And apparently apparently you
Speaker 1: beg beg friendship of him. Oh yeah, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: the thing that's going on. Let's check in real quick
Speaker 1: with Mourning Joe and and how you how you remember
Speaker 1: Morning Joe really most recently.
Speaker 2: And then he says that the news network that that
Speaker 2: is most critical of him should be taken off the air.
Speaker 2: This is not a reach. I could go back and
Speaker 2: talk about Nazi Germany, and I do it. I do
Speaker 2: it without any concerns whatsoever. And if people can't start
Speaker 2: drawing the parallels, well you're just stupid, or you have
Speaker 2: your head in the sand, or you're one of them.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I just wanted I wanted to be
Speaker 1: clear he's used the Nazi rhetoric and it was Eli
Speaker 1: mystical or whatever that that weird with the weird hair.
Speaker 1: That's the guy who did the ego's Nest by the
Speaker 1: Sea quote, while these two vapid idiots just boo yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of fits. Well, some's changed And I just want
Speaker 1: to know why you went to h went and had
Speaker 1: dinner with Hitler man. What's up with them?
Speaker 3: The past week, Joe and I have heard from so
Speaker 3: many people, from political leaders to regular citizens, deeply dismayed
Speaker 3: by several of President Elect Trump's cabinet selections, and they
Speaker 3: are scared. Last Thursday, we expressed our own concerns on
Speaker 3: this broadcast and even said we would appreciate the opportunity
Speaker 3: to speak with the President elect himself. On Friday, we
Speaker 3: were given the opportunity to do just that. Joe and
Speaker 3: I went to mar A Lago to meet personally with
Speaker 3: President elect Trump. It was the first time we have
Speaker 3: seen him in seven years now.
Speaker 2: We talked about a lot of issues, including abortion, mass deportation,
Speaker 2: threats of political retribution against political opponents, and media outlets.
Speaker 2: We talked about that a good bit.
Speaker 1: Good for you. Why is he carving out a minute
Speaker 1: to meet with you other than and correct me if Ross,
Speaker 1: what do you think of this? I think Trump's doing
Speaker 1: it because it's a struggle session for him, because of
Speaker 1: the fact. Do you remember when he first started running
Speaker 1: these Nitwitz would have him on the show every morning.
Speaker 1: He was calling into Morning Joe at the same rate
Speaker 1: he was calling into Fox and Friends back in you know,
Speaker 1: back when he first announced he was running Why because
Speaker 1: they were friends, they were more than friends. Is This
Speaker 1: is something a lot of people don't remember, and probably
Speaker 1: was pretty influential in how this relationship evolved. There was
Speaker 1: a moment where apparently, and I don't know how serious
Speaker 1: it was, there was a moment where that idiot referring
Speaker 1: to Joe thought he was a contender for vice president
Speaker 1: with Trump. You guys, I don't know if you remember this,
Speaker 1: just for a moment, and then it became abundantly clear.
Speaker 1: There was no way he was going to be the
Speaker 1: vice presidential nomination, and then Trump wasn't on the show anymore,
Speaker 1: Just to show you how self serving these people are.
Speaker 1: So now the media landscape is in a tailspin. This
Speaker 1: is just reactionary to what's going on. The what's her bucket?
Speaker 1: The suppose what are the supposed conservative the Ferret Fara
Speaker 1: Griffith or whatever on the view Right, who then was like,
Speaker 1: I'm conservative, but but all my thoughts are liberal. She
Speaker 1: was talking yesterday about how she might switch back. Well,
Speaker 1: why does that only come after we hear the view
Speaker 1: might try to get quote more conservative voices on there.
Speaker 1: CNN's about to do a reckoning, they've already started the process,
Speaker 1: and MSNBC is going to be there as well. How
Speaker 1: do you maintain your relevancy if those in charge are
Speaker 1: rethinking the way that you're doing business, which apparently isn't
Speaker 1: appealing to people they I saw a stat yesterday that morning, Joe.
Speaker 1: Outside of its initial run, they rerun one of the
Speaker 1: hours and at one time all right, no, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: this is the this is the combined cube for the
Speaker 1: entire hour. So this is dug in in the details,
Speaker 1: it's the sample. It into quarter hours and then it's
Speaker 1: a whole thing. But he had twenty eight thousand viewers
Speaker 1: for a flagship national show. This is post election, This
Speaker 1: is last last week and the last week. I think
Speaker 1: the numbers are for I'll call him up Thursday or Friday,
Speaker 1: one of the two days. Twenty eight thousand. You know
Speaker 1: who has more than twenty eight thousand me us, Yeah,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, there's enough gullible people in the
Speaker 1: state of North Carolina to exceed that number, because that's
Speaker 1: the other thing that Morning Shoe has said, if you
Speaker 1: listen to talk radio, it's for the gullible. So and
Speaker 1: now he's down. Now he's down at the he's down
Speaker 1: at Hitler's Mountain Retreat or in this case, ocean retwreat
Speaker 1: retreat to hang with him. Absolutely just spineless, just some
Speaker 1: of the most spineless stuff out there.
Speaker 2: That's gonna come as no surprise to anybody who watches
Speaker 2: this show, has watched it over the past year or
Speaker 2: over the past decade, that we didn't see eye to
Speaker 2: eye on a lot of issues, and we told him so.
Speaker 3: What we did agree on was to restar our communications.
Speaker 3: My father often spoke with world leaders with whom he
Speaker 3: in the United States profoundly disagreed. That's a task shared
Speaker 3: by reporters and commentators alike. We had not spoken to
Speaker 3: President Trump since March of twenty twenty, other than a
Speaker 3: personal call Joe made to Trump on the morning after
Speaker 3: the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: That's the scummier thing right now there. Man, Do you
Speaker 1: think for a moment that Donald Trump, after he just
Speaker 1: got shot, wants to talk to Morning Joe undeniably a
Speaker 1: contributor to the very rhetoric we just played it for
Speaker 1: you that a lot of people think may have infected
Speaker 1: this dude's brain. And he calls him, he's like, oh
Speaker 1: that sucks. Man. Look, you made a decision, You have
Speaker 1: a position. Doesn't mean you can be unyielding. But there's
Speaker 1: no impetus for this. Arguably maybe the assassination was. But
Speaker 1: if you'd tempered your comments after that, doing some self reflection,
Speaker 1: I'd have a lot of more respect for your position here.
Speaker 1: But that Hitler cut, that Hitler cut is standard their
Speaker 1: morning show. And you have the audacity to fly down
Speaker 1: there and just be like, Hey, remember us, remember what
Speaker 1: we used to be friends, because they did. They used
Speaker 1: to be friends, and then they decided for their own
Speaker 1: career advance. But that's what they were going to do.
Speaker 1: Now some people would point a Trump to go, well,
Speaker 1: that's what he did during the primaries, you know, went
Speaker 1: after cruises, Dad, little Marco, all the rest of this stuff.
Speaker 1: And now he's now he's working with him. If you
Speaker 1: see those situations, the same fine morning, Joe has spent
Speaker 1: the last eight years calling this dude hitler, calling him Hitler,
Speaker 1: and then he went and is, uh, what did you
Speaker 1: ask me? Ross? Oh, if they went, how did they
Speaker 1: why did they get They were not on a secret
Speaker 1: mission to destroy it?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no. It was an a at the end
Speaker 4: of Band of Brothers where like they're like, you know, hey,
Speaker 4: we're victorious. Let's drink all his wine. Was it like that?
Speaker 1: I see I see the concrete here. Yeah, that is
Speaker 1: a great scene, isn't it. They're just there because these
Speaker 1: guys have basically been living off nothing, just fighting, right,
Speaker 1: you know, they're just like, ah, we got a wine cellar.
Speaker 1: Was amazing. No, do you remember the party that's going
Speaker 1: on in Dirty Dozen?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, sure, yeah, they're at that party. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: at that party though, Well that's different. It is. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's what they wanted to do. They want
Speaker 1: to they want to conquer it and drink the spoils.
Speaker 1: They just be ah, look I have an invite. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what you did. You went to the You went
Speaker 1: to the Mountain Party right before the Dirty Dozen comes
Speaker 1: flying through there. Spoiler not everyone makes it so, but hey,
Speaker 1: they were given an opportunity and for their true selves emerge.
Speaker 3: In this meeting. President Trump was tearful, he was upbeat.
Speaker 3: He seemed interested in finding common ground with Democrats on
Speaker 3: some of the most divisive issues. And for those asking
Speaker 3: why we would go speak to the president elect during
Speaker 3: such fraught times, especially between US, I guess I would
Speaker 3: ask back, why wouldn't we? Five years of political warfare
Speaker 3: has deeply divided Washington in the country, we have been
Speaker 3: as clear as we know how in expressing our deep
Speaker 3: concerns about President Trump's actions and words in the coursening
Speaker 3: of public debate. But for eighty million Americans, election denialism
Speaker 3: public trials in January sixth were not as important as
Speaker 3: the issues that moved them to send Donald Trump back
Speaker 3: to the White House with their vote.
Speaker 1: This is still and you notice that's still a she's
Speaker 1: not recognizing the problem. She's just like everything we said
Speaker 1: is legit and you didn't listen. So we'll do this
Speaker 1: other thing, never stopping for a moment ago. I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe saying that this is the greatest what was
Speaker 1: the greatest attack on America since the Civil War? I
Speaker 1: think maybe he could come off that position because there's
Speaker 1: some some people. There are people still alive today, believe
Speaker 1: it or not, myself included, who were around for nine
Speaker 1: to eleven. Yeah, we still still walk the earth for
Speaker 1: a little time. So Ross, I believe you were alive
Speaker 1: during nine to eleven, weren't you? So that's like two
Speaker 1: of us. Yeah. So when we hear all this stuff
Speaker 1: and now you're still not correcting yourself and whatever this is.
Speaker 3: Pounds sand Lady Joe, and I realize it's time to
Speaker 3: do something different, and that starts with not only talking
Speaker 3: about Donald Trump, but also talking with him.
Speaker 1: Right, okay, all right, so anyway, all right, let me
Speaker 1: let me not be cynical on this. Maybe this is
Speaker 1: the alive branch of diplomacy and people, you know, and
Speaker 1: maybe in some leftist circles, those who actually watch Morning Joe,
Speaker 1: not just for lulls. Maybe they go, you know what,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm maybe I'm being a little harsh here at
Speaker 1: the very at least, maybe I should hear what he
Speaker 1: has to say, or at least try to understand all
Speaker 1: aspects of the story.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: In fact, Ross, you checked over on Blue Sky. Right,
Speaker 1: Let's see how it's going over there on Blue Sky
Speaker 1: because of this.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, so they're not dealing with it well
Speaker 7: over at liberal echo chamber.
Speaker 1: Did I think the trolls are going over there too?
Speaker 4: I mean that's a shame. What do you mean that
Speaker 4: they're leaving Twitter and acts and they're hanging out over there, and.
Speaker 1: Then the trolls are following. Yeah, they can just they're
Speaker 1: like testing hashtags over there. They're like, so yesterday they
Speaker 1: want to see how long two genders would last. What
Speaker 1: was it about thirty seconds? Wade about thirty seconds? So
Speaker 1: uh yeah, so you may get rid. Now here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I don't want red of the lunatics. I want my
Speaker 1: job made easy. Leave them on the Twitter, leave them
Speaker 1: or I can see him crying because they went on
Speaker 1: a dating app for a random hookup with some dude
Speaker 1: who they don't even know, and they were cool with
Speaker 1: all of that. They probably would have been cool without
Speaker 1: knowing his name, but as soon as they found out
Speaker 1: who he voted for, she got the super case of
Speaker 1: the IX and started made a video bawling like I
Speaker 1: don't want to lose that. Don't take that away from me.
