Speaker 1: Broadcasts live from the frozen tundra of iHeartMedia's Raleigh studios.
Speaker 1: There you go so so like if you you know,
Speaker 1: when you're in a really really tall building, a lot
Speaker 1: of times the windows on the upper floor, like you
Speaker 1: can't open the windows. I don't, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: think that any of the windows have been openable the
Speaker 1: entire time I've worked in uh in Raleigh on even
Speaker 1: when we were on the other floor, I don't know
Speaker 1: that any of the windows have ever been openable. But
Speaker 1: they're doing some renovations and like they're just gone. So
Speaker 1: it's uh, you can wind tunnel things.
Speaker 2: You come in every day and there's like, you know,
Speaker 2: new new progress of the construction they're doing here in
Speaker 2: the seventh floor, but right and there's big signs that say, hey,
Speaker 2: don't go in this area because it's a construction area.
Speaker 2: You need to wear like this and that and this
Speaker 2: and if you go in here, dude, you're gonna die.
Speaker 2: So so I read that sign every morning and I'm
Speaker 2: like that sounds like fun, and I just go see
Speaker 2: with that, and I go in the area. I just
Speaker 2: want to see the progress that's going on, you know,
Speaker 2: And I avoid any giant Pitzer holes, or wires coming
Speaker 2: on the walls that are sparkling, or you know the
Speaker 2: dangers that can be in a construction zone. But one
Speaker 2: of them, there was one. Yesterday there's a ginormous open
Speaker 2: window in the seventh floor with like a makeshift AC
Speaker 2: unit in it. And today there's two other windows that
Speaker 2: are open and it's freezing, and I'm surprised, like a
Speaker 2: bird or something hasn't flown in.
Speaker 1: Dude, Dude, I did I ever tell you we had
Speaker 1: a bat go crazy in the studios in Minneapolis or
Speaker 1: Minnesota it worked up there would be amazing, dude, So
Speaker 1: they were, they were. They opened one of the ceiling
Speaker 1: panels and a bat came out. And I love this
Speaker 1: story so much because I'm in You know, most radio
Speaker 1: studios are set up where sales is one side of
Speaker 1: the building and you got studios and programming on the other.
Speaker 1: Every every studio, every group I've ever worked for, same deal.
Speaker 1: And the bat, it's right in the middle. It comes
Speaker 1: out and the bat makes a choice. The bat's like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go see what's going on in sane And
Speaker 1: you can't see there's a little mini hallway, but all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I hear what sounds like a terrorist
Speaker 1: attack in sales, and I saw the bat literally come
Speaker 1: out of the thing. I was like one of three
Speaker 1: people just happened to be in the right place at
Speaker 1: the right time. I saw that back come out. I
Speaker 1: see a book down the hallway and then there's a
Speaker 1: blind turn and within moments I hear women screaming, and
Speaker 1: so now I'm in like I got to catch the
Speaker 1: bat mood because I don't know, guys, this is what
Speaker 1: we do. And the funniest thing greeted me when I
Speaker 1: got over there. We had a saleswoman named Robin I
Speaker 1: won't give your last name, who is one of the
Speaker 1: streamers who is standing on her desk because of a bat.
Speaker 1: She's standing on her desk because of the bat. I
Speaker 1: think you're processing why that's a terrible strategy if you're
Speaker 1: attempting to avoid you know, bats. So I ended up
Speaker 1: getting them with a box at a broom and then
Speaker 1: dumping them outside.
Speaker 2: Happened to us here too, and I everyone was panicking,
Speaker 2: right and oh yeah, crashed down and the bats surrounded
Speaker 2: me and like a whirlwind, like a like a tornado
Speaker 2: type thing. Because you were scared of them. Initially, Initially
Speaker 2: I was terrified of them. They were my biggest fear.
Speaker 2: But what ended up happening was I became vengeance. Oh wow,
Speaker 2: And I became a creature of the night, and I
Speaker 2: found that person that stole my award and I did
Speaker 2: what I had to do.
Speaker 1: You mentioned this the other day, but not the origins.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this music from Christopher Nolan came through. It
Speaker 2: was inspiring. Is there a group of people who fear you?
Speaker 2: You know, I would say all of the people in
Speaker 2: in the night that I take vengeance upon. I don't
Speaker 2: want to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Lot bottled up there considering you know, all that you've
Speaker 1: been through.
Speaker 2: Now I'm not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well what happened to your parents at the play?
Speaker 1: And then you got to right, I remember you got
Speaker 1: arrested for stealing your own stuff.
Speaker 2: This is bro.
Speaker 1: That's peak China.
Speaker 2: They're like, now, like your a thief.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just like intellectual property from tech companies
Speaker 1: with widgets. All right. So I tried, so tried. I
Speaker 1: tried to commit myself to watching again the litany of
Speaker 1: UH confirmation hearings yesterday, Bondies, Rubios, the CIA guy. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I didn't watch that one because they're just
Speaker 1: overlapping and it's clear. It's clear that no matter who
Speaker 1: it is up there, it is we are one hundred
Speaker 1: percent not going to be having qualification discussions or how
Speaker 1: do I say? Everything's a trap? Right, everything's about boxing
Speaker 1: in and this is not new, but it didn't used
Speaker 1: to be. It was like it was like a secondary
Speaker 1: quest okay, right, it used to be you're going through
Speaker 1: the process and you're asking difficult questions and yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a partisan nature there, but you know, you couldn't you
Speaker 1: couldn't accuse people of running rape congo lines and and
Speaker 1: all of these things and along the way if you're
Speaker 1: able to box them in on something like oh, will
Speaker 1: you commit to this? Which is why I want to
Speaker 1: point out, which is why every nominee now is one
Speaker 1: hundred percent programmed to not get into things right, so
Speaker 1: you don't get any insight, you don't get a deeper understanding.
Speaker 1: A lot of it is on faith, and it is
Speaker 1: because it's a you know, it's trapped. If you can
Speaker 1: get a can if you can get a candidate but
Speaker 1: an appointee that you're deliberating over, if you can get
Speaker 1: them to commit to something right and and you know
Speaker 1: of something that is coming up that you and your
Speaker 1: party are going to be pushing through legislatively or attempting
Speaker 1: to or this thing you're doing or whatever it is,
Speaker 1: where if you can at least get them on the record,
Speaker 1: you can sew a lot of discord and distrust and
Speaker 1: accuse them of being a big fat lie, like you
Speaker 1: got that in your pocket. And when you set out,
Speaker 1: is that's your goal, you get the kinds of hearings
Speaker 1: that we're having right now, or it's not serious, it's
Speaker 1: it's Mazy Herono from Hawaii.
Speaker 3: Again, as part of my responsibility to ensure the fitness
Speaker 3: of all nominees, I asked the following two initial questions. First,
Speaker 3: since you became a legal adult, have you ever made
Speaker 3: unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or
Speaker 3: physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature?
Speaker 1: All right, So, if you don't know who she's asking
Speaker 1: that of, and I just mentioned you know, Rubio and
Speaker 1: Bondy and Ratliff. That was the other one, and there's
Speaker 1: a couple others, it's probably not the one you think
Speaker 1: she's asking.
Speaker 3: Let's hear no, Senator, have you ever faced discipline or
Speaker 3: entered into a settlement relating to this kind of conduct.
Speaker 1: Senator, all right, so why is herono asking that? Well, One,
Speaker 1: she's asking it because she's still taking swipes at Hegseth. Two,
Speaker 1: you think a lot of people blow off Pam Bondy
Speaker 1: if she's blown up their dms. Also, if I, if
Speaker 1: I just want to approach this from a pure animalistic nature, right,
Speaker 1: if Bondi is is committing the unwanted stocking, I'd be
Speaker 1: very surprised. Mostly could that it wouldn't be reciprocate because
Speaker 1: dudes are dudes. But all right, whatever, But it's just
Speaker 1: such a weird question. But at least she's not screaming
Speaker 1: it like yesterday, although her whole delivery is very grating.
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go through you
Speaker 1: know a lot of the gotcha. You know, Bondi had
Speaker 1: some good her Her key exchange was with Adam Schiff.
Speaker 1: But it's over there. It's like it's like seven it's
Speaker 1: like seven minutes long, and it's just where she knew
Speaker 1: obviously shifts not a yes vote, and he was he
Speaker 1: was doing that thing where he's trying to like box
Speaker 1: her in. He's trying to box her in on things
Speaker 1: like pardons. She doesn't have. She doesn't make the decision
Speaker 1: on pardons. Okay, she can advise. And I think Adam
Speaker 1: shift that he found himself something cute where he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: if you promise you're gonna review those, then you have
Speaker 1: to promise that Biden or Trump's not gonna pardon on
Speaker 1: day one. She's like us, he's the boss, and he's
Speaker 1: the one that does pardons. We don't do pardons. It
Speaker 1: was all dumb, and then she finally's like, weren't you
Speaker 1: censured for this stuff? So I think he I think
Speaker 1: he is going to be a no vote. But uh,
Speaker 1: you know, for the most part, it was just more
Speaker 1: of the same and I'm I'm not gonna beat you
Speaker 1: to death with it. Today we got bigger fish or
Speaker 1: more interesting fish, just different fish to fry Man like,
Speaker 1: that's the Supreme Court hearing the uh uh the Israel
Speaker 1: uh guaza thing that Joe Biden was able to get
Speaker 1: done the last minute with all on his own apparently.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of big stories breaking yesterday,
Speaker 1: and this James O'Keefe thing is who they've already fired
Speaker 1: the dude. But just firing this dude. If you don't
Speaker 1: know what it is, I'll play the audio if you
Speaker 1: don't know, Like just firing the dude. Who's the dude
Speaker 1: in the video who thought he was going to get
Speaker 1: lucky and instead he's going to get a pink slip
Speaker 1: telling you man, like the number of people in DC
Speaker 1: that are just desperate for love man, which is you
Speaker 1: know people go, well, you know, keep doing it this way.
Speaker 1: It's just you know who else does it that way? China, Russia.
Speaker 2: I mean the latest guy that they got. I was
Speaker 2: laughing this morning because it was straight out Okay, it's
Speaker 2: everything we say in the show, all everything, and this
Speaker 2: guy is like Peter Griffin.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: This guy's like, I'm a spy Lois.
Speaker 1: For a moment he thought he was a spy. Is
Speaker 1: punching way out of his weight class man.
Speaker 2: There's even one of the cuts that were loaded in
Speaker 2: where he laughs at the end, and I swear not
Speaker 2: only does he look like Peter Griffin, but he laughs
Speaker 2: like Peter Griffin. He does like a little like chuckle.
Speaker 1: Wow, Peter Griffin needs a new job. Okay, we'll we'll well,
Speaker 1: we'll definitely get into all this. All right, let me
Speaker 1: do this at six eighteen. We'll take a break, be
Speaker 1: right back. Hang on, all right, you want you guys
Speaker 1: want to hear Peter Griffin. You want to you wanna
Speaker 1: hear what's going on. And now I will point out
Speaker 1: we're gonna laugh at this dude, because you'll figure it
Speaker 1: out real quick. But what he's saying, what he's saying
Speaker 1: sounds a little treasony. I don't know, ross treasony. Little
Speaker 1: treesony come across. Baby, It's hard to get through when
Speaker 1: you're listening to him do that, and you're like, dude,
Speaker 1: was it a trees and room? And I don't say
Speaker 1: that lightly.
Speaker 2: I'm in this skiff, lois.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, a trees and skiff and the trees and
Speaker 1: skiff is bad? All right, Okay, here we go.
Speaker 4: And I work at this uh top consulting firm uh
Speaker 4: and my.
Speaker 1: Flying is the Pentagon, So I'm embedded in the Pentagon.
Speaker 4: I work in the Joint Staff, which is the top
Speaker 4: military command. Once you lost, I went into the intelligence community,
Speaker 4: and I became an FBI special agent, so I became
Speaker 4: a spy hunter. So I was a counterintelligence agent special
Speaker 4: agent at the FBI.
Speaker 2: What's your overall assessment of truck.
Speaker 1: He's a sociopathic narcissist.
Speaker 4: He's only interested in advancing his name, his wealth, and
Speaker 4: his fame.
Speaker 1: By the way, there's something really really funny that this
Speaker 1: dude says that right after going, hey, babe, you know
Speaker 1: what I am the FBI, I was a spy catcher,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Like he he could have said he
Speaker 1: worked for the intelligence and then kept talking, but no,
Speaker 1: he laid it out there. Man.
