Speaker 1: Or as we're calling it a countdown to Christmas.
Speaker 2: We're like, you're we're like an advent calendar for guys
Speaker 2: who want more time off. So uh yeah, glad to
Speaker 2: have you along love this time of the year, not
Speaker 2: the temperatures. We'll have race stage a con a little
Speaker 2: later to answer first crimes. Why is this thing being
Speaker 2: a jerk today?
Speaker 1: Is your problem? There we go. My next gen is
Speaker 1: just crazy lately weird, weird, weird.
Speaker 2: You know what else is weird? I was, I was
Speaker 2: reading a few different stories. You know, after an election
Speaker 2: is when the various political parties, legislative branch, obviously state legislatures,
Speaker 2: even locals, there's a lot of reorg going on, so
Speaker 2: you get minority leaders, majority leaders, just different people in
Speaker 2: charge of different things, and it's.
Speaker 1: A little wonky.
Speaker 2: Most people other than who's the Speaker of the House,
Speaker 2: who's the head of the Senate, and then maybe at
Speaker 2: a local leveled as well, don't really pay attention. But
Speaker 2: it's interesting because what you're looking at is you look
Speaker 2: at how a political party did, and then you look
Speaker 2: to see, based on those results, what they decide to
Speaker 2: do with leadership, platforms, just a variety of things and
Speaker 2: what is increasingly becoming wild to me is and this
Speaker 2: is not a victory lap I'm honestly wondering why are
Speaker 2: Democrats not making changes? And in some cases they are,
Speaker 2: like in the Senate, Dan Blue will not be the
Speaker 2: Senate Minority Leader, but then they picked another senator from
Speaker 2: Wake County and it's like, because I don't know if
Speaker 2: you know this, And there's only one stat that you
Speaker 2: need to retain from.
Speaker 1: The last election, not necessarily.
Speaker 2: North Carolina is interesting in how national races versus state
Speaker 2: races played out, and there's a lot of reasons for that,
Speaker 2: but the overall temperature of the electorate.
Speaker 1: Is clearly not enthused.
Speaker 2: And the big takeaway is it feels like the Democrat
Speaker 2: Party has yielded the everyman. That's what this that's what
Speaker 2: this election looks like. I know you don't want to
Speaker 2: admit it, and and and here's how I will prove it.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you know?
Speaker 2: And I'm sure a lot of you do, But this
Speaker 2: is this is the only stat if anybody wants to
Speaker 2: get into a debate about things that I think should
Speaker 2: and and if and if I was a Democrat Party official,
Speaker 2: this is the stat that would haunt me at night. Okay,
Speaker 2: you ready, there are I don't remember the exact stop.
Speaker 2: It's like three thousand counties in the United States, across
Speaker 2: all fifty states, three thousands, say three thousand and one
Speaker 2: hundred or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Some states have a lot. North Carolina's got one hundred.
Speaker 2: I like that nice, easy to keep track of the
Speaker 2: state I hail from.
Speaker 1: Wyoming.
Speaker 2: We have we you know, we're only in the twenties,
Speaker 2: but that's okay. And then we have this quasi thing
Speaker 2: around Yellowstone.
Speaker 1: It's a whole thing.
Speaker 2: But three thousand and there is not a single county
Speaker 2: where Democrats outperformed did better than they did the last election.
Speaker 2: They did worse in every single county. And that includes
Speaker 2: what is New York is it? King's County is the
Speaker 2: one that encompasses near They even they hemorrhaged in New York,
Speaker 2: they hemorrhaged in every single county. And let me tell you,
Speaker 2: especially when you get to Wyoming and I'm sure Alaska,
Speaker 2: uh and several other states. You you could have had
Speaker 2: lunch with enough people to turn that around. But there's
Speaker 2: not a single place in America, not a pocket broke
Speaker 2: down by counties where the Democrat party did better than
Speaker 2: last time, so some would say, you might want to
Speaker 2: do things different. And if you are concerned that you
Speaker 2: may have screwed up and allowed this opening that Trump
Speaker 2: seized upon to your you know, your union workers and
Speaker 2: you know a traditional Democrat strongholds where people just went,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm done with you.
Speaker 1: Why would you keep doing things the same?
Speaker 2: I mean, by all means do that if you still
Speaker 2: want to do all the insane crap you purport that
Speaker 2: you want to do.
Speaker 1: But boggles my mind.
Speaker 2: Man, Sorry, that's you wake up and I wake up,
Speaker 2: and sometimes we get fixated on different things.
Speaker 1: And that was the thing dragging me down this morning.
Speaker 1: The hell was going on?
Speaker 3: No, I saw it like, she didn't flip one county,
Speaker 3: not a single one, and that hasn't happened since Herbert Hoover,
Speaker 3: not a single one.
Speaker 1: And so what do you do? You're like, all right,
Speaker 1: we need new leadership. What should we do? Let's get
Speaker 1: another Metro Wake County senator in there.
Speaker 2: And maybe that doesn't matter to the voter. I don't know,
Speaker 2: but it just seems weird, doesn't it. And you know, ultimately,
Speaker 2: when you're in leadership, it becomes less about wherever they
Speaker 2: hail from and more about what they're doing at the
Speaker 2: state level. But still I saw that and I went,
Speaker 2: what are you doing? That doesn't make any sense to me?
Speaker 2: If you think that you need to kick the guy
Speaker 2: to the curb blue who was in there? And that's
Speaker 2: kind of the vibe that the article laid out. You
Speaker 2: got a Monty Python this thing. Oh that's good. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna start using that.
Speaker 1: Ross.
Speaker 2: You get what I mean by that when I say
Speaker 2: you got a Monty Python this thing?
Speaker 3: Come on now for something completely different.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, you got a Monty Python this thing. I
Speaker 2: know somebody you're like do because again, I know you
Speaker 2: think that I'm in here just to be a partisan
Speaker 2: a hole, but I'm not. I'm here to make fun
Speaker 2: of people, but also wonder aloud about these things.
Speaker 3: I know you need to change something. It's like you
Speaker 3: bring in like count Binhead, how do you get count?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What's that guy doing? He probably can't hold many offices?
Speaker 1: But sure, why not? Would that be Ross?
Speaker 2: I got asked, wouldn't that be amazing if he's the
Speaker 2: set of minority leader in North Carolina? And then every
Speaker 2: time the Republican's like, we're gonna override a veto and
Speaker 2: he comes over there with his echoe you have voice.
Speaker 1: And he's just like you will.
Speaker 3: Let's say it doesn't even have to be a Democrat,
Speaker 3: Like if it was Count Binhead or whatever versus Tom Tillis,
Speaker 3: I'm voting for Bnhead.
Speaker 1: Well that's not fair.
Speaker 2: It could be uh uh, what's the guy's nay, who's
Speaker 2: the who's the guy? We always make fun of the
Speaker 2: demon murderer dude over in the Triad. Oh lord, yeah,
Speaker 2: Lord of the Demons would probably beat Tillous right now.
Speaker 2: So because you know what, Pazuzu, Lord of the Demons
Speaker 2: never tried to steal your kids sold during the night,
Speaker 2: So I mean he wants it, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 2: but yeah, yeah, it's just this is the stuff that
Speaker 2: just makes me go, okay, all right, do what you're
Speaker 2: gonna do. But like, have you learned nothing? And and
Speaker 2: like even CNN is bringing on these idiots. Dan Goldman's
Speaker 2: an idiot, This New York representative. I could go into
Speaker 2: all the reasons the guy is, I don't maybe got
Speaker 2: kicked in the head by.
Speaker 1: A horse, I don't know.
Speaker 2: But even they CNN's bringing these idiots onto ROAs. And
Speaker 2: you know why, because you're seeing a little bit of
Speaker 2: what you saw after the debate. Remember when the media
Speaker 2: all acted like, I can't believe you all lied to
Speaker 2: us about Joe Biden's cognitive ability and they all pretended
Speaker 2: like they weren't in on it so that they could
Speaker 2: save face because they realized it is detrimental to their livelihoods.
Speaker 2: They're doing that again. Now they're going to bring on
Speaker 2: people like idiot Dan Goldmin and go, well, you said
Speaker 2: this about the pardon thing. What's going on? And the
Speaker 2: reality is all the people at CNN and MSNBC and
Speaker 2: everybody else, they all saw it.
Speaker 1: They all looked at it, and.
Speaker 2: They all didn't believe him, not if they were honest,
Speaker 2: not if you got a few drinks in them. They
Speaker 2: didn't believe him. And when he did it, they hated it.
Speaker 2: They did, but they hated it more for partisan reasons
Speaker 2: because they's say, oh, it's going to do for Trump,
Speaker 2: but they're not going to really get into it. And
Speaker 2: even when they saw it coming together. We had a
Speaker 2: story in the prep packet yesterday, Ross you remember this,
Speaker 2: where they had sources saying that Biden was cooking this
Speaker 2: thing up. And I had sent the prep before the
Speaker 2: pardon was announced, so they knew about it. And yet
Speaker 2: they got to bring Goldman on for his struggle session
Speaker 2: and I'm here for it.
Speaker 5: In July of twenty twenty three, just after that plea
Speaker 5: deal fell through, this is what you said, I want
Speaker 5: to watch.
Speaker 4: Do you think a pardon for his son would be
Speaker 4: a mistake? Yes, And I don't think there's any chance
Speaker 4: that President Biden is going to do that, unlike his predecessor,
Speaker 4: who pardoned all of his friends and anyone who had
Speaker 4: any access to him.
Speaker 2: And I think, okay, just real quickly, Donald Trump pardoned
Speaker 2: about two hundred and thirty people. That sounds like a lot, right,
Speaker 2: you know, Barack Obama pardoned four thousand. In fact, there's
Speaker 2: only been two presidents that didn't harden to anybody. And
Speaker 2: you got to go back away. I think Harrison and
Speaker 2: uh Garfield.
Speaker 1: I'd have to look it up, but they like what what.
Speaker 4: All?
Speaker 1: Right? So like the pardon?
Speaker 2: Things not new, it can and and and don't get
Speaker 2: me wrong, do presidents abuse their pardons one hundred percent?
Speaker 1: Did Trump? One hundred percent? They all do.
Speaker 2: What you're hoping for is sat as. It's you're hoping
Speaker 2: for like minimal damage and just stupid stuff. Right, it's
Speaker 2: not okay, but it's not high on the list of
Speaker 2: things that keep me up at night. Barack Obama did
Speaker 2: four thousand. I know Dan Goldman wasn't a member of
Speaker 2: Congress at the time. He's only been elected.
Speaker 1: Well maybe he was.
Speaker 2: I'd have to see when he was elected. But like
Speaker 2: it's all performative. But now you got to answer for
Speaker 2: it on the CNN kind of do you.
Speaker 4: See that in this case where he kept on and
Speaker 4: Merrick Garland kept on a Trump appointed US attorney to
Speaker 4: investigate the president's son. If there is not an indication
Speaker 4: of the independence of the Department of Justice, beyond that,
Speaker 4: I don't know what we could look for.
Speaker 2: And to this adult, it's never occurred to him that.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe it has and he won't admit it.
Speaker 2: Here is let me tell you where my thinking is
Speaker 2: right now, and then let me uh eight eight eight
Speaker 2: nine three four seven eight seven four you can tell
Speaker 2: me if I'm wrong. I after watching all this play
Speaker 2: out over the last twenty four thirty six hours, whatever,
Speaker 2: I've come to this conclusion. Biden planned on pardoning his
Speaker 2: son for over a year and the performative trial of
Speaker 2: his son took place because it buttressed the Trump prosecutions,
Speaker 2: and so they could have this they'd be like, no,
Speaker 2: it's just justice completely, but justice.
Speaker 3: That's what happened. Yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 1: Right, so you're on you're on the you're on war
Speaker 1: with this. Convince me otherwise.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, we said yesterday he was always going to pardon him,
Speaker 3: And the reason for that is he's a political creature
Speaker 3: and he's incredibly corrupt, right, this entire thing that he's
Speaker 3: some sort of like moral moral role model or whatever it's.
Speaker 2: And if he had just pardon him for the two
Speaker 2: we could have this debate. But he gave him eleven years.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The reason, right, Yeah, it's so stupid, like like a
Speaker 3: decade plus. And the whole reason is so they could say, oh,
Speaker 3: well look no, I mean it's not we're not just
Speaker 3: going after Trump. It's not a political thing. We're going
Speaker 3: after his son as well. It's it's all you know,
Speaker 3: it's all fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with the reality being that this was always this
Speaker 2: was always going to happen.
Speaker 3: It's all bull crep yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And so now the narrative is what would a father do?
Speaker 2: What would a father do, well, a father can forgive?
Speaker 2: How many of you have forgiven something that your kid
Speaker 2: has done? They could be minor, right, you don't hold
Speaker 2: you hold grudge on Lincoln for I I you know, picked.
Speaker 3: The last you get. Oh yeah, come completely I do.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the Merits Wall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember I got that big TV. It was
Speaker 3: so happy about my big TV. That one called this
Speaker 3: year and Lincoln walks up and he's like three years
Speaker 3: old and he's got his Harry Potter one and he
Speaker 3: walks over, Yeah, watching Harry Potter and like you know whatever.
Speaker 3: It was like ten ADP at the time or whatever
Speaker 3: before yeah, yeah one. And he walks up to and
Speaker 3: he's like Expelly Homus boom and he hits the TV
Speaker 3: and the TV had been set up for I don't know,
Speaker 3: like two seconds, and now there's this big.
Speaker 1: Black magic work.
Speaker 3: It did. Anytime they would show like a blue clear sky,
Speaker 3: you would see these black pixels in the middle of
Speaker 3: the screen, or you know, like it's there, it's a
Speaker 3: white snow thing or what there's the black pixels. And
Speaker 3: every time for years until we replaced that TV, every
Speaker 3: time we would show up on the TV, we'd be
Speaker 3: watching a movie in the living room and all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, a nice blue sky and I would say, hey,
Speaker 3: remember when you destroyed my TV.
