Speaker 1: We live in a post. There were several names for it,
Speaker 1: but post Liberation Tariff Liberation Day, which was yesterday at
Speaker 1: around four o'clockish. Trump out there with his big list
Speaker 1: o tariffs. Although there is some interesting little nuggets, like
Speaker 1: the Senate actually took a vote on the Canadian tariffs yesterday,
Speaker 1: so it's not going to go anywhere. But I'm actually
Speaker 1: surprised because the Senate voted not to tariff Canada and
Speaker 1: he had and four Republicans voted for that. Now the House,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's going nowhere in the House, and it
Speaker 1: sure if it landed on Trump's desk, it's absolutely not
Speaker 1: getting signed. But I didn't really understand that because I
Speaker 1: thought can earlier in the day, was right after the
Speaker 1: show yesterday said hey, if you if you have well
Speaker 1: get involved all excuse me, all of our tariffs. I
Speaker 1: can talk this morning and you do the same. So
Speaker 1: is that what we're going to do? Because I feel
Speaker 1: like I'd be cool with that. I think most people would,
Speaker 1: so I don't understand why the Senate did that, but
Speaker 1: Rand Paul was one of the votes too. Actually, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Yesterday it was just so strange with all
Speaker 1: of that. But yeah, so, uh, Donald Trump four o'clock
Speaker 1: yesterday out there with his charts explaining it to everybody.
Speaker 1: Let's listen in.
Speaker 2: So if you look at that China first row, China,
Speaker 2: sixty seven percent, that's tariffs charged to the USA, including
Speaker 2: currency manipulation and trade barriers. So sixty seven percent. I
Speaker 2: think you can, for the most part see it. Those
Speaker 2: with good eyes with bad eyes. We didn't want to
Speaker 2: bring it's very windy out here.
Speaker 1: We didn't want to bring.
Speaker 2: Out the big charts because it had no chance of standing. Fortunately,
Speaker 2: we came armed with a little smaller chart.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, and people go, oh, he rambles like
Speaker 1: Biden does. Now he knows what he's saying. Even if
Speaker 1: it's weird. You realize that, right, okay, Like what was
Speaker 1: what was the thing the other day is like I'm
Speaker 1: the fertilization president. Like got a big laugh. It's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be fine. But look, China, China is the big one. Obviously,
Speaker 1: sixty seven percent. We will China do kudos on pointing
Speaker 1: out some of the other crap that they pull. I
Speaker 1: don't know the answer is going to be today is
Speaker 1: going to be very interesting because you know, like the
Speaker 1: rest of the world's up and doing business already. I mean,
Speaker 1: clearly we are, but but you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: So they're going to have to figure out what are
Speaker 1: they going to do if you're the EU, or if
Speaker 1: you are even a conglomerate trade alliance with China, Japan
Speaker 1: and Korea, as some are speculating, which I don't know
Speaker 1: how that worked because they all kind of hate each other.
Speaker 1: How do you how do you not just come because
Speaker 1: because the trade imbalance all goes in our direction, you
Speaker 1: need us more than we need you, And especially those
Speaker 1: Asian countries, not just China with all their cheap stuff,
Speaker 1: but Japan and Korea. Their biggest companies in those countries
Speaker 1: do immense business in the US. Right Automobiles, which is
Speaker 1: a twenty five now manufactur whre it's manufactured will matter,
Speaker 1: and there have been investments. Obviously, Toyota and Honda and
Speaker 1: others have plants in the US. So I don't know
Speaker 1: what that looks like. But you know, everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is you know, this could be the worst day
Speaker 1: on the stock marking forever. I saw. I saw some
Speaker 1: really crazy like the end is Ni Sandwich Board, New
Speaker 1: York jump Out of, you know, because the stock market
Speaker 1: crashed Black Monday kind of tweets yesterday and then I
Speaker 1: saw futures up, So I don't know what the hell
Speaker 1: is going on. I guess we'll find out together. We'll
Speaker 1: talk to Jeff later. Maybe he can prepare us for it.
Speaker 1: But you know, ultimately today, yesterday was the big day,
Speaker 1: it was the D Day, but today's really the big day.
Speaker 1: How will they react? What will they decide to do?
Speaker 1: And the answer is I have to assume most of
Speaker 1: them will just eighty six their tariffs or match them.
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know, but Trump was burned through
Speaker 1: that whole list yesterday. Man, it was crazy.
Speaker 2: European Union they're very tough, very very tough traders, you know,
Speaker 2: you think of European Union, very friendly. They rip us off.
Speaker 2: It's so sad to see. It's so pathetic. Thirty nine percent.
Speaker 2: We're going to charge them twenty percent. So we charge
Speaker 2: you can potentially have Vietnam. Great negotiators, great people, they
Speaker 2: like me.
Speaker 3: I like them.
Speaker 2: The problem is they charge us ninety percent. We're gonna
Speaker 2: charge them forty six percent tariff.
Speaker 1: That is true. I saw a documentary once where this
Speaker 1: this woman this Vitamese woman was negotiating with like ten
Speaker 1: men at the same time and holding her own man,
Speaker 1: so and and she did promise to love them a
Speaker 1: long time. So had that going for you. I didn't
Speaker 1: feeling needed to up the full metal jacket clip, but
Speaker 1: you all remember. So, yeah, there's a lot on there.
Speaker 1: And I was looking over the charts there, and yeah,
Speaker 1: the irony is for a lot of them, it's not
Speaker 1: even that they have really high tariffs. It's just that,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, I mean, ten percent, still high,
Speaker 1: But ultimately it's kind of baked into the cake of
Speaker 1: a lot of these products. So if you're a country
Speaker 1: like Vietnam where they do a lot of manufacturing, Vietnam's
Speaker 1: interesting too because China manufactures their cheap crap in Vietnam
Speaker 1: for their market. So I don't understand that whole dynamic.
Speaker 1: But ultimately, if you're Vietnam, you're one of these countries,
Speaker 1: you don't really have a choice. You don't have a choice.
Speaker 1: We have to be Vietnam's largest export if maybe it's China,
Speaker 1: but if if it's not, it's US, and if it is,
Speaker 1: then we're two. Like this isn't even a question So
Speaker 1: I'm not going to delve too much into what Trump
Speaker 1: laid out yesterday because again, the big stories are going
Speaker 1: to be the reactions today, which I expect because the
Speaker 1: world is hours ahead of us, so to speak. We
Speaker 1: might start getting before the stock market opens because they're
Speaker 1: going to want to position ahead of this thing, especially
Speaker 1: for companies that trade and have an entity in the US,
Speaker 1: even though they're foreign or owned, that trade on the
Speaker 1: stock market, like, they need to get this out before
Speaker 1: trading starts today because if not, their stock's going to
Speaker 1: get hammered. If you're a South Korean company but you
Speaker 1: have a US based entity that is publicly traded, you
Speaker 1: can't just let the stock market do its thing if
Speaker 1: you just got a twenty five percent tariff put on
Speaker 1: your vehicles. So I expect this is going to be
Speaker 1: very busy, very early in the day. All right, coming
Speaker 1: up on the show, Stephen Kent will join us. He
Speaker 1: is not traveling the world, so we did confirm and
Speaker 1: we got lots to get into with him. That'll be
Speaker 1: at eight oh five. And they're carjacking the Amish now,
Speaker 1: so that's the thing. Okay, all right, let me do this.
Speaker 1: We'll hit a break come right Back, CaCO Day radio
Speaker 1: program talking with one of the people from Parks and
Speaker 1: rec on a podcast, and then somebody wrote a story
Speaker 1: based on their discussion because obviously a lot of people
Speaker 1: were very interested and it was like only six percent
Speaker 1: of filming now for major network television or movies is
Speaker 1: even being done in La or California for that matter.
Speaker 1: And actually a lot of the production Come He's are
Speaker 1: headquartered now in Nevada. But California has figured out a
Speaker 1: way to essentially kill the film industry too, which is amazing,
Speaker 1: just amazing. Now, I don't like the tax credit game
Speaker 1: that the movie companies play, right, I never liked it.
Speaker 1: I know that we got into the big thing in
Speaker 1: North Carolina where Republicans are like, no, we're not doing this,
Speaker 1: and then a lot of the companies say, well, we're
Speaker 1: going to go to Georgia. We're going to go you know,
Speaker 1: they film over in Eastern Europe a lot of it
Speaker 1: because they get huge tax benefits in Canada. That always
Speaker 1: irritated me too. Whenever they're doing like a more modern
Speaker 1: Western or you know, anything that requires the big mountains
Speaker 1: of the Rocky Mountains or you know, like Jackson or
Speaker 1: any of that, they film it primarily in Canada because
Speaker 1: Canada gives them big tax credits. But California has just
Speaker 1: made it so arduous that you know, there was still
Speaker 1: filming there and now people are like, yeah, we're not
Speaker 1: doing this. Yeah. It was Rob Low who was talking
Speaker 1: about because I guess they had another show they were
Speaker 1: going to do and they were like, well, we get
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to move to I can't remember where
Speaker 1: it was. And he's like, yeah, no, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to do it. But like all those people, you know,
Speaker 1: all those people, the behind the scenes folks, not the
Speaker 1: famous people, don't. I don't know how they're making a
Speaker 1: rent if they're not doing productions there. And that's crazy
Speaker 1: because like in the late nineties, when I went down
Speaker 1: to Santa Barbara to go to school, obviously I would
Speaker 1: take trips down to La a couple hours drive. You
Speaker 1: want to go see it. You know you're from Wyoming,
Speaker 1: let's go, let's go see the stars and all of that.
Speaker 1: And whenever i'd go down there, I don't there was
Speaker 1: always some like film production. I would try buy they
Speaker 1: got a road closed, or this block is closed, and
Speaker 1: that was just kind of the atmosphere there, and it's
Speaker 1: one of the things that maybe made La bearable at
Speaker 1: the time. I don't know, but yeah, they've cooked their
Speaker 1: whole movie industry there and now they're pushing the companies
Speaker 1: to Nevada, right, and Gavin Newsom's out here doing the
Speaker 1: right washing. So just you know, keep a keep an
Speaker 1: eye California. When Gavin Newsom's running for president, which I
Speaker 1: think is a pretty safe bet. Dude, it's going to
Speaker 1: be a zoom man on the Democrat side. There's going
Speaker 1: to be like, I don't know how many candidates, but
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a crazy number, crazy number of crazies.
Speaker 1: It's like we talked about yesterday with Corey Booker. Why
Speaker 1: would he do that thing? Wasn't a piece of legislation.
Speaker 1: Now he's just trying to build up his profile so
Speaker 1: he can go have his Spartacus moment again. That's an
Speaker 1: absolute loon man. All right. Let me get to this.
Speaker 1: Do what an absolute garbage headline yesterday? So I'm sure
Speaker 1: you saw different versions of this. Now this is New
Speaker 1: York Post is a little more gathered. Daily Mail lost
Speaker 1: their mind on this. They thought they had themselves a
Speaker 1: pretty big scoop let me ask you, what is your
Speaker 1: understanding of Elon's federal government special employee tenure? What do
Speaker 1: you understand it to be? Do you understand it to
Speaker 1: be open ended? And he's just there for the No,
Speaker 1: you don't, right, because they literally held a press conference
Speaker 1: to point out he's a special government employee, he has
Speaker 1: maximum I think it's one hundred and thirty days. We're
Speaker 1: at one hundred now. And then he goes back to
Speaker 1: doing his thing. I'm sure they'll talk on the phone
Speaker 1: and all that, but there was, for some reason, there
Speaker 1: was this need on the part of quote unquote journalists
Speaker 1: to make it sound like it was something else entirely.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. I want to make sure
Speaker 1: I had the right headline here, all right, here we go.
Speaker 1: This is Elon must dramatically steps down from doze and
Speaker 1: shock move after Trump expressed private doubts. Okay, first off,
Speaker 1: I don't believe the second half of that. Have you
Speaker 1: seen any indicator that Trump and Elon don't get along.
Speaker 1: I think Donald Trump basically is getting ready to adopt
Speaker 1: his kid that I see so many you're you see
Speaker 1: the videos of Elon's kid walking around his little tiny
Speaker 1: suit man full of energy just busting around Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: who clearly likes kids. It's very wholesome.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: It's really going to irritate a lot of moonbats is
Speaker 1: when Elon's kid. And look, there's a lot to criticize,
Speaker 1: the whole Ashley Saint Clair and the all the baby
Speaker 1: mot I got it. But like his kid, his kid
Speaker 1: looks like if his kid grows up to be like
Speaker 1: well adjusted, which isn't easy when your dad's the richest
Speaker 1: person in the world, let's be honest. But like I
Speaker 1: have hoped that he might, that'd be pretty good. And
Speaker 1: you know what, Donald Trump seems to have raised kids
Speaker 1: that are don't get me wrong. Yeah, of the older
Speaker 1: sons they like to party back in the day, but
Speaker 1: for the most part they're not the train wrecks of
Speaker 1: Hollywood kids. So it can be done. But like, why
Speaker 1: are you what? What is this?
