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Speaker 1: the Old Show today. And we have an interesting show
Speaker 1: in for a couple of reasons, not the least of which,
Speaker 1: what is this thing doing? Okay, all right, there you go,
Speaker 1: may it happen? Make it? So here we go, all right.
Speaker 1: Not the least of which is, you know, just you know,
Speaker 1: the general insanity of the you know, of the day
Speaker 1: with all the news stories. But Florida decided to kind
Speaker 1: of put their finger on the scale and it's it's
Speaker 1: pretty horrific. Well it's horrific, and then there's a sad
Speaker 1: story and they're going to be overrepresented today and there's
Speaker 1: nothing I can do about it, but that's how they roll. Also,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about something I'm sure many of you are
Speaker 1: participating in the week and probably for the next few weeks,
Speaker 1: sports betting. And it's not going anywhere. But obviously, and
Speaker 1: I know some of you are probably opposed to gambling,
Speaker 1: or you don't gamble, or maybe you love to gamble,
Speaker 1: so like it's going to run the gamut. I understand that,
Speaker 1: but I think the thing that you have to accept
Speaker 1: is it's probably not going anywhere for a couple reasons. One,
Speaker 1: you know people, you got companies with infrastructure, people have
Speaker 1: moved all in. But two, you know governments getting a
Speaker 1: taste of that. So that being said, they are trying
Speaker 1: to iron some issues out. And one of those you
Speaker 1: might have seen these. They're a series of ads at
Speaker 1: the NCAA's running right now and as part of an
Speaker 1: anti bullying campaign. If you watched any of the games
Speaker 1: the other day, you probably saw the thirty second spot
Speaker 1: they're running. But it's not what you think. So it's
Speaker 1: called it's I think it's called don't be a Loser.
Speaker 1: All right, Well that's pretty catchy. Let's find nobody wants
Speaker 1: to be a loser, and it's it's to teach people
Speaker 1: not to bully the players. Over sports gambling, I guess
Speaker 1: you have a bet and then the guy's like he's
Speaker 1: not covering, and then you're screaming you're a loser. I
Speaker 1: have a question on this though. So let's say let's
Speaker 1: say you had to u n C. Right, all right,
Speaker 1: you took UNC and I don't remember what the the
Speaker 1: first half over under is, but let's say the first
Speaker 1: half over under is forty forty or forty five whatever,
Speaker 1: And that just means you have to decide if you're
Speaker 1: gonna score more than forty points or less, and then
Speaker 1: you bet accordingly. All right, that would be it. That
Speaker 1: would be an over under bet on a number there,
Speaker 1: and they're you you take the over, and they're dragging
Speaker 1: ass right.
Speaker 2: They're not hitting free.
Speaker 1: Throws, they're they're they're they're they're shooting either three point
Speaker 1: shootings off whatever. And now you're getting upset because you're
Speaker 1: gonna lose your bet. I guess you can't yell at
Speaker 1: them you suck or something. I don't know. And I
Speaker 1: guess my question would be, dude, does the NCAA people
Speaker 1: do they think that, like the crowd started screaming ignorant
Speaker 1: crap at players when sports betting started officially, do you
Speaker 1: think that just like there are people that go to
Speaker 1: sporting events just to chirp, chirp the players, man, And
Speaker 1: it could be really funny. Actually, there's some there's some guys.
Speaker 1: There's some guys who have whole YouTube channels just dedicated
Speaker 1: to them chirping baseball players. Right, there's a dude who
Speaker 1: sits on the and I can't remember which team it is, is
Speaker 1: it Royals might be the Royals, one of the Midwest teams,
Speaker 1: and like he's got season tickets, like overlooking the visiting
Speaker 1: team's bullpen, and all he does is chirp these dudes.
Speaker 1: And he's really any but he's funny. I mean he's not.
Speaker 1: He's not like I'm gonna murder your mom. Like he
Speaker 1: puts some thought into it, but like it's part of
Speaker 1: the game. So like to some ex like I understand
Speaker 1: some of it. You don't want fist fights with people
Speaker 1: out there, you don't want people getting real personal. But
Speaker 1: you didn't need to have a hundrow on the game
Speaker 1: for somebody to want to scream at some players that
Speaker 1: they suck. That's just sports man. And I ask some
Speaker 1: of you're like, well, doesn't have a place in sports,
Speaker 1: not very sporting. Well okay, fine, then don't do it.
Speaker 1: But like that's a thing. And I can't imagine sports
Speaker 1: without that being a thing. Can you imagine your team's
Speaker 1: playing I don't know, the Patriots. And you can't spend
Speaker 1: the whole time reminding him about that one time that
Speaker 1: they film somebody else's practice and you know, to cheat
Speaker 1: hell no, or to flightgate or whatever or stuff you
Speaker 1: just made up. That's sports man. Do you even do
Speaker 1: you even want to know the stuff that me and
Speaker 1: my buddy screamed at the Packers when they'd come to
Speaker 1: the Metrodome every year. I really couldn't participate as much
Speaker 1: because I was working for a lot of those years.
Speaker 1: So you know, they really don't want you doing that
Speaker 1: with a press credential. But but uh dude, my uh
Speaker 1: my guys were They were mean as hell, and then
Speaker 1: the Packer players would then taunt you. But nobody hated
Speaker 1: each other. Well I don't know, I didn't. Maybe they did,
Speaker 1: but and then everyone go about their business. Man, So
Speaker 1: I don't know, Maybe I feel like you have other
Speaker 1: stuff to work on, like how can a quarterback play
Speaker 1: for five different college football teams? What's it? Why is
Speaker 1: the transfer proto the transfer portal ruining college sports? Maybe
Speaker 1: I don't know, turn your attention to that. But uh AnyWho,
Speaker 1: Sorry a little rant there because I'm just like, I
Speaker 1: just don't like being lectured too when I'm trying to
Speaker 1: sample your your product there. And if I want to tell,
Speaker 1: if I if I go to a if I go
Speaker 1: to a game, and I you know, whether I'm motivated
Speaker 1: by alumni. I'm alumni of the school, which I'm not
Speaker 1: any of the schools that are in there, or I
Speaker 1: got it. You know, I got a Benjamin riding on
Speaker 1: the game. If if I want to scream at the
Speaker 1: opposing players, and I'm not you know, I'm not screaming
Speaker 1: like racial stuff or I'm gonna murder your family stuff
Speaker 1: like that, but you suck in a creative way, I'll
Speaker 1: do that, and I think everyone's a big enough boy
Speaker 1: and girl to do it and understand it. And honestly,
Speaker 1: most of the players don't care. Don't care. That's just
Speaker 1: because they're big boys and girls. They're professionals, even at
Speaker 1: the college level, they're basically professionals, and as long as
Speaker 1: you're not getting personal with it, they don't care. All right,
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Speaker 1: the phone number there? All right? Coming up? The latest Doge.
Speaker 1: This is insane, the latest DOGE. I don't want to
Speaker 1: say victim. I see them using that in the U
Speaker 1: in some of the reporting, because they're not. They're not
Speaker 1: victims of DOGE. Well, I mean, if anything, were the victims, right,
Speaker 1: So the latest project, I'll call them the Federal Mediation
Speaker 1: and con concil conciliation service, which is not a thing
Speaker 1: I even knew existed, And if you want to know
Speaker 1: what it does, I had to look it up. I'll
Speaker 1: explain it to you. But let's just say they were
Speaker 1: living their best life, and by their best life, I
Speaker 1: mean literally worst case scenario for your tax dollars. Plus
Speaker 1: we have a rather interesting protest coming up, so we'll
Speaker 1: get into all this and more here on the CaCO
Speaker 1: Day Radio program. Ross. Do you still have a DVD
Speaker 1: collection at your house? Do you have like a I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember all my DVDs and Blu rays
Speaker 1: are like a box or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a bunch of them in a crawl
Speaker 2: space in the attic. Okay, but we do have somehowt
Speaker 2: Lincoln likes the boxes like to look at him and
Speaker 2: he just likes to touch him and like see the
Speaker 2: pictures and stuff. So yeah, but no, we don't actually
Speaker 2: watch DVDs though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know because a lot of people,
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't like all digital because they
Speaker 1: want tangible media. And like, I totally understand that because
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think on my Apple TV, I probably
Speaker 1: have three hundred movies that I've just you know, I
Speaker 1: bought over the years, just chilling there, and I guess
Speaker 1: if Apple ceased to exist, I don't have those anymore.
Speaker 1: So I get it. Here's the problem though, Apparently DVDs
Speaker 1: are The shelf life of a DVD is was estimated
Speaker 1: to be fifty to one hundred years, and I understand
Speaker 1: that's a big range, but different different companies have you know,
Speaker 1: different printing prosses and the actual material they use. But
Speaker 1: basically it was promised to the public that you know,
Speaker 1: like minimum fifty years. And I guess that was good
Speaker 1: enough with people because they're like, oh, yeah, probably be
Speaker 1: dead or there's a problem now. And of course you
Speaker 1: can ruin DVDs, you know, you scratch them, you leave
Speaker 1: them out, the cats choose on it, whatever, But even
Speaker 1: if you take care of them, there's that expectation. So
Speaker 1: apparently DVDs produced by Warner Brothers are starting to rot,
Speaker 1: and they are not not fifty years old. Specifically, DVDs
Speaker 1: manufactured by Warner Brothers between two thousand and six and
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight are literally rotting. It's what's it
Speaker 1: called laser rot, Like they have a whole term for it. Now,
Speaker 1: this was a problem with laser discs way back in
Speaker 1: the day. But with the advent of DVD ease and
Speaker 1: then into Blu Ray, they basically got rid of it.
Speaker 1: But I guess Warner Brothers cheaped out on their manufacturing
Speaker 1: process between six and eight. What are some of the
Speaker 1: titles here? Uh so, uh, let's see a lot of these. Now,
Speaker 1: a lot of these are not necessarily new run but
Speaker 1: were DVDs that were produced for movie. They were like
Speaker 1: re releases of movies that had previously come out. So, uh,
Speaker 1: lethal all the lethal weapon movies if you bought during
Speaker 1: that time. Uh, the box set of the Twilight Zones
Speaker 1: on this list, I'm just standing here, Clockwork Orange. Actually,
Speaker 1: there's a whole list here. Do do Do do? And
Speaker 1: so far? Yeah, here we go. Oh look at that
Speaker 1: all the Blade Runners. Now again it has to be
Speaker 1: during that time. Oh no, Dukes of Hazzard, the Dukes
Speaker 1: of Hazzard box set. Well, that's probably hate crime to
Speaker 1: own that now, right. So so Warner Brothers like, what
Speaker 1: do you what do you want us to do about it?
Speaker 1: And consumers are like, and I did not realize there
Speaker 1: is a whole segment of people that they're still on
Speaker 1: they're still doing DVDs, not even Blu rays, they're still
Speaker 1: doing DVDs, and I guess they still produce DVDs because
Speaker 1: of overseas markets. So the question is going to become
Speaker 1: what will what will Warner Brothers do? Because it's not
Speaker 1: going to be cheap. You're talking about three years worth
Speaker 1: of DVDs for one of the major studios in Hollywood,
Speaker 1: and however, many copies of whatever you sold. So there's
Speaker 1: no telling that they're going to make it right or
Speaker 1: what they're going to attempt to do. But yeah, just
Speaker 1: an interesting thing I was reading this morning. Do they
Speaker 1: have the statement here from all Right? So this is
Speaker 1: this is what they're offering to do. If it is
Speaker 1: a title that is still in print, they're going to
Speaker 1: create a process where you can, I guess, send it
Speaker 1: in and then they'll replace it. The problem is the
Speaker 1: list most of those are not in print, and Warner
Speaker 1: Brothers doesn't necessarily have the rights to them anymore. So
Speaker 1: you're probably just sol there. And my question is, well,
Speaker 1: why wuldn't you just give them digital call? Well, that's
Speaker 1: a rights issue too. I don't know what the answer is,
Speaker 1: but that's going to suck. And if you have DVD
Speaker 1: sitting in a box that you know, they might just
Speaker 1: be rotting sitting there. Yeah, do you effected time? Most
Speaker 1: of many of the affected titles are no longer in
Speaker 1: print due to rights issues. Yeah, you just kind of
Speaker 1: screwed Man fifty three year old Mexican mom of four,
Speaker 1: also named one of Times one hundred most influential people.