Speaker 2: And now they're and you just owned them, right and right.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what a father does. We're talking about
Speaker 2: what a president does. Okay, tell you about a president.
Speaker 2: So if Joe Biden wants to buy Hunter a brand
Speaker 2: new sixty whatever inch obscene TV that Ross has with
Speaker 2: pixels missing, well not anymore. But that's fine, But that's
Speaker 2: not what we're talking about. This was allowed even though
Speaker 2: the decision was made way back over a year ago,
Speaker 2: probably maybe longer. The decision was made and they said,
Speaker 2: we got to let this play out by he's going
Speaker 2: to have to go through the court cases, but he
Speaker 2: will never ever ever be sentenced or put in incarcerated,
Speaker 2: and it'll time out.
Speaker 1: We can drag this out. I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: I would go so far as to wonder if some
Speaker 2: of the prosecutors and the jurisdictions helped with the scheduling
Speaker 2: of this. Do you know what I'm saying, Dude, dude, anyway,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, go ahead finish, mister Goldman.
Speaker 5: What does that feel like watching yourself back then reassuring
Speaker 5: people that Biden was not going to.
Speaker 2: This is a question being asked by a person who
Speaker 2: sat on panels reassuring people this wasn't going to happen.
Speaker 1: So just the hypocrisy is through.
Speaker 5: The issue a pardon for his son.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think that if that plea agreement and
Speaker 4: that plea deal had gone through, there would be no pardon.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: The plea deal that included this eleven year window of
Speaker 2: Freebie's doesn't matter. You know that a judge looked at
Speaker 2: and legal scholars looked at the I've ever seen anything
Speaker 2: like this.
Speaker 1: This is the narrative they're going with.
Speaker 2: Oh, well they had to because a corrupt justice system
Speaker 2: throughout his plea deal that was a satisfactory outcomes already fallen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, sorry, when you reacted, this was when the
Speaker 5: deal had fallen through.
Speaker 2: This guy's such an idiot that he didn't remember that
Speaker 2: he came on and said this crap after the judge
Speaker 2: had rejected it. That's a person in charge.
Speaker 1: Think about that. We'll be back hang on.
Speaker 2: Where you have institutions, You have institutions that are purging
Speaker 2: this woke garbage. They're not gonna get rid of all
Speaker 2: of it. And frankly, here's the other thing. They shouldn't
Speaker 2: get rid of all of it. You understand what you
Speaker 2: understand what I'm saying, like because I don't want to
Speaker 2: see a situation. And when I say all of it,
Speaker 2: I mean going through and just going looking at anybody
Speaker 2: and going you know what, I think you said something
Speaker 2: nice about Biden once you're out of here, right, because
Speaker 2: that's that's like, uh, the coup was successful, Let's round
Speaker 2: up the executees. That's not what That's not what you're doing.
Speaker 2: But you have to you have to recapture the program
Speaker 2: and the spirit and and and what you were intended
Speaker 2: to do. So if you're in higher ed educating people,
Speaker 2: if you're in the city of Raleigh, it's maximizing the
Speaker 2: use of the tax dollars in a way that comports
Speaker 2: with the desires of the populace. And I understand that
Speaker 2: the city of Raleigh, in Greensboro and Winston said, you know,
Speaker 2: any larger city in North Carolina is going.
Speaker 1: To have that that that lean.
Speaker 2: But remember, these cities are more than just what they
Speaker 2: provide their individual citizens. They're also economic regional economic hubs.
Speaker 2: And you know a lot of people just don't want
Speaker 2: to deal with that stuff. So when you send a
Speaker 2: press release and bragging them out Raleigh, Welcome's new director
Speaker 2: of Equity and Inclusion, what are you doing? You know
Speaker 2: that cities and universities and companies, more so companies because
Speaker 2: of the economic side, they're kicking this crap to the curb.
Speaker 2: And so they're like, well, welcome Nestor. What is it
Speaker 2: voz Pascal Jesus, I'll try to pronounce this Pasiluqua Pasilucua,
Speaker 2: who is the new director of Equity and Include And
Speaker 2: my beef is not with Nestor. Nestor is He's just
Speaker 2: an over educated dude.
Speaker 1: He's got like nine degrees.
Speaker 2: He's from Peru originally and then came to California to
Speaker 2: go to college, then went to three colleges and and
Speaker 2: and then worked for cities like San Luis Obispo, which
Speaker 2: the only reason to go to San Luis Obispo, let me,
Speaker 2: let me just help you is when the cal Poly,
Speaker 2: which I think he went to cal Poly. Probably yeah,
Speaker 2: he did cal Poly after the tournament a Roses Parade
Speaker 2: because I went to us to Santa Barbara and it's
Speaker 2: you know, it's not.
Speaker 1: That far and then they have a huge like.
Speaker 2: Festival fair, fun time and you go up and then
Speaker 2: you party up there, so that that'd be my recommendation.
Speaker 2: But this isn't on him. This is on the insanity
Speaker 2: of and and then the way that they were this
Speaker 2: stuff is is mind boggling to me. Things like he
Speaker 2: will begin his service with the City of raw He's
Speaker 2: not he's not an enlisted militar terry individual. I hate
Speaker 2: when they use the word service. You're not doing a
Speaker 2: Is he being paid, then he's not doing a service.
Speaker 2: Is he being paid but also under contract, like to
Speaker 2: the point of being prosecuted. If he like a military
Speaker 2: member would be, then you can call it service. Sorry,
Speaker 2: that's stuff. Just but he's got like nine degrees and
Speaker 2: you know, and they're gonna shoehorn him into this thing
Speaker 2: and you can't You couldn't possibly tell me what he's
Speaker 2: gonna do other than make things more expensive the whole position,
Speaker 2: and it's like, did you learn nothing? And I trust me.
Speaker 2: I was equally as critical of Republicans doing stupid crap
Speaker 2: after they got you know, when they get waxed in election,
Speaker 2: Like I don't understand it because here's the thing. At
Speaker 2: that point I'm not really even rooting for a side.
Speaker 2: I'm just rooting for people to be sane and make
Speaker 2: saane decisions and keeping.
Speaker 1: Your power base.
Speaker 2: If you're the Day Democrats, strictly just in Wake County,
Speaker 2: let me give you a piece of free advice that's
Speaker 2: going to irritate some of those on the right. If
Speaker 2: I was the head of the Democrat Party, or if
Speaker 2: I was in a position enough to influence what they do,
Speaker 2: the first thing I would have done when staffing leadership
Speaker 2: positions is gotten somebody from Western North Carolina.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely performative.
Speaker 2: I understand that, But you have a twofold thing one
Speaker 2: and your own guy said this, and never let.
Speaker 1: A good crisis go to waste.
Speaker 2: You have that where half the state thinks you your
Speaker 2: party and those above just absolutely ignored them, rightly or wrongly,
Speaker 2: I don't care. If you're one of those people will
Speaker 2: think it's only because some guy on Twitter said it.
Speaker 1: That's the perception. And those counties you didn't just not gain.
Speaker 2: In those counties, you lost, and you put that person,
Speaker 2: and then that person their pet project becomes actually helping
Speaker 2: people in Western North Carolina, even if it's just for
Speaker 2: the for the press, and then.
Speaker 1: I consider her.
Speaker 2: You guys just do it for whatever, and then you
Speaker 2: you start to build back the working man, working woman voters.
Speaker 1: Why are you so stupid? How do you?
Speaker 2: How?
Speaker 1: Does not occur to anybody?
Speaker 3: There seems to be like a segment right of the
Speaker 3: Democratic Party that doesn't realize that the last election was
Speaker 3: a complete repudiation of this woke DEI nonsense. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: we're tired of seeing it in media and in policy and.
Speaker 1: Paying for it. You and I are paying well, you're
Speaker 1: not you living, wait for it, you're paying for I'm
Speaker 1: paying for that.
Speaker 3: And you you previously mentioned that there's a lot of
Speaker 3: businesses that are dropping all this crap and the reason
Speaker 3: is because they're now you know, they're feeling it in
Speaker 3: their wallet. It reminds me of this decision and like
Speaker 3: it reminds me of right after the election, I think
Speaker 3: it was before Thanksgiving, how Jaguar came out with their
Speaker 3: their act.
Speaker 1: Did you see this pepto bismal looking piece of crap.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they came out and it was like it was
Speaker 3: obvious and apparent that they made the ad before the
Speaker 3: election because they know, once again, it's a repudiation of
Speaker 3: the Hillary Trump Andy, Yeah, because and everyone of the
Speaker 3: comments when you're reading on it, and I read this
Speaker 3: on I saw it on a Facebook, I saw it
Speaker 3: on an X and people are like, you know, we're
Speaker 3: tired of this nonsense, and if you come out with
Speaker 3: this garbage, we're not going to support it, and you
Speaker 3: are going to be punished financially for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And and let's give in mind too that some company,
Speaker 2: a lot of companies moved in that direction, not because
Speaker 2: they wanted to.
Speaker 3: Right, A lot of it was ESG based. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I've said this before.
Speaker 2: One of the things, especially when you get into big companies,
Speaker 2: that they need to utilize is capital for various periods.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: So you got a lot of companies where revenue is
Speaker 2: not derived evenly throughout the year, so they use the
Speaker 2: they use essentially capital.
Speaker 1: And it gets very complicated.
Speaker 2: But the companies, there's really only a few big ones,
Speaker 2: and then there's like two really big ones. They both
Speaker 2: basically said that you need to have a score, this
Speaker 2: es G score, and if you don't meet it, then
Speaker 2: you can't use money to keep your business going. And
Speaker 2: we're talking like Fortune five hundred companies. And so they
Speaker 2: went all right, well, whatever we gotta do. We gotta
Speaker 2: stay in business, right because it wasn't that people with
Speaker 2: So the moment they see an off ramp and people
Speaker 2: start actually speaking up, Hell yeah, they're gonna get rid
Speaker 2: of this and to not notice what's going on in
Speaker 2: the r ry welcomes our new director of Equity and Inclusion.
Speaker 2: What the hell is he gonna do? I'm reading the
Speaker 2: press release here, let's see Raleigh's let me just read this.
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 2: This is what he does in his work. Ross, you'd
Speaker 2: love this. You'd love this job title because you wouldn't
Speaker 2: have to do anything. You just say nothing.
Speaker 1: Are you ready develop internal partnerships to strengthen organizational culture
Speaker 1: and elevate the city's commitment to the principles of diversity,
Speaker 1: equity and inclusion. This has got to be a six
Speaker 1: figure gig.
Speaker 3: Oh, it is a complete waste of time. Right, So
Speaker 3: you're gonna have meetings about meetings and make every buddy's
Speaker 3: life completely miserable, and nothing is going to get done,
Speaker 3: and production is going to get down, and everyone's going
Speaker 3: to be walking on eggshells, worrying that they're going to
Speaker 3: offend somebody, and if they are, they're called an HR
Speaker 3: and then they lose their job for some step.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how is it? How is this helpful? What do
Speaker 1: you mean this city?
Speaker 2: You if you want to develop or demonstrate your commitment
Speaker 2: to diversity, equity and inclusion, which I would, I would
Speaker 2: tell you that that's probably not people's primary driving concern
Speaker 2: right now. The large majority, they just like to be
Speaker 2: able to afford eggs and maybe get back to some
Speaker 2: sense of normalcy with pricing and the way that we
Speaker 2: do things.
Speaker 1: If you do that, if you do.
Speaker 2: This, and uh it like everyone everyone in and around,
Speaker 2: as Ross just pointed out, like literally has to adapt
Speaker 2: to it. So you can't tell me there's not like
Speaker 2: loss in in what's going on? And if you really
Speaker 2: want to develop, if you want to a commitment to it,
Speaker 2: just do things like here's here you want me to help.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're I'm your interim DEI guy. You ready, because.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna show you my commitment to the
Speaker 2: principles of equity and inclusion. Everybody in the city of
Speaker 2: Raleig gets a tax cut, so instead of paying.
Speaker 1: For this garbage.
Speaker 2: That's right, everybody gets a tax cut, white, black, brown, whatever, green,
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. Man woman one of the other seventy two
Speaker 2: things you get on a New York drivers doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: None of it matters. Everybody in the city rally gets
Speaker 2: more money in their pocket. It's not a lot, but
Speaker 2: it's a little. And it's something that sounds pretty inclusive,
Speaker 2: doesn't it.
Speaker 1: There's some people who don't own a home, uh, but
Speaker 1: they rent, right.
Speaker 2: You know that that's built into the cost, like this
Speaker 2: is this is the dumbest crap ever. Or if you
Speaker 2: want to make it even easier, Uh, why don't we
Speaker 2: start talking about some of the sales tax stuff. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go a little broader with this there. And I
Speaker 2: don't even have to hire some dude for six figures
Speaker 2: to come in and hold useless meetings.
Speaker 1: I am the best. Listen to me.
Speaker 2: I don't know how much you idiots pay consultants down
Speaker 2: there on Hillsborough Street with your big, old white mansion
Speaker 2: that you almost got foreclosed on. I just gave you
Speaker 2: more consulting advice that is positive for you in forty
Speaker 2: five minutes of radio than you're gonna get all year.
Speaker 2: Don't get leaderships stuck in the same place you waised
Speaker 2: that opportunity you could have literally recaptured more of the
Speaker 2: rule vote which you hemorrhaged, and now you're all concerned
Speaker 2: about and stop spending money on garbage like this. You're
Speaker 2: welcome send me my check six forty five.
Speaker 1: Hang on.