Speaker 2: Especially an he stare at the camera talking to this
Speaker 2: woman looking like, you know, he just came from the
Speaker 2: cosplay convention.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, Yeah, you're staring at who's the who's the guy?
Speaker 5: Jo? Is his name?
Speaker 1: Jamie Menina? Menina? Menina, Jamie Menina? All right, continue, Peter Menina.
Speaker 2: Is there anything you can do to like protect American
Speaker 2: people from the stuff that you might try to do?
Speaker 4: I'm in conversation with a couple of little while retired generals.
Speaker 3: To try to explore what we can do?
Speaker 1: Is it which what? What? What generals tell me?
Speaker 2: More?
Speaker 1: And and that's the other thing too, Like the way
Speaker 1: that the O'Keefe operatives dig for info should like if
Speaker 1: you're a if you're an intelligence guy, right, like, it
Speaker 1: raises red flags me just watching this thing, going like,
Speaker 1: are you what are you doing to? Like clearly she's
Speaker 1: asking some really weird questions man for a first date,
Speaker 1: and you're a you're somebody who's like who just bragged
Speaker 1: about being able to, you know, undermine operatives and stuff.
Speaker 1: So what's going on? The insurance General General Mills, who
Speaker 1: is one two or three star general you probably.
Speaker 6: Know maybe four stars.
Speaker 4: So I also have a big day tomorrow, probably the
Speaker 4: biggest today of all.
Speaker 1: So you have this huge, huge meeting.
Speaker 4: With military leaders, uh in a in a very secure
Speaker 4: room called the tank.
Speaker 1: So we have a tank.
Speaker 4: Meeting that uh like all of the top top leaders
Speaker 4: say military tomorrow on my my topic that I prepared.
Speaker 2: I think it went well, Sens.
Speaker 4: You keep it between us.
Speaker 1: The Peter Griffin Pentagon spy skiff Master a little undercover
Speaker 1: audio here in a moment, because even though the whole
Speaker 1: situation is completely mockable, it's also really serious what he's claiming.
Speaker 1: And you know, like most of these most of the
Speaker 1: time people are making claims and they're doing so in
Speaker 1: a romantic setting. So it would you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys know this. There are some people
Speaker 1: out there that, when they're trying to get in the
Speaker 1: romantic partner's pants, let's say, have been known to say
Speaker 1: things that are in fact not true in an attempt
Speaker 1: to I'm sorry, but yeah, I'm allergic to not telling
Speaker 1: the truth is this is literally what it does to me,
Speaker 1: or you know, just something I'm allergic to it. I
Speaker 1: have no idea what it is, so you always have
Speaker 1: to couch it with that, which also gives people wanting
Speaker 1: to push back on it to you know, a way
Speaker 1: to kind of just go, well, look, the guy was
Speaker 1: he's an idiot because they fired this dude already. He's dumb.
Speaker 1: He's just trying to hook up with them. And no,
Speaker 1: none of that's true. But the problem is he's making
Speaker 1: very specific allegations. So uh, let's let's dive a little
Speaker 1: deeper here. There should be something that's pretty checkable, even
Speaker 1: though it took place reportedly in a skiff excuse me,
Speaker 1: the tank, but an unnecessary what an unnecessary detail there too, too, Uh,
Speaker 1: just the whole thing. Man. All right, let's let's get
Speaker 1: back to our our would be lover. I became an
Speaker 1: FBI special agent. So I became a spy hunter.
Speaker 7: You're a spy hunter, you said, Well, I'm a spy hunter,
Speaker 7: but I'm evidently a better spy hunter than you. Jamie
Speaker 7: Manreina describes how he met Hillary Clinton in the mid
Speaker 7: two thousands when he was here at George Washington University
Speaker 7: pursuing a master's degree. He then followed Hillary Clinton to
Speaker 7: the State Department, where he worked.
Speaker 1: This person I met in college, he was Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 2: So I met her in college and I worked for
Speaker 2: her since college, and.
Speaker 4: Then when she became Secretary of State, I followed her
Speaker 4: to the State Department and that's how I worked there.
Speaker 4: And then she almost won again right in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 7: So after Jamie Manerina worked for Hillary Clinton, he then
Speaker 7: became a special agent here at the FBI to in
Speaker 7: his words, catch Russian spies because according to Jamie, he's
Speaker 7: a spy hunter who specializes in counterintelligence.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so now he's not, he's it was a booz
Speaker 1: Allen Hamilton was employer was contracted from. Yes, Yeah, so
Speaker 1: he was under contract from Booz Allen Hamilton. But what
Speaker 1: what you have to what what he's talking about? And
Speaker 1: I think it's probably a good idea to get some
Speaker 1: more details. Is a bunch of Pentagon big wigs, including
Speaker 1: some I guess retired. A lot of these retired guys
Speaker 1: still are briefed and and do advisory stuff, just kind
Speaker 1: of like like the OLCOID president. They'll keep them up
Speaker 1: on matters too. That's one of the reasons why we
Speaker 1: brief incoming too, to get him up and running. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that still get intelligence briefings,
Speaker 1: even though they may not be day to day service.
Speaker 1: So you know, you're getting the you're getting the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame class there, and they're sitting in a skiff
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how operationally they can undermine the president,
Speaker 1: the incoming president. How does how does that not quality?
Speaker 1: Even even if you don't need to go full Rosenberg
Speaker 1: on stuff, How did how does that? How's that? Okay?
Speaker 1: That's that? Look. I don't know if you saw what
Speaker 1: happened with the Tulsi Gabbard and a couple of the
Speaker 1: others folks hearings which were supposed to because that's why
Speaker 1: I was confused with Gabbert's. I thought Gabber was supposed
Speaker 1: to go right away, and then she didn't and then
Speaker 1: I figured it out after the show. Apparently the FBI,
Speaker 1: and I'm not making up the name of the other thing,
Speaker 1: the Government Ethics Office, by they forgot to do some
Speaker 1: of the screening and turn in the paperwork. Whoopsie, so
Speaker 1: like they didn't have that stuff and then they couldn't
Speaker 1: schedule the hearing because they didn't have this stuff. I
Speaker 1: think on the Government Ethics Office, they just flat out
Speaker 1: didn't do it their portion of the background part of it,
Speaker 1: because it's they prepare and tandem a report on them
Speaker 1: and then you know, they they give it over to
Speaker 1: the senators there and then they use it to slice
Speaker 1: and dize their opponents. But they didn't do it for
Speaker 1: uh uh for for like three of the nominees. Whoops,
Speaker 1: I I I don't I do, I do not understand
Speaker 1: what is a higher priority than having national security apparatus
Speaker 1: and and leadership in place? Next week considering right now,
Speaker 1: like the headlines yesterday with the Israel Gaza cease fire
Speaker 1: and will released some hostages and then everyone jocking over
Speaker 1: who made it happen? Yeah, except for I do in
Speaker 1: the State Department kind of gave some Trump some credit,
Speaker 1: even though Biden took all the credit. It was just
Speaker 1: a really weird day on that stuff. But the people
Speaker 1: within the government look like they just chose not to
Speaker 1: do this because they don't like Tulsi. Tulsi really rubs
Speaker 1: them the wrong way. I was actually surprised that when
Speaker 1: they when Trump was announcing the amount of vitriol that
Speaker 1: came came her way. I don't know what. I don't
Speaker 1: know what to think her expecting. I'll be honest with you,
Speaker 1: but they hated her and so to undermine the ability
Speaker 1: because it's childish, right like, eventually you go ahead and
Speaker 1: get it done. And it's I can't decide if it's
Speaker 1: death spasms of you know, deep state death spasms, or
Speaker 1: it's just how they are going to band together to
Speaker 1: fortify because you know, you got an animal backed into
Speaker 1: a corner. I used to have a couple of traps.
Speaker 1: I don't know if any of you guys ever do
Speaker 1: any trapping. The only times I've ever almost been significantly
Speaker 1: injured in like a hunting fishing game scenario is uh,
Speaker 1: but you get a bobcat in a trap. You've never
Speaker 1: seen something with so much fight in it, so angry
Speaker 1: man like, that's it's like trapping sounds like an okay
Speaker 1: idea until you have to deal with an animal and
Speaker 1: a trap, and especially an animal like that. And if
Speaker 1: they honestly think that Kash Patel and Marco Rubio and
Speaker 1: Pete hag Seth and Tulsi Gabbard and and a handful
Speaker 1: of others are actually going to come in and try
Speaker 1: to purge some of the rot, what do you have
Speaker 1: to lose? You're just all the stuff, the little stuff.
Speaker 1: This isn't stealing the w keys on the White House
Speaker 1: computers ahead of George Bush coming in. All right, that's funny.
Speaker 1: They were in a damn box there. They got him,
Speaker 1: They put the keys back.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 1: This is real obstruction, real obstruction. Do you remember do
Speaker 1: you remember during Trump's first term when they lied to
Speaker 1: him about the number of troops that were where was
Speaker 1: it in Syria? It was somewhere, And then they bragged
Speaker 1: about lying to him. And Millie's the one who lied
Speaker 1: to them, and uh one of the other, one of
Speaker 1: the other generals. They lied to them. They bragged them,
Speaker 1: they they bragged about lying to him. And I remember,
Speaker 1: I remember that was one of the because it was
Speaker 1: early on and I was it was blown away because
Speaker 1: of all the stuff we had seen to that point,
Speaker 1: it struck me as the most dangerous and because what
Speaker 1: how what what do you do if? What if there's
Speaker 1: what if there's a threat the president's being briefed on
Speaker 1: and it's a threat that could impact those troops and
Speaker 1: he doesn't know they're there, and he makes a decision
Speaker 1: that then puts them in harm's way unnecessarily. Right, there's
Speaker 1: a there's a thousand scenarios by where withholding knowledge knowledge
Speaker 1: like that could I could get people killed injured, or
Speaker 1: it could it could escalate a conflict that you don't
Speaker 1: want to escalate where you're trying to be proportional, but
Speaker 1: now because there's a troop presence, it's now more than proportional.
Speaker 1: Do you understand what I'm saying? And so if you
Speaker 1: have top Pentagon folks getting into a skiff and bringing
Speaker 1: back some oldies, you know, some retired folks and actually
Speaker 1: having a meeting like this guy's claiming, it tells me
Speaker 1: they're they're very scared about what's coming all of the
Speaker 1: you know, I I hope, I hope they're very scared
Speaker 1: that's coming and that malfeasans will be uncovered it heads
Speaker 1: will roll. Maybe we'll figure out. You're not going to
Speaker 1: know everything where the money goes because there's a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff there. Understandably, you're not gonna have details on
Speaker 1: what's that? What's that big? Was it? Oakridge? Oakridge, Tennessee?
Speaker 1: Do you guys know what that is? If you like
Speaker 1: conspiracy theories, there's a lots surrounding it. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of government stuff that goes there. You know, people live there,
Speaker 1: and it was it was the heart of the manufacturing
Speaker 1: for the for the atom for for when we were
Speaker 1: developing the atomic bomb, right, and then you had obviously
Speaker 1: you had down in New Mexico. But what wasn't most
Speaker 1: of the work being done intent I'd have to go
Speaker 1: back and check it. Admittedly I can't remember the percentages,
Speaker 1: but like you see that on a spreadsheet, the budget
Speaker 1: on that thing's crazy, and you get a sense of
Speaker 1: what's going on there. She's never gonna know. I what
Speaker 1: has driven them into a room into a skiff to
Speaker 1: sit around and figure out how to undermine the incoming president.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a part of me that thinks this
Speaker 2: guy is just full of crap, trying to sleep with
Speaker 2: this date. Yeah, That's why I lead with that, right right,
Speaker 2: I mean she's just looking at the guy. I mean,
Speaker 2: like you said, straight up, look at the thumbnail that
Speaker 2: is Peter Griffin talking to this. I mean she sounds
Speaker 2: like a hot, attractive female about I'm a super spy
Speaker 2: hunter meeting with the generals and this skiff and I'm
Speaker 2: doing and everything is bragging about his career and his resumes.
Speaker 2: I think this guy is full of it, I think.
Speaker 1: But that's why I brought up the bragging about lying
Speaker 1: to Trump about troops, meaning people within the Pentagon.
Speaker 2: Did it. They already did that completely, Like like I
Speaker 2: do think there are groups of people who are against
Speaker 2: the president one thousand percent. He came out with a
Speaker 2: list of people recently they said like, hey, I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna hire or work with any of the people that
Speaker 2: worked with these people. And there was a list of
Speaker 2: like general I like Milly was on it and Madison
Speaker 2: was on it. Right, So I understand that they're taking
Speaker 2: precautions and there's reason to do so. But when it
Speaker 2: comes to this individual guy, I think he's full of crab.