Speaker 5: Oh, there's quote express private doubts to who oh your
Speaker 5: anonymous source, as per usual, And again Daily Mail, I
Speaker 5: understand you're British and you guys are very involved with
Speaker 5: rounding up ninja swords or whatever you're doing right now.
Speaker 1: His employment literally had a stated timeline on it. It
Speaker 1: had a stated timeline to the point where we discussed
Speaker 1: on this show, if that was the thing that he
Speaker 1: should do, right, just do that? Can he be long?
Speaker 1: Can he be in there longer? Because clearly there's a
Speaker 1: lot to do. The main the guest bathroom shower. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'd ever showered in there, be quite
Speaker 1: honest with you, but I used it this morning. And
Speaker 1: it was because my cleaning lady comes today and I
Speaker 1: put like the foam stuff that you're gonna let sit
Speaker 1: for a while in the main shower so that when she,
Speaker 1: because she comes early in the morning, basically is going
Speaker 1: to do like a deep clean in there. So I
Speaker 1: did that, and I'm all right. So I showered the
Speaker 1: other thing this morning, and I turn the shower on.
Speaker 1: Everything's fine. I like a little steam shower in the morning.
Speaker 1: That one's not a steam shower, but I can get
Speaker 1: it pretty steamy. So I kind of have it on there,
Speaker 1: trying to steam it up and there before I get
Speaker 1: in and I look over and like, my seat, there's
Speaker 1: a leak by the sink. What's up with that? And
Speaker 1: I know it's all on the same line because actually
Speaker 1: the kitchen sink, it's adjacent to the kitchen. So the
Speaker 1: kitchen sink goes through there because and I figured that
Speaker 1: out because I've washed dishes and put soap. You know,
Speaker 1: you get the bubbles down there, and then went into
Speaker 1: the guest bathroom and you know, like wash hands or something,
Speaker 1: and you can see a little of the bubbles. So
Speaker 1: I got all of that. The thing I'm worried about
Speaker 1: is me sitting there going you know what, I should
Speaker 1: not call a plumber. I should open the wall myself.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm telling myself this morning. And I know
Speaker 1: that's a bad idea. I know that's not smart, but
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's like this innate dude thing where
Speaker 1: you're just like, I'll be so mad if I got
Speaker 1: to like replace one little plamp or something and I
Speaker 1: brought some dude out here. I got to And don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong, God bless you guys, you plumbers and
Speaker 1: tradesmen out there, but you know how it is. And frankly,
Speaker 1: you probably like my line of thinking because I'll probably
Speaker 1: screw something up and I'll have to pay a guy
Speaker 1: more don't know, don't know, never had that happen, though,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. Ross Are you call somebody,
Speaker 1: or do you at least try to go make it
Speaker 1: worse before you.
Speaker 3: I like plumbing, Okay, plumbing makes sense to me, like yeah,
Speaker 3: like if something electrical breaks the breaker box or something,
Speaker 3: obviously I can fix the fuse and that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: Like I'm more hesitant to fix an electrical process, right
Speaker 3: because death. Yeah, and I can't really see it. But
Speaker 3: plumbing to me makes more sense, Like I'll fix plumbing
Speaker 3: issues on my own if they pop up.
Speaker 1: I just assume if I cry those tiles off, which
Speaker 1: I'm sure is not going to be the extent of it.
Speaker 1: It's just the connection for the you know, the curve
Speaker 1: pipe that's under the sink. You know, it's got one
Speaker 1: of those the U pipes or whatever, and then it
Speaker 1: goes into the wall. It's clearly coming from right, well,
Speaker 1: it's coming out of that where it goes into the wall.
Speaker 1: So like I shouldn't need somebody for that, right, just
Speaker 1: go ahead and knock that out.
Speaker 3: So you're not saying, like the sink vanity isn't flooding,
Speaker 3: it's it's underneath the sink or so.
Speaker 1: It's that yeah, and it's it's just a standalone sink.
Speaker 1: It's a much smaller bathroom. It doesn't even it's just
Speaker 1: a standalone sink, and then it has the you can
Speaker 1: see the U pipe. There's not a cabinet or anything.
Speaker 1: It literally is on the pedestal, just sitting there, and
Speaker 1: then it has that U pipe right and then it
Speaker 1: goes into the wall, and the water was coming out
Speaker 1: right where it goes into the wall. I did not
Speaker 1: use the sink though, just to be clear, Uh, I
Speaker 1: mean eventually because I start screwing with it. But uh,
Speaker 1: this is just from having the shower on. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think. The last person I had in uh, staying
Speaker 1: that guest room was like eight months ago, and he
Speaker 1: didn't say anything. So I don't know. But it's like
Speaker 1: my demons are well, I could fix this, and I
Speaker 1: just realized I'm probably gonna make some dude's day who
Speaker 1: does plumbing because I'm gonna screw it up. I don't
Speaker 1: know what's going on back there, and frankly, I I
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. I just I know the
Speaker 1: routing of the water just from the uh you know,
Speaker 1: the soapy bubbles from the kitchen sink clearly passes through there.
Speaker 1: But I don't know what's going on behind it. And
Speaker 1: then the nightmare fuel is is it leaking back there
Speaker 1: but it only presents when the shower's on in the bathroom.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be like a constant leak. But you're
Speaker 3: seeing more of it because now the pressure it's going through,
Speaker 3: because I mean there's always water in those pipes. It's
Speaker 3: not like those pipes are empty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, I'm gonna, yeah, I'm gonna, like I said,
Speaker 1: I already screw it up and then call somebody.
Speaker 3: So that's the fear of like that. So obviously you
Speaker 3: have a leak that's coming, like you know you don't want,
Speaker 3: or something you like in the wall, you know.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, all the water damage crossed the mine
Speaker 1: this morning.
Speaker 3: So I'm always in the lookout for that sort of stuff,
Speaker 3: Like always, I'm always looking at the walls behind the sinks,
Speaker 3: and I'm like super paranoid about that kind of stuff
Speaker 3: because we're getting old, man, I'm telling you, that's why.
Speaker 3: And it was a meme I read somewhere. But it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, owning a house is hearing a noise and
Speaker 3: then hoping it's a ghost because you don't want to
Speaker 3: have to pay another x amount of dollars to fix
Speaker 3: whatever's broke. Now you're like, please let it be a
Speaker 3: poltergeist one.
Speaker 1: I've done endorsements for a foundation repair company for years, years, years, years,
Speaker 1: and whenever I talk to these dudes, they're just like
Speaker 1: everyone everyone who has a foundation issue knows they haven't,
Speaker 1: and like you would be amazed how long they will
Speaker 1: pretend they don't. And it's like, you know, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's holding your house up, and You're like, maybe it's
Speaker 1: a ghost. I don't know, maybe that's why the doors
Speaker 1: and windows don't work the way they used to. And
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a hundred percent on that train, man, But
Speaker 1: now I'm like freaking out, Like I'm sitting here right now.
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's probably like hundreds of gallons of why
Speaker 1: my water bill is not crazy, So like I don't
Speaker 1: think there's a big leak or anything, but uh, just
Speaker 1: nightmare scenarios. It's just gonna be rats and cockroaches and
Speaker 1: one of those wuhan bats with COVID and and I'll
Speaker 1: break it and then somebody's somebody's gonna get rich. What
Speaker 1: is this? People are? I got people telling me call
Speaker 1: the plumber, call the well. No, if I screw it
Speaker 1: up first, then call the plumber. The plumber will he'll
Speaker 1: make more money. I'm stimulating the economy through my own
Speaker 1: refusal to accept that I probably shouldn't open my own
Speaker 1: wall here. And I'm not not handy. I know how
Speaker 1: to fix stuff I do in high school, I could
Speaker 1: take you know, because remember when engines were you could
Speaker 1: work on them as a normal person. Like I can
Speaker 1: take a full sized fifty apart and put it right
Speaker 1: back together, no problem. I'll get the firing order right,
Speaker 1: the timing bell to get it like, I can do that.
Speaker 1: Not now now, if I open a car hood, I'm like, nope,
Speaker 1: I'm touching that.
Speaker 3: If it involves like having to cut open the wall,
Speaker 3: I'll probably call someone just because I know how I am,
Speaker 3: and I'll cut my arm off or something because I'm
Speaker 3: an absolute idiot.
Speaker 1: Well we have so I have big tiles in that bathroom,
Speaker 1: and you can actually you can add they're not grouded
Speaker 1: in if they snap in, so I can pull that off.
Speaker 1: But I can't remember if there's another thing behind there.
Speaker 3: So we had an issue with our shower where it
Speaker 3: was the pressure gauge inside the shower where the faucets
Speaker 3: hook up too. That makes the water come through. And
Speaker 3: when we put a whole new thing in, we had
Speaker 3: to replace it. And to get to that part you
Speaker 3: had to dry, You had to drill through the back,
Speaker 3: you had to cut a hole in the back wall
Speaker 3: of the room adjacent to it. You couldn't do it
Speaker 3: through the front. And Marky was super depressed, like, Oh,
Speaker 3: we're gonna have this panel on our wall that goes
Speaker 3: to the put you know that you jump in it
Speaker 3: and see it. And I was super excited. I'm like,
Speaker 3: this is the greatest thing ever because now something breaks
Speaker 3: that can just open his panel and fix it.
Speaker 1: Dude's access panel in my main bathroom off, It's amazing.
Speaker 3: She's like, what are you gonna do with I'm like,
Speaker 3: just put something in front of it, put a dresser
Speaker 3: in front of it, put a picture over it. Nobody's
Speaker 3: gonna know. But I was excited because I'm thinking like
Speaker 3: way down the road and I'm like, eventually something is
Speaker 3: gonna break and when it does, we can easily fix it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, have you seen that? You ever see that video?
Speaker 1: I've seen it on Twitter every now and then. It's
Speaker 1: like some old dude and his son right, and they're
Speaker 1: trying to like make a bedwork and his son's like,
Speaker 1: man if I just had a two by four like
Speaker 1: this on top, And the guy goes running down to
Speaker 1: his basement because he had this thing for ten years.
Speaker 3: The junk pile I've had, this perfect piece of would
Speaker 3: have been just hold onto. Yeah, it's like the box
Speaker 3: of cables. But the difference is you never used the
Speaker 3: box of cables. You can throw it out.
Speaker 1: It's fine.
Speaker 3: No, I have a box of cables. And it's like
Speaker 3: I have know.
Speaker 1: Many boxes and cables, so many I don't even know
Speaker 1: what they go for. But one day, one day, you
Speaker 1: know what, though I would say once.
Speaker 3: A year, you would say you'd one day. But the
Speaker 3: funny stuff, like a lot of that stuff you're never
Speaker 3: gonna like do you have a big box TV with
Speaker 3: the yellow, the red and the white that you used?
Speaker 1: You're never gonna do so many of those. It's things
Speaker 1: I have things that I had Saul make custom our
Speaker 1: former engineer, Sault.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure it's fantastic, all of it.
Speaker 1: It is great, dude. They used like mcgver and it
Speaker 1: was like single use for a very specific like so
Speaker 1: I am simultaneously terrified of what's going on behind the
Speaker 1: wall in my guest bathroom and really excited I may
Speaker 1: get to use my used my saws all later. Is
Speaker 1: that weird? I'm like, I haven't used the saws all
Speaker 1: in a minute.
Speaker 3: So this just after in a place like a joint
Speaker 3: air and l you know, like a yeah.
Speaker 1: Again, I don't know, and the ba the bathrooms were
Speaker 1: renovated like right before I moved in, so I uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Or Oreo'll crack open the wall and it'll be completely
Speaker 3: rotten and you're gonna be screwed.
Speaker 1: So or or the balloons right right? I found gold yeah, man,
Speaker 1: and I won't be the dumb guy who tells everybody either.
Speaker 1: That's where you guys all screw up. Remember those idiots
Speaker 1: outside of San Francisco they found like the uh, I
Speaker 1: don't know, the doaballoons is the right word. But they
Speaker 1: found like old currency from like the gold Rush, right
Speaker 1: on their on their own property. And what do they do.
Speaker 1: They ran into the media and what the state of
Speaker 1: California do. They're like, we think that might be ours now.