Speaker 2: The companies that are moving out of this because they're
Speaker 2: being allowed to or they're being forced to write you
Speaker 2: go back to like bud Light and some of the others,
Speaker 2: where they immediately were like, all right, we're going right
Speaker 2: back to comedians doing dumb stuff on commercials and catchphrases right, which, frankly,
Speaker 2: if you're their advertising agency, you get be like, what
Speaker 2: are you doing? To Ross's point, you mentioned this a
Speaker 2: jaguar Jaguar. They came out with this weird ad, didn't
Speaker 2: show a single car, just showed weirdness. There's no other
Speaker 2: way weirdness. And by the way, weirdness is gonna be
Speaker 2: the theme of the show today. And we haven't even
Speaker 2: gotten into the wicked stuff, which I was gonna ignore, but.
Speaker 1: I have to talk about this.
Speaker 2: Hey, Weirdness is the name of the game. And so
Speaker 2: they come out and they do this weird ad and
Speaker 2: they're like, we're we're gonna do something nobody's ever done
Speaker 2: before it's gonna be crazy. And people are like, I
Speaker 2: don't know, watch you show a car instead of whatever
Speaker 2: the hell this fever acid induced dream of a commercial is.
Speaker 2: And so that went on, I don't know what a
Speaker 2: week ago or whatever. And then yesterday some some photos of.
Speaker 1: The car leaked. They didn't leak, the company sent them out.
Speaker 1: Shut up.
Speaker 2: They even if they didn't send them out officially, they
Speaker 2: sent them out.
Speaker 1: They didn't just leak the same.
Speaker 2: Photos that are all touched up, ready to go and
Speaker 2: have marketing information.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, whoopsie.
Speaker 2: So and then and they decided to build a car
Speaker 2: which look, I don't know all of the stats, ford horsepower,
Speaker 2: all of that.
Speaker 1: It's probably pretty beefy, and.
Speaker 2: It's got some decent looking lines. And then they post
Speaker 2: this photo and the thing and I searched for a
Speaker 2: color that that car is, and I can arrive at
Speaker 2: no other color than pepto Bismo. And it also looks
Speaker 2: your car that looks like nothing else, looks like a
Speaker 2: car it has to, but it also looks like it
Speaker 2: backed into a Rulls Royce. And now the trunk has.
Speaker 1: A rules Roys grill on it. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on. I will glad I'm a car.
Speaker 2: I would gladly see this thing when it comes out,
Speaker 2: and uh yeah, maybe want to drive one. I'm sure
Speaker 2: it's gonna be pretty cool. They build nice cars usually.
Speaker 2: But you went in this direction, and as Ross pointed out,
Speaker 2: you probably went in at pre election and now you're
Speaker 2: stuck with pepto dismal.
Speaker 3: And the problem with these DEI director positions or whatever
Speaker 3: is there they're constantly looking for problems because it's like
Speaker 3: the the L. Sharpton effect, right, like if racism doesn't exist,
Speaker 3: then he doesn't have a job, so he constantly has
Speaker 3: to find, you know, examples of it. So these people are.
Speaker 1: A thousand dollars donations from the Hairs camp to do interview.
Speaker 3: Because without it, they don't have a job. So they're
Speaker 3: constantly looking for problems. So they're going to constantly be
Speaker 3: looking around the workplace for these microaggressions and just completely
Speaker 3: ruining people's lives for stupid stuff.
Speaker 2: Yes, some day goes to the breakroom, get go, your
Speaker 2: hair looks nice today. And now he's on a predator website.
Speaker 3: Now he's a monster, right, Yeah, And I get to
Speaker 3: have a meeting and about a meeting and a meeting
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 2: By the way, you know what, you went to know
Speaker 2: how much our company loves us. Ross and I normally
Speaker 2: have a meeting after the show. Today our boss canceled it.
Speaker 2: You know why, because he cares about us.
Speaker 3: I wake up every Tuesday morning praying that the Tuesday
Speaker 3: meeting is going to get canceled.
Speaker 1: I'm not you don't like Trevor and me.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know, maybe maybe me. But now that
Speaker 2: you don't like, you don't want to hang out with Trevor. No,
Speaker 2: I love Trevor. Yeah, I don't mind. But it's the
Speaker 2: idea of the meeting where it's just.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, thank you. I don't want to do to that.
Speaker 2: And so I wake up this morning and it's a
Speaker 2: notification on my phone because you can't, I guess you
Speaker 2: cancel it.
Speaker 3: Listen, we don't need to have a meeting for you
Speaker 3: to tell us how awesome we are. Just send an
Speaker 3: email or a text.
Speaker 1: They did yesterday.
Speaker 3: You guys are awesome, Thank you so much. Continue the
Speaker 3: great work. I don't need a meeting for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had a They sends an email tell us
Speaker 2: we were awesome, yesda, which means we're probably getting fired today.
Speaker 3: But you know, rightly, everybody's responding. And they were like,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, great, you know, and I was just gonna
Speaker 3: write just happy to be here. But I was like,
Speaker 3: that might come across the wrong way.
Speaker 1: Well you saw what I wrote, did you? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I did, Yeah, I did, so yeah yeah yeah. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I hope, I hope they understand that. That is, I
Speaker 2: hope they get the reference, because if not, it sounds well.
Speaker 3: I was gonna be like, you listen, I was going
Speaker 3: to reply to your mess.
Speaker 2: I want, I said, okay, all right, So when I
Speaker 2: sent it, I didn't add the second I'm not going
Speaker 2: to give you all the details. We got an email
Speaker 2: with ratings information that was positive.
Speaker 3: Hey, you guys did great, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they did great, and but it was good enough
Speaker 2: that they see seed like management up the.
Speaker 3: Food chain, like big bosses.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, So so they write like hey, and so.
Speaker 2: They said that, and admittedly I kind of glanced at
Speaker 2: it initially, and then I was distracted.
Speaker 1: I was doing something else, and I'm like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I should probably it would be nice to probably
Speaker 2: answer that. And because I have no filter sometimes no filter,
Speaker 2: I said, looking forward to my jelly of them here
Speaker 2: you go looking forward to my to that Jelly of
Speaker 2: the Month membership, and I left offers and I wanted Ross, listen,
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 3: What we're doing this is because we have not talked
Speaker 3: about this, so obviously obviously you're making a Christmas vication
Speaker 3: joke about not receiving a bonus but Jelly of the
Speaker 3: Month for great work being in the matings. So I
Speaker 3: was going to reply to yours. If you want, I
Speaker 3: will kidnap Maynard. Just let me know.
Speaker 2: Oh, I was gonna go. I thought you're one of
Speaker 2: the gifts that keeps oneing games. Now you're gonna go.
Speaker 2: You're gonna lean in.
Speaker 3: You kidnapped the boss if you want me to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have so much respect for for you.
Speaker 3: Hey, Maynard and I go back like decades, so he yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't everybody to be clear, Maynards.
Speaker 2: I guess Maynards one of the big bosses on this email,
Speaker 2: and Ross knows him so like he would probably get that.
Speaker 1: I talked with Maynard. He seems pretty hyptotic.
Speaker 3: But anyway, I raided your email and I really what
Speaker 3: my reply would be, and I assessed the situation. I said,
Speaker 3: I'm just not going to reply yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, at the City of Raleigh, this guy, I don't know,
Speaker 2: he's parked his car wrong and he might progress him,
Speaker 2: but I don't know. I don't and I don't wish
Speaker 2: that ApoB. I know people work for the City of
Speaker 2: Raleigh or you know, functional people. But there's a reason,
Speaker 2: there's a reason.
Speaker 1: Parks and wreck exists. You guys know this, right.
Speaker 2: What I'm causing going away is the number of people
Speaker 2: in the that work in like local government. Now, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of them or hip to it, right, and
Speaker 2: they're big complainers about people they work with. But like
Speaker 2: you realize that show's making fun of you, right, He
Speaker 2: probably thinks CNN ambushed him, and in reality, basically CNN
Speaker 2: and you, Representative Goldman are running from a bear and
Speaker 2: they tripped you.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's what happened. CNN is just as liable for
Speaker 1: this garbage.
Speaker 2: But other than that, I'm just we're just kind of
Speaker 2: spitball in this morning because there's just so much dumb
Speaker 2: stuff and I got all this carryover stuff, so I
Speaker 2: I let me let me get a little more back
Speaker 2: on the more focused, back into the playbook, so to speak. Okay,
Speaker 2: what on God's Green Earth are you doing on a
Speaker 2: press junket?
Speaker 1: Right? So when a movie's coming out, we get pitched.
Speaker 2: I get pitched, and I get all the age, not
Speaker 2: maybe not the biggest, biggest ones all the time. But
Speaker 2: if I open my email right now and I scrolled down,
Speaker 2: I could find a pitch from one of the companies
Speaker 2: wanting to get actors or somebody surrounding a project. A
Speaker 2: lot of times it's a TV show. If there's a
Speaker 2: reality show where there's a character from North Carolina, a
Speaker 2: person from North Carolina on there, we get pounded with interviews, so, oh,
Speaker 2: you want to interview Survivor number twenty or the guy
Speaker 2: on the barbecue thing. And don't get me wrong, I
Speaker 2: watched that barbecue show on Netflix.
Speaker 1: It's very good. I don't know why I watch barbecue shows,
Speaker 1: but I find it fascinating. It's very good. I can't
Speaker 1: remember what it's called right now, but.
Speaker 2: And there was a guy from North Carolina on last season,
Speaker 2: and I think I got a press release a day
Speaker 2: from whoever was their marketing people. But the point is
Speaker 2: the reason you're doing that is not just to annoy
Speaker 2: me in my inbox, but to build interest in your
Speaker 2: project so that people come and they go and they
Speaker 2: watch it or consume it, and you make money. That's why,
Speaker 2: and that's why you hire an agency. That's why you
Speaker 2: have marketing people. And then you cart your people around
Speaker 2: or they call in and they do radio interviews or
Speaker 2: in TV they sit there and and do these interviews.
Speaker 2: And you want little snippets of that to percolate within
Speaker 2: the media. What do you remember when Tom Cruise was
Speaker 2: jumping up and down on Oprah's couch about how excited
Speaker 2: he went. He was promoting a movie. It just turned
Speaker 2: into another thing that's now kind of famous. So if
Speaker 2: you're going to promote a brand or a project, that is,
Speaker 2: by the way, not some new thing. It's something people
Speaker 2: know something about. I have seen Wicked in a theater,
Speaker 2: not a movie theater, in Lake Theater theater in New York.
Speaker 1: And I'm not a huge play guy.
Speaker 3: It was good.
Speaker 2: I read The Lime King was amazing on Broadway. I
Speaker 2: got to say, I saw it not there. I saw
Speaker 2: it in the San Diego but I saw the Broadway
Speaker 2: one when I just happened to be down there. I
Speaker 2: went to the show. It's crazy good. It's not necessarily
Speaker 2: my cup of tea was stuff.
Speaker 1: But I don't have kids, so the Disney stuff, but
Speaker 1: it was very entertaining.
Speaker 2: The Wicked Thing is obviously a play on OZ if
Speaker 2: you don't know anything about it.
Speaker 1: But they then send out two different groups.
Speaker 2: Okay, they send out Jeff Goldblooms in the movie, and
Speaker 2: I don't know the other guy actor. When I watched,
Speaker 2: I watched a little snippets of them, and they're doing
Speaker 2: the interviews with all the whatever, and their Goldbloom's hamming
Speaker 2: it up and he's talking about how he was forced
Speaker 2: to learn to sing and he can actually sing, and
Speaker 2: and and then they're, you know, they're cutting up with
Speaker 2: some jokes and and what you're doing is you're building
Speaker 2: likeability or maintaining likability for the characters. Are there people
Speaker 2: who hate Jeff Goldbloom? Are there Jeff Goldbloom haters? I
Speaker 2: don't know anyone who hates Jeff Goldbloom. I don't know
Speaker 2: that necessarily he's the draw for everything. But if you
Speaker 2: told me Jeff Goldblooms and some I'm like, cool, all right,
Speaker 2: he remember when he saved the world from those aliens?
Speaker 1: Like, all right, And.
Speaker 2: It's it's very normal it's very vanilla. And then they
Speaker 2: send out the woman who plays the Wicked Witch, who's
Speaker 2: spoiler alert, I guess is not Wicked. It's all open interpretation.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to ruin it for you. But they
Speaker 2: send her out and she's already trashed her most loyal
Speaker 2: fans or the most loyal fans of the of the
Speaker 2: production Wicked, because I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 1: When they put the movie.
Speaker 2: When they put it wasn't even the movie poster, but
Speaker 2: it was the one they initially put out. It has
Speaker 2: a very unique look. And the look is you only
Speaker 2: see half the face of the Wicked Witch and another
Speaker 2: the other character is whispering into her ear, and you
Speaker 2: just see the and you see the green skin on
Speaker 2: the chin, and then the big black witches had and
Speaker 2: for whatever reason, the woman who plays the who plays
Speaker 2: the Cynthia what is it, arid whatever, who plays the
Speaker 2: Wicked Witch in that one, it's the hat is up
Speaker 2: and you can see her eyes.
Speaker 1: And somebody who is a giant.
Speaker 2: Fan of Wicked, right the person would have been first
Speaker 2: in line, is also somebody who can photoshop, and they
Speaker 2: recreated the iconic. If you go to New York city
Speaker 2: where Wicka was playing. These posters were all over the place.
Speaker 2: They recreated it where they I don't know if they
Speaker 2: cut off the hat from the other one or if
Speaker 2: they moved. I'm not a photoshop guy, but they did
Speaker 2: that as an homage to something they're a fan of.
Speaker 2: And she, excuse me, she posted about how it's how
Speaker 2: horrible it was, it was the worst thing that ever
Speaker 2: happened to her, and it's racist and all this garbage,
Speaker 2: and it didn't get a lot of press. So that
Speaker 2: was a while ago. So now she's on this press junket.
Speaker 2: You just have to look not insane. And every single
Speaker 2: clip I've seen of the women's version of this press
Speaker 2: junket is insane.