Speaker 1: But if they're going to leave to go over there,
Speaker 1: and then the trolls are going to go over to
Speaker 1: follow for a little while and it all gets reported
Speaker 1: back to like libs of Blue Sky, which is a
Speaker 1: Twitter account I couldn't follow fast enough over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Then I'm good on all this stuff. And morning Joe
Speaker 1: and them going over and literally going to Hitler's house. Right,
Speaker 1: you're the people at the Dirty Dozen part, you know what,
Speaker 1: You're the people with the good seats at the movie
Speaker 1: you know which movie theater I'm referring to. All Right,
Speaker 1: we'll be back. You think about that, Well, what's your
Speaker 1: I do not understand what your problem.
Speaker 4: Kyle Wilson, you know news talking about how they're still
Speaker 4: counting votes in Northampton County, and I just, yeah, I
Speaker 4: was impossible, because like it's very big, it is very big.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you drive from you know, Jackson to Gaston to
Speaker 1: trying to remember other towns in Northampton case, it's very big.
Speaker 1: It's a you know, you gotta saddle the horse, take
Speaker 1: your ballad over there. Yeah, dude, there's some there's some crazy,
Speaker 1: uh crazy long vote counting going on. Yeah, and they're
Speaker 1: flipping races in some places. And you know, I don't
Speaker 1: let it leave the don't let it leave the conscious
Speaker 1: of of everyone. What happened in New in New Hanover County, Like,
Speaker 1: I think it's somebody may have done something illegal with
Speaker 1: them just stopping counting votes, which is a thing that
Speaker 1: we've seen now, and whether it was intentional or not intentional,
Speaker 1: like they didn't know that they couldn't stop. And I'm
Speaker 1: still trying to fully understand what's going on there, but
Speaker 1: I do plan on once things kind of settle where
Speaker 1: they are, because it doesn't look like they're going to
Speaker 1: flip anything in there, then maybe I'll try to find
Speaker 1: somebody who's smart enough to explain it to me, because
Speaker 1: that's a mess. And yes, in Northampton County in California,
Speaker 1: they had a race that's going to flip a red
Speaker 1: seat for the first time. In forever and the person
Speaker 1: was winning, winning, winning, and then just the other day
Speaker 1: they found some ballots and now the other person, the Democrats,
Speaker 1: winning by I think thirty one votes, who then immediately
Speaker 1: goes on into Claire's victory even though they're still quote
Speaker 1: unquote counting, goes on into Claire's victory and people will
Speaker 1: putish and back are being labeled election deniers. So I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, but it'll be interesting to see if
Speaker 1: this all this stuff is still on the radar when
Speaker 1: January twentieth rolls around, Because what the hell, man, By
Speaker 1: the way, the population of Northampton County wouldn't fill a
Speaker 1: smidgeon of the wolf Pack football stadium when Carter Carter
Speaker 1: Finley the entire population wide of the NC state football
Speaker 1: they have sixteen thousand, seven hundred people there. U Because,
Speaker 1: like you said, I've spent a fair amount of time
Speaker 1: there and it's just like there's not much there and
Speaker 1: it's not an insult to the people or anything like
Speaker 1: it's a rural county. We had a bunch of them
Speaker 1: in North Carolina.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like you said, you had Jackson and then you
Speaker 4: got what is it like rich Skar or rapids right
Speaker 4: up there. There's nothing there.
Speaker 1: Man, is Richland's in there? Yeah? Maybe I don't know that.
Speaker 1: Maybe a little further far south, but yeah, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: not much there. Again, not an insult. It's a rural county.
Speaker 1: We got a bunch of them. What's up? What's going on?
Speaker 1: I think Gaston would have to be the largest community there.
Speaker 1: Spent some time up in that direction. So what what
Speaker 1: what are we doing? Are you dealing? Are we dealing
Speaker 1: with counties that are just not prepared to prosecute their
Speaker 1: task so to speak, or what you know. One of
Speaker 1: the one of the more interesting conversations that I, uh
Speaker 1: have had the privilege of having is when I first
Speaker 1: started here. So I mean, we're going back. This would
Speaker 1: be probably before we added Greensboro, because we launched these
Speaker 1: two Raleigh in Greensboro stations simultaneously. But initially in Greensboro
Speaker 1: they had they had two other hosts. They had Bill Flynn,
Speaker 1: who was a staple of the triad good Dude, and
Speaker 1: they had a guy they brought in from Pennsylvania by
Speaker 1: the name of Dmitri Vassileros. And I remember working with
Speaker 1: Dmitri just kind of going, you know, because he was
Speaker 1: new to North Carolina. Hears some of the stuff we're
Speaker 1: doing and and you know, for whatever reason, that didn't work.
Speaker 1: And then this show. So this would have been prior
Speaker 1: to that this, I would have been so wet behind
Speaker 1: the ears. And I got the station wanted me to
Speaker 1: go to a luncheon, and so I'd show up at
Speaker 1: this lunch and and we got reserve seating. It's at
Speaker 1: the Cardinal Club, which was in the Wells Fargo Tower.
Speaker 1: They have like a supper club thing up there is
Speaker 1: the Cardinal that one well whatever. So I go in
Speaker 1: there and I recognize a lot of different people, even
Speaker 1: though I am fresh to North Carolina. I recognize a
Speaker 1: couple of members of Congress and then they they sit
Speaker 1: me at a table and they introduced me to who
Speaker 1: I'm sitting next to, and it was former North Carolina
Speaker 1: Republican Governor James Holshauser. Holshauser probably mispronounce it. And we
Speaker 1: just we just got to talking right, tell me about
Speaker 1: North Carolina. And the dude was he was so nice,
Speaker 1: like sitting there and he you could tell he really
Speaker 1: loved telling me stuff about North Carolina. And then I
Speaker 1: you know, we're talking about election stuff and all that,
Speaker 1: and he's telling me about how it used to be
Speaker 1: with elections in North Carolina. We're like ballots bucket, you know,
Speaker 1: piles of ballots would end up in people's barns, and
Speaker 1: then the barnes would accidentally catch fire. Ross. Don't you
Speaker 1: hate that when you're in charge of storing ballots in
Speaker 1: your in your barn you don't care about anymore, and
Speaker 1: it just accidentally catches fire the ballots from a part
Speaker 1: of the place you weren't going.
Speaker 4: To get it is bad, But where are you supposed
Speaker 4: to keep them? Where else are you gonna be?
Speaker 1: And if not, the uh, the tender kindling that is
Speaker 1: your barn. No, it's absolutely like he's not saying he
Speaker 1: did that. He's just like, you have no idea how
Speaker 1: crazy it was at one time. And remember he served
Speaker 1: in what he served in the seventies. So I'm talking
Speaker 1: to this guy thirty years removed from office. But I'm
Speaker 1: just like, that's crazy, man.
Speaker 4: I want to correct myself, I said, richly. I met
Speaker 4: rich Square, which is right down the street from Jackson.
Speaker 4: Oh it's been like twenty years, so yeah, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: I'm trying to just off memory. But I looked it
Speaker 4: up to correct myself because he's driving me nuts. Population
Speaker 4: at the moment, oh eight hundred and ninety four people.
Speaker 1: That's the line for beer at Carter Findley Stadium. They
Speaker 1: can manage that. I'm sorry, I'm just using that as
Speaker 1: my point of reference because it's the stadium I've spent
Speaker 1: the most time in the in the state. So by
Speaker 1: if NC State can facilitate seating a third of their
Speaker 1: stadium or I guess I'm trying to think with the
Speaker 1: capacity is that's probably about it. A third of their stadium.
Speaker 1: You can't handle getting ballots in two weeks, dude, And
Speaker 1: if you think that's inefficient, we're gonna find we hopefully
Speaker 1: will find out things today. Although wait to hear who's
Speaker 1: on the schedule for the FEMA oversight hearing thing that's
Speaker 1: happening up in DC today. I know all the pub's
Speaker 1: going to be the FEMA director Chiswell or Chizwell or whatever,
Speaker 1: and that's great, but there's also a couple members of
Speaker 1: Congress on there, and I cannot understand why one of
Speaker 1: them is on there except to come in and essentially
Speaker 1: argue that everything's fine. But everything's not fine. And anyone
Speaker 1: who spends a minute on Twitter or perhaps just maybe
Speaker 1: on Facebook, you might see it for they take it down,
Speaker 1: knows that it's not fine, And I will give you
Speaker 1: some exams of that. A key one is I saw
Speaker 1: a dude who was filming a video's standing in downtown Swannanoah,
Speaker 1: which if you've ever been there, the reason you go
Speaker 1: to Swananoah is vacation. They got cool shops, there's some
Speaker 1: great restaurants. There's about seventy two thousand amazing golf courses
Speaker 1: just in that vicinity. Really a jewel of what North
Speaker 1: Carolina offers that I don't think everybody's really keyed in
Speaker 1: on yet. And I'm also kind of okay with that, okay, right,
Speaker 1: because you see what happens to blowing rock when the
Speaker 1: leaves do their thing. Ashville can just be insane at times,
Speaker 1: you know, but a good insane. You know, up there
Speaker 1: in Boon it gets a little crazy, But you know,
Speaker 1: Swananoa and the areas around it, there's some really cool
Speaker 1: spots there, and there's money. There's clearly money in the
Speaker 1: area if you've ever been there, which is why you've
Speaker 1: got seventy two thousand amazing golf courses. Some some really
Speaker 1: awesome hotels, resort and it's it's just really great stuff.
Speaker 1: But it's but it's not what it is right now.
Speaker 1: As the guy spins around, it looks like it looks
Speaker 1: it looks like a campground. It looks like you you know,
Speaker 1: you're down at one of the big beach campgrounds. You're
Speaker 1: up at Price, uh near Blowing Rock there where I
Speaker 1: like to camp. But do you want to camp on
Speaker 1: the lakeside? FYI? Or if you know you know it's
Speaker 1: because there's people living in tents in I want to
Speaker 1: know living intents. Speaking of Kyle in News, he had
Speaker 1: a report of portions of the western North Carolina don't
Speaker 1: have who still don't have access to fresh or clean
Speaker 1: drinking water. I mean they have access to bottled water
Speaker 1: that's being shipped in, but like then you got to
Speaker 1: brush your teeth with that or you got to boil
Speaker 1: the other stuff. Eight weeks we're eight weeks. I know
Speaker 1: people who take parts of their lives, little slices of
Speaker 1: their lives, stop what they're doing and feel so passionately
Speaker 1: about what Christ has called them to do or what
Speaker 1: their conscious has called them to do. If it's not
Speaker 1: one of the religious groups to go to the places
Speaker 1: in the world that you and I don't want to
Speaker 1: go to. Well, I strangely do want to go to
Speaker 1: because I'm weird like that, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And they go there and they take a week out
Speaker 1: of their life and they go and they go to
Speaker 1: some place where they don't have water. And it's not
Speaker 1: because a hurricane went through. It's because just society, just
Speaker 1: the current everything has not caught up to them yet.
Speaker 1: They don't have the financial resources. And these cats can
Speaker 1: go in and get you a functional well in a week.
Speaker 1: They're gone a week they build one, they build other infrastructure.
Speaker 1: I have sat. I have been in a dated with
Speaker 1: photos from some of my friend's trips showing what they're doing.