Speaker 1: So this goes back quite a ways fifteen years. Basically,
Speaker 1: she had an order for removal in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 1: Actually initially she's in the Denver area, Aurora specifically, and
Speaker 1: initially under the Obama administration. Uh, she was pulled over
Speaker 1: in Denver. They found her with a fake Social Security
Speaker 1: card somebody else's number, but a card then with her
Speaker 1: name on it. So uh, and she dot, oh, I
Speaker 1: didn't know it wasn't real. BS, shut up, obviously you
Speaker 1: knew it was you was it wasn't real. And at
Speaker 1: that point they're like, ah, you shouldn't do that, and
Speaker 1: then like then they didn't do anything except kind of
Speaker 1: start the process. And then two months later she was
Speaker 1: driving around with no license, no insurance. I got some
Speaker 1: sort of acts. I don't think anyone was injured. But
Speaker 1: and uh and finally the judge is like, now you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta go. You had it, you had an
Speaker 1: illegal documents and now you're you're you're driving around, you're
Speaker 1: a danger to the to the public. And uh, so
Speaker 1: she she left for Mexico. However, she had her lawyer
Speaker 1: at the time start attempting to get her a visa
Speaker 1: and then attempting all sorts of different ones, and then
Speaker 1: made an asylum claim, and when that wasn't moving fast
Speaker 1: enough for her, she decided she'd sneak back into the country. Well,
Speaker 1: now you have illegal entry, but as part of the process,
Speaker 1: and once you accept that you're going to start that process,
Speaker 1: if you violate the terms of it, it elevates what
Speaker 1: that is. But she did it anyway, and so eventually
Speaker 1: they caught her again in twenty thirteen and they gave
Speaker 1: her a deportation order and then Obama, if you remember,
Speaker 1: paused the order allowing her to stay because she started
Speaker 1: doing activism and she founded what was the name of
Speaker 1: the group, I don't know, some some some activist group
Speaker 1: in in Denver, who you know. They I was looking
Speaker 1: at some of their stuff would conflate legal. They'd leave,
Speaker 1: you know, the legal versus illegal. Everyone was just immigrants. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know the game. And so eventually she
Speaker 1: got a high enough profile that ICE agents and border
Speaker 1: patrol folks started They're going, well, look, you have this order,
Speaker 1: you have now this elevated re entry, We're going to
Speaker 1: deport you. So she decided to go to the first
Speaker 1: Unitarian Society church and go in there. And then they
Speaker 1: called a press conference and all the media showed up
Speaker 1: and this poor woman, she has to live in this church,
Speaker 1: but your churches are off limits. You can't go in there.
Speaker 2: Ahaha.
Speaker 1: And then she did all the interviews, made the time list,
Speaker 1: and I remember I remember listening to her and the
Speaker 1: absolute arrogance that was there. But it wasn't even I
Speaker 1: you know, I just I just want to be by
Speaker 1: my family any of the rest of it, you know,
Speaker 1: the heartstrings. Like. She was immensely unlikable, and I think
Speaker 1: she just got full of herself because she she realized,
Speaker 1: I'm thwarting the federal government, and so she bounced around
Speaker 1: with churches. They eventually they during Trump's first term, they
Speaker 1: offered they said, look how about we'll let you still
Speaker 1: do the process. We will not charge you with the
Speaker 1: second illegal entry, but you have to voluntarily get on
Speaker 1: a commercial flight, which we'll pay for, and you have
Speaker 1: to go back to Mexico. So they were going to
Speaker 1: kind of give her a do over. So she left
Speaker 1: the church and then it was driving over to DIA
Speaker 1: the Denver airport, and then just dipped into another church,
Speaker 1: just never showed and apparently nobody followed her. They just
Speaker 1: trusted that she would go over to the airport, and
Speaker 1: so she now showed for a flight and it was
Speaker 1: the whole thing. And then she she just hid in
Speaker 1: a series of churches, but was always doing interviews, especially
Speaker 1: in the Denver media whenever there was an immigration issue.
Speaker 1: She was kind of the go to person. They go, oh,
Speaker 1: let's go talk to her. She was because of the organization,
Speaker 1: because of the National pub Well, she had to make
Speaker 1: a target run yesterday or not yesterday when we go
Speaker 1: over the weekend, Yeah, yep, yep, yep. And they they
Speaker 1: were waiting and they swooped her in the target parking lot.
Speaker 1: And now she gonna go and her lawyers are of
Speaker 1: course out there. If Ice proceeds with trying to remove
Speaker 1: her without legal authority, it sends a chilling message about
Speaker 1: the agency's disregard for due process and the rule of law.
Speaker 1: All right, shut up, And what's interesting, And you saw
Speaker 1: it on Columbia's campus, there was a they arrested that
Speaker 1: hamas doctor Lady the UH and then the college activist
Speaker 1: on Georgetown's campus, he was arrested.
Speaker 3: So like.
Speaker 1: The people, the people who were the most smug, over
Speaker 1: the top, and arguably in some cases violent and disastrous.
Speaker 1: I don't know if i'd call her violent necessarily, but
Speaker 1: you know, definitely with what she saw in Columbia's camp
Speaker 1: campus and Georgetown's campus and many others, like they've just
Speaker 1: been keeping a list, man, and that seems to be
Speaker 1: where the priorities are. And I'm here for it absolutely
Speaker 1: watching a bunch of people who are here illegally not
Speaker 1: have the good sense to try to avoid the spotlight
Speaker 1: but rather embrace it for political purposes. It's going, it's
Speaker 1: now backfiring on them, and I'm I'm good with that
Speaker 1: absolutely So anyway, and I think she was actually working
Speaker 1: at the target two or she had worked there for
Speaker 1: a period of time, which is even crazier to me,
Speaker 1: because like, how are you working in Oh, it's Colorado,
Speaker 1: that's right, Colorado will just give you a worker. Do
Speaker 1: you know in Colorado? I actually worked in Colorado. When
Speaker 1: I got done with school, I moved to Colorado for
Speaker 1: about a year, and so when I went to get
Speaker 1: a job in Colorado, I don't know if it's still
Speaker 1: this way. Everybody who gets a job in most situations
Speaker 1: that is public facing in some way, shape or form.
Speaker 1: You had to do a drug test. It was like
Speaker 1: a mandatory thing in the state, which was weird at
Speaker 1: the time. So you have to go in and do
Speaker 1: your analysis to make sure you didn't have drugs in
Speaker 1: your system. And I'd never California didn't do that. Wow,
Speaker 1: we didn't do it, Montana, the three states I had
Speaker 1: worked in, but there you did. But then they decided
Speaker 1: you can come here illegally, have deportation orders, can get
Speaker 1: a job. So she is on her way out. All right,
Speaker 1: check this out. We got to solve us a mystery
Speaker 1: on this fine morning. Okay, well, mystery, solve it. I
Speaker 1: know it's early, but we're gonna go ahead and get
Speaker 1: this thing. This is the organization in this article is
Speaker 1: San fran Pride, which is San Francisco's Pride. Is a very,
Speaker 1: very big LGBTQ group, and there's many, many, many like
Speaker 1: them all over the country. And generally these are the
Speaker 1: groups that sponsor events like Pride parades, the Pride months stuff,
Speaker 1: and they have a problem. Apparently the funding for these
Speaker 1: organizations has dried up. San Francisco's Pride executive director Suzanne
Speaker 1: Ford says that they're very disappointed as a funding and
Speaker 1: now they they're they're putting it on corporate sponsors, but
Speaker 1: the numbers don't jive the amount of money that this
Speaker 1: organization is down versus the amount of money that they
Speaker 1: were getting from corporate sponsors, which included in San Francisco
Speaker 1: Pride case, Comcast, Anheuser Busch, La Crema, which is it's
Speaker 1: the wine, a couple other let's see here at the
Speaker 1: company that makes Guinness, a few others. I have apparently
Speaker 1: not made donations this year, choosing instead to move their
Speaker 1: sponsorship to more inclusive, which is ironic word to use
Speaker 1: inclusive events. But that doesn't speak to all of this.
Speaker 1: They're also not getting donations from somewhere else. And that's
Speaker 1: the mystery. That's what that's what I'm trying to solve
Speaker 1: this morning. Because the corporate stuff looks like, it's less
Speaker 1: than half of how much they're down. So where, oh
Speaker 1: where do you think that other money was coming from
Speaker 1: that that apparently is not coming in anymore. I have
Speaker 1: some theories, and I'm gonna be interested to see some
Speaker 1: analysis because this. I just saw the story last night,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that Daily Wire one of the others
Speaker 1: is kind of digging into this ross. Do you have
Speaker 1: any theories where some of that other money that's now
Speaker 1: not coming in might have been coming from.
Speaker 2: I mean, it might have disappeared due to inflation.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, now everything that would not account for the
Speaker 1: amount of money which is like three hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand they're down. That's non corporate, so anything.
Speaker 2: Else, I mean, it is a mystery.
Speaker 1: It is. It is strange that these particular organizations are
Speaker 1: suddenly had a huge amount of funding not coming in,
Speaker 1: some would say, some would speculate, and only because it's
Speaker 1: pretty obvious here that the in kind donations from other
Speaker 1: LGBT groups, the money that was basically funneled through that's
Speaker 1: clearly missing. I'm sure that has nothing to do with U. S. A.
Speaker 1: I D. Right, I mean that money's for you know,
Speaker 1: Burmese Pride parades, not for not for this. No, it's
Speaker 1: pretty clear that that's probably part of this. And and
Speaker 1: like the then the sponsor stuff's interesting. I understand that though. Right,
Speaker 1: there's a whole change now, a mindset change where you
Speaker 1: don't have to show out, you don't have to, you know,
Speaker 1: under penalty of you know, them putting you on blasts going. Well,
Speaker 1: they you know the old Jesse Jackson rainbow push model
Speaker 1: where they go to like go to Pepsi and they'd
Speaker 1: be like, hey, Pepsi, you need you need to make
Speaker 1: you need to make a big donation or we're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna say you're racist because we did the analysis
Speaker 1: and half of your employees are not black. Uh and
Speaker 1: and then uh, Pepsi would I guess, go, well, it's
Speaker 1: in you know, our Pepsi bottling plants in a community
Speaker 1: that's only twenty percent black, so why would half of it?
Speaker 1: And they'd be like, it doesn't matter. If not, we'll
Speaker 1: do we'll do a boycott, and then Pepsi would write
Speaker 1: a check. That's the old Jesse Jackson model, and that's
Speaker 1: kind of what you have with the LGBT. And for
Speaker 1: a while that was that was how they did things,
Speaker 1: and then Anheuser Busch caught the horns with the Dylan
Speaker 1: mulvany thing, and then they saw a sea change in
Speaker 1: the thought process, especially with all of the transgender stuff
Speaker 1: which turned off so many voters that you saw a
Speaker 1: certain segment that came over and everything that happened happened.
Speaker 1: And so these companies are just like, no, we're not
Speaker 1: because they may. I preach this on the radio every day.
Speaker 1: I said, most of these companies that are changing their
Speaker 1: you know, logo for Pride Month not you know, not
Speaker 1: in the United Arab Emirates, but they the logo here
Speaker 1: on Twitter. While they I'm sure have people that are
Speaker 1: activists within the company, from a corporate board standpoint, they
Speaker 1: don't care. They made a calculated decision that it was
Speaker 1: more financially injurious to not pacify these groups than it
Speaker 1: was to irritate conservatives or you know whatever you want
Speaker 1: to count the opposition as well. Now that dynamic has changed,
Speaker 1: and so because you're dealing with essentially corporate atmosphere, they've
Speaker 1: now decided it's more injurious to continue to do this.
Speaker 1: And frankly, do you remember the have you seen videos
Speaker 1: of the San Francisco Pride parade with all the kids
Speaker 1: and the naked dudes on the bicycles and all that. Like,
Speaker 1: it's one thing to have a parade. You can have
Speaker 1: a preye. They used to have a big Pride parade
Speaker 1: in downtown Saint Paul when I lived, I lived on
Speaker 1: the parade route, so the Saint Patti's Parade, the Christmas Parade,
Speaker 1: and yes they had the and they didn't have naked people.
Speaker 1: They didn't have people that were painting sex acts or
Speaker 1: running around in leather and stuff. They just had people
Speaker 1: with you know, flags and you know different you know,
Speaker 1: like pride, sports teams, whatever. And you could agree or
Speaker 1: disagree with it, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it wasn't it wasn't visually offensive. And so when you
Speaker 1: see the video of like San Francisco where they had
Speaker 1: you know, naked dudes on bikes that were handing candy
Speaker 1: to kids, I couldn't if I was a corporate sponsor,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to be a part of that. But
Speaker 1: I think a deep dive on this is going to
Speaker 1: be very interesting, and I think you're also going to
Speaker 1: be able to tell a lot of organizations where a
Speaker 1: lot of this money was being funneled back to from
Speaker 1: what I speculate might be kind of the USAID style stuff.
