Speaker 1: Two things happened over the weekend simultaneously in just a moment.
Speaker 1: Arguably three things happened in a moment, but it was
Speaker 1: the beginning of the journey for the third thing. So
Speaker 1: the first was I'm on Twitter, mine of my own business.
Speaker 1: You may call it X whatever I got. I've decided
Speaker 1: I'm old enough. And a Supreme Court decision came down
Speaker 1: with Twitter in the name even after the change, so
Speaker 1: I'm correct. Check the case law. Two things happened. One
Speaker 1: I laid eyes upon the libs of blue Sky account
Speaker 1: and followed so fast. This was an easier follow than
Speaker 1: what's his bucket back in my space days. I can't
Speaker 1: remember what his name look at that it's already been usurped, right,
Speaker 1: you just follow that, dude, Just this this guy to
Speaker 1: computer looks nice enough. Follow that libs a blue Sky
Speaker 1: on it too? So mad We didn't think of it,
Speaker 1: stephf Ross, How did we miss this man? That's gonna
Speaker 1: be a that person's that's a million dollar idea. It's
Speaker 1: her right, Libs of TikTok, check I think it is
Speaker 1: and immediately starts delivering. And then the third thing that
Speaker 1: happened once I saw that it existed and immediately followed that.
Speaker 1: But two kicked myself for not thinking of it. Three,
Speaker 1: I lost half a day. I don't know where it went.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna warn you before you click on the
Speaker 1: Libs of Blue Sky account there and start scrolling through,
Speaker 1: make sure you got nothing on your calendar that day,
Speaker 1: at least for a few hours, cause you're gonna deep
Speaker 1: dive that bad boy Ross. You don't tend to fall
Speaker 1: into holes over the weekend of news and pop culture,
Speaker 1: tend to separate yourself. We're gonna have a conversation about
Speaker 1: some Ross is doing this morning. But had you fancied
Speaker 1: by the old libs of Blue Sky account this week?
Speaker 2: I have, and thus far I haven't been as impressed
Speaker 2: as the low.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no. It's it's gonna take some time,
Speaker 1: but because you gotta we you know, you gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta digest everything over there. But as it gets a
Speaker 1: fan base, inevitably, how those accounts are successful. Kicks in
Speaker 1: the trick is you're doing all the work right. So
Speaker 1: and I don't begrudge the business model, but you need minions.
Speaker 1: You need people to go through stuff, and once you
Speaker 1: get people inspired, then they're gonna go over to Blue Sky.
Speaker 1: They're gonna you know, stick their toe in the chummy
Speaker 1: murky waters, and the cream as it is, will start
Speaker 1: to rise, and I think the account will improve greatly.
Speaker 2: I did think it was funny that I was reading
Speaker 2: how they've they've been inundated with all these complaints over.
Speaker 1: No. No, would it be with what the servers crashing or.
Speaker 2: The No, it's where you people when you report people
Speaker 2: for like content that you believe is like inappropriate or
Speaker 2: like bad, like like fact checking people.
Speaker 1: So like wait, wait, wait, what who you're telling me
Speaker 1: that the people over on Blue Sky are constantly butt
Speaker 1: hurt to use a scientific term. A lot of people
Speaker 1: don't recon it, but hurt.
Speaker 2: Isn't that weird?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: So it's just all of them. They're in their echo
Speaker 2: chamber now because they have like the old sort of
Speaker 2: modeling of the old Twitter. Yeah, you can report people
Speaker 2: and there's all this censorship.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Blue Sky was like, yo, y'all need to slow down
Speaker 2: because we have there are too many complaints. They're just
Speaker 2: like Nazis on each other. Ah.
Speaker 1: So it's so weird. You put a lot of people
Speaker 1: into a place that I'll have the same kind of
Speaker 1: the same mindset. Some would argue, and well, that's what
Speaker 1: today shows about. I want to I just I think
Speaker 1: that some people get caught up in symbolism, their own
Speaker 1: party stuff, and it fails to recognize what is probably
Speaker 1: the intended messaging of so much of this stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did people go to Blue Sky as a protest to
Speaker 1: you know, what happened and the inability to deal with
Speaker 1: information that's not under their control that they can manipulate. Sure, some,
Speaker 1: but a lot of people just went over out of curiosity,
Speaker 1: just a better way of doing things. Like let me
Speaker 1: give you an example. Okay, you ready for this. It
Speaker 1: would be very easy this morning for me to see
Speaker 1: Ross wearing that hat to describe it to you. It's
Speaker 1: blue primarily, Okay, there are tinges of red, you can
Speaker 1: you can see that from even this distance, a little
Speaker 1: bit of white. There's a little bit of white on
Speaker 1: there too. The hat looks worn. That worn is is
Speaker 1: and he's wearing it. Obviously he's wearing it. But I
Speaker 1: mean us as has always worn it for some time.
Speaker 1: As as a as some messaging and symbolism of these
Speaker 1: those three colors, primarily the blue with the tinge of
Speaker 1: the red and some of the white and on it
Speaker 1: Americana right, one of the and as somebody who is
Speaker 1: a true student of the West, one of the most
Speaker 1: iconic things that that we utilize as symbolism of expansion
Speaker 1: and manifest destiny and everything an American bison. Right, It's
Speaker 1: got a bison upon it, which, strangely, even though it
Speaker 1: you know, it symbolized the expansion of the West. One
Speaker 1: they say that one of the largest ranges of the
Speaker 1: American bison. I don't know if you knew this at
Speaker 1: the time this country was colonized Florida actually, and in fact,
Speaker 1: the term cowboy actually is a derivative of names that
Speaker 1: were to be utilized in the state of Florida, as
Speaker 1: it was essentially a large it was like Texas, it
Speaker 1: was a large cattle plantation at the time. And so
Speaker 1: with that symbolism upon his head, I see Ross's full
Speaker 1: throat and endorsement of American expansionism, the ideal of the West,
Speaker 1: without dealing with the realities of it. As somebody whose
Speaker 1: family did deal with the realities of it, I can
Speaker 1: I think speak to that in journals that we have
Speaker 1: and things that we know and might misinterpret that as
Speaker 1: some sort of I don't know, picking aside, so to speak,
Speaker 1: perhaps in a pugilistleton's sport like football or something. Some
Speaker 1: would see that, but I don't see that, because I
Speaker 1: am a learned journalist in the same way that I
Speaker 1: see this article from w R E. L entitled Chapel
Speaker 1: Hill banner sparks outrage among Jewish community over kaifa yah?
Speaker 1: Is it? Is it coffee? Yeah? Kafifia? I don't whatever. Symbolism.
Speaker 1: So basically a banner that's displayed that as a student,
Speaker 1: a graduating student of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill,
Speaker 1: adorned in those colors of you know, white and blue, right,
Speaker 1: that that in a particular patternattern a pattern so particular.
Speaker 1: I might point out that it is copyright in countries
Speaker 1: that will allow it. It's, as you know, for monetary purposes.
Speaker 1: The actual assembly and symbolism of those colors in this painting,
Speaker 1: some would say, appears to show an affinity for like
Speaker 1: I don't know, hamas or something and uh. And then
Speaker 1: the title of the piece, which the artist describes as
Speaker 1: and I'm quoting here quote the image of a graduate
Speaker 1: adorned with their blue cap and gown definitely defiantly protesting.
Speaker 1: Those two words are in there end quote. Some would
Speaker 1: interpret I I will not allow you to interpret as that,
Speaker 1: because I'm ri l I am learned, I am smart.
Speaker 1: I am here for journalistic reasons, and that's of course
Speaker 1: not what it means, not from the river to the sea.
Speaker 1: In the same way that Ross's hat is simply Americana
Speaker 1: in a hat, not picking a side in this this
Speaker 1: this pugelist simpleton sport of football, but rather just a
Speaker 1: fan of the game, and in this case the game
Speaker 1: the expansion and establishment and flourishing of the US Empire.
Speaker 1: Is that what you mean by that Ross with the.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, all those words put me to sleep. What
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, But that's what your hat means, right, I
Speaker 2: know it's a Bill's had Bills fan, go Bills, but
Speaker 2: the but the Bison. But I also believe in manifest
Speaker 2: destiny and the conquering of this landsage.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, all right, all right, all right.
Speaker 2: I mean both can be true.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm at a loss here, So you're what
Speaker 1: you're telling me is that that hat I should have
Speaker 1: known that it symbolizes your affinity for in fact, a
Speaker 1: particular pugilist endeavor, in this case that of the city
Speaker 1: of Buffalo, New York. That's that's okay, all right. Who's
Speaker 1: writing stuff over there? Is it dumb ai or is
Speaker 1: it act? Because they don't even have a byline on
Speaker 1: this thing. I swear to God, the byline on this
Speaker 1: is just titled WRL Staff.
Speaker 2: So let me figure this out. So that you have
Speaker 2: somebody over there Chapel Hill who put up like a
Speaker 2: pro Hamas flag and they're trying to say that it's
Speaker 2: not pro Hamas well.
Speaker 1: No, No, it's an artist that has put a thing on
Speaker 1: at the old post office, which is a place that
Speaker 1: is literally about putting protest stuff up, and in it
Speaker 1: it depicts a person graduating but also wearing this thing,
Speaker 1: but also not really graduating more protesting. And some because
Speaker 1: of the color pattern, the color and pattern which again
Speaker 1: is copyright protected in many municipalities as the official logoing
Speaker 1: and specifically the political stuff for Hamas, some are trying
Speaker 1: to say that the artist might have been sending one
Speaker 1: of those from the River to the Sea messages in there,
Speaker 1: and WRIL just want to make sure people didn't get
Speaker 1: that idea.
Speaker 2: Right, but sometimes right the thing means the thing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, but so what is your
Speaker 1: thing mean? Does it mean? I don't know a person
Speaker 1: who's just like gonna put it all on their shoulders
Speaker 1: and go, you know what, thirty yards I got that,
Speaker 1: watch out everybody, that type of manifest destiny or would
Speaker 1: it be the raping and pillaging of the continent by Whitey?
Speaker 1: So is it?
Speaker 2: I've already said I'm for manifest destiny, the conquering of
Speaker 2: this land and the Buffalo bills, because you know, the
Speaker 2: greatest country ever made.
Speaker 1: Let me do you know what turned me on a lot?
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say turned me in a lot of it
Speaker 1: as somebody who makes a good faith effort to try
Speaker 1: to fully understand history, and and poor Ross got waterboarded
Speaker 1: with this info. But I just there was a time
Speaker 1: I was touring as you know, Oh wait, hold on,
Speaker 1: true Americana. No, that's why. Now, look, I have some
Speaker 1: other fans of people, also floating red, white, and blue
Speaker 1: motifs who call themselves patriots. And that's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 1: This is why I don't think it's fair to sit
Speaker 1: here and decide that a single bit of imagery artist
Speaker 1: imagery in fact, is sending a message, even though really,
Speaker 1: if you're a student of art, you realize that the
Speaker 1: imagery you do notice, and the imagery that sometimes we
Speaker 1: only notice hundreds of years later, was intentional by the
Speaker 1: artists to send a specific message in imagery. That's why
Speaker 1: I'm attempting not to complate these two things. So if
Speaker 1: you're offended, I apologize. But Ross's hat is what did
Speaker 1: it because it's a very neutral statement there so, good
Speaker 1: for you, good for you not to break in the
Speaker 1: fourth wall there so, And I'm sorry other fans, but
Speaker 1: but let's face it, I think that Hack covers it
Speaker 1: based on the results here. Like some would say, if
Speaker 1: you want to symbolize greatness and power and all that,
Speaker 1: you might symbolize someone or something who conquered something that
Speaker 1: had previously been unconquered. Right, isn't that what manifest Destiny
Speaker 1: was about, the expansion into the west of lands unknown?