Speaker 1: It's really cool stuff. And they do it through their church,
Speaker 1: or they do it through a charitable EID organization or
Speaker 1: I don't know. They've just seen some stuff and noms
Speaker 1: stuck around and now they give snake tours for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: they're there in the middle of it and they're able
Speaker 1: to accomplish things. Oh and they drive a boat and
Speaker 1: they're able to accomplish things quickly. Now is a lot
Speaker 1: of it. Perhaps probably they because I don't know that.
Speaker 1: Can you just go tap a well? I'm not sure
Speaker 1: what the aquifers would be like like. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of complexity to this. As somebody who grew up on
Speaker 1: a well and we have multiple wells, there is a
Speaker 1: complexity to this. But how do we have people in
Speaker 1: the US eight weeks later that don't have access to
Speaker 1: drinking water? What are we doing? Where is the two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty million gone, which is I believe roughly
Speaker 1: the dollar amount that's been expended thus far. Why are
Speaker 1: we seeing reports that the main aid organization is saying
Speaker 1: they're out of money. Why is that happening? Why are
Speaker 1: folks in the West whose representatives were supposed to essentially
Speaker 1: add their name to a list so that these various
Speaker 1: projects can get immediately fund at, Why were they derelict
Speaker 1: and doing it which appears to be the case. And
Speaker 1: why why, oh why at the oversight hearing today, which
Speaker 1: until proven otherwise, I'm assuming is just going to be theater.
Speaker 1: Why are we having the FEMA director testify, Chuck Edwards,
Speaker 1: the congressman who represents the fourteenth district in North Carolina, testify. Okay,
Speaker 1: those two makes sense, right? The head of FEMA is
Speaker 1: being accused of ignoring people with Trump signs, but they
Speaker 1: sure as how better ask about this other stuff. And
Speaker 1: by the way, also have you seen some of the
Speaker 1: videos of some of the construction work. I'm not here
Speaker 1: to pick out on individual companies. I don't know what
Speaker 1: they're tasked with, and I understand there's a bunch of
Speaker 1: companies who haven't been paid yet. But if they're doing
Speaker 1: substandard work that likely won't pass inspection, then why are
Speaker 1: we doing it? The sheer absurdity of it is only
Speaker 1: capped by the third witness. I will tell you who
Speaker 1: that is. You will know this person, and you too
Speaker 1: will be wondering why on God's green earth this woman
Speaker 1: is being allowed to testify, except I'm assuming other than
Speaker 1: to deflect from the bad which then it's just the
Speaker 1: scummiest thing I've ever heard of. If that is the
Speaker 1: focus of her testimony, I'll let you decide what you
Speaker 1: think is going to happen next and tell you who
Speaker 1: it is. Hang on, could I lie or did I
Speaker 1: not lie? In the reports I was sharing there based
Speaker 1: on what he was gonna say, not like not like yeah,
Speaker 1: they say this, dude, what are we doing Jamal, what's up, hey, Kasee,
Speaker 1: what's going on this morning?
Speaker 5: Of course, Hayes, the sheriff, say, see, I used to
Speaker 5: live in Conway, North Carolina, which is Northampton count I
Speaker 5: used to work in a place called Produce Chicken and
Speaker 5: Farms and Lewiston where in Lewiston Woodville. Okay, there is
Speaker 5: no way they should still be town in Northampton. Townt
Speaker 5: no way. And the Democrats have been pulling this crowd
Speaker 5: not just in North Carolina but in Pennsylvania, California. It's
Speaker 5: like everything we said what happened is happening. People are
Speaker 5: sitting here letting them recount recount, recout where the Republicans
Speaker 5: in North Carolina? And I know they listened to your
Speaker 5: show because doing the town for them to run for election.
Speaker 5: Office always allow people to call Nate j C from
Speaker 5: both of us, so Republicans do it. So why but
Speaker 5: we heard from Law and Berger about what is going
Speaker 5: on with female and especially what is going on.
Speaker 1: I will say this the FEMA stuff. They are having
Speaker 1: a hearing on that. I don't know that that satisfies you,
Speaker 1: but they are going to be having a hearing within
Speaker 1: the North Carolina General Assembly. In fact, I should have
Speaker 1: that in front of me. I was talking about the
Speaker 1: national one today. But to your point, because they don't
Speaker 1: really have oversight on Northampton's elections that goes through this
Speaker 1: elections board which Roy Cooper threw the person who was
Speaker 1: bipartisan favored off put his own lady on there. And
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what's going on here, Jamal. I appreciate
Speaker 1: the call this morning. That's that's where we're getting. But
Speaker 1: to show you how not serious they are, I mentioned
Speaker 1: that there is a third there's a third person who's
Speaker 1: going to be a part of the I think panel
Speaker 1: one for this oversight stuff today. Okay, so you've got
Speaker 1: the FEMA director, right, that's the main that's the main act.
Speaker 1: And then you got Chuck Edwards, who represents fourteenth district,
Speaker 1: which is western North Carolina. That seems like an appropriate
Speaker 1: member of Congress to testify. But it's the third one,
Speaker 1: likely the one who was attached by the ranking members
Speaker 1: the Democrats in this case, and so they wanted somebody
Speaker 1: from North Carolina. I'm assuming to push back on the
Speaker 1: bad stuff. And so Deborah Ross, I just want to
Speaker 1: remind you, if you don't really know the outline of
Speaker 1: Deborah Ross's district. Do you know where Wake County is?
Speaker 1: So remember I told you I was the libs of
Speaker 1: Blue Sky count jumped right on that bad boy. And
Speaker 1: that's so you can keep an eye on what's going
Speaker 1: over there, going on over there without actually having to
Speaker 1: dip your You don't want to be called into the
Speaker 1: eventual hearings, all right, So this is uh, they're running
Speaker 1: into a little problem. So you know, when you report
Speaker 1: something in social media, like like on Twitter, I'll report.
Speaker 1: If somebody comes in and it's like they're trying to
Speaker 1: crypto scam comment, I may delete it and then this
Speaker 1: click report right, and you know it's ninety nine percent automated.
Speaker 1: Over a Blue Sky they do things a little different.
Speaker 1: I believe that when it comes to the complaints, they're
Speaker 1: having humans review this stuff. But the problem is, you
Speaker 1: just saw an immeasurable growth of your of your website
Speaker 1: post election. Right you're the parlor of the election cycle,
Speaker 1: and so you have journalists, entire news outlets, your neighbor
Speaker 1: down the street. You just can't deal. Even though they
Speaker 1: have that sign welcoming everybody all the time, and so
Speaker 1: they're all over there and they're in this eco and yeah,
Speaker 1: trolls have gone over as well, but you're also dealing
Speaker 1: with people who are an immovable object on things. So
Speaker 1: if somebody has a slight dissenting opinion, it's game. On
Speaker 1: some of the stuff I'm watching where it's clearly two
Speaker 1: people vote all for the same people who are in
Speaker 1: blood feuds over a minor detail. It has to be
Speaker 1: so emotionally taxing. So what do people in that situation
Speaker 1: do They call the manager. We've got to call the manager.
Speaker 1: And so they're running into this problem. Here is from
Speaker 1: Blue Sky's own safety. They're going to have to do
Speaker 1: some about the stupid ats on this thing. These are
Speaker 1: the dumbest, So right that I have to use a
Speaker 1: a like a full web address as a screen name.
Speaker 1: That's just stupid. But whatever, all right, In the past
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, we have received more than forty two
Speaker 1: thousand reports, an all time high for one day. To
Speaker 1: put in perspective, while we're currently receiving about three thousand
Speaker 1: reports an hour, in all of twenty twenty three, we
Speaker 1: receive just three hundred and sixty thousand reports, So, as
Speaker 1: you can imagine, they have exponentially increased the number of
Speaker 1: people who were like I don't like this, and then
Speaker 1: they report it. Now some of the stuff. It's kind
Speaker 1: of obvious why because the final paragraph of this tweet reads,
Speaker 1: we're triaging the large queue, so the most harmful content,
Speaker 1: primarily seesam, is removed quickly. Do you know what sea
Speaker 1: sam is? Child porn? Kids? It's child sexual assault. It's
Speaker 1: the most heinous stuff you can think of, and it
Speaker 1: apparently now is it trolls doing it? I probably some
Speaker 1: of it is. But also you got like minor attracted
Speaker 1: person discussions. They're shown as examples here where not the photos,
Speaker 1: but you know the text of of what's you know,
Speaker 1: the explainer on this stuff you have you may have
Speaker 1: now seized your your ability to properly administer your site
Speaker 1: because your target market are constant complainers. Plus you want
Speaker 1: to do it in this weird, labor intensive way, which
Speaker 1: if you can handle it, I guess I respect it
Speaker 1: because we know that the automated stuff, which is a
Speaker 1: lot of times the algorithm is clearly manipulated right where
Speaker 1: it buries one side and not the other. But like,
Speaker 1: is this going to be a problem over there with
Speaker 1: the kiddy stuff? And how do you how do you
Speaker 1: mitigate that? And also, how do you just deal with
Speaker 1: everybody upset every day because somebody said their favorite color
Speaker 1: is blue and there's this green then they can't stand
Speaker 1: for that. What a delicious problem you've created for yourself.
Speaker 1: And I could not be happier for you, all right,
Speaker 1: eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven fours.
Speaker 1: So yeah, just a reminder if you tune into the hearing,
Speaker 1: which I believe is what ten o'clock today, it's ten o'clock,
Speaker 1: you're going to see the FEMA director, who, by the way,
Speaker 1: is on record admitting that the thing with the fired
Speaker 1: employee happened, but not the accusation that it is standard
Speaker 1: operating procedure in the same way you would treated a
Speaker 1: yard with aggressive dogs, which is an absurd comparison. And
Speaker 1: I swear to God if the members that who's on
Speaker 1: that committee from North Carolina is Virginia, I think Virginia
Speaker 1: Fox is on oversight, isn't she? Because there's two committees
Speaker 1: that they're gonna be talking to and h Rouser is
Speaker 1: on transportation. I think they're going to be talking to them.
Speaker 1: Uh fouchet, She's right, Well, she represents what Durham. So
Speaker 1: again it's I don't want to hear from Dan Bishop. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't want to I don't want to hear from Fouchet.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear from Devora Ross. The fact
Speaker 1: that she's getting brought in there smells to me like
Speaker 1: she's going to downplay potential problems, which what an ugly task,
Speaker 1: but without fear of having to hurt her congressional seat
Speaker 1: because she's in Wake County. And if I'm wrong, I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: I will tell you exactly. Oh jeez, we're doing this already. Ah,
Speaker 1: we're doing this already. That's way in there too. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry Ross has sent me. So we're launching the missiles now,
Speaker 1: World War three, we're starting that today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to send you the story this saw
Speaker 4: Daily Mail.
Speaker 1: Geez, all right, November nineteenth, twenty twenty four. I'm not
Speaker 1: being overly dramatic here. It doesn't matter who you are.
Speaker 1: You have to recognize that the US providing long range
Speaker 1: missiles and then going you know what, I'm going to
Speaker 1: run to the bathroom real quick. No, no, no, they
Speaker 1: didn't even do that. They openly gave permission a lot
Speaker 1: of times they'll do the thing where it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's some confusion and what they could do, but you
Speaker 1: still get it done. Now they're open with it, and
Speaker 1: now the uk is going to have to fall in
Speaker 1: line and others are going to have to fall in
Speaker 1: line here, They're not going to have any other choice.
Speaker 1: And so now you have a much more aggressive formation
Speaker 1: of this situation where they're firing and don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: Russia's fire and missiles into populated areas of Ukraine. I understand,
Speaker 1: but like this needs to be part of a bigger process.