Speaker 1: It shows me this.
Speaker 2: We talked to Stephen last week about the you know,
Speaker 2: the dwindling or the not so like no crowd protests
Speaker 2: right the Department of Education. Can you imagine like two
Speaker 2: years ago if that had happened, Oh my cuts, Oh
Speaker 2: my gosh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so very interesting. Let's see here do
Speaker 1: I'm reading the statements from the companies as to why
Speaker 1: they stopped doing it. Nobody mentions politics, but they kind
Speaker 1: of let it be known that something made them make
Speaker 1: the decision, and they don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think they're just trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what the balance is here, all right, six fifty kco
Speaker 1: Day radio program.
Speaker 4: Hang on.
Speaker 1: I don't find myself watching ESPN unless they're unless they're
Speaker 1: airing a sporting event that I'm watching, and I used
Speaker 1: to watch a lot. I used to I used to
Speaker 1: kind of make a point of just because you know,
Speaker 1: I basically have my afternoons free for the most part
Speaker 1: until I start prep I would watch you know, around
Speaker 1: the horn and pardon the interruption, back of Cornheiser and
Speaker 1: those guys, and it was generally a block I'd catch.
Speaker 1: I didn't watch so much Sports Center, but I don't
Speaker 1: unless there's a sporting event on ESPN. I just don't
Speaker 1: even bother because it just it, it got so insufferable,
Speaker 1: just the destruction of a brand that didn't have to
Speaker 1: be political, was doing just fine and uh and it
Speaker 1: was even able to have absolute lunatics like Keith Oberman.
Speaker 1: Like Keith Oberman didn't just get crazy when he left ESPN,
Speaker 1: no doubt. Dude's been like that his whole life, and
Speaker 1: yet he was able to operate and be very likable
Speaker 1: on ESPN. Did it? Ross? Did you have any idea
Speaker 1: of Oberman's politics before they jettisoned him when he was
Speaker 1: back in.
Speaker 2: The you know the no, but as part of my
Speaker 2: morning routine, and it was fantastic, like him in Who's
Speaker 2: uh god, who did he do the show with? Well?
Speaker 1: He was he was a sport he was, but they
Speaker 1: did Sports Center. Yeah, but he was with the guy
Speaker 1: who the guy who died of cancer. He had a
Speaker 1: triangle connection. I'm sorry, why was?
Speaker 2: It was fantastic and it was part of my morning.
Speaker 2: Dan Patrick is who I'm thinking of.
Speaker 1: Oh, Okay, yeah, you're Patrick Is with the other dude.
Speaker 2: For a while, that was part of my morning routine
Speaker 2: and they were fantastic.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was entertaining. They did obviously got your sports fixed,
Speaker 1: but like all the personalities were very likable.
Speaker 2: I remember when he showed up on Rachel Mattow and MSNBC,
Speaker 2: like you know, he did the show. He came on
Speaker 2: after Rachel Mattow or before four, and I was like, wow,
Speaker 2: this guy's crazy.
Speaker 1: So yesterday on ESPN they were doing draft coverage. You know,
Speaker 1: this is when they're putting mocked stuff together. You had
Speaker 1: the combine that just just got done. Drafts right around
Speaker 1: the corner, and you know that's what they should be doing,
Speaker 1: right ESPN talking about the NFL Draft. Obviously, the NFL
Speaker 1: is the most profitable sport in America. So sure, go
Speaker 1: ahead and go ahead and do it. But the problem
Speaker 1: is you got to fill time, and when you're filling
Speaker 1: it with people think they got to be woke on this.
Speaker 1: The the grown factor is is at an eleven. So
Speaker 1: Ryan Clark, former NFL player, he's a good player in
Speaker 1: the NFL too. He's there and they're they're talking about
Speaker 1: Schador Sanders Okay, Dean Sanders kid Colorado Buffalo's uh and
Speaker 1: uh you know, uh Dion obviously a Hall of Famer
Speaker 1: there and they're trying to figure out where Sander's going
Speaker 1: to go. But the discussion with Sanders is a more
Speaker 1: complex one because for a couple of things you have.
Speaker 1: Obviously it was kind of crazy times at Colorado. Now,
Speaker 1: Sanders obviously was a highs you know from a Heisman perspective,
Speaker 1: you know he was he was one of the favorites
Speaker 1: all year and then you saw what happened. But they're
Speaker 1: having a discussion about where he's going to go in
Speaker 1: the draft. But it's not just about on the field stuff.
Speaker 1: You have off the field stuff. Uh. You have the
Speaker 1: general attitude of what was going on over at Colorado,
Speaker 1: like where Uh, there are a lot of people at Colorado,
Speaker 1: a former players who talked to his ability to be
Speaker 1: a good teammate and that is stuff that you know,
Speaker 1: the NFL wants to look at. You saw what happened
Speaker 1: with Johnny Manziel who told what was it, Bernie Cozar
Speaker 1: when the Rounds brought him in that he didn't want,
Speaker 1: he didn't need quote an old man telling him how
Speaker 1: to play quarterback, right, So they do pay attention to
Speaker 1: that stuff. And then you had the incident where one
Speaker 1: of the Sanders kids beat a dude up so badly
Speaker 1: in Texas he became permanently disabled and they ended up
Speaker 1: having to settle that. But he could even go to
Speaker 1: Texas for a while. So yes, NFL teams are going
Speaker 1: to look at that. But according to mister Clark, here
Speaker 1: when it comes to quarterbacks and other quote skill positions,
Speaker 1: you're talking about wide receiver, running back, tight end, those positions.
Speaker 1: This is just so insane. So let me quote it.
Speaker 1: NFL teams hesitate to draft players because they're black. What
Speaker 1: are you talking about? What? Who is? Who is not?
Speaker 1: Give me an example, dude, and and and and explain
Speaker 1: to me, like I'm five, where an NFL team is
Speaker 1: sitting there, and let's remove any off the field issues. Okay, right,
Speaker 1: because those do count. If they don't think you're going
Speaker 1: to be a good teammate, if they think you're you're
Speaker 1: so arrogant, you're not going to listen to coaches, they're
Speaker 1: going to factor that in. And I don't know that
Speaker 1: Sanders is that way. I'm just going off with some
Speaker 1: former players have said so teams look at that. But
Speaker 1: let's remove all of that stuff. In modern history, all right,
Speaker 1: this is we're not going back to the sixties or whatever.
Speaker 1: But in modern history in my lifetime, I give me
Speaker 1: one example of an NFL team that is blatantly passing
Speaker 1: on a player because he's.
Speaker 2: Black, and nobody cares. Man, you know, at the combine,
Speaker 2: if they're doing like, oh my god, he can run
Speaker 2: a forty in like half a second and throw the
Speaker 2: ball five hundred yard there. But he's green. But he's green,
Speaker 2: the owner is gonna be like, I don't care.
Speaker 1: Yeah soon him, Yeah, nobody cares. And then I was thinking,
Speaker 1: what what the just go to quarterbacks? How many when
Speaker 1: was the last first where the last draft for the
Speaker 1: first quarterback taken was white? And so I did look
Speaker 1: this up and actually it was a few years ago.
Speaker 1: But so last year Caleb Williams black from USC Bryce
Speaker 1: Young bladed at Alabama, Black Panthers fans are well aware
Speaker 1: of him, obviously, so he plays for and then Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 1: So if you go three years ago Kenny Pickett in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Trevor Lawrence, who's extra white with that hair.
Speaker 1: So I'll give you that one. But dude, come on,
Speaker 1: is Trevor Lawrence not the whitest looking football player mostly
Speaker 1: because he looks like a California beach bump surfer dude,
Speaker 1: which is fine. I'm not insulted them, just pointing that out.
Speaker 1: But what what are you talking about now? Does that
Speaker 1: mean that that quarterback taken turned out to be the best? No?
Speaker 1: Not necessarily, I mean obviously when it comes to Bryce Young,
Speaker 1: still trying to figure that out. C J. Stroud and
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson arguably put up better number. Stroud definitely did.
Speaker 1: He's maturing faster. But like it's this is the it's
Speaker 1: the dumbest argument I've ever seen, and yet it is
Speaker 1: an argument I've heard year after year after year in
Speaker 1: various sports. Major League Baseball, remember they had the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Why why is there a very small amount of black
Speaker 1: players in Major League Baseball? Do you think it's because
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball teams don't want black players that can
Speaker 1: hit three, you know, above three hundred no or or
Speaker 1: with an e RA under three. They'll sign. They'll sign
Speaker 1: you in a minute if you're green. The reason, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of reasons, and I do give some
Speaker 1: they do give sub credence to the idea that when
Speaker 1: you get into inner city situations where you may have
Speaker 1: a higher propensity of black athletes, that baseball opportunities may
Speaker 1: not be as easy to find. But there have been
Speaker 1: so many organizations that have attempted to to go ahead
Speaker 1: and uh and and close that gap. So really the
Speaker 1: primary driving reason is when you have somebody remember remember
Speaker 1: this about top quality, top tier athletes. Uh, most of them,
Speaker 1: if given the opportunity, could probably excel at a couple
Speaker 1: of sports. And many have and have chosen to not
Speaker 1: go to baseball.
Speaker 2: You know, you saw this with Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray is one. Uh, I mean there's so many,
Speaker 1: and of course there's you know Deon Sanders, right, We're
Speaker 1: just we're just mentioning him, and you know Bo Jackson
Speaker 1: back in the day. But then people had to start choosing.
Speaker 1: They had to start choosing, and they chose to play
Speaker 1: in the NFL largely because it was more profitable or
Speaker 1: in college you had coaches, Look, we had obviously NC
Speaker 1: State lost a whole quarterback to Wisconsin because he wanted
Speaker 1: to play baseball too.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's more profitable and the season is shorter
Speaker 2: as well. I mean, I guess it's more aggressive, but
Speaker 2: I mean, think about the baseball season. Is it's from
Speaker 2: you know, April till to October.
Speaker 1: Let's see and and and they still get drafted too.
Speaker 1: That's the that's the crazy thing. Do you know how
Speaker 1: many NFL players playing right now technically there's a major
Speaker 1: league Baseball team who holds their their draft holds them
Speaker 1: from the drafts should they ever re enter the sport.
Speaker 1: A bunch of them. Kyler Murray is the one ross
Speaker 1: named like his contracts still who was it last year?
Speaker 1: Was is it Jayden Daniels? Who was who got drafted
Speaker 1: by the Yankees two or something? So like this, all
Speaker 1: of this is dumb. All of this is and and
Speaker 1: this is what ESPN chooses to fill time with brass
Speaker 1: and I were just reminiscing, like you want to talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, killing the Golden Goose Sports Center might be
Speaker 1: one of the best examples ESPN.
Speaker 2: It had to be so cheap to film too, because
Speaker 2: it's just two dudes sitting behind a desk with a
Speaker 2: green screen writing there and stuff just being funny.
Speaker 1: You know, when ESPN really took off, like if there's
Speaker 1: a whole documentary on this you can watch and Chris
Speaker 1: Berman has interviewed a bunch of it, and Berman's talking
Speaker 1: about when this whole thing kicked off, like they were
Speaker 1: going around, they were trying, they were rounding up writers
Speaker 1: and sports talk hosts, transition him to TV. Some of
Speaker 1: these guys were TV news sports guys, and they you know,
Speaker 1: created this campus and then basically they like bought this
Speaker 1: like little cul de Sac neighborhood thing that's next to it.
Speaker 1: And then like you had ESPN hosts that were living
Speaker 1: in like roommate situations at some of these houses because
Speaker 1: it was like everyone had a dream or we're going
Speaker 1: to get this thing off the ground, and they did.
Speaker 1: They were able to and and the Ross's point, nobody
Speaker 1: was making real money. And then ESPN was making a
Speaker 1: bunch of money. And then eventually, yeah, sure the contracts
Speaker 1: went up and they started paying people, which they should, like,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to get paid for what I do,
Speaker 1: especially if we're bringing in the ratings. But it was
Speaker 1: this natural growth and transition that that created this thing,
Speaker 1: this thing that was not political, although I bet, I
Speaker 1: bet back in the day, Keith Oberman used to go
Speaker 1: into the break room and just start screaming about the Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was wondering about that, like if he's always that
Speaker 2: way or if there was a turning point, like there's no.