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: It's first sitting there with her emotional support skeleton that
Speaker 2: what is her name, Grande, Ariana Grande. The only thing
Speaker 2: I know about her is she likes reportedly to sleep
Speaker 2: with people's husbands. And she can sing, she's a good singer,
Speaker 2: and and they both look insane.
Speaker 3: I might have gone to see this just you know,
Speaker 3: if Marky wanted to see it, I could go see it,
Speaker 3: and I would, you know, I'd watch it and whatever.
Speaker 3: On a deeper level. I'm really tired of these movies
Speaker 3: where it's like the Evil Origin Story where they did
Speaker 3: the same thing now with the New Lion King with scar.
Speaker 1: I saw, I saw the trailer for that, Yeah.
Speaker 3: The Wicked Witch of the West, and that there's this
Speaker 3: messaging now where like there's no such thing as good
Speaker 3: and evil and evil it's subjective and it's all due
Speaker 3: to your matter of perspective. And I think that's all
Speaker 3: a bunch of bull crap, and kids need to learn
Speaker 3: that there is good and there is evil.
Speaker 2: This is why redemption it's very important, and redemption but
Speaker 2: without there being defined good and evil, there can't be redemptable, right.
Speaker 3: And this is why classically, like I think like Tolkien
Speaker 3: and C. C. S. Lewis are very important because you know,
Speaker 3: the Orcs are orcs. The Orcs are evil. We don't
Speaker 3: need to see the origin story or them have a
Speaker 3: compassion because originally they didn't know bam it because they
Speaker 3: represented evil and there was a reason for that. But
Speaker 3: all that aside, I maybe would have seen this just
Speaker 3: get up, Mark, you want to go. I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: to my wife and we're gonna have a good date.
Speaker 3: And it would have been fun. But after seeing this nonsense,
Speaker 3: going back to what we said in the previous hour,
Speaker 3: with the repudiation of all that woke the EI nonsense,
Speaker 3: I no longer am going to see this movie purposefully
Speaker 3: because you are a moonbat lunatic. And I can't even
Speaker 3: get through these segments that you've been seeing all over
Speaker 3: social media where they're at this press junket and it's
Speaker 3: like they just seem absolutely insufferable. You seem like an
Speaker 3: absolute lunatic. And now I'm not gonna go see your movie.
Speaker 3: I'm purpose And then they all cry within a minute.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what are you doing? What are you crying for?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 7: Feel and I have feelings and I can shove them.
Speaker 7: You need to cry right now? You cry? Yeah.
Speaker 6: And someone said to me once the green was the
Speaker 6: thing that I would love the most about a bird
Speaker 6: that I want to stay green, but actually.
Speaker 7: Being green.
Speaker 6: Yes, I loved playing this character, but every time I
Speaker 6: took the makeup of I loved.
Speaker 7: Who I was even more so I've come away feeling
Speaker 7: really beautiful.
Speaker 1: Is it Dusty in here? Is it dust you are?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: You know what you've brought to this film and to
Speaker 7: these characters.
Speaker 2: You've not no, but you know how, I don't even
Speaker 2: know your name, ma'am. And you know what, I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna look it up. I don't care. If I don't care,
Speaker 2: I just want to be entertained. This is not about you.
Speaker 2: That don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: Actors, good actors and actresses.
Speaker 2: Can go in and they can give a really exemplary
Speaker 2: performance to a character and even a character has just
Speaker 2: been that's been played before. That's why the best example
Speaker 2: of this I can tell you is True Grit. Both
Speaker 2: True Both of the True Grit movies are really good
Speaker 2: and are really good because of the lead male actors.
Speaker 2: And then in Josh Allen's New Wife, is.
Speaker 1: That's who that is? Is that Hailey Steinfeld is in
Speaker 1: the True Grit.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if it is.
Speaker 2: But that the girl who played in that movie, right,
Speaker 2: and and so then it becomes about them, but we
Speaker 2: have to see the movie first. And her whole junket
Speaker 2: is her crying Arianna heavy petting her, which normally it's
Speaker 2: all super weird, Like if you were crying and it
Speaker 2: was just two actresses, have you pet like I might
Speaker 2: watch the clip with the sound off, but like, what
Speaker 2: is what is happening?
Speaker 3: Right, like I can understand actors that are weird and
Speaker 3: eccentric and like method acting and jump understand it. But
Speaker 3: there's a line that once now you cross, I'm just
Speaker 3: not going to support your product. And I don't care
Speaker 3: how good the movie is, because I am tired of
Speaker 3: this lunacy.
Speaker 2: What did h I'm very curious because you're essentially you're
Speaker 2: not the target. Your wife's the target. She's right in
Speaker 2: the demo?
Speaker 1: What did did did Marky see these clips? What does
Speaker 1: she think?
Speaker 3: She is not? As far as I know.
Speaker 1: You should sit her down clockwork orange style and make
Speaker 1: her watch it. Just so.
Speaker 2: I'm just curious how women react to that, because that's
Speaker 2: who they're that's who they're messaging, and that's also the
Speaker 2: reason why they're doing these very separate, very different vibe
Speaker 2: press things right where they're sending the women out to
Speaker 2: do interviews with uh and and by the way, how
Speaker 2: insufferable are the interviewers in this thing, sir?
Speaker 1: They're crying.
Speaker 2: The one woman's crying too. How how do you think
Speaker 2: this is helping? How do you think it's helping when
Speaker 2: the snow white chick will keep her mouth shut for
Speaker 2: five minutes? How are you, Disney, how do you allow
Speaker 2: yourself to be surrounded by all of this and then
Speaker 2: just throw a big burn money? And I guess that
Speaker 2: speaks to go when you get into the upper echelons
Speaker 2: to some of these companies where you may not be able.
Speaker 1: To purge all the DEI garbage?
Speaker 2: What was what was the video game that everyone was
Speaker 2: hammering on last week? I could barely keep track of
Speaker 2: all that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I'm saying, Like, when it comes to
Speaker 3: you know, movies or video games or anything, I'm just
Speaker 3: not gonna support it financially at all anymore. And I
Speaker 3: know there was a time where like, oh, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: play these games on Twitch just so I can make
Speaker 3: fun of them. I'm not gonna do that anymore.
Speaker 2: Is there a top level release this year that hasn't
Speaker 2: had some of this garbage attached to it? Obviously some
Speaker 2: have been it's just been pure calamity because it was
Speaker 2: so much.
Speaker 3: There have been successful games like that. There's been The
Speaker 3: Space Marines is one of them. There was that one
Speaker 3: game out of China that was sort of like a
Speaker 3: Dark Souls. They can't remember what it's called.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I saw somebody mentioned that in the video
Speaker 1: I watched.
Speaker 3: And yeah, these games are attacked by like these like
Speaker 3: games that I say it un quote journalists because like
Speaker 3: they're not woke enough. But these are the games that
Speaker 3: are doing, like really successful.
Speaker 1: And then they listen to those journey the idiot over
Speaker 1: at Gizmoto or whatever, what's that? What's their video what's
Speaker 1: their video game? Oh? No, it folded, didn't it?
Speaker 3: Kataku? Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, Kataku didn't fold one of them pulled it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So you're listening to the guy over at Kataku
Speaker 2: who's a moron, right and his and while he may
Speaker 2: represent Kataku and the people who what ross? Do you
Speaker 2: read Kataku for information or to hate?
Speaker 1: I did? I?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't anymore. I've completed anymoreged it from my brain.
Speaker 3: But there was a time I would say, maybe like
Speaker 3: ten plus years ago, where it was part of my
Speaker 3: morning routine where I would come into work, I would
Speaker 3: fire up the board, get everything ready, and then I
Speaker 3: would spend fifteen twenty minutes like reading, you know, stuff
Speaker 3: on video games on Kataku. And then so waita way
Speaker 3: they went over the edge and they were doing that
Speaker 3: at work, of course, sure was. We were talking about
Speaker 3: it now time we're talking about it now, so apparently
Speaker 3: it's work related.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean this one you that's a that's the
Speaker 1: long game and it worked out for you. So yeah, no, no, no, no, absolutely.
Speaker 1: In fact, you're the one who sent me. When they
Speaker 1: did the PS five review, you're like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: look at this thing.
Speaker 2: And if you don't know they did a PS five review,
Speaker 2: there wasn't about the PS five one of the biggest
Speaker 2: console releases of what the decade, easily, and they decided
Speaker 2: and they're main review to like whine about DEI stuff
Speaker 2: and uh and I think they threw a darkfur in
Speaker 2: there or something. It's like, what, how do the graphics look?
Speaker 3: It's like they're discussing like Red Dead Redemption too, and
Speaker 3: like they bring in Rwanda or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, would you do it? What are you doing? Yeah?
Speaker 1: They mix it in George Floyd Darfur. It was insane.
Speaker 1: The thing was insane, just it and and and.
Speaker 2: People and and you know, and people went, oh, it's
Speaker 2: the shut up and dribble mentality. Yes, and some of
Speaker 2: that's okay, right, Look, every day I'm inundated with somebody
Speaker 2: who doesn't feel that what I'm doing on the show
Speaker 2: at that moment is what they expect from this show,
Speaker 2: and I have to balance whether yeah, you know, maybe
Speaker 2: I should kick into something else.
Speaker 3: But I mean there's certain segment of people they will
Speaker 3: they want everything to be political, even if they're hate
Speaker 3: listening against when it comes to sports and entertainment or
Speaker 3: movies or video games, whatever you find for your leisure recreation. Yeah,
Speaker 3: these things. Once upon a time were sort of separated
Speaker 3: from politics, a way to escape these things, and now
Speaker 3: it's almost impossible to do that. So when you have
Speaker 3: something that comes out that is actually separated from politics,
Speaker 3: people are going to be drawn towards that.
Speaker 1: And then they they go, oh, well, let me learn more,
Speaker 1: and then they and I.
Speaker 7: Have feelings and I can shove them. And if you
Speaker 7: need to cry right now, you cry. Yeah, And.
Speaker 1: I'm watching this and the only thought in my head is.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 1: I'm just screaming at the damn.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: The more I see that hacka Dance is stupider. It
Speaker 3: looks the first time, I was like the first time,
Speaker 3: I love the audio. Yeah, the first time, I'm like,
Speaker 3: oh that's so, that's looks cool. It looks impressive, and
Speaker 3: then like it is cool, like you know, I went
Speaker 3: to McDonald's and they gave me the wrong order and
Speaker 3: I broke out the hockey dance or whatever. Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: just dumb.
Speaker 1: Dude, it is it is. It is cool.
Speaker 2: You know, I went to you know, I went to
Speaker 2: Australia right when I was a kid. I got to
Speaker 2: go to Australia when I was a kid. Uh and
Speaker 2: we uh they and my grandfather was a college professor
Speaker 2: and so he had there was a thing with professor
Speaker 2: exchange kind of thing with one of the universities there,
Speaker 2: and so it afforded me this opportunity. And and I'm
Speaker 2: I would have much rather gone to Australia when I
Speaker 2: was older, because it looked like the people who were
Speaker 2: having a lot of fun were mostly doing adult stuff.
Speaker 2: But we we went to one of the it's not
Speaker 2: the same necessarily, it's but it's memory and then the
Speaker 2: Aboriginal dance thing there and pretty cool. You ever see
Speaker 2: like in the Samoa the dances that they do, right,
Speaker 2: that's that's interesting stuff. Not on the not on the
Speaker 2: floor of the house as much. But you know, whatever,
Speaker 2: this but that's a politician. I expect that this is
Speaker 2: a woman who's purporting that she wants to entertain me,
Speaker 2: and I'm just like, no, I'm out, I got I
Speaker 2: got no intro, and I'm somebody or you're somebody who
Speaker 2: would have been receptive based on your wife wanting to go,
Speaker 2: you would have gone, what is it? So that's what
Speaker 2: thirty bucks down the drain for the for the company
Speaker 2: that produced this absolute insanity. All right, well the insanity
Speaker 2: doesn't stop there. We got it in droves coming up.
Speaker 1: Just hang on, No, it's not a BUCkies. Wait wait wait,
Speaker 1: you can drop your kids? Well, now, I would just
Speaker 1: still start that.
Speaker 3: I would assume somewhere in the BUCkies there's like a
Speaker 3: daycare center somewhere.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 1: There's no way to go to all of the corner
Speaker 1: of the store in a lifetime.
Speaker 3: It's impossible.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, uh this uh it was not
Speaker 2: a BUCkies and her she's got three kids.
Speaker 1: Let's see.
Speaker 2: Uh she got five year old, three year old and
Speaker 2: a four month old what was four months old? I
Speaker 2: guess you could pretty much drop a four month old
Speaker 2: off anywhere and they'll still be there, right unless some
Speaker 2: weirdo happens along, like where are they gonna go? Yeah,
Speaker 2: if the youngest is four months old, just drop them
Speaker 2: off of the gas station.
Speaker 1: But I can understand that.
Speaker 3: So she had a baby four months ago and she's
Speaker 3: already at like, hey, I'm going to drop the baby
Speaker 3: off at a gas station to hook up with a dude.
Speaker 3: She's already at that point of needs, that.
Speaker 1: Needs, she got needs.
Speaker 2: And again I'm not a parent. You can hook up
Speaker 2: in front of a four month old, can't you, or
Speaker 2: at least with them in the vicinity, like in another room.
Speaker 2: It's not like your it's not your twelve year old's
Speaker 2: going to walk in on you and be scarred for life.
Speaker 1: Like four months.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the hell is going on. So
Speaker 2: I don't know, don't know, but don't do that apparently.
Speaker 2: All right, Sorry you send me that link? What the
Speaker 2: what is wrong with people?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 2: Hey, speaking of kids, if you haven't done your Christmas
Speaker 2: shopping yet, have I got something for you.