Speaker 1: I think they ended up getting to keep it, But
Speaker 1: like this is why you don't tell anyone. So if
Speaker 1: I find the balloons today, I'm not gonna tell you.
Speaker 1: But there may be signs, right, a couple of new
Speaker 1: Bugattis or you know whatever, just to but I won't
Speaker 1: say anything. So I don't know. Today could be a
Speaker 1: very expensive day. That's the point that I'm making, all right,
Speaker 1: everyone's telling me to just call Why do you have
Speaker 1: no confidence?
Speaker 6: Me?
Speaker 3: And I have a complete confidence. What you want to
Speaker 3: do is you want to get the finest, nicest, biggest
Speaker 3: sledgehammer you can find and just crack into the wall.
Speaker 1: No, that's why I have the saws on. No, you
Speaker 1: have a Oh they're amazing.
Speaker 3: I do, yeah, but I'll never use it because I
Speaker 3: don't want to. I will cut my arms off.
Speaker 1: I will either kid from Christmas story. What's going on here? Man?
Speaker 1: I I like I you know what? Now? You guys
Speaker 1: are radicalizing me. All of you emailing me telling me
Speaker 1: to call plumber. You don't have confidence. I'm gonna handle that.
Speaker 3: I can't believe these people are telling you what to do.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna cut. I'm gonna cut my wall up, and
Speaker 1: you can't stop me. I don't know what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do when I get in there because I don't know
Speaker 1: what I'm dealing with, but that's gonna happen. That's the day.
Speaker 1: And then you know, I'll probably make some guys vacation
Speaker 1: fund to the plumbing industry. Oh we'll figure it out,
Speaker 1: all right, six forty six. Sorry I had to vent.
Speaker 1: But now I'm I'm like, none of you have confidence.
Speaker 1: I don't appreciate it. I do. I do rosta. You
Speaker 1: want to see the world burn on most things, so
Speaker 1: I feel like you want to see me fail a
Speaker 1: little bit, a little bit.
Speaker 3: No, man, you can do.
Speaker 1: It, Okay, all right? You want me to video it
Speaker 1: while I do it, so you can.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because people would love to see the instructional video
Speaker 3: that you can provide on YouTube. Like years later, somebody
Speaker 3: will have the same exact issue and they'll go to
Speaker 3: YouTube face.
Speaker 1: On the face by a pipe or something. It's event
Speaker 1: on video.
Speaker 3: It's amazing. Like whatever problem you think you have, you're like,
Speaker 3: this is probably the first time that's ever happened, and
Speaker 3: you go on to Reddit or YouTube and there's to
Speaker 3: be like a billion people with the same exact, specific
Speaker 3: weird issue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, YouTube fix it? Uh not gonna I am a
Speaker 1: constant user. It's good stuff, although I did see, uh
Speaker 1: there are there is an account that does horrible but
Speaker 1: it's not clearly parody. So if you're not paying attention,
Speaker 1: they're trying to get you to destroy stuff. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's the most evil YouTube channel I've ever seen. Like
Speaker 1: they tell you like, ah, you know, like some of
Speaker 1: it's around electric too. I'm like, how are you not
Speaker 1: going to get sued? What the hell's going on? All right,
Speaker 1: So plumbing disaster in my future, but a quick commercial
Speaker 1: break in yours. Hang on although ross things. He's figured
Speaker 1: it out already, so I send him. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to tweet a picture how you guys don't see him
Speaker 1: my plumbing, but i'd have a picture of it for
Speaker 1: when I call inevitably have to call the plumber, but
Speaker 1: maybe I don't. So the two above things. That is
Speaker 1: the water in one? Yeah, so you have one is
Speaker 1: hot because it's on a separate inline water heater. There
Speaker 1: were the white one had a flashing around it. I
Speaker 1: pulled it off when it was leaking and I can
Speaker 1: see some like staining, so clearly water's been a problem there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you sent me a picture of it. I
Speaker 3: love how we're talking about plumbing on the air.
Speaker 1: Hey, you know what, it might help somebody.
Speaker 3: The picture you showed me where that's that you're showed
Speaker 3: me where that the leak is. That's the water out
Speaker 3: So that your issue is you have probably a clog
Speaker 3: in your in your drain line because the water is
Speaker 3: going through your wall, through the end to your shower,
Speaker 3: then down. And the reason you're only seeing the issue
Speaker 3: when you're taking a shower is because all the water
Speaker 3: is getting flushed out and you probably have a clog
Speaker 3: and that's coming out through that line because it has.
Speaker 1: To go through that line of the sink. Drain's fine,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't use the shower in there, but
Speaker 1: that the sink and then the bathroom get used in
Speaker 1: there quite a bit because it's right adjacent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but if you have an issue with the drain,
Speaker 3: I mean that's your water outline. So yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know. That's all on the same line.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, I understand. Oh, it is going to
Speaker 1: be an adventure. Oh what is this? Should you open
Speaker 1: the wall? Oh? As soon as I said I was
Speaker 1: going to open a wall with a saws all. Now
Speaker 1: you guys are all like, yeah, do it?
Speaker 7: Do it?
Speaker 1: Do it right? Okay, I see what's up? I mean
Speaker 1: I'm going to and I shouldn't get I'm going to.
Speaker 3: A train auger.
Speaker 1: Oh, I have an ice fishing augur. I don't believe
Speaker 1: it or not since in the since in the attic,
Speaker 1: don't get a lot of use for that, A lot
Speaker 1: more use back in Minnesota. But hey, what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do?
Speaker 3: I have a collection of augers. I like plumbing, I
Speaker 3: really do. Both my grandfathers are plumbers.
Speaker 1: Really yep, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna break stuff and then
Speaker 1: hopefully I because it's got You're probably right. I just
Speaker 1: don't understand why the shower kicks it off. So I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: We're boring people, or maybe not, we're boring half the
Speaker 1: people other people are.
Speaker 3: You know what it is you have the other like
Speaker 3: professionals because you know in like the service, you know
Speaker 3: in these industries. So you have you have plumbers listening
Speaker 3: right now, just making fun of both of us for
Speaker 3: being complete more.
Speaker 1: And you know what they're doing. They're also shopping for
Speaker 1: a new car because one of them, one of them
Speaker 1: is gonna get paid.
Speaker 3: Did you know I've learned throughout the years. So you know,
Speaker 3: like everybody, like in the military branches, tends to make
Speaker 3: fun of the air Force, like.
Speaker 1: Chair force jokes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've learned that construction workers and like HVAC guys
Speaker 3: tend to make fun of the plumbers because they think
Speaker 3: it's the simplest.
Speaker 1: Of really yeah, at least you starting fights.
Speaker 3: I've heard that before. Like I've heard like people making
Speaker 3: they're like, oh, you're a plumber, It's that's it fair.
Speaker 1: The military, they kind of all make fun of each other.
Speaker 1: So I wonder if tradesmen, Now.
Speaker 3: Just to be clear, I appreciate them all, Like I
Speaker 3: love these jobs where like you actually are doing something
Speaker 3: and you actually have a real skills.
Speaker 1: Do you see the South Would you see the South
Speaker 1: Park movie where all the trades people are like the
Speaker 1: richest people.
Speaker 3: Now, yeah, it's true now because this these are jobs
Speaker 3: that AI cannot do. Yeah, I mean these are secure jobs.
Speaker 1: The COVID, the COVID special movie they did and like
Speaker 1: the you know, you know the dude who runs the
Speaker 1: handyman who's driving around in a bent lea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, people are always going to need you man in
Speaker 3: your services and your skill set.
Speaker 1: Hey. Absolutely, it's about fifty to fifty cut into your
Speaker 1: own wall, do your own plumbing, or call somebody. But
Speaker 1: also I think a lot of people wanted me to
Speaker 1: destruct my guest bathroom. I just want to see the
Speaker 1: world burn. So I don't know if I trust you.
Speaker 1: But Ross and I Todd, we think we have this
Speaker 1: on lockdown. So I'm gonna try one thing and then
Speaker 1: I'll call somebody if it's a problem, which I hope
Speaker 1: it's not all right, so we'll put that to bed.
Speaker 1: How did we get here? And by here I mean
Speaker 1: this armed robbery?
Speaker 8: A vehicle stopped an Amish buggy pulled in front of him,
Speaker 8: pulled him over, and by gunpoint he robbed an Amish
Speaker 8: man took his wallet.
Speaker 9: The sound of hooks hitting the road and the sights
Speaker 9: of Amish buggies are common in New Wilmington. Holgelman says
Speaker 9: what they believe to be the same vehicle. A small
Speaker 9: black car also tried stopping another bug but that buggy
Speaker 9: got away.
Speaker 1: What I have so many questions, who were just like
Speaker 1: a third of the way through this, you had a
Speaker 1: buggy that outrun a car. I'm so confused. I mean,
Speaker 1: those are amazing horses, let me say that, But like,
Speaker 1: how did a buggy get away from a car. I'm
Speaker 1: not encouraging people to carjack buggies, obviously, I just don't
Speaker 1: know how you lose to a buggy if you have
Speaker 1: a car. Anyway, I'm sorry.
Speaker 9: Let's police describe the suspect as a white male with
Speaker 9: dark clothes and a medical mask.
Speaker 10: Holgeman believes the buggies were targeted.
Speaker 8: Hey, there's no one else gonna be John.
Speaker 1: What they believe they're targeted. They obviously were targeted. You
Speaker 1: don't just you can't tell me that he was just
Speaker 1: like the next vehicle of any type that goes through here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go rob No, he saw a buggy and
Speaker 1: he's like, I bet I can't. I bet he can't
Speaker 1: outrun me. Probably not armed. Are do Amish roll around
Speaker 1: with a bunch of money. I mean, I know they
Speaker 1: sell goods and you know in uh in a lot
Speaker 1: of markets and stuff. You go to Pennsylvania, get Amish
Speaker 1: built and by the way, there's a bunch of Amish
Speaker 1: out building houses in like five minutes for western North Carolina.
Speaker 1: How did this happen?
Speaker 11: What?
Speaker 1: Why was this your strategy as as a robber service, I.
Speaker 8: Mean an homage buggy but an Amish person, So I
Speaker 8: think they were targeting beyond it amased.
Speaker 1: And why did you have to I'm sorry, I know
Speaker 1: I'm stopping this a lot, but this whole thing was confusing.
Speaker 1: What do you mean when they found an Amish buggy
Speaker 1: with an Amish person? Is that a crapshoot? Is that
Speaker 1: like one in three buggies or Amish buggies actually have
Speaker 1: an Amish person? And I don't know why, like, why
Speaker 1: would you even say that?
Speaker 9: That's Some within the Amish community are concerned the women
Speaker 9: more than the men. She also asked permission to do.
Speaker 8: This interview, and they fought it was a good thing
Speaker 8: for me to make the public aware that we are
Speaker 8: being vigilant.
Speaker 9: To help her Amish friends, Hogeman started a social media
Speaker 9: campaign with the slogan I Stand with our Amish community.
Speaker 9: She says, it's gone viral.
Speaker 8: I wanted them to the Homish community to know that
Speaker 8: we do support them and we are going to be
Speaker 8: out there. And I think primarily people in the United
Speaker 8: States know the Amish are such a peace loving, kind
Speaker 8: group of people, and they definitely want to support and
Speaker 8: help help the Amish.
Speaker 1: And Ann ross On do you know this some of
Speaker 1: the Amish very good bowlers.
Speaker 10: I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you were aware. What was I
Speaker 1: trying to remember? Randy Quaid's character's name was I'm referencing
Speaker 1: obviously Kingpin. Oh what was his character? It was Randy
Speaker 1: Quaid was the Amish dude. And then of course you
Speaker 1: know Woody Harrelson is the dude siphoning off of him.
Speaker 1: And oh but Bill Murray is what Ernie McCracken in
Speaker 1: that movie. Fantastic, absolutely fantastic. So yeah, so people are
Speaker 1: carjacking Amish folks. See what you do is when they
Speaker 1: get out of the car to rob you in those
Speaker 1: few short moments, you get all your Amish buddies to
Speaker 1: raise a barn over their car, which I've seen you
Speaker 1: guys do in like ten minutes. So well, I'm saying, so,
Speaker 1: you know, fight back any way you can. But I
Speaker 1: just want to know how much money they're getting. And
Speaker 1: I want to know how an Amish buggy outran a
Speaker 1: dude with a motor because you need to like take
Speaker 1: those horses to Churchill Downs or something, man, because they're
Speaker 1: doing the work. All right, let me get into the
Speaker 1: wait hold on, oh, look at this now. This is
Speaker 1: now people are telling me, if I get in there
Speaker 1: and it's this one thing, I'm gonna need this special
Speaker 1: tool that I don't have. See that does not instill confidence.