Speaker 1: And we got Anthony blink and say that they're you know,
Speaker 1: they're checking all the pockets in Congress's laundry and any
Speaker 1: money they find they're going to send over there. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: people are living in Swannanoa intents and don't have clean
Speaker 1: drinking water in eight weeks and Debora Ross is going
Speaker 1: to go testify about what about what how much her
Speaker 1: house didn't flood in Raleigh. If you guys, bastardize this
Speaker 1: and any member of any person from North Carolina is
Speaker 1: involved in the twisting of attempting to save face here
Speaker 1: on this thing, they should be banished from the state.
Speaker 1: Just just do me a favor. In human today, I
Speaker 1: don't know what you're gonna say, ma'am. And I will
Speaker 1: say this, she did come on this radio show once
Speaker 1: and we had I was not disrespectful to her, and
Speaker 1: she was an absolute speaking say the whole time she
Speaker 1: was on the air. It was it was eerily and
Speaker 1: maybe that's because it was early on in her congressional endeavors,
Speaker 1: but she obviously wasn't new to public speaking, and it
Speaker 1: was just a weird interview. And so when you have
Speaker 1: somebody like that is really good, it's spitting out talking points.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm suspicious of why she's there, because they know.
Speaker 1: I looked at the official house descriptor and it simply
Speaker 1: lists her credentials as the congresswoman from the second district.
Speaker 1: What an absolute mess, man, What an absolute mess? All right,
Speaker 1: few things, Well, let me do this. We'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and hit a break when we come back. Where did
Speaker 1: I put this? We got a Disney incident. We have
Speaker 1: a lunatic who you're going to be shocked to learn
Speaker 1: who just stabbed and killed I think that another person died,
Speaker 1: killed three people just randomly New York City, just like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, look at the weather today. It's a
Speaker 1: great day for a stabbing or three or five or
Speaker 1: whatever the actual number of victims three now deceased. Believe
Speaker 1: it or not. Believe it or not. This dude, he
Speaker 1: was known to law enforcement. I know that's crazy, and
Speaker 1: not just law enforcement, also prosecutors and others. And you're
Speaker 1: not going to believe what his last seven days before
Speaker 1: this looked like. And you might have some questions, so
Speaker 1: we'll bring up to speed on that coming to up
Speaker 1: here on the CaCO Day radio program, Frost, do you
Speaker 1: know one of the most viral videos over on Blue
Speaker 1: Sky right now is a woman bragging about her abortion,
Speaker 1: referring to her fetus as Jeffrey Epstein. Got a lot
Speaker 1: of likes see the joke because the Jeffrey didn't kill himself.
Speaker 1: But hey, you know pop up over Ben Dreyfus, Yes,
Speaker 1: that Dreyfus, but the son of as you know, he's
Speaker 1: been one of the more outspoken people in Hollywood on
Speaker 1: the left, willing to put it out there and just
Speaker 1: be like, this is insane. So he went over there
Speaker 1: and he put together a big thread post. Have you
Speaker 1: noticed that Twitter is now listicals and I understand that
Speaker 1: there is going to be changes because of the monetization.
Speaker 1: But now when you're scrolling, how many threads are essentially
Speaker 1: Wikipedia pages put into a Twitter because that's what's happening
Speaker 1: because they realize that that's how you that's the best
Speaker 1: way to monetize, because now you got people not just
Speaker 1: for one tweet at a time, but if they're interested
Speaker 1: in what it is. And look, I don't begrudge it.
Speaker 1: I don't like it. That's not why I use Twitter,
Speaker 1: as weird as it sounds, and maybe I'll adapt how
Speaker 1: I use it. Right, I don't need a thread on everything.
Speaker 1: There are threads that make sense. Where it's the President's
Speaker 1: State of the Union last night, here's the thread of
Speaker 1: those moments, right, those make sense. And selfishly, they're very
Speaker 1: hopeful for Ross and I to get audio real quick,
Speaker 1: right because it's kind of pre edited and then we
Speaker 1: don't have to cut it down for the main thing.
Speaker 1: But if you scroll it right now, let me just
Speaker 1: let me just hit my timeline and see what's on there.
Speaker 1: It's turned into this other thing and I'm just not
Speaker 1: inclined to click on it.
Speaker 4: Most It's been that way for a while. And you
Speaker 4: can tell that you know these accounts who do this.
Speaker 4: It's this all written by chat gpt.
Speaker 1: Right exactly. They go to a Wikipedia article and they
Speaker 1: have it summarized and then they cut. Look, it's it's
Speaker 1: from a business model standpoint. You can almost automate it.
Speaker 1: But they go and like, cause you can go on Wikipedia.
Speaker 1: People don't realize this is it Wiki simple. There's a
Speaker 1: there's a command you can add to the to the
Speaker 1: lineup top where it will show you a simplified version
Speaker 1: of it. Well, chat gpt will also do it all
Speaker 1: on its own. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Grock will do it too. If you go to groc
Speaker 4: and you put you know, you copy an article and
Speaker 4: paste it into grock.
Speaker 1: Onto you you're like, what the hell is going on here?
Speaker 4: You summarize this and like in like you know, two
Speaker 4: point two seconds less than that. Boom, here's a quick
Speaker 4: summary of the article.
Speaker 1: Now you cut it into separate you know, tweet size bites,
Speaker 1: create a thread, throw in some pictures and it looks
Speaker 1: like you put an immense amount of work into a thread,
Speaker 1: but you didn't. And and really you just kind of
Speaker 1: used you use the AI or you used other people's
Speaker 1: stuff there, and it's it's lazy content. But it's just
Speaker 1: the Twitter version of the same lazy content you see
Speaker 1: on YouTube, Like how many of you have ever clicked
Speaker 1: I can't remember the name of the one YouTube channel
Speaker 1: where it's like the ten funniest SNL moments, right, and
Speaker 1: you think what you're going to get is you're going
Speaker 1: to get ten thirty second clips or whatever of SNL
Speaker 1: and it's not. It's uh, what is it mojo or whatever?
Speaker 1: That one that's I don't know how that one does.
Speaker 1: Every time I I've seen one of theirs, I don't
Speaker 1: click on it because I realize and I understand why
Speaker 1: they're never going to play the thing that they're promising
Speaker 1: to play, because they would get copyrighted because NBC is
Speaker 1: very aggressive, and I understand that. So they have to
Speaker 1: do it in the way where there's no sound. They
Speaker 1: might have some visual for a half second, but they
Speaker 1: move on. Well, what usefulness is there in my life
Speaker 1: for that? In the same way that I'm here, we uh,
Speaker 1: look at it, damn it. Go back to the for you.
Speaker 1: One person is taking down an entire YouTube industry. Let's
Speaker 1: get Tony zach Choi, the ASMR king who sparked a
Speaker 1: wave of copyright strikes. All right, and then it's a
Speaker 1: ten you know, follow the thread. Here's you know, ten
Speaker 1: tweets and then people go look at it. Well, the story.
Speaker 1: I don't have to click on it because I know
Speaker 1: the story they're talking about. It's a very simple story.
Speaker 1: This guy makes the weird uh you know, really high
Speaker 1: reds slow, like you make sandwiches that look delicious, you
Speaker 1: know that kind of stuff, right, And if you look
Speaker 1: at a lot of reddits, you know where people read
Speaker 1: Reddit stories, the visuals they use in the background are
Speaker 1: a lot of this guy's stuff. And he was fine
Speaker 1: with it until some other creator had the audacity to
Speaker 1: flag his content that he shoots with his own camera.
Speaker 1: So he went copyright strike on everybody. And so all
Speaker 1: of these channels whose libraries include this stuff, they're all
Speaker 1: getting their videos demonetized. But it's because the people who
Speaker 1: made those videos were too lazy to come up with
Speaker 1: their own stuff. They took stuff from Reddit, laid it
Speaker 1: over video. This guy had created rinse and repeat, and
Speaker 1: that's what you're seeing on a lot of this stuff.
Speaker 1: And I just seem it's deep irony that there's an
Speaker 1: article that's essentially that. And I do see that people
Speaker 1: are calling out some of these lists where they're going, hey,
Speaker 1: this is actually such and such as article, and then
Speaker 1: it'll be the number one common and they'll try to
Speaker 1: community noted. But anyway, when in reality, maybe a good
Speaker 1: use of their time would be to cover this stabber
Speaker 1: in New York City. Guys got two knives just walking
Speaker 1: through Manhattan broad daylight, just stabbing people. These vice squad
Speaker 1: long long time investigations in gentlemen's clubs, right like, we
Speaker 1: spent six months undercover over at the men's club and
Speaker 1: try to see if any of the girls do anything extra,
Speaker 1: sell us any drugs. And then after six months we're like, well,
Speaker 1: let's get another six months, and then they'll have some
Speaker 1: crazy busts. And it's like, you guys have spent a
Speaker 1: year going to the strip club every day. I mean,
Speaker 1: nice work if you can get it, all right. So
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's what's up here. But shockingly,
Speaker 1: a man in Florida, Oh do I have the bed out?
Speaker 1: I don't know that I need the bed for this one.
Speaker 1: All right? What the hell it's right here.
Speaker 4: Florida?
Speaker 1: Then, Florida man, is something in the waderty errors hand
Speaker 1: that they should do all.
Speaker 4: That crazy crap. It's like the state is one to
Speaker 4: be dumb ass trapped. Nowhere else has the Florida Man.
Speaker 4: It is almost like as the Weird Factor climbs and
Speaker 4: you find out it haven't in Florida. Every time Florida Man,
Speaker 4: Florida Man.
Speaker 3: If anyone can jeer me if you know you can
Speaker 3: just mind life be crazy.
Speaker 4: But of course, but it's not. It's pat crap crazy
Speaker 4: as yours. Nowhere else are you.
Speaker 1: Gonna find him? They're so used to it they don't
Speaker 1: find him.
Speaker 4: Hooray for Florida.
Speaker 1: Man, who is not an attorney but definitely is thinking
Speaker 1: like one. So I'm gonna need a legal ruling on
Speaker 1: this when I lay it out. Ross. You haven't heard
Speaker 1: this story, so you get to be the judge. Okay.
Speaker 1: Twenty seven year old Pennsylvania man, his name is Mohammad
Speaker 1: Abdul Ali Baba is in He's in Florida. So that's
Speaker 1: why we got the Florida Man song. Even though he
Speaker 1: lives in Pennsylvania, he's been Florida tized, and he makes
Speaker 1: the really good decision that many other people have made
Speaker 1: to go to a gentleman's club at one thirty in
Speaker 1: the morning and then about two forty five in the morning.
Speaker 1: He goes to leave, but as he's leaving, security stops him.
Speaker 1: And they stop him because according to the club, he
Speaker 1: had received a lap dance, which goes for the lolo
Speaker 1: price of forty dollars. Dude, inflation has hit everything. Man
Speaker 1: goes for the lo lo price of forty dollars, but
Speaker 1: he didn't pay. And then he's like, oh, look I
Speaker 1: gotta go. Well, obviously the dancer, she's that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a problem for her and the club. And it just
Speaker 1: so happened there happened to be a law enforcement officer there,
Speaker 1: so who is said to have witnessed part of the nonpayer.
Speaker 1: But here is his case as he's played it. Prove it.
Speaker 1: How do you prove he received this good or service
Speaker 1: when he says he didn't. And unfortunately what he forgot
Speaker 1: is that it's really they're going to it's Florida, they're
Speaker 1: going to arrest you. And so they did, and he
Speaker 1: had some warrants and stuff like that. But it's a
Speaker 1: unique thing, like how do you prove you just got
Speaker 1: a lap dance? Now? I probably got video back there,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. He thought he had a winner
Speaker 1: and Unfortunately, it looks like the judge has well, let's see,
Speaker 1: he gave him forty dollars bond, which was the price
Speaker 1: of it. But now he's banned from the club and
Speaker 1: a few other things. So all right, oh that's weird.