Speaker 9: My name's Ashley, and I'm excited to talk to you
Speaker 9: about a project we've been working on at the National
Speaker 9: Center for Gender Spectrum Health called My Gender Dolls.
Speaker 1: Wait, there's a national there's a National gender spect Okay.
Speaker 9: These dolls were designed by transgender and gender diverse artists
Speaker 9: They are intended to be a therapeutic tool for transgender
Speaker 9: and gender diverse kids to explore how they see themselves
Speaker 9: or how they'd like to see themselves in terms of
Speaker 9: gender identity and gender expression. The my Gender dolls are
Speaker 9: made up of multiple layers, and the first of these
Speaker 9: are the bodies. Because all kids should be able to
Speaker 9: see themselves represented, we have lots of different options for
Speaker 9: skin tones and body sizes. Along with the choice of bodies,
Speaker 9: the my Gender dolls also include genitals. This is important
Speaker 9: because kids can learn that all gender identities and gender
Speaker 9: expressions are valid.
Speaker 2: By the way, I just want to point out I
Speaker 2: don't have a problem with this may not be your
Speaker 2: cup of tea. But if a company or or a
Speaker 2: gender spectrum society or whatever the wherever she works, if
Speaker 2: they want to produce these and put them on the
Speaker 2: market and they get people to buy them.
Speaker 1: Whatever, go ahead.
Speaker 2: But what you have to understand as you read through
Speaker 2: this and you look at the way in which people
Speaker 2: you have, people who are like you know, we need
Speaker 2: we need these in every school. We need all of
Speaker 2: that stuff, and we need to have a mister potato
Speaker 2: head genital situation going on so that we can, you know,
Speaker 2: we can get them in there. And so that's where
Speaker 2: it creeps into It's not just hey, I want you know,
Speaker 2: it's like a black Barbie doll, right, who cares an Asian?
Speaker 1: But I don't.
Speaker 2: Nobody cares. Nobody really cares. What people care about is
Speaker 2: that lunatic who went into Remember when they went into
Speaker 2: Target and they found out that there was like fifty
Speaker 2: normal Barbies or say normal regular barbies, old school barbies,
Speaker 2: and there were only like ten black Barbies. And they
Speaker 2: held a protest because Target didn't allocate the same amount
Speaker 2: of shelf space. Target allocated the amount of shelf space
Speaker 2: that they thought would be based on sales. I'm assuming
Speaker 2: I don't know there's some weirdos up at Target, but
Speaker 2: I know people work for Target Corporate.
Speaker 1: When I lived in Minneapolis. That being said, that's not
Speaker 1: the thing here.
Speaker 2: But now you have something like this, and you're like,
Speaker 2: let's go ahead and figure out how we can essentially
Speaker 2: get taxpayers.
Speaker 1: To buy a bunch.
Speaker 3: You know what you are.
Speaker 2: You're the Baltimore mayor, remember in the mayor of Baltimore
Speaker 2: who was ousted. She wrote a kid's book. I don't
Speaker 2: even think she wrote it and then forced Baltimore schools.
Speaker 2: They bought four what was it, four hundred thousand copies
Speaker 2: of it and they were all and like most of
Speaker 2: them were just sitting in a warehouse somewhere.
Speaker 1: That's where people have a problem.
Speaker 3: With this stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay, a bunch of you sent this to me, and
Speaker 1: I'm just responding to it.
Speaker 2: If people want to make dolls in all shape, sizes,
Speaker 2: colors and all of that, and there's a market for it,
Speaker 2: then that's fine. But we're not going to do this
Speaker 2: thing where we're uh forcing your kid in to have
Speaker 2: this as part of their curriculum. That's that's where it
Speaker 2: immediately jumps the shark on this.
Speaker 9: No matter how your body looks, there are lots of
Speaker 9: different ways to be a girl, a boy, or anywhere
Speaker 9: along a gender spectrum. Another layer to the dolls is
Speaker 9: the internal reproductive parts. It is important for kids to
Speaker 9: learn about what's on the inside of their bodies. Bodies
Speaker 9: are amazing and there's so many different kinds.
Speaker 2: Is that how kids interact with dolls or action figures.
Speaker 2: I have to go action figures. Let me uh, let
Speaker 2: me go with that route in and play with dolls,
Speaker 2: play with action figures. By the way, Ross, I don't
Speaker 2: know how many g I joes you had another? Uh
Speaker 2: do you ever have this stretchy do you remember the
Speaker 2: stretchy wrestler?
Speaker 1: Dude?
Speaker 2: You can get them in like Hull Cogan all. By
Speaker 2: the way, I saw a dude who looked exactly like
Speaker 2: Hull Cogan yesterday.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe it was, yeah, that there was.
Speaker 2: It was just enough off that I knew it wasn't.
Speaker 2: But I mean the look, the look, and I I didn't.
Speaker 2: I was like, if he comes over here, I'm a
Speaker 2: how do I not say brother? If he talks to me?
Speaker 2: It would be subconscious. But that's how that's how kids
Speaker 2: play with dolls. And by the way, I didn't look
Speaker 2: like any of the I didn't look like the uh
Speaker 2: my uh uh the uh uh one of my why
Speaker 2: Conan I had the Conan.
Speaker 1: I'd like all the Conan stuff too, I didn't.
Speaker 2: My grandmother got me that I don't look like Conan
Speaker 2: the Barbarian when I was eight, Okay, but I was
Speaker 2: still able to feasibly put together a battle plan to
Speaker 2: entertain myself.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I didn't look like he Man right
Speaker 3: or but or Haul Coogan, But I knew he was
Speaker 3: a kid. I was like, that's pretty badass, and I
Speaker 3: would like to be like that someday. And then I
Speaker 3: incredibly disappointed because it never you go.
Speaker 2: Jumping off the back of the couch with that Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: yout your mom's screaming at you.
Speaker 1: What are you doing? I'm coming off the top ropes. Maham,
Speaker 1: mind your business.
Speaker 9: Let's keep layering. Oh we all have to get dressed.
Speaker 9: Gender expression is our well.
Speaker 2: Judging from my sister's buckets, by two sisters with their
Speaker 2: bucket of barbies, none of them had to be dressed.
Speaker 1: They were always naked for some reason, because they lose
Speaker 1: the damn clothes.
Speaker 9: Oh way of telling the world how we want to
Speaker 9: be seen. My gender dolls have a lot of clothing
Speaker 9: and style choices. Kids learn that, regardless of gender identity,
Speaker 9: they can express themselves in lots of ways. Every article
Speaker 9: of clothing and accessory works with all sizes of bodies.
Speaker 2: I just can't you know how kids are really able
Speaker 2: to grasp exactly what you're saying. By the way, because
Speaker 2: again my beef is not if somebody wants to make this,
Speaker 2: sell it and see if it works, it's kids already
Speaker 2: have this amazing thing that sadly we drift away from
Speaker 2: it as we grow older, and that's the ability to
Speaker 2: imagine whatever they want. Stupid stuff kids imagine. I remember
Speaker 2: this sounds, this is going to sound the dumbest thing ever.
Speaker 2: I remember thinking that a way that I could screw
Speaker 2: with my sisters was to.
Speaker 1: Make them think that.
Speaker 2: I don't know how to describe this, it's just one
Speaker 2: of these weird kid memories you have. I was convinced
Speaker 2: I could convince them that there was.
Speaker 1: A train in a cave.
Speaker 2: And I'm not gonna get all the details for it,
Speaker 2: but like it was pure imagination fuel. And then we
Speaker 2: had I think we just threw rocks at them or something.
Speaker 2: But the point, I told you, it's dumb. But the
Speaker 2: point was like kids are perfectly capable of imagining whatever
Speaker 2: you want.
Speaker 3: Imagination is one thing, but I'm really tired of this
Speaker 3: like belief that kids have this un understanding, this otherworldly
Speaker 3: understanding of existence, where it's like you need to listen
Speaker 3: to the kid, because they really know. Listen, listen. Kids
Speaker 3: are stupid, and kids are dumb, and kids are clay.
Speaker 3: There's a reason you have to warn children not to
Speaker 3: go into the van that has free puppies and candy.
Speaker 3: Because kids are dumb and they're gonna believe whatever you
Speaker 3: tell them. That's why do you think Tiger would there wasn't. Well,
Speaker 3: you're telling me there wasn't. There's no candy, there there's
Speaker 3: no do not go in the van, Please do not,
Speaker 3: please do not. But do you think Tiger Woods would
Speaker 3: have become Tiger Woods if his dad didn't put a
Speaker 3: golf club in his hands at the at the age
Speaker 3: of like one year day old or whatever.
Speaker 1: He was on n carr Leno or something chipping better
Speaker 1: and I'll ever chip in my life when he was like.
Speaker 3: Four, right, because where he had the influence of his
Speaker 3: parents who are trying to get him into something because
Speaker 3: his dad enjoyed it. He was living vicariously through his son,
Speaker 3: and it just happened that he actually ended up having
Speaker 3: some talent and it worked out a little bit, you know.
Speaker 3: And it goes back to the dinosaur things that people
Speaker 3: bring up, the dinosaur thing, because it's the thing that
Speaker 3: parents go through. At some point, your kid is gonna
Speaker 3: be pretending to be a dinosaur, and he's gonna say
Speaker 3: I am a dinosaur, And it is your role as
Speaker 3: a parent to say you cannot be a dinosaur. That
Speaker 3: is complete lunacy. You are a boy or you are
Speaker 3: a girl. And I'm tired, once again, going back to
Speaker 3: what I said in the previous segment with an hour ago,
Speaker 3: I'm tired of the lunacy man and a lot of Just.
Speaker 1: Let kids be kids.
Speaker 2: Your biggest concern should be that they don't pick a
Speaker 2: stupid dinosaur, right like you're.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't want to be a stegosaurus.
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 2: Come on, wh what I don't even know you. We're
Speaker 2: dropping you off at the cat station. I'm done with you,
Speaker 2: so right.
Speaker 1: No, oh your t rex good. I'm glad my kid's
Speaker 1: a winner. There you go. All right.
Speaker 2: I even take pterodactyl because they can fly, even though
Speaker 2: they're not the most aggressive.
Speaker 1: Now, I don't give you the big dumb one.
Speaker 3: It just comes out.
Speaker 1: He's head in the lake and there's leaves on it
Speaker 1: when it comes up. You know, if your kid picks
Speaker 1: that dinosaur, get a DNA test.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, just impugned your wife, all right, seb forty five,
Speaker 2: Race Stage A Third Channel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a parent.
Speaker 2: You just don't want your kid when he pretends to
Speaker 2: be a dinosaur to pick a stupid dinosaur, right, correct?
Speaker 1: You want a winner dinosaur?
Speaker 10: Yeah, you want to go Toronto Saurus rex. You don't
Speaker 10: want to be a dactyl, right, I.
Speaker 1: Even take pterodactyl because they can fly.
Speaker 3: Imagine imagine your kid choosing a vegan dinosaur like a vegetarian.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you take him to the fire station, put him
Speaker 1: in that little bin thing where you dropped.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just not Barny. Right.
Speaker 10: There's no purple dinosaurs nor none at all.
Speaker 1: Advice.
Speaker 2: I don't know wherever you drop your kids off because
Speaker 2: it picks a stupid dinosaurs. Should be inside today because it's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it should be yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: And even seeing snowfall reports a lot of it out
Speaker 10: of the triad did We talked yesterday that if we
Speaker 10: had a dusting or a little bit more Bewst and
Speaker 10: the further west that you went.
Speaker 3: And obviously in and around Raleigh and Durham.
Speaker 10: And Sanford and Feva there were a few flurries and
Speaker 10: snow showers. Don't see any official reports, but some areas
Speaker 10: we did dust the ground. But you get out in
Speaker 10: near high Point in Greensboro Winston Sound, half an inch
Speaker 10: to an inch of snow overnight. Now looks like a
Speaker 10: lot of that's starting to go away in the mountain.
Speaker 10: There's still some flurries and snow showers, but cold. As
Speaker 10: you had mentioned, KC. As the chill sticks with us,
Speaker 10: briefly milder and then colder once again, another cold shot
Speaker 10: coming in as we go on through this week. Next
Speaker 10: week looks a little bit better. So today we're clearing
Speaker 10: it out. We come mostly low forties, mainly clear. Tonight
Speaker 10: low to mid twenties, some areas may get into the teens.
Speaker 10: And then to tomorrow, yeah, yeah, we may get closer
Speaker 10: to fifty degrees, so mid upper forties for daytime highs tomorrow,
Speaker 10: then milder tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: Low to mid thirties.
Speaker 10: Thursday, sunshine into the fifties with the gusty breeze, and
Speaker 10: that breeze will go northwest. It'll start in the morning southwest,
Speaker 10: and once it flips around, that's when you know the
Speaker 10: next front's coming in and we're back in the little
Speaker 10: mid twenties for Friday morning. Saturday morning, some of us
Speaker 10: could sneak into the teens, especially from the triad west,
Speaker 10: and then recovering after a high close to forty Friday
Speaker 10: into the forties and then the fifties as we go
Speaker 10: through the weekend, with a chance of rain on Monday.
Speaker 10: Next week does look milder, casey, so there's cold air
Speaker 10: sticking around for the next couple of days. We do
Speaker 10: go up a little bit by Thursday, but back down
Speaker 10: and then back up starting. I'd say about Sunday we're
Speaker 10: back above fifty and then maybe closer to sixty with
Speaker 10: that rain coming in on Monday.
Speaker 2: All right, well there you go. Just all sorry, bad news,
Speaker 2: Thank you, sir, appreciate it. Yeah, we talk in an
Speaker 2: hour and.
Speaker 1: We will be right back. Thanks for hanging out with
Speaker 1: us this morning. Eve.
Speaker 2: And though we're just basically wandering, it's what I do.
Speaker 2: So let's see. Yeah, so we're talking. We're talking about
Speaker 2: the dolls. Ross and I were having a conversation off
Speaker 2: the air.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. And and again I don't have kids,
Speaker 1: but I was a kid, and it's not.