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna open the wall. It's gonna happen. But
Speaker 1: if know, if it requires some you know, buy once tool,
Speaker 1: I've got way too many buy once tools sitting in
Speaker 1: in like a box somewhere. Not gonna do it now.
Speaker 1: If it's what we think it is, it's it's gonna
Speaker 1: be very basic. So but it's never what you think
Speaker 1: it is. At least that's stopped in my pattern there. Uh,
Speaker 1: all right, seven twelve CaCO Day radio program. I saw
Speaker 1: this thing yesterday. I'm not a true crime podcast or
Speaker 1: documentary dude. I maybe you guys are. I know that
Speaker 1: they're all the rage although it's uh, I've seen the
Speaker 1: demographic breakdowns. Mostly women who like these, which is weird
Speaker 1: because like half of them are about women getting like
Speaker 1: raped and murdered. So, I mean, obviously you're can have
Speaker 1: some interest there, but why would you want to just
Speaker 1: saturate your brain with that? That being said, they all
Speaker 1: kind of have the same style with the promos, you know,
Speaker 1: the trailers for these things, and this is really funny.
Speaker 1: So some dude did a trailer in that style. I
Speaker 1: know Kingpin's the movie. I said it on the air.
Speaker 1: I just don't remember Ishmael. All right, thank you, somebody
Speaker 1: did email. I didn't remember Randy Quaid's character. That's a
Speaker 1: grab and watch that in a while. Ross have you
Speaker 1: seen Kingpen recently? Do you think that holds up? I
Speaker 1: wonder if it holds up. I hope it does.
Speaker 3: The Bowling movie, yeah, I know it still holds up.
Speaker 3: Oh good, Yeah, no, that movie is still fantastic. Bill Murder,
Speaker 3: don't have a cow, We have a bowl. I can't
Speaker 3: describe anything else from that scene, but if you know,
Speaker 3: you know. So that's what I know about the Amish.
Speaker 3: Some buggies can outpace cars. People are robbing them, and
Speaker 3: some of them are really good bowlers.
Speaker 1: So there's that. Uh So, going back to this, I'm
Speaker 1: not into the true crime things, but I've seen all
Speaker 1: the you know, all the trailers, the promos, whatever. If
Speaker 1: you're on Netflix, they got a gazillion of these, and
Speaker 1: somebody in that style dressed up as an oopa lumpa,
Speaker 1: and I got to tell you, this is gold Man
Speaker 1: listen to.
Speaker 6: They watched five children enter the factory that day, and
Speaker 6: only one left with his original bone structure. Umpa lumpa
Speaker 6: Dumptydo I've got another possible through you. When this case
Speaker 6: first went public, I received the season desist from mister
Speaker 6: Wonka in the form of a singing telegram, and I
Speaker 6: took that as a threat.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that. I really wouldn't.
Speaker 6: Mister Wonka has referred to his employees as replaceable. I
Speaker 6: would like to see mister Wanka attempt to reverse a
Speaker 6: marshmallow explosion.
Speaker 3: Have you ever had to row up boat.
Speaker 6: Down a chocolate river while a Victorian child's greens in German?
Speaker 6: Anyone learning, you'll learn monster reckless. In Dangerman, child mutilation
Speaker 6: class A FDA violation. Not once was the emergency service
Speaker 6: is called. Not once, not even when that girl was
Speaker 6: getting ripped to shreds by a squirrel. Hell, please, we're
Speaker 6: that's obstruction of justice. That substruction of justice with gotta stoppers.
Speaker 1: It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal.
Speaker 6: The only union that mister Wanka supports is the union
Speaker 6: between capitalism and child. In Dangerman, the chocolate river will
Speaker 6: run red with blood.
Speaker 3: The suspense is terrible.
Speaker 1: I hope it a lot, and it's interesting, it's funny.
Speaker 1: You should watch it. We got it on the Twitter
Speaker 1: if you want to watch it. But you get the
Speaker 1: gist of it, and it is interesting, like retroactively thinking
Speaker 1: about movies and TVs, TV shows, like how how would
Speaker 1: you really like? The best example, and we've mentioned it
Speaker 1: on the show is like Punky Brewster. The premise is
Speaker 1: sixty something year old dude finds a little girl and
Speaker 1: it's like you live with me. Now, explain how that
Speaker 1: gets made today or at least accepted today. Yet Punky
Speaker 1: Brewster was amazing. I didn't miss an episode, even when
Speaker 1: Cherry almost died because so I got into fridge. I'm dumb, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. So with the Wonka stuff, the Ross label,
Speaker 1: that Willy Wonka hit.
Speaker 3: Piece, we've been so into the original nineteen seventy one
Speaker 3: Jean Wilder movie lately.
Speaker 1: Lincoln's been right, You're you're an original, not a remake guy.
Speaker 3: I'm a fan of Johnny Depp.
Speaker 10: I like him.
Speaker 3: I think he's a cool dude. But I didn't like
Speaker 3: the remake because I love the nineteen seventy one version.
Speaker 3: So much. Yeah, and it's Lincoln's really into it now.
Speaker 3: He watched it when he was younger and he really
Speaker 3: couldn't comprehend it, but now he's sort of learning the
Speaker 3: let Like we're telling him, you know, these kids are misbehaving,
Speaker 3: they're being brats, they're not listening to Willy Wonka, and
Speaker 3: then they're seeing the consequences and repercussions of their action
Speaker 3: as horrific as they could be. But they're okay at
Speaker 3: the end, right, or at least he says they are.
Speaker 3: And he's really, really, really into it. We took a
Speaker 3: walk yesterday. We've been trying to get more exercise with that,
Speaker 3: walking around Joiner Park, and the entire time he's playing
Speaker 3: out will he walk in the chocolate factory like the
Speaker 3: different kids and the different things, and he's dancing like
Speaker 3: the ompA lumpas. So I've been putting in extra time
Speaker 3: thinking about this movie because we've watched it in repeat
Speaker 3: all over and over and over again. And when I
Speaker 3: was watching it, at the end the Walkavader goes up
Speaker 3: out of the factory and you look down at the
Speaker 3: town and I'm looking at him, like, where is this
Speaker 3: supposed to take place? Because I had assumed it was
Speaker 3: in the United States because Charlie is American, Grandpa Joe's American,
Speaker 3: his mom is American. I think, yeah, But exactly, the
Speaker 3: one teacher is super British. There's kids in the classroom
Speaker 3: that are British. The guy that sings you know, the
Speaker 3: candy Man can he is British. There's lots of British.
Speaker 3: So what is going on here? Slughorn is like a
Speaker 3: slug Worth is like or something.
Speaker 1: Now he's like East Berlin.
Speaker 3: So I looked into it because the wacavader goes down.
Speaker 3: I said to Mark, he said, this is that's like Germany.
Speaker 3: That looks like Bavaria or something. That doesn't what town
Speaker 3: is this supposed to be? So I looked it up.
Speaker 3: The book takes place in England, where the author is
Speaker 3: from the movie with Johnny Depp takes place in England. However,
Speaker 3: the movie is supposed to take place in quote a
Speaker 3: generic American town, so it's never specifically named real However,
Speaker 3: it was filmed in Munich because it was cheaper to
Speaker 3: film then in the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yea. And if you go to London, by the way,
Speaker 1: they have like a Willy Wonka fake facade, like I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's it's just a tourist trap. I
Speaker 1: never went here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the wacavators up there. The Wacavader's up and
Speaker 3: it's looking down this town and it looks like your
Speaker 3: traditional Bavarian you know, it's Munich and like where where
Speaker 3: is it? Yeah? Like it's like these like orange and
Speaker 3: like red roofs and they don't look like you know,
Speaker 3: it's not like you're in Philly or Philadelphia or Springfield,
Speaker 3: Ohio or something. It's like where is this? And that's why.
Speaker 3: So they filmed it there. But it's supposed to take
Speaker 3: place in the United States.
Speaker 1: Alright, all right.
Speaker 3: I've thought about this way too much.
Speaker 1: I was actually more you told me something off the air.
Speaker 1: I didn't really. So there's a Tom and Jerry will
Speaker 1: he want.
Speaker 3: There's an animated version which we've also been watching, and
Speaker 3: it's or Somebody's a It is super well done and
Speaker 3: it's it's it's like it's a few years old. But
Speaker 3: the animation is great, the color palette is great. It's
Speaker 3: got Tom and Jerry in it, and it's the Willy
Speaker 3: Walker movie word for word. It's the movie, but animated
Speaker 3: and they throw Tom and Jerry in and add some
Speaker 3: extra scenes. But it's fantastic, it's so it's so well done.
Speaker 1: But but like you understand why, Like he's not wrong
Speaker 1: if you ran. If PEPSI ran a contest right where
Speaker 1: they got five kids get to come to the bottling
Speaker 1: plant and four of them get maimed or killed, Pepsi's
Speaker 1: out of business, right, Am I wrong? Here? That's not
Speaker 1: gonna go like that's a pr night.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, I mean if people found out about it,
Speaker 3: but I'm sure will he Wanka will shut them up,
Speaker 3: or maybe the brats will learn their lessoning, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean.
Speaker 1: That is the one thing from the movie that still
Speaker 1: sticks with me is how kind of angry Willy Wonka
Speaker 1: was in that movie. Wilder played him man like he's
Speaker 1: screaming at people lecture. I mean, granted they're doing stuff
Speaker 1: they shouldn't do, but like it was, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it was a little jar.
Speaker 3: Sometimes sometimes you have to scare children so they understand
Speaker 3: that their console for their actions. You know, maybe maybe
Speaker 3: maybe you should listen to your parents. You should listen
Speaker 3: to your adults.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you guys, if your kids misbehave you want
Speaker 1: me to scream at him on the air, I'll do it.
Speaker 3: For If not, you're going to be turned into a
Speaker 3: blueberry and juiced, have fun sleeping.
Speaker 1: So a group of dudes took a twelve year old
Speaker 1: girl in another room to juice her. Make it make sense,
Speaker 1: Make it make sense. You go right to hr like
Speaker 1: you're going on. Unless your boss is diddy that you're
Speaker 1: probably not getting that request.
Speaker 3: What we need to do is we need to make
Speaker 3: some sort of like interactive Willy Wonka experience where people
Speaker 3: could walk in and feel like they're in the chocolate factory.
Speaker 3: Oh we could.
Speaker 1: Charge we would we spend a lot of money or.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean we put up relative who
Speaker 3: we print some stuff and just stick it on the
Speaker 3: wall and pretend that that's enough. Hey, the kids are
Speaker 3: gonna love it.
Speaker 1: Dude. I was like, I saw I saw something yesterday.
Speaker 1: It was like, what the two year anniversary of that?
Speaker 1: Was that two years ago?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 3: That was one year ago or one year ago. That's
Speaker 3: how crazy time has been. Because I saw that and
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, that had to be like three four
Speaker 3: years ago. It was a year ago. It was last
Speaker 3: February February four.
Speaker 1: Ross is talking about in the UK they saw and
Speaker 1: the tickets weren't cheap, like what forty to fifty euros
Speaker 1: or not euros pounds. I don't even know what the
Speaker 1: exchange is right now. Actually, I think we're on the
Speaker 1: good side of it. But and and they show up
Speaker 1: and they have like the saddest up ballumpa actor chick.
Speaker 1: I felt so for her. So she's like, I'm an
Speaker 1: actor and I got a gig, probably pretty excited, showed
Speaker 1: up to this thing. They made her stand there with
Speaker 1: those little cups of candy where they had like two
Speaker 1: candy corns in a I don't know, a dot or something,
Speaker 1: and she's just like this, it's the worst. And then
Speaker 1: she became the face of this thing, even though she
Speaker 1: didn't organize it. She's just just tired. And then they
Speaker 1: put like they printed some weird candy posters and put
Speaker 1: them on the wall. It was, it was, it was awful.
Speaker 1: It was quite. It's quite the rabbit hole if you
Speaker 1: want to go down it. But uh, and then initially
Speaker 1: they're like they weren't going to refund the money, and
Speaker 1: the parents were all mad. But it was super sad
Speaker 1: because you know, kids, kid's imagination could do a lot
Speaker 1: of the work, but they put in no effort. So
Speaker 1: all right, let's do this. Uh seven, I want to
Speaker 1: get into the Linda McMahon audio. We'll do that. We
Speaker 1: got Stephen Kent coming up. That'll be an eight oh five.