Speaker 1: So if perhaps maybe you were to go and meet
Speaker 1: a foe that had never lost, the David and Goliath
Speaker 1: of our time, some people might want to Anyway, Dude,
Speaker 1: that was the greatest run I've seen a quarterback do,
Speaker 1: probably in forever.
Speaker 2: We're not talking about football this year, yes, yes, yes, yeah, yeah, no, No,
Speaker 2: I'm talking about human ever, the body, yeah right right
Speaker 2: right yeah yeah, but where you just like the fighting
Speaker 2: human spirit. Yes right, you're just saying, oh Choctaw warrior, No,
Speaker 2: I got you. And oh the French coming out for Nope,
Speaker 2: no juke, oh you Oh look at you Spain holding
Speaker 2: out even after the purchase. Boom.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna levitate over you. I'm gonna come up
Speaker 1: standing after scoring a thirty yard touchdown in that environment.
Speaker 2: And to do it in a shotgun and fourth and two.
Speaker 2: But we're not talking about football because we don't want
Speaker 2: to jinx the team.
Speaker 1: No, what go No, we're talking about the human spirit,
Speaker 1: right yeah so so No, I'm not a pig who
Speaker 1: interpreted what you wear upon your head. There is anything
Speaker 1: but purely a celebration of the human spirit.
Speaker 4: Banks left now to gonna run forty stop, We're not
Speaker 4: let's stop.
Speaker 1: Boom right there, Rocky Mountains, Jim Bridge. That had to
Speaker 1: be what Jim Bridger heard in his If you if
Speaker 1: you're not familiar with Jim Bridger, one of the greatest
Speaker 1: people as far as the topography and the mapping and
Speaker 1: everything very Lewis and Clark, but doesn't get the recognition
Speaker 1: he deserves. That's I'm sure what Jim Bridger heard as
Speaker 1: he for the first time in the in the recorded
Speaker 1: history of US explorers gazed upon, sketched, and reported on
Speaker 1: Glacier National Park, which, if you've ever been there, is
Speaker 1: one of the most visually amazing things on the planet.
Speaker 2: That's what Jim Bridger heard. I was thinking Lewis and Clark, right, like,
Speaker 2: what's over that mount? And look at that? It's Freedom
Speaker 2: from Tyranny.
Speaker 1: It's fourth and two, though it's fourth Tony's at fourth
Speaker 1: and two and then boom casinos. Oh, I'm sorry what
Speaker 1: Look at that six twenty two here on the oh
Speaker 1: right now, Ross has turned off all the lights but
Speaker 1: the rest. Oh my gosh, look at that hat, dude,
Speaker 1: that looks like imperialism. What is happening? Oh, we'll be back.
Speaker 1: I have to explore. Nice discussion there about symbolism and
Speaker 1: what it means and all of those things this morning.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that with again not everything for you football junkies
Speaker 1: sending me all your old You see how my team did? No,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I was big. I had better things this
Speaker 1: weekend to focus on, Like how the Ravens jacked up
Speaker 1: a wonderful parlay that I had going on? Are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? I just looked. I looked at my the
Speaker 1: one dude in our group, Grand I'm like, I just like,
Speaker 1: I can't even look at you wearing all of his
Speaker 1: stupid Raven stuff because usually that's just a license to
Speaker 1: print money there. You should look at the stats. Didn't
Speaker 1: have that, and and so that's I just want to
Speaker 1: make sure there was no confusion over what was going on,
Speaker 1: like like with the the little post game with the
Speaker 1: Raiders player little brock Bauers action. Did you guys see that?
Speaker 1: So yeah, they look Did they have a good game altogether? No,
Speaker 1: not really, they lost. They just they're like any other team.
Speaker 1: They just got the big new stadium and stadium deals
Speaker 1: so they don't have to try for a while. Fans
Speaker 1: are going to come anyway. You're seeing it there in Vegas.
Speaker 1: But uh no, brock Bowers decided to go a little different.
Speaker 1: So he's the tight end, if you don't know, for
Speaker 1: the Raiders, and he caught he caught a twenty three
Speaker 1: yard pass. Decided to do a little celebrating, and he
Speaker 1: did the thing after this where he, you know, put
Speaker 1: his two hands up in the air and started shaking
Speaker 1: his body back and forth. And that made Safia Dean
Speaker 1: from USA Today very upset. He was big mad. And
Speaker 1: so here's his tweet. Ask Brock Bowers about his TD selly,
Speaker 1: which he refers to as the Trump TD selly. Apparently
Speaker 1: there's some similarities when you put your two hands out.
Speaker 1: So if you just for a moment this morning, just
Speaker 1: visualize stand there, take your two arms, put them up
Speaker 1: like you're going whoa stop, but instead clench your hands
Speaker 1: and then, in rhythmic motion back and forth, alternating, you
Speaker 1: put one hand forward and back and then rinse and repeat. There,
Speaker 1: Saphie Dean over at USA Today saw what he thought
Speaker 1: might be an acknowledgment of Trump's existence, and he just couldn't.
Speaker 1: And so in the postgame, when they bring Bowers up
Speaker 1: to answer questions about like why did you do that
Speaker 1: thing after you got the touchdown even though you guys
Speaker 1: didn't win, Why would you do that? And his response was, quote,
Speaker 1: I've seen everyone do it. I watched the UFC fight
Speaker 1: last night, John Jones did it. I like watching UFC
Speaker 1: so I saw it and thought it was cool and
Speaker 1: then proceeded to do it. At which point, and I'm
Speaker 1: not making this up, the pr people for the Raiders
Speaker 1: stopped his media avail to get another player, like, all right,
Speaker 1: that's enough from Brock, Let's get somebody else in there.
Speaker 1: And Saphie Dean from USA today is just left seething
Speaker 1: over this.
Speaker 2: So it was a good weekend. I appreciate that from
Speaker 2: the busy bodies over there. Oh how dare you?
Speaker 1: You know why? Hours in spite of his team losing.
Speaker 1: And we can argue whether you should celebrate on an
Speaker 1: individual standpoint, the reason that Brock Bauers was celebrating as
Speaker 1: a young player is he had thirteen catches. He's on
Speaker 1: my fantasy tea one hundred and twenty six yards and
Speaker 1: and had never been that good in an individual game
Speaker 1: in his NFL career. So yes, we can debate celebrating
Speaker 1: when when the team's not winning. But now we're in
Speaker 1: the aftermath, and at the time he did it, he
Speaker 1: was in the moment and he had with the game
Speaker 1: he was having, he probably had every thought that his
Speaker 1: team was going to be victorious, So that's why he celebrated.
Speaker 1: Saphi Dean, who is who is literally tasked by the
Speaker 1: second largest circuit might be the largest circulation in the
Speaker 1: United States of papers. And you're hired to be an
Speaker 1: NFL reporter and you can't understand that. It's almost as
Speaker 1: if you were not hired for your NFL reporting chops,
Speaker 1: but rather your ability to go in and just ruin
Speaker 1: everyone's day with this crap. So really appreciate that. All right,
Speaker 1: So there's your football, but not really football, more of
Speaker 1: a bigger, broader discussion about how smart we are in
Speaker 1: the media, you know. Roundup. I hope you all appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Who we got tonight, Oh, that's right, it's the Cowgirls
Speaker 1: and the other Texas team. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: By the way, I think that Houston can cover just
Speaker 1: my two cents. But hey, you know, I would never
Speaker 1: give you a betting advice, but things get a little crazy.
Speaker 1: I think Houston's actually a better team that people give
Speaker 1: them credit for anyway, all right? Eight eight eight nine
Speaker 1: three four seven eight seven four Wait, hold on, I
Speaker 1: hope people are sending me they're like, oh, but what
Speaker 1: about some of the other teams. I'm just it's not
Speaker 1: about teams. People, I'm talking about the stories that unite us,
Speaker 1: and not the affinities for individual teams that divide us.
Speaker 1: In the same way that rel was able to look
Speaker 1: past this artist rendition of what is clearly hamas gear
Speaker 1: and pretend like that is not an endorsement of From
Speaker 1: the River to the Sea ideology, we're able to able
Speaker 1: to get past that. What is this patriot really?
Speaker 2: Patriots fans you want me to bring you want to
Speaker 2: bring that up. I wouldn't do that to you.
Speaker 1: You're welcome. Also, the Lions are terrifying. I want nothing
Speaker 1: to do with that. Fifty two six against the Jags?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Donny Ross my greatest nightmare, and
Speaker 1: the only reason that I don't worry about it too
Speaker 1: much is I don't think I feel like the universe
Speaker 1: won't allow it. And that's Bill's Vikings super Bowl Man
Speaker 1: every day because I'm just looking at the NFC and
Speaker 1: other other than the Lions, I think I think the Vikings,
Speaker 1: in any situation, if they would actually show up, could
Speaker 1: beat him, and that includes against the Eagles man. But
Speaker 1: Ross doesn't. He doesn't have time for such childish endeavors.
Speaker 1: So let us pivot and as we pivot, we got
Speaker 1: to talk about the Michael Browning going on with this
Speaker 1: officer involved shooting at the food line, which is a
Speaker 1: tragic situation, regardless of where you land with us, that
Speaker 1: a police officer who yes, signed up to use his gun,
Speaker 1: I understand all of these things, but doesn't want to
Speaker 1: and sure as hell doesn't want to against a sixteen
Speaker 1: year old, not that he might have any knowledge that
Speaker 1: that's a sixteen year old, but rather just somebody who
Speaker 1: clearly presents as an adult male who might be raising
Speaker 1: a firearm at them. And we got body cam galore
Speaker 1: on this stuff. It's a tragedy for the family of
Speaker 1: and it's a tragedy for the officer and the officers
Speaker 1: family who maybe have never had to discharge a weapon
Speaker 1: and in this case did not kill the suspect but
Speaker 1: got them. And now we're going to have the great
Speaker 1: re revisioning of apparently how this was approached. So yeah,
Speaker 1: well we'll go ahead get into that. We'll do it
Speaker 1: next here on the CaCO Day radio program, Biden gives
Speaker 1: Zelensky green light to fire long range American missiles into Russia.
Speaker 1: So in the same way that we played the Anthony
Speaker 1: Blinkin audio for you, infect do I still have that
Speaker 1: other button? Bar? I'm sorry, Ross, would you put mister
Speaker 1: Anthony Blinkin up there again from Friday talking about all
Speaker 1: this extra money we got laying around so in in
Speaker 1: in the same way that the Biden administration is sitting
Speaker 1: there and they're looking at all, right, what do we
Speaker 1: do between now and January twentieth. That is a provocation.
Speaker 1: And yes, I understand it's not us flying firing those missiles,
Speaker 1: but one, there are missiles, and granted we've sold them
Speaker 1: or given them or rented them, however you wish to
Speaker 1: look at it, but it is it is a potential
Speaker 1: risk in a provocation because, let's face it, this is
Speaker 1: a proxy war. I've told you this entire time. I
Speaker 1: understand the logic of getting other people to go die.
Speaker 1: In further, it's to fighting somebody who, if given the opportunity,
Speaker 1: is very much our enemy. And that but that's if
Speaker 1: you divorce yourself from the morality is surrounding it.
Speaker 2: So a calculated risk is a calculated risk.