Speaker 1: So the reason he's down there is he actually is
Speaker 1: a graduate student at Alvernia, which is a Francis In
Speaker 1: college that has a branch down in Florida. I don't
Speaker 1: know what's going on there, man, that's probably gonna be
Speaker 1: a bigger problem for him. All right, speaking of in
Speaker 1: this case, much more violent criminals. So up in up
Speaker 1: in New York, what do you have? He got this
Speaker 1: dude running around stabbing people, fifty one year old identified
Speaker 1: by sources as the culprit there. Ironically, he just got
Speaker 1: out of the clink, man, that's right. He was released
Speaker 1: from jail October seventeenth. He had been arrested as part
Speaker 1: of a spate of burglaries and assaults. So he's just
Speaker 1: randomly running around stealing stuff, breaking into stuff, assaulting people.
Speaker 1: You know, all the crimes that under the whole broken
Speaker 1: windows concept, right, which were those escalator crimes where this
Speaker 1: is where you really start drilling into people when they're
Speaker 1: repetitive with these smaller crimes, although I would argue physically
Speaker 1: assaulting people is a significant escalation. But you know nuisance
Speaker 1: stuff like breaking windows, or you break a window because
Speaker 1: you see some on the other side, a quick little
Speaker 1: snatch and grab, you run, You go into a store,
Speaker 1: steal a couple of things, run out of there. These
Speaker 1: were the crimes that initially were policed more aggressively, so
Speaker 1: you didn't lead up to this stuff. But the other
Speaker 1: side of the coin is you got to keep people
Speaker 1: like this in jail if they continue to keep doing things.
Speaker 1: And he has shown a willingness prior to this to
Speaker 1: get violent because of the physical assaults. He's just like,
Speaker 1: I'm homeless, I'm crazy, and maybe he is. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: part of how he intimidates people. He looks crazy, right
Speaker 1: if you look at that, If you look at the
Speaker 1: mugshot here, he looks like a dude who if you
Speaker 1: saw him walking, probably with a weird gait towards you
Speaker 1: and dirty clothes on the street, you're going to have
Speaker 1: your radar up. Well, I know, is that insensitive? No? No,
Speaker 1: that's how we have innately kept ourselves safe as a
Speaker 1: human species. It's why when you see people when it's white,
Speaker 1: people get grossed out by things like spiders and stuff.
Speaker 1: You ever, have you ever actually studied this, like why
Speaker 1: people tend most people. Yeah, I understand you're cool and
Speaker 1: they ain't no spider scaring me. Well, if that's the
Speaker 1: case and you say you're not scared of spiders, I
Speaker 1: want to get a hold of one of those camel
Speaker 1: spiders from Afghanistan because I've never even seen one in person.
Speaker 1: We just had callers tell us about it when they
Speaker 1: were serving over there, and I want nothing to do
Speaker 1: with that. And if you don't know what that little
Speaker 1: friendly critter does. It waits for you to go to sleep,
Speaker 1: and then if your leg is exposed or something like that,
Speaker 1: it injects you with something to numb you but also
Speaker 1: liquefy your flesh so it can drink you. Do you
Speaker 1: just end up with a hole in your leg while
Speaker 1: you're sleeping because your leg's all numb. Nuke the whole
Speaker 1: area of range of where that lives. Honestly, just let's
Speaker 1: just be done with that. But we like that is
Speaker 1: a human that is built into being human, and it's
Speaker 1: a it's a survival reaction that they can literally test
Speaker 1: and recreate and and are knowledgeable of to things that
Speaker 1: were light it's or something looks gross where we naturally recoil.
Speaker 1: That's your brain going there might be infectious disease there,
Speaker 1: probably shouldn't mess with that. And then the other part
Speaker 1: of our brain is like, let's get a stick and
Speaker 1: poke it or fling it at our friends as a joke,
Speaker 1: which is an idea that occurred to me and my
Speaker 1: friends where there was a bunch of baby rattlesnakes one time,
Speaker 1: my mom had a she had it rough. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: that's why we we we do those things. And and
Speaker 1: so even when you see somebody who looks like if
Speaker 1: you were a casting director for a movie, you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: we need the crazy dude who's going to kill all
Speaker 1: the college kids. And then dude showed up, you wouldn't
Speaker 1: even make him read Okay, You'd be like, that's that's
Speaker 1: our crazy college student murderer person.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: Is that is that unfair? I don't think so. Sorry.
Speaker 1: So I saw some people were like, yeah, you guys
Speaker 1: are credit, you guys are taking his mugshot. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: would cross the street. Shut up. So anyway, this guy's
Speaker 1: out there he's doing all the stabbing. So we find
Speaker 1: out he was released on the seventeenth for a bunch
Speaker 1: of burglaries. Uh, well, it turns out right, you know
Speaker 1: what he did right after he was released, So he
Speaker 1: just got out of jail. You're like, ah, it's good
Speaker 1: to be free. He immediately runs into a like a
Speaker 1: high end Tribeca store. And when I say high end,
Speaker 1: I want you to know they're they're there to go
Speaker 1: buy a bowl at this store, because that's what he stole.
Speaker 1: He stole a bowl, one bowl, one acrylic bowl from
Speaker 1: the Jonathan Adler shop. And if you know that name,
Speaker 1: all right, you already know what you're dealing with here. Ross,
Speaker 1: What do you think a single bowl that you would
Speaker 1: eat soup or cheerios out of at this fine Tribeca
Speaker 1: establishment costs one bowl, and of course you would need
Speaker 1: four or five, you know, six of them, but one,
Speaker 1: just one? I don't like ten fifteen bucks, fifteen hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, fifteen hundred dollars for a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: How he knew maybe here's the thing and it's the
Speaker 1: half of me. Until this happened, I'd be like, maybe
Speaker 1: that dude just wanted a bowl eat out of and
Speaker 1: had no idea, but you kind of know. So he
Speaker 1: stole the one on the day he was released four
Speaker 1: do stealing stuff and assaulting people. But he was a
Speaker 1: run into a store, push a pregnant clerk, grab something,
Speaker 1: and run off thing kind of dude, that's who you're
Speaker 1: dealing with. So he goes he steals the bull. So
Speaker 1: what do you think the judge does? Is like, sir,
Speaker 1: we just let you out of jail for stealing stuff
Speaker 1: and then you walk into the first nice store steal
Speaker 1: a bull worth fifteen hundred dollars, which is a felonious level.
Speaker 1: Now what is the judge? I released some you get
Speaker 1: out of here crazy, don't steal any more bulls, or
Speaker 1: if you do, probably aim for one under one thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: And then he's like, yeah, you know what, I think
Speaker 1: I'll just go murder people. And now everyone's pointing fingers
Speaker 1: like how could this have happened? Eight arrest in New
Speaker 1: York City and this exact thing, including we just let
Speaker 1: him out and then he did it again just days ago.
Speaker 1: Who could have seen this coming? And the answer is
Speaker 1: everybody and nobody. As you read through the article. So
Speaker 1: if there is any sort of sea change in New
Speaker 1: York City that's going to be brought on by this,
Speaker 1: nobody's nobody should own a lot of interest there, all right?
Speaker 1: Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.
Speaker 1: All right, So let's stick a quarter in the weather
Speaker 1: roulette lottery. Who do we have today? Ken boone? Today?
Speaker 1: Ken boon? All right, look at them. We're getting talk
Speaker 1: to everybody. So how are you doing, sir?
Speaker 8: I'm doing well about yourself.
Speaker 1: Oh you know, it's only Tuesday, but we're making it through.
Speaker 1: You could reward us with some nice weather this week.
Speaker 1: I'd like to play some golf. That'd be great, So please.
Speaker 8: Well, I would suggest today if you're going to play
Speaker 8: golf this week, today is going to be the best day.
Speaker 8: Temperatures are going to be up into low seventies. A
Speaker 8: little more clouds and we dealt with yesterday, but we
Speaker 8: will see a little bit of sunshine. We've got a
Speaker 8: chance of showers tonight through Wednesday night off and on
Speaker 8: best chance will be overnight tonight into early Wednesday and
Speaker 8: then again late Wednesday into Wednesday night. So tomorrow afternoon,
Speaker 8: if you want to get out on the golf course,
Speaker 8: you might be okay, temperatures are going to be in
Speaker 8: the low part of the seventies and then turning colder
Speaker 8: though for the end of the week, sunny and windy.
Speaker 8: Thursday four HIH's only load to mid fifties with overnight
Speaker 8: lows down in the thirties.
Speaker 1: Alrighty, thank you sir. We'll talk in an hour. Do
Speaker 1: appreciate it? Alrighty, all right, ken Moon there from the
Speaker 1: Weather Channel. When we come back, here we go, we're
Speaker 1: gonna we're talking a little about some vote stuff. Love
Speaker 1: to get that. Oh, the EIGHTP story. I gotta share
Speaker 1: that with you. And uh, you want to want another
Speaker 1: example of what media bias looks like, a lot of times,
Speaker 1: it's not just the story, it's in the headlining or
Speaker 1: the selection of story and the way that the issue
Speaker 1: is being presented. I will give you exhibit A from
Speaker 1: our friends over wriol uh and I'll do that next.
Speaker 1: Hang on. After he wandered into the Amazon rainforest yesterday, Ross,
Speaker 1: did you see the video of him wandering like literally
Speaker 1: just wandering into the forest. Yeah.
Speaker 4: The weird part about that too, was like there was
Speaker 4: a pathway. Yeah, there was a path where he was
Speaker 4: supposed to walk where it wasn't in jungle, and he
Speaker 4: like walked out into the.
Speaker 1: Digital Literally, if you watch this, if you want hold on,
Speaker 1: let me, let me do this. I'm gonna send you
Speaker 1: this so we can retweet it just because I'm it's
Speaker 1: on my computer where I'm staring at it, all right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's not like it's a little trail either. It's
Speaker 1: clearly the road if you will, through the woods. And
Speaker 1: then and the reason I ask if he's still missing
Speaker 1: is then they did the photo. They're at the G
Speaker 1: twenty where it's going on in Brazil, and as part
Speaker 1: of the events, that bad dude in Brazil is like
Speaker 1: worn with Musk. His wife's out there screaming f elon
Speaker 1: Musk at a political event. Oh everybody, he's just nuts man.
Speaker 1: And then but Biden just wanders out. What if he
Speaker 1: mistakenly wandered into like a shaman and now he's on
Speaker 1: a highwasca trip.
Speaker 4: Well, when I first saw the video, it's so ridiculous,
Speaker 4: I thought it was photosh Yeah. What when I first
Speaker 4: saw the video, Yeah, the still of the video and
Speaker 4: it looks so ridiculous, I thought it was photo shopped
Speaker 4: or like, yeah, why is Joe Biden an animal kingdom, Like,
Speaker 4: what is going on?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Now he's in Brazil for the G twenty. No,
Speaker 1: he was in Brazil and Peru, so Brazil for the
Speaker 1: G twenty and then the thing. But yeah, and then
Speaker 1: he didn't show up to the photo. So they always
Speaker 1: do the uh the folk. Do you remember when you
Speaker 1: remember when Obama one year decided to put his hand
Speaker 1: in front of the who was it the Mongolian dude's face?