Speaker 1: We got to get in. We'll talk about the Narnia
Speaker 1: thing we mentioned for just a moment in a previous show,
Speaker 1: and if you don't know what that is, it's the
Speaker 1: actress that was approached to play Aslan, the lion slash god. Alright, so,
Speaker 1: and a few other things. So we'll get to all
Speaker 1: that in due course. But news and a quick break
Speaker 1: and we'll be right back. I appreciate We've got some
Speaker 1: plumbers who listen to the show and they're like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: I'll come by fix it. No, no, no, The goal
Speaker 1: wasn't to get you guys to come and do me
Speaker 1: a solid, you know, fix something for free. I will
Speaker 1: if I have to call a plumber, I will pay
Speaker 1: a plumber. Yeah. Absolutely, you guys should make money too,
Speaker 1: But let me destroy it first. Okay, all right, So,
Speaker 1: but I did see your emails and I very much
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Broz, you want some free plumbing, anything broken
Speaker 1: at your house.
Speaker 3: I mean, I can find something. I'm sure we got
Speaker 3: some guys probably won't be hard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you guys go make money and then who knows,
Speaker 1: maybe one of you who I'll call and pay. But
Speaker 1: I think I got this. So just sitting here the
Speaker 1: whole show, assuming that there's a waterfall in my guest
Speaker 1: bathroom now and I should have turned the entire water
Speaker 1: service to the house off, so we shall see. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get into this. So there another another protests of
Speaker 1: the Department of Education soon to be former Department of
Speaker 1: Education Linda McMahon, who, if you remember, was a cabinet member.
Speaker 1: What'd you do? Small business to a small business? Right
Speaker 1: or something? But she hut or small business, I can't
Speaker 1: remember what it was. But she worked in the first
Speaker 1: Trump administration. Now they put in charge of the Education Department,
Speaker 1: but primarily for the purpose of winding everything down. And
Speaker 1: they've had these protests. And we're going to talk to
Speaker 1: Stephen Canada too.
Speaker 10: Five.
Speaker 1: But he brought this to our attention a few weeks
Speaker 1: ago because he's up in DC, and he said that
Speaker 1: they had like six people at a protest when they
Speaker 1: first announced they were doing this, and how weird that
Speaker 1: was because norm like six people ain't even a protest
Speaker 1: in Washington, because you get rented protesters, you get the
Speaker 1: various and you know, non governmental organizations, you probably get
Speaker 1: obviously Department of Ed, you get the Teachers Union to organize.
Speaker 1: It was kind of a sad showing, but they're still
Speaker 1: doing it. And so well, Linda McMahon sees this, and
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, popping out and going up to
Speaker 1: the you know, the podium where they're basically trashing you
Speaker 1: and protesting you and give, you know, giving them the business.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic. She didn't hit anyone with a chair, which
Speaker 1: probably was hard for her, but that's okay. All right,
Speaker 1: So check this out. This is the protest. So why
Speaker 1: do we need a Department of Education.
Speaker 11: Let these bombs of liberty right our curriculum. Let these
Speaker 11: bombs of liberty tell us how to educate our children.
Speaker 11: Let these moms of liberty tell us that you should
Speaker 11: not teach black history, that you should wipe the pages clean.
Speaker 11: Remember now, they're conversation that's been going on for about
Speaker 11: twelve years.
Speaker 1: So all right, so real quick on that, because at
Speaker 1: first she sounds like she actually is on the side
Speaker 1: of McMahon. But then clearly she just made this thing.
Speaker 1: Has that been a conversation for twelve years that we're
Speaker 1: not going to teach black history.
Speaker 3: It is because they're misinformed, or they're willfully ignorant, or
Speaker 3: they're doing it on purpose. And I'm so tired of
Speaker 3: this argument to stop confusing African American history, which has
Speaker 3: been taught in classrooms forever, with critical race theory. They
Speaker 3: are not the same thing on.
Speaker 1: Thousand percent one thousand percent. And by the way, history
Speaker 1: is history when you're teaching us history, especially in the South, right,
Speaker 1: it's a big chunk of history. There has got black
Speaker 1: people and white people, and it's got some pretty horror stuff.
Speaker 1: It's got some stuff that may inspire you that you know,
Speaker 1: change is possible, Like there's so much there. But this
Speaker 1: has not been some twelve year conversation We're not going
Speaker 1: to teach black history anymore. That's not a thing. They
Speaker 1: don't want somebody up there telling all the white kids
Speaker 1: that their original sin cursed because of the color of
Speaker 1: their skin. And you're literally seeing the result of it,
Speaker 1: with the current crop of eighteen year olds being far
Speaker 1: more conservative, especially the young men, like what you're doing
Speaker 1: is not working, so stop it with that, all right.
Speaker 1: So McMahon decides she's going to come out and God
Speaker 1: bless you morning. Everyone.
Speaker 7: Thanks so much for coming, and I just want to
Speaker 7: express my gratitude to all of these folks who came
Speaker 7: today so that we get to have an open discussion
Speaker 7: about what I believe is one of the most important
Speaker 7: things that we can have a discussion on our action
Speaker 7: on in our country, and that is the education of
Speaker 7: our young people. As Representative Tanaco said as we were
Speaker 7: ending the meeting, which I thought was incredibly appropriate, and
Speaker 7: that is that this is not a part is an issue.
Speaker 7: This is about the children of America and it's the
Speaker 7: next generation, the generation after that. And if we want
Speaker 7: to have our leaders, if we want to have that
Speaker 7: next group of engineers and doctors and lawyers and plumbers
Speaker 7: and electrician and HVAC operators, then we need to focus
Speaker 7: on how they can best have their education. And I
Speaker 7: believe and I know the President does believe this as well.
Speaker 7: The best education is that that is closest to the child,
Speaker 7: where teachers and parents, local superintendents working together, and local
Speaker 7: school boards to develop the curriculum for those students. Is
Speaker 7: the best way that it can happen. Funding from the
Speaker 7: United States government will continue through the programs that have
Speaker 7: already been established, and I will look forward to continuing
Speaker 7: to work with members of Congress on both sides of
Speaker 7: the isle. And I welcome the fact. But these folks
Speaker 7: came today and expressed their concerns and shared in an
Speaker 7: open collegial format are their concerns and how we can
Speaker 7: lead now to work more together. That's the way it
Speaker 7: ought to operate. And I'm very happy to have had
Speaker 7: them here. So I'm gonna I'm gonna let them answer
Speaker 7: the questions. I just wanted to come out and cousin.
Speaker 1: When are you going to shut down the skill there?
Speaker 7: Well, we've we've had our discussions already. So thank you
Speaker 7: all very very much for coming get on her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't give that guy any here, but you know,
Speaker 1: to come out where they're actively protesting you. And and
Speaker 1: by the way, everyone was seemingly on their best behavior there.
Speaker 1: That's fine. And and she she speaks to the root
Speaker 1: of the thing, right, it's it it is, shouldn't it
Speaker 1: or shouldn't it be? What is going to best educate
Speaker 1: your kid? And you find to have different opinions on that.
Speaker 1: We we fight over vouchers and all the rest of
Speaker 1: that stuff. But ultimately I thought she handled it fine,
Speaker 1: absolutely fine. And the lie though you heard there is
Speaker 1: one of many, like the school lunch programs going away,
Speaker 1: it's not literally it's not even administered. It's administered by
Speaker 1: what USDA, right, And then they moved two other programs
Speaker 1: to different departments, and you know the challenges of figuring
Speaker 1: out how states appropriately use those dollars. Those do remain,
Speaker 1: and it is important that everybody is involved. But when
Speaker 1: we're starting with people who are just blatantly lying to
Speaker 1: scare you, I don't know how helpful they're going to
Speaker 1: be in that process. Man, I don't know. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought she handled that pretty well, all right. Eight
Speaker 1: eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. I
Speaker 1: saw this. Can we just for five seconds not have
Speaker 1: to be political on everything. So there's family of Virginia.
Speaker 1: They got their little kids, they go to Washington, they're
Speaker 1: doing them you know, the National Male Thing, Jefferson Memorial,
Speaker 1: Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, you know, all the stuff you
Speaker 1: go see. And they got their kids sitting there right
Speaker 1: in front of the title basin down by the Jefferson
Speaker 1: Memorial there and they're getting ready to take that photo.
Speaker 1: Now when I took that photo, Just so you understand
Speaker 1: how deeply immature I am. If you go to the
Speaker 1: north side of the Jefferson Memorial there monument, I guess
Speaker 1: you can lay on like the marble there with the
Speaker 1: Washington Monument behind you, and if you position the camera
Speaker 1: in your body correctly so that the Washington Monument is
Speaker 1: aspiring out of really the middle section of your body,
Speaker 1: do you understand the picture I'm painting for you? And
Speaker 1: you can be, you know, ten years old and Tay,
Speaker 1: I have that picture and I wasn't ten took it.
Speaker 1: I was a crown adult, but I'm like, hey, check
Speaker 1: out my giant Washington Monument, right, you can do that.
Speaker 1: They were in a family setting, they got two little
Speaker 1: kids and they're taking the picture. You got the cherry
Speaker 1: blossoms doing their thing, and Barack Obama photo bombed them.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, it's a great story, like I
Speaker 1: and everyone's like, ah, we got it. You know, just
Speaker 1: every now and then you can just turn it off
Speaker 1: for a moment. Can you imagine you're in Washington, DC,
Speaker 1: and any former president walks up literally and photo bombs you.
Speaker 1: That'd be amazing, Like you put that into tourism at
Speaker 1: it could happen to you. That's how you get people
Speaker 1: up there. So now I thought that was pretty nice.
Speaker 1: I just hated this. It's like, just just give them
Speaker 1: a minute. Okay, give them a minute. I'd be dude
Speaker 1: if I was taking a photo at a monument and
Speaker 1: Barack Obama, who I fundamentally disagree with on a ton
Speaker 1: of stuff, goes, hey, can I be in the photo.
Speaker 1: I'm doing a photo. I'm gonna lie to you. I'm
Speaker 1: doing the photo.
Speaker 3: No, it's like running into like a wrestling heel. Okay,
Speaker 3: you put me in the headline, take a photo, right.
Speaker 1: So you're just like, ah, you're a baddie, abuse me
Speaker 1: for my clicks. Yeah, all right, you'll take a bump roster.
Speaker 1: You're taking a bump before.
Speaker 3: Right in an actual in the square circle I have, Yeah,
Speaker 3: and it was awful.
Speaker 1: But yeah, whether it is that part of it. They
Speaker 1: always try to get the radio. It always at some
Speaker 1: point in your radio career you will end up as
Speaker 1: part of a promotion for It could be WWE, or
Speaker 1: it could be one of the smaller tours, and they're
Speaker 1: always like, all right, who wants to get hit?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, I did at the local, like the local armory.
Speaker 3: And that ring is a lot harder than they think
Speaker 3: it is, and that taking that bump is a lot harder.
Speaker 3: Selling it is harder. It's tough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just like, I'll say something on the microphone.
Speaker 1: Please don't hit.
Speaker 3: Me, That's what I said. I'm like, just make me
Speaker 3: like Bobby the Brain. Just put me in the mic
Speaker 3: and I'll make fun of people, or like you be
Speaker 3: an ask.
Speaker 1: I can talk trash. I'm good at it, all right.
Speaker 1: You know, he's probably better at it because he's nine
Speaker 1: feet tall, our weather guy who might be a wrestling heel,
Speaker 1: but he's a lout shore. So I don't know.
Speaker 12: I never really came up with a good, good wrestling name.
Speaker 10: What do you think.
Speaker 1: Is there a weather themed wrestlers? Has there ever been
Speaker 1: a Weatherman themed wrestler.
Speaker 3: I don't think there should be, though it'd be great.
Speaker 3: I know my mom recently saw Ray in the Weather
Speaker 3: Channel for the first time. I mean it was like
Speaker 3: a month or two because she's been looking for you
Speaker 3: for years since you've been on And I explained and
Speaker 3: She's like, is he a weather guy? Like a like
Speaker 3: a giant. I'm like, yeah, that's him.
Speaker 1: That's sim The first time I saw Ray on TV,
Speaker 1: I'm like, why is he in that third grade classroom?
Speaker 1: Any body that desk? Yeah?
Speaker 12: I did a little that overnight too. Yeah, I am
Speaker 12: a I don't know. I just I'm larger than the
Speaker 12: average meteorologist.
Speaker 10: I guess.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I got to come up with whoa, whoa, dude,
Speaker 1: this is a family show.
Speaker 10: I'm sorry, sorry about that.
Speaker 12: Yeah, So speaking the numbers, the numbers are going to
Speaker 12: be close to ninety and we could be looking at records.
Speaker 12: Today's record for Raleigh ninety one. Probably not can get there,
Speaker 12: but it's eighty eight tomorrow, so that's sent back.