Speaker 2: I think he's bragging just to try to bag this girl.
Speaker 1: That's what he's saying yeah, and again that's why I want.
Speaker 1: I wanted to point that out, and then I wanted
Speaker 1: to point out the line knowing about troops thing because
Speaker 1: it makes me, it makes me, it makes me unsure
Speaker 1: where to settle.
Speaker 2: This guy seems like he's this has been an ongoing
Speaker 2: joke on this show for now, for like years, how
Speaker 2: everybody that sits down and gets gets you fooled by
Speaker 2: James o'keefh All's well, James o'keef sometimes is sitting across
Speaker 2: from them wearing like the the Marx Brothers Honises with
Speaker 2: the nose and the mustache, and they go, are you
Speaker 2: James o'keeve and he goes, no, not James o'keef. God yeah.
Speaker 2: And it's the same thing in this video where this
Speaker 2: guy's like, hey, you're not You're not, like, you know,
Speaker 2: like a spy, right Lois, And the girl's like, no,
Speaker 2: I'm not one. No, I'm not gonna post this on
Speaker 2: my social media. Tell me all your secrets. And he's like, hey, okay, just.
Speaker 1: What was the what was what class was everybody's pay
Speaker 1: grade in this meeting? And I need all the eyes.
Speaker 2: I would like to think that that if you're a person.
Speaker 2: And not to say they're all like super geniuses, but
Speaker 2: like if you're looking Edward Snowden, because he worked for
Speaker 2: the same company this Booz Hamilton, right Boots Allen, like
Speaker 2: he's he worked for the same company before he he
Speaker 2: came out and made his accusations and ended up fleeing
Speaker 2: and hiding and rush or whatever.
Speaker 1: Well, Booze Booze is one of these companies that does
Speaker 1: every They're just like a super government.
Speaker 2: Remember everything. Snowden was working with them in Hawaii at
Speaker 2: the time it came out during the Bomba administration, right,
Speaker 2: so when it came out, and I would like to
Speaker 2: think people that work for these companies are smarter than
Speaker 2: this guy is in the video, Like where You're gonna
Speaker 2: sit Gray, you would hope that these guys aren't really
Speaker 2: gonna show.
Speaker 1: I want them, I want them to be right.
Speaker 2: Let me, let me spill all of our dirty secrets
Speaker 2: in front of you, a complete stranger I just met
Speaker 2: on the internet, like you're Eric Swallwell and Fang Fang.
Speaker 1: But there are there are countless examples through history of
Speaker 1: people who just said sometimes it was yea and sometimes
Speaker 1: it was just because they were dumb during the quote
Speaker 1: during the Cold Wars, a couple of big examples where
Speaker 1: people were running their mouth and it literally caused huge problems.
Speaker 2: No, no doubt. Historically, speaking, attractive females have been the
Speaker 2: downfall of many quote smart strong you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was East German East German honey traps that
Speaker 1: would come over and essentially were able to weasel their
Speaker 1: way in to figure out where they were bringing people
Speaker 1: over the Berlin Wall because guys were like, you're so hot,
Speaker 1: you want to you want to sleep with me? Sure? Yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: let me tell you about this thing.
Speaker 2: Guys historically can be super dumb when it comes to
Speaker 2: this stuff. Agreed, Yeah, but I would they're not as
Speaker 2: dumb as this guy. You would hope.
Speaker 1: I just I you know what, after a cosumous job
Speaker 1: and everything else, I mean, I hope you got a
Speaker 1: kiss or something something. Yeah, right, you think you went
Speaker 1: dodg er do you have to? That's the real thing.
Speaker 1: Probably you probably paid for it too. That's the thing
Speaker 1: that would cheese me because I'm out of a job
Speaker 1: and I didn't get you to split the check because
Speaker 1: you didn't really want to be on a date. That's
Speaker 1: a speaking of people, losing their job. Ross, did you
Speaker 1: are you aware of all of the details now surrounding
Speaker 1: that insane Philadelphia Eagles fans screaming at the woman in
Speaker 1: the packers garb.
Speaker 2: I've heard like updates here and there. I know he
Speaker 2: was working in hospitality before he got fired. For me
Speaker 2: in the JA he was.
Speaker 1: Working in hospitality.
Speaker 2: What was he working in?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh, that was the latest I read like two days.
Speaker 1: I think of the most insane and ironic field you
Speaker 1: can think of. And I will tell you when we
Speaker 1: returned on the CaCO Day radio program. Some some more
Speaker 1: obscure nerd news, but you know everything, there's so much
Speaker 1: incorporated in what's going on, obviously with the inauguration less
Speaker 1: than a week away, and everything is happening in California
Speaker 1: with the fires and a lot of celebrities you know
Speaker 1: obviously up in that and uh with with TikTok did I?
Speaker 1: I have to admit I avoided successfully finding out what this?
Speaker 1: What is the what's it? What's the other platform? Read
Speaker 1: something or other where the TikTok kids are going. But
Speaker 1: it's even more under the thumb of the Chinese government.
Speaker 1: So if you post anything that says like Taiwan's a
Speaker 1: country or anything, lgbt Q pl whatever, any of that.
Speaker 1: They just delete your account, so like it's a mess.
Speaker 1: And then it gets crazier because like Elon indicating by
Speaker 1: TikTok and then mister Beast. So we'll pick Steven's brain
Speaker 1: on all of this. Okay, all right, let me let
Speaker 1: me put the kapper on this, this Philly dirt bag story.
Speaker 1: So the guy got fired. The fact that he works
Speaker 1: at a DEI consulting firm is hilarious when he's sitting
Speaker 1: there screaming calling this woman an ugly sword repeatedly. But uh,
Speaker 1: and it was one of those guys from barstool. Actually
Speaker 1: that's where I read this story. So good on them
Speaker 1: doing some journalism and the the fiance of the woman, right,
Speaker 1: because let's be honest. If you're at a sporting event
Speaker 1: or if you're anywhere and you're with your girl and
Speaker 1: some random dude is to her face calling her a
Speaker 1: CNX Tuesday, how long? How much longer is that going?
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you have to punch the person.
Speaker 2: That actually happened here. I'm sorry I told that story
Speaker 2: before in the past. I know, I think I have
Speaker 2: on the show where I was at like rarely a
Speaker 2: station event, and you had like a younger dude, Yeah,
Speaker 2: y off On Marquee and a and an intern we
Speaker 2: had here and he was dropping the sea bomb and
Speaker 2: he threw a drink in one of her and I
Speaker 2: backed the dude into the corner and told him I
Speaker 2: was going to like just punch, like I yeah, you
Speaker 2: need to stop right now, dude.
Speaker 1: You can usually check guys like that. I give back
Speaker 1: to a guy at a bar one time, who is
Speaker 1: who was? He got physical with the waitress because he
Speaker 1: thought that she was overcharging him, and me and my
Speaker 1: buddy stood up. Yeah, and you don't hit him, but
Speaker 1: he's against the wall and his whole demeanor right backed
Speaker 1: him into the corner and I'm that was a tiny
Speaker 1: dude then then, But it was like he stopped and
Speaker 1: I actually that your girl, man, that's my whole life.
Speaker 1: And I'm like yeah, and her friend And I actually
Speaker 1: felt really bad about it when I got back to
Speaker 1: because it kind of caused a scene at the event,
Speaker 1: and actually ended up writing a letter to like the
Speaker 1: sales manager at the time, and I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: apologize and he's like, you've nothing to apologize. For right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: was he did he work at the station?
Speaker 5: Ah?
Speaker 1: Yes, Oh I think I've heard you tell the remdence.
Speaker 1: I don't know all the details of this story, so,
Speaker 1: but like, what was weird about this videos? He's like,
Speaker 1: he kept going say it again, say it again, and
Speaker 1: then she would look over and im film it, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is So her fiance is like an
Speaker 1: upstart influencer. So he's got you know, he's got a
Speaker 1: YouTube channel. Yeah, he does some twitch streaming. I think
Speaker 1: he's got a link for something anyway, and this dude
Speaker 1: realized that the whole situation was probably potentially viral. So
Speaker 1: rather than being like, what are you doing, you know,
Speaker 1: in a more aggressive manner than hey man, so why
Speaker 1: don't you say that again? It's it's he writes something
Speaker 1: that it's happening. He posts that it's happening prior to
Speaker 1: the video, so he's clear. So this thing is ongoing
Speaker 1: and he decides to go ahead and film it. But
Speaker 1: what needs to happen is his girl's got to suffer
Speaker 1: more verbal abuse. And so when you watch the video
Speaker 1: in that context, you realize that she's making sure he's
Speaker 1: she's like because she's looking where he's filming, her eyes
Speaker 1: go there a couple times, and she doesn't really push back.
Speaker 1: She kind of also goads the dude to say it again,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not saying that this Philly guy is
Speaker 1: not a worthless piece of garbage, but it. He then
Speaker 1: does the films the video and immediately promotes it across
Speaker 1: his channels and then starts to go fund me. So
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: So he's sitting there while it's going down, and he's
Speaker 2: like calculating in his head and he's like, I can
Speaker 2: make I can profit off this abuse of my followers
Speaker 2: and get some followers and some clicks and you know,
Speaker 2: some donations to a GoFundMe. That's all.
Speaker 1: Just have to let my fiance be humiliated.
Speaker 2: Awful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, So, like I said, there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of and frankly, I understand that she's the victim there,
Speaker 1: but if I and who knows maybe her her fiance
Speaker 1: is very controlling over her, but it looks like she's
Speaker 1: making sure he's filming with the way her eyes are
Speaker 1: kind of just like.
Speaker 2: Say, everybody's just so. First off, you're at a sporting
Speaker 2: event and for some reason, people think when you put
Speaker 2: on a jersey or a sports jersey, or you see
Speaker 2: somebody in like a rival jersey that you're allowed to
Speaker 2: be a complete a hole, right, Like the laws of
Speaker 2: civil society just fall because you're wearing a jersey. So
Speaker 2: you have these people that are in this environment, But
Speaker 2: then you also have people that are so focus on
Speaker 2: social media and getting the clicks and the ad revenue
Speaker 2: or whatever that they're just completely it's so gross. It's all.
Speaker 2: It's just gross all around.
Speaker 1: I can't I had I had to get I need
Speaker 1: I wanted to take a quick picture or something when
Speaker 1: we were on vacation, right, Uh it was, uh, this
Speaker 1: is this is how uh uh Western nerdy I am.
Speaker 1: It was a really really nice horse, it was. It
Speaker 1: was one of those you know, but it's the breeding.
Speaker 2: No, But that's so like you because most people will
Speaker 2: be at like a restaurant and be like, Wow, look
Speaker 2: at this meal. I need to take a picture of
Speaker 2: it post it on the Gram so people can see
Speaker 2: what I'm eating. But you and I both agree that's
Speaker 2: kind of like stupid and weird, and I would never.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I hate it. But like you're like, and
Speaker 1: I've had you ever had somebody stop you before you
Speaker 1: can eat and you're at the same table, yeah, I eat.
Speaker 2: I'm not at that point in my life at all.
Speaker 2: I'm like the opposite of social media, like because something
Speaker 2: will happen with me, or I'll be in traffic, or
Speaker 2: I'll see something and I'll go, wow, I was crazy,
Speaker 2: and then maybe I'll tell you about it, or market
Speaker 2: I'll talk about on the radio, and instantly I get
Speaker 2: from people or management or well, did you take a photo?
Speaker 2: Where's the video? Did you get the clicks? And I'm
Speaker 2: not in that maybe to my own fault, right, because
Speaker 2: I'm in this business and maybe I should be focused
Speaker 2: on that, but I'm just not. I'm not focused on
Speaker 2: my phone all the time. I'm not focused on the
Speaker 2: social media all the time. To be completely honest, I
Speaker 2: don't care. I don't care enough to do it. I'm
Speaker 2: just not so engrossed in the lifestyle because I try
Speaker 2: to have a life outside of my phone in social
Speaker 2: media because it's not real and it's not healthy and
Speaker 2: it's not good for you. So stuff will happen and
Speaker 2: I'll just won't post it, and then people will go,
Speaker 2: where's the video, where's the proof? And I'm like, I
Speaker 2: didn't even think about it at the time. But you
Speaker 2: have these people that are so focused on everything where
Speaker 2: you have something like this going on where your fiance
Speaker 2: is being abused, and not only is her man thinking
Speaker 2: we can post this on social media, but she quickly
Speaker 2: gets the gist after he starts egging the other guy
Speaker 2: and she's like, oh, we could put this on social media.