Speaker 2: Like educational things weren't part of children's entertainment toys, right,
Speaker 2: But I'm just sure a lot of the toys that
Speaker 2: we had, what was it spirograph, the thing with the
Speaker 2: like you know, the cog wheels and the pen on
Speaker 2: the screen.
Speaker 1: And I love that damn thing.
Speaker 2: There's math to be learned there, there's there's all sorts
Speaker 2: of stuff, but it was. It was, but the first
Speaker 2: and foremost you had to You had to have the
Speaker 2: kid want that and want to interact with it or
Speaker 2: to watch the show. Sesame Street was poppling some of
Speaker 2: the most educational programs when I was a kid. Mister
Speaker 2: Rogers was incredibly educational.
Speaker 3: Mister Rogers was great because he would do these science
Speaker 3: experiments and he would have the kids do them. But
Speaker 3: then he would like like, hey, you guys, go over. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: mister Nuchols, No no, no, that's mister Wizard. Yeah, mister Wizard. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like mister Wizard was great.
Speaker 2: I was, you know how jealous I was those three
Speaker 2: punks whoever would show up that day got to mix stuff.
Speaker 1: To make smoke.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Well, he's hiding behind the lead shield and something, which
Speaker 3: is why there's always new kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's only one mister Wizard's one thing.
Speaker 2: I really do you think one day we're going to
Speaker 2: find out that mister Wizard like ten thousand dead kids
Speaker 2: and it's a giant scandal.
Speaker 3: That was never plays. No scandals with him or mister Rodgers,
Speaker 3: please leave them alone. One thing I remember, though, when
Speaker 3: when Lincoln was like super little and watching these cartoons
Speaker 3: with him, is all of it is educational Now, like
Speaker 3: every single thing is there ends up being some sort
Speaker 3: of equation on the TV, or they break out into
Speaker 3: a song about vowels. It's all sesame street now. Where
Speaker 3: back in the day we had like G I. Joe
Speaker 3: and ThunderCats and math, there were still things you could
Speaker 3: learn from those. There were good moral tales, but it
Speaker 3: wasn't like they were in the middle of a battle
Speaker 3: and suddenly the numbers started dancing on the screen and
Speaker 3: they learned about even in odds and because what would that?
Speaker 3: That would be garbage and I missed that sort of
Speaker 3: The only exceptions I when Lincoln was little that I
Speaker 3: saw were like Peppa Pig, and I guess Bluie would
Speaker 3: now be the example, and Pepa Pig was great because
Speaker 3: there was none of that in your face educational stuff
Speaker 3: all the time. It just gets old. I don't think
Speaker 3: it's good for a kid.
Speaker 2: They're still shoe horned it into those shows now though,
Speaker 2: like okay, why what was it Paw Patrol? Although they
Speaker 2: tried to cancel Paw Patrol or at least one of them,
Speaker 2: but yeah, it's all of them. And and so you
Speaker 2: so now you're sitting a kid down, whether it's that
Speaker 2: gender doll or any of the rest, and you're like,
Speaker 2: we're gonna learn and you're gonna like it. And my
Speaker 2: question is, dude, what do you think that kid's doing
Speaker 2: five seconds after you leave that kid alone with that doll.
Speaker 2: It's it's not about whatever velcrow genitals are on the
Speaker 2: thing at that moment. They're gonna make cup whatever narrative
Speaker 2: in their head they want. That's their best friend, that's
Speaker 2: their their whatever, that's their their cousin, or that's, uh,
Speaker 2: my doll has superpowers and now I do too. Whatever
Speaker 2: goes to a kid's head, and it's just literally the
Speaker 2: doll existing is all that they needed to go in
Speaker 2: that direction. But are they gonna want to if they
Speaker 2: feel like they're gonna get it's a lesson every.
Speaker 1: Time they sit down with it. No, they want to
Speaker 1: play with fun stuff. And that's why you got to
Speaker 1: sneak it in. It's why you sneak vegetables into stuff
Speaker 1: you make for your kids. Don't tell them about it.
Speaker 1: You put you know, you put.
Speaker 2: Green beans in something that they like and they might
Speaker 2: actually eat it if it's covered up enough. You put
Speaker 2: a playfull of green beans in front of a lot
Speaker 2: of kids not touching that. So and we've just we
Speaker 2: we've lost the plot man on some of this stuff.
Speaker 2: So we will see and that and that's why you
Speaker 2: then have to do things like go and you like,
Speaker 2: every school system should buy one of these dolls so
Speaker 2: for their educational purpose.
Speaker 1: Kc O Day Radio program. It's funny. I just saw
Speaker 1: I just saw this email. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: I was distracted by other stuff. So we were I
Speaker 2: mentioned we mentioned that story about this woman who left
Speaker 2: her three kids at a gas station to go hook up.
Speaker 2: One of them was four months old, by.
Speaker 1: The way, So.
Speaker 2: I'm I am hoping those kids do not go back
Speaker 2: to that woman. Uh at what at this time, But
Speaker 2: we'll see what the state of Oklahoma does. That's where
Speaker 2: that happened. And one of our listeners sent me an email.
Speaker 2: I'll summarize it basically, and I'm sure this. I assume
Speaker 2: this has to be a something that crosses through a
Speaker 2: parent's head at some point, do you, like, you know,
Speaker 2: Stanhope does a whole bit about this, almost none of
Speaker 2: which I can repeat right where he's talking about all
Speaker 2: the reasons he doesn't have kids, and they range from
Speaker 2: the absurd, like you know, I've left ice cream in
Speaker 2: the car, I'd leave a kid in there.
Speaker 1: But that's got it.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming that's a thought that goes through a parent's
Speaker 2: head just terrifies you, just like forget your kids somewhere.
Speaker 1: Even though that sounds like you couldn't do it.
Speaker 2: So this guy and his wife, they both they were
Speaker 2: both driving, and apparently they had they have six kids.
Speaker 2: Well that's why you have six kids, sir, You could
Speaker 2: afford to leave one somewhere.
Speaker 1: So they have six kids.
Speaker 2: And it was a situation where there's two vehicles filled
Speaker 2: to the brim, his wife or her vehicle, him and
Speaker 2: his and I guess there's soccer kids, the kids' friends
Speaker 2: or whatever. And they stopped it and it sounds like
Speaker 2: it was a sheets they stopped at and they everyone
Speaker 2: went in and grabbed all this stuff. And then they
Speaker 2: were getting down the road and his wife called him
Speaker 2: and he's like, hey, do you have our kid? Because
Speaker 2: he had been right and and then immediately you're just
Speaker 2: flipping U turns, I guess at that point. But when
Speaker 2: they found him, he was in there trying to get
Speaker 2: one of the sheets people or the gas people to
Speaker 2: make him the the the ice cream thing that you
Speaker 2: see when you walk in on the right, So he
Speaker 2: probably didn't even notice.
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, you have right ross ever crossed your
Speaker 1: mind you.
Speaker 2: Were worried about just leave Lincoln somewhere maybe when you
Speaker 2: were just when you were I assume these are thoughts
Speaker 2: that crossed through somebody's head when and uh during gestation, right,
Speaker 2: because you don't you don't know what you're in for
Speaker 2: on that first kid. But it's that old meme though, right,
Speaker 2: if you're the if you're the uh, you're the oldest,
Speaker 2: Like I'm the oldest. I couldn't get away with anything.
Speaker 2: My brother the youngest. That kid, he basically had to
Speaker 2: raise himself. My mom's like, hey, you're gonna go play
Speaker 2: with the rusty tools.
Speaker 3: Yeah, have fun, we're over. He's like super attentive because
Speaker 3: we didn't want to be like one of the stories
Speaker 3: that we would read on this show, right, Like we've
Speaker 3: done so many of these stories that it's ingrained, like hey,
Speaker 3: let's not do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And so I I thank you for the email.
Speaker 2: I don't why you'd admit that, sir, that stupid look.
Speaker 1: I get it, I get it.
Speaker 2: And you put that on the internet, though, and there'll
Speaker 2: be a bunch of people who are like, I would
Speaker 2: never do that, who are probably always also secretly awful people.
Speaker 1: But uh, and so I'm not gonna judge you.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: And that sounds perfectly like, I get that's the home alone.
Speaker 2: You just did the home alone. It's okay, you got
Speaker 2: your kid. Did he get ice cream?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 2: I want to know you got to get him the
Speaker 2: ice cream at that point, right, just even if he
Speaker 2: doesn't understand why you're buying.
Speaker 3: An I mean, I I told you the story before
Speaker 3: about how my dad lost me at the Kmart.
Speaker 1: Oh I got lost to it a k You and
Speaker 1: I have commiserated about this, both being left with Yah.
Speaker 3: It was I can't now, I can't remember. I was
Speaker 3: gonna say Kmart. It could have been a James Way though,
Speaker 3: well I don't.
Speaker 1: Think mine was a k Mart. It was the Wyoming.
Speaker 1: There's a even that they have a Wyoming version of that, like,
Speaker 1: but anyway, yeah.
Speaker 3: Mine was the same Prince James Way, and I lost
Speaker 3: my dad and I went up to the front of
Speaker 3: the store and I'm like and it was terrified. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I've completely lost my father. I don't know where he is.
Speaker 3: And they had to go on the loud speaker like, hey,
Speaker 3: we're looking for this kid's parent. And my dad comes
Speaker 3: trucking down the lane like sweating profusely. You could tell,
Speaker 3: you know. He was like completely nervous and stuff right, like,
Speaker 3: oh my god. And we are leaving and he was like, hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 3: don't tell your mom. No, we're we're leaving. We were
Speaker 3: walking out and he puts his eyes and say, hey,
Speaker 3: do you want a toy or something? And I'm like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I do, yeah, yeah. So I ended up getting it.
Speaker 3: Was my favorite toy ever. It was the mask toy.
Speaker 3: It was the green motorcycle that turned into a helicopter.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: He was amazing. My dad bought it. And my dad
Speaker 3: as they were walking out with the box, I'm super happy,
Speaker 3: He's like, hey, do me a favor. Yeah, now that
Speaker 3: I brought you this present that you want, do not
Speaker 3: tell your mother about that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I never did. My mom has no idea that ever happened.
Speaker 1: Well, now she does I'm gonna call her be like, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: you want to hear some stuff.
Speaker 3: But looking back is like now, being a parent, I understand, Hey,
Speaker 3: my dad was probably terrified of not only losing his kid,
Speaker 3: but also the reaction right from from the mom. Yeah please, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna buy you whatever you want to shut up.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: Your dad then literally committed bribery, yeah, to soothe the
Speaker 2: soul man, and you ended up with a toy. The
Speaker 2: problem with that is, and I guess it didn't cross
Speaker 2: your I don't know how old you were.
Speaker 3: Uh, you're looking back now and understanding, because you know
Speaker 3: we we weren't like, you know, a family of means right,
Speaker 3: like yeah, you know. So it was like that was
Speaker 3: a lot of money for my dad to do at
Speaker 3: the time, like a random present like that, because we
Speaker 3: would only get amazing presents like that on birthdays and Christmas.
Speaker 3: That was everything that would just happen. So I don't
Speaker 3: know how he explained it to my mother when we
Speaker 3: got back home. I have no idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I was gonna say, well, one like the
Speaker 1: pre the gift was not for you, it was for him.
Speaker 1: Let's just be honest. Right, that's his. But the other
Speaker 1: thing is too, if you're a devious little turd, you
Speaker 1: could have been like, I'm gonna run away every week.
Speaker 1: It was scary, man, I mean that's scary. I was terrifying.
Speaker 1: I do in my mind.
Speaker 2: This is part of this is the mall in Casper
Speaker 2: in Casper, Wyoming where this was. But we were at
Speaker 2: the one of the stores that on the end of
Speaker 2: it again not a camar I can't remember what. It's
Speaker 2: not called that anymore. He got absorbed I think by Macy's.
Speaker 2: But uh, and it like like you're sitting there, sitting
Speaker 2: there at the mall. It's just I was for what
Speaker 2: I was like excited because I was just sitting there
Speaker 2: getting the screw arounds. I don't know if I was
Speaker 2: in the toil or where I was, but like, I
Speaker 2: don't remember noticing, and I I remember the whole situation
Speaker 2: and not realizing what had happened, just that my mom
Speaker 2: was losing her crap.
Speaker 1: Man. It never and it was years later that had
Speaker 1: nawned on me.
Speaker 2: I'm like, she probably thought I was getting sex trafficked
Speaker 2: for like whatever's going through her head, just the worst
Speaker 2: things you can think of. So all right, Well, thank
Speaker 2: you for the email, sir, But yeah, you're you're fine, okay.
Speaker 2: Are all six of your kids you know where they are?
Speaker 1: All right? Well, you're good.
Speaker 2: That's about all you can expect from people. All right
Speaker 2: eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.
Speaker 1: Let's see here. Oh yeah, we're all right. So I
Speaker 1: got a little more audio. I'm gonna pay. Let's go ahead,
Speaker 1: hit the brake.
Speaker 2: We'll we'll hit it early today and come back and
Speaker 2: we're gonna have to again do rapid fire, because what
Speaker 2: are you gonna do? Including AKJ A k JP, Jean Pierre,
Speaker 2: who both Ross and I were very interested on the
Speaker 2: show yesterday as to what the White House presser would
Speaker 2: look like. Well, we have our answer, and it basically
Speaker 2: is now the talking points that they're going to go
Speaker 2: with on this. I've seen that everyone's kind of fallen
Speaker 2: in line, so we'll lay that out for you.
Speaker 1: We'll do it next. Hang on, yeah, Jake, what's up?
Speaker 8: Hey?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I had the experience tweety for the first time. Man,
Speaker 2: I lost my son twice because of course something shiny,
Speaker 2: but I was in.