Speaker 1: So they had this, They have this poor mono they
Speaker 1: had him on. I don't know who the guy's name is, right,
Speaker 1: he shows up there and Barack Obama just is like,
Speaker 1: we'll go I block you now, I'm blocking now. So yeah,
Speaker 1: for him not to show up, he might be wandering
Speaker 1: in the Amazon. He might be contacting lost tribes. At
Speaker 1: least when he sees their level of technology, he'll feel
Speaker 1: like he's back in college or something playing flankerback. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, it would kill me as if he
Speaker 1: then popped out of the woods and did the shimmy.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if you guys are you guys
Speaker 1: are probably aware of this. That's everywhere in sports right now. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: the US Men's soccer team, so they have it's the
Speaker 1: Copadoro I think's going on right now, which is the
Speaker 1: or it might be the Sea something right. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: not a huge soccer guy, but it's the regional soccer
Speaker 1: right Central America, South America, well not all of South America.
Speaker 1: Somebody explained this to me one time. But US was
Speaker 1: playing Jamaica, and so they score on Jamaica and one
Speaker 1: of the US men's soccer players he does the shimmy there,
Speaker 1: which is extra ironic if you remember who I just
Speaker 1: said they scored the goal on Jamaica, because I seem
Speaker 1: to remember one of the candidates just had themselves some
Speaker 1: connection to Jamaica. But maybe I'm wrong, Maybe they didn't
Speaker 1: own a giant slave plantation there. So yeah, he's doing
Speaker 1: the shimmy. And now one of the one of the guys,
Speaker 1: one of the sports dudes, was tweeting out that behind
Speaker 1: the scenes, some folks at NFL are maybe wanting to
Speaker 1: have a conversation about quote political celebrations. Do absolutely do that.
Speaker 1: I don't want that to be just a remorant. The
Speaker 1: guys go ahead and.
Speaker 4: Do That's like kneeling right during the national No no.
Speaker 1: No, no, No, no political celebration.
Speaker 4: That well, that seems like that's a political celebration, right, No,
Speaker 4: that's that's actively.
Speaker 1: That's a movement. That's that's just that's it's human rights man.
Speaker 1: What do you mean? What do you mean a political celebraty? No,
Speaker 1: doing the Trump shimmy, that's the that's the problem.
Speaker 4: I feel like these owners just don't understand who their
Speaker 4: audience is. Well, because the Trump shimmy, that should be
Speaker 4: like the thing like that that is not frowned upon.
Speaker 4: Just no nogeting the groups that don't watch them.
Speaker 1: I have no idea. Remember they find Bosa for the hat.
Speaker 1: The other day you retweeted this of Dona of Joe
Speaker 1: Biden wandered into the Amazon kind of but not really,
Speaker 1: where's you going? Where are you going?
Speaker 5: Sir?
Speaker 1: You know there's snakes and stuff in there? It's just surreal. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Well, I think they found them probably or
Speaker 1: we'd have heard about it and we're gonna need them,
Speaker 1: or maybe not. It's far worse. So I was talking
Speaker 1: here a few minutes ago. The reason I didn't jump
Speaker 1: right into it is I, if given the opportunity, I
Speaker 1: want to try to understand the story so that's important,
Speaker 1: and so we have this this morning. Ukraine uses US
Speaker 1: missiles to hit Russian AMMO depot. The difference is is
Speaker 1: it's seventy seven miles in to Russia and thus far
Speaker 1: the US is part of their fatherly role, if you will,
Speaker 1: has been to not allow Ukraine to fire that far
Speaker 1: into Russia with US munitions. Right, and and that that's
Speaker 1: all that's done. We've we found out two days ago
Speaker 1: they said, now you want to fire into Russia, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they gave them a total distance,
Speaker 1: but yeah, you say, well, they're blowing up an amodepo,
Speaker 1: they're firing into uk I got all this stuff one
Speaker 1: hundred percent, one hundred percent. I understand this. But it
Speaker 1: is an escalation. And now there's another story. And this
Speaker 1: is where this gets even more problematic. So there's a
Speaker 1: couple of things you need to know about China. One,
Speaker 1: China tends to ignore the quote unquote rules of war.
Speaker 1: They tend to not care. And there's different things you
Speaker 1: can do. Hamas is the same way right where you
Speaker 1: know the rules. If there are such things, but they're
Speaker 1: kind of are under like Geneva and things like that
Speaker 1: that say things like, you know, you can't put a
Speaker 1: full military installation under a hospital, right, can't needs to
Speaker 1: be separations from civilians. It's pretty standard stuff. They don't
Speaker 1: care and and they're gonna be wrong. The US also
Speaker 1: bypasses stuff from an espionage standpoint, but China also does
Speaker 1: a thing where they utilize what are civilian ships and
Speaker 1: stuff like the big cargo ships. If you see a
Speaker 1: if you see a Chinese flag cargo ship, you have
Speaker 1: to understand that that cargo ship also has the ability
Speaker 1: to carry out espionage and war activities for lack of
Speaker 1: a better word. And one of the things that they
Speaker 1: do is by they drag they anchor drag stuff, except
Speaker 1: it's more than an anchor. It's essentially a cutting device,
Speaker 1: and they use it to decimate telecoms and then you know,
Speaker 1: then you try to do it under the guise of, oh,
Speaker 1: we're just put an anchor down those anchor lines. For
Speaker 1: any of you who've ever used avionics on the on
Speaker 1: the airline side or navionys on the on the ship side,
Speaker 1: they're incredibly detailed. They're incredibly detailed. And one of the
Speaker 1: things that you're gonna know on there are where telecoms are,
Speaker 1: so it's not a surprise to them. So I guess
Speaker 1: they left the port the in Saint Petersburg Chinese ship
Speaker 1: port obviously to Russian port. So they're in the Balktic
Speaker 1: and according to reports, UH, they the ship sliced through
Speaker 1: two undersea telecom lines over the last two days, UH,
Speaker 1: destroying one connected Finland and Germany and another that connected
Speaker 1: Sweden and Lithuania. So you know, very far into the
Speaker 1: Baltic almost to Saint Petersburg, they dropped this device and
Speaker 1: they sliced these telecom lines and they just kept trucking
Speaker 1: after that. And now they figured out what's happening. And
Speaker 1: so they have the Danish navy, which I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's more than one dude in a boat or
Speaker 1: what that is, but they're essentially surrounded this ship and
Speaker 1: they're following it, but they're not stopping it because if
Speaker 1: you stop or seize a Chinese ship, China considers that
Speaker 1: an act of war. So what do you do. You
Speaker 1: have this ship straight out of Russia that is doing
Speaker 1: this thing, pretending that they were just doing anchoring. But
Speaker 1: we know this. And by the way, this very same ship,
Speaker 1: the Yeepeng, has been previously caught doing this before. Well,
Speaker 1: now at the same time they're lobb and missiles into
Speaker 1: Russia proper, China's out here cutting telecom lines. People are
Speaker 1: getting at a little amped up about what that means man.
Speaker 1: And also what do you do you know, because they're
Speaker 1: getting in and out of the Baltic obviously has these
Speaker 1: pinch points and so, and they have a lot they
Speaker 1: can exercise a lot of control in your ability to
Speaker 1: travel in there, but they still have to be willing
Speaker 1: to get into that standoff. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's what you want. So you know what, I would
Speaker 1: probably pay attention to that today. And I don't know
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do with this ship. The reporting I'm
Speaker 1: seeing is about twenty five minutes old, says strong evidence
Speaker 1: indicating the Chinese bulk carrier Ye Peng destroyed two undersea
Speaker 1: telecom cables connecting Finland, Germany, and Sweden and Lithuania. The
Speaker 1: Danish Navy is shadowing Ye Peng right now as she
Speaker 1: tries to leave the Baltic. No decision yet to board
Speaker 1: the ship. And of course one of the things obviously
Speaker 1: they're going to do if they think they get boarded,
Speaker 1: is well one. I think that some of those things
Speaker 1: end up at the bottom of the ocean what they
Speaker 1: may have had on board. But yeah, that's now you've
Speaker 1: got China and Russia where there are changes on the
Speaker 1: horizon today for the shenanigans they're doing. I don't know
Speaker 1: what Trump's gonna be walking into man absolute pressure cooker
Speaker 1: on this stuff. And why the Biden administration I just
Speaker 1: have on loop in front of me wandering into the Amazon.
Speaker 1: Why he's sitting there going, hey, you know what, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna be here in just a couple of months,
Speaker 1: So let's go ahead and get this thing ramped up.
Speaker 1: The argument I saw on the Washington Post is they
Speaker 1: know that Trump's you know, essentially, he's Putin's puppet, and
Speaker 1: so if they don't do this now, it'll never be done.
Speaker 1: That doesn't sound like a good excuse, even if you
Speaker 1: one hundred percent believe that you are escalating the situation.
Speaker 1: And now again we have the ship situation, so we'll
Speaker 1: see where that goes. The Associated Press has announced a
Speaker 1: series of layoffs. They are now they are now among
Speaker 1: the many companies who are reevaluating after the election. Now
Speaker 1: I would say this, this is the normal time of
Speaker 1: the year when you do layoffs, right, you want them
Speaker 1: off the books. I know this is a very cold
Speaker 1: interpretation of it, but anyone who's worked in the media
Speaker 1: industry knows that it is the end of the year
Speaker 1: where you see these cuts. And it's not just the
Speaker 1: media industry, but also and this is another thing, it's
Speaker 1: after a time of aggressive staffing. So the amount of
Speaker 1: people that you need to do full election coverage generally
Speaker 1: outpaces what is your normal staffing levels. The way the
Speaker 1: TV does it and the way that some of the
Speaker 1: big national outlets do it. So I read I guess
Speaker 1: you can read into it as much or little as
Speaker 1: you want, but I'm not surprised to see the story.
Speaker 1: It is interesting, though, considering AP was really the call
Speaker 1: standard for most of the outlets in determining what ends
Speaker 1: up as you know, as they've officially called it. People
Speaker 1: looked to AP as one of the flagships for that too,
Speaker 1: And now they're saying that they're gonna fire about ten
Speaker 1: percent of their staff, offer buyouts things like that. So
Speaker 1: it continues. But I don't know if you can solely
Speaker 1: chalk that up just to the media come up in
Speaker 1: sarcin Although some of it's probably in there for sure.
Speaker 1: All right, let me do this. We have a speaking
Speaker 1: of Russia, we have a sad story to share with you.
Speaker 1: Totally unexpected, totally unexpected. Wait, Boston Paul sending me stuff.
Speaker 1: Boston Paul, your wife emailed me this morning. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bust her. I don't know how this is
Speaker 1: my problem. Hold on, let me go back to this.
Speaker 1: Oh it was when I announced that Ross and I
Speaker 1: aren't going to be here next week. She writes, Please
Speaker 1: please work next week. If you're not on the air,
Speaker 1: I have to entertain Boston Paul, and I don't have
Speaker 1: time for that. Well, you got two options, the way
Speaker 1: I see it. One, you can hook him up to
Speaker 1: his ivy of alcohol right stick the little tap thing
Speaker 1: on his mout or. And I was just thinking, Ross,
Speaker 1: you know what's you know what? When it low seventies,
Speaker 1: upper sixties is really great weather for outdoor honeydew projects. Right.
Speaker 1: Uh so, uh, missus, Boston Paul, maybe, just maybe, while
Speaker 1: we're not here next week would be a wonderful time
Speaker 1: for you to get a big list together of all
Speaker 1: the stuff you've been trying to get him to work on.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have all this free time, the weather's gonna
Speaker 1: be cooperative, and he can spend that week, you know,
Speaker 1: fixing the cleaning the gutters, or fixing the loose stone
Speaker 1: on the walkway out there, or I don't know, building
Speaker 1: you a she shack or something, right the whole week
Speaker 1: to do it. We won't be here. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: on vacation. So then you don't have to entertain him.