Speaker 2: So you got like you said, you got bad people
Speaker 2: all around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So but why do you then laugh because I
Speaker 1: took a picture of a horse. It was an Andalusia
Speaker 1: because you even understand how rare it is to see,
Speaker 1: because it's so you.
Speaker 2: It's so great because everything this stuff could happen you've
Speaker 2: talked about before. You were you were in Asheville and
Speaker 2: you were being harassed by the homeless guy who threw
Speaker 2: something that your car.
Speaker 1: Seven foot tall homeless giant.
Speaker 2: Yes, right, you didn't film it, you didn't put it
Speaker 2: on there. But the horse, the horse is the thing.
Speaker 2: You're like, Wow, this is great and I'm gonna post
Speaker 2: this thing.
Speaker 1: But I didn't post it. I just said it to
Speaker 1: like other horse buddies. You look at this and Andalusian
Speaker 1: all right. For those of you who don't know, if
Speaker 1: you do you know pasa fino orn't it?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 1: You ever see like the dancing horses in Colombia and Argentina?
Speaker 1: You ever see the hor with that weird kind of
Speaker 1: thing that they do the ros? You ever see you
Speaker 1: have you ever seen any of the dancing horses? Is
Speaker 1: this a whole thing in South America? So look, we
Speaker 1: had we had quarters, I walker made Arabians growing up.
Speaker 1: I've never seen an Andalusia you mean fully trained dancing horse?
Speaker 2: You mean like when the horses like stomp and do
Speaker 2: like math with their hoofs or what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Like dancing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it kind of looks like that. It
Speaker 1: is it, It's like it's it's the horses kind of
Speaker 1: dance and the it's all kind of in one spot.
Speaker 1: But the whole thing and there's four different gates. Do
Speaker 1: you want me to get into the gate types and
Speaker 1: all this? Because I can. I could do the rest
Speaker 1: of the show just explaining horse breeds, gates, color patterns,
Speaker 1: you name it. I'm happy to. But I decided to
Speaker 1: be easier to point out that the dancy ones because
Speaker 1: maybe people have seen those. Oh so anyway, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: so this uh I was an Andalusian and it was
Speaker 1: wearing the crick and the Cabella creolele I remember what
Speaker 1: they call it. But it's got the bells and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. Oh man, I had never seen one in person.
Speaker 1: And so but this is what it goes to. Knowing
Speaker 1: that I want to take a picture of this horse,
Speaker 1: and I've already asked the guy. I'm like, hey, bro Andalusian, Yeah,
Speaker 1: can I And he's like absolutely, I'm so bad at
Speaker 1: getting my camera. Oh it's like thirty seconds of me
Speaker 1: looking like an idiot who's never handled a phone. I
Speaker 1: don't understand when a situation is going on, how anyone
Speaker 1: gets their camera open. Yeah, because I'm so bad at it.
Speaker 2: I think that's why people freak out when, like, you
Speaker 2: have these events happen and they are filmed and they're
Speaker 2: posted and they're not like on portrait or motor landscape
Speaker 2: or whatever the one you're supposed to be in and
Speaker 2: they're like, well, you didn't film it, right, you move
Speaker 2: your camera. Well, a lot of times these things happen
Speaker 2: and people are just like panicking. They're just like oh,
Speaker 2: they just take up their phone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm gonna get you a dancing pasifino
Speaker 1: horse or lose.
Speaker 2: Does it get up on like two legs, and like.
Speaker 1: They'll do a lot of stuff if they'll pretty crazy
Speaker 1: if to lead the horse or it's it's what weirds
Speaker 1: me out about. It is is it's all behavior that
Speaker 1: for a workhorse you would not tolerate, Like where they're
Speaker 1: making a lot of quick movements when they're in a
Speaker 1: standing position there like that you would if you did
Speaker 1: it on a quarter horse. You think the horse is
Speaker 1: getting away from it. Then they're literally trained to do it,
Speaker 1: and then they do it like in sync and and
Speaker 1: the they have restaurants where you go eat and then
Speaker 1: in the middle is like a dirt circle and they
Speaker 1: bring these horses into dance while they play music. Can
Speaker 1: you find dying? When I was in Argentina that they
Speaker 1: had these things, I didn't go to one, but I
Speaker 1: wanted to have.
Speaker 2: You ever like the strength it takes to dip a horse?
Speaker 1: Oh no, I had horses that would dip. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: could try to you could you try to pack horse
Speaker 1: to dip or to to bottom to literally get on there,
Speaker 1: you know, touch touch their withers almost man so that
Speaker 1: you can so that you can load or unload in
Speaker 1: certain situation.
Speaker 2: Have you ever done the thing where the horse runs
Speaker 2: towards you and you pick up the horse, like at
Speaker 2: the end of Dirty Dancing?
Speaker 1: No, I didn't. I have picked up a bowl before,
Speaker 1: but we didn't dance. It was it was in some distress.
Speaker 1: But other than that, No, No missed out on that.
Speaker 1: Uh any other weird horse questions that.
Speaker 2: I have.
Speaker 1: This whole thing was around me and being not able
Speaker 1: to quick open to take a photo even though because
Speaker 1: I was trying to go to the app and do
Speaker 1: all this stuff. And like I I know, I know
Speaker 1: in my brain that there's a one touch button on
Speaker 1: my lock screen and my iPhone and I've still never
Speaker 1: to this day ever used it when wanting to take
Speaker 1: a photo. So I'm just I'm aging out. I guess
Speaker 1: I don't know people. People, I oh, now people are.
Speaker 1: I didn't say that Andalusian horses were from Argentina. I
Speaker 1: said that they have them down there.
Speaker 2: Now you're gonna piss off the horse experts. Man, It's okay.
Speaker 2: It's like it's like the gun debate.
Speaker 1: You want to know what horses do. Here's what horses do.
Speaker 1: And I've said this before. I hate horses. I don't
Speaker 1: hate them, but I hated the amount of work that
Speaker 1: they caused me. And let me tell you, buying wild
Speaker 1: mustangs even when you're a teenager and you bounce soft
Speaker 1: stuff and then you and your buddies have to literally
Speaker 1: break them a wild horse. No, it's awful, oh man.
Speaker 1: And we get so beat up because we're stupid about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're just like because you're like, I we'll
Speaker 1: just we'll buck them out, when in reality, it's it's
Speaker 1: like daily training sequencing. You put them in a in
Speaker 1: a creek up to their up to their waist, and
Speaker 1: there's different Like breaking the horses is a process. When
Speaker 1: you're you're young and dumb, you're like, I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go all chrisal To do on this thing, and
Speaker 1: and then you had My buddy's got a permanent scar
Speaker 1: because he looped the rope around his arm on a
Speaker 1: seven year old wild blood mare man and it almost
Speaker 1: ripped part of his arm off. So that's that's my
Speaker 1: horse thing. But no horses. The greatest trick that horses
Speaker 1: love to do is if you're riding a horse in
Speaker 1: the woods, it goes, hey, there's a tree, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: rub one of my sides on it, which, of course
Speaker 1: you're l is in between that and they love that stuff.
Speaker 1: So they're covered in sap and stuff. Oh yeah, they're
Speaker 1: die uhbollicle man anyway, but some of them dancing, as
Speaker 1: Ross said, do math, So there you go, all right,
Speaker 1: seven twenty back in a minute. Don't think it's just
Speaker 1: some ranting. What Ross? What did I text you right
Speaker 1: after we went to break.
Speaker 2: A photo of an amazing looking horse.
Speaker 1: Thank you. That's the nerd I am.
Speaker 2: So that thing is incredible. Dude, yeah, dude.
Speaker 1: Uh. And and again, if you want to go dancey
Speaker 1: dance with your horse, you want to do a little
Speaker 1: uh dressage, it's called it dressage. To irritate my cousin,
Speaker 1: who's really into us, it's a dressage. She was a
Speaker 1: can chaser two and a nanny slammer. So what are
Speaker 1: you gonna do? All right? So, uh, let me let
Speaker 1: me grab something else here. Yeah, that's a that's a
Speaker 1: crazy cool looking horse. Man, but again, not not a
Speaker 1: not a breed I'd worked with, was familiar with, and
Speaker 1: definitely not training them to h to do that. Right.
Speaker 1: So they went to the rest of the South Korean
Speaker 1: President yesterday and they sent and I'm not making this up,
Speaker 1: three thousand officers to serve to serve the arrestaurrant. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Like I've seen a few d like blue
Speaker 1: cam videos are I'm like, man, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: police onseene for that thing. Oh it's it's a it's
Speaker 1: a naked, drunk twenty two year old trying to walk
Speaker 1: like the line. I can't imagine why everybody's there. Three thousand.
Speaker 2: Though. The President's like, did you send enough guys? And
Speaker 2: he looks at the wind he was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: you did, yeah.
Speaker 1: Three thousand, three thousand. Well, I mean because he has security,
Speaker 1: he also has people who are loyal to him within
Speaker 1: security services. So they're just like, yeah, we're gonna send
Speaker 1: three thousand. Coming up on the show in a half hour,
Speaker 1: we're gonna chat with Stephen Kent, and we got quite
Speaker 1: a few things to get into with our official nerd correspondent.
Speaker 1: And it's mostly because all the big insane news of
Speaker 1: the day has a NERD component to it, and so
Speaker 1: we'll pick Stevens brain on a few of that. Plus
Speaker 1: he's he lives around d C too, so I'm sure
Speaker 1: he is super stoked for the already nightmarish traffic conditions,
Speaker 1: which is crazy how bad the traffic still is in DC,
Speaker 1: even though we found out that like nobody goes to
Speaker 1: the office anymore to be become just hell weak for him.
Speaker 1: So we'll pick his brain there before that, let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get into yesterday. So ap did him dirty, man,
Speaker 1: They did Joe Biden dirty yesterday. So Joe Biden had
Speaker 1: his his his going away thing, and basically he into me,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not going to get into very
Speaker 1: much of it, I mean, really any of it because
Speaker 1: it's nonsense. It's the same stuff. And he's like, uh,
Speaker 1: and he basically said, Hitler's coming in because this is
Speaker 1: where we were, this is where we are again. Right
Speaker 1: here comes the uh uh and and and then Elon
Speaker 1: and he you know, he's warning it's about to get horrible.
Speaker 1: So we'll see. And everything he did was great. Uh
Speaker 1: he was Uh. I don't remember if we played did
Speaker 1: we play the Afghan audio the other day from from Biden?
Speaker 1: I mean the dude's delusional, uh, yesterday or the other day.
Speaker 1: I don't think I played the ut here. Let me
Speaker 1: let me grab it real quick. It should be right here,
Speaker 1: do do? I forgot that. We didn't get to that
Speaker 1: the other day. It's just the problem was, like any
Speaker 1: other president, I probably would have done a whole show
Speaker 1: in that audio, but it's just Joby and Joe Man
Speaker 1: and I guess maybe that's how they break you. So
Speaker 1: uh yeah, So it's it's a lot of that stuff
Speaker 1: where you know, it's a lot of lipstick on pig stuff. Okay, there, Sorry,
Speaker 1: I had to reload the whole directory for some reason,
Speaker 1: but I didn't get it, so it's not. But then
Speaker 1: it did. It became not about what he was saying.
Speaker 1: Why the hell can I not find this? I'll the
Speaker 1: Afghan withdrawal audio, Biden, I don't think we played it
Speaker 1: the other day. I'm sorry. I just it dawned on
Speaker 1: me we still had it in there. This is why
Speaker 1: I can't take.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 1: I thought it was like two days ago we had
Speaker 1: that audio. I just didn't play. We never got to
Speaker 1: it anyway. Whatever, just ignore me. I'll uh, this whole
Speaker 1: thing's acting weird. Oh okay, you put on my brother,
Speaker 1: all right, thank you. I must have scrolled past that
Speaker 1: eight times. All right, This is why I can't take
Speaker 1: any of it. Seriously, here he is from the other day.
Speaker 8: I can also report to the American people for the
Speaker 8: first president in decades who's not leaving a war in Afghanistan.