Speaker 10: In nineteen thirty four.
Speaker 12: We could get close ninety degrees for Saturday, ninety three
Speaker 12: for Sunday to try it. The records are a little
Speaker 12: bit lower, but we could be close. Yesterday was kind
Speaker 12: of temperature different. Seventy one tryad. I think we got
Speaker 12: into the upper seventies in Raleigh. Yeah, seventy eight degrees,
Speaker 12: So it really depended.
Speaker 10: Upon where you were.
Speaker 12: And today probably that same kind of thing where we've
Speaker 12: got this spread of temperatures that are between probably low
Speaker 12: mid eighties, so eighty two and to about eighty five.
Speaker 10: And there might be some drizzle or light rain around
Speaker 10: this morning.
Speaker 12: Tonight in the sixties, so very bud and then tomorrow
Speaker 12: we're going to heat it up, some clouds, the sunshine
Speaker 12: mid to upper eighties, maybe ninety degrees, and the same
Speaker 12: thing on Saturday. Still warm on Sunday, but there is
Speaker 12: a chance of showers later Sunday into Sunday night temperatures
Speaker 12: still mid upper eighties, and then in the sixties where
Speaker 12: we should be this time of year for Monday, and
Speaker 12: then Monday night of the forties, and then Tuesdays struggling
Speaker 12: to get out of the upper fifties and to try
Speaker 12: it in the mountains close to sixty degrees or just
Speaker 12: above and Raleigh lows at night maybe down near freezing.
Speaker 12: I'm kind of mentioned towards Tuesday Wednesday, with the colder
Speaker 12: are coming in the mountains to the west, might get
Speaker 12: some wet snowflakes. I think that's gonna be north now
Speaker 12: into the west Virginia, maybe Virginia Highlands.
Speaker 10: But it does look like it's gonna be a cooler
Speaker 10: week next week.
Speaker 12: Then certainly we're having this week when we could see
Speaker 12: some record heat.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, again, don't ruin Ross's trip man. Oh
Speaker 1: as so satur right, we'll talk in the next hour.
Speaker 1: Figure out your wrestling move. You could have amazing like
Speaker 1: finishing moves, or there's a lot you can.
Speaker 10: Go there with text that sounds pretty scary.
Speaker 12: What did you go with polar vort One of my
Speaker 12: moves will be I'm gonna put the polar vortext on you.
Speaker 1: What does that mean it's gonna come, No, no doubt.
Speaker 3: You would have to do like the Texas Tornado. That
Speaker 3: could be like kind of like a sleeper right right area.
Speaker 3: That would be like the Texas Tornado thing where you
Speaker 3: put them up above your show like a fireman's carry
Speaker 3: and then you spit around in a circle and you
Speaker 3: turn it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we also had that figure out. You got so excited.
Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, well, well we know some people.
Speaker 1: We'll see if we can get you something. Okay, you
Speaker 1: gotta lose to John Cena though, so have fun with that.
Speaker 1: All right, seven forty nine, we'll be back hang on
Speaker 1: by the way, coming up on the show here in
Speaker 1: about ten minutes. We're gonna be chatting with Steven Kent.
Speaker 1: We got all sorts of nerdy stuff to get into
Speaker 1: with him. So we didn't get a chance to talk
Speaker 1: to him last week because he's, you know, world traveling,
Speaker 1: super important guy and he was in Dubai or something.
Speaker 1: So but that'll be about ten minutes. We'll do that.
Speaker 1: So check this out. Here's the headline. This is Saint
Speaker 1: Louis where it happened. Man rob's woman at gunpoint after
Speaker 1: she rejects his romantic advances. Now, I will say this,
Speaker 1: this dude ain't You can't call this guy a simp, right,
Speaker 1: I know that people love using that word on the
Speaker 1: social media. He's like, a, you don't want to give
Speaker 1: me your Instagram? How about your purse? So it happened
Speaker 1: at a Walgreens. So the dude'es in Walgreens. I described
Speaker 1: his late twenties, and you know, starts talking to this
Speaker 1: woman in there. He's like, Hey, I think you look good.
Speaker 1: Why don't you let me get your phone number? All that,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, she's probably like, Noah, he's not
Speaker 1: six foot or whatever, or you know, it looks like
Speaker 1: a dude who would rob people in the parking lot,
Speaker 1: and she should have stuck with her instinct because he
Speaker 1: then went outside and when she left and got into
Speaker 1: her car, then he rolled up. He's like, well, you
Speaker 1: don't want to give me your number, I'll take your purse,
Speaker 1: and he had a gun, so she gave him the
Speaker 1: purse and he scadadled out of there. Also took her keys,
Speaker 1: which is kind of low man. I mean, I kind
Speaker 1: of understand why you do it so she can't follow you,
Speaker 1: but like, you're not gonna steal the car, why take
Speaker 1: the keys throw them in the bushes or something. Be
Speaker 1: a responsible carjacker, slash armed Robert, dude. But also if
Speaker 1: you just given him your number, just saying I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: I'm kidding by the way, obviously, but still the dude
Speaker 1: had a plan. B man, when all of the one
Speaker 1: of the Walgreens couldn't find love, He's gonna find some money.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: They have not caught him, apparently, but he is he
Speaker 1: I guess when he was running away, he discharged the
Speaker 1: weapon ones, which again is another insane thing, Like you're
Speaker 1: getting away, dude, why in the world would you fire
Speaker 1: a warning shot. She's not pursuing you, not in her car. Anyway,
Speaker 1: she did get out of her car and and that's
Speaker 1: why he fired it. But it's like, what is she
Speaker 1: going to do? Run you down? She said she didn't
Speaker 1: want to be with you, bro, You're gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: So they're still looking for him, alrighty. So one of
Speaker 1: the things I want to play this audio rope. We
Speaker 1: do have enough time? Yeah, maybe not. I'll play it
Speaker 1: when we get Steven on. Uh. Do you guys remember
Speaker 1: Finn Buegas the actor's name Finn from the latest round
Speaker 1: of the Star Wars Who By the way, when when
Speaker 1: the first one was I thought he was gonna be
Speaker 1: not Daisy Ridley. I thought he was kind of gonna
Speaker 1: be the guy. Right last week he was Globe Trott
Speaker 1: and doing spy stuff for whatever he was doing. Steven Kent, though,
Speaker 1: is joining us, Stephen? How you doing this morning? What's up?
Speaker 4: It's a beautiful day. We're all liberated, right.
Speaker 1: I heard that? Yeah, about four o'clock yesterday that was
Speaker 1: mentioned to me. So I starting like doing color revolutions
Speaker 1: over in the middle Easter Russell, you know, I or something.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 4: They they're deploying me all around the world these days.
Speaker 4: But I'm happy to be back stateside and talking culture
Speaker 4: with you.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well we're gonna have to We're gonna
Speaker 1: have to get into this Ross brought something to my
Speaker 1: attention today yesterday I had no idea about and so
Speaker 1: it's it's really fun. We're gonna get to circle back
Speaker 1: on this. Going back to the first of the latest
Speaker 1: iterations of the Star Wars movie series. We of course
Speaker 1: we first met Ray and we met Finn, and Finn
Speaker 1: was played by a actor by the name of John Boyega.
Speaker 1: And I got to tell you, for the first part
Speaker 1: of that movie, I kind of thought he was he
Speaker 1: was going to be the man, right, which is clearly
Speaker 1: a rope dope. And unfortunately, yeah, I think he did too.
Speaker 1: And then and then they just threw him away, basically
Speaker 1: just threw the dude away. And and now he's not
Speaker 1: mad at literally Disney, who is who he should be
Speaker 1: mad at, right, if they did mislead him, He's decided
Speaker 1: in this this documentary on Apple TV to essentially call, well,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm just going to play it for everybody.
Speaker 1: I think you can pick up on the messaging. All right,
Speaker 1: So here here is what he's says. They're pandering.
Speaker 13: Let me tell you always had the vibe of being
Speaker 13: in the most whitest et last space.
Speaker 6: This is a franchise is so whack that it's.
Speaker 13: Like a black person existing in that was something and
Speaker 13: you can always tell it something. When some Stouars fans
Speaker 13: tried to say, well, we you know, we had Lando
Speaker 13: Kalvis and it had Sammy L. Jackson, it's like telling
Speaker 13: me how many cookie chips are on the cookie though.
Speaker 13: I'm like, it's just they just got at that in there, bro,
Speaker 13: They're okay with us playing in the Best Friend, but
Speaker 13: once we touched their heroes, once we leave, once we
Speaker 13: we Trailblazers, Like, my god, it's just a bit too much.
Speaker 1: I don't and I don't understand any of this because
Speaker 1: it first it sounds like he's criticizing the studio, but
Speaker 1: then he's clearly talking about the fans there before we
Speaker 1: get into really why uh Boega? There was an interesting
Speaker 1: discussion that surrounded his his his character. But before we
Speaker 1: get into that, was there anyone in the Star Wars
Speaker 1: universe who wouldn't have been happy with John Boyega in
Speaker 1: the hero in that movie? Because I was down for
Speaker 1: it halfway through the first movie, no, it's.
Speaker 4: A really shocking piece of revisionist history. You know, John
Speaker 4: Boyega as Finn in that movie, he was getting rapturous
Speaker 4: applause in theaters, and I went to the theater like
Speaker 4: three times for Force Awakens. Whenever he had these big
Speaker 4: moments in the movies, such as igniting his lightsaber in
Speaker 4: Force Awakens to fight a Stormtrooper and then fighting Kylo
Speaker 4: Ren towards the end of the movie, there was a
Speaker 4: lot of excitement around Finn or just neutrality now. When
Speaker 4: he was first unveiled, it was the teaser trailer for
Speaker 4: the Force Awakens, where you start in the desert, there's
Speaker 4: some eerie music, and then all of a sudden, his
Speaker 4: face lurches up into the screen. He's the first person
Speaker 4: we ever saw associated with the new era of Star Wars,
Speaker 4: and he's a black guy wearing a stormtrooper outfit, which
Speaker 4: did ignite I think I think a fair share of
Speaker 4: online confusion and a little bit discussion.
Speaker 1: I just want to be clear here, because we talked
Speaker 1: about it on the h and and I was I
Speaker 1: was very I didn't care, but I understood the arguments
Speaker 1: that were being made. They're like, no, because they go
Speaker 1: you go back, and You're like, no, all the Stormtroopers
Speaker 1: have to look like this dude, because they're all based
Speaker 1: on this dude, who you are clearly not.
Speaker 4: They have to be Pacific Pacific Islanders based on Yeah
Speaker 4: Django fet from the original prequel films.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I said that on the air, just trying
Speaker 1: to explain the story, and apparently I irritated some dude
Speaker 1: to the Dunkin Donuts or something, so Ross told.
Speaker 4: You, Yeah, so so you before ever I did. The
Speaker 4: first time you and I ever spoke was like two
Speaker 4: thousand and fourteen, twenty fifteen, whenever the trailer for that
Speaker 4: came out. I was in North Raleigh working at the
Speaker 4: Hilton at the time, and I was on my way
Speaker 4: to work, sitting in line at Dunkin Donuts to get
Speaker 4: my Boston cream and a coffee, and you guys were
Speaker 4: talking about this and taking calls on the Black Stormtrooper issue,
Speaker 4: and I was I was not pleased with the with
Speaker 4: the tenor of the conversation and the appreciation for prequel cannon.
Speaker 4: So I did call in.
Speaker 1: What did we get wrong? I can't even remember, because
Speaker 1: I really had a diagnostic on the story. I was
Speaker 1: just putting it out because people were talking about it.
Speaker 4: So, I mean, if I remember that conversation correctly, you know,
Speaker 4: we were kind of stuck on the question of whether
Speaker 4: or not there can be a black Stormtrooper. And what
Speaker 4: that was missing was that the cloning program ended in
Speaker 4: the early days of the Empire, So Stormtroopers are not,
Speaker 4: in fact, django fet clones. One of the biggest plot
Speaker 4: points of the new era of Star Wars is that
Speaker 4: they have really clarified the cloning program was ended and
Speaker 4: the clones were mostly massacred or exile so that the
Speaker 4: Empire could be staffed by loyal foot soldiers who didn't have,
Speaker 4: you know, like an engineered purpose. They wanted propagandized troops
Speaker 4: and so they recruited. So the Empire, underneath all those
Speaker 4: Stormtrooper helmets from the original trilogy could be just about anyone.
Speaker 4: They're not clones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, so I have an easier explanation why I
Speaker 1: didn't care. I'm like, none of this is real. So
Speaker 1: there's that.
Speaker 12: How dare you?