Speaker 1: And escalation here. But I think what they're hoping is
Speaker 1: that as soon as they are doing that, they go, well,
Speaker 1: look now, you know, now they're annihilating homes in Russia.
Speaker 1: You're really bringing the war home. But from what I
Speaker 1: gather within Russian society, they're very aware of this, which
Speaker 1: is why you had a mass exodus of military age
Speaker 1: males of means in most parts of the country. They
Speaker 1: decided to go study in Europe or do any of
Speaker 1: those things to avoid inscription within what Russia's trying. It like,
Speaker 1: they're aware of it. So this brings it further home
Speaker 1: and they think at that point it'll stop. But also
Speaker 1: the other side is they went, all right, all right,
Speaker 1: game on, now we can do whatever they're firing Russia.
Speaker 1: They'll they'll they'll have some videos of some lady in
Speaker 1: a babushka just you know, hanging out making borsch or whatever,
Speaker 1: and that will then be utilized as justification for them
Speaker 1: to fire stuff that they haven't yet but have the
Speaker 1: capability of doing. And that's what's going on be left
Speaker 1: at the feet of the incoming president. Meanwhile, Anthony blink
Speaker 1: and at the same time, the Small Business Administration says
Speaker 1: they don't have money to help businesses impacted by the hurricanes.
Speaker 1: Is saying things like.
Speaker 5: This, as we're working to make sure that Ukraine has
Speaker 5: what it needs to effectively defend itself.
Speaker 3: The United States continues to step up. We've obligated just recently.
Speaker 5: And pushed out the door another eight billion dollars.
Speaker 3: In security assistance for Ukraine.
Speaker 5: That was the September another almost half a billion dollars
Speaker 5: just a few weeks ago, and President Biden has committed
Speaker 5: to making sure that every dollar we have at our
Speaker 5: disposal will be pushed out the door.
Speaker 3: Between now and January twentieth.
Speaker 1: So that's all the dollars, every dollar at the disposal,
Speaker 1: all the dollars not getting spent on Hamster Fight Club
Speaker 1: or the monkeys on the treadmills with parts of their
Speaker 1: brains removed, which is a thing. They did it to
Speaker 1: cats too, For all you cat people, that's part of
Speaker 1: a bunch of money in there. But they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: what if we remove a part of the cat's brains
Speaker 1: and let's see if they can still do a treadmill,
Speaker 1: to which I say, one, how did you locate their brains? Two? Really,
Speaker 1: how much is a little?
Speaker 2: And and three this is what I paid three million
Speaker 2: dollars for.
Speaker 1: For this thing right here. Okay, So while all that's
Speaker 1: going on, I just want to remind you that the
Speaker 1: guy at USA today is mad that Brock Bowers did
Speaker 1: a shimmy. Okay, just if we're if we're weighing everything
Speaker 1: out that you know, stuff like this, wow.
Speaker 2: Tests the Trump test spinning back into the bobbing.
Speaker 1: Back because Rogan obviously you hear him doing the play,
Speaker 1: and you know what, everyone was enjoying it. Everyone was
Speaker 1: having a good time, and it just stuck in the
Speaker 1: craw of reporters. Man, they just couldn't function when it
Speaker 1: was going on. And we're like, yeah, no, if you
Speaker 1: want to, if you want to fire long range missiles
Speaker 1: into Russia that we that we gave you, sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: go ahead and do that. That won't be a giant
Speaker 1: problem for the next guy. So that's where we that's
Speaker 1: where we are this morning. Oh did I mention Trump
Speaker 1: showed up at this event which was at Madison Square Garden,
Speaker 1: which I believe, Ross, can you check and see if
Speaker 1: Trump's ever held a Nazi rally? There? All right, Ross's
Speaker 1: gonna look that up real quick.
Speaker 2: See if let me check a Nazi rally. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure,
Speaker 2: let me check. No, no Nazi rally.
Speaker 1: No, no, wait, hold on, hold, on it says right here
Speaker 1: in USA Today, the same publication we've been talking about
Speaker 1: reminiscent of the Nazi gathering of the nineteen thirt All right.
Speaker 2: Let me let me double check that. No, it's not.
Speaker 1: No, I see it right here on their page. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's the same guy's byline on it. Who's now a
Speaker 1: sports reporter who's mad? I'm sorry, USA Today, did you
Speaker 1: send a reporter who's not the sports guy in to
Speaker 1: shame people for doing a shimmy? How does that work?
Speaker 1: That's so weird that the same guy who termed it
Speaker 1: as a symbolism of a Nazi rally is now.
Speaker 2: The guy who's trying to figure out why a Raiders
Speaker 2: tight end who had thirteen catches, which is kind of
Speaker 2: a big deal, might have done the shimmy. But no, no,
Speaker 2: we got we got Trump showing up too. I guess
Speaker 2: the six richer, whichever one we're up.
Speaker 1: To now present, he is ross clarify if Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is in full form as when.
Speaker 2: He was the WWE guy right back in the day,
Speaker 2: when he did the bits and the sticks and all
Speaker 2: of that, and he just settles right into it. And
Speaker 2: I think Dana White's allowed him to embrace this thing,
Speaker 2: which unfortunately he's not going to be able to recapture
Speaker 2: obviously over at WWFWWE and he is, he is in
Speaker 2: his purest form there of the showman, and he just
Speaker 2: he just loves it and and and every moment that
Speaker 2: it's going on. It's also sticking in the craw of
Speaker 2: sports reporters slash sometimes regular journalists who are there to
Speaker 2: police the shimmy. And when you have Trump walking in
Speaker 2: a Madison Square garden in the middle of New York
Speaker 2: City after being accused of holding a Nazi rally there
Speaker 2: just weeks ago, and he is, he gets bigger reception
Speaker 2: than John Jones.
Speaker 1: I want you to think about that. If you know
Speaker 1: anything about UFC fighting or the sport in general, one
Speaker 1: of the guys who arguably is the greatest to ever
Speaker 1: do the thing, pays deference to Trump coming in there.
Speaker 1: It does the shimmy. That's that's a big, big, that's
Speaker 1: a very monumental sports thing because and it's because of
Speaker 1: the media's own creation. The reason it's so important is
Speaker 1: because they did it in spite of the crap that
Speaker 1: they're not having to eat or take, which they don't
Speaker 1: care about, and is now muted in modern society. But
Speaker 1: the idea that you would do it is and I
Speaker 1: know that this is going to irritate some of you,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to go there is fist on the
Speaker 1: podium stuff. Okay, the part where we don't have to
Speaker 1: be here next week together doing this thing again because
Speaker 1: we're off the whole week. H Yeah, that's right. Prepare yourself.
Speaker 1: That's going to be a thing that's happening for off
Speaker 1: all next week. We didn't get fired, well maybe who knows,
Speaker 1: we could have been fired simultaneously and they're just taking
Speaker 1: advantage of it. It is a possibility, but more likely
Speaker 1: than not, we're just going to be on vacation. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to remind that, remind you of all that
Speaker 1: fun stuff is we get things rolling in this hour.
Speaker 1: So what was the first hour about other than me
Speaker 1: rambling incessantly, Well, it was the convergence of pop culture
Speaker 1: and sports and politics and everything, plus a preview, a
Speaker 1: sneak preview of what could be the escalation that takes
Speaker 1: us into a full born war with Russia by an
Speaker 1: administration on their way out, which is particularly insane if
Speaker 1: you think about it. Why you would pick this this
Speaker 1: thing that you could have picked previously, right, the US
Speaker 1: given the wink wink, nod nod kind of thing to
Speaker 1: the idea of them using these long range devices that
Speaker 1: they wouldn't have access to if not for US was
Speaker 1: a known escalation point. And it is being done specifically
Speaker 1: to see if Putin blinks does he want to deal
Speaker 1: with rockets hitting inside the interior of Russia? And I
Speaker 1: don't know the answer to that, but I know that
Speaker 1: if you wanted to test this theory, doing so in
Speaker 1: the waning days, where you will not hold responsibility based
Speaker 1: on the timeline of how this thing could escalate is
Speaker 1: pretty evil. A lot of evil stuff going on, So yes,
Speaker 1: I will, I will package it all together. Because you've
Speaker 1: chosen to invade things like sports, You've chosen to take
Speaker 1: reporters who will simultaneously write stories about how the very
Speaker 1: clear and concise imagery of a UNC graduate with their
Speaker 1: constantly excuse me, patiently protesting is attempting to align themselves
Speaker 1: with a with a terrorist organization and shout you know,
Speaker 1: from the river to the sea and other things like that,
Speaker 1: and that very same reporter will then be expected to
Speaker 1: understand why brock Bauers, who just scored thirteen receptions one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty yards, had the game of his career
Speaker 1: as a young player. Also did the shimmy. And the
Speaker 1: reason that they did it and then the convergence, and
Speaker 1: what's driving you so mad in all of this is
Speaker 1: they did it in spite of what you would think.
Speaker 1: Brock Bowers didn't care. Joey Bosa got fined ten grand,
Speaker 1: what does he care? He wore a hat. The UFC guys,
Speaker 1: they're completely off your resume. You can't control them, and
Speaker 1: people don't care. You're seeing the death spasms of the media.
Speaker 1: I know, I don't mean to be overly dramatic here,
Speaker 1: but that's what you're watching. And uh, Ross you said it. Uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you said it on the air.
Speaker 1: You said the two words that I think are very
Speaker 1: important here, and that's popular vote.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean before right, they would have the supposed
Speaker 2: moral uh superiority. Now let's go on.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, and if anybody went out of it,
Speaker 1: they would have, you know, an old school Chinese revolutionary
Speaker 1: struggle session on them. And now they're just like, oh,
Speaker 1: you did that, We're going to cancel you. And they're like, hell,
Speaker 1: here's me doing the shimmy in another angle. Right, they
Speaker 1: don't care, and you don't. You don't have this perceived
Speaker 1: moral superiority, not that you ever did, but they don't care.
Speaker 2: Right, they didn't, but that's how they could report it.
Speaker 1: And so watching that is just so delicious, and AND's
Speaker 1: and and and then if they want to, if they
Speaker 1: want to look to how is pop culture responding? They
Speaker 1: whee allowed Katie Lang? Remember her?
Speaker 6: If you thought we were woke before you done went
Speaker 6: and woke the beast? What welcome to woke two point zero?
Speaker 6: Oh god, oh my woke warriors.
Speaker 3: Give me a blue heart and share.
Speaker 1: Let's spread on the blue sky. I see what you
Speaker 1: did that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what you want to do is double down?
Speaker 1: Should do that?
Speaker 2: You want to go? You thought you were crazy before? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you haven't seemed crazy yet. Yeah. And you know what
Speaker 2: do do you more crazy and take it over to
Speaker 2: blue sky?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Super crazy over there and being in that echo chamber
Speaker 2: is completely going to help you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, And then just see the watch things and
Speaker 1: giving each other blue blue sky or blue hearts or
Speaker 1: what is it blue hearts. This is the only way
Speaker 1: I'm understanding how this is because you will not. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to go there. I treat it like TikTok nope,
Speaker 1: thank you, nope.
Speaker 2: And then you know, going along with that. Over the
Speaker 2: weekend you saw Jensaki and John Oliver saying the problem
Speaker 2: is the same as what that uh the person has said.
Speaker 2: They need to double They didn't explain it enough. They
Speaker 2: need to keep explaining it.
Speaker 1: That's a good point.
Speaker 2: Just keep doing that.