Speaker 1: You get home improvement and Boston Paul gets a sense
Speaker 1: of accomplishment. I think that's a great idea. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I would put and put lots of stuff on there,
Speaker 1: especially stuff you asked him about like months ago that
Speaker 1: he still hasn't gotten, or you don't put that on
Speaker 1: there too, and then uh you know there you go,
Speaker 1: all right? Eight eight a three four seven eight seven
Speaker 1: four Yeah, did I violate bro code? I don't know.
Speaker 1: You tell me. We'll take a break. Hang on. Christians
Speaker 1: in Russia are they're still unsure what may have happened here?
Speaker 1: They do have a theory. So to know, you need
Speaker 1: to know a man by the name of Vladimir Scalarov.
Speaker 1: So I don't want to pronounce your your last name.
Speaker 1: There Vladimir. He's dead anyway, but he also kind of
Speaker 1: a famous dude in Russia. Vladimir considered the top male
Speaker 1: ballet dancer dances I think with the Saint Petersburg belly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Saint Petersburg. But he's a big deal, and in Russia
Speaker 1: ballet is a big deal. I don't know if you're familiar.
Speaker 1: And he's married father too. He's in his thirties, been
Speaker 1: doing this for a while, gaining a lot of respect,
Speaker 1: and he used he parlayed that celebrity into becoming one
Speaker 1: of the biggest outspoken critics of Russia's war in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Even's going so far as to hold, you know, events
Speaker 1: right in the middle of the square there in Saint Petersburg,
Speaker 1: near the theatre Marinsky Theater, which is that big famous
Speaker 1: one you've probably seen a picture of. And any who,
Speaker 1: so long story short, he accidentally fell out of a
Speaker 1: fifth floor window because he's clumsy.
Speaker 4: So I heard he was chased out by actual nutcrackers,
Speaker 4: like the giant ones, the Christmas ones.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, yeah, terrifying, wouldn't it. Those things are
Speaker 1: kind of creepy anyway, But now you got real like
Speaker 1: robotic or humanoid why oh man, that's that's nightmare fuel there. Yes,
Speaker 1: the dude with the best balance in the country arguably
Speaker 1: accidentally fell out of a fifth floor window and died,
Speaker 1: the guy who just happened to also be a big
Speaker 1: Putin critic. Now, according to Russian officials, they say that
Speaker 1: the action was caused one from okay, well they said painkillers,
Speaker 1: and there's two reasons, one painkillers and two not giant nutcrackers,
Speaker 1: not according to statement, but rather he has him losing
Speaker 1: his balance and overestimating his ability.
Speaker 4: There they need to find new ways to do this.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: Well, I know, you could see it from both ways
Speaker 4: because people it's so obvious. People are like, oh wow,
Speaker 4: another dude falls out of a window to his death.
Speaker 4: That was, you know, not very complimentary of Putin, right,
Speaker 4: but you would like if you're sitting to maybe throw
Speaker 4: something out of the window, like he's throw a giant
Speaker 4: anvil in his head like her dream style or yeah, something.
Speaker 4: But maybe they want it to be this way, so
Speaker 4: it's very obvious to people what's going on, so you
Speaker 4: don't criticize the government.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're in Russia right now and you're
Speaker 1: thinking about criticizing Putin, you're like, they just said the
Speaker 1: dude with the best balance tripped and fell out a window. Also,
Speaker 1: why is the window so trippable and openable? I mean like, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe that's because here's the thing. You could do that,
Speaker 1: or you could do the Disneyland model, right, which we
Speaker 1: have exposed on this show before, where we figured out
Speaker 1: that there was a lot of weird deaths in and
Speaker 1: around Disney, and so we just assume it's all gators
Speaker 1: eating people, but they covered up. They're like because like
Speaker 1: right after that kid got eating, they're like one of
Speaker 1: the guys diving a smelting accent. It's like, what are
Speaker 1: you smelting at Disney? What are you doing there? They
Speaker 1: had some weird ones. So like our theory as Disney
Speaker 1: was switching it up to cover up the summer of
Speaker 1: the gator. But in this case, I see what you're saying.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think that if you keep it so obvious,
Speaker 1: that sends a message because you could just as easily
Speaker 1: have you could have opponents accidentally like oh he went camping,
Speaker 1: he got eaten by all the bears. Whoops. Right, you
Speaker 1: could do that and mix it up, but then the
Speaker 1: message gets muddled as well. They're like, did Putin have
Speaker 1: him eliminated for daring to say, friends, I'm against the
Speaker 1: war in Ukraine for the people, or a peaceful sky
Speaker 1: above our lands, which is the statement one of the
Speaker 1: statements he made the other day that caused a little
Speaker 1: bit of a stir, A little bit of a stir.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like that Russia saying during the Civic Union,
Speaker 4: right where like they're lying. We know they're lying, but
Speaker 4: they keep lying about their lying, right, And that's the point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna do it. You gotta you gotta do
Speaker 1: it all the way. Man. Let's see here. Then they
Speaker 1: have a whole list of people who've fallen out windows. Again,
Speaker 1: we've as we've explained here on the show, you never
Speaker 1: leave the first floor. If you want to play in
Speaker 1: politics in Russia, you have a first Do you have
Speaker 1: a first floor? Master? Right?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 4: Man, you want to be like Milton and office space.
Speaker 4: You want your desk to be like in the basement.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, okay, I have there's so many questions
Speaker 1: that I have on this story. South Korean man arrested
Speaker 1: in uh he was in Peru. I think it was
Speaker 1: in South America somewhere. I was in Peru, Pruvian police
Speaker 1: stop the twenty eight year old South Korean man at
Speaker 1: Hore Chavez International Airport after noticing a moving bulge his abdomen,
Speaker 1: eventually bringing him in for extra searching. And it was
Speaker 1: only as they started to get in under his shirt
Speaker 1: that they realized what was up, and then as they
Speaker 1: kept going they realized how much worse it was. According
Speaker 1: to officials, the man had strapped to and or inserted
Speaker 1: in his body three hundred and twenty tarantulas, one hundred
Speaker 1: and ten giant centipedes, and nine bullet ants. How do
Speaker 1: you make the decision between those three of what goes
Speaker 1: in your body versus on your body? And what does
Speaker 1: the ratio breakdown? And have you seen the size of centipedes,
Speaker 1: by the way, in South America, they're not small, some are,
Speaker 1: but the ones he's smuggling, the ones that they want
Speaker 1: for medicinal and stuff, they're pretty big. Three hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty and then you have to have three they're live,
Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty live tarantulas, one hundred and ten
Speaker 1: centipedes and nine bullet ants. Touching your body inside or
Speaker 1: out for how long is that?
Speaker 4: There's no way that's intentional. You have to be like
Speaker 4: a victim of Jigsaw or something at that point.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm wondering, Like how many of his family
Speaker 1: members did the Proving gang kidnap? Like what is the
Speaker 1: just just think about is what is happening right now?
Speaker 1: Mentally in this feeling on your skin when I say
Speaker 1: you have three hundred and twenty tranch live tarantulas all on.
Speaker 4: You just did this story what forty minutes ago talking
Speaker 4: about you know how the human brain is conditioned to
Speaker 4: see spiders and be like, hey, that's creepy because it
Speaker 4: could possibly kill you. And this dude's putting them on
Speaker 4: his body.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the baddest dude ever. Man, I give zero,
Speaker 1: you know what? But also, what did you go within
Speaker 1: the body? This is where? And and remember this is
Speaker 1: not just we've had Remember the remember the guy down
Speaker 1: for the woman down in Florida who had nine syringes
Speaker 1: internally packaged like that's insane, you know, But to.
Speaker 4: Be fair, those weren't hers.
Speaker 1: They were that's you know what, that's absolutely right. Oh
Speaker 1: well maybe these are not his. Maybe he went to Peru,
Speaker 1: and Peru I want to go too. Still, I've not
Speaker 1: been to Peru. Uh, yeah, I want to go see
Speaker 1: all the crazy stuff. Yes, I want to go see
Speaker 1: the child sacrifice altars I talked about yesterday. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just uh, I love historical stuff. That being said,
Speaker 1: I've traveled to South America and I didn't I didn't
Speaker 1: come back covered in spiders, So I thought, one, that's
Speaker 1: a win. Two, the situation never presented itself. And if
Speaker 1: you've ever flown to the Bahamas, and I'm sure many
Speaker 1: of you probably have been to the Bahamas, you recognize
Speaker 1: that if you go. When you're leaving the Bahamas, I
Speaker 1: ended up talking to the customs lady about this because
Speaker 1: we were in uh uh, what's I can't remember the
Speaker 1: We weren't in Nasa. We were in up north in
Speaker 1: the in the main city there, and then the resorts
Speaker 1: that we used like to go to got wiped out.
Speaker 1: But but when you're leaving in that tiny little airport,
Speaker 1: they do they like, there's signs everywhere. They're like, hey,
Speaker 1: you're not smuggling birds, are you. You don't have a
Speaker 1: bunch of birds taped to your body, do you? Because
Speaker 1: if you do, that's really really bad and there's gonna
Speaker 1: be problems, and so I'm talking to the lady, I'm like,
Speaker 1: how much like I? At first, I know, I'm like,
Speaker 1: maybe I shouldn't bring it up because you'd be like,
Speaker 1: why are you talking about bird smug? But I just
Speaker 1: couldn't help myself. I'm naturally curious, and I'm like, is
Speaker 1: that really a problem? And she's like, oh, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yea yeah. She starts telling me about like big bird
Speaker 1: busts in her career, where like some lunatic had drugged
Speaker 1: like fifty parrots and had him strapped around, but he's
Speaker 1: his whole like they're still kind of moving, so like
Speaker 1: his Closer movie, he wasn't gonna get away with him.
Speaker 1: This dude's like, ah, birds, Tarantula's giant centipedes man and bulleted?
Speaker 1: What's a bullet ant? Ross? Will you look up with
Speaker 1: a bullet ant is? Something tells me it's far worse
Speaker 1: than other ants. It just has to be. Are those
Speaker 1: the ones that ate shil above or tried to in
Speaker 1: that in that god awful Crystal Skulls movie. I want
Speaker 1: to know what a bullet ant is.
Speaker 4: Obvious it is a large predatory ant with of course,
Speaker 4: with a painful sting of course it does. That's considered
Speaker 4: the most painful of all insects stings.
Speaker 1: That's the what he had in his butt. Right, Let's right,
Speaker 1: I know it is because it's only nine. Right, You're
Speaker 1: not putting three hundred twenty tarantulas in there or one
Speaker 1: hundred and ten giant centipedes. Now you're putting bullet ants.
Speaker 1: That dude doesn't care. That's a dude who's mentally not
Speaker 1: even on this plane anymore. He's he's already onto his
Speaker 1: next life. He's like, whatever happens, I don't keep on
Speaker 1: putting nine bullet hants in there.
Speaker 4: Sure, absolutely if it is like an origin story, like
Speaker 4: I say, he's not going to be a spider Man,
Speaker 4: he's going to be more like, uh, you know, venom
Speaker 4: or something that's going to you're not a good guy
Speaker 4: at that point.
Speaker 1: So I haven't seen a picture. These things are terrifying,
Speaker 1: all right, hold on, well, just the description's terrified, the
Speaker 1: most painful sting or all at the size of this thing,
Speaker 1: all the cow angry it looks. Dude, if you're in
Speaker 1: your yard today for rush, let's say you go out,
Speaker 1: I don't know, to roll up the hose or something.