Speaker 1: Two six What a weird like you have. You're like
Speaker 1: an Elias sports bureau where you gotta be like Josh
Speaker 1: Allen is throwing eight touchdowns on days that ended, be
Speaker 1: this or write some weird obscure thing. So because Trump's thing,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember his his thing. He
Speaker 1: was the first president in my lifetime who didn't start
Speaker 1: a war or start a conflict. A lot of people
Speaker 1: they kind of like that. So you're the first president
Speaker 1: who didn't leave his predecessor a war in Afghanistan. I
Speaker 1: mean that's really specific. You also also, you ready for this,
Speaker 1: didn't leave it. I didn't leave your successor a war
Speaker 1: in Djibouti or like what. It's all stupid. So anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 8: I can also report to the American people for the
Speaker 8: first president a decade who's not leaving a war in Afghanistan.
Speaker 1: To his success This isn't even the crazy part.
Speaker 8: But we've got bin Laden. During the Obama Biden administration,
Speaker 8: the primary objective of war had been accomplished, and I
Speaker 8: believe that going forward, the primary threat of O. Kaita
Speaker 8: would no longer be emanating from Afghanistan, but from elsewhere,
Speaker 8: and so we not need the station's sizeable number of
Speaker 8: American forces in Afghanistan. So when I took office, I
Speaker 8: had a choice. Only I saw no reason to keep
Speaker 8: thousands of servicemen in Afghanistan. I've got scheduled men. I
Speaker 8: keep on of my I don't hear, I don'nut, but
Speaker 8: I keep on the back of my card the actual
Speaker 8: number of dead and wounded with occurred in or the
Speaker 8: longest war to remind myself. Keep spending one hundreds of
Speaker 8: millions of dollars a day. We're no longer doing that.
Speaker 1: All right. So it's a little Rambley. But he's always
Speaker 1: a little Rambley too. Is that that card referencing? Is
Speaker 1: that the one that tells you where to sit?
Speaker 2: Dudeas such a liar, But.
Speaker 1: He is trying to put lipstick on a pig of
Speaker 1: his Afghan withdrawal. It's insane. I'm sure what I know.
Speaker 2: It's so important to me that you know I you
Speaker 2: know all the people, the servicemen that have died. I
Speaker 2: keep a list of them in my pocket because it's
Speaker 2: so important to me. And now I'm going, you know,
Speaker 2: every day, I think about it every single day, like
Speaker 2: it keeps me up at night. I'm like the Service
Speaker 2: mount dying. So I keep it in my pocket and
Speaker 2: then he goes to look for it and it's not there,
Speaker 2: and he goes, well, not today, I mean not today,
Speaker 2: it's not in my body. Yeah, because you're full of crap, dude, Ah,
Speaker 2: somebody stole it.
Speaker 1: Man. You know, it's a valuable list right there, and
Speaker 1: presidents might have notes that he scribbled on there and
Speaker 1: that stuff. Collectors like that stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So so two days after he's trying to make it
Speaker 1: sound like he the whole Afghan thing wasn't a complete
Speaker 1: and utter disaster. Oh the only redeeming thing that Kate Ross.
Speaker 1: Did you see the video over the break of the
Speaker 1: Taliban guys finally getting to go with that Blackhawk and
Speaker 1: wrecking it.
Speaker 2: No, I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: Oh, man, I got so there. These these they're you know,
Speaker 1: they're yelling, they're all excited, will they get the thing
Speaker 1: off the ground, And it is clear that like they
Speaker 1: have no idea what the hell they're doing. Zero idea
Speaker 1: how to pilot a black Hawk helicopter and it goes
Speaker 1: badly and I don't see the crash, and I think
Speaker 1: they survived, but it was inoperable. And so maybe that
Speaker 1: was the brilliant part of the strategy. Leave these Taliban
Speaker 1: a bunch of equipment that they don't know how to run,
Speaker 1: so they kill themselves. But other than that, there's no redeemings.
Speaker 1: So yesterday he's on there, he's talking about how Trump's
Speaker 1: coming in It's going to be the end of the world.
Speaker 1: But then he got into this whole thing where he
Speaker 1: was like, uh, he was like reverting to earlier attack points,
Speaker 1: and I just I zoned out of it. However, I
Speaker 1: saw the pool photos, so not the video of him
Speaker 1: speaking where you see him. He's sitting at the desk,
Speaker 1: you know, pretty standard. The AP pool reporter got alongside Biden,
Speaker 1: so he's shooting straight at what would be Biden's right side,
Speaker 1: and so you see the cherry sit in. You also
Speaker 1: see the little set up next to him, And I'm
Speaker 1: not do you remember the thing with FDR and the media,
Speaker 1: that whole thing. I get sure you guys are probably aware,
Speaker 1: like the media, the FDR, the wheelchair thing was a thing, right,
Speaker 1: and he thought that the wheelchair, especially in the time
Speaker 1: of everything that was going on, with all the insanity
Speaker 1: he was he it was almost a tacit agree where
Speaker 1: they wouldn't show his wheelchair, and then I think somebody did,
Speaker 1: and then it turned into a thing. I don't remember
Speaker 1: the whole scenario, but like Joe Biden was propped up
Speaker 1: on pillows man and I see people, Oh, it's a
Speaker 1: posture thing. No, it's not the guy. He's shrinking, he's
Speaker 1: and and and people do that. I'm not criticizing him
Speaker 1: for getting older, but it does it. It does not
Speaker 1: exude power that photo. Get him a chair that's right
Speaker 1: sized if there's a problem, So you say, you don't
Speaker 1: feel that he's seated properly.
Speaker 2: So it's like the opposite of how the press covered
Speaker 2: for FDR. Like you think it's like a like an
Speaker 2: attack thing. They were attacking him.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know what to make of it
Speaker 1: because I wanted to see who took the photo first.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I wonder if the White
Speaker 1: House released it, and I tracked down where the photo
Speaker 1: actually had its Uh, it's licensing, and it's pool, it's
Speaker 1: the pool photog and specifically it's the AP photographer, so
Speaker 1: it's that's who. That's who took it. And then and
Speaker 1: then it spread through all the media because they want
Speaker 1: the pool in there. And then all the rest of
Speaker 1: the outlets use the same picture, so they all made
Speaker 1: a decision to use it. I've seen it in a
Speaker 1: bunch of different places and then next to them. Do
Speaker 1: you remember when you stayed home sick from school the setup.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe your mom didn't if we were,
Speaker 1: if if if I was homesick from school, if anyone
Speaker 1: was homesick from school on that you're in your bed right,
Speaker 1: and my mom had like a like a drug kit.
Speaker 1: I guess you had like vis vapo rub had like
Speaker 1: cough drops, had that throat spray that would like numb
Speaker 1: your and then it had you know, she'd have fluids
Speaker 1: there and she'd have that whole little train bringing in
Speaker 1: and that little setup would be, uh, you know, sitting
Speaker 1: by your bed table there along with I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe some saltine crackers or something, and Joe Biden's got
Speaker 1: a little set up with water and lossages and cleanexes
Speaker 1: and some other stuff. But that's not the part on
Speaker 1: beef and on it's him sitting on a fluffy pillow. Man,
Speaker 1: it's just so emasculating, and people go where you're being
Speaker 1: petty bout no, no, no, no, I'm trying to look at
Speaker 1: it through the lens of how people who hate US
Speaker 1: view things. And as you're probably aware, they don't view
Speaker 1: they don't view the US very very favorably. But they're
Speaker 1: also clearly not scared of this dude. And those are
Speaker 1: people who operate on fear terror in some instance. I
Speaker 1: got a buddy who says that the world is run
Speaker 1: by brute force, money and hot chicks, and he's not wrong.
Speaker 2: No, I mean, image is very important. And going back
Speaker 2: to FDR, like you said before, I don't know. I
Speaker 2: watch a documentary on FDR's march to the podium after
Speaker 2: Pearl Harbor was bombed and he gave his famous speech. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and the fact that the dude could not walk at
Speaker 2: the time, like it was a big deal, Like it
Speaker 2: was the most stressful part of that speech was getting
Speaker 2: from point A to be you know, the hallway to
Speaker 2: the podium, and they had to put the braces on
Speaker 2: his legs because at the time like you said, the
Speaker 2: media was covering they didn't want to make him look weak, right, Yes,
Speaker 2: this is the opposite of that where you're just like, hey,
Speaker 2: look at this dude, and you are gonna have other
Speaker 2: countries looking at it, and they're gonna have their their
Speaker 2: their opinions and ideas about it.
Speaker 1: No man should ever be film sitting on a butt,
Speaker 1: don't it unless you just had like surgery, right, I remember.
Speaker 2: Like, actually I fought the bull. That's the way I
Speaker 2: have the butt pillow.
Speaker 1: Okay, you can have one. You cant the the no
Speaker 1: the butt oh ring? Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can
Speaker 1: have one because you got a horn in your butt
Speaker 1: because you're dumb and you were running with the bulls,
Speaker 1: or you just had I don't know, you had some
Speaker 1: sort of big surgery down there. But none of it
Speaker 1: looks manly. And again to deny that because people will go, well,
Speaker 1: that's not how things are done. That's how things are
Speaker 1: done in a lot of countries. Why do you think
Speaker 1: why do you think putin uh is you know, running
Speaker 1: around shirtless on you know, uh, in proximity the dangerous
Speaker 1: animals and and doing lifting heavy stuff right, because that
Speaker 1: plays over there and it plays in a lot of
Speaker 1: places and a lot of times we because we we
Speaker 1: view other countries, We view other countries through our standards.
Speaker 1: Right when you evaluate Kim Jong un, you're not evaluating
Speaker 1: him in the way that North Koreans evaluate him. You're
Speaker 1: evaluating him from us. And so he's a little runt.
Speaker 1: He's a little this little thug, little runt dictator, right,
Speaker 1: little adorable. I'll pat him on the head, that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff like. And that's why he's that's why you know,
Speaker 1: he strives to do horrendous things, because it's about image building.
Speaker 1: You want people to forget that you're short, although comparably
Speaker 1: probably not short compared to other North Koreans, but you
Speaker 1: want people to forget that because you're willing to put
Speaker 1: a guy in the middle of the field and turn
Speaker 1: him to mist with a mortar because you're such you're
Speaker 1: such a badass, because that's how you think it works.
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry if those are people that we have
Speaker 1: to tangle with, that's the process in their brain. And
Speaker 1: you better understand it, all right, ken Boone. His brain
Speaker 1: thinks one thing, weather and cold, cold snow to ruin
Speaker 1: your travel. Go ahead, ken Boone.
Speaker 6: We do have some cold air hit it in as
Speaker 6: we look towards early next week, but temperatures are actually
Speaker 6: going to get a little bit milder first here, so
Speaker 6: we had through the end of the week. So look
Speaker 6: for mixic clowns and sunshine out there.
Speaker 5: Today.
Speaker 6: Temperatures up around are just over fifty this afternoon, upper twenties. Tonight,
Speaker 6: mix the clowns and sun low fifties. Tomorrow, chancell rain
Speaker 6: Saturday with high temperatures in the low fifties, lingering showers Sunday,
Speaker 6: upper forties, and then really cold early next week with
Speaker 6: highst Monday in the low part of the thirties.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, sir, appreciate it. We're talking an hour,
Speaker 1: all right. You guys know that one of my favorite
Speaker 1: moments in the while was when they were having the
Speaker 1: tech hearings, when Zuckerberg was testifying before the Senate and
Speaker 1: you had octogenarian senators asking them like, how do you
Speaker 1: how you don't charge? How do you make money? Bro right?
Speaker 1: And it's because it's just so funny because they have
Speaker 1: no clue. I love those moments, and the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: gave me one yesterday. But it might be a ruse.
Speaker 1: I'll explain next coming up, we'll chat with We'll try
Speaker 1: to get one phone call in real quick and then
Speaker 1: we'll chat with even Ken at eight o five. So
Speaker 1: there's a case in front of Supreme Court and it
Speaker 1: has to do with the law passed in Texas. But
Speaker 1: North Carolina's got their own thing having to do it
Speaker 1: with the website porn Hub, and a lot of states
Speaker 1: have you can't access it unless you have a VPN
Speaker 1: because of the laws have been passed about id people
Speaker 1: coming to the site. However you feel about that Texas.
Speaker 1: One of the Texas versions of it, where they're trying
Speaker 1: to define what percentage is just leude adult behavior and
Speaker 1: what is might be educational is part of the case
Speaker 1: they're trying to break down in the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: So the following exchange happens.
Speaker 9: So one of the parties here is the owner of
Speaker 9: porn Hub, right, yes, And what percentage of the material
Speaker 9: on that is not obscene as to children?