Speaker 1: You should do that with your the music. I mean,
Speaker 1: just how much of a bubble are you in? I
Speaker 1: get it, but is there anything in that video where
Speaker 1: that woman doesn't one hundred percent believe what she's saying.
Speaker 1: I just want to I just want to be very
Speaker 1: clear here. Lang believes that she has deluded herself on
Speaker 1: this because now she's in the comfort of you know,
Speaker 1: the friends over there where it's it's virtue. But like
Speaker 1: they couldn't even virtue signal because they'd virtue signal on
Speaker 1: Twitter and they get destroyed because people are like, shut
Speaker 1: up and sing, shut up and do this. I told you,
Speaker 1: did I ever told you? The one of the craziest
Speaker 1: concerts that I ever worked, well, there's two of them
Speaker 1: with female artists, and Katie Lang was one of them.
Speaker 1: And like the expectations she had for Tory Amos was worse,
Speaker 1: if that's possible. But there was a reason for her madness.
Speaker 1: She has a lot of weird things based on an
Speaker 1: incident that happened to her. And I'm not gonna very
Speaker 1: depressing stuff, but like, when you understand why she has
Speaker 1: the rules that she has for staff in and around concerts,
Speaker 1: which I didn't at the time, then it makes sense
Speaker 1: because when she was a performed, when she was a
Speaker 1: younger performer, she was literally assaulted by a stage hand
Speaker 1: back there and they have a very like I didn't
Speaker 1: understand it, and like and there was like she doesn't
Speaker 1: allow plastic cups in her concerts, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things there that makes up with Katie Lang. It
Speaker 1: was sheer ego. It was just it was the brown
Speaker 1: M and M stuff. It was just so she's deluded
Speaker 1: herself and to think that she makes this cool video
Speaker 1: with some cool music attached to it, and.
Speaker 2: I need, I need to ask a serious question because
Speaker 2: that is that really Katie Lang? Are you joking?
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 6: Is?
Speaker 1: That?
Speaker 2: It's Katie Lane?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Was I is it? It's my understanding that's Katie Lane.
Speaker 2: No I believe you, Like, I just didn't know because
Speaker 2: she just looks like a caricature of every person you've
Speaker 2: ever seen, right, Like, she's well, and her name is
Speaker 2: Katie Lane, right right. But in the tweet attached and
Speaker 2: prep and didn't say who it was.
Speaker 1: It just well, maybe I'm wrong. It's my understanding that
Speaker 1: that's Katie Lane.
Speaker 2: That's fine.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: Actually yesterday was in prep and I just saw the
Speaker 2: first half of the video. Yeah, you see like the
Speaker 2: nose up right, and I assumed it was Keith Oberman.
Speaker 2: When I came in this morning, I was like, because
Speaker 2: I just saw the first half of this, it looks
Speaker 2: just like Keith Oberman. And then I scrolled out, was
Speaker 2: oh it's a woman. Okay, well what does she have
Speaker 2: to say? Then I reported the audio and it said,
Speaker 2: oh she's a lunatic.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: And now learning that is fame musician Katie Lang.
Speaker 1: Am I wrong? Just google Katie Lang and look at
Speaker 1: the picture and tell me that's not her, Okay, Ross,
Speaker 1: I do a little experiment, the Katie Lang experiment. You'll
Speaker 1: check that out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's maybe.
Speaker 2: I mean she's older now from the photos that.
Speaker 1: Are yes, yes, yes, yes, those are clearly her pub
Speaker 1: photos there. I'm I'm unless I am wildly misinformed. I
Speaker 1: believe that is Katie Lang saying. But here's the deal.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if it's Katie Lang or not, which
Speaker 1: I believe it to be because that's reporting I saw.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it doesn't matter be Katie Lang or Keith
Speaker 2: Oberman or Mark.
Speaker 1: Or any encapsulation of people who took nothing from what.
Speaker 2: Just And they all look the same. I mean, they're
Speaker 2: going along with the the NPC moniker. That's what they're
Speaker 2: called NPC because now they're all looking exactly the same
Speaker 2: and sounding exactly which.
Speaker 1: Is a meme, which has been a meme for a while.
Speaker 1: Eventually they blend in, right, so they'll turn into each other.
Speaker 1: So think of the most memorable, stereotypical, you know, resistance
Speaker 1: freedom fighter imagery you can in your head and it's
Speaker 1: not hard to hear them say this.
Speaker 6: If you thought we were woke before you done went
Speaker 6: and woke the beast, welcome to woke two point zero,
Speaker 6: All my woke warriors, give me a blue heart and share.
Speaker 6: Let's spread the love.
Speaker 1: Like the similar the music, there's something the timing of
Speaker 1: them like that is a professional a bit of messaging,
Speaker 1: or at least they think that is clearly not connected
Speaker 1: to No.
Speaker 2: It isn't like the market is spoken when it comes
Speaker 2: to entertainment, and then the people have spoken the silent
Speaker 2: majority in the in the election from just a few
Speaker 2: weeks ago, right like, yeah, that's over.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: People just tired and you're doubling down.
Speaker 1: And you know what, you're also you're feeding into the
Speaker 1: insanity that is then striking people who don't who can't
Speaker 1: just live in the Hollywood bubble, go on the blue sky,
Speaker 1: talk about it the cocktail parties and feel like they're
Speaker 1: doing activism. It it it goes down. Do you see
Speaker 1: the video of the woman with the dating apps over
Speaker 1: the weekend? I haven't sent it. Let me do this.
Speaker 1: I'm going to send this to Ross little bonus audio.
Speaker 1: I saw it this morning and then I got distracted
Speaker 1: by some football stuff. I send this over to Ross.
Speaker 1: Because when when you're making videos like that and you're
Speaker 1: not dealing honestly with people who obviously look to you
Speaker 1: for some sort of direction, and especially at a time
Speaker 1: where they feel kind of abandoned within their own beliefs,
Speaker 1: like I get that, and I'm sure any of you
Speaker 1: out there have gotten it. Maybe you got it when
Speaker 1: Trump lost last time around, or you still don't think
Speaker 1: he lost or whatever. But but like you, you got
Speaker 1: that and you needed to look for something, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people they just turned to anything that's not
Speaker 1: the thing, right, They just unplugged from politics. But that's
Speaker 1: not what's happening here. It's more dangerous because they're not
Speaker 1: unplugging from it. They're just echo chambering it more. And
Speaker 1: and what you end up with is a woman who's
Speaker 1: having she's having a full mental breakdown because she can't
Speaker 1: use dating apps because she thinks that there's a Trump
Speaker 1: guy on the other end. Oh you don't believe me.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that coming up CaCO Day Radio program.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, So what does this right here? Stuff like this?
Speaker 6: If you thought we were woke before you done went
Speaker 6: and woke the beast, Welcome to woke two point zero,
Speaker 6: all my woke warriors, Give me a blue heart and share.
Speaker 1: I love how it's also just pandering for engagement as
Speaker 1: a measure of your because look, in a world of
Speaker 1: hashtag activism, no better a platform has been designed for this.
Speaker 2: Right where it's just about the blue Heart. It's the resistance.
Speaker 2: So make sure you like subscribe and ring that bell?
Speaker 1: Should I follow? Though?
Speaker 2: You should follow?
Speaker 1: Oh? I should? Okay? Does it really help the channel though?
Speaker 2: We know, not just the channel but the resistance, oh
Speaker 2: the whole thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, on the other end of this garbage pipe, those
Speaker 1: suckling at the teet sound like this woman who doesn't
Speaker 1: know she can trust dating apps anymore. Wait, hold on,
Speaker 1: before I even start this bucket of crazy, let me
Speaker 1: just share with you real quickly. The while she's blubbering
Speaker 1: over the screen, it says, F Trump and everyone for
Speaker 1: voted for him. H F Trump and everyone for voted
Speaker 1: for him? For taking my sense of security away from me?
Speaker 1: All right, So, what horrible, horrible thing befell this woman
Speaker 1: as she headed onto her trusty app there to find
Speaker 1: some some random hookups, throw some bodies on. Unfortunately she
Speaker 1: hit this brick wall right here. Yeah, all right, ready,
Speaker 1: all right here we go, triggering, Yeah, action too, scared
Speaker 1: you stating gastuff? Oh my god, get scammed. Somebody did
Speaker 1: somebody harm you? Look if somebody, if somebody showed up
Speaker 1: from this app and and did something to harm you.
Speaker 1: I don't even know you, and I think you're a lunatic.
Speaker 1: But that's that ain't right, and I will stand up
Speaker 1: for that. So what what? What did what did this
Speaker 1: person do to you?
Speaker 2: Ma'am?
Speaker 1: Wouldn't go on.
Speaker 7: Every message and every profile.
Speaker 4: This makes me think that it could.
Speaker 2: Be somebody.
Speaker 1: Violent like evil.
Speaker 4: That's emboldment by trumb.
Speaker 6: The brotmile was so normal.
Speaker 1: I would never know.
Speaker 6: If you thought we were woke before you done went
Speaker 6: and look the beast.
Speaker 1: But I just told Ross, I'm like, man, you think
Speaker 1: Katie Lang's looking a little rough? Google Paula Cole. I
Speaker 1: saw her. She's a a little bit of an activist.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, that's the song I was thinking of
Speaker 2: the Waiting one. Yes, it was.
Speaker 1: Her big one was the Cowboys song. But they were
Speaker 1: both those were I would say they were almost simultaneously
Speaker 1: her big hits. Where have all the Cowboys Gone? And
Speaker 1: I don't want to wait? So Ross was just telling
Speaker 1: me that he did an interview with her back in
Speaker 1: the day. Yeah, oh y.
Speaker 2: It was the worst interview I've ever done, Like the
Speaker 2: rudest person I've ever interviewed.
Speaker 1: The worst, worst than Coolio.
Speaker 2: It was like nineteen ninety nine and I was super young, Yes,
Speaker 2: like just just moved from New York and like, so
Speaker 2: I prepared for this interview and like, I don't want
Speaker 2: to wait. Whatever that song was called was her big hit,
Speaker 2: then that's the song she had, and it was the
Speaker 2: song from Dawson's Creek right right, So that's.
Speaker 1: Where it was. One of those two. I'd ever watched
Speaker 1: the show, but I was aware of its existence. And
Speaker 1: to be clear, you're broadcasting essentially in the market where
Speaker 1: you could argue that Dawson's Creek is basically Fay is
Speaker 1: set in right, right, because it was filmed in Wilmington, right,
Speaker 1: Dawson's Creek.
Speaker 2: I think that's yeah, I believe though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it had that North Carolina Viye. It's not
Speaker 1: as blatantly bad as the Outer Bank show, which I
Speaker 1: saw three minutes of one time because somebody sent it
Speaker 1: to me and dear God. So she's talking to somebody
Speaker 1: who's talking who has knowledge of the market in which
Speaker 1: the thing plays, which she's clearly licensed use it.
Speaker 2: And it's at night. It's the night show, so that's
Speaker 2: when the kids are listening, right, the teen's are listening,
Speaker 2: And like, that's a big show with the teens, So
Speaker 2: that was going to be primarily the interview. And I'm
Speaker 2: told by the record person right before she connects on
Speaker 2: the phone that the one she does not want to
Speaker 2: talk about Dawson's Creek. She does not want to talk
Speaker 2: about the song from Dawson's Creek. She wants to talk
Speaker 2: about some obscure songs that no one's ever heard before.
Speaker 2: And it's just You've never the worst interview I've ever done,
Speaker 2: the absolutely worst that.