Speaker 1: Way when the cameras weren't on, he wasn't running his mouth.
Speaker 2: Uh George Bush.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to in the next segment, I want
Speaker 1: to call for the death of George Bush. And they're like, no,
Speaker 1: you can't do that. Right now, you're able to police just.
Speaker 2: Say in fuego and boom, shacka laca and go on
Speaker 2: with your day. Man, Right, That's all I want to
Speaker 2: see because it's such an easy existence and he took
Speaker 2: this different road. It's so weird.
Speaker 1: And and you look at all the hosts over there.
Speaker 1: Who was the one woman, Jammelle.
Speaker 2: Hill, she's a yeah, she's a lunatic.
Speaker 1: Remember she's the one who during the first Trump thing
Speaker 1: was like in the decided you know what, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna just for no reason, be like, oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, Donald Trump's a white supremacist. That was
Speaker 1: a whole thing. And they're like, aren't you supposed to
Speaker 1: be doing like NBA pregame right now? What's going on?
Speaker 1: Just sheer lunacy and now you know you have the
Speaker 1: layoffs there. The ratings are obviously down. ESPN likely way
Speaker 1: overpaid for NBA. The amount of money that ESPN paid
Speaker 1: for I think it's half of the primetime NBA games.
Speaker 1: I'm trying, it's a super big deal. They were absolutely
Speaker 1: losing their butt because NBA ratings are down like forty
Speaker 1: percent right now. It's like they have some issues over there,
Speaker 1: so you would think you would do things to not
Speaker 1: alienate the rest of your audience. You're now trying to
Speaker 1: make up that that loss that you had, and.
Speaker 2: It's not a hard thing to fix either, Like they're
Speaker 2: bringing in these consultant and start having these like panels
Speaker 2: or how can we fix it? ESPN? If you because
Speaker 2: it's almost unwatchable now because it's so much politics. Do sports?
Speaker 2: Similar with CNN, they're like, CNN, how can we fix
Speaker 2: this problem? Well, I don't report the news.
Speaker 1: That's its CNN's inevitably going. It's going to be harder
Speaker 1: for CNN because the news is so much politics.
Speaker 2: But yeah, but you can report it without the bias
Speaker 2: they have.
Speaker 1: Correct No, no, no, I totally agree with you. But
Speaker 1: with ESPN they can largely choose to avoid it entirely
Speaker 1: because there's there should not be an expectation that the
Speaker 1: Sports Center host is going to let you know what
Speaker 1: he thinks of the doge cuts, right, that would have
Speaker 1: been unfathomable twenty years ago.
Speaker 2: Think about how many catchphrases, right at least when I
Speaker 2: was back in school, we'd be at the bus stop
Speaker 2: talking to you know, and just dropping catchphrases from Sports
Speaker 2: Center from ESPN. When's the last time that happened? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I honestly I don't even know what they are because
Speaker 2: I don't watch it. Now are do they have some catchphrases?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: Oh? By the way, the host I was trying to
Speaker 1: remember who died of cancer with Stuart Scott. Stuart Scott,
Speaker 1: who was great, great and and so like you see
Speaker 1: this stuff every day. There's a Twitter account. We've talked
Speaker 1: about it on the show. It's funny. It's called mug Shoties,
Speaker 1: where it's h H A W or s h A
Speaker 1: W T y s right now.
Speaker 2: All it is both super hot women who like you know,
Speaker 2: committed crimes.
Speaker 1: Mug shots. That's it. They just they just troll the
Speaker 1: mug shots, the online database of mug shots and then
Speaker 1: people submit them right because now they're on it, so
Speaker 1: it even got easier for them. And so if you're
Speaker 1: a smoke show and you got arrested for like duy
Speaker 1: or whatever, they put it up and sometimes they put
Speaker 1: mug shots up or they don't know what the chick
Speaker 1: did and then they guess what she did out it's
Speaker 1: super hilarious and that's it. You caught lightning in a bottle.
Speaker 1: They that's the thing blew up. I remember when we
Speaker 1: first saw it only had a few thousand, and now
Speaker 1: it has a half billion people that follow it on Twitter,
Speaker 1: which you know, that's that's a pretty good amount there.
Speaker 1: You this is turn key, and and people are sending
Speaker 1: you the mug shots because you're you're so big now
Speaker 1: you don't even have to do anything. So yesterday, I'm
Speaker 1: just a mine in my own business, is strolling on
Speaker 1: the Twitter seeing what's up. And you know, I did
Speaker 1: follow them on the show. I think we still follow him.
Speaker 1: I probably can unfollow them. And I'm just cruising through
Speaker 1: there and I see Matt Walsh posted something and he
Speaker 1: said America is not a nation built by immigrants. America
Speaker 1: was built by settlers. There's a difference and this is
Speaker 1: because some lunatic yesterday said that the America was basically
Speaker 1: a big homeless shelter when we got here. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean kind of. I guess I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: how i'd word it there. And they did have to
Speaker 1: obviously build some infrastructure, but whatever, it kicked off this
Speaker 1: whole discussion, and Walsh is right to say immigrants versus settlers.
Speaker 1: In my mind, a settler is somebody who establishes that infrastructure,
Speaker 1: and an immigrant is while still a settler, can be
Speaker 1: an immigrant. They didn't have anything to immigrate too, do
Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was nothing here, man. They had to build everything.
Speaker 1: Right, and so an immigrant would then move where something already.
Speaker 2: Is and think about what the like, what we've built
Speaker 2: in two hundred plus years. It's dude, we built some stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's gone pretty, it's gone well.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, all right. So Walsh is making this point,
Speaker 1: and honestly, I think it's really a dumb thing to
Speaker 1: argue over whatever. And then lo and behold this mug
Speaker 1: Shorty's account, which has again, you don't have to do
Speaker 1: anything except post hot chicks with mugshots. That's it. That's
Speaker 1: your job. Decided they were going to get into a
Speaker 1: Twitter woke Twitter battle with Matt Walsh. What are you doing?
Speaker 1: Here's what mug Shorty's posted. You're wrong. The Americas were
Speaker 1: already inhabited by tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions
Speaker 1: of indigenous people. And that was not hundreds of millions.
Speaker 1: We have a pretty good estimate it was not that much.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't matter if it was or hundreds of millions
Speaker 1: of indigenous people long before the colonizers arrived.
Speaker 2: Where their buildings?
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 2: Where their buildings?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean there was like wigwams and stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean like a building.
Speaker 1: Well what about the carved down for the Pueblo people
Speaker 1: where they carved the houses?
Speaker 2: No buildings?
Speaker 1: Well, I guess technically there was that one. They found
Speaker 1: that structure that the Vikings built, remember and then left because.
Speaker 2: Was there steeling metal?
Speaker 1: No, it was rocks and earth and some other stuff.
Speaker 1: They did find some metal there. It was how they
Speaker 1: figured out it was Vikings. But it was tools or something.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, No, no buildings, no, nothing, not even not
Speaker 1: even a cookout. Ross did you know that there was
Speaker 1: not a cookout when they got here or an olive
Speaker 1: garden nowhere, and no, we had to build all that.
Speaker 1: So it's like again the inability of people just to recognize, hey,
Speaker 1: I got a good thing going, maybe I won't screw
Speaker 1: this up. When the TDS takes over, it just takes over.
Speaker 1: You can't help yourself. And it's just really weird to
Speaker 1: see something that's never been political all of a sudden
Speaker 1: be hyper political. All right, anyway, we got to take
Speaker 1: a break. We'll be right back. I'm sure many of you,
Speaker 1: many of you guys obviously follow the Bulgarian soccer team,
Speaker 1: but they had a han A soccer match here earlier
Speaker 1: this week, and prior to the match, they came out,
Speaker 1: they were doing announcements and they decided they announced one
Speaker 1: of the most legendary Bulgarian soccer players, who pet Petko
Speaker 1: Ganchev whatever I don't know, but anyway, they had a
Speaker 1: moment of silence. They announced this guy who's in their
Speaker 1: soccer Hall of Fame or whatever, had passed away, died
Speaker 1: at the age of seventy eight. So they had the
Speaker 1: moment of silence, and then they go to the match
Speaker 1: and then something weird happens, literally within minutes of the
Speaker 1: start of the of the match. The dude who they
Speaker 1: had the moment of silence for literally called somebody at
Speaker 1: like the front office is like, I'm alive. So I
Speaker 1: had to literally announce that he wasn't dead at the
Speaker 1: middle period there.
Speaker 2: Why did they think he was dead?
Speaker 1: I don't know. It doesn't really say here.
Speaker 2: Is it just because he's one of those people? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean we've all done it before where we find
Speaker 2: out somebody, you know, somebody will pass away and he'll.
Speaker 1: Be like, oh my god, I thought they were already dead. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now that's true. We have there, We have been there.
Speaker 1: Gan Chef said, normally he watches every match from you know,
Speaker 1: the beginning to the end. However, he said he was
Speaker 1: running late getting back home, and he said it was
Speaker 1: very weird because as he was driving home, his phone
Speaker 1: was blowing up, and he said that he waited till
Speaker 1: he got home and then you know, went to see
Speaker 1: what the messages were and they're like, hey, sorry, you're dead,
Speaker 1: and then he's like I'm not. So there you go.
Speaker 1: That's gotta be weird too, man. Somebody announces who did
Speaker 1: that happen to their their their death got announced and
Speaker 1: it went kind of viral on Twitter.
Speaker 2: And they were like, I'm not dead. This just happened
Speaker 2: with newman from Seinfeld. It's happened a bunch of times, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: and he's like, no, I'm not dead.
Speaker 1: I think people in the comments are like, you're not him,
Speaker 1: you're dead.
Speaker 2: If that were to happen to you, like, say you're
Speaker 2: him and you're getting all these calls are coming in
Speaker 2: and it's getting in the news, would you immediately say
Speaker 2: you're not dead? Or would you sitting I would watch
Speaker 2: it for a bit. Yeah, I'd be interested, Like I
Speaker 2: think we all are right.
Speaker 1: I might just be like, ah, I'm dead, so now
Speaker 1: I can go do stuff, you know, just you know,
Speaker 1: get it, get a get a box and a few
Speaker 1: bags or whatever loaded up, and uh, get out of there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, plus you can haunt people, so that'd.
Speaker 2: Be the best. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So if you like, if everyone thinks you're dead, give it,
Speaker 1: give it a tick, and then just start showing up
Speaker 1: outside people's windows at night.
Speaker 2: Who will know who you're are and like whispered prophecies
Speaker 2: and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like, don't come any closer. And then you know,
Speaker 1: have the ability to hide when they come out. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you could screw with so many people. That'd be great.
Speaker 1: Oh now I kind of want to fake my own death.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but wouldn't you be sad if, like you had
Speaker 2: no reaction. What if everybody was like, yeah, good, I
Speaker 2: hate that guy.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, are you talking about r L. I'd be
Speaker 1: sad if they didn't write a hate piece. But yeah, no,
Speaker 1: that would be the bat that would be the thing.
Speaker 1: Did they didn't? They just had some guy in the news.
Speaker 1: You faked this. He's not famous. He faked his own
Speaker 1: death literally just to see if his kids were turds
Speaker 1: or not. I just I remember just reading that story.
Speaker 1: Where was that?
Speaker 2: Well, no, you had the other guy that faked his
Speaker 2: death and moved to uh for his mail in Russian
Speaker 2: bride or whatever.
Speaker 1: No, No, it wasn't Russia. It was even worse than that.
Speaker 1: Where did he go? Was kaz concert Stan or something? Yeah,
Speaker 1: in Wisconsin. He faked his own death in the canoe
Speaker 1: accident and the lake up there, And.
Speaker 2: Then I believe it turned out like she wasn't believe
Speaker 2: it or not. She wasn't even like an actual like
Speaker 2: how like Kazakhstanian. Yeah, she was like a fat dude
Speaker 2: named whatever their names are in Kazakhstan. Yeah, I was
Speaker 2: gonna say.
Speaker 1: Well Borat probably Yeah, so yeah, that's that's good stuff there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be sad. That would be sad. But again,
Speaker 1: you can still do the haunting thing even if like
Speaker 1: the famous part of you that nobody cares like, you know,
Speaker 1: people in your inner circle are going to know, so
Speaker 1: you still go haunt them. Oh yeah, so Ross you're
Speaker 1: gonna go prophecies really because you know some people might
Speaker 1: do the Son of Sam thing with the dog that
Speaker 1: was given orders, but probably probably not a good idea.