Speaker 10: Well, you're honest, if we're talking about the youngest miners,
Speaker 10: I would agree that most of it is. And that
Speaker 10: is how we reach it.
Speaker 9: Is it like the old Playboy magazine? You have essays
Speaker 9: there by the modern day equivalent of Gourvidal and William F.
Speaker 9: Fuckley Jr.
Speaker 10: Not in that sense, but in the sense you have
Speaker 10: sexual wellness posts about women recovering from history rerectomies and
Speaker 10: how they can enjoy sex. That's on the on their
Speaker 10: discussions of age verification proposals and where the industry lines
Speaker 10: up as far as what they think should be legislated
Speaker 10: and what should Now.
Speaker 9: Let's go down to what's the second most popular porn site.
Speaker 5: Your Honor.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't have.
Speaker 1: You don't know.
Speaker 2: You represent these people.
Speaker 10: We represent the industry Your honored, the portion of the
Speaker 10: industry that answers to US laws and jurisdiction.
Speaker 9: So you are you familiar with what they have?
Speaker 10: Your Honor somewhat so yes, And I think the record
Speaker 10: offers some indications of that.
Speaker 1: All right. So he's like, is it like Playboy with
Speaker 1: articles and all that over at the board Hub. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm a Spring Court justice. I'd never go there.
Speaker 1: So one of two things is possible. He never went there,
Speaker 1: or he knows, but he has to play dumb. He's like, Oh,
Speaker 1: they got pictures of horses over there. I've never been there.
Speaker 2: He's a Supreme court justice. I mean he doesn't have
Speaker 2: to go. He's swimming in it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: This is why they have chambers.
Speaker 2: Man, I've seen that video. Yeah, I've seen the video
Speaker 2: on porn hubb.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah, they and they get out. They always
Speaker 1: win the case or get the kate charges dismissed usually
Speaker 1: so oh he's rooting for him. Soay, I saw some
Speaker 1: There's a whole bunch of shoplifters to get caught, but
Speaker 1: somehow we's allowed. I'm not gonna have to Jamal. You
Speaker 1: had to call right now. I got a guess. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to get Jamal in in time.
Speaker 1: There's no way he's gonna fit into forty five seconds.
Speaker 1: Tell him to call back because well he can hear me. Yeah, sorry, Jamal,
Speaker 1: I just got a guess coming up and all that.
Speaker 1: But if you want to call back after the game,
Speaker 1: or you can sit there on hold, I don't care.
Speaker 1: Do whatever you want to do, or go see if
Speaker 1: you can find some articles on porn hubb. I'm sure
Speaker 1: they must be there somewhere. It's Steven Kent time, our
Speaker 1: official NERD correspondent joining us. Who is I'm sure ecstatic
Speaker 1: at what is to become of his traffic near where
Speaker 1: he lives within just a few days. How you doing, Steven?
Speaker 1: What's is it crazy up in DC area yet? What's
Speaker 1: going on?
Speaker 5: It's getting a little bit crazy. The hotels are filling up,
Speaker 5: and I am gassing up my helicopters so that I
Speaker 5: can just fly across I sixty six and I ninety
Speaker 5: five in the DC whatever I need, because you'll never
Speaker 5: get there on the roads again.
Speaker 1: A guy who I know through one of the organizations
Speaker 1: I do radio rows with, he has a house like
Speaker 1: I want to say, like eight blocks from the Capitol
Speaker 1: and he he like, he told me what he rented.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell because I didn't ask him
Speaker 1: if I could. He rented that thing out for like
Speaker 1: a week, and it's going to cover like most of
Speaker 1: his mortgage. It's crazy, man, It's a really.
Speaker 5: Nice that's wild. Yeah. I mean, we're we're looking at
Speaker 5: going in for the inauguration and I kind of just
Speaker 5: want to do celebrity spying and see how many cool
Speaker 5: people I can find. But you know, when you live
Speaker 5: in the DC area, you take Washington for granted, and
Speaker 5: going in just feels like such a pain.
Speaker 1: You know what blew my mind's being to Washington is
Speaker 1: those reports coming out like none of the workers are
Speaker 1: going to the buildings to work, right, some of the
Speaker 1: numbers are crazy. And yet I was just in DC
Speaker 1: and your traffic still sucked. It's like nobody's going to work.
Speaker 1: How come I can't make it from Reagan to the
Speaker 1: Phoenix Park Hotel in under thirty minutes? How is this happening?
Speaker 5: Well, we'll see, we'll see what happens. I mean, if
Speaker 5: Vivek and Elon get their way and Doze does a
Speaker 5: good job, they're going to break up the bureaucracy, Casey,
Speaker 5: and they're going to send some of these agencies out
Speaker 5: into the country. So maybe you guys can get the
Speaker 5: Environmental Protection Agency moved down to Raleigh and get some
Speaker 5: of our traffic.
Speaker 1: No, we have one of the biggest lunatic environmental lawyer
Speaker 1: offices in Chapel Hill, Southern Environmental Law Center.
Speaker 2: We don't know.
Speaker 5: It's a good it's a good fit.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, In fact, we're going to send that
Speaker 1: to you late Christmas gift. You're welcome, But let's talk
Speaker 1: about celebrities for a Moment's a good thing. You mentioned
Speaker 1: that Kerrie Underwood's going to be singing. Uh. I think
Speaker 1: you and I are enough to remember the first Trump
Speaker 1: inauguration where any celebrity who indicated or even considered the
Speaker 1: idea of performing for Trump's inauguration immediately they set out
Speaker 1: to cancel him and they ended up having like he
Speaker 1: I don't think they had any musical acts, right, except
Speaker 1: maybe John Rich because he plays all this stuff from
Speaker 1: big and rich. But like, they shamed a bunch of
Speaker 1: celebrities out of doing this. And what's so wild is
Speaker 1: Carrie Underwood's doing this. They're they're squawking out her online.
Speaker 1: She clearly doesn't care. Jeff Bezos giving a million dollars
Speaker 1: the inauguration, you have the village people are going to
Speaker 1: be there, and it's like it's it's you can get
Speaker 1: away with it now, is what we've been talking about,
Speaker 1: even in Hollywood, Like you follow this stuff and you're
Speaker 1: seeing some of it. There's the John Criers of the
Speaker 1: world who you'll never fix, and then there's others who
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, like Jim Gaffigan right having this renaissance.
Speaker 1: I think we talked about this, this renaissance of oh no,
Speaker 1: I wasn't insulting all the people that like Trump. What
Speaker 1: I mean, this is just more of this right, and
Speaker 1: this is a good thing. I'm assuming sure it's a
Speaker 1: good thing.
Speaker 5: I mean, this is a completely different scenario than twenty
Speaker 5: sixteen when Donald Trump first took office and was sort
Speaker 5: of just this alien type political figure and considered to
Speaker 5: be uniquely problematic at the time. He's mainstream. Now, his
Speaker 5: views are mainstream. He has won, he's won the culture,
Speaker 5: he won the election, and it is not interesting to
Speaker 5: try to blackmail or cancel people who want to just
Speaker 5: perform at his inauguration. He has been successfully normalized, whether
Speaker 5: you like that or not. So I think this is
Speaker 5: a great sign for him, and it's a great sign
Speaker 5: for his agenda.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a little part of me that's going to
Speaker 1: miss the really insane but not serious things, you know,
Speaker 1: like like BuzzFeed articles, you know, crazy ones like how
Speaker 1: how to cope with Trump? Five easy sandwiches to me,
Speaker 1: you know, just stupid stuff like that. I'm gonna miss
Speaker 1: it because it made my job easy and I feel.
Speaker 5: Like, yeah, that time is over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's a little nostalgia there.
Speaker 5: How tell you. I was looking at that musical guest list. Okay,
Speaker 5: see I was missing one one particular name I wanted
Speaker 5: to see, Oliver Anthony, the rich man north of Richmond. Guy,
Speaker 5: why didn't they invite him?
Speaker 1: Oh that's a that's a that's a minefield right there. Man.
Speaker 1: Do you remember when people trying to go to pick
Speaker 1: a side and he's just I kind of appreciate he's like,
Speaker 1: I hate all of you because like, yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: that way most days. And then what's going on with
Speaker 1: your with the Washington Post up there? I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: really gonna miss Jen Rubin obviously the conservative over at
Speaker 1: the paper. But the I saw that the weekly uniques
Speaker 1: went from twenty two million to four million from twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one to now. That's obviously devastating, but it's you know,
Speaker 1: this is what's happening. This is what's happening with newspapers.
Speaker 1: But Post had really been kind of able to hold on.
Speaker 1: They had three hundred thousand cancelations, not because they endorsed Trump,
Speaker 1: because they didn't endorse anybody. And now they've got like
Speaker 1: a brewing mutiny within the newsroom there. If you're just
Speaker 1: how do you think this pans out? Man?
Speaker 5: Well, these these legacy outlets will be able to crawl
Speaker 5: along and stay just barely alive. You know, Jennifer Rubin,
Speaker 5: the so called conservative columnist, is leaving to form some
Speaker 5: new website, probably end up being just a substack called
Speaker 5: The Contrarian. You know, nobody really knows who this person is.
Speaker 5: She doesn't matter. She only talks on completely irrelevant cable
Speaker 5: news networks.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: I think the Washington Post will survive. It will just
Speaker 5: be a question of whether or not Jeff Bezos. It's
Speaker 5: an Order sixty six type culling of their entire staff.
Speaker 5: And I think it is increasingly likely that this could
Speaker 5: actually happen. The way that Meta and Mark Zuckerberg are
Speaker 5: repositioning themselves to be relevant, the Washington Post is rutten
Speaker 5: by a serious hardcore capitalist. I think that they're going
Speaker 5: to roll aheads in short order.
Speaker 1: La Times. You getting a little vibe. A lot of
Speaker 1: people don't know that La Times, the owner of The
Speaker 1: La Times, is also like he's like a world renowned surgeon, right,
Speaker 1: so there's a certain practicality obviously to his thinking. I
Speaker 1: I don't Knowmber, if it's neuros. No, he's a transplant.
Speaker 1: He's like one of the biggest transplant surgeons, so and
Speaker 1: he made a lot of money through transplant centers and
Speaker 1: bought the paper there. La Times is interesting microcosm and
Speaker 1: I want to switch over to that, and it's what
Speaker 1: we were just talking about. You couple everything going on
Speaker 1: with those fires out there, and you're hearing some celebrities
Speaker 1: say some stuff that they probably to protect their career
Speaker 1: would have never uttered. But then you have others doubling
Speaker 1: down who I didn't expect to see it. So how
Speaker 1: impactful in what we're just talking about are the fires
Speaker 1: and all of the bureaucracy surrounding them. Do you think
Speaker 1: that has an impact on Hollywood at large?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean there will certainly be some productions that
Speaker 5: get slowed down. I mean, I'm kind of waiting for
Speaker 5: news to come out of Hollywood about which studios or
Speaker 5: which shows or TV programs are going to actually be
Speaker 5: delayed by what happened with the fires. But you know,
Speaker 5: it is absolutely very serious for the industry of Hollywood.
Speaker 5: But you know, they'll recover, they'll bounce back. The question
Speaker 5: will be whether or not these people will ever be
Speaker 5: able to rebuild their lives given the incredibly onerous and
Speaker 5: strict zoning regulations that have completely strangled southern California and
Speaker 5: really the entire state of California from growing at the
Speaker 5: rate that it otherwise should have.
Speaker 1: Well, no, no, no, and that's part of it. But
Speaker 1: I'm more asking is ideologically, is it a red pill
Speaker 1: moment for maybe some folks in Hollywood. Well, yeah, what
Speaker 1: they've supported has failed in this instance.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm a little hesitant to say to say,
Speaker 5: yes that Hollywood's going to be somehow red pilled. Now,
Speaker 5: I don't think that they will, And I'm pretty sure
Speaker 5: that these are the most likely people to be indignant,
Speaker 5: to dig their heels in, and to not budge in
Speaker 5: their commitment to insulting most mainstream Americans and Republicans of
Speaker 5: any stripe. I think they're going to stay exactly right
Speaker 5: where they are. But what is going to change is
Speaker 5: that there's going to be capital money and financing that
Speaker 5: does move increasingly to alternative studios, you know, for making
Speaker 5: things that mainstream America might actually enjoy. You know, I've
Speaker 5: just been getting caught up on the Chosen you know,
Speaker 5: the story about Jesus Christ and his disciples, and I
Speaker 5: mean just the amounts of money that has flowed into
Speaker 5: that production and it has reached tens of millions of
Speaker 5: people around the world. This is one of the most
Speaker 5: popular shows that has been made in the past decade.