Speaker 10: Charge of our two year old.
Speaker 1: I had to add my wife, where is our son,
Speaker 1: and we'd see, have I not? How long have you
Speaker 1: listened to the show, sir? I recognize your voice.
Speaker 4: I have I have to experience in order to hate it.
Speaker 2: I have warned I have a heike beef with Tweetsy,
Speaker 2: but it's not tweetzy. There is an incident once when
Speaker 2: I was driving the Blowing Rock. You know, you go
Speaker 2: right by there on the highway and they I guess
Speaker 2: it was super busy at Tweetsy, and I guess there's
Speaker 2: parking on the other side. There's a little tunnel you
Speaker 2: can walk through. I'm not fully clear on this, but
Speaker 2: what happened is I in the in the distance, I
Speaker 2: see these three kids across the highway, and if it
Speaker 2: had been five seconds later, it'd be right.
Speaker 1: Where I was.
Speaker 2: And then I see right after them, I see the
Speaker 2: parents who are losing their damn minds, and I'm just
Speaker 2: like these kids so wanted to get over to tweets
Speaker 2: you you They almost got hit by a car, so
Speaker 2: that's why we just tweet see but you you went
Speaker 2: you went there anyway, sir?
Speaker 3: Well I went there.
Speaker 10: I kind of dragged by my in law, but I
Speaker 10: could beat that.
Speaker 11: We actually hit a deer, a mile up the road
Speaker 11: from tweets see on.
Speaker 2: The way there.
Speaker 1: Well, I expect deer to run across the road. I
Speaker 1: don't expect families.
Speaker 3: So yeah, well my my car was no.
Speaker 1: No, I'm sorry to hear that, sir.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad you hit a deer and not a kid, obviously,
Speaker 2: but you know much better.
Speaker 11: But still it happened right in front of a cop.
Speaker 1: So car up hit an ELK, hit an elk.
Speaker 4: No, we hit it.
Speaker 3: We had We hit a big buck is what we hit.
Speaker 8: And it pore up the right front border panel and
Speaker 8: all that jet.
Speaker 9: But I drove a home but it tired, kept golf.
Speaker 8: Flat on the way.
Speaker 1: That sucks. Did you guys have fun and tweets the
Speaker 1: other than the the kid thing.
Speaker 7: Other than from the train getting in my eye?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's called tweety railroad, sir.
Speaker 3: I mean, and I don't but like, other than that, Yeah,
Speaker 3: we had fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I'm surprised some moon bats haven't come and
Speaker 2: try to shut down that.
Speaker 1: Train when we need one that runs on solar all right,
Speaker 1: all right, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think about it, some new eco moon
Speaker 2: batsy are you giving tweets you a pass?
Speaker 1: I'm kiddy. Look, it makes kids. That's the thing.
Speaker 2: Going back to all the other stuff we're talking about,
Speaker 2: that kid doesn't That kid might be fascinated with trains
Speaker 2: and fun and all, but he's fascinated with fun first
Speaker 2: and foremost.
Speaker 1: Right, those are rides. That's food, that's that's craziness.
Speaker 2: That's why whenever we do these stories, whatever we do
Speaker 2: these stories like I did I do that, it's an
Speaker 2: impactful thing like that the kid Durham. I know I
Speaker 2: bring this up a lot, but it's it's something that
Speaker 2: impacted me because it's not just the story. You got
Speaker 2: to think about the people involved in the mindset. So
Speaker 2: that kid who got shot over some failed wrappers beef
Speaker 2: thought he was going to get a snow cone. But
Speaker 2: you were a kid and you heard you were gonna
Speaker 2: get a snow co.
Speaker 1: How what was your daylight?
Speaker 2: How better did your day get knowing that snow cones
Speaker 2: were in your future? Holy crap? And then you go
Speaker 2: where we just get snow cones. There's gas station that
Speaker 2: have and me scoop him and then he put the
Speaker 2: syrup on behind the counter, and there was one guy
Speaker 2: who was very stingy with the syrup. So you had
Speaker 2: to like time it to make sure the woman who
Speaker 2: worked there was the syrup because she's like, ah syrup
Speaker 2: for days and not that guy who hates kids obviously
Speaker 2: wouldn't give us enough syrup. That's kids thinking, that's kid's mindset.
Speaker 2: So let's kind of turned into the theme of this show.
Speaker 2: Let me, let me get back to this. So Jean Pierre,
Speaker 2: we were looking to see, all right, so what's the
Speaker 2: White House press briefing gonna look like? The answer is, well,
Speaker 2: not really a briefing, more of a gaggle shot. There's
Speaker 2: airplane noise and all the rest of that stuff. But
Speaker 2: people just want to know what is the White House's
Speaker 2: official position on this pardon stuff. After we ran the
Speaker 2: super cut yesterday of Jean Pierre on four separate occasions
Speaker 2: saying you to latterly that it wouldn't happen, how do
Speaker 2: you square that?
Speaker 1: Well, let's go.
Speaker 3: I wanted to ask you, could those statements now be
Speaker 3: seen as lies from the American people? Is there really incredibility?
Speaker 1: Is you here?
Speaker 8: Given now this announcement course of all, One of the
Speaker 8: things that the President always believes is to be truthful
Speaker 8: to the American people. That is something that he always
Speaker 8: truly believes.
Speaker 1: By the way, that might who prep that might be
Speaker 1: the biggest life she's ever told.
Speaker 2: Oh why is this thing screed? I'm sorry I hit
Speaker 2: the wrong button there. We have to listen to her again.
Speaker 3: I wanted to ask you, could those statements now be
Speaker 3: seen as lies.
Speaker 1: From the American people?
Speaker 3: Is there really a credibility?
Speaker 8: First of all, one of the things that the president
Speaker 8: always believes is to be truthful to the American people.
Speaker 8: That is something that he always truly believes.
Speaker 3: He changed this.
Speaker 8: Decision this weekend, so let's be very clear about that.
Speaker 3: He says it himself.
Speaker 5: Until soon, could the next round of you know, pardons
Speaker 5: could come.
Speaker 1: I don't have a timeline for you.
Speaker 8: As you know, this usually happens towards the end, and
Speaker 8: so the President is going through that process. So I'm
Speaker 8: not going to get ahead of him, but you can
Speaker 8: expect more announcements to come.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Keith Oberman, that insane individual who it just shows you
Speaker 2: how it shows you how.
Speaker 1: One can so.
Speaker 2: Destroy their brand Keith. Because everyone watched Keith Oberman on
Speaker 2: Sports Center and loved the guy. I did that the
Speaker 2: Berman Oberman all that era of Sports Center was amazing.
Speaker 2: I don't recognize it now. And then Keith Oberman moment,
Speaker 2: he's like, hey, you want to hear my thought on politics?
Speaker 1: You're just like, oh my gosh, that guy is insane.
Speaker 2: Yesterday was on was posting video after video demanding that
Speaker 2: Joe Biden pardon.
Speaker 1: Are you ready for this? All Democrats?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, not all Democrats? And a why all
Speaker 2: Democrats and not just all Democrats? Basically anybody who want
Speaker 2: to pardon all the FBI wants to pardon.
Speaker 1: Like just so, I I what is that?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: Millions and millions of pardons if you're just in DC,
Speaker 2: and then how the hell many House in the any
Speaker 2: but anybody in any lever of government? Uh, who's who's
Speaker 2: a Democrat? He wants Joe Biden issue a blanket pardon.
Speaker 3: Listen to that.
Speaker 2: And by the way, this is another thought that crossed
Speaker 2: my mind. I can remember if I mentioned this earlier
Speaker 2: on the show.
Speaker 1: I said it to Ross. How long do you think?
Speaker 2: I don't think Hunter found out about that pardon At
Speaker 2: the moment we did. They were just all together for Thanksgiving,
Speaker 2: Like he had to tell his kid, if you're Hunter
Speaker 2: Biden and your dad on Thursday told you on Sunday.
Speaker 2: He was gonna to pardon you for everything you've ever
Speaker 2: done for the last eleven years up to that day.
Speaker 2: How do you not go on the most amazing, insane
Speaker 2: bucket list crime spree I bought up.
Speaker 3: I'd be on some national treasure crimes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, be careful, you gotta be careful. They have to
Speaker 1: be federal crimes.
Speaker 2: So like, if you're gonna go murder a bunch of hookers,
Speaker 2: you gotta take them across the state line before you
Speaker 2: murder them, pro tip, and and so it's a federal
Speaker 2: but yeah, the world's your oyster do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm stealing the Declaration of Independence. That's why I
Speaker 3: got I'm taking a well, I guess it'd be my
Speaker 3: dad into the caverns of Mount Vernon kidnapping. Nothing you
Speaker 3: can do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, I see this piece of paper here. Oh,
Speaker 2: you know, like the nickelback saying who who's photographed? Now
Speaker 2: it's my pardon walking around. I'd been walking around just
Speaker 2: punching people while I hold it up with the other hand.
Speaker 3: He'd be like the ultimate sovereign citizen, where.
Speaker 1: You can't do any federal crime. Yeah, you can't do
Speaker 1: nothing to me. Did you'd be the first sovereign citizen
Speaker 1: to work where it worked, right?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The cops like, okay, you're you're driving.
Speaker 2: No, I'm traveling all right, all right, and I'm traveling
Speaker 2: with my pardon for the last eleven You're free to go, sir.
Speaker 2: Like it's it's incredibly sad story and there's so much
Speaker 2: we don't know. But and you probably you probably heard
Speaker 2: initially about this. So you have this guy in Hawaii,
Speaker 2: his daughter who comes to Los Ange it comes to California.
Speaker 2: She's a photographer, the young woman, she's doing her thing.
Speaker 2: I think she's thirty, twenty ninth or as she's twenty nine.
Speaker 2: When she they can't find her, disappears. Nobody's talked to her,
Speaker 2: nobody knows where she went, and she had been in
Speaker 2: I think she was in LA for a week, a
Speaker 2: little less than a week.
Speaker 1: And then people are like, hey, what happened to Hannah?
Speaker 1: Her name is Hannah.
Speaker 2: And dad's sitting there in Hawaii, and as you can imagine,
Speaker 2: he's like, what happened to my daughter? And so he
Speaker 2: he literally like just leaves everything in Hawaii and and
Speaker 2: and comes and spends in an order amount of time
Speaker 2: hunting around Los Angeles trying to find his daughter, and
Speaker 2: sadly back on the eighth of November, I think it was, yeah,
Speaker 2: here we go, eighth of November.
Speaker 1: She dumped her phone at some point, according to police,
Speaker 1: and so that you know, now Dad's there, he's on
Speaker 1: the ground, he's.
Speaker 2: Got people, there's rallies being held, signs fine hand a
Speaker 2: last scene eleven eleven what what?
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 2: And then tragically, after he spends a weeks looking for
Speaker 2: his daughter, he he killed himself. That is, that's at
Speaker 2: least the what police believe happened. He he died, and
Speaker 2: they say they feel it's a suicide. Probably just like
Speaker 2: my my daughter, my my my the light of my life.
Speaker 1: She went over and she went over to the mainland.
Speaker 2: She went to California and and and she just got
Speaker 2: disappeared and how can I live with myself? And it's
Speaker 2: so tragic. And the update is they just found out yeah,
Speaker 2: she kind of she went to Mexico. Now they don't
Speaker 2: know where she is in Mexico, but she they have
Speaker 2: her crossing into Mexico because of course they film all
Speaker 2: that stuff, so they sire they see her going through
Speaker 2: Mexican customs and then you know, into into Mexico and
Speaker 2: so it's like, did she go down there to party,
Speaker 2: she meet a guy, gal, I don't know, whatever, and
Speaker 2: it's like, how do you come back now?
Speaker 1: I mean, and I want to be very clear, I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened her. Maybe she went to Mexico
Speaker 1: just to have a little fun and something horrible happened
Speaker 1: to her. So this is not me judging on it.
Speaker 1: It's just the scope of this story.
Speaker 2: But if she went to Mexico because she just was
Speaker 2: getting away from all of this and you know, some
Speaker 2: met somebody or whatever it is, it gives me those
Speaker 2: vibes of that guy. Remember that story we had before
Speaker 2: we went on vacation where the guy pretended in Wisconsin
Speaker 2: to die in a canoe accident and then went to
Speaker 2: like Uzbekistan for some girl he met on some.
Speaker 1: Bridside or whatever.
Speaker 2: And he's just over in Uzbekistan and they're combing the lake,
Speaker 2: his family's holding stuff, and then they find out, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's just over there with this new girl who may
Speaker 2: or may not exist, who the hell knows what he
Speaker 2: found when he got there, And they're like, why don't
Speaker 2: you come back? If you're that dude, how do you
Speaker 2: come back? If you're this woman and you're in Mexico
Speaker 2: and you just decide you want to be away. And
Speaker 2: I don't know the full relationship, but this guy, the
Speaker 2: dad went over and killed himself. He was so despondent
Speaker 2: over not being able to find.
Speaker 1: His daughter, what happened to his daughter.
Speaker 2: The whole it's it's it's wildly tragic. So at this point,
Speaker 2: at this point, that's, uh, that's that's what we know,
Speaker 2: and that's just the latest little update. But that is
Speaker 2: one of those stories that I'm following and I wish
Speaker 2: it didn't exist for obvious reasons, but just absolutely heartbreaking.
Speaker 1: And again, maybe something happened to her.
Speaker 2: She just went down for, you know, to go party,
Speaker 2: or I've I've literally crossed into Mexico when I was
Speaker 2: in school in California to go party, which in retrospect
Speaker 2: probably wasn't the smartest thing, but a lot of people
Speaker 2: do that down there around Tijuana. So maybe, but also
Speaker 2: maybe she went there and something bad happened, which unfortunately
Speaker 2: sometimes happened. I don't know, but that whole thing is
Speaker 2: just a gut punch when when when you read about it,
Speaker 2: all right, I don't want to do that story next
Speaker 2: to the other one.