Speaker 1: All right, let me jump back over to this, speaking
Speaker 1: of bad ideas, dude, Florida is just leading the charge today.
Speaker 1: Oh a reminder too, We got our NERD correspondent to
Speaker 1: Stephen Kent coming up. That's where we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about sports betting in there, and it'll he he just
Speaker 1: wrote an art article on this, so and then we
Speaker 1: got a few other things. But speaking of bad idea,
Speaker 1: is Florida leading the charge today? I'm gonna be somewhat
Speaker 1: delicate with this story because I know that some of
Speaker 1: you are going to have a right emotional reaction to this,
Speaker 1: and you should, and frankly, I don't know if we
Speaker 1: can catapult this woman into an alligator pit fast enough.
Speaker 1: But I saw this yesterday and I don't know. Do
Speaker 1: you remember the story back in the day where the
Speaker 1: woman what was it a hamster or it was no,
Speaker 1: it was a guinea pig, right, or I'm trying to
Speaker 1: remember the first lady years ago she had like a
Speaker 1: guinea pig, right, And she showed up for a flight
Speaker 1: and they're like, you can't bring that on the flight, ma'am,
Speaker 1: And they're like, uh, oh okay. And then remember she
Speaker 1: went to the bathroom and murdered it. Yes, she thought
Speaker 1: that was yeah, yeah, she flushed it down the toilet, right, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: or attempted to, I think the toilet, which is how
Speaker 1: they found it. So but it's just it just would
Speaker 1: presented with the idea of maybe not making her flight,
Speaker 1: having a rebook or something, she chose to drown her
Speaker 1: emotional support guinea pig.
Speaker 2: Really, this is a little Peggy. She's so important to me
Speaker 2: and I can't go anywhere without Peggy.
Speaker 1: Well, I love her, I love her.
Speaker 2: Well, you can't get on the plane. Can I catch
Speaker 2: your rebooks? It's the bathroom, real fat?
Speaker 1: I shouldn't laugh at it's just it's just, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's future serial killers stuff.
Speaker 2: Where'd Peggy go?
Speaker 1: So I would have assumed that would be a one off.
Speaker 1: I was wrong. So a woman in Florida was arrested.
Speaker 1: Her name is Alison Lawrence fifty seven. She was attempting
Speaker 1: to enter the secure side of the Orlando Airport right so,
Speaker 1: and TSA said she had her dog, And she said,
Speaker 1: and she did not have the quote proper paperwork to
Speaker 1: bring her dog. What does that look like. I've never
Speaker 1: brought an animal, and I know a lot of you do,
Speaker 1: because like whenever I'm flying, obviously people walking around with
Speaker 1: their dogs that clearly are not support dogs because they're
Speaker 1: just not behaved at all. But do you have what
Speaker 1: kind of paperwork do you have to have to bring
Speaker 1: a dog onto a plane? Do you know? ROSSI do
Speaker 1: you know at all? You guys probably never tried to
Speaker 1: fly with one. We did.
Speaker 2: We flew with one of our chuahuas, and I can't
Speaker 2: call with the process or what we had to do
Speaker 2: to bring it on board, but I remember it was
Speaker 2: a pain in the ass, like, okay, there's some paperwork process.
Speaker 2: I remember we had the carrier and they looked through
Speaker 2: the carrier, and they didn't want to because the chuaoa
Speaker 2: was a crazy chiuahua and they were like to touch
Speaker 2: this thing, I don't want to get a bit. But
Speaker 2: we didn't like store it in the back. We had
Speaker 2: her like because she was so tiny, like under our
Speaker 2: end of the scene.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. I get that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I again, I'd never flown with the pet, so
Speaker 1: I don't know. Now, flying with guns, that's that's the
Speaker 1: whole thing right there. Many of you have been through that,
Speaker 1: and and this is and this sounds bad, uh, the
Speaker 1: handful of times I've flown with firearms, because there's a
Speaker 1: whole process. You got to go up obviously to you know,
Speaker 1: the ticket counter, and you got to you gotta verifying,
Speaker 1: certify it's unloaded, it's taken apart in certain circumstances. There's
Speaker 1: the way that you pack them is very specific, and
Speaker 1: then they have to visually see them, which means you
Speaker 1: have to open a gun case with like one hundred
Speaker 1: people standing there, you know, if it's a busy time
Speaker 1: and it's really low, so people can see what's there.
Speaker 1: Because you put it up where you put the luggage
Speaker 1: to be checked, and you gotta work with whoever the
Speaker 1: ticket agent is, and I profile man, cause the worst
Speaker 1: case scenario is to get somebody who knows nothing about guns.
Speaker 1: And like, I've had ticket agents look at like you,
Speaker 1: why did you bring a gun in here? And I'm like,
Speaker 1: is this so uncommon that you don't know this? So like,
Speaker 1: if there's a dude over the age of forty, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm profiling, and that's a ticket guy, I will try
Speaker 1: to go to that ticket agent because then I know
Speaker 1: the process. And then you go and then it goes
Speaker 1: back to oversized luggage and then they have to give you.
Speaker 1: They have to be like, all right, everything's okay from
Speaker 1: the TSA guy and it's a whole process. But I
Speaker 1: didn't know for pets, it was so learned something new
Speaker 1: every day. Well, she didn't do the process. So she
Speaker 1: had a decision to make instead of calling somebody to
Speaker 1: pick up the And she lives in Orlando. This is
Speaker 1: why this is so much worse. So she lives outside
Speaker 1: of Orlando, but like this this is her She's departing
Speaker 1: from her home city. So she decided, well, I'm going
Speaker 1: to miss my flight. So she went to the restroom
Speaker 1: and did what happened to the guinea pig? And you're
Speaker 1: not flushing. It's not a small dog either, You're not.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember. I think it was a mix,
Speaker 1: but they described it as like a medium size.
Speaker 2: Right, So she's going to prison and never flying in
Speaker 2: a plane again.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, I I she shouldn't be allowed in polite
Speaker 1: society that you would go drown your pet because you
Speaker 1: couldn't get on a plane. And you're in your hometown
Speaker 1: where you know, reasonably you should have maybe known people
Speaker 1: call somebody, hey, come pick up the dog, because if not,
Speaker 1: I can't get on the plane. I gotta get on
Speaker 1: this plane. I don't even know what her purpose of
Speaker 1: flying was, but just the heartlessness. Do you remember do
Speaker 1: you remember that video of that dog that somebody just
Speaker 1: tied to the side of the road in front of
Speaker 1: her the hurricane down to Florida last year, Like do
Speaker 1: you remember Ron de Santis, like hunted that dude down.
Speaker 1: They hunted that dude down, and they charged with everything
Speaker 1: they could think of. This lunatic, this lunatic's and so
Speaker 1: she does it and then just leaves the dog in
Speaker 1: the stall there, just leaves the dog in there. So
Speaker 1: then somebody goes into use the bathroom. You're like, holy hell,
Speaker 1: can you imagine walking into an airport bathroom and then
Speaker 1: that's in there. So they quickly, obviously were able to
Speaker 1: figure this out because they have cameras. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know this, they have cameras and airports. And
Speaker 1: also she then went and she was outside I had security,
Speaker 1: so they told her, no, you can't come through, you
Speaker 1: have your paperwork. She disappears for five minutes, comes back,
Speaker 1: no dog, do you did? Nobody wonder what happened to
Speaker 1: the dog? They like, five minutes is a really really
Speaker 1: short period of time to find somebody else to take it. Uh,
Speaker 1: and I guess they they had boarded the flight, but
Speaker 1: it had not taken off, so they snagged her obviously
Speaker 1: real quick. All right, yeah, throw her in the gator pit.
Speaker 1: That would be my recommendation. Former Philippines President Dwarte is
Speaker 1: on trial for crimes against humanity at the Hague. What
Speaker 1: would you do?
Speaker 5: Wait?
Speaker 1: Orders are shoot them dead?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: This guy is a Duarte is a bit of a
Speaker 1: one trick pony there, So what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: All right? Uh? So let's do this. Uh oh, Ray
Speaker 1: doesn't want to be with us, but Jeff mar from
Speaker 1: the Weather Channel he's he's willing to join us today. Jeff,
Speaker 1: how you doing? Man?
Speaker 3: Doing great? I think a raiser and stoneheens to start
Speaker 3: off spring from the Equinox's sacrificing.
Speaker 4: Do we know?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 1: Oh man? All right, well yeah, I know you guys
Speaker 1: nerd out over this little start of spring thing. So
Speaker 1: today's your day. Do your thing? Man?
Speaker 3: Yeah, nice of one today, But as we head from
Speaker 3: today to Friday, it gets colder behind in front of
Speaker 3: the meantime though ahead of a cold fun gusty winds
Speaker 3: in some scattered chowers and thunderscores. Today a high of
Speaker 3: seventy six, the rain into this evening, the colder air
Speaker 3: moves in overnight. We dropped a thirty nine with some
Speaker 3: brakes in the clouds. Sunday, breezy tomorrow up to sixty two,
Speaker 3: and then a beautiful weekend sunshine up on Saturday and
Speaker 3: Sunday with highs and the low seventies, and then another
Speaker 3: round of rain moves in to start off the week
Speaker 3: next Monday with a hip to seventy two degrees.
Speaker 1: All right, hey, Jeff, I'm gonna put you on hold
Speaker 1: because obviously we're having a little connection with the other
Speaker 1: thing and my producer wants to chat with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sounds good.
Speaker 1: Thank you for hanging on there, bro, all right, seven
Speaker 1: forty seven back in just a few we have another Rachel
Speaker 1: Zegler story. In fact, let me let me just go
Speaker 1: ahead and explain it real quick and that way we
Speaker 1: can just jump right into it. And by the way,
Speaker 1: this is what you all all you moonback signed up for,
Speaker 1: which makes this extra hilarious. So snow white actress Rachel Zegler,
Speaker 1: who I recently found out, by the way, ross that
Speaker 1: it's not they're not just mad at her in the US,
Speaker 1: apparently they're mad at her in other countries too. And
Speaker 1: the ticket sales, the pre sales are not going well
Speaker 1: and I did not even realize that. So like she's
Speaker 1: found a way to alienate like half the globe apparently.
Speaker 1: So we'll see how the movie does. But this is
Speaker 1: a different beef. So Rachel Zegler is complaining after she
Speaker 1: was asked by us, in this case Steven Spielberg, her
Speaker 1: producers along with Steven Spielberg for the production of West
Speaker 1: Side Story back in twenty twenty one that she was
Speaker 1: asked to prove her Latin heritage.
Speaker 2: Well, can you blame the studio?
Speaker 1: No, it is one hundred percent what they asked for.
Speaker 2: Yea, come for the longest time. Right, you have to
Speaker 2: be Latin to play a Latin American. You have to
Speaker 2: be black to be a Black Mary, you have to
Speaker 2: be like Irish to be an Irish and Asian, and
Speaker 2: the studios are like, dude, So if we don't do this,
Speaker 2: people are going to be protesting us, and they're going
Speaker 2: to make controversy surrounding our film.
Speaker 1: Right, I remember the twenty twenty one So this isn't
Speaker 1: like yesterday when this happened. This is right in the
Speaker 1: meat of all this.
Speaker 2: Ins right, because these moonbats are here. So if you
Speaker 2: don't hire somebody that's say, you know, Latin America to
Speaker 2: play this character, people are going to freak out on you.
Speaker 2: So they got to cover their ass.
Speaker 1: Remember the remember the ghost in the Shell thing with Johansson. Oh,
Speaker 1: they lost their damn mines over that, lost their damn mines.
Speaker 1: And the irony, of course is then they do race
Speaker 1: swapping too on stuff and that's okay.
Speaker 2: Oh, well that's completely different.
Speaker 1: That's a different thing. So this part where it's like,
Speaker 1: oh you can't you're not or what was the other
Speaker 1: thing too? Didn't they get mad at somebody for playing
Speaker 1: a gay character who wasn't gay? Yeah, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: what what are we doing here? How many gay characters
Speaker 1: have played straight characters? Wasn't that the whole thing with like,
Speaker 1: remember Le's do doogiy Howsard's real name?
Speaker 2: Why can't I remember Neil Patrick Harris?