Speaker 1: She was a Maggie May moment, and I'll explain why.
Speaker 1: But so you did the interview anyway, right.
Speaker 2: Completely rude, like it was unairble, could not air it.
Speaker 2: That's what I was gonna ask, chop it up?
Speaker 1: What did you do?
Speaker 2: Did you air it here? Having more experience now being older,
Speaker 2: like if say I had to interview and it was
Speaker 2: really bad, you would go then, yeah, you clown it.
Speaker 2: I would play it and I would be like, listen,
Speaker 2: how awful this is. But back then I was like
Speaker 2: young and impressionable, very green, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: I just completely could I screw up?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Completely completely crushed me? Yes, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: So anyway, she's all like resistance now, so.
Speaker 2: Well it doesn't surprise me, like, because that's how she
Speaker 2: was internally back then. You could tell.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, no, and they they're they're yeah, and they're
Speaker 1: not my kind of music necessarily. I'm in a chant.
Speaker 1: They were very popular songs. They're they're very catchy, good songs,
Speaker 1: and that Cowboys song was everywhere.
Speaker 2: Man, Well, she doesn't want to talk about it. So
Speaker 2: but I thought she said she didn't want to. Wait,
Speaker 2: did she talk of the thing that I'm really famous for.
Speaker 2: I don't talk about it.
Speaker 1: So the Maga mate, this is the thing that was
Speaker 1: one of the most educational moments in the world of
Speaker 1: public This is before I mean I was doing I
Speaker 1: did radio in high school, but it was before I
Speaker 1: really was making a career out of it. And I
Speaker 1: was doing the concert stuff in California at the same
Speaker 1: time I was at school, and part of that gig
Speaker 1: was for IATZI. Is not just the concerts that they
Speaker 1: would put on at the Santa Barbara Bowl or in
Speaker 1: Ventura or at any of the theaters there. We could get
Speaker 1: contracted to do stuff. I actually was contracted to go
Speaker 1: down and I spent two days in La setting up
Speaker 1: for the Oscars. Not the main thing, but another thing,
Speaker 1: basically setting up lights and stuff now days days before
Speaker 1: it went and so you'd have little jobs like that.
Speaker 1: So a dude got married who was a very rich
Speaker 1: guy who owned Star Telecommunications. His name escapes me. And
Speaker 1: he married the daughter of the family that had started
Speaker 1: two is it two pesos whatever the regional text mex
Speaker 1: chain was in southern California, Texas and Arizona, New Mexico.
Speaker 1: And so he's a billionaire. He's marrying essentially a billionaire, Okay,
Speaker 1: so they're going to do it big. And so they
Speaker 1: did a wedding in Hope Ranch, which we know anything
Speaker 1: about Santa Barbara, that's crazy, where they literally bought lots
Speaker 1: to build a chapelon. And then he bought this huge
Speaker 1: ranch north of Santa Barbara up or like Reagan's stuff was,
Speaker 1: and just buys this like eighteen million dollar ranch that
Speaker 1: just really isn't anything. Just happens to sit on the
Speaker 1: one on one there and they get a circus tent.
Speaker 1: Pastel died and there and this is the con this
Speaker 1: is on and you can look this up if you
Speaker 1: think I'm in Beligian any of it. Because they had entertainment.
Speaker 1: Tonight came out did a big peace and for a
Speaker 1: half second you can see a very young version of
Speaker 1: me running around running cables. And so this is going on.
Speaker 1: It is mc by Jay Leno and Dana Carvey. This
Speaker 1: is the after the wedding. This is obviously the reception.
Speaker 1: They are the MC's and it has a reo speedwagon
Speaker 1: journey and uh and of course, uh, Maggie, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get into Maggie May right called the Maggie May Stories.
Speaker 1: So you got Rod Stewart there and outside as the
Speaker 1: one of the most insulting things. They had these mini
Speaker 1: stages where Michael McDonald is like sitting in the cage
Speaker 1: like he's a zoo animal, and uh, who who is
Speaker 1: the other one sailing? Who does anyway? So they have
Speaker 1: these guys like these these mid acts that are in
Speaker 1: these like little so people just walk by them. It's
Speaker 1: the most insane thing that a kid from Wyoming's ever seen.
Speaker 1: And I just know I'm gonna make about two thousand
Speaker 1: dollars that day because it's pure overtime. And so we're
Speaker 1: there and Rod Stewart told him after all of this
Speaker 1: that he wouldn't do Maggie May. You built a stadium
Speaker 1: and and are have spent an ungodly sum of money
Speaker 1: to go ahead and do this. And by the way,
Speaker 1: their their their love story is very tragic one, if
Speaker 1: you want to learn more about it. I didn't know
Speaker 1: any of this. And you you contract Rod Stewart and
Speaker 1: he shows up days before your wedding because he was
Speaker 1: a show up for soundcheck, like two days before, and
Speaker 1: he's like, oh, by the way, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: do Maggie May. The guy was apoplectic, like what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? And I don't know what he said
Speaker 1: to him, but let me tell you what happened. He did,
Speaker 1: Maggie May. He did it with the audacity of him
Speaker 1: to go through all of that knowing that and and frankly,
Speaker 1: it's probably a little on this guy's lawyers for not
Speaker 1: getting this down quicker, but the audacity to go now,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do, Maggie May. You're Rod Stewart.
Speaker 1: What are you there for? You're Paula Cole in the
Speaker 1: studio in the late nineties. Your one song is connected,
Speaker 1: you're other ones now connected to a show, a TV show,
Speaker 1: but you won't talk about it. And it's really the
Speaker 1: only thing people know you for Rod Steort at least
Speaker 1: has a library catalog there.
Speaker 2: Right, Like Rod Stewart, you could work with that at least, right,
Speaker 2: But you're like, Hey, this one person who we only
Speaker 2: know you for this one song at this moment in
Speaker 2: time in this show, I don't want.
Speaker 1: To talk about that. As a musician, you've earned the
Speaker 1: right to go, here's something off the new album because
Speaker 1: a lot of times it's it's good right because they
Speaker 1: have trust in you.
Speaker 2: You can understand that you're Billy Joel or somebody and
Speaker 2: you're like, yeah, I'm tired.
Speaker 1: Of a library. Tell me he's not doing piano. Man,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, that's fine, I have nine others. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing, like you can understand me from an Italian.
Speaker 2: Oh, you can understand why he wouldn't want to do
Speaker 2: it right because he's been doing but he'll still do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's killed by the way. I heard the profrity.
Speaker 1: I couldn't see it, but I heard the performance. It
Speaker 1: was great. It was like, that's Rod Stewart, he's killing
Speaker 1: it doing what he does. But having witnessed the first
Speaker 1: part of that dust and then the rumor mill like
Speaker 1: we're like, what's the problem and then we found out
Speaker 1: what the problem was, and everybody there was like, they mean,
Speaker 1: he won't do Maggie May, what do you mean he
Speaker 1: won't do Just craziness, all right, not as crazy as
Speaker 1: the weather. Uh we did, Jeff Mars Jeff Mar today.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'd be like Christopher Cross not doing sailing.
Speaker 1: Come on, oh look at you, Christopher Cross. That's who was, dude.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. It was one of the most insane.
Speaker 1: Did you hear the whole part of that? I did? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I was crazy. And then like their whole
Speaker 1: it's it's very very bad what happened to their marriage,
Speaker 1: But like it was, you know what it was. It
Speaker 1: was the first fu money I'd ever witnessed. Oh person,
Speaker 1: it's just like you bought an eighteen million dollar seaside
Speaker 1: ranch in California just to have a concert for your
Speaker 1: friends where you made, you know, guys who were legitimate
Speaker 1: artists sit there like zoo animals, and then they just
Speaker 1: took the check. Then I'm like, all right, that's what
Speaker 1: that looks like. Oh crazy. But now the rest of
Speaker 1: us toil, and you toil with a Doppler so toilewaser.
Speaker 8: Yeah, very quiet start to the week weather wise, and
Speaker 8: some mild temperatures. Looking for to a little bit of
Speaker 8: cool if you're about to head out this morning, but
Speaker 8: during the afternoon we should climb to seventy one with
Speaker 8: sunshine and then partly cloudy tonight, a low down to
Speaker 8: forty nine, up to seventy one again tomorrow with increasing clouds.
Speaker 8: The next route of rain moves into late tomorrow night
Speaker 8: as we drop into the mid upper fifties, and there'll
Speaker 8: be some more showers starting off Wednesday and into the afternoon.
Speaker 8: Still a few showers to dodge if you're out about
Speaker 8: a high seventy then dry and cooler behind the front.
Speaker 8: Thursday and Friday it will be sunny each afternoon, high
Speaker 8: temperatures in the load to mid fifties.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you appreciate it. By the way, the
Speaker 1: guy's name Chris Edgecombe, who's he died early, died in
Speaker 1: his fifties, but that was the guy's name, Chris Edgecombe,
Speaker 1: co founder and CEO of Star Telecom. Yeah, look at
Speaker 1: the wedding. There's the whole thing on entertain it's crazy
Speaker 1: and that's the Maggi main moment. There you go, all right,
Speaker 1: some forty hang on, how did they find a bunch
Speaker 1: more ballots in California's forty fifth congressional seat, which is
Speaker 1: now set to flip the district which has been a
Speaker 1: GOP district for quite a while and Rep. Michelle Steele
Speaker 1: had a had a lead and now they just they
Speaker 1: got all these extra ballots over the weekend and it
Speaker 1: looks like they're getting ready to flip that district. Currently
Speaker 1: it shows that the Democrat has a thirty one vote lead,
Speaker 1: which obviously you're in recount territory, but you have to
Speaker 1: understand how California does the recounts, it's a little different.
Speaker 1: So they just found that. Apparently they're still finding things
Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania, even things that they acknowledge would be illegal
Speaker 1: to include that they're including in in there. And the
Speaker 1: response you always get is, well, these are soldiers overseas
Speaker 1: fighting for their country and you want their votes. And
Speaker 1: it's like, no, no, they're not. No, some of them
Speaker 1: are that thing, but that thing is already baked into
Speaker 1: the process. This is not that, this is misallocation. It
Speaker 1: went to the wrong district. We found it in the
Speaker 1: trunk of a car, which is a famous refrain where
Speaker 1: people go, you know, you think it's hyperbole, but it's
Speaker 1: not because I covered the race from which it emanated
Speaker 1: most recently, which was Al frankinsonate race. And I'm not
Speaker 1: making this when I tell you that when I heard
Speaker 1: the first reports that there was a pile of ballots
Speaker 1: that it inadvertently found their way into the trunk of
Speaker 1: a Democrat poll worker's car, and then she forgot about them.
Speaker 1: And they all came from Dinkytown, which is important because
Speaker 1: that's where the University of Minnesota is, across the river
Speaker 1: from the city of Minneapolis, in what's called dinky Town.
Speaker 1: It's where a lot of Bob Billin's imagery from. It's
Speaker 1: the Fourth Street he's talking about and others. And so
Speaker 1: they're almost exclusively blue ballots. And they're like, yeah, they
Speaker 1: found them a trunk. Ok it was Mark Elias. They're
Speaker 1: making the argument. I'm like, there's no way they're going
Speaker 1: to count those. How naive I was? They did so
Speaker 1: explain to me how we're still doing this, and we're
Speaker 1: all acting like this is sane, Like this is okay.