Speaker 5: Uh and they don't really talk about it at all
Speaker 5: in Hollywood, but it's bigger than everything that they're doing.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, what what denomination are you? If you don't
Speaker 1: mind me asking.
Speaker 5: I was raised Presbyterian, but I I just go to
Speaker 5: a non denominational.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, I did you see Here's say every time
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna do So have you seen The Conclave?
Speaker 1: Have you seen this movie?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, so this it's got a ton of big stars
Speaker 1: in it, right, you got oh Ralph Finesse. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: It finds is the uh is the lead there? And
Speaker 1: then you have the guy his name escapes me. Who was.
Speaker 5: The family Tucci?
Speaker 1: Tucci. That's what I'm thinking of. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So
Speaker 1: and I went into the and let me tell you
Speaker 1: and I'm a hey, everybody, I know I talk this
Speaker 1: and I mentioned that there's a little spoiler when I
Speaker 1: first talked about this last week. It's been a week.
Speaker 1: I am going to I will tell you write what
Speaker 1: I'm going to do a little spoiler. But I'm not
Speaker 1: going to do the end one. Okay, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to do that on the air yet. I want to
Speaker 1: so bad. But it's still pretty fresh. It's on Peacock
Speaker 1: or something. They Hollywood cobbled together a movie, and you
Speaker 1: know how it is where they had they created two
Speaker 1: really compelling plots within it. First, who was going to
Speaker 1: be the new pope? It's about it's about finding the
Speaker 1: new pope. And they have a pope, a cardinal rather
Speaker 1: who nobody knew about because he was serving as the
Speaker 1: cardinal of Kabul, right, and so anyone identify that it
Speaker 1: was a cardinal because then people come kill him, and
Speaker 1: so there's the mystery surrounding him. And while the conclave
Speaker 1: is going on, there's something crazy going on outside, but
Speaker 1: you don't know what it is. And I was so
Speaker 1: hooked on this movie. And I got to tell you,
Speaker 1: I have never been kicked in the teeth harder than
Speaker 1: the end of this thing. And what the the what
Speaker 1: the insult? And and they just taken a a crap
Speaker 1: on the Catholic Church. Was it was profoundly insulting, and
Speaker 1: so I I don't know, man, every time I think
Speaker 1: that maybe they're going to get back to making good stuffy.
Speaker 1: They just stick a stick a spear in you right
Speaker 1: at the end, no pun intended, And I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I'm just if you watch the movie, just prepare to be.
Speaker 1: But what I hated is like if the writers had
Speaker 1: stopped for last five pages, they literally could. They could
Speaker 1: have gone Aliens, they could have gone supernatural, they could
Speaker 1: have gone straight drama. It was really well constructed. There
Speaker 1: are very talented people there who can come up with
Speaker 1: unique things, and then it has to kick into the
Speaker 1: Dei stuff. So I hope this is the year that
Speaker 1: they turn it around. Man gets some better now.
Speaker 5: The Conqui controversy has been incredibly interesting, and you know,
Speaker 5: it's it's one of those things where again people seem
Speaker 5: to have loved this movie and then just be caught
Speaker 5: so off guard at the ideological twist at the end,
Speaker 5: which is, like you said, just incredibly insulting to Christians
Speaker 5: and Catholics in general. But I can't recommend people spend
Speaker 5: their time on that movie when it just goes so badly.
Speaker 1: And if the if, the if, the other the all,
Speaker 1: you know, ninety percent of the movie hadn't been so compelling.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be so angry if that's weird. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that sounds weird. It was because I was
Speaker 1: I was a really good movie up until then, and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I can't wait to see what's
Speaker 1: going on outside. Who's gonna be the Pope? And then
Speaker 1: just poof? So all right, let me let me flip
Speaker 1: over to this. I think it's incredibly funny watching people
Speaker 1: flee TikTok to this. What is it red something or other?
Speaker 5: I don't I don't care enough to not Red Note.
Speaker 1: Which is is also Chinese, but is far more purging
Speaker 1: of things such as LGBTQ content, mentions of Taiwan in
Speaker 1: a favorable manner, as a separate entity, you name it.
Speaker 1: And that's because TikTok may be shutting down on Sunday
Speaker 1: unless mister Beast or Elon Musk buys it. So please
Speaker 1: explain to us what the hell's going on here?
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh. Well, I think the bottom line is
Speaker 5: that TikTok is very unlikely to be out of operation
Speaker 5: or fully banned come the end of Sunday. You know,
Speaker 5: that is the time when they're supposed to pull the
Speaker 5: plug in one of two things was going to happen.
Speaker 5: Either they were going to go completely dark and TikTok
Speaker 5: would no longer be operable or available, or they were
Speaker 5: simply going to comply with no further downloads and no
Speaker 5: further updates and TikTok would die a slow death of
Speaker 5: the course of a couple of weeks. But Donald Trump
Speaker 5: wants to save it with an executive order in his
Speaker 5: first week in office, and he wants to get sixty
Speaker 5: to ninety days with an executive order to find a buyer.
Speaker 5: And now we're talking about mister Beast buying it in
Speaker 5: addition to Kevin O'Leary and Elon Musk. You know, I'm
Speaker 5: a little I'm a little disappointed. I'm a little disappointed
Speaker 5: in the President on this. This is just really hardcore
Speaker 5: political pandering on his part, and I kind of thought
Speaker 5: he was immune to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's wild to watch the reaction to it
Speaker 1: and the idea that Elon gets it. And then because
Speaker 1: half the videos you see on Twitter are just reposts
Speaker 1: of tiktoks, it seems like so like the two would
Speaker 1: probably work really well to go, but we will see.
Speaker 1: And then finally we're talking about celebrities. If you ever
Speaker 1: needed a case to convince me that they're cloning celebrities.
Speaker 1: You've seen those crazy conspiracy theories. What is happen, Bill Berman,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play some audio real quick.
Speaker 8: The wins moved, but you know, the fire coming and
Speaker 8: all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So I feel lucky. Are you getting back? And I
Speaker 1: think everybody did a great job. Yeah, I'm like the internet,
Speaker 1: you know right, I know it's right. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: all of these fire experts. Why didn't you just fly
Speaker 1: a helicopter into the ocean?
Speaker 5: You know what?
Speaker 1: Looking at the footage on the internet, I have determined
Speaker 1: that this here was mismanaged. They're talking about looting. But
Speaker 1: CNN and Fox News are not going to bring up
Speaker 1: the insurance companies that are just gonna keep everybody's premiums
Speaker 1: and still give themselves a bonus.
Speaker 2: Yet we free Luigi, all right?
Speaker 1: So there's so much going on there. I got just
Speaker 1: about forty five seconds. Is that Bill Burr or a clone?
Speaker 1: What the hell's going on?
Speaker 5: You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna go contrarian on this,
Speaker 5: Like Bil Burr is the barstool comedian that's his entire
Speaker 5: stick and barstool politics makes no sentence. Every time you
Speaker 5: think they're gonna, you know, have like the right wing
Speaker 5: opinion or something, they just kind of come at you
Speaker 5: with populist left garbage and you're like, oh, actually, normal
Speaker 5: people don't really make political sense. And I think Bill
Speaker 5: Burr is actually one of those people. And everything he's
Speaker 5: saying just kind of sounds to me like what people
Speaker 5: who don't follow politics think about these issues. And he
Speaker 5: can just carry on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was I hate to see. All right, we
Speaker 1: got to roll. We're up against it. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: We'll chat next week, sir. And I was talking to
Speaker 1: Steven there, so Ross you did do your research and
Speaker 1: figured out how that movie ended. I was talking about
Speaker 1: right the con Oh.
Speaker 2: I dude, I sure did. They did. Dude. They they
Speaker 2: just couldn't help themselves. They just couldn't do it. They're like,
Speaker 2: we're at the end. Like you said, there's so many
Speaker 2: different avenues and areas you could go down, possibilities. How
Speaker 2: are we going? What is going to be our m night?
Speaker 2: Shyamal on twist.
Speaker 1: And if you and you didn't watch the movie, and
Speaker 1: this is why I told people to watch it, only
Speaker 1: because it was so great. For the first ninety percent,
Speaker 1: it was really what it was unique and well done,
Speaker 1: and I was super excited, and I it makes the
Speaker 1: twist so much worse, which and you, having not watched it,
Speaker 1: we're able to come to conclusion that's a horrible twist.
Speaker 1: Imagine being emotionally invested for an hour and a half
Speaker 1: and then getting that.
Speaker 2: No, you're very strong, not too spoil it, because I
Speaker 2: would love to spoil it, because it's so awful. It's
Speaker 2: one of those things where like it deserves to be
Speaker 2: spoiled in my opinion, so awful. Here's what I'm gonna do,
Speaker 2: and it's so it's so predictable at this point, Like
Speaker 2: once I read it, I was like, of course.
Speaker 1: That, you know, here's I'm here's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna spoil. I'm gonna give you a countdown, and
Speaker 1: I will won't ross and I will only talk about
Speaker 1: the spoil for one minute. Okay, so one minute.
Speaker 2: I mean it'll literally you could spoil it in like
Speaker 2: just five seconds.
Speaker 1: Right, but but give the spoiler and then just a
Speaker 1: quick or a comment on it, probably from from us.
Speaker 1: But I will not allow to go on for more
Speaker 1: than one minute, I will give you a three two
Speaker 1: one countdown here in and in fifteen seconds we'll start
Speaker 1: talking about it. So I'll give you a countdown because
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm using my clock, so it'll be eight
Speaker 1: thirty seven to eight thirty eight, because it needs to
Speaker 1: be said. Okay, spoiler in three two one, that secret Pope,
Speaker 1: the one nobody knew about in Cobble is trans and
Speaker 1: now are the secret cardinal and now he's the pope
Speaker 1: of course.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is a movie. We were saying that
Speaker 2: they had to start at the end before they made
Speaker 2: this one.
Speaker 1: That was the pitch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're like, sure, we're gonna have a trans
Speaker 2: pope and that's gonna be a surprise at the end.
Speaker 2: And once again, because we can't help ourselves, we have
Speaker 2: to do it.
Speaker 1: So and like I said, up until that point, absolutely
Speaker 1: amazing movie. Loved it. I like the actors. They're great
Speaker 1: one hundred percent, and I'm sorry that that they were.
Speaker 1: They were a part of this thing, and it's I
Speaker 1: just it's just such a waste of talent. And the
Speaker 1: writer was very talented in constructing that story. Kudos to
Speaker 1: them for ninety percent of it. And then that all right,
Speaker 1: coming up on the end, we can't talk about the
Speaker 1: spoiler anymore. So back three to one, all right, no
Speaker 1: more mention of them. But it leads us to what
Speaker 1: Roster's is telling me about Goosebumps, which I haven't seen.
Speaker 1: And this goes back to a story the other day. Remember,
Speaker 1: Disney had a movie and they had a very small
Speaker 1: subplot in it of was it a trans character or
Speaker 1: some sort of it was some sort of LGBT relationship.
Speaker 2: It was the new Inside Out, it was Inside two or.
Speaker 1: Whatever, and they took it. They removed it from the
Speaker 1: movie because it came out pretty seamlessly, I guess, because
Speaker 1: it wasn't a big part of it. But you were
Speaker 1: telling me something about the Goosebumps, which I was too
Speaker 1: old when the books came out, but my youngest sister
Speaker 1: and brother were obsessed with Goosebumps back in the day.
Speaker 1: And so now there's a series with the dude from Friends, right,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen any of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the first season it's on Disney Plus. And and
Speaker 2: so going back to Inside, the thing that they cut
Speaker 2: out was they were gonna have make like the main
Speaker 2: character like like gay lesbian, and they realized, like the
Speaker 2: culture has shifted, so we need to cut all that
Speaker 2: out because the movie's not gonna make money. And they
Speaker 2: cut it out and it did very well. So the
Speaker 2: first season of Goosebumps, it's more of like, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's not Disney Plus, so it's it's four kids. It
Speaker 2: had Justin Long in it, and you had like one
Speaker 2: of the main characters in it, the was a trans character.
Speaker 2: And I remember we watched like the first episode and
Speaker 2: we were we were kind of taken out by the
Speaker 2: entire thing because we were trying to figure out the
Speaker 2: sexuality or the gender of this character. And we realized
Speaker 2: about you know, into the second episode, we're like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's a trans character. Okay, So we finished watching it.