Speaker 1: Neil Patrick Harris? What was his character on How I
Speaker 1: Met Your Mother? Like super straight? Yeah, the biggest manhor
Speaker 1: you've ever seen? That was and nobody cared because he
Speaker 1: was funny. It was a funny show.
Speaker 2: There's a thing that was saying, Hey, if you need
Speaker 2: to play somebody, there's an acting isn't a thing anymore?
Speaker 2: You can only know who you are? Can you imagine
Speaker 2: The Godfather if it wasn't James conn in the role
Speaker 2: of Sonny because he was not Italian?
Speaker 1: Because right, yeah, that's it. That's uh. And the was
Speaker 1: one other one I was just thinking of too, where
Speaker 1: they were getting what were they getting mad over? So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised I asked you that and for you
Speaker 1: to be offended by it when you're clearly part of
Speaker 1: the woke insanity up there. Based on everything every interview
Speaker 1: I've ever seen you give, this is what you asked for.
Speaker 1: Now there is one exception, ross who you can only
Speaker 1: play for if you are that thing, and that's dwarves
Speaker 1: apparently right.
Speaker 2: Well, this is also funny. I mean I find that
Speaker 2: to be hilarious. Yeah, because themselves in these holes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you decide, you literally, because Peter dinklsh is
Speaker 1: having a day or whatever. You you put a bunch
Speaker 1: of a little people out of work. They're and they're
Speaker 1: mad as hell, believe it or not. And here's the deal, right,
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're probably not gonna be burning stuff, but
Speaker 1: there's a there is a schedule to be to coincide
Speaker 1: with the opening of the snow White film, a big
Speaker 1: dwarf protest. I'm assuming this is in la where they're
Speaker 1: going to be doing this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Peter Dinklie right back in the day, he was
Speaker 2: pissed off and angry. It's like, how come you only
Speaker 2: hire us to play small you know, elves and dwarves
Speaker 2: and why you know we're more than that? And that's true.
Speaker 2: Then I can see that. So put them in other roles. However,
Speaker 2: when it comes to an actual elf dwarf, who better
Speaker 2: to play the role?
Speaker 1: And and and or if you can still make people
Speaker 1: like the Hobbit, you know, the hot lord of the
Speaker 1: Rings all that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Fred Klus was the same way, right, exactly.
Speaker 1: You can make your camera angles, you can. Gandolf was
Speaker 1: not you know, twice the height of the actor who
Speaker 1: was the main actor in.
Speaker 2: The Hobbit and the actor who played Hagrid was an
Speaker 2: a giant half giant?
Speaker 1: What I thought? I thought that one was?
Speaker 2: Is he not a half?
Speaker 1: Job?
Speaker 2: Telling you was not?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I did not know. Well, come in our
Speaker 1: official a D C. Slash NERD correspondent Stephen Kent This morning, Stephen,
Speaker 1: how you doing.
Speaker 4: Good morning, coming to you from the Capitol today. It's
Speaker 4: a beautiful day in DC.
Speaker 1: So Russill sent me a picture you sent him, So
Speaker 1: you're over. But is that are you over by the
Speaker 1: Phoenix Park Hotel? Is that the is that the building
Speaker 1: that you're in front of?
Speaker 4: Union Station?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 4: Union Station, and then there's the Hall of State right
Speaker 4: across the street, and then the Congress.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have so my annual radio row. We do
Speaker 1: it on the rooftop of that building that you're you're
Speaker 1: you're outside of. Yeah, And I always thought it was
Speaker 1: weird because like Foxes in there too. There's a like
Speaker 1: three or four Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I'm in the building with Fox, MSNBC, and c
Speaker 4: SPAN as well as News Nation, which I do a
Speaker 4: little hosting with every other week.
Speaker 1: I I love doing that because we stayed at the
Speaker 1: Phoenix Park Hotel, which is just you know where the
Speaker 1: Irish Pub is like a block from you. And then oh,
Speaker 1: the roof passed up on the roof of that building.
Speaker 1: And then we watched the absolute lunatics that are at
Speaker 1: Union Station. So you know you have every show too.
Speaker 4: I mean, no, next time you're in, I'd love to
Speaker 4: join you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Man, the crazies ever at Union Station. That's
Speaker 1: a whole vibe over there, man. Where then they steal
Speaker 1: a bunch of those flags the other day over there,
Speaker 1: there's always.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's there's always some thievery of Americana over at
Speaker 4: the Union Station. And there's always seems to be swastikas
Speaker 4: on the statue at Union Station. But it's never Nazis,
Speaker 4: you do it. It's just leftists.
Speaker 1: Well, hey man, they're just trying to help. But look,
Speaker 1: they think they're probably trying to help out. They're like,
Speaker 1: if you think somebody is a Nazi, you're doing them
Speaker 1: a favored drawn a swastika, right, because that's their jam.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's just there's never been so many swastikas all
Speaker 4: across America, and there just seems to be non Nazis
Speaker 4: doing it.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's weird that, like we're like we
Speaker 1: had like three or four more videos that emerged yesterday.
Speaker 1: Is nobody figured out what century Mode is among the
Speaker 1: the clinically insane left, because like we have videos, like
Speaker 1: good videos, like, yeah, the last thing I would do
Speaker 1: right now is to face a tesla because yeah, there's yeah,
Speaker 1: they're filming you. They know they're filming you.
Speaker 4: I love that these people are not sending their best.
Speaker 1: No, that's fine, that's oh. And then one woman to
Speaker 1: faced a Rivian because she didn't know it wasn't a tesla.
Speaker 1: So that proves your point right there. All right, well,
Speaker 1: let's get into let's get into a couple of things
Speaker 1: we were in fact, let's start with the Zegler thing.
Speaker 1: We're just talking about this. Of course, you know, the
Speaker 1: last thing she needs is to have any more bad
Speaker 1: press at the moment. But here we are and it's
Speaker 1: not even about snow White. So Rachel Zegler is upset
Speaker 1: because back in twenty twenty one, when Steven Spielberg's West
Speaker 1: Side Story was being made during comcastine, the producers said
Speaker 1: that she had to prove her Latin heritage. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously in West Side Story there are there's Latin characters.
Speaker 1: It is a lot of them. And she said, I
Speaker 1: can't believe it. I'm so offended. These are the rules
Speaker 1: that she and her other woke ilk have forced upon
Speaker 1: themselves and now they're upset over it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so this is really interesting. They're going to treat
Speaker 4: this sort of like, you know, the Gestapo asking for
Speaker 4: your papers please. But if you really look at the
Speaker 4: language and the attitudes of the left on identity, there's
Speaker 4: this movement in the pop culture scene and the entertainment world.
Speaker 4: It's it's representation matters. The idea that if you're going
Speaker 4: to have a Native American character, if you're going to
Speaker 4: have some sort of you know, Irish character, whatever, that
Speaker 4: you need to actually be that person. So straight people
Speaker 4: can't play gay people. Gay people can't play straight people.
Speaker 4: Which would put a lot of people in holly without
Speaker 4: of work, by the way, and so if you're going
Speaker 4: to believe this, then you're going to have to go
Speaker 4: beyond taking people at their word. You know, Studios spend
Speaker 4: millions of dollars, theaters spend millions of dollars from romoting
Speaker 4: their new movies, promoting their plays, putting together marketing. And
Speaker 4: imagine the scandal that would unleash if somebody lied about
Speaker 4: their heritage to get a certain role and then they
Speaker 4: have to do damage control on it, which means Steven
Speaker 4: Spielberg did the simple and wise thing, which is going, okay,
Speaker 4: present your heritage paperwork, like, tell me that you are
Speaker 4: the ethnicity that you say you are and that you
Speaker 4: have those roots. This is the logical outcome of representation
Speaker 4: matters as a movement.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't know, And we're looking at we're
Speaker 1: looking at some examples that really kicked this off, and
Speaker 1: I think probably the one that I remember that was
Speaker 1: the biggest was Ghost in the Shell, right they can Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were really upset. And admittedly I was never into that.
Speaker 1: Was it was it a manga? What was Ghost in
Speaker 1: the show?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I was an anime a manga.
Speaker 1: Yeah I was. I've never into it, and so it
Speaker 1: was like I saw people making these nerdy arguments. So
Speaker 1: I don't even know what the what the truth was.
Speaker 1: But if you watch the movie, the if you haven't
Speaker 1: watched the movie, it's not really a person per se.
Speaker 1: So the whole thing gets very complicated.
Speaker 4: That's interesting because one of the one of the big
Speaker 4: standout ones I remember was the live action Aladdin movie
Speaker 4: set off a lot of people in this movement to
Speaker 4: care about this representation issue because the woman who played Jasmine,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get this a little bit wrong here, but
Speaker 4: she is she's like to believe kimdy or Indian and
Speaker 4: she is not actually not actually Persian. So you know
Speaker 4: that were.
Speaker 1: They upset about? Uh? Uh? Was it? Were they upset
Speaker 1: with will Smith? I mean, I'm just thinking think about
Speaker 1: this though, to think about go back to the original
Speaker 1: animated Aladdin. How much worse would that movie have ben
Speaker 1: if not the very famous man who played the genie,
Speaker 1: at least the voice actor part of the genie. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can tell Robert Williams, you can't do that with
Speaker 1: what what is wrong with these people? And this is
Speaker 1: just one of the things that they have thrust upon themselves, right,
Speaker 1: because right now in Hollywood, if you want to make
Speaker 1: a movie that is even eligible for OSCAR consideration, you
Speaker 1: have to have quote unquote representation, and I think it's
Speaker 1: a percentage of the people working on the movie. There's
Speaker 1: certain parameters, right. And I remember the guys who produced
Speaker 1: that what was it the nineteen nineteen eighteen was that
Speaker 1: the movie the World War One movie that did very well? Yeah,
Speaker 1: nineteen nineteen seventeen. I remember they were getting a little
Speaker 1: grief for it for not having they didn't have enough
Speaker 1: black actors among the one people. And then also these
Speaker 1: guys who produced a film last year that's set in
Speaker 1: like Denmark in the fifteen hundreds, they were ineligible for consideration.
Speaker 1: And the guys like, it's a real movie set in
Speaker 1: the fifteen hundreds in Denmark, What do you want us
Speaker 1: to do?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: There is, And you know the Dennis Quaid or not
Speaker 4: Dennis Quaid. I'm trying to remember the actor you just
Speaker 4: played Reagan. That was Dennis Quaid, Right. The Reagan movie
Speaker 4: was disqualified for many Academy Award recommendations this year because
Speaker 4: they didn't meet the diversity metrics of the Academy, both
Speaker 4: for the staff and the crew and the actors who
Speaker 4: are represented across the movie. And so this is just
Speaker 4: kind of the chaos you get when you believe this stuff.
Speaker 4: And you know, for Rachel Zeggler, you know, my question
Speaker 4: to her would be, is this really the world you
Speaker 4: want to live in? Because you say that you want
Speaker 4: to live in a world where only people who fit
Speaker 4: certain characteristics can play certain roles. But that is going
Speaker 4: to require going beyond the honor system. You can't just
Speaker 4: take people with their word on these things. And so
Speaker 4: you are suggesting that we have a world in which
Speaker 4: people present their ethnic paperwork or whatever that is in
Speaker 4: order to get jobs. This is taking us backwards and
Speaker 4: we need to run like hell from this.
Speaker 1: Well, Hollywood, go, Hollywood, all right, let me hit something
Speaker 1: a little closer to home. Obviously, here we go March madness, insanity.
Speaker 1: We had to play at the play ins. We're getting
Speaker 1: to the games here shortly. Actually, we've got a whole
Speaker 1: host of games coming up today. And North Carolina last
Speaker 1: year joined the world of sports betting as many states have,
Speaker 1: although many states haven't and they don't want any part
Speaker 1: of it now, wrote a piece here that Ross shared
Speaker 1: with me yesterday and talking about state bans on sports betting.