Speaker 1: You have what's going on in Pennsylvania. Now here's the
Speaker 1: thing with the Pennsylvania Senate race. Republicans are just as
Speaker 1: hypocritical as Democrats. Right, everyone who thinks they have the
Speaker 1: wind screams that you have to sort of I understand that,
Speaker 1: but Republicans generally claim it based out of time. It
Speaker 1: clearly looks like because they acknowledge what they're doing isn't
Speaker 1: the law. It looks like manipulation. And you would understand
Speaker 1: why people think that. You would look at what's going
Speaker 1: on in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, realize some of this, Okay,
Speaker 1: most none of this sounds normal. And if I guess,
Speaker 1: if it's not happening in your own district, your own
Speaker 1: your own votes imperiled. You have a certain level of separation.
Speaker 1: But anything you've ross, has there been anything that you've
Speaker 1: read in the continuation to attempt to count Bucks County,
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania that sounds normal?
Speaker 2: No, it's on the No, they're cheating, that's what they're doing.
Speaker 2: And it's just even their own supreme their own supreme
Speaker 2: course that hey, you guys can't count those votes, and
Speaker 2: they said, oh, yeah, we know that, we understand that
Speaker 2: we're going to count them anyway until we take the
Speaker 2: lead in this in this Senate race or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: It's just because they're the spirit. It's the spirit of
Speaker 1: these undated where we have no way to find out
Speaker 1: if those in fact we're cast prior mailed by the time.
Speaker 1: But it's the spirit of it, and you're just disenfranchising people.
Speaker 2: It's statistically, we found these twenty thousand ballots or whatever
Speaker 2: in California and they're all primarily for one person. It's
Speaker 2: like statistically impossible, right, It's just it depends.
Speaker 1: But you know, the congressional race. But a congressional race
Speaker 1: is is is a much more interesting way because the
Speaker 1: lower the total voters, the easier it is to infer
Speaker 1: what it could be. So if you're in a red
Speaker 1: a lean red district, which this is three points red, Yeah,
Speaker 1: are there pockets that are that are definitely blue. Sure,
Speaker 1: but it's easier to predict. It's harder on a state level,
Speaker 1: especially into a county that's a populous county.
Speaker 2: But when you look at the trend, you're looking at
Speaker 2: an election where the whole country moved big time to
Speaker 2: the right and you're already in the district that was right.
Speaker 2: But a lot of.
Speaker 1: Races don't show that. The said North Carolina is a
Speaker 1: good example. You can't argue they moved to the right here,
Speaker 1: could you.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying the trend nationally.
Speaker 1: Right, No, no, no, I understand that. So but but
Speaker 1: I'm saying you make You're saying that if it's within
Speaker 1: the realm of possibility, you consider it right as as
Speaker 1: normal people would like if you tell me the story
Speaker 1: and the story makes sense, like it was on a
Speaker 1: military plane and they really are soldiers' votes, but they
Speaker 1: were grounded by I don't know something, and here's like,
Speaker 1: tell me a story. But you're just saying, ah, trust you,
Speaker 1: I trust me, Bro.
Speaker 2: There needs to be some sort of time limit, and
Speaker 2: I know, like the arguments against that, they'll be like, oh,
Speaker 2: like you said, like, oh well about the soldiers sending
Speaker 2: in their votes and stuff. There needs to be a
Speaker 2: time limit. You cannot be counting votes two weeks after
Speaker 2: the election. It's absurd.
Speaker 1: You ever voted absentee? I have you?
Speaker 2: You ever have your power turned off?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You know you're back in the day. Oh yeah, this
Speaker 2: has happened before where you know, back when you would
Speaker 2: write a check or write your bill and you'd send
Speaker 2: it in and you know it was late. I send
Speaker 2: it in late. But I like, there it is. And
Speaker 2: they're like Hey, we're turning off your power because we
Speaker 2: did not get your your payment, Like I just sent
Speaker 2: it too late. Sorry, buddy, you should have gotten there
Speaker 2: the day of or before. So now we're turning your
Speaker 2: power off. There's no reason you should be counting votes
Speaker 2: two weeks after the election. It's absurd.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And as somebody who's done the absentee voting
Speaker 1: thing before, it's really clearly laid out. But you have
Speaker 1: to do this by this, by that, and the and
Speaker 1: the reasons behind, and you have to attest and like,
Speaker 1: like the process makes sense. So why if that process
Speaker 1: made sense to me the one time I've voted absentee
Speaker 1: once because I literally was out of the country at
Speaker 1: the time of it. I found it government in in
Speaker 1: you know, all the stuff you gotta get, but understandable,
Speaker 1: and I understood the parameters of it, and I was
Speaker 1: able to operate in that. And I don't understand how
Speaker 1: this happens, and and I realized because there's no consequences.
Speaker 1: We talk a little bit about this, a little bit
Speaker 1: about that. That's a typical Monday. And yeah, we can
Speaker 1: exist where one we can laugh at insanely but hurt
Speaker 1: sports reporters over nobody caring what they think anymore, which
Speaker 1: is just more of what you saw, right. It's the
Speaker 1: big uh you know, it's the big postportem autopsy of
Speaker 1: the election, and that is is nobody cares what traditional
Speaker 1: media says anymore. They were rendered worthless because a candidate
Speaker 1: staked his candidacy on it. You can argue he didn't
Speaker 1: have a choice, that's fine, but the fact is they said,
Speaker 1: all right, we're not going here, we're gonna buy, we're
Speaker 1: gonna sidestep all of you, which, uh ross. Have you
Speaker 1: ever heard a radio host in North Carolina, perhaps just
Speaker 1: will you see this as an example who has preached
Speaker 1: over the years two candidates, people who hold office who frankly,
Speaker 1: I probably shouldn't be telling how to do their job,
Speaker 1: but it's my job to tell them how to do
Speaker 1: their job, to not do ral interviews, don't talk to
Speaker 1: the media who hates you, ignore them. And what have
Speaker 1: they always said when this radio host who apparently is
Speaker 1: really really understands things and they say, well, you have to,
Speaker 1: you have to because you run the risk of not
Speaker 1: connecting with voters, and then they bring up the Hillary
Speaker 1: not going to Wisconsin thing, and that's true to some extent,
Speaker 1: but you hit a breaking point where you go so
Speaker 1: audacious to the other side, you sit down and you platform,
Speaker 1: as they say, oh, you platform Joe Rogan, who by
Speaker 1: the way, has a platform, whether you like him or not.
Speaker 1: You platform Joe Rogan. You platform, and then you know,
Speaker 1: insert with the other podcasts are and they go out.
Speaker 1: You know, by doing this, it's your death sentence. And
Speaker 1: in reality it wasn't. So now people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: I stick my head out of the hole, I don't
Speaker 1: get shot. Game on. That's what you're watching. And that's
Speaker 1: the real incredible observable thing, especially like when I broke
Speaker 1: down the USA Today thing. Earlier, that paper had a
Speaker 1: very neutral stance. USA Today was famously neutral because the
Speaker 1: owner of the paper, while he was still alive, wouldn't
Speaker 1: go there, and there were a lot of things that
Speaker 1: he did under his tenure that were immediately undone. Literally
Speaker 1: they waited by his bedside for him to gasp his
Speaker 1: last breath and they made fundamental changes which ended up
Speaker 1: destroying USA Today, or at least there any journalistic credibility. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it wasn't the hard hitting newspaper. It was the fluff.
Speaker 1: It was the fluff. Let me tell you one of
Speaker 1: the most enjoyable things is somebody coming from Wyoming and this,
Speaker 1: but this tracks for wherever. How many of you in
Speaker 1: USA today used to go to the Fast fifty I
Speaker 1: think is what they call it. I don't know what
Speaker 1: they call it now, where it was the top state
Speaker 1: story of each state and read that with great fascination.
Speaker 1: Do you remember it? Ross? You remember that in USA
Speaker 1: today where the like, they would list all the states
Speaker 1: and this is the main story today in each of
Speaker 1: those states. And so if you were if you were
Speaker 1: living in one place, and you have to remember a
Speaker 1: lot of this, This whole thing preceded the Internet, that
Speaker 1: USA today would do it and we would get USA today.
Speaker 1: At my high school in Buffalo, Wyoming, right, they had
Speaker 1: like student editions and we do it in some of
Speaker 1: the classes and you go through there and you can
Speaker 1: look at all the different stuff, and they just they
Speaker 1: cashed all that in. They bet on this horse that
Speaker 1: they can go and they can operate like the rest
Speaker 1: of the meeting. It would be beneficial. And as paper
Speaker 1: started to decline and you had those who were going
Speaker 1: to be the holdouts, USA today was still one of them,
Speaker 1: but they had lost a lot of journalistic integrity, and
Speaker 1: they decided then that they wanted to go kind of
Speaker 1: hard on some of this stuff, so they brought in
Speaker 1: these opinion writers posing as journalists, even in their sports department.
Speaker 1: They just inundated with these a holes and watching that
Speaker 1: bet not pay off much like my Ravens bet this
Speaker 1: week warms my heart. I really enjoy it. You know
Speaker 1: why because if I was still plugged into that apparatus
Speaker 1: as many people are, I would my takeaway from the
Speaker 1: weekend would be that every single one of Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: nominees rape somebody. Oh yeah, this is a hard transition,
Speaker 1: but follow with me. Like they're all in. They're all
Speaker 1: in on the Kavanaugh thing again. So with the headset
Speaker 1: they're they're looking at a quote unquote nuisance suit right
Speaker 1: that he settled for very low dollars and and if
Speaker 1: you're the trolls, and I don't know what happened, but
Speaker 1: I know the process because we've we've seen the process
Speaker 1: right where you have to make a calculated decision what's
Speaker 1: it worth for this to go away? And is his
Speaker 1: attorney pointed out at that time it was right in
Speaker 1: the middle of me too. Obviously Fox News had some
Speaker 1: pretty big exposure there, and he said, I don't want
Speaker 1: to play this. But then it begs the question too,
Speaker 1: why this romantic tryst from years before all of a
Speaker 1: sudden became an issue at that exact moment. Are you
Speaker 1: allowed to ask questions about that? Or are you just
Speaker 1: gonna roll with this? The Matt Gates thing, which we
Speaker 1: find out not only did the Washington Post report previously,
Speaker 1: the sourcing is credulous at best. The two main sources
Speaker 1: for that, the Washington Post deemed unreliable and uh, but
Speaker 1: Matt Gates probably trafficked to seventeen year old to Raper
Speaker 1: even though one it doesn't meet the legal requirements in Florida.
Speaker 1: But two and I don't know the answer to it.
Speaker 1: But why the hell are we only deep diving this now?
Speaker 1: Remember they would have left. You're telling me that if
Speaker 1: you had a Fox News associated person that the rest
Speaker 1: of the media wouldn't have viscerated that individual if there
Speaker 1: was credibility to it. Look what happened to the chipmunk dude?
Speaker 6: What is it?
Speaker 1: Why do I can never remember his name? And I
Speaker 1: now his name will forever just be the chipmunk dude,
Speaker 1: won't it? That's how I always remember it, but the
Speaker 1: guy who looked like Theodore right, just what could go wrong?