Speaker 2: And the way they're set up is there's a story,
Speaker 2: one continuous story from the first episode to like episode
Speaker 2: eight or nine to the end, but every episode is
Speaker 2: like an homage to a book that came out. So okay,
Speaker 2: it's like that. So in the second season it has
Speaker 2: David Swimmer in it, and it's the sort of like
Speaker 2: a black oil type story if you have or watch
Speaker 2: the X Files back in the day where you have
Speaker 2: I don't want to spoil too much but there's a
Speaker 2: monster and there's a creature and this stuff happens. Yeah,
Speaker 2: halfway through, because we were watching it, we're like, this
Speaker 2: is kind of like a regular, typical kind of story
Speaker 2: that you would have. It's not like the first season
Speaker 2: where you had that quote controversy with the trans character.
Speaker 2: So about episode four or five, suddenly one of the
Speaker 2: main characters, the younger female character, turns out that she's
Speaker 2: lesbian and she's started there's you could tell that they're
Speaker 2: going to start having like a storyline involving this character
Speaker 2: and another character, and they're gonna, you know, they're and
Speaker 2: your objected.
Speaker 1: Just to be clear, and I just the haters grab
Speaker 1: onto this stuff. It's not the characters, because people who
Speaker 1: are gay and people are they all it's I don't
Speaker 1: care that. It's clear that Hollywood is overrepresenting or shoehorning things,
Speaker 1: and that's what people most some people obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: have their hang ups on that. But most people's objection
Speaker 1: is you didn't I didn't sign up to get preached at.
Speaker 1: And clearly you're only doing this to make a point.
Speaker 2: Right, They're just forcing it in there and it doesn't
Speaker 2: make sense with the story and they're like, of course,
Speaker 2: of course you have to have, you know, a gay
Speaker 2: relationship in it, but you just have to know. But
Speaker 2: a weird thing happens in the season of the show.
Speaker 2: Because we did watch all the episodes, there seems to
Speaker 2: be once they introduce this this gay relationship, there seems
Speaker 2: to be a lot of the show missing.
Speaker 1: There seems like the plots not there's hard to follow
Speaker 1: the plot.
Speaker 2: There's chunks of the show that seem to be taken out.
Speaker 2: They'll be in one location, there'll be this build up
Speaker 2: to go to a certain location, and then in a
Speaker 2: blink of an eye they're there. So like the whole
Speaker 2: journey from the one location to the other and anything
Speaker 2: that would happen between has been cut out. And there's
Speaker 2: also like changes in the character. So the character suddenly
Speaker 2: this female character, her entire look changes, her hairstyle, changes
Speaker 2: her fashion changes. You can tell like now they're trying
Speaker 2: to make her like what more lesbian like.
Speaker 1: But there's no relationship, seems right.
Speaker 2: So it feels like they did the inside out thing
Speaker 2: where I I am willing to bet that there was
Speaker 2: a lot more content involving the storyline that Disney cut
Speaker 2: out because they realized that there would be blowback, right,
Speaker 2: there's there, there there's.
Speaker 1: A that's the first theory that popped up.
Speaker 2: There's several times in the in the final episodes where
Speaker 2: Marky and I are watching were like, what just happened?
Speaker 2: How are we at this location? Like what?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: What's going on with story now? And I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 2: betting you that they cut out big segments of the
Speaker 2: show to avoid any controversy.
Speaker 1: You're probably not wrong then, and uh and and so
Speaker 1: and then maybe next time when they do a Goosebump
Speaker 1: style show when they're doing you know, initial shoot, the
Speaker 1: initial filming, because obviously it's it kind of messed with
Speaker 1: the continuity of it, then maybe they don't shoehorn.
Speaker 2: But you don't have to.
Speaker 1: It's it's a it's a you don't because it's for kids.
Speaker 2: It's a horror show for kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sheehorn.
Speaker 2: You don't need any that, you don't need any relationship
Speaker 2: crap in that you just don't have.
Speaker 1: Tom Tillis do a cameo and still kids Souls or something.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, did you hear you? So Tillis was
Speaker 1: on the committee doing the BONDI thing yesterday and one
Speaker 1: of the other senators earlier on started to engage with
Speaker 1: Bondie about whether she's a q a QAnon person, and
Speaker 1: she's like, I've heard of QAnon. I don't know. And
Speaker 1: so one of the senators, a Democrat senator explains it.
Speaker 1: I gosh, I remember which one it was, It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: One of the Democrat men was. He goes, yeah, they
Speaker 1: think that Hollywood and the you know us are child molesters,
Speaker 1: Adrina chrome and cannibals and all this stuff. And then
Speaker 1: for like thirty minutes everybody else doing question. They get
Speaker 1: to Tom Tillis and he starts his conversation with the
Speaker 1: QAnon shaman and I'm like, what is he talking about?
Speaker 1: And he thinks he's making a joke because the QAnon
Speaker 1: shaman he said, did you know when we got him
Speaker 1: to prison, we had to move him to another prison
Speaker 1: because he's vegan. And so it's really funny when you
Speaker 1: think about QAnon and I'm like, what do you They
Speaker 1: don't think he's a cannibal. They think you're a cannibal, Senator.
Speaker 1: They think you're a adrena chrome user.
Speaker 2: They like, wait, wait, wait, wait does he so wait?
Speaker 1: He had a backwards he had a backward He was.
Speaker 2: Under the impression that people that were like QAnon were
Speaker 2: the cannibals, were the yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, like these weirdos who think they're vampires on TikTok.
Speaker 2: Like they're the ones that want to eat babies.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, he had all the things, all the craziest
Speaker 1: QAnon allegations directed at the senators. He thought it was opposite. Yeah,
Speaker 1: He's like, that's crazy. He'd be a cannibal and a vegan.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, what are we doing here? Also, why
Speaker 1: are we spending any time on QAnon stuff, let alone
Speaker 1: a Republican senator?
Speaker 2: You know the news stuff is the Kimala stuff.
Speaker 1: Well, that's that's and that's you know, that's the other
Speaker 1: side of the coin in there, and and it's it's
Speaker 1: a crazy, crazy rabbit hole on its own. Man.
Speaker 2: These are the Kumala people that believe, similar to how
Speaker 2: the Trump people believed before Biden was inaugurated, that that
Speaker 2: Trump will never get inaugurated and JD. Vance is plotting
Speaker 2: against him.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, the one chick we played on the audio,
Speaker 1: she made our audio up. She finally, uh where she's
Speaker 1: remember she was like, Hey, it's okay. I got sources.
Speaker 1: Remember we played that a couple of weeks ago. She
Speaker 1: was saying, it's all part of the plan. They're gonna
Speaker 1: swear commonly, and she was so sure she I saw
Speaker 1: a video from her. She's bawling yesterday because uh, it
Speaker 1: doesn't look like it's going to happen. And I feel
Speaker 1: I kind of feel bad for her because like she's
Speaker 1: in she's insane or really great actress. But also that
Speaker 1: must be devastating because she seems so sure, Oh you
Speaker 1: got it up there, and it's like she reminded me
Speaker 1: of the lady who was talking about going into the
Speaker 1: liquor store buying champagne and mocking the clerk. She's like,
Speaker 1: you know, she's gonna win, and her follow up video
Speaker 1: was deeply satisfying. But uh, yeah, this this lady Ray here.
Speaker 1: So the rumor mill is buzz that JD. Vans is
Speaker 1: actually working to turn state evidence.
Speaker 2: So this is just a rumor.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to play all this garbage. I got
Speaker 1: stuff I gotta do. But uh, it has set in
Speaker 1: for her apparently, which is weird. It's like, well, you
Speaker 1: might as well hold out to Monday. You're already here.
Speaker 1: Be the woman in the green jacket on your knees,
Speaker 1: screaming at the sky. Right, get some clicks.
Speaker 2: For it, you do it for us?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is selfish in nature when I'm asking for
Speaker 1: all Right, now, I'm gonna ask for weather from the
Speaker 1: ken bill so I can make somebody else fill airtime.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, sir, what's up? All right? Good morning.
Speaker 6: We're gonna see temperatures get a little milder here over
Speaker 6: the next couple of days, but much colder air do
Speaker 6: in as we look towards early next week. Mix the
Speaker 6: clowns and sunshine. Today, breezy at times up around here,
Speaker 6: just over fifty down around here just below thirty. Tonight, sunshine,
Speaker 6: a few clowns, low fifties Tomorrow, Rain possible late Friday night,
Speaker 6: better chances during the day Saturday. Still looking at a
Speaker 6: high right around fifty on Saturday. Starting to cool off Sunday,
Speaker 6: though with a few showers. Highs mid upper forties, and
Speaker 6: then much colder early next week. Low thirties for highs
Speaker 6: on Monday, upper twenties for highs Tuesday.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you, sir, appreciate it. Chat tomorrow and
Speaker 1: all right, we'll be back with Jeff Bellinger next, Jeff,
Speaker 1: what's happening Well.
Speaker 11: Good morning, Casey. Have a nice rally on the street Yesterday.
Speaker 11: Futures are mixed this morning, S and P and NASDAC
Speaker 11: futures are higher now futures or up one hundred are
Speaker 11: correction down one hundred and fifty two points. It was
Speaker 11: a good holiday season, but the government's retail sales report
Speaker 11: for last month was not as strong as expected. Sales
Speaker 11: were up four tenths per cent in December, a six
Speaker 11: tenths per cent increase was predicted. With auto sales excluded.
Speaker 11: Sales still show a four tenths per cent gain. Target
Speaker 11: says its holiday business topped expectations. The chain increased its
Speaker 11: sales guidance. The retailer says online and in store traffic increased.
Speaker 11: It recorded record sales for Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Speaker 11: clothing and toys with big sellers. Target now thinks comparable
Speaker 11: sales for the fiscal fourth quarter, which runs through the
Speaker 11: end of this month, will be up about one and
Speaker 11: a half percent. There was an increase last week to
Speaker 11: the number of workers signing up for unemployment benefits. The
Speaker 11: Labor Department counted two hundred seventeen thousand new applications. That
Speaker 11: was fourteen thousand more than the prior week. Took the
Speaker 11: impending ban on TikTok to accomplish something that's really rare
Speaker 11: in Washington these days. Republicans and Democrats have a common goal,
Speaker 11: and they're looking for ways to keep TikTok acceptable accessible
Speaker 11: in the US if the band does go into effect.
Speaker 11: The Department of Transportation has filed sued against Southwest Airlines.
Speaker 11: The agency accuses the carrier of violating rules that require
Speaker 11: airlines to set and meet realistic flight schedules. The lawsuit
Speaker 11: alleged Southwest is subject to chronic flight delays. Southwest says
Speaker 11: the legal action relates to old flights that are no
Speaker 11: longer on its schedule. And Casey, Universal Music is being
Speaker 11: sued by a rap artist. Drake is taking the label
Speaker 11: to court, accusing Universal of making a profit from a
Speaker 11: track by Kendrick Lamar in Not Like Us. Lamar accuses
Speaker 11: Drake of being a pedophile.
Speaker 1: Casey, Oh, that's going to keep going. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm glad I really know nothing about that beef, but
Speaker 1: appreciate the updake. Thanks Jo, Okay, take care all right, now,
Speaker 1: there you go. Yeah, I couldn't be more disinterested in
Speaker 1: the drake, Like, I don't even know what the beef is.
Speaker 1: I'm and I'm happy. So let me just pivot to
Speaker 1: try to fit two stories. This is insane, I'm about
Speaker 1: this is it's horrific. But I saw this headline New
Speaker 1: York City teacher arrested after allegedly exposing his sports car
Speaker 1: his man part in front of his class of autistic
Speaker 1: students at Bronx School. And the headline isn't even only
Speaker 1: touches on the crazy, because I'm like, was it accidental?
Speaker 1: Was he like? Were in shorts of what happened? No,
Speaker 1: the teacher, a forty four year old man by the
Speaker 1: name Dana Barsdorf, allegedly took it out and stuck it
Speaker 1: in a lysol container in front of the kids. You
Speaker 1: heard me, right, And then this line the teacher has
Speaker 1: been reassigned to another school pending investigation. I'm I don't
Speaker 1: say he's in a class. What is it a school
Speaker 1: with no lifesole products? I mean, what, how does.
Speaker 2: The teacher has The teacher has been installed into the
Speaker 2: wood shops chipper. Is that okay?
Speaker 1: Well that's what they mean. They're fine. Also what dude
Speaker 1: has ever thought, Hey, you know it, feel good.