Speaker 1: You know, there are some people who don't like it
Speaker 1: for the purity of the sport. To those, I would
Speaker 1: say I have long been able to bet on sports
Speaker 1: in North Carolina prior to this because people whether it's
Speaker 1: a will, there's a way, or you bet with your
Speaker 1: friends or however it works. So now that we had
Speaker 1: a few states, we've had a few years to see
Speaker 1: what this looks like, and we've seen the evolution of
Speaker 1: what's going on with sports with name, image likeness. Some
Speaker 1: people aren't liking what they're seeing. So what was your
Speaker 1: piece about. Let's talk about that and why should states
Speaker 1: maybe reconsider who don't want a piece of this pie?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that piece is called state bans on sports
Speaker 4: betting aren't helping anybody. That's over real clear politics. And
Speaker 4: it's republished on zero Heads here today, and you know
Speaker 4: the basics of that piece or that Georgia just recently
Speaker 4: declined to join North Carolina in having a legal sports
Speaker 4: betting market. They were going to try and pass it
Speaker 4: by voter referendum, but the state legislature set it down
Speaker 4: and we still have Texas and California and not participating
Speaker 4: in sports betting. And there is overwhelming evidence based on
Speaker 4: the revenues and analytics of sites like Bovada and the
Speaker 4: overseas unregulated sports betting site based in Costa Rica, where
Speaker 4: they will take cryptocurrency, they will take credit cards, they
Speaker 4: will maybe take their left foot if you bet on that,
Speaker 4: that those sites are gobbling up the market share and dominating,
Speaker 4: I mean dominated fan duel and draft kings. And I
Speaker 4: think that is by just sheer population numbers of California
Speaker 4: and Texas where there is no legal betting market, So
Speaker 4: the numbers are getting wrung up really really big for
Speaker 4: sites like Bovada and a lot of their other you know,
Speaker 4: similar sites based overseas where you can place all sorts
Speaker 4: of ilicit bets and get into real big trouble financially
Speaker 4: outside of the regulated market.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cayman Islands actually has a couple, They have a
Speaker 1: couple of the really big ones that people would use,
Speaker 1: you know, prior to the legal sports betting. And as
Speaker 1: shady as some of it sounds, it really like it
Speaker 1: presented as something that was really polished and put together,
Speaker 1: like if you go, if you check out these sites,
Speaker 1: these overseas sites, which obviously have lost a lot of share.
Speaker 1: It wasn't it didn't look sketchy. It looked very professional,
Speaker 1: and they would pay you out and because you had
Speaker 1: to have that confidence, so they built these big brands there.
Speaker 1: So it is it's you know, clearly was possible in
Speaker 1: a state like Califly like Tech. I guess I kind
Speaker 1: of understand they're a little different, But California, they've never
Speaker 1: met some way to get tax dollars out of you.
Speaker 1: They've never wanted to do. So why is California not
Speaker 1: doing this?
Speaker 4: You know, I actually am kind of baffled by it. Really,
Speaker 4: California seems like the kind of anything goes place that
Speaker 4: would would rush actually to have legal sports betting as
Speaker 4: well as all sorts of other kinds of gambling. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's a state that seems to believe pretty strongly in
Speaker 4: what we would call vice. You know, these sort of
Speaker 4: behaviors that we don't really condone of societally, but we
Speaker 4: want people to do them in the least harmful way
Speaker 4: possible and in the light of day, and try to
Speaker 4: prohibit block black markets from dominating these things. And so yes,
Speaker 4: California and Texas don't have these things. And you know,
Speaker 4: what you have is a lot of sort of B
Speaker 4: and C less celebrities being spokespeople for these overseas sides.
Speaker 4: I can't remember which one Ryan Seacrest does ads for,
Speaker 4: but you know that's kind of a dynamic you have.
Speaker 4: You have Charles Barkley doing UF I think it was
Speaker 4: the Fan Duel. You know, he's more well known through
Speaker 4: ESPN these days.
Speaker 1: Just full disclosure.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 1: I do endorseed draftings, so people have probably heard the
Speaker 1: spots there and that's that's the one that I like.
Speaker 1: So but I just full disclosures that we're talking about this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's and that's good to know. And you know,
Speaker 4: most most sports betters are pretty well to do in
Speaker 4: terms of their income. They only spend about under one
Speaker 4: hundred dollars per months. And then you of course have
Speaker 4: this sort of two to three percent of people who
Speaker 4: are problem betters, who are at addicts to gambling. And
Speaker 4: those people have always exists, will always continue to be there.
Speaker 4: And so the sort of the debate that's being had
Speaker 4: across the States is is legalization and regulation creating more addiction?
Speaker 4: And that evidence is incredibly unclear at this time. A
Speaker 4: lot of proponents of keeping sports betting illegal are looking
Speaker 4: at calls, addiction hotlines, and Google searches for help with
Speaker 4: problem gambling. But those aren't really good indicators that if
Speaker 4: people actually are having a major problem, or if they
Speaker 4: just suspect they might like gambling more than they wish
Speaker 4: they did, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no one percent man. And you know here's the
Speaker 1: thing too, it's those people didn't just develop an addiction,
Speaker 1: you know, So maybe some of the younger said, I've
Speaker 1: seen some troubling stories with kids. They have an eighteen
Speaker 1: or nineteen year old that somehow stole like five hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars out of his grandmother's accounts and then just blew. So, yes,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have those issues. But I would remind people
Speaker 1: that gambling is not new in the state of North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Of course, they had the machines where you could go
Speaker 1: and that was a whole fight. But the state lottery
Speaker 1: for the kids, right, which I question whether the money
Speaker 1: gets there. That's been around for a minute, so it's
Speaker 1: not like it was a brand new thing.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Wyoming had no gambling where I grew up, except for
Speaker 1: the Indian casinos they had. They did no state lottery,
Speaker 1: no nothing. The whole time I was there, think were
Speaker 1: the only state not to have anything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's and that should always be in air quotes,
Speaker 4: though no gambling in air quotes because those of course
Speaker 4: always gambling occurring.
Speaker 3: In Georgia.
Speaker 4: The market for illegally placed sports vets last year was
Speaker 4: four point eight billion dollars flowing out of Georgia to
Speaker 4: oversee sites. And so it's just we need to get
Speaker 4: real about I get the folks who don't like that,
Speaker 4: this is now a world where you can pretty much
Speaker 4: just sit down on the couch and you bet your
Speaker 4: life away in all sorts of different ways, rather than
Speaker 4: going to a brick and mortar casino. But this is
Speaker 4: reality even with just a VPN. If your state were
Speaker 4: to block access to these sites, like you know, some
Speaker 4: other sites that are considered illicit get blocked in different
Speaker 4: states like Virginia. It takes just a couple of clicks
Speaker 4: to land yourself on these sites and do whatever you want,
Speaker 4: and so you have to provide people in your state
Speaker 4: the best possible option. Sites that regulate the use of
Speaker 4: credit cards don't allow cryptocurrency allow you to ban yourself
Speaker 4: from betting if you think that you have a problem
Speaker 4: when you say it's like New Jersey, New York, they
Speaker 4: have these sort of provisions where you can put yourself
Speaker 4: on a no go list or all the legal betting
Speaker 4: all the legal betting sites will deny you the ability
Speaker 4: to create an account. But that again doesn't really solve
Speaker 4: the problem which can't be solved of overseas betting sites,
Speaker 4: which they can still get to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just we get a minute left. I will
Speaker 1: tell you the one thing that I don't like about
Speaker 1: UH or I'm uncomfortable with and H, and that is
Speaker 1: anybody who's involved in the actual production of a sporting
Speaker 1: event having a betting interest, like ESPN is the prime
Speaker 1: example here. Yeah, well like the refs Russ said no,
Speaker 1: maybe yeah, But like that's that's where I get uncomfortable
Speaker 1: because ESPN feasibly since they have all the crews that
Speaker 1: are on the field for these games, for these whatever
Speaker 1: they are. I think that's where there is some uncomfortability.
Speaker 1: But so far, I think people it hasn't gotten bad.
Speaker 1: But we'll keep an eye. We're going to tweet out
Speaker 1: a link to that story for you. So Ross will
Speaker 1: do that, so folks can go at Casey on the radio,
Speaker 1: will tag you in that. So folks want to follow
Speaker 1: you on Twitter, they can do that as well. Steven. So,
Speaker 1: I didn't even get to the dwarf protest, so maybe
Speaker 1: next week. But thank you this morning. Have fun not
Speaker 1: getting murdered at Union station if you're lucky.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, all right, there you go Stephen Kent here
Speaker 1: on the kc O Day radio program. We will be
Speaker 1: right back. Hey, we got a bunch of tickets for
Speaker 1: this event coming up. If anybody wants some ross. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you want me to get you some Fighting the Oligarchy
Speaker 1: Tour event tickets, So I'll see if I can get
Speaker 1: some of those for you.
Speaker 2: I heard this really hot, but unfortunately I'm very busy.
Speaker 1: I didn't even tell you which day.
Speaker 2: I'm so busy, but dedicated to the show, I had
Speaker 2: no time.
Speaker 1: They're fighting the Oligarchy, so believe and this is a
Speaker 1: real poster. We're gonna we'll tweet this story out because
Speaker 1: the problem is it looks so much like a parody,
Speaker 1: like until I saw it literally on Bernie Sanders' own account,
Speaker 1: I had to assume it was fake, but no, it's not.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have like a concert your tour poster with
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders, and it's weird because like Bernie Sanders is
Speaker 1: staring forward and then AOC's profiled and like staring off
Speaker 1: to the side. But yeah, they're going on tour together
Speaker 1: and they're calling it the Fighting Oligarchy Tour. And you know,
Speaker 1: I will say this, AOC is an idiot. That's fine.
Speaker 1: She's she's figured out how to be less blatant about it,
Speaker 1: I guess. And I don't know if that's just experience
Speaker 1: there or what. But arguably she and Bernie Sanders are
Speaker 1: really the only ones who still have pretty positive pulling
Speaker 1: among most Democrats. I mean, I understand the Bernie Sanders things.
Speaker 1: He was always kind of the outlier there, right, And
Speaker 1: so if you're frustrated with the more mainstream side of it,
Speaker 1: and why wouldn't you be with Tim Walls run around
Speaker 1: threatening to fight people like it's the WWE, then you
Speaker 1: might gravitate towards Sanders. And arguably Sanders has become more
Speaker 1: mainstream because he was, you know, back in the day,
Speaker 1: Sanders was out there, and in some cases.
Speaker 2: I feel like Bernie Sanders is like the Ron Paul
Speaker 2: of the left.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I mean, don't get me wrong, he's
Speaker 1: his ideas are dangerous. I mean, let's just know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a comedy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's and and but like aoc they you know,
Speaker 1: we we joked about how she's going to come the
Speaker 1: face of the party. That's a possibility. That's a possibility, man,
Speaker 1: because right right now they're scrambling to figure out who
Speaker 1: doesn't get booed every time they show up somewhere, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean.
Speaker 2: She's an idiot who's scared of her trash compactor or
Speaker 2: whatever and her disposal. But she's a consistent idiot. Like
Speaker 2: her message really hasn't changed.
Speaker 1: But her and her message is very pop. Is very pop,
Speaker 1: and I mean pop like pop culture. I mean it's
Speaker 1: you know, pop almost in the generic nature of the
Speaker 1: younger appeal to you know, like, how do I say this?
Speaker 1: You know, the bad ideas that you hear college kids
Speaker 1: spouse until they get into the real world, Well, she
Speaker 1: represents that so that people find that attractive. Where she's like,
Speaker 1: you know, she's she could convince people that we don't
Speaker 1: need fifty thousand Amazon jobs in our district and she
Speaker 1: got away with that. That's that would have been career
Speaker 1: ending for a lot of people. And she's just out
Speaker 1: there with platitudes and not anything real.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: I remember that video they produced for the Green New
Speaker 1: Deal where they're like they're tying, Oh, we're gonna get
Speaker 1: everyone to plant what was it of plants, and then
Speaker 1: we're gonna build trains to Hawaii or whatever. It was
Speaker 1: like just sheer moonbat pie in the sky insanity, but
Speaker 1: it's not super divisive stuff like, yeah, has AOC really
Speaker 1: been at the forefront of one of the trans debates.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen her attach herself to that. I'm sure
Speaker 1: she's all for it, but like she's either been smart
Speaker 1: enough or just lucked out that she hasn't been really
Speaker 1: the face for the super controversy stuff like nobody believes
Speaker 1: that we're gonna build trains to go to Hawaii, okay,
Speaker 1: or we're gonna get rid of all the cows. So
Speaker 1: she can go out and say that stuff and I'll
Speaker 1: make fun of her on the radio and people will
Speaker 1: be like, how does that work? But like it it
Speaker 1: is that almost no Stredam is kind of way that
Speaker 1: she handles this that that people I think gravitate to
Speaker 1: because within democratic circles it's not really controversial stuff, you know.