Speaker 1: And then you read it and it's like the the
Speaker 1: banned version of uh, a harlequin romance novel. It's just
Speaker 1: but with bondage. It's just the craziest crap. And then
Speaker 1: the Roger ails stuff like they would they would have
Speaker 1: floated all this, And so you expect me CBS News
Speaker 1: to believe and Wril who ran the story President elect
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's defense pick Pete Hegseth that paid a woman
Speaker 1: who accused him of sexual assault in a settlement agreement
Speaker 1: and included a confidential ali clause. Matt Lower, who I defended,
Speaker 1: by the way, with the quote unquote rape button. Right,
Speaker 1: he has a security lockdown of his office, which frankly
Speaker 1: NBC probably forced him to do or installed not at
Speaker 1: his but because they have him insured. You guys don't
Speaker 1: realize this, can I can I mention this? I whatever
Speaker 1: I'll get in trouble with the company. Whatever is this
Speaker 1: is standard boiler plate. I'm not going to give you
Speaker 1: the details of it. If you work in this industry.
Speaker 1: One of the things, one of the things that is
Speaker 1: very odd is and and you're reminded of it every
Speaker 1: year when you do your open enrollment stuff through work here.
Speaker 1: It's right, So I got to go through all of
Speaker 1: the health insurance and I'm told it will just roll over,
Speaker 1: though this year I had to do something. But everything
Speaker 1: was just and at some point you hit the life
Speaker 1: insurance and there's and the where you you select that
Speaker 1: you want to, you know, include this as part of
Speaker 1: your annual coverage. You know it. There's no button for that.
Speaker 1: It just says employee competence or employer paid. And then
Speaker 1: you realize what it is. My employer has a life
Speaker 1: insurance policy on me that doesn't pay me, but protects
Speaker 1: their interest in the brand that we've built here. I
Speaker 1: do not begrudge it. It's what you do. It's smart.
Speaker 1: You're protecting your brand. So just like they put this
Speaker 1: lockdown button for one of their hosts making five mil
Speaker 1: ten mili whatever he's making up there, Matt Lowery's probably
Speaker 1: making a lot more a security apparatus. Like I never
Speaker 1: questioned that. I thought that part was exaggerated and above
Speaker 1: and beyond, but it points to the fact that they
Speaker 1: understand in this journalistic realm that these are these are considerations,
Speaker 1: these are things that you think about so that the
Speaker 1: fact that my company is is it morbid, like if
Speaker 1: I get hit by a truck after the show today,
Speaker 1: that they have some financial protection because it would be
Speaker 1: a sea change in a lot for a lot of
Speaker 1: their advertising revenue. It's just the reality of it. No,
Speaker 1: but it recognizes all of these things, and then the
Speaker 1: inability to report honestly, honestly about this just because the
Speaker 1: guy was just nominated. People are done with this. They're
Speaker 1: just not buying it. So go over to bluesky and
Speaker 1: post your links. And the problem is you may have
Speaker 1: a dude or a woman for that matter, who is
Speaker 1: nominated who is uniquely unqualified for something that a journalists
Speaker 1: just found and that would have been the normal order
Speaker 1: of things. But now it doesn't matter because we don't
Speaker 1: believe you, because you're running headlines like Trump's defense secretary
Speaker 1: paid accuser but denies assault because logical megos. This guy
Speaker 1: worked for Fox News during the me too era and
Speaker 1: you said that this was at least known and you
Speaker 1: didn't roast him on a spit. I don't believe you,
Speaker 1: and it makes it harder than for people who may
Speaker 1: have actual things that frankly do require sunshine and an
Speaker 1: honest journalist to parse it out. And this is frankly
Speaker 1: know whether this is one we'll never know because people
Speaker 1: don't believe it. In twenty twenty, Headset learn the woman
Speaker 1: was considering filing a lawsuit. So this happened well before,
Speaker 1: but a lawsuit was threatened right during the me too stuff.
Speaker 1: As attorney said, the payment to the married woman. Now
Speaker 1: this is also important because and in North Carolina we
Speaker 1: have this law. Her husband, if it ruined the wedding,
Speaker 1: or if it ruined the marriage, would have legal recourse
Speaker 1: and could sue this guy who's making a bunch of money.
Speaker 1: I don't know the details of it, and I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that he should go sleep with married women, but
Speaker 1: I don't know that she disclosed it to him, right,
Speaker 1: We don't know any details here, But if that was
Speaker 1: to destroy the marriage, think of the liability this guy
Speaker 1: would have financially if you were able under the alienation
Speaker 1: of affection to sue, which you can in a lot
Speaker 1: of states, North Carolina be in one of them. So
Speaker 1: in the phase of that in an accusation that's only
Speaker 1: brought up in this very specific time, they settlement was
Speaker 1: apparently reached and it was for a pittance compared to
Speaker 1: what they were asking for. The payment, according to his attorney,
Speaker 1: let's see here was settled due to the illuming me
Speaker 1: too movement. He didn't want to lose his job at
Speaker 1: the network if the accusations became public. They did not
Speaker 1: say how much they's paid, but it was far less
Speaker 1: than what it initial and palatour. That's this attorney said.
Speaker 1: Every step of the way, we felt this was blackmail,
Speaker 1: but this was the way to handle it. CNN briefly
Speaker 1: spoke with the victim on Thursday, who became quote visibly
Speaker 1: distraught at the mention of HEG. SAS's name. What a
Speaker 1: journalistic observation to include there? What do you mean she
Speaker 1: became You say that she became distraught. Was it because
Speaker 1: you mentioned his name? Or was it because she had
Speaker 1: a confidentiality agreement? Was she because they want you They
Speaker 1: wanted it to sound like she was triggered at the
Speaker 1: mention of his name and you know, looking for a
Speaker 1: place to hide and hide under the covers. But she
Speaker 1: also may have been triggered because you're bringing something up
Speaker 1: she has an nda on, or you're bringing something up
Speaker 1: that she realizes that if you dig too deep might
Speaker 1: cast her in a bad light. But your journalism in
Speaker 1: here on wr L. Obviously this is a wire story
Speaker 1: that they just chose to run. But still you put
Speaker 1: your name, your nameplate on it. You just infer that
Speaker 1: it's because she's triggered by the incident, rather than stopping
Speaker 1: to ask yourself all these weird other questions, like if
Speaker 1: this took place in twenty seventeen at a busy Hyatt
Speaker 1: Regency hotel in California, why is twenty twenty when this
Speaker 1: gets brought up settled? And then now we're back here
Speaker 1: at the well. I don't know, just things to you know,
Speaker 1: things that make you wonder eight eight eight nine three
Speaker 1: four seven eight seven four You want to be on
Speaker 1: the show. We got much more to come here on
Speaker 1: the CaCO Day Radio program. Didy Junior could destroy one
Speaker 1: of civilization's greatest achievements. All right, that's the headline. Tell
Speaker 1: me more. This is an op ed piece. This shockingly
Speaker 1: ran on Rio and emanated with the North Carolina connection
Speaker 1: a little further up the food chain. And I love
Speaker 1: these pieces because right at the beginning they give me
Speaker 1: the bio of the writer, and that is immensely helpful.
Speaker 1: The bio of the writer. His name is Tuffeki Tuffeci,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to pronounce that last name. Described
Speaker 1: as a New York Times columnist, Professor of sociology and
Speaker 1: Public Affairs at Princeton formally at the University of North Carolina,
Speaker 1: Chapel Hill, author of Twitter and tear Gas, The Power
Speaker 1: and Fragility of Network protests. All Right, So when you
Speaker 1: read that paragraph, this is the great disconnect in our
Speaker 1: country right now, because not that long ago people would
Speaker 1: have read that, and when this person probably knows what
Speaker 1: they're talking about, but we're not there. We're at the
Speaker 1: end of a Scooby Doo episode. Okay, that's where we
Speaker 1: are in modern journalism, society, institutions of higher learning, and
Speaker 1: purported experts. Right, We've ripped the mask off and it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's old man Jenkins. And so when I
Speaker 1: read that and whether and it's unfair, arguably, but I'm
Speaker 1: forced into this situation. I assume whatever follows is complete
Speaker 1: utther bs because I see how it's you know, where
Speaker 1: it's positioned, where the articles getting run, the credentials that
Speaker 1: are attached, what it takes to thrive in the sociology
Speaker 1: department of a modern major university, and I that person
Speaker 1: is captured. Even among the chaos generated by Trump's recent
Speaker 1: cabinet picks, one stands out for the extensive suffering and
Speaker 1: lasting institutional damage it may cause. Robert F. Kennedy to
Speaker 1: lead HHS one of civilization's greatest achievements. In nineteen hundred,
Speaker 1: up to thirty percent of infants in some US cities
Speaker 1: never made it to their first birthday. Okay, I have
Speaker 1: a question if the Department of Health and Human Services
Speaker 1: the government bureaucracy, not the people who are focused on
Speaker 1: solving diseases and instituting better care. And this is there's
Speaker 1: a certain complexity to this because through HHS you have
Speaker 1: actual funding that has been done for some pretty significant things.
Speaker 1: But the question becomes it once you've decided that the
Speaker 1: only reason that they would continue to create vaccines, therapies,
Speaker 1: genetic therapies, different ways of doing things is because HHS,
Speaker 1: you know, handle this, and not because people wanted not there.
Speaker 1: You didn't want all their kids to die, right, which
Speaker 1: is another good motivation. Right They're like, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: basically like look at there's a reason they used to
Speaker 1: have twenty kids. You guys all know this, right, because
Speaker 1: you're like, let's see who wins, right, Let's see who,
Speaker 1: Let's see who's still around end of their teenage years.
Speaker 1: It was things were different, but they didn't want their
Speaker 1: kids to die. So these things, these these it is
Speaker 1: the idea that the only reason we have these achievements
Speaker 1: is because of government, which is now the opposite mindset
Speaker 1: that the majority of the country agrees with. And you
Speaker 1: can sit there and go, well, they're they're they're ludites,
Speaker 1: they're they're idiots, they're they're knuckle draggers. But you are
Speaker 1: the ones who squandered this. After HHS embrace what was
Speaker 1: going on with China and the manipulation of the UN
Speaker 1: with all the COVID stuff, the China flu uh you know,
Speaker 1: the Wuhan flu. At that point, people are stepping away
Speaker 1: with the manipulation you saw or we're right, we know
Speaker 1: these things. And if you get that vaccine, you can't
Speaker 1: give or get it. You're just you're like an NPC.
Speaker 1: You have nothing to do. Now, Well, that obviously turned
Speaker 1: out to be complete and utterer bs like nobody believes
Speaker 1: that the six foot thing, Yeah, we made that up.
Speaker 1: These are all the things. So forgive me if even
Speaker 1: I disagree with some of the things that Kennedy may
Speaker 1: bring up, if I don't think that what you've been
Speaker 1: doing couldn't be any isn't any better than anything he's
Speaker 1: going to do, Because that's that's the real power of
Speaker 1: the institution, not just HHS, but you know, our system
Speaker 1: of government here is can it survive even people coming
Speaker 1: in who don't know what they're doing and don't I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that's the thing with Kennedy there. Look, if
Speaker 1: Kennedy turns ninety nine percent of his attention just to
Speaker 1: the nutritional side of things, and I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot of win there, So I think he will. I
Speaker 1: watched a quote where they were he said, I spent
Speaker 1: thirty years basically pulling mercury out of fish, right, And
Speaker 1: really it's instrumental if you look at from an environmental
Speaker 1: law practice, what Kennedy did with the cleanup of the
Speaker 1: waters just around New York City, just around New York City.
Speaker 1: And he says, you know, because this was getting into
Speaker 1: the seafood supply. This was his gihod and he was
Speaker 1: very successful at it. He says it doesn't make me
Speaker 1: anti fish. That's true, obviously not anti fish. So when
Speaker 1: you approach it like that, let me tell you what
Speaker 1: people are going to lean into, and it will come
Speaker 1: down to whatever actions he takes. But just because you
Speaker 1: got somebody with some PhDs in sociology, they may be
Speaker 1: a very learned individual. But I assume and I gave
Speaker 1: it the credit of reading it. And yes, I don't
Speaker 1: have multiple degrees, I don't teach at Princeton all of that.