Speaker 4: How dare you say that Star Wars is a documentary?
Speaker 4: And yeah, so that that actually was the first time,
Speaker 4: first time we spoke, and you know, it's a it's
Speaker 4: just been a journey ever since.
Speaker 1: But look, boyeg I got screwed on that deal, right I.
Speaker 1: But the idea that fans didn't want him in there
Speaker 1: because he's black, which is a narrative that emerged there
Speaker 1: when a bunch of nerds were literally having argument so
Speaker 1: Astro Turf. Yeah, So for him to throw that out there,
Speaker 1: it's like, clearly, Disney, did you dirty if they told
Speaker 1: you one thing and did the other, why do you
Speaker 1: hate on the fans? A lot of the fans they
Speaker 1: were upset that Ray just became the Mary Sue, right Yeah.
Speaker 4: And he has he has spoken a little bit about
Speaker 4: this in the past, and this is every interview he does,
Speaker 4: he just digs the hole deeper on being really like
Speaker 4: a cry baby about his whole experience with Star Wars.
Speaker 4: He has jabbed at Ryan Johnson and he has jabbed
Speaker 4: at Kathleen Kennedy in past interviews. He really feels like
Speaker 4: Ryan Ryan Johnson is the one who screwed him over
Speaker 4: in the Last Jedi by sidelining Finn and then JJ
Speaker 4: Abrams when he returns to do the final of the
Speaker 4: Disney trilogy. He really had nothing that he could do
Speaker 4: with Finn at that point, and so he really faded
Speaker 4: into the background of the Star Wars trilogy, and he
Speaker 4: has talked about that, but then he just goes back
Speaker 4: and lashes back at fans, which is just totally incoherent.
Speaker 4: John Boyega has never showed up for conventions, He's never
Speaker 4: gone out to try and be part of the Star
Speaker 4: Wars community, and so I think he just feels like
Speaker 4: a pariah. But that's a personal problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would be curious too if you like how
Speaker 1: many is clearly the last trilogy, the number of rewrites
Speaker 1: and changes we may never fully fathom, what with all
Speaker 1: the reasons and everything that they were doing. So do
Speaker 1: you think the plan was to have him be the
Speaker 1: man at one point? Do you think that there's some
Speaker 1: some credibility.
Speaker 4: Not not not the man, but he was supposed to
Speaker 4: be part of Ray's kind of new building of a
Speaker 4: Jedi Order. The original plan was that Finn was going
Speaker 4: to be forced sensitive and that he was going to
Speaker 4: come up alongside Ray as a future Jedi to rebuild
Speaker 4: the Order after Luke Skywalker kind of let it let
Speaker 4: it crumble him. So you know, they were going to
Speaker 4: have a female and a and a black actor sort
Speaker 4: of rebuilding that it was going to check all of
Speaker 4: Disney's diversity boxes, and they they just moved in a
Speaker 4: different direction for a lot of different reasons. But it
Speaker 4: really came came to be that they couldn't build up
Speaker 4: Luke Skywalker in the last Jedi and Ray and Fenn
Speaker 4: at the same time, and Ben was sidelined and his
Speaker 4: character got completely diminished by the end of the trilogy,
Speaker 4: leaving you very very confused about why he was so
Speaker 4: central in the first film.
Speaker 1: Should all right, let me flip because we had a
Speaker 1: couple of other things We've got to talk about. Should
Speaker 1: in hindsight Disney, should they have passed Jason Statham as
Speaker 1: snow White?
Speaker 4: What do you think they probably would have sold more tickets?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fair, that's a that's I mean, this isn't
Speaker 1: even a quite You saw IMDb put a notification on
Speaker 1: the rating. They're claiming that people, you know, bomb bombing it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, maybe just everyone hates it, like I have nothing,
Speaker 1: even like the people who normally love like the dei
Speaker 1: inclusiveness in Disney movies. They trashed it right. New York
Speaker 1: Times trashed it. Rolling Stone. These are some of the
Speaker 1: most woke film reviewers out there and they all savage
Speaker 1: this thing, and it's like take your l and clearly
Speaker 1: the Rachel Zegler is not going to take the l.
Speaker 1: She's absolutely delusional, don't. I don't know if she works
Speaker 1: again in a big film. But what at absolute trounce.
Speaker 1: We haven't had a chance to talk about it, and
Speaker 1: so I'm just curious your thoughts and I'm gonna kind
Speaker 1: of spin this into another movie discussion.
Speaker 4: So well, I'm just love. I'm loving looking on the
Speaker 4: IMDb and finding out that the snow White film has
Speaker 4: been nominated for at least one reward award from the
Speaker 4: Queer T Awards. So it's looking like it's it's nominated
Speaker 4: for a Queer T this year. So that's very exciting
Speaker 4: for Yeah, that's very exciting.
Speaker 1: So like, all right, so is it enough of a
Speaker 1: kick in the teeth that Disney like goes like, I
Speaker 1: don't understand, We've been down this road, but rant here.
Speaker 1: I can't go on a rant that puts my you know,
Speaker 1: the station or my company in a bad light. It's
Speaker 1: clearly drawn out in my contract. Right, That's that's a thing.
Speaker 1: And I don't understand. Can you not muzzle people, you're
Speaker 1: paying fifteen million dollars to be in a three hundred
Speaker 1: million dollar film to just be like, hey, could you
Speaker 1: just not be weird for three months or some whatever?
Speaker 1: Like how well?
Speaker 4: I mean, I think that's that's exactly what they are
Speaker 4: in court with right now over the woman who played
Speaker 4: Kara Dune and the Mandalorian. I'm Gina Corrano. I mean
Speaker 4: Gina Krana, who is in Star Wars. This is the
Speaker 4: exact case. But they of course only muzzled Gina Corano
Speaker 4: because she was offering conservative speech during the during covid
Speaker 4: UH and they fired her. And Gina Carano is taking
Speaker 4: Disney to court and they are still in court over
Speaker 4: this about whether she was fired, and she's making a
Speaker 4: sexism claim that basically her male colleagues could make whatever
Speaker 4: political speech they wanted, but she couldn't because she's a woman.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that is the right way to
Speaker 4: go about this, but that is the claim that she's
Speaker 4: making in a California courtroom. And they're never going to
Speaker 4: do that to someone like Rachel Zegler. But I do
Speaker 4: think Rachel Zegler her career is going to be really,
Speaker 4: really short lived. She draws nothing but controversy to every
Speaker 4: project she is involved in, because she just can't keep
Speaker 4: her mouth shut. And to your point, your original question,
Speaker 4: I do think that companies should be able to kind
Speaker 4: of muzzle their actors to a certain extent, to tell them, like,
Speaker 4: you know, we are engaged in a contractual obligation. You
Speaker 4: are not to go out and do certain things and
Speaker 4: embarrass our production.
Speaker 3: I think that.
Speaker 4: That's kind of to be expected, which is why I
Speaker 4: initially defended the firing of Ginako, because I think companies,
Speaker 4: especially entertainment firms, should have the right to do that, right,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: But to your point, and and and obviously when you
Speaker 1: compare this, it clearly was in one and like that
Speaker 1: thing would have blown over. We were just still in
Speaker 1: that hyper cancel phase. And I think they didn't Caedro Pascal,
Speaker 1: who I like, by the way, I got no beef
Speaker 1: with him. He there's a tweet of his that was
Speaker 1: kind of similar but speaking from a different direction, and
Speaker 1: it was Yeah, So it was like, she she should
Speaker 1: win really in court with that level of evidence, but
Speaker 1: it's California, So who knows? Who knows?
Speaker 4: Man well, her only her only chance really is California
Speaker 4: California has some of the most aggressive sex discrimination laws
Speaker 4: in the country, and so she is making an explicitly
Speaker 4: sex discrimination case in California that she was muzzled for,
Speaker 4: uh you know, being a female engaging in political speech,
Speaker 4: which might work out for her in a California courtroom.
Speaker 1: We'll see the transition. I want to make now is
Speaker 1: a rumor that's out there that with the now updated
Speaker 1: Chronicles of Darnia and C. S. Lewis stuff coming out
Speaker 1: that the that Meryl Streep was approached to play Aslan
Speaker 1: what what even? Yeah? Yeah, well first just uh russ uh,
Speaker 1: just real quick, make your point. You made a very concise,
Speaker 1: good point on this last time. Who is Aslin to
Speaker 1: you when you see the when you watch the movie,
Speaker 1: who is Me?
Speaker 3: He is Jesus Jesus. He's not symbolic. I mean he's
Speaker 3: supposed to be Jesus.
Speaker 1: He's multiverse Jesus basically. Now this other world, So like
Speaker 1: this seems like a super unforced air now. I I
Speaker 1: don't know that that's what they did or that's what
Speaker 1: they're doing, but like if you screw the pooch on
Speaker 1: the you know, the hardcore Yes Lewis fans who go
Speaker 1: for the spiritual side of this, and you just abandon
Speaker 1: that and you just do whatever you want, like you
Speaker 1: deserve to lose all your money, don't you?
Speaker 4: I think you do. And I just got to say,
Speaker 4: you know, this report comes from Nexus Point News, which
Speaker 4: I have never heard of in my life, comes out
Speaker 4: one day before April Fools. Now this website is based
Speaker 4: in Kansas, so there's no time confusion, so you know
Speaker 4: this was meant not to be an April Fool's joke.
Speaker 4: But the talk is that mental Streep is and talks
Speaker 4: to be Aslan, which is very confusing because what this
Speaker 4: means is the voice of Aslan, Like what what is?
Speaker 4: What is even the point? We're talking about a lion here,
Speaker 4: and so if we're going to make this lion Aslan,
Speaker 4: who is Christ incarnate in Narnia, a female, you're also
Speaker 4: going to have to strip the lion's mane off the
Speaker 4: lion and have.
Speaker 1: You know now lion identifies as a lion.
Speaker 4: This don't I don't but I don't believe I don't
Speaker 4: believe this. I don't actually think that this is real.
Speaker 4: Sourcing does matter even.
Speaker 1: And entertainment, But there was no push I checked to
Speaker 1: see if there was any pushback on any of this stuff,
Speaker 1: and it got picked up. Your post picked it up.
Speaker 4: So yeah, but the New York Post picks it up
Speaker 4: because it's sensational. All you need is one fake story
Speaker 4: and then everybody re reports it. It's I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of waiting for a comment from Netflix on
Speaker 4: this because I.
Speaker 1: Think we speak. I just realized I'm up against the clock.
Speaker 1: We'll continue this next week. I appreciate it. But by
Speaker 1: the way, thank you to Stephen Kent for joining us.
Speaker 1: And it's from pro public and uh so when they
Speaker 1: write stuff, it's generally Trump socks whatever, and this is
Speaker 1: no exception, and but it is kind of an interesting
Speaker 1: way to go about it. So in the article they
Speaker 1: have I think seven so yeah, here we go seven
Speaker 1: current and former airline crew members. So which airlines? Charter
Speaker 1: airlines and specifically Global Crossing is one. These are the
Speaker 1: companies and sometimes they hire that, you know, they actually
Speaker 1: literally hire the legacy carriers. But a lot of these
Speaker 1: flights are run by companies like that, and they're charter planes,
Speaker 1: so they can be a bunch of them. Just did
Speaker 1: big business with NC double A. I'm sure right, flying colleges.
Speaker 1: You see those pictures where the colleges will literally charter
Speaker 1: flights to send their fans up there, not even just
Speaker 1: the team, and so they got chartered. But instead of
Speaker 1: fans going to a basketball tournament or you know, a
Speaker 1: bunch of rich dudes going on a Bahamas thing, you're
Speaker 1: flying people. You're flying gang members or criminals on some
Speaker 1: of these deportation flights, because not everyone shackled on all flights,
Speaker 1: but like the one that was going into Colombia, those
Speaker 1: are all murderers on there. And I understand if they're
Speaker 1: a little weirded out maybe don't want to work on there.
Speaker 1: I would totally get that, But that's not what it is.
Speaker 1: The whole angle of the article is, look, how you're
Speaker 1: responsible the Trump administration's doing. What if they have to
Speaker 1: do an evacuation. Let me ask you a question, should
Speaker 1: we not have them handcuffed if they're murderers, gang members,
Speaker 1: you know, rapists all the right, because that's what we're
Speaker 1: talking about with that Columbia flight. Those were all people
Speaker 1: who had been convicted or were wanted for really really
Speaker 1: bad stuff. And what do you think happens when you
Speaker 1: get in the air, if you have one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty of them that aren't shackled. How do you think
Speaker 1: you think that plane goes to Columbia still where these
Speaker 1: guys probably would end up in prison. Now that plane's
Speaker 1: going anywhere but Columbia. Sheer lunacy And so they said
Speaker 1: I was shot. One flight attendant, I said, I was shocked.