Speaker 1: It is that it is that that that how that
Speaker 1: naive approach to uh, you know what is actually politically
Speaker 1: possible that I think lets her continue to pull well
Speaker 1: even though if you watch her, like if you watch
Speaker 1: her a question somebody in Congress, it's what it's it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's your brain cells die. Do you remember when she
Speaker 1: was screaming at Jamie Diamond h and like two of
Speaker 1: the other big bank leaders. They're sitting there and she's
Speaker 1: screaming at him in the Finance Committee about student loans,
Speaker 1: and she's accusing them of trying to take advantage of
Speaker 1: all these college kids and they're gonna be defaulting and
Speaker 1: they're all greedy. And then Jamie Diamond wait to stop
Speaker 1: talking and said, we don't do student loans. Barack Obama
Speaker 1: federalized that during his first administration. And but she went
Speaker 1: on a five minute rant like that, that's the dumbest,
Speaker 1: Like she did no research. How did she just assume
Speaker 1: that they had it? I don't know. But people like her,
Speaker 1: and they like Bernie Sanders, so like, don't discount their ability.
Speaker 1: And if you look at the list here, they're clearly
Speaker 1: going to some of these places where you have these
Speaker 1: bubble districts, which ironically also line up where the really
Speaker 1: bad Tesla vandalism's going on. So I'm sure that's a coincidence.
Speaker 1: But Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, you see what they're doing, swing
Speaker 1: states here, and the list goes on. So there is
Speaker 1: a very real possibility that AOC finds herself in a
Speaker 1: leadership position, which I remember back to when she first started,
Speaker 1: you could not have convinced me that they would give
Speaker 1: her power. But once Pelosi's out out, even though she's
Speaker 1: pretty much out, I mean, and the old guard is out,
Speaker 1: even though Bertie Sanders is arguably the old guards, saying
Speaker 1: they're all getting so old, I mean, someone has to
Speaker 1: replace them. Yeah, and I think, I think if if
Speaker 1: the replacements start to happen, now where she again, she
Speaker 1: doesn't have a net positive polling if you ask everybody,
Speaker 1: but she is much better off than most almost all
Speaker 1: the Democratic leadership, right because the party's mad at the
Speaker 1: leadership for what happened Trump back there. But but but
Speaker 1: even so she.
Speaker 2: Polls well, this is the more I think about it.
Speaker 2: Right now, this is sort of like another It's a
Speaker 2: weird example of the Overton window in a way where
Speaker 2: I think AOC is seen as more sane now because
Speaker 2: you have some more younger members of Congress, like Rep. Crockett,
Speaker 2: who is kind of like, you know, they're so crazy,
Speaker 2: they're so crazy looney tunes that it makes AOC look,
Speaker 2: you know, sane in comparison.
Speaker 1: But that's kind of how AOC was. She just wasn't
Speaker 1: as off putting. Crockett's just off putting, right, right. I
Speaker 1: don't agree with either of them, but AOC there was
Speaker 1: a certain there. It was I think it was the naivety, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you allowed people to and and so like let her
Speaker 1: talk about how in the future, since all you know,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna have cows, everyone could plant mangrove trees.
Speaker 1: That's what it was, right, They're in their stupid video there,
Speaker 1: like because it's platitudes. It's it's uh, you know, it's
Speaker 1: big ideas that really don't have a lot of substance.
Speaker 1: It's and it's the stuff that people gravitate towards. A
Speaker 1: lot of it on the left, but on the right
Speaker 1: they have this stuff too, but they're usually a little
Speaker 1: more practical on the right with what they're wanting to do.
Speaker 1: On the left, they can what if you know it's
Speaker 1: it's you know what it is, it's the John Lennon song.
Speaker 1: Imagine if as a person, that's what it is. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to put this into words about and because I'm
Speaker 1: baffled how she's been able to move until I sat
Speaker 1: down and analyzed it, and I realized they can't really
Speaker 1: attach any of the stuff that's really got the party
Speaker 1: in trouble to her because she's off her daydreaming about stuff,
Speaker 1: and people like those daydreams. They like it. What if
Speaker 1: we had all the vehicles will be electric? Right? Well
Speaker 1: that's not well, not if you keep burning them, right.
Speaker 1: But she's not leaned into that either, So she could
Speaker 1: be in leadership. And I know a lot of you going, well,
Speaker 1: that's a good thing. You know what, if you don't
Speaker 1: like the Democrat Party, you probably don't want them transitioning
Speaker 1: to people who generally are pulling well, because then then
Speaker 1: it allows people who said, I screw the party, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to be a part of this. Look at
Speaker 1: these losers them to convince themselves that maybe it's okay
Speaker 1: to get back into it. And you know it's that
Speaker 1: whole thing when your opponent's down to let them up.
Speaker 1: But we shall see. All right, we're doing the we
Speaker 1: do the phone again. Okay, all right, yay technology. Jeff
Speaker 1: Maher from the Weather Channel is joining us this morning.
Speaker 1: All right, Eve the man. Good day to day. Although
Speaker 1: a lot of people I think are going to be
Speaker 1: inside most of the day uletss they go to a
Speaker 1: bar patio because we got basketball in SANITYA. But we
Speaker 1: do have games locally in Raleigh, so let's get some
Speaker 1: good weather for that. Maybe a little tailgating, yeah, to
Speaker 1: get new some warm weather.
Speaker 3: Today. Will be up to seventy six for this first
Speaker 3: day of spring, but there will be some wet weather.
Speaker 3: We've got a coal file on the doorstep. It's going
Speaker 3: to bring in some showers and thunderstorms with some gusty
Speaker 3: winds out of the southwest. I flub moves out tonight,
Speaker 3: so rainboland early in the evening, then some breaks in
Speaker 3: the clouds overnight with a low dipping to thirty nine.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow's sunny, wendy and color behind the front. We shod
Speaker 3: at sixty two, a low temperature in the low forties
Speaker 3: under a partly cloudy sky tomorrow night, and then a
Speaker 3: beautiful weekend plenty of sun for Saturday and Sunday afternoons,
Speaker 3: with highs each day in the low seventies.
Speaker 1: All right, Jeff, have yourselfagu Are you with us tomorrow?
Speaker 4: Sir?
Speaker 3: I am indeed.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, we'll talk to you tomorrow. Have a good one, sir.
Speaker 3: Thank you you too.
Speaker 1: There you go, all right, and we come back. Let's
Speaker 1: see here, we'll chat with Jeff Bellinger here in just
Speaker 1: a few minutes. And I got another Floorida guy. Not
Speaker 1: this one didn't drown their pet though, but they are
Speaker 1: insane and we'll share that with you coming up here
Speaker 1: on the CaCO Day radio program.
Speaker 2: Good Morning KC.
Speaker 5: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell helped to surge a soothe
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Speaker 5: starting April first. President Trump countered saying the US would
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Speaker 2: All of the.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well there you go. So I'm down
Speaker 1: with free ice cream. I think most people are. Jeff
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thank you. Okay, have a good day. Talk
Speaker 1: to you tomorrow. Yeah, there you go. So, by the way,
Speaker 1: I was watching something and I'll give to this other
Speaker 1: Florida story here real quick. I was watching it was
Speaker 1: one of the ESPN shows one of the radio shows,
Speaker 1: but it was there was video of these guys talking
Speaker 1: about it, so and they were talking about high Point University.
Speaker 1: Obviously high Point University NCAA tournament. The team was really
Speaker 1: really good this year. I guess you guys don't know that.
Speaker 1: And that's really cool to watch that. And as you know,
Speaker 1: our greens studios we call Greensboro because they were in Greensboro,
Speaker 1: are now in downtown high Point. We relocated there they
Speaker 1: have two years now and I really like it because
Speaker 1: we're red above that food hall by the baseball stadium.
Speaker 1: But anyone who's ever driven around high Point, basically half
Speaker 1: the town is high Point University. Right there's the main campus,
Speaker 1: but then there's just all these little swaths in sections
Speaker 1: where it's all fenced in there. I've never been inside
Speaker 1: a high Point University, but they were talking about the
Speaker 1: campus and I had rosta do you know a high
Speaker 1: Point They have a free ice cream truck that drives
Speaker 1: around the kids can just order ice cream there and
Speaker 1: then they have seriously have an ice cream truck.
Speaker 2: That drives roun to that is right. That is worth
Speaker 2: tuition right there.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. And they have a steakhouse on the campus
Speaker 1: that the kids can go eat at. It's a limited
Speaker 1: number of times for free, and they're arguing that it
Speaker 1: helps them build social dining skills. And they got a
Speaker 1: trap ton of pools. That place looks amazing And now
Speaker 1: I know why they have the big old fences so
Speaker 1: nobody jacks their ice cream. So but yeah, but good
Speaker 1: on them. From a tournament perspective too, that's going to
Speaker 1: be fun to watch, especially since you know, the ACC
Speaker 1: has been a little rough, a little rougher year this
Speaker 1: year with getting teams in there. It's nice to have
Speaker 1: some other local teams and we got quite a few.
Speaker 1: All right, real quick on this. I didn't get to
Speaker 1: this with Steven, but I didn't mention it. There is
Speaker 1: a there's going to be a dwarf protest. I guess
Speaker 1: that's tomorrow. Tomorrow is the opening of the snow White
Speaker 1: movie and they're trying I think they want to get
Speaker 1: at least one hundred little people, actors and others. Which
Speaker 1: is there that many in Hollywood? Maybe there are, And
Speaker 1: you know what, this is one of these as long
Speaker 1: as they're not vandalizing stuff, Like I get this one
Speaker 1: hundred percent.
Speaker 2: No, And I'm on their side too. It makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's what I would say, You guys probably shouldn't
Speaker 1: try to block traffic the sight lines. But I will
Speaker 1: say this, you know what's crazy is really the guy
Speaker 1: who kicked all this off as Peter Dingkdge, you know,
Speaker 1: got super mad over this. He's he's he's got a
Speaker 1: new movie coming out where he plays a little guy
Speaker 1: in the movies. He's in the He's in the Toxic
Speaker 1: Adventure reboot that's coming out, which, by the way, are
Speaker 1: you do you know anything about that movie? Ross?
Speaker 2: Absolutely nothing, dude.
Speaker 1: It's got uh, it's got Kevin Bacon in it as
Speaker 1: the toxic of Elijah Wood and Peter Dinklidge. I think
Speaker 1: Dinklage is going to play Goose or Toxic or whatever.
Speaker 1: If you guys know anything about that movie. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess some big names attached to that. But like
Speaker 1: it's it's so he's working and he's played these.
Speaker 2: Roles before in the past. He played a dwarf in
Speaker 2: the Chronicles of Nardia, Prince Caspian, he played an elf
Speaker 2: in the movie Elf right.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so it's like, so his his paycheck has
Speaker 1: not been harmed. So yeah, I guess. I guess he's
Speaker 1: at public enemy number one.
Speaker 2: I'm being told he wasn't an elf, he was an
Speaker 2: angry elf. So I want to attract my statement.
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we didn't playing Elf and Elf. He was an
Speaker 2: angry elf, so I apologize.
Speaker 1: Is that still your favorite Christmas movie?
Speaker 2: It's top five? Actually, slip might have slipped. Oh no, okay, no,
Speaker 2: but it makes sense. It's like, listen, say you we're
Speaker 2: filming a movie like Jack and the bean Stock. We're
Speaker 2: filming Jack and the bean Stock and some guy shows
Speaker 2: up and he's like, I'm a twenty foot giant. I
Speaker 2: am perfect for this role. And they're like, we can't
Speaker 2: cast you as the giant because that would be perpetuing stereotypes.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and the same thing. I mean, these feel like, listen,
Speaker 2: we could be perfect for your movie and you're not
Speaker 2: hiring us, and we're looking for acting roles. It's stupid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they're just like every other actor. Man. They
Speaker 1: just want to eat that are that they're dark necessarily
Speaker 1: the leading folks there. All right, real quick, this guy
Speaker 1: down in Florida, I don't have time to play this song,
Speaker 1: but that's okay. This absolute lunatic a.
Speaker 3: He is.
Speaker 1: He's got tds of the of the highest caliber. Kendall
Speaker 1: Todd forty two busted on Monday and I was at St.
Speaker 1: Lucie County. He has been on an a online rampage
Speaker 1: posting all sorts of threats threatening to kill Trump, specifically
Speaker 1: how he wants to kill him. He wants to quote
Speaker 1: fight naked to the death.
Speaker 3: What I mean?
Speaker 1: I guess maybe the fight to the death thing. Again.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that you should post this, but why
Speaker 1: naked