Speaker 1: It can't be helped.
Speaker 2: Here's another crazy story on Do you guys know what
Speaker 2: The Sarco pod is? Sarco, sar Co, all right, The
Speaker 2: Sarco pod is this dude's invention. It's a suicide pod.
Speaker 1: And you know what it looks like.
Speaker 2: It looks like every space movie where somebody's like, all right,
Speaker 2: we're going to Jupiter. We're gonna put you in stasis
Speaker 2: for you know, eighteen months or whatever, and they get
Speaker 2: in there and they lay down and then they wake
Speaker 2: up in Jupiter, although in most of those movies not
Speaker 2: all of them wake up.
Speaker 1: So spoiler. It looks like that.
Speaker 2: And basically you go in there, and the reason it's
Speaker 2: a pod, obviously, is it wants to control the air
Speaker 2: in there, or in this case, the lack of oxygen
Speaker 2: coupled with an im mess amount of nitrogen and a
Speaker 2: few other things and Bengo Mango, you you're suicided.
Speaker 1: So this guy builds this thing.
Speaker 2: It's a whole company, man, it's a whole company, this
Speaker 2: Sarco thing in Switzerland, and this American woman, she's sixty four.
Speaker 1: She decides I'm out she had some immuno defire.
Speaker 2: I don't know exactly what she had, but so she
Speaker 2: flies over there, and to do this, they hold the
Speaker 2: pod to like a cabin.
Speaker 1: On the border of Germany and switch.
Speaker 2: They get a mountain chalet, set the thing up, They
Speaker 2: put her in there, and and it is legal to
Speaker 2: kill yourself in Switzerland and Germany and a lot of Europe,
Speaker 2: and to assist people to do it more practically.
Speaker 1: But once it's done, then the.
Speaker 2: Authorities have to come and get the body and do
Speaker 2: all that stuff. All right, So with that in mind,
Speaker 2: I saw the story reported. I see the story reported,
Speaker 2: and then there's a little nugget that's almost like an
Speaker 2: afterthought in the initial reporting, and that was what Swiss
Speaker 2: officials found. So they show up to get her body
Speaker 2: and she's got strangulation marks on her neck. What the
Speaker 2: heck happened there? Because again, this is is how my
Speaker 2: brain works. According to forensic expert, the woman's neck injuries
Speaker 2: were severe. Do you so if you're this guy, this
Speaker 2: doctor Willett, doctor Willlette is the guy's name. Uh, And
Speaker 2: there's there's several doctors, but will let is let's see,
Speaker 2: he gives a recitation, he says, uh, this is what
Speaker 2: he says happened. That two and a half minutes after
Speaker 2: the procedure began, the woman appeared to experience severe muscle
Speaker 2: cramp in a reaction he described as common and nitrogen induced.
Speaker 2: Desks an alarm activated, YadA, YadA, YadA. She's still alive.
Speaker 2: She's still alive, but she looks really dead. So there's
Speaker 2: going over this.
Speaker 1: So they're standing outside the pod. But then they're like,
Speaker 1: and then she and then she died.
Speaker 2: You just dumped all your life savings into building this thing,
Speaker 2: and this is your trial run, and this is the
Speaker 2: thing you literally did a press for release about, and
Speaker 2: you put.
Speaker 1: That woman in there.
Speaker 2: You didn't help, You didn't you didn't go, oh well,
Speaker 2: just this one time, and then we'll like, how how
Speaker 2: crazy is that?
Speaker 9: Man?
Speaker 2: It clearly looks like I don't know how you get
Speaker 2: the bruising and everything that goes along, Like if you
Speaker 2: ever watched Law and Order, right, half the time somebody
Speaker 2: died for strangulation.
Speaker 1: It's all bruised around their.
Speaker 2: Neck and stuff, and and that is a thing that
Speaker 2: also happens with people who are strangled. Right, It's a
Speaker 2: very violent thing. If so she's in her her go
Speaker 2: to sleep pod and now she's got strangulation marks around
Speaker 2: her neck. I feel like maybe your pod needs some updating.
Speaker 2: It's not good at what it's supposed to do.
Speaker 1: At this point.
Speaker 2: Though Swiss authorities say they're looking into it now, the
Speaker 2: doctors aren't saying anything, so who the hell knows. But yeah,
Speaker 2: so if you were thinking of, i know, using one
Speaker 2: of those, they haven't worked all the bugs out maybe,
Speaker 2: So there you go, all right, eight forty three Ray
Speaker 2: Stagic from the Weather Challenge to walk.
Speaker 1: And go and do the morning Good morning sir. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's one of those days.
Speaker 2: How do you you're college football guy? How do you
Speaker 2: feel about a state? What's the what's Clemson Stadium's name?
Speaker 10: Oh gosh, well they call it Death Valley Memorial Memorial Stadium.
Speaker 1: Memorial Stadium. Do you like stadiums that have sponsored names
Speaker 1: on them? We know college football?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I known so North n C State. It's Carter Finley,
Speaker 2: which is the name. Two people whose names uh at
Speaker 2: different eras were attached to make this thing. And they're like, no,
Speaker 2: we're gonna, we're gonna, We're gonna go out and get
Speaker 2: a big old check for this thing.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean now they have to write I would
Speaker 2: have been named after the park that is a Jason
Speaker 2: to n C State the parks that uh Pulland Park
Speaker 2: and Dix Park.
Speaker 1: I'm not making this up.
Speaker 2: We have Pulling Parking Dicks Park across the street from
Speaker 2: each other, so we call it the Pulling Dicks Park
Speaker 2: complex here right.
Speaker 1: Show they want to name the stadium that, I'm fine,
Speaker 1: just that's just for the lines, just to hear, just
Speaker 1: to hear.
Speaker 2: The sports center guys have to say, let's go to
Speaker 2: Pula Dick Stadium and see what happened.
Speaker 1: Though they probably wouldn't have. Yeah, they wouldn't.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we're not that difficult, are we not.
Speaker 2: Every Saturday I get to get a little yeah, all right,
Speaker 2: yeah we're talking be laughing about the weather probably.
Speaker 3: Not so well.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and maybe we'll talk a little bit more up
Speaker 10: a Chilian Charlotte. You know, I'm gonna go acc first
Speaker 10: the SEC that's in the dome so in Atlanta that
Speaker 10: there's not gonna be a problems, even though to be
Speaker 10: chilly there too, but uh, it's gonna be dry. The
Speaker 10: Southeast gonna stay dry after this little bout of snow
Speaker 10: we've had this morning.
Speaker 1: How about this one?
Speaker 10: Ain't a snowfall? Trinity, North Carolina.
Speaker 2: Want did you get a couple of pictures from some
Speaker 2: of our listeners live a little on the other side
Speaker 2: of Greensboro.
Speaker 10: So yep, yeah, and up to two and a half
Speaker 10: in the mountains, uh fan or Elk, North Carolina. Uh
Speaker 10: that's a near beach mountain four inches in eastern Tennessee.
Speaker 1: And this clipper comes through, and you know you don't
Speaker 1: have to tell people where is Carolina? Is there another man?
Speaker 10: I don't know, Maybe there is. Any time I say,
Speaker 10: like Kingston, New York, I always got to say Kingston,
Speaker 10: New York because you know it's Kingston Africa.
Speaker 2: We know what happened on the show I made up.
Speaker 2: I was making fun of West Virginia and I made
Speaker 2: up the game of a town.
Speaker 1: A booger hole.
Speaker 2: I said, boo boo old West Virginia, right, just thinking
Speaker 2: it was made up. As somebody said, there is it's
Speaker 2: a freaking town, man, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a thing.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 10: Can you can you imagine? But yeah, but most of
Speaker 10: the snow flurries and snow showers are going east and
Speaker 10: south now, and we'll get into some sunshine if you're
Speaker 10: not in it already, and the chili numbers will continue.
Speaker 10: I think we struggled today, I mean with numbers getting
Speaker 10: maybe at are just above forty degrees tonight in the twenties,
Speaker 10: low twenties at that for many of us, even some
Speaker 10: teens around from the triad west near fifty. Tomorrow most
Speaker 10: of us made upper forties and mostly and then Thursday
Speaker 10: sunshine little bit fifties, but the gusty breeze will come
Speaker 10: out of the northwest in the afternoon, and that's the
Speaker 10: next cold front coming in. This one less moisture to
Speaker 10: work with, but still colder by Friday morning, back in
Speaker 10: the twenties. Cold Friday afternoon upper thirties to low forties,
Speaker 10: and then back close to fifty on Saturday, into the
Speaker 10: fifties on Sunday, a Sunday weekend coming up with the
Speaker 10: chance of rain Monday next week. If you look at
Speaker 10: the six to ten day does look milder, so I
Speaker 10: don't have to worry about at least right now, any
Speaker 10: snow to worry about. But it looks like we'll get
Speaker 10: temperatures back close to or even above normal, which I
Speaker 10: think is upper fifties, mid upper fifties, this tounny year.
Speaker 2: I just yeah, just we're gonna start doing all the
Speaker 2: three thousand closures thing. Kids are gonna do school for
Speaker 2: ten days because a single snowplay and nobody likes right,
Speaker 2: all right, thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 1: We'll get a back chat with Jeff Bellinger next. Good morning.
Speaker 11: Casey stock started the new week and the month with
Speaker 11: a mixed session. The now lost a little ground yesterday,
Speaker 11: let the NASDAC and S and P five hundred posted gains.
Speaker 11: Both closed a record HIGHS futures are narrowly mixed right now.
Speaker 11: S and P futures are up one the Nasdaq and
Speaker 11: Dow futures are slightly lower. Post election surveys by regional
Speaker 11: Federal Reserve banks find that American companies are more upbeat
Speaker 11: about their prospects. Anticipation of more pro business policies has
Speaker 11: pushed sentiment to the highest level in years. The FED
Speaker 11: surveys represent another chapter in the so called Trump bump
Speaker 11: that started with the stock market rally.
Speaker 1: Manufacturers are especially bullish.
Speaker 11: More encouraging reports about the holiday shopping season. Mall operator
Speaker 11: Simon Property reports, shopper traffic for Friday through Sunday was
Speaker 11: up more than six percent from the same three days
Speaker 11: last year. An Amazon executive told Women's Where Daily the
Speaker 11: company had its biggest Black Friday ever, and Adobe set
Speaker 11: late yesterday that Cyber Monday sales were running well ahead
Speaker 11: of expectations. It is official a record number of people
Speaker 11: flew over the Thanksgiving weekend. The Transportation Security Administration says
Speaker 11: its screen nearly three point one million passengers on Sunday,
Speaker 11: that top the previous record set back in July. And
Speaker 11: the Casey convenience stores getting more competition from the big
Speaker 11: grocery sellers Walmart and some supermarket chains, or opening smaller
Speaker 11: format stores to cater to so called fill in shoppers
Speaker 11: who buy just a few necessities at a time. The
Speaker 11: Wall Street Journal says Whole Foods is among the latest examples.
Speaker 11: It's planning to open smaller scale daily shops and urban
Speaker 11: areas in a way to win over customers who can't
Speaker 11: make it to a traditional Whole Foods market.
Speaker 1: Casey, you know what, I like those, But there's.
Speaker 2: One, there's like a mini one of those little mini
Speaker 2: walmarts down by uh with the beach down there towards
Speaker 2: tops them. I always popped in there, so it's a
Speaker 2: lot better than going into a big old Walmart. All right,
Speaker 2: thank you, sir, appreciate, Okay, have a good day. Absolutely
Speaker 2: now they have and they have like one of those
Speaker 2: mini Target Target. I mean, living in Minneapolis was weird
Speaker 2: because Target like has been testing all different versions of targets,
Speaker 2: and they always test them, like obviously the Twin cities
Speaker 2: where they're headquartered and so like, and then the area
Speaker 2: that I lived on the west side, where you have
Speaker 2: like Minnetonka and Maple Grove and Plymouth and all that,
Speaker 2: that's where they always put them. So like one day
Speaker 2: there'd be like a subway sandwich sized shop that's also
Speaker 2: a Target. As like five things. This is weirdness, man,
Speaker 2: but I guess that's what they were all looking for.
Speaker 2: So all right, a couple things. What happened in Greensboro
Speaker 2: with that police cruiser. Have you guys seen this video?
Speaker 2: I tweeted it out yesterday.
Speaker 1: Scroll down a little. So you have a Greensboro PD.
Speaker 2: SUV cruise, a squad car or a squad cruiser or
Speaker 2: whatever they call it, that is clearly parked on the
Speaker 2: railroad tracks and that appears to be Jamestown Road right there.
Speaker 1: I've driven over these tracks.
Speaker 2: And in the video you see the officer scrambling to
Speaker 2: get away because he's on the railroad tracks. And here
Speaker 2: comes the Carolinian or whatever, the Piedmont or whichever one
Speaker 2: of the trains it is, and as you guys probably know,
Speaker 2: the train wins as they do, and it just smoked.
Speaker 4: This.
Speaker 1: This was overnight two nights ago. I saw the video
Speaker 1: yesterday after the show. How does that happen? I like,
Speaker 1: I don't understand.
Speaker 2: And he had the car parked with the lights on
Speaker 2: like an officer would do if he was, you know,
Speaker 2: there was a call, there was an accident something like that.
Speaker 1: But I don't understand why you would park on the
Speaker 1: railroad tracks.
Speaker 2: And you can clearly see he realizes that he done
Speaker 2: ft up, so to speak, because here comes the train
Speaker 2: and that's like I was trying to think, but like,
Speaker 2: and the only the only thing where I'm I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: well maybe that makes sense.
Speaker 1: What was a woman tied to the tracks?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: What was there a mustachioed villain fleeing in the distance,
Speaker 2: because otherwise I don't understand that. Now, the City of
Speaker 2: Greensboro's out a squad car