Speaker 1: You see one of those in your yard. You are
Speaker 1: in your own house.
Speaker 4: Right, you are your house, and your neighbors was in
Speaker 4: the all the houses in the block, just to be safe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the police will show like why'd you
Speaker 1: do it?
Speaker 4: And tell me not guilty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a picture of some lunatic getting stung by one.
Speaker 1: He does not look happy. Good god. Yeah that's the one.
Speaker 4: Okay, So now I'm saying it to scale. Yeah, that
Speaker 4: thing is ginormous.
Speaker 1: Yes, they probably have to probably have to burn down
Speaker 1: all awake forest man.
Speaker 4: Just take like your thumb and your your pointer finger
Speaker 4: like your point like a like a finger gun. Do
Speaker 4: a finger gun. It's like that big.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so you know, put eight of those in there,
Speaker 1: one hundred and tens. What is that? What is possibly
Speaker 1: are you?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 1: Are are you like a bullet ant fighter? Or does
Speaker 1: that make Is that good for the uh for the
Speaker 1: sports car? I don't know. I don't I'm not plugged
Speaker 1: in on all the Eastern medicine stuff. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's far more. This is far more horror ooh okay,
Speaker 1: it's killing can kill people too. Yeah, these are totally
Speaker 1: the things that try to eat Shilah buff sadly I
Speaker 1: was rooting for him and it didn't work out. But
Speaker 1: all right, no, thank you on that. Okay, the reading.
Speaker 1: You want to know what they call it? A bullet ant.
Speaker 1: You're ready for this. I don't know if you got
Speaker 1: to this part, Russ. It's called a bullet ant because
Speaker 1: according to victims of the sting who have also been shot,
Speaker 1: it is equally or more painful. Dude, if you're opting
Speaker 1: to get shot over running into a bullet ant, that
Speaker 1: guy is walking dead man, or they got his whole
Speaker 1: family kidnapped. I don't know. All right, let's get Ken
Speaker 1: boone in here, or go learn about nature with us.
Speaker 1: So I'm always always fascinated body these stories where they
Speaker 1: stop some guy and he's smuggling like three thousand animals
Speaker 1: taped to his body, like snakes and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: You see those crazy guys.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, and for birds and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the bird when I was talking about the behind
Speaker 1: your bit of the Bahamas where they're like, hey, don't
Speaker 1: smuggle birds. Signs frigging everywhere, right, Yeah. And I was
Speaker 1: asking one of the customs ladies one time, say oh yeah,
Speaker 1: like she was telling me about like this guy who
Speaker 1: had all these birds tape to him, said the birds
Speaker 1: were moving and he was trying to act natural. But
Speaker 1: this guy goes to Peru and he smuggles quote either
Speaker 1: tape to his body or placed within I guess cocaine
Speaker 1: smuggle style. Three hundred and twenty live tarantulas, one hundred
Speaker 1: and ten giant centipedes, and nine bullet ants. And we
Speaker 1: didn't know what a bullet ant was. And it's the
Speaker 1: size of your thumb.
Speaker 4: Or larger.
Speaker 1: And it's called a bullet ant because it's sting is
Speaker 1: considered one of the most painful stings in the world.
Speaker 1: And for victims who've been ung and shot, they say
Speaker 1: it's on par with being shot. Wow, I've never heard of.
Speaker 1: Let me put nine of those in my body. So
Speaker 1: I don't want to mess with that dude. Man he
Speaker 1: seen now, all right, anyway, watch out for bullet ants.
Speaker 1: And you know, you want to get outside today maybe
Speaker 1: with the weather, just you know, keep an eye out.
Speaker 8: Yeah, today's gonna be a pretty nice day if you're
Speaker 8: gonna be outside. We do have some rain that's headed in.
Speaker 8: We're gonna be dealing with rain off and on tonight
Speaker 8: through Wednesday night, and then it turns colder, so out
Speaker 8: there today, partner the mostly cloudy sky's low seventies, showers
Speaker 8: overnight upper fifties, scattered, many morning showers tomorrow. I think
Speaker 8: the afternoon will be dry, but lots of clouds still,
Speaker 8: reaching low seventies tomorrow, and then another round of showers
Speaker 8: Wednesday night before the cold air moves in Thursday Friday.
Speaker 8: Sunny Thursday Friday, but it will be windy with gusty
Speaker 8: west and northwest winds. Highs only in the low to
Speaker 8: mid fifties and low's expected to be in the thirties.
Speaker 8: Sunny and cool this weekend as well, with high still
Speaker 8: in the fifties, although less wind for the upcoming weekend.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you, sir, appreciate it, and we'll come back.
Speaker 1: Chat with Jeff Bellinger. Decks Hang one Bellinger, Jeff, what's
Speaker 1: going on? Al's morning?
Speaker 9: Casey looks like a lower star to head on. Wall
Speaker 9: Street futures have been in the red all morning. Right now,
Speaker 9: the Dow futures are down four hundred and twenty two points.
Speaker 9: There was a bigger than expected decline in housing starts
Speaker 9: last month. Census Bureau data showed the number of groundbreakings
Speaker 9: for houses and departments fell a little more than three
Speaker 9: percent in October to an annual rate of just over
Speaker 9: one point three million. Softness in the housing market being
Speaker 9: reflected in Low's quarterly results the home improvement chains as
Speaker 9: customers are postponing big improvement projects. A key sales metric,
Speaker 9: fell in the latest quarter, though it was a smaller
Speaker 9: than expected decline. A lot of consumers planned to start
Speaker 9: or resume their holiday shopping in the days right after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 9: Bankread says nearly six and ten American adults expect to
Speaker 9: make a purchase on Cyber Monday that would make the
Speaker 9: online sales event more popular than Black Friday your Small
Speaker 9: Business Saturday. One billion dollar is going to be invested
Speaker 9: to set up a new semiconductor research center in North Carolina.
Speaker 9: Semiconductor Research, the industry consortium that will run the facility,
Speaker 9: is getting two hundred and eighty five million dollars from
Speaker 9: the federal government under the twenty twenty two Chips and
Speaker 9: Science Act. The center's goal will be to develop ships
Speaker 9: faster and at a lower cost. Economists at Bank of
Speaker 9: America think the Federal Reserve will end its cycle of
Speaker 9: interest rate cuts in June of next year, they predict
Speaker 9: rates will only be three quarters of a percent lower
Speaker 9: than they are now. This latest forecast reflects the expert's
Speaker 9: expectations for more inflation in the early days of the
Speaker 9: Trump administration. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is keeping big Tech
Speaker 9: in its crosshairs right to the end. Top Justice Department
Speaker 9: officials will reportedly ask a federal judge to order Google
Speaker 9: to sell off its Chrome web browser. Bloomberg Intelligence see
Speaker 9: some signs that restaurant sales will pick up next year,
Speaker 9: but it says business will likely remain soft off through
Speaker 9: the end.
Speaker 4: Of this year.
Speaker 9: And Casey, you need a really good credit score if
Speaker 9: you hope to borrow money. The New York Fed says
Speaker 9: lenders have tightened their standards. Applications for auto loans and
Speaker 9: mortgage refives are being rejected at the highest rates in
Speaker 9: over a decade.
Speaker 1: Casey, all right, thank you, Jeff, do appreciate it. We
Speaker 1: will talk to you tomorrow. Sounds good.
Speaker 9: Talk to you, then take care of it.
Speaker 1: There you go. Jeff Bellons for Bloomberg News. Ross I
Speaker 1: did something I shouldn't have done. I looked up a
Speaker 1: bullet ant queen because I'm like, are we looking at
Speaker 1: the queens or the workers. Don't google the queens. Remember
Speaker 1: that thing you just talked about with your finger the
Speaker 1: finger gun? All right, now what you to do is
Speaker 1: I want you to hold your whole hand up flat.
Speaker 1: Look at that. That's the size of the queens. Nope, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 1: And then Lunatics keeps sending me videos of this dude.
Speaker 1: As I can best as I can understand, his YouTube
Speaker 1: channel is just him getting stung in bit by things.
Speaker 1: So he just he's like, yeah, it could be a honeybee,
Speaker 1: could be a wasp, could be a hornet, could be
Speaker 1: these ants. And he's just say, all right, and Ross,
Speaker 1: do you want to know how well his channel does
Speaker 1: pretty frigger well pretty well. I don't know how many
Speaker 1: twitch people you got watching you, but maybe you need
Speaker 1: to change. Maybe you just need to get stung by stuff.
Speaker 1: Look at all the clicks this dude has. That is crazy.
Speaker 1: All right, Reggie, what's up?
Speaker 6: Hey? I could steal us up beyond vet do to
Speaker 6: the horse and bullet ants. There's this guy that does
Speaker 6: the same thing. He does wild wild stunt and there's
Speaker 6: a trab that tis the man good. You know those
Speaker 6: gloves that you use a trained dogs, big long glove. Yeah,
Speaker 6: they got something like that, and they sew bullet at
Speaker 6: inside of them, and you slip your arms inside those
Speaker 6: and you do this role trouble thence while they're stinging
Speaker 6: of the Jesus at them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was reading it's funny you mentioned. I was
Speaker 1: also reading that it literally that you would they would
Speaker 1: use bullyt ant. The Mayans would use them. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I don't use the Mayans. He has, but they would
Speaker 1: as a as a transition to manhood. They would let
Speaker 1: him sting dudes in a certain place. What was wrong
Speaker 1: with those people?
Speaker 6: I have no idea.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, all right, you know what I just be.
Speaker 1: You know what, I'm gonna go live in another village.
Speaker 1: R I don't have to do this insanity. That is awful.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you sir. That'll be somebody's rabbit
Speaker 1: hole on YouTube today that they're gonna be really sorry
Speaker 1: you brought up, but unable to turn away. I guess, oh,
Speaker 1: I have to make a correction. Ross. Do you remember
Speaker 1: when we were reporting the dollar amounts of the Harris
Speaker 1: campaign maybe gave to celebrities for these various events, and
Speaker 1: it was still up in the air because they remember
Speaker 1: Oprah came out and denied that she was given a
Speaker 1: million dollars. Now it turns out that is that was
Speaker 1: not true. Okay, Oprah was not given a million dollars.
Speaker 1: This is around that. Remember the town hall she did.
Speaker 1: Uh their respect relation that she was paid a million
Speaker 1: dollars for that. Now I can't speak to the other
Speaker 1: folks like Eminem and Beyonce and all that, but uh,
Speaker 1: it's uh, they finally deeped over some of the financials
Speaker 1: here in Oprah was not paid a million dollars. She
Speaker 1: was paid two and a half million dollars.
Speaker 4: I mean, so technically she didn't lie, right.
Speaker 1: So technically she didn't lie.
Speaker 4: Hey, you were given a million TOI, I wasn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that would be fair. If I'm like, Ross,
Speaker 1: you just and you just stole two million out of
Speaker 1: my money drawer. I did not, And I'm and I'm like,
Speaker 1: why did you do that? And and you have five
Speaker 1: million for my money drawer? If you said you's why
Speaker 1: you gotta word your question correctly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, did not still two million?
Speaker 1: Come on, none of you have none of you ever
Speaker 1: had your three wishes from a genie. You don't screw
Speaker 1: around on the wording. So with Oprah, you don't accuse
Speaker 1: her of getting paid a million dollars when in reality
Speaker 1: it was two and a half million. So I just
Speaker 1: wanted to apologize for now. We didn't say it was firm.
Speaker 1: I said that these are reports that are out there
Speaker 1: and now I'm coming back to uh fiction.
Speaker 6: It