Speaker 1: When we asked about what should we do if there
Speaker 1: was an evacuation, they said, open the doors and go
Speaker 1: save yourselves first. Yeah, that's how it works. It's not
Speaker 1: a normal flight. I understand that, and I also would
Speaker 1: understand if you don't want to work it, that's between
Speaker 1: you and your employer. I'd be a little weirded out.
Speaker 1: But also, what did you What did you have to
Speaker 1: do during the flight? They were running that little cart
Speaker 1: up and down the aisle. You're not having to deal
Speaker 1: with people hitting the button because they're shackled to the
Speaker 1: ankles too, so they can't reach the button. No, you
Speaker 1: sit there. I wonder do you think they show them
Speaker 1: the video ross they can sit there watch the video
Speaker 1: in the event of a water landing, those things are
Speaker 1: getting out of control. Man, If anybody any of you
Speaker 1: guys fly a lot like the the I've been on
Speaker 1: like four different carriers here just in the last last
Speaker 1: few and it's like it's like it's like a race
Speaker 1: who can have the douchiest safety video. It's so weird.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that goes out the window when you're flying
Speaker 1: con Air. Did you see con Air? Didn't work out
Speaker 1: for that plane? Probably want to keep those guys shackled ross.
Speaker 1: You saw that documentary con Air, right, what happened when
Speaker 1: the when the really bad dudes got out the plane?
Speaker 1: It didn't go well?
Speaker 3: They all found jobs?
Speaker 1: Man? Oh did they did they h on the Vegas
Speaker 1: Strip there?
Speaker 3: They sure did.
Speaker 1: Oh that's good. I was I was wondering. We never
Speaker 1: did get a follow up. So this is this is
Speaker 1: the Trump hit piece that the stop in. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: not going to be it's not going to be the
Speaker 1: same level of say what, but what do you want
Speaker 1: them to do? And I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 1: US Marshall Service flies people all around the country, not
Speaker 1: just them. My uncle who's a US Marshall, a deputy
Speaker 1: US Marshall, Like he mostly did the Yellowstone stuff, but
Speaker 1: he did some of those flights too. That's what they do.
Speaker 1: They move people around Federal prison system and they're not
Speaker 1: walking around going can I get another wine, canna another
Speaker 1: bloody merit? No, they're to sit down. You're you're shackled,
Speaker 1: and it's it's it's just part of it. So I
Speaker 1: don't I don't understand why they only got me to
Speaker 1: talk about it. So I guess you won there, so
Speaker 1: how exciting for you. But like you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you know this. When we transport people in
Speaker 1: police cars, uh, you can't open the doors from the
Speaker 1: inside in the back and they're in handcuffs.
Speaker 3: They should try, though.
Speaker 1: They do try, and some of them do it. I
Speaker 1: saw I watch a crazy video where some some he
Speaker 1: slipped his cuffs and then somehow was able to go
Speaker 1: through the seat in the back it was an SUV
Speaker 1: and got the shotgun that you know a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of cops will have. Okay, that's terrifying shotgun
Speaker 1: or an ar in the trunk there. Yeah, yeah, Well
Speaker 1: it was short lived, although they had four jail or
Speaker 1: just in the sally port there where it happens right
Speaker 1: right before they walk in. And I watched these four
Speaker 1: cops come out. And I'm not picking on women, I'm not,
Speaker 1: but I'm not even a cop. And you had these
Speaker 1: you had two male and two female officers. And the
Speaker 1: two males are kind of next to each other but
Speaker 1: at an angle, so one would be shooting through the
Speaker 1: window in the door there, and the other one would
Speaker 1: be kind of shooting through the i know, the back panel,
Speaker 1: but through to the seat. And these two female officers
Speaker 1: show up and they position themselves directly opposite side of
Speaker 1: the car of the other two. And it's this weird
Speaker 1: thing where the the two male officers who are initially
Speaker 1: they're now trying to walk to the women, and now
Speaker 1: the women are walking around the other side, and one
Speaker 1: of the guys goes crossfire, crossfire, and then they figure
Speaker 1: it out and then the dudes like, all right, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do this, and so he he puts the gun out.
Speaker 1: That's gonna go shoot at the police. And he's not
Speaker 1: with us anymore. So want wamp. That didn't work out.
Speaker 3: But you watch the exciting ones every time I watch that,
Speaker 3: like they're just like kicking in the background and pee themselves.
Speaker 1: Well those are fun too, Those are those are good?
Speaker 1: I mean, not for the cop he's got to hose
Speaker 1: his his squad car out because some some drunk puked
Speaker 1: and urinated, uh spitefully in the back. But it's I've
Speaker 1: been told it's not the worst thing that happens back there.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, that was an exciting one. But the whole,
Speaker 1: the whole crossfire thing was I was losing my mind
Speaker 1: watching it. I'm like, do you just stop walking? Stop moving?
Speaker 1: What are you doing?
Speaker 5: Do they?
Speaker 1: Is that not something that they teach you at police school.
Speaker 1: Don't position yourself directly on the other side of your
Speaker 1: partner or your colleague when you guys might have to
Speaker 1: shoot somebody. Like I'd never if a deer hunt it
Speaker 1: with somebody's like, I'm gonna go around the other side
Speaker 1: of the deer, I'd be like, we don't hunt anymore,
Speaker 1: we're not friends, And then I would I'd probably encourage
Speaker 1: the year to go, you know, rake them once with
Speaker 1: the horns for being dumb. No, that is absolute lunacy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you're upset over that, but I just can't.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the WRAL article this morning, where
Speaker 1: is this Two NC state students have student visas terminated
Speaker 1: head back to Saudi Arabia? Why did that happen? Were
Speaker 1: they just learning too hard? Going to too many classes,
Speaker 1: had too high a GPA, or do you think it
Speaker 1: was other stuff that they might have been doing here,
Speaker 1: which can include everything from participating in and organizing violent protests,
Speaker 1: going and chasing down students you think are Jewish and
Speaker 1: harassing them, which literally, like five minutes ago, would have
Speaker 1: been a hate crime on every college campus if there
Speaker 1: was a slight change in the demographic makeup. Because that's
Speaker 1: why they're deported, or that's why they're provoking these visas, right,
Speaker 1: not just randomly selecting people. There's over six thousand international
Speaker 1: students at NC State because I see people going, oh, well,
Speaker 1: they just don't like foreigners. There's six thousand. What do
Speaker 1: you think they honed in on these two? And so
Speaker 1: you got to dig really deep in the story to
Speaker 1: kind of figure out what's going on here. Oh, he
Speaker 1: was working to get his master's in engineering, was a
Speaker 1: campus dining employee. That's great, And if that's all he
Speaker 1: was doing, he'd be here. I'm sorry, he'd still be
Speaker 1: doing all that stuff. But once you get into the
Speaker 1: open anti semitism or just open you know whatever, which
Speaker 1: should be his conduct code violation anyway, and then you're
Speaker 1: advocating for it, or you're trying to get people to
Speaker 1: do things that might enrich or support a terrorist organization.
Speaker 1: That's where people's you know, that's where people pay attention. Like,
Speaker 1: at no point I was able to make it this
Speaker 1: these forty some years I've been on this earth, and
Speaker 1: never once I thought, you know what, let me organize
Speaker 1: a fundraiser for a terrorist organization. Ross have you ever
Speaker 1: accidentally organized a fundraiser for a terrorist organization?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 1: I never have you sure, I'm pretty sure you were
Speaker 1: pretty quick on that ass.
Speaker 3: Pretty sure.
Speaker 1: Never whoopsie, oh I just funded you know, isis whoops?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not saying that's necessarily what he did.
Speaker 1: I'm just pointing out that these are the types of
Speaker 1: students and issues when you see these stories, that's what
Speaker 1: they're looking for. They're looking for And if you just
Speaker 1: come here and you just go to your engineering classes,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be fine. It'll be okay. So like, to
Speaker 1: not get to that in the story is just insane
Speaker 1: to me. All right, raced agent, let's get to him
Speaker 1: from the weather Chattels figured out something or something. I
Speaker 1: don't know, Boy, you punch something and.
Speaker 10: Now it works better or what remember we had that problem. Well,
Speaker 10: some of it was the different address and all that.
Speaker 10: But so.
Speaker 12: The thing here doesn't like audacity being open at the
Speaker 12: same time, which I record stuff in you and I
Speaker 12: know what that is. But so it doesn't like that
Speaker 12: open at the same time as I have on sip open.
Speaker 12: Figured that out more useless information from your meteorologist.
Speaker 1: But you're very quiet. Yeah, but you're clearer, so that's good.
Speaker 10: I could turn quiet up if you want, but.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, you're fine.
Speaker 10: I'll let Ross handle it on youss hand. Come on, Ross,
Speaker 10: do your job. Will you do something?
Speaker 1: He said, yeah, your mic Yeah, you get it. Ross
Speaker 1: is gonna come hunt you down.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 1: You better just do the weather.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna try something stand by, stand by.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, oh gosh.
Speaker 10: Is that any better? Hello?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's perfect.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I had.
Speaker 3: I had to patch you like all the way down
Speaker 3: because like for the last two weeks, every time you
Speaker 3: would talk, you would blow up the speakers. You were
Speaker 3: so loud.
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, you think you with age that i'd
Speaker 12: lose my memory, and I have because I kind of
Speaker 12: forget that. It's very temperamental the settings here. So if
Speaker 12: you just touch the thing just a little bit. It
Speaker 12: kind of goes crazy on the meter anyway, So we're
Speaker 12: talking about things we don't need to but the things
Speaker 12: we do need to talk about is the heat load
Speaker 12: to mid eighties today, maybe upper eighties. Ninety degrees in
Speaker 12: the Triangle Tomorrow and Saturday could be close to records
Speaker 12: which are around ninety I try it probably going to
Speaker 12: be eighty five to eighty seven over night loads in
Speaker 12: the sixties.
Speaker 10: Very mild.
Speaker 12: The average high this time of year is right around
Speaker 12: seventy degrees, and then the change will come as we
Speaker 12: get into the tail end of the weekend. Still warm
Speaker 12: with a few showers a Sunday afternoon mid upper eighties.
Speaker 12: I think we're back into the sixties and more normal
Speaker 12: temperatures on Monday with showers, and then by Tuesday might
Speaker 12: not get out of the upper fifties from the triad
Speaker 12: west sixty plus as we get into the Triangle with
Speaker 12: the loads at night, Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, load
Speaker 12: to mid thirties, so that could mean some twenties for
Speaker 12: some of me, some apatche frost, so kind of get
Speaker 12: the one little gas peer of some late winter temperatures
Speaker 12: as we get into the early and middle part of
Speaker 12: next week.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we'll chat with you tomorrow, Thank you, sir, yep,
Speaker 1: and we'll come back with Jeff Pellinger. Decks hanging in well.
Speaker 3: Good morning.
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Speaker 1: Casey, is Twitter still on that list? Wasn't Elon talking
Speaker 1: about that too? I can't remember Maybe that, Yeah, he was,
Speaker 1: he was.
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Speaker 1: Right, Jeff, do appreciate it, Thank you, sir. Okay himself
Speaker 1: a good one. And uh, this guy, uh, of course
Speaker 1: he's American. That's great, that's great. So some idiot went
Speaker 1: to that North Centinel Island again. The missionary he was American, right,
Speaker 1: that got killed here what like six seven years ago.
Speaker 1: It's probably I'm probably misremembering the timeline I seem to remember.
Speaker 1: I think he was us. He was there from a
Speaker 1: missionary standpoint that did not work out. He was the
Speaker 1: last person who was killed. So this guy shows up
Speaker 1: to the island. He's on he's on a sailboat sailing
Speaker 1: around the world whatever, and he has inflatable little boat
Speaker 1: and he literally lands on the island. Which remember a
Speaker 1: lot of the people that were killed by the North sentineliese.
Speaker 1: Those two boats that got they never even made landfall.
Speaker 1: They were off on like the reef there and they
Speaker 1: just arrowed them to death, a few of them. The
Speaker 1: missionary dude got on the island. So this guy gets
Speaker 1: on the island and he start he's blowing a whistle
Speaker 1: to get them to come out, and he leaves an
Speaker 1: offering for the tribe. I'm not this is the story
Speaker 1: is insane, leaves an offering for the Sentinelsee was what
Speaker 1: did you write on that? Like you realize they're not
Speaker 1: gonna be okay whatever? What was the offering? A coconut
Speaker 1: which I'm sure they have some, and a can of
Speaker 1: Coca cola