Speaker 1: But I'm smart enough to recognize that this wasn't written
Speaker 1: out of anything other than the same absurd This is
Speaker 1: the credentialed version, right, This is the one with p
Speaker 1: hds after it of the same diatribe that this woman
Speaker 1: made because she went on a dating app and some
Speaker 1: guy she almost one night standing and gave it up
Speaker 1: to might have been a Trump supporter. This is just
Speaker 1: the less polished version, too scared put in the brain
Speaker 1: of the author of that article, who may be well intentioned.
Speaker 2: Every message and every prove of.
Speaker 6: This makes me thing.
Speaker 4: That it could be.
Speaker 1: YEA, yeah, I gotta here's the thing I don't know
Speaker 1: this is. And to be fair, sometimes this comes with
Speaker 1: wisdom and age and all that maybe don't hook up
Speaker 1: with some dude who you you didn't even bother to
Speaker 1: figure out the thing that you deter to be the
Speaker 1: most intro like the biggest part of your personality, and
Speaker 1: you were just you're just willing to show up, and
Speaker 1: you know, drop the pants. I'm not trying to do
Speaker 1: the moral thing. You know, that's not that's not me.
Speaker 1: I would not sit on that, that that throne of
Speaker 1: lies there, but maybe take a step back from that,
Speaker 1: and then you have again this the polished version of
Speaker 1: it in the form of an op ed that runs there.
Speaker 1: And that's what people here now, and they don't take
Speaker 1: you seriously, and it's your own fault. I don't know
Speaker 1: that you'll ever get it back. All right eight eight
Speaker 1: eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Let's get
Speaker 1: Jeff Marf. He's ready from the Weather Channel, the little
Speaker 1: weather thing here? Is it because the cowgirls play tonight?
Speaker 1: Is that why he just can't even show up?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I think maybe he's anticipating another crushing defeat, so he's
Speaker 8: getting prepared.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I like the Texans and I just
Speaker 1: I'll throw that out there. But all right, well, we'll
Speaker 1: make fun of him when he returns. Let's make light
Speaker 1: of the weather now.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we got not a bad way to start
Speaker 2: off the week.
Speaker 8: Little on the cool side as you hit out this morning,
Speaker 8: but during the afternoon you should warm all the way
Speaker 8: up to seventy one with sunshine and then partly cloudy
Speaker 8: tonight with the loan in the upper forties into the
Speaker 8: low seventies again Tomorrow, there'll be an increasing cloud cover
Speaker 8: and then some showers will pop up late tomorrow night
Speaker 8: ahead of our front with a low fifty seven. That
Speaker 8: front's going to bring in some more rainfall heading through Wednesday.
Speaker 8: As the high temperature hits seventy degrees, then it certainly
Speaker 8: will feel more like November later in the week with
Speaker 8: cooler air moving in. For Thursday and Friday, there'll be
Speaker 8: sunshine each afternoon. High temperature is hitting the load to
Speaker 8: mid fifties. Overnight lows will settle in the upper thirties.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, appreciate it, sir. Is it you again tomorrow? Then?
Speaker 2: Actually ken moon and then I think Ray returns Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well, we'll talk to you soon. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you having a good one, yeah, yeah, and we'll
Speaker 1: take a break come back. We've got Jeff Bellinger Bloomberg News. Next.
Speaker 1: Hang on to Jeff Bellinger at inappropriate and proper time
Speaker 1: today because he's not going to know what to do
Speaker 1: with the time. So, Jeff, how is your weekend? And sir,
Speaker 1: we'll do a little cross stock here.
Speaker 3: Oh it was very nice, had a good time. How
Speaker 3: about yours? Casey?
Speaker 1: I was good. Cross is very excited?
Speaker 3: Good? What's he excited about?
Speaker 1: That thing that happened in the state you live in? Well,
Speaker 1: do you love in Jersey or New York?
Speaker 3: I live in New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Oh, but you're in the Yeah, you know, you see
Speaker 1: the thing with the team from New York the bills
Speaker 1: there to see what happened that.
Speaker 3: I did not.
Speaker 1: Oh, after we're done, you should google that. Okay, I
Speaker 1: will do that.
Speaker 3: I'll check that out certainly, all right, right anyway?
Speaker 7: Yes, Well, a stock market futures do suggest a little
Speaker 7: bit of normalization after.
Speaker 3: A big down week last week.
Speaker 7: S and P futures are up four, Nasdaq futures up
Speaker 7: sixty two, Dow futures are down sixty points. Right now,
Speaker 7: if you'll be driving somewhere for Thanksgiving, you can expect
Speaker 7: to have a lot of company on the roads, but
Speaker 7: your wallet may get a break. It's projected that holiday
Speaker 7: travel will be back to pre pandemic levels in ricks
Speaker 7: has some big cities, we'll see double the usual amount
Speaker 7: of traffic next week. Triple A expects the average nationwide
Speaker 7: price of gasoline to be below three dollars a gallon,
Speaker 7: the lowest in three years. Business leaders all around the
Speaker 7: world are under a lot of pressure. A study by
Speaker 7: Boston Consulting says most companies that set cost cutting goals
Speaker 7: don't hit their savings targets. Netflix and Walt Disney will
Speaker 7: get some new competition in Asia as Warner Brothers Discovery
Speaker 7: and produces its Max streaming service to Asian markets this week. Netflix, meanwhile,
Speaker 7: as hoping an NFL contest and a big music star
Speaker 7: will draw new subscribers this holiday season.
Speaker 3: Beyonce.
Speaker 7: We'll perform on Christmas Day during the Houston Texas at
Speaker 7: Houston Texans Baltimore Ravens game, which will be seen only
Speaker 7: on Netflix. It's reported Warner Brothers, Discovery and the National
Speaker 7: Basketball Association have settled their legal differences. Warner Brothers had
Speaker 7: sued the NBA after it lost its decades old right
Speaker 7: to broadcast games sources say this new settlement gives Warner
Speaker 7: Brothers some international broadcast rights, but domestic rights still will
Speaker 7: go to Walt Disney, Comcast, and Amazon. A lot of
Speaker 7: tech workers think they'll have to do some career hopping
Speaker 7: during their professional lives.
Speaker 3: Forty percent of the.
Speaker 7: Tech pros surveyed by Amadaeus expect to change careers at
Speaker 7: least three times to adapt to new technologies and The
Speaker 7: Amazon MGM film Red One was the weekend's number one movie,
Speaker 7: with estimated ticket sales of thirty four million dollars.
Speaker 1: Casey, all right, real quick, I'm gonna play piece of audio.
Speaker 1: Tell me if this stirs any memories.
Speaker 4: Okay, here we go, banks left now taken off.
Speaker 2: Canna run forty?
Speaker 1: Got it? And then it goes inside the turn to
Speaker 1: five O, the pie P the un tel.
Speaker 3: Nothing that no a football game, I'm guessing right.
Speaker 1: You get that? Okay, all right, all right, I just
Speaker 1: thought I would take a run at it. All right, Jeff,
Speaker 1: we'll talk.
Speaker 2: About okay, all right, take care And you know I
Speaker 2: appreciate him not breaking the jinks. That's what it is. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he understands the jink situation and right.
Speaker 1: To his appear not to have any knowledge of it.
Speaker 1: The thing that.
Speaker 2: Happened, I for one, am not interested in a silly
Speaker 2: football game.
Speaker 1: No, yesterday, when I texted you something, let me quite complimentary.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, and this is somebody who is a
Speaker 1: fan of scrambling qbs. I said, uh well, I said
Speaker 1: two things. One, what Alan just did is one of
Speaker 1: the most amazing things I've watched a quarterback do. I
Speaker 1: meant that I met that buddy. And then the other
Speaker 1: thing I also meant was the amount of sadness the
Speaker 1: universe is setting you guys up for should be criminal.
Speaker 2: Oh I can't wait to be completely rushed in January.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Just just to reiterate, this has been my
Speaker 2: strategy entire season, because every time the topic comes up,
Speaker 2: I don't talk about it because I'm trying to completely
Speaker 2: just a media blackout of all of it, because then
Speaker 2: the team will win the Super Bowl, because when I
Speaker 2: pay attention, they lose. So us just talking about this,
Speaker 2: we're probably just I'm talking about what there's nothing. We're
Speaker 2: talking about the spirit of America and stuff right with
Speaker 2: the with the the rock photo things, that's all left.
Speaker 4: I'll take it all, gonna run forty got it and
Speaker 4: then do it justice.
Speaker 2: It was spin mode, bumping into people, just knocking people
Speaker 2: whose job is just to tackle people. Forty five percent
Speaker 2: of the team. Uh, the chiefs there touched him on
Speaker 2: that play.
Speaker 1: And they couldn't do anything. And just do you understand
Speaker 1: how the officiating was during the first pick of Mahomes Nott.
Speaker 1: Ross isn't talking about this.
Speaker 2: I am after they called a penalty for essentially embarrassing him,
Speaker 2: but there was nothing they could do about him.
Speaker 1: And then it was just it was just ty. And
Speaker 1: here's the thing too, I think they're probably good friends.
Speaker 1: They could probably sit there and not even talk about
Speaker 1: what happened in the game after, and that's fine, that's good,
Speaker 1: but it was it was pretty crazy. And yeah, well
Speaker 1: I hope you don't have to do a welfare check,
Speaker 1: but it's a possibility for you know what Ross is.
Speaker 1: They're screaming in the Parliament like he's this crazy lady
Speaker 1: from New Zealand. Could we get tea pain to auto
Speaker 1: tune that or whatever they did during that era for
Speaker 1: five minutes?
Speaker 2: But apparently that's her thing. Really, she does that all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And and there's also the part
Speaker 1: where her own people, who again I got no problem.
Speaker 1: I you know, celebrate that and and but it's a it's.
Speaker 2: A they're not indigenous to the area.
Speaker 1: Correct. They came to there and then murdered the other
Speaker 1: people which had been there kind of an offshoot of
Speaker 1: their own people.
Speaker 2: You know, they went there, they conquered them, but then
Speaker 2: they also ate them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well I was that was gonna be the the
Speaker 1: cherry on top, But now that I'm making a food
Speaker 1: reference out of that, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Uh, Like these are things I I I remember one
Speaker 2: of the things that I got to do was to
Speaker 2: go because I'm a history and.
Speaker 1: So they're like, hey, do you want to go a
Speaker 1: place where they sacrificed a bunch of people back in
Speaker 1: like the meso American stuff. And I'm like, sign me up.
Speaker 2: I'll go check that. I know most people on vacationally.
Speaker 2: I want to go sit on the beach with the
Speaker 2: all inclusive. I'm gonna go see that. I want to
Speaker 2: see the sacrificial altar.
Speaker 1: Sign me up. And so I'm there and like they're
Speaker 1: going over all the stuff and basically here's what they do,
Speaker 1: and then capture another one. And then it turned into
Speaker 1: like a festival. Well, they basically executed all of them,
Speaker 1: but they also like they would have these mass I can't. Basically,
Speaker 1: they would rape captives to death, but they had to
Speaker 1: do so in a manner where it was loud enough
Speaker 1: the gods could hear it happening. And I remember the
Speaker 1: tour got explaining this, and my only thought was Columbus
Speaker 1: didn't get here soon enough, because what